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.7W .? ? -w V /; JB , ABBEVILLE PRESS AND BANNER. J BY HUGH WILSON. ABBEVILLE, S. C.. WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 12. 1883. NO. 24. VOLUME XXVIII. .Jjgj A WOMAN'S LOAD. The peasant of tho Appenines, 'tis sain, Call an}- heavy weight "a woman's load;" And there up many a steep and rugged j road. With pondrous burdens poised upou tho head, All day the women go with steady tread; Vft. nt. eve l>efore each in>or abode. The light trescone merrily is t ed, ; fairer forms to any dance are le<l? Tall, lithe ami straight, and full of queenly j grace, : Faiut not, oh foul, because thy load is , i great! Have courage, though thy path be steep j and long; for vigor shalt th?>u gain with every puce, I 1 Till thou shalt I ear with ease the burden's j weight, ! And rest shall i'md thee beautiful ami strong. ' ?CharUs S. (irin e, hi thr Continent, i ' = j, "PIG." . .1 iu.v,nr.^.u,..li- , A well k;i -wn Congressman related to i j Ms the following story : Quite a number of years ago, while a very young man. being fond of adven-1, ture, I sought and obtained an appoint-1 r ment as deputy United States timber agent, a position less dangerous than that | of deputy marshal, but which, after all. j sen'ed iny purpo.v in that line. A few j \3ays after my appointment 1 received in- I 1 structions to go up to White river, near j the head waters "f that beautiful stream, and stop the "wholesale " felling of cedar timber ou government lands. I was j warned against making any show of 1 authority, as th- people who made their |' living by robbing the government wen? j reckless if not <!e-p rate. After a long j 1 and tiresome journey I reached the neigh- j borhood of my destination, but I soon recognized the fact that not half of my j1 difficulties had been surmounted, for although the land from which the timber was beitiLr cut was easily found, yet the men who were doing the work could not 1 be so easily identified. It seemed that 1 ] every Strang r was regarded with suspicion, and that h's approach was heralded j 5a that rapid and mysterious manner so j 1 characteristic of mountain people. For]' several d:i\s I wandered around hope-1 j lessly, but at last 1 came upon quite an ' intelligent man. Captain Tempncy, who ; ' seemed willing to give me information, j' I accepted an invitaiion to visit his home, 1, a rude log house lr.iiit in a little vale and j covered with wild vines. i! "Jcs* come an" see me an* make your- ! "self at home. Yon needn't look aroun' j for style, for you won't find it. Here | , Pig, bring us some fresh water." The j : last remark was addressed to a girl about ; eleven years old. She had the brightest' 1 eyes I ever saw. and her pretty face, peeping from under her richness of glow- 1 mg hair, reminded me of a moss rose. 1 She took up the water pail, and humming a wild tune, disappeared. "3Iv wife's been dead for a long time," said the captain, "an me an' Pig live alone.*' "Why do you call that beautiful child j Pig?'11 asked. "It strikes me that Wild Flower would be a better name."' "Her right name i- Josephine. When she was a little thing I got in the habit \ of callin' her Pig an' have kept it up. Here, have some frrsh water. Only have : to go to the corner of the house for a I stream pours out of the bluff. Pig, have I 1 we got anything to eat.'" fi\lit 'iki?ihii fin" nritiitnps." sin* replied. "Fond o' 'jios.soju.'" "Very," I replied, and a few moments | later we were sitting around the table en-1 gaged in discussing a repast which, I , ' think, for a hungry man, could not have been excciled. After the meal the cap- ' tain went out to look after the few head of stock whieh he owned, h aving Pig to , entertain me. "I)o you like to live here?'* 1 asked. |' not knowing what < Ise to say. "I never have lived anywhere else,'' \'! she replied. "Did you ever go to school?" "Not much, but 1 learned how to read. : "Would you like to hear me read?'' I replied that ! would, and she took 1 down a worn copy of the New Testa- i ' ment and began to read. Even her !1 mistakes were beautiful. I have heard j{ great teachers and professional elocution- |1 ists read the Bible, but never before had j 1 the simple story of Christ seemed so , -charming. She finished reading, and, j seating herself in a rocking chair made ' 1 .. nf im 'v 1|j'i" r- saplings, she began to ' P^^Tnit and hum her wild tune. I asked [ her to sing, and she did singbeautifnllv, : ? j -- T ...? i?i.,.- ?;i 1 r.UU UH 1 .>ill IUWIMH^ ??i ni l III Ii.wu mv*miration, I mused that my escape from a , love affair was only caused by the fact 1 that she was a child. " What is vour name?" she asked. " William'Kockford." "I'll have to call you Boots, for I can't i rememberyoTname, but 1 can always! see your boots,*' pointing to the high-!, top cavalry boots 1 wore. "May I call i, you Mr. Pools.'" "Yes." i | " Well, t will." she continued, "Mr. j j Boots are you goin' to live here all the < time?" i ( " No, I shall go away after awhile." , , "An' never come back any more?" ;, "Perhaps 1 shall come back to see;, you." j, "When I'm a grown voting ladv?" "Yes." "That will l?e :vlong time, but I won't forget you. for I like you better than any body that ever came here." Although she was a little child, yet I know that I blushed, for looking up | quickly, she said: "I make you turn red. . don't it? Here's papa." IJ "Now in regard to your business, "said | the captain. " You'll have to be mighty I particular. The men that are doin'that 1 devilment are mighty bad citizens, an' j when they find that you want to take !, ther livin' away from them, they'll fight , you." "I have not come to make arrests. A . great many of the men are doing this ( work through ignorance of the law. i , and my mission is merely to warn them, for the next expedition sent out by the , L government will he to arrest the parties and punish them.'' , ' Tl.ot'j mirrhtv Winil in the <rnverii aient, but the fellers will think it's ;i sort j o* blufT, an' when you commence to give , 'em advice, like as not they'll tell you to pop your whip an* go ahead. 1 know j that thar's some o' them that would ju?t |1 as soon shoot you as to look at you." j. We talked until bed-time, and when I went to sleep, I dreamed that the beautiful little girl sat reading to me. The next day I traveled around eon- , siderably. I met several men who con- ( fessed that they had been cutting timber !, from government land, but that they did , not know it was a crime, and promised me that they would desist. . I was re- ( peatedlv warned, though, concerning certain parties who would treat my kind- ( nass with contempt. One day I heard that the Simmons boys, quite a large family of semi-out- ( laws, were cutting timber at night and rafting it down the river. Near the plac . where the work was going on stood an old deserted cabin, and telling the captain that I would spend the night there, | 1 left his hospitable abode, and after 1 walking about a mile and a half, readied , the place. I built up a big tire and sat j down to begin my lonely watch. A heavy rain storm came up, and the flashes of | lightning, illuminating for a second at a time my gloomy surroundings, made a wierd picture. The darkness of the night was so intense that it seemed to knock at my door and demand admittance. While I lay on the floor, smoking, something actually rapperl at the , - door. "Come in." T s-iid. and Pig, the captain's little girl, entered, dripping wet. "Why. Pig, what on earth brought you nerc: * n. ' ''Leave here. Mr. Hoots, for tlicy are coming after you." " who?*; "The Simmons hoys. They came to our house just now and asked for you, an* when papa said^you were not there ; they said they would find you an1 hang ; you. I slipped out while they were talkin" an' come to tell you. Go away - ' as quick as you can," and before I could recover from mv surprise, she Lid disapneared in the darkness. I put ca my overcoat, and stepped to the door. I hoard (horn coining. Flight would he : fatal, defense useless. Suddenly 1 thought of the loft overhead at which I had been gazing, and in another moment, I scarce- j ly know how, I had climbed ut) and ! stretched myself on the frail boards. I j had not more than settled myself when | the wretelies burst into the room below, j ' Oh. he's aroun'here summers," said j one fellow, who seemed to be the leader, } ii mean-looking rascal, ior i iookcu through :t crack ami shivered. Hcckin he's out makin' his roun's," ?:ii< 1 a lueiuber of the gang. "Lige, whut ;lid yerdn with the rope "Got it here." "Keckin afore mornin* the cap'n will ivush he hadn'ter interfered with other j fok< s' business." ' Tied him hard, did yer Jake ?" "So bard he kain't move, an' left him i lay in' on the edgeo' the blulT. just above | the house. Kf he wanster roleofT an'kill J liissef. all right." "Whar was the little gal all the time, ! o i boys ' In bed. I reckin, fur I didn't see her. I'd er tied her, too, ef I'd a seed her. Sow, fellers, the next thing is to find the 'ov'incnt chap. Who's got the bottle ? j Lijro say yer got a quart that ain't been ; locli V "Yas, an' as red as a tarrapin's eye." "Wall, pass her aroun' an' less tap j tier." The bottle was passed and they all lrnnk freely. "Glad he built a lire." said one whom i I recognized as Lige. "Keckin he's gone j w.:- I loWll tor llie CK'anil . mm it nuuvau lie'll lie in." ' Tell yer whut's less do, fellers,'' said :i short, red-headed fellow whom I would like to have shot. ''Less set the cabin mire, an' when he sees it he'll come up ter see whut's the matter."' "Then we'll hafter to stay out in the rain." "Wall, gosh dang it, who keres fur j the rain.' Whut do yer say, Lige? Say the word, an'oil she goes." "You fellers ain't got no sense. Don't I yer know that ef yer'd lire the cabin the ! feller'd know we was airter him an' take ter his heels." " Wall, wliut'll we do ? Set aroun' here all night an' wait ?" "Never mind." said Lige. "Jake, climb up that* an' git some dry boards fur the lire," and the fellow addressed bewail to climb up. He had just taken liold of a board near me. and I was just mi the eve of shooting him and taken my chances, when Lige said: "Nevermind, Jake. It won't do ter liave too bright a tire, fur he'll think that somebody's here. Who's got the bottle. Well, why don't yer puss her ? Think we're a lot of cattle Again they drank freely. I knew that if they kept on drinking I might have j some chance of escape, iind for the first ! time in my life I regarded whisky as a friend. The thought occurred to me that I could make a hole in the roof and crawl out. 1 be.'an the work at once. ' What's that noise?'1 asked Lige. ''It's Jake rubbing his big hoof on tho floor," said one of the gang. ' No it ain't, nut her," Jake replied. '"Tend ter ver business, will yer, an' let yer betters alone." "Needn't be so touchy about yer foot." ''Wall, my foot is my own, an?" but the rest of the interesting sentence was lost as I had thrust my head through the hole. I crawled along the roof, which seemed to rattle and make noise enough for a wagon and team. I had no difficulty in climbing down, and with a heart overflowing with gratitude to the bravery nf littli. l'iir I ?. !!< tii?velin<r rariidlv I toward the captain's house. When I reached there i found in great distress. "Papa is gone."she sobbed, "an' I can't find him. I have called an' called, hut he won't answer." I explained as quickly as I could, and ascending to the Muff, we found the captain hound and gagged. "We'll fix* 'em." he said, when we rc- | leased him. "We'll get two or three I neighbors an' capture the scoundrels." We aroused the neighbors, and were j ?>on en route for the cabin. The whisky j had done its work, and we heard sing- j ing and dancing as we approached. Bursting into the room we surprised the ! i^ang, and had no difficulty in enforcing j submission. We bound them with the rope that had been intended for me, and j took them to the captain's house. Next lav we put them on a flat boat, took | them down the river and delivered them to the United States authorities. "What became of Pig?" we asked, when the Congressman seemed to have reached the end of his story. ' Why. sir. she grew to be the most beautiful woman and?" ' May I come in, Mr. Hoots?" so id a landsome woman, appearing at the door. "Yes. I want to introduce you. This is Pig. and I think "he is the best investment that was ever made in pork."?Ar' hntmw Traveler. Exile Life in Siberia. A Russian journal gives this picture of lesolafion of life in the frozen and barren regions of Siberia. A stcunboat arrived at St. Petersburg, from Tiomnen, towing a transport with )<! 4 prisoners on board bound for Siberia. The transport had a terrible passage. Caught in the ice, it was delayed six ilays in the trip from Tioumen to Tomsk. On account of this delay the prisoners on their arrival at the latter town were in a deplorable condition, deprived of everything and infected with diphtheria, typhus, small-pox and other diseases. Two clays attcrwanl ttiere came irom Tioumen another transport with 538 prisoners. Finally a third vessel came with TOO of those unfortunates. The prison was too small for these 2.000 people, hut nevertheless they were crammed into it. Among them were one hundred political prisoners ; and this fact is noteworthy. since it cannot he ascertained from whence thev came. Whether thev .1.1 ;*kww.t.f tr. rw?n?ili I UK ymiH IIIHM l.? ... IV, J?,UU. servitude in the mines nobody knows. Neither can it be ascertained by what tri.'niiiiil th'-v liuve been tried, since, aci-ording to the official figures, the total number of convictions for political offenses (luring the past few years fall short >f .-<> high a figure. Must we, then, believe that there is '(inie tenth in the rumors according to which people arrested on the charge of liigh treason have been brought before secret tribunals Or have these political prisoners been simply dealt with by the legislative branch of the government ? Then; is no choice except between these two alternatives, equally to be deplored. Naturally, the population of Siberia is far from contented with this continual arrival of prisoners, and vigorous protests ure raised against tnc present system, coupled with demands for its radical change, and for a more efficacious control over the functionaries appointed in Siberia. The Siberian press consists of wily a small number of papers, which are for the most part at the mercy of the lo[ al authorities, who supprcssall the news that might in anyway compromise them. Finally, with a view to remedying this deplorable state of affairs, there was founded at St. Petersburg a short time mo a weekly journal, the Oriental !{>:ri< ir, under the management of a man who has a thorough knowledge of Si[)"ria. As the journals of Moscow and .KiiH/nin. n/if trwnncnr -hip. the Orit/iftil Ifrrieic has been able to 11 ring to the knowledge of the central government many offenses that would otherwise have remained forever unknown. It must be said in justice to the central administration that it attaches a treat deal of imporfanre to the revelations of the Iforinr, and more than r:jK- official in Siberia has been dismissed from his post or put on trial in conscience of these revelations. A Small Hoy's Inquiry. An illustration of the ridiculous and annoying way in which a church choir will sometimes run together the words of .. r. Jc lTViivlt.il |,v 11 if? remark of a small boy in one of the front pews of a lar^c ami (alas!) fashionable ehureh in Boston. The hymn beginning, "The consecrated cross I'd bear, " had just been sung, and in the momentary quiet which followed, the perplexed youth turned to his father and asked in an earnest whisper: "Say. p'j. where do they keep the consecrated tfcoS-cyed bear ?" ?Modem Age. FARM, GARDEN AND HOUSEHOLD, p ri Iribli Potato Cutting'. V T-i'.scientific experiments iu Now York '' last season proved nothing. Eyes were ^ cut shallow and cut deep. Then the potatocs were cut in the ordinary way and medium sized potatoes planted whole, e: Lastly, peelings, pared close, were plant- 15 ed. OF all these experiments none of o; them established any superiority over the " old way of cutting the potato in slugs or h sections. We think it will he found in ai the conclusion of the experiments, which '1 are to he continued, that cutting in the ' > 1 - 1-1 1.1.. |, OlCl way gOOU SOIKl uunt> iu uti; without extravagance?that is to say, si without dividing up the tuber between '<! the cuttings?is the best, taking nil w things into consideration. Dropped into A dry soil, such a cutting is not as easily *vj shriveled up as a peel or shallow cut eye. nor even as a deep cut or gouged 01 out eye. and it lias moisture of its own ai for the germ, besides some fertilizing y< materials for early growth. This plan at of cutting ako leaves a large proportion ti of large tubers for the table or for other ir purposes, and saves thousands of bushels m to the provision supply of the country.? si Southern Farmtr. la 01 Gladioli. it A flower garden, whatever else it may have in the way of brightness and beauty, is incomplete without a bed of the glad- 1S ioli. The bulbs once planted, unlike the H tuberose, are sure to bloom. I have cultivated them for a long time, and have never been disappointed. No matter howdry or hot the weather may be, they go 8^ steadily on. developing leaf, bud and d: blossom, each at its appointed time. I began with three bulbs, but have now i ki a sufficient number from them to plant a sc lmw Thov do not increase as rap- I ""b' "v"' " ?? ? idly ns the tuberose and some other bulbs, fc but they make up in rich colors all they rj lack in that respect. sj They require deep, rich soil, a sunny situation, and ought to be rather deeply planted, or the heavy raius will uncover , and injure them. Some of my friends c leave their gladiolus bulbs in the open u ground through the winter; but this does not seem to hasten their blooming season; P besides, the new bull) forms above the w old one, bringing it too near the surface for safety during the inclement weather w of February anil March, two of the most P trying months of the twelve, on account of the sudden "cold.snaps'' and as sudden d thaws. One winter we lost a valuable ]' collection of tulips from this cause alone. Ir ?Mni. Mary K. Wi Ilia ins, in the In/depend- s' ent. Value of Apple* for Fodder. fi Every autumn the value of apples as " fodder for farm stock is questioned by occasional correspondents, though the 1} majority of farmers arc well satisfied 111 that apples, pmjrrly fed, are of con- ? siderable benefit. ^ To be fed with profit, howcVcr^apples must be given with other rations."]"** Fed alone they arc almost worthless, 0 and in some cases injurious. When this 01 fruit is eaten in too great abundance the ]tc flow of milk from the cows fed is soon 1 J1 diseased and in time "dried up." I " Apples arc poor in albuminoids and j 01 rich in carb-hydrates, hence to be fed ! with profit it must be in connection with a j sr fodder rich in albuminoids, as peas, oil- ! o cake, or other nitrogenous materials. j s< Apples given to milch cows in eonnec-1 ni tion with feed rich in albuminoids dur- j tc ing the winter season impart to their 1 tl milk a fine flavor, and to butter a color ir akin to that gained from grass. Swine j bi are rapidly fattened on apples when I grain meal is intermixed, and horses and ! ci slieej) thrive on them in piace of roots, j ti when given with hay. q' The chief objections to apples for foil- j o< der are the liability of animals chok- j T ing on them and in many localities j n< their cost. The first objection is met j fi with the employment of a root cutter, j in The question of the profit of feeding a| apples must rest with each farmer. If. tl the apples can be sold or utilized for I in cider and vinegar, then it will scarcely; pay to feed them to Mock. With no mar- i m ket for the fruit, or mills for making ()| cider, surplus apples may be fed with j g, profit as has been suggested. I Farm mtd <.:irdcn j(l Keep hens well supplied with gravel ' s\ and you will prevent them from having j :<i many diseases. Too many farmers think k that a hen is glad to supply her own s\s- j ei tem with everything. n Fowls are as fond of a change in their j [" diet as people are. Give chopped onions, ; " with a little red pepper sprinkled on, once a week. An occasional feed of?a' sunflower seeds will give a smooth, glos- i J. sv nlumaire. The English feed for fattening j>heep consists of cotton seed and turnips. They ' claim that it will put on the most fat, is ! the safest feed, makes the best mutton at a less cost, and produces the best and strongest manure. j / The ijuantitv of milk that a cow gives jj, defends much upon the mode and regu-1 lantv of milking, Cows do best that s;l have one regular milker, and the,time of jr milking should be carefully attendefhiwrs^ and not be subjected to variations from (1. day to day. A writer in the lUr Jultnml says that j,,| the best way to have bees clean combs is i [r to put them into a super, or upper story. j and place this over a strong colony just at n( night, if in times of honey dearth, and in four to twelve hours the combs will be all j clean, and the super can be removed in j w the usual way. Dry sand is recommended for keeping Im apples anil potatoes in a sound eondi- to tion. Into a barrel tilled with them sand Si is poured until all the interstices are ; or tilled with it. Parties who have tried | this method say the contents of the bar- j oi rels are preserved until spring in a bet- la ter condition than by any other means ; they have tried. * | oi Wright claims that the best food for n< fattening fowls is buckwheat meal. If j this cannot be procured, he advises an equal mixture of Indian and barley meal, j tl Kach l?ird is to have as much as it will >'i eat at one time, but no food must be left 111 to become sour. A little minced green ] 01 food should be given "daily to keep the j ? fowls in order. |,c In the early stages the spavin, says the 1 M Mirror nml Furmtr. is not clear!v do- ! veloped. hut afterward it is so well i j1,1 marked that a spavin may he pronounced . to exist without an examination of the J joint. Treatment should he directed to j F . the ahatement of the inflammation,which , gives rise to the pain, and also to pro- J (. mote absorption of the new growth. 1 Apply tincture of iodine daily over the j *! joint with a brush. j ^ A I)u Paige (III. i farmer claims that for three consecutive years he has j obtained sound apples, free from worms, j on trees in his orchard, by sowing three rc or four (piarts of salt under each tree, . while the fruit on trees not so salted was j all in jured or ruined by the codlingmoth. j a The ground in this ea*c was under culti- j a> vation. and he had never tried the salt ! nj remedy on tr.-es growing in ground that j w was seeded down. j |t Tlie liur<tl X< <r> Yorlcr, which professts ; !u to have tried all the popular breeds of ti fowls, gives this conclusion:?For eggs, is] black ilamburgs or white Leghorns, the i it: Iirsi prcieireu. ror iaim\ iiiiirivci mm jii eggs, Plymouth Rocks; second choice, i ei light Hrahmas. It claims that wheat is ; e< the best food for fowls, but that corn , should be given them twice a week in j Hi winter, as also bone meal for forming the 1 fx< shell, and that, to mako them lay well in tl winter, their food should be given them In hot. 1 r< Hoes. fhovrls. plows and other imple i rnonts not needed for use this winter; hould be cleaned by scouring, or, if 01 rusty, bv vigorous rubbing with kerosene j oil. Then oil both wood and iron and ; put avvav where they will be safe and not v in tin' way. Tlic on tougnens me wnmi and keeps the iron from rusting. Even i al better would it l?c to paint the wood on j ^ machines that have been once painted j and from which the paint has worn oil, i jj but the oil will answer a good purpose ! without the paint. A correspondent of the Former rmd ' c Fruit (froirer recommends the use of com- i j( mon salt as a cure for "red rust." the J tl deadly scourge of our native blackberries j and black raspberries. "I throw salt1 freely among the old canes and a small handful plump ar the root of every one | ai ^here I detect any signs of rust. By re- C _ '/ a.-. - . eating this sailing every week where J ist is seen it will soon go away and leave . ou good, healthy plants. The black- { erry is capable of using almost as much j ilt as the asparagus plant, and but little | ' ar need be felt of using too much." I When harness becomc rusty, says an | ^change, give a new coat of grain black. I efore applying this wash the grain side | ' f the leather with potash water, cold, 1 ntil the greese is removed. After the ather is quite dry apply the grain black nd then oil and tallow. This fastens le color and makes the harness flexile j ..1 enft Cvniiwwl linriwHs; nun he cleaned i < y a cloth moistened with kerosene, but I lould be immediately washed and oiled ! ' fterwnrd. Washing harness with warm j ater and soap soon injures the leather; i 11 varnishes, and blacking containing | ! irnish, are injurious. George F. Lord, of Elgin, 111., keeps , 1 ie hundred cows on :500 acres of land j j id has not raised a pound of hay in | ' ?ars. The corn is sowed in drills three j id one-half feet apart, and about the j me it blossoms it is cut with a sclf-rak- i ig reaper, cutting one row at a time,the aehine throwing it off in ganels. When i lfticiently wilted, it is bound and set in rce stacks and allowed to cure standing ] 1 the gronnd until winter sets in, when is hauled to the ham. He secures ( >out seven tons of cured fodder to the ( :re, worth as much as the l)est hay. He J one of the most successful dairymen in ' linois. Household Hints and IteclpeN. Rice boiled very slowly in milk and ' veetened is a very palatable and healthy ' ish for children. , I I The most healthful night-caps for 1 ccping the hair smooth are made out of 1 >ft cotton, and are crocheted. j To prevent children losing their mitins or gloves, sew on each one a long i bbon and fasten the ribbon to the in- * de of the coat sleeve. Dishes to shine brightly should be i ashed first in suds and then dipped in < ear hot water and left to drain. They <piire little or no drying. .lewelrv mav be nicelv cleaned by dip- < ing in hot soapy water and polishing I ith a little white powder and a pieoc of lamois. A cameo should be scrubbed ith a fine tooth brush and a little owder. Roast ham is a noted Pennsylvania ish; it is roasted the same as beef, only eing less juicy it requires a longer time i the oven. It is served cut in thin ices, with a brown gravy made of beef :ock and brown flour. Giblet stew is a good supper or breakist dish. Cut the giblets in small pieces, ut do not chop them fine; cook in a lite water, add a few pieces of cold boiled otatoes, and thicken the gravy with our. If you like onion flavor, a few ices of onion will be sufficient to impart .Muffins without soda, if baked in a hot ten, will be light and excellent. Take ne cujTTrf-sweet milk, one cup of flour, tie egg well bcntieil, ?b?ut a third of a faspoonful of salt. Have your gem .ins very hot, fill about half full, and like. These arc nice with butter alone, r with maple sugar syrup added. r*?"* *? m.uln r\f nno r?nn nf V ILtUU lUimiUJ? ClAV uumv/ VI V?..^ V..^/ V?. >111- cream, one cup of butter, two cups f suifar, two eggs, one teaspoon ful of >da, Hour enough to make a dough of j tedium body, neither as soft as possible > roll nor as hard. These may be rolled Jin. and will be light and rich. Bake ( i a quick oven, but do not let them y rown. It is an excellent plan to prepare the , iblmge for dinner an hour before it is j j me to cook it. Cut the cabbage in } nailers, and scatter a handful of salt ^ rcr it and cover it .vith cold water. ^ his is a good course to pursue if one has \ >\ time to look the cabbage over care- 1 illy. Cauliflower also should be fixed j i the same way, after being picked , art. There are so many small insects y lis year, especially, that great care is ? L'cessary in looking over vegetables. J Delicious little patty pan-cakes are r ade thus : One cup eacli of sweet and ' t f sour milk, on cup of lump or loaf su- j 1 iir tinnndeil fine one tablcsDOOIlflll of I . iclted butter, the yolks of four eggs, id the juice and t: rated rind of one mon. In mixing the cuke first put the veet and sour milk together in a basin id set it in a saucepan of hot water ; / [*cp it there until the milk becomes I irdled, then drain or strain off the milk, 6 ib the curd through a sieve, add the utter lo it and the sugar and eggs, the t Iter to lie well beaten first, theu the fl mon. Make a little very rich pie-crust j 3 ul line the patty pans with it ; fill with | | ic above mixture and bake from ten to i , [teen minutes, or until the custard is j c in. These little cakes, or more properly, j $ es, are daintv for dessert. ! J ?: i The Deadly Oil. 1 Kerosene becomes more deadly every i *ar as the hours of evening lamplight j j ngthen, and the frequent lighting ot j j *es becomes a daily duty. The fact j <! lat these accidents are utterly unncces- | 1 ,ry renders them the more lamentable, j | i the hope of preventing some of these I \ ttUdcnts, we state a few fuets which ! j TryfioflTbttgfa to know. j' 1. It is not the kerosene which ex- ! odes, but an invisible gas that arises I om it. I 2. If oil is poured into a lamp that eds tilling, this gas rises out of the ( mp or can, or both, and explodes, often ith deadly force, if there be any tire I , it hi n reach. I?. Pouring oil from a can upon a j , lrning tire or into a lighted lamp ought ; f i be followed by a terrible explosion. I mietimes it happens that no explosion < curs, but the risk is frightful. 1 4. The only safe rule is never to pour 1 on a burning tire or into a lighted j inn. , Now, you may give Bridget positive 1 ders with regard to the tires, but when 1 i one is at hand in the early morning i 1 Mirs, the temptation is strong to assist , J le smoldering blaze by the aid of a lit- | , i' kerosene. She has done it without { jury formerly, wliv not again? Jv> the i jsc of the can is tilted over the range j < pate, there is a flash,a scream, and poor ^ ridget will never have another chance j ? disobey orders. Perhaps it would be i . tter, if Bridget must be allowed access j , i the can at all?the suggestion is tim- | i lly made?to show her how she may aid ' ic lire with comparative safety. All she ! is to do is to pour a spoonful or two of j j ie oil i to a cup or something of the | . ind, and setting the can down at a safe i<t!inee unnr the.oil from the cup Upon | I it1 lire. It is not likely that she will j iller much injury from the eompara- | 1 vcly mild explosion that may follow.? | ' 'id tiro t?r. i ; Hot Fomciitat ions. Hippocrates recommends these for the ] lief of chest, abdominal, and other J [litis. To the present time, hot fomen- ( it ions have been the favorite remedy for ] , great variety of alTections. If I were | < iked to select from all possible methods , f treatment one, and one alone, with ' j hicli I would undertake to combat | | imian sulTering, without a moment's j | [ sitat ion I should select hot fomenta- | i ons. For pains in the spine and ; 1 loulders, for pains in the head, for pains | i the chest, stomach, and abdomen, for j nins in the limbs, for pains in any and , cry part of the body, hot fomentations I ?nstitute the best single remedy. The old-fashioned method, with , iinncls wrunir out of hot water, is a ! [Kill one. A happy way of protecting it; nurse's hands is to dip the thmnel in--oiling water, then lay it upon a towel, j i >11 the towel and wring it. The nurse who understands the hot- j ^mentation art, and applies it industri- j lisly, will often accomplish more than i ic doctor with all his drugs. Recently, rulilier hags have been de- ' ised, holding agallon, which, tilled with ot water, constitutes a perfect way of : pplving heat to the body.?Dio Z^wiY | (unfitly. Economy is the parent of integrity, of J bertv and of ease; the sister of temperfit /?Vv*inrfii1 twicc finrl lin'ilfli Prn.. I lscncss, on the contrary, is a crucl and j raftv demon, that gradually involves fi followers in dcpendcncc and debts; ' lat is, fetters them with iron that en;rp into their souls. The Chines?! exclusion law has given o impulse to Japanese emigration to alifornia. 4 MUSICAL AND DRAMATIC. Mn. Abbey lias a salary list at the Metropolitan ojiera bouse of $14,iXW a week. Mr. Henry J. Byron, the popular English dramatist, is mid to bo dying of consumption. Flora E. Barry has returned to the stage and has joined the Hess opera comI any. Sjgn'ok Kosst, tlio tragedian, has trans lated Shakespeare's "Julius C'asar" into the Italian. Mr. W. S. Gilbert, the English dramatist, is said to receive $40,(MM) a year from his i opyrights. There are thirty placsof amusement in New York city, excluding all the irregular variety shows'. Hilf is the name of a centenarian; in a small German town, who plays in dn orchestra conducted by hi> sen. Mmk. Paj'feniintm, Miss Vincent, Mr. loetlt unrl Mr. Koinmeris will be tne soloists in the Christmas j erfoi mar.co of the Messiah in Cincinnati. Colo.vki. IIaim.eson, dim-tor of Italian ;pc ra at the New Y< rk academy of music, lim secured M. Talazac, the famous tenor of the opera coinir|ue. Paris, for next season. The Abbj Liszt is on the point of publishing a groat work on the technique of the pianoforte. It is to be in three volumes, and t is haiil that it represents the work of many years of the great virtuoso's life. Goi:nod has added a new act to his "Sapr ho,"' which was produced in 1858, and the it era is being rehearsed ut the Paris oijera. But rehearseN menu something in Paris, ind the work will not be produced till spring. Teacher? "What do you understand by Llie expression, 'As one star ditfereth from uiother star in glory j" Bright pupil?''It probably refers to theatrical stars, who are li ways quarreling ai>oui somemuig or oiuer, ind they >eem to glory in it. Miss Lili-ian Russell has been engaged jy R. D'Oylev Carte, and will appear Tn the jew opera wh'ch Gilbert and Sullivan arc preparing for tho Savoy theatre, London. Sullivan himself is teaching her singing, and Gilbert is training her in dramatic action. David R. Allen, who was murdered in lie Vickshurg theatre, had been on the stage inc e boyhood, beginning as a call-boy in tne Sew York Bowery and Park theatres. He is specially known as tho man who built tho irst theatre in Chicago after the big fire?the ilobe. A London pai>er accounts for the grace of Mias Mary Anderson's poses by saying that h? is a constant visitor to the British Mui3um and an earnest student of the sculpture here, by which means she not only assists lerself, "but gives valuable hints to members )f her company. A well known actress in Vienna, Mathilde Singer, has hit upon a brilliant idea, which veil the versatile Sarah Bernhardt has not ret tried. She has opened an oyster bar, over ivhich she presides herself, with the result . ^ i. n ;nat tne AUHtnan lutuucia n^iw uunuo to do homage at her shrine, consume her delijacies and bring their golden ducats to her jotfcrs. Mme. Minnie Hauk prevented by her cool nes< and presence of mind what might bave been a terrible disaster at Selma, Alabama, recently. The opera-house was crowded and owe one raised a cry of fire, whereupon a ?:ampede began. But Mme. Hauk, afte r finishing the Jong nlie was singing at the moment, advanced to the footlights, assured the audience that there was no danger, and succeeded in restoring order and confidence. Theodore Thomas, the orchestral bader, has received a dispatch from Vienna confirming contracts with Frau Fredirich Materna, Herr Herninnn Winkehnan. and Hen- Emil Scaria for fifty representations of Wagner's music. These*three artists are pre-eminent is the interpreters of "Wagnerian roles. They sang Bavreutb in 1870, and at the Warner festival hi Tx>ndon. Their first performance will be in Boston on April 14, 1884. LIFE SAVING SERVICE. . tnnual Report ot the Superintendent? 4,017 Live* .Saved. The report of the genera superintendent * - i" 1 -i it.., .1 it vuo inwsuviug service buuws tuat kut* ?nrice embraced at the closa of th<? last fiscal rear 194 stations. WJ being on the Atlantic(7 011 the lftees, 7 on the Pa?iflc, and 1 at the .-"alls of the Ohio, Louisville, Ky. The num, :er nf disasters to documented vessels within :l:e field of station operation during th^jear vas IKX). There were 3,792 persons on ) nrJ these vessels, of whom 3.777 were saved uid only lift en lost. The number of the hipwreokel who received siicjot at the staion-i was li">l, and to these 187i? day*-relief vas a forded. The estimated value of the vesi?ls involved in these disasters was ^,100, in 1 that of their t ainues fc.',0'V>l">, making he total value of proj>erty imperilled *7,170,?4n. Of this amount $"i,?il ',.S0 ) was saved md ?1,5">4,740 lost. The number of vessels otallv lost was sixty-eight In addition to he foregoing there have been 1 HI disasters to :mal!er craft, such as sail-boats, row-l>oats, ttc , on which were 244 jwrsons, 210 of whom vere saved and four lost. The property inr 'lved in the latter disasters was ft*;, ISO, of [ vincn f.v.?, .??? was saved ana i iosc. in I'ldition to those saved from vessels, there vere twenty-two per*. rescued who had al'en from wharves, pn etc., and would lave perished without the help of the lifesaving crews. 1 he number of disaiters during the year xceed by seventy-one the number of disister of the year preceding, which was coniiderab!y larger than that of any previous ear in the history of the service. The imount of property inv /lve 1 was $2,470,493 greater than in ttie preceding year, but the imount lost wa; $^.7.50 les< than of the pre eliig year, while the amount saved was >2,50*1,243 more. The nunilwr of lives lost vas seven more than in the preceding year, jut in proportion to the nutnb.T of jiei-sons >n biard the vessels suffering disaster it is ess, the ratio of reduction being six percent. From the <!ate of the intro Juction of the resent system in 1S71 to the close of the Lscal year the number of di-astei's has Iteen 108;value of property involved, $36,521,134: value of projierty saved, $23,737,052: r*alue of pro;>erty lost, $12.784,!W2; number of persons involved". 1H,7(X); number of persons aved, 18,334; number of persons lost, 426; lumber of shipwrecked persons succored at i'ations, 3,729; number of days succor aforded, 10,308. ? - PKOMliNm FiiOPLK Dow.?General Xcal Dow is talking prohi- I ;ion in Illinois. Wilde.?Oscar Wilde will nin for a seat n the British house of commons. Cameron.?Kx-Xenator Simon Cameron ivill spend most of the winter traveling in the ^outh Arthur. ? Fresident Arthur has the reputatiorf ol being the hardest man to interview in the United States Miller.?Justice Miller, of the United States supreme court, is sixty- even years >ld, a Kentuckian by birth, with German an jestry, and vr.cn appointe 1 to his great office lie lived in Iowa. McLane.?The Hon. ltobert M. McLanewho will 1)0 inaugurate 1 governor of Mary, and on the secon I Welnes.lay in January, ivill hold this office four \ ears, and will revive a salary of a year. Cororn.?Ex-Governor Coburn, of Maine, "ecently sold ?si;o,<KK) wort h of Western laiul in i single lot,and it is said that it was the largest vile of country property ever murie in the United States bv a single i::divi-'ual. Bruce.?Mr. 14. IC. Kruce, the colortd register of the treasurer, sends j .resents to all legro babies named for him in the South. If his notice is circuited the number of his ?n<ii?ent.-nc ivill iirniinh'v nverwho'ti! him. Spinner.?Cenernl Francis F. Spinner, extreasuivr of the Uni ed States. nn<l now a farmer in Florida, whore the aligatorsgrin ivhen they see his signature, has been in Washington in excellent !i *:ilth an 1 has returned to his orange groves. Hoadly.?Judge Hoadly lias received noLice from Mrs. Fate Chase that she will be present at his inauguration, at Columbus, on Jannary 14. It was f.o.n lor father, Salmon 1'. Chase, t hat Jrd e Hoadly imbibed some :>f his ?arli> st less:i,is in the law. J on in. ?Alexander Jon n, the Itu sian diploma', i a s!i j!:i . i:i<i;rnific-tx.?t looking man. thoii'.h with a line'y dovel<?'Md head. He lias Ion; l>e si a uianyr to th toi tares of tic l< uloureu c and angina j ectoris, and is only h'a tri iitU'iiil t> liti iie'ss hei-ausj of an in- 1 famitnble will powvr. ? i'"x S !?*'?: Joseph K. McDonild, "l I dian i. is Jar#?. dean shaved, buld-h a lei: lias a xc i ray eye-hr.ms and iilu ! eves: is feint oi s ciety and walking: lives plai-dy: lia-l?"cii marred three times: it'.ends the I'resbyt v an church and the Lhea're, an I iias a !aw practice of S'iO.OOO a y> ar. (JbAOf t ink. ? W. I*. fJIa Istone, the English premier, is tins only man living to whom a statue has b en laised in a foreign country I).- popular subseri. tiou during rds own lifetime. A.?ear a<xo t e (ineks proposed to have a siatue of the | remier in Athens. Subsi ri, ti"ii.s poured in at su -h a rati; that the conimittco now ha\e 11 arly twice a-! much 11 it."iicy as the/ 11 >ed. Moktox.?Mrs. Mor:on, wife of the United States minister to Fr.ince, has <(ui.e recovered fr-.n the oflVct-s of the acei!e :t which lately befel her. i'hewa* mealing 0 medirated vnpir, to cur* an a'f'-lion of the throa*. wlien Hie i.ih ilin : appnrat is tjot out order nn I e.^plo 1 d. For iwuh and fare weiv badly cut, bruise 1 a:i 1 sea'de l. and she w.isconfned to her 10011 'or several days, bi't all 1ra<-es of th< injuries in!l e:ed have l-o l Iiunr uirin?| u?.v... Wnitt K.t.? lu'ri ft. Whittier says that Hawihorne was th? greatest master of the Knglish language. Ho a ids t hat, at no time has To.my 0:1 written anything that will compare with the piMduc.ious of the lies! American p>et\ He t ilks much about Emerson, Hawihon e and Longfellow, of whom he was very fond, nnd tel's that, they iscvei had a wor I of disajreomen*. The la>t time he visited Ixmgfellow tlw latter, helping hi: guest w th his overcoat, sai', J am getting so old I like to put on mv mr i coat." Whit tier's love for Loiv'cllc.w is evidently th* most joyous l ocoJ'e.-tio i of his life. A Choctaw Indian, named Parker, having ',h f.lierifi: .11 'i ;shamin~o. IJaho, irame' loifllr. d >-.vn an.i shot himself. EVACUATION DAY, |? M70 stet New York's Great dentennial Gel-; thr l , I Soc ebratioru Tre : r.a IflV The Immense Processions on Land and Water. :fro ma Following are details, as gleaned from the New York japers, of the great Centennial ,a!] celebration o" the cva niation of the citj' by Hej the British ti'oojw: 1 ISHFOKK 'B'UE PlIOCRsStONi j,he The lino of march fol' the lilwl parade Wds tot from the starting jniint at Fifty-seventh i & street down Fifth avclitie to Fourteenth \ raQ1 street, to Broadway, a .d dowtf Broadway to 1 mnl Bowling (irten, near the Battery?a distance of nearly five miles. Hours before the "_re parade had formed. men a id women fought ' a' for standing rouin on the sidcwa ksalong the ,n 'j line of march, and, when room was secured, a.!,(' it was fearlessly held. 'Ill* rain that camo nV( liiv,t in ominous drops, and afterward in a Plni steady drizzle, did not affect much the de- 1 a'llJ terininat.on of the crowds. Umbrella j were 1 lased bv tlio thou and, but the onthu.-Iasm . ? or ?r.i.. ?1? ...i? i?i ?^u??iioo ' her iiiav IIJUIIU JJCKJJUK >vim iui?A iIKj uiuificim.i? j ?-men and wonu'n?ftand until they were j t[rp literally soaked, was something surprising, j s:er The buildings weie gaily > ecoratcdall along , ?ra the line. The Equitable buiidin^ was adorned j for] with great ttt?<te, and its opposite neighbor, ; or ! the Boreel building was profuse in its display, j w"' Tl:e Williams & Ctuion building, the Stevens ' r-J>| house and the New York Mining and Petroleura exchango were ha u'somely draped. The \ ^'c Produce exchange had les'oone:! every win- j fV31 dow on the Broadway sido with fags of a'l tho nations, and the enormous star-, stripes and j m,01 streamer waved from it< lofty tower. Over | ?' the unfinished Field bull-ling, WaKington's wtv old headquarters, flouted the national flag, ; ^ and from the window of the British tonsurs r 1 office a few small flags were shown. Thcus- 1 j'01 ands of private dwellings in New York and ; Brooklyn were als j dccoraled with Hags and <L?t< bunting. ' P'ei As early as8 o'clock in the morning lower i J"e Broadwny was jammed. From Fulton i a!i' street to Bowling Green the curb3 were I already Iin?d, a>:d the sidewalks were full of | 8ter people moving both up ani down town. The j wai stranger was apparent everywhere. Court- i In? land and Liberty street? poured into J ?u Broadway masses of beings who kept coming ! 110Jj so cotinnuou-ly as t* almost make it appear , that New Jersey was to be depopulated for i uw;j the dav. and they kept coming all the morn- an'J ing. Kultcn, Wall street, South and Hamil- i *Jnr ton femes, yielded enormous crowds f from Brooklyn. The stages were loaded in- i wei ti le and <;ut," and the car lines in the lower fV" part of the city reaped a harvest. ' At 8:30 a. m. the governors of the different i 11 States, who were to participate in the parade, j ?J?'1 began arriving at the Fifth avenue hotel. I 5??, The announcement was then made that Presi- | dent Arthur and his cabinet would arrive at : P?* about nine o'clock and would take part in the ! P'?' street parade. The vicinity of the hotel was I fr crowded with thousands ot people and the I lobbies were packed to suffocation. Shortly | I'rJ affer nine o clock the following governors L.e. had arrived: Governors Roble of Maine, Ha'e of New Hampshire, Bar.-tow of Ver- j t mont, Butler of Massachusetts, Bourne of Rhcde Island, Waller of Connecticut, Ludlow I*"' of New Jersey. Hamilton of Maryland, and _ Cleveland of New fork. Shortly afterward President Arthur and the members of his cabinet arriveincluding Secretaries Chan- w?i ji? r!?1? i.-_i?_ ??,i a ?.?. uier, JJlilCUill, ruigci uuu mwn iicj-udhoi?i i Brewster. The governors, the President and : f the member of the cabinet then took car riages and proceeded by way of Fifth avenue , v to East Fifty-Seventh street, where they 1 , formed in the" line of the procession. j -j-ro THE I,AND PROCESSION. I ^ The following was the official order of the ( mo< parade, the head of th;i line being taken by ^ the grand marshal. General Jonn Cochrane, I r,r0 hisaidis, and tho Phi'adelphia city cavalry: j tha FirstD.vi-.ion.?United State* regulars,! j . coniu itt o of arrangements in carriages, dis- i of | tinjpiislicd guest, in tho following order: j vit< First crtTCi'-iK'*, the President. General Grant, 1 est James M. Va'iUi.n of the committee of ar- j thu l-angemon's; swohd -carriage, the secretary i pre of the treasury. secretaVy-C^ state, secretary i of t of the ravy. and Mr. John Austin Stevens; ' third. the I n ted States attomey^jjfcljeia'. j Mr. marshal of tli" District of Columbia, "tt" j Mr. President's private secretary, C. A. Ar-^c?sa thur, Jr.; tourtL. tho governor of New 1 sist: York. General Farnsworth and C. S. ] K.. Smith; li, T and 8, Governor : (j, , Cleveland's stiff; ! . tha governor of Massa- j scui ctiusetts. General Dalton, and Cornelius N. j ieat Bliss; 10, 11. 12, l.'i, General Butler's staff; : ure 14, tho governor of Connecticut, General j ]i Couch, and George W. Lane; I V 10, 17 and fior 18, Governor Wallace's stag; 1!>' the gov- : the ernor of New Jersey and General Stryker; cha 20, 21, 22, and 23,' Governor Ludlow's staff; cha 24, the governor of New Hampehfre, and 25, He 20 and 27, his staff; 2b; thfi governor of pre Rhode Island and Adjutant-General Dyer; tor 20.30, ;tl. an! .12. staff of Rhode Island's ker governcT; tl.n governor of Vermont and ern Adjutant-fieneral Pi*?k; HI, .S-Vwl and 37, gcii staff of the governor of Vermont; tfcf, the veil eovcrnor of Mai no ami Adjutant-General j>r? Beale: oil, -10,41, and 4,, stair of the governor I tip of Maine; 4:t, the governor of Maryland, and j veil 44 and 4*>, hisHtafT: 4f>, Lieutenant-Governor , }J Hill, Comtroller Davenioi t, Secretary of ! niai State Carr, and Speaker C'hapin. Officers of i cm the army and navy. The mayors, with common 1 Uy councils, of the following cities: New York, \ of ( Brooklyn. Jersey city, New Haven, Hoboken, 1 gov Newburgh. Yonkera, L>ng Island city, | wh Flushing. Heads of departments. New York i plir city; federal otticia's, members of Congress, j con chamber of commerce, Marine society. Stock, I seal Produce and Cotton exchanges. Maritime as- j of 1 sociatioi:, Mining, Mercantile and Metal I of s exchanges, Boaifl of Trade, Eeal Estate and | reir Traders' exchange. Historical societies in , Uer the following order: New Yo k, Pennsyl- ora vania, Maryland. New Jersey, Rhode Islanl. | Hw Maine. Vermont, Delaware, Buffalo, West- the cluster, Archelog.'cal and Numismatic so- A ciety, and teiural society of mechanics and givi tradesmen; Society of the Cincinnati, the j me: Loyal Legion, veteraus of 1812, and General : wer Washington's coa. h. I Got Second Division.?Major-General Shaler, j Go) commanding; Regiment? 22, 11. 12, ft; First ! Goi buttory, Second batteiy; Second brigade, j Wa Regiments", ti'.i, S, 71; Connecticut National ; was guard, re, re cntod by Regiment? 2, .sejond ] p'a company Governor's "Foot Guards; 4, Fifth j E Battalion, battalion First regiment, veterans rej. of the New Haven Greys, veterans of the the -Battery A; New Jor- j IMl: sey National Guard, R<r^ men s-tana-.i; uom- i givi panie KundC of Thir.1 regiment; Catling I visi Gun company: Nine eenth. Sej urate com- . ?on pany: Second Division, N/Hi S. N. Y., spr< Regiments i'i, :.'2, 47 and Thflvl^ battery : | met Regiments l:', 14 and l"th Separate cMPr'anyi j t.'re Old Guard and delachnient llonoiaofeand ; eati Ancient Artillery o" Boston:Governor's Fft^t j in? Guard of Connecticut; Albany Burge.-s CorpiT>-C?i; Utica Citizens' Corps; Bntt-ilion Providence hi.'t Light Infantrv; Newport Artillery, mai^liin^ as infancy: First Company of Washington Continentals, Newbur^l) Contli.enta'.s, Con'inental Guar Is; School No. 4*; St. Patrick's Alliance: Hil>erninn Rifles; Veteran Guard * (colore 1): Veterans of the following regiments: Seventh. Seven y-firs*Twenty-third, C Ninth. TlUrt eirli, K e.-. nth, Twenty-, econd, at 1 arid Hrst of Peun-ylvania. A Thip.u Division.?Grand Army of the R^- ren public in te i sub 1 visions. Major J. R. Hor- | j ner c-jimiunrlinj. Ten posts of Sons of Vete- ^ rans. I Fourth Division. ? Veteran volunteer* h J.. ?i? > in w n^ fnllmvs. (ieneral C. P. i Stone comma uling: .Mexican war, f>th N. C Y.: Independent Velvrai vo'unteors; N. Y. i yea volunteer ri'tfimoiit-s. I1.'. 7, 10, 7 (?!*, 4r>. 41, j, 40, ami s; Secand Division; 14, >?. Y. K. M.: 0f > Syke's Divison: I'liion Veteran Army; N. Y. U,,P volunUe/ re^iniMiis, 1M, lit.% 1( .", !.{>, ~0: j ^ Veteran Si;igin<* So-vetv, Veteran Zouaves, t ^r, Soldiers' and SaiVrsI ('iiion. I Fifth Division.?Gen. L'oyd Aspinwall, j 'jcommanding. Mounted jolice. battalion of j Qru police. brigade of New York fire dejmrt- 1 jj,?( nient; repi essntati ves of o'd vo'nnteer fire ! ? department; volunteer firen o:i rf Phi'adelphia : bell-ringers of old liro departinent; j *.nr Protection engine of .Mount Vernon: Tiger I ,,ir< hose of Lrng Island city; Jock on hose of | M Long Island citv: Astoria II. and L, coin- I I' M pany; volunte er H. and L. company of Staten -'oui island: Wandeweiwk II. and L. company of A Newtown; Hope H. and L. company of Yon- j ' kers. 1 elev Sixth Division.?(General F. J. Herron commanding. Tammany Society; Order nj*1( United American Mechanic;; Approved Or- J jder of He 1 Men; General Tlieolog.cul Seminary: Irish Confederation; St, I'a'r cVs Alii- I ^ anoo; Friendly Sons of Sf. Patrick: C ntral ',ov Council of l. ni ed F. M. T. A. D.: Yorkvile w'r an I Harem Bakers: J< urneymen St me Cut- \\ 0 ters; Journeymen Tailors; ^ c-ung .Men's Pro- yea gressive association (colored'. and It is estin a'ed that 40.UHI people to ik part y in the parade, and that between :J'iO,0!Hi and fJ[ | 30.1,000 strangers were in the city dur.n; the n.1(j tlav. ' , A ? ..A .o.- ce ' 1IBI, IVAIMt I'ltmr^nnr.K The shipping alone the dockso*the North \ta and East rivers made an excellent (lis. la. of i'1',"* tlie colors of various cnunti\e<, nn 1 the threa ' United states' vessels in the stream were ,ou decorate I from stein to stern. As one looked !ire southward over the heads of a ma* o: people lins that lined the l.'atterv walls, (iovernor'sand J Bed loo's 'sland-i could lie dimly scon through at i ih'? thick foe that covered the river. Crafts s:c? of many kind.-, gayly ailcii.e.I with bunting, drc. darted out of the fog uii''.\{i60.odlv, and then j ussuddeti ydi:ajj|ieamln a n. They were all wjJ steam propelling vess Is. lunging in size un,j from the tiny tuir to the largo steamer. | n^a. Moored to the doc; at. Ca-t'o Harden lay th'? sloinio's John I. Moire and . Willinui Fletcher. T i"v were both , decked with flapping s^snro^ of r<d "7,j white and bine, liioi s of wcll-rlresscd rr.on n s and wome.i butlel on b wrd of the n. and at U1? 10 o'clock thev wean o.l s'owlv out into the f,ic river. As the morning advanced, the river . B seeme.l to Ik? r.livo, rc se:nb!iiig a moving T bridge of boa's. livery bow pointing out- elc< ward, and the crafts were procco<ling with Tin all degrees of s; ced tov ard B;'d!oo's island. cen the appointed rendeivo-.ts. At about half ; wh Kn m H?l JJUtl/ I'/ "M.mv, V Itiu oivuu.vi - Kl< an, having nn board John H. Starin, th? ! admiral of tin flee1;, t'orgo.l awa/ from the A othqjv, ail Jtood tut, in the river with h?r wei nrow pointing 11 Ttiiwar.l. A few minutes ! wai later a small tup. with an immense fla? ily- j ehn ing tro.ii its st?rn. t ?>!c a position in front of < wei the SU.an. Thn wa: tho fag-hip F. I jtd W. Vo burg. A j u i of smoke, whiter and denser than she fog, shot out.; I from the <!ock, and :crvj;l as ihns'gi:al for ( has the parade tosfa11 up tin Nr r:h riv?r. Tug j anr boat after tug boat ft 11 into line, until a dozen | :-.nc were in motion. Attest tlnsyw^" a few >tear.<- J $*? brat?, which eomp.e'ed tho th-st sjnadroi' mil iro were eiqht otner squaarons, coming hundreds of tugs and steamers of all s, many of them decorated from bow to n, and pre>enting an animated and picesqufi appearance aa they glided ougli the water In stately array, n the three United States men-of-war, nton, Vttndalia aiid Tennessee, were ehe-1, and near them lay tho enue cutter General Grant. The l-of-war were dressed jn bunting, sad in what is known as rainbow idshioD, in tho toffrail up over the trunks of the ste, down the fore-royal slay, and ending i line of flags falling from the bowsprit to water. The cutter had flags running in trucks to rails. All were crowded with ors. anil nre.^nt d a pay appearance. oiid them" lay the Pei-t which was topae. stretching awuv to the south as far the eye coil d rench in the hazy atmosTe. Th?? Sam Slcan came about, headed he north, and fired the first pun at 10:08. .11 Around lay oasters and ocean ships, rty of them gai y df eked out. The Gern sld;> Hed*i\; was a picture with her ex-ivcanay of flag*. After the gun was d the small, l.ut Tory pretty steam yacht let ivai sent do^Tu the line t j start the fleet no!i>n. At lft:'J4 another gun was fire<l [ the Sam Sloan start-d up th? Ni.rth t, tlio t-nergotic brass band in her bow ping "Hnil Columbia-' with nil their hearts l lungs. The D..K. Martin, the upper works vhich were shrouded in jjendauts and naml colors, came steaming a'ter. Behind wa< a big tug dressed in her holiday at. Then followed a long array of tugs, mi boats, steam lighters and olher smaller ft, all covered with fla-js, and pouring ;h volumes of seam. Jxch gave two liree preliminary toots to tune up their i.-tlea as they started. Tlio parade cceded up the north river as far as Sixtvli street and then turned ba-.'k. At > ve o'clock, as the fleet sailed down the tlrriver, the Sloan gave the signal for grand whistle. Then the s'.eam-boat l "opened her up," and all the outporings noise which had gone before >u compared to this outburst, were tha "murmur of a meadow brook ho wild tumult of a mountain storm." i with weak nerves held the r fingers in ir i ar.s. while others were breathless with jnishment. On the Atlas Mail Line's - a small gun added to the uproar and S oan's howitzer banged away ?w ; as it could be loaded. But the grandest ites wr re yet to come. When the Sloan imed by. the Tennessee the ports of the -ship were see.i to bu open. In another ment a sheet of bright red flame shot and a thundernig report rang across the bor. Iii a second the Vandalia had fired . the Trenton followed. For ?everal mini the bellowing of their guns was heard i the three vessels were hidden in the >ke. Then the procession headed up the it river, while the guns of Castle "William e fired. Ferry bells and ship bells were g, an.i every availablo steam whistle was ivn, even the ferry-boats stopping in mid3r to take a blow. Nearly every vessel the East river front was dressed in flajrs, display on the tall spars of the John R. y, the largest sailing craft afloat, beinjj ticulany wen exniDitea. uuns were nrea 11 several piers, the elevator Manhattan ig especially energetic in the manipula1 of a small ear-splitting gun. The crowd the big bridge paused ana gazed down as rcreeching fleet steamed under the span, i fleet sailed up the East river as far as entv-third street, and turned and went rn the bay to Bay Ridge, where it dissed. About 300 vessels were in line. ^VEILING OF WAS HI BOTOX'S STATUE. .t the sub-treasury, corner of Wall anl ?au street1}, Ward's statue of Washington, seated to the United States government i ho New York chamber of com e, was unveiled. Long l>efore D'cloc-k p. m. tho hour appointei the unveiling services in front of the Suban:ry, Wall, Broad and Nassau streets, e filled by a denso crowd of both sexes, ch pushed. jostled and elbowed in the a!>t vain effort to ; ee over one another's ds. The front of the Sub-Treasury was bablv decorated more handsomely n any other building in the city, eserved seats under the portico at the top :ht> staircase had l>cen placed for tho in>d guests, and the e were all flUed. Nearthe covered stutue were President Arr; Ooveri or Cleve'and, Bishop Potter, sident Oteorge W. Lane and Royal Phelps, he chamber of commerce, Dr. fc'torrs and i.rm TVm f'nnfiti fhft nrftf/tr nf tha <1nv I.alie acte i as presiding officer. Flankiiig Phelps were the remaining members of the imittee of the Chamber of Commerce, confiig of A. A. Low, S. B. Chittenden, Morris Je?H.up, Henry T. Kpauldimjand Benjamin Arnold.-- John Quiucy Adams Word, the [ptorof the'^tntue, occupied a prominent ; among the conl.ll'ttee, ar.d Sub-Treasr N. S. Acton was nfSG.'l;re ?nt. t was nearly 2 o'clock^fr-tgre the dedicai cero:r.onies"began. Dr. StorrW'effvered opening prayer. Mr. Royal Phelps, as Irman of tlio special committte of the Lber of commerce, followe i Dr. Storr.*. reported th9 completion of the work to sident Lane, ' fnd sketched its hisIr.. .Amid cheers and the waving of handchiefs "by the assembled multitude. Govor Cleveland, agisted b/ Mr. Ward, the p o:', wen cuu^iil up una cuu di we umg iag the sta'.uo, ani, loocening it, uncov1 tha bronze. A roar o( applause grtete 1 act, and the Washington statue was uned. resident J ane. in a few wt-Jl- chosen rerks then preseutea thi statue to the govmentof the United States, in whose custoit will remain forever, pursuant to an act Congress. The response on belmlf of the ernin nt was ma'ie bv President Arthur. ) was received with loud applau?e. Hecomnented the chamber of commerce upon the ception and completion of the work, the Iptor upon his form in bronxo of the Father iLs Country, tr.ecity uron tne possession uch an adornment, and a nation upon a ii:ider of the "time lhat tried men's souls." ir^e 'William Curtis next delivered an tion. After th? sniffing of " Old ndred' Bishop Potter pronounced Iwne'liction. and the assembly dispersed, t night a commemorative bin-just was en by the New York Chamber of Com ce at Delmonico's. Responses k) toasts e mndii by President Arthur, rem oi1 Cleveland, of New Yor'<, rernor But'.er, of Massachusetts, Pernor Waller, of Connecticut, Henry rd Beecher and others. Queen Victoria ; toasted, and "Godsave the Queen "was ed and sung. inuers were a'so given by about eighty resentatives of old New \ ork families at UaIaI nn/l f?? flirt l'nfflfoMO a/ I JJl UIiaWIUJV UULV1, C?**14 IV tuc * VVtl UlU va. I at the Sturtevanft house. A reception was ?n in the Seventh rejimcnt armory to the tins military organizations. In theMadiSquare garden knz tao:es were ?ad with food sufficient for 8,00J i, and after the paiade the (1 and hungry soldiery were provided with ibles and drinkable--. And notwithstandthe ra n, the celebration proved a suci, and thog:ra'c.<t commemoration in the o?y-Q?.the empire city. some" verTold peopEe. Marv Shaug hr.essy died in Erie, Penn., d H O. heater Childs died at Ludlowville, N. Y.. unety-eight. lexander Willis of La Crosse, Ga., died ?ntlv, a ed 113. ouis Triplett and his wife, of La Belle, . are each ninety-three years of ago. olomon EversuP, of Hamilton county, in., has just celebrated his KKith birthday, lenient Cato, of Home, ("a., who is 104 rs old, walked four mi'es t<i pay his taxes, lin Vail I'atten and h's wi'c Marguerite, chncctady, nre o.;ch nineiy-two years of iter living to the ace of ninety, Matthew io'd, of Colcheslcr, Y., committed suihe centenary birthday of Mrs. Anna M. ene was celebrated at >"iwport a short p a ;o. oliert W. Knight, the oldest citizen of t'and. Me., died recently, aged ninety; ytars rs. Jane Mi Currv was baptized on her h birthday at Bifzv.rds' lloost, Whitfield nty, Ca. rthur Connelly died recent'y in Lockport. ir.,atthe uge" of ninety-n.xie years ana en mo.iths. [rs. Jerasha Stowell, of Peru, Mass., is .fri-.uiir v.inrv; nf Hi'i-eutlv she fell and .lire 1 Jn-rhip. lie oldest graduate of Ya!o core-re is the \ Dr. Leonard Wellington, of Boston, > is ninety-four years of uge. *. J. i arlow, of Live O.ik. Fla., is 102 rs oi<1. His father liveil to the n^c of 10 his grandfather to the age of 1JH. [is. Mary Young. of Utm^or. is lot)years Nine of lirr thirteen children a < living, her grani!c!:ii(lren number eighty five, t I'arlen. <>a.. a n arriage license was ret y is lied t > A bran Livingston, act d K.O r . an.I Margare: Jones, agedeighty-three rs. li re ars three o'd per oils in Paldwin :ity, Gil. Sylvia Cambcrt and IVttr Hall ei'li 11! years of age, ail 1 Mary English tu->t passed her 1 It th Lirth lay. ohn O'Ma ii, of Cleveland, died recently ilieageof In;")years, lie ! a<l never been and just b.'ft re he died he said he felt wsy, and apparently fell asleep. nncy Reilly, of Oregon, when a girl, kod from the At'antio 1o the Missouri, I subsequently when moving to Oregon le tho entire trip on foot. bhe is now nty. lis. I ydia Stnrtevant ha- just died in Ally at the age r-f ninety night. Siio Irnve? ster living at tho age of i mety-four. Her ther rench.d tlie ng > of niYety-fevon. and had a brother w.io na. killed by nc idem en in his ninety-ninth \ear. 'hrce notab'e j er.-ons vo'ed at tho last ;tion in Beleiiertown, Mas-, namely, ima-i Sabin, who has jnst celebrated the tenary of his birth, Abraham A Vest on, o is ninety-live years of use, and Noble mmen, who is also ninety-five years old. l. L. Piuest and family, of Melissa, Texa?, re on their way too funeral, and, as the gou was driven down a bank, the mother's ir tipped over, a:id shj fell w.th all her ight on ber little child, c rushing it so thai ied in a few rninut.'s. N Namnqua Land. South Africa, no rai : fallen since August lo, 1V:1, unJ j>luut 1 animals and men are I'ying of drougu I starvation. Wliea: and feeds have b".i t by the Capo O.'olo.iy, and a rol.e' 'eft has bw>n ?r.nrrJ NEWS OF THE WEEK. Fastern and Middl* fltatM. i Miss i iiokbk Jane 1'aili.v, ihehandsome h. sovente 11-year-old daughter of a shoemaker, wan found on the roid' rear West Orange, 1 y. J., with her throat cut. She had been di; brutally as atrted and then murdered. i A hori-.iui.k triple crime was perpetrated th oil the outskirts of J.aconia, N. H., the vie- re tiins beillg oftme< Ruddv. a laborer, hsiniaat child and u Mrs. Ford. Ruddy'* wife u< was also terribly cut and bruised. Thomas LI Salmon, a cook, fcrty-five years old, <#. was jirnst^d for the murders. Iff ha 1 txt'ii intimate with Mr?. Ford, and 7 ' 1 > l 1? fo :mer Killing iier currjtM nei 110 ij ihukuub to tho house of tin Ruddy*, tailing there to jret liflp to conceal the body, he murdered W( buddy and his child, and attempted to kill Mm. Ruddy, after which ho stt (Ire to the house. Neighbors, hearing ag Mr-. Ruddy's screams, came to her assistance ar nnd pnt out tho flames. Salmon was arrested, ^ and Mrs. Ford's husband was also taken into ci14o iy on suspicion. Lewis List and his son Lewis F. List were SI found guilty at Wilmington, Delaware, of fo murd'ring George B, Taylor last September. ^ 'i ho son was .k cntenced to death and the father to life impri onment. ^ PnoviDEXt e. R. I , elected Thomas A. Hoyle mayor for the fifteenth time, after an It int rval of three years, by 700 more majority at than he ever obtained netore. w A c olc.red men's political party has been started in Boston under the name of the ' Sumner National Independents." w New York City and surrounding country was treated to an extraordinary suns:t the other evening. The sky looked as though it ;v were ablaze with the reflection of a great fire in New York harbor, and many people n rudied down town to witness tho connagra- ai tiop. At Poughkeepsie, N. Y., the fire de- j( i artment was called out. ^ Governor B. F. Butler. Mayor Edson, and other prominent oersonages spoke at the annual dinner of the New York Press club. se A rim; rle?trov?i tho Windsor theatre, on the Bowery, the largest place of amueeinent ei in New York city, together with an adjoining hotel and other property, causing au estimated loss of $301,000. Srx fishing vessels with seventy-five men on board wt re reported overdue at Gloucester, tl Mass., and fears for their safety were enter- j,, ta'ned. Rev. Wahiien H. Cud worth, a prominent Unitarian minister, died suddenly in his ff pulpit during services at East Boston, Mass,, azed fifty-eight years. ti Yale de'eated Harvard at football before a an immense assemblage in New York, winnine;: the college championship. A The rear < ar of a train rolle 1 down an em- ? hank men t near Worcester, Mass., injuring thirty-five passengers more or less seriously, g South and Wert. n Seven masked men captured a railroad P train near Deming, N. M., aitched the locomotive, killed the engineer and then went through the cars, holding before them the ? ? nocoanfffir ThflV KPCIlrM ^ uuuuuui-wi auu ? ?? about <5700 aud then left. A fire in Caliente, Cal., destroyed the works of the Sumner mining company, causing an estimated loss of $750,000.' j 'Sojourner Truth," the well-known colored lecturer, died the other day in Battle Crook, Mich., at the advanced ~a~e of 108 years. She was born a slave in Ulster el county, N. Y., but obtained her freedom in tI 1S27. She never learned to read or write, but could make off-hand t( speeches, and traveled around the counj tiy for years lecturing on temperance and n J other topics. fc R a l Scott, after two years' separation from his wife, called at her house, near Easton, S I I nd., and insisted that she should live with 11 hiin again. She refused, when he stabbed C1 her to death with a knife, then killed 81 their only child ar.d took a dose of morphine, 0 from which he died. a Four persons?F. Henkel, and his two sons, ? and Richard Harty, connected with a Du- ? bur,n i (la.) paper?were returning from a f hunting excursion, when their boat was swamtied in th? Mississippi near Dubuque, and all were drowned. ^ Joseph Jefferson, the well-known actor, a was prevented fiom playing at Peoria, 111., 0 by being suddenly struck dumb. ^ A woman's tuflfrage law now exists in h Washington Territory. t< Albany, Wi-\. a little hamlet of about l1 1 ,Ui.'0 people, the business center of a farming n lommumty, has been swept away by the P flur.fa Durine the fire five Dersons'wwe killed, thre3 fatally and many badly injured. 1! A xire destroyed nearly the whole of the business part of'St. Paris, Ohio, causing ag- J _?rexate losses of about $150,000. ?j .j rdolstsi^?.*. denxv, Jr., killed James ^ If. Anderson at Lani^sterJ'icyr .Xi^re^had n Ixh-ii a fc-ud between the two. ~ *v. I1 Light xing struck a church at Ostrander, S Oliio. and passing to the ground followed the tl | s irfncs to an adjoining house,"instantly killing li I Reuben Freshwaller. ir Dr. George AV. Bagby, a prominent South- t' em writer and historian, died the other day in- Richmond, Va., at the age of flfty-flve J| year?. ' (WeeMafftoaw oi Sergeant Mason, the Federal solduu wte.. H was sentenced to eight years' imprisonment *1 nthe Albany penitentiary for shooting at f< l lie assassin Uuiteau, has been pardoned by ? the President. President Arthur has appointed Lawrence Weldo i, of Illinois, t j be Judge of tne court fo' of claims. it The Washington monumont has reached a ji height of 410 feet, and work on it has been stopped until si ring. At its completed height ft 5")0 feet) it will be the highest structure in i he world. pi A yol'NG colored man having besn admitto 1 to the National College of Pharmacy, ii Washington, all but eight of the forty-six I students, head *1 l?y the president of the col'eje association, left the school. . According to the annual report of the chief of statistics, th-> total value of the iml>ortsand exports of merchandise from and to ,, the United htatcs during the past fiscal year nmounted to $1,547,020,:{1H, and was larger than during any prev.'ou; year in the h.'stcryof the country. The "excess of the value of theex[>orts over that of the imports of merchandise was $10 >,f?58,48^, as against B similar excess during the preceding fiscal year of $2o.lM-,^3. The sailing tonnage of the United States on June :J0 last amounted to ->.SS-J,2?t ton , asagiinst 2.810,103 tons in m IS 2, and the .'tcun tonnage of the m country amounted to l,41o,l'Ji tons, as against l,:i.f>,*25 tons in 188'J. The tonnage bui't in the United States amounted to -85,- 91 4 !i) tons in 18.^, as against 282,2J1.) tons built JH in I>82. The total number of emigrantsarr.ving in the Unite 1 States during the last fiscal year was f!0;{.3?2, as against 788,992 c( during the preceding year. in Foreign; j ^ CardTS'aT.-iA'.'nniNi, the pontifical seen- , tary of state. ga\v~"a~F>a?ifnS?. at Rome in , honor of tho American bishops. _ ! so M Rovx ]>E Fraissixet, a prominenTTsa I banker of 3'aris, has failed. His liabilities ja ! are ^J,(itKJ,00'J and assets $'},UOU,000. j ^ The German crown prince was entertained j in Madrid by a grand military review and a ' banquet. News of the victory of the False Prophet i in theSou ;a:i spread with surpriHing rapidity, and tho whole Mahometan world was accordingly excited to the highest pitch. C'. Fiance feels the effect in Tunis and Tripoli, pa 11ml even in Alger'n. tj, Stanley, ths African explorer, has been ... recalled by the ministers of the Belgian Afri- Tj can association, under whose auspices he was i 1 >ei;t to the Congo, and who are alleged to be m' <iissati.-(icd with his management. | tit A force of :',C00 (.'liine e troups attacked ; lir the Frencn garrison at Hai-Dzuong, in Ton- 0f cuin, but were repulse ! after a sjven hours ,1 IK lit. l" Later reports confirm the news of the a total annihilation of an Egyptian army of s0 1'i.WJ men under Hicks Pacha. Colonel th ('oe: 102:011 sends a message from Khartoum, j saying that Mr. Vizitelly, the artist of the * J-ondai Graphir is the sole survivor o. ,M the battle with El Mahdi's forces, and that lie h a prisoner at El Obe <L lo Ji*an Vai eka has b en appointed minister ta ..f Spain in the Unite I States. w] France has rescinded the decree forbid- w, ding the imiH)rt.i*ion of iork. SfAiN has aliolished I he corjwral punishnier.t of slaves in Cuba. A band of robbers attackel a priest's house rr i:i l.-ccaoiiivtla, Mexico, killed the priest and 1,1 his two servan s. severely wounded his niece, (It aa I riilcd tlio house of its valuables. NEWSY GLEANINGS. f!! tii Canada has twenty-one cotton factories. <n Ii.MXOis ha* -iO.) cheese factories and til creameries. j, I r is protio-ed to bridge the Mississippi at S(, New Urle ins. A nint-vi:ak- iI,d b ?y at Ravenna, Mich., y weighs 111 jxninds. ' Pay y ur taxes or get into the army is the law in Mada.;as ar. . S!l.K culture i< last becoming one of the industries of I" tali. The rice yield in liouisiaua willl be litrger Sil I hi; year th-m last. w It ise lima el that lfl'.OfU alligators were kil'e I in Flor.da 1 st year. \N order t.-? vaccinate all the pupils in ' -i. i ,] 1 t^llC I I'lin.ir UU?> gitat i>pJ<r>lUon. (n r* country's pnxlnot of gold this year will h alx.ut > !-'.U Ki.fKjii, and of silver about sli'.OUO.W. " A :< ( T :.( !)) birds wore exhibit.flat the re- ^ cent poultry and pigeon sho<V in London 01 cvysta! palace. si The i/oi'isiana State election takes place f< April 1. is>4, and will be for State ami pa- fn n chi:?l ofllcers. p. It is claimed in Albany. N. Y.? that the intndue'ion of the electric light lias decrease.l tritne forty per cent. )( People i t Alabama are enthusiastic ove.tin great " b >oin " which thf State will have |> u lien I no l iii roa is, now uuuum^, ujj ?u?> m coal lit Ids there. ?.t V.'utfc lenres on>l Ivoxled stock arc revo'u- d tiqM iuy tho cat lo bu<rfn:s> in Texas The . first d'speiuo with row-boys and rounding up,' anil the latter enables the growers to sc compete with Montana cattle. b later news. | Governor Cleveland appointed Whce!er. -^gj Peckham. a well known lawyer, to sue* ed the late John McKeop as the New York ' strict attorney. Completereturnsput the pluralityof Cam . e New York Republican candidate for sec- * I tary of stat> at 18,583, and of Chapin, --'-v-ffii jmocratic candidate for comptroller, at 16,U. Mr. Gates, Prohibition candidate for L-i etary of state, polled 18,81 f} votes. Tfie eeuback vote on the h'ghest count?that r Halsey for comptroller?reached 7,629, Bj Mrs. Laura Riall, a young married jman of Baltimore, killed her two children -.Ty^SS Lottie A., five years of age, and Helen, -^^8 ;e:l two years?by opening veins in their ' gSSfl ms and letting them bleed to death, and " en cut her own throat. Richmond Stuart (colored), was hanged at ireveport, La., in presence of 4,0l'0 people ' r murdering his wife; and on the same day mbrose West (also colored), about eighteen sars old, suffered a similar penalty at Main, Ga., for the murder of James Mnnroa. i the latter case the rope broke at the first tempt to hang West, and the execution as delayed for an hour. Professor J. H. Tice, the well kxiown eather prophet, died suddenly at his home Joseph Jewell, one of the three men ho last March murdered M. P. Renowden order to get possession of His earnings, nounting to $24,000, was hanged at San >se, Cal. Of his two accomplices on? irned State's evidenca ani is now serving " it a light sentence, and the other is under ntence of death. The total expenditures of the District gov ninent for the past fiscal year were $ 5,722,- Y.?2S W, and the revenues from all source? $4,184,The potato crop of tho United States for ' f| io present year is estimated at 175,000,000 ' -'J|| Five Territories will probably ask Conress for aimission as States. Mrs. Caret and her son testified at the ialof Patrick O'Donnell in London for the>0* $ lurder of James Carey, the informer, 'ffifiE jnong O'Donnell's counsel was Genera oger A. Pryor, of the New York bar. Viowaux, the French champion, defeated ' -'?j?*s chafer, the American champion, in a five* jjj. ights' billiard match in Paris, scoring 3,Q00 <v-Jftgg oints to his opponent's 2,876. Eighteen passengers were killed and fifteen ' ljured in a collision between two trains at t Meen, France. .* PEOHIBITINa POLYGAMY.' -J9 'ropoved Amendment to the Fedeml - Constitution. General Rosecrans, member of Congress lect from the San Francisco district, is aalorof the following proposed amendment - ;^ > the Constitution prohibiting polygamy: ,^?g?H A joint resolution proposing an amend lent to the Constitution of the United States prohibiting polygamy: Whereas, In pursuance of our duty to uard the development of that larger and lore rational liberty for every unit Jof iety; and that higher civilization w) i lL JJu- ^ "Jj sts in the domination of reason and justice ver the passions, ^Iistitutfanil mendments>iwir"Provisions, we have forever 'V-J2 lohibited-^uch things as reason and expert- ' "As nee have shown to be hostile or impeding to ich development, and among them the slave ?E rode and even slavery itself; and g3gj Whereas, Polygamy, condemned for iti^^Hri antra vention of reason, its injustice to 'omen, its degrading influence on th9 char- HSjZ cter of the fema e sex, its brutalizing effect -HriS n the male sex, and its general repugnance H|b > the spirit of modem freedom and progress, ,H| as always oeen coiiMnere i so u?iijce.y IO D9 hh jlerated aoaon? us that 110 constitutional HK rohibition of it has hitherto t^on r|m ecessary to prevent its growth under the HE rotectiun of t?tate and Territorial law: ao4, B^j Whereas, The absence of such prohibition Wffin as enabltd designing men, under pretanse a f a new revelation from heaven, to appeal to le interests and passions of poor, ignorant n eople at home and abroa 1. ana to teach them lat religion sanctions ana the United State* 3h ll(-w.s tbe practice of polygamy o ni to diffuse Bpa le poison of tbisbarl anan practice through I>3l|5 l? Territories of Utah, Arizona, New H| [exiw^Jdaho, Montana an'i Wyoming, to ie grnvTlnTtrt^iilihe future well-being and , Eg%jj| beriies of the inhKEitSfitllhen^f and to the ittre>ts and b'^o'l name of the"h'lift)ft???PP?i' ?, ' le.-efore Bj-tl.e f-'erate a-d House of Represents 1 ?JS| vea of the United States of America in WflgH ongress assembled, be it Bpjsil Uemtlced, That, pursuant to tbe provisions [ article 5 of the Constitution of tne Un;tod *3 tates, the fTlli?Inp:smiflimnif Tilmkkgnii itutivv h#? and the tame i* hereby rroocfie MR3B >r ratification \,y tbe legislatures gf-tfe K^|l i^eral fctates. to wit: - T*f AMEN'DMITT XTI Vw Rlf Fiction It Polygamy, being v^nujati- '9$$i le wilh our civilization, is forever prcttfeited .M^Sa 1 the United States and all places under itfe irifdictiOH. jii-iy Sec. 2. Congress sball have power to en.>rce this by appropriate legislation. vlpSEg L'esol red, 1 hat the Secretary of State shall JKgl romptly forward authenticated copies of Bj&g lis joint resolution to the several StaW WjjtM HEALTH HINTS. ^3 Thoroughwort tea is good for hcad&che.. Pimples are caused by improper diet. M asmctics only injure. A medical Englishman prescribes a rong solution of chromic acid for warts. Vaseline is good for chapped hands. orax in the water whitens and softens ^ icm. To avoid getting too stout, eat lean eat and few vegetables. Do not use uch sugar or butter. As a remedy for bee stings a cone- '*3 >ondent of the Sheffield (England) Tnde'/ident says : 44 When a person is stung -;\j| ) a bee or wasp let him take a little >i )mmon whiting, mix it with cold water ito a paste and apply it to the part af- . cted. In a few minutes the pain will - Sassafras is recommended for ivy poirning. A ten made of the hark of red ^ Safifi3^eotencd_ to i ken internally, while cloths soaked in e cold tea are applied to the irritable irts.?Dr. FooW? Health Monthly. Sinpinff Sand. A. A. Julien, of New York, and H. Bolton, of Connecticut, contributed a iper to a recent number of Science, relate to a scientific investigation of the singing Beach'' of Manchester, Mass. le phenomenon which gives rise to tnc mc of the bench is confined to the por>n of sand lying between the waterle and the loose sand above the reach * ordinary high tide. Portions emit e sound; but closely contiguous areas il to do so, or answer feebly. The unding sand is near the surface; at 4 e depth or one or two feet it ceases, rhaps because of moisture. The sound produced by pressure, and may be cencd to a subuued crushing; it is of w intensity and pitch, is not mellic nor crackling. It occurs hen the sand is pressed by ordinary nlking, increases with- sudden pressure the foot upon the sand, and is perptible upon mere stirring by the hand, even plunging one finger and remor g it suddenly. It-can be mtensinca Dy agging wood over the beach. The authors review and cite very fully e literature of the subject, giving in 11 a description of the singing sands of ic island of Kaui, one of the Hawaiian oup. That gives a sound as of distant under when anything of weight is agged over it. Dampness prevents the :> mid. That sand is calcareous. Hugh iller cites similar instances at Jabel ukous in Arabia Petrea, and RcgRawan sir C'abul. Those are silicious sands, tie sounds were a sort of humming. In %P nirchill county, Nevada, a similar phejnienou is described with regard to u nd-liill, as like the sound of telegraph ires when wind blows them. i WafHV f'niirtsllil). The following is Artemus Ward's doription of why he courted Betsy Jane: There were many affectin' ties which iadc me hanker after Betsy Jane. Her itherV farm jined ourn; their cows and irn squelched their thirst at the same irin.ir: our marcs both had stars on tho trchead; the measles broke out in both imilies at nearly the same time; our .. v uvnts (Betsy Jane's and mine) slept gularly every Sunday in the same * eetin' house, and the neighbors used > observe: 'IIow thick the Wards and ie Peasleys air.' It was a sublime sight i the s]>ring of the year lo sec our iveral mothers (Betsy's and mine) with ieir gowhs pinned up, so that they iuldn't sile 'em, effccktionately biUc' . -i A.*/?,-_iu i bap togerner ana auoosin?iutii ntiyn pre." '& bgnHHA . . . Ivj^Qh|