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poror of Russia, filing a declaration of his intention to U'eomo an American citizen. amount of salt. There a capital of ments had been concealed thine. 'J ho knli'c The Inter-State. Oy D.

CURD. asleep, and six of tho number put to death. Two companies of tho tith United States cavalry have been ordered to Camp Gram. General Duminquez, adjutant on tho stall' of tho Mexican commander, has appeared at Tombstone, Arizona, to arrange fur united action against the Ixirder thieves. About daylight Wednesday a guard in the jail at Washington discovered Guiteau a suspicious attitude at the window of his cell.

The officer at once commenced fin investigation, when the assassin Seized him and tried to throw him down. In he struggle the guard's jiistol was dis-charged, the bullet striking the wall which separates the passages. The explosion called other officers, and the assassin was secured. The warden declares that this is the whole truth of the encounter, but the guard positively states that Guiteau was armed with a knife made from the steel shank of a shoe, and that the lapel of his coat was cut by a thrust from the prisoner. FORBIOX NEWS.

Seven hundred men paraded the streets of Stettin, Germany, uttering cries against the Jews. Forty arrests were made. Bands of deserters and Arabs are collecting at Tunis, and the telegraph wires in all directions have been cut. Three members of the Cornell Univer striking on her head and Injuring her spine, with tho above result, San Francisco Chronicle: An eastern society journal says that the presont fashion at Long Brunch is only ono toilet a day. Tho style is also popular among tho Piutes id many watering-places in tho mountains on this coast, but it is not deemed worthy of special comment.

A plnguo of rats has appeared near Dagneux, in Franco. Innumerable swarms, which seem to come from tho direction of Lyons, havo Invaded many communes, doing groat damage to tho crops. Some farmers have killed from five to six thousand rats in their fields in a single day. There was recently sold in Manchester, for 6 a copy of "Three Ways of Spending Sunday, by Timothy Sparks," which is one of tho earliest and rarest of Dickens1 writings. It was purchased by the bookseller, who sold it for three pence! It has been resold for 8 8s.

When a man was profanely expressing his opinion to one who had sold him some kind, of a quadruped, aud by way of compliment called it a horse, the jockey replied: "You are commanded not to swear at all." Tho victim instantly replied, and with a wit which ho did not exhibit when examining tho quadruped afora-mentioned: "Sir, I obey the command. I swear not at all, but only at such fellows as 740 invested ia tho industry. Michigan leads In production, with New York next, followed bv Obto tin West Virginia. According to the latter tho total town and city lndobtcditesi is New York leads with a total bonde 1 debt of a II lating debt of and sinking funds of Next tn New Vnrit Is Pennsylvania, with a gross debt of Massachusetts follow with a fross in debtedness of whil, I Colorado lias the gaudiest boude 1 debt. $10,009, and Oregon tho smallest gross iadebtediiess, PLYMOUTH nrCK ACCIDENT.

Secretary Windom has addressed tho follow ing letter to tho supervising Inspector of steamboats at New York: 'Tn view of the rn-cent accident to the steamer Plymouth Hock, you are directed to make special examination and report to the department upon the gouer-nl condition of that steamer as to strength and seaworthiness for tho route outside of Sandy Hook to tho pier at Long Branch, with special reference to the location of tho boilers upon tho guards of tho boat, nnd, whethor steam-pipes connecting tho boilers with the engine aro properly supplied with efficient slip-joints to afford the relief neojssnry In case of a heavy sea striking under tho guards. You will also report in detail tho nature and causa of tho accident to the Btoamer; also whether, In your Judgment, it is safe to allow any steamer with wido guards to carry three thousand passengers upon routes outside of Sandy Hook." TIIE StOUX AND PONCAS. Tho decision arrived at between tho Omaha, Winnebago, Sioux and Ponca chiefs, and Secretary Kirk wood was to purchase from one of tho several tribes represented in the conference lands on which to locate about 175 Ponca Indians, who yet remain upon tho old Fouoa reserve. Tho Omaha and Winnebago delegates refused to dteposo of any part of their reservations, assigning as a reason for refusal that thoir trlbo was increasing in numbers and that they needed tho whole of their reservations for their children. The Sioux delegates consented not only to part with the land tho Poncas needed about tweuty-ilvo thousand acres but offered to glvo the lands to the Poncas.

White Thunder (successor to Spotted Tail), who spoke for the Sioux delegation, was quite dramatic in delivery. Ho spoke with forcible gestures and apparent eloquence whon he said the Sioux would let the Poncas have the land. When Secretary Kirk-wood inquired whether they expected the government to give anything to the Sioux for tho permission given to ths Poncas to live on their land, AVhito Thunder drew himself up proudly and said: "No, my friend: that is not what 1 want. You told me yesterday that I ought to have pity on these poor Poncas. If I have pity upon them, I am not going to take their money.

We give them tho lauds they need." THE NEW YOItK CUSTOM-HOUSE LABORERS. Secretary Windom, iu a letter to Colicc-tor Robertson, regarding the petition of laborers in the Now York public store, writes: ''The idea of doing work in a public store by contract system instead of by government labor originated oniy in a desi-e to a iminister the customs business with as much economy as practical; but at the same time it is of course requisite that the work shall be well done and to tho satisfaction of tho customs ollieors. Tho contract for duinr work in the public store has already been awarded to K-yos and Stickney, and therefore it is too 1 ite consider the pro prii'ty of granting the prayer of th? petition ers to mtinuo work ui.d supervision, but thrj contractors will be required to give good and sufficient bond for proper performance of their contract. From the advertisement transmitted, you will see you are vested with power to reject any employe whom the contractors may propose who, in your opinion, is not qualified for the work, and who is not a proper party to be employed in tho store. If at any time shall be any remissness on the part of the contractors to perform their work, or if it shall not be done to the satisfaction of your officers, I shall consider it incumbent upon you to report the fact to tho department for such action as it may deem proper.

I think, unless other reasons are found, that preference should be given by contractors to men already employed in the public store, at least to thi si who have been there any length of time, and who ate familiar with the work. I will thank you to communicate this to tho parties transmitting the petition and the contractors." Ay UNFORTUNATE WOMAN. A special dispatch from Washington, based upou official information furnished by the president's family physicians, makes the announcement of a fact which must greatly intensify pub'i interest in the president's case, and add to the sorrowful features of it if tho executive should yet prove a victim to the as-Sissin. This news relates to the condition of Mrs. Garfield.

This lady, as the public already know, has been very ill ever since her advent to the white house. Her sickness dates almost from inauguration da v. At the rime the president was shot Mrs. Garfield's condition was so critical that the physicians who attended her at Long Brunch all but despaired of her recovery. Alter her recall to Washington by Guiteau's crime, the true character of tho lady being so strongly appealed to, asserted itself, and from that time she has apparently boon much better.

It is now announced that it expected that in November next Mrs. Garfield will again become a mother. Mrs. Garlleld was married to the presidout in 1858, in her 231 year, and in bis 27th. She is now in her 40th year.

When it is stated that Mrs. Garfield's caso was entirely misunderstood up to the time of the attempted assassination, that only at that time was its real nature made known to her and the president, the special enormity of Guiteau's act becomes apparent. The present announcement will carry with it to the American people a newide of tho patient heroism which has inspired the noble fortitude of tho illustrious sufferer at the white house, and that of his devoted wlfo during tho long and weary weeks of their unparalleled trial. T1JE ASSASSIN HE MAKES A FURIOUS ONSLAUGHT UPON A PRISON GUARD. In some way oa Wednesday Guiteau gained information that the president was ia a sinking condition.

This made him extremely nervous, feverish, and excited, aud ho paced his cell iu a hasty aud anxious fashion, asking again aud again for "more news." This excitement was iutensi fied by the noiso of tho drill of tho marines, as tho guard had been doubled, caused by genuine fear that a popular outbreak might result from the increased danger of tho president. Guiteau seemed nervously to take in the situation, almost without tho necessity of telling it to him. Iu tho evening the people at tho jail believed the president was dying.and in some way Guiteau heard that also, and became more restless. He climed to tho window of his cell and down again ceaselessly, acting very much as a crazy man under intense excitement. Guiteau's coalition attracted the attention of everyone about the jail who saw him, and W.

C. McGill, who has charge of the jail on alternate nights, visited the cell several times. From what he there saw heconcluded Guiteau had hoard from some of the prisoners the alarming rumors. Ho watched him carefully, and several times saw him climbing the iron bars. McGill suspected the assassin was attempting to escape or to hang himself, and Rt 4:30 a.

m. visited the ceil. He fouud Guiteau concealing something in his hands, and supposing it was a knife asked what he was doing with it. Guiteau iookel up excitedly and cried: "So heip me God, I hare no knife." McGill insisted that he had and stopped toward him, when Guiteau sprang up. rushed at the guard furiously, and made a savage cut at his throat McGill drew back, and the knife passed through his coat collar, cutting off the upper button, and making a clean cut on the left shoulder.

The guard drew his revolver when Guiteau droppcl his kuif and grasped the more formidable weapon, crying for help, and calling that he was being shot. The pUtnl was accidentally discharged, and several guards rushed to the cell, when Guiteau was disarmed. The assassin said he was actiug in self -defense, aud that Mc-Gili had attempted to shoot him. How Guiteau obtained the knife isoiplained by the fact that "Babe" Bedford had once occupied the cell, and several similar instru Agent 1 litany, at San Carlos, fears trouble with the White Mountain Indians, growing out of the evil iiiiluence of medi caid men, and has called for additional arms. Lewie B.

Redmond, the North Carolina (iuUhw, Into whoso body six bullets were tired two months ago, lias been pronounced by his physiciatiB a well man, able to be transferred to tho Albany pen. itentiary. The British man-of-war Garnet sailed suddenly from San Francisco for tho Sandwich Islands, and it is rumored that the eausa was information that the United States intended to swallow the kingdom. An excursion train near San Antonio, Texas, with nearly sis hundred persons on board, came upon a number of ties placed upon the track by wreckers. As the rate of speed waa thirty miles per hour, the obstructions were swept off A mountain about twenty miles east of Mount Idaho is sending forth columns of fire and smoke to a height of several hundred feet, and the shock ia distinctly felt for seventy-five miles, The Northern Pacific road and the Oregon Navigation company have jointly sent out a scientific expedition to explore the territory between Lake Superior and the Pacific coast.

The leader is Professor Raphael Purapelly, of the census office. A. D. Wheelock, who absconded from New York and was arrested in Southhampton, had on his person stolen securities and checks amounting to $55,000. lie was indicted in New York, and an officer ia now in Washington to secure extradition papers.

A report on salt manufactures has been prepared by W. L. Rowland for the census. Twenty years ago New York furnished 59 per cent, of the total production, while in 1S80 she made 30 per cent, and Michigan produced 41 per cent Two companies ot the tith infantry have reached Rawlins from the White River Ute agency. They report the Indians generally readv for transfer to the new reservation in Utah, but state that Colo-row and a few lodges are defiant in their opposition.

Red Cloud, after offering to give each Ponca tamily a square mile of land, asked the secretary of the interior to assign the surrendered Ogalallas and Brules to his reservation. His request will be granted when provisions and supplies can be sent to the agency. A handsome young woman 'giving her name as Mrs. Mary L. Reuiinger, of Brooklyn, appeared at the White House and demanded an opportunity to cure the president, for which purpose she had come from Paris.

She was sent to the insane asvlum, where it- was found that she wore the costume of a baliet dancer under her dress. Charles Stocldey was executed at Ba-tavia, N. for killing John Wilker, who refused him the hand of his daughter in marriage. Stockley feigned insanity in prison, and it took four strong men to shackle him. His father has not visited him since the murder, and his mother left him with dry eyes after a brief interview.

In the Christiancy divorce case at Washington, a druggist named Ambrose Falliot testified that the senator, soon after his marriage, admitted that he had performed a criminal operation upon his wife, and desired medicine to relieve her. Mrs. Christiancy, on being visited at that time, corroborated her husband's statement and took the prescription proposed by the druggist. Nana and his band of Indian fiends are said to be nearly one hundred and fifty miles south of the Atlantic and Pacific railroad in New Mexico. Sixty volunteers from Socorro are engaged in guarding mines.

Thirteen men were killed by Apaches at Alamosa in one day, and a body of two hundered well-armed men are in pursuit from Laguna. Captain H.W. Howgate wss arraigned before Commissioner Bundy, in Washington, supported by two attendants, and bail of $40,000 was asked, the prisoner meantime to remain at- his resilience in the custody of a United States marshal. It is believed that the embezzlement is nearly $80,000. The whaler Abbott Lawrence.

Jwhich was towed into St. Johns in a disabled condition, reports that during January and February the mercury ranged between 18 and 75 (leg. below zero at Marble island. The whaling season was a failure, because the ice-packs prevented the whalers from moving a ship's length. A prominent physician of Cincinnati reports twenty well-defined cases of typhoid fever among the four hundred English colonists at Rugby, Tennessee.

Two deaths occurred on Saturday. A corps ot physicians and nurses has been dispatched to the afflicted settlement. Bad drinking water was the chief cause of the epidemic. A scene of wild confusion was witnessed among one thousand passengers on the steamer Plymouth Rock, which burst a flue when twenty miles from Long Branch. Men jerked life-preservers from the hands of women, and the officers broke out windows to release the trampling herd from the cabin.

The panic was at last suppressed and the steamer towed into smooth water. Indian Agent Cook reports that the murder of Spotted Tail was the result of a conspiracy of which Black Crow was the leader, and that chieftain was arrested and sent to Fort Niobrara. The agent urges that the government cease to recognize head chiefs among the tribes, as barbarous customs are thereby perpetrated, but permit the bands only to have local chiefs. Postmaster General James, in a letter to the chief of the Dominion postal service, states that no Canadian mail-bags have ever been used in the domestic service of the United States, and that no special international pouch will be required if the bags of each country are promptly returned, empty, to the exchange offices. That this is not done on the Canadian side is shown by the recent dispatch of closed mails from Montreal to Winnipeg in United States sacks.

Willie Cantrell, a lad residing near Pekin, 111, while carrying some potatoes along the road, was seized by a middle-aged man and tied to the railway track with a rope. An Indianapolis train soon came round the curve, and the loy was struck by the pilot, breaking Ids ribs and foot. The then cut and threw away the rope and fied into the being seen by tiie passengers. The train was backed up, anil the lad was found moaning in the ditch. Several parties of citizens are in pursuit of the villainous plotter.

Guerilla work has commence on the Arizona birder, which demands prompt attention on the part-ot the United States. A Mexican train recently sent out from Sonora to purchase supplies at Tombstone was robbed by Arizona cow-b-oys and two of it 3 men killed. In retaliation, a party of American butchers who went to the border ranches to purchase cattle were surprised by Mexicans, while is known by the prisoners as a "chooser," and was the criminal's substitute for a Jut.k-knlfi razor, and dagger, Ic 1.1 made of a piece of siocj, fouuti iu the solo of a boot, at the instep and can bo sharpened on a sbmo or window' sill until it becomes exceedingly keon. Tho blade is generally about two or tliroo inches long, half an inch broad, and an inch or uioro Is lett unstmrponed and wrapped in rags or paper for a handle. These instruments aro used by prlsnnors for various purposes, buing confiscated by tho jailers whenever found.

lt Id customary for prisoners to bid them care fully in tho walls or crevices of colls. Th assassin considers his escape very fortunate, nnd when a guard said in his presence that he hud thought that tho pistol shot had cottled tho poor dog, ho replied "My dear sir, this is too important a subject for Joking. Life is valii' able." Tho attempt croatod intonso excito-mont. McGill said ho supposed Gultoau thought tho president was dead, aud took his means of proving his insanity conclusively, OUR EXPOKT TRADE. Mr.

J. N. Whitney, acting chief of tho Bu reau of Statistics, submits his report of ex ports of dairy products for tho throe months ondiug with July, Tbero was a oonsidorablo falling off in tho export for July this year as compared with last In the Item of butter, as tho statement shows that in July, 1880, $872,707 woith of this article was exported, against worth for July which has Just passed, Iu the matter of cheese the showing is the other way, there being aconsldorable increase. In July, 1880, tho trade was worth $2,098,280, compared with $3,304,118 for July, 1881. Tho butter export was against $2,556,844 for the same period of 188L The cheese trade, a3 in tho previous case, shows a considerable improvement, being worth for the first seven mouths of last year, against $9,273,300 for the first sovon months of tho present year.

Tho trarto in dairy products for tho last throe months of this yoar oompared with those of last, exhibit some variations. While tho butter trade for the throe months of 1881 showed a oonsidorablo decrease over that of 1880, tho trade in cheese exhibits a small increase for the same period. To bo more explicit; tho figures show that for the tbroo months ended July .31, 188), the butter export was $2,279,224 worth as compared with $1,270,034 worth for the same timo this year. The cheese exports for the three months in 1881 were showing a slight increase over the corresponding period of last year, when it was Taking tho total trade of all thase articles combined, it is found that for the slnglo monlh of July there was a decrease whon compared with tho corresponding month of last year. Tho July export for last year amounted to $12,800,517 agaiust of this year.

For seveu months combined tho valuo cf exports of all these articles was about tho same, being $82,703,977 for 1SSL against $83,280,340 for 1880. Going back a step further, and taking the total for the nine months ended July, 1SS0, there seemed to be a marked increase for a similar period ended July 31, 1881. In the first instance, tho valuo of its exports was $88,331,037, while for tho latter period it was $95,809,277. Tho last three months of this year, as compared with last year, does not make so good a snow mg. in dairy products alone, sinco last year, there was exported i 8,510,057 worth for May, Juno, and July, agaiust $7,704,450 tor tho same months ot 188L PORK, The prejudice against American pork.owing to the scare over shows its olloct in tho export of that staple, and, in consequence, there is a considerable falling off iu trade in these products.

In July of last yoarthero was exported $1,078,136 worth of bacon, while during July of the present year there were only $3,033,554) worth. Tho exports of hams, lard, nnd moss pork show tho sumo marked decline of July of last year. The export of hams was worth while this yoar it was $492,678. Iu lard the falling off may be seen by comparison of tl-ues, which were respectively $2,192,544 f-r July, 1880, against $1,701,112 for this yoar. In mess pork the decrease is considerable, being $528,010 for July of last year, against for the past month.

For the seven nnntbs ending July 31 of lastyear. tho exports of fresh beef amounted to $5,112,53.8, while for the same period of this yoar tho showing is tO.USVXB, nearly a million better. lli SALTED HEEF there is a slight deorease for tho period of seven months ending July 31, in 1881, as compared with that of last year. For the first seveu months of 1880 the exports of salted beef were $1,756,598, while for the tirst seven mouths of this year it was 1,575,271. Tho earns marked decrease in comparison with tho export of hog products for the seven month? of this period is not observed as in the month of July alone.

ALL S0ETS- Oniy eiyht United States dollars ot 130-4 aro in existence. Tiicre is one iu ti.e Bniish Muslim which cost $800. Model wives formerly took "a stitch in time;" now; with the aid of a sew-iao'-madiine, they take one iu no time. it i.s believed quite generally that Jules Verne wrote all the interesting chapters in Jefferson Davis' book. It sounds very much that way.

Sir Henry Tyler lias adopted a remarkable parliamentary headdress. During the weather he appeared in the house of commons in an Indian sun helmet. The report that another enormous inn is about to be built at Coney island contradicts the notion sometimes advanced that all the business of this kind the beach can do is already provided for. A ciiizen of Ashland, N. received a back pension of about 800 a week ago, and it has all been spent.

Another citizen of the same town received about 61,000 lately, and spent it all in about one week. "Your meal is ready, sir," said the waiter to Hayseed, just from the rural districts. "Meal!" exclaimed Hayseed, contemptuously, "do yer think I'm a boss? Get me some corned beef and cabbage, young man." An Amherst (Mass.) woman who lost her voice more than two years ago, and has since been unable to speak above a whisper, was delighted recently at the return of her power of speech. She can now converse freely. There are 1,790 Po-t Offices in Missouri, ami a clerk in the St.

Loui3 Post Office, with but eighteen months1 service, is said to have named them all without prompting in thirty minutes, with the county of each. A man who was fishing for trout in the Tionesta years ago, so the story runs, caught his hook on a bag of gold and brought it safely to shore. As he looked at the gold he sadly said, "Just my luck; never could catch any fish." A Swiss newspaper says that the only men who know how to keep a hotel are Swiss aud Americans. It instances scores of leading hotels in Europe with Swiss managers, and thinks that American hotels are tho best in ths-world. Trini'juet, the member of the commune who assumed the boldest front before the court-martial, and who was elected a municipal councillor while still iu New Caledonia and ineligible, has been appointed by the prefect of the Seim au inspector at 4S0 a year.

Mrs. Hitiey, a widow lady residing at Boston, died of injuries by falling from a hammock. Mrs. Haley got into the hammock.and while swinging fell to the ground, a distance of only two feet, HUMBOLDT, "The situation is very prove." Such aro the words which Sir. Uiaine lias just used.

So grave is it that the cabinet ia now (10 ji. in.) assembled at the white bouse informally, and in the fear that possibly they may not separate njrain until the end has come. The president is not living, but the truth must be told. The fear is very great that not many hours will have elapsed before the sufferer will have passed beyond the control of earthly skill. The physicians do not yet pive up hope, while Dr.

Bliss still shows the fi-reat nerve that he did last week in predicting' something- betser in a few hours. Dr. Boynton has just said that the president awoke from one of hia fitful naps delirious, and that this is not the first time that deliriousness has seized the president's mind. Dr. Boynton adds that lie looks forward to the next twelve hours with the greatest solicitude, and his manner indicates that this solicitude is tempered with but little hope.

Reports come not wholly authenticated that the pulse, since the evening bulletin, has pone up to US, and that the temperature has remained stationary. We shall be able, po'-J Mo learn at later hour something tr i finite. ha here has been a serious change the -orse is beyond question. This jtn te le news of the day has prepared us in great measure to see. There seem, have been a steady decline, and if the downward tendency did not begin before, it certainly began last night.

The morning bulletin intimated that the president did not rest well, but he seems hardly to have rested at all. He slept in naps of not over twenty minutes, and while sleeping he tossed his head. The stupor which was first observed a few days ago, it seems, has gone to his wakeful moments to-day, but little more of consciousness than he had during sleep, not that he was in a stupor all the time, but that he was not far from it much of the time. By the meager accounts that can be obtained, the president's active brain seems at last to have been touched by disease, so that the dreaded indifference is more and more observed by those around him to have taken the place of the interest which he has so constantly evkiced in every detail ot his condition. Yet two days ago when the president said that he would bo glad to vomit if thereby he could throw off the phlegm, the physicians urged him to resist any tendency to vomit.

The fear was that vomiting would weaken the stomach, and that all that had been gained would be lost. The bad news spread quickly. Throngs gathered at the bulletins. The offices ot the correspondents were sought by many anxious people, and the cabinet and others privileged to do so went at once to the white house. But little could be learned there.

The physicians were busy in the sick room. A mght of anxiety perhaps of the end of anxiety seemed to have come. There seems to be little doubt the critical situation is caused by the very gTCt debility of the president, complicated with blood-poisoning of greater or less degree. The physicians have now (midnight) sent out word that they do not look for any change before morning. The white fcouse was closed at once for the night.

The president has fallen asleep. The rise of the pulse to 118, occurred after the evening dressing. The pulse then fell to 100. The pain in the legs, which Dr. Boynton referred to, is more of an ability to move the legs than any pam in tnem.

Mr. Blaine regards the situation aa very critical. Previous to the appearance of the official bulletin it was reported that the president had passed a comparatively quiet night. He asked for and took a small quantity of koumiss without producing any nausea. At 8 :30 a.

m. the official bulletin announced the president has not vomited since yesterday afternaon, and this morning has twice asked for and received a small quantity of fluid nourishment by the mouth. He siept more quietly during the night, and this morning his general condition is more encouraging than when the last bulletin was issued. Pulse 104, temperature 98.4, res-piration 18. Up to noon no change for the worse has occurred.

Schaeberle's comet was plainly visible to the naked eye, Sunday evening, in the northwestern quarter. The senate of Georgia defeated, by a vote ot 20 to 19, the temperance bill reported by a special committee. Mrs. Annie Loptski, a Polish woman of "La Salle, 111, gave birth to three boys and a girl, all of whom are doing nicely. J.

Cornelius, a dentist and alderman at Madison, Wis, has been arrested for pilfering from a drug store. Soldiers unite with citizens in searching for gold in the Wichita mountains, ten miles west of Fort Sill. Martin F.Conway, an ex-congressman from Kansas, who once shot Senator Pom-eroy, has been released from a long confinement in the insane asylum. State militia to the number of 10,000 have already given notice of their intention to participate tn the i'orktown centennial. Mrs.

Maria Huff, of Clinton, Wis, has just'celebrated her one hundredth birthday, in which seventy-eight descendants took a lively interest. The burning of its machine-shops caused the suspension of the iron works at Reading, throwing nine hundred men out of employment. Judge Kelly, now holding court at Savannah, Mo, caused the arrest of George E. King, an editor of St. Joseph, for rejections upon his course in a recent trial.

Counsel for Kate Sprague made a motion in the supreme court of Washington county, Rhode Island, for the assignment of a day for the trial of the divorce suit. The latest American consul at Tera Cruz died of yellow fever within one week of Lis arr ival, and there has been do applicants for the vacancy. A contract has been signed by the Mexican government for the establishment of a nati-nal bank, under the pres-ideccy of KNoetzlin, representative of -to Sul 'gtq psoar.ouM pni? y.io nt vmoa aTjim pained" -d isita psjon eqj 'vuvmumj oa-j ev s.utj 'uisrpuip aqj pus kj assu. y'T-ioAps e.u9uxa pa's qM JO i-MAO? raKi eioanetnr :pr.tj sity crew claim that the race at Vienna waa sold bv their associates. Bismarck, after a flying visit to his es tate at Schonhausen, has gone to Yarzin to remain until Januarv.

The Orangemen of Liverpool have en listed four hundred laborers to reap crops in the bovcotted districts in Ire land. The ameer of Afghanistan announces the occupation of Candahar by Ayoob Khan, and states that a movement will be made against him next week. The vigor displayed by the German government in its attempts to protect the Jews lrom persecution is due to the Crown Prince Frederick William. A sentence of ten years' penal servitude has been imposed upon Colclough, who distributed stamps for the lnsn law courts and defrauded the government of 10,000. Secretary; Forster has analyzed the subscriptions to the Irish Land-league fund, and reports that, out of 10,707, all but 243 was received from the United States.

Ten thousand persons attended a Gam- betta electoral meeting in Paris, but the disorder was so great that the distin guished statesman could only be heard when reproaching the crowd. In the house ot commons, farneu de clared that the coercion act had not been administered in accordance with the ledges given by the ministers when they induced parliament to suspend the con stitution. James Caird thinks two-thirds ot the wheat land of England will yield an average crop, while the other third will fall 10 per cent, below. Barley is the best crop of the year, but oats are extremoly deficient. The English journals insist that the failure of negotiations with France for a new commercial treaty must result in a serious curtailment of trade between the countries.

An official note issued at Paris states that there is yet ample time to arrange a basis. The final concessions of the house of commons to the ideas of the house of lords on the land bill were made on Monday evening. At a meeting of the peers, it was decided to accept the measure as it- left the commons. The bill is understood to have been stripped of its beneficent features. The international law conference, in session at Cologne, adopted by acclamation a resolution introduced by David Dudley Field, that in extradition treaties neither assassination or attempts thereat as a means of effecting a change of government or redress of grievances shall bo deemed a political crime, and that the privilege of asylum be denied the perpetrator of such deed.

WASHINGTON NOTES. EXPORTS OF BBEADSIUFF3. Acting Chief of the Bureau of Statistics J. A. Whitney furnishes to the Secretary of the Treasury advance statements of the exports of domestic breadstuff barley, Indian corn, corn meal, oats, rye, wheat and wheat flour from the United States for July 1881, and the Beven months ended July 81, 1831.

The exports for July, 1831, wore valued at $19,981,7:2, as $31,329,677 for July, 1880. For the seven mouths ended July 31, 1851, the value of exports was $131,903,709, as against $153,586,302 foi the same period in 1880. Tho most of tho decline iu July ia in wheat, thei-e being a fallinsr off from July, 1SS0, of 8,573,142 bushels, and $9,785,727 In money. For the seven months ended July 31, 1881, the value of the corn exports, aa compared with the same period last year, fell off $13,437,311, and wheat $13, 721,903, while the value of wheat flour exports increased nearly ASSOYISO POSTAL CABD9. The Postmaster General has issued the following order, in answer to request for instruction on the general subject of annoying: postal cards: "When anyone is annoyed or expects to be annoyed by postal cards sent from any particular place, or from known persons, ho may direct the Postmaster at the point named to destroy all postal cards addressed to him or cards from any person named go addressed, and so far as the discharge of the duties of the office permits sufficient examination the Postmaster should comply with the request.

The same request may be made of the receiving Postmaster. The direction to the Postmaster should be in writing, and should be filed for preservation. the CROrs. The following reports showing the condition of spring wheat, tobacco and corn crops, have lust been issued by ths department of agriculture: Spring Wheat Tho returns on Aug. 1 give the condition of spring wheat at 81, against 68 last year, and 81 in 1879 at the same time.

Compared with the crop last year there is reported a heavy decrease ia the states of Iowa and Illinois; a slight decrease in Minnesota, Nebraska, and California; while in Wisconsin and ail the New England states there is an in crease. Reports from Dakota indicate a fair crop, with large increase in acreage. I Corn Tho general condition of corn, Aug. 1 I Is 77 a very considerable deeliDO since last month, when it stood at 9). Ia August, 1880, the condition was 93.

which however, was ex- ceptionally high. The Alantic coast states i make a showing somewhat better than the general average, except in South Carolina, where the excessive drouih has cut down the I figures to 41. Louisiana and Texas aro the next lowest of the coast states, from the same cause, reporting 07 and respectively. Ten- I nessee is the lowest of the interior states, its i average falling to S3. In the great corngrow-ing region, the hiihest reports are 95 in Wisconsin and 93 in Nebraska, and tha lowest 74 ia Kansas.

CLNSfS BULLETINS. Census bulletins 215 and 246, Just issued, are derated to the salt industry and city and town debts, Prom the former it appears that the number of establishments for the production of salt has decreased from 3.i in 186) to 14 in During the same period the amount of salt produced has increased from bushls to 293 bushels, showing that the salt industry is now carried on by larger establishments, requiring more capital, aad producing a proportionately larger That's Why! The correspondent of one of tho London papers relates the following amusing anecdote: "This is a very line country, after all, Pat, and it's a great pity that political disorganization should interfere with its prosporty, said a cosmopolitan friend of mine to tho driver of a car which was jolting him over a rough but picturesque road iu the west of Ireland. "Ah, you may sav that!" was tho reply; "but the English have taken tho liviu1 out of us this twenty year, as long as I can remimber." "The Laud Leaguers mean to settle the business this time, I suppose?" "liegorrau, and liiey dor' said Pat, whipping up his steed; "there aro two hundred thousand of thim ready to do it this very minute, all armed to tho teeth." "Ithat so?" "It is so; and they could wipe the entire British army off the face of the earth, not a doubt of iu" "And why don't they do it?" "Don't you see why," sorr?" Pat cracks his whip aud turns around to wink at my friend. afraid of the police; that's why, Milk as a Food. Again, milk is a food which should not be taken in copious draughts liko beer or other fluids which differ from it chemically.

If we consider the use of milk in infancy, the physiological ingestion, that is, of it, we find that the suckling babe imbibes little the natural food provided for it. Each small mouthful is secured by effort, and slowly presented to tho gastric mucou9 surface for the primal direstLvo stasros. It is thus regularly and gradually re duced to curd, and the stomach is not oppressed with a lump of half-coagulated milk. Tho same principle should be regarded in tho caso of the should be slowly taken in mouth- fuls, at short intervals, aud thus it is righlly dealt with by the gastric juice. If milk be taken after other food it is almost sure to burden the stomach and to cause discomfort and prolonged indigestion, aud this for the obvious rea son that there is insufficient digestive agency to dispose of it.

And the better the quality of milk the more severe tho discomforts will be under these condi- -tions. Milk, is insufficiently used in making simple puddings of such farinaceous food as rice, tapioca and sago. Distaste for these is engendered very often, I believe, because the milk is stinted in making them, or poor, skim med luilic is used. Aoundauce of new milk should be employed, aud more milk or cream should be added when they are taken, In Scotiish households this matter is well understood, and a distinct pudding-plate, like a small soup-plate is used for this course. The dry masses commonly served as milky puddings in England are exactly litted to create disgust for whnt should be a most excellent and delicious part of a wholesome dinner for both children, ami adults.

Popular 6'cience Monthly. Lincoln's Gettysburg Oration. Mr. R. S.

Chilton, of Clifton, Out. writing to the Toronto 3Io.it, says: "On a visit, in 1 to the famous battlefield, Mr. Wills, a well-known resident of Gettysburg, who was Mr. Lincoln's host ou the occasion of the cemetery dedication, told me that in the morning after the President's arrival he rapped at his door to ascertain if he had slept comfortably, and found him partially dressed aud seated at a small table with a half a sheet of paper before him, upon wdiich he had been writing in pencil. 'Come said he to Mr.

Wills, 'take a seat. I want to read to you what I have been scribbling for a speech to-day. and to get your opinion on it. It isn't And then he read to Mr. Wills the speech exactly as he delivered it in public a few hours later.

The emendations made afterward when contributing iu April, 18C4, an autograph copy of the speech to the Soldiers and Sailors1 Fair at Baltimore are few and slight." Strange Phenomena-Many strange sounds, real or imaginary, have been heard in the working of Xature's processes. There has been reported to exist on a distant island in the Bay of Bengal a phenomenon known as the "Barisal guns," which is often heard at the beginning of a rainfall, and is like the sound of the firing of a cannon. An observer has decide? that these sounds are atmospheric and in'some way connected whii electricity. Mr. Home, reporting on the villages of the Himalayas, describes exceedingly powerful noises heard in the highest mountain peaks, to which the natives can ascribe no cause.

Above the town of Koimbatur, iu Madras, is a poud which the natives carefully shun because frightful noises issue from its depth..