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ABBEVILLE PRESS AND BANNER.! BY HUGH WILSON. ABBEVILLE, S. C.. WEDNESDAY. OCTOBEK 17, 1883. NO. 16. VOLUME 1XXVIIL ^ j|B THE STA.R O' THE MORN. ' The star o' tho morn is whitest, The If som of dawn is brightest; The doiv is sown, And tho blossoms blown, Wherein thou, my dear, delightest. Hark, I have risen before thee, That the spell of the day be o'er theo; That t he flush of my love May fall from above, And, mixed with the morn, adore thee. Dark dreams must now forsake thee, And the bliss of thy being take thoe. Let tho b auty of mom Id thine eyes Ik* bom, And the thought of me awake thee. Come fnrth to hear thy praises, Which tho wa'crnin^ world upraises; Lot thy hair be spun With tho gold o' the sun, And thy feet be kissed by daisies. TfiT? UVJJ 1 U WiUljWIUili One seventeenth day of August, not many years a^'o, a party of lour, consisting of .Joe l.'ajrett and his wife, their most intimate friend Phil Somers, and Miss Maud Mortimer, a young lady they hoj ed he might be induced to consider the future happiness of * his existence, stood quite alone upon a _ narrow strip ol s:md on the Lon;,' Island coast, not far from the great metropolis. .loe Barrett and his wife had L ng ;igo b;*en given over by their relative sand friends, and the genial circle ol' society tlu-y adorned, as an old-fashioned <ou] l',* that prolonged their honeymoon to a most unprecedented and unheard-of period. They had lately celebrated their silver wed ding, and for the amusement of others and the romance 'or themselves would have g<?ne through with the original ceremony aga'n h:id it nut been tor a serious obstacle. Tlie clergyman was still alive and vigorous for his years, and Phil Vomers, .Joe's I est man at his wadding, was yet his best friend, but the pale pretty little bridemaid had vanished long ago off the (ace of the earth, and be -ome one of the shadowy band to which " we call, and they answer not again." There was a rumor that if she had lived she would have become the wife of Phil Somers, thus making the happi ness 01 rue lour complete, it was currently believed that because of this tender and romantic episode in his life Phil Vomers had remained a bachelor. In his younger days this apparent halo of soft regret and unappeasable longing lent a mehincholy grace to his already pleasing exterior, and many a damsel endeavored to console him; but although he was gentle and even chivalric to all womankind, he remained, to all matrimonial intents and purposes, unconsole.l. W And here he was, a bachelor still, fifty years old, gdting rather gri/ zled ab /ut the temples and crow-footed about the eyes, bronzed by his partiality for (he open air. thin but muscular, tall but straight; while Joe Barrett and his wife might both pass for " fat, fair and forty," tflough tli*y were not so many years Phil's j.iniors. And lure they were, plotting as lively as ever for Phil's connubial bliss. The present victim of their t<il<, although no long *r in her first youth, would have sueme l so in any other light but the critical one of sun against sand; and now that thick bands of gray clouds lay heavily across the sky, tempering the briilianoy of the sun's ravs, and the young lady had pulled her veil about the outlines of her fa e, Miss Mortimer seemed at the hey .lay of l er charms. "While waiting for dinner,which was In process of preparation in along, low hostlery a do. en l'urlongs or so inland, they had strolled down to the water's edge, and, true to the plan in hand, Joe Barre't had pulled his wife's V.1 on/1 UilUUUV UclUU LlllUll^li 11A-9 <41 All AUU trotted lier away from Phil and the young lady. "Let's leave them alone together for awhile," said .Joe. "It stems a propitious time for love-making, and 1 hope something will come of to-day's trip, Polly; I'm getting awfully tired of working like a pack-horse for Phil's happiness." "\VhIIe strolling along they indulged in a spirited conversation about Phil 1^. and the matrimonial projects in which Hv they had been engaged on his act ount. At last .Joe remarked, looking fondly at his wife: "I'd be the happiest feilow in the world if Phil could be happy too." His wife shook his arm impatiently. "See here, .Joe," she said, "I think you are absurd ahoat Phil Somers, and you may as well understand, once for all. that if this thing falls through, I'm not going to bother about his marrying at all. It's none of your business or mine. I don't believe he wants to marry, anyway. Some natures are so constituted that they can only love once, ami I believe all the love Phil ? - had to give any one was squandered long ago on our dear little bridemaii!. After all, there's something very sweet - and touching in his remaining faithful to the one memory all these years." Jo - shifted uneiisilv from one foot to the other. He picked up a stone, and sent it savagely whirring over the water. " Polly," he said, ' I think I'll take a plunge in the sea- it will tone me up, and g ve 111c an appetite for dinner. There's a bathing suit in one of the little cribs behind us." t i. .taa i :,.,.! l T "JL/OOK ai< Ulill auu'i, .iwo. "I won't stay in long, Polly." Ho gave his wife a tender sque ze, looked down upon her with an expression that seemed t) say he'd ki<s her if it wouldn't sh? ck Miss Mortimer's sens.' of propriety, ran uj> to the bathinghouse, and, to the surprise of Phil a-ul Miss Mortimer, presently disappeared k in a huge green wav? that covered ^ them with its spray.' "Joe is a regular water-dog,'' said Phil. Miss Mortimer made no reply. She ^ had not come down to the seashore that day to iisten to laudations of Joe Barrett and his wife. Mi.-s .Mortimer feit that she had no time to lose, and was resolved to waste no words upon Joe Barrett's maritime proclivities i hil. however, kept his eyes upon Joe as ho swam out to the open sea, and went on talking about him without requiring any special rep'v. "Joe is a little impulsive ;'n<l reckless, perhaps," said Phil, " but he's a capital swimmer." - -* ?......s? . ** it is grow 11 j^ kji<if ouiia mio-i Mortimer, < ontracting her shoulders in that graceful way that some women have of making a shiver attractive. Phil remembered with remorse that her wrap was hanging forgotten upon his arm. He hastened to put it about her shoulders, but the wind, whi h wan laising to a g.i!o, made theeflort a prolonged one. " Don't you hate the wind?" said Miss Mortimer, rwjuettixhly. ' I am never ungrateful,'' said Phil, capturing the en:.s of the shawl again, and folding them fast this time about her slender f->rm. A ket-n look of in ipient triumph Hashed trorn ;ttiss Mortimer's eye.-'. Phil's wards always see ned to nit an so mu h more tlian they said. And she could not, unfortunately, see that hi? eyes were still looking fixedly over her head upon the water beyond the surf. A shaft or two of wild light flashed down upon the scene. An ominous rumble from the clouds mingled with the roar of the sea. Suddenly the earth and sky were enveloped in a blinding glare. In this spectral light H Phil distin< tly saw Joe Barrett I ing I his arms wildly aloft and disappear in 9 the darkening waste. S Phil threw off his shoe3 and his coat I as he ran to the sea, and Miss MortiI mer had great dilliculty in rescuing his I vest, which was nearly carried out b) a returning wave. Her costume was n drauohed with the spray, and she nearly lost her footing : but she waved the waistcoat, which contained l'hil's watch and other va riables. Then she hurr.ed to the shelter of the I:athin<rhouses, for tin1 rain now betrvn to fall heavily. Tiirough the blackness o!' the :-torm she saw the white face of a woman. Miss Mortimer knew it was Mrs. Harrett running wildly down to t'.e water, but she attempted no remonstrance. She had mad up her mind that of the party of four that went down to the sea that day two would probably never return, perhans three. It was impossible <o say what might happen where such impulsive people were concerned Some men from the inn were now hurrvinsr to the scene of peril, and, finding it impossible to induce Mrs. I.arrett to seek shelter, had thrown about her a rough tarpaulin, from the harsh folds of wilich her haggard face and wind-blown hair was a sorry sight to see. The two bodies were now coming in atop of the foam ngMirf, with no help or hinderance of their own, and closely locked together, were swept .swiftly ashore with other prey of the elements. They were narrowly rescued from the greedy maw of the returning wave, and carried with all :-peed to the little inn, where everything was in readiness to re-tore eons iou ne>s to the one and foster it in the other. The torm pas-ed away as suddenly a< it ca ne. The pale glow of twilight deepened into night. There wa- no moon, but the stars shone over the bay and the harbor and the dusky little promontory. To look at the gentle rpple of wave; lapping la>ily a'ong upon the ?and, l'hil could hardly believe that[so little time ago two men had been done almost to their death.) He could s ;ircely stagger out into the j nni-nii nf inn to breathe the I cold--c< nted air. And as for .Ioe, (Jod i only knew what would befall him. lie ! had been brought back to life, but not I to consciousness 1 'oily had managed i to get word to the town phy.-icinn, but ( | the way was long and tin sand was I heavy. It must have been about midnight; I Phil could not tell the exa -ttime. His j ! watch was in his waistcoat, under ! Mi:s Mortimer's head, in the bed of the lancllaiy. Phil had tollth-mj j not to awaken .Miss Mortimer; under ! no circumstances; he was so glad she i was asleep?and it would be ini]>oss:| ble to say how glad he was. The latch ; I of the door clicked behind him. Phil's : heart same, lie was airaiu im*s .nor timer had, after all, been awakened.; I But a faltering, uncertain step reached j him, and the cold little hand of Folly j Barrett clutched his arm. .Any one but Phil would never have ; ! known her. The last remnant of her j I soft round comeliness seemed swept j away with the storm. All her! j womanly crimps and fripperies were j gone, She wore an ill-fitting gown of j the landlady's. Her whole face was; of a wan gray pallor, like the waves j under the cold light of the stars. " Is .loe better?" stammered Phil., " Does he know?" " He knows everything, and perhaps he's better. Oh, Phil !*' Polly re- j pressed her sobs, and motioned Phil to ' the door. "He is determine I I shall! try and get some sleep, and that you shall watch with him for a while. As : ! if I could sleep ! But go to him, Phil; | don't thwart him?go !" Phil went in to Joe. lie will never r ?*u~ + Iia 1 | lUI gSt llit? l'.MV"l'CJJL7V& IViii, bin; u ?? v/ ! wooden chairs, the pine tal J>, whereon ' a mop of ragged wick flared from a i : saucer of oil. the bottle of liquor with-1 i in reach, and the coarse gret'n glass, ! the grim old clock in the corner tick-! j ing off the seconds Joe's g'.iastly face and motionless form upon the I camp cot in the corner. Joy tried to \ j stretch out his hand to Phil, hut it f 11 j j back heavily upon the patchwork quilt ; of th landlady. "You did your best, Phil," he said; ; "you brought me ashore, but the: trouble was done out there; something seized me, God knows what?paraly-! sis, cramps, palsy?who tan telly; | Anyway, I'm done lor, old man. I J can't move a muscle below. It's a j mere question of time, Phil, and we j can't afford to lose any." "I ho; e you're wrong, Joe; we'll I know better when the doctor comes.' j You were right njt to tell Polly. Uut i she must come to yon, Joe." Phil would have ??oni? at once for; : Polly, but something in Joe's face held ! him back. "Hold on a bit. Phil. I didn't send j for you and drive Polly away to tell I you something that you'll both know i soon enough. There's a burden on my J conscience, Phil ; it's been lying there like a plummet of lead all these years. ! Listen to me, and don't interrupt m if you can help it. Give me some of I that stuff from the bottle, and when 1 ! | grow weak' r give me more." Phil lifted .I oe's head and put the! glass to his lips ; then he sat down < upon the edge of the cot, leaving his j arm between Joe's neck and pillow.' .Joe could feel Phil's pulse now, and the loyal heart of his friend heating < lose j to his own. [ "It's twenty-five years, Phil." said Jo*, "since that night we drove down to the shore here an I had that talk together. You remember it, Phil?" ! " Yes, Joe." i " Ah ! you've remembered it too ' well, 1'hll; I've tried hard enough, i f-A itinl-H vnn f'nrirpf 'I'll * w vu nnvno, \.kj iiiunv j w v sua was sinking over yonder in the ' west, and sky anil sea were all aflame. Some lleec-y clouds dropped low over the old shed where we had ordered some (lams. I remember when I sawPolly that night. The dress sh wore ! was like a stab to me; it was of some soft iloating material that reminded me of the woolly doudsover the old sh: d. You didn't cat the < lams, Phil. You dallied with the shells, and turned them over with the queer old fork they had given you. And all at once you p\it them aside, and lighted a cigar, and turned your face to the sea, and began to talk of a woman you secretly loved. Now give me some wine, Phil." I'hil put the glass again to Joe's lips. "Don't talk any more, Joe," he said. "Let me go for Polly." " Xot yet," said Joe. " You wen- a handsome fellow, Phil, twenty-live yea.s ;igo. As you went on to talk of the woman you secretly loved, some . surt of a liglit shone upon your face from the splendor in the wist that ? - t -i- 1 If maue 11 iiKe im oi uu inuiw^;i. u seenud to me t.:at no woman could withstand yuu. My h?art grew l.ko a lump of ice. My lir:t thouglit wjis t > walk nut into the watt r ;ind strangle myself; my next was a resolve to betray you. I must have been tempted by tlie'devil, for, as (Jod is my .judge in this awful moment of my life, I never drenmeil before that night that you and I were in love with the one woman, jl gut upuu mj uti uum shouted, 'She is mine!' glaring upon you with a dogged, re-olute stare. ' Have you. then, asked her to marry your' you said, ani your face still looked like an archangel's, while mine musthave been inflamed with the passions that beset a man be.vond his , strength. As I repeated, ' !She is my promised wife.' the words seemed to leap from a throat < f fire; it was the lirst downright, hideous, malicious lie i I ever uttered, for I had not yet asked her?I had not yet asked her; hut when I did ask her, upon that very night, the next lie slipped easily from my perjured throat, though it wa-5 a : w rse one by far. For I t >ld Polly, , Phil?1 to!d her before I asked her to , marry me?that you ha I confessed to me your love for her friend, the poor ' little girl that afterward became our ; bridemaid. "Whether it was my guilty ; conscience, that makes hell enough for any man, I fan i(d I saw somethingjin i Polly's eyes that told me, luid it not r been for ray treachdry, your chance i ( would have been better than mine. > Now take your arm away from my MP?? m ? ???MM??????3??? [ neck, Phil, nnd curse me if you will? j j inv story is done." Tlie ]>iils'! at .loo's ear leaped and j tilled as if it would burst an artery, | but Phil's voice had t lie old tender j ring. j " Von might have spaced yourself all! j this."* ho said. "I think IWly has' j proved who it was that .--he loved.' " Ah. after that night, Phil, ye*. ! j Polly is rot tlm kind of woman to make I the mis. ry of men. Put I cheated I you of your chance?I cheated you of ! your chance 1" ' lie it so. .Ice. 1 forgive you, andl ; love \ou all the same. Xow throw oif tin' bu dm. and live for Pollv's saka j and mine." "Too late, too late," faltered the j failing lips. They refused to touch the : g!as<. The limp body fell back almost Lft'less in I'hil's arms, men .ioe 1 arouseil himself once more, and called for Polly in a harsh, strained voico J that reached her despite the roar of the sea. She Hew to his side, but was j only in time to catch a few indistinct, disjointed sentences. With a last ef! fort the dying man lifted the hands of I his wife and his fr end, joined them ! together, < lasped his own about them, I and so the thre remained till the soul j of Joe Barrett fled. " And if there could be such a thing \ I as witchcraft," .' aid Miss Mortimer to j some friends, the other cay, "Joe Bar- ' j rett's widow \vould have been burned I at the stake long ago. She was pretty I i well on in years when .Ioe died, and 1 | I'll leave it to anybody if she don't : ! look like a blomlo mummy now Phil 1 Somers has that air of distinction and elegance about him that he might i marry almost anybody; Joe Barrett's ! widow is old and ugly an 1 sick and poor, but 1 shouldn't be at all sur- j prist d if Phil Sr.mers would marry her , yet.''?Ilarp r's Weekly. _________________ The Rattlesnake Industry. A Middletown (X. Y.) letter to the j New York 6' -t/t says : For many years ! different persons livinpr in the mounta.n< of Sullivan and l 1st r counties liave made very snug sums every year in the sale of rattlesnake oil, which is believed to poise s wonderful curative powers by a large proportion of the inhabitants of not only those, but of adjoining counties. Many snakes are killed during the summer season, but j the grand gathering of the crop is in I fall, when they have returned to their 1 dens anu wintering places. These ! retreats are well known to the snake ' hunters and they choose sunny days ! in October and Xovemher for rai ling ! them. On such days the reptiles crawl J out of their dens in the rocks and | luifirlio tnrrpthpr bv the score, different varieties frequently being found massed ! together. The snakes are dull and j sluggish at that time of the year, and I * ome out to bask in the sun. The hunters arm themselves with i the old-fashioned flails, and when they ! come upon a pile of the snakes proceed j at once to thresh the life out of them. J Hut few escape. The rattlesnakes aro i assorted from the other spe ies, and j carried home, where the oil is tried out as lard is from pork. No treatment of j the oil is necessary. It is bottled up ; and is ready for the market. As high j as $1 an oun e has been paid fur it by [ believers in its value as a liniment for ] rheumatism and all kiudrt d ills. The snake hunters of the Sh iwan ! gunk Mountains receive many orders ; frnn showmen for live ratt esnakes, j for which they receive fn m liftvcents ; to $2 each, according to size and condi- j tion; but during the past summer an j industry in snakes sprung up which is | entirely new and novel, and bids fair i to be-ome the most profitable of any of j the branches uf the trade, t >r it has | its foundation in a new fashion in fe- I male adornment. This industry is the supplying of j rattlesnake skin< f<?r ladies' belts. One 1 day last summer the wifo of a well- j known chemist o: Xt w Vork, who was ' stopping in Sullivan e uinty, attended [ a pienic, and while walking with an- , other laily in the woo Is was confronted hv nn fnoriiums rattlesnake, which lav ; directly in front of her in the moun- ! tain path. The lady who was { with her screamed and ran away, j 1 ut the chemist's wife jikd up' a cudgel and killed the snake. .She brought t to ti e p en c gr. unl. It ! was lour f et in length, and hail a ! splend d set of fourteen rattles. The j mark rigs of a lattle.-nake are very | beautiful, but the skin U' th'sonew.is j j articularly perfect and brill ant in I color. The < hem si's w'fe < atised a' shudder of horror to run through thy.' assemblage of her fair companions by a.iv ng tlia' if she could by any means have the snake's skin prepared she would wear it as a girdl . Mie consulted her husband, and he consented t> experiment with theskin. It was removed from the snake the next day and jtretehel on a board. The chemist treated it with some preparation of arsenic and sweet o 1. The preparation was applied da ly, and in a few days the sk n was cured with all its freshness, brilliance, and pliability preserve I. The rattles and hea 1 were left on theskin. The h;:sband took it to New York, where it was ' ? I**- ? . iln.n UllUU Willi il UiUl'CV iiJVy r 11 ? vi va<io|/) i and his wife appeared among the other guests with a ^inll that $25U would no' in iuce her to p;irt with. That set the fashion, and t%.ere was a' once a big demand for rattlesnake ! ." kins among the ladies, not only in that particular place, but at scores of other places. Berlin's Elevated Railroad. A Berlin correspondent of the Chicago fh rail writes : But let me tell you of the stadtbalin or city railway in Berlin. It is the most perfect tiling any city in the world ha-. Coinpa ed withth s system of elevated railroads there, tho.-eof New York are like toys. The main line of this elevated railroad in Berlin travi r es the city the entire length, and 1 a Is, of course, through the principal bu iness street-;. Then tiiere i; a " guerteibahn." which encircles the whole city, a - is the ea-o in Paris. Now ;h- company bad to I uv it^ entire rinht of way, a great many hou-e; had to I e t rn down, and it i ad to cons met the roa I very ^ ubstantial v. . u-t imagiiv a long white wall extending al this length, built very masdvelv, and yet not clum ily, t.;c surla e of whicli is probably about thirty feet broad. There arc depots at regular intervals, and thesedepots are, every one ol' (he n, solid ftonestructures ol" very pretty design. I 'nderneath tliese depots l ent is an arcade, which is rented, and has been transformed in every instance into a restaurant. ! eer garden or store. It is deliciously tool an 1 shady under these areades, even on the hottest days, (iar m ns or small p .rks for public use are generally connected with these places. When you are seated there, anil a train passes by , right over your i ead, the mason work is so thick tiiat one it ears but alow, ru i bling sound. I hardly think this ! elevated line is profitable as yet, but I I believe the city has guaranteed the I company against any ;os-, and as far as the convenience of the public is concerned, nothing more perfect (.ould : be imagined. i Com Dare this w th the m i e, the ! smoke,'the tilt 1> :in<l t e ungainly sight | which the New York elevated nads j occasion. " There are a good many things that have struck me as curious." continued the veteran journalist, "and one of these is the fact that wiiereas 1 wooden pavements have proved such a j miserable failure in almost every j American city, and in ( hi ago in parI ticular, they have pioved an immense : success in Berlin." ?_ West Andover, Ahtabula county, I Ohio, is said to have the largest creamj ery in the world. It works up ths milk of 1,500 cows daily. - ' : ' FARM, GARDEN AND HOUSEHOLD. \V!int l.nndH Nerd Dralnaco f All lands that contain more water than is needed by the crops growing upon them. Ii you intend to raise ?t rn or wheat the lan I will i ced more lira nage than if intended for grass Kven grass lands need not he very wet, ;is if too wet ihe growth of aquatic p ants and grasses takes the place of the e d.ivated gra-ses and runs the hay ;ind pastures. Loose, porous soils, under a d by sand or gravel, are draine i I>y nature: hut all land t uit s underlaid by day, r<>ck o;- oilier imperviouma e ial nee !s t rain ng. What is to be ga ne I by un lerdrainage V 'i'he sur ace of tho water in the soil is 1<>W; red. The r ;ots of the cereals an : grasses may j enetratc as lar as to the biuiit out uie Weltil, uui iiitu it. It is nece -sury to draw the water off to such adt p h as will give the roots of growing crops plenty of room to reach downward lor thai nourishment that is necessary to the'r growth. Ji' the water is only one foot from the surface the routs of plants have only that amount of s >il from wlii h to pathor nourishment, with the disadvantage of having their feet wet by capillary attraetion. ('nly aquatic plants grow wrll with their feet in the water. The lowering the water below the sur ace pr vents a large Amount of evaporation and its e..ect hi cooling the soil. The water b(-in<j removed, air and warmth are admitted to the soil. 1:rained lands are for this reason ready for planting at least one week earlier in the spring. The growth of crops is quickened through (ho summer by the increased temperature of the soil, which amounts to several decrees, an 1 the early frosts uro prevented in the same manner. Crojs are, therefore, given an increased period in which to make their growth of at least two weeks. This is certainly a very important gain.? Indiana farmir. Advitntngps of Pn*tn:inff Ifon<. The improvement of the soil which maybe eiiecte.l by pasturing hog; is well worthy of considerate attention. J There is much land in the o'di r settle;! portions of the country which is worn out by long cropping and for the restoration of which the manure supply is limited. Hy applying enough f. rtili/.er to these binds to produce a lgood crop of clover, the land might then be pastured with lio^s and its fertility so increased as to greatly improve its productiveness. A g'ance at the fertil'zing material contained in clover will make plain h >w beneficed such a c ur.-e must be. A moderately good stun I of clover would afford two tons of hay in one season, - ? - ? -.1 1 1 iinti a goou growt>[i >vouiu auuiu nutc or four tons at two cuttings. J kit snjipose the clover produce at the rate of two tons of bay per acre. These two ti ns according to analyses hy l'rofe.-sor Voelcker, of Jingland, wouid conta 111 112 ]rounds of nitrogen, which at twenty < cnts per pound would b'j | worth twenty-six pounds of phosphoric a- id which at ten cents per pound would be worth $2.00; andsixtys-ven pounds of potash which at seven cents per pound would be worth ; making a t<tal of ' a-? th value' of the ft rtiliz.ng material i ontained in th hay of one a re of < lover. Hy having this clover consnmid 1 y hogs on the ground marly all the fertilizing elem<nts would be return d totlr-soi', as no very large amount would be removed in the 11<sh of hogs. Three very decided advantages would attend ! the pasturing of hogs: the fertility of the soil would be rapidly improved, the cost of production w< u!d be ur. ally diminished, and a superior article of pork would be produced. Are not these advantages sui)i< iently g.eat to induce a more general adoption of the I practice of pasturing hogs, instead of j shutting them up in lilthy and small pins? The tlesh of the pig, wh-n j reared in a cleanly manner, is unex-1 eel ed in llavor by t!:a' of any of the j domestic animals reared on the farm. My improving the whohsomeness and j liavor or tne p >r?; x,ne consumption would be increased, so that larmcrs would find a ready market near home fur all that they could produce. Tin i bacon made from pasture fed hogs j would lie decidedly l etter than that j from the over fat hog--. On the whole, i there is m.ieh to be gaine d by pasturing h(,gs instead of keeping them in j pens.?Mirror a'id Fur our. A Common Discnno *n Cotvn. The apprarance of hard swellings apon the jaw - of cattle is a very common source of complaint. Th* causes, character and treiitini nt of these tumors do not seem to bo well under- j stoo l. 1 ew persons are aw are of the ; true character of bone. Many suppose it to be a soli I, stony structure, insensible and incapable of di ease. But, I on the c< ntrary, the bones of an animal | are highly scns.tive and are lurnishe 11 Willi IUTVffi, u: LlTl" S iiuu VC11I3 .13 1IIC j muscular part of :in animal is. Ti.is is, of course absolutely necessary, as the hi.nv frame of an animal is built up and repaired by matter drawn from the blood, and this mjffter is conveyed to every portion of the bone by the bleo I prec'sely as it is to every portion of the muscular tissu *. "When a bone is injured it undi rgoes a process of repair, just as mus le does when any injury occurs the. e. If this process goes on well, a broken or torn bono unites and heals a* quickly as a wound in the llesh: otherwise disease occurs, degeneration and suppuration oi' t!:c tissue take place, ulcerations will form, an I if the products of the disease are conlined tumors or abscesses will bo produced. This is precisely what will happen on the aw by r.ason of internal disease or through an injury. Cattle are subje t to a const tutional disease of the bones bv iuher.tance, as in case of inherited scrof li or tul c.cu!o-is, or disordered nutri'.icn and assimilation of the food. In these eases the disease may appear about the age of two to six years, or even lattr and the bones of the head, being highly \aseular and sensitive, se.ni to be mo.t affect d. Inllammatiori lirst icctirs: this is a comj anied by soreness and pain, and a swelling -soon appears. Theinllammat oil spnads into thesubdaiii e i f the Inn, whic'i b'cak-? down; j>us i-. formed: tlic tumor breaks, discharges, and f. rms ai open ulcer. As this disea ed bone <iie> it produces a fetid u.Jitter wli:ch ha* a peculiar o lor. b which dc; d bone is easily recogni :cd \\ hen the aw is injured I')' a blow, as from a stanchion (andtiiis is a very Ire jueiit case i or from a (-tick, or!ro:;i thhe orn of another animal, the periosteum or "ovtring iu;tnbrane i f I he bone is inflamed. A swell ng may one, whi h in uueh a <a-e is luo.seand appears to be a tached to tin* skin only. If not treated at once til*! inflammation m iv spread to the bon-: and a id.runs growth form upon it. The 'disease may exhaust its 11' thus, leaving the i ard tumor remaining. 1 ut usually it pr. ads inward and ail' its the b?ne and produces all the e e tsof the <onj-titu ional dis< aseabove described. l?y absorption of lh" di e ^c l matter th 1 blood may in: poisoned, anil in t .e case of a bru* ding animal the di-eae may b' comnuinicai.il to the progeny I y inheritance through thubl od. Or a disease tooth, may produce the inflammation in the bone. ;ind sucli cases are common in whi h this r suit has led to the destruction of animals. The disea e is known chie"y as o teasarcoma, or ostitis these meaning a j)la>tic or soft dege i cratl n (sarcoma) of the bone, or inllammation of the Ik nc. Jn no case is it contagious. The ' catnient is not gen'ra ly ati factory, :ilt J:ough it i< not necessarily incurable i:i iis lirst stags That is, the degraded I one cannot b;; restored, nor can the librous growth l:e re noved, and the ha d tumor will remain, but l the disease may possibly be stopped,' and further degeneration of the bone ] be prevented. It is not a disease that I can I e tre sted in any case except by I :in intelligent person nnder competent 1 advice <t by a <a; a )le veterinary sur- j geon. The tre it cent consi.-ts of anti- j septic applications and medicines, as in ections, or <arboliu acid diluted with water, into the tumor and hyposulphite ofsidam continued doses of a drain or two daily, with liberal feeding of j the most nutritious food--that rich in phosphates i; specially useful. !?ome- i limes cows kept on grav lly soils that are deficient in pho-pliates are more i than usually suh'ect to this and other j diseases of tl;e bones. Recipes. Delicious Pik.?A delicious pie is ! made by stoning and chopping one 1 heaping cup of raisins, mixing with ; them the juice and rind of ono lemon, : ti o yolks < f tWvi eggs. Bake with butto.n crust only, and make a meringue of the whites of the iggs. You may put one while 'g? in the pie, and make it with an u, pe: crus*. Ecios on Toast.-t-P;mched rggs are very good served on roun Is of toast, wiiieli should lie cut fr m slices of s ale bread, toasted ca efully, bu tered and laid in a ! eatal dish with a spoonfiil of boiling water poured on each slice. When the eggs are poached lay ea h one on its own round of toast, pepp r and salt it and terveihimediats ly. Sri:wed Tomatoe*.?rour boiling water over six or eight large tomatoes j .to remove the skins, and then cut tiuin into a saucepan. When they i l.egin to boil pour away a little of the juice; add a small pie e of butter, pepp r, salt a:ul a id a very little sugar. Let tl.em cook for ab:?ut lifteen m nutcs, stirring in well the seasoning. Some add a lew broad or cracker crumbs. Cold Fisii Cutlets.?Melt an ounce of butter, add an-ounce of Hour and a gill of milk; let it boil and thicken. Then stir in the flavoring, lemt n juic or vinegar, salt, caycnno, or a litt'e anchovy siu e or paste. Last of all, add about a breakfast cujiful of cold < ooked fish cut small. Wlu n this mi" turc is co'.d shape it into cutlets or 1 alls, < gg and bread crumb them, and iit in nut iat or on. Swtiikkx V'kal Soup. - Peel and lj.?iI ii half dozen onions; drain them and slice them thin. Have ready two pound-; or more of veal, sliced thin; put the veal in a pot; season with a little salt ;ind cayenne; cover the veal with the onions and lay on them some bits of fr sli butter, rolled in Hour; l!avor with nutmeg and lemon if you like. It will make a nice lamb or chicken soup. Great Fires of the Nineteenth Century The greate-t destruction of life and property by conflagrations of which the w? rid litis anything like accurate n cords must be looked for in the ? urrent century. Uf the-ie the following ii a partial li-t of instances in which tlie Joss of property amounted to somo $:{,000,UUU and upward: Property dt'.'rt te*. Cilir*. at ruiltd. ISO.'?Liver, ool $ 5,000.000 i .-on?liombny 3.000,000 ?$?.?? St. Timuina 80,11011,000 l>OS-S]ian:nli Town 7,500,000 IS12? iloscow burned five days; 3",SQ0 houses d -stroyed 150,000,000 1S1C ?Constantinople, 19,000 dwellings', :t,(IU0 shops 18.0?Savannah 18i2?Canion noarlv destroyed lS-.'S?Havana, :;5U houses I sr.-New \ ork ^'Uroat fire'; 15,000,000 1*37?St. John's, N. 1$ 5,000,000 Charleston, 1,158 buildings 3,00u,0i)0 1S4I?Suiyiiih, 12,000 houses. )b-12? Hamburg, 4.210 buildings, 100 lives lost 35,000,000 iS-l'i?New York, 35 persons killed 7,500.00) 1SI5?I itt*bunr, 1,100 houses 10,CIOO,WO 1815? (Quebec, May 23,1,050 buildings.. 3,750,000 1S;5?(Quebec, June 28, i,ilo0 dwellings ISM?St. .lolm, Newfoundland fi.OUO.OOO 1>4S?.Constantinople, 2.5uo buildings.. If>,00u,oo0 ls.|i>?Allianv, \., G*o houses 3,ooo,ooo ' St. l.oilis 8,000.1)00 ls*,;_ t l.< uis, 2,-VU buildings 11,000,000 ]s.-.i~St i ou;s, 5 u b:.i dings 3,000,000 ISii? him l-rjincitco, iiay i and 5,ninny li-.es lost 10,000,000 IS"I?San ! raueisco, .June 3,?-'0'J,000 | In*).'.?Montreal, 2'iO buildings 5,UOU,000 I 1:h?1?.Mendoz:t destroyed by carthqunko and fire, lti.0,0 lives lost IS'-2?St. i'etorsburg 5,000,000 Im'.J?') roy, N. Y., nearly destroyed ISO;!?Valparaiso, almost destroyed ISJ4?Novgorod, iromouse destruction of propi-rtv 1S05?Constantinople, 2,800 buildings b irncd [ 1S50?^ okohanm, nearly destroyed ls;C?Cuil#:ndi, Sweden, nil consumed but bishop s residence, hospital and jail, 10 lives lost.... ISiW? I'ortiund, S e., liuir or the city... ii,uuu,uuu ISJO?Quebec. 2,5uu dwellings and IT cl.urcnes lS7u-Cnnsuniinople, l'era suburb 26,000,000 1571-C'hlc ngo, v.'iO lived lo.it, 17,430 j building? burned, on l'.MacrcB 192,000,000 I 1871?Paris tired by L'omuiuuc 160,OfM),000 1572?liosto n "5,000,000 1873?Ycdilo, 10,000 houses 1S77?Pitts-burg, caused by riot 8,SCO,000 1677?St. .lolnis. N. 1J., 1,060 dwellings, IS lives lost 13,800,000 1 The five greatest fires on record reckoned by destruction of property' f.re: Chicago fire, of October 8 and 9,1871... $192,000,000 I'nriw ures, of May, l>71 100,000,000 Moscow lire, of September 14-19,1812.. 150/)0(.',000 lioston flic, November U-10, ls>72 76,00n,0U0 London tire. September 2-6, 160tJ B i,i>62,M)0 Hamburg tire,-.May 5-7,1812 35,000.000 Taking into account, with the lires of Paris and I hicago, the great Wisconsin and Michigan forest fires of 1871, in which it is estimated tliat 1,0 JO human beings perished an I property to the amount of over ?3,0()0,UU0 was consumed, it is plain that in the annals of conflagrations that year stands forth in gloomy pre-eminence. , Theory of Waves. Persons visiting the shore will j notice that almost always the waves i come on shore insets; tint is, three 1 " ' *? 1 4 U ^ or lour 01 ordinary si/.u >mu muu a j large one, then perhaps two or three ! or more of tlie.se.sets and then a still j larger wave. It has passed into an , adage from which comparisons aro 'drawn that every >eventh wave is larger than the rest. Tiiis is true ! t-ometinr s. but not always. Waves are vibrations ol' the water caused by j storms of greater or less magnitude. Tlusc storms are constantly occurring all over the vast ocean, and each one semis ( lit its ever widening circle of waves, just as a stone dropped in a I mill-pond will send out its ripples. If there was 1 ut ouo agita'ing cause there would be a regular succession of waves on the bea*h, of equal heigh', and coming at regular internals, gradually subsiding alter the sto.m had ceased. Hut at diliercnt po'nls 01 the (tean sto ins of varying magnitude are con tintly raging, and thou.h they may by a th< usand miles away we fee! the waves vibrating on our .'Ilore. One sto: m may : end out \vave< ten si con l< apart, and aaother lilteen, ami it. isp'a a that every thirty !: econds the waves of oach stom will strike the sh< r * together. Then, per liaps, ana ner wivi ;i wave interval or twenty live sec >..ds will be added, and every two and one-half n inntes the three will c n. e t igeiher and make a large bivakcr. This is thee plana'ion of t;ie "seventh wave." theory. 1\ ntlin? IVn^ion Claims The pension ch'.i.ns pend ng in the j 1'nited States pension o:lico on uni; . :!0. U&$, are distributed a nongthe ' States as fallows: i I Ir' Whole fitter*. I I'hi r*. So. New York Sv57:! War- j>i :or to 1 "sci, I ( li:o '<! ".1'hS (;;rc|it 1M2.... 1,70:5 j I'.-iiiisyl.ania v!..i :: .AvU.-tn*!!* 1.0 VI Illinois (I V. ar.it isl2 1,012 j Imiinua '.'I,Klli i.liml !>I;iii(1 003 Kentucky ll.i'i.i r o. ili i angina? 6i8 I f*<>lt?r?*il irooji* iu.>st | f.ii.-nro f>5.? I .Vigour! 9,6:9 Alabama D58 Mi'-hiLTMH '.'.V. ft Cii M't.i ii n "Ml Wi i oiimii t'.Oli (t o o ado 261 l<nv;i Ms:) N?l>wi?'iH 236 I M.vs.-ichiiBCtU Hist of Columbia.. 249 ! Maine G.2::> l.on b ana 196 Tetiiicseec fl.H :t Morula 170 West Virginia r.,:c! |(11 Ii r Territories.. 61 Kegular Aimy .1.4s:t To.as 44 New .lensuy 3 O'.'S ' > ?-j? n 82 Vermont 3,?4t Miwel naonus HI Navy 3,24'J t.corsin 16 Connecticut 2.931 Nevada 14 Minnesota 2.5 'J Virginia 8 New Hampshire... s.:>74 South Carolina 2 ] Maryland 2.?*a I KanVn* V OIO Total 244,G05 The number involving arroar3 is 11?,813. It has been dicovorcd by r Boston man that the human body would float ]ike a duck's were it not for the legs. FOOD 'FOR THE FLAMES" Pittsburg's Eq;o:ition Buildingsj Mass of Ruins. All of the Exhibits Destroyed?Lo:$ $1,000,000. From dispatches to tho Now Y ork paper We g'can tho following particu'ars of the do struction by lire o? the expo-iiion building and contents at Pittsburg, I't nn. The magnificent bui'ciisigs of tie Pittsburg exposition, on the north bade of th A1 <_? fihany river, have been totally destroyoi. '1 lie " immense stmctures, with in ir a most ei.d e<s variety of exhibits, i Initiative of every bra ch of art, science ami met hani< al skill, wh eh were yesterday v. sited b}' thousands o: people, fin l sin; o tl o L>; ening on Septembe i> had been visited by hun !roJs of thousands is now n mere mast of splint* rs and powdered embers, aud c.irli d an i tangled in n. The lire was dis ovcred in tho boiler room attache ! to Machinery hall, at the south e. d of the bui din;: tin ('before the w.uchm.iii could gj>v an ?<"a in, the f a res had s. r a 1 to Flor 1 hall, Jlachineiy i all, and tlio m in building, a-rl in Uss than tt'ii m'nutes tho bu.ldin.s were o:i fire Iri/in end lo in., an I when tho l'r.:? depar went arrive I 0:1 the prou d the fl nvs were beyond contro . Nosl.inp wai.iavid, and the tireme i lurned their atten ion to saving nil a ent j r.ipertv, n any resiilo-ices oa South avenue be n^ in flames. By hard work, however, th y*ucc;;edcd in havi g tin s w.'tii no more da a,e than th ; burning of cornices a d fences. Repeated a1 rms soon a ous -d nimo.-t the entjro j) >Tmir.ti n of the two ci it's, mid it is estimaied that not Jess than from 75.000 to ]lKt,! 0t witne.<S"d the confajriition. The rejection of the flames illuminated the country for miles around. In one hour from the discovery of the tiro a mere attenuated skeleton of a onco magnificent stru ture was ail that was left. It is known to have started in tho boiler hou*e, and mav have been caused from a spark from the furnaca, or tho accidental ignition of .some substance from tho ?as-_et left burning in the boiler house. It will "probably reach $1,0 >0,0(0. Secretary Patterson p'd'es the vaiuo of the buildings destroyed at $150,000, the insurance lieing $10,000. The exhibitors will sustain a loss of about $S0(',00h. An irrepnrablo loss however, was occasioned by the destruction of the relic department. The cash value of the articles contain? 1 therein did not exceed $10,000, but cannot be replaced. The Great "Western band luso a full set of splendid instruments. In the sate wero $0,000, the cash receiptfrom yesterday's admissions, and Levy's gold cornet. 'J ho attendance at the exposition yesterday was the largest of any of the previous days in its history. The admissions in the day and evening wero i!7,0U0, and the crowd last ni;,'ht was so great that the building was packel to its utmost capacity. Ha 1 thy conflagration occurred last night at o'clock, considering the rapidity with which the flames spread, I he loss of life would have been appalling, as it would have been almost impossible for even a part of the crowd to have escaped. The buddings which were destroyed wero ?rected in lbTo. The main building was (500 f< of Iriiif mill 1.10 fi">t wide. Machinery hall | was 4U0 feet Jong and MO feet wide. The ot her buddings were small. THE SPANIARDS AEOUSED. 'nlcii'.o Feclliiff Crcatrtl by King Alfou>o*% Ktci'ption In l'arlh Madrid dispatches givo rarticulars of the intense feeling aroused on account of King Alfonso's insulting reception by a crowd in Paris. Upon his return to Madrid the king's reception was most.enthusiastic. An enormous crowd completely blocked the streets between the railway station and the royal palace. Flag-i were displayed in every part of the city, and many shops were closed. The queen went to the Escurial to meet the kinx, whom the cabinet mini-ters, civil and military ofliiers, and many other deputies and senators welcomed at the sta"ion. On the arrival of the train loud cheers were rni ed, lasting several minutes. Their majesties proceeded to the palace in a carriage unescorted. They wero sjrrounled and fol owed by a great mass <>f i>e >ple. The plaudits continued along the whole route. The enthusiasm was greatest in the square before tnc ] aiace, where thousands had assembled, almost slopping the progress of the royal carriag \ The kinfr appeared on the baVony of the ja'acc several times, and afterwaru neia a popular reception. At night a serenade was given b fori- the palace by the bands of tho garrison. Many houses throughout the city w.ro illuminated. It is estimated that persons attended tho receplion. The king ordered that no one should b? refused admittance to the palaco. The saloons could scarcely contain tho immense crow.l < ? aristocra s, odlcers, private soldiers, stuiients and workmen. At one of the tin a res in the evening the audience com; ellcd an actress to substitute the national "air for some French cjuplets forming a ])ortion of the play which was being performed. Tho popularity of the royal family has vastly increased sincj thj events in Paris. PROMINENT PEOPLE., Wiiittikr.?John G. Whittier has returned to his rooms in tho Hotel Wiuthrop, Boston, for the winter. Clingman*.?General Thomas L. Clingman, of North Carolina, hus obtained a patent for on electric light. Blaine.?The Hon. James G. Blaino aud family are expected to return to Washington curly in November. Davis.?The Hou. David Davis, ex-president of tho United States Senate, announces that he has "retired from politics." Gkesham.?It is said that Postmaster-Genu ni (Jrpsham will favor in his annual report postal telegraphy and postal savings banks. Randall.?Ex-Speaker Samuel J. Randall realized $1~\50 in fees for a we-k's services as juror in the court of common pleas, in 1'hiludelphia. Tildes'. ?The improvements which Mr. Samuel J. Tilden is making on (Jreystoue, his country residence at Yontcers, Y., will cost him $475,0110. Ar.Tiiun.?President Arthur is to put a memorial win.low to his wife and her father, Captain ileriulon, in St. John's church at Washington, which they b >th used toattend Camekon.?Mrs. Cameron, wife of tho I Pennsylvania s.'nator, writes to a relative irv i Washington that her husband's health is so I much improved that they will urubobly sail I for home earlv in Noveuibsr. The senator's' daughter wi 1 be placed at school in Paris ; before they return. Chakkek.?Ex Senator Jerome B. ChatTeo | iays that twenty-three years ago, when he | i niered Denver, "he invited his tired f/llow ' imssfiigers of the stage c< acli to take a drink | and !ai 1 down a twenty- iollar gold piece, coneerninic which the barkeeper said, "All j ri^bt."' That transaction made himatem- j p ranee man. I.owiSTitEKT.?General Longstreet became j :o | ainiullv ('ir.barra.s-eiI while ho was recounting remiiiisi i-nci s to the people at tho I AVYo lsU cl: (111.) fair that he was compelled I to stop speaking. " In the language of my | old c mmander." he said, as he turned away from thei.udience with tears in his eyes, "I must surrender'' MARVELOUS AND MONSTROUS. An eight-legged calf is the product of Iiourbon county, Ky. A cat was born near A u> aria, Ga., recently. wit!) two head-. It is iivcly and healthy, a id can yowl with one mouth and mauj with the'i h*T. A G'ou'MRI \ nmn exhibited the other ilay a i ear of hi> raising that weighed If!,.,' or.iic s, !i::il measured over this teen iuehes in circumference. Ti.i: kir .cst log ever brought into any of th* saw mill < in i'nrngouM, Mo., was "the ' smallest. of f? nr iro:n the same tree, and 1*1 n rd fiirly-two in<-h?*.-: at III- small end, making i,!;')> feet of one-inch bo mis. A .Missnt hi man I a; two (>. mjikitis in hi.1 f.arde:i, th oi.e measuring five I cot and ten i .cl.e* in circi inference an i I hive feet thre.: iwlie-i in !o igth, and the oilier fiw t'eet four i'! lies in cire (inference, and time feet four iiiciics in ]< !!; th. A i ahmku brought a squa-h to Kirkvillo, Mo., last week, (hat weight d s.-venty-one ji. iti.d lie < aims to have two other similar I ( imeii a: home, growing on the same vi e. which are much largor t'.um t)ie one lio | b on lit to market. .'\M>UEl.v county, Mo., has an apple trco i -! # . _.i n,. in fii't'iimfpr- ! ll.liliUI'lll^Ml l" l > nee at eighteen inchrs from t!ie ^r.umd. I Tli largest limb mea-:tires four fret nail two i indies in ('ircMinfcivn.'e. Tho branches in ' I he widest place nsca-uiv forty-nine inches. | DISEASES IN ANIMALS. i i \ National Convention Called for the L.ifct-i.K ion of 'I'liit .Subject* A circular lias licwii issued l>y tho United f ta'.rs ilrj nr.ment of ngriculturo stating that a c nveation of representatives of nil cla.es interested in tho animal indusi.n-tries of the I n.ted States w.ll be hel l in (.'i.i.-ngo Thni'.-i ay and Friday, Novemb.-r l"> and i", 1"^;. lor eotileieiico c. ncerniajj con union (lis* a o anions domestic anima's. In ; dd lion to addresses and reports the followII g topi s are proposed for <!is -its ion: !. Th ex.cut to wli i h c >n ag!ous diseases exist ninon,,' i. oiliest: canimals in this coun- ' try. j . The modes by which they are introduced or ciissemii ated. Methods by which they may be eradica cd or infected di.-tr cts lie isollteJ. -1. Tho elliciency of existing legislation relative to such diseases. NEWS OF THE WEEK1 Taitern and Mid Ale State*. About :i%uuu j.eo;>.o Witnessed the one- 1 mile trotting match at Fleetwood Park, New York, between Jay-Eye-See an-1 St. Julien,for a purse of $o,000. The match wa* between the two fastest trot'ers tint had ever appeared in a public contest, and therefore drew an immense attendance. Jay-Eye-See , won in three straight heats in 2:20%, 2:W/t, 2:19. Owing to a very heavy track the time was Blow. The steamer Colorado, bound for Chicago Irom J3ulla.'o, wi:en two nines one irom ine i latter place, exploded her boiler, killing three men and injuring ton more, one 01* two with probably fatal results. Tho steamer was laden with merchandise, and wai valued at $<50,000. She was towed back to Buffalo. Lightning killed Mrs. Wheeler, of Amherst, N. H., and Fet fire to the premises. Water being scarce, her husband extinguished the flames with milk. Several witnesses fceforo the United States Senate committ?o on educat;on and Jabor, sitting in New York, urged tho esablishinent of industrial schools ani more healthy homes fortlio poorer people. Two passenger t ains co lided near Fo"t P?ain, N. Y., with such leriiflc effect that! both ongii.es, two ba ; a-e ca-s and a smoi irg rar were completely wr< eked. Engineer I Michael Lyons and James Whitlock, a pas ! senger, were instantly killed, another passon- | ger had his s' ull fractured, and about. wenty ! more persons were injured iu duierent de- J grees of: evority. * I The Athletic baseball club, winners of the 1 American association championship, upon } their return to Philalclphia from their! Western tour, were received by a procession j estimated to contain 10,000 persons and reviewed by t lie mayor. Thousands of people thronged the streets, flags were displayed in profusion, and a banquet was given the victorious <lub. General Roger A. Pryor, of New York, has been retained as counsel for O'Donnell, slayer of Carey, the Irish informer, and has sailed for London. New York newsdealers to the number of several thousand held a parade and mass meeting to protest against the reduction in price of several leading newspapers and a consequent reduction in their profits. The machinery of a paper mill at Manchester, Mass., was stopped by four largo eels blocking the wheel. One eel was thrco feet three inches long, and weighed nearly five pounds. Northern New Hampshire and Vermont have been visited by quite heavy snow rtorms. At the Pennsylvania state department, Harrisburg, the South Pennsylvania railroad company, belonging to the Vanderbilt system, filed notice of an increase of capital stock frcm $14,(0J,000 to $20,000,000, and an issue of ?20,0J0,000 of bonds. Extensive frauds in the bureau of the New York water register have been unearthel. The centennial convention of the Protestant Episcopal church of the United States Piiiinrlolnhin. A Droeession of sixty bishops clothed in full canonicals entered the church. The opening sermon was preached by Bishop Clark, of Rhode Island. The house of bishops and the house of deputies both organized. James McSteek was hanged at Pittsburg, Penn., for the murder of his wife. South and Weit. Three masked men attacked a train near Coolidge, Kansas, for the evident purpose of ' robbery. "When the engineer refused to obey their order to stop he was shot dead and his fireman was badly wounded. The robbers then attacked the express car, but met with such a vigorous resistance from the express messenger that they were driven off. A tebridlb explosion occurred the other evening at tho Caliiornia Powder works, Stege's Station, CaL, the scene of several recent disasters. Forty Chinese out of a working force of forty-two were killed. Reports from a large number of p aces in Texas indicate that the top crop of cotton, with a few exceptions, will be a total failure. During a political quarrel at Liberty, Miss., A. IV. Whitington, sheriff of Amite county, was stabbol twice in the back by Eugene McElwue and killed. McElwee was surroundul by a crowd and shot to death. In a Bapti t church at Comanche, Texas, after the prcaching was over and the congregregation had gone to a creek to witness a baptism, Robert and William Butcher, brothers, who had remained in the building, becamo involved in a quarrel with one Harris, and Rcbert Butcher was shot dead with a shotgun by Harris. William Butcher aud Harris then engaged in a struggle for tho possession of the gun, during which Harris was fatally beaten. The first annual meeting of the Lumber Manufacturers' association of the Northwest, which includes practically all the wealthy and lea ling firms engaged in the trade, was held a few days ajo in Chicago. It was resolved to take steps which would check the wholesale destruction of forests, as they can- j not stand the present drain. Jvh, the notorious Indian chief who has given so much trouble recently in the Southwest, and in Mexico, was drowned a short j time ago while drunk. Six negro section hauls quarreled and fought over a game of cirds with one Ned Bradfield, n ar Providence Station, La., and the quarrel finally resulted in the six negroes roasting Bradfield over a liro so ba ily that ho die.!. All six wt.ro n:Teste I. A prominent farmer name 1 Beguhn was hunting near Menomenee, Wis., when he thought he saw a bear, and fired. Investi - i gation showed lie had kiiled his brother. Washington. The new postal law. reducing the pricj of J letter lioai i.uu iu < ?<j uu?, into effect oil tlio 1st inst. An adjustment of salaries of post masters of j the presidential classes, just completed by I the postullice i'ej aitment, has been ma le in : accordance with the provisions of th' act of March IS80. The road just mont I affects the sa'aries of 13,1 j 0 postmasters. J Forty-four oilices have been aided j to the presidential list, and twenty-live of: tho presidential cillc.-rs havo been rcduced to the fourth class, leaving the number of presidential postofHces on October 1, i 2,115, with ja'aries amounting to $3,750,- : 000. Every part of the country was included 1 in the readjustment. Anions the changes are I : the following : Philalels hia, from $4,'JOO tu I $ii,00(); Boston, from $4,000 to $",000; Chicago, J from $4,000 to : St. Louis, from ?4,W0 j to 000 ; Cincinnati, from $!,<!00 to $5,0J0 ; ! Washington, from $4,0'J0 to The payments made from the treasury by ; warrants during September were as follows : !. On account of civil and miscellanc us, $5,<K)1.- j 390.,SO; war,$4,177.01.S.L'4:i:avy, ' interior, Indian:, $77(i.5t;i.OS; interior, pen-j sions, $:i,7:57.77; totil, $1 l,4 w,474.si. dcri.m; September th-.i national debt was decreased 11. On th_' 1st inst. tlio total ileb-was ^l.ri-il^ll.SK.'.lS; cadi in tlio ! treasury, $:;"5,4.T() (mO.iW. A rc| ort. to tlio Cnt.oil States Marine 1 hospital service at "Washington says tha' in Tapachn'a, state of ( hiapas, a j anic reigns on ac;\:ii>r. i>f the great niorfa'it/ j cause I by b'ae!: smallpox. The t.>xvn has a i population of arid 1,-0? have died of , the di-case, d<c > ispo-ilioa setting in in many ' cases before float h. , , ftk.m'it.m. (ii:<?r:?:n 'IV. etty, in command | of the artillery seho'l at Pi r.'r^ss Monroe, i has been placed on ti e rc'.iivd list of tiie ! i army. having reached the ago of sixty-tour yi ars. He has been succeed' d in command of the arlillery school Ly Coloacl John C. Tidball. of CJeiieral Sherman's s a.i'. The secretary of the treasury has decided 1 that green plums arc free of duty im >r the new tarilF act. Qui e a large trade in this fruit is carried on oxer the ( anadian b Tier, ' I and the question aros ; xx-hether it xvas dutiable muUr the provisio n which imposes a duty of one CJtit per poun-l on " prunes, ! J dates an 1 plumv' The total value of the imports of merclnn ; I d'ss during the year ended August ."1 xvas and a de reaso from last yoar of ' M.:; 10. Tiie toti.l value of the exports < xvas f\S.,n,?10,!)It>, an increase of $>;},:.fcS5,lUl ^ over msv vvui. , Major T. J. Amorr, a clerk in tho war department. Washington, for m^re tlmn twenty years, ili.nl .1 few Jays ago at the a^e of eighty-four. He had always lo 1 a frugal life, and under his pillow after his death was j found $33,000 in government bond* Foreign. A barrel of gunpowder exploded in a win shop in Villena, Spain, killing fifteen pardon and injuring six. Kino Alfonso, of Spain, upon his arrival fit Faris, was met at the railway station by President Grevy and cabinet. The immense crowd present hooted and hi-sed the king upon his appearing, crying : ' Down with the Uhlan king!' The soldiers and police bad great trouble in keeping order. The people were very much excited, butgoodnalu; ed y cheered t.ie French troo; s. During his I assiRo throu h the st.'tets the Spanish king was frequently greet d with hisses and insulting shouts. President Grevy apologized for the action of the crowd, an 1 tho Paris japers genes ally condemned tlio manner in wh.ch King Alfonso had been received. Andrew Djyle, convicted at Hal.'fax, N. S., of assaulting a litt'e girl, as a part of his punishment received twenty strokes with a whip, well la d on. . At a convention of the Irish Nationa league in Lced-, England, Thomas Power O'Connor was e'cctod president, Joseph G, B.'gcar vice-president, J. Redmond secretary, and James O'Kelly, treasurer. A l* A AfrMQ/1 f Tl a A. rn^tll u J U1.UUU ua.-J juou |a;ii.ui iuww w?w hitherto unaccomplished f<at of crossing tho English channel from France in a balloon. Gl eat excitement prevailed in Madrid over King Alfonso's insu.ting reception in ] aris. Band?of people pa a led tho streets of the Spanish capital, insul.ed Frenchmen and openly th eatened the French embassy. King Alfonso's coolness and dignified bearing while in Tan's has considerably increa-el his prestige at home. The nihilists have issued circu'ars demanding of tho Russian government a cessation of the cruel treatment of prisoners. Advices from Port au Prince, Hayti, state that a revolt against the government was promptly suppressed, but not bifoi e the insurrectionists ha 1 set fire to a portion of the town and destroyed a great deal of property. The guillotine has just performed its bloody work at Versailles, France, the * * * ' ' TT ?1 .1 Victim DCing one nuiry, wuu iiau ucvu sentenced to death for murdering an old woman and her servant. A dispatch describes the fatal moment as follows: " There was a moment of breathless hesitation. Then suddenly M. Deibler (the executioner) pressed simultaneously the button o the lunette and the button of the ax drop The prisoner's head rolled into the wooden bucket, half filled with sawdust, and the body fell into the basket. The operation lasted exactly two minutes and thirty seconds." As a cage was being hoisted in a coal pit at Leigh, England, the rope broke, precipitating the cage to the bottom of the shaft and killing six miners. King Alfonso and the queen of Spain were checre I by great crowds in Madrid. The apology of President Grevy, of France, was not deemed sufficient satisfaction by Spaniards for the action of the French populace toward the Spanish king. Hundreds of persons have been dying daily of yellow fever in Mazatlan, Mexico. Ihe inhabitants are fleeing in every direction. Advices from Madagascar state that Mar, kobo, the commander of the Hovas, has offered rewards for the slaughter of the cap-, tain of any French man-of-war which shall wreck or burn any vessel. According to the anifi advices the French earrisons at Tama tave and Majunga are virtually blockaded A whaling vessel which has just arrived at Dundee, Scotland, from the arctic region, reports that the natives at Saunler's Island slated they >aw five men at Etah, in Smith's Found, north of Baffin's Bay, early in the year, win belongs 1 to a larze expoiition fiu-ther to the north, Which was be'icved to be that of Lieutenant Greely. The captain of the whaler believes that the party was sent out by Lieutenant Greely to meet the steamer Proteus, which was then on the way to Smith's Sound. Suse & SiatiTH, London merchants, have fa:led for al.out 51,250,000. George Warden, secretary of aprominent London corporation, has absconded with $?50,000 of the concern's funds. Tiie entire ministry of Norway have been impeached by the supreme tribunal. A leiter received from Ma: atlan, Mexico, gives terrible particulars of the ravages of yellow fever. Oat of an opera troupe of. thirty-eight persons only five were left at the end of five w.^eks. THE NATIONAL GAME. A New Orleans manager Is endeavoring to organize a Southern league. The ia'aries which the playere of the Metropolitan and New York dubs are demanding for next seas an are remarkably hgh. some of the men a>k ?5,000 for the sea-ion's work. The Phi a lelphia club has reserved all its plnvers for next season, except Ferguson. The latter gcnt'eman is to be financially intereste 1 in another club. Taking everything into consideration, Baltimore is the best baseball city in the count ry. For two seasons the re| resentative club h is pulled up at tad end of the race, but notwitlistaniling this fact the games on the local grounds continue to draw large crowds. Th." Brooklyn baseball grounds are -historically famous, being the scene of the last sta d m ;de by General Washington during the battle of Long Island. Hence their name ?Washington lark. The old stone house wherein Washington made his headquarters is still standing in one corner of the grounds, and is used as a sort or' restaurant, A meeting has been held in New York and a pern anent baseball organization effected, to be known as the Union League of Professional Baseball clubs. 8. E. Clarke, of Hartlor.l, was elected president, 'ihe Virginia club was given the preference over the Richmotids to membership in the association. The rules of the Americcn association were adopted, with some modification. A resolution was passed to the effect that the Union ijnifitn rtiizos tho reserve rule of the Ixague and American association, and affiliate with them in every manner. LEAGUE CLUB RECORD. The Boston li ague Hub iias won the championship of i he National league of professional b:isi.'b ul dubs by winning .-ixty-threo games out of the ninety-eight played. Chicago is second, with lifty-nine victories, followed by the Providence with lifty-eiyht, Cleveland (Sfty-live. Buffalo lifty-two, New i'ork fortysix," Detroit forty, and Philadelphia seventeen. The Bo-ton team lias not been deleated in a majority of the series of games with any of the competitors, although New York, Buffalo and Chicago have each won ind lost seven games to tiie Hub represetatives. The record of the season follows: Gaines Games won. lost. Boston li'i 35 Chicago 5'J 3'J I'rov.rlence 5S 40 Cleveland 55 4-2 l'.uffalo 52 45 New York 40 50 Detroit 40 M Philadelphia 17 t>l AMEIUCA.V ASSOCIATION RECORD. Iii the American association the Athletics, i?f Piiiladelf hia, whotjok second place last ye.r, have this season carrieJ off tirst honi rs i:i this as oei.ition. The St. Louis club is n'con 1, Cincinnati?the present champions? third. Metropolitan fourth, Eclipse fifth, Columbus sixth, Allegheny seventh, and Baltimoie last. Following is'the r. cord: Games Games wi >n. lost. ? C,ii ;u | sY.Touis'.'. '.V.......V M i iiu iunati *?1 <57 Mi-tropolitan ,r>4 42 Kflijus ?r>l 45 Lulumlhis l>"> Alli'phi'iiy !>1 G<> I'n'limore '-iS (W SOME NOTES ABOUT ANIMALS. Of the four homing pigeons which ina'e I he ' i tiince from Washington to Bri Igepoit. loiui.,tho other day, the average speed of the two that united was 1,001 yards a Thai rats are very fond of sunflower seeds is dem-nst rated daily in C< tigress Spring park, S'aiato^a. where they have ncent.y in en sen climbing the stalks to g^-t at the now l is e and oily seeds. A marking bird belonging to Robert Potee, tho ;'f)t;:b!er, who coinm.ti.ed suie.de in Kansas City, slv>we.lgre.it ^rief on seeing the li iilv. It refused to eat. and when i*otee's body was taken away the bird died. Mr. Henry 11. Cavitt, of Bridgeport, Conn., lias a i!?'v,id<*d i uriosity in the siiape of a dog wilh lit fi rele s. There are no shoulders or joints where ihe. legs should be; little projtctngtutts of hair are all that is noticeab.c. A wild pig found in tho woods near Lytic S'ta ion, Ky.. was. after crnsderable difH[ ulty, s >trained by his finder tha l ewoud follow his mas er as the historic lanb followed Mary. Whenever hi< m u ter si s down to iat the pig wdl lie down b / his s do, and eat a:ul drink whatever his trainer hands h in. In ia'is in Rra-il us^ ants to dress wounds, causing them t > bite the ed^es t> g>.ther and t en cut ing r.ff tho l ead; t;.e iaws will not relax, but h >11 the wound together till hea'ed. They were formcr'y us d ns n cruel ii s rument of tortuie by South African tribe?, who tied their victim to a tr^e, smeared his body with grease uud placed an ant's uest athisfoet. 1 LATER NEWS. fl At Allegheny City, Penn., John Brown en- " tered the houss of his partner, Henry Weaver, fl anl without provocation ki hd him, and fl then b:>at hLs brains out in the presence of fl his wife and child. Brown is twjn*y-two_ H years o'd, and 'Weaver wai two years senior. They were engage:! in the busiasss-V^g^Mnj of buying and selling horsei. Brown commlttedtin murder because a woman of ba fly'ja *S?i?B reputation, with whom h? had besoms in-^fl^Q?fl fatuated, and whom h3 had bmu ;h5 tofcraOaSBfl Weaver's house, had bsen ordjrel b/ the'-^S.^SSfl !a ter to leave upon discovery of har tr uejjjfl ^sgjEjfl chara ter. '^iSSSSfl An e.cprees train at PhilaielphU ran intolftj ffifljljj a street c:r, knoc cin? it into splinters aiiH ^asHS scattering the thirty-five passenger*, conj'st-jjWJjjwKO i.ng of working people, in all direct i:>ni.a^Mg|89W Four of the passengers were killel and teng^Kgj&Bfl Chinese panb'ins honsoi in New York-*?3xgMM are being ra lei b/ the police. '?!? A Milwaukee dispatrh says that S. H, I'^il f 'camans, ?o ^reta-y of the National Mi'lers'^a'.'^SSM asro iation, la res an onouragi lg view of outlook for the flour milling inlustry in thei|g < crop ye ir which is now common -in?. Two young m^n?coas'm, named Axstin*^^H3B9 Guthrie and Franklin Meyers? quarreled in the In 'ian Terriior / abo it a g'rl's affections. fl Both were on horsebi -k, and rawing knives I they attacked eacn other with sach ferocity tha' both soon fell from their horses w.th . fatil wounds. J Jacob Elmer arid Charle3 Hins'ey, two .-vjsraW stage robbers, belonging to a gang that killed ^j^HjI Messenger Collins on August 10, were over- - Jj t alien by Sheriff Paul and a posse ten miles v:v?/^0 from Tu< s m, Arizona. Elmer w is kiile 1 and I Hinsley wounded. The latter escipei into the mountains, bat was pursued, found and 1 All the North Carolina Confederate dead V;JM reposing at the Arlington cemetery, near Washington, have been disinterred and taken G 1 to Raleigh for re-interment. I General Dcdlev, commissioner of pen- ijl sions, in his annual report, states that -* thore are living to-day almost as many veteranswho have not applied for pensions as 1 there were soldiers on the roll of l the array in May, 180.3. There were 1,000,516 names on the rolls on that date, and there are at the present time 9lJ2,000 veterans who have never asked a dollar of the governrnont. There are on fi!e in Washington 10),- : J 00') certificates of disability that have not " ?1 bxn acted on, simply because that number "fl of living veterans, who are clearly and In- 1 disputably entitle 1 to pensions, have not . . ':jM as'ced for anything at the hands of the ~:'~M government. The Spanish ambassador in Franca de- 1 manded the punishment of the offenders in the recent insult to King Alfonso. 1 Upon President Grevy's request General Thibaudin, French minister of war, sent In 1 his resignation. General Thibaudin had VI refused to attend the reception given in Paris - . to King Alfonso, of Spain. a At Sarogossa, Spain, a^ crowd assembled ? | before the French consulate and began to stone the building, when they were charged j| by the police and dispersed. The cause of the .,.|8 attack was King Alfonso's treatment while in . , ; MUSICAL AND DRAMATIC. ;ll| By November 1 there will be twenty-six theatres open in New York. ? /; Liszt is hard at work on new compositions, - ' although he is seventy-two years olcL , I A. W. Pxneeo's new play, "The Rector," rjjjM will be produced in Brooklyn in January. v/jigCTI Mr. Sims) Reeves, the English tenor, wno i is sixty-two years oi l, still has a sweet voice, I which is growing dove-like in volume. ' . -.^Hj Eewi.n* Booth's flist appearance on the j stage was at the Boston museum, September 1 10, 1S4D as Tresse], his father "playing I Kichard. ' j Bartley Campbell, the most successful I An.^r.can dramatist, has submitted a new iJ&M comedy to the Union Square (New York) management. The Rev. Ge^nre C. Miln-lectured recently1 j at Chicago on "Chuich and Sea ;e as Friend- \ ::Sn ]y Forces."' He was well received before a viSB iar/e audience. ! Millockers operetta, the "Beggar-Student," has rcachtd its <\00th consecuuve per- 1 f' rmance in BerUn. It has already yielded "" " ?2m the composer a piofit of 50,000 florins. ,1 Manager J. II. Haverly says that he. ' ex; ects to re ieem his financial lo^es by his m.ns;rel troupes in Australia ana tngiana. ? A* In lt80 ho n a.:e $-55,000 by his minstrel eater- *9 prise in London. Mme. Modjeska pre-eated Joseph Singer, of Ch.cago, wkh a hanlsome ink standa da tin- e-vo.ume life ot Mozart, for composing a song to be sun < in " Cyuibe iue," ana also to *?SM be sung in ' Twekth .Night." , -2eM " Pki.vce Methusalem" will be run at the New York Casino till the last of October, '.'I'M w hc*n it will be succeeded bj Millncker's "Begpar Student,'' wh< se career in Germany has Lo,"i that of another "Pinafore/1 Wilford Wilfred Vicaux, a five-year-old boy iiving a , Mus.it gon Cen re, Vvis, is j ta d to have alrea ly compos, d a duet and -vgH t arch, and to know how to pay an almost Indefinite number of airs on the v.oan. > -J Lecocq has c mpo.cd a new comic cjxia, ? --. JS ca.le.l ' Le Gra n de table," which will be brought out, liJ:e ' La l*i le de Mine. Angot" and oilier pieces of this popular compsar, at " the theatre of ti e Galerie de St. Huoert, at j?l brussels, in the winter. Mrs. Oscar Rammelsbcrg, of Wheeling, is a cjming priit a donna. After less than a ft ar s stuuy in Italy she was offered a twoyears' engagement at the Palliano theatre, r tarence, but declined it, preferring to sing _ ii Paris, where she will probably be heard in Y?| a short time. A curious effect said to bo produced by'^* WffiM the play of "Young Mrs. Winthrop" is tiiut it h :s brought about the reconciliation of many estranged couples. Several dozen such t"jgl all'air.i occuiTed while the flay wa3 running : .-.v3 hi New York, and E. M. Roberta reports a similar case in I-ouisville last week. The largest floral tribute ever passed over the footlights was the emblem representing an elk's head, presented to John McCullougn by the Denver Elks. The base was four feet i.i circumference, the design five feet high, >. t j and the antlers measured six feet from tip to , ...JE tip. It required three men to handle it. In a late interview with a New York reporter, Minnie Iliiuck, the singer, says she nill remain in America until February. (,I fh ill sin,r in the oratorio of ' Samson' "at the Worcester musical festival next week. Then I sh all start on a concert tour through the A Southern States. I expect much pleasure from visiting New One .us, where I began my caner. I sh ill sing there for the benefit - 4| :f the soldiers1 orphans." -33 At Blyth Mechanics' institute, Englani*^-T 4 recently, Master Kendall Kobinson, wjtfjis scarcely fourteen years of age, delivered for tt:e second time a lecture entitled "Life in the Fields," illustrated by a number of diapams prepared by him." The discourse, says the correspondent of the Newcastle Chrmxicle, (vns exceptional) v well delivered. It was also " instructive and interesting to the audience, who frequently greeted his remarks with api-lau-.e.'' HORRIBLE TRAQEDY. M A .TTrxican .Hothcr Kills Iler Fire m.a n.nt:avii Ili-rsclf. A Laredo (Texas) dispatch says: A gentle* man just from Lampasas, Mexico, gives full particulars of n most horrible tragedy that occurred on Wednesday near that place. Mrs. Valdez kille I her lire children and.then herself during a fit of insanity. Itionoofthe large ranchcs, about twenty miles to the southward of Lampasas, there lived for four years past a quiet, well-to-do Mexican named Antonio Valdez, whoeo family consisted of wife and five children, the a^e of the eldest of the children being t<-n years, and of the youngest two years. The wife, who was about thirty years of age, had been subject to epileptic tits and siiells of mj.aneholy of long duration. During the past few months fho has exhibited many evidences of insanity, an 1 when in such mental aberration invaria bly sought to do violence to her uui? ones. On Wednesday the alllieted woman was attacked wit b a fit of unusual severity. When she had rroiverid from the sj>asni her husband went to work to herd a flock of sheep belonging to the ranch. He had been gene but a short time when his wife rose fnm her cinch, and with a huge butcher knit'e, which had b en carelessly left witain her rtach, commenced her terrible work of d struction. Her oLl&t child, a sweet girl of ten, was first to fall a victim to her maniac mother's cruel blows, her head being almost eve red from her bo..y. With that method peculiar to insane persons she in quick su cession slew the other chl.ren, hacking and stabbing t hem in a sickening manner. The l'rantic w. man, : fter the live bkeding Lttle corfsrs lay at lur teet, viewed them with grim sat i-Faction, filling the air with will and weird exclamations. Suddenly, biking a fart.ng look at the J 1 - * - -1 eal before nor, sue jjiuu, IUC " 'HIT7 into her own br< a<t, reeled t > a comer in the room, an i fell dea I. During all the time this fearful tragedy was iv iiic enacted the :erv.'n^ woman, a ji-oriT was ] owerless to prevent it from ab ( ft fear. The huslana was soon apprised of wh it i a 1 ha pe::eJ. ai:il his lamentations were p t abio in the extreme autl he could not be cors >!e I. In due time the neighbors came ntrl spe. dy arrangements were made to bury the do d." .Six graves were dug and the next morning the funei al rites were performed. Fools will often make success where prudent people fail.