The Abilene Weekly Chronicle from Abilene, Kansas • 5

"TT "11 iiickin County iironiele son XJ ABILENE, DICKINSON COUNTY, KANSAS, FRIDAY. SEPTEMBER 1883. TUE JAMES YEEDICT. A KEC0KP Of DISASTER. The Philadelphia Mint has recently XbGl'ILTlu completed a net of new coin for the Ha NEWS IN BRIEF.

Compiled from Various waiian Government, and on the Oth it was ready for shipment. On the reverse of the pieces is a bust of King Kalakaua, and the date 188.1, while the obverse has the Hawa iian coat of arms, motto and the denomina- tion of the coin. There were struck off 500,000 one-dollar pieces of the same size and weight as the United States standard dollars, 30,000 half-dollar pieces, 125,000 quarter-dollar pieces and 75,000 one-eighth of a dollar pieces. In Xenia, the evening of the 5th, a panic was averted at a theater by a few cool-headed men. A support had given way, and there was danger of the floor going down some fifteen feet.

Ox the 6th three thousand soldiers took part in a parade by States at Camp Sheridan, Nebraska. Every Northern State was represented. Thirty thousand visitors were ou the ground at tbe camp-fire in the evening. Shocks of earthquake were felt in Dusseldorf, Germany, on the 6th; also on rERSOXAX. AND FOLITICAZm The funeral obsequies of the Count He Chambord took place on the 2d, and was imposing affair.

It wm reported that Lord one of Uncle'llufus Hatch's excursionists, rushed headlong over a irecipice while in pursuit of game and was severely hurt. A 5uiokt time ago Charles Head, of the firm of Head Carroll, wood-workers, Springfield, disappeared. He was (supposed to have bad only at -out with liim. He was always considered a man of good habits. The inauguration of J.

Proctor Knott Governor of Kentucky was witnessed by ten thousand people on the 4th. On the 4th the steamer Canada, with I'rlnf George of Wales on board, arrived Ouebee. The Prince was the guest of the Governor General and Princess Louise. Gexkual Walk Elf, United Slates Consul General to Paris, United States Consul Lyons and Congressman Ochiltree, of Texas, were to be present at the unveiling of the Lafayette monument, in France. Ox thu, 4th Mrs.

General Robert Toombs died at Clarksville, her turn-tner residence. The President and party reached Chicago on the 4th, and were accorded a genuine ovation. Ox the th Postmaster-General Gresham filed his answer to the suit for damages brought against him by the Sew Orleans Lottery managers. The noted Chief, Sitting Bull, has declined the invitation to visit the Iowa State Fair. He prefers the safety of the Reser the Island of Ischia.

No damage was re ported. The Michigan wheat crop, according to late estimates, is placed at bushels, being slightly less than the July Fire destroyed St. Joseph's Passion-isl'a Monastery, three miles west of Baltimore, the night of the th. A church adjoining, in process of construction, was also considerably damaged. The damage is estimated at from $20,000 to partly insured.

On the Cth the schooner Hyperion, arrived at Gloucester, from the banks of Newfoundland, reported the loss of two dories and four men, natives of Cane Breton, in the storm of August 26. S. M. West's elevator burned at Faribault, on the th. Supposed incendiary.

It contained 1,000 bushols of wheat. Loss, $10,000. At Scrantoii, Pa by the explosion of gas at the Fairlawn Mine on the 0th, Dan Saurwlne, Secretary and Treasurer of the Fairlawn Coal Company, and D. C. Blackwood were fatally injured.

On the night of the 5th at Sandy Hilly, N. M. S. Teller, a druggist, shot himself fatally with the same weapon, in the same room and at the same hour that his father had killed himself a year ago. A vouno lady named Laura Ucach-ler, aged sixteen, living eight miles from Centerville, went to school a few days ago, but did not return.

Search being made, the following note was found "You will find me in the canal between Heppler's and the lock. I don't want to stay in the water long. I am going where my board and clothes cost nothing. I am sorry to do it. Though I had nothing to do about coming into the world, I can go out of it." Near Indian Harbor, N.

a steamship was recently discovered ilriven ashare and was supposed to be the missing White Star line steamer Ludwig. The Ludwig sailed from Antwerp on the 2d of July, and had not been heard of since. She had twenty-six passengers and a crew numbering thirty persons. The steamer Lilley recently exploded on the Saskatchewan, COO miles west of Winnepeg. Ox the 7th Mrs.

Julia P. Smith, the novelist, was killed by a runaway horse while driving at Hartford, Conn. Rev. Thos. Oaklev, delivery clerk in the Cleveland Post-office, was arrested on the 7th, charged with stealing postage stamps.

Fire destroyed the musicians' quarters at the Long Branch Hotel on the 7th. One man was burned to crisp, and several were saved with Rudolph Schlegel, who said he had left his home in Chicago on account of fam Ootnirs of the Destructive rrres, WInl, Water and Fire Partial Record of at ays Bowros, Sept. 6. The marks of a terrific counter with furious seas were borne by the bark N. Bojnton, which reached this port from Mat-ill to-day.

-Captain Nastm report- that be left Manilla April 11, and had quie; passage till August 24, when, in lati-mde twenty -four decrees, longitude sixty degrees the weather suddenly changed ami soon the vesel was piuiiging into a heavy sea, caused by terrific squalb-, and accompanied by" heavy rain. Everything oil and about tbe deck wan secured, but the wind contfatX'cl to increase it reachttl the etrengt'a of hurricam. The heavy sea running caused tbe vessel to liltor heavily, atl-l Itfnnense qualities of water were con'inuallv fioodiugthc ship. At tl time such was the lorCe or the wind that the forecas'le was blown completely awa The Mtuation of the vessel Wi now perilous in the extreme, but worse lock was in store her. At a.

hi. a terrible se struck the nhip and came in over tho Ikiws. carrying away two lai jr ami verv heavy liroboit-s from their ractf on the forward bouse, and tuey. with their contents, were swept lip'dly asteiu. same sea stove in tuo end of the fereoasth, completely (rutting it, an.l at the same time carried away a part of the lee rail.

Tbe lmlk-bead to the carpenter. shop was stove iu at the same time, au.l the windows, doors, e'e were awepfc awav, making a COTtplcte wreck of everything forward. DilrtuT the ext rtetnent an.l confusion created bytlv! c. an i when endeavoring to save some Jit" lr-mi tin? wreck, several ef the -n wei d-y injured bv living debris, aid Fred twenty-four years of age, singie. nativo of Russia, was so badly jammed that ho died within an Such was the lore of the sea that it lifted tbe rail and covering-board ft the forecastle from The kitight-bead to the after part of 1Ue lorecastle, that the ends of the tinilers were all exposed, and nothing remained to keep ttio water from flooding the forecastle ai.1 hold.

The bulwarks on the port ide wcro badlv stove, and tho st.trb.tard rail split. The heavy sea also the main life-ra'l and damaged the pump Iu fact, almost everything on the deck rect i ved moro or less damage, and all movable tilings, such as water-barrels, spare spars, were swept away. The suuall was followed bv a terribly confused sen, which lasted all night, and ni on'il six o'clock the next morning did the weather moderate, but tho heavy sea still continued, the vessel rolling heavllv and ber decks Iteing continually flooded with water. The bala- of th trip was a rouh one. heavy Enlex beintr (tK.t with.

The vessel brings bags of sugar and Sl.OOO bales of hemp. estimates. Advices from Hong Kong of the 5th say the people of China seam to have little fear of the result of a war with France, and believe that with their new armaments and vastly improved discipline their forces are far better able to cope with a foreign enemy than they were in the war of 3800. Wet weather was seriouljr retarding harvest work in England. How it Was lif-ceireii by the Citizen of Gallatin and Other Points rrWnounced an Outrage on Justice A Testimonial to Prosecnting Attorney Wallace Politely Inclined by That Gentleman.

Call ati Sept. C. Within a few minutes after rendering their verdict the Frank James jury became invisible; They paid lioard bills and left for home, and one aft least was sarcastically invited to come again and be a juror at the next trial. Their sympathizers disappeared with them, and all Gallatin's proper citizens at once became an indignation meeting. Groups of men gathered oa every curb and corner and denounced the verdict as an outrage on law and order.

A conviction bad hafdly been looked for, but a hung jury was deemed prifhabl? aftd an acquittal aii impossible thing. Yet this jury took but two ballots tt arrive at a verdict, the tirst standing eleven to one for acquittal; the second unanimous for acquittal. I'eople her r-ari not understand how tins verdict was arrived at. and rumors of curious import in regard to the jury which have been floating round for days past were suddenly revived. It was remembered that five names of the panel of forty had been on the list of jurors desired to be summoned by the defense.

At the tfine it was debated whether to have the entire panel rejected and a new list sumriioned by' an bfflctr ether than the Sheriff, or strike the- fire ita hies iff in the State's The latter course was adopted with some misgiving. It was also rememltered how a nian had ridden through the Western part of the county and notified certain parties friendly to James to be on hand for jury service. It was remembered, too, how one of the twelve had, before being fcummoned, stated that no matter wbat the evidence might be he would vote for acquittal if on the jury. Another of the twelve was said to have been brought by the defense so that he could be placed on the panel; The feeling against Sheriff who summoned the special venire, has lieeii prelty strong from tue beghu ing of the trial, and that officer has been nost heartily ci iticised Long before stfpper time the srinpHtbyol Gallatin's best citizens, in Iwhalf trf law and order, took a practical form. A (nnd was raided, chiefly through the pxertiorS of T.

B. Yates, of the Farmers' Exchange Bank, and George Tuggle, of the Ilaviess County Savings Association, to present Mr; "Wallace with something that would remind him of the esteem that Gallatin's citizens had for the man who had so vigorously prosecuted James. Nearly all the propeity owners aud merchants of Gallatin liwt at Judsre MePougall's law office about 8:30 o'clock. L. Hat field Davis made the presentation speech, and handed Mr.

Wallace a gold watch oh behalf of the citizens of this place in appreciation of his services in the prosecution Of the most fftniotis rimi' nal case ever tried in this Stat-; Mr. Wal lace responded; decliningtheoffered ft be cause he was a public ofilcer and nt yet through with the task of fitting a burden of legal punishment on Frank James' rhoul-ders, and assuring his friends that he vaU ued their oier of a present equally wit the present itself, but treasured the ft eliug which prompted it above all else. Alter a few words by Judge Shankliu, a resolution was offered by Dr. Black to apply the money in printing Mr. Wallace's closing speech.

This was carried, and Messrs. Davis, Black and Yates were made a committee on that business. The meeting then adjourned. There are three other -ases here against Frank James one for being accessory to the killing of Westfall by Jesse James; one for the Sheets munlir in connection with the robbery of the Galiatin Bank, and one for simple larceny at Winston. If he is acquitted here on all ttese, there is still the Blue Cut case to be tried at Independence, and the Jforthileld and O.her cases after fiat, so that this alleged ctiv alroiis bandit is far from free.

The transport service of France was being mobilized, but it was hoped the trouble with China might be compromised. Tbe Trinl of tlie Notorious liandit, Frank James Its Progress and Kfsult-The Jury After Short Deliberation Krnitor a Teri lict of Not Guilty Two Other Counts to be Tried at the October Term; THE ItEFESSE. GALLATIN; Sept. T. The prosecution, in rebuttal, devoted some time to breaking down the evidence of S.

Brosius, the witness who. was on the train when the robbery occurred. He was first and denied bavin? told that he was S3 seated that he could r.ot describe the robbers or that he said to another person one of them locked like hi; was fifteen feet high. Witi ess a questionel as to conversations with A. M.

Irving', Boyd, Dudley, William M. K. Dennis and others, but failed to admit that the conversation a'lurie 1 to In the impeaching qutsrions propounded to him had actually occurred, though he possibly, he thought, hare had such talk in a jocular way. Ibe altove named parties, together wnh George Tuarfr. R.

L. Tomlin and K. H. i'ates te-stifled that the witness had made such statements to thcin. Mrs.

Sarah E. Hite testified that she knew Wood Hite since 1ST8; lived with him In the same house for four years; he was verv unfitly in his toilet; he had no literary tastes; ho didn't read books any he read newspapers a pood deal. Frank James, a to his dress, was very neat; do not think Wood and Frank James resombled each other. Hias Norris testilled that he knew Wood Hite for four Or five years; he didn't resemble Frank James to any treat extent: Wood Hite was Ave feet nine or ten inches high, with litrht hair and full suit of whiskers; would take defendant to be six feet high; never saw Frank James but once at Mrs. Hite's; have 'been seeing- him and looking at him here.

Major J. H. McUee. United States Marshal, testified that he was in the smokinir car at the time of the Winston robbery. The conductor was standing- ripht by him when he was shot; them were three men in that car, two doing-the shooting and one cutting: the bell rope: the one that shot West fail he never saw until he saw him with his pistol in hand.

Cross-examined I was sitting- in the center of the ear, on the rijfht hand side of the aisle; heard the pistols crack and the cll Of "Down! down!" 1 looked up and there was one man standing In front of me with a pistol In each hand and another on my left, just in rear of the conductor. The man that reached to cut the bell rope was Btanflinir about two feet from the man who did the firing- from the forward end of the car, and about half the of the car from the man who killed the conductor. I saw no pistols in the hands of tho man who cut the bell rope. After the shooting- of Westfail, the conductor, the man who shot him went to the forward end of the car, and all throe of the robbers passed out of the forward door. I didn't see any one of them pass to the tear end of the car, but 1 saw one of them returning from the rear of the car.

When the conductor pulled the belbrope the train slacked but did not stop. At the trestle, three-quarters of a mile from Winston, tbe train seemed to lie stopped by the air-brake, and trei went forward for hot it another half-mile. After the three men went -out ont remained on the Iront plutfortrt and fired througrh the car: Here the rotate rented and closed it case, and after a couple of unimportant witnesses were heard in Suvrefouttal. both sides rested The arguments will commence Monday, each side being: limited b- w'-t hours. Gaixatix, Sept.

3. Ths reading of instructions to the jury in the case of the State vs. Frank antes, charg-ed with murder In the first dejrreo, commenced shortly after nine o'clock this morning-, and occupied nearly an hour. The shaking commenced toward ten o'clock with a full audience, generally made up of ladies. The time allowed for speakinjr is twelve hours for the defense and ten hours for the State, five sjteeches to be made for the defense and four for the Stato.

The speeches of to-day were as follows: For the Statf. on opening by W. I. Hamilton, Prosofutinir Attorney for" Daviess County; for the defense speeches liy John M. Glover, of St.

Louis, and T. Garner, of liichmond, Kay County, Mo. GAt-tATix, Sept. 4. Tho whole of this day has been devoted to arg-ument in the James case.

The first speech -was that by Mr. Ilicklin for the State a very plain, forcible, logical speech. This was followed by one from Mr. Glover for the defense. The main speech of the day was that by Mr.

Phillips for the defense. He spoke for three hours and was listened to with the greatest attention, not a person leaving- the court while he was epeakiiig-i To-morrow judge Shankliu speaks for the State and Mr. Johnson for the defense. Mr. -Wallace will close iu behalf of the State.

A WOHKINOMEJi'S Viot OCCUll'ed In Vienna on the th. Ten leaders were ar rested. In the Milwaukee Cathedral Mass was sung on the 8th in memory of the 300 persons lost on the Lady Elgin twenty three years ago. There were 153 business failures re ported throughout the United States and Canada for the week ending the 7th, as compared with 180 the preceding week, a decrease of 20, distributed as follows: New England States, 15; Middle, Western, 48; Southern, 23; Pacific States and Terri tories, 13, and New York City, 4. An election for Congressman has ily trouble, shot himself at East Cleveland- been ordered for the First District of North Carolina on November 20 to fill the va cancy caused by the death of Walter F.

the night of the Cth and lay down in a field to die. It was thought the wound would prove fatal. Pool. Ox the 7th the city of Pensacola, Fla. vas reported as still healthy, but yellow fever was on the increase at the Navy Yard, eighteen new cases having been re ported within thirty-six hours.

No deaths. The American Social Science Asso ciation held a meeting at Saratoga on the th. Mrs. Sarah K. Bolton, of Cleveland, read a paper on "Employer and Em THE CROPS.

Ke tilts of 1b Wheat Harvest from V. riotis tjuarters and the Outlook for Crops Vet to bo Secared. DAKOTA. Ft. P.n, Mixsc.

Sept. 7. The month of August closed with the harvest nearly endd in South Dakota, and f-apidly approaching completion, with highly favorable in ovth Dakota. A week ef rainy weather with southeast injuretl tbe' gralfl itttbe shock slightly and caused some growing alfd bleaching Of the berry, thereby lowering the quality a little. The weather fast in time to prevent victorious harvest being" tttrned into a disastrous defeat.

The wind changed to the west and northwest With ii stiff cool breeze, aud quickly dried out the: grain raady for stacking. A noticeable feature tf tbe harvest was the slow and deliberate manner in which the- grain ripened. The grourid being damp and the weather cool, it matured fully without sny forcing process. The threshers have been at work Ir a week in Southern Dakota and the yield thus far is exceeding tbe expectations of farmers; the extremes iti ilansmi County being sixteen and thirty-five bushels with rt probable average of twenty-two" bushels. The report from Beadle County Is except ionally flattering, one field reporting at thirty-seven and two-thirds bushels of sixty pounds.

The weather is now excellent for threshing. That being threshed is market liberally, the elevator men paying front seventy-five to eighty cents for No, Oats Suffered perhaps, nvjre than wheat from the Weather as they were more difficult to dry Corn looks well but is backward. The mouth ha1 not been favorable for pushing it forward, although dwr ing the last week August the higher range Of temperature, exerted a good influence on the Corn enter September with larger demands upon the month than usual, and While the risk of a good, crop cannot lie classed as it is largely increased and hangs its dependence upon the elevation of the temperature. Io-tatOM tre yielding well: the first planted are the bes-t. ds the weeds have contested the later with great vigor, the farmers having other crops that absorbed their Haying is now rrogresing.

and is rapidly going into stock. It will continue ten days It is all cnt from native grasses and is later this peseu than usual, the blue-joint ami red-top being in bloom on the last of The hay crop of Dakota is assuming greater proportions each year as the herdtf and rfocks increase. The flax is about two-thirds harvested, beiug sown at different periods as itreak-ing was made ready for it. This crop is principally raised ill tb three southern tiers of counties, and theestitfJa-ted yield is over 500,000 bushels. The general averts? of condition of wheat is about the same on the 1st of September as it was on the 1st of August, and is brought about by a slight lowering in South Dakota.

The prospective yield remains at 17,000,000 bushels. itINSES-OTA. MiNNliAPrrM, Sept. 7. The Wheat Crop west of Glencoe, aud more particularly west of Milbrook, on the Hastings Dakota Road, and tho crop of tho James Iliver Valley, will be the largest and finest raised there fciace 1-S77.

The yield is from eighteen to thirty-live bushels per acre, and there is a very large percent age of 1 hard. We tthall get more of this wheat thari hertofore unles we make serious The best iwliit- about the wheat west of Millbank ami the James Iliver Valley is its dryness They have had no rain there since June, and the wheat will never sweat. The wheat grown on the Breckenridge Division of the Manitoba, beyond the timber magnificent quality and yields largely. The timber wheat this year will prove to be liadly shrunken. One or two of the hot sttells, whic did not at first affect prairie wheat, did great damage to timber wheat, shrinking it badly.

Mlt'HItJAV. LAPSING; fCItt. Upturns received by the Secretary of State show lhat ill the southern four tiers Of couuties acres of Wheat thresheni yielded 1,7370 bushels, an average of bushels per acre The acreage reported threshed 8 per ceitt Total acreage, as returned by Supftvisorsj yield in southern two tiers of counties generally but in central an northern counties not as hfgh as estimated in July. Figures indicate a total yield in tho State of about bushels, or nearly 000,000 bushels less than the total product estimated In July. To the question, 'Which variety of wheat has given the highest yield ier acre?" I'M correspondents in the southern four tiers of counties answer! Clawson, Fult, 53; Egyptian 2'u In the southern four tiers of Counties, acres of oats, threshed, yield 7iU-7i bushels, average 111 2-." bushels per acre.

No estimate for corn. Excessive rains that continued until late in July, and severe drouth since, have nearly ruined the crop. Corn on high, sandy soil will doubtless yield fairly well, but crop as a whole far below average. Winter apples in the southern part of the State promise less than one-fourlu, and late peaches about one-tiiird of an average crop. 1 1.

LI vols. Makshai.i,, Iu, Sept. 7. "Wheat threshing is nearly over, and according to the reports of the threshers the prospects are gloomier than ever. The crop is now reported to be less than one-fourth of an average.

The acreage sown this fall will lie from one-fourth tooiie-half less than last year in the various parts of the county, and unless rain falls soon even less than that. The ground is too hard to plow in some places now. The corn crop in the southern half of the county will be nearly up to the average, but in the northern will fall considerably below that. F.KrijffiHAJn, Ii.i,., Sept. 7.

The drought still continues. There has been no rain of any consequence for over a month. The water in the wells and creeks is beginning to fail. Tbe ground is so hard that farmers are unable to plow for wheat. Corn is suffering very much, and will be cut short one-half unless we get rain in few days.

ItOCKFOKD, I i.i Sept. 7. To-day has been the coldest day this fall, the merenry to-night dropping below 4't degrees. Farmers are getting discouraged at the poor prospects for a fair or an average yield of corn. The season in the beginning was very backward, consequently it was not planted till late.

There are acres of com throughout this county ami vicinity that have not silked out at all, aud if the frosts hold off two weeks longer, which now does not seem probable, there will not be over half a crop, if there is that. Should we tie visited by a heaw frost, the crop will be nearly worthless. The oats and hay-crop was the best in this county for years. The yield of farm products will also be very large. ployed." A unique appeal was sent recently by Little Chief, a Cheyenne Indian, to the KANSAS STATE SEWS The State Fair at Topeka promises 1 3 be a grand success in point of exhibits, all available space being taken and applications were still coming in.

Temporary buil dings were to be erected to accommodate the overflow. Governor Glick receive! word a few days ago that seventy-five Cheyenne Indians had been seen at Monument, on the western border of the State. They had committed no depredations and were probably only stragglers of parties baing transferred. The inhabitants were alarmed, and on request of Governor Glick General Pope ordered a company of cavalry to the front to hurry them along. The Stale Historical Society recently received a handsome white silk 11 ig from Mrs.

Richard P. Kent, of Lancaster, N. II. The flag has on one side the inscription in gold letters "From the Ladies of Lancaster to the Freemont Club, No. 244," and ou the other side "God Save Kansas." It was accompanied by the following explanatory letter: "The flag accompanying this was used in the Presidential campaign of 1856 by the Freemont Club of Lancaster, New Hampshire, and is now presented to the Kansas State Histdrical Society by Mrs.

chard P. Kent, of Lancaster, in whose custody it has remained since that time, as evidence of the sympathy felt by the people of the far off "Granite State" with the early settlers of Kansas in the struggle between slavery and freedom. The fools are not all dead in Topeka, One recently loaded a cigar with powder and gave it to a companion named Dick Hodgen. The result was a badly burned face. The Lincoln Post (Topeka) Flambeau Club has been invited to participate in the grand Oriole paradejat Baltimorej and it was thought would accept.

The District Clerk of Ellis Coun ty has been tried and convicted of being drunk, and his office declared vacant. An old law of Kansas disqualifies a man who gets drunk from holding office. Centralia, Nemaha County, a flourishing town of eight hundred inhabitants, complains of the want of a bakery. John Eckles, aged sixty-one, suicided in the rooms over the Rock Island ticket office at Ieavenworth a few days ago by taking rat poison. Domestic troubles the cause.

A thirteen-year-old son of George Istertag was drowned in the Missouri liiv-er north of Atchison recently while in bathing with students from the Catholic Church. The body was recovered. There was a man at the Topeka camp-meeting seventy-two years of age who preached three times in one day, shouted all the intervening time, and then rode out in the country seven miles to preach a funeral sermon the next morning and go back to camp-meeting where he left off. The wild grapes were never more abundant than this year around Salina, Saline County. They were sold at seventy-five cents per bushel.

A sad and horrible accident occurred near Cleardale, Sumner County, a few dayv ago. A farmer named Osgood was driving a mowing-machine and holding on his lap his little son. aged five years. The horses became frightened and a sudden start threw the boy from bis father's arms in front of the sickle bar. The father in attempting to rescue the child, slipped and fell, and the mowing-machine passed over them.

The I toy was horribly mangled and died in a few hours, and the father received a number of very severe wounds, but it was thought that he would recover. Mr. Jonathan Tinkler, of Salina, Saline County, has proved that deer-raising can be made a success. He has eight deer in his park of seventeen acres, which is inclosed by a wire fence six feet high, the creek running through the park. The deer feed principally on the wild sumac which grows ia the park, and are as fat as can be.

Mr. Tinkler thinks he can raise deer as successfully as sheep. He will inclose more acres this fall and hunt up some more deer. The Coroner's inquest into the causing of the death of Leroy Mills, who was kille I by the explosion of the boilers at the Shawnee mills, Topeka, recently, found that the explosion was caused by low water in the boiler, and that he came to his death by accident, with no one to blame. The Secretary of the Stato Fair Association has announced the following counties as entered for competition for the $1,000 prize for agricultural products, in addition to the counties along the Hue of the A.

T. S. F. Railway: Shawnee, Douglas, Jefferson, Washington, Ottawa, Johnson and Jackson. The mouth of August was the coolest known for sixteen years.

A scries of robberies was committed a few nights since at Atchison by a daring gang of burglars. They were first discovered by D. I. Waggoner, the attorney for the Missouri Pacific system, who arose at two o'clock in tbe morning to take the early train east, and found his clothing missing, containing 70, papers and keys. Further search revealed that the premises had been ransacked and that three watches and jewelry were gone.

An alarm was sent tt the police station and police were detailed to guard the entrance of Everest Waggoner, as the thieves had keys to the same. A few moments after, ex-City Treasurer E. K. Blair telephoned police headquarters that his residence had been robbed. Thethieves took $30, but overlooked a bond for $170-Blair saw a man in the hall, but supposed it was one of the family.

The residence of Mrs. Prentiss was also entered. The lady awoke and called to her son, whereupon the robber said: "Say it is best for you." A colored woman employed at Waggoner's, Lizzie Johnson, was arrested as an accomplice, and her paramour, Fleetwood, a barber, is now in jail awaiting further developments as to his whereabouts at the time. Prairie chickens will now suffer. A strange maa recently gave Frank Tuttle, of Leavenworth, fifty cents to take bim in a skiff to the sand bar opposite that city and leave him.

He stated that he was an opium-eater, and wanted to stay on the bar until he was cured. He had a revolver loaded and plenty of ammunition. He had made arrangements to have food sent to him from time to time, and said he would starve the opium habit out if he had to Secretary of the Interior for a new suit of clothes. He says: "I don't care so much for grub, but I do like to dress in proper style. I want the best white hat you can buy in the market." According to a Paris dispatch of he 7th both Governments, France and China, were equally desirous of securing a peace ful solution of the Tonquinquestionif itcan be done with honor.

The general sentiment favored the hope that all issues involved might be admitted to the arbitration of England. The International Labor Institute at its session on the Oth at Munich, Bavaria, vation. Ex-Coveunou Talbott, of Massachusetts, has positively declined to again ltttcome a candidate for that oflice. Ox the: f.th Herbert Anderson, Inspector Post-office Department St. Louis District, and Elizabeth, elder daughter of Conrad Baker, x-Oovernor of Indiana, ere married at Indianapolis.

The deatli of Professor Varley, who was electrician to the first Atlantic Cable Company, was reported on the "th. The Greenbaekers of New York have nominated Rev. Thomas K. Beecher for 'Secretary of State. It was denied by Fred.

Douglass that (the colored convention in Louisville is to lie in the interest of President Arthur. Jay Gould testified beforo the Sen-Inte Committee on Education and Labor on the 5th. Jonx It. Both-well, of New York, fwith a Union Pacific and a London syndicate behind him, was reported to be the (contractor for railway surveys being made from Fort Washakie to Yellowstone Park. Sixxr milliox fkakcs were left by Jt.tie Count de Chambord to lie divided itietween the Duke- of Parma and the Count Vf Bardi.

Queen Victoria subscribed 200 to the Egyptian relief fund. Edwahd Stabler died at Sandy Springs, Montgomery County, on the 4th, in the same bouse in which he was fliorn, September, 1794. He was appointed Postmaster of Sandy Springs in ISoO, and held the office up to the time of his death. Count de Chambord left 'francs to charity and religious societies. Ox the 6th Fred Lauer, a well-know brewer and first President of the United State Brewers' Congress, died at Reading, aged seventy-three.

At Le Fuy, France, the statue of Lafayette was unveiled on thelith in presence kif an immense concourse of people, including many Americans. The recently appointed Inspector of in Egypt, Clifford Lloyd, sailed for Cairo on the (ilh. Lohd Chief Justice Colekidge of England, arrived in Boston on the Oth and as the honored guest of the Commonwealth, Municipality and Bar Association. ritESiDEXT Authuk reached Washington on the 7th. The recalled French commander, Ad-.

Pierre, was reported dying at Marseilles on the 7th. Ox the 7th the National Trison Association was reorganized at Saratoga, and Ex-President Hayes was elected President. Papers were read on prevention of crime end prison reform. CItmES AND CASUALTIES, Ox the 1th James Donahue, aged iwenty-flve, dtdilternt-jly shot and killed his btep-fnther, Michael O'Connell, at Cleveland, and threatened to hhoot his mother if Rhe interfered. Ix Philadelphia on the 1th Geo.

Rankin, convicted of pension frauds, was refused a Mew trial and sentenced to two year imprisonment. Geo. Wesner received a like sentence, and Henry Frank received a sentence of three years together with a fine of and costs. A German named Ileinrich Causctnn, iliving near Rock Island, 111., arose from Ids bed early the morning of the 5th and am' lit to the barn and hung himself with a clothes-line. A stonecutter named Jacob Ilad-3ey, of Taylorsville, shot and killed his won Charles, aged twenty, on the 3d.

Hartley was drunk at the time and tried to tlrown himself after the shoo'ing. Ox the 5th the body of John Noonan, who disappeared from East Bridgeport, a few days since, was found in Shel elected John T. Dillon, Professor of the Law School, Columbia College, New York, an associate member. A dispatch from Home of the 7lh says the Archbishops of Cincinnati, New York, Kansas Oitv, Septi 6 The verdici in the JSmes Case Was fe ceived with great interest in this cityt The report flew frotii mouth to inonii till it became the sole theme on the streets, iu the ssrloons at the hotels among business mm and lawyers, in police and cit circles, and, in fact, among all classes of people. It w-s talked aboiit to-night to the exclusion if other topics; Some declared that no other result could have been reached; that ther- was no evidence to convict; that the statements of witnesses for the State were not worthy of belief, tine in a thousand thought that James had received simple justice, A great majority of the people, howevet said that the verdict of acquittal was an outrage which would add tjo Missouri's shame in many instances.

Jeffeksox Citv, Sept. 6. The news of the acquittal of Frank James was received here between four and five o'clock this afternoon, and immediately spread through the town. Among those who have watched the progress of the trial closely the outcome of it was not a surprise. Some said they were in hopes he would be convicted, others were glad of his acquittal, while others made it the occasion for reviving the epithet, "poor old Missouri." Governor Crit'enden, when approached and asked if he bad anything to say regarding it, replied that he bad not.

'It is the verdict of a jury," he said, "and it would be improper for me to comment on it." Baltimore, Philadelphia and several prelates were expected at the Vatican shortly to confer with regard to the propaganda upon the extension of the church regula MISCELLANEOUS. The general meeting of the American Social Science Association opened at Saratoga, N. on the 3d. Prof. Wayland, of the Yale Law School, delivered an address on capital punishment.

He opposed hanging and favored perpetual imprisonment. Three deaths from cholera were reported in Alexandria on the 3d. New York, New Hampshire, Vermont and Maine were visited by frosts on the night of the 3d. It was reported that the Swiss Gov-ernmenthad refused toextradite Lennig, the American student, who killed another in a duel. Makwood, the British hangman died on tho 4th.

It is predicted by Prof, llaulb, an expert in volcanoes, that another eartiiquake will occur at Ischia, October 15, In the Trade and Labor procession on the 3th in New York twenty thousand men were in line. Ax artificial ice company in Washington is preparing apparatus to lie used for ice-making in South Africa. On the 5th II. Dudley Coleman iron founders and machinists. New Orleans, suspended.

Liabilities, assets, Several groups of French Royalists have declared in favor of Count de Paris for the succession. The hazing court-martial progresses at Annapolis. It seems the hazers made the boys stand on their heads just for fun. Owing to continued drought anxiety was being folt in Boston and Cambridge, concerning the water supply. A street parade of eight hundred of the Chicago newsboys took place on the 4tb, and they afterward journeyed to South Park, where a jtienic had been arranged for them by the Young Men's Christian Association.

Five new cases of yellow fever were reported a the Pensacola Navy Yard on the 5th and one death. The city remained healthy. Ox iho 5th quarantine was abolished on the Suez Canal, and traffic resumed as Itefore the cholera epidemic. British troops were returning to Cairo. A relief committee under the Presidency of the Prince of Orange was collecting subscriptions in Holland for the sufferers by the Java Sharp earthquake tdiocks were felt at Santa Barbara, Wilmington and Los An-gelos, at 4:30 the morning of the 3th.

The vibrations were northeast to southwest. Salt Lake Valley was visited by a terrible storm of thunder, lightning and rain the evening of the 5th, causing considerable damage nnd badly scaring the people, heavy thunder and lightning Iteing almost unknown there. Ox the 5th Rex and his royal retinuo arrived at Cincinnati, and was received A Destructive ildr.irnuf io the Kaitt. N. Sept.

5. A terrible hurricane, witS Jiail, rain and severe thunder and lightning, passed over Niagara County last night about eight o'clock. A regular swath was mown by the whirling winds in some places, and A large amount of damage is reported along its path. Iu the town of Newfane th barn of Wnt. Condon was entirely destroyed by lire, caused by lightning, together with all hi crops, implements.

et-. boss, imniranee, Tm. Tbe railroatl depot at IJewfane Station was unroofed, and the roof sailed away into a neighboring field. Fences, trees and chimney were blown down in this city ami elsewhere. But the worst devastation occurred at Mlddleport, twelve miles east, where, in a few seconds, the iron roof of a four-story canning factory was lifted like a feather, and carried about 2' feet, and dropped npon the house of P.

K. Barnes, crushing it like an egg shell. A section of tho flying roof just blew by a gentleman, and striking a tree twelve inches thick, cut it down instantly. The roofs were taken from tho barns of Messrs. Breys, Casey, FVrmai! and the large warehouse of C.

W. Odell, and a nuniler of stout evertrreen went mowed down as with a knife. Several people were injured, but fortunately non dangerously. The damage is veryheavv in Middleport, and the storm was the worst of tbe season while it lasted, which was not over thirty minutes. A Cotton Train Wrrt-ked with Itesulta.

Waco, Tkx Sept. 6. As a freight train laden with cotton, on the Houston A2 Texas Central Road, reached Snake Creek, about sixteen mile northwest of here, near Ross fetation, yesterday, the caboose was derailed. There were 'two cattle men from Corey, Matagorda County, on top of the caboose at tho time of the acciib nt. One of them.

Jinie Carwther, was instantly E. W. Tal-bort bad his leg and" collarbone broken. John Neil, a hraeman, had his shoulder dislocated. Physicians who were on a passenger train, a few miles behind the freight, arrived upon the scene and administered to the Buffering of the wounded.

The accident was occasioned by a broken tie. The track was torn up for a distance of several hundred yards. Hands were put to work at once and the track repa-fifc-d. Caruther a bodv was brought here and art ipquest held to-d'av, and the jury found a verdict in accordance with tbe above faots. Cave Iliiiielf l'p- WtCHITA, Hcpt.

1. A.T. Thurmond, who shot and killed one Smith twenty-three miles from Camp Supply last Faturday, arrived here last night ami gave himself up to Sheriff who turned him over to the Uni'ed States authorities. Thurmond is a nut ve of Southern Texas and hardly more than a boy in age. He had been the foreman on a New York cattle company' ranch, and th, the man hom he killed, was the foreman of another ranch.

Thv quarreled, and Thurmond claims he killed the man in self-defense. He went to Dodge City to giv himself up, but finding no Tinted State Marshal, and threats of lynching twing made bv the friends of Smith. who bad preceded him with the body of the dtad man, be struck out for this place. DUastrota Kre. Jt ti.I kt, Il.l, rW-pL 5.

A fire broke out this evening in the hardware warehouse of F. X. StuftVs, iu th business portion of the city, and iu the rear of his hardware sb ire, caused by an inexperienced -lerk tampering with a barrel of gasoline. Th fljnw quirkly spread till four Imrns adjacent to warehouse were eiivelojied in flames. The Fire Department could nut get the fire under control till fceveral stores in th" block had g-t well on tire, when bv the -killful manipulating of the bose chemicals the fdort-s and stot-k were partly naved.

Several carriages, horses and hors were burned in the barns, and F. X. Stufties' hardware stock and J. I Itaynor's stock of wall paper and paint were tions to the clergy of America. Fou the twelve months ended July 31, J8S3, the excess in the value of exports over imports was The imports of merchandise decreased for the year ended July 31, 1881, as compared with the same time last year, and the exports increased $79,480, 172.

LATE NEWS ITEMS, Spain is worried by the discovery of fresh intrigues in Cuba. jNlllANAPOt.lS, Sept. 6. Telegrams have just been received containing intelligence of the acquittal of Frank James at Gallatin. There are a few of the personal friends of Frank here, who, of course, are jubilant, but the majority of the people are -very indignant, and pronounce the verdict an outrage on justice.

GALLATIN, Sept. 5. Judge Shankliu occupied the morning on behalf of the prosecution, demonstrating from the evidence the probability of Frank James being- connected -with the Winston roblK-ry. Ho claimed there was proof positive of the defendant's participation in tho robbery and murder. As for the alibi, he dismissed that in very brief temrsas being- based entirely on the testimony of interested witnesses.

Mr. Johnson In his speech in the afternoon followed a line of argument like this: That the case was either one Of murder in the first degree or nothing, and it did not coi tain any murder in tbe second degTec; that the defendant had all along been trying- to form new associations for himself, ehietiy aided by the persuasions of his wife; that he had worked hard in Tennessee, then broken with the gang and gone to Tesas, sending his wife to Missouri to negotiate a surrender; that I.iddcll testified against the accused from motives of personal safety; that there were but four men at the Winston robbery, and that the defendant was not one of those four; that tho mere proximity of Frank James to the scene of the robbery as detailed by the State's witnesses did not Erove actual participation in the crime; that iddell was to be believed when he told Governor Crittenden how Frank had remonstrated with Jesee James for killing any ono on tho train rather than when he stated from the wit ncss stand how Frauk had remarked that ho believed he had shot one man, as he had seen him drop: that the State had no case if Lid-dcU's testimony was taken out of it; that ail were liable to be mistaken in their identification of other specimens of the race, and that the alibi set up was a pood one as measured by its apparent weakness and the interest of tho parties supporting It, because it would have been easy to get lifty men with perjured testimony to locate the defendant at the timo of the Winston robbery in Texas, Colorado or any other part of the country. Gam. ATI. Sept.

d. Mr. W. TT. Wallace.

Prosecuting Attorney for Jackson County, commenced his closim? argument on behalf of the State in the caso against Frank James at a few minutes after Dine this morning. His speech was a most exhaustive one and was the great feature of the trial, good judges declaring they never heard it surpassed for viijor. evenness, power and eloquence. At its close Judge Goodman charged the jury who then retired in charge of the bailiffs. Shortly before four o'clock the bailiffs in charge of the jury were notified that they were ready to submit a verdict, and wheit court reopened at four o'clock Judge Goodman was surprised by the information.

The defendant was brought into court with his face pale and impassive as the day the trial began. He was attended by his wife, whose face wore an expression of suffering that made it painful to look upon. The hall was not at ail crowded, as few had expected a verdict so soon. The jurors flied in and took their seat. all of them keeping their faces fixed oa the court.

Judge Goodman put the usual question. After the roll had been called and the verdift was submitted tho Judge read aloud: "We, the jury, find the defendant not guilty, as charged ia the indictment." Loud applause followed and some of the audience threw up their hats, while great confusion ensued. Amid it ail F'rank James sat looking at the Court without even a change of color or utremorof hand, just as he had looked at the speakers and witnesses ail through the case. His wife's face, however, was changed in a second from an expression of terror to one of radiant jov. Counsel for the defense cmiled and wore the plumes of victory well.

The State's attorney, Mr. Hamilton, and Judge Htcklin looked gloomy and spoke not. The jury was then discharged and they quictlv loft the court-room. When romn degree of order had been restored and one man had been brought before the Court and given a chance to beg- off for throwing up his bat. and when tbe gay assemblage of ladies had moderated their jubilant buzz to a reasonable degree, the Court suggested that there were two more cases on the docket.

The Westfall case and the one wbereln tbe robbery of the Winston train is charged without any They wiil be tried at tbe October term. Tbe court then adjourned and the priconer was taken back to jail in seemingly the same ttate of mind as when be left lu Indiasapoi.1, Bob Ford, the slayer of Frank James brother Jesse, is now playing at the Zoo Theater, in this city, iu a play entitled "The Brother's Oath." He was seen by a reporter and apprised of the verdict in the James trial. Upon being informed of the acquittal of James he manifested great surprise. Said he: "I had heard from someof my friends that this was probable, but I never believed that it was possible for the jurv to acquit, knowing as I did that he was guilty. Even this afternoon I had offered to wager $1,000 on his conviction." When asked if he apprehended personal danger from the probable release of Frank James, he said, with a significant shrug of the shoulders: "Well, I should feel safer if he were locked p.

But I don't propese to provoke any quarrel, although I am as good a man as he is with fire-arms. I shall try-to keep out of his way and live a peaceable life if be will let me. If he ever docs attempt my life it will be with a shot in the back, or when I am looking for him. I know very well if anyone had killed my brother as I killed Jesse James I should not rest until I had taken his life. But perhaps Frank has had as much trouble as he wants, and may choose to let the matter drop.with-out becoming further involved.

A Suspicious disappearance. Nrw Yojik, SckB. Henry Lumburg, a baker of Austin, Tex-, came to this city early in July, and stopped for a week in Hartmann's Hotel, Bowery. On July 1 1 he sailed for Europe, and traveled throughout Germany, He returned to this city in the Kteamshin Fulda September 1, and again w-ent to Hartmann's. He was very liberal with his money, and frequently invited all the persons in the barroom up to drink.

He carried a valuable gold watch ami chain, and seemed always to have considerable money with him. On Monday morning he went out at nine o'clock, and has not been seen or heard of at the hotel since. Colonel David P. Hollo way died at Washington on the seventy-four years. There was a big meeting and banquet of the National League at Waterford, Ireland, on the Oth.

Half the village of Deep Creek, Norfolk County, was destroyed by fire on tin- 1Kb. Joil ANN GoTTLEIXTZ JACKSON, who rubbed his employer, a merchant in Moscow, Russia, was arrested on the Oth by the New York police. Horace Greeley's farm was sold on the 8th. Miss Gabrielle M. Greeley was the purchaser.

Ex-Gov. Kedle, of New Jersey, fell on the 81h at Courtlandt street ferry, New York, and broke a leg. Navigation of the Straits of Sunda is officially declared open. The earthquake made but little change in the channel. The driving of the golden spike which signalized the formal opening of the Northern Pacific took place on the 8th.

British residents in Chinese ports are indignant that there is no British fleet in those waters. Foreigners occupy a precarious situation there. Prolonged shocks of an earthquake were felt at Lima, eleven o'clock p. m. the evening of Sir Henky Maxee, Governor of Newfoundland, died at the vice-regal residence on the 8th.

At the instance of flie Northern Pacific Express Company, the Wells-Fargo Express has been enjoined from establishing agencies in Washington, Idaho and Montana. Prima Donna Perketa, "the nightingale of Mexico," died August 20 at Macallan of Tonto fever. Three members of her opera company died of the same disease. Th Elkhom Tannery. Strondsburg, owned by Michael D.

Kisiler, burned on the Pth. Loss property insured. Snow fell at Argentine, Colorado, a few days ago. Secretary Folger returned to his duties in the Treasury Department on the 10th. Recent advices from Loando, West Africa, state that Henry 11.

Stanley, after penetrating far into the interior, returned to Stanley Pool. It was believed that he intended to travel through the country covered in his former journey along the east coast. The drivers on the Metropolitan Street Car liue, Washington, struck on the aud traffic was suspended. IOW A. with due ceremony by Cincinnatus and hft adherents.

The guests were regaled with a sumptuous lunch, the bands meanwhile playing "If Ever I Cease to Love" in behalf of Rex, and followed as a response from Cincinnatus with "Call Me Thine Own." There was a grand procession and a right royal time generally. The Manufacturers' and Mechanics' Institute Exposition opened on the 5th in Boston. The trial of James Nutt at Union-town, has been postponed to the December term. The first train on tho Mexican National Railroad arrived at Saltillo on the 5th. The whole town was out to witness the great event.

Ox the 6lh the Supreme Council of the Order of Chosen Friends elected officers at Chicago. It was reported that an effort was leave his bones on the sand bar. don's Pond at that place, (tearing marks of having been foully dealt with. Investigation shows that the defalcations of Kennedy, the absconding 'Youngstowu (Ohio) bank cashier, foot up Tbe bank will not lose anything. Ox the 6th a hurricane swept over the West Indies, causing damage to shipping.

A collision of freight trains occurred ttear Waldron Station, Ohio, on the 0th. Two trainmen were killed. At Karitan, N. Carrie Waldniayer and Amelia Weaver, of Philadelphia, were drowned on the Oth. A wealthy citizen of New London, named John Crane, fatally stabbed this wife on the Cth, for having him arrested.

The tdcamer Canima was wrecked on the 6th on the Newfoundland Coast. The (passengers and crew were saved. Constable Johnson killed Martin Kaller in Highland Park, a suburb of Chicago, the night of the 5th. Kaller's friends tried to burn Johnson house after the killing. Near Weatherford, the Jacks-Intro stage was robbed recently by two men, who secured two watches, $150 in money and several registered letters from tbe mail.

The Cashier of the Coney Island Jockey Club pool-room, J. P. Westcott, absconded on tbe 6th. His accounts were short $4,000. Fire destroyed the lighthouse at Point Marion, Mississippi Sound, the night of the 5th.

The inmates, two young men, jlrifted off on a door, but were rescued. The school population of Topeka, according to tbe last annual report, was 6,859, an increase of 1,208 over 1882. Fatal Keeklessnes. VUBViVB, Hcpt. 7.

The weather continues entirely favorable for corn, and the crops have made wonderful progress in the past few dava of warm, rainy weather. Scarcely a doubt exists that it will mature in time to escape frottt, in which case it will be the heaviest crop ever grown in this State. The ears are now almost matured and of full size. Farmers are Ktill engaged in stacking wheat, oats, barley and rye. all of wbi-h have been gathered in the best average condition ever known.

The country will be amazed at the wonderful crops of these grains this year. Flax is also a heavy crop. To-night the weather is cool and threatens frost. Pes Moi fo-pt. 7.

The dry weather of the last two weeks has substantially saved the corn crop. Some of the Iowa seed-planting is ripe now, and ten days will ripeu it all. Nebraska corn is as far advanced as the Iowa corn where Nebraska was planted, but the mischief is that most of the seed corn sold to farmers as Nebraska was in fact from more southern latitudes. Farmers who planted Nebraska or Ohio seed, and were sure of it, find their crops equally advanced with Iowa corn. Some of the more southern seed will never ear out.

Considerable of it will mature sufficiently to make good stalk fodder if cut as soon as its growth is arrested by frost. A DanseroB Iramp. 8 a i.t La e. Cta rtcpu i. On Sunday last near Parline Station, on tbe Denver Rio Grande, a tramp, aged nineteen years, placed a large rock, a number of poles and a plank on the track for the purpose of wrecking a train.

Had the obstrnrtions not been discovered in time, there would doubtless have lieen a trribi accident to the east-ltound passenger. Tbe voung fellow's name is Eugene Bachelder. lie was taken to Garrwton, and when examined as to his reason btr the diabolical act, stated that it was to obtain revenge for having been put oft a train. He is front Bioomington, 111- tin in the Chit-ago stock Tartl. Chicago, Sept.

6. Late this afternoon fire was discovered iu the Wabash Division of the Stock Yards in tbe cattle sheds, and but for a favorable wind tbe entire yard, containing worth of stock, would have been destroyed. As it was, the firemen were only able to stay the flames after fifteen heds, covering to and a half acre, had been consumed. There were in this division between 1,500 and bead of cattle. Of this number fifty-five, together with four ponies, were burned to death.

It was very exciting work for a time getting the maddened animals out of harm's way, as they went plunging and bellowing from side to side of the pens in which they were confined. The loss on building is on stock, Wild plums were reported plenty in Lyons and surrounding counties. The boiler of the Shawnee flourin'" mills at Topeka exploded a few nights ago. Cause unknown. Leroy Mills, night engineer, was badly but not dangerously scalded.

The engine-room was entirely demolished, and the boiler was blown endways being made to annul tho clause of the will of the late Jennie McGraw Fiske, whereby Cornell University received 500,000. The widow and children of Mahlon Rowe, of Ithaca, N. whom he deserted eighteen years ago, propose to recover his estate in Honolulu, which he bequeathed to a Hawaiian woman and their three The property is valued at A war of mutua1 extermination is being waged by the natives of Zululand. It was reported on the 6th that forest fires were raging on the shores of Sandy Pond, lying between the town ef Sayer-Groton and Littleton, Mass, through a fifteen-inch wall into the flour- Sax Francisco, Sept. A frightful affair occurred this afternoon in a saloon whereby Thomas Mullen, a coopor, was shot dead by Edward Iacey, another cooper, in a drunken brawl.

Both men had spent nearly all day visiting saloons and were much intoxicated. After taking a drink in the place where the tragedy oecurre.1, Mullen felt a pistol in l.a-cey's pocket and told him to exhibit it, when Mullen placed the muzzle in his mouth, tilling his friend to pull the trigger. Lacey did so, forgetting in his drunken condition that the pistol was a self-cocker, and Mullen fell dead. The two men have been warm friends for the last eleven years. Very few people appreciate the amount of labor and thought which conscientious editors "ive to their editorial work, and, by the way, very few people care.

So we might as well drop the oubject right here. Boston Iran-tcripl- It has been clearly demonstrated that a gorilla can have the small-pox. What a delightful discovery this is. PoBtn Pott. room.

Two men calling themselves T. A. Rodgers and F. Common were arrested a few days ago, charged with having been engaged in defrauding banks by. the dupli- cate draft system, which they appear liave carried on quite extensively,.