Elk County Signal from Moline, Kansas • 1

1 nn XT Elk COUN GNA i i VOLUME II. MOLLVE, KANSAS, FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 23, 1881. NUMBER 26. VENTRILOQUISM. KANSAS NEWS.

Mexico have been to China to contract for laborers at 51.25 per day and transportation, and the steamship Oceanic will soon arrive at San Francisco with a load of one thousand coolies. fair has been The Leavenworth declared "off." PURCHASE OF COAL LAUD. The Chicago, Milwaukee and St. Paul road has purchased 1.5O0 acrei of coal land near Oskaloosa, Iowa, at an average price of S100 per acre. It previously owned 1,000 acres iu the same county.

THE APACHES. SUMMABY OF THE WEEK. WASHINGTON. GVITEAll's ASSAILANT. Sergeant Mason, who made the mistake of missing Guitean's head, is treated with the utmost leniency at the arsenal.

A charge of conduct prejudicial to good order has been suit forward to General Hancock. Money is being raised in the departments at Washington to defray the expenses of his defense, and some citizens of San Antonio telegraphed a pledge lor 5230. AN ATTEMPT ON OUITEAU'S LIFE. Guiteau had a greeting the other day, which he hardly relished. Sergeant Mason, of the 2d artillery, when guard at the jail, sent a bullet at the assassin through the window of his cell.

The ball grazed Guiteau's head, and imbedded itself in the wall. The sergeant was promptly incarcerated at the arsenal. The Apaches have driven large herd; of cattle in tho Tonto basin toward the mountains, where they are concentrating supplies. 1 ne cordon ot troops is grauuai-ly closing in upon them, but they can easi ly steal out ueiweeu the columns. INDIAN FAIR.

IN PEACE. Sir George William Windshire Bram-well. G. is dead, lie was born in Lou don in 1800. CATTLE DYING.

A London, dispatch says cattle are reported dying on all sides on account of the drouth, TEACE ESTABLISHED IN BASUTOLAND. Advices from South Africa state that peace in Basutoland is now securely established. IRISH LAND LEAGUE. The Irish land league received last week 1,339, nearly all of it from the United States. CLOSING DOWN.

The closing of the spinning mills at Manchester, England, is becoming tren-eral. NO INTERVENTION. The porte has definitely decided to send neither troops nor commissioners to Egypt. A NiniLIST ORGAN. A nihilist newspaper has made its appearance en the streets of St.

Petersburg. RAILWAY COLLISION. Fifty persons were injured by a railway collision in County Limerick, Ireland. PILLAGED BY PIRATES. An English sailing vessel has been pillaged by pirates near Samos island.

TROOPS FOR ALGERIA. France has within five months dispatched soldiers to Algeria. Some of the Pranks Which Ventriloquists Have Played on Their Fello-Men. Interview with Prof. Owen Dixon.

"Who were the greatest ventriloquists?" "Well, there was an old Athenian named Eurykles, who is spoken of in history as master of the art. Then there were Prof. Alexandre and Louis Brabout, of modern times. They were both Frenchmen. Brabout lived in the fourteenth century, I believe, and was said to be the best ventriloquist thj world ever knew.

Alexandre lived at an earlier period, and was noted more for his mimetic representations than for his ventriloquial powers. Prof. Love, of England, was celebrated in the art, and was rivaled by Trof. Harrington, who died recently in lie-vere, Mass. Of those living to-day, Frederick McCabe and E.

D. Davies are the greatest. Davies is now retired in Australia, and McCabe has recently signed a contract to go there the present season. Davies was the first ventriloquist to introduce 'figures as an WIPED OUT. Tippler's tavern, a landmark of New Jersey, which was erected near Hamilton's mills in 1772, and contained antique furniture and paintings, was destroyed by lire.

SWEPT BY FLAMES. A fire at Austin, Nevada, burned twenty buildings, including the postoffice and Masonic and Odd-Fellows' halls. The loss is estimated at $100,000. IN ASHES. The union school seat factoiy at Battle Creek.

burned to the ceound; loss insurance 81G 000. DEMOLISHED. A slorm at Danville, blew down the confederate military hispital. injuring several colored people. DAMAGED BY FIRK.

The Siemans Anderson steel works, Pittsburg, sustained a damage of by lire. FOREIGN. LAND LEAGUE CONVENTION, A London cable to the Chicago Times says: The attitude taken bv the Irish land leasiue in regard to thft final separation of Ireland from Great Britain, or at least home rule, and also the large number of Roman Catholic priests present at the national convention, have created a profound sensation all over Great Britain. The general tone of the comments of the English papers is to the effect that all has been done that will be in the shape of The five nations of the Indian have just held a fair at Muskogee. Fine neeuieworu oy native women was snown and the Spencer military Inuian band furnished music.

WINTRY WEATHER. BACK TAXES. In tin On Friday, the 10th snow fell to bann tax controversy. Commis the depth 01 one and a half inches at There are forty-two men and four women in the Leavenworth county jail. The Times says: There is a dog in North Leavenworth that gets drunk on beer.

He i3 not of the usual kind, but is a great good natured bull pup. The Howard Courant says: The late corn crop will not suffer as much from drouth as was feared at first In many instances the yield will be good, especially on the bottom lands. The Salina Herald says: One of our farmers who was in town last Thursday does not intend to go back on his wife's relatives. He says he has never yet put anything into the ground that failed to grow; that he is satisfied with Kansas, and that this is where he hopes, after long, useful years, to lay his bones. Says the Hutchinson Interior: Win Hartford, of Little Itiver, lost his cor-rall, shedding, straw, and some hay by fire last week.

One of his best horses was badly injured by the fire, but will probably recover. Mr. Hartford does not know how the fire originated. Ilia loss will be severely felt, but he is in no way discouraged. He is going right along making more hay, and repairing the damages as far as he can.

A Topeka correspondent says; "Information has been received from the postoiliee department, at Washington, to the effect that from the 1st of December, 1880, to August 27, 1881, ninety-eight postollices have been establish Grand Island, and at Hopkins, Mo, near the Iowa state line, to the deptn of nearly an inch. 4. CUT IN RATES. The Pennsylvania company has author sioner Rauin has concluded to accept the clearing-house statements as to the basis of taxable deposits. One bank in New York will be compelled to pav SI45.00O in back taxes, and $1,000,000 will he realized in the aggregate.

THE STAlt ROUTE CASES. It is stated that the star route eases will be brought to trial within three weeks. DEATH OF CAr-T. BREEZE. Capt.

R. R. Breeze, of the United States navy, is dead. ized its agent to sell tickets from Toledo to New York for SI and to Boston for S3, and to meet any rates made by competing assistant, to the art, in America. lines.

"McCabe was a great pract ical joker. nAED ON HOGS. Several years ago he was on board of efforts to placate the Irish, and that here Something akin to cholera has appeared GENERALITIES. among tne nogs in the region ot Piano, a Mississippi river steamboat, and alter stern measures will oe resorted to, THE SITUATION IN NORTH AFIUCA. III.

One man has lost 09 animals out of forming an acquaintance with the en gineer, was allowed the freedom of the 75, and another has but 11 left out of 58. A QUARTERLY DIVIDEND. A special cablegram to the Chicago Times says: A gentlemen who has just arrived at Paris from Tunis and Algeria engine-room. He took a seat in a cor Gould has squeezed a quarterly dividend ner, and pulling his hat down over his ot im per cent out ot the Western Union says mat tne irencn troops in those coun tries are in a most demoralized condition eyes, appeared to be lost 111 reverie, and anarchy prevails in every department, Telegraph consolidation, and reports further surplus of 8450,153. RELIEF FUND.

Presently a certain part of the ma V. I he country does not npprecia'e one-half the difficulties which beset the French chinery began to squeak. The engineer oiled it and went about bib usual du New York subscriptions for the relief of the Michigan sufferers now aggregate enterprise in Africa. HIGHLY' EXCITED ties. In the course of a few minutes THE LAST SLEEP.

Ambrose E. Burnside, senator from Rhode Island, expired of spasms of the heart, at Bristol, Tuesday morning, the 13th inst. He was born at Liberty. in 1821, and gradnaccd at West Point in 1847. He was a lieutenant of artillery in the Mexican war, and in 18(10 became treasurer of the Illinois Central Railroad company.

He was colonel of the 1st Rhode Island regiment at lie battle of Bull tiun, served at Antietam as a major general, and MeClellan in command of the Army of the Potomac just before the defeat at Fredericksburg. He served three terms as governor of Rhode Island, and was sent to the senate in 1875. A PLACE OF PERIL. All the Indians aro reported to have left the western portion of the San Carlos reservation and trone in the direction of independent ot sn.ooo raised by An assistant inspector-general of the Irish the squeaking was heard again, and the engineer rushed over, oil-can in tne stock exchange. A CENSORSHIP.

constabulary lias arrived at Junenck and taken charge of the town, in connection with the recent disturbances. There are ed in Kansas, and forty-one discontinued. Twenty-nine offices have received new names. The carrier system obtains in Leavenworth and Topeka, the former employing five and the latter four men, at a salary of $850 each. hand, to lubricate the same spindle, It is charged that Superintendent Ward, of the milii ary telegraph in Arizona, has established a censorship over the press (oo police expected.

The greatest excite Again he returned to his post, but it was only a few minutes until the ment prevails. Lai kin of the New York Jristi world, made a very violent speech nispatcnes. INDICTED. same old spindle was squeaking louder Tho Champion says: The ten mile than ever. 'Great Jupiter, he yelled ai iuuiiii.

A TERRIBLE CALAMITY'. A terrible calamity was caused bv race on Wednesday at the St. Joseph Crow Dog has been indicted -at Dead-wood for the murder of Spotted Tail, but the thing's More oil was Fair was so much enjoyed by the vis win not be tried until January. itors from Atchison and the spectators administered, but the engineer began to smell a rat. Pretty soon the spindle land-slide in Elm, canton Switzerland.

Two hundred persons were killed the Apaches. Intense alarm prevails among the whites at stations on the South SENATOR FRYE'S SUCCESSOR. Ex-Governor Dinclev. of Maine, has been generally, that Mr. Fleicher at once en-' gaged the riders to repeat it at our ex squeaked again, and slipping up be and fifty houses demolished.

Elm is a parish village, having a popuhtion of elected to congress from the Lewiston dis hind McCabe, the engineer squirted a about 1,100. It is celebrated for its sul half pint of oil down the joker's back trict, tosuceeul Senator Frye. DRIED UP. Tennessee river lower than for fifty pnur springs. MEXICAN AFFAIRS.

position. The riders were Miss Williams, of Kansas, and Miss Cook, of California, and their performance is spoken of with enthusiasm by every said he, 'I guess that spindle CRIMINALITIES. A BOBBER V. Ex-Minister ChrLstiancy was robbed of $0,000 worth of diamonds and jewelry in his strong box in his room, in the National hotel, Washington. The thieves forced the door and secured the plunder during Christiancy's temporary absence.

The jewels were not the property of Christian-cy, but left with him for safekeeping. It is believed the thieves followed Christian-cy from New York. TIIE TRAIN KOHBKRS. It is claimed that six of the (ilendale train-robbers have been captured. They prove to be young fanners living in the immediate vicinity of the outrage, and the idea that the James brothers were in the raid has been quite generally abandoned.

Matt Chapman gave to a sheriff the names of the robbers, and has himself been placed in jail at Independence, as a witness. LUCKY FOR THE DOG. Charles Holies, of Minneapolis, undertook to kill a dog with a revolver, but the weapon did not discharge. lie became furious and aimed it at his wife, and still the deadly implement hung fire. When lie turned the weapon on the spot where his brains on "lit to be he met ith splendid success, saving the fool-killer a day's work.

WHIPPED TO DEATH. A white man named Massey undertook to escape from the convict camp on the Marietta road, near Atlanta. Ga. lie was handed over over to a negro overseer, who strapped him over a barrel and lashed him so terribly as to cause his death. SENTENCED.

At Philadelphia, Hurman C. Pulte, the Wliittaker will conspirator, used as a witness for the commonwealth, was sentenced by Judge Mitchell to three years imprisonment. A BLOODY AFFRAY. At Wealherford, in a difficulty originating in some rentals, J. M.

Cox, after being seriously wounded, killed Dr. 13. G. Cantrell and his son Bud. HANGED.

Clem Gailion, of Cambridge, was executed for the murder of an old man named Dilley last December, lie died in won't squeak any The joke years. East Tennessee all dried up and was so good that McCabe couldn't keep The president's speech at the opening of the Mexican congress congratulates the nation on the peace and prosperity enjoyed; says friendly relations exist with all it, and he olten tells it with as much one whe witnessed it. The time of the race including all changes, was 24:56 minutes. relish as his auditors receive it. no signs 01 rain.

A STRIKE ANTICIPATED. Over 3,000 miners in the Hocking Valley, will strike unless paid $1 per ton, FOREST FIRES. loreign countries, ana reters to the wound ern Pacific east of Wilcox, and non-residents intending to leave are prevented from boarding trains. At stations between Dealing and Wilcox temporary "ortifica-tions have been thrown up. Seventeen companies of troons are en route from California for WiFox bv special train ten companies of the Ct'h cavalry have been ordered forward, and the 5th cavalry, Crook's veteran fighters, will be sent in hot haste from the Platte.

A general uprising of the Arizona Apaches is expected. THE MICHIGAN SUFFERER A special committee has raised $10,937 in New York for the Michigan sufferers, to which the stock exchange added $1,200. G. Ilotchkisj, secretary of the lumber-mi n's exchange of Chicago, has collected $1,525 in cash and forwarded a car-load of supplies. The people of Cleveland placed 51,000 in Port Hone Tuesday evenincr.

"At another time McCabe was con ing of President Garfield as a deplorable The Winfield Courier remarks: The misiortune. A NEW MINISTRY. fronted by a highwayman on ene of the lonely streets of Cincinnati, as he Destructive forest fires are raging about present outlook for Cowley's farmers is certainly a bright one. We have a Advices from Cairo, Egypt, state that a was returning to his hotel from New Philadelphia, Ohio. DEATH OF AN EX-CONGRESSMAN.

fair crop of wheat and will-have an moonlight picnic. Tho robber present in: iiuiuntiy iiiis uixu uenuiieiy consuui-ted. The principal members of the iabi- excellent crop of corn. Although the Ex-Congressman Loren II. Waldo, of ed a cocked revolver at the ventrilo net are iiaatii r'astia, minister of finance crop is not so large as that of '76 and uaronde Pusha, minister of war, and quist's head, demanding his money or Marashly Pasha, minister of public works, uarctora, is aeaa.

THE MARKETS. MARKET QUOTATIONS. his life. McCabe quick wit saved 'i 7, still the present prices compared with those paid for produce at that time are more than double for wheat EMIGRATION. him.

He threw his voice behind the Emigration returns from Liverpool for August Miow that 21,321 emigrants left and four times as much for corn with Kansas City Grain No. 1 winter wheat robber, exclaiming: "Hold, villain, you are my prisoner The frightened cash S1.41W;Nro. 2do cash.SUlV: Sentem mat porr, neing nioretnaninJu.lv a probability of its being still higher. Sand Beach and Sandusky appear to be focal points of the region most in need of succor. Senator Conger urges Governor Jerome to appeal to the people of the United Slates for contributions to the amount of 81,000,000.

Of this number the destination of 18,072 scamp turned his head, and McCabe dealt him a blow that felled him to the No. 3 do cash September Sl.lGJ. Rye, No. 2, cash, tijc. Oats, No.

2, cash, 43V. Corn No. 2, mixed cash, was to the United States and 2,968 to Brit Thus the present crop, although a light one, is worth more than double that of any heretofore. ground. He then secured the revolver, isti America.

LAND LEAGUE MEETING. ti oepiemuer, ui and marched the scoundrel to a police Produce Butter, good to choice, 23 SAVING EAIJTS. The forest fires ill Michigan have been Says the Wabaunsee County News 1 he land league convention at Dublin cnoice selections 111 single packagi station. is attended by about one thousand dele lots, 28c; old or summer packed, 15c: Eggs, "Louis Brabout, the great ventrilo gates, Including twenty-one members of quite generally quenched by rain, after ravaging thirty-six townships. Relief has commenced to flow in from various quar Prairie fires have been raging all around us for several days.

On Sunday, Sept. 4, a strong south wind was blowing and dense clouds of smoke settled over quist, was also a great joker. The parliament. Parnell presides. Telegrams from the American branch urged that no per dozen.

Chickens, dressed 89c Live chickens, J2.002.25 per doz. Turkeys, per lb. Duclcs, 8c per lb. Cheese, 810e. for prime Kansas.

Hides, story is told of him that he fell in love rent oe paid. with a beautiful young novitiate, who ters, ana siiDscriptions are being taken up in all the commercial cities. In answer to a request for tents, the secretary of war urges the construction of tenmorarv build the town, indicating fearful fires in the HUMAN BONES. dry flint, No. 1, 15 green, No.

1, was soon to take tho veil. The senti aDout seven minutes. STAGE ROBBERY. The Bisbco stage was robbed be! ween Bisbeo and Charleston, Arizona, and taken from the treasure box. A cargo of three hundred tons of hu vicinity, and Ave may expect to hear of ings, and Governor Jerome has telesrrauh- ment was returned, and Brabout arranged for an elopement.

His inamor man bones, probably the remains of the defenders of Flevna, has been received at ed him to order one thousand army blank Bristol, England, from Turkey, to be used ata succeeded in getting outside tho ets, secretary liuiom nas instruc ed the collector of customs at Port Huron to pass tree of duty all contributions from Canada. great loss. It is said that the fire started near Council Grove. The prairies are being burnt off before many have finished haying, and much hay is out in cocks, it being impossible to convent walls, and the two hurried 111 eilllLlllIlg MB soil. AMERICAN PORK away to the house of a neighboring priest.

The holy man was awakened Leon Chotteau, in a letter addressed to KANSAS CITY FAIR. Notwithstanding the destructive lire of tr stack it on account of the continued the I rench minis! er of foreign affairs, de Wednesday, which destroyed the Main ind requested to perform tbe marriage mands ine aorogauon ot tne aecr pro high winds. Unless we have rain soon, hibiting the importation of American ceremony. His refusal was a thing to nail and all its contents, Thursday was the biggest day in the history of the Kansas what the immense herds of cattle arc be expected, but lirabout was too cun pork. THE SACRED LEGION going to graze on, we know not.

It City fair, there being at least fifty thousand persons present. The California ning for the old man. When ho said looks as though feeding time would maiden won the ten mile race. Two hun most emphatically, and was about come two months earlier than usual. sc.

I'otatoes, per jh.25. Broom eorn.34e per according to quality Hay, SU50 per ton baled; 3.50. Live Stock Export steers, no sale; native shipping steers, S3.103.25; native butchers' steers, native feeding steers, 53.354.40; native stockers, 2.85(S native cows.S3 30 Cherokee butchers' steers 3.003.(15. Hogs, sales ranged, 86.20'i fi.75; bulk at ffi.25rao.50. Sheep Choice to native muttons, $3.25.

St. Louis Wheat September, $143; Oc tober, Corn September, G2; October, Ofi; Chicago Wheat October, 8 1 .31 Com September, G2; October, Co; November, 08. New York No. 2 Chicago, SI. 40; No.

2 No. 2 red, Sl.47'3J1.48. Corn, No. 2, 72. The Philadelphia Easy Hour men tionsMr.

J. A. Walton of 1245 Twelfth street, that city, as an enthusiastic indorser of St. Jacobs Oil for the relief and cure of diseases of horses. Three hundred Russian nobles have organized themselves under tho name of the "Sacred Legion," and will establish a dred men worked all Wednesday night in The Kirwin Chit says: It has to raise a commotion and have the novitiate returned to the cloister, a deep repairing tne tract, anq Thursday morning all the main hall exhibitors rained; none of you sizzle, drizzling secret service in opposition to nihilism, DIPHTHERIA EPIDEMIC.

sepulchral voice was heard coming opered out as fresh looking as if tliero had been no fire, and everything fairly boomed. CASUALTIES. A DESTRUCTIVE FIRE. At Rome, N. a loss of 10,000 was caused by the burning of the Mohawk-house, liodocit's sortp-works, and tour dwellings.

Afterward the union freight depot, four load, cars, and twenty dwellings were destroyed by another conflagration. Cord-wood stretched along the Home, Watertown, and Ogdensburgli' road took lire, consuming the ties and warping She track for a distance of six miles. DIRE DISASTER. The steamer Columbia foundered off (Frankfort, Mich. Fifteen persons were drowned, and the bodies of Captain Mai-com, Engineers William and William Mifflin, and Miss Fitzgerald, of Chicago, have floated ashore.

Seven persons were saved in small boats. The steamer sailed from Chicago for Colling-wood, loaded with grain. BOILER EXPLOSION. By the explosion of the boiler in the dry-dock of Btilman Urown, in Jersey City, two men were killed and three 'fa tally showers but a regular old fashioned shower, just tho kind for which Kamas from the bowels of the earth. It In giving details of the epidemic of diphtheria, tne Kussian journals announce said: famous when she is in the raining SITTING BULL RAMPANT.

When the steamer General Sherman ar tatai cases in a province of less than I am thy father, and am still in tor business. On Monday evening the rived at Standing Rock to transfer Sitting inhabitants. PRINCE JEROME. ain commenced to fall and it con ment. Marry this coupl 3 to each other, and my probation in purgatory will be null's party to Kandall, the noted Sioux declared he would never go on board Prince Jerome Napoleon has decided to tinued to rain quite hard during tbe entire night and a greater portion of over.

alive. He was promptly overpowered bv leavo ranee for Constantinople, and leave to his son Victor tho leadership of "The frightened priest called upon the next day, The rain has come too tne uonapartisw. AN AVERAGE YIEI.I). the soldiers, ironed hand and foot, and carried up the gang-nlank. The other Indians had displayed some insubordination, but quietly followed when their chief hail been subdued.

ate to do corn mucli rood, but it will all the saints to protect him, and proceeded to perform that ceremony with Wheat along the Canadian racific road greater alacrity than he had ever shown on similar occasions." in Manitoba is said to average fully twen- put the ground in excellent condition fc sowing fall wheat. The ground has received a thorough soaking, as it has not had here since June. The grass The Opium Crop. New York letter: As was anticipat tv-nve bushels per acre, oats sixty, and ADDITIONAL AID. Seventeen banks connected with the "Do you ever play jokes." oaney unrij'.

injured, roe uoner was Dlnwn six hundred feet up Essex street, cutting down a ed, the new crop of opium proves to be a very abundant one, and the price of THE ANNUAL BUTCHERY. clearing-house of Chicago have conlrib-11 ted tfUiOO for distribution in the devasta The king of Dahomy has destroyed the has been so refreshened by the rain that it is putting on a green appearance. The cisterns that were about dry have lamp-post anrl lire-hydrant, and makin mince-meat of a horse and cart. A FATAL COLLISION. towns or ignano aim Ukelo, and took some thousands of captives to his capital for ted region of Michigan.

Over $4,000 has been raised on the board of trade. Public bodies in Indianapolis have remitted SI, 100. Governor Jerome has sent, out an appeal to the people of tho United States. A collision occurred between two east saeniice. THE JEWS.

been well filled and the people are happy, and are begining to say there Is no ward bound lreight trains on tho New a Minsianunopio disnalch sav; lorK, Erie and Western railway, country like Kansas. DEATH OF JOHN W. BROOKS. John W. Brooks, of Boston, the fatious is entcrtnihincr a nronosal for the 1 uikiiu nines east hi iMiuira, jn.

j(ve Persons were killed, two instantly, and a Says the Leavenworth Times: "Fort tion of Russian and Roumanian Jews to railroad manacror. died at, Ifeidelbenr. Ger worth is not what it was In oiawi ia imnuy WOUIHieO. MORE FOI1EST FIRES. years gone by.

ear alter year tne The forest fire In Marin slow methodical dump ot a snovei run many, in his 03d year. le constructed the Boston and Maine road, negotiated the purchase of tho Michigan Central by Boston capitalists, built various sections of the Burlington road, and was chairman of the Hoosac tunnel commission. of earth the monotonous sound of a chisel the steady tamp-tamp of drills nla. has alrea.ty ravaged 25,000 acres, of which one-th rd is grass land. Willi am Pixley, who started tho flames, died the quarries; the tedious laying or miiKiiij; mi vum i 10 suppress them.

FUNERAL OF GEN. BURNSIDE. Dming the funeral of General Burnside. the drug in tins market has declined to something like $2.75 per pound. The corner of speculates who control an immense amount of opium which cost on an average 7 a pound will have to pocket a large loss on their ill-judged operation, which could not succeed unless this year's crop was a failure.

It is thought they will go in and buy all they can at the low rate, and wait for rise In the price, when they may hope to get out with much reduced losses. Should they attempt to place their holding in the market now it would precipitate a decline to per-haps 2 a pound, which would render their loss enormous. The principal man in tho con.er is S. W. Green, of southern railroad consolidation fame, who has amplo means to carry on the operation for an indefinite period, as he is reputed to be worth from twenty-five to thirty millions.

Many small operators have been crippled by the decline, and oho lias fled the city. "Not often. I am not given to such sports as a general thing, but occasionally amuse myself at the expense of others. Last year I was traveling witli a musical combination. One day while riding in the cars I threw my vobe into a covered basket and set up a furious barking like a dog.

The lady beside whom the basket was sitting gave a scream and bounded out of the seat. Then I made a cat join in the row, and a brakeman came running pell-mell to quiet the disturbance. He jerked the lid off the basket and found nothing but a lot of delicious peaches the lady was taking home. The crowd was considerably mystified. Then I set a bumble-bee buzzing about the brakeman's ears, and he retreated.

A gentleman who was standing near heard a wolf growl so ferociously behind him that ho jumped about two feet high. Then flie lady was led to believe that a mouse's nest had found lodgement in her pocket, and tho circus was complete. But I don't believe much in such capers, and generally forego tho fun I might have If I felt disposed." LOSS BY FIRK. The total loss by the Oswego fire Is es at Providence, business was wholly suspended, and nearly everv buildini? was one brick upon another; the steady tramp of men carrying materials hither and yon; the patient watchfulness of officers and the quiet but approving assistance of nature have maicd exciusivoof llie loss of Syria. A PROSELYTE TO PROTESTANTISM.

Campbello, canon of St. Peter's cathedral, Rome, alleging continued hostility by the pope, has abjured Catholicism. WRArPKD IN FLAMES. A petroloum spring at Baker, Russia, has been burning for several days. Efforts are being made to extinguish it by steam.

BANKRUPTCY. The failure Is announced of the Northern Counties Banking association of Newcastle, England, witli liabilities of THE KHEDIVE'S BULLION. The gold bullion in the khedive's treasury has ben shipped from Cairo to Alexandria, as a measure of precaution. MEXICAN INDEPENDENCE. The anniversary of Mnvip draped in mourning.

Tlio entire militia of Rhodo Island performed escort duly. Eight senators ami General Sickles were 11 attendance. The interment was at wrought such changes as to cause the Swan Tolnt cemetery. oldest of our citizens who have known THE NORTHERN PACIFIC. Tho Northern Pacific road has HTM miles the place from its inception to wonder how such things can be.

Yet when they consider that the world Is grow, ing out of its humdrumness and Is of track in operation, and reports a bnl-anee in the treasury of JiKKi.iiii). The capital stock is now To complete the line between Lake Superior and the Pacific coast 81(1 miles of track are Kui'L'iuiiwiii. property, and damage to tho west pier; Insurance distributed among many companies. THE FLAMES. Forest fires aro spreading rapidly In the Vie nity of Carthage, N.

Y. Crops, stork and many building are burnr d. A large uLmSSA hn'n dertroynd INSTANTLY HILLED. ilS of tho finest SUNK IN THE LAKE. nw? Skylark, with worth Of eh Can frnUUnn i.mm.i progressing more rapidly than ever bo fore since tho building of ancient, and enco was observed by the opening of imb 119, wonderful towers and othor ue wonts uiiougiiouc tne republic.

SWEPT AWAY BY FIRE. Green's planlnnr-mil. nt I INVITATION ACCEPTED. The Invitation of theUnili Stat, cov- works of art that have withstood tho storms of ages, they say the Improve Worthless Stuff. Not so fast my friend if you could seo the sfrong, healthy, blooming men, women and chldren that have been raised from rnment tendered the renresentaMves of Baron Steuben to attend (he Yoiktnwn one of the best in tho province, valued at wasswept away by tire.

THE NECESSITY OF EUROPEAN CONTROL. centennial has been accepted with meat ment iajuot what the age demands, and that new buildings and walls should be of such a nature as to stand appreciation by ulx ollleers, of the German army bearing tho name. Ion harbor for Chicago, slrnck a snag and sunk. No Uvea lost-. Vnani "1 The Louisville Commercial cites the case of Capt.

Chas. N. Corri, of that city, who was cured by St. Jacobs Oil, after suffering for years with (Neb.) Rmihlfcan, TllO khedive. In a letter, aava If la beds of sickness, suffering and almost death, by tho use of Hop Hitters, you would say ''Glorious and invaluable remedy." See nnotherroliiinn.

Piiadcfpito frrna. as monuments to the credit of the pro lutely necessary (0 maintain Knnrnpnn 520,0 IMPORTING COOLIES, Awts of ra'lroads in Texas nnd New control In Egypt. gressive people of our century.".