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- ABBEVILLE PRESS AND BANNER. 1 ; c^m BY HUGH WILSON. ABBEVILLE, S. C.. WEDNESDAY. JANUARY 23, 1884. NO. 30. VOLUME XXVIII. J ?~ I T mnri liTITrrn THE SNOW-STORM. ' The old earth lying bare and cold, Beneath the winter sky, Beheld the storm-king marshal forth His battle fori-e on high. "Ah! soon," she said, "beneath the snow Fnll warmly I shall lie." The wind unfurled his Ivanners And rushed ipto the fray, The round moon hid her jolly faca Within a cloud of gray, And not one single star peeped out To drive the gloom away. The snow, encamml behind a cloud, Sent flying, here and there, Its white-winged heral is to proclaim Its presence in the air; Until, at last, the fairy host Burst from its cloudy lair. The snow flakes, rushing downward. Each in a whirling dance. Before the winds arv driven Likes armies by the lance; But still, upon the waiting Earth, The shining hosts advatio\ The wild wind, shriekin ; as he goes, Flies fiercely to and fro. And strive*, with all his mighty forot, To sweep away the snow; But bravely still the s >ft tlake* fall Upon the Earth t>elow. i i All white and swift it settles down, j Though Boreas howl and storm, * Till soft as summer's green the robe It folds .nbout her form; No drarerv of leaf and flower Could make the Enrth so warm. It charges with r.o battle cry; But pure, nn 1 soft, and stilt, It falls upon the waiting Earth, Its pron.ise to fulfill; And foils i he angry, shrieking wind By force of gentle will. The foe has furled his banners, * And hastened from the fray; The round moon peeps with jolly faoe From out the cloud of gray; And all the stars come twinkling out To see who gained the day. There all the eartli lay shining, In garments pure ar.d white; The snow fulfilled its mission, And, con ,uer n{: in the fight, Had warired th? old Earth tj the heart, Beneath its mantle white. ?lio'ja! and Bare Ilill, in St. Nicholas, i A STOliYOF AKTEMUS WARD j KKLXTED BY HOWARD PAUL. I remember tlie late Albert Smith, who was one of the stall of the London Punch, once telling a group of men, who i were standing with him at the Garrick club, that before he gave his first enter- I tainment, The Overland Mail, in London, ! and risking the fiat of a metropolitan au- i dience, he determined a trial-trip in the I provinces to note the effect of his quips j upon a less cultivated and exigent pub- ! lif He settled unon the market town in i r Surrey, and his bold, bright announce- ] ments, full of promise and pictorially embellished, populated the reserved seats j and respectably filled the hall. Thus far j all was well. He began his lecture, and kept his vigilant eye on a respectable old 1 gentleman, who was accompanied by three young ladies, all of whom sat near theplatform. The lecturer was received in cold and , solemn silence; and. without unneces- ; sary preliminaries, he at once plunged : easily into his subject, rattling it oil as only Albert Smith in his fresh, fluent i young days could have done. Some of the audience now and then tittered, one j or two get as far as a laugh, but the ; stately oia country gentleman, wun me i three daughters, preserved a quiet dig-! nity and heard the entertainment from j end to end without the semblance o 1 a j smile. The genial, effervescent Albert feared j that his "Overland Mail" was not the j roystering success he fondly hoped it { would prove, and as the people were ; groping their way out of the ill-lighted little hall into the gloom and ruin of a winter's night, he approached the old | gentleman and said: "I beg vour par-! v,..? /i;,i vn,i i,! UUU, aiij UUl V4 4V4 \ v*? Jirvv U?J VI41VI- i ment? I am most anxious to know xour opinion." "Sir,'* replied the ol<l gentleman, but-j toning up his great-coat and drawing j himself up with an imperative air of im- j portaiice, "it was a very pleasant lecture, I indeed, and had it been less serious, and treated in a different spirit, I have no doubt my family would have enjoyed it ; very much. Good night, sir." Albert was appalled. His jokes hud all j rmissed fire and had been unquestionably ( misunderstood. It was clear that his style of fun was not adapted to the provin-! cial mind. It was obvious that he must revise his entertainment, or bombard the j Londoners with his jests, lie chose the1 latter alternative, and for very ruany! years his "show," as he delighted to call j his representations, was one of the fash- j ionable attractions of the great metropo- j lis. I was relating this incident one day to Artemus Ward, and insisting on the: theory that what suits the town will not, always hit the mark in the country. Ho ' protested that he was quite ol my opm- j ion?"only more so*'--and then he pro- | ceeded to illustrate his conviction by this ! little anecdote: Before I venturer! to storm the big i cities," he, "I thought I'd take a I modest turn in some of the towns and , villages up through New York State, and ' I settled to begin at :tn outside place j called Goshen, a great cheese and butter depot. My agent was an adroit adver-! tising fiend, named John 1'. Smith, who ! stuck at nothing as far as printer's ink was concerned, anil was a bit of a wag 1 in his way. He promised to do his level , best to make the lecture a success. We i put up at the principal inn ana distributed ! a hat full of free tickets, so as to be sure of a deccnt crowd in the hall. Well, nworvt>iir><r una in rr-ilditll-fiS! Jilld. ftt the last moment, I sent for Smith, who was i to 'tend door. I said, 'John, I fool! shaky and nervous, and I wish, after the ! people get well in, you'd give me a bund j now and then to start 'em on!' "'Leave it to me,'said Smith en-, couragingly. 'I've fixed all that.' " I followed my agent's advice," continued Artemus, "and presented myself j ? to the expectant public. I was rigged f out in a white vest an 1 tie, and looked as insipid as a boiled fowl. I didn't get; n hand. Smith was too busy collecting : the tickets to look after my entrance, so 1 my send-off was not stimulating. I began my lecture in a slow, measured tone I of voice, and you might have heard a j cannon drop, or the stealing of a pocket- | handkerchief. At any rate, they were j attentive, I thought; so I let off in due course what I considered a joke. They j didn't take it. I paused; then went on. j By-and-by 1 let off another?same result;! then another; and Smith, who had got through his ticket collecting and inserted l; 1* ' ItULIdCll milUUl? IIXK JSVVj/'V, IV I plaud lustily. "My experience of sympathetic city ! audiences had previously suggested that I when some one boldly and bravely leads | off the applause.' others usually follow, j but at Goshen this habit docs not obtain. ' A man well up in front cried, 'Silence!! Hish!' "Again I proceeded, and told them a story that many a time and oft I had re- 1 lnted with screaming success in private ! circles. Smith this time set up a terrific [ guffaw, stamped and clapped his hands and rocked Dackward and forward, as though he was utterly overcome by my j humor. The audience were not to be I /rvl1r\T*rir?r* V?i C Ynmrvl fx luitu lUbU lUliVniu^ mo vauu*^/.v. " 'Silence!' shouted one. ' 'Don't interrupt the speaker!' I howled another. u 'Turn him out!' roared a third. "And half the audience rose to see who had caused what they thought an unseemly and riotous interruption to the evening's proceedings. A farmer-looking man near Smith had a thick stick in ids hand and a menacing look in his eye. ^thought he meant business, and would go for nim. I had come to a dead standstill, and my agent saw his opportunity. He leaped on one of the empty forms and proceeded to address the audience. " 'Ladies and gentlemen,' shrieked he, 'Iimifree and enlightened citizen of this glorious Republic, and I claim the proua privilege of enjoying Mr. Artemus Ward'* anecdotes. When I enjoy anytfaiBfiljaqgaootloud, and when 1 laugh I make a noise. I east no reflection on ' you, my fcllow-citi/ens, but it's clear to j me your beads are too thick for Mr. | Ward's stories to penetrate. I?' The rest of the sentence was lost in the con- J fusion that followed. " Out with him!* " 'Who is he f' ! " 'Hi! Hi! Pitch him into the pond ' ' 4 Dry up!' | "And hundreds of similar observations 1 1 rent the air. I pantomimed to Smith to j withdraw, lie obeyed; and. peace be- J in<r restored. I proceeded. This episode j rather amused me, and I fell into my best J ; vein. 1 told them anecdote after ' anecdote, story after story, and j fired off a fusilwleof crisp and biting; jests. It was no use, I could not for the j soul of me rouse them to any out- j | ward expressions 01 appreciation ui vu- [ joyment. Then I felt vexed; at last I j grew whimsically vicious in my despair. In for a penny, in tor a pound, thought i I: when I suddenly stop] ed, and, glaring j defiantly at a certain man in the audience, I pointed at him with my index finger, j and, looking at my watch, said: '"Ladies and gentlemen, for three quarters of an hour I have been trying my hardest to dig a laugh out of you. Up to now I haven't succeeded. I don't wish to be personal, but if that man with the red hair and the long nose doesn't laugh soon, I shull stop this solemnity and go and haug mvself." "The audience, who had passed ovci some mighty tine wheezes and a few well-crusted Joe Millers, regarded this allusion to the red-haired man with the j long nose as a tremendous local joke I which thev thoroughly understood, and | they simply >et up a howl. It turned 1 out that the victim of my daringly im- | pertinent observation was a political j tailor on the unpopular side of the house, who was in the habit of being violently chalTed at the town meetings. I had made a fluke?a hit?a grand and unexpected coup: and I wound up my lecture as quickly as possible, having secured, at any rate, ono resonant, ringing outburst. It is true, I had not calculated on this combined result of 1 audacity and accident; but I felt the audience had had something for their money, and had not left their homes entirely it? vain. As they prepared to disperse I said * Oh, ladies and gentlemen, I forgot to mention that there is a key to this | lecture, an explanatory second part, . which I shall deliver this day three weeks in Washington. Any person who | Vi/. V?.1U nnt mnttf>rcH mV HllhlpRt i ...... -V J--iu its various details will bo given a free ticket to Washington, in case he would like to attend. I may also say that I will be at the Buck hotel to-morrow up to 7:80 a. m.. and anyone who wishes to confer with me in regard to the jokes I have perpetrated, I shall have great pleasure in explaining them and shed- i ding any light on 'em in my power. And bear in mind, I make no extra charge for this. i "The audience rolled out, chattering away, and my fathful J. P. Smith stood i at the door to collect opinions. " 'What did they seem to say?' I asked, when we got to the hotel and ' were totting up the receipts. " 'Say,'' replied Smith, "well, I wouldn't like to repeat all I heard; but i one man said he guessed you were laughing at them in your sleeve, and that you were a fraud, anyhow, and gently insinuated that the next time you visited Goshen you'd better have your life insured. Another man said you might be smart enough for some towu9, but you wasn't up to the mark for Goshen.' "Here the landlord of The Buck joined us and asked us to participate in a cigar. | lie seemed a good-natured man, and I i ventured to ask him what he thought of my lecture. "'Wal,' said he, with crushing urbanity, and a frank expression danced into his honest blue eyes, "I didn't quite get a grip of what you were preachin' about. You see, I'm not much of a hand for shows and sich like; but, by the great United States, when you p'inted fViot rnfl.lmr'fl rnnctpr with the loug beuk ?'wnl, I must say I thowt it were the best thing I ever heerd in my life."?New York Mirror. Exploring Africa. The expedition of Dr. Holub, the African explorer, who has departed lrora j Yiennu for the C?j)e, will be divided into two parts, the first embracing Caff re tcr- ! ritoneB iu the east, while the second, if j successful, will take the Austrian explor- i er across the dark continent from south to north. On leaving the civilized regions | of South Africa, Dr. Holub will cross the ! i different states and kingdoms between < the Yaal river and the Zambesi, sojourning in the independent kingdoms of the i Beehuana. There the doctor will return i to her parents the native child whom he brought with him to Europe after Ids lust expedition. She is an intelligent i girl of fourteen, speaking French, English and German fluently. Dr. Holub ince.-ds to make extensive j astronomical observations between the j rivers Vnal and Zambesi, those known hitherto being for the most part inaccurate. He will then explore the territory i of the Maroutse, and will bestow special i attention on the tombs of the kings. Another primary object he has in view is to try and induce some of the native kings to change the pursuits of their people, so that instead of living exclusively from the produe of the chase, they may begin to till the soil. He thushopes ' to improve also the lot of their women, j who are, at present, compelled to turn j up the ground with hatchets and do all j sorts of hard work with their hands. The ineu devote themselves to lighter occupation. I)r. Holub has taken with j him a number of plows and farming I implements to be distributed among the j native tribes. At the same time he will endeavor to j persuade them to tame the elephants in- | stead of killing them, and to use them | as beasts of burden. The tsetse, a kind | of poisonous fly, which in those parts attacks aud kills horses and cattle, renders communication difficult. Elephants j are the onlv animals which the tsetse i docs not molest. I)r Holub hopes by j such means to impart a stimulus to South < African trade, which has hitherto been limited to ivory and ostrich feathers, and | to add to it sugar-cane, coffee, rice and | grain. As a proof of the instinctive i good sense of some of these tribes. Dr. | llo'.ub mentions the fact that two kings, ; Montsoua, and Khama. with whom he j is | ersonally acquainted, do not permit | the importation of alcohol in their dominions. and that any European who | transgresses that law is punished. The Dead Letter Office. Four million three hundred and seventy- j nine thousand one hundred and ninetyeight letters strayed into the dead letter 1 office, "Washington, during the last year: j 8,346,857 of these were not called for at . the postoffices to which they were sent; ' 78,865 were sent in from hotels because j the departed guests had left no addresses I /? / 1J oila. 171 71 ? VL-i.n. 1 JUI lUi Yt rtl UliJ? lUUl iiiuito , Ai^.tAv/ insufficiently paid; 1,345 contained forbidden articles, lottery tickets and th?like; 280,187 were erroneously or illegibly i addressed; and 11,979 letters bore no ad- i dress whatever. Of these letters 15,301 j contained money amounting to $32,647.23. j Beside that, *18,09.'5 letters contained I drafts, checks, money orders, etc.. to th j amount of $1,381,91)4.47. Moreover, j 60,137 letters contained postage stamps, and 40.12") contained receipts, paid notes and canceled obligations of 'ill sorts. With this remarkable showing of more | than $1,000,000 gone wrong, too much I cannot be suid in caution to those who i confide letters and packages to the mail i The money thus collected at the dead j letter office is turned into the treasury, j | The goods and merchandise from the ! | package arc sold at auction, arid the I Christmas and fancy cards are done up in | packages and sent to the children's bos- i | pitals and the orphan asylums of this | ! city. A whole history of possible anguish j and heart burnings is wrapped up in the i collection of 35,160 photographs that came I j to the dead letter office in a year, and j t injured and resentful swains, and angered i ' relatives and friends may know where 1 : some of their treasures have gone to. j The photographs are preserved, and this j , portrait gallery of the post office depart- , | ment numbers up into the n illions, be- : ; ginning with a miniature that was lost i J in the mails fifty ye.:rf ago.?-SY. ij?u- j Globt-Itemoi rut. I FARM, GARDEN AN D HOUSEHOLD Diet for I'Irs* Com is not a perfect diet for piirs. It is deficient in albuminoids. To correct this we must add an article, says the Breeder** Gazette, that will make up for the deficiency. For example, skim-milk is highly nitrogenous and has nearly four per cent, of true albuminoids. Two and a third pounds of skim-milk contain as much albuminous food as is found in one pound of corn. But we cannot always add milk. Linseed cake, meal or pea meal greatly increases the value of corn as a hog feed. The pig kept in a small pen. getting milk and table scraps with a little corn is noted for continued good health and even development. .Tlllk for Young: Colt*. It is recommended by those who have tried the experiment to give cows' milk to young colts to drink instead of water, as it is notorious that marcs rarely have sufficient milk for the proper nourishment of their colts. All who have bred colts, whether cart or thoroughbred, cannot fail to notice how soon the youngster begins to eat with its dam any food that is in the manger or crib. If a large supply of milk could be introduced to the young sapling no doubt the desire for 1-3 i-~ I ?/i : tne oiner iooa wouiu uc icssi-m-u auu u would avoid eating too much corn or grass or hay?food that is adapted to an older stomach and which requires more digestive operations than the delicate stomach of a two-month-old colt is possessed of. Good cows' milk could be sweetened to make it moro closely resemble the marc's in taste, for no doubt the quality of mares' milk, like that of asses', is far richer than cows'. Milk is the natural food for infant animals, and it is cheaper and better to bring up the young colt or lamb on milk than on any other substance.?Grazer. Rjwtriincr For Animals. The farmer who takes pains to "make up the bed" for his cow or horse, pains 1 ten times more than the cost of the labor i of so doing, says the Prairie Fanner. If all the material is passed through tho 1 cutter previous to being used for bedding, it not only adds to the comfort of I the animal, but assists in the matter of i cleanliness by reason of its great power : of absorption. For this reason sawdust i is becoming a favorite, as its fineness not ' only admits of its being handled easily, ' well spread in the stall, and promptly < removed, but after having absorbed tho i liquid flows of the stall, still readily j mixes with the matter in the manure heap. The merit of sawdust is due to its fineness and to its absorptive qualities. If any bedding is plentiful, fine f and absorptive, it prevents loss of man- i ure by intimately "mixing with it, and j as the droppings are more readily incor- t porated with a great muss of absorbent material, the risk of evaporation and j escape of gases is lessened. Now, if the labor of cutting is to be taken into account, it is more than balanced by the ^ facility in spreading the fine manure , when it is hauled to the field. The cut- j ting can be done in winter or during the f wet days, and-it is a luxury to spread nice, finely-divided manure. Good, fine, clean bedding adds to the thrift and { health of the animals, is cooler in sum- 1 mer and warmer in winter, and those 1 who use it prevent much loss. Pot Rose*. A market grower in the neighborhood j of Paris has a method of treating pot roses which is said to ensure their flower- , ing a second time, with a vigor and pro- | fusion almost or quite equaling the first display. By the system followed the > plants are subjected to a forced rest as f eoon as the flowers fade, which is accom- ( plished by keeping them under cover, and for a time almost entirely withholding water. In the course of a month or ) bo they are pruned, shaken out and fresh potted, or simply watered with manure ! water, when they start away into growth again, and bloom finely at the close of ( the summer or early in autumn when ' roses are scarce. In this way the plants I are in blossom at those seasons of the year when the outdoor plants have either not commenced to flower or are nearly past, and are resting just when they are least needed. It may be thought that this treatment would be so far exhaustive as to render the plants of but little value for another year, but we are assured that this is not the case, and that scarcely any difference is perceptible between plants which have thus bloomed twice in the year and such as have been allowed to recruit in their own natural way. This, if true, is by no means so surprising as it would be in the case of many other plants, as we know some roses flower abundantly naturally in the autumn, and push into growth with undiminished vigor the following spring. We see this in the case of such kinds as the old Glory, Aimee Vibert, Adam, Ceine Forestier, the Chinas, and others, which never under good culture Beem to get tired of producing bloom. We also know that the class of Hybrid Perpetuals yield, with liberal treatment, a good secondary bloom.? The Garden. Confining Fowls. A New Jersey correspondent of the ; Country Gentleman writes to that paper concerning the ill effects of giving fowls 1 too much liberty, and gives such excel- ' lent advice in regard to their proper care . that we make the following extract for the benefit of our readers:?"The best J yard for fowls is an orchard?apples, ! pears, peaches or plums?ample in size, 1 with some currant bushes, that sour and ' nearly worthless fruit of which they could steal ad libitum; and in this yard 1 I would also have some permanent grass ' and some land to plough where corn, rye, oats, buckwheat, ?ic., could be sown at j intervals for them to scratch out and eat. ' The fence should be of lath or some- 1 thing cheap and moveable. In addition, ' make part of this yard a receptacle for ( beef heads, lightly buried and any bones ' with adhering scraps of meat, the bones to be craekud and fed out at intervals. Beside, dump in most of the vegetable rubbish that the farm furnishes, weeds, cornstalks, straw, salt or bog hay, potato ; tops, beanstalks, buckwheat straw, etc., etc., and throw grain into it. The ] amount of rubbish that a flock will pulverize in a year with these incentives is 1 astonishing, and all the while 1 they are doing useful work instead of tormenting you. The people most likely to complain of the time it takes are generally those who like to hang about the groceries of the town or entirely unaccustomed to watchful and systematic care of live stock. The time given is more than made up in the time saved in chasing them out of mischief, and in damage averted from crops grown for sale on the table. Where flocks have their full liberty nothing is more common, beside being in all sorts of mischief, than to see them hanging about the front door of a farmhouse, on the piazza, at the kitchen door, or in some other spot where they are not wanted, or are a disgusting nuisance. When confined part of each day in a rather small yard and released a few hours they usually spend it in lively exercise, and when through with it go to roost without making trouble. Even from a large yard they can be profitably released frequently, as they enjoy a change of scene; but to beat large all the time without any food, or but little of it, is in my judgment a pernicious practice. Another objection to the latter is the waste of eggs. Give the hens full ? ---1 1 ~:A mAni (inv ireeaom unu vgg? mc i>uu mmu^ <? .,where, and often in almost inaccessible places?under stables, where only dogs, cats or skunks can penetrate?in boxes, barrels, wagons, straw stacks, behind woodpiles, in the grass where they are trodden on or spoiled before being found ?and much valuable time is lost in hunting for them. In a henhouse with proper nest boxeB none are lost from these J causeR, and no time in hunting for them. ! i Undeveloped Resources of the Soil. Some years ago, being short of mauure to finish out a cornfield, we had recourse to a quantity of decomposed muck, which laid upon a ditch bank adjacent to the i field we proposed to cultivate, of five acres. Of this we proposed to draw out some forty cartloads and spread it over two acres, but could see no perceptible difference in the quantity of corn produced on the land fertilized with bam- j yard manure ct the two ?.n which muck was spread. Afterward we grew a crop of wheat and seeded it down with timothy in the fall, intending to sow clover seed in the spring, which was omitted. But, strange as it may appear, when the grass began to grow the summer following on ull the portion of the field covered by the muck as handsome a stand of red-top clover appeared as if the land had been carefully seeded, but ou all that portion of the field not so mucked no clover appeared whatever. Wherever the muck had been dumped,and the muck spread from the heap in the center, the clover grow in regular rings, following the exact line or circle of the muck distribution, while only pure timothy grew upon the field immediately adjacent, treated with barnyard manure. When the grass came to lie gathered one portion of the field was a regular clover patch, mixed with timo thv. The field was originally a worn out pasture field, and the herbage for years had only been five-finger vines, mullens and thistles. The explanation would seem to be that some years previous the land had been seeded down to clover, although not h single spear of clover had been seen on the land in ten years, and the clover seed lodged in the ground had not vegetated for lack of the kindred nourishment found in the muck to develop it. The land was of a sandy clay loam on a limestone base. "What it lacked to develop the clover was plowing and the muck dressing, which afterward retained its hold upon tho land for years. Xow, there are fields on many farms netding just such treatment as we have described to make them produce both good grain and grass, but they "never get it because the land is never plowed or resceded. On an adjoining field of fifteen acres we * - * x- tt : were not so ioriuniuc. navmg ucca several years in grass, it was plowed and worked deep for corn; but when the corn came up simultaneously appeared h!1 over the held a crop of May weed, which for a time seemed to defy all attempts to work the corn. In fact, it required a harrow and two men to work in iidvance of the com plow to find it. A tougher job we never eniraged in than the extinguishment of the May weed, which, like the clover in the adjacent Held, having been plowed under, had never vegetated until we had plowed for corn. All this trouble comes from slovenly farming, or allowing crop of weeds to be plowed under after the seeds have formed. May weed is a very froublesome weed, but it never appeared igaiu after the land was well reseeded to $ras9.?Orange County Farmer. Houwcliold Recipes and Hints. Pork Tendehloixs.?Cut in thin jlices; stew in water till nearly done; nut a little butter into a frying-pan, and fry them until browu; serve on buttered .oast. Potato Bischit.?For potato biscuit, joil half a dozen fine, large potatoes; nash them: when cool, add a cup of >weet milk and flour enough to roll out, ivith a teaspoonful of baking-powder sifted with the Hour; do not knead more than is absolutely necessary; cut into small biscuits, and bake in a quick oven. Scoar Pudding.?One quart of milk, ^no-quarter of a pound each of Hour, su^ar and butter; boil until thick, then idd six eggs, the whites and yolks beaten separately. Bake in a dish set in a pan partly filled with hot water, one hour. Serve with a sauce made of two cups of 5nnr.ir one-half cud of butter, well ?CV" ' - i ? mixed. A keg or bag of charcoal kept in milkrooms or cellars where there is milk will Lie found advantageous, especially if the rooms or cellar incline to he at all damp. The charcoal will absorb both dampness ind odors from the air and thus preserve :he milk, in great measure, from taint. A very good apple jelly for everv-day lse can be made as follows: Get nice, juicy cooking apples, pare, core and cut hem in quarters. To each pound put udf a small teacupful of water, threepiarters of a pound of moist sugar, the ind of half a lemon cut very fine. Boil jently three-quarters of an hour, or until >oine cooled on a plate* will set quite tirra. Have a China mold well wetted with ?old water, pour the jelly into this and ie down, as jam, if not wanted at once. I'lie apples should be stirred well and nashed tine with the spoon while boiling, [f properly attended to, this jelly will be lear and iirm. To make apple pot pie, take fourteen ipples, peeled, cored and sliced, one and i half pkits of Hour, one teaspoonful making powder, one cupful sugar, half mpftil butter, one cupful milk, large u.?lf <Jft tl/iiir will* i\n\vrlr?r iitirl .IUVI1 null. ..... ....... ...... , salt, rub in butter cold, add milk, mix 11 to dough us for ten biscuits; with it ine shallow stew pan to within two inches )f bottom; pour in one and a half cupfuls water, apples and sugar, wet edges ind cover with rest of dough; put cover >n, set it to boil twenty minutes, then jlace in moderate oven, until apples are :ooked; then remove from oven, cut top irust in four equal parts, dish apples, >av on them pieces oi side crust cut in liamonds, and pieces of top crust on a plate; serve with cream. Steel will not oxidize or rust in dry ?ir, and any process or method adopted to secure this will preserve the finest polish to the surface of steel or iron for a long period. There is an old plan in use by the large Birmingham (England) cutlery manufacturers, which is not generally known, and which is easy of practical - ??? c? l ..11 ippucauon. 1'iuiio-juiiL* ?uu Him uii <mall bright goods are kept in this way secure from damage by rust. The agent used is simply fine quicklime dusted over the polished surface. "When articles are required to be preserved for some length jf time, strips of paper freely covered with powdered lime are to he wrapped iround them ? sometimes the cutlers place the goods in cases, and fill in with powdered lime. The hygrometic prop- ! LTties of quicklime secures the presence J jf dry air around the polished surfaces ind thus indirectly lime prevents steel from rust; What Trains arc Worth. But few persons, as they see one of the fast express trains Hit by, are aware of the value of such a train, says a Philadelphia paper. What is known as the royal limited express over the Pennsylvania road, us the train is ordinarily made up, represents over $120,000, as follows; Engine, $12,000; baggage-car. $1,200: smokingcar, $">,000; dining-room-car, $12,000; live elegant Pulman cars, $18,000 each. $00,000. While this may seem to be an j exception, the ordinary express trains lep- I resent $83,000 to $85,000. The engine ! and tender, which arc considered together, J valued at $10,500; the lmgtfagc-car, $1,- i 000; the postal-car, $2,000; the smok- j : Ann. aivlmirv mw- I JIIL^-UJU, '{*'J,uuw, t?? v? , sender cars, $10,000 each, and three palace cars, $15,000 each?total, $8:1,000. This is a low rather than ail excessive estimate of one of the fast expresses. The palace ears, put down at $10,000, are in many eases worth $18,000, and .some Pullman cars are now j run which cost in the neighborhood of j $30,000. It is stated that the averagevalue of a freight train is still greater than a passenger train, when the rolling i-tock and value of property carried are included. Sometimes the freight on one j of these through fains aggregates in | value $'250,000 to $1100,000, and what is j a little singular is the fact that the trains moving westward are more valuable i than those moving eastward?a large | per cent, of the west-bound business J is merchandise or . valuable ma- | chinery, while nearly fifty-five j per cent, of the east-bound business is j irrain, which is carried in a car costing - $4.)0, and the property carried will av- | erage $400 per car, so that the entire ! train of twenty-five cars, engine included i are not. worth over $:$4,000 to $35,000, j while frequently one ear-loud of merchandise coming West will represent tliut value, and these palaces on wheels carrying thousands of passengers and the thousands of freight cars carrying mil- j lions of valuable property are dependent i for safety upon one man?the engineer, j There are other men?the conductor, baggage master, fireman, and three or j four brakemeu?but the hand upon the 1 lever and the brain directing it have an I immense responsibility. About 200,000 acres will be added to the cultivated lands of Arizona this year bv canals and irrigating ditches, at of $800.000 A TERRIBLE "FIRE. "Ti Destraotion of a Convent in Belleville, Iilkoia ! Many Nuns end Pupils Burned to ] Deothi 1 1 At 11 o'clock at night Are was discovered in the Convent of the Immacu'ati* Conception at Belleville, 111., the capital of bit. i Clair county, foiirteori nliles froni St. Lduis. Tlie nlarni was first given by the wateiman at Harrison's machine works, and Mr. , James Stout, of the City foundry, wa? about the first man attracted to the scone. When he reached *l'~ f Uir/1 flnht* LI1U jutitu buc wiiiuurr?* ui wg luhiv* j?v . s-nted a horrible spectac'.o. There, in their j night-clothes, suddenly aroused from their j slumbers, stood iu despair a large number of t( rriflo I inmates, 'l'nere was 110 chanco of rescue, and the only alternative was , the dread!ul leap. Soon afterward volumes of smoke were seen to spread throughout the building, followed b\ loud exDios- J ions, and then a few took the desperate chances of hurling themsolvo-s through the , windows. Mary Campbell was the flrst to , try the leap, but when her bjdy was lifted , up from the icy ravement she was iu a dying j condition, having sustained horrib'e injuries. By this time the alarm had spread through j the city, arid hundreds of me i appeared arid | consulted as to what was the best c urse of ( action. The fire engine had not yet arrived. ( and the flames were spreading rapidly, and i at many of the windows were to bo seen figures of women c ail in their night gar- j monts, tome of them leaning out and scream- i ing for assistance, others trying frant cally , to opon the i-nshes, which seemed to be [ beyond their power. Hundreds of men were j J. ready to rush into the place to rescue i . the inmates, but the doors were all lockod I and 60 solidly constiuctod that all ordi- i j nary attempts to break them in wore 1 , [utile. At Jast James stout nrocurea a ponderous bar, with which, a aozen men | using it as a battering-ram. an entrance : t was effected. A ru'-h was made up stairs, and many of the inmates were! J led through the blinding- smoke to the j | gn und in tafety, But to the horror of the j rescuers it was discovered that in ftccord- 8 ance with a rule of the convent tne bedrooms j c ha 1 all been locked, and a number of them } still remained so. The haltering ram was J brutigh 14o bear uj on thoso door al.->o, but; 1 they, too, proved of stout and unyielding ma- * terfal, and the gal'ant band were obliged to j ? abandon a lai ge number of the unfortunate > 1 inmates to their fato Among those wno ound themselves locked j 1 up in tho burning building was a young girl c named Daisy Eberle, who finally managed to ! J crawl through the windows of the third floor j I and llnd a perilous position on the cornice ! 8 over the main doorway. S:ie there remained a long time shrieking for sue cor. At last! tho confined flame and smoke burst fromtho windows around her and she was hurled to the ground below, but her r fall was broken by two men who stood ' r with outstretched arms to re eive her. I f CJU,? M'n (AMlAKoltf Hor ACnntU) ' ? OUV? ??"? UUV ."HJI IUUOIJ UUI VI w\.M|<w , was most in racuious. I3y this time the firo department had r.ached the s:cno, but it * was immediately discovered that while their engines were able to send water to the top of the building, a four-story brick structure, c onsisting of a main building ar?'1 two long wings, they harl no ladder which wc V1 reach i to the ton story. A numl>er of wo. en on tho top floor were seen rushing to and from the w ndows,gtsticulatin; wildly and stretching forth their arms in mute appeals for help. ! They broke the windows with their hauls and mod lor assistance. j The convent was a very fashionable edu- | catioual institution, young ladies from various f?irts in Southern Illinois, St. Louis and foreign countries being among its students. Almost all the unfortunates at the windows weiv young ladies and here an'1 there among th'iu were *een tho sisters heroically striving to keep the pauic-stricken from dashing themselves upon the frozen grouud b 'low. The lady superior was seen to move alternately between three rooms on the thir.t tloor, at the window! of which seven voung lalies were standing. The firo was raniuly a;>proachuig them, but she could bj seen pa-sing from group to group an I exhorting them to remain where they were. Suddenly a llame K- .A1>1 J nnsl fivn VAIino1 ladies oocupvinq it were seen to fall* back . from tho window. At the same moment Sister Jerome darte 1 from the next window, followed by the occupauta of the room, three in number. As they di I so a crash was heard, and that room also became filled with flames, and the floor c >llapscd immediately a terwnrd. Shortly after these horrible occurrences Emil J. Kohl and two others appeared u:wn the scene with a long ladder, which, after some hard work, was placed against the trout of the building. It reached to tho second floor ami two men ascended it. By nu ans of a smaller ladder wnieh they held in positiou tho third floor was reached and a number of the sisters and boarders were rescued. Sister Moderate abjut this time was found lying upon the j. round on the south side of the building, dead. About this time, on the south side of the main building, two ladies not known to the rescuers, were saved from the top of a veranda, even with thy second floor. They had leaped from tho story above, and iu their fall o i the roof were stunned, and when discovered wera nearly frozen. A short ladder was found, but it would not ria h them. At this juncture the men took the lad ler, and, resting it on tho projection of tho porch, managed to Hir-ure it, and the ladies were rescued. Tho flames were then rapidly spreading through the entire building, and in spite of th? etFoctsof the fi:enion the interior of the building was soon consumed. Nothing was left for the flremon to do except to save the walls. Tho wall on the west side washowever.doomed,nnd it soon fe'l carrying down with it b'azing tiinlwrs and fragments and burying with its debris the bodie-t of nianv voting ladies. On the fourth lleor pu nil hoarders' with three of the sisters s'ept. f On the third floor the remaining sisters slept, and on the second, or the floor above the basement, what are termed "orphans" aid "half-orphans" slept. On this recoinl floor the inmates escaped and were save I. The sis'er superior, three or four other sisters, and about twenty-five pupils, ranging from eight years to adult ace, lost their lives. crimes" and casualittes, Hiirdcr*, Hnngiiig*, SuiriilrN, Itailrnad Disiixt rs and Lnw<e^ bj i'irc iii According to rovisid statistic-1, the whole number of murders committed in the United States in 1XN! was a-.ainst 1,407 in l->x.', and !.-<:*> in 1**1. The causes wero a: follows: Liquor, 1H0; jealousy, 218; self-deft nee, 10; quarrels, 035; insanity,*>7; infanti- > dili', MO; latricide, 7; matricide, fratri- > ' i ' i cido. Hi: re-istingarrest, so; killed by tlunves , and liighwaym. il, 1-17; thieves and highway- i men kille<l, >0; unknown, I8-'i; criminal out- rage, tl; d;iels, 5; liy poison. 124. One hundred and J even hangings occurred in tho United States last, year, against 1-1 in r I and 10 in 1881. by States thoy were as t follows: I linois, .'1; District of Columb:a. 1; Pennsylvania. Massachusetts. 1; New Vork."t?; Vermont. l;New Jtr-.ey, 'J; Mon- t lana, 2: Ohio.-1: Indiana.'2; Caifornia, 1; * Texas, 7: Maryland. II; Arkan-as, 10; New Mexico, U; Indian Territory, 'J; Alabama M; ^ Georgia, Hi: North Carolina, 5: South Caro- j lina. 7; Virginia. 7; Missouri, 2: Mississippi, ! :t; Kh.rida, 1; Louisiana, <5; Tennessee, 2; : Kentucky, li. Of this number 54 were whites, 51 colored tall hang.-d in the South), 1 Indian, s 1 Mexican ami 1 Chinaman. , There were 727 suicides in tlu? I 'nited States in 1?8U, of which li e catists were: Melancholy, 21.r?; unknown, 1 business losses, 28; liquor, till; insanity, i : domestic infelicity, 1 72; ill-health, 40; di appuinttd love, til. j Railroad disasters i-i the United States rravhed the numlier of 775 in 1 .v8 against 1 in 1>82, and 1,010 in 1881. The w;io!e number injure I were 1,110, against 1,115 in 1 inn.', and 527 in I>81. 1 Po'al losses by flro in the TTnited States last I \ ear were: $ 11,5 .4,750. Following is the loss ' bv months: January. $5,110,000: February, ( U)i,0 0; March. *.',o.y.iMi; April, *2.oso.- ] 000; .Vay, * \f?0|,00.>; June, $2,Sx',0 0; July, i <ini no I- Aiifusr. $4.:;?;0.: 00: September, SV.i'iOO.ihO: Octolwr, ?(KX); November, < i>;;W,0iX); l)eceinl>er. S y-'il!,j INFEOTEiTcJATTLE ICe;>ort oi liie Coiiiiuiwion-IUi Iteconiiuct'datiosiMt Judge Fn-neh, assistant secretary of the l tieasury, has transmitted to the House the report of tho cattle commission. The commission recommends that the national government shall prevent the shipment northward out of the area infected with Texas r * oil stn + fln inn' from 117% VI Ul ttil VMKlll/ ?? WUU . """-J 0 I lie beginning ol' November t> the beginning of March. At to:.t ion is invited by the assistant secretary t<> the recommendation of tile commission, tlmt the secretary of the trea-ury shall be cmpowered to order the slaughter and 1 :afo dispo>al of all imported herds that may be found t ) be infected on arrival in the ] United States, or tliat may develop a dangerous contagious disease during a quarau- . tine: that ho be nl-o empowered 11 have all ruminants (other than (attle) and a:l swine imported into the United States subjected to msprc ion by veterinary surgeons, anil, if n: cessary to prevent the spr. ad of contagious disease, slaughtered or submitted to quarantine until they shall be considered disinfected; and that an appropriation of $I,5!)0,000 snail be made to defray the expense of , preventing, a further spread of tho lung plague ainon? cattle in this country, and of stamping out the plague now existing. ' One of the largest excursion parties ever j organized for an extensive tour, recently started from Boston lor California in a train of Tullman cars. It numbered l;?7 person;, most of them from New England. Two , months will Ik? suent in Monterey. Some in the travelers wfU return in April, some cf May, and some in June. 1 Dio Lrwis Bays: "More sunshine, ladies." I SUMMARY OF CONGRESS. Senate* Upon the reopening of tho session tha Senite, in c ra.iiitti'e of tho whole, restlnie 1 cona.leriltion of the rietf rules an t adopte I a:! 'xcept those cn ftpiifopriatio s rind standing j.)inniittees, which were reserved...Mr. tiib son submitted rt joint resolution for tho immediate appropriation of ?1,000,0');) to be expended hi the pre iervaiion. repair and construction of ceriain works fdr the iirnrovjtnent of the Missi-sJnpi, under the dire lion of the secretary ot War, and in ac -oi dancc 1.1 1-?: VV1MI Ult5 1 LVumiuuiiuuLrsjia VSL ma ? ??<?> ~ rivor commission. Four mes-ages were received from the President;?Orte transmitting a lot for from the secretary of ivrtr recommending the a le of the site of tile military jiost <)f Fort Sullivan, Maine; another trarismitting a communication from thesecrotaiy of th"> interior submitting the draft of a bill providing for the allotment of lands in severalty to certain tribes of Indians; a third transmitting another fcoinmutt cation from the sectary of the interior submitting t'io draft uf a bill to Allow Indiaii ho riles', c d en tries without payment of fens; arid pre-i-ntin1? the matter f. r th" considerat.i >11 of Congrc s, and a fourth trans pitting for tlu information of C ingrew papers showin< operations at the South P.lss of the ili.sssippi river to December, 1^'rt!, nnl setting forth the necessity for further appropriations of the Work..,. Mr, Hale's reso lution d;rec: ing the secretary of the flavy to report the original cost of all vessels fi.und on the naval register for IM'3 was passed. Mr. Miller, of New York, introduced a bill for the maintenance and support of marine hospitals... .Bills were pas? I for the relief )f the parents of Lieutenant Schwutka and o authorize the First National bank of Fort IV'orth. Texas, to increase its (aoital stock *?- <--l 1? 1 H.? TO<n ....nil. alimony uuereu luu iuiiuo.h^ ution, which, < n the suggetion of Mr. Vnn iVyck, went over till the next (lay: "That he committee 011 foreign relations he initructed to inquire into tho ex|*'diency of inch legis'ation ai sha 1 enable tho Executive o protect our Interests a rainsc, these governnenta which have irohibitod or restra ned tho mporlation of healtuful meats from the United States "....The report of the com nittee 011 rules was further considered. Mr. Dawes introduced a bill providing for he creation of a United States po.tal telegraph company under the direction of the jostoflice department Mr. Voorhee* introduced a Dill to equalize the bounties of 'jldiers. He said this bill was a copy of the >ne passed by Congress nine years ago. and etoed by President Grant on tho groun l hat it would take more money out of . -t e treasury iu:ui uie jiuuai. juici 'o?i variant. But there was so much f-ai'l now ibcut surplus revenue ami abundunco of noney, Mr. Voorhejs added, that he would e-introduce tho bill. In connection with the >ill he presen ed a reso ution, which was igreed to, calling for information from the eeretary of war as to the amount that would ? required to equalize the bounties... .Conideratlon of the new rules was continued. XfoiiNe> At the reopening of the House session, a evolution proposed by Mr. Reed was adopted, e [nesting the heads of departments to urnish the facts relating to the distribution c rculars in the departments asking conrihut.ons for political purposes..., Mr. t'ownshend offered a resolution, which was ulofted, rejuoiting the President tj urnish information relating to the ex!iu>ion of Americau hog products fro n (>e rnany ond France Six hundred and f?ven:y bills and resolutions were introduced. unong them being tho following: To ammu he Ciiincee emigration act; granting pensions to ail United States a rfdiers and sailors n the late war who served thirty days or >vere in any engagement therein, and to the iviilowa of all soldiers deceased; reducing the ay department of the army; to prohibit the nailing of letters or circulars conerning lotterias, or newspapers, pe-lodioals or other publications :o:.taining lottery advertiwmnts. and to jrovide a penalty for the vi j.'atio'i of this ict; granting pensions to soldiers and ail* rs of the late war who served for tiires nonths, and who are unable by reas >n of :ihy? cal di>abi ity to earn a subsistence, or .vuo are siitv-five years of age; to classify he lands of the United States as a;ricu'.;ur.:I, mineral, timbsr and grazing lan is; to ibo'ish the intern il revenue tax on tobacco; :o prevent undue contraction papercircuation; t) prohibit the issue of treasury and I ank note- of a less denomination than SK). A n.e-ja^e from the President was received xansmitting the report of the Mi-sis ippl iver improvements and recommending the ;arly passage of a bill continuing the work >f improvement A largs batch of bills ind resolutions was introdu ed, among thcin mlng the following: To prevent the u-eof the ['nlted States maifs in advertising injurious ned cines; to abolish tho duty on Bible, :raoe chains, plows and other articles; to reduce the salaries of heads of dej artments; giving to Congrest power to nass uniform laws regulating marriage and divorce in the State.-, and Territories; giving letter-carriers and e'erks thirty day's leave of ab<ence in cach year; to distribute a portion >f the surplus revenues among tho states; to place coal, sa t a id wood on tho free list; to establish a bureau of labor sta:Lstics; to establish a lailroad commission to emulate commerce among tho States; to reeal the iron-clad oath; to establish a department of industry. Under the tall )t States, Mr. Robinson (N. Y.) iutrolueed a resolution calling 011 the secretary )f state for information as to whether our niiiLsters obey the la.v of March 27, lSt?7, vhich forbMs them from appearing in public II ourt dress and requires them to wear the ? -- ' ; ?~ yt.. >rcmary apj an*i or an Aiwriuuu uiuwu. .m. 'ea -h pr.^pojed the following amendments ,o iho Constitution: 1. Uniform law? on .hi* sub'ect of marriage a id divor.-e; ti. Jiving the President power to veto 0:10 or nore items in an ap; ropriation bill; .'5. L'reating a statute of limitations to a.l claims gainst th? United Stato*; 4. Tho creditnoney and property of tho United State, lot to be loaned or be given to private cors wratiom; .r?. Pi ohibitingthe granting of ex :!usivo privilegi s and forbidding legislation n appropriation bil's. Mr. Douster iWis.) lis > i roposed a c: institutional amendment prohibiting Congress or tha State legislatures rom enacting an}' law proh biting or abridgng tho manufacture or sab of any article of n rchandi-e composed in part or in whole if any pro uct of the s il; and Mr. Sunnier. Wis. /a constitutional amen Iment limiting he veto pr wer of tho President by providing hat a measure may be j assed over his veto >y a majority vote. A it.solution offered by Mr. Kasson directng the committee 011 foreign affairs to inquire nto 1 he facts in regard to the prohihition-of ;he introduction ot certain food products of r.O L lllllll OIUMTB lllll# WV.-I iw.t.,.. v? ? . ri-s, and report w.,at notion shonlrt bo taken ;o .-e; ure the observance of our treaties with iUL-ii countries and protect the rights of ur c.ti o::s in respect, thereto, ivai adoped. Another s milar resolution offered jy Mr. 1)) uster was refcrred to the committo on commerce Mr. Slocum, from the iinmittee on nv'litr.ry all'ars, reporto l a bill or the reiief of Ll ne;-ali?'it/. John Porter, re toring him to hi.< rank in ih* army Mr, ilocum reported fro 11 the committee on shipmilding and shi -owning int'.?res s the .Jinglcv (-hipping hill as unanimously agreed 1 > by the committee.... l-'pon motion of Mr. Jehiltree resolutions of re-poet to the memory >f lierr l.aslcer, th Germ in sta'es'iiui who lied suddenly in New York, were passe !..:. Jr. Bagley "introduced a bill appropriating '150.0 hi for the Bartholdi statue pedestal itnd. Mr. King introduced a joint resolution for he appropriation i f $!.U'K),0.)0, in a'<orltnce w.th the urgent ropiest of the Missisippi river commission, f. r the Improvement >1 tlmt river Mr. Springer olFer.-d a resoution authorising the committee on ox|>endiures in the do; artment of justice in making lie investigation re piiro 1 by the rules to end lor 1 ersons and paj?ers. Adopted. A YEAR'S COINAGE. The following in a statement of the coinage >xecuted at the mints of the United States luring the calendar year 1SS!, cjuts omitted: Denomination. J'ieces. Value. Double eagles 1,'J-W.OOJ *2I,9>0,01:) agles liM'.WO 2,5!iri,40U da.f eagles :>2J,.V.W 1,<U7,!?1I0 " ? '-i-id '-'.SrJO i nreu uunui . ... Quarter eagles iKO 4,!K):) iJoilnrs lo,S4'J 10,540 Total gold l,t>T?l,HS0 $25?,an,5?!IO Stamlnrd dollars... t?S,4*0,n;i:> $N,470,0:i:i Half dollars 4,5:11 Quarter dollars.... :>',sv.i Uiniaj. 7,t>7.*?,71^ 707.571 Total silver.... " >. 17l>,*.-?il $.?!?,LM.V.W'.i Five cents 2i,'.M53.4iI f l.I4S,471 l'h lo- cents lil.lKW :{1 s Due cent 4.VV.H, 100 lo.j.'.isi Total minor <i\-W,l;K> $l,?!()l,770 Total coinage.. 1(X!,00 ),~4S *00,WJ, 74'J MISCELLANEOUS MATTERS, ' _ i.i ii t\ Infih v^ar. JNDIA.NA imu j Iowa's new capitol c >st over $2,000,000. Church music is not difTicult to a choir. Over">,0 0 Cunudians are engaged in the lumber busin.'sv. A New Yohk florist claims to soli 20,00J rubeLuds every Jay. There i?one lawyer for every TOOpooplo in the United S.atcs. The orange co-is of Florida are now ivorth over . 'I'ALMAfiK's c'lureh lias V,!(0!) members, or 11-1 more tlia;i Beecli'.-r's. India in!;, according to Chinese writers, was invented 7 B. C. Mobile is trying to run ofF the tramps by inflicting heavy penalties. A farm eh in Clinton, S. C. Mr. Fielder, a bachelor, is 11):; year* old. A New York liquor feller shows the up...miinotfl own nf "A Horn." Kai.n'IT (po!ft>h salts) is dug from be Is .*500 1,','CKJ feet below the surface. At the great Vandorbllt ball in Now York ?-:<\<)OU was spent for ilowors. Cocoanuts, a? nvll as pineapples and uianges are grown in Florida. One Chicago lirni slaughtered 1,0^0,0(KJ hogs and i?l,oC0 cattle last year. NEWS OF THE WEEK. Eastern and Middle States. When the Western cold wave struck New Ergland and the Middle States the ther* inofneter dropped to extraordinarily low figures itl ftianjr places, particularly in vermoilt. At Innbridge, Vt., the mercury fell to 40 degrees beloW zero; Royalaton, 3(5 degrees; Newbury, 113 degrectf. Attrv. Major ard Parah IfHfsdem two highly-connected and cultured young ladies, Were drowned while skating on the Susquehanna river, near Forty Fort, Penn. The total caftfh rf ma-ktrel by the Now England fleet Inst, year ifraS harreLs, a decrea'O of 15:2,17t< barrels over the previous year's catch. Dr. Edward Lasker, a distinguished Gertn&n statesman wh > had Ixen on a visit to this cotinfcry sine last May, diid suddenly in New York & fhto days since of heart disease. New York City has a Mnded debt of ?02,540,000. A Chinaman was foun l murdered in his laundry in New Yo-k, having received fourteen stab wounds. Tho victim's brother and two other Chinamen wens arrested on suspicion; Mayor Martin, of Boston, in his annual message fays the city's <'eb" is an increase of nearly SI,500,000during tile j?tr, Samuel Brower, a farmer seventy years old, banned himself in a fit of insanity at his I V?r>rv?o none Vavmi'lKT/lflll*. N". ?T. A fire at Meadville, Penn., destroyed the Culiom block, containing; ft fine opera-hons^, large stores, offices And lodge rooms. The losses will aggregate about fc.00,000, Great damage to property has been done along tho At'autic coast bv the recent severe storm. Tho Ne v Jersey and Long Island ccast suffered heavily. Vessels were driven af hore. piers washed away, and buildings at the summer resorts were carried out to sea. The damage at Coney Island. Long Branch and Atlantic City alone will acrgreeate more than $300,000. Boarding houses, stores, dwellings, bath-hou<es, and other bu ildings at Atlantic City wore washed away and carried to sea. The whole amount of damage done a'ong the Atlantic coa t it is believed will aggregate more than-$l,000,00). Smallpox has been lapidly spreading at Girardville, Penn., and tho public schools have been closed. Governor IVallkr in his annual mosra^e to the Connecticut legislature disapproves of biennial sessions. The State debt is $4,272,100. Some twenty men were shoveling snow in a deep raiiroad cut near Brinton, Penn.. when they were run into by a tr.iin, two of their number instantly killed, a third fatally Injured and four others badly hurt Two colossal mortgages have just been recorded. The Buffalo, INew York& PhiladolT>?% AAmnnnv V?OQ ltfi pint* itariwu .? property to a Philadelphia trust company for j2.'i,000,0(Xl, nnd the Denver and Rio Grande Kailroad fonipa'iy to a New York trust company for $50,10 >,0.')0. At a meeting of the joint executive committee of the trunk line railroads and their Western connections, held in New York, the East-bound rates were restored. South and West. Cold weal her such as has not been felt in vears has prevailed all over the West and Northwest, and many cases of persons fre ;/<lng to death lmve been reported. In Dakota the weather has been the coldest; ever known, the thermometer at Jamestown falling to forty-eight degrees ba'ow zero. At other points in the We-ctho thermometer fell to the following fitrures below zero: Bismarck, Dakota, o9; Omaha, Neb., 34: Dubuque, Iowa, 32; Detroit, 30; Chicago, 27; Cincinnati, 2-5; St. Louis, 23; Cleveland, 14; Chattanooga, Tenn., 2. The newly-built Park theatre, of Cleveland, Ohio, has been destroyed by Are, and m total loss of $ir)0,c00 sustained. A kibe at Pelleville, 111., thirteen miles from St. Louis, destroyed the Convent of the Immaculate Conception and was attended with a terrible destruction of human life. The flames originated in a furnuce in the basement and spread with fearful rapidity. There were about sixty pupils in the convent, all girls, from eight years to adult age, and about twenty five of them perished in the flames, beside the sister su:>erior and three uw1ci di3w3jo. A BOY ami a girl named Hines, six ftnl seven years old, were frozen to death in their bed at Independence, Iowa. Foi k prisoners lost their lives in a Are which burned down the jail at Jersejville, 111. Three hunter3 got lost on a prairie in the Indian Territory, an I were frozen to death. The Democrats having a majority in the Ohio legislature, there was a determined struggle to secure the caucus nomination for United States .Senator to succeed Mr. Pendleton. The fight was between Senator Pendleton and ex-Congressii.aiT H. B. Payne, of Cleveland, with General Durbin Ward ns a compromise can | didate. Mr. Payne was successful, however, I on the first ballot.receiving foriy-ei^ht votes j to seventeen for Ward, fifteen for Pendleton ! and two scattering. John J. Lu.wv, a contract >r. and two workmen were kil'ed by falling fifty feet from a scaffold at Milwaukee, Wi:. A cremation society has be?n organized i j New Orleans. Governor McLane's inauguration at * ?. _ \r.i o nhnroaf,pp [ Anuapons, .uu., >viu ui u , | and the inaugural address to the legislature j was conspicuous for its brevity. I Flames destroyed the cooper shops and I boiler shops of the Minnesota State peniteni tiary at Stillwater, causing a dumago of about $ .'00,(,00. | li. D. At( iiisun, n desperate character finj prisoned in the Monter v (Va* ja 1 for .stab, biug a man, wa< taken from confinement by ; a crowd, hanged and then rid'lUd with bu'i lets. j An entire family of negroes?William I Crpom and wife and six children?were I bunn d to deatli on a plantation in Lenoii county, X. C. In Walker c< unty, Ala., on the Georgia Pacific railroad, a drunken negro shot and killed a lailroad contractor i:auied Pope. The colored railroad hands at once banged the murderer to the nearest tree. M. "Waterman <fc Co.. Ran Francisco, graiu I dealers, have failed for about j A crowd of "rustlers" at Seven Rivers, I V. \f without dp vi cation fired into a gaiis j of nine Mexican laborer, killing four oJ 1 them. Washington. | In the case of the New Orlfans National bank against tho New Orleans postmaster Judge Pardee. of the Unite 1 States circuit i court, lias decided that the latter has no right to interfere with the deliveranco of the former's mail. It was charged that the bank I was acting as agent for, an 1 receiving the , mail of the Louisiana Lottery company: o:ul the postmaster, acting under orders from , "Washington, refused to deliver the bank's maii, whereupon that institution got out an j injunction. The motion to dissolve th s injunction was argued by Attorney-f?e:iera' Brewster in j>erson at New Orleans. The 1 court d( o'ded in favor of the bank, decreeing that it was entitled to the full and free use of the mail?, and furl her ordere 1 that the mcI tion to dissolve the injunction be denied. Last year the various United States mints coined gold and silver pieces, j worth $60,033,74'.), i Tiie House conimitteo on pensions proposes to reduce the number of agencies where funds are disbursed from eighteen to ten < r twelve, at the mo t prominent commercial j centers. Aktkk serving eighteen \ ears as clerk of the House committee on appropriations, 1 fYiiniipl Robert .T. Steven; ha > been nomina j ted by the President as Unite! Siate^ con u! at Palermo. (Jtlier nominatins by the I President are: J. A. Lenard, consul-general j at Calcutta: Boliver J. Pridgen, consul at Piedras Negras; Oscar Malmros, of Minnei sota, consul at Loith: Frank H. Mason, coni sul at Marseilles: John L. Haine. of Wiseon! sin, consul at Cognac; George Gifford, consul . at Basle. The Senate confirmed the following nominations: George H. Sag.-, of Ohio, tolte Uni; ted States district judge, southern district of Ohio; William A. Wood-!, of Indiana, t<> be : United Suites cistrict fudge for the district , ot Indiana: James R. Haliowell, of Kansas, United States district attorney for the district of Kan-as : William J. Gali braith, of Montani, to be associate justice of the supreme court of Montana: A. W. Sl eldon, of Maryland, fo bea^ociate justice of the supreme "court of Arizona: Andrew .Mason, of New York, to be superintendent of the Unite 1 States a?say office at New York: B. T. Martin, ot New York, to be nulter and refiner of the United States as ay office at New York; Frank F. Claussen. of Louisiana, to be inciter and refiner of the United States mint at New Orleans, The report of the acting secretary < f the , United States Senate for the fiscal year ei ded June: 0 las t, contains tin foil > wing sla'istics: For inaKing pa.M? +>u pomms flour were consumed. Tlie packing boxes for the transmission of seeds, etc., to Senators' constituents cost i?770. The expenses of sj>ec-ial ami select committees, covering the several invest'gations and .-junketing parties, amounted to ?15,!)1>1.01. This included the pay of clerks and stenographers for the.-;!' committees. Tht l hire of carriages co.-?t jii 'l.'iO. '1 hero were bought during the year from tboJndeptndent Ice companv f0.>, 110 pounds of ice. whicii 1 cost $2,5:50.7.>. fn July, 188.', the consumption . of ice was i:{7.>IKi ijour.ds. whi e in August it was but 0. For washing towels, was expended. Among the pecu iar purchases v as a bottle of arnica, three dozen shoe brush sets, at rer dozen: one dozen Italian cosmetics, one-half dozen I.ubin's powder, two dozen bottles of ginger. To one . firm alone $8;i'J.07 was paid for soap. Mb. Stevenson, of the United States Geo ?* - -l-~ in Aim. logical survey, reports mo ui^.v.. ... zona of several ancient cave and cliff citie< differing in some respects from any he hac before examined. A Washington dispatch says that Mr, Morrison, chairman or the ways and means committee, has completed his tariff bill. "It is nof, as has been supjiosed, a bill of thre< 1 housand items. No bill of three thousan items will bo prs-ente 1 by Mr. Morrison t< I the ways una means committee, and that i committee will report no such bill to th< House. Thore is reason to believe that lh< bill wjij not uc morw tuau uik- uuu\uw* i printed lines in length. It. Will propose, in short, what is known as a horizontal reduction of an average from twenty to twentyfive jx>r cent, in the whole tariff list. It will contain beside, provisions to correct some of ' he crudities of the existing tariff, and will propose some additions totne free list." Drttixo the first three months under the new tariff law the value of dutiable merchandise imported was 811315,330,848, as against $144,012,940 during the same period in the preceding year. The duties collected were $50,725,as ngainst $51,203,783, of which sugar yielded $13,507,4 .'8, as against $13,407,?y~o, abd wool $1,429,222, as against $800,425. The California concrre: sional delegation ha; united with all of the Pacific coast delegation for the purpose of pre. aring new legislation for the restriction of Chinese emi I pration. It is claimed that there are many way's Of wading the present law. The United States has filed in the court of claims a counter claim against the Union Pacific Railroad company for ftt7 for alleged indebtedness totheUnitad States, including five per cant of the earnliigt of the read, * HkctIetahy CHandt er gave a dinner to President Arthur. The other puests were the tecretarieS Ot itat*, war, the treasury and the interior, the i-d tmasrer-general, the attorney-general, Speaker Carlisle, the chiefjustice, Lieutenant-General Sheridan, Admiral Porter, Vice-Admiral Rowen, Senator Edmunds, Assoc ate JnstiCJ Wyliie, George Bancroft and Henry Steers. foreign. Two of the nihilists who took part at St Petersburg in the murder of LieutenantKiirtaiirin hn.vA rliml of iniurias re ceived. ' Germany and Russia are combining for protection against the plots of the socialists and nihilists, a conference lasting two days having taken place at Friedrichsruhe between Prince Bismarck and Prince Orloff, the Russian ambassador ti Paris. The French government will assist in the replanting of the vineyar.ls in France witn cuttings from American vines. The Egyptian ministry has resigned on account of England's attitude toward Egypt. Count Tolstoi, Russian minister of the interior, has been sentenced to death by the nihilists. Two thousand steel workers in London struck against a reduction of wages. A dispatch to the London Times from Paris say?: "Statistics show that the prohibition of the importation of pork from America seriously curtails the fool supply of France, and, as in such prohibition the imports from other countries fell off. it is evident that there is no other source where ? J .1 Parlo. iroui \J11V uuiijttiiu van w ou^^uvu, aimtwmeut has undertaken a heavy responsibility iD advi.-ing the prohibition." The French press bitterly attack England fi r abandoning tbe large section of country known as the Soudan to El Mahdi, the False Prophet. Two thousand Annamites attacked a French jxjst, which was held by fifty marines. After several hours' hard fighting the enemy retirei, with the Iosj of 100 in killed and jvounded. During a Are near Hanoi, in Tonquin, the French artillery magazine was b'.own up and a large quantity of shells and munitions for the French fleet was desiroyed. Several Frcnch artillerymen and ten auxilliaries wore wounded. Sixty thousand Italians took part in a pilgrimage to the tomb of the late King Victor Emanuel at Rome. Aureuan Scholl, a prominent Parisian journalist, a id Count Albert de Dion, a gay a:id festive French nobleman, have fought a due!, in which the former was wounaed in the side. Eight persons were killed or injured at a fire in tne barracks of Braga, Portugal. The French losses at the capture of Sontoy are oflieia ly stated to be four officers killed, finrlnlpi'an ?sli11 v wniindftd. and feventy-seyen ?nen killed* and 281 wounded. PROMINENT PEOPLE Tennyson.?Baron Tennyson's wealth in property is said to be between $1,000,000 and $l,?0J,U00. Or futt?Charles S. OfTutt, the newspeaker of the Kentucky house of representatives, is but twenty-seven years old. Saulsbury.?Senator Saulsbury, of Dela ware, is the only raennar of the Unit3 Stateirtsenate who has never been married Hu.ntkr.?William Hunter, assistant secre tary of state at Washington, has been i.i tho employ of the government for flfty-threo yi ars. Loud Ripon.--Lord Ripon, the Viceroy of India, in less popular than he was. He has more tiian once been hooted in the streets of Calt utta. i Bismarck.?Prince Pismarck's voluntary rrduc ion of weight from 2 57 to 1!I5 pounds has ma'erially improved both his appearance a':d his hea th. Scekman.?Senator John Sherman is de cribed as bnng tall, thin, st op-hhouldered, wii h gray hair, sparse beard, deep wrinldes a d steel blue eyes, and wearing ba lly-fitting clothe-. Peel.?Mr. Arthur Peel, who will probably bo the next speaker of the house or com11 ons, is described as a tall, dignified and , gocd-looking gentleman, not wanting either ia judicial calm or in decision. Dalrymple.?Oliver Dalrymple. of the the famous wheat farm in Dakota, is described I. as a tvpical 'Uncle Sam'' in appearance. His face is "j>eaked" and his hair long. He w ears a big white hat and old-fashioned farmer's <-Ioth'.*s. Nelson.?Hon. Knute Nelson, member of the Forty-eighth Congress from Minnesota, is the first Scandinavian ever elected to that boJy. He represents a race of men who are fast gaining prominence in the politics of the | Norinwest. Thuhma.v. ?.Venator ana iurs. Alien it Tliunnau have left Columbus for Eureka Springs, Ark., and will make an extended 1 tour South. The ex-Senator expects to take in Florida and olher pointy Ho is suffering very much from rheumatism. AnELL.?'The richest man in Baltimore is the venerable but vigorous founder of the Baltimore Sun, Arunah S. Aboil. It is difficult to: ay how much he is worth; not less ; than a dozen millions certainly, and the ! amount of his fortune is variously estimated at any figure unto $20,0J0,(W '. Lowell.?James Ru-sell Lowell, United S ates minister to England, is a strikingly fino man of sixty-four Ho apparently jK>s-*'sse- a good dt al of muscular power and vigorous health for his years. He has kindly blue eyes. His hair, natura'ly brown, and beard, naturally auburn, are fast losing their distinctive'lines in theencn achment of j the silvery threa ts. In manner, he is genial, our) ir.'n.l, niul to stramrers one of ! the most a;>i r. actable of men. i Morrison.?Re; resentative " Bill" Morj lison, of Ilii :ois is described as "a knotty I but we 1- proportioned man of medium height i with a well-shaped heart, generally disheveled , hair, bu-hy eyeu. ows, black eyes, short, griz| 7.1 v la an! a ;rt mu-ta'-he, and, for a farmer, i singularly small hands and feet. He wears a , s i.ucli hat a d tarries his ban Is in his pock: els. He loves to lean with his back against a 1 pil ar in the hotel lobbv and talk sense and j n m.s use interniiuglevl to a throng in front of ! Lini.'* Clkmens. ?Samuel L. Clemens (Mark Twain) has paced so many ltcture platforms I that tie pubic is more familiar with his personal appearance than with that of most authors. He is coinpa t iu figure, of medium heigh", and has a frank, sensib'e face, touched with good nature, but revta'jng beh n 1 that no small amount of resolution. IIis conversation is replete with the humor that characteriz es his writings. He is just forty-eight years of age. was married thirteen years since, and enjoys much domestic comfort with his wife ami two charming little girls at a pleasant; mansion in Hartlord, I i Vmn I MUSICAL AND DRAMATIC. There are :!4.'? music halls in Loudon. ! Henry Irving is playing a two weeks' eni gngenient in Chicago. j The Press Club, of BufTulo, gave Mile. l\hea, the actre.-s, a reception. It is thought that Mr. Irving will carry home '"golden" opinions of America. j Herr Joachim, the violinist, is coming to i America to give a hundred concerts. | Hakti.ev Campbem., the playwright, is in I poor health, the result of overwork and bus| mess anxiety. | Beethoven oecanie deaf in 1801, blind in I"-','.-), ami died in lS^T, after composing l;J7 ! different works. j Sir George Macfarran was obliged to I dictate his late musical composition, "King I David,"' being blind. The opera season of four weeks cost New I York upward of $750,(00, of which Patti [ got about ten per cent. I Albert Berc; has written a history of the American sta^e, which is in i ress, and w,ll shortly make its api>earanco. 'Our Nation's Pets'' is the title given a new comic o:>era, the music by J. 11. Sullivan, the libretto by \\\ K. Watts. ; | M.ve. Samary, of the Theatre Franeais. I Paris, has declined an olFer of $HK),(ioi) fur a i two years' professional tour in the United i States. 1 The name of the play which Gi Ibert ha ; written for Mary Andtrson is "Comedy and ' I Tragedy." A git-ill but. cuss is uiiLii_:p<iiA_-u I for it. ' j Hf.nry Irving, says a rumor, thinks of ' building a theatre in New York, and putting | Joseph Hatton, tlie London journalist, to manage it. It is said that Gobbaerts (who spells him. ' self backward?Streabbog), the note lGerman composer, purposely introduces slight mis* I takes in some of his compositions, in order to enjoy the frenzied casernes; with which his muMcal "fnends" point tli?in out to him. Only nine of the thirty-eight Statos have regular sessions of their legislatures this winter?Massachusetts, Connecticut, New York. New Jersey. Marylat^l, Ohio, lowo, Ken tucky and Mississippi. Cocoanct culture is being tried in Florida LATUK DlttWO. John Shea, a weaver, working in a mill near Providence, R. I., cut his wife's throat end then killed himself in the same manner. -3 Millions of bushels of wheat were thrown on the Chicago market, and the result was a big drop in prices. Stephen Richards was liaueed at Au. j burn, Cal., for the murder of Thomas Nichols, and treated the matter coolly, mounting the scaffold while smoking a cigar; John Jarvij suffered a similar penalty on the sam< day at Princess Anne Court House, Va., for murdering Claudius W. Bonney, and at Ham well Court House. S. C., Isaac Anderson colored) was swung into eternity for th? murder of a white man named Williams. At a meeting of the House committee on postofflcos and postroads Mr. Money was authorized to report to the House favorable action on the b.ll ma'dn j all pub'ie roads and highways post routes, and givin? the " postmaster-general power to estab'i-ih postal service whenever in his judgment, the public welfare required it Further confirmations by the Senate: Fiank H. Mason, to be United States con-"" sulat Marseilles; Samuel W. Ferguson, of Mississippi, to be a member of the Mississippi River commission, vice Jame3 B. Eads, resigned; Robert J. Stephens, to be United . ^ States consul at Palermo; George Gifford, to be United States consul at Basle; Bolivar J. Pridgen, to be United States consul at Piedras Ne^ras. r.wrpiT "pttnirse" Gordanhas resigned his commission in the British army and en- -jO gaged with the Belgian government to suppress the slave trade on the Congo, Africa. Fifty-six steamers at Marseille?. France, were abandoned by their crews, who had gone on a strike. Hugo Schencke, a resident of Viennat , -*?9 has confessed to having murdered and robbed four girls whom he bad promised to marry. He also murdered bis aunt and niece, and had an accomplice, who was captured. LATER CONGRESSIONAL, NEWS. Henate. Mr. Call introduced bills to establish a , university of medicine, and to prjvjde lor the establishment of postil savings banks Mr. Edmunds introduce 1 abillfor the relief of fie survinw of the exploring steamer Jeaunette, and th3 widows and children of those who per she 1 in the retreat from the wreck... .Mr. Vun Wyck, frjrn the committee on the improvement of the Mississippi river, submitted a bid appropriates ?1,U00,QJ0 to c^ntiuue the improvements already begun. It was rea 1 three ti nes and pa sed Mr. Cullom adJressei the S ;nate with regard to his bi.l to re )r ^ani w the le *is'ative power of Utah, the Territory to be ruled by a govi rnor and nine counci'men The bill was discus >ed also by Messrs. Browa and Garland. Mr. Brown interposed con- ' stitutional objections to the bilL FODETEEN LIVES LOST. Shipwreck of a Ve*#el on (Ito New Jeiatey Coavt. The bodies of Captain Thompson, his wife, and five of the crew of the bark Elmira were washed ashore on the barren reef which . ji~j9 stretches from Life-Saving Station No. 18 to 21. on the New Jersey coast. The crew ol station 2) heard the bark's guns ear y in the morning. A few mcments later the vessel struck the reef head on. Six or seven attempts were made to shoot a life-line to the sinking ship, but before the line could b? made fast the ?ea. which wa$ running mountain high, threw the vessel broadside on the bcach. It was but a few momenta' work < f the breakers to crush her in thou ands of pieces, and all on board?eleven seamen and the wife and child of the captain?were p ainly visible to the horror-stricken coast guardsmen t *? --? 'L. ?- ? *** tViAtri ii rucrmpnt* ? [>eiui e lUtr j*Ttt STTauuucu vuwim . of the wrec.c were swept over the bar i.ito Egg Harbor Inlet and Jittered the coast for a distance of fifteen miles, TOLD BY THE PEESS WAGS. | j SO ME GOOD 8T0BIB8 FOtTJJD XJT HTTMOBOTTS EXCBAHOBS. ! Doctor and PatJent?1Two tor a (quarter?Only a Calf?It make* a Difference?Not Exactly* DOCTOR AND PATIENT. In one of our large towns a middle' aged individual, suffering from indiges! tion and various other ailments, having j been advised to consult the leading j)hyj sician of the locality, was ushered into : the latter's private room, w nen ne naa ; detailed the spmptoms of his malady, ! loss of appetite, sleepless nights, and so j fourth, "Ah," said the doctor, "I see ; how it is. You require plenty of air and ! exercise, but -we will soon bring you j round. Nothing so bad for the digesI tion as sedentary habits, desk work, and j that sort of thing. You must manage to j walk as much and as often as your business will allow. By the by, what is I your business?" "Traveling peddler for the last five-and-twenty years," replied the patient. A TWO FOB A QUARTER. He was smoking a fine, full-flavored ! Havana when he met a friend. "Have a cigar?" he inquired, politely. "Thanks," said the other, gratefully, | taking and lighting the proferred weed. After a few experimental puffs, how1 ever, the friend removed the cigar from his lips, and, looking at it doubtfully, said, ] with a very evident abatement of grati| tude in his tone: "What do you pay for these cigars?" "Two for a quarter," replied the origi; nal proprietor of both weeds, taking his i nwn ritrar out of his mouth and lookin&r ! at it 'with considerable satisfaction; "this cost me twenty cents and that five." The conversation languished at this point.?Puck. "only a calf." Murphy heard cows in his orchard one ./$ night, and, slipping out the back way, appeared suddenly near the front steps, and yelled, " He-ah, Tige ! He-ah, Tige! Iie-ah, Tige!" Just then a figure rushed past, cleared two fences, and vanished in the gloom. " Take 'im, take 'im!" screamed the ; old man; but his daughter Miranda, j who had unaccountably arrived on the scene, secured the dog by the collar and ; refused to let go. " What ye doin'," yelled the old man, , " rlon't ye know tnem cows nave Deenin here three or four times!" %"Oh, pa," was the answer, "but this j was only a calf." The old man was pacified,but Adolphus, who was standing out in the road waiting for developments, wasn't; and Miranda will never understand the coldness that has sprung up between them.? Peek's Sun. NOT EXACTING. "One word," she said, "before we part," and her bright eyes glowed in the mellow light of the turned-down lamp, "are you sincere?" "I am sincere," he replied, in tones whose truthfulness coutd not dc ctouuiea by any one, save the most confirmed pessimist. "Then you cannot give me a palace by Lake C'omo?" and she looked into his eyes as if she would read his inmost soul. * "I cannot," he answered. "Not even a brown-stone front?" "No." There was a wonderful firmness, a don't-you-forget-it-ness in the tone in which this momentous monosyllable was spoken. "Not even a cottage in the suburbs?" "Not even that, darling." There was an anguish in his accents that indicated a mind wholly given up to the gnawing inroads of a sharp-toothed despair. "What can you offer me, then?" she asked; "what can you offer me as an incentive to induce me to become your bride?" "A share in seven dollars a week, with a prospect of a rise, next spring." ite said this with all the deep conviction of a man who knows just how he stands. It is sufficient," she said, with a radiant smile; "I am yours, Algernon. .\ half loaf is better than no bread."? ?0)1. trcille Journal. '< lie Eddy6tone Light of the Pacific is :<> lip erected on Soal Rock, St. George's Reel', eight miles from the shore, opposite Crescent City, Cal. and will co*t $ 100,000. The highest point of Sc..! Rock is fifty-four feet above mean ii<!< The light vrlll be 100 feet higher. - A