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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.
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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.
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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