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ABBEVILLE PRESS AND BANNER. 1 >sh * BY HUGH WILSON. ABBEVILLE, S. C.. WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 7, 1883 NO. 19. VOLUME XXVIIL M ? -? ??- ? ? ?; A MARICOLD DAY. Mistj like a garment, wrapped the hills, The valley like a sipia dream Lay far beneath. Tho old house stood With droo; ing envos and wasting beam. Its silent dignity fell soft Upon our spirits. Far and wide The quaint old garden slumbered in Its weeds and mosses: and be ids Us glowed the yellow marigolds? Tho brave, unyielding marigolds I Like sentine's they stoo 1 an l asked Mutely for charity, for gra.-o ur pity ana loroearauee, wan The pathos of n dying rac?. These last defend r- of th ir eirth Repelled intrusion. j<*st or pride. We turned and b'o-sed their bravery That secmod our thoi^htlcsne-s to chi le. The m iri^-ol!?. th > marijokR The bravery i f th" marigolds, Theto<az colored marigolds! Amid the garden's fading weeds "When autumn's dying so il was set. We marked a solitary s o:ie, A giave, th> garden charishe 1 yet. Ghostly the murmurs seemed to ri?o Of love an 1 s turne 1 to dust. THa i-%1 <1 ^tirro ! within it? Ooon. "VVe left them totlvvr s >!em:i trust. The marigold-;, the marigolds Ah, love th >se faithful mirigolds; Those sturdy, yellow marigolds! ?liochester Democrat. THE LAWYER'S SECRET. It was in a luxuriously furnished room, where a glowing grate threw genial light and warmth upon the occupants, that General Langton, lawyer and millionaire, listened villi hated breath and pallid cheeks to a low and melodious voice that told a story of a life. The speaker, a beautiful woman of about thirty, yet ten years younger than Mr. Langton. reclined in a low, cusli ioned chair, her attitude bespeaking the ease which wealth gives, but her face was full of the deepest anguish as her lips recounted the story. "You love me," she said, gently, yet sadly, "and I love you as I never loved any one before, although I am a widow. That you knew, but did not know my husband's name. I'.y my uncle's last request I dropped it. awl took his with the property he left me. Do not iook at me tenderly, Gerald, do not shake mv voice or my heart, for when you know who I am you vii! not repeat the offeryou made me, and which, heaven is uiy witness, I tried to avert." " Let your conscience be at rest there,"' said her listener, in :i crave vet tender voice; "you have never given mc one hope, Maude. J5y what instinct I knew that you loved me I can never tell?something in your eyes, some tone of your voice betrayed you. If, as you say, something in your past life does separate us, you have been no coquette to torment me * ^ with false hopes. Hut. Maude, tell me again, whatever siands between us, you love me?" "I love you," she said, gravely, "and it is because I love you that I will not let you link your honorable name with that of the wretch who was my husband. I was very young?not sixteen?when lie came to make a visit to some friends living at Grassbank. Uncle liichard has a country seat near the village. I first met Alexander at a picnic, where he was the very life of the party, everybody's cavalier, courteous to all. full of wit and animation and service to all. I believe Bvnrr rrirl nri !>? rrrmtmla tlinnrrlit clip ft... - had captivated him, his attentions were .'0 well divided and yet so impressive to eoch one. lie claimed to be no more than a salesman in a large wholesale house with a good salary, but he had the manners of a gentleman of good education, and the most perfect beauty of face and form that I ever saw in a man. It was not long before it was evident that ^ he wished to win my love, and he had an easy task. Such love as a child of sixteen can give I gave him. lie was the impersonation of every hero of poetry and fiction with whom my limited reading had made mo familiar. School-girl like, I had made an ideal hero, and fitted this, my lirst admirer, with all his imaginary perfections. " From the first Uncle Richard disliked him. pronouncing hiin false and shallow, and assuring me that my personal attractions had not won his heart; but the fact of my being an heiress to a large property had gained me the protestations in which I so firmly believed. . "It is a painful story to me now, Geraid Let us suflice that I had lived in a world of pleasant dreams while Alexander remained at Grassbank. When he left me he carried my promise to bo his wife at Christmas. "I think if my money had depended on Uncle Richard, my marriage might have been prevented by his threatening to disinherit me, but both from my father and mother I had inherited money that made me independent in a pecuniary sense of his control or consent. "Most grudgingly, however, uncle did consent, after searching inquiry about Alexander, resulting in no worse report than that his employers thought him fast, idle, and just the man to be a fortune?hunter. Even then my dear uncle would have protected my fortune by settling it upon myself; but with the reckless generosity of extreme youth I refused to have this done. Never, I was firmly convinced, would niv adored Alexander wrong me in any way. " For a year after tlie splendid wedding that made me Alexander's wife I was very happy. 1 was too ignorant of value to understand that we were living far beyond our income, enjoyed to the utmost the luxuries around me?the constant gayety that was in such strong contrast to the school routine from which 1 had been released. "Then began a life of neglect, often of quarreling, wlun I objected to my husband's course of conduct?his drinking, his extravagance, and his late hours. Still I found my own pleasures in society, and a renewal of some of my own favorite studies, especially language and music. I was fond, too, of water-color painting, and made presents to my friends of k specimens in that line. b "It was four years after my marriage K. when I was thunderstruck by Alexander asking me to request a loan from Uncle Richard, with the information that every penny of my property was gone. "Since then 1 have known that a large portion of it was lost at the gaining table. "Long before this T had lost all lovt for my husband. Respect had died out when I knew the dissipated life he was leading, and foolish as I was I could not continue to love a man whose actions were so despicable. I refused the errand, and brought down a torrent of sucli great abuse that I really expected that Alexander would end by striking me. "Day after day the-request was renewed, but I would not yield. Upon mv marriage Uncle Hiehard had sold his ritv residence and took ui> a permanent abode at Grassbank, where, knowing ray husband to be an unwelcome guest. J never visited him. I wrote occasionally, but the love of years, like 1 hat of mothei and child, bad been so sadly strained by my persistence in marrying Alexander that even our correspondence was languid and commonplace. "I would not, therefore, write to him to ask a favor that I knew would not b< necessary without criminal recklessnessol expenditure, and each refusal made ray husband more furious. Then came an overwhelming blow. Alexander forged a chertc, and drew si0.000 of Uncle Richard's money from the bank. I don't thiuj?M" uncle would nave nroseeiueu guessed who was t!io forger: ^^^ J^Jrandcd the whole mitter over tr discovered that forged. It the he had robbed in the same way j^DBHRi'ini'i' employers. lie had given ti] ^^^i^vork on his marriage; but when h? found himself withoutinoney, his knowledge of the business enabled him to forgt the note of Derkiss & Co. Even if Unclc Kichard had spared him for my sake thif other forgery would have entitled him t<. ^cnal servitude. lie was sentenced tc leven years, and unclc took me home, lull of heavenly pity and forgiveness foi (he child who liad treated him so urjratefully." " Then your husband is in prison ?'' said Gerald, in a hard, strained voice. " No, no, he is dead! He died within the first year. Undo Richard saw the death in a paper mid sent the money foi his burial. No, I am free; but none 1 the less I am the widow of a convicted 1 felon." I " Hut none the les?," quoted Gerald, j "the woman I honor and love above all others, and hope still to make my wife." It took, however, more than one interj view, full of love's pleading, to win Maude from her resolution. She so honored licr lover, and was so proud of his good name and the position lie had attained by his talent, that her sensitive I nature shrank from even the shadow of i her misery upon his life. Rut the victory was won at Inst, and I the lawyer walked home one evening full j of a proud, glad joy, for Maude had then promised to be his wife. " If you are willing to take Alexander j Hull's widow to be your wife." she said, j 4i I will not oppose you any iungcr, i'or I j love you with all my heart." j lie had no thought nut 01 mat ?iau I triumph when lie turned up the gas in j j his oflicc. He was in the hahit of maki ing a last visit there before going up to j i his bedroom, in case notes or messages j were left for him. One lay there on this ' J evening, a shabby-looking envelope, but, directed in a bold, handsome hand, j ! which lie recognized at once. lie tore it open. After a few words of i j introduction, the note ran; "You did tho best you co ild on my trial, : ! but the facts were tjo"str.mg for you. I have j now a last favor to a>!c of y >u. i ilie, as you i j know, at noon to-morrow. You, as my j i lawyer, can see 1110 at anytime Will vo i ! conic as soon as you receive this ami win the j gratitude of the man you know as "James Fox?" j I "The man I know as .Tames Fox," | muttered the lawyer; "the smooth, ! i plausible scoundrel who actually made ! : me believe him innocent of the hideous i murder for which lie was convicted. I i ! can find extenuation for some murders, : i but the coia-mooueu assassination 01 au i j old man for money only was revolting, j ' IIow lie deceived me, though, for a time. : And how he exulted over his success in ' doing so when he saw facts were too j | strong. Shall I go to him ? I supjiose I mu-t. It is still very early." It was not yet midnight when Gerald | J.angton was ushered into the cell of the I man who, in a few short hours, was to I i meet the extreme penalty of the law for i I the worst of all crimes. ; Yet there was nothing revolting in the j i appearance of the criminal. His dress I was neat, his hair carefully arranged, his j mustache faultless, his hands white and refined-looking. He rose from his seat j upon the bed as his lawyer entered the j cell. "I knew you would come," he said, j j courteously. i( though you were offended ! j at my want of frankness. Well, that is j : all over. You will not refuse the last re- , | quest of a dying man, Mr. Langton ?" " Xot if I can grant it," was tnc repiy. , "This," said the murderer, "is not j my first offense against the law. Some | years ago 1 was sentenced to a term of j years for forgery. By a strange accident i 1 I escaped the penalty. On the same day ; I James Fox was sentenced to two years i for petty larceny, and we were sent to- ; | get her to prison. James Fox?my com- , ) ratio, understand, not myself?was de- J I ranged, but his lawyers had not ' j been able to save him, as his abcrra- i ! tion was not always apparent. 1 When we were entered upon the books I of the prison, imagine my amazement j when my fellow prisoner gave my name j for his own. Like a flash I saw the ad vantage to be gained by the deception, \ and allowed the error to pass. My com- j pnnion committed suicide, and I escaped j with two years' imprisonment instead of j seven. But I feared recognition, and j wont to Canada. There I lived by my , ; wits until a year ago, when I returned to i 1 try to raise money for my wife, and I j thought I saw an easier plan by commit j ting the crime for which I die to-morrow, j I But I want to see. my wife. I wronged j her?I robbed her?but heaven is witness ! j I love her. When I was in prison she dropped my name and took her own I again. So it is not for Mrs. Alexander i Hull you must ask, but for Mrs. Maud j Tcmpfe." Was the room reeling?the ceiling fall- j ; ing?the wall closing around him? CJer| aid Langton felt as if they were as the | name fell upon his ears. Maude?his ! | Maude?the wife of this cool villain who ! talked of his hideous crimes as if they I j were ordinary events? Well, he knew j j that to carry this man's message was to j j separate himself from Maude forever, j ! Never would she let him marry the widow < 1 of a murderer. Very rapidly all the terrible facts passed, one after another, and he said: 44If vou love her why add a misery to her life? She may live down the old pain you caused her; why, for a I selfish gratification, will you make her j whole life a misery?" j 44 She was my wife. I would bid her j farewell." I "She is not your wife. Your own i crimes have released her from any alle- ! ! giance to you." "You know her?" "Yes. I know what she has suffered, j , and beg of you to let her still believe you j died years ago." " She is happy?" "Scarcely that. Such wounds as hers | never heal entirely, but it is cruelty to tear them open when they are quiet." " Has she married?" ! "Xo. She is still your widow." "It is hard to deny myself one more | ! tl.rlit Mf linr tlif* honr! I liar] ! that she would say that she forgave inc." j " Think of her, not yourself." i There was a long silence in the cell. I i Every throb of Gerald La niton's heart i ! was pain to him. but Alexander Hull sat : in moody silence, evidently reluctant to I give up his wish. At last lie spoke. "You have been very good to me. ! ! Tell me, now, if you have any personal ! j reason for your request. Perhaps you ! love her?"' j "I do," was the brief reply. "She j has promised to be my wife." j "Then it will be James Fox who is j hanged to-morrow. I meant to give my i real name, but 1 will carry my secret to my grave. It may be in another world that the little self-denial will be a plea | . 4\... \-r\M nvir trnef- mr> " i 1 "I , v,,4 urn; ... ... v ...v>. I He kept h:s word, and Gerald Langton his secret. : When Maude, a few weeks later, bo- i | came his wife, she little guessed the ter- i ' rible ordeal that he had spared her, or ' 11 the added disgrace that belonged to the i , name she had given up. ! I ;' Putting on a I'oultlcc. ' A little Norwalk boy got a sliver in his i foot, and a motion to poultice the wound, S 1; made by his mother and seconded by his ; j grandmother, was carried in spite of Ins j 1; objections. He kicked and screamed, | and protested that he would not submit | to any such indignity, but the majority , i against him was two to one, and the > ' i poultice was made ready. It was ar' j ranged that the grandmother should ! apply the poultice while the patient's | mother stood over him with a stick with ! authority and instructions to apply that ! also if lie made the least show of rc' j sistance. When all was ready the youngster was ' I placed on the bed and operations began, j | As the hot poultice touched the boy's j i foot, he opened his mouth to say some- j 1 I tiling, but bis mother, with the stick, |: awed him into silence. Again the boy ! strove to make himsvlf heard, and a^ain '1 the upraised stick warned him to keep 1 quiet. In a few short minutes the poul' ! tier was firmly in piaee and the boy was ! j tucked up in bed there to remain until ' the medicine liad done its work. As tlie ' j urchin's tormentors moved away, a shrill, small voice came from under the bed' clothes: ' "You've dot it on the wrong foot!"? ' Soricalk (Conn.) Hour. Cocoanuts as a Slead}' Diet. :! The Fiji Timn calls attention to the j immense utility of the cocoamit as food : | rations, and the valuable qualities which : j it has for supplying nutrition. Two , men oncc drifted in a whaleboat to an > island, where they remained for seven > years before they were taken off. They , had no food beyond a chance Hying fish r and cocoanuts, and yet when they were l rescued they were in excellent condition ' and had gained weight. | A BIG EXGLISII ORCHARD. GRAPHIC PEN PICTURE OP A COM- ^ MON BRITISH SCENE. j 0 ! p. .ffcn ami lVomm 't ^Vorli ;a'horinsr j 1 llie Frul("P.c.ur< mijiio S.t uc? ui b Ullsy lo l. I J, A graphic sketch of a London orchard | ^ i i':< given in a recent number of the Lon- I don titnn'lurd: To right and left are | n long avenues of apple standards laden j 0 ! with the light, silky skinncci JUanx j " endlin, sometimes broken by the rosy! c| red of an intruding 44 rogue" sapling, j j' which has been allowed to stand more ' 'f fnr beauty than for use. Beneath the ; ^ trees the ground is covered with goose- j ^ berries, currants and raspberries. You j think, perhaps, that 110 liftv odd acres , 111 could be more closely packed, and that j *f there must be a great harvest here for the j V1 London market. Here, then, are a few figures: In one week 201) bushels, or about five tons, of apples, on the average, find their way to Covent Garden. In j a their season, 200 half-bushels of currants , and 400 of gooseberries. As to straw- j *c berries, forty tons have been sent up be- ^ fore now in six days. Yet other countries tlire competing in the strawberry market, j jn nnd many hundreds of tons come up j from round about Southampton. a You arc now beneath a stalwart i. walnut tree, the first of a in splendid line of seven or eight. A ^ beautiful sight, perhaps, to one who is not concerned in the profit to be made ^ from the land, but to the market gardener by no means so satisfactory, for the r<? walnut throws out roots in length equal to its height, and all the standards near J" by sutler severely in consequence. Close ehere are a number of women mounted on Y short ladders, and plucking the fruit from some low apple trees. The high *? ladder work is mostly left to the men, as they are less given to tumbling down. As to the younger women, many of them arc comely enough. A few are Stafford- -V shire and Lancashire girls, who have stayed beyond the soft fruit season?i. e., 30 the picking of currants, strawberries, and, perhaps, plums?the majority are in natives of the district, who, however, rc will be soon leaving this orchard in the wj Thames valley for the hop grounds on the Ybanks of the Medway. I As to the north country girls, they look rQ forward to this fruit harvest ten miles from London to find them the means to form a little nest-egg to help tlicm J.|." through the coming winter. Their work, when they choose to take overtime, . which they generally do, is in the early ^ summer from o:30 in the morning until 8 o'clock at night. By this custom they ^ * can always, if they choose, earn over nc eighteen shillings a week, doing ^ piece work, or, as it is termed in j cu market garden parlance, "great" work. As a rule they spend next to nothing in qo food, living mostly on bread and fruit. Q This light diet, however, does not pro- , duce any results which are likely to support any theories of enthusiastic vegetarians. Fainting fits and hysteria, especially in the hot weather, are the banc of the orchards. In their short . print dresses and with their red cotton nc handkerchiefs tied over their heads, the jje girls look well enough to form a pretty study for any follo^r ot the Fred Walker school. Still, despite rosy checks, blue eyes and agile forms, the ^ romance is soon broken when they open their mouths. jn But if the girls be somewhat rough, co the orchard men are still more so. In- ]ia deed, the big orchard is the limbo for an the rough, the rascal, the stupid and un- j}] fortunate. Like the work of the docks, i rc as it requires no special skill, it is sought a j only by those who can get nothing better jK, to do. Eighteen shillings a week and co fourpence an hour overtime (although on tliis particular ground fivepence) is 0f the average wages. The men, too, th if poor, are bv no means honest, m and thev are onlv too handy at finding any tli chance tools that may be carelessly left th about. Quarrelsome are thev, foul- cv mouthed and drunken; though with re- 0f gard to temperance or intemperance, it jM must in justice be owned to the blue rib- a bon movement that during the last two m years they have shown a marked im- tli provement. Ti Among the other beauties of this p< grand old orchard -are the famous yew so hedges, nigh a century old. The grand- j or father of the present owner even in his h< day knew how a good yew hedge breaks ' ro uj) the draught of the wind instead of, (if like a brick wall, only turning it oil in j th another direction. If it were not for the I ar overpowering scent from the trees and j or bushes and fallen leaves, the orchard j ro would be a lovely spot to sec the wane of j th the sunset. The blackbird is in full: th song and the finches are busy in the th hedges. These line-lies, however, arc ti< troublesome little iellows in their way, pr especially in the autumn. See this stretch hr of ground set with cabbage seed. The young birds, with all the recklessness of us youth, pay little heed to the scare ac string, and pull up the seedlings dc to their hearts' content. In the sli spring the old birds are far su too shy and wary, so that any fei sowing stands a much better chance, th "What is a sad sight, too, is to notic e how the recent gales played havoc with the fruit. Yet it is not all waste, you arc told by the market gardener, as he leads the way to a large group of outbuildings. sa> These buildings surround a great yard, j in which are many sieves of windfall Wl apples, which have had the damaged I P'1 parts cut out. By the aid of the great I copper pans, heated by steam in a shed nc near by, the fruit is converted into pulp, sealed up in air-tight two-gallon jars, j "j, and sold in the market for jelly making, j W1 This attaching preserving works to a I ^ great orchard is a very sensible arrange- ; ment that our forefathers made only little I use of. Here the preserving of other j | fruit than windfall is carried on most . extensively. The two great tanks of the !tn bottle-heating machine have space each ;1,11 for eighty dozen at a time, and in the ] a ' house close by arc forty bins, each hold- vc ing 210 dozen bottles of preserved raspberries, currants and other soft fruit. . "What strikes one ?s most curious in the r" fruit storehouse is the row of barrels j ?| filled with stephanotis blossom, which! 1" .. * r..? , TK] 15 giUWU UU tl [?IUilb 3V.UHJ 1U1 | * tlic buttonhole and bouquet market. |01 In two hothouses, also near by, arc 1,200 j ai] (')iili plants, forming a brave sight with j their dark green haves and bright red | fruit. In great frames are some 0,000 : P1: pots of forced mignonette and cyclamen. I But this floriculture on such a substan-! tial scale is looked upon as simply a fancy ; adjunct to the great orchard?a sort of. ar thing to be left to one's wife for a per- i quisite, even as some farmers do the eggs j I11 and butter. "J To return to our fruit. The men in j," the yard are busy packing the great wains with sieves of apples, while the contented fowls arc sleepily clucking about the . yard and looking on. AVith the rising ' mist the scent of the orchards creates ' quite a sensation of faintness. Well ^ might the air be overcharged, for, during Jy the last few years, within a stone's throw, , f quite 200 acres of once arable land have been converted into orchard ground. The ever-increasing demand for the fruit of this district will in time eausc it to bo completely covered with orchards, and not an acre of meadow land will pi be left. Shcflield, Manchester, Nottingfiam, even far off Aberdeen, ci are all clamoring for the growth of the c< Loudon orchards, which, if ever beaten tl mmntitv rvin nfvfr lie nnrirnaehed in hi Ill .j...... H..J , ... . ___ quality. On the way through the sr I orchard to the flower garden is a large al outhose with a lean-to roof. It is paved i w with rod tiles, and at the opposite end is p i a la rife grate by which the orchard labor- | " | crs cook their meals. By the fire arc a | number of three-legged stools, on which | T I soinc few are seated cooking their even- j b ! ing meal, the steam which rises from the j Cl small saucepans being anything but sa-1 b vory. The faces of the men have a worn, j n sodden look, half suggestive of over- 0 work, and half of overdrinking. They T are none of them handsome sons of the 11 soil, nor have they the least pleasing g i touch of the simplicity of the rustic P about them. j " n ai The latest report of the Japanese banking bureau indicates that there were, in the year ending June 30, 1861, 22.1 banks in Japan, with an aggregate capital of / 43,210,100 yen, a note issue of 34,385,153 yen, and ft reserve fund of 2.1813,382 yen | ' - -the yen being equivalent to our dollar. E / r> An Arizona Cloudburst. A rcccnt issue of the Tucson (Arizona Viiizen says: On Sunday afternoon on f those curious phenomena of natun ccurred about thirty miles southwest o 'ucson, and from the description givci y eye-witnesses it was tlic largest cloud urst ever known in this country. Fron udgc It. I). Ferguson the following ac ouut was gathered: On Sunday he wa ^turning from a trip to the southern par f the county. At 10 o'clock he pu ]) at Brown's station to awai inner and avoid tlic heat of th< ay. The sky all day was cloud ss, except a thunderstorm that was ob rved traveling the summits of the Sant; atalinas, and disa|)pearing over tin incons in the northeast. Otherwisi ot a cloud or a vapor of any kind was ) be seen. The sun wasshininginall hii igor, and as he passed to tlic west hii rcngth and glory seemed undiminished t 3 o'clock Judge Ferguson resumcc is journey toward Tucson. lie hac: )mc about five miles when his attcntior as attracted by a roaring and crackling ward the west, and, looking up, In iw a river of water, as big as the Santf ruz where it runs through "Warner': KI.v, TnlKnr Ill luu-iauu^filiiil^ ivnMUUiiiiii. is driver to halt they stopped on top o: little knoll, and watched the waters a: icy violently plowed the desert, tear g up stones and brush. They hac idcntly spent their force. After th< >od had passed by the face of the coun y was disfigured, and a large guttei id been cut across the valley. The cur nt came down off a small range of low, illing hills to the west. Although the idge and his companion strained theii es in the direction from which th( ater came not a cloud was to be seen, fter the water had subsided sufficiently ' let them pass they went on. Tlicy id hardly gone half a mile when, tt ieir astonishment, there was anotlici ream equally as large as the first one. gain they peered toward the west ir )pes to find some indication of it: urce. Passing on their astonishmenl as doubled to find another stream, anc3 this manner five successive raging cur nts were crosscd. But all their reservt us called forth when four miles froir here they struck the first stream thej scovered a sixth one as large as all th( hers combined. Its angry waters wen aring and hissing as if maddened the resistance they met on their waj am the hills down to the desert. This - er was ui:fordable, and to cross it was ipossible, so they halted on a knoll and itched it for two or three hours as il filed and sizzled and cut a bed foi iclf, in some places ns deep as fifteen st and over 200 yards wide. It was it till after sundown that they dared tc temp.*- a crossing. What renders it so rious is that no one at Brown's station w the clouds. It may be possible that me hidden springs were uncorkcd bj me subterranean earthquake. At anj tc, it is a great wonder. Watching for Hotel Beats. The opportunities for stealing a dinnci one of the big New York hotels are it promising. The arrangements have en so thoroughly perfected that it would pleasanter for a man to suffer the pangs incipient starvation than risk the mental jar and tear and physical harm incident the theft. For some years hotel beats flourished New York. They lounged about the rridorsof their favorite hostel ries, oftec ,d their letters addressed to the oflicc, d were so much on hand that the emoyes of the house supposed they were gular patrons. Then the hotels began regular crusade against them, and thej tve been relegated to the free luncL untcrs of the more prosperous saloons. The same system is now in vogue at all the city hotels. The head waiter is e sentry of the dining-room. Five inutes before the dinner hour a list oi e guests of the hotel is sent upstairs bj e clerk. On the list is the number of 'ery room in the house with the name the occupant (if any) opposite. The >ad waiter stands at the door, and when guest comes in he is asked quietly the jmber of his room. He gives it, and ie waiter instantly sends him to a table, he man, if lie thinks of it at all, sup.1 ii 1? -e )SCS Hint IUU JillII] IILT Ul 1113 1UUI1I Jiu; mething to do with liis scat and passej 1. The instant his back js turned the ;ad waiter consults liis list, and if the om of the number given is vacant, oi it is occupied by some one known tc ic waiter, he goes at once to the man, id, while deftly rearranging the napkin placing the knives and forks in neat \vs, asks him seductively his name. If c name fails to clear away the doubt e clerk is sent for. lie may recognize e man. If he does not an investigajn is made at once, and if the man is oved a fraud lie is taken out and inded over to the police. The head waiters of the hotels are uallv men of great discrimination, and curate judges of character. They sel>m make mistakes, but when they do p up their errors are clothed in such avity and gentleness that even the prossional beats cannot get angry with cm.?Ncio York Sun. A Florida Orango Wrapping. A writer in the Atlanta Constitution V9: Last night our party of tourists ;nt to an "orange wrapping." A large irckouse belonging to the Wilkinson :iee was lighted up with candles placed 5ng the walls, and all the help in the ighborhood was gathered. In one rner of the room there were huge boxes led with oranges. They were rigged ith handles at both ends, and it took o men to bring one of them in. On c opposite side of the room were long hies, behind which sat the wrappers, le fruit was supplied to them by boys, lio carried it in bread-trays, putting a ly to every three men. Before each an was a package of tissue paper. By ilextrous movement, an orange was cnloped in a leaf of paper by one moveent. As the fruit was wrapped it was opped intoanother tray, which was car d to the packers, who stood before a pile empty crates. Each orange was aced in the crate separately, being icked ill close rows. A crate holds lrom ic hundred and twenty to one hundred id forty oranges, and sells here foi rec dollars. The oranges are not ought direct from the grove to the icking-house, but rest a day or two in e drying-house. There they are spread 'cr lattice shelves, where they gc rough a sweating process before the) 0 ready for shipment. The scene in the wrapping-house wass etty one. Groups of boatmen and inters with their swarthy faces and cturcsque attire lending a hand where er it was needed, a negro with a banjc manning rude tunes to which tIk owd gave casual accompaniment, the dies watching curiously and sampling 1 orange now and then; these wen unc of the elements that made up the cue. The whole was enlivened witl ic haste and bustle of getting read) piinst the next day's boat, and having ic fruit ready to go out with the ship. Advice I'roniplly Taken. A story of advice promptly taken by t jor young man of lioston, with re llts which staggered the adviser, is cir dating in that city, and is thus re junted by the Courier: A young genemail moving in good society, but whose :itik account is by no means plethoric /light out one of our wealthy citizen; jout a month ago and told him Ik anted to speak to him on a very im nrtant affair, (,'rcrsus said to his visitor 1 am busy just now, and must requcs mi to be brief. What is it?business ?' lie young gentleman, thoroughly cm nrrassed by the briiMpicness of the other Duld only stammer: '"Very importan usiness." ' Well," said Crecsus, "lei ic give you this lid vice: Don't put i IT till to-morrow if you can do it to-day hat has been the theory on which I hav< iade my success in life." The young cntleman stammered his thanks, dc arted, and that very day went before j lagistrate with the daughter of Crcrsu! nd married her then and there. Wlier ic old gentleman found it out lie foi ic first time began to doubt the uni crsal applicability of his theory. How t-er it is understood that all has beet jrgiven. All the tmnk-note paper is made ii lalton. Mass KEWS OF THE WEEK. Eastern and Middle States Q f | Two balconies of the Harvard collero boatj house at Cambridge, Mass., wore crowded I with students wailing to witness a boat-raeo, " ! when 1 hey suddenly pave way, precipitating l | about fifty students into the mud and water - ! ten feet 'beneath. Ten or twelve students g 1 were injured in various degrees of severity, t i Henry Invixn, the leading actor of Eugl j land, is in Now York. (. | A iieavv souall which s! ruck the fishing IJU?'L ??II 1 J"UV|IIUCW.?>? llt , ut*v*ovufc tug 3 j probable loss of eight 111011 who wore out; in small boats. " ; .\Iattitf.\v Atjxold, 1h" distinguished v ' English tss:iji-;t and poet, arrived in New 3 ! York a few nays ago. ; : Nr.w Yob< is enjoying a doublo dose of , i Italian o;cra?a*, tho i ewivopened Metro' in litan (iponi-h >use and at, the Academy of J i Muie. J?i ssrn is the siar at the former and 3 ! 1'atti a! ili<> Int er place. The now opera. ! ho. sms the handsomest p'ace of amusement I in America, and i t its formal oj ening wa^ i , crowded with the city's rejresent at ivos of wealth and fashion. Ti;e father of tho long-l st Charlio Ro? > j hns jnst. examined another fnlse scent in j ' II in<>is and gone home sorrowing to Pbilai delphia; and in Wyoming recently a lynched murderer, broth T to the chi d stealer, was * ; prevented by tho ropo from telling what he ? | knew. Beside its two operatic attractions the 3 metropolis hns been having a horso show on a grand srae. The equinus on exhibition I were liun bero 1 by tho hundreds, a.id com I." h.nl t^.o ) 1" l,1U 1-1IWJ wu^llk/l V.U y HUVVV.H7J prize mu'es and donkeys, saddle horses, | nunteis, pnl cciticji's and firemen's hor>e<, r j stallions. Aiabian steeds, ponies, etc. Valuable prizes were given in the var cms classes, ! and durin? the live days of ihe exhibition 1 j Madison Square ^;ai den was crow.led. ' ! A TASSF.\f:Elt train went through a bridgo r ! at 1 on Kdward, N. Y., and was totally 5 wrecked. Three persons were killed and , ! about, twenty injured, one or two with prob, ably fatal result. K\ery j>ers in on the train except, tho new hoy was injured, j An explosif n of powder in a squib factory ' near V\ i!ke.-birrc. Fenn.. destroyet tho " building, and lata ly injured seven tiers >ns? , ! six girl and a b y. Two of the injured girls t die ; ber"ie tie next morn in;;, and they wero j oil terribly burned. ronno.vs of New England have been [ visi ed by a snowsN rm, tho first of the 1 season. " ! The ya=.'aohu<etts Institute of Technology ! has be ii ] resented with 5-(.5,0U0, by wealthy i Bostcuiaus. r (J. A. ?S: A. P. Manhouf's planing mills, at ? Pittsburg, IVnn., together wi h five two [ story frame dwellings and I ,(.'00,0X) feor of I lumber, were entirely destroyed by flro. j ^ The (la nes spread s ? rapidly t hat tho em ' plnycs who escajied ha I a narrow chanco for ; . their lives. The firemen atvl engineer roI ceived severe hut not s-eri his burn', and I Frank Seebert, a workman, lost his life. . 1 Tin: Rev. Isaac Willey. of Pembroke, ' ' J N. H.. the ol''est. Cong! ejcationalist minist r ; in the State and < no of the oldest preachers , i j in tho country, died a few days sinco, aged : i ^ ninety years. > I () 1 South and West. k ! About 1:2,000 acres of corn and cotton j ; I were submerged in Arkansas by a heavy rise I r i in the White mvr. and tlio loss to a large ' P ! number of Miutll farmer.* is great. Zora Burns, a servant eirl, was found j murdered i ear Lincoln, Neb., an.l tho evi-j dence pointed strongly t > her employer, O. I A. C irp -iter, a man of family and one of tho j wralthiest bu-iness men of "Lincoln, as tho j . j murderer. Car| enter wes arre ted. Tho ! I ca^e has aroused extraordinary public j ! interest and excitement in that part of tho j ! country. L j Two men at Ross iter, Col., wantonly fin a I 1 into a crowded ("anee-house, killing four of [ I the revelers, and then lied. ; j Charles McCartney, an editor, was at-; i tacked with stones on the streets of Flcm- i ; ing.-burir. ICy.. by two men who were ng- | ! grieved by j ublic.itit.ns in his piper. Mc- j ! Curt ney drew a revolver, shot one assailant' i I dead and mort'illy woundi d tho oth r. I OwtfiM. ficures show the vote in Ohio for I governor to le: Foraker (Rej ul>lii an), "4"f- j ( j nt'fcj; Hoadlv (Democrat), :*jSchu- | ! j macher (l'rdhihitioni, ; Jinkins (Gnviil i la k r;, total vote. T:.'l,4v!; Hoadly's r j majority. Tho liquor prohibition L j amendment Jell sii'.rt of a iraiority .'>U, >} '!. | At nil incend ary fire in Middleville, Midi., j i ' a fa'ling wall cm bed to death two men an I j ( a boy and injured two other men. 1 | A MKr.Ti.w, of colored citizens at Pan ; Francisco : a? d a series of resolu- j ' tions condemning th- reeent decision of the ' j United Stat?s suvrenie court on tho civil | j rights tiill. > ! Fir.E has destroyed thirteen of tho business , :? of Milis City, Montana. ' ! Thirty-seven* persons were hurt, ten or j twelve i,uile badly, bv the upsetting of two ! "I crov.ded ears attached to a traia near East I i St. Louis, 111. A coi oiiE!) chiM left at homo alono in i Fioridn whs killed by an!s\ I At tho 1 altiniore city election the straight ' , i Democratic e.iiidi ate for mayor was suc, ecs fid ovt r the fusion tickct. A nnr. ai St. Louis destroyed business 1 [ : prr perty valued at $lji',0(W. i John Mvm'JiYwasmurdered for his money | ' at Wallace. Ind. i.. l. Daiiinr. of Clifton, Mo.,was kil'edby i bis aunt, Mrs William Straub, who stiuck : : him on ihe head with a hammer. i J. C. Mi nriiY. owner of the farm in , i Kansas once lelonging to tho notorious Bender family of murderers, while p'owing the o'lu r tiny ui:car:he I a can winch contained grenliacks, gold and silver am ranting i to more than Rifi: rrnM fields have b< en dis -overoil in the I vicinity of List on. l a'co a. i i Si.os-o.\ heat. Sexton in Cbic.1^0 at a match for the cushion-carom biil a d t humpionship, making ft).) to his opponent's JS;.'. i i Washington. DrKTRTfr-AiTORNKV CoRKnir.L, of Wnslij inpt>n, has written a letter to .Secretary I Teller on the fraudulent transactions of cerj tain pcn-i-.il claim agents. i i which lie pro- . I poses to li.aKe a thorough investi^a| tion of the c'mrges 11 a 'o l?y those | vlio liavo been the sufferers. Mr. ; C'orkhill thinks th-s character of theenor| motis frauils which aie being perpetrate! ! [upon app.icints for i-eiisions l.y certain . ! claim a;ents at A\"u?-liii)xi? n will, if the . alle-ft- ions made or.; susl-lined bytliecv;! clonic, surprise the pub'i*. an l" declare< fuither that the persons defia :ded aro p ior and comparatively he!pies* and foi 111 a class ' i to whom the country owes special protection. 1 i "\V.\siUNc;T>N dispatcius say that there : | has been trouble among members of the J'roiilf n*'s cabin t, Ktowing out of ! alleged interfere! ce by or.o do; aitment i willi the alia)is pertaining to another i dc| nrttnent. it is ?oid that at a recent cabinet incotmg the <M-i us-ion waxe 1 so ! warm anions the num bers that the President ll*n< CMllltH lied to int rfere. A state.v kxt j ircj m od for 1 lie money order ' division of the pestoJHce deport went shows that the ni t re\em:e lrom domestic money i or or transaetims during the li-cal year I ! ended .lime ?. H-::. w. ro Tho n cc-'pt 0:1 unt of foreign orders wero 51 It. (!< r?ov. the Chilian minister to tho I'nitcrl Mat- s, h:s received disj atclies eonfi: tiling new* of the e>t:ib ishment of jeaco U>tw.en t hi!i a'd Peru. f'tliclal noliticiti?.n if the faet ha-;; Iso been received a', the stat.- i!e| nrtm--:it. ; j The s< eretary of war has received tho [ : answeis < l' Lieutenant (?ariiiifrton, 111niaii :er of the ! s steamer i'rotens, sent to I the ieiie:'?.l the (lively ox| c-diti>>n in tho , i a ( tie region. The.-e answers arc; in reply to , ' tvitain i.it-. tioi;s asked l.y (General Ifu en as , to why (-a lington did not land with stores at. Jiitt'e!"ii Island, etc. J ieuteiiant I'arlimr- j : t >ii defends his mamuo.nent of the exjedi-, k ti n. II 'i'he United States naval advisory board [ ha;decided t ? le-oamiend tin construction . ; of seven n w l aval vessels. , j P. 11. ( <>\ ,r.superintendent of the I Yellows one / aiioml purs, lias forwarded to Secretary Inr his annual report. He says tha the | ul>lifhe !acconntsofthe who'e: sale .-'an.:::ter of i i tliei ark h^t winter ' were great! < :a ;i;erate.l, and that since his i i arrivei hu-.ting has beta j ia ii. ally sus-; I (tended. 1 : , ,, ,,! i i,f> I "niver>alist gtnera'o iis e:i!i u wa . he'd tisis ;.car at ;lie ! < j lift:i- im'? i* 'to!, del -gat .. froat all jarls of i the country I i.ir. in ;.t eti-iaiuv. ! j Foreign. i As nvn'nwh > in < ':>t inia. X'edy. buried - I six men working <>11 :: r.tilr- a 1. killing five of . , tlieni. . j A tikatv (if i'l.' ieo I ut iiu -n signed I?oI (ween Cli;li. mil I'ora. , | I<at!:ii details c infirm th? statement (ha. ' j Ihojirs; acc.'unt-iif ilv.'carlh |ua!:o in Asa i Minor were greatly cx.-e.vorate I. AtVourla, ? near Smyrna, where tni'.s wi re wreo:;oii, ; oiilytw.>]K'r.suiis\voiel;il!((lai;(lsevfnin.iuro I. j One thouxin ' inhabitants are <|tiart red in j , lonijUnisoutsideof th" wire 1 vil.age. Ten ha:a!e:s te ar < lr s at h sall'ered more or 1* k*. i t Altogether fifty-evo.i prisms wcr.: hilled ' ' i and l"i!i iti.'n e I iri tnat district. The fore- | . ! going number of p.-rsons l.ii'ed ropivyoiirs 1 the total loss of I f . al hoii jli 11.'iiN person* : > were rende. ed homeies . ' Triciii.vo^is Iia; Icon raging in Frms!e ben, (Jern a-.y. Out of W> case, twenty- i t three deaths o<curred, a d oiilv lift> oat of | j 1U4 houses wero f ree from the dre id disea>:'. j 3 ' Caitai% Mayni: Hkid, the noCd novelist. r i and writer tor boy.-, (.jed a few days since in | ? j London, aged sixty-iive\ear . i A new Portuguese nil)net has been! 1 . forme I. ! ? i fr irvT f-rv. A v liATTiiYAXYi was killed in i i arlui'l in Hungary with Dr. Julius llcst'iib T.r, j r who had been cii.t a ul tu a la'ly whuin tho I . count had niarHed. . ! Fi RTiint curthquftkc slv c?;s have liecn feh. , ctSmvina. and also at Trieste, Au tria, and 1 Malta." J Lord Lank now nk was Inaugurated cov i mmr-general of Cani-. a at CJuobec. succeed ! j ?-ig the Marquis of Lorno. * J A black list of jurors in murder trials htu [ been sent to thousands of persons in Dublin. J Upon the evacuation of Lima, Peru, by the ( Chilian troops, General Iplesias entered the q city as "president? regenerador."' I Three children named In^u=, the oldest a in? ' pirl of twelve years, were drowned in a jion'l glnssv at Klkhorn, Manitoba. The girl was cn o Worki pond skatinpr, when the ice broke, and *h I ? . ? fell into the water. Tw.> younger brothers | , tried I o savo her, and all threo perished i>o- , rein.-u foro the eyes of their mother on tho bank, j he pli AVar between France and China over th? th? ni Tonquin difficulties is believed to be inevit- v i able. 1 sTirrni FrRTY-OJTE thousand English miners de! mand an increase in wages. | a 'ew Great suffering prevails among tho hun- j t"?5 dreds of pen-ons whose houses were wrecked electi< ' by the earthquake in Asia Minor, | sherr A man* i:.0 yrars old has been discovered in cra^ i a Russian province. j ' ' Sherr | A fierce engagement has taken placo bei tween Indians and Mexican cavalry ne u Kinnt | Casa Grande. Mexico. A great manvMexi- >ir: ; cans were killed and woundo.l. Tho Indians Gray, i also suffered heavily and wero routed. The j ^ : Indians have broken i amp and separated ; into roving 1 a-ids of eight, or ten, and are ? or" ! raiding the surroun ling country. house r far 01 lurnicr eirtnquaKo snocxs na^ o\h:i? ! caused many of the re-ideuts of Smyrna to weigh ' f!co fromt.ie city. jiavv 1Jf,rr RifHTKit, n doputy in tho Germnn . reichstag, ha< rocently been sentenced to sis months1 imprisonment and th<- do; r.ration of ; Gec j his rights as n dej uty for Laving insulted the near 1 imperial family iu a speech he made four j ?)ur,| I years ago. I ^ i B"? nn accident in an iron foundry at Lo ' Creuzot, France, ti n men were killed. ; *" ' A HkAW ga!o < n tho Sc >ttish coast has , six-w< done much damajo to shipping. j One i ?~ j watcl | THE NATIONAL GAME, j 7* ; The benefit tame between the Bostons and i V-'.OC BnfTalos netted each member of tho Bojtons priati j fc??0. ! gover Hamilton, Canada, had over 100 regularly nol,0[ , organize I baseball clubs during the past j yE, season. j Over 139,000 peoplo have attended the ; '1,asa fifty-two basebill games pla\cd in Boston j CJatlic dur.ng tho past season. I slutci i Since tho organization of tho Leaguo in tingu j IS'iO the Chicago c'.ub has won ihe champion- j ' ship four years, Boston threo and Providence ' , ' oi.e. ! heatThere is still some prospect of a Southern ' Tin league. Memphis, Mobile, Columbus (Cia.)> ' 0f j3e] Montgomery* and Savannah are " in" for the j . arrangement. I Palon The pay of tho prominent pitclwsin the ' ^C( American club is cs folli.ws: Keefo, $*J,80J; , tendo Matthews, ?'2,000: Bra Hey, $1,WK); Weaver. office1 $1,H>J; White, $l,frki; Henderson, $1,500; j f i Mullane, $1,100; MeGiimis, 31,'jOO. i 01 Ul The series betweenthe Atli'etics, American inS chain; ions, and tho league champion team t value from Boston, tor the championship of tho ! order United States, his been won by tho Bostons 1 Kv rlAfnulf ilm At.hlfft.ire t.liA ! primes an 1 disbanding their team. The ' total: Athletics also lose the city champi nship, as i >21. the Philadelphia team have defeated them in 1 ,nest;( five games out of the nine played. j ^ The Cincinnati team had a marvelous es- _,.e j cape at the B'.-rkel house, in Dayton, Ohio, recently. Abouto'clock the entire nine ; $1^,11 dressed in uniform in a room on the third j 0f t} floor of the hotel, and left in a body for the i ..ev?n e'evat jr. The boy in charge carelessly let | too many of them crowd into the car. ; The 1 White, K< ill-.-, McPlrce, Fulmer, Soramer, i order Jones, Corkhill and Mr. Frank Wright, of vviuo th'jA'eu's Journal. gotsifely into the eleva- I _ t<r. Carpenter hesitated, remarking that the ' ' " thing might bre:ik." One of the boys said, jtjt-1: "Cr.?wd in, Hick, you might as we 1 die now as nny other tiin:.\" and Hick di l step through. | ^ . In a moment alter, before the boy in charge i * could get tho door closed, the earshot down | c.i'il, like a meteor and'an led on the cellar floor ' t!;e ai almost before any one realized the rtanger. ; The shock wasterrifie. Every j article of glass | in the elevator was broken out. Tho utmost ; Se re confusion prevailed a moment later. Carpen- f struct t.T and Fulmer made n dash at the j t. door at the same time, and both stuck fast. ! They say Kei ly yelled, " Let mo out at this j L::\ floor," that Jones shouted, ' Slide, slide i cmptc thru White muttered something about a j , > " down slioot." Fulmer gasped " Reserved, : ' by gosh,"and McPhce called for "judgment." . de;cei JiTin C<.rlchili's six hairs stood straight or. j Ad ends, and. like I'an.ju/s ghost, would not j wj]j down. J?e Summer called "time." and ! tried to crawl our, ni me top. r-enousiy, u m-? though, it was a marvel to even body that no j manu one of the nine men in th: "elevator was | ?,v jri serif'Usly hurt. Carpenter was cut in the ^ !ett index linger by some broken glass, which, ! with the e xception of a general jolting up, j was the extt nt of tlie in !ury clone to the men. j Tho worst sufferer was the elevator boy, who j was considerably brubed and cut about the Ann, face. Powers came up in time to sec the car ; r hoot down, with h>s fellow-p'ayers insido, j ind he was tho most scared <if all. A whiter- i Con l'aced set of mea were never >o n than the bureu ^hatnpions as they crawled out of tho holo i anuus m:o the cellar. In spite of all they went j .. straight to the grounds and played a splendid ? * game of bail, beating the Dayton club 15 to to t 0Sportiny Lift'. " j Tudiai DEATH FKOM HYDROPHOBIA. | S, i cut m A Vonuf ! ndy Siiif'TH Terrible Tor* India: (u c from a I*? t M?og's U tc. j for Mary Barry, nil e'ghteen-year-old (laugh- j >s. a* for of James Parry, a prominent citizon of t ' Geimantown. Ponn., died from hydrophobia, ! D. after twenty-four hours of most intonso suf- otner fering. A disjwtch snys: j ^ iSix months a,'o Miss J!arry wa< bitten by a i attpetdog. 'i he wiutid wus apparently 'rifling in its character. Noturtherattentionwaspaid to ! it e.tlier by the young lady or her parents; in fai t, tlie ace.ilent ha I been alino t forgotten rntii last evening, when the young -p. lady's strange actions a'trade t the attention of her father. Mie Ivcm.e de.pciatey ill j Bri an 1 was put to bo i. She was sp 'ccnle. s, and veils, w s s:.bs ouently >eized with vi lent spasms, m/ barking anil snarling in a vicious manner at ! . .: those an und her bed ide. A physician was braul prompt y summono 1 an! soon arrived, only j Art t > givo temi)orarv relief, her oa.-e being a ! , V.c hojieless one. ' . in ia. During ti e early i art of this morning she 1 Th grew ca'm and made motions to her mother, than which indicated that slio desired to put on piper what she was unable to express orally. , rater and pencil Iwing furnished lier she able 1 >crilb!ed tho fol owing: "The dog has i> done it all.'' She then fell back exhausted _ and was ininvdiate y soi/od with convul- glove sions. in which c >ndi ion sh ro naive ! until All to ni; ht. when death re'ieve 1 her stiff -rings, toilet .Miss I'arry was an ac -oaip i-lio I young la ly . and her t-rrible death has cast a gl o n over onipe the entire neighborlio kI, where sliis was held : J\>| i.i the highest c->tic.n. prctt' >tt-i i tit tt dnbirn a t tt7t? caslin iNijiiiiiji isumxjjj iLULyjji T . ' Jet A^oi'iiU' Lai'.}- supposed to ti? Ilcad worn Sitting; { p in tEor Coffin. j mowr A Black J>ivcr Fulls (Wis.) dispatch givos i ^ tho f? llowiiitc ] articu'ars of an cxtraor li- t worn nary Gccurrenc:: Tim sensation of tho j day is the return to life of a young lady j T>. who to ali appearances hail been d>al tlireo V!l day.--. Miss Lena liichninnn, the daughter of plaid a wealthy Gentian, bad been sick for some st'hoc wreks an I died, as wa; sup) osed. Her body I wa< prepared for bur al, when it was su?'- | J*01 gestid by ?>nie one that the appea-. a :ce of bride the young lady's face did not ii.dicutc death; foil v 1 ut on the four;h day tho funeral services wero held. "While" the ceremony was in progress I'r. Hnxter. of Milwaukee. i child Jookiwr at, the face of ttie supposed c n pse, paten asked that the service;- b > interrupted long , enough for him to aleinpt rc.-uscitation. * :l1 This was done, and h": ucci d -d so w. 11 that ; of In 1 he woman arose in the collin with a terr Pic , collar shriek. Ttie sc n-; was Itighly exciting. Men i turned pale with horn r. women fainted,ai d ' u it was a !on< time b.-fotv anything liKO'piiet and a was restoiotl. To-day friend* aro continually popul calling to see and "congiatulate oi:e whom . tl.ey never thought to s o a.an in this J<a< wo ld. She soys that, while in a tranccdiko but II condition, she realized with uu-jieakablo 1 silk a agony that she was being prepared for tho ,. travc, but could n- t speak or make any j 1501 motion. ______ poscil OLD WOEIDUB BEES. | nicni; Tin An Asucrl. ais Bn% estimate-. tlic.r C'oii? ' . , ' tight! " 1 but a Joseph 1). We-ks, secretary of the Western j-odirn Iron association, lias arrived at Pittsburg, j j, l'enn., from Kuro; e, where ho has spent th* j ruj,v* last four mouths in investigating the iron in- j f}lc.*|? d-utrics and their ramifying influences upon jQ juv capita', the laboring cln-s-s nil 1 rational j , prosperity. an I their iliivei a: cl indirect ; Tin sympathies wi:h Atucrii an enterprise. .Much i camb iS-athchas karned ifui ing his foreign tour Jiem witl b< incorporate I in a report to be sub- f. \ milted to thoib'p'irtwent of the intcri r. I His report, so far iis it c'tr-i rns tin- labor- Tin crs in England. France. ! c!:;ium and Scot- slicll. Inn is \ery jzloomv. The laborer, ho says, i,,.,... , manages to exist?he < annoi b* >ailto !ivo . . wlicu Iving is a i expre-s.on of life':? uislici fulfillment of content.. The wages aro lures. !c wer tha i are paid here, while Hoi !'<ol i< higher. About, enethir.i of tho fnrnu, puddling furnaces in the North of Enpland are i ile. -Mills are nmn ng on part time and rc-tpni exercising but n initial ca a.tv. In ling- aro fu land arbitration is ra id.y av-uiniug tho triinn ptsitini of a pract'cal solution of labor | troubles. T:a In unions a-o strong a-d i J. 1 tVurNI;ing, mi l l ave a stnbilitv, finant ial braid standing and < ifiuty that they <!o not attain finish m America. _____ i althoi ?0ME LAEGE FAMILIES. ; Cliivtophor Mann, of Independence, Mo., I ^Vc has bo ii mari'iul I'lVxt' and is the father (if green (w? nty-six cb.!drem i |aI. ];i Tho mother of tuen'y-eight children is inir tl st II livin ; in At'anta, (la., though twonty- 1,1'npthree of her ofT>prins nro detd. ! ' '* Mr?. Mary P. Jon<s, of Steven **>n. Aln., j 0 ' 'l who lia'i celebrated iier o 10 lnnutre ltn I irth- j Tin day, lias~i<>liii a! des -endants. j gnuni Mrs. Ann S ot', wlm lives ivar Hudson, {lares I as Icon mnrried four times and has brought. (jlu v sixteen iliil .rm into the w.tI I. I Wiley Moore, of South "Washington, i ^ Pender a Hint/, N. C., took an ivui ory of 1 c 1 his de eendants tho other dav, and found tho I' <n"*number up to th tda'o to be ::>4, including . ?titcli chiltiien, grandciiiliion. great and greatgreat-granuchildren. ' Th 000 f - ^ LATER NEWS, ri'el Peiftl, a young tramp,was watchhe workmen at tho furnicj of the porks at Kent. Ponn., when ono of tho i men told him t) stand aside, as lie d to got at tho furnaoe. " So do I,"' ho j , and throwing his pi^e on thogrounl j in;'ed headlong through the ring wh -nco 1 olted gliss is tiken, and passing over ! )t landed on tho intensely hot coals th it i tind it. In a twinkling thoro wero but j fragments left of tho body. if'LETE returns from tho late Iowa j m arc as follows: For governor? nan (UojnxMicnn), 1151,182; Kinno (I)oir.o- I Wo.iver tGreenbacker), 2!.0;:?: nan's majority over Kinne, i'),0-9; over ! 3 ami Weaver b >t;i, :.\n.>u. s. David Moses, formerly Miss B'aneho ! of Detroit, M c'i., who was niarri:da j reeks ago in a B jwery mueum in New ' , wasfound doi 1 in be lathe boar.linj in Baltimore, whore she had br-oii on j i?ion. Sho was fevont en years old and i icd ">17 pounds. De ith is suppos.-1 to | l)oen causo 1 by fatty degeneration of | . art. >pj;e IV. Williams, a farmer, living i U'au^eon,'.)hio, an 1 liis wife were found j cred, the former's lifeless body b in.: j :ered in the barn and tho lattcr's cori so ! e hou-e, while on the bod lay their I *el:s-old infant in a starving condition. ! Johnson, who had in lis po-se sion a | i known to have bel' n^ed to Williams, i rrested for thodnuMe crime. )hg i a has a Confederate pension list ot j if? n vo.nr There is a triennial as>ni-o- ! on for the lo? of limbs, authorizing the nor to furnish artifichl arms and lags j tenor than once in three yoars. xnor, tho Canadian weather prophot. ! rival int'io South in a " Professor"' j r, of Alabama, who publishes tho uent that tho coming winter will be dis- | ished by its ' p li<jnomenal seasons of I interspersed by paroxysir.al spills of j ; Pi esident has signel tho commission ! n j.-nnin i'utterwo' th as commissioner of | ts. v.'co Edgar 51. M irblc, resign .'d. ;ordin'u to the report of tho superin nt tho totil number of money order i on Juno :!0 was 5,0.'7. Tho number Dtnestic money orders issued durtbo year was 8,807,550, of thi of $117,:iu9, i0?. Tho number of s paid was 8,00J,ti2i, and tho value of paid and ropiid was >117,311,381. The amoant of tho foes received wjs $1,101,. The increase in tho value of the do- | c orders issued over those issued during jreceJing fiscal year was $:,05.yj*0. ncreasod foes received amounted to 1. Tho grois domestic revenue io bjroau was $311,701; the foreign uo was $90,015, or a total of $111,11!'. totd number of international money s issued v.u; $lGi,3JG. of an aggregate of $7,717,832: the number pail wis >', aggregating in value $3,<>:?(>, !0 ?. Tho number of money or'.ers of all kinds [ was !),278,S'"?2, of an aggregate value j !5,i;47,\3 ;; the total number paid was U77, of thi value of $1 JO,407,1G"<: and nount of fees received was $1,272,0 <>. ! naval advisory bjard in its report to tary Chandler recommends tho conion of seven new vessels of war, to cost i aggregate $ 0 )0. v.s Cohen', a Hebrew, has I o n ex- ! ?d from serving on a coroner's jury in i in on tho ground of being the lineal I udnnt of Aaron, the high priest. ; isi'ATcn from Ilomo s lys th it the popo cclrire the Pantheon a pagan tem;>Io if ! uiment to the late King Victor Em- ; el lie erected in its center, r.s is intrude 1 ing Humbert. THE INDIANS. unl Report of ilio Com mis .ioncr of the Indian Iturcau. imissioiier Hiram Price, of Lli > Indian u, lias submitted to Secretary Teller his il report for the fiscal year, ending Juno j U considerable length the r.pjrt refers j lie marked improvement arnoug j 11 tribes, partial arly in the mat- j of industrial school education, liberal appropriations are askc i f r ..itiing the Indian poi.Yv ail for pros-'- ; ^ l?er>o!is who furnish liqnor to thj I !i% 51. im severe puni>!ime..t r, :-sk >1 criminals, and an apj.ropr at: m | ked lor the payment of sal ries | id'an judg s to preside over their s yf justice. D.iring tiio ye:ir there was t > the Indians in ca>h, as annuity an 1 j vvibo, Less than ) of as paid lor annuities proper. During oir an average of 5,014 pupils were in ' lance at the in iian public schools. FASHION NOTES. ;thctic shades arc out of style. jssels Iaco is fashionable for bridai e newest tailor-made costumes are ed. iber necklaces and combs are again ihion. e hair is coiled higher on the head last winter. iftcial (lowers are no longer fashiontor corsage or belt bouquets. nc of the black and garnet Suede s are beaded on the silk stitching, the imported walking or reception s arc made with very bouffant back :ry. sian surah silk is a very soft and v material to combine with plain ucre. bracelets with gold enamel are 1 a grcal deal by ladies in second ning. irlct llanncl underclothing will be this winter by ladies in preference j white. iin black or dark blue jerseys over side plaited skirts are popular for ilgirls. ig veils of tulle are worn by the maids at most of our fashionable cddings. igator-skin shoes for ladies and ren are now colored black nud have t leather tips. icy-headed pins are used in place ooclics or lace pins to fasten the and lace jabots. J o similar bracelets on the same wrist . n odd one on the other is now the ur fashion among young ladies. :cs are seen in steel and jet ciTects, ' ;ic most desirable arc in embossed nd velvet figures on net grounds, ne of the new French hats arc comentirely of novelty braids and j feathers with Ion:? spears for orna- 1 ! j long cloth coats for fall arc not y closed in the back as formerly, j re left open with side pieccs like a gote. ike bracelets of beaten gold with eyes and rows of emeralds about ody are among the newest designs velry. s newest handkerchiefs arc white ' l ie with a deep plain border inside the 1 the border bcit>?j embroidered in a design with white linen thread. . c /,f Itnn f;ms nrr> of tortoise mother of pearl, black carvcd or 1 polished wood, sometimes varil and ornamented with small picmets for winter are not so large as rlv but a quantity of material is red to complete them. as the crowns ill with heavy and broad twists for ling. ny of the felts are bound with silk by machine, producing the same as is seen in gentlemen's hats, ugh the most stylish of these have :h bands or facings of velvet reach) the edge of braid. : note among the newest shades the s, bronzesandolivn-brownsso popufit year, garnets and reds also lioldicir own. Turquoise and sapphircin many shades, graded from light ..1- " 111 .il.'.x I.A I'/.fV T>At\t)1'ir I IV, Will ill.-JU I>1.1 \ . pre are three new styles in the let gloves: The "Templar," which at the top; a style which laces over wrists, and a plainly-hooked cuff, all have embroidered backs, and nost popular in dark tan shades, buttoned kid gloves, heavily Led on the back, are worn again. e schools of Italy contain over 3,000,tupils. | MUSICAL AND DRAMATIC A son* of Bret Harte is traveling with tho Boucicault company. M. Coquelin, tho French comodian, will . visit the Unite 1 Slates next year. Mrs. La note y has taken a house in New York for her mother and the season. Sir Henry Taylor, au'hor of "Philip von Artevelde, is now eighty-three years old. Mrs. Langtry, on her recent return to New York, l:ai twenty-five trunks filled with her wardrobe. There i< said to be about twelve society | Indies writing flnys for tho Madison Snuaro ; xl A. XT XT 7. lU.'ilWC*, i>Uff lUl ii. Even Jewish songs arc prohibited in Russia, the Hebrews being compelled to use I either English, French or German. Mark Twain* is said to bo preparing j another play for Mr. John T. Raymond, which will bo brought out in New York in January. 1'itEi'Arations nro baing made at Hamburg to hoi 1 in 188.) a grand festival on the r.icasion cf tho bi-centenary of the birth of the composer Handel. Sa.lvini will begin a farewell tour of Italy I November 4. prior to retiring from tlie stage. ! It is po-sihle he may include the United 1 States*in his final season. The play of " A Mountain Pink," written j by two Chicago journal's^ for Loui-e Syl- ! vester. has just b?en bought from theauthjrs ' by her manager for &j,UU0. Annie Louise Gary has had painted for | her e'.l a decorative work in several panels | containing figures from the various operas J in which she has been a favorite. Victorich Sardou, tne French play wright, has given Fanny Davenport the re iusai 01 iat: .'uuuikjuu n^uv nj ma uuai iuui , plays, the leading parts of which will be fe- j male. It is intimated that the attraction for next sca-on at Drury Lain, London, will be a Jaj anese b]>ectac'.e pla r, with dresses and scenery from Japan. Toe name of the play is " Nonins." Rumor has it that Suppe will soon rise above the opera coiniqne stage, for which he has so successfully written for years, and give tho world a serious opera, "The Vendetta," tho scene of the book being in j Corsica. Mr. J. F. Rhcdks, the solo violinist of the j Kellogg concert company, is being highly praised by competent critics. He is a Phila- I aelj hian of al>out twenty-three years of age. I and has recently returned from an extended j course of study in Leirsic. American playwrights are booming in England. Beside Mrs. Burnett's play of " Esmeralda," which the St. James theatre, of London, l as pr. duced, under the name of "Young Folks' Ways," Mr. Brander Matthews has a comedy accepted at the Court theatre to follow " The Millionaire.*' Miss Kellogg's first appearance on the italic tock place when she was a child of fivo ' or six years of aze at a juvenile concert in j Birmingham. She sang a song entitled and I ending, " Who will buvmy roses red?" and j as she uttered the last line, at the same time holding forth the flowers, Thomas M. Newson. j then fdittir of the Daily Journal, exclaimed: I " I will buy them," and placed a bright new I silver coin in the bands of the half-fright- j ened young singer. THE COUNTRY'S^ FINANCES, j Facts About (lie Various Kinds of j money in the I'nitcd States. The director of the mint has prepared a statement showing that the specie and paper money of the United State-;, October 1, 1S83, was $1,730,597,823, or which the treasury held $13$,$12,491), the balance being in the banks or in the hands of the people. Of the amount in the treasury, ?61,083,810 was gold bullion and $5,10r,911 was silver bullion. The total amount of gold coin was $"<44,512,099, of which the treasury held 5=144,440,720. Agains: this, gold certificates to the amount of $82,495,240had been issued. The total amount of silver dol!ars was ?15 4,370,899, of which the tr> asury held ?114,5* 7,- i 572, against which silver certificates amounting to $94,490,241 had beo.i issued. The total of fractional silver was $80,920.434, of which ?*>1,170,203 was | in bauks and circulation. In this amount j was included 5,000,001 (estimated) trade i dollars. In banks ard general circulation were $309,480,5;>0 in United States notes, ?347,334,901 in national bank notes, and j ?0,987,103 in fractional currency, the totals j being respectively $34<!,08l,010, $353,342,071 j and ?0,992,900. Assuming that there has boon no change in the holdings of national banks since the date of the lust published statement, June2.', ! they held on October 1: Of gold coin, ! ?i:.V-3.\s10; of silver dol ars, ? J4,00J,0i 0; o! 1 silver fractional c >in, ? 208,858; of gold cer- j tiflcates, $12,791,59:1; of silver certificates, ; ?3,121,130; of I'nited States notes, $.3,- j 832,458; of natior.a' bank notes, ?31,748,004, and of fractional currency, $150,447. Tho ; total cir. u'ation h 11 by thn public and by j banks, othfr than tritioni! banks, October 1, | 1883, respectively, was as follows: Description. Oct. 1. 1882. Oct. 1,1883. | Gold coin ?3M0,1.0-'.088 ?327,833,157 Silver dollars 30,8*)1,2.J1 35,7S),527 j Fractional silver... 49,0*7,535 50,901,503 j Gold certificates... 313,140 ?2,223,350 j Silver certificates.. 01,397,180 75,800,831 I'nited States notes. SU,419,341 235,054,138 i National bank notes 3JO,104,018 315,570,957 j Fractional currency 0,023,253 0,530,050 ; " Total $1,051,24$,380 $1,070,304,021 | The increase in gold coin, therefore, was [ $0,1130,401); in ^ilvor dollars, $4,iW2,2%; in i fractional silver, $1,273,!$7?); in gold certifl-i cates, $21,010,210: und in silver certificates, I $14,4 )3,Go!, making a total increase of $49, : 501', 41)11. The items showing a decrease were as follows: United States notes, $15,705,203; : national ba ik note<, $14,527,0 il, and frac- i t.'onal currency, $1)2,51)7, making a total of j $30,:M,N>1. The net increase, therefore, was 1 $111,115,035. A NEW GOVERNOR-GENEEAL, The .llarqui'i of I.ausdownc Succeed* the ?I .irqui> of Lorue. The Marquis of Laiisdowna was sworn in at Quebec as governor-general of Canada with considerable poinp. Lord Lanslowne and party landed at Queen's wharf where a briili; n : milit iry staff awaited them, and a battery with a band was drawn u>> as a guard of honor. The marquis drove to the department building in an open larriaue and was frequently i a;.p'aulei t.yt!io crowds along the .-treet. I IK- wrre the governor-general'* uniform an I i wasocorted ly tho Que.-n's Own Canadian hu'z ir.s I-ady J.ansdowna sat be* da her liu bind. Fa-hig them were Lord Melgund. mLiiary secretary, and Lady Florenco An on. On the arrival of tho party at the department buildings Lord and I a ly Lansdowne entered, preceded ly the members of their sta r, and took tin; places assigned for them on tho right o the throne. Lord Lome step|H'd 011 the i!ai> in front of the throne to ivc. ive the distinguished party an ! the 1'ominion mini-ties and all pivs.'iit rose t > tlu ir feet, remaining so throughout the cere m< ny. As soon a<all had tak-n their places Lord Melgund rose and read the royal commission j appointing the most In norabte the Marquis of I.ansdowne to the governor genera ship j of Canada in place of li s excellency | the Marquis of Lorne. This done, the elerk of the j rivy ioaneil. John J. Mc- i (iee, approached the head of the table with a Bible ill his hand and Sir William Ritchie, chief justice of tho .-upreuie court, advance 1 toward the new governor, bowing separately to Lord Lome and Lord I.ansdowne, and | placed before the latter the oa'h of allegiance, which was then a Iministered. The chief just c subset|iiently adminis tend the oatii of oflice, and the marquis took his >eat at the In a I of tho tabl and sub-! scr.bid his romp, after which the chief just c_> and all the judges cf the supren e url present allixcd their names as witnesses. The Marquis of Lome, who hail been gracefully .standing in front of the throne a ( silent sj>ect;:t.>r of the imposing ceremony, having p rforined his la t official action as' governor-general of Canada steppe! down irom the dais, thcieby ab iieating in favor of his succ sior th- high am important otfieo. In tho tiansitioii of gowrn -is cacti bowel plia-nnt'y to the other, an 1 thos > present looked oil with ] rofound 'lit-re-tas Iris excellcn v the Marmiis of Lau?down*j 1 e nine tho giivei nor-general of ('ana a and stepi ed into the pla e which his pre lcces or | ha just vacate'. Then the clerk of the privy coimse'. ai- | van' cd t<> the foot of the throne and present- j ed iliepita' seal"!' the D ihtinion of Canada ! i'-.to the new ^overnor-geno'-nl's hands an l Lavo Isi'ii tli copy of the l ibe upon whi h he I ai been sworn. His exeellenev haudel , it in turn to the chief justic > of the supreme | c nirt. Sir V.\ Ritchie. The ceremony being : e winded, the new governor-gen Ta'stopped from the dais an I the olli ia'. ina u'iirat o i was a thing of the past. Tiio n *w governorgencr.il and party then proceeded to t htawa. HOERIBLE TMGEOY, A 71 nil i 11 m Sf i . It ite 'Mr cp Children ami IZiiiiscli'. Albert Frazi r, wi.o resides mar Newcomcrst wii,i h o, !h -other morning hilled hi;, wi:c nnd tlin c ehi ilrenand then commi ltd .siii. i lo. .'ol ti J i!;;c. broilui-in-'aw of Frn- , :cr. wa- i; l!?in; l" him on tin* I ivvious ' S11 u<i:sy e\-? n ?;r, wlien the a'tor told him l.o w.is <1 w nl.o: 1la* lu- was to-> ill to work nml did not ! i:o-,v v.l at wouM become ol' his family. 'J li s was th last time Fra.er or any of his family was seen a ive. A i iifi^l.b >r named i+a'ti came to Fiaor's | house, anil, limlin^ a:l the floors looked and curtains ilrawn. c> n-hided al! was not ri-hr. Ho .-nd several nei ii'.i is climb; d in the window. In one c oim r of the ro- n; lay liie | di ad body ot Mrs. l-raz.-r, with her ihr :t* j r;.r, irom m r tar i<> car, n:i< ny a- r sue w * . her youngest child with i!s h"ad urns-he I. !n a Jittio iTil> c it 'ay tl:c two o'desf ch-.l in 11 v.itli tluir heals c-cslied. N ar ly ay 1 ra/er with the s de of hi- fa o blown i IV h. tlto discharge < f a gun. l!e inns!. haw !<>adcd the barrel and t!i ui he'd otte oi;d in the I'ame of the lamp thai >t <>:1 n?-;r by and i the other en 1 in his face. lb1 v. as a German, . thirty years of a^o. THE POSTAL SERVICE. ' ? Report of the First Assistant Postmastsr-GeneraL ? ?, JH The Number of Postofflces in the unl~ ; - v. ted States now 47,863. ' ^ Tho report of Assistant Postmaster-Gener al Hatton for the past fiscal year shows that the whole number of postofllc is wai 47,803, an increase of 1,632 during the year. % Penasylvania has tbe largest numbar of any of tho States, o,7l0. New York fol1'jWa with 3,0:S2, and Ohi) is third with 2, 'rM. '''?%? Thy whole number of presidential o.lices was : 2,143, an increase aunn;,r mo year ui ! >-, a* larger number than in any previous year. Tee number of money order tffi ea was 5,837, an increase of 4dl. Lock baxes are . ustd in (5,700 postofflces, the postmaster* holding in trust an aggregate of $ WO,000, /. 3 deposted with th-m by box renters, to tccuie the safe return of the keys. Under the law which took effect on t.'ctobo 1, the salaries of presi ential postmasters will hereafter be equali/o l and placed uj/sn the basis KR$jjs of the gross receipts of their offices. The repoi t says that as a rule postoffice clerks are underpaid, especially at separating oll.ces, . and tint in many such offices postmasters are compelled to employ clerks at their own ^?he aggregate sum of the annual salaries aH*l||j of 2,19.j pr. s dent al postmasters amounts to $:i,7..0,0,0, forty-four new offices having been WH :"gS added to the list during the last quai ter. It is JjR-rJ thought that ninety additional ofliccs will be '32HK assigned to thisgrade duringthj pres.ntfiscal ' year. With favorable sui roundings, such as may be expected, the adjustment of sa'aries of presidential postmasters for the fis< a', year ending June 30, 1S&5; will involve in raund numbers not less than *4,000,C0). To provide for the more speedy delivery of a certain class of corresponden ce after the delivery closes for the day, the report suggests that a special stamp be provided which, when affixed to a letter, whether mail or local, in addition to the ordinary postage -L^gl stamp, shall be regarded by the office ad- '. ' dressed as entitling the letter to immediate delivery up to 10 p. m., and that boys be employed and require! to procure receipts from the party addressed or some authorized person. In view of the excess of receipts of postage a1a??a AffAn fVn /incf. nf i'fa Ha. * rxttKk VII IUCUI IliCXLUCl atuun \j TCI Vi.\J v~w v? .w ? It'Kin livery (11,021,894), it seems, says the report, ii that "the time has arrived when the postage / on local letters at offices whare the cirrier system is in operation can be reduccd from two cints to one cent. Such a redudon will surely result >'n a very large increase of local business. The report of the inspectors who investigated tne unlawful dispatch companies shows tint the aepartment is losing thousands of dollars annua'ly by their competition. They offer no better "facilities than the department, and the only thing gained by their patrons is the saving of one cent on a letter. A reduction of local postage would result in a very great increa e in business, as well as meet the demantis of the cities now served by carriers. AMONG _THE_ AGED. 3| Tho Cardinal Archbishop of New York ia * ;^sa eighty-two. Count Von Moltke is the oldest commanderin-chief. He was born in 1800 and can make love in fourteen languages. Professor Lauiens P. Hickok, formerly of Union college, is now living at Amherst at the green old age of eighty-five years. Father John Carroll, of Chicago, is the oldest Catholic priest in America. He comes ; ^3 of tho famous Carrolls of Maryland. Stephen Eaker, long the postma?t?r of Beverly, Mass., under appointment of Preaident Jackscn, died recently at the age of ninety-two. " . 33|gH The oldest English art critic is the venerable Samuel Carter Hall, of London, who has lately published an entertaining volume of the reminiscences of his eighty-tnree jJIIS years. . R. A. Gourlis, of Sacra-nento, is eightyone years old. His great grandmother lived . wsl| to the age of 123 y<ars. His grandmother % topped tne beam at 117 and one of his uncles reached 102. 1 Colonel James M. Blackburn, a farmer of Edgar county, 111., has passed off at the age of ninety. He was the owner of 2,:i00 acres , of land and commauded a regiment in the |qa| B1 .ck Hawk war. Bishop Charles Wordsworth, of St. Andrew's, England, now in his eightie'h year, was captain of the Oxford boat cr< w in 1829 and taught the young ideas of Gladstone and Cardinal Manning how to shoot. Mrs. Sallie Stockwell, of "West Brattleboro, Vt., recently died at tho are of 104 vears. She was born in Ches erfleld, N. H. One of her sisters lived to bo 100, and a brother died at the age of ninety. A man walking through Forest HiU cemetery at Napietou, Ohio, found the life'.ess body of Mrs. Frances Gorman, a ,red se ventyflveyears, beside her husband's grave. The o d lady was friendless and alone in the world, hor husband having died .-ome time ago. The oldest Episcopal bi.-hop in the United States is the Right Rev. Benjamin Bosworth Smith, bishop of Kentucky, now residing ia New York city in his ninetieth year. He V' ,*} was consecrated to his bishopric fifty years . ago last October in St. Paul's cha; el, New \ ork city, along with Bishop Mcllvaine. - - 'jS Paul Brittain, who died in Li.ne county, * '?! Oregon, recently, aged eighty-two years, , was a pi -ne?r in several States. He was born in North Carolina. From his native State he emigrated to Tennessee when that State was a wilderness Thence he wc nt to Illinois when it was a territory inhabited principally by Indians, and Iowa was considered the "Far West'' when he moved his little family into it and settled on the broad prairie east of Keosauqun. ?inn?.T>TniTm T^Tl AT1T *n fKUM ii\mi rmrm. Stedijan.?e. C. Stedmau, the "poetbanker" of New York, intends to tuend his broken fortune by literary work. Boutwell.?Ex-Secretary Boutwell has given up his law office in Boston and will hereafter live in Washington permanently. Villard.?The combined salaries of Mr. Henry Villard, presid nt of the Northern, l'a"ific railroad, amount to over $80,000 per annum. '.'-^PFxpl/Sg Garfield.?Tho name of Mrs. LucretiaR. Garfield appears on the pension list. She is one of the greatest bencflciariesof the government, her monthly payment bei"^ $ ll'i. W/?. Tildes.?It is now authoritatively* stated that Mr Samuel J. Ti den will sp-end the entire winter in his yacht Yosemice, cruising ??ii? i?if t-hfi Wocf. TnHi?\n wllu u uuu-uua-a L1 IViiUUJ AAA tuv .. ?wv ?^V.. ... waters. ( ameuox.?Senator Don Cameron, of Fcnnsylvania, will not be able to attend at tie oj-ening of Congress. His health dees i:(>t improve in Europe, but he writes a deM-r'ption of his carriage ride f run Klinburgh t<? London to his Washington friends. herman.?General W. T. Sherman's elder !oa. Thomas, is in the Roman priesthood; ? ! h younger, Ti curaseh, is a school b >y. Two of his daughters are still unmarried. The general will continue, after his retirement, to i'r w about $1">,U 10 in salary and allowances. ? eaton.?The Eatons of the Unitel States hold their first family reunion recently in Boston. and elected as officers of their association the Rev. Dr. W, H. Eaton, of Keene, is'. H., president; Professor D. C. Eaton, of Nc.v Haven. Conn., srcretary* Ed?vard B. , Eiiton, of Boston. Mass., treasurer, and Jcel J:. Eaton, of Albany, N. Y., chairman of tho ix 'cutivo committer. Bitn;nT.?" John Bright," says a Brahmin v'sitor to England, '"eats his breakfast like a lion, ami digests it, too; but he doesn't drink. He is a broad, middle-sized man.with gr? at, i-oft hands ami an enormous appetite. 1 have seen him finish off the plentiful morning meal with half a jug of milk and a good lump of sugar, which he puts into his mouth somewhat surreptitiously." Blaine.?The Boston Transcript says; ' Mr. Blaine lias nearly completed his history, From Lincoln to Garfield.' He will theii b:-gin on a history of the war of 1M2. From u ! ersonal friend it is learned that he was or oral $100,000 in (ash f??i*' From Lincoln to (rfiold,' in two voluines. He decided not to tiiw hut, bv tho advice of a friend will in>ist on a roialty of fifty mits per volume. OUEER "HAPPENINGS. While a marriage ceremony was bein^ performed in a house in Bryan. Texas, thieves stole the wedding feast from the dining, room. Far up in the spiral of a conch shell fished up out of dee;> water at .Jacksonville, I-'Ja., an en ire leaf of a Methodist hymn book was found. While walking anions Hie ruins of Caracalla's l>ath< in Hume, a traveler came near Ikv'ii : killed by a stone dropped from a great h i.iit by a cro.v. ("oine and .-co me on an important family n atter." v.a< the message sent by a la ly of lii-rlin 11 all her re'atives. They came in tiMops.an), u|?oti arriving at the house, I' in sd h r 1 angiug by the neck, dead. Three children of James Knight, ot ( ha: hunt c unity, N. C., di d of diphtheria. i ll" s uiii' week two of his children me I iro:n i!?f effects of rattle nal<e bit s, and the only :ciu:ilnin,' c'lild was fatally scalded a few davs thereafter in a i>. t ol' bo 1!lis s- ap. Three-fourths of ihe nroent site ot i envt r wa< dw.ie i. only a lew yt ars ago. by i l ward M ( iintock. wi o sold it for a pair of l"r< ncli calf boots. a pound of j In^ tobacco, a:i i a 1 uito. McC-in'wk drove an ox team : i the Jirs* over an I train that c.er crossed >he continent. in G.iwamla. N. V.. six brothers and six si-ters have >ix chil lien ca ll. Not ono of the twelve is less than >ix feet tall, an 1 the ii^hU'sl one weigh* 0 pounds. There is i xar lv tw > vears different*.* in their ages, i ic youngest b in,' forty-four a :d the oldest ; ixt v-n'x veal's. Xitlrrr says thit a ti.di ten inches long, ; i? n i.i !ik- something like ahatehec. ,>imi*d <).or a sn:a!l b iat, at Aden, in whicli KnslNh cflicr- were rowing, and, s.r.kin: tho hat of one of them, knocked it ..vcrboar.l. When the hat was recovered, u s it was found in the hard felt, four incho.< in length. i????