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ABBEVILLE PRESS AND BANNER. I BY HUGH WILSON, ABBEVILLE. S. C.. WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 28, 1883 NO. 22. VOLUME XXVIII. |J| FAME. What good is in a laurel crown When death has stilled the beating heart ? What pleasure lies in great renown When bus>* brain has played its part ? Or if the multitude should fall To worshiping tlic man they slew, Would tbat atonement make for all Their guilt, or stricken life renew ? J No, rather present joy I'd name? 1 m a. - a. a. _ i. . ? J ine iiniesi joy 111 r oriui;e s noara? ; rhan dead possess the worlds acclaim j In late repentence for its sword. ?Jdinnic Ballard, in Yonkern Gazette. i TOM KILliOY. | Romance is generally thought to dwell j1 in exceptions and extremes, but every-j1 day life has its full share of heroes, of tragic or of chivalrous story. Tom Kil- j1 roy's youth knew m> exceptional circum- J1 stances. l!is father was a master mason, 1 steady and indu>tri??os: his mother loved f him with that s<>!> r. wise affection which ! | keens strict guard over lessons and j 1 clotn es: he was. in >hort. one of those numberless sons <>l' respectable mechanics ' who keep the public schools busy in tlieir ( 1 youth, and are ki j.t busy by the world ' all their life afterward. j Tom had been destined almost from . ' v liia r?rn/llr? f r\ Innin 1 i i < fiithpr's tttidf* 1 \ VI UVI 1 V ? V i\ 111 a - . v His elder brother.-* were carpenters and j * - builders. Mason-work would dovetail i * naturally in with wood-work, and the j ( brothers would thus he enabled to throw j many a profitable job into each other's |' hands. Then- was no disposition in Tom j' to quarrel with this destiny: the limit ol 1 his ambition was to be a good tradesman, 1: and marry the uirl of his choice. He ' had not even settled on the girl yet. and 1 the pleasing latitude and uncertainly lie i' allowed himself in this matter was J the one bit of romance that leavened j J Tom's life at nineteen. : 1 Evidently here was a very common lad i 1 n very common < in umstanccs^ and yet | 1 . .Aerc was even then in his possession aif uingle advantage which might disarrange j J the steadiest and most uneventful ~ of J -1 rri 1- I c plans: lOIll \\a* t'.xcilinugiv imuunuuic I r ?that is. lie amis going to be. Just at I that age he was freckled and immature, J nanaged his great frame awkwardly, and was shy in consequence. But. after all. it was Tom's inches, and his bright, handsome face, crowned ' with short brown curly hair, that pre- j vented him taking permanently to bricks and mortar. < >ld K ilroy had a job of work to do for the great importing firm of Scott & Donaldson, and one day while Tom was laying bricks and whistling with a great deal of spirit -'The Garb of j Old Gaul," Alexander Scott took a likiug i to him. Men do take these impulsive likings i just as readily as women do, and for the j ? most part thcv consider themselves at I '[ liberty to indulge them. At any rate, ( Mr. Scott did. He had a talk with young 1 ^ Tom, and liked him better still, and then 1 had a talk with Tom's father, which resulted in Tom's throwing down the c trowel, and taking a seat in the outer ? counting-room of the great firm. The Kilroys wore modestly proud of | I the change. The e'der boys going off to j * work with their tools and the younger 1 with their books wire still very fine fel- 1 lows in their mother's eyes; but Tom in j' a stylish business suit, with kid gloves on j -s his hands, and a cigar in his mouth, did j v them a loftier kind of credit. All of them j * felt this, and the carpenter remarked one i1 morning, as they watched him down the avenue a block: " A11 right, mother. It's J c a poor family that can't have one gentle- ; man?isn't it ( No one doubted that it was "all !! right.'' Tom gradually became the ora- ( cle of his fathoi's house. Why not? lie spent his days among grave, wealthy ' men, among great interests and great 1' trusts, and unavoidably he pot the air s and assumed the tone of the wealthy r classes. In the course of two years he ( was cautiously promoted, but he was I trusted even beyond his position. 1 In the method incidental to JNew York l business life time pases rapidly. Tom's s life went on as the elock goes for the ^ next four years, but in them Time gave * everything and took nothing from him. His splendid phy.-ie:il beauty had ma- j f tured, and his business aptitudes had i v been thoroughly developed. Even John ? Donaldson, who had always smiled at his partner's fancy for the "young mason," 1 at length admitted that ' 'Kilroy was a tine t fellow, and would do the lirm credit." It was-just nfter this admission from j J Mr. Donaldson, and a hot. flowing day s in early July, Tom, busy among sundry a ^ 'twles and boxes, heard Mr. Scott call j' him. When he answered the summons, I < he found the senior partner in averyanx- 1 ious and perplexed mood. | f "Mr. Kilroy," he said hesitatingly, " 11 i cannot go home, as I intended, to-night, i v and it may even happen that I shall have i tD go to Liverpool by the next steamer. :l What I want now is that you should take t my usual train, and carry Mrs. Scott this 1 letter." r "Very well, sir; how soon shall I leave?" 1 " You have fifteen minutes to catch it." ' So in fifteen minutes Tom was at the J1 Erie depot. lie obeyed the: order as I he would any other ordor from Mr. Scott. s but it did not much please him. He had t half an engagement with a very pretty ^ gill for Thomas's (.'ardensthat night, and i 1J1-A/1 oinnn-KovrloL' nn/1 I'AtlAC 9 UU Ut\UU OHO ?t 17* I I IV i1 HI "vi I U.TV^ ?>! % i4vji . city accompaniments better than in their ! native simplicity. He was in a severely gentlemanly tern- I Ser when he stood on the platform of the ! ttle Jersey depot. Tlu re was the usual 1 gathering of buggies and light wagons, j and he looked around for .Mr. Scott's; i which that gentleman had described to | him as "a nicc little turn-out with aj pretty team of grays." The only vehicle answering this de- j scription was driven by a lady?a very j lovely lady indeed, who peered among the ; crowd with a wistful, anxious face. Tom took heart of grace, and with his very best bow and smile, made some inquiry ' or remark, the only intelligible words of 1 which were, "..Mr. Scott." I "Yes, sir," said the lady, blushing, and handling the reins rather unnecessa- j > rily, "I camc to meet papa, and you say j' L he is not coming. And you have a letter?! i p Will you allow me to drive voji to the ! i k house?'5 ^ ' Tom was obliged to allow himself to 'v be driven He knew nothing about 1 horses, and he was exceedingly mortified > at his ignorance. But even ignorance j f* a.; u: nf,.,.* ! A nas COmpfllSiUUMIS. Iil> (n iro i mauv.-.^ | ' gave him leisure to watch his driver's ! t pretty motions; to note all the changeswf of her face, and all the coaxing interna- J tions with whic h she flattered and en- | ^ conraged tlic " pretty tc mi of grays." j 1 He had litcrnlly/</AV// in lore without be-,: ing at all aware of the plunge he had t taken; for the sensation was soeharining i it was scarcely likely he would stop to | i analyze the feeling. Mrs. Scott was quite aware of Mr. Kil-, t roy's antecedents and position, but [ 1 women never weigh very handsome men ' I in the same exac t balance as they do u<jly j i ones. There was a verv charming tea, I r ' !->- " ? \f,.0 If uunn^ which iuiu m>i mi in .mi. | Scott's favor us he had got with Mr. ! c Scott in four years. So far, indeed, that j 1 when she retired to the library to answer j her husband's letter, she left Mr. Kilroy i > to be entertained by her daughter Alice. 11 Dkl she remember what a dangerous * entertainment wandering through the j s 6centcd shrubs in the twilight garden J was? When Alice's lingers touched t Tom's among the strawberry vines, did f Bhe calculate the result? Or had she no t fear of the bewitching summer moon that | 1 saw those two sitting in sweetest silence i beneath the drooping honeysuckle on the i .* piazza? ! 1 Perhaps her letter ha<l given her other 1 1 material for anxiety. She did not seem j t to think of Tom and Alice, and Tom was i; glad of it. He wished this niglit could 1 last forever. He went back to town in a i kind of intoxication. Alice gave him a i ^jasmine spray at parting; and this youn? i1 liomeo of the counting-house was just as foolish about a flower as any lover, either before or since the flood, has ever been. 1 He had no plan about Alice, but his : < stars planned for him. Mr. Scott went ' to Liverpool by next steamer, and for cix i 1 weeks, on every Saturday afternoon, Mr. !' Kilroy went out to Mrs. Scott's with a I ccrtain sum of money from the firm, and ;! often certain commissions in books and : j s dry-goods with which the firm had no ' particular concern. In these six weeks * ? love gTCw. both on Tom's and Alice's part, to perfect stature. But this delicious dream of youth had > ii rapid awakening. In six weeks Mr. Scott returned, and then the pleasant necessity for Tom's weekly visits ceased. Mr. Scott never alluded to tliein, and it rather nettled the handsome younjr lover that his prospect i vi.' motner-in-taw sccmcu ; to havft forgotten them. Thciv was, ! however, some consolation in Alice's let- j ters. and in her assurances of unaltered | nfTection, and for a short time these satis-j tied him. Hut at length, after n somewhat injured reflection on the matter, he resolved t . speaktoMr. Scott. Youth, in itsstlength and beauty and boundless hope, is so apt j to consider all things as its own tint some excuse may be made for the slight tone of self-assertion in which Tom ven- ! tured one evening on his confession. Mr. Scott heard it with perfect gravity j ind politeness. You have. <>f course, lone my daughter the greatest honor any i man is capable of. Mr. Kilroy.'1 he said, I suavely, as he turned tTic paper-cutter >ver and oyer 011 his desk. " May 1 ask j f you still reside with your parents:" " Yes, sir, I do," answered Tom, feel ng a momeniary ihisii m miami; ? i bought of the plain little two-story louse in a down-town street. "And where or how do von propose to ive when you arc married { Tom frankly confessed that lie had not bought of that subject: hut he j vidently had the usual faith iu love and [ ;ottU?jcs. Mr. Scott rose with the air of a man I inishinir a discussion. ".Mr. Kilrov, I' un obliged to you for your honesty. 1 | ivill be equally plain with you. Business J iflairs have not gone well with me lately, i [ have b?*cn thinking all day of retrench- t uent: you and Frank Maybin will cither lave to leave your desks or retain tlieni j it very much reduced salaries. I am sure j roil love Alice too well to subject her to | >ovcrty. It is true, 1 have always in-) ended to jjive her a fortune, but then no j nan of honor would ask her hand, under i ;uch circumstances, unless lie was able to ount at least dollar for dollar with her. i'our business talents arc exceptionally j jood: I expect to see you worth a million, )ut when you are worth fifty thousand >f it I will cheerfully consider your pro)Osnl. He said a polite "Good-night "as he eft the office, a courtesy which Tom 'ound himself quite unable to return. Jf he man had been angry and uttered all i tinds of hard words, Tom would have >orn it better. lie had a salary of one nindred dollars a month; if he was to ,vait for Alice until he was worth fifty houssnd, the probabilities were hardly vorth counting- Besides, there was hat covert threat of dismissal. That I '- ? ? 1 V,;c ,WL- I \OUlU Ut'VCI UU. lie 111MZ?1 IUO x. voluntarily. lie saw very well that Mr. Vott would never like him again. ami Pom's open, candid nature instinctively Ireaded a dislike which would veil itself inder polite forms and disagreeable lecessities." He was so excited that he could not ndure the tedium of the street cars; he jot out of them, aud walked rapidly up iroadway until he struck Eighth street, le generally crossed to the east side of I he city by this route, and he took it j laturally, but at the Cooper Institute eading-room he ]iaused a moment. He I lad not yet thought of what he should ay to liis father and brothers. lie went ipstairs and drew a paper toward him; le had no idea of reading, but he wished o think without attracting observation. l,;c fivnc >vnndf>rpfl i >ver it. but at length lie began to read j vith a curious avidity. He followed a ertain column to its close, read it again md again, and then looked at the name >f the paper. It was the Rocky Mountain Vcir*. In those few minutes Tom had >cen inoculated with the gold fever, and le was sure that he now saw a clear and ure way to Alice. True, it might be a ough one. but all the same he was quite > letcrmined to take it. He was only impatient now of delay, and he entered the ittle homely sitting-room as elated and ! positive as if the Rocky Mountains were ! omewhere on the line of street cars, and i tin mine as perfectly localized as the Unied States Mint. "I am going to the Rocky Mountains, ather," he said, with that impetuosity I vhieli often characterizes e0?erprises. .bout whose wisdom we are doubtful. "You have been in some very queer >lace already to-night, Tom, to make you f -11- 1.'. i:i,? ?? n * I U1K in M1CI1 il Uilll-illM- llKillUVJi . His brothers looked curiously into Toin's face, while the women-folks preent paused in the midst of their chatter ,nd work for the same purpose. The I ncu evidently thought Tom had been j Iriuking; the women divined at once | lis absolute sincerity. T he pause was i ollowcd by a long and angry discussion, I n which there was no lack of hard | vords, but the end had been deteimined i n Tom's mind before it began, and in ; i week's time he found himself crossing ! he dreary plains which guard the ap>roaclies to the treasure-houses of the i nniintniiis But alas! Tom soon found that the i cevs to these treasure-houses were eun- | lingly hidden from him. His industry md business tact were of no avail here, -abor led to nothing, and simple luck eemed to laugh science and probabilities o scorn. Yet though he had no luck, it vas curious to see how the mine madness uled him. He knew men who had earehed fur ten and even twenty years md then found in a moment millions of i rcasure. He knew a man who had wan- I lered over Nevada, and sifted the Black ! lills for nothing, and then just stumbled I >ver a Rocky Mountain silver mine that j lad made him a modern Cm sus. Such 1 ales were in every camp, and in hunger, I old. and wretchedness of every kind, ! hey kept Tom's courage high. Yes, though he was locked up in those i lreary fastnesses, and heard only at long i ntervals of the world outside them. In j act. the outside world after the lirst two ! '"'IK ti-wl littlo fnrliim TT<> ' tot written home at lirst, partly because ! ' his head was under water," and partly jeeause it was really a diflicult matter to iost a letter, and still more difficult to I ret at the reply; and tlu-n gradually his vhole being became absorbed in one idea. I'he mountains held him in their spell, tnd he knew that nothing but thediscov ry of some rich lode would break it. One night, after four years of this it range life, he met a little party in the Matte Canon who had lost their way, and vere in t he greatest extremities. Tom ; juided them back to safety, and made a varm friend of their leader?so warm hat the man offered hiin a share in a large melting and assaying work which he was joing to establish near the Silverton Mines. Tom happened to be unusually iard up, with a long winter before him, ind he accepted the offer. Of course he old himself that just as soon as the snow nelted he should begin his ' prospcctng" again: but he never did. In the stir, bustle and method incident j o the conduct of a great work, his old i msiness habits re-asserted their power, i Ic found himself making money so i apidly that he resolved to go on making | md saving until he could buy a mine. I or to be the possessor of a veritable gold >r silver mine still charmed and ruled lis imagination. Thus the years went by. Few people vould have recognized in the stalwart, ?ronzed, bearded man. clothed in leather md flannel, the once stylishly-dressed | ind scrupulously shaved and gloved em- j dove of the great Arm of Scott & Don-1 tldson, "Water street, New York. For j nil ten years had passed away, and hough Tom was only thirty-three, he ooked and felt a great deal older. o? ?it.^ nvVx-m ho r?rinntf?fl MmiUllIUCS liu?, ai , ....v,.. ip his balancc in the Golden City bank, ho j jegan to think of his old life, and to , lave sudden yearnings which made him ! urn his face lovingly eastward. But the ; jyves of great trusts were upon his lands, and the spell of money-making on ?- i l. l,^ in/lnofl rk^r>nQinn<tI)v lis neun; n^Muau, nmv?u, inder the nigntmare, but his memories Acre not powerful enough to thoroughly irouse him. | It happened that in his tenth summer iiis partner went East to bring home :i laughter whom he had left there ::t chool, and his return was quite an event j ;o Tom. This man had walked Broad- j ivay within a week, and had brought j nack with him the flavor and the very j language of the place. Tom had rot i i^u'.ssed how dear to him his native city I was until one familiar name after] another unlocked all the wards of mem':*V ' - - * ? , ".-V''' I orv. mid ;i passionate longing for the old seem s :uid haunts; the old loves and J friendships. seized him. j ' John A?)l?ny;"' he said. "I must ; make a run Kast fur a few weeks. There is verv little quartz iii the mill, ami the ' 1 < . 1- kniw nooks are 111> 10 nair. i u ^n. n?>- lt....... fever, .lohn. bad. I think I will start to 1 morrow." So in a few days Tom Kilrov stood ai the foot of Chambers street, wondering if lie should home without warning; wondering, indeed, whether he had any home. Yes. there i! stood, just as he had left it. the litt!> brick house with the bright ureen blinds outside. Hut inside there had been changes. His father was dead, his eld' r brothers married, and tin- litt le si<ter lie had left in short dresses just going to be. Hut love is always the same, and these simple souls made a great festival over their returned wanderer. < 11 i .. WltllOUt OIK-e aSKUIg 1I lie nan Mini <1 respectable sum, or come home with empty pockets. Sitting alone with his mother that night, heat length ventured an inquiry very n< ar his heart. ''Where is Alice Scott now. mother?"' 1 " I don't know. Tom. Things have changed for her." ' She is married, then?" "That is past my telling. I have j heard nothing at all ahout her for eight ' years?never since her father failed. | They went somewhere up the river to : live. 1 saw her mother's death in the i papers soon after." It was a great tragedy in a few words ?failure, poverty, death, and isolation, j Tom's reveries were not devoid of re- 1 morse tliat iii^lit. out tno nexr uav n? started out early to do what his heart told him ought to have been done years ago. It was not hard to find Mr. Scott's re- ; treat, and he came upon it just at noon. I Mr. Scott was leaning over the little j wooden gate, looking listlessly down the j long dusty lane, and he readily entered : into conversation. Tom was smitten 1 with pity at the change in his old patron. He hail sunk to very small interests, and i talked now of his little patch of corn, ' his couple of cows, and his eggs and i chickens as he had oucc talked .of richly | _ laden barks, and bills of lading, ana j checks, and balances. Then Tom led I him on to speak of his old business, and j he was glad to see that the merchant in- j stantlv asserted himself, "lie must be taken out of this," thought Tom, and ho asked himself to dinner. lie entered the house with a boating | heart. Would Alice be there? Would j she know liiinf Mr. Scott ha>l not sus- : pected who he was, but Alice ought to j have keener eyes. She was laying a very \ humble table for two as they entered, ! and after a glance and a movement of i courtesy she went calmly on with her : household duties. Tom had a good opportunity for ob- j serving how much changed she was, but | it was a change that soothed and pleased j him. Her figure, her movements, her i sweet, quiet face, her neat dress?nothing j escaped him; and she was fairer in his > eyes than she had been even in that en- j chanted hour when she had first driven : him from the little Jersey depot. They sat opposite to each other at table, and when he answered her first j inquiry, she looked eagerly at him. but j Tom suddenly lowered nis eyes, jn ;i : moment, however, the trutli flushed ; across her heart, and in a scarcely articulate voice she cried out, "Oh Tom! oh i my dear Tom!"' Then Tom was by her side, kissing her cheeks and lips and hands, and whispering nohody knew what, between his kisses. Mr. N'ott had risen at once and was supporting himself on the back of his chair, hardly able to understand the good fortune that had come to him, until Tom said: "You promised me Alice, sir, when I had made fifty thousand dollars. I am worth nearly nine hundred thousand today; will that do?" "Good gracious. Mr. Kiirov!" and the old man sank into his chair, and covered his eyes with his browned hands. There was only a beefsteak and some ' potatoes and a cup of coffee at that i betrothal feast,but it was a wonderful one, | and sifter it there was a business talk in | the garden, which made a new man of j Mr. Scott. For Tom wsis lu-nt on re- | founding the old lirm under the name of "Scott Kilrov," and though there was i necessarily some delay, a million of money can work miracles, and before many months were over the senior partnen 1 of the new firm wsis exercising again all] his old authority and business acumen. ) For Tom remembers his father-in-law's ' claiftis, and lias forgotten no word of that kindness which altered his whole destiny ; when a mason lad, and which for many j years encouraged and rewarded his youth- j fill efforts. * j Tom's youngest brother occupies Tom's old position in the house now; but it is not likely that he will follow Tom's footsteps westward; for whenever Tom hears him talking of his big brother's '"good j luck" in the mines he always says: ' ' Easy?easy. Ilarry; good luck needs j ""'"1 l/xiL-iinr 'iftnr ninl im111 iy f-iaipr 1 ^ .. made than found."?llarjicr'a 11 'cckly. WISE WORDS. A deed is adorned by payment. A good beginning is half the work. Be praised not for your ancestors, but for your virtues. Real glorv springs from the silent conquest of ourselves. Never take a crooked path while you | can see a straight one. Nothing except what flows from the | heart can render even external manners pleasing. We judge ourselves by what we feel j capable of doing, while others judge us by what we have already done. Tlir> In-*! innflmd nf disi><jsin?r of half the slanders of the age is to pay them no attention. The other half may he lived down. "When loving hearts are separated, not the one which is exhaled to heaven, hut the survivor it is, which tastes the sting of death. What a pity that wrinkles should not. ! he all under our heels instead of on our j faces! It would he a much better ar' ! rangement. The way to wealth is as plain as the j way to market. It depends chiefly on two words?indu.-try and frugality; that is, waste neither time nor money, hut make the host use of both. Without in dustry and frugality nothing wiil do, and I with them everything. Winning a Caplainey. Siedlitz, the famous general of cavalry, when still a young oflictr, used to j maintain that any mounted soldier who ! allowed himself to l>e taken prisoner, j together with his horse, was a scamp i and a coward. He once rode in the I suite of the king over the bridge leading i into the fortress of Giogana. When they i had readied the middle of the bridge, at a signal from the king, the two draw- j bridges in front and behind were drawn up, and the king turned to Scidlitz with | the words: " Mow you are my prisoner." i " Not yet, your m-ijesty," answered the bold horseman, as he gave the spurs to his horse, leaped over t lie parapet into the Oder and swam safely to shore. He was only a cornet when he sprang into | the water, but he found himself a captain by the time he get to land. In Two Chapters. (1.) An humble boy. with a Shining nail. Went gladly singing Adown the dale, To where the cow with The brindlc tail On clover her palate <li?l Hcgale. An humble bee did Gayly sail Far over the Soft and Shadowy vale, to where the boy with the Shining pail, was milking the cow With the brindle tail. <S.) The bee lit down on the Cow's left car: Her heels flew up through The At- j mo.:pherc?And through the leaves of a j chestnut tree, The boy soared into i Futurity. Milton's vocabulary comprised about j s.OO;) words, and Shakspeare's about i'>.- j < 01. Some diligent student of Carh l found that in "Sartor lies ?i t ;:.s" j a!; :ie that author used not less than j distinct words. As "Sartor" war. j the earliest of Carlyle's books to be pub- i I lished in volume form this showing, is ' surprisingly large. FARM, GARDEN AND HOUSEHOLD. , I S'lcctiiiE Orclinr<l Trees. The J'iwItoil Farmer advises intending purchasers ;is follows: Ntirscryrmen know what purchasers will not believe? : that short, stocky trees arc better for an orchard, more likely to live, conic quicker into-bearing than tall, slender trees, whether apple, peach, pear, plum or cherry. The reason is simply this: Tall trees in the nursery rows, for some reason get the start, overtop and overshad.idow those that started later: the sap of the tree consequently pushes its growth upward and into foliage, while; the roots are 1/.I.? cli.twlor mil few rnnsi-niicnt 1 v it docs not Ik-mi- transplanting as well or do as* well after being transplanted as was expected from its line appearance in the row. Stocky trees, on the contrary, being overshadowed, make a shorter growth, with branches and foliage nearer the ground, with numerous short roots that do not waste their substance in bleeding or by absorption from the soil, that cntisc the tree to atari olT in a rapid growth and outstrip its slender rival, and also come quicker into profitable bearing. Power of Soil* to Absorb TOoisUire. One cause of the superiority some soils have over others consist in their great absorptive and retentive power. In light and sandy soils the power of retaining nutritive substances is less than in the case of heavier soils, or thin soils having much vegetable matter. The power of soils to absorb and retain moisture is in direct ratio not only to the quantity of organic matter in the soil but also to the fineness of the particles of the soil, hence the importance of securing a proper degree of fineness in the particles of a soil il it is to withstand drought. During dry weather plants require a soil which is both absorptive and retentive, and that soil which is capable of seizing atmospheric moisture and holding it when the atmosphere is heated is one of the best constituted soils. Soils most efficient in this respect are those in which there is a due mixture of sand, finely divided clay and carbonate of lime, with ?onie vegetable matter and which are sufficiently loose and light to be permeable to the atmosphere. Stiff clay soils, which take up great quantities of water when it is poured on them in a fluid form, are not soils which absorb most moisture from the atmosphere in dry weather; these cake and bake, and present only a small surface to the air, and the vegetation 011 them burns up. The temperature of a soil depends largely upon its humidity. Dry land absorbs heat more quickly and loses it more slowly than that which is wet. This fact explains one of the great benefits arising from tin: drainage of low. moist districts. The temperature of drained land is in summer often three degrees above that of undrained land. Dark colored soils absorb heat more rapidly than do light colored ones. Iluttcr. Butter is sour or cheesy, says Coh:nwnx Ji>irKI because of the milk or cream being kept at too high temperature, or the butter, after forming in the churn, was still churned and gathered in the buttermilk which should have been at once drawn olT and water or brine (which is far better) substituted to both gather and wash, l'utter is mottled because the salt, wliich raises the color, has not touched those spots showing light, while it should be thoroughly and uniformly mixed in, or a strong brine while butter is in granule form docs it about equally as well. Soft butter has various overworking the chief one: in this ease it will get solid, cut and try smoothly exposed to cold, but slight heat softens readily. Again, churning at high temperature mixes in the buttermilk, forming a soft mass and difficult to remove and readily turning rancid; chilling, washing and pressing is the only remedy. Crisp, crumbly or short butter is caused by too much water being worked into it by design or accident, and occurs chiefly in cool weather. White specks are of two kinds, one sort being cream in the act of forming into butter; the other dry cream, either from while sitting being disturbed, separated and drying on sides of vessel, or from a dry. windy atmosphere. Butter in which these are found is usually of good flavor. To finish, line, solid butter is the work of proper temperature throughout; also preventing or removing liquids from its composition before the butter has set: after which disturbing its formation, even though at the hands of an expert, may make it closer grained, but not solid or so crisp, nor will the butter so disturbed stand up under heat and exposure so well. It is generally understood that when the grain of butter, as it is termed, is broken up by overwork ing, it can never lie recovered to any extent. This, [ claim, is a mistake. It may be subjected to a particular temperature, after Ix ing handled and mussed to any extent, and yet brought back almost to its original solidity. It will, however, soften more readily in heat, afterward. stable ( leaning. Forty to fifty years ago, and wc nrc sorry to say that the evil still exists at the present time at points far away from towns and cities and dense populations, there was nothing so much neglected as the keeping of cow stables clean. As a common rule they were cleaned out once 1 *1 .. a wccK?on Muurony?:iiki men u. was not so much on account of the comfort and health of the animal and the convenience and tidiness of the milker, as simply because the pile of manure must be gotten out of the way to allow of the putting up and letting loose of the cattle mornings and evenings. We have seen the manure in the cattle stalls two feet dec]) of almost clear dung, with the hinder part of the animal at least one foot higher than the front part, and the cattle beingdriven out to the pasture field with ouantitics of fresh dunir hanirimr to tlirir flanks, which fn?in day t<? day received layer upon layer until it was one disgusting mass, and was left there until it became dry and hard, and fell olT in Hakes of its own action. The litter about a fourth of the quantity cattle now rcceive-consisted of the stalks of corn-fodder which could not be eaten, the weeds left in the hay. the Takings of dirty straw lying about the outbuildings, and sometimes mixed with a few leaves from the woods. The food of the dairy cows consisted of musty corn-fodder, second crop clover, and orchard grass badly cured, chair from the winnowings of the threshed gnrin, oats, straw, etc. The cows were of course at bin almost as skeletons, and their product of poor milk was about one-half of what would have been obtained from properly fed cattle. The fact is that the farmer took no pride in his live stock. The idea of giving them clean stalls, good ventilation and nourishing lood, never entered his thoughts, and if it did would have been regarded as an utter waste of money without any return. Hut look at the stables now of the dairy stock ! Their stalls are wide, clean and fresh, the cattle themselves are bright and sleek, with no projecting ribs, ???wl ?Knn/1 lit ii'/?l I fill 1 / /-*?"*? lllll | Iir?Oi( II I IU IJUiiUiV, >H ll-IVM, fortable in every way. ami <^i\inir two or three times the quantity of milk ami as rich as it is abundant. The butter from sueh cows commands twice the price from its careful manufacture and uniform excellence. At tlie present time also the farmer feels more pride in his dairy stock than in anything else upon the farm. He finds that they give a double return for all the extra care and eo>t of fili'ir inmrnvf'fl treatment. aiul tlmf In i:ms nothing upon his premises that pays him so well in every respect as they.? Jjiiiicttshr Fanner. ltccipcw. VrciiMicKM.i Soup.?Hoil a shank of veal in three quarts of water, three hours, with one whole turnip, onion and ( arrul, then strain, and add a small cup o< vermicelli. and hoil three-quarters of :> 11 hour. Season with pepper and salt; i: :]>: water boils away add more. lion Cake.?Scald one quart of corn meai. with just enough hot water to make a thick batter; stir in two large spoonfuls of butter; beat this a little before mixing it with the batter, so it will jisc readily; add half a teaspoonful of 1 salt. This should be baked nt least | three-quarters of an hour; butter the tins 1 well in which it is baked; sefve hot. ! Toast Jelly.?Slice a quarter of a ! pound of bread and toast it carefully, | taking care not to burn it; pour over it ! sufficient boiling water to entirely satur- j ate it; add two table-spoonfuls of sugar, ' and a very little grated nutmeg or pow- j dered cloves, and boil it to a pulp; pass I it through a linn sieve with a wooden spoon, stir a glass of good sherry wine in ; it. and then cool it in an earthen mold or I bowl. Use it cold; a little sweet cream i poured over it increases its nutriment. i Pastk That Will Keep A YeaJi.^ 1 Dissolve a tcaspoonful of alum in a quart ' ! of warm water. When cold stir in as much flour as will give it the consistency of thick cream, being particular to beat up all the lumps; stir in as much powdered rosin as will lie on a dime and ; throw in half a dozen cloves to give a t pleasant odor. Pour this flour mixture into a pan containing atcacupful of boiling water, and stir it well over the flic, j In a very few minutes it will be of the consistency of mush. Pour it into :in . earthen or china vessel; let it cool; lay a i cover on and put it in a cool placc. When needed for use take out a portion and soften it with warm water. Paste thus made will last twelve months. It | i< better than gum, ns it does not gloss | the paper and can be written on. Amiiku Puddixo.?One dozen large . tart ap]iles, one cupful of sugar, tlio ! juice and rind of two lemons, six eggs, j four tablcspoonfuls of butter, enough puff or chopped paste to line a tlireo- j pint pudding dish. Pare and quarter the i apples. Pare the thin rind from the ; lemon, being careful not to cut into the white part. Put the butter, apple and i lemon rind and juice in a stew-pan, with half a cupful of water; cover tightly and simmer three-quarters of an hour, rub through a sieve, add the sugar and ! set away to cool. Lino the dish with i paste. Beat the yolks of the eggs, and J stir into the cooled mixture. Turn this into the lined dish. Hake slowly for half an hour. Heat the whites of the eggs to I _ -till f..?4l. ??,1 lw.ot ir.f/% I 21 Still i I U LI J j UI1U frltlMXUiikj i 111 iv j tlxem three tablespoonfuls of powdered sugar. Cover the pudding with this; return to the oven, and cook twelve min-' utes with the door open. Serve ?ithcr hot or cold. Forgers. "About how many gangs of forgers | arc there working around the country?" I "Oh, a dozen or fifteen of *hcm, I suppose." " Then, seems to me, you ought to be able to keep track of them pretty closely and tell just where they are working at any time." ""We only work when we are employed, you know." said Mr. Pinkerton, j "but. of course, when we run across i " ? ii llicm "?VC Kliciw pre i iv ucur nuv> iw ??o | them, an<l if we get one of the principals j we know who his chief confederates are, but the ' layers-down,' and office boys, and other parties who do the business for them, they keep changing all the ; time, getting a new gang in every fresh j place they strike. We had a clever case here in Chicago about two years ago. They all pleaded guilty, and one of them I died not long ago at Joliet. Morton was his name. Mis accomplices were I Phillips and Brush. They went ' into the commission business, and one of | them stole a check off the hook?you i j you know the way they have them hung | up in the banks beside the teller. It I I happened to be Isaac Waxcl's check, j They took it over into a saloon near by, | and there, in a very few minutes, one of j them practiced 011 the signature until ho ! had it perfcct. lie could handle a pen j like a writing teacher, that fellow could; j it was beautiful. Then they took the check back and hung it up where it be- j longed, and began running in their 1 forgeries. There arc a hundred ways I I could tell you about if I had the time, i but there's my buggy outside, and I'll have to bid you -good-by.' So lonir. i Conic and see us again some day and I'll give you some more."?Chiettgo Xcim. The Cherokee Hose. A pleasing feature of Florida is the beautiful and fragrant Cherokee rose that abounds in the whole pcn.nsula. The | Cherokee tribe of Indians dwelt from 500 j to 1,000 miles further north, in what is i now north Georgia, and in the adjacent ! regions, now comprised in Tennessee and | North Carolina. How came the Florida rose to bear the name Cherokee? The legion is that the Seminoles, living j in the low country, now Florida, went on the war path against the Cherokees, entered their country and fought a battle. | A young Seminole brave was taken pris- j oner and carried to the wigwam of a Cher- , okee chief, lie was doomed to be put to j death. But the custom of the tribe was : not to execute captives when sick. The young warrior, being siek, was spared 1 till he should recover, when death would be inflicted on him. The chief had a daughter that attended him in his ill- j ness, and the two fell in love. When eonvalesecnt and able to travel, the J young brave determined, with her connivance, to make his escape and return j to his own people. She consented to ; elope with him. One dark night they started from her father's abode. After they had gone some distance the young woman stopped and expressed an earnest desire to go back to her home and bear j away some memento of the place. He- j tracing their steps, she plucked a small ; rosebush that she brought away. They carried it to the Seminole country, where bring planted, it grew and nourished. : From this root the variety was I propagated, and, in course of time, it spread through the peninsula, where it j thrives and blooms at the present day. i It is universally styled the Cherokee rose.?GtthcuVm Xar*. A Novel Squirrel Hunt. A squirrel hunt, gotten up on a novel plan, took place in Missouri recently, i I Tim <"ii>f.iinu were II. I). Sacknder and S. I). liridge. Jk'sidf.s the captains thirty-six men entered into the scheme, twenty-four of whom were hunters, and ' the other twelve going in for the pecun! iarv part of the business and the supper, j Kaeli man of the company paid $1 into I the treasury, and the twenty-four hunters j hied them next morning to the forests in j search of game, there having been no ' choosing of sides or division into companies. Whihvthey were out the twentyfour names were shaken up together, and the two captains drew out each a name, alternately, until all were drawn. The I twelve wl'io did not hunt were then pairI fil nir in flip m:inncr. The result I of this drawing \v;is kept secret. AVhen ' the li'inlers came in :it night each one | was taken separate!) into a room with the captains and an umpire and his game ( counted and recorded, and after all was counted the division was announced, not a man knowing until thi; moment to , which company he belonged or who were his comrades in the company. Each man of the victorious company then had his. dollar returned to him, together with a ticket for the supper. Captain Sackrider's party killed :}.<>55 squirrels and Captain Hridgc's IS.O'JO. W. II. Rich bagged 525 and J. Hitchcock 010. The ( apttire of the Seal. x : An interesting description of the habits and manner of capture of the Alaskin seal recently appeared. The breeding grounds of the seal are abandoned during the winter, but early in May the more energetic males paddle along the coast and select their territories. Having determined their estates, they seek an ele. 1 - L 1 ...1. .1. ,1... vaicil puilll mm which me m-;i iui mi; coining of the females. Soon tlie expected mates appear, and a race to reach them ensues. The race frequently ends in a struggle. of which the female is an interested spectator. The result she considers final, and t lie stronger seal carries her home to his particular cove or beach. The capture of one male does not suffice, however, and the watch is attain kept, seaward till as many as twenty femalesarc secured by the victorious male. ! The defeated one sometimes secures only one or two wives, and so the law of nat- ; ural selection is enforced. Gossiping ; between the estates is strictly guarded 1 against by the jealous mah s, and wives j and offspring arc alike chastised if detec- ! ted outside the boundaries of their i lord's domain. In killing the seal j only the males from two to five years are | taken. The skins are generally prepared j in England. | - - THE PUBLIC FUNDS. Annual Keport of United St.ite3 j Treasurer Wymari, . . I Farts nf Infrrpst Ahont the Financiol , -------- I Operations of a Year. Mr. TVyman, treasurer of the United states, has submitted his annual report to the re retnry of the trtamry. Following is a synopsis of some cf its more important points: 'J here lias hcen a decrease during the ] ast | fbcalycar as com pared with the preceding year in the receipts from customs of j5,Tu4,from internal revenue of $1,717,220, and from niiscellaneoU; sources of $1)08,932, and an increase in the receipts from the sales of public lands of *3,2(12, i2t. The totai net revenue recelved'during the year was $39S,:JSr,;?81, which is $.">,:j.>7,tiU8 le.-9 than the amount received !ast year. The not expenditures amount to $2l?,408,137, an increase over those of 13-S2 of $7,420,- J <k'(, and inn increase, anueu lu wc amuuuv of decrease in tho receipts, makes a reduction in the amount of surplus revenue applicable to the reduction of thenublic debt of $12,004,300. Tho princi] al increase in expenditures was on account of civil and miscellaneous expenses, which amounted to $11,458,271, the expenditures on account of the interest oil the public debt falling $11,917,075 below those for the same purpo: eduring the preceding year. The amount of United States currency outstanding at the end of the year was $302,403,315, and the redemptions during the year amounted to $130, ISO, 750; aggregate, $-',407,S'JO.HGN. There were issued during the year silver certificates amouuting to $-55,040/.0), and gold certificates amounting to $">0,710,0 X). I'lie redemptions of silver certificates aggregate! $12,510,870, and of gold certificates | $7,SJ4,000, leaving nominally outstanding at the close of the year $S8,010,831 in silver certificates and $;2,378,040 in gold certificates. ('irpulniinrr nntesof nntional banks amount ing to $102,0'.)!),077 were received for redemption during the year, of which $23,55:2,2 <9 were in notes of failed, liquidating, ami reducing banks. The general balance in the treasury increased from $143,!IC4,S!I3 on September 30, lbs:.', to $103,232,4)3 on September 30, 13bo. The fractional silver coin iu the Treasury was decreased during the year by $030,721), and ttie amount of gold and silver coin and bullion was increased by $70,300,Go!), this increase being ehielly due to tne new issue of gold certificates and the increaso in the amount of outstanding silver certificates. The gross assets were increased by $109.5tt),S27, and the excess of the cash assets of tne government over its liabilities on the first of November, 1883, was $16'J,822,54o,Iagairist $135,151.li88 on the same date in 1882. The number of United States notes redeemed during the year was 20,33!), 104, representing a face value of $77,704,714. These figures include $32,000,000 of $5.00.) and $10,000 notes reported as issued and redeemed which were only passed from the reserve fund of unissue l notes through the accounts for the purpose of destruction. The treasurer recommends the appropriation of $::0,00J to be made available for the present fiscal year, and of $70,000 for the enL-ninfft'flot. fn fnr ?rntvqnnrtji.tinn of worn ami mutil ted United .States notes and gold and silver certifii ate-i, whicli latter ho thinks should, as tliey lia'-o gone into tho c irculation, Le treated as notes, except that the charges of transportation should not bo paid on thorn where redemption in coin Is demanded. There wero detected in remittances of United States note* received for redemption 315 counterfeits of the nominal value of and in remittances of national bank notes sixty-ono notes stolen prior to regular i.-sae, with tho signatures of tho 1 ank officers forged thereon, amounting to $o(J5, and 451 counterfeits, amounting to $4,On? counterfeit silver certificate of the denomination of $10, one rvMint^rfpit cnnuiound-iiitL'rest note of $1(M), and c ounterfeit fractional currency amounts ing to ill), were also detected "in ramittances received. There was redeemed during the year 557 in fractional currency, leaving ?15,.J7<>.Ci-.t of this class of money" outstanding at the close of the year. Tho amount of standard silver dollars coined to September ."-O, 1NS1, was $154,370.* S'.m, of wh'ch $3'.?, 121,2 6 was then outstanding, and $114,57ii,1)44 held by the treasury, $'.14.4! 0,'MI of the last mentioned amount b&iiitf held for tho redemption of silver certificates. The bonds held in trust for national banks at the close of the year represented a face va'ue of * '!? '!,of which $:i50,5yii,500 was hel <1 as a socurity for circulation?a decrease of ?4,1 _'(?,20U from the amount so held at the close of the previous year?and *17,lli;,00;i as security for public" moneys deposited with national bank dej)Ositories. Bonds of tho Unit-d States to the amount nf Si:u (l(t!? ""id wi?rt> redeemed durintr the year. Checks representing an aggregate lace value of ?4X,*hkS, 1:'0 were is-ueil during the year in payment of interest on registered bonds. Of the $:>04,204,Sort of three per cent, bon is issued in exchange for bonds of three and a half per cent.. $!iU!i,Os:yS.Vj were held in trust for national banks at the close of the year. In Septeii;b-T, 1S8:{, the first call for the three j>er cent*, was made, ami as further calls follow the banks holding them will be required to retire the circulation issued thereon or substitute bonds of other loans, all of which are at a high premium. This may result in a substantial reduction of bank circulation. The treasurer recommends an appropriation to continue the distribution of fractional silver and minor coin, the appropriation mndo for that purpose by the net of March, issrj. having been exhausted about the 1st of (>cti ber. He also recommends the redemption and retirement by re-coinage into fivecent nickels of the three-cent piece of the minor coinage. IMPOKTANT TIME CHANGE. Clinns:<'N in tlie Time by tvliicll the * J **4' fan f'Aimtfi* n rp Itun. The changes made on Sunday, November 18, in the time by which about all the railroads in the c ountry are run,c annot be broughtabout, at tho best, without considerable friction, says the Scientific --t merican. In Boston, for instance, there is no little opposition to the putting of clocks and watches back some seventeen minutes, as will be necessary under the new provision for "Eastern standard" time, but orders have been issue 1 for many of the public clocks in that city to be so regulated, and, as the whole railroal system of the Eastern States will bo coutrollo 1 by this standard, the prevailing opinion seems to he that the innovation will be generally accepted. There may lie some who will a5 first carry tho two kinds of time, the "standard'" and the true, as can be rea li.y done by having two minute hands on a watch: this u now frequently practiced to keep both New York and Boston time, by those who travel much between the two cities. In New York city, whi re the change required calls for putting back the true time only four minutes, there will pi\ b:ibly be Ie>s opposition to the a lontion of the new standard, but it may b;- readily conceived that great confusion will inevitably caused wherever it is attempted to uso the two kinds of time simultaneously. By the adoption of th' new plan there will lirjinti.wllv be onlv four standards of time throughout the country, instead of fortynine, as at pros >nt. The time-tables of many of the railroads will also have to be change I, as well as the clocks, in order to facilitate the making of connections between lines allected over i on-iclerable distances east and west. The following list of changes has, therefore, be.>n furnished by Mr. H'. 1<\ Allen, secretary of the railroad conventions which decided upon the adoption of the new standard, the letter f denoting that the clock is to lie set ahead, and the letters that it is to beset back: Atchison, Topeka, and Santa Fe, east of Dodge City, do ks only, ! minutes, f. Atchison, Topeka, ami Santa Fe. west of Dodge City, clocks and schedules, 51 minutes, s. Baltimore anil Ohio (wo-t). both clocks and schedules. 'J* minutes, s. Boston IJoosae Tunnel and Western, both clocks and schedules, 4 minutes, s. Boston and Albany, clocks only 10 minutes, s. Canadian Pacific (Eastern division), clocks only, ii minute-4, s. Central Vermont,both clocks and schedules, 12 minutes, s. Chesajieala* anil Ohio, both clo:-Ks ami schedule*, s minutes, f. Chicago and Alton, clocks only. I) minutes, s. Chicago and Grand Trunk, b itli clocks and .'Ciicd:i!(s, ; minute-, s. Cleveland. Co'umbus, Cincinnati, and Indianapolis, both clocks and schedule;, minutes, s. Delaware and Hudson C:u:al Company, clocks only, -1 minutes, s. Delaware, liackawanna. and Western. bjth clocks an 1 schedules, | minutes, s. Fort Wayne, t 'inciunati. and Louisville, both dock; and s he lules, minute:, s. l'reeho d and New York, both clocks and schedules, I minutes, s. Hartford and Connecticut Western, clock; only. 1 minutes, s. l.ake Shore and Michigan Southern, botii clocks and schedules. minutes, s. Lehigh Valley, clicks only, I minute, f. Louisville and .Nashville, decks i nly IS minnto '. s. Mis ouri J'aeific, docks, sche lules at S:. Louis only. * minutes, s. New i'ork, l ake Erie, and Western, clocks only, -1 minutes, s. . ew York Central and Hudson River, i locks only, 4 minutes, s. -New York City aid Northern, cioclcs only, c\v York and New England Iras' >.>f Connecticut). both clocks and tchoilucs. 11 millUN"?, s. Now York and New England (in Connection ). 1) itli clocks and sche.lu'es, 4 minut-vs, s ! entisylvaiva, New Y( rk divisui:. both 11 ks and schedules, t minute, f. i on nylvania, all divisions exoop New V?? k. c ocks only, 1 minute, f. I l'.ilalolphia and Reading, both clock; . ii-l rcheduie--, 1 minute, f. Hone, AVatertown, and ()gd"i:s'j!irg, (Lcks only, 4 minutes, s. NEWS OFTHE WEEK. , Eastern and Middle States. Religious exercises cimmemorfltlve of < Martin Luther's four hundred.h birthday, 1 <ver? held in New York. Brooklyn, Piiiladei phia, Boston, and other cities throughout the j country. Commander Cushman, of the' tInit?d{3tatos ' ravy, died the other day at Buffalo, N; T.y aged fifty-two yeart. "William E. Brockway, a noted forger and fcoUnterfeiter, and two ns-ociates, have been captured by t'-e New York pol es with , a lnrce nuantitv of toiintoffeited railroad br>ir s mil material for c6\inferfehiltg lu ' their possession. Complete returns of the vote for governor | In New Jersey irive the following figures: j Abbett (Democrat'c), 101,841: Dixon (Repub lican), 00,042: Parsons (Prohibitionist), 4,615; \ Urner (Greenback), :J,S"0. 1 f-fliiWAXEOAti, Penti., has suffered heavily < from a calamitous fire, the flames swcepin ] over four squares soil lly built tip and pre* i sonting Mxfe.m street fronts, and leaving 2o0 ] families homeless. Tho to'at Iosm id intimated at ?l,00y 0>i I TnEfn>tsriow fail of the searon which visited New York and vicinity was attended ! by an unusually strong wind storm; Syveral i unfinished buildings in tbo city were blown 1 I down. Thero were many reports of disasters to vessels in the great lakes, and at least i ten schooners were lost between Oswego, N. Y., and Chicago. I Thhee miners wero killed by the preniaI ture explosion of a blast at Wilkesbarre, , j Penn. | By the fall of a scaffold attached to a new ; school buil ling in the upper part of New i "W.rlr m'rriit- wnrUmpti were thrown to the 1 ! ground ft distance of forty-five feet. Two of j the men were instantly kille 1, a third was j fatally injure'!, arrl tho other five were hurt J more or less seriously. j Dr. J. Marion Sims, a distinguished phy- , ^rician and surgeon, born in North Caro.ina. ?but for many years a resident of New York, died a few da\ssiiuo in that city at the age of seventy j cars. Dr. Sims' faun as a surgeon was as great abroad as in this country. For many years he made annual trifs to London and" Paris, for th' purjx se of attend- 1 ing consultations nud making delicate operations, for which his services were in great demand. He bad received many honors from foreign rulers and medical societies, nnd ; among his patients once numbered the Empress Eugenie. I j Prominent re'entists from all parts of the country discussed various topics of scientific ; interest at the reuni. n of the National Academy of Sciences in Niw Haven, Conn. I A shower of snails is reported from Hartford, Conn. { I Rear Admiral Joiinson B. Creighton, of j the United HtaUs navy, aiecl nj us nome in j Morriitown, N. J.,?ged sixty-A ^?"*rs,.. | Ex-Governor Nait Head, of jy. ?mp ! ' shire, died in Manchester the other the 1 age of fifty-five. He' was one of tne most prominent Republicans and business mra in the State. i Several deaths occurred as a result of the freat fire at Slienandoab, Penn. In all 200 oases were* destroyed and 50J persons rendered homeless. Two machine guns, cai able of firing 505 shots n minute, have just Ixen finishe I at Hartford, Ccnn., for General Giant as presents to the Viceroy of China and the Mikado of Japan. Two thou and carpe"; weavers in New .ti'iwilr n?V(ttn f r> i inn in WflffAT i i Immense damage 1 a< been done by a t- r-! undo in Oxford. Franklin and o'.her com.ties | of Maine. Million-' of tn t : were blown down, 1 many hou:o< and barns des royed, churches ! unroofed and railroad bridges moved from j their foundations. Tbeio ses aggregate huu- . dreds of thousands of dollars. The sum of $150,000 haslx?en raised by sub- | scription for the purpose of estab ishing a j general Unitarian headquarters in Boston, i and immediate steps will be taken to purchase ' an eligible sight an 1 erect a suitable building. At the Tro-pcct Fair grounds, Brorklyn the I ay gelding Frank, with running mate trotted a mile in 2:0s?*,, thus beating 2:10}/, the best roord. which'was made by Maud S. without m ite. South and West. A St. Paul, disnatch as-erl3 that Morti mer Dandier, a native of Ireland wh) died j a few diys since at Derrynane, M.nn., at | the time of his death was 1 .'1 years old. His j J mother is said to have died in her 101st year, | his eldest brother at the age of IDS years, and i ; his second brother at the age of i.early 118 ' years. The father was the shortest-live I of j the fami'y, havin r died at the ago of eighty. This is a remarkable record of longevity. Jajies Troxill was hanzed to a ra lroad i bridge at Point Burnside, Tenn., for assault- I ing a younj woman. Bixffto.v, Texas, has lost its bus'ness por- : tion by firs. A farmers' congress of tho Unite i States ' will be held in Louisville, Ky., Pecember 5. A fire which b:*oko out in a c'oilfn,' 1 ; manufactory in Charleston, S. C., spread j J with such rapidity that the w rk peope o:i ! the third floor?>oven wonun an I a b>y? were cut off from escape by tlio stair-;. I'ivo j women were injur >d, one mortally, by jump- i 1 ing i< tl:e ground, and the other two women ! were burned to death, the only one unharmed i being the b >v, who was caught. While the sheriff of Comanche, Texas,was absent from jail, fifty armed, masked men j battered in the door. overi>owercd tho j guards, tcok out Iwo Ba ley brother.* and j hanged both in a graveyard about a mile : from town. I H. C. Tii.linohast & Co., Chicago fur ami 'eather dealers, Lave failed for about sc'oo.ooo. The Colored People's Industrial fair for the Slate of >icrth Carolina was opened af. Raleigh in preser.ee of Governor Jarvis, the commissioner of agriculture and other State oflicia p. Additional reports regarding the recent storm put the number of oystermen drow.ied in Chesapoake hav at thirty-five. The steam | . barge SkeN y, \afuedat flKUXH), foundered i off Holland. Mich., and six jtersonsoa board were drowne 1. A fire at Ashland, Kv., t'estroyed t'ie Norton Iron works, causing al tssof (),CXK). The American Health association has be n holding its annual ^e-sion at Detroit, Mich. The State of Illinois has ce U d to the Federal government the Illinois and Michigan canal. j John Wakkin. of Cleveland, l>?t a dollar j that he could drink fifteen glasses rf whisky . in fifteen minutes, and won the wager, but lost his life. , | Trinity cathedral, one of the most impos- j ing Episcopal buddings in tlio country, was const crateil at Omaha, Nib., by the founder, I Bishop Clarkson, assisted by Lord Bishop ' Sweet man, of Toronto, Bishop Ham-It, or' i Texas, and other clergymen. Tiik Nati .n d league, for the su pression of polygamy, in session at Cleveland, adopted an ad liess to tli country denouncing Mormon practices and urg. ntly requesting "that petitions l:o circu'nted in ev< ry ci y, t wn and school distrif t in the Unit d S.ates, asking Conpress to submit to the legislatures of ; the various States an anien 'ment t) the constitution prohibiting |olygainy.'' DCRlNf! the rccont heavy sionn the barge Milwaukee was lo-t with her crew of jeven men in Lake Ontario. Washington. The cot! on crop is estimated by the depart- i ment i f agriculture at ab ut eighty-six j er cent, of last ytar's crop. CoxcnsssMA.v CaHiMsi.k, of Kentucky, candidate forth' speakership of tho House, was the first of the prominent candidates for that ofllce to arrive in Wash'ngton. General James R. C'ahn'ahav. adjutantgeneral of Indiana, has written to the secretary of war a: d to the adjutant-geuurals <f tho several States, proposing that a na ionai encanipme-it, to consist of so.iie or the b.'st com] auies, battalion rojjinients, oatleries and troops oi the rational guard troni every State, be held in Washington some time during May, 1*^4. Tlio objects of the propocl encampment, as set forth by (!e ;ernl Canialan, are to sccure congr ssional ail and encouragement ly "show ?'/ ('ongrcs* the high decree oi eiueienoy to which our nuimunl guard may i>o brought." nml "to !To:?ot? a grand national conirndoliip b tween all sections of our nation, brwikin; ilown all bitterness or partisan feeling nu?l bringing us together in a friendship stronger than can ba obtainel in any otlr r way The United State* depart m-nt of agriculture gi\ es the ?eison's product of c m a; 1.577.0 (i.ihmi basin Is?ub .ut 40 00().0( 0 l.ush- , els shoi tnf tne previous crop. The j otato cro;i is large, amounting to abi ut 17.5,000,0:J(J , bushels .. r 4i. 1 II K .\| 1*11(111 11! Ul nil- U IIIMTH . -bulla lilt, j for the last fiscal ye :r were ?in,Xi4,5(H?. A h: tv-tii lis a\ii dollar maible statue of Chief .lusti -e Marsh ill. l?v Story, for which nienib-rs i f the rhilade'phia bar contributed > .(),' (;() a :i! (oisgre-s appropriated a like sum. will nnc'i Washington early in 1 'ojcu.ber i!ii I be 11 ace 1 in the capitol grounds. Tin: annual report of tlie treasurer of the United States shows a decrease in the year in tho nceipts from customs of 1 from interi a' revenue of $l,7r7,Vi!>, ami from ir.ls'-ell'ineous sources of tj, and an increase in Ilk* receipt-i fr.iiu !h sa cs of public lands <f 'I h': total n t revenue was , wh eh is jS'i,is i les. tli ill the a ro'.iiit recoived last, vear. I'll? net exjten.l.tures ain nint to S'.'t Rs.IoT a i increase ovo.- tho-o of l*s- of .?r,4'.V?,?K?T. ('EXF.iiAL SnEnirAN, in his annual report as commander of the dejxirtment of tho 31is| souri,says that the numerous desert ions in th* j armv are due totne la-i mm youim nu n m ! the East tii and Middle States enlist to get ; , : free transportation to tlie frontier, but when ! they arrive there divert at the first opportu i nity- j I AVu.mam. II. "VVit.i.s ami Norma R. Wil's, i | Oiis wife) of Wn-hi icton, have been nis- 1 barred from practice bjfore the pension buJ reaufor using deceptive circulars. During Octolier 4s,s(v> emigrants arrived | ' in the United State; agairst 57,029 in | the same month in 1.SS2. During the ten ! , months ended C-ctober 31 last, 501,037 tmi- j ( grants arrived, 1IH>,978 less than during the same period la t year. TfiE annual report of General Merritt, superintendent of the West Point Military academy, says that on September 1, 18Si, :hi?re were "at the a~alemy fifty-five pro- 1 'essors and commissioned officers and 1511 :adet& There wero no death? during tha JL1 fear anion? the cadets, o.'llcers or sjldiers. to fhe average cost of subsisting each cadet *uring the last year was $17.92 per month. Fhe peneral tone find discipline of the cadets ire good, although the practice of hazuig has not yet been enti. ely broken uy co Foreign; co Martin Lrfrtfcn'* lour hundredth birthday 111 anniversary was celebrated with religious ca and o'hor ceremonies by the 2*roto-ta:it com- pt munities of Eurojje. At Berlin >-0,0(10 neornehildron marched to the churches, in whool M I CAIJ. UITCII wcic uciu HA IIJUVI vtuivu thef. wno?e Im t was placed before the altar pi in each of the lift -es. The city was decked ,u u-ith llags and banders. nnd tho einjieror, the crown prince an! principal gneralsof le the German army attended one of ihe -huroho'. Corner stones to Ltrher werj jj, laid at Leipsic, Erfurt, Eisona;h and Nor- * linsa h; a colossal bust was unveiled at Bremen, and a public hall was dedicated at Worm? The day was also celebrated q throughout Denmark and in many towns in England and other countries. m Fua nce has declined tho offer of mediation made by the United States in tho Tonquin at trouble. The American Catholic bishops have been w in session at Rome. CrtVTivTfm fin.Vifinrr hfifwApn frnvfirnmflrit ^ ? - * troops ancl rebels is reported from Servia. Various districts have boen declared in a state d< of siege. ni A band of robbers derailed a train on the w Mexican National railway, the engine, express Car anJ a coach being totally wrecked. el The firema-i v. as kille J and the engineer badly c-' in ured. Tho robbers, fifteen or twenty in ^ number, then w.*nt through the train, sccured ., about $S<.0) in bullion and fled. IIcigfr A. Prver, the American counsel 61 of O'Donnell, tl,e slayer of Carey, the Irish ct informer, was finally permitted by the British government to see his client ifi Newgatf prison, London. A man named Tetrau't and his wife and 8 two children wore drowned crossing Mitch- fc ell's bay, Ontario, during a storm. $} Mexico's j ational debt is ?1(5,000,000 jr (about fSO.OOO.OvjO). jr fi'or.d in paying quantities has been foimd in the province of Quebec. Sknor Juan Valera, a distinguished Spanish novelist and formerly minister to a Portugal, has been appointed successor to the C1 late h'enor Baroa. who kille 1 himself in New Vn?L- n; Snnin'a rlinlnm.-itic renrfsentativein ' tho ij'uited'states. " Sofia Woskhepensky, a young lady stu- h: ient, has been hanged in St. Petersburg, for fr intriguing with tho Nihilists to assassinate the c:ar. Od the same afternoon another woman named Os insky, awaiting her trial at St. Petersburg, for connection with the Nihilists, hanged herself in her cell. MUSICAL AND DRAMATIC, Buffalo is thinking of musical festival next spring. M False witnesses can be purchased in India for sixpense. Rubinstein has at last decided upon a name for his new comic opera. It is, "Among Robbers." A State Mus'c Teachers' association has t' been organized in Virginia. The first meet- ^ ing is to be held at Richmond Christmas .. week. The Spider is the title of a new play which M wiil be shortly submitted to New York be roara^ers by a gentleman well-known as a jn journalist. tr Miss Marie Van Zandt, the American prima donna, will not employ a manager, but j? attends nei-self to all business matters and en- nr garment-. ^ Ti e Calender organization and an addi- se tioi-al -100 voices will participate in the great pc minstrel festival to be he held in Cincinnati ce the wesk of January* 7. bt Jo Howard closes a letter about Irving In w n.;- T ..i, r i;i,o v,jm VJ* I ha; good qualities, but the American stage St lias many infinitely his superiors." b? Charles Gounod, the composer of IV "Faust," is a'so a poet in his leisure hours, 5 and ail admirable reader of verse. In his h* revised work, "Sapho." he has tho advantage of i h * association of Emiie Augier. ' Mn. Irvinj has bi ought with h'm to ?e America a gentleman who Ls said to possess a o; fine tenor voice, an:l who will sing in the ,e comedies in which solos are introduced. He cr is paid, according to common report, a salary fo $100 a week. jk Mr. Adolph Necendorff, ons of tho bss sv German musicians in this country, who for a tc number of years his been identified with rv Ge. man theatrical enterprises in New York, T, has settled in Boston, and will devote him- tl: self cntire'y to musical work. tr Mme. Modjehka said to a reporter: "I G mean to retire from the stage after two years s! mo:o, while I am in lull po?session of all my aj JJDWCrS. ID JU" UiVir ja a ;JUCIUUI? lucAjJiw-r - -I ly sad in the last years of actors ap j 111 tres es who linger on the stage.'' Vl The I'opnlo Romano, of Rome, Italy, says i that a little lucifor match seller has been dis- I covered to pos.-e<s a most lovely tenor voice I and great intelligence, and that he will, no j j doubt, be taken from his present life of men- w dicity to be educated as a singer. ^ AIiss el/ k.v A. orridfje, a pupil of Tenor j a] Gareias. who successfully earned off the 0 Academy medal, London, the silver medal, I "W the Thomas gol 1 medal. the certificate of | w meritj the Parepa ?"ld mednl and the Parepa n; Ro-a gold medal, died suddenly in London, j di recently. sc Hiss Carrie E. Masov, a mezzo-so; ratio, ! Ji who during the j a-t. y. ar has been gaining w so m.u-h admiration by her exquisite singing , cl and lady like <,ua itieis a pupil of Achille j w t'Vrani'j fMiil 'h,> run.,* pherish with creat 1 til pride the succo-s she has everywhere met [ C w.'tli. The S;. racuse pa;ers are loud in her | 01 piaise, and inT rontoslie is accredited as be- j lo mg a second Farepa. New Yorkers will hear j Ji lier fre juenth i i concert during the season. I cr A daring innovation has been introduced ! on tho Japanese stage. In Japan, curiously J* enou;h. female a-tresse-i are tolerated, but i 'c: their performances are never regarded as of I Vf thy first order. A native impresario has. | J?> however, taken the "bull by tho horns'" and j rrcntlyenga el a company of dancing girk 111 to play at the Gaiety theatre at Yokohama j re in ti e Forty-seven Itonins." This is the I C1 first tiine that "a na'ive tnxp hasever played j tri in Yokoha tin. and the performance is said to | liave been spirited and good. The company is to visit India, and will possibly go farther j PROMINENT PEOPLE jM Prin'cs ok Wales.?The prince of Walei ' 111 is just forty-two years of age. I BfTLEn.?(ient ral B. F. Butler was sixty j ' five yeare of age on election day. Coleridge.?Lord Chief-Justice Coleridge tl has ri turned to Eng!a:id from America. Collins.?It takes Wilkie Collins six 11: months to write a stoiy. He grinds out nine pages a day on I then stops i 4*1 Uladstoxe.?William E. Gladstone. the English prime minister, completes his lifty- ci! first year in parliament next month. Coil?.-?William 12. Cody, (Bullallo Bill) (# is to g ) as guide for a i arty of Enzlidi hun- I ><; ters in the Rocky nioun uins for fo.UJO for H o trir. j ]ir Bismarck.?Less beer, mere sleep, whole ^ some dieting and plenty of exercise have pu- , Prince Bisimrck on his feet again. He hat lost some of his fat an I gained his strengths. Mnnnr.nl eViWit.' i hn Itiflinn fi(rhf.or ' ? V iti/wsv* viwn kMV- ?puw>? , is said to be very ab*t:mious m>t drinking , any kind of alcoholic liquors, tea or coffee. 1 His favorite be-, era^o is fresh milk. In dress !!j his ta>:e is equally plain, but he is not in the 11 slightest degree slovenly. Crosby.? Rear-Admiral Crosby, com- " trand ng tho A>iatic >tatiou, has b M-n place 1 \ upr?n the retire I list under tho forty years' e" service law. and Commodore John 1.63Davis, now r.n duty with the lighthouse board, has us been selected to succeed him. i pr Si'ir.tiEO.v.? Mr. Spurgeon, tlie famous Lon'.on Bajit st preacher, is < inscribed as a | -Ab:o?n>kinii"d, low-browed, big-cheeked, |e rugged Ira no I man, srout, of medium | ni height, with iron-gray hair, short, bristling ai an I imparted, b?ard and inu^ta-ha do3?ly f trimmed. wearing a '"Prince Albert c. at and black cravat, with nothing clerical in i i,k nn.w ni'nn a I,nt. lnnHiiT for nil the world like v villrge li'aeks:ni?h with his "Sunday- ' ... go-to-Mioi t Tig" cl'il lies on. Brewster?Attorney-(.'cneral Brewster h :s pn bably the mu-t ta-tel'uliy arranged office in Washington. It is on the second f0 floTiif tho old Free (man's bank buil ling, looking out upon Fii t i'iith street, Bennsji- m van'a avenue an I the White House proun Is. di In the < en'er of the room is an elaborately wi i arve!. t'at-topped nialx gany desk, at which I he attorney-general sit-, anl signs his 1 lr name with a <|Uill pen. 31 r. Brewster usually w. nrs a velvet jacket in his ofllce. j SEVEN MEN DROWNED. 1 f. Losing; Their Livo* by tuc? C'a|i?ii/iiig A' of a lloat on Lake .IIIi tl' A Fetosky (Mich.) tllspatcli fi-ves tho fol- 11j lowing particulars of a sad drowning disas- '" tor : About noonO. M. Chase, suwrintendent j|( of tlv State fldn?rips. accompanied by C. II. ;ii Hrowaell, his assistant, and George M. p'1 Armstrong, fore: ruin of tho Petosky lu Irilclicry went over to llarbor Spring; j jK> t i uivo some linal direction* aoout the t], sliipmi ill oi s; awn. Tl oy chartered a Mack- ; inaw i:>H boat. maim <1 by Moses Detwiler, hie '('jj urns. (ico:'goanil C'i arles, and nephew, George rill experience 1 and brave ?eamen. At half- i past three m. the party left the harbor on the < ther >i?lo. in spite of the earnest rtmon- . s' ranee-! to attemj t the perilous pas>a;e. ' . When about half way across the boat was teen to capsize. Although it seemed im I o sib'e fur a boat to live in s; c i j n sea, a volunteer crew male the ... ilesp'. rate attempt to rescuo two of the ) a !v V who could bo pla'nly seen from shore clin .in,: i,1' to the b at. But they were unable to iv:i: h V the--in on account of the blinding snowstorm and heavy sea and were hardly able t > :e f l 1-ac'c themselves. About 9 o'clock t < j . Detwi'er boat, with one of its s'c!e;eni lieil in. was driven on the beach at Bay View. j Edward E. Kidder hes sold an origina. ^ drama to Lotta for $.'i,000. aE LATER NEWS. Three men wcra killed tmd five cthera in. red by the explosion of the boiler attache* a saw mill in Ja'-kson township, Peiin. ' vjg A cof.onED man 112 years old died a few , j ivs a^o in Boston. A convention called by the United Stat s mmissioner of agriculture to consider th3 J nta^ious diseases of domestic animals met . j Chicago, Government inspection of Jail jja ttle and dead meat exported, and of ex- j ii IU i JIUQ pi ii uo mi T vv mwv*I A boiler in the works of the Coal Bluff ! ining company, at Fontanet, Ind., ex- : od?i killing one man instantly, fatally Juriag two others ani seriously scalding yjSmA Very cold weather is reported from the -J orthwest, the thermometer varying from ? VSSB rteen to forty degrees below zero. j'j John Smith, a colored man, was hanged a* ] \ akland, Md., for the murder ofawhite man imed Harden ; and on the sime day Perry ' ! ter, aib'J C'UAJICU, auuoioa ?* oiuniui JAMWVJ rS7| ; Union, S. C , for arson. ; i\ A fire at Columbus, Miss., destroyed a arohouso with 2,000 bales of cotton, causing - :J loss of $100,000. < Secretary Teller has made an important cision concerning pensions to dependent others whose sons were killei in the late -V3gll ar. The statute, says the secretary, - W t meted to give dependent relatives some >#jBj ?mpenpation for the damage they had sus- ;; lined by the loss of the person on whom they .-' 'jH id in fact depen 1 or might depend for their =' ipport, and he decides that in all ordinary ;ses a mother is entlt'ed tj a pension. " During the past fiscal year the expenses of ie United States diplomatic Herviee aggre. -1? lied $381,072. Thee msular service returneI ' ?s amounting to $'j14.>539, and expended : .>BI '70,25)0 in salaries and other expenses, show- v] lg tbat this service is not only seu-susTniaig, eut has paid into the treasury a revenue counting to $44,549. A yocxg man whom the doctors declared lunatic was arrested in the French senate , . jMa lamber while flourishing a revolver and inliring for Prime Minister Ferry. Edward McMahon, a follower of ParneU, is been elected to the British parliament oni Limerick. . ; A DISASTROUS STORM. jfl [any Vessels Wrecked and a Large JNumoer 01 Lives Lost. ore Than Thirty Oystermen Drowned in Chesapeake Bay,. ??? /. x * The recent storm wrought gnat dlW*P . 3 property in various pai ts of the country, - .'^we it was particularly severe to shipping on e great lakes and along the Atlantic coqst. any vessels were wrecked and a large nam:r of lives lost. Dispatches from the follow- JsSBm g points told the story of death and de- . uction: From Chicago: The gale on Lake Michan and Lake Huron has been very severe H jffl id many disasters to shipping are reported. great number of vessels are ashore and v?r?l livAs have been lost at different ' . SsmBH lints. The life-saviug crews ate (hung ex- ^KSSH Went service in rescuing sailors in peril, and - M-*JB il for their gallant work score3 of sailers ' '3mm juld have b?e:i lost. From New London, Conn.: The tug C. R. ' -JtSW mford arrived hero last night with the H.^^8 irge Hatteras. The Sanford left New York ith the barges Ida, Ospray, Dunderbergand atteras, coal laden. \V hen Midway between """"Kw )rufieH and Faulkland island last evening .-j-jaH e hawser between the first and second barges Qfi irted and the Ida, Ospray ana Dunderberg j-aflg sappeared. The Sanford to-day went in area of the barges, and discovered the Ida U tfzsM 'erturned and wreckage from the other was >*nH ?n. The barges are total looses and the MwflM ews, eight men in all. are drowned. ^ 'S&M From Baltimore: The heavy gale that vis d this part of the country, yesterday, ": 'Sgjflfl eept the Chesapeake with the violence of a, n rnado. All the steamers were delayed, and imors of disasters were brought to this city. : aSB hey were, however, not substantiated until le arrival 01 the oyster sloop Annie Ger-_ ude this evening from the oys'er grounds. < aptain LybrandThomas, of the Lfcrtruae, Mm atesthat the bay was full of oyster ve&els, &3KM 1 laying at anchor, when the storm ruck them early in the morning, and iany had sails up to dry. In most of the jssels all hands were below asleep. The wind ipidly increased, and amid the flying spray id darkness njthing could be ascertained of .. neighbor's fate. The wind continued heavy 1 day from the northwest. Upon the rising ' the sun, a terrible picture of devastation as presented. Nearly every ves;el that had ; : ?en at anc hor was aground, while the beach on^ the shores was lined with wreckage. _ $gj n James Point the large oyster schooner 'alter F. Thomas, Captain Preston Webster, as bottom upward, Captain Webster, his iate and crew of eight men having heen ; 'XmBH rowned on her. Near by was the ASfiM hooner G. A. Kirvin, of Ba timore^Captain lines o. JVirvm, ? unn. m DiA a%muuvuw w* ater, her crew of ten men and her captain inking to the riggiog half frozen. They ??3h0 ere rescued with difficulty by the crew of le sloop Annio Rogers, commanded HIi aPtain W llliam Kirvin. An unknown man. }^fO le of the crew, had been washed away and ajaH st. The pungy Seaman's Bride, Captain .''ffaSB )hn Giez, went down near James' Point. Her -;3&9M ew was saved. Off Sandy Point two large ' lknown schooners went down with air on >ard, some twenty men, all of whom were st. Captain Thomas states that the lost to ssl'Is. cargoes, etc., will amount to many XjM ousand dol ars. More wrecks were eeen, it it is imcoss.ble to get particulars. Hay- .^jJO g a fast boat, Captain Thomas came di ct'y to this city for a-sistance. me news . eated much consternation In the oyster MISCELLANEOUS ITEMS. Eggs are $1.50 per dozen in some parts of * ontana. Silk culture d fast becoming one of the dustries of Utah. A railroad is to be built to the top of ke's Peak, Colorado. Tue California oil wells yielded over 5,000, t) gallons of oil last year. Nine Cherokee Indians have established a itional bank in the Territory. \ vi'ii' Evfii ivn tooth-nick factorv uses .(NX) cords of wood annually. San Francisco papers complain that their ty is being overrun with Chinese lepers. Two Nevada cattle kings are worth $1,0,000 each, and one of them signs his name ^ Hereafter the retail sale*of intoxicating iuors on credit in Prussia will be punished r withdrawal of the license. Thirty percent, of the suicides in France ke place in cafes, and after the intending iciue has first partaken of a hearty meaL London papers tell a story to the effect at the discarded son of en English noblean is doing duty as steward on the Cunard e. Six covered wagons containing six families, ith forty-six children in all, passed through lerman, Tex., last week, en route for Racksack. Arsenal Island, just below St Louis, d to be a part of Missouri, and was the opertyof !?'t. L/ouis: but a cnange in me a inel of the river transferred it to Illinois. s the city is forbidden by charter to hold il estate outside of the State, the lawyers trying to find out whether the island has 4 ij* owner. RAILROAD HSiSTER iffln I'mon* Ki1!c t by a Frlghffnl A ?i:loit in Illinois. A di.-patch from Streator, 111., give? tin l'owing particu'ars of a terrible ra Iroad cident. by wiiicii eignt passengers, inciu. nga lady and her daughter and a minis or, ?re killed, and seven <>th r persons injue i: The Chicago. Burlington and Quiucy ma'l ain from Chicago wa; due hero nt a in; ter to 1 r. m. It was within three mile? the city when it w a< s'gnaled t > stop by a ritchman who was unlo ullng ballast along e irack from a train of Hat cars ached to the switch engi e* :e pasenger train stipped. an! ;> rear bra'iemnn went back to flag anying that might b following the passenger itiii. bit1; he hud not g it mora than ono or ocar lengths when an extra freight train un lt d the curve and was down upon them .-in infant The freight enzine, >Tt\ ~ii. i:c'{ the roar pas ;enger coach and com?toIy teli'j-odj e i it. Thero wore about ? r oaty j crsons in the car ami f< w ewajwi ill ut in ury. The engine completely im ioil its.'It' in the tar. the j a<sen^ers being r.jwn forward, and then its boiler e vplodei :d one piece of its head was forced e itiro'.y rough the car. tine of the passengers said thitt'io train nl just barely stopixfl when the eol i<ion urr.il. "I lna:d.'' said he. "a t< rrib'e ad: as th en ino struck the car. The exmdon in med ately foilowe I, tiili'lg t :e cir ith stian aril boiling water. I did not ar a single cry for at leas: a minute, when rite 'Vcred tint the two ladio> s.t ing in . <<T ,{SJ rf lilt iii illi' wl-lv n-i u,*>> *, *" ...tli. 'Ihev were inll.ng for as-is to are, bat ie was no help for them, as they perish d m ?.t instantly from the inhala'ion of am." Tne switch engine that was unloading the i last came at once into this city, and gath,n; up a relief corps starte I with a < aboose . iu i wo do< t ji> for the scene of tho accident. " 1 eanwhile all thai couli possibly be done . r thj asssstan^e of the wounded and dying id <.aro of the dca:l was done. ^^