The Country At Large

Stanley Hunter, the well-known "Spoopen dyke" ol newspaper íame, is dead. LEE CHO3EN. Gen. Fitzhugh Lee has been nomlnated for governor by the Democrats of Virginia. FRIGHTENKI) FRANCE. Cholera has broken out on the French frontler. Panic seems to have seized tke peoplc, hundreds of whom are leaving the country daily. A ORATIFTIXG DECREASE. During July the public debt waa decrsased $8,663,761). August 1, the debt amounted to ; $1,680,854,686. PRISONERS CIÍEMATED. Five prisoners were ereuiated in the Batter i City, Ore., county lail, the half-witted murder er who is supposed so have flred the building j being rescued. $74,000 short. Investigation revéala the íaetthatthe Manufacturera' and Traders' bank of Buffalo, N. Y., is short $74,000 in lts funda. The bank, however, is unaflected, lts capital of $900,000 belng unimpaired. HILL'S PROCLAMATION. Gov. Hlll of New York has issued a proelamation setting apart August 8 for appropriate religious observances throughout the state in connectlon with the funeral of Gen. Graat and declajing it a legal holiday. MR. CHAIRMAJJ. Chester A. Arthur bas bgen ma de cbairman of an organization formed in New York to raise funds for the erection of the National Grant Monument. Organizations will be formed throughout New York state for the same purpose. STILL TUBY KEEP COMISO. The total eolnage executed at United States mints during the uionth ol July consisted of 1,900,000 Standard silver dollars. The issue of standard silver dollars fi-om the mints dsring the week ending Aug. 1 was 253,492 ; durint; the carrespoading period of last year, 256,497. THBOCGH UNBER SEAL.. Largely through the efforts of Dlgby V. Bell, ex-cc Héctor of customa at Detroit, a decisión has been granted under the provisions of which American boats will retain the carrylng trade through Canadian waters, and grain cars wlll go through the Dominion under seal. HIBB3 APPEAL9. The state department has been advised that extradition papera have been granted in the case of Hibbs, the defaultiug postmaster t Lewlston, Ida., now at Victoria, B. C, and that the $10,000 found on him will he turned over. Hibbs, however, will appeal to the supreme court at Ottawa, Ont. I.IEUT. NYE'S DEATH. The secretary of state has received irom Lima, a telegram announcing the death of Lieut. Nye, naval attaché to the American legatlon at that place. The lieutenant was lüïtructed to accompany the remains of ex-Minister Phelps to the United States, but before the date of departure he became ill and died. NO PLACE FOR A REVOLVER Miss Martha Brown, a beautiful voung lady, (vas instantly killed at a ball at Rogersville, Tenn., the other night. While the hall was in progress a revolver feil from the pocket of a oung man and was discharged. The ball struck Miss Brown in the breast and passed hrough her heart. The voung man who dropped the pistol was almost crazed with grief ind fled. SHORTESING SICK LEAVE. The following order has been issued by the secretary of the interior: Leave of absence n'lth pay will not be granted for a longer period than thirty davs in any calendar year. The necessity for suiii siek leaves muBt be fully establlehed by medical evidenee and to the eatisfaction of the officers of the department. This order does not affect the annual leave for thirty days. The practiee heretofore has been to allow sixty days' sick leave in one year. A BAD 9TSTEM. In connection with the strike in Cleveland, Ohio, it rnay be said that the custom of payioj; men in store orders has been the cause of more trouble to them than almost anything else. Instead of receiving their money wetly or monthly orders are doled out them to favorite dealers, who take advantage of the laborer's position, and charge hitn at least 10 per cent more for his mercfiandise than he would have to pay had he the ready cash. Thia advance Is then given to the próprietur or employé who sends the workmen to the merchant. 8TRÜ0K BY LIGHTNING. Llghtning struek the Grant cottage a few days ago. Tbe eleeric fluid entered the cottage, tearing off soine of the plasterinc and extinguishine the electric light above the casket. Col! W. W. Beek, commanding battery A, ilfth artillery, from Governor's íslánd, and Gen. R H. Jackson, commander of Fort Columbua, Governor's island, were rendered insensible by a shock from a bolt, and it was feared for a time that the latter would not survive. Botb are now, however, pronounced out of dauger. Two or three others were a!so less severely hurt. The mountain teligraph wires were all prostrated, and dispatches had to be sent to Saratoga for transmission. TO CARRY TUE BODY. _lt the request of Mre. Graut, President Cleveland has niiiní.d the following pereons as pall-bearers for the Grant obsequies : Gen. William T. Shermau, V. S. A. Lieut. Gen. Philip H. Sheridan, U. S. A. Admiral David D. Pprter, ü. 8. N. Vice-Admiral Stephen C. Rowan, ü. S. N. Joaeph E. Johnston of Virginia. Gen. Slinou B. Buckner ofKentucky. Hamilton Fish of New York. Geo. S. Bontwell of Massachusetts. Gco. W. Childs of Pennsylvania. John A. Logan of Illinois. Geo. Jones of New York. Oliver P.oyt of New York. CHICAGO'b WASHOUT. On the 2d Inst, an unpreeedented ralnfall occurred in Chicago, in IS hours 5.58 inches of rain havlng fallen. The sewers were unable to carry off the water, so rapidly did it fall. This floodlng of the sewers will, howêver, prove very beneficial to public health, cleanstng them of all inpurities. Basements were flooded, driving the inhahitants- rats and phinamen - by the thousands, into the streeto. Cellars and basements on the south sidewere öooded to a depth of several feet, doing great iamage to merchandise. The tire engines were called out to pump out the cellars, but after hours of hard work were compelled to abandon the task as the water poured in in greater volume than it was pumped out. DIE IN PR1SOX. A noted convict dled in the state prison lm Columbus, Ohlo, Aug. 2. Hls name or rather the name under which he was sentenced, is Charles Neville. He was sent from Toledo in December last for seven years for blgamy. Hls father was an Englishman and his mother a Russian countess. He entered the Russlan army on attaining manhood, but that was too dull for him, andlie secured a commission in the English army through his father. Dissatisfied arain he ran away and came to America, ile was a young man then and he was not long in this country, but nevertheless he had married fourteen different women. The last one was a daughter of Charles J. Whitney, a wcalthy resident of Detroit, with whom he eloped to Toledo. His usual plan was I to persuade a minister to marry him in some Ilegal manner, and in this last case he urged that as a defense, but the court would not allow it. He won the affections of Misa Whitney while employed as her father' s coachman. He had been slck for about two weeks with intermittent fever, and a few days ago told the warden that his real name was Charles Edward Neville Censivieski, his Russian title being I Count. He always claimed he had bui. one ! wife, and was always true to her. She lives at i Peterboro, Ont., and the warden telegraphi ed to her the news of his dcath. 8IR MOSES MONTEFIORE EEAD. Sir Moses Monteflore, the well-known Hebrew philanthropist, who in October last cele! brated the lOOth anniversary of his blrthday, died at Ramsgate, near London, July 28. Slr Moses MonteSore was born October 24, 1784. His father was an English merchant, who ! could trace his ancestry back to Spain, whence ', they were driven into Italy by persecutora. j Moses passed his early years in 6unny Italy, ] where he began his business career. In 1812 he i narrled a sister-in-law of Nathan Meyer Roth fchild, the London banker. In 1837, after hav ing resided in England for several years, he was i knighted by Queen Victoria, because of his ef! forts in behalf of his race, aud in 1816 he was ! aiade a baronet. His immense weaJth, amassed , In an honorable business career, has excited ; lomment, but hit philanthropy and Christian i benevolence - tbe word Is used in lts fullest 1 tense - have given htm a hold upon all hutnanli larlans the world over. Sir Moses Monteflore I aaade a numberof journeys to Palestine to learn the cause of the destitution among the Jews in ibat country. Through hjs kindly oiBces and anostentatious charity he relieved much of the sufferlng, and instituted measures that reeulted ! Ir; permanent benefits to the unfortunate peo; ple. On tbe occasiou of the baronet's lOOth anui. versary last October, the whole Jewish worli unltea to do hlm bonor. His life baJjeen sutained for a long time only by the most tboughtf ui care and atiéndante on the part of tbooe lpv ing tbe patriarch for itia goily qualltle, GEHKSJJ. ORAICT'9 ÏOM. Gen. Grant's tomb has been finally lueatei In Riverside Park, on the banks of the Hudsoa river, in obedienee to the decisión of Mn. Grant. Mayor Graee of New York received a dispateh from Col. Grnnt saying that hls mother had deelded on Riverside Park and asklng that a temporary tomb be at once constructed at that place, aud an hour later the Board of Alderman met and formally deeded to Mrs. Grant the right of sepulture In the park forth remains of the general and her own remalns. The Commissioners of Park were instructedto proceed at once to build the temporary tomb, and in leas than three hours after recelpt of Col. Grant'i dtspatch, work had been tommenced. The site chosen for Gen. Grant's tomb Is on a sort of promontory on the Hudson River and Is the hlghest point In Manhattanville. The outward swell of the promontory beglns at One Hundred and Twenty-second street and the river bank returns to lts regular line at üna Hundred and Twonty-ninth street. The summit of this elevatlon is an almost leTel platea of something more than tvventy acres. On tht river side the descent is abrupt. At lts foot, 200 feet below, are the tracks of the branch of the Hudson River Railroad that runs lnto the Thirtleth street depot. On the northwest ia the ferry to Fort Lee, and on the north and northeast red brick stores, bouses and manufacturies of Manhattanville cluster around the base of the hlll. If the observer looki to the south he ha opened before hlm the long vista of Riversld Park, of driveways, hewnstone walls and andent oaks and maples on the steep slopes of Hudson. The spot suggests revolutionary war memories. Fort Lee is opnosite, the old fort in Central Park is on the sóutheast, Fort Washington is on the north, and the highlands near West Point shut in the horizon beyond th Tappan Zc. No structures can be ereeted to bréale the uniformlty of the view as the water frsnt and the park belong to the city. The vault wlll face ths Hudson river and wiU be situated about f orty f eet west of the easterm or'maln drive. It will be built of Philadelphia pressed brick, in red and black, and faced wlth blue stone trimmings. lts estimated cot is $2,000. At the request of Col. Grant there will he two marble Denches provided in the interior, upon one of which will rest the casket contalnIng the body of the general, öeveral hundred park laborers are at work grading tho groumd in the vieinlty of the temporary vault and constructing a broad footpath and a carriage drive from the roadway which will circle the hill and accommodate the many thousands of persons who are expected to attend the funeral. The burial ground wlll be enclosed by a fence, making it secure from all intruilom during the construction of the permanent tonb.