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BY HUGH WILSON. ABBEVILLE, S. C.. WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 24, 1883. NO. 17. VOLUME XXVIII. M
THE WAY IT STRUCK HER.
A little ragged orphan girl, 'who no'er
Had had a home nor known a parent's care, '
avnd who, with shoeless feet and hatless lie:id '
Newspapers sold to earn her scanty bread, j
Was taken from the city far away,
With others of her kind, one summer day, j
To look upon the ocean. At the sight
Her thin, sharp face was filled with grave de
light;
And some one said, "I wonder what can bo !
Her thoughts, poor child, about this mighty
sea."
She heard the words, and quickly turned her
i head,
And in low tones, " I's thinkin', ma'am,'' she
MUU, i
?' Ps glad I corned, bccause I never sor
Enough of anything at wunst before."
?Margaret Ey tinge, in Young reoplc
WOOING BY PROXY. I
A FRENCH LOVE STORY, WELL TOLD. J
She is leaning back in a deep crimson ;
chair, with a white dress ; weeping in |
long shining folds about her. She is
ta'king to two or three men with that
rather weary grace he has grown actus-,
tomed to see in her, and which is so different
from the joyous smiles of the Jeanne i
de Beaujen whom lie loved so long ago. i
He is watching her from the opposite :
side of the salon as lie stands beside his 1
hostess, and he tells himself that it is for i
the last time. He is going to her pres- j
* - i iv ^-i 11-. .i !
entiy, anu nc Knows jusi now coiuiy suu
will raise the dark eyes that once never
, met his without confessing that she
loved him. He knows just what he will
say and what she will answer, and there :
is no need for haste in this iast scene of 1
his tragedy.
"A man should know when he is
beaten," he is thinking, while he smiles
vaguely in reply to Mme. de Soule's com- j
monplaces. "There is more stupidity
than courage in not accepting a defeat
while there is yet time to retreat with
some dignity. For six weeks I have..
shown her, with a directness that has. I
dare say, been amusing to our mutual j
friends, that after ten years' absence my
only object in returning to Paris is her :
society. She cannot avoid meeting me j
in public, but she has steadily refused to ;
receive me when I call upon her, or to j
permit me a word with her alone. I i
have been a fool to forget that all those j
years in which I regretted her she has \
naturally despised me, but at least it is ;
noi just oi ner xo reiuse me a iroirin-. j
The moment he has been waiting for is
come. The little court about her disperses,
until there is but one man beside
ner, and she glanccs around with a look I
of mild appeal against the continuance of
his society.
De Palissier ha.? cscaped from his j
hostess in an instant, and the next he is
murmuring, with the faintest suspicion ^
of a tremor in his voice, " Will 3lme. !
de Miramon permit me a dance ?"
"Thanks, M. de Palissier, but I am \
not dancing this evening." she replies, |
with exactly the glance and tone he ex- j
pects.
"Will madame give me a few mo-1
ments' serious conversation ?" and this !
time the tremor is distinct, for even the J
nineteenth-century horror of melodrama ;
cannot keep a man's nerves quite steady j,
when he is asking a question on which
his whole future depends.
"One does not come to balls for
serious conversation?" she begins,
lightly.
" Where may I come, then ?" he interrupts,
eagerly.
* " Nowhere. There is no need for j,
serious conversation between us, M. de !,
Palissier," she replies, haughtily, and '
rising she takes the arm of the much-!;
edified gentleman beside her, and moves
away. ,
It is all he has prophesied to himself, :
and yet for a moment the lights swim ]
dizzily before him, and the passionate ,
Sfeetness of that Strauss waltz the band :
is playing stabs his heart like a knife. :
For a moment he does not realize that hi?
is standing quite motionless, gazing, with |
despair in his eyes, after Mr ie. de Mi- '
ramon's slender, white-clad igure, and j
that two or three people, who have seen (
and heard, are looking at hin: with that'
amused pity which sentimental catastrophe
always inspires in the spectators.
Some one touches his arm presently
with her fan, and with a start he comes I
to himself and recognizes Lucille de Beau- .
jen, the young sister of Mn:e. de Miraxnon,
whom he remembers years ago as
a child, and with whom he "has danced
several times this winter.
" A A A?tw *t?ft 1 4-t oVto oolre !
AiiU UUl "UU6, iUUUClVUI I
gayly. "Do not tell me you have for- ,
gotten it. That is evident enough, but
you should not admit it."
"Mille pardons, mademoiselle," he mutters,
hurriedly.
"Iam very good to-night," she says,
putting her hand on his mechanically ex- j j
tended arm. "Though the waltz is half.'
over, there is still time for you to get me : ^
an ice."
So they make their way through the "
salon, she talking lightly and "without j,
pausing for a reply, while he, vaguely ;
grateful to her for extracting him from j.
an awkward position, wonders also that >
she should care to be so kind to a man
whom her sister has treated with such
marked dislike.
The refreshment room is almost empty, j
aVif> spats herself and motions him to
a chair beside her when he has brought j
her an ice.
"Do you think, M. le Marquis, that it;
was only to eat ices with you that I have
forced my society so resolutely upon j
you?" she asks, with a look of earnest- i
ness very rare on her bright coquettish j
face.
"I think you an angel of compassion
to an old friend of your childhood, Mile, j
Lucille?"
- " It was compassion, but more for my J
Bister than for you," she says, gravely. j
"Your sister!" lie echoes, bitterly. |
"It has not occurred to mc that Mmc.
deMiramon is in need of compassion, and
yours is too sweet to be wasted?"
"Chut, monsieur," she interrupted.
" Forget that I am as fond of pretty
speeches as most young women, and i
think of me only as Jeanne dc Miramon's
sister, who believes that, much as she
l loves her, you love her even more?" i
k For the second time this evening Dc
r Palissier forgets possible observers, and
clasps both the girl's slender hands in his '
as he murmurs, unsteadily: "God Ijless !
you I"
"You forget that we have an audience, '
monsieur," she says, withdrawing her
hands quickly, but with a smile of frank ,
comradeship. "I have a story to tell,
you, and not much time to tell it in. :
Years ago. when Jeanne left her convent,
on becoming fiancee to M. de Miramon, j
.V * ),?11 nn/1 VA.l
HULU illt'l um at jivi iii.-t- .y...., ,iUV? m,m
loved each other. It was very foolish,
for you were a cadet of your house, and
only a sous-lieutenant, uud Jeanne had i
not a sou, so both the families were j
furious; but all would have ended as
well as a fairv tale if you had been reasonable.
Jeanne met you time after time J
in secret, and promised any amount of j
patience, but she would not run away 1
and many you in defiance of her parents;
so you tormented her with doubts, and
shamed her with suspicions until she
dreaded those secret meetings almost as
much as she longed for them. At last,
after making a more violent, quarrel
than usual, you exchanged from your
regiment at Versailles to cue in Algiers, j
and left her no refuge from the reproaches
of our father and mother but
to marry M. de Miranion. He might j
have refused to marry her after hearing
her confess, as she did, that she had i
given her heart to you, and that only
your desertion had induced her to consent
to their marriage. But he did not;:
he had a better revenge than thatk He I
married her, and for eight years he tor- i
tured her in every way that a jealous and j
^cruel man can torment a proud, pure I
'woman. He opened all her letters, lie
y_ ' made spies of her servants, and not a day |
passed that he did not insult her with I
some mention of your name. Our pa- ;
rents died within a few months of the
marriage, and I was at the convent, j
There was nothing to be done with her j
I misery but enflure it, knowing that she i
owed it all to your impatience. Can you !
wonder that she is unforgiving ?"
He is leaning on the small table be- j
tween them with folded arms and downbent
eyes, and he is very pale, even
through the bronze of ten African sumSS&,
....
!
"I loved her always?" he says, al- j
most inaudibly; then pauses; nor does
he linish his sentence, though she waits!
for him to do so.
' You love her? You rould not have
wreeked her life more utterly if you had
hated her. Can you wonder that sin- lias
grown to fear the thought of love that
has been so cruel to her as yours and her
liiislinnil'is' AI(in?ifiir tnv lirollu'i'-iu
law died two years ago?God is so good!" ;
continues Lucille, fiercely. ' Since then
Jeanne has bceu a} peace, :iii<l s!:??shrinks j
with absolute horror from disturbing; i lie
calm ivhieh has come to her after such
storms. She fears you, she avoids you,
because?shall I tell you why?"'
She can see his lips quiver even under
the heavy mustache, but he neither
speaks nor raises hi< eyes.
She loves you," murmurs Lucille,!
just aloud.
He lifts his eyes now and looks at her |
dumbly for an instant; then, rising, ab-!
ruptly walks away.
lie comes back presently.
" My child," he savs. very gently, "do j
not try to make me believe that, unless
you arc very sure, for if I once believe i
it again, I?I?"
"I am as sure as that I live that
.Tontine has never censed to love you, and
that you can force her confess it if you
will make love to me."
" 1? You? You arc laughing!it me!" j
with a rush of color into his dark face, j j
" Do you think so ill of Jeanne's sister?''
she asked, softly.
"Pardon. lam scarcely myself, and j '<
I cannot imagine how?" I!
" Jeanne will not receive you because j.
she knows her own heart and is afraid of
if. She fears that you will destroy the
hard-won peace she values so highly.
But you are wealthy, distinguished, the >
head of your name?a very different per- 1
son from what you were ten years ago, '
and she can lind no reason for refusing
you as my suitor if I consent, and as my j]
chaperon she must be present at all our (
meetings. You begin to understand?
.Make tier see tnat your love is moi an
jealousy; make lier remember?make her
regret."
"But, forgive me, when one lias loved
a woman for ten years," with a faint ' smile,
" there is no room in one's heart ]
for even a pretense at loving another." i,
"If there were, monsieur, I should I ,
never have proposed my plot," she re- ] ,
plies, with dignity. "It is beeause Ij,
have watched you all these weeks and j ,
know that your love "is worthy of' my ! j
sister that I trust you. But it is not with j,
one's heart that one pretends. Enfin, it ],
is with you, to consent or decline."
"Decline!" he echoes, with a passion I .
none the less intense for its quietness, j,
"Does a dying man decline his last
chance of life, however desperate it may
be ?" L
The next week is full of bitter sur- .
prises to the proud and patient woman, ! i
whose pathetic clinging to her new- j;
found peace Lucille so well understands, j >
Though it is long since she has permitted j
horse if to remember anything of the!;
lover of her youth except his jealousy, | ]
she has believed in his faithfulness as ut- j
terly as she dreamed it, and when she re- j
ceives Dc Palissier's note asking the con- :
sent of his old friend to his love for her i
sister, the pain she feels bewilders and |
dismays her. With a smile whose cyni-1
eism is as much for herself as for him, I
she gives the note to Lucille, expecting an [
instant rejection of the man whose motives
in pursuing them they had both so i
i i i i>..* i j
IIHMUIUL'IMI'UU. JLMIt *>1111 a b\ lau-n, i j
' Tben my sympathy lias been :ill with- j j
out cause," the girl cries. "By all r
means let him come, my Jeanne. It | j
cannot wound you who have lung ago <
ceased to regret him, and he is the best | f
parti in Paris, and tres bel homine for his j!
age." j t
It is quite true there can be no objee-11
tion to the wealthy and distinguished 11
Marquis de Palissier if Lucille is willing j 1
?none but the pain at her heart, which j r
?he is too ashamed even to confcss to j C
herself. So a note is written, fixing an ! 1
hour for his first visit, and Mmc. dc j a
Minimon prepares herself to meet the , 1
man whom she last saw alone in all the <
passionate anger of a lover's quarrel. t
There is the sound of wheels in the j r
courtyard, and she rises with a hasty f
glance at lier reflection in the mirror. 11
41 His old friend!" she murmurs, scorn-1 *
fully. "I dare say I look an old woman j j
beside Lucille." t
Then she turns with a look of graceful | (
welcome, for the door is thrown onen and i c
a servant announces:
44 M. le Marquise de Palissicr."
" Nothing could give me greater pleasure
than to receive as my sister's suitor
the old friend of whom the world tells ;
me such noble things." She utters her i
little speech as naturally as though she j
had not rehearsed it a dozen times, and j
holds out her pretty hand to him. I
" You are too good, madaine," he re-:
plies, very low; and she reflects that he
is, of course, a little embarrassed. "I [
am afraid you had much to forgive in !
those days so long ago, but time, 1 trust, j
has changed me." {|
44 It would be sad, indeed, if time did .
not give us wisdom and coldness in ex-! /
change for all it takes from us," she says, j,
with a quick thrill of pain that lie ,,
should speak of ten years as if it were ' 1
an eternity. j,
44 Not coldness," he exclaims, coining ;.
?t A i ? 4i,?; ;
ncnrur, uiiu iuuiviii??; ul iiiu v\jih ujta iuat i ^
make her feel a girl again. "If you could (
see my heart, you?"
"May I enter, my sister," asks the i (
gay voicc of Lucille, as she appears from j 1
behind the portiere at so fortunate a mo- t
ment for the success of Lrr j?lot that it <
is to be feared that she ha. beeu eaves- 5
dropping. ! (
De Palissier turns at once and presses '
her hand to his lips.
"Mademoiselle," he says, tenderly, "I i'
am at your feet." j,
Then begin a charming little comedy .
of love-making, in which Lucille plays
her role with pretty coquetry and he with ',
infinite zeal.
And the chaperon bends over her lace- |
work and hears the caressing tones she ' i
thought she had forgotten, and sees the j
tender glances she imagined she had ]
ceased to regret, all given to her young .
sister in her unregarded presence. She \
is very pat icnt and used to suffering, but \
at length she can endure no longer, and )
not daring to leave the room she moves ]
away to a distant writing-table where she <
is ti* least beyond hearing. | <
There is an instant pause between the , conspirators,
and while De Palissier's ,
eves wistfully follow Mine, dc Mira- ' ]
moil. Lucille seizes her opportunity with ;
a promptness that would have done
credit to a Richelieu or a Talleyrand, or ]
any otuer prince 01 scuciners.
"Courage, monsieur !" she murmurs. j
'' She has becu cold to me ever since!
your note came. You would make a |
charming jeune premier at the Franeais,
only wlien you do say anything very
tender. do you remember to look at me
instead of Jeanne." And she breaks'
into a laugh so utterly amused that he |
presently laughs, too, and the sound of
their mirth causcs an odd blot in the
poor chaperon's writing.
A month has dragged by wretchedly 1
enough, both to the conspirators and j
their victim, and. like all things earthly. 1
has come to an end at last. Even
Lueille's energy could not keep I)e Palissier
to his role, if he did not believe
that in surrendering it he must give up j
the bitter-sweet of Jeanne's daily ;
presence, which even in its serene in- !
diiFercnce had become the one charm of i
life to him. Mine, de Miramon and her j
sister are spending a week at her villa J
near Paris, and De Palissicr, who is to
accompany them 011 a riding party, has !
arrived a little late, and finds both sisters j
already in the court-yard, with some j
horses aiul grooms, when lie enters. I
Lucille comes to him nt once as he (lis-'
mounts, with a look of alarm instead of i
her usual coquetry.
"Do not let Jeanne ride Etoile," she |
said, anxiously. "She has tlirown!
r.uillaume this morning."
Mine, dc Miramon is standing beside I
an old groom, who is holding the horse !
in question, and she does not look at her i
sister or De Palissier as they approach. |
"Let me ride Etoile, and take my
horse to-day, madame,"l)c Palissier says, !
eagerly. "I should like to master a|
horse who has thrown so excellent a ;
groom as Guillaumc."
" So should I," she says, with a hard |
littla laugh, and she steps on the block. ,
"Jeanne !" cries Lucille.
"I entreat you for your sister's sake.
Slie will be terribly alarmed," De P& j
lissier says, hurriedly.
"Then you must console her. The j
gre ater her alarm the greater your de- |
ILditful task, monsieur," and she looks ,
at liim with a defiant pain in her eyes, I
like a stag's at bav. "I shall rido ;
Ktnili*."
"Then I say that you shall not," lid
answers, putting his arm across the sad- j
die. and meeting her eyes with a sudden !
blaze in his.
For im instant they gaze at cach
other in utter for^t fulness of any other
presence than their own. Then she I
springs from the block and comes close
to him
' I hate you!" she gasps, and turning ;
gathersup her habit in one linnd and rung ;
into the house, swiftly followed by Do ;
Palissier. In t h?? salon she faces him ,
with a gesture of passionate pride.
"Leave me!" she says. "I forbid you i
to speak to me."
lie is very pale, but the light of j
triumph is in his eyes, and, like most of J
men, being triumphant, he is cruel.
44 Why do you hate me?" lie asked, imperiously.
4* 1 beg your pardon," she stammers, '
dropping the eyes which she knows aro
betraying her. 441 should have said?" !
4> You should have said, 41 love you,'" j
lie murmurs, coming close to her and j
holding out his arms. 44 Docs it hurt
you that I should know it at last?I who
have loved you for all these years ?"
44 Put Lucille," she falters, moving '
uway from him, but with eyes that shine I
tind lips that quiver with bewildered j
joy.
44 Never mind Lucillc," cries that young j
lady very cheerfully from the doorway, j
It has been all a plot for your happiness, j
Jeanne, which would never have sue- j
reeded if you had known your sister as j
?? 1 * 1 ? nv* T 1
woii as sue kih'w you. iu unuiv mat x i
would be content with the wreck of any j
man's heart!?ti done! When my day
somes,
" Like Alexander, I will reign,
And I will reign alone."
A New IJcTcrajje from Milk.
I
The British UMiwl Journal says; J
While during the last few years koumiss !
lias been introduced into Western Europe,
and even into America, a new
lrink prepared from cow's milk, by a process
of fermentation imperfectly understood,
is coming into use in Russia. This j
lrink is kelir, and has for a long time
formed the chief article of diet
imong the mountaineers in the
neighborhood of Mt. Elbruz and Ivas- i
Ik'Ic in the Caucasus. It forms a thick,
I **- ii .M .. r
Willie I1U1U, \NJlll !l JiHliLiy <iuu mtiu^
aid to resemble certain light wines.
Die mountaineers themselves call it j
"ghippo." The inhabitants of the i
plains near the Caucasus and the Russian j
settlers, who term it kefir, kifir or khia- i
far, make use of it, not for the table, but |
is a popular remedy for anaemia, struma, j
gastric catarrh and chronic bronchitis.
According to the Moscow Medical Gawhere
a contribution on the subject '
las recently appeared, Dr. Kern being j
he author, the preparation of kefir is
rery simple. The mountaineers make it J
jy filling a bag made of goatskin with I
nilk, then a tenacious mass of the size i
>f a walnut of a material which they
:erm " kefir seed," and the precise origin i
jf which is unknown, is added to the I
nilk. In a few hours the process of for- J
nentation sets in actively. When pre- j
tared in wooden or glass vessels the kefir ;
astes better. After a lapse of twenty- j
"our hours a weak kefir is produced.
When the process is allowed to continue !
:or three days the kefir becomes very j
trong. The source of the ferment is
scrupulously concealed by the Caucasian j
nountaineers, who cannot be persuaded '
o enlighten strangers to any greater ex- j
cut than in supplying a small sample of i
ho ferment, in the form of dry, dark- !
jrown. earthlike masses, but steadfastly 1
efusiug to say whence they are obtained. ;
)nc of these fragments dropped into milk j
H'gins rapidly to elTcrvesce, turns milkvhite,
and assumes the form of a raul- '
terry; then fermentation proceeds at >
nice. If a piece thus transformed be ;
lropped into another bowl of milk it |
apidly increases in size and also causes
ermentation. Dr. Kern has carefully
'xamined specimens of this "kefirseed," j
vhich consists chiefly of masses of j
:ooghea, holding together collections of
i bacterium which he calls " Dispora
?aucasica." The yeast fungus, Sacchar- j
>myces cerevisitc, is always found asso- j
intftfl with this new eerm. "Kefir seed" i
etains its vitality after remaining for '
nonths in its dry condition. I)r. Kern \
ins a great belief in the future of kelTcr,
vhich Las all the virtues of koumiss, and
assesses one great advantage over the
atter tluid, in that it is just as good
vhen prepared from cow's as from mare's ;
nilk.
A Curious Railroad.
A correspondent of the Nebraska State J
Journal writes: I wish I could give you
i description that would do justice to a
ailroad I rode on in Oregon. There !
iscd to be some coal mines up at Coquillc
Jity, and a wooden tramway was run
ip from the head of Coos Bay. The j
nines gave out, but the tramway was }
eft. 1 heard there was a railroad; and, ;
vhen I got there, the train had backed I
i]) to the end of the track. Well, you
vould have laughed to see that train of
:ars. The old man who had appropri- j
ited the tramway had got an old engine !
nit of the mine and mounted it on a
iand-car," and connected the driving- !
shaft with the handle. This was the \
ngine and tender. The baggage, mail j
ind express cars, and the passenger j
:oaches, were comprised in two rubble j
;ars, such as are used in tho j
section for carrying tools, rails, etc. The |
jld man was a no less wonderful combination
than the train. lie was the company;
and the working-force of the road,
(resident, vice-president, stockholders,
igcnt, conductor, engineer, iircman and
tonmit boy were all comprised in his
ank form, lie never had any trouble
ivith the stockholders, and he carried the
general ollicc in his hat. My fellowpassenger
raised an umbrella wlicu ho j
;ot on board, and, on my inquiry as to
lie need of an umbrella, said I had bet:er
raise mine?I would need it. When
:hc train started I found out he was
-iirht. The witling, wheezy old engine
cut soot and water over us in a perfect
Slower. "We got along, however, very
well, and would have made (lie Irij) as
piickly as we could have walked it, if
I he train had not stopped when we were [
ibout half-way, and waited half an hour j
for a man who wanted to go with us to
finish his supper.
The Age of Trees.'
Usually the age of trees is determined
In* tin* number of rings added every year
to their circumference. But this is no
certain tot. for they constantly develop
very unequally from their center, so that
in specimens preserved in museums great
inequality in the rings may be seen. For
example, in Kew there is u specimen in
which there are 250 rings upon one side
to fifty oil the other. The largest number
of rings ever counted was upon an oak
felled in 1812, where they amounted to
710. But even in estimating the age of
(his particular tree an allowance of 300
years was made to cover the remaining
rings which it was no longer possible to
count. Such a computation as this
amounts in reality to a little more than
guesswork, and leaves us very much at
the conclusion at which Pliny arrived
centuries a^o. that "the life of some trees
may be believed to be prodigious.
('amiid Advice.
"I can swim the whirlpool at Niagara,"
said a stranger, in a confidential whisper,
to a hardware man on Woodward avenue
yesterday.
"Can you ?"
"I feci that I can. I should desire
some advice from you. Would you try
it if you were me
"No. sir?no. sir; I wouldn't think of
such a thing. A man who hasn't been
in a bathtub for a year, nor had on a
clean shirt for a month, wouldn't stand
a ghost of a show with a whirlpool.
You'd better go and tackle a drink of
water and gradually work up to it."?
Detroit Free Press.
Adulterated lager beer is said to bo
rapidly increasing insanity; Bright's disease
and suicide in Germany
Si __ .. . _ ? -
FARM, GARDEN AND HOUSEHOLD.
"ceding: of Voting- I'ip*.
More harm is done to young pigs by
overfeeding than by any other mistake.
A young pig weighing twenty pounds,
as it should do when it is weaned at four
weeks old. requires only half a pound of
solid food daily, divided into four meals,
that is, two ounces at a meal. This
means dry food, and a sullicient allowance
should be made of liquid. For
instance, if milk is the chief part of the
food, ten ounces, or little more than half
a pint, will have two ounces of solid
matter in it, and will be sullicient for a
meal. Such a meal the young animal
will digest with ease, and will thrive
upon it. But how often is a pailful of
sour milk thrown to a litter of small
weaned pigs, and they are permitted to
gorge themselves upon it ? Then they do
not irrow, but become stunted, and go
with backs humped up, and appear sick
and weak. Continued indigestion produces
sour stomach, fetid breath, and
acid secretions, which blacken the teeth
and cause sore mouths. Then the owner,
ignorant of the real cause, is led to
believe the popular idea, that the black
teeth are the source of the trouble, and
proceeds to knock them out with a stone
or a hammer. It is a rough remedy, but
sometimes it is a cure, reached in a
roundabout manner, however. P'or the
poor pig, with its sore jaws, cannot cat
for a few days, and the abstinence
actually relieves the disordered stomach
and the pig improves.
Unfortunately this confirms the popular
error about the black teeth, and so
the real cause is never known. Hut, if
the treatment had been right from the
first, the pig would have thriven well,
nnd there would have been no black
teeth. A young pig, not overfed, will
make nn extraordinary growth. In Dr.
Mills' experiments, at the Michigan Agricultural
college, six pigs two weeks
old, and weighing an average of four
pounds each, were put in a pen and fed
for six weeks. The lirst week thev ate
twenty-three pounds, or ten quarts of
milk, each, and gained three and onehalf
pounds each in weight; the second
week each ate forty-eight pounds, or
twenty-two quarts of milk, and gained
over six pounds each. That week they
ate too much, as was shown in the third
week, when each ate forty-seven pounds
of milk, and gained only tnrcc and tlireequartcr
pounds; the fourth week each
ate fifty-two pounds of milk, or only
6even and one-half pounds a day, and
gained five pounds. At the end of the
sixth week the six pigs weighed 1S2?
pounds, or an average of nearly 30i
pounds, equal to a gain of six and onehalf
times their original weight, or an
average daily increase of nearly twothirds
of a pound upon their very small
weight. Ilad these pigs been fed ten
months and increased in weight in proportion,
making due allowance for the
usual reduced ratio of growth, they
would easily have weighed ooO or 400
pounds. But had they been under tincare
of a less skillful feeder they would
probably have reached a weight of eighty
or 100 pounds, and have been crawling
around 011 their haunches paralyzed by
the frequent disease commonly called
kidney worms, but really spinal meningitis,
which is due in such cases to J
chronic indigestion and overfeeding.?
New York Times.
Farm and Garden Xotc*.
Soap and sulphur cure the scab on pear
trees.
Scab leg in chickens is cured by water
and kerosene.
Eggs with a spot of blood on the yolk
arc from diseased hens. i
Do not let the cows fall off in their i
milk for want ot extra ieeu. rouucr
corn and cottonseed meal will keep up j
the supply.
One of the best coatings for treewounds
is gum shellac in alcohol. It!
effectually excludes air, and the wound |
quickly heals over.
Before planting a pear orchard take j
careful attention as to the varieties. Too i
many sorts has been the cause of many
cad disappointments.
Place a shallow trough, filled with J
fresh water, in the pig pen. Renew it
two or three times a week, and you will
find that the pigs greatly prefer it to a
mud bath.
Pear trees come into bearing after
planting sooner than apple trees, and
annual crops are more certain with the
usual treatment that both crops get.
Generally, too, pears bring the best
prices.
The roofs of barns should be steep, and i
if of wood the surface either painted or
the shingles dipped in lime water, to '
make them more durable. Straw and j
/1J..+ umli.r fl-it.iYinff'fl sliinfrlps jin<l
cause rapid decay.
The Farm, Ficbl and Fireside states j
that when turnips, potatoes and other
vegetables arc chopped finely and fed to
fowls they will sometimes be refused;
but the difficulty can be obviated by
sprinkling the vegetables with cornmeal.
The Ohio Farmer says: The longestlived
tree is to be obtained by planting
seeds where the tree is to grow and
grafting it there without ever removing
it, but it will be too long coming
into bearing; this with apples and pears,
but with the peach it is the way to insure
the greatest possible hardiness with
any given variety.
An agricultural writer has found sal
sprinkled on a manure heap an excellent.
nnnlirviiinti lififli for MIimnilT :111(1 willtCl*.
lie says: " In warm weather it attracts
moisture and keeps the manure from fircfanging
or burning from excessive fermentation.
In winter it keeps the heap
from freezing solid, and at any season it
makes the manure more soluble*."
There is a vast (lilTerence in the flavor
of eggs. Ilcns fed on clean, sound grain
and kept on a clean grass run give much
liner flavored eggs than those that have
access to stable and manure heaps and
eat all kinds of filthy food, liens feeding
on the oily species of lish and onions
flavor their eggs accordingly, the same as
cows eating onions or cabbage or drinking
offensive water impart a bad taste to
milk and butter.
A writer in the New York Wovhl says
that he had a variety of sweet corn with
tall stalks and ears set high. By selecting
only the lowest ears formed on the
stalks, regardless of their size or general
appearance, he has produced a corn in
1 4 Ai.Ir.Mnol lillf -vvltll
IIVLTV waj Ui|Uill hi nit uii^ii.h., ....... ......
the ears set comparatively low on thestalks.
The fodder part of the plant has
been materially reduced in size.
It is a common tiling for farmers to
burn a pile of brush spring and fall. Instead
of burning suppose you try it as a
mulch for fruit trees. It. would benefit
any kind of tree, but would not be ornamental
on a lawn. Spread it in a ring
extending from within two feet of the
trunk to several feet beyond the most
outspreading branches. In a dry season
it retains moisture, and as it rots fertilizes
the ground.
The Hon. Kufus Prince, president of
the Maine State Agricultural society,
writes the Maine Fanm r: I am no
horse doctor, but I will give you a very
simple but effective cure for scratches
given me by one that had had the care
of horses for a long time, and which has
never failed with him. It is this: Wind
a woolen rag around the horse's ankle
and fasten it on, and let it lie until it
wears off. No matter if you drive your
horse in the mud, do not takeoff the rag,
and before you think of it the scratches
will be cured.
Re-ripen.
Potato Sour.?Take twelve larpr potatoes,
six onions, one and one-half
pounds of lean mutton, a head of celery,
pepper, mace and salt, put into five
quarts of water. Stew three hours;
when the meat is all to pieces put it
through a hair sieve; give it another boil
and add a quart of good milk.
Creamed E<;os.?Take one pint of
milk, one teaspoonful of butter, one teaspoonful
of cornstarch, salt and pepper
to taste. Place on stove and bring to a
boil. Have three or four eggs, hardboiled,
and cut in rather thick slices, and
arranged in a bowl, pour over them the
above sauce, and serve with or without
thin slices of buttered toast.
Apple Jelly.?Take nice-flavored,
' tart, juicy apples: pare 01 ,iot, corc, cut
1 in thin slices, place in kettle, pour in'
i water to just cover, and boil gently
j without stirring until tender; strain
j carefully without squeezing, in small
I quantity at a time, and proceed exactly
! as in peach jelly?the same amount of
! sugar. A good plan is to defer making
; apple jelly until winter, and then use the
| specked apples.
j Disir run Dr.ssF.itT.?A baked omelet
is quickly made, and is certain to be
! light. Heat one pint of sweet milk, and
j put a dessertspoonful of butter in it
, while hot; wet a heaping tablespoonful
: ol Hour in a little com nunc; wnen
i smooth beat four eggs vcrv lijrht with it,
j and stir into the hot milk; add almost a
j teaspoonful of salt. Bake in n pudding
| dish in a hot oven. This may also be
' served with sauce as a pudding.
I Chicken Pie.?Put into a saucepan ono
j (juart of water, an onion, a little chopped
; parsley,a littlccelcrvsecd,or, if attainable,
j a piece of celery, with pepper and salt;
I simmer for an liour; then put in a
! chicken, cut into convenient pieces, and
I stew until thoroughly cooked. Line a
J dish with good piecrust, then put in the
{chicken in layers, with slices of hard
j boiled egg between each layer; add to
! the gravy a small piece of butter rolled
! in flour, and a quarter of a pint of crcam;
; let it just boil, and pour over the chicken;
j put on the top crust, and bake until the
j pastry is done.
0 it a 1M-: Jkm.y.? For very white jelly
take Concord grapes, and use only the
pulp; but very good white jelly can be
! made from any variety by pulping carej
fully, so as not to get dark juice from
j SKIMS miXCCl IVIIIl puip. Iliu snuia ucuu
not be wasted; they may be added to
1 those being prepared for canning or
i spiced grapes. Boil pulp gently until
tins seeds are loosened; strain carefully
through a jelly bag a little at a time, each
time emptying and rinsing the bag;
weigh the juice and sugar pound for
pound, and proceed as in peach jelly.
Some jelly makers prefer rubbing pulp
through a sieve without first cooking it,
to loosen the seeds; it certainly makes
clearer jelly. For dark jelly add a very
j little water to the skins, stew, strain and
| add the juice to the strained pulp.
Changing the Colors of Flowers by
Cultivation.
Our- knowledge of the chemistry ot
vegetable pigments is not yet sufficiently
advanced, for which reason the elTect of
artificial influence upon the color-tone of
{flowers has not yet received its merited
! attention. According to my view, tannin
is an important factor in the generation
of vegetable colors; it is found in almost
every plant, the petals not excepted, and
by the action of the most, varying reagents
?alkalies, earths, metallic salts, etc.?it
assumes the most manifold hues from
pale rose to deep black. A darker color,
therefore, is produced in flowers rich in
tannin, when manured with iron-salts,
since, as everybody knows, tannin and
iron-salts dye black, and produce ink.
A practical use has been made of this fact
in the raising of hortensias and dahlias.
The former, which in ordinary soil blosl
somed pale-red, became sky-blue when
transplanted into soil heavily manured
with iron ochre, or when occasionally
watered with a dilute alum solution.
English gardeners succeeded in growing
black dahlias by similar manipulations.
It is well known to every florist
that a change of location, that is,
j a change of light, temperature and soil
j (replanting), occasionally produces new
colors, whence it may be deduced that an
interrupted nutrition of the flower may,
under circumstances, elTcct a change of
! color. "We see no valid reason why the
well authenticated fact of the change of
color produced by manuring with iron
oxide, thereby changing the nutrition of
the plant, should not be practically employed
by the hot-house gardener. Another
very singular and successful experiment.
in producing a change of color in,
J a bird, has recently been made. A
breeder of canary birds conceived the
idea of feeding a young bird with a mixture
of steeped bread and iinely pulvcr!
i/.ed red Cayenne pepper. Without in|
jurifig the bird, the pigment of the spico
passed into the blood and died its plum|
age deep red. The celebrated ornithologist,
Hush, believes that the color of the
plumage of birds might be altered according
to desire by using appropriate
reagents.?Pc/j/u!ar Science Monthly.
A Land of the Dead.
China, almost wherever you see it, is
a land of the dead. For thousands of
years Chinamen have been assiduously
i employed in burying each other. It is
the habit of the Celestial mourner to
| ''plant" his relative in a grave that shall
last. In the north there are few gravei
yards; that is to say, few places exclusively
devoted to defunct celebrities. The
| person who is dead is placed in the most
I convenient and comfortable spot which
i offers itself, and that may chance to be
in the center of a field of rice or on the
roadside. If his relatives be rich they at
once raise a huge mound of earth overhim;
i if they do not happen to have a great
j amount of disposable funds they put the
j collin down in the field or on the roadside,
I thatch it with a little straw, and leave it
(ill the money fur nmound can Ije got toj
get her; or they erect over it a little strucI
turc of loose bricks and tiles. The wind
i and rain do their work, and so the traveler
I sees all over the landscape mounds of
! earth flanked by exposed colli lis. These
collins are not. ilimsy structures as in EngI
land, but substantial structures of wood,
i made to last, and consequently it is no un|
usual thingtocount many scores of them at
any one point of the landscape in the interior.
This does not lower the spirits of
1 the Chinese. It possibly gives them tyi
phoid fever; but that is another question.
! On the stranger its ell'ects are novel and
1 various. All the second day of my journey
I 1 looked out upon graves and collins.
: They clustered under the hills; they lay
on the water's edge: they had been care1
fully placed under the lee of houses: they
' occupied all the best parts of every field.
1 JeCeaseU V miiaillCIl suiTUUiiurii mi: :
where. llow far tlie distribution of
' graves all over a country in which the
| principal religion of the inhabitants is the
worship of ancestors may delay railway
' const ruction even for strategical purposes,
; I leave others todecide. But I learn that
coffins can lie bought as they stand for a
' consideration. I did not buy a coffin by
! way of experiment, but I knew a man
1 who had done so, and lie estimated the
cost at two dollars per deceased ancestor.
1 So that it is possible the difficulty which id
j said to surround the making of railroads
in ( liina may some day disappear.?JonJ
lion Tcliyrnf/i.
A Chinese Portrait Painter.
! There is a Chinese portrait painter in
Chicago whose name is Dong Tong and
I whose professional success has been such
ili-it lir. u-!i< <it.li. t<i ovliiliit to jl rennrter
! with pardonable pride an order book
. containing lIn* names of thirty-two perj
sons, some of whom are prominent citizens
of Chicago. On the walls of his
apartments hang several portraits in oil
\ which seemed to the reporter to l?o really
good works of art. Their most conI
spicuous characteristic is the smoothness
| of the surface, which looks like water
color. Moreover, that is the point on
' which the artist considers himself far su!
perior to his American rivals.
I ? "
Zulu ileail-Kings.
Head-rings, worn by married men
I only, are made of the dark gum of the
I mimosa, and when well kept shine like a
I newly blacked boot. Thevare about the
|th ickncss of a man's thumb, lilting closc
j round the top of the head, just above the
forehead. As a rule. Zulus who wear the
| riny shave their heads, 'i'hc unmarried
> men let their hair grow naturally, as also
! du the girls, unlike the Xauil natives,
I who twist and plait their wool into the
j most fantastie of patterns and devices.
Shortly 1) fore marriage the Zulu women
j let the hair of the scalp grow, which,
j when long enough, is worked into a coniI
rail shape and anointed with red ochrc
i till it shines and sparkles like mica.
Minister Voting at I'ekin says he learns
j from official sources that the census of
China, as taken last year for purposes of
taxation, shows a total population of
250,000,000.
NEWS OFTIIE WEEK, j
Eastern and Middle States.
This year the graj;c crop of tin great Hud
son river valley fruit district is i:nmens".
; Am prose Da<;oett, a young man working \
j on the farm ot David breely. at Liberty, Me., j
fshot Ella, a daughter of Cireely, through iho [
j neck, causing instant death. Immediately 1
I after the shooting Daggett went into an
! orchard near the hou e and sh it himself
through th? head, expiring instantly. .leal-!
ousy "was tho cause of the murder and suicide. J
| Da^cett had been partially deranged at
; times.
I -V* il.l ? nnmerl Tfl,*. I
i /V I ^orillimiK, iimro., u. limn nuiiK.it m )
' lor, residing in iin ekton, hut 011 a visit with j
his wife at the home of Richard Eylwanl,
: shot his wife, dangerously wounding her, '
and then ble w out his own brains.
A street cat- at Alleghany City, Penn., ,
I collide 1 with a freight train, aid all its pas- |
i sengers, twenty-live in number, were inI
iurod, two or thrco with a likelihood of fatal .
j result.
! The two hundredth aimiver?ary of the ,
landing of German emigrants in Amcrica '
waseelebratel with imposing demonstrations 1
; in Philadelphia, Pittsburg, Penn., Newark, j
N. J., Providence, It. I., Trenton, N. J., |
I Rocbi'st- r. N. Y.,Water-bury. ('01111., and other
cities'. At Pittsburg the procession, whieh was j
: at lea.-t ti.tcen miles long, with 2."?,e01 persons j
1 and 4,( 00 wagons in line, was indeseribalily j
> picturrs^ue. All the trades were represented, j
! and ) persons were in the streets At:
! Newark a processi >11 of persons was j
j reviewed by Governor Ludlow and staff.
! In Philadelphia the jarade was one of the :
I largest of its kind overseen in that city, fully ,
| 21),(HH) men and *1,(111;) vehicles being in lino.
I At Trenton there was a parade two mi.es |
| long, with several hundred vehicles and
i not less llia'.i -1,1.111 men m niie.
In Rochester tliero was a great procession, ;
I comprising sixty('.ierir.au si cieties, and re; rcI
scnting the progress and strength of fiennnn
I industr cK. Many of the houses in the various
! cit.es where the day was celebrated were
I gayly decorated.
Simon Mack Sc Co., New York dealers in j
clothing, have failed, with liabilities of $400,- !
0C0.
Tyi hl's fever prevails to an unusual ex-!
tent in New York city.
The Freethinkers of the New Eng'and j
Staus are artanging to hold a convention in '
Paine hall, Boston, in January next.
Twelve prisoners escaped simultaneously '
from the Lancaster (1 enn.) .ail by locking
the guards in and walking out of "the front i
door.
The Woman's Suffrage association's an- |
nual rational convention was; held in Brook- j
lyn, and addressed by eminent women j
sul I racists from all parts of the Union, j
Resolutions were adopted sett ng forth iliat (
| the American Women's Suffrage societies de- i
j mnnil suffrage for woman on the principles j
j of the declaration of independync.*: tnat [
taxation WILIKJUL l Upi cnuilb.il/iuti ?o \.J I t* ?i?j, >
j and that the votes of women were ini|)era- [
tively nee cd to promote tho interests of j
temperance, purity ami pi ace.
The Maid of the Mis', an imitation of the !
original steamer which went through tho !
whirlpool rapids at Niagara Falls with three
men on biard years ago, h:is again been j
sjifelysent on the i-ame journey. The trip i
through the rapi :s which engulfed Captain
i "VVebb was made by the dummy steamer in !
I the prcsencii of thousands of spectators.
A FEW afternoons ;:go the Lemyiie crema- ]
tory at Washington. I'eiin., disposed of its j
I tiveuty-sixth ho ly by lvduvin? t ? ashes in its I
| retort the corpse <f Mrs. Isidore French. I
I a Hebrew woman, of New York. Her s >n j
! accompanied the remains to Washington.
; Work has been commenced on the ship
caual across Cape Coil. Ma -s.
t A i.ARiiELV-ATTKNDKD re-option was given j
! to Chief Justice Coleridge, of Gr. at Britain, I
at the New York Ac ide.ny of Music.
In tho general convention of the Protfstant
j Episcopal church, at Philadelphia, the house |
I of deputies unanimously voted in favor of !
! the consecration of the Rev. Dr. Potter as :
j assistant hisho,? of New York.
At the triennial council of C'ongregationa'- |
! ists in Con or.!, N. 11.. th Rev. Dr. Arthur '
j Little, of Chicago, was elected permauent i
j model ator.
South and West.
i A Mormon conference at Salt Lake Ci'y
was largely attended. Leading Mormons !
{?.. wuimi in?,ii their hearers the necessity of
living up to their religion, practicing polyg- j
I amy tind paying titling. Ap-ostli) Cantiuti j
I presented the statistics 01 tlio church, which ,
t showtd a meml>er.-liip in I tali of
Tlio church organization embraces twelve I
apostles, llfty-cight patriarchs. seventies I
1 y,I.V; nighprie.-t', 11.IJM elders, 1,5(1') bishops
j ami 4,i""'deacons. Arizona reports a member- j
ship of -VJiM. Idaho is not rej orted, but lia-i j
double that of Arizona. Eighty-one missioiiar- |
ies have been apjtoiutcd to go on missions to
i Europe and the I nited States. Eighteen of
' this numlier were ?>t apart for missions in the
j Southern States. The Southern converts are j
I being colonized mainly in Colorado.
! Tin: anniversary of the settlement of !
I Germaitown, l'enn., waseelebrated at Cleve- j
j land, ()hio, by a monster parade in the after- '
| noon and a grand festival at night, at which j
| addresses were made by the mayor and nu-j
i merous prominent German residents,
j Dai.I,as, Texas, has been visited by a firo j
j which destroyed a large amount of valuable |
; projierty, including about ">,(X)J bales oi I
cotton,
j Alderman Henry Pfaunckerphon, of i
] Austin. Texas, and a man named Jette i|uar- [
i reletl, and the alderman shot Jette tw.ee. j
I Jette, in fallintr, seized the weapon rrom ;
I Pfauuckorjihori and shot him in the abdo- I
| men. Both men were fatally wounded.
1 A tuke fell oil a house occupied by several :
In 1 Hirers near Jonesboro, Ark., killing three
j men and seriously injuring two <?thei*s.
i (JkoikiE Chamhkiu.a in. of Baltimore, nt j
midnight, shot and killed Charles Uiii hart, !
J who was standing in the road and caliing to'
one of C'haruberlain's daughters to come out. |
| An U.snge Indian doctor mimed Joseph !
I Rogers shot and killed his wife, a while
! won an, at Quincy, III., ami then committed ,
j suiciile. The cause was jealousy.
Police Skhceant Jenkins, of St. Louis, j
j was shot and killed by a colored woman i
whom he was about to arrest.
j The great event of the day at tlio Chicago j
Driving i ark was the beating of all previous
j trotting and pacing records by the voting !
j pacer Johnston. The horse paced without a
] break or skip in exactly 2:10, thereby making I
! the fastest harness record ever known
A Sax Francisco disjutcn says that Lieu- i
I tenant Schwalka, of arctic fame, has re- I
turned from an exploring tour through '
Alaska. Speaking of his trip lip the Yukon
[ river, Alaska, l.e .-ays he trave'ed -,^K) miles
; overland, reaching the head-waters of the [
! river, where they constructed a raft of logs
1 to nnvif;a e the stream to its incut'i. They
j i ro uro l a crew of six Indians an 1
, prr.cidcd down the gradually increa>i.ig
stream within 'J">U milesof Fort Chile it, wLitm
rapids were encouiiteml. Down tliein the
Indians refused tog.? and attempted to force
the i aft. a-l ore. SSchwatl.a. in order t > su;j1
pre.-s the mutiny, ojxned tiro on the 1 ridi wis. j
! killing three, when the others submitted an 1
the i a1 >ids were run. The vny-ijas on t h<3 i
raft was miles. Lieutenant Schwatl a
says the Yukon is one of the largest rivers in
the world.
; Ni.vi". weeks after being bitten by a small
dog, I'a'.dine 1'. Hartn;a:i. of Chicago, a.re I
! nine ye irs, died in great agony of hydro|
phobia.
! At I)od;;o C'ity, Knnsns, ''Kill" Smith, a
' ?ITat-,'!J*in llilltnnn Au I f iI Tlin I
foil lie gntpi l(>.i Smith. wiviii-hoil his pi.-to|
| from him anil shot Smith in the hrad. He;
then reli ado I the pistol and tired tw > more
b:il's into Smith's body, after which ho f--ll ,
j back dead.
(JXKof two negroes who murdered Police- |
man Street. uf Huntsville, Ala., by splitting I
j his hca 1 ojien with an ax, v a-; taken from
j l'ail at night by fi.ty masl:el men an 1 j
t hanged.
; United Statf.sDeittv Mausiials Peuhy
and W'eatherfi rd, while guarding some Indian
prisoners at Fayett-ville. Ark., ui:ar1
reled over a of ranis, drew revolvers I
and killed each other, one lirilig threy and j
j the otlier seven shots.
Sax Francisco lias been visited by another i
[ earthquake shock, the severest felt in scveial j
I yea i s.
i Liectenant Storey, who went to A!asl;a
| on the last trip of the I nited States steam -r
! Corwin. report-, "n his return to San Franj
cisro, the discovery of an immense river,
j Indians told him that th y had c mie down
| the river a distm.cw of l.fitH) mill's tome>-tj
; a fur trader, and thai it went up higher than !
' t! at. i
I The annual convention of the National |
} Bankets a.-s eiation was held this year in 1
! Louisville, delegates from ali parts of the
' conntiy he ill'; in attendance. A ldre>ses j
' were delivered l>y I'r-sulent roe. 01 .m'w
' York. John .1. Knox. onp r ?!ler of t!ie j
i United Stales treasury, a:id others.
Duiuxiio'eetion day there w.:.-a>air;ninny
fifjlit in Cincinnati b -tweea a | arty of t!?irt.>
j negroes and an equal jvimb >r of whit?*. A I
I j cili- em 111 was dangerously injared by a |?;s
j tol shot, a ii' gro fat dly woti :de I ail two J
i other men were hurt.
ONE of the features of the Bankers' national i
convention at J.ou svill" was an address b.v
Editor "Walters u. of III" C'?'/-.V?*-.A?i'?*?m.', i
ou the Soulli of the past and the / resent. i
! A cot.t.isi o: b'tween two fre'sj'it trains i
near Hanover Junction. Wis., lvs-ilted in the j
death of one man and the d -molish.nont of :
three en..*itics an 1 twelve e:rs.
A CV1M.0XB w hieh s.i?Mou!y made its ajiTH-araneeat
An alia. Wis.,destroyed houses,
barns, otitb.iil iin*;sand other prop- rty, an i j
then disappeared as oiiie'jlv as it ca ne,
1. ,
Washington.
j Many thou-and acres of j ublic land are
said by an invent i^atin^ a;;cnt of the govern
nient to ! ?,?*? b vn stolen in tho Territories
by parti;s v.'li > 1 ave seized the domain with1
- ? * *l?? 1mmoc<li>n/l Inwc
, C'llt C'lIIIplVl ^ "JII1 1-V1-- ...
Tiik consul-general of tlio United Suites at |
Lislxn lias mfonne I the dep.irtm -nt ui stato j
that tlio opining of tin; Rival Agricultural
exposition at Li; bail is deferred until May
: next.
In view of the necessity of observing the
litnils of Stite quotas in nmfcing appointments
to (111 vacancies in the Washing.011
I cxicutive department-, the civil service c >m
mission ha-! requested I he post.iitaster-gen< ral
in selecting clerks from the list of certiiied
names not to take fr.mi a si glo list the namo
J of mo, o than 0110 resiileut of any particular]
| Btate.
Surgeon-General Cqakt.es H. Crane,
UniU-d Sta'es army, after a brief service of
one year and two months, die.' a few days
since" nt Washington i;i his fifty-eighth year.
A "Washington* dispat -h declares that Senator
Kdmnnds is reported assaying he will resign
the presidency of the Senate 011 the opening
of Congre.*>.
Secretary Freungiicysen has written
to Congressman Finnerty, of Illinois: "Our
minUter to Lon lon will fte instructed to ascertain
whether 0'D< nnell, the slayer of
Carey, the Irish informer, is a citi/en of the
United States, and if so to do what is necessary
tosecsire his proper defense. It is not
doubtci tha: the ai c tsed will receive a fair
trial aecor in; to the usual forms of law,
which, iti Kn.iian I, are sul siantially those in
Iitree in lilis country, mm umi u ij
aiil to tint end whi> h it in within their power
to furnish will be riven by the representatives
oi' the United States in London."
President Arthur an 1 a'l the members
ot lii.s c abinot aro again in Washington.
Ti e government lias established a now
training school for Iti'liatis at Geneva, Neb.,
to be modeled after the sclrjols at Carlisle,
Penn., uiul Hampton, Va.
Edgar A. Mauri.e, United States comissioiier
of i a'onts, has rcsignod, and will hereafter
pr.K tic.- before the government departments
in Washington as a patent solicitor and
laml attorney.
Secretary Folgeii has ordered that eloven
Chiinmen who h\d la uled on the coast near
Port Townso::d. Washington Territory, in violation
of law, b> returned to the place from
whence they came.
Poreign.
Nihilist proclamations are said to have
lieen issued, solemnly sentencing tlio czar of
Russia to death because he has failed to grant
liberty to the people.
IIenry Irving, the leading English actor,
about to visit America, concluded an unparalleled
parting tour of the provinces
a- Liverpool. The receipts were enormous
and the enthusiasm was such that the actor
was publicly entertained in every city ho
visited.
Numerous bands called Hos, similar to tho
Black Flags of China, have invaJed Siam.
The o./.'iv of Russia and the Prince of "Wales
have gone to Sweden on a hunting excursion.
Sf.kious socialistic disorders have broken
out at the mines in the Ural, Russia. During
a recent demonstration the troops made a
sudden descent on a large body of socialists
an 1 dispersed them. .So savage was the attack
that many s cinlist* were killed.
Advices from Mexico rej>ort a terrible
state of affairs at .Mazntlan, brought on by
the ravages of yellow fever. There were
~,()U0 people sick, some of whom were dying
of yellow fever and others for want of attention
or on account of a prevailing famine.
Tho advices referred to stated that there
were only two inexperienced doctors in the
city and "they were worn out from overwork.
At .Manzille, the report says, "cart loads of
dead bodies have been buried in one common
ro-.-epiacle."
General Campenon has been appointed
French minister of war, vico General Thebaudin,
resigned.
The ladv superioress and seven larlies at oi.iw.fi
"tliA Maria Institute, of Warsaw,
which is tinder the direct patronage of the
czurina of Russia, have lieeu arrested on
the charge of nihilism.
Lin Vang Fu, lea lerof tho Black Flajrs,
of A imam, has issued a clia'lengo to tne
Fr nch cjmti'auder at Hanoi, to " lead
forth his crowd of sheep anil dogs."
The Rev. Dr. Ferdinand C. Ewer, rector
of St. Ignatius' church, New York, died in
Montreal from the effects of a stroke of
I ara'ysis, lei'eived while priahing in the
]>!ilpit of the Epis -oj al church of St. John
th > Evangelist in the latter city. Dr. Ewer
was l orn in Nantucket, Mass., in l>-2
graduated at Hnrvaid colic.e, in early life
was prominently identified with tho journalism
of the 1 a?i<lc siojx), became a minister in
New York, and in that city engaged frequently
in controversies in defense of his
ritualistic doctrine?.
Tim Swi.vs s ate council has issued a decree
expelling" Miss B >utli and all foreigners
suspected of an intention to organize Salvation
Army meetings in Switzerland.
As un-iicces-ful attempt was made to assns>.iiia?e
M. (i. Notcheviteh. the Bulgarian
minister of the interior, while he was entern;
the town of Sob.anjc, Bulgaria.
IlKitKAKTKit all anti-Jewish outrages in
Rn-.-jft are to l>e put down by force of arms.
Kmiods in S; ain partially submerged five
viliage-i and < a wed the loss of several lives.
A max named !"rei:a attempted to assassina!
.' I In- preside it of St. Domingo at Neyba,
11 yti. The president shot his assailant
deal.
THE NATIONAL GAME.
Uaskmam, is the name of a new town in
Nebraska.
Ti b Toledo club won the championship of
the Northwestern a-soeiation.
Tiik attendance at the leaguo games in
Bust <11 for the season was
With but one or two exceptions the Boston
league nine of lss4 will bo the same as
the | lvsjnt organization.
The Active club, of Reading, Fenn., have
engaged a colored catcher, John Fry, with
whom tiiey exjiict to do wonders.
The exj enses of the Athletic club this season
fojt up $?U,UU0, but the receipts are three
times greater. The net prolitsexceed $T0,UUO.
The Brooklyn club won the inter-stato
championship, the HarrLsburg nino being
.second, and the Actives, of Heading, Penu.,
third.
,Since the- organization of professional
nines in Host; u and Chicago, the representative
clubs of these cities have played 1-0
games, ol whi rh the L'hicagos have won G3
to the Bostons' 07.
The Bostons, Athletics and Toledos are the
i>oiinant winners in their respective associations.
B. A. T., the initials of the winners
in order, says the Sj>or(iinj Life? about siz.'s
up i he cau-e of their succsss. .
Hoitxi xc;, of the Bostons, and Gore, of the
Chicago club, are the champion base runners
of tile league, each Having luaue luoruus mis
season. lioriiuug made eight home runs and
has ma It) only ten errors in the season.
Haiiky Wuight is to manage the League
club ot Now \ orlc in 1>8 , \\ itli u picked team
selected from the two trams controlled by
tin; Metropolitan Exhibition company?the
League and the American a-? JCiatioii nines.
postmasiek-Genekai, Gresham ha i the
mislortuno to enter i'hiladelphiaon the same
train with th.- returning baseball champions,
and. a lot a! paper says, lie " di in't attract the
least bit ot attention alongside i f our boys."
AcconoiNG to the Leaguo averages tie
strongest baiting team in ihat orga:,ization
wou <i be: Bennet,catch' r: Ha'tbourn,pitclier;
Itroutliirs, tirst luse; Burdock, second La-.e;
Sntti 11, thiiMb.se: Irving, short; O'Bourke,
left llelder; llore, center; and Manning, right.
Tin: c.illin^s ot' the i>1 lyorsol* the Athletic
chili of Philadelphia are given as follows:
Aloituahaii, butcher: Strieker. milk wa<ron
ilrivor; Corey, shoemaker Bradley, brickmaker:
Birchall, weaver: Blukiston. carpenier;
Storey, iee wagi ii driver; Knight, j>oc
hunter: <J'Hr.'eti, civil engineer: Bowen,
Mathews ami .Jones, gent'emen of leisure.
OB 10 AND I3WA,
'8li;? IN'iiionatM Micci-rtl'iil in the
h*:>riit?/ :iii i !!ie C. _>:iblican* in
i lie J arte.- s:a!e.
Refiorts receive 1 from eighty-four out of
the eighty-eight eoimtles ill Ohio show the
ma ority" of .J u Ig Hoa lly. t':e Democratic
candidate !" r governor, to he about 1-J,.'ii;0.
'J lie prohibition v.'to will proLaUy reach
abou: l.'i.UUO, and the Greenback vote
about -J,(CO v?tvS. The tola! ?-oto
oi' the State is estimated at 7l.">,00U?
eutial to the presidential vote of 1NJU. Tho
1 >i*iin crat; have an climated majority in the
legislature or twenty four on joint i-allot,
which insures them the election of a United
Stales Senator. Tho canvass was the hottest
ever held m Ohio, the temperance advocate*
niak n< desperate eil'orts for the success of a
c<iti>titiitioiia' amendment called tho
"Second Amendment," which reads thus:
'' a., ns .
" Til' lll'lllllf cure ot nil* I lilt' irami-hi i.itoxicatiiu
Tqiiirs tub:- u-o I us a Leverage
uiv forever prohibited: an 1 the general assembly
sh ill pro\ i iu l>y 'aw fur the enforceiii-'iii
of this provision.** Women anil childii
n were e.iii.-tcd :t.l over th.* JSta'e to fyhD
for the success of this amendment, and i.s
freiiis da nied its adoption by a sin dl majority.
In Iowa late returns pur the majority of
Sie mi in. the Uepubii an candidate for governor,
over Kinne, the L)e:no:-ratie caidi'dale.
at sdiout ^M. and over \Vca?'er,
(ire-nda-k < a idid ite. at It'xi.nihi. The sena!e
is He|inb.ic.iu an 1 the lions- very dose,
the liree.di.c^ers ele ting alt'tit live memlirs.
Judge 'oo!;. Ueni'?"rat. is elected to
i 11 .
' 'o rivss in tiii' sixth msrr c njr ;i miiuu m iiiriiy.
al'liough it ise'al.iiel h;ssea* will lis
roiilo.-t-'!.
SUFFOCATED BY GRAIN.
Foit' l?;en "ieei I?!:ritvl by a C 'iinlicd
t rau:<r}---Four i.tiau ? iicir l.ivet.
A Mia iluia ul |.eeul.ar a t iileut occurred
tii-niher ni^ht. at the fiirin of Mr. Norlhrull',
eijn li.iies e:i t of .Mo ?ritea>I, .Main., in
wli cli four nu n ww kilie I ou. right a:i 1
toil more i:aiT<i\vlv 1 with their iives.
Tlie fourteen tm n were tncinlK-rs o a
l (inching crew who li:id li.-en threshing for
>:V. r.liniu Ill(' I fty previous. nicy nere
sleeping in the lower st?>ry of a granary, ia
t lie upper s'orv of which weio .st'>r. il !.4' ir
bushels of oats. During the night. while a'l
tho men w-Te asleep, the ll"or suddenly ;;avo
way an I t he falling: < n's c m;?li tely 4).irled
civiit men who wero ?lw?p'ng a: the
en I of the building wh-ru the floor
first gave way. 'J'ho oth r si<. who were
sic -r?iii*< at the otlvr end of the grant, vv,
w.-ie rartialiy it w led tlnvi.-h the si<It t.f
tli * house, whic h pave way tinder thesudd'ii
pro-sure of the d s ending" main. and made
Iiteir e.-eapo wi hunt seriousdiilieiilty. Alter
givi:;g the alarm . hey set t'> work to release
theirb:iried e.miracles. Wheti theuiifortuna'e
men wi rc finally reached four of them i\? rc
dead from MiU'o-.-ation. and some >f the others
were so n-arlyso that it was a mn'.ter of
d ulil for several hours whether they would
1 i ve or ii' >t.
Texas audiences are delighted with lectures
by a seven-year-old girl nanuxl Jennie
Scott.
LATER NEWS,
T. R. Robbins, superintendent of nn electric
light company, at Dayton, Ohio, was I
making a tour of insjiection hi the business
part of tha city, when ono of the electric
lowering the lamp to examine it, took hold of
! tho conducting wire, where the insulation
I was worn olf, ami fell as if shot. Jie1
fore he died, which was three minutes later,
ho said: ''The life is burned out of me."
A crowd hung two negroes who had killed
a white man near Rnssellville, Ky.. and another
crowd shot to doath an eighte ;n-v&arold
c >lored boy who was caught assaulting a |
five-year-old white girl at Bainbridge, Ga. i
A Washixr;ton" disjwxtch says that upon the
coming ret rement of General Mierman as
gmeral of the army he will ba succeeded by
Lieutei ant-General Sheridan, and tint Major- i
General Hancock wdl succeed General Si:eridun
in command of tho Division of the M.ssishippi;
that Major-General Pope will succeed
General Hauco -k in command of the Division
of the East, and that Major-General
Scufield will remain in command of tho Division
of the Pacific.
A new Spanish ministry has been forme 1,
i with Senor Posada Herrara as prime minis- ' '
tor. | ?
Sixteen houses in the village of La Es-1 t
tr.illfi, Spain, were destroyed by a flool and j
fori y lives lost. t
The Due do Fernan-Nunoz, the Spanish I
| ambassador to Franco, has resigned. *
M. Perfiliew, director oi' the postal de- i j
i J artment in Russia, was convicted of em- 1
i bczzling state monoys, and sentenced to dis- ; *
1 missal and to pay a fine of 15,000 rubles. I f
j The anniversary of the discovery of c
America was celebrated at Madrid with a '
(
j banquet in the opera-house. i
Moody and Saukey, the American revival- 1
j ists, will begin a six-months' mission ip 1
| Islington, England, early in November.
FIVE EXECUTIONS, <
I c
i Two Wife J1HI..WII", (Inc of Ilie | ?
Afihliuid Ficudt, a Hoy aud a 1 .
Xo ro Hanged.
j The following five executions took place all ! j
LLI ciiu .^uuiu uuy: ? 1
A Grayson (Ky.) dispatch says that Ellis I J
j Craft, one of the Ashland murders, was | f
hanged there at 1:20 p.m. At 1:03 he mounted j
' the scaffold. He declared his inno- 1
! cence, and spoke of the crime the
witnesses against him had committed. !
The crime for which Craft was hanged
was the outrage of two girls?Fanny Gib- i
bons, aged fourteen, and Emma Carico, aged 1
fifteen?and their murder, along with that of
Robert Gibbons, a one-legged lad. a:ed 17, !
| brother of Fanny, George Ellis, an accora- j '
plice, was taken from jail and hanged by a
ciowd after he hud been sentenced to im- !
prisonment f' >r life. Neal, another accom- j .
i pi ce, is yet awaiting trial.
Bowling Green (Ohio) dispatch: Carl j
! Bach was hanged here to-day for the ! ,
i murder of his wifo in October, l'iSl He
j spoke briefly, attributing his death to the
persistent efforts of the prosecuting attorney,
who he said he forgave'. The priest said I
prayers in German, Bach responding. He j
i showed no siirns of fear until the nobso was !
adjusted. "When the black cap was drawn
over his face he trembled violently. The
drop fell at 10:05. His neck was broken, and
, there was no straggle.
Fremont (Ohio) disratcli: John Radford
was hanged hero to-day for the murder of
his wifo last October. He spent list night |
carousing with his guard, drinking whisky, j
i. nd telling stories. '1 his morning he made a '
\ fierce fight against the officers, crying " Let
| me go, you hellions!" and showering blasphemies
and indecent epithets upon them. \\ hen
dragged to the scaffold, ho tried desjierately
to break away and jump from the
platform. While standing on the scafi
fold, and the clergyman was praying,
. he discovered among those in the jail Mr.
Ureenslade. the father of the murdered !
woamn. '1 hen ens ie lan indescribable scene. j
He made a frantic effort, straj pe:l as he was,
to rush upon his father-in-law, and the sheriff
and his assistants had all they could do to
hold him. He raved, and cursed everybody,
i With much tioublo the noose was adjusted,
and the hanging was successful.
I L Original (Quebec) dispatch: Frederick
Mann, the murderer of the Cooke family, was
banned here this morning. The crime for
whi>:h Mann was handed was a horrible one.
He was little more tbati a boy, and was employed
as a farm hand by Kuggle W. Cooke.
On January 2 last Mr. Croke hail occasion to
reprimand him, when Mann seized an ax
and almost hacked Mr. C'ooke to pieces. Then
he killed in succession the wife, daughter and
a son of bis employer.
| Mmticell) (Ark.,) disj a'ch: William
I Johnson, a negro, was hanged here to-day.
He went to thescaiTold bravely and confessed
his crime. A great crowd, mostly blacks,
| witnessed the hanging. Johnson killed
another colored man so that he might marry
his victim's wife.
CKOP KEPOETS.
Ccnd'tlun of tlic (on, Wheat, Oats,
1S^ r ey, IVI no ana 'J obat coC'rojs.
A Washington dispatch says that the
October corn report for the department of
agriculture fully sustains iho telegraphic j i
i summary of September 10 relative to in- | j
juries by frosts. The gere: al average of con- i
dition for the entire fbld is seventy-eight,
1 six points less than on September 1, four from
frosts in the north and two from draught on
the Atlantic seabcarJ and south of the
fr isted areas. It is live p ints b.'low the Oc- i
i tober aveiage of lss-,', while th?re is four per j
: point lower than the Uctob r average of t:.e t
[ census crop. The product of the year will he j
! c ose to l,<i0;),0J0,W() bushels, with m >re solt ,
, corn than last y. ar. mo it y in regions that
i consume their entire crop.
The returns of yield of wheat per acre in- i
| ( icate a production about two ami a quarter j
t bnshe.'s ]*)! acre less than the crop of ast
y< ar. While a revision of t!:e rec >r.'s ol' the
! season may causi slight local changes, it is 1
1 certain that the filial averag of yield will
not ditler much from 11.3 bushels j>er a re.
The a^gre at? w.ll o<c.*e I -loo.vmo .(> bushels,
an i may reach i-0.0,0,000. The quality
is not up to an average.
The yield of cats is a ful! average of a series .
of years, or about tweniy-ei^ht bushels to the
acre for the whole country. The crop will '
aggregate about *x?i,Oj(),ijuO lnidiels. The
(jua'itv-is high.
Tue barley .crop will average between ono i
and two bushels per note nine than last year,
approximating 5Oi),().K?.
The j)otato i-rop is in b?> ter condition than j j
in any ycnr since Is"). The average is ninety ;
j three. :
' The tobarco crop will be below an average 1 '
in yield. The genei al average of condition j j
I is eighty-two.
PROMINENT PEOPLE. !
i
Mit.piiy.?Francis Murphy, the temper- j ]
nnce lecturer, intends to live "in Brooklyn. 1
Bancroft.?The Hon. George Bancroft, j 1
American historian, has entered upon his ! J
! eighty-fourth year of life. | J
! Alexandria.?The Princess of Wales is be- | j
coming deaf. The best aurist doctors are 1
un::blo to suggest a remedy.
! Fkf.i.i.m ; ii v y.se.v?As Secretary of State
Frelinghuyscn's health is bad, lie will not re- i
i turn to "Washington before November.
Wuhtu.?M. Worth, the Parisian fashion
king, is fifty-five years old, fat, plea-ant- i
, looking, and most impressively bald-headed, j
Murray.?Adirondack Murray proposes i t
! t> tin ive through the country this win: er with I <
a lecture entitled " How to Reconcile Fro- I i
| gressjve Thought and Christianity." ^
I'arneli..?Mr. Farnell, the Irish agitator, | 3
decided to decline t..o 'iiany invitations ho | '
has received to visit Ann nca, an.t will re- i !
j main in England during the next year. | '
Moody and Sankky.?Me.ssrs. Moody and j '
Sankey, the evangelists, recently departed | |
from iNew York for (Jreat Brit.Iin. They "
will hold meetings iu Ireland, and during the i j
wint'.T in London.
Tseng.?Tseng, who manages the Chinese ,
i government interests in Europe, remains in \
j dress a Cliiuese nobleman, wearing shoes with ,
; white soles, a Violet tunic, a yellow waistcoat,
and a fur cap with three fox tails at- j
i tuched. He has one wife only. .
i Berry.?Governor Berry, of Arkansas,
i had a novel and pleasing exjierience at L^ uis- i
i ville, Ky., one day recently. The day was j I
j " Arkansas Day ' in tn? oouiuern exposition i <
: there. In the morning the representatives of ! i
; a manufacturing company made a complete >
[ su.t of cloth-s out of cotton picked after sun- j I
rise and in the evening Mr. Kerry wore the 1
suit. ' ! t
j Westox.?Edward Paysou Weston, the po- i
destrian, announces his intention of undertaking
a pedestrian tour through England ,
I and Wales with a view t.) demonstrate tho 1
stii priority of tea over beer and alcoholic
drinks in general during periods of prolonged
nni>oularcxcrti' n. He proposes to walk flt'tv
' " ' '' .!o.-a
miu*s aunv un i?u<- uuuucu ,j<*, iUU
close <>;' (arh day's walk deliver in the tjwn
in which his day's journey may have brought
j i i ni an address "on temperance, having ! or its
title'"Tea vs. Beer." As Sun lay will bo
taken as a dav of rest, the actual distance |
traversed each week will be 300 aides. j
SOME BIG FAMILIES. !
I ' Bsc ' Carrymati, oaeof the oldest woim n [
j of I he Florida Seininoles, has had thirteen I
! children.
| Miss Houston, of Portland, Me., boasts of j
j four p.:ir of twiusboin within a period of,
: seven years.
Christopher Maun, of Independence, Mo.,
i has bsen married twice and is the father ot
I twenty-six chiKIrt u.
[ The motlierof twenty-eight cliildren is still s
| living in Atlanta, U a., though twenty-three ,
| of her offspring are deal
EXPIATING HIS CRIME, fj
ilxeciition of a Murderer at Fort M
Wajne, lad.
Vhy the Mwder ivos Committed? .3^
Last Hours of the Condemned. l&flj
Samuel McDonald was hanged in the yard
f the county ?a 1 a: Fort Wayne, IncL, a H 39
civ days a^o r>r the murder of Inuis Lou- H "
enr, between the 22d and :20th of March last. S .
?unnt, the murdered man, had a contract IS
or clf-aring a tract of timber land near
i l ?o of Areola. Pie employed McDonaMSMKaW
j assist him, an l the two were supposed
wirinnjf. nopcnnnl' f ripndfl.
)n tbo22<i of lost March Lourent a id Mc-iEflK5S
[)oi aid wore in Areola drinking together lasJSmH
i saloon, and about ID o'clock at night, inH
roini any with three companions, started forpB ;
heir c .bin in the oVaring. Upon arrivin?|^^^H
it the c ibin Lourent a:id McDonald bidtbenr? -JagS
omj an ons good bye and we it into theH
abin. That was the last time Lourent wa?H r<&m
wn alive by any person except McDonald. ?JnS
On March J.i the corjseof Lourent wosdb-S^HH
covered in the lonely hut by the owner of the'- 'VflffijjS
ract which the two men were clearing. InyB "fijB
;he meantime McD .na'd. who was known
je without money, bougnt a suit of clothes. \'J3l
aying therefor" with a twenty-dol'ar gold j?
>iece, and lifted an ob igationin Fort Wayne, ' ''8&
mother twenty-dollar gold piece being the
ender. Ho also pawneu a pun, identified as -jSgHj
lie property of the murdered man, and on y$
he witness'.-tand denied ail of the transac;ions
cited above. In the cabin were found
iloudy footprints and shoes worn by McDoifclid
and identified as his, bearing b ood stains, ,3
fflio fAtitul f.r* n rrpcvnnfl therewith. Tne J -34
awn ticket which he received for the gun
ie was seen lo hide in a manger in a stable. ' ';?8
:t was produced and he afterward denied ? -gjfc
;ver having seen it.
'I he condemned passed his la=it night in the
!onir:any of his spiritual advisers, sleeping ygM
>ut little. rihe next morning he appeared
heerfu' and resigned, and at noon ate a
u arty dinner. At seventeen minutes past
p. M., McDonald, supported br
wo Catholic clergym n. entered the jail
.ard from the rear d/or of the ^-Wgggj
ail. His face was b'.auched to almost pearlv
vhiteness, but be mounted ths scaffold with VjjS
i firm tread. He stood unsupported on the
lrop while Sheriff Scheifer read the death
warrant without a - tremor. At the conclnlion
of the reading McDonald said in a firm .*3
roice: "Well, gentlemen, I have nothinr
o tay. I hope Gcd will forgive me." '5
Ie then kiss-Hl the crucifix ana repeated
irayers while his arms and legs were being
Pinioned. After the noose was adjusted ana i .;SI
;efore the black cap was drawn over his v>8j
load he .-aid, without faltering, "Good-byeto. . : ^ja
The cap was then drawn, and while the
wriest wt s praying the sheriff put his foot on
;he trigger and the body of McDonald shot . ??a
lownward a distance of six feet His neck Jl
rvas not broken. In fifteen minutes he wa*
pronounced aeaa irom miiujkuibuuu, ' '" iSBS
md in severr minutes after death the body
vas cut down and turned over to the cor- . /
jner. Two hundred men witnessed the exe;ution.
McDonald, the previous night, placed '
lis confusion in the hands of his attorneys. ;
MUSICAL AND MAMATiq |||
Paris is to liave five symphony orchestraa r^fll
this winter.
Sigxoba Barlanidlm. a female tenor, fa creating
a sensation in Naples.
Lotta, now abroad, has good offers for
England for this theatrical year.
Mr. Charles Hovt, of the Boston pott,
has written a new play for Roland Reed.
A. Rcbenstein's latest song is entitled. j'.'gjM
"Yearning."' The- words are from the Ro??
sian of Lermontoff.
There are now some 500 theatrical com- rA
binatious on the road. Many of them care- -r>2
fully avoid the large cities.
Arthur Sullivan has finished an opera
for Covent Garden, London, next season, /3S|
entitled "Mary, Queen of Scots."
Thf. lpA'liny concert trouDes of the season V3j
will he those of Miss Thursby, Miss Kellogg tfSM
aud Miss Hauck?all Americans.
Mme. Nilsson lias returned to New
York from London. She will appear in '$2
opera in the new opera-house in the me>
tropolis.
It is estimated that a rainstorm in New .M
York injures the theatrical receipts about . (1
$lo,Ut>0 iu a single evening, and this is a loes
that is never recovered.
Johx McCcllough has under consideration &
an offer to play in Australia next summer.
The terms are said to be the largest eve* 'v3jSH
offered to an American actor.
Miss Lillian Russell,the American prima ' -yjB
donna, will appear in the new opera 'which
Gilbert and Suhivan are preparing to present . .i?gS
at the Savoy theatre about November. Tire
proprietor of a London music haD
purchased fifty-six first-class sewing-machinal,
and gave them to n;.'ces.-itous members of th?
theatrical and music hall professions.
A contract h is been signed between Mr. "gg
Locke, of San Francisco, and Mine. Minnfa
Hauck, for a sea on of thirty-two concertsin . ,-jS
the Southern States, begin uing in Richmond,
First-class tenors, as everybody knows,
command high salaries: It has been calcu- --4S
lated that one of the tenors of theoper?< - ,'3|
house in Paris received five and a half franca t SB
for every note he sang. The tenor, who had .<33
a reputation of being clcse, went to purchase
a vase at a fashionable shop, and complained if
the hiirh urice asked, twenty-one frtnc*.
"Wliv, I should have thought you would jtfl
have been the last person to complain. I am ' ..-' "JjsJ
toll I every note you sing is worth live and a .-3
half fia::cs." The great tenor had the vase :
packed up, went to the pay desk and sang do, .
re. mi, fa? " There, that makes twenty
two francs; I want one franc chango." ^
STEAT.ma THE LAND.
Astounding fraud* in the Territories
?Seizii:g the Public Domain*
A Salt Lake City dispatcn says: Colonel
James Tullis, a special laud agent of the gov? ' ;*'i
ernment, who has been investigating tht
land frauds in the Territories, is in this city.
He says there has been some tall swear.
ing dune by witnesses in some of th<
laud offices, and that large tracts o{ oSgH
laud have been patented by persona
who had in 110 wise complied?with tne land ' ?*
laws. The desert land entry act had been 'vSjj
violated with a recklessne a that was posi- - M
tively astonishing. In many cases it wai
found that absolutely nothing had been don<
toward reclaiming the lands, and yet what
ai e known and regarded as good citizens hav?
gone before the land officers and made solemn
oath that the land had been reclaimed and
all the conditions of tiu law complied
with, where, in faet. no n ark made
humaii hands could he found upon the .
entire tract. Other tracts were taken up
under the desert act tliat are no more desert
than the valley <;f th? Ohio river. Othei
land was found to have b.-cn taken up undei -'it
the timber culture avS upon which there wax
growing at the time of the original filing mon <- v?:
forest tree's than the law requires when flnaj
''i.? m.i.L Tlie ti nit^tead Law has
not been fairly construed, ami thousands oi
acres have boon patented by persona whc
have not complied with one single re>
[juirement ot the law. and who hav<
given fraudulent testimony w.th the full in
tent an J purpose to defraud the government
lens of thousands of acres of public landi
ire fenced oa by wealthy stock raisers, thro*
leaving tin? actual sctteis without a rang<
For the family cow. In one instance it wiu
.'omul that men livi g near a city in Monana
had fenced up cc.es of publi<
amis ami | ermit'ed the t>wn people to pasure
their stuck on the enclosure for $1 pel
nonth i-er her.d.
"wheat.
V Two Years' Analysis of tlio'Cerea]
Completed*
Professor Clifford Richir.lson, of the
United Stat.'s department of agriculture
ins just completed a two yeirs' task in
:hu analysis of marly ~\UJO specimens
)f wh a" from various parts of
he country. an 1 cjiiij aring them
ivith each other and with European wheats
He says that the 11 am tailing of our wheat is
i delicieney in ulbuuiimuU;, which are re;anled
as the i:i< -st valuab'o jKirtions of
he grain. Am ng < ur wh a:s the highest
eiventage of albuminoids was. 17. lo, while .
i liu>.s.au wheat trom M.nnesota contained *
.'4.'i(i jn.r cent., twenty-lour different specimens
averaging l'J per ee.it., the lowest
Having lO.tjs per c >nt. In the East our wheat
is the poorest, tailing below the general average
in albuminoiiN and a li and in the size of
the grain. A re. ttlar g miati. n of improvement
from < a t t ?w.-st is found uutil the
I'acifi eca-t i- reached. wh ".o there is a most
remarkable la lug <>ti' in everything but the
i/e -if'he grain. In 'hec unt 17 between the
Mississippi aad the nnum:ains tho best grain
is pn idn.Vt. 'l'lie mull tie West, represented
y .Michigan, Kentu ky and Tennessee, holds
i!i intenue.l.a:e p sition between this district
mil that 011 tii" At'aut'c c ast. The latter
hows plain!v t lint ks soils 1-ave been more or
ess worn out. the middle West that it is los>>
r it-- ii.rtil.rv sind t.hft lav West the fact
iiat it c 'iitamsil:<>-o str.m of p'ant food and
litropen especially wh o'! nvike a rich grain.
AMERICAN HOG PRODUCTS.
Commission to tfao
Curing of S'urU.
The secretary of state has addressed a letter
o tho United States commis ioncr of agriulture
ttnting that it.asmuch as certain
oreign governments have charged that the
i?^ products of tli United States are
fleeted with di* a e and not proper for
x|x>rt jmrjMis-.s, the 1 resident has
|?id<d to app.iint. a commission
ii..rou-h'y to in rest iu'fttn the curing
if pork, a .d lias named a- members of sucn
miiii!i.s>!o i Get>!';{< 1?. Lor in r, Professor C.
(.'handler. I.lipaul t u. biat.mord, r. D.
'iirlis ami Professor K. D. Salmon. The
.'io-uleni states thu ho l;as no authority to
;un ant.o t ie expsses of tho coiiimL-sion,
iut lias no doubt that in view of the magniudo
<>f tho commercial interests involved *?
.'ougress wili m < t all hi Is iucuriel for this
mrposo. '1 he toinm'ssioner of agriculture,
is chairman of the commission, is directed to
uinm.n his associates and proceed to the
vork without de'ay.
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