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ABBEVILLE PRESS AND BANNER^ BY HUGH WILSON. ABBEVILLE, S. C.. WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 26. 1883. NO. 13. VOLUME XXVIII. _ THE ERRAND. What she said ftt home: "The color of your mustache," said she, " Is just the same shade as my hair! So, please go down to the store for me, And purchase a net for me there." What the shop prl said: " You wanted a net like your mustache? i Oh, yes. Your idea I get." And then to the window she went with a dash i And brought an?invisible net. -Wc. ANNEXED BY THE TSAR- j He was a huge clog, an-1 he stood by ; the kennel in old Dr. Gorham's back j I yard in an attitude of deep medita-' tion. There was one subject for dog- j thought lying light before him, and | another lay only a yard or so beyond the tirst. The one was an empty "muzzle-'j that lay upon the grass, close by a j couple of well-picked bones. The sec- j! ond was an equally empty steel collar,j with a strong chain attached. The j j end of the chain was hooked into a staple at the side of the kennel door. ] Tsar was a dog to look twice at. His father had been a Siberian blood- , hound and his mother an Knglish mas- , i-. tiff, and Dr. Uorham would have ! tru-te.l him to pull down a wild bull or to ring a church bell, if he coul l ] once hae seized with his massive j jaws the no>e of tiie one or the ring- , ing-rope of the other. j Tsar made no audible remarks, but there was no dilliculty at all in divining his meditations. 1 "Thov liii v.. foil mo nn linur before sundown, for some reason, an I now they've gone off and neglected me. X<> , muzzle, no chain, no master around, and all the cou. try left open tome. J It is a s-tate of ;iffa'rs to which I am not accustomed at tiiis time of day. , If theie were another hone with meat on it, I'd know exactly what to do." He put out a great paw and turned ( the muzzle over. Then he walked for- ^ ward and smelled of the helpless col M lar. Tnen.ne peere i soiemniy mu> me ( KB kennel. There was a mystery about ; B the whole matter, and it seemed to . B suggest a visit to the front gate. J B That, too, was wide open, as a witness B to the haste iequ red by the summons , SB of the last patient, and Tsar coul i ' H ^ _ Jheiefore walk out an ! look up and B**^^"'&infrrtfrtr*4i^lv road for an ex plana- ] tion of his ow'n- ?w. lie could not j B see any, at fir t, for there was nothing . H to be learned from a Hock of geese, j KB three hens and one stray calf. The M very pig that was rooting under tlie ( BR walnut tree i aid him no manner of at- 1 B tention. B Tsar shrugged his broad shoulders r 9) to make sure about the collar, pawed his nose for a moment in memory of ^B his muzzle, and turned for a look at Br the gate. There it was, with a very HT dingy .old tin sign on one post, whose lilUtU JCLlCfS ICilU. 1JI. AIOUC1 Viui- I | ham," and with a very new sign on the . other post, whose bright, fresh gilding announced * Dr. Ileber Gorham, Jr.," . as also ready for patients. Tha. was all right, and it occurred to Tsar that a walk would be good for ' his health. lie acted on the suggestion 1 promptly enough, but with dignity, as became a dog of his size; and no voice * from the house rec lied him as he * marched away down the road toward j the sea. A sniff 01 s:dt air would be J just the thing for his digestion after 1 the hea-ty dinner he had eaten at the j kenn.l. The sun wasgetting very low toward 1 I the horizon, and yet, away down there [ on the rock at the liea I of the cove a curly-heade t young lady of nineteen Jc or thereabouts was still seated, bend-! * ing over a portfolio spread across her |1 lap. From time to time she cast j anxious glances from the lims she traced upon the green sheet of bristul board under her hand to the more and * more shadowy island out there in the 1 mouth of the cove. "That will do," she said. "It looks j bigger than the boat, now, but it isn't j big mi.ugh lor a tree. I must make t the tree smaller; the cow's back, too? | it's half as 1. ng as the island. There ! 1 is always something dreadful the mat- j' ter with my waves." Mie worked at j j l the waves for a few minutes. "If 111 L had time, I'd try to put in the sunset, t P jDear me, how late it is ! It will be almost dark when I get home. It gets t dark so quickly nowadays after it once begins." ] She arose a little hastily, but she 1 oravft the island a very lone last look a; |' I she closed her portfolio?long enough I for a bystander to have read her name, j < in gilt letters, on the leather cover? j ( "Percie Lee." JJut no one was there I to real, lor a lonelier sjsot thau that t would be hard to iind, however well | adapted it might be for the making of . marine sketches. ,, Percie was in the road in half amin- ; ute more, and she could but see that I - the shadows were lengthening rapidly, i | She reflected: "It is lonely lor a little , way beyond Dr. Gorham's, but I won't I ^ mind it fr m that to the village. I do I ( hope I shall not meet Ileber (Jorham. j, I will not speak to him, if I do. I i. won't even s e him. He has not | j called s!nte he came ba' k from Europe j and 1 hope he never will. I detest , him." She said it with needle s energy, and ;, then she beg.m to walk briskly onward. She tried hard, too, to persuade ; herself that she was only wondering whether, in her sketch, she had made j the horns of thecow bear a proper proportion to tiie upper branches of the |, tree on the ia'and. She was really ai- , most think rig .-inoerely about the cow, and the cow alone, when she suddenly | PBI3 felt eaiie.i upon u> exciaim: *' Oh, that To be sure, that dog. Tsar vas on j the other side of t! f r ad and he did 1 ( not seem to be taking any particular notice of her, but thus 1'ercie truly reB^^P^ynarked ofhim: HV " lie isl^yCectlj enormous!" She forgot ailmnfTFe cow in an in- i Hfl stant, but she did not speak her opin-| Bp ion directly to the dog. Neither did J M| she think of sketching him, although flBH he was certainly worth it. ^he seemed hardly to care to look at him. Tsar, on his part, hal taken a good ! look at 1'ercie Lee. lie was not mis-1 taken about her for one momt nt." " Very nice girl. Well dressed. Pretty, too; but she's out late. Most J likely her family are friends of Dr. j IGortiani. I must have an eye on that j young lady, it is getting dark." That eye wa> what startled I'ercie | fo dread ully a mo:u< nt later; for she | happened to look behin I her, and there i : was that va-t creature sofemnly stalk-j ing after her. "He is following me!" she exclaimed. Not a doubt of it, and the fact that he stopped or went on just a> she did hardly seemed to help the matter. It, was getting darker and more shadowy ? evejyupoment, ami IVrcie would have : alrrro t willing to run, if she had not feared that if she did the dogj would run too. lie appeared larger! and larger ev< ry fme she glanced be-| hind her, until .-he was afraid to Jook [ again, and her breathing grew a little j : hurried. ? Vni dv's anv business to have such a dog!" ^he gasped in a whisper. " It's j HI " She seems to be scared about some-' thing," thought Tsar. "Girls are apt j to be timid. Ah, I see! It's those [ ^ j ragged ras als coming down the road, j MM 'Villainou -looking vagabonds. If; there is anything in this worl 1 that I H - Late, it is a tramp." This ,-s a universal sentiment among dogs of Tsar's social standing; but the three ruffians who were now ap preaching were either ignorant of Hi that fact, or did not know that such a I I dog was so very near. " Dreadful men!" had been the un I spoken thought in the mind of Fercie Lee, and it *as followed by a doubt as 1Kb to whether she should ever again da t > come down to the cove. " I must sketch tbe island." she said, " but I will come in the forenoon." The thive men were walking abreast now, and they were plainly determined not to turn to the right hand or the left for 1'ercii' Lee, She hai just time to grasp that terril>le idea and to feel her heart jump, when one of them actually spoke to her. She never knew what he said, and ner oniy reply, as sue reireuteu a wn steps, was an altogether unintended little scream. It was not a loud one, anil there was mere surprise in it than lear, but it was followed by remarkable consequences. Tsar had quickened his lordly \ ace lull twenty seconds earlier, and for some reason of his own he had advanced a little under the shadow of thi fence: but his eyes had not wandered from the human beings in the roa 1 b.-fore him. His head and tail were raised a trifle, and there was a very peculiar expression on his broad, hairy face. There was no love of tramps in it at a'l. " Oli, now, we hain't hurt you. You needn't squall." That was what the second of those three ruffians began to say, when an ;iwlul, wrathful. roaring growl, as of warning, sounded from some deepjawed cavern among the shadows at the right of Percie Lee. It was i'oll wed, in one long, elastic, power-expressing bound, by a huge dark form that in one second was crouching in front of her. The first and second tramp upset the third, and tumbled oyer him, so <uddea was the retreat they made, w hile Tsar, for their special benefit md more at length, repeated his gjrowl, with a supplementary snarl Dliat sounded fearfully like the announcement of another spring fortvard. The remarks made by all of those t'l'lgciUOUUS, <U> tiicj r>i;i aiiiuicvi. n; tutu Tect, were in a manner complimentary to Tsar, although not intended to be so. 1'ercie Lee stood behind her protector, and she could not see. as they lid, the white rows of gleaming teeth i .d the fierce gre n light in the threatening eyes. She could perfectly understand, however, that there was in enormous amount of very good log between her and any further approach to rutlianly insolence. She was ilmost astonished at the sudden feeing of security which came upon her md at the entire eas" with which she ji gan to breathe again. Tsar di<l not snrincr. lie did but :rotich in that picturesque attitude intil the nearest tramp was fifty ranis away, on a steady run; and then le stood erect, sending af;er his enenies one deep, sonorous "woof-oof," ;o keep them company. "Good dcg ! good fellow I" " Ur-r-r-r,'" was tV gentle response )f Tsar, and lie even wagged his tail, noderately, but he did not condescend :o look around, lie walked slowly on ip the road, and it was now Percie's ;urn to follow him. "I do not think I had better leave ier," said IVar to himself; " not even ,vhen we get to our house." It was not until they had reached ,he turn of the road, away beyond Dr. J iorham's, that lie at l;ist stood still. Percie wished very much to j at him, jut she could hardly muster courage, md while she was hesitating thero :ame a sound of wheels, and a light mggy pulled up in the middle of the oad. " Dr. Gorham!" "Fercie Lee! Is that you? I de- ! :lare! Miss Lee?and that big brute | ?it's all my fault. Did he scare you i liuch. Percie?Miss Lee?" " Is it your dog, Ileber?doctor?" j "Tsar ! Come here, sir!" # "(>h. doctor, don't scold him. lie las been taking care of me. There vere three of them." " Dogs, Miss Lee?" "No, sir, tramp--. Dreadful-looking j ?they spoke?he is a splendid dog; I jeautiful." "He? Ah?weU?it's a good thing i le didn't take hold of one of them, rhere'd been a line surgical case pre- i wed for me in no time. But how ' lid he happen to be out? I'n nuzzled, oo. I remember, now. All my fault." j "I guess he must have l>ecjnleft out ; o take care of me, doc-tor." "Ain't I glad of it, though? Xowt ! Miss Lee, you must step right into my j mggy, and let me carry you home, j fsar, go home, sir!" lie turned to obey, but a small, J a liit e hand was on his hoad as he j lid so. "(!ood dog, Tsar; thank you, sir." j It was odd, indeed, but something in : ;!iat remark seemed aimed at the dog; \ ind it must have hit him, too, by the ! proud way of his walking off; but >o:ne of it went further. The young physician assisted Percie into the j uuggy, and drove away; and it was j ]uite a distance around the corner of the main road that they passed adiinly Jiscernible and quite breathless group that leaned against a fence. Nobody 1 going by in a buggy could have heard 1 them mutter: " Tell ye what, boys, that was the j Eiwfulest'dog I ever seen." "Guess we won't try that there road j agin to-night. He's loose." "All them sort o' dogs has got to be killed off, or the roads won't b<* 3afe." ""Perhaps, but at that moment Tsar was re-entering his own yard, for he went straight back to his quarters. lie stood for a moment turning over his errmtv muzzle with his paw and then r "v lay heavily down. lie thought he understood the entire matter now. " Ileber (iorhain knew that that young lady would be in need of rae. It's all right, but I doubt if I did my wh?>le duty. Unmuzzled, too. A lost opportunity!" As to the tramps, yes, but not as to all othei parts of his performance, lie never knew how it afterward caine to pass, but before long he discovered that he had formed a ha!'it of going down to the cove with Percie Lee, to see her take sketches of islands, trees, waves, cows and other matters and things, and of remaining until Ileber (iorham, Jr., M. 1>., came to take his place, with or without a buggy. lie failed fully to understand the business until another sort of day arrived, when he found himself called upon to attend a wedding, by special invitation of Percie Lee ; and then to recognize her uu a nprmanent addition to his own household at the old Clorham homestead. He agreed to it. He had liked that young woman from the first time, he saw her. And so, to tell the truth, had his master.? It'. />. Stoddard, in Atlantic Monthly. Wasp and Spider. Seth Green, the great fish culturist, says one morning when he was watching a spider's nest, a wasp alighted within an inch or two of the nest, on the opposite side of the opening. Creeping noiselessly around toward the entrance of the nest, the wasp stopped a little short of it and for a moment remained perfectly quiet in her web. Thin reaching out one of his antenna he wriggled it before the opening and withdrew it. This overi l._ I .n,l olTor.t f,ir thttllOSS uuu nit; uqiui/u buwx.v of the nest, as large a spider as one ordinarily sees, came out to see what new victim lie L id caught. No sooner had the spider emerged to the point at wh'ch he was at worst disadvantage than the wasp, with a quick movement, thrust his sting into the body of his foe, killing him easily and almost instantly. The experiment was repeated on the part of the wasp, and when there was no response from the inside he became satisfied, probably, that he held the fort. At all events, he proceeded to enter the nest and slaughter the young spiders, who were afterward lugged off one at a time. A STRANGE MURDER TRIAL A YOUNG ENGLISHMAN'S DOWNFALL IN PLOBISA. Arrested for the Murder of a M|?er?-An I'nexperted Wltnew?A Drop of Blood and n Ucd Huir. Archibald W. Xewton, a young man who belongs to a wealthy family which stands high in England, has recently been convicted in Orange county, Flor i ida. of Hie murder of Samuel .McMil- j ' lan. Th" case was sensational, and j when the jury brought in the verdict, ' We lind the prisoner guilty as charged in the indictment," there was much | excitement in the court-room. Jn the | spring of 1881 Newton appeared at : >anl'ord, Florida. He was a youth of { tine appearance and pleasing manners, i was popular at lirst, but his good repu- | tat:< n was soon blasted. There were reasons to suspect him of forgeries, j and then ca-i.e news that he had left j Kngianil because of an assault upon j Miss Fully liowron. Subsequently he I sent money to England for Kate liow- j ron, a sister of his alleged victim, and, j meeting her in New York, married i her. and the coude returned to Crystal I Lake, Orange county. While this was going on another topic of suspicion presented itself. There lived in Orange county, near Crystal I.ake, a man named Samuel McMillan, who bore th * reputation oL' being a miser, and was supposed to carry a large .>uiu of money on his person.* On Saturday evening, September oO, McMillan was last :cen alive half an hour after sunset in company with Newton. lie never ret.nnel to his home, and on October 17 h } head less oooy w;is umiia m v i^aiai aan.o. partly consumed by fishes. Aroun.l the waist was a rope, to which was suspended a sack, in which was found an iron pot lull of nails. A few days later the head of the murdered man was found near the same spot, and a bull -t-hole was discovered in the back of his skull. On the brains being removed a bullet dropped out, which appeared to lit exactly a pistol Newton had borrowed from a neighbor named True. About that time Newton became flush ol' fund*. He said that his wife's brother, .lames Howron, had sent him $2"?,0W with whi'-h to buy an orange grove on the lake. lie was suspected of the murder of McMillan, however, and was brought before .Judge Cooke, a m;in noted as a member of the Florida returning board of 187G. The sensation of the trial occurred when i counsel for prose ution walked down j the a'sle, followed by a medium-sized, dark-haired woman, evidently a foreigner. As the stranger got abreast of Mrs. Newton she turned and peered into her face, saving : " Why, Kate!" The prisoner, as lie looked up and recognized the woman, flushed, until it seemed the blood would burst from his neck and cheeks, while Mrs. Xewton turned deathly pale ami remained several s;conds with upturned face and half-opened lip-, as if petrified by amazement. The presence of this woman in America was a complete surprise to the defense. Her testimony was to the effe t that the Howron family had not i'25 in the world, much less $25,000, to invest in orange groves. That had been the main point of the defense ?to account for Xewton's money, allege.I to hiive b on sent by the wealthy brother-in-law. McMillan, the murderel man, had coarse red hair. At the trial Dr. King "Wylly testified that he had found in blood spots on a handkerchief found in Xewton's po-ket the morning after the murder a single red hair. He testified that at the lirst examination he j found a single blood crystal. Sup- j posing that he might have scratched | his linger and caused the cry>tal to get j on the handkerchief, lie would not ac- j cept it as evidence that there was blood there. His last examination revealed the blood corpuscles very distinctly, and under the microscope he discovered a single red hair?a coar.-e red hair. The defense fought the case point by point, but the drift was against them, and when Newton said that he had borrowed True's pistol to shoot an aUgntor the audience laughed. When the jury came in and gave the verdi t one coul I have heard a pin drop. All the while Newton had been nervously twitching his mustache. When the verdict was read out he dropped his head and turned deathly pale, while a slight tremor passed through his fra ne. He then suddenly jumped up and seized his hat, forgetting that the court had not adjourned, but presently controlled himself and resumed his seat. His wife I remained quiet f< r a few moments, then a few tears trickled down her cheeks and she gra^pe: 1 her husband's arm convulsively, but beyond this she j showed no emotion, .ludge Cocke pronounced the verdict of death. Slow, but Sure. J Industry and economy will tell in the i end. The history of Mrs. (Homester, i of the city of Brooklyn, who died a j cluirt tinift iirro. is a Striking DrOol' of ' this fact. Tin; chill of poor parents, j she was early in life put out at domes[ tic service For a while the. .after she \ I continue I to spend all her earnings? , only $1.25 per week. The judicious j j advice of a fricn I induce I her to lay ! aside a pait of the earivngs in a i ; savings bank. This sh continued to : do during the rema nder ot' her life, j i The natu.al accumulation of these de- | j posits, together with some judicious | investments, made her the possessor of $500,010 at tlie time of her death, j The process of accumulation, it is true, was very slow, but it is equally true ; that it. was very sure. It was the j steadfast persistence that, won in the . 1 end. The lesson conveyed by the life j of this person is one that all may study with profit. There are few persons in | this country of either sex who origi- 1 nally were not able to lay aside yearly j as much as this woman did; most can j save much more. J5y doing so con-i | tinuously the n;itur;il eonrs of events j must in time make them rich men :uui I women. Nor is it necessary that sueli as essay the experiment shall deprive ; themselves of anything necessary for i their health and comfort. The proce-s of accumulation is more rapi I than i most persons believe, if steadily per- i sistedin. lint most young people in ! these fast days spend their money as i fast as they get it. Speculation is j ! more relied on to bring fortune than thrift. They live along, pleasantly J enough perhaps but the years come ami go and wealth seems as far off as ! ever. They grow ??M and find they are ' no better off than in their youth; 1 ; meanwhile, the time for accumulation ! has gone by, and then only do they re- ! tho extent of tli' ir mistake. I ?? I The Victim of an Octopus. The following account of an attack by u cuttlefish on ;i boy is given by the lliogo .\i/rs; It is not strange, that cuttlefish should damage vegetables growing in fields by the sea-; shore, but the surprising news r< aches us that a boy has been killed by one of these hideous creature'. We hear that some few days ago a boy about fourteen years of age was fishing at i Tomiokamura. Aniakusa, llizen, and a huge cuttlefish s'retclud two of its tentacles out of the water and grasped the hoy's right arm. The hoy shouted for assistance, and some men who were j near released the lad by cutting the j tentadcs When the boy readied home his arm was cold and motionless, and, ! notwithstanding medical aid was ; called in, he died five days afterward The Northern Pacific railway will ; issue passes very sparingly when ! opened. A round trip fare on the completion of the road will be worth $200. iBi||jl|1?BB>|(^|g|||j| NEWS OF THE WEEK. Zfcitern and Middle Statesiluii.m k (>hi eley's farm at Chappaqua IV. Y., the in tine of the famous editor, wa.< bought in by his only surviving daughter, al a trustee's tale th..- other day,for S10,000. Mr. Greeley paid for the farm f'.?.0L?0, and spenl moro than ?00,000 extra on it in improvements. An* estimated loss of ?150,000 was incurred by the burning of the Elktown tannery al fih*?roirlvV?iirr?\ IVlin. Nearly 7ikj Mormon proselytes arrived ir New York the other day onan ocean steamer. In the company there were -<!'.? British, 10 Swiss and German, '-M Scandinavians, and twentj'-three returning Mormon missionaries They will locate in sixteen towns in Utah. CROI'S in portions of New York State have Buffered heavily through early frosts. Ii "Wyoming county alone the damage is esti mated at $1(X>,ihK). Charlks Ross, a colored man, for a small wager undertook at Flushing, Long Island to eat seventeen pies. He managed to worry down sixteen pies, but when half througl with the seventeenth his overgorged stoinacl compelled a surrender. At a rehearsal of " Othello " in a New Yorl theatre a bridge across the stage, along whicl a number of persons wore passing, suuuemy fell, precipitating the people into the basement. Six or eight [torsous were injured moro or less severely. Great damage has been caused to crops ir various parts of New England by early frost and drought. A Manhattan Beach train filled with peo pie from Coney Island and the race track a Sheepshead Bay collided with another trail within a short distance of the road's terminu at Hunter's Point. Three persons in the par lor car of tho Manhattan Beach train wen killed and twelve others were injured. Seventeen colored clergymen of thi Episcopal church, most of them from th South, met in New York to confer togethei with reference to tho propagation of theii faith among the millions of their race in tin country. Bishop Starke addressed them. A very fine fruit display was opened u Philadelphia, under tho auspices of tho Ainer ican Pomological society. Fruit from nearly all parts of tho Union was exhibited. Governor Butler, of Massachusetts; ha! nominated Edwin G. Walker, a colored law er, to bo justice or the unarteston uisiric court. Joseph Pcne, an Italian, while attempting o steal potatoes from a garden patch a' Grapeville, 1'enn., was riddled with bullet and then dragged to a railroad crossing an< laid 011 tlio track, where he was discovered some time later in a dying condition. Tin farmers had been much annoyed by person; committing depredations. Hugh J. Hastings, the well-known editoi and proprietor of the New York CommercialAdvertiser, died at his home at Monmouth N. J. His death was the result of injuria received by being thrown from his carriage, which collided with a wagon at Long Branch ten days previously. Mr. Hastings was born in Ireland in 1818, and for many years was prominent in Republican political an! journalistic circles, succeeding Thurlow "Weed as editor of the Commercial-Advertiser ir 1867. South and W??t Frosts have done great damage to the cori crop in the Northwest. Largo areas of the crop were either totally destroyed or badly injured. Dick Liddell, one of the notorious James gang of Missouri outlaws, lias made a full confession. The story reveals almost every phase of crime, captured trains, plundered banks and highway robberies in plentiful profusion. The cotton crop of tho United Suites for the year ending August 31, 18S3, is 6,94H,75C bales. A suit to test the constitutionality of the civil rights bill has boon brought by a coloroti man against a restaurant keei>er in the United States courts of California. Near Las Vegas, New Mexico, two cow boys became involved in a dispute over a cow belonging to a Mexican, which hail strayed into their herd. The cowboys commenced firing at the Mexican, who returne.i their fire with a shotgun, lulling both ol them. The Mexican himself died from hi; wounds shortly afterward. At the Dakota constitutional convention, held in Sioux Falls, the committee on the boundary reported in favor of a division ot the Territory on the forty-sixth parallel, and admission to tho Union under the name of "Dakota," with the State capitol al Yankton. A great amount of damage hasl>een done to railroads and other i)ro|>crty in tho Rio Grande valley, Texas, by floods. In one instance, 1,100 sheep were drowned. A heavy gale on Lake Michigan has dan aged shipping and property along shore toar amount estimated at ?1,500,000. Opposition to a now sect known as the "Pilgrim Band," located at Envin, 111., and said to be offensively polygamous in habits, culminated in the destruction of their temple by giant powder. Sixteen* masked men forcibly entered the jail at Danville, Ark., seized John Coker ami Dr. Flood, took them to the iron bridge across Petit Jean river, and hanged them. Cokei was accused of leading into an ambuscade a party in tcarehof Danville outlaws several weeks ago. in which two men were killcd Flood was accused of liarboring the outlaws v?nM nenrlv nil lmrts of the West and Northwest have come reports of the immense damage done to crops by early frosts. In numerous localities the late crops have been totally ruined. Many fanners are despondent over their heavy reverses. Deer are dying in large numbers in Vir ginia of a disease called black tongue. Herman Redkjki.d, a Michigan ex-senator, shot himself in his cemetery lot at Monroe. He left a letter saying lie was going to die or the only piece of property he owned in th world, and inclosing $:>S for his funeral ex penses. A wife ami (laughter stirvivo him. E. D. ("Owen, city editor of the Leadvilk (Col.) Herald, was knocked down ami bcatei with probably fatal result by Alderman (.' C. Joy. While kicking and stamping upoi the prostrate man Joy held a cocked revolvei in his hand, to keep any one from interfering, A drunken man was knocked oil" aChica go street car by the conductor for refiiMii; to pay his fare, and as ho lay still tlio jwlict took it for granted he was dead, and carrier him to the morgue, where the boily wai placed ojj ice. While a large force of jmlict were huntiug for the conductor the suppose corj)se revived, and in a short time the mm walked to the station house. Henry B. P.i.kssinu, a St. Louis engineer fired six shots into his brother-in-law's body indicting fatal wounds; then tired two shot at his wife, dangerously injuring her, aw wound up his bloody work by cutting hisowi throat from ear to ear. Much damage has b en done to shipping nml other i in inert v bv a hiavv storm on tin North Carolina coast. At Smithville mam houses were unroofed, and a number o wharves washed away. Fouii of tho cadets of tho United State naval academy at Annapolis, Md., havebcci dismissed upon the recommendation of i court martial for hazing. At Trinity, Texas. Major ii. 15. Hurlock, t mill owner, and his son, W. H. Hurlock, nge< twenty-two years, were shot by one of thei employes named Roscinan, twenty-thre years of age. The father was killed and th son mortally wounded. A young son o Major Hurlock had been annoying Roseman who, in endeavoring to make him desist, acei dentally injured the child's foot. The ma jo showered abuse and blows u]K>n Roseman The latter, declining to resent this treatment the major called to his son to come out am whip Roseman. The son's blows quickly pu Roseman on the ground, when the latter drev a revolver and shot his adversary through th head ami heart. The major then reached fo his pistol and Roseman shot him also. Afte lieing tilled with goose shot by other mill em ployes, Roseman surrendered. Washington. Tiif. acting secretary of state has informei (ho treasury and navy departments that hi has received olllci.il information of the block nde by the French naval authorities of tin gulf of Tonqtiin and of tho ports of Anam and against all vessels carrying cargoes o; arms and munitions of war. Pome ono with an uneasy conscience ha returned $30 to tho treasury department The money came in an envelope postmarke< Paris, 111., and the sender said ho had receive* he money during the war and withhold i from tho government, but that ho no^ wanted to bcrvo the Lord and accordingl; restored it. t 4>>-. - V < .. During the last fiscal year $210,780,869 | were collected in the customs districts at an j exjwnse of $0,4-2,127, the average cost of col lecting one dollar in all the districts being .0*2!). ! There has boon an unusual number of . deaths in the Forty-eighth Congress. Four members have died already before this Con[ gress has assembled. They are Updegraff, of Ohio ; Herndon, of Alabama ; Pool, of North Carolina, and Cutts, of Iowa. The two latter I were Republicans. , j Sec retary Folger has notified the col" j lector of the j>ort of Now York that American i vessels going to Annam with arms and mutii1 ! tions of war will ho seized by the French au; thorities at Tonquin. I SSEPTEMRER returns TO mo ueyai tiiicuu ( j agriculture show that tho crops are late and 1 much reduced, and that considerable damage ( i was done by the late frosts. There will proba! lilv boa falling ofT of Wi,000,000 bushels of wheat , over last year. The corn crop will also be | smaller than that of last year. Tho crop of I ! oats will be large, the general averago being j !)!?. The promise for potastes is good, the ' | average being Ho per cent. j A committee appointed by Secretary j | Folger to investigate tho management of the I siijiervising architect's oftlee in its report I severely condemns the existing system of k ; transacting public business. Reformatory , | measures are recommended. J The President has issued a proclamation deI daring that tho "World's Industrial and Cotton Centennial exposition will be opened on the first Monday in Decemlier, 1S84, at the city of Now Orleans, and continued until May 5 31, 1 SST>. Notwithstanding the adverse reports, Mrt j Dodge, of tho United States agricultural doj partment, says that in liLs opinion, the injury s I to tho corn crop by tho lato frosts will not re! duce tho total much lielow last year's harvest 3 of 1.025,000,000 bushels. He says thcro wero 2,500,000 moro nores planted in corn this year than last, so that the loss will be nearly or quite made up from the increased acreage. A recent United States treasury statement . j says the amount of money in circulation is as . follows: National bank notes, $358,834,542; legal tender notes, $.'?40,081,010; silver certifi i cates, $75,1X59,071; gold certificates, $55,272, . 440; total f ajier circulation, $831,757,069* . total coin, $743,347,573; gran 1 total, $1,575,KM,W2. s From actual count of the files, made in the United States itension olllco between July 1 I; and 15, 1&S3, it appears that thero wero 244,505 claims pending. In 204,29!) cases the delay r was caused by the claimants themselves, ? 9,US wero delayed in the adjutant-general's ollice, 2,902 in the surgeon-general's office and . 23,523 in the pension ollice. I j Foreign. i A demonstration of the Irish National j league at Waterford, Ireland, was attended by 30,000 persons. I A citowD of persons collected in A gram | I Tlntirrnmr ninl cmnulirvl ill tllfl windOWS Of a i cafe und several houses occupied by Jews, j The military were called out and fired on the mob. Several of tho rioters were arrested i Collisions have also occurred in tho country ; districts between the peasants and gendarmes I ' and several of tho former have been killed an 1 wounded. 1 Earthquake shocks have again occurred on the island of Ischia. Tiie late Comto do Chambord, in his will gives an estate in each of liis four domains ' and the income of 20,000,000 francs to his ' wife during her life, less 2,000,000 francs variously bequeathed. After tho death of , the comtesse the Comto de Bardi is to receive one-third and tho Due de Parma two-thirds of the entire propertv. The Span- j sh princes are not mentioned in tho will. I The fishing schooner Restless has beon | I towed into Barrington. Nova Scotia, in a j wre< ked condition, having been pit-kfj up at j ; sea without a living being on board. She i sailed several weeks ago with a crow of nine s men. When found at sea there were tho i I l>rxlies of four drowned fishermen in tho I cabin, which was full of water, but there J was no sign of Ifa" five others. Admiral Pierre, who returned recently n ill health to Franco from his command of 1 the French fleet at Madagascar, is dead. Great uneasiness is caused by tho con I timial spread of the cattlo disease throughout ! every part of England. In some sections of > England only American beef is now to be obtained. The bi-centennial of the liberation of Vi' enna by Jolin .Sobieski, king of Poland, in 1(588, wasb.'gim in tlio Austrian capital by L the unveiling of a memorial tablet in honor ! | of the event. On the following day imposing 1 j ceremonies took place in honor of Sobieski' final victory over the Turkish invaders. ! | Many vessels have been wrecked and a | j largo number of lives lost during recent I Heavy storms on mo ncm uuuuiuiui uhu Nova Scotia coast. 1 At a meeting of Mr. Bradlaugh's support1 ers in London it was resolved that at the next session of parliament the liouse of comj mons should be given no rest until Mr. Bradlaugh lie admitte<l (o his seat or his legal dis' (nullification finally determined. 1 Lieutenants Oheely, Klingsbury and Lock wood, five noncommissioned officers and ' fifteen enlisted men wore left Juno 14, 1SS1, at Discovery Harbor, Lady Franklin bay, in the arctic regions for the purpose of taking observations on behalf of the Uni| ted States. They were to bo relieved j last year, but the Neptune sailed too late in the season to get through the ice, and ^ the Proteus, that left St. John, N. P., June 30 last with a relief party, was sunk by floe ice ' July ?1, near Cape Sabine. All hands were 1 ! saved by. her consort, tho Yantic; but Lieutenant fJreely and his companions will be compelled to spend their fourth winter in the far >ortli. I Martin' Luther was born just 4fM) years ago, and at the quartercentennry celebration i at his homo in "Wittenberg, Germany, there L were present 50,<K>0 visitors, including x!,0CXJ j clergymen and Crown Prineo Frederick William. Religious exercises, a long procession, and the dedication of Luther hall, ^ constituted the ceremonies. Tnoors at Jakobovacz, Croatia, fired into a dense mass of jiersons in revolt against the j landowners, killing lifteen and wounding r many more. Twei.ve persons were drowned by the sink . ing of a Norwegian vessel in the English r i channel. i! A SANGUINARY AFFRAY. I ? Terrible CoiHcst Anions Hit lit Cow , hoys in a Cutiin. 1 I The details of a sanguinary all'ray at the ! i Mcl.ain ranch in Elbert county on Sunday night, in which eight cowboys were engaged) have just reached here, says a Denver di-^ patch. Sunday they all went to Agate s station, on the Kansas Pacific read, and fall1 nig in with companions, opened the festivities , with drinks. Then they rode to a neighboring ranch, where the}' obtained more liquor, , and started for home.. On the way * two of their number, named liossiter '' and McKeever, engaged in a disf pute on a trivial matter, and all repairo 1 f to the herders' quarters to settle the difficulty. As soon as they were inside the men clinched and both fell to the ground fighting desperB ately. The table and benches were removed I i and in an improvised ring the men l>cat and ,t tore at each other with the ferocity of tigers. The onlookers in their excitement danced about, brandishing their revolvers. AVInlo * the light was at its highest the oil lamp was 1 knocked from its place, and the room was in ? darkness. The men, now completely mad. ran uj ion each other, and in a minute after the light 0 had been ext inguished the melee was general. b The door was locked, and there being no f means of egress each man fought for himself. Amid the resounding blows and curses ' a pistol shot rang out, ami the death cry of * the victim paralyzed whatever of reason was r left in the party. Almost before tho cry had left the lips of tho unfortunate man, there was a wild fusillade, and for a moment the ' gloom was lighted. Rossitcr was dead, two * men named .Tones wore weltering in their t blood, and three others were wounded, one at v least fatally. Rollins and McKeever, tho e only ones not injured, fled. '* mTTfi /-</\TT-*TmT>TTir< rmmmrvvr rmnn IHIj UUU1MXXLI'iS UUi IKJn unur. A Total Crop of <J,il l!)f 75U IIalos?Sotilh< era IflillM I'Ming ."'lore Colt on. According to a New Orleans dispatch, tlie 1 official statement of tho cotton crop of the b United Suites for the year ending August 31, INN! issued by tlie National Cotton exchange, , shows a total crop of t'l.'.M'.i.T.Vi hales, including receipts at shippinir ports of f>,(KW,012 lmles.and > shipments by rail routes overland to Northern f spinners direct from producers of Gil,Nil bales. The report shows that the Southern mills consumed 313,3!I3 bales, an increase over 5 last season of 20,439 bales. Tho increase in the total crop compared with tho previou 1 year was l,4!).'5,?OS bales. Tho takings of i United States spinners for the year were ^ 2.073,090 bales, an increase of 108,501 bales. y Seven hundred Fupernumeraries will take 7 part in Jules Verne's grand spectacular piece, "Keruban le Tetu," at the Gaite, Paris. LATER NEWS. I Barbara. Miller, colored, was hanged at j Richmond, Va., for complicity in the murder i of her husband in February last. Charles j Henry Lee, her accomplice, was hanged on j August :5. Tho hanging took place in tho ! jnil-yard of tho Henrico county court, and , was witnessed by about 100 people. Milton C. Keenax, treasurer of Jackson county, Ohio, disappeared, and investigation proved him to be a defaulter in a sum not j less than S^.OOO. Much apprehension exists in government c ircles for the safety of the Greely exploring expedition of observation in the Arctic regions. The failure of Lieuterant Garlington, commander of the lost relief ship Proteus, to j land his stores on or near Smith Sound, is j considered to have been a mistake, and | a court of inquiry is talked about. It is positively asserted that Lieutenant Greeley has provisions enough at tho Lady Franklin Bay station to hist him until the summer of 1884, if he remain there until that time. If, however, he should have abandoned his stat ion and retreated down the coast of Grinnell Land to the mouth of Smith's Sound ( expecting to find thero a relief party and a depot of stores, his situation may shortly become critical. The rebellion in Hayti continues. Two towns captured by insurgents have been re taken by government troops. A T? k TTr v*nn i o l-nn nlonn in Tnnmnn tween the French and a body of the natives known as the Black Flags, lasting eight hours. The engagement took place between Hanoi and Sontay. The French forces are reported to have lost two officers and fifty men. The loss of the Black Flags is estimated at between 500 and 000 men. Hanoi is tho town where the French have been holding their garrison since the previous engagements at Sontay, awaiting reinforcements. A WOMAN HANGED. Exeoution of a Colored Murderess in Virginia. Marching to tho Gallows Amid Much Excitemcnt. Barbara Miller (colored) was hanged at; Richmond, Ya., for complicity in the murder of her husband in February last. Charles Henry Lee, her accomplice, was hanged on the 3d of last month. The execution took place in the jailyard of tho Henrico county court, in presence of about 100 people. The drop fell at 12:12 o'clock, and the woman died from strangulation. Several thousand persons were in the vicinity of the jail. Everything passed off orderly. An account of the scenes preceding and during the execution says: Last night a prayer-meeting was held in the condemned woman's cell. The Rev. Mr. Boswell, colored, conducted the exercises, which were prolonged until 2 o'clock this mornine. The minister then departed and Mrs. Miller was left with several colored women friends. She and her companions slept soundly for several hours. 'At about 9 o'clock Mrs. Miller ate a lienrty breakfast and later several ministers and a number of neighbors gathered in her cell, where prayer after prayer, followed in every instance by those strange hymns characteristic of the colored people, was ofTered in rapid succession. The excitement produced by the hymns was interne. The doomed woman stood in the midstof the sable throng with her arms uplifted, swayinc her body to and fro as tho crowd chant<?l: '* Parliara is nearing her home" and "Nearer, My God, to Thee." Occasionally she joined in the refrain, and now and then shouted in a full voice some exclamation indicative of intense excitement. The exercises wero kept up until the hour for the execution arrived, when, preceded by tho negro jailor and sheriff and followed by four colored ministers. she marched out from her cell into the jailyard and up the scaffold steps, the ministers sinking a hymn. As Barltfira mounted the stops she attempted to join in tho refrain. She went up slowly, but evidently her excitement was the result more of what she had passed through than a realization of her impending fate. Tn accordance with her request she was attired in a neat-titting white muslin dress. She had a bunch of artificial lilacs and orange blossoms on her bosom, and a broad white ribbon around her head. On reaching the platform she was seated in a chair, while Sheriff Southward read the death-warrant Upon being asked is she had anything to say, she stood up and, in a droning, chanting tone, bade her farewell to all present. She warned her hearers to take a lesson from her fate, and said that she was going to glory and the angels above. A long prayer by 0110 of the ministers followed, and then all but tho sheriff and jailer descended from tho scaffold. Her legs and arms were pinioned and tho black cap was put over her head. Just then she was heard to say: " Farewell, farewell to you all.'' The next instant tho sheriff gave tho signal by dropping a handkerchief, and tho trap was sprung. The fall was over seven feet, but failed to dislocate tho nock. She struggled considerably for several minutes, and it was evident that diath resulted from strangulation. After hanging for twenty-five minutes, the physicians having pronounced life extinct, the body was cut down and placed in a coffin. Barbara's mother, who had been with her before the execution, circulated anion.? tho crowd and solicited contributions to pay for her daugnter's burial. POLITICAL NEWS, I'hc New Jersey Democratic State Convention. The New Jersey Democratic State conven tion, held in Trenton, was called to order by .? ?? TM r< r? irn?,loT-Viilf: Dcnator lucxriiersuii. uvui^u vy. * anuv*u..? was made permanent chairman. On the second ballot Iakhi Abbett, of Jersey City, was nominated for governor. Following is th platform adopted: The Democratic party of New Jersey, in convention assembled, pledge anew their lidelityto the fundamental doctrines of the party as enunciated by Jefferson and practiced by Jackson. They reassert their belief in a strict construction and rigid enforcement of the Federal Constitution. They declare for the sovereignty of the States and the supremaey of tho Federal government within their rcs|iective spheres. They denounce tho centralizing tendencies of tho Republican party, and declare for home rule and local self-government as the foundation stones of the republic. They arraign the Republican party as having corrupted and debauched the publie service, nullified the will of the people at the ballot box, favored monopolists, made large grants of the public lands, subverted the Constitution, anil maintained itself s ilely by the power of patn>nage nuil plunder. They beliove in that genuine nml . deop-rcaching civil-service reform which consols in tlio election to otlico of hone-'t, intelligent, capable anil courageous public servants, who will faithfully administer their trust, anil who will be licltl to strict accountability for such discharge of it. They denounce the sham methods of the civil service commission in its pretended examination of candidates for place, together with the disgraceful system of bargain and sale of ollico which is now practiced by the Federal government, as shown by the abuse of patronage in Virginia anil other Suites. First?The i enple should only bo taxed so much a-i is absolutely indispensable for the fnigal condui t of their public affairs, not one i cnt for surplus, ami no unnecessary taxation. Tin; exi-ting surplus in the treasury should be faithfully applied to tho payment of the public ilibt. The money not needed for th" expense of the government should remain in the po.-lefts ot the po iple. To this end we favor the entire abolition of the pro-cut system of internal taxation, a nursery ol'spies and informeis. ainenaieto the free.l<>iu of elections, a soiir.-o of tho great* ' I est con Uj.tiun, mm an nav.riuuiu uuu ...? necessary burden upon the taxpayers. We insist that the public Innils shall he reserved t<? actual settlers, not another acre for subsidies; that the dignity ?>L" Amoricun labor shall Iks dei'ende I. as a'so the rights of | American citizens at home and abroad. .Second?We favor a tarilf for revenue, limited to the necessary expenditure of tho government, and so adjusted as to give protection and encouragement to homo productive industry and labor without producing or fostering 111 mopolies. Third? We point with priile to the successful administration of our State all'airs under Democratic rule, and we invite tho co-operation of me:i of all parties in continuing that rule, to the end that tho welfare und liappiiie.-s of the i iconic lie secured. Fourth?We contrast the honest and eco' noniical management of State all'airs by j Democratic hands with the corrupt and dis' ? ?*??i <if f l?VrIi?rnl rrnv- I m lU'l'l Ul UUlll III ?r?? i ? vn'i. ...? O | eminent under lb-publican ruin, with its credit mobilier, its whisky rings, its star rout*' Irani Is. anil other like iniquities. Fifth?We ilemauil the equalization of taxes on all properties within tho State, whether that of individuals or corporations; no hindrance to legitimate enterprise, 110 encouragement, of monopolies, all government n the interest of the wh >!e people. Sixth?Every le^ilin ate ellort of labor to better its condition, enhnnee its reward and protect its rights commands tho sympathy und support of the Democratic party, which is a natural friend of tho workman. Tho present unprecedented and unsatisfactory condition of the relations of labor and capital demands tho careful thought, of legislators, lue regard had to the vested rights of capital itnl the claims of private enterprise. A leading feature at a horse show? - The lialter.?Cincinnati Traveler. j LOST IN ARCTIC REGIONS." Wreck of the Greely Mief Ship Proteus, Greely's Party Doomed to a Fourth Arctic Winter. A St. John's (N. F.) dispatch says: The Steamer Proteus, carrying the expedition sent out last summer for the relief of Lieutenant fereely and his fellow-colonists at Fort Con ger Lady Franklin bay, was crushed in the ice on tho evening of July 23, betweon Capo Sabine and Cape Albert in Smith sound and her crew and the momh^ri < f tho relief party have returned to this port on tho companion steamer Yantic, of the United States navy. The escape from tho wrecked vessel and retreat southward were accomplished without loss of life. While endeavoring to force her way through to clear water tho Proteus was caught between two immense floes. These, pressing on at both sides, quickly crushed in her stout walls. Her hold filled with water, and it was soon evident that no efforts would avail to keep her from sinking. Tho | hatches were then broken open, ami all hands set to work throwing clothing, provisions and other iv-'*es out of the doomed ship upon tho ice. Too greater part of the cargo which was thus unloaded fell into the water and was lost, but Plough was 6aved to insure the comfort of tho party during their retreat southward, and also "to make a not inconsiderable cache for the Greely party should it, as now seems inevitable, be forced to make its own way southward. Lieutenant Colwell, U. S. Is., also succeeded, and most fortunately, in saving three boats from the wreck. As quickly as possible Lieutenant Colwell loaded one of the boats with storey and. with a crew of four men set out for the shore. The trip was made with great difficulty on account of the ice; but by perseverance and unsparing exertions he forced a passage through. Several successive trip? were thus maae, and a. large auantity of clothing and provisions safely landed and placed in a ca-ne. The last trip made on the morning of July 1J4. and, as the ice ?- ut? *i? nn| ;tj Had ciosoi in rapiuiy, uio uua? on* .? load had to be dragged across the ice two miles before it coula be launched in clear water. Even then the floating mass of ice closed in so rapidly and so angrily that the boat escaped being stove in only by the narrowest possible chance. The goods placed in the cache were rendered as secure as possible, and the spot marked so*as to bo readily discovered by the oartyfrom Fort Conger. Having thus done all in their power to carry out the design of the expedition, the party, on the afternoon of July 25, set out to cross Smith sound, and after spending a weary night amid the ice landed safely on the mornmg of the 20th at a cove near Life Boat cove. , After a perilous trip of COO miles Upernavik was reachel on August 24, and there the Yantic picked lip the shipwrecked men and brought them to St. John's. In July, two years ago, the Proteus landed Lieutenant Greely, his assistants, Lieutenants Kingsbury and Lockwood, five officers of the signal corps, and fifteen enlisted men at Lady Franklin bay. These twenty-three men went nci\h to man one of the eleven ?1-- n-Viifii tiip lp/idin^ irovernments J/VlUJi ObUViUiw " M4?.. of tho world had agreed to maintain within I the Arctic zone to make simultaneous scientific observations. It was one of the best equipped parties that ever went north. Dr. Roe, of London, an authority on Arctic matters, wrote that its equipment of dogs and sledges was superior to tnat of any previous party. The nope was expressed that, in addition" to its scientific duties, tho j arty would b9 able to take up the work f Sir Ueorge Nares where he left it, and add many miles of explored coast line to the maps of Northwest Greenland. Congress in 1882 appropriated $33,000 for the supply and relief of Lieutenant Greely and his party. The supply expedition was promptly sent, but the vessel was prevented : uy ice from communicating with the party, and returned, after depositing a large quantity of stores in a manner which had been agreed upon with Lieutenant Greely, in anticipation of such a failure. At its last session congress uiuuc aituvuct u^/ | propriation for tho relief of the expedition, and tho Proteus and Yantic were sent north, with the result given above. It is possible that the only hope for the rescue of the explorers now depends on their own ability to make their way south. This will be the fourth winter that the Greely party will be obliged to remain in the Arctic regions, and grave fears for its safety prevail in Washington. THE NATIONAL GAM Umpire Furlong, of the league stall, has resigned. Of the original appointees only one is left. Tiie Boston league nine won every one of the series of fourteen games from the Philadelphias. Nearly every town in Ohio has the baseball craze, and everywhere stock companies are being foimed and inclosed gmlnils secured. Cincinnati people ascribe the ill-success of the i>owerful Cincinnati club to a multiplicity of managers and inefficient field captaining. Tite Anderson club has been expelled from " -1--11 tli the Massachusetts caseuuu iwmiauuu, x tie championship of tho State has been awarded to tho llolyoko club. During a game at Philadelphia between tho New York and Phildelphia nine, Ferguson, captain an 1 second baseman for the latter club, put out fifteen players of the twentyseven. Brown, the right fielder of the Columbus club, beat the best single game batting record at Baltimore, making two single and two double hits, and two nomo runs. In the six hits he made fourteen bases. A recent gamo between the Chicago and Detroit clubs was altogether phenomenal. In tho seventh inning the Chicogos struck a rare streak of batting, making eighteen runs, of which thirteen were earned, with a total of thirty-four hits off two pitchers. This is believed to bo without parallel in the histoiy of ??Kn?/?hnl1. 1" vicasiviiui wiwvw.-... Probably the most perfect gamo of ball which hns ever been played took place at Indianapolis recently between the Indianapolis club and the Springfield (111.) team of the Northwestern league. Eleven innings were played, not a run was made on either side, and there were only three errors. The Springfield men lost the game by refusing to play nny longer, and the umpire'declared the game against them by 9 to 0. league club record. Tho official record of the league championBhip games played up to the 0th is as follows: I v d I Club. -3 -jf ?. a ? .3 6 S fl Li o I-o 18 pi g (s Sj> i J a s a 3 ?l? ojt>pjfc;? o'o Boston !?! 4,1 sj ?! 7j T;14j sj r>0 84 Buffalo 6 ? 5 7 9 71 7! 5 40 85 Chiwgo 7 0?097; 9 5 52 85 Cleveland 4 7 8?9 6 9 7 50 85 Detroit 4' 5 5 5 ? 61 8 2 35 8'i New York...., 7i 4 4 4j 5 ? 12i 5 41 85 Philadelphia. 0| 4 2 2: 3 2? 3 lti 80 Providence 0 0 0 4| 9j 911? 51 j SO Gaines lost 34]3o{j.35; 51 |-!4'Tol&i ?| ? AMERICAN ASSOCIATION' IiECORD. I 5 I I -I ? , 15 I c' >1 CLUB. c | J t ? a . j? '.a! ! | ?, fi!.!! I il^i $| g o 2 ~ Z ** E ; S ? -J , ? '.5 , O O V <3 d ? 3 so; oj o Allegheny ?j 2 9,' 4, 3 2 5 2 27! 85 Athletic 12 ? 11! 4 11)! 0 !? 7 59! 85 Baltimore 5 3?! 3 5! 5 3, 1 25 84 Cincinnati 7i 7, 8 ? 11 10 3 8 54 80 Columbus 7 1 0 3- 5i 3 3 9S! 85 Eclipse 0 4 0 4 9? 5 ti 43i 83 Metropolitan 9 510 8 8 4 ?1 2 40, 83 ist. Louis 9 4 y 011 8' 0? 50 ( 85 Games lost 58 20 5!) 32 57 40 37.29.?|? RIOTS IN CANTON. Property of Europeans Destroyed? Foreigners Take Kclagc on Ships. A dispatch from Hong Kong states that a Chinese mob at Canton burned tho houses of several European merchants, and also their wharves, causing great consternation among the foreign residents, most of whom sought refuge on board vessels in the river. No violence was offered to i>crsons, and a force of Chinese troops was called out, which quickl dispersed the rioters. On the receipt of th J intelligence at Hong Kong several gunboats were immediately sent to Canton to alford protection to tho foreign merchants. Tho gunboats were followed !>y the dispatch of two war steamers. It is said the riot was caused by a number of Portuguese sailors killing a Chinaman in an affray. The authorities of Canton were slow in repressing tho disorder. Although order was restored there ^reat excitement prevailed among all classes. Much indignation is expressed at the absence of men-of-war to protect the European residents.^ I>tiring the riot the mot) inrewuie i-unwuis of the buildings which they attacked upon tlus wharves and looted them. The riot lasted several hours, and order was not restored until the arrival of the Chinese troops. The natives were so excited against foreigners that a renewal of the disturbance was expected. A Hong Kong correspondent says that the foreign consuls at Canton hauled down their flags durirfe the rioting. 1 DRIVING THE LAST SPIKE. " A Completion of the Northern Pacific Railroad, h The Event Celebrated in Presence of f Nearly 3,000 Visitors. J i i The lost spike in the Northern Pacific rail- I rood, says a dispatch from Golden Spike, Montana, was driven this afternoon, on tho Pacific slope of the Rocky mountains, ~..wu miles from the Atlantic ocean, and 800 miles F from the Pacific, and ninety-one yeurs after ^ the idea of a highway from the lakes to the I Pacific was first suggested by Thomas Jeffer son. I The spot where the rails met was Last ^ Spike, fifty miles west of Helena and thirty miles west of the Grand Divide, from which, | on one side, the rain runs down to the Gulf of g Mexico and the Atlantic, and from the other I side into the Pacific ocean. Here Jndepend- 1 ence creek enters the Hell Gate or Deer Lodge river, four miles above Gold creek, the scene 0 of tho placer excitement of 1803, and crosses ? the traiik on its way to the Pacific ocean " through Lake I'end d Oreille and the Colum- 0 bia river. e Three thousand people, besido the 400 dis- c tinguislied guests who came with Mr. Villard, s stood in the grassy meadow, overlooked on 0 the east by tho main range of the Rocky a mountains, with a sight of Mount Paul with r its white head and the Big Hole range. Green t willows and cottonwoods fringed the meadow, t and tlie wind blew in our faces from the Paci- e fic. Tho valley is so civilized that tho inhabi- i tants have not for five years had to run from 1 the Indians. Parks, like slopes of interspersed o forest and meadow; foothills rolling away to tho Bitter Root mountains, and dotted with t pine, fir, spruce and cedar; farms and t ?an/1 rrlimnCOG (if f nouses in uie veruum ioucj, auu ? . ranges where bear, elk, moose ana mountain l i goats are still found in plenty, made up the scene for the ceremony. All were surprised at what they beheld. Instead of the wilderness of the Kocky mountains they saw a line pavilion capable of seating over 1,000 persons, over which floated the national colors i of the American, German and British nations. In front, reaching to the roadbed, was an extensive promenade, skirted by a J platform with comfortablo seats. To the i right was a band-stand and on it were seated , the Fifth United States Infantry band, which was to entertain the spectators,!and which 1 had come all the way from Fort Keog'n. After President Villard and tho Hon. Wil- . liam M. Evarts had addressed the throng Secretary Teller spoke briefly of the energy ] and capital required to carry the enterprise j to a successful conclusion. He was followed { by ex-President Billings, and then remarks on : behalf of the foreign guests were made by the I British Minister. Sir James Hannen, the German Minister, and Dr. Kneiss. of the Berlin university. The governors of Wisconsin. Minnesota, Dakota, Montana, Oregon and 1 Washington were severally introduced, and j made brief and appropriate remarks. The , governor of Idaho was absent on accouut of sickness. There were loud cries for General < Grant and he came forward. He said he was reminded by the speeches to which he had listened of the fact that he had something to 1 do with the great Northern Pacific enter- 1 prise. When Governor Stephens, thirty , years ago, organized his surveying exf edition tho speaker was a lieutenant, acting as 1 a quartermaster and commissary, on the J Columbia, and he issued the supplies for the ) 1 expedition. Was he not, then, entitled, he ^ asked, to some of the credit wnich had been apportioned out to others i He added that the intercolonial railroads would have j j i x- ':uu fVm man whrt. , araounwu w huiiu uuu iui ?uw .. ??7 . after the war, sought the territories as fields J of enterprise. They had made these railroads 1 possible and prosperous. At the conclusion j of General Grant's speech three rousing cheers . were given. The foreign guests were then given seats on the platform. t>y the railroad, 1 when a photograph was taken of them, Mr. ) Villard and family, and the most distinguished , Americans. After that a horse tliat helped to build the road from its inception was brought 1 upon the platform. Then 300 men 'with brawny arms quickly laid the iron and drove I j the spikes on the 1.000 feet of uncompleted , track, except the last spike, When nearly 1 completed a cannon salute was fired by the j I detachment of the Fifth infantry present. I . Mr. VilJard handed the sledge to H. C. . . Davis, now the passenger agent of the Manitoba road, who drove the first spike on the . i Northern Pacific, when that road was I begun in 1870, and had therefore been i i selected to drive the last. This spike j I was not a golden one, but was the . ( ! same as Mr. Davis drove in 1870, ' ~ * rr^i \rr I When Mr. JJavis uau nnairy w.uo iuc ^ . " homo'' the crowd dispersed, and soon afterward the four Villard trains left for the Pa- ' ciiic. i PROMINENT PEOPLE. I Beecher.?Henry Ward Beecher has been < lecturing in California. : Jarvis.?Governor Jarvis and wife, of i North Carolina, have been visiting in Boston, the guests of Governor Butler. Bar^s.? Mr Barnes, the "Mountain Evangelist,of Kentucky, now in London, is promulgating a new notion, to wit, that the English-speaking jwople are descended from ] the lost tribes of Israel. Cameron.?United States Senator J. D.Cameron is in Scotland, under the medical care of Sir Henry Thompson. His health has . slightly improved, and, if it continues to do so, he will remain in Europe until a complete restoration is effected. Maxey.?United States Senator Maxer, of Texas, carries in his travels through the North a gold-headed cane of bois d'arc wood. It has a reddish-brown tinge, and according to Mr. Maxey is the most valuable wood found in I Tamo Ho tiiinks t.lmt there is nothing to I surpass it in durability in the country. Collyeiu?The Rev. Robert Coliyer. of New York, is one of the American preachers who have occupied Loudon pulpits the past summer. Mr. Coliyer, who is an American by adoption and was a blacksmith in his native England, preached also in Ilkley parish this summer, in a church the gates of which are proudly pointed out as the work of his own hanas when he was employed in the forge. Czar Alexander.?Alexander III. is the despair of opera managers in St. Petersburg Once the czar was a boon to them, for the announcement tliat he would " honor the performance " was sure to crowd the house. But j now the mere suspicion that he may attend I scares the public away, for they seo visions of j bombs, dynamite and sudden aeatn. ies 1 the emperor cannot be asked to stay away. Nutt.?James Nutt, who shot Dukes, the slayer of his father, at Uniontown. Penn., is rather gloomy over the delay in nis trial. The jail where he is confined is a miserable old concern, and he is obliged to mingle with tho dozen other prisoners confined there. The rigor of prison life is, however, relaxed, so that he gets fair treatment and good food. His mother and sister visit him every day, and he is as comfortable as his surroundings will admit. MUSICAL AND DRAMATIC Mrs. Lanotry draws crowded houses in Scotland. Claka Louise Kellogg will sing in opera next spring. Dr. Crkswick, tho London actor, is preparing his fifty years' experience of the stage for publication. Mary Anderson*, tho American actress, achieved a great success 011 her opening night in Loudon. English literary men protest against Hoi lingshead and liurnand's scheme of Shakes pearean burlesques. j Miss Genevieve Ward will shortly start on a tour round t lie world, taking the London j Olympic company with her. j As a rule professional players aro careless and improvident, yet some have saved their | earnings and aro comfortably "fixed." I Gerster has offered to give two concerts at Naples in aid of the Iscliiau sufferers, beforo she conies to this country, in October. New York will have two rival Italian opera companies at the same time next sea- I son. In one Patti and in the other Nilssou j will bo tho star. Mme. Modjeska, the actress, and her hus I band and son are now American citizens Count Bozenta secured his full naturalization pajK'rs recently, in San Francisco. The Washington Jiepublican says: "It may not be generally known, but it is a fact that the first theatre ever opcneu m iru country was at Williamsburg, Ya., in 1752 Thk right to produce in this country "Confusion," Sir. Joseph Derrick's new play, now successfully running at the London Vaudeville, has f>eeu purchased by Manager Stetson, of Boston. The idea of getting Jenny Lind to visit this country ami sing is agitating musical circles in New York. Although she is sixty i years old and has lust all her upper notes, she sings with all her old fervor, and would bo glad to come to this country. It is reported that Mr. W. II. Vnnderbilt has o tie red Miss Tim rsby ?10,CM) a year to I sing in St. Bartholomews church, New York, | on Sundays. Miss Tluirsby willsing in concert also. the coming season. The average I salary of a singer in a quartet choir of a New York church is six hundred dollars a year. Hknky Irvi.vu's American route will be as follows: Star Theatre, New York, OctoJ Iter-".l, four weeks, oi>citin? in "The Bells;" ' on t ho second night "Much Ado About Nothing " will Ik> given, with Miss Kllen Teriy as Beatrice and Mr. Henry Irving as Benedick. Novetnlier ~'i he owns at the Chestnut Street theatre, Philadelphia, for two weeks; thence to tho Boston theatre. December 10, two weeks; Academy of Music, Baltimore, December 24, ono week; Haverly's theatre, Brooklyn, December 31, one week; Haverly's ... T r. ineiuro, v^mcngo, uunuuij i, Olympic theatre, St. Louis, January -I, ouo week; Grand Opera-house, Cincinnati, January 2.S, one week; he then plays the smaller cities in February; then to Washington, March a, for one week. Returning to New York he plays a farewell engagement, after which he embarks for England. 51 r. Irv ing, Miss Terry and Mr. Ferris leave England tho tlrst week in October; tho rest of the troupe follow in succeeding steamers. The folding scenery wiil arrive in advance of the company. THE PATENT OFFICE. knnual Report of the Tom mfasloner-* Business of the Pail Vear. Tho United States commissioner of patent? \ as submitted liis report for the fiscal year " nded June 30, 1883. It shows the following >1^ acts: .. APPLICATIONS. 'or patents 82^45 'or design patents 1,039 'or reicsne patents 24T B 'or registration of trade-marks.... 854 ror registration of labels 748 Total 35,734 ^ 'Mi Total in 18S2 BO flct Caveats filed 2,668 PATENTS AND TRADE-MARKS ISSUED. 'stents granted, including re-Issues and designs 21,785 'rade-marks registered 883 t Abels registered <18 'atents withheld for nonpayment of final fees 2,055 'stents expired 7,471 j' RECEIPTS AND EXPENSES. ' ' Receipts from all sources 11,096,884 ! Ixpcnditurea (not Including printing).... ?T7^528 Jn'/iXQR^^B urplos 61S,255 ncrease In receipts over 1881 205,989 I" HI ncreaaeover 1882 165,020 I The number of applications awaiting action n the part of the office on July 1 was 4,609, n increase of thirty-nine per cent, over 1882. I lie commissioner says the business of the I H ffice is steadily and rapidly increasing in B ach of the divisions of tne office. The sue- * ess of the patent system, the commissioner -J/aB ays, is due largely to its liberality to invent- H >rs, and the security and protection it .ffords them It was not intended that 9' Jfll evenue to the government should be obtained >y charges made for vesting in the inventor he right and title for a limited time to the . mH xclusive use of his invention. Rut not only '* lave the fees received on applications filed >een sufficient to pay all the expenses of the iffice, but a large surplus?nearly >2,500,000 . -now stands to the credit of the office in the reasury. Greater liberality might, perhaps, VaB JB ? extended to the inventor by reducing the yjS ' SO ee to be paid before a patent can issue, and -,'v49 vith beneficial results. "3mBU SELECT SIFTEfGS. T* In Hindoo fairy stories the bad per* sons are buried alive in thorns. v || The ( ermans have borrowed a Chi ':/M H aese device, and now equip their carrier pigeons with an attachment of small reeds, through which the wind . '.jgj whistle3 and scares off birds of prey. The tax levied on salt throughout ";.&m M the Indian empire is 3,000 per cent. Being forbidden to extract salt even from the earth at the bottom of dry n&gflKfl salt pools, the very poor eat the earth Sir John Lubbock, the well-known English entomologist, lias had for- l^wHlW nrar/ip/i tn him fmm Prpsrntt. Arizona. i nest of ants found near that place, which is of peculiar construction and i great curiosity. Dr. H. Muller observes that blues, slSnBH reds and certain violets are more attractive to bees than other shades of W^nBHl :olor. Scarlets, oranges, and some jwUt^^k Dther loud colors, which the (lowers of not a few plants having also an unafc- -B7BIHI tractive odor appear to possess, repel the honey-gathering insects. Six fossil human bodies, those of a man, two women and three children, > have been found in a cave in a coal -.1^8 r ? mine at Bally-Grenay, Fas ~de Calais Jfl and eleven have been found in an ad- |a joining apartment, with arms and utensils in petrified wood and stone, and precious stones. The walls were decorated with pictures and combats .M between men and animals of great size. < Admiral Baldwin's snuff-box, corona- Wk Hnn nrocont. from t.llAf.xar. is thus dft 3cribecl by a correspondent: It is sstimate I to b^ valued at 015,000. Six 3olitairts, three on each side of the M portrait, are said to be worth $1,200 apiece. The portrait Is surrounded by a ring of about forty diamonds The -IfflBiB box itself is ah art gem, and has a BfH capacity for fully half a pound of snuff. [ don't think the admiral uses snuff. Ilari-kari was a form of suicide, sometimes voluntary and sometimes SSgjMHj] commanded, common in .Japan. The officials of that empire carry two swords, with one of which they do |^H9 fended their persons and with the other their honor. The deed consisted in cutting open the abdomen with two ShmS cross-cuts of a short sword, and if the vHqmR honor of an officer was impugned he was believed to have saved it by com- UH mitting hari-kari. If un official fell into disgrace he was commanded to kill himself in this manner, as by so ... - * 11 i_i *i. doing ms legal neirs coma lnuern mn property, which they could not do if J the suicide was accomplished in any H other manner. The custom has fallen into disuse, and is now rarely heard of : even in Japan. J WISE WORDS. He who knows most grieves most for wasted time. . Early and provident fear is the 'Jm mother of safety. fl He that increaseth knowledge in- fl creaseth sorrow. ~fl As every golden thread is valuable ' JM so is every minute. Pride often miscalculates, and more fl often misconceives. fl No better heritage can one possess fl than cheerfulness. ' We are never so glad as when we fl possess a joyful heart. fl Spend a cent less than your net in- fl come and you will always be rich. ;fl When we know how to appreciate a jfl merit we have the germ of it within fl ourselves. Deference is the most i!elieate, tho fl most indirect and the most elegant of '|fl all complaints. A Now Kind of Human Food. fl Among the scientiOc papers received fl at the Smithsonian institution is a his- fl tory and description of dipterous larva fl from the Western alkaline lakes, and . ..J their use as human food, by Professor ^ S. W. Williston, of the Peabody museum. This subject is looked upon as fl particularly interesting just at present, I intprpnt'.that. fl ILL View UJ. l/llG YT ?uvv>vWW ?MMV is manifested in the development of the < great "West. The specimens described in the pamphlet were received from the soda lakes near Kagtown, Isev. ",/j The larger of these lakes is about fiveeighths of a mile in diameter, and its water is of a clear blue color. It has no outlet, and is fed by a spring of cool, % fresh water. The water is highly charged with alkaline salts, and is so dense that the human body lloats in it without exertion, and, after drying, the skin is left with a thin, white covering. The water appears to be wanting in animal life, with the exception of a minute ny, tuo iarv;e 01 wuicu is v. a small worm, accumulating in such quantities as to form a belt a foot wide along the shore. It is occasionally gathered by the Pah-Ute Indians, and, after drying and pulverizing, made into a sort of meal or Hour. Professor "Williston has compared these larvae .?$2 with specimens from Lake Mono, and linds tbem quite the same. At this lake the larv;o are said to drift up in great heaps along the shore, and hundreds of bushels can be collected. At the season when they are the most plenty the Indians come from far and near to gather them for food. The worms are dried in the sun, the shell rublied off by hand, when a yellowish m kernel remains like a sm:ill, yellow gnun or rice. Tms is very ony.very uu- ? tritious, and not unpleasant to the taste, and, under the name of koo- ' chah-bee, forms a very important article of Indian food. Those civilized people who have partaken of it say that it does not taste unpleasant, and that, if one were ignorant of its origin, he would consider soup made ot it excellent. The guides say that every thing fattens on it. that the ducks gel very fat on it, but their llesh tastes unpleasantly from it, and that the Indian? get very fat and sleek. ?? a? The publication of a journalistic and linguistic curiosity is intended a* Trieste?a polyglot journal, which ii | to contain specimens o? at least eigh' J different languages in every issue. A J minimum of 1,000 languages and dia M lects is promised to subscribers.