Cleveland: graduates do there not live within the university are no proctors to exercise supervision over them; but if a student-in most university towns--gets into min trouble he is not taken before the or ordinary authorities but before the university Consis- "duelling" commences A new era in the history of German university life. torium aud the Rector Magnificus, who treats his offense mildly. The result is that while 8 bursch would consider an appearance in the police court an inctfaceable disgrace he looks back upon his "special invitation" and subsequent confinement in the uuiversity "carcer" as something akin to au honor, and at all events as suitably rounding off his university career. But even this privilege is to be done away with, for the Berlin authoritics intimate that on aud after the 1st of October in this year the students will, in the eye of the law, be as any other offenders. They enjoy great freedom, they can attend any lectures they please or none at all, 80 long as they pass the examinations in their proper faculties, and no attempt is made to check their visits to the university lecture rooms.
A certain Berlin professor once tried this test of diligence by requesting the students to sign their names as they entered the room. but when he found that Seneca, Ilomer, Aschylus, Socrates and other eminent personages bad, unknown to him, been that day present he abandoned the attempt as hopeless. A curious medieval custom of the German universities is now almost extinct, though it lingered until very recent times, and traces of its influences can still be seen in the more primitive seats of learning like Jena, Marburg and Rostock. This was "pennalism," an academic cousin of Curiously enough, it was nearly contined to the Protestant, universities of Berlin, Erlangen, Glessen, Gottingen, Holle, Heidelberg, Jena, Konigsberg, Leipsic, Marburg and Rostock. There the Freshmen or studeuts of the first year were styled "Peunals" or "Pencases," and were considered by the "schorists" or elder students as actually their servants.
For a year they were the butt of their masters and were beaten and ill-used, and if they possessed any property it had to be handed over to the schorists. But in twelve months the Pennal's probation came to an end. 'Then with many mystical ceremonies and symbolical trials he Was purged from the impurity, under which he was have groaued, and finally freed from further degrading service in order to consecrate himself ill the future life to the intellectual. In the Middle Ages the young student seems everywhere to have been treated with great contempt, and in addition to the injury of ill to have had the insult of codless opprobrious names hurled at him. He Was known as a Bejan-that is Bec jaune, or yellow neb-a term used to denominate a nestling, so name by which he is still designated in some of the Scotch universities.
lIe was not only despitefully used but he was robbed, for levying of bejaunia, or first footing from Freshmen, bad to be prohibited by severe statutes, only, however, enacted to be broken. As late as the end of the fifteenth century the election of an Abbus Bejanorum, or "Abbot of the Greenhorns," had to be forbidden by the university authorities. In Vienna to this day the academic novice is styled 1. beanus, but "pennalism" is there extinct, the ouly quarter where it exists in even a modified form being in the United States and Canada, where the annual "hazing" of Frenchmen by the "Sophom*ores" is a perennial cause of feud between the latter and the "Faculty." But in Germany the servitude imposed on the bejanof the la. usages of chivalry by which a candipenuals was probably only aping of one date for knighthood had to serve for a certain period as page to one who had already wOu his spurs.
At length there was a rebellion against pennalism, just as there is against fa*gging. But the authorities found for long the task of abolition to which they had set themselves too great, for the Pennuls made common cause with the schorists and declared that. like worm, they to be despised." In vain the universities issued edicts against the practice. A't last it disappeared in its crude forin, though to this day is recognized the extreme deference a Junior still pays to a Seuior. In Heidelberg, for example, the modern representatives of the ancient "'Pennals" are known as "foxes," aud are by an understood cus.
tom, having the force of law, put under a "fox duties are, however, chietly contined to initiating the spectacled beardling into the mysteries of drinking beer according to traditional usages, and in arranging the duels which he considers it necessary for academic pastime and their honor that they should indulge in. Pennalism also still inaintains a modernized form in the shape of "deposition" practised by German printers and other skilled craftsmen, who yet cling to the quaint old rights of the Medieval Guilds with 1 tenacity to which the Euglish trades unionist is stranger. But with the abolition of OHIO NEWS. "President" llayes spent Monday very quietly at his home in Fremont. Akron now claims a population of over 20,000.
The Trumbull county fair opens at Warren to Burglars (Tuesday). blew open Crawford and Zeller's safe at Mansfield on Saturday night and abstracted $80 in money. The officers of the Summit County Agrito make the coming fair the best ever held in cultural Society are leaving nothing undone the county. A "lady" in Youngstown, in good circ*mstances, charged a servant girl fifty cents storage on account of leaving her trunk with her two weeks, and she was compelled to pay it before she took away her trunk. A large force of workmen are engaged in repairing puddling furnaces at the Valley Mill, at Youngstown, fixing the rolls and putting the side tracks in good order leading to the mill, for the purpose of putting the mill in operation within a short time.
An incendiary fire at Lorain, Lorain county, early Monday morning, destroyed the block owned by I. Laundon and J. F. King and a dwelling house adjoining. Mr.
King was found chloroformed in the rooil and was removed at a great risk to his rescuers, The whole thing was the work of thieves. No losses are given. Findlay is somewhat excited over the disappearance of Isaac Teatsworth, a miller, who resided two miles west of the city on the Blanchard river. came to the city on not Saturday. heard since which time his family has of bim.
It has been ascertained that he purchased ticket at tho' depot to some point. The whole affair is shrouded in years mystery. old. Mr. Teatsworth is about fifty The will of John Shillito, the late Cincinnati merchant prince, appoints his four sons his entire business to his four sons, subject toa and his son-in-law his executors.
Ho leaves six legacy of $30,000 per year to his widow, and ter. per He cent. bequeaths interest on $100,000 to his daughsome $50,000 in 85,000) Home to and the Children's Home, Widows' residence and his relatives. His magnificent left to his wife. grounds, with plate, is The following singular fatality among Summit evening county a $500 horses is worthy of note: Friday tin, of Richfield, horse belonging to Mr.
S. Dusran away and had his breast Saturday, penetrated by a thill, causing instant death. A horse belonging within to fifteen feet of this accident, Smith was run into a in the young darkness man by named stranger's horse and impaled on a thill. The a animal died in a short time. At town, the same evening, a horso bolonging Thomas- to Mr.
auimal Findlay Wright had a collision with an ceived a thill driven thrust, by Mr. and Daniel Thomas, redied shortly after. PERSONAL MENTION. Otlicer Mershon, of the Eighth procinct station, called at the home of -Patrolman Charles Cowan (who is supposed have hydrophobia), No. 99 McBride street, Monday evening but was not allowed to see the sick man.
Mrs. Cowan told the officer that her husband was a little better, though still very weak and feverish. I'atrolman Rumsey called to see Officer Cowan this morning and found him in a high fever, his condition being about the same as on Monday. Plain 16, 1879. year.
ance M. remaining J. in Hungerford, the treasury Treasurer from last Hardware Board of Trade, Pittsburgh, also authorizes the Iowards to draw on him for $700. Weather clear and pleasant. The thermometer at daylight indicated 60 degrecs.
A Reunion of More Than Ordinary Interest. CINCINNATI, Sept. Enquirer special from Salisbury, N. says: "A grand reunion of survivors of the Confedcrate and federal armies has been arranged to take place here on the 30 of October. Invitations were sent to both armies.
Lieutenant General Sheridan politely declined on account of pressing business engugements. He expressed his hope of the success of the movemeut. General W. T. Sherman wrote a letter, which has created no little excitement.
The letter is as follows: "The time is too remote for ma to make a promise, but I assure you that it would be most agreeable to me, personally and socially, to meet you 011 any suitable occasion. There is no use in my mincing terins. Whenever and wherever the honest men of North Carolina animosities seek to allay sectional and party and to cultivate fuelings of fraternal respect for their fellow citizens of the United States, it will be I to me most tempting to come to Salisbury. fore would with far a vast prefer army, to come leaving alone than desolation as behind, but I must not be construed as assenting to the proposition that the Confederates and for Union men were alike worthy of celebration the terriblo history of 1861-65. I would much prefer to come on some civic occasion, when all are absolutely equal and and all alike interested in the present future glory of our common country.
There Were a few Union soldiers in North Carolina during the war, though wo believe the people generally were opposed to secession, and I will say that your meeting, if confined to the surviving soldiers of North Carolina, will be in fact a Confederate reunion, where I would certainly be out of place. All soldiers in their social reunions glorify their deeds of heroism, and this reunion will hardly be an exception, and it would be a strange sight for General Sherman to cheer tho victories of his enemics and respond to the claim that because the soldiers of North Carolina were brave and true to their stato and section their cause was as sacred as ours, which finally triumphed, and made our Union more glorious and more resplendent than before. Were I present, and you should suppress this natural feeling, I would feel myself an intruder, marring the natural happiness of the festive occasion. I know that the soldier element was the first to lay aside angry partisan feelings of the war, and are now leaders in the new epoch which is sure to add wealth and prosperity to our whole country, and when some occasion arises whon we may all meet o11 common ground In North Carolina to celebrate some revolutionary event or to incourage some modern enterprise, it will give me great pleasure to come to Salisbury, to Raleigh, to Guilford Court House or any other place in the old North state. Foreign Notes.
scull TORONTO, race with Sept. turn, stakes $250 three side has been arranged between Fred A. Plaisted and Jacob Gardour to take place 011 the 27th. The water is vet to be selected. TORONTO, Sept.
16. -The GovernorGeneral and the Princess Louise will visit the cattle show here Thursday. MADRID, Sept. -The Duke of Ossuna and the Duke of Medina Sidonia, go 10 Vienna to officially ask the Archduch*ess Marie Christine of Austria in marriage with the King of Spain. ST.
JOINS, N. Sept. -The challenge from Wallace Ross to row Warren Smith revive the charges of crookedness made against him after his recent defeat by Smith, and they find now more ready aC ceptance. LONDON, Sept. Carlyle, younger brother of Thomas Carlyle, the historian, is dead.
LONDON, Sept. Tyler has written to Colonel Grey, saying that the Grand Trunk Railroad Company siders does it better to await the course of events, not propose to prolong the controversial correspondence. LONDON, Sept. is largely backed at 20 to 1 against him for the Ozare witch stakes, October 7th. The Stock Exchange will be closed Saturday for repairs.
A military correspondent of the Times says: "'It is diflicult, in the face of the believe overwhelming that evidence to the contrary, to Yakoob Khan played an honorable part in the recent shameful deeds at Cabul. It is significant that Major Cavagnari's principal native assistant disappeared, it is believed, a short time before the outbreak under suspicious circ*mstan ces. with Being an Afghan and well acquainted the workings of the Oriental Court, his presence in the British residency was dangerous to those plotting the outbreak. The Times says that the extraordinary controversy now alarming Europe on a sup. posed misunderstanding between Gortschakoff and Bismarck shows what dangerous stuff is all around The ring of interested speculators in conversation seem to have half persuaded the illustrious statesmen of the greatness of one mighty cmpire is incompatible with the greatness of the other.
For the Russian and German nations at present the dificulty appears to be a inannfacture of reasons for the flying at each others throat. Their interests are in no respect opposed, as neither owns territory coveted by the other. Wo believe that much of this flourishing of swords will be found to be merely an exercise of fencing in schools, but it is time that the masters came forward to reassure the mistrustful. Arrested for Alleged Horse Stealing. SOUTII WRENTIAM, Sept.
Charles Fisher and William McCarthy have been arrested, the former as the thief and the latter as the receiver of a large number of horses, several wagons and a great quantity of harness stolen from the country roundabout. Implicating Another. LEBANON, Sept. -Charles Drews, eldest of four persons in jail here, for the murder of Joseph Raber, in a second confession says that Wise whom he previ ously declared innocent is as guilty as the others. Descent Upon a Chinese Gambling House.
NEW YORK, Sept. police last night made a descent upon a Chinese gambling house and secured the proprietor, an Americanized Mongolian named Charles Williams, and twenty-seven queueless Mongolians and gambling implements. POLITICAL NOTES. The official returns from the entire state of Maine with the exception of twenty small towns and plantations is as follows: Davis, Republican, Smith, Greenback, Garcelon, Democrat, 21,181. The Republican plurality over the Green back ticket is over the Democratic ticket 16,831.
far as heard from there have been 311 scattering votes. The returns from the remaining towns will not essentially change the result. It is understood that the Democratic State Central Committee of Wisconsin will meet next Thursday to nominate a candidate for Governor in the place of Alexander Mitchell, declined. Mayor Black, exCongressman William P. Lynde and exState Treasurer Ferdinand Kuchn, of Milwaukce, and Colonel W.
F. Vilar, of Madson, are prominently mentioned in connection with the appointment, one of whom is likely to be the choice of the Committee. ROGUES' RECORD. Depredations Reported in and Near tho City. Nicholas Hennesey, of No.
29 Washington street, and Samuel Buxell, of No. G1 Emerson alley, were arrested Monday night for turning their families out of doors. Cigars and liquors to the value of $10 were stolen from George Mullen's saloon, No. 734 Woodland avenue atan carly hour Monday morning. Dealer.
1 1 RAILWAY MAIL SERVICE MUTUAL BENEFIT INSURANCE. Fifth Annual Convention- -Opening SessionWelcome Address by G. W. Gardeer, President of the Council--Annual Address by President Dunne. The United States Railway Mail Service Mutual Benefit Association opened their fifth annual convention in Lyman's I at.
ten o'clock Tuesday morning: About one hundred and fifty members of the Association were in attendance at the opening of the convention, and it is very seldom that' a finer looking body of men assemble together. The convention was called to order by Mr. 1. C. Dunne, of St.
Louis, President of the Association, who introduced Commodore George W. Gardner, President of the City Council who, in the ab. sence of Mayor Herrick, delivered the following ADDRESS OF WELCOME: AR. PRESIDENT AND GENTLEMEN OF THE am glad to meet this large assembly, indicative us its numbers are of a great interest in your association, and it is a pleasure as well as my agreeuble duty to tend to you a hearty welcome. As a citizen proud of the city of his residence, and desirous that her prominence should be extensively known, 1 would welcome you in behalf of aud as a municipal official representing a city noted the world over for the magniticence and grand beauty of her palatial residences, private grounds and parks, her fine, neat broad and avenues and the thousands of complete, comfortable homes owed, as a rule, by the "bone and sinew" element of her population; her valleys and hills teeming with the Varied manufacturing and other industries for which our city is already famous and giving evidence of her great and growing pros perity; I extend to you a cordial welcome, and believe you will surely not regret your choice, from the mauy cities which, doubtless, were suggested at your last annual meeting, in selecting Cleveland as the place for holding this couvention.
I am intormed that you number nineteen hundred members, all employes of the United States government as postal clerks aud route agents, und that your association was formed not only that by these annual gatherings and personal intercourse and discussion you migut promote the etliciency of your calling, but for that holy -and that your charitable distributions to the widows and orphans of deceased members of your organization during the past live yeurs have amounted 10 sixty thousand doliars, which fact alone is a commentary worthy of emulation und shows the honesty of your purpose. In counection with this I may truthfully say that probably no other service, not excepting the military or marine, is attended with more danger to life, limb and general health than that in which you are engaged under the postal department. To iny mind no better method could be devised to insure good to the general postal service, to bring out intelligence tor various purposes, or greater harmony in thought and action and a better thorough personal understanding, than by these annual meetings, and your organization, comprehending as. 1t does acts of beneficent charity, speaks louder than words of the goodness of your hearts and is a credit not only to yourselves but to the government you represent. Gentlemen, you have met to reflect on the past and to suggest for the future and 1 hope vuis may be au enjoyable and profitable occusion and that your reflections and suggestions may provo of inestimable value to you all.
verily believe that never before in the history of our country has general business assumed a more satisfac-ory Dasis, to a conservative people, than at the present time. If this is so and as the whole population of the country is intimately connected with and interested in the prompt carriage and distribution of mail matter and with the ordering of improved methods, on business principles, as experience may suggest, your duties will necessarily become the more arduous, but we are satisfied you will willingly accept the situation and with alacrity', perform your duties, having a determination to not only desire but to receive the approbation of the public, though from no department of government employes more is expected or less credit given than to route agents, postal clerks or those ever faithful, all weather workers called carriers. To de all employe in the postal service is synonymous with honesty and integrity. Postal service has indeed arrived at great perfection since its inaugurationas a distinct service by the English during the thirteenth cen tury, when at first organized as a necessary branch to facilitate government purposes only, though at a later period its use was permitted to private individuals, but ata relative heavy expense to its patrons, and there are those within the hearing of my voice who will remember the regular charge of twenty-live cents postage to mail.a single letter for it shorter distance in this country than hence to New York. The quantity of mail matter received, attended to in transit und delivered in a single day, throughout our country, is simply enormous, and comparatively speaking so complete is the present system and so well performed are its workings that a few indi.
viduals are enabled to produce results which could not be effected -each person acting independently-by the exertions of the entire population. It must be that our postal service is not only nearly pertect but admirably conducted, since other nations are attracted by its completeness and management and have sent postal commissions to our country that its features may be known to them. If the system is so considered to whom are we more indebted thun to those whose diligence has made this system a success! There 18 110 desire to flutter in this remark but to simply acknowledge that which is due. Gentlemen, 1 will not detain you longer, for you have something else, and probably more agreeable, to do than to listen, which you have so kindly, to me. So I will close with the hope that your fraternal action may be harmonious, resulting in the greatest good to your association, and that when you shall nave finished the work for which you have co ivenod, separated, reached your hom*os and allotted places, prepared with renewed eilergy for the performance of your respective duties, you will ever rotain, one and all, pleasant memories of your business and social experience in our beautiful city of Cleveland, and feel assured, should you again visit us, you will receive a generous reception.
President Dunne responded briefly in behalf of the association and thanked the citizens of Cleveland for their hearty reception. The P'resident then aunounced that the first business before the convention was the appointment of it Committee on Credentials. 'The following gentlemen were appointed as this committee: R. N. Watrong, First division; James Johnson, Second division; P.
M. Smith, Third division; Wallace Rhodes, Fourth division; J. W. Fifth division; L. L.
Troy, Sixth division; J. B. Shutliff, Seventh division; Eighth division not represented; MI. D. Kirk, Ninth division.
President I. C. Dunne, of St. Lonis, then delivered the following as his ANNUAL ADDRESS: GENTLEMEN AND BROTHERS OF TILE UNITED STATES MAIL SERVICE MUTUAL BENEFIT ASSOCIATION: -Another year has been added to' the age of our still young organization, and we have again met together to renew previous pledges of friendsnip and to renew the noble work which we will have be our done constant a body, and which, I hope, it cudeavor to perpetuate. months have rolled by since we greeted each other last in a gathering of this kind, and during this long interval much has transpired to furnish subjects of fruitful discussion, and to call for our hearty and united self congratulation.
Providenco has dealt most kindly with us and we have dealt most kindly with each other. We have some few sorrows to look back to, it is true, but they are of that inevitable character that attaches to all human organizations; that death and disability visited our ranks, we have reason to grieve, and we feel as tenderly for the missing ones as it is within the possibilities of tender hearts and cemented friendships so to do, but beyond this wo have nothing to regrot, 110 cause to wish that the year was rolled back and its record blotted out forever--not tho shadow or scintilla of a reason for saying "It might have been The season closed since our last reunion has been an eminently prosperous ono for our association. The advancement of the good and beautiful work, which it is the aim of our body to accomplish, has been most material, and in all that is requisito to found a present prosperity and to point to a bright and successful future the year's record richly abounds. Apart from the business purposes that call us together we have social reasons for feeling more than ordinarily happy on this occasion. Years are long intervals in men's lives but to parted friends each is an epoch spanned with numerous fears, and the hands that clasp over the closed chasin should grasp each other the TUESDAY more tightly, that in tho yearto copio the remembrance With of the friendly grip may not pass away.
us, into whose daily business there enters the clement of ever-impending danger, these reunions have a peculiarly inbring teresting significance, and though we may scars to the gathering and evidences of narrow escapes from death, which may bo the classed fact as that half-inch we can be glimpses and of eternity, still. are here together is a pleasant one and our greeting should be the warmer and our thankfulness to Providence the more generous and warmer that such is the case. Our fellowship; association is founded in fraternity and and its mission is one of love. The widows and orphans of deceased mombers become our tender charges when death claims and carries away the head of each family, and the spirit that actuates such charity, and such Godly devotion to friendship in death should ensure united and lasting cooperation in its perpetuation by tho living membors. To this purpose every man of and heart brother must nring the fullest strength and 1 and, and in joining these, as they are bore jomed to-day, and have remainod joined since the organization of our Mutual Beuefit Association, the fullest assurance will be given of the greatest amount of success.
Union is as nocessary to strength in benevolence as in any other undertaking, an 1 as the benevolence of a brotherhood like ours makes an irresistible demand for united effort, it is to be hoped the friendly relations already existing in our organization will continue and that the growth of the goodness of the body will never be obstructed or distracted by individual dissension. In speaking of the success of the association, a word must be spoken in commendation of the men who have day in and day out labored assiduously and untiringly for the reward building up of the society, and whose only is had in witnessing the glorious result of their own work. No amount of thanks on our part can repay the efforts of these men, and no amount of money can represent the value of the good they have done and are still doing, but it will bu a ure to them beyond purchaso and a fortune that the world's gold will not equal, to look back in coming years upon the immense benefit they have brought throughout the country, and to recall the tears and sorrows and miseries their work has blotted out and replaced by the smiles and sunlight of happiness and prosperity. That you may understand more readily the necessity for keeping alive and widening the the influence of our association and for according greatest mead of credit to the men who are constantly hard at work in its behalf a statement of what has been accomplished since its organization and of the good that has been done is furnished as follows by Mr. James, the General Secretary and Treasurer: Since the organization of our Association we have disbursed $57,000.
We have made thirty-tive assessments, for which we have paid into the Treasury $02 per member, or an average of per year. During the past year there have been ten assessments made, two of which were paid from the surplus in the Treasury, and for the remaining eight each member has contributed the sum of $10.80, or $2.10 for each assessment. We have paid to the heirs of deceased members $13,000 and 89,000 on account of total disability in the case of William A. Peck; and we have in the Treasury to day the neat sum of $2,500, Of' 8500 over and above the amount necessary pay assessment No. 30.
From the foregoing statement you will see that our insurance has cost us $8.25 per 81,000 and that each assessment has paid to the heirs of deceased members the full sum called for in our bylaws, $3,000. The present condition of our Association is one that calls for much congratulation, and should be an incentive to the furtherance of the objects it was and is designed to acconplish. Upon the adjournment of the last convention the number of members upon the books of the Association was 1,608, and upon the assembling of this convention your tary and Treasurer reports the membership to 1,950, showing an increase during the year of 293 members, In addition to this gratifying showing there is further cause for congratulation, in that during this tine fiftysix members who had been dropped out of the Association have rejoined and are once again enlisted in the ranks, working like beavers for the success of the cause, and have come to their early love, this time, to stay. To many it would appear that membership in a mutual benefit association numbering 1,950 names on its rolls should be productive of more good to the individual members, or, in other words, that every third assessment should be paid out of the surplus in the treasury. But these persons forget that the whole number of certiticates is but 19, including 35 deceased and many lapsed members, together with members who became delinquent for two, three or more assessments and then joined the association as new members.
This condition of affairs creates a little dissatisfaction at present; still I think that with a proper understanding of the matter, which will come in time, every thing will eventually be set straight for the now few dissatisfied menbers. Since our last gathering we have had cause to regret the loss of some of our first and most earnest workers in the Association-prominent in the death list being the name of our well beloved friend, Colonel J. J. Palmer, of New Orleans. He was a man whom to know was to esteem, and whose absence from this meeting to-day is, I have no doubt, regretted by every one present.
Ile was a brave, honest, God-fearing gentleman, and if there is reward for goodness in the hereafter our dead friend and fellow-worker has secured a largo and deserved share of it. Before closing my remarks let me again impress upon you the necessity of preserving the principles of our association. Here to day let old friendships be renewed, new ones formed and all misunderstandings of the past, if there be any such, buried in oblivion. Kindly feeling towards each other is at the bottom of our organization. It has been our policy from the very beginning, and it has borne pleasant fruit within our ranks, while it has redoun led to the benetit of the service generally by the promotion of the spirit of harmony and mutual forbearance SO absolutely essential to the successful working of the postal system.
And standing before you in this position to-day I feel that Ican render 110 higher service than to impress upon your minds the necessity for steadfast continuance in the paths of pleasantness, harmony and sincere good-fellowship. The suggestion has been made by some members, and the subject will be discussed in the convention, that the meetings of the association he hereafter held every two years instead of every year, as at present. The suggestion is a good one and I hope it will be adopted. Being a body national in character, with a membership extending to every part of the Union, much time and expense is necessarily entailed on attending these gatherings. Both would be greatly economized by the biennial meeting.
which would be frequent onough for the transaction of our business. Add to this that the suggu tion has the sanction of the General Superintendent, Mr. Thompson, who promises, in case of its adoption, that he will be able to arrange with the railroad companics for tho transportation of so many delegates from each Postal Division, and there is reason not only for regarding the question favorable, but for providing at once that it becalle rule of the Association. 1 hope the members will give this subject their kindest consideration when it is presented and will vote OIL it intelligently. Not that any of us desire to prolong the interval between mectings, but knowing that our own best interests will be subserved by a change, while the heart regrets that the time cannot be shortened instead of lengthened, the head dictates that there is wisdom in the new plan, and that whether we meet overy year or every five years the same unanimity of feeling and individuality of purposo will continue to exist, and the association will keep on gathering strength and growing in proportions even at swifter pace than during the time since its inception.
It is with the most grateful feelings, gentlemen follow-members, that 1 thank you for tho kind and friendly spirit you have exhibited toward me, not only in making mo your President, but in making the position one of comparative ease and pleasant relations, during the past year. You have held to your trusts with uncompromising faith and I have tried to do the same. We have all worked as if we loved the labor of doing each other good, and as we clasp hands to-day with full hearts let it bo in the hope that this may not be the last reunion in which wo all will participate, and that it will be by no means the last occasion when good words may bu spoken for and of the officers and members of the United States Railway Mail Service Mutual Benefit Association. The convention decided to employ a stenographer, after which a recess was taken to await the report of the Committee on Credentials. After waiting about half an hour the President called the meeting to order, stating that in the absence of the Committee on Credentials the convention might proceed with business.
I. A. Harrington, of the First Division, and' R. S. Burton, of the Third Division, were appointed to fill vacancies in the Finance Committee.
Mr. W. W. James, of Washington, 0., General Secretary and Treasurer of the Association, submitted his annual report, which was referred to the Committee on Finance. Continued ou Fourth Page.
NUMBER 220. "DIE BURSCHENPAUKEREI." AN OLD CUSTOM VANISHES. Leipsic and Munich Prohibit the Old-Time Student Duelling and Make Safe the Bursch of the Future. London Standard. Of all European countries Germany, perhaps, moves the slowest.
Of all German institutions the universities are the most conservative as regards their rights and their observances. Old- World customs and outlandish fashions have been here kept green from A time beyond which the chronicles of men run not to the coatrary. Few of the German universities have any regular buildings; and the university, as distinct from the colleges belonging to it, is 3 something unknown. Here, in some back street, redolent of all insanitoriness, is the laboratory of a chemical lecturer famous all over Europe; under the linden trees, 8 little way off, discourses a theologian whose utterances have ere now disturbed the sleep of many a cathedral close; while in another part of the busy town lie, scattered in twos and threes it may be, the lecture-rooms of the other professors and of the Privatdocenten. But round the walls of these museums, laboratories or lecture-rooms, the modern world has long surged without the inmates seeming to heed the sound.
But even the German universities move. One after auother of their cherished usages are being attacked by a Philistine race in sympathy neither with their ways nor with the des potic governments which for reasons of their own have sO long either encouraged or winked at them. But while a score of strange and mystic rites died out of Heidelberg, Jena or Halle, duelling still maintained its place among the German 35 2 kind of historical landmark for a civilized age to learn what had been the mauners and customs of their barbarous forefathers. As for the students, -they considered that to hack and be hacked were privileges too sacred to be touched by profane policemen's hauds. To have abolished them twenty years ago would have created a revolution almost as great as if "corps" and "kneipen" had been decreed out of life and beer and tobacco raised in price.
But even duelling is doomed. The edict has gone forth in Leipsic Munich that the bursch shall no longer be an exception to the rule that no civilian shall kill his neighbor with impunity. Most certain siyu of all that the authorities are in earnest -the Bavarian police have incarcerated for three months in the common jail several vouths who took part in 8 duel. Duelling and the virtual a acquiescence of the authorities in it was something very dear to the heart of the average German student. Until he had appeared as princiin one of these mimic onsets he could bardly hold up his head among his fellows; while a reputation as a swordsman always commanded for him the best seat and the most profound respect.
These duels were invariably fought with swords: the pistol was never a weapon much in favor with the truculent bursch, being altogether not too certain and much too lethal in its character. In most of the universities the arm used was the long German sword, the hilt of which being well sheltered with a "shield" acted as a good guard to the combatant's wrist. In Jena very mediwval university -the gladiators used the schlagen, a weapon with a blade three feet and al half in length, and of a triangular form, like a bayonet. But the handle, being protected by a tin plate ten inches in diameter, jocosely known as soup plate," the swordsmen actually fought behind little bucklers. The schlugen, moreover, being able to be unscrewed -handle, soup plate and blade--was a very convenient weapon, for the duelists could put their cold iron in their pockct, listen to a prelection about Fichte or Ilegel ou the tituess aud eternity of things, and then adjourn, without loss of time, to the garden behind Fritz Muller's Gasthaus aod have it out, At oue time these student duels were really as formida ble as 1he name might imply.
The chief aim of the combatants was to maim each other, and off an ca: or the end of a nose Was accounted a feat worthy of all honor. At first this method of settling differences was only resorted to in cases of extreme difficulty, but latterly on any pretense. or on none at all, a challenge Was sent, until, as the fatality of the duels decreased, their number multiplied so prodigiously that dulling in some of the as those of Leipsic, Berlin, Jena aud Gottingen -became perfect. mania and al public nuisance. In Gottingen us many 98 thirty have been fought in one day, and some of these even within the of this freneration were fatal.
"Semester" after 'semester" they would be very harm until there appeared on the scene a Paul de Cassagnac of the North. Such was the case about forty years ago, when Herr Luderf, quick of eye, long of arm and there arrived in that learned To town a certain strong of wrist beyond the song of Hermann. Soon he became a terror to the inhabitants inside and outside the university, whose legs and arms he lopped off with his Saxon giaive ay if they had been twigs. Luckily. ju-t as the town was being turned Into a surgica' hospital, death kindly carrid off the terrible Herr Luderf by consumption.
But such sanguinary gladiators have long been mere traditions. Students with scars are not uncommon, and noiseless burschen 1'C repotted, though rarely seen. Indeed. of late years "burschen-paukerei" have become little more than fencing feats with alged foils. The combatants Were padded on evory spot at all likely to 1 injured: their necks were protected with flock collar, their stoinachs with a stout apron.
while over the head and face was a broad covering of hide, which effectually prevented any injury to the quarter in which the capital of the future doctor of philosophy was placed. Duels were usually tought in a beer shop, or, if the weather was good, in some suburban hotel garden. Thi "'Courts of Honor" which were established in order to prevent. these only multiplied them, for hey simply and formulated the insults which Were 10 he con sidered proper provocations. if the champion of one "corps" was anxiou- to bring on a combat with the pet of a rival oue, he knew that ho bad only to say to him "schweinhund" (pig douror dummer (foolish boy) 10 be in-tantly accommodated.
Indeed, "dummer junge is an ancient provocation, for it is the exact equivalent of that "arga" which by the old Lombard law was looked upon as a gentlemanly affront. In some universities the "Comment," or established rule, required twenty-four cuts for the jange" insult aud as many for the epithet infamous;" while "pig dog" was considered by these youthful casuists as of minor importance, and therefore to be wiped out with fewer scratches There wag hardly an attempt at concealinent. The hotel keeper brought out a cask of beer, half of the steubel shod students attended to drink it, and critically watched the fun 413 they lay extended on the grass or seated al the tables, and for all the punishment awarded the combatants the Leipsic Bow street myrmidons" might have "stood laughing by." as they arc said by Byron to have done on that memorable occasion when "Little's leadless pistol inct the eye" of Francis JeTrey. If -rare chance--a student were killed his opponent received from the verity a consilium abeundi, or "hint to quit. He accordingly "went down." But his him reicyatio, or expulsion, did not prevent entering another university.
Here, however, a line was drawn; for if he were unfortunate enough to kill his man a second the way to further academic distinction was barred. In a duelling was neither word, conducive the to custom courage of nor to good ridiculous and all discipline. abuse It which, had being become an anomuly, abolished it ought 10 be abolished--and least The is, in Leipzic and Munich at less 800n follow suit. universities will doubtother versitics old abuse was allowing the uniAnother students. separate This, of jurisdiction over their of priestly right when course, was universities a remnant cloisters and the students were religious order.
In Germany shavelings the of under- some TOPICS OF THE TELEGRAPH. OUR MORNING BATCH OF NEWS. The All Absorbing Questions in the Old World -The Land of- the Plague Sends up its Daily Echo--Remarkable Letter from General Sherman. By Telegraph-Three O'Clock Edition' Special to the PLAIN DEALER. OUT OF MONEY AND GONE EAST.
COLUMBUS, Sept. Piatt faction of the National party has all the money received from Foster and the Republican Committee, and is now out of funds. Bob Schilling and Piatt havo refused to continue in the canvass have gone to New York to stump that state. They give up all hopes of doing thing more in Ohio. REPUBLICANS ALSO CRYING ITARD Tho Republican Central Committce las also started the cry that it is "hard up," but this is.only a blind.
The Republicans refuse to work, this year, without pay, believing that the committee Foster have plenty of money and can afford to pay well for any and all services rendered. In this they are correct but Foster has shut down on paying anything to men whom he thinks will work for him without pay, and this cry of "no money" is intended to assist him in his refusals. The Republican who works without pay, this year, when the national banks are contributing thousands of dollars to carry Ohio, is a foolish man. FOSTER'S CANVASS GIVEN UP--THE LEGISLATIVE FIGHT. Captain A.
L. Conger, Chairman of the Republican State Central Committee, said to a nowspaper man on Sunday that their Executive Committee had been paying too much atteution to Foster and too little to the Legislature, and that hereafter Foster would be left to run his own campaign. As Foster is sick and played out physically, and as Conger lives at Akron, where the Stalwart element is strong, hating Foster like the old Hurry, this declaration is taken as an indication that Foster's election is not believed to be possible and that all the Republican energies will be concentrated in carrying the Legislature and making a Stalwart United States Senator. IN CONSULTATION. Generals Ewing, Rice and Warner, Senator Thurman, lIon.
John G. Thompson, D. McConville, Senator Tyler of Brown county and other prominent politicians were in consultation with the State Executive Committee to night. EWING AT AKRON. It is reported here that Mr.
Lewis Miller will be President of tho Ewing meeting at Akron on the 22d and that ho will make a brief address on that occasion. Mr. Miller's warm fight against Monroe for Congress last year, his prominence as an inventor, as a business man and manufacturer, and in church circles attaches more than ordinary interest to his effort. ANOTHER LIE. Rush Field is the latest prominent Demodenounce the lying Republican sheets which claimed he was supporting Foster.
"See him d-d first," is the way Kush puts it. GENERAL SATISFACTION. The Cuyahoga county ticket, Legislative especially, meets with general satisfaction here, and the hope is expressed on all sides that it can be elected. Joe Poe's election is conceded by the Republicans and General Dodge's success thought pretty certain. Mr.
Schellentrager's German friends here say he will run ahead of the ticket. GOING TO WASHINGTON. Chairman McKinney and Ion. John G. Thompson will go to Washington Wednesday to attend tho meeting next day of the National Executive and Congressional Excoutive Committees.
IMPORTING VOTES. In Madison county, where tho vote on memof the Legislature has been very close for several elections, the Republicans have been discovered importing votes from Greeno county, which has large surplus Republican voto. The floaters are paid $30 (a dollar a day) to move into Madison county and romain for the thirty days prior to election. They are boarded around amongst Radical farmers. Most of the imported voters are colored men.
From Columbus. Special to the PLAIN DEALER. COLCABUS, Sept. 15. -There is much indignation manifested at the utter disregard of law manifested by the temperance people who resorted to gun-power to blow up an objectionable saloon at Westerville.
The folis the statement of Mr. and Mrs. Corbin made to the Despatch; CORBIN'S STATEMENT. "Well," gasped Corbin, in reply to a question as to how he felt, I guess you've whipped me this time. But I had no idea they would be so inhuman as to do it in this way.
1'd have done right it they'd treated my like a human being; but they have hounded me and persecuted me until they roused all the devil there was in me, and I determined to fight it out. But they've done for me this time. It's the facts, though, you want. Well, I don't know just how it did happen. You see my wife and I were sleeping down stairs in the room back of the office, and our baby was sleeping with us, two other children sleeping in the same room, but in another bed in an opposite corner.
I was first awakened by a terrific report, something striking me at the to iny wife "I'm shot," at the same time sanie time upon the head and a body. I called endoavoring to get up, but found I could not move. After awhile my wife, having found the baby, pulled some timbut bers I off could from not Il10 and lifted 1110 up, walk. I had a hole knocked in the head, my teeth were knocked out and my chest hurt, and the Doctor says my lungs are injured and that I am injured otherwise internally. At any rate I'm badly used up, but I don't think I'm goin' to die.
I can't just tell you the particulars of the explosion or about the wreck, for lam hurt too badly to get up; but if you will see my wife she will tell you." Corbin is undoubtedly badly injured and looks pitiable lying among the ruins of his home. Following his advice and finding his wife the following statement of the affair was obtained from Mrs. Corbin, who is a rather gool looking, intelligent woman: MRS. CORBIN'S STORY. Henry and I went to bed with the children about nine o'clock last night, the baby sleeping in the bed between us and two other children in another bed in the room, while the three boys and two servants occupied back rooms up stairs.
Our rooms were direct back of the office and over the bar, and it is estimated that the powder was placed directly under us, not ten feet from our bed. I knew nothing until awakened by the shock of the explosion and the crash of falling timbers, when I found the whole house coming down about our ears. My first thought was for my baby. The bed had been blown entirely out from under us and I found the child uninjured in the bedding. My husband found on the floor under some timbers blown completely around.
The two children who occupied tho other bed fell through a large opening which had been blown in the floor, head first into the cellar, but escaped without injury other than nervous shocks from the force of the concussion and a few bruises. The rest were uninjured but badly frightened. Who did it 1 do not know, but only suspect; how it was done I do not know, except that it was done with powder; what was tho motive I cannot concoive. I cannot tell you any more. You can see what a wreck they have mado.
l'le Plague Stricken MEMPHIS, Sept 10 a. m. four new cases and one death have been ed to the Board of health. Drs. Es3 and Winn, inspecting officers of States and tional Boards of Health, left carly morning to investigate the sickness that exists eighteen miles southwest this city at lorn Lake Island.
One death occurred there Sunday and several others are sick the neighborhood with suspicious cases of fever. J. W. Maden, Secretary of the Peabody Subsistence Association of Now Orleans, telegraphs the Howards to draw on them for $175, the bal WHISPERS OF THE WIRES. LATEST NEWS BY TELEGRAPH.
Assassination and Robbery in Missouri-A Passenger Train Wrecked on the Chicago, Burlington and Quincy Road -Foreign Intelligence. By -Four O'Clock Edition. ST. LOUIS, Sept. Sturman, an old citizen of Charibon county, was assassinated while traveling along the road in a buggy, about fifteen miles from Glasgow, buckshot last and Saturday two night.
Some twenty pistol balls entered his body, killing him instantly. There is no clue to the murderers. Dr. Sturman was a very desperate and quarrelsome man, universally disliked by his neighbors, and it is thought that no particular pains will be taken to ferret out the perpetrators of the crime, The body of a man, supposed to be lIarry Merritt, a traveler for a soap manufactory at Buffalo or Dayton, Ohio, was found dead Pacific and terribly mangled on the Missouri Railroad track, near Connor Station, Wyandotte county, Kansas, Sunday morning. An examination showed the man to have been murdered, he having a pistol ball in his head and a terrible stab in the left breast.
Ile had also been robbed, his body then thrown on the track and run over by a freight train and nearly torn to picces. George Greenwood was shot and killed by Frank Moffat, at Hannibal, Sunday night. Whisky and a quarrel about a woman brought on the row, which terminated in murder. Moffat gave himself up. Foreign Notes.
LONDON, Sept. 17. -Yakoob Khan has sent another letter to Ali Kheyl, expressing his deep grief and distress at receut events. Ile says he has confidence in the British government and announces his intention the offenders. Forty oflicers and over eleven hundred in men leave Queenstown promptly to engage operations against Afghanistan.
LONDON, Sept. proof of the depression in trade, the chairman of the Annual Congress of Trades Unions stated that four of principal unions spent £200,000 in relieving members during the past year. Home LONDON, Rule Sept. member Henry, a in the Parliament for Galway, declines having any connection with the scheme for the Irish National Convention. He describes a plan.
and invitation to the Home Rule League to commit suicide. Passenger Train Wrecked. CHICAGO, Sept. special from Quincy says the incoming passenger train at on 9:40 the Chicago, Burlington Quincy road last night was wrecked seven miles from this city while under ordinary speed by a tie which some maiicious persou had bound across the track. A.
N. Pease, fire man, was instantly killed; James McMillan, engineer, badly hurt, and postal clerks Pierce and Gillan severely injured. Nominated. New YORK, Sept. Cooper nominated Seth.
C. lawley Police Coinmissioner in place of Wheeler, whose term expired nude whom the Board of Aldermen rejected renomination. That Income Tax Suit. New York, Sept. income tax suit of the government against Tilden is set down for to-morrow.
ALLEGED OFFICIAL BRIBERY. Continuation of the Investigation of the Charges Against Councilman Leonard. 'The investigation of the charges of ac. cepting bribes made against Councilman Leonard was resumed this (Tuesday) forenoon in the City Hall. The special committee (Councilmen P.
M. Spencer, Walworth and Reilley), Solicitor leisley, Councilman Leonard and S. E. Adams, his counsel, Councilmen Darragh, Branch, Buettner, Glen, Luce and others were present. The first witness called was Captain S.
F. Drake, who was discharged some months ago from the position of Captain of the Viaduct and now employed in one of the city cemeterics. Ile testitied that one day Leonard was driving fast over the Viacinct when driving witness pretty asked fast?" him: "Are you whereupon Mr. Leonard told witness to "go to hell." Some time after that, during May, Messrs. Leonard and Darragh went to witness and wanted him to settle.
Leonard stepped to one side and Darragh did the talking. Witness said he had nothing to settle. Darragh said that he had better settle and thought about $10 apiece would make it all right. Darragh thought he and Leonard could do witness much good, as an effort was being made to remove witness. George Neibes, a butcher, recalled, identitied Mr.
Darragh, who was in the room, as the one who was with Mr. Leonard and to whom he paid the $10 about which so much has been said, Mr. Leonard being present at the time. Witness had been warned that if he went into this investigation he would be sued for a thousand dollars. On cross-examination by Mr.
Darragh witness said he paid him (Darragh) $10 because he asked for it and said he would give a good word to Leonard about getting a license for witness, who thought he and Leonard were in partnership. During a little altercation with Mr. Darragh, the witness said be could prove by his son Jack, who saw it, that he paid the money to Darragh. Councilman Darragh was next called. Ile testified that he was with Mr.
Leonard once in the place of Neibes. lIe did not exactly know what business he or Mr. Leonard had there. lIe sat in the buggy Mr. Leonard went in aud after awhile went in himself.
Witness did not say auything to Neibes or any one clse about money for a slaughtering or any other license. Witness went that day to ride at Leonard's invitation to see something about a piano. As they went from place to place witness held the horse while Leonard went into the places where they stopped. At Neibes' place they in pected the establishment. Witness treated and paid and Leonard offered to treat but Neibes (who keeps a saloon) would not take pay from Leonard.
Witness did not go to the place with Leonard the second time; Neibes never handed him an cuvelope; he was not alone with Neibes or did not have any conversation with him. Neibes did not give witness $10 or any other amount of moncy. Witness denied ever having any such talk with Captain Drake as the latter swore to. One time Drake had some quarrel on the Viaduct with Leonard, in which they each other liars and Leonard was going to jump out of his buggy to knock Drake down when Market Superintendent Beck, who was riding with him, prevented him. Witness advised Drake that WAS no place to quarrel and block up travel.
That was the only conversation he had with Drake. Witness never said anything to Neibes about coni pensating Leonard for his time, trouble and horse expense. Mr. Darragh said that he never asked money from anyone, never had money intimated to him by anyone but once; that was when he had been at the Council but a week and that had nothing to do with this case. Mr.
Darragh said that since he had been brought up on rumors: he would like to tell some rumors, he had heard about other officials; he thought he had a to do it and insisted for some time that he right should be permitted to to to to to to to to to to say what he had heard, for it might lead to something. lIe said he didn't know anything of the truth of rumors them but he had "heard a good deal of and I'm a going to give 'em to you if you leave. And I'll give them in the Council if I can't give them here." The committee, after consultation, decided that at this time they would hear anything he knew but did not wish to hear mere rumors. Mr. Adams argued that if the committee shut Mr.
Darragh off the public would think he was going to say something about some Councilman which some member of the committee think had better not be let out. thought Mr. Darragh ought to have a chance. Mr. Leonard thought what Mr.
Darragh might say might lead to do some evidence which would be material in this case; he would like to have him go on. Mr. Darragh said he could not prove what he wanted to tell but he would give his sources of information and the" committee could forin their own judgment. The Solicitor suggested that Mr. Darragh give the committec the names of his informants and let them be After a long sion, the committee decided not to receive such rumors but that they would permit Mr.
Darragh to give the committee information of witnesses or testimony of anything "crooked" in Councilmen. Mr. Leonard made an earnest appeal to have Mr. Darragh permitted to teil what he had to say. committee decided that this was not The just the time.
Mr. Darragh said he would come any time. After more debate, the committee determined that Mr. Darragh might go on. Mr.
Darragh prefaced his statement by saying that he would not pretend to be able to prove re what he was going to say but he could give his authority for some of it. At this point J. F. Neibes, son of the man who said he paid $10 for a license, appeared and Mr. Darragh's statement was interrupted to hear him.
He testified that he saw Leonard and Darragh at his father's place twice. lIe heard no convershtion but on the second visit saw his father all envelope to one of them, to Mr. Darragh he thought. Mr. Darragh then proceeded 1 to state that some time after the Mayor had the appointments a man, named Probert, he thought, went to his house, said he was a butcher and thought he could get the apdent pointment of Deputy Market Superintenand wanted him to get Leonard to help him get the appointment.
Parties went to the witness and asked if he could not get Mr. Leonard to go for Probert. Dan Rogers waS one. Some one, Dan Rogers, he thought, marked 200 on much would be coming to them. Witknew nothing more of that.
Captain Sims was passing witness' house Monday afternoon and talked about the investigation. Witness said he saw his (witness') name in it. Captain Sims said there ought to be more names in it. The conversation turned on railroads and Captain Sims thought some one ought to be investigated on the Kinsman street railroad matter. Witness told him a he knew all about obbying and piece of paper and said if Leonard and the committee would work for Probert that ought to say something.
Captain Sims said he thought Councilmen Reilley, Gilbert and Clark know something about it. A man named O' Malia heard the conversation. Witness said he knew of some more things but that was all. Mr. Adams said to the committee, "Well, now, gentlemen, all this amounts to nothing." Dir.
Reilley said he was glad this had happened, as it gave the committce an opportuuity to call Captain Sims, he had been wanting to get him before the committee to tell under oath what he knows. The Solicitor said that would de a good plan, get Captain Sims before the committee and have him tell what he The committee then adjourned two o'clock in the afternoon. TOWN AND COUNTRY LETTERS. opinions of editors disclaim responsibility for the contributors, whether their articles are signed or anonymous.1 Ewing, Rice. Warner aud Reemelin in EDITORS PLAIN -The Democracy Mource County.
of old banner Monroe are all ablaze with enthusiasm. Ewing, Rice, Warner and Reemelin to day addressed the largest meeting ever held in Monroe county. It numbered not less than from six to seven thousand. The procession of carriages and wagons was nearly two miles long, saying nothing of tho thousands who came on horseback and on foot. Four brass bands and two military bands led the delegations.
Our village was wreaths decorated with hundreds of banners, and young hickories. The speakers fairly outdid themselves. The great multitude of people, the soulstirring music and the gay banners and telling inscriptions inspired the crowd with enthusiasm, and this inspired the speakers. Mr. Reemnelin spoke in German at different stand from the other speakers, and his crowd of itself was more than an average mass meeting.
But the most glorious result of the meeting is in the practical work done. The Greenbackers had called nine meetings at different points in the county for the same day with a view, it is believed, of keeping their members from hearing our speakers. But they came, and scores of them went away saying, "That is good enough for me." "I will vote for Ewing and Rice." It is doubtful if any other meeting ever held in the state has resulted in changing so great a number of votes. The scores will be hundreds by the day of the election, who needed only a clear and forcible exposition of Democratic policy to convince them of the folly, not to say wickedness, of aid throwing and comfort their to votes away and thus giving We greot the their oppressors. bid them prepare for glorious news state, and Democracy of the "Old from B.
WOODSFIELD, Sept. 13. WASHINGTON NOTES. As a result of the investigation of the charges against the Postmaster at Erie, Pennsylvania, it is understood that official will removed and his successor appointed without delay. The following is the mouthly report of the Department of Agriculture, showing the condition of the cotton, corn and tobacco crop: Cotton returns to the Department September 1st show a heavy decline during August, The gencral avcrage is 85, against 91 the month previous.
The average condition for corn for the whole country September 1st was 95 against 93 in August. 'The average condition of the tobacco crop for the whole country September 1st was 87, an advance of teu per cent. from the condition August 1st, and an advance of cent. over the dition the same time last year. George Fleury, on trial for burglary, was this morning acquitted.
The New Laundry opened by Messr3 Hermann Ablers 312 Euclid avenue, in connection with their extensive shirt busi-. ness works to a charm. Give them a trial at old work. 812 Euclid avenue,.
