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ABBEVILLE PRESS AND BANNER: 1 ' Wm _ .yyffi BY HUGH WILSON. ABBEVILLE, S. C.. WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 8, 1883. NO. 8. VOLUME i XXVIII. |j CHEA.TINC. THE COLT. th forehead star and silver tail, And three white feet to m itch, The gray, half-broken sorrel colt, Which c ne of u< could catch? "I can," said Dick: " I'm good for that," Heslowlyshook hi* empty hat. "She'll think 'tis fall of corn," stud he: "Standbac's. ml she will come to me." Her head the shy. proud creature raised As 'mid the daisy flowers she grazed; Then down the hi'l, across the brook, Delaying oft.he: way s-he took; Then chan^t d her pace. and moving quick, She hurrie 1 on, and canio to Dick. "Ha! Ha!" h;*cried, " I've caught you, Beck!" And put the halter round her neck. But soon there came another day, And, eager for a ride? " I'll go and catch the colt again; I can," said Di?k. with pr.de. So ur> the sionv t>;i=lure lane. And up th? hill he trudgad n.:ain; And tlen ho saw the c >It. as slow He shook his old hat to and fio. '"She'll 11iink 'tis fall of corn," he thoneht, " And I shall have her quickly caught. Bock! Beck!" he called, niul at the sound Tho restless beiuty looked around, Then made a quick, impatient turn, ^ And galloped off among the fern. And when bene ith a tie'! she stoppe 1, And leisurely some clover cropped, Dick followed af:er. hut in vein; His hand wa< just npc n ho- mane, When eff-he flow as Hies the wind. And, pan ing, l e pressed on behind, Down through the brake, the brook across> O'er biiflus, tl istles, mounds of mos*, Round and round the place theypassed, Till, breahless, Dick sank down at last; Threw by, j r jvoked, th? empty hat? "Thecolt,"l e said, "remembers that! Tnere's always trouble from deceit, I'll nevortry again to client!" THE SING Eli A ND THE SONG. "For s:tl'j: One family ghost, with big bones and plenty of them? spiritual outfit complete! Answers to the name of Joel ( arde.-k, and can be seen any midnight on the Hoxleigh hedgeroad with it< head tucked under its arms, and--whnt did you say it was doing last night, (ieorge.dear?" ".Pointing at its throat like this," illustrates young (.'eorge, placidly, "and moaning?so?like a clog tied." "I don't s<e what niore could be expected of any aicestor," goes on Anne, practically. " And as the public ought to be pretty tired by this time of misty maidens in Swiss muslin and feathers, and moldy old male spirits who do nothing but prowl around and smell bad, I should think o.ir enterprising Joel might bring his weight in gold, and if only there were chains?you are dead sure you heard no ph sntom chains whose clanking melody sounded like the laughter of fiends in hellish glee, George, dear*" "It might have 1 een only bones," ventures (Jeorge, cautiously, "but it sounded like chains, rusty ones, all over blood, and the smell was just? brimstone!' "Young people," I observed,imposingly, "if you really appreciated the disastrous condit on of the house of f'ov>rln/t1r xtaii uvtiilil nnf "Spare us!" implores Anne, who is lying in a pink gingham heap under the willows, with her arms doubled like a jack-knife over her eyes. ' We l have had Geo .Trey Cardeck with our ' daily bread now, until I am absolutely pining for him to take us by the back of our necks and fling us out, by way 1 of a pleasant change. Ain't you, George, dear ':" "I won't have any meddling with my neck, thou?h," announced the young h?a! hen, who is sprawled out on a crust of bank, with his brown legs dangling over the spring stream. " We are not a pa -k of thieves, 1 hope, in spite of our looks," continues my sister, in most objectionably virtuous tone.-. * And if Boxleigh really ami truly docs belong to the interloping Geof?" " ltoxleigh does not belong to Geoffrey Cardeck," I cry, in a gust of contradiction, "merely because the will is f missing?'' " Uut there was no will, Janet; reft member how suddenly poor Uncle Joe " was called away? " "Don't tell me! Do you suppose for one minute that Uncle Joe was ' the >ort of a man to willfully die of vertigo, and then go to heaven in cold blood before protecting us from want, when he knew that Geoffrey Cardeck ? ' ' - -i ? 1:1.-. ? 1 i_ 99 W0U1U dp flown on us line <t u?i? k.- "All right," a-sents my sister, rising and stretching her long young arms; * have it your own way, lady ; only, as I helped to ransack the house from garret to cellar and then clean hack again, you will have to excuse me for keeping my--opinion for my pains. 1 _ -- ' tell y.u, .Janet, we might as well make up our minds to be grateful to Geoffrey Cardeck for allowing us to live here thvse last two years?unless we can auction off George's ghost and buy the old place in." That is just liko Anne, winding up our daily arguments with a distracting sort of cruelty that mrkes me long beyond all things to shake her hard! "And 1 tell you," I exclaim, savagely, "that I mean to fight his right here every step of the way. You submit. I do not. Alone as I am. with out one friend?" " Dnr's a big white y angel by yo' side n floVn, 'N' he's wings nm de colnh ob de dawn.*' "Uncle (lab'l must think himself a real born robin," laughs Anne, gaylv, as the three of us turn to watch him shuttling down the thread of path that winds from a cabin on the hill top to the spring : I " N' of yon'm got a burd'n you' a tired ob a I tot'n. L Des you dran it 'n He'll koich it, sho's you m? bawji?hi!" ? "Mawnin', chil'n, mawnin !' 'Pear; ter iue dis var spring am des' de moles' spot on de who'e fahm?'pears ter me s<>!" A gaunt, shriveled old creatur \ with a f.ice a< brown as a cocoanut and a tamper as sweet as its milkflapping trousers of faded blue cotton, and a wilted shirt as white a as curd, ?that U Uncle (Jab'l as he svtslrs tub on the shady stones and dips his gourd in t he spring. " Uncle (iab'l," stra:ghtwav begins Anne, with malice aforethought?I f-e^ it in her eye?. "I'o youTJeTieve (Jeorgie saw* the ghost last night, do you ?' ' A chile <lat truws storns at de frawg dat keeps de spring sweet," hanswt r , slowly, fishing from the patched depths of his pocket a gorgeous thing in bandanas, with which he mops his face, "am gwine terse* wus'n goses, fo' he's done ; you heah me!" ?of (ourse, you have seen it," she goe* on, suggestively, for Anne dearly loves to^^^dA^ld soul out of all clump E^H^^^HHBBgB99|^^&no\Y des so panH^HBMnftirg us when something in Anne's fa^e?such ! a pretty facs it is. with buttercup hair j anil cheeks like the little pink (lowers | that grow in the wheat?prompts me to keep Aunt Kia waiting. " 1'ncle (Jab'l," I call after him, " I see your tob icco looks re..dy t > (ut?" ; " Deed am it." The bla k face Hashes into a ciiuc'ile a; he turns it ciutiously ! ?tul) and all?toward me. " 1'se j monsus fcard I'se got de lies' crop o' l>a ca of any man < lar roun ! 1'se been 'low.'nto <e Lawd dis lon<j time dat. de ole 'om in's hopes was sot on a two h igshe id crap, and dat dar wa< j j debts 'nuf l'ur ter eat up e; many j groun I le ives es He pleas:; hissel' to , gil? me 'thout countin' the par o" sh es ! er piece we'm obleeged ter buy?'n spftct'n He gwine ter heih my prar.! Miss Janet, honey. 1 trus'n in His j w< r.l. an' 1 turns deturkeys in deliel l j regl'r to eat de wurms?'n 1 spei 'n de Lawd gwine ter henli ole <iai> 1 sprar ; i " 1 wish, then, you would prav f >r j Boxleigh," I say, with laughing irreverence, and 1 am very properly; ashamed of myself when he sets his tub on the grass and answers simply: j " I duz pray, honey. I prays hard 'n j 1 sin^s. Lo ?k at me, chil'n," he goes on. turning around so that we can get! the full benefit of the patches tliat1 make up his .shabby outlines. "des'j look at yet' ole I'ncle (Jab'l a standin' heah wib his wool mos' white 'n h-.-'s skin e< black es pisin ! You knows he cawn't rea l dr (iawspel. Yoil sees fo' yo' own se'f dat he g tes bar' foot ob a ' I Sunday in summertime, 'n dat lie's j i chil'n 'm nutlin' but a passle ob rusty | vounguns! Now, whar would I he ef I I d:dn't believe in prat ? Don'tltrm'n His promise ter wash me whiter'n i stiowV Don't 1 know Ise gwine ter hah wings oh gold'n fedders 'n ayarp? , Now. min' what I done tole you, ef so be the I.awd gwine ter take the time 'n trabble to shin? up a wall's ole critter wi lout a cent in he's pocket 'n | owes fur de lan' he libs on, whyinout'n 'lie do as much f. r fus' class white! I folks chiln's like you'ms be?dat's de ' (juesh'n I'm a axin' you. Miss Janet,; ; honev, 'n now whars de answer ter 1 match ?" | Emphatically there is none! There j i i> such a wealth of belief in his homely j i words, such a pathetic faith in th" re-! ligion he has picke i up in his simple ! I ways, that I can say absolutely i j nothing ! i " I cufiss ffrandna used to pray j I hard," mentions Anne, with the most j startling innocence, considering she ! know s, as well as the rest of the J I county, that Ignatius Oardeck was as wicked as mankind comes. I'ncle Cab'l, who has fettled his tub , on his head again, pauses, puts it back ! on the grass for the second time, and i says, impressively: J " Mos' folks sot'n Marse Xace down ; fur a reg'l'r Hel/ebubu, but he had his j ! pints 'n dey was good pints. Lawd! i I you all chil'n ain't seen nufn?you j j d< s or lib'd afo' de wall! Pem wus de j I times fur Boxleigh; you alls ain't up I i ter di tricks ob dis yar 'ceitful ole | i place, cawse Marse Joey wus alius des : J es peaceful es a little chile, (lawd in ' | llel en l?le.~s 'm! But when Marse ' i Xace afore him settled hi self down ! ; ter badness, he des' uster make his ole i | fall 111 as lively, chil'n, es a fov a racin' ; thro' the wood-; wib lie neairs tan on 1 fiah?now inin' I'm a talk'n! I was . tol'n de ole 'owam des last night, dat { I I'bry time I heali the sq'iinch owls j a-hullering it alius sots me stedy'n ??b j de night Marse Xace got clar out'n j he's senses n staked Mi-sie Rose on de ' ' keard loard?dars a wufi's olesquinch- j j owl up in de pines yander?" I, even I, Janet Cardeck, with my ' vengeful heart and steady purpose, i have so far forgotten my wrongs for | ! the minute that I watch as breath- i | lessly as Anne while Uncle Gab'l J j stretched suspiciously toward the1 tub?tak;s a long drink from the: brown gourd that bobs on its surfa?e j ?and then settling his old bones com-1 j fortablv on the grass, goes on : I " K)a'. squinehes perzactly like de 1 | squinch-owl dat squinched de night i Marse Nace cussed de squinch-owl, | 1 perzactly! It wus de.s er 'bout dis ; time o' de yar, craps was growin' mad ! : all de same'j weeds, 'n de sun come ; | down hot 'n vallt r on a pas^'l o' black j ! critters Marse Xace called him own. ' I Dar neber breved a (.'jurdeek in my! ! time, < hil'n, dat eber raised a lash or j, j sold a 'oman, 'n dar wasn't a slave in | | Marse Xace's but what luiruae ground ; j lie walked on, des do same's old (Jah'l , I lubs you all ehil'ns hc.ah. Well'm, de , j house wus cliuck lull o' town gem'l'm j ! down fur de lish'n an' de likes, 'n in de ; i . lot was a stranger pus'n come from j clar* ross de seas sumewliars, 'n de j I minute he sot'n lies eyes on little ' Missie Hose 'pears like he couldn't! ; riz'?i of'n her, nowise?dat's yo' maw | I'm tolin you 'bout, chill'n, yo* own : | maw dat bawned you. She wus'er I purty little critter, like de po;ies in de gahden and de robins in de tree, n 'des es full of good es a Chrismus stock'n, but she had her ways, mind j you, 'n one of 'e:u wus ter up'n hate : dat English'rman wus'n a biish'l of snakes. lJumby the geinmin arx Marse j Xace fur ter let he marry her. Marse N*ace he la'fn say,' All rivht;' Mi sie Rose she spunk up'n say 4 Xo!' Den J 'long cum young Mar.-eGawge, ariilin' I t? cote M'ssie Hose, an' slie lows ter i her paw dat she means to marry her { cousin or die in de 'tempt?cose Marse j Xace gib in lubin 'nuff arter dat, i cawse dar warnt mor'n a t ?p sile <?' i j badness on lies heart, de roots wuz all ! right, 'n lie let dat Euglish'rman hull he's sef' off quick, now I tell you. Hut i des'er *l:iut t:e time o' de wed'n hea'i he. cum ridin' back e< quick es life, an' j ?it's a fac I'm tol'n you, ehil'n? ; j Mar.-e Xace he sot'n his<ef down at dat I'ar keard bole'n-arter 1? sin' ebry ' head o' niggah on de fahm *n Hoxleigh j in de barg'n ? dat Knglish'r say, so1 coax'n, put Missie Host* up, '11 inebbe ' ! he win 'em all back ag'n?see! I'us' j ! yo' granpaw lo.?k'd same's a thunderclap soun's, den he cus'n cus, *'n de , squirich-owlout'n de bushes he squinch 'n sipiinch?den Marse Xace threw de 1 cawds on de table 'n holler out, 4 It am I de las' thing in de worl' dat's lef' mo, so ' i ' Hut he nebber spiled he's mouf wib I de rest ob it, honey, fur de black crit- j 1 ter dat was'er wait in' on de gem'n laid j his paw on de keards and say: i "4 Marse Xace, homy, ain't you clean ! forgot me?' ' 'Get out'n my sight,' bawls yo' I granpaw, 4 or I'll brain ver, do you j heah?' "'Yes Marse, I heah you,' said dat j wuil's critter, 'but I cawn' sta i' roun' j i 'n see little Missie Hose sot up wus'n a i slave. When I sabed yo' life on de i Missersippv you gib me my freedom 1 for pay, hut if deiu paper's gwine ter ; stan' 'tween Mis i<; Ho.-e 'n shame, why . j - heah I is, Mars- Nare, honey, yo'. | own slave, sale n sound. "An', ehill'n, dat fellow he jump, I clar 'cross de room to de little drawer i under de mante' where Marse Nace ! ; lem his free papers stay, 'n he t ired 1 j 'em up 'n he flung the scraps on de flo'!" "And did he play, and did lie win V cries Ann", in a gust of excitement. j " Did he win !'* exclaimed the old j creature, wit!i a superi >r sort of chuckle. " Cose he wins ." You all ' nebber see de likes o' dat j>usson for j luck, ef 'twor treein' 'possums or trap- j II in' har's or coting or anything?cose j lie win'd!" " And what was his name?" i 44 Gab'l?Gab'l!" Hi, chil'n, dars de ole 'oman 'vitin' j dis water she sent me ter fetch? j iKmin', com in'!" M' But, Uncle Gab'l, wait. Who was J iKGab'l?Gab'l!" HBjon't get de ole man a lammin, HflHL fur de Lawd's sake! De ole j Hfts a monsus tuff han' at a fus'n Ria, chile, comin'?comin'. HR big white j"angel by yo' side a flot'n\ 'n he's wings am de color ob de dawn." We are dawdling along the shady footpath t > the house, when George, who has rolled out from his grassy nest and i-campered off a good ten minutes before us, comes tearing back liko mad with a square of white paper?the will! And just to think, with all my cleverness, I never once thought of the littie drawer under the mantel! My only comfort is that Anne did not either! How the Dead Followed the Kin*. In 1871, writes a correspondent, I was at Naples when an Italian corvette, the Amirale Oaracciolo, was launched at Castellamare. The vessel was christened by the Countess Teresa Caracciolo, the daughter of the chief of the elder branch of the Oaraccioli. I was staying at Naples as the guest of the young lady's father, and I heard from him a very remarkable story connected with the death of the unfortunate oilicer in honor of whose memory the vessel was named. Tiie circumstances which led to the execution of Prince Francesco Caracciolo in 171*9 are well known. I shall merely state therefore, that he was condemned by a court marshal composed of Sicilian otlicers to be hanged at the yard-arm of the llag-ship for tearing arms against his lawful sovereign. When the oflicial communication of the finding and the sentence of the court was brought to the prince, he was explaining the names and uses of the various pa ts of the rigging to somo young Neapolitan nobleman who happened to be on board the ship. A glance at the letter w;is sufficient to show him its contents. lie showed no sign of emotion, but requested the officer who brought the dispatch to wait fur a few minutes while he finished his explanations. This being done he returned to his cabin, and after a vain attempt to get the sentence changed to a more honorable manner of death he resigned himself to his fate, which ho met with great fortitude. Some days after the event the king, who had been for an afternoon's cruise on a Sicilian ship of war outside the bay. was returning to Naples in the evening. It was a moonlight night, aud the sea wai perfectly calm. There was, indeed, so little wind that it was difficult to steer the vessel. The king was sitting in the balcony of the stern cabin, watching ttie sea, \\h *n smUhniyhe became aware that something was following the ship. As the object ranie near it was easy to distinguish that it was the body of a man in : n upright attitude, as it treading water; and very soon the king was able to recognize the features of Admiral Caracciolo. Hi.i eyes were opened and seemed to be fixed cn the king, and except for its ghastly pallor the face was unchanged. The explanation was simple. After b;ing submerged for some days the body had become so buoyant that the weights attached to the feet were not sufficiently heavy to keep it under water; but they retained it in ai upright position, and it was drawn ahmg by the current created by the movement of the ship. It is easy to imagine the horror of Ferdinand at what he believed to be ;m apparition from another world. When at length it was explained to him what had happened, he gave orders that a boat b:-1 iwered and that the corpse be brought on board ana taken to Naples for Christian burial. But the superstitious Sicilians dared net obey the royal command, and t'ie ship, drawing in its wake the miricrhh hodv nf the admiral, sailed "f 'O-- ~^ - si )wlv into tlie Bay of Naples. Hero ab at's crew was ob'ained from an English man-of-war, who took the admiral's body ashore, where it was deposited in liis own palace, and at length receive 1 the hist rite* of tho church. A different version of the story is given in Southley's " Life of Nelson." I have related the traditional account preserved in the family of the admiral exactly as it was told me by its chief About Mackinaw Hats. Taking up a white, lustrous straw hat with a broad brim and rather shallow crown, the dealer handed it to the scribe and said: "This hat is al' the rage this season. We sell more of them than of any other style. It is a Mackinaw braid, the c rown is three inches and a half deep, and the brim is two and a half wide. The crown, you will notice, is rounded at the top, while the .-tyle of last year was square. Tiies hats are standard, and never go out of fashion. The form may change a little from y. ar toy ear, but the change is very slight. The tendency this year is to a broader brim and a shallower crown. We sell these I.ats from St. Paul to Galveston, and fr.im ocean to ocean." "Where are they made?" said the reporter. 'They are made in the East. TIio straw is grown in Canad i mostly. It is grown and ear. d for in s?me peculiar way known only to the native?. It is the straw of some grain, I am unable to say what; but in curing and preparing the straw no attention is paid to X. Irpi,? lilt* gram, which is cuiuc^ xuv rich luster that this straw pos esses is due to the method of curing as much as to the nature of the straw itself. The people of Canada and the northern lake regions who cultivate this j articular straw generally braid it themselves and bring it to market in the form of large balls of braid. In this way they sell it. Detroit is the large-it market for it. Eastern Kit manufacturers buy it in that market and make it into hats. Thus, y u see, although it is an American manufacture, yet it passes through many hands before it reaches the retailer."?St. Louis J'ost-Dispatch. , The Education or Children. Louise A1 ott, who ha? written so charmingly and sugg stively of the edu- ation of children, has now a chance to put her theories into practic. When her sister Mary die I in Paris she left a little daughter, whom Louis? hsuf a lopt"d and will educate in accordant e with her plan of bringing up childnn. This plan she states as follows: "Health <omes lir.-t and an early i -i? .ih.wlinn. f> :iri(l Knowu'ugti ui t in;ii, uuvui.i. ? .. self-control, then such necessary lessons ;is nil must learn, and later such accomplishments as ta-te and talent lead her to desire; a profession or trade to fall back upon in lime of need, that she may not he dependent or too proud to work for h?r bread. Xo late hours or unwholesome pleasures and dress, no mixing of sclio >1 and flirtation, but simple amusements, daily duties, and a purpose in life to keep them g rls at h: art, even while preparing for the work and happiness of woman." Thi; is quite different from the education of the fashionable girl of the period, or the heroines produced by the Henry James school of novelists ; but it may be the harbinger of the new-fashioned girl, it is to be hoped a great improvement upon the last generation, who have been educated up lo fashions and follies.?Troy Times. The best and highest pleasures are those we evolve, not those wnicn we receive. Faithful and honest work doe3, it is true, bring competence, friends, respect, perhaps fortune, or fame, < r honor; but it does much more than this. It develops our powers, strengthens our characters, cheers our spirits, gives us self-respect, enhances our value ana infuses an interest in life of which nothing can deprive ns. Trouble is easily borne when everybody gives it a lift for you. ??? FEWS OF THE WEEK: ' Eastern and Middle States. ! A fibe in New York partially destroyed I the Munroe building, an immense eightstory structure. occupied by George Mtmroo, publisher of tho "Seaside Library" and j other publications, together with a number I . of other firms. Tho damage is estimated at j about $300,000. Fibe destroyed the Gibson house, at Ports- | mouth, N. H. with Stoddard's stable3, twen- ; ! ty-six horses and many vehicles. Mas. Lanotby has sailed from New York j for England. She will return in October, j Afteh two men?a liquor dealer and a j miner?had fought eleven rounds of a prize ffcht near Nanlioke, Penn., a crowd of ! women broke into tho ring brandishing I knives and pistols and put a stop to the ' brutal exhibition. The poet Longfellow's estate has been inventoried at $350,000, of which two-thirdB is j personal property. I A pabiial victory was scored by the strikj ing telegraphers in Now York, the managers i of the American Rapid company having ! comnromi. ed with the operators, three hun I dred of whom rosumod work. ! A heavy frost hRfl visited the White motmj tains. A kibe destroyed the extensive works of the ! Howe Sewing Machins company at Bridcre| rort, Conn. The buildings consumed occu! pied three sides of a square, were of brick ! rnd four stories high. The company employs j about 400 hands, and was turning out about | 100 machines a day. The loss on the build! ings. machinery and Btock burned is about : $:tf0,000. I Daniel B. Pitillips, forty-ono years oldt | ; hd evangelist well known in New York and I | Boston, commilted fuicide at Ncr h Weymouth. \'as<., by hanging. IIo had bejn suffering fiom sunstroke. South, and West. A cyclone in Minnesota wrought death and destruction in six counties. A passen; ger train on the Winona and North Peter I railroad was blown completely off the track j about a mile west of St. Paul and about ! twenty-five persons were more or less inI jured, some probably fatally. They were j brought to St. Paul in freight cars. At St. Paul all the buildings of the fair ground, which were being refitted for the | approaching State fair, were blown down ! and completely destroyed. A number of j persons were in the main building at the j time, and some very seriously injured. In j Elgin every business house was torn down or unroofed, one or two persons were killed, j and others injured. Several persons in Dodge ' county were also killed or injured, and much [ destiaction of property resulted. A House at Salt Mines, Ave ry's Island, La., containing 1,000 pounds of dynamite, wai : struck by lightning, canning a terrific ex! plosion and doing much damage to build ings, cars and other property. The shook j was felt for several miles, and windows in , buildings a mile distant were shattered. ! Nine persons were killed and about fifty injured by a tornado near Huron, Dakota, j In Minnesota ten or twelve pers ns lost their j lives and about 100 were injured during the ! recent storm. ! While George Kane. Harry Shaffer and j Worthington McCol'oh, young unmarriod men from Frostburg, Md.f were rowing in j the Potomac river at Cumberland, the boa capfixeJ und all three were drowned. A summer storm on the New Jersey coast j has caused great destruction of property in j the vicinity of Long Branch. At Atlantic j ! Highlands, a settlement of cottage and tout ' houses, out of forty houses eight were swept ; into the water, while twenty-five others I were unroofed or otherwise damaged. All the hotels, filled with summer guests, were unroofed, and the damage done is estimated ! at $100,003. ! Samuel J. Howard, one of the wealthiest j colored men in the United State?, died a few j days ago in Brooklyn. He was eighty-five years old and left a fortune of several hundred thousand dollar?. ! TnoMAS Swann, ex-governor of Maryland, ex-congressman and ex-mayor of Baltimore, died a few nights ago at his estate near j Leesburg, Va., aged seventy- aight years. I A carriage containing the skeletons of , three adults and two children, sitting bolt | upright as if in life, under a tree, has been , found in a secluded si>ot, in Llauo county Texas. The tree was shattered by lightning. It is supposed the carriage sought shelter < under the tree and was struck, the bolt killI s? ,'nmnh.a nnrl thfl horses. The weath- j tug lira ? er-beaten appearance of the carriage and j i its trimmings indicates that the event hap- j i pened a year or two ago. A loat containing eight men and two young girls (all coloied), who were crossing 1 i the James rivernt Claemont, Va., to attend I, a prayer-meeting at Sandy Point, upset, a*id ^ eight of the party were drowned. Two men weie Baved by the captain of a sloop. A beunion of John Morgan's Confederate 11 command has taken place at Lexington, Ky. J i A letter of regret at his inability to be present was pent by Jefferson Davis. The fchooner Mnttie Fidgett was found ; keel up in Chesapeake Bay, and only her 1 ! captain of a crew of four was rescued, j A bcow has been foand overturned in Lake : i | Michigan, and her crew of six men are miss, ing. i 1 One death having occurred from yellow ^ | fever on a British steamship at Newport < News, Va., she was ordered to sea to bury j ( the dend and then to anolior at Quarantine, j strict precautions being taken to prevent ( the disease from making its appearance oa | , shore. The annual sun dance of tho Sionx In- ] dians took place at the camp nearthe Rose- |, bud agency, in Dakota, about 1,000 Indians . i being present from all parts of the reserra- | j tion, as well as a number of white visitor?, j j Fifteen warriors took part in the dance, I J having fasted four days before euteringinto j. it. Their bodies were frightfully lacerated, | ( according to the usages of the tribe m test- ; mwt he "pamo " qualities of the participants. ; I It is probable that this is the la^t tunc those ^ cruellies will he permitted, as a strong effort | 1 will be made to have the government inter- | ' diet the barbnrons practice . Dubino a storm iu Ohio and Indiana six j persons were killed by lightning, three of i j them being children who lmd taken refuge j ; tinder a tree at Jeffersouville, in the former j State. I The Georgia house of representatives 1ms unseated D. B. Proctor, a white representa| tive from Camden county, and seated Anthony Wilson (colored) in h's place,by a vote 1 of eighty-seven to sixty-one. There are two other negroes in the Georgia house. Marshall T. Polk, ex-treasurer of Tennessee, wns fcund guilty at Nashville of emj bezzlingthe public funds and sentenced to j ' twenty years' imprisonment and to pay the ] full amount of his embezzlement?about j ! $400,000. j A < bowd of men at Miles, Mont-inn, took j a barkeeper out of jail, where ho was con- i 1 fined for disorderly conduct, and hanged j him. Two hours afterward the place where i he had worked was set on fire and destroyed, | together with six other buildings. The national encampment, Grand Army I of the Republic, in session at Denver, Col, ; I repor.edan accession to their ranKs during | the past year of !t"l po.3ts and over T>7.0 0 I men. A large military procession was a j feature of the occasion. ! Prom Washington. Last February the Sennte adopted a reco- j lution authorizing and direeiiDg the com- I mittee on education and labor to continue | duiing the Forty-eighth Congies* the in- > quiry now being pro-ecuted under the reso- | lution of August 7,18S2, directing that com- j mittee to take into consideration the rela-I dionR between labor and capital, the wage* i and hours of labor, and the condition of | the laboring classes in the United States and ! ! to inquire into the division between labor j j and capital of their joint productions in the j United States; also to inquire about labor J j strikes and their causes, and the agenoies i ! producing them, and to report what legisla- | | tion should be adopted to modify or remove | such causes, and to provide against their I continuance or recorrence, as well as any other legislation calculated to promote harmonious relations between capitalists and laborers, and the interests of both by the improvement of the condition of the industrial classes of the United States The Bub-oom mittee of theSenate committee oneduoation and labor, Senator Blair, chairman, with the clerk of the committee and a stenographer, was called to meet at Manchester, N.H., to continue to take testimony on the foregoing resolution. A dispatch from Concord, however, announced that Senator Blair had started for New York to summon the committee to assemble at once to consider the present strike of the telegraphers. The committee will travel and hold sessions at various points in the Northeast and in other parts of the country during the enusulng two months. The portraits on the new postage stamps that come in use October 1 are: One-cent, Franklin; two-cent, Jackson; three-cent, Washington; five-cent, Garfield; six-cent, Lincoln; seven-cent, Stanton; ten-cent, Jefferson; twelve-cent, Clay; fifteen-cent, Scott; thirty-cent, Hamilton; ninety-cent, Perry. TnE amount for which the star routers are to be proceeded against in civil suitB exceeds $1,100,000. Commodobe William N. Jeffebs, of the United States navy, died the other day in Washington. Fimbetaby Foloeb has written a letter declaring that the trade dollar is not a legal tencier, nrm mm* ino iTcsiutjui hud uu jjuwci j to cause trnde dollars to be received by the treasury at face value. Tjie pecret.iry of the treasury, at the suggestion of Surgecn-Generiil Hamilton, of the marine hospital service, has telegraphed instructions to the American consul-general in London and the consul in Liverpool to appoint at once sanitary inspectors whose duty it si all bo to inspect all vessels leaving tha United Kingdom for the United States, and to inform by cable the health authorities in this country of all such vessels having disease on board, or being liable lo develop disease on the voyage. This action was taken in consequence of the rumor which has reached Washington that cholera had appeared in the London docks. M. A. Dauphin, manager of the Louisiana lottery, has sued Postmaster-General Greshain for $100,000 for depriving hiin of the use of the mails. The secretary of the treasury has issued a call for the ledemption of bonds of the five per cent, funded loan of 1881, continued at three and one-half per cent, from August 12, 18.vl. This call, which includes all of the outstanding "Windoms," or three and a half per cent, bonds, amounting to $32,COO,003, matures November 1, 1883. Foreign Newa. Joineb, of the American rifle team, won the cup and ?r>0 presented specially for the team's competition. Hinman, of the American team, won the St. Leger prize. The Russian government has appointed a commission to inquire into the civil rights of the Jews in other countries. Some one witli a troubled conscience has returned $4,000 to the treasury. Neahly 700 deaths from Cholera took place in Egypt in ono day; of this number 381 were in Cario. One dispatch says that "l.'iOO inhabitants of Bulak have been removed up the Nile. The owners of burned houses will be indemnified. The native i oppose the removal of patients to the hospitals. The disease is very Fudden in its effects. People frequently fall dead in the streets. The epidemic is spreading north- i ward as well as southward." All business and agriculture were suspended. The London Times, in its crop report, says the area of wheat planted in the United Kingdom is from ten to fifteen per cent, below that of last year, and the yield will be below the average. Reports from the con- I tinent are very similar in their conclusions. ; A dispatch from Egypt says that to pre- I vent the spread of cholera " a large part of . Bulah has been burned. Corpses were found I in many of the hou-e*. The eight hundred | inhabitant* of Bulah encamped at Tourali j are surrounded by a cordon. Nothing is supplied them, and they are dying of famine. Cholera is spreading among the guards." Gknebal E. 0. C. Obd, of the United States army, who took passage on a steamer at Vera Cruz, Mexico, for New York, and was taken with yellow fevpr, compelling his removal to the shore while the vessel was at Havana, died there from the disease. General Ord was born in Cumberland, Md.f in 1818, and was graduated at West Point in I 1839. He took a prominent part on the : Federal side in the civil war, and after its i closo commanded the departments of California, the Platte and Texas. In January, lf-81, he was placed on the retired list. Moat of the time since his retirement-he has made his home with his son-in-law, General Ire7 cino, who for a time wnB Mexican minister af war. Twelve doctors who are experts in cholera have been sent from England to Egypt. A J Joctor with forty assistants has also been j ;ent to Egypt from India. The Prince of Hohenlohe Langenbourg, i who is president of tho German Colonial society, is about o Btart on a two months' j iourney through the United states ana j Northwest Canada. Cetewayo, the Zulu king, has been defeated, with immense loss to his army, by imother South African potentate, and has ?ought safety in flight. Ciioleba has appeared among the British troops at Cario, Suez and other places in Egypt. Fivo hundred deaths occurred from [he terrible disease in one day at Cairo. The Swedish monitor Thordon has founJered: no lives were* lost. The American rifle team were entertained it luncheon by the lord mayor of London. Indications point to a peaceful settlement 3f the difficulty between Franco and China aver the Tonquin troublo. Seven women and children have been frowned by the upsetting of a pleasure boat an Lake Lugano, Switzerland. A obeat sensation has been cnusod In Berlin by the suicide of Dr. Zuputlitz, professor of political economy at the Berlin University. Great floods havo caused much damage in Buenos Ayres. Advices from Durban, South Africa, relative to the death of Cetywayo at the hands of the insurgents state that all his wives and - - 1? many ot ins cnieis were aisu nmcu. Cases of tho Egyptian cholera have occurred in the London docks and in Wales. Successive earthquake shocks have destroyed the vil'age of Toacaso, in Ecuador. Every house in tho place was shaken down. Other villages in the vicinity also suffered heavily. Denis Maubice O'Conob, home rule member of parliament for county Sligo, Ireland, :'s dead. _______________ REDEEMING THE BONDS. The Kmltlncnf the Kegintcretl Three nod n Ilnlf i'er Cent*. <o be Itcileeineil Novein. Iiir I. The following is the text of the one hundred and twenty-first call for the redemption of bonds of the five percent, funded loan of 1881, continued at three and a half per cent, from August 12, 18S1. TitEAsunv Depabtment, j Washington, D. U., July 20, 1883. j By virtue of the authority conferred by law up.;n tho Fecretaryuf the treasury, notice is hereby given that tho bonds hereinafter indicated will not be accepted for surrender and exchange into three per cent, bonds, a d that tho principal and accrued interest of the bonds here n below designated will be paid i.t the treasuiy of the United States in tho ci y of Washington, D. C., on November 1, IN- 3, and that the interest on said hond-< will eeaso on that d ly, viz: All registered bor.d-s of tho acts of July 14, 1870, and January 20,1871, continued during tho pleasure of the government under the terms of 1- - v- r.? \f?? 1.? -IKV1I tr> ciruuiui ?. , uubcu twi, *v . b ar interest at the rate of three and onelialf per cent, per annum from August 12, 1H81, and which constitute the residue of these issued under the acts of July 14,1870, and January 20,1871, known ns continued fives, and which have not heretofore been called or which have not been offered for surrender an 1 exchange into three per cent, bjnds of the no. of July 12,1882. The bonds embraced in this circular are those last dated and numbered, ns required by section 3 of the act of July 1 l,l(-70,nndincludc those which have been issued on trrnBfers since the one hundred and twentieth call was issued. The three months' interest due Nov. 1883, on tl e above described bonds will not be paid by checks forwarded to the holders of the bonds, but will be paid with the principal to the holders at the time of presentation. Any of the bondB embraced in this call will be redeemed prior to their maturity upon presentation to this department, interest being paid to the date of such redemption. Bouds forwarded for redemption should bo addressed to the "Seoretary of the Treasury, Division of Loans, etc., Washington, D. C." and all the Bonds called by this circular should ba assigned to the " Secretary of the Treasury for redemption." Where chcoks in payment are desired in favor of any one but the payee, the bonds should be assigned to the " Secretary of the Treasury for redemption for ao. count of " (He: e :i drt the name of the personor persons to wit >-e order the check fhould be made payub e.) CHARLES J. FOLGER, Seoretary. ADDITIONAL NEWS. TniBT?-Bix Jtilinn bootblacks were nrre.-ted nt Atlantic City, N. J., under a special law, passed by the New Jersey lej;if*!a uie, (nuting 1 hat ro child or chi'.dre 1 ui der the rgd of eighteen shall bo allowed to bla.'k boot?, solicit aid, play musical iustin ments, or become a mendicant, e;c. The boys were discharged with the understanding that thty shall ctase their oc cnpntion. Another c:erration has occurred at the Wash ng!on (Penn.) fnrn.ice, the body bein? that of Charles Meininger, Sr., of Cincnniti, aged about sixty years. His a9he> were sent by express to his widow. A wagon containing Henry Welsh and wife and a neighbor's liitle girl was struck by a train at Mount Joy, Ptnn., and all thre? were killed. Rags having been shipped from Egypt to .natAma nf fllftlnHftf i>L8ion uie luucuiui'ui cuwwm> ? place has been ordered by Secretary Folger to enforce the qurr inline regulations so i:b to guard aga'nst cholera. Six negroes were drowned whi'e attempting to cross the Wr.ccamaw river near Bellamy's land ng, N. C., in an o'd b.i rge. In tearing down an old hou*e near Wa m Sjniiigs, N. C., the skeleton of a ma 1 ca-lier hi b been found, with a leather mai'-bng conta'ning over thiity letters date I 1H27. At the Grand Ai my national <n;nmpment in Denver the election for commander-inchief of the Grand Army of the Republic r.sil'.edinthe success of Colonel Robert B. Beath, of Philadelphia. The Ward Iron ompany, of Niks and Philadelphia, Ohio, has suspended with liabilities estimated at $3C0 OX), and only nbont $.r>,000 in assets. Hon. Mcntoomery Blair, ex-i ostmaste*general, died a few days ago a', his home near Washington, aged seventy years. He was bcrn in Kentucky, and was the son of Francis P: Hnir (born 17!)], and died 1J7t?>, who was for many years a leading reinoc.r .tic editor, but in lWiO took a prominent part in organizing the Fepubli a 1 rarty. Montgomeiy I lair graduated in 1H3"? at the United States Militaiy academy at West Point, and RrveJ inthj war against the Seminole Indians in Florida. Beaming his commission in ho stnd'eJ law, and wrs admitted to the bar at St. Louis, and from 183!) to 1849 held civil and' judicial posit'ons in Missouri. In 18f>2 ho removed to Maryland, where he was aj pointed solicitor of the United Statis in the coi.rt of claims. He had 1 een a Democrat, but upon the repeal of the Mis ouri Compromise he, with his father nnd elder brother, joined the Repnbli?i n party, and was removed from office by President Buchanan. In 18 1 he was appointed by President Linco'n to be postmaster-gene a', retaining the office till 1WJ4, when he re;i,'ned. He afterward joined the Deinocra ic paity. The internal revenue commissioner re1 oris that during the past fiscal year the 12<> cjlleitors of internal revenue collected :S;144,5r>:,,3(J<:.M, at an expense of about $r>,120,OOO. The steamer Hankow, from London to Honolulu, with l,.r)00 passengers, at the end of a voyage lasting fifty-four days' reports the denth of fifty-five children from the measles and whooping cough. It is surmised that the passengers are natives which the steamer took up in Chili and Peru. A Berlin dispatch says that Profe.-SDrPutlitz (not Zuputlitz), who killed himself after drawing a death lot i i a so-called American duel, refused to fight the duel in theoidinary wny because nis antagonist was short-sighted. His death attract3 furious attention to the dueling mania. CETYWAYO. Career of tho Redoubtable Zalu King. King Cetywayo, whose death has been (reported and confirmed in a dispatch from 'South Africa, haB been prominently before the world ever since his formidable defense against the British in the Zulu war. He wai the son of Panda and the nephew of Chaka, the Zulu Napoleon, who, in H12, reorganized the Zulu nation. As a boy, Chaka formed the purpose of creating a powerful army and conquering all South Africa. His scheme was tncce^sful, and sixty nations became his subjects. In 182.S he was murdered. Panda, the father of Cetywayo, who ruled from 18-iO to 1H71', was a man of much administrative ability, who consolidated the"ZoJu nation ;md made friends of the Dutch and English. Aftor Panda's death Cetywayo was formally crowned by Sir TheophilusShepBtone, in the pie ence >' 10,000 warriors. He acted as regent during closing years of his father's life. In October, 1870, when the Eng'uh governor of Natal sent Cetywayo a remonstrance against the execution of his sabjects who had refused to obey the marriage laws, the Zulu monarch returned a haughty reply. " Why," said he, "does the governor of Natal speak to me about my laws ? Do I bo to Natal and dictate to him about his?" Finally he was driven into the wrr, in which his power was broken J l il l_.t T.. 1X7<? Calv II11U lll.t Lliruiiu JUH. XII OUttU.^vt vv.^wayo ua< n fugiti\em the wi ds with ft handfnl of faithful follower*, otly pursued by bod'es of English anJcolcnial casa'ry under Lord Giiford and Major Mailer. On the 28th of that month he was captured, and on September 15 he was removed to Caje Tr. w j, and remained in captivity nt Castle bar>a?ks. On August 1, 1882, ho arrived in England. He was a lion in England during his stay, and was after a few months Rent back to his kingdom, where he was reinstated with great honor. TRAGIC OCCURRENCES. ab socn ns Mrs. Jchn Simpson, of Metropolis, heard that her t-ix-year-old 6on was drowned in the Ohio she committed suicide. Juht befo:e a Swis-s boy, fourteen years of age, was drowned whiie bathing at Cot on Hill, W. Va.f he escaped being killed by the cars. Jaoob Hanghinan, aged sixty-five, of Conestoga township, Fenn., met his dea.hby falling from a laddor from which he was p oking cherries. While Fenny Carter, of Salem, Va., was loaning over his boat hauling in a fish, he was seized with cramps, fell overboard, and tuna /Irnmnarl Daniel Dorrify, aged thirty-six, went in bathing in the qfpal near Syra<n?e. After o imbing out upon the bnnk he was seized with terrific cramps, fell into the water, and was drowned. ? John J. McElhoine, Jr., aged eleven, of Ardtnore, Penn., went bird shooting contrary t) law. The gun went off prematurely and bo did McElhorne's leg. Amputation did Dot save him, nnd he died. In attempting to cross a stream by walking on a log thrown acro-s, M;iry and Kato Lnnner, of Miller-town, l'enn., were drowned. Mary became nervous, s ddenly caught hold of her sister, and both fell in. While visiting in the country near Summerville Mills, Ga., several little girls playing together obtained a toy pistol. Minnie Rhip now carries a ball in her che?k, and Mamie Steine has died from a wound in the stomach. Moses Stuart went lish'ng in White's Creek, near Chattanooga, Tenn. He carried some dynamite cartridges with him, one of Which exploded, tore off one side of his hoad, nnd knocked him into tl e cri-ek, where he was drowned. An eight-year-old lad from the city, who was visiting at Port Jerv's, wheeled the baby carriage, containing his two-year-old brother, out on the towpnth of the canal, left him there, and went for cherries. A gust of wind blew both baby and carriage iuto tho cans'. In Hingham, Me., Arthur Wilder, while bathing, jumpod into a rowboat. After he had i ashed out into the stream he noticed that the o'irs wore inissimr. The boat was soon in the'* Narrows," where the current runs at tho rate of six kuot< an hour. He be** * ,1~' 3 and was came ingiueuuu, juuinu v?... drowned. Aaron Finney, Jr., of Tariffville, fell thirty feet from a cherry tree. Tne f ill produced concussion of tho spinal column, resulting in paralysis of tho lower extremities and death. Ho was a graduate of the Columbian law school, Washington. David Schragham, of Augusta county. Va., and Maggie Derass, of Akron, Ohio, were killed in the fame way. THE LIGHTNING'S DEADLY WORK. While Mrs. Haynes, of Ilse Piquant, La., was throwing clothes over a wire line shj was instantly killed by lightning. At a picnic pirty in Canton, N. Y., twenty persons were struck by lightning. Four were badly bnmed, and one lady had her Bhoes torn from her feet. Lightning struck a pine on the liver bank near where Honry Boyette, of Ocenn Ford, On., wa* fishing in a boat, and, jumping from the tree, struck Boyette on the neck, singeing him down to his feet. In going from a hayfield, with a ritohfork on his shoulder. William Warner, of Jerseyville, N. J., was killed by a stroke of lightning. The bolt stiuck the fork, shattering it to atoms and tearing Warner's clothes completely from his body. Lightning struck a locust tree near the house of the Rev. Mr. Ferty, of Lexington, Ky., passed into the hou-e through a window, wrecking tho room, and then followed the iron work completely around the horua. A FRIGHTFUL CALAMITY. A Wharf Give* Way and Drown* n Number of iixctir?loDlsu~-Sixty?flve Liven Lout. A terrible calamity occurred at North Point Tivoli, an excursion resort on the ( Patapsco, ten milea from Baltimore, about i 10 o'clock at night, by which many live? 1 were lost, tho number being estimated at ' between sixty and seventy. The accident 1 was occasioned by the giving way of the ' outer portion of a pier on which several hundred people were coiig egated awalMng the boat to return to 1 he oity of Baltimore* The locality is on a small bay, distant about two miles from North Point lighthouse. I was formerly known as Holly Grove, and was the first regular excursion place ever Cttad up near Baltimore about fifteen ye^rs ago, and was a most popular resort at the time and for several years afterward. Baltimore dispatches give the following details: ; An excursion was given to Tivc i a ..".or the management of the Mount Royal Benefi- j cial society of the Catholic Church of Corpus i Christi, of which Father Starr is pa-tor, j Mount Royal avenue and Mosher street. , The exo.irsionist.s went down on the barge | CookaJe City, which was tawed by the \ tntr Amanda Powell. The barjra was for merly an old canal boat, which had be n 1 fitted np with several decks for excursion j purposes and need ns such for several years. ( bhe made threa trips, the lest being made , from this city between G and 7 o'clock, 1 reaching Tivoli before 10 o'clock. During < the day she had tnktn down a'jout .">00 per- , tons, and on her Inst tr p about 103. A large number of tho;e who went down during the day had remained, intending to return on the last trip. 1 When the barge approached all tho.-e on shore made a rush for the end of the wharf, j which is several hundred feet lone, and were i closely packed together at the gate, about ( tw6nty-tive feet from the end, impatiently , awaiting admittance through the gale. As the barge came alongside and tt'uck the wharf it suddenly and without warning gave way and a large portion of the crowd were precipitated into the water, which is nbout < ten feet deep. Many were able tosave them- ] selves by lleeing toward the shore aa the j outer end of the pier crumbled and fell. The darkness added to the confusion and j terror and little could be done at "once to j rescue the drowning, most of whom were | women and children. I The Rev. VV. E. Starr, pastor of Corpus i Chris i Roman Catholic church, who wit- j nessed the tr.igedy, said: "The wharf at | Tivoli ran out from the shore at least one i thousand feet. Near both ends of ti e wha 'f | were large gates, which were generally k ept ] closed upon the arrival of the boat. L ist j night a number of persons, fatigued and de- i siring to obtain advantageous positions on j the bo it, strolled out upon the whnrf before j the arrival of the barge, so that at the time she came in s:ght there \*e:e probably be- ? tween 200 and ;)00 persons on the wharf be- i tween the g.ite?. 1, with a few others, had t gained the extreme end of the wharf beyond j the boat gate when the barge made fast. In .? the mean time both gates had bejn clos?d ( and the keeper of the gate nearest the < barge would not allow any one to pas-<. The i people near the boat were just walking over i the gangplank when I heard a crash b.hind j me, ana saw a uars iiuio m mo mum uuu a mass of human being* struggling in the water beneath, while others on the wharf were pushing and jostling ench other in a frantic endeavor to roach a place of safety. Men and women were shrieking and children were crying, while from the dark abyss below the most heartrending cries were heard, on.v to end in gurgling sounds as the helpless I eings succumbed to the waters. Stools, pieces of plank, and everylhing available were thrown into tlie water right in the mid-it of the struggling mass, until it became evident that some who might be ( paved from death by drowning would become vi.tims of the heedlessness of these < who, wit'i the best intentions but very poor 1 judgment, were casting t e heavy articles into the water. I mjself stepped upon a ] parallel wharf and irade my w.iy back to < the s one of the d saster. Effor s to resiua , the drowning person . w ere being made by a , few brave young men. and already a number of deal bodies and others who were well-nigh deid had Leen broughtup, and lay on the wharf. ()ne young man pulled off his 1 outer clothing, sprang into the water, and succeeded in rescuing a number of per- 1 sons. If there had been eight or ten like him I am satisfied that but few would have been drowned. 'Ihe mcon had not yet 1 arisen, and the work progressed under th e ' feeb'e light of a few lanterns. A number of i bonfires had been starUd on the shore to allow those who had been rescued to dry their j I clothing. Finally the boat stirted for the , city with twenly eiuhc bodies xownoinme i bi;ime should bo attached I cannot say. The wharf was an old, ricketty thing, and last ' ypar I remember kicking a large pieoe of plank off which might have provtd a death trap <o some on-i in its loose cond tior. ! It is probable that if the i.eople , had been more equally dlstiibuted the acci- ! dent would not have occurred." The scene at Henderson's Wharf, where ] the Cockade City arrived with her first load ofdead at 2 o'clock in the mo -ning, was aflecting. Mnny friends of tho.;e who had 1 gone on the excursion had gathered, being 1 nnea'y nt the unusual delay. Anxious pa- ( rents, sons and daughters at once began to ] make inquiries, and agonizing c.ies went up i as they found theirfearsverifiedandlearned 1 that some of their Iriends were among the dead. Duiing the morning the crowd inci eased and ihe sorrowing scene* grew in i iraml er. Most of the victims were 1 women, and in very many ca>es yo'.mg -girl1- In many inslances their faces w'ero discolored and blood oo'.ed fro n their nostrils. When carried ott the Loat the bodies were laid side by side m ihe ?hed on the wharf. The faces w.tj cove ed witli cloths, and the han 'a were crossed on t!it irf-ast*. All the undertaker wagons obtainable we-<? secured, and the work of taking the identifce.1 victims t> the hori.es so suddenly cast into gloom was beg n. By n'ght sixty-tive bodies had been I ruiight to the c!tv. j The coroner's jury brought ir the follow" i ing verdict: " We find that I.ouisa Swear* r ; and others can-e to their deaths by drowning by the breaking of the bridge atTiiOli, and that the authorities of the place did not nse proper care and precaution to prevent ! the occurrence." DESTRUCTIVE CYCLONE. A .lllrliiffnn VWn?e Swept Awny?Women arid ( Uildrcn Killed. The little village of Ononduga, in the southwestern part of Ingham county, Mich., has been almost entirely swept away by a cyclone, accompanied by a very heavy rainstorm, which visited that setion of the ' country. The storm traveled in an easterly direction and caused great havoo in its 1 course. The buildings owned by John ' Rush, two mile* west of Leslie, were entirely dernolishsd. A vast amount j of timber is reported to have been blown down; fences are leveled, and roads and fields are strewn with the limbs of trees which were carried a long distance. A woman named Huntley was hilled. Mrs. Elizabeth Parlow was picked up by the wind and torn to pieces. I Thetorna lo also struck two miles east of Eaton rapids, in Eaton county, destroying a nvnnart.v. MhvptrI bnms uirge uuiuum u* i/?wi v.v. ? _ were demolished. Eugene Henry's house, ( one milo ea?t of Winfield, was blown , t:> atoms. His wife and seven children , were inside. Two of the children were found dead forty rods d slant. The 3 mother and three other of the children were ] badly hurt. The baby was un'-.urt, although ihe crib in which it was adeep cannot be 1 found. One of the dead children had i!s ] neck broken and the skull of the other was crushed. Hue l'errine's lions?, on the line J bet vien Fa'on anl Inghun countics, was j also wrecked, a:;d his w.te was injured. Finces, orchards and forests were swept ; away along the track of the storm, which |. see 11s to have been about fonr rods wide, ] and extending over a tract of country two j miles long in that vicinity. j ECCENTRIC SUICIDES. Minnie Mitchell, of Shreveport, Li., com- j J mitted suicide 011 the day in which her lover j was killed 011 the railroad. " I have already outlived my allotted , time," said Mrs. Alary Bach, of Wheeling, | j \V. Vn., and then she killed herself. She 1 was eighty-seven years old. | f After losing a suit and being roundly j 1 abused for it by his client, Colonel J. .J. j 1 I Pickett, of Oatesville. Texas, took twenty- ' i two grains of moiphine. !< Grief for his first wife caused Samuel T ! * Mngruder. of Dnrneefown, Md., to cut his j 5 throat, although he had been married about one year to an estimable lady. Mrs. H. V. Junes a Philadelphia bride of ^ but two months, took laudanum because her J husband forbade her taking money from the , cash drawer of his store. Mrs. Kincaid, of Rutland, ()., was entertaining a merry company of friends in her I arlors. Suddenly she excused herself, went ] out, and drowned herself in the cistern. j Jennie Roberta, of Meadville, Penn., could not get permission from her paren'.s 1 to attend a dance upon which she had set her j heart. She resented their refusal by drowning herself in the mill j ond. After living seventy-three years, Mrs. ' Eliza Cook, of West Mexico, Mo., widow, ! thought she was too old to be useful in the j > world. She drove a large pair of blunt scis- : 1 tors into the top of her head with a heavy iron bolt. j "After a (luarrel with his wife about some , > mor.oy which he had out at interest in Ger- I many, Christoph E.te!, aged seventy-five, ! J went out in his orchard at South Belleville, j , Mo., and hung himself. Ho first struck his [ , wife on the head with a spade, then ran to hie barn and stabbed himself in the left breast, and finally went to the orchard to hang. , When Mrs. Witty, a cous'n of Frank and i Jesse James, found she had married her husband under a false name she compelled him 1 at the point of 11 pistol to mnrry her agiin : under his real name of t-inyleton. When i < Singleton was shot by "f'ana la Biil" she i wa* surprised to have another woman come j to his bedside andclaim him as hiswi'e She ' I drove her out at the pistol's point. 8.ngle- i 1 ton d'ed, and his dovo.ed wife took mor- i A THRILLING SITUATION. Perllon* Poaltfon or Fourteen Firemen nt a Fire In New York. A thrilling scene occurred at the fire in the eight-story Munioe building in New York. At half-past 1 the fire was mostly in the fifth, rixth, seventh and eighth floors on the Vandewater street side, and had not yet extended through to Rose street- It was thought it would do so, however, and to cbf ck the adv anos of the flames Chief Gicquel sent fourteen members of Engine Company No. 7 and Hook and Ladder Company No. 1 upstair with a line of hose and their axes. The men were only able to get to the fifth floor. Here what is culled a "back draft" suddenly filled the room they were in with smoke. It came so fast and in such volume that the firemen, to save their lives, threw themselves flnton the door. Some distance away, overlooking a cour.'yard, weie two windows. Toward these windows the suffocatinz firemen crawled. They were cut off from the itnirsnnd from the only fiie escape in the building by the smoke. Their only hopel ty in getting niJ from the outside through tho windows. They shouted for help, but the men below, busy with the Cre, did not hear them. Suddenly two of the imprisoned men, Tuite and O'Brien, of the engine company, fainted and we re'apparently in a dying condition. Their companions gesticulated out of the windows und uttered frantic cries, rhe racket mode by the puffing engines irowned their cries, ani the word was pns-ei 01 e to another to jump?into certain death, it Biemel?when some one below looked up. With renewed hope the twelve imperilled men repealed their cries for help, bat to their horrortheir reijuestwas misundvrstood. It was thought they wan'.e 1 another line of hose, and no haste was being made to get it to 1 hem, when Chief Gic iuel's attention was called to the spot by seeing the men below setting the hose ready. He shouted up: "What is wautei?" "Wn nrn rnt off. HurrV UD Or W6 must jump," came hack the answer.* "It's a lifeline they want," shouted Chief Uiciinel to those about him, who for some reason had not been able to hear the thrilling reply to his question. All was excitement at once. A forty-fivefoot extension ladc'er was quickly brought ind pla< eJ in positi n- Jt was too short by twenty fi et. Out on the window sills were two of the peri-hing fiemea ready to throw hemselves down. Ghier (jicquel motioned to them to go back, and they obeyed. He then by signs f >und that they had a piece of it in^, which, howe e.\ would not reaoh the top of the ladder. This he directed them to ower. Then two firemen went up the ladder ind with difficulty tied the eud of the string ? a small rope, by which a larger one was mmtdi itely drawn up. No time was loet n making it tast above. As-istant F( ranian Heeney, of the truck Jompany, started to come down first, as he vas very faint and the most exhausted of ill. He began lowering bimBelf hand nnder rnd. when his strength gave out and he lipped fully sixty feet, teaming the skin from both his hands. Fortuna ely a fireman yiught him when he struck ihe ground and prevented more serious in ury. An employe n the buil ling was the next (ne down, and ;hen cameTuite, O'Brien, Borland, Shanghlessy, Hlor.n, Pilger. Donovan and Kent, of Engine No. 7, and McChin, Breen, McClain md McCarty, of the trnck company. As the ast man bit the wind -w sill flames burst from it cut over the courtyard. The exciting cene waB witnessed by a spellbound throng L-i -L-a-aJ lnn/^Itr nf Or/MOflaflll /V?TTI nut DUt'CI OU 1UUU1J uv no auwwsw*?* ?letion. THE NATIONAL GAME. Quest has been suspended by the Detroit slub for poor play. Dougias Allison, the old Cincinnati jatcher of 1869, has been engaged to catch for Neagle by the Baltimore club. The Philadelphia's nni'orm resembles the Boston's very much. They have white suits, :rimmed with red, red stocking, cap with red visor, and shirts with "Phila" woven icross the shield. The official averages of the American as iociatiou show that the Allegheny's and Co lumbus lead in batting iftid the St. Louis find Cincinnatis in fielding. The Baltimores ire at the foot in both departments. At a recent match in Cincinnati Umpire Pratt stopped the game and ordered the Cincinnati club to remo.e a man in the crowd who had made insulting remarks to himself and visiting players, which was done. A smashable fourteen-inning game was played at Pittsburg, Penn., between the Allegheny and Metropolitan clubs, the result by innings being as follows: Allegheny....0 200020001010 1?7 Metropolitan.0 00021 1001010 0?6 I* a came at Detroit between the Boston ind Detroit teams, Umpire uurnnam nnea Whitney, the Boston pitcher, $10 for insulting language, and he tined Burdock $20 for [wilfully obstructing the Detroit first baseman while in the act of throwing a ball to seccnd base to put out Sutton. Some one has taken the trouble to figure the thing up, and finis out that 600,000 baseballs were used up last season, while it took 30,3C0 cprds of wood to keep the country supplied with ba eball bats. The surgical operations follow'ng games were not hgured up by the enterprises* statistician. league club becobd. The official record of the league ohampionship games played ap to the 21st 1s a* follows: i i . $ C"7* j. Ji -a f| Is Ji8!|i|!5k 8 I'l ?:?jO o QjK 5h * op Boston ?J sj 3j 3 7i 3lol| 816C Buffalo 2- 2: 3. 3 7 7 1 25 63 Chicago 7 4- 2 4 4 6 fi 3264 Cleveland 4 4, 4 ?: C, (i! 9! 6 3855 Detroit..: 4 3 3 1?| 3 5 2 21M New York..w... 6) 4 3, 4 4;?; 4 2 26 67 Philadelphia.... 0 4 1! 2 2| 0?1 2| 1158 Providence I Gj G, 2 9 8j 6;?| 39 58 Games lost.... \'2G28 22 J7 35 31 '4719^?^? amebicam 18sooiahom bl&.obd. || jfiLlj Clot. ? . 2||!| .'|ig || .8? i1 s | s ?-;g $ s SiSall'Siltf is s 5 cj .2 o y i'j ce d CIcmoowSM 0 0 Allegheny ? 2 4! 3j 2 2 2 1 J8I53 athletic 8- 8 3 5, 3 6; 4 36,52 Baltimore 2| 2-! 2, 4! 2 ii\ 0 15 54 Cincinnati 3] 4 5? 5 6 3, 5 3153 Columbus 5 ll 3 2 ?2 2, 3 18:53 Eclipse 5! 3 6 3 7|?j 4; 3 3152 Metropolitan.... 6| 1> T 4 5 2?! 1 26(53 St. Louia 6, 3! 0! 5 7j 4 6? 37,54 Games loBt.. ..'35 1G :K)22 35 21 25,17.?|? TilE RIFLE MATCH. Second Victory for iho British Team?The Hcore. The return shooting match between teams Df twelve men representing the American ind the British militia was shot at th IVimbledon rifle range and resulted, as last rear at Creedmoor, in a victory for the English. The matoh was shot at six difl.ances >00, 500,600, SCO, 100, and 1,000 j ard*. Last rear the British team was successful by a total score of 1,975 points, to 1,?0"> for the \mericans. Piveof last year's team were 3ii the American team this year,and seven of ~~i ... ? af.m f/inlr nnrt in this ?'k)OlU = """f.. ....... , gear's match. ThisyeartheAmerican team led an the first day, beating their opponent** at .>00 and(XX) yards, the British tean gaining en point8 at "K'O yard?. At the end of the Srst day's shooting the Americans were in the van by eight points. On the second day the Americans guined sixteen more poins at the 800 yards range, but at !<00 yards the British team gained thirty-four points, and s-ere then leading by '-'4. At the 1,000 yards ange the British team increa-ed their idvantage by thiity.five points the grand otals being points for the British team ind l.SKX! for the Americans. The Britons ilius won the match by forty-fivo points. A leavy rain on the second day prevented good shooting, many misses being lecordeu by ;oth teams. Following are >he scores nade by both teams in 1882 and n 188:<. It will be seen that he Americans advanced materially in their shooting, while the English retrogaded considerably : TOTAL SCOBEfl FOB 1882. Team. 200 r>00 GOO 800 0001,000Total 3ritish 340 378 344 293 313 307 1,975 American. .331 3G9 343 255 271 236 l.SOj British lead. 9 9 1 38 42 71 170 TOTAL fiCOBE FOB IITO. Team '200 500 (XX) 800 900 1,000 Total British .'MO 376 354 330 297 254 1,951 American 352 366 360 340 263 219 1,906 British lend 10 ?'J4 35 45 \mericanlend 12 ... 6 16 ... This yenr, Dr. S. I. Scott, a private of he Washington National rifles, mads the jest score for the Americans?173 out of a possible 210. Of the British team, the best individual score is credited to Wattleworth, ivho made ISO. Upon the conclusion of the match the \merican* dres-ed in full uniform preparalory to being received by the Duchess of Teck, who was giving away the prizes. The \mericans marched into the inclosuro in military order. 1 ord Brownlow invited them lo take a positon on the principal platform, svhichwas reserved for state visitors. The Duchess of Terk shook hands with each of tl>6 Americans. Karl Brownlow, in a short speech, thanked Ihe Americans for coming to England, and fnid he hoped that tho bonds ot affection would bo maintained between England nnd ihe great coun'rythe Ameri 'oiw repres n'ed. His remarks were gree' ed wit h great cheering. Colonel Howard returned thanks ou behalf of tho American team. He said the Americans hoped to take their beating gracefully. Ihey hnd bnckbone enough left to join in cheering the British team and nation. The crowd than dispersed. M^njr officials .'hook bandawarmlywithtbeAmericaJJ^^^^^. imiifl wcbb. The .Voted English Nvriminer Drowned While Attempting to .Swim Throncb tha Whirlpool Rapids at Mngnra FilU> Captain Matthew Webb, the champion English swimmer, who successfully swam the British Channel, has been drowned in the whirlpool rapids, in the Niagara riTer. In 1661 the little steamer Maid of the Mist, with three persons on board, ran the fi whirlpool rapids of the Niagara, passed through the whirlpool itself, and glided into the quiet waters at Queenstown. Of the three on board two survived the trip, the only persons who ever went through this fearful channel alive. Captain Webb attempted the feat without any ar'.ificial aid whatever, and was oonh/dent his endurance and swimming powers would enable him to accomplish the undertaking in safety. He was rowed out into Ihe river, whera he commenced undressing. When near the Maid of the Mist landing. about threa hundred yards above the old suspension bridge, at 4:02 p. m., he dived into the water, and, on rising to the surface, began swimming toward the rapids. Just as he eutered the rapids, al- iS most immediately under the bridge, he wa3 nearly turned over by the force ofthewat9r. From this point until he was J \-7, in the midst of the raDias he wsb plainly seen by those standing on the bridge, swimming determinedly. Attimes he plunged * " f ~Ll ^ 4Ua?% arpoin HAtlM Ka A Jill Oft UUb ut Blgllb) (tiiu luou oi^iuu wuivt wvw? ?.? top of a huge wa-. e. He gradually passed through the terrible rapids aid continued on h s way toward the whirlpool. He was followed by as many as con a get into carriages, and even then they could not get ahead of him. The lastthat was seen of him was just as he was entering the whirlpool, when he was apparently doing nicely. When he struck the whirlpool he was rushed to tha American side, where the waves, it is estimated, are from thirty to forty feet nigh, and the last seen of him he was throwing op one arm. His intention had been to pass the whirlpool on the Canada side. The river was at once searched for two miles below tho whirlpool, but no trace of Webli could be found, and it is general!? believed that he was engulfed in the whirlpool. Captain v Webb leaves a wife and two children in England. . . Captain Webb was a man of powerful physique, being six feet one inch tail, finely proportioned, and weighingabout200pounds in condition, He was a moet powerful swimmer and made long-distance swimming a specialty. His greatest feat was in swimming from Dover to Calais. The trial took (ilacj August 24 and 25, 1875, and, after a desperate struggle with the choppy sea, he accomplished the distance of twenty-five miles in twenty-one hours and forty-five minutes, the best * le on record. MUSICAL AND DRAMATIC* Fanny Davenpobt will open in " Fedora" in New York, Octobe * 1. '% A mew tenor, Herr Goetze, has made a sensation in Berlin, Germany. Lawbenok Babbett follows Mary Anderron at Henry Irving's Lyceum theatre, Lonion. Mb. Gzoboz Ridpl* will read at abont ' * ' ALf. t - twenty different watering places uua ?iuumer. Next season Miss Anna Dickinson will give 120 dramatic performances in principal cities. Mb. Fbank Evans will prodace a play by Joaquin Miller next season entitled "Tha Silent Man." - ;' The transportation of John Robinson's . circus from the Pacific slope to Australia will cost $40,000. Mb. W. J. Fkbguson has recently produced, with promising leaults. at Newark, N. J., a new play, entitled "A Friendly Tip." Mme. Ribtobl the oelebrated Italian tragedienne, will make a farewell tour . (PU, through the United State) daring the season of 188* and 1882. Statistics respecting the London theatres ; have been published. The thirty-six establishments in that city represent a value in lands and buildings of $500,003,000. They employ constantly 10,0)0 persons, and perioJically 10,020 mora Their seating capacity is 75,COD, and the average attendance 51,000. - > La whence Babbitt will shortly prodnce Schiller's "Don Carlos," translated and adapted to the American by t ie late Bayard Taj 1 r. h:s las', literary wark before being appointed minister to Qermany. Gounod declares that he will write no more for the operatic stage, bat will devote himself to the composition of religions works. He is now bnsy over a grand composition for the Birmingham festival of 1885, entitled A "Deathand Life." flniouDTir Vnnnr in nrohnblv one of tha richest musical composer? in the world. He ' is also one of the mo3t benevolent. The fe'.&'-f; [.oorof Bussoto call him blessed, for his gold-filled hand is ever open and oat- < stretched to alleviate their sufferings. He is now building and will fully famish and liberally endow, a fine hospital for the poor '< of that town, which will soon be openea for nse. Edwin Fohbix's first appearance on any stage was in a female character, He borrowed the dress of a female relative, bat it did not fit him very well. As a result when he appeared upon the stage, he was reoeived with shoats of derision, one boy in particular making espeoial fun of him. Forrest got in a towering passion and, striding to the tallow-candle footlights, roared, in a voice * of thunder: "I'll punch that fellow's head H after this show is over." And he did. K Sib Julius Benedict is overran oontlnunlly with visits from aspiring youngsingeis, ; "= who want him to "try their voices." He is H very patient, and hears each applicant sing H a stanza of a ballad. Then he generally / ?'says: "Why don't you go on de stage, my H young frient ? You haf got a goot voice. H Just take my cart to Oarl Rosa." "(Sir H Julius," asked a "third party" who wu H present once, " what will be the result of gfl that young man's visit to Carl Ro38 V' "He may be. perhaps, catch himself on de fl rtlinnnB " . ?. ' PROMINENT PEOPLE. 9 Delano.?Ei-Seoretary of the Interim Columbus Delano it now a large wool grower. H Bayabd.? Senator Bayard has received the 9 degree of LL.D. from Harvard, Yale and Durtmonth colleges. 1*4 Beecher.?The Rev. HenryWard Beecfcer, R9 who if flow leoturing in the West, will visit California, (JrSgon and New.Mexioo, and retnrn home about October 1. Kino.?Clarenoe KingT^ brilliant geologist, is in England, and he has $ned with the queen and the Prince of Wales. tha? social lion of the hoar in London. ? -rf* Clemens.?Mark Twain, who is slowly recovering from a very severe rheumatic attack, has discovered that there is something iu the world that isn't funny. Duke of Newcastle.?In consideration of the continued depression in agriculture, the Duke of Newcastle ha^ returned to his tenant* thirty per cent, of their rent for the past half year. l /i?npvTT/iw.?Ernest Lonrfellow, the poet's pon, has made a selection of twenty ol his father's poems, which he will illustrate. 1 he snbjeots are mostly landscapes, and the pictures will be made of the scenes them- pelves. Pbinoe Nicholas.?Prince Nicholas, of Montenegro, has just published a volume of original poems, some of which are said to show considerable ability. That faotand the position of their aathor hare given them a large circulation. Wodianeb.? A sensation has been caused in Vienna by the announcement that tb? great financier. Baron Wodianer, is engaged to marry his hou-ekeeper. From the point of wealth and inflaence the baron is second only to the Rothschilds. Eugenie.?Ex-Empress Eugenie is thus pictured by a writer who saw her lecently: "A rather 6tately-looking woman, in deep black, not a bit of color anywhere, about her eyes the twinkling ripples that the years make, around her mouth the deeper drawn lines of sorrow, a sallow face, hair with gray in it." Sibatton.?The late Tom Thumb's full name was Charles Sherwood Stratton, not Hevwood, as generally i-nnoonced. In the Mountain Grove oeinelery in Bridgeport, Conn., yeans ago lie bought a lot and erectea a tall marble shaft, surmounted by a lifesize statue of himself. Near this monument * he was buried. BAhniOLDi.?Fiederic Auguste Bartholdi, the sculptor, who is completing hi.*immense statue of '"Libarty Enlightening the World" as a present to this country, is nbout fifty yours old. He wns a pupil of tho famous Ary Scheffer, and wa< one of the French commissioners at tho centennial exhibition at Philadelphia in 187V. Ho was so wc'.l pleased with his visit hero that lie decided on carrying out his previous intention as to the great siatue, and on his return to France instiluted a subscription for tho construction of the gigantic liguro for Now York harbor, volunteering his work. And when snbscriptions lagged, he pledged his own private fortune to its completion. In addition to thi < statue, M. Bartholdi is engaged on the sculpture of a lion, to bo cut out of solid rock, on tho fiice of a mountain at Belfort. France, the figure to be eighty feet long and thirty feet high. CRUSHED TO DEATH. Eight .Urn Killed by (he Fall of nn Arch of n lllant Furnucc. A Syracuse (N. Y.) dispatch says: At 3:35 p.m. to-day a terrible acciuent occurred at 'l- A " Tmti mmnanv's blastfurnace. HHP VyiIUiiUC%?" 1 about half a milo west of the village of Gedde?. For several weeks the bla3t fur nace has been unused, it having been outol repair. Joseph Daw.-on. with a gang ol men. ha? been in removing the inner or lire bricks of (he arch, leaving only the outer course standing. The foreman considered the onter c?>nr>c onliroly s.'Ctue. Witlunu the slitihleot warning the urch onved in, burying the workmen be nea'h sixty toi s of brick. The men at the mil'at once set to wort to remove tho vie t ms. and in less th in nn hour ciuht bodiow ere taken from tho rains. Several handled persons wore at the scene. Sons, daughters and wives wept as the dead bodies were removed from the ruins. Business was alniosi