Chicago Daily Tribune Newspaper, August 7, 1878, Page 5

u g lon ', eny 13 the e, ¥y nt he n i n, e LA ke e cna THE CHICAGO TRIBUNE: WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 7, 1878, toappear in. Knowing the constitutional aver- vion of the average Hoosiar Democrat o clean- liness, and fearing to offemd thelr fastidtous tastes, ho hos loaned tho aforessid pants to a boy wha fishes in 1he ponda for frogs, with tho hope that they may be reduced to that state of pastiness vonsfatent with the old gentieman’s well-earned reputation before going upon the stump. 1% Is rumored that the old Governor occasionally takes n sly peep into the looking- ginss to ace whether hie haa the appearance of a wdark horse" in case VOORNERS gets things mixed & littie for the United States Senate. e — Rarus has done sumething for the credit of tbe maseuling gender. Kor eight years Gold- sinith Maid wore the crown as Qucen of the Turf, but now she must abdfeate, step down and out, and let her big brother como upon the throne. By the way, In vlew of some of the late performances of fast horses, Mr. BoNNER'S £55,000 Dexter must now be ranked as a third- rato horse. But then he s goud enough for BoNNER. — The Loulsville Commereal rays that *both candidates for Congress i this district have taken the role of extreme (Irecnbackers. The overwhelming victory of the Nationalists in Memphls seems to have Impelled them Lendlong for inflatlon.”” The Commercial stands firm for around currency and the Republican party, which, it says, **1s the only representative of true money for rich and poor allke.” e ——— IizwiTe's Committee is nlmost as ridicutous a8 PorTEN'S, and both are as lauzhablc as that part of the performance where the countrymnn trles toride the trick mule. Portin's lady performer was the only attraction on tha bills, ond the autics of HewiTr'a troupe of perforin- ing pollosopliers are enough to msken dow laugh. —————— 1t fsreported that Jerr DAvis s noxious to beclected to the United States Scuate. The memery of some of us runncth back to the time when JePF voluntarlly teft the seat he Janfuily held in the Scnate and walked out to engawe In a business that fuvolved the vlolation of his racred outh, e ———— 3 Ten't JouN Russzit, Yousaand the New York Hlera’d running 1t {nto the ground—swe mean the third-tertn business? It is well cnough to write up GRANT after the manner of the Mera'd's erespondence, but why incidentally puff Bex Bennen through the sume chanoell Don't wrawd us too hard, ——— The Independent movement scems to he creading in the South, They made a clenn cv of the Bourbuns fn Memphls the other and captured flve of the cleven oflices con. tested for in Nustville, The Nashvilic Amer- iedn I8 slightly deapundent aver the result. - —ise 1t the New York Hera'd would only print a few extra dozen columus of something or other relating cither directly or remotely to the thind- tertn question, how eagerly would the Bt. Louls G.-D. copy It. It would be such n satisfuction, too, to the 8t. Louls newspaper readers. e — - Bluco Rarus made that extraordinary time at Buffalo on Saturday nnd bas been crowned King of the Turf, the Glole-Demoerat of 8i, Louis has hoirg:d “GRANT and Rarus" as its ket for 1850. It thinks that span will make the fastest time on record. Oune of the chief points in ex-Gov. IimN- pRICKS’ recent speech was to advertise Gen. HannizoN as o candidate for the Umted States Eenate [n opuosition to DAN Voouures, Hane RISON I8 worthy of a good notice. e —— It anybody will look carefully through that wonderful specch of Keanver's in Boston on Mondsy ofght, he wil be surprlsed to flud nothing, absolutely nothini, suggested for the reliet ot the workingman, ——m—— . It is rald that ex-Gov. Vance, of North Carolina, 13 actively managing his canvass as o candidute for the scat now occupled fn the United States Sconte by Mr, MERRIMON with o guod prospect of suceess. 1t s revorted that President Hares cherlshea the nmbition to have no chunges In hia Cablnet from first tolnst, Inthia respect it will bo an exception to oll the Administrations that have preceded bls. ‘The campaiin is getting hot already over In Indisua, Both Voonuurs and HENbRICKS have spoken, oud now old Blue Jeans WiLL- 1Aus is to firc off one of his Uranger torpedous, —— 11 the Porrer Committee would uow turn ita attentlon to an 1uvesticution of tho causes and cureof tho yellow fever it lzht accomplisy some good. *“Garn Hasiiton™ got [n with o stusner on the prohoscls of Clvil-Burvice relnr‘n azaln ou Baturday, MIXED WHEAT. The Board of Warchouse Commissloners Jto- fuse tv Mako the Whent-liulls any Troubly by Legitimatizing the Delivery of Superior Whont Where Inferior Has Beon Contruct- od For, Bnecial Dispatch to The Tribune. BrrinorieL, 1N, Aupg. U.~The Board of Ralroad and Warehouse Commifssioners beld o prolonged session tu-day and evening. In addi- Unu to allowing the Inspection-Department roll for July, amguntiug to §6,247.59, the Board acted on a protést sgalnst the change of the ruledn relation to wmixed wheat. They also conaldered Jetters and dispatches favoring the :’hllnze and fnally adopted the foltuwing reso- ution Wneneas, The rule requiring a wixiure of toniug and winter wheat when inepected to b called spring wheat, and graded accurding 10 the gunlity thercaf, wue origlnally cetablished with a view lo discouraye, aud, as far os practicable, prevenl tho mixing of thess varictics in stores an Wuguxas, Owlug to the unusual and srtificisl condition of tha warket for No, 2 wpring wheat ru- cently extatlug bn the City of Chicag, and liallo Lo svcur at any thne, 16 {u evident thit wald rule Lius failed to iccomplish (he object for which it Wan established; thor ba it Miesolved, Thal the nth clause of Rule 2, reluting to the mixture of wpring und winicr whent, beand tha satug 1s hereby modited In 1te upplicas hion as foilows: All wheat prescited for fuspection in whicu the nilxture of spring und winter wheat sball, fn the judsment of the uspector, be rut- elenl 10 wulerially affect phu value of such Tot of urain for mlling purpoics ae a vingle variety of winter or lnnnf Whoat, sball Le inspecied ring and winter wheal, and graded ac- u the guality thercal, as I other cases, ull not be etored in any warcuouss excent ln apecial uine, ve titxed with grain of the esme char- siter ur grade; the above rule to take wlfect Oct, 1. A NYSTERIO US AFFAIR. {nexplicable Conduct of n Ol Lady at Loulsville, Special Diuvatch 10 The Tribune, LoutsviLLk, Ky., Auc. 8.—A brakeman on tbe Loulsville, Nashville & Great Southern Ballroad, while passing Strawberry Station yes- terday, disvovered the body of & man lving fu o ditek near the track, Thu neek was broken and 8deep gash was vislble tn e forchead, The locality as & bad reputation, sbd it was at firey thought he bad been muvdered. Subsequently, when tho train from New Orlesus reached Loulivllle, an ola lady of 3 got off, and her strango conduct caused suspiclon. She was In- Wirogated, but responded 1a French, and could ot be understood. Her baggage bad been checked through to New Yurk, and therefors ber name couwd Bot be learmed. She wunifested symptoms of sickness, vornited freely, wus thought to be suffering from yellow lever, and sent to the Quarautine hoapitul by direction of the ratlruad Olficials. Her ravine contipued stranger than be- fore. Meanwhile the ralicoud learued bf she deud Yy 8ud suspected that the womsn's pecubar Lutiduct inleht possibly nuccted with it A New York flari d oo fer porson was wddressed $0J. B. Godirey, New Orleans, and toe sawme Yause was found on the desd Lody. loterpre- 'fi: could get notblug satistactorvy out of the 4, Ul Questioning licr, aud the matter re- & wyatery until to-dey, when u French Yoniwinah wio secured an fnterview With the Couu sscertalued that ber naie fy J. L. wuret, New Oricans, She saye the dead man Wi ber nepliew, but will 1elate potblng wore, WHISKY. Wosterman at Lincoln Fixing Up His ' Squeal” with the Officials. # A Conclave, with n Floor-full of Long-Hidden Decu- ments., . . Everybody Mummer than the Great-Grandfather of Cheops. Protest of Chicago Distillers Against the Cincinnati and Peorla Frauds, Letter to Qommissioner Raum, Presenting Taota for His Meditation, WESTERMAN, BIO BRCRRT TALE AT LINCOLN. gectat Dispated fo The Tridune. Taxcony, 11L, Aug. 0.—The Investigation of the hitherto unrevealed whisky frauds in Pekin is nearing the end, and by noon to-morrow Westerman's grand * squeal will be put fn ghape for presentation to Maj. Connnlly, the Diatrict-Attorney at Springficld. For the past twenty-four hours Revenuc-Agents Bewell and Trumbull ond Deputy-Collcetor Somerville, Westermnan, and C. J, Ellott, of Peikin, his at- torney, bave been burled in ecclusion at one of the hotels in this place. Two or three sachels full of documents which have not untll nuw secen the light for threo or four years were unfolded to the geea of the Government oflicials, who, during the greater portion of the day, werefn con- want telezraphic communleation with Wash- Ington. What disclosurcs bave been made, what Implicatious have been conveyed, or what crovkedness has been brought to light, cannot now be hurled before the publie. Gen. Bewell s as mum as an oyster, Sumerville [s Ltoo busy writing, and Trumbull sulfers from an attack of know-nothlugness that is frightful to con- template, s WESTERMAN WATCHES TS LAWYEIR, and both nre constantly under the close esplon- age of the (loyernment oflicluts. Two or three timen your correspondent tried to waylay oncor the other, but it was of noavafl. They were under closer survelilance than the condemned the wight befora exccution. ‘Ihat tho afs- closures inade by Westerman will result in a grand exploalon there cannot bo any doubt. Judging from the pile of documents that lum- bered the floor of the conference room, there is reason to believe that he is able to back up any allegation which he has made, and these have ull beon reduced to writing by Somerville. That Westerman, Lefore giving up, obtained funnunity for himself, and one or more personul friends who had a flayer in tho ple, is morally certalu, THE ORIGINAL FLAN was for Westerman to 1o to Peorla and glve up all he knew, At the last moment be relused, und SBomerville was obliged to visit Whin awain on Saturday nlght. The result of this confer- ence was that, on Sunday evening, the wholo rurl,\' sliould come to thiz «aty, Westerman al- eging that hils presence here would not be so much noticed as wt Peorin or Springfleld. When the revenue oflicials reaclicd Pekin Suuday evene fue, there was ANOTHER MITCIL Westerman’s |\u?1:n| were scuttered all over town in the hands of friends for safe-keeplng, Bewell und Trumbull continued on thelr jogr- nurv here, leaving Somerville to bring i the dilatory whisky man as soon as he could fix things to bis satistaction. Aceompunled by his lawyer snd the Deputy-Cotlector, Westerman arrived here lnat evening, and afnes then the whole party have been hard nt work, s related. It Is useless to speculate on the vietims of the *‘squeal ™ at present. Gossip both in Peorin and {n Sprinzfleld mentions the names of sev- cral ex-officeliolders and politicians, some of wham ore anxious to serva the Stata in cxalted positions, All the facts will be made kuown in o ahort time, and till theu the public must bate its Lreath, CNICAGO. MERTING OF DISTILLERS, The distillers of Chicago for the past sixty days or more havo been watching with deew In- tercst the Cinctunatl and Peoria highwines mar- ets, Ifore, in this, the First Revenue Distrlct of lilinols, the tax on distilled spirits 1s faith- fully und houestly collected. 'There is no sys- tem of Hberal gauging in force, and, as ot pres- ent held In check under Colleetor Iarvey's ady minlatration, there Is no chance for a colluslon between the distitlers, Storckeepers, uul Gaug- ers, These ofliclals are clianged every thirty or alxty days, and no Gaugzer or 8torekeoper stays longer thun sixty days at any one distilery, henes the distillers woull have ta make thelr arrangements with every oflicer on the force, Last winter Cinclnnat{ under- went a sort of investigation, snd Gen, Weltzel, tho Coliector of Internal Rovenue, resigned, though he declared thas thero was 1o crooked ness In s dlstrict, Hlsussestions did not alier the fact that Cincinnati was eelling bighwines tower than they could be manufactured for, but they excused thewselves on the ground that they had cattle to teol, snd thelr contracts had to bo carried out. ‘This was regarded oy fulr, und, a8 slops counted at about two cents o gal- lun, the motter was passed for the tlne bemy by the Chicago dlstillers. Slnco Collector Har- vey came into ollice, the distillers of this district have endeavored to fnlthfully obey the Govern- went laws, They have puald thelr tax and all asseaamnents without grumbline, For ull that, there bas beew no change tor the hetter in the nighwines market, which, however, s always flymer this season of the year, [n winteg the yleld from a bushel of gram is lurger «Ufn ju sumner, sud hence it costs more Lo muke bich- t this season ol the year. fu order to the Government fu collecting Its taxes, and to protest uguinst the way thlngs are belng run at Cincionaty, Peoria, and Pekin, TUH DISTILLERS OF TIIS DISTRICT NELD A MEETING vestenlay afternoon in the otlive of M. fI. Bhufeldt & Co,, coruer of Adams street sud Filth avenue. Thero was o full repree sentation ot all the distilleries o opers- tion m this district, which fnelude the fmperiat, Pnenis, Ganlen City, West Chweago Alcohol Works, United States Distlle lery, Cunrtes Wuchsmitn (Blackhawk), and Hverdale Distillery, Heury i SBhuteldt pre- sided. There wos o clear” and untrammeled discusaion, though it touk pluce in the eliupe of ruther un mlormal talk, 3 which all took part. Tt was stated that thie districe had been com- pelled to turn to makini uleobol for export al- ost exclusively, becauss It was driven from the hlnwines market. Not becauso of honeat competition, but becauss Cincinuatd, where it cost more to make a gallon ot highwincs than here, was undersclling, aud - was afded aud abetted by Peorin and Pekln, ‘Thess things could not be, I Becretary dolin erinan sttemled hia duty. The distillers churgged thut the Sceretury of the Treusury was either cognizant of the Tact that the OLlo dis- tillers weru steating from the Government or ¢liu ho fasled to uee his oppurtunitics to fuf Nlnself of their frauds, Comunssjoner Gircen Rauwm was willivg to do bls vest, but he was bamvercd und tranuucled by John Shermai, Hlcuwlues lu Chicuzo cost 15 cents 8 ation to make, wud the yleld per bushiel of grain was Jurger bern thau fu Cluciunati, and the price fur eran lower ju the Colvaga warket. For the bast sixty aays wo hichw.oes bad been wade Lere, becausy Clnclunut! wus seliug . LW for ax puud, two cents Juzs that the cost of manufacturein Chicwzo aud tour ceuts leaa than wiiat 1t cost L waks 16 Cu- vinuatl Gralu cost i cruta a busbel 1o Clocla- Gutl, 00 8D Veruge, and bad for the tast sixty days, sud the yleld, according to the last revort, wus .50 galions, Thus they sold biguwities tor the coat ol the 2raio, not counting in the wualt, labor, ete. They bad steadily sold througl toe bot weatner at 313, while the proof was con- clusive that the cust to make the hizhwiues Z'x"’ pay the Governmens tax 1n Ciuclunall was * 13 TUAT PAIR DRALINGIY asked *Buflelo” Miller. ¥ We waot to pay our taxes now, LUt we want to be treated wiie. ‘There 33 po denying the fact thal we wiake oet- ter bizhwines wnd st & lower price bere thun they cats make fn Cloclunatl, The differcace 1w tuily four cents a pulion. They wre cheatiug th reveuue, oy i Jubu Sherwan KuoWa Lis U uess Be cau cas)ly sce that. We bud 58 paye us better to make rpirits for exnort, for which we get £1.0717 and 81,05, D Dush sal 1l wo ask Is a fair and square sliake. We ore 5o situated that we nsk no favors, Honest competiion we invite, hat we don't want o see the Government with Gpen eves conniving at these Ohio fraus dohn_ Snerman cannot help but see that the Government {s being defrauded.” ‘The discussion then took anuther course. Thero was an opintun exp) that the Deputy Collector and Gaugers should be frequently changed to different districts. They alluded Lo the fact that as goon as Revenue- Agent Gowett discovered 2,600 duplicate stamps Atnoe distillery In Cincinnatl, he was shipped 10 another and rentote point. “This looked bl upun its face, and refiected but hittle credit up- on the Treasurv ofiials who allowed sich things. This district had sbipped for exporc nearty 24000 barrels of spirits during the past yenr, representing nearly two-thirdsof thespirits shipped grom the United States, This should not be. Chicago ought tu seil hichwines at home, and hely rwelf theGovernment resenues, The sentiment of all_tho houses wae, that at thetr request Cul, Meyer, the Revenue Ag was sent to Cincinnatl to heln work up t known frauds there, ey knew his experien in 81, Louls, where he was 50 suceesstnl in for teting out fratds, and they (the distillers) were willing to trust i, They were astonished, howeyer, that as soon as he bezan to uocarth the gigantle frawds he waa removed from his fleld of lahor and sent ta Omaha, Neb., where he had achanco to ruminate upon what mizht have heen. This to the distillers prescnt was lear- Inlly suguestive of the tdea that the Treasury Department had no desire to exnosc the rascal- Ity now known to be existing in Cincinoati, It reemed passine steange to them that all the changes of Internai-levenue Auents made in this district were always hetween Chieago und 8t, Louls, but never between Chicago and Cin- cinnatl. Thero was a determination Lo protest loudly against a further conmivance by the Goy- ernment with the Cincinnati crookedness, and TIIR POLLOWING LETTER, ns an expree<lon of the sentlment of the meet- ing, was onlered prepared and seut to Cominls- sloner Raum: Cuteaao, M., Ang. 0, 1878, —The Ion. Green J1." Rawn, Commiationer Infernal Revenwe~Sins Durlng the past year muny complaints have been made (o your Départment regartinz tie manner of the collection of the tases” on distilied snirite In tho varionn districts of Ohlo, Some action waa taken by yon in the matter, but wo, the distillers of the Fitst District of Hlinale, respectfally request that this investigation whichi wan ko well com- menced ho atill carried on, na we again aseert tnat thio price that whisky 18 now rold st in the Cineine natl market witl not pay for the grain consumed, let alone the ndditional expense of barrels, coal, and Inbor, and we, thercfore, cannot aco that o mere change of the Collector bas in the lenat ben- efited the trade, Al wo osk Iy an impartial admlulsteation of tho laws, and, caunut be dotie by the local ofli- cers of thono dixtricts {nfected with this desire to cheat the Governwent sl thereby rain the trado, lave the Deputy Collectors and Gaucers of other districts Interchune. Tn Ohto, durluz the winter, thelr comyJalnt was, that they were feeding eattle and conld fiot stop, ‘These cattle certatnly were ont InJune, and although it i & wedl-known fact that the alop in cqual to 2 centa per qallon, still thelr market did not rally, and to-day Ia ns [ow as ever. It nn fact Uint theso are the frst summer mouths we lave ever had that the ninrket has not gradually riren, aml we can_accunnt for it In no othes way rxcept that they do not pay thelr entire tax; and wo will 1o furdier, aml way that if thero was no tax at all, there would unt be {o-day a atnzle distillory running in Ohlo, This i1 predicated on the marxet for gratn, Wo know the dificulties of lyour position, and we aito know Loy they can be,'In o fieasnre relieved; and they will be by the interchange of the oflicers named- We are able_and pertectly willing to nieet honor- ablo cumuetition, but we cannot competo with dis- tlilers who have Glovertment ald, by betnz over- loaked; and we are determuned to brinz the mat. ter befare Congroes for fuvestiyation. uuless ro 1leved, as wo are all getting very much dissatisfcd with tho presont management of the coliection of the tnx, Wu aro entirely driven out of the manufacture of Nighwines, und, consequently, are forced to oxport 8 large portion of our product, The con- seqiience I8 vur district in in tax.paid voods, con- tinually being decrearod almply becanse wo cane nat compete with ather districts who puy from 25 o) ‘wr cent mory for thelr graln than we do, and sell their prodnct for » Inntw’ poscentage loes, Rovpectfnity Iwuri. Heury 11, Shuteldt & o,, Fhenix Dintlifing Compa Unlted States Diettile Cnarlen Wachsmith, West Chicuzo e, Gariden Clty Distillery, Riverdaio mpany, Phenix Diathl ompany Aleoini Wo Distitling C No. 2, After the document had been prepared and sfzned, the meeting adjourned subject Lo eall, Buffalo Miller culled on Collector Harvey after tho meeting, mid told him what bad been done, mentloning thelr grievances, and saying that thev_were perfectly willing to pay their taxes, and did pay them’ honestiy, bus that the Cincinnatl and Veorjn distlliers could not b acting squarely or they would not be able to undersell “Chicago " houser. Mr. Harvey replicd that ho = was well aware of the Peorfa_and Cincinpat! practice, and had maide a great many enemies In trylng to break ftup. Mr. Miller'sald the distillers belloved Commlesloner Raum to be honest, but weak, They were doubtful about the tntegrity of Hec- remr{ Buermun, Mr. larvey said fhut Mr, Sewell, the Clief Revenue Agent, would soun be here, and an interview should Lo arranged for with the distillers, so us to give him n clance to talk matters aver with them, Mr, Hewell could thus get fufurmation which would help blm materially in eradieating Peoria and Clovinuatl dishonesty, Mr. Harvey expressod himself as fuvorable to tho scheme of changing {iaugers, but while he would be wiiling to send men to Cincinuatd, he had some ubjcul.luu“m r. lettfng Gaugers from that city work here, Milter didn't think the Gangers alone wi blame, ns the liberal gauging did not account for the dilference In price. Thers must bo stealiug. S — A FATAL LEAP. Plonging into the ¥assalo Falls Basin to Rise No More. New York Jun, Aug, 3. ‘The Passaic Falls cousists of a cataract that splunges into the cleft of the rocks so deep that the fall from the cdge of tho precipico Lo the surface of the' river helow, wnere it bolls and foams like a caldron, {s uhout cighty fuet, The sldes of tha riverat the place are precipitousrocks, u% simooth as the walls of a room, rising perpen- dicular from the water to tho helebt of elghty feet. Lhedepth of the stream is gencrally be- lieved to be sixty ur scventy feet, and in reality it 1s not more than forty or fifty. Abouti200 fect below thy falls the chasm is covered by a slnglo span foot brldve, perbaps fifty feet in longth, 'This bridge affords a de- lghtful view of the falls, but it makes ono dlzzy to louk down tu the water below, so great Is the helght, As a matter of salety, and to prociude tho danger to peopla from yielling: to the frre. sistible teuntation of jumplug off, 1t §s guarded at the sides by an fron” raitlng, elght or teu feot [y ‘Tuls Lrldge took the place of an olit wooden one sume yeacs aro. Erom the wooden one the famous San Patch one day jumped off luto the water beluw, aud the Paterson gundos of the day, bound not to be outdoue, ventured o fol- lowlng the experiment nutl there was goneral- 1y a crowd of youngsters thcre wha would take the efghty-foot leap at sy time for 25 conts, They performed “the feat Jumplug off * gently, balaucing themsclves with their ~ arms, untll they ucarly reached the surfaco of the water, uUnd then suddenly elapning their arma to their skles they disappeared under the surfuce, 1 they uid not do this they wers b daueer of breaking tbeir srms when they struck tho water, und if they struck any other wn{ than perpendicularly they would, of course, have thelr breath knocked complotely out of them, But ono or two usrrow cscapes uut an end to this practice untll Jast week, Then s lad named dohn Gannor made s successful leap. It was doue at 6 o’clock ln the evening, and there were several spectutors who thought It a cass of sul- cido and ren for ropes and_gruppling-trous, but were astoulshied to tind the vouth whom they went to rescue sitting comturtably ou top of o rock to which hu had swan, Huarlug of the feat,two other young meu, ex. pert awimmmcrs—\William Roselle, of Ml »t Thomas Dowilng, of Marshall strect, aged respectively 18 and SU—went up quictly oud ulzht last week and did the feat success- tully. Yesterday afternoon these samo two youug men were at the Fally, and were seen standing ou the bridge for & lonz time, ws if contem: plating ite repetition, but no ons spoesrcd to vay any particular attention to them. Tuey walted until thero was a farge throng uf spectas tors—suveral hungred—at the Falls, as usual oo Sundsy alternoous, aud thea went 10 s nelgh- voring saloun for wdriuk, aud then returucd to the vridige. Thelr evident intention wus sp: parently to create s seusation. Therc was then au unusually large throng about the {ails sud several nundred persons near the bridge. Tuen they suddenty clawbered upon the gh ratling, withous divesting thew- stives of thelr clothiy d startled the spec- tators by giving a loud whoop and pluuging out tuly tbe air, oD tLowr way to the water, fully enguty leet velow. \\'xmam HRoselle weat down perpendicular, or strausiit us srrow, sid Weut uuder the water With & short. suurp * swoot,” like a sharp- edged stoue, He aruse 1o the surfaco ke por- polss sud swun tur the shore overbanded. ‘fhomas Dowting made s fulsstep or & shp as ne jumbed, und turoed over and uver seversl tioies oefore e struck the wuter, squars ou g stowsch. with a loud splasn. e sunk siowiy 0 the pottom, and ross LU oI 1L 18w~ nosed that the fall of eIzhty feet, and strikin; on his sfomach, knocked all the breath ont of his Loy, #0 that he hecamo uncons 13, Gireat excitement prevatled. and such a mul- titude crusitad upon the bridze over the (hasm that there was Janger that it would break. S0 the rotice deove the peodteofl, Persona florked to the scene until 3,000 or 4,000 penple blackened the edges of the precipice. A large searching arty had falled to recover the body up to 10355 ast night. The affair created the greatest ren- satlon of anvtning that has happeved in Pater- gun fo o Jonk time. AMUSEMENTS, EME ROSEAU. Chrragn Letter th CInCinmat Knonirer, Mile, Hoseau is n handsome wotnan In private lite: at least, I think so, as I saw her chatting in the parlor of the Tremont Houre the other day. She Is tall, and bas what Is popularly calied a stunning tigare, well proportloned and finely developed, with nice lttle hands and feet, Rer features are toierably reeular, her hatr blonde or blondined. Her eyes constitute the chief bLeauty of her face, and are lasge wnd of that peculinr blue that looks In ain lights aray. 1% scemn rather a pity that a woman who bag hat s0 many advautages In musical and general educatlon shouid not tind a piace in leaitimate opers, A Brooklyn kirl, ahe atulled with the same masters, saug in the same cholrs, and went abrosd ot the sanmo I.Im? a8 Miss ‘Thutsby, but, unfortunately for hdeself, did not Tolfow tha sage adtloe of the futter and marry only hee professton, but while qulte young becamo tho wile of a man, o Mr, {ced, who, she says, has not glven her ncent for six years, and "has depended entirely upon her for fih support. In addition to him she has also been the role matntenance of her mother and sater, now living in Brooklyn. Mlle, Ro- reau will obtain 8 divoree in a fow weeks, Judging from what I ean hear of Mr. Reed, lie will probably sue for atlmony, The lady 18 o very bright conversationallst, and discourscs In an entertalning maner on her truvels abroad, hee howa in Milan, her con- cart tour In South Ametles, sud givea some picasine Incideuts connected with ber operatfe debut In * La Favorita.’ When ehe returned to this country the marvelous Max Strakosch inade once of Wis many-sided contruzts with her. and broke it In fuvor of Belocea, She then Jolned Mrs, Oates’ company, oud, #s a wmatier of eourse, was scandalized. Apropos of Roseau, an English sparrow tiwit. tered In inv ear o Jittle sncident that took place durlnie n visit sie made in London, It secema the trreat Dritish fmpresuario, Mapleson (senfor), showed her any sinount of attcution in a music- al way (uf course) and, from bounuets to a box for the opern season, spared nothing. Vinally lie nsked her to try her voice in the Opera- Tlouse, with o yiew to un encagement. She ace cepted the invitation and agreed to come at the next rehearsal. Well, the morning came, and so dul Mile Roscau. Maplesott met her at the entrance to escort her through the labyrinth helind the scenes and prevent b r precipitating hersed! throuch the trup<loors and yawn- fng gutfs that abound’ back of the wings, “They passed along smoothly and safely untli they camo to s theatrieal mountaln. This Mr. Mapleson propused to mount instead of go ound, Zealous to aerist his fafr compan- fon, without waltlng for her permisston, he threw hits manly arm shout lier little walst anil speedlly fortiicd himself for tho ascent by an ardent kivs, There was u bricl ellence, o serest, and, the story runs, upon the Mapleeon chcek descended o thwacking slap, Fioale: Mlle, Rtuscau returns the eheek tor the opera-box, und (:n[l. .\'lvnplumu £uys, *'These Atcricans Lave no volve, STAUE NOTES. The receipts at Haverly's Mouday night were nearly a1,4oq. Mauager Abbev, of the New York Park Thea- trey will put three compunles on the road dur- iny the next scason. Mlss Afle Weaver, who has been cngaged as Teading tady by Mr. McVicker, I8 highly spoken of by the Doston pape s Miss Fanny Davenport’s “QOlivia® engage- ment ot thie New York Unfon Square cxtends trom Aug. 14 to Sept. 3. Miss Helen Tracey, who will leadthe business of the Olympie Theatre, 8t. Louis, noxt scason, is visiting fricuas in Chicago, Iironeon Huwonl's * Lillian's Last Love " will be called “ First Love " when [t s produced at the Unlon Suuare Theatre fn October. Clarles Warren Stoddund ia writing a Califor- nian play for W, A, Meataver aud Anute Pixley, in which they will prubably star next scason. Miss Genevieve Ward will probably appear in one or two of Racina’s tragedics, v te oriinal, during hier engagement at Booth's Theatre. Detroit #ree Press: *The man wlo [nvents a circus clown with un orfzinal ldea in his ead und n elean mouth will rank one peg above Edi- ton fu vo time at ull.” Rice's “*Surprise Party,” which includes In s iembership Miss Allce Harrison, Mr. Lewls Harrlsou, ete, will pluy one weck during the Exposition at Iaverly's Theatre, Joc Jelferson sud John 1. Raymond were both consuptive once, but aro as heartv as possible now. ‘Thelr left [une may be entlrcly goue, but their rizht ono is ull rignt, though! Mr. E. F. Thorne's compuny, who witl present “Lalllards,” the nlay fn which Bexton and Yank Adwms will glve an exhitition of their skill, {n- cludes Mrs, Frank Mordaunt, Mr. Hiod, Miss Jennle Murduck, and others, ‘Flie Danbury News thus chronlcles Boldenc's proposed seturn 1o this country: * Miss Emily Holdene, whuse muuth enables hor to Kiss thres people at ouee, glving satisfaetion to each, s to return to Amerien in September. ‘The atmoaghers of Detrolt scetns to ald thy local fmoginution. Ilere s the iatest bit of newss *MeKee Runkin has just purchased a palatial homestead of 3,400,000 wcres, & few miles below Windsor.” This will likely prove a gratifying bit of (nformatlon to Mr, Rankin. Mr. Hari Crisp, the zentieman who plnvenxl o tre, 18 taklug his vacation at Belfust, Ir. Walden Itutusey, of the samo company, is o 12U n‘t of Mr, Ctiarles R Thorue, Jr., st Cobas- ety ) Harey Allen, having had offers from the Colvilie, Evaugeline, and Richmond troape: fleured on thu strength of theso offcrs, and demonded such o ealary that the manspers foutd out that they did “not need him, ‘The cousequence was that he got left by tho three combinations, It fsnot yet fully declded that 3Mr. Willle Edoutn will go with the Colville Folly Company next season. He has two new picees, & 11 rurs," by Mr. William Gill, authur of g, fu the Wood," vte., and * Albambra,” Messrs. Dexter Bmith and Woolson Morsa's opers co- mique, and may desire 1o present them under his own wansgemont, At a French proviucial theatre, the other day, Iy'n unlitary play, the actor who was credited Wwith the part of a Generul slipped op the stage, and fell fenominiously at the Very moment whien he wus lnwumd Lo bo conducting bis troops to buttle, With ready wit, however, he saved hlin- st from rldlculo by exclaliog * Soldlers, Lam wmortally wounded, but do uot stay to aid me, P'uss over my prostrate body to victory,” ——————— ABSURD. Nausoating BMartyrdom of Seven Dema. Bogues In the Common Councit of Madl- wan, Wis, Swecrcl Disvatch to Tha Tridune, Mapison, Wis., Aug, 0.—A genufne war of worde has been iu progress In our Comumnon Council for several weeks past, the cause of the fmbroglio beluie whether stone shall be brokeu on State strect to macadun that street, or whether tho contract shall be let to tho lowest Lidder and crushed fu the quarsy by & crusher. When the question of wacudamizing State street firat came up In ths Counmon Counctl, full authority was given the Committeo on Streeta to act (o the matter as (o thelr discre- tlon scewed best, A contruct was aceordingly entered luto with D, Stevens, of thls city, W . complete the Job. Oue ot the older Aldermen, who has a bitter personal teud with the contractor, growing out ot some old Dusiueda trausuctions, obposes the contructs or's dolug the wurk, and, Lo seeurs the syinps- thy of the workmg cluss, favors breaking the stone oL the street. thereby costing the city double the price. A resolution Saturday Dizhit resciuding the contracy of the Committee on Streets, aod providing for breakiug the stone O Lbe street, was lost by 8 tic voteof 7 10 7, wLercupun the seves metwbers tavoriug bresk- ing stone by hand tendered tuelr pesiguations 1o Mayor Sunith, thus leaviug the Councll with- out a workwg gquoswm. This fbroglio bas created constdergble vxuiteuient o our city. A vew clection will be neld to elect Aldermen to piace Of those resignin, —————— Of Coursel Atko ) Times. Some time since a cicver Tuscaroran wos ar- reated Lor caitic-siealing, 394 dvuied up before 7 Juder Flack at Eigo for trial. ted him without leaving the return herr. The Jury acquit- box, and npon hix friend Inquired as to the result of his trial No cause of actlon,” raid the gen- tleman; “I merely kitled the ox In self-defensc and ate him for spite, and, of conrse, I was ac- quitted by the intelligent jur) SPORTING, AQUATIC. &pecial Dispateh (o The Tribune. DxrRotT, Mich., Aug. 8.—The annaal regaita of the Detroit River Navy took place here this afternoon with good weatber, and in the pres- ence of an audlence of at lesst 8,000 peovle, scat- tered over the apacfous grand stand, numerous excurelon boats, nefghboring docks, and count- less ermall crafts, It was limited to members of amateur hostinz organizations on the Detrolt River, and the prizes fncluded gold medals for each member of every winning crew, and smounted to several bundred dollars in value. E. D, Price, of the Post and Tribune, scted a8 referee. The first race took vlace at 3:50 p. m., aod wes for four oared shells. ‘Llhe competing crews were all from this city, und represented respectively the Michican, Zevhyr, Centennial, and Detroit Clubs. The course fn this and (n all races but the last was one mile uy stream and return, The Zephyrs broke a scat roon after starting, and drew out, The Michizan crew, wiilch was composed of foundry men and had been trained by the ex-pugilist, Mike Kelove, turncd st three-quarters of o mile by mistake, and also put themselves out of the vontest. Between the Centennlals and Detrofts there was 3 snug race all the way around, but Lun oppusite the erand stand, and when the Ucntenufals had a slight lead, one of their men caught 2 crab and the Detroits won the race by alength In 13:443¢, Tho sccoud race was between A palr-varcd cres of the Zephyrs aud a double-seull crew of the Wyandotte Club, of Wyandotte. The Zephye palr managed to keep s slignt Jead througliout, and won in 15:07. A sir-oared shell race followed, with but two competitors, the Excesofrs and Detrolts, of this cty. ‘The Excelsoir crew was composed of veteran oarsmen, wits J. N, Ostrum, of the tamous Cornell crew, as stroke, and the race was a walk-over for them. They led through- out, and came in severnl hundred fect mhead and rowlng casity: time, 12:31, The siugle-scull ruco wos next called, two Excelsior Club oarsmen appearinz—¥. 1), Standfsh and W. B. Wells, Standish, who ulled bow in the six, made a game race, lead- ng to the turn, but was outsped on the way home by Wells, who won by three lengtns, in fifteen ininutes. The day's sport concluded with & raceof three- fourths of amile upand back, for ten-oared burges, the competing crews representing the Detrott ang Fheaix Clubs of this cily, sl ciubs from Wiodsor aud rse. ‘The lutter crew proved immensely ruperfor, and came in mauy lenghta sbead, pulling forty-fise (o the minute at the fluish, and_giving a” superb exhi~ bition of speed; time, 9:30. The Wrandotte Club and Chattanooza Club, of Detroli, were disqualitied for fallure to re- port on time. ‘To-morraw the first day’e races of the North- western Amateur Assoclation take place. TIIE TURP, Rocnestry, N. Y., Aug. 6.—The track was slightly heavy, ‘ The 2:84 race for $1,000, divided, was won by Wildalr, Dame Trot second, Gray Salem third, Volunteer Ward fourth, Laldy Hoag snd St Patrick drawn. Time, 2:2834, 3:22, 2:241;, The 2:22 race, puree 25000, divided, was won by Mroene, Dick Swiveller serund, Lysander Boy thind, Lady Pritchard forth, ?whelh-r lunkflmc first heat, Thne, 2:20, 12034, 2124, 8 SAuaTO04, N. 8.—Thls was un cxtra day of the Sarntora races, The first race, for Z-year-olds, five turlongs, was won by Belinda, i\(gy&ur second, Dan Sparling third. Time, Thie second mee, o lmndlm‘l sweepstakes. mile and n lialf, was won by Bonnle Wood, iattle ¥, sceond, Inspiration third. ‘Thne, g, - Tho third race, lhrw?‘nmmra of u ile, was won by Susquchianna; Allveur, sccond; Anme Augusta, third e, 1:1740 Tho fourth race,a hundicap steeple-chase, over a fractional course, starting at a point op- posite the three-quarter post, and running the rematnder of the usual steeple-chase vourse, was wou by Trouble: Coronet, secoud; tiray Cloud, third: Tiue, 4:51%4. ., Aug, " BASE-BALL. Bpectal Dispateh (o The Tribune. Dusuque, la, Aug, 6.—The game of bases ball here to-day, between the Dubuques and Peorla Reds, resulted in a score of 1 to 8, the Reds makiug three tallies fn the last funfng, Twelye hundred people witnessed the gate, Bpecial Diepateh to The Tridune, Bostox, Aug. 8.—~Tho Chieago-Boston gauie, set fur to-day, was poatponed by ruln. The Maunchester Club, of the lnternational Assocla- tlon, went to pieces to-day, Cause, no money, Capt. Ferguson, of the Chlcazes, has gone amoug them, presumably to procure their cetelier, Kelly, und, perhaps a ticlder nanied O'ltourke. ‘Flio Iast uaned has o remarkable recond as o batter. Tho Chicagos play in Wor- cester Friduy, If the weather bers pernits the games to be pulled off. Synacuss, No Y., Aug. 6.—Cinclunatis, 2 Stars, 1. JESSE JAMES. ‘The Detectlves Again Thwarted by the Dick Turpio of Missourl. Corvesponilence Si. Lowie Reyublican. ForroN, Aug. 8.—For some time it hos been whispered arouna that Callaway had been honored with a et from a noleys distingulsh- od person than Jusse Jutnes, onvof the inost notorious bundits and train rubbers that this century has produced. Your correspondent, thinkiug thero might be sowething In it for the Lungry public, took up the slender thread, and s by alligence unravelled the story. It seems that some three ot four montus ago Jesse James, under the ating of Janes Frankils, cume into this county, Iu los been stayimg o few intles enat of this place, There ure wnuin- of ex-Confederate soldlers Hvivg i the negh- harhood of where he hus been staying, and no doubt Jesse was acqualuted with soma of them during the War, and coucluded, us he has Lad to changu about very couslderably shive Lis wonderful ound almost miracu- lous escape from his Mlunesota exvedition, that Callawny mirht Lo o safe place 10 Test bis wearted and ahattered budy, for he s o wreek physically. The lewd that” was shot {nto bim by the Dusss of Norweglans who fol- lowed Liw day and night after bis nurderous rald on the qul eiul vitlage of Norihbield, has told on bis oucs vigorous and wiry frame. Jesse Jumes will never be error Lo couutry bank-cashiers or express-messengers thut he bas been. Tu return to my story. Alter takiog up his abode amongst us he by some weans becans aware that thu detsctives hud tracked bl to bls vew homie, it beeauo uecessary fur bim to rulse saie money, 80 that when tho tune should cotny 1 hw Would e co led Lo chunge Lis rendezvoustie would hiave sume of the necd- ful to help htin throuun. As hus case was wdes- perate ane, he concluded thut the ouly way ho could rulse money was to make lnself known 1o a few, and rely upon the fact that he hud trusted them with his secret and beg thews forawd, ‘This hu did sud was successful. He tald 1he party to whom he urade himselt known that Jife was becoming unbearubles that thers was no spot on tifs great continent that offered hius avy sbicltee or protectlon; that he stoud no better show than the wila beast which Is bunted 10 bis ny sud that ere Joue e would maks biis toal staud and sell Lls S, dearly as e could. flis hatred of the ives (Ploker- ton's In pasticular) 13 akin to ferocliy, und unless hels completely surprined, sume ol thuse who attewpt i capiury guing tu the bar of the tinal Judge with bim. Laust Monday a weck ago, sthen our Cuunty Cunvention »was beld, he spent the da quiet und peaceal House during th scveral hours, Ut course to one the oue who bore his sccret. ‘Phis is the Juat visit be made Fultou. A little oyer u week ago & uobby-loukiug turnout drove into our town and pat up at Powell's lverystable. There Were tWo wien ou the box of this wagon. 1t would have been taken for a patent-uivdicing or circus advertislng wagon, had pot sbe g letters on tne sides tuld you that coru-wiil spice-mlils, coffec-willa, und all other kinds of gringing-machises wers to be sold by Ghe cuteel-lookiug agenta that accowpanivd jt. he two gentlcwen tpus upat the * Penell™ House, and walked the virties of thewr grind- msmmmnu 10 auch eluquent stylc that many » Granger drcamed that the day of wmill-tats bad depasted, aud that be would no longer have w0 throw his bay of corn ou his ware, or on\his wagou, sud trudge off Lo willy that for e cowparatively stwall luvestinent he cuuld provide hiwsel! with a will that would do ali the grodiug 1u a few nours that a large taw- Aly could consuwe ju a wonth. A day or two after thy arcival of the waron two more keeu- syed mill weu arrived. They laust Lave coms by rall. A few davs luter a coupls mors dropped tu, wakivg 10 all aix stalwart, abarp-lookiug gentlemen, a1l connected with this cclebeated mill outBt. Now, these mitl-venders have mede several trips in the netchborhood of where Jesse James was supposed to ho staving. The countrv ia broken and Is known #a the tobaceo-growwing portion of cur countys but stiil these mill-sellers neglected the corn- rrml!lclnw portion of our county and persisted n pressinz the merita of thelr celebrated milia on the tobacco-growing reglon. Three or four wonld go together. Thc{ would come up to 8 Louse, one or two in front and one in the rear, g if by accident, and pretend they had lost thefr wav, and sfter eatisfying them- selves that thefe man was not there, would move on tn the mnext housc, always, however, in the neighborhood of where the bandit was supposed to be hiding. As there wereno sales of milis, peaple neasn to dount ihe sincerity of the genteel mlil-agents, and ali kinds of eurmises and conjectures were whis- nered 83 10 what thelr real business was. Eoma hought one thing, some another. Your cor. reapondent, being In porsession of the in- formntion that Jessc James was or had been in the county, soon ‘‘dropped" on them, as the cops say, hut kept hisown counscl, as he did not want to throw any obstacle In the wayof these minions of the law. They were too late, bowever; the bird had flown, and all thelr shrewdness was of no avail: thelr dreamn of reward has vanlshed, for Jesse James in all probability Is now hundreds of miles away from thu mill-venders, The Jatnes buys' career ns train-robbers, ete,, {s o'er. [ am satisfied if they were Dermmml to they woull settle down and becoms law- sbiding citizens; bul they are outlaws, and nothiug but the fate that 14 certain to overtake themn—desth—will relleve them from their ceaseless wanderings, CURRENT GOSSIP. THE POWEIL OF MUSIC, it City Perrick, How sweet the nvonlight sieeps Lpon thix citizens’ anvinea bank, Whose shutters are up, and whose President and cashier have gone to that country With which we have no extradition treaty. Here will we sit, and let the sonnds of music Creep in aur cars. along with ants sud bogs, And vther merey wanderers of the night. S, Jessica, here upon my overcoat, Aud waxe Diana with o hymn, Do thou hut note a wiid anit wanton berd Of southfal and aubandled col Fetehing mad nounds, snorting. and nelzhing lond If they but hear perchance 8 trumpet-sounds Uz auy airof muwic touch their ears, You stiall percelve tnent make n mutual stand, “Vliclr savagte eved tirned to s modest gaxe, ‘Transized by the sweet power of nusic. You donbtiess bave nbaceved, Loo, That, when a herd of youthfitl and enliandled Colte, or broxen-dowi plow-horees, catcy e {ar-off sound of & churchecholr }\‘?erln lx’:‘l mllmrltr:hml IPI:‘:V 'l’n:l(\o'n i oln In the chorus, they will get away from U7 break their neckn, ¥ ¥ % Hut this, dear Jensica, is not mnsic. U nol not by = lonyg shot ! The man that hath no music fn himaelf, In it for treavun. siratageme, and spolis, Orto hnm‘::m:u under the- United >tates Govern- en Let no euch man Lo trusted Further than you might throw a bull by the tail. ——— DISRAELPS KINDRED, Iutiaitetphia Press, The statersent, that Lord Beacousfield's nepbew ia his nearest living relativels incorrect. Iils Lordzship is the cldest of a family of three sons and one daughter, the children of the late Isaac Disracll, an eminent man of letters, nuthor of *The Curlusities of Literature," and several other standard works on history, poli- tics, and eriticisus. * Benjutniy, the eldest, born Dec, - 21, 1805, s the present Earl of Deaconsfleld, K. G, The daugh- ter aled unmurricd yeurs aro, James, the sceond ron, enterfng “the publie service, rose to high oftice in Bomerset House (the internal-Revenuo Department). and dfed sotno twelve years uo, Jeaving his fortane, cati- mated at $5,000, to his more” distlugaished Lol Mr. Ralol Disraeli, the tinrd” son, 15 the. second oflicer of flowse of Londe, belng Asslstunt of VParltament (a putent oflice, aud therefore permanent), s compensation belng u salary of $9,000 a yeor. It i wot unusual to speak of Lord Beaconsticla as sn adventurers but this dous not apply to bim (o a pecantury scnse, for lifs father was o wuan of Jarze jortune, who fiually retived from London to reside on hils own place, Bradenbams House, ln that Couuty of Bucks which bis distinguisued son revrescuted i1 the {lotse of Commons from 1347 until Au- ety 1576, when he was trausferred to the Huuse of Lords by the versonal favor of his eoverclgn, Mr. Ralph Idsrscli, bis Lrother, will not succeed to the Earldom of Beaconstiel, In the eveus of survivorship, unless a new pat- ent, mllowing the title to pass to the nest uale of kin, be granted, as was doue In ISH in the case of the Jate Lord Droughum. It was from the personal eare of the elder Disracll that the Premier of to-day- recelved the groundwork of his education, particularly in lanzuages, dead and living, “The son'’s affectionute und luteresting blography of such a fother, written fn 1845, concludes thus: ** On the whole—nay, I bel that—taking all into considertion, the futezrity und combletencss of his existence, the fact that for sixty years be loreely contrbuted to form the taste, charin the lelsure, and direct the studi- ous dispositions of the great body of the public, and that mhis works have exten- sively and curfously Hlustrated the literars ana palitical history of our country, it will bo con- ceded that, in bis Wiy and labors, Le repaid nglaud for the protection and the honpitulity bich this country uwarded to bis father over u century seo,” These closivg words refer to she fact that, In 1748, Lord leacoustivld’s rand - 1ather “became an Enelish denizen? A REAL SIMON-I'URE SEA-SER- TENT, Greenteich (Conn.) Observer, Capt. J. H. Merritt clves this description of it: *While off Rocky Point, fu asall boat, we obscrved an uuusual counmotion in the water ity or slxty yards from us; bus tuluking it might bo causcd by o whale, which, though scarcs, are not allogether unknown in the Souud, we prucceded on our wuy, st the same time keeplng o lookout to the lec'ard, What Was our amazement, however, when we beheld, shortly aftor, the darnedest-lookiug specimen of u fiah wo eversaw or heent tell of, floating on the water right abreasy of us. 1 tell you, #ir, it almost mude iy hafr stand on ena, ‘amd the uthier fellows werd {u n worse lix thon me, Dy suiled in most every ocean and sca, laku and river, dared death it all its shapes, passed through storms and scencs of dunger of the wreatest inaenitude ubecaredy but, alr, I never felt 1 wua so near golu to kingdom comy as [dId Jast Tueadny, 1" should say the sca- surpent (for such I believe it to have been) was tetween scventy and ciglity fect lung, of o dark duil. green color ou the buck, ;Lnduu ly zetting lehter toward the telly, which was bertoctly ellow s the bead of Che monster, I showd udize, was about threo feet long and two feet broad, with 3 dlameter of probably one fuot through the flat slde, anid resembled the hewd ol o frog, with the exception that It haa ferce, fiery eses that scemed to elecinfy onej the neck was luni aod round, a shade light- or 0 color thun the body, and had the appear- ance of thaut of a snnke—tn shape, I mean; but, heaveas how much larper! “The thickest part ot the body was all of uine feet fn circumference, and terininated (n o tail the length and breadin of which ¥ could not tedl you, lor it kept lushing the water unitl it became & scething, botling mass for a number of yards around, 1t makes me shuader to think of it now. ‘The head was polsed 1 the uir as the mouster sailed, or rather wrigeled, atonz ou the surfaceof thuwater, which it did lor o consideruble distance, und they dis- appeared from our view, sod we were mot sorry lor it, elther, The object temained above water only u few minutes, cousequently [ won's swear to the sceuracy of wy description, but 1 give it us correptly as my briel observation of the wouster will permitof, 1 tell you, sir, there's a dea-serpent fn the Sound {I thers ev was oue anvwhere, Some folks way and sowe way tot belicye it but, belleve It or not, (t's tiue us sure &3 my name i Johu Merritt. [ have uo vbject in telling a e, aod I would not do so were 1 to be bentited thereby.” : ptsioriit A BEETLE WARRIOR. NEw Yors, July 30.~Te the Editors of the New York Evening Pust: This evenlng s cry from one ut my boys altructed me to & curious struzgle taking place o my frout lawn, at the toot of s tall arbor vitg tree, where the gruss was comparatively thin. . A beetls had s toad by the throat, turoed upou his back, sud it was evideutly much in the beetlo’s power, The beetle, shaped lke s buge brown cock- rouch, With plocer-like jaws, ana lon, siranice Iy-prebensile claws, wheo | endesvored to futer- fere clung tike s vise to the toud, who kicked aud sprawled to no purpose. le from the grouud, and be lifted the toad, and, when 1 forably detached his jaws snd inost of hils lerrs, bo still held the tuad's body suspeuded by one ot his hind le, ched by a hook-liki projection Lo ths tou The moment § placed them on the grouud he sclzed the tuad sgain with piucers uud legs, Grwiy bluding bim, sud throwlug bim over on bls back. Haviug taught wy boys bot to persccute toads, 1 way obliged ugain 10 uterfere, for a fow - meuts wizshout elfect, fearing to ki) the toad releastug biw’ from' bis teerlke eocwy, At last, with my penknife fnserted botween the neck of the beatle and the toad, I sncceeded in cutting off the beetle’s head, when, strange to say, I could not.detach his body, and tile tond hopped away with that *Old Man of the 8ea" fast to him, The beetle was an inch aod & balf long; the toad would have filled ajarge hen's egg it placed n it The detached hesd of the beetle retained life and strength, and, when one of my daughters presented a hair-plo to it, it seized 1i, snd was lfted by ft. [ Quiprs, Potter's Fleld—Louisfans. Sound Instruction—Edlson's directions how to use the phonograph. Great Britalnlooks upon Beaconsfleld’s recent achlevement as a rort of Re-Cyprus-ity treaty. I 1t n runaway match {n the insect or animal world when you sce one ant-elope with anothe r, Epiritusl m anifestations with.communications in Latin sre advertised by a “Majum.” This - looks Ilke le gitimate business to have such mes: sages in the dead languuges. A member of the theatrical professfon who was in town last week looking for **a situation for tho scason,” was advised bLy a perspiring manager to “make Lis appearance on au lce- cart."? We have known alady who was so delicato sho could rarely walk more than s Lundred yards without complaining, who wonld run up a tremendous bitl (the combositer 1s requested not to set this word hill) without taking breathi, ‘The Rotne Sentinel sa; 1t waa cold enough Iast night, for we found jce a foot thick st our duer this morning.” That's because the leo- man mistook the house for that of the man who had pald up the day before. 8cth Spicer got his first mouthful of real Lim-" burger cheese in Germany ou the -Fourgh of July, and dld not dare to apeak with a couplo of Boston tnen that ho mec svon after, for fear they would thank him for having brought the Itoxbury Canal nuisance over to that country, 8t. Louls will build 2 monument tothe author ef “ Beautiful Snow.”’—forton Post. It is uu- derstood su application will be made to Con- gress for & quarter seeiion to contaly the mona- meuts, and that this is a profece to employ all alone-cutters out of employment, Generous 8t. Louis! . “Miue's Eau de Vie,” responded a patient waiter as he stepped up readily to the bar with the three who were invited to join n new comer. “Yeal and you've owed a V hiere now these six weeks,” sald tho harkeeper, *and ought to be branded os @ mun that don't pay.” Aud he was 80 brandled. A 8an Francisco woman, baving ‘né faith in . bunks, carricd arroumd $2,400 fu her bustle. “Llus her ncuine was always in arrcars.—.Vore, Heralld, Nu, eir; yon ore very much betind in that joke; it was the woman wiioput hier' money all intu two solitairo earrlugs, aod ker property was always lu enrs, « Just a8 you get ready ta write about the zood old Puritante ummflH of New England, some confounded Boaton felttng Cumpany or sav- fogs-bunk man, whose ancestors lunded on Plymouth Rouvk, has an uncomfortable affaic that kuocks it all tuto pl. We huve about como to the conclusion, in regard to honesty, that something depends in tho plant itselt as well as the soll on which it grows. . A gentleman deslres & situation as President ot Treasurcr of some manulscturing corpora- tion, Isnot o member of auy church, tetn perance society, ur lodze, not of sutlictent con- sequence to be cenerally respected, and does - not deacend trom any ofd famtly, Never has held“my ofice, 15 not an eminent cltizen, and wan e other equally strong recun- mendations if desired, There being an extraors dinary opportunity for corporations, asnplica- tiona witl be cunsldered fo the order recelyed, Addreas Streeter lead, Cummercial Lutletin Otlice, Boatou. e — Distance Lends Enchantment! Mand had afine fignre, good face, and pretty name. One muonid ree herat o distince. When wlie bepan 10 talk, you rosliast that she never uscy Hozadont. Mer oreath was unifke the breezes of Araby the Llest, DY DA BY WATER, AT STORES OF CARSON, FIREE & 0. West End Dry Goods Honse, - Madison & Peoria-sts. Wet Carpets, Vet Sheetings, Wet Cottons, Wet Linens, Wet Flannels, Wet Blankets, Wet Cloths, Wet Dress Goods, Wet Black Goods, . ‘Wet Prints, Wet Cambrics. Wet Hosiery, ete. Linen Suits half price. Also at North Bide Dry Goods House, North Olark & Hrio.sta,, same goods as a$ the Weat End Storo, exoepting Carglots, ———— ANTI-FAT, ANE ANTI-FAT 18 the great re 1618 barely vegetabic snd t upon the food (n the 1o beting converted o fat. Tuki re Wi lfecetions, 3 witl reduca o fad {ma to live goulds per week, pulciice 16 not only u hixcase thacif, but tha T of alherk™ ¥a wrula Hipiarates two years ugo, wid what was Lruc Tiel 14 uong e levn 0 tomtays Kol Dy sty OF st 1y Cde bress, for $130 Quurter-lozen $600 - Audreas, BOTANIC MEDICINE CO. Prop'ss, Buffato, N.Y. FINANCIA ESTABLISHED 1560, RANDAL Il FOOTE, BANKER; YOI e niember of ‘New York change sud Vice-P'resident of Gold Buard. the ractcrand exporicace (s guarunteed. tocks, 0ds: alieh BIOCK COBLTACtS 3UCh & ** airad ~and **callé * un lArge or awall umounts, 401d 0n regulsr commlzslons a; ‘awbblet entitled ** Wall biroe soalalng valusble (o 10 ode: ad stocd rmstion. watled un re- TUE FIRESIDE COMPANION. SWEET BYE AND BYE. The words snd Bl\hl(i of the popular tayorite, SWELT BYEAND BYE. are glven eway with Nu. 364 of tha N Fircalde Couipanlon, uutto-day ond fur sae by by worda i muslc uf {he charuilig Farcwell will La giied away wi