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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.
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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."
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