1882-08-31; Saline Observer

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l
|f her death, the
lent and obtain.
at the proper
sfboth parents
| the homestead
lefit of the chil-
Iceive title.
Ino part of the
Vcept tor church,
se%qr right of
I be relinquishedj
td reverts to the
|d^es not -^ish, to
ct, he may pay
In law, in cash er
bx six months of
leaders are allow-
try to commence
Ish residence.
|horaestead privi-
ed not less than
or navy of the
J recent rebellion,
|rged and hasre-
anieut, may enter
lie of his services
le period of five
larty shall reside
lomestead at least
Jes improvements.
lor if she lie dead
minor heirs (if
guardian, make
the soldier died;
le term of his ea-
J upon the term of
Ids acquired under
Inot liable for any
I the issuing of the
re law not more
ic section, entirsfy
|ie entered, as<-£- no
than one entry
applicants are the
Itptlon andhome-
bffiee charges are,
Jiaa SO, $14 when
■at final proof. Por
Vvy and §4 at final
lisfc make affidavit
J Ms application is
\er land devoid of
ad entry is made
iber for his own
:•; that the appli-
|faith and not for
|>n, or directly or
any other person
ends to hold and
| comply with the
= previously made
fcr culture law.
Id on a trea rifling
preak or plow five
i, and pro-rata on
26 first year after
[id year he must
. cultivate to crop
res first broken.
le must plant in
figs, the first five
crop or otherwise
[id by the end of
tract often acres
to timber trees,
Isionis made for
[drought or grass-
Jese trees he must
if, at the expira-
Idate of entry, or
] years thereafter^
dead, his heirs,
ble witnesses the
Ii protecting the
1 eight years, and
[d of eight years,
trees on each, of
je planted, he, or
|patent. It should
ig final proof It
|less thantwenfy-
planted to each
lat me ten acres
lody.
|any of thereguar-
time after one
[renders such en-
upondue proof
\ will be cancelled.
this law will jn
[to the satisfaction
tntracted priortp
tificate tfieisdH-.
cannot take  a
Irion claim at the
] take either and a
le.   A man may
.tree claim, and
lining title to his
|nter a homestead*-?"
thus secure 480
I the laws relating
T public lands has
tgister andEeceiv-
jce, and pronotme-
\e.—Fargo JSepuiH-
1BS
Salin
NISSLY & EMMERT, Publishers
SALINE, WASHTENAW COUNTY, MICHIGAN, THURSDAY, AUGUST 31, 1882.
VOL. II. NO. 42.
BUSINESS DIRECTORY.
PSOEESSIOSTAX.
Q. "W. CSANDIISB, 3ST. D.,
Physician and Surgeon.
All calls promptly attended to.   Offlse at residence, first door north of M. E. Churoh.
X
r\ c. jsarKurs,
Surgical and Mechanical
DENTIST.
Office, 19 South Main Street, opposite First
National Bant,
-A-nn. .A-rtoox-,   -  itfioli.
TV   P-EcLACHLAU,
Physician and Surgeon,
Office and residence opposite M. B. Church,
"jJSrfan street, Saline, Mich.
-™ JONES & SOk,
Attorneys.
All Kinds of legal papers neatly and correctly
drawn.  Collsctioas mada and promptly remit*
-ted.  Office on Me Kay street, Saline, Mich.
E.J0XE3. 'EEAXEE. JONB3.
Attorney at Law,
And Justice of the Peaco. Office overXlohols
Bro's. store, Ghioago street, Saline, Michigan.
ry E. HUMPHREY,
Real Estate Agent.
Government lands located. 20,000 acres of
choice wheat lands for sale. Correspondence
solicited.  Ellsbury, Barnes Co., D. T.
anscELX.AS'Eoirs.
Mrs. W. F  LAR2ELERE,
The Old and Reliable
DRESSMAKER and CUTTER
Again offers her services to tha ladies of
._, this vicinity.
I^OBS 52,H}A.S03ST^l.BIjHS
and Satisfaction Guaranteed.     Shop at
residence on Henry street, west.
CEO. R. SHERMAN,
The old and reliable
Wagon and Carriage Maker.
Job yrark. and repairing: promptly done at reasonable rates.  Shop on Chieago St., west.
m f.y q fi w EBB.
JUSTICE  OF THE  PEACE,
And Insurance Agent.
COXVESr.-UfClNG A.TTBNBBD TO PROMPTLT.
Speeial Attention Given to Collections.
Office 2d door west of the postoffice.
E. A. REYNOLDS,
Notary Public, Real  Estate,
ISSXTR-lKC'cr -VXD COUVKG2XOS AG3SX!X.
O. Putnam & Co's. store,
Office over
Mich.   All business entrusted to me
receive prompt attention.
.Milan,
will
itched -Team.
fent at Saratoga
le I tore myself
I to look at the
las 'Lysander.'a
■ eyed me super-
ill my advances
This animal
jiwYork editor,
Ifey creature, with,
liable brow, and
je to -waste  on
Id apply.   Then
Irse, 'LysanderV
pity forget, but
permission I
Well, «AbdaI-
luch hy his flip-
jhishateux.   As
iithout the for-
p,he wanted to
ph me, to which
to his refieo-
i for Mrs. Tan-
Iso shown. One
fondness for
J a disposition to
|nd, was in. dis-
3ome nose iasfc-
Iwfaere he had to
Wo until he was
fly punished.   I
it another look
|Vind,' and she
as plainly and
Ihadthe gift of
HAUSErIT CLARK,
Proprietors of
THE NEW LIVERY STABLE,
 At the	
OEB AJaSP-ICAH HOTTSE BA3H.
THOMAS EGCLES,
The Pioneer
BOOT AND SHOE MAKER,
Is^ now located in the Burg building, on
Chieagfo St., where he will be glad to see all
his old eu3tomer3 and many new ones.
Repairing Neatly and Promptly Done.
W. HELLEfl & SON.
Horse Shoeing & Blaoksnilthing,
If your horse forges, interfere* or Is irregular
in his gait, giva us a call and we will regulate him so he will not anoy you.
Special Attention Given
Toborses havinsrwe^k: and diseased feet.
SHOP OS aNX AKBOK STREET. s
O.EORQB
Merchant Tailor
EHM
33.
and Cutter.
Iha^e a full lini.of axmoles ot goods carried
by a leading eastern i-ibbinz house, which X
will furnish air coat «n3r3 at
Ibuj-mr triinmin^i ot jvibbsrs and give my
customers the b^neiit. Don't ouy anything in
the clothing Uue until you haro examined my
samples aalg-jt my pvitrri. T win save tou,
monsy. All -ryrk warranted. Shop over Davenports & Bon's store.
TOPICS OF THE TIMES.
It is reported in England that a great-
grandson of Daniel Defoe is in indigent circumstancfis, and a penny subscription from readers of "Bobinson
Crusoe" is proposed for his reiief.
The children of Manchester, Eng-
and, are in deep grief over the death
at the early age of twenty-four years
of an elephant named Marajah, who, it
wa3 thought, was next in size to
Jumbo.
 *tZ T-
The belief that General Warren died
of a broken heart is strengthened by
constant repetition from many quarters. He is said to have exclaimed not
long death: "Bury me in before citizen's
clothes; I have had enough of the trap-
ings of war."
The deaf-mutes of St. Louis held a
picnic at Sharpshooter's Grove, Missouri. The policeman in attendance
said sympathizingly: 'This is the
quietest crowd I ever struck. If all
the picnics in this neighborhood were
as quiet and the attendants so well behaved the lives of policemen and the
public would not be endangered every
Sunday.''
The prosperity of England is* shown
by the decrease of pauperism. The
diminution in the amount of relief extended to paupers for the past three
months amounts to 3 per cent. The
London population has not shared in
this good fortune. During the first
week in June the paupers relieved in
•he world's metropolis amounted to
87,222, against 87,125 in the previous
year, an increase of ninety-seven.
Prince Bismarck has hit upon a most
effectual plan for keeping inquisitive
intruders away from Yarzin, He has
issued a peremptory mandate forbidding all the inhabitants of the village
and neighboring country lo entertain
<tny strangers whatever. So strictly
enforced is thi3 order that a newspaper
eorrespondeut recently was compelled
to tramp to a town several miles away
at midnight for the shelter that was
refused him by the Chancellor's tenantry at Yarzin.       _    	
The home of Cetewayo, in Kensinj-
ron, England, is constancy surrounded
with a curious crowd. It i3 a pretty
aouse in the Queen 4.nne style, with a
smalTgarden attached, in which tnere
s a small poplar. Beneath the tree
Cetewayo delights to sit ai.d gaze at
•;he admiring crowds. The house is
plainly and comfortably furnished.
Chere are no luxuries of any kind.
Cetewayo has dispensed with the bedstead which was provided for bits, and
tiis bed is laid upon the floor. To go
up and down stairs is a difficult task
for the Zulus. At first they were led
down very cautiously, and" now they
descend timidly, holding the bannister
by both hands as they stop, or rather
3lide gently down.
A remarkable Italian peasant custom has just brought to notice by a
trial at Naples. A year ago the daughter of Carolina Garguillo was marriel
to a sailor named Giuseppe Esporit *
It is the usage -among the lower classes
for the bridegroom to visit his motber-
in-law on the morning following the
marriage* Esposito was reminded of
thi3 custom but neglected to make the
visit. The mother in-law then became
angry and urged her son, Yincenzo
Garguillo, to kill Esposito. TLe son
<it once went to his sister's house and
waited for the husband, who on coming welcomed him and begged him to
stay and dine. Yincenzo thereupon
drawing a knife, threw himself on his
brother-in-law, stabbed him and laid
him dead at his feet Yincenzo has
been sentenced to imprisonment for
life and his mother to "seclusion" for
three years.
THE   NEWS   HARVEST.
Clen. Sherman will 1st to be Retired
as the Head of the U. S. Army.
And Phil Sheridan Will Step into
His Boots,
Conceited Hangers-on to tbe
British Kavy Insulttne
Americans on ilie
Coast of Japan.
attracts 2 000
|oasput distant
London has
tolu on society.
ms, where the
\nt.% champion-
^l! suited for
en a riope of
leveled in a
wnich  the
[iarte may be
iber of specimen the props country, it;
(atever to its
Iside.    There
|, or indeed a
gland which
jeiub. Messrs.
of London,
fynis Annual,
chiefly from
It  contains
ts accounts of
[part of the
Itecl not only
lit   wherever
it Arcachon,
pyprus, Mad-
jibly the-pexii
interesting:
ifcks, "What
ir energy?"
[buys it for
|s devoted to
Lobinson, oi
X. 3. BiCIIOW. "*- E- JSB^I"
BLITOM & ISBELL,
PKOPnrEXOBS or tue
Livery, Sals and Feed Stables,
STAGE AND DKAY LINES,
Office,   South Front Street,  West Broadway,
TO"VraK CITY, DAKOTA.
Biases to   Ellsbury, Hopa and Lybeolc leavo
e?ery Tuesday.    Land Hunter's Outfits always furnished at reasonable rates,
OCHAIBEE & SCHMIDT,
Proprietors of tho "Onion Block
MEAT   IABKET.
*   — All kinds of —
MEAT,POULTRY, FISH ETC
At Lowest LI vinffPrlces.  Ko.3,TTnlonBlook,
saline, Ailcbiiran.
FIEE, >IEE3  FIRE!
-oOo-
n
Protect yourselves against loS8 b fire> h?
insuring property with
W. H. DAVENPORT, Agent
Por the following first-class
companies;
HIAG-ABA, of New Tork,
CONTINENTAL, of N.T.,
Detroit FIRE & MARINE
- ASSmS, $6,000,000
Losses Paid Pronnptly.
RATES AS   LOW AS  ANY
First-class Company*
Dr. Salviati, who gave to this country the fine mosaic portrait of Lincoln
now in the Library of Congress, and
who is now completing a companion
portrait of Garfield, which he will also
give to America, wa3 formerly a leading lawyer   of Yicenza, in  Venetia.
Seeing tlie magnificent mosaics in St.
Mark's Church, Tenice, going to destruction because no   one understood
how to restore and preserve them, he
abandoned his profession and began
studying the lost art of the Byzantine,
heedless to say, he succeeded.   By his
skill the mosaics of  St.-Mark's were
restored,  and he has  executed many
other important works in "Westminister Abbey and St.Paur%s, London; in
the    Cathedral   of    Aix-la-Chapelle,
where 3,000 squarefeet of surface were
covered in two years and a half; and
at Bangkok, where the outside of  a
cupola of the King's   palace, 17.000
square feet in area, was covered with
some 2,500,000 bits of gold enamel. The
portrait of Garfield is. now almost finished in D^. Salviati's studio in Venice,
and is described as a marvellously perfect work. ______
The exclusive governments of the
Grient, like Siam and Corea, are yielding reluctantly, but perceptibly, to the
march of modern improvement. Like
China, the most stubborn opponent of
progress. Siam is about to introduce the
electric telegraph, a line being in contemplation between Bankok and the
Cambodean frontier. French capitalists,
of whom Lessep3 is said to be one, also
propose to build a cana1 across the
Isthmus of Kraw, shortening- the distance between Calcutta <ind Hong
Kong 900 miles, and it is believed the
Government will approve. Should
Prince Prisdang visit Europe and the
United States; as proposed, there will
be reason to hope that the last stronghold of Asiatic exclusiveness will be
constrained to yield to a more enlightened civilization.—Am. Ship.
MICHIGAN.
Wm. Johnson, a young man late of
EaBt Saginaw, was killed by the cars near Ves-
taburg, yesterday
Eev. Levi Tarr, pastor of the M. E.
church at Portland, is about to leave for Spo-
kan Falls, "Wyoming tenitory, to assume the
presidency of a college at that plsce.
Wm. ITennell, who mysteriously disappeared from Bay City a few weeks ago, has
turned up at Duluth. Still this does not account for the papers, etc., found in the woods
near Toledo.
Judge    Coleman,   of  Indianapolis,
while playing ten pins at Grand Haven laid
aside his coat and a lad named Thomas Mani-
gan stole his pocket book containing §1.600
worth of notes, etc. The youth has been sent
to a reform school.
A. B. Yan Buren, aged 55, sawyer in
Mather's mill at Petersburg, was killed by a
breakage ot the machinery recently. He
leaves a family.
Among nhe bequests of the late Jessie Hoyt is suitable grounds and $100,000 for
the erection and maintenance of a public library and reading room in East Saginaw, and
also to the city for a public park a grove containing some twenty acres on Washington
avenu«.
J. C. Clark, the cashier at the Detroit,
Lansing & Northern depot, Big Kaplds, came
near losing $50, the money having been removed from the safe by a young man who
afterwards replaced the amount, although he
denies that he intended to steal it.
Elizabeth Davis, of Cadillac, mother
of Prank Davis, aged 82 y9ars, was thrown
rrom tha track by express No. 5. She will recover.
Mrs. Garfield has built a new house
near Byron, Kent Co., for "Thomas Garfield,
brother of th9 late president. -
As John Laird was going to work in
Saginaw City not long since he was attacked
by Wm. Watson and John GarrigaD, wlto
struck and choked him, etc. Y/heh Laird got
away from Ihem he procured a revolver and
in started forth. The two came at biin
aio, when Laird struck Watson with the butt
f the revolver, whicn was discharged hy the
concussion, the ball enteriDg Watson's arm. It
was later found that Laird's blow h'lfcfractur-
ed Watson's skull, which was succcp^lly trepanned, and it is thought he wit recover.
Sympathy is with Laird, who is a peaceable
young man. He was not arrested, but has
himself sworn out an assault and battery w?.r-
rant against Watson aad Garri«an.
Street cars will probably be running
in Battle Creek before winter.
Unpaid notes given in aid of the
Peninsular car work's bonus in Adrian have
been placed in the nands of Messrs. Bean and
Underwood, and delinquents will be called upon in a few days.
Mrs. Wm. B. Hawkins, a pioneer of
'36, died atPdW Paw last week.
It is thought the west side cars,
Grand Rapids, wul run to tha Union depet ihe
early part of this week.
A Muskegon man named Hendrix has
been "borrowing" sums of money at Grand
Rapids, and skipping.
The convention of Michigan sheriffs
at Grand'Rapids last week wouna up wltn an
excursion to Petoskey.
No new arrivals at Jackson prison
in three wet-ks. Only 614 state boarders ther«
now the pinalieat number in 16 years.
G. A. Preston, who has been unable
to walk or do business since injured by p- fall
on a bad Charlotte sidewalk a year ago, has
sued that city in the United States court at
Grand Rapids for $5>,000 damages
Blinn & Weidman's mill at Deerfield,
Lenawee Co., destroyed by fire last week,
makes the third institution of the kind burned
on the same site. The opportune rainfall
saved adjoining property All the stock of
horpa, staves, headings, etc., burned. Insured;
loss not known.
Stephen Vandresser, night foreman
in. Emlaw's mill, Grand Haven, fell against a
running sun and mangled his right arm in such
a manner that it is feared it may be necessary
to amputate it.
Nelson Lamare packed 47,000 shingles iaten hours at Ontonagon recently.
Mrs. Mary Kivard, accused of killing
Johnnie Grant, Bay City, haB been honorably
discharged.
Beunion of Mexican veterans of
Michigan at Grand Rapids, September 28.
Isaac H. Parrish, Grand Rapids, will be the
•orator.
Look out for frauds who promise to
secure old soldiers 160 acres of laad without
their having to live or. it, for a fee of $10. No
change in homestead law.
The survey of the Wisconsin «fc Michigan railway is now said to ba completed to
the etate line, where it will connect with the
ODtonagon & Brule River railway.
Some Michigan farmers are signing
"orders" for carpets very cheap, and the next
day find their notes iu bank for payment.
Mrs. Decker's house burned at Grand
Rapids; loss $700. The fire also damaged E
Meinard's grocery $600.
Two Lansing sisters, Tjoth married,
have beon arrested for robbing a Grand Ledgf
man of «300.
Tecumseh is alive on the F. & M.
railroad. Notes given one year ago have to be
renewed, and f 5,000 have already been secured,
while the committee are still vigorously at
wcrk.
Pnineas Pearl, 90 years old, 50 years
a resident of Barrieu county, died recently.
Button Broe, are buying 500 sheep
in Qenesea county for their ranch in Kmsas.
Sew Greenville is to have a new depot
r ghtaway.
C. E. Bing, South Saginaw, has invented a strange device for holding logs whilo
beicg cut. ">
A Cincinnati boot and shoe factory
wants to locate at Flint.
Alpena mills will cut 175.000,000 feet
of Jnmbrtr thi^ Bf ason.
Dr. W. H. Palmer, of Jackson supervisor of the eighth ward and a prominent
grcenbacker, has been arrested for embezzlement iu converting to bis own use $5 JO of
f und3 received at the picnic held for the benefit
of the blind policeman, Officer Schwelmer, on
the 11th of July.  He is held to bail in S800.
The Buff alo Courier says: "Concerning the report, that the New York, Chicago &
St. Loais railroad contemplated a Michigan
branch, President Cummings says that contracts have already been let for a branch of
150 miles in length from Toledo to Allegan,
Mich., connecting at the latter point with the
Chicago & Western Michigan road, and g ving
access to Grand Hav«u and other Michigan
lake ports. When completed it will be operated in connection with the Ohio Central, affording an outlet northward for Ohio coal, and
southwest for Michigan lumber. The purpose
of the syndicate is to build next year from
Marshall, Mich., to junction with the Detroit,
Marquette & Mackinaw road in the iron ore
regions. Cummingssays monty for the fiist
15 miles has been already subscribed.
WASHINGTON.
A XEXXEB FBOSr ilEUT. HABBEK.
The Navy Department is in receipt
of a Ion:? communication from Lieut. Harber,
U. S N., dated Viska, Siberia, June 11, giving
in detail the story of his preparations to search
for the Lena Delta. The news that De Long
and party had been found dead had reached
him. The main points of "his narrative have
been published.
INTEBKATIONAL HAILS.
A general order has been issued from
the Postoffice Department directing a daily
exchange of international mails between St.
Paul and Breckenridge, Minn., and the Canadian postoffiees of Emerson and Winnipeg,
Manitoba. The exchange is to commence
Septemter 1, and to include all international
correspondence except book pockets from
Canada for the Doited States.
TO BE A EBEE DELIVEBY OEPICE.
The postoffice department has made
an order establishing the free delivery system
atEaot'Saginatv, Mich., after October 1st.
CLEANING UP.
Since the adjournment of Congress
the Senate chamber and ball of the House of
Representatives have been uncarpeted, preparatory to a general "cleaning up. "The only
new work going on about the building is tbe
Inclosing of part of the Bpace under the rotunda with a heavy brick wall This space is
to be div'ded into compartments in which vili
be stored the books belonging to the Congressional librrry, which have mildewed in the
box^s ia which th6y have been stored for want
of air.
GARFIELD'S WASHINGTON BESIDENCE  TO BE
SOLD.
Mrs. Garfield has expressed a willingness to part with her late WasLiogt m residence
and it is quite'likely tho house will be purchas
ed and used by the Ohio Republican Association.
BEHOVED TOB CHEATING.
Assistant Postmaster General Hatton
ha3 removed E. Oakley, postmaoter at West
Fulton, N. Y., and appointed N. 8. Fellows to
the vacancy. Oakley was removed for cheat-
iag.
BECAUSE THE FBESEDEHT SAID SO.
By order of the President, Acting
Postmaster-General Hatton has removed Mrs
Atma E. Thompson as Postmaster of Memphis
And appointed Jas H. Smith.
WANTS A BEST.
Gen, W. T. Sherman will request
congress to place him on the retired list when
it meets again. The general will make his
home at St. Louis.
NEWS NOTES.
DELAWARE DEMOCBATS.
The state convention has nominated
Chas. C. Stockley for goveraor
DISASTEB IN A MINE.
The Empire coal mines, at Hopkins-
ville, Ky., caved in tee other day, killing John
vlclotosh and John Dunning, and fatally
crushing a negro laborer.   -
A GBAND AFFAIB.
President Arthur, while in Newport
R I, held a reception, said to be the grandest
ever witnessed at thisTamous resort. Over
L.000 invitations were sent out. The guests in-
cluded^all the distinguished foreigners s.m
mering at Newport, together with the residents
aad American visitors. The President waB
supported on either hand by Gov. and Mrs.
Morgan.
THE ANTILIQUOB ELEMBNT.
About 350 delegates mot in Chicago
August 28d and formed the National Prohibition Convention.
THEIE PLATFOBM.
Aside from the plank demanding
prohibition of the liquor traffic, the National
Prohibition Convention at Chicago engrafted
in its pla'form a plank calling foi tho enfranchisement of women; also, ono against polygamy, and one demaading the abolition of
executive, judicial and legislative patronage;
selection of all officers by tho poople, so far as
practicable, and civil service reform in other
appointments.
HONOB TO LONGFELLOW.
Sir Frederick Leighton, President of
the Royal Academy at London, has written
to Wm. Cox Bennett, LL. D., consemiug to
add bis name to the list of those willing to
promote the project of placing a bust of the
poet Longfellow in Westminster Abbey if
tbere be a precedent for such a step in connection with a foreign poet. Mr. Bennett, in reply, BtatPs he ha3 no doubt about the admissibility of the bust and says: "Ihe Americana
are not foreigners to us, but one in blood,
language and institutions, and share in common the glory of our achievements." *
FLOODED.
Terrible rains have lately caused the
Concho rivers in Texas'to overflow thair banks
and flood the country. Hundreds of bouses
wero swept away, causing thousands of dol-
lai'b' worth of damage. The town of Ben
Ficklin is all washed away, except tho light-
bouses. The court housa and jail are a total
loss ami uninsured from loss by water. The
people of San Angeles tried to reader assistance, bet the raging water prevented. Id is
impossible to cross the North Concho. The
country presents a spectacle which beggars
description. Houses, horses, cattle and cloth-
iog are piled up in heaps at every step. The
oodies of Mrs. Metcalf and daughter are the
only ones found.
CHOLEBA.
The dreadful Asiatic cholera is doing terrible work in ihe Celestial empire. Four
thousand natives died in the single province
of Philippine within a short time. Tho disease is said to bo on tho decline.
THE CATTLE DISEASE IN NEW YOBK.
The Texan cattle plague continues to
spread at Auburn, New York. One of the cuttle
afflicted with the fever was slaughtered and
th« spleen tnken out. It was found to berot-
teD, weighing fivo pounds and three ounces,
the spleon of one of the healthy cattle kilted
weighed two pounds and one ounce. Giv
Cornell has been notified that stringent measures will be necessary to stamp out tho disease.
ArHIZ-PONOHING GASIE ABBANGED.
Articles of agreement have been
signed by James Elliot and Wm. E. Hnrdiue
for Tug Wilson to fiaht November 28, fcr
$2,500 a Bide, within 100 miles of New Orleans.
FIBE.
The four story building in Philadelphia occupied bv Quay's planing mill, offices
and box factory and McCarthy's marble works
was destroyed by fire. Loss f 10,008; partly
insured.
IN FATAL CLAWS.
Capt. James Anderson, of the steamer J. R. BeasoD. mat a horrible death at a
lumber camp on the Serpent river, Lake Su
perior. A heavy iron grip used in loading
timber became loosened and in flying past
Capt. Anderson, fastened itself on his head,
literally cleaving his heal from bis body."
* apt Anderson was well knowD ia every port
on the chain of lakes. The J. R. Benson was
ownedby S. Neelson,of Sc. CatharineF, Ont,
and has been engaged in the Canadian timber
trade.
A MANIAC'S   DEED.
An insane woman named Mrs. Chapman assaulted her sleeping husband, at
Worthington, Ind., with a razor and cut his
throat from ear to ear, severing tho windpipe.
She was committed to an asylum.
THE PBICE   OF NEGLIGENCE.
The excursion steamev Thomas Clyde
was seized by the United tales officials at
Philadelphia for carrying 1 passenger over
the number allowed by law. The penalty is a
fine of S-6,500.
DISCOUBTEOUS TO UNCLE SAM.
Ill feeling prevails among the American residents of Japan, started by the repeated
and apparently studied discourtesies to the
United states flag on the part of the British
naval officers. The American ship Swattera
eft Yokohama homeward bound July 27. She
was saluted according to custom by the war
ships of every nationality except the Eaglisb.
The British fleet at Yokohama were sent away
on July 2 last and remained at sea over the
4tb, avoiding the necessity for a salute. Similar incidents were of constant cccsrrence
during Grant's visit, and the determination of
the British army officers at Hong Kong to
withdraw salutes on Washington's birthday
has been the cause of difference between th*
officers and Governor John Hennessy, who
shows good sense on such occasions. Ic is
claimed on behalf of the British agentB that
their conduct is regulated by orders from
London.	
CRIME.
THBOWN FBOMTHE TBACK.
As the fast White Mountain train
was running through a dark holloa* on the
Boston, Concord & Montreal R >ad, near Woods-
ville, recently, aud was rounding a curve on a
twenty-foot embankment, the engineer,
George P*bo!6?, discovered an obstruction on
the track, reversed the engine and applied
the brakes, but the train struck the obstruction
—a chain, placed there by design—and plunged
down the bank. By a miracle nobody wrs
seriously, though several were S9verely_hurt,
and tho'earsfcaiid locomotive badly damaged.
Robbery was^h"a-«Ytdente|an'pose~ofl;he wreckers.
AN OFFICES KILLED.
In a desperate fight ;<t Fayettville,
Ark., between a deputy 8h?rifl's poBse and a
baud of horse thieves, Webb, one of the sher
^'s men was killed and three of the robbers
escapsd.
COULDN'T STAND DEFEAT.
A special from Shelby ville, Ky., says:
Aleck JuliaD, brother of Ira Julian, committed
suicide oa ths Pair grounds a couple of days
ago by shooting himself through the brain-
He was a candidate for Sheriff in the late
election and hi3 defeat is believed to be the
cause.
SPBAGUE'S FOOLISHNESS.
Ifc is evident that the ruined ex-Governor of Rhode Island is daft. Sonfe time ago,
t will be remembered, Trustee Chaffee sold the
Canonchat estate to Mrs. F. J). Moultou. Mr.
Chaffee repaired to the premises lhe other day,
in company with the purchaeer, to deliver possession of the property, but was met b7 a
heavily armed lot of men and repulsed. The
eatrancep, lawns and ro&f were heavily guarded, while an anomalous flag was flying on the
house. Mr. Chaffeo held an interview with
Spragues boy, who said entrance would be resisted by rifles, Gatling guns, etc.. and concluded to return to tha city and call upon the state
of Rhode Island to mibo'd the law's dignity.
A TBIPLE TBAGEDY.
A special from Alma, Ark., says: At
Mountiinsburg Tom Simcoe, David Pope and
Frank Lane got into a quarrel when playing
cards. Lane drew a knife and cut Popein \hv>
ahd men, disemboweling him, and then fatally
stabbed Simcceini ho breast Pope lived one
hour. Simcoe is still alive. This morning at
last accounts Lane was in the hands of a mob,
and is believed to have heen already lynched.
East Kiver Bridge.
FOREIGN EVENTS.
The Clatter of Arms and Booming of
Cannoik Still Heard oa the
Egyptian Desert.
Arabi
Gradually  Retiring as the
British Press Him.
Tlie  Outbreak   In.  Corea—Trisli
Const aMes  Desert Their
Posts to Hold   a
Meeting.
AST
Three thousand
si£§3
Marked progress has been made toward the c'ompletion of the East Elver
bridge. AU of the floor beams have
been placed, the foot bridge is removed,
the approaches have been brought almost to completion, and the elevated
superstructure has been commenced
and is now progressing, having reached a distance of ninety to one hundred
feet each way from each tower, and
the overfloor stays are correspondingly
advanced.
The bridge is designed to carry three
kinds of load: the outside roadways being for wagon traffic, the middle one
for a promenade, witn the railway
tracks on either side of it, and be6ween
it and the roadways.
The approach on the Brooklyn side
differs from the New Tork approach
in having iron street bridges at all of
the streets. The New York approach
has but one iron street bridge, and this
is located ab Franklin Square. All the
other streets are spanned by massive
arches of masonry.
The total weight of metal in this
bridge in round numbers is one thousand tons. Of this 1,658,279 pounds
are wrought iron, 82,092 pounds steel,
27,440 pounds steel pins, 146,891 pounds
cast iron. The width of the bridge
over all, 88 feet.
Each cable contains   5,296  parallel
(not twisted) galvanized steel, oil coat-,
ed wires, closely wrapped to  a solid
cylinder, 15| inches in diameter.
Total height of towers above high
water, 278 feet.
Clear height of bridge in center of
river span above high water, 135 feet.
The depots at the ends of the bridge
are to be elaborate structures of glass
and iron. The one on the New York
side is to be 260 feet long and 59 feet
wide, with a platform on the bridge
end 70 feet long.
Tiie cars will pass through the depot, and are shifted from one track to
the other on switches between the depot and end of the approach.—Sci. Am.
The Haytian Princess Soulouque,
who is trave i nr in this country under
her late hu band's name, Lubin, will
go from New Y»rkiaa dav or two to
Philadelphia, thsneo to Washington
and Chicago, and back to Hayti again
early next mojth. «»
FOREIGN AFFAIRS.
TBIUMPH OF THE MODEBATE PABTX,
General confidence is expressed in
diplomatic circles and by the press that the
moderate party has triumphed and that a military convention will be concluded. Lord Duf
ferin's essential demands are already conceded
and the question of form only awaits decision.
VICIOUS WOMEN.
Over 100 women are on.trial at Grross-
BetBkerek, Hungary, charged With poisoning
cheir husbands. The guilt of thirty-five of the
women has been proven.
OUB EX VICE PBESIDEST.
Hannibal Hamlin is at Gibraltar and
will visit Tangier.
AID FOB ABABI.
Some of the principal Arab merchants of Port Said and Damietta have con
sribnted money towards the eauBa of the rebels.
Five hundred horses havo been sent, to them
from Damietta. Wild stories are still circa
lated among the natives of Arabi Pasha's
great successes.
A POINT SETTLED.
Lord Dufferin informed Said Pasha
and Assym Pasha at Constantinople that his
government, yielding to the objections of the
Saltan, were prepared to waive the demand
that any movement of Turkish troops mast
be first approved by the British. Lord Doff erin
therefore proposed that the English andTurk-
•6b. commanders should first deliberate to
getber, and if the English General should not
approve the proposed operations, the Turkish
commander would still be at liberty to earry
them out. Said Pasha then urged that the
landing of Turkish troops ia Alexandria was
indispensable for the future combined action
of tho two armies. He suggested that the
Turks would make Alexandria", which the
Eoglish would evacuate, their base of opera-
cionp,while the British base should be Ismailia.
As far as regards military affairs this is tbe.
only point of difference betwpen Lord Dufferin and tho Por.e. J_^—'	
  NO HELP FOB GBA¥.
The lord lieutenant of Ireland hasTSe-
cifled not to~ftfterfttre with Gray's san-
tenci. , "~~*
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strucK.at GIhsJ^-^S
the kicee'd and wounded, i ,
a dispatch from Alexandriaf
Augus&27: The losses on both sides in Thursday's fight ara said to have been heavy. The
Egyptians' ioss in killed and wounded reaches
475. Daring th« battle Gea. Wolseley waB con.
apicuous by his activity, frequently being seen
in tho most exposed positions along the lineB,
A shell fired by the Egyptians passed over his
head, falling within a rod of the spot where he
was riding, and killicg a horse near his own.
THE NEW CABINET.
The new Egyptian ministry has been
formed, with Ohenf PaBha as president of tht*
couacil and minister of foreign affairs; Haider
Pasha, minister of finance; Omar, Lufki, minister of war; Monbarak Pasha, minister of
juBtiefi,and£liairyPa8ha m'mieter of public
instructions.
ANOTHEE POINT GAINED.
The British have taken possession of
K iRiaeino lock. Arabi withdrew his forces without attempting to resist the advance of the
British troops, and is evidonly anxiouBto draw
them on to Xei ol Ksbir, only 10 miles distant,
where he promises to make a determined
stand. Oa receiving possession of K-i6Hasine
Lock the British found to their amazement
that the waters had been filled, with dead
horses and the corpses of Arabs, and ha d been
in every possible madner polluted and rendered undrinkabie. This discovery led to a feeling of intense alarm operations of Gen.
Wolseiey's troops from Ismailia beiGg dependent upon the waters of the canal, the
march along this Hn9 having been chosen on
account of the abundant supply of water it
offered. Mahmoud Fehiny, Arabi's chief of
staff, is among the prisoners taken at Mah-
sameh. The former's son was also captured.                    "
THE WHOLE FOBCE TO BESIGN.
Telegrams inquiring what day will
be fixed for the resignation of the constabu
lary ia a. body are passing between different
stations in different parts of Ireland. A large
number of men have made inq.uiries at various emigration offices. The opinion is preva-
ent tbat hundreds of men of ten years' service and under will shortly resign.
THE COBEAN BEBELLION.
Yokohama advices confirm the re-
cently reported outbreak at Seoul, the capital
of Gorea, where the royal residence was attacked and the inhabitants had to escape. The
queen was murdered, but the king's life was
saved by his alacrity in leaving the place. The
proceedings are said to have been directed by
Fai-in Kan, a relative of tho king's, who has
always been a violent opponent of foreign
intercourse. Seoul is in a state of anarchy:
•Japan has stationed troops and ships in tbe
vicinity of the capital, and restoration must
08 complete or war wilt ensue.
WHEN HE WILt EIGHT.
Dispatches say lib is evident the
Egyptian army will make a strong fight at
Kafr-el-Dwar, where, in case of defeat, the
rebels would have a chance to escape into
Tripoli.
THE DISSATISFIED CONSTABLES.
A meeting was held in Limerick and
many of the constabulary deserted their posts
to attend it. The disaffection has extended to
the metropolitan police, 400 of which held a
meeting in Dublin and complained that they
were not compensated for extra time. While
the meeting was proceeding the chief commissioner appeared and ordered the chairman to
quit the chair. The chairman refused. The
commissioner threatened to make an example
of the chairman. The meeting dispersed
shortly after. At a subsequent meeting the
m?n pledged to compensate the chairman for
any loss he might custom. Later advices eay
tbe authorities will inquiro into the case of the
metropolitan force, and the agitation will
probably cease.
In one form or other, Mr. Samuel L.
Clemens has told the story of his life in
his books, and in sketching his career I
shall recur to the leading facts rather
than to offer fresh information. He
was remotely of1 Yirgm1-an origin, and
more remotely of good -English stock.
The name was well known before his
time in the South, where a senator, a
congressman and other dignitaries had
worn it; but his branch of the family
fled from the destitution of those vast
landed possessions in Tennessee, celebrated in "The Gilded Age," and went
very poor to Missouri. Mr. Clemens
was born on the 30fch of November,
1885, at Florida, in the latter state, but
his father removed shortly afterwards
to Hannibal, a small town on the Mississippi, where most of the humorist's
boyhood was spent. Hannibal as a
name washopelessly confused and ineffective ; but if we can know nothing of
Mr. Clemens from Hannibal, we can
know much of Hannibal from Mr.
Clemens, who, in fact, has studied a
loafing, out-at-elbows, down-at-the-
heels, slave-holding, Mississippi river
town of thirty years ago, "with such
strong reality in his boy's romance of
"Tom Sawyer," that we need inquire
nothing further concerning the type.
The original perhaps no longer exists
anywhere; certainly not in Hannibal,
which has grown into a flourishing
little city since Mr. Ciemens sketched
it. In his time, the two embattled
forces of civilization and barbarism
were encamped at Hannibal, as they
are at all times and everywhere ; the
morality of the place was the morality
of a slave-holding community: fierce,
arrogant, one-sided — this virtue for
white, and that for black folks; and the
religion was Calvanism in various
phases, with its predestinate aristocracy
of saints and its rabble of hopeless sinners. Doubtless, young Clemens escaped neither of the opposing influences
wholly. His pe©ple like tbe rest were
slaveholders; but his father, like so
many other slave-holders, abhorred*
slavery—silently, as he must in such a
time ana place. If the boy's sense of
justice suffered anything of that perversion which so curiously and pitiably
mained the reason of the whole South,
it does not appear In his books, where
there is not an ungenerous line, but always, on the contrary, a burning resentment of all manner of cruelty and
wrong.
The father, an austere arid singularly
upright man, died bankrupt when Clemens was 12 years old, and the boy had
-thereafter to make what scramble he
could for an education. He got very
.little learning in school, and like so
many other Americans in .whom the
literary impulse is native, he turned to
the lotal printing office for some of the
advantages frimwhieh he was otherwise
cut off. Certain records of the three
years spent in the Hannibal "Couritr"
office are t© be found in Mark Twain's
book of Sketches ; but I believe there
is yet no history anywhere of the wan-
deijahre, in which he followed the life
of a jour-printer, from town to town,
and from city, penetrating even so far
into the vague and fabled East as Phil-
ad elphia and N ew York.
He returned to his own country—
his patria—sated, if not satisfied, with
travel, and at seventeen he resolved to
learn the river" from St. Louis to New
Orleans as a steam-boat pilot. Of this
period of his life he has given a full
account.of the delightful series of
papers, "Piloting on the Mississippi,"
which he printed seven years ago in the
"Atlantic Monthly." The growth of
the railroads and the outbreak of the
Civil War put an end to profitable
piloting, and at twenty-four he was
again open to a vocation. He listened
for a moment to the loudly calling
drum of that time, and he was actually in camp for three weeks on the rebel
side; but the unorganized force to which
he belonged was disbanded, and he
finally did not "go with his section"
either in sentiment or in fact. His
brother having been appointed Lieutenant-Governor of Nevada Territory,
Mr. Clemens went out with him as his
private secretary; but he soon resigned
nis office and-withdrew to the mines.
He failed as a miner, in the ordinary
sense; but the life of the mining-camp
yielded him the wealth that the pockets
of the mountain denied; he had the
Midas-toucb, without knowing it, and
all these giotesque experiences have
since turned into gold under his hand.
After his failure as a miner naa oecome
evident even to himself, he was glad
to take the place of a local editor on
the Yirginia City "Enterprise," a newspaper for which he had amused himself in writing from time to time. He
had written for the newspapers before
this; few Americans escape that fate;
and as an apprentice in the Hannibal
"Courier" office his humor had embroiled some of the leading citizens, and
impaired the fortunes of that journal
by the alienation of several delinquent
subscribers.
But it was in the "Enterprise" that
he first used his pseudonym of "Mark
Twain," which he borrowed from the
vernacular of the river, where the man
heaving the lead calls out "Mark
twain!" instead of "Mark two!" In
1864, he accepted, on the San Praneisco
"Morning Call," the same sort of place
which he.had held on the "Enterprise,"
aDd he soon made his nom de guerre
familiar "on that coast"; he not only
wrote "local items" in the "Call," hut
he printed humorous sketches in various periodicals, and, two years later,
he was sent to the Sandwich Islands as
correspondent of a Sacramento paper..
*       *       *       *    ' *       *
In 1867, Mr. Clemens made in the
Quaker City the excursion to Europe
and the East whi<jh he has commemorated in "The Innocents Abroad." Shortly after his return he married, and
placed himself at Buffalo, where he
bought an interest in one of the city
newspapers; later he came to Hartford,
where he has since remained, except for
the two years spent in a second visit to
Europe.
AmerIean*!ovels' and* Novelists.
Mr. Howells
founded a new
Mark Twain's Iilfe.
Mr. Howells contributes to the September Century a notably clever and
sympathetic sketch of Mark Twain^
which contains the following authentic
account of his family and his adventures:
"Women obtain-from the United ^tate.
government an average of about sixtj
patents yearly; seventy is the number ioi
the year ending July, 1880. As might be
expected, most ©f them relate to lightening women's work Among them are a jar
lifter, a bag holder, a pillow-sham holder;
a dress protector, two dust-pans, a washing
machine, a fluting iron, a dress cart, a fisli-
honer, a sieve adjuster, a lap table, a sewing machine treadle, a wash basin, an iron
heater, andirons, a garment stiffener, a
folding chair, a wardrobe bed, a window
cleaner, a napkin, a clothespin, a weather
strip, a'churn, an invalid's bed, a dipper, |
a paper dish and a plaiting device.
and Mr. James have
school of novel-wjrit-
ing, one distinctly of 2STew England
and of a very refined and modfern
type, s,nd a cluster .of minor writers
like Lathrop and Miss Howard kre
gathering round them, who have much
of their grace and cleverness. Outside
of the group our novel-writing is somewhat crude and inartistic, with the .(exception of Mrs. Burnet's works, which
have the delicacy of the-Tfew England
writers with more imperfections, but
also more freshness and enthusiasm
and passionate vehemence.. One naturally looks to this new school wjith
more interest, because abroad the pijos-
spect is so unpromising. Tourguehef
has no successors in Bussia. German
novel-writing is at a very low ebb.
Prance, with its innate dramatic force,
is much better off, but its work seejrns
to tend irrepressibly to sensualism; of
the Zola school, when it is not cloying- -
ly goody. In England, where the art
has reached its greatest development,
,and, indeed, over-topped all the other
arts, it seems to be dying out, and hot
from any change. in public taste, hut
simply from the lack of men of genfus.
Thus our own movement is more important, and it is pleasant to see hbw
much there is that is good in ifc.     I
Its style is sweet and animated, with
the smoothness and simplicity of modern English and a touch of erispnjess'
and light sentiment more akin to j;he
French.   Ifc has the purity of conception of English art and the subtle analysis of thePrench.   But unfortunately it has neither the fiery in ensityj of
the latter nor the strong simplicity! of
the former, and it is apt to take a dilettante tone.   In its realism ifc suggests
Jane Austen, bat it is less prosaic and
less humorous,  with more  self-elon-
sciousness and more analysis of  half-
recognized feelings.   Its tone has pot
the hearty ring of the English.   Our
American authors prefer  life atterjin-
marriage to the illusions of youth, and
they often write a blase air, and 'let
their stories end badly  because they
think the world such a tiresome and
imperfect place that they can't conscientiously  flatter ifc hy giving it  eyen
temporarily   the ideal   completeness
which belongs to an artistic conception.
It is like private theatricals, with jthe
light humorous characters neatly caricatured, and the refined parts of fthe
ladies and gentlemen given with nice
appreciation,  bufc with no ability} to
render the powerful passions thatmkke
a play great.   Our authors have njone
of those  warni likes and dislikes jfor
the creations of their brain which (the
great foreign artists have.   They stand
aside and describe  them with a   cold
critical severity that never.misses a
telling stroke, and never arouses] an
enthusiasm.   Tlie   characters   themselves are in the same  super-civilized
mood, swayed by slight half-felt emotions, with no strong soul-possessing
passions.   We feel that we cannot sympathize veiy keenly with people who
are so chillingly revealed to us? anjd it
daunts us to find that we care more! for
them than the author, who ought to
know them best.   Tb ey are our frieiids,
and it is always painful to have jthe
half-ignored faults of  those we jare
attached to set before us, so clearly
and unforgetably.   The showy necktie , of Henry   James's hero in  "[The
American" the   countryned  doorstep
experience    of   "The    Lady of   [the
Aroostook."     are     blots  on    their
chaifaeters that stick in our memjory.
Mr. Howell's touch, if less striking, is
lighter than that of Mr. J ames.   He is
of ten satirical, hut never supercilio'a.s.
His delicious humor hides with kkud-
ly drollery the severity of the analysis,
but it is there still.   And when, as in
the "Undiscovered Country," his beo»
pie begin to bore him, they bore us jstill
more, and  in  "Dr. Breen's Practice"
they  even  bore  each other.   It lis a
great pity that enthusiasm should be
so often refined away m the write|s*of
this  group, for  art  cannot reach its
[lightest point without enthusiasm for
,-sn ideal.   In his descriptions of scfenes
and scenery Mr. Howells display^ an
Extraordinary power quitennappxo'aeh-
ed hy any other living America.  JThe
two men, Arbuton and Ellison, arejnew
to fiction, representatives of the East
and  "West, and both drawn witli admirable skill.   But Mr. Howells' airtis- "
tic inclination has always heen to the
other  sex. and in some of his novels.
"The Lady of the Aroosfcock" and "Private Theatricals/' for example, ths
young men are drawn with a feminine
over-refinement and over-sensitiveness
that reaches weakness' ana almost ef* ■
feminacy.   There is a laek of simple
motive and straight forward pasjsion,
and instead we. have a hundred delicate
half   emotions,   very    harmoEaously
blended", but with no effectiveness.
The men scarcely know whether they
are in love or not, and they never hate.
This tendency to  over-refinement Is
his greatest weakness.
Mr. Howells' stories are more artistically conceived, as a whole, than -tjhose
of the other jgfritei's of his school. They
have a beginning and end. But the
quality which most strongly markk his
genius, next to his imagination, is his
delicious humor of the finest ilavar, a
quality in which the other writers are
comparativelv deficient.
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Americans and Arabs-
Whenearavans meet upon the scorching sands the sheikhs and draglomen,
after having passed the usual coGrte-
sies, begin to inquire as to the nativity
of the travelers. This dialogue is! conducted something like this: "Is -yours
a Erench party?" "No." "Bullish,
then?" "S"o." "Ah, - Americans?"
"Yes." "Ah, you don't say; Americans?" and-tbe swarthy face oi; the
sturdy Arab is immediately wreathed
in smiles, for his heart, for some un-
f athonable reason, away in the boundless stretches of burning sand, he nourishes a tender feeling for the sons and
daughters of Columbia. Mr. Wilson
found an old sheikh at the Pyranids,
who, out of pure, spontaneous "admfra-
tioh for him personally and natu rally,
and without the slightest hope of reward, followed him to Cairo and continued iu his company for two -weeks.
When they parted American and Arab
hugged each other with a warmtl only
found in the Orient and born of friendship under trying circumstances.-—
Phil. Record.
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There is something appalling hji the
statement that twelve and a half million false teeth are made every year in
Philadelphia, and that gigantic total Is
still more impressive when considered
in connection with the fact that the
same city produces annually five tons of
powder designed topreventthe necessity of false teeth.
One day is|worth three to him who
I does everything in order.
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