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fj)J0 VOL. XXXVI-No. 32.1 SALEM, OREGON, FRIDAY, OCTOBER 8, 1886. i WEEKLY EDITION EASTERN. News of the Week from Be yond the Rockies. KU HOI' KAN MATT KKS. Thomas l'ower O'Connor's Latest Ounli on Kuruisuii A On Int. New York, Sept. 29. T. 1'. O'Connor cables (ram Ix)iidon to tlio Star: Reports current at clubs point to an extraordinary attempt by Bismarck to cripple I'.ritiHh influence in the present crisis in Euro pean affairs, and the (center of interest again shifts from Bulgaria to Egypt. Bis marck, with a view to inducing France to enter into a friendly understanding with Germany and abandon her schemes of a "war for revenge," 1ms undertaken, according to reports, to direct ttie atten tion of French statesmen to a scheme of foreign conquest, ttie main object of which is the ejection of the I'.ritiHh from Egypt ud tlie annexation of tliat coun try to the French empire. Bismarck's journal openly advises the French to pre pare for a campaign to drive the British out of Egypt and seize the shortcut to India. An emissary mint by Bismarck to Paris has been preaching the buiiic doutritie to Frey:inet. Tlie Debuts freely adops tlie suggestion, and, judging from French susceptibility on the Egyjitiun question, the Heed in sown in fruitful noil. In the mean time Hir Druinmond Wolff, working uguiimt French intriguers, haH without doubt improved the I'.ritiHh por tion at Cairo. Russia is alHO suspected of playing into the hundH of France, in order to divert British attention from Bulgaria. Th Hop Market. New Yokk, Sept. ."J. -In the hop mar ket there is li ttie more than a retail bus iness here. At the proHcnt time some very good quality of new l'aci(ios are offered on Hput at llllc, and a fair article went at 21ie. In BtateB there is not enough doing to agitate the market. Western parties are said to have given 50c for a fifty bale lot of choice new white. Common grades and inferior lot ?!0 begging at -Vie and thereabouts. Some air quality of 1KH5 BtateB, lately reship jwd from abroad, are offering at 17c and 18c, Tlie following are as near iih can be got to market values: JSew York state crop of lHHtl, common and medium, 28( 30c; do 1HH5, prime choice, 17('22e; do common to medium, 12cU"c; do 1884, 10(o 15c: l'acific OoaHt crop of 18H0, good to choice. ''i:!2e ; do 1885, good to choice, l.Vi:20e. for MnrderliiR her HhbIiiuuI. Kalekiii, N. C, Sept. li!. Thursday night the Btore of A. I). Owens at Ores well, Martin county, was entered by burglarH. Owens' dwelling adjoined the Btore. lie heard a noine and steped to the door. As he did bo ho saw two burglars: one lired, killing Owens. Since that time the authorities have been on the track of the burglarH and murderers. Monday night Sheriff Sprewill arrived at Plymouth with the wife of tho murdered man ami two negroes, a notour m-gru, James Davenport, aliunJames Ambrose, was shot and killed. One .of the negroes made a confession some days ago as fol lows : That Mrs. Owens had hired them to kill her husband. She wished them to drown him, and prepared water in a r barrel for that purpose. She gave him medicine to put him in a sound sleep, anil three negroes actually stood by his bedside ready to commit the crime, but their courage failed them. Finally Am brose, some nights afterwards, entered the store, and when Owens appeared flhot him. Ambrose was pursued, and on making u desperate attempt to kill the . members of ttie sheriff's posse, woh shot through tlie heart. Mrs. Owens and the other two negroes are now in jail at Plymouth, awaiting trial. (JEN. MILKH'S KEPOKT. The Conditions or Geronlmo's Surrender llssntlsl'ut:tlon of tin? Government. Wasiiinuton, Sept. 30. Gen. Miles's annual report, embodying the surrender of Geroninio, has been received by the war department. J lis report shows that Geroninio and his companions were not captured, but surrendered conditionally, lie acknowledges that lie promised the hostiles tliev should not be turned over to the civil" authorities of Arizona, and that their lives should bo spared byre moving them from the country immedi ately. This accounts for Gen. Miles's failure to obey the instructions of the war department to online the hostiles at the nearest post. The Star savs: "The fact that General Miles accepted a conditional surrender, when the positive instructions of the gov ernment were that nothing but capture or unconditional surrender should determine the Apache campaign, raises very grave questions for consideration by the presi dent and secretary of war. What the re sult will be can only be conjectured, but unless there are fioino very extenuating circumstances not apparent on the out side a reprimand is the least'that can be expected. Tho report shows that the hos tiles have never before been driven to such a stage of desperation, and that they could not have Hlood out against the troops much longer, but nevertheless the war department would undoubtedly have preferred the Indian war to last another year rather than the hostiles should sur render on their own terms. It is said Gen. Miles's campaign did not practically differ from that of Gen. Crook, and that the lat ter could have secured the hostiles on sim ilar conditions to those accepted by Gen. Miles, last January, when Geroninio ex pressed a willingness to surrender, but escaped when he found he could secure no assurances of safety from Gen. Crook. Miles' report is very long and interesting. Ho devotes the greater portion of it to an account of the pursuit of the Indians since he took command. He shows how his command differed from that of Crook's. The latter used friendly Indi ans to fight the hostiles, while Gen. Miles pursued them with United States troops, using only a few Indians as trailers. Kussla Hold the Whip Hand. Nkw Yokk, Sept. 30. Thomas Tower O'Connor cables from Ixmdon to the Star : Foreign affairs still absorb public attention, liismarck's active enterprise bids fair to cause the whole question of British occupancy of Egypt to be re-opened. By this stratagem Kussia's hands are pretty well freed to deal with Bulga ria, and Salisbury finds he has something also to employ his energies he did not bargain lor. Russia and France have combined to take common action at Con stantinople to jiersuade the sultan to in sist on the English army being with drawn from Egypt, and to cause English interference in that country to be brought to an end. Taking advantage of this di version in her favor, liussia is pushing matters on the Bulgarian side. The czar has invested Kaulhars with authority to summon Russian, forces to his aid at his own discretion in the event of his termB being refused, and a powerful force is en camjHjd at a ioirit on the coast, ready for instant embarkation for Bulgarian ports. This looks like defiance of all Eurojie, but in the face of divisions and mutual dis trust of Kussia's different enemies, Rus- Bia probably counts on having her own way without rupture of European jKsace. lyhig of JMeuro-I'iieiimoiila. Kankakee, Ills., Sept. 30. Twenty-five of the 100 bulls sent from a Chicago dis tillery quarantine to a ranch near St. Mary, Kankakee county, have died, pre sumably of pleuro-pneuiucnia. KuiiHit Declares Quarantine. Topkka, Kan., Sept. 30. On recoil mendation of the Kansas live stock san nary commission. Gov. Martin issued a proclamation to-day, ordering a quaran tine of ninety days against the entry of cattle from Illinois and Ohio and Domin ion of Canada, on account of the preval ence of pleuro-pneumonia in those local ities. Washington Note. Wasiiinuton, Sept. 30. It was in con sequence of urgent appeals of Senator Fair that the president consented to the reopening of the mint at Carson City, Nevada. It was stated in the treasury depart ment to-day that there has been a de crease of nearly eleven million dollars in the public debt during September. The president to-day apwinted Quincy A. Brooks to Vie collector of customs for the district of l'uget sound. Death of an Aged Nej-ro. Bran-word, Canada, Sept. 30. An drew Luctis, colored, died here this morn ing at the supposed age of 128 years He was born in slavery in Tennessee, and was Gen. Jackson 8 servant. A J'htt Contradiction. New Havkn, Oct. 1. The statement in Gen. Miles's official report of the Apa che campaign, made public at Washing ton vesterdav, that Geroninio was not captured but surrendered conditionally is contradicted by Capt. Lawton, who was in command of the United States troops at the time of the capture. In a private telegram to Dieut. Alooe, ot Win Chester armory, dated Albuquerque, New- Mexico, Uapt. Lawton explicitly denies that the surrender of Geroninio was coupled with any conditions whatever. More Mexican Outrage. St. Lotus, Oct. 1. A special from El l'aso, says : t"Two Mexican policemen to-day pursued a native, whom they wanted to arrest, across the Rio Grando into the United States ; and a little be yond the Atchison, Topeka, & Santa Fe depot they came up with him, and both being armed with ritlesthey tired at him, wounding him seriously. They then seized the disabled man and dragged him buck to Mexican territory, fording the river. Great indignation is expressed here over the outrage." TUK (JKN. MILKS AKFA1K. President Cleveland is Reported very In dignant over the Transaction. Wasiiinuton, Oct. 4. The president is said to be highly indignant over the Ge roninio mutter, and is one of those not inclined to lot Gen. Miles off very easy. The interview ho had with Acting Secre tary of War Drum, on his return from his vacation, touching the question, is now explained. Gen. Drum had sent a tele graphic order to Gen. Miles to at,once for ward to the department a detailed report of the capture of the Apache chief and his band, but it was evidently the inten tion of Miles to incorporate the results of tho campaign in his annual report, which he was about to make out, in compliance with army regulations, and he paid no attention to the order for a special report of the capture of Geroninio. When this was stated to the president he was very much displeased, and he immediately dictated a. telegram to Gen. Miles which conipciie i nun to send an ansiraot ot his report relating to the Apache campaign. it, however, uul not arrive Here sooner than did the full report, of which it was a part, and it was not so satisfactory as to details as it was hoped it would be. But when it was found the order to compel unconditional surrender of Geroninio had been disobeyed, the president and whole department were up in arms against the general. It is intended to order a court of inquiry into the conduct of Gen. Miles, eBpecially as his statements as to the sur render are disputed by Capt. Lawton, who made the capture. Certain it is, Gen. Miles is not so popular in govern ment circles here as he was a short time ago. HANGED A 8HCOND TIME. Wallace, the Missouri Murderer, Lynched and Jerked to Glory. St. Louis, Oct. 5. R. P. Wallace, mur derer of the Logan family of five persons, father, mother, and three children, was taken from jail at Steeleville last night by a mob and lynched. The guilty man had been taken to Steelville lrom L'uba, Mis souri, where the horrible crime was per petrated, for safe-keeping, for fear he would be summarily dealt witn by tne enraeed people of Cuba. Friday morn ing, Oct. 1, the mob gained access to the tail, seized Wallace, dragged mm lrom Ins cell, and hung him up. lie was cut down after being allowed to hang for a short time in order that a conlession might be forced from him. lie refused to own up to the crime, and before the crowd could hang him up again, the sher iff got hold of him and hurried him back to his cell. The crowd was prevailed on to disperse, and it was supposed the law- would be allowed to take its course. Last night, however, a second attempt was made by a mob of about 100 men quietly gathered at the jail at midnight. The mob battered down the doors, borne went in and brought out the prisoner, while oth ers guarded the roads. Wallace was dragged out to the mob, and asked if he had anything to say. He strongly pro tested his innocence, still adhering to his story that it was the negro Vaughn who was guilty. This statement angered the mob more than ever, and with shouts they produced a rope, one end of which ttiey placed around tlie murderer s neck, the other end was thrown over the limb of a tree near the jail. The prison er still protested his innocence and ap pealed for mercv but without avail. Stronc hands erasped the rope and Wal lace's body swung in the air. Another chance was not given him to confess and in a few minutes ins body was a corpse. The mob then disjiersed and the jail offi cers cut down and took charge of the body. ScliM-atka aud Jones Klver Again. New York, Oct. 8. The Times de votes four columns to refuting each part of the Sun's statements in connection with the discussion about the Jones river in Alaska, and prints cuts to prove that the Sun falsified La Perouse's chart in or der to sustain its argument that the river was known to early voyagers. In a letter describing the river Schwatka says he was the first white man ever to set foot on its banks, and officers of the coast sur vey express an opinion that he is entitled to name it. PACIFIC COAST. Const Agencies to be Abolished. San Francisco, Oct. 5. A prominent railroad man who has just arrived from the east, states that general passenger airents of the trunk lines have almost come to an agreement with E. II. Ford, of the Pennsylvania Central, to abolish their agencies on the Pacific coast. The new arrangement is to go into effect eith er on the 1st of November or on the 1st of December. A proposal to abolish the agencies of the Iowa lines, it is alleged also came up for discussion, and although several of the roads were both willing and anxious to transact business without I Pacific coast agencies, others preferred to maintain them, and the motion lell through on that account. As these are stated to have been some of the motives for the meeting of general passenger agents to be held in this city on the 20th inst., it is rumored that it will not now t-;ke place. Death of Kcv. J. 1$. Hill. San Francisco, Oct. 5. Key. J. B. Hill, publisher of the California Chris tian Advocate, died at Alameda to-day. He was an old citizen of California, and well known in business circles as agent of the Methodist book depository on Mar ket street. MACLEAY ITEMS. An enterprising German proposes to locate a cheese factory here at an early date. There are prospects of a good rain soon which will be welcomed by the farmers in this district, who have sown or will soon sow their fall grain. Our lively and energetic blacksmith, Dan. Humphrey, has moved his shop onto his own real estate and is still doing a lively business. He deserves the pat ronage and good w ill of all. The citizens of this community greatly regret the sad accident to Mr. Jensen at the new bridge, as he contemplated lo cating at this place. His speedy recov ery is eagerly hoped for. We are sorry to announce the severe sickness of Mrs. Lyman Eotf. She was suddenly Btricken with paralysis tho past week. She was some better at last ac counts but still unable to speak. It was with regret that we saw our kindly neighbor and fellow citizen, I). M. Brower, and family, move thence. Mark goes to continue his medical studies in Portland and will soon blossom out as a full-fledged M. D. The best wishes of his neighbors and friends go with him. Tom Fool. Oct. 6, 1880. PACIFIC COAST. News by Telegraph from West of the Rockies. Ice from Illinois. San Francisco, Sept. 29. There are on the way from Chicago eighty carloads of ice, to supply the market on this coast. Special trains of fifteen or more cars each are made up and loaded with ice at Crys tal lake, some sixty "miles from Chicago. It is purchased by the Union Ice Co. of this city. Trouble with Chinese Passengers. San Francisco, Oct. 1. The captains of vessels returning from the salmon can neries in Alaska have been having a great deal of trouble with Chinese returning from work. In several cases there have been threats of violence, and the white crews have been terrorized generally by heathen passengers. It was found neces sary by some vessels to disarm the Chi nese before allowing them to go on board. Just before the Courtney Ford arrived in port, lately, seventy-two Chinese in the fore-peak passage rose en masse over a dispute abeut hrewood. lhey swarmed on deck, and demanded the lives of the second mate and one seaman, who had first resisted them, at the same time arm ing themselves with belaying pins and billets of wood. Twenty-six. white men on board armed themselves and prepared for a desperate tight, but through the ef forts ot the captain a collision was pre vented. The officers of the Sadie F. Caller also had trouble in taking their Chinese aboard in Alaska, and the coolies have been spoiling for a fight on nearly every ship that has arrived from Alaska this tall. Double Murder in Texan. Waco, Tex., Oct. 1. A story of a fiend ish double murder has been received here from Throckmorton county. The vic tims are a farmer named Urney and his grown up daughter Li.zie. ihe father, who had been lassooed and dragged some distance from hiB home, was found with his throat cut. The daughter had been ravished and then murdered by mutila tion.. Iter remains were discovered in the yard. The discovery of the crime was followed by the arrest of a negro cowboy, who said he stopped at Urney's house for a urink, and saw two white men enter the yard as he left. The ne groes' lariat was missing, and he was ta ken into custody. Fearing lynching, the officers left Throckmorton with the pris oner. LICKED FIVE MEN. Jack Dempsey Knocks Five Dudes Out iu one Round. San Francisco, Oct. 2. Jack Dempsey the pugilist, left the Baldwin hotel soon after midnight this morning with the in tention of seeking his lodgings on Taylor street. Shortly after turning out of Market street into Taylor he was accost ed by live roysterers. As Dempsey at tempted to pass them one of the party siezed him by the lapel of his coat and in a spirit of guv asked ham if he was detective. Jack indignantly questioned their right to inquire into his occupation when another of the party, who was car rying a larger load of wine than wisdom stepped to the lront and sneeringly re marked: "He's no detective; he's only a snide copper on the water front." This was too much for Jack, and letting go his right hand, theutterer of the remark was in another moment, quietly slumbering on a car track. Dempsey backed up against the building, and immediately re ceived the combined onslaught of the Quartette. A triphammer in prime work ing order could hardly be a fitting simile for the rapid manner in which Dempsey showered his blows upon the heads and bodies of the enemy, but it is sufficient to say that the battle only lasted one iound and the bird of victory again perched on Dempsey s banner. 'Sliuiw Man" Tarred and Feathered Taooma, W. T., Oct. 2. In the First ward, along the beach below the Tacoina sawmill, is a number of shanties wher 'longshoremen and depraved characters reside. These people, generally designat ed "beach-combers," are a rough lot of men, some living with Indian women A few days ago, Charles Starkweather came to live on the beach with a squaw. Last night at do clock a party of "bead combers" went to Starkweather's cabin charged him with having beaten the souaw, tore the clothes lrom Ins person, tarred him and then ripped open the pil lows in the cabin and feathered him. In this condition they drove the man stark naked about the streets ot U1U lacoma, into a saloon, knocked him down, and beat him unmercifully. They ordered him to get up, but he was unable to do so, being exhausted. Then he was jabbed in the back with the points ol pocket knives, and otherwise maltreated. tt-u. Shei-muu and 1vtt Davis. San Francisco, Oct. 2. The Call's New York special says: Gen. Sherman is stopping at the Fifth Avenue hotel. When asked last night if he would make a reply to the open letter of Jefferson Davis to J. T. Scharf, the Maryland his torian, in which Gen. Sherman is de clared to be a falsifier, the general said, with emphasis : "No. decidedly no. The matters touched upon by Jell'. Davis were settled in the newspapers two years ago. Yes, and some of them twenty years ago. Jell. Davis s record and mine are known, and trom them tlie people can draw their own conclusions." Rea beats Noland. Astoria, Oct. 2. One-half of the sport ing fraternity of Astoria are dead broke this evening, and the other half are glo riously full, over the foot race between Itea and Noland this afternoon. Ilea on easily by five feet, and couid have beaten Noland ten feet; time, 10'i sec onds. The race was run on a wooden roadway in front of the Occident hotel, and 1,000 or more persons witnessed it. Alter the race a match was made be tween Peter Grant and Noland, 150 yards, for $o00 a side, to take place on October 23d. A Seaman Killed. Port Townsend, Oct. 4. The sailma- ker of the British bark City of Quebec fell overboard while going from the wharf to the vessel, at Port Hadlock, Saturday night. He was recovered from the water, but died that night, probably from inter nal injuries. Deceased was about 00 years of age. AN ALLEGED OUTRAGE On an Alleged Salem, Oregon, Young Girl Who is She ? San Francisco, Oct. 4. Thomas A. Collins, a gambler and "lover," and II. Snyder, bartender at the White House saloon, near the entrance to Golden Gate nark, have been arrested for a fiendish outrage on Miss Louisa Bell, a handsome ountr lady who recently arrived in this state from Salem, Oregon, where her pa rents reside. Wishing to lighten the bur den on the shoulders of her parents the young woman came to San Francisco and applied for employment at an intelligence office on Gerry street. There she met Collins on last Wednesday, and, as relat ed to deteetives Burke and Price, her ex perience was as follows : Collins represented himself as having a young wife and sick child, and desiring Miss Bell's services, more as a compan ion for his wife than for any labor she might perform. Her wages were to be i30 per month. She agreed to go with him, and they tooK tne tiaignt street cars. At tne terminus oi me road uoiuns said the shortest route to his home was through the park. He led her into a path ttirough the shrubbery, where he brutuallv assaulted her. Alarmed by her screams he finally offered to conduct her to a place of safety, and led her to the White house, near by. The proprie tor of the house was absent and Snyder was in charge. Here the girl was offered liquor, which she refused, but was induced to drink a glass of soda water which she believes was drugged. She was again assaulted by a third party, who is not in custody, and night having come on she was shown to a room, tshe barricaded tne aoor as well as she could, but during the night Snyder broke into the apartment and continued his maltreatment. Upon escaping from the place early Thursday morning Miss Bell proceeded to the police station, where she stated the above circumstances of the affair. The prisoners claim that Miss Bell consented to their acts, but marks of violence found on her person are considered by the offi cers as corroborating her version of the affair. Opinion on the Canadian l'aciilc. San Francisco, Oct. 4. H.Bloomfield, the well known engineer, who laely re- i turned from the east by way of the Can-' adian Pacific, when asked his opinion as to whether the road will compete much with the other transcontinental roads re plied : "I am hardly competent to speak on a subject of that description, but I think that for the lake trade tlie road would have a good chance for at least seven months of the year. Cleveland, Chicago, Buffalo and Detroit have made rapid advancement in manufacturing during the past ten years, owing to cheap water communication, and in many ar ticles of manufacture are competing with Atlantic cities. From Vancouver to San Francisco, it is of course a question of arrangement. It will be the water trans portation, however, that will give the road the best chance of business with this city." In regard to Pacific coast traffic, Mr. Bloomtield said: "Until steamer lines are put on connecting with Yokohama and Australia, the only freight to be got west of the Rockies will be diverted from the Northern Pacific and other transcon tinental lines east of the Rockies,; how ever, the read will begin to pay for itself very shortly." Heavy Fire at Daker City. Baker City, Oct. 5. Last night about midnight the broke out in block one and consumed tho entire block. The build ings were all wooden. Loss $40,000 ; in surance $2,000. Commercial $1,000 and North British $1,000. '1 he loss ot mate rial in moving from buildings across the street to a place of safety was considera ble. Tlie Central la-in-'s Oregon Hram-h. San Francisco, Oct. 5. The Central Pacific railroad company are pushing their Oregon branch, and have it defi nitely located as far as the Klamath river. They are surveying up the Klamath river into' the Klamath lake country, as they are anxious to reach the ex ensive and fertile region of Eastern Oregon. The engineers' reports of the feasibility arid practicability of the routeare very encour aging, and it is claimed that the pro posed route, penetrating hasteni Oregon bv way of Klamath river and lakes be constructed at an early date. will l.Ain ks. Mrs. J. Burkholdcr will furnish ninl tcsch tlie KiTinnu tailor fVi-UMii "f dies cuti n-i; ai htr residence. 24 Court sireut, or at ymr i i homes, it more cuuveniut. Mrs. M. L. Avery, general ngeul. dwtt. FOREIGN Record of News from Over the Atlantic. Gen. Tioulaiiger's Latest. Taris, Sept. 29. Gen. Boulanger, de siring to secure from the government an appropriation of $2,000,000 for new ex plosive bombs, recently inviteJ the budg et committee to witness experiments he was carrying on in private. The experi ments were made with the Mostar mor tar, designed as a type for destruction of fortifications. The missile thrown ex plodes with exceedingly destructive ef fect. It is charged with a new explosive, of whose composition Gen. Boulanger and his associates alone possess the se cret. The compound, however, is admit ted to have all the powers of gunpowder with none of its defects, and is said, in addition, to be easily transportable and to be free from liability to spontaneous ignition. The committee were highly pleased ith the result of the experi ments. The European Complication. London, Oct. 2. The Morning Post has a double-headed leader, evidently ministerially inspired. The Post may be called a semi-official organ. The leader begins: "Great danger to European tranquillity is threatened by the strain that is now put upon the alliance of the three empires." Alter discussing what part England should or should not take, the leader continues thus : "The imme diate future of Europe is dependent on Berlin. In London we can only consider what forces we can husband in anticipa tion of the great struggle of the age. The Germans ought certainly to keep watch by land, if we do police work by sea. Bismarck will not do justice to his empe ror if he does not secure the close of his reign amid a pacified Europe. This can only be done by forbidding war, which is otherwise inevitable. The Austrian em pire, if left to itself, must struggle and fight for existence against its great Sclav neighbors. If Bismarck elects to help Austria he will be certain of our firm ad hesion and loyal co-operation." GREAT MEN'S APPELLATIONS. The Rehoboth Sunday Herald contains the following appellations of prominent men ; The Father of His Country George Washington. The Sage of Montieello Thomas Jef ferson. Old Hickory Andrew Jackson. Old Rough and Ready Zachary Tay lor. Mad Anthony Gen. Wayne. Expounder of the Constitution Daniel Webster. Great Pacificator Henry Clay. Unconditional Surrender Grant Ulys ses S. Grant. Little Mac George B. McClellan. Old Man Eloquent John Quincy Adams. Young Hickory James K. Polk. Political Meteor John Randolph. Poor Richard Benjamin Franklin. Onas William Penn. Stonewall Thomas J. Jackson. Rock of Chickamauga Gen. Thomas. Honest Abe Abraham Lincoln. Old Put Israel Putman. Light Horse Harry Henry Lee. Old Tecumseh Gen. W. T. Sherman. Bayard of the South Gen. Marion. Fighting Joe Gen. Hooker. Uncle Robert R. E. Lee. The Little Magician Martin Van Duren. The Superb Gen. Winfield Scott Han cock. Father of the Constitution James Madison. Matoax King Philip. Great Indian Apostle Eliot. Cincinnatus of the West George Washington. Colossus of American Independence John Adams. Mill Boy of the Slashes Henry Clay. Pathfinder of the Rockies John C. Fremont. Prince of American Letters Wash ington Irving, The Rail Splitter Abraham Lincoln. Sage of Chappaqua Horace Greeley. Little Giant S. A. Douglas. Father of the Greenbacks Salmon P. Chase. Teacher President James A. Garfield. Carolina Game Cock Geu. Sumter. Old Ossawatomie John Brown. Old Public Functionary James Buch anan. Great American Commoner Thaddeus Stevens. Chapter of Accidents. A corres pondent writing from Walton, Lane coun ty, under date of October 4, reports the following accidents: Mrs. Watts of Springfield met with a peculiar and seri ous accident a few days since. She set a can of plums in the oven of the stove to melt the sealing w ax off of the top of the can. and forgetting let it stay till it got thoroughly hot. In attempting to re move the can it exploded and frightfully burned her lace and eyes with the boil ing r.luins. It is feared she has lost her eyesight. A young man by the name of Hoffher was drowned in the Elmyra mill race a few days since. He was sent to the bend of tlie race to push some logs horn the bank, and was cautioned not to und'-rtake to ride logs down, as he could not swim, lie paid no attention to the warding, but mounted his log and tell off. Si .me small children saw hici and gave tlie alarm, but when his tioiiy was found life was hopelessly extinct.