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Rbeville press and banner1! WILSON. ABBEVILLE, S. C.. WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 12, 1883. NO. 11. VOLUME XXYHLf^HB THE STAR O' THE MORN. The staro' t'to morn is whitest, The bofom of dawn is brightest; The dew is sow n, And the b'os^om* blown, \Vhorein thou, my dear, delightost; Hark, I have risen beforo tlieo. That tho spell of the day be o'er thee: That thj Hush of my love May fa'l from above, And, mixed with tho mora, adorotheo! Dark dreams mnst now forsake theo, Au.l the bliss of thy being ta ;e thee i I.et the beanty of mora In th ne eyes l>e b. rn, And the thought of me .'.wake thee ! Come forth to hear thy rr lises Which the w akening world upraise?; .lAn uij uuir i>c >(iuu With the jrold o' ihe sun, And thy foct bo kis ud by daisie i! A SUMMER ROMAXCK. ".St. Philip's Street!'' A lonely little station. t|iiit<! in the woods it seemed to the curious travelers looking out as the train slowed up. A pretty girl stepped to the platform, and a man, i r holding a hook still open, followed her. | > These were the < nlv passengers for vt. ! ~ Philip's; the whi tl- shrieked, and the nevt moment th 'train was thundering j away hev nd recall. This was the thought (lashing on the man who stood yet on the platform staring after : though whether he' would have recall* d it, if he could, was j a question with him even then. A hit; dazed, he turned and stared at the op- j posite mountain, at the houselesscoun-1 try all around; then slowly h> st pped j over the t ack into the one grass-1 grown road round which the girl had j disappeared. lie thongl t to elose his book. and. i with a smile which broadened most to | a laugh, lie walked on down the lonely j road. Whither would it had him? in I what sort of a place was he (h omed, at least, to spend the night? For he had ' never before stopped at St. Philip's; j he had, in fact, never dreamed to stop j there now, or ever: till that last little : moment when he left tue train so sud- j denly 1 e ! al not time even to close his , magazine. He walked <n still smilingly. It! did not matter any ". ay. True, ho I was b und f< r a place far distant, and | his luggage had g< ne ihad ; but lie! could follow on the^morrow. What i mattered <n* n'ght, even th ugh he; must cam]) out in the wilderness?, Anl p rhaps beyond he would find some very at ract ve spot where he would prefer to p iss his vacation ; a trifle wo:il! bring the luggage back, Hi on/I a v H UUU o f H He strove to ;:r?ue down the old circumstance of his stopping at St. j Ph'lip's; lie ad-nittel no cause to quarrel with hi; impulse, yet he in clined to all the same. Suddenly he H frowned a hit?as a man must?sudB dfnly realizing that ho iias made himself ridiculous : still, v. nether he would have recalled the train was a question with him even yet. That moment he ; looked ahead, and saw what there was of St. Philip's he ha 1 now come upon. A small, straggling hamlet, hugging closely the base of the mountain which hung down over it. A pictures ue j place enough it looked in tlm evening j sunlight; it would have captivated an j artist's or a poet's soul at < nee; but j Howard Ralph was neither, and he only walke 1 prosaically up the first J street, seekiug a place to pass the j night. There was no sign of an inn any- ] where he could see. lie stopped to ; Inquire of a man lie saw standing in a j doorway "Inn?" the man answered with a' laugh. "There never was an inn in j St. Philip's Street as I heard on. If you want to stop, you can stop here; we make a business of taking hoar.l- j ers. You come from the train, of; course," he added, leading the way into the little parl?r. "You must j have walked powerful slow; the young lady's been here five minutes and more." " The young lady?*' "The young lady, yes. You saw her? No doubt such a face as hers M wouldn't be likely to escape?well. Hk such a corresponding chap as you. V She's one of our boarders, reg'lar; has j been here two years now." The man ' glancrd with an honest. wistful, dis-1 satisfied look from the newcomer to i his magazine. " < uessvou don't me:in j to take long l.oard, though; you d-.n't seem to have much luggage. .But perhaps you left it at the station? The j boy's going right oft' for the young lady's, and he can bring yours, too." " Yes, but?" "Oh, I see, you just want to spend the night ? Odd, but, of cours % you're welcome. Perhaps to-morrow," he bent closer, and ended in a sly whisper ?"perhaps, when you see our young lady clos r, you'll decide to stay a ; while." Howard Ralph was a man not easily embarrassed, but he fairly writhed; now under the speaker's innocent S word* and glan es. lie plunged into his answer right recklessly, albeit it1 cos' a lie. 'The fact is?the fa -t is, I (I'd not at nil intend stop] iu<r at st. Philip's.' My luggage was checked for Bramp-; ton, but the?the natural beauty of the place attracted me, and the fact is,1 I may like to s'.av here. What attractions have you? Fidiing, boating, t all that, I suppose, of course V "It's no object deceiving you, stran-; ge\ There isn't water enough to I'.oat a b.>at in ten miles of St. Philip's. All j wc iiavo is tiie mountain.' a "Ail the same, I think I'll stay." B lie was not 1<>. king at his delighted BS host; he had turned, ere answering, at k the sound of a light step and a ripp.ing laugh in the hall without: he .sto<,d, | ml now gazing at the little figure trij pin:; toward the r< alway. with th- wy (1; involuntarily? n his 1 ps. lie did not see it again that night; hut onre yet, H while at supper, lie heard the rippiing A?\/tA <'?U'inr* offer ivifr i l?i< KlUgll, UUUU| UUVi ?iu i mm host on the piazza; once, when tho J < t latter was leaving him at tho door of his sleeping-room. ? " Who is the voting ladv ?' he asked,. with one of his own impulses. "She's Miss Herndon?Miss Marion Herndon. She's?" 7"r . The man on the door-sill did not i finis'1, for he within l ad hastily set / the lamp on the table and stood staring at him with an expression which I cau-e:l him to retreat below with tho j barely-repressed opinion that the young man .with the magazine might pr< ve a very good boarder, but he was afraid he was a little "off." "Marion Hernilon !" Midway between a gasp and an ejaculation, Howard Ralph sank into the (hair beside the table and took out j tnis cigareuec. It was a coincidence, truly. It was r-v not strange that he should smoke tip j . the niost of them ere he could compose himself to sleep. * * * * * * A coincidence indeed? He began tc realize it in the morning. ?o fur it I had been a dream, a jumble: he had come almost to believe the very words he heard a fancy of his own. IJut the I scrap he came in contact with while | dressing forced it down on him a truth. A letter in his pocket ending thus: " Your obstinacy in regard to this girl exceeds my comprehension. What iossible ' objection is there to your making her acquaintance ? Because she has money, would it be impossible for you to fall in love with her?or, if you see fit not, are you obliged to umrry her ? ' I have no patience with you. Howard. I know if you once saw Marion Herndon you would fall in love with her; and I wanted you to have 1he opportunity to win a charming wife and?i fortune, a'.l at once. Eut your chances are over now;-she goes to-morrow, for the second time, to that absurd plaoe in the mountains to find a husband, rerohance, in some farmer who does not driomahe has a cent." 1 rrL S " 'j -*'* ? '7 vi-> ' :' lie re-read it with mixed emotions. This, then. wa> the end of the lon^ war he had waged with lii.s ambitious sister, his persistent thwarting of her schemes for the past two mouths. He, because his honest s?ml despised such speculation, had vowed, finally, never to look into the face of Marion Herndun so long as lie should live. Ho could but smile as he realized how fate had tricked hiin and help d Mrs. Marbury Bell. " I know if you once saw Marion Herndon you would fall in love with ner." Ilis eves mot the words again to rest there: somehow he could not endure now those other daring ones, still, if ever there was a prophetess in tho nineteenth century, it was this same Mar bury Hell. lle was beginning to feel a certain awe of his elder sister; he caini suddenly to delight even in ; her presumption; ho was on the p iut of according her full forgiveness, yea, thanks, for her persistent scheming, when? A merry, rippling laugh floated up from the porch below. As though it wore tli!' most natural of tilings. Howard Ralph wont out and down the stairs. lie was face to fa-e with Marion Herndon ere he realized his own I presumption. Hut she d d not m'nd. i ho saw. delightedly; she was frolicking ' with the d< g. and she looked up with j a blush, yet with a smil . MJood-morn ng." she sa d. and then ?"I saw you on the train yesterdiy. but I did not dr -ain you wore coming here." she added, frankly. " Whatever attracted you to St. Philip's?" was tho question plainly written in her face. lie could not be taken a bit aback. * 1 wa: not intend'ner to stop at St. Philip's." he stammered, "tut?but I did." lie linish"d. simply. " And I tank y> u d d a very sensible th'ng." she answered, merrily; she seemed really to enjoy his odd conclusion. ' Y<u will sure'v like St. Philip's if you do not mind the quiet; I think there is no place s ? charming on the earth. J5ut. then. I have special re:isons for liking such?" She paused abruptly, as fioug'i remembering she was ta kin<? to?a stranger. Her reasons flashed on him; she liked St. Philip's because she was free from a throne: of suitors she must, at best, suspe t; beca'-se here she might have the satisfaction of knowing that sonic man loved her even though he were the long-nosed farmer she could never marry. -And then suddenly his own po ition dawned on him. She had h ard of him, of course; Mr*. Marbitry Hell would never scheme all on one side. She would hear his name -hear it this very morning, and then? What had attracted him to St. Philip's would he quickly revealed to her. The realization was unendurable ; he could barely control himself to renew polite conversation. What should lie do? (io to his host and beg him to conceal his name? Quite too ridiculous. Go away now, escape this terrible denouement at any cost? lie could not?he would not. Howard Ualph was quite beside himself as he went in to breakfast. J'?ut fortune favored him. "Mr. liolfe, 1 think you said your name was':" was the remark, to which ne wicKetuy nouueu iu-quivsteui-e. >:u the bliss of the days w;is spared him ?the near happy days wherein they lived and strolled t >ge*.her up the mountain's heights anil through the pretty valley. For it was early season; < they were the only boarders yet ar- | rivel, and somehow it seemed the i most natural of tilings to both that j she should show him all the familiar < nooks, the fairest bits of St. Philip's. ( A three days' rapture, every hour in which he grew madder in love with Marion Ilerndon. and some blissful , moments it dawned to him that she did not dislike him?that is, she did not dislike the strange Mr. Kolfe who might not dream that she was an heiress. This thought was the < ne bitter drop always in the cup, and the sole restraint on a passion which, save for it, could never have lived three days UIltJApiC^DCU. So he was pondering when came that unexpected mail from Brampton. It chanced she brought it to him. " You are a brother of Mrs. Marbury Bell?" she asked, quietly, as she handed him the letters. It was all over; he read that plainly as he looked up in her face. It wsis naught to him that moment, her frank lov?k of disappointment, the bit of real trouble he scarcely meant that he should see, seeing that they should be strangers forevennurr. Howard Ralph was t > be nothing to her, whatever had been Mr. liolfe! Plain, so plain, and yet he could not blame her. It was his own fault; he should have been frank with her at the outset; she might have beiievrd him then. But. how have been frank without being?ridiculous? What to doV She certainly would! not believe him now, however eloquent his explanation; strong as his passion, he strangely shrank from it. The one thing was to go away, to relieve her of his annoying presence, and, perhaps, a further day would come? lie couM not; he would not. The fiat was eternal, he told himself, and yet?what to do? The miserable days dragged slowly; he scarcely dar> d sp ak to Marion Ilerndon, and she barely spoke to him. lie rambled alone these days; even the dog deserted him for her. It was an exasperating situation, and yet, he could do nothing but wander up the mountain's heights and through the pretty valley, wondering if she cared. Did she? Xo. Always the same answer, uncompromising, prompt. That look of hers was but the pain born of a fresh deception, unnatural, nor strange. More than ordinarily he was realizing this that morning he strode up St. Philip's mountain, desperate, scarce looking where lie walked s\r\ im nltGi.rliAfllv till Ilis foot struck empty air; a vision of rocks, a blackness, and lie lay senseless on the cliff below. In the my.-te.y betwixt life and lift*, till suddenly what he fancied an angel's wing brushed his forehead, and the faint music of a voice fell on liis car. "Can it be that he is dead?oh, no ! j It cannot be, it must not be; I will not have it so! Oh, Xero, good dog, go and fetch them; go and bring help to me. Do you not see I cannot leave my darling here; the only man I?I ever liked." The voice fait red; the speaker started with a little shamed, despairing| cry, for the man beside her had opened" his eyes, and was gazing at her a bit da'ed. yet with a growing lo >k of rapture which told how well he knew. '* Marion!" She could not even nine ner iace, this poor Marion Hermit.n; for faint, yet stunned as he was he had started up and clasped her hands in his. "You must not call me Marion," sir; gasped, despairingly, "and you must forget those words I said. I cannot help that I said them, and? and I am glad you are not hurt, but? I do not care if you do love me now; you know whyyoucameto St. Philip's; because?because?you gave in at last to Mrs. Marhury IJell: you?" But she was talking between his kisses now; he had taken her in his arms, and was fondling her?ah! so tenderly, but deliberately, as though it were the most positive of things. And she, strange girl, was permitting it, even while she spoke. " I)o you know why I came to St. Philip's'?" lie interrupted her. She did not answer, she was too ashamed of her own nappy =eu 10 say any more to him. lie hel: her closer : while he to!d her what the reader has already guessed?of the sweet face he saw in the car that day, the face that held his eyes that long journey through, that drew him, despite himself, out of > * the car after the little girl that owneil it so mad his soul to lose it. Could he help that little girl was Marlon Merndon? Thic nrwl Jill IliP r,'Sl llf? told llOr. sitting there. W hat woman will not I believe a lover in a lover's arms? She looked up at him in gentle amazement, hut with tender eyes. " Is it not a pretty summer romance, dear?" sin; mm inured. " My Marion !" "Words could wait hut not kisses, that moment tho ight Howard Ralph. So fate helped Mis. MarUiry Hell. Gentlemanly I?riyati:Is. A Constantinople letter to the Lonon jStandard savs : Mr. Alexan ler Corpi, who reached the capital this morning after twelve days' (htention among the brigands in the neighborhood of ismidt, gives the following narrative of his misadventure ; "On Thursday aft<r ;0 >n I was giving orders for f-o.ne alterations outside the building occupied by my silk factory, \\ hen suddenly 1 was surrounded and seized bv nine individuals of suspicious appearance. I aske 1 what object they might have in sccur ing my person, whereupon they stated that they wanted money. I remarke 1 that I )ia<l none on me, hut if released I would give a promissory note for a reasonable amount. This the brigands, for such they were, declined, and finally they hurried me <>tV on fout to a spot eight hours' di>t. nt, where a lia't was ordered by the chief of the pa:ty. The brigands then formed a council to dcc.de upon the most suitable place to take me for the purpose of communicating with my family, in the near vicinity. Ismidt was selected, as ottering every facility in this respect. On Sunday, the 7th instant, we reached the spot agreed upon, which is situated in a mountainous district some two hours from the town of Ismidt. Negotiations then commenced for the purpose of fixing the amount of ransom. The first figure named was .t 50,000, but finatly. after several days' bargaining, they consented to take .i'l.OOO. Means were then found to dispatch a messenger to my family with the news of my whereabouts and a request that they would forward the last naimd sum in order to affect my release. According to the agreement, 1 had explain1 d in my letter that the amount of the ransom was to be accompanied by not more than three men. These formalities being complied with, two trusted servants of my family in charge of the money at length reached the seme of my captivity. The gold pieces were counted, and I was declared a free man. The captain of the band returned me the cash 1 had with me at the time I was captured, and handed my servants four liras for their trouble in bringing the ransom. Indeed, from lirst to last I had no reason to complain of my treatment. A man servant and a woman cook were told off for attendame on me. 1 had many (ha's with the brigands who were all Greeks. They showed considerable forethought for the welfare of the rural population by cx| r. ssing the -* "? -i- 1-1 hope that my misadventure wuum uuo lead me to give up working the silk factory, as such a decision on my part would entail misery upon a number of villagers who depended upon their employment there fur their daily bread. ' You need have no fear in future,' they added, ' we will guar, ntee your safety.' Before separating 1'rom the band we became such excellent friends that the chief hinted he had an important capture in view, and that, if successful, be would return the whoie uf my ransom." Immediately that Mr. Corpi was out of the hands of the brigands the Turkish troops were sent off in pursuit and every effort was made to capture the band. Their Diamond Wadding. In the village of Downsville, If. Y., live a couple wlio have probably enjoyed a longer wedded life than any other couple in the state, if not in the Union. They are the venerable Peter Uogart and his wife, who were married in 1808. There is but a few days difference in their ages, both be^ng nearly ninety-six. Mrs. Uogart is in excellent health, and walks a mile daily to minister to the wants of an invalid daughter. The venerable couple recently celebrated the seventy-filth an- ' niver.-ary of their marriage, when 1 there were present descendants to the fifth generation. A sister of Mr. Uo< gart's, age nearly seventy-nine, lives with them, with faculties so well preserved that she remembers the occasion of the wedding, although she was not four years old at the time. Delaware county, X. Y., seems conducive tc. longevity, torn fjt. .1 onn uvea ior mice- | <|iiurters of ;i century there, anil died j at the age of 10!. Aunt Prudence j Larkin, of Pease Eddy, died recently > at 107. How a Do? Yawns. When a dog gapes he doesn't screw his face into all sorts of unnatural shapes in an endeivor to keep his mouth shut with his jaws open. Neither does he put his paw up to his face in an apologetic way, while gaping in ambush, as it were. No, sir; when I he gapes he is perfectly willing that j the whole worl I will come to the ! show. lie braces himself firm on his j fore feet, stretches out his neck, <!e- presses his head and his jaws open j with graceful moderation. At first it j is but an exaggerated grin: but, when the gape is apparently accomplished, j the (log turns out his elbows, opens his j jaws another forty-live e'egrees, swallows an imaginary bone by a su Iden and convulsive m ?vement, curls up his tongue like the petal of a tiger lily ! and shuts his jaws together with a 1 snap. Then he assumes a grave and contente 1 visage, as is eminently be j coining to one who lias performe 1 a duty successfully and conscientiously. J A <tucer Family. A queer family liv<\s near T)maha, : Neb. The father and mother have dwelt in one house lor the past ten j years, and during all that time neither they nor their children have ever come j out of the house except at night. They deal with only one tradesman, < who furnishes them wiih the neces- 1 saries of life at night, through a window, and his hills are always J promptly paid without question. A I eollin is kept in the house for every J member of the family. As the chil- j dr? n grow and the collins become too , small, larger ones are procured. When : a new member is added to the family ; a coflin is at once ordered. The I -i?li!iu luii>n c:illeil to pnj aiiitm n uv ? ? a'tVnd this singular household says that he has never yet seen the face of J any member of it. No English fortunes have ever been accumulated by individuals in England equal to th- s of .Stewart and Vandcrbilt. The largest personalty was that of Mr. Urassey, the great railroad eontractor, $:;0,06i>,0')0. The next largest j was that of Mr. Morrison, dry goods, $20,000,000, with real (state equal to some $2,500,000. The Duke of Westminster's realty can fall little short of $100,COO,000, but his father only left $1.000,0JO personalty, and this included a famous collection of pictures. The largest fire insurance ever eifecteil in a single order was recently taken ont by the authorities of Hamburg on the city mohiliary possessions. It amounted to $(?,00 ),0UU, and was divided among fifteen companies. Among the items was $810,COD on the city library. It is claimed that the first street letter-boxes ever used in this country were put up in Boston in 1858, the first collection bdng made on the 2d ' of August, that year, at noon. MAT DEPRAVED JUVENILE. THE BAD BOY TAXES A DOCJ TO THE GROCERY MAN. Ho Tells How He the Canine's Acquaintance--'T!ic (irmcry .Htin'a Anslst. nn! Hum nn Adventure. " Hello," said the grocery man to the bad boy, as he came in with a black eye, leading a hungry-looking dog that was walking on three legs and had one leg tied up with a red silk handkerchief. " What is this? a part of your amateur theatre? Now you get out of here with that dog mighty quick. A boy that hurts dogs so they have to have their legs tied up is no friend of mine," and the grocery man took up a broom to drive the dog out doors. " There, you calm yourself," said the boy to the grocery man, as the dog got behind the boy and look< d up at the grocery man as though he was not afraid as long as the had boy was around. "Set up the crackers and cheese, and sausage, and pickles, and everything this dog wants to eat. lie is a friend of mine. That dog is my guest, and those are my splints on his broken leg, and that is my handkerchief that my girl gave me wound around it, and you touch that dog, except in the way of kindness, and down t _ ? 1 xl_ 1. -- coine.syour nouse, ami mic u>j uuuu;?u up his lists us though lie meant business. " l'o >r doggie," said tl.e grocery man, us lie cut oil ;i pieo ol* sausage atul olfcre I it to the dog, which was declined with thanks, express I by the wagging tail. " Where did you steal him?" " I didn't steal him, and lie is no canniba'. lie won't eat your sausage," and the boy put up his elbow as though to warn off an imaginary blow. " You see, tins clog was loiiowmg on ;i pet dog that belonged to a woman, and she tried to shoo him away, but he wouldn't shoo. This dog did not know that lie was a low-born, miserable dog, and had no right to move in the society of an aristocratic pet dog, and lie followed right along. He thought this was a free country, and one dog was as good as another, and lie followe i that woman and her pet dog right into her door yard. The pet dog encouraged this dog, and he went in the yard, and when the woman got up on the steps she threw a velocipe.le at this dog, and broke his leg, and then she took up her pet and went in the h mse so she wouldn't hear this dog howl. She is a ni'-e woman, and I see her go to m eiing every Sunday with a lot of Morocco books in her hands, and once I pumped the organ 111 the church where she gi.es, and she was so pious i thought sue was an angei. j>uo angels don't break dogs' legs. Xow, I am going to lay this dog in the barrel of dried apples, where your cat sleeps, and give him a little rest, and I will give you four minutes to tell me all you know, and you will have three : minutes on your hands with nothing ] to say. Unbutton your lip and give your teeth a vacation." " Well, you have got gall. However, I don't know but you are right about that woman that hurt the dog. Still, it may have been her way of petting a stmnge dog. Wc should try to j look up1 n the charitable side, of peo- i pies' eccentricities. Hut say. I want to j ask you it you have seen anything of i my man that delivers groceries. Sat- , urday night I spnt him over to your j house to deliver some things about 10 I o'clock, and lie has not showed up : sin e. What do you think has become of him?'' "Well, by gum, that accounts for it. Saturdav nicrht about 10 o clock we heard somebody in the back yard, | around the kitchen door, just as we 1 were going to bed, and pa was afraid J it was a burglar after the church j money he collected last Sunday. lie had g<-t to turn it over the next day to ; pay the minister's expenses on his va- : cation, and it made him nervous to j have it around. 1 pe; ked out of the window and saw the man, and I told pa and pa got a revolver and began shooting through the wire screen to the kitchen window, and I saw the man drop the basket and begin to climb j over the fence real sudden, and I went [ out and began to groan, as though some- j body was dying in the alley, and I : brought in the basket with the mack- ' erel and green corn, and told pa that i from the groaning out there I guessed he had killed the grocery delivery man, and I wanted pa to go out and help me hunt for the body, but he said he was going to take the midnight train to go out West on some business, and pa lit ; out. I guess your man was scared | and went one way and pa was scared 1 and went the other. Won't they be astonished when they meet each other on the other side of the world? Fa will shoot him again when they meet, if lie gives pa any sass. Pa says when he gets mad he had just as soon eat as to kill a man. Well, I must go home now, I run the family since pa lit out. ! Say, send some of your most expensive i canned lruit and things over to the j house." And the boy took the lame i dog under his . arm and went out.? Peck's Sun. The Steel Pen Trade. The steel pen in the many types in which it is manufactured?and there j are more than J.uuu uiiierent numuers j ?is a signal instance of triumph of i mechanical skill in combining and J varying the qualities of the implement, j involving extreme niceties of dis- ! tinctions to an extent that few other j industrial arts demand. Our entire , annual trade in steel pens, domestic ! and imported, may be placed at I $1,500,000, and is a steadily progressive j one. The larger proportion of those j sold are American pens. It is a matter j of dillieulty to as ertain the relative amounts disposed of in different sec- I tions i f (he country, pens being mainly j distributed by large wholesale houses j who make shipments from tiie East. | The chief retailers of pens throughout the country are in the stationery, pub- . lishing, notions, dry goods and hard- j ware trades. Our own manufacturers are reticent a; to their annual pro- ! durth.n, but taking the ascertained output, of Birmingham, whi h supplies betwem 15,000,000 and 1'.,000,000 j pens per week, with that of the few j manufactories in France, the one in i (Jermany and the one in Austria, there : being none in the other European stat< s, and the . leading American es- j tablishments, in Meriden, Conn., Cam- i den, X. and in Philadelphia, the weekly production for this country \ and Europe cannot be less than from j 22,Of 0,000 to 2:5,000,000 pens. Fashionable SmugrRHiipr. One lady who was relating to a group of friends this morning her shopping experience in England, triumphantly declared that she had | bought three silk costumes at Marshall j a- MoWivh's. London, and that sh; sv "?v-o - ' had them trimmed with three times I the quantity of passementerie trim- j ming that was necessary, in order to avoid paying duty. " I almost paid my fare out of that trimming," cried she. "They asked $8 per yard in New York for the same thing. I only paid a little over $4 in London. I had twelve row.-, put around the skirt of one dress. Of course, I did not intend to wear it like that. I sold what 1 did not need t) my husband's sist r for a yard." Another happy little woman said that she had purchased two dinner sets when she visited England, and the custom-house ollicors did not find her out. They even apologized for op ening her trunks ! Just us she was commencing to tell of similar clever little transactions her husband joined the group. The conversation suddenly ilagged. lie was a Brooklyn clergyman.?New York Mail and Ex pr. ss. The Italians dry and pulVerize the pulp of the tomato. - ?& ? \ __ WEWS OF THE WEEK. 'i Eastern and Middle States Two tugs have just towed an immense body of timlier?the largest string of logs ever made into a raft?from St. Johns, N. B., to Brooklyn. The voyage of (MO miles from St. Johns along the Atlantic coast and through Long island Sound occupied eighteen days. The raft was 1,200 feet long, twenty-four feet wide and twelve feet deep. It is composed of I eleven sections, each of which contains about I 500 logs, ranging in size from the diameter of | a wngon wheel down to that of a telegraph pole. This method of bringing timber to distant market* will, it is thought, eventually succeed the sailing vessels' trade. Colonel II. C. Hoffman*, ex-member of the New York assembly for Chemung county, committed suicide at Horseheads by taking strychnine. He told his wife before his death that ho had carried the strychnine for the purpose of killing himself for ten years. Colonel Hoffman was fifty-six years of age, and had been one of the most prominent men in that section for the past thirty years. Derangement of the mind is assigned as the cause for the suicide. Flames were discovered at 3 a. m. in a crowded Boston tenement, and before tho frightened inmates could be rescued five of them lost their lives as follows: Mrs. Fred. Savage, aged forty years ; Katie McLaughlin (daughter of the above by a former husband), aged thirteen years; Mamie Savage, aged 6evon months; George McLaughlin, aged thirteen years; Thomas McLaughlin, aged seven years ; Mi's. Sarah McLaughlin was fatally injured, and John Savage was badly hurt. A convention* of the National Women's and Christian Temperance Union lias been held at Round Lake, N. Y. A number of memorial tablets and monuments have just been dedicated by Grand Army veterans encamped at Gettysburg. A fire at Williamsport, Penn., destroyed a sawmill, several dwellings and barns and ah immense amount of lumber, causing a ]>ecuniary loss of about $500,000. About 800 delegates of both sexes, and representing all parts of the Union, were present at the annual public convention of the Freethinkers in Rochester, N. Y. Heavy seas and tidal waves have swept away and damaged much property along the Now Jersey coast. At Atlantic City, N. J. about 250 places of business, including twenty or more of the finest bathing houses, were swept away, and the pecuniary loss was estimated at ?250,000. Extremely high water prevailed all along the coast from Atlantic City to Halifax, Nova Scotia. A furnace for the cremation of bodies is in course of erection at Philadelphia. The death of the Rev. Howell Gardner, of Brooklyn, from injuries received by the bursting of the boiler of the Hudson river steamboat Riverdale, adds another to the victims of that disaster. An express train from Philadelphia, con- j sistingof eight passenger cars ami a uaggage ar, loft the track at Pleasantville, N. J., and all the cars were badly wrecked. Several i farmers working in a lielghlKiring field heard the crash and the scrcanis of the frightened passengers, and miming to the sceno helped the people out of holes and windows in the wrecked cars. Thirty j>erso!is were injured more or less seriously. At the State convention of the Pennsvl. | vavia Greenliak j artv, held in Williams- ! port, T. 1'. Kynder and Captain A. T. Marsh j were nominated for auditor-general and j State treasurer rcspevtively. Mr. Rynder was also elected as chairman of the State | committee. Resolutions were adopted denouncing the money jxiwer and monopoly in I every form, and favoring a national lalnjr j bureau. South and West. At Rochester, Minn., 150 families have been left destitute by the recent cyclone. Relief | agents sent out report that the path of the | cyclone was from west to east, and was about I eighteen miles long. They examined the condition of fifty farms in the track and state [ that every house and barn on them was de- ^ molished, and that much valuable stock was j killed, farming machinery wrecked and j thousands or uusiicis 01 gram uesuuji-.i. mi: j loss to farmers in the county is not less than $200,000. After a horseback rifle of 230 miles President Arthur and party arrived in the Yellow- j stone region, California, and encamped in the I Upper Geyser Basin ainid the natural wonders of the national park. Fishing constituted the main amusement of the party during the long trip. Andrew Burt, city marshal, and Charles Wilkens, city water-master, of Ogden, Utah, | wero both shot, the former with fatal effect, i by a negro whom thoy were trying arrest. The negro was arrested, but was soon taken j from jail by a crowd and hanged. Walter It. Pool, Congressman-elect from j the first North Carolina district, died at Elizalteth City, X. C\, a few days ago, after a long illness, aged thirty-two years. A number of masked men overpowered the guard in the jail at Colquitt, Ga., and effecting an entrance shot and killed Lewis Warren, a colored prisoner, charged with assault ing a white lady. At Milwaukee rats were found eating the ( corpse of a wife anil mother, who, it is l>e- | lieved, had died of starvation. Two little 1 children of the dead woman were huddled in j the same room, nearly starved, and the ; father was lying in front of the hovel : grossly intoxicated. A. A. Athkhton, count}* treasurer of Kos- i common county, Mich., disappeared with $1N,0(H) belonging to various parties. Hakky Packard, of Hartford, Conn., an employe of P. T. Barnum's, was crushed to death at Cincinnati by an elephant. William H. Jones, a colored man, was i hanged at Raleigh, C., for the murder of j a deputy sherill', who had arrested him on a i charge of stealing. On the gallows Jones j made a sj>eech acknowledging his guilt, and I delivered a prayer which is described as " the ! most remarkable ever heard in the State? eloquent and fervent. The murdered man's father and eleven brothers were present. FlRK at Sail Antonio7 Texas, destroyed j 'roperty valued at $300,000. Three men were ! dly burned and two lirenien injured. Jacor Ai.TKXiiritfiKU shot and almost instainly killed Jacob Hush and mortally i woumled Samuel Campbell at the threshold of a justice's court in Indianapolis, Intl., after whieh he delilierntely shot and killed himself. Altenburger and Bush were both over fifty years of age, ami were friends. Bush had sued Altenburger for money which he claimed was due him, but it was supposed the matter had been amicably adjusted. Campbell hapjiened to be passing at the time of the shooting, and received the second shot. Sylvester F. Fuller, the runaway easier of the Second National bank, of Jefferson, Ohio, and II. S. St. John, his assistant, have been arrested in Cleveland, Ohio, 011 the charge of stealing $50,000 of the bank's money. The defalcation was discovered last December, and they fled to Canada. Earthquake waves of great dimensions appeared 011 the Pacific coast. It is supposed they were caused by the earthquakes that wrought such destruction on the island of Java. The New Orleans grand jury suggest that a crematory be established under tho direction of the oftieers of the charity hospital .?i- tlm nuri nu. of bnrnintr the bodies of ner ons who die of contagious diseases. Washington. Postmasteh-Gknkhal Gkesham has ro- ! moved Postmaster C<>11 ley. of Atlanta, Ga. It is charged that investigation showed a deficiency of several thousand dollars in Mr. Con ley's accounts, and general had management of his office. Miss Mixnik K. Hoyt, of Connecticut, en- j joys the distinction of lnung the first jierson appointed to a clerkship in the United .States treasury department under the operation of the new civil service rules. Her standing at the examination was and sho has been appointed to a $000 vacancy in the national bank redemption agency of tho treasurer's office. The Garfield Memorial hospital at Washington is progressing to completion, and will be open for the reception of jxitients soon. Extensive preparations are being mode by the United States jKistoffiee department for tho reduction in letter postagn from three to two cents on Oclolwr I. The department has solected as the color for the new four-cent or double rate stamp a shade of green somewhat darker thar. that in wldch the present threecent stamp is printed. The new stomp bears a profile likeness of Andrew Jackson, and Is quite handsome in design. There are now 4*,049 postoffices in the United States, of which number 2,170 are presidential offices and G,:57:i money order offices. Since the year 1S7(5 the number of postoffices has been increased forty per cent. At a meeting of the "World's Arbitration league, held in Washington, resolutions were adopted favoring the holding of a "World's EVin-ici'tr*f Art nnil Ttwlnstrv fit the MTjital of the United States in 1893, the fourth centennial of the discovery of America, and recommending that there be held in connection with it a representative congress of nations for the discussion of "questions affecting the moral and social relations of the human race." DuRINO the past fiscal year 91 000 applications for pensions were disposed of by the United States pension bureau. Commissioner Dudley says that the office handled every case brought before it. All applications were passed, rejected or additional evidence required, so that no case was left untouched. Eiohty thousand lxx>ks, each containing 500 of the new postal notes, have been sent to the money order oflices throughout the country. The consul-general of the United States at Rome has furnished the department of state at Washington with an account of a series j of contests between combined reaping and binding machines, manufactured in several countries, in which those of the United States were successful. General J. A. Ekin, colonel and assistant quartermaster-general, has been placed on the retired list of the army. Foreign. Tire British parliament lias closed its ses sion. Queen Victoria's customary speech was reail by royal commission. It stated that matters in South Africa were not in satisfactory condition, but that there was an improved state of affairs in Ireland. A convention of the Irish National League of Great Britain, with Mr. Parnell presiding, will be held at Leeds, England, on OfJlWIIllXT ill. In a duel between two captains of the German army one was killed. The inquest on the twelve bodies of children found in an undertaker's establishment at Bermondsey, near London, shows tliat the bodies had been deposited with the undertaker for burial by the parents of the children, but he had neglected to bury them, although the cost of interment had been paid him. It is believed that the death of the Comte de Chambord, the head of the French royalists, will have no influence on politics in France at present. Many persons have been killed and a large number of houses sacked during the progress of riots against the Jews in various towns in Hungary and Russia. Collisions between the military and the rioters were frequent. ! A i'kte at Paris, given under the auspices nf tin* French press, in aid of the sufferers by the Ischia earthquake, netted $?50,0<)0. The enqieror of Annam has yielded to the demands of the French, agreeing to the establishment of a protectorate, the payment of the war expenses and the recall of the troops from Tonquin. The queen of Madagascar is dead. Large bands of ]>casants, armed with guns [ and axes, entered Zalaloevoe, Hungary, and plundered thirteen Jewish shops. The court-martial trying the soldiers who I>articii?iteil in the massacres at Alexandria, ISgypt, sentenced imrreen cuiprius, wno were charged with having organized the massacres, to l>e hanged opj>osite tho police station, and two to fourteen years' and six to five years' ] tonal servitude. Several towns in Java have been damaged by volcanic eruptions proceeding from an island near by. A Core an* embassy, composed of men of high rank, has been appointed to live in Washington. The Corean embassy will be the third Eastern nation that has fixed a legation in Washington, Japan and China already having plenipotentiaries there and numerous subordinate attaches. Enormous loss of life has been cause*I by volcanic eruptions and tidal waves on and about the island of Java. Several towns on the island were swept away by a tidal wave and tho lighthouses as well as a mountain in the Sunda Straits have disap ) wired. The town of Anjer was uestroyeu. Whole districts wore depopulated, largo sections of land disapjtearing with its inhabitants in an instant. In Batavia, out of a Imputation of 3,r?()0 Europeans and Americans, about S00 perished. Outside of the town, out of 2d,IKK) Chinamen fully 15,000 lost their lives. The total loss of lifo in Java and in neighlroring islands is estimated at not less than 75,000. The plate on the coflin of the Count de C'hambord is inscribed with the following words: " Henry the Fifth, by the grace of Clod King of France and Navarre." Tho Count of Paris has notifleil the courts of Kuropeof the death of the Count of C'hambord. The circular of notification is signed " Phillippe, Count of Paris." The annual session of tho German reiehstag has l>egun. During tho terrible volcanic eruptions in Java and vicinity tho mountain of Papandayang, 7,034 feet high, was split into seven distinct parts, each part l>eiiig a separate, flaming peak, looming up to a great height. One of the oueer incidents of tho eruption was tlic sudden rising of fourteen new vol, ranic mountains in the Straits of Sunda forming a c >mplete change in almost a straight line between Point St. Nicholas, on the Javanese coast, and Hoga Point, on tho coast of Sumatra, almost on the tops of what had been the Merak and Middlo Islands, which sank into the sea. So serious are the changes in the coast, and the entire formation of tho Straits of Sunda, that the British government and the Lloyds telegraphed from London to all foreign points warning vessels that navigation of these waters had become exceedingly dangerous. In the city of Bautam, where 1,500 persons were at first supposed to have perished, tho bodies of some 2,SOU have already lteen recovered. Despite the proclamation of martial law at Egcrszeg, Hungary, the anti-Jewish disorders, continued. A band of 400 peasants destroyed by fire tho property of Jews at Sgoetoer. Acts of incendiarism are increasing in numlier. Forty-eight houses of Jews have l>een burned at Sze]ietli, and thirty-six at Bezero 1, and their crops have been destroyed. France has acquired a number of valuable privileges by its treaty of jteace with Annam. ANTI-JEWISH RIOTS, Hungarian Peasant* Still in ArmsDetail* of the lliotN in Ktissin. Violent riots, lasting threo clays, have occurred at Egerszeg, Hungary. Two thousand jieasants took part in the outbreak. They wrecked all the houses and shops of Jews in | tin' place, and shouted, " Murder all .Jews!'' Troops were called out,' but were unable to j suppress the violence of the mob until they j were reinforced. The rioters also released a ! numlier of prisoners. The peasants were armed with muskets and stoutly resisted the trooj?s. It is reported that twenty soldiers and many rioters were killed. A force of in- < fantry and cavalry was ordered to proceed to Egerszeg from Buda-I'esth. Riots against the Jews have also occurred i at Churgo, Keszthely ami Kanisa Nagy (Great kanisa). At "the last-named ]<lace troops had to lie called out to suppress tho disturbance. Advices from Ekatorinoslav, Russia, tho scene of the recent riots against the Jews, say that .'54(i houses were wrecked and plundered during the progress of tlie riot, ruid that the losses sustained bv Jews are estimated at (ill,(MM) rubles. Fourteen of the Russians who were wounded by the troojw in quelling the outbreak have since died, making tho total nuinlx'r of i>ersons killed twenty-eight. A St. Petersburg dispatch says that numerous cases of Jew-baiting are reported at places elsewhere than Ekaterinoslav, but the lMiIicu and troojw are acting with energy, and nave in most instances promptly suppressed any attempts at outrages against the Jews. At IJerchadi, however, eighty houses of Jews i have Iieen burnoil, and their former inmates nro without shelter aiul suffering great privations. A TERRIBLE AFFLICTION. tV North Carolinian I,using SO in Six Children Within a AVcek. A Fayettvillo (N. C.) dispatx h says: Mr. James Z. Knight, of Chatham county, has ? lost all of his six children. Three of them J were taken with -diphtheria last week and l died in quick succession. Yesterday two of , the remaining three children were playing in the yard, the mother Iteing inside t he house with the youngest. A scream caused her to 1 hasten out, only to iind the children in tho i agonies of death, they having been bitten by a rattlesnake. When, the distracted mother returned to tho house she saw that a large pot of boiling soan had fallen from the fire and burned or scalded the baby beyond recovery, ? # LATER NEWS, TViolf Meyer, a soldier under the first No- I poleon, died a few days ago in Newark, N. J., | aged 100 years. Crops have been seriously injured in many parts of Eastern New England by drouth. United States Senator John Sherma nad-! dressed the Cincinnati chamber of commerce ' on the business outlook. Ho declared that in traveling about the country ho had found ' some business drawbacks, but in general an ' ndvance and increase in prosperity. The National Woman's Christian Temper- j nnce Union has been holding a four days' con ! vontion at the Methodist tabernacle in Cot- I tage City, Mass. Esau Smith (colored) was hanged at St. j Joseph, La., for murder. He had escaped : twice from jail. Two foreign prize-fighters?Mitchell, of ' England, and Slade, the Australian Maori? | have Itoen trying to engage i:i a prize fight I out West, but the authorities interfered with such vigor that the contemplated encounter had to be declared " off." The steamer Ludwig, for Montreal, has l>een sixty days out from Antwerp and her owners have abandoned all hope of her safety. There were seventy persons on board, twentyfour of whom wero passengers. More than 10,000 men are at work on the Panama canal, which is l>eing pushed forward with great energy. News has just l)een received that the Dutch Arctic expedition which left Norway in July, 1SS2, l)ound for the mouth of the Yenisei river, in Siberia, foundered July 4 last in the Kara sea. The men reached the Danish exploring steamer Dijmphna, r.nd later were rescued l>y another steamer. The object of the Dutch expedition was to establish a station at Port Dickson for purposes of observation. Huge land slides followed the volcanic up. heaval in and about Java, Sections of a mountain that had been ront apart went crashing down into the valley, carrying death and destruction with them. Later estimates put the number of lives lost at 30,000. A terrific gale which prevailed on the Grand Bank of Newfoundland swamped over 200 dories belonging to fishing vessels, and about eighty fishermen lost their li/es. Many larger vessels also went ashore or were wrecked, and the coast for thirty miles was strewn with wreckage. EIGHTrFISHERMEN LOST, Furious Gale off the Banks of Newfoundland. Hundreds of Dories Fojnder?Thirty Miles of Wreckage. A St. Johns (Newfoundland) dispatch gives the following particulars of a terrible disaster fA f (lftAf A fleet of United States vessels which arrived here last night report that there was a violent storm on the Grand Bank on Sunday last. The gale rose from the eastward at 8 o'clock in the morning, when hundreds of dories were away from their vessels overhauling trawls. Captain Hillier reports that scores of dories were "seen turned Iwttom upward, and that wreckage was strewn in every direction along his track coming in. A French banker lost four dories and all their crews. It is computed from all sources of information that one hundred dories and eighty men succumbed to the storm. Most of the dories were swept by the waves from the schooners' decks, and tho remainder were overwhelmed by the sea. The gale aros? from the eastward shortly after sunrise on Sunday last. A heavy Pea rapidly piled up and became confused and choppy bv the wind veering to the north northeast. For thirty miles wreckage is encountered on every side. Many dories are seen bottom up, and oars, fish boards, and other material in lar^e quantities are afloat. At the time the sale sprung up there were, it is assumed, two thousand dories h way at their trawls, and it will De fortunate if the extent of the disaster to the Grand Bank is circumscribed within this re|x>rt. About twenty schooners were blown ashore. A telegraph from Cow Bav, C. B., reports that the gale blew there with fearful jwwer. The American brig Atlas and the schooners Edward Johnson and Volunteer were driven ashore, and all except the Edward Johnson will probably l>e total wrecks. Tho Grand Bank is a submarine plateau Ivino- cniiMipjisfc of Newfoundland. This plateau is nearly triangular in shape, t ho ujkjx pointing a little east of south. Each side of the triangle is Sol) or oOO miles in length. The depth of the water varies from thirty to sixty fathoms. The bank is in the path of the Gulf stream, and is one of the Itest fishing grounds in the world. Fishermen go there not only from New England and Canadian ports, but from Eurojioan ports as well. In 185*J more than sixty fishing and whaling vessels were wrecked in a storm off Newfoundland, most of the crews being lost. Every year many lives are lost on the bank, where the weather is always uncertain: in 1ST!) the fleet from one New England fishing town (Gloucester) losing thirty-two vessels worth Sl&JjUUU and no fewer than lives. DANGERS OF THE DEEP, Fatal Steamship Collisions in the British Channel and Elsewhere. Twenty-three Persons Losing Their Lives and Two Vessels Sunk. A collision occurred at 3 o'clock in the ,*? -1-* ia?a. ? ~ T in flm TTnrrlwli morning on jMinyMonu m .-..r. channel, between tho French steamer St. Gerhiaiti, Caj)tain Bonneau, bound from Havre for New York, and tho steamer Woodburn from tlio East, by the way of the Suez canal. The Woodburn sank immediately after the collision and eighteen of her crew wero drowned. The St. Germain, which was disabled by the collision, arrived at Plymouth, where she landed her passengers and thoso who were saved from the Woodburn. The steamer Woodburn foundered three minutes after the collision. It was a fine starlight night and the sea was calm. Tho Woodburn was being towed. She was struck on the starboard quarter. There was 110 tiniii to lower her lioats and only eleven of the [torsous on board were saved. Thoso who wero drowned were sucked into tho vortex caused by the sinking of the steamer, or became entangled in the wreckage. The St. Germain's bows were completely stove in and her foro compartment tilled with water. The greater jiortion of her passengers were transferred to the tuglioat Recovery. The St. Cermain had -WIS passengers on board, including lifty nuns 011 their way to Texas, anil a crew of 1:.'J tx-rsons. The captain of the St. Germain, finding that water was nouring into the forehold with fearful rapidity, ordered a sail to be rigged over tho' dull lilted ]xirtioii of t lie vessel in order to, . lieek the rush of the water and reduce tho pressure on tlie liulkhentl. The officers of tho kt. Germain sighted tho tug-boat Recovery," which w-as towing the \\~oiMlburii, at a. M.. and thinking she was the only vessel which it was necessary to clear, the St. Germain's helm was ported in order that tho steamer might go under the tug-!mat's stern. They had no idea that there was a ship astern I in tow. The St. Germain will go into dry-dock for rejMiirs. From marks on her bows it is a]>parent that the St. Germain went right through the Woodlmrn, literally cutting that vessel in two. A panic ensued on the St/ Germain after the collision, and her jKissengers insisted upon being transferred to tho tug Recovery. At about the same time the steamer Palermo, bound from Hamburg to Lisbon, j collided off Ushant with tho steamer Rivoli, . bound from Bilbao to Middleliorotigh. The j latter steamer sank and live persons were drowned. A thick fog prevailed at tho tiino of tho collisiou. ' PROMINENT PEOPLE. Jones.?Senator Jones, of Florida, has gone on a two months' journey to Alaska. Sitting Bull.?Sitting Bull and four other Indians have been granted permission to attend the fair at Des Moines, Iowa. Wall.?Ex-Congressman Josiah T. "Wall, the colored political leader of Florida, will net nearly $n,()UU from his vegetable crop this year. Moody.?In a published card Mr. D. L Moody denies the story that he and Mr. ! Sankey are no longer able to work in liar- ! mony, and declares that if their lives are ! spared they will continue together in tlio In I m >p tlu-v hotli love and cniov. French.?Mr. John 11. French, ex-serpeant-at-arius of the I'nited Slates Senate, is ileliveriiig throughout the country u lecturu [ lititliil Ten \ ears Ahout the Senate." It contains a series of sketches of the leading senators during tlie in-ri<Ml between lSti!) anil 1870. Mn.i.s.? T). O. Mills, tlu> millionaire, lias presented the State of California u lnagnifi:-fiit piece of statuary representing Columbus at tlio court of Queen Isuliella. It is nine feet high ami cost $.'W,(XK), and will be placed at the rotunda of the capitol. at Sacramento, at Mills' expense. IIuco.?Victor Hugo's letter inclosing hi?, contribution of *~<H) for the relief of t he Isehia earthquake sufferers was characteristic, lie wrote : " I give to Ischia a thousand francs, rho catastrophe of Ischia is more than an Italian catastrophe ; it is more than a human catastrophe; it is a universal catastrophe. I feel toucned: I send .my mite." A STEAMER BLOWN UP, Several Lives Lo?t by an Explosion on a Steamer at Sew York. The boilers of the steamtug Riverdale, which has been plying between New York and various Hudson river towns, exploded when the boat was opposite West Twelfth street, New York. There were about sixty passeir gers on Iward. Five persons were killed antl fifteen injure*!. Following are particulars of the disaster as gleaned from the New York papers: The Riverdale, which has been plying daily throughout the summer between New York and Haverstraw, stopping to land passengers by tlic way at Peokskill, Sing Sing, Nyack, Yonkers and Tarrytown, left the pier at the foot of Harrison street a few minutes after 3 p. M. So far as can be ascertained there was little freight and less than the usual complement of passengers on board, the number being variously stated from fifty to 1:20. Tho steamboat put well out into the middle of tho river or leaving the pier, and then headed up stream. Suddenly, when opposite Twelfth street, there came a deep, muttled roar, followed by the crushing of timliers, and the whole of the center of the upper deck was thrown into the air in shattered fragments, which were shrouded in dense columns of steam and smoke. Some accounts given by eye-witnesses of the disaster sneak of human (iirures ns being plainly seen among the debris, and one limn who was watching the ill-fated vessel from the shore says he distinctly saw the forms of three men. So thick, however, was the steam and the shower of falling timiters that none of those 011 board the boat can sj>eak with certainty; they only know that for a moment it seemed as if the whole boat was going to pieces and tliat the air was absolutely darkened. The Riverdale immediately keeled over on her starboard side, and as she did so those on the river and the shore saw flames burst out just above the water-line. A fearful scene of confusion ensued. None of the passengers appear to know what happened in the few terrible moments which followed. Some were rushing about looking for friends whom they had last seen on the upper deck or near where the explosion had occurred: others were seeking some place of safety for tnemseives. The water was already washing over the starboard side of the main deck, but it gradually grew deeper toward the bow as it slowly settled, and the passengers crowded together in the after part of the boat. A few had already jumped overboard, and as the vessel sunk lower and lower it seemed doubtful whether a foothold would remain above water for any one until the lmats and tugs which at once put out from either shore reached the wreck. Meanwhile the vessel had been drifting slowly up the river, and when the C. H. Marshall?the first tug to get alongside?came up, she was nearly opposite Fourteenth street. The Marshall iimnediately began taking off the passengers, who were crowding in the stern, while other boats picked up those living ana dead, who were floating in the water. Barely had the last man been taken off when the small remaining woodwork above water began to disappear more quickly, and just opposite Sixteenth street, with a sudden plunge, the boat went to the bottom of the river. Investigation showed that at least five persons ?a fireman and four passengers?lost their lives. The dead passengers are: Thomas Gregg, eighty-two years old: Thomas J. Saul and Mr. and Mrs. Sisson, of Tarry town. THE WAB IN TONQUIN. Annain'* Capital Stormed and Capturcd by the French. Dispatches confirm the reports received from Paris that General Bouet, of the French forces, had succeeded in capturing Hue, the capital of Annam. The attack was made joint'y by the French fleet anil land forces, the former attacking from the river and the latter, under General Bouet, making a detour from the north. The Lvnx was the first vessel to enter the river's mouth. Her guns were directed against the numerous forts and batteries, and within two hours she had silenced seven guns. The Vipero also entered the Hue river and furnished efficient assistance. . The land attack was confined the first day to cutting off a few of the outlying posts, the advance being directed by General Bouet in person. On Sundav a general advance was made, the black flags being driven l>ack after five hours of sharp fighting. The loss of the Annamese was nearly .'{00, while that sustained by the French was very slight. It was decided to storm the city of Hue the following day. Tlie fleet proceeded up the channel and liegan the bombardment at daybreak. A feeble reply was made by the native forces, but their batteries were wrote hod Iv manned. Shortly before 2 o'clock all the guns except a half dozen were mute and the troops in the besieged city seemed panic-stricken. Tho Vijx>re then shelled the town for nearly three hours. A large quantity of jxjwder was exploded by a shell, and a great many persons were either killed outright or frightfully wounded. The ruins of the building took fire, and, as a brisk gale prevailed, the atr tention of the Aiuiamese was directed to extinguishing the flames and preventing a general conflagration. At this juncture tho fleet ceased firing and the land forces were ordered forward. They made a fierce onslaught upon the demoralized furrison and carried everything before them, he loss of the Annamese is calculated at 700 killed anil many wounded. Tho French loss was trifling, lmt a few soldiers receiving I Blight wounds. I MUSICAL MI)^DRAMATIC' Kate Claxton* will revive the picturesque melodrama, "The Sea of lee," the eomrng season. Lizzie Webb Cart, a sister of Miss Annie Louise Car}-, will api>ear next sea-yjn as a soprano singer. According to reixirt Patti received $3,000 for three songs at the soiree given by Alfred KothsehiM recently. The oldest piano in North Carolina is at Raleigh. It was made in 17.S0 by Muzio, Clementi & Co.. Cheapside, Iiondon. Clara Louise Kei.mhig, late in SeptemDer, will enter ujjoii a series of farewell performances to be given throughout the United States. ? An amusement company, with a capital of $100,(XK), has lieen organized in Dallas, Texas, for the purpose of encouraging theatrical business. ' Dio.v Boucicault is at work on a new Irish play, which will Ik? produced at the new Star theatre, New York, during the Christmas holidays. One of the features of Haverly's spectacular minstrel entertainment next season will be " The Princess of Madagascar," which is doscribed as ' a comic oi>era in black." George Rigxoi.d, who figured in this country in the character of King Henry V. and was heralded as a remarkably handsome man, is now a prominent manager in Australia. GusPlXLEY, a brother of Annie Pixley, the actrcss, although only a lad of fourteen years of age, is considered the most clever of all the young comedians on the Pacific coast. P. H. Cowen", the London composer, who is a rival of Sir Arthur Sullivan in higher realms of music than those of " Patience" and " Pinafore," will visit the United States in November. , Mr. Augustine Daly, the New York manager, has l>oon esj?ecially successful in his provincial tour this season with ' "? JO?N." I A new coined}- from the same source will j oi>en the regular season in New York, about | *1... <i~ t- ,.? I Wi.lu.l ILIC 111 31/ v/l. v/v-ivi/v ? . italian* oiiera tenors nre lioconiing as j luxurious anil exacting in their demands as | prima donnas. M. lamagno lately usked j 5! 105,000 for a six months' season in Paris, and Signor Massini's modest price for a siaiilar jieriod would liave absorbed $150,000. Mil. Cowex will conduct his own oratorio, "St. Ursula," at the tii-st concert given by I the New York Oratorio sooiety in New York, I on Novemltcr t'owen will probably | remain in America this winter and conduct j several of his com] iosit ions in different cities of this country. Urox entering a theatre in China a gentleman of means can, with jierfect propriety, order the production of any play he chooses, just as an American gentleman may order what dishes he pleases in an American restaurant, the editor of the Chinese*American, Wong Chin Foo, tells us. Thk rep >rt is confirmed of the betrothal of Miss Nellie Fortescue, the favorite actress of the Savoy Theatre company, Loudon, to Lord Arthur William Uarmayle, the second and oldest living son ami the heir presumptive of Lord Cairns. The young lord is not yet twenty-two years of age, having been burn December -1, INil, andhas for a long time, by his pronounced love for theatricals and [ constant association with lights of the stage, been in disfavor with his noble father, the ?arl. A DUEL TO THE DEATH, 3'tvo Young Jleii f'iglit ill Illinois, and llofli Are Killed. _ A fatal tin*'] has been fought near Louden City, III., Ivtween Louis Pliillips ami Jacob Rosenbrook, both residents of Bowling Green township. Tho latter was killed instantly and tho former wounded so badly that he died a few hours after. The affair had its origin in a grudge of long standing, growing out of the disrespectful remarks by Phillips concerning Rosenbrook's sister. Each time they met they quarreled and they finally decided to settle the matter in a dud with pistols, to bo fought at <? o'clock in the morning at the place mentioned. They 'chose as their seconds Mack Swank and Jack Wren, who witnessed the shooting. Rosenbrook fired the first shot, the ball entering Phillips' mouth. Phillips staggered, and before falling discharged his weapon, the kill taking effect at one side of Rosenbrook s mouth, and ranging upward through the head. Both duelists were young men, Phillips being about twenty-two years of age and a school-teacher. ENORMOUS LOSS OF LIFE. 1 ??????Frightful Effects of a Volcanic Erup- Wjk The Lives Lost Estimated to Number From the island of Java come particulaifcfcy^ijf ? of volcanic eruptions and tidal waves whiceBfrjafeMjfr . have caused the most terrible calamity 0%ngBl modem times, whole cities and islands beinggHHHtjfl ^ivept away in a twinkling, and the inhabi^^^Se^^* , aiiu) iv a iuau ijjq ii vui vuw . the earth. The volcanic disturbances in neighborhood of Java l>egan on the island Krakatoa, in the Strait of Sunda, about fifteen miles off the coast of Java. The deep rumblings were distinctly audible at kerta and Batavia, Java's chief city, about forty-five and twenty-two miles off respectively. Little alarm was felt at first, but within a few hours showers of stones began to SggjESH fall at Jogjakerta, Sourabaya and Samarang. In Batavia there was an occasional fall, and it was difficult KxnflH to keep the street lights burning in the Euro- ^S| H pean quarter. The first eruptions were on _j|J Saturday night. On Sunday morning the . , disturbances liad extended beneath the wateon ' ..ijjSff I of the Strait, and they were soon boiling an<^ , hissing violently. By noon the Mahattern, j the largest of the volcanoes of Java, im "WW? belching forth flames at an alarming rate. ' '3a This eruption soon spread to the Gunung, the * crater of which is the largest in the world, " being nearly four miles in diameter, the Gunung Guntur and many other minor moontains, imtil more than a third of the forty-five craters of Java were either in active eruption ' :z?m Sm or seriously threatening it. Just before dusk '7jgB| a great luminous cloud formed over the Gunung Guntur, and the crater of that vol- ' cano began to vomit up enormous streams of -v-Sa'JM white acid, sulphurous mud and small quantt- vs|Kl ties of lava. Hundreds were unable to get out before the houses fell, and were buried JjB Ixineaththo great masses of rocks and mud. What a few hours before were fertile valleys, -p? covered with flourishing plantations of coffee, rice, sugar, indigo, or tobacco, the standee jyjgj of the island, were now but mud, stone and \-"S| lava?covered fields of destruction and ruiiL ?(<$&& 'Jm Probably not a single crop in Java will be saved. " - I At the entrance to Batavia was a large V/jOKa group of houses extending along the shore -'ZM and occupied by Chinamen. This portion of ^ the city was entirely swept away, and of the ir),000 Chinese who lived in this swampy - plain it is hardly probable that more than B&9NH 5,000 managed to save their lives. They stuck to their homes till the waves came washed them away, fearing the torrents of ' KSQ^H the fame and lava of the interior more than the torrents of water. Of the 3,500 Euro-. peans and Americans in Batavia perhaps 800 jx^rished. It is impossible to make any estt- IIWHBjl mate of the great pecuniary loss. Many of the bazaars in the higher parts of the cttr were demolished. The exchange and themffl- jg M tary hospitals suffered great damage. At Anier the European and American qoaiv ^Ml?| ter was first overwhelmed by rocks, mud, and HBHH lava from the crater, and then tine waters came up and swallowed the ruins, teaviag^^RHSG^H nothing to mark the site, and causing the loss .PTflmrBBfl of somewhere in the neighborhood of 200 lives D H of the inhabitants. Bantam, once a prosperous native city, but WpglMH practically abandoned- by Europeans many^K^RBJ years ago, was entirely covered by the water. and there must have been from 1,200 to l,50u people drowned there. The island of Serang, BajjUMj just off the coast, was completely inundated, and not a soul remains on it to tell the tale of 3jfl disaster and death. J[ At Cheribon there was no great flood of ." water, but the loss of life and property by the ; falling of rocks and the flow of lava mast 'icl have been considerable. Buitenzorg suffered very seriously, as did . Samarang, Jogjakerta, Sourakerta and - .1 Sourabaya, while the meager reports from the lesser towns indicate that their loss was ??! a as great in proportion. ?a Further particulars of the great volcanic ;T,i , J eruption in Java.which reached London from ? i| Bataviivshow that the disaster was even more "'"J widespread and more disastrous than waa ^S j reported in first advices. At noon Sunday the eruptions and shocks were supposed to have reached they- height, but late m the af- . ^8 ternoon and evening the violence of the dis- ? turbances suddenly increased, and the island seemed to be about to be completely Jm buried in fire and sulphurous ashes.' JBM flH At the same time the enormous mm :Z3mM waves began to dash with greater forcefR M ujwn the snores, coming in some places farop^ '^SSSH into the interior, and great chasms opened ia; '*H the earth and threatened to engulf a largoproportion of the people and buildings. Abontf . midnight the most frightful scene of all took " 'Walt place. Suddenly an enormous luminous cloud,; ' ;i^W similar to tliat which was seen over th& - Gimung Guntur, but much greater In extent, formed over the Kandang range of mountains ''' which skirt the southeast coast of the island This cloud gradually increased in size, untQ M it fonned a canopy of lurid red and' . u :J whitish gray over a Wide extent of territory. ?|j .33 During this'time the eruptions increased and , h ? streams of lava poured incessantly down the sides of the mountains into the valleys, sweep- " ing everything before them. Here and there a stream of lava would enter an arm of the sea or come in contact with the water of a ftjt river. Then the incandescent lava would-end denlv produce boiling heat and rapid vaporization, but the superficial consolidation tha> almost instantly ensued would prevent any further contact with the water. The-fissures , ;a3 that opened in this thin crust as it sotidi- ' k J fled on the stream of lava emitted tor> . . rents of vajwr extending high into the air, , nnd making a tremendous seething sound, - * (is if a thousand locomotives were simnlta- . ^ neously letting off steam. -*^9 One of the most singular freaks of the ernp- '""450 tion was the carrying in the midst of the molten lava of a bed or wlid ice of enormous size, which had been emitted from one of the craters. It was carried along by the current -. ? and landed on the extremity of Point St. Nich- . faB olas, at the northeast corner of the island. This bed of ice was surrounded by a thick envtlopeof sand and scoriae, which are nonconductors of heat. It is supposed this ice ; 2 had formed the crust of* some subterranean -'ja j lake. Al>out 2 o'clock on Monday morning i tiin rrrp.it cloud suddenlv broke into sections and quickly vanished. At the same ,-igS time frightful rumblings "were heard, and the columns of lire and smoke over the south- j [ east corner of the Island ceased to ascend, j I while the craters in the other parts of Java J ' seemed to open their fiery throats still Jl wfcler, to let out the greatest quantity of lava, -t| rocks, pumice, and ashes yet vomited forth. The hissing of the sea became so loud as to be | almost deafening. The waves rushed up on the shore to an unprecedented, height. When | daylight came it was seen that an enormous j t met <<f land had disappeared, extending from 4tf j Point Capucin on the south to Negeiy Paf- y I soerang oil the north, and west to Low ;3 [ Point, covering an extent of territory -j? I alwut fifty miles square. In this were J situated the villages of Negery and Negeiyi a Babawang. None of the people inhabiting . these places, or of the natives scattered , ' '^5*3 sjiarsely through the forests and on the plains, i>s<*an?l death. This section of the island was ? W I not so densely populated as the other por| tions, and the loss of life was comparatively I small, although it must have aggregated fully 3 I l5,tHX> souls. The entire Kandang range of ' mountains extending along the coast in a [ semicircle for about sixty-five miles had gone out of sight. The waters of Welcome Lay, I the Sum la Straits and Pepper bay on the [ east and of the Indian ocean on V the south had rushed in and ~Ji formal a sea of turbulent waters. Here and V there the jxjak of a crater was exposed for a ^ moment by the receding of a great wave, and M occasionally a puff of brownish-gray smoke or a slight shower of rocks showed that the M volcanoes still continued in active subaqueous .. eruption. The debris of the submerged and ^ destroyed buildings was tossed hither and thither on the water, the only sign left that there had once been inhabited land there. The town of Tanerang, within twenty-five miles of the city of Batavia was swept away by the lava stream, and fully half the population, mostly Javanese, numbering about 1.K00, perished. At Speelwvk, near Point Saleis, the red-hot rocks set fire to the houses . cia and swei?t away all the thickly settled portion of the town. About ten bazaars belonging to Europeans were destroyed. The river Jacatra. on the banks of which Batavia is situated, was so completely dammed by the lava and debris that its course was changed, and from Franien bastion it flowed down through Tygeis street and joined the waters of the river Emerades, swelling that stream to such an extent that it rase high on the Castor batteries. Figelenknig was almost totally destroyed, ami a large number of lives were lost there. ' The island of Onius, five miles off the mouth of the Targerang river, and twenty miles east of Batavia, was completely inundated, and the tloatiiig dock there was totally destroyed. Caatave, Clajw and Tronwer's islands, off the 1 h>rti<>n of Java which disappeared, are out of J sight and not a vestige of them is left Baby and Cheribo islands, off the north coast, lost the few houses and inhabitants upon them. Midah island, ten miles off tne Javanese coast, and half-way between the extreme I?)ints of Java and Sumatra, was almost wholly engulfed by the sea. The small island " * v n nnrm or omgKei, prouauiy uii^uiuuj> umj ~ blown up bv an eruption, entirely disappeared. : It was uninhabited The aggregate loss of life must bo fully 7."j,0(X), but the number of those who perished ? j can never of course be accurately known. Black.?" So engrossed wns judge Black's -4 mind," says the Philadelphia AWord, "during his life with the many duties which such a career as his crowded*u|>on hisatteution, that he i?id little attention to his j>ersonal appearance. Unless the fact were forced uixin him that his wardrobe needed replenishing he would never notice it. He never ordered a | suit of clothes himself, and disliked to change J I an old ami comfortable suit for a new and i . till'one. His clothes were made by a Phila- _J d 'lphia tailor, who was compelled to resort to si rategy to capture the judge when a measure was to be taken. A member of the family always looked out for those things, and usually the first intimation the judge had of ?.Y?j a now suit would be when it was sent to him, and further persuasion had to be employed to get him'to put it on." A