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lnnna. with an acuta tnfc nf nartfonlf TJ- THK TWO JOHN BROWNS. KANSAS NEWS SUMMARY OF THE WEEK. French detectives will proceed to Moscow on that occasion to assist the Russian poltee In watching suspected persons. gcrfi C.

T. EWING, Publishes. CHERRYVALE, KANSAS. has been In 111 health for two years with urouciiiiu uiu imiuienary trouDie, ana nis recovery is hardly expected. ANTI-PASS COMPACT.

The railroad nmna.nfAa An1n hnatnaaa west of Chicago have reaffirmed the anti-pass compact, fixing the penalties for vielations of the agreement at $100 for the first, $200 for the second, $300 for the third, and $5K) for eacu Buuacquent ouense. THE MORMONS. its fifty-third annual conference at Salt Lake tM TTA-V mi i uuy, uuu. iuB iiosepnite, or monogamous, Mormons are holding a jubilee at Klrtland, in honor of the restoration of their temple there. LAND AND RENT LEAGUE.

The central labor union of New York has taken the initiative in the formation of what la to be called the American Land and Rent league, the obiect of which is to prevent the Imposition of exorbitant rents upon tenants. HIS LAST CALL. Elder William Perry Stratton, of the Christian Church, for many years a resident of Cincinnati, died the 10th from Brlght's disease, aged 77. He bad married over 2,000 coupiei. EW ORLEANS' DANGER.

Advices from New Orleans sav the city is liable to be inundated if any of the front levees give way. me river is now on a level with the crown of the levee along the city iroui. TEXAS SAVAGES. The adjutant general of Texas has advices that Indians are raiding in the vicinity of the Sacramento mountains and that Capt. Baylor with a company of state rangers is on their trail.

GOLD IN OHIO. 4 William Harper last fall discovered gold ore on his farm In the western part of Champaign, county, O. He kept the matter quiet, but Is now prepared ana wui oegin mining. SNOW STORM. On the 10th a snow storm, with a strong wind, prevailed throughout the northwest all day.

Six inches fell at Duluth and three lncnes at al. ram. VERDICT FOR PLAINTIFF. The libel suit of Professor McLean, of Ann Arbor Medical school, against the Detroit Evening News ended in a verdict in favor of tne piaintm ior CONTRACT CLOSED. W.

H. Smith, a prominent railroad constructor and president of the Western Car company oi uoiumous, aiea at uroana, agea years. THE CONTRACT SYSTEM. The lower house of the Pennsylvania legislature has passed a bill abolishing the contract system in prisons and reformatory in stitutions. JOINT ACTION.

Gen. Crook and Gens. Carboand Topethave arranged for joint action against the Apaches, eschewing the technicalities of international etiquette. APOPLEXY. Caot.

A. C. Donnelly, a well known steam boat man, fell from his horse in a fit of apoplexy at Morrow, anu uieu imme diately. ACCEPTED. accepted the reduction of wages, and the muis wui resume at once.

MBS. COUGAR'S GOUGE. Helen Gougar was awarded 5,000 damages in her libel suit against the chief of police of i.aiayette, ind. CALLED HENCE. both prominent citizens of Kansas City, died tne ytn inst.

PASSED AWAY. Brigadier General Joseph K. Barnes, late surgeon general oi tne united states army, is aeau. LAUNCHED. Jay Gould's $250,000 yacht was launched at Crump's ship-yard, Philadelphia, the 7th inst.

SUIT FOR FEES. J. R. Doolittle of Chicago, has sued a client for attorney's iees amounting to closed. The Iowa state agricultural college is tem porarily closed.

THE MARKETS. MARKET QUOTATIONS. The following reliable report of the stock market is furnished us by Geo. R. Barse live stock commission merchants, of Kan sas City.

LIVE STOCK. Cattle Native shippers, native native feeders, $4.35 4.85: native butchers steers. native cows, native heifers, $3.30 4.U0. Hogs Sales ranged from $5. 257.25; bulk Sheep-Native muttons, stack ers, J3.i(g3.

fa. ORAIN AND PRODUCE. Grain No. 1 red winter No. 2, red winter, 93; Ho.

8 red winter, no, 2 mixed corn, 40; No. 2 oats, 84; No. rv. 44 i. Produce Eggs, 14; cheese, 6kim flats, 9W10; butter, Kansas dairy, 2325; rrenmerv.

fancv. 80O32: creamery, choice, K8 creamery, fair, 2324; good to choice western store packed, 1820; medium, 1415; cooking, 810. Roll butter, common, 1314. chickens, live, $3.504.00 per doz. hens, $4.00 (cf4.5U potatoes, fO.o(Y.W.

OTHER MARKETS. Rt. Louis. Wheat. No.

2 red winter, 1.07Ji; No. 8 red, $1.021.02. Corn, 45 46. rhWm Wheat. No.

2 soring. 1.02 8, 88 winter, $1.051.06. Corn, SNew York. Wheat, No. 1 red winter, $1.10 1.U; No.

2, No. 8, Corn, 564. Draining the Dismal Swamp. Scientific American. The Dismal swamp in Virginia is much reduced in extent compared to whnr.

it, was twentv vears ago. It now contains, says a recent visitor there, some oi the best iarming lanu in wb state. A railroad runs across it, and it is on its way to final extinction. The drainage of Lake Drummond, a central oodyof water lying higher than the average level of the swamp, would make the whole area fertile. This is a project of Gov.

Benjamin F. Butler, who once had surveys made, but at length abandoned it. The one great industry of the swamp is lumbering. It is penetrated small ditches in connection with the larger canals, and by rude over which the logs are hauled to be sawed up into shingles, railroad ties and fencing. The lake, however, with its fringe of cypress and its projecting roots and stumps, is just as dismal as ever.

The queen of England's crown Is mads up of diamonds, rubies, sapphires, and emeralds set In a silver and gold body. It weighs 89 ounces and 5 pennyweights troy. In it there are 8,453 diamonds, 273 pearls, 9 rubies, 17 sapphires, and 11 emeralds. The diamonds wern by New York bar tenders are said to be worth $350,000. The Philadelphia News remarks that the bunclcs worn on the noses of New York bar patrons probably cost about $5,000,000.

The wooded lands ef Mississippi comprise 20,000,000 acres. The Hero-Martyr of Hrpri Ferry and the UUlle of Wlndaur Cattle. G(h, in the Clnoliaatl Enquirer, An englishman said to me recently man who had been many vears in our country, and was pretty well satis- nea here from bis worldly success and democratic turn of mind: Did von see about the death of John Brown?" You mean John Brown, of Harner's Ferry?" "Oh, no; I mean the queen's chief groom ana companion. uni" saia j. "is he aeaar What killed him?" Want of opposition.

I think, lie had been having his way ever since the death of the prince consort, and continued healthy for some years because he had some worlds left to conquer. But after awhile he bullied all the courtiers out, was the next will to the queen in the royal household, and then he seemed to get gangrene, and sickened because he had no more rivals." "What is the lesson of the death of John Brown?" "The American John Brown has left an enormous lesson. He is as big a man in history as Spartacus, or Rienzi, or Judas Maccabeus. He never was in a royal court, and hardly ever in a rich man's house. But he stored away an enormous thought like mental dynamite, and carried it around in his breast till he found a place to explode it, and the echoes of the explosion are heard yet along the whole line of the Appalachian range.

He was the simplest kind of man. He had read a few books, the Bible chiefly, had been once to Europe, probably going over in the steerage of a ship, and looked into militarv Questions in a aueerwaveome what; but in the main he was a poor tanner and wool buyer, and rather a failure to both. Yet he wrote his name among the very highest in the world as a man of great original act, honest and broad in its inception, bold in its execution, totally ineffective in im mediate results, but its secondary re suits like the execution of Jesus an episode of which the world will never cease to read with admiration. You cannot compare John Brown's act with that of Joan of Arc, for instance the great episodical heroine of France. She had the king at her side when she rode to battle; Brown had all the governors and the president, and almost his own family against him.

He did not strike merely a patriotic blow to redeem his country, but to give their rights to the lowest of mankind. John Brown, of Windsor castle, was a lackey all his days, ana yet he is more the line of ambition of some of the richest men in America than the John Brown of Harper's Ferry." "You are satirical," said I. "Oh, no. Ike Scottish John Brown was always at the head of society. He was with his sovereign and her family when nobody else could get in.

He had nothing to do with the newspapers, and would not give an item away about the court. The queen wrote about him in her books. He went pic nicking with the queen. Now, don't you suppose that On Fifth avenue, New iori, there are l.uuo persons who would like to have been in John Brown boots, and been a lackey to some princess or person of title? Yet not one on that avenue would have stood at the side of John Brown in any of his trials, magmheent as they were. I mean John Brown, of Harper's Kerry." "What do you infer from this singu lar antithesis?" "Why, I infer that the respectable side of life, as it calls itself in the United States, is going to be forever destined to disappointment.

The doe trinaires, the respecters of persons, the social Pharisees, those who call themselves the better element of the republican party, and the old regime of the democratic party, are merely the Scottish John Browns, content to be classed up somewhero near the hoi low effigy of a queen, while the great characters who move the age ana give human nature pyramids to reckon by come out of the simplest class, are often men who have no scientific accuracy, who are not political econo mists, and who do not live on their opinions instead of their deeds. The democratic heroes will always belong to the common nasal, horny type or John Brown of Harper's Ferry, instead of the tvpe of John Brown of Windsor castle. A JEALOUS BULL CALF. He Kills a Chinaman Who Attempts to Milk hi niotner. i Sum Daviii.

of The Carson fNev.1 A nna.l hn nnf. riovnnd t.hn 'nfirhis- aOW, UCM wm torio footprints" and struck the sensa tion of the asre. tie says: -ai aooui 9 nVlonlr tin Thnrsdav mornin? a nkinaman nitnnii Wnncr HfiO died at Ben Marker's from injuries he received the night before from a young duu on the ranch. It appears that there was a nnnr nn t.ViA Tllflf-0 that DO one but MnrlrAr nnnld milk because of the de termined interference of its bull calf. Thn naif would flv into a rasre when mother was milked.

The bull is now 3 years old, and for the past year has been kept in an aajoining 101, ana when anyone approacneu me cow il Mm hull Would fall into a terrible rage and its bellowings could oe neara an over me raucu. Day. before yesterday the Chinaman atortail tn millr thn SOW. the bull. becoming very much excited, rushed to the ience as usual, dui tne vninamuu paid no attention.

Suddenly the bull mfNntnil a four rmpns. and. lowerin? IQWUHIVU 1 CJ his head, charged for the fence, making a breach and senaing tne iragmenis high in the air. The fence went down no if It had been naoer. and the bull nnma tionrHnncr at.

the Chinaman. striking him in the head and sides with its horns. One horn penetrated the laftsida. breakins two ribs, and the other fractured tho skull. The farm' hanilg rnaVinrl nut in find the bull tOSS tnir tim nhinnman In the air and bellow ing savagely.

The bull was driven off and the unfortunate man taken to the no Ho lingered in D-reat aeonv until 2 o'clock in the morn ing, when he died. A thousand-dollar bill was placed upon the contribution-plate In 8t Paul's church, PawtucVet, R. Easter morning. The Union Pacifio railway has sold to actual settlers during a period of eight weeks more than 88,000 acres of Kansas land. Frank Merrill, a harnessmaker, about 81 years of age, died at Lawrence, Sunday morning, from the effects of morphine taken with a suicidal intent.

Salina Herald: All the mills are running day and night, while many of their -orders remain untouched. The water in the Smoky before the late rains has not been so low since 1862. Burlingame Chronicle: The fine residence of D. G. Griswold, in the south part of town, was destroyed by tire.

Mr. Griswold estimates his total loss at about $2,500, upon which there was no insurance. Atchison Champion: Monev is plenty in this citv and vicinity, and the depos its unusually largo. For instance, the Exchange National hank ban fnllv $500,000 of deposits which they can't loan, xnis inaicates that times are prosperous, and the season is likely to be a favorable one. A brakeman named Chappel was killed on the St.

Louis, Fort Scott and Western railroad, the other day, at Eu reka, while engaged in switching. He was stooping to pics up a coupling pin, and when he rose was caught be tween the bumpers, being horribly crusnea, tue coupler peingariven nearly through him Sixty cars of cattle have been re ceived at Larned during the past thirty days, aggregating 2,250. All were fine cattle and were sold to ranchmen. Five hundred head were sold the past week. The highest price paid was $22 for yearlings, sold by Bellinger, to Rush county parties, one thousand bead are now there for sale.

Hutchison News: There were thirty- three contestants for the premiums offered by Messrs. Strawridge Clothier, of Philadelphia, for the best cocoons raised in this county. L. Meyer, of Hutchison, was one of the lucky contestants. The cocoons entered by him were raised by the Men- nonite colony of this county.

White Cloud Review: Captain West- fall informs us that at least 100 emigrant wagons have been crossed at this point since March 3d. This would in- elude about 76 families, and as it is safe to count on an average of five persons to each family it would make 375 persons that have come into Kansas and Doniphan county at this place. Manhattan Nationalist: The Pnrcell Elevator company now owns a large elevator at this place and another at St. tieorge. Last winter it purchasea twenty acres of land in Ames, and intends to erect one there.

It is also contemplating building at Clyde but has not yet selected a locatton and may possibly erect still another at Vin- ing. Charles Fowdree, a workman in the sugar factory, at Leavenworth, was suddenly killed last Monday. He was in the fourth story of the building, when a carpenter accidentally dropped a wrench on his head from the ceiling. The man was stunned and fell through the elevator to the nrst story and was instantly killed. He was a single man about 24 years of age.

Ellsworth County News: Col. Gile has returned from Denver, where he has made arrangements with the Colorado Fish Hatchery for a quantity of Mountain trout, which he will have for distribution to such of the citizens of Kansas as have spring branches for them to run in, or have ponds supplied with water from springs. Col. Gile is very sanguine that the Mountain trout will succeed well in many of our spring branches which are to be found in many places throughout the western part of the state. Wyandotte Herald: The prospects for building the Wyandotte water-wnrka nnnear to be an assured fact.

The council at the meeting Thursday night affirmed the transfer of the Gamble-Mullins franchise to George D. Tnmi.n and nssnoi.itps. reauirin? the works to be completed by the first day of October, 1883, ana requiring a ue-posit of $7,000 in cash as a forfeiture. Mr. Tnmn.n assures ns that the works will be commenced inside of thirty days and pushed as rapidly as men ana mnrwvnun do it.

The material will be gin to arrive about the first of May and by the 15th of next montn it is expected that a large force of men will be at work. Mr. Inman is a practical man and we believe he has the ability to push the work to a successful cem-pletion. P.llawnrth Renorter: Several times during the fall of 1881 we spoke of the nvnniinnt onv in this countv and ureed the establishing of a pottery in Ells worth. A gentleman in mis county promised, us faithfully that he would engage in the business that fall.

He failed to do so and we let the matter drop. For the past two months we haxra hann fnrrfisnnndinr with Parties in Iowa in regara to the matter and WOUia HOi OB BUrpilDOU ulo oviuy nt tWom hrn in a short time. Another party from New York has written us that he will be here this season, ne can dispose of his property, to engage in thn marhlo business. There are good openines here for a pottery (or two of them) ana a marDie laciury, and we hope to see them in full blast during the present year. "Wasn't so Darned Fanny." The following story, says The Home Journal, was told at a dinner party in Boston the other night A man from Woonsocket was obliged to make a visit to Boston on some business.

He timed his visit so as to be able to hear a lecture of Mark Twain's at Tremont temple. By some misunderstanding the Woonsocket man mistook the day of the lecture, and happened in on one of Mr. Joseph Cook's lectures. He listened to the long discourse without discovering his mistake, thinking all the time that the lecturer was the famous humorist. On his return to Woonsocket his family questioned him as to the lecture "Wero it funny?" was asked.

"Wall," slowly replied the traveler, "it was funny, but it wasn't so darned funny!" IMMIGRATION. Five steamers filled with passengers arrived at Victoria, B. last week. So far immi grants nave naa no aimcuny in nnume employment. Two thousand Chinese will shortly arrive from Hong Kong.

They were engaged to work on -the railway before the contractors knew that white labor was available. No more Chinese labor will be accepted for railway work. FIREWORKS. A sample of the nitro-glycerlne seized In London last week at the time of the arrest of Norman, Gallagher, Dalton and Wilson, was exploded at Woolwich in order to test its quality. The explosion was terrific.

The ground for a distance of several yards from the spot where the explosion occurred, was torn up. UNCLE SAM'S PIG. Notwithstanding the numerous protests which are being received from America against the Injustice of prohibiting the importation of American pork Into Germany, that government, evidentlv lnnuencea dv sanitary reasons, seems determined to enforce the statute mating sucn importation uniawiui. NIHILIST IN THE ARMY. Several officers of the Russian army will soon be tried for nihilism owing to the discovery of the meaning of the cipher embodied in some of Prince Krapotkine's documents which were given into the hands of the Rus sian government Dy tne jj rencn autnorities.

THE CZAR'S NERVE. The czar, accompanied by the czarina, visited St. Petersburg, Friday, and passed tnrougn tne streets in an open carriage, Thev were unaccompanied bv anv escort, The czar seemed unusually thoughtful, and made scarcely any response whatever to the loyai saiutes oi tne puoiic. STILL AT WORK. The dynamite fiends are still at work in the vicinity of Montceau les Mines.

Friday night a cartridge containing dvnamite was Disced in a cavity in the tower of the chateau Plessls near that town. The cartridge exploded, but did very little damage. The chateau is not now innaDitea. BEHEADED. Conrad, the murderer of hiB wife and four children, whose sentence of death the emperor refused to commute, was beheaded In the court yard of the prison at Berlin Monday morning, orty-tnree persons witnessed tne execution.

Conrad protested his Innocence to tne last. THE REASON. The London Times says there was a practical reason for the haste in which the bill in regard to explosives passed through parlia ment and explains it by stating that some memoers oi tne aynamite party are oeiievea to oe on steamers now coming irom America, SOCIALISTS. Bismarck, in a letter to the president of the reichstaz, announced in a curt manner, and without offering an explanation, the arrest and subsequent release at Kiel of deputies who had attended the Bocialist con gress at (jopennagen, BISMARCK'S INTENTION. It is stated that Bismarck, in replying to a letter oi congratulation irom tne -crown prince on tne occasion oi nis Dirtnaav.

ae cHredtlmt be intended to devote the remainder of his life to consolidating the finances of tne empire. DIED ABROAD. Isaac H. Burch, years ago one of Chicago's leading mercnants ana weaitmest citizens. but who has resided most of the time for the past eighteen years in Europe, died at Nice, Italy, tue litn agea os years.

CAPTURED. A large number of Fenians' documents were capturea at muora, England, ana ior warded to Sir Wm. Harcourt. home secretary. The papers include letters from members of parliament.

A CONFLAGRATION. A fire, which promises to assume extensive proportions, has broken out at Bonnie, Switzerland. Twenty houses have already been destroyed. THE GREAT TRIAL. iuc biiiu vi.

uinuj) a.ciicj, uvtaucy, frev, Curley and Fitz Harris, for the Phojnix park murders, was begun the 9th inst, in Dublin. AMERICAN WHISKY. The Canadian privy council has decided not to allow the importation of American whisky in bond even under the 72 hours limitation. THE PHOJNIX PARK TRIAL. The trial of Brady for the murder of Caven dish and Burke was commenced in Dublin the 11th Inst.

THE EXPLOSIVE BILL. The new law relating to explosives has been rushed through the English parliament. IDIOTIC AND CRIMINAL. Michael Davitt declares that the dvnamite policy is "insane, Ulotlc and FATAL EXPLOSION. Forty peoDle were killed bv the exuloslon of a powder depot in Italy.

DEAD. Thomas N. Glbbs, ex-postmaster general of Canada, is dead. GENERALLTLES. A PROHIBITION CASE.

Advices from Topcka say 8enator Vest has been retained in the case of the state of Kansas vs. Peter Mugler. from Saline county, convicted of unlawfully selling liquor. The supreme court of Kansas sustained the verdict. Judge Brewer dissentihg.

It will go to the United States supreme court, where the constitutionality of the Kansas prohibitory law will be tested. Senator Vest claims that as the United States recognizes the legality of the sale of liquor no state has a right to prohibit it, the prohlbitloa being an abridgement of a constitutional right. A CATHOLIC UNIVERSITY. In Catholic circles at Milwaukee, It Is reported that the pope has given Bishop Spaulding his Indorsement of the project of a Catholic university in the United States, for which $2,000,000 has already been promised, and that indications point to the selection of the present site of St. Francis' seminary, couth of Milwaukee, as the seat of the university.

ONE CENT. In the suit of Lizzie Gannon vs. Father Fleming, of Boston, which was brought to recover 5,000 damages, because the latter, a Catholic priest, had taken away some paper images to which the child had become attached, causing alleged serious Injury to her health and mental condition, the jury brought in a verdict of 1 cent damages. A PIONEER GONE. Captain Samuel Mason, ptoneer steamboat-raanon the Ohio river, died at Wheeling, West the 10th aged 80 years.

He commenced river life as a deck hand In 182S, and shortly after became a pilot. In 1834 he acquired an interest in a steamboat, and remained in the business until after the war. A THREATENED INVASION. Indian Agent Wilcox, of the San Carlos agency. In a telegram to Commissioner Price, snvs it is rumored that a company of rangers is being organized at Tombstone, and indica tions point to an invasion oi san Carlos reservation.

He adds that the result of such an Invasion would be disastrous. PETER COOPER'S WILL. The will of Peter Cooper has bees, filed. He leaves $1,000,000 to the Cooper union, and divides the remainder of the estate, except 120,000 in special bequests, between nis son ana daughter, toward Uooper and Mrs. A.

S. Hewitt. The estate is valued at $2,000,000. A BURGLAR ALARM. The New York pipers published a story to the effect that an infernal machine addressed to Miss Nellie Gould, daughter of Jay, had exploded.

Investigation, however, proves that it was simply a burglar alarm, and was addressed to Miss Fannie Gould, daughter of a uroauway mercnant. A SICK CONGRESSMAN. Congressman Cutis, of the Sixth district of lowa, is lying very low Lis come la Uska- WASHINGTON. Slf POETS The appropriation of 1300.000 for the en largement and construction ol such military poets at In the Judgment of the secretary of war may be necessary, have been alloted as follow: Fort Thornburg, new fort, Wyoming territory, Fort Colvllle, new fort, Washington territory, Fort Hua-chuca, Arizona territory, improvement, Fort Bliss, El Paso, Improvement, $10,000.. GRAZING A Washington special to the Kansas Cltv Times says Secretary Teller has refused to confirm or recognize the leases made by Indians to cattlemen for grazing lands in the Indian territory.

TUB PRESIDENT. I The president and Dartv are on their wnv to Gardner's island, where it is proposed to camp a ween. CRIMINALITIES. HAN8ED BY A HOB. A report comes from DeSoto that Murk Marsden, the leader of a gang of hog and cattle thieves in and around Hlllsboro, who had made himself a terror almost throughout the entire country, and who was strongly suspected of having killed two men and committed arson within the past two years, was overtaken en the road near Victoria, a little hamlet three miles from DeSoto, about dark last Saturday night, by a mob of twenty-five or imrcy men ana aangea 10 a wee.

A DEFAULTER. D. N. Carelll. a well known produce and stock dealer, and for two years treasurer of Sparta, is a defaulter for upwards of $13,000.

It is alleged that the money was used in his business and lost in grain speculation, and that the deficiency was discovered upon an examination of his accounts previous to nis re-eiecuon. WHIBKT AND CARDS. George Harper, of Philadelphia, who was one of the representatives in congress who lifted the dvine? John Ouincv Adams when he ien to ine noor, was on Tuesday sentenced to one vear's imprisonment for stealing an overcoat. Whisky and cards wrought his ruin. DICK LIDDIL RELEASED.

Dick Llddll. a member of the James who was convicted at a late term of the United States court at Nashville, of a conspiracy to rob, has been released on his personal recognizance. "TIT FOR TAT." At North Adams, R. A. Savage, ex constable, was fatally shot in the saloon of James Barrett, it is oeueved, oy tne proprietor.

Savage last October shot Barrett. KILLED WITH A RAZOR. In Sharkey county, O. W. Thayer and Wilks Shannon had a dispute and Shan non cut Thayer's throat with a razor, killing mm lusiuuuy.

A RAPIST LYNCHED. Alexander Williams, colored, who outraged a negro girl named Lena Moses, was taken out of jail at Vicksburg, and hanged uy iiuuu. HOUSE THIEVES CAPTURED, A band of horse thieves were surrounded in the Indian territory, near the Kansas line, by a posse, ana one oi me imeves snot. SC HELLER'S TRIAL. The trial of George Schellcr, charged with setting lire to the Newhall house Tegan in muwatiKee tue win wbl.

CASUALTIES. A RECKLESS ENGINE. At St. Louis, last Saturdav evening as the southern express train on the Iron Mountain railroad was turning the curve from the levee into Poplar street en route tathe Union depot, the engine left the track and plunged into a three-story brick building, 123 and 125 Poplar street, breaking a big hole in its front. The coupling between the engine and tender broke, and the latter shot off in an opposite direction and tore down the front of 120 on the south side of the street.

-Both buildings are dwelling houses, but none of the inmates were injured. None of the cars left the track, and no damage was done except to the buildings and engine the latter of which was stripped or all its outer works. A HOTEL HORROR. The Ende hotel, at Greenville," a three-storv brick, fell with a terrible crash last Saturday night. About forty guests nd attendants were in tne Duumng at tne time.

Some who had not retired got out with diffi culty, others were aroused from sleep by the nre ana saw a aeatn oy nre awaiting tbem. The cries of the imprisoned for help were heartrending in the extreme. 8ome escaped, others perished. The hotel, with four or five business houses in its rear, occupied princi pally by Lowthstein Gee, were destroyed. BOILER EXPLOSION.

By a boiler explosion in the factory of George Bishop at Newbern, N. the engineer, Abram Brown, and the fireman, Frank Ermnett, were killed. The house of Isaiah Wood, 100 yards distant, was destroyed and Mrs. Woods fatally injured. Two employes of the factory were hurt by flying bricks Half of the factory was demolished, and all the houses in the vicinity were more or less damaged.

CUT HIS THROAT. At Indianapolis, Alphonso H. Bough-ton, residing at Scott's station, near Kalamazoo, committed suicide by cutting his throat. He was on his way south in quest of health, accompanied by a iriend. Insanity is supposed to be the cause.

A SELF-COCKER. Gus. Green, of Milwaukee, was accidentally killed by the unexpected discharge of a revolver in the hands of C. Carver, of Oshkosh. It was a self-cocking revolver, and was sup posed not to be loaded.

SWEPT BT FIRE. The Logan house, at Mnrphysboro, was consumed hy fire. R. W. Snape, a traveler for Adams A Wathene, St.

Louis, a Chicago man, perished in the flames. A WICKED WHEEL. At the Cincinnati cooperage works, in the lower part of that city, an emery wheel burst, instantly killing George Latt, Wm. Huber and slightly injuring wm. Curver.

HANGMAN'S NOOSE. William Rood, aged 14, son of a former resident of Minneapolis, experimented with the hangman's noose at Saratoga, N. with fatal results to himself. i A DEATHTRAP. A large building at the corner of Church and State streets, Rochester, N.

fell with crash. One man was Instantly killed and two fatally injured. DROWNED. Michael Manin, tollgate-keeper, and his three children, who lived near owingsville, were drowned while attempting to cross a swollen creek. i BUN OVER.

Mrs. Shultz, living near Morris, was run over and killed by a train on the Cincinnati, Indianapolis, 8 1-Louis and Chicago road. A FAMILY CREMATED. John A. Wilson, his wife and tw daughters were burned to death in their home near Otsego, N.

r. BLOWNS TO ATOMS. One building of the American powder mill at Acton, was blown to atoms, killing two men. A MINE DISASTER. Near Quinnessee, a mine caved in burying eight men.

FOREIGN. 5 CONSPIRATORS. 'The Paris police are keeping a close watch over a number of refugees whom they suspect of being connected with the alleged plot to take the life of the war at the time of the coronation. It Is reported that some of the MINOR MENTION. Two women in Vermont act as mail carriers.

The Hindus are said to have gods, Corn is coming up fast in the Alabama canebrakes. A ton of pure gold will make some-thing over $602,785. The finest flesh-colored marble can be found near Marietta, Ga. High living in Washington has given Senator Fair, of Nevada, the gout. The Boston Traveller refuses to admit the society novel into literature.

Pearl fishing is pursued by no less than 1,000 divers on the coast of Lower California. Austrian postal savings banks took in $300,000 in their first month, January, 1883. It is estimated that the annual cattle sales in the United States amount to about $300,000,000. It was a western congressman who described vichy as being spring water full of spiritual bird shot. Some of the farmers in San Bernardino county, are killing birds by placing poisoned apples on trees.

The Crow Indians of Montana number about 3,400, and are chiefly engaged in agriculture and stock raising. HoNi A. G. Curtin, the "great war governor of Pennsylvania," is now an old man, and of late has been growing quite feeble. A professor was lecturing ter Man A listener remarked that it; was generally the sheriff or some woman The Canadian parliament remains in session an average of seventy working days and costs $38 a minute, or about $582,000 per session.

The ninety Mormon missionaries who are working mainly in Tennessee, calculate that the south will afford them about 700 converts this year. Miss Parloa says tough' meat is healthiest for invalids. Possibly; it can not be eaten so fast, and the work of mastication is good exercise. More than fif ty churches in Baltimore are pronounced unsafe because their doors open inward, and the hanging of their doors is to be changed. A man who was digging for ore in Shawano county, uncovered a den of snakes and killed twenty-two, measuring from four to seven feet each.

Miss Lena Pastoret, of Duluth, was run into and knocked down by a clumsy skater at the rink in that city some days Bince, and died a few days later from the injuries received. Prince Leopold, of Hohenzollern, brother of the duchess of Connaught, has been apprenticed to learn the trade of a locksmith, in accordance with the custom of the royal family of Prussia. Tourists in this country are subjected to all sorts of mean restrictions while sight-seeing. "Please do not tumble down the shaft1' is the notice posted at the mouth of a Nevada mine. i' The hard winter in Iowa is reported to have killed nearly all the fish, in BUUIV najr.

AUCkllJ bUV7 llTOiO OUUVT dead fish along their shores, washed up from under the ice by the rising floods. 4l Massachusetts paper says that a "reformed actor" is holding meetings in Boston, "assisted by reformed bookkeepers, plumbers, lightning-rod men, book agents and weather prophets." The growing commerce of Alaska is the treasury department and it is evi- dent that the territory will ere long as sume greater importance in the affairs of the nation. William IL Wheeler, the professor of history at Tale college, who was incapacitated last winter by. injury to the spine, caused by a fall on tho ice, again takes his position, but in a very enfeebled condition. The wife of the Chinese minister at Washington is only 19 years old.

Her husband is 60. Although he is an inde fatigable society-goer, she never ac companies him. She is carefully se eluded from popular gaze. The quaint old town cf Boseawen, N. IL, is to celebrate the one hundred and fiftieth anniversary of iU existence during the coming summer.

This town has given the world Daniel and Ezekiel Webster, Gen. John A. Dix, William Pitt Fessenden, Nathaniel and Charles G. Green, and other distinguished men.