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lives were saved at Mecak, where not a build THE WEEKLY RECORD. fjt itctl)a ffitcftaiu. of Abraham A. Vorhultzen, in Dauphin county, exploded Thursday, instantly killius Simon Brinzen, eng neer, and Jacob ing the first half mi'. in CTJsecor.ds.

John Marpay aent Frank Work's team- aroucd In Jav-Eye-Seeniadeamilein 2 ing was left standing. At fifty-eigrt miles distant, the sea suddenly rose eight feet and then fell ten feet, causing Klein, both of Elizabe thtowa. The explosion Judge Hoadlet, tae democratic caadidate Fred Douglass, the colored leader, in an EOAH HARDY, Publisher. was du3 to a lack of water in the boiler. wide-spread devastation hi that reirion.

interview with a Washirgton Star reporter, St. Joseph's passionists monastery, three Is Santiago, Chill, a bill has been passed KANSAS. ONEIDA, for governor of Ohio, Is suffering from nervous prostration. Ke Las gone to Philadelphia to consult his old an may not speak again duiirjg the campaign. miles west of Baltimore, was destroyed by said: The statement printed in the New York new Ipapers that the proposed convention of colored men at Louisville on the 3lth MINOR MENTION.

Professor A. Phelps daugerously ill at providing for interments in cemeteries regardless of creed, whereupon the ecclesiastical authorities threatened to curse the general cemetery as soon as the law is promulgated. In consequence, a large cumber of bodies have fire. The church adjoining In process of construction was also considerably damaged. The daicase is from $20,000 to partly insured.

Chekby furniture is in style. in6t. was to be in the interest of the present administration, was wholly untrue. He said also that he proposed to go as a delegate to the convention, if ODe should be held, and Bar Harbor. The death of bis son.

Professor Phelps, of Andover, who accidentally killed himself in the woods of Maine, is said to be the cause of his sickness. been disinterred and reburied iu church A railway bridge at Minneapolis used by chapels. the Manitoba and Northern Pacific trains was so badly damaged by fire that the cen Subscription lists have been placed In The London Standard's Hong Kong special that he had received letters from, Louisiana, Texas, Arkansas, Nebraska, Illinois, Indiana, Lynn pays her shoemakers 100,000 per week. The banjo is fashionable among Chicago ladies. ter spans fell into tae Mississippi.

The loss Is 130,000. every bank, hotel, and saloon in El Paso, to raise funds to insure a fight between states the reported cross log of the Tonquin frontier by Chinese troops is as yet uncon- Maryland and other states, informing him that delegates from those states would at A freight and an excursion train engine, nrniea. a war, However, is considered at going at a good speed, collided near St. Kyds, Hong Kong certain to eusue unless the Lemon juice or alum on the skin re tend. He said also that he had received letters from Senator Harrison, of Indiana, on the Hasnibal and St.

Joseph road. No one renca government fully recognizes the pels mosquitoes. from the mayor of the city of Indianapolis, was severely injured, but several painfully sovereignty of China. hurt. Captain Webb's widow is only Two graduates of the Toronto veterinary welcoming the convention t3 Indianapolis, in case it should not be welcomed to Louisville, Miss Martha E.

Johnson, 27 years of age, twenty-four years old. college, after a thorough examination of dead cattle on the farm of John H. Thompson, and in any case if the colored people was burnea to deatn near Newcastle, Slade and Mitchell on the Mexicin side of the river. A disease known as splenic fever has attacked the cattle of Lancaster county, and is racing with great virulence. Large numbers of cases have alresdy proved fatal.

The Louisville air-line road issc'Jingtlckets from St. Louis to Louisville for $1, and to Cincinnati for $1.50. Tho latter rate just covers the bridge tolls and 'bus transfer. The Massachusetts state democratic convention will be held at Springfield, September 26. It is authoritatively stated that Butler should wish to hold the convention there.

Coshocton county, her dress catching fire Ex-Senatok Wisdom will spend near Flint, report that ten of them Consul Roosevelt, of Bordeaux, France, from a stove about which 6he was working. were victims of Texas fever. The surgeons several months in the Scottish High' lands. has sent the department of state some ex Mrs. Julia P.

Smith, a well-known novel say native stock Is not liable to infection. tracts from a note concerning the prohibition ist, was killed at her summer residence at At a banquet giveu United States Ministers of American pork, which had recently been New Hartford, Conn. She was driving with Mr. George Simonds, of London, is at work on a marble bust of Ralpb handed the minister of commerce of Paris, her husband, when the horse ran away. Morton and Sargent at London, several speakers expressed the wish that the United States would adopt the principles of free By an explosion of gas in Fair Lawn mine, Waldo Emerson.

Marseilles, Bordeaux and Havre. In this note the chambers represent the loss caused by the prohibition to the merchant marine Dan Sanswlre, secretary and treasurer of will become a candidate for re-election. Ex-Governor Talbot, of Massachusetts, is prominently mentioned as a republican candidate for governor, but declines posi the Fair Lawn Coal company, and D. Six thousand car loads of watermel and the country in freights, to be very Blackwood were fatally injured. ons have been shipped north from trade and conclude a treaty of totnmerce with France on that basis.

The Countess de Chambord insists that the position of chief mourner at the count's funeral shall be held by his nearest relative, and the Count de Paris has left Frohsdorf with the other Orleanist princes. tively to allow the use of his name. great, that the sanitary question has been de cided by a commission of public hygiene ad Georgia this season. By the failure of an air brake, passenger trains collided at Colchester, on the Vermont Central road, thirteen trainmen receiving At Sandy Hill, N. S.

Teller, druggist, verscly to the prohibition, that by prohibi A dacshter of Gen. WinPeld Scott shot himself fatally with the same weapon, in the same room and at the same hour his tion the working classes have been deprived severe injuries. is the wife of a Virginia gentleman of cheap food and the price of food increased. A statue of Lafayette was unveiled in father killed himself a year ago. named Wintield Scott.

with other results and difficulties, and that as Paris, recently. A vast assemblage witnessed Mr. Dehaas, one of the German commis The Donular rolish poet ana long as the prohibUion lasts retaliation may be expected from the United States. They ask that American pork be made free and the At Illiopolis, 111., Mrs. Phoebe Hayland and her two little grandchildren perished in a burning building, all egress being cut off by the flames.

A fire at Cedar Springs, consumed the grain elevators of Benedict Brothers, and a store and dwelling. Loss $16,000. the ceremony. Addresses were delivered by Messrs. Morton and Sargent, the American minister to France and Germany.

sioners of the foreign exposition at Boston, states that the empress of Austria is likely soon to visit the United 8tates. J. dramatist Ladislaus Ludwig Anazye decree of prohibition cancelled. died recently in Cracow. Reports from all parts of Russia state that Mitchell, the mauler, wants to fight Officers of the postoffice department Slade in Mexico, and Harry Hill, the stakeholder, has been requested to order the mill Senator Anthony, who is at Sara' express the opinion that the inadvertence of congress in making a bill to regulate post the cattle plague continues with unbated fury.

Over a million cattle have fallen victims to the plague within the past few years in European Russia alone. toa, is described as looking much bet to take place over the border. masters salaries to go into effect at once, in ter than before his illness. John Connelle, a watchman on duty in CRIMINALITIES. Joseph Cross, an aged Englishman, farming about fifteen miles from Burlington, got out of bed the other night and stabbed stead of the 1st of October, the date fixed for Prof.

Faulb, who made a study of the the treasury building at Washington, killed The Empress Eugenie, who has suf subject of volcauic eruptions and is con reduction in letter rates of postage, will cost the government a million and a half dollars himself with a revolver in a coal-vault in the basement. sidered an authority, predicts another earth fered from dyspepsia, walks much and continues to improve in health and quake will take place at Ischia the 15th of his wife six times with a pocket-knife. One of her fingers was cut off in the struggle, and her intestines protruded from a cut across A new exchange will be shortly opened iu October. Ni w.York, to be known as the Electric Man spirits. In increase of salaries.

The system of grading salaries proportionately in accordance with the receipts of offices is also unfavorably commented upon at the department, for the reason that under this system postmasters Professor Varley, the electrician to the ufacturing and Miscellaneous Stock; Ex-, Electric International Telegraph company, Ex-Senator Pomerot, of Kansas change. the stomach. She crawled to a neighboring farm-bouse and made her statement. There seems to have been no cause for the assault except incompatibility. i which laid the first cable across the Atlantic Lot Chadwick, one of the oldest settlers are continually tempted to fictitious sales of ocean, is dead.

having spent the early summer among the Rocky Mountains, is now enjoying New England sea air on Scituate Beach. in northern Illinois, was buried with Masonic honors at Lee Centre. He was 91 vears of stamps in order to increase their Prince Alexander has issued a manifesto The trial of Frank James at Gallatin, Mo. 7 age. for complicity in the Winston train robbery, announcing that he has decided to appoint a commission to draw up a new constitution The free delivery system was established The American woman suffrage association resulted in an acquittal.

The other two cases against the defendant, one for being accessory for Bulgaria, will hold its annual meeting in the- Brooklyn academy of music October 9 and 10. in forty-two cities and towns during the fiscal year ended June 3 1SS2. But four post-offices have been added to the list since that 2 Baron Von Monteuffell, the German in to the murder of Westfall and the other for William F. Hines, a detective sergeant in A German inventor has built a ship so that in case of accident to the bow tke stern half can be instantaneously separated from it, and can continue the voyage securely. command of Alsaoe-Lorainc, closed the the murder of Cant.

Sheets, were continued New York, shot himself dead in a bath-room, French Literary elub, at Metz. until the October term of the Daviess county leaving a wife and two children. A fund has been raised in London to em circuit court, which meets the second Monday The Grand Trunk road has contracted for ploy eminent counsel to defend O'Donnell, in October. date, although many urgent applications are received for the establishment of the system The department has been tinable to accord the privilege except in rare instances, because of the meager appropriation which has been absorbed to a considerable extent by the operations of the law providing for the yearly the murderer of Carey. Dr.

J. K. Richey, who fatally shot his wife an iron steamer, costing to transfer cars across the river at Detroit. It is now stated that but little damage was at Mendota, 111., recently, and fled, returned Thursday with his throat cut from ear to ear, Fred Lauer, the well-known brewer and done by the storm oS. Scotia, and that there In a population of New York City has 61,052 real estate owners.

It further appears that while the real estate annually increases in value the owners become fewer. first president of the United States brewery was no tidal wave. but no main artery severed. He was much emaciated, having laid in the hay loft all the promotion of letter carriers. congress, is dead, aged 73.

The Malagassy envoys will land in an out O. M. Dbnnt, United States consul general William B. Stearns, president of the of the way corner of the island, iu order to intervening period. He is under arrest and at Shanghai, made his report to the state de avoid the French.

will recover. Fitchburg railroad, died of Bright's disease, at Marbkhead, Mass. partment uuder date of Shanghai, July 23, in The treaty of commerce between Germany At the Marble hall saloon, Kansas City, reference to cholera at Swatow. A number Tins Western Union have issued orders and Spain passed its third reading in the Julius Hooks playfully pointed a 4ealiber of foreigners composing the crews of foreign rtichstag. Colt's revolver at John Bagley, a well-known which will have the effect of raising salaries all around.

vessels have died. Hong Kong has declared The villnge of Batlineourt, Belgium, con sporting man, which was accidentally dis Swatow an infected port. Denny was re Considerable damage has been done by taining 116 houses, was destroyed by fire, charged, the ball penetrating the abdomen, quested by the consular body to communicate frosts in the New England states. coming out at the back, producing a- fatal with Chinese officials to secure their-co-opera A state jewelers' association has been GENERALITIES. wouna.

Mrs. E. Lynn Lynton, the English authoress, is a pleasant lady of sixty, with gray hair and spectacles. She is a fascinating talker, and lives abroad most of the time, spending all her winters in Rome. "If this is not the solid truth, floor me with a watermelon, and give the piece to the Sunday school scholars," is a of speech which is regarded in Georgia as imparting conclusiveness to an assertion." tion in enforcement of the regulations of organized at Columbus, 0.

ioreign exposition jtsostoM was C. C. Monday went to Stanford, and 1S74. formally opened Monday, though still very The Ohio state fair at Columbus was thinly attended. reported that some one had during the night cut his wife's throat from ear to ear.

After The state department is in receipt of a incomplete. The Japanese exhibit, which is large and artistic, is attended by natives in brief session at his home in the country, copy of the text of the treaty concluded between Germany and Mexico December their home costumes. Among the products the coroner's jury pronounced him the mur 1883. It is the usual form of treaties of com derer and caused his incarceration. of Ireland are a stone cross weighing five tons and a model of the treatv-stoue of Daniel Courtney, in a saloon under merce, and as Mexico has recently abrogated all her old commercial treaties with a view of Limerick.

The rajah who entertained Cen lodging house, in South street, New York, proving her relations with foreign powers on Grant in India has sent a case of curious The tanks of the Berlin iish dealers uniform basis. This treaty, which is the rausical instruments. Music is furnished by deliberately shot dead Thomas Young, coolly replaced the revolver in his pocket and walked away. He is still at large. Eoth first of her new treaties, may be considered as in the Burgstrasse contain, it is said, about 180 tons of live fish.

Berlin con the Victoria rifles' band of Montreal. indicating the character of those which are to longshore men. At Marshall, on Saturday evening, a follow, sumes weekly from forty to sixty tons party of white men went to the negro head By the accidental discharge of a pistol in Ex-Chief Justice Moore, of Texas, died of fresh water fish, and seems to have the bands of a drunken ruffian named Yellow quarters to witness the organization of suddenly in Washington City, Thursday, of colored military company, and were halted hammer, on the exposition grounds at St, a wild fondness for eels. cerebral apoplexy, aged 61 years. Judsre and fired upon.

Shooting then became general Joseph, George Beattie was fatally shot Moore was for many years a prominent law the abdomen, and James Madden was shot after which the negroes fled. Threediundred white citizens organized and patrolled the THE MARKETS. MARKET QUOTATIONS. The following reliable report of the stock market is furnished us by Geo. R.

Barse live stock commission merchants, of Kansas City. RECEIPTS. Receipts of cattle, hogs and sheep the past week. Cattlw hogs sheep 5,138. CATTLE For shipping steers salc3 ranged at t4.T5 native feeders butchers steers $3 854.0(); native stockers $3.00 3.75; Texas steers cows $2.

75 3.25. HOGS. Sales ranged from $5 62 to $5.75 for heavy; bulk at $4.70 '24 75. For light, salt ranged from $4.75 to $4 90; bulk at $4 80. SHEEP.

Native sheep, $2.503.00. GRAIN and produce. Grain No. I red winter wheat, No. 2 red winter, 88): No.

3 red winter, 60; No. 2 raised com, B7; No. 2 oats, 21; No. 2 rye, 42. Produce Eggs, 1414; butter, choice dairy, 1517; creamery, fancy, 2C21; creamery, choice, good to choice western store packed, 11 (a 13; medium, 7 cooking, 5(((.

spring chickens, large, spring chickens, small, 1.75: hens, potatoes, choice large, n.the arm. yer in Texas, and during the first year of the late war commanded a Texas regiment. He At the dedication of the Princess Alice Memorial Hospital at London recently, the Princess of Wales wore the plainest dress of any of the ladies town all night. Two negroes of Edwards, confessed having robbed the grave of Mrs. Hattie was tnen elected to ttie oench, and served as associate justice and chief justice eighteen During the inaugural ceremonies at Frankfort, Governor Blackburn endeavored to Howell.

One of them who attempted to years. Early in 1S82 he resigned the latter escape was riddled with bullets. The ether present. It was white cambric with' jut trimming, and she wore no jewelry on account of failing health, was taken from the sheriff and hanged. excuse himself for the large number of pardons granted, and.

Governor Knott da-clared that in no case would he remit criminal penalties unless satisfied that the sentence Is answer to the application from the A man who boarded a train at Smitbfield. Utah, late on Sunday night, covered eight A Salt Lake City admirer of the sainted Brisrham Youner ursres the rencn cnarge a' aitairs ror permission to take twenty Indians from their reservation to France for exhibition, Commissioner Perce was unjust to the convict. passengers ana two trainmen with a revolver, The excess of value of exports over imports robbed them of their watches and money, and erection of a monument to his mem has advised the secretary of the interior to for the twelve months ended July 31, 18S3, escaped in the darkness. ory on the ground that the old man refuse the request upon the ground that such was The imports of mcrcharv Jacob Waldron, a irm-hand of Danville, exhibitions result in the demoralization of was "the Moses who led the oppressed out of monocracy; the leader and the dise decreased 123,785,054 for the year endi July 31, 1S83, compared with same time la III, killed William Miller in a drunken quarrel. A party of twenty-five officers and Indians, and renders them dissaticfled with life at the agencies.

wheelhorse in tho settlement of the citizens are in pursuit of the murderer. Secretary Chandler notified the secretary tiBORGE kankin, convicted of pension valleys." of the foreign exhibition that, the government frauds in the United States district court, at Philadelphia, was refused a new trial and steamer Tallapoosa was at the service of the foreign visitors and representatives at the The citizens of Bremen hold fast to some of their ancient traditions. All 3J(it4U; hay, small oalea, new, to.uuigo.tfo. OTHER MARKETS. St.

Louis. Wheat, No. 2 red winter, $1.02 1.02X; No. 3 red, Com, No. 2 red 45046.

Chicago. Wheat, No. 2 spring, 973)97; No. 3 spring, 8S7; winter, Cora, 484S. New York Wheat, No.

3 red, $1.11 1.12. No. 2 red, Corn, No. No. 2, 61olK.

year, and exports increased $79,489,77:. Henry Ward Beeches, wh is now in San Francisco, persists iu obtruding upon the Californians his radical views on the Chinese question. In consequence the church which pays him $2,400 for four lectures will have a deficiency to make up. A boat modeled after the Maid of the Mist, with no one on board, was sent through the sentenced to two years' Imprisonment. world'3fair.

At Taylorville, Jacob Hadley, a stone peremptory sales of real estate still take place by the light of the cutter, shot and killed his son Charles, aged The decrease in the public debt for the month of August is estimated at about 20. He was drunk at the time, and tried to $6,000,000. candle." Council messengers appear drown himself after the shooting. on solemn occasions in flaming red 5 County Treasurer John C. D.

Wiggins. CASUALITIES. coat3, knee breeches, white stocking: A boy in charge of the passenger elevator rapids of Niagara river, the other day, and reached Lewiston in safety. The experiment was witnessed by forty thousand persons ou the bauks. Mahlon Rowe, who deserted his family in and side swords.

in the Grand Pacific hotel, Chicago, lost con trol of the machine as it was making an up of Montgomery county, is reported short in bis accounts $390,000. Speculation in grain is said to be the cause. At Mendota, 111., Dr. J. K.

Richey shot and mortally wounded his wife, then fled. ward passage, and advised the two passengers Martin Farqchar Tapper is said to be very proud of a book by an on board to jump off at the next landing. Iu attempting to do so one of them, Christian American writer, called "Sands of Gold, sifted from the Floods of Litera Jackson, a painter employed in the hotel, was killed. The tragedy was needless, as the automatic appliance caused the elevator to ture: or the wisest sayings of Solomon Shakspeare and Tupper, exemplified stop naturally on reaching the upper story by the Poet." A copy of this, elegant A collission on the Delaware railroad ly bound, is in his library. A Partially Dead Man.

The Morning Herald, Baltimore, states: Major B. S. White, of this city, describes his miraculous cure as follows: "I have been a partially dead man for tea years. Doctors attributed my sufftirings to the enlargement of certain glands. The quantity of medicine I took without relief would be sufficient to setup a first-clasg apothecary shop.

Finally St. Jacobs Oil was rec' ommended. I hadmy spinal column thoroughly rubbed with it. All those knots, kinks and stiffness have passed away, and I am myself again." "What are you doing there?" demanded policeman of a man who sat on a fence howling. "That feller in the house shot my dog because he howled, and I am carrying out the dog's contract.

I'm going to howl here until I think the dog's death has been sufficiently avenged. If he shoots me, my son will howl out my contract, and if further harm should befall my family, my wife wUl come out and howl till he can't rest. Oh but we are howlers." Arkan6aw Traveler. near Green Springs, was caused by a runaway locomotive from Clayton, which was started by a tramp, who was seen to board it, and The Prince Imperial's tomb in the Zulu country is, it appears, kept in xrood order. There is about a quarter tnen jump on.

ine souin oountt passenger train, which was running fast, met the loco Ithaca, N. eighteen years ago, left an estate in Honolulu worth $70,000 to a Hawaiian woman and three children. The original family will make an eilort to secure the prize. Paul Vandervoort, chief clerk of the railway mail service at Omaha, has been dismissed by Postmaster General Gresham for absence from duty while acting as commander-in-chief of the Grand Army of the Republic. Henrt Villard and his guests found Fargo decorated with five car-loads of evergreens and forty-five acres of oats and wheat.

Speeches were made by General Grant, Carl Schurz, William M. Evarts, and several governors. Hanlan has cabled to England that he will row Laycock, of Australia, on the Thames course for $5,000 a side. Hanlan gives an exhibition at the Cincinnati regatta, aud will then go to St. Louis and give an exhibition.

At the Charter Oak park, Hartford, John Splan droYO Rockefeller's span in 2:18, mak of an acre of ground inclosed by FOREIGN. A mass meeting was held Saturday at Cap-pamore, Ireland. Davitt delivered an address, stating that by the tyrannical oppression of landlordism in Ireland, 6,000 holders had been deprived of their homes within the quarter ending the 1st of July. He contended that the question of a complete abolition of landlordism must be kept before the people. The land act, he stated, if not a failure at the present time, was rapidly becoming so, and not one-sixth of the tenant farmers of the country have yet succeeded in having their rents fixed.

He urged the people to be resor lute, calm and Dot lose their self-control. The London Standard's Amsterdam special says the Dutch controller at Katimborg, Sumatra, was saved, together with his family, indicates that the destruction in that quarter by the volcanic eruption was not absolute. One European book-keeper and two natives were the only persons whose motive, and both engines were wrecked Wm. Collins, fireman, was badly scalded, wall, and within that another inclosure Several passengers received trifling injuries, where Queen Victoria's Cross stands Flames appeared Monday afternoon In rag and paper warehouse on Walnut street, The original wreath placed around the i i cross is still intact, thougnmucmaciea Cincinnati, and spread with such speed as to out off the escape of the employes, several of whom were seriously injured, and five are still missing. The composing-room of the Times-Star was destroyed.

The total loss is The monument was placed by a British officer, in charge of a chief named Sabuza and his clan; who promised to take care of it. They have kept their $100,000. with real merit A good medicinal tonic, is Brown's Iron Bitters. The boiler of a steam thresher on the farm proaiisa well..