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F" ABBEVILLE PRESS AND BANNER.! BY HUGH WILSON. ABBEVILLE, S. 0.. WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 6, 1884. NO. 32. VOLUME XXVIII. |j|| Trust fulness, In peace the day is ended, nnd tho night Falloth A3 doth a veil upon tho 9ea; Along its bosom comes with swilt-wiuged flight The grey mists, silently. 0 anxious heart, how Nature speaks! Her power How leisurely she uses! How intense The infinite peace ot her most fruitful hour! How soft her influence! Time hath she for her storms to sweep the main; To rock the tico top3 with her winds ot wrath; To bring forth frngrance in the summer rain; And lime lor snow she hath! So dear, lor all thy eager soul desires, She kc'-ps sweet times and seasons. In her mood Is hid lor thee all pn^ion's subtle fires To round Hit womanhood. Cense then! nnd in this dewy twilight raovo As one who asks not whither, cares not why; This tor all holds still the Eternal love? God's endless by-and-by. THE DRIVER'S STORY. In '67 Jake Poole was staging the route frotu Gallatin to Helena, in Montana, driving a four-horse coach in summer and a "jerky" in winter, , seventy miles a day through the wild V, est region ano over one 01 me mosi dangerous routes in the United States. \ The country through which his trail - ran?for it was little else than a trail? was totally uninhabited, but for three stage stations where horses were changed, and which were dug-outs, or log-huts, twenty miles apart The Indians, though generally friendly, were liable to become enemies at a moment's warning: road agents and outlaws were thicker upon the Gallatin route than any other north of the Union Pacific railroad, and the route itself ran through gullies and canons, and along the verge of dizzy precipices, as though originally laid out by mountain sheep. Notwithstanding this, Jake was a successful driver, made better I time, lost fewer mails and express safes, and ran his coach at a smaller expense to the company than any other man in their employ. But when misfortune did overtake him, it was no light hand that the genius of evil laid upon him, which the following adventure goes to prove: One muggy morning in early May as Jake hauled up in front of the stage office and prepared to receive mails, express and messenger, and passengers if any there should be for Helena, the Wells-Fargo agent called to him from within. Throwing the reins over the foot-brake, Pool descended from his perch and entered the office. The agent shut the door behind him; then, drawing near, he said, in a halfwhisper : "There's fifteen thousand in cur\ reney in the safe to take over to-day." "All right," responded Jake. "I've carried more before now, and carried it safely." "But," said the agent, drawing still nearer, "Dick's sick, and there's no messenger." "Ah," said the driver, meditatively; then, touching the revolver which hung at his belt, "I'll be messenger and coachman both, then."-~ "But," still continued the other, "there's one thing more," an he leaned forward so that his lips touched his ' companion's ear. '"Copper Tom* and his pal, 'Old Jim,' are on the road. A man from Cross Trees was robbed by them last night." rooi wmsueu long ana low, ana rus hand fell from his pistol-butt. "Copper Tom" was the worst road agent in Montana?a desperado with both courage and brains. "Don't send the rags." "I must,'I said the expressman, anxiously. -The order is peremptory; the money must go to-day, messenger or no messenger. Now, will you take it and carry it through V" Jack laughed. "I'll take it; that's part of my busi- ! ness. Throw the safe under the seat ! and give me your pistol; 1 may want; two." And he took the other's revolver from the desk where it lay and B thrust it into his boot-top. "As to ! H carrying it through, that's another | B. matter, with those fellows to stop it. i H But I'll promise you this?if I go I H through, the safe shall." ^?.. The agent grasped his hand and j shook it warmly. The door was thrown open, the driver mounted his seat, the iron box was stowed beneath his feet, the single passenger (an old B woman, to be left at the first station) H got in, the whip cracked, the horses H plunged, the coach lurched heavily for- I B "ward, and amid a shower of mud dis-1 appeared down the steep mountain j Iroau. Although it was May the morning i was cold, and it was not until the sun ' had climbed well up the eastern sky j that the chill thawed out the air, and by that hour Pool was more than t wen- ! ty miles upon his journey, with fresh 1 horses in the traces and an empty ! coach behind him. lie began to brighten up with the sun. "After I get through the Devil's Pass," said he to himself, "Copper Tom or any other man may whistle for me, for from that to Dickson's is as handsome a road as ever a horse struck foot upon, and whoever tries to stop me there, unless he shoots first, will go under the leader's feet. I intend to | make that little seven miles in just I twenty-eight minutes without brakes." ! And he gathered his reins with ;r firmer hand, sis if already whirling at j that mad pace down the mountain-side, j "Let's see," he continued, "if nothing j I goes wrong and the road s all right, 1 ought to make my last change by five o'clock and reach the pass before six. i It will then be broad daylight, so I can rattle right along, and then, after the spin down the 'causeway,' I'll strike Dickson's before seven, certain, lieyond that, the road is too open and too 1 much traveled into Helena to be dangerous. By Jove!" he concluded, his heart warming as he struck his heels against the safe beneath the seat, "I don't see where the agents can stop me, unless?Good heavens! what if they try it in the very pass itself? I had not thought of that!" The man was silent for a moment, and his face grew grave; then brightening, he shook his reins, loosened his revolvers in boot and belt, and, with a sigh, concluded his soliloquy with the remark: I "Well if they should meet me in the pass, 'twill be about an even thing. If they miss their first shot, I'll run 'em down, drive them into the canon, or drop them with my pistols. If they don't miss, why then the swag's their's." It was now high noon, and soon . station two was reached, where horses were again changed, and where Pool dined upon jerked bear-meat, hot bread and black coffee. Strong food, but none too strong for the long ride yet before him. A n li A A/1 f Vi o Vtrvv Iii? lie luuuiiiuu tuc uua auu, pirprtied to depart, the keeper of the station slipped from his dug-out and drew near. "There's an old pard down the road apiece who'll want a ride. He war here 'bout two hours ago. He'll bear . watchin'." And the rough frontiersman touched the pistol-butt which protruded from his open shirt-front to emphasize his warning. . Jake nodded. --^Thanks, Tom I IH keep my eyes open. So long!" The fresh steeds in harness sprang I strongly forward, and the empty coach whirled away. "It's Old Jim, sure!" whispered Pool to himself, as his trained eye searched the winding road before him. "The old scamp wants to ride so that he'll be on hand when Copper Tom turns up in the pass. I see it all." The teeth closed with a snap. "(Jood!" he continued, a moment later. "lie shall ride." Some live miles were passed when, in the. shadow of a great pine that grew near the trail, .lake espied his prospective passenger, prone upon the ground at the foot ot the tree, apparently resting. As the rattling coach drew near, the man bestirred himself and slowly rose. "Hullo, driver! Kin ye favor an j old beggar with a lift? I'm played, for I'm too old to tramp as 1 used to, an' too poor to pay fur a ride. Kin ye give me one?" lie stepped forward as he spoke, i Poor he was, if tattered garments lietoken poverty, for his clothing was but a single patched rag from head to foot. Old he certainly was, for the withered ; skin and scanty gray locks, the claw- < like hands and sunken eyes, could not well lie disguised. ; Half in scorn and half in pity, yet with a brain awake to his danger, .Jake drew rein and replied to his petitioner: "Yes! be lively and climb up here? < I am behind time now. Where do you j ] go-" * j i "Dickson's." i < j\ uiucn 01 me wiup ana tne norses were again upon a quick trot. Fool ] eyed his companion as they rode on- ] I ward, and almost unconsciously dropped his hand to his hoot-top and loosened ( the revolvers carried there. "Cold day l'or May," said the new j comer, shivering, "this yer wind's i sharp too." "Yes," responded the other, mentally, wondering where about his ragged I i : clothes the scoundrel at liis side had : ; j concealed his weapons, "it is cold; but j i you'll tind it warmer in the :>ass." The grade was sharply descending now and the road rocky and rough. A I mile more and the pass would be reachj ed.?The coach fairly swayed under its I rapid motion. Old Jiui was forced to cling to his i j seat with both hands in order to avoid J | being hurled to the ground. This was | as Pool desired, and he smiled grimly ; I as he noticed the other's action. "Yer ? a-drivin' ? purty ? fast!" screamed the gray-haiml desperado, the words fairly jerked from him as the coach sprang forward, rocking [ from side to to side. "Ve'll?hev--to ! hold?up?at?the?pass?I?reckon!" i .lake shut his teeth. s The granite walls of the pass were < I now just before them, and the road- t | way, descending and steep, ran into > j the shadow of the coming night and i the gloom of the gravel-like opening? ] j a narrow path, hut little wider than f | the coach itself. t i The roar of the angry river far be- ? | low knelled a never-ending warning as s j it ran, ragged and torn among the ^ jagged rocks, and the death-like mist \ that crept upward was damp and chill. { "I won't hold up!" and with these a words the driver struck his horses t sharply, and, snorting, they sprang for- t ward into the Devil's Pass. 1 At the same instant, half way j through the terrible gorge, standing s i motionless in the center of the road- ; way, a beetling wall of rock upon the one hand, a chasm of unknown depth upon the other, was seen a man! Copper Tom was awaiting hisquar- t ry! | \ The old man at Pool's side uttered a j ( cry, and loosening his grasp of the seat i r with one hand, he would have thrust it c into his breast; but the other leaned suddenly toward him and pressing a t revolver muzzle against his forehead whispered, hoarselv: t ...in 1 1 rr L "jwvn wim yer naim. ii ve sur ^ ag'in I'll kill ye! I know ye, old .Jim, j. an' ye can't fool Jake Pool nor his load this time! Down with your _ hand!" The shuddering rascal's hand fell at a his side; his face grew ashen-hued and ^ his eyes stared before him. They were |, rapidly approaching Copper Tom. For au instant as they drew near that worthy stood facing them; then v through the fading light he saw the e position of his pal, upon whom he had v depended?he saw the stern, set face 0 of the driver?he saw the furious c horses plunging down upon him?and ~ with a terror-stricken cry he turned n arid fled! Sl Could ^ reach the lower end of the t] causeway he might escape?could he _ but liiid a single spot to turn aside lie ^ would be safe; but it was not to be. v Nearer and nearer thundered the ^ iron-shod hoofs behind him; narrower and still narrower grew the fatal road, until there rang a certain horrible, despairing cry, mingled with the frightened snort of the horses; a dark some- a thing bent down before the plunging ';i steeds, rolled an instant before their jj grinding feet, and then, spurned by the flying wheels, was hurled an un-j distinguishable mass, into the canon | beneath, and the coach sped on! ; t| Half an hour later .lake Pool pulled j (j into the corral at Dickson's ranch, and ' j( tumbling a half-Hunting man from the 1 v seat at his side into the urrns of the tj astounded hostlers, said: "Hind that man and give him to the ? Sheriff! It's old .Jim, the road agent! His pard's at the bottom of the gulch ^ in the pass, this one ought to stretch hemp when the officers get him, and j v I've driven my last run over from Gal- j latin! There's too much risk about j j the business for me!" s And .lake kept his word. lie no c longer coaches it. but now keeps a pub- | ? lie house in Helena itself, where, not j j? long since at his own snug fireside, he ;l told me this thrilling tale. j, t The Origin or "Sub Rosa." o You know that it means "between h us," or "you must'nt tell." Its origin is said to have been on this wise : In the year 15. ('.477, l'ausanias, the commander of the confederate fleet of the d Spartans and Athenians, was engaged o in an intrigue with Xerxes for the suit- h jugation of Greece to the 1'ersian rule, j and for the hand of the monarch's a daughter in marriage. Their negoti- j ations were carried on in a building \ attached to the temple of Minerva, J culled the Hrazer I louse, the roof of which was a garden forming a bower of roses, so that the plot, which was conducted with the utmost secrecy, c was literally matured "under the rose." c 1'ausanias, however, was betrayed by c one of his emissaries, who, by a , preconcerted plan with the epliori (the t overseers and counsellors of state, live ^ in number), gave them a secret op- j portunity to hear from the lips of 1'au- . sanias himself the acknowledgment of x fnaoonn 'I'n uori'iiui ?i hi* ^ Alio ncanv/iii ju vov.ii|'v> i?i i vuvt >>v mvv* ^ to the temple of Minerva, and, as the j sanctity of the place forbade intrusion ( for violence or harm of any kind, the ( people walled up the edifice with , stones, and left him to die of star- ? vation. His own mother laid the first c stone. It afterwards became a custom { among the Athenians to wear roses in s their hair whenever they wished to j communicate to another a secret they wished to be kept inviolate. Hence, the saying sub rosu among them, and since among Christian nations.?Chris- ^ tian at Work. Found with the Aid of Quicksilver. A curious story comes from Brent- ' t?A 1 A ..f IW Tap. ' iUlu, J1 gciinuuui in. . ry was sent out to carry a message. She was short-sighted, and failing to ; return, it was feared she had fallen in- 1 to the canal. It was dragged, but without success. Several days later ' an old barge woman suggested that a 1 loaf of bread in which some quicksilver 1 had been placed should be floated tin the water. This was done, and the loaf became stationary at a certain point. The dragging was resumed at this point and the body found. The superstition is said to be centuries old, but no one had seen it tried there for many a year. Tlio Planets. The material life of a planet is beginning to be recognized ;is no less real than the life of a plant or of an animal. It is a different kind of life. There is neither consciousness, such as we see in one of those forms of life, nor such systematic progress as we recognize in plant life. Jiut It is life all the same. It has had a beginning, like all things which exist, and like them all it must have an end. The lifetime of a world like our earth may lie trnlv s:iid to lie :i lifetime of cool ing. Beginning in the glowing, vaporous condition which we see in the I sun and stars, an orb in space passes J gradually to the condition of a cool, non-luminous mass, and thence, with i progress depending chielly on its size i (slower for the large masses and i quicker for the small ones), it passes | i steadily onward toward inertness and < death. Regarding the state in which ] we tind the earth to be, as the stage of ( ;i planet's mid-life?namely, that in winch the conditions are such that multitudinous forms of life can exist j upon its surface?we may call that , stage death in which these conditions < have entirely disappeared. Now, ( nmong the conditions necessary for the support of life in general are some \ which are unfavorable to individual ] life. Among these may be specially noted the action of those subterranean forces by which the earth's surface is ' continually modelled and remodelled, j It h;is been remarked with great just- j ice by "Sir John Ilerschell that since the continents of the earth were ( formed, forces have been at work j which would long since have sufficed ( to have destroyed every trace of land, ind to have left the surface of our j [jlobe one vast, limitless ocean. Hut i ^ igainst these forces counteracting * forces have l?een at work, constantly listurbing the earth's crust, and, by ' L'nntunrf it irrnrrnlor ltffivinn* rnnni fnr J w..? :>cean in the depressions, and leaving 1 :he higher parts as continents and 1 islands above the ocean's surface. If 1 hese disturbing forces cease to work, 1 lie work of disintegrating, wearing uvay and washing off the land would > jo on unresisted. In periods of time ? such as to us seem long, no very great f effect would be produced; but such i leriods as belong to the past of our < :arth, even to that comparatively ( ihort part of the past during which i ;he has been the abode of life, would 1 ;ullice to produce effects utterly in- < insistent with the existence of life 1 >n land. Only by the action of her t ,'olcanic energies can the earth 1 naintain her position as an abode of ( ife. She is, then, manifesting her t itness to support life in those very ?' hroes by which, too often, many lives r ire lost. The upheavals and down- i inkings, the rushing of ocean in great t vaves over islands and seaports, by c -vhich tens of thousands of human i jeings, and still greater numbers of t mimals, lose their lives, are part of J he evidence which the earth gives hat within her frame there still remains enough of vitality for the sup>ort of life during hundreds of thouands of years yet to come.?New ' Vork lleidlt/. j "When IFis Heart Thawed Ont." j One day two or three years ago a c jrufi' old man, hard-hearted and given j o drink, and living alone in a house in Gratiot street, found a crippled boy c tine or ten years of age crying in front " >f his door. It was his wav to curse 1 hildren and drive tliem away, but in ' bis instance he spoke kindly to the lad, ,nd even sympathized with him. For ^ hat once iiis hardened heart seemed ( o thaw out, and men who noticed hig j :ind action wondered greatly. By and by the crippled-boy, known s .Jakie, seemed to grow into the old j lan's heart and spent hours with him ' t his house. He was, so far as any ^ ne could remember, the lirst and only j timan being to say a kind word for t rufT old Hen. g When the old man fell sick a few j reeks ago nobody missed him for sevral days. Indeed, no one cared much 'j whether he was sick or well, but some ne interested mmseu enougn w cus- r over that tlie sick man was being E ursed by the crij>]>Ic-. The (lays and ights must have been terribly lone- ^ oine to the lad, but he was faithful to tie last. The other morning he uietlv announced to the neighbors liat old Hen was dead. Those who * rent in found the looms in neat order, y tie dead man lying <is if asleep, and t lie money to burv him was safe in an j Id wallet in the bureau. When they j sked Jakie about it he explained : "lie died as easy as a baby. 'Long * t first he used to curse and swear bout his s'ckness, but after a while c e let me read the Bible to him, and jiuetiiiips I saw tears in his eyes." ^ "Folks thought him a hard man." "15ut lie wasn't. When his heart liawed out he was like a child. One ay 1 brought him from the chest a it of old letters, the photograph of a Q *oman and baby, and he cried over (j tiem. I guess they were dead, and I uess he had had lots of trouble." "Did he die easy V" ".lust like going to sleep," answered tie lad. It was just at daylight. I a lit by the b:'d and bad fallen asleep j, rhen he put out his hand and whis- ^ ered : 'Jakie, I'm dying!' With that t jumped up to do something, but he ^ aid it wiis too late. There was a great f hangc in him. All the hardness had j one out of his face, his eyes had a j inil look, and the boys who used to be t fraid of him wouldn't have known t im for the same man. I was reading e o him from tiie old Bible, when all at j nee his lingers let go of my hand and ^ e was dead." t "And then?" ;| The boy turned away and wept. ;| From the day gruff old Hen had ad- t ressed him a kind word the prayers ^ f a child pleading lor a wicked man 'j iad been heard in Heaven. He had ^ irayed for him in life and after death, j .ml if the prayer had not brought that a eaeeful look to the white, dead face, . vhat else could have done it? ?Free 'rtss. The First Umbrella. The umbrella was seen in the streets if Olasgow l>y Dr. .lamiesun in 1782, m his return from 1'aris. When he :oniiuenc.etl unfurling it crowds of ieoj)le followed him in amazement at he spectacle. About 17s*.t an attempt vas made to manufacture umbrellas >y Mr. .lolin (iardner, father of the jresent Mr. (iardner, optician, Huchanlan street. "Senex" had in his hands he lirst umbrella that ever was made n (Jlasgow. It was, indeed, a very lurnsy article. The cloth was heavy >il or wax glazed, lined, and the ribs ,vere formed of Indian cane, such as, ihortly before this time,ladies were acmstomed to use as hoops to extend lieir petticoats. The handle wasmas;y and strong, and altogether it was a oad tu carry.?ish American. A Judge Shaking his Head. When Lord Manslield once exclaimed j o Mr. Dunning, as he was laying j lown a legal point, "Oh, if that be law, , Mr. Dunning, I may burn my law , jooks!" "Better read them, my lord," , ivas the ready retort. ( In a sin.ilar manner, an Irish judge , diook his head as ?Mr. Curran was ^ elaborating one of his points to a jury. , 'I see, gentlemen, the motion of his . lordship's head; common observers \ might imagine, that it implied a differ- . [ nee of opinion, but they would bs , mistaken. It is merely accidental. , Believe me, gentlemen, if you remain j here, many days, you will yourselves | perceive that when his lordship shakes his head there's 'nothing in it!' " The Connecticut militia costs tho state $71 per man per annum. i SELECT SIFTIKGS. I c _ I C T)ogg don't disturb a flock of sheep J that has a pair of goats. Xone of the f sh found at a great it depth in the sea are edible. The Phoenicians traded with Eng-' w land for more than 1100 years before the Christian era. I [J The art of enameling was practiced j e by the Kgyptians and Chinese, and was ? known to the early Saxons. ' r, I* was in 490 IS. C. that Caius Mar-' p( tiua defeated the Yolscians, captured ' ^ orwl oornflil Hia an mam a Pnr- ! A V.l JI 1< U1( (UlU V>U1 UUU 111W> W- . . . iolanus. ] The French and German lace-mak-' () ers, most of whom are miserably poor, ? economize light by setting a candle on ? a little table, about which they gather, ti each one with a large bottle of water d set before her, through which the light jj passes, falling upon the worker's! A cushion in a large bright circle. j c< On the Chinese telegraph lines, j jj which are run by a Danish company, I Jr the messages are sent and received in ai numbers. This is managed by having ^ Chinese characters stamped on one end | ( :>f a block and numbers on the other, l'he message is given to a clerk, who v: turns the blocks over and sends the ?j lumbers. vi It is said that the intemperate use jf tea has been greatly increased in Si England by the offer of prizes made by m Lhe keepers of cheap tea-shops. In the tiope of obtaining the tea-sets and li( jther things promised to large con- N miners, women bought much more "j than was needed by the families, and I fL Irank immense amounts. fc A somewhat remarkable instance of ;he faculty of the nervous system to jn :arry on precise automatic movements m without constant direction of the indiligence, says Dr. Footers Health 0I Monthly, is illustrated by the expe- hi ience of Franz Lizst, who would A. >ractlce playing the scales upon a ^ liano, while giving all his mind to the si eading of some interesting book. is: The original seal of the Confederate r, states, which is of massive silver, is to .till in the hands of an ex-Confederate ^ loldier, who treasures it carefully. It ^ nnsista of a device representing an 0f equestrian portrait of "Washington th after the statue which surmounts his nonument in the Capitol square at ^ Richmond), surrounded with a wreath \y omposed of the principal agricultural ** iroducts of the Confederacy (cotton, 1 obacco, sugar-cane, corn, wheat), and te laving around it the words, " The re 1'onfederate States of America, Twen- ^ y-second February, Eighteen hundred th ind Sixty-two, with the following i* notto : " Deo Vindice." The Confede ate monument at Magnolia cemetery, ^ ,o tlie memory of the dead who fell in m lefense of Charleston, bears on one of W ts faces an enlarged representation of ^ he great seal of the Confederate b( states. in ?- al th The Lessou of Peter Cooper's Life. M m In a paper on Peter Cooper, in the U tVio wrifpr Afr<4 SllSfin X. er Carter, says: "The highest lesson aught by Mr. Cooper was the lesson )f his own life. As much as, or more ;han any one I ever knew, Mr. Cooper {j| solved the problem, 'Is life worth A ivingV fll "Observing him carefully for a long ^ ierieis of years, it appeared that certain b, larts of his nature were cultivated pi ntontionally, as the result of a wisdom ^ vhich discriminated what was really ai vorth caring for from what was not tt vorthy of pursuit. Personal ambitions cc >r selfish aims had no weight with dm, and disappointments and annoy- io mces which would have left deep ^ vounds with many passed off from ^ lim with scarcely an observation. lie 0f vas most kind and loving; but if he th vas usefully employed, no domestic oss or separation from friends seemed rc o touch his happiness seriously. He la poke often of his preference for plain ,a iving, and his habits were as simple us those of a child. Love of pomp or je lisplay never touched him in the cc lightest, and he had an innocent open- j? less of character which concealed tothing. Never, under any circum- re tan?e, did he show a particle of nalignity, revenge, or meanness. If nt leople disappointed him, he passed Me ver the wound it made and let his P* lind dwell on something more satis- j* actory. Swedenborg's phrase, 'the bt visdom of innocence,' olten occurred ey o my mind in observing Mr. Cooper. di Ie knew what was wise, and to that ?o is heart was given. Sensitive as any pe oung man in all works of sympathy r kindness, the mean and bad ways {? f the world fell off from his per- 3h eption. us "So his life passed in Xew York and RJj a the Cooper Union, serene, happy, bj nd contented. With 'honor, love, co bedience, hosts of friends,' he was an ^ xainple and encouragement to those rhu had not gained the quiet hights n which his inner self habitually th >'<* " ? mi br An Enterprising Architect. j{ Adjoining one end of the royal pal,ce of Naples, which is the future w\ lome of the Crown Prince, is the A heater of San Carlo, which has an in- m' eresting story. When Charles III. vas king of Naples he issued orders se; or the most magnificent theater of (J? Europe to be built in the shortest time ossible. Angelo Carasale, a Neapoli- iss an architect, offered to complete it in wi hree months, ;ind by great effort and nergy actually did so. On the open- >(] ng night, the king sent for the archi- lOi ect to come to the royal balcony, and ^ here publicly commended his work, ^ .dding that only one thing was lacking, 'j md that was a private door and stair- jnj .use leading from the palace into the ^ heater for the use of the royal family. f0 Phe architect bowed low, and retired jc hat the play might begin. When the jjj lay was finished, the architect again ippearcd before the king, saying, fi 'Your Majesty's wish is accomplished," md preceded the astonished monarch 'U o a private entrance in one end of the ,f heater. In the three hours that the ail U...1 ja Jimi LIIU i\iu^ r> ancir ion, the untiring architect had colecteil his workmen, and by almost l'i aiperhuman effort had completed his ,l1 ask. lie had torn down partitions [.j md laid huge logs of wood for a stair- i? ,vav; hut elegant velvet carpets and Ml jeautiful curtains concealed the rough 1U loors and defaced walls, while a skill- ^ 'ul arrangement of handsome mirrors <; ind chandeliers produced a magical effect, and made the whole seem the tvork of fairy hands. Afterward, the entrance was properly finished, and ast summer 1 walked from the palace through this private door, and stood in j ;he royal balcony where the king had , received the architect nearly one hund- ^ red and fifty years before.?St. Nicho- , ' ' ii Peterlnqr Out. ie Nevada is said to be gradually "pe- ^ teringout," so to speak. ller popula- ks tion has dwindled to t!2,000, which t. makes her the most thinly inhabited j state in the Union; the big residences j ^ it Virginia City and Gold Hill, which j jy cost immense sums of money, are being ;lli torn down and used for firewood, and j H the rich deposits of ore, out of which lv uich great fortunes were being made th ii few years ago, have nearly all been exhausted. The state has no agricul- r.t, tural possibilities, and unless she can lu lind a way to utilize her deposits of 'l' salt, sulphur and borax, must soon ln [ ease to produce anything worth mentioning. Y ra Fiisting from four to eight days with tx unly water and lemonade at intervals, . is tho latest "sure" cure for rheuma- " t ism. j la ! d IUMMARY. OF CONGRESS Senate* The chair announced that the new miles go _ ito operation.. ..The chair laid before the UU enate hills trom the House of Representsves. one making all public roads and highays post routes, and a ;other to enable the jurts of tlie United Slates in cases where atents havd been ol>tained by fraud to annul /\ / le ]latent on the application of tne attorneyuncial.... Several petitions were presented raying for an investigation as to divorce igislation in the different States, and to armge for the collection of divorce statistics S Mr. Anthony's resolution relating to re- puj mictions by foreign countries on the imporition of American meats was discussed. P?v ifter being amended in two or three jwints, liv.'; ie resolution was agreed to. It instructs tj10 le committee on foreign relations to in- . . uire and report what legislation is 101 eeded to protect our interests against rep; Dvernments which have prohibited or hon ^UUIIIUU l/IJU 1I1IJJUI lutiuu VI incaui iiuiu le United States, and also to report whi iscriminations are made against exports >' om the United .States by the tariff laws of loo] le principal countries of Europe and o .merica, especially France, Germany, Muxi- ^ i and Brazil, and what legislation is needed (| .. A bill introduced by Mr. Hale provides lat no discrimination shall l)e made in the ' f ledical service of the United States aga:nst , ny regular school of medicine Several j Rtitions asking for the opening up of the ev klahoma lands lands to settlement were re- ,p r?rted adversely. ? I Mr. Sherman offered along resolution pro- ' V [ding for an investigation by the committee ^ 1 privileges a-id elections into tht recent po- * tical disturbances and tragedies at Dan- . ille, Va., and in Copiah county, Miss. The t, solution went over until the next day, on j lotion Mr. Cockrell, of Missouri, who - t. iggeste l that Mr. Sherman might in tne icantirae a id more recitals to it Mr. swell from the committee on military nf- r lirs. reported favorably the bills for the re- , sf of Htz-John Porter. Mr. Harrison, in t , r. Logan's absence, (-aid there would be a j linority report A resolution by Mr. , r. AV'yck calling on the attorney-general .. >r information about the compensation J >r special attorneys employe 1 in the star I t >ute cases, the reasonableness of * r/>h Aimnanuilfintl nTill his rPAK'ins for tlftV- I ;g the same, was agreed to A bill |>er- ' utting Lieutenant L. K. Reynolds, of the . , ivy, to accept from the emperor of Austria le decoration of the royal and imperial 'rv der of Francis Joseph, in recognition of s heroic conduct in rescuing the crew of an ustrian hark, was attacked by Mr. luinb, who said that the man who ' irries a commission of the United Jr, tates in his pi cket ought to be sat- lre! tied with it. Messrs. Morgan. Bayard anil Vj oar defended the bill, and it passed Mr. j 1 utler's resolution providing that each Sena- ?f? r, not a chairman of a committee, shall 5 \ ive a clerk, or secretary, at a salary of r1*?1 .,<XiO a year,to be paid out of the contingent ~ai md of the Senate, wa< agreed to by a vote ??nJ ' thirty to thirteen ? Mr. Merrill reintro- ,j! iced his bill of the last Congress provifling , >r the setting apart of the net proceeds of 1(5 ?{&!&"> UI puuiiu 1UUUS, UIIll a Mini ci^um iu . ilf the amount paid into the treasury year- ? j by the subsidized Pacific railroa Is, as an r".a(l lucational fund to b.; apportioned among tln* le States and Territories. UP. The joint resolution for the relief of Lieu- . 1 nant Greely was passed. As passed the solution authorizes the Presi(lont to spend i much money as ho deems necessary. n amendment was adopted providing * , at the men who go on the exidition shall bo volunteers Mr. Sheran introduced his bill of the Forty- . . venth Congress for the preservation F^'1 the woods and forests of the national do- 1110 ain adjacent to the sou ices of tiie naviga- Prei e rivers and their atlluents in the United intj lates Mr. Miller, of New York, intro- alld iced a bill authorizing the Presdent to pay ?ar u k to China the balance of the Chinese jar demnity fund, the si>eciflc claims having tno. 1 been satisfied In executive session {V? iere was an acrimonious debate between essrs. Edmunds and Butler while consider- ?fc g the nomination of Emory Si>eer for a. nited States district attorney for the north- H,a n district of Georgia. Hou- iZ Bills introfluced: By Mr. Anderson?To tho wide for the adjustment of land grants km ade to aid in the construction of railroads. n0* lso?To reduce the lifetime of a patent to j we' re years. By Mr. Cuteheon?To improve beg ie civil service by relieving legislative ofH- ! the: rs from performing executive functions. I nul1 y Mr. Burns?To encourage education and l>ar ovide a national series of text books within tha le jurisdiction of Congress. By Mr. Cox? me jr the employment of double postal cards fur id j>ostal envelojies. By Mr.'W ood?To au- rat( torize the governor of ea"h State to appoint tmmissioners to establish a system of inter- *lse itional commerce and decide the practica- | f lity of establishing a bureau of interna | at. nal commerce The; House, by a vote of w't Gtoll, passed a bill, introduced by Mr. | a.I' qx, of Now York, to repeal the "iron-clad'' | ith, administered to so in,' of the members 1 ! Congress.... Upon motion of Mr. Holnian, ! f?r io H'Jllse suspense 1 the niles and passed a j I solution, by a vote of tii?l to 1*, decaring | aiu lat the forfeitable grants of land for rail- | lad purposes ought to bo forfeitc 1 and the ^ nds restored to the public domain; that all l^e ws under which public lands may bo ac- hai lired by speculators ought to be repealed 'f id the remaining public lands be held sub- of ct to homestead entries only, and that the cha unmitteee on public lands He instructed to tur ing in bills to accomplish the objects men- live jned. pot The bill providing for nn expedition fortho 1 liof nf T.iontunnnt firp^lv nrnj r-mwiilprAil in Pol immittee of the whole, reported to the Hoc ouse, and passed. The expedition is to bo oth ted out under, the direction of the Presi- kee nf, and the bill does not limit the appro- of 'iation Mr. White, of Kentucky, at- it eked a bill, which was passed, creating an pov Iditional judicial district in Ala- nen una. He declared that behind ^ cry one 01' these bills to but vide a State into more judicial districts was her lother bill to take money out of the treasury it, 1 erect more public buildings A bill was ser issed relating to recoveries for infringement ers. patents. It provides that no damages or thr ofits shall bo recovered from any defendant fou r the infringement of a patent when it put all appear on trial that he was a mere strt er for his own lienefit of any article dov irchosed in open market, without notice the at it was patented. A resolution offered at t Mr. Parker, of New York, requests the nea mmittee 011 agri' ulture lo inquire whether cha ;riculturist.s and dairymen are unjustly in- boy red by the mnnuf icture, sale, and use of sup fomargarine and butt Tine. * The The House passed a joint resolution giving the e thanks of Congress 1 o Captain Eric Ga- dre ielson, of the revenue steamer Dexter, and of t s ofllcers and men, and the men who ishi anned the Gay Head lifebeat, for their , a ir ave conduct in rescuing the survivors not the wreck of the steamer City of Colum unc is, and especially to Lieutenant Hhodes, who sun rice swam to the steamer an 1 rescued men " bo were clinging to the rigging " bill appropriating $3,7.>0,<HX) for the pay- " ent of rebate of tax on tobacco was " ported from the committee on appropria- " )ns..,.The committee on agriculture pre- " nted a report in favor of establishing a tie- you rtmcnt of agriculture... .There was a long deli ncussion in committee of the whole over a " II authorizing the postmaster-general to " me a special ten-cent stamp, which, I len attached to a letter in cau dition to tho regular jtostajje, will in- (Jin re its immediate lielivery at a free delivery Hir dee up to midnight. By a vote of 10s to nell I) the bill was reporwd to tho House, witli Ea< e recommendation that tho enacting clause bot stricken out, but pending action on tho re- ear rt the House adjourn al. stic Ir. Cook, of Iown, introduced a bill provid- up g that pensions for total disability shall bo tips u a month, without regard to rank in tho a 111 rvice Three bills appropriating money oth r imblic buildings were favorablv re- an I rteil. Tho first enlarges the appropria- aim >n for the Pittsburg building to Sl.oOO,- kee 1), the oihors appropriate $11)0,000 flou r a building at Chattanooga and sevi r?0,<HK) lor one at Augusta, Me Hoi 10 House recommitted the bill for the F eedy delivery or mails at free delivery floo icos up to midnight. In committee mei the whole a debate arose on the plot It appropriating ?!,7M),t)0o for tho tliei yuient of rebate of taxes on tobac- like Mr. White, of Kentucky, moved to run luce the appropriation to ?7.')0,000. ing le proposed amendment was rejected, and i l" bill was reported to the llousouud passed, ' dun as, 270; nay, Mr. White, of Kentucky.... A le House concurred in the Senate amend- and jnt to the Creely relief resolution. ..Mr. son ount, from the committee on ways and scie . ans, reported a resolution calling on the 1 iretary of tho treasury for information as mo' the number of < ustoins and internal ton miue collection districts, and the cost of twc llectlng the internal revenue tax. Adopted. N<-i -- -- The AN ENSILAGE CONGRESS. jjj .Hecllnjf 01 Farnmrw on ihe Subject ^ of lOitNilnye. j^ll At the third annual congress of farmers ,lUSJ terested in the ensilage system in New >rk, over ~*K> agriculturists were present jj presenting nearly every State cast of the entl isMssippi. Dr. A. S. Heath, of New York "Jjjj ;y, presided. Prof. Miles, of Amherst eel lego, ftto> livered nn interesting address on the sub- ^L,? t of ensilage and the best methods of pre- any rving green fodder. He though it should Sj,jV place?l in the silos slowly, thus allowing to become heated. This is contrary to tin- Hj lllll cumxuii ami \j\ k: ir?n?iii7\* muni iicuuli:, illk. der L. W. F. Kvans, known us the head < ?f win e ' Shakers," declared that, the ensila^o gesl stem had been used with much success by (jt.v s people. llie Mr. John Mayer, superintendent of T. A. i-ou avemeyer's famous farm at Norwalk, par mu., said there was twenty-four silos on ley e farm and that fifty times as many cattle nlai ere kept on the samogroun I by the ensilage win s'em as before the method was used. The at i ittle, lie said, were also healthier. A reso- s tion was passed requesting the agricultural ma partment to make an analysis to determine oth ie comparative value of the qualities of the my ilk from ensilage and ordinary fed cows. ye', Professor J. 1'. Edwards, of Randolph, N. said that he fed sixty cows on nothing nt ensilage maize, and that they gave better lilK and were in better condition than ever ; Wt jfore. sov Mr. Mayer, on behalf of Mr. Havemeyer, ?'<f ivited the congress to visit his farm in Noralk and inspect the silos and cattle. A m" uge number accepte.l the invitation. The !i" mgress then adjourned for one year. RI" A WONDERFUL POWER. ] rious Manifestat:ons of a Georgia t Qi'l- I Reporter's Account of Her Perform' * anceS. I e v overal Heorgia papers having recently h ilished accounts of the alleged strange * ers possessed by Miss Lula Hurst, a girl ( n: with her parents near Cednrtown, Ga., e A nno nf itc rfn(T ? nvestigate the matter. The Constitution ! a resentative saw the young lady at her le, and sent to his paper the following ex- C jnlinary account of hi9 visit: ? ula Hurst is one of the most singular- q ting girls I ever saw. a he has the strangest look in her dark ? wn eyes that I ever encountered. It t iled no reco'lertion of her mysterious .er to completely awe me whenever those ? athomable orbs threw their weird fires > mine. ]j a fact, I think I lost five jxiunds of fle?h G ry time I caught that girl looking at me. v he neighbors had told me she was aa un- i tiisticated country girl. r couldn't see it. way around iD the corners of her eyes I j Id see lurking just the strangest expres- t: ilevpr^aw. 1 [er father told me she always took delight nyetifying f.ilks. My opinion is that her tj icr doesn't understand her any more than ^ alleged scientists understand the rose>ed sunsets at "West End. reeman, of the Cedartown Advertiser, e Ponder, of tho Rome Courier, have both a ked their sacred honor on Lulu Hurst's uty. It takes a rather gallant man to ke up such a verdict. She is fifteen years ? , unusually large for her age, and her ? sts are as big aa those of a good-sized man. ? Dead of a handsome and willowy figure, I ? n I that she was inclined to be somewhat | c nu-snouiuered, ana ner rrame seemeu to do mrkable more for its well-developed mus- 8 ; than for any statue-like beauties. In- 0 id of delicately-chiseled features and a 1 like alabaster, as the enthusiastic one * [ told me she pos assed, I found high cheek les and a face with a considerable amount " olor in it. Her nut-brown hair, stiff and uly, hung loosely from her hear!, its wild li !dom checked only by a blue ribbon bow I :ened in some way on the top of her head, ei r hair reached slightly below her shoul- o s, and heightened the awe-inspiring effect ier eyes a>id high cheek bones. She was ? ssed plainly to a remarkable degree?and, ^ ?ed, she seems to be regardless of her per- ^ al appearance. She is five feet three j les in height. h his is what Miss Lula told me about the c] inning of the mystery: ^ One night about two months ago I was ping with my mother in my room. We . 1 retired about nine, and were just get- ? j off to sleep, when suddenly the bed sot ; ^ a cracking and popping, the like of a ch I had never heard before. The crackwas in all parts of the bed?all over it. ? mother scolded me for making a noise, I was inuocent. I knew nothing or it. h ! noise, however, ceased, and we went to '1 rt What was the next manifestation T1 st The next night I was sleeping in the same a with my cousin, Miss Wimberly. when si same noises were repeated with even w ater force. My cousin called my mother tl ) the room, and we took the bed-clothes o [ bedding olf the bed. AVe examined them efully, and found nothing the matter as g as we could see, although we noticed that g pieces that I took off continued to crack J tl ! was handling them. My mother said I ft noises were cau-'ed by electricity, but I, ! a: :ourse, knew nothing of that. Immedi- ; ^ ly my father and the family all decided tl t some odd powers were at work in me. ! 0 ther said, 'Lula, put your hands on this : t] ir.' I did so, and the chair began to move und. It amused the little children, and I I it it up for lialf an hour. My father ! r ught it was a joke we were playing on i, an 1 took hold of the chair, but he could p hold it down although 1 simply ha<l the I ght of my Angers on it. My father then | an to experiment, and soon decided that r' re was no limit to it. as five men could not j ? i a chair upon which I simply laid my j id. Finally the force liecame so great a< t my father told my mother never to let P experiment when he was not there, as the E niture was liable to move round at such a d: 3 as to do possibly grtat damage.'' in t was at Home that I saw Miss Lulu. A d less trip to Cedartown made me a day late b eeing ner, but I turned up at her hotel h Home to-day at noon, and in company h Brother Ponder, of the Courier, had irivatw seance for my own benefit. She es an entertainment at Rome to-night. 'here was no deception in what she did a me. I watched her with my eagle eye. j t< ler father and mother and Mr. Ponder si I myself were in the room at the time t< h the young lady. Ir. Hurst laid an ordinary chair upon ' b floor oil its back. " Lulu, you put your . \ ul on it," said he. j 1J 'he young lady stooped down, put the tiuafc two of her lingers to the back of the j lir and immediately the piece of furni- j *] e bega:i to hack around the room at a a dy rate as if slid along by some unseen ? for.. . g( 'he chair was then stood up and Mr. I ider and I were asked to hold it on the ! , ir. Ponder took one side and I took the j* er. We put our whole force to work to r ip it still. Miss Hurst placed the palms u her hands on the back of the chair, and 1 a was soon Hying around the room, overwing Loth of us, creating a bi^ stir and b rly knocking us down. liss Hurst then took the chair and placed ai h hands under the jierforated bottom with a palms uppermost. She took no hold on . L Imt simply let it re^t on her hands as a n cant might liave carried a waiter of flow- \ k Thus the legs of the chair were about ; sj ec feet from the floor and the seat about I r and a half. Ponder and I attempted to t it on the floor, using all our might and ! a ;ngth to do s.>, but the chair would not 1 ni. It continued to rise and fly around in di air with the newspaper mon swinging on j >ach side. Mr. Hurst, a man weighing p r two hundred pounds,then got up into the | _ ir and sat there as calmly as if he were a i 3 sitting on a gate ]>ost. Thus Miss Hurst j , ported the comb ned weight of the three, j ?total weight which she thus supjwrted on ' palms of her hands was nearly five hun- , " d pounds, or much more than the weight j wo barrels of Hour. It was indeed aston- w ng, especially in view of the fact that not ] 1} mscle twitched and the slighest flush did i mantle her cheeks. .She was as calm and ^ oncerned as if she hail been twirling a : j,( liner liat by a string. j ? Does it not tire you:" I asked. [ Not at nil," she replied. | _ I)o you feel any peculiar sensations f None whatever." ?. Doesn't it strain \'ou? Indeed, if this were a cane-bottom chair, i would not see the slightest strain on the C cate canes." I N What do you think about it?" | pi I don't know a lything about it." j d, took a heavy hi -kory walking-stick, and | ght it near one end. Mr. J. N. Brown, of tl ittanooga, caught beside me ; Mr. J. W. b itoi), of Social Circle, and Mr. B. M. Cor- ! C I, of Goshen, Ind., took the other side. ; p; h couple faced the other. We held on with tl h hands, the stick firmly pressed agrinst j w h man's client. To mv left the en 1 of the 1 n; k projected a f< ot. Miss Hurst stepped T to it, raised her hands, and touched the tl i of her fingers to the end of the stick. In ef loment it moved to one side. Then to the al i*r, then up, then down, across, around, ot [ the next instant that young girl by tl ply touching the end of "the stick and w ;>ing her hands there, had four men j indering furiously around the room, and ^ ral times I was ten inches oil' the floor. | ^ w is that? gi ive men caught a chair and held it to the r. She put her hands on it, and as the 11 held it securely, the chair was comply shattered In trying to get away from in. Another and stouter chair shared a g fate. A heavy bedstead was made to cl across the room twice simply by the lay- , b UII Ul IIUIIU>. V/ sat in a chair. She touched it, and hi lined nu? on the lloor six feet away. I b; II these trieks were repeated several times C ! fully convinced mo that she |>osses?ed a ic remarkable power that I leave lor the ol ntists to explain?if they can. tl did not have time to s-ej her attempt to B .'e a bed by getting on it, and simply j miandingit, as that required an hour or a] i more time than I had at my dispor<al. p ther did she attempt any spirit rapping. e, re is 110 doubt of one thing, and I men- j> 1 it briefly for the benefit of those who y choose to study the matter, an f that is : Whatever inanimate object she touched eared to do charged with a force that im- " e.l it to move, and that, too, most vigor- | ly, and always from her, ami with an ir- a| st ible foi ce. * Her touch has no effect 011 , bi liate objects. , tc r. Hurst and his wife heve grown very 111 msiastic over their daughter's powers, rt pmiKise to tako her 011 the mad if she tl make a success. Sho lias certainly ere- fil 1 a big sensation in her section of North T irgia. The j>eoplo are talking of hardly H thing beside the wonderful Lulu. The . dualists are beginning to lloetc to the le and to write to her lather and mother, r{ ir, limy [>0 mat u icw limro weens win 1 her a lull-Hedged medium. A gentleman j is neither a spiritualist nor scientist sug- !V ts that i>erhaj>s Miss Lulu's powers were V eloped l>y the same causes that produced , rosy sunsets, as they are contemporaus, and that they will both take their do- 01 ture.together. The negroes in Co 'ar val are afraid of the young ladv, nnd great nil has taken possession of many of them, ra think she has power to cause their death; " will. nine local wiseacres accredit her with ani ! oi I magnetism, others electricity, ami stil cc erstbo"odic influence" developed. I'oi c< own part i have not made up my verdic* I gi i tr j il< if the seventy-six United States Senator' t\ >nty one are accompanied by their wives 0) euteen have each a wife and daughter ; has a daughter and one a mother-in-law p the 380 representatives and delega:es V. iPty-flve are accom; a lied by their wive;; y-three have each a wife and daughter j I nine have only their daughters. j ci STEWS SUMMARY ; ( Eastern and Middle States. t Pbtsicians say that two little children ? aken with diphtheria at Amsterdam, N. Y., ? aught it from a doll belonging to a sister who j tad died recently of the disease. i t Two of five corpses recovered soon after the j inking of the starrer City of Columbus, and s aken to New Bedford, Mass., were women. ! t frozen fast to the lap of one of 1 e women was t , tiny pair of shoes, which had probably bean i J; forn by a child less than one year old. She ! ad either saved the shoes after losing her off- . prinz as a memento or its body had been I , cashed ffom her embraco. Strong men un- i :overed their heads, and many found it not j asy to sunpress tne tears which came to their j yes as tney pazed upon this woman's dead | L. ace and touched the tokens of her tenderness nd devotion. ^ A corrected passenger list < f the wrecked ' v Jity of Columbus foots up eighty-one pns- 1. engers, cabin and steerage, and there were c orty-flve oRii er.-', seamen and waiters, j. )f this number ? adding the ten ( dditional survivors (eight of the crew and j wo passengers) who safely reached Gay ,, lead lighthouse?twelve passengers and g aventeen of the crew were saved, making he total number of lost ninety-seven. William H. Guion, of the firm of Wiliams & Guion. New York agents of the ' p ruion line of steamers, has failed for a sum i v ariously estimated at between ?'J00,CK>) and 500,000. Previous to his failure Mr. Guion g etired from the firm. Three schooners l>elonging to Gloucester, lass., have been away so long on a fishing rip that they l ave been given up for lost. ( "hey carried a total of forty-two men. ; ^ Later figures swell the number of lost by ! (_ be wreck of the steamer City of Columbus ^ 3 101. j t James Nctt, who shot and killed his fath- 1 r's slayer, Dukes, atUniontown, Penn., was ! d cquitted on his trial at Pittsburg, to which j r ity the ease had been removed. United \ r tates Senator Voorhees was Nutts' princii.nl t ounsel. After being out ten Lours tnejury r roughtina verdict of "not guilty, on ac- p ount of insanity at the time the net was com- r litted." The venlict was received with heers inside and outride the crowded court- ^ oom, and young Nutt received many con- | ^ ratulatory dispatches from Uniontown and t ther ] arts of the country. A meeting of manufacturers was held at E 'all River, Mass., for the purpose of taking teps to reduce the wages of the operatives i the cotton mills. Hiram Radcliffk, who for many years j ved a miserly and isolated life al Kingston, j j Y., died the other day leavinjr an estate i stimated at $500,000. He had not been seen n the street by anybody in years. c President Arthur was the principal s uest at a reception given by the Sew York s inion League club. The President was at- s jnded by Secretaries Folger and Teller aim Attorney-General Brewster, and spent xwo ours in shaking hands with members of the ( lub, visitors, their wives and daughters, liter the dinner there was a dance. i i Two hot-headed young Brazilians residing i 1 New York made arrangements to go to , a 'anada and fight a duel, but repented when r rrested, and shook hands in court. A committee of Pittsburg doctors report- I i to the court that they had examined James ! c futt, the slayer of Norman Dukes, and found e im perfectly sane at Ihe present time. ' he Jud^e therein >on ordered his t slease. As Nutt ])assed into the ( ;reet he was loudly cheered and followed by ? large crowd. He left with his mother and ? ster for Uniontown, and at that place, as (| 'ell as at various stations along the route, t 3e young man met with an enthusiastic re- t option from large assemblages. ^ Nathan D. Morey, the inventor ot a c asoline illuminating ma-hine, and L. S. reen, foreman of the Huthorn Spring botiner house, were asphyxiated at Sara'oga, t r. Y., by gasolin?. The spring building* j re illuminated b/ gasoline, and the men I 'ere engage1 in filling the gas reservoir with ] lis fluid, when the poisonous fumes over- ? ime them. Medical aid failed to restore i j lem to consciousness 1 There was a great variety of fine poultry, ' igeons, fish, rabbits, guinea pigs, cats and ? ther h( usehold i>ots on exhibi ion at the >cond annual exhibition of the New York anciers' club in Ma lison Square garden. ( The New .York Slate senate has passe 1 a ^solution providing for an investigation of le manufacture of oleomargarine. Another cremation has just taken place t the Lemoyne crematory in Washington, enn.,the body burned being that of Albert C. .upe.a manufacturer at Las Vegas,N.M., who ' ied in New York of consumption. The retains were taken to Washington by the nceased's wife and father-in-law, an 1 th3 urning of the body occupied about two ours. South and West. Larry Donovan, handed a few days since t Rawlins for the murder of William LeighMi, was th* first white man who legally jffored that penalty in Wyoming Tern "J" A desperate though unsuccessful attempt e as been made to steal the l-ody of Bislnp j i'heelan, buried at Wheeling, W. Va., in 374, the motive for tho robbery being to ob- c lin a reward for the return of the corpse. A. J. Jutkins, of Chicago, secretary of j le national Prohibition committee, says that presidential convention will l>e held, ami a ational Proliibition ticket be placed in the ? eld in 1884. 1 A bill for the establishment of a home for isabied ex-Confederate soldiers, similar to 8 le homes for Union soldiers, was introduced 8 i the Virginia Senate. The bill proposes to *itablish a permanent home by government id. for disabled ex-Confederates in tho t outhem States. I Much excitement prevails in the far West nd Northwest over the reported discovery of rich gold region in Washington Territory. ] arge numbers of miners are leaving for tne ew mines, and the biggest stampede ever nown to the Pacific coast is expected in the jring. v An express train lra]>e 1 from a trestle t wenty feet high near Beavertown, Ohio, nd was completely wrecked, causing serious ljuries to five iiersons and a jtecuniary ama^e of $10,000. ? At a mass meeting of Metho:list ladies in altimore, Bishops Sinap-on and Andrews >oke earnestly in advocacy of founding a ^ [ethoilist institution for the higher education J I the women of the conference. "Mo At t *orkV wo? rn.n1< t/1 flip TTnifpfl tates Senate by the Iowa legislature. "Sam" Brown, murderer of an old man. -5 as taken from ?ail at Lock hart, Texas, ana TlCllL'd. j Jons Bodacher, a young iarmer, and n is wife, were found dead in bed at their s ome near St. Ixiuis. Their hea ls had been )lit open with nn ax. ^ The national executive committee of the ^ rohibition parry has issued a call to hold (| national convention to nominate pr?sideual candidates, in Pittsburg, on May 21. Much excitement prevailed at Leadville, t ol., upon the susjwnsion of the First t aticnal bank, of that city. The deposits robably amount to ^S'Ai.UU with no tangi- r le assets. Manv miners were depositors. j. A dispatch from Gunnison, Col., says t iat a terrible explosion, presumably caused y fire-damp, occurred in a coal mine at p rested Butte. The full force of the ex- v losion may be realized when it is known j, iat the engine and machine shops, bich were ioc:ne<i iiw ices ironi mo louth of the mines. were totally wrecked. . here were sixty-seven men in the mi lie at 1! le time of the explosion. Four of these icaped, but the rest weiv literally buried J] live. A hundred miners employe I in an- ' ther mine at once set to work "to recover *le bodies of the victims, nearly all of whom ere foreigners. i: Thf. resolution asking United States Sen- v tor Malone to resign | a sed the Virginia ? nate by twenty-three yeas to ten nays?a J ;rict party vote. jWashington. * The new Christian church in Washington, enerally known a.s the Garfield .Memorial r liurch lias been dedicated. Ic is designed to c B the prin ipal place of worship of the j hristian clmrcli in the United States, and t, u funds with which it was built were raised 0 y contributions from the denomination of t hristiuns, of which President Garfield was ^ prominent member. 1 resident Pendleton, j, ? Bethany college, West Virginia, delivered a 10 dedicatory sermon, and ex-Governor isliop. of Ohio, made an historical address. a The Senate judiciary committee has favor- n b!y report- d the lull devolving tho oflice of a resident upon the secretary of ^tato in tho ,-ent of the removal or inability of both resident and Vice-Presi lent. The Senate has continued the nomination ' Charles Lyman to be chief examiner of le civil service commi-sion. b At a meeting of tho House committee on 0 ppro) nations it wa > decided to report a ill for the appropriation of a sum necessary cl ?fit out a < ireo'y relief cx|wHtion. The o leasurc (overs the recommendations of Sectaries Lincoln and Chandler providing for ? iree ve.-sols. The Presi lent is authorized to ? t out I ho expedition as soon as possible, he lilll was subsei|iiently reported to tho nose. t? The Senate committer? on military affaire jciilrtl to report favorably the bill for the ^ ?liof of Fit/. John I'orter. I'rksidext AKTtirit )i?-: made arrange- ^ lents to give a sent s of dinners an I rccepons at the White House. They include ? inners to the members ?>f the cabinet a:itl ^ ives, tlx* <li[ 1 'Tiiatic cor| s. numbers : the supreme court. ami to ilio Senators ,| nil ilepresi-nla'ivcs. Mrs. Me limy. tin* j, resident's sister, ami prcsidin.: la>ly at the 'hit*' House. gives a |<nl*li<* reception every , nturday aft-rnoon. A sl'll t OHMlTTKi: of ihe House committee |t i the judiciary has rccommcnled to the full )nnnittee the pa?a;e of ths Dorsheimcr {. >j>yright bill, with an amendment. The bill j, ants copyrights to citizens of foreign coun j, it's for twent\-flve years w hen similar priv3ges are granted to American citizens. Tho n fuendmeut off^rel extends tho time to n vnnty-eight years with a right, of renewal ,, ' fourteen years. ? Petitions ore pouring int > both h >u-esof ongress asking the'ena.'tinonfc of a national ivore * law. J ,j The House cunmirteo "ii agriculture de- . h ded to report favorably on the bill to ma\e ' ;V 10 bureau of agriculture a distinct depart- li nent and to giro its head a seat In the cabllet. The committee has done ttiis in former I'ongTease:, but the plan has Tailed to meet .ho approval of the two houses, The sub-committee of the House committee yT >n agriculture agreed to report, with two u imendments, the bill prepared by the Cattle ag Breeders' convention for the extirpation of liseases among domestic animals. The ap)ropriation determined upon is $250,000, in- tc tead of >0)00,000, and the States are required ki o contribute a mm equal to that appor- ^ ioned among them by the general govern- , nent. Frederick Douglass, recorder of deeds or the District of Columbia and formerly 01 Jnited States marshal under President Hayes, a; uid well known as a colored politician and fc peaker, was married t.bo other evening to ,, liss Helen M. Pitts,a white lady about thirtyi* years old, formerly a resident of Avon, N. m l., who has been a copyist lor several years in tl he office of Mr. Douglass. The ceremony vas performed by Rev. Francis J. Grimke, astor of the Fifteenth Street Presbyterian hurch (colored), at his residence in Wash- tl ngton. There were present, beside the con- 0, racting parties, only two witnesses. Mr. . )ougla s has been a widower about two ears and is now nearly three hi core and ten. He has four a ;rown children, and his marriage was a . ;reat surprise to them as well as to the rest 1 if the community. Miss Pitts has been w prominent in Washington as a writer on d< roman suffrage and moral reform. a] Important amendments to the pension law 0 re under consideration by the appropria- . ions committee. l< A recent Washington dispatch says that " inco the beginning of the pnjpent session of .'ongress eighteen postmasters of the presi- j, lent.ial grade have resigned their offices. , )flicials at the postoffice department a ieclare that such a number of resigna- ol ions in so Ehort a time id unprecedented, "he reasons given for the resignations are ^ lissatisl'actiion with the recent adjustment, esulting in some cases in lowering of sala- P1 les, and with the small allowances made by tl he department for clerk hire, office equip- ^ nent and other items, which compel the T >ostmasters to spend their own means in uaintenance of the postal service. tt Hon. John C New departed from Wash- al ngton for Indianapolis, but before leaving tt sndered his resignation as assistant secre- , ary of the treasury. His reason for resignng wMtho urgent pressure of private busi- ai less. lii Foreiffn, ei Eighteen persons have been arrested in conlection with the discovery of a secret print- G ng office in St. Petersburg. y Owing to the unsettle 1 political condition . if China, and the consequent deplorable j tate of the money market in that country. 'r everal Chinese bankers have committed yi uicide. g, American and English residents of Nice ire trying to suppress gambling at Monte p L'arlo. Four violent deaths, all the result of 'ambling, occurred at this famous resort in B me week. These four deaths comprised three ;t nen who lost heavily and committed suicide, md a fourth Mho was murdered for the w noney he had won at the gaming table. General Gordon has been sent by the fl< 3ritLsh government to the souaan, to lane :harge of its affairs there and direct the vacuation of Egyptian troops. The London Times says that the evacua- ai ion of tbe Soudan, south of Khartoum, is he condition precedent of all* healthy reorganization of the country. A mass or Egypian soldiers, an official nas estimated at 40,XHJ, has been let loose upon the country in he name of "occupation." This lawless horde if plunderers, the Times adds, must evacu- tl ite the Soudan before that country can be- j ome tranquil. ^ A London dispatch says that five packages f ?f dynamite were discovered in a tunnel * hrough which a special train carrying the p Mnee of Wales passed. tl An immense concourse of peasantry as- 0 embled at Derrybeg, Ireland, birthplare of 3atrick O'Donnell, the flayer of James 11 -arey, and assisted in the celebration of a tl nas-i for the repo;e of the soul of O'Donnell tl Vfter the mass a mock f 'neral was held and i coffin was placed in the O'Donnell burying >lot, the people kneeling in prayer around tl he grave. ? Dr. Julius Rosenberg, who killed Count u Stefan Batthyany in a duel at Temesvar. s Hungary, has been condemned to two years' mprisonment and to ray the costs of the " rial. The cause of the duel was the inar- o iage to the count of a lady who had been _ )reviously engaged to Dr. Rosenberg. Moodey and Sankey's revival meetings at 3attersea, England, were a great success. r Hugo Schenck, recently arrested at w Vienna for murdering four women after . laving obtained their'money under promise t; )f marriage, has confessed that he had ilanned five more murders.expectin? through 0 hem to obtain $12,000, with which he in- S ended to escape to America. f( Earl Grosvenor, ton and heir of the Duke p if Westminster, one of the wealthiest men _ n England, is dead in his thirty-second year. Sixteen persons were killed and twelve t( everely injured by an explosion in a mine si tear Berlin. The Pope on the 21st of February will p] rente six new cardinal). ^ A new comet has been discovered at Juenos Ayres South America. Araub have recommenced the slave trad in the west coast of Madagascar, where tt ,00:) African slaves have been landed. 0I Many persons have been killed and a great 0 tmount of damage has been done to houses ai md snipping bv a heavy storm throughout ireat Britain. , ^ Fourteen valuable stallions were burned o death at a fire which destroyed Lord forrey's stud stables near Oxford, England. I1USICAL AND DRAMATIC r, Therk are music halls in London. Grand oi>era in New Orleans, a city in rhich it once had its only abiding place in his country, has proved a failure tnis season. A Boston journal, the Mimical Observer, ri ffers anriz.? of $'2,(K)0 for tne beat original pcra seut to the office of the paper by July 1, 884. Thk New York Beethoven German singing ociety has asked the privilege of erecting a tatu -in Central park to the honor of Beehoven. at Mr. Abbey is reputed to have lost ^53,000 ii the first season of his oj>eratic manage- to neat at the Metropolitan opera-house, New th fork. ar Mr. Lew, the cornet player, is preparing or the public an autobiography. It will give . full account of his professional and marital in, truggles. m Miss Mary Anderson, the American ac- I Wl ress, in conjunction with a friend, gave a j m linner to 2W de-tituti boys on New Year's w lay in London. Miss Agnes Huntington, the brilliant j he ontralto, and an Americ an girl, has returned j th o her native country after a series of unques- VI ioned successes in Lurope. ai Mr. Barrett's success in "Francesca da cii limini" continues unabated, "Lauciotto" on icing probably the greatest popular success he tragedian has ever achieved en Jay Rial says that he can remember when ' Jartley Campbell, the dramatist, used to tn rtieol bricks iii a Pittsburg brickyard. Now w< ie makes over f'fi),O X) a year, and owns an vercoat with a fur collar. ?? Victoria Sardou, the French dramatist, ^ * adar tine his "Patrie" as a grand opera for tr, Ions. Paladilbe. He is also preparing three | ?( lew pieces, oneforthe Vaudeville, the second i Dor Sarah Bernhardt, and the third for the .'omedie Francaise. jQ, A ijoy of thirteen years, whose violin-play- m ng had long been the wonder ol a Cossack ! fa illa^e, recently reached St. Petersburg after j , journey of 1,.:>< 0 miles on fix>t, allure<l by { to lie lio|ie of obtaining free instruction at the th ,'onservatory. But hardships and over-exer-! W) ion had worn the little fellow out, and he j na ras taken to a hospital, being dangerously ill f tvphoid-fever. 'jj Singers are a most suj>erstitious race, and in raosL of them have some panacea of their fr wn to which they attach implicit faith, j be ieiT Stockhausen, the great German bari- | th one, j artakes absolutely of no solid food j be n the days when he h.'is to sing. A famous j tu t-nor takes sips of champagne in the inter- to als of acting : a great lady artist believed wi 11 the efficacy of Huinr.ess's st^ut ; oysters, a raw egc beaten with -ugar, and slices of W iicumbers are named among the innumer- so ble eccentric remeilies resorted to by our j 1111 umerous Lueias and Manricos, Lohengrins IV nd Elsas. j th 1 bu PROMINENT PEOPLE. k th Dexma.w? Jud^e Denman, of the English ' ench. is surrounded bv a police foi ce while i wi ii duty. ! nil Hobixsox.?Governor Robinson, of Mas*a- ! s,< liu-etts, still (ills i.is place as superintendent f the Chicopee Unitarian Suuclay-.-ehool. 1,1 Stanley.?H M. Stanley, the explorer, I :ii ?ri. ?i,n ..vtii.iliiinn which he is 1... ovv conducting through Africa until May. i Au.noi.!).?Matthew Arnold, or his return j <i(. > Kngland. will be secretary of the educa- I th i"ii dej nrtnient at a salary of $lu,U0U a th ear. " ! th Si'itKi'Ki.Ks.?( lntis Spreckles, tho Hawai- 1 tin in su^ar kitiR. is sixty years old, and is by | lit irlh a Hanoverian, lie is compactl}' built, j >it: f uieiiitim heigh:, with white hair, iron-gray j fit! hiskers aud a tior.il face. He landed in A1 011th Carolina thirty years n^o without a J tin nt. went to San Francisco and, after laying go li" foundation or his fortune, begun his sugar th. tvestments in Hawaii. foi Salomon. ? Louis K. Salomon, tho presieiito: th;' Republic of llayti, is described as a ' Missive, broad-shouldered Riant, at least six I ( t MX MICUCS 111 IILM^IIl, Mill! , rupnrtions of a gladiator; snow-white locks, 1 |?>< cel., restless eyes. glittering like diamonds I (|," i a setting of jet; high, intellectual fore-j i-ad, and a form, desuito his advanced age, ! n et as a pillar of stone, with a dignified nir. ! S('i lo was educated at on -of tho most famous liii ulleges in Paris, and is a |>erson of ho ordi- j n,? ary ability, ix-inga brilliant conversationlist and linguist and ?i crafty diplomat. j ^ I.v New York signs, 1,108 signs on | |'"11 rop awnings, woven Indians, :$,:{! .'{ ex.bits of goods, 1,7.M show eases, 1,101 stands, ,.,.j <1 coal boxes, aud .l.-'C) awnings wen; . ensed to obstruct tho street last year. JVS LATER MVS M||S Commodore Francis B. Ellison, of the j nited States navy (retired), died a few days ;o in Uoston, aged eighty-one years. j George Hardison and Harry Branson j night with knives at Richelieu," Ky., and | lied each other. Sixteen years ago Hardi- I n's father killed Branson's father with an : Tvvo boys?John Anderson,seventeen years d, and Zach Snyder, twenty-one years of ' je?were hanged at Mount Vernon, Ind., > . ir the murder and robbery of James Van ' * "ye, a seventeen-year-old boy. The two urderers were shiftier characters, and :jj mi'r mt ft. strftntrAr An immBZlS^ owJ was present at the hanging. J A dispatch from Winchester, Va., states lat Miss Elizabeth Rebecca Payne, who i ; ie of the best known ladies in the Shenan mh valley, and who for thirty-eight year* -jjaB as appeared as a woman, turns out to be -.yao lan ! The discovery was made by her aplying for a license to marry a young woman , ho had been employed in her family as a smestic. Payne was brought up as a woman nd no one ever questioned his sex, and hit pen avowal of masculinity has Intensely a?>nished the community. Payne married le domestic at Martinsburg, W. Va. The Senate confirmed the nomination of jhn F. Hazelton, of W isconsin. to be consul ? t Hamilton, Canada, and James Fletcher, . "'/SB I Iowa, to be consul at Genoa, Switzerland. . jgg The Senate committee on education agreed > report the Blair educational bill, which rovides for the appropriation of $15,000,000 . I'pZtt ie first year, decreasing in the sum of $1,- v-jaa (0,000 each year thereafter for ten years. ! any State does not accept the provisions of - !*rHj le act, or retain the right to dispose of its _ lotment, the same shall become a part of ie general fund for distribution among the ;her States and Territories. The industrial its are to be taught in schools to be estabshed by the provisions of the bilL General Gordon has been appointed gor nor of the Soudan by the khediveof Egypt. The body of Herr Lasker, the distinguished erman statesman who died suddenly in New ork, was received by a large number ol rominent German citizens upon its arrival i Bremen. From thence the body was con* ' ;.j?9 syed to Berlin, where preparations for a i eat public funeral had been made. The Marquis of Hertford, a well-known . nglish nobleman and a general in the . xifioVi orrMtr HioH fha rtfViAt* Haw fivim {n. irie3 received by being: kicked by a horse hile hunting. Tonquin has been blockaded by the French . ' While thirteen children were sliding on le ice at Eohr, Pomerania, the ice brok? nd all were drowned. LATER CONGRESSIONAL. NEWS. Senate. Mr. Hoar called up his bill providing for :e performance of the duties of the Prat ent in case of the removal, death, resign*. on, or inability of the President and Vice'resident It was read three times and assed. In the contingency named, it vests le presidential duties first in the secretary f state; if there be none, or if he be under npeachmeut or otherwise ineligible, then in e becieuiry ui tuc iruuaui/, auu iu who v* be ineligibility of that officer, then in the jcretary of war, and so on successively in ?*38 ij attorney-general, postmaster-general, scretary of the navy and secretary of the in;rior. It provides whenever any such officer I thus intrusted witli the presidential duties, ' Congress shall not be within twenty days f assembling, he shall forthwith issue a roclamation convening it within twenty ays. The bill is only to apply to t|je officer* lamed, if they have been appointed by and V J 'ith the advice and consent of the Senate. .. .Mr. Blair introduced a bill to provide for be free circulation of newspapers and ther periodical publications within the tate where they are published It provideg >r the amendmeirt of the postoffice appronation act of March, 1879, so as to allow one jpy of cach publication of the second class ) go through the mails free to each actual lbscriber Mr. Bayard, from the con> littee on finance, reported favorably the bill roviding for the issue of circulating notes . Knril-incr associations. F bU^ aubivuut ?-? Houh< Further debate took place in committee of ie whole on the bill providing for the ralief ' General Fitz John Porcer. Meers. Tayr, Bayne and Ray spoke in favor of the bill, id Mr. Keifer against it. The bUl went ,-er without action. A COAL MINE HORROR. |f errible Explosion of Fire Damp . I in a Colorado Mine. ^JS -? . m 'fty-seven Miners Entombed Alive? . \wa Sc6P6s of Agony* ? The explosion of fire-damp in a coal mine Created Butte, CoL, was one of the most rrible disasters of that character that ever ok place in this country. At the time of e explosion sixty one men were in the mine, id only four of them succeeded in making eir escape, one of these four with serioua juries. The other fifty-seven unfortunate iners, who were nearly all of foreign birth, sre literally buried alive, the mouth of the ine having caved in, and being covered ith debris. The shock was so great to the ?Ie of the village that it was fully half an >ur before they awoke to the realization ac something must be done, and at once. rord was telegraphed to Gunnison City for J, and two special trains bearing physiins and a hundred or more men were at ice dispatched to the scene of the disaster. In the meantime a hundred miners who are iployed in the anthracite mine left their nrk and began making efforts to uncover e opening of the mine in which the miners jre entombed, but after they had dug their ly into the chamber they round it unsafe enter. A rush of horrid gas and noisome r overcame them, and a number of them id to be removed and to be given stimulants revive them. The scene beggars descrii>)n. Wives, mothers and sisters wept and ayed while the strone men were endeavorg to reopen the grave which contained their ved ones. Little children clung to their others'skirts ahd cried from terror. Men mted from the shock of the horror. AS hen the wives of the buried miners be?jan gather around the opening of the drift ere was a babel of polyglotic misery. There 5re but few Americans employed by the comiuv. Tiie miners were mostly Germans, vedes, Danes, Cornishmen and Irishmen, le wives of these men moaned and prayed as many tongues. One woman rushed antically at the barrier which held her husmd's body from her and began to tear at e earth and rocks with her hands. Another came hysterical and laughed and cried by rns. I!rave men turned away their heads hide their emotion, curses mingled iih the prayers, and the scene was as wild one of human misery as could be conceived, hen the special train arrived from Gunni11 the crowd rushed to the little station to i'et it as if deliverance was at hand, omen threw their arms about the necks of e men and begged them to save their husnids. The poor creatures were mad with ief and fright. The relief party consoled em as best it could and promised to do all at mortal could do to save the buried HuliiHi- Hii'insfilvftS UUL LUC J U1U 41VW ? ? ith any sucli hope. They kuew that the en who were in the mine when the explo> occurred would never be ta.?en out alive. Seventeen hours after the arcide..t occurred 0 lirst body was recovered. Soon after the iuers at work came across a nia-s of buraed ulivi and dead miners lying in a horrible ap A little further 011 the tiodiei of flf.'ii more men were found- They had evintiv tried to escajje to the furnace room, irty or forty feet distant. Some of i* men ha 1 their handkerchiefs tied over fir mouths, and others had wrapped up ir heads in their clothes. The bodies of tie Tommy Lynch, Morgan and Willi tan ith. drivers and gang boys, were found rtlier in. They were not much di>flgured. 1 the men who were found in that part, of i? mine evidently died of suirocatiun. Altother forty-two bodies were recovered in ut section of the mine, and the rest were and in other places. A Personal Allusion. " I believe I'll go out and sfretch my rS u little." said a tall gentleman as e train stopped at a railroad station, -oil. don't." said a gentleman pas* mci who had been sittiug opposite to l), and who litul Decn mucn cmoar;sed l?y the logs of tlie tall front Ionian, lon'f. do that. Don't strotoh those ;s any more. They are too long aluly." The look the long man gave to the tic who objected to such lengthy exinities will haunt the rash man as long memory holds her seat.