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July
Year
1885
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Snow feil on the 2id in Graad Traverse Couuty, Miib. Twenty-one portons liviutj in Meriden County, Conu., were receatly poisoned by eating ice-cream bougdt of skreut venders. It was thought all would recover. ÏHK residence of W. D. Brimmer, at Dayton, Mum., was burned a few nlghts ago, and a three-year-old girl perisheU in the llames. A CYCLONI gwept over Sulphur Springs, Tex., a few days ago, destroying two churches, unrooüng several other buildings and uprooting trees, while fpncing in every direction was blowu down and crops in the immediate vicinity of the to n wer badly torn up. No lives weie lost. The National Couucil of Bishops of tli África Methodist Episcopal Church met la unniial session at Columbus, O., on the 23d. The Bishops and ministers present representad 400,000 communicants, 2,WK) traveling preachers, 2ÜO.0O0 Sabbath-sehool children, 4,000 Sabbath schools, 10 colleges, SB parochial schools and .f8,000,000 worth of property. A cyclone passed over Hendrysburg, Belmont County, O., on the evening of the 23d, destroying buildings, fences, orchards, eic, and do ng immens damage to crops. No lives were lost. It was reported on the 2"d that negotiations were contemplated having in view the annexation of the San Lwiofc Islands to the Uuitd States. Lakck numbers of hogs in the vicinity of Lebanon, Pa., were on the '2:id dyinu of a sti tm _;t di8ease known as "brpiniiii{." At a meeting of the alumni of Yale College on the 2;d a resolutiou was adopted in favor of changing the name of the institutiuu to Yale Uuivorsity. It was announced on te 23d that the reveiiüi of the Government, for the current flsonlyear would 1 .ln,mi),i)ilii belo' the estimates. The surplus uould be about $20,080,000. Strawbeuiies sold at from two to six cents per quart at Albany, N. Y., on the 23d, the day's receipts aggregatiug (iO.oOO quarts - the largest on record. Ax epidemie of glanders among hories, wlii'h bad liein oommuuicated to cats and dogs, wa rusting on the 23d at Knoxville, a sulmrb of Pittsbnrgh, Pa. A SENTENCg of ten years1 iraprisonment anda fine of $.ïOi was passed on tho 23d upon C. A. Bmidenseik, ths New York bailder, some of whosestructurescolIapBed in April, killing one man and iujuring others. Twenty families in Rock Mand, 111.. weropoisoned on the 23d by eating canned beef. Some of the victims were seriouslv ill. Tivknty TirousAND veterans were in line on the L.!d in the O. A. R. at Portland, Me., and 200,000 persons witnessed the paradle. A WATKRsrouT on the 38d lnflicted much damae;e upon buildings and crops in Newrk, O., aod vicinity. Skven cases of suicide were reported on the A3d in varions portions of tho State of Ni'u York. An-otubr Maryland wife-beater, Henry A. Jlyers, was given twenty lashes at Baltimnre on the 24th. Robeht Philmps, a colored laborer of Iadiauapolis, married three month, cut his wifi's throat, and then his own, on the -l:li. Jealousy caused the tragmly. Five nt'NDHED Indiana D Southern Colora. Ik wíti" on the 24th reported as about nikiag the war-path. Army officials at Wahhington attributed the outbreak of the Southern Cheyennes to dissatisfaction at the leasing of their reservation to eattlem en. A ti-bux-ar bo Ier in a grist-mill at Mobile, AI., exploled the other day, killing five c 'lored employés. RurnRTED discoveries of gold on the 24th near Huntington, Ore., excited much intereat on the Pucific slope. At the commencement txfer;3e8 on the 24th at Harrard Collog 4egroes were conThe Roman Catholie Union of the Kuights of St. John, a uniforuied benevolent and religious organization extending all over the United States, commenced its seventh anaual coavention in Chicago on the lilth. Two men were killd and six otbers were seriously injured in a recent colusión on tbe Wal nsh Road, ne&r St. Louis. CoRNELif 8 B. Demarist, an extensivo carr age nianufaeturer of New Haven, Conu., cut bis türoat froin ear to ear a few days ago while labori.ig under an attack of ti'inporary iusiinity. Ia his address to the Grand Army of the Republic at Portland, Me., oa the 24th, n-ohief Kountz stated that four years ago there was a meinbership of nenrty 70,000. On March 31, 1&S4, thirtyoiK'ht departaieats reported ó,02(j posta and Ü6U.ÜS4 membera, wbile the report of the Adjutant-General shows the membership to be 287,627, Tue large number of 04,292 reported by the Adjntant-Goneral as suspended during the year is due In great ïneaSUre T,n t.ïi nojrltono aud inofïloienoy of post offlcers. " Our flnances," the Commander-in-chief continued, " are in excellent condition. We have on hand a cash balance of ,15,221." It was decided to hold the next encampment at San Francisco, Ca.'iforuia, guaranteeing $100,OJOO. Threk bro.hers named Wolf were arrestod ou the 2öth at Scottdale, Pa., on a charge of counterfeitíng. A large amount of counterfeiting material was found in their posae8sion. i as importa oí merchandise during the twelve months ended May 31 aggregated in vlue $580,387,639, and the exports $747,087,886, the former beingadecreaseof $99,098,158 and the latter an inerease of $5,503,M3 as compared with the preceding twelve ruonttn. Andrkw Axdersojí, treasurer of West Hoboken, N. J., was on the 25th said to be short .",000 iu his accounts. The contest of the freshman crews of Harvard and Columbia Colleges occurred at New London, Cono., on the 2óth, Harvard winning easily by ten lengths. At North Salem, Ind., the other night a freight train knocked Sarah Wilson and her two children (girls) from a trestlo, resnlting in their death. Charles Dunn, a Grand Army veteran, was fouud murdered on the 26th in a hanty near Erie, Pa., the head having been severed from the body with an axe. Hdgh Brown, an octogenarian, the owner of the shanty, was arreíted for the ei ime. A second estimate made by 8. W. Tallmadge on the 28th plaoeg the yield of spring wheat at 121,000,000 bnshels, a falling off as comparad with 1884 of 22,000,000 imsnels. The winter wheat erop is estlmateUat 210,000,000 bushels; falline off 190,000,000 bushela. ' The recent defalcatfonfin the sub-treaaury at New Orleaus proves to have been a little more than )(a5,O0O. Sixtkin nierabers of a gang of outlaws wero capturad on the 25th by a citizens' posse near Delaware Bend, Tex., and banged on one tree. Oovernor Martik, of Kansas, on the 2.')th addreased a letter to the Secretary of War at Washington calling hls attention to the defenselesa condition of the settlers along the Southern Kansas border in the eventof an outbreak among the Cheyenne Indians, and requesting that ampie precautiona be taken by the Government for heir protection. Mrs. Puilip de Saüzkr and her mother, Irs. Hill, of Hoseburg, Ore., while attempting to ford the ümpqua River a few ays ago in a single buggy werediowned. A 8HORTAOB of $12,000 was on the 26th eported in the accounts of John Heahler, reasurer of Séneca County, O., who died eeently. Admiral Porter has prepared plans for he construction of a naval vessel which U toba a ram, boat and a gun-boat ombined, acá wbíei ia ipected to tuin great speed. At Salt Lake City on th ï4 ? n. ictmenta wera returned against bb many Mormon eldera for polygamy and illeeal cohabitation. Thrkk men wer instantlr killed on th Ü aad one mortUy inJured by boller explosión in a dlsflirery at Bardstown, K. Ths boat-raca botwten th Harvard and Yale crews on the 26th over the Thames cours at New Lonilon, Conn., was won by the former by fifteon lengths. RkpoHts received by liradstreet'a on the ïlith from the leading business centers of the country indicated that general business continued dull, with but slight prospect of reaction. In the United Statea and Canada there were 204 business failures during the even days ended on the 20th, against 103 the praTious seren days. The distributiou was as follows: Mlddl States, 26; New England States, 81; Western, 8; Sogthern, 41; Pacific States and Territorios. 29: Canada, 20. EXECUTION8 for mur Ier tooit place as follows on the 26th : John McKeever (colored), at Memphis Tenn.; Jordán Taylor (colored),atHopkinsvilU, Ky.; Rufus Dortich (colorad), at Marianna, Ark.; Robert McCoy (colored), at Sylvania, Ga.; and James Arclne and Williain Parchmeal (Cherokee Iudians), at Fort Smith, Ark. Tuk work of repairing the damagedon to the Washington mnnoment by lightning, and placing additional lightning rods in position on the roof of the structure, was completed on the 2ith. Thk Comptroller of the Currency has authorized the Commercial National Bank of New York City to commence business with a capital of $3,000,000.

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