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f - ' t r : WT-rr ?* , ABBEVILLE PRESS AND BANNER! BY HUGH WILSON. ABBEVILLE, S. C.. WEDNESDAY, JULY 18, 1883. . NO. 5. VOLUME XXVIIL ||1 LIFE'S MIRAGE. Sad wonld the salt waves be, Anil cold the singing sea, And dark the gulfs that echo to the Bavenstringed lyre.' If things were what they seem, If life had 110 fair dream, No mirage mado to tip the dull sea lino with fire. But on the shores of time, Hearing the breaker's chime Falling by night and day along our human sand, The pre! >its and sees Borne 011 the morning breeze, The phantom islands float a furlong from the land. Content to know them there, Hung in the shiniug air, He trims 110 fo ilish sail to win the hopeless co 1st. His vision is enough To feed his soul with lore, ft.nd he who grasps too much may even himeelf be lost. ?Edmund Gossc. AT SILVER SPRING A SUM M Kit HOTEL KPISODE. A lady, young, pretty, blonde, s, arxlcd with dia nonds as she danced, herself the magnet of all eyes, amidst ,4 the mi s c, light and revtlry of the Augu t night at Stiver Spring. Diamonds twinkled in the fair hair, poised there asabulterily; diam >nds trembled like dewdrops about the snowy throat, and formed a blazing pendent medallion amidst the llowers of the>atin| corsage; diamonds Hashed in the tiny J ...i. Cili.T ?UU Ull Vrt "II U1IU|UVU I 31. "What a lucky fellow Delaunay was to secure such a prize!" said the mas- J culine voice un;inimou-ly. " I wonder she dares to carry such 1 jewels about with her; it is very bad ta-te to wear them at a hotel hop," i wa-i the feminine verdict. " Professor llorton, do you see the1 lady with the diamonds!'" inquired the , colonel, with his soft, good-natured ; laugh. " l'es, 1 s o her. What then?" re-' torted the professor, grimly. "Oh, nothing at all, only the Silver1 Spring will be regarded as a fashionable resoit, what with our new Belle- j vue hotel and snc'.i guests. Next year ' we shall be able to ho d up our heads ' with Saratoga and Newport if we can j arid ?? rn/in-i iinroi. anil miSP Sir" Here the colonel rubbed bis lntnds i together with a gesture which ha* become t.aiitional wit'i the hct.I | proprietor of all ages. "Silly women, decked with diamonds . ?clubs?race courses!" echoed Pro- j fessor Hor'ion, cont Mnptuously. " Our Silver Spring will be ruined by such I follies, and all respectable habitues will quit the spot forever. I have j r^-J.een here every season for fifteen years, I and?" 1 ""Will come fifteen years more, I! hope," interpolated the colonel, ; adroitly. The fat landlord adjusted the j collar which imprisoned his own rosy j face, a countenance most suggt stive of j the oyster suppers of >i:ver Spring. ! The face of Professor Horton was lean, sallow and dolorous, on the contrary, and was clouded by the discontent of one who lias a grievance to lay ; at the door of circumstance. " Fiddlesticks!" he retorted, sharply. "I will engage the state apartments of Union hall or the Ocean house sooner than return here. Mrs. Delaunay is the name, eh? Are the diamonds k real?" " Heal! They arc of the pure>t water, and cost seventy-five thousand dollars, I am told. She was an heiress, you know, and when she married last j year the accumulated interest of her minor ty was invested in these jewels." i Such was the colonel's glib explana-! tion. " Who is her partner?" pursued the j professor. "Oh. the French Marquis de llatti. They say he followed Mrs. Delaunay here, alter being all about in society at New York anil Washington lust j winter." " I do not believe in foreign noblemen," grumble I the professor. " They prove to be va'ets and barbers more | { often than not." } Professor (1 or ton's benevolent bulb-! ous nose acquire I a satirical aspect,; , his shrewd gray eyes twinkled behind , t a iim of his specta les, while his hu-1 morous mouth twitched beneath the grizzled board. lie surveyed the animated s< ene much as a naturalist inspects an insect under a micros ope.! The Marquis d - b'atti was not at all i the typical Frenchman in appearance, although well dre sed and easy in bearing. lie whs a large, powerfully built man of uncertain age, with cold light eyes and irregular massive fea- i tures; iiis hands and feet were huge, i muscular 'ami powerful, despite the sheathing of kid an I leather. " He looks more like a prize-fighter than a gent'eman ; tut perhaps the prize-fighting clement is the highest i evidence of Id od among the nobility," j mused this republican spectator. j "Ilumph! 1 should not care to meet t him on a dark night. lift might crack my skuli like an egg-shell between finger and thumb. (;h, the customs of fashion ! That young husband, leaning against I he wall, permits the Mar-; quis de liatli to waltz with his wife, instead of knocking him down for l is impudence." At this moment a pretfy girl appeared behind the proftssor and the landlord, with round fair face and hair meekly brushed ba -k from the temples, j and ingenuous blue eyes. The pretty j girl smoothed her neat apron and 1 lowered her eyes demurely :is she demand d, in the softest of voices, "If you please, sir, may I have my tear" "Mrs. Delaunay's English maid, Alice," explained the colonel, when he had granted the request. hWhy did Professor Horton follow the English maid, so young, so genteel and demure, with his eye? Hecou'd not tell. He saw her pause outside another window, where the Marquis de ltatti was taking the air, the dance being over, an 1 it seemed to the observer that the two exchanged a glance, a smile, a swift signal, before the girl disappeared around the corner of the house. " We only luck tU?-gallantries 01 noblemen and ladies-maids to compl t the ruin of our Sil ver Spring," muttered this st rn moralist, whos- id as were so v< ry old-fashioned. lie sought his own cbamb r gloomily, for in addition to p rturbation of mind, owing to having his sylvan retr. at invad d by the Philistin s of fa-hion, h? was litt rally brok n by bod ly fatigue II" had ramhl d many mil s t at day, botan zing in the vail ys, and s-iking geological sp cinv ns on adjacent hills. His shoes were dusty, his raiment briertorn, his loose sa-k-coat freighted with the "rubbish" precious to the savant in the wide external pockets, while rheumatic twinges n knee and back reminded him that he was no lunger young, thereby increasing his exasperation. Then to return to a hotel where the world was dancing, and one woman was decked like a i ------ . ... -4.1 ,UllarD< idol witn seveniy-iive tllOU^dliu uuiicti o worth of diamonds. The professor's cup of bitterness brimmed over at these reflections. The room was stiflingly hot, but he lighted his lamp and forced himself t> read an extract from Dr. Dollinger, while moths blun.'dered about the flame, frying them^ selves to a condition of unpleasant rrispness, and mosquitoes stung his temples. His watch marked midnight im 1 s>till the movement of the ballroom and the twang of musical instruments leached his ear, precluding the possibility of sleep. ".Squeak, squeak, fiddles! Eojm away, bass viols! Keep it up until morning, by all means. I wonder if that is the music of the future ? A-a-h!'1 Here the listener clinched his teeth, i, - . with a truly diabolical expression of countenance, as the violins shuddered over his nervous system, snatched up his Lroad felt hat and strode out of doors, actuated by the impulse of escape. Th- night was sultry and oppressive. The professor breathed a sigh of relief as lie quitted the vicinity of the hotel, which sparkled with many lights through the trees like an ogre's eye. Darkness and the obscurity of shrubb -ry welcom.d him abroad at this unusual hour. lie strolled about I lie gravel paths, fanning himself with his j hat , and paused beneath the projecting I roof of the ornamental kiosijue of the on \ ui "There will be a thunderstorm be- j for.' morning," soliloquized the pmfes | sor, replacing his hat. All was deliriously still here, anil far j ! b;*Iow, guarded by the encircling basin,! i bubbled the Silver Spring, cool and j 1 limpid, source of health, as the pro- i ! fessor firmly believed. Had not the j j nymph of the fountain spread her I wings in startled flight in the ?lif=as- j ; trous chang from rural tranquilli'v to a fashionable resort? The profe;sor( j leaned on the parapet, and peered into j 1 the crystal depths <>f th spring, mus! ing in this vein. As he did so he per- j ! ceived two persons advancing from I ! opposite directions to meet a few yards I distant from himself. They proved | to be a man and a woman, and they i ! scarcely p;uised before separatingagain . I with the same rapidity of movement as j they had met. " Wait for me," said the woman. I ' 1 shall have to manage to get away at all." "I will wait until morning," re-: plied the man. -She is sure to dance to the very j last, you know," added the woman. ' -r - ' ?- --- ? 1 .,1J ?l , " J>n t lost* your nniui, uiau s an, admonished the man. "I lose my head, indeed!" retorted | the woman, whose voice and bearing were youthful. The professor moved slowly away, j scarcely heeding these words wafted to j his car by a passing breeze. At an ; angle of the path was a rustic bench 1 beneath a larch tree, known as Tro-1 fessor llorton's favorite seat. Hither he directed his steps in an irritated j mood, and sank down on it in sheer ; weariness. The sccnt of flowers i r.-ached him, while the foliage seemed to spread above him " fragrant robes ; of darkness." (irateful repose sue-j ceedcd noise and light, lulling all his senses to soft oblivion. He fell asleep, j He was awakened by a terrific peal of thunder, and openel his eyes with a : bewildered u icertaiiity as to suiro ind- j ing objects. The trees swaye 1 wildly in the rising wind ; a few large drops of rain fell heavily among the leaves; lightning quivered on the horizon. *u klenly a female form b?nt over him, some small object was thrust in his hand, and a vo:ce whispered in his car: ' I am early. She had a headache. Quirk! take them, or I shall be missed." T1 c thunder rolled, the trees swaye I, the woman vanished. Pro- j lessor Horton winked several times, j and opened his mouth to speak, j then c osed hislipr. without sound. The ; obje< t tlnis unexpectedly consigum c> his care was a small leather bag, i scarcely more tluin a tobac o polish,1 and heavy. Mechanically he thrust it into one of the wide pockets of his , loose coat. Hark ! A heavy footstep j crushed the gravel on the path to the right. The professor rose to his own ! feet as if moved liv a spring, his knees j shook, bis teeth chattered, a deadly: fear smote him. Kear of evil? lie did not know. To shrink to the 'e't, gain the next clump of shrubbery and c >nceal him-! si'lf was tin; work of a nument, and accomplished with the more ease that he knew every ir.cli of ground from \ long fa uiliarity. Had he not planted j many of these tress, which now proved friends? The hiding place gained was a larch surrounde 1 by stiff little .la] - j anese cellars, and forming a sort of labyrinth. Scarcely had the professor gli.led into this shelter t' at a vivid ! sheet of lightning illuminated the whole country side. He saw himself seated on the rustic bench beneath the larch tree! He could not believe the j evidence of his own senses; the I reath remained suspended on his lips. Was lie to believe that his hour had come? There sat his own image on the rustic bench, the soft hat pulled down over 4-lw? UrAnd cliiiiildapc thn LUU UilJW, blic UlWUvi CIIVIUUV4U) vuv slouching nondescript attire; nothing w;is lacking to complete tlie re-em- J blance. Was lie still a loop, victim of nightmare, or I ad he gone mad? lie pinched his flesh and rubbed his eyes violently. The figure under the larch tree did not vanish. Swift realization of the truth dawned on the drowsy scholar. lie was alone, at a distance from the now silent hotel, and he had in his pocket a bag which belonged to the other. What if this unknown had found him still on the lench? What if he emerged now, acc< rated the stranger and gave him the bag i "I should be murdered as sure as there is a heaven above us," shuddered uie iiniii ui ict/tcrs, mw it untui,uuu for which he could give no reason. At this juncture the wind freshened, and the rain fell in torrents, while the ' lightning became less frequent. I'ro-1 fessor Ilorton quitte l the larch tree, reached the hotel with surprising agility, found a window of the recent ball- j room unfastened, groped his way through that deserted apartment and gained his own chamber. The bag was , gone. He had 1? st it from the wide ' poeket, probably in his Might. His watch marked 2 o'clock. The professor extinguished his candle, opened the shutters of the window, and seated himself with his eyes lived on the eastern horizon. He waa a prey to the most exciting emotions. Professor Ilorton was the first votary of the Silver Spring abroad . next morning. If he was feverish and haggar 1, with a stealthy, even furtive aspect, the boy at the fountain did not notice the circumstance. Always ! an early ris'>r, the professor sipped a glass of the sparkling water, and then walked along the upper paths of the grounds. Cautiously he skirted the rustic seat beneath the larch tre *, and approached the larch. A short, dry laugh of triumph escaped the lips of the usually undemonstrative student. A leather bag. half pouch, lay, concealed by the long grass, beneath the spr< ading boughs. The jarcn ire? n;ui kept its secret well. The bag remaint d where it had fallen from the professor's wide pocket. He clutched it, returned t > his room, and proceeded to investigate the contents. The little bag held the Delaunay diamonds. Necklace, bracelet, butterfly ornament ?nothing was lacking in this precious heap swept hastily from cumbersome case and casket. Five minutes later the rosy landlord was seized by the collar, dragge I into hi; private oflice, and confronted by 1 rofessor Horton, whose agitation verged on sheer lunacy. The latter took from his pocket a little bag and I>ourtd out the Delaunay diamonds, telling a wild and incoherent tale meanwhile about a larch tree and midnight rambles. "Nobody would believe it, you know," said the colonel, coolly. The hotel proprietor is never surprised in this world. | " Take the trinkets, and restore them in your own way. Do not mention me in the transaction,retorted the professor. IIe*stooped and plunged his | fingers once more into the rainbow of precious stones with a sort of intox! ication; the starry rays of rose and blue dazzled, blinded him. " Beautii ful and fatal gift to man!" he murj mured, with parched lips. The colonel closed one eye, with tho , aspect of a sagacious bird. iB&iBlafo ;*. .. -. rrofess^r ITorton soug'ithisbed and 1 slept heavily until 4 o'clock in the af1 ternoon. lie was awakened by voices, j and peered through the shutters of his window. A carriage waited to tako | the Delaunay party to the steamboat on the Jake." .Mr. and Mrs. Delaunay) were already seated, wh le Alice, tlio : I maid, I ad paused to reply to the l ea 1 . I wa ter, alter which she re-entered tlie | ! hotel. At ti.is moment l'r< lessor Ilor- ! | ton's door win opened, and the colon '1 j i entered with the bouncing swiftness j of movement peculiar to fat men in i ha te. If the conduct of the professor had been extraordinary in the morning when lie had restored the jewels, that 1 !.? n,.i not in the ! afternoon. He locked the door, made a warning gesture to the professor, and stol > on tiptoe to a second door at the extremity of the large room, where lie lay down on the floor and applied eve and ear to the crack. \ Vices became audible in the adjoining chamber. " I was there at 1 o'clock and gave it to you," sad a woman. ' A lie ! 1 waited all night and you did not come." said a man. I gave it to a person under the tree, and lie took it," gasped the woman. " Fool! 'Hien the game is up. flet yourself dismissed at Newport and cut to New York. If 1 believed you were tricky, my girl, it would be the worse for you." There was a sound of footsteps, and immediately afterward the Delaunay carriage roiled away. The colonel rose to his feet, chuckling at the success of his stratagem. "Set a thief?ahem !?I mean a woman to catch a woman. My wife thought of having the Knglish maid sent back in search of a missing bag, in order to give her a chance to communicate with her accomplice in the hotel, if she had one. The bag was dropp: d in the empty room next to you, fcr the purpose, and a man joined her there. Your story is amply corroborated, you see, by the few words exchange:!." " 1 believe the Marquis de liatti is thn acfinninliee. and no more a French 1 ? man than you are," exclaimed the profissor. "So do I; but how to prove it?" rejoined the colonel. "You sh< uld have them arrested," urged the professor. "What is the charge? Your adventures of the night? The noble marquis is caught whispering with a pretty girl? Xo, no; 1 gave back the diamonds to Mr. Delaunay?with a suitable explanation?and he has carrie I them away in a money-belt. We alone know the whole truth." "And the larch troe," added the professor. "It was the noble larch tree that kept the s.crct, my friend. Well, well, I hope you are pleased with tlr* fashionable elements attracted to our Silver Spring. Doubtless the Marquis de Haiti and t'ie demurs English maid Alice belong to one of those bands of English thieves who are said t<> keep a map of countryseats with reference to the plate chest, and are now trying their fortune in America. IIow beautiful they were? those diamonds!"' The .Marquis de Katti departed by the 'J o'clock boat that same evening. His foreign accent was never more apparent than when h took leave of Silver Spring.?Hnrp r\s W'cikly, Will Man Ever He Able to Conquer Siorins i Violent displays of natural force, says the London titundard, are painfully hostile to human progress. If the valley of the Thames were frequently racked by earthquakes, London would he an ini| o. sibility. A very slight tremor would tilt the Egyptian obelisk into Hie Thames and topple down St. Haul's cathedral. A volcano in Middlesex would lower the quotations for government securities and seriously diminish the rateabl" value of the metropol s. For prosperity there must be peace, e-peeially with the powers of nature. America itself would not be what it is if these horrible cyclones occurred in every State and at frequent intervals. The question ari es whether these atmospheric disturbanc s may po siblv be aft'ect-d for the better in course of time by that sort of indirect inlluenc which civilization exercises on climate. It is true t! at man may mar a climate as well as mend one. He disturbs the rainfall by unduly cutting down the forests, thereby producing alternations of drought and Hood. Hut in other instances the culti\ ati<in of the soil appears to ameliorate the climate, and nature grows more kindly as man fulfills his mission to "subdue the earth." AVe seem on the verge of learning how to disarm the s' a of its fury. It is one of the strangest?we might say the oddest?discoveries of modern tiu.es that the crested wave which seems irresistible in its fore:* loses all its terror and much of it> power when encountering a film of oil. When the storm threatens to overwhelm the ship the skipper has merely to fetch up his oil can, and, though the wind continues to howl and shriek through the ringing, the waves are powerless under the oleaginous film. Jt is too much to expect that the wild winds will ever be subject to human control after this fashion, except by some long-continued and occult process unconsciously carried out. It will be a strange result, and yet it seems a flint. m:in will br> ;ible to meet t he storm more successfully at sea than on land. More probably, as population in these States becomes more dense, and the consequent danger of disaster is increased, men will adopt a mode of building suited to the necessities of the case, as the Swiss have done in the case of the avalanche. There is, however, a favorable element in the problem, even it' matters should not improve. Cyclonic outbursts such as those which have been displaying their energies in the I'nited States are in a very circumscribed, area. It is saddening to read of the mischief that is done?human beings crushed by the i fury of the blast, and hard won prop- | erty irretrievably destroyed. Uut the 1 space thus visited is a mere scrap coin- j pared with the broad continent which ! spreads from the Atlantic to the Pacific. The storm path is but a dimin' utive line compared with the smiling | area on every hand. ? (Jno-Sided. When at school we made the acquaintance of a young Frenchman, J who was nervously anxious to learn the idioms of our language. lie used | excellent English in conversation, anil ! was greatly pleased when lie heard a new repression, which he was sure to treasure up and give as his own at the earliest opportunity. lie one day heard a friend characterize another person as " two-faced." After inquiring what the meaning of the expression was, he stored the epi| thet away for future use. ile frequently took part in our society de, bates, and a-ways spoke with spirit J and not a little pathos. At a meeting 1 of the society net long after, in the midst of a speech he fo ind ;.n oppor; tunity to use the new compound word, i Hut in the eu'iteinent of the debate ' his memory did not stand by him a< it J would if he had been less nervous. } This is wliat he said: , " If there ees anything I detest, sir, it ees a two-sided man ! And I ferj vently hope, sir, I may continue one sided to the end of my days The laugh of his associates revealed j to him the fact that he had blundered, j and ;in explanation did not relieve his mortification.? Youth's Companion. | French policemen in Paris are paid rewards of from $1 to $5 for making arrests and capturing offenders. I ) Tho Lon?stone. In tho parish of St. Mayhn, in East Cornwall, England, and on the high road from Bodmin to Camelford, is ;i group of houses (one of them a smith's shop) known by the name of Longstone. The curious traveler parsing by inquires the raison d' etre of such a name, for there is no tall monolith, such as are not uncommon in Cornwall, to be seen neiir it. The reason is given by Notts and (Jnrrv's: In lack of records I may say "in the days of King Arthur there lived in Cornwall" a smith. The smith was a keen fellow, who made and mended the plows and harrows, and shod tlie horses of his neighbors, and was gen orally serviceable, lie had also great I skill in farriery and in the general management and euro of sick cattle. He could also extr.net the s-tubhomcst tooth, even if the jaw resided and some gyrations around the anvil were required. There seems ever to have been ill blood between devil and smith, teste lninstan and others, and so it was between the fiend and the smith farrierdentist of St. Maybn. At ni?ht there were many and fierce disputes between them in the smithy. The smith, as the rustics t *11, always got the advantage of his adversary, and gave him 1 letter than he brought. This success, however, only fretted old Xick and spurred him on to further encounter. AVhat the exact matter of controversy on this particular occasion was is not remembered, but it was agreed to settle it by some wager, some trial of strength and skill. A two-acre field was near, and the smith challenged the devil to the leaping of each his acre in the shortest time. The match came oil', and the devil was beaten, for the smith had beforehand st althily stuck here and thereover his opponent's acre some harrow tines, or teeth. The two started well, but soon the strong swing of the fiend's scythe was being brought up frequently by some obstruction, and as frequently required the whetstone. The dexterous and agile smith went on smoothly with his acre, and was soon unmistakably gaining. The devil, enraged at his certain discomfiture, hurled his whetstone at his rival and flew off. The whetstone, thrown with great violence, after sundry whirls into the air, fell upright into the soil to a great depth, .and there remained a witness against the evil one for many ages. The devil avoided the neighborhood while it stood. In an evil hour the farmer at Treblethick set his heart upon theLongstone, for there were gate posts and door posts to be bad out of it, and ho threw it down. That night the enemy returned. and has haunted the neighborhood ever since. Summer Diet. The relaxing effect of the heat is inevitable. The amount of work accomplished falls of! of necessity either in quality or quantity, and yet people blindly go on eating indiscriminately and without a limit, except the appetite, as is their habit in cold weather. The engineer who wants half the steam he has been using, lowers the fuel supply, but men and women who need less stimulus from food, because less work Is practicable, neghct to change the selection and amount of articles of food, and then wonder that they feel the.heat so sensibly and labor with dilliculty. Uetwern the heat generated by an excess of fowl, and the effect of the sun's activities, the body is kept in a temperature which is not only uncomfortable, but dangerous. The appetite is less but the variety of food which tempts it is unrimrifTwl and the cook remains t!ie most important member of the household, wlien that artist ought to lie conscious that his occupation is somewhat under a cloud, and that the time has come for that plain living and high thinking of which he may have heard. 11 is a grave thing to face three months of h at. The preparation must be adequate, and th bo ly must be helped to have the odds in its favor, and the light diet is the most direct m< thod of reaching this result. Th butchers may sutler, 1 ut the fruit and vegetable dealers will have the r chance. The festive but destructive pie may disappear for a time, but the thousand trifles in cookery with which the palate is pleased, but not inebriated, are in order. Milk, fruit, vegetables and bread will suflice, and meat may be regarded c.s ii relatively occ;isionaI reKniirefl. The noor rnav coinnlain that I a simple diet is their portion the y.*ar round, and yet l'or them vegetables ;?i.d fruit, when possible, are better than heavy mi at. The v<getarians ought to have th ir innings, or come m ar doing so, till th" mlddl'of September. Then, too, it is des'rabl- often to rat sparingly sevi ral times a day, as a dyspeptic lindsprolitable, rather thn to overload the stomach at one meal. Advice is cheap, but the s'mple living suggested will make the summer tolerable and healthful, an 1 work and r. creation will seem easy and delightful to <i degree which high or full living will make out of the question.? Boston Advertiser. Cannibalism in Russia. The Terskija Yedvmosti reports a case which shows that the supersti tion attributing magical power to ine eating of human flesh is not confined to the Australian aborigines. In the graveyard of the village of Xaurusow, in the* Xaltshik district, the police noticed that the grave of a recently buried child was much disturbed. Suspicion fell on a man reputed to be a sorcerer. Ilis hut was searched, and he was found sitting at the lire, on which was a pot simmering. lie refi:s '(1 to answer any questions, but, on the adjoining bedroom being examined, a large portion of the body of the missing child was found hanging from a hook, and in a corner of the room were the skulls of several children. rnl *' U,n'n(r inf bTTMrrutod J iiu WIX'LCII, uj)uii wins as to where was the remaining portion of the child's body, pointed silently to the pot. His daughter, a miserable, starved girl, admitted, on examination, that the father used regularly to st<al the bodies of little children, cook and eat the llesh, anil from the fat make ointments and medicines, which he gave as charms. He had threatened to kill and eat her if she ever gave information of his doings.?London Times. Wastefulness of Natnre. Life is sown broadcast, only to be followed almost immediately by a de[ struction nearly as sweeping. Nature creates by the million, apparently that j she may destroy by the myriad. Slia | gives life one instant, only that she may snatch it away the next. The main difference is, that that the higher we ascend, tiie less lavish the creation, and the less sweeping the destruction. Thus, wliile prouawy dui one usn in a thousand reaches maturity, of every 1,000 children born 001 attain adult age. That is, nature flings aside 91)0 out of every 1,000 fishes as useless for her purposes, and two out of every live human beings. An exchange tells of a man who, by saving a young lady from beneath the tramninff hoofs of a drove of mule3, won her for a wife. As the event occurred years ago we would like to have that man's present opinion of that drove of inules?not necessarily for publication, but as a guarantee of good faith.?Oil City Blizzard. Seven hundred thousand acres of the best hind in India are devoted to the cultivation of the pjppy. Five thousand pounds of the opium produced is sold in China, AN OIL REGION ROMANCE. | HOW JOB MOSES' PER SEVERANCE I WAS REWARDED. ' IMnrorcrins ami Dcvdoplnu ?In* Olrbrntrtt 1 Itrnilnr 1 (HI ltcftlnn hi llic I'nrc of I ( rent OlmlnclrH. .lob Moses, to whose faith in the existence of petroleum in the nowfamous Bradford region, and to his persistence in manifesting hi; faith by | his works, led to the development of | the teir.tory and transforming a i wilderness into one ot the most populous and wealthy communities in Pennsylvania, has sold his vast possessions in the region ami removed to New York city. Twenty years ago the oil excitement in Oil Creek, in the lower field, was at its height, and Moses, having made a large fortune in I patent medicines, with headquarters in Rochester, was atta-ked hy the oil lever. The symptoms in his case took the form of a mania to develop a new petroleum Held, and investigations led him to Bradford, in the valley of the Tunungawant creek, lie advanced the theory at once that there was a vast lake of petroleum underlying the whole region, and he set about securing territory upon which to test his theory. Bradford was then a mere hamlet of a sc ire or so of scatteri d families, depending on lumbering and farming for support. When Moses began his operations the business of the Bradford branch amounted to about $2,000 a mo;ith, and when lie made the prophecy that the day was not distant when that amount would be increased ten-fold through the oil that would be found on all sides of it, the belief that he was crazy was strengthened in the community. For thirteen years Job Moses prospected among the mountains and through the valley, his faith never wavering. Then his fortune was exhausted, and he had thousands of acres of unproductive rocks and forest on his hands. At that time oil wells were drilled to a depth of not over nine hundred feet, at which depth the deposit was found in the lower field. When Moses had spent all his money, the earnestness and enthusiasm with which he clung to the theory that there was oil in the region led outside c apitalists to come to his aid. In 1875 the idea occurred to some one?it is not known exactly to whom now?that it would be a reasonable risk to drill a well deeper than the lower region depth. This was done, and at the depth of 1,100 feet the oil sand was found, and a fifty-barrel flowing well was struck. It was discovered then that the Bradford oil was in a tliird sand, while the Oil City deposit was in a Second sand, below the surface. The strike created much excitement in the valley, but outsiders had no faith in the extent of the field or the "lasting" qualities of the sand. .Jno Moses had, however, and he was content to await events. lit* held on to his land, and well after well was put down, every one proving to he a good producer. Nut it was not until 1877 that the persistence and pluck of the pioneer' oil operator in the McKean field were crowned with full success. The weds in the lower field had long ceased to How, and the supply of oil depended on the pump. The Bradford wells were not only flowing wells, but they (lowed month after month without any perceptible decreas in their yield. The new Held could no longer be ridiculed nor ignored, and in 1876-7 that remarkable exodus of operators from all the other oil-fielils to Bradford commenced. In the lir.st three months of 1877 the population of Bradford increased from IfOO to ;{,500 actual inhabitants while the transient population-operators coming and going- -wasat least 10,000. In March. 1877. the monthly receipts j of the Bradford branch of the Krio railway had grown to ?35,000, then more than fulfilling the prophecy of ,J(b Moses, made fourteen years before. Over $100,000,0X) came into the Bradford field in four years, .and all other j fields were nearly de.se:tod. And Moses bad his reward. The fortune he had spent in demonstrating to the incredulous and scolling community that there was oilintheTunungawant valley and all the hills about was returned to him a hundred-fold. Satisfied with the results of his twenty years' labors in the region, he sold the j 7,000 acres of bind he still held, and all I his other property at and about Lime- I stone, which place ho selected ?xs his I residence early in the history of the J field, and taken up his residence in j New York. The great oil-field, to the i ^ - i ? ,liu n(T..rfc , Jj. I ueveiopiiie.it ui niui.il mo rectly led, lias been rapidly declining for a year and more past. There is no more new territory to drill, and the old wells are not averag'ng mor<; than four barrels a day, and mo t of them are pumped at that. Many of them have failed entirely, and the production of the whole district cannot be more than 35,000 barrels a day. Uut there are stored in the tanks of the oil i regions over 34.000,000 1 arre's of petroleum, surplus production, of j which probablyeight t. nths came from | the west of the northern field. Bradford, however, will continue to be a prosperous city even alter the oil sup-1 ply is entirely exhausted, for industries J and business enterprises have been j founded there which do not depend on | oil trallic and operations for their exist- j ence, and there are vast coal and lum- ; her districts yet to be developed. The j perseverance of -lob Mo3es anticipated I the growth and prosperity of the entire J northwestern boundary of 1'ennsyl-; vania at least twenty years.--Neto j York Tinua. Jessie Pomeroy, the Hoy Murderer, j A correspondent, while in Concord, | Mass., recently visited the prison in ; which Jessie i'omcroy is confined. The j lioy h:is reached man's stature now. I I'nder the condition of liis sentence lie i is kept in solitary confinement. He j has no intercourse whatever with the other prisoners, and the visitor was not j permitted to speak to him. Solitary confinement in his case does not nit an the ntt< rly cheerless existence that one would imagine. Pomeroy, it is said, has developed into a young n an of more than ordinary intellect, thoughtfnlness and reasoning powers. Jleisa'lowed to have all the books he wants, and with these companions his mental life is not wholly devoid of comfort. .Since he lias been in prison lie has acquired enough knowledge of several lan-; guages to read them well. Ilis cell is | spacious and well lighted and ventilated. Young I'oineroy remains to- j day what his crimes showed him to be 1 , ! JII Illh UU> 11UUU (111 (IU11IH JMcli Ullfll clUtUl i While inort! intelligent and intellectual than the average, ho is destitute of a in' ral nature, and hasn't the slightest conception of the enormity of the nets by which he took the lives of several little children.?Chicago Times m Hal I a n try. Mr. S. C. Hall's father was once in a boat, on an arm of the Atlantic that made up into the Irish coast. Several young ladies were with him, and the six rowers did their best. According to the local custom, each rower was rewarded with a glass of whislrv Hilt. ;l m?rrv 1:iss. int.enilino tu play a little joke, dipped the glass into the salt water, while one of the boatmen was looking away, and presented it to him. Ke drank it off and returned her the glass, saying, "Thank ye, me lady I" instead of sputtering as she expected. "What, Pat I Do you like saltwater?" she :isked, astonished at his qniet way. "No, me lady, I don't like salt-water; but if yer ladyship had given me a glass of poison, I'd have dnmk it."? Youth's Comjpanioiu | NEWS OF THE WEEK. Eastern and Middle States Tite totnl coinage executed at the Philadelphia mint during tho fiscal jonr ending Juno ;J0 was 80,61)1,252 pieco^, valued at ?21, 483,7r?'J. A smul excursion steamer capsizod on the Tonawandu creek, at Uatnvia, N. Y., and two men and two women wore drowned. At Kasselos, l'cnn., tlio first section of a coal train, t-? which was attached a passenger car contacting lifloan porsons, broke in two on a heavy grade, and i-even of tl e cars rushing hack down tho grado nn into the second soctioti, smashing tin; cars topio. es. Six porsons, including tho conductor and a brakeman, wero killed, and tlio oilier nine wero wounded more or less soverely, Tiikke mon were killed by black damp in a woll near Lackawanna, l'cnn. One of the men looked into the well for aomo unknown renaon, when he became insensible, and fell to tho bottom, a distance of forty feet. Tho other two men, whi.'o looking for their companion, wero also overpowered by tho foul air. Dubino tho firat six months this year 221,494 emigrants wero landed in Now York, f>H,8M less than arrived in the first six months of 1882. Tite assessed valuation of real and personal estate in Now York city is $1,270,677,. 164, an increa=o of $43,200,705.67 over tho valuation in 1.^82. The throo co-.tly brick buildings comprising the Dauphin county poorhouso, three miles from H'trrisburg, l'enn., with tho barn and other outbuildings, have been destroyed by fire. Th3 furniture in the buildings and tho contents of the barn, including ono horse and fivo mulos, wero consumed. Tho loss is ostimated at from $103,000 to. $150,000. Q he 18f> inmates, of whom thirtyeight wero insane, were safely removed from the burning buildings, butdur'ng tho confusion twelve of tho lunatics made their escape. T*. o? #oekiAr?flf1 nn/1 InrrtA cfnnA hnncA in the township of Westch::stor. almost in full view of Lone Island Sonnd, Mr. William K. Seaman, twenty-six years old, chief engineer of the Lackawanna Coal and Iron company, of Seranton, Penn., shot and killed his dcme-itel siste-, Miss Fannie C. Seaman, twenty-eight year8 of age and then sent a bullet through his own brain, dyin? almost instantly. Mr. Seaman was engaged to be married in afow weeks, and wai devotelly attached to his sister. The verdict of the coroner's jury was that the terrible deed was done while Mr. Senmanwas laboring under a depression of mind causad by excessive mental work. A cycm>ne struck the town of Cromwell, about fifteen miles below Hartford, on the Connecticut river, and wrecked nearly every hous j in tho village. Fourteen lives wero lost. Ihe storm wa-* also vory severe in Hartford and in tho surrounding towns. Considerable damage was done likewiso by the storm in Williamstown, Mass., and vicinity. The steamer Susquehanna was blown to nieces by the explosion of her boiler at Wilkesbarro, Penn., nnd four men wore injured, one fatally. The corps of cadets from the Virginia military institute at Lexington, \a., have bee 1 on a visit to New Yo-k, whoro t! oy were tho guc. t? of the Sixty-ninth regiment. Tho object of tbeir visit wai t3 re-tore to the city tho flag of tin lWth New York volunteers, presented to that regiment by New York, and captured during tho wnr. At tho Fifth Avenue hotel the cadols passed in single file before Ptoafoat Arthur. w!:o innds them a short address, and p-esentcct tho graduating cla-9 with diplomas. A duel is alleged to have been fonght at Far Roekaway, Long Island, between J. Armoy Ki ox, ono of the editors and pioprietors of Te.rn.t Siftinr/.i, nnd D. B. Sheahan, a well-known New York fo ilptor. Ihe principals had b oa frieads for a long time, but during a recent a isit of Mr. Knox to New York tl e two quarreled at a dinner party, and tho lio was given and returned. A challenge followed mil a meeting was arranged. Two shots wore exchanged. ().i the second Mr. Knox was slightly wounded in the left arm. Botli parties then doclared themselves fatisfiod and roturnod to tho city. \? T1 n 9 nn Vi>?lich cwimmAr. lVlU'ttfIM J Vj n u iiur,, <m w..........., attempted to swim from Albany to New York in six days, but after covering onethird tho distance became sick nnd exhausted and abandoned tho feat. He snys he will try it again in a few week =. Collin<;e was actually in the water for twenty-four houis and made altogether fifty mile*. The journey which he a'ternptol was longer th 11 my swim ever tefore un lertakcn by a swimmer. The longest known swim on a lime limit was that of Willie Bee with, tho champion of tho world, who made nine y-fjur miles through dead water iti a sit dn\>' swim last ye ir in Lo idon, defeating Captiin Webb and sevtr.il olher n*j(ed swimmer.". Captain Webb swam the English channel, a distancs of twentythree miles, and sevet al men have attempted to swim down 100 miles of tho Rhine in a given time, but havo fai'e 1. Lightning struck seven houses near Dover, N. H., killing three men. ?? Eoutli and Weit A duel was fought near Waynesboro, va., i between Richard F. Beirao, editor of tho J Richmond Staff, and W. C. Elarn, secretary of the commonwealth, and editor of the j Richmond Whig. Tho duel was the outcome of bitter political editorials of a per- ' sonal nature published in the columns of tho two papers. Tho challenging party was Mr. Beirne. The two editors had considerable difficulty in coming together, as they were j threatened with arrest by the authorities, and were followed by detectives I but by taking circuitous routes and after i traveling several hundred miles they avoided | tho warrants issued for thoir arrest, and mot in a wood near Waynesboro. Beirne was represented by Frank Wright, of Fetorsburg, and W. E. Chalkley, of Richmond. Elam's seconds wore Sheriff Lewis, of Rockingham. a son of Lieutenant-Governor John F. Lewis, and United States attorney for tho western district of Virginia, and John D. Sneliing, a well-known local Coalition politician of Richmond. At tho first tiro Elam's ball pierced tho skirt of a sack coat worn by his opponent, but neither wn3 hurt. Mr. Beirne, ns the challenging party, demanded another shot, which was accorded. In that round Elam was dangorously wounded in tho right hip, tho ball passing through the fleshy (art of that side and striking the left hip When E'am was struck he said to his seconds, who stood near by: " I am struck.' Mr. Boirno then declared himself satisfied, and raised his hat to his opponent, and his seconds entered his vehicle and left the grounds. The affair created intense excitement throughout Virginia. The toivn of Cottonwood Falls, Kan., was destroyed by fire. A FAsriLY of five persons?a father, mother and thre'o children?wore drowned in the Ohio river, twenty miles below Madison j Ind., the waves from a passing steamer up- | setting their skiff. A nkcuio named Hill McDowell was tako- I from jail and hanged by a crowd of men at J Bowling Green, Mo., for an assault on a young lady. Enoch l'lutrr has pres.-nte.l to tlr; city of Baltimore a megnilicont freo library and $8"t,)o be invested for its maintenance and support W, H. VANumtiii.t has added $100,000 to j the endowment fund of Vanderbilt nuiver- i sity of Nashville, Tenn., making a tolat endowment of $700,(X 0. A WAtiox driven by William Beitsch and containing Henry Kracker, a huckster, his J wifo and live children, ranging in ago from i coven to ninoteen years, was crossing a raili road track at Cincinnati when it was struck by a passing express train and broken to splinters. Every member of the Kracko | family was killed and tho driver was serious- j ly injured. | I A hunter named Jamison, residing in | Skipworth, Miss., Killed mmseir uy pun-ui^ i his rifle to his Riclo and compelling his sevenyear old son (o pnll the triggor. J\Mii? E. Josks (Democrat) has beeu | olected to Congress from the fin-st Alabama district. The Georgia legislature is in session. Conviot8 in tho State prison atSalom, Oregon, made a desperate attack on the officers and attempted to escape. Tnree of them were killed, two wounded and eight got away. About 2.r<0 delegate?, representing fourteen States, leiponded to t! e call for a national conforenoo of tl e anti-monoplists held in Chicago. Tlio o.iginal call outlined as tho purposo of the convention the organization of a new political party, nnddelogates wci e requested to atlond ? ho were in favor of restiicting th3 power of corporations, tho holding of pi blic lands for actual settlors, the I suppression of g.imblingin tha neces ities of I l.fe and the overthrow cf nil monopolio1. | Denis Kearney was oxcluded^from theomI vention byalargoma'o:ily. John F.Henry, of Brooklyn, was made permanent chairman, and C. C. Pont, of Indiana, secretary. A i;on,r,n nttached to a saw-mil n?ar Iluntsvillo, Texas, exploded with terrible rei suits. " Dick" Grant, tho colored fireman, ins assistant, John Barkful, a convict, and two othor convicts named Slade and Jordan were instant'y killed. Four other convicts were seriously injured, whi'o *f". T'c I;-, tho nronrietrir. his partner. Henry Minor, and a man named Ha rington were Boverely brni oJ and scalded. Tlie mill was tota'Iy destroyed, AncHBisnop Puboelt,, the well-known Onlholic prelato of Cincinnati, is doid. Forty bishops were telegraphed invitationj to the ftinera'. A tabtly constructed raft in which four colored men and two colore! women were attempting to cross a stream near Whitevil o, N. C., went to pieces, anJ all six were drowned. The casualties in Chicago consequent upon thr celebration of the Fourth numbered thirty-eight, including three death', I livo fatally wonnded, twenty-three more or j loss maimed for life, and seven slightly ! injured. The chief instrument of destruci tion proved to be toy pifto's and small cannons. Av/chnct in the postmos'ership at Salmon Falis, Jdaho, iesulted fro n Charles E. Egglestcn, pagtma^ter, and Fion'c E. Eggle.ton, assistant poftnaster, having committed suicide. From Washington. TnE President has designated twelve young men from civil life for examination for appointment as second lieutenants n the army. Following i'b the June national debt statement: Decrease of debt daring Jane. $18,90S,201 43 Cash in the treasury 345,389,902 00 Gold certificates 82,378,640 CO Silver certificates 88,616,831 00 Certificates of deposit outs'ng 13,375,000 00 Refunding ceriinoates 355,900 00 Legal-tenders outstanding 346,681,016 00 Fractional currency outs'ng... 7,000,690 81 Decrease for year 137,823,25'} 24 Tns national debt during the past fiscal year hai been decreased $137,823,233.24. The total debt on tho first of July wai $1,551,0:)1,207.18. Dunrao Juno there were coined at the United States mint* 111,412 gold piece*, worth $2,371,840; 3,0.p0,?0D silver piece', worth $2,421,370, and 7,907,000 minor coins, worth $151,222?a total coinage of 11,119,242 pieces, worth $4,941,432. During the past fiscal year 98,605,821 piece?, worth $06,102,701, were ooined. Foreign News. The daughter, son and daughter-in-law of Charles Reeve?, Miss Georgie and the two Misses Ibers, were drowned at Indian River, Prince Edward's Island, by tho capsizing of a boat. Durino afire in a warehouse in Winnipeg, Manitoba, n number of kegs of powder exploded, tearing braidings to splinters and injuring twenty persons, several with fatal results. Tiie Rov. Thomas N. Burke, the wellknown Irish priest and lecturer, is dead, in his fifty-fourth year. Deceased visited the United States in 1372, and delivered lectures nnd sermons in all parts of the country. An animated controversy arcse on his series of lectures in reply to Mr. Froude, the English historian, whoso viows of the relations of Enclnnd and Ireland ho combatted. | Tiiehe has beon almost n panic in London I over the outbreak of cholera in Egypt. In j Damietta, a town of not more than 29,000 in | habitants, (ho deaths reached 120 a day. The diseaso has also brokon out at other places in Kgypt. I Duuino a temperance fete at ShoHSeld, England, a panic among the thousands of I school children present resulted in two of | (thorn losing thoir lives and injuries to twenty others. A fiuf. at the town of Friedrichsstadt, Ruesia, on the rivor Duna, 1 a? destroyed fifty j buildings, including the jxstofHce. Great Britain will cease sending her paupers t3 tho United States, Mr. Treve'y.-n I having mad j a statement to that effect in i parliament. , As tho kin? of Saxony, who hid started I on a tjur, wa? abo'itto as:eiid in an elevator of a f.ictory which he was in-pecting at M ian, Italy, the weight attached to the car fcl', tilling the gjvjrnor of the district, wl o was accompanying hii majesty, and injuring the manager of the factory. The king, v h ) had entered the e'evator beforo the ac | cident happened, was mnch overcome, and abandoned his tour. John Winton Spej-oebChubohill, seventh | Duko of Marlborough, Marquis of Bl inford and Earl of Sunderland, is dead. Ten thousand iion workers in Staffordshire, England, went on strike. 1HE MINT. Tolnl CotnnRC nt rlic Various I.'iiifeil States .Hints During the l'ast Fiscal Y?*ar. The following is a statement of the coinage executed nt the United States mints during the fiscal year ended June 30: hi'unmindtion. Pieces. Value. Double eagles 1,370,30. $27,520,120 Eagles WO,379 G,003,7L'0 Half-Eagles 355,072 1,775,300 Tine? dollars 1,555 4,6'J5 (juarter-eagles 4,0"w 10,137 Dollars 8,855 8,855 Total gold 2,406.222 $35,928,927 Standard dollars 28,111,11!) 28,111,11!) Half-dollars 5,519 2,75'J ] Quarter-dollars 16,319 4.079 J Dimes 7,175,119 717,511 I Total silver ar>,308,070 ?2?,835.470 ] Five cents 20,455,4X8 1,022,774 3 Three cents 28,019 858 3 One cent 40,407,400 401,074 ] Total minor 00,951,520 ? 1,428,307 Total coinage....98,005,824 66,192,704 FOUR OFFICIALS KILLED. The ltcniovnl of n Comity Sent KpniiIih In the Murder of Four County Olllcers by .Marked Men. A terrible tragedy has occurred in Grand county, Col., on account of the removal cf lm nnnnt.v coat from Hot Sulphur Springs to J Grand Lak.'. For several months there his j boon n feud betvv#?n the peoplo of the two < places, both parties coaming the right to ! tho county seat. A te'egram to Gover- j nor Grant :tated that the hostile | parties had had a meeting and that the * county commissioners and clerk wero killeJ . by masked men, that Barney Day and R. G. Mills, commissioners, weie instantly killed, atidK. P. Webber, also a commissioner, and I). J. Dean, tho county clerk, mortally womuled. ^ Grand county lies in the northwestern part of tho State, several mile.! from any tele- . graph station. The citizens of (J rand county ' called on the governor for the aid of the Hite militia. Mills was opposed to the ( ether three oTirials and was 0110 of the at- ' tacking party. Tho attack was made on tho three n.en by three masked men, who sud- i dtnly sprang out of a dense thicket and he- ] gan liriui'. Day returned the lire and killed Mills. Tho other two masked men made , their escape. FIVE FATAL AFFRAYS. , Hoi Wcallirr TrnKc?tlc-? in VnrlniiM Pnrtn of ilic C'onnlry?Onc I) ?>'? Iterord. Conrad Graff, of JefTersonville, Ind.,.be- ' cnine very dnmk in Louisville, Ky., and wanted to fight. He insulted Gottlieb Waggoner, who promptly gave him a terriiic blow on the temple, from the effects of which he died in a fe.v nrnutcs. Waggoner was arresteJ. At a barbecue near Deposit Station, Ky , i I William Middleton had a quarrel with Levi ' Miller, ono of tho managers. Miller was cut in fourteen places and soon died. Mid- | dleton had been drunk all day. At a dance near liussellville, Ky., James Hnnkins and Charles Smitzfeller engaged in a fight, iu which both were shot, the latter with fatal effect. Twocolorod men from Cfiiro, 111., named London and Johnson, agaged in a fight on a train on the Illinois Central railway, near Cobden. London killed Johnson ana then jumped from the tra'n and escaped. Ed. Sears and Michael Knight, two brickmakers. quarreled at Omaha, Neb. Seara , shot Knight in the abdomen, inflicting a fatal wound. I FRIGHTFUL CALAMITY. Ifnavy Lrntn of Life at the Launch oT n Teiwl In Hcotlnnd. The steamer Daphne was being launched near Glasgow, Scotland, when she fell over cn her tid?, throwing aboat 2C0 workmen into tho water. The Daphne, which waa constructed for the coasting trade, is a vessel of iVO tons burden. The accident occurred aftor tho launching, in the middle of the Clyde,near Renf i ew, five miles from Glasgow. The steamer left the ways at a very fast rate, and when she gained the water she rol'od from side to side. The jereonson bonrJ. fe;ir ng thi woi'ld capsize, ran to and fro. Iho ve;sel fin&lly reeled over Rnd nearly disappeared beneath tho watir. The causo wa< ih it slio had too much top weight. Tho e who had maintained their positions on uioporiion onnj s:oamer ikh auomer^eu, did (heir utmost to save thoso who wero cast overboard. At tho Baino time boats hastily pulled to the rescue 1o assist in tho worit of rescuing tho unfortunate people, and t ucceeded in saving quite a number. Crowds of the grief-stricken relatives of the victims of tho disaster soon flocked to ihe Fcene of the calamity. The Daphne turned upside down before sho sank. An eyewitness saw a great number of men struggling in the water and shrieking for help. Many wore braised and covered with blood, having been struck by debris. A number of men at a shipyard on the op posite side of ffie river who witnessed the disaster, but who were unable to render any a?sistance at the time, say that the whole occupied about three minutes. They immediately pet to work to help tho people struggling in the water. They say tnat some or tne men on ine Daphne jumped overboard and others were thrown overboard, and that a quantity of loose fittings fell from the dock and crushed many unfortunates struggling in the water. A number of swimmers were visible directly after the ship capsized, but many of them were afterward seen to sink. Six men were peon clinging together. Four endeavored to climb upon the steamer as she was sinking, but were forced to desist by a rush of steam from a port hole. Some climbed upon the keel juf-t before the ship was submerged. According to statements of witnesses and survivors of the disaster the vessel left the Flip loo rapidly, causing her stern, which ente.'cd first, to sink deenly in the water. She was then caught by the strong current of the river, by which, as well as by her top we'ght, she was caused to heel over so far that water entered her porta. The total numbar of lives lost was 63tima ted at 150. There were many boys on the steamer at the time of the disaster. Fiftytwo bodies were recovered on the day after the accident. A diver leported that the bodies in the hold ware so closely packed that he was unable to move them. RECEIPTS AND EXPENDITURES. Wliat Wan Received and Paid Out by the I'hU.J Timmt Vi.mif Vonr The following figures show the total customs, internal revenue and miscellaneous receipts of the government during the fisca vear closed June 30,1883, with a comparison of the receipts from the same sources in the fiscal year ended June 30, If 8 J: 1882. 1883. Customs $220,410,730 $213,534,240 Internal revenue. 1445,497,695 144.3C0.361 Miscellaneous.... 86,616,925 40,453,929 Aggregate $403,525,250 $308,338,520 Tho expeaditures of the government for the two years wero as follows: 1882. 1883. Ordinary $125,557,018 $140,428,361 Interest 71,077,207 59,064,692 Pensions 61,345,191 66,075,031 Total $257,981,439 $265,668 037 THE TRADE DOLLAR. Its Statiin in Given by a Mint Official. A Washington dispatch says : Mr. R. E. Preston, the acting director of tin mint, said to-day that the trade dollar had bean coined by tho government simply for the convenience of the owners of silver bullion. The standard silver dollar is coined from bullion purchased by the government on i's own account. It is not coined for depositors, and differs in this respect from the trade dollar. " The truth is," said Mr. Preston, "the government has endeavored to keep the trade dollar in its lawful and proper channel as a medium of oxcham?e in oommercial dealincs with Chini. From ignorance of the law relative to this coin parties have taken them in ordinary business transactions, when they could have been lawfully refused. There is no remedy unless Congress takes up the matter and legislates upon it. My idea would be to calf all the coins in and redeem them." THE NATIONAL GAME. St. Loots is agitating for a league nine for next season. The agitators want the privilege of playing on Sundays and to charge twenty-live cents admission. The effect of abolishing the foul-bound cntch in league games has been to largely increase a batsman's chances for hits and also to increase the average of runs to a game. Umpire Butleb, of the American assooiat:on, has resigned and M. Welsh has been appointed in his place. Butler has been made manager of the Allegheny club in place of Pratt, who was removed. ? " * 1 ' na,l un j MAf koan Up to tne cv;a xhjbuju m>u uu> wvv"Chicagoed" this season. Cleveland had undergone the process four times, Chicago thrde, New York, Philadelphia and Providence twice and Detroit and Buffalo onee. Hutchinson, the Yale college pitcher of 1882, has sitrned to pitch for the Springfield (IH.) team for the remainder of the season. Smith, the change catcher of the Yale nine of 1832, has been engaged by the Boaton club. 1 he college ployers seem to be going largely into professional ball playing. Tiie first game played between the New York and Philadelphia leigue nines, played cn the grounds of the former, required ten innings before it could be decided. The New York nine was victorious by the following Fcore: Philadelphia 01002 3 000 0?6 I New York 200002020 1?7 Earned runs?Philadelphia, 2; NewYork, 5. league club becobd. __?a nfUm loarmn nhnrnmon rneonjci.'i rou;mvi iuw ^? fillip games played np to [the 30th ia aa follows: I LI J I d!f I CLUB. Jj> -??? f| = 0 sj'-ti S'S'S- 2 2 I el! f iSiiji! 11 jj sj p i5 j? I C5 O Boston I?1 31 2' 81 5| 3! 7| 0; 23 41 Buffalo ! 2-1 2 3, 21 3! 4 1 17 39 Chicago ! 4 1 -j 1 4! 4 6 2 22 40 Cleveland 4 4 1 - 4 3 4 5 25 41 Detroit 2 1 3 1-1 3: 5 2 1743 S'ew York 4 2 3 2! 4 ? 1 1 17 40 Philadelphia 0 3 12: 2\ 0?1 941 Providence lj Cj 5 2 4l Cj 6 ? 30 43 Games loit |l7 20 17,!14 25^22 33 12:? ? AMERICAN ASSOCIATION BEOQBD. 1 ' ' I . . I I | I I II ! a III M O . '.?s I i-5 c I i? ?"* s's |!|:!'Jli I? l|!i!|!^ II = 5 a .9to ?' ?'*J ?jjg ,<< a o u W ;2,cq e|? Allegheny *'-! 0 4' 3 2, 2! 2 1~14 38 \thletic | 5 ? fi 3 5 11 5 2 26 38 Bultimore | 2 1? 12 i; 2. 0 9 89 Cincinnati j 3j 4 2?5 2 2 4; 22 38 Columbus ...j 5 1 2 Ij?j 2 0 2 1339 Eclipse 2 2| li 2 4-, 4, 3! 23 37 Metropolitan....! 4i li 4 2| 3 2? 1: 17 39 St. Louis j 2| 2j C 2j 4: 3 fi?j 25J38 Games lost.. ..'23 11!29 14j2o 132113 ? VERY OLD PEOPLE "Aunt Nancy'' Holloway,of Surry county k'a., died recently, aged 10) years. Henry Gayman, of Dauphin county, Penn., ins just died, nged ninety-nine years. Mifs Dollio Tooley, of Antwerp, Jefferson :ounty, N. Y., has just celebrated her ICOth jirthday. Joseph Cirrell, who died lately at Westninster, Penn., was ninety-one years of ago. He was a soldier in 1812. A man and his wife at Downsville. Mo., jach of whom is o. er ninety years of age, lo their own housework without he'p. Until within threo days of his death, Frnn- I cia 1u3aw, of Fisher's Landing, N. Y., was j working in the field. He was 104 years old. Aunt Dinah, who died at tlie unonaaga i reservation last month, wa* born in 1784, uud was a full-blooded Onondaga Indian. After a mairied life of sixty-seven years, Amelia Sanford, of Milledgeville, Ga., died i Greatly at the nge of eighty-eight. Her husbisndis ninety-two. Aaron Stktknhon, of Green Hill, Ind., was ninety-six years of ape, and lived alone. As he was preparing his dinner recently his half-witted brother, who is seventy-five years Did, stole in upon him and with an ax severed his head from his body. Mrs. Cynthia Francis, of Madison, Wis. j ha? just celebrated her 100th birthday. Sho ' was born in Hancock, Mass., and was married in 177i). She converses freely and intelligently of public events which occurred . ninety years ago. She still does housework, I and can walk a mile with ease. She has jns' i been compelled to wear spectacles. Almost every ievident of Fulton county. N. Y., knew Mrs. Catherine De Long, who was in her 111th year when she died. She lived for 106 years in Oswego. She was the moth?r of twenty-seven children, twenty-six of whom are still living. Her grandchildren and great-gr&adchildrtn number mora than 160. ADDITIONAL KilYS. Aiarok incrcnse in tha death list and much suffering has bean cause 1 by the intense-' boat in No.v York. Many fatal cases of sunstroke were reported. Timothy ti rn, a trusted clerk in a Boston broker's office, has confessed to misappropriating $17,000, lost in stock speculation. Distubbancei amon? siriking miners grew so serious fit Kly, Vt., that Governor Barstow called oat four cornp mies of militia and notified the mining company that they must r>ay their men at once. The three hundred miners employed by tho Vermont ^ Copper Mining company had received no pay for months: hence the trouble. The New Hampshire legislature lias passed . W a bill prohibiting the sale of toy pistols. A FMAi.Lrox epidemic has been prevailing at Lancaster, Penn., the number of cases J. reported up to the (3th bc-ing fifty-two and deaths twelve. The New York Herald publ shes a long list of the many disaslersof all kinds which occurred during the first six months of this year. From this list it appoars that without counting the loss of life in isolated cases, 2,805 persons lost their lives during the past pix months, the largest number of d?athsin ' ;a| my single disaster being 398 by the sinking of the ocean steamer Cimbria, January 19; ?,'i the second largest being 270 deaths at acirens fire in Berditscheff, Russian Poland, ' y January 15, and the third largest 250 deaths --jrfg by the tornado which visited Mississippi, Georgia and South Carolina, April 27. Mas. Amos Bidvell, a farmer's wife, twenty-two years old, shot and killed Alexnn#1or P/irrv. fift.vvea.rs old. flt Otsflan T,nl(? Mich. Perry had insulted Mrs. Bidwell an<i /M attempted to enter her house during her husband's absence. Justifiable homicide ' m was the jury's verdict Twenty-six buildings were destroyed by fire at Evansville, Minn.; loss, about $150,- '*^1 A heavy iron d.'rr'ek nearly 100 feet high suddenly fell upon a crowd of men at a quarry at Lemont, 111., instantly killing three men and seriously if not fatally injuring six other ^ men ar d a young lady. -'; Nelson Howabd, a colored rnilrcad hand, who had killed a w hite bridge ta'k'er during a drunken altercation, was takon from jail at Mound City, 111., by thirty masked men and lynched. As the result of a conference with Secretary - .-J Teller and the commissioner of Indian affairs Chief Moses has agreed to sur- ;||j render his entire reservation in Washing- .^2| ton Territory, and to settle, witk his peo- jS p'.e, on the Colville reservation adjoining it. By this arrangement 2,000,000 acres of land . will be thrown open for settlement. Captain Healy, commander of the revenne 7'/?? steamer Corwin, writing from Sitka, Alaska, to the treasury department, reports that the Territory at largt) was uovoi uiulc <^uiob u? j peaceable than at present. Heavt floods have prevailedin the district -J!! of Snrat, India, causing great damage to proiertyand some lo3s of life. Five htuxdred houses havo fallen at Snrat; many yfllages have been destroyed by the floods and ' 'W. thousand:-* of people are homeless. The first cas2 of cremation has just occnr- .AgJ ,ed in Roma, the body burned being that of -||m Senator 0 priani. Five hundred members of a tribe of natives attacked a detachment of British troops which, with a political agent, had been sent ^ to chaslise a refractory village in Assam, India. The natives were repulsed with a loss of fifty killed. A BUmiVG EYECI T^OX.. TcMiile Scones Enacted at a Hanging fa . -t>35 Tcxna. ~ *3 A dispatch from El Pas5, Tex., Fays: Jo- 0? seph Brewster, the soldier who assaulted Mrs. Davis at Fort Davis one year ago, was hanged at Ysleta yesterday afternoon. He , -j made no confossicn, but delivered a speech of twenty minulcs' duration, daring which he took two big drinks of whisky, his religious adviser taking tin bottle away from him once. The knot was tied in IB a bungling manner, and after the trap fell Brewster writhed and twitched terribly. Then the rope slipped and he was hauled up ' from the trap and upon the platform. The rope was replac3d and the man was then rehanged. After being cut down the body wa> placed in a redwood coffin and given in chargj of the attending Catholic priest. Over eight hundrel persons were present /' > and thirty vehicles were scattered about. 1 he best of order prevailed. John Cone, a negro, was alfo hanged on the same day at Houston, Texas, for assault- ; ing and dangerously injuring Mrs. Effie Scott. RECENT SXAKE STORIES. Archie Reed, of Villanow, Ga., killed two. rattlesnakes, one of which was trying to 6wallow a rabbit. Hundreds of rattlesnakes have been killed in blasting away the rocks for the railroad extension beyond Redding, Cal. Mrs. S. A. Robinson, of Newnan.^Ga., killed a coach-whip snake in her front door yard that was four and one-half feet in . ; length. It was chasing a rat. Pennsylvania appears to be full of black snakes this season. Samuel Fry, a farmer, near Reamstown, killed several in one day, int) lur^wsi uoiuy u uo icc? iuugi A snake six feet in length attacked a Boon- , ton (N. J.) boy and chased him a hundred yards. Then the boy mustered up courage, and turning about killed the snake. A black snake entered the housfe of F. M. Van Dyke, of West Kalamo, Mich , to get a canary that hung in a cage in the open window. The snake was killed when it was within six inches of the cage. * A blacksnake, as thick as a man's arm, and six feet in length, reared itself in the road in front of George Yeiser's horse as he wns entering Lititz, Penn. Ihe horae stopped and stood upon its hind legs in fear. | Mr. Yeiser killed the snake. As Henry Strunz was climbing the mountain just below Compounce. Conn., he reached up to grasp the edge of a ledge and ho put his hand upon a rattlesnake. He succeeded in killing tho reptile. It was V< three feat eight inches long. .' 7 he attention of a farm hand on Belle Roache's ranch, near Redwood City, was attracted by the strange ncise of a bird ing the ether horse or the man. In a thunderstorm at Onondaga, N. Y,, a man had both eyelids torn away l>y lighting. A physician is now transferring bits of cuticle from the patient's arms to make him new eyelii's. The threa li t'o daughters of Jacob Morowitz, of Winona. Minn., were struck by lightning while walking under an umbrelh in the street. Two were killed, and the other was slightly paralyzed. Three mules stood in a row in the barn of .Toe Johnon. near Binghamton, N. Y. A stroke of lightning killed both of the outer mules i nd left the middle one un njured. Tl e barn w.s badly splintered. While using a telfphone during a sto~m, Will'am Walter, of Williamstown. N. Y., was strucc by lightning. The electricity ran from the side of his nock down through his booti^t^thefloorHojwillrecover. circling in the air. He saw it suddenly fall, and, running to the place, found it in the ;;aws of a rattlesnake, which he killed. The ? snake had sixteen rattles and was six feet in length. The two little daughters of Ezra Lewis, of Shelby, Ky., discovered a rattlesnake on the lawn, and ran for something to throw at it., Finding a piece of a brokon stove lid, oge of them laughingly threw it at the reptile, and singularly enough struck it on the back of the head, killing it- It was a trifle over sis feet in length. As Michael McCarthy and Heni^ Wood wero cutting brush in tho mountains near Broidway, N. J., they were attacked by a large black?nake. They killed it. It was eight feet seven inches long. They then started a lire in a ho'.e in the rocks, and snakes of various kinds and sizes darted out, nn:l soon eii?ht%'-six were killod. . _ ' W. D. Livicg ton, of Sylvania, Ga., says that as ho w, s cro&i'ig the Little < >geec';ee ( reek l e saw about two do sen snakes all twisted ai:d plai'ed together, there being, rattlesnakes, black snatej, moccasins, garter suikis. rat snakes, coach whips, adder', t'o. her sn ikes, ring snakes, and pilot makes, in the twist, and all seemingly in gocd Immor. The ten-year-old s*n of G. B. Hnnnay, of North AntisviUe, N. Y., went into the hayloft to gather eggs, and found alargespotteJ milk snake upon a hen's nest, coiled so as to completely cover it. The snake chased him cut of the loft and then went back to (ho nest. It was finally killed. Two other fnakes of the same kind were found in tho field close by. Hugh Levy, a painter cf Memphis, while fishing stooped over to seize a crawfish he saw undf r a log, when a snake fastened its fangs in the third and fourth tinkers of hi* .'eft hand. He suckcd tho poison from the wjnnd, and then drank a quart of whisky, wliii h. h3 sijb, had not the least effect upon him, hound a s'ring tightly about his wrist, a-.d started for home. During the evoning ho drank two gallons of whisky. He finally rt covered. FRBAKS OF LIGHTMKG. As John Vogle, of Northampton. Macs., was standing by his team in his barn lightlinrsos without injur