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- 5 V" "--.^v. -: - y ..1/:,r.,,,,.,,,.v.. . ...... Vj'-wgrABBEVILLE PRESS AND BANNER^ BY HUGH WILSON. ABBEVILLE, S. C.. WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 16, 1884. NO. 29. VOLUME XXVIII. ||| LONGING. Come to me in my dreams, and theBy day I shall b well again ! For then the niffht will more than y>ay Hie hopeless longing of the day. Come as thou cam'st a thousand times, A messenger from radiant climes; And part my hair, and kiss my brow, And say, ' My love, why sufTerest thouT Come to me in my dreams, and then By day I shall be well again ! For then the night will more than pay The hopeless longing of the day, ?Matthew Arnold. | MARY'S DEBUT. There was to be a irreat New Yea?i ball, given by the members of Company 4 finr tvxrmiont nf the home miards. "> --O?" = | and the very small city of San Pablo, I Cal., was in a tumult of excitement over | the event. This company had been in | existence just one year, so it was called grand anniversary ball, with several; other flourishes, which made the pro-1 gramme look doubly stylish and impor- j tant, printed as they were on white satin in gold letters. The dining-room of the principal hall was decorated with evergreens and flow- . ers until it looked like a veritable j garden. All the tables, three iu number, I liad been placed together in one end of V; the room, and chairs were placed there- j on, forming the musicians' platform. 1 Four chairs were placed there, so it was remarked that the music would he un-! doubtedly fine. There was to be a bass ' viol, a cornet, a violoncello and a violin. ' The supper wa> laid in a kind of shed 1 built for the occasion, and the rough boards were hidden in a wilderness of evergreen. The tables were laden with good though homely fare, and one could see through the chinks between the | boards piles of golden doughnuts and slabs of cheese, cold ham. pickled tongues, chickens, pies and cakes, to say nothing of the piles of luscious fruits ' that render California so famous, and the j odor of coffee and tea came hot from the i kitchen and mingled with thut of the I wilderness of flowers that filled tne old ! Mission garden at the back of the hotel. J All the afternoon parties were arriving, coining thicker and faster toward night- J fall, many coming from Martinez, j Benicia, ami some even from j San Leandro, while Oakland sent j a lair deputation, and a few came J over th;; bay from San Francisco to assist 1 at the great ball. Some parries came on horseback, the girls carrying bandboxes _ with their evening's toilet fastened to the pommels of their saddles. Some came in r- lumber wagons, ten or fifteen together, and some came in smart little buggies, just big enough to hold a loving couple, j and all brought the inevitable bundle of _i-.ii r? _ r it VlUUll'S Kir nit; ICSIMC wmonm. ll mm ; been raining hard all clay, and the most i of the guests were spattered with mud, and not a very festal-lookiug throng. ^ None of them wanted any refreshments, ^ as all were saving up their appetites for the famous supper. All this while I am losing sight of my little heroine, and I will now present her. She was a pretty?a very pretty young girl, who had lately come to the neighborhood?that is to say. within about ten miles of Fan Pablo, and .-lie lived with c her father. Her mother haul been dead I years, ever since she was seven years old, and from then until now she j had been her father's little house- j keeper, and she had cooked and scrubbed i and worked with all her might, and she was now a grown girl of seventeen, : pretty and lovable, but very much more j ignorant than she should have been, j She had so much work to do, and her | father never thought books were for poor ! folks. Indeed, a book would have been > the last thing he would have considered > .suitable to please a girl had he been buying her a present, and she had grown upas untutored, inn as sweet us u wiiu briar rose. One day a neigbor's wife had come | over from Martinez to get a "settin' of ] * eggs" from Mary's famous Brahma hen, ana she had what she called " a serious talk" with the father, and said he ought to allow Mary more recreation, and that she did not have any of the pleasures of youth, and in short he ought to | take her to this coming ball. Mary came in just then, aud the now \ | uneasy father looked, and he noted the | fair whiteness of the broad forehead i ana tne uencate nusn on ino preuy cheeks, could not help but see that thb pure oval face did indeed look frail and delicate: he gave a hasty and full consent, for he loved Mary with a profound tenderness, under his rough exmm ' terior. W Mary gave a pleased glance of grati- j i tude when her father said: "Man*, would you like to go to the j ball at San Pablo next week { You would, eh! Why didn't you tell me so? Here is a couple of slugs to fix you j out, for I want you to look as well as ~ nf 'nm 11 The father placed the two $50 gold .pieces in the rough, toil-worn hand of nis daughter, and she eyed the two yellow octagons as if she never had seen money before. "You'll go over the bay to-night and get your rig. and I 'spose you can get , ?- it done in time." Mary gave a shy assent, and soon the I i father went out, and the neighbor and ! ' the happy girl began a long and ani-1 mated consultation regarding the ball j dress, which Mary wanted white, but j wkir/h rvthor /It>f*]niKrlit to hp ' "*"* ._ ? pea-green, trimmed with black velvet. The evening found Mary in San Francisco, and the next morning she set out on her shopping expedition with no very definite idea of what she was to get, her two heavy gold pieces still intact in her pocket. The wonderful array of goods dazzled her, and at last she left the decision to a pleasant old lady who seemed to take an niterest in tiie per- j plexed little maiden with the big blue I eyes and the-crinkled hair, just like a piece of polished curled maple, and she j persuaded her to take a white crape and trimmings of lace and pale blue ribbons, i and told her how it ought to be made. | Mary was so glad, and soon had added a pair of white gloves aud satin slippers to her other purchases, and then, as a I k parting advice, the old lady told her to just let down her hair to curl naturally, and tie it back with pale blue ribbon. She kissed Mary as they separated, and the youui; girl suppressed a sigh as she ! said: j "How I wish I had such a mother!" \ "What a charming, loving, innocent! little child," said the old lady, as she went her way. Neither ever expected to : see each other again. Diligent indeed were the little red ! hands until the day of the ball, when the j pretty dress was done, but more busy was j the active brain and fancy of the young | girl, wlio now lor tne nrst tiuie was u? i pass the threshold of her home to enter society, and her imagination pictured wonders, in which a dim and indistinct hero certainly had a place. Some one that was wonderful with all the enchantment of a girl's ideal. The poor child had worked so hard to complete her dress alone, that when it was done she had not time to try it on to see how it became her, for this was in the days when there was no sewing machines in California, and when the wagon with her chaperone came in sight she hurriedly packed it in a tiny trunk with all the rest of her necessaries and then started. s Mary felt almost guilty when her friend asked her what her dress was, but the jolting of the wagon drowned ' her voice, and she in turn listened to the de eription of a wonderful red and yellow flowered gown and a wreath of pink roses that her friend was to wear. They reached the I !?? /? nf t)ir? ! IIUICI a I il Illy JltlV, V** I.VW,...V V. .... . breaking of a trace as the horse floundered through the sticky mud. But they at least had the dressing loom to themselves but for the presence of three or four sleeping babies. Mary loosened her beautiful hnir. its pale gold luster breaking into wave and curl in the prettiest way imaginable, and it hung to her waist j in the back, while the shining tendrils i curled around her forehead, iler cheeks ' were aflame and her breath came fitfully I between her cherry-red lips. She donned j the misty dress with its tasty trimming, and the pearly shoulders and plum,:; arms shone whitelv under the folds of The red hands were hidden under1 the glove?, and Mary blushed at her own ' beauty us she saw herself in the glass that wa? tipped at just the right augle to j show full length, though, to be sure, it ; did make figures look a little stumpy, j Hut she had all the conceit taken out of her head by the sight of her friend in a | stunning brocade of great yellow flowers ' on a red ground, and with her hair drawn 1 snugly back, with an immense wreath of common pink nws and bright green ! leaves right on the top of her head. Goodness me!" said the lady. "You i look just as if your clothes was faded all ! out, but it is too late to change now, and | anyhow as your face is pretty you may ; get a pardncr. Now where on earth is j John? Thev's tuning up the fiddles, and i I want to get there for the march." John came luckily just then, and urougm a menu aiuug, ?uu ??* nun. | other thau Mettie, the famous driver of i the stage to .Martinez, who seemed struck dumb by the ethereal beauty of the young ! girl, and after a hurried and ceremonious 1 introduction of the two lie offered his I arm. with a low bow, and the four took j up their march to the ball-room, where they arrived ji.st in time for the "grand j march."with which every ball then opened. I Mary did not for a time seem to realize j where she was. or know of what was | passing. All was a bewildering maze of I, camphene lights, throbbing music, a pro- j; cession in which she w:is taking part, and then the music ceased, and she was j handed to a seat on a pine plank ingeni- j ouslv covered with red calico, but which I to her was a velvet throne. Mettie, her whilom partner, was a i, handsome fellow, broad-shouldered, and i with a corrageous but frank and honest : face, and he was well liked by all who : knew him. He was little educated, but ' had such a good-hearted way that few j1 cared whether he had book lore or not, ! 1 for he had plenty of money, and he was ] free as air with it. He was very fond 1 of ilif- n-entler sex. but he had never i n , , ( hail any great passion for any one, j though his name had been cor .?lt*ci some-1' times with a handsome Spanish girl: j I but now this fair jjirl had completely ' 1 bewitched him, and, as he expressed it, 11 he was "a goner." i' Mary was seated and watched the gay j j scene. All the members of the famous '' Company A were in their dazzling uniforms, and their bright buttons and gilt braid were wonderful to see. and Mary . watched the scene with eager eyes. Among the guests from San Francisco " was one of the officers of the regiment 1 to which this company belonged, and lie seemed transfixed by the sight of this fair 1 young girl with the modest face that sat and looked on while the rest danced, and ] his gazfc at last was so steady and 1 fixed that in some indefinable way the ] unsuspecting child raised her eyes and met his eager regard. One of those sub- J tie, electric flashes that never has been and never will be explained, even by the 1 profoundest savant in the world, passed from liis eyes to hers, or hers to his, but however it was, it awoke the maiden's * heart till then unfelt. The ball progressed, and still Mettie J staid by the side of the white robed girl and tried to interest her by his talk, but she had suddenly lost interest in what he had to say, and at last even he began to feel that he was making no im- j pression. and he felt his courage ooze to such an extent that he decided to go to the bar, and perhaps he could gain , there a little inspiration to help him make , a better impression. At the bar there j were fifteen or twenty men who hailed | him with delight, fcrthey wished to get , an introduction to his pretty partner, for < the rude etiquette of thosetimes was that j unless a lady's escort gave consent, none , dare ask her to dance. Mettie wascoaxed . and persuaded to drink one glass after j another, and though he had a hard head j he began to feel the effects, and began to ( grow stubborn and abusive as hints were , thrown out toward the end they desired. , Finally, he began to grow maudlin, and . drew an intimate friend outside on the , little porch, there to confide to him that ( he never had seen anyone before that lie , cared for, and that there wasn't another ( woman in the world th;it could hold a , candle to her, and to raplisodhize 011 her ] blonde beauty, her angelic purity, and , goodness knows what all else.and wound up by saying that he should make her his in spite of all. Scarcely were these words out of his mouth, when a dark form sprang from behind the rose bushes and plunged a keen stilletto into his neck. Again and again the sharp knifi descended, but Mettie had not needed so many. The first severed the jugular vein, and he fell dead. One low moan, and another fell, and then they found the corpses, that of Motcie and Dolores, the Span ish girl, who, maddened by jealousy, bad taken tbe only means to save ber lover to herself. This was looked upon as a little byplay, and tbe men who knew of it said nothing to the women, and the ball continued. Mary was relieved that Mettie did not come back, and after awhile " John" and her brilliant rose-crowned ( neighbor introduced to her other gentle- ; men in uniforms and civilian's dress, but she did not dance. She preferred to ] wait, and soon the gentleman she had so , desired to see came. "Then all was j joy and mirth'' for her, and her heart , fluttered like a frightened bird, and she hardly was able to answer. He asked s her to dance, but she told him that J \ she diil not know how. that was her tirst ball, and then he asked her to be , ( allowed to show her, and in a few minutes she had mastered the polka, and j j she found a joys he had never dreamed of' when held in his arms, to the music that ] seemed so sweet to her. < The gentleman asked several questions, and finally said: ] "Do you know, I believe we are rela- i tions. Our names are the same, and you j loOk strangely like an aunt of mine who | < married atic'VrOliphant.her first cousin, i We have a habit of marrying cousins in i our family, and unless I find my aunt and j uncle, and they happen to have a daughter, I fear I shall have to die a bachelor. | What are your parents' names?'' j j ' I?I cannot tell you,''said the child, [ stricken with a sensation she could not | , have defined, but which was native deli-! cacv. and she shrank with sudden fear , i>f. she knew not what, and she evinced , such trepidation that lie foreborc to press 5 her, but determined to tind out from j ^ some other source, for lie felt a sensation or sentiment of growing affection toward j ( this simple child, untaught as she was, j < that made his heart ache at the thought J ] of separation. j } He thought of hisgentle, loving mother, j j with a half smile, as he wondered how , j she would like a daughter that had prob- j ably never heard of a grammar, and who j yet was so winsome and sweet, and thoir j eyes met again in a regard wherein there : . was regret for the inevitable separation, j and both half sighed. Soon the march before supper commenced. and Colonel Olipliant led the | pretty child to the laden tables, and he j groaned in spirit as lie saw that she had |1 liad not even learned what was etiquette i ' there, but he tried to console himself by ] thinking: |i "Ah, well! Someday she will marry 1 some ranchero. and certainly her manners ' are good enough for him,"' but yet that i j idea gave no true satisfaction, and when j supper was over and she had danced once 11 more, it came broad daylight, and she j1 and ?he must go home with her friends j so ns to be in time to milk the cows and ! feed the pigs and chickens, she said. He j went out to the lumber wagon with her j ami handed her to her place, mentally i saying that she looked fully as well by daylight as she had at-night, and he held her hands a little longer than he need have done as he wished her a happy New Inquiry told hiin that Mary's father was called "Sile Oliphant,'* and that he seemed to have been a widower when he 1 came there, about ten years ago, and bought out old uncle Hilly Watts, and settled there with his little girl. Her uncle's name had been Silas, and it had been about eighteen years since he had married his aunt Lucy, and what more natural thun that the frail young wife had succumbed to the hardships of pioneer life in California, but what puzzled him was that he and his mother had been living so near, and they had never met nor knew that the other was in California, for though his uncle had started for that country the rest of the family had never heard from them again. ^ The ruth was that Silas Oliphant had crossed tlie plains with his adored wife and their little daughter, and the youno wife (lied, and then he cared only and lived only for his child, and he hud so loved to have her with him that he had at tirst said: "'There are no schools now. I will have her educated later." And then strugglos with poverty came, and at last lie did not care any more, and as he felt she was sweet enough and good enough anyhow, she had been suffered to grow up in ignorance of every accomplish JIU'ill* The very nfternoon after the ball Mary was sitting and thinking about the ball and its pleasures (the poor child never knew of the tragedy enacted there that night), and thinking with a softer light in her eyes and a sweeter smile on her lips, of the handsome man who had wished to claim her for cousin, he, the object of her thoughts, rode up to her door. She rose, confused and blushing, and her father just then entered the room, strod a moment as if transfixed and then said: "Why. Charlie, is this you?" ' Xo; but I'm Charlie's son, George, and you are my Uncle Silas, and this is my cousin?but I don't know her name." "Mary, after your mother. But where are Charlie and Mary; I mean your father and mother?" "Pntlipr is fiend three vears: mother is ia 'Frisco. And aunt Lucy?" "Dead more than ten years." Old memories were recalled, and they talked all the rest of the afternoon, and when (Jeorge Oliplmnt rode away he left liis heart entirely behind, for Mary's sweetness and beauty grew on him by swift degrees, and her dainty cooking finished the capture, and he rode away at ilark to return in the morning with his mother, who was none other than the lovable old lady who had assisted Mary in the choiee of her first ball dress. Heartfelt joy filled the humble ranch, ind, somehow, George began to think less and less of the imperfections in grammar and manner, and at last to adore them; and in a few days it was decided that, father and daughter should leave :he ranch and go to 'Frisco, where Mary * 1 ' 1 ;nouia nave ft private governess, uuu un,ci i year of study the two cousins should Follow the family fashion, and marry on lie next New Year's day." "And," said Colonel George, "she must wear the dentical dress she wore at her debut, for >hc never can find anything half so tretty." ''But Mrs. Seefeldt said it looked like i faded dish-rag." "Mrs. Seefeldt, she who looked like a ivhole menagerie and wore that astoundng wreath of roses ? Well, I would, if I ivere you, prefer her objection to her :astc, for you were, and you know it, the jrcttiest girl in the room. It was the family resemblance that attracted me, ind the dress finished it." Mrs. Seefeldt and her John always look lpon the happiness of the young couple is their own handiwork. "It never vould have happened, nohow, if I hadn't ltook charge of her daybue," says the natron, and perhaps it is true. A Dancing Epidemic. The earliest mention of tarantismus is Found in the works of Nicholas Perotti, ivho died in 1840. It appeared first in Vpulia, and at the time of this author, wins to have fairly well established it" - -- *1. : T4 >i'ii as a disease m urni pruviuuc. At s spoken of as having been produced iy the bite of the wolf-spider, an earth species of light brown color, with black (tripos, known to science as the Lycosa tarantula Apulica. This creature is found generally distributed throughout Italy ind Spain, and many an old traveler has lold wonderiul stories of the effect of its bite, which was accredited as poisonous. The part bitten, according to common belief, became swollen, and smarted; the victim became low-spirited, trembled, md was anxious; he was troubled with nausea, giddiness, and at length fell flown in a swoon. All exterior circum>tances powerfully affected him; he was easily excited to frenzy or depressed to melancholy, and behaved generally as a hysterical subject would do. The strangest effect, or rather supposed effect, of the bite, was the behavior of the patient at the sound of music; for lie immediately rose and danced as madly us do the wicked people in the fairy tale at the sound of the hero's enchanted pipe. However, the patient may have been affected at the outset, he seems invariably to have fallen into a swoon? the result of nervous exhaustion?fron which music only coidd relieve him; but neither music or any other remedy could permanently cure him.?Chamber? Journal. The Care of the Eyes. 'Hie eye is one of the most delicate organs of the body, and partial or total blindness is one of the things to be deplored and to be carefully guarded against. Even strong eyes soon become weakened and often diseased by being carelessly treated. When reading, writing, or working the light should always fall over the left shoulder, and the book or work should never be held nearer to tha eyes than necessary. It is always important to sit up straight. Stooping is not only injurious :o the eyes, but to the lungs and spine. Never work in the twilight or by a lim light. Reading or writing in.a car or carriage s hurtful to the eyes. If you work by gaslight, the jet should )e shaded, and the light clear and steady. Do not read in bed, nor lying down. ior in a swinging hammock. Sleep in a well ventilated room, and lie in such a [?osition that a bright light will not strike your eyes when you waken. Bathe your eyes freely each night and morning ivith cold water, to which occasionally it is well to add a little salt. If your eyes are weary or ]>ainful from :oo close application, rest them by closng them, or looking away from your ivork, or bathe them with cold water, or ivith cxtract of witch hazel. Any foreign substance in the eye can lsually be removed by taking the upper ye-lid between the thumb and finger, md drawing it down over the lower lid, jentlv pressing it toward the nose. Little children should be particularly areful not to distort the eyes by constant winking or twitching of the eyeids or by turning the eyes toward the lose. Many children have become permanently cross-eyed and others seriously Injure their eyesight by these pernicious Children who are near-sighted should mmediately be provided with glasses by i competent optician, and by this means t cure is often effected. A Natural Kimller. The Hydrocelice gummifera grows in the Falkland islands, as well as in Tierra lei Fuego, and is known as the "gumplant," because of a viscous substance it exudes in large quantities; this sap is i-alled "balsam,'' and is used by the natives of the countries where it is found iis a poultice for wounds. But its most important property, in their eyes, is the case with which it can be set on fire, even when green and growing?a matter of no slight consequence in regions where rain falls five days out of every six. In the Falkland Islands, where there are no trees, the natives often roast their beef over a fire of bones?the very bones of ~^? 1 -TKut t1i*> mnmAnf lilt; t&llllllUl AlUlil n IUVII, MUV VMV before, the meat itself was stripped? and they use the gum-plant to kindle this fire.?By Captain Mayne Jieul, in St. Nicholas. A Georgia man after nearly jerking his leg off trying to get his foot out of a l'frog" on a railway track before an ap{loaching train should reach him, finally lrd to unlace his shoe, pull his foot out aa leave his shoe to be inn over. Just as he got his foot out safely the train went on another track, and he used his hoe to kick himself with for not seeing that he was on a side track all the time. ?Uaickeye. It has been calculated that to make the 950,000 tons of paper annually required to supply the world, 430 days' medium flow of water down the river Thames would be needed ' FARM, GARDEN AND HOUSEHOLD. XXow to Ittilk. A milker should learn to milk quickly. Slow milking will ruin any cow, and there is little doubt that many cows arc made unprofitable by bad milking As soon as j the flow of milk begins it should be drawn as rapidly as possible. Stripping with the finger and thumb is a bad practice, and should be unlearned at once, and the I whole hand used to milk with. By persevering, ouc will soon be able to milk , very short teats if the hand is moderately j small. The best milkers have small hands; strength of wrist will come in j time. Grading: Grain for Seed. The importance of sowing only the large, plump grains of sowed crops is '< not fully understood. They are gen? ii? m.mli inn tViif>Vlv anrl the I CIttllJr OKJ \> 11 111V4VA* IUV , inferior seeds produce plants that only crowd the others and do not amount to anything. If the farmer lias prepared to bow two and one-half bushels of oats j or barley per acre, he will find it to his I advantage to take out one-half bushel, or possibly a bushel of the smaller grains, | and sow the remainder with a light ! dressing of some commercial fertilizer, j The grain will spread by tilling, and will produce not only larger heads, but | a plumper berry than where the plants when young crowd cach other. OatM for Poultry Probably few, if any of our readers | 1 have ever tried the experiment of feed-1 i ing oats to breeding poultry in large I quantities?say three-fourths of all the frain they are given. A fancier who has one this?and, he says, with economy j and success?assures tis tlmt oats may be 1 used in this way to very great advantage i as a daily food for breeding birds the | year round, and especially to the large Asiatic varieties that arc predisposed to put on an cxccss of internal fat when fed in the ordinary way. But we would recommend that the oats be good and sound, and first class in quality, otherwise they will not do as a constant food. Gi.e the birds a light meal in the morning of cooked food or scalded mash, meal and vegetables; at noon a full feed of oats; at night another fead of oats | and com, about one-fourth the latter. As | the winter progresses increase the feed of grain, but at no time give the birds more 1 ' M1 --i T? +h;e irnv | tnnn luey win em- uj? man. m n??o ...v j the food will digest well, the birds j never become cloycd, nnd their appetites are always good. Aside from the good condition of the birds they will pay in eggs during the winter more than the cost and extra attention. The cooked food should not be given too hot, and should be limited in quantity.?ColmanV Rural World. Keeping Squashes. Many farmers are at a loss to know how | some are successful in keeping their | squashes in good condiiion until May or June, while tliev lose the most 01 tneirs before the end of February. They usually attribute their want of success to causes beyond their control, when a care! ful investigation would show that mismanagement was the principal cause. Squashes to keen well must?first, be well ripened; second, they should be gathered before heavy frosts come; third, j should be well dried; fourth, the shell should be well glazed over, and, while it I need not be thick, it should be hard; ] fifth, they should be kent where the j temperature is verv even, never very cold I or very hot: sixth, 111 handling great | care should be taken not to bruise them; ; ia nf thr> hiu-hnst imnortance. Manv I fanners leave the squashes out until the J ; frost kills the vines; the squashes are i thus left exposed to the co!d winds, and j 1 they are frequently left until it is cold I ! enough to freeze water and change the ( l color of the tons of the squashes. This is J i fatal to their good keeping. Others, when I : they find that cold weather has come, ; hurry them in just as night sets in, and i in their haste to get them tinder cover j they load them into the wagon as though { they were stones, thus bruising nine out . of every ten to a degree that causes them j to rot by Thanksgiving time. Squashes i are often stored in the barn in one heap { until they get chilled, when they are carI ried into a warm damp cellar, where they 1 soon rot, and the owner is at a loss to j know the reason. "When stored in heaps, j if the storehouse be drv the under j squashes will send out moisture it such | quantities as to keep the whole heap surrounded by moisture. Squashes, to keep well, should not oniy l>e kept in a dry atmosphere with a very even temperature, but they should be spread on the I floor or on shelves, so that the air can | readily ]>ass betweon them. All of the I soft shell and unripe squashes should be , disposed of as soon as possible after they I are harvested, and only the hard shell I and perfectly ripe squashes should be kept I for winter. Crookneck squashes keep ; best with most people; the reason probaI bly is they are ripe and handled with j care and are usually hung up in a dry place. The same treatment of marrow I squashes would no doubt secure, very j satisfactory results.?South and Went. Farm and Garden .Vote*. "When large limbs are cut from trees dress the wounds with tar. Give each milch cow a tablespoonful of fine ground bone every week. Frozen roots are injurious to stock if j fed in any quantity, often resulting in seI vere scouring and consequent loss of conI J % j U1L1UU. | A very beautiful effect is produced ou I lawns in winter by grouping white birches | as well as dark evergreens. If the winter ; is open the birches brighten the place. | Mr. Whitney, of Michigan, burns coal i tar under his plum trees every two days ! from the time the plums are as large as ! peas until they are too hard to sting. lie j raises the wild goose plum. ; Two fields, lying side by side, were | sown in wheat. One was plowed and j harrowed the usual way, while the other i was harrowed five times. The result j was that the latter gave seven bushels ; more to the acre than the former. Reports of an experiment made by the ^ - i - _ii e ... ; stare agricultural roiu-^i;, m .uiuuguu, j on their farm with sowing land plaster i on grass, claim that two bushels of ! plaster produced over two-thirds as much 1 increase as twenty loads of horse manure. ! "When cows are obliged to live on hay I they have a stronger desire for water j than if fed on other kinds of fodder. ! Sec that they have access to it ut all j times. It will pay to give the milch cows a pailful of water at noon in which a quart of bran has been stirred. A lack j of water will quickly cause a shrinkage j in milk as well as an actual loss of flesh. I Discretion must be used in feedingcar! rots to horses. They may be safely fed j in large quantities to old horses, and will prove an excellent tonic, strengthening i and purifying the blood. If fed too ' freely to young horses they will become j nervous, irritable and vicious. Quinces can be grown in most localities where apples thrive. The secret of suc1 cess with this somewhat dilHeult fruit is j mulching in winter and heavy manuring I in summer. Wood ashes, leached or tini leached, is highly beneficial. The quince | borer must be dug out with a knife in the ; fall. Dead twigs impair the vitality of j the trees and must be removed. Careful artention to feed and exercise ! is worth more than medicine in the treat| ment of chronic diarrhoea in stock. In ! horses it sometimes is the result of a too j greedy appetite. In such a case let the j food be of such a nature as will prevent I mnirl natinrr. ttivi? in all cases food ' easy of digestion, and cxcrcisc the animal I gently. Tonic stimulants, such as tincture of peppermint, ginger or cloves are useful if given steadily in moderate doses. Since the Oscar Wilde craze a year or j two ago more sunflowers are grown than 1 formerly. This is one good result of a . very foolish excitement. Sunflower seed : is valuable feed for fowls, but after its oil is expressed its meal makes a valuable i feed for other stock. In comparison with ! other food sunflower seed is very cheap, i Besides the fats which it is generally known to contain sunflower seed meal is ! rich in albuminoids, which give strength | and make the lean meat of fattening ani; mals. ! The difference of opinion among farm| ere as to the value of pumpkins for cows j depends largely on the manner of feeding. Those who make the feeding of pum kins a fiuccess are careful to remove the seeds. Those are strongly diuretic, and with some cows operate so strongly in stimulating the kidneys that the secretion of milk is actually lessened by their use. There are, however, some cows that can eat pumpkins, seeds and all, with benefit; but it is generally safer to remove the seeds before feeding. IBoiiNcliold mints anil Itcripca. Fish may be scaled much more easily if dipped for an instant in boiling water. Tough meat may be made as tender as any by the addition of a little vinegar to the water when it is put on to boil. For suet pudding take one cup of suet, two and one-half of flour, one of raisins, one of currants; a small cup of molasses; spice to taste; one dessert spoonful of 1- j__ !>?!,? n( UUKIIlg [JOWUtT. UiliVU liiiu^'ivui KU?J Vf* an hour. A slightly clamp cloth rubbed over a dusty carpet brightens it wonderfully and gathers all the dust. This is an excellent way to cleanse the floor of an invalid's room, where noise and dust arc objectionable. Very cheap and pretty winter curtains for the dining or bed-room may be made of heavy, dark-red Canton flannel, with the nap for the right side. A broad band of old gold Canton flannel is placed ten inches from the top and from the bottom, and crimson cord and tassels loop them back. The flesh of the ox should be fine and of a crimson red color; the fat is a yellowish white. Cow meat is not so red, and iL- '-1 ^io crnrtrl nil inu tut jm wiiuu. u.\ j111 *41 i.i ...? the year round, but best in winter and fall. Boiled beef should be always cut crosswise, so that the meat be short; it will by this means appear more tender. Slices should be a little thin, and a small piece of fat put on top. Duchess soup is not a thing to be served upon the tables of those who have sensitive nostrils, but it not disagreeable to palates accustomed to strong flavors. To make it, take one quart of milk, two large onions, three eggs, two tablespoonfuls of butter, two of ilour, salt, pepper, two tablespoonfuls grated cheese. Put milk on to boil. Fry the butter and onions together for eight minutes: then add dry flour and cook for two minutes longer, being careful not to burn. Stir into the milk and cook ten minutes. Put 41*haii/vV n ctrninnf oncl rohurn tn tllfi firfl. Now mill the cheese. Beat the eggs, with a speck of pepper and half a teaspoonful of salt. Season the soup with salt and pepper. Hold the colander over the soup and pour the eggs through upon the butter, and set back for three minutes where it will boil. Then serve. The cheesc may be omitted if it is not liked. Here is a mince pie recipe: For enough mince meat to till a three gallon crock, take seven pounds of nice beef (a neck piece is best), and one pound of suet, fooil the meat very tender, salt as you would for the table; let it boil down until there is not more than a pint of liquor; while warm take out all bone and save the liquor. Let it staud overnight, next morning chop the meat line and the suet, and put them together. Take twice as much sour apples as you have meat, and put in the liquor from your meat. If you have vinegar from pickled peaches, or any sweet pickles, it is better than the cider. Add to the meat and apples three cups of molasses, and brown sugar enough to make it sweet to taste; cinnamon, cloves, allspice, pepper and grated nutmeg; boil all together until the apples arc nearly soft, then put away for use The raisins should be put in when the pics are made: wash them and boil | in a few spoonfuls of water, and drop them in the pie just before putting on I the upper crust. How a Moorish Freebooter Was Caplured. A correspondent of the London Globe gives an account of the capture and execution of Old Suleiman lien Kader, an Arab patriot chief, whose career in many respects resembles that of the celebrated Abd-cl-ICadcr. The ( id. half brigand and half partisan leader, gave the French a serious amount of trouble many years ago: but, the fortune of war going against him, he escaped across the frontier. was arrested by order of the father of the present sultan of Morocco,and was incarcerated at Mequinez. But he escaped across the frontier to A Igeria, where he once more entered on his favorite occupation of freebooter. Confinement, moreover, seems to have made him particularly acrimonious, its lie commenced systematically to slaughter any of the French colonists who happened,to fall into his power. At last, however, being hard pressed by the troops, he once more escaped across the Moorish frontier, and | earned on a spirited series of depreda tions in Morocco. ! One expedition after another tailed to capture the fugitive, large rewards were offered for his destruction, but without result, and the French complained bitterly of the remissness shown by the Moorish.government in allowing to remain at large a rebel who might at any time rccross the frontier, raise the standard of revolt among the Algerian tribes, and provoke a serious insurrection in the colony. Diplomacy was then tried. Mulev Archid, an uncle of the sultan, [ obtained an interview with the rebel on | the pretext of arranging for the purchase of some land claimed by the (.'id, and, in order that no undue advantage might be taken by either party, it was agreed that each should be attended by twenty-five horsemen, but no more. All preliminai ries having been settled, the meeting took place in a tent, and while the usual interchange of flowery eastern compliments was going on between the contracting parties a violent commotion was heard outside, caused by the arrival of a large body of horsemen, who lmd suddenly appeared upon the scene. Old Suleiman's -twenty-five horsemen were quickly overpowered, as was the chief himself, when he was promptly decapitated, and his head, having been packed in camphor according to the Moorish ' custom, was transmitted to the sultan at | Fez. " Liberty Enlightening the World." According to the design of M. Bartholdi, the French eminent sculptor, tho colossal statue, representing the figure of '"Liberty Enlightening the World,1' crowned with stars, and holding in her uplifted hand a torch which diffuses broad rays of light, will be MO feet high. The foundation of the pedestal, upon which seventy men are at work in New York harbor, will rise Go feet above lowwater mark. The pedestal itself, which is to be constructed of granite, will be 40 feet square at the base, ami 114 high. The entire elevation will thus make an imposing object, higher than any of the colossal statues of antiquity. The Colossus of Hhodes would appeir as a pigmy beside it. It will be higher, in fact, than the enormous towers of Brooklyn bridge, ! and as lofty as the steeple of Trinity | church. As for the statue, it has been completed and is composed of beaten copper. Two sets could dance a quadrille inside of the head. This new wonder of I the world, which is to be the gift of the I French to the Americans, now only awaits I a fitting pedestal upon which to rest. This the American people are expected to supply and to take national pride in so doing. The cost of the statue to the French was 1.250,000 francs; the csti mated cost of the pedestal and its base is $250,000.?Chmojo y< irs. Paper Fur floaning- S|ici'tno!cs. The old gentleman with his spectacles, the "Lord Dundreary'' with his "glahss,"' the myopic reader and short-sighted persons generally, who carefully wipe the dimness from their spectacles and eye | glasses with silk handkerchiefs, are perhaps not aware that, a piece of paper will I do the service much better. No mutter how fine the silk may be. it will not leave the surfaces of the glass so well polished as the paper will. If pains are taken to lightly brush off any particles of gritty dust that may be on the glasses before rubbing them, the paper will never injure their surfaces with the slightest scratch. Dampen the glasses with vapor or water, or, when possible, with the breath, and the paper will absorb all the moisture and whatever else is deposited on the glass, now in a much softened condition. The best paper is unsized and quite porous, like the paper used by newspapers. Blotting paper leaves short fibres on the gins* and is not desirable.?Paper World, MUSICAL AND DRAMATIC, j Over $1,000,000 have been lost in San j Francisco theatres sinco ISoO. J.otta. the American actress, on her opening night in London, ''achieved only a partial s-ucce-s." Te.v numbers of John McCulioujjh's pres- j ent company have been with him for from | three to six year?. "Sew a nee River'' by r>00 performers, is | thf? first tlnng on the Cincinnati minstrel fes- | tival programme. Sydney Rossksfeld, the dramatist, and | Miss Genio Holtzmeyer, of Rice's opera com- | pnny. were married in New York. Pasdeloup lias introduced an innovation j at his orche>lral concerts iri Paris. All the ; violinists are obliged to stand while they I piav. | "Esmeralda" lias bom played over 1.400 j times by the Madison Square theatre (New I York) companies. The receipts in the English capital in live weeks reached upward of $27,- : 00i>. Kate Cr.axton and her husband. Mr. i uou^vl 1. | tnanes a. r.u'veuwu, uu\o jmn-uaowi ^ $(H),000 Mr. ami Mrs. McKec nankin's interest in their Thinl Avenuo theatre iu New York. JOArnnr, the violinist, is to receive $10,000 in America for li!0 concerts. 1'atti received that sum for twelve operas. It is said that Jeanne Samary, tho Parisian favorite, has declined an American en^ugemeat of $100,000 Miss Clara Louise Kellogg ha- been restinE in New York city after her concert tour, which was in every respect a gratifying success. It is quite probablo that she "may sing in opera bciore the close of the present season. In the matter of music the English and most other European nations are far beftind the Teutons. According to statistics recent'y published there are ?(K) towns in the German Empire possessing orchestras and choral 60cities that give concerts in the season. Mr. Theodore Thomas has at last been selected as the director of the Buffalo musical festival next spring. It is reported that Rossini's " Stabat Mater," the wholeof Mendelssohn's music for the " Midsummer Night's Dream," and possibly Bruch's " Fair Ellen," will bo given. A matinee of children's choruses is also proposed. After playing Hamlet in Philadelphia, Mr. Henry Irving said to a reporter: "Actors regard success in Hamlet as the blue ribbon of the stage. Ycu may therefore imagine that I am more than delighted that tho first time I plnyed Hamlet in America it was received with such spontaneous enthusiasm. Neither Miss Terry nor I ever acted to a more ferv:d house." "I was talking some time ago," says George Alfred Townsend, "to a prima donna who is in receipt of a very remark-able salary for a woman, and told her about a young lad}' who wanted to become a singer. The prima donna said: 'Oh, tell her to take a husband?no matter who he is. This living alone, detached from love and family life, roving from city to city, never will make one happy. A woman must yay a penalty? far greater than man?for not consenting to beloved.'" PROMINENT PEOPLE. Pendleton*.?Senator Pendleton, of Ohio, has been twenty->even years in public; life. Woodwakd.?The new member of Congress from Wisconsin, Representative Woodward, was once a page in the House. Tjlton.?Theodore Tilton is living quietly in the yuartior Latin. Paris, near the school of fine art-, engaged busily in literary work. Vaxderbilt.?William H. Vanderbilt has given ileissonier, the greatest living French j'ainter, a commission for a picture, the price 10 ue auuui/ c.sw,vwu. Hintinuton.?Mr. C. P. Huntineton con! trots 12,(> 0 miles of railway. He is sixtyfive years old and is very healthy. His fortune is estimated at fifty millions", and huhas only an adopted daughter. "Weston.?E. P. Weston, the American pedestrian, started from Westmiuster Bridge, London, recently, to walk fifty miles a day for km) days, t> illustrate the physical advantages of temperance, a crowd of distinguished doctors anil eminent clenrymon and benevolent barons and fair ladies gathered to see him off, ami he started to the strains of a temperance hymn. Bi.ake.?Mr. Iilake, inventor of the telephone transmitter so much used, lives in a jMilatial home in the suburbs of Boston, and amuses him-c t by working as an amateur blacksmith and macliinisr. He serves his guests wiih huge glasses of beer holding three bottes each, and another of his peculiarities is the wearing of shoes of o<!d designs, of which he ha- an enormous assortment. Ten.vyso.w? D'Knycourt, the poet Tennyson's addition to his name since beiiiir made a baron, is the name of an ancient Norman family from which th:t Tonnysons claim dcf mu.lo f1l?nrlr??s Taiinvsnn j rvcill, ItUV I'WW.l <- ' J 1 I having obtained royal permission to assume the name. The j o-.'t laureate ia reported to I be worth something over a million dollais. i He is described as having a strong, but seamed, wrinkle.!, and puffy face ami bright eyes; he is partially bald: stoops and shuffles; dretses carelessly, and ha a generally rustic appearance. His family consists of his wife and two sons, Hellam and Lionel. Lionel ban given up iLe name his father has made famous to assume that of Turner, in order to Inherit the estate of an uncle, which is valued at i.'5,0U0 a year. The poet lives mostly at Fnrringford, in the isle of Wight, but he has another residence in Surrey, called Aldwortb, which enters into his title. THE NATIONAL DEBT, j A Dcrrcawof Horc 'Minn $11,000,000 The last debt statement issued by the treasury department shows the decrease of the public debt during December to be $11,743,."J."?. Decrease of debt since June ;J0, 1**8, $53,010,4$: >. Cash in the treasury $375,374,200 Gold certificates outstanding? 01,031,020 Silver certificates 100,M)*,Oil Certificates of deposit 14,560,0 H) Refunding cartificates 318,150 Le^al tenders 3-40.IJ.S1,010 Fractional currency 0,1189,428 Cash ba'ance available January 1, 1NS4 142.47S.441) The payments made from the treasury by warrants during the month of December, l.v8:i, were as follows: On account of Civil and miscellaneous $4,010,8x0 War -,&'5,7C8 Navy 1,307,470 Interior, Indians C5',3rx Interior, Pensions 2-s,^0s Total $0,137,OHO The above does not include payments made on ac omit of the interest or principal of the public debt of the United States. JSEWSY~GLEANINGS. lUWLlVl XlKJXJ-^Jy w?? -v.. .?v. J , said to be giving evidences of volcanic activity. There is said to be almost $1,000,000 of nilclaimed deposits in the .Massachusetts savings banks. The fourth annua! congt ess of the Federation of Labor will meet in Chicago the lir^t Tuesday in October. 1KS1. There is a pl owing demand in our great cities lor artistic workers in metals bronzes, designing, and other similar trades. Last year l,till,OV.) children, taught by .11 i ? ? (-......i.nfo ufiomlor] tin* nublic schools | ..1,1 - I in the State of New York. Gii.hkrt M. Woodward, representative I front Wisconsin, is the only member of tlio i pr.-sent Congress who was bjrn in WashingI ton. | Two hundred and fifty-five persons, largely lords, duke> and marquises, won - ?!,I MKi.OLKi on thu English race-course the past year. j There were 174 vessels built in Maine last | year, against lift in ISS'J, aggregating 74lOs.K! tons, against 7.">,0-4.i'l tons the year previous. GriTEAU's skeleton, which is hidden in a private room of the army medical museum, lias been polished and bleached until it looks like an ivory figure. With great ceremony the last stone was recently laid in the harbor of Trieste, Austria. The work has taken lifteen years, nnd has cost over *7,0U:>,t ();). Municipal officers in Louisiana have been estimating the < an.age done by the Hood last, year, and sixteen of the twentv-six parish; s involved report the amount at ? 1 "JHXI, of whic h ^."i, I00:i was to sugar cane, *1011,00J to rice, S'J.'J.V.'/K 0 to cotton ond s 1, |0.',ilii) to corn, it is thought that th > other ten parLi.es may bring the total up toSIs,000,(J0:>. Word comes of the marriage, at Tokio, Japan. of Miss Stematz Vamag.iwa to Mr. r* - tiw. i.fiii,. ,i native of Janau, j U>ilUUinti". wa-- educated at Vassar college, i'oughkeepsic, X. Y , and returned to lier chiMhood's home about a year leaving behind her ! in this country ma y warm friends. Her j husband is the Japanese minister of war, and one oi the sungi. Vie wa< i flucated in France, ! and lias taken his bride to a [ alalial home containing every convenience and luxury known to European civilization. PERILS OFWINTEE, Eocjak Loweu., of Biddef'ird, skating on .Swan Pond brook, fell through thin ice and was drowno I. lli'kus Van Sciiaick. aged fifteen, and AVi 11 io Uardner. a^isl twelve, of Amsierdnni, ' X. Y., went skating 011 the Mohawk and were drowned. While playing on the ice James McConville. of Troy, fell through. His companion, James Dowd, aged nine, tried to help him out and bjth were drowned. "Hello, fellers, look at mo!" said Archie Canney, of Rochester, X. H., as he pushed out on his skater. lie fell headlong into an air h >Io and was drowned. Frederick You no, of Huron, Dakota, went with a sled to draw his little son over the ieof James's l ake. The next i'ay the sled Mid the body of the boy were found in the broken ice. The only trace of the father was a man's hat and coat lyintr near by. Amara Allen, of Terra Haute, is ninetyseven years old, and has just celebrated his seventy-seventh wedding anniversary. Ho walk erect, and reads without spectacles. r NEWS OF THE WEEK. Eastern and Middle States. Gforhe MV. Lane, presilient of the New York chamber of commerce, is dead. A New York commercial agency states that last year tho failures reported in the United States numbered 10,187, an increase of 2,013 over the previous year. A BLEiGHlxo party of young men and women ilrovo up to d tavern near Catawiasa, Penn.. and improvised a dance. Most of the men became drunk, and an altercation that arose was followed bv a fierce free fight in the suddenly (iarkenert room. 1 wo men wpih i fatally stabbed and one mail and a woman | wounded with pistol shots. Four meu were arrested. During 18c3 the number of paupers recorded at the different New York city institutions was o0,5i?t the number born in the Institutions boine 4?.">. The total number of jiersons supjiorted find relieved during the yrarwas 38,771. Of the total number received during the year 1:5,183 were natives, and 2"i,.>.8 foreigners; I Tirrs Sheahd, the Republican Caucus j ' nominee, was elected speaker of the New J ! York assembly at its opening, and Senator ! Denis McCarthy president pro tem. ol the j enate. The New York and New England ra'lroad, ! representing about $"(i,<)00,0j0 capital, has [ ; been put in the hands of a receiver. i In his annual message to the New York j ! Legislature. Governor Cleveland shows that | 1 the State debt on September ?0 was ?o,978,| 301.81, the reduction during the year being i $407,034.49. The governor believes that the hurdona nf tATnt.ion could be ereatly light i ened by placing real and personal property ' ion the same footing, and abolishing all de-| ductious for debts. The canal business of the season is thought amply to justify the | abolition of tolls, and the governor would | . approve a system of gradual and constant i I re] airs. The governor again recommends j I regular stated examinations of savings banks, advises the appointment of a State ! superintendent of charitable and reform! atory institutions,supervision of corporations, and prompt completion cf the new capitol. Measures for preserving the Adirondack 1 wilderness are suggested, but the wholesale : purchase of those lands by the State is op- j ! posed. In conclusion, the Governor finds j many causes of pride and satisfaction in the prosjieritv and progress of the State, tut reprrets the National decadence on the sew, and "the policy that accumu'ates milliof^s ; of usG'ess and unnecessary surplus in the ; National treasury." The Philadelphia ship Adah M. Simpson ; loaded with a cargo of sugar valued at over j $200,000 and consigned to various parties in ! Boston, has bjen lost near Borneo. The crew | was saved. I Another commercial report, that of the 1 New. York Mercantile agency of R. G-. Dun & Co., puts the number of financial failures in the United States during 1883 at 9.184, as against 0,730. reported in 1SS2, and the aggregate liabilities at $172,874,172, as : against ?101,547,.Win 1882. Last year there were 33,982 deaths in New I York city, as against 37,924 deaths in 1882. I During the year 388.647 emigrants arrived i of tViA novt. of Xow Yorx. airainst 455,450 ar | rivals in 1882. Two tow-b*ats with coal-boats in tow left j Pittsburg for the lower ports on the Ohio, i When Davis Island was reached the b 'at* ! lost control of the tows and swung against j ! the south i ier. Three of the coal-boats sank j ! at once, an.1 one of the tow-boats caught Arc, I compelling her crew of twenty men to jump [ into the water. The engineer of the towboat was picked up dead, and three of the ! crew were missing. The loss on tug and j loaded coal-boats is 150,000. j The four hundredth anniversary of the . birih of Ulric Zwingli, the great reformer of j Switzerland, was celebrated in nearly all ! the Reformed churches of the Lehigh Valley, ; Penn. In towns and villages the churchea j were appropriately decorated with ever- j I greens, mottoes and portraits of Zwingli. E. H. Kobbe, the young and trusted clerk ! of Sperry & Barnes, New York and New Haven agents for a large Liverpool commis- j sion hcuse. sto!e $100,000 of his employers' j money and then absconded. He was arrest, j ed in Chicago and $45,050 were recovered J Forty-five persons were murdered in New j York city last year. j Robert Martin, fifty-three years old, was hanged in the county 'jail at Newark, N. J., shortly after 10 o'clock a. m., for the mur- | der of his wife and child while drunk, in j June, 18*1. Half an hour later James B. Graves, sixty-five years of age, was earned' t?ii; liL-o n r>hlld?to Ihe I ?IJ eblllJ^ auu \,i J ***r, '??v %. ....? same gallows for the murder in 18S1 of Eddie j j Soden, o boy lamp-lighter, in a fit of vin- | I dictiveness. Both men strugg'ed hard wliile : dangling at the rope's end. Governor Robinson, the successor of Governor Butler, in bis inaugural address to the Massachusetts logis'ature at the State house in Boston, favored biennial elections and do voted much attention to the evils of the present divor. e laws. | Seventeen vessels and 2(j9 lives were lost j in the Gloucester (Mass.) fisheries during the , past year. In 1 twelve vessels and 115 ! i ive? were lcsf. i South and Wast. Three fires of unusual magnitude occurred 1 the other day in the West. At Chicago a : larre buske&s building filled with printing lithograph and kindred establishments was destroyed, causing an aggregate less of , $500,000. At Joliet, 111., the factory of the ; Lambert & Bishops Wire Fence comrany ! was burned, involving a loss of $2*25.10;), and 1 | at James:own, Dakota, the flames licked up i two hotels, a bank and other property,driving ' people into tlie streets with the thermometer ' at twenty-five degrees below zero, and causing I a total loss of about ?100,G00. I In a light near Forsyth, Mo.,between three 1 fleeing horse thieves and seven pu rsuers. two of the former were instantly killed ana the ; third mortally wounded, while two of the 1 latter were seriously injured. | Fouu young colored children, left alone by their motlu r in a cabin near Summerton, S. C\, were burne 1 to death. I More than 5,COO men have been thrown out of employment by the- suspension of all i the Western nail mills. i Fol r negroes were arrested and confined j ' in the jail at Yazoo City, Miss., for the mur- , der of three pr< minent" wh.te residtnK A ?'~Lt tViafr i^onrp^rfltinn a ' 111^ Lit UI H?u U1U.I . _ crowd of -CO anned men gathered from the ! surround ng country, marched to the jail, ! j took eut two of the prisoners and hanged I them, and shot the other two to death in ' I their cells. The previous shooting of the negro James while resisting arrest, and the j 1 killing of the three white?, made eight deaths ' j by violence within a few days in Yazoo City. | Rev. Samuel Andrews, while on his way I to fill a religious appointment in the Indian Territory, was shot and killei by unknown j parties." I J. H. Weathersby, sheriff of Madison I county, Miss., was bitten two months ago by a mad nog, and died the other day of hydrophobic. A fire at Howard City, Mich., destroyed twenty-five buildings, including two-thfrds of the business portion of the town. Tho j losses a;giega:e about $(">,(.(K). j A ore at military and civic procession, including the governor and State officials, par! ticifate l in the funeral of Archbishop ( Perche, of the Catholic church, at New Or: lean--. The bursting of a mill dam, near Hough! ton. Mi li., lesulted in the loss of six lives: | Charles E. Raymond, teller of the First Na1 tional bank, ot Houghton, his son ami servant j girl, ard Howard Raymond, wife and son. | Frank James, the Missouri bandit, is at j liberty under bonds, the judge of the United | States '-ourt holding that the rational govI eminent had 110 right to the custody of the j bandit until the disi osal of the State cases. Sri.uvAN and N'ade, the pugilists, had a j row with inmates of a disreputablo resort in i Denver, the latter leing knocked insensible witli a brick, and the former runuing away ! at the sight of flourished pistols, i Miss Frances Willard, president of the j National Temperance union, has gone to I Chicago for the purpose of inaugurating a | movement throughout the country to obtain 1 1,01)11,1)00 signatures to a memorial to lie presented to the next nauonal convention of each 1 arty asking f< r the insertion of prohiI in t Innks in their platforms. Fritz Hoi.der, the treasurer of Yazoi J county, Mis-!., who was shot in thy Yazoo j city melee between whites and negroes, is (leasI, making ttie fourth victim, not cornicing tl-.o four negroes lynched in jail. Nine j>ersons who ate smoked sausage several weeks ago at Bloomlngton, 111., were I attacked with trichinosis. One man died j the other nizlit and the others weyj n )i exI pected to recover. [ Extremely cold weather i> reported from j the Northwest, the thermometer at Hrainerd, [ Dakota, registerin; thirty decrees In-low j Zero, and at Minn ar-olis. Minn., from ten to I twenty-live decree, lielow >ero. Washington President ARnii'K's New Year's reee?iI tion at t ho White Hi;u<e was attende I by the full diplomatic corp-i, justices of th.i supreme court, arinv ami navy officers and a great throng of cit zpns. Tin la lies who helped the President rcceivo were Mrs. j Carlisle, wife of the sjieaker, Mrs. Lo/an, I Mrs. Lincoln, Mrs. Gresliam and Mrs. | Wadsworth. The department of state his been informed i by our minister to Holland that, in response t<> a s| e ial inquiry, the Dutch minister of finance ha* apprised his legation that the registers of the commission appointed in to settle nil estates former!-.- in i-^arge of the orphan's court of the Netherlands, do not mention the estates of nuv decea-ed lierson of he following name*: 1'robaxo, U'ebber, l*x (or Ox), Br< sius, 1'eter Whittin jill, Mont i Webber, (trove (or Uraef), Nich ?las Kern. Gilder, The. bald. Met/^ar (-aid to have died at the Hague about ITi'J, Mellar, Van Horn, Van Hoes-ns (or Van Iluizens). Turner. \ Francis Mast. "These estates." tho minister continu s, "'havetherefore either never ex- : isted, or if they ever did exist they were distributed to their claimants before lv5'i." Th inquiry was made b>< au-e many jteople in this country were led to believo they were tntitled to immense fortunes. Torino recember the national debt was decreased $1 1,74:1,337. Thk rate of postage has been elnnped froni one cent for every twj ounces to one cent i er ounce on labe's [ atternn, j hotozvuph*, playing cards, visiting cards, aldrtuu tags, letter heads, envelopes and other matter of the same general character. Last year has been remarkable for accidents, volcanic eruptions, marine disasters and other fatal casualties. Not including losses of life by wars, pestilence, famine, crime or suicide, the number of deaths throuehoiit the world by the causes above stated has been 94,:il2. Is 1S83 the number of persona murdered in the United States was 1,4U4. Thirty-nine children ivere killed by their parents. There were eighty cases of wife murder, ten of the murder of husbands, seven parricides, thirteen fratricides and one sororicide. There were thirty double, seven triple and three quadruple murders. Fifty-four of the murderers committed suici le. During the year 103 persons Were executed and ninetytwo lvnched. The number of suicides in this country the pa t year was 010. Foreign. The natives of Ashantee, fiouth Africa, have been overawed by the slaughter of exKing Koffee Kalcalli's family and the daily ; maisacre of his adherents, hundreds of whom I have been slain by order of the chief now | relcrninz, Sixty-eight of his seventy children ! have also been slain. Ninety-eight men, com- I prising a body guard of the deposed king, I were suddenly attacked and all killed. Later advices put the French losses in the recent battle of Sontay, Tonquin, at thirtysix officers and nearly 1,000 men killed or wounded. The enemy's loss is put at 0,000. Details of the terrible tragedy in Hanover, Germany, show that Colonel'Rathbone, of Albany, tried first to kill his children, but was prevented by his wife, whom he then slow and followed up the dreadful deea by wounding himself five times. It was thought he would recover. He had long labored under mental delusions and was undoubtedly insane. His family' phy sician I hints nis nun 1 nas ueen wiecieu since the assassination of President Lincoln, when he received a wound in tht arm from Booths dagger. During a mutiny on a Swedish brie recently arrived at Brisbane, Queensland, from Boston, the captain and first mate were wounded, the second mate was killed and two of the mutineers were shot. Four heavy commercial failure;, involving liabilities argrogating about ?9.0(10,000, have just taken place in England. Peruvian insurgents have been defeated by the government troops in a ten hours' battle. A collision occurred at Dromore, Ireland, between Orangemen and nationalists, and the military had to bo calle2 out; to quell the disturbance, which assumed formidable pro puniuus. ijai uuviiua \jl u\j\,u iuvvivim ticipated in the rioting, and several men were stabbed. Te\ minor failures in the iron trade are reported in Birmingham, England. Other mall failures in the same trade are anounced in the provinces. St. Petersburg advices state that the murder of Lieutenant-Colonel Sudeikin, a prominent police official, and an assistant, in a house to which they were decoyed, was committed by Nihilists in revenge for the arrest of a woman who recently arrived in the Russian capital for the rurpose of assassinating the czar. Colonel Sudeikin resisted desperately, and wounded one of his assailants. The leader of the murderers was arrested. This last an.t of the nihilists caused great dismay at the imperial court. A Paris dispatch says that ths native "Black Flags" massacred the prisoners captured before Sontaj-, Tonquin. A Una /VMTmlttfalv HpstmVPd. XX ntivm^Ano uao y the Mexican town of Alrata, not a house remaining intact, and all the vessels in the harbor suffering severely. Marquis de Rays, charged with falsely inducing many persons jto subscribe to an alle;ei enterprise for the colonization of Port . Breton Is and, in the South Seas, and for inducing several hundred people to settle there, where most of them died of starvation, has b o.t convicted in Paris, and sentenced to four years' imprisonment and $COO fine. A number of his associates wera also convicted and sentenced. James Russell Lowell, our minister to England, has resigned the lord rectorship of St. Andrew's university, EdLnburg, to wmch he was recently elected. El Mahdi, the False Prophet, is gaining ground with his forces in Egypt, and the revolt is spreading. Currieu, the young Alsatian who some time a jo forced his way into the receptionroom of the French minister of public infraction with a loaded revolver, with the avowed intention to shoot Prime Minister Ferry, has been sentenced to three cionths' imprisonment. Heavy masses of ice in the St. Lawrence at Montreal backed the water of the river into the s-ewers, and in consequence a large section of the bu^iuess part of the city waa flooded, throwing many men out of employment ana causing great pecuniary damage. CONGRESSIONAL CURIOSITIES. Svmu Peculiarities of the Present Congress. Of the twentypix Senators who were sworn In at th? beginning of tne present session, says a Washington dispatch to the New York Herald, only twelve are new to that body. The othpr fourteen were simply continued in the Senatorial harness by reelection. Mr. Morrill remains the patriarch of the Senate, though his colleague, Mr. Edmunds, looks older and is invariably taken for the oldest member of the body. Mr. Kenna, of West Virginia, is the junior member, and is, perhaps, the youngest man who ever attained the dignified and exalted poai".ion of Senator. AVhen elected he was not tbirty-flvo years of age. Senator Anthony ranks all others in point of ^ ? ui? service, having now eniercu upou uu mtu i term. Seuator Edmunds has been re-elected j three times, and Messrs. Bayard, Saulsbury, Hansom and Morrill have each been twice reelected. Kentucky furnishe? mire sms to the pre sent Senate than any other State. Ei^ht native Kentuckians are now members of that body. Ohio comes next with seven; while New York lias six; Georgia, Tennessee, Virginia and Pennsylvania, each four?Maine, Maryland, New Hampshire, New York, North Carolina, Ohio, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island, South Carolina, Tennessee. Vermont and Virginia have native sons iu tne Senate. Three natives of Ireland (Messrs. Jones, of Florida, Fair and Sewell). one of Scotland (Beck) and one of England iJones, of Nevada) are Senators. Ohio turnishes two Senators for Indiana and two for Iowa, the four gentlemen representing theso States having been born in the Buckeye Stat* 'I he Hou-e or .Representatives contains twenty adopted citizens. Messrs. Finerty, Cu loin, I/iury, Colling McAdoo, Barr. Davis, of Massachusetts, and Robinson, of New York, were born in Ire'and. Messrs. Moist-. Breitung, Muller, Deuster and Guenther are German- Crisp and Spriggs are English born. Hardy, Buchanan and Henderson first saw the light in Scotland. Mr. Nelson is a Norwegian, and Stephenson was horn in Now bruusvvick. Thi olilest me.iberof the House is Mr. Wait, of Connecticut; theyounge.?t member is Mr. Post, of Pennsylvania, i'he only 11a " ? \fn fiil tivo or n asningion m *. uiuim ^... lici t M. Woodward, of Wisconsin, who was born in this city in 1S85. The States of Connecticut. Delaware, Maine, Maryland, Rhode island, Smith Carolina. Tennessee and Vermont send solid delegations. Senators and Representative--, of native born citizens. In tlie House there are thir;y-tive native sons of New York, thirty-three <f Penn-ylvania, thirty-one of Ohio, atrl next comes Kentucky and Viiginia with seventeen cach; Massachusetts and Tennessee next, with thirteen ea.h; North Carolina next with twelve. Of the entire Arkansas delegation in both houses, but a single ineinlier was born in the State. Only two <>f the entire Missis-ippi delegation are natives of that State, but she gets even by having & lis in the Arkansas, Missouri and California delegations. Of the ;0I luomliers of Conaivss, 2i'?7 are lawyers, though several of this number have practically nl dndoned the law for other pursuits, and eighteen are farmers. STEALINGS FOR 1883. The following table shows the amount of money stolen by different classes of people in I ho U nited States, so far as their stealings were brought to Jignr, nunnR mc pa*i vt-ai. Amounts of less than $r?,iKK) urenot counted. The amounts stolon by bankers and heails of I nnlcinir institutions lend in point of ma ;nitudo, while lawyers have been discovered in the least number of cases: occupation. Xo. Amount. Pankers J!) $3,531,000 Panic cashiers ami clerks 12 1,070,000 Brokers 0 SM.OOO b'ato treasurers 3 863,00.) Mei chaucs and agents ",'8 2,3iiO,iO) Clerks, treasurers, etc 31 9?U,nt)0 Clarity and trust i? 1.031,700 City employes 20 County employes and rev. a^ts. Hi 7iK>,0 H) Lawyers 4 451,00) Totals 14S $13,380,000 A YEAR'S FAILURES. ?" i.'tMKnfMkkinoiiln nf Ihr I'nst Yean The e mnercial wreck list of the year, Hiviitslrrrl's, o! Iv w Y< rk. says, is a formi('able one, H'.lsT failures being reported in the United States, an increase of -',613 over the year 1.^2, or over thirty-four j;er cent. !n i anaila there were l,4tiu failures reported, -as against 042 in l**'i Tiie following table gives the total number f tailures reported during each of the last live ve.tio: 1S80. issi. is^>. 1SS3 United States.0,1:52 4,3ijU r>,!) >!) 7,574 10,1ST Canada and Provinces...'-J.Oio &K) (>07 <14*2 I,4(i0 i The table below give* the failures during each ot' the last two quarters of lfcSl,1SS2, , and 1SS3: ISSI. 1SS2. 1SS3. ! Failures fourth quarter...l./itfi 'J,S2S> ' Failures third quarter 1.14') ~,0;i'2 Failure* fix months V,?i4o 3,026 4,801, LATER flETO Henry Villard, president of the recently completed Northern Pacific railroad, has re- " - zM signed the presidencyof that corporation and has eiven un for the benefit of his creditor! the magnificent dwelling house which he was erecting in New York. Mr. Villard during the ]>ast ten years by his rai'rcatf - ;-A operations had built up a colossal fortune, and a year ago was estimated to bj '^8 worth #.r>,0J),00). One of his counsel fctates ^ that his financial fall is due to his having too freely lent his name and credit to the Oregon and Transcontinental company. At a meeting of the Northern Pacific directors '-:J2 in New York, Mr. Vilard's reslgnation was received and acceptedResolutions of sympathy for him in his flnancial misfortunei and the resultant sicknen were passed, and as ho had served without salary during the three years that he was president of the road, the sum of $30,000 was .'M vcte<l to him. Mr. Villard's caree* *|2H as a railroad king, though com- 'J$A paratively short, has been remark- '''^9 able. In a few years he had acquired coo- .^| trol of an immense railroad and other interests, and money to the extent of many HJSjSfl millions was put into his hand* by capitaists . for investment without the slightest security. The dwelling of J. V. Garver. near Duke . Centre, Penn., was burned, and Mr. Carver* J'-jjjB four children, aged from one to six years, ; $3k perished in the flames. Governor Stoxeman presided at a meeting of capitalists in San Francisco to make ''jfgg arrangements for holding a world's fair In ' 4.1?4. -Ji.? 1 U\2V TUA wiiaflnry KnnWMATI j'H UlttU UIJ* III AO" JI # x uu ujcvviu^ <v^/?v^u?w?. -- ^pn &0J,COO,000. It was resolved to provide* guarantee fund of $1,000,0)0, ancl to petition Congress and the State legislature tor appropriations. JajiesCkummidy (colored) was hanged at Eastman, Ga, for the murder of a young white man named Mitchell. As Crummidj was about to be led to execution, he cut hi* j-ffii throat with a pocket knife. In tnw ?on4ition he was carried to the ga^owa and ' *3rS hanged. There arc at present 311 cottoiMpilk in the South, having 1,270,422 spindles sod- , :m? 873 looms. Edward Rector (colored), was hanged in the jail yard at Baton Rouge, La., for Mm *JSa9S murder of Duncan Williams in December, ' iyAI 1882, by stabbing him in the back- Rector also murdered bis stepfather. He made a '-<3 desperatestmgglo on the gallows, grasping '"'ffifl the rope and uttering terrific screams, and it was only with the aid of several spectator! that he was finally subdued. Representative Bland has had an interview with Mr. Burchard, director of the United States mint, in regard to the number f-ffijS of trado dollars in circulation. Mr. Buret ard expressed the opinion that between fivt and six millions of the coin were ojt and in . tfce hands of tradesmen and the people gener- '-'2a ally,instead of being in tbe possession of specuJators. The remainder of *3o,00J,000 original ly coined are thought to have been exported ox -3 remelted. Mr. Bland says it is questionable whether the government, having issued tba . ; |?5j| trade dollar with the stamp of the govtorn* ment upon it, could net be required to take it for government dues at its nominal value. The United States consul at Cairo reports . 33 the number of deaths from cholera in Egypt ; $? last summer at between 0">,00J and 70,0J0. In f'~fB many parts of the int;rior entire communitics have dbapreared. More thau thirty arrests have been made in St. Petersburg of person> suspe.-tel to be * '. implicated in the murder of Lieutenant-Col- v^gj onel Sudeikin. A nihilist proclanuition cir- 1-<-dS culated in St Petersburg announces that V budeikin was condemned to be executed by \ fja tho nihilist executive committee. A Vienna dispatch says that the latest version of the aliened recent hunting acd* jfn^ dent to the czar of Russia is that he was at- | 1| tacked by six nihilists, fired upon and Hlgra wounded in the shoulder, the would-be as- ? sassins making good their escapo through the Hp|3 deep snow. : DEATH ON THE RAIL f B H Terrible Collision on a OanjwRan mM Eailroad, ||i About Thirty Men Killed?The Vio~ I ',|8j tims All Workmen. ^ Below will be found particulars of the ter- I *Ja| rible collision which occurred on the Grand | 'ja Trunk railway at Humber, Canada, aoou* seven miles from Toronto, in which thirty passengers were killed and a number of others were severely injured. The suburban train left Union station, Toronto, at 0:40 o'clock in the morning. One ;;*S of the cars was filled with workmen employed in the bolt works, who live in "Toronto, and go out every morn- SRHI ing by thii train to their labor. After I IBS turning a curve at Farkdale boundarv a I freight tr. in was seen coming c tywaraon M the same track. Both engineers reversed B . *33 their engines and signalled down brakes, but Tfjggp, it was too late to overcome the impetus they bad gained, and the two trains crashed together, and in an instant the air was filled I Sg W1IB ine gruuiis ui iug ? .? Those who escaped injury immediately be- t^BP.^8 pan the work of extricating their unfor- sHM tunate comrades. They found .hat many worp already killed, while numbers of others jSHrfi were injured so seriously as to render their recovery impossible. The sufferings of the injured immediately i fflj after the accident were frightful,and this was J L'M contributed to in no small degree by the coll, the very blood which flowed from their wounds being frozen on their bodies. The ; :/M crie-i of the injured were most agonizing and could be heard above the loud hissing of escaping steam and the r. ar of the waves ; of the stormy lake which lashed the shore in close vicinity to the scene of aocident The engine of the freis^wT k>coinotive was plunged by a shock right 7^3 into the passenger car, in which the workmen were seated chatting together, and after rearing back from the shock of meeting the^r^ dummy engine, it settled down on thecruihadr car among the passengers, imprisoning^the ' men in the most horrible agony. In a few moments ic exploded. The men were held among the wreck as firmly as if tbeyhad been placed in stocks, and left to be scalded -J with the escaping steam and roasted with j the burning wood of the cars, which tooic fire !^3B| and burned rapidly. 'J heath in many casas must have been in stantaneous. With others the sufferings were terrible to contemp'ate. One man begged of Michael Lavclle, a conductor, <J&Bm who had como down as a 1 asietge:- on the freight train, to pull him out of the debris jj which lay around him and from which he could not extricate himself. The poor fellow did not appear badly hurt, but Lavelle got hiin on his back and carried him to the rear <^m3H freight car, the man speaking even cheerfully to him the while. Suddenly he looked down and said with a cry of horror: <% 'Oh, God, my le-^s are off!'1 The i>oor fellow's legs were burnt to a cinder, and he tiad been ignorant of the extent of his injuries until tne moment. A special train took the wounded into (he ' i?3B city,where the excitemeut was intense. News j of "the disaster spread rapidly, and long be- '* fore the train arrived in the city the station was crowded with anxious people, who, with rV?MB b'aticbed faces, struggled to get a glimpse of ' the wounded as they were borne to the am- iflyHbalances in waiting. A blizzard was raging, but ihe Irasiie women, without hats orwiapr.ws. braved the chilling b asts and driving snow waiting for newsot a bus band, brother, or lather, while strong men wept at the frijrhtCul spec.aoie which several of the bodies presented. As the form of a loved one wa> recognized a piercing shriek told the tale of a home bereft of a bread-winner, a lavorite son, or a devote:! father. The wounded Were immediately taken to the hospital where a large staff was in readiness and did everything that medi al skill could devise for relief of the sufferers, in too many case.-!, however, unhappily,without avail. It was found that about thirty men had be -n killed and more than twenty wounded, several of whom were not exrected to recover. , i lioinas Barber, conductor of the fre'ght train, was immediately placelunier arrest He at i nee admitted that he got orders at Hamilton to run to Queen s wharf. Toronto, avoiding all regular trains, he looked at the time table, but forgot that the suburban train was on the list of regular trains, and hence thi? accident. l'ublic sympathy was thoroughly aroused for t!ie widows and children, and subscription lists were starte I and offers of entertainments made to provide funds for their aid. The families of several of the men killed are in poor circumstances, and could ill afford to lose their b:ead-winners. SOME VERY OLD PEOPLE Michael Kavanagh died at Lewiston, Me.. aged 107 yeax-s. Khoda Howard, of Owinesville, Ky., is lli. years of age, and has smoKed tobacco for 101 y nrs. Miss Minnie Hall, of Temnle, Texas, recently gave a <! but part}' on the 100th anniversary of her birth. The oldest mail in Missouri is John Henderson, of Oxfoixi. bom in Virginia in 1780. He is in excellent health. Peter Shinkle, of Covington, married a widow of fifty when he was ninety-two yean of age, He in seeking a divorce. '-5 -1 ?'