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The Topeka Tribune and Western Recorder from Topeka, Kansas • 1

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C1TIZRN. Etabl lulled 1870. TRIBUNE, KstaMlthed 1880. PATRIOT, KnUtblislwd 18S2. TOFKKA TlilUUNE, Revived 1883.

TOPEKA, KANSAS, THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 6, 1883. VOL. VIII. NO. 36.

sanctified, in addition to 3,600 who publicly Philadelphia, were drowned while bathing KANSAS NEWS. Four tons of grapes were shipped from NEWS SUMMARY. The Crown Prince of Portugal is betrothed to the third daughter of the Emperor of Austria. Official estimates of wheat and other crops of Russia will show the yield to begenerally satisfactory. It is learned that there are more than a thousand officers in active service in the Chilian army.

Placards inviting citizens to join the restoration of a monarchy were posted in Paris Aug. 28th. Emperor William, out of consideration for French feelings, decided not to hold the Leavenworth in one day. HrMiioi.DT is raising funds for a new hotel. Thus far $0,000 has been sub scribed.

Kansas takes the biscuit again. She has broken up the prize fight between Blade and Mitchell. Mrs. A. It.

Knoi.es, of Wilson County, committed suicide while partially dr ranged on the 20th of August. Is behalf of Carev's assassin the Jr'mh World proposes next week to 0en in its eoltiiiiiis an "O'Donnel defense fund." F.pwakd F. WiNsi-ow, President of the St. Louis San Francisco Railroad, was a salesiium in a dry goods store in Mount Pleasant, Iowa, in 1S50. The telephone line from East to Detroit, 100 miles in length, has been completed and opened by the Michigan Bell Telephone Company.

Invitations are being sent-out to the numerous relatives of President Zachary Taylor to attend the unveiling of a statue at the' burial ground near Louisville, Sep tember 20th. The steamer Ionia, from New Zealand via the Straits of Magellan, lias arrived at Plymouth, England, with 13,000 frozen carcasses of sheep in good condition, She made the voyage in forty -five days, A lady who saw the ex-Em press Eu genie a few weeks ago says her figure is beautiful, and the deep mourning gives an added charm to its natural grace. Her hair is gray, but the eyes, always noted for their peculiarly sad and sweet ex pression, are as beautiful as ever. From the comparative summary of the Presbyterian Chufch in the United States, just issued under the authority of the General Assembly, it appears that the total number of communicants in 1883 is 000,725, an increase of 8,597 as compared with 1882, and the total number of churches 5,800, an increase of 110 as compared with 1882. Since the last an miliary was issued 10,307 adults and 17,728 infants have been baptized.

The total number of ministers is 5,218, not including licentiates of the past year, 282; and candidates, 078. The sum of contributions for all purposes during the el il year was $9,001 ,403. And now, after all these sleeping centuries, the bottom of the Red sea is to be raked for the remains and gold and jewels of Pharaoh's war chariots. The Abbe Moignot has faith to believe that the relics of the Egyptian host that followed the Israelites and got swamped may be found by diving and dredging and digging, and he lias formed a wrecking com pany and enough money to go ahead with the work. It is a little late in the centuries for such an exploration but the pious abbe is sanguine of success, The scheme has closer relation to treas ure trove than a desire to confirm Bible history, but if successful both ends will bo served.

One of Pharoah's chariot wheels in a musuem would be almost as great a curiosity as a section of the keel of Noah's ark. People who are impressed with the idea that the short cut to wealth is by the Texas cattle route are invited to tie- ruse the following figures: A certain stock farm in the great Southwest is for ale. The grant contains 300,000 acres of good grazing land with a fair sized river running through it This ranch can lie had at one dollar per acre, or .100,000. In western Texas and New Mexico it is estimated that twenty acres is necessary to furnish grazing for one animal. It would therefore take $500,000 to prop erly stock this ranch.

To be on the safe side, in capitalizing, it would take one million dollars. Men who pretend to lie jHisted, and who have been in the cattle qusiness for many years, says there is an absolute fortune in this projierty; or in other words, that it is better than a de veloped gold mine. Supjiose a syndicate is organized to take this projerty at these figures, hut at the last moment one of expressed themselves as spiritually quick' ened by the meeting. The Associated Press correspondent with the Presidential party telegraphs concern ing Yellowstone Lake that it is possible to capture trout in the waters ot the lake, and fling it, without detaching it from the hook into an adjacent geyser and bring it thence cooked to suit the taste ot the most critical The railway postofTice service, on the Northern Pacific Railway, ordered between Missoula and Helena, took ef fect on the 2d prox. This will take a con tinuance of the railway postoffice service, via the Northern Pacific Railroad, from St, Paul to Portland, a distance of 1,020 miles In the case of Craig vs.

Morgan, the act ing Secretary of the Interiordecided on Aug, 20th that a settlement made on the Osage trust and diminished reserve lands in Kan sas, where the settler had arranged to fell the land to others, does not give the right of entrv. under the act ot May 28, 188U, pro viding for the sale of these lands to actual settlers only. Superintendent Thompson, of the Rail wav Mail Service, has ordered the establish nient of a new line of postal ears on the Pennsylvania Railroad, between New York Pittsburg. Indianapolis and St. Louis, the cam begin running on Saturday, September 1, leaving New York at p.

and will arrive at St. Louis on the morning ot the second day at 7:30 clock. The prosecution against Frank James lias rested its ease, which is a verv Strom; one. The defense will be conducted on two theories: the first will be to show that James was not a participant in the Winston rob berv. and that Liddel swore falsely: the other position that even if the de fendant was at Winston it had not been shown that he took an active part in the affair or that he killed McMillan or rob bed the express car.

The Southwestern Railway Association will not contest the suit brought to compel them to send freight over a certain line when so requested and to test the right ot the pool to divert freight from one line to another. This is accepted as a confession that the pool managers realize that they have 41... mi suiiiuiiig in uie suit in iiiiiiicu, that a railway as a common carrier is bound to accept all freight tendered in spite of any pool regulations. A Milwaukee dispatch of Aug. 31st says that Joe Collins, of the South Side, was terribly beaten last night by his sons, Morris and Timothy, who broke into Ins house, where he and his recently married wife were sleeping, and assaulted him with clubs.

It seems that the old gcneleman lost his first wile a short time ago and has married much younger woman than himself, caus ing his sons to leave home, and they have several times threatened his lite. Prof. James Bryce. Hon. Albert Grey, Albert Pell, Samuel Rathbone, Horace Davey and Henry Edwards, all members ot the British Parliament; sir William ts.

Cordon, of Her Majesty's Treasury; H. H. Uobbs, Governor of the Bank of England Rt. Hon. Sir Arthur Hobheose, Earl Hobhouse, Earl and Countess of Onslow, Lord Justice Bowen and Lord Car- rington arrived from Liverpool, Aug.

28ih and will attend the formal opening of the Northern Pacific Railway. Jacob Oldenbargcr and Jacob Bush had a lawsuit Aug. 28th, at Indianapolis in a justice court, which was decided in the hitter's favor. Meeting Bush on the street about 1 o'clock, Oldenbtirger drew a pistol und fired, killingBush instantly. Turning from Bush, lie shot Samuel Cunipbell, who was passing at the time, fatally.

He then crossed the street, and, putting the pistol to his own head, shot himself dead. It is probably the shooting of Campbell was accidental as he was in no way connected with the suit. The missing people who were on the excursion steamer Riverdalo when ihe boiler exploded, in the North river were: Mrs. Iyongstrect, Mr. Archibald, Mr.

MeConned, Mrs. Emily Wardoff, of'Harvestraw, Abrain Tompkins, of Tarrytown, and the three ladies who were with him, W. W. T. Tippey, of the Palasades Mountain House, ex-Senator Robert II Stahan, Mrs.

Langfare and daughter, of Tarrytown, W. W. A. Harris, Superintendent of the Belt Railroad; Moses D. Getty, of Yonkers, and Mr.

Rose, of Sing Sing. A suit has been brought against the Beth-leliam Iron Company of Allentown, by a large number of foriiiereinployes to rex-over the amount deducted from their wages at the end of each month in payments of bills incurred at the company store. Judgment has been rendered against the company, in two cases, for more than Ihe total amount involved is very large, and the question concerns other corpora tions of the Shite. A St. John's, New Fouhdland, sjiecial says a fleet ot united Htatcs nsning vessels, which arrived here last night, report a violent storm on Great Banks Sunday last.

The gale arose from the eastward about 8 o'clock in the morning, when one hundred dories were away from the vessels. Capt. Ililler reiiorts scores ol dories turned upside down, and the wreckage was strewn in ev ery direction along his track coming west ward. A trench hanker lost tour dunes and alt their crews. It is computed from all sources of information that one hundred dories and eighty men were lost in the storm.

Most of the dories were swept away by the waves, from schooner decks, and remainder collaised in the sea. FOREIGN SEW. The Queen of the Hovas is dead. Cholera is disappearing from Alexandria. Canton, China, Is being placed in a state of defense.

The great weavers' strike in England is about ended. Gen. Iglasias is exacted at Lurujillo, Peru, on Sept. 3d. The Spaniards object to King Alfonso's visit to (ierniany.

Russian officials will remain in Bulgaria two years longer. There is great activity in the Chinese arsenals at Shanghai. The Egyptian rebels are interfering with the mails and telegraph. A revolution, has commenced in the interior of Columbia, South America. A French tourist lost his life Sunday by venturesome climbing on the Swiss Alps.

It is announced that Sjisin ha been admitted into the alliance of the great jiowers. A strong hock of earthquake was felt at Guayaquil, Aug. 27th, hutting about 15 at Ocean wove, JNew Jersey, Aug. sutn. Harvey C.

Boyd, of Omaha, while branding cattle at a ranch on Cheyenne river, Wyoming, was futallv gored by a cow. He was temporarily buried at Fort Fetterman Four prisoners escaped from the county jail at Wyandotte, Aug. 28th. A confidence man named Dunbar was fatally shot by the Sheriff and one man was recaptured An extensive forest fire raged between Seal Cave and Great Pond, ten miles from Bar Harbor. on the western side of the island Aug.

2Mth. The tire burned over some 2,000 acres. A crowd of lynchers attempted on the night of Aug. 28th to hang the parties sus pected of murdering Mr. and Mrs.

Hertel at Savannah. Ga. They were foiled by the sheriif. The miners eniproved in the Great West ern mine at Crystal Lake, Wisconsin, have struck in consequence ot the uiscnarge oi their foreman. They were turbulent and threatening.

General J. A. Ekin. Colodcfitnd Assistant Quartermaster, stationed at was olaced on the retired list of the army on August 31st. He will be succeeded by Col Kui us saxton.

Grace Courtland, who starred and sup- Eorted hersell through Kansas a year ago, as commenced a suit against her late hus band, Davis. She is known as the "Witch of Wall street." Dr. B. Newell, a physician of good stand ing, committed suicide in Chicago, Aug. 2sth by taking an over-dose of morphine.

He had suffered from ill health and sustain ed a number of financial reverses. A reporter in St Louis tried the honest dodge for once, by restoring to a wholesale house a draft for $10,000 which he found on the street. As he received no thanks, he vowed not to repeat the experiment. The Pennsylvania senate, by a strict party vote, the Republicans voting in the negative defeated the Ammorn proposition to SUDIIUI llie question 01 apportionment ui the state to a committee often citizens. Nat.

M. Smith, of Nashville, received a box of wedding cake through the post-office, urporting to come trom Anna L. suiiivan, lew Albany. The cake contained poison, and Smith ate enough to make him sick. Col.

W. A. Taylor, correspondent of the Cincinnati News-Journal, and H. W. J.

Klliot, editor of the Sunday Capital, had an encounter on Aug. Columbus in which both received slight injuries. They were arrested. A general strike of hod-carriers occurred at Kansas City on Monday Aug. 27th Between 00 and 80 laid down their tools.

The men receive $2 per day and usk an advance of 25 cents per day. The contractors say they will not yield. A severe hail storm passed over the county, about eight miles north of Sterling, 27th. The storm extended over a ter ritory fifteen miles long by ten miles wide, and the loss to crops will approximate fifty thousand dollars. Business failures past seven days ending August 31st, 180 as compared with 105 hist week.

frngiana slates, L'n Minute states. 2(1: Southern states. 41: Western states. 52; Pacific states and Territories, 22; Canada and Provinces, 28. The story comes from St.

Louis that some workmen at No. 1,100 Collins street have ear tlied a cave or vault containing historical relics of great interest, including Indian pottery and parchment documents in French and Spanish, The grand iurv returned three true bills of indictment against the members of the late Board of Fire Commissioners of Balti more on Aug. 30th ignoring all charges against Mayor White, an cx-o3cer and member of the Board. Mack Marsden, a bad man generally was fired upon from ambush and killed, Aug. 3nth near Antonio, ami Allen Hensley, who was with him was mortally wounded.

James and Thos. Moss and John Marden were arrested on suspicion. An indignant correspondent at Poplar Blutf, telegraphs that trainmen threw passcngeroH at Mill rpring, stopped tne train, went back, found the man and beat him over the head with a coupling pin tin he was dead. All hands arrested. Thos.

Brown, of Rochester, N. a member of the Democratic StateCoiiimittee, has directed his attorneys to bring suit against the New York Times for liliel for publishing a lalse statement reference the attendance of a meeting of the committee. Damages $50,000. The fourteenth annual convention of the Fire Underwriters of the Northwest began at Chicago, Aug. 20th and was attended by fully two hundred representatives of companies doing business in the Northwest and in Ohio, Tennessee, Indiana, Kentucky, Iowa, Wisconsin and Kansas.

Two assisted Irish emigrants were sent hack to Canada from Buffalo, Aug. 31st. They stated that eleven hundred cithers came over in tne same snip an expense were nniil bv the British Government. The plan is to ship them to Canada and from there to the States at different point. Eldridge Sons' large planing mill at Fort Howard, on the opiiosite side of the river from Green Bay, was destroyed by fire this morning.

The mill was the main in dustry of the town, and the loss is said to tie insurance one minion feet of lumber and five cars were burned. Attempts were made on Aug. 20th, at two places near Knoxville, to wreck the fast ex- ress on me eai lennetwee roau, uy dialling rai Is across the track. There were 250 aeiigers on Isianl, and the siieed was ful- forty-five miles an hour. The engineer becked up in time to break the chains gently and clear the rail.

The drouth In eastern New England which has lated five or six weeks has be- so serious that crops have been great ly injured, with the prospect of a still great er damage if the drouth is not soon broken. Fanner are compelled to take cows from pasture and feed them on winter hay. The Texas cattle fever ha brokim out in lietroit, in the herd of a milkman in the western part of the city. His whole herd of twelve is infected, and several cows are si ready dead. A herd of forty-one steers bought by a Genesee county fanner for feeding ome two week ago have also been attacked by the disease.

The fourteenth annual Methodist camp meeting closed at Cs-esn Grove, New Jersey, ug 3oth. Mi thousand jerson were present. The association refiorted forty-five bark-sliders reclaimed, 3J7 converted, and 302 Mrs. Mary V. Miller proposes to establish an industrial school in Jackson township, Lyon county.

The Linn county flax crop, at a yield often bushels to the acre, will be 88,080 bushels, and will place about $100,000 in the hands of home farmers. Alma Newt It is said that the white tents of the advance guard of the railroad were seen by Jasper llolman, last week, eight miles thin side of Council Grove. Atchison Patriot: Since the new railroad law went into effect over 12,000 pennies have been sent out from Atchison station alone to make change on the Omaha Extention of the Missouri Pacific. The Garden City U. S.

Land office will be opened for business on Monday, October 1st. The usual notice is issued this week declaring the office open for the transaction of public business on that date. La Cygne Journal: "I raise mostly corn on my place this ear," said Nathan Du-pont, who has his broad acres in this Valley. "I don't think much of flax. The pre fit is less than for corn, and flax 'kills the ground in two years." Council Grove Cosmos: Corn-cutting will commence earlier this year than it did last, and much of the early planted will be ready for the knife by the first or 10th of September.

It has made a rapid growth and is maturing well. Atchison Champion Adam Brenner, the Doniphan county grape grower, was in town yesterday, and reported that his grape harvest will not yield one-tenth of the usual quantity. He will have to purchase grapes elsewhere to fill his con tracts. Marrysville Newt Friday night a stroke of lightning visited the dwelling of James llagler. It demoralized the stove pipe, knocked a hole through the floor and killed the dog that was lying under the house; on the return trip as it passed up it exploded paperof blasting powder that was lying on a shelf above the door.

Mr. llagler didn't care much for the powder, but he says it was a good dog. Smith Center Pioneer Aug. 24 Last Tuesday afternoon a small cloud appeared in the northeast. It seemed to remain and other clouds came to it from which a very destructive hail storm began to tear things up generally.

Corn was completely stripped, and alter the storm was over, it was found that hail had fallen to the depth of three inches. A complaint was lodged against John M. Stanley, clerk of the district court of Ellis county, charging him with being drunk, and asking that he be removed by impeachment or otherwise. The jury returned a verdict of guilty, andtheoflice was bv Judge Pratt, declared vacant. The county clerk is under the same charge but will not be tried this term ol court.

Burlington Patriot: Messrs. Mine- house Allen have nearly finish ed the new Methodist and Bap tist church. It will seat iJOO persons, will cost $1,500, and makes a neat house of worship. It was undertaken by the Methodist denomination alone, but finding themselves short of funds and limit ed in numbers, they made an arrange ment with the Baptist denomination to bear part of the expense, and have an ownership in the building. Osage City Republican On last Thurs day evening J.

G. Cooper, living three miles east, had his large barn, together with six stacks of wheat, and three of oats, a mule and a number of farm implements destroyed by lire, caused by children playing with matches. The alarm was given in and the lire department went to the spot and worked manfully but everything was too far gone when they arrived to do much good. The loss is over $2,000, and includes a good share of his this year's rops. Wellington Alter, who lives one mile from Gueda Springs, showed us some specimens of his sugar i r.f cane, lie is inaKing a specially ui mining cane and manufacturing both syrup and sugar, from it.

He showed us three varieties; the improved Early Amber and Early Orange and the Links Hybrid; these varieties riien in their order above named. The early amber was planted May loth and was ready to manufacture two weeks ago. The Early Orange was t.lunted Mnv 22d. and will be ripe in about three weeks; the Links Hybrid was planted May 24th, and rijens about the middle of September. Mr.

Alterin connection with his brother of Belle Plaine township is putting up the Florida Machinery for manufacturing. His mill has a capacity of 200 gallons per day. Kniina tTerald: This week, we are txt nresont our readers an excell ent example of what perseverence and good judgement can accomplish on the rich, undulating prairies of this section ol the State. Mr. J.

F. Wellington, living two miles west of this city, has during the year received four thousand six hundred and three bushels of wheat from a inmrii-r section of land. The cost of seed, planting, harvesting and threshing, allow ing for his own time, was one thousand and one dollars and thirty-five cents, lie disjioscd of his crop for three ti.r.neund five hundred and nine dollars and twenty cents, leaving the handsome sum of two thousand, five hundred and seven dollars and eighty-five cents as the net profit for one year. Mr Wellington purchased this land several years ago for twenty eight hundred dollars and each vear has ueen iavon-u wn TV. am t.l'Jl fiirtirPS pouniliui crojm.

that tell no lies ami speaks volumes for central Kansas. His wheat averages twentv-nine bushels per acre which is but little above the averago oi eonntv, last year. bus it will oe seen thatthisisnota remarkable or an on-usual showing and exemplifies the remark that the fanners are the most independent class of our population. The star-route verdict is to be investigated again. A shower of wheat straw is reported in Kentucky.

The Sladc-Mitchcll prize fight has been declared oil'. Jfeminway's canning works at Clinton, Iowa, burned Aug. 20th. Paymaster Brown, died of yellow fever at the 1'ensacola Auvy yard. The Free Thinkers Convention opened at Rochester, N.

Aug. 30th. Twelve vessels with yellow fever on board are quarantined at Ship island. The Sioux Indians are said to be ready to receive their lands severalty. The Internal revenue for July fell off $2, 713,000, compared with July 1882.

The General Assembly of the Knights of Labor meets Cincinnati bept. 4th. Frank James testified in his own behalf on Aug. 31st, and the defense then closed. The Dulnth lumber Co's dry house and 1 umber burned Aug.

29th. Loss $25,000. The Marietta Chemical Works at Black Rock, burned Aug. 31st. Loss 000.

The Sumner school of Christian Philoso phy at Richfield Springs, N. closed Aug. 31st. More than 2,000 car-loads of grain were received in Chicago Auk. 27th; still prices advanced.

Thirty persons were injured by an acci dent on the P. A. P. narrow guage road, Aug. 30th.

The Jenkins brothers, who murdered Rev. J. Lane Borden in Louisiana, will plead insanity. A C. A.

conductor had a spotter who had followed him, arrested and fined $10 in Chi cago, Aug. 28th A Wabash "Cannon ball" train was ditch ed near Clifton, Aug. 2sth. Engineer Hall was killed. The rate war from St.

Louis to Louisville, threatens to become serious. It dropped to $2.50 Aug. 30tli. S. T.

A mot. of Elmira. N. is mention ed in connection with the presidency of the D. 11.

U. It. II. The waves swept so high at Long Branch Aug. 20th as to cover the ew Jersey south ern railroad track.

The Cheaspeake flouring mill at Roneev crte, W. burned Aug. 2Hth. Loss 11,. 000: Insurance Mrs.

Judge Krekel. of Missouri, made speech at the Free Thinkers' Convention in liochcster, August Esau Smith, colored, wasliunged at St. Jo seph, Aug. 31st, lor the murder ol Mctun, eight years ago. Police Officer Maurice McNanmra, of New York City, clubbed one John Smith to death.

on the night ot Aug. 2tnn. The trial of Jumes Nutt, the slaver of Ly man Dukes, commenced at montown, Thursday of this week. The United States shcamship Monoraey has been ordered buck to Corea to continue the series of surveys begun there. Lieut.

Boutelle Xnves. of tile United States navy was killed at lokahama by the tall ol a spur while the crew were exercising. Burglars broke into a store in Mount Clemens. Aug. 20th.

ami carried oil's wagonload ol the most valuable goods. On August 30th, a number of witnesses in the Frank James trial were sworn to prove an alibi or a rase ot mistaken identity. In the Pennsylvania legislature a resolution was offered Aug. 28th thatall the members resign except the presiding olliccrs. It was asserted before the underwriters' convention that under the regulations required electric lighting is safer than kero sene.

Cupt. Pattee, in command of a precinct of IS ew iork police, says lie has men on tne force whom he would not believe under oath. On the 31st Treasurer Wyiiuin mailed 1)73 checks representing the in tcrest due Septeiulier 1 on registered 4i er cents. Gen. Shelby, a witness for Frank James, was fined 10 and severly reprimanded by Judge Goodman, on Aug.

31st, for contempt of court. Major Dexter O. Hitchcock, who served with distinction in the conieiicruie army, died on board a steamer in the North River, Aug. 30th. Harry Hill who holds the stakes put till on the mill between Sladeand Mitchell say he will not give up the motley until there has been a light.

A hail storm on the night of Aug. 27th practically destroyed the entire tobacco crop ol hock county, III. I lie damage is ewumaieu ut fully Three highwaymen assaulted and rohlied Jules Barbot, an actor, in New York, Aug. 2. One of them was shot dead while attempting to escape The New Orleans grand jury recommend the cremation of bodies of persona who die of contagious diseases.

The National Women's Christian Tem perance Union begsn a four days' convention st the Methodist Tabernacle at Cottage City, on Aug. 30th. One hundred cases of rifles and revolvers and seventy-five cases of cartridges were loaded at Han Francisco on a steamer sailing for Shanghai, on Aug. 20th. For the third time in a rear a disastrous fire has visited Petersburg, Ind.

The loss by the last one, which whs on Aug. 20th, was Insurance, $40,000. Two hundred head of Jersey cattle, and a number of ponies, sheep and hogs, arrived from Hull, England, at Chester, Aug. 20th. They are valued John Simons, a small fanner living ten miles from West Point, was shot dead by a traveling photoifraplier, who had pitched his tent near Simons' house.

Reports from 100 tolacco towns in Con necticut and Housatomc valleys indicate that the tobacco crop will be fully up to the average and excelling in quality. nd Mv Vail, seed eighteen and and twenty, daughters of Lewis D. Vail of A annual review of fheguards on theanniver- sary ot Sedan. Six Irishmen were arrested in Glasgow, Scotland, August 31st, charged with blowing up the largest gasometer in the city, destroy ing a railway shed ami attempting destroy with dynamite the aqueduct of the 1' mh ol Clyde Canal. Miss Catherine Connelly, sister of the Connelly brothers who were arrested Brutf, Limerick county, on suspicion of be ing connected with the murder conspir acy, has been arrested on a charge of being implicated with her brothers.

Mons. Van'utelli, the Tapal Nuncio at Vienna, consecrated the remains of Cham bord on Sept. 1st in the presence of delegates trom Kmpcror rancis Joseph, a number oi Legitimists and others. A certincate of death was deposited in the coffin. Obi reports the steamer Dijinbhna ice bound near Waizatz throughout the winter, All on board well.

The confident of reaching open water with a crew of th Varna, left the Dijinbhna August 15th, to go to Hammertest by the steamer Borden skjold. The Emperor of Annam received Har- niand, the French civil commissioner on the 23d inst. The Kinperor showed compter submission. Annam is compelled by treaty to pay the cost ol the war, the Jf rencli to retain the forts on the Hue river pending pay ment. TheAnnamite troops in Tonquin will be placed ut the disposal of Gen.

lionet, the French commander. Thee xecutive committee of the Internal Fisheries Exhibition has recommended that the American method of catching mackeral and liernng be shown to the coast popula tion, and strongly suggests thut an Amer ican fish schooner be hired to come to Great Britain and visit all the centers of drift net fisheries, for the purpose of demonstrating to English hshermcn the mode oi working the purse seme net, anil its great effective ness. Tessa, the President of the Hungarian Council, in order to put a stop to the outra ges upon Jews, has determined on severe measures, which win be put in operation whenever anti-Jewish riots occur. The measures provide that any one who shall be condemned to death by martial law shall be executed within three hours after the sentence is imposed. A Captain of a steamer, which was in ti strait of Sunda during the recent volcanic eruption, reports that ashes fell on the deck )1 his vessel to the depth ol sixteen mclies, He passed masses of floating pumice seven feet in depth.

It is estimated that 10,000 persons lost their lives at Aiinngiii. Ihe total number killed by the eruptions and tidal waves is estimated at 30,000. Volcanoes have appeared between the site where the island of Krakatoa formerly stood, and Si bisie island, a portion ot Ban taut, is an ashy desert. Cattle are starving and the population is in despair. TheSaeii- gepon volcano split in five portions.

Seven iiindred and lour bodies ot tne victims oi the disaster were buried in the district of Tanard and three hundred in the coast vil lage of Krumat. BeforcO'Doiuiell, who killed James Carey, the informer, was committed for trial he said to the magistrate, "I am not guilty of willful murder: the killing was done in self-defense; Carey drew a revolver from his right hand pocket and 1 snatched it and hot him. Jjonneii win be tried ut uipe Breton. An application to the Supreme Court for a writ of habeas corpus will be made. Evidence was adduced at the examination of Brutf, and Dr.

Patrick Connelly, and sis ter Katherine, charged with implication in a murder, that the conspiracy was formed accomplish a private and not an agrarian purpose as was supposed, tne witness lhneen swore that jr. L'onneny lorgeatue name of John Carroll, and sent Warner the will bv which Carroll's proiierty was to be left to Connelly. Dineen, who was to mur der Carroll, was to receive 50 from the sum expected to be realized from the hitter's property. Terrific detonations were heard on Aug, 20th from the volcanic island Crokata, audible at Sarakata, on the islund of Java. Ashes from the volcano fall as far as Cher- bun, and flushes tiroccedimr from it are vis- ble in Batavia.

Stones fell in a shower on Serang. which was in total darkness through out the night, and Batavia nearly so, all gas lights having been extinguished during the night. Communication with Angler is stopped. It is feared there is a calamity there. Several bridges between Angier and Serang are destroyed.

A village has been washed away, the rivers having overflowed because ol a rush ol the sea inland. The French fons bombarded the forts and batteries at the mouth of the Hue river on the 10th and 2oth instants and captured them. Seven hundred Annamite were killed during the engagement. The only casuultics su tiered by the reneli were sever al men slightly wounded. The gunboats Vincr and Lvnx have entered the Jliuann passage.

The French Admiral has granted a truce. A blockade lias been declared, llarniand, a French civil officer, and Commissioner of Tonnuin. have been sent to Hue, the capital of Annam, to negotiate with the Annamite court, wnicn is greany aiamieu at the movements of the French. Advices from Ekatorinoslar, the scene of the recent riots against the Jews, say that three hundred and forty-six houses were wrecked and plundered during the progres of the riots. The losses sustained by the Jews are estimated at six hundred and eleven thousand roubles.

Fourteen tiersons wounded bv the trooi in quelling the out break have since died, making a total of twenty-eight killed. At Bershadi 80 houses of Jews were bred. umerous repon oi oni-rages elsewhere have been rejorted to the poli. Violent riot against the Jews occurred at Egerzeg, Hungary, last Friday and Saturday night. Two thousand peasants took part in the outbreak, wrecked all the houses and shops of the Jews in the place, and shouted, "murder all the Jews." The troops were called out, but were nna-able to suppress the violeni of the mob until reinforced.

The rioters also released a number of prisoners. the parties who proposed to put in pulls out and concludes to invest his money in a Kansas stock farm. Selecting a suitable place, he buys 2,000 acres of average pasture and valley land. Estimating that five acres of such land will furnish summer pasturage and winter feed for each animal, he buys 400 head of graded cattle. The poorest portion of his farm he uses for summer pasture; the second best for hay; the best forcorn, Hungarian and other winter feeed.

The big stock farm will not have to be fenced; the little one in Kansas wilL The first is stocked with a grade of rattle that will live all the year on the range; the Kansas stock will have to be fed six months of the year. Suppose the same are is exercised on both ranches, which rtock holder will be the richer at the end of seven years?.

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1881-1885