Chicago Daily Tribune Newspaper, August 2, 1875, Page 5

RUINQUS RAIR. Stupendous Destruction of Crops and Damage to Railroads. Rissouri, IHiinois, Indiana, and Qhio, the Principal Sufferers. . Fo Like Rainfall Remembered # in Many of tho Lo- : calities. Yoo Rivers at Their Kighest Known Mark, and RNearly Al Overliown, Their Bosoms Burdened with Whent Sheaves and ' Fence Timber. : & Gloomy Scene at Danville, il o on the Vermilion River, The Western Part of Hamilton, 0., 4 Throe Feot under Water Accident on the Hannibal & St Joseph Railroad from Floods. QGeneral Tmmersion of Bverything Not Previously Submerged at Quincy. A Bitter Prospect for the Agricultural Victims of tho Aqueous Curse. GEHERAL MEPORTS RECEIVED AT CINCINNATI Cixcinyati, Ang, L.—Auotoor hervy rain foll this morning, doing Fomo damego to strests aud sidowalis on tho hilleides, and flooding collars to 3ome oxstent. A lundslido is reported on the Littls Miami Ralroad, botwean Pendlelon sud Lovelaud, pre- ventivg traing from passing, Tho Bigoal Office reporta the total fall of rain for July, as obrervad at this station, as 9 63-100 inchos. Rain fell on twonty-throe days during tho month. Bpeelals to the Commercial to-night give me- counta of Leavy raius duriug the past twenty- four hours in Indiana and Illinois, and further dAsinago to crops. Danvillo, 11l., reports all the Lottom lanas slong tho Vermilion River over- Lowed, and that tho sirenm ls full of floating vhoat-shocks Zionsville, Ind, reports tho wiost dameging rain of the season. Bireams sro flooding the country. Beversl hundred faot of tho Indianapolis & Lafayctto Railroad wero washed out, and two bridges over Crootod Creck moved ot of hno, Tho waters aro reced- Ing to-night. On the Louiavillo, New Albany & Cujeago Dailroad, culvertaand track wero report- e1gono i ssveral plocos morth and south. The Creoncastle, Indianapolis & 8t. Louis Raliroad s roportod washod ous east aud west of Green- caetlo. Tho Vandalis Road also have lost a bridgo over tho Weat White Crock, near Carters- barg, Ind. Tho Indisnapolis, Bloomington & Western Railroad aro roported washod ont near Crawfordsyille, sod it i thouglt trains will not gt through before Tucaday. Tho Commercial's Bomorsot (0.) speoisl ro- porta a torriflo hail-storm this sfternocoa. Tho 5!onos wero tho size of & large hioxory-nut, fol- luwed by ® hoavy rain, Considerablo damagoe w18 done to the Hocking Valloy Railroad. ‘Tho Enquircr's spocial from Circeloville, O., roporis tho Heloto River vory high and still ris hg Tnho bottom Innda are sllundor water, and cunsidorable wheat Liss floated off, A apecial to tho samo paper from Urbana, O., &:.y8 tho creoka aro swollan to rivors, and all flag linds woro inundated. I'ho rain is still falling, aud atreams relug. Whoat bina alroady heon dostroyed by tho rain, aod the mrmy-worm is catting grass and onty, A spoclal trowm Lima, O,, reports sorions dsm- 8@ to cropa in that viclnity from ram and the memy-worm, Corn la reported as badly beatou down by water. « Tho Enquirer's Ozford, 0., specinl uays: ** Tho 108t Bovore rain of tho scasou fult for two hours to-day, Creoks sro roported highor than for many yeers, and covered with feacing, timbor, v:hoat, oats, and barley. The Cinciunatl, Ham- {!ton & Dayton Rallroad lineran no trains to- uight owing to a Jandslido and washos.” A report reached here to-night fiom Hamil- tan, 0., that tho Mism| Iiiver ia out of ita banks, ad tho westeru part of that city partialiy sub. taergod to a dopth of 3 to 4 feot, No trains aro cut toenight on {ho Pan-Hxndle or Cinclnnatl, amillon & Dayton Raiiroads. NEWS RECEIVED AT 8T, LOUIS. 8r. Louis, Aug. 1.—Tho rain continued most of last night, and a drizzlo fell up 11l uoon to- day, Tho mercury hus fallen to about 60 de- troes, and the wind i8 from northwest, but Wil vory cloudy sud threatening. Four of tho principal railroads run- ning east from hero mre ofthor flooded in Placos or damaged so that trains caonot ruo, + ond most of the roada of this Btato are similacly altuated. Tho river haa rison bere 8 fool since lasb night, and s now xising &b the :::nh nth 2 inches pur bour. Ao~ om the Upper Misalesippl Alssoart and Illinols say they all are risiog rap- idly, sod all tributaries within 200 wiles ©of naroare groatly swollen, Many of them aro pousing out great flcods of wator. Dispatches from various parts of this Sia Immonso damago sy been done to the corn crop aud othor farm property, In Bpring Iiver Bot- tom alono tha damags to the farmars is eati~ malod at & milllen and a half, The Osago, - Bamine, and Dlackwater Livers aro higher #ban over Dofors, snd fn fact all the stroams o tho Blate are at flood: Dolght and causlng great destrocion to properi. Rallrosds are algo sufforing &reatly from wash-outs, loss of ay bridges, and ovarfiows. Tralns are badly delsyed or atoppod entiroly. Turnplke muu, Ate a180 bolng washed sway in lacos, bridges do- stroyed.and travel impeded, Thare has Peobably Daver beon 80 widely extandsd in the fitate betore, ILLINOIS, Bpeciar Diapateh to 274 Chicoge Quuicy, 1L, Aug. L—The rain-storm, which sommenced in this sootlon at 3 o'olook this suorning, was of about twenty-four hoory' Auwration, An lmm: quantity of watar fell, Causing groat damsgo to railroads. On the Carthage Diviaion of the Obicago, Burlinglon, & Quincy Hailroad, s bridge wont out betwean SVesa aud Mendon, and en the main line, be- "un Plymouth and Colmar, » doep fll wag od. 1wo qr threo culverte were Nmashad out betwesn this city and Eubanka, About 18 miles distant, saud in man 13068 the road-bed js badly nu.{- Oonatrustion wero, howover, sraing tmmedlataly as aad will 4 work, [ ‘E:Iu pxobabxx TIHE CHICAGO TRIBUNE: MONDAY, AUGUST S, Tonin Rond abiont 400 fast of track waers waoherl ont noar New Canton, A enlvart bolnw \hlivilio went ont, and & portion of the hiridge in Gown. At Mallyille, ahout 10 milen kouth of lioro, on the Toleda, Wabanh & Weatern Koad, about 160 yards of track weto wanhiod ont noar Clayton, Tho rond i1 alao damagord east of Sprngfiold, snd on the Ht. Louts branch botwoon Decatur an Touin. An onler 1o hold trams wan reonived thin city to-day from Springliold. "The Missouri, Kannad & Loxas Iond han Tosl five briduos, and the trnek in brdly damagod in manv placos. ‘Lo wraini aro all off, and_will probably bo o for koveral duys. The Clicago 3¢ Alton Ttoad is mmch damaged betweon Lonisiana and Ttood- louso, Ono bridgo in gone and several hundrod foct of track, The bridue at Ifardm. on the £t. Lonis, Kookuk & Northwestern Itond, s damaged, but otherwiso tho tund wua Lot ma- teralby injured, - A fatal necident prenrred last nicht at Minno Firk, on tho Hannibal & Kt. Jos Riailcond, 4 nules trom Ifaunibai, As the engino of the parsouyer tram which loft Hanuibal at 10 o'clock rat on to tho tiestlo, Ity structura gave way, prociptating the enging into tho stream bhetow. ~The fireman awam ont, but tho enginoor, Frauk Bradloy, wis drowned,” His body was found this morning about n milo bolow tho bridgn. Tho engine wad entirely aubmerged, Tho buggaga-car hung on 0 odico of the abutmant il this mornitg, when it followud tho engine, ‘The mam ling of tho auuibal & 8t. Juo fs roported In good condi- tion. Tho Q. M. & P Jluad is undor water in mnuy plocos; but, it 18 bolieved, 14 nob very ma- maged. tm“l‘uflu "Banteh to The Chicaan Tribune, Danviap, 1L, Aug. L—TFhe rain, which ba- gau to fall’yestorday murning, coutinucs with- out abatemont, Phie big Vernuliion River, st thin placa, i bighor than for yoars, and Fhocks ol wheat arscontinually tloating doan it. “Lhere 18 not much [xmnuccn of the farmors Anving any of thoir kmell grain in this county, Tho tracks of tho lnilmu‘iu centeriug hove are {n vary bad condition, and tho trains all beblnd time, Syectas Dnapatets to e Chiewn Trihine, TABALLE, 1L, Aug. 1—Fourtenn feot eight Inches of water on tho mitre will of Lock 10 at oo, baving risen b inchew kinca morning, and stillmmng, It (s much lvared that great domn- age will Lo dona bottow land corn crops. Wind cast, No rain to-duy. Epeewd 1ispateh tn The Chicano Tribune. BroomNotoN, 1L Aug. L—Such ram au fell yeaterduy hora has been rarels aqualled tn Coti- tral 1Himow, Bvory wator-courso is full, and cel- Tar ara inundatod, and ponds created all over tho city. Many traing aro dclayed by the condi- tlon of trackw and bridzes. No bridgo was wauhed out a far us hoard from. Coinia badly braken by the wind s rain. Tho trecs wore injurcd by bomg loo<oned in tho earth, Hun- dieds of doliats of demage was douo to eou- tractors by the caviug in of the water-main ditchos, 1t ramed continnally nud heavily for thirtoun honrw, and grew ko cold thut stoves aud winter clothos woro necessary, Seeciat Dinpateh to Che Clraan Trivum CHAMPAION, i1l July 31,—It commences ing agnlu thia morniny, d has kept un n stendy poue ald day, Tho harvent-liclds, nlready so 6ott thiat tenpers could not bo tsed, nro again flooded. ‘I'he crop of vats will boe nosrly & total loss, wiile vob over one-third or one-hall the hiny can b saved. Potatves have alvendy begun Lo rot, n havo alo tho grapew. Tho grospert ia n gloomy ono; yot n fow dry, warm days would do wonders toward restoring counfidonco. Stecial Dupiteh ' The Chieano Tribune. LaSaure, 1, July 3t,—As the river is atill rising, it is apprebonded that tho thousands of acros of corn growing on the river bottom lands are in daneer of fnundation, Wind eust, nnd ratu nearly all day, Spweias Inaputeh to The Chicano Trivune. Pronia, I, July 8L.—The weather turned suddenly cold ast uight, aud. early thia morning watondy rain bewan iallmg and bas continued witbout intermivmon all day, and the mdieations are at presont tuat it will outluss the might, Tho farmors predict eorions datnngos to ungath- erod ceopn if tho storm luats much Jonger, Spearal Dupateh ta 1he Clacago Tribnne, CANLINVILLE, 111, July 3 g aection of tho Riute, im:lmlm[lz Montgomary, Jersey, und Mudi- son Countius, hos hoon visited by o series of violent storms, which hava porfectly flovded tho country, and calverts und hridiros hiave hean eaz- ried awny, The whoat crop, which had boou cut and now in the field, Is spronting. Lho oats cannot bo bn cut, while tho corn is water killed, and tho loss to our county will bo hundreds of thousands of dollars, 'The outlook Is glaomy. Suecial Dispateh fo The Clucaon Trivune. Quixey, I, July 31.—A ram-stortn of unpro- erdented eoverity hag boen prevaibng in this section without intermission for the last cighteon hours, and thera aro no sigus of abatement, Tho ratn+full hns hoen onarmouy, uud has coversd a largo oxtent of torritory waost of here, Tho storm hns extended n dietauco of nearly 10 miles, and the stresws are oll overtlowed. It fs not yet kuown to what uxtent tho railronds load. ing fato tins city may bave been danaged, but thoy hayo no doubt been badly washed all, * ‘Tho lowlands aro flooded, andtho cropa in this region must Liave boon matorially injured, Snemat buvatch to The Cineuao Tribune, rexiy, 1., Juty 91.~It Las oincd steadily lora nll day. Heavy ralug, with wind, viated thin county earlior this would, dumaging hay and outd lucalenlably, Much of tho oats will not bo cut, aud uch more will be mowed withn scythe and ourod bike bay, 1f the ral will aliow !Im":nun to got Into tho ficids, Corn is doivg wal < Sractal patch o The Chicaqo Tribune, Brovanizoron, tll, July $1.—A constant rain how provailod ull duy, and’ thoro are uo eigns of oesaation. Nok b Ay dey far x weok panE. . Osta and waest are boyond rodowmption, and bay is rapraly wand generaily spailin pnisarikLy, (1., July 8t—The Stale Reqister of Lo-day publishies’ crop roports from Lwenty- ous points in tho oxtreme Southorn Iilinols south of the linoarawn noioss tho State at Alton, T reports show vory huavy rai storma in that part of ibo Slate, domg serious damsyo to wheat, ORLH, tobzeen, and bay, whila the corn crop scems to be vers promuing, In this (Sangamou) couuty it tained tor the hbtter part of two duys nlwmost in- ceseantly and overy day during tho pust week but one. All gorts of crops suva those on high rolling ground aro about ruined, The Sanga- mon Rivor knd othor atreams are out of thoir baoks, flooding the country, Special Dupateh to 1'é Chieago Teitune, Coaxratan, 1, July 81.—A torifio raine storm, tho lieaviost of tho sosson, hos raged here to~day, and the rain is atill falling in tor- rents, ooding tho streeta and flalds, aud over- flowiug tho stroama. Anothor blow to theal ready badly damaged crops. INDIANA, Bpecial Dispateh to T'he Chicago Tribuna. InpiaNavorss, Aug, 1,—In twolva hours, com- monoing with 10 o'clock last night, 8 inches of ralu foll hore, making tho total rainfall for tho sevou montha of tho yoar, sccordiug to the °| Blgnal Borvico roport, 42.88 inches, ngainst & total rainfall In the preceding twalve monthu of 43.60 inches, Tho ralnfall during July wes & little over 12 {uches. Tho water in White River was roported at & atandat 8 o'clock. Travol haa becn sus- pendad by the washing out of culverts and de~ struction of bridgea ou the Indianapolis & Vin- conoes, Indlsnapolis & St. Louis, 8t. Louls, Vandalia & orre iauto, Indianapolis, Blooming- ton & Woutern, sud tho Lafayetto Division of the L 0. & L. Road, Thore is & report of seri- vus damags to the track aud bridges on tho In. dlanapolls, Peru & Chicago, but no trains will be seut out st prescnt. All the other roads sre in ruuning condition, and will send out regular trains. Bpoclals to tho Journal from vadous ports of the Btato ropors cootinued heavy raing, with a vory high stage of watur {u oll the atreams. At Martinsvillo, the Whito River 1 bigher than evor before koown, Sooding the streots. The farmers in Morgan County liave suffered saverely, aud the damago Lo orops, drowning of stouk, and destruction of proporty genorally, s catimatod st Lialf a million dollars, Sucewal Diaputeh to The Chicaas J'ribune, LAvAYETTE, Ind., Aug, L.—Tho almost incos- saut raln for tho last thirty-six hours, together with mn uoprecedented wet spell for tho pust two weoks, bavo tlooded tho wholo couutry, ‘The whola Upper Wabavh bottoms are under wator. Thoriver at this poiut Las been riving st the ratoof 8§ Inches per hour all day, an still contiuuca, Tho levees loading Lo the West Bide sro now baraly above water, ‘The damsge to czops ia onormous. Crops on tho boltow are are a total loss. Wheat, vorn, and oats on higler ground are almout us Lad, from the long-contiue ued wet waather, 'Tho YToledo, Wabsuh & Weut- erts Nluad has sbandonod all trains to-night. It bus had five work-tralus out botween Lafayette and Fort Wayue slnco easly this miorning 1t re- mtz:&u‘xgn‘n‘l‘u}m‘luwr; to thuo b{lld e or Lrack, ralus tbrongh all xight inthe woralug, L. N. A, & 0. Rallroad ia all right -north of us, but sonth bave somo culverts bade :i'o:“h'd sad bridges in m precarious coudi- It haa haa four work-trains out sll da; and hopes 16 koo d paseadle if Do mors serious storms follow, The boltomu botween Balnbridge sud Gracncastle aro all under water, and maoy families hava veen compalled to m ove to higher ground. Tralna on all other roads u%::u::- 1‘::::;2\\ lé‘“ bsen suspandeds. . us dsmago track hau beon reported, but. el abls small '“h.':il 14 mmhflmm T g e iy o N continums with rezton, The Wabawh linw overflowed itu ianls st all poiuts. Tho olil lovee, 5 miles aonth of thin city, broka last night and ovarflowed wov- eral thonsand aeren of Iand. The eorn crap in tho buttom jand n entirely dratroyed, lLarin quantities of whnat which 1emained n shvckd hins beon carried away. 1418 imponaible at pres- ent Lo ostimate tho dumnge done. MISSOURL Bpectat Dispateh to The Chicnan Tribums, 8r. Louss, July 31.—Tho rain-storm which han baon provailing hero for soveral dava contitmed to-day almost unabated, and our atreota aroln a horriblo condition, some of them baing s porfect sea of mud, and hmparsable in placon, Im- monea damage is Leing dono to cropx throughout the sutrounding conntry. Hpcial dinpatchos from vatious portions of Miracurl, aud expeciai- 1y in tho contral portion of thy State, nnaounce the heaviest 1ain=fall of tho season dnpng o= day., Oaty, hay, anl vlieut are complately dea- troyed i wuwny places. Fences and barim aro being washod uvay. Ail tho creoks and nivers are bouming. 8. Lotis, Ma,, July 81.—Thn rain-storma of four days atill continiig in this aud aluost overy other section, Gieat quiatities of rain bnvo also fallun 1n sdjoibing States, nnd asida fom the danage aona to reilroads, crops of nll kinds have sustained great injurs, rnd noarly all tho Hireams nro so kwallen thiat considorntlo puprolionstoun were felt horn of 8 freshet in thu Minsourt and Muwisuipy.i Rivors, Aftor riving uearly 3 feet, tho river hiero i talling to-night, bit 1o doubt will bo swolliniz sgain to-morrow, and i the rain contunues & dy or two longer ther mnst, 1 tho nature of tho case, be piotiy bigh water. WISCONSIN, Speetnd Dirvateh to 1 he Chicago Tribune, TiaCruserz, Wis., Aug, 1.—A careful aud thor- ough fuguiry amoug the farmera of LaCrorue, Mouroe, Yernon, Inckson, and Templeton Coun- tion, in Wisconuin, in regard to the coming har- vest, fndicntes a prospect for the largest crop of all kinds of graln Lad In thers localitics siuce 1860. Reports from tho wircs aud roads extond- fug from tho Mississippl Iliver to the western part and through the great whoat fielys of Mine vesota, without ezeeption, 1o of flsa mont tint- tuting deseription, aind, with a continuance of tha presont fino weather for n shore Limu, tho yield of wheat will bo immense, and ol tho bost quulity, 'Tho harvest has begnn, and by the midilo of tho week will Lo i tull blust, “Thero {s grent derand for bar- veal bauds, Good wages uro paid: in_aomo roctious tho pav ranging from %60 to 84 por day. A groat many harvesters ATO pRgritns through the city aud crossing un forries ab this point o the wiy to the gram-ficlds, One mill horo ban tlnt down, and thg balanes are wori- iu;:dnuun-huuduu. the meu Laving gous to tho tivlda, KANSAS, Arcmisoy, Kan,, July 81,.—Considerable dam- ago sy beou done to small grain you standing by tho heavy rains of tho past two weeks, The corn, lhowever, 8 growivg with won- derfol vigor, ond this crop will, it is thougbt, bo tho. largest ever produced in tho Ytato, Even on the eastern bordoa whera the locusts deatroyed tho first plauting, corn re- planted lato fn dune is now from b to 7 feet Bigh, oud will probably vield n full crop. "Phyo heavy Taw of Tnosdny lase o damaged the Atenison & Nebragka Raileond that 1t tenivg Tase not passed over tho rosd wince that date, ¢ will bo ropaired knd troms running reguluriy by Mousing. Special Diznateh to The Chicaas Trbune, TLawnescr, Ka, Jduly 81.—All the railroad fines ruouing iuto thia city are moro or leas awm- uged by ras. No trmims on two ronds to-day, and :ho Knusnu Pacific 18 under water at several wointa, {u’i\l]:u, and did conkiderabia dumage w Leavon- woril County, Wleat and flux ure in shocky in numorous localities. "I'ho wheat returna will in cousequonco bo grently lessenod. OH!O. « TLexivotoN, 0., Aug. 1.—The almost continu- ons bisrd rains of the past weok bhave boen sup- plomouted during tbho last twenty-four hours with etill beavier storms. Tho nver-bot- toms, in consequenco, are floodud, erd tho cropy amro suloring soriously, Tho Minmi iver and tributaries aro ut & tlood boight, bLigher than at this senson for twonty-five or thirty years at_this puint. No soclons damage liag boon dono, but bridzo abutmonts are suffering. The tobnero Crop ore almost ruinod by tho storm, onta, corn, nud mesdowa suffering groatly frowm nriny worms, and the wheat s rotting i shock. I'he weather is still gloomy to-night, and moro raty fy threatoned. ness is doprossed 1 consequonce of dumagod cropu, TENNESSEE, Meyrms, Tonn, July 3L.—Tho situstion as rogards {ho river is a littlo more hopoful to-night 10 view of ita beiug Atationary hore and doclin- ing at Bt. Louis, but iy still regardod a8 danger- ous. Somo damage has resulted from eipe wator, o8 tho Jovees are perfectly saturated, aud tho wonther coutinues showors. THE MISSISSIPPI RIVER, Muewris, Tonn., Ang. L.—The Sigoal Sarvice rToporta this ovening show that au overllow is inoyitable. Tho river horo rose half sy inch, and anothor heavy rive is roportod at 8t Louis aud o tondy ndvanco at Cairo, with general rains fn country sbove, Thiy leaves littlo hojo that the planters jo the Missismppi bottom will escape tho dreaded inundation, snd that their orops, which wero novor bottor, will b saved. —_— FIRKS. IN_CHICAGO, Thoslarm from Ilox No. 43 at 32:05 o'clock this morning wae occasionod by the discovory of tiro lu No. 195 LaSallo stroot,—oue of tho framo shantles nosr Monroo strost. Tho blaze was kindlod in somo shavings near tha stove, aud, 83 thoro was oo firo iu tho latter, 1t iy thought that it wos the act of an in- J. W. Davis occuplos tho premisas condiary. ¢ o8 o carpoutor shop, and separated by & thin partition 18 & stablo whm&wvuml Lorses in the stalls woro ucarly suffocatod by tho smoke. Lhe damago waa trifliug, At 11:20 o'olock last night an alarm was given from Box 121, cousod by firo in n tureo-story frumo bullding of Oottugo Grove avenuo wecond wtreot. Tho slructare and houschold effecis §400. pant_was Lonjamiu W. Riggs, who koopw o hnnl(ng-huuln;, bhia loss is coveored by fusur- ance in the Globo of Chiosgo aud & Maryland company. Csuse of fire not known. AT LINCOLN, NEB, Spectal Dispatch to The Chicavo Tribuns. LmooLN, Neb., Aung. 1.—At 8 &'clock this moroiog the Atwood House, corner of Niuth and Bixth stroets, was almoat totally destrojod by firo. Lous, about 20,000 on tho building sud 85,000 on the contonta, The formor was lusured for $10,000; tho Istter for 91,500, Mush of the coutonis was saved, The main portion of the building was wholly destroyed, ‘Cho roar wivg was ssved. Tho buildinge’ sdjolining, s light wooden block, wore threatoned, but woro aaved. The houss wos built {n 1343, waa one of the best in the oity, and was owned by Dr. N, Atwood, AT LONG ISLAND OITY. Nxw Yonx, Aug. 1.—Fire last night destroyed L. D. Hibbard's lard oll manafactory, iu Loug Island City., Loss, $75,000; lusurancs, §40,000. —— THE BRANDT CASE. Spacral Dlavaleh to The Chicogo Triduna Dea Moines, In., Aug. 1,—The District Coart bav adjourned for n week, aud tho Draudt caso oes ovor for that time. It muy as woll bo statod ut once that, whatevor be ths docision of thie Court, My, Brands willnot go to prison. 1f tho Court sliall pass sontence upon him, ho will e an appeal-bond, aud be released. Tho Court is only waitiog tho decision of the Bupremo Oourt on the case, which does not sppear to bo in any basto about it s§ alL It {s anderetood that the Jndg‘a; do not sgree on all points, new questions baving boen raised by 'Judges Book snd Davy, since the Court sdfourned. FIFTY-NINE DAYS WITHOUT FOOD, dvecral Dispatoh to Ths Chicage Tribuns, Dza Monxxs, In., Aug. 1.—A very singular caso is yeported in Van Buren County, of a girl 11 yoars old, who dled a few days since, aftor an illucas of five aud helf months. During the last ffty-nine days ebe absolutoly ate nothin, took & o of medicine, and, duriog & time, the tunctions of ruplndna. ciroulation, and calonficsuion were 1oslntained withous artl dowa 10 & fow houss before dsath undimintuhied force In i | A wator-spout yesterday took awny o Publle foeling abut busi- at the cornor and Thirty- was damaged to the oxtent of 2800, and tho furniture Henry Uoves owns tho buiiding, snd has oo inrurauco. The occu- 2. 1875 'WASHINGTON. Programme of Government-Pue per Shaves, alins Gold Sales, for August, Considerahle Surpiise nt the Tenor of the Cuicago Custom-House Report. Gronnd Rroken al Fhiladeiphia for tie Government Ceutennlal Tiuildin: FProparations at Few Orleans for the Oraiso of the Bizamer Lo Bravo, Abstracts of the Condition of the Katicnal Banks of Pitlsbury and S8 Paul VIESTERN BANKS, PITINGLNG AND B1, " Specwul lnavateh to The s Trbune, Wasittsaroy, . C.y Aug. 1. -The Comptroller af tho Currency has just completed thy abstract 6f tho bunk statemont for the two Weetern et jesnot alresdy published.—I1ttsbury and Ht. '), —whicl aro subjoimed, showiug thoe condi- tion of Lusiness Juno 89, 1575 £ ALSTRACT FOR BT, PAUL. aten boudn 10 sacure defymits United States bands o3 band..,. Othiee stocke, boudn and mory Do from releening vbd reervs o Premiume puld Coocks anl ottier eas) Jixehango for Clearing-fon 1l of othier Nationat Buui, Fractional Nathvun] Bauk ol Divhicdy uny aid., Individial deposite, United Bint Deposita uf Lnfed & Duie to Nationn] Lanks .. Axee i clasitication uf rentrve behl— 1, §i30 i Ko de, 510,583 Br cint Tedemption fund, AUSTIACT FUR TTTTNOURG. BESUULCYS, Toans and disconnts, t s honds tosecury d S.ates bonds ou band.., Dl wtocks, Londs, and morl Duo from rodociug and reerve ag DawTro National Baiks tate, Currcut expeuses Tremtian patd. o Cliceka zml Vo B Jogal-tender not Fivu per cont rede urer, i3 Du from Freasurer other thun b per ¢ fund Totaliverssaes Caplral atock petd i Hurplu tund., Chvided 1 National Diuk noten autstandiig. Blutn Bauk notes outstanding . ndy utipaid, l1aal degoni 1 Staten ch‘w(l Dus to Natonal Bk Due 10 tato Banky aud Tanki Notes aud bitls rediveuuuted, Total...... Nuaber of bin roserve hield, 3, Jogal-tonders, deposit, $100, $538,L05 ; NOTES AND NEWS. CUSTOMS NEGULATIO! 8pecial upatch to L'te Chic ‘Wasuixaros, D. C., Aug. 1.—Tha Collector of tho Fort of Doston had a long iuterviow Satur- duy with tho Acting Becretary of tho Troasury. ‘Tho result of tho iutersiew was that tho Acting Becrotary oxpressed tho opmion that the new regulation which requires all mombers of a firm tosigu Custom-Ilouso bonds cannot be modi- fled. A blundor in the revised statutes has made tho provision of the law mandatory, aud thero can be no modification of tho regulation, except as to tho construction of the torm ab- scuce. It I possible that the coostruc- tion of this term may Lo left discro- tiomery with Collectors until the mecting of Congross, 'fusn this, with the many.other serious orrors of tho statutes, will be referred to Congroes for further setion. The Acting Sucre- tary was lnclived ta recommond & mioditication of the regulation which requircs cartago of one- tenth of all packages except bulky articles from tho custom-wharves to thu public stores for ape- praisoment. Ho doubtless will recommend that raising, tigs, wines, and similar light arcicles, os woll au certain classes of undutiablo goods, shatl Lo oxompted, a8 buliy articles aro vow exempl. ESTIMATING GOYELNMENT EXTENSES, The footings of the exponditurcs for the last fiseal yoar show that tho total expenditures of the United Htutes Governmout, exclusivo of tho siuking-fund roguiromsns, for thy flscal year endiug Juue 80, 1875, were €274,00,000. den. Garileld, Obairman of the Houve Committeo on Appropriatious, in hix spooch oa* tho budgaet ono yoar and a half befora the closo of tho fiscel year, nix monthy before that yoar bogau, esti- nated tho total expendituros ot $270,010,000. ‘Ihix is womething uoaror than Gladytono nanally cumio iu hfs extiniateaso far in advauoco. Sec- rutary Dristow, ono yosr lator, aud six monthu beforo tha closo o{ tlio tiscal year, mado the marvelously close estimato of $270,000,000, ex- sctly half & million more than tho aotual ex- peudituros, THR CRNTENNIAL. Reporta bave reached Col. 8. O. Lsford, Ordvauco Corps, U. B. A, Presidont of tho Board to represent the Goverus ment at tho Internationsl Contonnial Exbibi- tion, that ground waa broken this week at Phila- delphia for the buildiugs o be orccted for tha Uoverument in Fairmount Park, and that the eroction of tho main buildig and the model Army Y'ost Hospital has been commonced. 'Tho Intorior Departiment and Bmithsoniau Institute wil ocau]:y uurlfl two-thirdy of tho space 1 the malo building, which covers an area of 100,000 squaro feet. TILE DIO GRANDE CHUISE. ‘Tbe iron steamer Plauter, now cslled the Rio Dravo, recently purchused by the Navy Depart- ment for sorvica 1 the Hio Grande, along the Mezican froutier, is bow st Now Orlosus, sud Lias received & complemont of peity oflicors from tho United tates steamer Cansudaigus. Tho ottior thirty-tlve meu nesded to mun the yesssl will bo epecially enlisted among men accus- tomod to service on Westorn river stoamers. ‘Tbe Ltio Bravo will be armed with four howitzers and a 30-ponnder Parrots ritle, and will sall from New Orleans on Tuesilay, BETAINED. The resignation of Col. A. 8. M. Morgan, Orduanco Biorekeoper, U, B. A., which waa some timo sinco accepted, to take effect Aug. 1, was to-duy rovoked, and he was ordered for duty ab the Xock luland Arsensl, in Dlwols, TUB LAXAMIE FOST-OYVICE. 8peolal-Agout Furay, jof the Post-Office Do- partuent, Who has n investigating the cliaryos made sgainst Abbott, the;Postmaster at Larawie, Wyomlug, in councetlon with tho Palioe lottery scheine, has presented his ropore to the Poat-Otice Departmont. The report finds, in substance, the followlug: Fetice, about & year since, removed from Omaba, where ho had n_eonductlug bis lottery schems, to Wyowing. Pottee Lad sgreed Lo pay, and did pay, to Abboit,the Posttsster, st 100 monthly, Peltes, 11 Ls obarg ibls hin loliery pealls sy way be inteeferad with, and fhat bis correaponed- enco might bo rocoived snd forwarded with sprcial dirpatzh, Abbott, on the other hand, clatmn that this money wad paud to enabln him 10 Guyage tho kervices of An extea clorkz, which wan mnde uncenary Ly tho large sddibonal amount of mail inexdent'to the lutrary basinaen, but it doch not appess that any such oxtea clurk wne engaged, Abbott dots not deny the of tim meney, 10 ho did, it voukl ho neeless, as Forny obtained the checks by which the pay- ments were nuwle, Thoe checks “rere druwn Dy Tetten, payable to the urder of ALwott, aud in- doraed by the latt THE CHICATO CUATOM-IIOURE. ‘Tho report s to the avrertaeut of the local Commmedm on the Chicagy Cuwtom-tonse Luilng bas uceastoned much eurpeisyin the ofice of the Sujurvising Atchitect. The lateet privato Information reccived hero was that the Commtteo would eertminly dinagreo, Chesbran gh ard Hovington would aventually in‘kaen the report of the Government Comtus- #ion. There has Leen o lemn t for tho Mucler- Staris volumo, but noho Lnve been recoived bure, 120 the Amsoriated Prean,’ GOVEWNAMLNT AUIAVES FUR AT GTAT, WasniNaroy, D, C.o Auge 1.—"1ho Ansletant Trausmer at New York houd been dinocted by the Sncratary of tha Ireasnry to soll gold during tho manth of August aa foliows : Uno snd oue-half mnlliou dollars ou tho ticat wnd thrd Thursdays each, and £1,000,000 oo thy ereond sud fourth Thursdays each i total, 000,000, THE SULWAL O T FICE An order ha« boen insued fton 160 Post-Ofics Depantwent to include the Milwaukae, Wik, Tout-Ullicn tn the list of firat-clauy loster-earcier ofticew, and tho pay of the carriers bid beon ius creadod accordingly. s CASUALTIE DROWNED, Bpecinl Dunateh to The Chieano Tribuna. Quaxcy, 111, Aug. 1.~—A teamster utiached {o Daruum's Hippodromo wus drowned in the river hero sbout 40 feet from the levee. He rodo one of tuo hordes iuto the siream, and wan leadiog threo othors, when he by Somo means got puiled into the water, and wua drowned. CoLvausus, Aug. L--Jolin Conlan, an etwploye at tho ytono-quarry, wus drownued to-day whilo bathine, Couliu was & stranger here, Cineixsats, Ang 1.—Tho bodies of the four voung men drowned last Thurslay vighs near untingtou, W. Vi, wero recovered to-dag, and are un route hero fur Lurial E FOUND, Srecial Diapitet o the Cliacica Tribune, Forr Wavsie, Aug, L—This mornng the dead body of an old man named Fredirek Ruse was fouus in the cubin of a de-erted canalbuat. The oy was seantily astired, but oabibitod uo rigus of viclence. An investigation by s Coroner's Jury Lrought out little evidence, but indicazed that Itoso dicd of erywipelan. agsravased by div- wipation, lunwer, and negic:t. How loner o had been in the canalboat, or vow hio got there, no ong knows, €Ol RUNAWAY AZCIDENT, pecial bupatel 0 The Chaozas Trivine, Drovsisutos, 1k, Auig. 1L—1'r.day uigut Mr. Joln W. Whipp sud bLis daughter Roko were throwa from o buggy near Normal. Mr, Whipp tiud w 1id_broken, bosides recciving other seri- ot lujuriou. Miss Whapp biad bier tvuguo bedly cut. FOUR MEN SUFFOCATED 1M A ouis Fepubiicin, 1ty i, Poople hving 1w tho viciaity of the Vulean Iron-Works were startied justerdsy afteruoon Dy the roport that thraugh s fatal chaiu of acci- dents four miou bad lest their Jives m & privy vault. I'io eircumstances of tho affair, s clicited nt tho inauest Lold, were ss folluws : Bomu time since, homas Donoboe, liviug ou the esst aide of Lenton, etwean Murceau and Clay strects, waa noutied to abate a umwance consistiogt of a full privy vault, To effect this ho had a new vault dug beside tho old oue, ubtout 95 feet in dopth aml 5 teet across. Ho had stated Lis in- tension to movo the coutcute fiom tho old to tho now vault, oud then Lnve tue uld one cloaned, Had he deoo this the futal catasirophe wowid not have ocenrred. lostead of #o dulag. how- over, ho concluded to euve expenso by draimuz tho vontents of the old vault 1uto the otber, snd Lad intendod to do tho wotk durivis the Light, For sowe reason, huwevor, ho chouged bis mund, and wout down in the new viult yoster- day ufternoon sbout 2 o'clock to tap the wall, Ho hiad no sooner mado au vpening 1 the brick wall thae & deadly volume of gur. 1 Wavs preseut n out-houses, 1ushed throay) wjertire, A singlo inhalation was sullicient to Ivzo lua streugth, Almoset 1u atustant bis buid on the Jaddor loosoned and L fell to the bottow of the pit acorpue. A youny man named Charles Prunty, a boarder at Donohioe’s hunse, soon afterwards remaried that Donohoe waus gone 8 loug tine, and weat to #eo what was tho mateer. Ou _looking down ho uaw tho lifeless form Iying hall burted fu tith st thie foot of thu laddor, 1o shoutod au alurm to seversl othors who wero within hearing, and then rushed hecdlessly down the Jadder, probubly thinking 1o extricate tho body before lifo should become extiuct, T'nose who had heard lus call and scen himn hur- riedly enter tho vault ran immedistely to the placo, but, whon they arnved, could hear no an- swerto their muxioas imijuirics as to what was tho troublo. I'ooring into the doptls of tho horrid git they could _ discover the two bodies lying togethor at tho bottown. No doubt the sec- ond mau bad boen overcoms by the foul air as soon n3 bo arrived opposite where tao wall hiad beon tapped, aud bud purishiod almost in- stantly, By this time quile o crowd had collected, and among thom was o young man named Sanies Hoary. He, vot supresime tho men dead. seclvj the noceseity for instant action, piepared 1o dewcend to thoir aeistatice, With greater prudence than tho one who had proceded hum, lio tiod 4 rope ubout hus waist and arrauged that at o given wigoal thoso above wera to draw nun out. This agreod npoa, he wont dowtaln to suve, if possiblo, the hulpless mion be- nenth. Ho went steadily down for some distance, then suddenly changed Lis netion, besitated, baitod, aud tosnu:d Lis nrms ssa signil to bo drawa out, An instaut o buny suspeaded in the ir, and it secniod to thoso who were watcling him from sbovo that & deadly pallor hud over- sproad his faco. Strong arms tugeed st tho ropo, avd (ho daring man, perbaps airoady dead, had commonced to sscend, when au unforsenn calamity ocourred. The ropo, whick lu tne ex- citoment of tho moment hiad buen insocuraly fastened, ellpped trom about bus waiet and the body fell with o dull thud to lio with thuse that hsd gono beforo, ‘Tho men abovo looked aghast at thiv terribla mishiap, Wiat was to be done? Tho questivn was eoon answored. Another young wan, Josepls Schticktly, volunteerod o ke tho descent aud was foolishly permitted to doso. The sickening dotwly cau be spared. In fow short minutes a fourth victim was added to tho number, and tho talo of horror was closed. A polics ofticor wout to tho station, obtainsd hooks, and, amid the most profownd Horrow on the part of all thore assombled, the lifcless badies were one by one drawn out upon the ground. FOUL VAULT. i i, ERIE COMMERCE, Epecial Disvatch o The Chicaqe Tridune, Fug, Ps., Aug. 1.—Départurca for Clucago, propellers Alasks, Merohaut, sohooner Alloghony, “Thie recoipts of graiv, oic., by lake, for tho past week wore 135,160 bushols whoat, 10,208 barrels flour, 8,00 bushols corn, 1,753 tons Iron ore, ‘Iho shipments by luko wore 8,23 toos coal, 1,050 barrels wugar, sud sundrios, Avchor Line sbnp- ments by rail for the same timo were 165,107 bushols whoat, 16,268 barrala tlour, 8,000 bushols corn, 40,000 fest lumbor, 106,700 ponuds wmer- shaullis.” Tha rocoipla by el wore 6,350 tous coal. ——— MICHIGAN AND THE CENTENNIAL, Epesial Disvaloh to 1 Chicaao Tribune. Deraorr, Mich., Aug. 1.—The Uovernor has sppointod as the Stato Board of Managera for the Centenuuwl, the ilvn. Jav A. Hubbell, of Houglton ; AL J, Mills, of Detrolt; J, J, Wood« wuo, of Paw-Paw; and Honry Fralick, of Grand Lapids. The Hon. Jamos Liruoy, of Bay City, and C, B, Grant, of Huucock, sro the United Htates Comuwissionors fer the State, The Gov- erpor is_ also ex-olicio a mamber of the Board. They will mest in Datroit on the 13th inst., to prepare » pian of operations, —_— DEAF, DUMB, AND BLIRD, Spectal Dispalch to The Chicago Tribuns. Laxuxa, Mich, Aug. 1.—Tho Mauagoers of the Doaf, Dumb, snd Bhind Asylam, at 3 bavo issued notice shat the mest tenn com- mences Sept. 91 aud tuat all deaf, dumb, and blind perssus, botweon tho agos of 10 aud 20, of natural intellect sud good moral charscier, are futitled to ths priviloges of the iustitution eigbt yoard (ru“wltuuuiunh:ru‘o for bn‘i‘?lm: lnr.:‘ whion paranta ato unable to faralan elo will hopsn.rnuhld tosa amoont nob luugln. 1§40 par snaum. COUNTERFEITERS. Descent npon n Gang at St. Paul by United States Dotec- tives, Nabbing of Manufacturers, ** Boodle- Carriers,” and ' Shovers." The Inflationists Tracked to Thelr Lair, and Thelr Outiit Securee. Their Efforts to Bupply the Need of the West for Money Frustrated, A Contraction of $100,000 Effected In “ Queer " Currency. HEADQUARTELAS, Srecial Dispateh to The Chicaao Tridune, Wasiixoton, D. €., Aug. L—Elwer Washe burn s duing very efloctive work ms Cluef of the Treasury Becrat Sorvice. During the month of July the result of his work was the arrest of two manufacturore of coin, two *‘sbovers™ of coin, four dealers in counterfeit paper-money, ono **boodle-carriers,” who supplies tho dealer with goods, three *“shovera" of paper-mones, two plate-priutors, aud s large lot of material, The Secrot Bervico Bureau to-day receivod s dis- patch from Bt Paul avnouncing sowne vory im- vortant artests in chat city. About n weok ago one of the oporatives of the Becret ber- vice at 4, Paul dropped into = saloon. While tuere Lie ovorheard somo intoxicated men talking about counterfeit money. 1ie shadowed them, and discovered that thoy were located in n wwall houke in the vutskirts of the city. Theso fucts were immediately reposted to Washingtou, when tho moxt vlilled men wero ordored to 8t. Paul. ‘The 1exult was thut, ths moruing abont 1 oelock, 8 plate-printer named Woolsoy and the toturious counterfeiter Bam Peyeer, a most ext-ert pinter. wero arrested. The oflicer found, beridey, oue 52, two #10, sud ono €20 conuter- feit plato of Nativoel Bank notes, and £80,000 in Liiis of a Paducab, Ky. National Dank. THE THEATRE OF ACTION. Spectal Inxpaten to Ihe Clicudo Trivune, S7. Iatt, Aug. l—Au umpoitant sreest of greenback cousterfeiters wui made heio Jast night Ly Mursbinl Melaren, ou fnforsation fur- vished by A. P. Helchold, Special Tressury Agent: lenson, Arsistaut Cluef of the Unmite Stztes Seeret Bervice, sua J. 12, diller and I, D. “I'srrel, detectives, It appears that Bonson aud otliern have believed for nome three months that su cngraver and eleetrotyper named Woulsoy, who was couvocted with the Loucobel, Wis., gaug of counterfelters broken up lust year, wan Jocated In Bt. Laul, aud probably engaged in roLting out & uew veries of countarfeita, Hav- ing lesrned his lceation, and facta euough to as- Bure thom that thoycould trap bim, the Agent and detectives camo hero from differont directions Weduesday, Thureday, aud Friday, and were prepared for Lusiness Fridsy night, but found their man wos temyorarily abkent. Lust oven- ing they capturad Woolsey in a saloon uear the Tost-Olice, and, proceeding immodiately to hin reaidence, swall house on Dousman street, apper town, thero arrested bLin wife and his ns- aidiant in couterfeiting, and secured plates aad counterfeit notes in varions slages of progress amounting to about 100,460, ILe wrineipd in George W. Wuolsey, who haw nssumed the nameas of George Clatk nud Georgo E. Carl, sud is shout 81 years old, lsviug, sccording 1o tho detectives, been in the counterfeiting businosa for eipht and o balf years. is wife, who gave ler namo as Mra. Mury L, is about 22 years old, aud bas & buby about 15 mouthy old, Bhio is eotnely devoted to bor busband, and re- fuses bo wuke auy disclosures. The second mau arrcatod refusod to give his name, but ia knownu 10 the detectives as Samuol Peyser, aliss C, A. Davis, s printer by trado, 23 years old, and com- paratively o now hiand in tha countorfeiting busi- veok. Woolsey's fathor reaides at Clenr Lake, In. Two yeurs sgo Woolsey was located G milos southeast of Clear Lale, snd, being warned that detectives wero nfter lum, escaped after buryiug the plates on which he wan ot work, which are supposed to bo the same plates coptured lere, Woolwey also has ® brotber named Myron, living at Miuncapolin, who visited hitn Toursday, and with whom ha wus at Miuncapolis Friday. Tho plates captured wero for#10 on tho Farmers' and Mauufacturers’ Naticual Bavk of Paducaly, N. Y., thero being oo such place, but the plates were closo imtstiovs of geuuine 10 of the similarly namod Bank of Paducal, 150 electrotype or woft capy and plate for §2 on tho PeekskillNstional Bank; a plate for €108 on tho National Bauk of Poughkeepsiv, aud an electrotype for $20 on tho Natious! Liauk of Westchioster Couuty, N. Y. Tho biils w process of prenaration wore from the Paducah plates, fow belug roady for tho tinishing chemical bath, and others su far advanced that the detoctives way they would tavo bad 10,u00 billa ready for issuo within ten Quys. The preseut sppearnueo of tho most nd- wanced bills is rongu, coarso work, but experts kuy that thoy would have como out with & look of age kna use which wonld Lave covored all do- ficioncios in printivg, whilo tho gonoral sfoct of the Dilla would DLave boun equal to tho best work on gouuine platos. Woolsoy used the upper part of his houso for cupraving and finisling, and tho collar for print- ing. A lithograph press, fiuo ks, nud & varloty of ohomicals were found ahuut tho ostablish- went, sud seizod. Tho pri-onors will be up for examination before Commissiooer Cardoza to- IOTFQW WO, ko THE WEATHER. WasmiNatox, D. €, Avg. 3.—1. s, m.—For the Upper Lako rogion, and Uppor Missivsippl and Lower Missourt e, partly cloudy sud warmor woathor,wlth eanterly to southerly winds, and slight chauges in prossuro. LOCAL OLSERVATIDX, L e A dield tho Llood of tha poor shopman, of whom rhin domanded if the prmted ealien sho ‘purchased nf him *would wush,™ “The tragie tones pansing, in themidat of the fmprerved and improssive wilanco of tho axrambled fanily, I tinkled forth ¢ ** What haantitul oyes you have!™ all my small facultics have been abrorbed {n the stendfant ap- ward gaze 1 fixed upon thoss magmficent orba. Mra, Hiddons sot me down with' a smothared Inugh, ~nd I'trotted off, apparently uninjured by iy groat aunt's solomn moral aussfon, A danpgarous appeal of a higher order bain mado 1o me by my sunt's most intimated mnnvf Min. F——, not & very judicious petson, to tha affect: ** Fanny, why don't vorr pray to God ta mnio you botler?" jmmediately recoived the conclnaive roply: ** Ho I do, and he makes me worso and worke,” Paronts and guardiana should Le chiary of handling the deep chords upon whosa truth and strength the hivhest harmonlea of the fully develuped soul are ta depend. SEQULELS TO THE SC;‘\N DAL, Thn fBethel to He Mortgnred to Pay Mr. Iseccher’s Salary—The Nesvie Turner Fund—The ProctoreGraphia Labels New Tork Times, Julyal. 1t in somowhat anthoritatively stated that the oflcinla of Plymonth Church intend to raisq the $40,000 sdditional wsalary -volud to Mr. 'uuu.-hu by & mortgago on the Dethel Ihe ressou fur this course, as related by rome of tha préminent mombors of the chureh, i8 that, despito all the pushing awl atriving of thoss interosted in the matter of paying r. Beechior's fucreaws of enlary, considerablo difii- culty 18 found i gorting the 2100,000 psid up. It is the old way: i thing to vote, and anothor to psy. A gentleman who knows whereof he Bpeaks anverte thut ail thnt thoy hovo been able to collect of the $50.060 frow tin congrogation Ia %3.500, Buch A wtsto of thiugs soems Lisrd) credible, when It It remetsbored that mymom.fl Clnrcl, threo yunrs ago, st a siuglo meating, raised £50,000 to dincharge tho Daih-1 debt. A fuud is uow bong raised among tlin mora outhumistic mombers of Plvmouth Church for tho euefit of Miss Ueasio Turnor, ‘Thio matter 8 kept very quiet, but there ia but littlo doubt & movement” of the kind Iw in progress. Tho wmount obtained for the aid of the youny lady as not begn divulzed, q The extended timo for tho defendnants to an- swer in the suit for libel brouglit by Miss Edns Doan Iroctor sgainet tho Now York Graphio Company exires to-dav, ‘Tho damagos aro hid at $100,000. The action in lY.lcnlmn was brought on asccount of su alleged libel contained in Francis D. Moalten's long statemont 1 rola- tion to tho Tilton-Baechior scandal, nnd whicly was published in the Daily Graphio last fail. It is pow more than probable that tho ruit will vever bo trled, but will ja ail hkelihood bo compromised on similar torma to those in which tho same iesuo was mottled bee tweou Miss Proctor as plaintixf and T, D. Monl- ton us defent A letter writton yesterday by ium A. Boach, counsel for tho Graphio cmpsuy, to Uen. B. F. Lracy, of eontusol for Misn Proctor, calts the latter's” attention to tho oxpiration of tho time given defondants in which to answer tho complaint, nnd nxks for & further extension of sixty dave. Ar. leach at the same timo reminds Gen, Tracy ot an interview thov had upon the subject of tho ation, 1 whih it was agreed betwoou them that tho st khould e withdrawn upon the defend- auts publishing o reteaction of tho articlo com- plained of, 1 turther recalls to Gen. Tracy's uotico that tho Istter pronused to draft an ac- ceptable form of retraction and forward tho samo for s [Mr. lissch's] approval. That proposed paper, It 1 wtated, [s not yut been received, Mr. Deach nlso statos thas Gen. Tracy, though desiring to sulmit the mat- ter to Mirs Proctor, hiad uo doalt of ubllinu:F Lier absslate aprrosal of the courss proposod. ‘flio action was taken in tho Suprews Court of Kinga County on tho 224 Heptomber, 1474, As thero will bo'none of the Supreme Court Judges 1 attendance i Brooklyn to-day, and aa Gen. ‘Tracy s absent on hiy farm ut Owogo, Tiogs County, it may Le presumed that sizty days’ ex- tonston of timo witl L grauted. In Seibuer for August 18 nis arsicle ou ¢ fe,” inwhich oceurs tho followlug ot of the -:r.z;\ to introduco Awerican ics iuto Eoglaud in 18 At thut date fancy drinks wars almost untieard of fu the clnby, taverns, and gin palaces of Lon~ don, Alr. Hittinger concetved the idea of intro- ducing theno, to shuw 10 wpat oxtout ica was used in **tho States" fur this purpose. He, therctore, wocured the services of woveral bage keepurs, whom he hindinitiated into the mystur- 1weh of ‘mising juleps, smashes, cocktnlls, and vther drinks koown only in Yankeolnad, Mlig experionco, 88 bo relutea it himeoll, is very auwusingg: I went ontn the steamer, #n as to mako ar- rangements for the arrval of the burk and cargo, doliverad my lotters, talled with partics, and feit pertectly miro thut T Lad struek avein, In dus timo the *Sharon," baving mado a [iros; orous passase, arrived in the Tonmes. The thing had joon taibed over o much that tho curgo of Tostou ice was o8 woll udvertised as it couid have boon iu the columns of tho Times. . Bat, aftor all, 1t appenrod to them a strango fish thot 1o one dared to touch, My foelipgs wero just about the temperatura of my ice, dud wasting ag rapidly, At lastl wasintroduced to the Chatrman or Y'resident of the Fishwmougors' Association, au association which I was not longin discovers ing bl the weiit of wealth, if not of social poul- tiou, He wax socinblo, and’ seewed to cowyrue nend my position if [ didu't Ziis. Mattors wora soou arrauged; & magniticeut hall or saloon Lad been sccatod ; I ascertained that my bar- keepers, throagh coustant dnll, had attained the correct slaight of haud In mixing the drinkh, The hour armved, Tho hall wad long, and brillinutly lightod. After tho compauy wus seated, the Chairman intreduced mejand the sube Ject-matter of the ovemug's discussion, Now, thought I, I am all right. At a given signol tha well-trainod waitors appearcd, laden with the differont driuke. 'Tie offect was gorgeous, and I oxpocted an ovation that no Yankee ever had. But, alas! tho tirst sounds that broke tho gi- lenco were: *Isoy—aw, waitaw, o httle ‘o8 wataw, if you pleasa; I profer It ‘alf'n'aif.’ I mado & daad rush for the door, next day sottlod my bills in London, took the train for Liverpool and the stoatner for Hloston, aud couuted up & cloar loss of §1,200." A World Exposition in Derlin, North German_ Gazete, Tho question i+ mooted lu mercantile sd in- duutrh& cleclos to havo & World-Exposition in Borlin, The solicitudo that tho custs will bo too groat wo deom unfounded. Wa cortainly can do what they Lave douo in Loudun, Paris, sud Viouna. It will not do for us to be bebind aoy of the great Htates in srranging a Worl Kzposition, Ans it is atso of lnportaoce that should vist the exposition at Philadelplis, we may soou look for & committee to bo formied tako the nocossar y preliminary ste| DEATHS. At10 0.0 Aug,1, Myriio atd Lydi a1: bigelow nca 215 North Statest. a2 9. m, to- this olty, Aue.l, 1875, Bamuel W, th year of fils age: Funoral fruw rosl Lme_|n s oF b nie: o ‘siirace of his parents, 118 O:83 b, 2 007, 2. eiday, the 34, at 1 a'cluK B 1 T MONAMAIA-In this ey, Aug. 1, Mra. Cathiorlio Mo- # Nainsra, e anoeal Fu Rig, 3 bresms ta Catvary. Prirads ol tha family vited to sitend. (1 Lara pADOFa jiease GubY. DHEUR—Sunday, Aug. L bilvo Lanors mgiths, davghitor of Kdwa: aad Allos 1)¢ % tar, 07, Filoial Weniay, Aue, 5 8t | inioy ruwa (he resldenoe, y QXNERAL ONSERYATIONS, (e o aud relatives stw fovited Cit12400, Aug, i—Midnight, A avaition (ARAdS) DaDers pleata oupy. Staton. I TR Wotd, |Gawii eather, VIGATION, s, BTEAMERS, byl SN 61N, G a o I Lo U GO.N. 0818, A MARTYR. e Coruunus, Aug. 1,—Henry Wright, colored, Inst night beé & frioud that ‘be cuuld druk s quart of raw whisky aud eight glasues uf beer inatde Lalf su hour, Lo won the Lot bat thg Coroner to-dsy returned o verdist that the aui Wright camo to lus death from an overdose of whisky and baor, drank 1 too short time. Anecdote of JIIrI:] l.‘i‘:‘:a“.‘[? i using snecdote is from Frances AT oo N aalirouccs of ko own child- bood, tho frst claptor of which appears in she i hly for Auguet: "fii’;“’.‘.’ofl"'fi'f.fl.. tious woro mot with an fnflio- ad waser, which I Jogfully socepted, Z‘é’.“.f,fiflf,‘:’n ow 1 am hLke thoss or dear ‘rouch prisonors that overybody pitles wo.” Mrw. Hiddous at thut time lived next door to \as { sbo cawe in one day when [ had committed womo of my daily olfeuses agsinit wmanuens or moraly, aud I was led, nothing daunted, into her ence, t0 ba admonishod by her, 3 paions took me upos vt iap, 80d, bonding opon ma her *oon! feown," discoursed to e of my evil ways in aeosnts which aux- NOTIGE, DISSOLUTION. The firm of Mellen, Williatis & Warnor ls tbis day dissclVed by mubual coomnt, 24 B, Warnez aud J, Ce Williaws having purcliasod 6o ntrréet of E, J, Mellen, sud 1ho succeasumliip 1o tho business, will continue 3% 150 0l atanid, 108 aud 110 Praukliii-st. undor the firm nauie of Warner & Williams, sud are sutborized 0 seitla tho busiuces of the lato firma. P, J. MELLEN, |, O, WILLIAMS, Chicago, July3l, 1576, ED B, WARNER, ‘Tte underwgued being the leaal anccassors of he latu firwn of Melley, Willlams & Warnar, will cone toue o hsudie Graio, Fiour, Beeds, Irovisions, Mil Bluds, ke, and by mrict aitention W business bope to 1woerit ufiuuu "'?‘fla”““““";'.fm‘“;{f. Cls~ . Liberal advanoes wade oo contignments. gk WAI('NHIE & WILLIAMS. FINANCIAL o band toloan on Chicago aoil Hyde Paik ’fi'e":‘:'& $2,000 .Tfa‘:gslg m"x.oo‘g,':fl,ioo. LE00, 8%, R s 101 Waabinaion et