St. Louis Post-Dispatch
July 14, 1879
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— — VOL. XXVIII. ST. LOUIS, MONDAY, JULY 14, 1879. NO. 77. 7 A Cough, Call Established Twenty-five Years. BROW N’S CAUTION? Nhe popularity ofthe TROCHES bas caused sev- us in s Immediate Attention. ny of these ailments, if to continue, cause a eral counterfeit, poor, and worthiess tions. 8 Wy H Obtain only ng BRONCHIAL 4 Sy Fuca BROWN’S BRONCHIAL TROCHES, with the name of the pro- prietors on the Govern- owed irritation of the Lan permanent Throat Di 8 or Consumption. It is certainly well-estab- dished that BRown’s Bron- CHIAL TROCHES have no equal for the prompt re- lief of Coughs, Colds and Throat Diseases generally. TROCHES Prepared and Sold by JOHN I. BROWN & SONS, Boston. ment stamp attached to each box. Sold every- where, only in boxes, at 25c., 500. & $1.00, (The larger cheapest,) by all Druggists. Co Brown’s Bronchial Troches contain ingredients which also act specially on the organs of the VOICE. They have an extraordinary efficacy in all affections of the Throat and Larynx, restoring a healthy tone en relaxed either from cold or over-exertion of the voice, and produce a clear enunciation. They are — recommended to SINGERS and PUBLIC SPEAKERS, and all who are afflicted with Cough, Bronchitis, Catarrh, Influenza, Sore Throat, or Hoarseness. 1 25c.-WORLD-FAMED REMEDIES.-25c.| MRS. WINSLOW’S SOOTHING SYRUP, for Children Teething, &c. BROWN’'S VERMIFUGE COMFITS, for Eradicating Worms in Children (unfailing). BROWN’S HOUSEHOLD PANACEA, for Relieving Pain, both Internal and External. BROWN’S CAMPHORATED DENTIFRICE, for Whitening and Preserving the Teeth. | SOLD BY ALL DRUGGISTS. | — — Water Tower Heiglts! Upon Sundays a watchman stands for the entire day at the iron gate of the Wa- ter Tower, and at the request of all proper persons the gate is unlocked and free admission granted. The Bellefontaine Horse Railread runs Open Summer Chair Cars to the Water Tower. The ground at the Water Tower is One Hundred Feet Above the City Directrix. The Tower is. 175 feet high, being the highest Roman Corinthian column in the world. The river, from the top of the Tower, is singularly interesting. Men look like children; children look like babies; small houses look like toy houses; large houses look like small houses. A good glass and aclear day adds much to the entertain- ment. Water Tower Heights commands a view from the ground of the Missis- sippi River for fifteen miles. At morn and evening the air is very refreshing. At midday it is warm, on account of be- ing nearet the sun. Building lots at Water Tower Heights are very cheap, because there has hith- erto been no means of getting to and from it, and will probably advance a hun- dred per eent during the next year. 8 — — Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday. July 14, 15 and 16 STEWART COMIC OPERA COMPANY, 9 Last time of Pinafore. Thursday evening—THE BELLS OF CORNEVILLE. — an «LOTTERIES. ~~~ U'Louisiana, Missouri & Havana Lotteries, — for sale and sealed circulars sent by address- K E.. KAU B & CO., 417 Walnut street. St. Louis. Mo. ESTABLISHED 1865. General Agency of the Missouri, Louisiana, Havana,Ken tucky, Commonwealth and all German Lotteries. Tickets for sale, sealed circulars sent., and all informa tion given 6! 51845 to HENRY LEHND ORF. No. 110 SOUTH FOURTH STREET. Sr. Louis, Mo. Kentucky State Lottery, $15,000 for $1. RAWS on the 15th and 31st of every month. Au- thorized Western Agency, where tickets are sold and prizes cashed. HENRY LEHNDORF, 110 South Fourth Street. ST. LOUIS SWIMMING SCHOOL, Catalpa (9th), Between Chouteau Ave. and Gratiot. „* 1 Instruction in Swimming a Specialty. FOR LADIES—Mondays, Wednesdays and Fri- days, from ga. m. untl 12 m. Ladies are respect- fully invited to inspect the school during ladies’ ours. FOR GENTLEMEN AND BOYS—Every day, from 5a. m. until 10 p. m. (except during ladſes' hours). Sundays, from 5 a. m. until 5 K. m. THOS. MEIER, Superintendent. RATHER DRAMATIC. A Lively Interruption of Sunday Quietude on McNair Avenue. There was avery lively scene yesterday af- ternoon in the vicinity of 2713 McNair avenue. About 3 o’clock two ladies went down into that neighborhood and made inquiry for the resi- dence ota Mr. W. O. Avery. After some trou- ble they found the house, which was of the above number, and proceeded to ring the bell. It appears that Mr. Avery himself came to the door, but as soon as he did so he was met by a terrible storm of abuse from the larger of the two ladies. So loud was the talk- ing that the people livingin the block came out to see what was the matter. Mr. Avery seemed to be * EXCEEDINGLY NERVOUS, aniwas attempting to persuade the woman te cease talking so loud, but the more he per- suaded and expostulated the more she talked. Those who were witnesses of the affair say her tongue went off somewnat after the following fasbion: es, I have found you, have I? You thought you would come off down here and hide. Ob, I bave found vou ut. I have caught up with you in your mean- ness. Then she turned around and in the most ex- cited manner told some of the by-standers that she was the wife of Avery, and that he was liv- a pale and ing with another woman. agi- face appeared at a bout this time tated female second- story window, whereupon the demon- Strative and indignant woman down on the street turned up her head and remarked: Ob, yes, | know you, Bertha Reece. I have caught you two together after all.’’ Ana then the woman up stairs with the pallid ‘Cheek fell over on the floor IN A SWOON. Mr. Aver rushed up to her relief, and the last en th ee tableau was 4 gentleman hold- ting woman arms trying to restore ber to consciousness. hae gered around the They final one talking in the most The from bis wil ‘ * plain the scene enacted EM 2 What is it? During the recent heated term thousands of sons, men, women, and children, have at- teunset visited Water Tower Heights, all ot whom bear testimony to this fact. After re- maining upon the heights for fifteen or twenty minutes they become perfectly cool and are overcome with a feeling ot drowsiness. This is tollowed after their return to their homes with arefreshing night’s sleep, and an invigora- tion ot the physical and mental powers upon the following day. The attention of the press, physicians, ani scientific persons is called to this singular phenomenon. This influence is felt most decidedly upon the apex of the Heights about one square north of the Tower. Persons desiring to make the test should seat themselves quietly upon the topof the hill. Water Tower Heights cau be directly reached by the cars of the Bellefontaine Rail- road. FATAL HEAT. _ * Death of Wm. J. Lewis, on the River, Near Carondelet. Overcome by the Heat, He Expires in Ten Minutes, Sketch of the Life of a Good and Well-Known Citizen. But a few short months ago a PosT- DISPATCH reporter went to Mr. Wm. J. Lewis for the par- ticulars of the lite and death of Gen. Bartho- low, and now it becomes necessary to seek the same kind of information about Mr.Lewis. Any one looking at that hale and hearty-looking gentleman as he passed along the streets would Suy that this was a man destined to live his three score and ten. This morning he started to Carondelet, feel- ing in excellent health, and getting on his tugboat crossed over the river to the coal cump onthe other side. Whenright opposite the dump he was prostrated by the heat, and in ten minutes afterward he ceased to breathe. Telegrams were at once sent to St. Louis to different relatives and irtends of the deceased gentleman, and his son Turner Lewis, Captain Joseph Nunson and one or two others started to South St. Louis at once to bring back the body. They at once telepnoned a confirmation of the information given above. The death happened at ten min- utes to 10 this morning. The news was recetved with mary demonstra- tions of sorrow at the Merchants’ Exchange, an honored member of which Mr. Lewis has been for many years. It was believed that the disease of which he died was of the heart, but later developments proved conclusively that it was the oppressive heat, and nothing more. Mr. Lewis was altogether free from any affec- tion of the heart, and his general health was excellent. Mr, Harvey, an intimate personal friend of the deceased gentleman, gave an account of his life, which beganin Buckingham County, Virginia,on the 27th day of October, 1825. He was the youngest son of Thomas and Jedidah Lewis, and his father dying early, he was left to the care ot his ellest brother Ben- jamin. Benjamin removed to Missouri when he-was eighteen and settled at Glasgow, in Howard county, Where he went into the to- bacco business with bis brother. Here he re- mained until 1819, when he removed to St. Louis and entered the firm of J. W.& W. J. Lewis, afterwards Lewis & Brother. He be- came the senior partner of the firm of Lewis, Perry & Company. He retired from the tobacco trade in 1866 and went into the commission business with Capt. Jos. Nanson;in 1870 he withdrew and entered the banking firm ot Bartholow, Lewis & Co. In this year also he was elected president ot the Merchants’ Exchange, a place which he filled with honor and dignity. He was an ac- tive, driving business man engaged in a great many enterprises. For a time he was presi- dent of the St. Louis Mutual In- surance Company, and it was he that putthe St. Louis and Memphis Packet Company on its present firm financial footing. He is the principal owner ot the Lewis Coal Company ang of a great many other corpora- tions. His character, by the common consent of all who knew him, was a most lovable one. His heart and his purse were always open to the needy andthe friendless, and he has spent thousands of dollars in helping other and poorer men along. He has left a host of friends to mourn his loss, but his place in the community will be worthily filled by his son, a gentleman who is walking closely in the foot- prints of bis father. The body was brought up tothe city by the tugboat ‘‘Nagle,’’ on which he died, and a landing was effected at the foot of Pine street. Carriages were in waiting from Arnot’s which conveyed his remains home. It has not yet been decided at what time the funeral will take place. — — — — REEVES ARRAIGNED. The Would-be Wife-Murderer Waives a Pre- — Examination — His Wife's Condi- on. William C. Reeves, who buried four bullets in his wife’s body at Dunham's Candy Factory on last Monday afternoon, appeared in the Court of Criminal Correction this morning to answer to a charge of assault to kill. Reeves’ incarceration has quieted his nerves to a considerable extent, and he looked anythinz but an attempted murderer as he sat inthe dock awaiting the calling of his case. He was nervous to acer- tain extent, but displayed no other evidence of emotion. He was accompanied by his coun- sel, Mr. A. N. Merrick, and when the case was calied waived examination. Judge Cady placed the bond at $2,- 000, snd, being unable to give it, Reeves was ordered returned to his cell to await the action of the grand jury in nis case. His young wife still liesin a critical condition at her mother’s residence, with two bullets still unextracted,and her recovery is as yet but a matter of conjecture. The prisoner seems resigned to any fate which the law may have in store for him, and only expresses the wish that his girl- wife may recover. A Tramp’s Fate. John Bannon pleaded guilty to a charge of | petit larceny before Judge Cady this morning and was sentenced to six months’ imprison- ment at the Work-house. Bannonis the tramp who entered Wm. A. Lyred's residence in the western suburbs on last Wednesday and stole a $10 euit of clothes, THE OLD WORLD. Why Germany Contemplates an Increase of Its Army. The Orange Celebration Peaceful Throughout Ireland. Gen. Bonelli Appointed Minister of : War in Italy. =a — Cardinal Manning Preaches the Prince Imperial’s Funeral Sermon. England. THE PRINCE’S FUNERAL SERMON. By Cable to Western Associated Press. LONDON, July 14.—Cardinal Manning preached the funeral sermon of the Prince Im- perial at Chiselhurst, Sunday, in the pres- ence of the imperial family and a numerous congregation. THE ORANGE CELEBRATIONS in Ireland, on the 12th, passed off with only a few cases of shooting and stoning. One death is reported. The authorities had taken extra precautions, because of the excitement in consequence of the debate in Parliament on the Government’s Irish university bill. BULLION. LONDON, July 14.—Bullion goue into Bank of England on balance to-day £144,900. PARLIAMENT. By Cable to Western Associated Press. LONDON, July 14.—In the House of Com- mons this afternoon the Chancellor of the Ex- chequer gave a list of the measures which he said the Government will endeayor to pass, and which it will abandon. The most import- ant of the latter are the criminal code and pat- ent bills. He abstained from giving the entire catalogue of abandoned bills, and made no mention of the bill relating to the elections and corrupt practices under the Secretary for Foreign Affairs. A RUSSIAN DENIAL. It. is stated that Russia, through the foreign office, denied any intention of a march upon Merv by Gen. Lazareff’s expedition. Russia. &. TURCOMAN ARMS. By Cable to Western Associated Press. ST. PETERSBURG. July 14.—The Turco- mans opposing General Lazareff’s expedition are armed with English rifles from British re- serve supplies in Afghanistan. The Gazette asks in what light the English Government regard this traffic. Italy. A NEW MINISTER. By Cable to Western Associated Press. RoME, July 14.—Gen. Bonelli, as Minister of War, has been added to the list of Minis- ters. ne Germany. THE ARMY INCREASE, By Cable to Western Associated Press. BERLIN, July 14.—The contemplated in- crease of the army is in consequence of the in- creased military strength of France and Russia. THE NATIONAL LIBERALS. By Cable to Western Associated Press. BERLIN, July 14.—Seventeen National Lib- erals have seceded from the party constitu- tion section, headed by the historian, Freilschke. Their secession was due to the vote of censure passed upon them by the ma- jority of the party for supporting Bismarck’s views on the tariff. The conclusion of the debate on the tariff will be memorable for the protests of Del- bruck and Lasker, who prophesied discontent and confusion as the result of the tariff. THE NEW MINISTER. By Cable to Western Associated Press. BERLIN, July 14.—Von Gossler, who suc- ceeds Dr. Falk as Ministerof Ecclesiastical Affairs and Education, is a relative of the former Conservative and extremely unpopular minister of the same department, Dr. Von Mahler, and is reported as holding similar opinions. WM. ALLEN’S FUNERAL. - — —_— Burial of the Distinguished Ohio States- man at Chillicothe. r , A Vast Crowd of People Present Honors to , the Dead. By Western Associated Press. CHILLICOTHE, Onio, July 14.—The funeral of ex-Governor Wm. Allen took place this morning from Fruit Hill. Business through- out the city was generally suspended and many business houses and dwellings were DRAPED IN MOURNING. Among the many distinguished visitors pres- ent from abroad were Governor Bishop, Lieu- tenant-Governor Fitch and most of the State officials. THE CORTEGE was very imposing and the entire populace seemed assembled on the line of procession. New Orleans. By Western Associated Press. NEW ORLEANS, July 14.—The Louisiana Amateur Rowing Regatta has been postponed to July 28th. The Mississippi Baptist State Convention, called to meet at Sardis, July 17th, is indefi- nitely postponed. Postmaster-General Key. By Western Associated Press. NEW LONDON, CONN., July 14.—Postmas- ter-General Key and party started to-day from this city on a tour of New England. — — — ——— Marine Matters. By Western Associated Press. GLASGOW, July 14.—Arrived: State of Indiana, New York. Steamship Secretary Sherman’s Tour. By Western Associated Press. PHILADELPHIA, July 14.—Secretary Sher- man, accompanied by a committee of the Maritime Exchange, the Mayor, Speaker Randall and other Congressmen and weil- known citizens, went on board the revenue cutter Hamilton to-day, and started on an ia- spection of the Delaware River and harbor. This completed, the Hamilton will take the Seeretary along the eastern coast on official Visits. CRUSHED UNDER A WHEEL. Frightful Death of fence Snell This Morn- ng. accident occurred about 11 o’clock this morning, at the corner of Sixth and Market streets. George Snell, a young man nineteen years ot age, was driving a mud- cart along the street, when the reins slipped from his hands and fell. He attempted to catch them, and in so doing, lost his balance and tell directly in front of tlie cart. The wheel passed over his breast and crushed him terribly. The blood spurted trom his body, andthe young}man gave a sickening groan of agony. He was picked up immediately and sent in a wagon to the Dispensary, and trom there to the City Hospital. After suffering the most excruciating pain for about an hour, he died. He lived near Fifteenth and Clark avenue, and will be buriea by his family. A frighttul THE KRING CASE. ws Broemser’s Murderer Obtains Another Continuance. ‘‘Continued by consent,“ was the entry made in the case of Charles F.Kring, who]mur- dered Dora Broemser some four years and a half ago,in the northern part of the city, in the Criminal Court this morning. The entry did not annoy the prisoner in the least, for he was expecting a continuance, though, if the case had been forced to triai, it would have surprised him greatly. Bets are treely offered in and about the Four Courts that Kving will never expiate his crime on a scaffold, and that the case will either drag along until it is continued generally, or will be erased from the docket by his natural death. CRIME’S COLUMN. —_— — Chastine Cox on Trial for the Murder of Mrs. Hull. - — n The Prisoner Appears in Court Flashily Dressed. — — A Mulatto Brute Mobbed in Ken- tucky. Chastine Cox on Trial. By Western Associated Press. NEW YORK, July 14.—Chastine Cox was placed on trial to-day for the murder of Mrs. Jane Lawrence De Forest Hull. The prison- er was flashily dressed, looked happy, and chatted unconcernedly with those around him. The prisoner’s coun- sel said he had prepared a challenge to the array of jurors. It challenges the whole manner in which the Commissioner of Jurrors summoned the jurv panel and se- lected their names. He then moved that the panel be quashed. The prosecution demurred to the challenge and the Judge sustained fhe demurrer and the counsel took excep- tion. The Buford Trial. By Western Associated Press. OWENTON, Ky., July 14.—On the assemb- ling of Court this morning Col. Thompson, for the defense, moved the discharge of the jury on account of the absence of the record from the Franklin Circuit Court. The mo- tion was overruled. Several witnesses pro- nounced Buford s lunatic—one witness say- ing be had been insane since he was born. It is thought the testimony will all be in by Sat- urday. A Deserved Lynching. By Western Associated Press. CINCINNATI, July 14.—A mulatto named John Breckenridge overtook Miss. Berry, a white girl, while she was on her way tothe church near Carlisle, Ky., yes- terday, and forced her into the woods and rav- ished her. He was subsequently captured and placed in jail. At an early hour this morning a mob surrounded the jail, forced an entrance and carried Breckenridge out and hung him on a tree. Hapless Jail Birds. By Western Associated Press. CONCORD, July 14.—At the close of the re- ligious exercises in the State prison, yester- day, the conviets rudely jeered a large num- ber of visitors, and owing to their conduct the women did not make their customary tour of observation. Accounts of the revolt which had been thwarted impelled many to visit the prison. A Treasurer in Limbo. By Western Associated Press. DOYLESTOWN, FLA., July 14.—Barclay J. Smith, ex-Treasurer of the Newtown Rail- road, arrived this morning from Montana in charge of a detective and was released on bail. Stabbed to Death. By Western Associated Press. NEW YORK, July 14.—Mike Travis, of Vine street, Brooklyn, died from stab wounds in- flicted by Paul Shirley, clerk in the delivery department of the telegraph office. A Treasurer’s Suicide. By Western Associated Press. BIDDEFORD, ME., July 14.—R. M. Chap- man, aged sixty-four, treasurer of the Bid- deford Savings Bank, killed himself to-day. Another Treasurer Arrested. By Western Associated Press. NEW YORK, July 14.—Jas. G. Goldsmith, Treasurer of Peru, Ind., has been arrested here on the charge of being a defaulter. KRUSE’S DEATH. Was it Hastened by a Veterinary Surgeon’s Treatment? Charles Kruse died at his residence, No. 2711 North Fourteenth street, yesterday, from the effects of a cancer. He had been attended by Joseph T. Wheeler, of No. 1225 North Sixth street, who refused to give a burial permit ter the interment of Kruse’s remains, The matter was reported to the police of the Fourth District, Who investigated the matter and state that Wheeler is nothing but a veter- inary surgeon. The matter has been reported to the Coroner, who will investigate it to see it — malpractice was the cause of Kruse’s eath. — City Hall Notes. Twenty-three burial permits were issued by the Health Department to-day. The collections amounted to $7,479 08. The Beard of Public Improvements met to- day. The House Committee on Public Improve- ments meets this afternoon. The Supply Cemmissioners to-day awarded a contract for gas-pipe for the Insane Asylum to Kupferle Bros. A contract for hose for the Poor-house will be let to-day. The Committee on Charitable Institutions meets this afternoon. Since the completion of the floating scaven- ger-dump, which is stationed at the foot of ullanphy street, the use of the old dump at the foot of Asbley street bas been discontinued. William Stantzer attempted to clear out a crowa at No. 1021 St. Charles street, to-day, but the old woman was Opposed to it let William know of her N tion dy delaboring him on the head witha bueket. Dr. Carson dressed the wounds at the D and William was waltzed off by an officer. John Ray ught to the ems me ggg? | to- day to have some ugly stabs dressed. In a quarrel at a saloon, bar-keeper stabbed him three timesinthe back and once in the side with a carvi fork. The wounds were dressed and Ray n in charge ot by a police oBicer. Nannie | — — The Fear of an Epidemic Entirely Dissipated. — One More Death Recorded To-Day, — —— And Only One More Memphis. Case in - — - The Quarantine Established Against that City to be Raised. MEMPHIS, TENN., July 14.—No new cases have been reported. ONE DEATH. . Mrs. Tobin, residing on Bradford street, died this morning at 6 o’cloek,and was buried at 8. ONLY ONE MORE CASE. This leaves but one person in the entire city, Judge Ray’s son, who is sick with fever, and he is reported as dying. QUARANTINE. Local stations along the Memphis and Little Rock Railroad have notified the Memphis au- thorities that if no newcases develop by to- morrow the quarantine would be raised be- tween Memphis and Lonoke, Arkansas, which is twenty-seven miles this side of Little Rock. The weather continues very warm. Cairo’s Quarantine. By Western Associated Press. CAIRO, July 14.—U. S. steamer City of He- lena, from Vicksburg, was not allowed to land last night. Quarantine regulations will be enforced against all steamers and trains from Memphis, in accordance with resolu- tions adopted by the Board of Health. At Water Valley. By Western Assoctated Press. WASHINGTON, D. C., July 14.—Advices received by the National Board of Health state that the yellow fever excitement at Vater Vallev, Miss., has abated and there are no new cases. i The Eoard of Health’s Hasty Action. [From Yesterday’s Avalanche. ] We cannot censure the action of those States and cities that have announced a quarantine against Memphis as a city cursed with another epidemic of yellow fever, in the teeth of the fact that there is noepidemic. This action is hasty and unjust, but the very words of our own authorities, in advising citizens of Mem- phis to leave the city, are sufficient to make other towns act onthe presumption that the feveris here. But the point we desire to make is this: Have any local Board of Health, or Mayors of towns, or Governors of States, the right or power to lay an embargo on the trade and persons of other towns and States? Can these authorities publish to the world that we have an epidemic of yellow fever, and up- on that assumption put a stop to all commu- nication, by rail and river, with the place presumed to be infected? The Damage From Quarantine. [From the Appeal. ] New Orleans fires at Memphis the fitst gun, not waiting to confer with the National Board at Washington, and so with other cities. The injury thus done to property, to trade and to persons in advance of the existence of an epidemic is as great as if the epidemic of fever were raging in every household in the city. We cannot refrain from suspecting that other motives than the protection of life have been at work. The action ofthe Memphis Cham- ber of Commerce yesterday, the proceedings of which are in another celumn, deserve the respectful consideration of the people of Arkansas especially. The Governor of that State bas, by his official action, cut off all communication between the citizeus of the two States without any warrant of law and of fact to justify it. The Medical Lunatics. {From the Avalanche. } We are willing to enter the Memphis medi- cal lunatic against any competitor New Orleans cap trot out of the medical stable, and back him with odds that would startle a Rothschild. We will enter him in sweepstakes against the combined world. Eleven hundred million dol- lars to a brass button, that, given a sporadic case of yellow fever as a basis of operations, the Memphis medical lunatic can become frightened quicker, and wabble on the gudg- eon oftener and more thoroughly than any other lunatic; that his eye- balls can glare more horribiy, and his legs can travel faster, and his tongue can reel off more panic literature to the square inch than any other ten lunatics inthe coun- try, and that when once started on the grand rounds he can illustrate a vital foree equal to aforty thousand horse power engine. It is useless for any of the many envious, gangrened rivals of Memphis to attempt com- petition with us iu medical lunatics. Weare peculiarly blessed in this regard, and our re- sources are boundless. Yet we are not proud, Far from it. Though thus exalted above our fellows, we are still willing to meet our sister + cities on terms of comparative equality. We are not at all' stuck up.“ AN UNLUCKY ENGINE. 2 — Collision Between Freight Cars of the Vandalia and I. & St. L. - = — Several Cars Smashed and Badly Damaged. The ill-fated and unlucky engine No. 48 of the Vandalia Line added another to the already long list of disasters it has caused tnis morn- ing by running into an Indianapolis and St. Louis freight train at the other end of the bridge nearthe Relay Depot, East St. Louis. The accident occurred at 11:20 this morning. A long freight train drawn on the Vandalia line came off the bridge at the curve and ran along On what is called the old rail mill. The I, and St. L. track runs parallel with it. On the latter track, the I. and St. L. freight cars, drawn by engine No. 52, camealong, and waited until the other train ha@ passed. The watchman onthe end ofthe bridge motioned the train to come on, and just as it arrived at the crossing ofthe Vandalia, which is parallel with the bridge and lies right across the track, engine 48 with eight plattorm cars came along pretty fast, and the tender struck tke engine. The at * — up. men except Galt hel. By in jumping fered some internal injuries 828828288 > was to his home in a bugey. conveyed THE RIVER MONSTER AGAIN, A Horrible Serpent, Seventy-five Feet Lon With a Horse’s Mane and a Pelican’s ; deen in the Mississippi. Sr. Louis, July 14, 1879. To the Editor of the Post-Dispatch: A few weeks ago I saw published in your pa- per fhe particulars of a large sea monster whigh I should consider as bordering on the marvelous were it not for the fact that, on the 9th of September, 1872, while floating down the Mississippi River on Capt. Ed, Baker's pro - duce boat, when near Island No. 95, we were startled by a very loud eplaghing in the water, YELLOW FEVER. | saw a dark object not more than cighty |} yards from the boat, and for the first time saw | a huge monster. and, as those on board had beard of the great sea monster, they were much frightened. They It was swimming at a pretty tast rate towards the boat, and made as much noise as a large steamboat. boat it suddenly turned to the left,striking the stern oar and knocking it overboard. The monster was near enough to havea full view of him He was judged by those who saw him to be about 75 feetin length.His body was shaped like a snake, his tail forked like a fish,and he had a bill like that of a pelican.His bill was fal- ly eight feet in length. He had along, flowing black mane like a horse. When he swam his head was eight feet above the water. Itwasa ‘and sight to see him move down the river. t was impossible to induce part of the crew, who had been scared below, to come out again that night. The pilot, Mr. George McCune, was finally coaxed out by bis wife, she telling him that the monster had departed. Capt. Baker’s boat was afterwards moored at the foot of Main street, Natchez, Miss. All the crew, except one man, abandoned her, and Capt. Baker tound it impossible, for some time, to get a crew, as the men thought it was stiil following them. This monster has been seen twice since—once near Lake Provi- dence, La., a short distance above Vicksburg, Miss., when it had a full-grown sheep in its mouth, and again near Baton Rouge, La.,when ithada ae hog in tow. The sea-weed in the ocean may deceive the eye iuto the belief that | it was a monster serpent at a very short dis- tance, as I have known sea weed to form itself into a roll half a mile loug and as large as a man’s body, but it would be very bard to de- ceive the eye on a stream as narrow as the Mis- sissippi, and there is no sea- weed to torm itself into an imaginary snake, such as might be found in the sea. n ERB’S GAME. -— * Another Wife-Murderer Fight- ing for Delay. His Trial Fixed for this Morning, but Continued. What He Has to Say About His Case—The Insane Plea. The case ot W. H. Erb, the brute who stab- bed Rosalie Erb, his wife, to death at No. 319 South Third street, on the evening of the 14th of last month, graced the dooket of the Crim- inal Court this morning. Erb sat in the dock as greasy, dirty and repulsive looking as ever, and took matters as ooolly as if he bad never harmed a hair of the poor dead woman’s bead. He seemed utterly dead to remorse or anything akin to it, and is really fleshing up on his prison fare. As he sat brushing at the flies which selected him for a victim, a Post-DISPATCH reporter, managed to ap- proach him. He was quite WILLING TO TALK, and said in reference to hiscase: ‘‘I don’t want to be tried now. I must have some more time. This is the first time I have been brought up here, only to plead guilty or not guilty and it isnot fair for me to be tried now. Why should you not have your trial at the present time?’’ the reporter ventured to ask. It would not de, was his ready reply. ‘‘There are men in the jail by me who done just as bad asI did years ago, and there is one who killed a woman four years and more ago (meaning Kring) and he has not had his trial settled yet.’’ Then you wish to have tour years go by be- fore any decision is reached in your case, do vou?“ » guess so. Why Shouldn’t I? but then ! don’t care about waiting quite so long. Itlwasto wait that long my reason would be entirely gone; I think that is what you call it, my mind I mean; it is unset- tled now. Nou wish to convey the idea that when you stabbed your wife you were insane?’’ ‘*Yes,I was crazy then; at times I don’t know what Iam doing tor days, and that was one of those times. My reason was gone. ButIican’t tell vou just how eit is. When I get a lawyer he can explain it to vou. jou have not secured a lawyer as yet?“ No, not yet; Mr. Merrick will get me a con- tinuance to-day, but, if 1 can’t raise some money, the Court will have to appoint me counsel, and it is ALL THE SAME. He, whoever he may be, will work hard.’’ Erb has observed matters pretty closely dur- ing hisfour weeks’ confinement in the city jail. He has noticed bow Charles Kring, Re- demeier and Kotovsky have held a legal death, which is their just dues, at a distance, by the plea of insanity, backed up by a few dollars. and he proposes to profit by their experience and follow in their footsteps. When his case was called Mr. Merrick, who is engaged temporarily for the defense, arose and asked for acontinuance for the defense, and as it was the first ealling of the case the Court readily granted the continuance asked for and ordered the case to go over until next term. W hile there can be no@oubt of Erb's guilt, and notwithstanding his plea of guilty, the case will drag along until the costs will aggre- gate thousands of dollars to the State before he stretches hemp. LOCAL PERSUNALS. C. W. Smith, Chicago; G. H. Judah, Phila- delphia; W. B. Denton, Helena, Ark.; J. W. Webb and lady, Dallas. Tex.; 0. A. Hoadley and mother, Little Rock, Ark.; R. C. Hancock, New Orleans, and Sam Neil, Tennessee, are at the Laclede, J. E. Martin, N. Orleans; F. 1. Spencer and son, Galveston; C. A. tf. ; W ingle, U. S8. X.; I. W. Comstock, Kansas City; T. Sultenstall, Phila- delphia; E. II. Mason, Atlanta, Ga.; J. J. Sumpter, Hot springs; Col. Jos. Baily, Farm- ingtou, Ot., are at the Planters’. I. C. Vilas, New York; R. Gibson, New York; W. B. Stephens, New York; Judson Bent, Den- ver; Hallett Killbourne and W. P. Copeland, Washington, D. C.; C. C. Mackay, New York; J. A. Waish, Washington, and I. D. Hamil- ton, New Orleans, are at the Lindell. — — — — — — Daily Weather Bulletin. WAR DEPARTMENT, WASHINGTON, 6:42 a.m., July 14. LL STATION. Weather. s nnou g deaf [TesUIwY **‘Iqjnqu0IRg d 82 ＋ Dodge City : Fort Gibson. 29.84 Indianapolis 222992020] oeuousdt Pittsburg. svesese (80.00 0 Cal. 600 Ake City... 2 — Francisco. . 30.07 fankton . (29. ipringfield, UI. . . 30.01 — -— ——-—-— Local Weather Report. SIGNAL OFFICER, WS) Sr. Louis, Mo., July 16. Weather. rection. | SE. Fair. E. Fair. K. Clear. J. H. WEBER, Sergeant Signal Corps, U. S. A. Off for the Northern Lakes, Capt. Bill Burke. Mr. Pratt himself will not de ‘gone over two or three weeks, but his family 5 Pi ott cata! 7 | & - nae „ a 8 will remain away all summer, As it neared the | BLANCK’S BODY. — »„—é It is Viewed This Morning by a Coroner’s Jury. - — n A Ghastly Scene at the Morgue. -— = A Large Crowd Present at the Inquest. -— -_ Facts of the Tragedy as Recounted by Witnesses. The Coroner's office was crowded almost to suffocation at 10 o’clock this morning by the colored population of northwestern St. Louis who had assembled to either testify in the in- vestigation into Eugene Blanck’s death, who was murdered by Scott Hunter near the Three Mile House on the Natural Bridge road last Saturday morning, or listen awe-strieken to the narration of the affair by tue wit- nesses. The thermometer told ninety-four degrees in the shade, and by 10:30 o’clock, when the Coroner announced himself in readiness to convene the inquest, uone but a conscientious juror or reportercould have been persuaded to remain in the room for either love or money. All ot the murdered man’s sisters, cousins and aunts and friends were in attendance, and those who had not been subpanaed were found ready and willing to tell all they knew of the matter by hearsay or proxy. The Murderer. Hunter came in under the escort of Sergeant Schmittgens, almost ashypale under his copper hue. His eyes were bioodshot, and he looked haggard and as if he had lived years in reality since firing the fatal shot in the rich dusk ot last Saturday morning. He was calm, but that was all, and hiseyes reflected no spark of in- telligence whatever. At the Morgue. The jury having been sworn, the Coroner or- dered them to file out of the office and proceed to the Morgue, where the murdered man was lying. The half dozen jurors, headed by the Coroner and flanked by the PosT-DISPATCH re porter,started off at once and were followed by a mob of negroes which numbered some two hundred. Down Eleventh street and up Spruce the crowd marched, and at the en- trance to the office of the superintendent of the Morgue the crowd stopped while a policeman tallied off thgse who were entitled to admission to the holy of holies within. The jurors anajthe POstT-DISPATCH man passed in, and when they had taken their places around the corpse on the marble slab in the dead room and were holding their noses to keep out the terrible stench that permeated the place. The police began calling out the names of wit- nesses, and soon the small room was suffocated with people. Prominent among those who were in attendance were the wife and sister of the man who was killed, Eugene Blanck. Dr. Auler turned down the dirty, biood-stained and death spattered sneet from Blanck’s re- mains and revealed to view the face,*swollen with putrefaction and yellow and jaundiced in death. The wife and sister looked at the face and hid their countenances in their handker- chiefs. Hunter, who was inthe custody of Sergeant Schmittgens, looked blankly atthe corpse and appeared to be indif- ferent. Dr. Auler asked him if he intended to make any statement. He said he did. Dr. Auler said: I suppose you understand tbat any statement you make will not be com- pulsory.’’ I know that,’’ said the prisoner. And your statement has to be under oath,’’ continued Dr. Auler. Nes, sir. 5 Nou 'll have to swear to it, said the Coro- ner, turning the sheet down from the face of the dead man. „„es, sir, I want to swear toit. The corpse was then covered, and the pro- cession took its way back to tbe Coroner's of- ce. —_—_—_—_———Ss—r— The Evidence. The first witness examined was MARY NORRIS, a dusky little damsel who intormed the Cor- oner that she would tell the truth so help her God as straight asa shingle. She resides on Page avenue but had forgotten the number or streets adjoining; so some trouble was exper- ienced in finding out from other wit nesses the location of Mary’s home, which is situated three doors west of Vandeventer av - enue on Page avenue. Shetold her story of the murder of poor Blanck as follows: I don’t know What day ofthe month Blanck was shot, butit was on Saturday morning be- tween 2 and 3 o’clock. I don’t know where Mr. Hunter’s house is, but I was there all the same. was danciag, and there were a great number of us colored people there. The quarrel first com- menced by Scott Hunter’s wife coming into the room where we were dancing, and said that she had heard that some man had said that he was going to break upthe ball, and that she would give us to understand that we were in her house, that she was giving the dance, and that when she wanted the ball broke up she would break it up herself. She also said that some of the men had torn down her gate. We were dancing when. she entered the room, and we all stopped. as she was addressing all of us. Somebody spoke up and said that the cows had broken it down, and Mrs. Hunter replied, ‘Yes, 1 know some two-legged cow has done it.’ Ben George said, ‘You don't mean to call us two-legged cows, do you, since ue done paid out our ten cents to come here. Hunter’s wife said, ‘Yes, 1 do mean to call you two-legged cows,’ and then Scott Hunter rush- ed in, come in very jast, when we were danc- ing. He stepped in the middle of the room and said with an oath that he was going to kill us all. He said nothing else, but his wife got him out of the room and slammed the door in his tace. She never said anything to him when she pushed him out, but said for all of us to get out of the house, as her husband was going to shoot. We all hurried out, some by the back wav and some by the front way, and at the kitchen door the crowd that 1 was with met scott Hunter with a gun. He raised the gun above his head asif he was going to strike some one, and said to one of the young men who was in company with me—l believe his name is Mr. Wiggins or Williams—‘You are my man.’ My triend said, ‘What do you want to hit me for? I have not done anything to you, have 1?’ Hunter said nothing, but pointed the gun at him, answering him in that way. He pulled the trigger, and the hammer fell, but it did not go off because there wasnocapon the gun. He went into the other room again to get a cap and was not gone but atew minutes until he came back again. I was standing on the outside, on the porch, talking to his step-daughter, when he t back, and without saying anything he umped through the window, the tront one. ‘hen he got out he umped wvetween the gate and Ben. George. Heraised the gun, I think be aimed to kill Ben George, but he pointed it towards the crowd and fired. Ben George was the nearest person to Hunter, and I know he intended to kill him. After the shot Eugene fell with his head ali fall of shot, and found that he was hit in saw Mr. Blanck fall, rhe he fell Ben George caught him by the head. The boys also all turned in to catch Hunter, who cried tor help. All of the Grand avenue boys beat Scott Hunter till be cried out that-he was dead. The boys then let him up and took Ben George and hurried off to the doctor with Ben George. poet Hunter then went into the house. When e be came out the hand, but did say a word. He dro E d went into the him,’’ for a year, and all that Scott had to do was to ut on a cap. Just at the time that Scott unter shot she did not sa t Morgue this ord Blanck, yao Scott Hunter shot that ght. | At the conc)usion of Mary Norris’ testimony, BEN. GEORGE, THE WOUNDED MAN, took the stand and testified: I am a teamster, and reside at No. 2554 Clay avenue. I am by i l * gf adjoining room or the kitchen, and all the doors were open. When Johnson answered bis wite, Hunter ran into the room Where we were dancing and told all ot us that we would have to get out. Nellie Hunter shoved him in the other room and ciosed the door after him. We all went out of the room, and as we were going I heard Charley Williams cry out something. I turned around and saw that Scott Hunter hada gun and had it raised above his head as if to strike Williams. Then he reversed the gun, leveled it at w ms and threatened to shoot nim. Williams answered, ‘‘Shoot away. Lam unarmed, but then I have only one time to die anyhow.’’ Hunter’s wife then shoved ber husband back into the room and the door. Thenl and Eugene Blanck were standing at the window and saw him load his with either slugs. opened a outa bag of some kind from which he loaded the gun. I remained ai the window, but tura- ed around a little. I spoke to Blanck. and all at ones the crowd eried out to us to look out. l wheeled around and saw the gun in Scott Hunter's hands, heard “the discharge and ieltthat I Was shot in the ieft arm. Iat once urned and grappled with Hun- ter and eried out for the crowd to help me, not knowing that Blanck was killed We Hunter until he shouted that be was dead, and then we let him up, and I went to Dr. Standing. where I had my arm dressed. that Blanck was dead until some time after- wards. I was not drunk atthe dance and did not see any liquor sold. On the cross-examination by B. Ff. Clark, who appears in conjunction with John I. Martin and T. P. Grasty for the detense, the witness stated that he paid 10 cents to goto the ball at Hunter’s on that eventful night. He paid the money to Hun- ter’s step-daughter, Mollie Condon, whom he knew by sight. The row sta about Mrs. Hunter calling ail ef them two-legged cows. Witness did not know whether Huater was drunk or not on firing the shot. He saw the prisonei load his gun and then turned away from the window. It was about five minutes afterwards that Hunter came out. Hunter aimed the gun direct at him and be dodged his head in time to save his life. He did not see Blanck fall. When Hunter fired he caught the gun with his left hand and struck him with his right, but he loosened his hold on account of his arm getting weak from loss of blood. The crowd all as- sisted in beating Hunter. The third witness called was BEN JOHNSON, who told bis story ot Hunters ball. ‘I reside on the corner of Lee and Lindell avennes, and wasatthe dance given at Hunter’s house on Friday night. I got there about 11:30 o’clock, and went into the house and got a glass of beer. I had just drunk it when a boy came and asked me for ten cents to pay for my dancing that night. I paid him and went into the dancing-room, and took a seat on the sofa. All of the boys knew that there was beer in the unteroom, and some of them drank a good deal. I don’t know how much Scott Hunter drank that night. The fuss started about half past 1 o’clock by Scott Hunter's wife coming in and saying that the gate was broken down. Iremarked that some of the cows had broken it, and she replied: ‘Yes; some two-legged cows.’ ’’ The continuation of Johnson's statement elicited nothing new or startling, simply cor- roborating the testimony of Mary Ben George. There are a score of witnesses anxious to testify,and if they are aliexamined the inquest Will continue to-morrow at least; but if Coro ner Auler dispenses with two-thirds of them the investigution may be concluded to-night. Dr. Aulei issued the regular burial] permit to Blank’s friends this morning, and they took the remains out to St. Peter’s Cemetery and gave them a decent burial. THE HEATED TERM. An Oppressive Day, With Few Casualties. The Maximum Temperature Ninety-four 5 Degrees, ~ > W hile the thermometer tc te ed to such an awful altitude ad it fore, the incteased humidity makes tene er very much harder to stand than it otherwise would be. It is a fact wellknown to both phy- sicians and meteorologists that excessive hu- midity retards both perspiration and the radi- ation of heat, and results in much more dis- comfort than would a high- er temperature with a drier air. Occasional breezes flurried the hot streets, usually from the southeast. The signal ofticer, Sergeant Weber, has been studying i- tions of the weather, aud says that there is possibility of local rainsin this vicini ty very shortly. Ofcourse, these predictions are only based on grotinds of probability, and while some of the signal officers, aud notably Mr. Weber, have seldom failed in their prophe- sying. still it must be remembered that these foretellings are probabilities only. On the streets the damp, Lot veather made its effects most plainly een and felt, and the overloaded beast: ot burden suffered terri- bly. Sever builders engaged on various houses have quit work, and a great many suspend business during the hotter noon hours of the day. Such breezes as have blown over St. Louis, have come mostly from the hotier South, and are doing little good as breezes. The dav is a much hotter one than yesterday, as the thermometric figures amply prove. Yesterday at 4:35 p. m., Washington time, the mercury stood as follows in the different cities: Boise{City, Idaho Cairo, II Chicago, III Cincinnati, O...... Davenport, la Denver, Col Des Moines, Ia..... 77 9 81 Memphis, Tenn 83 Nashville, Nn. 83 New Orleans, La 92 Omaha, Neb... 9 90 Pioche, Nen... 21 5 Pittsburg, 2 2220000 90 Sacramento, Cal.... Dodge City, Kan... 93 Salt Lake Oitygt’ Dubuque, Ia 94 San Francisco, Cal. Fort Gibson, C. N. 101 Shreveport, 1 Indianapolis, Ind. 90 St. Louis, Mo. Keokuk, Ia. 91 St. Puul, Minn ..... 86 La Crosse, Wis..... 9% Vicksburg, Migs. Leavenworth, Kan. 89 Winnemucca, Nev.. 78 Louisville, hy 155 Springfield, u.. . 98 At the signal office the thermometer to-day 2p. u. 2 The highest point reached by the mercury to-day was 94 degrees. At Aloe's. Thermometer record forthis day, taken at Aloe’s Optical Establishment, corner of Fourth and Olive streets, for the Post-Dis- Outside. Inside. At the Dispensary. But little business of any kind was done at the Dispensary to-day. The cots were piled over in ome corner, and the ice was not sO prominent. The season so far has Ga pointed the hopes of the Dispensary end nos come up to the mark which ws . of it. elaborate © — much gr Hospital, where he wards. He had been me triends yesterday Sunstrack. John Galto, an Italian, was prostrated by the heat yesterday morning near his residence, No. I aid not know | Norris aud 2 7 —
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gee, of P 8 * 7 — n 2 1 ee Bene 7 * ma, F r * 9 . eA I n rye Si. Fons Post - Dispatch, Monday, Gulp 14, 187g. _— „ Estab. , THE DISPATCH,“ isos, | THREE PAPERS THE STAR, * 1878; United in One. Only Evening Journal in St. Louis. PUBLISHED BY JOHN A. DILLON and JOSEPH PULITZER. — — RATES OF SUBSCRIPTION. The POST-DISPATCH will be delivered by carriers to any part ofthe city, or sent by mail, postage pre- paid, to subscribers in any part of the Union, on the following terms: The carriers will collect tke city subscriptions on their routes; all subscriptions by mall must be pre- paid. and annual subscriptions will not be considered unless accompanied by the money. THE SATURDAY POST-DISPATCOH. On Saturday the POST-DISPATCH is pub- lished as a six-page paper, with full reviews of all the events of the week and a choice selection of reading matter, makingit the most popular and serviceable _ WEEKLY PAPER published in St. Louis. Subscriptions to the SATURDAY POST-DIS- PATCH will be received at the rate of $1 00 per annum, in advance. Single copies, ö cents. — — POST-DISPATCH, 111 North Fifth street. St. Louis. — INDICATIONS. By Western Associated Press. WASHINGTON, D. C., July 14.—For Ten- nessee and Ohio Valley, northerly winds shifting to southerly, partly cloudy weather and occasional rains , with stationary tempera- ture, and stationary or higher pressure. For Upper Mississippi and Lower Missouri Valleys, stationary or rising barometer, southerly winds, stationary temperatures, partly cloudy weather, possibly followed in northern por- tion by northerly winds, For lake region, southwest to northwest winds, stationary or higher pressure and temperature, clear or partly cloudy weather, except possibly local rains in the lower lake region. Rivers will generally fall or remain stationary. NOTICE. We advertise free situations wanted; and ‘tepants’’ help, miscellaneous, for rent, for sale, lost and found, if the advertisements do not exceed five lines, and are not of a busi- ness character. Persons who cannot obtain the Post-Dis- patch at News Agencies, on Railway Trains, Steamboats and other places where usually sold, will confer a favor by reporting the facts to us, giving dates and particulars. Persons leaving the city for the summer can have the Post-Dispatch mailed to.them, post- paid, on leaving their subscriptions for the same at our counting- room. The address of a paper may be changed at any time. Commencing about the first of September next, the WEEKLY Post-DIsPaATCH will be an eight-page paper, larger and better in quantity and quality than any other weekly published in St. Louis. Tun Republicans of Missouri were once held together by the cohesive power of pub- lic plunder. The hope of public plunder is the only thing that will ever reunite them. They are the “‘honorable bilks’’ of Missouri politics. Dr. PREETORIUS Ought to be grateful to us. We are giving him great national reputation. Nearly avery journal in the land copies ggg@Hotices the interview pub- ish 208T-DISPATCH, and thereby rertisés not only the good Doctor, but also his paper, the Westliche Post. The good Doctor is a “biger’? man than old Carl just now. Tun other day an Evansville paper pub- lished the astonishing statement that there had been „eight cases of yellow fever in St. Lovis four fatal.“ Such sensational sto- ries are not to be wondered at when the lying correspondents of Chicago and Cin- cinnati papers in this city picture St. Louis as indescribably filthy, packed with infected bedding, and actually in such a condition as to invite the pestilence. The yellow fever ought to come here and stay just long enough to blight these scribbling liars. OvR sprightly contemporary, the Times- Journal, speaks this morning ef ‘‘ex-Sena- tor Alcorn, of South Carolina,“ who is ‘credited with a remark that if Grant makes the race he will be inaugurated.” Our esteemed and entertaining contempo- rary must have just risen from profound sleep. The remark it quotes appeared in the Post-Dispatcu about a fortnight ago as part of an interesting interview with Mr. Alcorn—who, by the way, isan ex-Senator from Mississippi, and not from South Car- olina, as the Times-Journal says. -- ——— — IMPERIALISM in France, though at low ebb, is not dead. A vigorous leader at the head of the Bonaparte dynasty could easily make the Republic tremble if not totter. The great popular sympathy over the Prince’s death and the incidents connected with his burial prove this. If Imperialism dies out it will not be for lack of adherents, but for the want of a leader who can proper- ly represent the imperialistic idea. The Republic is doubtless safe, but as much from the division and disorganization of its enemies as from its own strength. CARL SCHURZ’ partner in journalism vows that Carl will never support Ulysses Grant, never! This is bad for the Grant boom. It may be remembered that it was Mr. Schurz who defeated General Grant when a candidate for re-election in 1872. If Schurz is **agin’’ a man he may as well give up.—[Chicago Times. This flippancy will not do. Mr. Schurz had really no desire to defeat Grant in 1872. He only made some seventy odd speeches against him to keep in practice. But in 1880 he will support him with the gsame-zeal with which he opposed him in 872. The good Dr. Preetorius is too san- guine and hopeful. t —- THe St. Louis Post-DISPATCH says the Democratic candidate must be a man who is neither without nor afraid of blood.’’ Of course that means David Davis. Both parties may have to drop back on Illinois yet.—[Chicago Inter-Ocean. 2 Well, there is no telling what may take place. Grant and Davis, both from Illinois, as the opposing candidates, would be a fine gatire on the change of politics. Davis, more than any other man, secured the nom- ination of his law partner Lincoln in 1860. Grant was then a pro-slavery Democrat. He never voted any except the pro-slavery Democratic ticket. Davis was one of the founders of the Republican party. 4 a — Tur most effective and powerful part of Zach Chandler has hitherto been his made the following ‘‘revolutionary”’ thingat : g Many years ago I determined to take a course of training in boxing, and I employed one of the best trainers in the country, the man who trained Heenan for his famous prize- fight before the war. I was under this man’s charge for at least six months, and in that time became quite an adept in using my fists. I got up a first-class muscle and have pre- served it to this day. No personin the Senate suspects that I am a boxer or that I can strike a blow of iron, but if I am ever assailed my assailant will discover that I can defend my- self without resorting to weapons. TAKING the cue from the recent erroneous announcement of the Surgeon-General, the St. Louis correspondents of papers in rival cities have telegraphed as a fact that large quantities of bedding brought from the re- gions infected by the yellow fever last year have been left in St. Louis by negro immi- grants. The fact is that not one per cent of these people came from the districts where the fever prevailed last year, and no ‘‘beddir g“ has been deposited here. Inthe face of this, however, the Chicago Tribune correspondent telegraphs, “it is stated, too, that much of this bedding was taken by these negroes from the Southern fever hos- pitals, but this is denied.“ This expert slanderer of St. Louis ought to go to Chi- cago to live. Tun New York Tribune has discovered that Texas is a peaceful State; that its peo- ple are orderly and industrious, and that a stranger may travel over its broad domain unarmed and in perfect safety. There isa paper nearer home that is evidently groping in ignorance on this subject. While the Republican organ in New York makes this acknowledgment in behalf of a much- slandered State, the Globe-Democrat con- tinues to picture it as a terror-spot, where murder and rapine are rampant. The fact is, a man is rarely killed in Texas who does not deserve killing. It is the bowie-knife bully who provokes violence, and not the good citizen, who is generally killed. But considering its tre- sparsely settled even counting these, mendous territory and frontier, homicides are comparatively fewer in Texas than in New York. Tur Washington correspondent of the Cincinnati Enquirer seems to be quite a gushing admirer of Mr. Schurz. Here is what he says about him: Secretary Schurz, with his family, is at Oakland, near Deer Park, Md.—that is, he goesup Saturday and returns on Monday in time for duty. Carl Schurz is the most hon- est, painstaking and efficient Secretary the In- terior Department has had since ‘‘manya year ago. He is scrupul@is to a nice degree in his honest administering of affairs, and is, I think, the only Cabine officer who has even faintly attempted to carry out ‘civil service reform.’’ He is ac- cessible at all times, and every one in the of- fice, no matter how subordinate his position, can always have an audience with our Teuton- ic Minister. He is untiring in his industry, full of active force, and one of the humanest of all politicians. He is intellectual, a bril- liant writer, an accomplished linguist and a musician of exceptional talent. In fact, there seems no limit to his genius, which is of the kind spoken of by Aristotle as productive genius. ABOUT THE PARDONING POWER. We believe in capital punishment. We do not believe in that maudlin senti- ment Which is terrified by the thought of blood. A hanging usually does more good to society than a prayer meet- ing. But even hangings may sometimes become acts of wrong and injustice per- formed under the very cover of law and ‘justice. The very object of creating the pardon- ing power assumed that the administration of justice is often defective and in need of correction. Gov. Phelps is apt to carry his inflexibil- ity too far. A frequent intervention of the pardoning and commuting power would, no doubt, make a mockery of the law. But there are cases in which both justice and mercy demand its use. A uniform, indiscriminate and inexorable refusal to exercise executive clemency would defeat the very object and spirit of the law which contemplates rare but inev- itable instances where it would be inhu- manity to enforce the verdict of a jury. In the case of Degonia, a young French- man of twenty-six, sentenced to be hanged at Potosi, Washingtoh County, next Fri- day, justice might be tempered with mercy without detriment to the public good. Degonia is under conviction for the murder of Jules Polite. From the evidence, however, it appears that there were strong elements of self-defense in the case, the de- ceased having threatened Degonia’s life, in- truded himself at Degonia’s house and in- sulted him and his mother. The petition for his pardon is signed by the Judge and eight of the jurors who tried him, the other four jurors being absent. It is also signed by all the other officers and many of the best citizens of Washington County. If the facts set forth in the petition are true Degonia will suffer a fate he does not deserve. If they are true this is one of the extreme cases contemplated by the law authorizing executive interference. Weare sure that the interposition of Gov. Phelps to save a man who is poor and humble from an un- just fate will be a creditable act. Even good intentions may be carried too far.And while the exercise of the pardoning power has been abused,a case may occur when not to exercise that power isa still greater abuse of power and place. THE NATIONAL BALANCE SHEET. Government is a business like that of every other individual or corporation. The difference is only in the scale upon which itis carried on, and, unfortunately, in the manner and motive of its conductors. But there are receipt and expenditure, cash and credit accounts, profit and loss, sur- plus or deficit, and a general balance sheet, just like in any other business. The business or fiscal year, as it is called, ofthe United States Government ends on the last day of June and begins with the first day of July of each year. The balance sheet for the year that just closed on the first of this month is now ready and before the public. It is very unsatisfactory. The total receipts were two hun- dred and seventy-four against two hundred and fifty-eight millions | tongue. But Zach has made a startling in the preceding year. The total expendi- revelation. He says that his fist is er than his tongue. In a recent intervießſ he tures, however, were two hundred and six- trix as against two hundred and thirty- seven millions the year before. Here is a difference of twenty-nine mil - lions of dollars. This is interesting, but we do not see how it bears out the grandiose claims of Mr. John Sherman, the “greatest finance minister of the age,’’ as his partisan admir- ers call him. If Mr. Sherman is such an extraordinarily able and successful finance minister, why is it that, with resumption as an accomplished fact, generally improving business and mending times, it should have cost him twenty-nine millions more to run this Gov- ernment than it cost the year before? The refunding of the debt has also been a very great success. Yet, while the sole object of these refunding operations was to reduce the interest on the debt, we paid for interest on the national debt alone one hundred and five millions of dollars, or three millions more than the year before. This seems to be—reduction witha ven- geance ! 1 It has been a bad year. Several coinci- dences combined to make it an extraordi- nary year. There were some extraordinary expenditures for which Mr. John Sherman cannot be held responsible. There was that fishery steal, by which this country was literally gouged out of $5,500,000 by England. There was that absurd arrears of pension law, which took 85, 500, 000 more out of the Treasury. There was Capt. Eads, who took nearly two millions forthe jetties. But after all this there is still a very large dif- ference left, which Mr. John Sherman should explain. Now we wish to have it distinctly under- stood that in spite of Mr. John Sherman’s great „success“ as a finance minister, this is the worst balance sheet presented to the American people since the war. We also wish to have it distinctly under- stood that with the exception of the mil- lions paid.for double interest on old and new: bonds at the same time to Mr. John Sherman’s favored banks in New York, he is not responsible for the circumstances which made this year’s national balance sheet so bad. Mr. Sherman is only an executive officer. He does not make laws, methods or appropriations. He should only do what he is bound to do by law. But if he is not responsible for the great excess of $29,000,000 in one year’s expen- diture, he is also not entitled to the silly, senseless credit which fulsome partisan sheets claim for him on account of resump- tion and refunding operations. It is the law’s fault on the one hand. Itis the law’s credit on the other. It would be less absurd to hold John Sherman re- sponsible for the fishery of 85,500, 000 than it is to give him credit for the success of resumption. Still twenty-nine millions of dollars is a creat deal of money to have spent more in steal this year than the year before. SPIRIT OF THE PRESS. Cincinnati Enquirer (Dem.): Some Republi- can party sheets are laboring by means of types and pictures to convince Democrats that they should not vote for a Union soldier of the late war. That is not treating the soldiers fair. The Republican party will but rarely nominate soldiers for office, preferring civil- jans; and whenthe Democratic party nomi- nates soldiers Republican journals endeavor to persuade Democrats not to vote for them. How is a Union soldier to get an office in that way? N. Y. World (Dem.): Everybody has agreed ever since the Federal Constitution was made that under our dual system there are govern- mental powers which belong exclusively to the several States, governmental powers which belong exclusively to the Union, governmental powers which may be exercised concurrently and independently both by the Union and by the States, and governmental powers which may be exercised by each State till Congress acts on the particular subject affected by them, when the State willthereby be ousted of its jurisdiction. New York Star (Dem.): Glover report isthatthe Bureau of graving and Printing at Washing- ing is a nest of thieves run iu the interest of a gang of political robbers. The reply of the chorus is that the report proves too much. We should think it did. Perhaps if the allegations had been cautiousiy restricted—say to the em- bezzlement of a hundred dollars, orto the ab- straction of a tew extra sheets of stamps— there would have been an indignant outcry all along the Republ@an line. But millions pro- duce only a high and placid contempt. : New York Commercial Advertiser (Rep.): II the Republican leaders of Ohio would stop swaggering and branging, and go on with their ‘ ‘still hunt?’ New Yorkers would have more confidence in the election of Foster. Your average Ohio ‘‘statesman’’ is too much given to slopping over. He is the most windy and pretentious of all publicmen, Take our excellent friend Halstead, who stands on the highest pedestal among the Buckeye Solens, Ciceros and Catos, and two Fears ago he thought he knew more about the silver ques- tion than all the financiers in the country. What is wanted from Ohio’s great men is more work and less gabble. N. . Times (Rep.): Although the negro ex- odus has forthe time droppeéfout of sight, there are too many reasons for believing that influ- ences are at work soto shape the migratory instincts of certain classes as to produce polit- icalresults. The exodus, so-called, maybe only temporarily checked. Reports trom Kan- sas are nottavorable toits revival. Some of the; persons avowedly connected with it as promoters are not of the kind that commands implicit confidence. The humane interest awakened by representations conveying the idea of a genuine flight from cruelty, oppres- sion and want, ceasedthe moment politics were found to be at the bottom of the move- ment. Honest sympathy with suffering re- fuses to be perverted for the purposes of vul- gar partisansbip. New York Tribune (Rep.): There is nothing alarming in the fact that a few cases of yellow fever have occurred at Memphis, andit is not creditable to the members of the Board of Health of that city that they should lose their heads and advise the citizens to remove their familes. A light visitation of the disease al- most always occurs the year after a severe epi- demic, but it is usually of a mild type, not more fatal than ordinary bilious tevers, and not infectious if sanitary precautions are ob- served. The history of previous epidemics shows that New Orleans, Memphis, Vickburg and other towns which were severely scourged last summer may expect afew sporadic cases this year. For their inhabitants to be seized witha panic upon the appearance of such cases would, however, be the height of folly. The very severity of the pestilence last year is an assuranee that there will be no repetition of its horrors this season, unless it violates a law which it seems to have made for itselt, and observed pretty constantly thus far. — — THE world goes up and the world goes down, And the sunshine tollows the rain; And ——s sneer, and yesterday's rown, Can never come over again, f Sweet wife, Can never come over again. ee ee ow y; rit heart which at even was weary and ‘Pits ‘ “Can rise in the morniag gay, ‘ The gist ot the “To ite work in the morning gay. En- A MONK’S REMORSE. 2 Father Dominique Preparing to Don a Convict’s Garb. History of His Career as Told by Himself. He Charges His Demoralization Upon His Brother Priests. The Rev. Gaston de Rohan, now in the St. Louis Jail awaiting transfer to the Penitentiary at Jefferson City, is a man with avery eventful life behind him and a monotonous one before. The public will remember that he was sen- tenced on Saturday to a five years’ term in the penitentiary for forging Father Van der San- den’s name toa check for $100. A Posr-Drs- PATCH reporter called atthe jail yesterday and taiked with the tallen monk. De Rohan, or Father Dominique, as he called himself, was found seated at a table in the jail yard. At last the newsgatherer was ushered over to the table at which Father Dominique sat. He is apale, smallman, witha closely shaven, clerical face, his features are regular and re- fined, and his countenance is a taking, plausible one that may be good or bad, and which is always irresistible with women. He wears glasses, which conceal, in a meas- ure, HIS WORST FEATURE, his eyes, which are insincere and rather fur- tiye. His clothing carries out the priestly idea one receivesin his presence, being a turn- down collar and a black stock, an alpaca coat, black pants and string shoes. Jour American newspapers, said he, be- ginning the conversation, are a great institu - tion, but they have combined with another great institution to do me agreat wrong. I want you to tell the public what I Say. „That is my intention, sir. How do come to be in this scrape?’’ When I first went wrong, and committed sin, I confessed it to certain ecclesiastics. A con- fession, while it was not the auricular confes- sion of the church, still ought to have been re- spected.’’ Let us begin atthe beginning, interrupted the reporter. ‘‘How did you come to join the Trappists?’’ Jas born in Holland, of a most respect- able family, and, while still too young to know what I wasgloing,I was decoyed away to Amer- ica by the Econom (I will not tell his name) of the Trappist Monastery at Halifax,Nova Scotia. I had to lie to my parents to get away trom the house to go with him, andit was against their express wish I came. But. boy-like, I didn’t know any better, and, having been raised among the priests, serving mass, and living the greater part ef my youth almost in a church, | was enamored of the religious life, and left. And when you came to America?“ ‘*T entered the monastery and toiled like a slave as a choir brother. Nobody who has not been in those monasteries knows what the no- vices have to endure, what privations and servile toils, and this is my reward. Well, they made a pet of me for a whiic, and I took the three vows of CHASTITY, POVERTY AND OBEDIENCE, which have been a weight on me ever since. At last Ihad some differences with the ab- bot—s result of some of «the indulgences I had received, and I had to leave the monastery. I tried to enter another,but the abbet would not receive me, because of my former trouble. This was about ten years ago. Then 1 came out West to . Louis and became the guest ef Father Van der Sanden at Kirkwood, and there I began first to see life. It lam bad. who made meso? All my life long I have associated only with priests. It it was not for the scandal, that I do not wish to bring on the church which I am an unworthy member, I could téll stories ef orgies and nocturnal adventures that would frighten you. Where did I learn my passion, that has ruined me, for drink? From the priests ; for I never was with anybody else. When I was a boy I wouldn’t believe such things. I looked on Walter Scott's ‘Monas- tery,’ and ‘Le Juif Errant, with horror; but I know better now.’’ ‘*Didn’t you goto the Alexandrine Monastery in Monroe county?“ asked the scribe, Jes; only as a guest. Finally, by Father Muhlsiepen's request, Father Van der Sanden furnished me money to go back tothe monas- tery at Halifax, and I went by New York, where I bad friends and relations whom I was anxious to see. I didn’t go back to the monastery. 1 knew it too well. The Bishop of Nova Scotia told me himself that he had moretrouble with that monastery than with all the rest of his diocese. Instead I went to Europe, and studied in the Trappist Monastery, near Paris—studied hard and honestly, for what? To wear striped clothes and be hooted at and triumphed over by these priests. Whenever you goto Paris and wanta suit of clothes of cloth that will never wear out ask the dealer for le vengeance du cure;’’ it is everlasting and indestructible. went to Rome and prostrated myself AT THE FEET OF THE HOLY FATHER, Pius IX. was Pope then, and begged to have my vows released, but he would not; and the most I could obtain was permission to go into another order.’’ Were vou ever ordained a priest. ‘*Y-yes. But I would rather you would say nothing about that. If my papers were forged, as they say, why did they receive me without pees at all. It was Oh, Father, you must 2 1igh mass for me to- morrow and preach. An so I did preach, preached too orthodox.some- times and was too severe, I suppose. ‘*What does it matter what a felon like me says? Who will believe my word against the priests, for I say nothing against the church, in which I believe, now and always, but, while it is right that 1 should suffer, sending me to the Penitentiary punishes my poor old gray- haired parents besides. My mother will die of shame when she hears of the depths to which I have fallen, and they will take care to let her know. The priests may have a right to blast my life forever, but, in extenuation, it should be remembered that it was from those very priests, and higher than the priests, that ! imbiped the taste for strong drink which has ruined me. a. drunk when 1 forged that check. I am not a fool, and was across the river, and could have got away — enough if l had wished, but I came back and was arrested. 1 know nothing about American law, and I was told that if I pleaded guilty my punish- ment would be made light. I don’t want to go to the Penitentiary; I would sooner take my unishment from the hands of the church, and begged on my knees for mercy. „They have done their worst now, but Iam still in their grasp; those selt-imposed vows bind m4 yet. * I AM HONEST in my wish to lead the life ot a hermit; there is. some chance for salvation there. But this priest Van der Sanden, who stains his mouth daily with what he believes to be the blood of Christ, lightly sentences me to the company ef thieves and will not pardon, though that same Christ forgave the thief on the cioss when he asked for mercy.’’ ‘‘Whenthe day of judgment comes I can point to priests in this city who will be the cause of the loss of my immortal soul. I am not yet all bad; with a proper course I migut be redeemed, Atter five years’ pollution,in the penitentiary what willl be? I tell you, not satisfied with wrecking my life, they want to damn my soul!’’ What did Father Van der Sanden say when you spoke to him?“ Hoe said that he would be committing a mor- tal sin not to punish me for my crimes. I told him what the Rible said, that a brother should be forgiven seventy times seven times,’ and he urned away and left me.’’ How avout your alleged aliases?’’ Gaston de Rohan is my name. The title of Father Dominique is ga religious name adopted on the entry into any religious order.“ ‘*What will you do when you come out of the penitentiary?’’ God knows; I don’t. Hide me somewhere from this world wherein I find ne mercy. Hu- manity hates me, and l suppose when I put off the striped clothing I will hate humanity too.’’ you _ —_— Was it a Conspiracy to Kidnap Gen. Ewing: To the Editor of the New York Star: On Wednesday last, at 11 a. m., having some curiosity to see the ‘‘Ohio war-hoss,’’ Gen. Ewing, and to judge for myselt whether he was a born leader of thé people, I called at the Astor House, where the journals of the day an- nounced that he was staying. A great crowd of at least a hundred gents, many of whom looked like reporters, stood at the desk, all firing inter- rogatories at the imperturbable clerk. ‘‘Is Gen. Ewing in?’’ shouted the chorus of voices. „No, he has mysteriously disappeared,’’ re- plied the clerk. ‘*‘When will he be in?“ shout- ed the chorus. He has gone for good, re- plied the clerk, ‘‘and good reason why. At least 500 people have been clamoring at this desk to see Gen. Ewing s morning. He didn’t even come his bill, but sent for tt; ho lit out of about 9 o’clodk, and had two hundred — re he wasup. He was a Ew- u Med ow, Mr. Editor, I ask. in all candor, bein | Was there such a mob atthe Astor House alter e hotel calls Sight already in Ohio, and the ht is really Sherman vs. Ewing, that the kidnap idea gis not such an irrational solution ofthe rush on the General at the Astor. Sherman will be in Maine next week, and will try to win back the Greenbackers to their ‘‘allegiance;’’ but where, O where, is Ewing? He may be kidnap- ped, after all. The Cincinnati Enquirer has a dozen report- ers after him. A BUCKEYE. -— PUBLIC OPINION. True Words From a Baptist. Sr. Louis, July 14. To the Editor of the Post-Dispatch: It is due the ladies of the Second Baptist Church tosay that they exceedingly regret that the help they rendered Mr. Ferguson during his college course should be mentioned to his injury in the conflict growing out of the attack made on the church and its pastor. What was done was done freely, and whatever his course may be, itis theirearnest desire that this should never be named to his detriment. 8. Another Fellow Who Wants Blue Jeans. Sr. Louis, July 12. To the Editor of the Post-Dispatch: I notice in your paper of a few days since an article signed ‘*Common Sense,’’ and sug- gesting ‘‘Blue Jans’’ Willams, of Indiana, as the next Democratic candidate for Presi- dent. An article so well timed and ably writ- ten, appearing in the Democratic paper of this great city and pointing to a man so wide- ly known and so universally respected for in- tellect and probity, has of necessity created a good deal of talk among Democrats. The campaign of 1880 will be a trying ordeal for the republic. The Democracy should be headed by able, honest, fearless leaders, men from the people and of the people, men who are not for sale and whose garments are un- tainted by the influence of rings or monopo- lies. Blue Jeans“ Williams is such a man. The suggestion of his name was a happy thought, and it is to be hoped that the im- pression thus started and the favorable com- ment elicited will crystalize into an enthusiasm that will place him at the head of the ticket in 1880. JUSTICE. A Texan’s Ideas on Sound Finance. SHERMAN, TEXAS, July 9. To the Editor of the Post-Dispasch: In your issue of the 25th ult., your corre- spondent says: What is required is intelli- gent and conservative financial expansion“ and more money in circulation, ete., as a remedy for depreciation in value and depres- sion in trade, ete. It is really strange how readily this fallacy, emanating entirely from the scheming brains of office-seeking demagogues, has been accept- ed by a great many men—and good men, too. Why can not thinking men realize that the so-called contraction and depreciation 1s noth- ing but the natural decline from a fictitious to a true value? Simply the settling of troubled waters to a natural level, a reduction of wild cat’’ chaotic speculation to order and a basis of safety. A cessation of legislation on finance is all that is now required for the development of an era of genuine, healthy prosperity throughout the country. Money cannot be legislated into the pockets ofj people who have nothing to exchange for it. Capitalists will decline to invest outside of Government bonds, as long as legislation, or threatened legislation, renders other investments question- ably safe or doubtful. There is no scarcity of money for positively safe investments. Capitalists would not buy bonds at 4 per cent if 41-2 was offered in anything safe. Stop legislation on the subject and finance will ex- pand itself to meet all requirements and trade will regulate itself as surely as water seeks its level. Upon this rock of financial heresy our (Democratic) party seems steadily drifting to utter wreck and ruin, for nothing is more cer- tain than that a continuation of the Republi- can party in power for four years longer will be ruin to the country, and a split in the Democratic party insures, beyond a doubt, Republican victory in 1880. Is it not about time, think you, that some of our leaders should awake to a realization of a danger which is plainly visible to every think- ing man in the country? OBSERVER, — * — A Heterodox Divine. {From the Hannibal Clipper-Herald. } The Rev. Dr. W. W. Boyd, pastor of the Sec- ond Baptist Church of St. Louis, is in hot water on account of two particular acts, and the whole city seems to be excited over tlie matter. The first grave offense was his inviting to com- munion Dr. Eliot, the distinguished Unitarian divine; the second was that the Seo- ond Baptist and the congregation of the ‘-Shaare Emcth,’’ a Jewish synagogue, held nnion services ‘‘where the name of Jesus was studiously left out.’’ The public at large is somewhat indifferent as to whether Dr. Boyd's position is tenable accurding tothe canons ot his church, but itis deeply alive to the issue of the controversy so far as it affects the broad in- terests of true rehgion. Dr. Boyd’s acquaintance with Dr. Eliot showed him how pure and good a man the latter is, and he doubtless felt hon- ored in sitting with him at the Lord’s table. So far asinviting himis concerned, the Bap- tist divine probably felt that no human being controlled the invitations to a feast spread by the Son of God, though this may be contrary to the doctrine of close communion. On this point, as between Dr. Boyd and his church, we do not wish to speak. The union of an evangelical church and a Jewish congregation is novel, but apart from its novelty should excite no more surprise than the union of the Old and New Testaments in one andthe same books. Christians have always held that there was harmony between the two divisions of their Bible, though the new law of love’’ was superior to the old ‘‘law of bondage.’’ Thusit would seem emi- nently proper that representatives of the two divisions [should meet to praise the same God. Suppressing references tothe ‘‘cross’’ was not denying its influence or the place it takes in the theology and hearts of the Bap- tists. The Second Baptish Church was destroyed by fire some time last year. Dr. Sonneschein, rabbi of a neighboring synagogue, at once of- fered to Dr. Boyd’s people his temple asa place for worship. The offer was accepted. On the occasion of the joined meeting, a magnificent silver service was presented by the Baptista. to their friends of the Jewish faith, whereupon one of the Orthodox remarks: ‘‘They hgve sold him for thirty pieces of silver.’’ The Central Baptist, pub- lished in St. Louis, is especially severe upon Dr. Boyd, and accuses him of ‘‘contradicting uimself, which being interpreted meaneth lying. Ifcare is not taken, Dr. Boyd will has- ten the coming of the millennium. for his lecture on What Catholics Believe“ pleases members of that church very much. How St. Louis is Slandered by Home Corre- spondents. {Special to the Chicago Tribune and Cincinnati En- quirer. St. Louis, July 11.—There is considerable. anxiety felt on account of the presence in the city of much of the bedding and baggage prought here by the negroes during the exodus Many of the refugees, who had barely enough money to bring them here, either sold or bor- rowed money upon part of their effects, which it is now feared may be infected with the germs of last year’s epidemic. It is stated, tpo, that much of this bedding was taken, by these ne- groes from the Southern fever hospitals, but this is denied. The Health Commissioner to the contrary, the city is in anything but a condition to stand a visitation of the plague. The streets are in bad condition, and the state of some of the alleys is indescribably filthy. Dead animals of all sorts and in all selves high rate mortality. The same influe terribly the adult death rate if The tavorite yellow flowers for embroidery are the marigolds, called ‘‘soucis,’’ and small yellow immortelles, Vests and the borders of dresses have these flowers do ne in raised work; they are mixed with their own leaves, the ligt gray-olive leaf of the wild immortelle ! used, MARINE LIGHTS. — How They are Employed on Western Rivers. -— —— Extent of the Fifteenth Light-House District. An Interesting Talk With Capt. John J. Read. The United States Light-house Service in the interior of the country is athing of very recent origin. It has not been five years since the Governmeht conceived the idea of aiding the navigation ot rivers by the use of lights. But now all the great rivers are under the same system that prevails on the sea coast. The Light-house Service of the United States is divided into districts,and the one embracing St. Louis is known as the Fitteenth. Capt. Wallace, who has, for some time, been in charge of the service here, has been granted a leave of absence, and his piace has been sup- plied by Capt. John J. Read, who holds the rank of commander in the United States army. Captain Read took charge of his office on July Ist, hav- ing been lately employed in the Navy Depart- ment at Washington. Heis just now preparing to start up the Missouri on a tour of inspection. In a conversation had with him this morning a representative of the PosT-DISPATCH gained some very interesting information concerning the light-house system of the Government as applied to rivers. THE FIFTEENTH DISTRICT embraces the Mississippi from St. Paul to New Orleans, and the Missouri from Kansas City to its mouth, fifteen miles above this city. This is the largest and most important district outside of the sea coast and lake service. It is expected that the IIlinois River will also soon be in this district. The lights are placed so as to guide steamboats at night, indicating the wherea- bouts of sharp points in the shore, dangerous islands, shoals, rocks and rapids. In this dis- trict there are 434 lights and 405 keepers. Sometimes one man will take care of two or more lights, but generally there is one man to each light, as they are most frequently many miles apart. The lights in use here on thg Western rivers are a sort of huge lantern, most of them having an open face of glass, but some are entirely surrounded by glass, so that the rays are thrown in every direction. The glass used is very thick, so as to with- stand hail and wind. Back of the light, in the casing, is a large and brilliant reflector, which is of great assistancein en- abling the rays to be seen trom a long dis- tance. As yet, the finer grades of coal oil are used to supply the lainps, but THE DAY WILL PROBABLY COME when electricity will take its place. It will certainly do so in: the light-houses along the coast and on the lakes. Two small steamers, the Alice and the Pink, are employed in this district as tenders for the Government lights. They each have acrew and are constantly onthe move. Capt. Crab- ster,an old and well known steamboat man, has general charge of these two craft. One of them will take out Capt. Read on the tour of inspection spoken of above. The Government pays the keepers of the lights in the Fifteenth District alone $30,000 a year. The expenses for officers, materials and so on swell this sum very considerably. Capt. Read has bis office on the third floor of the Insurance Building, corner of Sixth and Locust, and keeps employed a chief clerk, one assist- ant and a messenger. Improvements are constantly being made, and the nsefulness of the service is being proportionately extend- ed. It bas, since its establishment on the western waters, saved millions of dollars’ the marks of the slow but sure progress being made in the com- meree and navigation on the great rivers of the continent. The conversation with Capt. Read naturally dritted to THE WACHUSETT and her attempt to come to St. Louis. J have no doubt, said the Captain, that the Wachusett or some other Govern- ment war vessel will eventually come to St. Louis. The Secretary of the Navy has got the idea in his head, and he will stick toit untilit is an accomplished fact. If the Wachu- sett does not come here now, she may come in the fall, and it notin the fall she will come next spring. It is my opinion that it she had been well piloted she would have been here now. But it is a good thing even as it is. It proves that the Mississippi can be made navigable for ocean steamers, and that they may, under proper conditions, reach St. Louis. If they once come here, then, no doubt, they will come again, and so on until St. Louis harbor shall be crowded with steam ers from foreign lands. You see, this attempt of the Wachusett will stimulate the effortto improve the Mississippi and make it navigable for large ocean craft. The day is sure to come when there will be an open channei from here to the sea.’’ The Captain was usked what he thoughtzof the PLAN PROPOSED BY CAPT. EADS to convey ships across the Isthmus of Darien? „It Capt. Eads, he replied, can only get in ahead of Lesseps, I believe he can success- fully carry out his project. I believe the plan feasible. Iseeno reason why aship may not be carried over as well as anything else. The only thing requisite is a railroad large enough and strong enough, and this it is easy enough to construct.’’ SHOPPING NOTES. Queen Hortense fichus of India mull are large, double and trilled with lace or colored embroidered bands. A novel idea for decorating a white parasol is to have a wreath of deep-red roses without leaves encircling the stick at the top. Little girls wear plaid bandanna dresses; they are made with kilt skirts; sometimes tne dress is madein the shape of a slip with a deep flounce. Very little girls have these dresses made with low-neck waists, and the edges of the flounces are trimmed with fine lace or very fine French embroidery; a sash of dark soft camel’s hair of one of the tones of the dressis added. Ladies are beginning to wear the light -tinted leather shoes which are generally used in Europe tor the seashore. They are worn with the light Watteau cotton goods, and are equal- ly serviceable for walking in the sand or for playing lawn-tennis. Another fasnion is to have dressy Oxford ties of patent leather, and low shoes are decorated profusely with patent leather embessed. The new lawn hats are peculiar. They are made of some ofthe sweet-straw braids used for mattings; they have high {[crewns and wide veranda brims; they are very soft and pliable and may be twisted into any skape. The fash- ionable way to trim them isto work them in crewels, with wila flowers or Japanese fan pat- terns, and they are lined witha color promin- ent in the embroidery. A new idea is to have everything of the plain- est make for every-day country wear, and new belts which copy the ordinary bathing belts are now worn with cotton or flannel costumes. These are in light shades of canvas cloth, with three small straps of light-colored leather in front which adjust the belt to any size; with these belts small haversacks of canvas with the initials in leather, or worked on in crewels, are worn at the nip to carry a book or any small article which it is convenient to have at hand. The ‘‘athlete’’ belt is very wide and is of the same class. - = nm A Great Man Who Swore and One Who Didn’t. [Boston Correspondence Hartford Courant. ] We were talking about the profanity of a very distinguisned American statesman not now living. Mr, Sumner (who never swere him- self), said: Well, I have heard him swear scverely; but, as a rule, nobody swears in my presence. The greatest mortification I ever received in my life in this way was when I was at breakfast abroad with Lord Brougham. We bad sat down at the breaktast brought a news r 6 e e egg a personal AFTERNOON GOSSIP. The young man who goes to a Sunday picnic leaves the wharfboat in the morning looking as new and neat as a twenty -five-cent plaster cast of George Washington, and comes back in the evening with his straw hat used up as if it had been made a pin-cushion for an elephant, and his seersucker coat resembling the muduy end of a door mat. * * * St. Louis need have no fear of the yellow fev- er. What the Street Commissioners have failed to do nature has kindly stepped in and attend- edto. The streets and alleys, considering that the cleaning was done by a disinterested party, arein excellent condition, and there is no chance of an epidemic taking or retaining foot- hold here. The Memphis scare has had the ef- fect of making the Board of Health take extra precautions, and should the grim monster dare to show his face the medical chivairy of St. Louis will be on hand to fight him off. * 5 Swimming is an accomplishment in which the young ladies and young gentlemen of the near future promise to be adepts. The swim- ming schools of the city are all well patronized by both sexes, and the hour spent in splashing around in the waters is an eujoyment in which all seem to indulge with equal gratification. Were more of the boys and girls of the city to learn the natatorial art, there is no doubt that there would be less drownings to record. As itis, hswever, the generai feeling seems to be that a boy or girl should not go into the water until they have learned to swim.. 5 * 2 * The warm weather does not prevent country cousins from swarming into the city. Ascan be seen by the hotei registers the number ot arrivals from adjacent cities and counties for the past few days is very large. They are of all classes and various prices. Some board at the Lindell and some divide up their time and money on the European plan. They are specially attractive in their appearance, be- cause they wear either linen dusters or ulsters, and are always carrying something on their arms—a baby or a dag of pop- corn. What they come here for or what they do is a conundrum; but they come here all the same and do what they please, and the store-keeper who makes halt a dollar by their visit is happy. * 0 * Saturday night's rain was accepted by the good people of this city as a gedsend, and so it was. The rain did considerable in cooling off the excessive temperature of the preceding days, and made yesterday as refreshing and enjoyable aSunday as we have had for some time. Another feature is to be credited to it. The pavements in every part of the city were measely with black spots, and a great deal of speculation was indulged in as to the cause. Amateur scientists expressed amateurish opin- ions. Some people took it as an evil omen. Others imagined that there had been a hail of fre during the night, but the most intelligent and best in- formed end of the community credited the phenomenon to washings trom the roofs of the houses fronting on the street. * * * The Wachusett not having put in an appear- ance, the small boy who had aspirations to- wards beinga midshipmite issad. Whether the Wachusett will ever come here or not is a matter of wild speculation. With ten thousand St. Louis lads waiting at the wharf daily, to give a hearty salute tothe sloop of war, and with as many or more anxious parents, desir- ous of seeing their sons sail the ocean blue, the delay that has been occasione! in the Wachu- sett’s arrival has caused many hearts to ache, and many eyes to shed a silent tear. When the vessel does come it will be produc- tive of unbounded bappiness. When it does not come aspiring boyhood will fold away his ten-cent novel and forget the navy in a sun- down bath behind the elevator. * * * The schools are closed and the youth of the land are romping aboutincity and country to their heart’s content. Some ofthem go off and get drowned; others get run over by street cars or coal wagons, and not afew climb over wire fences and manage to discharge a load of buckshot into some vital part ot their bodies; but the boy who knows how to enjoy himself stays at home and helps his mother carry wa- ter, saw wood and bring up coal from the cellar, spending the intervals in looking over his grammar or arithmetic (while the boy next door is walking on stilts three feet high), and has no other source of gratifica- tion than throwing bricks at the cat in the yard adjoining, or making faces at the curly dog who grins in at him under the gate. * * * Last vear’s heated term’’ was a terrible record to add to a city’s historv. This year ’ ' 1 1 LITTLE BARBARA. BY WILL WALLACE HARNEY. Pretty Barbara, ripe and red With sweet little month, like the bees abed, And full of nectar and honey-dew; So pretty athing, I dare not swear To the art of the ribbon that ties her nair, Or the buckle that binds her shoe; So like her each trinket she has to wear, It seems just as if it Ww Like a rose in its and poilen dust, That wears its beauty because it must, And something like Barbara, too, As she — her small tin bucket in The little fountain of woven glass, Like webs that the spiders weave and spin To hang on the shining blades of A face as bright and happy as hers, In the nets of the silken gwossamers, Looks out of the water’s smooth eclipse, As if it was happy to hold withta it The sott verbena red of her lips, Ard kiss and caress her just for a minute In the arms of the dimples, smootu and still, Ere it goes ana soberly turns the mill. For life to her in the honey-dew Is nothing yet but the way-side spring, Between the upper and under biue, That makes a fiction ot everything, As perfectly like as if it grew; And she is too happy to see within it The of her small sweet self a minute, From the dow in the hair to the tie of her shoe, To know that the marvelous shadows mean The simple inner beauty that shows ~— _— in = — of a rose, nd now like the water’s smooth ecli In hearts that hold her picture still * As we go and soberly turn the mill. —(Harper’s Magazine tor August, PENCILINGS. —Old Sol wins every heat in the summer rays. —‘‘Vennor predicts a wet summer, with cold and frost.’’ But Vennor we to get it? —Why does a city young lady visiting the country prefer to climb over a five-rail fence to going through a gate? Ans.: She doesn’t. —The writer's tavorite flower now adorns the corner of new stationery. Sheets with mari- gold in one corner are preferred by young peo- ple who haven’t anemone. —When a man is found in New York with six stabs in the back, his head crushed, one arm hacked off, his pockets rifled and his body stripped of nearly all its clothing, the finest palice in the world immediately form a theory. They say it is a clear case of suicide. —‘‘Pinatore’’ has been succeeded by the clink of beer-glasses.—[ Herald P. I. Well, this is encouraging. It used to be that scores of young men would rush out after the first act to get their beer. We are pleased to know that they now wait until the performance ig over. —A physician saysice cream exhausts the vital forces. For vital forces’’ 1ead pock- et- books. It only exhausts the vital forces of the young man who, while out promenading witn his girl, is makin herculean efforts to dodge u dozen ice. cream signs. —The Chieago Journal says Mr. Bennett, of the New York Herald, has crossed the Atlantic oftener than any other newspaper man. This may be so; but you will find newspaper men in New York who have been oftener halt seas over.’’ Mr. Bennett takes a steamship, and the others take a ‘‘schooner.’’ —Chastine Cox has a brother who ts a candf- date tor the Virginia Legislature, and their poor old mother must realize the truth of the scriptural saying, ‘‘One woe doth tread upon another’s heels, so fast they follow.“ For- tunately, she hasn't a third son to give her heart another wrench by joining a base ball club or entering the lecture field. Some weeks ago when we built a paragraph about Boston having ‘‘four hundred missing women,’’ we little thought that in less than month it would appear in an exchange with missing changed to nursing. ut the intel ligent compositor accomplished it. Doesn't the idiot know that four hundred parsing women’’ is a very small number for acity ag large as Boston. —Sarah Jane Hote, at Mount Morris, owns one hundreé and thirtcen cats, and her neigh- bors never utter a word of complaint. This ig because she has no neighbors. They are camp- ing out in the woods, and real estate in the neighborhood of Sarah’s premises can be bought for a song. It is quite likely that a nitro- glycerine factory will be established next door tothe cat foundry. —A young lady book agent called on us the other day with a volume of prose and poetical selections, which she thought we could no longer do without. Wetold her that the book would not benefitus. ‘‘Why,’’ she replied, here are the ideas ot many writers on vari- ous sul jects, and surely a hundred headfard better than one. Now’’—flirting over tae leaves of the book—'‘‘let us see what is said under the chapter of kissing. Les, we there has been very hot weather, and while | assented, ‘‘when it comes to kissing even two the temperature ranup to 102°, the number of fatalities is. tortunately, few. The escape from an increased mortuary list is, probably, owing to the fact that the citizens having been fore-warned were fore-armed, and that the Board of Health took extra precaution; to prevent the recurrence of las: year’s disasters. Less beer and less whisky is drunk this summer, and the crusade which Old Sol appears to be car- rying on against the ‘‘booze’’ tanks is working with singularly excellent effect. The blood wants to be kept cool, and ice- water is the great catholicon for all the ills that the summer time is heir to. — $ TWO OVERCOATS ON, A (Swedish Emigrant’s Love for His Hom» Attire Probably hills Him, [From the Philadelphia Times. |] Yesterday afternoon the residents of the tso- lated district of the First Ward east of Broad street and below Mifflin street, noticed wander- ing around on the lots a man about sixty years Ot age, whose ruddy complexion was decor- ated by a week's growth of whitish beard, He appeared to be pretty well bundled upin clothing, having on two heavy overcoats, and was evidently suffer- ing from the heat. He speke to no one. He was missed about three o’clock, after he had gone down towards Snyder avenue. Alter six o’clock two women, who crossed a lot, saw the old man lying prone upon his face and apparently in convulsions. Thev hunted up a policeman and told him of what they had seen. A wagon was procured and it was at first concluded that the man was intoxi- eatea and should goto the station house; but somebody suggested that it was more like @ case of sunstroke andthe man should rather be sent to the Pennsylvania Hospital. This ac- tion was taken. The physicians there made every effort to resuscitate him. His clothing was searched for clues to his identity. Au open-faced silver watch, a snuff-box with lighs horn top, a silver mateh-box, a buckskin urse with three Swedish coins were found in is trousers and vest. Inthe overcoat was & stained advertising book of the Inman steam- ship line, printed at Go „Sweden. In another pocket was found a passage ticket of the Inman Line, trom Gotteuberg to Pitts- burg,inthe name of Fred. Mollerstrop — old, ot Gotten made out on Ju or the voy 10 until he reached the lots, where he became ex- hausted from the hest ofthe sun and the ressive weight of his garments. ur he was stil! unconscious. Irishmen Asked to Fight for Zululand. To the Editor of the N. Y. Star: Be pleased to give space in the Star to a suz- gestion to which I respectfully queet the atten- tion of patriots and military men. I suggest that men skilled in strategy and tactics, i :
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St. Tonis Post - Dispatch, Words * Br sins * ? p, Julg 14, 1879, . l . A GAME OF COURTESY. A bashful lover tried to woo A maiden tair and slender ; She trifled at the interview And scorned his accents tender. Said he, aside: Iwill invent A little necromancy : I’il launch at her 4 compliment To try and catch her fancy. Quo , with careless unconcern: 8 7 — they may be true, sir; I wish that I could make return, And say the same of you, sir. On, you can do that ve well, And do tt now—provided That you make up your mind to tell As big a lie as I did,’’ 4 A BALL OF FIRE. The Way It Rolled Along a Telephonic Wire—Queer Lightning. From the Philadelphia Times.] The vivid flashes of lightning that occurred during the short but severe storm last evening came near taking the lives of three small chil- ‘dren. On the southwest corner of Nineteenth and Montrose streets, just above Carpenter, a bakery is kept by William Clemmens, a Ger- man, who resides there with his wife and three children. Along Montrose street for some distance is a telephonic wire, connecting two factories in the vicinity. The wire 1s attached to the top of the bakery in two places. About half-past seven o’clock last evening, after a very loud thunder-clap, people living on Montrose street, between Eighteenth and Nineteenth, were startled by seeing a ball of fire rolling along the wire. The women and children shrieked. The luminous ball crept aleng the wire until it reached the bakery,and then a crash was heard, and a moment after sparks were flying in all directions. The light- ning had struck a cornice on the bakery build- ing, splitting it into pieces. How the fire-ball proceeded after striking the roof no one seems te know. Even those living in the bakery were too excited at the time to remember anything definite. All that remains to show the course of the lightning is along, rectan- gular hole in the roof, and one of exactly the same size in the ceiling separating the second and third floors. The singular part of the af- fair is that Mr. Clemmens’ three children, who were playing in the second-story back room, which immediately adjoins the one struck by lightning, did not even feel the shock, while a workman in the third story was thrown from his chair and rendered insensible for two or three min- utes. Recovering he looked around in a con- fused manner, and not until after a long ex- planation did he appear satisfied that it was really lightning that had struck him. The children only remember hearing a terrible noise. They were just about going to bed, and had the flash occurred five minutes later it would have found three victims. The hole in the second-story wall is just above the chil- -dren’s bedstead. No damage was done upon the first floor of the building. William J. Blakely, who kneads the dough in the bakery in the basement, says he felt a shock after see- ing the fiving sparks. Whether it was fright -or lightning he does not know. i, —— THE MISER OF BENNY’S MILL. Lawrence Westervelt’s Hidden Wealth 85,000 Found Secreted in His House. From the New York Tribune.] In an old house at ‘‘Benny’s Mill.“ near Ridgefield Park, Bergen county, N. J., lived for many years an eccentric old man named Benjamin Westervelt. He was known for miles around as Benny, and owned the moss-covered mull from which the little ham- let took its name. When he died, long ago, the mill and the old house passed into the pos- session of his son, Lawrence Westervelt. He was also very peculiar, but was regarded by his neighbors as kind-hearted but miserly. He never married, but his sister, a widow, kept house for him until his death, a few days ago, at the age of seventy-five years. West- ervelt had always been thrifty and frugal, and it was supposed that he kept money secreted about the house. A few days before his death he told his sister that the money he had in the house was less than $100. When he was in- formed that there was no hope of his recovery, and that he was then actually dving, he said that he had been in the habit of hoarding up money. Which was hidden in different parts of the old house. After his death a search was made of the remises. Inanoldtrunkin an attic were ound nearly $1,000 in gold and silver coins which had evidently been stored there by Mr. Westervelt’s father. Among the coins were a large number of Mexican or ‘‘sun’’ dollars, black with age. In an old-fashioned wash- stand was a pile of gold and silver, and a large roll of bank bills. Anold account book, musty with age, which had been used for many years by both Mr. Westervelt and his father for their mill accounts. had bank bills of various de- nominations and issues carefully placed be- tween the leaves, some of which were pasted together over the monev. Awong these notes were old State bank bills. Small paper cur- rency issued during the war was also found secreted about the old house. The entire amount discovered is nearly $5,000. Among the gold and silver coins are many which would be valued by collectors. As Mr. Westervelt left no will the estate will be divided by law. Tue money found in the house has been deposited m one of the Hack- ensack banks. Besides this money. the miser also kept two bank accounts and held a num- ber of mortgages on valuable farms near the mill. The finding of the money has caused | much excitement among the relatives of Mr. Westervelt. _ — — A SLAVE’S are FORA FOR- — „ A Richmond Estate Sued for by a Col- ored Woman—She is Given a Share of the Property. [From the New York Tribune. ! MICHMOND, VA., July 8.—The long con- tested case known as the George case, which has been in litigation in this city since 1869, was brought to a close to-day by a com- promise and a decree in the chancery court. The facts in the case are briefly these: William 0. George, a wealthy citizen of Richmond, died in 1809 intestate. Soon after Lee George, a mulatto, living at Philadelphia, came to Richmond and put in aclaim for the oroperty on behalf of his mother, sister and imself—former slaves of the deceased—who were sent North before the war. The claim was based upon an allegation that William O. George had been married to the mother in Philadelphia a short time before his death. The Richmond Georges (brother and sister, nephews and nieces of the deceased) contest- ed. The firsttrial of the case resulted ina verdict for the Richmond heirs, but the decis- ion of the lower court was reversed by the Su- Preme Court. In the second and third trials thejury failed to agree. The fourth contest “was fixed for the Ist of October next. It having been decided to compromise the matter, Judge Fitzhugh, of the Chancery Court, to-day expressed an opinion that, after three trials witbout a result, the court could now, in its discretion, set aside the issue, and proceed to decide the case without the aid of a jury. This the court did, and thereupon or- ‘dered and decreed that there had never been any marriage solemnized between the deceased and Caroline George (the former slave), and that the Richmond claimants, as the lawful ‘heirs, are entitled to the estate; but, by the ‘consent of the heirs, it was further ordered and decreed that the Philadelphia claimants (the former slaves of the deceased) receive ‘one-fourth of the net proceeds of the sale of the property of the estate, and one-fourth of the funds in bank and in the hands of the re- -ceiver to the credit of the cause. ; . aaa July Snow in Maine. [From the Portland (Me.) Advertiser, July 7. } A remarkable meteorological phenomenon was observed in several places in this city on Friday afternoon. About 5d o’clock flakes of falling snow were seen by many who could hardly credit their senses. Sergeant Boyd of the signal service happened to be out at the time and caught several of the flakes dn his sleeve. Ile says such a thing might not occur again in a hundred years. He explains it in this way: Artificial snow may be formed in a dry room, the air of which has become satu- rated with moisture from the breath or any cause, by suddenly admitting a current of cold dry air. A little before 5 o’clock a cloud was observed rising from the south. At the same time another arose from the northwest. The current of wind which bore this along Was cold, while the opposing current was ‘warm and saturated with vapor. These two intermingled, and the effect was to form crys- ‘tals of snow. The preceding heat and dry- ness of the day also helped to produce this result. The meter was very low at the time, and the thermometer dropped fifteen degrees in ten minutes—from 88 degrees to O degrees. The minimum temperature Fri- day night was 57 degrees. his sudden change was no less remarkable than the snow- Scaring his Wife. From the Chicago Tribune. ! A man on Center avenue undertook the oth- ex day to give his wife a healthy scare, so as to make her more obedient and agreeable in the future. So he put up a quarrel with her, 3 „ N the razor in some brick dust and water which he had pre- pared for the occasion, spilled some more of that awe-inspiring composition on the floor, and flung himself down with a crash, grasping the brick-dust-and-water-stained razor in hishand. He waited eagerly to hear a frightful shriek ring through the house, and to see a woman with an awful white face and great gorges angen wer eyes totter u the stairs, gasp My husband!“ and go o into a set of hysterics in seven acts and ten tableaux. He was, however, doomed to dis- appointment. His wife meandered slowly up stairs, remarking: ‘‘You pesky fool, you’ll break your neck yet, some of these days, you insist on putting both legs inte your trowsers simuitaneously;’’ and, when she opened the door and saw the horrible sight, she said: Well, 1 didn’t think he had the courage and sense of decency to doit. How- ever, I look well in black, and it is a mercy I took up the bed-room “carpets to-day and sent them to be cleaned.’’ Then she called to the servant girl: ‘‘M’ria, come here; your master has killed himself!’’ And when the girl came and said: ‘*Hadn’t I better run for the doctor?—I think I see his left leg wiggle a little, the Spartan matron replied: ‘*No: there’s no use throwing good money after bad. I want you to see that I didn’t kiil him, and then run down to the Tribune office and tell them to send a reporter up here for a scoop on the other papers, and if you breathe a word of this to any one be- fore the other papers have gone to yee Ill tell you, young woman, that you’ll buy your raven tresses.’’ Then she went down stairs, locking the door after ker, after audibly won- dering whether the corpse would keep; and. after about twenty minutes of impatient waiting for her flinty heart to melt, the corpse had to give it up and go and pound on the doer to be let out. — MISSOURI NEWS NOTES. The Harrison County Fair begins at Bethany October 7. Asa Wolverton, of Meadville, has 3,000 bear- ing apple trees. Crops of all kinds in Grundy county promise a bountiful yield. The Methodist Church at Hamilton is being enlarged and repaired. Tne wheatcropin Carroll connty is better than anybedy expected. Mr. White lost his team by drowning near Baum’s mill, Carroll county. * Tandy Johnson, à farmer of Howard county, fell dead at the dinner table, of apoplexy. The Slater Sentinel made its first appearance July 5. It is published by Shaub & Eastin. John Owens stole a horse in Iowa, was cap- tured in Ray County, and is in jail at Rich- mond. The old veteran, Gen. A. W. Doniphan, is enjoying excellent health and looking remark- ably well. Sugar Creek township, Randolph county,has compromised $31,000 of its bonds at 40 cents on the dollar. The Trenton papers say that there is need of alittle more energy inthe enforcement of the laws in that city. The new M. E. Church South, in the new town of Slater, has been paid for and was dedicated on Sunday of last week. The new M. E. Church South, at Milan, will be dedicated August l7th by Rev. Dr. McAnally, of St. Louis. Solomon Riggs was bi ten by a rattlesnake in Harrison County, but atimely drenching with whisky brought bim around. Jonathan T. Harris, one of the early pioneers ot Ray County, died last week in Cowley Coun- ty, Kas., aged seventy-two years. A. J. Rhodus, the missing Hamilton merch- ant, was last heard of in Cairo, III. His pro- perty has been attached by creditors. A tough story this: A nine foot catfish was caught in Grand River, Carroll county, andin it wes found a calf ot forty-three pounds weight. James Zeiler, dealer in stoves and tiuware, at Lexington, has made an assignment te Jos. O. Lesueur. Liabilities, about $1,500; assets, $500 to $600. Maj. E. N. Larmon, of Hamilton county, em- barked two years ago in sheep raising. and now has 2,000 head. This yearhe raised 700 lambs. His wool clip averaged nearly nine pounds per head. . Joseph Dunn, aged forty-five, an inmate of the Mercer County Poor-house, died week be- fore lastand was buried. Somehow a report got abroad that his death was caused by inhu- man treatment; but a Coroner’s inquest found otherwise. On Sunday of last week the Christian and Baptist churches of Trenton united in the ser- vices at the place where the ordinance of bap- tism was administered to two candidates for admission into the first named and two inte the last named church. Nrs. N. E. Conner, ot Bancroft, desires some member of Merrill's Horse to give her the name and address of the “regimental surgeon who held the position in October, 1863, and also anything in connection with the sickness and discharge of Wm. S. Conner. George Matthews, while bathing inthe Mis- souri River, at Lexington, Wednesday,cramped and was drowned, and the body lost. He was asked if hewas drowning, and answered No., remarking that ne was only diving. It is Said heiscrazy. He was colored, anda plasterer by trade. The first marriage in Howard county was that of Amos Barnes to Dorcas Kincaid, solemnized by Rev. David McClain, the first Baptist minis- ter in that part of the State. The second mar- riage was that of Robert Cooper to Betsy Car- son, sister of famous Kit Carson, the Daniel Boone of the far West. At Liberty, on last Friday night, between the hours of 9 and 10 p. m., quite an alarm was created in the immediate neighborhood of one of the most prominent hotels by the das- tardly attempt of a worthiess negro known as Julius Hall, to satisfy his passions on a lady in the employ of the landlord of the hotel. The young lady having retired to her room, and not anticipating any disturbance, was sudden- ly aroused by some person endeavoring to obtain admittance. Upon his not succeeding in affecting an entrance through the door, he thereupon secured a chair and was in the act of climbing in through the transom above the door, when the screams of the affrighted lady brought the landlord. The brute fled, but was after a search found secreted in the building. He was arrested and will no doubt receive the full punishment of the law for his crime. Napoleon Bonaparte’s Prophecy. [From the New York Times. The arrival of the Prince Imperial’s body in English waters will have recalled te many of those who witnessed it a yet more memorable occasion, thirty-nine years ago, when the corpse of the first and greatest of the Bona- partes was sent home from St. Helena to be reinterred at Paris. The second funeral was a serupulous, though tardy, compliance with the last request made by the great con- queror in his will—‘‘that his body might rest on the banks of the Seine, among the people whom he had loved so well.“ The surrender of the body took place in 1840, when the affairs of France were in the hands.of M. Thiers, the greatest historian and the future successor of the formidable ruler to whom he acted as chief mourner. It is painful to remember that the touching phrase above quoted was coupled in Napoleon’s will with a bequest of 10,000 francs ($2,000) to a ruffian who had attempted the life of Welliag- ton: but a deep and melancholy interest at- taches itself to the greet destroyer’s dying declaration that He had hated England not merely on his own account, but because he foresaw how fatal she would prove to his de- scendants.’’ Sofar as the two last Bona- partes are concerned, the prophecy has un- questionably been fulfilled to the letter. The Prize Snake Story. {Cabarrus (Va.) Cor. of the Cincinnati Commercial. ] As my sons were going to plow they heard a noise near the roadside, and on looking they saw alarge king snake coiled around a heavy copperhead snake, with the head of the , Venomous reptile in its mouth. One of the boys gota forked stick and carried the ser- pents to the house, about three hundred yards distant; but the king snake did not unloose the hold upon the head of its victim. The two were placed near the window where I was sitting, and I watched them fully an hour. They seidom moved. This was about sundown. Awaiting to see how they would make it, and fearing the copperhead would get away, I had a fork run through his body and fastened it to the ground. Now it looked as if the king snake had sucked everything out of the Sonera » ‘body. After dark, by the light of a lamp, we saw that the king snake had uncoiled and was fast swallowing hi At the expiration of half an hour we took out the fork, and he started off with his prey. We putin the fork again, and thea turned a box over them until morning. There then appeared but one snake —the king snake—and when released he glided away. EAST ST. LOUIS. The Disagreement inthe Joyce Council Set- tled—A House Struck by Lightning— Items. The trouble in the Joyce Council seems to be nearly over. The City Clerkship has really been the bone of contention, though some of the Councilmen asserted that it was the water- works scheme, and others the _ allow- ance ot the Koppinger-Biggins claim. A repoiter this. morning met Mr. Rafter. He stated in substance that the city clerkship was the question at stake, and as each jCoun- cilman had premised, on the receipt of his commission, to further the interests of the vity, he thought that some compromise should be made. Heisin favor of removing Mr. Tis- sier, and reinstating Mr. Shannon in the office, andif the latter proves unequal to the duties, to replace him with Mr. Tissier. O’Brien, McLean and Hanitan have signeda call for a meeting for 3 p. m. to-morrow. All promises to go on smoothly in the future. Itis not probable that the rock claim will come up, as Mayor Joycé says that Messrs. Koppinger and Biggins have become indignant at the idea of investigating their claim, and that they will wait until another Council is elected. About two weeks ago Robert Wilson, a well- known citizen of East St. Louis, attempted to commit suicide by taking poison and: cut- ting his throat about midnight. Dr. Fair- brother was summoned and the man attended to. This morning he died, supposably from the combined effects of the poison and the wound. Af post mortem examination will probably be beld to-morrow. About 5 o’clock last Saturday afternoon lightning strack B. B. George’s house on the corner of Converse and Second streets in the First Ward, Ittore the guttering from the house and loosened several weather-boards. The place that it entered the ground resem- bled the course of a mole. Mr. Lyman Phil- broek, who boards at the house, received a slight shock that rendered his right arm use- less for some minutes. None of the family were injured. Dr. T. C. Jennings is in communication with the State Health officers at Springtield with a view ot taking steps to be able to declare quar- antine against any cities that may be visited by any epidemic during the summer. Eight cases were docketed in Squire Graney’s court to-day. Pete Buckley attacked the glass in the win- dows at Mayor Joyce’s office in the Market- house to-day with a cane and broke two panes. Pete is in the calaboose now and will have to answer for malicious tresspass. Terrible Mishap to a Little Polish Girl. [Adrian, Mich., Special. } On the shores of Ottawa Lake, just over the line of this county, in Monroe, live a Polish famiiy named Schwinsky. Last Sunday, while rambling through the weods with children in search of berries, and becoming thirsty, a lit- tle girl of the family, named Ione, knelt at a pool of water collected by recent rains, to quench her thirst; she imbibed in some way a small spotted snake, which, according to her description, must be twelve or fourteen inches in length. She was at once so terrorized with fright that she swooned away. The girl has beenin horrible agony since. The doctors have passed long tubes through her mouth into the stomach and pumped in and out again salt and water, water and ehloreform to destroy or stupefy the monster, so that nature micht relieve her of its presence. At the last in- formation no result had been reached. 6 —— Your life is in danger when you allowa severe cough or cold to go unchecked. Dr. Bull's Cough Syrup is a cheap, harmless and reliable remedy. RIVERS RAPIDLY RECEDING. Capt. McGarry, Deceased—The Norton—Gir- ardeau Packet—The Carrier—Kerr—Dakota —Montana—Bedford Going—Shunk Going North -St. Paul Packets—Big Figures. THE Golden Eagle, the C. S. mail packet at 4 p. m. for Keokuk. SATURDAY packet for New Orleans, the great river ship, Annie P. Silver. THE Anchor Liner John Scudder is loading for New Orleans. See her card. KouNTzZ’s good steamer E. O. Stanard is loading tor New Orleans. See her card. JOSEPH E. TEBEAU and John Stansberry, pi- loted the Fannie Lewis out of port on Saturday evening. THE Gen. Custer, trom the Yellowstone, and the Tompkins, from Benton, have arrived at Bismarck. ST. PAUL packet leaving to-morrew at noon— the Belle La Crosse, Capt. Boland. James A. Lyon, passenger agent. ST. PAUL packet, the-good steamer Diamond Jo, Capt. Robert Isherwood. T. J. Buford, at Ward & Brady’s, agent. THE E. M. Norton brings two barges in from Quincy for Huse, Loomis & Co., and then lies ‘up. She is due to-night. BALD EAGLE at 5 a. m. brought 3,000 sacks wheat, 28 hhds tobacco, 250 bbls flour. Out again to-day tor Louisiana. THE E. H. Durfee, Geo. Keith’s oat, leaves on Wednesday for Kansas City, and the Belle St. Louis to-morrow for the lower Missouri. THE regular Grand Tower and Cape Girardeau packet John D. Scully, Captain Ed. Block, sails to-morrow. She’sarattier, and Ed un- derstands his business. EICKELMAN’S Kerr is doing well in the Illi- nois River and startsup again this evening. The shippers like her and think that Jim Doug- las, her clerk, knows his business well. THE Dakota is reported on her last trip ot the season to Benton. She will come out of the Missouri with ease. The Montanais not in as good condition to make the crossings and come out. THE Steubenville paper that gives the in- formation about stoves in pilot-houses is mis- taken. Capt. Kountz owned a stove and used it on different boats long before the Clipper No. 2 was built. THE Carrier, Capt. Lewis, Hartford Brown and Calhoun clerks, arrived fromthe Missouri with 2,034 sacks wheat and 2 hhdstobacco. Re- pairs chimneys, and will leave for Kansas City this day week. She is nearly of 1,000-tons capacity. WE’LL introduce Capt. Shunk and Jobn Griflith toa new trade—the Upper Mississippi. They wili take the Tidal Wave to Keokuk, leaving this aiternoon. The upper river tolks will be certain to find them good men as well as good boat men. THE J. M. Kerr, from Fairtown, IIlinois Riv- er, had 1,893 sacks besides other freight. The Lady Lee followed ber up with an extra run, last week, and took away 1,600 sks the Kerr expected. Eickelman responded by going fur- — up the Illinois and ‘‘skinning’’ the Cal- oun. ON gatige 16 feet 10 inches, a steady decline. Upper river rising at few points—falling at more. A — — of only eight feet water to Cairo within fifteen days. Only a general and heavy rainfall can produce a Wachusett stage of water, or keep it up to fifteen feet hence to Cairo. IN reply to Mr. Walter McKee, the Cairo river scientist, itis only necessary to state that St. Louis papers are indeed furnished with full and reliable river telegrams and other river news— immediately upon receipt of the previous day’s Cincinnati and Pittsburg papers. The St. Louis papers get tae news this way very cheaply; in lact, it costs them nothing. BEDFORD brought 5,337 sacks. Out again this evening with 320 sacks corn and oats and alotof meat, groceries, etc., for Lagrange furnace, Tennessee River. She brings back 300 tons of pig iron, and some grain—5,000 sacks if she can get it. Williamson’s Bedford will explore one of the rivers above St. shortly. She has aroving commission. Bedtord is known generally asa ‘‘cruiser.’’ CAPT. MCGARRY’S remains now rest in Dako- ta’s virgin soil, near the scenes of his success- ful career as a Missouri boatman and boat- owner. He was in the prime of life, and one ot the most vigorous of men, when so unexpect- edly stranded onthe sand-bar of death. Me- Garry was a hard-working man, and rose from the lower deck, never going backward, but ie built several steamers for the navigation of the Upper Missouri, and all proved that he thoroughly understood the requirements of transportation in that young and vigorous trade. With all his great strength of frame, he was very unobtrusive, and silence was one of his most noticeable characteristics. He was well known for many acts of generosity. In short, the powerful and handsome physique of McGariy was equaled by his manliness and the nobility of his soul. His death is a severe loss to his many acquaintances. BiG FIGURES IN BULK GRAIN TRANSPORTATION It is capable of demonstration that the bulk grain barges owned in St. Louis have capacity to float at one sole and undivided time the enormous quantity of 2,500,000 to 3,000,000 bushels. This great shipment, destined for Europe by Eads’ unrivaled jetties,can be taken from St. Louis to New Orleans in the paltry space of six days by twelve stern-wheel tags, and the tugs‘and barges can be built on the Ohio for the cowparatively insignificant sum of $800 ,000—or say in round figures, one million dollars. While the flotilla is absent upon its and mission 80 or 100 similar barges could loaded so as to be ready for departure upen the return of the tow-boats with empty barges. The grain is not all that the same fleet of barg- es would carry, foreach has capacity besides for from 300 to 600 tons of package freight; to- tal amount of freight that can be transported by a St. Louis fleet to New Orleans, requiring only eight miles in the length of the river to operate in safety, one hundred thousand tons. A 8 tate by rail from the Mississippi to New York would be fer this quantity ot sraighe no less than $6v0,000. And yet the grain does not move by the river to sea, except to the extent of twoorthree barge loads per week. The West is stil much in need of a New York maggate or two. - * ADDITIONAL COMMERCIAL. Stiles at that figure. RTE at $310 EAL—In demand and firm. CHEESE—Plenty and dull. We quote: qeeneral Markets. LEAD—Soft Missouri firm at $4, with small FLAUK—In fair demand, @3 20 for choice in first hands. CORN Sales city on orders at $2 20@2 25 del. IGHWINES—Steady and in good demand. at * 06, Choice full cream and slight! eam 6@ K, good skimmed 5@5)0; off lots 12%. rogressing steadily in wealth and influence. street. BEANS— Offerings and demand equally light and market unchanged. 0 uote: edium Eastern (from store) 81 35@ 40; do navy $1 60@165; Western—Common, mixed and off-color 75c@$1; fair to good me- dium $1 10@1 1 $1 201 30. GRASS SEED—Very little doing from first hands. We quote on orders (prime seed): Buckwheat 85@9uc; redtop 40@45c; timothy $1 752; German mullet $1 30; white miftet and Hungarian $1 25. WOOL—Dull and weak, but not quotably changed. Tub-wasned Prime to choice 37@38, medium 34@36c, dingy and low s0@32c; un- wasbed—medium and combing mixed 25%@ 26c, medium 24@25¢, light fine 20@22c, heavy 10 17@19c; coarse 21@23c, Southern Burry t @13c; burry, black and cotte 3c to 100 ¥ do less. HIDES—Demand light, feeling weak, prices unchanged. We quote: No. 1 dry flint 15 15%c; No. 2 do 12c. Dry salted—No. 1120; damaged 10c. Green salted—No. 1 (light) 8c; do heavy 7c; damaged 6c; bulls and stags 5c; calf (No. 1) 9%@10c; green salted kips sell at hide prices. FEATHERS—Market active and firm. We quote: Prime live geese 44@45c, top rate for small sacks; No. 2 do 35@37c; good mixed 25@ 300; poor mixed 7@20c;tare3 * cent on large sacks and 10e on small. SHEEP PELTS—Green--Small to medium 50 @65c: large 75c@$1 25; drv—large 60900; — 25@50c; shearlings, dry and green 5@ 80. ROOTS—Receipts liberal, demand brisk and market steady and unchanged. We quote: Large Western ginseng at 95c@$1; small Southern 75@85c; seneca choice, tree of tops, at 25@27 ic; toppy and inferior 10@15c; gola- en seal 6%@7c; snake 10@15c; black 4@5c; May apple 2%@3c # Ib. CASTOR BEANS—Prime wanted at $150 ¥ bu. HEMP SEED—In demand at $1 40@1 45. NUTS—Pecans—5 @7c. as in size ana condi- tion. Peanuts—Red—4@5 ic; white 5@5c. FLAXSEED—Steady at $1@1 30, as in quality. BEESWAX—Steady at 2122. DRIED FRUIT—- Market firm. We quote: Penches— Mixed 2, Ile, as in quality; fair halves 3% @3%c; choice do 4c. Apples — Choice Western 3%@4c; prime Mae; common and tair 2@3c. TROPICAL FRUIT—Lemons in good demand at $3 50@5 # box for repacked (as in quality) Messina and Palermo. Oranges—$9@10 ¥ box. Cocoanuts steady at $40 ¥ thousand—higher ina small way; bananas in good demand at $2@3 ¥ bunch on orders. RASPBERRIES—Season about over; demand very limited. A few cases black (from Michi- gan) sold at $1@1 25 ¥ 4-gul case. WHORTLEBERRIES — Demand moderate: supply larger. Sales at $1 5041 75 per 3-gal box; loose at 50c per gal. CHERRIES—Receipts light; demand fair for sound stock. Sales at $1 25@1 40 per 4-zgal and $250 per 6-gal case tor sour; sweet at $2 per 4-gal case. PEARS—Green cooking sold lightly at 60 75c per 3g-bu box and home-grown at $1 502 ber bu; choice eating worth $1 25 per M bu ox. California not selling—held at $4 50@5 per box. GRAPES—Scarce and firm; demand good at 10c ¥ th for Hartford; 12 for Ives’ seedling. WATERMELONS—Firm and in good demand at $15 to $22 per 100, asin size. CANTELOPES—Slow saie at $1 25@1 50 per doz. Receipts and offerings light. FRUITS, BERRIES, ETC.—Peaches in fair supply; China clings sold lower at $1 25@ 1 50; other kinks steady. Arkansas rough pkgs plums lower at 25c to 35c per box. Blackber- ries in demand and higher at 60@70c per gal for home-grown, $3 per 6-gal case for con- signments. Currants firmer at 45@50c per gal. Tomatoes in heavy receipt and lower again, consignments bringing barely enough to day express charges—20@25c per +; bu box; home-grown sold mainly at $1 per bu. WHITE | WANTED SITUATIONS—MALES. NEW ZEALANDEKR, stranger in the city, would like a situation—used to dry goods and clothing; willing to work at anything. Good references. dress Fidus, this office. A COLLECTOR of six years’experience wants something todo. Address D. B. G., this 9 YOUNG MAN wants employment at anything. Address F. w. ** this office. 30—C OY, 17 years of age. desires to learn the archi- 8 business. Address O. Olfe, 739 8. * et. — Daimrrrn-A young man who has had expe- rience desires a situation. Wages moderate. Ad- dress Harry F., this office. 14 OY of fifteen desires a situation in office er com- mission house. Address, J. W. Overstreet, Union Stock Yards, 26 Y A BOY OF 15—A situation as an office place in a store; writes Apply between 10 a. m. and 4 p. : . corner Fifth and Olive. room 2. Insurance e. boy or Y expert penman, copying, manuscript work, circulars, legal, or any kind of writing at two cents per 100 words. dress Need, St. Luke's Hospital, Tenth and St. Charles streets, city. 10 Y a first-class drummer a situation to travel; thoroughly acquainted with A 1 grocery, liquor and cigar trade through Arkansas, Texas, Mississip- pi, Louisiana; Georgia, Alabama and Tennessee, speaking French, German and English. A 1 refer- ences. Address DAN, Post-Dispatch. 11 at whieh he can make a living. Ad. J. L. P., 72 S. Second st., city. 8 B* a steady young man, employment 7% anything 1 rey 4 * Y a competent man, not a resident of the city, situation as bookkeeper, assistant bookkeper or clerk; good correspondent. Will furnish first-class red references. Wages moderate. Ad. Me., a of- ce. Y A YOUNG MAN-—Situation as clerk in a gro- cery, or collector: can furnish No. 1 city refer- ences. Ad. A. S. B., 2909 Laclede avenue. NOMMERCIAL traveler, with the very best city references, wishes a position to travel for some house; no salary asked on trial trip. Ad. O. a De office. JZ\XPERIENCED short-hand correspondent and accountant desires a position in some good busi- ness house. Address Advance, this office. 9° MPLOYMENT as collector; can give refer- ence and security. Ad. A. B., this * ¥ ISH to get a situation in a dairy. I have had thirty years experience; good reference givenand satisfation given or no pay required. Address S. R.. this office. 2 ITUATION as bar-tender by a young man ot ex- perience; good reference. Speaks French apd English. Address, A. J., No. 2628 Mills st. GQ) ITUATION—By an intelligent young man of 15, KO who is not afraid to work. Can give the best city reference. Salary $25 to $50. Address Elmer V. Wilhains, 801 North Sixteenth street. 8 SITUATION by a man 58 years old as collector or KO watchman, or something that I cau make a living at honestly. City reference given. Address K, 714 Clark avenue 5 SITUATION by a young man of twenty years; 1s KO able and willing to work; wholesale house pre- ferred. Please address J. Coleman, 2112 South Spring street. 9 8 VATION 1 a competenf man as bar-keeper; WK lately from the East; city references. Address J E. C., 1010 Pine street. 7 Address Horse-shoer, this office. KO country. Sine, by a boy fourteen years old, in office KO or store: can turnish reference from former em- 1014 N ployers. Address Geo. Roberts, North 3 a, street, city. — — — — —— — — Free of Charge. All advertisements under the head of ‘** Wanted,’’ not exceeding Jive lines and not of a business nature, will be in- serted free. We 2 to make the Post- Dispatch the medium by which the people oy St. Louis can supply their various wants. A postal card containing the advertisement mailed in the morning will reach the office in time to secure the appearance of the advertise- ment the same afternoon. ITUATION—As porter, by a married man; writes KO English and German; can mark; best ef refer- ences. Address W. F., this office. ry. AND MODELS OF 1 A 1 TERNS wood and metal; g. terns for malleable iron a specialty ,atA. WIMMER'S., No. 7 N. Third st. r FOR THE PEOPLE. — Gentlemen, you can get a pair of fine calf hand-sewed English Walk- ing Shoes, glove top, whole foxings, any prevailing style of toe, made to order and warranted to fit you verfectly. for $5. Henson’s Custom Shoe Factory, 02 N. Third st. HE best Bronzing is done at Martin's. 112 North Seventh street. Also, second-hand Chandeliers equal to new. 21 MBRELLAS and Parasols neatly repaired and covered at 920 Washington av. Charges * erate. ATCHMAKERS, JEWELERS AND PAWN- BROKERS: If you want your watches repair- ed good and cheap, call or send for price * Bungens, 315 Locust street. P. OSBOURN, practical taxidermist, 215 e North Fifth street, St. Louis, BOARDING. 262 ~ PINE STREET—With board, to gentle- i man and wife. third-floor front room carpet, $35 same price southern exposure, unfurnished, except a month, or to twe gentlemen, furnished, References. ST. LOUIS lady has a house of 12 rooms at Ocean Grove, near the ocean, and can acco te * three or four more St. Louis poopie with board ana rooms. Inquire at 6144, Olive street. ARGAIN—Boarding-house, elegantly furnished; can show receipts $500 3 , Es- telle, this effice. OUNTRY BOARD—High, healthy, well shaded; twenty-two miles from St. Louis oO. and M. N. R. Address Bishop House, Lebanon. III. — ee DOW LADY of respectability, to board and cure for a boy ten years old, for a reasonable compensation. Address W. G., 2736 Penrose st. — — LOST AND FOUND. T OST—This (Saturday; morning on track of LE judges’ or timers’ stand, one er will be liberally rewarded Four | good frame houses on it; one of them has four rooms | Plenty of good | water and as fine grass for stock range as in the | W tor small aoe a n @ | whose practice is comfined to special! diseases. to keepa | restaurant and ice cream saloon. Cheap rentor ie | MEN SHARES of the capital stock of the German | — tan en of Europe | exists in the blood of rheumatic and gouty ] EST SEWING MACHINES of all makes. Largest | address on receipt of price. Most extensive and re- d by Probate Court of St. the 15th day of April, A. D. 1879. pe claims agatust said estate ed to exhibit the same to the unders ance within one year after the date they may be precluded from any benefit of said estate; and if such claims be not exhibited within two years from the date of this publication they will be forever barred. CHARLOTTE GELZHETUSER, Administratrix of Henry Gelzheuser. RUDOLPH SCHULENBURG, Attorney, S. W. Corner Fifth and Market steects. St. Louis, dune 14, 187¥. P NOTICE.—PUBLIC N- tice is hereby given to all creditors. and others interested im the estate of William Zeller, deceased, that letters of administratrion havebeen granted to the nudersigned by the Probate Court of the city of St Louls, Missourl, bearing date the 29th day of Mey. 1879. All persons having claims against the vat estete are required to exhibit the same to me for ‘il wanee, Within one year from the date of said let- tr or they may be precluded from any benefit therein, ante such claims be not exhibited within two yours from the date of this publication, they will he fore ver barred. CHRISTINE ZELLER, Adwinistratrix of the estate of William Zeller, dec'd. St. Louis, Mo., July 7th, 1879. RUSTEE’S SALE.—Whereas John W. Miller by his certain deed of trust, dated the first day of December, A. D., 1874, and recorded in the office ot the Recorder of Deeds for the county (now citv) of St. Louis, State of Missouri, in deed book No. 516. pase 46. did convey to the undersigned trustee the follow- ing described real estate, situated and being In the then woe of St. Louis (now city), State of Mis- souri, to-wit: Lots number three (3), four (4), seven (7), fourteen (14), seventeen (17), eighteen (18), nineteen (19), twenty (20), twenty-one (21). twenty- two (22), twenty-three (23), twenty-four (24), twen- ty-five (25), twenty-six (26), twenty-seven (27), thirty-five (35), thirty-six (36), thirty-seven (37), forty-one (41), forty-two (42), forty-three (43), forty-four (44), forty-five (45) and forty-six (46) in Lieck No. eleven (11); and lots number two (2) three (3), four (4), five (5),six (6).seven (7), eight (8). nine (9), ten (10), twelve (12), thirty-seven (37), thirty- eight (38), forty (40), forty-one (41). forty-two (42), forty-four (44). forty-five (45) and forty-six (46) in block No. ten (10); also lots number six (6), ten (10). eleven (11), twelve (12) and sixteen (16) im block No. eleven( II), all of said lots being in South St. Louis sub- urbs and being the same property purchased by said John W. Miller of George B. Murray, a plat of which is on file in said Recorder's office, and which said con- veyance was made in trust to secure the payment of certain promissory notes therein fully deseribed, and, whereas said notes have long since become due, and only a part of them have been paid, and the remain- der remain unpaid. Now, therefore, in pursuance of the pr visions of said deed of trust, and at the request oft holder of said notes, I, the undersigned trustee will on SATURDAY, THE sagt ae OF JULY, A. D. i * between the hours of 10 o'clock in ti forenoon and 5 O clock in the afternoon of that day, at the east front door of the Court-house in said city of St. Louis, pro- ceed to sell at public vendue to the highest bidder, for cash, the above described premises, for the purpose of satisfying sald notes, together with the costs and ex- penses of executing this trust. MARSHALL P. SANGULNET. St. Louis, July 2. 1879. 231 ‘ HERIFF’S SALE.—By virtue and authority of a special execution issued from the office of the Clerk of the Cireuit Court at the City of St. Louis, returnable to the October term, 1879, of said Court, and to me directed, in favor of the State of Missouri, at the relation and to the use of Myer A. RosenMatt, Collector of the city of St. Louis, in the State of Mis- sourt. and against Margaret Primm, Hubert Primm, Jacqueline Poepping and Bernard Poepping, her husband, Amelia Noel and Perry Noel, her husband, Vincent B. Primm, Jean B. Primm, Adolph Kleinecke and Edward Beckman. her trustee,I have levied apon and seized the follow described real estate, situ- ated in the city of St. Louis and State of Missouri, and charged with the lien of tax bill on which this action is founded, and described in said execution as follows. to wit: The following deScrib- ed real estate situate, lying and being within the City ef St. Louis, to-wit: Ist. A lot ot ground in block No. 83 of Eiler’s survey, and in city block numbered 2944 of the City of St. Louis, said lot hav- ing a front of 65 5-12 feet on Third street by a depth of 115 10-12 feet. and bounded on the north by land of Taylor, on the east by Third street, on the south by Ulinois street, or avenue, and on the west by land of Primm. 2d. A lot of ground in block No. 83 of Eiler's survey, and in | block numbered 4944. said lot having a front of feet on Third street by a depth of 115 10-12 feet. and bounded on the north by land of Crawford. on the east by Third street, on the south by land of Taylor's, and on the west by land of Primm. 3d. Lot numbered 10 in block No. 82 of Eiler’s survey, and in city block No. 2951 of the City of St. Louis, said lot having a front of 25 feet on Fourth street by a depth of 137% feet. And I will, 0 TUESDAY, JULY 15TH, 1879, between the hours of 9 o’clock in the forenoon and 5 o*clock in the afternoon of that day, atthe east front door of the Court-house in the city of St. Louis, State of Missouri, sell at public auction, for cash, tothe highest bidder. the above described property. charged with said lien, to satisfy said execution and costs. JOHN FINN, Sheriff City St. Louis. St. Louis, Mo., June 19, 1879. 222 DR. WHITTIER of two Medical Colleges, has been tonger en. trea cual and affections bones, are treated with un on latest scientific principles. Speedily, privately, with entirely safe medicines, Sexual Debility and Impotency, as result of Seif- in ip maturer ears, or other causes, and w rod . : Bervousness, seminal 2—— debility, dim sight, defective memory, pimples on the face, physical decay, avet~ sion —— of femaies, con of ideas, ——. — 3 — ete., re marriage roper er — — 2 ＋ triendty ta! or 1 costs nothing. When it is inconvenient to visit the city ‘or treatment, medicines can be sent by mail or express where, Curabie Cases guaran whera doubt exists it is frankly stated. Hours; 94.M.to7P.M. Sundays 12 M. to 1 F. M. Pamphiet fer Mea, 1 1 CUIDE [From the Missouri Democrat Aug. 15, 1865.] SOMETHING PRACTICAL.—Dr. Whittier, No. 627 St. Charles street, having made private and chronic dis- eases the study of his life, has,regardless of expense, fitted up an establishment — a whole house, in which may be found consultation, waiting and of- fice rooms; also an extensive laboratory and the urest drugs. The Docter has been longer engaged — than anv other so advertising, as the back files | of our paper show. [From the Missouri Republican, 1869.] If experience, permanency of location, or facilities for curing disease are matters of importance, invalids should consult Pr. Whittier, 617 St. Charles street, RIVATE matters cured safely, speedily, advice free; no matter who have failed; no fee until ben- efit. at old office. 705 Chestnut. Dr. Jacques. 9 to 7. NO MORE RHEUMATISM y OR GO ACUTEOR CHRONIC ALICYLI SURE CURE. Manufacturedonly under the above trade mark by — —— Salicylic Medicine Company, of Paris an 2 . — relief warranted. Permanent cure guaranteed. Now exclusively used by all celebrated and America. becoming a staple, armless and reliable remedy on both Continents. The highest medical academy of Paris reports ninety cures out of one hundred cases in three op Secret —the only dissolver of the poisonous Uric — ven atients. One dollar a box, six boxes for $5 0. Sent to any Endorsed by physicians. druggists.. Address WASHBURN & CO., Only Importers’ Depot, 212 Broadway, New York, Fabricio D’Ultra e Silva, BAHIA, Brazil, Receive consignments of all kinds. Sold by all LOUIS C. BOHLE’S LIVERY AND BOARDING STABLES: The finest Carriages in the City furnished at lower prices than any ether stable. 00 Theater calis....$23 00 all succeedins h'rs. $1 00 „ „ „„ „ „ „ ð ð > > 4 00 Special attention given to * — ex Waaler estah- bles, am pre- Party calls Calling, lst hour Carriages to fune earse.. To any o funerals. o best quality of goods. 8 ase-face Coffins...... Gee. <ccdecscccecceeses Cc and Coin Also a full supply of all articles appertaining 1 (alf and Sanne for yourselves, Louis yc St. Louis Stables, 610 and 612 venta Globe Stables, 410 and 412 North Sixth Street. HEADQUARTERS MONS AND ORANGES. „ „ COMMERCIAL ST 214 eko. W. WOODWORTH, Supt. LEVISON & BLYTHE, Blank Books, PAPER AND STATIONERY ; on w „ and said execution as fellows. to-wit: Lot n sarees Se Mc Namara’s addition; sal f r | 1 at auc der, the above described property, charged with said lien, to satisfy said exe- cution and costs. * JOHN * riff City St. is. St. Louis. Mo. June 19. 1879. 226 rp a a lly SALE.—Wheieas. Herbert sin 26th L. Ford le by his certain deed of trust. dated January 876, recorded tn Recorder's office of St. in book 536, to secure the vayment of certain promissory notes therein described, and, it being provided in said deed of trust that each ber twenty are past due and rematn unpaid; now, therefore, at — of legal holder of said notes, I will offer for sale at public auction. for cash. at the east front doer the Court-house, in city of St. Louis, Missouri, on FRIDAY, AUGUST Stu. 1879, between the hours of 9 o'clock a.m. and 3 oelock p. m. ot that day.the following lots or pareels of ground, E.; Lots number 43, 42, 41, 40. 39. 38. 37, 36, 25. 24, 21. 20, 9. 8, 7. 6. 5. 4. 8. 2: all tm block number three, Page avenue subdivision, as appears on plat of said subdivision now on file in Recorder's office, and as described tn sald deed of trust, to satisfy said notes and costs. HENRY M. NOEL, Trustee. ae 233 PE YRUSTEES’ SALE OF REAL ESTAT32.—Where- as, Thomas Gilmartia (single), by his certain deed of trust dated the 4th day of September, 1873. and recorded in the office of the Recorder of Deeds for the city of St. Louis (formerly county of St. Louis), State ef Missouri, in Book 523, page 467, conveyed tothe undersigned trustees the following described real estate situated in the city and coun- ty of St. Louls, State of Missouri, to-wit: Being lots numbered twenty-one (21) and twenty-two (22) of the subdivision of block number one (1) in sur- vey number four of the former city of Carondelet. now city block No. 3061 of said city of St. Louis, said lots No.21 and 22 containing an aggregate front of fifty feet (50) on the east line of Fifth street.and running east- wardly of equal width 140 feet in depth to an alley, which said conveyance to the undersigned was e in trust to secure the payment of certain promisso notes fully described in said deed; and whereas, of said notes have become due and payable, and sev- eral of them remain due and unpaid, now therefore notice is herelry given that the undersigned trustees, in pursuance of the provisions in said deed, and at the request of the legal holder of said notes, will, on Ww EDNESDAY, THE TWENTY-THIRD DAY OF JULY, 1879, between the hours of 10 o'clock a. m. and 5 o'clock p. m. of that day, proceed to sell the above deseribed property at public vendue to the highest bidder, for cash, at the east front door of the Court-house, in the city of St. Louis, State of Missouri, for the purpose of satisfying said notes and the costs of executing this trust. FRANK J. KARLESKIND, FREDERICK HILL. 227 Trustees. RUSTEE’S SALE.—Whereas, Sheridan Wait, bv his deed dated May 27th, 18745.and reeorded in book 524, page 126, in the office of the Recorder of deeds in and for the county (now city) of St. Louis, conveyed to the undersigned, trustee, the following described real estate, lyixg and being in the county (now city) of St. Louis. State of Missouri, to-wit: Lot numbered fifty-two (52) of Peter Lindell 'ssecond addition to the city of St. Louis. according to a plat thereof on file In the office of the recorder of deeds for St. Louls county (now city), bounded and described as follows, te-wit: On the north by Baker avenue, on which it has a front of nine hundred and seventy-four and 9-12 feet; on the east by Taylor avenue, on which it has a front of four hundred and forty-six and 44-12 feet; on the south by Laclede avenue, on which it fronts nine hundred and ten (910) feet two (2) 3 and on the west by Lake avenne, on which it front of four hundred and fifty and 114,-12 feet, containing uine (9) and six hundred and €fty-seven thousandths (657-1000) acres of land; in trust to secure the payment of certain promissory notes in said deed described; and whereas, said principal note for the sum of fifteen thousand dollars is new due and remains unpaid, as well as one interest note given for the extension of said principal note; now, therefore, in accordance with the provisions of said deed of trust, and at the request of the legal holder of said notes, I will proceed to sell the above deserib- ed real estate at the eastfrent door of the Court- house, in the city of St. Louis, State aforesaid, to the highest bidder, for cash, at pubtic auction, on MONDAY, THE 14TH DAY OF JULY, 1879, between the hours of 9 o‘’cleck in the forenoon and S o’clockin the afternoon of that day, to satisfy said notes tegether with the cost and expenses of executing this trust. EVHRALM G. OBEAR, 218 rrustee. HERIFF’S SALE.—By virtue and authority of a special execution issued from the office of the Clerk of the Circuit Court at the City of St. Louis, returnable to the October term, 1879. of said Court, and to me directed, in favor of the State of Mis- souri, at the relation and to the use of Myer A. Ko- senblatt, Collector of the citv of St. Louis, in the State of Missouri, and against Margaret Thorwegen, William H. Thor wegen. her husband. Margaret B. Dean, Bernard J. Reilly and John Clancy. 1 have levied upon and seized the following described real estate, situates in the city of St. Louisand State of Missour!, and charzed with the lex of tax bill on which this action b Land described tn said ex- ecution as follows, to wing deseribed real estate, situate, ly ” the city of St. Louis, to-wit: A of groun 5 aes 7 said city and in Diock Oo. 2 of Sto containing 1434 feet front on Mills str 719-12 feet, bounded north by Mills street, et by Wilson, south by Buttertield and west by Fitzgibbon; andl will, on TUESDAY. JULY ISTH, 1879. between the hours of 9 o'clock in the forenoon and 5 O clock in the afterneon of that day, at the east front door of the Court-house. in the citv of St. Louts, State of Missour!. sellat public auction. for cash, to the highest bidder,the above described prop- ty. charged with sald Lien, to satisfy said execution and costs. * JOHN FINN. riff City St. Louis. St. Louis, Mo., June 19. 1879. 223 HERIFF’S SALE.—By wirt and at an execution tseuved from the office of f Clerk of the Circuit Court at the City of st. Louts, re- turnable to the October term. 1879, of said court, aad tome directed, in favor of Philip Stock and against B. Weitkamp. Ihave levied upen and seized all the right, title and interest of the defendant, B. Weit- kamp,. im ang te the following described real estate, situated in the «ify of St. Louis, and State of Mis- url, to-wit: The following described lot of ground or parcel of land in the city of St. Louis. and State of Missouri, being part of the tract Known as the St. Louis Commons. and known as lot number sixteen (16) and south half of lot number seventeen (17). in block number two (2) of the second subdivsion of the City Gommons, made under ordinance 3126, ap- proved Februrary 3. 1854, containing inthe aggre- gate a front of thirty-seven feet IX inches (37 feet@ inches! bw adepth of one hundred and twenty-five feet (125 feet). bounded west by Kansas avenue, on the north by the north half of lot seventeen, cast by alley amd south by lot fifteen, and being in the north- east quarter of block fifty-nine of said commons, ac- cording to the survey thereof made by Chas. Deward, by order efthe Board of Aldermen ot said city of St. Lonis, and I will on TUESDAY. THE 29TH DAY OF JULY, 1879, between the hours of nine o clock in the forencon and five o'clock In the afternoon of that day. at the east front door of the Court-house. in the city of St. Louls. State of Missouri, sel) at puolle auction, for cash. to the highest bidder. all the right. title, in- terest, claim, estate and property of the above-named B. Weitkamp. said defendant, of, in and to the above described property, to 2 said exe- cution dah costs. JOUN FINN, City St. Louis. St. Louls. Mo., July 3. 187%. 233 YHERIFF’S SALE.—By virtee and authority ofa KO special execution issued from office of the Clerk of the Circuit Court at the City of returnable to the October Term. 9. court, and tome directed. in favor of the State of Missouri at the relation and tethe use of Myer A. Rosenblatt. Collector of the city eof Pt. bp . State of Missouri. and a«caingt Roos CF Maria Ganzhorn, wife of John L. Ganghorn. Dare, trustee of Maria Gahzhorn, the Charter Oak Life Insurance Company, cestul que trust, and Robert S. Thomas, trustee, I have levied upon d- seized the following described real estate, al city of St. Louls and State of Missouri with the lien of tax bill on which thie ed.and described im said execution as wit: The following described real estate, ing and being within the city of St. Lou. to-wit: Lot number one: A lot on Belle Gladé ave „ being 50 feet in front or width and 142 feet asd Inches ia depth; and being lot 6 in block 4 ia Prairie Wlace. Number two: A let on Belle Glade avenue, being 5O feet in front, and 142 feet and 2 inches in depth, and being lot 7 in block 4 in Prairie Place; and I will on TUESDAY, JULY 15TH, 187%, between the hours of 9 o’cleck in the forenoon and 5 o'clock in the afternoon of that day, at the east front door of the Court-house in the city of St. Louls, State of Missouri, sell at public auction. for cash. te the highest bidder, the above deseribea property, charged with said lien, to satisfy said execution aud mig oe _. JOHN FINN Sheriff City 5t. Lou St. Louis. Mo., Jane 19, 1879. 224 VILE RIFF’S SALE.—By virtue ana authority of a — execution issued from the office of the Ulerk of the Cireuit Ceurt at the City of St. Louis, re- turnable to the Octoner term, 1579, of sald Court, and to me directed, in favor of Ge Rinkle, Jr., Catrina Maria Rinkle, his wife, and John J. Sutter, her trustee, for her use, and against Cella eae nae and also against ber separate property in the hands her trustee, ators — * 4 have Fp. ~ dy ollow escribed real es — ed the 4 mo 2a St. Louis 0 said thenee northwardly a ‘lime of Fifteenth street, seven (71) feet, Nr Une of and 7 ——
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Ne * A ey, * r * — c on. es * 2 Wis ae? ee 8 i „ St. Tunis 25 “Dispatch, Wanday, July 14, 1879. a. wennn Model Cafe and Restaurant 217 N. FIFTH STREET. In addition to the departments already familiar to the public, we have added a Restaurant, com- ete in all of its details, where 8 with 3 without their es- UNDERTAKER! Removed to 1008 Olive Street. Lehigh Valley Anthracite, Big Muddy, Basin Block And Illinois COALS. LEWIS P. HARVEY & OO. 811 OLIVE STREET. LOCAL NEWS. FINE OLD HAND-MADE SOUR MASH WHISKIES, from one to eight years old, from the cele- brated Anderson & Crow distilleries, for sale by gallon or cask,at James Lupe’s, 322 Olive. JAMES M’NICHOL, MERCHANT TAILOR, — AND OLIVE STREETS. Rubber Garden Hose. 50 teet & inch 2-ply Hose, including Coup- lings and Clamps, only $3 50. 50 feet % inch 3-ply, including Couplings and Clamps, only $5 06. We keep all grades of Rubber Hose manufactured, including our First Premium, Oarbolized, &c., Ke. We have the most com- plete stock of Garden Hose Reels in the Oity. from. 31 75 to $4 00 each. AGOODYEAR RUBBER co., , GEO. B. THOMSON, Agt., 400 N. Fourth st. — — PDR. 8. F. BEATTY, 208 North Eighth street, rooms Nos. 1, 2 and 3 first floor. Office practice a specialty. Par- ticular attention given tochronic and nervous diseases, female troubles and minor surgery. - Medicines furnished. Hours, 9 to 4 and 6 tos. For SALE.—Une fifty-gallon coal-oil tank with pump. {twenty-five lamps, porcelain shades, hangers and brackets; counter, desk, chairs, office stools, ete. Apply at Counting Room, this office, 111 N. Fitth stree:. Mulford & M’ Kenzie,brokers,sell R. R. Tickets to all points at reduced rates, 512 Chestnut. — — THE Czar does not, but the Czarina does use oon 8 Complexion Powder. DR. WHITTIER, all private matters, hours 8 A. m. till8 p. m., as for 25 years past, cures blood — impediments to marriage, etc. Charges moderate. Advice free. Call or write. N LATEST papers and magazines of all kinds can be had at Willie Gray’ s, 306 Olive street. One of the Fortunate Ticket-Holders of the Commonwealth Distribution Company— #10,000 for Only $2—Next Drawing July 31. WEST JERSEY HOTEL, } CAMDEN, N. J., July 12, 1879.) I take pleasure in stating to the public that I was the holder of ticket No. 3,760, which drew $10,000 in the ninth drawing of the Common- wealth Distribution Company, for which I paid $2, and the same was promptly paid on pre- sentation at the office of the company, Louis- ville, Kentucky, and I consider the company very prompt, and worthy of patrenage. . S. BENNETT. 31. Unprecedented es. Tickets $2. Ad 7 merford, Secretary, Bui . * puisville, Ky., or 63 Broadwa,” 4 Kew York. A TERRIFIC COMBAT Next drawing J scheme. $112 dress at o Between a Butcher and an Infuriated Texas Steer. The Butcher, Terribly Gored by the Animal, Finally Rescued, After a Desper- ate Struggle. At 1 o’clock this afternoon an exciting scone eccurred at the slaughter pen of James Caffrey, at Butchertown. Inthecattle pen there were anumber of Texan steers, which had been placed there at an early hour this morning. A butcher by the name of Henry Smith entered the pen to drive a steer into the slaughter- house. While 80 doing the steer became enraged and made a rush at the drover. Smith dodged the infigriated an- imal, and struck him over the head witha club which he had in his hand. Smith then tried to escape, and made a rush for the fence, which is about seven feet high. But the steer had wheeled around, and dashed after him. Smith haa no time to make his escape over the fence.” He turned, in his desperation, and FACED THE ANIMAL, which came rushing at him with its head bent low, intent on goring his enemy with his horns. Smith jumped to one side and again dealt the beast a terrific blow with his club, The steer, however, succeeded in wounding him in the left side with his horn, and in an instant had turned round for another charge. Smith called lustily for help and at the same time, seeing the imminent peril he was in, threw away his club and took a huge clasp- knife out of his pocket, and opened it. Al- most in a second, as it were, the wild biute was again on the man. He caught Smith on his horns, one ot them penetrating hisabdomen. Smith clutched the other horn and with his right arm DUG HIS KNIFE in the brute’s righteye. The steer beliowed and turned away for an instantf and again came at his enemy. The horns of the animal again struck him on ‘the forehead but glided off, inflicting, however, two wounds. The butcher at the same time had slashed the steer across the throat. Smith again clutched hold ot one of the horns and buried his knife im the steer’s left eye, thus blinding him. He clung to the horns, aithough the beast, in its agony, bellowed and tried to shake him off. At this critical point Smith’s cries for help brought some half dozen butchers and stock men to the scene, two of them with guns. They took aim and killed the brute almostly instantly. The men at once went to Smith’s rescue. who soon — 180 an unconscious condition, on gave hopes of Smitn's recovery. The men who went to his assistance describe the scene as horriole. I. O. O. F. Directory for St. Louis. 8 —— Rest, No. 1, Monday, Fourth and , No. 2, Tuesday, Fourth and Iocust. „No. 3, Thursday, Fourth and Lo- “Be. Louis, No. 5, Saturday, Fourth and Lo , No. 11, Friday. Fourth and Locust. Excelsior, No. 195 Wednesday, Fourta and Nacleae No. 22, Tuesday, Garrison and Kas- f 8 n, No. 24, Friday, Oarondelet ave- „No. 27, Monday, Broadway and No. 59, Wednesday, Fourth and Lo- Bellefontaine, No. 73, Tuesday, Broadwa Sater, No. 89, Tuesday, Broadway and 1. No. 109, Thursday, Tenth and 1 — „No. 114, Monday, Druids’ hall, , No. 119, Wednesday, Broadway . NO. 128, Tuesday, Carondelet avs · a ‘the house where we had a party without being tered Mussey’s Billiar Parlor, on the corner of Fourth and Pine streets, and stole fifty-six — > we ordered jailed to answer in default of bond in iron, of the value of 35, from the ruins of the costs by Judge Jecko. obscene and offensive language on the public private fined $50 and costs for conducting a bagnio on entered Ft ee —— Justice Not Tempered With Mercy. - — n His House Invaded, His Mother Insulted, He and Brothers Trampled On, Degonia, in the Height of Passion, Stabs the Ruffian Polite. äiJ21⁊—ü-fpꝛ᷑— —: Interview With the Prisoner, Who Will Be Hung on Friday, Unless the Governor Interferes. For the murder of Jules Polite in August, 1876, Joseph Degonia will be hanged by the neck until he is dead, at Potosi, Washington County, on July 18th, Friday next. The Gov- ernor hss already retused to interpose his offi- cia] clemency, and there is no longer hope for the doomed man. Degonia is at present confined in the St. Louis jail, and a P.-D. ieporter visited him this morning to see how he bore the news of Gov. Phelps’ decision to let the law be carried out. Degonia was not at all talkative, Sbut ap- peared very displited and depressed. He seemed somewhat moody and sullen. He told the reporter that he thought he had been very harshly treated by the Governor. „Why, said he, the petition for mercy presented tothe Governor by Mr. Garesche was signed by THE JUDGE WHO TRIED THE CASB, the Proseguting Attorney and nearly all the county officials. It was also signed by eight of the twelve jurors, and the remaining four would, had they not been absent harvesting. It was also signed by the leading citizens of Wash- ington county. Surely there could be no bet- ter petition than that. ‘*Then if you are hung you think you will be executed unjustiy?’’ said the reporter. do,“ was the reply. Did I begin the fuss? Here Polite and his fellows come into invited. Not only does he do that, but he even insults my mother. To prevent a dis- turbance, I bore with this insnlt—one which no man would brook. He then insulted me sev- eral times during the dancing. Then some one told Polite he-needn’t get his back up, and Polite said: Come outside and settle it.’ I didn’t go atfirst. My brothers went andthen I went out, and we got ENGAGED IN A FIGHT. My two brothers helped me. Polite ran away. We followed him. I hada knife in my hand. and, in the heat of my passion,'I struck at him with it. He had insulted my mother, he had insulted my brothers and me, and 1 had borne with him as long as human patience could last. At last my blood boiled, and when he called to me to come outI went out. When he got over the fence I went back. I didn’t knowl! had killed him. My brothers have been sciitenced toten years’ imprisonment and I have been condemned to be hung. It is not justice; itis cruelty. In defending my old mother and my own manhood I am to swingon the scaffold.’’ Nothing more could be gotten from Degonia. He was evidently suffering from wental de- pression. So the reporter bade him be of good cheer and departed. LOCAL CRIME. Arrested ¢ on Suspicion. Between 2 and 4 o’clock this morning Officer Fitzgerald, who patrols the beat between Olive street and Washington avenue and Second strect and the Levee, found a man named Thomas Clark, who claims to be a United States soldier stationed at Jefferson Barracks. at several places on his beat. Finding him on the corner of Pine and the Levee, gthe officer determined to take him into custody on suspicion. When the officer approached, Clark broke and ran. After a short race he was captured and put be- hind the bars ofthe Chestnut Street Station. When caught he had in his possession a bun- dle containing a couple of calico dresses, a cashmere coat and some other clothing. The property awaits an owner at the station house. Held to Answer. in all probability, have signed | Joe Harris and William B. Brown, who en- balls, all of the value of $300, on the 8th inst., were ‘arraigned in the Court ‘of Criminal Cor- this morning on a charge | ne larceny. The defendants examination and were the sum of $800 each. Iron Thieves Captured. | Charles Eaton and John Kane were commit- | ted to jail this morning on a warrant of petit | larceny preferred by George W. Allen. On last Saturday the pair stole four hundred pounds of Southern Hotel. Nolle Pros’d, A noile prosequi was entered by Prosecuting- Attorney Hogan this morning in the Court of Criminal Correction in the case of Mrs. Eyes, | of No. 700 Main street, who gave Ann Carroll a pair of black eyes in an altercation on the | Ist of the present month. | Continued Generally. | The case of Oliver Smith, charged with cruel- | tyto animals in driving a horse of Porter | Leonard to death on the 4th of the present | month, was called in the three C's Court to- day and continued generally. An Amazon Fiued. Mrs. Maggie Hickey, who gave Sabino Lar- tique a beating at No. 720 South Eighth street, on the 3d inst., was arraigned before Judge | Cady to-day and fined $5 and costs, on a | charge of assault and battery. | First District Police Court. | Henry Ashendorf,who gave M. J. Goss a ter- rible beating last evening. was finea $100 and Frank Wolff, for using a variety of profane, streets and towards Ed. Norris, was assessed $50 and costs. Mollie Donnelly and Margaret Kearns, charged with trespassing On Ophelia Carroll’s ee. were fined $20 each. Josephine Howard, a notorious woman, was Myrtle street. atrick Condon, one of the lookers-on, made so much noise as to disturb the Court, who up a fine of $10 and costs in his case. on a charge of contempt, and ordered him committed to * — — until the same was paid. - MeGrath, Michael Blake, I. S. O’Sulli- 8 ete Patrick Houghton paid costs for minor offenses. Second District Police Court. Twenty-four applicants tor justice in this court this morning. John Maloney, F. W. Hindeman, Martin Schanze and Martin Maloney were assessed costs for small offenses. John Sheehan and Lawrence Rattery were as- sessed $10 each for disturbing the peace. Richmond Hoban, Peter Hardy, Wm. Jones and Henry Emshoff were fined. Roger Plant, a male 1 of a disorder - ly house, was fined 8100 The ections amounted to $42. ABOUT TOWN. TAKE Reed's Gilt Edge Tonic. SMALL blaze at 2505 N. Ninth on Sunday. THE St. Louis coopers are out On a strike. THE Coroner held four inquests yesterday. EUPION Oil insures the safety of the family. CHARLES KRUSE died suddenly at 2711 N. Fourteenth street yesterday. THE street car lines nearly all permit smoki ng on the platforms once more. Euriox Oil has no unpleasant odor. THE Special agents of the St.Louis Post-office have contributed $15 to Mrs. Printz. Tus great system toner, Reed's Gilt Edge Tonic. A GERMAN named Chris. Colcross failed in an attemptto commit suicide yesterday. _ ALI. the streets in the western part of the city were lined with promenaders last night. Tux Temperance camp meeting at the Sani- tarium grounds on Sunday was & success. EUPION Oll is absolutely non-explosive. BAPTISTE AUBUCHON, an old citizenjof 1 Florissant Valley, died yesterday mornings: ASK grocers for Reed's Gilt Edge Tonic. © ed +4 LILY Social Club was a grand success yester- day, there being a large crowd in attendance, 1879, a judgment of the St. debt before the | distribution there can be 1 and everything passed off smoothly, and great | - credit is due to the members for their kind attention to the crowd. THE weather has killed enough horses to make the heart of the official remover of dead animals happy. Born Eupion Oil, SWINGING on the front gate has again, through the courtesy of the thermometer, be- come possible. RE D's Gilt Edge Tonic cures dyspepsia. THE Eight-hour Leaguers met at Turners’ Hall Sunday evening. The man with the $250 is still missing. No accidents can occur from Eupion Oil. A BOY named Bernard McGrury was drowned in the Labeaume street quarry yesterday. The body was recovereca. ETON Oil gives a brilliant light. GEORGE GRAY, a colored man, was arrested by Boliceman Fitzgerald yesterday on suspi- cion of having committed petit larceny. COSTIVENESS prevented by Reed's Gilt Edge Tonic. OFFICER DAN WALSH had a h ard fight yester- day to arrest a young man named Devitt on the corner ot Eighth and Walnut streets. EUPION Oil is the best family oil. JOHN RYAN, a Columbia, Illinois, granger, got up a bad case of colic yesterday from too many green plums and too much ice water. EUPION Oil does not crust the wick. A RUNAWAY BUGGY on North Tenth street yes- terday spilled Thomas Jones and Charles Mo- Culliss. The latter was severely injured, but Jones was not. DELICATE females use Reed's Gilt Edge Tonic. VICTORIA HESCH, a Bridgeton girl of ten, lost herself'in the cicy and was found wandering in Carondelet. She stayed Sunday in care of the family of Capt. Lee of the Four Courts, who sent her home this morning. ASK your grocer for Eupion OU. PROBATE COURT. Three Opinions Rendered by Judge Woerner. An Estate Liable for a Debt Ten Years After Final Settlement. The Sale of Stocks of the Late James H. Lucas Set Aside. Judge Woerner of the Probate Court deliver- ed three opinions to-day. The first was in the matter of the estate of James H. Lucas. In distributing the personal property of the estate of Jas. H. Lucasit became necessary to order the sale of sundry stocks to enable an equal pistribution among the lecatees. The order of sale fixed time, place and terms of sale, the place designated being the Merchants’ Exchange and the mode to the highest bidder. The executors re- orted the sale, and the court approved it. ‘he day after objections tothe sale and a mo- tion to set aside the sale were filed, ane the motion was heard. From the evidence it appears that the Mer- chants’ Exchange is a place not accessible to any but members, and that ata sale of stocks there the general public was necessarily pre- vented from participating; that, on the other hand, most persons dealing in stocks were nembers, and thatthe Exchange was the usual place and aftorded the greatest advan- tages for the sale of stocks: that at least one person desirous of purchasing the stock in question did§ not obtain access to the place of sale, and was thereby prevented trom bidding; that ne would have paid asum greatly in ex- cess Of that at which the stock was sold. The stocks sold were seven shares of the Planters’ House. The Court set aside the order approving the sale and or- ders the executors to seil them at private sale for cash at the best price obtainable and to re- port to the Court for approval. PETITION FOR JUDGMENT AGAINST FORMER AD- MINISTKATOR AND HIS SURETIES. Thisisa suit instituted by Patrick Roddy and Rose M. Roddy, administrators of James toddy, deceased, against Thomas J. Daily, John S. Cavender and Jas. S. Farrar. The issues in this case arise in the nature of exceptions to the final settlement resented by the tormer administrator of Jas. oddy on the motion of his successor in the administration. Exceptions are taken to various sums to the credit of former administrator. Many of exceptions were allowed. and conclusion the Court says: ‘‘Deducting the ageregate of these sums, $16,188, trom $21,- 912 38, the balance claimed by the adminis- trator to be in his favor, it leaves said balance to be $5,723 50, which is the judgment in this case. A REMARKABLE CASE. A motion for order of sale of real estate to pay debts was made in the matter of the estate of John B. Carson. This is a remarkable case, inasmuch asit shows that even ten years after the final settlement of an estate a claim is good againstit. James O. Carson was the adminis- trator of the estate of John B. Carson. He made a final settlement ot the estate and was discharged at the September term of the St. Louis Probate Court, 1869. On the 20th day of March, 1879, the transcript of a judgmentin the Circuit Court was filed in the Probate Court. On the nett dav, March 21, Louis Circuit Ober et al., vs. Court, in favor ot Robert P. | James O. Carson, as administrator of Jonn B. Carson, in the sum of $5,114 92,was presented | for classification to the Probate Court, and placed in the sixth class of items against said estate. On the 29th of March, 1879, the administrator filed a petition for the sale of real estate to pay said debt and a balance found to be due said administrator on final set- tlement. Objections to this order were raised by the devisees and vendees of devisees. ‘This suit of Robert P. Uber and others commenced against Carson during his lifetime, and atter his death the administrator, James O. Carson, was made n party defendant. The case was carried to the Supreme Court of the State, and thence to the United States Supreme C ourt, which in its December term, 1878, aftirmed the judgment of the St. Louis Circuit Court. The Probate Court, in its opinion, says: ‘‘Since the assets in hand were suflicient to pay this residuary legatees received no order of sale of real estate.’’ There are now two debts against the estate—one a balance found in favor of the administrator on, final settlement, October 2, 1869, amounting to $5,636 12, and the Ober judgment, which has beén assigned to John M. Glover. The first debt the Court regulates. The second debt of $5,114 92 with interest fromthe 30th day of March, 1574, which will makeit reach the sum of over $6, 600, must be paid. The administrator knew ot the existence of the suit, but failed to notify the court of it or make any mention of it in his tinal.settlement. The debt must be paid by the — legatees, of whom the administrator is one. He must pay the debt and hecanapply to thecourt for a refunding order on Mrs. Postlewaite, the other residuary legatee, for 59-134 of the amount te be paid, which isthe share of the debt she must pay. was FINANCIAL. The week opened quiet and without any change of consequence in business from that of last week. At most banks business was dull and discounts were light. Shipments of grain, flour and teed were quite liberal, but otherwise there was nothing of importance. The country demand tor currency was good, although not heavy. Counter business was moderate. Eastern exchange was steady at par. On the street business was dead, the hot sun cooking all the snap out of operators and brokers. Stocks and Bonas. Corrected by L. A. Coquard, stock and bond broker corner of Third and Pine streeta. GOVERNMENT 8ECUR nate 1 > Bur- Sell- 15 1891/4 New — 408 786 1907 New 4s 1877 F. Mo. Istm) 857 88 3 Ist m. gold, E K. Pac. Iatm 2 gold. Feb. & Aug. 118 MISSOURI SIXES. 102 Due 1888.... 104 Due 1889.... 105 | 15 1189 119 1054 Due 1882. 106 4 Due 1 et Due 1887.. ST. LOUIS CITY AND COUNTY BONDS. LFS —uj—“—6kR 2 City 6s, gold — bonds COIN AND EXCHANGE. New Urieans Exchange, sight........par. MONEY. Bank Discounts for lst paper.. Outside class ts for 1st class paper [Sp henge nn + aan n 1 ST. LOUIS CLEARING HOUSE. eereeeee ee eee eeeeeee te. s 3,538, 734 350,510 8 and Stoess o Telegraph. By Western Associated Press. New Yorn, July 14, 12 m.—Money, 3@3%. er here 113%. Sub- Hailrond socuriose steady es steady. pe: xe strong and higher. Pacifi ail, 14% 5 4 Co.’ Express, ; m United States Express, 48 trai, 11 158; Mi * and St. Canada Southern, 56; ty 57%; Louis 1 and Nasn- Kansas ‘Pacific, 59; Kan. and Tex., 145%; St. Louis and San Francisco, 836; 2 referred, 10%; first preferred, 22; St. — Kansas City and ‘orthern, 17%; pe- erred LONDON, July 14.—Silver 51 13-16 penee. Quotations ef Active Stocks at New York Compiled exclusively tor the Posr-DisrATOR by John J. White, Manager Public Grain ana Stock Exchange, rooms 125 to 131 Chamber of Commerce: 8 8 4 bd ei — * n Ines ufs A 2888 5 RAN — — “ae ' 888888 “ot NS ee eo — * Aor — 2 sexe * e pre Do. 395 Pac. Mail 1475) COMMERCIAL. For Additional Commercial Information See Third Page. The Leaf Tobacco Market. The market is nominally unchanged. Offer ings were moderate. Receipts during the week have been the largest of the season. Prices have ruied somewhat irregular, owing partly to the bodily discomfort which buyers suffered from the very warm weather. This, coupled with the increasea receipts, was taken advant- age of by those anxious to depress values; but holders, mindful of the shortness of the crop, and acting under instructions trom shippers, were nevertheless firmer ju their views, which were so Often above the bids as to cause many rejections. It is the opinion of most shippers that Missouri cannot produgé near as much as last season, which was less than „ average crop, and with the outlook for not over & to & average for balance of the West. they feel thev have two years to work off their purchase, and the quality being so far superior to anything they have handled for years, appear rather loth to part withit. Butso far most of them have been conservative in their views and are willing to sell when fair values can be obtain- ed. Wethink when quality is considered that prices are moderate even on basis of full crop, and with the present indications pointing to not exceeding & average, itis not unreasona- ble that many expect increased values as the season advances on medium to good styles es- pecially. Weare glad to seea better feeling developing in English markets, and when they see types of some of our crop they will again have a better opinion of Missouri leaf. But present indications are that an unusual stnall proportion = be shipped direct by fac- tors, which fact is/being recognized, and will likely induce ordegs to be sent to our market. We have seen — already asking for types and prices, indicating that Missouri is wanted Receipts and Shipments of Leading Articles For the 48 hours ending on Monday, July 14, 1879, and 3 — day in 1878, as reported by the Merchants’ Exchange. Receipts by River Shipments by and il. x 79 1878. 1879. 1878. 14 ARTICLES. Apples. bris..... ° 9 500 2.235 0 3.620 Corn. = al, bu. 28,350 Eegs, pkgs d Highwines Hay, bales...& Oats. in DIK. Du.. Pork. oris Hains. los Meats. 6 Potatoes. sks. bris. Potatoes. blk. bu. 500 620 102. 000 12 27 W. 700 9,535 10,208 358 351 208. Turpentine, bbis. Wheat. sacks. 3.464 17.883 Wheat. in blk. bu. 88. 625 54.950 52 091 1 260.748 378,473 184,325 Lumber, M feet.. 701 97 210 Receipts and Withdrawals of Wheat FROM ELEVATORS FOR THE 24 HOURS ENDED 6 F. M. JULY 12. | Receipts.| Ship’ts. 10,772 1.955 21.289 10.252 * v Louis 4 — A. a B. & W E. St. L — 53.658 Withdrawals of Grain at St. Louis FROM ELEVATORS FOR THE 24 HOURS ENDING 6 P. M., JULY 12. (Warehouses not included.) | City. EK. K. — — 51.977 g River. 681 Grain in Store in St. Louis. In the various Elevators named, at 6 p. m., July 12, 1879. Elevators — heat. | St. Louis 58 660) Corn. | 467 7. 320 Oats. | Rye. —. 20.036 rt tad 3.989 312 Advance. Venic e. Total. 204.721 24.387 16.026 832 Receipts and Shipments of Wheat at Princi- pal Points. -——-Receipts-— |—- Shipments -——~ To-dav Les“dav. To-day. Les“ day St. Louis 222, 669 129. 515 52.094 52.300 Shica go 8.597 129 110,904 30,775 Milwaukee . 33.200 38. 00 00 7 48.000 54 239,000 179,857 150,000 Baltimore. 118,511 101,774 Stocks of Grain in Store at New York and Brooklyn, 1879. | | . 7 Joly * | July 14 | 1878. | 1977. : 127, 623) 1,159, aed 1,301,437 2. aie 891. 211.885 659.5 54 27.561 1.662 133. 325 2507447 45.089 45,089 173.724 Whes heat.. 435.92 ‘orn 331,968 869,970 23.159 85,841 ye Burley. Stocks of Grain in Store at Milwaukee. | July 14, 1 July 7, vay 15 „ July 16, | _ 1879. 9 1879. 1878. 1877. 1. 507. 100 1,493, 1035 388 oo 59. 6. 88. 580 848,886 109.8: 22 592 725 05 ye Barley.. 92,800) Exports of Provisions. The exports of provisions of the principal ports of the United States from November 1 to July 5 were as follows: | 1878-9. | 1877-8. Increased. Pork. lbs. . . 52,160,400) 48,638,000) 375,814,891 455,053,633 Lard, Ibs. . 24 7, 802.580 258.174.252 Total „ *Decrease. Comparative Closing values of Le Ar- * ticles at 1 P. M. 2 Saturday. No. 2 red wheat. casn 96K 97 5 7. July. 963 3,522,400 120,761,258 *11,371,672 112,911.986 ee To-day . 98% @99 98 y No. 3 red wheat cash No. 4 red wheat cash No. 2 spring. casn... No. 2 Mediterranean. No. 2 mixed corn, c’h No.2 wu. ma C. Casb/33 No. . Rejected oa No, 2 white oats..... No. 2 rye. casn ] Tye, cash.... Mess porg, Casn...... D. 8. shoulders ..... D. 8. clear ribes se CICA. «sccceceees drs clear. casn Canvased 8. C. Hams W, eeereree Tallo Lara, prime steam. 5 Breadstufis and Provisions. Wheat higherand strong tor grades. Sam- ples were slow and neglected, except by ship- pers, who bought on basis of grade values. No. 2 red closed at 98 kc this side and 990 East side; No. 3 at 94% @95c; No. 4 sold at 89c down to 88, and No. 2 Mediterranean at 98c to 990. Futures opened lower, but advanced later 1X@ 20 ¥ bushel, and closed strong. The only plausible reason for the advance we heard was, that operators ex- pected a decline, but, as it failed to come, they concluded to get under the market and boost it, which was successtully accomplish - ed. July sold at 98@98 ¥c, August at 964% @96@ 97%c, September 96980, October 98 Kc bid, ear 9&ic bid. Corn was lower and slow. ading in futures was fair only in August and September. Sales were: July 34e. August at 34% @35@34 13-ltc, September 35K c 35 @35%c. Cash corn was firmer and in fair de- mand at 35c for No. 2 mixed, 33 for rejected, and 41%@42c for No. 2 white mixed. _ Oats was dull. Oash, firmer at 30\e for No. 2 and 30 %c bid for No. 2 white. July 29e bid, Au- ust sold at 25e, September at 25% 28 0. -rovisions were quiet and easier, without any special change Wheat—Grades higher, with principal inter- est and activity still centering in No. 2 on shipping account exclusively; price tell off a fraction at close (trom higher o lrates), sell- ing slowly then at 98%c (1c higher) this side at 98c (lc higher) in Venice and East (a little Jen at 99 in Adv. early; No. taken for snipment too—it closed dull und weak this side (lic higher) 94c; No. 2 Mediterranean, 98 East side and 98c this side at close; No. 4 “this side ot 88c, rejected, 80c. Samples—Great bulk of sales (of what would inspect No. 2 red) was to shippers; millers’ purchases very light by com- parison; shipping buyers paid well up to grade price for bulk cars, and took some exception- ally fine round sacked lots on like basis; aside from this, the market was about as unsatis- factory tor receivers as could well be conceiv- ed, the inquiry not near equaling the enor- mously large Offerings; but, we should add, that much ofthe 56, 000 sacks was placed di- rectly in elevator. A great deal remained un- sold. Prices (aside from the purchases of No. 2 by shippers) were unsettled and irregular, closing easier—we saw choice ‘*Fulz’’ sold early in the day at 97e, more of which was placed late at 95c; medium, prime and choice red sold at 960 to 950 irregularly late, No. 3 at 94c, mixed lots better than No. 4 at 90¢c; Mediterranean at 87c for low, 90910 for tough, 98@99c (closing at 980) for No. 2 on East trk; white at 86@85c for cockied and thin, 9796 for strictly choice, 95c for choice and strictle prime, 93@92c for medium and No. 3. Sales: Grades (strictly fresh, unless otherwise 12 car No. 2 Mediterranean in Ad. at99X%c, 2 do in E. at 99c, 2 do do at 98e, 2 do in ‘St. L. at 98c; 1 car No. 2 white 970; No. red, in E und V.—2 cars and 10, 000 bu at 99c, 15 cars and 3,000 bu at 98Xc, 15 cars do at 984¢c; 2 cars do in Ad. at 92c; No, 2, this side—2 cars fr. reg. at 92c, 1 car at 97%, 9 cars at 980, 42 Cars at 98K ; No. 3 red—3 cars in E. at 95c — (nominally 94%c at close), 44 cars do this side at 84%c, 7 cars do early and late at 94c; 6 cars No. 4 this side at 88e, 2 cars rejected this side at 800. Corn—Grades—Car lots No. 2 mixed sold lightly to order buyers Ke higher, at 35c in St. L. and 35Xcin C.; while a 50,000-bu lot sold (for export) at 34%c—Xc decline; No. 2 white-mixed e better in St. L. at 42, Me up (and in demand) in C. at 42\c, steady in Ad. at 41 c- movement light; rejected steady at 33e, no- grade sold at 30@3lc—each of latter to distillers. Samples slow; mixed e low- er at 350; white-mixed firmer at 39 for low, 11% for fair, 420 to 42% @43c for No. 2 and choice do—and in sacks at 46\%c; St. Charles (not choice) brought 48c. Sales : Grades—50 000 bu No. 2 mixed reg. at34c, 12 cars do ir. and st. fr. in St. L. at 35c, 2 do injC. at 35e 1 car No. white- mixed in Ad. at 41e, 6 doin St. L. at 42%c, 1 dost. fr. O. at 42e, S cars rejected iu St. L. aud OC. at 33e, 1 car no-grade in C. at 30e, 2 do in do at Provisions, Ete.— Market weak, dull and easier; to sell bulk winter c’ribs, certainly not over 40 obtainable. Lard had 5.800 bid. Sales: Pork—150 bris f. o. b. East side in small lots at $9 75, some over there at $9 50 too; orders—280 bris at $10 00@10 12. Lard—Refined dull at 6%@7c in tes on orders. Bacon—65 csks and hf-csks short clear p. t., 40 pkgs do at SN to 5.60c—mainly at latter, 35, 000 tbs loose do at 5.65¢, 22 pkgs clear rib at 5.35@5. 32% 55. 30e, 8 tes and 300 pes c. s. c. hams at 9%c; orders (73 pkgs) clear rib 54;c, short clear 8e, c. 8. c. hams 10 114. MORNING BOARD—9:30 A. M. r0 1 P. u. Flour was quiet and steady. Buyers still felt pretty stiff, owing to the adv ancing wheat market, but they were unable to obtain higher rates, as the demand was moderate and buy- ers out, save at previous figures. Grades xxx and family principally sought for and scarce. We quote the closing rates: Fine $2 50@2 75; supertine $2 95@3 40; x $3 55@ 375; xx $4 00@4 25; xxx $4 60@4 85; family $4 95@5 10; choice $5 15@5 25; fancy $5 45@5 75. AFTERNOON BOARD—2:15 P. u. Wheat—Easier. Sales: 30,000 July at 98\c; 80,000 August at 98c to 97Xc: 75,000 Septem- ber at 98 \c to 98e; 30,000 October at 98kc. Cash salable at 97% and year at 935K. Corn — Steady. Sales: 20,000 August at 34% @%c; 10,000 September at 35%¢; 5,000 October at 35\4c, 45,000 year at 3: 2% dc. Cash and July salable at 34e. Oats—Nominally unchanged. Sales: 10,000 September at 253,c; cash offered at 3lc, no bid; July salable at 40e avy August salable at 25 ‘aC. eee Closing Prices at Other Points. Closing prices at other markets, reported by Mr. Ino. J. White, manager Publie Grain and Stock Exchange, rooms 125 to i31 Chamber of Commerce. CuHIcaGoO,. July 10, 2:30 p. m. Whear—98%c August, 97e September. Corn—37c August, 37}4c September. Oats—280 August, 27e September. Pork—$8 624; August, $8 75 September. Lard—$5 85 August, $5 $5 92% September. The Cotton Market. A decline of 1-160 in New York spots, to- gether with lower futures at that place, caused prices to go down d here, with a dull and drooping market. No spot sales were made. Liverpool quiet, with a moderate inquiry free- ly supplied, and quotations unchanged. QUOTATIONS. New York. St. Louis. Low ordinary....... — 10 Good migdbing . pe Middling fair......... 12K STOCKS IN Sr. LOUIS WAREHOUSE. Stocks to-day, 4,684; same day last year, 2,333 bales. ST. LOUIS GROSS RECEIPTS AND SHIPMENTS, Receipts, Shipments baies. To- day. 6 „ 6 „%% „% „% „%% „% „% „%% „% „%%t07 48 Same day last vear Total for season to date. . 329,717 Same time last vear . 243.970 NEW rok. Futures closed steady. Sales 50.000 bales. Future quotations: January. 10.92; Febru- ary. 11.00; Maron. 11.10: April. —: May, —: June, —; July. 12.09; August, 12.13: September. 12.12: Uctoper, 11.25; RECEIPTS AT OTHER POINTS. New York, 14; Savannan, 39; ton, 10; Wilmington, 11; Boston, 92: Cincinnati —: — New Orieans. 115: Charleston. Mobile, 111; Nortolik, 23; Philadelphia, ; Memphis, 16; Port Royal, —; otner points, ——. NET RECEIPTS AND SHIPMENTS FOR 3 DAYS. Receipts this week, 808 bales; same time last year, 1,180 bales. Experts’ this week, 5,975 bales. Stocks to-day, 165,349 bales; same day last year, 124,157 bales. LIVERPOOL QUOTATIONS. Uplands, 6 d; Orleans, 6 15-16d. Sales 7,000 oales. RAIL FREIGHTS ON COMPRESSED COTTON. Ss. Louis to Boston, 53; Providence, 53 New York, 48; Philadelpnia, 46; Baltimore 45. 244,177 Galves- Sales on ’Change. BRAN—Steady and firm: offerings light—and really insufficientforthe demand. Sales skd; at city mills—3 cars at 47e, 7 do at48c; on E. — cars * O. and M.) at 500, 1 do on N. . at 48e, 2 do at 50 del. “BUTTE ER—We quote: Creamery—fancy in a small wat at 17c to 180; heated or lots not choice 14@15c. Dairy—bulk of sales choice at 11@12, selections 1314, fair to prime in lots 5c to 9c; grease aad low grade 3%@4c; country nominal at 4c to 8c. POTATOES—W agon receipts in good demand, mainly for shipment to Texas, but owing to in- creased offerings, prices were slightly lower, at $1 65 to $4 85—bulk of sales at $1 75 per bri measure. Some received by river—these were poor in guality or slack packed, and slow sale at $1 5021 65—85 bris Iowa rose seld at $1 60@1 65. NEW APPLES—Demand good for — stock and prices firmer; receipts quite light Sales loose from farmers’ wagons at $1 25 to $2@2 25 per bri measure for geod to choice and $2 25@2 50 packed; consigned barreled lots worth $1 75@2 per bri. Boxed not wanted. * eating worth 311 25 per 4 n cooking selling slowly at 830 per Some California offering—nom- inally worth $4@4 50 per box. Grain Inspections. Wheat—25 cars No. 2 Mediterranean, 2 cars No. 2 white winter, 79 cars No. 2 red winter, 67 cars No. 3 red winter, 24 cars No. 4 winter, winter. Total—308 cars. jected white-mixed, 24 cars No. 2 cars rejected, 1 car no de. Total Oats—4 cars No. 2. tal—4 Metals and Tinners’ Supplies. BLOUK TIN—Laige pigs, ® . 17e: small pigs, 1803 bar tin, lc AL SHEET TRON—No. 24, 24 in. wide, b, 5.80 26, 24 and 90 in. wide, 6.00; 27, 24 in. wide. 6.20c. ‘HARCUAL TIN PLATE—Best Charcoal: $7 GC: IC, 12x12, 398 i $13 Fy, 00; 16. 1 10x20. 225 sheets. $9 50; sheets, $6'0; 10, 1014.2 2 $6 50. | pat . 4x20, rec oe ag he Ons Sy Soot ee — — STO r celsior, de, 8: Charter Oak in bulk. N . Bie. e saume . oe r . and 90 in a. W. Sere SEA — Now : Vestigia Nulla Retrorsum Look not mournfully into the past, it comes not back again; wisely improve the present—it is thine; go forth to meet the shadowy future without fear, and with a manly heart, remembering „There are no traces backward.” II you have made mistakes, improve with the knowledge gained. The most im- portant discoveries were made through some mistake. A traveler who loses his way gains a knowledge of the coun- try. So those who are led to visit the Custom Department of the Famous,“ and there see the beautiful suits made for $15,discover the mistake they have made in paying high prices for garments no better made. With the largest and most varied stock of cloths from which to make a selection, and rules for self-measure- ment that are positively reliable, we feel that we can please the most fastidi- ous. Sendfor Samples. And we will fondly hope your future orders will be addressed “FAMOUS,” 705 to 715 Franklin Avenue. 18. 160: No. 19. 19c: 20 No., 20c: bright mkt. 50 B eent discount. er Wire market 45 & cent discount. Brass and © eg > * ou sprinx.. No. 6 to 20, Cc — for h broom corn. net. 4Xc: Nos. 10 and 21. tor broom e rn, do Ze. No. 12. for oroom corn. do 5c. Broom Wire—Tinned, putup In stones, N D. No. 15, One; No. 19. nge; No. 20. ses No. 11. 9 ge; No. 22. 9e. Brazier’ s Rods—3-16 4c; KP DB. 3. Fence—Nos. 7.8 and v. — d. 3. 40e: No. 10 to 11. Grape relle wire, 4% No. 12, Grape. do * 4c; * Me wire tg pounds dy 5) mile; . 8, 389: - 9. 323: 10. : No. 11. 211: No. 12 168. “St. Louis Barbed Wisc Twisted. * D. —e; single. oval wire. u d. — . Clothes Line wire, doz. rolls. $4. Fence Staples—Per keg, 100 Bs; 4c; per D. Sc: No. 12 coppered “ea dos. Tike. fence wire stretchers. ® doz. 1.20 BABBITT | METAL—No. 1. 16e; No.2. 12¢: No. 3, ge: No. 4. SHEET ZINC—600-I> cask. per lo, —c; 250- B and 100-® do. —c: sneet. 7& e. EE IRON Genuine Nos. iron. full bundles. D can Dianished Kussis No. SHEET IRON—Charter Oak Iron— Smooth on both sides—No. 22 to 24. 24 and 3Qx10U m., V d, 3.80, o. 26. do, 3. 900. No. 27. do. 4.00. BOILED n sheet—Nos. 18 to 20. 24 +5 ge to 24. do, 3. 00; 26, SPPER—Planished—Roiler sizes—No. 6. 14 08. 4x46 n. , VD. 35e: No. 7, do. 14x49. r Te 14232. 386 NG. 8. 14 02. 14x56. 386: No. 9 24x61. 35c. Tinning per sheet. 6 and 7, 12¢;do do a 156. Planished cepper. 14x48, 14 and 16 o., „33e: tinning, per sheet, 10e; do do 28e; Brazier’ s eopper. 30x60. 8 oan 9 sheets, B D. 28c; 10 to 18 m sheets, 26c: 60 Bb she Gutter copper—20 x72. 10 10 13-8 sheets. % Sheathing copper. Gunes, 14x4 . 28e: ginning. sheet. 100 z! pper- r--16x60 and 20x60. d. 24e. Ti sheet, 256. Copper potters. D. 26c. Oval flat cop- per bottoms, Vd. 26e. Metallic bottoms, ® D. 16e: ldering coppers. BB. 2tic. Soldering copper handles, V doz., oc. Brass kettles—7to 18 in. @ D 35; do do 14 m. and over , 40c. Sad Irons, P D, 2e. Polishing trons, per doz, $5 50. — Drv Goods. . 1 Dark styles 7 Merrimack taney ** 6 Arnold fancy J, rtings. 6 Albion solids 4 Regatta shirtings: peces 56 All 535 Harmony fancy. 85 Allens purples 6 owell American fancy....... 5 Simpson's ...... 9000 9 2 Dees 57 Gloucester ) Dark Richmond 5 Cocheco robes 6% Pacific — 6 Wamsutta ro 57% Stifel 4-4 — — blue. 16 BLEACHED COTTON. Auburn 4-4. SM Gr Barnsley 7-8 Mallory pink Garner’s fancy - Bk Fruit de Loom 2 6% Hills PEE ins 9 1-8 eeeeeeeesee.® 8 Great Falls AA 4-4... BROWN SHEETING. Androscoggin 128 20 Pepperell 128 Monagnock 10-4 | . «4 116 sé BLEACHED COTTON CAMBRICS. shin hss Loom cam- A O. ee cambrie BROWN COTTONS. Indian standard 4-4.. 84 Portsmouth P28 m.. 3 y 8 \|Bedford R 30 St. 8 Conestoga D 28 8 . G 30 P 1 7 Ww Trion AAA 4 7 \Newmarket N 4-4.. Rock — 4-4 7 Continental C er 4-4 6% Pepperell . 2 | é +s CHEVIOT.- Amosse ag eee 11 Bristol Slater W 10 | a a X Slatervillqdcc 9 |Bate BLEACHED — 4 Monadnock 10-4 2 Androscoggin . 32 46 inch. 15 DENIMS—BLUE. 16 Otis AXA.. 15 BB * 1 4 Amoskeag — — bees 1 City..... Crescent City . 8 S ATrion Sede e000 ee 8 Amoskeag Oils, Leads, Ete. TunrENTINE. OILS, Etc.—Turpentine,29@30c, lard oil—extra wiuter, 55@60; No.1, 530 55¢ ; castor oll, 17c pd; neatsfoot oil. 60@75c; whale oil, 65 bank oil, 38@40¢; lubric ating oll, W. Va.. 16@ ; coal-oil, 110 de.. 10˙⁰⁸ @lic; do 150 deg, 140 14 ½ e: linseed oil 65 WHITEL EAD—The 0 ollier White Lead Company, the St. Louis Lead and Oil Company, the Southern White Lead Company and the Missouri Lead and Oil Company quote as follows: Strictly pure white lead, in kegs, in lots of less than 500 Bs. at 7e BH; do do, in kegs. in lots of 500 hs and over, 6'4c; dry white lead, in kegs. in lots of less than 500 hs, 64c; do 500 ths and over Se; red lead, extra color, in kegs, 6\c; litharge, in ke gS. 6e. Red lead and litharge in bris and half bris. e less than keg price; lead in 25-b tin pails 4c. said in 1244-B tin pails lc d over keg price; assorted canslto d, in 100- case, 2e over keg price. LIVE STOOK. Comparative receipts pts and shipments for the 48 hours ending to-day, and the same day in 1878: Receipts. Shipments. 1879. 1879. |1878. 1879. 1878. ~ 560 2,426, 2,405 167 503 oo 709 Cattle 222 r „„ 4. eee eee eee +503! CATTLE—Although the — in the aggre- gate were fair this forenoon, still the market was not as active as it could be,and prices were full 10@15q@j¥ 100 Bs lower on grass Texans. The attendance of the different classes of buy- ers tair, but none of 'them manifested a strong desire to operate, and sellers had to do consid- erable urging in order to work off their stock. Local niger os and the 1. v0 buyers of the canning companies were the leading — 2 2 they paying $2 303 for common mixed good Texan steers Choice grass Texan 2 brought $3 25 per 100 lbs. Native steers slow and weak, the supply consisting mainly of air grass natives that were dull. Some Eastern shippers had erders to fill, which —_ proce — —5 do; consequently a fair umber weighed’ up to them at ‘$3 vee 2 “per hundred pounds. — * 1 dull — a or not very *. — although Dy might the ‘the F pens will be well cleared of stock. calves dull. Veal caives slow. Ruling qi — tions on irregular. Export 8 — a $4 80@4 90 Prime native steers, av. 1. 400 to 1,500 . „ 6 6 6 „% „„ „„ 4 70@4 80 Ggod graded steers, av. 1. 100 to fair craded steers. av. 1.050 to 1,200. native feeding steers, ium native cows — heifers.. um native cows and heifers.. um mative coW- . native COWS e gee 1 „„ an steer s hoice Texas steers.... eee „ „„ „66 mee. eee. eee eee eee Texan steers. med. THE GREATES) BARGAI OF THE SEASOILN- Our Marseilles and Duck Vests for Men, at 7* P lease call and F. W. HUMPHREY & '0., 200 and 202 N. Fifth, Cor. Pine. see them. — —28̃———̃—̃ TIME TABLE OF TRAINS RUNNING INTO THE UNION DEPOT. |» (ST. LOUIS TIME.) Railroad m managers are requested to 2 changes in the running of trains, that the time car may be kept correct. CHICAGO. — AND 8ST. LOUIS RAILROAD. 1 4 rains Chicago Mail Chicago Express Kansas City and Cal. Ex 2 - m.|*6:45 p. m. Kansas City and Denver Ex. 8:30 b. — a :20 a. m. Loulsiana & Jacksonville Ex. * 8:10 a 245. m. Springfield & Jacksonville Ac. 5:10 p. m. m. 10: :30 . M. CHICAGO 1108 GH LINE. VIA WABASH AND — CENTRAL. *7:30 a. m. 8:20 p. m. 76:40 p. m. 77:40 a. m BURLINGTON AND QUINCY R. R Burlington —.— Omaha and California Exp. m. 6:05 p. m. St. Paul and Minneapolis Ex. fb 200 a. m. 6:05 p.m. Omaha Night Express... 8. 1:45 p. m7:15 a. m. CAIRO SHORT LINE. CHICAGO, Fast Mail“ New Orleans & Memphis Ex Nashville 4 Chattanooga Ex! Be nner ille Ac commodation.. * * * * ‘sé * Sunday Belleville Accom’ n. pP CAIRO AND Sr. Low IS RAILROAD. Leave Ticket Office, 520 Walnut street. TRAINS DEPART. TRAINS ARRIVE. Sparta Ac- Exp ‘airo Sparta Ac. — ee comd'n. com dun. - "30 a.m 2 4:30 p.m. | 9:00 St. I.. 9:20 a.m. 5450 p.m. 5:00 p.m. | 9:00 St. L 9:00a.m. | 5:00 p.m. INDIANAPOLIS AND ST. LOUIS RAILRVUALD. Day Express 7:30 a * 700p.m. New York Express , 16: :45 p. — 8:00 a.m. Accommodation 45 p. m. 1105 05 a.m. ILLINOIS AND Sr. nan RAILROAD. Belleville Accommodation.. 25 a. Sunday MISSOURI, KANSAS AND TEXAS RAILWAY, St. Louis and Tex. Express. + 9:00 a. m. 75:15 p. m. Missouri and Kansas E Xpress f 9:25 p. m. 7: 00 a. in. MISSOU RI PAC LFIC KAILW AY. 00 a. m. Texas Express +9 Omaha and California Ex.... + 9:00 a. m. Kansas and Colorade Ex..... 1 9:20 p. m. Texas and Kansas Express.. f 9:20 p. m. St. L. & San Francisco EX. 9:38 p. m. K. . ACCOMMODATION TRAINS. r g +5 157127 77: +7: 6:2 OHIO AND MISSISSIPPI RAIL WAY. * 6:35 a. m. 6:85 p. * 7:50 a. m. 8:30 p, m, Vincennes Accommodation.. Day Express. Salem Accommodation * 5:05 p. m. 9:05 a. m. nne. ee Pee + 6:50 P. m. 77:00 #. m. ST. LOUIS, KANSAS CITY AND NORTHERN R’Y STEAMBOATS - MISSOURI RIVER, KANSAS CITY PACKET C. “ARLINE. Leaves every 8 atS p. m. For Augusta, Washington ane tterma n. Leaves every Wednesday 1 and Saturday at 4 1. Jetferson City. Boonville, @ Glas; gow. Cambridge, New Fran » Lexington afd Kansas City. Str. E. HI. — 4 - Keith, Masa dor. Leaves Wednesday. July 15, 1 p. a . whart-boat foot of Olive u D ARCAM AAL. HUNTER BEN JENKINS, t Avents. UPPER MISSISSIPPI. Keokuk Northern Line Packet Co. For Burlington, Muscatine, Rock Island. Davenport, Dubuqae, La Crosse, dames and St. Paul. BELLE LACROSSE...... .. Boland, Master, Leaves TUESDAY. July 15. For Cap au Gris, Falmouth. Clarksville and all way Landings. Str. BALD EAGLE. ee eeese Williams. Master. Leaves MONDAY, 14. * Leaves TUESDAY. THURSDAY and SATURDAY, . at @p. m. For Clarksville. Leuisiams. Hannibal, Quincy and Keokuk, STR. GOLDEN EAGLE.............. Asbury, Master, Leaves — od WEDNESDAY and n * 1 BA IDSON, President. EAGLE PACKET COMPANY. For Madison, Alton and Grafton. H. Leyhe, Master, 2 . at 3 = 0 : celving at u ‘ket ompany’s wharfboat, foot of ay tree t. a ENRY LEYHE, Supt. TRUE DUDGE. Agent. LOWER MISSISSIPPI. NEW ORLEANS ANCHOR LINE. FOR NEW ORLEANS AND WAY LANDINGS. STEAMER | ANNIE P. SILVER, Leaves SATURDAY. July 19, at Sp. m. STEAMER JNO. A. SCUDDER, en eee Master. Leaves WEDNESDAY, July 16. at 5 p. m. For freight or passage appiv en board e of Market street. JOHN W. CARROLL. Gen. Ft. Axt. Omaha and California EX... 8:50 a.m. Kansas and C en Ex.. Iowa and St. Pau Ferguson Ac. . 2 only) tosedale Ac Rosedale Ac. Rosedale Ac Rosedale Ac Ferguson Ac Ferguson Ac Warre — Ac. street St. ¢ harles Ac. treet STSTU PERE t from Biddle from ain * 6 ..* 8:15 a.m. » LOU 18 AND SAN FRANC 180 O RAIL Ww NAY. aie rn Kansas and Texas Ex .| 9: 38 p. m. | 6 25 a.m. LOUIS AND SOU THE ASTE RN RAILWAY. 1 Mail (exc ‘ept Sun ST. 5:50 p.m. 4:09p.m. 10:20 a.m. 7:00 a.m. 7:10p.m. da Nashville Ex. (Daily) Queen’s Lake Ac. (Sunday only -\* 5:00p.m. 1:30 p. m. Pacific Express 0 77:30 a. m. St. Louis Express 19:00 p. m. UNION RAILWAY AND TRANSIT COMPANY. Stock Yard Accommodation. 8: 20 a. m. 4:40 p. m. Steck Yard Accommodation. 5 00 p.m. 8 40 p.m. ST. LOUIS, IRON MOUNTAIN AND SOUTHERN RAILWAY. DAG BSP CGGe .c . . ee * Mall and Accommodation.. Highland Accommodation.. St. Louis Union — al | Southeastern Express. . .. 8:40 a. m. Mobile & N. Express ¢ 8:35 p. m. t Arkansas & 883 Express.. ¢ 9:30 a. m. Plum Street Depot. DeSoto Accommodation Saturday Arcadia Accom.... Sunday’s Arcadia Ex. Train. 8 40a. m. W ee k Rey Caronde let Trains—Leave, 40. 8:05 9710. 00. * 1:50. 3: 10, 4:30, 5:00, 6:2 a. m.: 6: — 250. 7:00. ’ Su iday 0 arondelet T 3 av e. — 0 00. 0 5; p. m. 7:30, 9:00, 11 Arrive—A. m. 1:00, 2:15 a. m. 40. 550,6 6:15. 8:00, 9:00, 10:30; , 4:30, 6:55. 8:00. 10:50 Ww ABASH 1. INE. Atlantic Express.. Accommodation Daily Lightning Express. Local Express ene Dally Fast Line Fast Mail WEST END NARROW-G AUGE VEEK DAY Leave St. Louis 6: 56. 8: 4 10 700, 11:30 a. m.: 8:00. 4:25. 5:45. 7:05 Arrive at St. Louis 6: 9:24, 11:01 a. m.; i? 6:10 p. + 8 00 a. m. 8:20 p. m. RAILROAD. SUN Louis 9: , 6:20, 7:40 p Arrive at St. Louis 8: 10, 10 Ot r. m.; 12:40. 2:04, 3:24. 4:44. 6:04, 7:24 5 E ~~ - Sunday. {Except Saturday. Da Except Monday. Leave St. 240. 5: — 4 ——— 2 37% 865 70 HOGS—1 here was but little doing this LA noon and the moderate supply slow in going off. In tact, up to the hour of noon the market bad not fairly opened. A few buyers were looking around and would not operate only at liberal declines, which sellers were loth in ranting. By noon some shippers took a — lots of good Yorkers and Baitimores and aid $3 75 ¥ 100 ts, which is the highest gure they say they will pay. Heavy Bir slow and lower. Values quiet at $2 50@3 for skips and cnils, $2 25@3 55 for rough heavy, $3 65@3 75 tor Yorkers and Balti- mores, and $3 60@3 80 for smooth and select butchers. REPRESENTATIVE SALES. 4 —Supply scant and mixed. — trom local dealers and butchers tair for good mutton grades. Transactions moderate and about equal to the supply. Common mixed slow; spring lambs scarce. Values quiet. We quote: $2 25 75 tor common to me- dium muttons clip „32 85@3 40 tor fair to and $3 503 0 for choice. Extra heavy — prime oy yi nh $3 60@3 75 per 100 Lambs 50 per head. Texan sucep $2 25@3 00 2 need. REPRESENTATIVE SALES. o. * 83 48 Il native sheep bosse Vance 98 air native sheep Live Stock Markets Dy Telegraph. OIRCINNATI. July 14.—Hogs—Slow and un- changed; common at $3 00@3 50; fair to light $3 60@3 80; packing grad ping $3 50@ , July 14.—Cattle Saree ae receipts 3, 0 good 5 50; p ed $4 50@5; common $4 25@4 50. Sheep — slowly ; receipts 8,000; extra heavy $5; 00d $4 50 50; medium $4@ 4 50 ; common $3 @4. ts ; good $6 50; medium "Hog market tair; receipts eS 355 common 4. : $6; medium $5 75; common tern steady * July 44K 48. R A 0. 1687 5 — Pennsylvania iio. "nye ao Re Figg Hh ; 22324 Pa. Provisions dull, 40 nominal; 2255 bulk meats—loose shoulders 1 bacon aS sides hams 110 whe terves To. ha — 1] i 242 11 287 35 5 fii KOUNTZ LINE. For Chester, Cape Girardeau. Grand Tower, way landings, the steamer JOHN D. SCULLY, Master. Leaves every TUESDAY and FRIDAY at 5 p. m., from Kountz Line wharf- boat. JOHN W. KING, Agent. DIAMOND JO. LINE, For Quincy, Keokuk, Burlington, Davenport, Du- buque, McGregor, St, Pauland Minneapolis. DIAMOND FO. EE SS a ae a ae Master. Leaves M. NDAY evening, July 14. Loading at the foot of Washington ave- nue. Through rates given to all points on the Han. and St. Jo. and M., I. and N. Railroads. T. J. BUFORD. Agent, 517 North Levee. --— and all ED. KOUNTZ LINE RATES. For New Orleans and all way-landings, Memphis, Greenville, Helena, Vicksburg. Natchez, Baton Rouge, and all landings. str. E. O. STANARD, — — FRIDAY Evening, Bacon, oat Memphis — N. — 2 Wh ~~ landings. . 12% Bank landings July 18th. Flour, Meal, . Pbri. 20 25 KING, Agent. — —— — ́ U PLEASURE YACHT. The new and elegant steam yacht FROLIC, suit- able for picnic and ee excursiva parties. can be secured by oon yi E on board to "ER Mo. River Star IN JENKINS, Line W — ell 5 ‘JOHN. W. — — ee TOO LATE FOR CLASSIFICATION. 01 NG man of good address, twenty years of age. with experience in the wholesale busines«, would like to obtain a situation: is willing to work cheap. Address Clerk, City Letter 0 arrier 80. 14 20. 1 = ax wanted on Ware ‘and Franklin ave- „ Fanning. lt DIED. LEWIS—This morning, Mr. W». 55 years. Due notice of the funeral will be given. J. Lewts, aged 45c for western mixed spot. Barley dull and nominal. Gats quiet; reeeipts 37,000, sales 31,000; 38@40% for mixed western; 39@43\%60 for white. Pork dull, easier and unchanged. Beef steady and unchanged. Lard lower at 6.17%. Butter 7@15\%c. Cheese unchanged. Ww hisky' $1 07. Sugar6é%@%c. Eggs unchang- ed. Petroleum and tallow unchanged. CHICAGO, July 14.—Wheat steady and firm- er; No. 2 red Western $1 03 cash, $1 02 July; No. 2 spring $1 01 cash, $1 July, geile bid for Corn firmer; 36% cash, 37\%c¢ August, 274 September. Oats unsettled; 31%e cash, 280 August, 27e September. Rye 52c. Bartey 70e. ork weak and lower; 38 75 cash, 85 62% bid tor August. Lard weak and lower; 3.800 cash, 5.87 ec for September. Whisky—Sales at $105@1 06. chiefiv at $105. Hogs—Re- ceipts 11,000; light 10@15¢ higher ; light $3 90 @4 00, shipping $3 7083 90, vacking dull at $3 35@3 70. BuUFFALU, July 14.—Wheat firm and in good dewand; sales 9,600 No. 2 Duluth private terms; 3. „200 No. 1 Duluth $1 13. Corn firm, fair demand; sales 27,500 at 410 high mixed, 40%c No. 2 mixed Western, abe sample. Oats quiet; sales 5.200 Toledo at 380. yo—No. 2 Milwaukee held at 60c. Canad freights at 30 wheat, 4e corn. Kail nomimally same as canal rates. MILWAUKEE, July 14.—Wheat advanced %@1. Noon board closed weak at $1 U7, hard, $101 No. 2, $1 July, 99%c August, 97 Ke September, 89¢ No. 381c, No. 4, 75%0 rejected. Receipts 33,200, shipments 49, 600. Coarse Krain steady. Corn, 46% for No. 2. Oats ey No. 7 * 53c for No. 1. Bar- asked, July $1 02 bid Zseller July 38%e. August, 39 Ne, 39 ke. stead 7 $1 os bid. Recei pte—Wheat, non CINCINNATI July 14.—Flour steady. Wheat firmer, held higher at 96e@$1 05. Corn firm at40c. Oats steady at 34@36c. Whisky firm at $1 04. Pork and lard nominal, bulk meats quiet, 3%@4%@4X%c; bacon quiet, 4% @5\%@ 3 ‘Saw ORLEANS, La., July 14.—Flour—No re- cei Corn easy; mixed 46@47c; white 55c; Oates weak at 36@37c. Hay ara 3 at 65c. CLEVELAND, O., July 14. S. W. 110, 6e. 0 River Telegrams. By Western — 5 Press. 1 8 22 — 4 — he Gad io ald up bere oe