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??k ' A RUSSIAN COURTSHIP. "Be mine!" said the ardent young Saw_ milegoff. In a voice with emotion quite husky; "My fondest devotion, O please do not scoff, Kaifnka Pojakaroluski!" "Techernyschevsky, my friend," the shy maiden replied, "Your people are noble and rich; Would a GolgusofTs granddaughter be a fit bride For a nephew of Maximovitch?" "I care not a kopeck! 'he said. "In my droshky I have you safe now, and I laugh At the wealth of a Klitkin or Overhauloehki, Gojavnik orPullerzedoff. "You are "worth more to me than the gold of Slugmiski, Brakemupski or Sumarakoff! Kfttinfcn Pojakaroluski, it's risky, But I'm going to carry you off!" And this Is the way the young Sawmilegoff Put an end to all further discussion; Twaa a simpler proceeding to carry her oil Than to go on courting in Russian. GOSSIP FROM GOTHAM. * " TAE TROUBLE THAT WILL ESTRANGE THE IRISH-AMERICANS - From the Republican Party?The Hooaier State Safe for Democracy?Something will Drop on the Padfls Slope in November. Campaign Honey and] literature?Blackmailing Backet?The Would-be Mr. Jer^ ?ey Lily Despondent. New York, August 28.?President Cleveland's message on the Senate's rejection of the fisheries treaty is still the uppermost theme in political discussion. It is impossible to overestimate the astonishment and consternation which this welltimed bomb caused in the camp of the enemy. It shattered the main string of their campaign fiddle?the pro English wMAAltmKofl Af flho Tiomru^roHr* mrt.v qq UiUVli* VI bUU W4MW* ^ seen through protection spectacles. In the opinion of the directors of the Democratic campaign at the national headquarters, Mr. Blaine's rabid utterances in point will still further estrange the Irish-American element from thellepublican party. One ot the visitors at headquarters yesterday was Chairman Jewett, of the Indiana Democratic State Committee. At no time since the Chicago Convention, Mr. Jewett says, has there been so. much enthusiasm in the Hoosier State for the Democratic ticket. He thinks the State is safe beyond peradventure. His committee have organized the State thoroughly by counties, and a rough poll of the voters shows a material net increase of the Democratic strength. There was a messenger of good tidings from California also yesterday in the person of Ex-Governor Stoneman, who says that without any doubt the G, O. P. will "hear something drop" or. the Pacific slope in November. Not since the memorable TOden campaign has so much literature been dispensed for the edification of rural voters as in the piesent campaign. Besides the millions of tariff documents scattered broadcast throughout New York, New Jersey and Connecticut, a most determined effort is being made to capture the half-dozen agricultural States of the Northwest, which are usually found in the Republican col /ir.f ? T>_' T\~ umn. V/uairiuau liiit-e, ul ute i/cmuuam. Committee, expressed the utmost confidence in the success of the party in three or four of these Northwestern commonwealths. This work is to be put in charge of a special sub-committee. The reported contribution of $10,000 to the campaign fund-by President Cleveland is probably correct. It is also true that Jlessrs. Brice, Scott, Oelrichsand probably Barnumof the Democratic Committee have each chipped in something very handsome. The ^report is that the amount of each of these gentlemen's contributions is from $20,000^JO-SSflLQQft-^Some^-time since, it wm 5e remembered that "busy Dame Rumor ran up these figures to $1,000,000, but this "was lather much for public credul ity. Tie .rresicLent nas aiwayd Deen a noeral giver to the campaign fund. There has been little or no excitement over the meeting of the Republican State Convention at Saratoga. "Weefc* ago, as indicated in these letters, it was perfectly apparent that YTamer Miller would lead the forlorn hope of his party. Miller is far too shrewd a politician to nurse any .hopes of a permanent residence at Albany, br.t he realizes the fact that the nomination will strengthen his faltering gripon the machir e and serve him good purpose by keeping his name before the public. It is a long time to Senatorial election, and it will take a strong man to bowl out Mr. Evarts; so Miller proposes to shut his eyes reverently and grab for everything in sight. The channels of money-making in a great city are various. One, a little crooked though it be, which is frequently used, is blackmail. Thousands of petty cases, of course, never come to light; but occasionally we have one which, from its revolting character, touches the public heart. A case in point is that of the ghouls who have been attempting to extort money from Mrs. Corwin, a well-to-do Jersey City widow, using as a lever the bones of her deceased "Y. son. In many respects the case resembled . that of the rape of the late A T. Stewart's grave. In one essential respect it differed? ^ the scoundrels were merely working on the poor woman's fears, while the sepulchre was really undisturbed. Another of that crooked gentry who is now claiming a deal of public attention is a fellow who claims Clark as one of his dozen names. He has been engaged systematically in swindling tradesmen of this city by means of forged checks. Having accumulated several thousand dollars in this way, the rascal provided himself with # the finest clothes fashionable tailors could make, and proceeded to Newport, where for weeks he posed as the grand swell. His quick wit andyivid imagination gained for mm the entree into the most exclusive circles of that ultra fashionable resort, and half of the society women are said to haye lost their heads over him. A day or two since a vulgar man dressed in blue pounced down , upon the lion of the seaside and brought him into New York to answer a few dozen charges of common swindling. The evidence against him is complete enough to consign him to Sing Sing for the rest of his days. T(Vo/^/4T> a. 4 WUUJ \^vk/un.l u, nuvu* tTWJUUUJ knows as the young Fifth Avenue dude of Langtiy association, is said to be a victim of acute melancholia. Almost- ever since the Jersey Lily burst upon an admiring host of Americans, Freddy has been her constant attendant. It is an open secret that when she has lived long enough in A-mgrffft to put off such bonds as hold her to her British spouse, she is to become Mrs. Gebhard. This has been published time and time again, and at least once to my knowledge upon Mrs. Langtiy's authority. Whether anything has happened recently to give the young man the blues, it is quite difficult to say. His physicians are responsible for, the statement that his health has become shattered, and yesterday he took passage for Europe for an extended tour. Mrs. Langtry will open her regular season at Omaha early in October. There will be high jinks in this town when the Old Roman pays his promised visit. Though not official! v riven nnt. it. ic understood that he -will beliere early in September. Already arrangements are being made for a monster demonstration to greet him. Each of the Democratic organizations will do its best to turn out its trill strength, and 200,000 men are expected to take parts in the demontration in one way or another. There is no accounting for taste. The Chicago girl, for instance, gets just as much enjoyment out of a kiss as her Boston sister from interlabial communication. A man who was struck by & two-inch stream from a fire engine the other day has prepared a bill for the legislature, requiring all fire companies to confine themselves to the use of soft water. Young women whose hair is" prematurely silvered are at a premium in society just BOW. I??H?? ???I Aurora and Epaminondas. "Have you 110 v.ord of comfort for me, Aurora?" Epaminondas Chugg gazed in strong despair at the young womsn who, in a few brief and coldly spoken words, had ended the brightest dream of his life. Aurora Fitzgarlick was beautiful as a showman's $10,000 dream. To a faultless face and elegantly upholstered figure she united a voice like an echo from the choir q{ paradise and a paternal progenitor with the largest bank account of any operator on the street. Many and many a time had Epaminondas sat in a Queen Anne chair in the Fitzgarlick parlor drinking in her Eastlake Michigan beauty until his head ached. Many 2 time had he proudly attended her to the theatre, the opera, and the restaurant, and subsequently tossed upon his restless couch the livelong night in tho pangs of love and indigestion. The hour had come at last when he could keep silent no longer. He had d eclared himself and been informed with cold politeness by I the heiress of the Fitzgarlick millions that she regretted to be compelled to return ! his proffered hand and heart as unavailable for her use. 1 "What can I sav, Mr. Chugg, that will I soften the blow which it deeply pains me : to inflict?" she said, in reply to his despairing question. "Add a postscript of some kind," he said, wildly: "give mean open datq or a chance to hedge. If you Cftfi't grant me a rehearing don't crush me by a cold sentence of death. Commend me at least to the mercy of heaven." "Mr. Chugg," exclaimed the lovely maiden in alarm, "vou speak with strange I incoherency. You have read toe much campaign poetry." [* "Aurora Fitzgarlick," replied Epaminondas Chugg, In a voice whose tragic misery thrilled her to the remotest fiber of her being, "I have read nothing for six weeks except William D. HoweUs* last novel." "0, my poor Epaminondaa!" impulsively burst from the lips of the beautiful girl, while her eyes kindled with tender pity and her face lit up with a passion born radiance, "you have endured enough affliction already I If a lifetime of loving devotion will compensate you for the sufferings of these six weeks take me?I am yours!"?Chicago Tribune. Normandy Coast Fiahlng Excursion. I was most anxious to go on a fishing expedition, and a few days after I arrived quite a large party of us started from the villa. It was all sucb a new thing to me that I examined curiously all belonging to it with no common interest. My costume, as well as those of the other ladies, was most peculiar. We had on our bathing suits, over which we wore short jackets of striped flannel; pretty cork shoes and large straw hats completed our attire. Some carried pitchforks and buckets, others nets and poles. The ?en tiemen wore KnicKeroocKers ana. bllujtu jackets and went barefooted. On the beach we found a number of donkey carts awaiting us, and small boys in attendance, who were to beat the poor beasts in case they became refractory. The tide was well on its way out?it falls or recedes from two to three miles each day?and we had several hours before us for our trip. With much urging and slow advancing we arrived at a good spot, so the gentlemen assured us, and seizing the pitchforks we all began to dig. The first removal of sand showed me quantities of small fishes squirming around in the wet and loosened sand. Grabbing them up in our hands we deposited them in our pails, and so went from place to place fishing in this most curious manner. It became quite exciting toward the end. for we made wagers as to who would gather the greatest quantity, and in our hurry to grab all we could see half wotdd squirm out of our hands litrw eels. These tiny fish are a species of anchovy, and make a most delicious frit-ore, well repaying one at dinner time for the : trouble of hunting them.?Cor. Argonaut. Medicine for Canine Pets. Never treat your dog roughly in administering medicine. Kindness will bring about quicker and better results than force. Give medicines that are in the form of powders in gelatine capsules. To administer these take the dog, if a small one, on your knee, if a large one, between the knees, open the mouth gently but firmly, holding the head up as high as you can, and have some one to put the capsules as far down the throat as possible, now close the jaws and give the dog a- sharp tap under the chin, which will cause him to swallow the capsule. When liquid medicines are not of a disagreeable taste they can be given in drinking water or in broth. When it is necessary to force a dog to take them, hold him in the sanje position as when giving capsules, but do not hold the jaws no wide open, and have your assistant pour the medicine from a long necked bottle into the back part of the mouth a little at a time; Hold the nose until you are sure he has swallowed the dose. As soon as all is down give the dog a morsel of meat and take him out for a ran. This will often prevent him from vomiting the medicine.?Globe-Democrat. Preying Upon People's Grief. A' nuisance, and one that should be abated is a practice that has grown up among a class of people who prey upon grief and affliction. Every day these f" houls who live upon the mends of the ead use the mails to send hundreds of their offensive missives to a list of addresses gathered from the newspaper death notices. These are nothing less than advertisements of ? orists, embalmers, tombstone cutters, dealers in mourning goods, ate. One shrewd Philadelphian generally sencTS: a black card with some doggerel and the name of the deceased printed on it, for which he modestly asks the bereaved far-iily to send him ?1.50. But worst of all is a seedy looking fraud who purports to have been sent from some newspaper and offers (for a consideration) to write, an obituary notice which he says will be printed in the newspaper he pretends to hail from.?"Miss Justice" in New York Star. Dre'ixos of the Blind. The dreary's of the blind are of great importance, and the fact that persons born blind never dream of seeing is established by the investigations of competent inquirers. So far as we know, there is no proof of a single instance of a person bom blind ever in dreams fancying that he saw. The subject has been* treated by Joseph Jastrow in The Presbyterian Be view. He has examined nearly two hundred persons of both sexes in the institutions for the blind in Philadelphia and Baltimore. Thirty-two became blind before completing their fifth year, an? not one of these thirty-two sees in dreams. Concerning Laura Bridgman, the blind and deaf mute, Professor G. Stanley Hall, quoted by Mr. Jastrow says: "Sight and ' hearing are as absent from her dreams as : they are from the darn and -silent-world which alone she knows."?Eev. Ib. J. M. Buckley in The Cent" tj. A XegTo Who Has Cloven Feet. Among the prisoners in the Suffolk county jail at Riyerhead, L. L. is Kchard Edmonds, who, with Theodore Evans, was taken there from Amityville on Tuesday by Constable Wood, charged with grand larceny. Edmonds is a colored man and a curiosity. He has been an object of superstitious fear among the negroes because he has cloven feet. On each foot there are but the big and little toes; between them is a deft such as characterizes cloven-footed animals. The first toes of each foot turn inward, and the malformation is such that he is unable to wear shoes.?N. T. Star, Aug. 80. QUITE EXCUSABLE. She dropped a rosebud at his feet, A dainty bud, half blown, "With creamy petals, and a sweet, Flushed beauty like her own. Her loyer saw the token fallKnew what it might imply? And none the less, in sight of all, Neglected let it lie. She frowned, grew cold, as all could see, Till he explained the slight. "I cannot pick it up," said he; "My trousers are too tight. Now it is announced thatatroup of Russian musicians who play] twenty-four pianos simultaneously is coming to this country next season, and we are sfiil without a navy and without coast defences. WORKING FOR MILLIONS. THE DIVERS SEARCHING FOR THE BRAAK'S TREASURE. How tho Work is Carried On?Return of a Party of Philadelpliians from a Visit to the Spot "Where the Treasure Ship Sank. (Philadelphia Times, Aug. 30.) A private car attached to the train from Lewes, Del., last night contained a party of Philadelphia capitalists who for two days have been -watching the operations of the steamer City of Long Branch, which is now anchored off Cape Henlopen, outside the Breakwater, searching for the treasure which went down on the ^British slnnn nf-war Dfi Braak in Mav. 1798. The party consisted of James J. Kane, S. M. Bines, John H. Schreiner, Ormont Rambo, William R. Murphy, B. De Luca, Valent'ne B. Finn, James F. Scravendyka, John M. Wilkinson of Phcenixville, Robert Walzl of Baltimore and Harris Graff en. They spent the day on board the steamer and made a thorough inspection of the work, which is beingdone under the direction of Dr. Seth Pancoast and Captain Charles A. Adams, United States navy, who has been detailed by the Government for the work. The discipline on board the steamer is very strict and everything is done in a systematic manner. The bottom of the ocean has been dredged and explored by the divers for a considerable distance and eveiy elevation carefully noted on the chart. After going over the bottom for a mile square from the point at which Pilot McCracken's notes said.the De Braak sank, a mound five feet high, one hundred feet loi?g end . 01-v feet in width was found in sixty feet oi water. No other marked elevation w?s discovered within a radius of one mile. This mound is about seven hundred feet south of the location named by McCracktn. A FAVORABLE SIGN. When the grappling irons caught on this mound the points showed a slight trace of verdigris. This was considered a favorable sign, as verdigris is due only to copper. An anchor -was put out and a buoy marks the spot. Diver Charles E. Pedrick was sent tn moVo an praminfltiAn nriH a r>rnhf> which he drove into the mound was brought up with its point covered with verdigris. The records show that besides the treasure the De Braak had seventy tons of copper in her hold when she sank and was coppered above the water line. This was something unusual in ships of her day. The City of Long Branch is now anchored directly over this spot. The steamer is fitted out with all the modern machinery for raising sunken vessels. A large Bush wrecking pump, which makes 600 revolutions a minuf i and can discharge from eight to ten tons of solid matter per hour, is plactd amidships, and is under the especial charge of submarine Engineer Chp.rles F. Pike ?ad his assistant, Lewis Pike. A 20horse-power engine is us:dto run the pump, while another engine supplies the divers with air. The old style hand air pump hf 9 been entirely discarded. The air is forced through water into a receiving tank and a regular pressure of 60 pounds to the square inch is kept up. All sorts of grapples, drags and probes have been provided, and the outfit of the expedition is said to be the most complete ever sent out. DIVER PEDRICK'S FIND. Diver Pedrick, while exploring the mound, found his probe imbedded in a small piecs of wood. He signaled for a rop.3 and while waiting for it to be lowered Sit down on tie mound. His band came in contact with another piece of wood about five feet long. These pieces were sent to the surface and dried. In -See" larger piece several bolts of the style used by ship-btilderd of one hundred years ago we.e found. The iron had oxidized considi.ubly, but enough remained to show they were made by hand. A chemical 8n?_ysis of these bolts showed the presence of copps :as, which is thought to .be due to the gilvanic action of the salt water, iron and copper somewhere in the immediate vicinity. The wood, experts say, is oak and teakwood, of which the De Braak was built. A sounding pipe, which was lost dirrin? the nreliminarv sounding's, was re cover Jd in the mound by Diver IPedrick on Monday. PUMPIXG OUT THE MOUNT). The big suction was run down and the work of pumping the mound out was commenced. As the tide runs very strong between the capes and a diver must direct the big suction at the bottom, the work can only Is done at slack water and is necessarily slow. Diver Edward Hickman agrees with his colleague Pedrick, who says the m and could be pumped down in five days if they conld work at it steadily, but as they can only work for about three hours a day it wil: probably take a week to find out just what is there. Both Captain Adams and the divers feel satisfied there is a wreck of, a vessel lying under the mound. In speaking on the matter yesterday Captain Adams said: "We are all satisfied that the De Braak was sunk on May 25,1798, with its prisoners and treasure, and while KftTTo ofAno ArvTTrn roor thoro ilittUJ natg guuv uvnu we laow of no large vessel except tfie D2 Eraak my where near this mound. It is an ntablished fact that a wreck or any obstruction will, in the course of time, become covered up by the wash of the tide back and forth, and a bar is formed. There is sixty feet of water over the mound, and of course it is too deep to form a b?.r, but the tide has washed back rud forth until the wreck has been covered and the mound formed. The wreck itself may be found some distance beiow the level. * CAPTAIN ADAMS HOPEFUL. "I cannot swear that this vessel is the De Braak until we bring up something marked with the broad arrow, but every1 ' ???% ViaKnf Wo 1rr?Atnr llllUg ICttUS up w buau la^ugi. tv v she had a large amount of copper on board and a copper bottom. Everything brought to the surface so far shows the presence of copper. Although we have carefully examined every foot of the bottom within a radius of a mile from the bearings taken by Pilot McCracken, no trace of copper is found at any other point, and we therefore think we are now over the right i>pot. If we are there is no doubt of our getting everything that was in her when she went down." Yesterday the big suction was sent down ' again and the pump stcvt.-d. Diver Hickman directed it at the bottom of the ocean. Soon immense volumes of water came out of the six-inch discharge pipe and was caught in a screen, which allowed the smaller particles to run through. When Hickman jammed the suction into the mound great quantities of shells were brought up and deposited in the screen. The visitors stood near watching the mud and water. Two of the crew, armed with big scoops, were kept busy shoveling the shells from the screen to the deck. Sud1 * - r aemy oi_e 01 mew utuicu um; u?c a wood!" In an instant everyone was excitad. The man picked a piece of black substance which looked like mud from his shovel and handed it to Engineer Pike, who turned it over to Captain Adams. After a careful examination he broke a piece off and said: "Yes, gentlemen, that is wood. Perhaps it is a piece of the Braak." The lump brought up was about the size of a man's fist. Under the microscope the fibre coold be plainly traced, and eyery one pronounced it teakwood. DIVER HICKMAN'S VIEWS. As the tide was running very strong, Diver Hickman had to come up and the pump was stopped. Engineer Pike estimated that between four and five tons of solid matter had been discharged through Lhe pipe during the half hour it was at work, and said it was working satisfactorily, about forty per cent, of the discharge is solid matter. After Diver Hickman had put on his everyday clothes and solaced himself with his pipe, he said: "I think if I could have stayed down at the bottom for another hour I would have found something. I've got a hole in the edge of the mound five feet deep and I think will soon find out what's down there. If we only have good weather for a week I feel sure something will turn : up to pay us for all our trouble. If we get the treasure, and I think we are pretty close to it now, both Pedrick and myself : will be rich men. It was impossible for ' me to stay down any longer, as the tide was so strong it carried my feet from under 1 me. I think in a very short time now we will be hoisting up old brass cannons and ' then gold will come up by the bucketful." A Nervy Fidgety People. We are emphatically a people of nerves. Visitors from other lands are astonished at the fierce activity that pervades our most insignificant actions; but they themselves speedily contract restlessness and no longer marvel at wonderful developments of invention and speed of practical application. A portion of this energy is f\n A-mprirar. r.limate. which teaches in a vigorous and obtrusive manner, that quiet and rest do not form part of natural law in this country, but it is far more a result of our newness, our youth in the family of nations. Scarcely out of our swaddling clothes of history, we are called upon to stand up squarely in competition with a thousand years of past, and show the old fogies a new thing or two. And we have done it, are doing it now and apparently have shouldered a contract to keep in tie lead for all time to come. What with new instruments for annihilation of time and distance, limited express trains across the continent and unlimited chances for express speed in dissipation, the American temperament has already grown to be one of great delicacy of nerve. Our children, at an age when their contemporaries in other lands are still at school, relegate the "old folk" to the rear; and father's opinion is voted as "good, of course, but belongs to a past period." Yet, in all this mad speed, there is reason. It does not follow that we live shorter lives than elsewhere, even in length of years; that is not the case. We are not less capable of keen appreciation of good things, when once tney are introduced to as; on the contrary, we are apt to see beauty and say so, too, when not even a glanc%of pleasure shows that our slower neighbor has noticed it. But, from a medical point of view, our temperament is a dangerous one to the state, in that it does most distinctly repress reproduction. The future American will be conglomerate; the blood of our forefathers will be so far diluted that its characteristic will be lost in foreign overflowing tide, which, if sluggish in its flow, may still be of service by reclaiming from too much nervousness our fidgety people.?American Magazine. Tricks of Eastern Wizards. Alderahman, the conqueror of northern Spain, according to the Moorish chronicle of the Caliphs, once engaged a "master wizard," who introduced himself by 'making the shadow of a dial retreat by 12 degs.," an exploit which, indeed, even Russian facilities of collusion would fail to explain. That same court wizard is said to have predicted the issue of the battle of Tours (the Charles Martel affair) a full year before his royal patron crossed the Pyrennes; but in that branch of his art at least his prestige can be challenged by the record of a modern specialist. The clairvoyante Lenormand, whose sanctum in the Rue Madeleine seems to have rivaled the popularity, and almost the emoluments, of the Delphic oracle, foretold Col. Murat that his career would end on the throne of a king (certainly an augurium of quite classic ambiguity), and that his fortune would carry him far beyond the borders of his native land. She also assured ex-Jacobin Bassere that the ghosts of the past woyld- notrnBe^ against him; an<i~hen "Talleyrand visJlSw?ttp^*tBe*garb of a country curate she outlined his political vicissitudes in a way that convinced him that her keen eyes must have penetrated either his disguise or the veil of the future. In 1803 Napoleon himself could no longer resist the witchery of her growing fame, and one evening gave her a rendezvous in the library of the Tuileries. ''The rising Jouds will pass, sire," said she, "and the star of your fortune " ' ^ -1 1 will continue to mount mgner anu mguer, for years to come, till" "Go on." "Tiil the ninth year shall witness ite cline." "Et apres?" "All beyond is dark, sire." The sibyl herself kept ho record of her predictions, but the unanimous testimony of her contemporaries seems to leave no doubt that what skeptics called her random shots resulted in an amazing number of hits.?Dr. Felix L. Oswald in Cosmopolitan. Two from the School Room. A teacher in a city near New York had a small class in easy physiology. They had had several lessons on the ear, and had been so thoroughly drilled on the names and uses of all its parts, that when some visitors dropped in the teacher was glad it happened to be the hour for this class to recite. After asking several questions, and receiving prompt and correct answers, she said: "What is thft namfi of the canal in the ear?" The child hesitated a moment, and then spoke up, loud and plain: "The E-rie canal!" The visitors thought if she judged by the sound it was no wonder the child thought the Erie canal ought to be in the ear, and were, perhaps, better pleased than the teacher was with the answer. Another teacher in the same city asked one of her scholars the meaning of the word "vicissitude." "Change," was the reply. "That is right," said the teacher, "now give me a sentence with the word vicissitude in it." "My mother sent me to the store to vicissitude a dollar bill?Christian Register. The Razor Back Hog. "They are great travelers, and always cn\ in o frnf TTioir / nmHmnArtal lrwnmrv. tors are in some way connected with an internal grunting arrangement. Thi? capability for locomotion, and their j,.uate sinfulness, scientifically explain their existence in West Virginia and their ancestry. There is no authority for even supposing that all th# swine historically described as going down into the sea or lake with devils in them were drowned. The Sinaitic vatioan and Alexandrian manuscript say "choked;" so I stake my scientific reputation upon the assertion that the razor back hogs of West Virginia are descended from the survivors, of those owned by the A. D. 1 pork raisers, for the reason that they have more devil in them than can possibly be compressed into modern pork, have cloven feet, a long tail, and never miss an opportunity to upset a bucket, eat a week's washing, or squeal when the baby is asleep."? American Magazine. Twenty-three New Cases of Fever. JACKsoirviLLE, August 30.?Twenty three new cases of yellow fever were reported to the board of health for the twenty-four hours ending at 6 o'clock this after- ' noon. -Among,them are the members of : several leading families, Father Kenney, Mrs. Dr. K. P. Danial, Mrs. Susan Lengle ' and 0. S. Keene. There were three deaths 1 during the same time: Lafayette Dancy, ! confidential clerk of the internal revenue ; office; Mrs. D. J. Crowley, wife of the ' manager of the Western Union Telegraph office, and David Luigie, an Italian. A number of patients have been discharged, (but the record of discharges is no longer . kept by the board of health. I There is one certain advantage in laying lin tronsnrpq in Iimmti Tho man -orha does it may be sure that the lawyers wio fight over his will can never get at thit x portion of his estate.?Ex. "Caress" is the name of a new post office in West Virginia. If it were in Maine: now, what a picturesque address it would ? be for a young lady?Caress, Me. s The time to live is now. It is folly to i spend the days of middle life preparing to live when old. . ( An error gracefully acknowledged is a; s rictory won, N-. ^ i BELYA TO THE GRANGERS. I SHE OPENS HER CAMPAIGN AT W!LLIAMS GROVE. Decided Stand on All Issues?She Is for Prohibition, Woman Suffrage, International Peace, and Protection to "Infant" Industries. (Philadelphia Times, August 31.) Williams Grove, August 30.?The at tendance at the Grangers' picnic today was unprecedented. The Cumberland Valley Railroad was taxed to its utmost to accom modate the 15,000 people transported by it to the grove. The entire number on the ground during a portion of the day was nearly 40,000. The sensational features of the picnic were the reception and speech of Belva Lockwood, who formally opened her Presidential campaign in the presence of a large number of men and women. Belva was met by a band, which escorted her to the auditorium, where she was received in the most enthusiastic manner while she was making her way through the crowd to the platform. Norman J. Colman, United States Commissioner of Agriculture, was entertainingly speaking on the subject of farming. Belva remained an interested listener until the conclusion of the speech, several times applauding pointed remarks. Worthy Master Rhone introduced Belva as a Jady known throughout the United States for her good works, and as she gracefully stepped forward to expound the principles of her platform she was applauded. A SLAP AT CLEVELAND. She created considerable amusement by stating that she preferred to visit the grangers' gathering "to going fishing with Dan Lamont," referring to the excuse of one of her Presidential competitors. Like many other public speakers, she said, she had written out her impromptu speech, so as not to be obliged to deny the allegations of the campaign liars as" sometimes embodied in the newspapers. Her subject was "The Tendencies of Parties and Governments." f After stating that the negro had been emancipated as a military necessity and to perpetuate the dominancy of a party rather than as an act of justice, she gave a history of the progress of the past 200 years, and added: "You want protection, my brothers, but the American woman has been protected too much. She wants to come to the front and enter into competition for the offices? for money-making and money-getting?a voice as to whether the tariff shall be high or low, and whether the people are to have free whisky and tobacco and protected woolen and silk goods." PROTECTION TO "INFANT", INDUSTRIES. But she still stands for high protection on "infant" industries, even in the case of twins and triplets, but to securely protect them and raise them to full standard of American manhood and womanhood, she wants to abolish the saloon and the cigarette and'thevile literature of the day. "Our aim is to rescue the women of this country from the degradation of the one extreme and the stupidity and inanition of the other ?filling pauper asylums, workhouses and brothels with women because the skirts of honest labor have been dragging in the dust and the fair white hand preferred to the browned hand of industry, "Oh, woman, rouse up from this lethargy, this do-nothing slavery that is imperiling body andspul and dragging your sisters *3oW?Tt?T^cond1tf<Tii-^orse than death, in which the crowning duties- addressings of motherhood are ignored; from this"5tate of abject dependence, which forces you into matrimony without that necessary qualification of love to support the union, and daily loads cur divorce courts with applications for separation, or leaves the woman hanging on to the skirts of relatives for maintenance." EQUAL PAT FOR EQUAL WORK. After a reference to the supplanting of hand work by machinery, Mrs. Lookwood asked whether it was any wonder that woman asked that she should have equal rights with man, a share in the offices, equal pay for equal work, and the ballot. She said: is sue not iaxea 10 support me government, taxed for necessaries and luxuries? Beaten, robbed and murdered to maintain the license system existing in most of the States of the Union? The scales have fallen from our eyes. Education is liberty. Ignorance is slavery. We are comiDg up out of the old heathen civilization -which has held us in bondage for two hundred years, and denied to woman a soul into the broad light of a Christian civilization, in which brain force and moral force, not tyranny and brute force, shall be uppermost. Arbitration in the future with her reason and sagacity, is to take the place of war and must in the future be the rational and feasible means of settling not only international disputes, but of regulating the inter-commerce of States, harmonizing and adjusting the differences and inequalities now exist ins; between capital and labor. OUR ONLY ENEMIES. "We are as a nation too powerful and wealthy to be attacked and too moral and peaceable to take the initiative and attack an enemy. We have no enemies except th?se still rankling in our own unregenerated natures?the foes of our own household. Our danger is internal and not external; a danger that wealth and prosperity shall breed corruption; a danger that the strong shall oppress the weak; a danger that the rich shall entirely absorb the substance of the poor; a danger that the producer shall do all the work and the idler get all of the credit and the pay. Oh, more than that. The wage-worker shall become the bondman of the organized capitalists and degenerate into a slavery as absolute and grinding as though bought and sold on the block. BELVA ON TEE SURPLUS. "It would be well if some of the surplus millions in the treasury, which is bothering our good President, could be utilized in the establishment of industrial schools in cities where so many of the children of foreign-born citizens are gathered." Speaking of the history of parties, Mrs. Lockwood said: "They will outlive their usefulness, often I%AA/\VMA IAOA 4AJynMlifrr nAtta UCUJLUC VA/iJiupii, Auog yiiixibj auu jJOOO into senility and decay. A successful party must keep pace with the progress of the age that has given it existence or it will die of its inanition and a new one spring phoenix-like from its ashes. "The old machines that have been wont to control party and ignore innovation are today creaking on their rusty hinges and rapidly disintegrating while progression is the watchword of the home. One party tells you high protection is the panacea for all ills and the other lauds tariff reduction in the same way and neither takes into account that demand and supply are important considerations. Neither has done justice to woman and her dependence is in the young men." AGAIH3T CANADIAN RETALIATION. After mentioning "an international court _r ^4.4.1^ An j: a ui aruxtiawuii tu seiue aji uispuies auu vexed questions -with foreign powers and a tariff as moderate as the necessities of the government demaDd" as among the issues of the campaign, Mrs. Lookwood strayed from her manuscript and declaimed against the Canada retaliation scheme. She did Dot care whether the United States Senate or the President favored this plan of settling disputes, it was unwise. This country had had enough of war. The tariff question was a bugbear. It was sectional, not national. In the South, formerly for free trade, protection now was wanted because >f newly-developed industries. In the ? J catcl i-l J-?.C*<-t tuv/u^u W4. ;he high protection system. Mrs. Lookivood took strong grounds for civil service reform. Her remarks were frequently applauded, md at the close of her speech she was over- 1 vhelmed with congratulations by the fe nale grangers who had listened to her re- < narks. < | If this is the best time to buy coal, as we 1 ire informed by an exchange, why ihouldn't January be the best time to lay n fly paper aid mosquito netting. 3 Experience counts for a great deal in dis- * covering sea serpents. Men who have seen ? makes in their boots are generally those 1 vho see sea serpents in the surf. t CAN'T TELL THE TWINS APAKT. Comical Errors Arising from the Similarity of Two Cruisers. The similarity between the new steel cruisers Atlanta and Boston are causing a great dsal of confusion in the Brooklyn Navy Yard, where the batteries of both vessels are now undergoing alterations. They are twin ships, and are so exactly alike that even neither commanders nor crew can distinguish one from the other even after reaching the deck. The Boston is lying at the wharf directly at the foot of the road from the main entranc?fto the water front, while the Atlanta lies to the east of the big dry dock. Going from the entrance to the Atlanta the officers of that vessel are obliged to pass the Boston, and very often they walk on board, mistaking her for their own vessel. Recently Captain Francis M. Bunce, who commands the Atlanta, boarded the Boston and walked down into the cabin. The arrangement of the furniture was somewhat different from that in his own vessel, but it was not until he had taken off his hat and seated himself that he noted his surroundings and recognized his error. The surgeon of the Atlanta did the same thing. He walked into the stateroom in the Boston corresponding with his own on the other vessel, and it was the absence of some trinkets that adorn his quarters that led him to inquire where he was. The best joke of the whole trouble, however,, is on Lieutenant Bradley A. Eiske of the Atlanta. He was out in the yard a day or two ago drilling his gun squad, and when retreat from drill was sounded he marched the whole squad on board the Boston. He was at the rear of the squad, and his men had formed in line on the Boston's deck when he walked over the gangplank, and was saluted by Captain F. M. Kamsey, who inquired: "Is this a boarding party?" A hearny laugh and explanation followed this sally, and then Lieutenant ?isKe marenea nis men oacK to tneir own quarters. The work on the batteries of the two vessels is progressing rapidly, and the Boston is expected to be ready for sea by to-morrow night. Monday she will steam three miles ont to sea, try her gnns, and then^retnrn to the Navy Yard. The Atlanta will also be in shipshape very soon. THE BURNED COMPRESS. A New One Going Up Beside it Before the Iron was Cold, (Charlotte dironicle, Aug. 30.) Tlie first intimation that a good many of our citizens had of the burned cotton compress, was when they opened their papers yesterday morning and saw the local, "still smoking" as it were. Crowds flocked to the platform all day yesterday to see the ruins,' which were an odd looking sight, by the way. The frame building had been burned from around the compress, leaving the hugh iron machinery standing high in the air, the steam chests, cranks, beams and "teeth" warped by the heat. The ponderous machine was unbroken, but was rendered useless by the heat. The platform 1U1 jaiuo iiiuuuu uau uwu uuiucu uu iuj;, and looked as if somebody had given it a coat of black paint, the sheds of the Richmond and Danville depot were charred, and a half dozen blackened bales of cotton were scattered around. .The next thing that attracted attention was a gang of workmen engaged in tearing xlfkthe platform just north of the still smoIiffl? ruins of the old compress, and digging a TOimdation for the erection of a new, improvetTan^-Dlore powerful press lhan the old one. The fiSS^press is to cost $50,000 and will be built by t!flSv|ttchmond and Danville and the Carolina&^tral roads. It will be of the latest improv&i Morse patent, and will have a capacity equal to that of the largest presses in the So^th. The build enclosing the press will I: of brick. %The excavation for the foundation was almost completed yesterday, and will be finished up this morning, when brick laying will begin. It is expected to hntrA fh#? npw rvrpss nnt. nn atuI in wnrtincr j order inside of six'y days, so that the de! struction of the old press will not materially i cripple the shipping business at this point. 1 The new one is to be located half on the Richmond and Danville ground and half on the Carolina Central ground. The rail1 road had decided upon its erection some months ago, and the workmen and materials were en route here even while the old press was burning. The losses and insurance were as stated in yesterday's paper, $50,000 on the press, with an insurance of $20,000. The burned cotton belonged to Mr. John Yanlandingham, and was insured. The fire originated on the second floor of the compress building, where there was a lot of waste material. It was beyond doubt the work of an incendiary. The entire interior of the building was in flames belore the fire was discovered. Lotteries nod Dreams. In lotteries and kindred 'forms of gambling, unin reject trust In other folks' luck, and believe instead in coincidences and dreams. They find the number on which they finally stake their fate in all manner of absurd ?nd unmeaning ways. All the tens of thousands of ticket holders in a great lottery have selected their number in r>ome way satisfactory to themselves, al>out which we hear nothing when the result is a failure, as in ninetynine cases out of hundred it necessarily is. But when the result chances to. be a success, as in a small proportion of-cases it must be, the whole story is gravely related in the papers as though the number actually bringing the prize had been de lci mijitru ueiureuanu ny some sciennnc process of reasoning, and success assured by the exercise of good judgment and ingenuity. Yet it is idle to inveigh against the folly of such fancies and superstitions. They have existed in all ages and among all races from time immemorial. Carrying in themselves their own contradiction, they also imrry in themselves what to believers in luck appears their full confirmation. For he does not observe that the ideas about luck which run through his mind are contradictory, and in their self contradiction provide for every event. When success comes to him by following one idea about luck hia faith in luck is confirmed; but when failure arrives he is not a whit less satisfied that he holds the true faith about luck, for he ha* another doctrine about j that event also.?Richard A. Proctor. Alcohol for Diphtheria. Alcohol, we make bold to say, is the prince of antiseptics and the most perfect and reliable medicine of which we have any knowledge in diphtheria. Diluted with equal parts of water and given in small and repeated doses, the malignant symptoms of this most fatal malady soon disappear, and convalescence becomes assured. It is interesting to note with what facility the alcohol dissolves the diphtheric exudation in the throat, lowers the temj)erature and calms the pulse, showing its destructive action upon the germs of the disease, which have been absorbed by the glands and gained access to the blood. This remedy has been used by us in the treatment of diphtheria since 1873, during which time no <%ase of the 1 ~i: j * ? v _ i ui??uw iias snjipfu inrou^ii our nanus 1 except iu one solitary instance. ami that ease was in articulo mortis before the remedy was given. The remedy is also prophylactic to the disease, as we have found in many instances where it lias been expedient to quarantine the patient. For this purpose it is only necessary for =xposed persons to use the remedy, 3iluted as above stated, as a gargle and :o swallow a little of it>- tlir?e or four imes a day.?Medical Times. Delegates and others attending the Democratic State Convention will find' lie Williams House in all respects an igreeable stopping place. It is centrally ocated on the corner of Plain and Sum-, er streets. | BASE BALL AT THE ANTIPODES. A Big All-American Team Will Snow the Australians the Game. (N. Y. Star, August 29.) Mr. A. G. Spalding, -who returned fom Iiis trip to Fire Island yesterday, was seen by a representative of the Star at bis office j regarding bis Australian trip, on which be | will be accompanied by tbe Chicago team, of which be is backer." His arrangements are about completed, and be has selected nearly all tbe players who are to acccnipan}' him. "We will leave Chicago between October 20 and 26, and will sail from San Francisco November 15," said Mr. Spalding. "We have practically chaitered the -3,000-ton steamship Alameda, and will have ample accomodations for from 75 to 100 passengers, besides our own party, many of whom intend to take their families with them. "For the All-American team I have so far selected Mr. John Ward, of the New Yorks, as captain. The others are Fogarly and Wood, of the Phiiadelphias, Carroll, the catcher of the Pittshurgs, Tiernan, of the New Yorks, Ilanlon, captain of the Detroits, and Mr. Kelly is waiting to close a contract with me. "I did not pay much attention to base ball while away, but the Chicago team is working very hard for the pennant, and should the team have the same luck as the New Yorks they will come very close to winning it. I suppose it is looked upon almost as heresy here in New York to say or even intimate that the New Yorkers will not win the pennant. "I will staud all expenses and pay all salaries. I am responsible for the success or failure of lire trip. My object in visiting Australia is to introduce our national game there, believing that when they see it played by professionals, the Australians will find enough merit in it to follow it up. Whether they will*"' nnt. ? Mrr-Sprcidiug intends to make quite a point of cricket, and thirks on account of the superior batting ability of the ball pl;.yers, that they will be able to give the Australians a lively tussle at their own game. Many of the Chicago team are dailing practicing at cricket. Mr. Spalding will lake along two good bowlers; one linm PAnrnro nf fl>o T^otrAlt Ul Jl?iV^VlO Vi A/vvivi? Club, is a wonder. Mr. Leo. S. Lynch went to Australia last February, and he arranged for the grounds and other details. He writes that the officials of several of the cities there will render all assistance possible to make the visitors comfortable and their trip a success. Mr. Spalding left last night for Boston to confer with George "Wright, the cricket player. If it is possible Mr. Spalding will induce him to make the trip. Brazil Boand to be a Republic. Washington, August 27.?Captain Benjamin D. Man ton, United Stales Consul at Colonia, Uruguay, who is in Washington on leave of absence, predicts, in an interview, the breaking up of the great empire of Brazil. "Its affairs," he says, "arc in a precarious stale. The emancipation of the slaves was merely a sop thrown by Princess Isabella, the Regenta, to the Liberals. The six Southern Drovir-.ces. reallv the strength of the empire, are ripe for revolt and a republic. They only await the death of Dom Pedro, when they will split the empire, and a president will rule over Brazil." Consul Man ton says that Uruguay is prosperous, thriving and growing. 4 "But the Argentine Republic," he says, "is the wonder of the world. With a population of only about y,000,000, she has an immigration of half a million a year." 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