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BY HUGH WILSON. ABBEVILLE, S. C.. WEDNESDAY, JUNE 27, 1883. . NO. 2. VOLUME XXVIII.
STAND LIKE THE ANVIL.
''Stand like the anvil," when the strokes
Of stalwart men fall fieroe and fast;
StonrB but more deeply root tho oak,
Whose brawny arms embrace the blast.
'Stand like the anvil," when the sparks
Fly far and wide, a fiery shower :
Virtue and truth must still be marks
Where malice raves its want of power.
"Stand like the anvil," when the bar
Lies red and glowing on its breast
Duty shall be life's leading star,
And conscious innocence its rest.
"Stand like the arvilnoise and he-it
Are born of earth and die with time;
The soul, like God, its source and seat,
Is seldom still, serene, subliruo.
FAITH- REWARDED.
CHAPTER I.
"You will b? back as soon as voa
can, Edith? You know how I ilisiike
")eing left alone." Mrs. Bertram
ipoke fretfully, and looked as if she
rather resented her daughter's going
Dut at all. " And you will think over
what I have said to you about Dr.;
Ashby? You know, inv dear, some!
one muse make a sacrifice; I'm sure (
I'm willing to do anything, but what
is there a helpless invalid can do? If
pou Wcul l only look at the matter
from a reasonable point of view you
would not hesitate. Just think of
Blanche and Eva, what is to become of
,hose poor, darling ch ldren?"
Edith sighed deeply; she had been
ihinking of the children all the morning
while teaching them their lessons
*nd correcting their exercises, trying
:o coax Bee to practice, and Eva to
get through her French verbs, thinking
what a comfort it wouiil be if;
they could both be sent off to a good
i school, where thev would be taught!
\ Dbedience; for though she had all the :
trouble, she ha l not the slightest con- J
trol over them.
ti -_i_ i 111._ ? ,,f lnc I
it onjy set'uu'u ui\e piujaug an t
ions to have Edith fur a governess,
while to her it was weary, we-'ring
work, added to all her other anxieties 1
and worries. For everything seemed
to fall on Edith's shoulders. Mrs.
Bertram was a fretful, rather selfish
person, who suffered from nervous
headaches, and on the strength of:
them took very littl; intere t in the
affairs of her" snvi1 and straitened
household, except to perpetually find
fault, and grumble at the hard fate
that had placed her in such circum-!
stance s. >
She was a pretty wot an. with soft!
fair hair and violet eyes, and useless I
little white hands ; and though Edith
Bertram felt it keenly when her father j
brought home a young wife to the!
Dingle, she did not wonder when she j
^ looked at the pretty clinging girl who J
V looked little older than herself, and j
W 3eemed so swett, shy and amiable.
K Edith was fifteen, and her step-mother ;
I twenty-two, though she did not look '
I nearly so old. And just at first, things :
^ went on smoothly enough at the Dingle.!
Mrs. Bertram made no changes, and !
Edith was still h >us. ke -per, and took
care of her father as she had done for j
five year-', ever since her own mother j
had died. But after a few months the
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sweetness un.i s.ivn ss ruunui uu, <iu-i :
Mrs. Bertram exhibited a sharpness of j
temper and petulance of manner thatj
i was anything but plea-ant. The i
| doctor, amiable and easy-tempered to j
I a fault, gave in to her in everything, j
I First she had Edith's drawing-master ,
P sent away, as site thought it mere'
waste of time and money ; then the ,
music-teacher was dismissed on the
plea that, as Edith was not going to j
be a mu-ical governess, it was absurd :
to ktep on learning, as she played quite j
well enough already. Then Mrs. j
Bertram began to find fault with .Tack
Clifford, the doctor's assistant, ami.
made it so unpleasant for him that lie |
declared one day he could not stand it |
any longer.
"I've made up my mind to go to the 1
Cape, Edith, to make my fortune,'" he j
said, and she could only 1 id him good- j
bye, with tear-dimmcd" eyes and fal- j
tering voice. She could not ask him .
fro stay, for it did not s em like home j
I at the Dingle, and all her authority j
L was gone.
I " But I'll come back, Edith," Jack I
I added, holding both her hands. " I'll;
F _ return to you. Will you trust rne, j
j ' darling, and wait ?"
" Yes, Jack, I will," she replied,;
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simply. i\na uie next uu^ ne it-it nuu i
a formal farewell. Only Edith knew j
what a disappointment it was to .lack, J
and how all his hopes were blighted
and his plans altered. The doctor had i
promised to make him his partner, and
that one day he should succeed him;
but for some inexplicable reason he
had been cold and distant of late, and
it seemed a positive relief when Jack j
was gone.
Six months aft r the bank in which
Dr. Bertram had deposited the savings
Kr of his whole life, and Edith's fortune
inherited from her mother, failed suddenly?everything
was lost, and the
doc tor never recovered the shock of it.
"If I only had Jack to stand by me !
I might have borne it," he :-a:d, sadly: j
"he would have been a son t> me in !
my adve. sity."
But Jack was gone, none knew i
whither, and Mrs. Bertram began to
dimly realize that she had done a foolish
thing in driving him away, for the
d'?ctor grew every day more feeMe,
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and at lengm was i or ecu 10 sen
practice and house, and move into a
tiny cottage on the outskirts ?f the.
village, where, alter a few months, he
died of a broken heart. '1 ho money he
had received for his practice and the
Dingle, and an insurance on his life,
was all he had to h aw his wife ami j
children, and invef-te l in the most careful
way. it Drought them in less than a
hundred a yeai.
Pcor Edith found it hard work to j
make both ends of sue a narrow income
meet, and after a few months j
she found it absolutely necessary to do i
^ something to earn more money. She j
could not go away ;is a governess?
first, because her tt^pmotiier had cut
uhort her education at the most critical
time, and, beside, she could not leave I
her little sisters. Uut her music sir; |
had always kept up, and the village j
church happening to be in need of an
organist, the vicar offered her the situ- j
ation, which she gratefidly accepted:
and after a time she secured a few j
music pupils, and in that way helped
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out tneir narrow in -uiue. ihil uh- ;
hardest work of all was teaching and
taking care of Blanche and Eva. They i
were pretty, willful, spoiled children,
indulged by th-ir mother, and unar I
customed to any sort of control or discipline.
During the doctor's lifetime
they had a nuiserv governess, and1
Edith never imagined till she came to j
have sole charge of them how much
poor Miss Lee must have suffered at
their hands.
There was but one bright spot in
the rather wearing, monotonous life,
the daily walk with the children. For
their health's sake and her own she
made a point of taking them out every
fine day for a ramble through the
woods and shady lanes. Ashmead was
in the center of a beautiful country ;
not a railway in sight; no smoke from
fnmapp nr fart.orv staine 1 the clear.
pure air; nothing but rich corn-fields,
fertile valleys, cool shady woods and
mossy lanes, with a merry little brook
flashing like a gleam of summer lightning
through the meadows. It \va> a
* positive delight to saunter idly along
in the glorious sunshine and gather the
wild flowers that grew so luxuriantly
at their feet, and weave ropes and
chains and wreaths of blossoms. It
seemed like new life to get clear of the
house, with its narrow confines and
v sordid cares; and of late there had
come a new element of distress into
poorEnith's existence. For a whole
I year Dr. Seymour Ashby, her father's
I successor, had. been a constant visitor
| at Eglantine cottage. It was amazing J
how many excuses he found for calling 1
I at first, and how soon he began to call
j without an excuse, and one day lie proi
posed in due form to Mrs. Bertram for
| Edith, and she gave him every en1
couragement to try his fortune for himj
self.
j " Of course you'll accept him,
j Kdith," she said, eagerly. " It will be
! such a blessing to us all. Dr. Ashby
| is young, rich, clever, handsome. What
i more ran you possibly want? And he
j really loves you most devotedly."
j " Hut 1 don't love him," Kdith replird.
"Then you ought, and I'm sure you
will in time: and besii'o, as I said lie-1
fore, some one of us must make a sacrifice
for the children's sake. Do
think it over b.-fore he talks to you,
: Kdith."
" Vis, V 1 think it over," was the
| somewhat weary reply, as Kdith put
1 1...* ?. 1 f.n-w- 11,. lin*. l.oolr, f fJ%
uii ner iiuL <iijvi t"ui\ uj? ml c i/\* ,
join the children, who were waiting
impatiently outside.
ISiit it wa* not of Dr. Ash by, but of
Jack Clifford. that she thought, as she j
sauntered through th? fields?Jack, |
who had lift her six years before to j
make his fortune, and, despite his;
promise, had never returned.
CHAPTER II.
Knee-deep, apparently, in the golden,
full-eared wheat, Edith and her sisters
sauntered idly along, Eva first, gathering
the brightest of everything, till j
her basket was full to overturning?
scarlet poppies, Marguerites, graceful
clematis, rich leaves mellowing with
the first early autumn tints, long trailing
sprays ot' amb r-veine 1 ivy, and j
nodding golden grasses?all sorts of;
wayside and woodland Ireasures. They j
were returning from llazeldell farm, I
where the children had rested for half (
an hour, and eaten home-ma le bread ,
and butter, and drank milk with the J
yellow wrinkled cream on it, and |
'helped themselves to the remains of.
late amber gooseberries that bordered j
the garden path. It was always a
treat to go to llazeldell farm, but had i
Edith known that there were seven j
children ill in til? next farmhouse she
would have chosen some other direction.
She had trie I to think Dr. Ashbv's
Dronosal over calmly, and it cer
tainly seemed a safe and easy way out !
ol' all their difficulties. He was rich !
and willing to undertake the children's '
education; h would make an addition i
to Mrs. Bertram's income, wh ch would I
enable her to live in comfort at some j
watering place ( though Mrs. Bertram j
meanttomake the Dingle her home):!
everything he proposed was kind and j
thoughtful, and she was very grateful, j
but iu heart she felt she did not love ;
Seymour Ashl.y, and, what was more'
than that, she never should love him.
Friendship, esteem, affection perhaps,
she might in time be? able to give him,
but no second growth of love would
ever spring up in her heart. Edith's
was an intense, patient, faithful nature,
giving much and exacting little
in ret urn. She was willing to wait, as
slu1 had promised .lack Clifford, to wait;
all her life if need be?' ut tin re were
the children and her stepmother help- i
less and dependent on her. Clearly
some one would have to make a sacrifice,
and with equal clearness Edith
saw that it must be herself. So she
resolved to accept Dr. Ashby's pro- j
posal, and tried to assure herself that
she was acting for the bi st.
Presently she heard a step behind
her on the narrow path, and looking
round she saw the doctor approaching
: a t:tll handsome man, dressed in
a suit of tweed, with a g!engarrv cap
pulled down over his eyes; as different
from his predecessor, Dr. Bertram, as !
a man could he, but with a dash and ;
cleverness men of the old school never
pt sse-sed.
"I have been trying to overtake you !
fur ten minutes. Miss Edith." he said, j
fulling just a step behind, for the path !
was too narrow fur two. "I have
sovnething of importance to say to !
you."
44 Yes, doctor," she replied calmly,!
though her heart heat fast and every j
trace of color left her face.
"You know what 1 would say,
Edith?you must have seen during 1
all those months how I love you. I j
want you to hi' my wife. Your mother
ha* given me permission to address:
3"ou, and given me some little r.-ason j
to hope that you will liste.i to me. I
Tell me, Edith, can you or do you care
a little about tne?"
For a minute or two Edith was
silent, then she told him all the truth, !
how they were situated, now she had
liked Jack Clifford, but for six years'
had not heard anything of him, and
how, if she consented to be his wife. J
he must 1 e content with mere esteem ,
and affection, for she had no love to |
bestow.
" You are honest, Edith, and truth-1
ful," he said in a very low voice, "and
I thank you-for the confidence you
have reposed in me, but 1 must think ;
this matter o\ er. 1 love you far too;
WtJJl l/U r<Mv ? 111 Uiijijnm D.I in <111^ n ai. ;
Six years is a long time t*.? be faithful
to a silent lover, Kdith.''
" We were scarcely lovers, doctor," j
she replied, with a sad little smile.
Jack just said, ' I'll coiue back K litlr;'
will you wait?' and 1 said I would?
that was all. lint poor papa was alive :
then, and we were rich ; now every-'
thing is so different. For myself. I am 1
content as I a u, but the children !" \
"Ah, yes, the children?something)
must be done for them. They are far
too much for you. l>id you say Jack)
Clifford went to the Cape. Kd th, and
that you never heard from him?"
' Yes, he said he was going to make
his fortune in the diamond fields, but,
he never wr ?te. so 1 dare say hi- was
not su res-fid, pot.r lVllow ! Indeed, I
think lie must lie dead.'
"I think not,' Dr. Ash by replied,
thoughtfully. ''Once moie. Edith, I
thank yui heartily for your i andor and
confidence, and 1 will come to you for
your final answer at th" <nl of a
month. Till then, good-b\e." and the
doctor lifted his e.tp, and turned down
;t by-path that led to lite DinJe, and
pour Kd tli went hom more perplex* d
than ever.
* * * * * *
" It's a whole month sinre we've
seen Dr. Ashby?whatever did you say
to him, Edith Mrs. .Bertram sa d i
one evening; "the horse has seemed
wretchedly dull without him. You
did not surely refuse him point-;
blank r"
"Xo, I did not refuse him," Edith ;
replied, weari y; she had answered f
nearly the same question every day for
four weeks, and was tired of it. She ;
was looking pale and worn, but Mrs.
Bertram never had eyes f?>r any one's
illness but her own.
"Mamma,"' Eva cried, bursting into
the room, "here's the doctor and another
gentleman!"
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And -Mrs. ijertram smoouieu m-i i
lltxMy hair ;in<l put on her amiable
I smile, while Edith's heart began to
I beat fiercely. She had thought the
| matter over from every point of view,
' add at length came to the conclusion
that it wou'd lie positively wicked to
I marry the doctor while .lark Clifford
1 was so much in her thoughts, and,
j come what might, she would not doit.
Presently he came in a'one, and,
after a few moments' conversation, he 1
| asked her to walk with him for a few
| minutes in the garden. She went at
! once, longing to have the interview
j over, and burst into the subject di- j
rectly. " I cannot be your wife. Dr. I
! Ashby; I think it would be wrong of j
i me to accept your proposal, feeling as
] I do. Please try and forgive me and
: let me go."
"First, let me introduce my friend,"
lie said, laying his hand on her arm, j
j " and my new assistant?the work of i
I Ashmead is rather too much for me?j
Mis? Bertram?Mr. Clifford." ^
"Jack!" In a moment.sh6 was in
his arms, her face hidden on his
shoulder, all the long years of absence
and silence forgotten. She only felt
that he had returned, and she was
still free. J.ater she learned how it
had all come about?how J)r. Ashby
saw an advertisement in the paper,
and guessed that " Jno. ('."mustmean
Jack Clifford, lately returned from the
Cape, ;ind several old letters he discovered
in a drawer in one of the
rooms of the Dingle convinced him
that there was treachery at work
somewhere. So he just engaged Jack,
and then to d him all about the Bertrams,
and how Kdith was still fathful
to him, though she never received
one of his letters.
The result was ;i ve.v quiet wedding
in Ashmead church, ?'?nd on that daj
Dr. Ashbv handed over the Dingle ar.e
the practice to his partner, and went
to travel in South America, promising
to return about the time Blanche was
seventeen. Both the children lie placrd
ats-hool, and Mrs. Bertram,feeling verj
much ashamed of the part she hac
played in intercepting .lack's letters,
left Ashmead, and in a few yeari
married a retired merchant at
Brighton, and so never troubled her
stepdaughter further.
.lack Clifford is fast becoming tho
most popular doctor for miles around,
and when Seymour Ashby returns, if
he ever does, he will lind the practic i
greatly extended. Edith is perfectly
happy in her old home, the Dingle,
and never for a moment has regretted
her perfect faith in Jack.
A It tcatclier's Methods.
In an interview with a professional i
ratcatcher a New York >Su n reporter
a ked:
" How do you clear a house of rats?"
"If the house has a soft cellar tloor
I can get the rats out, but I can't keep
them out. If it has a hard foundation,
I hunt out all the holes leading
from the sewers and stop them up
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Willi SilllU <11111 uniirilL. xuuu jjichuuj
any more from g. tting in and those in
the house from escaping. You see, a
rat is always on the move. He is
never still, but go -s from the sewer to
the house anil back again very often.
Having made the cellar tight, I find
the runways by whi-h the rats go
from one iloor to another. These are
generally along lead pipes in the walls.
A rat will run up a lead pipe as easy
as walk along the lloor. You can see
the marks of their feet on the runway.
1 nail a small square piece of tin over
a part of the runway and I grease the
outside. Now, a rat can't run up this,
and he slips clown when he comes to it.
"If I can't get at the runways I find
the holes, and iix this wire door on it. |
You see, it is made of four pieces of j
short wire laid parallel, held together
by crossbars, and sharpened at the ,
ends. This is suspended by the top
over a rat-hole. Coming from the hole
a rat can easily lift li up ami get ,
through, bnt he can't go back, as the
gate falls and the sharp points prevent
him from lifting it. Now I make a
rat trap of the whole house. I so fix
the gates and tin sides tliat the rats
will all ba led into one room in the j
basement. There they .ire securely !
caught, as they cannot possibly get
out. I go among them with a dark
lantern and pick them up with my
tongs. I can catch them as quickly as
a cat would a mouse. If they get in
places where I can't reach them I
shoot them with this long target
pistol. I use these litcle target cartridges,
and it kills them every time.
" When the rats get in ceilings I j
smother them out with cayenne pepper.
1 have a fuinigator "here which
works like an air pump. I burn red
pepper in it and pump it into the ceiling.
The rats can't stand that, and
they get out as fast a3 they can.
That is better than a ferret, as ferrets
are expensive and the rats often kill |
them. Ferrets are scary things to i
handle. If thy bite you once you I
have to pry their jaws open. When I '
want to catch rats for dogs I set I
traps. First I remove everything out
of their way, so that tl;e.y will get j
very hungry. Then I set the j
Then I have another way of catching !
them. I wear rubber shoes into a
slaughter-house at night and carry a
dark lantern. I move softly about I
and catch the rats with the tongs !
before they have a chance to get ;
away. In this way I have caught
103 rats in two h mrs and a half. If j
you ever get bitten by a rat, put the '
wound in hot water and make it bleed, j
Then bathe it with arnica or spiriti
of turpentine."
A Wonderful Cavern.
About a mile from the market town :
of Adelsberg. in Austria, and three
miles from Trieste, is to be seen the j
most wonderful cavern in Europe, and
possibly in the world, called the Adels- I
berg cave, and which has been explored
for a length of nearly three thousand
yards, as far as a subterranean lake.
This cavern consists of several grottoes,
from sixty to eighty feet high. The
interior resounds with the noise of
water, as a little river runs completely
through it, forming many cascades on
its way. and being finally lost to view
in a fissure. '1 his river continues its
subterranean course for about eight
milis, and after a time it disappears
into the caverns of Laase, whence it
emerges as a navigable river called the
Laihach. The entrance to the cave of
Adelsberg is illuminated by hundreds
of candles, and a transparent curtain,
composed of la'ge >hee!sof crystallized
lime-tone, is seen hanging from the
roof. The vast hall or ballroom is
about \> 0 yards from the entrance. It
is throe hundred feet long and ore
hundred feet high, and is adorned with
transparent sta'actites of every kind oi
fantastic shape and form. I'ntil the
year IS lit, this "ballroom was the only
p-irt known; but at this date the wall
u-ic flirntKrli nnil
a series of chambers exposed to view
possessing a cathedral-like appearance,
from tlie stalactites in many instan- e.s
forming vast columns, by meeting the
stalagmites below. In the Adelsberg
cavern, numerous specimens are l'ound
of the proteus, a kind of lizard that
dwells in the bottom of the cavern
lakes.
It* lusion .
The lad's desire t > b a man.
The brain which lea !s a mob.
Th desire to keep a rash vow.
That "tlir.-c removes are as bad ast
lire."
The fri ndship given you by an envious
man.
The secret hatred nurse:! rather thar
give an open rebuke.
The doing of g od in order to have
it well spoken of.
The man who thinks zeal moves him
when it is only passion.
That " prosperity always makes men
monst rs."
The man wh) chases a false tale
thinking to catch it.
lie who takes all advantages
brought to him by fortune's smiling on
him.
He who thinks himself a saint just
because he advertised the fact that he
had found a poeketbeok.
That "in a thousand pounds of law
mere is not uuu immc ui jviv..
The person who thinks realization
of l'ollv the sole light of the aged.?
Ditroit Fne J'rcss.
President Arthur's right arm is an
inch and a half larger than when he
became President. Every day he goes
out into the reception-room, and shakes
hands with a great crowd of people.
Washington tailors say the right arms
of nearly all men of note are from op.a
to two inches larger than the all
on account of handshaking.
The largest-Ufanufactory ot hall bats
is at Hustings, Mich., where. 10J men
^reemployed. Half a millon ba's arc
I supposed to be the demand for this
year.
| NEWS OF Till-] WEEK.
Eastern and Middle States.
Hon. Chester W. CiiAriN, ex-membor of
Congress, a prominent railroad mnn and ono
j of llic richest men in New England, died a
f( w days sinco at Springfield. Mass., aged
eighty five years.
Benjamin Moki.ey, of Syracuse, N. Y., shot
| and killed his step-daughter, Mrs. Lnella
j Hynes, and then put a bullet through his
i own brain. Family disfonsior.s v. ere the
j cause of the ueed.
Two TnorsANT) spectators, including GeneralsOrant
andSh'.'rinan and thesecreta-y of
j w.ir, were present at West Point to witness
j the unveiling of the statue dedicated to tho
I memory of General Sylvanns Thayer, tho
| father of the West Point military academy.
A Bbitikit ocean steamship brought to Now
York the other day TOO Irish emigrants.
They are an installment of many thousands
of Irish poor whom tho English government
intend to Fhip to this country. Each emigrant,
large and small, received ?7> from the
English government, of wliich ,i"n4<. weni
to pay for tlio passage over, which leaves
them ?1 Os. or $('."0 each lo b??in life in this
country, for few have any money of their j
' own. Half the arrivals are children, and the
i majority speak the Irish language only.
Tiirke nnion iron workers met two nonI
union men of the fame cnft at Troy, N. Y.,
and after some words the latter two drew revolvers
and fired uj on the former. William
Hutchison, was instantly killed, and Joseph
Wincstine fatally and Arthur Imeson badly
wounded. All three wero union men.
I After the shooting an attempt was made
lo tiike the two union men from the oflicere
and lynch them, and it ws with great difficulty
they were conveyed to the station
house. William Sleicher, a foundry owner,
was arrested on a warrant sworn out by a
union molder, who charged that the
revolvers with which the shooting had been
done had been furnished by Sleicher.
Tiie pig-iron trade is reported by the
secretary of (he American Iron and Steel
association at Philadelphia to be in a very
un.-at:srac:ory conuiuo:i. at, me ucginmug
of Juno there were ft-8 furnaces in tke country,
of which .'Ml were in blast and 3o7 out of
blast.
A resolution was adopted in the New
Hampshire house providing for an investigation
by the judiciary committee of certain
charges that tho last State election was
affected by an improper uso of money.
Among the bills signed by tho governor of
Pennsylvania is one abolishing tho contract
system in prisons, and another prohibiting
political parties from demanding
from officials contributions for political purposes.
Lono Island has been devastated by the
most terrific storm ever known in its history.
Numerous houses were wrecked, others partially
demolished, farms, fences and trees
wore torn into fragments, and many persons
injured.
The tragedy at Uniontown has been the
ull-absorbing topic of conversation in Western
Pennsylvania. The coroiiars iuqaest,
which resulted in a verdict that Dnkes came*
I to his. of Jpmes Nutt, reI
c^alt^ (pia fart : of the bullets
' piercea tile heart of deceased. Su' scriplions
have been started to pay for Nutt's defense.
Two ladies who died in New York city
within a few hours of each other have just
been cremated at Washington, Penn., on succeeding
days. They wore Mrs. Cornelia
Wolberg and Mrs. Bertha Blechen. By a
stiange coincidence both die.1 from the same
disease?a painful organic one?and each
had been sick a year and a half.
Mr. Wollberg said that his wife's ashes
would be kept in his home, in an urn
wreathed with flowers and having her picture
suspended over it. Mr. Blechen will send
the ashes of his wife to Carlsruhe, Germany,
to be deposited in the burial-place of her
family.
Sonth and West.
Tiibee students of a religious institute at
Cleveland were drowned whilo swimming in
Cuyahoga river.
Heavy rains have flooded the country for
many miles in the vicinity of Springfield,
111., and done great damage to the crops.
At Vincennes, Ind., Charles Pollock, son
of Mr. James Pollock, of the Broadway
flouring mills, shot and killed his beautiful
wife and then ended his own career by firing
- 1 1l-1 - ?ATim Vitwl Kprin I
II UUUtil Illl/U Ilia l/UU/. AHW knw mvvm
married only a few months, and there was
no trouble between them, but the husband
was sufferiug from depression caused by
heavy drinking.
Mrs. Henby Stbatton, an aged widow,
was frightened to death by lightniug at her
home near Cleveland, Ohio.
A cyclone at North Vernon, Ind., destroyed
a church and five dwellings and blow
over a train of ten freight cars. At Osgood,
Ind., two persons wero killed and several
houses blown down.
An altercation that came near reducing tho
Indiana congressional delegation by one
occurred at Terre Haute, Ind., between Congressman
J. E. Lamb and Saul C. Davis, an
attorney. Bad blood had been engendered
between the two on account of a newspaper
libel suit, in which Lamb appeared for the
defendant and Davis for the prosecution.
The two met on the street, and after a few
words Davis drew a revolver, placed it at
Lamb's breast and fired. Lamb threw up
the weapon and dodged, and the ballet
struck a passing teamster's foot.
Alexander Myatt, indicted for the murder
of John Bird and confined in the jail at
Steubenville, Ohio, hanged himself in his
| cell. Bird ran away with Myatt's wife, and
j Myatt followed them to Steubenville, where
he shot and killed Bird on May 20.
Fibe at Havre de Grace, Md., destroyed a
1 large sawmill and about 4,000,000 feet of
I lumber, causing an estimated loss of $225,
: 000.
Advices from Tombstone, Arizona, state
! that General Crook had recrossed the border
| and was encamped at Silver Springs. The
command brought in 2:^0 Indian prisoners.
A TonNADO which passed through Beloit,
I Wis., wrecked the business part of the town,
j killed one man and injured several others.
; A storm at about the same time blow three
1 cars from the track near Clay Center, Kiui|
sns, into a creek twenty-five feet below,
causing severe injuries to seven passengers.
The general manager of the coming
Southern expo ition at Louisville, Ky., roI
ceived a letter from President Arthur heartj
ily approving ite purposes.
; The American scientific expedition to the
Caroline island in the Pacific ocean for obi
serving the recent solar eclipse, reached San
Francisco after a highly successful trip.
Akotiieb boom in Confederate war bonds
I is reported at Richmond, Va. North Caro!
Una war bonds brought four dollars per
j J] ,000. One house has bought over $20,000,000
worth of these securities.
I Dukino a tornado near Chillicothe, Mo.,
j the residence of Dennis Wolf was demol
ished, and the family wero carried a distance
i of about five hundred feet through the air.
| Mr. Wolf was killed and his wife's skull was
! badly cut. At Utica, near Chillicothe, the
Baptist brick church was demolished, and at
Summer City, eighteen miles southwest,
: eleven buildings wero destroyed and thouI
sands of trees were uprooted.
Jokdan Cojujin (colored) shot and killed
j Benjamin Carden, a white resident of Rockford,
Ala., his wifo and son, and then fled.
The only cause assigned for the terriblo deed
j is that the murderer intended to assault a
I young daughter of Carden, who made her
j escape.
Thihty murderers will bo tried at the
J present term of tho county court at Llano,
! Texas. State troops were sent there to pre|
serve the peace.
Six men were convicted at Mount Sterling,
Ky., of tho murder of Vaughn Heston,
j whom tl ey shot dead in bed beside his wife
j and child, and all were sentenced to imprls|
onment for life.
At tho Ohio State prohibition convention
I in Columbus a full ticket, headed by Ferdi|
nand Schumacher for governor, was nomij
nated, and a platform in conformity with
J the principles of tho party was adopted.
From Washington.
j Pkesident Annum has taken up his residciiee
at his summer cottage at the Soldiers'
Home, where he will remain until about the
10th of July, and then proceed to Newport.
Local boards of civil service examiners
have been appointed by the commission for
New York, Baltimore and Portland.
Canadian steamers carrying passenger*
between American lake ports aro to be
stopped as prejudicial to American interests.
Secretary Ciiaxpleb approves of th?
recommendations of the navy yard commission
in their forthcoming report to Ooni
gress. They favor the closing of certain
! yards an ; concentration of the organization
J and reduction of expenses in the remainder.
| Senator Beck and Congressman Willis, of
I Kentucky, accompanied by Mayor Jacobs,
of Louisville, and other citizens of that
State, waited on the President and invited
j him to be present at the opening of the
' Southern exposition at Louisville on August
j 1, and also at the dedication of the monu
' ment to the late President Taylor, whose reI
mains are buried near that city. The Presi!
dent remarked that he had partly
agreed to accompany General Sheridan
i on a tour to the Yellowstone Park
in August, and that the first of the month
was the date tixod for the beginning of the
journey, lie said that he would consult with
General Sheridan, and that if practicable he
would be in Louisville on the date mentioned.
Secretary Teller announces his purpose
ir\ 1.111' onHlfi fnr thn Tnrtinns as a mean9 for
making them self-supporting.
A commission appointed to investigate the
alleged smuggling of Chinese women and
children into the United States by way of
British Columbia reports that the practice
complained of is not general, although there
have been isolated cases. The commission
recommends additional vigilance on the part
of customs officer?.
Skcketaby Foloek has issued a circular in
which ho direct* that all cattle nrriving in
the United States from Europe, Asia, Africat
Australia or New Zealand shall be subjected
to n quarantine of ninety days, counting
from tho date of shipment. Stringent regulations
are made, with a view to preventing
the spread of any disease which may make
its appearance within the quarantine limits.
Mb. IJini.iiam, tho United States minister
to Japan, has delivered to the Japanese minister
for foreign affairs a draft for $785,000.87,
tho amount of the Siminoseki indemnity
fund returned to that government by order
of Congress.
Tijk chief signal officer has ordered the
immediate discontinuance of a number of
stations on account of reduced appropriations.
A f.taetling incident in tho star ronte
trial was the sudden falling in a lit of Jnroi
Vernon after the jury had retired to deliberate
upon their verdict. The jury were entering
the court-room to receive further
instructions from tho court, when Mr.
Vernon suddenly fell to the floor. A great
scene of coafusion followed. Restoratives
wi re applied, and tho juror soon recovered.
Ho hnd been a heavy drinker, and tho sud
den deprivation of stimulants is saiu to navo
brought on the fit.
The tiial of ex-ffe lator Dorscy, Brady and
the o'hsr star ronto defendants lasted
nearly seven months, nnd when
they were acquitted by tlie jury a scene
of great excitement ensued in the crowded
court-room. The relatives and friends of
the ptrsons accused were nearly delirious
with joy, and Colonel Ingersoll, their counsel,
was corenaded in tho evening. The expenses
of the trial will reach nearly $1,200,CO").
SnoMTABY Tellb* lias paid to Chief Bushy
Head, of the Cherokee Indians, the $300,000
appropriated by Congrats for lands ceded to
the United States by the Cherokee nation.
Foreign News.
A hehellion lias broken out in Hayti.
Ten soldiers and seven civilians were kille 1
and forty soldiers and fifteen civilians wound
ed by the explosion of the powder magazine
in Scutari through a lightning stroke.
Timothy Kelly, convicted of participation
in the Phoenix Park murders, was
hanged in Kilmainliam jail, Dablin. He was
tho fifth man executed for thosa murders
and was the last one convicted. There was
a laige crowd of people outside the
prison, l?nt there was no disturbance.
It is belioved that Kelly died without
making any statement. Mr. Varian
a member of the Dublin Prisoner's Aid society,
called upon Earl Spencer, the lord lieutenant,
late the evening before the execu
tion, nuu gave mm ms pcr*uuiu iwumuto
that at 8 o'clock oa the night tho Phoenix
Park murders were committed Kelly was
present at a meeting of tho society. The
next morning Varian stood in front of tho
jail and stated that he expected every moment
to hear that Kelly had been reprieved.
Ministee Hunt and Admiral Baldwin havo
received the largo gold medal commemorative
of the czar's coronation. Admiral Baldwin
has received a gold snuff-box, with a
portrait of the czar sot in brilliants, to mark
the czar's personal appreciation of the courtesy
of the United States in sending a special
naval mission to Moscow.
A banquet was given in London by the
Irish members of parliament to United
States Minister Jones, of Florida, who is a
native of Dublin. Mr. Parnell presided.
Sib Aiimun Edwabd Kennedy, formerly
governor of Vancouver and lately governor
of Queensland, is dead.
The trial of the dynamite conspirators?
Dr. Gallagher, Bernard Gallagher, Ansburgh
Curtin, Whitehead and Wilson?who are
charged with treason-felony, was begun before
a crowded court-room in London.
Lynch, alias Norman, the informer,
was tho first witness, and he repeated his testimony
in regard to the doings of the aliped
rnnsmrators nrevious to and after their
arrival in England from America.
Crops are reported to bo in a favorable
condition in Great Britain.
Victoria and the other colonies arc taking
steps to urge the British government to
annex the New Hebrides, the Solomon
Islands and other groups of islands in the
| Pacific.
The basis of peace between Chili and Pern
| stipulates for the cession of all the territory
south of the river Camarones to Chili; the
occupation by Chili of Tacna and Arica for
ton years; after which a plebiscit is to decide
to whom they shall belong, and the country
g(4ting them is to pay $10,000,000 to tho
other.
A famine prevails in tho Kurdish district
of Asia Minor. Many persons have died
from starvation. Grain is selling at six
times its usual price.
Mechmet Tewfik is tho full name of the
present khedive of Egypt.
AVilmam E. Gladstone, premier of England,
will not retire at the end of the present
session of parliament, as has been rumored.
M. Grevy, pre.-ident of tho French republie,
is simple and unostentatious in his daily
habits and methods of living.
Three stories of the barracks at Kaluga,
Russia, fell in, killing ten persons and injuring
many more.
It is reported from the Congo river, Africa,
th.it Mr. Henry M. Stanley has arrived at
! Brazzaville with l.OJO men. M. do lirazza,
his French opponent, hns a force of 210 men,
anil lias made but little progress.
Thk sentences of a number of Nihilists,
I three of whom had been condemned to
death, have been commuted by the czar,
j Ik an explosion on a tug at Chuolo, Buenos
I Ay res, eight porsons were killed and nine
others seriously injured.
The French village of Valloirei has been
completely destroyo 1 by lire.
Four of the dynamite conspiracy prisonl
ers?Dr. Gallagher, Whitehead, Wilson and
j Curtin?on trial in London, were found
j guilty, and sentenced to penal servitude for
1 life. The others two prisoners?Bernard
Gallagher and An?b.irgh?were acquitted.
Thk Chinese commander at Shanghai has
informed the French minister that China hano
intention of declaring war against France.
The French minister has replied that Chinese
soldiers captured in Tonquin will lie
considered as pillagers and summarily shot.
PECULIAR ACCIDENTS.
Calvin H. Gilbert, of Syracuse, being seuel
with a lit while in a room alone, fell upon the
?i i ,i
sioveiuiu ? ?-> uui jil-u iu uuiuu
While the teacher was whipping a pupil in
the Snow Hill school-house the stick broke,
and the flying end pat out the eyo of a littlegirl.
One of the stilts on which Edwin P. ForJ.
of Highland, N. Y., was walking, broke, and
he fell on the sharp end of one of the pie2o-<
and was killed.
As Antonio Ygleisla, a boiler maker, of
Paterson, was riveting inside a largo boiler,
kneeling on a piece of old carpet, a mischievous
boy set fire to the carpet, and beforo I he
man could arise the flame penetrated his ear,
causing brain fever, which killed him.
A man in Gnrson, Nevada, while building;
trestlework, had to work from a stopladdo.-.
In nailing the last strip he was obliged to lay
his neck alongside one of the pieces alreidj
nailed, while the < no he was nailing emit;
along the other <?ide of his neck. When h
got through nr J started to extricate himself
(ho ladder slipped and ho was left Inngln,
by the r.ioK.
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(JENERAL CROOK'S VICrORl.
Ofilonl Kcport of Hi* .HncccMfiil Cnnipnlffn
Aaninnt the Apache*.
Tho following dispatch from General
Crook was received at military headquarters
in San Francisco. It was dated at Silver
crock, Arizona, twelve miles south of the
uoundary:
Left here May 1 with 193 Apache scouts
under Captain Crawford. Got Lieutenants
Wood and Mackey with Captain Chaffee's
Domnany of forty-two men, of the Sixth Cavalry,
nnd rations for two months, on mules,
md followed the hostilea. The Chiracahua
sountry is of indescribable roughness, nnd
? ntimhoi. mnlfia lnat4ho?r fnniiner. fl!l']
tepping from the trail fell down precipices j
and were killed.
The stronghold oftheChiracahuasis in the
rery henrt of the Sierre Madre9. The position
is bnely watered and there is a dense
growth of timber and plenty of grass. They
nad been camped near the head of the
Bnvispe, occupying prominent elevated
peaks affording a fine lookout for miles, and
tendering surprise almost imposible, and
Iheir retreats were made secure through the
rough ndjacent cnnon. Captain Crawford,
with Indiau scouts, early on the
morning of May 15 surprised the
illage of Chata, the chief who led the recent
raid into Arizona and New Mexico. Tl e
light lasted all day and the village was wiped
:nit. The damage done cannot be estimated.
A. number of dead bodies were found, but
the indescribable roughness of the com try
prevented a count being made. The satire
ramp, with thot-tock and everything belonging
to it, was captured.
It was learned from the prisoners taken
lhat the Chiracahuas were unanimous for
peace, and tint they had already sent two
messengers to try to reach San Carlos. On
the 17th they began to surrender. They said
Iheir people were much frightened by our
sudden appeiranco in their fastnesses and
had scattered like quail. They asked me to
remain until they could gather all their
bands together, when they would go
back to the reservation. By the terms of
Iho treaty my operations were limited to
(lie time of the light. I told the Chiracahuas
to gather up their women and children
without delay. They answered that they
rouiu not get tnem to respond 10 ine birum,
(he fugitives fearing they might be sent by
oar Apache scoots to entrap thom. They
told as they had a white boy who was in the
pillage and jnmped by onr scouts. He had
mnoff with the squaws who escaped, and
who had not yet been heard from. They assured
mo every one of the band should come
in if I woald remain a short time, but the
terms of the treaty em barrassed me greatly
and, being in that rough region, with rations
rapidly disappearing, there being between
300 and 400 Chiracahuas to feed, I was compelled
to return with the Chiracahuas.
Wo found six Mexican captives?five
women and one child?taken in Chihuahua
in May. They are now with the command.
These women say they were captured near
the Mexican Central railroad at a
place called Carmen. They further
state that when the Chiracahuas discovered
that the Apache scouts were
in the country they became greatly alarmed
and abandoned on the trail the three hundred
head of cattle they were driving away
from points in Western Chihuahua. The
cattle wero afterward picked up and driven
off by a body of Mexicans. Wo marched
back as rapidly as the condition of the stock
and the strength of the women and childron
would permit. Wo found the country depopulated
for a distance of one hundred
miles from the Apache stronghold.
Tho Chiracahuas insist that they always
lived in the Sierra Madres, and that even
when the main body went on the reservation
some remained in the mountains. Of
these who now went out there are a number
who state that they have never been on the
r< servation. I have strong hopes of being
I nliln tn clear tho mountains of the last of
these.
There are now with us Loco find Nana,who
were so often reported killed, and the families
of other prommAit chief*. Saw no Mexican
troops, and after leaving the settlements
In Norlhe.ist Sjnora did not see a
Mexican other than the captives rescued. I
hfiTe such assurances that the white boy will
bo brought back that I am looking for him
every minute and will inform you by
courier.
THE DEATH OF DUKES.
Shot aad Killed by thr Son or the .linn Whom
He Ilnil Sln.in ? History of the Series of
Terrible Triiaedle*.
Dotails of the killing of N. L. Dukes, by
James Nutt, son of Captain Natt, who was
killed at Uniontown, Ponn., last December
by Dukes, are as follows:
James Nuttwns standing against a post inside
of a room that joins the postoffice and
fronts on Main street Uniontown. While
standing there Dukes came down the direction
of the Jennings hotel, walking briskly,
with a cane under his arm. Just as lie turned
the cor.ier toward the postoflice door, young
Nutt stepped aside, pulled a revolver, anil
fin d two shots at him in rapid succession.
Dukes looked around, nnd started to run into
the postoflice door, whereupon Nutt fired
again and followed in close pursuit. Just a;
Dukes gjt inside the postoflice his assailant
fired two more slots, and Dukes fell heavily
to the floor upon his face.
E. E. Lingo rushed into the office and
stooped to pick him up. Dukes tried to say
something, but could only gasp, and in a
moment he was dead. By this time Officer
Pegg reached young Nutt nnd laid hold of
him. The latter struggled fiercely to free
himself, but when he discovered that it was
an officer ho quietly yielded, and was taken
to the jail. Duke's body was removed to his
roomattho hotel, where Coroner Sturgeon
impaneled a jury.
I On examining the body it was found tint
three of the balls entered the back near trio
side under I he left arm and penetrated toward
the heart, lodging in the breast very near the
skin, where they were cut out. They all
threw entered within two or three inches of
each other. On Duke's body was fount! his
old pistol, the one with which he killed Nutt,
and hanging to his suspender button in front
was a dirk knife. Nutt had in his pocket
another smaller pistol, which ho gave to
Ollicer Martin. A fourth ball slightly grazed
Dukes's leg near the foot, while the lifth
missed its aim, passed through one of the
postoflice lock boxes.
The revolver with which the shooting waa
done is the same that Captain Nutt carried
on the morning of his death. Young Nutt
was calm, but pale as a sheet.
The causes leading to ths tragedy were as
as follows:
Captain A. C. Nutt, cashier of the Pennsylvania
State treasury, was shot and instantly
killed in Uniontown on Sunday, December
24, 18S2, by N. L. Dukes, a leading
lawyer and a member elect of the legislature.
Tl:o tragedy grew out of Dukes's alleged improper
intimacy with Captain Nntt's eldest
daughter. Nutt, accompanied by his nephew,
Breckenridge, went to Dukes's room in the
Jennings house by appointment. Nutt entered
the room, but Breckenridge remained
outside. A scuttle followed between Nutt
ami Dukes, and Breckenridge entered and
endeavored to separate them. A man conrecte.l
with the hotel ran in. lit? found
Breckenridge holding Nutt. He at once
seized Dukes and succeeded in get'iug him
into the corner of tho room. At this moment
Duke? raised his revolverand shot Nutt
through the head. The wounded man ie:i
into his nephew's firms and exjiired in a few
moments. Dukes walked to tho sheriff's
office and surrendered himself.
Ureckenridgo was the principal witness at
the trial. Two others described the shooting.
After being out a short time the jury
leturned a verdict of not guilty, though
Judge Wi's m's charge was distinctly against
Dukes. " The vcrd.ct is one that gives dissatisfaction
to tl.e court," Judge Wilson
S lid, after it was announced, " because we
thought the evidence sufficient to justify a
different verdict. The prisoner is discharged."
! An indignation meeting of citixons was
11 A ?.wl sttfsntlnra In*
IIL'IU IIIC nexilll^iu, miu n ?
leading citizens were posted, denouncing
Dukes as an assassin. He was hanged in
efligy from telegraph poles and gas lamps in
a dozen different places. He was pormitted
to resign his seat in the legislature.
INDIANS AS HERDERS.
flerreltiry Toller Think* it Wine lo Supply
(lie Tribe* with Cattle.
Secretary of the Interior Teller says, according
to a Washington dispatch: " 1
intend to expend money in purchasing stock
cattle for the Indians. A comparatively
small expenditure now will save the government
large amounts in tli? future I don't
expect to get any large amounts to expend,
but my purpose is to save every dollar I can
from thy various appropriations for the
Indians and expend it for cattle. In somo
instances we have been able to persnado the
Indians that it will be to their benefit to have
cattle to herd, and, in order to save money
with which to buy cattle, their supply of
luxuries, such as sugar and tobacco, will bo
deceased.
"At least one-half of the Indian reservations
are better adapted to stock raising than
nrrrieiiltnrn. and it is loss difficult to induce I
an Indian to engage in herding than in a_'ricullural
pursuits. If ten years ago suitable
provision lind been inado for furnishing herds
at agencii 3 especially adapted to stock raising,
(ho Indians at such agencies would
now bo largely independent of government
aid. At most agencies the Indians will,
under the direction of the agent, take care
of the stock. When herds are provided for
the tribe, I think it should bo with the ultimate
purpoFe of distributing them among
(he Indiansas soon as they furnish proof of
their willingness and ability to take care of
the stock. Tho possession of herds will not
only benefit the Indians by providing subsistence,
but will compel them to abandon
their nomadic habits."
Secretary Teller said that in 18C9 the government
furnished t'io Navajo India b of
New A!esico with 14,(XX) sheap and 1,000
goats, at a cost of $10,000. This number
has increasad to 5)00,000 sheep and 20V'00
goats. In 1881 tho agent reported the wool
clip at 1,0( 0,000 pounds, and that 'J 0,(X 0
ii<i had been mnnufactu red into blanket.
I it eIndians, numbering 1(5,000, by means
of t'lis small outlay, in thirteen years have
become self-supporting.
Jjfey.,,. ...
"HOME, SWEET HOME."
The Remnlnn of John Howard Pnvne Conveyed
to Their Finnl Resting l'lace.
Tho remains of John Howard Payne hare
at Inst T>eon interred in Oak Hill cemetery,
Washington, in the beautiful spot provided
by Mr. W. W. Corcoran, his early friend.
The remains were taken from tho receiving
vault at the cemetery, and were placed in
tho Corcoran art gallery, where at 4 o'clock
r. m. the procession formed. The remain.',
inclosed in a handsome casket richly upholstered
and with an outer covering of
heavy white satin, were borne from the
building shortly after 4 o'clock and placed
in tho hearso. This had been specially built
f.ir Jim nnrnsinn. and was d.*awn bv four
white horses.
About fifty conches followed the hearse
with the relatives of John Howard
Payne, the orator of the day, the
poet of the day, the President of
the Uni:ed States, members of the cabinet,
members of the diplomatic corps, the chief
justice and associate justices of the supreme
court of the United Slates, clerk and marshal.
At the cemetery the speakersn.n l ?]'
guished guests took seut* upon the north
platform, which had been reserved for them.
Upon the front row sat tha President, Mr.
\\. W. Corcoran, Right Rev. William Pinckney
and Rev. W. A. Leonard, Mr. Chilton
and Mr. Robinson, (the poet and orator of
tho occasion). Among those occupying
seats upon this platform were General Sherman,
General Hancock, Chief-Justice Waite
and Justices Strong and Matthew?, of tho
sup:eme court; Sena'o-s Lapham, Conger
nnd Morton ; ex-Secretary Blaice, Agricultural
Commissioner Loring, and others.
About f>,0C0 people witnessed tho ceremonies
from a large platform and a sj a.e
surrounding it. Just as the first low
s'rains from the band of "Home,
Suejt Home," wero heard a few
drops ?f rain came pattering down through
the foliage and seemed to add poetic cadence
to the music. The exercises were formally
opened by the reading of portions of scripture
by Rev. Dr. Leonard. This was followed
by music, quartet nnd chorus, after which
the poem written for the occasion was read
by Mr. Robert S. Chilton.
The monument was then unveiled, and
Payne's " Home, Sweet Home " was sung
by the full chorus, with the band accompanying
and the entire nudience rising to their
feet and uniting with tho chorus in singing
the last verse.
The funeral oration was then delivered
by Mr. Leigh Robinson. He sketched
Payne's unhappy career of disappoint
ment and balllecl aim?, a me unwise
proportionate to boyish promise and
precocity. As his earthly abode became the
spoil of his creditors, every home in Christendom
became his spoil. Every home is the
sweeter for him. He might be termed the
apostle of home. Therefore it is that the
grave cannot confine him in the land of the
stranger nor the ocean divide him from his
own.
At the conclusion of Mr. Rcbinson's address
the the coffin was lowered to its final
resting place, Bishop Pincknoy officiating at
the head of the bier and the Rev. William
Leonard at its foot.
The pnnd " Hallelujah Chorus," from
Handei's ''Messiah," was rendered by the
Philharmonic society and the Marine band,
the audience rising, after which the benediclion
was pronounced by Mr. Leonard and
the audience dispersed.
THE NATIONAL GAME.
Philadelphia has two baseball club*
composed of women. - ' '
Smitii, tl e change pitcher, who waa released
by the Providenoe club, has been engaged
by the Philadelphia dob. Benedict,
of Chicago, has also been engaged by the
Philadelphia club.
A recent game in Philadelphia between
the Philadelphia and Detroit clubs was full
of accidents. Wood and Qroth ran into each
other, and were severely injured, but were
able to continue the game. Trott was then
knocked down by a pitched ball striking him
on the head, and Wideman was so badly injured
by a ball that he had to retire from the
game.
One of the recent surprises in baseball circles
was the defeat of the strong Athletio
learn, leaders in the American association
championship, by the Brooklyn Jnter-State
nine. The game was played in Brooklyn,
and the Brooklynites were successful by a
score of 12 to 9. The captain of the Athletics,
at one point in the game, " kicked " against
the umpire's^decision, and called his men off
tho field. He was informed tnai unless me
game was played to a close the visitors would
go home without thoir share of the gate
receipts, bo the game was played out.
LEAGUE CLUB BECOBD.
The official record of the league championship
game3 played up to tho 9;h is as follows
:
i. I I*?
I es I .'?
I .12 o| a &
Club. . ? j -g & g, ? g
a o &Jip5 5 % -? *!?
O "a 1 <3 4) o ^ S ;T ' 2 2
Staot*?iS"3^ 3 5
o b !H .2 & o -c i 2 ? c
Ifl a|0j0jQj?|^[(lH a CD
Boston -! 3| o' 3 3j 0 3?1 122C
Buffalo i 2.? ? 3|?i 3 2 11 1123
Chicago I 3'? ? ?i 3; 4; 0 2 18 28
Cleveland j 4 3 ? 2 3 5 17 215
Detroit 2 ?! 3 ? ?' 3 5 2i IS 27
New York 1 3 0 3 0 4,? ? 0 10 25
Philadelphia.... 0 l' 1 l! 2,?f? 0 f>27Providence
? 0 3 2 0 ,J 3 ? 17 2?5
!__! :_'_J
Gaines lo*t.... 14 13 10! 0 12 15 22 10 10'. -AMEHICAN
ASSOCIATION liEJJKL).
II II S 111
-' ' '2 ! ei&
Clue- If'cs * ='! ;"3 i ? i
i Si ^ ^ ?*? ? 1 T. V4
|a|! -5 -gig E 2'9| jj.jj
? ~ i"S .s 3 "3 I 5 s
^ < njop a ai? o ?
Allegheny ? 0! 4 1 ? 2 2 l' 102 5
Athletic j f? ? 5 2 2? A 1 2021
Baltimore 2 1 2 12 0! 8 2i!
Cincinnati { 2; 1;?,? 5 2 1 41 1">25
Columbus !?! 1 0 1 ? 2 0 2 (>2i?
Eclipse 1 ? 2 2 4 ? 3 3 1SS5
Metropolitan....! 4 14 2 3 0 1 14 27
St. Louis ' 2 13 2 4 3 , lf> 27
I ! |
Games lost.... 1G fi.lS 10 20 10 13 11 1(3 ?
COLLEGE CHAMPIONSHIP KECOBD.
" I i I " " I
i I | I I?
= i 3 -5
Club. ,g | # c ? :7>
JS|.g -= 5 S
e L. a c u s s
w ^ S a O 3
Ynlo 1 ij 2: 2 C fi
Princeton ! 0?| 1' 2 2 5 7
Amherst 0 1?1 2 4 7
Harvard 0( 0 1? 1 2! i>
Brown 0 0 Oj 0?' 0 7
Game? lost 1 0, 2 Jti /> 7il7 32
MUSICAL ANI) DRAMATIC VOTES.
Mary Anderson will stay in Europe ne ir'y
two years.
Roland Reed's ''Cheek" scored an immense
hit in New York.
Mrs. Lanotry sends about fifteen dollars
weekly to her hu.-b:ind in Wales.
The Wyndham Comedy company won a
brilliant success iu San Francisco.
Anna Dickinson will play under P. H.
Lehnen's management the coining season.
Augustus Pinero and Hartley Campbell a: e
each to write a play for the Boston museum.
Miss Rosa Rand has been engaged for
leading business with Joe Jefferson next
season.
A steam fun has been successfully irilro*
... .L- Pl,i|.|.
lIUCl'U 111 lilt' V. llfMIlUL OUl-CL lllu.nv, . ......
delphia.
C. D. Hess has accepted a new opera,
" TIio Missing Link," by two Chicago gentlemen.
Ellem Tebry ami Ada Ward will bo tlic
two most prominent English women 011 t lit;
American stage next season, and the r valry
between them in the same parts will >e an
interesting one. .Miss Terry is in Irvine's
English company, and Miss Ward in Edgar's
American company.
Duiiino the production of "Sharps and
Flats" in New York rece ltly Mr. Lane. w!io
had to smoke in accordance with the "business"
of the play, was given a "loaded'' cig tr
by Mr. Crane. It exploded and tilled iho
stage with reil fire, to the consternation of
Mr. Lane and the amusement of the audience.
The Metropolitan Opcin-hou-e, New York,
is rapidly approaching completion, and it is
expected that it will be reauy for opening by
(Jctober 22. "Faust" Till be the opening attraction.
A subsidiary company has been
formed to build up the Broadway corners
of the building. now vacant, wi h French
Hats, the lower floors to be used as reception
rooms for the opeia-house.
When Miss Wixom?" Emma Nevada"?
made her debut in Paris in "The Pearl of
Brazil," that o'.h-r brilliant prima aonna,
Marie Van Zandt, occupied a prominent
box. At the close of 0110 of Miss Wixom's
most brilliant passages, when the audience
was hushed with admiration, a single "Hurrah,"
in a clear soprano voice, but with a 1
unmistakable Yankee accent, rang throu.'li
the house. Every eye was turned instantly
to wtiero Miss Van Zandt .-at, her face flowing
with mingled embarrassment and cnj
thusiasm, and then for live minutes the
I house rang with a storm of "Bravo! Van
Zandt! Bravo! Neva la!"
Arthtjk Sullivan was born in ISii. IIj
was a choirboy in St. James' ChapterKoyal,
and afterward stiulied music in Germany,
lie returned to Eiijjl uul at the age of n n-.;teen.
and in a few years became famous lor
his musical compositions in various departments
of the art. Jn lH7<!tho honorary degree
of doctor was conferred upon him by
the University of Cambridge. He has writlea
tin-oratorios of ''The Prodigal Son" and
"T! e Light of the World" and other riusical
compositions of a hiixh order, while his
comic operas, " H. M. S. Pinafore." " Patience,"
"Iolanthe," "Trial by Jury," hav
obtained for him a wide celo'>r:ty on both
sides of the Atlantic.
THE STAR ROUTE TRIAL.
Verdict of the Jury for ihe Defendants?now
the Verdict Received.
After a trial lasting nearly seven months,
ex-Senator Dorsey, ex-AsBistant PostmasterGeneral
Brady anil the other men indicted
for conspiracy lo defraud the government in
connection with the letting ont of Star route
postal contracts, have been acquitted by
the jury. The jury was a9 follows: John
H Crano, foreman, i rjduce dealer; John J.
Hughes, laborer; Clarence Shields, laborer,
Roes Evans, stonecutter; Frank Renshaw,
grocer; Georgo Sheriff, fnr.ner; John Vernon,
barkeeper; Jackson Howard, colored
waiter; aiason ljowery, coiorea waiter; u.
Grier, real estate agent; Michael Horrigan,
Horseshoer; Edward Gill, paint dealer.
After the jury had retired, and as th:y wero
entering the court-room for further instructions
from the court, au exciting episode occurred.
Juror Vernon fell in a fit, having
been deprived for come time of his customary
stimulants. Ho was restored
to consciousness, and the
jury again retired to deliberate upon the'.r
verdict. The scenes which occurred when
the verdict was finally reached are described
as follows:
When the jurors tcok (heir places in the
court room, at precisely 10 o'clock, Judgo
Wylie looked at them and said, in his sow,
hesitating way : " Gentlemen?I have sent
for you to learn?ahem?to learn if you havo
agreed?ahem?upon a verdict." Mr. Ci a le,
the foreman, said: "We have agreed."
Judge Wylie gave a start of surprise
and looked toward t'.ie seats for the
counsel for the government. Not one
of them was present. But Mr. Kerr,
one of the counsel for the prosecution, came
in and stood in the door as the judge said to
the clerk, /'Receive this verdict." There
was the usual silence as every 01:0 turned
toward the foreman. Mr. Crane said very
deliberately, " We find the defendants not
guilty."
Then there followed a fcene of great confusion
and uproar, which the judge could not
restrain. Indeed, he did not try. The figure
of a woman in gray silk was seen jumpingup
wrlfK hnnrla AY4Alldp(l tnWArd th?
ceiling, sobbing, shouting and crying :
"Glory to God!" "Glory to God!" It
wns Mrs. Dorsey, who had a violent fit or
hysterics. Dorsey, with tears running down
his cheeks from under his green poggle*,
had all he could do to restrain his wife,
and make her regain her self-control.
Colonel IngersolPs face was a study.
The stern lines of an intense anxiety relaxed,
his lips and chin trembled, and tears filled his
eyes. His family were on their feet perfectly
wild. The stoical Judge Wilson became as;
nervous as a child. He walked around with a
lighted cigar in his hand, and burned his!
mustache half off trying to put the wrong end
in his mouth. The nervousness of the defendants
and their friends was communicated
quickly to the fickle crowd of spectators, who
cheered and yelled at the victory of the de-,
fense, while every man of them would prob-i j
ably have been as ready to cheer and yell
if the government had been successful.' |
Brady was the only one in the whole crowd
who retained the same ironoLad compoiurd
which he has shown all through the trial.
His countenance never changed. He sat
silent for a few moments and mechanically
fhook hands with those who approached him.
Then he got? up and walked quietly over to
the jury. He was the first man to approach
the jury. Beginning with the foreman, he
shook hands solemnly with each member
and then asked a friend to present him to
Judge Wylie.
The jury, as soon as the contusion had
moderated, was polle I. Jadg.? Wylie then i
announced that there was no ir.ore anties for I
the jury to perform. "Yoa hni a laborious |
Insk to perform in this case,"/Tpt?idL "Yon
have been more th m six monH^^fcgaged in
the trial. Many of yo J have tacnpations of
your own that you have been obliged
to neglect, and although your verdict
will of course create dissatisfaction
with many, yet the court is boond to pre. |
sume that having been selected according to
law and sworn to perform that duty faithfully,
you have done so, each one according
to the dictates of his own conscience, it will
be a satisfaction to you as long as yoa live.
You are discharged with the thanks of the
court."
The court was adjourned soon after. The
defendants and their counsel went to one of
the ante-rooms of the court, where a most
extraordinary scene of congratulation fol- I
lowed, Doraey came up to Colonel Ingersoll,
and, putting both arms around him, gavq I
him a ferocious hug. and then surprised thi ]
Colonel by kissing him with a rapturous, re- I
sounding smack of superlative gratitude, >
Then Mrs. Dorsey kissed him. The tears ot j
happiness continued to flow. The triumph |
of such an unexpected success after tw> |
years of fighting in the face of the entire j
power of the government, made the humble't
person connected in the most remote degree
with the defense crazy with joy. Even Bradv I
lost his stoicism when he was out of sight or [
the crowd, and was as much overcome a?) j
Mrs. Dorsey. When Colonel Ingersoll came j
out of the court-house a crowd gathered in j
front of him, and then one stout- j
unged, broad-shouldered man cried out,
"Thr?a Hiefirs for Colonel InKersoll."
There was a wild scene of tiger-like cheering |
and ki-yi-ing from the excited crowd. This j
demonstration was a personal compliment !
to the colonel, for when the defendants
passed out there was not the slightest sign of
approval or disapproval beyond the congratulations
of personal friends. Colonel Ingersoll
stood on the broad steps of the courthouse
and smiled with the benevolent air of
a popular orator in front of a congenial
crowd, and laughed outright when some overenthusiastic
admirer called "Speech,speech!"
The biggest scene of the day was at the
saloon opposite the court-house. Dorsey
went in there just after the verdict and announced
that it should be a free bar for all
who came. The bill was to be sent to him
at the close of the day. The scere that fol- i
lowed this announcement surpassed the j
excitement in the court-room. All |
the men who have to struggle all day
long to get drunk were enabled to enjoy this
luxury early in the day. All c lied fo- the i
most expensive drinks and scorneJ nnylhing '
but twenty-five cent cigars. Tha bill bvga-i f
to mount so high that the barkeeper sent :
word to Dorsey at 11 o'clock. At noon the I
free-ruin dispensary was shut down. In the ;
-?:?n~\r in ,,orcr>ll was serenaded, and I
uvcuiu;;
made a speech to the crowd. At the conclu- j
sion of speech-making Colonel Ingersoll in vited
the crowd into the house, where liquid
refreshments were served. One of those
who came into the house was Juror E\ans.
He was seized by Mrs. Dorsey and Mrs.
Peck, who, linking arms with him, enthusiastically
escorted him through the parlors,
presenting him to everybody as one of the
twelve honest men. After an hour or so of
handshaking the crowd dispersed.
The total expense of the star route trials :
will foot up to about $1,'J(X),000.
The verdict of the jury was based upon the |
fact that they did not believe a case of coin !
spiracy had been made out against the defend- i
ants. There is another indictment, ho wever, j
against Brady and Price, in which the gov- I
eminent counsel have always claimed that (
the evidence is stronger than the evidence in
the case just closed; but this indictment '
does not include Dorsey. There is no other j
indictment against Doi sey, and the government
does not contemplate proceeding
against him in any other case.
PROMINENT PEOPLE.
Willard.?Miss Frances Willard. the
well-known temperance advocate, has gone j
to the Sandwich Inlands.
Bayard.? Senator Bayard, of Delaware, !
has accepted an invitation to preside at the
Newbury (N. V.) Centennial exercises at j
Washington's headquarter* in October.
Bismarck.? All great men appear to have j
a weakness for tish. Prince Bismarck is an j
enthusiastic fish farmer, and he makes a I
great deal of money out of his hatcheries. i
Grant.?General Grant will contribute a
number of art objects collected by him during
his trip around the world for exhibition
at the coming Southern exposition in Louisville,
Ky.
Gray.?Mr. Gray, rector of St. Mary's
Parish, Md., has cut down the mulberry
tree under which Leonard Calvert treated
with the Indians in HW4. Souvenirs made
from the tree are being sold in Baltimore in j
aid of a memorial church fund in the parish.
Garfield.?The fund of $10,000 i aised in
Cincinnati for a Garfield monument is awaiting
use for that purpose. Six artists have
been given until August 1 to prepare models,
and shortly after that date one will be selected
and the contract for it made by the
committee.
Wilde.?Oscar Wildfl says he cut off his
hair and assumed conventional clothes because
of the change in his calling. ''It was
necessary," he explains, "to make some
change in assuming another role. I have
said adieu to that of lecturer on art. I am
now a dramatic author."
STRANGE HAPPENINGS.
A girl six years of age, who said she I a i 110
home, and neither father nor mother, and
did not knoiv her name, was recently found
in the streets of Buffalo, drunk.
At the Children's home in Cincinnati a
boy five years of rge fell int > a well fortylive
feet deep, at th b >ttom of which a man
was digging. Tl e boy alighted on the back
of tho well-digger, but neither was hu t.
A root of a pinion t.ee foini by Edward
Austin in New Mexico is knotted and twisted
so that it forms a perfect resemblance to t a-o
human beings s.and.ng face to f ice, with
hands clasped and arms extended.
A Chiuaman made a bet of s:$ witli one o J
his fellows that he c >uld swim across the
Sacramento river, at Ledling, an I return,.
As he failed an I went uud-'r, his opponent
clapped his hands in great glee and quietly |
pocketed the stakes.
I11 splitting a log of black oak, Benjamin
Marvin, of Watertown, Conn., saw on the
smooth grain in the In art of the tree a perfect
picture of a clump of trees, with trunks
and branches and twig? clearly defined. Tho
picture is about four inches sipia:e.
Two Mexicans, living mar Salido, Texas,
killed each o'.hsr with the same knife. One
stabbed the other near th heart. leaving the
knife sticking in tho wound. The wounded
11 an jerked out the knife and plunged it into
his adversary's heart, and both fell dead.
^
FniLADELrinA is nrrnnginf: fur a scientific
congie.^s in August, 1881, at which Huxley,
Tyndnl nnd many other distinguished Euro- H
peons are expected.
William Habdie and Solomon Hewitt U
were handed in private at Conway, S. C., for
the murder of Jeremiah Stalvey, an old nserchant.
'
Jobdan C jnnr.*, the negro who murdered jw|jj&?3Hfl
Benjamin Garden and seriously wounded his
wife and son, forthepurpoeeof getting them
out of the way so thit he could assault Carden's
daughter, at Rockford, Ala,, was captured
by citizens and put in jail, The same
night he was taken from the jail by a crowd
off.00perso s nnd Imn^ol. The crime was
meat delibernto ml horrible. Corbin
wnininml fnr nn hrtilr .ihfint the llOUSO, uS^HQiKf^H
which wi s barricaded by the wounded
wife with n bed on which lay her dead hasband,
who had been shot in the head while
as'eep by a gun pushed through a window.
Ti e daughter cscaped to the woods. She
wr.s found almost dead from fright and is
not expected to live. Tho mother and son , vlM
will rjcover.
In the United States district conrt at Ans- ;J|fl
tin, Texas, an impoitant opinion was delivered
in a cri.nin d r.nit brought nnder the
civil right? act, pas?ed by Congress in
March, 187", to enforce the penalty of $503
for excluding Laura Evans, a colored woman,
from a ladies' car on the Houston and Texas
Central i ailroad. The court held that the act "
is unconntitn ional, being an infringement
on the rights of the several States, and that
the State tribunal* a'one have jurisdiction in [
the premises. Nineteen suit) of a similar F.4H
nature were dependent on the decision in this -19 I
case.
Ex-Judoe Chesteb H. Krum, the leading
lawyer of St. Louis, mysteriously disappeared
some weeks ago, and it has been dia- B
covered that he has misappropriated trust.. ..
funds in his charge to the extent of at least
|r.o,ooo. "
Till Wabneb, a s ulor, accused of assanlt- ' '&M I
ing and stabbing an eight-year-old girl at
Sheboygan, Mich., was taken from jail and. '
hanged by a crowd. - The
recent earthquake in Ecuador was "
felt intensely in ?one parts of the interior.
There was great alarm in Quito, where the ;fH
people, fearing a cataclysm, encamped in ,
the streets. In Latncunga, which is subject
to earthquakes, nnd was utterly destroyed by 'HI
one in tho last century, the shock was very
severe, overthrowing S3ver.il houses, while
thoso remaining threntan to fall any mowent.
The villagen in the vicinity are al- g H
ryr.r.at onmnlptfllv dojtroved. Cotopaxi is in ,''^^^888
active eruption, and the peoplo in the vicinity
are terrified at the probable repetition of
the catastrophe of March, 18f>7. ,;<-gW
Details of the bombardment of ':||j|8R^i
Madagascar, by the French, h&vebeflB 'fit-'
ceived. After demanding, the surrender at
the plac e and reoehring an evasire refi&v ?ve '
vessels opened fire on the town, the .
three forts of which, mounting thirty
guns, replied. They were qnichly H|
silenced, however. Tho Hova quarter
of the town was destrojel, but the French [-^91
factory and most of the American houses H
escaped injury. The garrison, composed of KBaHB
2,000 men, retreated. The French occupied
the town, and are collecting the customs.
HIE OLDEST SOLDIER RETIKE9. 9
A Philadelphia dispatch says: Tho Tim*.a j|
is informed that the garrison of Fort Mifflin, fll
in the Delaware, will depart for Washington fl|
to-morrow under the express orders of the nH
President to receive a commission and be
placed on the retired list of army officers.
The garrison is, and has been for many H|
years, composed of ono man, but he lias since JH
hi? enlistment on Mat ch 30,1S35, seen enough ; jSH
service for a dozen. His name is George W. ';fl
Bromley and his rank is ordnance-sergeant.
1 < 0AKMO/1
lie V. as fl run U1 HID ncmuu vuau.uuu
t hat *'blazed'' at Osceola, the Seminole
chief, from 1841 to 1814. When the Mexican
war broke out he was one of those to plungo .ajja B
through the ru-f and plant Scott's batteries
on the bcach before the walls of Vera Cruz. "
After fighting at Palo Alto, Kesaca de la
Piilma and Camargo, he fell with a ball
through his le? while leading his company
in tl.e (ha-gj on the Queen's
1j: idje at Monlerey, after his cap11in
and lieutenant had been shot
down. He his refused a commission three
ti lies before; he has been in charge of Fort
Alifllin for many yosrs. while among his visitors
have been numbered oflicers of the
highest rank, inc'n.ling General Shorman.
Ho has served the longest and is the oldest rxfl
soldier in the active service of the country,
and was born in Norwich, Conn., August 3,
A White Apache. * I
The Tombstone (Arizona) Republi- ifl
:an of recent date says: A few days
since a Hermcsillo dispafceta-irWfBiiilGBi^^Mi^JMj
(lie wounding and capture of a white
man, supposed to be L. JST. Streeter, fl
while heading an Apache foray. fl
Streeter is about fifty years of age and . ?^^fl
ivas born in California, his father being
?aptain of an English merchantman . fl
P-mifin roast and his fl
II rtUia^ V/AA wuu -? .
mother a native C'alifomian. Of his H
boyhood or early manhood very little fl
is known, he first coming into notice a
in Arizona by his connection as clerk H
with the San Carlos agency during H
Governor Safford's administration in M
this Territory. While there he had
some difficulty with the officials, caused, ":*M
it is said, by his giving aid and comfort fl
to hostile Apaches. He left there
suddenly and went straight for the
camp of Juh and Geronimo, which
was then near Janos Pass, on the line
between Sonora and Chihuahua. It is
stated that while he was at the agency
he became enamored of a squaw be- "
longing to the tribe, and it was this H
fact that induced his leaving civiliza- -M&jM
tion to cast his fortunes with >thfc
A pitches. Governor Safford offered a ? -
large reward for his apprehension,
some stories placing the amount as ; :"||M
high as $5,000. He was not apprebended,
however, and has never re- ' 'l/JMm
turned to Arizona. <
He is said by tliwe knowing him
intimately, to be very intelligent and
well educated, and a manuscript now /
in the hands of the writer, written
while Streecer was at urenauots, gut?
to prove it. lie speaks the Apaohe
dialect fluently, and is said to have -iS
great inlluenco with them. His stand- -fl
ing among the savages, by whom he is fl
known as Don Cassamario, may be
seen when it is known that the eldest s.^afl
son of Chief Geronimo is named for ><||j^9fl
in Eating Match.
One of the most laughable eating
contests on a bet was that of Sam Port,
the champion eater of Brooklyn, some ' ' -.j|fl
years since. A negro named Bill
.Jackson, it was held, could dispose of
more food in a given time than any
colored man in the city of Brooklyn. ---alfl
Port, another colored man. moved into ' gBH
the city, and hearing of Jackson's re- rJafl
nown in this line hunted him up and
offered to bet him $5 that his son Sam,
aged fifteen, was a bigger eater. The ** Jjrax^flH
match came off at Sam's house in the
presence of as many colored people as ' JsM
could get iD. The provisions were on
a talile in the center of **>i**S<!!fl
the room. Beside the table stood
a lean man and a fat boy.
r?i>kwl iin two loaves. fl
J IIU IDCitv. 2 ?L
took a bite out of each and handed
them to the judges for examination. I
One was given to Jackson, the other I
to Sam. Port finished his in one
minute and forty-five seconds, beating fl
Bill by twenty seconds, amid the cheers
of the crowd. Two lengths of bo- C
logna sausages,weighing a pound each,
were then ban led to the contestants.
Jackson disposed of his in nine minutes, B
the boy taking el-ven. After drinking 4
several glasses of beer and eating a Vh
dozen cold boiled potatoes and half a M
dozen eggs apiece they took a tenminutes'
rest. When time was called
?aeli received a pound of cold beef.
.!;k kson now began to weaken, and
j !.ad so much trouble in disposing of "
the dozen buns that followed the beef S
that he asked for an hour's adjourn- S
ment. To this Port objected, and the
r.-fereo ordered the match to proceed, - 'SM
when Jackson, while trying to eat some fl
ham, was seized with a violent fit of B
coughing, and Port was declared the
winner, and ever after was known as
| the champion eater of the City of
I Churches.?Cincinnati Enquirer.
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