Cherry Valley Torch du lieu suivant : Cherryvale, Kansas • 6

dairy, 1517; creamery, fancy, 2021; cream ery, choice, 1718; good to choice western store packed, 11(313; medium, 7 8: cooking, 66. spring chickens, large, spring chickens, small, $1.50 1.75; hens, $3.753.00: potatoes, choice large, 81)40; hay, small baled, new, t6.008.25. C. T. EWING, Fdbmsheb.

CHERRYVALE, KANSAS. i and shot at Wensel four times. Wensel has two bullet holes in his chest, one la the left arm and one through the left hand. A soldier from Fort Russell went to his rescue and Moore fled. Wensel's skull Is fractured.

The ball passed through both lungs. Knight's skull Is fractured. Neither is expected to live. 'Moore's object was to get $53 la Wensel's satchel. Officers are In pursuit.

Wensel'i home Is in Clarion county, Pa. Joseph Crone, an aged Englishman, farming about fifteen miles from Burlington, got out ot bed the other night and stabbed his wife six times with a pockot-kolfe. One ot her fingers was cut off In the struggle, and her Intestines protruded from a cut across the stomach. She crawled to a neighboring farm-house and made her statement. There seems to have been no cause for the assault except incompatibility.

At Grapeville, Westmoreland county, Joseph Pune, an Italian, while attempting to steal potatoes from a gardener's patch the other was riddled with bullets and then dragged to the railroad crossing and laid on the track, where he was discovered some time later. Physicians pronounce his wounds fatal. THE WEEKLY RECORD. WASHINGTON. Officers ot the postofflce department express the opinion that the Inadvertence of congress In making a bill to regulate postmasters salaries to go into effect at once, Instead of the 1st ot October, the date fixed for reduction in letter rates ot postage, will cost the government a million and a half dollars 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 are continually tempted to fictitious sales of stamps in order to Increase their compensation. O. M. Dbnnt, United States consul general at Shanghai, made his report to the state department under date of Shanghai, July 23, In reference to cholera at Swatow. A number of foreigners composing the crews of foreign vessels have died.

Hong Kong has declared Swatow an Infected port. Denny was requested by the consular body to communicate with Chinese officials to secure their co-operation In enforcement of the regulations of 1874. KANSAS NEWS. Fredonia is organizing a militia company. Prairie chickens abound arouni Mil-tonvale, Clay county.

Republio wants to be incorporated as j. a city of the third class. A throat disease is prevalent in Washington and vicinity. Senator Plumb will speak at the Wellsville fair on the 28th inst. Cherry vale claims to be enjoying a building boom of large dimensions.

The iron foundry at Clay Center burned on Sunday night. Loss, $3,000. Mrs. Elston of Great Bend, a few days ago, had the misfortune to fall from her horse and break one of her arms. Hazleton is the name of a new town being laid off in the southeastern portion of Barber county, near the Harper ounty line.

Miss Koch, daughter of Dr. Koch, living eleven miles north of Great Bend, was badly burned the other day. She was lighting a fire with coal oil. J. A.

Hewitt has on his farm near Hiawatha, a remarkable twig from a Janeting apple tree. There are twenty apples, all well developed, on a cutting twelve inches long. A white black man named Jerry Dickens lives near Atchison, A short time ago he fell sick and began to turn black in spots. These spots spread until, to all appearances, he is a full blooded negro. The Manhattan Nationalist 4 Col.

J. B. Anderson is interested with some Junction Cityitss, in the purchase of 2,600 acres of land in Clay county, near Wakefield, costing 1,800 acres of which is to bo sowed to wheat, this fall. The Lawrence Gazette says: The farmers on the Wakarusa bottoms are in a great strain to know how to gather their corn this fall; there are very few step-ladders, and these being all engaged, there is but one chance left, and that is to hire small boys to climb the stalks and throw down the ears. This will make corn gathering very expensive.

While a farmer by the name of H. D. Wycoff was eating his dinner, at a restaurant in Wichita, the other day, a Winchester rifle in tho hands of Mr. Winch, in a gunsmith shop adjoining, was discharged. The ball passed through two partitions, striking Mr.

Wycoff in the back of the head, encircling his skull, and coming out just above his eye. For a time it was reported that he was dead, but he came to himself, and the doctors say the wound is not necessarily fatal. The Fifth Kansas cavalry will hold a reunion in Leavenworth on the second day of the soldiers' reunion. All members in the state will send their address to Major Sam. Walker, Lawrence.

It is the purpose to have in attendance the colonel, who now resides in Arkansas, and the lieutenant colonel, that state; was commissioned major of the Second dragoons in 1830, lieutenant colonel la 1840, colonel ot the First dragoons in 1850, and resigned in May, In 1861. Since the death ot Chief Detective Ileitis, ot Philadelphia, two letters written by the abductors of Charlie Ross to his father have been given to the public, and Mr. Ross has only just learned of their existence. They demanded $20,000 on pain of murdering the lad. The money was to be paid in New Tork, November 24, 1874.

Fourteen Mormons priests, led by Parson Palmer, of Salt Lake City, have been holding meetings at Minneapolis for the purpose of obtaining converts. They have been proselyting three months in Minnesota aBd secured ten converts, one of them being a woman. The excess ot value of exports per Imports for the twelve months ended July 81, 1883, was $107,879,236. The imports of merchant dlse decreased $23,785,054 for the year ended July 81, 1883, compared with same time last year, and exports increased 179,489,774. Henry Ward Beecuer, wh Is now in San Francisco, persists lu obtruding upon the Californlans 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. William Morrison, while in a halt drunken stupor, fell from a second story window of the Centropolis hotel at Kansas City to the ground, a distance of twenty feet, sustaining serious spinal Injuries, as well as numerous painful bruises. A boat modeled after the Maid of the Mist, With no one on board, was sent through the rapids ot Niagara river, the other day, and reached Lewiston in safety. The experiment was witnessed by forty thousand persons on the banks. Mahlon Rowe, who deserted his family In 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 effort to secure the prize. 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 Scburz, William M. Evarts, and several governors.

4 Mr. Blaine Is said to have told certain democratic leaders in Maine that, in his opinion, if Ben Butler can again secure the governorship of Massachusetts, he will inevitably be nominated and elected president. 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, and will then go to St. Louis and give an exhibition.

At the Charter Oak park, Hartford, John Splan drove Rockefeller's span In 2 :18, making the first half mile in 67)4 seconds. John Murphy sent Frank Work's team around in 2:13. Jay-Eye-See made a mile in 2:14. Six of the men who defended Baltimore in 1812, who have become too feeble to march round the battle monument as of yore, were Sunday token in carriages to chnrch, under escort of Wilson post of the Grand Army. Georob Peck, of Milwaukee, denies the rumor that he was In Boston to form a syndicate for the purchase of Peck's Sun, He says no syndicate could be got up with money enough to buy the paper.

G. F. Batcheldbr, a hotel-keeper at Nahant, while out after mackerel, claims to have seen on top of the water a serpent nearly two hundred feet long, with a. head as large as a barrel. MINOR MENTION.

Germany has twenty-one universities. '( IV i 1.1 England's apple crop is the finest for years. Iowa's timber lands have doubled in area in thirty years. Judge Jekb Black left an estate valued at $200,000. Oysters are plumper than they were this time last year.

French railroads will not use cars built on the American plan. Six hundred boats are engaged in the fish business at Cedar Key. The Methodists of England give a year for mission work. Tom Thumb's widow makes her first reappearance in Pittsburg, October 8. Georgia's manufactured products will aggregate almost $400,000,000 this year.

The statue of ex-President Zachary. Taylor at Louisville will be unveiled September 20. The smallest amount of copper in iron is said to make the steel made Ifrom it worthless. A Boston man says it is the legs that drown a man. Withoutlegs the human body would float.

Mrs. Jeremiah Leavitt, of Tilton, N. has a watch 273 years old. It was made in London in 1610. The aggregate demands of Philadelphia's council for appropriations for next year foot up at $13,219,755.

The late William Spottiswoode, president of the Royal Society, left a personal estate of more than $935,000. Wm. Makwood, the British hangman, never, it is said, saw a man hanged until he performed the work himself. Neat and appropriate tombstones have been ordered for the graves of the English soldiers who hare died of cholera in Egypt. Casamicciola is to be rebuilt of wood.

Most of the casualties during the recent earthquake were from the falling stone walls. Mr. Lay, of Oil City, who has been prospecting in Wyoming, hazards the opinion that the world's future petroleum supply will be found there. General Sickles is prosecuting the keeper of a boarding house because she shakes her carpets on her roof so that the dust falls upon his premises. Careful estimates of the present annual consumption of rag stock in the United States place the amount at 3,000,000 bales, valued at $36,100,000.

A sunflower weighing five and a quarter pounds has been grown on the Rittenhouse estate in Germantown. It is thirty-nine inches in circumference. A brick wall, twelve feet high and two feet thick, has been built arouni' the jail in Bozeman, and on the top broken glass is embedded in the mortar. The diseases that London Lancet says may be conveyed by books are measles, scarlet fever, diphtheria, sore throat, whooping cough, bronchitis and perhaps phthisis. Mr.

Storey, the editor ana proprietor of the Chicago Times, is nearly seventy years old, and is living quietly while he is building one of the largest private residences in the country. Old Fancy, the war horse rode by Stonewall Jackson, is tenderly cared ior at the Virginia Military institute at Lexington. He is a handsome sorrel of good form, but his joints are stiff. He is thirty years old. John Jacob Astor, of New York, is said to have deeded to his only son, now United States minister to Italy, 1 property valued at the lowest estimate at $60,000,000, subject to a pension of $100,000 pr annum.

The French dislike of sliding sashes in windows, and their designation of them as guillotines, was. sadly con firmed lately. An old woman in Havre, while looking out of the window, had the frame fall squarely on her back. It held her fast and choked her to death. i ti- i OTHER MARKETS.

St. Louis. Wheat. No. 2 red winter.

IU.OOU ffll.01); No. 8 red, 9596. Corn, No. 3 red 4546tf. Chicago.

Wheat, No. 8 spring, 96(396 New York Wheat, No. 3 red, $1.09 No. 2 red. Com.

NcT 8, No. 2, 63KtSS Facts for Beginners in Nutshell. Beekeepers Magazine. As many persons are entering upon bee-keeping, it is essential that they should know something about bees. We can calculate by the weight of the swarm the number of bees, as "author ities" allow 5,000 bees to the pound.

The hive would then consist of queens, workers and drones. The queen lays all the eggs, from which the inhabitants of the hive are produced. She deposits from two to threo thousand daily, for weeks in succession. The workers perform the essential duties, such as comb-building, brood-raising and honey- gathering. The drones are the males, ana their approach at the swarming season for the fertilization of young queens, is a wise provision of nature.

They gather no honey, ana are driven from the hive during the month of August, when their services are no longer required. Honey-comb consists of six-sided cells, made of wax, which is not gathered, but elaborated from honey by the bees. Five worker cells measure ono inch across, and in these honey and pollen are stored and worker bees produced. The drone cells measure four to the inch, and in these the drones are raised. The cells in which queens are raised hang like acorns upon the side or end of the combs and some times as many as twelve or fourteen may be found in a hive at swarming time.

When a hive is deprived of its queen previous to the introduction of a new sovereign, and fearing that her majesty may not be favorably received, the bee-keeper must be careful to cut out all queen cells save an open one, inwMchhe may cage the new queen, as, when liberated after forty-eight hours' confinement, the bees imagine she has just emerged from the vacant cell, and acknowledge her authority at once. The queen, no doubt, lays all the eggs, but they must be kept warm by the bees until tliey produce tiny white grubs, which hatch out at the end of three days, ana are then fed by the nurses with a mixture of pollen, honey and water, when fully grown, at the end of six days, they are sealed over with a brownish cap of wax and pollen mixed together. In twelve days they emerge from their incarceration perfect bees, thus occupy ing the cell for twenty-one days, viz iirst, three days in the egg state, six in an unsealed grub, and twelve in the state of quietude ensconced within the cell. The drones pass through like changes, but require twenty-five days to complete the transformation from an ess to a perfect drone. The drone brood" may at any time be known by the size of the cells, and their convex cappings.

Bees can raise queens from eggs destined to become working bees, provided that drones are abroad to mate with the young queens. Should this occur when no drones are about, all efforts would be in vain, as the eggs deposited by the queen would produce none but drones, even the eggs laid in the worker ceu woma proauce miniature drones and the hive go to ruin. Although the queen is much larger and more developed than the worker, she arrives at maturity in uve uaya ies time, and she hatches out in about eight days after being sealed in. The dose oi royai jeny wmen bbo reutuvea is said to hasten the transformation scene. The queen lives five years, but the worker's life in summer does not exceed two months; but the bees hatched out in autumn live till the following spring.

Drones are to be found in May, and their nervous natuie prevents them returning to the hive, hence they die at once, as we advance the practice of bee-keeping, we must avail ourselves of the intentions of modern science, such as moveable frame hives and comb foundation, as much valuable lime is saved by their employment eheddtn Her Teeth. New Tork World. Mrs. Sanborn, living in Metuchen, N. went to New York, ten years ago, and bought a set of false teetn.

She wore them for a week, but while sitting at dinner one day they became separated from the plate, and before she could recover her self-possession she had swallowed about a dozen of them. She felt no great embarrassment afterwards, and in time forgot all about the matter. One day last wees the ladv felt a pain on her right shoulder. Upon examination she found a lump there and consulted her family phy sician. That gentleman opened the nrotuberansc witn a lancet ana ex traded therefrom a hard and.

white substance resembling porcelain. The ladv suddenly recollected her tooth- swallowing performance and pro nounced the bone to be one of her miss ing teeth. Since that time the lady has been shedding teeth from various parts of her body, having recovered already nine of the set. She confidently expects to see the appearance of the other in a day or so. Two colored men began digging well about two weeks ago in the yard of an electric light company in Phila delphia.

The ground became warmer as they descended, and at a depth of twenty-for feet boiling water poured in and drove them out About thirty feet distant is an old well into which the hot water from large boilers has been blown, and it is believed that this ht water has so heated the surround ing gravel and sand that all the water fliltering through it is heated to the boiling poinL A report prepared under government In auspices says that the area of land Mani toba broken tor the first time Is 69,911 acres. Large numbers of Canada lumbermen ar daily leaving for the states. who is a resiaent or sj will be present many of "the boys" who now reside in other slates. It is the desire to have every member oi the uttn present on tue grouna wnere they were mustered out. The address of Colonel N.

S. Goss is Topoka, Kas. His home is at Neosho Falls, Woodson county, but he travels a great deal hunting birds and studying bird life. In his wanderings he has traversed nearly the whole of North America, and parts of bouth America. He has given his rare and valuable collection of birds to the state, on the sole condition that his name be given to it and that he have charge of it, without cost to the state, during his life.

He has a room htted up at the capital as his own, where he sleeps and eater-tains his friends. This is in addition to the room in which arehiscollectioms. He spent last winter at his own expense in South America getting specimens, all of which he gave the state Ho spends noarly all his time, and proba bly will, as long as ne is aoie to, in tne field in different parts of the world and all he gets he gives to Kansas. There are few such exhibitions of generosity on record, His name will go down to nosteritv as a benefactor of Kansas and Edward D. Cowan, city editor ot The Leadvllle Herald, was attacked by Alderman Joy, who knocked him down and jumped on his face with heavy boots, keeping the crowd at bay with a revolver.

Joy fled to the mountains. Cowan died In a few hours. Rev. T. H.

Oaklet, a delivery clerk In the Cleveland postofflce, has been arrested for selling stamps which he had removed from packages delivered, and has confessed his crime. He Is 70 years ot age, and pleads poverty, at. he received only $700 a year. Three men escaping from the jail of McDowell county, N. pushed the jailer's wife aside rather roughly.

They were soon recaptured, when the jailer took revenge by shooting one of them four times as he stood chained and handcuffed in his cell. S. E. Kennedy, the defaulting book keeper of the Commercial National bank of Toungstown, has voluntarily returned from Canada, and is engaged in making restitution, with the aid of friends. Charles Shinolbr, of Gore, followed Firman Lambert home from church with a young lady, and killed him by a blow on the head with a stone.

Burglars at Merklen, cut a safe to pieces in Mather's jewelry store and carried away one hundred gold and silver watches. Near Las Vegas, N. two cowboys got Into an altercation with a Greaser about a steer, and all three were killed. At a colored breakdown in Wayne county, Louis Stewart shot John McGee through the brain. Alexander Worslbt was shot and killed by his father-in-law, Clemest, near Bonham, Tex.

i FOREIGN. 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 lives were saved at Menak, where not a building was left standing. At Ouldjongprlok, fifty-eight miles distant, the sea suddenly rose eight feet and then fell ten feet, causing wide-spread devastation In that region. The London Standard's Hong Kong special says the absence of the British fleet at the present time from Chinese waters excites the deepest Indignation among British residents there and all other Chinese ports.

The relations between Europeans and natives throughout China have altogether changed since the opening of the French policy of aggression In Tonqutn. Recent reports of reverses to the French arms have materially damaged the prestige of all foreigners China. The London News states it has reason to believe the Marquis Tseng clings as strongly as ever to the hope of European arbitration between China and France in view of the enormous preponderence ot the trade of England, Germany and even of America, over that of France in the east. It is thought the cabinets of neutral powers would be fully justified In offering their friendly services to France and China. The commander of the Mexican troops at Gasas Grandes reports a band of two hundred Apaches camped within fifteen miles of his headquarters.

He rode out with a squad of men for an interview, and was requested to ask his government to give the Indians twenty square leagues of ground and furnish seed. The sum of 58,000 guilders was subscribed at The Hapue for the sufferers by earthquake at Batavia, and the Dutch government will probably exempt the people of Bantam and Lampong from taxation for several years. The Countess de Chambord insists that the position of chief mourner at count's funeral shall be held by his nearest relative, and the Count de Paris has left Frohsdorf with the other Orleanlst princes. A statue of Lafayette was unveiled In Paris, recently. A vast assemblage witnessed the ceremony.

Addresses were delivered by Messrs. Morton and Sargent, the American minister to France and Germany. Reports from all parts of Russia state that 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. A dispatch from Rome to the London Times states, by the will of Count de Chambord 400,000 francs was bequeathed to the fund of Peter's pence.

Admiral Pierre, who was recalled from th command of the French fleet In Madagascar, has reached Marseilles In a dying condition. Dabflamanzi, the brother of Cetewayo, reported killed in the rebellion in Zululand, has arrived safe at Greytown, Natal. A rraa on High street, San Fernando, destroyed forty houses. Loss estimated from 30,000 to 40,000. The cotton-mills In Canada have resolved to ran only forty hours each week, in order to check production.

Seventy armed Boers have crossed the border of Isandula, presumably for the rescue ot King Cetewayo. The cotton mills at Elan, England, were destroyed by fire. Loss 30,000. Jean Marie Michel Giotfbet, the French actor Is dead, aged sixty-three. a Bib Henrt Morse, governor of Newfoundland, is dead.

Yellow fever has broken out at Guayraas, Mexico. GENERALITIES. A special to the Washington Star an nounces the death of Gen, T. T. Fountleroy at Leesburg.

Gen. Fountleroy was born In Virginia, and was appointed to the army from In answer to the application from the French charged' affairs for permission to take twenty Indians from their reservation to France for exhibition, Commissioner Ferce has advised the secretary of the interior to refuse the request upon the ground that such exhibitions result iu the demoralization of Indians, and renders them dissatisfied with life at the agencies. Atablb prepared in the treasury depart ment, of the business in the several customs districts of the United States, for the fiscal year ending June SO, 1883, shows $310,780,869 collected at an expense of $6,221,127, the average cost of collecting one dollar in all districts being 23 cents. A bbsistjsb of the interior department at Washington has been prepared for the blue book. There are 8,091 persons on the rolls, of whom 631 are women, and 204 negroes.

Seventy-one clerks receive salaries ranging from $730 to $1,800, one lady from Illinois drawing $1,630. The issue of standard silver dollars for the week ending September 8, 18S3, was $521,998 against $419,500 for the corresponding period last year. The total amount of bonds redeemed under the 121st call to noon Wednesday, is CASUAL1TIES. Adviobs from representative points in the corn belt make it positive that frost has wrought great destruction. Michigan seems to have fared badly Saturday night, nearly everything In the vegetable line having been killed at Battle Creek and Saugatuck.

Tobacco in Dane and Rock counties, was ruined with the corn, and cranberries at Sturgeon Bay got nipped. Light frosts are reported at Des Moines, Atlantic, and Bur lington, andice at Dubuque. Vegetables were injured at Elkhart and Huntington, Ind. Ice formed at Macomb, and frost was quite general throughout the central part of the state, but the dry atmosphere saved corn at some points. Tub engine of the second section ef a freight train bound east on the New Tork and New England railroad, broke from the train at Andover the other morning.

The train following crushed into the rear, eight cars were wrecked and several derailed. A brake- man had a leg broken. Two cars were burned. A freight train going dawn Kenosha mountain, in Colorado, by sections, met with accidents which injured seven employes, three of them fatally. The engine jumped the track at a curve, on a grade of two hundred feet to th? mile.

At a colored celebration in Beaufort county, S. boiled shrimps were freely dispensed. Three negroes have died from their effects, and seven others are not expected to live. At a rehearsal in a theater in Fourteenth street, New York, a bridge gave way, precipitating a number of supernumeraries thirteen feet. Seven persons were seriously injured.

Miss Martha E. Johnson, 27 years of age, was burned to death near Newcastle, Coshocton county, her dress catching fire from a stove about which she was working. Mrs. Julia F. Smith, a well-known novel ist, was killed at her summer residence at New Hartford, Conn.

She was driving with her husband, when the horse ran away. In the blcyole race at Springfield, 111., Wm. Woodside, the Irish bicycle champion, was violently thrown to the ground, breaking his left arm in two places. At IUIopolls, 111., Mrs. Phoebe Hayland and her two little grandchildren perished in a burning building, all egress being cut oft by the flames.

Br the breaking of an omnibus wheel at Leavenworth five persons were Injured, City Clerk Shepard having both legs broken. A firb at Cedar Springs, consumed the grain elevators of Benedict Brothers, and It store and dwelling. Loss $16,000. Early on Sunday morning the new city hall at Chariton, which cost $12,000 was destroyed by fire. Five men were Injured, one fatally, by the explosion of a boiler at Herr's Island, Fa.

Two teamsters at St. Paul were killed by lightning while holding their horses. CRIMINALITIES. At St. Louis, Henry II.

Blessing, an engineer residing at 1415 Cass avenue, made a murderous assault upon his brother-in-law Monday night, firing six shots at him, all of whieh took effect and will prove mortal Blessing then fired two shots at his wife, both of which strnck her Inflicting dangerous wounds. The Infuriated man then escaped from the house and eluded pursuit for an hour, when he was found In a garret of his house, with his throat cut from ear to ear, but not dead, and he was taken to the dispensary, where he attempted to explain his act, but could not talk on account of his windpipe being nearly severed. Ho was then sent to the hospital, where his wounded wife and brother-in-law had already been taken, and where they now lieln a very critical condition. An explanation of the affair is not jet obtained, but It Is supposed It originated In a family quarrel and Insane jealousy. A bloodt affray occurred Wednesday morning on the prairie three miles from Cheyenne, between Jas.

Knight, a freighter, and two men, H. Moore and J. H. Wensel. About daylight Moore arose and struck Knight and knocked him senseless, and then attacked Wensel, who, after the first blow awoke and fought, taking an ax from Moore, not, however, until he had received another blow on the head.

Moore then toek a revolvei of the world. 1 The storv sent from New York con- Congressman Cox, of North Carolina, wh has just returned from Germany, says the mass of the people do not favor the exclusion of American pork, but pronounce it a political move by Bismarck. A Berlin journal says the speech of Henry Villard, on driving the golden spike In the Northern Pacific track, will make a lasting impression on both sides of the Atlantic. Bishop Ryan, of St. Louis, has been pre sented with a round-trip ticket to Europe and a purse ot $6,000 to defray his expenses to the conference at Rome.

An extension of the Hastings and Dakota road westward fifty miles from Aberdeen is being graded at the rate of a mile per day by the St. Paul company. Harry Hill, the stakeholder for Slade and Mitchell, decides that the fight must take place October 23, within one hundred miles of New Orleans. Little Chief, a Cheyenne Indian, has asked Secretary Folger for the best white hat in the market, saying that he liked to dress In proper style. Hugh Law, lord chancellor of Ireland, who framed the land act, died In Dublin.

He refused a peerage tendered him by Queen Victoria. Wassy Alberson, a Philadelphia lad, died in Bond street, of hydrophobia, caused by a bite from a Spitz dog last October. This Roidmasters' associatlou is in session at St. Paul. Forty members are present, The meeting will last three days.

The Grand Trunk road has contracted for an Iron steamer, costing $385,000, to transfer cars across the river at Detroit. At an auction sale on the Chapel farm, near Algonquin, 111., a large number of Holstela -cows averaged 00 each. William B. Stearns, president of the Fltchburg railroad, died of Bright's disease, at Marblehead, Maes. Switzer, a famous pacing horse of Mich! gan, owned by W.

K. Sullivan, of Detroit, died in a railway-car. Mrs. Philip Speed, ot Louisville, a niece of John Keats, the English poet, died at Cobourg, Ontario. All efforts to compromise the strike ot the cotton operatives at Ashton-under-Lyne have thus far failed.

The shrinkage In American railway securi ties lntwenty-i months amounts to $150, 000,000. -V The cranberry crop of Cape Cod Is likely to be much Injured by the drought. THE MARKETS. The following reliable report of the stock market Is furnished us by Geo. R.

Barse live block commission mercnanio, oi sas City. Receipts of cattle, hogs and sheep the 'past week. Catlle bogs sheep 8,833. For shipping steers sales ranged at $4.30 steers native stockers $2.90 4.90; Texas steers cows B.63, ttnm Sales range! from $4.50 to bulk at ti.bu to ti.oo. SHEEP.

Native sheep stock sheep $2.50. Vn 1 rA winter wheat. On. Kn 2 red winter, 87H; No. 8 red winter, 78X; No.

mixea com, oh; nu. uw, Produce Eggs, 161G; butter, choice terning the death of a daughter ot the late Kos Burns, of Topeka, is, says the Atchison Champion, certainly inor-rect in many details. Boss Burns' first wife, now Mrs. Sparr, did not leave him; he left her and came to Kansas, went to Colorado and returned to Kansas again, where be married the sec ond time and passed the remainder of his life. He left his nrst wiie oecause she was a Claflin with the infamous traits of her family.

He did not leave hi9 property'to nis aaugnter or to Mrs. Sparr; he left it to his second and only lawful wife, and it was Mrs. Sparr, and not Mrs. Burns, who contested the will, or threatened to contest it Mr. Burns' estate did not amount to $250,000, or anything like that sum.

Mrs. bparr, like all her family, is a liar and im-poster. and she was the black cloud over Boss Burns' honest and laborious life, and she will never, it is to be hoped, receive a dollar of his hard- earned property. A Leavenworth correspondent relates this instance of a farmer's luck. One of the coincidents which are remarkable and which go to prove that even peri-natetia insurance aeents sometimes the nickname of "The Great Rat," was arrested for kidnapping not long ago.

The Chinese populace, hearing turn out to be a blessing in disguise, was the destruction by lightning lately of several staoks of wheat belonging to 'Squire Shafer, one of our staunch farmers, whose place is near Lenape. Only a day or two after the wheat, the produst of about sixty acres, had been in the stack a violent thunder shower came up. during which Mr. Shafer no- jj ticed the lightning flashing is close proximity ufthe stacks. This put him in the notion of going forthwith and taking out a policy of insurance the property.

The next day he found an i ao-ent at Linwood and insured the stacks for $1,000. Four weeks after that one of the stacks was struck by I lightning and took fire, and the flames communicated to the other stacks. The o'ther day Mr. Shafer received from the insurance company a check for $1,000 in full of the amount called for hy the policy. that "The Great Rat" was at last caught, mistook the meaning of the phrase, and thought that a veritable rat was meant In consequence the nnnrtandits entrancts were crowded with a large multitude of people to see the monstrosity.

When it was explained t.ii at a woman was meant, they were incredulous and the police hadhar4 work to disperse tnem..