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BY HUGH WILSON. ABBEVILLE, S. C.. WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 15, 1883. V -. * NO. 9. VOLUMEfXXYIII. ;g|
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A baby in its mother's arms
A little girl v i:h various charms;
A tender maiden, youngand fair,
A lover with his nnl-brown h 1'r,
A woman ir ariietl with so mncli care;
A mother with a darling child,
A mother with tender looks and mild :
An old lady with a wrinkled brow,
A newly ilu; gnve in thft froste.l ground.
Sighing winds with a murmuring sound?
'"Suchis life."
?Springfield Republican.
HOW THEY CAME HOME.
It was not much like a welding ?
that is, a happy one. It was in the
old stone house on Quackatog Ilill,
where the Palmers h: d lived time out
of mind; one generation after another
moving out u> ine graveyard a uiue
higher on tlie hillside, where the long
grass waved and nearly hid the tombstones
of John, or Daniel, as the case
might be?and Ilannah, "His wife,"
:md Lois, his wife, and Ab'gai), his
wife.
It was a good omen t'.at the sun
shone--the hills and valleys in front of
the oil home;tead were golden green
in its rav-, and tin water of the Sound
fai: ly g isle it d toward far away Block
Is'unil.
Through the windows of the parlor
c.une the sin"11 of mignonette and the ;
tId fashioned Southern wool. No
llowers had be.in gathered to make the
wedding gay, but the nasturtiums
crawling all over the old st'-ne wall
tossed their bright heads and lo.>k"d
in while Eider Howe made of this
wain one llesh.
Xone but the elder had good wishes
for Mary?rahner and Robert Churchill
excel t, indeed, little lame Danny,
who had be< n his s'ster's pet, and who
clung to Ji r liana. Tliev w re wen
matched in ap; e.iran- e. Mary, with a ;
lair, refined face, down which some j
? very bitt r and un'iridelike tears were j
stealing, and l'ol ert, with clear, hon-!
est eyes and the broad chin that lietokens
strength and decision of character.
"What was the trouble? It was the j
love of m< n v. As young Churchill
1 a 1 no farm, present or prospective,
he was in old 1. aniel Palmer's mind no |
match for his daughter. Then, too, j
his father had been poor. "Never
1 acl no faculty Tor gitting ahead,"
(irandi a Palmer said; so when he died,
soon followed by his wife, the boy was
left with only enough to give him a
good common-school education, and
take care of him until he could take
care of himself, for which he early
showed a disposition.
Marv and liobert had been lovers i
from childhood; hand in hand they
had gone to school, long summer afternoons
they had spent gathering blueberries
in the rocky pastures, and their
engagement might have developed
into the old-fashiontd twenty-years'
waiting had it not been for the appearance
on the stage of o!d Peter Stantou,
who, having mourned two months for
his second wife, thought Mary Palmer
a good one to succeed her.
As he was strongly favored by the j
family, poor Mary's life was made j
miserable, until Robert, who could illy I
endure se< ing her unhappy, or the con- j
tempt with which he w.is treated, pro- j
posed that they should marry immediately,
and was so determined that he j
carried the day, old Daniel granting,
that they might be married in his
house, but declaring that no darter of i
his who would rather marry a beggar
than a well-to-do mar. should have a '
ceat of his money. Xo wedding
preparations were made, ancl Mary,
putting in order her few dresses, and
remembering that when her sister married
the stupid son of a neighboring |
furmer that much was given hor, |
and all .helped, feit bitterly that sh \
was unjustly treated.
They were to go to a neighboring
village for a week, and, a* the wagon
which was to take them to the depot
rattled up to the door, the l ather strode
moodily away. George, the "ne'er-dowell"
son in whom the/heart of the
mother was bound, had not honored
the marriage with his presence. Mary,
leaving a good-bye for him, and kissing
the ethers, turned to her mother,
and f?ung her arms round her neck.
OUv-wutWr," she said, "you will be
glad to see me when 1 come back?
won't you?" For a moment the
mother's lips trem' led, and she kissed
her daughter warmly; th;n, hard n:ng
again, she said: "Of course, M it,
1.^11 ,.!?,/! +/> AAA If/Ml Ktlf V.!ll I
>VC UC f^iciu tu ocr jyru, uut ao urn
have made your led you mus- lie in
it. You could lave ple;tsed us all."'
Mary turned, and with one hand held
by lier husband and the other by her
faithful little brother, went down the
walk and out of the g te. It was years
before she entered it again, then, laying
her hand upon it, there came vividly
back the feel ng of being shut out
from home 1 y a tlaining sword.
When a few miles from home these
young people began to talk of their
iuture. As Mary said " When we g>
back?" Robert gayly interrupted her,
"But will we go back; why need we
go ) ack, Marv?" And as she looked
bewildered, he c ntinacd: '-I have
thought mil h a', out it. They have
been unkin l and iut.,ust t'> us. With
my best efforts it v.i.l be \\ars before
I can make a home for you as g >< d as
the one I Iiuvj tak n you from, and if
I fail it would be t?.* hear ' I told you
so' on all side.-. I.e: us go away from
them ail and light the battle of life.
Others have succ.edcd; why cannot
we?"
' But v. here sha 1 we go ?' faltered
Mary.
"Go? Where shall we go? The
world i.s wide, a <1 it is mine oj>t?r.
Are we such t.u.l nivts?oh, 1 forgot
Elder IIowc made us one?that we
cannot open it ? il^re is a railway"*
l"t lie ni.i.n n 1 TlirniKr'i
HUU=,ilV..u v.,..
train to Chicago. Well, let us go to
^ Chicago; perhaps there will lie room
for just one more couple. I have a
hundred dollars; it won't go far, hut
we are voting and well, and I will succeed."
*
j* ' And 1." sighed Mary, " have a ten
7 dol'ar gold-piece that grandma gave
me for a lucky penny. Mie said she
should have left n.eher money it' I ha 1
married a 'likely man.'"
"Let us hope," said Robert, with a
happy laugh," that 1 shall be likely
rot t"> ne d her m -ney. And whether
we go bar k or not 1 t us promise ea h
other t! at we will never ask help from
your people. We will starve lirst! Hut
this momentous question of our life
must be decided soon, and you must
decide it, my darling, for you have all
the sacrifices to make. I have my
world with me?in you."
Mary turnel her face toward the
window and thought intently. She
thought of the separation iroiii an
friends and scenes d ar to her; then of
tin future when they might Kokscorni'ulJy
up: n her husband, lint a few
ji o : ents passed before she look'd into
the honest eyes that awaited her
d cifrion an 1 sai 1 quietly : " We will
Ll>'
The morning of the second day they
1 ft the car tl.at seeir.ed ;d i ost a home
for them and went out into the busy
streets of Chicago, a*i il whose bustJirg
crowds they felt :is isolate I as
though they were in a deseit. Duiing
a hurrie 1 breakfast at a restaurant
j'obvrt studiel "TheHoom to Kent"
c In i n of the TriLwic an ! they we e
fs on in s a ch of an abiding place,
.After climbing u ore staiis than manj
th aight had ever baen bui t, they
f< uiul two rooms on the fifth tioor of
a building on North Clark st eet. The
r nt was low an 1 the landlord male
j ro vises, fair to the outward ea-, ol
i:i p o've i ents. The roo ns were verj
d'rty, but Alary ncticod that the sun
light ca s e b.lghtly in through east an
south windows
Th n ;igala Into the sliof.B to buj
the cheapest bea litte cooking-stove
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i small table an ! two cliai " o no a la i;e
j wicker tliaf Hob.-it tli wo il 1 l:o"
l?oth?and a sewing-ch ;ir fur .Vary.
I Then dishes ?>f a co mi on dark-bin
j ware, that M: ry s:ii i ;i ig'.t, at a ve y
I great?i tan e. he mistaken for Sevres.
Tli 3' wore tire! eyes that open:'!
I Upon i.i-eolo el walls au<l diriv iloor
1 the next morning, anil both at heart
felt that tli" l?at;le f life ha 1 in lie I
began ; but I! ?bi*rt >o >n l urried away
i in sea 'ch of a p sition, an I Mary,
with broom and soinb-brnsh. began
111?* w.irk- df fih'initK'. Think of it.
yo'.i youn^ wives, who. after superin!
tending the line trousseaus an 1 gay
! wedding, go ( n a bridal tour to KuI
rope; bi.t do not in ike the mistake of
thinkinghappines dependent upon lux- j
i urious surr.uiiid ng-. Hubert thought
when he opened the door and found
the walls of the room a soft creun!
col r, the wo dwork, floors and win - j
dows shining with cleanliness, the lat- j
ter curtained with eh<ap < hecse clot'i^
drawn hack with red ribbon and tilled
with scarlet geraniums, mignonette, j
trailing ivies and nasturtium?that no
home could be as dear and lovely as ;
his, with Mary at the head of it; and
she thought home, and friends, and I
the world well lost for love of him.
But now came the troubulous times
and dark days. The small sum they J
bad expended fur their furniture had j
greatly lessened their little capitul. j
The ten dollar p!e e v. a? tiie lucky:
p nnv, not to be used until an absolute !
ne -es: ity demanded. Kvery day Robert
walked until footsore in search of aj
V fotoli'fr canniml t/i !? t.'itlrl )ilQ i
juari*. laumv; *w ?? V\ <>? ...^ .
efforts; ]?lace.-> were filled jn-t as he
rea lied them: advertisements were,
unanswered. One lirni for whieli lie j
worked a month failed, and he re- i
eeived no money. lie obtained several
small jobs, b it they paid very little,!
and lie began to feelk as unsuccessful
people d>?, that there was no room in
the world for him, and to prow thin and
pale with anxiety. T.ir.iutfhout all
M:irv was clrerful an 1 hop.-fu'.
S?) the months went on. and one
night, as they Fa' in t'.e wicker cha:r,
the moonlight streaming in at the win- j
dows, and they almost .'is far above
an 1 awav from the rest of the world
as though swung in a balloon in the !
skv, Ko'xrt said: "TVell, dear, the j
larder is empty : that means that old
second-hand ice-box?and the money is
g.?ne ; unless we use the lucky penny
we shall have t> dine with Duke
Humphrey in future"
Af e Pobert went away to look
for work the next morning Mary followed
him on the same errand. For ]
several days she went from p!a"e to
place seeking unsuccessfully for work, I
until at last she was <riven a p'ace in i
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a are snuvxer s s:io(? ?iifie mil* wuuhi j
be paid u dollar a day. She was re-!
fleeting with gratitude that upon this
smail amount they could live, and be
independent, when Robert rushed in,
(lung his hat in the air. and declared
that their fortunes wtr.* irade. lie
had a place in the office of a Mr. Love {
at $50 a month. "Y<u were right,;
Mary, it was the unlucky old penny, j
1 paid it away in paying the rent, and j
now we are all right. Hut the business?
Oli! Mr. Love is on the board
of trade; deals in hogs and lard."
" Tut if you are there, won't you
gamble away our bread and dinner?';
laughingly asked Mary.
" Well, I don't think I shall specu-l
late heavily on what is left of $50, j
after the living i< paid, but I will
promise not to at all?until you say I
may."
As Mary laid awake that n'giit for
pure joy over their brightened prospers,
she suddenly remembered that
she had forgotten to tell Robert of her,
engagement to go ta-^work the next i
morning. SJi>~concluded not to tell
him; it would only <lainp;-n his happiness,
and she must ke:*p her wo.d and
go, if only for a f-w weeks. Then,
too, .she had a plan for their anniver
1 nr.ilh'n IiuP f A I VQ.
sary, ?u;i uus ?uu.u v ??v?
cute it. There could be no wrong in
such a secret.
At Christmas-time Mary wrote;
home, and sent some little gifts to
each, but the only answer was lrom
little Danny, who wrote that all were !
well, but that (leorge ha I d rfe sume- j
th'ng "bad," aid tuat father was very j
angry; " but I love you be->t of all, mv j
dear sister, and .send my love to my j
brother." After the holidays there!
came into this clear sky sum; more;
clouds. Kobert worked early and late, j
often until late in the nig lit He grew j
moody and thoughtful, and finally j
asked Mar/ to give him back his
j romise not to speculate.
"Ii'I tru>t you, can you trust your-:
: elf?" she a-k d.
"I'll try for a while," he said, but!
the late hours and abstract'.d manner :
still continued, and Mary was glal,
at'itu^h it was th"ir first separation.!
when he was sent into the country by
i the firm for a w< ck.
It was near their anniversary, and \
she gave up the j lace, and dev? ted iho
t me and money to making tlr ir home
more comfurtal le She rented a small j
i adjoining room f r a kitchen?the
i b ir wads and fl< or of narlor and
ining roo.ii had long ! eon an eves re
j to h r. Now they wer: 1 rettily
ipaperedand carpeted. In th.;" parlor,
w..s a larg:', handsome rug, a folding!
bet', soft lounge, cha rs, a table with a
1 pretty cover ina le I y Mary during j
* 0,110 of the 1 >nelv evenings she h:.d ,
sp' nt, full lace curtains, and upon the ,
walls bookshelves, and, with s.me
pretty engravings, the portrait of
i Robert's mother nicely framed, and a
photograph of th old lions.* on the
' iiill. Through the curtain d door of
i the dining-ruo 11 could be seen t'io
ne.it tab'e, f? r which she had prepare 1
adnner as much 1 ke their vi.-i n of
Duke Humphrey's as possible, and at
i Robert's plate lay his anniversary
present?a plan gold wedwi:;g-ring
like her own.
Many times Mary walked through
th^ r )o:ns tli'nking how pretty and
1 * * ? *- i i c?
* home hup tney jiKiKfu iivnuc ituKci u
< a:nc ; 1 hen it was with such a slow
, step, and 1 e was so j?a!e iintl heavylooking
that she wa> frightened. lie
ad in i red everything :n a forced sort of
way, but at dinner cmid eat nothing,
and his bands trembled.
( "It is no usi*, Mary, I cannot eat; I
> must tell you. Come over 011 this
I grand new lounge. I e innot have you
so far from me while I tell you what I
j can haidly be'ieve myself.''
"(Jo on, Robert, an 1 tell m?,"'
fait* re 1 Mary. " We < an Lear it I am
sure."
1 ' 15ear it! Yon deir l'ttle guoif?it
is nothing bad?it is so good it has
nearly turned my brain. You know I
have been working e\tru hours, and at
night it was for extra pay, and when I
got it I took 11.y life in my hand and
i went to Mr. Love. I told hint 1 had
the dearest little wife in the world?
, who had left all for me?I wanted to
give her as good a home :us the one 1
had taken her from. I could do it if
lie woukl ten me w.iai i<> uu mm
what I hell in my 1 a:ul?it was very
l.ttle.
j "lie looked at me a moment and
J sai I he would. T.i'nk of it, Mary.
That man, wilh all those vast interests
at stake, to consider a poor beggar like
me. They talk against him fur run.
ning corners. I just hope he and his
whole family will be pn spend all
i their lives. I came in town yesterday
i evening. He tol 1 nr; to sell lard, I
i sold it all day Ion,'; la^t night we
,, worked a 1 night in the ollice. To-day
' I sold lard until noon, when he told
; me to buy it. To-night the deal was
: | closed out, and oh! Mary," said the
!; pocr fellow, crying like a child witli
f; excite;i ent, "the result is $8,COO to
' | our credit. 'And what does that mean
', for us? It means a good home foi
| you, Mary?it means something for ;i
I rainy day for you?it means a business
for me--it mean? that Danny shal;
r' come to us lobe educated; and it is a'
, the work vt that good mun. 2s o won
d<r his name is Lovo?for lie loves life
f.-!I -w-ii e i and l.elps them."
When a little calmer Hobirt took
ro.ii his pocket a <ae. "I Jo got;
lu'i e is yo ir anniversary preseti'." an 1
< ; ening it she saw bea .tiful diamond
earrings.
' i't r me ! and t > \vi ar i n the lift li
llo r of a Cla k streetboarding-h us.'!
K .1 ert, you are insane."
"1 think 1 am a little wild?hut you
have be n so sweet and patient?I
would like t? jewel the very tongua
that has only uttered words of en< (
urageinent."
" Then, indeed," hysterically laughed
Mary, " 1 should have to dine with
Duke Humphrey."
The next day was .Sunday, and no
m.?re t! ankiul hearts ever entered a
church than these, doing home
through the quiet streets that lovely
June morning they met two pertly and
well-to-do citizens, one of whom said : |
."The while effect of the corner business
is demoralizing." "Yes," an- j
swered the other, "bad, bad for every
one." Two pair of happy eyes met
each other's sympathetically, and a
soft v. ic.i murmured out: "I. say,
bles ed be the lard corner
Six years afterward Mr. and Mrs.
Robert Churchill revisited their h-me,
the fame of Mr. Churchill as a successful
business man having preceded him.
He received the warmest kind of a
welcome, a ul bis two pretty children,
and their sweet and gra ious mother,
her dresses and her diamonds, won unqualified
.admiration. They appeared
t) concern themselves very little about
it, acting like a pair of lovers, and
going again together through the
fields to the old schoolhouse.
One evening, as Mary waited in the
parlor of the old stone house for her
husband, Grandma Palmer said:
" Mary, I never thought your husband
would turn out such a likely man. He
is a good deal better than George, who
took all that money, and your father
ha! to sell this oil house, that the
Palmer's had live I in so many hundred
years, to pay it. I am going to leave
you my money."
"Yes," said" hrr father, who sat near
with his wife, " we were hard on you,
Mary, and I have been sorry."
"Grandma," replied Mary, "you
were unjust to my husban l.for he was
good. 1 could hardly forgive it. We
do not nee 1 your money. Give it to
your niece, Phebe Stillman, and let her I
marry the man she has love I so long,
and do not worry about the house;
when it was sold Pobert bought it,
r.n !, when father and mother do not
need it, Danny shall have it; it will
stay in the fa-ni'y at least one generation
longer. And, father," she said,
turning toward him with anexpre;sion
unusual to her. and in .which the
shrewd eyes of th; oil man saw his
own pride an I strong will mirrored,
?
" i <1111 sony, 10), uuu iiiu^o ovuj iui
you. You hurt ire more than you
"knew. You sent me out of my home;
and now my life is so complete and
happy that I do not need it; but it has
taught me a lesson. Danny's and my
children's homo shall always be the
dearest pi re to the:n. "We cannot
afford to lose the love of our children
in our old age, < an we, Robert?' and,
stretching out he; hand to him, they
stoo 1 where, seven years before, they
were marriel. The/ had gone forth
weeping, but had leturned bringing
their sheaves with them.?Chicago
Tr i l>u n?.
The Lanrest Feet in the World.
A Utter from Sandusky, Ohio, to the
Cincinna'i Enjiiirtz bays: Fannie
Mills lias the biggest feet'inthe world,
so far as known, and they are still
growing. Your correspondent came
here on purpose to see the wonderful
s-igh\ which would, under ordinary
circumstances, be a v<ry indelicate proceeding.
Fannie Mills is tweniy-iwo years
old, and r si !es on the dairy farm of
her father, (ieorge Mills, two miles
from Sandusky.
Your correspondent called at the
Mills horn* at eveniug, and the head of
tlie household was standing in the
yard. II is greeting was kindly and lie
i ntered into conversation 0:1 the subject
of his daughter's big feet. He
laughingly remarked that people
generally didn't Lelieve the seemingly
incre lible stories concerning Fannies
immense pedal extremities, but to
prove t tat they were really to large he
invited the reporter into the house to
see f< r himsi If. The young woman
was called by h r father and wabbled,
rather than walked, into the front
ioom. She w ore a long gowp, which
was scarcely sufficient to hide the deformity.
She sat down in a chair and
exposed her feet to view. It is almost
impossible to exaggerate the marvelous
sight. S e removed her shoes, and
then great wnuo pwuw casea, vyuiuu
were worn as stockings.
The feet look like two immense
hanis. The toes are irregular and the
little toes are r. presented by two little
kno! s. There are no toenails, although
the places where they should be are
< 1 arJy defined. Your cjrrenj ondent
un 1< rtook the delicate task of measuring
the feet. The right foot is one
foot mx inches in length, and the left
one inch shorter. Over the instep of
the right foot is twenty-one inches, and
over the other one inch less. The big
tue ol' the left foot is eleven inches in
cireumfenn e. The right foot is
longer than the left by an inch, but the
latter is heavier and thicker. The feet
are respectively seven and eight inches
wide. From tuis actual measurement
of Fanny Mills' feet any one can
j readily imagine what marvelously
large shoes she must wear. Heretofore
they have been manufactured in
! Albany, X. Y., but a Sandusky shoe
firm has the lasts and a pair of shoes on
' exhibition, whicn have attracted great
1 "HutiUnn Uorfnet luivf. increased in
size since the display in the shoe store
; window was made.
| The l.'ft slu e is 1G.\ inches long, the
right eighteen inches fn length; the left
is seven and one half inch< s wide and
the oth- r eight inches. The right instep
of th? shoe measures l'J? inches,
and the left 17J inches. Fannie Mills
weighs 10.> pounds, and, although delij
cate looking, .' ays she has goorl health.
It takes two calf hides to make her a
pair of slices, and all her vitility goes
to sustain her massive limlM and feet.
The girl hai unusually large feet when
she was horn, and t!r*y h ive continued
to grow aiarmingly f ist ever since.
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How to Tell (?oo:I
A good egg will sink in water,
j Sta.e eggs are glassy and smooth of
shell.
j A fre-h egg lias a lime-like surface
t its shell.
j The boiled eggs that adhere to the
shell are fresh laid.
Eggs packed in brine for along time
smell and taste musty.
i Thin sin lis are <aus?d by lack ot
gra\el, etc., among the laying hens.
A loiled egg that is done will dry
quickly on the shell after taken from
the kett'e.
> Alter an egg has been laid a day or
more the shell comes oil easily when
, boiled.
Eggs that have been packed in lime
look>tained, and show the action of
the lime on the surface.
j If an egg is clear and goldtn in appearance
when held to the light it is
good; if dark and spotted it is 1 ad.
!! The badness of an egg may sometimes
be told by shaking it near the
hcider's ear, but the test is a dangerous
one.
: j With the aid of the hands a piece of
i paper rolled in funnel shape and held
toward the light, the human eye can
i look through an egg, shell and all.
11 Don't faint away in an editorial
i oflice. The fellow who tried it got
I sprinkled from the mucilage bottle,
I lie felt so stuck up that he had to be
sent hem? in a Herdic.-*ltorert Post,
SEWS OF THE WEEK.""
Eastern and Middle States.
Thomas J. Smith, cashier of the Orange
'N. J.) National bank, drew $10,000 in a
l New York bank and entered a train at Hobolcen
on his return to Orange. Ho bad
: hardly Leen seated when a man behind him
i struck him violently several times with a
I pieco of lead pipe wrappjd in a newspaper.
J Instinctively Mr. Smith grasped the satchel
' containing the money, and shouted for assistance.
Toiled in tiio attempt at robbery
I Air. nmiui a nuu u cwuicuviuic, ;
! with brandished pistols, rus-hed from thecnr
to a wagon near at hand, in which <vas sealed
, another confederate, waiting to drive them
away. After an exaking chase all three
would-be robbers were caught. They proved
; to be hardened criminals, ono of them hav- j
ing been discharged from the New York |
police force for suspected complicity in the
I notorious Manhattan bank burglary.
The body of Captain Webb, the Eng'ish
champion swimmer, was found in the Nia- !
gara river a few days after his attempt to i
swim through the rapids and whirlpool
below Niagara Falls. A deep ^ash in the
head indicated that CaptRin Webb had
etrack a hidden rock in the rapids and been j
instantly killed. Engliph papers devoted \
much 6paco to the unfortunate swimmer's I
fatalfeat and to a history of his life.
[ Seyknty-fiyk rafts, containing 375,000 fee
of lumber, were swept from their moorings
by u freshot in the Allegheny river, near
Fitt<-burg. One man wa9 drowned, and the
pecuniary loss will aggregate $200,000.
Sknob Don Fhancisco Babca, Spanish
minister to the United States, shot and killed
himself in his rooms in tho Albemarle hotel,
New York, between 2 o'clock a. m. and sun-1
rise He left some twenty letters addressed !
to relatives and friends. He had arrived in
New York from Washington a week previous
and waB preparing to go with his wife and
daughter to Paris. Senor Barca was fiftyone
years of age and had been minister
plenipotentiary to this country since 1831.
The substance of the letters left by deceased
is that he committed suicide on account of
indebtedness.
Two of the men arrested for trying to rob
bank cashier Smith, of Orange, atHoboken
received a taste of "Jersey justice" in theirprompt
conviction and sentence to ten years
imprisonment at hard labor. The third
prisoner pleaded "not guilty," and was re
mandedfer trial.
Two heavy failures are reported from
Boston, thefirms of F. Shaw <f Cj., tanners.
| and Charles W. Copaland <f Co., boot and
shoe dealers, having suspended, the former
fcith liabilities of $3,530,000 and nominal
ns ets of 000,000, and the latter with
$750,000 of liabilities. F. Shaw it
Co.'s assets include tann?ries in Northern
Maine, New York State, New Brunswick and
(Quebec, and 1,?00,000 acres in Main*. There
. were from 10.020 to 15,000 people employed
by this concern, which dd tho largest tan
nery business in the world.
The steimer Octorara, of tl e New York
nnd Baltimore Transposition company,
was sunk in Black creek, within sij.ht of
Chesapeake bay, in a collision with the
steamer Elizabeth, of the Ericsson lino, plying
between Philadelphia nnd Baltimore.
Edwabd Tbodden, an eight-year-old boy
threw a butcher-knife at William Walker I
eleven yean of age, in Philadelphia. The
knife pierced Walker's body, and he died
fro n ths cffects of the wound.
Following the failure of F. Shaw & Co.,
the Boston tanners, five more Boston houses
engaged in the shoe and leather buf-ineas
suspended.
Two freight trains?one of forty-fiv^ nnd
the other of twenty-five , curs?collided near
Pownal, Vt., wi^h 'terrific effect. The en- '
gines weredrfven into each other, and fifty
cars were thrown from the track nnd piled
one on lop of each other, while some of
the cars fell into the Hoosac river.
The wreckage immediately took fire,
? * namnrieina f.hft ptim
anu six irttiu iiuuun, wuir?,?? .... --0ncers
of both trains, a conductor, two brakemen
and an operator, were imprisoned under
the cars and burned to death. The groans
of the men could be heard under the wreck,
and on account of the fire they could not I e j
rescued. 1 he loss of the road is about j
$7.1,000.
C. H. Wabd, a large Boston boot and Bhoe i
manufacturer, with factories in Brockton,
Ma?s., and Earmington, N. H., ha* failed
for about $7;'.G 000. His failure was another
outcome of the suspension of Shaw it Co.,
the Bcston tanners.
The Pennsylvania Democrats at tl eir
State convent.on ia Harrinburg nominated
Robeit Taggarc for auditor-general and ;
Joseph Powell for Sta'e treasurer, and !
adopted a platform indorsing Governor I
Patti-on's administration.
Afteb ?. contest of teven weeks Austin F. .
Pike was elected t o the United States Senate
on the forly-second ballot by the Now Hampshire
legislature at Concor J. The last ballot
stood: Whole number, 31.r?: necessary for a
choice, 158. Edward H. Rjllins, 1; Aaron
F. Steven3,1; William S. Ladd, 1: Gilman
Marston, 19; Harry Bingham, 112; A us in
F. Pike, 181. Mr. Pike, having a majority,
was declared e'ected Unite 1 States Senator
for six yeirs from March 4, l^8.i.
Mr. Pike was born at Hebron, N. H., in 181!',
and was educated ii^the schools of tliattown
and the Plymouth and Newbury (Vt.) acade.
mies. Ho read law in Franklin, nnd upon
being admitted to the bar in 1845 locnted in
that town, where he has since been engaged
in the practice of his profession. Mr. Pike
represented Franklin in t'.e legislature in
184.'), 18.">1, 18/i:', 18(if> and 18 having been
ppeaker the last two years, nnd was president
of that body last year. He was also a member
of the Forty-third Congress, it married
and has three childien.
S. C. AJ.G. Phinne^, Boston boot and
6hoe counter manufacturers, have failed.
The firm's liabilities are about ."JIOO.OOO, for
which amount they were on Shaw & Co.'s
paper.
Five suits for damages and penalties have
been commencel in Philadelphia against!
the Western Union Telegraph company for
- . j_ a r.,najn(foa tlnrinir the
delay in iriiunnutint^ ?
stiike of operatives. .
South and Weak
Five negroes were drowned through a skiff
capsizing in the river at Mayersville, MisB.
Mbs. Gi,ai>den, a Texas bride of only
two days, was instantly killed by lightning.
A stack coach plying between Helena, M.
T., and Deer Lodge was stopped by highwaymen,
who robbed the passengers, treasure
box and mail.
A fihe at Lincoln, Neb., destroyed tne
business houses, causing an aggregate los
of $2fi0,000.
Arkansas outlaws ambushed a posse in
pursuit of them, killed three of the pursuers
and then escai ed.
A detebmi.nki) attempt is being made to
stop all business in St. Louis on Sundays.
A shock of earthquake occurred a few days
ago atGilroy, Cal. A rambling sound was
distinctly heard.
Geouge Iskshek, a widely known farmer
of Grand Forus, Dakota, was herding his
cattle when they became mixed with a parsing
herd. In trying to separate them he yot
in trouble with tho owner of the passing
herd, who riddled his body with bullets, instantly
killing him.
Duiiino I rjsident Arthur's jour.icy from
Louisville, Ky., to Chicago, on his t:ip to the
Vellowslone region, the special train cirryinu'
his parly was gHyly decked with ribbon
and bunting, and was ^rested at various
points a'.ong lh; route by cheers f o 11 large
crowJs. At many <ta:ioi:s tlu Prcs'dent
shook hands with j>.s many of (he | e p o as
could geilo h m, and in Chicago he held an
in'o n al public lecejtio.i 'asliug until a late
hour.
At the Minn'sota Deirocratic S a!o <onventim
in St. Paul, W. W. McXa'r for governor,
together w.tli a full t c e', w is i o ni
cael. Anti-prohibition lesolnticn; wjro
passed. 'J he plalfoim ded ires fi r a lar.ff
for revenue only, apjr-ves the river and
' ??"? tnr n Mtidinll of the
harbor uiu, ?uu vino ... _ .
patent lnwa.
D. W. Pbkssell, unlerarr?t r.t Miiy.rrville,
La., Tor ossaulting a little ^irl, was
taken forcibly out of jail by a cro?dand
hanged in the court-house yard.
Vibqinia has presented a claim on t'l
Federal treasury for about $7;"0,00) on nc
count of the distribution of surplus rovcnu:
[ forty-five year* ago.
From Washington.
Colonel A. F. Kockivull, it) chargo o(
11 pnblio buildings and grounds in Washington
i rteommends that $25,003 be appropriate
for improvements fit the Wliilo House. The
tot.nl of appropriations asked for the next
fiscal year for the expenses of improvements
and care of public buildings and grounds is j
| $'21G,AGO.
j A Wkst Point military endet ha? jest been !
j discharged from the institution, by order o? I
I'rosident Arthur, upon recommendation of j
j the superin'emlent, for hazing a brother j
cidot while acting as aent'nel.
| Reduction of the national debt during
July, $7,900,.mG8.
Government receipts during last month
were $.'L\COO 801, as against $3G,323,724 in
July, 1882.
On the 1st inst. the national debt, less
cash in the treasury, was $1,513,1C0.G1G.80, j
casli in the treasury, ?3">1,K1G,345.17.
An exhaustive re.?ort of the cattle com- !
mission shows that no foot' and mouth dis- j
cnFG exists among the came 01 mis country, i
DuiUNiJ .lu'y I ho various United Statea I
mints coined 70,000 gold pieces worth $1,1'f
0.000: 2,42.':,C0D standard silver dollars, and
minor picces worth $28,HO; total coinage,
4,::r>7i0 0 pieces, worth ?.'5,7.5:5,' 0).
Foreign News.
A syndicate of Ijondon nnd continental
bankers has been formed to obtain the
recognition of Confederate bonds, and to
force the Southern States to pay the holders
of these bonds at least in part. About
$:i0,C00,C00 of these bonds are deposited in a
London safe deposit company and more
are expected; and the syndicate expects to
bQ paid a certain percentage of the proceeds
if they effect a compromise with the Southern
Slates. According to tie New York
Herahl correspondent who sends an account
of the formation of this syndicate, a gentleman
well acquainted with its plans says in
respect to its methods of operation: " The
syndicate hope to hold this great mass
of bonds a3 a constant cloud against the
crodit of the South and in opposition to any
enterprise, no matter what it is, that comes
from the Southern States. They say that
already in this market, for years past, whenever
a Southern enterprise has made its ap
pearance this mass of discredited securities
has been thrust in the face of the Sonth, and
in such a way, though not then in a consolidated
form as now, as to have been a constant
nnd terrible obstacle to Southern advancement.
Now, they say, the obstacle
will be more heavily felt than before." The
Herald correspondent says that the syndicate
" expects to get in $103,000,COO, and if it
can succeed in obtaining twelve per cent, a
pettlement with the bondholders would leave
three and a half per cent., or $3,500,000 a9
the share of the company."
Fbehh troops made a sortie from the town
of Hanoi in Annam, killing 3,000 natives
and capturing seven pieces of artillery.
The French loss was eleven men.
By an explosion in a mine at Caltanisetta,
Sicily, thirty-five miners, out of a total of
seventy, lost their lives.
A man has crossed tho English Channel
from Dover, England, to Calais, France, on
a floating trieyle.
Later dispatches state that 4,030 persons
perished by the earthquake on the island of
Ischia, near Naples. Mcst of the victimB
are women and chil-ir^n. Only five houses
were left stnnling in the town of Cassamicciola.
All the hospitals in Naples were
crowded with the injured, and the deadhouses
were filled with the bodies of vicr'n'na
/viiilfl hA hAnrd from the inins.
nd a large force of sapper? was put to work
to rescua tho e who were still alive.
Eight hundred more troops went to the scene
of the disaster. Fifty wooden hut* were
built immediately for the accommodation of
the survivor.?. Professor Palmieri, direct);of
the meteorological observatory on Mount '
Yesuviu , states that the disaster was notduo
to an earthquake bat to the subsidence of
the ground.
James Cabey, the Irish informer in the
Phtnix park ca^es, was shot dead while
landing from a steamer at Port Elizabeth,
South Africa. The murder was committed
by a fellow-passenger of Carey's named
O'Donnell, who was arrested. The English
government had taken special and expen.
sive measures to protect Carey. O'Don
tiell had dogged Carey from London. The in- '
former was traveling underan assumed nam6
with his family. News of his shooting created !
intense excitement in Loudon and Dublin, j
A large crowd gathered av. night in front of
James Carey's house, in Dublin, cheering
loudly because the informer had been killed.
Carey, it will be remembered, was a member :
of the Dublin municipal council and promi- |
nontly connected with the Irish " Invinci- I
bits,"' a secret society. After the assassination
of Lord Cavendish and Mr. Burke Carey '
turned informer, and it was mainly through 1
his testimony that five members of the "In- I
vincibles " were convicted and hanged fot j
the crime.
1 iiebe were 777 deaths from cholera in j
Cairo and twenty-one other places in Egyp I
on Sunday.
A Naples dispatch says that Mount Vesuvius
is in a state of eruption. Lava is descending
from the crater in lho direction of
the town of Torre del Greco, at the sonthwest
foot of the mountain. The inhabitants
of Torre del Greco are fleeing to places of
safety.
Genebal 1 'bendebgast, captain-general
of Cub:i, his resigneJ.
A woman nan.ed Paquetand two children,
of Montreal, and two boatmen were drowned
in the lower St Lawrence by the capsizing
of the boat in which they were attempting
to cross the river during a storm.
It is said that there was a f-hock of earthquake
at I.-chia some days before the great
upheaval, but that ths fact was hushed up by
the authorities for fear that if a report of it
wns sent abioid visitors would c6a>o visiting
the island.
Cabky'8 assassin will bo taken from Soatb
Africa to England for trial, the shooting
having occurred on the steamer just outside
of colonial jurisdiction. During the voyage
across O'Donnell and his victim were on
very friendly terms, often playing cards together.
j ewrekon William, of Germany, directed
that ihe four hundredth birthday of Martin
Luther bo observed by el! Protestant schoolsO'Donnell,
the slayer of Carey, the Dublin
informer, isdic'ared to bo in American
ci'i/o.i ar.d a native of Ohio.
'1'iie total number of deaths by cholera in I
I Egypt up 1o t'ic I'd was 11,000. Twelvt j
I English doctors have arrived in Cairo.
I a ar.vnrn enrthurcuke shock On tilt
island of Ischia compelle I a suspension ol
the search for bodies among the ruins. A
man with four childiou, a man eighty years
o'.d and two youths were taken out alive
| fr in the ruins a woe'.c after the calamity.
I Kii g Hi mbert visited Iho ,'ceneof the earth
ijuakc and wont over the ruin* of the destroyed
towns. The latest estimate puts the
number cf deaths in the destroyed towns at
?V>;0.
Indicati ns point to larger crops in EuI
ropothis year than ha* e pre vail e.l in some
i time.
Ex) en^ivk fore-t fires, owing to abuenc*
j of rain for two months, provail in Victoria
! A pjwdsr mill near Yale was ignited by i
j sj ark-! from a forest tiie and Mown up.
PROMINENT PEOPLE.
Gbant.?Somebody asked General Grant
what he "was doing nowadays." "Getting
as much comfort out of life as I can," w is
j his reply.
j H)niieuii.?Rosa Bonheur, the famous
I aniir.al painter, in the sutv-tirst year of her
j age. paints incessantly and still dresses in
I malo attire.
I Stantoiw.?Ex-Governor Stanford, of
! California, is a victim to attacks of melan!
cholii. He never goe? out of doors without j
j un attendant.
Anthony.?Mis3 Susan B. Anthony will
- ' 1 II. _.wl I
rerch homo from j!.urjpe neii, munun iwm
will at once beg'n work on the third vol- {
ume of h r history of woninn suffrage.
T vm it.?Kx-Sonnt-.r Tabor is losing money
1 ra; idly, nnl the prediction is made that in
I live joars lie will bo as poor as ho Wfis I
! when he camo across tho plains in a wagonBoua-.i;r.?Aic.ibishop
Bourget, who is
! now completing his f >rty-sixth year in
cltar.eof the see of Montreal, is ninety years
; old and still strong and vigorous. He is the
oldest wearer of the miter in America, and
has only two seniors in the world.
1)k S<to.?President De 8)to, of Honduras
who has been visiting this country,
is a short, stoutly-built man, with com
1 ulex 011 of the darkest olive and jet-black
; hair and side whiskers. His eyes are dark
I mid bright and sparkle w.th aiiimnt on ai
| he converse'. He :s apparently about fifty*
j five yeirs old.
Hoi Ki.T .?Presidont George B. lioberts,
i of'tho Pennsylvania Kail.oad company, live.;
it >1 house near Merrion, Montgomery
county, Penn., which has be n occupied bj
his own family for nearly two hundred years.
: 'J ho 2(0ih anniversary is to be celebiated in
fc'i ptem' er. Mr. Kol oris is of Welsh dei
fccnt, and hi- anreste:s wero among the first
i settlers in Montgomery coacty.
L ITER NEWS.
A man nnmecl Be^ey wai on Ins way to a
1 rain in Chicago with h:'b three children,
Jnn.es Josephine and Christine, aged rj- |
spectively ten, twelve rail sixteen years. |
when lha horses became frightened rnd
plunged into the liver at the Polk s'.reet ;
bridge, the dnw being open. The 1 a^kmau
and Besey escaped, but the children, heirg
cooped up in the vehicle, were drown.d.
Chaiileh HfnbyLee (colored) was hanged
at Richmond, Ya., for ti e murder of Daniel
Miller, also colored. He professed to be '
ready to die, and warned his 1 emers agains: j
falling into the crime which brought him to j
the gnllows. Parb.ir.i Miller, the wife of (
I.ee'8 victim, is also to be hange.l on the
j4th of September, for participating in her
husband's murder.
Eepobts received at the postoffice department
from twenty-five of the larger postoffices
thow nn intiea?o in (he sale of po-t
age stumps, postal cards, etc., for the ijrar. j
ter ended June :.'0, 18K% over the corresponding
i O! iod of the previous year of $'.32,4r>7,
or alont six per cent.
Six perfon-t were killed and several injured
by rn explosion in ft powder mill at
AngouU me, France.
KjnoTvduc, of Annam. is dead, nnd Phudftc
has succeeded to ti e throne.
Seven Englishmen were killed by the
enrlht.ua'te on the inland of Ischia.
The (rial cf (he ten Jews at N., erepyh; a a.
Hum a y, who were (harged with mun'ering
Esther Kylymoti. n Christian j.irl, n tho
synagogue a' Tis7n Easier. in o:dJr lo procure
h?r b.'ocd (o mix in i a.'B ner bread, ha^
bee i ctnsluded. A verd.'c cf not gi i'ty
lelu ned. Ihesta e wajordertd 11pay
the c: st'Of the tr al. The public pro ecutor
announced that he w.is satisfied with the
the nsult of the cafe*. Coumel for Fsther's
relatives will api eal. This trial was cne of
the mo t extraorut ary of modern t'mes,
and oxcited great attenticn throughout
Europe. The evidence disclosed that the
tii il was t e ierult of a conspiracy to excite
Chiistian feeing against the Jews.
FOOT AN'D MOCJTH DISEASE.
Not n SirR> Cufe Dlicovered l?y thcCntt!c
ComiiiiHflnn Aiiioiik A"'er|run Cnttle,
A Washington dis;atch says thatiuiegard
to the alleged existence of the foot and
mouth disease among the cattle in this country,
the treasury catlle commifs'on r.'pcrt
that a'ter n most extended nnd almost echau*ti\e
inquiry they have not btnn
nble to find any trace of th> diseaso,
apart from herds ju^t lnnd.d from
(j reat I' Titain, and tho e hen's ha< e been,
in (very c se, i e^ret'i te I uitil t! e infection
1 as en irely ( i appeared. '1 he commis i :n
say 11; t in their investigation they inc'uded
a'l the creat stock yards wl ere cattle are det:ine.l
for leeJing, watering, sale, etc.: all
the great feedings ables con itct.'d witlu'ittillrri
s : nl starch-alurose and ether fat^ries;
all the city dairies where sto<k yards
exist and where tie heids are replenished
f o:n fivcli it ck yards, nud to a
large extent tie great di irying ei?tric!s
into which cows are drawn frjin
the above-named stock yards and lines of
travel"; alfo up to the present date they have
made observations in the stock jards at the
peaboard, the terminal end of our cattle
traffic, and that to which all infection must
gravitate; but, apart from the imrorted
cases above referred to, they have bean unable
to find a single case of the foot and
month disease complained of.
Clairvoyance.
Almost every physician, during the
eoursj of hi? professional life, hears
stones regarding clairvoyance. Sjine
individual lias had a vision or dreamed
a dream which is subsequently found
to have represented, most marvelously,
actual objects or persons that were at
the time far away.
An organization in London lias be. n
investigating t'.ie alleged plienoimna
(f this class, endeavoring to apply
scientific methods to their study. The
Nit.eUeuth Century and the Fort
niyltthj Review have at different times I
j:ii 1?]isliccl some of the results of this I
work. Quite recently the latter journal
has publish d an article by Mr. Edmund
Gurnt'y a-id Mr. Frederick W.
M. Myers, claiming very positively
that the mind may at certain times ba
capable of receiving impressions
through other channels than those of
this various senses: in other words,
that tli so-called clairvoyance is an
actual physiological fact. As an example
of the class of phenomena alleged
to be re;il, we append the following
:
"One Sunday night last winter, at 1
a. m., 1 wished strongly to communicate
the idea of my presence to two
l'riends, who resided about three mile3
from the ho.tsc where I was staying.
When I next saw them, a few days
afterward, I expressly refrained from
menti ming my experiment; but in
the course of c nversation one of
them faiil, 'You would n.;t believe
what a strange night we spent hut
Sunday,' and then recounted that b;?th
the fr.ends had believed themselves to
see mv figure standing in their room.
The experience was vivid enough to
wake them completely, and they both
looked at their watches, and found it
* --1-1 /Slut * l.nOA
to be exacny j. o chick, t wuc ui hic.-jo
friends has supplied independent testimony
to this circumstance.)'*
We have ventured to furnish our
readers this account of the work of
these gentlemen because of Ihe strong
indorsement that lias been given to it,
and because of its important physiological
and pathological signiih anco.
If it could be proved that the mind can
perceive through oth<r agencies than
the senses,-it would establish a f iet
which would antagonize the pr seat
physiological theories (ba<ed upon evolution)
of the development of those
senses ; for it is now believed that tli -y
were developed in order to enable the
animal to adapt himself t > his en\ ironment.
They were mad:) by the environment
primarily, rather than for it,
and in the history of animal evolution
there are absolutely no data which
enable us to account for the development
of a supersensual perceptive
now e r.?Midihi I li> >o ril.
The Gradual Cooling- of the Earth.
In a "Treatise < 11 Natural Huh sophy,"
by l'rofe-;sors Sir W. Thomson
and 1\ (r. Tait, Sir W. Thomson, speaking
of an opinion advanced by >ir
Charles I,yell, respecting the possible
nviint-.Misiiicfi of the earth's heat with
out change throughout countless ages,
use 1 words which, says A'tto/rlerfyr,
may be applied without change of a
word t'J the stupendous theory a Ivanced
by Sir (.'. Siemens not so very
long since-such an idea of a practically
enilless cycle "violatesthe principles
of natural philosophy in exa tly
the same manner, and to the mimic;
degree, as to believe that a clonic constructed
with a self-winding movement
may fulfill the expectations of its
ingenious inventor by going forever."
The earth is necessarily cooling from
century *to century; her volcanic
'energies are certainly diminishing, as
certainly, to use an illustration of Sir
W. Thomson's, as the quantity of gunpowder
in a " monitor" is diminishing
whin, hour after hour, she is seen to
discharge shot and shell, whether at a
1" Mr nut. without r -
Iltiiii i> ?n[ucit/ic urn
eeiving fresh supplies of ammunition.
Pctrllicil Forest.
Says the Virginia ( Xev.) Knhrprist:
Andy File, wliili; prospecting
for wood up along the Colorado river,
informs the i'io: lie Ih-ioi'd that he
came upon a petrified forest on th-.f
Arizona side of the river. lie says it
is loi-ate.l in the Mu'kskin mountains,
I near where the river cuts through the
I range, and he should judge it was
over MO acres in extent. There are
(petrified trets twenty inches in diameter.
There is not a bush on this area
.that is not petrified; the sage-brush
and grass being all turned to stone.
A Novelty.
" What is that lying on your desk?'asked
(ius l)e Smith of a v<vjng society
business man, at whose oflice he
happened to be.
"Those are my receipted bills that I
have just paid."
"Receipted bills! You don't i-ay
so?" exclaimed (Jus, with animation;
let me look at them, please. I've not
seen anything of the kind in the last
five years."?*
I'GLlTLCir HATTERS.
Fennaylvnnin. Dcir#cratlc Htafe C'onrcntinn.
At the Pennsylvania Democratic'Stato
convention, held in Harriaburg, R. *E.
James presided. Robert Taggart was nominated
for auditor-general on the third ballet, i
andJoeph Powell for Sta'.e treasurer on;
the second. Tha platform which was adopted
reac's follows:
THE PLAXFOBM.
The Democracy of Pennsylvania, true to '
the fundamental faith of their party, re- |
nssert their belief in a strict construction j
unci rigid enforcement of the Federal Cjnsti- |
tution. Theyupht/.J me hur.ctitv cf personal
libertv. the security of private propoity nnd I;
the lights of local self-government. They j
b:'l.:e\o in that genuine and deep reaching |1
civil ?or\ico reform which consists in lho
e'ection to o.liee of honest, intelligent, cap- j,
able a'ld courageous pub ic servants, 'who j
win taithtuuy aitmraister their trust anu win '
le licli to strict accountability for suchaj!
dia hargo of it, and who will redca n and
purge the departments of the gener 1 -o o
meat from that corrup i j:i ana fi-.ud \.i h ,
which they havj been permeated under ;
Republican rule, and which that party has
shown itself uuablo arid unwilling to eradi-j (
c.nte. They believe in fuch taxation of tin .
people as is reciui:-ite for the necessities of ;
tho governm-r.t ic >nomicallv administered, j
and t' at import duties should be so adjust.-d ,
in thei r application as to irevent in?r,ual
b.irdens, encourage prcdi ct.ve industries at: ,
home and afford just comj eisitlon to 1/ bor, j '
but net t> create or !o; er monopolies. Trey | J
denounce i he proposition of -h? Rei ub i an',
patty th-1 the i eop e si o i!d le ta\<d .
to rni50 a surplus tm l for the Federal : ,
government to distiibutj an ong the > {
Slates. The p:o;>.'e shoild only I
be taxed so much as is absolutely indis- I .
justifiable for the fruitnl coiuluct of their nf- ,
fairs, not one cent for surplus and no unnecessary
taxation. The existing surplus in | (
the treasury should be faithfully applieJ to i j
the payment of the public debt. The money j .
not needed for the expenses of the govern- J
ment should remain in the poe'eets of the j
people. To this end we favor the entire abo- > !
lition of the present syft3m of internal I ,
taxation as a measure of relief de- j
manded by the people from an unneces- j
sary and unequal burden. They demand that j
the government should redeem r.ll its express |
and implied obligations as to the coinage, (
that it shall maintain and defend the dignity (
of Ameiican labor and the rights of Ameri- ,
can Citizens at home and abroad, They in- f
sist on resening t ie public lands for actual ?
settlers, not anct'ier acre lor corporations,!
and they further declare that?
F.rst?''I he ndrnini t ation of Governor
Pattison lias vindicate J the p'e^ges of reform
upon wiii< h it was elec.ed, and hi upright,
intelligent ai d courageous exerciseof
thj execit ve powerte enes tl eunqualified
approbation of his party aud of the people
ofihs commonwealth.
Second?The ecor.onies enforced by the
Democratic house of representatives in the
departments of the State government which
have passed und jr Democratic control and
the abolition of useless oflicts th it were a
burden upon the j eople, give assurance that
the extension of that control to othgr departments
of the Stille goveinmsnt wul be accompanied
by real reforms upen the extravagance
and irregularities which hive prevailed
under Republic! n administn tions.
Third?Public moneys are for public uses,
and all appropriations should be the subject
of rigid scrutiny, to the end that these uses
may be served without personal or loeal
favoritism, \va-*(e or peculation.
Fourth?The long-continued abuses of the
State treasury and the defiance of law by its
management make essential a radical ieform
so that large funds shall not be accumulated
by taxation of the people and
distributed among the favored depositories
of S.ate officials, but that all surplus in excess
of the imuud ata necessities of the
State government shall be invested in interest-bearing
State or Federal securities until
it may bo applied to the extinguishment of
the State debt.
Fifth?The demand of the Democratic
senators and representatives for an honest,
just and true apportionment is in accord
with the letter and spirit of the constitution
and with the rights and interests of every
section and of all the people of the State;
the shameless determination of the Republicans
in the legislature to maintain the
present dishonest, unjust and untrue apportionment
of the State by their refusal to ac
cede to any fair proposition is a de- J
nial to the people of their right to fair {
and eijual lepiesentalion. We commend the '
gove:nor for convening ti e evtr.i s?s*ion to J
enforce o':ed erne to the la.v. We counsel 1
the Democratic members of Ihe legislature (
to continue to insist upon that otedienco. {
'ihe c:st in mcney i< n >t to Le weighed 1
against the ?nt or a broken <onsiut'on, J
violated duty r.nd Ihe de :ia'. of the ri ;hts of 1
the peop.'e.
Sixth?That long cont nuad immuniiy '
from punishment for po;it(d' and other ^
crimes whichloffendeMen'oycdt n.'erltepub- (
lican conlrol of the pardon bj:ud l.rs been }
terminated by ihe stlec. on t) that boJy of 1
Democrats who 1 a e regard for their oaths ;
and duties, and who e e cise the.'r responsible
office without fea-, f.ivoror a: e tion. '
Seventh?The sixteenth and seventeenth
articles of the State cous'ituticm, regulating 1
private corporations, railroads and canals, j
are the supreme law of the commonwealth ^
governing them, and these provisions of tho <
law should be cnforc d in tluir full \igor !
and meaning by appropriate legislation. Extortionate
and fraudulent discriminations
are crimes, and should be punished as sucli. j
Eighth?That tho action of tho !eg:s'ntiire ,
in passing laws to prevent honest working- ,
men from bein,' brought in'.o competition
with convict laborers is to l.e commended, J
Bud tho Democratic hou-e of representatives j
is deserving cf especial approval for origi- (
nating the measures looking t > that end. :
Ninth?Evt ry legitirra!eeff< rt of labor to ,
betteritscondition. enhance its reward and (
j rotoct its righ's coii:minds tl e .'yirpathy i
and support of hi I)? mocrafi? party, which ,
is the natnr.il lo^ <>f mo.io- oly and the j
ratural friend of 'h' vo li gman. The (
.1 ..A .1 ??,J n, cn^ cf if?fnrv , ,
preSMIt 1 nprei eu.-m. u .mi ,
condition <>t therelationsoflaborandcai ital ,
demands th - care ul thought of legators. j
Due regard should be had to the vested rights ]
ofcaj.it land the (1 iiuisofprivateenterpri.se.
Legal arbitration is a proper and commendable
means of settling disputes between employers
and emploje*.
Tenth?The tax laws of the State should be
revised and so chnn^ed as to m ike th< m more
eiiual and more just and bear equally upon
all clsses of property.
MUSICAL AND DRAMATIC.
Sheridan's "Rivals" has been played
over 200 time- at tho London Vaudeville
theatre, where it is still running.
Chaules Gounod has written musio to '
some verses by the late Louis Ve.iillot. I
The composition is called "L-x t WisheV
Habby Bascomb, the comedian who
lo t both his legs by frost-V teat Windsor, !
Conn., two years ag), Ins been sent t> the
Rainaford island home near lioston.
It is announced that Mi.-s Mario Van j
/andt will visit this o -untry professionally !
during the season of appearing in a I
jound of those operas which have mad-' her j
fame in Europe.
The whole du:yofa weal'si i-i suggested
in the remark made by Lucietia Mutt to a1
* ? ;?- ,?f ivii. i
may who wils Ollce ;i ii fjuui l -iui.1 j
1'icls and ora'orio music: "1 inn understand J
thee, and thee doe? not scream."
Maky Andkuson excited great attention
when she appeared recently in a private l.ox |
at a London thea ro. ai d a c-owd watched ,
her departure in a ca- riage. The success of j
her engnge:m nt the e seo:ns assured.
Tkn Americans are now engaged in
writing 11 ;js for tlio Madison Square (New '
York i theatre, the list including Mrs. Bur- |
nett, Uronson Howard, .Julian Hawthorne, 1
David Belasco, Mr. De Mille and others. I
Edwin B.hiTU commence* a twenty weeks' I
season on November 5, and will play in New
York. Boston, Phi'adelphii, Washington |
iuid Lultinore. His European tonr has
been of great benefit to him professionally. I
It is s;iid that (Jerhardt, of the Loaisvill . I
club, has leceivid im offer of si TO a month
for the balance of the .-eason to play in ;
New York, and the Louisville management 1
had an offer of sl,0C0 to release him, but
it was refused.
Nat Goodwin .-md Lizzie Weather-by have
! retired to their new villa, near Boston, to
get reai'y for the season. Miss ?eatner?oy i
brought from Europe ?!. '00 worth of ne-.v
theatrical costuir.es bolide son e gorgeous j
-obes made for the queen of Spain.
Sims Reeves, the famo is tenor, is a i
portly man. weighing nearly two hundred ;
pounds, with a full, c ubby lac and a
lrnntity of curly iron-gray hair, one jet [
olack. of whic'i ho 1 a* always beju very
!>:oud.
Mus. Hen Yates who a s Mario Zoe c ea'o I j
he sensation jears ago, in "Tlio French
Spy," and won tl e tribute of wide imita- j
.ion, is to return to the sta.'e ne.it sea on. ,
Jhe was famous as a swo.dsman and dancer,
ind has be n for five years living com- |
'oitably on Long Island.
The aiiministr.ition of the J.epsic C ty I
lieatro lias nccepte I Wilhelm Uerzon's!
' Martin Luther," to be performed No.e.r.- j
<er 10. Thy piece after a prelude, br;ng? !
n the fir.?t act, tin la-nous disser.ation ;
iv th Dr. Eck: in tho 'eco :d, the burning
>f iho papal bull; in the third, t'iecouncil |
>f Worms; in tho fr.urth, tho life en tl o '
IVartburg; and in the fifth act Luther's ;
ipposit on lo tho iconoclasts.
Goinoo says that the work upon which he j
s engaged for the Birmingham festival of I
tHSfj wilt be eniitl.d "Death and Life," and 1
ifill bo in two pans. The firs: part, " l)ea li," :
pill be a species of re(iuiein. '1 he second.
''Life," will be a descri; tion of the Now
ferusalem, taken fiom tho Hevelation. and
I .n it the motifs usod in He tr.-t section
Krill bo repeatea, but do)doped "in such
way as to express tl e joy of the souU o j
;he saved in the heavenly Jerusalem of |
faints." Gcunod in end-; to write no more
for the operatic stago.
It is anno;.need that Frederick H. Cowen, j
Ihe well-known I'.nglish composer, wilt visit I
America tho coming season, having i c- i
:epted an invitation from l-r. Dainrosch, of j
New Vor!(. and tJeorye Hecsci.el, of Bos- '
on, toconduci n these cit o< tho cantata j
St. Ursula," and other of his wo ks. The ;
Bostm Hera hi hays that following < lie e
) oductions Mr. t'owin will mak e a genera! i
onr of tho Uni'.ed States and Canada, anil)
/Vill accept eng tgenlents from other musical
,oc eties who in>jy dc^i'o to p e cnb wna of i
du works und? his own directions
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AiY EARTITCUAEE 1I0RR0U.
An iHlnodNenr Nnplo* Cverwhehne3--?Tni."*
incnMc Lou of I.lfe.
One of tho meet terrible disaster? o)
modern times is tho frightful earthquakt
which has visited the island of Ischia, near
Naples. First dispatches gave the following
particulars of the awful calamity:
Tho town of Casamicciola, on the island
of Ischia, near Naples, in Italy, was almost
entirely destroyed by an earthquake la3l
night. The terrific shock was first felt about
L):30 o'clock, when a majority of the uppei
clnsses were at the theatres. Intelligence
from the ruined town comes piecemeal, bill
successive dispatch adds to the horror;
of the cumu-.ity Almost all of the houses iu
Casamicciola, itissaid, ,tc-? thrown down
and it is believed that at least person;
wer j killed and nearly as many more injured.
Rome of the inhabitants of the town escaped
to the sea after the first shock, and made
im-irway 10 xxapits wun me startling news.
A genfcerran who was staying at the Hotel
Piccola Sentinella, and who b'irely escaped
with his life, relates that he r nly had time tc
r cure some cnndles to light him ti rough the
i arknt-ss of the ruins before the building
Went down. The hotel, it is said, sink intvi
he earth and buried many of its inmates.
The center of the ure;i of this shock was
the same as that tf two years ago. but ti e
radius was much wider. The shock was felt
miles out at sea, and also, it is assorted, by
Rome of the poopie residing on the outskirts
L-f Naples. '1 ho towns ef i orio a:id Laccenir.eno.
which are not far from Casamicciola,
were greatly dampged. Large numbers ot
men, women and children who earn- e t from
Casamicciola were conveyed to Naples by
steamers, and Iheir descriptions of the disaster
are intensely interesting. According
to tho Mtn*.emet.t'of mnny i erfonfl, tho firsj
ehcc!i was followed by on opening of the
f round in many places, while in other p aces
there win no n.oven o it whatever. vVater
gn hed suddenly out of springs that previously
had not beon know;;. The walls of the
large theatre, which was a wooden strt ctnre,
were tent asunder, and huudieds of per:ons
in ilu atidierce innde their escape
through theopen'ngs. Seve.a! boi'ersin the
large bathing-house burst, scalding and
burning people who happened to be near
hem. A man who lived in the vicinity of
;he bathing establishment says that as he
>scaped from the place the walls fell close
ipon his heels, and he ran toward the eea
shouting to the terrified peoule who were
s:_. .1 1. urn- .1 1 rr? III
ftllliaillK MUUUL, lu iiiu ^Cii : iu mo oca
The great excitement that prevails in Italy
)ver this calamity may be imagined from
he fact that there were abont 2,000 visitors
n Ischin, including many wealthy Roman
md Neapolitan families and several deputies
w!io were taking the baths there.
Steamers loaJed with the dead and
njured are constantly arriving at
S'aples and the hospitals are rapidly filling
villi the fuffeiers. The public take no
ntere.it in anything else and each new batch
)f arriyalsfrom the ruined town is eagerly
canned for identification. A dispatch from
iome announces that the minister of public
vorks h is gone to Casnmicciola to organize
nea>ures of relief.
At Licco there are many dead and
vounded. At Forio the churthea are ruined
)ut 110 one was killed. At Serrara fifteen
vere kill d. The troops have recovered thl
)ody of Signor Fiorentini, prefect of Lasari.
All steamers plying between Ischia
md the mainland were immediately charted
by the government to bring the
vounded from the island.
The Naples correspondent of the Rome
lerscif/lirre telegraphed as follows: "I
iave just returned from Ischia. Casamic:iola,
Lacco and Forio have been destroyed.
Chey were threa of the most flourishing
communes on the island, which was half
>verthrown. The io\d between the towns
)f Ischia and Casnmicciola is* impnssble."
The train from Rome to Naples tolay
was ciowded with passengers going to
miuire as to the fate of their friends. There
vere very few English visitors on the island
it the time of the disaster. None of
,h3 special aispatcnen mwiuuu nuu.:an
names among the killed or injured.
T. legrams state that all tin hotels at Casanicciola
a e wrecked. The soldiers will work
o rendtr the rains secure, and will engage
n a senrch for lha wounded. A number of
physicians have pone to attend to the
njured, their aid being urgently needed.
Fhestorie* to!d by the survivors are hor ib!e.
Many Romans having vilas
it l8chia are known to have been
ost. '1 he dead are fearfully mutilated. In
iouie cases cjr| ses are plainly discernable
.hioufeh the mins?, but they cannot be
sxtricntvl. It is sunris^d that some persons
ire still, livein thecel'ars. A correspondent
elegraf h.s this afternoon that judgiDg from
erort - already at h'nd the ca'amity will ininitelj
eiceed the Chioe ear hijuakein 1881.
The syndic of Casamicciola telegraphs: "The
shock came with irrasi-itible violence, and
vas accompanied by a deafening noise. The
:onfusion in the theatre was fearful. Lichts
vere overthrown and set lire to tie building.
V dense crowd of dast tilled the air. Cries
)f pain and terror were heard on all sides.
)n hearing the shouts of 'To the seal' a
general rush was made toward the shore,
hivery boat and floating thing was taken by
ifsault."
Among the dead are Professor Palma, the
Baroness Direseis Commander Zappnti, the
wives and children of Signori Cecere,
Siciliani, All and Martano. It is probable
that the Marchioness Pacca Laurati is also
imong thede id.
Casamicciola is a town of 4,?00 inhabitants,
on the island of Ischia, twenty miles
southwest of Naples. The tourist in Italy
usually visits the island by steamer from
Naples, landing oil the nortn shore, one
mile and a half from Casa nicciola. The
i- 1
island is sixteen niiicn m uiauiuimmv., uuu
sontains n population of 28,200 people,
nearly nil engaged in grape culture
md fishing. The bathing establishments
3f C.'.sarnicciola and its neighborhood have
been famous from ihe remotest antiquity,
ind when the shores of the bordering mainland
were dotted w;th Roman villas the baths
jf Ca<ainiccio!a were in high favor, as now,
among invalids with weak lungs and skin
jiseases. The thermal springs and baths
have made the town a favorite watering
place.
A FRIGHTFUL ACCIDENT.
.Many Perseus Killed or Ininred by a Train's
Collision with a Freight Cur nenr Ho.
clicntcr.
At S> o'clock at night the steamboat express
on the Niagara Falls division of the Rome,
Watertown and Ogdensburg railroad met
with an accident frightful ill its conse- :
quences. The train was an enormous
one?a double-header, as those are called
that ara dragged by two engines?and
the engines were followed by six sleepers
and six ordinary co iches. It wai bound
fiom Niagara tor Clayton, whence its passengers
were to take a boat to the Thousand
Islands It was behind time, and swept
along at forty miles an hour. The way was
along the soutli shore of Lake Ontario. Suddenly.
when it neared Carlyon. six miles
north of Rochester, N. Y., it dashed into a
thunder squall of unusual violence. The
tain fell in sheets, the wind roared
and pre-sed heavily against the cars,
and, while the thunder was heard above
the rumb'eand clatierof the train, frequent
Hashes of lightning illuminated the country
side. 'J here were 200 people in the cars.
mainly pleasure-seekers, ana nearty annum
Michigan,
A box freight car had l een standing in a
siding near C'ariyon, and had either been
b own a ong to the junct'on of the siding
and main track or had been pushed
there by so ne ma icioas person. It
le ted so that one of its corners
p o.'ected beyond one iail of t'.e main
track, and the swiftly moving express train
ran against it. Instantly, ami without any
apparent loss of headway, the engines, baggr.ge
car, and two of the sleepers left the
Ml is and were heaped one upon the other?a
mass of wreckage?beside the track, blocking
the way of the rest of the cars and part:ally
wrecking many of them. It is reported
that the crash was heard three miles away.
The cries and shrio'ts of the wounded added
to the horrors of the situation for thosa
who have described the scene, and who
could not in the c'arkntss, and amid the
blinding and deafening storm, comprehend
t ho extent or exact naturo of the disaster.
The country is very sparsely settled there,
and assisli'nre came slowlv. The first engine
tipi?ed over on its side, and the engimer
and fireman on it e-cai ed. The engineer
and tireii an on the second engine
? ere among the kille '. Tweu'.y-threo persons
in all?four of them train hands and the rest
I nssengers?lost their lives, and nearly a9
many more were injured.
A VAST CEMETERY.
Sec. e . ol Honor Duriiijf the Kurt liqunkc o
Ix'liiu?liurial of the Victims.
All eyewitness describes the scene at the
theitre at Casamicciola, island of Ischia,
wl oatlie eardi-iuaka occurred a* an awful
one. '1 he turtiiin had just risen when a tremendous
shock was felt. A fearful loar
followed, and the ground rocked like the sea
in a storm. A gioit cry of terror arose from
iho audience, who were thrown into
a 1 eap, and a large number of them were
buried beneath the timbers of the building
which fell upon them. Two more shocks occurred.
All who could rushed outside of the
theatre and hundreds of persons clambered
into the trees in trie vicinity for safety. Most
o! t: e ihojiIo. h iwever. escape J to the shoie,
where bontir. s we e lighted as signals of dist
e-s. liun reds of half-linked ir>en and
wo:nt ii. wild uitli ler.o und grief, ran to
: n It oa;i;< 11: i i:o ruins with torches during
tli'i.ijit rch.iii,'lor missing friends. The
si arc h of the ruins for bodies of victims of
ti e ea ihqtiake on the island of Ischia was
continued durmg the night. All the bodies
recovered were I urio l immediately to prevent
miasm,-. King Humbert, who had been
sojourn in,' at Monza, went to Casamicciola.
The burials of victims of the earthquake
weie continued throughout the day. Two
hundred and eighty bodies were buried at
Casamicciola, ninety at Lacco and twentynine
at Fora). The latest estimate places
the number cf doaths at between four and
five thousand. As it would be impossible to
recover and bury all the bodies. Signor
(ione'a, Italian minister of public works,
ordered that, in view of ti e horrible exhalations
f:om tlie do.-< m w ing remains, the
ti'irecovered ci r, ses b ; 'oft where they lie
: nd l:i|ti'd lin o he poired o er the ruins
nu de 1 y tl o e u-thnu ti c. Casi.micciola will
hu- bo converted it.to a vuBtumc'ery.
THE NATIOXAL GiME.
_
Toos*mSrch ..management by stockholder!
8 said to be UiiiipjJJie Cincinnati clnb.
It is thirteen year* a^o that tiiS-Cld ^ad* ^
tnal team, of New York, defeated the Whitf
Stockings at Chicago by 9 to 0, and- originated
the slang "Chicagoed."
The salary list of the disbanded Menriti
cub, of Camden, N. J., wa3 $1,?00 a month.
Of this amount Einsile and Gardner drew
$150 a month each; Fennelly, Sweeny,
Hauseholder and Greenwood ?12} a month
each; Warner and Kimber $100, and Keinzel ^
SHO. When the clnb disbanded last week.
the majority of these playets demanded
1 y -?m 4 - rtrt fA dJfln o mnnlk fr>T fhflif BP1*.
v ces from the iramgeis of the Philadelphin,
Baltimore, Athletic and Brooklyn JjjSpj
clnb?, who wanted a pick of the teams, and fSjfS
two of them cot their terms. '
A oame of baseball fearfully and wonder M'."|
fully played was the special attraction at X J
1m; Bidga, near Baltimore, recently. Tbe 3Sn
Mewingioiiard (Oar Boyiclabe, both of tiw^3|v<
Amateur league, of Batfinpra, met to IMW
water of Bay Bidee and engaged in a gam*, ;
and after some of the most unnatural |4wC'*/'!g2|
ins ever seen the Newington bore otf the
palm of wctory. \\ hen the game wascaflec!; --t|
in the beginning of the ninth inning, tbe jffiS
Newingtcns had two runs to their credit anckr
(Jnr Boys none. Tbe two runs scored by the |H
Newingtons were made on lost balls?fortu- I
nate accidents, for without them there would fln
have been no result at all. The game w^a H8
ealled for a reason not often given? the sop-^ Hg
ply of balls became exhausted. Three were, Wwb.
lost?that is to say, went to the bottom. The ffH
g;ime begun at 4 o'c'ock and lasted until QH
The players were placed in a line paral- II
lei with the shore, but, even with this ar- gflfl
rangement, there was a great variation in
their apparent height The first baseman *j|
and right-fielder stood knec-deepin water, Hjp
tha batter and battery were up to their waista
wh lu only the head and shoulders could be
seen of tlio left-lieldtr. The rope -which gHR|
marks the bathing limit served as the fence. > 4
The bases were life-preservers anchored m - *g
the water. The frantic and generally nnsnocessful
efforts to reach first base in time made ;'*
the whole affair look very much like a game . M-j
between two nines composed exclusively of jR
cripples. In the sixth inning Horner struck %??
a fly to Toffling, the pitcher for the Newing- | ;$5
tons, who turned a somersault in his anxiety Sffg?
to take it. Very few base hits were made.; I
The batter, if he succeeded in getting in any I
sort of a crack, would seldom knock the J an
bull further than a few feet, when it would MBHB
disappear in the briny deep; then he would jM-JS
paddle away for dear life for his base; if tUf-m
poss.ble, he would throw himself on the ball Hjjg|
in front of himandtake it along with him, bm
until trio caiener, swimming up iu
*ould upset h s plans by grabbing his foot, |\$?S
The ball would be let go, and the fugitive 3w*3
tfould make some fuilher headway toward
his bose, when the catcher would splutter Ky?
around, waiting for the ball to come to thrf Mji
suifnce. He woold then scramble for it,
and just as the man thought he had hia base uH
he would find the ball a second ahead of him. jSgH
This scrambling for the bnll and awaiting 85fl
its coming to the surface proved the most I 538
irr,using and nicst exciting pait of the game. Kfl
1 here was always some doubt as to just H
.vhere it would rise and how deep it had 99
^one. The fielders had the easiest time of 9D
ill. and for the ir.ostpartamn-^ed themselves Ml
(wimming along the outskirts of the field HH
is unconcernedly as if no game was goixur
an nearer than Oriole park; the po3itianI
K-ere undoubted sinecures. The second- mStk
mseman made himself useful by swimming . Hrcftj
to iirst-base, where, with the first-baseman, HH
lie succeeded in getting most of the hands iam
,ut. One or two very pood double plays
?ere made. The loss of the third ball, just [ < $?!
is one hand of the Our Boys was out in the IB
neginning of the ninth inning, brought the jflB
Lame to a close, when the contestants tH|
jrrgged themselves to the shore, after j
wallowing enough salt water to preserve |3
hem for years.
IX VOtm OLT7B BEOOED. jjffl
The official record of the league ohampioa* AIM
ihip gamee played up to the 28thla a?f<d- II
ows; .
clv. . i -a I c *
1% mk
5 3 S s 2 * 1 V fl I ?
s'a2 ? t S3 g aia tmm
fl jcq o O Q 35 Pl, Ph O JO HH
Boston 32,60
Buffalo 6? 2 3 3 7 7 1 2968
Chicago 7! 4- 2 4 4 9 5 36 68
Cleveland 444-6696 39 68
Detroit. 4. 3 3 1- t 6 2 24.60 ' |
New York 5> 4 3 4 6- 4 2 27|61
Philadelphia.... 0 4 2'2 2 0 ? 2 1263
Providence 2j 6 6 4 9 8 6? 41(61 t
Games lost.... 28:29 23 19 36 34 60 20 ?P
JJbOBICAU AS8Q0IAH0S BEOOHD. <
a , li' ffijrew
Cm 8 <s ?l J ,-f| a
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Allegheny - 2 6'3 2 2 4 1 20 87 HS
Athletic 9 ? 8 3 6 3 6 4 38 67 Kg
Baltimore 32-| 24130 1566 I "M
Cincinnati 3 4 6 ? 8 6 3 6 84 57 gSH
Columbus 6 1 8 3? 2 2 8 1957 % fl
Eclipse 53 6 3 7 ? 4 4 82 64
Metropolitan.... 6 4 7 4 6 2? 1 29 57 SS'S
St. Louis G 3 G 6 7 7| 6- 4058
Games lost.... 37 19 41 23 38 23'28jl8 MB
SOUTHERN EXPOSITION. ' \j/J|
Opened by President Arthur In Preaeaee ol
20,000 People.
President Arthur opened the Southern ex- uffi
position in Louisville, Ky., at 12:36 o'cloak I '&
p. m., in the presence of 20,000 people. At l;
11 o'clock the President, Secretaries Folget I
and Lincoln, General Gresham, Commis
sioner Evan?, General Sheridan, Senators BB
Bayard and Beck, Governor Black- SHI
burn, and Congressmen Morey and BHH
Lowry, of Ohio, entered oorriages in
front of the hotel to start for the exposition. I
As the President left the hotel on the arm of I 33
the mayor the dense crowd in the street sent [
up an enthusiastic cheer. Main street was H;'
impassable with people, and every house on j
the line of march was gay with colors. A j
military escort of live companies preceded
the presidential party, and a police guard WBM
i frtllnmprl. ]
On arriving at the exposition President
Arthur was conducted to the stand, embow- |
ered in shrubs and flowers. It was placed at I p?
the intersection of the naves, crossing the
almost square parallelogram of the building," j^H
and faced the grand organ, in front |H|
of which were seated E00 choristers and g
the Seventh Regiment band of New York. I -vjj
About 'J00 distinguished persons accom- 9m|
panied the President. After a prayer bv the HaHi
Rev. E. T. Perkins, of St. Paul, the Hon.
Charles D. Jacobs, mayor of the city, addressed
the President, briefly welcomiag him a
to the State and the exposition. In conelusion
he said: , ttgjjU
"This exj:oi/4on is for the regeneration ?5BB
of the South,give unto her beanty for HH
ashes, the oil of joy for mourning, the gar- MflB
ment of praise for the spirit of heaviness, HHl
and all ou this day of re.oicing are gratefa ?RM
to you, sir. for your presence, which gives 9
assurance that you are in full sympathy with g
its inrposei. Mr. President, we of Ken- gfflH
tacky are \ our people, as are those of Massa- [ .-MS
chusetts, New York, or Ohio. Whatever mew
honors are heaped upon you illustrate us as Hh
American citizens. Whatever grief touches
yousears <j|ir hearts as we'.l."
The sentiment wps cheered and 'he applause
repeated when the mayor f-.ook tne
President by tho hand. Governor iJlaci-"
burn then introduced President ArtLut.wiio,
after a few moments' hesitation, said:
Fellow Citizens: I count myself fortnj
nata in that I am npon the borders of this
beautiful city of the South on a day which
must be henceforth famous in its history; for
a great undertaking, an undertaking of ^
national interest aud importance, enter<
here and now upon its career. I congratulate
the promoters and managers of this exposition
that even at this very threshold of
its existence it give3 abundant pledges of
success.
The zeal and enthusiasm which they have
disnlaved in their labors of preparation, and
the frequent tidings of encouragement anu
cheer by which these labors h ive been light*
ened and made gird, the splendid triumphs
of American gen us, activity and skill which
are arranged within these walls, the presence
of the eager multitude who throng these hoapi
table streets, all are tokens that the enterprise
here inaugurated will be crowned with ;
brilliant, far-reaching and enduring results.
After delivering his speech the President
started the exposition machinery. In the
evening the city was brilliantly illuminated.
At the building every Southern State wai
represented, not alone by its citizens but bj
displays in a more or less advanced state ol
completeness.
ODD STOKIES.
Caroline Mue' elbach, of St. Lo^is, twelve
year of a^e, died of blood poisoning caused
by wearing tight shoes.
On .Michigan avenue, Atlantic City, N. Jf
lives a colored boy with tho usual woollj
head of the African, but the hair is as whit*
as snow.
Two brothers of Houston county, Ga.,
married two ladies who were stepsisters ana
first cousins. They both died, and now th<
brothers have married two ladie3 who ar?
also sisters.
The first steel rail rolled in America cosj
those who made it over $">00,000 in experi
ments and outlay. It wa< rolled in th?
North Chicago Rolling Mill company'*
ivorks in Chicago, May 2"?, 1^5.
A birth w.;s recorded at Tuscola, I1L. ir
.vhich the physician certified that the fathei
- -mj ?{?K?w.fni,r vpars older than
or mecnnu ww - ?
the mother, tho former being 103 and thi
Litter nineteen years of age.
During the fifty years that Mr. and Mrs.
'iobert Cornelius, who reside near Philadel
;liia, have been married, there has been no
jo.itli among their descendants, who numbei
J.venty-three, and were all at the golden
tedding.
A novel sight in Iow a was the finding ol
lindreds of dead birds, foreign to that
sighborhood, upon the roofs of houses and
pon the streets. They are supposed to have
en caught in iho vortex ef a Southern oy<
ueard Hirrijd North.