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HOME NEWS. 
Monday. Sept, 20 , isso. 
An explosion occurred on the 17th In a small 
wooden building occupied by the Union Metallic 
Cartridge Company at Brldeport, Conn., as a ful¬ 
minating building, and situated some distance 
west of their main factory. At the time of the 
explosion five persons were at work In the build¬ 
ing. and all are supposed to have been killed, as 
none of them has been seen since, and four bodies 
have been found.A cage with ten men 
started from the hotiom of the shaft In the Im¬ 
perial Mine at Virginia City, on the nth and had 
been drawn up some 300 feet when the cable broke 
and the cage with the men was precipitated to 
the bottom and nine of them were killed The 
other was dangerously hurt ., .... At Guthrie, 
Ky., on the r»th. 2tm men met and discussed the 
question whether they should visit Springfield and 
lynch the remaining negroes connected with the 
La Trade murder, but they arterward dispersed. 
The six prisoners were taken to Nashville the 
same night by ihc Sheriff of Robertson County 
and placed In jail for safe keeping, hy order of 
Governor Marks 
On the night of the ieth a inob of several hun¬ 
dred men and boys made an attack upon the 
Rink, a Hue large, building, at Milwaukee, and 
razed It to the ground. The police did not Inter¬ 
fere, and it was carted off piecemeal. The city 
has had trouble In getting the lessee to surrender 
his lease In order that an exhibition butldlug 
might be built on the ground, which Is owned by 
theclty .... The trial or Virgil and ffoustOD Gully 
at l)e Kalb, MHs , for tile killing of Gilmer In con¬ 
nection with the Chisholm murder on the 16th re¬ 
sulted in a verdict of not guilty . The Board 
or Architects considering the practicability of 
erecting a new Congressional Library, or exiend- 
lng the quarters now occupied In the Capitol, 
have reported in favor of a separate building ... 
_The bark Erinagh, from Port de Palx Haytl, 
was towed luto N'«w Vorkon theioth with yellow 
f ever. Two men died from the disease on the 
passage. 
Niagara has been thrown inloa state of unusual 
excitement by a child-stealing case. 11 seems 
that a man named Sagar, who some years ago 
purchased a wife and two children from a citizen 
of Montreal for $ 1 , 606 . after adding a third child to 
his family, grew tired of the woman be had bought 
and cleared out with the servant girl. The other 
day, taking a notion to possess Ills own child, he 
came to Niagara and carried it off, botng followed 
to the other side of the line by the woman who 
had passed as Mrs. Sugar. However, she tailed 
to find the child. 
A man named Abram Clarke, engaged with a 
thrashing machine on tlie farm of Mr. llelst, of 
Pelham township, Canada, by some means got his 
hand entangled lu the machinery, and in a mo¬ 
ment the arm was literally lorn from him. 
Mr. James S. Mack, of Guelph, Canada, while 
driving through Mount Forest, Canada, accident¬ 
ally ran over a child. The little fellow was almost 
unhurt., but Mr. Mack made inquiries about him 
and on learning that the poor child had neither 
father nor mother, he at once adopted him and 
brought him along _Aid. J, C. Wilson and 
Ur. R. A. Alloway, of Montreal, ran the rapids in 
a small-boat under the guidance of two Indians. 
When In the boiling waters and face lo face with 
the peculiar dangers which surrounded them, they 
were greatly annoyed by myriads of files, whose 
bite was quite as tormenting as that ot the mos¬ 
quito . . Charles Carter was fatally injured 
on the 7tli, in the chrysolite mine near Uutd- 
vllle, col., by a premature discharge of giant, 
powder, and William Brennan wtus badly man¬ 
gled by an explosion of giant powder lu the 
Laplatte mine .Threatening weather Is 
driving fishing and coasting vessels Into the har¬ 
bor of Gloucester, Maas , nineteen vessels bringing 
in 5,000 barrels of mackerel, and four others from 
the Banks of Newfoundland bringing in 211,000 
pounds of codflsh and 1 u.onn pounds or halibut.... 
_Alexander Lebatrn was tbc stage driver who 
was killed on the evening of the oth, 10 miles from 
Fort Cummings, New Mexico. The two passen¬ 
gers killed were Isaac Roberts of New York, and 
E s. Madden, of Fort Bowie. The pursuing troops 
overtook the Indians on the afternoon of the 7th 
and had a short tight, In which one soldier and 
two Indian scouts were killed and two soldiers 
seriously wounded. The Indian casualties are 
not known. 
The Internal-revenue office has completed Its 
analysis of the Internal revenue for the lust fiscal 
year, showing the sources whence It came. Illinois 
heads the list ol States In respect of the amount of 
revenue paid 1 o the Government, her total being 
In round numbers, $23,006,600, $19,000,000 of which 
were from spirits. Ohio comes next with a total of 
$ 18 , 000 , 01 ) 0 , of which $13 ,ooo,<ioo were from spirits 
and $3 uuD.oo > tor tobacco products. New York 
paid $ 10 , 000 , 000 , of which $3,000,000 was for spirits, 
$ 7 , 700,000 for tobacco, and $-( 30ii,oon for fermented 
liquors. The latter amount is lour times greater 
than that reported from any other State In the 
same article. Virginia paid $5,700,000, all hut 
$ 100,000 being for tobacco. Kentucky paid $ 8 , 800 ,- 
000, all but $ 2 , 000,000 being upon spirits. Indiana 
paid $6,000,000, $5,5oa,ooo being for spirits. 
Cook county jail at Chicago incloses twenty mur¬ 
derers awaiting trial.A diamond drill being 
run by the Lake Superior company at IshpemlDg, 
Mich., has reached 416 feet In depth, and la pass¬ 
ing through a bed of banded jasper.Terrible 
ravages of small-pox are reported among the 
Canadian Indians of the Upper Gatineau district. 
.TUe work on the Hudson River Tunnel, in 
which the corpses of twenty workmen are en. 
tombed, has reached such a state of progress that 
hopes are entertained of the dead bodies being re¬ 
covered during the ensuing week. 
Isaac Vi oodruff Jumped from a bridge Into thirty- 
five feet of water atnadley, Mass., on the 5th 
and was drowned.The boiler of a portable 
saw mill exploded on the ot.h, near Vinton, Gallia 
county Ohio, killing Samuel Uavls and .Tames 
Donnelly.At East Saginaw. Mich. Daniel 
Parkburst was roasted to death at Johnson's lime 
kiln. He was pushing a stone that had rormed a 
crust over the mouth of the kiln, when It gave 
way suddenly and carried him down, wedging 
him rrom the hips down. He was burned to death 
in ten minutes. HI3 body was completely baked... 
Chicago is Just now the scene ot quite a sensa¬ 
tional railroad war, the facts of which briefly 
stated, are, that the Western Indiana road had se¬ 
cured an injunction against the city Interfering 
with rhe track laying, which was served on Mayor 
Harrison. When the track layers commenced 
work the police ordered them to desist, and, upon 
their refusal to do so, the mob was Instigated to 
Its work by the police. The railroad laborers were 
stoned by the mob, some receiving severe Injuries. 
A fruitless call was made by the railroad men upon 
the Governor lor the aid of the culinary, so the 
work was suspended, and on the loth, Mayor Har¬ 
rison and other officials were arrested upon an at¬ 
tachment for contempt, of court_ Reports 
fronnhe principal business centers of the count ry 
indicate an exceedingly ravorable outlook for the 
fall trade In all departments.A little boy 
five years old, the son ot Charles Lymons, while 
picking acorns in the woods near Rlverdale, < mt, 
was killed and partially eaten by a bear before 
assistance reached him.For some months 
prospectors and prominent capitalists have been 
quietly prospecting on Battle mountain, In the 
Eagle river mining districts, thirty miles north¬ 
west of Leadvllle. Developments have shown such 
an amount of mineral lu that locality that a road 
and telegraph are being pushed forward from 
Leadvllle, and miners and capitalists are now going 
to the new camp In large numbers. Carbonate 
ores promise, from the regularity of their veins, 
to yield an immediate and handsome addition to 
the silver production of the Stare. Smelters have 
been already started .She Imports at New 
York during August were the largest ever landed 
there In a single month, reaching $4S,924 00fl. 
against $75,166,001) during August 1*79. The ex¬ 
ports for August reached $ 59 , 810 , 000 , being over 
$ 7 , 000,000 more than during August, 1879. 
Fourteen more survivors from the wreck or the 
steamship city of Vera Cruz are known to have 
been landed at Titusville, Florida. .... Joseph 
Tapson, formerly secretary of the Metropolitan 
Railway company’s Provident Savings Bank or 
London, England, was arrested in Philadelphia on 
Saturday night ou the charge of appropriating at 
different times during the past four or five years 
sums of money belonging to depositors of that In¬ 
stitution, to the extent o£$5,ooo. 
Deputy United .states Marshal Kyle has arrived 
at Fort Smith. Dak., with nine prisoners from 
Oklahoma, among them two Scmlnoles charged 
with murdering two white men, Bateman and 
Davis, In Chickasaw county, 200 miles west, In 
November, 1618. There were six full-blooded 
Semlnoles engaged In the murder. Bateman was 
shot off his horse, and Davis met the same rate 
six miles from where Bateman was killed. The 
murderers have had no rest from the marshals 
since that moment. One, Billy Bowlegs, a son of 
the famous Florida Seminole war chief, shot him¬ 
self through the heart-, another was killed In a 
feted, and but two ot the six are left. They live in 
a full-blooded Seminole settlement and the officers 
will soon have them The murderers found only 
$13 on the victims, which they divided.chief 
Big Road and 200 Sioux Indians, members of Sit¬ 
ting Bull's force, surrendered to the commanding 
officer at Fort Ke-Ogb, on the 8th Inst. The re¬ 
mainder of sitting Bull's forces are expected to 
surrender soon.The southern Paelfle track 
has been going down at tho rate of over 12,000 feet 
per day, and on one day no less than 12 ,son feet, 
O)' 2 42-100 miles, were laid. It is Intended to build 
the 2t)0 miles Intervening, August 24, between the 
end or track and El Paso In about 100 working 
days, or by Christmas. The rate at which this 
great line is being pushed across t he desert, is one 
of the wonders of the age. 
There are said to be 10,000 buffaloes between 
the end ot the Northern Pacific track and neud- 
wood D. T, The Indians have driven them with¬ 
in the limits of civilization.The Post- office 
department has ordered mall service on the re¬ 
cently completed railroad between Battle Moun¬ 
tain, Nev,, a point on the line or the Central Pa¬ 
cific Railroad to Austin Mo., a distance of about. 
100 miles due south Irorn Battle Mountain. 
New Orleans received from foreign ports during 
the year ending September 1,1890,29,127,767 pounds 
of steel rails .A large gang of men broke 
ground for the new Cape Cod ship canal, at Sand¬ 
wich on the 16 th.Samuel Brannan, of Cali¬ 
fornia, who holds a large claim against the Mexi¬ 
can Government for moneys loaned and services 
rendered Juaxez during the Maximilian Invasion, 
will receive in settlement of his claim large tracts 
of wild land In the States of Sonora and Chlhuhua, 
which he proposes 10 settle with American colo¬ 
nists.A fire on Sunday morning destroyed 
a small house at Minneapolis, occupied by a crip¬ 
ple named Purdy and his wife, and both were 
burned to death. 
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[Chlllleothe, (Ohio) Ross County Register.) 
4 Lady in the Via Her. 
That “ woman's wit la often superior to man’s 
wisdom,” was convincingly proved in a circum¬ 
stance that occurred In this city recently, it ap¬ 
pears that Mr. Ludwig Schwarzler, a widely 
known grocer on Station Road, suffered with a 
very painful rheumatic headache to Buch a de¬ 
gree, that he was obliged to seek the aid ot a phy¬ 
sician. All medicines he used were of no avail. 
This induced Mrs. Schwarzler to buy St. Jacobs 
Oil. She procured a bottle for her husband With 
the second application he found relief. The pain 
left him, and he is as well as ever again. A remedy 
actl ng as promptly as this certainly deserves uni¬ 
versal patronage. 
FOREIGN. 
The great question m Europe now Is the Eastern 
problem—will there be war to force a settlement, 
between Turkey on one side and Montenegro and 
Greece on tbe other? At present the outlook Is 
decidedly belligerent. The treaty of Berlin which 
formally decided upon the results of tho late 
Turko-Russian war, recommended the Porte to 
cede some ot Its territory to Montenegro and some 
to Greece without specifying precisely the terri¬ 
tory to be ceded. Since then Turkey has done 
nothing definite In the matter, and a few months 
ago representatives of the Powers who signed the 
treaty of Berlin—Austria. Great Britain, France, 
Germany, Italy and Russia—met at the Prussian 
capital and specified the country Turkey was ex¬ 
pected to cede, but again they failed to mention 
any penalty for the Sultan's refusal to comply with 
their decision. Turkey still procrastinated on tlie 
grounds that It would endanger the throne of the 
Sultan should he consent to hand over to Chris¬ 
tians a section peopled by Malrommedans, and 
these formed a large proportion of the inhabitants 
or tiie territory to be ceded. Moreover, wherever 
Uie Christians had coine Into possession of land in 
which Mahommedans dwelt,, after the late war, 
they had massacred or bitterly persecuted the 
latter, and it was too much to expect the head of 
the '■ Faithful” to hand more of them over to such 
Christian treatment. Then again, It couldn't be 
done without the use 01 force, and the Porte had 
no money to spend for that, purpose. Montene¬ 
gro’s claim had to be settled first, and finally It, 
was agreed that the cession of Dultigno, a small 
port on the Adriatic, belonging to the province of 
Albania, together with a strip of the surrounding 
count ry, would be accepted by Montenegro as a 
full settlement of Its demands. At, first the Porte 
seemed willing to agree, but the Albanians, most, 
of whom are Mahommedans, indignantly refused 
to allow a part of their terrttory to be given to 
their old foes, the Christian Montenegrins. The 
Turks have now withdrawn their troops from the 
town and tell the Montenegrins to take It; but, 
8,000 Albanians have garrisoned the place and defy 
their enemies to do so; and the latter are 
hardly powerful enough to capture the town. 
Meanwhile a large fleet, made up Of some or the 
most powerful war vessels of t he great Powers, lias 
appeared before the place for the purpose of com¬ 
mencing that demonstration In Turkish waters 
which It Is hoped will bring the Porte to “ hear 
reason.” The fleet could have shelled the town 
at once, but have deferred doing so until the 
Christians have had time to leave It. The Chris¬ 
tian subjects ot the sultan, wherever numerous, 
threaten to rebel once the first shot is fired, and 
the Mahommedans mutter that, war once begun, 
they will massacre the Christians everywhere; so 
that just now the “ Eastern Question " Is once 
mote likely to disturb the peace of Europe. War, 
no matter on how small a scale, once begun. It, 
would be Impossible. In the present armed condi¬ 
tion of Europe, to predict when, where, or how it 
would end. 
Land agitation and agrarian outrages still con 
Unue In Ireland. Parliament having adjourned 
anil the gentlemen whoso actions make “news," 
having gone hunting or on holiday trips, there Is 
no English news of Importance or general Interest, 
in France, M. de Freycenet, head or the Cabinet , 
has resigned, owing to a dlsagrement between him¬ 
self and M. Constans, MIntster ot Public Worship. 
Freycenet wishes the religious orders lo be left, 
in peace on their promising not to oppose the Re¬ 
public; constans, backed up by Gambetta and the 
extreme Republicans, wishes to force their expul¬ 
sion Jesuit-tUshlon. Jules Ferry has been com¬ 
missioned by President, Grevy to form a new Cab¬ 
inet. Stormy times ahead in France, most likely. 
In Germany—Bismarck is still rusticating so 
there's little of Interest being said or done. In 
Spain folks are mildly “fussing” over that new 
royal baby girt. In Italy, the trouble Is, with a 
limited revenue, even from heavy taxation, to 
keep up a powerful army. In Afghanistan all Is 
peaee-Uke, and therefore furnishes no news. In 
south America, there’s some squabbling between 
the State Government of Buenos Ayres and the 
General Government, on the Atlantic side, and 
on that of the Pacific one report, makes Peru 
and Bolivia about to form a union,and another says 
that ClilU has accepted the presedent of the United 
States as arbitrator Between It and Its enemles i 
lioUvIa and Puru, while a third maintains the 
European ambassadors at Lima forbid the Chil¬ 
ians to attack that city, lest they should in¬ 
jure the property or European subjects there. 
In a British peerage list appear 199 names, of 
which five date rrom the thirteenth century, five 
from the fourteenth, n from the fifteenth, 20 from 
the sixteenth. 67 from the seventeenth, 119 from 
the eighteenth, and 274 from the nineteenth. 
_Russia has oso ,000 hereditary nobles aud 380.- 
000 whose titles expire with them.While the 
population of the United Kingdom has Increased 
since 1865 from 29 ,sot, 00 s to 34,608,043, that ot Ire¬ 
land has decreased by more than a quarter of a 
million, and the number of marriages has decreas¬ 
ed by 6 , 000 . while pauperism has decreased lu 
England and Wales from 97i,ooo to 837, 000 . and In 
.Scotland from 121,000 to 97 , 000 , the returns for 
Ireland show an Increase rrom 69, 000 to 100,000 _ 
_The railway from .St. Petersburg to Slmphero- 
pol was watched night and day by 9 ,oon peasants 
and 40,000 troops during the Emperor's recent 
journey in Llvadla.Ten thousand English 
miners are annually injured hy accidents, and S50 
of these die. In Prussia the mortality is much 
higher, a life being sacrificed for every 70,451 tone 
of coal raised, while In England the proportion Is 
only one In every S9.419.The French rev- 
enue for isso is over $75,000,000 above the estimates. 
-- 
A Gain of Eight Pounds In Forty-Five 
Days. 
“ About forty-five days ago,” writes a gentle¬ 
man from Mississippi, “1 began the Oxygen 
Treatment, and as regards the effects of It, with a 
grateful heart I c%n say that it has -proved won¬ 
derfully efficacious; even surpassing my most san¬ 
guine expectations. My lungs have been much 
developed, breathing capacity Increased, and the 
cough, which was at times hard and loboroos, has 
almost passed away. My general health lias much 
Improved-feel more life like and energetic, hav¬ 
ing gained eight pounds in jorty-fre days." Our 
Treatise on "Compound Oxygen,” which tells all 
about this remarkable, remedy, Is sent .free. Ad¬ 
dress Drs. Starkey & Pai.en, 1109 and nil Girard 
Street, Philadelphia, Pa. 
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AGRICULTURAL NEWS. 
Statistics from Washington indicate that Lou¬ 
isiana has the largest average yield in value per 
acre of all the States, namely, $17.78; Arkansas 
comes next, $io.cs; Texas next, $ 10 . 20 , and Miss¬ 
issippi, $ 11,47 ...The amount ot butter now 
made In Iowa creameries Is estimated at 50 , 1100 .- 
000 pounds per annum. The yield of this 
year's sugar crop In Cuba has been about 740,400 
tons, against 680,00ii tons last year. .In 
southern llBnois apples are in cents a bushel, and 
do not, find ready sale even at that price. Farm¬ 
ers cannot afford to pick them, and are turnlDg 
hogs loose In their orchar s ..Tlie hay crop 
was deficient In the Atlantic states except In 
Maine and New Hampshire. In the States bor¬ 
dering on tho Ohio River the average Is higher 
than last year. West of the Mississippi River the 
average Ls low, on the Pacific Slope It is very 
high.The United States Government, has 
altogether Bpent $ 23 , 000,000 in surveying the 
public lands.Texas Is even now the “ Em¬ 
pire State” In wool growth, both vegetable and 
animal. For isso the cotton crop is estimated at 
one million hales, while t he sheep wool clip is the 
largest evur attatned In the state.The Gov 
eminent has disposed of over 8 , 000,000 acres of 
pupllc lands during the last fiscal year.A 
company has been formed Cor the. manufacture 
and sale ot rights to sell an invention ot an Al¬ 
bany doctor for preserving provisions or bodies by 
moans of water only.The agricultural de¬ 
partment reports the condition of crops as follows: 
The September estimate of this year gives a 
condition of 90 aguiust 92 last year. This 
does not take Into consideration the Increase 
acreage. Potatoes^liow a decline within a month 
of eight per cent. The average ls four per cent, 
less than last year. New York and Pennsylvania, 
which raise two-thirds of the whole crop, report 
an average or 93 against 98 last year. 
Tub Iowa State Fair to be held at Des Moines 
offers $16,296 In premiums.... In this State the 
crop of Humphrey hops has been nearly all picked 
during tbe week, the work having been rushed 
through front fear ot mildew and lice. Mold has 
seriously Injured bops In East, and Mkl Kent, Eng¬ 
land, and the crop, It ls called, will be consider¬ 
ably short. Mold and the red spider have also 
damaged the crop on the European continent. But 
then It ls more or less damaged everywhere every 
year. These two pests are threatening much 
damage hops in this state, and growers will prob¬ 
ably harvest their hops earlier than usual to 
escape Injury from them wholly or In part,. 
This year there Is a decrease of 40,069 acres in the 
extent or land under cultivation In Ireland 
One phase of Irish distress has been put on the 
stage lu London, under the title or “ Eviction.”— 
Dram a-Us persona ;: brutal landlord, myrmidons 
of the law, old peasant, stalwart son. lovely 
daughter, uta Ulvirence, Jewish bailiff_ 
Messrs. Reed and Pell, the Parliamentary Com 
mlsaloucrs sent here to investigate American 
agriculture, have just published their report In 
which they are enthusiastic about agriculture in 
this country, especially in the West...,_ 
The Toledo, Delphos and Burlington Railroad 
company has closed contracts far tnc extension of 
Us road 260 miles, from Kokomo, Ind, to st. Louis. 
As specimens of Irish land troubles here are 
some annals for a fortnight In August (1.) Twenty 
sheep at Bally herne were clipped and Oielr ea rs cut 
off. (2.) On Sunday a notice was found posted 
on thechapel gates, oiooeagh, threatening death 
to auy one taking farms from which another ten 
ant had been evicted (3.) On Monday Mr. Mullin¬ 
gar was shot in the head (4.) on Sunday a heavy 
charge of No. 0. shot was discharged Into Mr. 
LySlight’s room. (5), At Special Sessions, in Cork 
County, several fanners were brought tip far as¬ 
saulting Capt. Warren. (6.) Tuesday ntght '3 Dub¬ 
lin Gazette contains an offer or jeaoo reward for 
Information respecting those who maliciously 
wounded bullocks, the property of Mr. Joyce, 
(Galway.) The Hat, Is by no means complete, and 
helps to explain how It ls that property is now 
selling at 13 year’s rental lu rrelaiul against 25 to 
30 In England, The victims In these oases bear 
thoroughly Irish names. Mullingar, l.ysaght, 
and Joyce aro “ racy of the soil ’ . . Tbc t rade 
In live cattle between this country and Europe, 
has Increased to a remarkable extent. It is su¬ 
perseding that In dressed meats. The shipments 
last season were 106,827 head, and thus far this 
year 118,000 head. The amount of the trade In 
money ls from $ 32 , 000,000 to $35,000,000 a year for 
the entire trade of the country. New York. Bos¬ 
ton, Philadelphia, Baltimore, Portland and Mon¬ 
acal are ports ot shipment Grain ls being sent 
rrom Indiana to St Louis far export, and the rates 
from St. Louis to Liverpool by way or New Or¬ 
leans, are about the same as by rail from St. 
Louis to this city .The Cook County, Illi¬ 
nois, Farmers’ .Alliance Issues a call for a farm¬ 
ers’ convention at Chicago on the 11th of October 
In the Interest of cheaper freight rates. The Al¬ 
liance hope8to secure the end In view through 
legislative enactment, to be brought about by the 
action of the proposed convention. 
St. Julien, the "King of the Trotting Turf,” wears 
forward shoes weighing eleven ounces ana hind 
shoes weighing four ounces. He uses no toe- 
welghts. In no race for the past eleven months 
has he made a single break, and as he has a 
