Chicago Daily Tribune Newspaper, September 4, 1873, Page 8

FAIRS. Opening Ceremonies at the Cincin- nati Exposition, County Faizs in Progress---An- nouncements, CINCINNATI INDUSTRIAL EXPOSITION, OrNoinnat, 0., Bopt. 8,—Tho fourth Cinoin- }mll Industrial Exposition was oponed to-night in tho presenco of o Iarge audionco. Tho doors ‘wero opened at 7. Ten minutes beforo 8 a pro- cesslon, consisting of ox-Soorctary Cox, who was to deliver the addross, Mayor Johnaton, the Prosidonts of tho Ohamber of Gommorco and Board of Trado, Presidont Blymyer, of tho Expo- sition, and the Commissioners of tho Exposition, accompanied by the membors of the pross, and honded by Currler's DBand, formed and paraded through the various dopart~ ments, AL Iino Art Mall thoy were ro- coived by George Bharples, © Chairmon of tho Iino Art Committos, who formally wolcomod thom to this dopartmuont, wlluding Vriefly and u]\()mprmwly to tho distinguished foatures of Chis part of tho exhibition. The procossion susud hurxiedly along ono or two aislos of each lepartmont, and at Inst took their place on the stand, which had boon crected at tho west end of tho main hall, Horo the formal exorciscs of tho oponing ocourred. 'Tho orchentrn took 1ts posk- tlon in tho Pugodn erected in tha contre of Do~ mortio Hall and performod tho ‘‘Exhibition h‘hrch," proparod by Prof. Andres for the ocon- sion, Prostdont Blymyer nsked for silonco hofors tho speaking comnmenced, but with little efficct, for tho sounds of hammors, and tho noiso of workmen from various parts of the honso could bohonrd at all times, prevonting the large num- bor of porsons who collgoted about the stand from satisfactorily henring, Tho galleriea were in thoe vicinity crowdedto ovorflowing with Indies ond gontlemon, and the halls in the vicinil woro donsoly packed. Tho Ifon. Samuocl F. Covington, Presidont of the Obamber of Com- wmoreo, in a fow woll-choson words portaining to tho chnractor of the distinguishod_gontloman ho wns ohout to prosent, introduced ex-Heorotary Jacob D. Cox. Gov. Cox commoncod by rocalling the history of tho Exposition in its growth from o mere local to a national onterprise, drawing exhibitors not only from all parts of tho United States, but to n considerablo extont from Europe. He thon procoeded to sponk of the ndvantagas to be deriv- od from visiting it, and suggested the mothods of making tho most of such visits, He clnasified ‘visitors into grave men who meant to gain seri- ous improvement, porsone who wished to im- provo. thoir gohoral enlturo, and_porsons who oomo for amusoment or curiosity. Al thoso classes] woro lactuated by laudable motives, but to obtain tho grentest profit from them the soveral dopart- monts must ba pationtly and eoriously studied. The grandest cxhibition hore was of the two gront socinl forces #o mutually inter-dependent that it was an obeoluto impossibility for one to oxist apart from tho othor. “ We should impress oursolves with tho dobt which civilization owos | to theso two great forces, and ondoavor so roal- izo moro etrongly tho dignity and power of skilled Inbor. 7 Tho address occupied about ten minutes in delivery, Aftor tho applause which followad Gov. Cox’s widdross had wubsidod, W. H. Blymyer, Prosie dent of the Exposition, made the formal opon- Ing announcomont, Ho said: “In bohalf of the Commission I now announco the opening of tho to_wth Cincinonti Exposition. Whilo rmunming it, filled with the rich products of industry, arts, and science, it is fit thus to say thanke to the oxhibitors for their valuable con- tributions, and to bespeak for them appropriate and %mamuu recognition, In tho progress of this Lxposition it will bo the aim of tho maonngement, through intolligent and impnrtial judgmient, to maintain tho high character of ita awards. It will oxtond to both exbibitors and visitors considerato and liboral attention, s it doces now o most cordial welcome. The exercitos having finlshed, the crowds which had gathored about the stand disporsed to all I)nm of the holls, which are mainly in good shape to invito visitors in goneral, No former oxhibition has been so nearly com- ploto at the hour of opening. Horticultural and Fino Art 1ulls nro fluished. Nearly all the ma- chinery in Powor Hall is in placo, and considera- blo running to-night. Tho Domostic or Mnin Hall and galleries nro yeb incomplete, though much has beou done there to-day. In uearly all of the remnining balls there is sumo work to bo done by exhibitors, SOUTH HAVEN FEACH AND GRAPE FESTIVAL. Souru MAVEN, Mich., Sept, 8.—Tho Poach aod Grapo Festival at South Haven promisos to oxceed in_magnitude Lho eoxpectations of its frionds. Notwithstanding the sovore rain, col- Tections of fruit are arriving from all sections of tho lake-shoro, from Bhelby, Ocoana County, to Bonton Harbor, Borrien County. Leading pomologlsts are presont from Indiana and Ili- nois, Among the large oxhibitors are N. P, Tusted, of Lowell, Georgo W. Toles, of Bonton Harbor; C. Engle, of Paw Paw ; 8. 0. Knapp, of Jackson, and P, 0, Davis, of Kalamazoo, —who exhibit vory choice’ variotios, 'The oxhibition of grapes, pears, poachos and apples is fine, Tho fair will be continued through Thursday and Fridoy. Half faro from Kalamazoo over the South Iaven & Knlamazoo Railrond, and tho Chicago & Michigan Lako Shore Itailroad. The exhibition of fruit, which will bo one of the finost ever mado in tho State at o local fair, will bo in ordor on Thureday and Friday. LEE COUNTY, ILL. Special Dispatch to The Chicago Tribune, Drxox, Iit., Sopt. 8.—About 4,000 people nt- tonded tho falr Lero to-dny. Tho weathor was fine, track in good condition, and all tho races vory closo and interesting. Tho paciug raco was won by Hoosior Tom, Best time, 2:37. In tho running race, milo Lieats, best two in threo, tho [favorito, Bewaneo, was badly beaten by Jonka sovon acconde. Pools sold as high ag 10 to 1, Nowanco boing firat choico ngainst tho field, Tho emart ones wore badly beaton. The trot between horaes that had never boaten 2:50 was won In throo straight heats by Shawhan, Bent timo, 2:37; Ruseoll socond. In the freo- for-nll trot to como off to-morrow, Red Oloud is tho favorito at lnrfin odds ngainst the field. In the runuing 1ace, half-mile heats, free for all, thoro are nive cutries, An exciting contest is oxpocted. SILLINOIS STATE FAIR. Special Dispatch to The Chicago Tribune, Peonia, I1l, Bept. 8.—A committee from the Btato Board of Agriculture are hore to-day in- specting the workof the Peoria Btato Fair Asso- ciation, and passing on the improvemonts snd arrangemonts Lhat have been made for the fair, Without excoption the Bonrd are moro than sat- isflod with what bns been done, and think the ohances aro favorable for s bottor fair than hag evor boon held in tha Stato, EDGAR COUNTY, ILL. Spectal Dispateh to The Chicago Tribune, Panis, I, Bopt. 3,—The Edgar County Fair opened this moruing under the most favorable auspices, Thero have been 1,173 entries, greatly oxceeding that of former fairs, The show of stock in very large, and all of fine blood. It is intimatod that from 7,000 to 10,000 will bo in at- tondouco to-morrow, and tho fair & brilliant success, TAZEWELL COUNTY, ILL. Pegry, INL, Sopt. 8,—T'ho fourth ennual fair of the Pokin AgriculturalBooiety, which meots hora on the Dth inkt., will bo one of the best in the Btate, The grounds are in splendid order, while tho track caunot bo excolled. Promiums are livoral, nnd everything bids fair to renlize the highost oxpeotations of the farmers, artisans, and mechauics of our county, who have labor £0 faithfully for the auccess of tho exposition. ELGIN AGRICULTURAL FAIR. Erary, Bopt. 8,—The Elgin Agriculturnl Fair opons to-day, and will continuo until SBaturday, It promiees to be succoustul, POLK COUNTY |OWA, Des Momgs, Sept. 2.—The Polk County Fair 18 in progross, and the exhibition of short-horng and swine cannot be excolled in tho State, ot bt The Ln Oygne Tragodys. 87, Louws, Bopt. 8.—Information fron La Cygn, Kan, Istothe effoct that the circum- slsnces indicate that Kollor, who wus rocontly Iynched in that vicinity, for murderin:- his wife, and Mrs, Boyd and her childron, and t..ou burn- ing them and his houso, had assistance in tho horrible affair, Dotoctives aro now working up the case, Accidontal Shooting. Specfal Dispatch to The Chicaan Tribune. Des domnes, In,, Sopt. 8,—A spocial to the Blate Register states that yesterdny nftornoon, while hunting_in Greene Countly, Conrad Oba- dim, son of tho Hon, Edward Obadam, of Mid- dlotos Jal, Carmazihion, Walce, way aceidontully CHICAGO DAILY TRIBUNE: THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 4, 187 shot Ih tho right side, inflicting a wound that causod donth at: § 'ololok Bl morhing. oconaod was 25 yenrs of ngo, of fino oducation, ond lonvos a wifo and two ohifldron st Garmar- then, Tio has a brothor at Iertvillo, Nova Beolin, to whom, a8 woll aa to Lis fathor, cablo moagages have boon sont, The acoldont was cnusod by tho dropping of tho gun of. tho pornon with him through 8 holo in the bollom of the buggy, the bammer striking and causing tho #ad ocourronco. Tho body has boon embalmaed aud aswaita tho ordor of his rolatives. PHILADELPHIA. Tho Dend=Body TrafficesThe Coming ContonninlesAn Apponl fox Afds Spectal Lispateh to Tha Chicago Tribune, Prrmapzrrma, Sopt, 8,—Deputy-Coronor Sces appenred bofore Judge Poire, at Quarter-Session Court this fbronoon on a writ of habons corpus, toanswor for the late trafllo in dond bodios, As District-Attornoy Mann did not appear in court at tho sppointed time, an officor was dispatched for him. Aftor somo discussion, tho cage was continuod for furthor hoaring. Tho Public Building Commissionors have at 1nst docidod that tho suporstructure of tho pub- lio building on Broad aud Markot stroots shallbe built of whito, and the interlor and court-yard of bluo, marble, Estimatod cost, ©8,150,000. Mayor Bwk& has pushed mattors very quiclly. Tho probability. is that they will not bo com- ploted in time for tho Ex}}oult(cn. Troasuror Kroderick Fraloy complaina that Chicago thus far oxhibite no interest in the suc- coss of tho coming Contennial, and & prominont Qommissioner nssures mo that not a sin- gle dollar hns yot come from that quarter. A Wostorn Bub-committeo haa lately boon appointed ; Goy. Washburn, of Wisconsin, Bonjamin F. Allon, of Towa ; and Messrs. Biddle, Filler, and Sollers, Pennsylvanin, Tho Buroan confoss to a laudablo desiro to soo Chicago sa- sume hor propor place in the groat National un- dertaking, and wondor why she does not como to tho front. Ponnsylvaniasubscriptions and oth- erwiso will have miado up, threo months henco, upywards of 86,000,000, indepondent of tho Btata oppropriation. It fuin contomplation to reduce tho fare and freights by ono-half, and Iusue ad- misesion tickets on all railroadsin tho United Btatos during the Exhibition. A lottor arrived to-day from Mr, Cook, of tho Europoan oxoursion celobrity, aunouncing his intontion of organizing a large excursion to run to tho Jontinent, and asking terms. Lotters aro daily arriving from European capitalints and oth:ra. losiring information and promising sup- port, NEW YORK. Rodmnn and Spragne, the Brooklyn Defaulters, Obtain Balle-Building Contrnctors Xicld for Trink on a Ohnrge of Oriminnl Carclessnesses Large Dinmond Neiznure. New Yon, Bopt. 8.—Mlr. Mason, yostorday, ot the inquest relative to the death of the ocight porsons by the fall of a building in West Elovonth stroot, said that if would not have cost moro than five dollars to braco the walls and pro- vont the disastor. The Coroner's Jury ronderod the following verdicts We find that John Foster and others eamo to their doaths from injurios recoived by tho falling of the walls of building No. 821 West Eloventh stroct, on tho 2d day of August 1873, caused by gross nogligence of the contractors, Jobn W, Crawford, Josso Nowman and Michaol P. Fortiner, in not proporly bracing the westerly wall when removing timbers from gald buildinj during jte construction. Wo would racumm!mfi that tho Building Inspoctors of the dopartment of buildings should bo incrensed so that ono conld bo nseignod to each ward in tho city. The bail of Crawfordand Newman was fixed at 85,000, and of Pfortuer at 82,000, which was furnished, snd thoy wero liborated. Gen, ‘Gronados, former Prosident of Guato- mals, is on his ws{ to Washington, charged with an important mission, It is reported that tho counterfeit New York City and County honds hiave been discovered, It is now statod thot counterfoit New York Contral and Buffalo, Now York & Erio bonds bave been in cireulation since July 1. Sir John Grant, Govornor of Jamaica, arrived hero to-day, A com{;}ulo roorganization of tho Custom-Sor- wvice of this city is contemplated at an early day. The bondsmen of City Trensurer Spraguo, uf Brookiyn, snd of Rodman, gave their notes to- doy, payablo Jan. 1, for a sufficiont amount to seeuro tho city from loss, To-night eight large diamonds, said to be worth $10,000, woro seized from Mesars. Maurico & Joseph, passengers from England by the stoamor Adriatic, on the ground of smuggling them into tho country and offoring them for salo to a joweler. Thoy also tondered them to a Custom Houso oflicer, not knowing his position. They state that thoy intended them for their own wear, DETROIT. Obituarye=-Mecting of the Internas tional Cigar-Makers’ Union. Special Dispatch to Ths Chicago Tribune, Dernorr, Sapt. 8,—Louis Black, s woll-known Gorman morchant of thia cily, died to-day in Berlin, whoro ho was on n short Europeau trip. ‘This was tho third dayof the scssion of tho Intornational Cigar-Makers' Union, and the morning session wns devoted to n discussion of tho question of ostablishing district and Btato unions, In addition to the local ones, and it waa finally lost by a tio voto. The QConvention olso * struck ° from its Constitution the clause which forbids union men from working in non-union offices. No afternoon sossion wan hold, but this evening & public moeting was held, and was addressed by Richard Trovelick and Mr., Junio, of Byracuse. —_——g Territorial Xtems. BavLT LAEE, Sopt. 8.—In_Peache, Nevada, this mumin%, Policoman McKeo killed a rough named Garry in selt-dofenso. Tho storm yesterday extended gonerally over the Territory. Tho lightning was very sovero, Hoveral porsons wero injurod. The fall of rain and hinil'are unparalloled. A man namod J. J, McLornan was shot and in- stantly killod Inat night st Tie Liding, near Laramio, by a man pamed J, W. Forcs, inn (uarrel about voting. Forco ncted ontirely on the defensivo. —— Mysterlous Denthe Oantow, Ill, Bept. 8.—A telegram received horo dated Dlko, Nov., announces tho death of James H. McOall, Esq., of this city, Tho affair I8 shrouded in myaloxg, ond the city is full of coujoctures, Mr, McCall was one of our wealth- {ost and most highly-respected citizens. Ho was President of the First National Bank of this city, ond largely idontified with public intorests. His romaing will arrive about Friday next, and not until thon will wo loarn the sad facts connected with this mystorious affair. ‘I'he Orops. Special Dispatch to The Chicagn Tribune, LaAwnexce, Kon., Bopt. 8,—Corn in this part of tho Stato Ju not oyer a third of & crop., Somo early planted is good, but the lata corn is mostly o&; ot m“:"}n‘;? The Chicago Tribi al Dispate ¢ Chicago Tribune, Br. Jostiih, Moy ‘Hopt. Betflio protracted drought in this State has boon sorious damago to the corn crop. From oxtonsivo lnaulri it is safo to #ay that tho orop of Missouri, Northern Kun- 8y, and Southern Nobraska ia ‘out short ome- Lalf. A galo ]Lnssutl over this city to-night, which did considerablo damago. Peuy, I, Bept, 8.—Wo had & nice rain to- dny, but too lato for tho corn, which is badly in- jured, and, take tho country over, will not pro- duce mora than balf s orop, Tho drought will provent tho sowing of small grain almost cu- tiroly. e An Alloged Ohild-NMurderer Acquittod, Spectal Dispatch to The Chicago Tribuns, Gaviox, 0., Bopt, 8.—1%o caso of tho Btato of Ohio va, fllnrgnret Btaley, charged with murdor- ing ber infant child, the body of whioh was fouud in a Erlvy vault, was to-day dismissed, by roquest of the prosocution, thore not boing suffi- olent wvidence to convict her of tho crime with which sho stood obarged. McDonough County (Iil) Patrons, Special Iniapateh to The Chicago Tribune. Macoxy, 11, Bopt. 8.—MoDonough and ad- Joining couniios Contral Association of tho Pat- rons of Husbandry mot in this city yestorday, and contirned in sosslon to-day, It was not o o politicar nature, and tho proccedings are thus far secrof, Obltunry. Bapisoy, Ind., Bopt. 8,—J. B, Hartley died of flux, in this olty, Iast night. Ho was acolobrated lorge-trainor and veterinary surgeon in New Orloans and Mobile, and waa known all over the Bouth, For tho last fow yosrs he has been kooping & livery stablo in this oity, Lirrie Rock, Ark., Bopt, 8.—ITon. D, Ringo, tho first Cliof Justioo of tho Biate, sud for Iw;\lvo yoars United Btatos Judga of tho Eastorn Distriot of Arkausns, diod this mornlug, aged 76 yoars, MADISON. Meeting of the Grand Lodge of Good Tomplnrs=-Itcuuion of tho Thirty= third fReglment, Spectal Dispatch to The Chieago Tribuna, Mapison, Wis., Sopt. 8.—The Wisconaln Grand Lodgoe of Good Tomplars Lina ocoupiod most of tho timo to- day in tho cleotion of ofil- cors, T. D. Kannous was elooted Grand Wor- thy Ohiof Templar without opposition; J. A. Johnson, Grand Worthy Oounsollorj Atrs. W, R. Tnalor, Grand Worthy Vice Tomplarj B, Par- ker, Grand Worthy Hecrotary . _Parker, Grand Tronsurer, Bra. W, R. 'I.nylor, Mrs. IL H. Giles ond J. I, Foster wora olocted ropro- soutatives to tho Intornational Grand Lodge. A tomperanco alliance to aid in proscoutin, violations of the liguor Iaw, ond organizo col wator Tomplars, and a_vigorous support of the Wisconala Good Templar nowspapers were rec- ommendod by & committes, whoso report the Grand Lodgo adopted,. It was also voted to take speoial moasures to lon next wintor, noxt place of mooun(in Tho Thirty-third Rogiment, reoruited mainly from Grant, Lnl?nteo, Rock, and Konosha Counties, which did gallant servico in the cam- poigns in tho Southwest, had a rounion horo to- day. Not ns many wero present as was antici- pated, but thoso hore, including all tho fleld officers but one, and soveral liuo officera and men, enjoyod thomsolves. Col. H. H. Virgin, of Graot, was chosen Presidont of tho Assoolation, and tho rankin compauy offi- cors. Vioo-Presidonts, Oapt. N. Smith, of tho Prairfo Du Ohien Union, cmdh:%h?uc:etsr{| Liout, H. L. Far, of s fl' Corrosponding Beorotary; Maj. George IR Frank, of Konoshn, Treasurer, I$ was doolded to hold the uoxt rounion st Jancse villoon the firsb Wednesday in October, 1874, Alottor wna road from Gen. W, T.Bherman, undor whom tho regimens served, in response rovent unfriendly logisln- adison waa solectod ns tho to an iovitation {0 be prosent, in which ho rogrots it is out of ‘hls power, and closes: “I wish ‘possiblo you evo succoss,and that yoars will éroab the a’hkfly-lhlrd with all tho honors due their horolo virtuos.,” A lettor was also vend from Liout. H. B. Pickard, of Ohicago, rocalling wany intoresting reminis- ences of rogimental history, Marching under the old war-worn re(‘flmuntnl tlags, the mon and their frionds marched to Lake Monona and crossed to ‘Winnequah, wheroe an elogant collation was sproad and onjoyed, with (oasts, spocchies, songs, &o. WEATHER AND WATER. War Dopartmont Weather Roport, LOOAL OBSERVATION. Omioaao, Bopt. 8, 1873, HRE 8| g 3 » £33 Hour %:,:» H £ Dtrection andi>&) § %ig./man/wmd. g g i gAn T6[80/8. "W, £ 178/82(8, W, fresh. 7A|00[8. W, fronh, T410]8, WL, fresh, Maximum thormomoter, 0. um thermometor, 6. GENERAL OBRENVATIONS, Cricado, Sopt, &—1a.m, Station, Bar, Thr| _ Wind. _[Rain) Weather. 63(8., gontle, T4[8., gentlo, BT|W,, 1 7418."W., tresh, 75{8,, fresh. 01 Falr, Olovaland... 20,70 60S.E., frosh, | .10[Light rain, Davonport .[20.70| 72|N. W, brisk |......|Light rain, Donver ....[30.00 68[Calm, o[ Eadr, 67{8., gentle, 7|Cloudy, 63/Catm, 1| Threatcn'g, GB|N,, {resh, J14|Light rain, BOIN.'Y. biiak, Oloudy, 60IN. E,, brisk.. it rain, 0|0 )b |Oloudy. 708,, frosh, .64| Throaten'g, T2IN! W, treah.|. ... [Fair, PROBABILITIES, ‘WasminaToN, Sopt. 8.—For New England, on Thuraday, wind backing to tho southwest and southeast, and_Incrensing cloudiness, aro proba~ ble, with rain during tho aftornoon or evening. For the Middlo Btates and Lower Lake region, fresh and brisk southeast and southwest winds, cloudy woather, and rain, For tho South Atlan- tic and Gulf Statos enst of tho Miesissippl, gon- tloond fresh southenst mmd eouthwest winds, putly cloudy weathor, and rain arcas. From Tonnossoo and Miesourl, morthenstward ovor Ohio and Lower Michigan, cloudy weather, ralu, and frosh to brisk winds, gradually vecring to southorly and westerly, Tho low baromoter ovor the Northwest will move enstward, producin; ‘brisk winda over the Lake region, snd fallowo by clearing weathor in the former distriot, MISOELLANEOUS LLEFORTH, Camo, 1ll., Bopt. 3,—A heavy rain fell hero this morning, the first we have had for just one month. It will provo 8 great blessing to tho farmors in * Egypt,” as much of the crop was noarly ruined. & ‘TaE WesTERR UNION TELEGNAPR OPFIOR, To the Press of Chicago A vory sovere galo, accompanied by hail and lightning, haa boon ngingi in Iowa since an ear] hour this aftornoon, At 10:80 p. m. it was jus over Dubuque and Quincy, and at midnight is not over fiulg miles distant, and rapidly passing ocostward, I'or soveral houra our wires were in- terrupted. BTAGE OF WATED, Daily report of the stage of wator, with ?s_llx;gua in tho 24 hours ending 8 p. m., Sopt, 8, OLANGE, Rise, Fall. ATOVE LOW WATED, I3 1w 1 in, 11 ft. 4 In,| 1 in, 21t 2 in, 11t 7 in, *Below high wator of 1871, W. 8, KAuraraw, Observer, Room 78 Major Block, Chicago, New Stock<Yards at Cincinnati, CrvonNaTs, O., Sept. 8.—Tho now Union Btook-Yards of this city went into operation to- day. Thoy are completo in every respoot, hoh:lg immodiatoly connectod with nearly all tio rat- roads concontrating here, and having superior facllities for loading, unloading, rnmnuf wator- ing, resting, wolghing, and shipping. ‘Lhey will accommodato 50,000 head of live stock of all kiuds, and havo cost, including roal ostate, §600,000. The Drighton aud Groat Western zlml’! long familiar to stock men, aro now o — The Nail Interest. Prrranvnon, Sopt, 3.—At a meoting of tho Wostorn Nail Asgociation to-doy, & four and threc-oighths card was ndopted. The Associa- tion unanimonely resolved to mako tho agono prico of nails in Ohitcago $4.03}¢, with an elght! off to the trado, while the price in Oincinnati was fixod nt 84.95 not ; at Indianapolis, 84,50, and at Kanene Oity, 84.75 net, Tho meeting adjourned until Sopt. 17. Occan Stoamshup Nows. Livenroos, Bept. 8.—Bteamships Trinleral, Oalifornia, Igypt, Occanic, aud Iammonia, from New York, and Pounsylvanis, from Phila~ delphin, arrived out., rw Yonx, Sept. 8.— Arrived — Bteamships Holland and Java, from Liverpool, aud Frivin, from Hamburg, . e Abscondcd with 8500, Bpectal Dispatch to The Chicago Tribune. Fort WAYRE, Ind,, Bept. 8.—”8. A. Lindsay, night tolograph operator and tiokot sgont at thé Durlington orossing of tho Fort Wayno Road, ab- sconded this morning at 4 o'clook, taking with ‘him about 8500 of the Company's mouey, e st o b e Shooting Afiray at Falr Play, Wis, Bpecial Dispateh to The Chicago Tribune, DunuqQue, Ia,, HSopt. 3.—A man named Jamos Jamioson was slob through the body last night at Fair Play, about six miles from liere, in Wie- oonsin, by & man named Haborson. An old grudgo, broken out anow, was the cause of the lflhou g, Thoe wounded man s not expooted to vo. —— A Itevenuo Officer in Limbo, Spectal Mapateh to the Chicago Y'ridune, Pmuapxrrina, Bept. 8,.—A telogram arrived from Baltimore this afternoon states that John Milner, Deputy Collector of the Revenue Distriot of Maryland, was to-day convloted of ombozzlin, Goverument bonds, fined $248 and costy, an imprisoued six months in the Balilgose City Jall. THE IOWA ROBBERS. Thoy Evnde the Lnfayotto County (Mo, Vigilnnco Committco. Br. Louts, Sopt. 8,—The Demoorals's spocial from Bedalin says: Tho Lafayotto County Vigil- ance Committes, who have boon in pursnit of tho Towa railroad train robbors, roturned hero Fridsy and disbanded, Thoy traced tho robbors 1o Johnson City, 8t. Clair Qounty, snd aurround-~ ed tho houso whoro thoy supposed llmg wora biding, but tho birds had flown, Tho bang consistad of the thrao Yonngoera and tho James brothers. MoCoy was not with thom. Tho roported fight botween the robbers and vigllants a doy or two sinco and wounding of ono of tho Youngers, I8 & onnard. 1t is bolioved that the robbors havo started for Toxas, but this rumor is doubted, and it {s afiirmed that thoy Km bo sgain hoard from within forty-oight ours. OSHKOSH. Meoting of tho Northern Widconsin Pross Anuoclullnn;‘,m Spectal Dispateh to The Chicay une. Ot o e T e fonetis ‘annnl mooting of tho Northorn Wisconsin Pross_Asso- olation will bo hold here on Wodnesdsy, Oct. 1. Tho sunual addrass will bo doliverod by Alox- ander 0. Botkin, of thoe Ghicago Times, The Exooutivo Committeo of the Northern Fair Assooiation hold a mooting to-day and ap- pointod a committee to seouro an sddross from some momber of the Patrous of Husbaodry at tho fair to b hold tho first wook in Octobor, ST. LOUIS. Suit Bronght—Chict of Polico McDons oughe " 8r., Lour, Sopt, 8.—Buit was ontered ln the Court of Criminal Correction to-day by Mrs, Camnivan and her sorvant girl, Dora Wallonweber, sgatnst Chiof of Polico MoDonough, for illegal arrest and imprisonment without bail. — ' MYSTERIOUS AFFAIR. As sbont 11 o’clook last night s lady, just ar rived from Battle Orvok, Mich., named Mrs. Fish- er, called at the Armory Station, and ssked for directiona to fiud hor husband, who, sho learnod, had beon shob In proof of hor statemont ‘sho produced the following tologram, which had boon handed to hor by the parties to whom it was nd- drosseds Geo: ', Smith & o, 040 4 September, 1673, Frank Fisher waa shot hero last night. Bee hia wifo 8t Beauregard ; If not thore, find hor out. You will find monoy at the Poat-Ofica, T, Fionzn, W. Enaon, Mra, Fisher accounted for tho two nnmes by stating that the latter was a niocknamo her hus- ‘band went under, Btrango to sy, nobody knows suything about the shooting hero. Tho lady, who is vory sick, was taken to the Fifth Avenuo Hotol, whero sho will bo glad to bear any nows of her husband, —_— BRUTAL PARENTS. Yestorday afternoon, at the instance of tho Humano Bocioty, Michael and Mary Iattman woro arrcsted for brutally beating their son, boy 7 years of ngo. Officor Hamilton, of tho Humano Bocloty, took him to his own houso, whero hie was found to bo & mass of bruises from head to foot. —_— Personal, Mr. Arbuoklo and soveral mombers of the band will accompany Mr. Gilmore to New York. 8. H. Wales has boon elocted Prosident of the Now York Park Commission ; salary, §10,000, Harper's Weekly s dofending Colfax and But- Tor, and o ribald critio calls it~ #Tho Journal of Coloimining.” Thero are something like a dozon aspirants for tho Congrosslonal sont now ocoupied by Polund, the Vermont whitewasher. They expoot to givo bim a good brush. Bpeaker Blaine's son, Walker, and President Grant's.two oldest sons, are on a pedestrian trip over the Alleghanics o Washington, this State, Mr. Blaine's old home. ‘William H, Perrigo, of Prairia du Obien, has accepted the position of Grain Inspector for tho Milwaukoo & Bt. Paul Railroad, and will take up his residonco in Milwaukee. The Rev. Titus Coan, tho venerable Bandwich Isloud missionary, whose wifo died last fall, is soon to marry Mies Lydis Bingham, of the Girls' Bonrding Bohool, at Honolulu, The Countess Von Mallinekrot, banished from Prussis undor tho recent decreo concerning the Josuits and othor religious mociotios, haa pur- ohineed five nores of Iand near Wilkesbarre, Pa., nnd will ostablish thoreon an Augustinian con- vent and school. John B. Omohundro (Toxas Juck), of scout notorioty, was yesterday joined in the bonds of matrimony by the Rov. Father Stowart, to Mile. Morlacoh, the colobrated dansouso. Tho happy pair subsequently held a recoption at the Osburn Houso, and in the evening took the cars for Buf- falo, whore Madame Omohundro plays an en- g;gzmuut this woolu.—Rochester (N. l'.g Union, Gon. Hinkas has the datica of the Troasurer of the Milwaulkeo Boldiors’ Home, added tq thase of Deputy-Governor, and agsnmed their discharge Bopt. 1, vice Harrick, discharged, George W. Biabor has boen instatlod Ohapiain, vice Ludwix, who is transforred to the Home in Maine. Will- inm IL Lough, of Dayton, 0., is Seorotary of the Milwaukeo institution sinco Horrick's dis- chargo. Tho inmatea at present number over 500, Information is recelved from a compotent sourco to the effect that tho Bouate will, immo- diately on moeting in Docomber, roliove Benator Cnrguntnr from its Prosidency pro tempore, and R!m nbly elect in his place gmmmr ‘orry, of ichigan, who was his atrongest compotitor last spring. Tho roasons for Mr. Carpentor's rotiroment aro of n most obvious and gonerally-~ undorstood character.— Washington Correspond- ent Boslon Advertiser, Broonyaron, INl., Sept. 3.~Oapt. 8. F. Dol- loft, the Circuit Qourt Clerk of MoLoau County, lica very low, and in oxtreme suffering, from the outbreak of an old wound roceived 1n the army. A surgical operation I‘:flnmnd upon bis thigh, on Tuosday, to find ball, was unsuccessful, ‘Wasnixaton, Bopt. B.—-éuumtnry Bolknap, Attorney-Genoral Willlams, and Commissioner Douglasy have returned, Grangoers! Manuafacturing Profect. Des Momes, Bopt. 8.—Tho Grangers of the ‘Wapello District have decided to raise $100,000 for manufacturiug purposes. P Do S Hansas Olty Live-Stock Marlots Special Dispatch to The Chicago Tribune, KANBAS OITY, Mo,, Bept, 3,—-Cattfo—Rocelpts, 9585 shipments, 1,811, Good sipping in bettor request s ordinary lots slow and_mostly at former figure. Through Toxan stoers, $2.15 ; through Texan cows, flfifl i gaizlsl muvnloawll, $2.65., s—Moro activo ~lippin d hot highos ; MO0 fat bacon i ok Adteadet fromn pack ers 483,05 0 §3.76 | oxtra slipping, $3.76 to $3.60. sk bl i The IRomoval of the Red River Rnft, A New Orleans papor gives an oxtendod ac- count of the work dono in_destroying tho im- ‘menso acoumulation of drift-wood in tho Red Tiver,qwhich Liaa for years past chocked all navi- gation thore, The work is done under tho su- orvision of Liout, Woodruff, and tho oxpensics ofm{erl by tho National Government. %p to this time a channel sufficlent for the purposes of navigation has beon oponed through four milea of n raft—that is, aclual ratt—but comprising & much larger distance of actual outlino of river, Tho saving is in enabling vessols to avold the dangorous routo through Black Bayou. The ‘wholo obstruotion originaily comprised about soven miles of raft; thore therofore romains about threo or throo and a half miles yet to bocloaned out. It Is lhouEh: this will “prove compuratively easy, although possibly roquiring longor timo on account of tho grentor bulk of thio upper raft and tho greater brondth of the rivor. Liont. Woodruir estimatos_that bis work will bo accomplished by the firat day of Novem- bor next, At tho last scsslon of Congross a second appropriation of 280,000 was mado, and it is belloved this will prove ample to comploto the work, but Congross may adopt the views of Major Howoll, and mako an ndditional appro- priation for tho destruction of all acoumulations of drift-wood and trees growing near the river for sevoral hundroeds of wmiles beyond the prosent soene of oporations, A now coiton region will bo opened and utilized by tho removal of the raft, 'Tho lands above It have hitherto been comparativoly valuoloss, They will bo ro- olsimed, Above and boyond tho raft mproads out & royal country, whosoe power of production will soon be seon and felt in the cargooes of cot- ton it will sond to New Orloan —_— Tho Centipede Dangorous Even After Beoing Out to Ploces, Fyom the Dallas (Texas) Herald) Aug, 20, Yestorduy, about noon, & gardoner working in tho yard of oux townsmau, Judge John J. Good, discoverod a centipode about ton inches long, and, aa Lo supposcd, killod it ; at least it waa ouf into mome flve or six pleces, and the pioces thrown out of tho yard into tho stroet. Ono of tho plocos, howaver, was overlooked, and noarly an liour aftorwnrds a little daughter of Judge Gaod, nfiad about n 5“” and o half, wos P‘!fl"lz around tho yard, and sooing the piece ploked i up, when it” immediately wrnp&e {tself around tho fl"lf‘“‘ of tho right hand, ~Tho hand and arm immedintoly began to ewoll. A physician was enllod in, and propor romedies applicd, and it {a hoped the dangor is past; butup to 6 o'elock yostorday ovening fhie arm was still swolling, DEATH ON THE FRONTIER. A Toxan Murdered by Two Mexicnne— ‘Fho Luttor Pursucd nnd Killed—0Ono Eorse~Thiof Shot and X'wo IRunge. Arkanans City (Awg, 21) Correspondencs of the Leaven worth Timea. ust rocolvod an aceount of s cold-blooded murder committed in Sumner County Snturday ovening, Aug. 17. Tivo Moxicans had just boen in Wichita with cattlo, and wero on thelr road homo, whon thoy met s party of Toxans on their way to Wiohita with cattle. "Ono of tho Toxauns hnd given o rovolvor to ono of the Mexioans to got ropnired in Wichits and roturn to him; but the Mexican refused to givoup tho rovolver when ho mot the ownmer. He (tho ownor) then took a goldior's ovorcoat out of tho' wngon bolonglng to oms_ of tho Moxicons, which he proposed to hold until the revolver was givon up, The Moxicans })Muod on down the road towarda Caldwoll, bo- ng about 15 miles from that placo, After going & short distanco, two of tho Moxioans (on tho Bhaw Kaska) mounted thoir o8 and wont back to overtako the Texas pai After rldlnE around tho hord until they found tho man witl tho coat, thoy shot and killed bim instantly, and thon rodo away, but wero o clogoly followed by two of tho Toxang that thoy dared not return to thoir wagons, That night the two Toxans woné into Caldwell, and were roinforced by threo or four of the oitizons, who started with thom in the pursuit. That ovening they overtook tho wagon and tho other three Moxicans near Bmall Ttoneck, and held them prisoners until the noxt day, and wont on towards Fort 8ill. They ‘weio overtaken that ovening by tho stago going to Fort Bill, when thoy told the driver to arrost the other two Moxicous at tho noxt atation if ho saw thom. Whon he arived at tho station on Bkeloton COroek ho found thom, and undertook to mako tho arrost, but was wounded slightly in the band in tho attompt. Mo was soon rofn- forced‘ howovor, by the Enfly in pursuit and a man at the station, aud the strugglo beocame gon- eral, during which one of the Mexicans was shot through the body, living but a few minutes after, and tho othier, whilo running to the crack, waoa shot and badly wounded, but was able to roach tho water, into which he waded up to his neck, and u}mn belng ordored to come ont, which ho rofused to do, was shot thoro, the body brought to shoro and buried with bis com- Panion In ono grave, ¥ From L. O, Palmor, who was appointod for the oconsion Doputy Shoriff, and who was formorly United Btatos Marshal, [ loarn the Lollowing pas- tioulars of tho chase from Junction City to the Iudian Territory, and the finnl capturo.and hang- ing of three nogro horse-thieves, who passed through Arkansas Oity lnst Mouday (18th) nights On_Saturdsy night,” Aug. 10, Mr. Maclamo's stable, at Junction Oity, was entered aud threo horses and s saddlo taken therefrom. Two of the tiorses woro vory large draft horuos, woighin 8,300 pounds, and wore uscd for hauling railron iron cars ; tho other was & fanoy horve, and was ugod by the Indies for riding. The men startod in purauit on the following morning, and found that tho thioves had been seen with the horses, going south, and that thoy woro negroes, ono riding with o saddle, and tho othors bare-baok. They ocould be traced without much trouble a8 soon as thoy wero known to bo nogroes, and sleo on account of tho eizo of two of the horses, Port of theso mon followed tho nogroos nutil their horsos gave out, and then returned. On account of the valuo of the horaos, the own~ ers wanted overy offort made to capturs tho thieves, and woro roferred to my informant as the right man for the work, from his pnst expo- rience os Unitod Btatos Murshal, and as Lo was in tho stock business himself at tho prosont time, Mr. Palmer agroed to follow thom, and started ‘Tuesday night, the thioves having threo nights tho start of him. Nr. Palmor rode day and nl§m, s far aspossible, to tho placo wharo the thioves had last been scen, ond thore took the trail, following it throngh Marion Contre, Pea- body, Towanda, and Augusts, to Arkansas City, whero ho arrived on Wodnesdny morning, only to find that tho thicves had passed through the town during the night, and that they had entered Boveral houses, your corrospondent’s among the numbor, snd stolen food, sud also a saddle each from a Mr, Nownian and Mr. Chamberlain, Part of tho ton mon who left Junction Gity in gumm had been hore on Tuesday, and wore ollowing the thioves, but returned horo with tho roport that they had lost tho trail at Coburn’a Crossing, on Grouse Creek. Mr. Palmor hired o frosh horso of Mr. Woolsey, of this place, and started for the point where the first party hod lost tho trail, which ho agnin found crossing the bluffs on tho east sido of Grouso Orock, and which ho was nblo to discover by the large fioof~ prints of tho draft horses. BMr. Palmor pushed on directly for Elgin, whoro he induced Joseph 'W. Vannoy, formerly Deputy United States Mar- 8hal, Dr. J. J. Miller, aries Onso, and Abra~ ham Kilyorth to join bim, Tho parby found the trail, whoro it crossed the river below Elgin, nnd followed it dny and night. The thioves struok gouth, and atopped at the Raw Agenoy, whore thoy trled to trade tho horses off for po~ pios, and obtain food, but, failing to make o trado, thoy roturned to within flve miles of El- gin and twonty milos on the road to Onage Mis- sion, then turned again and went within twelve miles of Elgin again, thon took the trail through tho Osage to the Dolawara Nation, whore thoy woro caught. ’I‘lm{‘ doubled on their trail to throw off any ono that might bo on thoir track, but they had an oxporienced hand after thom thnt was not oneily deceived, Tho thioves had pm unsaddled and camped in the timboer when almer came upon them, At the_sight of tho men thoy all ran in_different diractions, but wore rodo down sud captured, Tho names of the thioves wero Johd BSmith, Will- ism Gordon, and Joo Miller, all nogroes, an agod 21, 20, and 25 years, Thoy Woro arm with dirk 'knives only; they did not ssk for uarter, but aoted sutlonly. Ono said that a Mr. gux, at Fort Gibson, had hired them to steal the borses and to him they had sold thom, Mr. Palmor rode aftor Miller, who ran for the brueh, and halted him, Miller ran in, sud Palmor firod ono shot, tho ball nuktln[.iflths vest on the shoul- der, That not stopping him he fired sgain, tak- ing s Sugor off of L lott lund, whon L sicppod and was loft for dead whilo the othors were be- ing hunted up, Smith ran in the brush whero ho could mnot be followed with horaes, and laid down flat. Tho party surrounded him esnd ordered him to come out, which he did aftor threats from the men of shoot- ing bim as ho lay. Palmer was then loft to guard Smith whilo the othors hunted Gordon, whao was shot dead while trying to escape. Whon thoe wont to aco if Millor was dead yet, they were all vory much surprised to find him gone. Ifa way soon_found in n corn-fleld belonging to & Dolaware Indian, and when spokon to called ont, #I'mdoadl" Tho two mon wero handouffod and put in chargo of two guards, whilo their captors should sleop and rest, Mr. Palmor got up about midnight to sco them, lnd[l}lud.ing all Bafe, went back to bed again. Whilo he was asloop some twenty mon overpowered the guard, and took the thiovea about 00 yards off and hung them. Pyrrhlc Dancinge Writlng from Groeco, s livoly correspondent gives an account of a country dance in the land of classic fablo : In tho oveuing n gathering of tho young men of tho villago wau hold in & largo hall, Tho tallest and most graceful of tho Falikars of the nolfihhorhond wero presont, A shopherd's pipo, with tho tone of a bagpipe, aud a rude drum, furnished musio, n8 at all fotes, and probably such s has echoed inthese mountainsever since tho oracle wns ostablished in the valo of the Ploistus, We heard only one tuno during the ovening, Wo its straing tho young mon por- formed tho Pyrrhic danco of thoir fathers, 'The oldors oxplain that it has boon prosorved by the ]Uu})hta, und inoll agos has boon practiced by thoir ancestors, for grace and skill, Tho danc- or tako hold of hands and follow the leader in a cirole, Tho stops ure forward and back, while continuing the rotury fl]mgmuu‘ The loader i tho ohief performor. Iio ropresonts tho advance and tho retrout of individual combat, tho asrult aud tho defonso, aud tho final struggle, 1o conctudes by oxuborant jubilation over victory, 'ho musio grows wildor and louder as the com- bat deopous, and culminates whon the loador, dropplng on his kuoos, slmost prosirating him- gelf on the fimuud‘ and thon lnnmm"lx[{éh [u the pir, and exbhibiling his gymnastio ability, ylelds his place to another. The interest of the danco doponds on tho wpirlt and skill of tho loador, Ho may introduce a somersault aud other unu- sual movemonts, and will olicit applause by oa- ooial agility aid vigor, Womon somotimos folu in tho danco as followors, nover asloadors. At roliglous fotes in Hymottus and in Athons, as_woll ay in the provincos, the young nion do- light in this smusoment, and gray hairs and tho wolght of G0 years do not prevent participation in itl. 1t is akin to tho war-lanco of the Amori- and grace, and hae nothing of the sooial quali~ tlos of tha dances of faahion. Othor dances are, indeod, practied, in which Indics join or prac- tico by thomselves; uond the German and firnnuh dauncos are Introduced in moclety at thons. —— BEAU HICKMAN DEAD. The End of tho Ponnsylvanin Avonne Fop=-A Bonu Brummeoefl Whose Nnmo Nover Was Knowne-Tho Bar-itooms? Loss, From the New York Sun, Sept, 2. For moro thun & quarter of a contury, dating from about 1840, one of tho most noticeablo objeota of intorost inWashington was—in yarions phasos of prosperity and advorsity—n singular goniua known as ‘ Boau Hickman,”" During tho whole of the poriod oxtending from the bogin niug of our troubles with Moxico to his doath ho was a6 woll known, not only to rosidents but to visitors, s the Oapltol itaolf; and it was his boast that ho bad Loon on torms of intimacy with overy rospoctable member of Gongress from Webator wnd Olsy down to the time whon ro- spoctability in Congress woa the oxcoption and not tho rufe. Robort Bingloton Hickmau, as he was known, was born in Maryland about' 1813, ~ Attor a wild and dissipated career in all pfllfi! of tho country, but malulyin the Bouth, Hickman drifted r{o ‘Washington, and there ho dovoloped a most ex-~ traordinary passion for dross, his chief ambition boing to shine as tho fop of tho day. Ho bo- eamo an adopt in porsonnl adortimont, and being onsy and gracoful in manners, and possessing some means which he disbursed with liberality, 1ie Boon ocoupiod the position of tho American Boau Brummol, and assumed that worthy title with all duo dignity. Ho hobnobbed withall tho great mon of his dsy who wero givon to sonsual pleasuro—aud there were fow up to twenty flnun ago who wore not—and numbored among hia regular and oocasional companions in tho debauch and at the gaming tablo somo of }Ix:o brightesh ornamonts of tho Sonale aud the ouso, But tho timo camo whon ho conld no longer shino but In borrowed plumago, and Bonu Eo— como tho walking advertisomont of the fashion- abla tailors and the stool-pigeon of the gamblers, Littlo by littlo ho went down in the scalo, and, when old age beganto crecp upon him he was froquontly dopondent for tho necessariea of lifo upon tho maid-servant of tho hotels and upon tho charity of strangors whom ho levied upon ;Ifl.h a oool impudenco that waa always irrosiati- o, o Bonu Hickman is dead. A weok ago the poor wreck, tho viotlm of » wastod lifo, waa stricken ‘with paralysis. On Baturdsy ho was romoved to g'm lhonplm, and yesterdsy morning he broathed 8 lnst, Hig real namo was unkmown, his famlly, sup- osed to_have boon ono of the wenlthiest in aryland or Virginia, having sent to him a stip- ulated sum ovory yosr on condition that lie should keep thoir seoret. Ho nover told any- body even tho name of the place whors ho was born, and nobody over know whero ho lived in Wufflngton auntil ono night in Loulsiann ave- nua a firo turned nto tho strest with his wardrobe in his arms. Frequently at tho Wash- ington bars, while tippling glasses with the poli ticians, he Bald it was & poor oity that couldn’t support him like & gontloman, and it was his in- tention to mako Washington B“lil’m"v bim; and he did, evon to tho extont of lovying 25 cents from oach of the young bucks of the town, and lnxgur suma from the largor animals. Por the Iast fow yoars of his lifo, having boen afflicted with inflammatory rheumatism, Lo mado no use whatover of intoxicating liquors. s e MISOBLLANEOUS. A COarlinville (Iil.) woman broke her leg whilo kicking her husband for kissing the milk-woman. —A Now Mlexico wifo desired to got hor baby Into hoaven, 8o shio just pinched its noso whilo 1t was nursing. Tho Illinois Institution for the Education of TFooblo-Minded Childron, located in Jacksonville, will re-open after the snmmer vacation, on Wed- nosday, the 17th {nst. ~—An Omaha woman committed suicide tho other day becauso hor husband remonstrated in profano s whon ho found s doad horsofly in & whoat-cake. ~—A . joalous Baratoga womnn recontly pro- vented her husband’s nttondanco st a ball by carryiug nway overy artiolo of olothing Lo owned and biding thom in & barn threo milos away. —The reador who heard a vory Jow and distant rumblo in the west about 8 o'clook last night, E;oduclng an offoct not unlike the boating of an imonso gong, will find the oxplanation of tho E)h“omunuu in our Columbus dispatch. The emocratic onndidate for Governor mado & specch thero last evening.—Whealing Intelli- gencer, —Not sinco the invention of Loonard's Shoet~ Iron Cat, or tho Bogardus Kicker, haa there boon one of g0 mnoh interest a8 {8 now roportod by tho Virginin City (Nov.) Enlerprise. Ixton- 8Ivo works, it says, aro to be orected in the cll.{ similar to fhoso of the Gas Company, which will obviato tho necessity of pipes and cigars. Smoke will bo manufactured, purified, cooled, properly scentod, and conducted all oyer tha ohy 88 gas now s, Floxible tubes, extonding from fixtures of ornamontal oharaotor, and tipped with ambor, m:&now be used by the smoker. And thoy who walk the streota may wear a sack of smoko, filled from s rotort, with one of these tubos in con- nootion. —0Oofteo is hlfi\mr now than bofore the daty waa takon off, owing to the lighter supply of tho producing countrios, particularly from tho groat- est—Bragil—and the fact that the trade hasbeon 80 ufi:uulublve in the last two or throo years, two or three Now York capitalista almost controlling the entire market. —Tho Hoidelberg University will not, in the future, permit ladics to attend tho leotures un- dex any olrcumstances whatovor, ~—Tho Sanitary Committoe of Dantzlo haa tel- egraphed to Berlin praying that, on acoount of the cholers, the ordors fssued for the quartering of trw);; in that oity be revoked. —In Fronch military circles tho oxperionco of the last war has ostablished the conviction that rovaccination ought to be made compulsory in the French army, as it is olready in that of Gor- many. —Tho amicable relations existing between Gormany and Russin ara evidoncod by the gond- ing of ‘two Gorman engincor officers to the Crimos, at tho request of the Ozar and Gon, von Totleben, —The Dopore News tolls this: A young gen- tloman operator south of us on the Chicago & Northwestorn Railway, after ropeated calls for & young lady operator in anothor oflice ou the line, at last got a response, and then he telegraphe: back to her, “1 have been trying to got you for the last half hour,” Ina momont the following epioy roply came tripping baock to him over the wiros from the tolograph maidon : * That's noth- ing, Therois s young man horo that has beon trying to_do tho esme thing for tho last two youss, and ho hnsw't got mo yeb.” —_——— A Hippopotamus Family ¢ Row,” Ancon]lufi to tho account given of a hippopo- tamus family jar by a writerin Land and ’; ‘ater, who recontly witnossod » domestio infolicity of this nature intho Zoological Gardons at Loudon, nothing mora extraordinary than this in the way of aconjugal * row" conld be imagined. Tho malo and fomale hippopotami in the gardens aro known respeotively as Obosh and Dil. Their youthfal nn‘sfiflng, now 8 montls, and whose name {8 Guy I'awkes, was, until a fow days A%o, kopt in the den with his mother, The family disturbance reforrad to above ocourrod whon the time camo for Guy Fawhos to be introduced to his fathor, The portoullia of old Dil's don hav- ing been raisod, she and her offspring came out and marobod towards Obesh, who was munching grass noor by, As his wife appronchod him Obeah trumpotod sovoral times and grinned. Guy Fawkos wont up to his fathor and bogan to sub his noso sgainut the parcntal snout. This sgort of thing lasted for Lwo or throo soconds, and suddonly old Dil rushed at Obesh and the two gigantlo bensta engngod for & fow minutesin & snvago fight, rearing upon their hindlegs, olash- Ing thelr tusks togother, oponing their porten- tous jaws, and biting at onoh othor maliciously, Obesh wan finally worsted, aud wns Ignomini- ously drivon into his pond, whilo tho *old wom- an "with Guy Fawkes on hor back stared at hin, runting, and apparontly throatening him for hiroe-quartors of an hour. At the expiration of that time, however, poaco was declarcd, and the mout affeotionate family endoarments kuown in tho bright lexioon of hippopotamni wore exchang- od botweon the now reconcllod and contentod trio, Obosh has, for a hippopotamus, a rather disagreonblo reputation, aud having been in the gardens for twonty-throe yoars, he ix, in_n mea- bure, to the other animala what Mr. William Dorrit was to lus companions of the Marshalsea. —_———— Paintings. Two valuable paintings, by French mastors, woro recontly purchased for the Corcorun Ari- Qallory, in {Vuuhingmn and are now on thelr way from Europe. Thay aro ‘‘The death of Cwsar,” by Gorome, and “*‘Iho Count of Wur- towborg ¥ 'm;)whlg over the Iody of Ilis Bon)" Dy Ary Hobuwi The plotures cost $4,000 each, p — A Ridiculous A Kooknk (Il‘g lady, whilo ongaged in the pursuit of hor domestic duties, enconntered a moueo in the flour barrel. Now, most ladios nudor similar clroumstancen wonld havo uttered san Jndigne, o3 oxprovsion of magouling stzength ] o fov fominne wbrivky, aud then pousht astetv in the garrat. the ordina: summoned the hired man, and told him to tho shot-gun, call the bull-dog, ond station himeelf at & conveniont dintanco, ''hon sha climbed halfway up-stairs and conunenced to nnch the flour-barrel vigorously with s polo, rosontly tho mouno made ils “]{F“m“m and ntartod acrosa tho floor. Tho bull-dog nt once went in_pursuit., The man firad and’ tho doj droppod tend. Tho lady fainted and dropped down the atairs, and the hired man, thinking that sho wan killod, 1it ont, and has not been woon since, ‘Tho mouse escaped. DEATHS. RUSSRLE,—On Bept, B, ot hor home, Sonth Walor, N. Y Aftar & long andpniatul linoss, Srs. Win. O, Ttus: scll,"mother of Mew. 15, 5. Btoray, of this city. RUSSIELT, -fapt, 8, 1873, G. aud Magglo H. fuksoll, 'aged 250ara 8 monthis and I{ dnys. Fligral willbo iold at thole meldonon, 8 Tnonty-inche sty iy, abfon, m. Teloads aro jusitod: i Bt, Lofl- ‘papora pluasa cony, MARSHALL-ont. 1, at 4 . , danghtor of W Avan Elizahol Harstell, sno: 1ot oo nocal takos pla .« m, Hopt. . Funocal takos placa at 9 a. m, Hopt. &, from No. 1 But this one porrossos moro than dogieo of fomale courago. th: 0f ey Charlto B, Ru:scll, son of 0, GOULD—S8opt. 8, at his resldonoo, 1333 Indiana-av., Harry Gould, siod 61 yoars 7 monthn, Funeral Kriday at100'clock. ¥rionds of tho family are tnvited, TIAWKINS—-On the 2d inst., Mary, wife of Michaal Funoral will loavo hor Iato rosidence, #8 Weight.at., Hawkins, Thorsday, tho 4th tnst., at 11 'elock, &0 tho Churoh o tho Holy Fawmily, thance by oars to Oalvary Cemetory. BARKRR—At Androw, To of ahalors Florenos Harkar, youngen. o N, 8 anoos M, Barkor, agod 0 yeara and 8 montim. pinbl e et ook, M Mien Koy oy v Hopt, 4, at 0 . m, Tefonda of the family are avitod o attend. — HARDINGE—On Sopt. 3, at hin renidonco, Highl pack 1l oot llnxfllngw o MRty et dings, aod nophiow of 0. 3 friold, rioral orviaos a(ll bo held at his resldenco at High. 100 the e e rek bl 841220 B0 me | righae on I E08(8., 80030 - 1aey Obicage k Northmontorn Hallrosd. —_— AUCTION SALES. BY WM. A, BUTTERS & CO. Dry Goods, Clothing, Hats & Oaps, Furnishing Goods, &c. AT AUCTION, THURSDAY, Sept. 4, . T and 17 Zast x‘l.vnnfigm..'é?w' oty A s O 1 M. A. BUTTERS & CO., Auctioneors, ATOTION SATI OF THRH 05T STYLISH PROPERTY IN THB VICINITY OF CHICAGO, Combining proximity to the city by elogant drives and. r?\fiwl\ mgfums, wittllylwya wl'l‘mr, and the unequaled attractions of South Park and Boulevard improvements, | TEITS PROPERTY, ‘Which will ba sold without reserve Thursdey Afternoon, Sept.4,'73, At 3 1-2 o'clock, on the ground, Talgeated in the blook bounded on the north by Fiftieth-at.; east on Drexel Boulevard, ‘which is 200 foot wide and beautifull adornod ; south on Fitty-flrat-st, Boulovar: whioh 18 400 foot wide ot the intorsection o] ond overlooking the Park ; west on Cottage Grove-av., 100 feet in width. Tho Lota on Drexol Boulovard range from 101 to 231 foct in depth: on TFifty-firat-at. Boulevard ot entrance of the Park, 208 feot indopth; on Fiftieth-at., 300 feet: on_Oote m&o rove-av., 140 foet, with 20-foot alloys. 'his proporty is all under-drained and con« mneptod with tho best sewer in Cook County, being B}é;fl!“ deep, allowing cellars of mora than ordinary depth—, &oluz worthy of con- aideration in looating HOMES. Gas is ol- ready jntroduced in Hyde Park, ond con- tracts let for wator by the Holly system from the lake. Itisnlso handsomely ornamented by & 5““ variety of chofco and well-ad- vanced thrifty trees and shrubbery, The Boulevards being owned by the South Pork Commission, insures their conatant and beautiful ornamentation, sprinkling, and Pollas governmont, The Lots are now conspicuously numbered on the ground. The terms aro: One-sixth cash on day of snle ; one-sixth onshin 30 days ; balance one end two years, with interest at B per cent, sagured by trust doed on the property or b: othor arrangemonta with the owner, GEO. H, ROZET, Esqg., 165 LaSallo.st., UTTER! . A 8 & CO., Auctioneors, 16 and 17 Randolph-st. REGULAR SBATURDAY'S SALE, Housghold Gools aud General Merchandise, On BATURDAY, Bopt. 6, at 8)§ o'clock, at 16 and 17 Randolph-st. WM. A, BUTTERS & 00., Auctioneers. By ELISON & FOSTER. 145 BLUE ISLAND-AV,, THE ENTIRE STOOK OF A FURNITURE DEALER ATCTION, y On THURSDAY MORNING, Bopt. 4, at 10 o'l alating of Parlor Ssts, Ohsmber Sots, Buroa , Bofas, Loungos, Matir lows, Comforte: 0., 0ta. Also s light Dollye) ., Bale %mm‘fi’y nl{l:l d}flum:lfl ‘? closo businoss. you wanl o0d Dargaizns atton this saio, ¥ ELISON & FOSTER, Auctioneors. Grand Auction Sale SOUTH LYNNE 100 RESIDENCE LOTS, Tuesday Afternoon, Sept. 9, AT 3% O’CLOOK, ON THH GROUND. 0 situated on Bluo Island-av. and SalorniR ALFo0ts onst, and are Lo most desirable of any property in South Lynno. This rapidly-1mproving suburb is the firat station nouth of the oicg limits, on the 0., O. 2T, 0., and tho 0., D, & V. Raflroads, and is ust SHVEN MILES SOUTH OF THE {JOUET HOUSH. The land is high and dry, tholowon};oruon theroof being 15 foot above the lovol of Chicago. TERMS OF BALH—One-fourth oash, bal- once inl, 2 and 3 yoars, with 8 ger cent in- tarost, A doposit of 10 por cent will bo re- quired at time of aale. Title porfoct. Print- od abstract furnished with oach Liot, A FREH TRAIN will loave tho 0.&1I. R, R, Depot, corner Oanal and Kinzie-atd, at p. m., roturning after the salo, Refroshments freo to all will bo served un- dsr the magnificent Onnvas Pavilion whioh be \uag on this oceasion, BLISON & FOSTER, Auctioneers, = ez BY GLEO. P, GORE & CO., 68 & 70 Wabash-av. AT ATUCTION. SPECIAL SATLHA OF Buggies and Harness, Narouchies, Bm{lln&-’l‘ns vvumllu:, Pl i "'i,..‘?,".’, =t Douglo and Singlo llurness, On THURSDAY, Sept. 4, nt 10 o’clock. GEO, P, GORE & 00., Autionsors. AT AUCTION. Regular South Bide Sale of Household Furniture! ,ONATTEL MORTGAGE BALE OF RICE FURNITURE. Flogant Marblotop Ohamber Sots, Parlor Buits, Pills Ex, Tables, Marblotop Tables, Mirors, Book Oator, Klogant Sldeboard, cost 8400; Oit Palntings, Blk. Wal- nut Bedetoads, Bureaus, Stoves, 600 yds Brussels Qarvety socond-hand; Parlor and Ofce Dosks, 1 Parlor Orgas, ‘cast $335; 10 Oratea Orackery, 50 Pkge. Qlassware. At 13 o'clock—Oarrisgos, Bugglos, Kxpress Wagons, Double and Bingle Harnosa, On BATURDAY, Bept. 6, at 8 o'alook. QKO Ry GOLK & QO