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BY HUGH WILSON, ABBEVILLE, S. C? WEDNESDAY. AUGUST 1, 1889. NO. 7. VOLUME XXVIII.
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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