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ABBEVILLE PRESS AND BANNER] 1 . . /^^M BY HUGH WILSON, ABBEVILLE, S. C? WEDNESDAY. AUGUST 1, 1889. NO. 7. VOLUME XXVIII. ?i^ * *m^m?mmmmmmm THE STORM. Crash! j The thunder cam#! Tl.o lightning's flame Lit up the murky night. The stars thnt shone so bright A. monument since, an J the fair moon, The black clouds cover aow, and soon The tall tree* writhe and lend their gia:it j forms, Towirg obeisance to the King of Storms, j Who now rite? en the winds with dark portentions frown, : And following swift behind, the rain comes ! dnn ing down. The bi;; drois lierc.-ly beat against tho , p.-uiO, Thru fa'nt'y rcas , ;:Xil then surge np ag.Vn, The ro'ling thunder grows !e<s loud. And swift athwart the darkest clon.l, A wire .in^ ri!'t appears. And from tho hea . 'nlv si heres. The stnr poo:l }j"cams. And pn!o moc 11 beam*, Flash 1 "KATIE'S WORK.' HOW A O I It L SAVED A MILL. " Hurrali 1" The door flew open with a bang as "** Phil Pavson burst into the little r<ym | wliere his mother and his sister Katie | sat sewing, his face (lushed, his eyes , shining, j ml his rap swinging high over his head. ' Why, Phil "Give three ch-ers, mother. Dance like a dervish, Kate! I'm going to bo i night watchman in Mr. Medway s mill, at fifteen dollars a month. Oh, mother, j ain't you glad?' ' Very giad indeed," answered Mrs. Payson. and for a moment she looked pleased enough to satisfy Phil's highest expectations. Then her face; clouded. " Hut your school, Phil dear ; I can't! have you leave that." "I don't mean to, mother,'' said Phil, earnestly. ? It's all fixed just fight. I'll .-tudy nights?it will help Vteep me awake, you know?and Miss ; Cary is going to hear me recite every afternoon at 5 o'clo k. She offered to, I mother. Oh. mother, do say you're glad, rt ally!"' Mrs. Payson pulled her tall boy j down and kissed him tenderly on both glowing cheeks. As for Katie, she was literally on tiptoe with delight, j She was a little brown gypsy, with! dark eyes full of fire and fun. "Good for Miss Cary," she tried, twirLng lightly around on her toes. 44 Isn't the just splendid ?" "She is very kind," said Mrs. Fay- j son, smiling; " and I am glad, Phil,' more glad than I can tell you. How ! r came -Mr. Med way to give you the place? It is a very responsible posi- I tion, you know." 44 Yes," paid Phil, and he blushed j and hung his head. "Squire Deems recommended me, mother. Mr. Med-1 way said he told him I was a very \ trustworthy boy. I'm sorry I said j I such hard things about him." " I'm sure he deserved it," Katie ? flashed forth, " for advising mamma to j 'put us out'?that is just what he said?when?papa?went away, and offering to find good homes for u-<.! The idea! What would a home be 1 without mamma? and what would she do without us, I'd like to know ?" " What, indeed!" echoed her mother, j 441 can't tell; Katie. But Squire Deems !, thought he was acting for the best.! He has been very kind all through our trouble, and I am sure it was his influ ence that procured Phil this situation." , \ 44 But it's mean for Phil to do it all,-' I, argued Katie. "I wish I could do!, something." Phil wrinkled his nose at his sister , and laughe l. . " I'm the man o' this house," said he. . "You and mother are ladies, Katydid, j I don't mean you shall do much more sewing for people." , " My fifteen-year-old man," said his mother, laughing, too; but there were tears gathering in her eyes. And Katie dimpled and then relaxed into swift gravity. " I know what I can do, Phil," she 1 said, going close to her brother. " I can hold up your hands the way that somebody In the I5ible did. I can see the mill from my window, and every . night?every night, Phil, before I go to sleep, I shall ask f od to take care of my brother; and every time I'm awake I shall look down at you, so you needn't feel lones< me." "Something of the guardian angel style?" laughed Phil, trying to joke away the moisture he felt cre< p ng into his eyes. "You're a trump, Katie;1 but of course that's all nonsense?tl:e looking out, you know." Katie wasn't sure of that, however. ! and she meant to do just as she said if it M ere. She would feel as if she wi somehow helping Phil, and that would \ be a comfort. Their little dwelling, though on the sa ne side of the river > as the mill, was above it, and around a wide bend; and so the long low structure under the riv? r b ink was in plain view from the window of Katie's little chamber. She kept her word faithfully; and once or ^ ^.,4. iwice evt:rv infill sue wuuiu < uub of her warm nest t > the window, and look down across tl:e bend to the mill.! Often, not always, she could Phi's light shining out of the engine room, and sometimes she watched it go from window to window as Phil went his hourly rounds over the mill. As for Phil, I a:n sure that, though he would hardly have acknowledged it, the lonely . place where his nights were passed i seemed far less lonely to him when he remembered that Katie might at any 1 minute be looking from her window ; and thinking of him. So a month p issed by, and Phil performed his duties to Mr. Me I way's entire satisfaction. There were some, k indeed, who consid"red him much too young for his post, and did not hesitate to say so. 15ut Mr. Medway always answered with a smile: " Well, Squire Deems reommende i him, and guaranteed I wouldn't be sorry I hired him. I've tested him all tim.s o'night; he's always wideawake and about his business. He does the work of a man, and I get him ten dol-1 lars on a month's hire less.'' Whith was very true, and Mr. Medway ought to have blushed for it, i though, to be sure, Phil was mere than satisfied with what he r.-ceived. He kept well up with his classes, too, he was so ambitious. Miss Gary de-; clared she w;is proud of him to Katie, and Katie's heart swelled with joy to hear it. One day(arlyin March something happened. Mrs. Payson was taken l Riiridpnlv jin 1 violently ill. Katie, t'T-; rified beyond measure, could do notli- j ing but rouse Phil from his sleep; an 1 when the boy, startled by his sis'er's 1 white, scared face, had brought the doctor, he felt as though he could never i sleep again. There wa* no great cause for alarm, however. "It's aba I attack or cramp," I)r. Da'ey said, with a reassuring smile in Katie's d:reeti< n. " You're doing just right. Apply hot cloths, and keep | them hot. The spasms will ease away , in a little timr." It was not until pearly nightfall, ; nevertheless, that Mrs. Payson became perfectly free from pain and quite herself again. Then Phil, j l light-hearled enough, and whist' ling a merry air, took up his j lunch-ba-ktt and his books and trudged | ' off to his work. Ka' ie, troubled, followed him to the door. " I'd get some one else to-night, j Phil," she said. "You have always I been used to sleeping all day. "What If?" Put Phil laughed, and opened his dark eyes to their utmost. ' I'm as wide awake as an owl," said he. 441J couldn't go fc > sle-p if I wanted to. See!" j strained expression on Phil's face. But she couldn't liclp feeling a littl;unxious as she went slowly back into the house. Supprse Phil should go t > sleep, and Mr. M^dwaV have a notion to visit him, as he often did, Katie knew, what a sail thing that would be j fur them all, and how dreadfully Phil would feel! " It would just break his heart, I know,'' said she to herself. "But of course he won't.'' Katie's prayer for her brother's welfare was much longer that night thah usUal; andj once in bed, 9h? tossed and tumbled, only to fall at last into an uneasy slumber. More than once before the little clock on the sittingtooni mantel stru k 10 she sprang to the window and ga ed down across the wide white r.ver luhd, only to see Phil's lamp beaming cheerily in the engine-room, llow Phil would laugh at her if he knew, she thought, feeling really out of patience with herself; " i won't look out again," she said. 'It's nonsense, just as Phil said. I will not look cut again to-night." But she <ii l?once more. The lamp in the engine-room still burned steadily. It woal! have been a relief to see the light Hashing from window to window as she had seen it bo often, Katie thought. She could feel sure then that all was right. Now? AVas that the lamp? It dickered strangely, one instant it died into the ghost cf a light, and the next it flared brilliantly. Katie rubbed her eyes in wondering terror. It was no illusion; the light shining from the engine-room window was not clear steady lamp-light. It was red?like lire! Katie was already hurrying on her clothes. There was a dreadful lump in her throat, and her breath came in short, quick gasps. Sh > did not pause for her boots w.th their endless rows ( f buttons; she pulled on her stockings and rushed swiltly out of her room and downstairs, catching a shawl from the hall stand as she ran. l.'ehind the kit' hen stove hung a pair of Phil's I thick woolen stockings, and these she j pulled on over her own. There was i no que.-tu n in her mind as to the i course sl:<i would take. It was more ! than half a mile by the road to the mill; acios> the river bend it was less than half that distance. The late rains had swelled the river, and overflowed its banks, but the bridge was still there, even though many of the country people had begun to think it unsafe. Katie did not doubt for a moment but that it would hold her light weight, and over it she fbw. She thought that it creaked and swayed under her, and she fancied herself omitting uiruugu once ur tuiuc, uuu i on she sped, her large dark eyes strained j, and fixed on that I'aring red light. It j seemed hours to her before she reached 1 the mill. She had been there before | j to take Phil his lunch once when be j had forgotten it, and she knew the ' way perfectly well. In at the dark 1 yawning door she darted, and up two i or three narrow steps. There was smoke in the air?surely. i She opened the door of the engine room, and closed it hastily behind her, ! j with a quick, shrill crv of disiray. "Phil! Oh, Phil!" I For the room was full of smoke, j; Thiough it the lamp-light showed pale : ] i^ad dim. Little tongues of flame were j running over the floor before the great' ( furnace, lapping up a shaving here! \ and there, and crawling, snake-like, I < up the wall very near the window. | And Phil sat by the rough table, his ' fa':e buried in" his arms, asleep?so sound asleep and so s-t'ipefud by the 3moke that Katie's first cry failed to j i arouse him. : t She screamed with all her might, and j i shook him then. j | " Phil! dfar Phil!" she cried. " Oh j -fire!" i It all happened in a verv little time. 1 That one last word shrieked in Phil's < i ar awoke htm effectually. He understood the situation, and sprang to his < f et. 1 " Don't whistle !" cried Katie, catch- ! ing his arm. Don't rouse the town, < Phil. We cm put it out." j( They fell tj work then with a will. ;1 After all, it >vas not much of a battle. 1 There were jails and an abundance of j1 water at hand, and the fire was not,: really under headway. The flames, j * though widespread, had not begun to 1 burn througl the solid floor, which was ' soon thoroughly flooded. In a few min-!1 i;t3S it -was all over, Jind Phil had ! opened the vindow. He turned to ! K;itie then, who stood pale and trem- \' bling, sis she lad not tremble 1 before. I 1 "Oh, Katie!" he cried, chokingly,.1 "how did you?" And Katie t)ld?or tried to tell him;' ' but long befo: .> she had finished she | was crying hysterically around his neck. Oh. Katie .lariing, don't. Don't, Katie." < The dour opened at that moment, i Phil knew who.stoxl there before he 1 heard Mr. Mcdray's voic 11 " Heyday ! .What's all this fuss 1 about ?" | "There has.neen a fire, sir," an-; < swered Phil, palily, though with a ! shake in his ,oice. " Hut it is out < now." !1 Mr. Med way stepped into the room ' < without anotht word, and taking up < the lamp proc eded to examine the j* wall, the Jloor ind the furnace itself j1 carefuby. j5 "Gihbs must bok after this a little ] in the morning," he said; and he < placed the lamp on the bench again, ? while Katie an Phil stood by with < sinking hearts. Suddenly he looked at Phil's sister. " Vhy, what are you here for?" he iisB-d, not unkindly. | Ah, how easy it would have been ' not to tell him? b say that Phil was \ 1 lonesome aim waited her for company; ' to say anything bat the dreadful truth. | \ But Katie's hon&t little nature ab horred a falsehood I i "I?I?he wa??I?" she stam-M inured, with painfjl pauses," I?" j ] Hut right li re Phil came bravely i to the rescue. I was asleep,iMr. Mcdway," he i said, " and if it ha n't Leen for Katie 1' your mill?" j 1 "Asleep !" repe;> ed Mr. Med way, his ' > face stern an 1 colli It was an awful loment, aid Katie '! ended it by sprir'. ing forward and , '< grasping Mr. Mtdvy.y's hand. "Oh, if you pleasshe cried, " may j I tell you how he lA.ppened to do it ? j1 Mamii a was ill, and lie could not sleep 1 at all yesterday. ItKvas not his fault s'r?inde?d it wastiot. Poor Phil! 11 Oh, sir?" . j' Mr. Medway was lot at all a hard- j1 hearted man, thouglj perhaps a little : too intent on his owl particular intt-r- ; ests. Ilis voice waj hu^ky when l:e spoke to Katie. ( " How did you liippen to see the fire?" T !i .. why?I?I?" . ' She looks out of her window a dozen times a night tcsee that I'm all 1 ricrht." s;:id Phil, wity brusque earn-] estne.ss ; " and she prd's for me beforeT < she g< es to sleep. 'Jhat's how, Mr. ,1 Medwa*. (Mi, Katie, ttle sister!" : Will! well!" sai- Mr. Med way, | who seemed to be ha ng a great deal ; of trouble with his /iroat and eyes, j " Well! well!'' And e was silent for j what seemed to Katie nd Phil a long, long time. r ' I suppose I needn' -needn't come here again," Phil musvred courage to say pn sently. ' Not come again ?" ^hoetl Mr. Med way. " Why not, be-? Of course J you'll come again, evey night." He j put his hand on Katie's head. " And I'm going to pay you man's wages 1 after this, remember. V boy with a ; si ter like yours ought o be encour-1 aged. I'm pretty sure ^ou won't let this hnp en again." And he slammed th door behind him. Oh, Phiir ? "Oh* Katie !" They went home in tne hiorhln# early; and Mrs; Parson heard the stbr)nf the night's adventure, " Twenty-five dbllars a month, mother!" cried Phil. " Think of tluit' And it's all Katie's work, evefry bit." lint Mrs. Payson, thinking too of Katie's work, shuddered and drew them close, and kissed them both.?HarP'-r's Young Peopl". Ihe Last Battle of the War, A vety interesting bit of personal and general history, especially to the residents of New Mexico and the liio Grande vjillev, is the fact that Colonel David Jiransoiij now a resident or mis place! is the man who fought the last battle and gave the last order to ceise firing, at the close of the war, and did it at the mouth of New Mexico's great rivet, the Kio Grande. The battle was fought on May 12 and 13, 1SG5. Colonel Branson was sent out from the general camp on Brrtzos Island with a mixed command of about 300 men from the Second Texas cavalry, j dismounted,First Missouri,colored, and j the Thirty-fourth Indiana, to capture i a herd of cattle for the use of the troops. "While out he wa^ attacked by a force of about GOO Texas cavalry with artillery, under General Slaughter and General Ford. During the fight a war-ship arrived off the harbor with the news of the surrender of Kirby Smith, the last of the Confederate forces in the field, and consequently the end of the war. General Barrett, the commander of the garrison, ordered Colonel Branson to cease firing, which being impossible on account of the pressure of a superior force and the well-known enmity on their part toward the colored troops and the Southern white I'nion troops, the engagemi nt was continued, though the Unionists retired, fighting, toward the island. General Barrett came to the rescue on the 13th with a small reinforcement, and the fight back to the island occupied all that day. Xear sunset, as General Barrett was crossing the ferry with the main body, the attack was renewed from the rear guard, in command <>f Captain Cottin. Colonel Branson had just gone back to the guard, and the enemy were repulsed ; the last battle of the war was over. Then it was that Colonel .Branson, who had been informed of the good tidings brought by the war-ship in the ofling, and fully comprehended its importance and the historical significance of that day's work, with himself as a modest though conspicuous' figure in the closing sc n<i of the great tragedy,gave the order to "cease firing," with probably de> per feeling than he ever before gave a military order, and i gratefully sheathed the sword that had tor five years been the symbol of command through the bloodiest war of the ages, never aga'n, he hopes, to draw it in deadly contlict with his fellow-man. fuming to Captain Coffin, he sententiously and with an animation he can ru ver feel again, remarked, " That winds up the war," when tne captain, replied with equal emphasis, " Yes, md I th ink God we are alive."' The' impressive scene closed as the sun was sink ng behind the sand-hills on 'he western bank of the Kio Grande ind the (iulf of Mexir-o, and was witlessed by interested crowds of men perched in the rigging of eighty men>f-war and other shipping anchored in ;he oiling and flying the Hags of nearly ivery nation on earth.?Albuquerque [N.M.) Journal. Rice and Beans. Half the p >ople of the world live ilmost exclusively upon rice. It conains eighty-eight per cent, of nutrinent, while roast beef contains but .wenty-six. There are countries where the almost exclusive diet of the masses is jeans; these contain eighty-seven per ;ent. of nutriment. The dense and cheapest food for the lense populations of Asiatic countries, therefore, is rice; and since, from the general poverty of the .people, varieties A food are out of the question, bounteous nature has given them more freely ;hat kind which is among the most niitpih'niK nl' nil fnrul?; With the rest >f the world, rice is more of a side-dish, ind is served most frequently in the [orm of pudding. We venture to aflirm that when the :ost, the percentage of nutriment and the wholesonuness of beans are considered, there is not in the world a single article of food that can compare with them. There is no other vegetable food that answers so well as a sul statute for meats. While they have so much to recommend them in other respects, they have no rival in economy. A quart of btans, costing ten cents, will furnish a family of live persons with food for a day. Much of the value of beans as food Jepends on the manner of cooking, it would be dillicult to cook them too much. They should be lirst boiled until soft, and then put into a baking lish and bakei until they are brown. A. little salt pork or butter, but not ilwim taef-tt r*PA!?QV JUUUgw I.U Ujitnc 1111111 tiwuu fj.v/.-j, . should be put in the baking pan, and cooked with them. If beans are not thoroughly c ooked they are diflicult of ligestion; still there is not one hotel jr restaurant in a thousand that serves them sutliciently cooked ; and, as a rule, it is not well to call for them in iu h places; but at home, when prepared under the supervision of a good . ook, they make a dish that is wholesome and palatable.?Hall's Journal >f Health. The Hondholders. The "Washington Sun lay Herald ias the following interesting gossip as ;o the holders of American securities: fhis year the largest single bondholder :h?i treasury department knows is Mr. Vanderbilt, who will receive the interest on $:I7,000.000. A year or two ago he had $50.0('0,000, but he has disposed of $13,000,000 for some purpose. The next largest owner is Mrs. A. 1\ Stewart, who has about $30,000,000. As some of hers are coupon bonds the Eimount of her holding cannot exactly be told. Ten years ago Mr. A. T. Stewart had $10,000,000 in bonds, the most of them being sixes. Mr. (iould has $13,000,000 in registered bonds iind a large number of coupon bonds, which he keeps to use as collaterals in Wall street when he needs large sums of money. A California millionaire, Mr. Flood, is the next largest holder, lie has $15,000,000. Then there is an estate in Boston and three or four persons in New York who have each $10,OUO.OOO. and a lady in New York?un married, too?h;is $S,('00,000. The estate of Moses Taylor, in New York, has $5,000,003. ancl D. O. Mills, Whitelaw Heid's fath r-in-Iaw, $4,000,000. The house of the Rothschilds holds nearly one-quarter of America's whole bonded deM, ;is. including all the hankers of that name, they have $400,IX;0,000. Baron Leopold and Sir Nathan Meyer He Rothschild each own ?30,0!)0,000, and the head of the Yi[ nna house has $25,000,000 in his own right. Lady Hannah I)e Rothschild, who married the Karl of Roseberry a year or two ago. brought to her husband ?20,000,000 in American four and one-halfs. Summer Primmer. "Why do those men Run so fast this Hot weather? Is anybody Dying ? .No. How Red their faces are. They will Burst a Blood-vessel. See, they are almost Fainting, but they will try to Run. Poor fellows ! Ilavo they just Escaped from Prison? Xo, my child. They have summer cottages out of town, and are Merely trying to catch a train.?Philadelphia News. There are now more than 700 m:les of underground telegraph lines in France, and 1,900 more miles are being laid. SCIENTIFIC ANI) INDUSTRIAL. In Italy and Japan water from hot springs is used extensively in gardens lor the production of early crops. It has been ol served that "right-1 handedness" extends far down in the j scale of creation. Parrots take hold | of their food in their right font by pre- j ference, and Air. ('rookes is inclined to j believe that insects like wasps, beetles and spiders use the right ant, rior foot ! intist frequently. , Surprise has often been expressed at ( the fact that no new spe'ies 01' aiiiin;il j seems to have appeared since the gla- ! cial age. Mr. Donald Mackintosh, writing in the Geological Magazine, advances in explanation of this the new theory, which appears to bei grow- j ing, that only a few thousand years | nau eiapsca sinne the giaciai Decis wei e laid down. Several Belgian firms are now making what is known as satin paper. There is little doubt that the process consists in coating ordinary paper with a glue solution and then shaking colored ambestos over the in as. The j ambestos take all colors readily. This is thought to ho especially vali able for wall papers, as the silk imitation has a very rich effect. A law has just gone into operation in Russia that regulates t he employment of minors in factories by providing that children under twelve must not be hired under any pretense, and that children between the ages of twelve and fifteen must not work more than eight hours a day, and it further provides that these children must attend school at least three hours a day. It has been estimated that at least 5,000 meteoric stones reach the earth annually. The largest ever- found is In the Royal academy of Stockholm, and weighs twenty-five tons. The museum at Copenhagen contains one of ien tons; the British jnuseum, <ne of Inore than live tons: the museum at St. Ppt.prshnror one of l.tlSO nounds: Yale oollege, one of 1,635 p< unds; and the Smithsonian institution, one of 1,400 pounds. A Swedish Servant. We found her at an employment >flice, just arrived from Sweden. As I noticed her sunny hair and blue eyes and strong, free step, I thought of what some one said to Jenny Lind, that she ought to have been called the Swedish Lioness, rather than the Swedish Nightingale, from the freedom and strength of her bearing. Xot able ?o speak a word of English, she sat i .ooking at me with such confident blue eyes that no one could feel otherwise than kindly toward her, when the world seemed to her such a fair, honest place. She held out a little book, printed in Swedish and English, by which we were to converse, together. I looked It over, and saw that it contained directions, given to servants in their own country, by which they were to conduct themselves. Among other things, they were told to "step softly, move lightly, and desire nothing." After I came to know mo:e of her intensely social natiu e, I often wonden d how she survived the iirst few weeks, when we never .attempted anything more in the way of conversation tlian i "cup," "plate," etc. At length, in an j outburst of th speration, she exclaimed, | " I want to talk!" So did we, but the dilliculty was how to begin. She solved it herself by asking if we knew George Washington and Benjamin rr.mklin. We, in return, asked if she knew Linn;ius and Swedenborg. t<> both of which rjuesiions she replied in the affirmative, and also recognize:!, with delight, a i picture of Luther. After this con- | Ver.-ation became easy; she was so viry I apt and eager. She was soon able to give a little account of her voy.ige; telling us how she. with a hundred other girls, came as steerage pa sengers, on agreat steamer; and how, in leaving, they sing together the fath rland song; and how the passengers 0:1 the upper deck all clapped their hands, as well they might if the other voiced were like hers. They hail great luncheon baskets; but she lost hers overboard, in a storm, and also her hat. "Now 1 inust every day say to some one,' Please give me a little bread.'" In the storm she thought, " By-and-bye I dead." It is wonderful, the courage of these girls, starting alone for an unknown world Some of her friends in Sweden, she said, thought that t > come to America t.hev would have to travel throusrh the J _ ^ e.vtli. 35nt .she huil been taught otherwise at school; taught also to knit, embroider, crochet anil make baskets. The dress she hail on she hail nut only fitted for herself, but had made the woolen cloth for it, and had woven her plaid shawl. .She wore g >nerally, on her heal, a little black s-hawl. One day she said to me. touching it, " Every women in Swe.len all t!ie same."?Atlantic Monthly ClilneseToWm. Notwithstanding tl.elr higli-2own names, the general run of Chine e towns are miserable places, with narrow, tortuous street* destitute of paving or loot path, but worn into ruts and holes, which overturn any ionveyance, and subjects the pe icstrian to the c instant risk of slipping down and breaking his bones; piles of refuse are to be met at every turn, tilling the air with their seething and ;;b uuinable odor. In dry weather one is blinded by thu dust, in the rainy season the mud renders these noisome alleys almost impassable. In n > other country do travelers tind such a lack of de cent accommodation. The Chine e rest-houses are pritty well all alike, and somewhat on the plan < f the < 11fashioned coaching inns as far as go a- | eral arrangement is concerned, but in no other respect. Aroun 1 a large courtyard are constructed a series of sheds and low-storied Imil lings t'.ie former for the accommodation of beasts, the latter of men. Tim apartments for the use of human beings consists generally of two rooms, ?>n? rather larger than the < tlier, l? th with lloors of brick or earth. In each r. oin is a brick stove, orkang, about six an 1 a half feet by two anil a half, running across the entire end of each 100m. On this kang, covered generally, but n t always, with a mat of bamboo, rushes, or camel's hair, one sleeps. In winter it can be heated through a lire-hole in the middle of the room, a method of M anning up which certainly produ<es headache and may cans:; sutt< cation. A small square table, ten inches high, is invariab'y found upon the stove in the larger room, off which the Chinaman takes his food, or upon which, the meal finished, are placed his opium pipeand paraphernalia thereto belonging. The furniture of the apartment consists of a square table an:l one ? r tw.ichairs or j benches. No rugs, bedclothes or uten- | sils of any kiml for eating, etc., art! | supplied, but small wood' n tu'?s 1' r j washing are br? light in when rc piired, : and warm water is generally pr? cur- | able. For any other convenience the ; open courtyard must be usul. There ! are no windows, but lattice frames, j covered with a yellowish, semi-trans- ; lucent paper, run the lengt!i of all tlio j apartments. Drinking water is gen- j erally drawn frum a well in the yard, j and should be strictly avoided. The! rooms are always dirty, the dust and j filth which blow in from the v;>rd being : rarely removed. A practical joker has been sent to jail for a year, by a Swiss criminal court for merely having in his possession a document inscribed as follows : "Fool's Bank, doing business in Nowhere, promises to pay on present a tion a hunlred francs. Dirc.-tor, Prince Carnival. Note: Whoever forges bank-notes will be s- nt to a j watering-place for fifteen years/' THE HAD BOY GETS A FROG. jbn) j?UTS THE LITTEE JUMFEE Xtf HIS PA'S BEri. Tlic Old <?'ent!cmnn Tlilnk.s If* In Struck Willi J'nrnljHlH nnt( Yclli Six Kind* of Murder. " I "nc!e Ezra says pa used to play tricks on everybody,'' remarked the bad boy to the grocery ina:i. " I may be niran, but I never played jokes on blind people, a; pa did when he was a t(oy. Uficle Ezra says on< e them was n party of fotir blind vocalists; all girls, gave an entertainment at the tmyn wnere pa live i, an<i iney siayeu at nits hotel where pa tended bar. Another thing, I never sold rum, either, as p;i did; Well, before the blind vocalists wont to bed, pa caught a lot of frogs and put tliera in the bte'ds where the girls were to sleep, and when the poor blind girls got into brd the frogs hopped all over them, and the way they got out was a caution. Jt is bad (hough to have frogs hopping all over girls that can see, but fdr girls that are deprived of their sight, and don't know what anythingis, except by the feeling of it, it looks to me like a pretty tough joke. I guess pa is sorry now f<.r what he did, 'cause when Uncle Ezra told the frog story, I brought home a frog and put it in pa's bed. Pa has b?er. afraid of paralysis for y. ars, and when his leg or anything gets asleep, he thinks that is the end of him. Before bedtime I turned the conversation onto paralysis, and told about a man about pa's age having it on the west side, and pa was nervous, ;ind soon after he retired I guess the frog wanted to get acquainted with pa, 'cause pa yelled six kinds of murder, and we went into his room. You know how cold a l'rog is. Well, you'd a dide to see pa. He laid still and said his end had come, and Uncle Ezra asked him if it was the end with a hetd, or the feet, and pa told him paralysis had marked him for a victim, and he could feel that his left leg was becoming dead. He said he could feel the cold, clammy hand of death walking up him, and he wanted ma to put a bottle of hot water to his feet. Ma got the bottle of hot water and put it to pa's feet, and the cork came out and paid said he was dead sure enough, now, be cause he was hot in the extremities, and that a cold wave was going up his leg. Ma asked him where the cold wave was, and he told her, and she thought she would rub it, but she began to yell the same kind of murder pa did, and she said a snake had gone up her sleeve. Then 1 thought it was time to stop the circus, and i reached up ma's lace sleeve and caught the frog by the leg and pulled it out, and told pa I guessed he had taken my frog to bed with him, and I showed it to him, and then he said I did it, and a boy that would do such a thing would go to perdition as sure as preachin', and I asked him if he thought a man who put frogs in the beds with blind girls, when he was a boy, would get to heaven, and then he told me to lite out, and I lit. 1 guess pa will feel better when Uncle Ezra goes away, cause he thinks Uncle Ezra talks too much about old times. Well, here comes our baby wagon, and I guess pa ha-; done penance long enough, and I will go and wheel the kid awhile. Say, you call pa in, after I take the baby wagon, and tell him you don't know how he would get along without such a nice boy as me, and you can charge it in our nc-xt month's bill.'?Peck's Hun. SELECT SIFTINGS. In some parts of Siberia a wife costs eight dogs. To short-sighted persons the moon appears to have a blue fringe. Chemical analysis shows that the human brain is eighty per cent, water. A Spanish grandee has an entire bedroom suite of furniture made of glass. A London physician says that the Kn lish sparrow is subject to the smallpox. A watch made entirely of iron and in perfect running order was exhibited in a Wocestcrshire fair recently. Airs. Mary Austin, of "Washington, (la., died r.-cently. She had been the mother of forty-four children, including six sets of triplets. Color blindness is more common among (Quakers than among persons of any other religious faith, which is supposed to be be. ause of their indifference to color. The white perch of the Ohio are noted for the musical sounds they make. The sound is much like tha produced by a silk thread placed in a window where the wind blows across it. An island auout uiree acres m rAt nt. r cently discovered oft' the coast of California, is almost paved 'with the eggs o:- sea fowl, and the discoverers think that it is the greatest bird's nest in the world. ()nee a year the little Hindoo girls dtvtroy nil their dolls by throwing them into a large tank fdled with water. This is done so they will have ' no other gods before their eyes during the Festival of JJasaerali." The great sandstone anvil of the inoiind builders is in possession of the cincinnatis oeiety of Natural History. It was fo ind some miles above Ironton, Mo, by Dr. J I. II. Hill, a successful collector of American relics. This anvil is composed of very sharp grit, contains over 1 (JO depressions, weighs about "00 pounds, and measuris eight feet 11 in in* lie< at its greatest circumference. In Catholic and Protestant countries, the year 1'JOO will not be a leap-year they ;:li having adopted the <iregorian cal nda'. In countries where the Creek clnir li is established (Russia aad (iree.-ej the old .Juli in calendar still holds, and those c mntries will count it a 1 -ap-yrar. After February, l; 00, therefore, tliedifference between tli two calendars, which is now twelve days, will btcome thirteen days, and ...:n until OHIO t.hft vp.ir Will It'lllfllll OU IIUU1 J Lot)) being ;i leap-year in both the Julian aid Gregorian calendars. The rule for leap year may be thus stated according to the (iregorian calendar, which di iers l'rom the Julian only in a j-p. cial treatment of the century year.: All years whoseindex-fhunber (lSb-'l is the index-number of the present year) is divisible by four are leapyears, unless (1) their index-number is divisible by one hundred (century years). In that case they are not leapyears, unless (2) their index-number is divisible by four hundred, in which case they are h-ajnyears. Thus, 1700, ISOO, 1%0 and 2100are not leap-years, while 1G00,11000 and 2400 are. lluying a Volcano. The Mexican Fiwinner, published in the city of Mexico, says: A foreign company is reported to have bought the \olcano of Popocatepetl from its o.?-rw.r rioneral Sanchez Ochoa, with the inti-ntion of excavating a tunnel ari'l establishing a grand factory of sulphuric acid at the foot of the majestic mountain. With the great attraction of tourists to this city which will follow the establishment of railway communication with the States the ascent of Mount Popocatepetl will be a popular feature for many, and some time it may prove a profitable undertaking to build an inclined railway to the summit of the mountain, like that running up Mount Washington, and to establish fine hotels amid the eternal snows of the peak, which rises over two miles above the level of this city and nearly three and a half miles above the sea-level. In prosperity work is a duty; in misfortune it is a refuge. TOM THUMB. ftwtii of fhti Wor((i-t-"nm?il tfif#W*?SheIcli 6rni? Cnfecf. Charles Heywood Stra'.tori, bettef known ^ \^orfd its General Tom Thumb, is dead, having su&iumbecf td ti atrnk? of apop'exy at his homo in Middleboro', Mass. It is said that, io those who knew him, his death was not a surprise. His irregular habits nn:l occasional excesses have seriously alarmed his friends, and for many days he has been quite ill. During the temporary absence of his wife he has entertained quite a number of jovial fellows, who have always bfeen feady to partake of his hospitality. His wido#; thfi aliiiost Equally fimous and popular Lavfuia Warren, whciii he married inl8fit, and who has appeared on the stage with him constantly since their marriage, was in Cincinnati, b n was fummoned home by telegraph. T>m Thumb w.us borr in Bridgeport Conn., oti Januai^' 4. nnd w.u consennent'y for y-five yi /Irs yd. Ilf t'ilmo tc t ho n .tice rf P. T. Bain un ii Nove nber, 1*42, and the shovman describes him as I e'ng under two feet high, weighing less U.ori a! vli A I n< nnil J hull llf.i f !111V f IMKBtl : fl blond?) with ruddy ch eks and m rthful eyes. Barnum introdved Stratton to the pu' lie On DjCemUfK. 1812.hj the nam ji hat aferwavd preceded hjin around the work'? Ge i-ral Tom 'Mini.!1; lie paid the Ji.tie midg.-t ?:ia wee!:, with expenses fi,r himself ai d his mother, for fo; r weeks. 'J h n he was ic engaged for two vo mont' s;t$7 a week, I ? ion,' b.:;'oro this term e pired Mr. 13a num paid liim 5 i week. In January, Tom '1 hi:in!>. i;ow getting a week nritl expen c--? fe Mil with Knrnuni tor Euirpo :tl the 'iOik li r.*? a sailing ship. The lilt e Ge er il proved a cbcid id hi', in England, F.nn>o and Co.\nany, and fie staemeiit, ne er nfter.van.1 otnif.ei from the bhowbil s, tint ha was ex! i! ito I ' before the crowned hea ls," was lite:al y true. In the a itumn Tom Thumb r< t :r:ied with his manager, w: o was then the pro; rie'.or of the u usfiitn that bore I i< i:a ne, and early the iK-xt ypnr ihe mi'.e leturned again to Euiope. VV.icn, thre? mrn'.ht laer, he a /ain camo b \ek o Ara lie ( l is value aa a emirs ly hi d grown great r thai le'o.v. Mr. Barnum t ok I im to Havana and made a (.-rent t'o.il of m ney tin re. / f:er t hat the dwarf was put in charge t.f ag nts of Mr. Ba n- m. who had no desire t) sj end his life in travel. in 18/57 Barnum took Tom Thumb and Cordolia Howard, a child who was famous as i ittlo Eva in " Uncle Tom's Cabin," to Europe, and iu 18 !2 h'; engaged Lavinia and Minnie Warren, two tiny sisters, to the former of whom Tom '1 httmb lost his heart al Bridgeport. Ihe fact that Tom Thumb and Lavinia Warren were to be married re doubled the interest in them, and Baraurr otfired them $[.'>,000 to postpone the wed ding a month. This was indignantly refused. They were married in Grace c hurch, and held a reception afterward in tho Metropolitan hotel. This was in 1S(>2. t >f la e year; the name of Tom Thumb ocmii.f j/1 mttoi'ln nf niniOim sliflw bills. whefl he and his wife escape J with their live9, bul lo9t s( mo money and jewelry, in the burning of the Nowhall hotre at Milwaukee. t General Tom Thumb long ago grew in eight, b2came stout, and cea?el to be the smallest mortal on exhibition. He wore Innstaches and abend. Thrae generation! of Americans ?n' before him. He was fond of yachting, live] comfort ib!y and saved oine money. THE NATIONAL GlME. In the Buffalo league nine there are six 'eft-handed batsmen, A i>hofkshoxat, club will be started in New Orleans this winter. Dan O'Leaky'h Indianapolis u'.ub have won thiriy-nine of the forty-one games played by them this seas in. Tiie American association umpires will be paid $100 per month if the consent of the eight clubs can be obtained. Carl G. P. Gbadeneb, a composer and theorist of considerable reputation, died at Hamburg recently at the age of seventy-one. Some of the best games of baseball on record have been played this season?ten, eleven, twelve and thirteen innings being of more than usual occurience. A picked nine from the lawyers of Wash ington met a similar nine representing the lawyers of Baltimore the other day, and played a game of baseball. After much eloquent talk and some subsidiary batting the Washingtonians came out victors. Thebe are now thirty-one professional clubs?eight in the league, eight in the American association, seven in the InterState association and eight in the Northwestern league. This requires about 350 skilled players, and the competition to secure the best has gradually run up the salaiie; until it is not an uncommon thing for a first-class player to receive more than $3,0J0 for eight months' work. An ordinary salary is from $1,2C0 to ?2,500 for a season. The Union club, of Chicago, 111., has been materially strengthened by Manager McKee, and Becureu two noteworthy victories ovo.* the Saginaw team, at present leading for the champions-hip of the Northwestern league. The first gtme resulted in favor of Chicago's new professional nine by a score of 6 to 5. The follow ng day was very cold, aud Manager McKee otfereJ to pay the visitors their guaranty and postp jne the contest aa he wished to save his men: but the Saginaws felt son? over their defeat on the previous day, and insisted on play ing the game. The Un.ons acquiescsd, put on both their uniforms. one over th i other, aud. after a stubl orn fight of eleven innings won by 4 to 3. Albfady arrangements arei making for next season. A rumor mac hub cuuneu u Croat sensat'oa in Philadelphia is that Harry Wright lias been engaged and will bring the pick of the Providenco players with him; also that Clevelnnd is to retire from the league, and the entire nine is to go to St. Lo ;is, which will have a league club, and Ferguson is spoken of as the manager. Cleveland is to have an American association nine, and enter the league. Providence will be dropped by tho league and not represented in any association. Washington, Brooklyn and Chicago are almost certain of being admiltel to the American association, while the Merritts, of Camden, are determined that they shall not bo slightei as thev were this season. LEAGUE CLUB BEOOBD. The official record of the league championship games play* d up to the 14th is as follows: Tj IT 1*0 s . ? I . . 3 i; fl & ^oiLiri e* fl 3 -t ~ i2 "3 ^ t\ z O i: es i? o ** -?r5. o o ? "a ,.? > i S !-5 5 i 95 o a O ? J: , ii s a '? Si o O.Q 'A ^ O O Boston ? 3. 2 3: 7 310 2 "-Ofll Buffalo ! 2?! 2 3 3 7 4 1 2-'4S Chicago 4 4 ? 2 4 4 (J f? 2.) fl) Cleveland 4 4 4 ? G 3 <J f? 3ii f>0 Detroit | 4 2 3 1? 3 f,; 2' L0"?1 New York ! "> 4 ;$ 2 4? 4 2 24 f>2 OH 1 220 ?12 10 "?t Providence ' 2 f> < - ?r? 8 0? .'Tif)4 Games Jo>t.... 21 2! -1 I?31 2-N1 19 AMEKICAN ASSOCIATION nKOORD. . J .y.i ! si Club. g . u s s "S .2 i! 1 S ? 2 s j ?; 2 = J t?=.= sSf ? S 2 ? ~z o ar>H S3 . Is S s .S;? u j = S ] <. < a Oj'j w /! x oo Allegheny 2 4 ?| 2 2 2 lj ! > 18 Athletic 8- 5 3 & 3 f> 41 ?3 43 Baltimore i 2i 1?12 4 1 3 0: 13 49 Cincinnati I 3 4| si? f> r> 3 4 29 47. Columbus I f> 1 3 1 ?; 3 2 3j 18;"0 Eclipse | ;? 3 <> 3' 4? 4 3: 28 47 Metropolitan..4 17 4, (! 2? lj 2449 St. Louis | n 3: 0 2 7 3 (5? 32 48 Games lost.... 3215W 18j32 192/i 1C. ? A TERRIFIC EXPLOSION'. Fight Hdler* Wrecked nt a Pennsylvania Furi:ac:'? A terrible boiler explosion occurred at the Kutztown (Penu.) furnace, resulting in the death of one man and severely if not fatally injuring several others. The furnace is owned by the Philadelphia and Heading Coal and Iron company, but is operated by William H. Kaufman & Co. The boilers eight in number, are walled togethor. Only one exploded, the forco of which tore out all tho others. The iron stack, sixty-five feet in height, was thrown by the force of tho explosion into the casting houso, which was destroyed. Tho hour for casting at the furnace was abou: 4:30 o'clock in the morning. The employes were on the outside of the building taking a rest preparatory to the cast, otherwise the loss of life would have been lari:e. The force of tho explosion was terrific, large pieces of tho boiler being hurled in different directions, 'i he furnace is badly wrecked, and will require a longtimo to Lo again put in operation. Franklin Waltman, ago twenty one, was lying on a plank between the cast-house and the tioiler-house. He was buried by the falling debris. He called loudly for help, but wnen taken out ho was dead. His father, Solomon Waltman, wis slightly injurod about the leg?. Henry Waltman. age forty, wrs taken from under the ruins, ImvinR bean fatally injured. Morris Good was badly scalded by escaping steam from the boiler;his injuries are severe. E.Marstelar,the engineer, was sitting on a chair in the engine-house when the explosion occurred. Ho was more or less injured, but not fatally. Other employes rec#iyed injuries, but none of them serious. The fnmace, which was built about six years ago, was considered one of the best in that section, yielding about 120 tons of iron a week. The forca of the explosion shook the earth and aroused the people for miles aronnd. The damage to the furnaod will amount to manv thousands of dollars. NEWS OF THE WEEK. I Eastern and Middle States. DfcNls Keabhet, the Snn Francisco sand ! lotordtd", tfntf refused permiss on to syeak ! at a meeting of the Central Labor Union in I N6w York, and thereupon h?!d fl meeting ' 6njfifs own account. i PENNHTLTANf\'? tobdcOO crop is being attacked and seriously1 isjured fey the army worm. Thk Massachusetts house of delegate.1? I passed a fcfl fncreasiug the compensation I or tno members irom Jf&w ?o f/w, A boileb iu the Glena Falls (N. ?;) paper | mill exploded with such force as to corri pletely wreck the building and injure lefi person', two of tham with fatal result. Fiamfes from the ruins set fire toother buildings, causing a Jo?s of about $100,000. Undeb the name of the North American Saengerbund, the German s^c/utitJs of the country have been holding, in Buffalo, their twenty-third annual saengerfest. A oim<d with four legs, four arms and one head with two f#oes was born dead the other ! day in New York. In the Massachusetts seuate the house bill to increarc the compensation of mem| bers of the legislature to $700 was defeated | by a vote of 28 to 4. A FBEioirr train ran over a cow near j Sliamokin, Penn., and was badly wrecked, twelve cars being thrown from the track. William Thomas was killed, and James Huffman, a brakeman, was seriously injured. The first arrest under the new anti-Chinese law has been made by a United States mar shal in Boston, where Captain Douglas, of the English bark Erne, was tason into custody on the charge of having smuggled into the city a Chinese carpenter who had been on board his vessel. Pbemdest Soto, of Honduras, and suite arrived in New York a few days since. A nossK standing in front of a dwelling in Syracuse, N. Y., was stung by a be?. The horse ran into a yard and upset several bee hives. The bees swarmed upon him, and stung him so that he died in a few hours. Employing ciparmakers in New York locked out about 1U,U<JU ot tneir employes on account of diffe:ences which arose between rival organizations of the workmen. One organization insisted that a number of workmen belonging to (he other organization should bo discharged, and the employers thereupon closed fifteen shops. Edwabd Hani,an, of Toronto, easily de feated Wallace Ross, of St. John, N. B., in the four-mile boat race at Ogdensburg, N. Y. The race was for $2,000, and Hanlan rowed the four miles in 27 minutes, f>7>3 seconds, leaviug his competitor far behind and making tho best time on lecord. Workmen while digging a pit in Maulins, A'. Y.f unearthed the bones of a mastodon. The nnnimal must have been fouiteen feet high, a third larger than Jumbo. J(.8?ph Staeumaek, a Philadelphia saloonKeeper. shot and killed his wife Caroline and then killed him?elf. Money matters a e .apposed to have been the cause of the ilouble tragedy. Mr-. Stae^maer was the widow of a florist of Newark, N. J. Staeg naer,who hid been her husband's hired man, harried her se- e al mont' 8 ago. , Flames broke out in Harbeck'a etcr s, on the water front of Brooklyn, and before they could be subd el property wjrth half a inillinn fln'lnra Ml (Ipstrflvpd. Jit leftBt tffO flea lost their lives, and about eleven fireien vera in.'tired by the fall of a fhed. I Three vessels loaded with combustible onr^o.*s werj among the propsrty burned. One of the most formidable s rikes e.er .nru ?urnt d in this country was that ordered Dyiho B o'lierhcodof Telegraph rs in the t'ni:ed Sta'es r.nd Canadi. The organiialion demanded shorter hoirs of work, the a:ne pay (o both sexes for equal work, and tin increase of fifteen per cent, in w.iges. A committee of te!egr tpherg had made this defnr.nd upon the resident of the Western Union telegraph company in New York, with?utsn?cess. Thereupon at noon a'> jut400opeiators n the \Ye;!ern Un on comp n ut a si.nal g wc by 01 e of thoir numbe , left (heir positions rnd ma-c' el iut > the st-?af. Thj empbjes in othir otrc.-s throughout the Intel Stitei inl Canada also quit work. Tie number lepoited on strike was 7.000 ir.on and 1,CO? women. A notice v. a' 1 os'ed in mauy of tie off oes tha1: mea ages would o ily be rcc.'ived sub'cct to delay. 1 ho strike {xter.ded to other telegraph companion beside tl e Western Un'on. Sontli and West. Jb'inis has almost oompletely wiped out the village of Cokato, Minn. Twenty-one buildings, incli.d ng four churches, were destroyed, three laborers were burne 1 to death* I and ma: y persons were injured. Great suf j fering prevailed among the inhabitants who I lost their all. A malignant type of measles has broken | out in a Catholic industrial school for boys at Baltimore, Md. Ten deaths occurred in three days. Dukino a heavy storm nt Benton, Mo., n mill was blown into the Grand river and the Presbyterian -church was destroyed. Iu Northern Kansas and Southern Nebraska the storm also did great damage to build- ! ings, orchards and crops. Chkditors of McGeoch, Everingham <fc Co., the Chicago lard speculators who failed recently for $(>00,000, have compromised for fifty per cent., and the firm will probably soon resume business. A DESTBUCTivE windstorm parsed over Pekin, III., doing much damage to property. The Bemis house was blown down, but the occupants, with one exception, escaped uninjured. Smith's plow works and Hodges'a header works wore i artly destroyed. The depot and roundhouse of the Peoria, Pekin nnd Jacksonville railroad were demolished and a number of cars blown from the track. Two negroes fought a duel near Helena, j Ark., one using a ritle and the other a musket, the distance being twenty paces. Both j received wounds which resulted in death. The second animal national mining and industrial exposition has been opeueJ at j Denver, Col. A large procession jmsseu i through the streets oil the opening diiy to the exposition grounds, wh#re the following | exercises were held: Prayer by Bishop Simj>- j eon, of Philadelphia: addresses of welcome on behalf of the State and city by Governor Grant and Mayor Boutt; oration by Senator Warner Miller, of New York, and benediction by the Ryv. C. H. Marshall. Governor Sherman and L. G. Hume, Bepublican and Democratic candidate i for governor of Iowa, havo arranged a joint discussion, beginning at Independence and continuing over the State, c!o?ing in Des j Moines theni^ht before election. Gkorcje G. Bbesneb, city marshal of I Wellington, Ohio, was shot and killed while j pursuing two men whom he had discovered j in the act of committing a burglary. Bihhoi? Kntdkon, a Momon pillar of | Wintah county, Ulali, has be>n arrested for j placing dynamite under the bed in which } two of his wives were lying and blowing I them up. The women were seriously in- j jured nnd the furniture of th9 room was ! torn to piece!. Prom Washington. I There nronow no vacancies in any of t) e J executive departments of the government. I | The civil service rules have gone into effecr, | and o ich of the departments his been re- j I <;uired 10 report to tl e commis! sion the number of vacancies I existing in its respective force. , | Ilereaftor whon vacancies occur he fact will | i be reported to the commission, and they will j | 6end a list of six names to the department ; ! where the vacancy exists, with the grade at j which each person passed the examination, i | hnd from these six tho appointment will be ! made. | I In Juno there arrived from abroad in the ( Unile.l States 84,7(10 passengers, of whom I | 75,034 were emigrants. The total number of ; ) emigrants arrived from the principal foreign j : countries in Juno, 1882, was 84,780. Th3 i number of emigrants arrived during tho j j fiscal jear was .r>!K),114, being 159.878 iess i than tho emigration during tho preroding ! | Cecal year and 70,317 loss than daring the year ended June 30, 1881. Captain Keeih, of the ordnanca service, ; for whoso trial a court-marliil has betn ordered to convene at San Antonio, Texa% is ; charged with having expondsd more than j the amount appropriated for the purpose in j building a military storehouso at San An- j tonio. The dale of the President's departure from Wellington on his trip to the Yellow- J stone Park has not yet teen fixed. Bat it BeemB to be Mttled thai_ he will leavo vr*jh-' ingixM early in August, and will attend the opening of thff Lctiisville exposition before going further West Hie arrangements for the trip are to be under tho direction of L'eutenant-General Sheridan. Secretary Lincoln will accompany the President, and it is Baid that Senator Wade Hampton will be one of the party. The manufacture of bangles in imitation of gold afld silver coins is to be suppressed at onco by the government. Caiut Justice WaIte, of the United States stlpreme court, was thrown from his horse while gointf from Livingstone, Montana, to Yellowstone, with General Sherman's party. He received painful but not serious iojrries, which prevented his proceeding with the party according to programme. PoBTMASTEEfl hflvo been notified by department circular of the reduction of letter rootage on the first of October to two cents, and are directed to prepare therefor. Foreign News. A student ha* been phot dead at the University of Wnrzbnrg, Germany, daring a dnel witn a German-American, who fled. Fun corpses of Zulu men, women and children were seen at White River, on ths bolder of Zululand. They had been massacred in their hiding-place by Ceiewayo's follower*. Two thojsand weavers at Ashton-underLyne, England, struck work. Fivk children who had taken refuge in a culvert in Barnsley, England, during a rain, storm, were drowned. The refusal of the French chamber ot deputies tj pardon the rioters, including Louise Miche1, recently sentenced to prison> caused an outbreak in Roubaux, France. A large crowd assembled aud many flags were draped with crape for Louise Miche'. The police commissary was struck on the head rnd fatally injured. The crowd was charged by mounted gendarmerie and six men were arrested. As unsuccessful attempt has been made to burn the ho Jse of Carey, the Dublin informer. A steamer which has arrived at Lisbon from the Congo river, Africa, reports that Henry M. Stanley is in good health, but that five Belgian membew of his party have died. The British rifle team includes nine men of the twelve *7ho shot at Creid moor, Long Island, lan September. At Montreal an excursion steamer having on board over four thousand persons ran upon a reef in the St. Lawrence river, and * xi__ fflnf nf TontAr SUDsequenuy cumt iu d^ui All on board were safely landed. Hattie Adkell and Bessie Morley, two young girls', were drowned while bathing in the lake at Port Stanley, Ont. The Fhock came with double force upon Mr. Arkell whose brother, Robert, died suddenly the same day in London. Joineb, of the American rifle team, won the cup and ?TX) presented specially for the eam's competition. Hinman, of the American team, won the St. Leger prize. M. Waddinoton has been appointed French ambassador to England in place of M. Tissot, who has resigned on account of ill health. A mob of Mexicans entered the office of Dr. Campbell, L'nited States consul at Monterey, attacked the Rev. Mr. Shaw, acting consul, and nearly beat him to death. They then sacked tho place, destroying all the consulate papers. Sixty-one perrons succumbed to the cholera in Cairo, Fgypt, in one day. The terrible disease is also raging in many \ Egyptian villages. General Sir Evelyn J Wood, the commander of the forces in Egypt, who had embarked at Sue* for Eng1 nd, has returned by order of the khedive in consequence of the appearance of cholera ir Caiio. Adauqhteb of D. J. Murphy, of San Fran. ci?co, was mar.ied the other day in London toSir Michael Wolse'.ey, an English baronet, in presence of Mr. Lowell, Unite! fc'tites mit:is'er, and a large as emblage. At the Wimbledon rifle range the Irish team won t!i9 Elcho shield in the annuaj competition for thit tropliy, their score being 1,COO against 1,589 for the Scotch teim and 1,564 for the English team. A band of Apaches attacked a Mexican settlement in the district of Montezuma nnd killed five person?. A detachment of Mesi enn soldiers sept against the Indi ins wa lepulsed with a los of seven men. Foua farmers have been anested near Newry, Ireland, for belting nearly to death a man who took a farm from which the previous tenant had been evictcd. Kino Alfonso, of Spain, will start for Germany September 1. Mr. Sennig, the Oer:nan-Air.erican student who recently killed a fellow-student in a d el near Wurzburg, Germany, has beer arresteJ in Switzerland. He is a resident of Ph'ladelphia. PROMINENT PEOPLE. Spubge< n.?Mr. Spurgeon talks more like r.n American tli:;n any of the groat English preachers, so Dr. K. L. Stanton says. Habie?Bret Harte's father married a beautiful, but uneducated, factory girl, and he educate! her himself after marriage. Gould.?Jay Gould's latent hobby is for the study of antiquities, and it it is said he intends lo make his own investigations at j Cyrus. abthur.?President Arthur will be accomI anied in his trip to the Yellowstone region by General Sheridan. The trip will occupy five or six weeks. Shebidan.?Gener.i! Sheridan's mother eighty-three years of age, still lives in the same house in Perry, Somerset county, Ohio, in which he was born. Tildes.?Samuel J. Tilden has loaned for, exhibition in the art department of the I Louisville exposition his portrait, painted by | Huntington, anil the picture called "A ! Hopeless Case." | Cbook.?General Crook, the Indian lighter, was a much stared at visitor in Washington. He is about six feet tall, weighs about 175 pounus, and Ills hair, somewhat sandy, is I tinged with gray. Maxey.?The head of a mammoth Texas steer, magnificently mounted and ornamented, has been presented by Richard Kiug, a Texas "cattle king," to United States Senator Maxey. It is four feet be tween the liorns. t Walkeb.?Dr. Mary Walker his received i:otice from the commissioner of pensions that her services are not required. She is i absent on leave, but has written to the commissioner th-it she will appear at her desk notwithstanding her dismissal. Holmes.?Oliver Wendell Holmes attributes his years and good health to an early morning walk or horseback ride before hreakfa-t. He was naturally of a delicate constitution, and when he married Dr. Johnson's daughter the father-in-law said to him: ' If you have tie necessary physique for horseback riding, do it; if not, take an early walk each day." He scrupulously followed the advice. Mackat.?Mr. Mackay, the ' bonanza j king," lias, according to the London World, ' purchased a famous Rembrandt pot trait | from the Marquis of Laosdowne for ' 000?'" a larg* figure," the World adds: bu: ! Mr. Mackay can doublets afford it, since I that paper gravely asse ts that his incomo j averages $!',000,000 a ye.ir, " and there does not seem any prospect of the mines fiom I which he derives his wealth becoming ex- | hausted." Some of the l>e*t known dramatic profes ; siouals will seek the shades of Saratoga for j at least a portion 01 me neaceu ierm ims summer. Among theni may be mentioned the following: Miss Emma Juch, of Her Majesty's Opera cmpany; Miss Clara Louise Kellogg, Signor Brignoli.Mr. William j Crane, of Robson <fc Crnne, John McCul- I lough, Signor Tagliapietra, Miss Rosalbe Beecher and others. Jones.?Sena'or Jones, of Florida, has j been having a great time in Ireland. When j he reached Balbriggan, his native place, he j found nearly the entire population turned ; out to receive him, and although he has few j re'.ati\es at I rasent living there, and the principal object of his trip was to visit the | family gravis in Halrothery churchyard, he found the streets arched with evergrear.s n j his honor, the buildings festooned with rib- 1 bons and (lowers and the populate in holi- I dayat'ire. l o was ro:e'ved at fie station ' by a lirgo do'rga ion a :d was irose ited l with a:i addres by the town commissioners, j AX VNUIJKII TRAGEDY. A Young Lady Killed While Playing at Lawn TouhIh?Her Slayer Dions His lirains 1 Out. Tho picturesque town of Bedford, Eng- < land, is in the crente.it excitement over a j thrilling lawn tenuis trage'.ly. A party were I playing lawn tennis r.e ir the Ship inn, at St. Cutbbert'a, situated in the center of the town. I Among the players were Mr. De Vere, a young army officer, and Miss McKay, an er- j ceedingly pretty young lady, twenty years of ace. Suddenly, and without npparrnt provocation, De Vere pulled out a revolver and shot Miss McKay dead on tl.o spot. ; Before ho coul J bo s ized lie put the re- j vol/er to his ear and b'ew out his own | brain''. Greit excitement prevailed, both victims being well known in scciaty, and in bcth oases tho only surviving parents are widow?. It is believed that jealousy was the motive oi *h? crimo? ADDITIONAL NEWS. The carious suit of Edward Banks against 0. F. Okenberg, to recover $'2GQ f jr the loss of some blood, has bee 1 d.'cided in New ? York. The dsfendant, a clerk for the West., em Union telegraph company, was found in his room at a hotel on February 17, partially asphyxiated by escaping gas. Th_ee phy.-icians, who had been uuabb to restore him to consciousness, after a consnltation agraed that t'.e only hope of saving the man's lif> was by the process of transfasion of blco^. ;; Banks, who is a colored servant in the hotel, ofered his eervicrs. Eight ounces of blood were taken from his right arm, and Okenberg's life wr.s saved. Banks t3stified that Okenberg promised to pay him $2f,0 for h'"8/ <j service'. The judge's decision was in favor of B:inks for $197.00, and $10 costs. The Manchester steel and iron company, |e of Pittsburg, Penn., ha? male an ussignment, its liabilities being about $1,(00,C0D. Denis Kearney, the San Francisco panel lot orator, presented his views on tbe labor question before a large audience in th* Cooper Institute, New York. E. W. Holbbook & Co., a large New York wholesale dry goods house, have failed Set $7.f0,0(D, with assets of half that sum. Pbefabations are being made for tha commencement of civil suits against bla? route contractor to recover moneys drawn from the treasury on fraudulent representations for post;il service nndsr expediting orders. Mb. Kimball, the general superintendent of the life-saving service, has left Washington for a general tour of inspection pf tha stations on the Northern lakes, and also to select sites for new stalions authorized by ~ ; v/uijglco?? _ Nine persons were killed and two injtfre1 by an explosion in a St. Petersburg powder mill. > The English and French cabinets aro re? ported to have arrived at an amicable under standing concerning t he Tamatave (Mada gascar) trouble. CHOLERA AT CAI?0. Deplorable State ol Aflaln In Egypt. Cholera is committing terrible ravages in Caiio and other Egyptian towns. The Europeans have in greater part fled. Tae London Standard's correspondent at Cairos'jrJ that un'e?s the English authorities piompily take the direction of affairs ti e checking of the spread of cholera w 11 be hopeless. Even Ihs simplest sanitary arrangements ore neglected. The fnneral system is obnoxious. 1h; corp. es, incased in very slight toffln.% are carried through the crowded t^setfl on men's shoulder.-. The clothes cf persons dying in ttoe ho pitals are often stripped oi and taken for weaiing purposes by relative. While a man stricken with chdera was cn his wk' it a cait to the hospital the cif.ver stopped opposite a cafe and gave the invalid a drink from the water bottle used by customers of the place. A few minutes afterward the sick man died opposite the largest cafe in Cairo. The -?> only precaution taken in this place was to / sprinkle a little chloride of lime on the j corpse. The car: then pursued its way. . ?.* There were l-(0 deaths from cholera at Cuiro on the day of this occurrence, and 128 at other places. The European rowers are increasing tho quarantine regulations against persons, , goods and vessels from E^ypt, owing to tho ' '? prevalence of jcholera there. i rrM THREE HEX HANGED. - ^ ? - _ - a., V 'iiS Executions on the Same Day >n ubuii m?? , ; ana, Kentucky and Tenneuec. George McMillan was hanged at Clinton, Ohio, for the marder of his wife. He begged hi* friends to pray for him, his murdered wife and his children. He had au affjcting interview with his fonr little children about au honr before the hanging. His last words were to the effect that he wonld die innocent, sacrificed by his father and a woman. David Tin berlake (colored) was hanged at Lexington, Ky., for criminally assaulting Maggie Lawson, a colored girl, age nine. He made a nominal confession. Robert Wilson (colored), who shot and killed Frank B. Russell in Memphis, Tenn., .y~on September 20, 1882, was hanged in the county jail. Only three fnecdj of the condemned man, six repo t ji s, the sheriff and a posse, as provided by the law,' were present. Wilson was about twenty years old. ~BEATEN BY A MEXICAN MOB. " An Acting American Conmil Attacked SJM Heaten?The American Conciliate la Dfoa. terey Invaded and Sacked. A dispatch to the Galveston News froa Laredo says: " Dr. Campbell, the Amer- '^g ican consul at Monterey, Mexico, arrived is '? Laredo, on the Rio Grande, on the 15tl " inst., leaving the consulate in charge ol the Rev. Mr. Shaw. Yesterdiy dispatches were received addressed officially to Dr Campbell, informing him that on Mon day night the American consul's office wai entered by a mob of Mexicans, and that Mr. onaw was aitacKeu ana oeaien ueariy ic death. The fnrnitare and papers belonging to the consul were destroyed. An employe of the Mexican National railway wha arrived last night says that Mr. Shaw, aftei being beaten senseless,revived sulficiently U crawl to one of the public hotels and giveaa account of the en.rage, bat in a few moments he a?ain became iisans-.b'e, and a) last reports was still unconscious, " The information has created mnch ex oitement at Laredo. Citizoas deplore a possible rapture betweqp the two government^ but consider the insult so bold that th< United States must resent it." Montery is a city of about 26.010 inhabitants, and is the capital of the state oj Nuevo Leon. It is on a small river, Santi Catalina, at the head of a large valley. Tb? city is about 210 miles from the Rio Grandf and about 100 miles from the City of Mexico MUSICAL AND DRAMATIC. New York city will have five newtheatree next season. Philadelphia will have a musio festival ! on a big scale next year. Joe Jeffebson is to commence retiring from the stage next season. A new play by Anna Dickinson and one by Bret Harte have been submitted to tha Madison Square (New York) management. Annie Pixley expects to make her greatest" success with her new play, which she is now studying at her summer home in Port Stanley. The Rev. W. H. H. Murray ("Adirondack") has signed a contract with a New York bureau to deliver 100 lectures the earning season. Claba Louise Kilt.ogo, who is in Paris, has leased a house at New Hartford, Conn., near her birthplace, and will spend the summer there. Dion Boccicault is to write an original drnma for Mrs. Lang ry. Mrs. Langtry haa $100,000 in bank as the net proceeds of her American tour. Babtlet Campbell's play, "My Partner," will be presented at the Residenz theatre, Berlin, "September 15. His "Galley Slave" made a run there of eighty-three nights. Miss Ada Ward, an English actress and star of considerable repute, who, in conjunction with Miss Sara Jewott, will play leading Shake-pear.ui roles, supporting Mr. George Edgar, the coming dramatic season, has arrived at New York. Lovebs of the legitimate drama can enjoy themselves to their hearts' content the coming season. At least a score of companies will p!ay the legitimate alone, headed by such artists as Booth, Irving, Barrett, McCullough, Warde, Edgar, Rose Eytinge, etc. We read that "Marie Koze is the only singer of distinction who is not afraid of catching cold. Ni'sson treats her throat as she would a sick baby. Kellogg is afraid to venture out of doors twenty-four hoars before she sings. Minnie Hauk goe? to bed for days together and remains there in complete silence. Emma Abbott has the doora and windows of her room hung with blankets to keep out the draughts. Gerster wears a heavy shawl indoors in all weathers." The square pianoforte appears to be doomed. In Germany and other European * countries it is seldom seen, and in America Its place is bsing rapidly tafcen by the upright, or "pianino," as the Germans moie poetically cidl it. One of the leading piano firms in this city, sajs the New York Kccniwj Post, recently announced that u naa eliminated all style.* of squares from its catalogue, anil would henceforth mannfacturj only uprights and grands. This examplo should be followed by other firms, a'ul would be well if the terms pianino and parlor crand were generally used in place of t ho Sbsurd "upright" and "baby grand." Colkbidge.?lioid Chiwf?J ust. ce Coleridge, of England, who is to vi-it this country about September 1, as the guest cf the New York State Har asso.-ia ion. has left all appointmentxand accept nncei of invitation < iu tho assoc ation's hau ls, Governor Butler, of Massachusetts, has already invited Lord f'oleridtro to attend the opening of t e National expo ition in Boston in September. ind the bench and bar of Toronto liiuo iendered him a public ban luet. Attorney* IJeneral Brewste.- h-s informed tin committee of the satisfaction the government feels -respecting Lord Coleridge's intended u*it, ami states that he shall do all in Irs power t > render tho visit interesting nnl agreeable. Peter Strauss, of Meekville, Pern., wa! bitten by a copperhead snake. Hi* entire body became swollen, hi s teeth dropped oat and he lost his eyesight Medical aid wai HMI