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GENERAL NEWS AND SOXES. Slitters of Interest Touched "Upon of Prcst Newt GaOierers. A fatal stabbing took place In the dlnlnj car Excelsior , attachod to a train going t * North Chicago on the Northwestern. Chas Robinson , tho cook , and William Brown , t waiter , became Involved In a querrel over i love affair. Brown drew a large "carylnj knife and cut Robinson's throat from ear tx car. Brown was arrested and taken back tt Chicago. Mr. Carsoti , living In Columbus , Ohio , hai just returned home from Tennessee with i eon and daughter , aged 9 and 13 years , wu bad been stolen by a band of gypsies In Fe ruary , 1834. They had been traced to Mem phla and there the pang divided , part going * < "Covlngton , Tenn. , taking the boy with them Tho glil was found in the camp of tho otha oarty at Lagrange , Tenn. _ At Chauncoy , Pa. , R A. Peacock * nd Charles Thompson , both recently from North Carolina , have for some time been at enmity A few da } s ago some words passed between them , when both drew double action revolvers " and began firlnc. Both were instantly killed and a stray bullet killed a negro standing near. Henry Lanler and Charles Thorpe got Into a dispute at Baxley , Ga. Lanlcrblew Thorpe's brains oat with a shot gun. Public feeling runs high and lynching is probable. On the 4th of July a cavalcade of wagons ladcu with merchandise belonging to a party of Frenchmen , about CO in number , was at tached near the forks of the Kennebec river , In Maine , by a pang of thirteen river drivers , who overturned the wagons and plundered them freely. The Frenchmen rallied to the defense of their property , and a fierce conflict raged for several hours , at the end of which time twelve of the lumbermen were stretched on the ground , several of them with fatal In juries. 2The deputy sheriff went to Norfolk. Conn. , ind attached Buffalo Bill's Wild West show for $26,000 on two attachments , one of $ 10- 830 for damages for breaking up Dr. Carver' * Bhow , and one for $10,000 for the malicious arrest of Dr. Carver at Williamantic. The Cody party furnished bonds. In accordancevith a recent act of the Illi nois legislature , Governor Oglesby has issued a proclamation recalling all existing orders against thejraportation of cattle Into Illinois- from certain localities in other states , sched uled as containing pleuro-pneumonia. An elderly lady , Mrs. Brcan , of Peoria , re turning from a visit to friends in Minnesota , walked off the car In which she was traveling near Madison , while partly asleep , and was killed. During a severe storm , lightning struck the residence and barns of David Lewis , six miles east of Watertown , Wis. , instantly killing Mr. Lewis , injuriuff seieral members of the fam ily and totally destroying tue buildings. The loss on the buildings amounts to several thou sand dollars. At Freeport , 111. , Alice and Minnie Cruse , while riding at a rapid rate in the rear scat of a wagon , fell backwards and sustained fa tal injuries. Minnie Daley , who has been given the sobriquetteof the "wickedest woman In'Chlca- go , " was sentenced to one yearin the peni tentiary for stealing $100 from a man on the street At Ashville , N. C. , five murderers escaped from jail by overpowering the jailor and lock ing him in a cell. All the prisoners had pis tols and a number of shots were fired. They escaped to the mountains. A posse of - citi zens and company of state troops are in pur suitAlbert Albert Ross , a well known grocer at Jeffer- sonville , Ind. , shot and fatally 'wounded his wife and then killed himself. The cause of the tragedy Is said to be jealousy. The couple were aged 27 and 23respectively and had been married only two weeks. The River Press , of Fort Benton , Kansas , of the 1st itst states that a letter has been received there confirming the statement that small pox prevails among the Indians at Pop- iar river. The red people are perfectly frant ic and fleeing in eyery direction. Fears are expressed that the fugitives will carry the disease to Indian tribes west of * Poplar river. At Peebles , near Wllliamsburg , Ohio , last February. J. R. Erwin married a daughter of Jacob Wickerman , a wealthy grain and lumber dealer at Peebles. Erwln's money matters became somewhat involved , and ho left his wife with her father while he left to find em ployment elsewhere. A few days ago he re turned to settle up his affairs at Peebles and claim his wife. In somo way not known an altrecation arose between him and his father- in-law , and the old gentleman shot him sevcr- times and fled. Erwin is not expected to re cover. Ella Wheeler Wilcox , through her attorney , Howard Douglass , of Cincinnati , has brought suit to prosecute the Church Musical com pany , of Cincinnati , for publishing a poem of hers as that of a dead poet Miss Wheeler publicly announced somo time ago that she tras the author of the poem. The large cloth printing and bleaching works of James T. Martin & Co. , Philadel phia , were destroyed by fire. Loss § 250.000. partially insured. The fire was < aused by the explosion of a gasoline lamp in the engine room. Fifty hands are thrown out of work. All the buildings , plants , etc. , of the late World's Industrial and Cotton Centennial were sold by auction to the new comoany , known as the North , Central and South American expositions for $175,000 , that being the exact amount of the debts owned by it At the same time four writs of attachment were served by creditors of the late company for $94,819 for material , furnished In the con- structlon of the buildings. AtDebuiek'aranche , in Colorado , twelve out of a herd of eighteen horses In a pasture were killed by lightning. A hail storm had driven the horses against barb wire , which conducted the lightning through the herd with the above result - _ fA terrific hail storm passed over the section of country from Niagara to Reynolds , Dak. , a few nights ago utterly destroying all the grain In one of the best wheat-growing regions In the Northwest The loss covers 10,003 acres , Wolving 200,000 bushels of grain. Mrs. Jones , of Buffalo with a party of la dies at Bath Island , fell inti the stream and irere carried orer the American Falls. It is estimated , that there were 50,003 visi tors at Niagara Falls on the 15th on the oc casion of the celebration of the receiving the JOagara restoration by the state of NewYorit I Joseph Taylor Trho brutally murdered his keeper , Michael Dorar at the Easton peniten tiary , Pa. , on May 81st , 1SS1 , by beatlne out his brains with a wooden bobbin and bar of Iron , was hung In the corridor of the county prison. The keeper had administered a nau seating medicine which the prison physician had prescribed thereby incurring Taylor's an imosity. Taylor was only 23 years of ace , but of a vicious disposition , the police records showing that he has stabbed 17 persons and shot 23 during ten years'before the murder. Geo. Yerder , 18 years old , was arrested on the street , in Chicago , by the police for sell ing a reprint from the American newspapers of the London Pall Mall Gazette scandal. He was fined one hundred dollars by Justice Foote. The fine was susp'ended on his prom Ise of discontinuing the sale of the pamphlet An electric storm passed over Georgia with serious results. A colored boyon Dr. Hell- rcr's place near Rome was Instantly killed. A son of P. F. Mates , five miles from there , was struck dead and his mother and sister were seriously injured. In Amcricus the electric fluid struck in three or four places' doing considerable U nage to property and cattle. At Reedsville great damage was done to buildings. The storm passed . ver a terri tory about 100 miles long. 7777 ? SEAT Of GOVERNMENT. Miscellaneous Matters of Interest at the Na tional Capital. LIEUTENANT COMMANBER W. H. WEBB , connected with tho Alert , on tho Asiatic station , has been tried by court-martial on the charge of drunkenness and found guilty. THE war department is receipt of tele grams from the Indian territory which states that the disaffected Indians arc be coming quiet , and that there is a favorablo outlook for a peaceful settlement of tho Indian difficulties. INSPECTOR ROBINSON has discovered a shortage of $500 in the accounts of tho postmaster at Ord , Neb. Tho deficit was mado good , but the sureties demand tho removal of tho postmaster. INSPECTOR ARMSTRONG succeeded in carry ing out his instructions to open up tho cat tle trails through the Indian Territory. Ho telegraphed Secretary Lamar that all the differences between tho drovers and ranch men had been settled and that cattle from Texas were now moving northward with out obstruction. THE deficit for the postofBce department for the quarter ended March 31 last is $1GGG,000. During the corresponding time last year tho deficit amounted to § 885,000. Thus it appears that tho de ficit for the March quarter of the present year is $880,000 in excess of tho deficit during tho corresponding quarter of ISS-t. A CHANCE has been made in the manner of purchasing silver by the treasury de partment for coinage , into standard dol lars. The offers for tho sale of silver for this purpose will hereafter bo made to the treasurer instead of to the director of the mint , and after the 14th purchases will be made on Tuesday and Friday of each week , instead of on Wednesday. Tho change is stated to be for the purpose of allowing the director of the mint to give his undivided attention to tho business of the mint. LEAVE of absence for four months on a surgeon's certificate of disability , with per mission to leave the United States , has been granted Lieut. Greely. THE president has appointed Larnerd HarrUon , of Cincinnati , government di- recior of the Union Pacific iwilway. Har rison is president of the First National bank of Cincinnati. THE report of the naval advisory board on tho construction of tho Dolphin , which was recently submitted to the secretary of tho navy , as giving tho statement of tho board in controversy over that vessel , is a voluminous document and almost entirely of a technical nature. It argues that tho vessel is possessed of tho necessary strength and says that the designers alono are responsible for her speed. Miss CLEVELAND left Washington on tho 16th for New York , and is not expected to return until thoheated term is over. Sho will spend the summer in the neighborhood of New York. The president will leave Washington about August 1 , for a visit to tho Adirondack mountains , where ho wil remain about a month or six weeks to ob tain much needed rest and recreation. Ho will be accompanied by a few personal friends. CHAS. W. FTELUS , has been appointed ' superintendent of Hot Springs , Ark. Fields was formerly doorkeeper of tho house of representatives. L. D. Saile , of ' Michigan , has been appointed libarian of ] tho patent office , vice Weston Flint , re sinned. THE CATTLE TRAIL. An Official Sent Out From JTashlngton ft Keep Them Open. The secretary of the interior has sent the following telegram to W. A. Towers and Thomas A. Lee. committee for a stock as sociation at Kansas City , Mo. : "I havo carefully considered your telegram of tho 10th inst. The animal industry act pro hibits the transportation from ono to another of any live stock b ] person knowing them to bo affect any contagious , infectious , cominu disease. The owners whoso herd forcibly stopped in the Indian territ | dare their cattle not so affected , pie of Texas , Colorado , Missouri an ] states have equal , if not greater , 3rive their live stock , not infected iisease , through and over tho triali Indian territory and Oklahoma you have to occupy these lands leases from the Indian tribes. An _ tor has been sent to open and keep pe ! the trails for the passage of cattle. If tho people who are occupying those lands con tinue to forcibly obstruct tho trails , meas ures will bo taken to removo them and their herds at once. " 1 1 1 Netespaper Offices Wrecked. In Washington on the 10th a fire broko aut in the building occupied by the Daily Post , National Republican , Washington Critic , Sunday Gazette , United States Electric Light company and several other tenants. The editorial , composing and pressrooms occupied by the four papers ircro completely ruined and the business affices flooded with water. SOUTHERN WAR CLOUD. Belief that an Alliance Exist * Between Ecuador and Chill. A prominent naval officer is reported to have said in relation to tho fact that a naval vessel has been ordered to Ecuador : "Yon know the Iroquois has been sent down to Guayaquil , in Ecuador , to de mand from that government tho release of Prof. Santos. In addition to the general instructions her captain , Yates Sterling , received he had sealed orders , which are only to bo opened in case the government of Ecuador does notpromptly comply with the request of the secretary of state. Of couree neither I nor any ono else but tho secretary of tho navy , knows what thoso sealed orders are , but I can easily imagine. " "What do you believe them to be ? " was asked. "Orders to take Santos , if necessary , by force , " was the prompt reply ; "and there will bo the integrating feature of this mat ter. It has been rumored among tho diplo matic representatives of tjie South Ameri can governments in Washington , and be lieved in higher quarters , that Ecuador has made an alliance , offensive and defensive , with Chili , and that tho latter power will promptly interfere if Ecuador is-attacked. Chili is tho most powerful of all the South American republics. Eight years ago she calmly defied the United States , and her ranking officer , Admiral Don Patricio Lvnch , informed tho American admiral commanding the South American station that if any trouble occurred between tho two nations he meant to sail for San Fran cisco and levy an indemnity on it or shell the place out of existence. The last he could easily have done , for his fleet had the latest and best pattern of Krupp and Arm strong guns. Tho Chilian navy could have stood three miles beyond the rango of tho best guns we have in any fort about tho Golden Gate and dropped 500-pound shells into tho heart of San Francisco. " THE PRATERS FOR GEN. GRANT. Tlie Sufferer Manifests His Gratitude to the Christian People. Mt. McGregor dispatch : Rev. Father Didier , of Baltimore , called on tho general this afternoon. In response to the priest's statement that they were all praying for him , ho wrote : "Yes , I know , and I feel very grateful to the Christian people of tho land for their prayers on my behalf. There is no sect or religion , as shown in the Old or tho New Testament , to which this does not ap * ply Catholics , Protestants and Jews and all the good people of the nation , of all pol itics as well as religions and nationalities , seemed to have united in wishing for or praying for my improvement. I am a great sufferer all the time , but the facts I have related are compensation for much of it. All that I can do is to pray that the prayers of all these good people maybe an swered so far as to have us all meet in an other and better world. I cannot speak , even in a whisper. " In the after noon the Mexican editors were pre sented to Gen. Grant. Sonar De Anda addressed the general , saying that they could not pass so near without paying their respects to one who had done so much for his country and for the promo tion of good feeling between the two re publics. In response Grant wrote : "My great interest in Mexico dates back to the war between the United States and that country. My interest was increased when four European monarchies attempted to set up their institutions on this continent , selecting Mexico , a territory adjoining us. It w as an outrage on human rights for a foreign nation to attempt to transfer her institutions and her rulers to the territory of a civilized people without their consent. They were fearfully punished for their crime. I hope Mexico may soon begin an upward and prosperous departure. She has all the conditions. She has the peo ple ; she has the soil ; she has the climate , and she has the minerals. The conquest of Mexico will not be an easy task in the fu ture. IN THE HOUSE OF coxaioys. Parnell Dwells on the Maladministration of Late In Ireland. London dispatch : In the house of com mons Parnell dwelt on the maladministra tion of the law in Ireland under Earl Spencer , whereby innocent persons had been condemned and executed and others sentenced to life-long penal servitude. He moved that in Hie opinion of the house it was the duty of tho government to insti tute strict inquiry into the evidence and sentences o ! the Mnamtrasnn , Barba- killa , Crosswragler and Castle Island mur der cases. Had tlie Irish executive , said Parnell , imitated the custom .of the Eng lish homo office in cases where the guilt of " prisoners is doubtful by ordering inquiries on _ the spot in the cases mentioned , tho prisonorSj who were still living under the sentence of unjust convictions would long ago have been released from custody. Par nell said Crown Solicitor Bolton had in a single caso insisted on forcing four or five innocent men to plead guilty. Said Parnell : "Speaking as coolly as I canI believe that if ever a mur derer deserved to be put on trial and sen tenced to death , that man is Crown Solic itor Bolton. " Corbett , home rule member for Wicklow , seconded ParnelPs motion and hoped tho government would taJo a lesson from their predecessors "whom the Parnell vote deprived of office. " Sir Michael Hicks Beach said the present gov ernment had nothing to say concerning tho merits of the case and nothing to sry in defense of the late government. He was , however , authorized to announce that Earl Carnarvons , present lord lieutenant of Ire land , A ill make careful inquiry in'.o tho subject , but the government felt compelled to ask the hoiifae to resist Parneb's mo tion , which was derogatory to Earl Spen cer , a member of the late government. Par- nell's motion was negatived without a di vision. are re" vere the severa Justness ; Satur" pre Uy one . . _ _ f as oinerTfflTWojey ruoct next morninp ; at sunrise in a lane near the village , each to occupy a given point about fifteen paces apart , facing1 each other , ad vance and fire with Colt's navy six-shooters till one should fall. This meeting was ar ranged without the knowledge of their friends , who remained in Ignorance of it until shots were heard Sunday morningOn hnrryins to the scene they found Pryor Ivlng dead ou'the ground , shot four times , while Holt was un injured , i-xamination developed the fact that Pryor had not fired a bullet from his weapon the first shot from Holt passing through his pistol hand , shooting his pistol therefrom. Holt , at last accounts , had not been arrested , but will probably surrender ( himself. It Is said that Prvor was a violent tempered man , and that the merits of the dispute which brought on the duel were fa vorable to Holt. I ITHAT COLORED MAN AGAIN. Tite Individual Over Whom Haztn and Lin coln Had a Controversy. A colored man named Green , who was tho cause of a controversy between ex- Secretary Lincoln and Gen. Hnzcn about a year ago. has "turned up again , says a Washington dispatch. At that time Hazen declined to enlist Green in the signal corps on tho ground that regiments of cavalry and infantry had been set apart for colored soldiers , but not tho signal corps. Secre tary Lincoln , however , ordered him en listed in that corps , provided that he could pass the requisite examination. He passed the examination and was sent to Fort Meyer to undergo a regular course of in struction. Ho performed all tho duties ac ceptably and , with other members of his class , became eligible for station duty. Tho signal observer at Pensacola asked for an assistant and was told one would bo sent. He procured for him board and rooms in his own boarding place , and made other arrangements to receive him. Green was the man selected as the assistant and was sent to Pensacola. On his arrival the sig nal service officer refused to receive him be cause of his color. Tho officer has been summoned to Washington for an explana tion. Tho colored man remains in charge of the office at Pensacola. It is stated at tho chief signal ofiice that Green was as signed at Pensacola without any regard to his color , and that the officer who selected him did not know at the time of his selec tion that ho was a colored man. DROWNEH IN XAICE MISNETONKA. Ten Persons Lose Their Lives While on a Tleasure Trip. Minneapolis dispatch of the 12th : Shortly after 5 o'clock this afternoon a heavy wind and rainstorm passed overLake Minne- touka. The small steam yacht Minnie Cook , with eight persons on board , cap sized and the entire number drowned. Nows of the accident spread rapidly and created tho wildest excitement when it was known that all tho victims resided here. Tho names of tho party arc as follows : R. Tore. Mayor A. C. Rand and wife and two eons , J. R. Coydall and wife , Georgo Mc Donald , engineer. All are of Minneapolis. The storm is described by eyo witnesses on tho big boats as terrific. Tho waves rolled high , the spray , rain and hail filling the air. Large steamers put in to shore with great difficulty. It was impossible for the small crafts to live in the terrific sea and storm. Other boats and lives are believed to havo been lost , but it is difficult to get the facts. LATCH. The vessel capsized just outside of Wayseatta bay , on the eastern shore of Minnetonka. * Ten persons were on board , all of whom perished. The party con sisted of Mayor Rand , aged 53 ; his wife , 50 ; daughter Mary , 16 ; son Harvey , 13 ; his nephew Frank , 18 ; L. R. Coykendall , 35 ; his wife , 27 , and daughter Katie , 4 ; Engineer Georgo McDonald , 27 ; and boy 12 years old , named Robert Hussy. Tho bodies of Mrs. Rand and Engineer McDon ald were recovered and brought to Minne apolis by a special train a ? 10 o'clock. Died on the Scaffold. The execution of Joseph. Palmer ( col ored ) occurred at Cincinnati on the 16th. Palmer's crime was the murder of William H. Kirk in his stable on tho afternoon of December 2-i , 1883. Tho object of the crimo was robbery. The execution was private , in the jail yard , the scaffold being shielded from view by a stone wall and a large awning. Promptly at 10 o'clock tho condemned man was led to the scaffold , where a short prayer was said by a priest. Palmer said nothing. The deputy sheriffs were so excited that they could scarcely adjust tho rope. At two minutes past 10 the drop fell , but Palmer was such a pow erful man that his neck was not broken. Ho writhed fearfully , and at tho end of twenty-six minutes the sheriff announced tha execution over , but the body was not cut down until some time later. Saved by Good Behavior. William H. Goddard , a Minneapolis mer chant , who was clerk for Austin Corbiu , the banker , of that city , in 1873 , and stole § 15,000 from that firm while in their em ploy , was arraigned irijthe courb of general sessions at Minneapolis on the 17tli. After ho took the money , which belonged to a customer in Germany , he disappeared. He afterwards was known to have per formed several heroic acts during the yel low fever scourge in Memphis. From there he went to Minneapolis , where lie became a prosperous merchant and prominent in so ciety. In court Corbin's counsel stated that as Goddard had maclercstitution and a good name for himself , ho did not care to press the charge. Goddard presented Judge Cowing with a petition signed by 505 "citizens of Minnosota , including Governor Hubbard and MnyorPillsbnry. After some deliberation Judge Cowing discharged God dard on his OWB recognizance. All to Save a Villain's Life. At Marion , Indiana , a colored man named Wallace assaulted 10-year-old girl , daughter of a well-known citizen named Vinson , and forcibly accomplished his purpose. 0i tho 14th her death was declared inevitable and tho next morning a rnob organized in the rear of the jail con taining Wallace and made a desperate at tack. Sheriff Holrmin and tho guards , nftergivingwarning , fired a volley , instantly killing James Kelleyand wounding three or four ethos vigilantes. Tho dead and wounded were carried away and the lead ers , after a short consultation , dccHed to postpone further hostilities. The ReoelRlel. Dr. Fisit , of Quebec , has received a letter from Riel which states that his trial should be before the supreme court and in Lower j " Canada , for "it is there alono ho can pro cure all his witnesses. He says ho never 1 dreamed of war , but by intrigue and forged letters the complication waa brought about by interested leaders. Ho went to Canada from the United States upon invitation from the half-breeds to assist them in peti tioning the government and worked peaco- fully until the time when arms were takes Up against hjm. Car Wrecked oy Dynamite. On tho IGth , as a passenger train was being mado up at tho Denver & Rio Grande yards in Denver , an empty chair car ran over a package of dynamite , which ex ploded with great force , wrecking the car aud slightly wounding tho switchman. It is boliovedjthat tho dynamite was intended tor tho regular passenger train due to leave in a few minutes. Officials believe it was tho work o ! strikers. The Green-Eyed Monster. At Jeffersonville , Ind. , Albert Ross , a well-known grocer , shot and fatally rounded his wife and then killed himself. Hie cause of the tragedy was jealousy , rhe couple were aged 27 and 23 and had been married only two weeks. TO AMERICAN WOMEN. A Few Happy Remarks Complimen tary to Them. Extracts from an Address by Senator Palmer to the b'omerville Female Seminary. The address to tho graduates at tho recent commencement at Somervillo Academy was given by Senator Thom as W. Palmer. The following extract from tho address happily describes tho noblest characteristics of woman : Tho ages which have immediately preceded the last Hundred years were ages of faith , in which tins pendulum swung beyond tho reach or ken o" reason. As a result when tho pendu lum swung back to tho side of reason impelled as it has been by tho added force of discoveries in science and tho revolt of the human mind from its long bondage , it has swung clear be yond the confines of faith. Now , whereas faith not regulated by reason may be a dangerous guide , reason un inspired by faith has no vital power to advance the destinies of mankind or add a grain to human happiness. This age is not so much an ago of unbelief as it is an ago of unsettled beliefs , not only in religion , but in all things. Science and a spirit of in quiry has unsettled nearly every pre conceived theory from the origin of earthquakes down to the method of making Jersey butter. But religion is not primarily a thing of the reason. It is an aspiration , a reaching out for something higher where reason may not lead , but where she can follow and mark tho line between religion and superstition. Women are the guardians of tho faith. To her faith is something more than a dogma. Bo careful how you permit it to bo undermined by spe cious reasoning or insidious and covert attacks. They say hope is tho anchor of the soul , but without faith tho cablo is gone that ties you to hope. To the healthful mind doubts will pre sent themselves about dogmas and forms , but tho eternal truths , tho the immortal des over-ruling power , tiny of man , his responsibility and the assurance that at last all things must be mado right , all inequalities recti fied , these are living truths which every soul must recognize tho necessity of , and therefore their existence , for if I understand tho basic principle of one line of scientific research it is this that where a need is folt , that need will be supplied. As in the olden time the sacred fire was committed to the care of the ves tals , so is tho llamo of a pure and re generate religion committed to tho care of the women of to-day. The aspirations and ideas of the race arc nurtured and guarded by her. Through her influence churches are reared and the sound of praise is heard in the land. At her knee the lessons are im parted which , though silent in their operation , inspire men to heroic effort or restrain them from guilt and impel women to lives of self-sacrilice and bring back the erring. The last thing a man ever forgets is the prayer he has lisped at his moth er's side. Tho future is hers , for she , more than any other , shapes tho growth of the men of the future , and her teach ings can never be unfruitful , for they are incorporated with the tissues of the youth , who will hereafter largely control the destinies of mankind. In tho Ulizzi Gallery in Florence stands the statue of a woman. It is an antique. It was chiseled in Athens over 2,000 years ago. All that is beau tiful in form and symmetrical in pro portion is found in this statue. The shape of the limbs , the pose of the ; runk and the contour of the head lave been the admiration of the artistia world for the last 200 years. This is the celebrated Venus do Medicis. After all it impresses you with no other idea ( ban that here is the statue of a beautiful woman. There are no suggestions of a soul , nothing but sense. It tells no story. It marks no epoch. It immortalizes no sentiment save that of passion , which would de grade rather than exalt. In one of tho corridors of the Lou vre at Paris stands another statue. It a also of Greek origin. No one knows the name of the artist. It is of heroic size , but that does not add to its dig nity. The arms are gone , but no pro- ane hand has ever dared attempt their restoration. The body , full of dignity , strength and repose , would impress you by its quiet self-reliance. The features are not beautiful , by some they would not be called classic , but one would say impulsively that this vas chiseled in the likeness ot some woman rapt in and inspired by some lofty purpose , or tiiat it was intended as an impersonation of those virtues which artists in every age have de lighted to represent through the per sonality of woman. You feel that this statue represents something over which death has no power , and which time cannot change. It looks the pure maiden , tlie wise matron , the protector , the adviser , the consoler , the insplrer , the sustainpr. It repre sents faith , hope , endurance , resist ance ; a soul self-poised and equal to all things. Somo think her to havo been the tutelar deity of Melos , as Pallas Athene was of Athens. Whether she inspired that patriotic people to the heroic deeds by which they won fame , or whether those deeds inspired tho heart and brain from which she was evolved , and gave the hand which chiseled her its cunning , it makes but little difference. Without a history , without a name , the hand which mod eled her unknown , the island of her birth degraded by centuries of mis rule , one'can read in her serene and reposeful look all the qualities which dignify humanity. You never tire in looking at her. The process is restful. Reft of her arms she none the less lifts you up. The marble discolored , she none the less impresses you with her purity. Her drapery fallen to her hips , the wanton eyes fall abashed before the majesty of her bearing. The eyes peering into the distance seem to scan the horizon of history and tho highest possibilities of the future. The lips look as if they had taught the boys who taught at Marathon and Salamis , aud afterwards thoso who fought at Bunker Hill and Gettysburg. * - 5 Sefc 1 Tho benignant , tender and raorcifnT mother , , the reign , of law , the power for defensive war , the placidity ol honorable peace , tho capacity tosuf fer and endure , the ability to rejoice , strength for the harvest and grace for the homo , religion , patriotism and purity are all typified in her horoio and tireless attitude. No one would associate her with tho Vonus of in trigue or caprice , but rather regard her as the embodiment of all that in spires and elevates mankind. This is my ideal of an American woman. The enduring physique , the well-balanced brain , the tender heart , coupled with intuitions unknown to man and which savor of prophecy , when these are achieved paradise will indeed be regained. Then tho Venus of Milo will bo , not an efligy , but a living soul. Her arms restored will lift up tho weak and point out tho way to tho strong. Her draper } ' arranged , her lips vocal , her features beaming with vital power , her limbs instinct with life , the dream of him who modeled her will becomu a reality in the beneficent womanhood which shall come like tho dawn , rosy lingered , to tho young , and light tho evening of life with its celestial halo. Fleecing the Fanudrs. "Here's a notice of a note I've got to pay that 1 had much rather uso to choke a Chicago dudo with , " said an angry farmer yesterday , as ho started oQ * toward tho bank with tho pioco of paper rolled up with a hundred and. twenty dollars with which to redeem the note. "What's a Chicago dudo got to do with it ? " "A good deal. I've got to pay this $120 and interest at 1 per cent a month for six months for about § 30 worth of cloth. But I'm not alone. There's comfort in that. Misery does love company. It shows that a fellow isn't the only fool in the world , which furnishes more consolation to me than you might think. "Oh , you want to know about this Chicago fellow , do you ? Well , last summer and fal ) the follow came hero from Chicago to sell a lot of goods belonging to a busted dry goods firm. He "didn't sell the stuff in Denver , but went among tho farmers. He had tho glibbest tongue I ever heard wag , and. he was actually the best and mo t ac commodating fellow I ever saw. "A peddler would starve to death , out in our neighborhood , but this pesky sinner sold a lot of goods to every one of my neighbors. Ho car ried a large amount of cloth with him , and went through tho same pro gramme everywhere he went. I re member perfectly well how bo con- lidenced me. He had a large amount of cloth , and said he was agent for an immense stock of bankrupt goods. Ho got mo and my folks to look at them , and told us he could let us have them at wholesale prices , and that a set of tailors were following him , and would make up the goods without extra cost to us , so we could get our clothing at about half tho usual price. Not only that. He didn't care for the money now. That could be paid in two or three or six months , just as I wished about it. There never had been such a glorious chance to save a few dollars. The goods were evidently very cheap. He showed me how much they had been marked down. "I got enough for a complete suit for each of the boys , and additional goods until my bill reached $120. Then ho brought out a book full of blank notes and lilled one out for me to sign ex plaining all tho time that he liked to accommodate people. Then ho paid me 75 cents for dinner , saying that he would not beat ; he charged me for his goods and wanted to pay for mine. He was the best fellow you over saw. "But tho tailor didn't come. I talk ed the matter over with my neighbors and we investigated and found that we had got about one-third the worth of our money. We also found that the notes we gave were suoh that wo would be compelled to pay them. . They had been prepared with an eyo to an emergency like this. Wo couldn't find onr glib friend he had endorsed the notes over to his iirm , and gone to new pastures green. The notes were left with one of our home banks , and the last sinner of us have had to pav , he never accepted a note except where it was backed by property. Over twenty farmers th.it I know of have to pay soon , and ever } * one of them were swindled. I have heard of more than a , hundred of the notes , and suppose that they represent but a saiall part of the fraud's operations. You can put it down that the next 'agent' that comes along will meet with anything but a lucrative business , " and the in dignant ranchman went oft" to de- irrjunee the swindle at the bank , ac cuse that honorable institution with standing in with the Chicago dude , and to pay the note. Denver ( Co/ . ) Times. Mexican Water-Spouts. These natural phenomena are very disastrous in Mexico. Pachuoa felt the scourge a few months ago when a cloud burst among its granite mount ains. Telegrams have treated of very recent water-spouts as bursting on Guanajuato and in the vicinity of Lagos , flooding the country , destroy ing the railroad track , drowning hun dreds of victims and leaving thousands * " homeless. Ten years ago Guanajuato suffered a like inundation , but the losses of lifo were not as large. A part of the city is built over the river which comes from the south , and in which the rivers of the Presa or dyke empty. Tho spout broke on the Prosa. Then , as now , the water sprang up from below , flooding the streets and houses beforo the people were prepared. The gov ernor of'Guanajuato , Gen. Antillon at that time , was on the spot at once me taling the best measures for the relief of the sufferers , and even contributing out of his own means for the burying " of the dead and the treatment of"the injured. It is proposed to open a subscription for the families in Guanajuato who have lost their all at this second dis aster , and Gov. Gonzalez is said to have subscribed a generous amount to the sufferers. City of Mexico Two publics.