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Y ~ ????^L?,?? ^ ^ - : - --- '""" - ABBEVILLE PRESS AND BANNER! BY HUGH WILSON. ABBEVILLE, S. C.. WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 31, 1883. NO. 18. VOLUME XXVIII. flj SOWING AND REAPING. hi A wonderful thins is a soe<l; The on-:' tiling deathless forever? tl Forever old and forever new, Utterly faithful ana utterly true? Fick'e and faithless never. ;u Plant lilies and 'iiies will bloom; ^ Plant roses and roses will prow; Plant hate and hate to life will spring, [r. Plant love and love to you will bring ! \ The fruit of the seed you sow. . tr POSTAGE XOT STATED. : I" BY J.ll.l.IE BEVEREUX BLAKE. ! X* . I (>1 I-was tall, overgrown.awkward, and six-1 teen, with a pervading consciousness that jr my hands and feet were very large, and , w the added misery, in the ease of the for- i v mer members, that they were always red. st and I never knew what to do with them j n, when in company. I was making a visit >] at grandmother's delightful old-fashioned country home, when one morning the dear old lady called me to her. I ni " Here is something for you. Jim,'' she , e> said, tl an invitation to a children's party j at Mrs. Edwards'." "Children's party," repeated, proba-1 nt . bly, with a shade of scorn in my voice, j,] as indicating that I was no longer to be te \ placed in that juvenile category. [ 14 Not children exactly,'' corrected I c> grandma, with a smile at my masculine ' ij, dignity. " Young people, I should have \ said. Mrs. Edwards' daughter Florence J s, is fourteen, and Tom Byrne and all the | sj] boys?young men. I should say," with j j(. a twinkle of amusement, '"will be there.'* j vv I had sundry misgivings that I should i f(l not enjoy the ]>arty at all. being as yet ,,f very much afraid of girls, though begin- i In ning to admire them as mysterious and ' fascinating beings. However. I accepted j the invitation, as I found that all the | Pv boys I knew were going, and the party ; w, was to be quite a "swell" affair for the ; w village. j (,f When the evening eanie it found me | ?\ with the rest, seated in a large parlor, very , f? anhappv because of my arms and hands, : t], which would by no means arrange them- j r(. selves in any graceful or becoming j manner, and extremely bashful, but full j);, of admiration for a lovely black-eyed j girl about a year younger than myself. ji:i whom 1 knew to be Tom Byrne's sister. I st, She s:xt some distance from me. but she \ 9 had given me a sweet smile when I first ! f,, icame in, and now from time to time cast ! glances at me which increased at once i m my bliss and my confusion. J gr Various games were suggested and played, but they were of a quiet char- i r(. actcr. such as "Twenty Questions,'' I "Proverbs,"' etc.. so that I had no op- i portunity of approaching any nearer to ' uj Mabel, who showed herself very brilliant ' p| in her questions and answers during the J wj progress of these intellectual amusements, j Wi men somenociy suggesieu mac we; should play "Postoffice." K "Postoffice! what is that? how do trj r you play it?" I whispered to Tom Byrne, >1 "my next neighbor. st< "Don't you know how to play Post- m; office?" he asked, with a scorn of my ai, .gnorance. "Oh, well, I suppose you nty fellows don't know anything." w "I never heard of this," I assented ]K1 OQcekly. d.i "Well, I'll tell you how it is. A girl m -sksfcfor a letter for some boy, and then th vou have to ask her how much postage, j ro ind if she says one cent, you must kiss I cn oer once." fa "Oh!" said I. ! w< "Yes," replied Tom, "and you kiss m ner twice for two cents, and three times I |,y for three cents. It's quite fun, if it is a j ty prettv trirl," he added, judicially. "1 suppose so," I replied vaguely. j In( "But I forgot to tell you," he added, "if she s: ys -postage not stated' then j 0f you kiss her as ofteu as you like. Ilush! i jie they arc going to begin." L0 To be sure, one of the oldest boys was j )K. appointed postmaster, and one girl after ; t]1; p?another went out into the entry, each [ t]a presently knocking at the door asking j wj lor a letter, whereon the boy called for fu sheepishly followed her into the hall, j ou and to judge from the sounds of scream- j ing and scuffling which generally fol- ; ov lowed paid his postage under consider-1 j,., able difficulties. I an I watched the game in a state of be- j jK. wildered alarm. What if a girl should i tc] call on me! But no one did, and I was I j)r half disappointed, half relieved, that I ' (](, was exempt, when at last it was Mabel1 j,,, Byrne's turn to go out. an She left the room with a lovely blush 1,5; on her beautiful face. The door was sol^ emnlv closed ur>on her. and then after a , . ? brief pause there was a faint knock. ! Kl The postmaster opened the door a few inches. " What do you want?" lie asked. ; " There is a letter here,": he replied. I "For whom?" "For Mr. James Ilill." ln! "How much to pay!" I so "Postage not stated," was the faint reply. ?' They all laughed loudly and looked at t ... me, for that was my name. The blood j rushed in crimson floods to my face. I , got on to my feet somehow, and with my heart torn between a wild desire to go into that hr.ll and a wish to sink uttterly mi away from human kind, 1 stumbled out Jei of the room. The door was closed behind nte, and I . found myself almost in dr.kness, as the hall was but dimly lighti i. 1 paused a stl moment, and then I heard the faint 1111 sound of quick breathing; another heart was beating as violently as my own. For oncc in my life I knew what to do with j my arms. I caught hold of her. 1 ; n( scarcely know how. The darkness gave i ex ? - * j i iw.? ? I pr lilt' cvurujjt: ii:m i jtvm uti in ? . ^ close clasp, ami pressed my lips to her ' 1 check in three or four rapid, half-fright-! ened kisses, before she could free herself from mv embrace. ff' "There! there! Mr. Hill," she said. ,1; with a faint, merry laugh, "don't be so S(" bashful again. i'm sure you're bold sv enough now!" j w "Havel paid mv postage?" I stam- , mered. ' i s1' "Indeed, yes: enough and to spare, j Come, let ?is go back to the parlor." ^ She led me in. a willing prisoner, and j(1: J" the rest of the evening 1 was her bond i s" slave; her partner in all games, her com panion in the dance (wherein I excelled , j" the country boys, and gloried in my ac- " complishnient i, and, at last, crowning ,--N delight of the evening, her escort home. \ This was all. The next day I returned ( al to my home in the city, and Mabel Byrne ^ became only a memory; strong at first, !. fainter as time went on. but sweet al- 111 ways. When I saw other girls I com- ; " * - ' >? :??- -V Ill pared inem nicnuiuy ?uu jutiuic | imagination painted of Mabel, and they w never seemed half so fair and sweet as 111 she. 11' But then I did not see many other ; tr girls. My bashful ness, instead of di- j tr minishing, seemed rather to increase w upon me as the years went by. I'!" avoided society, and was so much of a !11 recluse from ladies that my mother was j quite worried lest I should become a con- j s' firmed old bachelor. Perhaps one reason why I retained my diffidence was that ' ** my pursuits were amonjj books, and not j among people. I had made the science j of geology my study, and at twentyseven found myself in a comfortable po- * sition as assistant professor in one of our u best colleges, the salary of which, with my own ineome added, making me so j far at ease that I resolved to devote my summer vacation to a tour in Europe. ! ^ tl Equipped with bag and hammer, 1 , August found me making a pedestrian j tour of Switzerland, with a special view , tc the study of its glacial system and j lithologv. I avoided the well traveled j' ways, thus escaping the society of all j other tourists, and 1 was therefore utterly -- T J I amazed when one evening, as i uren i near the little house which was my temporary abiding place, a tall form strode j A H . toward me out of the darkness and a b 4 heartv voice cried out: ' d fT * "Jim! Jim Hill!" y "What is it?" I replied, with a half j nervous start. ; t< "Ah! I thought it was ray old friend. I f- Have you forgotten Tom Byrne!" ! A Of course not, for I had met him occa- ! [ rionally since we were boys, and I was ; ? heartily glad to see my former comrade, j f< l always one of the best of companions. \ j< K . "I saw your name on the book at the ; s< i. tun," he explained; "was sure it must'tJ *&&&&'?*' 'A-,V 1 you. At any rate I thought I would art out to meet you." " Rut how came you lu re ?" I inquired, in this out of the way corner of the orld." " Hecause it is out of the way. Mabel id I are making a trip in search of tlu: ieturesque. You know she is quite an tist ?*' So Mabel was with him. My heart ivp :i furious thuinn :i?<l for ;i moment could hardly make a sensible reply. "Yes," ho went on; "she is so devo d to her art that it seems to quite ab>rb her life. She has not thought of larriaye. and does not care in tin1 least >r the ordinary run of society. She will c glad to see you, though." he added, msolingly, "as you arc a man of sci100." Wc walked back together to the little in. and presently I was shaking hands itli a beautiful and stately woman, hose bright, dark eyes (lashed with the range intensity and tire that I had L-vor seen in any other eyes but those of label Byrne. She greeted me very cordially, and 'tor we three had taken an evening oal together there followed a delightful .*cning in the little parlor that Tom and is sister had secured. For once in my life I felt myself quite ease in a ladv's society. In the first lace there was Tom to keep ine in counnuncc l>v a predominance of my own x in the company, then Mabel did not cjH'Ct me to talk of airy nothings, that .'lit foam of the social whirlpool which never yet had been able to skim. She lokc first of iny scientific pursuits ; she towed so much knowledge of the subct that 1 really found myself talking ith earnestness and enthusiasm of the rmation of the country, and especially the glacial system and the curious arks of its action borne by the speciens I had collected. She, in her turn, contributed to the cning's interest by telling me of hei r>rk. and showing me her sketches, liich were really of a very high order artistic merit. There was 110 schoolrl weakness in lier handling of the ush, but a force and poetic thought at had won her already honorable cognition in the world of art. " And you have never heard of Mabel's timings until now ?" asked Tom. "No," I confessed. "You know I ivc been quite absorbed in my special tidies.'1 ' Yes, and you have not seen Mabel r ever so long, have you ?" " No," I replied, " not since that sumton vizirs aco. when I was at my *? ^ 0 - , andmother's." Jolly times we had, too." said Tom, lleetively. ''Remember that party at rs. Edwards' ?" A sudden rush of blood to my face terly confused me. I stammered a rey. and Tom. to my relief, went on ith some rambling reminisceuces. It. is some seconds before I dared to look Mabel. Surely she was blushing, too. The next morning we all went on a ip up the slopes of the mountain, nbfl in short, gray suit, alpine hat, and jut boots; Tom carrying her drawing uterials. Thus we made this and many [Other delightful expedition. Life took on new colors for me. There ;is a radiancc and glory about it that I id never dreamed of before. Every iv I found fresh reason for admiring y beautiful companion, and our walks roui;h the dee]) valleys and up the u#h mountain sides were to me like flmntcd ioiirnevs through a realm of iries. In this loveliest country in the jrld. with this most glorious woman by y side, I was, indeed, as one transfigured the light of the grand passion that ok possession of my soul. At first I knew not what had befallen ?. I thought only that my pleasure in ibcl's society sprang from a similarity tastes and pursuits, and the charm of r conversation; but gradually I woke the overwhelming fact that I loved r with the one great love of my life, nt seemed to me now to date from the ys of long ago, to have been always th me, and to stretch out into the ture to make it transcendently gloris, or a long despair. And yet as soon as I had learned my ,11 secret, my former bashfulness came ok upon me with tenfold intensity, d I found myself often embarrassed in r presence, while at the thought of [ling her my heart's story, though my ain was smitten through with dazzling light at the dream of successful wooyet I was so overwhelmed that utterce would, as I was sure, be an impossility. And Mabel ? ITer eyes were very nd to me. They turned to me with a ftened luster that thrilled me with ipc: and yet, if I attempted even u mplimcnt, I blushed, floundered and is lost. One evening we were talking of all inner of subjects, grave una gay, anu strayed to marriage in general, and [jecially to the matrimonial lot of some our old friends. "You remember Bovd, don't vou, ill?" asked Tom. "Tall, bashful fellow, like me?" I ded. " Yes,'' replied Tom, laughing. "lie irried Miss Cutting, our former schooltcher. I always thought she proposed him." "Sensible girl!" I exclaimed. "I ink it is positively ii woman's duty mctinu-s to help a man out. You reember that book of the late Dr. Horace lshnell, published some years ago, lied 'A Reform Against Nature?' In he denounced the whole woman's ,'hts movement, but maintained that cry woman ought to have the right to opose marriage to the man she liked, think lie was scientifically correct." I spoke with great eagerness, looking ways at Tom; but at the last words my anee turned to Mabel. Her eyes were ced on mine, and the look I met there nt the blood to my heart with such a rift, tumultuous rush that I grew faint ith confusion, and presently rushed out the room and to bed?though not to eep. - * ?-_ r 1 41,? I 110 next UJIV I Wl'IlL UUl III liiv; auvt>on by myself for a scramble through a iiu]) and very rough gorge, where Tom id Mabel did not care to accompany me. was half glad to be alone, for I was rvous over my audacity of the night fore ; yet at thought of Mabel's kindly es, so overwhelmed me with blinding tppiness, that I had to look many times a bit of rock before I could see the rise that denoted glacial action. It was late sunset when 1 reached the in. The last rosy light was flushing le distant mountain peaks with that larvclous beauty which is one of the ondrous charms of Swiss scenery. I lade my way without pause to Mabel's irlor, led there by a force that seemed > draw me by a power beyond my conol. The room was quite dusk and she as alone. As I entere d she came toward ie with a quantity of letters and papers i her hands. ' These came while you were away," 10 said. Mechanically I took the papers, mong them there was a large package 11 which I dimly discerned the word Due," followed by an illegible stamp. "You have paid something on this,*' said. " How much was it ?"' and looked 1>"Postage not stated," replied Mabel. Promptly, smilingly she uttered the ords. Then her dark eyes softened and dtered. The papers and letters were attered over the floor. I had caught er in my arms with all the audacity lat had been once before mine in my oyish days. Only now, as I pressed passionate isscs on her brow and lips, I found voice t last to utter the yearning that was 5nsuming my heart.?Dio Leici.S Monthly. Why She Cried. A little girl sat on the floor, crying, iter a while she stopped and seemed uried in thought. Looking up sudenly, she said: "Mamma, what was I cryin'about?" " Becausc I wouldn't let you go down jwn." " Oh, yes," and she set up a howl.? irkamaw Traveler. A New Mexico editor speaks of being jllowed by a long centipede and a sjolate. The jojolate probably wanted Dmcthing about his family Je<"t out of tie pujierChicago News. ' " ' v r- .. :[; / MR. AND MRS. SPOOPEKDYK HOW THEY ATTEMPTED TO HA17G PICTUBE. Anil ISow the ^Inlc .Tlemlicr < ilic Matrimonial firm lame 1 liricl-A ".Hia.l)"' I.atlcUr. "Now, my dear," saitl Mr. Spoope dyke, praneinjf into the sitting-room wit every evidence of delight and eonten ment pietured on his face. "Now. n dear, what do you think I've brougl you V "I'm sure I have no idea." flutten : Mrs. Spoopendyke. ?iazin?; anxiously ( j the Hat package Air. Spoopendyke ca ! ried under liis arm. * It isn't a nc | silver salver for the water pitcher, i it;"' " You hit what it isn't the very fir j whack, Airs. Spoopendykc. It nev I had any notion of being anything of tl I sort.'' remonstrated Mr. Spoopendyk with some severity. "If you can't gue j any better than that I'll take it back j the man and get my money." "If it was done up in a box I sliou think it was that shawl I told you about , hazarded Mrs. Spoopendykc. "Idoi: ! think they would do a shawl up in bundle like that, would they?" "They might," replied Mr. Spoope: dyke, calmly brushing his whisker "You never can tell what these sho keepers will do when they get started." "Oh. my dear, you don't mean to sr you have brought me that shawl!" an Mrs. Spoopendykc made a spring for In husband and wound her arms around h neck. " Let up!" gurgled Mr. Spoopendyk wrenching himself loose. "If I evi intended to irivc you the shawl you Inn busted the project now. Think I'i going to bring home an executioner i the shape of a measly shawl and run tl risk of being choked to death for it?" " Then it isn't the shawl," sighed Mr Spoopendyke, somewhat disappointe but still overcome with curiosit; " Please tell me what it is, for I know is something nice." "Look," grinned Mr. Spoopendyk unwrapping the package and developiii a cabinet photograph of himself nice! framed in guilt. "Don't that beat a the shawls in the market? IIow do yc like it?" and Mr. Spoopendyke held out at arm's length and admired hugely. "Isn'tit perfectly splendid!" gulpc Mrs. Spoopendyke, choking a little. ". is the best likeness of you I have ev< seen. Did you get it for me?" " Of course," replied Mr. Spoopendyki still buried in admiration of his counte feit. " You don't imagine I got it f< the rats, do you? Haven't any kind of notion I brought it home to kill buj with, have you? I thought you migl like it, and so I went and hud it takei Now where can avc hang it?" "I don't know," murmured Mr Spoopendyke, with her finger to her lij and her mind still on the shawl. " Wh wouldn't that space between the t\v windows be a good place?" " Why wouldn't the top shelf of tli | pantry be better ?" growled Mr. Spoo] cndvke. "If you arc hunting lor place where the light won't strike it wh not put it under the carpet, or stick between the mattresses ? This pictui demands some refulgence to show it of and I'm going to put it where the mo.' refulgence iscalculatcd to strike it. Nov where can we put it ?" "Isn't that a good place, right ov< the bed ?" suggested Mrs. Spoopendykc who began to see that her husband wa aiming for the chimney piece where tli painting of her father was hung f( years. "If you hang it over the bed, can see it whenever I come into th room." "Just so," snarled Mr. Spoopendykc running a cord through the eyes in th back of the frame. " And if I hung i on your back you could see it every tim you turned around to see bow you measly dress fitted. If I wasparticularl anxious for you to keep it within yoi vision all the time I'd put it under th bed, where it would confront you wher ever you started in on a hunt for bur? lars. I don't know, though," he coi tinned, as a brilliant idea occurred t j him. " You like that place between tli j two windows best, don't you ? I don i U-nnw but what that is a irood place for ! picture." "Best place in the room," giggled Mr; Spoopendyke, satisfied that she had en rif-d her point and saved the locatio sacrea to her father. "If I were goin to have my picture hung in this room shouldn't hear to any other place tha right there, between the two windows, and Mrs. Spoopendyke pursed upherlij as one who declined to recede from In i proposition under any circumstances. "Then I'll tell you what we'll do, said Mr. Spoopendyke, with a gleam < speculation in his eyes. "We'll hang yov father's picture up there and I will I content to take the subordinate plac over the chimney piece. That makes pleasant all around, and no one has right to object." Mrs. Spoopendyke saw she had bee caught in her own trap, aud made n further resistance. " Where's the step-ladder?" asked M Spoopendyke, cheerfully. "Bring ir the portable Tower of Babel, and 1 wi fresco this wall with the finest of modet artistic efforts.'' Mrs. Spoopendyke lugged the stej ladder upstairs, and Mr. Spoopendyk< having arranged liis string, mounted t take down the old gentleman's pictui with a view to the proposed removal. "Look out you don't fall, dear," su< gested Mrs. Spoopendvke, forgetting Ik defeat in her solicitude for her husbam "That's all right," smiled Mr. Spoo] endyke from his perch. " You just qu roosting on that bottom round like a hei and I will get on without any furth trouble." Mrs. Spoopendvke jumped c the ladder, but her dress caught on tl step, and down came Mr. Spoopendvi like a bundle of soiled clothes, rolling c the carpet, and trying to get clear of tl ladder that had roiled after him ar mixed itself up with him so that it wi difficult to tell which was which. "What did you let go for?" yelk Mr. Spoopendvke, trying to get h elbow out of his mouth, and still struj gling with the ladder. "Didn't I tc ye to hold on ? Think 1 don't kno enough to get off a ladder when I g ready ? S'pose I want a ladder turru bottom upward when I want to g down ? Take it off!" he roared, satisf ing himself that he was powerless. " you want to see a ladder climb up Spoo endyke, stand me up against the w; and give me a show. Dod gast th I ladder!" and he rammed his legs bet wee two of the rounds in his efforts to fr himself, and. finding one leg caugh drove the other after it to keep it cor puny. "Wait a minute, dear," pleaded Mr Spoopendvke, tuning away at tl ladder, but tacitly admitting that si was unequal to the task. "Keep pe feclly quiet and I will yet you out." " iiow' m I to keep still!" howled M Spoopendyke, naturally resenting any r sistance from his wife, at the same tin rccoyni/.iny his helplessness. "How' I to keep (piiet when you're pulling n leys out liken pair of teeth? Let g< Pull it around and loose that foot! I)r< it, can't ye? Don't ye know enough straighten that leg before you twist it ol What's the matter with you, anyway and with a vicious wrench Mr. Spoope - ' ' t... i_; 11 t *1 dyke contrived ro iree jiiiiim-h uom u ladder and assume a perpendicular. " Let the picture go, dear," cooed Mi Spoopendyke. "You can fix it son other time." "No time like the present!" hiss< , Mr. Spoopendyke, jamming the Jadd against the wail and mounting once mor " Never put oil a father-in-law until t morrow that you can get away with t day! Now you hold that thing tight, you will be apt to he a widow betwei this and the time it takes to sweep n up!" and Mr. Spoopendyke, seeing th his wife had a death grip on the lndd< took the picture from the wall anil bcgi to descend cautiously. " Shall I take the picture, dear?" ask< Mrs. Spoopendyke, letting go the ladd and holding up her hands for the pain ing. ' Mr. Spoopendyke turned to hand it her, and losing his balance once mo came to the floor with a crash. " Got it ?" shrieked Mr. Spoopendyk w the ladder again toppled over on hii V "P and he saw a repetition of his former J mishap. " Think ye gut the measly picture ? fiot. a notion that ye saved A i enough to collect the insurance on ?" i And with a prodigious kick Mr. Spoopj endykf! sent the ladder to the nethermost ! part of the room and arose to his feet j foaming. " Never mind the pictures, dear," sugn" I gested Mrs. Spoopendyke. "You leave ill ; It t.-itli mil 'inil I'll li'inrr tlwni Ifi-llinr n '"i" * *'> A """r? l; row." |\ "Oli, you'll do it," howled Mr. Spoopendyke, whirling on his heel and coining ,(| down hard on his own photograph which )n lie had carefully laid on the tloor. '' You _ arc the one to hang it ! Trust you for a vv thing of that kind ! If you had a wire js j along your ceiling and a catalogue in your ear, you'd only want a tin type and sj a row to he an academy of design !" and | with this complicated description of his 10 j wife's few failings, Mr. Spoopendyke shot _ I into bed as if he were practicing archery, ?,1 j and nursed his wounds and wrath until j0 I he fell asleep. I ' I don't care," muttered Mrs. Spoopi(-i [ endykc, trying to untie the knot of her M j shoelace with her teeth. " I don't care, [if i It will teach him another time to let a ! poor pa's picture alone, though I suppose I have got to take it down to-morrow or he will be breaking his neck. s Anyway, lie will not look well enough to have another picture taken for a day j or too, and then perhaps we will have a lv j trroup, and in the ease of a group i lt*i ! wouldn't object to putting that over the er mantel and letting pa go between the js windows, because pa's dead and he wouldn't mind, anyway." And with c this reflection Mrs. Spoopendykc disrobed quietly and went to bed, figuring on ,e j whether she would like to have the group n ! hung with a red cord, to suit Mr. Spoopjn endyke's complexion, or a blue one, ie ! which woidd be more becoming to hers. ?Brooklyn Eagle. d HEALTH HINTS. y. it The following simple rules for the preservation of health, cspccinlly through e, the changeable seasons of autumn, winig ; ter and spring, should not be left to the ly j health journals. We arc right in the II midst of the time when they apply: ?u Never lean with the back against any 1 L i II11J 111UI 19 tuiu, it Never begin a journey until breakfast has been eaten. <1 Never take warm drinks and then imIt mediately go out into the cold air. 2r Keep the back ?especially between the shoulder blades?well covered; also the c, chest well protected. r- In sleeping in a cold room, establish >r the habit of breathing through the a nose, and never with the mouth wide (S open. it Never go to bed with cold or damp i. 'feet; always toast them ten or fifteen minutes before going to bed. s. Never omit regular bathing, for unless is the skin is in an active condition the cold y I will close the pores, and favor congeso | tion and other diseases. | After exercise of any kind, never ride ic j in an open carriage nor near the window > of a car for a moment. It is dangerous ft to health and even to life. y When hoarse speak as little as possible it until the hoarseness is recovered from, c else the voice may be permanently lost, r. or dillicultics of the throat be produced. *t Merely warm the back by a fire, and never continue keeping the back exposed ! to the heat after it has become comforter ; ably warm. To <lo so is debilitating. "When going from a warm atmosphere s , into a colder one, keep the mouth closed, lC i so that the air m?y wanned by its ir ! nnssiigt* (nrougn tnc husc ere 11, rcuum-a I \ t lie lungs. c j Never stand still in the cold weather, especially after having taken a slight degrec of exercise; and always avoid stande ing upon ice or snow, or where the perit son is exposed to a cold wind.?Albany c Argus. ir """""" y Triumph of Surgery. 'J Modern surgery is able to provide a | man with a new nose, new lips, new eyc" lids, and an artificial throat. It can do *' I more ; it can, by the process known as l"! skingrafting, provide him with a new skin. The following description of tho L j process is reported by an Knglish surgeon: The patient, a pretty little girl of eight, j was admitted into St. George's hospital, j Two years previously her dress had * | caught lire, burning both legs from the " j hips to the knees severely. After a year's 1 | treatment the left thigh had healed up; 'J but the right had never got better, and | presented a terrible ulcer, extending alj 1 1 ~?* * ? ? P/Mt mAnfha ., I UUIVI1 llli; UUIU1 BlUV. 1 U1 1UU1 j she lay there without any signs of im>r | proveinent. On May 5 the child was i brought into the operating theatre antl ? p.aced under the influence of chloroform. ? Two small ])ieces of skin were then snipped from the back with a pair of sharpj pointed scissors, and imbedded?planted, in fact?in the granulations or " proudjtJ flesh" of the wound?two tiny atoms, | scarcely bigger than a pin's head, and i consisting of little more than the cuticle I or outer skin which we raise in blisters ! by rowing or exposure to the hot sun. | Five days later no change was visible, and by-and-byc the operation was con' ! sidercd to have failed, since the pieces of U | skin had disappeared, instead of growi ing, as had been expected. But twelve days after the operation two little white cicatrices appeared where the seed had been sown; and in my notes I find that a ' | week later these were big enough to be " ; dignified as "islands of new tissue." c ; The most wonderful part of it was that r ! not only did these islands grow and increase rapidly in circumference, but the j fact of their presence seemed to stimulate ' ! the ulcer itself, which forthwith took on a healing action around its margin. Several more grafts were implanted subsenl quently, including morsels from Mr. Pol ^ ; lock's arm, from my own, and irom 111c ' shoulder of a negro; the last producing ^ j a white scar-tissue like the rest. In two | ! months the wound was healed, and the little patient was discharged cured. ic 1 " 'd In the Tunnel. as A party of four persons were traveling >(] on the Hudson Kiver road one summer. js In a seat was a young lady and a young rr. gentleman who had been very attentive ."jl to her. In the seat behind them sat their w friends, one of whom was a sportive Pt young lady, fond of practical jokes and .(I rather defiant of public opinion. As the Pt, train dashed through a short and very ... dark tunnel she leaned over and iinIf printed a resonant kiss on the cheek of p. the young lady in front of her. A scream [|1 followed and laughter came from the :lt darkness all over 1 he car. As the train n ran into daylight the insulted young lady turned on her innocent escort and with t | snapping eyes and llaming checks said: ill " How dare you insult me in this manner?'' Si "I assure you," he said, stammering in 1C confusion at the strangeness of his posiu. tion, "that I have done nothing." >._ "Nothing!" she repeated, and burst info tears. r The passengers now ceased laughing e- and looked at the unfortunate young fel1(J j low indignantly. After further protests, m i which were not heeded, he went to the 1V j smoking ear. The sportive young lady : wrote a note the next day and explained ' matters. The young couple were reeonto ! eiled, married, and the other young lady j was not invited to their wedding. I The Oldest Woman in the World. lie At Auberine-en-ltoyans, n village in the Dauphine, situated between Valence s. and Grenoble, may be seen an old woman ne living in a hilt in a narrow street who has reached the extraordinary age of 1211 ;d years. She has 110 infirmity except cr i slight deafness, being in full possession of c. her mental faculties. o- According to her marriage certificate o- she completed in January last her 100th or year since marriage. She was a "canti;n niere" under the First Kmpire, and had ae two sons killed at the battle of Fried land at and in Spain. She is supported entirely ;r, on the alms given her by visitors, who go in from great distances to see her as an object of curiosity, and her neighbors help xl her to do her household work. er She lives almost exclusively on soup it- made with bread, to which is added a little wine and sometimes a little brandy, to Dr. Bonne, who practices in the neigh re borhood, states that she is never ill. ller i skin is like parchment, but she is come, piratively upright, and is r f scrupulously n, i clean habits.?London Lancet. i ( A IV t a thrilling experienc I A KACE FOE LIFE AT THE KATE < EIGHTY MILES AIT HOUR. j An I'nglnccr'N Terri!>lc I>n?Ii Dov a ^fountain Si lo in Front of a JUlc 111? Oil Train. DulT Brown, an old locomotive < gineer, who died recently :it his hoi near Dunkirk, X. Y., oncc liad a thri ing experience. We give the story his own words, as told to a Xew Yc Sun correspondent: "In 180!i I was running a mixed tri j on the Buffalo. Corry and Eric railwj Tlic track between Prospect, or Mayvi Summit, and Brockton Junction is crooked that, while the distance is ncl ally only ten miles, the etirves make by rail fourteen. The grade for t whole distance is over seventy feet to t mile. "About 0 o'clock on the ni^lit. of A gust 17, 1800, -\vc reached the Sumn with a train of two passenger ca six oil cars and a box car. The lati contained two valuable trotting lion and their keepers with them, on th way, I believe, to the Cleveland meet it There were fifty or sixty passenger*", the two cars. I got the signal from t conductor to start and I pulled oi We had got under considerable hen way, when, looking back, I s; that an oil car in the middle of the trsi was on fire. I reversed my engine a: whistled for brakes. The conductor a brakemen jumped off. They uncoupl the passenger cars and set the brakes them, bringing them to a stop. Sn posing that the brakes on the burning i cars would also be put on, I called to brakeman on the box car to draw t <.-uu]Jiiu<? jim i;ia\>rru ui.it u?u uuu. t head oil tank, backing so that ho con do it, intending to run far enough aw to save the box car and locomotive. . I ran on down the hill, after the pin h been drawn, what was my horror to s that the burning cars were following 1 at a speed that was rapidly increasin The men had not succcudcd in putti on the brakes. I saw that the only thi '"to be done was to run for it to Brocktc and the chances were that we won never reach there at the speed which 1 would be obliged to make around the sharp reverse curves, where we had ne\ run over twenty miles an hour. " When I saw the flaming cars?fort whole six were on lire by this time plunging after me, and only a few f< away, I pulled the throttle open. T j oil cars caught me, though, before I away. They came with full for against the rear of the box car, smaslii in one end and knocking the horses a: their keepers flat on the floor. The lie was almost unbearable, and, do my be I couldn't place more than thirty feet t tween the pursuing column of fire a: ourselves. J>y the light from the fur?a< as my fireman opened the door to pile r\r\ct 1 T noiin-lif atrrl^f n f flu> f n j Ulli X >..111^1.1/ wg?? U1 > "? ...wv, ? of the horsemen in the box car. lie lin ing climbed uj> to the grated opening the end. It was as pale as death, and J begged me for God's sake to give 1 more steam. I was giving her then : the steam she could carry, and the gra itself was enough to carry us down att rate of fifty miles an hour. We went fast that the engine couldn't pnm Every time we struck one of those ctin I the old girl would almost run 011 one set wheels, and why in the world she didi topple over is something I never con understand. She seemed to know tl: it was a race of life and death, ai j worked as if she were alive. j "The night was dark, and the ro 1 ran through the woods, deep roek cu ! and along high embankments. The we were, thundering along at lightni; speed, and, only a few paces behind i that lierv demon in full pursuit. The 1 were 50,000 gallons of oil in those tanl ! at least, and it was all in a llatne, inaki ' a flying avalanche of lire 500 feet Ion ! TKn 4l.i?r*nc l/?or\r?r1 intn iho nir 1 | 1UI, |.?|..V? .v?r? 1U.V J feet. Their roar was like that of soi great cataract. Now and then a tai j would explode with anoiselikeacannc . when a column of flame and pite i smoke would mount high above theboi | of the flames, and showers of burning < ' would be scattered about in the woot The whole country was lighted up i miles around. "Well, it wasn't long, going at t rate we made, before the lights of Broc ton came in sight down in the valk The relief I felt when these came in vit | was shrrt-lived, for I remembered tli train Xo. 8, on the Lake Shore, won be due at the junction just about t time we would reach it. >i 8 was the Cincinnati express. 0 only hope, all along during t race, had been that the switchni at the junction would think far cnouj to open the switch there, connecting t cross-cut track with the Lake Sho track, and let us run in on the latti where the grade would be against us, anything, and where we could soon I out of the way of the oil cars. T ! switch, of course, would be closed nc for the express and our last hope w gone unless the express was late, or sou j body had sense enough to flag it. Wh I wo were thinking of this wo saw the c j press tearing along toward the junctio I Could wo reach the junction, get t I switch and tin; switch ho sot back 1 the express before t lie latter got thei J If not, there would be an incvital crash, in which not only we but pro ably scores of others would be crush to death. All ibis conjecturing did n occupy two seconds, but in that two si onds 1 lived years. " 'Good God I1 I said to my fircmu what are we to do now?' "The fireman promptly replied?and was a brave little fellow?that I shou whistle for the switch and take t chances. 1 did so. That whistle w one prolonged yell of agony. It was | shriek that seemed to tell us that o ! brave old engine knew her danger ai ' had her fears. Neither the fireman n mvself spoke another word. "Thanks be to God! The engineer< the express train, seeing us tearing dov mat mounram wiiu an i-ij-mu >n ? m of solid lire in close pursuit of us, kn< in a moment that only one tiling con save us. lie whistled for brak< and got his train to a stand not t feet away from the switch. T switchman now answered our si nal, and we shot in on t shore track and whizzed on up by t depot and through the placelikcurocki The burningcars followed us in, of court but their race was rui:. They had propelling power now, and after ( basil j us for a mile they gave up the pursu ; and in three hours there was nothing h ; of them but smoking ruins. ' -My iircmau and 1 were so weak wh we brought our locomotive to a stop tli j we could not get out of the cab. T two horsemen were unconscious in t j box car. The horses were ruined. Ai ]' how long do you think we were making that sixteen miles? We r j two miles up the Lake Shore track. Ji j twelve minutes from the Summit to t i spot where westopped ! A plumpeigli j miles an hour, not c ounting the time 1< I getting under headway and stoppii ! beyond Brokton." The Consumption of (Jold. The consumption of gold for otli j than monetary purposes in Euroj j America and Australia has more th j quadrupled in thirty years, and has qui j trebled in twenty years. It is more tli i live times what it was half a century ajj I The great mass of gold which has How ' from the mines has been absorbed in t j same opulence and luxury of the tini i which have swallowed up the flood j gems, great in voluinr beyond any form I precedent, from the (liatnonu-nems J South Africa, iiml increasing prices w j lie quite ;is likely to whet (lie appeti j for both as to ciieck it. Five-sixths i the current productirm of gold is a ! sorbed in the, arts and manufactures the Western world and in British Indi A part of tho remaining sixth is lost the wear of coins and by fires, shi wrecks and forgotten hoards. What left to increase the stock of gold inon II proportion to the increase of popul tion, exchanges and wealth of the work ! ?North American Jfrrictr. j One of the naturalists gives the cot j forting assurance, as he calls it, that J bee can sting only once. Once is eno;:g E. j NEWS 01' THE WEEK. Eastern and Middle States. 3E Mrs. Langtry, tho EngliRh professions. ' beauty nnd actrcss. is once moro in this country, having arrived in Now York a few i n i days since on an ocean steamer. iz? ' At Philadelphia two deaf mutes were or| dained priests in tho Protestant Episcopal oVmtV'h ' " | Two j-oung men who had committed a ;ne 1 robbery at Sr ranton, 1'enn., tried to escape ill- , by boarding an express train, and both were in killed. irk i TnE schooner M. O. Andrews sailed from j Jonesport, Ale., on August 20. for Lahave [ Bank, and anchored on the bank on the ~'Jth. j A fierce gale setting in she probably founlv ! dered, and all on board were lost, as she has 11b i not been heard from since. There were 60 j seven men on board. tu- i Five men were injured by a collision be,tween two ferryboats on the North nver at i New York. v An nlarm of firo in a Waterbury (Conn.) : s-hool building, during the session, cauped j 600 children to rush headlong down the .u- stairs, panic-stricken. Many of them were ujt j knocked down, trampled upon and more or rg ; less severely injured. t ' i Jon.v Ir.vi.vo and "Ja'.-k" Walsh, two of j New York's m st notorious criminals, quar5c9 ; reled in the >aloon of an a^ciate, whipped ere j out revolvers, and in a twinkling had shot i?. j each other dead?to tho great delight of tho I prili e autliorities and tho respectable portion 1 i VI. bUC puunv. * 1 BoLTiJff} Massachusetts Greenbackers met j at Worcester and nominated the following id- I ticket: For governor, John F. Arnold; lieuiw tenant-governor, George P. Dutton; secre^jn I tary on state, A. B. Brown; treasurer, | "Washington Wen loll; attorney-general, 11(1 | Charles A. l'aber: auditor, George" W. Kim"(1 | ball. <-'<1 j The remains of Dr. Charles E. Hlumenthal, on i of New York city, were cremated in the ip. ! "Washington (Penn.l crematory, his bodybe*;i ing t he twenty-fourth that has been incineraI ted it; this furnace. , u i Tin: :ate Henry Farnam, of New Haven, he I Conn., leaves his entire estate, valued at he j $4,000,000, to his widow and five sons, with lid I the exception of property worth about $'-'0J,j 000, wh'ch goes to Yatecollege. a a TnE United States Senate subcommittee j { on education and labor has been tailing testiact , mony in Boston. 100 | "While speeding his fast trotter, Early ne J Rose, in Fleetwood Park, N. Y., William H. g. | Vanderbilt collided with a wagon and was ?r, j knocked insensible, but soou recovered con? 1 sciousnesN ? ' About k.'0,< 0) people witnessed the cente. J j nary celebration of j>eace at Newburg, N. j Y. Ten thousand men tiok part in the miliive j tary parade, a i l tho thuudera of seven )se | UnitedStates war vessels anchored in the Hu lP? son gave noble emphasis to the observances. I All day long the o'.d headquarters of the J Revolutionary army, where Washington he j dwelt for over a year, wa; the center of ut? I traction The procession of military, civic ,c(. 1 societies and firemen was reviewed b/ Gov'i j ernor Cleveland, Secretary of the Navy ? | Chandler and other prominent personages. "?t I The exercises consisted of a praver by Dr. CO Prime, an addres; by Senator Thomas A. n<r ; Bayard, the presiding officer of the day, de' livery of a poem by Wa lace Bruce, and an oration by William M. Evar s. In the even:at ing there was a grand display of fireworks, st) | The annua1 conference of tho "We-leyan )c- : church in Ameri.a, in session at Syracuse, ad | N. Y., refuse 1 to admit a de'ogate who is n 1 ,e member of a college fraternity or of the ' I Good Templars, an 1 refus d to receive any1 a member of a secret society. nc | iv- South and West. .m The divorted wife of H. A. Herrick, a 110 well-to-do ranchman of Grand Junction, ler Col., meeting her former husband and his nil I second wife, shot tno latter dead. Tho murderess was admitted to bail, and comae i , Bntna , JllUIlUtrU JJI T?.I 11...UU ;m. |1C Herrick's property. \V hiJo tho sheriff and so Mrs. lierrick were at the ranch looking up ip. j cattle, Herrick shot and killed Mrs. Herrick ,Cg j and then surrendere(i to the sheriff. 0f William Harbison, of Denver, Col., shot ' his sixteen-year-old Wife and then himself, I ? I both dying almost instantly. The cause lid assigned for the net is jealousy and interlat ferenco with his domestic affairs on the part a(] of his mother-in law. The pacer Johnstone, who recently faced i 1 a mile ou the Chicago track in 2:10, has been ' sold to Commodore Kittson, of St. Paul, for l-S ?2.j,0.'JO. :rc Thrfe men were killed and a boy was ng fcverely injured while trying to drive across jg a railroad track at Castalia, Ohio. ;rc Chinamen havediscoversla way of evad! ing tho anti-emigration law in ihe second L'' article of tho treaty, which permits any no Chinaman, other than a laborer, to come to ?. the United Slates if he bo provided with a 00 certificate issued by the Chinese government nt. identifying him as being engaged in i. other pui>uits than that of a laborer. II A steamer which arrive 1 tho other day at "L San Francisco brought i:',2 Chinamen, sovenhy tv-sovon of whom Tiel 1 tradesmen's certiti]y catcs issue 1 by tho oflicials of the Chinese )il government. Notwithstanding the strongest 1 external evidence of their being ignorant Chinese laborers, they were nil. with the ex or ception of six, permitted to land. ! Spark Coon, a few years ago one of the lie leading politicians of Wisconsin, died in a k I hospital in Milwaukee an.l wxs buried in a place little better than Potter's Field. Coon V. | was once attorney-general of tho State, a ;w man of lino attainments and family, and tat possessed a large practice a-id (onsiderable j(] wealth. He t.iok to drink and in a little , while was a ruined man. Ten davs before . ! his death he was picked out of a gutter. ?* j Floueno:-: H. Peteiis, cashier for Chiur cago dealers in musical instruments, conhe fosses to having stolen ? I.',000 from his enian i ployrrs and losing it at faro. , ]) , At State-svillo, N. C., an Immenso crowd ?? j assembled, att; aet-d by a circas. A pistol I fight betwee i a white it a i and a negro rerc : suited in tho killing of the former, th.> -T, I wounding of another man and c'lild and tha if | lynching of the negro. ret j A collision between two fast-i mining j1(, freight trains near Cleveland, Tcnn., resulte 1 i in the death of an en^iise.T, fireman and ,w ! biaken.au, an>l injuries to five or six other as j train lian>!s. |c- The National Telephone a-s cation has ile [ been holding its lourth auuua1. convention in X- I Cincinnati in ; Wheat ha?suffered severely in the North1 west from frost. or j At the sixteenth annual convention of the . i Society of the Army of the Tennessee, held 1,'niul HI, rt tlmi'ft uriun 1.*ircri? nt_tAH#L ?le | aiice, including Generals Grant ami Sh?r- I lj. man, the .'alter presiding. ed j The remains of tho North Caro'ina Con- I 0t 1 federate (lead recently exhume I at the Arlington National cvirrterv, opposite Wadi- j j ington, were interred witli impressive c.tj| monies at Raleigh, N. C. "> ' Nearly complete returns from Iowa put I the majority of .Sherman, governor-elect, lie i over Kinne, Demor-ratic candidate, at 1 |c| i 47:.', and ab jut ">,."0) over a'l. jie j Masked men entere 1 th" lu.uso of Kdward | I McLaughlin.a farmer, near Jo'iet, 111., and 9 tortured him and hi; wife until theydisj closed tho hiding-pla^o of $1.(01) in gold, ur | They then lott their victims n- ariy dead, ad | The African Methodist KpMcopal c mferor ! ence, embracing several of the Western Wiltes, and in session at Denver, Col., di-j cussed tiie recent decision o.'i he Unit 'd States on : supreme court < n tho civil rights bill. The vn judges'action was denounced in the strongHe est terms, and several speeches were made, ,w one of the bishops tlec'aring that if the ne' . groes" righls were thus trampled upon a revolution would b.1 the result. -!S. ri'..*. IVn^linifrfnt, Tnrritiirv lr'i'is'fttnrt1 llfli All I'j n (t.tuiii^ioH v i v.,. ?n ? ? , en granted women tin? right to vol?!. 1C Tin: Society of tl;o Army of the Tennessee, j in session at Cleveland, re-elc ted Geneial he ! T. Sherman president, and voted to hold | iH, next year's reunion on August 15 and Hi, ut t" Lake Minnetoiika. Minn. so, no Washington. II r A Washington di>] a'.ch says tliat the | iT cotton crop for this year was est in ated at 7,no.'/Kin bales, it may only ho about I CUM bales, and may j erlia;>s not bo over I 5,7.M',l)<HJ bales. ('H CiiAHtJES and affidavits afTcMng the ofli- I lat rial character of Postmaster Haves, of St. j ]1L. Louis, have reached the postoll'co ilojart- I I t ment from tlie ins] ect >r who was charged | ? with the investigation of the alia rs of that 'I'l pestmaster. i'l Go\ eknok .Mi'itR.vY, of I'lah. ha< ma'e a |' an rei ort to the seen tary of tlie inter or on the j J condition of aH'a.rs in that Territory j 1 i' with reference to the Moruu n 1 pn b!cin. He s-iys: '! have cndeavoio I I 1 ty to execut the law; of ton*.; row and of tl:e 1 >st | Territi rv with fide ity, mercy and with what- ! ' nir ever ability I p is<e*sed. A co:ni>ii.a i n to i j ? nullify the 'aws oT Con^re-s ha< long i-x'sted j ! t in t'lah. '1 his eon-pir::c/ h !! o; en rebellion ] at ruin tine. a :d c>n"in:cs ut a'l timostoj'" evad aid defeat the piain will of ! Ci miress a.?1 the President, and ti.i | a l.iinli'.ati n of the supremo io:nt. 'j i Till1 gove-nor warns the country ot nan-;: )ei gers tha* heset tin' country in t::ls. another t !iu jrrepre-sihle c uiilic-t." and siys t hat for < v> r , . jte thirty year- an un'awfnl Mormon govern- | ! inent lias ex t ?1 in I tali in the fact* of Con- ! ' grt'S- ami ti e country. '" j 1 Tiik I'nited State s supreme c >nr! has just ' L'U dncidcd t In* civil rights !?;ll ??f I>t<> lx; un- j j He constituiioiia'. Five (a a submitted to tho j , ies court a \ car ngo hriw been ;o deeit'e.1. j , (Jf Th'-f earn; were ; ro e urions u id-r ill < ivil j rights act for not admitting certain to'oml I pel-sons to equal ai eoinnitHlati m-i an 1 pr.viof le^es in hotels, ra:lroa 1 cars and theatres in] ill various | arts of the c mntry. The dele so j set up in every ca;" was the alleged i:ncm- | ()? stitutiona'ity of the aw. Justice Harlan . dissent, d from the decision of hiscght to!-] ] li agues. 111 | President Arthur has confirmed the j in. j sentence of dismissal in the case of Coin- | j a j niander Fre lericlc K. Smith. Knited Stites i p. navy, tried hy court martial for dunliea'iii': j _ j his pay a -connts, hut has mitigate I it to sus- . JS j pension from rank and duty lor one year. | c'-v [ Register Bruce, of the treasury, an I | n- other prominent colored citizens of Washing- I 1 ? ton, comment with much severity on thede- j cision of the United Slates supreme cours declaring the civil rights a -t an uneonstituI tional invasion of the rights of States. n Foreign. j. Adviczs from Port au Prince, Hayti, state i that a revolution has broken out at that Elace and half of the city has been destroyed y incendiarism, bombardment, slaughter and pillage. Two daughters of the mikado of Japan dial within forty-eight hours of each other. Out or ten childron only one survives. During the services in a Jewish synagogue at Zi wonka, Russia, a false alarm of fire was raised in the women's gallery, which caused a panic. Tho people rushed for the door, where there was a terrib'.o crush, during wliieh forty women were killed and thirty others injured. A strong shock of earthquake was ion on the island of Chios, durinp which several houses were destroyed, ana some persons were injured. The sho?k was also felt at Syra, ami Smyrna, Turkey, and there was much carnage and loss of life at Aivali. A railroad bridge in Mexica fell, carrying with it a construction train of eighteen cars and two engines. Two engineers and threa Mexicans were killer!. TnE awar.is to the United States at the London fisheries exhibition number 147, of which forty-five are goli, forty-five silver and twenty-eignt bronze medals. There are also nineteen diplomas and ten money prizes. The United Sia'.es fish commission ge'.s eighteen gold and four silver medals, beside two diplomas. Nearly all the wheat crop in Manitoba, British America, has been ruined by frost. Cetewayo's band of Zulus in South Africa were surprised by another band, and one-half their number slaughtered. Cetewayo has surrendered to the British. Xembroxo & Co., cne of the oldest and wealthiest business houses in Northern Mexico, large dea'ers in merchandise and owners of much vali able real estate, have failed, with liabilities of abiut $.3 JO,000. Sixtt-three members of a Nihilist society were tried at St. Petersburg, and all sen tencea to dc sunt 10 oiuma. Villa Alegko, an Italian village, has been destroyed, and 1,OUO persons made homeless. Great damage to property and immense loss of life liavo been caused by earthquakes on the Peninsula between Chesmeh, in Asia Minor, opposite the island of Chios, and Vourla, on the southern coast of the Gulf of .Smyrna. All the villages ir that region have been destroyed, and it is reported that ab iut-i,WW persons have perished, Most of the houses collaps.fl at the first shock, burying the inmates. The Turkish govern ment issued a notice stating that 3),0J0 per sons are homeless and pleading for immediate assistance. O'Donnell, slayer of Carey, the Irish informer, has been indicted by the Lond'-r grand jury, and his trial fixed for Novembei 21 Marie McCabe, a young woman tried al Hamilton, Ontario, for drowning hor infanl in a cistern, has been sentence J to be hanged, Advices from Altata, Mexico, report thai the population of that town has been deci mated by yellow fevor. The number ol deaths for two weeks avt raged twenty a day, A hurri'jane which also visited the unfortunate town destroyed tha greater part and killed severa' p.rsons. The corner stone of the church which i< to be erected upon the spot in St. Petersburg where Emj eror Alexander II. was killed was laid by tho c :ar and czarina, with iui posing ceremonies, in the presence of the (ourt officials, the nobility and a vast con course of people. MUSICAL AND DRAMATIC, Lotta will probably play in London next .spring. IIaverly is to take another minstrel troupe to England. New York's new opera-house will ssat :},()(>4 persons. Maggie Mitchell refused to play on Sunday night in Cincinnati. Kellogg.?Clara Louise Kellogg has earned half a million dollars with her voice. The Rev. Henry Ward Beecher lectured recently in New Orleans and other Southern citics. Mrs. A ones Boucicault has boon a Ido 1 to the company of tho Fifth Avenue theatre, New York. Joe Jefferson has played " Rip Van Winkle"' over 4,00.) times during the last twenty year.-i. This is the tinn of the year wlnn tho returning prima ilonna talks about America and gives us all " taffy." J. A. Arnold, an American, has made a successful debu'. in Lon Ion, in Planquette'a comic opera, "Rip Van Winkle." Brooks and Dickinson have engaged Risiori lor a tour of this country during 1ss4?.*>. She will be supported by an American company. The s-ubicription to the opera season at the new Metropolitan Opera-house, New York, amounts to $40,000, the largest known for any s?ason. The four " Lights o London" companies now on the road afford employment to 193 persons, ninety-seven of whom form tho total of tho Acting department. Miss May Newman, who is playim* the leading fenia'o ro!e in tlr* Boston theatre " World" company, is receiving; much praise from the New England press. Sir Arthur Sullivan*, it is said, has undertaken to write an Italian opera, which, if finished in time, is to be produced at Covent Garden next year. The story of Mary Stuart is to form"the subject of the libretto. The queen of Spain appears to be fond of good music. Last summer she attended some 1 erformnnces of " Parsifal" at Bayreuth, and during her recent visit in Vienna, Strauss' ' Merry War" was sung at her special request. Mr. Lytton Svthern, son of "Dundn a y," is not achieving much success in his tffort to produ.e throughout the country the plays made famous by his father. The man who undertakes to imitate a distinguished father has a big contract always. Mr. James E. Murdoch proposes next season to give a series of farewell performances in all the princ ipal cities of the country beforo finally retiring from the stage. He will nrubably appear as Hamlet, Othello, Claude Meluotte and Charles Surface. An interesting account appears in the London Era of tlio Warrington theatre, said to bo the oldest in the provinces, and the first in which gas was used. There is a playbill in existence of a performance which was given in 17113, when scenic effects were evidently a feature new in those days. The artist anrounced that h i would display " the ribs of beef roasting in the old baron's kitchen." Another scene was to bo "Tom I'aine burnt in elllgy."' THE NATIONAL GAME. Walker, of the Toledo club, is the only professional colored pitcher in the country. James Devlin, who for several years was considered the best pitcher in the country, died recently at his home in Philadelphia. 1'it'llard.-'O.v, of the Buffalo club, has had an offer of )0 lo play in Boston next season. A1 Reach has offered #-'!,U(0 for his services if he will play in Philadelphia. According to the battiiu average for the season the eight league c.ub-; stanl as follows: buffalo, first: Chicago, second: Providence, third: Ho-ton, fourthPhiladelphia, fifth: Detroit, sixth: New York, seventh, and C'eve'and eighth. The net earnings of the American association clubs this year were: Athletics, ? 5,( 0.). less $t I.MKI laid out lor grounds; St. I.ouis, $40.0011. less the cost of new grounds, .i-i.!,.!. u-fis niiinit Ssitv.ooi): Cincinnati. &55. uk); Baltimore. ?Ja?,c O.i; Metropolitan, S'l.iXX); Columbus. $4.D(X). an I Allegheny, The Louisville dub lost $l,(HJt). Ifft'.l the men wholiave playedo:ieor nioro pames in the Phiia.lelphia team this season wjre to pass in review before Hob Ferguson, ays the Detroit Free I'itss, he would lail to recognize some of them. They number twenty-seven. The Detroits have numbered sixteen: Buffalos, eighteen; Cleveland, seventeen ; B< sto-i, twelve ; Chicago, eleven ; New York, sixteen ; Providence, fourteen. Hagan, now pitching fur the Buffalos, is tho only n:an who has gone from one league team to another during the season. Detroit has had seven pitchers?Wcidman, Burn-1. Shaw, Mclntyre, Badbourne, Mansell and Wood. SrEAKiNfi of the popular interest taken iu baseball at Boston, a letter in the Springfield li'r/iublicttH says: ' This has been a marvo!nusly prosperous season, ost.eci illy t ward its pnd, and baeia'l stock here will b- high next spring. 'J'lic Bostons had an enormous crowd at their benefit at the South End and reaped a substantial profit from it. Stories ire told of the members receiving all sorts ot : if: s from admiring bac'iers. One gentleman gave, it is said, eacli player a watch and a uitof clothes, and one enth.u.-iast presented aeh man with $".00 cash in accordance with i promise* mailc cariv in tno season, me re: ?.pts for a linis-sions to the grounds have Ixen huge. larger than in any other c ity. an?l he grounds am to b? enlarged. Ths chamlionsaro the rets of the town. They go to t ho theatre a:;rt tho an iienee rice? en masse ami cheers t'.ieiu. Invitations are showered upon Ihein from all quarters. This is not at al! to lie deprecate I, for the "hoys''won the pendant on their merits by sheer goo.1 playing i nl it was a long and uphill struggle (or them. Not a game was played hero in September i i:t was watched with keen interest by many ?i the elite, who filled the grand stand clay if'.er day." SINGULAR ACCIDENT. '3'wcnly-tlircc 3L"or?c? EiilW-s! t?y the B'ltmco of \iiimoiil r. A singu'ar at cident occured at Cincinnati the other night. Through some <are!i\ssnes: it.- < iii fiinrpc. a condenser in a lurrc ice machine at M< crleiti's brewery, c wla.ning several hundred gallons of ammonia, hurst with a loud re port. The fumes ro c in a i n at white clouil, and in a moment ha I permeate! the entire neighborhood, driving i e->|?!o out of their rooms for quite a distance in hot haste. One man in the brewery was rendered insensible, but uftenvar.l recovery.I. The cloud rolled into the street and nearly prostrated cardrivers and passengers on the line near. The stables were directly adjoining the building containing the condenser, and all the fine horses in the stalls, twentythree in all, were killed by the fumes before they could be liberated. LATER NEWS, Henry IV. Gwinner, a well-known rai!? > rea l man, president of the National Rail- , j rea l Protection company, committed suicide I in New York by shootirg himself through I the 1 rain. *^Ir. Gwinner was about sixty; three years old, and is supposed to have I killed h'mself while temi>orarily insane I throuch arduous attention to his duties. ! Edward Hovey, a young man, was I hanged in the New York Tombs for the un| ] rovokrd murder of his sister-in-liw, Mrs. Fanny Veimilwa wl:cm he shot dead, i Alexander Thackaiia, a prominent Philadelphia lawyr of hgh sccial stan ingi 1 J n:y.-teriou?Iy d sa; p?aiel; and investigation j disclosed that with him had gone " 54,000 fce| longirg t > an est at? of wli.'ch he wa< trust eeThe ccmmittee of ere litors of F. Shaw <fc , Brothers, tanners, who recently failed, re| j ported at a meeting of creditors in Boston I that it appeared that the assets of the firm j wore worth ? ana mat ino l iiumtx-.i 1 were ?5,31J 03>). The firm, the committee believed, could pay seventy-two cents on the dollar. M yrgaret Harris, a colored girl, wai ' hanged at Calhoun, Ga., for the murder of 1 a li'tle white girl by pois n: at Mnroe, Ga., Taylor Bryant, a colore I man, was | hanged for assaulting a whits woman, and nt Columbus. Texas, James Stanley, alsocolj ored, was hanged for murdering a white toy I sixteen years old. All the foregoing exo. j cat ons occurred on the fame day. ! MUOR-ge.ve'iyl jame3 b. steedman, i 1 who -erved with distinction on the Federal ' 6i le through the civil war, is deal. At the time of his death ho was chief of pollco at J Toledo, Ohio. i Consul Gadf. sends to the state ('epart1 mc-nt an account of a new industry, or ' rather the use of a new raw material for the manufacture of paper?white moss, found extensively in the countries named?which 1 has sprung up in Norway anl Sweden. " The general lnnd office is continuing vigor> ously the crusade inaugurated against what are known us "land cniisers" in the West. These " land cruisers " are engaged in fraudu! lently possessing themselves of the public land, an:l wherever discovered the fraudulent ; entries are immediately canceled, i Twenty men were killed by an explosion in a colliery near Barnstable, England. j THE CIVIL RIGHTS BILL. i . Important Decision by the United [ States Supreme Courti I ) The Act of 1875 Declared to be Unconstitutional. , An important decl ion has just been reudered by the United States supreme court in the five civil rights cases wbic.i were submitted to it about a year ago. These cases were all based on the first and second sections of the civil rights act of 1875, and were respectively prosecutions for not admitting c naiu colored persons to equal rc:onjmodations aid privileges in inns or hotels, in railr. ad cars and in theatres. The defense set up was the alleged unconstitutionality of thH law. The first and second sections of the act, which were the parts directly in controvei'sy, are os follows: h'ection 1. That all fersons within the jurisdiction of the JJj&cd S ates shall be enlitled to the full and ?[ual enjoyment of the accommodations, advantages, facilities and privileges of inns, public conveyances on land and water, theatres and other places of public amusement, subject < nly to the cjnditions and limitations established by law and applicable alike to citizens of every rac > and color. ?*?gardless of any previous condition of servitude. The second s"ction provides that any per' ? ?I ?1 ' 1?~ <!? .* nAA^IAM oUall Kfl sun who viumte? i ut; m at acwuii/i* nuuu *#v? liable t> forfeit $"0) for each offense, to be recovered in a civil action; and also of a penalty of from $T>.)0 to #1,010 fine, or imprisonment of from thirtv days to a year, to beenfo/col in a crimionl proso.-ution. Exclusive jurisd ction is given to the district ! and circuit courts in ca-es arising under the ! law*. The rights and privileges claimed and denied to the colored pers >ns in these cases were full an L equal accommodations in hotels, in ladies' cars on railway trains and in the dress e're e in theatre.'. The court, in a long and carefully prepared opinion by Justice Bralley, held: First?That Congress hal no constitut'onal authority to pa? the two icctions under cither tho thirteenth or i fourteenth amenainent of the Constitution? | Sec on I, that the fourteenth amendment is prohibitory upon the States only, and that the legislation authorized to bo adopted by Congress for enforcing that amendment is not din ct legislation on the matters respecting which tiie States are prohibited from making or enforcing certain laws or doing certain a-ts, but is corrective legislation necessary or proper for counteracting and redressing the effect of such laws or acts; that in forbidding tho States, for example, to deprive any j f r son of life, liberty or property without I ~?? - ? -? ri/-\nrrrewja | tuiu piuvraa i<i jun, uiiu [ p.nver to en fo.ce the prohibition, it was not j intended to give power to provide | duo process of law for the protcc.ion of life, liberty and property (which would embrace J almost all subjects of legislation), but to pro| vide moJes of redress lor counteracting the operation and effect of State laws obnoxious tothe'proh.bition. Third?That the thirteenth I ^amendment gave no power to Congress to ! 'pass the sec ions referred to, bxause it relates j to slavery and involuntary servitude, wh.ch it abolishes, and gives Congress power to pass laws for its enforcement; that this power ' only extends to the bub.ect mat er of the amendment it-elf, namely, slavery and involuntary servitude and the ntc&sary incidents ana consequences of those conditions; that it has nothing to do with different races br colore, but only refers to slavery?the legal equality of different r;:ces and classes j of citizens being provided for in the four, teenth amendment, which prohibits the I States from doing anything to interfere j with such e juality: that it is no infringement ! of the thirteenth amendment to refuse to auy j person til-enual accommodations and pi 17ileges of aiy inn or place of entertainment | however it may be violative of his legal rights; that it imposes on him 110 badge of slavery or j involuntary servitude wh c 1 imply somesort j of subjection of one person to another and j the incapacity incident thereto, such as in- I 1 ability to hold property, to 11 a';e contracts, I j to Ih! parties in court, etc., and that if the . ' original civil rights act which abolished j j the-e ii.capacities might be supported by the 1 thirteenth amendment, it does not therefore ) follow that the a t of 16") can be supp>rte I i by if. t 1-ourtn?J mu mis decision auccta uuij iuu i j validity of the law hi the^tates anil not in the i Territories or the District of Columbia, ' ! where the kgis'a'ive power of Congress is unlimited, and itdojs not undertake to deoide ! 'What Congress might or might not do under j ' ih;' power to regulate commerce with foreign j nations an 1 among the several States, the law not being drawn with any such view. | Fifth?Tint, therefore," it is the opinion of | the court that the first a vl second sections of j ! the act of Congress ot Maich 1,1875, entitled j "An act to protect all citizens in their civil j I and legal rights,'' are unconstitutional and I void, and judgment should be rendered upon ! the indictments accordingly. At the conclusion of the reading of Justice j Bradley's opinion, which occupied more ! than an li u , Justice Harlan said that under ordinary circumstances, and in an ordinary "case, he should hesitat j to set up his individual opinion in opposition | to that of his eight colleagues, but in view of | what he tin light the people of this country wi>hed to accomplish and what they beiievetl j | they li d accomplished by means of this legislation, he must express his dissent fr >m the | ; opinion. He had not had time since hearing j i that op nion to prepare a statement of the 1 I ground of his dissent, blithe should prepare an 1 tile one as soon as p s>ible, and in tho ! meantime doired to j ut upon record thisex1 prcssion of his individual judgment. I __ _ UNITED STATES ARMY. llj (Iiangtw Causi'd by t'.ic Kclircmcnt of (ieiK ral Slicrimtn. j i A Washington il.sjKitcli .>-ays: The follow- v j ing general order was issued this afternoon by thy secretary of war: 1 ho 1'resident having | receded to th request of General vV. 1. ] Sherman to lie relieved frointhe command of i the ai my 0:1 November 1, Is*:;, prepai at try j to his retirement from active service, directs the following changes and assignments to i command: General William T. Sherman ; will l)o relieved from command of the army j on the above mentioned date, and will repair f to his In nit', St. Louis, Mo., to await his rej tire nont. The general will I e attended, j 'pri jr to his retirement. by those of his aides v I tic camp whom hi- may designate to tho p : adjutant-general. , Liruteimnt-General l'hilip H. Sheridan 1 will proceed to Washington and assume commanil of the army. Major-Ueneral John M. (l *' ' 1 ""11 * 'x <'liwiofTrtaml occntnn ^ rriioruwi win it< uwi iv/ v I'.niiiiiiind of the military division of the J M ssouri. Ma'or-(Jeneral John Pope will >' I (iroccvd to the pn si lio oi' San Francisco and * ' assume command of the military division of v I the Pacific and of the "department 1 i . f California. Brigadier-General C. C. s j 'Augur will proceed to Fort I.eaven- x ; worth and wr.ll, on the above men- ' j 'tioned date, a-sume command of the dej>art- s nu nt of the Missouri. Brigadier-General R. '}. j S. Mackenzie will proceed to S'ati Antonio, i Texa , and assume command of the depart* "* ?" J a *. U j nieuc 01 jexas. in; uepurmirnu w uic j South will, 0:1 November 1, is-*:;, be merged 0 | in the department of the Ea^t, under the [ command of Maior-Uemral Hancock, coinj mantling the military division <>f the Atlantic j anil tlie department of the East. Major-General Hancock was offered the | command i f the division of the Missouri, n | but declined it, preferring to retain his j ] present commanil, the military division of I the Atlantic. His letter of declination waa 1 received at the war department to-day. I c LEVELED TO THE GROUND. M Great Destruction Wrought by an M j Earthquake. j Immense Loss of Lite cni rropercy in Asia Minor. -Jffifl Advices from Smyrna stato that an earth- j quake shook the island of Chios severely and '^91 extended along th j entire c joot of Ana.olia and far into the interior o,' the wes.ern ior- sgjjU tiou of As a Minor. The first shock was felt ; at Smyrna about twenty minutes last 7 in the morning. It 1 .stgd apparently only about the fourth j art of a minute ana was followed by three lesser shocks in quick suo* cession, which seemed to be only of about 4;ije9 "1 half the duration of the f'rst. With the first) ' J shock many dwell ng ji >r.so3 caine down. The damnxe was greatest on the lower j slopes of the ancient Mount Pogasns, where the vibrations were much more severe thanalong the p.'ain b.tvvccu the hill anl the _ shore, where the Christians res de. All ihevil- ~2aM lages between Chesir.ehaiul Vouriawere com- *;?? :3 wrecked, and at least ~',0C0 pei-sons have lo3t their lives by being buried under the falling walls of their dwellings. Chesmeh was badly . damaged, but no lives were lot. In the ad joining p:aces of Burnabad and Budja a num- t ber of handsome villas were d jmoiished. . The loss of life in the city of Smyrna fl H 4lia worn minor to liavo spent its force before it reacheS jls? there; but the scenes among the people were far beyond description, 'lhe fear and con* -'vjjH sternation were terrible. Crowds of men, * *>|jH 1 women and children rushed into the open spaces and the middle of the i/Sk streets. The caravan bridge waa , -'-bm crowded with a motley lot of people, ^ggH and the camel grounds adjacent were /3j9H completely thronged with human beings. The . Jg castle on the summit of the lull was thrown j down with a tremendous crash. The large '1 Roman Catholic cathedral, a comparatively ,-j new building, was damaged considerably, " -vHj one of the towers failing and killing r -;3jgm some eight or ten people who were -Jffl \ running wildly from their homes near by, About an hour after the first shock several i'j?] fires broke out amid the ruins, and added for the time being to the terrors of the situation, J but they were put out before serious damage .,-*9 had been catisod. A wave of inky b'.ackness swept from the . ; 4-Viiwiirrli f.Vm Onlf r\f RmvrniL V viuvugu VUV VUU. VAI ^?? ? y. -r,{n^M bringing disaster to a number of the many -'.gMl vessels in the magnificent harbor. Several . ships were carried far upon the shore and jSM landed higli and dry in p'acesfrom which it ^ will cost hundreds of dollars to get them ^ afloat again. Hundred! of rude and promptu tents were put up in thtfJ^SSfijl suburbs, and large numbers of peoplaK&jgMM who could not be accommodated eveaafcfiMM: in these meaner quarters are lying upon cotsJBt||9H and even the bare grouii I, rather than reffiffaiMMK turn to their more dangerous habitations ia^l-tftwEgi the town. The tide, which is ordinarily bnt^Ht^WflHj twenty-five inches, rose to a height of more^&S9|U than seven teet, sweeping away much of thaW ^ffioBW portable property on t?e snore as welqK^&Bj as a number of fishers len'a huts.eral thermal springs in Budja intercepted for the time, but appeared ajgjinSH ahortlv afterward of the color of hkiod. TPhgBB! jgb extent of the fi^kJ of action thom tfc*t fhe j-SKSDf forces which produced this great Wth-%5^3Hg|! quake were manifested deep in the interior ofHgmgSK the planet, and not ou the surface only. The|9p?9R pecuniary loss to the city of Smyrna will bejSSfcaMM very great, but the loss of life will hard y ei'MffrnW ceed three hundred y ersons. JLn the is and of Chios, in the Archipelago,HwjrafiH a few miles beyond the promontory on wnicbgjfiuMBB Smyi na is situated, the shocks were felt withBBBMflB terrib.e severity. The first occurred almost ngm simultaneously with that ft It in b'myraa. The ent.re four hundred miles of territory Chios seemed to be for the time but one un- SKnmSR foliating sea of earth waves, following eachH|||9H other rapidly, like the swell of ocean fctorm. The subterranean rumble was followed so quickly by the terrible shock that the people were given neither rffi&lsMB time to fly nor to throw themselves intofl^^H^| the arms of loved ones and bid them aoH fi^^E everlasting adieu. Frightful noises succeed- wM el the shock?the terrible cries of humaq beings and crushed animals. A th ck dust [gBffiflHI was diffused into the air and the aky wu H M darlceni d as on t be da -kest night. ~?jPB The limestone rocks dotting tho island were rent asunder. The boautiful valleys were seamed with enormous fissures. The course -* S r? -A- HBfflOl 01 me Streams wmi'll uiigau: iw plains were suddenly changed. .Near> all Suffl of tl'e extensive wine cellars on the island were utterly ruined, and the loss to the owners will aggregate an enop. BB :'ajiwM| mous sum. At Kastro, the capital of Bfl the isiand, the castle built in front or the city as a means of defense in the olden time was H; leve ed to the ground. Three small silk fac- H rSMH tories were totally destroyed, and one cotton H '"ffisMH factory was damaged almost beyond repair. IB '-fSjpjg Of the town's population but few people es> 3 - -'rjjM capt-d. The loss of life in Kastro will aggregate fully nine hundred souls. Most of the dead are Turks. In other parts of the island over M'-'fBjW thirteen hundred people are so far reported killed, and it is feared that the number' will K greatly exceed the present estimates whea I v-tkHh all the outlying territory is heard from. Alo g vjr^Q the coast of Western Am a Minor, or Anatolia. StflgSBB the shocks were felt with great force, ana I; , the latest reports indie ate tfcat tho effects of 9 SsflK the earthquake were very severely fe'.t as far into the interior as ?ulah?over ninety^ miles east ot Smyrna. All the villages bfr- ' tween Chesmeh and the Voula are totally ' wrecked, scarcely a house being left stana- ffisflj ing to mark the sites of the many thriving :. places which we: e scer.es of life and bustling r%JH activity, for this is one of the busiest seasons -t|9| with the people ot ine pen usu.u. xu ucsw < ->j? mated that about three thousand persons lost ~-?3| their lives in this part of the country. '-'ffiil The earthquake waves seem to nave fol-, lowed the ecast line iillth.; way from Alva to' Melissa, and the whole territory over which, the grt at shocks extended was at times rocked: . -'kjaa simultaneously, a idsensatir.nssimilar to sea-. sickness wore experienced bn ariv aiPSfaain- . ,'?3 habitants. Those who watched the sky noticed ?v ' that the drifting clouts seemed at times to be arrested in their motion. Advices r'-Sjffl from the interior indicats that the loss of life . ,'/?x in that section may reach 4,000 souls, and j&afl will certainly nurrbsr fully three-quarters : Hag of that estimate, 'lhe number of maimed' will be very large. At Eskihissar the dead are about ono hun lred and fifty. From Sart -ySI the loss of seventy-five lives is reported. In Melisa the damage was slight, and ? :">|g the loss of life will not number over fifty, f|M the earth ;U.ike seerinn; to have spent its SgJ force near thatpoi.t. At Geaa the dead ' number about eighty. From many other S3 villages similar reports are constantly com- '. .j3a| ing in at Smyrna, and it is very difficult at this time to mak." au approx.mation even of the loss of .ife. The port? has issued an appeal to the people to r.s.ist the sufferers by mthe earthquakes, slating that ?0.:00 of the survivors of the disaster in that region have been rendered homeles.--. ^^HII Tlie Itavaecd Country. Anatolia, a luive ja:t of which seems to lave been devas atcd by the earthquake of fig fuestlay, is a iximin-uh fornii v,' the western 'T???h sxtremity of Asia. It comprehends various - jl 1'urkish villavets an l islands, and iif its videst sen-^e a' pears to in-lude all Asiatic uflflHiij rurkey. Ana' o!ia proper is included between ' :he tliirtysixUi and forty-second parillels of north latitn o a ia between the jjgMi wentv-sixth and forty-first meridan of east w * * i u? >^3 on^ituae, ana is uuuu ;lm n <nu uj wo *391 Black Sea, the Sea ot Marmora and the Dar- r iauelfcs, west b.- tnc (Jr. < a:i Archipelago -'^sj ind >outh by tiie Mediterranean. Its great- . 'm. ?st length i>"about seven h mdred miles and g3 . ts gnatest width xur.g four hundred and' KSjSKJ Aven'y mile?, giving it"a t area of 270,000f I apare miles. J ho surface may l>e termed in elevate 1 plateau dctted with salt' HS akes an 1 in.losed by two ranges )f offshoots of the Anner.iin mountain sysem. Everywhere lofty mountain masses, *M nore or ks< connected, are to lie met with. KJw :'*$? Huch of this form Uion is rf a volcanic kind, ; mil tra es of igneous rction extend over a si| '33 onsidei able space, The total population of he country has been estimated at 4,500,000, -.,kS<2 if which sum tho Ottoman Turks con litute ;ib .ut 11 :ii'-tenths: the remaindr ire Greeks, Jews, Armenians and tafc ;ypsiYs. Agriculture (>ugar c.uio growing) ??S|H~13I s in th-.- most rude and | l imit.ve state, and ~\3| OJids, as undcrst'jed in ciil.zed countries, ,re unknown. M.aiu a turcsaropra tically ~3 nknown. Th.* vd!aee of C:;e meh isin Asia linor. opposite tho island o:' Scio, forty mile > outhuesi of Smyrna. It has a pjpulation of ix or se\en thou-and ami a lar^e citaiel, the ..] esidence of a Tirici-li governor. It was at !he-meh, in 1!???, thai the Russians burned he Turkish navy. Later disvacfies say that the number of .< atbs by toe ea: thquahc is not so great as vaa first reporto 1. THE PENSION OFFICE. liiui'.nl I?c;:orl of the Commissioner Of i'VllMillllHt Tlic annual report of the United States ommi-ioner of pensions for the past fiscal ~~ tar, just made public, sliow.s that there ,vro pensioners on the roll at the ntl of tho fiscal year. During the year lie names of of,1152 row pension rs. and ho inmi s of 7.Hi whosi> j ensioi s have b-vn ropped previously, wore re-t< red to the roll, uaking j c.-sions addc I <Iiiriti^c the ear, an excess of :<>,< ( *> over the | receding car. '1 he average annual value of each pen- ' ion was $10;:.is. and tho a pre ate annual alueof all pensions was If', an in reaseof$i,!Hil,iKK). Th a > ount raid for pen'ons wj?sif?HM):i4.00!t, ex-cod n; the'r annuala'ue several million do lars. The b :1k of his i xco-* was on account of arrears of penions covering the ] eriod pri >r to the allow- fc-:* nc of claims. The whole number of claim* iled since l.'GI was SN5,1'.7, of wh'ch 5 vi'iv allowed. During tho same time $ HI,; , :!?r were jiaid for pensions and the coats f disbursements. ft ? Tw elve brigands implicated in fourteen rim-dors have bom sent.'need tj death at 'alermo, Sicily, and e'.even others couvictod f Simplicity in the same crime !:ave been ondotnned to life imprisonment. * - -