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ABBEVILLE PRESS AND BANNER! 1 BY HUGH WILSON. ABBEVILLE, S. C.. WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 29, 1883. NO. 11. VOLUME XXVIII. f|gM A HARVEST S9NG. Oome, Maty, blow tho horn! For the men are all a-fiekL It was an hour and more ago I saw them in the com, Jo?y has the table spread and tho harvest apples peeled, Come, Mary, come and blow the horn ! Come, Mary, blow the horn ! For the moon is in the skies: With sweeter, lust er voice than yours was never woman born; But your cull will not reach to the field beyoi d the rise. So corre, Mary, come and blow the horn! Co ne, Mary, blow the horn! For the harvest is began: Half the rye is in the sheaf, the field is lying shorn: The nren must take a breath and be oat into the sun. So come, Mary, come and blow the honi! Come, Mary, blow the horn! For the heat is very soie: I know it by 1h3 blinking sun, the twisting of the on-, The rail will 1 o dry an I the men will thirst for more. Come, Mary, come and blow the horn ! ? Go, Mary, b!o.v the horn! The wind ic in ' tha;oath: ~ Go out upcn the hill where the echo wil be born?, Then blow of ringing bla^t from a full rod month! Go, Mr r.. . co and blow the horn ! Go, Mary, blow the horn! For the men are still a-field: There's Pe er in the yellow rye an.l Dennis in the corn: Josie has the table spread and the harvest apples peele.l, Ah, go, Mary, go and blow the horn. ?Dora Itcc.l Goodale. "ONE MORE" I k no wed jmffectly well all along hat lie were after something of the sort. It 1 egan by him a-seeing of h"r home one night fro:n a concert. What there is in thes here new-fangled concerts I can't s.*e: none of your squalling, screechy haltoe> and tenners and falsetterer.i fur me. (live me a good roaring old chorus, where it don't signify what to me you 1 kes to work in ? the nr re the merrier. But, as I said, it begun along of one of these 111rl,ti.7-. tvuvvci xxavi iiiut o ai; vkiu^uvv,* , ; and a pretty, well-litted. trim-built j little craft as I ever see, tho' I says it j ?had l>ecn to sing one ot' her songs? j the "Old Cray Kobin,"I think they ; call it?no, "Old Kobin Gray," that's i it?and just on account of it a-coming ; on to rain a bit, he must conwoy her i- into harbor. I 'cored the knock, and 1 went to the door myself. " Oh, thank you, papa, dear," says Katie, giving me a k.s.s and a hug. "This is Mr. Charlie Hall, who has been so kind as to see me home." " Good-evt ning, Captain Quarters," he says, a-'ailing me. " (iood-evt'uing, Mr. 'All," I says, a-'ail n' him back. " I daresay my daughter," I say?, "could hive fetched port all right without none of your conwoy," 1 says; "but, as you are here," 1 say?, very polite, "cast anchor for a spell," 1 s.iys. 'Do you mean come in?" he asks, laughing, and in he c unes very quick. I'd been having a glass of grog, or maybe live or six, while I was waiting for Katie to come in, and I see Katie itr? with tlio t.ruv nnil rtnt. Avorvtltinor .. ?,..v ..... ~..x. 2--- w.v..., e in the cupboa d <13 soon as we got in I the room. ; That was always the one wea'c j point in that girl's character. Soon as ever I give up th sea and settled ! ashore to watch oyer her, whi<h was j when h?r mother went on tbe last j cruise of all, 1 0 r lass ! that gal began . a-limitin' my grog. She was.i't nasty j about it, but when she thought I'd ha I j enough, oft' went the tray, and if 1 said I wanted some more, she us'd to come and kiss me, and s.iy: I don't think you do, para, dear?do you?" and somehow I never did want no more then. Well, just jus we all three got settle 1 round the fire that evenin'?Katie by the table, and me and young 'All, one to [ port and t'other to starb'd of the coals m ?I fills up my pipe and hands over an^ other long clay to him, along of some nice black tobaccy. lie fills his pipe, but as 10 siuokin' it?well, he puffed and gasped and coughed, and rrew black and green and blue in t ?e face; 1 and at last he sa'd he reinemb< red he J had promised his widdered mother j never to smoke cavendish. " lie s a nniKsop, 1 says to mysen. Not that he were a ba l-lookin* sort | of a lubber. lie stood somewhere about six feet, and had a fine navv-Mue sort of a heye, and a figure-head as was neat and* smart. 4 Soon I wanted another glas< of grog ' ?wanted it bad. (;f course, if young i 'All had a gla>s, I should be forced to drink one with him, so, when Kat e wasn't looking. I says, in a 'usky voice, i "Awast!" I says. "What's the matter, captain?" he j says, bending forrard. I jerks my tlrsmb to Katie, and j winks very deej- an 1 artful, thinkin' | he'd understand v. hat 1 was driving i at. Tlunl.^avs: "Ka'ie my dear, I think Mr. 'All would like a drop of gr<>g." But I fancy that artful girl must have give him a l^ok. for I'm blowed if he (d !n't say : "No, (atta'n, thanks; I'm a?sort of teetotaler." ' He's a lubberly, chicken-hearted milksop." I says, an ! I set n.y face agin him from that very first even'n*. The excuse. that young man mai'e for a-coiniu;{ to my house after that was fomething awful, and by-and-bye 1 noticed Katie and him was a out? rageous long t me in savin* "good^ bye" at the front ('oor. I says so to , her one night, and she says: "I am afraid there is a swelling of the wood in tl at front door, paj?a?it doesn't shut at all easy." I must say that when young'All put the matter to me, it were all done rhipshape and proper. "CaptH'n," he says, "I love her; I'm a-gettingon very well, and have you any objection to our being en gaged':" ; " What are yer!" I says. "I'm something in the city," he answers. " Very good," I says, " I must have a court-martial on this here matter," I says ; " ring that bell.' He riDgs the bell, and in comes our ugly little servant girl. " I want Miss Katie," I says, " and some rum and hot water." When Katie come in, looking so sweet and timid and bashful, I thought of her mother?the poor dead lass I loved so deep and tender?and I felt a choking come up from mv poor old heart into my throat, but I only says to 'eui as they stood before me, " I shan't have no* engagement just yet," I .'ays; "I can't spare my little girl ti l I've seen more of the man who wants to take her from me; but you can come here, mate, occasional," I says to young 'All, " only I shan't have - " noni/int Tint, vpt." LU CUgogoiuv,**., J J ... But I'm afraid they didirt quite catch hold of my meaning about no engagement, for they was such a time at the front door that night that I stepped into the passage to look after that swelling of the wood, and I 'eerd * what young 'AH said. He says to her, fays he, " One more 1" he says. And after that he come In occasional every night, and the swelling of the wood in the front door got worse and worser. One morning at breakfast, as I Ik Ipod myself to another bit of steak, I made the remark that the postman v. as rsry late in passing. " He's got 'K, caught in a squall, J exp?ct," says I, "or gc? throw ed on his beam ends by " "Why. don't you know, papa," says Katie, ' this is Valentine's day, and of course the poor postman lias such a lot of letters to deliver lie's sure to lie i a little lat?*. I expect a letter myself : this morning," she says. " Who from V" I asks. i "Have another egg. papa,dear,"she 1 answers. : Sure enough there came a valentine ; for Katie from the young man sinwere not engaged to. It was a hijeous I thing?a lot of Mowers ami verses, and a lubber with a torch, as Katie said I were a hymen, standing l?v ready to I set (ire to the whole lot; and at the top ! was a Cupid, in the most undelicatest j clothes I ever see. He wore nothing but a bow and harrer. I " Isn't it lovely ?" says Katie, " Oh ! pa, isn't it lovely ?" "Xo," I says, " I don't se.? no sense in sending a thing like th it ; and that ! Cupid," I says, "oualit to b* ashamed of hisself. Now there'd a 1 e-n some | sense," I says, "if he'd sent you say the picture of a ship, with you and him a-shepping on hoard, saloon passenger*, pas-age ] a'd ; and a picture of me at the top as a gardening liangel, .. lint, mi 1 U~Mi|fu&iUbCAauiitg r?vi; viiiu^. ?.. i derstand me," I says, "in proper j clotlirs, not to catch my death of cold like that undelicate Cupid !"' I remember that day well, because that was the time I had a row with i Charlie 'All, and forbid him the house. We was s'tting together in the parlor that night, Katie away getting supper ready. All of a sudden ho says : j "Captain, what made you so awfully bald?" ! Now, I never liked his laughing, ridiculing ways, and I answers very short : ! " Dooty." j "ilow do you mean?" he says. " We was in the China seas, one time when I was a cabin boy on board the Morton Hay." i 44 Yes," he says; "goon." "We was attacked by pirates," I says, "and the captain ordered me to stand forrard and never to leave a certain spot on deck till he give me leave. They carried cannon, them pirates did, and they opened fire at me." " You didn't move?" he says. "Not a inch," I anwers. looking at j him steady; " but a cannon ball hit me on the portsi<!e of the head," "You never stirred?" "Not a inch," I says again; "only the cannon ball carried off all the hair that side. I think the pirates got the range after that shot." 1 says. 41 Why?" asks young Wli. "Because th? reroute a second ball anil hit me on the starbM si-le of the head, and carried off all the hair that side." "\\'e di ln't talk no more for a spell,! and then he says, very serious: " And how did you lose the top ?" "I was afraid there'd come a third ball," I says. " and the top come off in the fright." "You've seen a deal of life, captain ?" h ? says, after a bit. " eV* I answers. "Most of you old travelers have," he observes. "Aye, aye," I answers. " Some of you." he says, " have not only experienced a great deal, but you also remember a great deal." " Cert'nly," I replies. "Don't you think that, sometimes, some old travelers remember a little more than they experienced?" he says. I got up to leave the room soon alter that; and just as 1 got in the passage. Ti-Vinn im tiimirriit 7M rinsed the door. I tf uvu I.v 'eerd him say : "The baldlieaued old impostor!"' laughing to himself as he said it. Now. to be called "a impostor" would have b"en bal enough ; to be called "a old impostor" was worse; and to be called bv such a epithet as "a baldheaded old impostor" was unbearable. 1 turned round into the room again, and there was a awful row. One word led to another : and at last 1 told him never to c >me aboard niv house no more. And I says: " Don't send no more of your valentines here." I says, "with indelicate' 'upMs.to my daughter, | as have been brought up strio' relig- j ious!" He tried to calm me down, but it was no use. " May I se? Katie before I go?" he savs. No." Then he turned to tlie door, (lung it open, and walked away with never a word. lie come round a few days after, but the ragged squall in my stupid old heart hadn't died down, and I refused to alter what I'd said to him. If a live lord from the admiralty had come after Katie I don't believe I should have thought him good enough ?at all events, if he couldn't smoke cavendish and wouldn't join in a friendly gla s. I never knew properly how it happene I; but I did find out afterward that lie met Katie and asked her to marry him ri?ht off. She wouldn't leave me like that, stupid and cruel as I was ; and then young 'All threatened to go away and enlist for a soldier. She ( lung to him. and begged him to stand by till the storm went down; but he w;is mad with love. I suppose, for he swore she didn't care for him ; and, in his love and anger, he kept his word, and he left her and enlisted. Almost before we knowed what he'd done, his regiment was ordered oil? ordered to the Crinu a; and away he i went. I It was bad weather in our little home after that. 1 woiuun i own to ; being wrong; but, in my heart I knowed I was; and I used to sit lonely, night after night, sniokiu' anil thinkin' I ?thinkin' about young 'Ail, with his neat, shapely figurehead, and bright - eyes and l'air hair, and straight bo !y j ?thinkin' < f him away in the dreadful trenches, with the bitter sn<?\v fallin' | on the livin', and the dyin', and tin; dead. Katie said never a word?never a word; but, oh! the awful look of pain in her bonnie winsome face growing so thin and so pale. And <>ne evenin' I broke down. 1 was looking at Katie, sitting by the table, just | where she sat that first night young j 'All come in, 1 wa> looking at her. ; and thinkin' of her mother?my dear ! lass who sailed safe into harbor 3? i many years ago?and 1 knowed by the ! look on her face that her thoughts wasn't in our bright, cozy, warm, little I sitting-room, but way across the seas, j where the soldiers was, out in the cold | snow that awful winter; and I cried. "Oh! my poor girl, what have I done?" And my darling come to me, and threw her arms round my neck, and laid her poor little face against the tears on my check. And I said, "Oh ! | my darliu', I've made many a mistake as" I've sailed thro' life; and now 1 know that when I sent away your bonnie lad I made ' (;ne More.'" The weeks passed slowly away, and we got no news from Charlie or of him. till one nitfht Katie came into the room with an open letter in her hand; aud all the li?ht had gone 1'roin her wins ime eyes and her pretty l ace as she sank with a low cry at my feet and hid her head upon my knees. I took the paper from her poor, little, fluttering, trembling hand. It was a letter from the captain of Charlie's company, dated "I.'efore Sebastopol." This was a part of it: "A lie ce.ittack was made by the Russian - la>t night upon our trenches. The night was bitterly cold and very dark, and snow was falling thickly when the attack was commenced. The enemy crept on us through the darkness and the snow so silently that we had very fhort notice. The fighting was very desperate, and we were almost driven out. Eventually the enemy slowly retired, and in pursuing them beyond our intrenchments, I got detached from the gallant fellows who were following me. Suddenly the Russians ' ma'le a steady stand, and renewed tlie attack. One of the enemy disarmed me, my sword was lying broken at my feet, he had seized me by the throat, I I was powerless in his grasp, ?nd his sword was raised high lor my deathstroke, when suddenly a soldier of my company, his arms hanging powerless by his side, for lie was already sorely wounded, staggered up to us, and deliberately threw himself between my bared head and the Russian blade, and the stroke intended for me fell upon his own noble and gallant head. We fell together. I staggered to my feet, and help arriving, the Russian lied. * * * The dawn was just breaking when I knelt beside the man whose heroic d-votion had saved my life, lie was lying in the snow, 1 holy with his own brave blood, a ray of the rising sun shining round his head like a halo of glory. lie spoke only once as I raised him into the litter which bore him to the hospital; and the few words that my gallant comrade, Charles Hall, uttered, bade me write to you. * * * " An awful mist was in my eyes, and : I could read no more. Then Katie put her hand into her bosom and drew out a paper, and she pointo 1, si ill without a word, but with still that awful look ! upon her face, to a list of soldiers' ' deaths ; and the lirst name I see was Charles Nail. ()h. my darling, mv poor darling, i what have i done?" She nnlv rlnnor to me tierhter. and I O - o | bowed her poor little head lower, as she sobbed out, '* You dMn't mean it?oli, no, you did not mean it, my father. I I have often and often thought of how many broken hearts there must have been in the world, and it's only, father, | that now there is One More!" Days and weeks passed by?I can't I bear to think of that time, much le^s ; to speak about it?and one night (I remember it same as though 'twas five minutes ago) I 'eerd a step, Katie 'eerd it too, and for a moment a bright I color leaped into her l'aee, and a light : in her eye, but only for a moment, to j leave her paler than before. P'r'aps you'll guess what's coming, the old tale of a mistake, and miscarried letj ters, for our brave boy had recovered ! from that awful blow. i Katie goes to the door?that swells ing in the wood lia'ln't been noticed j lately?1 hears the click of the lock, and then me long, loud scream," Cliarlie \ i. Durst into uie passage, <wu tm-ic, fainting, was Katie, clasped tight and close in the arms of young 'All. I I've always believed as that sight J sent me for a few minutes clean out of my mind. 1 tore back into the parlor like a raving luniac, mistook the cat I for a lump o' coal and jammed her on [top of the lire, and couldn't make out what she was yowling about, till our ugly little servant girl come Hying into the room like a Yankee schooner before the wind. I took hold of her and give her a roaring kiss, rot knowing what I was doing. But she did not s-eem to know, for she says, "Oh, Capting !" and falls a fainting into my arms. 1 throwed her under the table and shouted " l'ire!" I needn't tell you what the end was. When, looking so grand in his ser I geant-ma.;or's unuorni, wun iuu | medals on his great big chest, Charlie [ took my little Katie to church, her looking so lair and beautiful in her : white bride's dress, with the orange j blo.-soms round her head, my heart was ! near to burstin' with joy and pride and thankfulness. When it come to my part in the service to give a answer out loud, my i'eeiings overcome mo, though they'd been laying it into me for weeks past I as 1 must be v ry careful to say nothing except the few words in the parson's log-book, and Katie had locked up all the grog since the night afore. The parson asked very solemn who give her away? 'I do, mate," I says, "and I'll be I ? i "if I frive 11fir j .-I IIUIVII, I .-<v. , ... ^ 0 I to a better man 1" When Charlie li'ft the army and Katie and him settled down here, I come to end my days along of 'em, and along of the dear little chil !rt n, the little Katies and t lie little sergeantmajors who keep on a-comin' to town. (JoJ bless'em! Bless the little voices that is such sweet music to my old I ears! the little hands that stroke my l'aee, and the little soft lips that kiss my rough old cheeks. I say again, God bless my children's little children! p # * * "AVe'l, nurse?" " Which I begs your parking, capting, but which, if you'll please open this little bundle, you'll see what have just arrive, and which, if you please, capting, it's One .More!" American Fables. A Lion who had long reigned with supreme power over the Forest, one day called a convention of all the beasts an I announced his intention of abdicating. " I am growing old and feeble, anil ! I must soon pass away," lie argued. : " All things considered it is better that my successor be nominated and installed while 1 am living to give him the benelits of my experience and advice." There was general joy among the Beasts, for the Lion had lorded it j after his own fashion. The Elephant | was squinting around, the Ithinosceros i was pushing his nose into the crowd, and the (Jiraffe was doing a heap of t liinkiny wav down his throat when the Lion continued: " Al ter serious reflection and solemn consideration I have decided that my own son shall succeed me. The ollice will not only be kept in the family, but the family will bo kept in office, i There being no further business before the meeting we will adjourn." " Hut why the need of this convents n?" protested the llhinosceros. 41 Well, there wasn't any particular need of it," replied the Lion, "but it | is customary to call one in order to col| lect the expenses of nomination. ! Brother Giraffe, pass the hat!" MOlt Au: "Attend the primaries A Wolf had the misfortune to break his leg, and being unable to hunt for his lood, was soon reduced to the verge ; of starvation. One day as he was uti? ,?,n(.ii;Aii a Tfiiiv r:ili)f> nliinir i Ll'llll? Kl.l>vill.livtu? .. 0 ' and inquired the trouble. " I am almost at then tint of death," | was the reply. ' I haven't had a morsel to cat lor days." I "Indeed !" exclaimed the Hare. "I'll go and consult the Hyena about it." When the Hyena was consulted he stroked his chin rellectivcly andlinally said: "Areyou certain that he is a Wolf (if good morals ?" "No." Well, then, I'd better fee the Lion about it before we do anything." The Lion heard the story, winked in a wise way, and remarked: ' There ought to be a committee appointed to investigate hi> character. -1 kni.inf ] 1 11 SCI! II1C iSlOI'K illlll llll'liuvii UR- Milliter." The Stork was iuf >rmeil that :i Wolf lay dying uf starvation, and she r.pli-d: Well, well, but (hat's bad. I'll see the Ox this very afternoon, and have him decide whether we ought to send in tracts or chicken broth." The Ox was duly informed, and the next day lie walked over to see what should be done in the case. Arriving at the lair he found the Wolf dead, and the Owl had alrea ly been there and written on the rocks the MORAL. "Philanthropy is a thin tonic for an empty stomach."?Detroit Free Press. Frequent and constant advertising brought me all I own.?A T. Stewart, :? __ BRAVE LITTLE TOM THUMB.! PLUCK OP THE MIDGET WHO HAS I JOINED THE SILENT MAJORITY. I How Tie Frlgliicnc.l Oil"Two Bnrfflnr*?A ^ .lump Into tlic Sound After n Drowning 8 ('hilil-.-Toiu mid <)uccn Viclorln. i Tom Thumb was a brave littie m m. "! 1 He ha 1 lots of presents in his pretty i S house in one of the prettiest of the s I New Kngland towns, and some of 1 these presents were most valuable. I 1 Tlx re was a snufl-box from Prince A I- c b rt, the husband of Queen Victoria, presented to Tom Thumb when he w.is 1 shown to t ie court at Windsor. This c he prized very highly, a? well ;ts a t numb r of other elegant things which t j were given him by the nobility and j j gentry of Great Britain. On one oc- c casion the knowledge that he kept 1 these articles in his house excited t'.c 1 undisguised envy of a party of burg r lars, who thought they wouM have an j8 j easy job with the sma'I family. Tom jt was awakened at dead of night to the , 8 knowledge that burglars were in the !, lower rooms. Ilis wife begged him to '? let them complete their work on th |1 ! plea that his life was more valuable j than all the gold and silver in the ; world. But the little man, who, though } small in stature, bad the courage of a j giant, went to his bureau drawer, tiok ^ out two handsomely ( hased revolvers 1, ?one was a gift fro.n the crown prince of Prussia?ami crept down to the * parlor, where he saw two m< n busy at j work on a safe constructed in the , I wall. -j "Stop that." he sa:d. quickly, '-or j here's a bullet for each of you." T. e men turned round in alarm, and almost laughed to see the diminutive 11 ligure that stood a few feet oft. One ! ' of them threatened him. " I f you make a step toward me, I fire," said Tom, and they saw a revol- t ver in each of his little hands. 11 " You're a plucky little fellow," ex- j f ! claimed the other burglar, "and I'll r j liiive nothing to do with this." Then, j t addressing Tom: "If we go, will you | > 'ke p quiet?" jt " Leave my house," said Tom. j At this m ment Mrs. Stratton, who J c ! had come down and saw the scene, i g I screamed aloud. The two burglars i ' thouglit no more about it, but made a ! rush and scrambled out ot the window, j t In the Might one of them dropped a t | gold signet ring, which Tom was ever j i ! after proud to show as a memento of r ! his encounter with burglars. lie was g j never after molested. it j Tom was very fond of sailing. Once ! o he had the tiller and was skimming i along the Sound with a party of friends, j A four year-old boy who was playing 10 | about the deck fell into the water. The ] | mother screamed. ! c j "Hold the tiller and bring her t around," shouted Tom, and in an in- 6 i stant lie was in the water swimming t toward the drowning child, whom he j had soon reached and whom he held ; ? j up in the water for fifteen minutes i c * ? " * 1! !..!?, while tlie people on ooara uungmigij ;? j tried to get the thirty-foot boat around, j i ' It was said of Tom Thumb," re- 1 marked an actor, "that at the time of c i the Xewhall liouse disaster in Milwau- 1 i koe.Tom Thumb (led with his jewelry, !v leaving his wife beliind. This is not ; t ( true. She had fnintcd, and when they j > were found toward the foot of the j * stairs he was carrying her as well as T he could, an 1 would not let, go when 1 j assistance arrived, so that tiiey both .8 ' had to be carried out together. When j lie reached the street he fainted, too. j1 i But his pluck stood by him during the j1 | oriti al period, and he saved his jew- | ; elry also." j J j Tom Thumb used to say that he : 1 would give up all the money he made I to be the s:ze'of any ordinary ~nan, and ? this ivirticularlv the case wnen he I: I I * ! would come across sonie cowardly i { bully. At one time lie was so annoyed j by insults leveled at himself and his j j wife by such people that he kept a i | * heeler'' by him, who on the slightest ! provocation would "clean outacr wd" in regular Suilivan style. The rough j class soon found it out, and Tom had a j quiet time of it. j lie often spok of his visit to Engi land, and referred to the queen and { Prince Albert. i "The Prince of Wales," he said, i : "was just about my size then, and : fesmed to take a vast interest in me. But the queen was very kind, and j seemed to be al nost as much delighted j as her son, then only a child. The im- ; ' pression male was so good that on two | J other occasions we were ordered to the i ! palace." Tom was too good a republican to be overc >me bv th honors showered ! upon him by roya'ty. His demeanor j j was not precisely bold but confi lent in - A ^ TTa v?utn it ?|f i j TIM1 Wiruil.1% lie >Y(VO \ tl J UV | I the t'me. Tlie court of England was I nscstly made up of young people, Vic tor'a's :i"e being only ab tut twenty! live When he went back the last time i all that was changed. He d d not see j I the ijueen at all, for she woul 1 indulge ! ! in no amusements, but the Prince of ! Wales, then just married, invited Tom ' I Thumb and his wife to Marlborough : house. ; Tom Thumb was well off, bat not ] | actually rich, when he. d el. At one | ' | time 1 is fortune was quite large, but | ! it dwindled down in various specula- < I tion--, and he was compelled to take ' I th ? road aga'n. When he passed away \' j he was worth fully $50 000, however, i whi' h waf a go d deal for suchasmall j man.?New York Journal. ! . . ] A Joke on the Hungry Man. I John Tochl, son of the war governoi 1 : of OIiio, is considerable of a wag. j1 About once a week lie has a "stag" | J card party at his lu use in Cleveland, and the same circle of friends meet t > j i gether and practical jokes are in order. I Among tl;es" is a young merchant who has made a respectable fortune and is | wisely about to retire at the ago of j forty so as to give his time to reading, j j philosophy and friends. On the card- i ' party night it was the method of this , i friend to prepare himself for the , | abundant supper that was always I served. He took no dinner on that day \ j and hut a little lunch, and therefore j 11is good appetite was remarktd and j incited these wags t > a scheme. As ; Cannon came to the party on a partic: ular evening the host remarked that ; j liisiook had gone away and thn .stew- j | ard had met with an accident, an 1 that 1 i there unfortunately was nothing to cat but bread and cheese. Brother Cannon, who h;id a large hollow place io iii'i bread-basket, thereupon philosophically fell to the bread and cheese, not observing that the plate was pushed t-t him frequently, and as thn cards i performed their part game aftel game, ' | lie stowed away about a pound of I cheese and the same weight of crack' ers, staying his appetite, though some- i j what differently from his preconcepI tions. Suddenly, when it was ob- , j s-'Tvtd that he would have no more cheese or crackers, the door of the ' dining-room Hew open and there was I disclo ed quail on toast, sweetbreads i with peas, pate de foie gras, and the most delicious things in the market. , The others who had played off on the ; era kers and cheese, raised a loud roar ' of laughter as they walked in and over 1 whelmed the guest, already full, with j supplications to eat.?New York Tri 1 Lane. Wise Minerva! A child, while walking through an i art gallery with her mother, was at- j tracte! by a statue of Minerva. " Who is that?" she said. " My child, that is Minerva, the goil- | ! dess of wisdom." i " Why didn't they make her husband, , ! too?'' " Because she had none, my chil 1." j I " That was because she was wise, j wasn't it mammaV" was the artless re- i l>!y. ?Harper's Bazar. The hire of an Indian harvest hand in Itfeysda jg.fl a?day. I a SEWS OF THE WEEK. ~ Eastern and Middle States. Indian education was ono of the chief topics liscussed before the National Educational issembly at Ocean Grove, N. J. Many telegraph wires were cut in New fork city and vicinity. The telegraph commnies claimed their wires were cut by the trikers, but the charge was denied by the atter. Other trades unions in New York leld meetings and resolved to furnish finan ial aid to the striking telegraph operators. Oscar Wilde is again in this countryJe arrived in New York from Europe a few lays since, for the purpose of looking after he production of a play which ho has writen. t cj t ?1.? rv v i trnnw UAJlta O. IJHM, uii: JJU1IU1V V ?' A./ uuiiavi onvictcd of complicity in City Treasurer 3ook's theft of over half a million dollars, ms I>een sentenced to four years' imprisonnent. Lyon is upward of sixty years of aget ind his venerable appearance as he stood up o receive the sentence rendered the scene .fleeting. Quite a flurry was caused in Wall street, sew York's financial center, by a heavy fall n stocks. The sub-committee of the United States Senate committee on education and labor rliich was apj>ointed to investigate the causes hat led to the strike of the telegraph operaors began its investigation in the New fork postoflice. They were Senator Blair, of Jew Hampshire; Senator George, of Missisippi; Senator Pugh, of Alabama, and Senaor Call, of Florida. The fifth meinl>er of the ub-committee, Senator Aldrich, of Rhode sland, was not present. District. Master Vorkman John Campbell, of Pittsburg, ap>eard and gave a history of the strike and iresented the case of the operators. Tiie Devon Inn, a fashionable summer lioel on the line of the Pennsylvania railroad, * 1. -!_i x ?:i? r LUUUt eigllUHJii limes lruin xiumuuijmiu, hu een burned to the ground. The Are was aused by a defective flue in the kitehen, an<l iroke out shortly before 0 o'clock, while he guests were nt breakfast. The lames spread rapidly, and in an hour nothing emained of the oneo handsome sume tier resort but some detached outhouses. Lbout 125 guests and 100 employes were in he building when the flames broke out. No me was injured, and nearly all the property if the guests was saved. The loss is more than 1100,000. The failuro of George W. Ballou & Co., Vail street bankers and brokers, created a urmoil in New York financial circles, already nuch shaken by the sharp decline in stocks, ["he Arm was canglit on the wrong side of the narket, and was compelled to notify the Stock Exchange of its suspension, its nnniiries are estimated at from$1,5<H),(K)0 to $-,000,. 00. The failure also involves a branch house q Boston. John W. Mackey. the California millionire, has l>een elected president of the Postal fclegraph company, started in Now York, in ipposition to the Western Union anil other elegraph cotnpani(?. Mr. Mackey, it is tated, will use his immense wealth to push he fortunes of the new company. Ix the convention of Amalgamated Iron and steel workers at Philadelphia it was deided that there should lie no present disturbmce of the wages question. Mayor Edsox, of New York, haslieen lotifled by the Western Union Telegraph onipany that the city would lie held resjtonsi>le for damages caused by the cutting of vires. The ]*olice were notified to protect he wires. At a meeting of the New York Republican State committee held in New York city it vas resolved to hold the State convention for he nomination of candidates at Richfield springs, on September 10. Champion- Hani.an won the boat race at ho "Watkins (X. Y) regatta, Hosnier coining n second and Ross third. During the jiast six months UK) jiersons rere killed and 401 injured in the State of few York by railroad accidents. E. C'. Stedman & Co., New York hankers ind brokers, have lx-en involved by the heavy all in stocks and eomi>elled to susi>end with labilities of about .*I.MI,ixn). Mr. Steilman, he senior memlier of the linn, is the wellaiown poet ami essayist, and the sus|>ension sdue to his son's heavy and unsuccessful peculation. Much sympathy was expressed or Mr. Stedman, and financial assistance to lelp him through his troubles was tendered >y prominent business men, but he was compiled to decline all offers. Investigation into the affairs of F. Shaw k Bros., the Boston tanners, shows them to be n worse condition than was at lirst supposed. Hie liabilities aggregate :?7,5011,(101), anil the issets, good and had, only ?Ci,2(!2,(KH). Captain J. D. Rhodes having announced lis determination of attempting to swim ;hrough the whirlpool rapids at >T: gam Falls n his life-saving armor, an oj)en letter was iddressed to him l?y the Canadian authorities leclaring that any such attempt would be regarded by them as coining from an insane person, and that they would take measures to irevent its being carried out, as far as taking ;he water front the Canadian shore is consented. South and West. The reunion of the surviving Federal and Confederate soldiers who participated in the jattle of Wilson's Creek, culminated in the formation of an organization known as the Surviving Soldier Union league. It embraces soldiers of both armies, and the oflieers ?lected were chosen from both Federal and Confederate soldiers. Smallpox is creating havoc among Indians in Minnesota. In two small villages about 100 deaths are reported. Joseph Fclkord, a farmer of Miller county, Ga., uged atwut thirty years, wuu tlio assistance of two negroes, murdered tiis wife, an estimable woman of forty-eight years, sank the body in a creek, and then spread the report that she had committed suicide. He jxiid the negroes seventy-five cents each for their work. The crime was discovered, the two accomplices confessed and Fulford and one of the negroes were hanged to a tree by the neighbors. The Kimball house, of Atlanta, Ga., a prominent Southern hotel, has been completely destroyed by lire. The :;00 guests nil made their escajte. A total loss of ubout $l.(xhi,(k)0 was indicted. Four desperate-looking strangers stole four horses from Asbury camp-meeting in Monroe county, Georgia. They were pursued by men on horseback and captured in Mississippi. The stock was recovered, and the four men were taken into the woods and hanged. President Arthur and j?rty spent severa dflvs of their trin to tlio Yellowstone region in fishing in Wyoming Territory. While suffering from mental alteration the wife of United Suites Senator Allison, of Iowa, committed suicide by drowning herself in the Mississippi at Dubuque. Charleston, S. C., has celebrated its con tennial as a city by appropriate ceremonies in presence of the governor, mayor and leading State olllcials. Jambs Nixon is working seventy men near Cumberland Falls, Tenn., making railroad ties. On Sunday night one of his men, named Charles Slagel, who slept in the same bunk with James and John Adair and a man named Claiborne, arose after his eonijuinions were asleep and crushed their skulls with an ax. He then rifled their jxH-kets, obtaining about and escajted. Nixon put his whole force in pursuit, and Slagel was captured. At a meeting of the Georgia State Agricultural society in Atlanta President Hardimnu si kthe in favor of diversilie<l fanning and home manufacture of cotton goods. President Arthur caught some fine trout and meiuliers of his party killed several ante lojies and other game near the forks ol wnm River, Wyoming Territory. Rev. R. ({. Sew em,, a Methodist minister at Luling, Texas, was shot and killed by I>awrence Denman. The disjuitehes announcing the tragedy say: " The causes leading to the shooting aro of a domestic nature, and can only be published 011 the trial of the case. No one blames Deninan, and yet the Rev. Mr. Sewell is regarded as the victim of a conspiracy, as lie asserted in an ante-mortem statement." The " straightout" Republicans of Vircinia, composed largely of colored men, held a convention at Richmond and adopted a platform favoring a strict adherence to republican principles and a protective tariff, indorsing J. ti. Blaine for President, and condemning Mahone. While thirteen men were being hauled to the surface at a mine near the town of Redruth, Cornwall, the rope attached to the car in which they were standing broke. Twelve of the men were precipitated to tho bottom of the shaft and instantly killed. A band of Apaches attacked a small State guard at Nacari, Mexico, killing flvo of them. They were pursued pluckily, having several of their number killed, but being in strong force the troops were compelled to retreat. The Indians drovo off large herds of cattle. The Farmers' bank at Richmond, Ind., has suspended. As a stock train was passing through Pacific City, Mo., about forty miles west of St. Louis, eight cars were derailed and thirty head of cattle were so badly crippled that they had to l>o shot. i^ight men, arresuxi in .duuks uuuiilj, uu., for outrages upon colored people, have been held in the United States court to answer a charge of conspiracy. Fire in tho works of the United States Rolling Stock company, at Chicago, destroyed property valued at between $400,000 anil $500,000. Tho property burned included sixty complete cars valued at $.500 each. Official returns make Proctor Knott's majority for governor of Kentucky about 49,000. Washington. The government has just secured the title to Wakefield, Westmoreland county, Va,, about eighty-six miles from Washington, and the site of the birthplace of the father of his country. The estate, comprising twenty acres, is a portion of tho landed property owned by the grandfather of Washington, whoso remains, with those of Washington's father and several uncles, lie in a dilapidated . tomb on tho ground recently purchased. Congress has appropriated $&>,000 to mark the site of tho house where Washington was born. Tho design adopted by tho secretary of state calls for a monumental building twenty ieet square anu uuuuu tuu \,y feet high. Within the foundation, at least partially constructed of the old brick of Washington's early home, will be interred tho remains of his ancestors and relatives. At a meeting in Washington of the World' Arbitration league tho following named gentlemen were elected vice-presidents for their respective States: Dr. Joseph Ramsey, Ten nessee; David D. Shelby, Alabama; B. B. Paddock, Texas; William L. Nugent, Mississippi, and E. H. Gillette, Iowa. Resolutions were adopted urging a conference of representatives of all tho nations of the world to ik? held in connection with the pro]x>sed celebration in his country in 1S92 of the four hundredth anniversary of the discovery of America by Columbus, to take some action looking to common disarmament and the establishment of an international arbitration court. It was also resolved that a committee lie selected to call upon the President and ask that in his next message to Congress he recommended such action as will lead to the accomplishment of the project urged by the league. A new counterfeit ?5 gold piece has been submitted to tho United States oflicials for inspection which contains $4. (ill worth of gold. It Ls said to be the best piece of work of that character that ever came before experts. Commissioner Price has taken steps to prevent a contemplated prize-fight in tho Indian Territory on September 10 between c.i .j 1 ..e ann,\ T7??1n ] OIIUK* IU1U lUllAIICU, U1 nunuuuu utiu respectively. It was said that this selection liad lieen made localise there would not l>e any local interference and that it was believed the United States laws would not be found to avail against the proposed encounter. As soon as Commissioner Price's notice was called to the story he wrote at once to J. G. Tufts, the United States Indian agent at Muscogee, Indian Territory, directing him to prevent the fight taking place at all hazards. Tub treaty of friendship and commerce between the United States and the kingdom of t'orea, or Chosen, which was concluded in May, 1NS2, and tho ratifications exchanged a short time since, have been proclaimed by tho President. The original of the treaty is in the Chinese langii'vc. I'oreirrn. English doctor? in Alexandria who have had exjterience in India in cholera epidemics rejxjrt that the disease now prevailing in Egypt is of a distinctly different character from the Asiatic cholera. Font Spanish sergeants who took part in the recent rebellion against the govenunent have lieen shot. A fire in Salonica, Rouinalia, destroyed luu warehouses. There were 1,715 deatlis from cholera in Egypt in two days. A serious revolution has broken out in Mi'iiro. Forty-two workmen who took part in tho attempted demonstration at Vienna before the of lice of tho director of police, owing to the seizure of a workmen's pa{>er, were arrested. Fourteen of the prisoners were suffering from wounds inflicted during tho charge of tho jwlico and dragoons on tho crowd. The recent reported deatii of Cetewayo, Zulu king, is denied. Colonel Bandola, of tho Twenty-second Mexican regulars, commanding tho forces oj>orating against the Indians, has been killed by tho San Carlos Indians. A band of thirty Apaches had made an attack upon Opulet and killed four men. Colonel Bandola, who was at Husaris with sixty men of his regiment, upon receiving tho information started immediately for the sceno of tho murder, going through a canon. Colonel Bandola, a Liold and fearless man, was ridimr some distance ahead of his com niaiul in company with two men, when they were fired upon from un ambush. Colonel Baudola feel, two bullets piercing Irs breast and killing him instantly. His companious also wero mortally wounded. Tho troops came quickly to tho scene, but tho savages had disappeared. The next day threo Mexicans were killed in tho same neighborhood, and tho following day twenty-three horses were stolen. Election's in France for members of the council-general show large republican gains. Cholera has become epidemic in the East Indies, tho Dutch government having received news to that effect from Atcheen. Tiie chief prelates of the Roman Catholic church in Europe and America will assemble at the Vatican, Rome, in November next, as the j>ope desires to consult them as to the means of maintaining friendly relations with all the i>owers. A private insane asylum in the town of Ealing, England, was burned. Five of the inmates perished. The yiold of wheat in Franco this year will be only four-fifths of the average crop of the last ten years. Herajevo, the capital of Bosnia, has been shaken by an earthquake. The British house of commons has agreed to the uronosal that ?100,000 of the church surplus fund be applied, to emigration purl>oseH. Mr. Trevelyan, chief secretary for Ireland, assented to a suggestion of Mr. Parnell that lialf of the sum be devoted to mi. gration purposes, and promised to amend the arrears act so tliat the grant to emigrants should in certain cases be raised to per head. A dispatch from Madrid, Sjiain, says that several sergeants who took part in the revolt at Santo Domingo have been hanged at that place. They refused to make any disclosures in relation to the 1 "evolutionary plot. A party of dejwsitors in a small savings batik in London, angry at their inability to draw then* money on demand, entered tho bank and wrecked the premises. The police were called on, but refused to interfere. The Khedive of Egypt visited tlio hospitals at Alexandria, and s]x>ko words of encouragement to tho patients suffering from cholera. Jin. Parxell declared in tho Britsh house of commons that unless tho deficiencies of the land act were speedily remedied he would lead a deej>er and more desj>erat6 agitation - * ? ' t ti,o than any mat nai; yei otx-ii muicwu. act, he said, had been applied with a slowness and inefficiency different from tho way in which the coercion act had been applied. QUEER SUICIDES. Tho wife of the Rev. Mr. Vetter, of Oberlin, Ohio, committed suicide by holding her face in eighteen inches of water. She was sixty-flve years old. In an effort to commit to memory the entire Bible Jarvis Fisher lost his reason and took his life in the State asylum at Harrisburg, Penn. Frank Kuhn, a young man of Erie, Ponn., hanged himself because his brother had accidentally killed Allie Steiner, nine years old, by carelessly handling a revolver. The merest trifle caused Miss Ida Bussella, aged eighteen years, of Carter's Creek, Va., to quarrel with her lover one evening, and after his departure she blew her brain* out with a revolver. " .......... : iMM LATER NEWS. " Frank Dunne," an Americanized China- * man, lias formally declared his intention in Philadelphia of becoming an American citizen. He acts as interpreter in courts, is mod 1 erately rich, and in everything dresses and ? acts like an American except tlmt he wars 1 for good luck a bright penny stuck in tho 1 ojieu si?ico of his right ear. 1 Taussig & Hammerschlag, a New York candy house, have failed for al>out ?250,<XX). Charles Wheeler, a Philadelphia broker and prominent business man, worth about ?2,000,000 dropped dead in the streets of New York from apoplexy. The telegraph strike has ended in the defea* of the operators. The Brotherhood of Telegraphers' executive committee have issued a notice from their headquarters in New York declaring the strike a failure, nnrl yirr.nlltiiig all those who could to resume work. The strike lasted four weeks, and, it is estimated, cost the operators in loss of wages about >400,(XX). A contractor for telegraph lines testified before the Senate sub-committee in New York that he would be glad to duplicate the entire telegraph system of the country for SUO.OOO.OOO. A. Burmann has been nominated by the i Minnesota Democratic central committee as candidate for governor in place of W. W. Nair, declined. Mr. Burmann accepted. Three men were hanged the other day in different States. At Little Rock, Ark., Deno C'asat was legally strangled for the murder of George L. Barnes. Cusat's father had been discharged from the railroad shops at Augusta, and had committed suicide in consequence. Deno thereafter lounged around the shops, waiting for revenge, and one day while drunk, shot and killed Barnes, the timekeeper. At Greenville, S. G\, Ben Perry was hanged for killing his neighbor, Perry Anderson. At Scottsboro, Ala., Taylor Bangs suffered a like penalty for murdering Turner Woods, at the instigation of his victim's wife. The two lost named murderers and their victims were all colored. Reuben Roberson*, the second colored accomplice of Fulford, the white Georgia murderer, was kliled by a crowd in Miller county jail. Fulford and one colored accomplice, Harry Bradley, had previously been lynched. Eight thousand weavers went on strike at Ashton-under-Lyne, England, for an increase of wages. The strike threw 20,000 persons out of employment. Twenty-two Russian students have been sent to Siberia for connection with a Nihilist journal. A Siamese embassy, including two princes of the blood, four princes, three princesses, four attaches and twenty-one attendants, is coming to America. a I a teruific explosion. A rnr I.owl ol Dynn-uiio Exploded by n G'ol? ! l[iron.-Tvro Conductor i Ivillo 1 unil Several Other 1'crsonn Iniiirrd. Early in the morning Winchester, Ky., and | the country fur more than five miles around was set in a tremor of excitement by the sound of a terrific explosion. Those who were up at that hour and on the weeta looked in the direction of the depot whence the sound seemed to proceed, and saw clouds 6f debris, dust and smoke. An hour later people came riding in from the country to find out what was the matter. It was soon ascertained that a railway train hat! been blown up with dynamite, two depots and an eating saloon demolished, a locomotive and half a Jnv.oi fpAitrltf r?nt>; tnm tn turn miiromi men killed, and four other men more or less seriously injured. The casualty was the result of a collision U'twecn two trains. A freight-car in one train contained 400 kegs of ]>owder, which exploded with the result de scrilied. OUR CONSUL IN CURE A. Ill* Life Tlicro One ol'DNcomfor: nn?l Pr!va 1< n. Official advices from Mr. Footo, the t'nited States minister to C'orea, state that lie lias taken up his residence in the capital of that country, but that life there is attended with many discomforts and privations. The only house he has been able to obtain Is a rude one of wood and paper, with paper windows, and is situated in an undesirable location in the midst of hovels and liltliy. The climate is marked by great extremes of heat and cold. The only fuel obtainable consists of the boughs of pine trees, and everything in the shajie of food, except the simplest necessaries of life, has to be brought from abroad. HANGED BY THE CITIZENS. JnriRe T^yn< h HoIcN Court nml Execute* Sen. tone* With UiuiMiial Formalities A Memphis (Tenn.) dispatch says: On July 20th last Thomas Saylc, a young merchant of Oakland, Miss., eighty miles south of Memphis, was assassinated and horribly mutilated. Suspicion pointed to a negro named Joe Payne, who was arrested. Yesterday he made a full confession, and it was given out that he would bo publicly hanged to-day at noon. A dispatch from Oakland to tho Appeal thus describes his taking off: " To-day at 2:25 p. M. Joe Payne, colored was hanged in accordance with the almost unanimous vote of 500 or (iOO citizens. The proceedings wero quiet and business-like. Sheriff Pearson made an eloquent apjtcal in favor of the law taking its course, but the crime was so revolting and the man's confession of a cold-blooded, deliberate murder so clear and complete that the sheriff was overpowered and relieved of his " A court was at onco organized, the Hon. J. M. Moore, mayor of Oakland, presiding. W. N. Fitzgerald and W. V. Moore, attorj neys. conducted tho prosecution. Payne made a full confession. He said that on the night of tho murder ho went to Savle's house fqr tho purposo of killing him for his money, and that ho waited there until Sayle came out, ; when he joined him. They walked about two hundred yards, when he knocked him down and cut Ins throat, throwing tho body into a deep gully, after he had rifled the pockets of money a.id the store and safe keys. Then he went "to the store and got what money was there, amounting in all to about $.'50. " After the confession a vote was taken and death by hanging was the verdict of tho crowd, who acted as jurors. A gallows was erected at once, and the prisoner mounted the scaffold with a firm step. " He made a speech, again confessing his .... , _ 1?i,. gUlll, U11U JUIVIM11 nntinny iu v..v.. children to avoid evil" thoughts. Tho black cap was then adjusted, and in ten minutes lie was pronounced to lx; dead. Tho colored people were as clamorous as tho whites for avenging the outrageous crime, and the people think they have done right." FASHION NOTES. Black toilets are again in high vogue. White stockings are worn only by brides and bridemaids. Wings, crests and breasts of birds trim many seaside bats. Plain velvet ribbon is particularly suitable for trimming plaids. The short puffed sleeve is coming in vogue for evening dresses. Amber ornaments for the hair are the choice of brunettes, while jets are favored by blondes. The delicate tints in underwear are 1 no longer sought for, pure white being tho popular choice. Classic ami a sthetic styles of dress are still affected l?v many fashionable ! ladies both here and abroad. Ecru drosses and hats to match in : foulard, batiste or satinet, and covered with lace or Grecian embroidery are novel. All-over embroideries are in use, ali though the embroidery with edge to ! elge and used as insertion is much l newer. i The tunic, in every variety of ar1 rangement, short in front or low 1 enough to touch the border plaiting of I the skirt, rai-ed high on the left side or opened in front, is much worn. Birds and feathers are preferred to (lowers this season for bonnet trimming, but llowcrs never go out of j fashion and are always the most tasteI ful trimmi'ng for full dress summer 1 bonnets. Tlie hair is dressed extremely sim' pie, with waves or small curls in front i and a coil on the neck, high standing collar making it necessary to tie the ' .. l.'ttl. nn tVin llfLTfl t.ll!lT1 | IUUK5 ;i JlbllO "iguti W" v..v/ - ~ ? ! formerly. j ()ne of the novelties in evening dress is the three-pointed train, and with it is the three-pointed basque, which | means that the corsage ends in th/ee i points, back and front; but this is not. itsssmmm THE NEW POSTAL NOTES. How They Are Engraved nnd printed.-Wbnt They Look Like. The new postal notes, which are to be used ifter September 3 in the transmission of small iums of money through the United States nails, are being printed rapidly in this city ind they will be ready for shipment to all the xjstoffices in the country on Wednesday. books or notes lor the postomces in tne rar IrVest were completed yesterday. Ever}- !>ook lontains 500 postal note forms, with the adlress of the postofflce printed on each note. Hie pages of the books are perforated, ?that when the notes are torn out stubs renainto show the amounts for which they vere issued. A note can be filled out by a )ostmaster for any amount not exceeding'^-"), it a cost to the sender of three cents for each lote. The notes are mode payable to "the nearer," and they can bo used as fractional lurrencv n any place to which they are sent. To guard against the use of ;he notes before the law authorzing their issue goes into effect, C. F. Moclonald, superintendent of the monev order system at Washington, has caused to be pasted in each book or forms the following lotice: " The postal note business will comnence on September 3, 188:}. Under no lircumstances whatever are any postal notes x) be issued from this book before that date." The notes are printed on pure linen banklote paper of the best quality, chemically areparea in such a manner as not to be affected by moisture or exposure to light, while ,t is sensitive to the action of acids or other innirfa nfton ns<vi hv forcers. The color of ;he paper is a pure temon, and the front surface is printed over with an underlying tint )f golden brown?a combination selected by Superintendent Macdonald as being the safest ma most suitable for the purpose. Tho waternarks in the paper, twisted in the form of a 3gure eight, have the words " U. S. Postal Slote" in duplicate?reading from both left ind right. These water-marks can be seen >nly when the note is held up between the ignt and the eye. Three printings are required to complete the note. In the underying tint is a vignette consisting of a classical female head wearing a helmet, which was mgraved from tho portrait of a postmaster's pretty daughter. Much of the tint is made lp of miniature photographic designs, confining the words "United States Postal Note," repeated many hundred times,, and engraved so finely that one can read the words vith the naked o e, while it would be difficult ;o make a counterfeit. Winged wheels, with i halo from behind, make up a portioa of the ant The back of the note is elaborate and is printed in a dark green. In the center is the nonogram " U. S.," engraved with a geometrical lathe. The monogram is imbedded in an intricate cycloidal lace work of white line cutting, the tracings for which were done ilso with the geometrical lathe. The contract for engraving and printing the several millions of postal notes wnich will be required by the poetofflce department in the next four years was awarded to the Homer Leo Bank Note company in June, and the postmaster-general obliged tho company to rive bonds to the amount of $2,000,000. About 200 skilled artisans were employed by the company to complete the first part of the contract, and they nave been at work in relays day and night for a month. The notes are received by P. Raymond, the United States postal note agent, ana by A. G. Lathrop, of tho i>ostomce department, who have their offices in it nnt-anrxmnanv Uiupriiii'iiig-j injiiia ujl luu uaun 11^ w wtu^uj. at Broadway and Prince street. A fireproof metal vault, about fifteen feet square and eight feet high, has been coartructed in the building in which duplicate notes, not needed for immediate use, and all the engraved plates are to be stored.?New York Tribune. THE NATIONAL GAME. Lewis, of the St. Louis club, leads the American association in batting. Piueon'S are used in Philadelphia to carry baseball news from the grounds to the Zoological garden. A deaf mute catcher, named Ryan, is to support Dundon, the deaf mute pitcher of Columbus. Hadn't they better secure a deaf mute captain ? It is rumored that a new league Ls to be organized, composed of ten clubs, taking in the largest cities not represented in the league or American association. Latham, the third-baseman of the St. Louis club, is the dude of the American association. When off the field he always dresses in the latest and most approved style, and parts his hair in the middle. Two ladies' nines, the Kaatskills and the Sheldons, played two games of ball. at Lake George recently. They wero guests at the hotels there. Each side won one game and declined to play a third. Of the twenty-four players who composed the Athletics' and Bostons' teams when they made their successful tour through England in 1874, Joe Battin the third-baseman of the Allegheneys, is the only one now in the American association. There are now over 100 new ballplavers, nearly all of whom are first-class, who nave entered the professional arena this season. The national game was never so popular as it has been this year, and more persons are making a livelihood out of it than ever before. In 1881 the Boston club receipts were in round numbers ?28,000, against an expenditure of the same amount. In 1882 the receipts were $42,000, against an outlay of &iS,000. This vear the receipts bid fair to reach nearly $45,000, with an* outlay of less than ten per cent, of that amount. Ward, pitcher of the New York club, wil] enter Harvard next fa'J. His ability as a ballplayer has enabled him to further the laudable ambition of educating himself. Under the college rules, he cannot play with the Harvards in championship games, but his advice and experience will bo of great value in training. Beside being a fine pitcher, Ward is one of the best general players and runners in the country. The position of Allen, New- York's pitcher, when preparing to deliver a ball, is described thus: He spits on the end of his thumb, looks up at the sky and down on the ground, grins at the batsman, winks at the catcher, throws a kiss at the umpire, plants his right heel firmly in the ground, sneaks a look al first base, then stands erect, puts both hand5 behind liim, rolls the ball around over the small of his back, raises his left foot and makes a wicked dive forward as he delivers the balL Ho then pants until the ball is returned to him, and goes through the same maneuvers. LEAGUE CLUB RECORD. The official record of the league championsship games played up to the 11th Is as follows; MTTI I I I I I I M J'i clo. * ||i'i |i| g| II-I'jSI-S1! ? i |?.S gl^rS | ? I O S > i'i 1. s naopa^fefc ts o Boston I?] 4 3 0 7 3 10' ;?| 38 Ct'i Buffalo G ? 2 4 3| 7 7| 5 .'J4 0< Chicago 7 f? ? 2 5; 7 9 5 40 W Cleveland.... 4 0 4? 7 0 1) 7 43 01 Detroit 4 4 5 1? 0 82 30 01 New York a! 4 4 4 5 ? 7i 2 31 01 Philadelphia o' 4 2 21 3 1 ? 2] 14 7< Providence 3 0 0 4j 9 b 0 ?1 42 71 I | I I ! _ Games lost 29 :>i 30:23,39,88 o0l2*|?1 AMERICAN1 ASSOCIATION-RECORD. I I I I I I I I i I Club. |J J ? j f' I i 'f :i Z i j qBIbM t Mij Allegheny, I >'! !>! 3 2 2 5 1 24' Athletic 112?'111 3 3 T 4 45 <> Baltimore .'5! 3? li; 4 II 3 0 111 IM Cincinnati 3 4'5 |?llj St[ 3 8 431 IV Columbus 5 l! 3: 3? 5: 2 3 22 (V Kclijise 5 3' 0 4 'J ?1 4 r> a Metropolitan 'J <> 10, 4 5 2? li 371 (? St. Louis 0 li II 010 8 (5? 4,r)' 0 J j_' : i i Games lost 43 22 ">0 2."> 40 30 30 22 ?' ? DROWNING HERSELF. Suicide of a United Slates Senator's Wife A Dubuque (Iowa) dispatch says: Mrs. A B. Allison, the wife of United States Senato a iit.-.tii ,,f rmva. drowned herself in the Mis sissippi river some time last night. She lef homo yesterday afternoon after 1 o'clock telling her servant that she was going to on of her near ueighors. Instead of this, how ever, taking her gossamer under her arn sho went in the opposite direction, toward th country where she had been accustomed t take daily walks. It is ascertained that sli wandered around in the outskirts of the fit, during the afternoon, where she was soon b, several persons walking rapidly, and apj>ar ently somewhat excited. Not returning by o'clock from the place where she was suj posed to Ik*, a search was maintained durin; the entire night. This morning her boo; was discovered soon after 7 o clock in in river, alnuit a mile below the city. She ha cut up her gossamer, placed some stones in il ami tied them securely about her neck, the walked delita'rately to the river, abou thirty-live feet from the bank, lain down ami drowned nerseii, nucio tuu n?nn ?c two ami n-lialf feet deep. Mrs. Allison was of a highly nervous ten I (eminent, and during the past two or thrt years had suffered from and been treated fr mental disease. While at the water cure e tablishment in Western New York in 1SS under medical treatment, she attempted su cido in much the same manner, but wji fortunately rescued. She was the niece an adopted daughter of the late Senat< Grimes, of Iowa, and had been nun ried for ten years. Slie ha no children. Senator Allison had opened tli campaign at Clarinda on Saturday, and y? terday was at Council BlulFs. A dispatc was sent him last night as soon as his wife disappearance was known. He came home b special train. The shocking event hag throw gloom over the entire community. A VILLAGE IN FLAMES. 9 vineyard Uaven> a Netv England Hammer I UeMortf In Aalicit. The village of Vineyard Haven, Mow., has been ahnost entirely swept away by Are. H Over fifty acres were burned, caus- * 4$% I | ng an aggregate loss of about ?200.- fl Ouu. All the hotels, stores and public buildings were burned, with about fifty < other buildings, including several small manufacturing establishments. Nearly one hundred families are homeless and many ga I ahnost penniless, and with no other clothing except what they chanced to have on when ?- -1-?. i? *u? tiiey were driven out 11110 me ililtul uy flames. Vineyard Haven was an old-fashioned seaport village, the buildings mortly of wood and the streets narrow, and the fire swept over it unchecked. It broke out at (J o'clock in the harness factory of R. W. Crocker, when two-thirds of the inhabitants wsre asleep. Almost immediately the whole struc- 331 H ture was in ilames and the Are began its devastating march through the town. At 10 o'clock it had progressed across the main H street and was sweeping toward the southern * jwirt of the village. Tlie only means of checkmg it were the primitive buckets. The whole village was aroused and the streets were -ZgfiBk crowded with the effects of homeless people. >vh|| A severe northeasterly storm was blowing and a slight rain falling. . Most of the residents ot Cottage City started for Vineyard Haven between 10 and 11 o'clock, and the scene they witnessed on ar- wImSI riving at the burning village was very distressing. The streets woro filled with all sorts H of personal property. over which the women and children, the sick and infirm were lament- iyXBBaM ine in a pitiable manner. Every store in the v' village was then on fire, and tnepoetofflce, express offices, livery stables ana hotels? JH except tlie (trove Hill hotel?all were in flames. Some forty acres had been burned V2SI ^(9 over. Tlie wind that fanned the fire was lib tic short of a hurricane. There were about two hundred and fifty summer residents in the village, many of whom were obliged to dee precipitately to places of safety. ;Lj?n The dwelling houses destroyed were not Ssa V more than half insured, and they were owned '< ' and occupied by people who live on their frugal savings ana who find themselves in their >51 old age deprived of the homes that have be- j?|fl H longed to their ancestors for generations. The -'SiSM'ggM village will neyer recover from the blow, ..jttgB fflBB and a large proportion of the sufferers are wholly without means with which to re- ~ build. There was no loss of life, but quite ft number were badly injured while endeavoring to saro personal property, and the wife of 3aE 'S James Davis, an aged citizen, died from ex- ^gjgj eitement consequent upon the fire. An ap- H peal for aid was issued. The aggregate low * '? -/SB is placed at $190,000, on which there is an in5urance of $W,200. PROMINENT PEOPLE. jKjgM Beecheb,?Henry Ward Beecher is delivering lectures in the cities of the Northwest " 1 H Sharox.? Ex-Senator William Sharon HbHffl built forty-seven bouses in San Francisco during the last year. : Eads.?Captain James B. Eads has received MpjuMCfl from the government $1,800,000 for his work at the mouth of the Mississippi. - H Edmunds.?United States Senator Ed munds, of Vermont, was greatly oenencea uy bis long trip South and to the Pacific coast Rsjg^^B Tilton.?Theodore Tilton is now in Europe. ;>^H| Mrs. Tilton is said to be somewhere in Centnl a M New Jersey, taking in sewing for a living. Roebling.?Colonel Eoebling, the Brook- rc^djM^B lyn bridge builder, has received over 3,000 ' letters from engineers and men of letters in all parts of the world. King of Corea.?The king of Corea Is thirty years old, slight of stature, with a small black mustache and thin beard, upon a KmB^H mild, pleasant face. jKuffiMl Dickinson.?Mr. Jason Wentworth, who is to be Anna Dickinson's manager the coming ^5*1 season, says that he will keep that lady in the . l&jS 29 West, where she is appreciated, ana where j| she will make money. Princess Louise.?Princess Louise will, at the queen's request, remain in Canada all summer, instead of returning home this ; ;,$y, <9 month to visit Marienbad. She will probably not arrive in England before the middle of \'\j9 9 November. Tseng.?Tseng, the Chrnese Kuropean ,v 1 xi-a ?dvi/\ao trallrtnr mpiommasfc, wmw ovicu ouvu^ ? j ? *v waistcoat, a violet tonic and a fur cap with I three fox tails, but in the practico of monogamv and iu many of liL> views of things he is H a European. Flood.?The new house to be built by J. C. Flood on California street, San Francisco, ' !^bM will be the finest private residence in this country. It is to cost $5,000,000 without the H furniture, which will cost perhaps $2,000,000 more. Every room is to be frescoed by artists \ H brought from Italy for that purpose. Pike.?a correspondent says that Senator Pike, recently elected to the United States ? H Senate from Vermont, reminds one of Senator Edmunds, although his hair is still hardly tinged with gray and his beard is black. But he has the tall, stooping figure, and the H scholarly face which distinguishes the Ver- nk^S|HB mont senator. Spuroeo.v.?Mr. Spurgeon, the eminent ^ London preacher, surprised his congregation r a few Sundays ago. Ho began his sermon as 9^- 'JvjjsH usual, and got through his "firstly" pretty - <" well. Then, feeling pretty warm himself, taxT > seeing his congregation growing listless, he :fl interrupted himself with the remark, "That is the end of ' firstly,' and it's so warm to-day , that I think the secondly and thirdly will jai keep for a cooler Sunday. So the congrega- . , ,2?hH tion went its way and Mr. Spurgeon went hia 1 MUSICAL AMI imAJOAxiu. ,-m | W. J. Florence has a new play? "Facts.'" i Mr. Dio.v Boucicault will go to AustoUa^ J Joe Emmet claims to have cleared $125,000 last season. The first saengerfest in America was held v&9 in'Cincinnati in 1849. .1 Theodore Thomas received $1,000 per |9 J week on his Western tour. a Joe Jefferson will open McKee Rankin'a jj new theatre, New York, in September. .3 Verdi is perhaps the richest, as he is the . most benevolent composer in the world- jj The French playrights are dramatising 1 some of Edgar A. Foe's fantastic stories. I tv st/virhnlm two one-armed men sit to I gether at the theatre so that they can api " Fedora," with Fauiiy Davenport in tha I title part, will bo seen in New York OctoSullivan* is preparing the score for Gil- I ?ert's libretto, whicn is a parody on Tenny son's "Princess." ? fl Miss Jennie Sargeant, who has lately won fl musical laurels in Milan, Italy, is a native of . fl Haverhill, Mass. ? Blind Tom has become virtually a maniac v^jjfl in music. Piano playing has driven out of fl his head what little else there was in it. 1 In" one week, not long ago, seventy-two con- fl | certs were given in London, of which eighteen 3 TOOK place OH lilt? Willi' cvcmu^. The popular manager and writer, Mr. T. E. i DeLeon, of Mobile, has recently written a [ comedy for Miss Kate Putnam, entitled "Ted; J i or, Only a Woman." ) Miss Lucille Meredith, a young Ameri- ? ) can lady, who Ls said to have a fine soprano J ) voice, and who was the original Virginia, in ' j! ) "Paul and Virginia," when it was produced 9 - in New York last year, is in London. Like 1 - Miss Russell, she intends settling in London $9 to pursue her profession. "rvj " | It is related tliat when Lawrence Barrett, I ? the tragedian, sees a tramp in his back yard, | 't i he calls out to him: " Thou old fossil saurian, | if I catch thy pliocene footprints around these J " i premises again I will break thy ganoidal ver- fl i I tebra> and hand thy Silurian remains over to ! the guardians of the people." T'J 1 i A Berlin paper states that Mr. Abbey has V - ; posted a notice at the Musicians' Exchange in i ? tliat city calling for a large operatic orchestra I [ to perform in tlie Metropolitan Opera-house, I ' I New York, during a term of six months. The | J j musicians are each to receive $130 a month } j and free passage. They are to leave Berlin >] [? on Octolier I 1 , Luther's devotion to music is well known I ' He composed excellent chorals. It is an. 1 nounced that a long article of liis on music is fl 2 to be for the first time printed in the complete ' edition of his works, which is being prepared for the great Luther festival in the autumn. In one of his treatises, Luther says that {< a mft nt ftml nnfl not of man It 1 .expels the devil and makes people cheerful. It 1 , , makes us forget all anger, impurity, pride Jm p ' and other vices. After theology, I assign to* music the next place and tho highest honor." fl 1 i STORM AMTETRTHQUAKE. J 0 FegseU Wrecked Oil'tho Sanioan Islands-. | Destructive Tidal Wave. I l( Commander Pearson, commanding the ?I o United States steamer Wachusett, reports t| 0 to the navy department tho arrival of that J o vessel at Apia, Samoan Islands, May 10, y twenty-three days from Honolulu. He says y that on the ilay of sailing from Honolulu - his majesty King Kalnkaua, accoro. !t jianied by members of his staff, h came on board and went several miles g to sea with them. Captain Pearson also fory. wards a description of a terrific storm, ac ' companied by shocks of earthquake, wmch visited the Samoan group on the night of d March 24. wrecking several merchant ves- j sels and causing considerable damage on n i shore. The American brig^ Sheet Anchor, of it Sail Francisco. Captain jiarru, ?us umc? i? ujxin the reef, and liecnme a complete 1 is wreck. The captain and steward were lost. j ' The American schooner Eliza, of San Fran- j i- cisco, Captain Smith, dragged her anchors jE o and grounded, but was hauled off only J ir slightly damaged. The German vessels Zolide. 1 s- Vciiezuela. Vavan and Apia either sank or J I. were wrecked on the inner reef. The east end I i- ol' the island of Savaii was visited by a tidal J is wave which swept away all houses within a -ij il quarter of a mile of the beach for a j >r distance of tifteen miles along the J i1- shore. A Catholic chapel in Savaii was i d blown down and ten persons killed. The ^ .il ie storm was not preceded by ouy unusual phes noinena, the only indications oDserved being ' J h a fall in the barometer of sixty-eight one 's | hundredtlis of an inch from noon to midnight, y | and a gradually increasing wind from the n i south-southeast from Apia to TaMti, Society fl Islands. A