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BY HUGH WILSON. ABBEVILLE, S. C.. WEDNESDAY, JUNE 20, 1883. NO. 1. VOLUME XXVIII. . 31
EVENING SONG.
Behind the hilltop drops the sun,
The curled heat falters on the sand;
While evening's ushers, one by one,
Lead in the guests of twilight land.
The bird is silent overhead,
Below the beast has lain him down;
Alono the marbles watch the dead.
Alone the steeple guards the town.
The south wind feels its amorous course
To cloistered sweets in thickets found;
The leaves obey its tender force,
And stir 'twixt silence and a sound.
?John Vance Cheney, in the Century. |
THE SEXTON'S GHOST.
Simon Gray berry, the old sexton of
liushport, was dying. liushport was
a respettable little fi.-hing village,
perched on a saucy-looking bluff right
over the oce;tn: at its foot was a snug
little cove, running up a sandy beacn
to the very 1 as?: of the rocks, where
the fishing crafts lsiy cozily at anchor,
when they were not scudding over the ,
waves miles away, or ro king idly to
the music of the lish-lines and th* dancing
of the porpoises.
Bushport had one church (Methodist
) and one graveyard, where Simon
(?ray berry had, for years too many to
remember, supervised the departure
BV from earth to e.irth of the sires and
grandsires of the hardy young fislur-[
men who were now growing up around
him.
Simon had grown gray in the service
of the dt ad, among whom, ten
years before, he had deposited the last
remains of his faithful wife; and now j
the gathering shadows of the final
summons tol l him that he, too, must
I repare to join those silent ones in their I
last resting-place.
Three years before Simon had parted ;
with his * nlv son, a hardy sailor, who !
had gone ou a whaling voyage. Six j
i months later news had come that the
ship had sunk in the northern seas, j
and all on board had perished.
All in the village mourned the stout-1
hearted Tom Gray berry, who bad
grown up, man and boy. among them;
but chiefly had mourned a little fair- i
haired creature, just in her teens, to 1
whom Tom had I een more than to any j
other.
Alice Scott?so had grief matured >
her?ha 1 grown into womanhood in
those thirty months, and she it was
who, taking upon herself the duties of
a daughter to him who had none, had
, devoted herself to him ever since, until
the old man had learned to regard her i
as such, and to grieve for his lost son i
chiefly that his sad fate had prevented :
the possibility of her ever becoming so :
in very truth.
. She it was who now sat beside Simon's
wasted form, held his hand,j
and watched the hist spark of life as !
it flickered iow before the final darkness.
.
Simon had been respected in his day
an 1 generation, and all the village
waited sadly fur news of his departure.
A few of tl:e older men, rough, hardfeaturul
fisherimn. stood at his bedside,
while one or two of their wives,;
rough, to >, but kindly-disposed, minis- j,
trred tchii f.-w remaining necessities, j
The doctor stood near h.m, and held
his hand; the tal'ow-candl j on th
tu ue: n:i Keren, us aorun 01 wuiu uutsl
in under the door and rattled the case-!
ment; storm gusts held high ca nival j j
outside; f< r it was in the last days of j1
iNovemb r, and the snow-clouds were
sailing on, heavily fr. ight d.
Suddenly t he doctor raised his hand ,
warningly; Alice rose and leaned over j'
the b d, while the rest drew closer |!
together, and then the head and i
shouhlers raised painfully in the bed, j
the dull eyes lighted up, and with one j
skinny forefinger pointing to the door, \
while his gray locks and matte 1 beard j'
tremble 1 with a convulsed motion, the !'
old sexton spoke:
"One, two, three, four, five! rive , J
rings, one 1 racelet, two pins ! "Who j
fhall havo them? Tom shall have .
them ! "Who says it's robbery?'
The old man turned his head from !
one to the other, and glared at the
startled and horror-stricki n one31
around him; then he said, slowly and
in a whisper:
' I buried?them?under?the?"
[ The chin fell heavily on his breast, j
and he sunk down into the bed in a j
'confus d mass.
? There was much talk the next day ,
about the last words of old Simon, and j
though sundry wise heads were shaken,
and some shrewd doubts were expressed,!
they were generally set down as the ;
last incoherent exclamations of a brain
which had cwise.I to act lucidly, and j
were passed over.
The body was properly laid out; I
watchers came forward to sit up with j
it; and the next day following was
appointed for the funeral service.*.
Old Simon's cottage was near the
graveyard; his body lay on the bed I
where he had slept for forty years, and ;
^ the little sitting-room next to it was I
occupied on the watch-night by two:
'old crones, who had volunteered for j
the purpose.
A l>right Ore blazed on the hearth; |
the table,* with two lighted candles, i
stood beside it; the teakettle sung
noisily on the hob; and these two, sit-.
ting c< mfortably in their Hoston rockers,
were inclined to take the ?i?ht'
e;usilv, and chatted over the merits ami .
peculiarities of the dea 1, the strange i
occurrence of his last moments, and any-1
thing that turned up in the way of
village gossip, as those will who
accustom themselves to such duties.
Meanwhile, the snowstorm that had ;
been pr.?misi:i?r a visit had all day been j
.,,1.1 n. 'V \v:i? (iriff'il'r into u'hitft !
ira ses through the street. was whirling
in blinding clbuils through the air. j
while not a single being in the wtmu,
village vfaptKf* uooi's, "and in the
nouses warn; fires and hot drinks did
their test to make things cory and
comfortable.
rSo the hours wore away, and, as
^ the evening grew late, the two old
r rones, grown tired of gossip, had
n tided their frow.-y old heads at one !
another until both had gone olf into a
, profound ; nd noisy sleep.
Now down the street, a short dis-;
tan:( from Simon Gray berry's cottage,
there was a tavern, and in the bar- j
room, where a huge wood-fire went
I cracki ng and hissing up the wide- '
mouthed chimney, there were corjgre- j
gated, as usually congregated there on
wi: ter nights, a do/en or so of the inha
itants of the village, who met thus '
nightly to enjoy heir punch and their
pipes in so:"?ul communion.
'i !iis night. :a particular, punch and
] i't. n were iu extraordinary demand.
Th? season had been so open %nd tree j
frt m storms that this was really the
lirst occasion that had offered for such
a gathering, and it had been taken advantage
of by m.?re than the usual
quota of jolly weatherbeaten tars, who _
sat and canvassed, sententiously, such j
t;: n? cainft hpforn them.
Among these, naturally enough, the
question of Sexton Gray berry's re-,
markable utterances at his off-going !
was brought prominently forward.
" IJlarst my eyes!" said "English
Bob," as he wassailed, a burly, goodnatured-looking
fellow, who leaned
back against the mantel, and talked in
a husky voice through a cloud of "the
essence of old Virginny," "I've a hidea
the old chap's been priggin' summat as
has laid 'eavy on 'is conshuns."
" Xonsense!" answered the landlord,
seeing no one else was likely to take
) up; "old Simon Mas as honest as
^ nifty make 'em; and, beside, where on
- earth could he find anything to * prig'
in this consumed poor place?"
This was unanswerable, and the
vilifier of the dead was silenced for a
moment.
Presently, a long, lean, slab-sided,
lantern-jawed peddler, who had come
in belated and put up for the night, put
in his word. He was dressed in a
fr ied, seedy-looking suit of black, and
at-'. v V?"., V*f"--.
. ArSi'-l'i'jLiv.,L'-:- .v.
presented anything but an inviting aj>pearance.
lie had b en silent thus
far, ha 1 hrard the story of the deathbed
seen * told and r, told, and now, as
he sat with hs legs crossed, and his
chair tilted ha- k. he drawled out:
"Waal. I'm a stranger here, and
hain't got no call to me Idle w th th ngs
as don't c.msarn inc. but if it was m>
as I hed any interest in these parts. I
should be kinder lo tk^n' around a ter
the family jewdry, and if t' e livepeop'e's
plunder was all rig .t I s'.ioul 1?
well, I slioul 1 lit v my sus; icions !'
Everybody started at that, and the
landlord, who felt 1 ound 'o support
the credit < f his deceased friend, ha I
already opened his mouth to call the
vituperative vender of small wares to
order, w'.ien the doer opent'd, and his
wife call d him with such evident
earne-itne s, that he turned at once,
fihiindmioil lii< int< ntinn :inil follows I
her out of the 100:11.
Every elTort was now made to bring
the peddler to book, and induce him to
expla n his meaning; but nothing
more could be got out of him than,
" Waal. I ain't a-going to consarn my-1
self in what aiu t none of my bus'ness,
but I can only say, if it was my ease, I
should be suspicious!"
Sundry growls and sour looks were
beginning to show that this indelinit'.* i
advice was not palatable, and might j
be resented; and matters, in fact,'
were beginning to a-sume a squally
appearan *e, when the landlord re-en
tered.
" Uoys," said he, "my wife and i!
ain't nowise satisfied about the Uoston
coach nnt coming in : she's more than [
three hours late, and, though it's a !
roug'i night, she ought to hive been;
here before this ; and, in my humble ;
opinion, she's a blamed sight more im-1
portance than that purveyor of pins j
and needles' suspicions about what he I
don't know nothing consarninV
Here he jerkel his thumb in the j
direction of the peddler, who shrugged I
his shoulders, and said nothing.
I
* *****
Now, the village of Bushport wa?
situated just twenty-one miles northand-by-east
of Btston, from winch
place there came, three times a week,
a coach bearing the mail, leaving
Boston at 4 o'clock in the afternoon, i
and performing the journey in about i
four hours, if nothing interrupted of a I
nature calculate.! to prevent safe and I
moderately rapi I driv ng.
' This was a "coach-day," and, ptinctu- j
ally at four, the aforesaid vehicle, I
painted blue, and appropriately named :
the " Bluebird," started valiantly forth,
out of the stableyard in a narrow
street in the suburbs of Boston, and,
with three passengers insi.Ie for waystati?
ns, and one passenger outside for
Bushport, took its way along the highroad,
in a direction north-;ind-by-eastward,
through what was already a
respectable snowstorm, hoping to j
accomplish the journey before the j
roa^ls became so blocked up as to utterly (
preclude wheeling; for the snow- j
storm had come on sullenly, and the
' Bluebird's" r.inners were at Bushport.
The first ten miles were made in two
hours an I a hair, and there the last of
the "in.-ides ' left the coach, rejoicing.
Eleven miles t > go, the snow drift-1
. _ __ , |
ing neavuy, aim a miiiuiiig wiuu uriv ;
ing in the faces of the driver and the ;
one "outside,' who said lie was a1
sailor, and laughed to scorn the idea of i
" going below on account of a little .
snow squall."
.Seven miles further on the "Blue-:
b'rd" stopped to change horses and
driver and "outside" went into the |
little tavern to get supper. j,
A line, stalwart, sailer-looking fellow
was the "outside;" tall and handsome, >
with chestnut curls all over his head
und down on his white fort-head; laughing
blue eyes shining through the drops j
of wet that lr ng on his eyelashes; rosy
cheeks, that glistened after the pelting j
they had received.
Driv. r and "outside" were both j
urged to put up for the night; but the :
driver was plucky, ;;nd would not be
bluffed off bringing his mail in, and
the "outside" said that he would get
to Bushport that n:gl.t, if he had to j
\y;uk mere.
So the supper was eaten, and, with
two lighted pipes in mouth, driver and
" outside" mounted on the box, and the I
whip cracked, and away they went j
again into the driving wind and
through the drifting snow.
It was now past nine, and, though
the c< ach pressed gallantly forward, it;
made but little headway, the smoking
horst s having desperate hard work to j
keep on a fast walk.
Two of the four miles had be.'n
passed over when, as the couch made a
sharp turn round a l;6nd in the road
which the wind had blown dry, the off
fore-whe 1 struck a tree, which an un-,
lucky bhv-t had blown across the road,j
and wi:h a jolt :ind a he.ive over went
the "Blue!" rJ," and away flew driver i
and "outside" into a drift, where they j
disappeared, to crawl out again, ehak<?j
themselves, and stare lugubriously at!
the down-fallen vehicle.
Fortuna'elv, they were near a farm- j
house, and th t'jer l?oth betook themselves,
and obtaining assistance tho
horses were soon housed in a comfortable
I a-n.
Tiie driver then announced bis int"ntion
of accepting the cordial invitation
they both received to remain all i
night, but the "outside," game to the ;
last, resisted every solicitation, and
after warming hiinsolf by the lire,
swung a bundle which he carried over
h s shoulder, and, with a stout stick
in his band, plump d resolutely into
the snow again.
The farmhouse d'>or c!ose behind j
him, and as he ga'n-d ' he road, marknl
oulv liv tiie 1 V3LLr ' ween
the fields and woo ls on either side, lie
almost f--It inclined to give if. up; 1 i.t
he was a courageous ft 1J n\\ i h s sailor,
and .*ti'!ing the momentary ?* ikness
he tru iged on.
It was past eleven when the lights
of the village appeared, and. with a
sigh of relief, in- stepped more lightly,'
thinking o.f the warn, reception which
was to repay liltn for tlii.-. night's inconvenience,
arid many <ther nights'
peril and adversity.
As hp moved on ins thoughts took
shape in two forms of expnssion:
" I wonder if the old man lives !"
and " I wonder if she has forgotten
me!"
The straggling houses .?f the
were passed; t!io .Id church loomed ;ij>
m tin* darkness; u cottage near bv was
li^'.t. ti up in onf room, and he le.-iiwd
for nionv-nt "n the railing "f t!.*
giavvard and hesitated
Suddenly, as hi*eye glanced over Unwell
remembered stones, lie .-a*\ soujc- .
thing move. A chill, more piercing!
than the cold blast he had been under i
for so many hours, almost fro/.e his '
b.'ood, for the sailor-mind is proverbi-1
ally superstitious, But he stood still, j
gazed and waited.
It was a tall figure; white?of course j
everything was white?and it tottered I
weakly toward the gate near which ^e I
leaned. Presently it reached him,
opened the gate, and as he stood with
his tongue clinging to the roof of his
mouth, and his hair bristling with
fear, he knew who it was?it was
Simon Grayberry, the sexton of Bushport.
Springing forward, he caught the
old man in his arms, while he shouted
to him:
" Father ! father ! It is me ! Don't i
3*ou know me! It's Tom?your boy, j
Tom!"
Then the oia sexton sioou erect, <uiu
holding up liis finger, whispered:
" Hush ! don't speak so loud ! I've j
got them, every one! I robbed them !"
and he pointed to the graves, "But,
Tom, I'm sorry! I'm sorry! And
you won't tell any one ?"
Tom put the little box which his |
father gave him carefully in his pocRet;!
a dim idea of the truth possessed him,
\* *- .... .
^ I
' and taking the emaciated form in hla
arms lie stepped with the burden tc
the door of the tavern, which was
nearer than the cottage, and where he
saw a light burning; and so just as
! the landlord had made the remark concerning
the lat ness of the Boston
co;rh, it happened that the tavern
door oj oaed, and a stout figure, in a
sou'wester, and covered with snow,
>t ig^ered in, bearing in his arms the
body of dead Sexton (irayberry.
" Hour a hand ! Uoys, it's me, Tom
(Irayberry, and this is my father. I
found the old gentleman wandering in
the graveyard in his nightelothes ; he
must have be.-n out of his head."
Such a start as that crowd of fishermen
got may be imagined. They retreated
back into a corner, and looked
at Tom and the prostrate form at hia
feet as though both were ghosts.
Finally the landlord clapped Tom on
the shoulder, and said:
" You're Tom (irayberry, that I'll go
bail: but the old man's dead, and wo
left two women a-watching of him up
to the cottage: lie died last night."
Tom had risen up and stood looking
at him for a moment; then he stoop, d
down, tore open t! e long gown that
wrapped the old man. and placed liis
hand over his heart. It had stopped
beating.
"He is dead now," said Tom.
"Come with me, some of you;" and,
raising the body tenderly in his arms,
he strode through the door, over the
way, and straight on to the cottage.
The landlord ran ahead and opened
the door, while the crowd followed at
a respectful distance.
As they entered the sitting-room
the two women rose, screaming cut of
their sleep, frightened at this sudden
inroad.
Hut nothing recked Tom, as he carried
the body straight past them to
the bedroom, and laid it on the empty
bed !
The whole matter was plain now;
the window was open, and through it
the old sexton, awakened from his
swoon, had taken his fearful course.
Torn said nothing about the box of
jewelry, and two days atter the old
sexton was quietly buried in the little
graveyard. Tom staid in Bushport
many months; and when the spring
openea ne auu swt'ei auw ocuu wciu
married in the old church.
And the good people of Bushport
never knew anything more definite
than the peddler's " suspicions," and
their own imaginings, ahout Simon
Grayberry's deathbed speech, or the
true story of the "Sexton's Ghost."
FASHION* XOTES.
Chenille fringe is in great favor.
Sage green is one of the newest
shades.
Sleeves of street dresses are made
longer.
Beaded jerseys are becoming and
stylish.
Lace is extensively used on handsome
bonnets.
Bibbons will be used to excess in
dress garniture.
Tight-fitting waists are to prevail in
summer as in winter costumes.
One of the prettiest designs in the
new style of locket* is in the square
shap:*, made of rolled gold.
Detached passementerie ornaments
are more fashionable lor mantle and
dress trimmings than bands, braids or
fringes.
This is a ribbon season, Hats, bows
and rosettes being worn on all parts
of the dress, the bonnet and the wrap
or mantle.
-LiOng wuii; t> eiiiurumcicu juuauu
polonaises, trimmed with d'.*ep bands
and edgings of embroidered muslin,
will bs worn.
Linen band collars have two buttonholes
near the upper e:lge, through
which narrow ribiion is run and tied
in a long looped bow.
High sleeves and high collars, the
long pointed basque, and the robe cut
away from the hips re.nain the features
in summer styles.
l'ocket handkerchiefs of sheer lawn
are colored corn liower blue, sapphire
blue, olive, terra-cotta, Havana brown
and raspberry red. Many of these
have an embroidered edge.
There is a tendency to wear colored
mantles in preference to b'aek this
season, or black velvet gauze mantles
lined with color, but all bl.ck mantles
are by no means discarded.
Among the yellow tlowers largely
Imported f< r millinery purposes this
season are the familiar-looking dandelions,
golden rod, chrysanthemums,
(tn/1 voll/iw /l'liolro
uiau^uiuo (tun jcuv??
Thick canton flannel is used on the
dinner table under the damask. it not
only deadens the sound of rattling
dishes, but protect the china when
set down quickly on the table.
India mull of a robin's-egg blue is
handsome and effective when combined
with a cream white lace, disposed in
drapery. A dress in this model is
very becoming for a young girl.
The new parasols :ire made of Ottoman
silk, satin, watered silk and brocades.
They are usually lined with
white silk and are edge I with embroidery
in silk or rullles of lace.
Many of the cotton sateens and per?
I - i - .1....
I'iUt'S 1VI" aUUlIUl'ft aaiu Jitigw
bouquets or detached flowers, such as
roses, lilies, etc., in bright colors on
ecru, cream or pale blue ground.
Linen lawns are shown in beautiful
designs this season. Some have large
rings, blocks, bars, balls, stripes and
stars, others have natuial-looking
flower.-, on ecru, white, fawn and blue
grounds.
__Jndia mull is the bribe's dress of thb
seas< n. ~~The trams^th?S^^ii ^
in a Watteau plait from the *ho\d<&v??
a :d tfie veil is of tulle, the wreath and |
tamiture-i of orange blossoms, buds
and inu'-'i <jrerr; J iliag.*.
I a?es and rudiings are used on rich
diiih?-r or ever.ing dresses. I.inen "hilars
if- military .shape are fortheh'?use
nil strfct wear. To be stv'i-hly
dressed fur the str.et the simplest
linen collar must be worn. j
A very pr.-tty evening dress has the
tniit "C white and terra eotta brocade
and a !on<j Martha Washington train
without any drapny. The pointed
has'jne !>u; a square open neck and is
trimmed with duchess Jace.
On". (?: tls;? lakes', imported round
hiiis i.< a luw, r?>;irMl-<To\vned derby,
wi!!; wide r??!hng it5 it. These are
>!i<'-,vn i:i felt, straw and chip; the
<r> most popular are. cardinal, gar:i?*.
terra eotta, dark gre n and black.
1'ir.'proof lh>cllings.
A rather severe test of the fireproof
plaster invented by Mr. Hitchins was
recently male in London. A brick
building of three stories wat built for
the purpose and lined on lloor, ceiling
and' walls with the plaster. The
rooms above an'I below were filed
with combustible materials and lighted.
The fire raged for half an hour, and
notwithstanding the fires ab >ve ;ind
below, a room on the middle Hat wa<
entered and found to bo untouched,
and cool. To complete the test a large
fire was made in that loom, and the
heat melted the glass (f the windows
The three fires were eventually put out
by a hose, and the joists under the
floors were found to be intact. The
test seamed to prove that with
Hitchins' fireproof plaster a fir.* may
be conlined, at least for a longtime, tithe
apartment in which it originates.
All the Asian authorities agree that
if a profane skeptic should undertake
to chop off or twist off the sacred tail
of a genuine white elephant he would
ineet with sudden death.
Last year, the United States made
way with 1,100,000 tons of sug:ir.
THE WONDERS OF NATURE.
SOME CUBIOUS OCCUPATIONS 07
ANIMALS.
Rlrda tlinC Biilld Apartment Hoiihp* nnd
Keep Hotclx?Atitn Krtrnirrn nnd Hpldrrn
as Sailor*.
"There's a curious reflection of
human affairs in the actions of the
lower animals,'' said a naturalist to a
! reporter of the New York Sun.
" Ev< rything lut the dynamite
j phras v' suggested t!i*? latter.
" Xc, I won't except that," was the
! reply; "and I'll wa^cr you can't mention
a class of men or an occupation
followed by them to winch I < an't
show you something similar in the socalled
lower animal kingdom;'*
The repoi tersuggest*d the d\il unite
fiend.
" Well,*' continue 1 the naturalist,
pulling out a drawer upon which was
a Mood-curdling name, ' here's a bottle
that belongs to the explosive brotherhood,
and so powerful an agi*.t it is
that it is called the 'Bombardier,' and
is ready to go oil at a mon ent's notice.
It is as you see an old-fashioned sort
of a fellow?doesn't affect long hair
and the like; but let an enemy follow
it too closely and it st.ips suddenly, and
if you were listening you would hear
a report, a puff of smoke would rise
in the air, and the pursuer would be
completely demoralized. I have seen
these bombardiers lire live or six times
in as many minutes, whirling about as
if taking aim. The explosives come
from a gland. Quite a number of animals
carry explosives. The larva; of
some dragon Hies eject a liquid irritating
to man. The squids, however,
lead in this respect. I remember
drifting along over tlie reef at Nassau
several years ago, and >eeing several
squids just below the surface, I put
out mv hand, and in a second my dearest
friend would not have known me.
I was literally drenched with ink,
which was thrown from a distance of
at least three feet. It was indelible,
and I still have t!ie vouchers in the
way of s'ainetl linen.
"Among the animal workers all occupations
are found. Take a colony of
bees, for instance. In forming a nest
one set of bees are ordinary laborers
and form the rough cells. A set of
skilled laborers then take hold and
fihape the cells, and so on. Among the
ants the workers not only have their
Share to do, but th?y differ from the
others in shape and general appearand,
the kings, queens, soldiers and
laborers b 'ing all markedly different
in appear.ince. The soldiers have
enormous jaws, but never work. They
rush out fiercely when you break into
a nest. If the enemy is not visible
they return, an I the laborers come out
and begin repairs. The army ants of
South America snow great intelligence.
The workers, like our sappers and
miners, often go ahead and form a protective
arch, umkr which the soldiers
march, and so rapidly is tl is thrown
up that the onward march is not del.iim.l
Tim ;irr> nlgr? sljivp nwnftrs.
They capture ants of other species and
force them to woik for them and attend
then: as b, dv servants ! St) luxurious
do seme of these slave owners
become that they ;irc utterlv helpless
when deprived of their menials. The
latter not only wait on their masters,
hut feed them. If the slaves are tak< n
away their owners perish.
"Ants are also farmers. In Texas
a tribe collect th seeds of various
plants and plant them in close proximity
to their hornet, so they can benefit
hy th see 1. The farmer or grain
ants of Europe store up vast supplies
in underground granaries. After a
damp season the seeds are taken out
and la d in the sun and finally returned."
"IIow is it the seeds don't sprout?''
asked the r.'i orter.
lopfnl rvirt-. nf
111(11 D WU?J 1UUOW ?i VU IV?IU? !'.?> V
it. The seeds (lun't sprout, though
there they arc, planted underground
and kept fresh. It is supposed that the
anls bite the s;e!s in some way so
that they are in a state of coma, just
as wasps sting animals so that they
remain insensible for months. Ants
may be said also to keep cows?not exactly
Durhams, but insects that answer
the same purpose. They colloct the
plant lice and, by caressing them in
some way, force or induce them to give
out or exude a drop of sweet liquor.
I have seen live or six ants awaiting
their turn to milk one of these cows.
The ants often collect tlij eggs of the
aphides, place them on plants near
the r homes, and care for them in
many ways, just as we do for our
blooded sto'jk. In the fall ants have
been known to t;;ke their cows undergroun
1 and try to keep them through
the winter. Many ants keep beetles
and other insects as pets, some as
playfellows, others on account of their
odor. Several hundred distinct species
of insects are in this way kept prisoners
under ground.
"In engineering theants are equally
skillful. They 1 ridge wide rivers by
joining together the r bodies, clinging
one to another, and thus forming a
long string that the wind blows across
the stream. In tins way a bridge is
formed over which an entire army
passes.
"Many birds have the decorative instinct.
Certain ones in Africa are
said to fasten fireflies to their nests,
that gleam at night like so many diamonds.
Another African bird bites
oft all its tail feathers except the tip of
the longest plume, and thus gives itSelf
a jaunty air. The hornbills color
their feathers artificially from certain
glands. A family of birds found in
] Australia and allied to th?i birds of
paradise, 1 <rin// shel<s :?n?i Diner or>jeits
miles from the sea arul decorate
their playhouses with ?htm. rjome
fancy curious bones, others shells, and
Jolliers prefer Irish (lowers.
to builders. The arcliitretural
ahitVf^'f birds almost equals
thai of man. *Soim? n.?*8' like those
of a West Indian b!ackluu^i.art''10't'^>
and are built by several birds, w*i? plt
on any or ail of the eggs, as it lia^s.
pens. Then there are Hats built by
tailor birds, where the residences are
side by side and protected by a perfect
roof. Among the other workers is t he
carpenter bee, that bores a hole ;ls
perfect as the I in est instrument of
human make, and forms a partition of
the sawdust. Here is a worker in
metal. It bored these holes in this
piece of lead, but no yne knows how.
Jlere is a j iec? of the hardest granite
known, yet it has be--, ruined by this
sht-Jl, a phohis. Stranger yet, the
miner has a lamp to work by, a phosphorescent
Hjrl.t.
"Amongthe animals that ae in the
submarinediving business is the spider.
It ha? no diving hell ? r armor, yet it
goes below the sun ace and remains
there by taking down air beneath its
body in the shape of halls, which it
leaves there beneath some twig or
leaf."
" How about reporters?"
" Animal reporters are scarce," was
the reply, "but if you have ever hunted
the black, bear you must have noticed
the curious markings and scratches it
makes on trees at a distance seven or
eight feet from the ground. These signs
rank as high as the tramp sign language
; one bear knows that another
has been there before. The sailors are
represented by this spider, that not
only goes to sea, but builds its own
boat of leaves and pushes off in search
of prey. The dramatic profession is
represented by some South American
birds, who go through certain strange
performances for the benefit of other
companions. As for the undertakers,
many species of beetles bury their
dead. The medical profession is represented
by the doctor fish, who has in
his side a lancet, which comes out
without warning, and like that of Bob
Sawyer, is always ready for use. The
wasps are the paper makers ; some are
masons. The ministers ire represented
by the praying mantel'
HEALTH HINTS.
I Simple ItomccllcN Tot Gammon Ailment*.
A knowledge of simple remedies for
common ailments, says a writer in the
Country Gentleman, Is essential for
! housewives who would drive painffom
j their houses, prevent ruitlous doctors'
hills and, above all, keep the system
from frequent drugging. I give a few
remedies that may prove of Use.
For acute pain in the stomach or
bowels, try strong saltpeter water.
Wring a good-sized piece of flannel
'rom this solution, and apply hot to
the part affected,laying over it another
piece ol' flannel; cover the ] atient well
in bed and Jay a hot brick at the feet.
A tea made by steeping twigs from
a peach tree is excellent for Worms.
1}utter and sugar, about three parts
of the latter thoroughly mixed with
one of the former, are excellent to
check a cough caused by a tickling in
the throat. If this do^s not avail melt
the mixture and add a little vinegar.
Many tind relief by eating a little rock
salt, or, if this is impossible to obtain,
table salt will answe r the same purp
se, altlu ugh the first is much the
better. One troubled with a hacking
cough slu uld never be found without
a bit of hoarhoond candy or a few
kernels of rock salt in the pocket, with
which to cluck an attack while at
church or during calls.
-Melt ha'f an ounce of camphor gum,
half an ounce of glyccrine, and one
pound of mutt-.... tallow, and apply to
the hands every night. It will whiten
j them nicely. For home-made camphor
ice, melt half a teacupful of mutton
, tallow, put into it a piece of camphor
{rum ;ihmit, the size of .1 hickorv nut.
i n ? - - - - ?
and add a teaspoonful of olive oil.
] I'our into a mold to harden. Pulveri
i/.ed borax is excellent to drop into the
water to whit; n the skin. If your
hands are rough when you wash them,
dip your lingers in the borax and rub
your hands thoroughly together,
i One of a set of small drawers in my
! pantry is called the salve box. In one
end is a small compartment like the
I till of an old-fashioned chest, and in
[ this are kept salves of various kinds,
j In the drawer there is always to be
i found an abundance of old soft cotton
and linen cbths, with a few strong
i strips for bandages, a ball of soft
| yarn (which, being flexible, is much
bitter than twine fur tying up inllamed
lingers), fluffy bits of cotton
, hatting an 1 pieces of old kid gloves
J for spreading salve upon. Something
i very adhesive, like balsam fir salve, is
a necessity, as a very little here and
J there along the 1 arulage for a sore
; finger will make a string unnecessary,
beside keeping the cloth in place much
better than if tied (n.
i A salve excellent for drawing and
; suitable for use in case of felon or any
j lesser sore of the kind is made in the
I tollowing manner: Take the yolk of
; one egg and stir it int) half a tea,
s; o.mful of finely-powdered camphor
j gum, one teasjio.>nful of line salt and
i one teaspoonful of spirits of turp?n'
tine. This will make the mixture
J thick and salvy, and easily spread on
, olcl linen, it tne case is verv urgeub
I indeed twica the quantity of camphor
j gum can he used, and in a few cases,
when the individual cannot bear the
j touch of turpentine, only a few drops
i need be added. This is to be laid over
the felon for an hour or two, or ai long
| as the patient can endnre it, and then
| rep'aced by a cooling poultice. If a;>j
plied in the first :-tages the sore will be
1 drawn rapidly to a head, and weeks
i of pain avoided. If very painful put
j a little laudanum on the poultice, and
if that does not relieve bathe the hand
with chloroform.
A fter the felon has broken, or at any
siage when it is advisable to apply a
so!t poultice, there can be nothing better
than flaxseed meal Pour boiling
[ water slowly over a tab'.espoonful oL'
: the meal until a solt poultice is made
j ?not soft enough to run or dry enough
I to become < asily hard. A litlle cxj
perienoe will enable one to get it just
! right. Jn cases of pn umonia, phys>
I cians order this rather than poll tices
j of Indian meal, as it is not so heavy
j tor trie patient, s uiumi, innmuo i. tuiou
longer, and is more easily prepared.
"Mush" poultices must be sewed inside
a flat bag, or the meal will scatter
as soon as slightly dry; but this is so
adhesive that the cloth only needs to
be folded tog< thr-r with the edges
pressed down. It is necessary that
the meal (which can be bought of any
druggist) be kept in glass, tin or stoneware,
as the oil (one of the essential
properties) must not be lost.
The Rojnl Red Cross.
The queen of England having taken
into consideration the services rendered
by certain persons in nursing the sick
and wounded of the army and navy,
and resolved especially to recognize individual
instances of special devotion
in such service, a royal order appears
in the oflicial Gazette creating a decoration
designated " The Royal Red
Cross." It is to consist of a cross enameled
crimson, edge 1 with gi 11, having
on the arms there if the words:
"Faith, Hope a id Charity," with the
date of the institution of the decoration,
the center having thereon the
queen's effigy. Un tne reverse siuetne
royal and imperial cipher and crown i?
to be shown in relief on the center.
The cross is to lie attached to a dark
blue ribbon, <dged red, of one inch in
width, tied in a bow and worn on
the lel t shoulder. The decoration may
I be worn by the quesm regnant, the
I f.ueen consort or the queen dowager of
| the united kingdom of Great Hritain
. and Ireland, and it will be competent
1 for the sovereign to confer I he decora1
tion upon any of tlie princesses of the
I royal family of (!rrat Uritian and Irej
land; also upon any ladios, whether
! subjects or foreign persons, who may
be recommended by the secretary oI
j state for war for special exertions in
j providing fcir the nursing or for atj
tending t>i Hi-k and wounded soldiers
i and sailor;; also upon any nursing sis ijU'rs,
wh -ther subjects or loreign perj
sou^^-ho may be recommended by the
stMTetarv '",,r war, or by the
I first lord .if tin* admIra"ntyfTn?*spyi,i;iir
duvntion and competency which they
' may have displayed in their nursing
1 duties with the army i:> the field or in
na val and military hospitals. I ri order to
mala* such additional provision as shall
! pffWrnsiUv Tircsfrvn nure this honor
; aMo distinction, it is ordained thai if
i ;iuy person or: whom such distinction
j shall he conferred shall by her conduct,
{ become unwerthy of it, her name shall
| be erased, by an order under her
J majesty's sign and manual, fnun the
i register of those upon whom the said
j decoration shall have been conferred.
?Wen: York Jferot'l.
Anatomical Keriulsitcs of Shoes.
According to Surgeon Zeigler, of
, the Swiss army, the anatomical test of
a perfect pair of shoe* is that, when
placed together, they touch only at the
toes and heels?the soles should also
follow the sinuosities of the feet, and,
to give room for their expansion,
should exceed them in length by fifteen
or twenty millimeters. It is stated by
Ziegler that the Swiss examining surgeons
are compelled to reject every
year as many recruits :is wuuiu nmtvu
up a battalion, for malformation of
the feet, resulting from badly fitting
shoes. The foot, he says, is in reality
a bow, so elastic that, at every step, it
contracts and expands, lengthens and
shortens, and a line drawn through
the center of the great toe intersects
the heel; and as in the making of
shoes room. enough is not given for
the lateral extension of the great toe,
it is forced against the other toes, giving
rise to corns, ulcerations and sometimes
to veritable articular inflammi
tion.
The artist's adieu to his picture?
^^Yoube hanged!"
COVERINGS FOR THE HEAD.
TACTS or XJTTEBEST ABOUT HATS
TO 3. MEW.
The Material Which Goes Into the iHann>
fkcturc^Extcnt of the DiHlneMi?A Hat
Which Costs Herdnty-twii Dollars*
There are few persons, indeed, who
know what the hats that cover their
heads are made of or how they are
made. People who can afford it change
their hats from two to four and in
aome cases nix times a year. The
styles go by the Boason. The wearers
know that they are hats, and can tell
by the feeling whether they are line or
coarse In quality, but that is the extent
of their knowle Ige. The manufacture
of silk hats is an Industry entirely separate
from the manufacture of the ordinary
soft and stiff hats. On an av!
erage one person out of twenty-live
| possibly wears a silk hat, and" the
chances are that he will have a stiff or
soft hat for certain kinds of wear. Inasmuch
as every person is supposed to
have need of a hat the magnitude of
the business is apparent. The wholesale
hat trade in New York last year
amounted in round numbers,'according
to the estimated trade figures, to
003,000. The hatting district wh^re
all the great houses are situated is
bounded by Broadway, Houston,
Broome and "Woester streets. There
hats are sold by the case and hatters'
materials in manufacturers' lots
Ilats, except silk hats, are made of fur
or wool. The wool hats are the cheap
grades. Wool is not line enough for
making smooth, velvety hats, and contains
too much oil. The houses which
deal in fur do not make tha hats.
They prepare the fur and sell it co the
manufacturers. The fur of the mink,
squirivl and seal is used. Beaver makes
the line-;t hats, and nutria the next
best. The nutria is a web-footed water
animal trapped on the banks of rivers
and streams in South America. Most
Of the better grades of hats are made
of coney's or rabbit's fur. The best
are the wild rabbits caught in Scotland.
Rabbits caught in the United
Kingdom are preferred to any other.
Those found in the south and west of
England and in Ireland and "Wales are
on rr/v-wl no tlinen f.rannarl in Hip
UUb (Id ^uuu i?o uiju.jvj vuii/pu vi*v
more northerly parts. Tame rabbits
are raised in France and Belgium for
their fur. They are larger than the
wild rabbits, but as they are much
coarser they are not so valuable. Hares
are also raised. Russia and Germany
produce some rabbits, but more hares.
The fur of the hare makes a finer hat
than that of the rabbit. The diuculty
lies in obtaining a sufficient quantity
of it. llabbits multiply so rapidly that
the demand can be supplied with them
when it cannot with the fur of any
other kind of animal. Beside the
countries named, rabbit skins come
from Australia. A great many rabbits
are caught in America for their fin;
the quality of which is the mo it inferior
of any. This is owing to the
prevalence of hair in the fur, which
must be removed. The skins of the
mink, muskrat, squirrel and seal are
worth more for converting into such
garments as cloaks and trimmings ?ind
it's only the small pieces, which are useless,
that the fur is removed fr mto go
into the manufacture of hats. The
pieces are calhd "furriers' waste."
The better quality of rabbits' fur is
worLn <i p'juiiu, ui 11 uiiid
that, and of beaver, which mainly
coiner from the liocky mountains,
twice that of nutria. The fur of a rabbit
is divided into different parts,
which distinguish its va'ue?the backs,
sides, tails and cheeks. The backs are
the most valuable. Ten dozen of rabbit
skins make six and a half pounds
of fur, and of this live pounds consist
of " backs." The greater value of the
backs is due to the fineness of the fur.
The skin is converted into glue and
sizing, in France it is clar.lied and
made into gelatine an I lozenges. Only
the fur can be u eil for ha'.s. Xo machinery
has been devised that will successfully
separate the ha:r from the
fur. The hair has to be pulled o:it by
hand, which is a slow and expensive
process. After the hair Ls removed
the fur is shaved oil close to the skin
by machinery. In England the miners
and poorer classes u-ethe ha:r in making
beds. Xo use has been found for
it here. The furrier's waste is used
for "filling in" on account of its line
quality. It works in with the other,
and makes the body of the hat more
compact and liner in texture.
About $5,000,000 worth of fur a year
is sold in this city alone to hatters, ana;
when converted into hats the value is
increased three-fold. Fifteen millions
of foreign rabbit and hare skins are
cut in the New York market annuiilly,
beside 2|f<00,000 American rabbits.
In Europe the number of rabbit skins
cut is computed to bu 30,000,000.
When the number of people who wear
hats is considered these figures do not
look so large. There are from two to
three ounces of fur in a hat, and only
a trifle over third of the average stilf
hat is fur. The remainder of the
weight is made of slu-lla;, which is applied
to stiffen it, and the trimmings,
including the lining and the band
inside. After the hair is pulled from
the skin the fur is "carroted." "Carroting"
consists of applying silver and
nitric acid, which removes whatever
animal properties remain in the fur,
and improves the felting character.
After the fur is shaved ofT it is
"blown" to purify it and take out the
hairs that are left, i'liis operation
makes it soft and downy to the touch.
The fur in making the hat is blown
against a tall revolving cone on which
jt forms. The hat after this operation
is perhaps two feat long, and in the
t-hape of a dunce's cup. The next
operation is to shrink it, which makes
! it more compact. To stifien it, it i?
dipped in shellac, which increase.? its
! weight very much. The final operai
fions are coloring, blocking, finishing
I tlie surface and trimming.
| . " Metier hats are made in America
; than anywhere else in the world," said
j an extensive n anufactnrer. "Only a
handful of Fnglis'i hats come to tnis
i .country. They are sold at a few places
c?,st of the average
hat lias been rediTrftf1*^*11' n?c.'ir''r
i from $(j.5(), twenty years ago.^o^TitT!^
This lias b''en aroniplisheil by la!" r- '
j saving machinery. It used to be a j
! good workman who could 'blow out-' a j
| dozen hats from sunrise to sundown. I
f Three men and a boy will now,- with j
, machinery, turn out forty-eight dozen." 1
' Most, cvi-rv manufacturer n-sikes u> 1
from P?00 t<> f>00 different styles ;iut.!
sli.ipi s a year. Ka h devises li i.-, ,nvn !
j patterns, although tlu* Knglish sfy!i-. (
j tre copied a great deal. New styi'-s ;
i are go!ten out. twice a year-in tl. I
'spring and fall. Tin: retailers are the I
I ones who suffer by iiats going out ci' f
| iashion. Tho whejJesal price of lie* i
, eh -apest stiff hat 1 >y the dozen is $1:1.50
and the cheapest soft hat $10. Th.
price of the dearest stiff hat is $:jG.
and the dearest soft $72. Tlier is
more work on stiff hats and less of the
expensive material in them. Tho production
of hats is paid to have in;
creased 100 per cent, in flft en year.-.?
i New York Times.
Tho Mad Stone.
I The mad-stone, or calculus, is found
in the paunch of a deer or cow. It is
claimed by those who have faith in
the mad-stone that it alheres to the
wound until it becomes charged with
poison, when it drops off. It is then
SOiUCfd 111 inilK, UUU tuw (Ij^uitanwu to
renewed. It is estimated thah. one person
in twenty takes the disease?somo
estimates are greater, s )iue le^. There
is a record of a dog that was bitten by
thirty mad dogs and outlived them al1.
It is estimated that there are 4,0C0,000
of sheep in Texas, which number
will be increased during the coming
season to 5,500,000, worth $13,500,C00.
* ? V
NEWS OF THE WEEK.
Eastern and Middle States.
The oldest priast in the United States i3
the Rev. Father Havermans, of Troy, N. Y.
He has just celebrated the fifty-fourth year
of his priesthood and the forty-second as
Catholic raptor at Troy.
Mee riNOS of tho Salvation army caused
8nch disturbances in New Haven that the
police were instructed to put a stop to them.
A heavy iron rail has been placed along the
center of the stairway on the East River
bridge where the resent frightful disaster
occurred; and passengers when they reach
this point are obliged to separate.
Philadelphia is following New York in
breaking up Chinese opium dens.
Rev, John Bbown, D.D., of Newburg, N.
Y,, is declared to be the oldest Mason in the
United States, having been made a member
of a Newburg lodge on June 16,1817, sixtyeix
years ago.
The arrival of twenty-five almost destitute
emigrant girls at Saratoga, N. Y., from
New York city, expecting at onco to fill
places as hotel servants, for which they had
paid a fee, disclosed the fact that they had
been made the dupes of swindlers in the
metropolis.
Prince Duel, who died the other day at
Greenfield, N. Y., lived in one house over
eighty-seven years.
The house bill to establish the contract
system in prisons, and a bill prohibiting
political assessments, have been passed by
the Pennsylvania senate.
A NEOBEA3 died the other day in New York
at the alleged age of 114 years.
Tiie jury in the inquest held on the bodies
of the twelve victims of the East River
bridge panic rendered a verdict censuring
the bridge officers for not having the approaches
properly guarded.
The father of the late James Fisk, Jr.,
died (i few days since in Brattleboro, Vt.
Mass meetings of Irish societies were held
the other evening at Philadelphia, Boston,
Buffalo, Rochester, Baltimore, Chicago, New
Orleans and other cities. The action of the
Philadelphia Convention was ratified, and
steps were taken to organize the branches of
the new Irish national league.
Two petroleum tanks?each containing
itf,COO barrels of oil?were struck by lightning
nearTitusville, Penn., and destroyed.
Many people have been overcome in New
York by the severe heat, and a number of
deaths are reported.
William Collins, fifty years old, while
drunk, went to his homo near Chester, Penn.
and trampled his wife to death.
Sixty Jersey cattle, sold at auction in New
York, brought an average price of $605.CC*
The imported bull Rayon D'Or brought
$2,5E0, and the imported cow Lady Vertumnus,
$1,609.
Foun tenement houses on the mountain
top near Ashland, Penn., were 6truck b"
lightning during a thunderstorm and totalj
demolished. A woman was killed and foa
men injured with probably fatal effect.
Bartholomew Nealon, who murdered his
wife Sarah, in Boston, by cutting her throat
from ear to ear, and then cut his own throat
with a pocketknife, died a week afterward
from his self-inflicted wound.
South and West.
Biamabck has been selected by a commission
as the capital of Dakota.
A movement is on foot for a grand afsembinge
of Federal and Confederate veterans,
on the battlefield of Shiloh in May next.
A chowd of seventy-five men forced their
way into the jail at Winterset, Iown, took out
John Hamner, imprisoned on tho charge of
murdering a wood aawyor for his money, and
hung him to a trea. It was the third attempt
that had been made to lynch Hamner.
Amasa Stone, the wealthy Clevelander
who recently committed suicide, left an estate
worth sJ.V-OO.OOO.
In the United States circuit court at Kansas
City, Mo., Roscoe Conkling made the
closing argument in a case testing the constntionality
of the statute prohibiting the
sale of oleomargarine in Missouri.
Mayob Wimon, of Topeka, Ivan., is
charged witli having refused to obey the provisions
of the prohibition law, and tho
county attorney asked the court to declare
the mayor to have forfeited his office and to
be formally disqualified from holding any
position of trust or profit hereafter in the
State.
A heavy rainstorm which visited Counoij
Bluffs, Iowa, did an immense amount of
I damage. For three hours the rain pourea
down in torrents, falling with such force
that it almost took a person's breath away.
Indian < .ojk, which flows through the city's
center, soon overflowed its banks and the
raging torrent poured through Council
Bluffs, sweeping the bridges and culverts
from one end of the stream to the other.
Seven bridges and two stone culverts were
swept away, and all that part of the city
lying between the bluffs overlooking the
Missouri river and Broadway on the north
was inundated. Seventy-five buildings were
either wholly or partly demolished, and a
total loss of more than ?500,000 was inflicted.
About fifty members of the Texas legislature
were indicted for gambling at Austin;
the indictments wire, however, all stolen
from the county clerk's office by burglars.
Two ruffians who undertook to intimidate
Ihe town of Winston, Iowa, were shot and
killed by the indignant citizens.
The Grafton Iron company, of Leetonia,
Ohio, has failed for about $c00,000.
The thirty-first annual meeting of the
International Typographical Union of the
United Stales and Canada was hald at Cincinnati.
Tornadoes have wronght great destruction
of property and caused some loss of life in
several Southern States. At Greenville,
Texas, 150 houses were either blown down or
,i foundations. Four
IMUYlll AlViiA
churches were wrecked, one colored
child was killed nnd several other perrons
severely injured. A Dallas (Texas)
dispatch says-that the damage in North
Texas will reach ?1,0()0,0C0. For miles
about Dallas every acre of crops was destroyed,
fences were broken into kindling!
wood at d many farm houses laid in ruirs.
j linilslones as large as hens'eggs fell West
I of Dallas a strip of country a mile and a half
| in width was swept cloau of crops and many
I farm buildings were demolished. The
j piairies were ftrewn with dead rabbits,
j chickens,.ducks and other ira;ne. Orchards
were destroyed and groat trees were torn up
j by the roots. Roports indicate that the
storm raged in belts and alternate strips of
> country tscuped. The tornado also swept
through Barbour county, Ala., killing one
j negro, wounding several persons and demolishing
many houses.
L Ji'd'ie Tukat, in tb.o T'nited States circui'
co:irta* St. I/jui.<, has rendered i deeisKiftTft4*
to nearly every part of the
r-MfcJ .Statej, i-ettling the great barbed wire
ft tut- controversy. court hokls that the
patent " issued foi the manufacture of bnrbud
wire fence are void, and therefore refused 10
grunt the preliminary injunction asked for
by iho Washburn A' Moen Manufacturing
coiupatii and Isaac L. Ell wood. The Wa> hburu
(onipany likewise sought an injiui<,tioti
against (tustav Griesche and Henry F'joas
rclaiive to the manufacture of patent
machine* lor barbed wire. Thi? injunction |
was refused <m t;ie ground that there
was no infringement. Ttio earliest MrHM
wire patent ass i??ni*d i:. " ' ' >
Hunt, since which time the issnes and reissues
have been almost innumerable. The
company has derived a princely revenue
from its control of the manufacture of
barbed wire feuce, the yearly royalties alone
amounting to between $1,.TOD,000 and $2,000,(y
n Tim effort of this decision is to release
nil rcstr.'clionson the manufacture of barbed
wire, and save millions of dollars annually
to tho farmers and ranchmen of the country
t'.:at have herojoforo been paid in the shape
of royally.
A chowd at Hermann, Mo., broke into the
jail and hanged a prisoner named Whitney
because his trial for murder had been put
over to the fall term.
A fire in Chicago destroyed P. T. Barnum's
main tent, drosses and pharaphernalia,
causing u loss of about $lf>,C00. The
canvas desl royed covered nix acres of ground,
and is claimed to have been the largest tout
in the world.
More than 1,GOO doctors attended tho
thirty-fourth annual meeting of the American
Medical r.ssociation, held this year in Cleveland,
Ohio.
Following is the ticket chosen by the Ohio
Republican State convention at Columbus:
For governor, J. B. Foraker, of Cincinnati;
lieutenant-governor, William G. Rose, of
Cleveland; judges of the supreme court, W.
H. Upson and John H. Doyle; clerk of the
supreme court, Dwight Crowell; attorneygeneral,
U. B. Earnhart; auditor, John F.
Oglevey; treasurer, John C. Brown; commissioner
of common schools, D. F. De Wolfe;
member of board of public works, Leo Weltz.
Tho platform adopted favors a tariff
for revenuo and the protection of American
labor, the formation of a bureau of labor
statistics, the submission of the temperance
question to the people of tho State in tho
form of constitutional amendments, taxation
of the liquor traffic, the abolition of
contract labor in prisons, reform in the civil
service and a repeal of tho law limiting the
time within which applications maybe made
J.V/1 ^OilOiVUO*
The Barber boys, Western desperadoes of
the regulation pattern, were captured near
Tripoli, Iowa, after a desperate resistance,
during which they killed one man and
wounded four others, one mortally.
At the Iowa Democratic convention held
in Des Moines tho following ticket was
nominated: Judge L. G. Kinno for governor
: Justus Clark for lieutenant-governor,
and Edgar B. Farr for superintendent of
public instruction. Tho platform adopted
favors the extension of the civil service laws
to every department of the government; arraigns
the last Congress for its extravagance
and demands economy; indorses a tariff for
revenue only, and a gradual reduction of protective
duties; denounces the tariff legislation
of the last Congress as "the result of corrupt
and disgraceful intrigues and shameloss
attempts to perpetuate existing evils under
pretense of tariff reform;" favors a well
regulated license law with the penalty of forfeiture
of the license for its violation; affirms
the right of legislative regulation of railways,
demands that the government protect
its citizens from imprisonment by any
foreign government without charge or right
of trial, and cordially sympathizes with the
oppressed of all nations struggling for their
constitutional rights and liberties.
r*f*inrna /I 1?TTT?PAM fclUtrtf OTirl nrftnPlfitflP
ViiauL)r,o v? & uuxvii) vv?wt
of the Baltimore daily /Imerican, is dead in
his sixly-eighth year. Mr. Fulton was a
delegate to every national Republicon convention
with one exception since 18G1.
While two Mexican horse thieves were
being conveyed from Gonzales to San Diego,
Texas, twenty-five men overpowered the officials
and lynched the prisoners.
In an interview Brigham Young declares
that the Mormons will obtain 20.000 converts
from America and Europe this year.
Two successive attempts were made to
burn Silverton, Col., with the evident object
of creating a stampede of the citizens to the
limits of the town and then rob the First National
bank. Nearly 100 indictments have
been found by the grand jury against gamblers
and otheri connected with these incendiary
plots. The city was patrolled at night
by bodies of armed men.
A powder company's magazine, contain
ing 1,303 pounds of powder, was strnck by
lightning at Hutchinson, Kansas, and the
explosion which followed broke nearly every
glass front in the city and wrenched several
buildings from their f?Jundations. An explosion
in a powder company's works near
San Pablo, Cal., on the same day, killed two
Chinamen.
Henby and William Temple and Auguste
Kaike upset a skiff on the Missouri river,
near Glasgow, Mo., and were drowned.
Oino's wheat crop this year will probably
be 20,250,000 bushels, against 45,500,000
bushels in 1882.
From Washington.
Mb. Bcbchabd, director of the mint, has
made the special report on the production of
-*-? t-i-l 71,?
the precious meuus wmu.i w<? uiuciuu w
printed by the last Cong ress. He says that
the yield of the mines of the United States
for the year 1832 was $32,500,000 in gold,
$4(5,800,000 in silver, a total of $79,300,000.
Compared with the previous year this shows
a decline of $2,200,000 of gold and an increase
of $2,800,000 of silver. The production
of the country was, from the States and
Territories, as follows:
Gold. Silver.
Alaska $1.10,000 '
Arizona 1,005,000 $7,500,000
California 16,8C0,0.0 845,003
Colorado :t,300,000 1G,500,00)
Dakota 3,300,003 175,000
Georgia 250,000
Idaho 1,500,000 2,000,000
Montana 2.850,000 4,370,000
Nevada 2,000,000 0,750,000
New Mexico 150,0J0 1,800,000
North Carolina 1C0,000 25.UC0
Oregon 83O.C00 35,000
South Carolina 25,0!>0
Utah 190.C03 6,800,000
Virginia 15,000
Washington Ter.... 120,000
Wyoming Ter 5,000
Total $32,500,000 $40,800,000 1
The United States civil service commis*
i sioners have held a meeting at which a 1
number of questions of de'.ail relating to the
examination of candidates for places in the
| civil service and to the application of th
new rules governing appointments were dis
cussed.
Papers have come in at Washington thus
far in thirteen contested election cases.
Three of thess cases are in Virginia, as follows
: Massey, a Democrat, against Wise,
a Readjuster; Garrison, a Democrat, and a
member of the last house, against Mayo, a
Readjuster, in th? first district of Virginia'
and O'Farrell, a Democrat, against Paul, a
Readjuster from the seventh district. There
are two from Alabama?Craig, a Republican,
against S. Shelly, a Democrat, in the fifth
district, and Rice, a Republican, against
Herbert, a Democrat, from the Montgomery
j district. From Colorado, Wallace, a Demoj
crat, contests the seat of Belford, and in the
I Fifth Iowa distict, Frederick, a Democrat,
j contests the seat of Wilson, a Republican,
j From Missouri there is the McLean-Broadhead
case. From Ohio comes the case of
! Wallace, a Democrat, against McKinley, Re- (
! publican; and from Kansas the case o
Wood, Greenbacker, against Peters, Repub,
lican. There are three more cases?the ChalI
...0,0 Ainimitirr / Mi sisr.inni) case, the case of ,
j Marzanaris against Lunn, from the Terri. j
tory of New Mexico, and another case, the '
papers in which came in a sealed package
without any marks upon it to indicate .
against whom it was leveled. These are
I probably all the contests thai will be indulged
in at the uext session. (
Nindebmasn, Noroa and the other seamen
| of the Joannettc Arctic expedition have been (
| formally relieved fio:ndutyou that service. 3
' They were given certificates of merit and ,
I medals of honor, but when tiieir accounts j }
were audited at the treasury department j
! their allowance* for witness fees aud even ,
' for necessary expenses while attending (
: the Jennnette investigation under orders t
1 or the navy department were thrown j
j out and '.hey cot nothing more than ordin- ;
I nry wages. They told Secretary Chandler 1
w0l,'(' financially embarrassed
' He ?aid he would do what .
by thin deem.*5** , , . . . '
, , , *o>i he recognized the Ois- ,
he could for thenui^ . . . , . 1
.... . ,TJ;e:r ?emces, hnf an i
tmgnwhed eharaeler of . , ,
... . 7SVbe re-iuired for ^
a-tot i ongiess will prob;w>!^*? ^ir ,
, their relief. j i
T'u nt !.'! > :ij?| O'litwi ivmiam oI
Hnul'iitr. of North Carolina, to bo secretary f
of tiit* civil f-orvicj commission. 4
Mktai.mo rod is to be the color of the new
i two-cent posagc stamp. The vignette which T
j wi I be used on tho stamp is copied from (
[ Hondon'a stpluo of Washi: g'On.
! Ten. :jivice commiHsioi; gave notice
: that coropf t'Mvi exs minations for admission
. -r-~r.'* held between
l u uuv AW ? . *~-w *!'' l*.. ;',OA03; ^
I viz.: Albany, N. Y.; Boston, Ma
lington, Vt.; Buffalo, N. Y.; Chicago, .
111.; Cincinnati, Ohio; Cleveland, Ohio; 1
Detroit, Mich.; Indianapolis, Ind., ,
Kansas City, Mo.: Louisville, Ky.:
Milwaukee, Wis.; New Orleans, La.;
Pittsburg, Penn.; Port Huron, Mich.; Portland,
Me.; Providence, R. 1.; Rochester, N#
Y.; St. Louis, Mo.: San Francisco. Cal.; and
Washington, D. C. Any person wishing to be
examined at either said place for service in
::ny department in Washington should now
send a written request to the civil service
commission at mat piace ror uie proper ujiplicntion
blank, which will be supplied.
It is said by officers of the department of
agriculture that hog cholera has been practically
exterminated. Unsuccessful attempts
have been made for weeks past to socun^
virus from infected hogs for experiineajfl
purposes.
Captain Michael V. Siiebidan, seventh
"cavalry, has been appointed by the President
major and assistant adjutant general, to fill
he vacancy cauetd by tho death of Genora
Mitchell.
\ Foreign News.
' Thomas Caitebtt was the rourth of the
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prisoners
hanged in Dnblin for the murder
of Lord Cavendish and Mr. Barke.
Mubdebs are occurring daily in Pana
or vicinity.
St. Blaise, the English colt that won tlio
Derby this year, was beaten a head by the
French eoltFrontin in the race for the graa'l
prize of Paris.
Five members of the Republican brotherhood
have been arrested at Waterford, Iroland,
on a charge of being connected with
conspiracy to murder.
The Russian emperor has granted the Raa
kolnik sects (dissenters from the csta'i
list ed Greek church) liberty of worship.
Messbs. Davttt, Healy, M. P., and Quinn,
?* uoliimmmlnmnllnfl. ''.JSm
WUU were bculcuuju ioou ^ ~?
ment in Kilmaiaham jail, Dablin, for six
months for making inflammatory speeches/
have been released.
A secret inquiry into the riot which occur
red in the streets of St. Petersburg on
the evening after the czar's coronation in
Moscow shows that it was instigated by Ni- a
An alleged attempt to blow up the Wolland
canal in Canada by fifteen Fenians, who a|
came into St. Catherine's from the Onited
States, is said to have been frustrated by the 'JlfflSk
timely precautions of the Canadian govern- rfficj
ment. According to the published accounts
the government at Ottawa received a very ySlSj&t
secret warning several weeks ago that it was v^M
the intention of the Fenian faction of the \silS
Irish associations to send a party of their followers
into Canada on the day of the hang- fltrag
ing of Brady in Dublin, for the purpose of ?N
blowing up certain portions of the Welland SggS
canal. A large number of men known to \ . . JHlE|
be loyal subjects of the queen were at once gaU
stationed at a short distance along the banks |3E|
of both the old and the new canals, with in- i%jB|
structions to watch all the movements of any flalM
suspicious characters who at that time might
be hovering about On the day before Brady
was hanged fifteen suspicious-looking men, gjttj
each carrying a carpet-bag, jumped from the
train at St Catherine's, having oome over
the suspension bridge from Buffalo. They - J-'jgI
seemed to be making arrangements to carry
out an object which they had in view, bat
discovering that they were watched they
precipitately returned to the United States.
Advices have been received from Sierra
Leone. Africa, that fifty persons were roasted
alive for witchcraft in the Sherbro district
The mayor of Moscow has been banished
to his estate in Tambow for having expressed .*i
the hope in his speech at the banqnet to may.
ors of citie3 daring the coronation festivi- <
ties that the czar woold institute a constitutional
regime.
The Chinese army is being mobilised, and
active preparations tire being made for war with
France.
At Posen, Prussia, 143 soldiers were acd- : /jgHjj
dentally poisoned, their condition at last accounts
being dangerous.
Queen Victoria's health is said to be each.
as to occasion grave anxiety in political cir- i
cles. She has gone to Scotland against the!
advice of her physicians, and is hAving see*;.
cessive fits of depression.
Afothxb Russian paper?the Miwcow Tele-'
graph?has been suppressed by the govern-' .-VjgqB
ment for printing objectionable articles.
Mb. Rezne'h American colt Blue Grass %
won the race for tne Ascot biennial stakes, WSSK
a prominent annual English racing event. ffSSjW
Pbepabationb on a great scale aie being - aM
made in China for war with France. Wf&h
Chili and Bolivia are once more at peace. SB
Loud Chief Jcbtice Colebidqe, of Eng. -^fnB
land, is aboat to visit the United States. fPf&i
Suleiman Daud and Mahmud Sami, who VjlH
were accused of setting fire to Alexandria* iJSS
Egypt, at the time of the Britieh bombard. ' iTsS?
ment, have been found guilty and sentenced
to death. Eighteen officers were found guilty of
complicity in the same crime, and were "y'fjM
sentenced to various terms of penal seivi- 2&SH
tude.
Seyebal fights have taken place between jg%|
the Albanians and Turks, resulting in heavy
losses on both sides. Cse&b
ADDITIONAL NEWS. m
The body of William Stevens, a veteran
oarsman of considerable repute, -was found
floating in the Hudson at Poughkeepsie, N*
Y. He had been missing since last DecernDb.
Eliphalet Clabk, the oldest homeonofKin
nhniimnii in Mninn. and founder
with Dr. Gray, of New York, of the American
institute of homeopathy, died a few days
ago at Deering, aged eighty-two years.
The buzzing of an insect frightened a lit.
tie girl in one of the New York schools, and
her screams were followed by a panic among
the children which might have resulted in '
another catastrophe similar to that on the
East River bridge. Many of the
children ran for the doors, parents and
relatives of the scholars came rushing to the
front, demanding admittance, and for a \
time great excitement prevailed. Happily
however, the prompt arrival of many police* , .JsBj
men and firemen, and the coolness of the
teachers, prevented what might have been a ^js|jj|
frightful disaster.
Lightning destroyed three of the mills belonging
to the large powder works near New- 'ijSj
bnrg, N. Y. Other buildings were partly de- inolished
and one employe was killed. ... .-trg*
Elbeht M. Stephenson was hanged at v>>|jSS
Ltiwrenceville, Ga., in presence of 8,00 peopie,
for murdering his aunt.
A laeqe crowd of men proceeded at night \j$j
to the jail at V'averly, Iowa, attacked the
place with crowbars, picks and all kinds of
weapons, finally effecting an entrance, t:ok
oat the two Barber brothers and hanged the
desperadoes to a tree. v
A hioh license liquor bill has passed the
Illinois house, and is deemed certain to go _ .'
through the senate.
La whence E. McKinnet, treasurer of Mon- gaaa^
roe county, Ind., has been found to be $15,- . >A
000 short in his accounts, of which amount
his bondsmen have to make good $11,000. 'J&
McKinney speculated in stocks.
Mb. and Mrs. John F. Bryant celebrated ft#
their golden wedding at their home in
Princeton, 111. About 30J guests were pros- '
;nt from Illinois and other States. Mr. Bry. J3 ^
int is a brother of the poet, William Collen ^
An English dispatch steamer?the Lively
?has been completely wrecked near Storn- ^
lway. The loss is about $150,003. ;ig
The Turkish hoy rnmcat has informed T * ?
jor.cml Wallace, oar min ster at Cons tan ti- 1
iople, tbat after the expiration cf the colt- . j9
mercial treaty bstween the two countries,
ivhich expires March 13, 1884, th" -l. fll
roportation of nil American meat*, lard
ind similar products will be prohibited. ' . ' Wm
General Wallace has protected that the fore- ;>s
joing measures are arbitrary, and asserts :dm'i
Ihat American goods undor the treaty of
1830 are entitled to the moe. -faTQ|^ "nj^B^y'L
treatment. x'*1
Mobe: than^jflj^chinese laborers died
llrmcr >'ear 'u Britfah Columbia,
:IU J^i.eetinfrofChineso firms in Victoria ?
l^r^wolved to advise the Chinese governn?nt
to allow no more men to time to the
:ountry at present. ;
The catch of seals by the Newfoundland "3
ealinjj fleet this season is reported at from j
[00,000 to 450,000 seal?. 1
Apowdkh magazine in Scutari, i*urkey, 4
vas' struck by lightning, and a tremen- "f
ions explosion resulted, many person * being 3m
One of the most ingenious alapta- :<M
tions of electricity, recently introduced,
s that by which machinery wh-m in
motion may be in;tntnt^pyird a i
u the c;ise of itiniigine. -A wire roftej
L-oili'd around tlie stem of the throttle
valve of the engine, carries a weight
which is held in place by a rest, and
the whole arrangement i3 such that \ ;
the passing of an electric current
along a wire rel^ses this rest and
causes the weight to fall. The tension
thus thrown upon the wire rope acts
upon the throttle valve, cuts off the
supply of steam and consequently
stops the machinery. 1 buttons, with
wire connections, are placed in different
parts of the works, and on press- 4
in# any one of these the passage of an
electric current acts as above mentioned.
In any factory these electric
buttons can be placed in every room, or
several of them in a large room, as may
he required. Should any one happen
to be caught by the machinery, the
simple pressing of a button in the most
distant part of the factory will quickly
stop the whole. ?
United States people U9e 75,000,000
pounds of tea a year.