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BY HUGH WILSON. ABBEVILLE, S. C.. WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 13, 1884. NO. 33. VOLUME XXVIII. ,Mj
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THE WAY OF IT.
The wind iB awake, little leavos, little leaves.
Heed not what he says?he deceives, he deceives:
Over and over
To the lowly clover
He ha1? lisped the same love and pledged himself
true
As he'll soon be lisping and pledging to you.
The boy is abroad, dainty maid, dainty maid,
Beware his soft words?I'm afraid, I'm afr aid:
He's said them before
Times many a score,
Ay. he died for a dozen ere his beard pricked j
through
As he'll soon be dying, my pretty, for you.
The war of the bov is the way of the wind.
As light as the leaves is dainty maid-kind: I
One to deceive
And one to believeThat
is the way of it, year to year;
But I know you will learn it too late, ray
dear.
?John Vance Cheney, in the Century, j
THE PRIVATE SECRETARY.
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I UilU 1UUUU llljk H.lL auu ni? ijvvn- i
ing an opportunity of making my escape I
unobserved, when my frieud Willard I
Fleming caught sight of me.
"Don't go yet. Arthur." he said; "I j
want you to do me a favor. You saw |
me with a lady dressed in blue?"
I assented. "A beautiful girl, with j
^ dark hair and eyes?"
"The same." lie responded. "Her;
name is Lydia Moreton: beautiful, as
you say. and, what is n > less interesting,
heiress to half a million. I want you to 1
be introduced to her and form a general
idea of her. It is a very important mat- j
ter.
I stared.
"What part am I to play in this mys-;
terious drama?" 1 asked, in surprise;;
"surely you do not propose to adjust.
your inclination for the lady by what I ;
niay think of her after a few moments of
acquaintance ?"
"I will explain afterward," he replied: I
"come and see her first "
Very much mystified, I followed him
into the conservatory, where I was formally
introduced to Miss Moreton. On
taking my place beside her, I saw that
Fleming had left us to ourselves. I confess
I was not displeased, for I found her
very charming. We were on good terms
immediately, and I was half inclined to
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and took me away from her.
"I envy you," I said. ''She is ex- j
quisite."
"I am glad you approve," he replied, j
"but it is by no means settled yet, and i
that is why i want your help."
"I wish you would not talk in riddles, j
Willard," 1 exclaimed. "Tell me what
you mean."
"Just this," he said, taking my arm
confidentially. "I think I have produced
an impression, but as she is going abroad
to-morrow, for a year, I shall have no
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% pained her permission to correspond with
nsr, and you are going to write my let-:
ters for me."
"I?" I replied. "You seriously ex- j
pect me to correspond with her in your
name?"
"Just so." he said. " It is the bright
est idea that ever entered my head, too.
Now, I write an abominable letter, and
In spite of the understanding between us, j
might do myself more harm than good.
You have an especial talent that way.
Everybody admires your letters, for you
can produce any impression you choose.
You have a general notion of hercharac
ter: that was wny l introaucea you. n
you will undertake the campaign, adding
a little more warmth and that sort of
thing in each successive letter, we shall
capture her befoFt* the year is out."
" It strikes me the course you propose
is not strictly delicate or honorable," I
replied, indignantly. "What will she
think of us when she discovers the !
truth."
"Oh, never mind that," he returned, 1
carelessly. " After I have made her Mrs. ]
Fleming I will undertake to pacify her."
I was on the point of refusing positive- {
ly when Miss Moreton, on her way to her
carriage, met us in the hull. She smiled
and gave me her hand. What was there
in her look, her voice, the touch of her
small, gloved palm, that stirred me so?
WTiat was the wave of regret that swelled
up in my heart as I saw her turn once
more at the door and smile back her
farewell ? I stood in a profound reverie ,
until Fleming plucked me Dy the arm (
md said, impatiently:
"Well, what is your decision? Will ;
jrou write to her?"
In an instant the thought entered my
r," brain that, though she could never be ,
Qothing mere than a pleasant vision to ]
me, I might at least retain the bitter ]
happiness' of holding intercourse with
her for a time, even if under another :
man's name. The temptation was irre- :
sistible, and I yielded.
"Yes," I replied, l,I will write your
letters.'*
'The thing is done, then/' he said,
rubbing his hands gleefully. "I shall
Dwe you the handsomest wife in America,
and a half million besides.
I turned away with a throb of irdig"""
on/1 Vnm nvnltinrr nvnr
txis anticipated success. That night I
*- wrote ray tirst letter to her and signed it
Willaid Fleming. I put all my strength
into it, shadowing out the conflicting
motions which tilled me. I felt that it
could not fail to have its effect, for I was
writing for myself?as I should have written
had it been my right to address her
in my own name. I mailed it two days
later, knowing it would reach her shortly
after her arrival.
I waited impatiently for her reply.
Willard had arranged to have her letters
?ent to me. After I had read them I was
to turn them over to him, together with
I draft of my answers.
Three weeks later I found an envelope,
postmarked France, and addressed in a
nelicate feminine hand, lying upon my
desk. I tore it open with trembling
fingers. It was from Lydia Moreton. In
?vprv line nt it I detected the effect of
the letter I had written her. It was
more than kind; it was just upon that
neutral ground which lies between friendship
and something more tender. I read
ind re-read it. I carried it about with
me for several days before I could bring
myself to give it to Willard. It seemed
^ is if it had been meant for me. What
' difference was it whose name was at the
top of it ? My words, my feelings, my
hopes, had drawn it forth. It had been
* written to me; but alus! I had no right
to it.
"Bravo!"' crie I Willard, in delight, as
he read it. "If i.uy one ever asks me for
l private secretary, I shall recommend
you above all others. Why, she is half
in love with me already.''
In love with himl True, it was Willard
Fleming that she had thought of
when writing. Me she had long since
forgotten, and l had done my best to
destroy my last hope, if 1 had ever been
80 foolish as to cherish any.
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1 WCIll notllt* lllUi It-suivcu iu itmc uu
further part in the conspiracy, and to let
Willard manage his courtship as best he
might. But I had not the courage to relinquish
the bitter-sweet of my fictitious
intercourse with her. Powerfully affected
by her at our first and only meeting, her
letter had completed the mischief. I was
in love with her, and I might as well have
been in love with the moon.
I wrote again, recklessly, almost passionately.
Under Willard's name I reflected
all the feelings which her letter !
had aroused in me. I made no attempt;
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hope. It was a Ead luxury to imagine her
Gushing cheeks and brightening eyes as
she read my fervid linen.
The letter that came in reply was an
additional torture to me. It was very ap- j
parent that, far from offending her, my i
unguarded language had won me a warm- j
er place in her heart. There was a sweet, j
half confession of tenderness in every
word, such as would have been my cue |
i," for an open declaration had I been deal- j
ting with her honestly.
A paragraph in her letter warned me
cf the dangerous ground Willard and I
were treading upon in our deception. It j
ran:
"I cannot understand, dear friend, my own
feelings when I read jour letters. "\V hen I
met you in New York thought you one of !
the common-plao* young men one meets in
society, fend one I could nevor have felt anv
deep interest in, as I knew you theD. It
ieemfi w ter person were speaking
to me?a man with a warm heart, deep feel- I
ings ami noble impulses. I cannot reconcile
myself that the Willard Fleming 1 onco knew I
is the Willard Fleming I am now writing to. j
How have I deceived myself so ?'
'Sharp girl," commented Fleming,
when he read this passage. "Won't
she stare when she knows I never wrote !
her a line." |
The idea of cheating her became every
hour more repugnant to me. If I could .
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business what would I nut have given! j
How she would despise us both when 1
she came to know the truth!"
This strange correspondence continued j
throughout the winter. 1 could not
break the fatal chain I had bound around 1
myself. Every word from her was as j
precious as life. I could not voluntarily j
exile myself from her in hatred and coutempt.
No, the end would come soon
enough in the inevitable course ot events. :
The end was nearer tlian I knew.
There came a letter from her?shall 11
ever forget it??which, in its tender outpouring
of love, left me no alternative 1
but to make a full declaration and ask I
her hand ?in the name of Willard Flem- j
iug. As 1 finished it I felt a sense of,
sorrowful relief. The die was cast.
Two weeks later I received her acceptance.
She was Willard Fleming's be- j
trothed wife. She had resolved to cut j
her European tour short by several i
months and return to America. She j
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unless near me?alas, not me!?but the
man who had never offered her one tender
word, nor felt one thrill of regard
for her, Willard Fleming.
Willard was in high spirits at the prospect
of the successful termination of his
extraordinary courtship.
"I'm much obliged to you. old fellow,"
hefaid, patronizingly. "Youhavedone
splendidly. Why, bless my heart, I don't
wonder she came to terms. Some of vour
letters read as if you were furiously in
love with her yourself."
I averted my head and m-de no reply.
"Matters are in excellent shape,'' he
continued. "There will be no more ne
cessity of letters, and so if we keep our
secret she will never know anything
about it. If she discovers it, as I suppose
she must after our marriage, sho
can't help herself.'"
While he was talking in this way, my
heart sank within me with a torturing
doubt which now occurred to me for the
first time. In my selfish love I had forgotten
that 1 was deliberately putting
her in the power of a man with whom
she had no sympathy, and whom she did
not love. Had I not conspired to bring
about the lifelong misery of the woman
I loved?
It was several days after her arrival before
I saw her. Then I was surprised at
her appearance. It was not that of a
happy betrothed bride. Her face looked
worn and pale, and her manner was
anxious and sad. I saw, too, that when
Willard came near her she involuntarily
shrank from him, :>nd looked at him with
an expression of doubt and wonder. It
was but too plain that she had an intuition
of the deception put upon her.
She did not love him, and she could not
understand her own feelings. My heart
ached for her; I longed to tell the truth;
but how could I? However, it
proved to be my destiny to undeceive
her in the most unexpected manner.
Shortly before their marriage there
came a rumor that the trustee of her
property had defrauded her; risked all in
speculation and lost all. The rumor was
very soon confirmed by Willard himself.
" ?
tic I'UllU" IIIIU U1J IUUUI, luvmujj
gloomy and irritable. He flung himself
into a chair with an oath.
" Here's a pretty fix," he growled,
"Lydia's money is all gone."'
"* Well," said I, coldly, "the loss of
her money has not lessened her value in
your eyes, I hope?"
"Hasn't it ?" he replied. " I am not
the man to marry a woman for sentiment.
Do you suppose I would have gone to all
that trouble unless I had counted upon
her fortune?''
Angry and disgusted as I was with
him. I felt a great wave of joy sweep over
me.
:'You got me into this scrape," he
said, brutally, " with your letters. I count
on you to extricate me."
u Very well," I returned^ quietly;
"how do you expect me to affect this
laudable purpose?"
"Go and tell her I never wrote those
letters, and that I never made any engagement
with her."
"I will do it," said I, "not for your
sake, but to save her from the meanest
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01 men. l DanK *jrou mill vim nave uetrayed
your true character before it is too
late. Now leave this house. I never
want too look upon your face again."
Considerably abashed he obeyed without
i wcrd, and I prepared to execute my
mission with a lighter heart than I had
known for many a day.
I sent up my card, and she entered the
room with a quick step and an anxious
face.
' You come from Willard Fleming,"
she said, hurriedly; "he has heard of
my misfortune. Tell me, oh, tell me, he
has asked to be relieved."
"lie has," I replied; "he deserts you
in your trouble."
"Thank heaven!" she cried, sitting
down and covering her face with her
handkerchief. After a moment she became
calmer, and looking at me with a
smile, continued:
"I find it hard to understand my own
mind. When I met Willard Fleming in
New York, I was not impressed favorably
with him. But with his first letter I
changed my opinion. As our correspondence
continued I learned to love him
for his letters. They were those of a noble,
true-hearted man. Yet when J. came
back I was cruelly disappointed. The
man I had loved, the man who wrote
those letters had ceased to be. Willard
Fleming impressed me, as ar nrsi, as a
cold, trifling, selfish man. I did not love
him; I grew to abhor him. I would
sooner have died than marry him, yet I
had no excuse. He has given me one,
but the mystery remains. Has a man two
souls, or who was it that wrote me those
letters?"'
"The man stanas before you," I replied,
in a broken voice; "I wrote those
letters."
Then I confessed the whole m^erable
deception, without sparing my own
weakness and folly.
"If love be any excuse," I concluded,
"it is all I have to offer. I could not
bear never to hear from you airain. I
believed that you were favorably inclined
toWillard,and I was weak enough
to seize the opportunity of pouring
out the sorrow and passion that
tilled my heart under his name.
It may be you cannot pardon
me, but I am grateful that ray deception
did not bind you fatally to a man you
dislike and I despise."
I watched the varying emotions cross
her face as I s^ke, and with a thrill of
joy saw that he^ok became more gentle,
iier manner more tender.
"I said," she replied, after a while.
' ihat I loved the writer of those letters.
I did and do. It has been my chiefest
sorrow to believe my ideal did not exist.
It does," she added, extending her hands
tome with a charming smile; "why
should I deny it ?''
Thus the love, which had run its
course through mystery and mistake,
found its fruition at last. They say a
poet's soul is mirrored in his works; love,
the supreme poetry of life, converts our
slightest acts into the language whereby
hearts speaks to heart.
Irresointion.
Irresolution is a fatal habit; it is not
vicious in itself, but it leads to vice,
creeping upon its victims with a fatal |
facility, the penalty of which many a
fine heart has paid at the scaffold. The
idler, tho spendthrift, the epicure, and
the drunkard are amoni^ its victims.
Perhaps in the latter its effect appears in
the most hideous form. He knows that
the goblet he is about to drain is poison,
yet he swallows it. He knows?for the
fvfimnle of thousands has painted it in
I glaring
colors?that it wiJI deaden all his
faculties, take the strength from his
heart, oppress him with disease, and hurry
his progress to a dishonored grave, yet
he drains it. How beautiful, on the contrary,
is the power of resolution, enabling
the one who possesses it to pass through
perils and dangers, trials and temptations!
Avoid the contraction of the
habit of irresolution. Strive against it
to the end.
IX A BIG SERPENT'S COILS.7
STSAWGB STORY OP A PIECE OP
STATUARY.
The Sculptor'* model a Beautifnl
Girl in iht- Coil* Of a Iloa CoiuKrictor
Ten Feet X.ong.
Theodore Tilton writes thus to the :
New York Independent regarding Robert
Barrett Browning's statue of Dryope and
Apollo: The history of the making of
this statue?in other words how the
strange work was daily carried on?is so
interesting that it deserves to be told.
The artist, for the execut ion of his design, i
needed, of course, two models?first a
strong hut lissome woman, capable of;
gracefully supporting the forty or fifty
pounds weight of the huge creature who
was to hang upon her limbs and side;:
next, a gigantic but tractable boa con-,
strictor, nearly twice the length of the i
girl's frame. Mr. Browning was
unwilling to invent cither his!
damsel or his python; he demanded both j
from nature. His Dryope he found in an i
Italian girl of much beauty, both of face 1
and form, and with a skin so lovely that
since he cannot portray it in sculpture
he will shortly essay it on canvas. Ilis
python came to him by a happy gift of
fortune. A year ago, when the statue
was begun, there happened to bo in Paris
a woman who by vocation was a snakecharmer,
and who had in her possession
a genuine spotted boa from Senegal, ten
feet in length. This great serpent had,
by various moral and other influences,
been disciplined into subordination and
good behavior. Mr. Browning introduced
the snake-charmer and the charmed
snake into his studio, greatly to the
terror of his neighbors in the Hue Notre
Dame des Chumps. Ilis Italian Drvope
was at first badly frightened; yet on
repeatedly witnessing the other woman's
power over the willing reptile, she
at last permitted the symbolic Apollo
to coil himself about her person. Day
by day, for several days, she endured
this ordeal, until what was at first an
ordeal became at last an exhilaration.
The artist then purchased the snake, dismissed
the snake-charmer, and, having
meanwhile learned the simple art of
snake charming, (which, he says, is
hardl;, an art at all), had no difficulty in
making an advantageous use of the reptile
as a serviceable model. In fact, the
python, of his own subtile accord, when
placed at the feet of the girl as she stood
posed, would slowly climb up her body
and conveniently stop when his head was
near her lips. The pleasant warmth of
her breath comforted liis coldness and |
induced him to keep his head usually in
the very position which the artist's design
required. As the snake found this living
atmosphere more genial and agreeable
than his inanimate blanket, he would
often hang motionless upon the. brave
girl and bask in her breath for minutes at
a t:me, or so long as she could bear his
great weight without fatigue. Meanwhile
the busy artist was observing the
contented serpent and faithfully recording
every snake curve and fold.
The closing scene in this python's biography
was an event so sudden and sorrowful
that it deserves to be mournfully
chronicled. When the boa was no longer
needed by the sculptor as a model, the
picturesque creature was still left in the
studio sis a distinguished guest, having
a big box all to himself. One day he
was mortally bruised by the accidental
falling of the lid of the box upon his
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the edge. His fate was almost a death
by the guillotine. He lived a few days
and died. The girl had meanwhile become
so attached to the snake that,
when he breathed his last, she shed tears.
What more could Dryope herself have
done if Apollo could have known mortality
?
Wealth is Yours, Young Man.
A young man was recently heard to
remark. "If I only had a thousand dollars,
I'd make it live thousand inside ol
a year." He then went on to draw a
comparison between himself and another
youn man about his own age who had
become, through the death of his father,
the possessor of a large fortune. The
comparison, to be sure, was rather uncomplimentary
to the fortunate young
man's abilities, yet it demonstrated two
things, viz.: The lack of a contented
spirit, the sweetness of existence; and
the conceit of one who lacks energy and
vim to roll up his sleeves and do the
very best he can with the means provided
him by Providence. Young man,
did you ever stop to consider the value
of a dime? You know how much easier
it is to part with a dollar given you than
with a quarter you have worked hard
to get. There is 110 real reason for a
young man to complain of his lot in
this world. Every wrong, every drawback,
so called, is in nine cases out of
ten imaginary, and when not, is the
result of carelessness or lack of judgment
in taking advantage of circumstances.
It would be well for every
young man to understand first that hehas
got to work for all he gets in this
world.' Without work he cannot succeed,
while with it he stands un equal
chance with the best to gain wealth and
influence, which combined with health,
is all that a man can wish for in this
world. It is not wrong to wish for
riches, but you can rest assured that you
will never realize that wish unless you
work hard and practice economy. You
will never realize it on a salary of ten
dollars a week while your expenses are
fifteen or twenty. You must learn to
keep what you have, and the only way
to keep money h to earn it fairly and
honestly. Money thus obtained is pretty
certain to remain with its possessor. But
money inherited, or that in any way
comes in without a fair and just equivalent,
is almost certain to go as it came.
There are, however, exceptions to the
latter rule, but it holds good in a general
application.
The young man who begins by saving
a few dimes a month and thriftily increases
his store, every cent a representative
of honest work performed, stands a
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affluence than lie who. in haste to become !
rich, obtains money by dashing specula- j
tion or the devious means which abound
in foggy regions which lie between fair i
dealing and fraud. Every young man on I
a salary can save something. It may not
be much, but every little helps. It is |
like the falling of the snow flakes. Kach
flake is small in and of itself, and as
they fall have 110 weight. but
taken as a whole after an hour's
storm they become weighty and
powerful. It is not the one flake, but
the combination of and the unity of
many that accomplishes the result. So
it is in saving. It is not the single dime
or dollar that makes the wealth, but the
continual adding of them into a grand
unit that makes the fortune.
Young man. don't waste your time in
wishing for wealth, but do the best you
can to accumulate it. Then will you enjoy
it. The vcrv best thing for you to
do is to do the very best you know how.
It is a hard rule to follow, maybe, but
it is a safe one in all things. Follow it :
and you will not only enjoy life as you
go through the world, but your desire
will be realized and the world and especially
yourself will be the better for it.?
Peck's Sun.
Curious Calculations.
I
John Swinton in liis Pupa- has been j
making some curious calculations:
Vandcrbilt's capital of gold is greater j
than all the gold there was in the worldconquering
Home in the reign of Augustus
Cresar.
200.000,000 dollars in gold! or I
j 350 tons of gold! or
700,000 pounds of gold! I
11,200,000 ounces (avoirdupois) of j
gold!
How many freight cars would be required
to carry this gold? Ten, you'll |
say at a jump. Jso?thirty-five!
Turn the gold into golden 4ieagles," j
ten-do:lar coins, Jay them in a circle,
edges touching, what would be the circumference
of that circle! It would be
a ring over three hundred miles in cirj
cumference. #
A wise and good man will turn exam- i
! pies of all sorts to his own advantage. ;
| The good he will make his patterns and
strive to eiptal or excel them. The bad
; he **,:n ' ** means avoid.
ATTACKED BY CANNIBALS.
A GOLD-HTTH'TEB'S EXPERIENCE 19
HEW GUINEA.
Two men out of a Party of Ton Slain
and Eaten lieforc Their Companion*'
Eye*.
Leroy Strickland was found sick in a
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Tribune reporter, to whom he told a
story of his adventures in New Guinea,
where three years ago he encountered a
baud of cunnibals and narrowly escaped
death at their hands.
" I was a painter in New South Wales,
Australia," he said, "and had been doing
well for some y^ars. I had accumulated
a little property and was tolerably
contented with my lot. About four
years ago the Temora gold fields were
opened in my Province and the goldfever
swept everything. I sold out my
stock, abandoned my business and, with
the money I had scraped together, I went
with the crowd to Temora. There a
party of us staked oft our claims and
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the field played out, and we went
back to Cookstown, North Queensland.
Some time beiore we got to Cookstown
the government of Queensland
sent a French surveyor out to New
Guinea in a small steamer in order to
prospect the country previous to another
attempt at annexation. lie was attacked
by natives, but succeeded in killing several
and returned to Cookstown without
in ury. lie gave a glowing account of
the country, and said that there were
gold pockets all along the coast and
mines in the interior. This news was
sufficient to start the spirit of adventure
among my companions of Temora, and
we agreed to lit out two heavy life-boats,
stock them with provisions and make our
way across to New Guinea to find gold.
It was on November 19, 1880, that ten
of us, in two boats, started from Cookstown.
We rowed across to Thursday
island, where wc took in a quantity of
provisions and had heavy wire nettings
built over our boats to
protect us from the weapons of the
savages. It took us a day to row from
the island to New Guinea, owing to head
winds. We arrived at the coast near the
mouth of the Fly river and rowed our
boats directly into the stream. The
country appeared to us to be deserted
and we made several landings where we
found gold in small quantities. We continued
up the river until we had got, as
near as we could rcckon, about fifteen
miles into the interior. Observing a
bluff some distance from the shore, we
rowed up to the beach and prepared to
land, taking with us our rifles slung
across our backs, and pans for washing
the gold. Six men landed, four remaining
to care for the boats.
"We had not been on shore for more
than half an hour when a party of natives,
numbering perhaps twenty-five, appeared
on the bluff and began throwing
their weapons at us. We unslung our
rifles and drove them back. Wo walked
about half a mile back from the shores of
the river and were congratulating ourselves
on the success of our venture, when
we heard deafening yells and saw nearly
two hundred howling savages rushing
toward us at their utmost speed. It was
too late to make any defence. We could
do nothing but escape with our lives at
best. Throwing everything of any
weight we had about us to the ground,
we sprang in the direction of the boats,
but not before William Guiteau had
been shot by a wadi-wadi. On our way
to the shore George Johnson was also
killed by a boomerang, and as I was
crawling into one of the boats a boomerang
struck me on the head and I lost consciousness.
When we were once in the boats
we were safe, but then we saw what a
terrible fate had befallen our dead companions.
As we rowed away we saw
the cannibals seize the bodies and strip
them. Then they carried them to the
top of the bluff and built a lire, around ,
which as the flames grew fiercer they
circled at a maddened pace. They
howled and shrieked in exultation at
their victory, and after they had exhausted
themselves they squatted about
the lire and threw our companions into
the flames. I noticed that the human
flesh burned with a blue flame and the ,
sight was such a horrible one that I ;
fainted. When I recovered I saw them i
tearing the flesh from the bones and eat- 1
ing it amid the most discordant sounds I j
ever heard, and after they had finished
the fearful repast they jumj>ed to their i
feet again. As we passed around a curve l
in the river they were still shrieking like
incarnate fiends.
"Beside the men who were killed,
Jlenry Peters and George Thomas wera
badly wounded with spears. When we
nrrivnrl lit ThltrsflilV Tslftnd thfiV Wer?
treated at a hospital. When we got '
back to Cookstown our story effectually
prevented any like adventures. The natives
are a hardy race, small in stature
and hideously ugly in appearance. Their
weapons are the nulla-nulla, a long spear
with a heavy bowl on one end, which
they use us a club; the wadi-wadi, a
spear live feet long, with a noose at one
end, inside of which is a spike, which
they use to catch and spear their enemy;
and the boomerang, which in their hands
is as effectual as a pistol ball. The country
is fertile and full of mineral wealth;
but the natives are the worst of cannibals.
They have murdered missionaries
and ship crews that have landed on the
coast, and the only manner in which the
country can be civilized is by annihilating
the natives. They are not dangerous
near the coast, because men-of-war shell
the bush every few weeks, but the country
will never cease to be unsafe until it
censes to be a bone of contention between
France and New South Wales.
Adulteration in Butter.
When oleomargarine was first brought
into public notice there was a good deal
nf rmrinnitinn tn its introduction, as af
fording the ready means of deceiving buyers,
no matter how much better it might
be than poor butter, how entirely harmless.
and how thoroughly cleanly were the
methods of its manufacture. Laws were
therefore passed in several of the States
prohibiting its manufacture and sale, only
as all the packages should be distinctly
branded with the name "oleomargarine."
The farmers and dairymen were most
anxious for this legislation. But since
these laws were passed there has sprung
up a large business in what is called "butterine,"
which usually consists of a little
good creamery butter and an admixture
of oleomargarine oil and neutral lard. The
latter is simply lard with all taste removed,
which increases its cost only about
a cent a pound; but the butterine thus
made is hardly distinguishable by the best |
judges from a tine creamery butter, under !
which designation a great deal of it is j
now coming to market. The winter is
the best season for palming off this adulteration,
as it does not keep as hard as
genuine butter in the warm weather.?
Scientific American.
"What's the News."
In the Cook county (Illinois) normal j
chool at Englcwood, near Chicago, we
learn from a Chicago paper, "in the
morning, when school opens, the princi- I
jial informally inquires the news of the
clay, and they tell him the social, political,
commercial news they have found in
the morning papers, which is briefly
commented upon, after which they go
cheerily to their work." This system
appears to be well calculated to train
pupils to answer the common question,
"What's the news?" It will also train
pupils to take and read the papers, and
to be intelligent about what is going on
in the world daily. This sort of intelligence
is undoubtedly very useful, and
will have a broad bearing upon success
in life.?Detroit Pout.
A Long Trance.
A Anon nf irnnni' lino lnfrilw nnin
XX VttOW V?A HUMVV UUMVM <U |
Glasgow. A woman thirty-live years of
age has lain since June last in a state of :
coma, motionless, with closed eves, a ]
pulse of about eighty per minute, natural j
temperature, and normal breathing. |
Consciousness was entirely absent until, j
at the end of November, she suddenly j
awoke, and is now recovering her wonted I
strength. During her long sleep she 1
was fed daily by a stomach tube. The 1
case is well-nigh unique on account of
its duration. These trances are the puzzle
of the physiologist, and simulate
death so closely that patients have been
in danger of burial alive. ' j
SUMMARY OF CONGRESS
Senate.
A joint resolution of the Ohio legislature
in favor of the restoration of the tariff on
wool was presented.... A petition was presented
from Theodore D. \V oolsey and others,
praying for the passage of a law to provide
for the collection of divorce statistics... :Mr.
Hoar, from the committee of the judiciary,
reported nn anti-[>o1ygamy bill....
Announcement of the death of Mr. Mackey
was made and on motion of Mr. B itler the
chair appointed a committee consisting of
Messrs. Butler. Pendleton and Hill to attend, ,
on behalf of the Senate, the funeral obsequies,
and then, < ut of respect, to the memory of
the r!prvn>avl. the SonntA ftd iniirned.
Resolutions were offered by Mr. Piatt to
inquire into the effects of telegraphic consolidation
The Sherman resolution of in- 1
quiry into alleged political outrages in Virginia
and Mississippi was taken up. and,
atter speeches by Messrs. Sherman anil Mahone,
was passed without debate by a strict
party vote of .S3 yeas to -!) nays....The Sen- i
ate passed the House bill making an appropriation
to pay the rebate of tax on tobacco j
The bill providing a method of settling |
incomplete titles to Mexican land grants was
debated, without action.
Numerous petitions asking for tne prohibition
of the sale of liquors in the District of |
Columbia Were presented Messrs. Slier- |
man and Saulsbury criticised the report of
the conference committee on the Greely r 1 ,
lief bill. They thought it was wrong to leave ,
with tho secretary of the navy absolute
power to say who should go on this desperate
service. Mr. Ingalls attacked tho Senate
conferees for agreeing to the report, saving
iriie neiiate was wiu uiiiru kivcu icwuh^,
It would be refreshing to have it insist upon
its amendments once in a while. Pending
the discussion the hour of 1 arrived and
the Senate went over to the House to attend
the Mackey funeral.
Bills were introduced to relievo commercial
travelers from license taxes; to authorize the
retirement of naval officers and to regulate
promotions in the navy The Senate instructed
the committee on postoiticas and
post roads to investigate the subject of the
cost of telegraphic correspondence The
Senate rejected the conference report on the
Greely Relief bill and voted to ask a new
conference....Mr. Blair reported favorably
a revised Educational bill.
" i
hoom> i
P. W. Rockwell was sworn in as the mem
ber from the Seventeenth Massachusetts district,
succeeding Governor Robinson. .. Mr.
Hatch, from the committee on agriculture,
reported a bill for the establishment of a bureau
of animal industry to prevent the exportation
of diseased cattle and to provide
means for the suppression and extirpation of
pleuro-pneumonia and other contagious diseasee
among domestic animals. Printed and
recommended.... Debate on the bill for the
relief-of Fitz John Porter was continued,
Messrs. Ray, Follett, Thomas and Wolford
speaking in favor of, and Mr. Horr against
the measure. s
Immediately after the reading of tho jour
nal, the announcement of the death of Mr.
Edmund W. M. Mackey, of South Carolina,
was made by Mr. O'Hara, who offered resolutions,
which were unanimously adopted,
expressing the sincere regret of the House at
tho news of the decease of one of it- members,
and authorizing the Speaker to appoint
a committee to take charge of the funeral
arrangements. The Speaker subsequently announced
as such committee Messrs. Pettil
Willis Fin via nf Afia.
UUIII-, Ul~ \J \./ 11UIU, "
souri, Calkins and Hemphill. The House
then, as a mark of resj?ect to the memory of
the deceased, adjourned.
Mr. Hopkins offered a resolution declaring I
that as a member of the House?J Warren
Eeifer?had charged H. V. Boynton, Washington
correspondent of the Cincinnati CoinmerciaUGdzrtte,
with having corruptly approached
the speaker of the last House (Mr. j
Keil'ert. therefore a committee ot five be appointed
to investigate tho matter. Mr. Keifer
made a speech in which he charged that
Mr. Boynton had tried to influence
his official action in connection
with the McGarrahan claim. A
letter of denial from Mr. Boynton to Speaker
Carlisle was read, and the resolution was
adopted with an amendment directirg the I
committee to inquire whether any otner I
member of the press now holding a seat in j
the reporters' gailery against whom charges
have been preferred ba i l)eei guilty of con- I
duct that ouj?ht to deprive him of his seat, j
Bills wore introduced providing for in-I
spection an I certification of meat products |
for exportation; to reduce tar fT rate* on :
sugar: for the sale of several navy yards; {
providing for the election of Senators by the j
I>eople, and to ext nd the operations of the j
signal service.
Bills were introduced as follows: To estab- '
ish a bureau of animal industry, and to pre- I
vent the spread of contagious disease among |
domestic animals; for t he retirement of H. j
J. Hunt with the rank of major-general; !
regulating the rates of jKis'age on
second-class mail matter at letter-carrier
offices by making the rate uniform at
two cents per pound; to make fraudulent
venders of patented articles guilty of misdemeanor:
providing that no Territ >ry shal
apply for admission us a ?tai? untu ie con ;
tains 11 population equal to that re tuircl in a |
concessional district The funeral services |
of Representative Mac kc\v were conducted iu !
presence of both houses of Congress.
The House passed th" bill declaring: a for- j
feiture of lanis granted to the Texas Pacific
Railroad company under the a-t of Congresj !
approved March .'4. 1*71, and acts supplemental
thereto by a vote of 25.1 to 1. Three !
ather land grants to Mississippi, tu o to Ala- j
bama and one to Arkansas, were also declared '
forfeited. The amount of land affected by |
tile passage of the bills taking away these :
grants is 21,000,000 acres.
RIVERS AND HARBORS.
Co?t of Improving Tlirm tlie Pa*t
Xiiict) three Years.
The secretary of war h is -onl. to the House i
n RtAtflnionL of tliu exnenditures of
the eovernment for improving rivers and I
harbors from March 4, !TM?, to Jiin? 0, j
The following is the recapitulation by States: 1
Alabama flWti.HJ j
Arkansas .'il.r>,(J00
California 1,4!>:'.,4:3S
Connecticut 1 ,.V?'7,44!I
Delaware ::,04:;,ii:itj
Flor.cla tiSi 1,353
Georgia l,:i(!4,rt(;i j
Idaho 10,001) i
Illinois 2,352,305 I
Indiana 7>?tt,lil9
Iowa 2,440
Kentucky .'HiT./iCO
Louisiania 117,SOW
Maine l,4O4.8f>0
Maryland lt485,770
Massachusetts 2,!>2\7S0
Michigan 7,S,J\.T)ii
:unmt*Mjuj.
Missouri 22,00!!
Mississippi 2!?.*>, 17"? i
New Hampshire 17r?,.1oo |
New Jersey !is7,4!W I
New York 1
North Carolina 2,201.2 Ki
Ohio 2,S'?7,(i:il
Oregon
Pennsylvania 1,< 07,101
Rhode Island 7."?!,f?i:i
South Carolina i>.'il.-M2
Tennessee .v5."?io
Texas 2,l(i'i.l-!l
Vermont ."<|."?,:;i I
Virginia 1 '
Washington Territory 5,r?i!0
West Virginia 1,."S7,5SS
Wisconsin 4,01 *,400
District of Columbia 2MJ.202
* " ->s !-!'! 11)1
^Miscellaneous % |
Repairs I
Surveys ,4*24
Dredging machines l,ll*v'Wt
Grand total ?lo.ri.71ii?,401
THE AMERICAN HOG.
A Communication to Coiiirri'ss from
tin; Scrrt-liirj- of stiito.
In answer to recent resolutions of the
Hou.se, Secretary Krclinghuysen has sent to
the President, to lie trans nil ted tot ho House,
a long communication relating in (t tail t lie
History of the restrictions and prohibitions
of the iui|Kirtation of American jiork
by various foreign governments, of
the corresi>ondeiu e between the
United States and such governments
on the subject, ami of the investigation
made by our government in order to
(lewmuiiu wiiuiut'i* uiu <111 ^i-u uan^u iw
public health from American exported meats
really existed. The re.su tof this investigation
was t;? show that the prejudicial judgment
abroad against tho swine export of this
country was ex parti and unfounded.
The sei retary advises the I 'resident to recommend
that no legislative act ion be taken
by Congress moil the report of the commission
appoint'<> b . the ['resident to investigate
the condition of American pork and
swine has been presented. This report will
soon be rea ly.
The secretary ad is: "Should it appear that
the meat products ?>f this country are, as we
believe them to lie, not ileleterioii . but promotive
of health, it ;s l?elieved that those
friendly nations which have put forth decrees
inhibiting tlvj importation of our meats
would annul those decree-."
PRICES FOR FURS AND SKINS,
There is a continued good demand in NewYork
for nearly all kinds of furs and skins
at firm prices.
No. 1 quality. North ?V KnM. West .V S. \V
Fisher i" miftlt no jr. omn. in in
Black Bear i? (Moils (in c, iu.<. li o.i
Cubs mid YearlinL's 4 OtJ(? 0 <so 2 wi.rf >
Oiter, each 7 ixi<? a mi 5 uiinc. 7
Beaver, per lb - fium :t r?n 1 7f?i !
Mink? * 75m 1 -10 Mini' | o"
Ited Fox i ni(i# i sn i ink.i i .j
Grey Fox !hk? i hi 70 r ! '
lfaccoon, onch (jTurf 1 lit caw
Skunk, Black 1 1UW 1 *2ii swirf 1 !'
SKunk, Ilulf-s-tripcd i'm(w T"> fiOm
Skunk, Striped 4.j ">OM, 4?
Skunk, White l.Vrf go 14<n 1*
Opossum (trash out)... 18? 25 I3(?i 1'
Mnskrat, Winter lsw. is? }i\.? Is
Musk rat, Fall 1 '.( > t4 11'". 1:t
Mayor Scovii.le has signed tho new rules
for conducting the civil service of Buffalo, N.
Y. Buffalo is thus tho third city in New
York which lias applied to itself the provisions
made by the Stat" act. The expenses of
the first year's operation will lto paid by the
local civil service reform association.
The Boston Coimurrciti! Jiulletin computes
that the nation's carelessness in regard
to fire cost a year.
"BURNED TO CINDERS, :
A Train's Awful Plunge Through a
Bridge.
Six Persons Lose Their Lives and ||
Others Injured. J.
The south-bound accommodation train 011 i|
the Indiana{>olis and Chicago Air Lino met ' I
ivith a terrible accident at Broad Ripple1, !'
oven miles from Indianapolis, Ind. At that ! j
point tho railway crosses the White ',
river on a truss bridge ot two spans, 11
?ach l.'O feet in length. The engineer j j
had gone t > the baggage-ear for a |
lrink of water and the locomotive was |(
in charge of the fireman, "When tho
mgine had reached tho center of the bridge j:
Hie tlroman felt tho structure sinking. He j ]
find his hand on the throttle at tho time and j;
Jiwned it, giving tho locomotive all the avail- j!
ible steam. Tho engine sprang forward i
with groat force, breaking the couplings be- !
twee11 the tender and baggage car. It j
kept tho tracir, but tho baggage and
-mokiuE car.; and one passenger coach
irojiped through the bridge and were piled
up in one mass at tho foot of tho pier, tho
smoking car being jartially telesc^p'd by (
tho baggage car. Tho wroclc Was partially
submerged, but tho portion above water immediately
took fire from the stoves. Tho j
lireinan looKeu nacic aner ue nan crosseu uut> ,
bridge. The care w.'ro 011 fire and smoke |
was obscuring the scene. News of I
the wreck ivached Indianapolis short- ,
ly after it had occurred and a j
wrecking train with surgical und other as- 1
sistanco was sent to Broa I Ripple. When it 1
reached the wreck the bridge and cars were 1
y?'t burning. Those present were so lacking !
in presence of mind as to be unahle to extinguish
the Raines or relieve the sufferers,
l'he officials of tho roa 1 worked vigorously J j
and systematically, and in a short time th3 i
llames were extinguished. ,
Then a search for bodies was besuu. Six :
persons had either been killed outright or |
burned to death, their bodies being charred i
almost beyond recognition and horrihlv inuKiated.
The only means of identification |
was by incombustible trinkets known to be
the properly of tho dead. The dead comprised
the engineer, baggage-master. bridge
foreman, express messenger, a brakeman
ind a ] assenger. Hi ;ht passengers wera injured,
two or threo with fatal effect.
MUSICAL AMIJRAMATIC,
The lless oj>era comj-any is going to Mexico.
Twenty-three new operas were produced
it tho various theatres of Italy during the
pas:, year. They all die 1 young.
The new German thratre in Berlin has nut
upon its play-bills in largo letters: ''Lames i
are requested to take off their bonnets."
J. T. Sullivan, formerly a Detroit pressman,
and who has been but a few months on
the stage, is doing good work in Rhea's support.
Wilson Barrett, tho London manager, is
roming over from London to make a professional
tour of America, with tho play of
"Claudian.
Teresa Tca, a young violinist who has 1)2come
famous by her performances in Ger
many, is the daughter of a cobbler who lived
in Florence.
Chicago is to have a new opera-house,
nine stories high, and with three fronts, to .1
be built at Clark aud Washington streets, at
a cost of about ?0'i0,()00.
Lawrence Barrett so crowded tho Grand
opera-house, New York, while playing "Francesca
da Rimini," that the orchestra had to
vacate the tank for the manager's box.
Bret Haute has dramatized his famous I
story. ' The Luck of Roaring Camp,'" and
the Madison Square management will present j'
it after revision by Mr. L?avid Belasco.
Frederics Wardk is shortly to present i (
in Boston a tiageriy entitle 1 ' Memtion," i
written by Henry Guy Carleton. This piece .
is in blan < verse "and the scene of it is laid in i
ancient Egypt. I j
Lotta and Minnie Palmer, both Americans,
are both playing in J/jndon to crowded
houses and the rivalry ru is very high. Both
have their crowds of followers anil together
they are doing quite well.
" How beautifully the woman sings,"' said ,
one la ly to another, who was in gorgeous at- |
; Klo'# nrf ti'iili /linnmiHs 14 Is shf* n. I
niez'M-soprnuo " '"No, I gti"ss not; I think '
she is a Swede, replied the other.
Margaret do Vane, an American yount*
laMy who hails from Alabama, has leased a
London theatre for tho sporting season, in
which she will ap; ear m Shakespearian
characters. Her grandfather was form *rly
gove.nor of A'abamu and jirlge of tiie
supreme court. She is also a uieco of Senator
King.
Mrs. Langtry has cleared -<30,004) thus far
this season over and above a!l outlay, including
her personal expenses. She has the sum
mentioned lying in cash to her credit in a
single bank, anrl uidess unforeseen circumstances
oci ur before the winter is over she
will make from $tt5,0.K) to $75,000 out of her
present tour.
Miss Henrietta Beehe, the soprano of
Dr. Howard\-> church in Fortv-second street,
New York, ranks among the finest singers in
any ^hoir. Her salary is said to be $1,"?00,
and is probably the largest paid to any lady
Ill tliat City. IHi!*s DfeiJU is Hj;t-uiuij> a ua |
part hinder. Shu lia > often appeared in con- >
certs and preat musical festivals, mostly in
those conducted by Dr. Damrosch.
PENSIONS,
The .* mounts A|>|>io?iJnie<l in tlie
l ast Bonrc ecu Year*.
The following statement of the arnual (
appropriations mud.' ft.r United States jien- !
sions from and including 1^71 to and including
1881 will in teres: many persons. The
amounts are taken from the annual report of
the treasury department:
Amount Amount
Year. Apprr>)irinlctl. Year. Appropriated.
1871 *i(),<uo.(K)(> is:? *-.>8,."". t.u.x;
1812 :?!.;.*?(?,() *1 l?7i> 2i>,H7:J.l?0
is?3 : 10,-1*0,U'.MI 1880 SIV-'O>,07J!
187 4 ::?.!8.-,0 0 1*81 41,Wj,:ac
187 5 2!>,?"0.001 lSiSi
1870 :il),000,000 188:1 IKi.l.-OO.aO
1S77 *.;!> 01 1WM 80,57:1.257
MISCELLANEOUS YTEMS,
A German has patented artificial cork.
1'JVKHY member of the present I"tali legislature
is a Mormon.
Tilk Florida sponge crop now amounts t i
about *li:0,(JUii a year.
The oldest opera-house in the Unite! i
States is in Savnnnan.
Florida alligator hunters earn, when successful,
from ?1,">00 to ?3,1)110 a season.
The aggregate we alth of the seventy-six
United States senator is said to be $1*0,0)(),- 1
00(1. ;
Missouri fruit growers estimate their lo<- ,
by the recent cold sna:> in that state at ?500,OuO.
_ 1
The talk about dividing California into two
States is again revived in tl.e Southern fe.-- '
tion.
A Florida truck farmer has contracted
for the .sale of his strawo >rry crop nt $ > per
quart.
The season in the lumber regions of Wis- 1
cousin has been prolific in accidents to the !
men.
Tiikre were 4,7:5' books published in Great
Britain last year. Theology headed tho list
with 704 volumes.
Over -'1,1100,00) pounds of India rubber '
were imported into tbW country last year, a .
falling oil'of ubmt :.y>00,0"n. " ,
F, W. Lowell, a lawyer of Lake View. 111., i
was found with his skates on his feet frozen
to death on the ice covering a mill stream.
Minnesota, where a Sunday-school was ;
A^tnUlictiA 1 tluVK'.taivon vflfliv nfiv 1IJ\< |
now 1,444 schools, with 7i!,<Vou scholar.-* and i
11,(KJ0 teac-liers anil ollicers. i
The railway foreclosures in l$x:{ covered 1
eighteen lines, with a total of t!">4 miles of
track, ?1^,S-J5,ni:0 capital stock, and approximately
$2S,",0">.<)00 bonds and debt.
Quite a number of toothless individuals in :
Iowa are out gunning for a traveling dentist ;
who pulled out their teeth free, and collected
half the price of new sets which he forgot to
bring around.
In Nerv York citv 7,80.*>signs, 1,10."{ signson j
drop awnings. ">: (! wooden Indians, exhibits
of goods, 1,7;!4 show-cases, 1,101 stands,
KM coal boxes, and l,oA"> awnings were li- :
censed to obstruct the streets Inst year.
Mb. D. It. Locke (Xasby), who is writing
letters from the South, say.-: "'If I was twenty-five
years old and had $1,(100 to start life
wi:h, 1 ha i rather risk my chances in Atlanta
than any c'ty in the world. The four best
cii ies in this country are T<dedo. Kansas City,
Minneapolis, and Atlanta."
The American Grocer funis that in 18^5
lUK) 1,000 cases of tomatoes were packed in
tne United States, each containing two
do/.en tins. The exact figures are 7iu>
cans. Their value at wholesale was probably
?f?,00O,OOO. Maryland puts up about oneha
f of the product, and New Jersey over a
fifth.
In the Cherry f.ak<- settlement, Florida,
recently, while the mourners were singing
ami praying around a colored woman for
whom an undertaker was dig.igg a grave,
she sprang from her eollin shouting: "1 ain't
dead yet! I ai'i't dead yet!" But the shock
was too much ..>r her, and she is now a lunatic.
The Smallest Savings llmik.
<" ~iiw. it'/tfii 1
I IK' Mllillli'M i/anr* t?< ? u\ .???? ?,?,
tin; directors of which are the smallest
directors in tho world,-is the Irving
Penny Savings hank of Brooklyn, established
in Public school No. !?. It has.
according to its last annual report. M l
accounts, and the total amount in bank
was S'.MiT.-'W. The bank pays four per
cent, interest on sums over Kacli
depositor 1ms a tiny hank hook. The
otlioers of the hank arc boys and girls.
The accounts arc audited quarterly by
the trustees of the school. The bank re- |
ccivcs one-cent deposits.
NEWS SUMMARY. ?
Eastern and Middle States. &p
_ of
Four thousand dollars were paid for a jj,
St. Bernard dog thirty-five inches high by ce(
Emm', tt, .lie actor, in Pas-aic, N.J. The pa
Jog is the largest in the world atld the sum Te
pnid for him the greatest ever realized by th;
the sale of a canine. uei
A laiu.e ci acting sled containing thirteen or
jroung men flame down a st< ep hill at rei
VV<>\ nochiim Ppnn, TVitli such terrific ST)eed sin
that all control of it was lost by the steers- to
man. The sled struck a young woman, 0f
throwing her twenty feet, breaking her nn
leg mid inflicting other serious injuries; jll(
then it dashed into anil shattered a heavy thi
naken hitchmg'post, finally coming to a stop n;l
against the front of a brick house. Four of thi
the young men received fatal injuries, and 0f
the other nine were all mord or Jess seriously jn<
hurt. o-,
Last year there was a total of 1,670 acci- iru
dents in the mines of the anthracite region of
Pennsylvania, (if these :"S-\ resulted fatally,
making 1.M5 widows and rendering 512 chll- 1
lien fatherless. During the last ten years thi
ii.4ii:i lives nave oeen tost in mis uisiriut, j.,- jji
1174 women made widows, and 4,1!)5 children w<
madifa'lierless. mi
J. B. Wadsworth, of Morrisville,N. Y. ,pro- [.e!
prietor of eighteen cheese factories, has failed, *13
with liabilities of $i2,0(X) and assets of about Pr
?40,()(i0. Pe
I)r. John B. Wood, a prominent New <:X
York jourua'isf, ami a few years ago president
of the Xow York Press club, lost his S1C
life the other day in a melancholy manner. of,
He was fifty seven yeaVs old? and his eye- mi
Fight was bad. While walking after midnight
along the North river front he fell ag
from a pier upon the ire twelve feet below pli
and received injuries which soon resulted in Mi
death. be
A Freethinkers' association was formed 1
at a convention in Boston. ^1
Petmecky. tho murderer of Mrs. Froitz
beim in Auburn, N. V., has been sentenced W(
to be hanged on Friday, March 21.
The total Hudson river ice crop this winter an
-A I AAn i\AA 1 rtA/1 AAA
is estimated at wjua, vi j,uw,wu gu
more than last winter.
Governor Bourn* In his annual message tr<
to the Hliude Island legislature commends a by
proposed scheme for industrial education.
Twenty-seven men at Greensburg, Pi.nn. J,?
have formed a secret, oath-bound brotner- fir
hood, and decided not to buy French goods i
and to boycott all dealers selling them until
the embargo on pork is removed.
About COO New England farmers interested ^ii
in the milk trade met in Boston and formed r,
a protective association.
After lasting seven months the strike of p?
window gla-s workers at Pittsburg. Penn., re
has come to an end by an agreement between cr
pmnloyers and employes which is largely ]
favorable to the latter. About 2,500 men ,.
encaged in the strike resume work. gj
Fot-r men were frightfully injured by the
explosion of a can of giant powder at a lime ^
qunrry In Sipesviile, Penn.
Another Gloucester (Mass.) fishing 0f
schooner?the "Waldo Irving, with a crew of
fourteen men on board?has been given up gb;
for lost. p,
A resolution of thanks to Lieutenant an
Rhodes, of the United States revenue ma- a
rine service, for his gallant conduct at th e
wreck of the City of Columbus, was passed ^
by the Connecticut legislature.
A scaffolding collapsed suddenly near sp
Pottsville, Penn., throwing eight carpenters ne
to the ground, a distance of thirty feet. One pf(
man was instantly killed, another fatally ^
hurt, and the rest more or less dangerously la
injured. ? ot1)r.
Elisija Harris, honorary secretary ha
of the New York State board of health, dis- M
linguished for his sanitary services during
the war and for his many valuable contributions
t > medical science, died the other er
iay in Albany, aged sixty years,
Edward N. Rowell was acquittal at Ba- re
tavia, N. Y., of the charge of murdering -pj
Johnson L. Lyuch, whom he found at his w(
house with his wife three months ago, and ,
* - > % - ? fi,A
BDOT aea'l. 1 HO jur.v ucijiukici umi uu uun I .
ground thnt thf? shooting of Lynch had been vlJ
done in self-defense. The verdict was receive!
with t reat cheers, the building of Ai
bonfires Kiid the exploding of fireworks by | ha
tho excited citizens. Howell's former part- j co
ner, Palmer, against whoui much feeling had at:
been engendered by his testimony on the
witness stand, was hanged in effigy.
South and West.
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Thf. Cleveland Paper company, of Cleve- ni
land, Ohio, one of the oldest and most widely
known corporat ions of the kind in the country.
owner of four paner mills and one pulp .
mill, and employing 500 hands, has failed for 10
$2.">0,0<:0.
J. B. Simpson, tho seven-year-old son of a IS
leading citizen of Red Clay, Ga., died a few j 111
days ago in great agony of hydrophobia. He i
had been bitten a month before by a rabid N<
dog. ' j Ci
Ili.nkss from a kidney trouble has led Bi^ $2
Horse, -one of the most prominent of the J
Cheyenne chiefs in the Indian Territory, to ! h8
commit suicide by shooting himself in the j js
head with a pi*tol. Sk
The Virginia house adopted without de-1
bate (he senate's resolution calling upon |
United States Senator Mahone to resign. i jxi
At Mineral Springs, Ark., two judges of I tr
tho .?u|ire!ne court were hanged in efligy be- !
cause they granted an apjjeal in the case of I th
three colored men sentenced to be executed j sc
for murder. W(
Frank "Williams and John Gray killed lit
Orion Kurtz, a prominent citizen of" Rosita, la
Col., and were in turn taken from jail by
vigilatits and lynched. n{
Sax Francisco is to have a bronze statue v<
of Garfield. H
Three brothers named Wilburn. of Jack- 1"
son county, Ala., quarreled with and assaulted
a negro, when a man name I Webb
interfered in 'ho hitter's behalf. Webb was | h?
flred ui)on. and drawing his revolver ho 1 sp
emptied it at the Wilburns, instantly killing |
two of them and mortally wounding the j tb
third. | di
Ex-Governor John Letcher, of Vir-1 C?
ginia, whose death has lessened the number i
of men prominent during war times, wa? j w
buried at, Lexington with military honors. , lej
""" f'lnvnlnrwl Dllin. lost four !
iiinr>. iiin.iuu, v/i uiwwu, ~ ,
of her five children within a short time by ?
diphtheria, and the other day her fifth child [!1
was burned to death. The mother was ho he
affected by her terrible bereavement that she Sr
became a raving maniac.
Bl khi.ars blew opeu a safe in the post- j of
office at Blue Island, near Chicago, securing j "P
money and stamps amounting iu'all to # 15,- j H
000. ; in
Ax express train struck a huge rock which
had rolled down 011 the track from a moun- J?,
tain near Chattanooga, Tenn. The engine w
was demolished, nearly every car left the ttl
track, the engineer was killed, the fireman !
fatally burned, and a brakeman was ba lly I co
hurt. j
Martin Seu.lrs, of Kendallvillo, Ind., j
summon?d to testify against a man on trial i 91
for murder, declared lie would kill himself |
rather than appear as a witness in the case. ; 01
He carried out tho threat. j JV
A pecuniary loss of about $125,000 was in- i '
curroci and SOJ men were rarowii out ui employment
through the destruction by lire of w]
the"l'ho*nixGlass works, of Philipsburg,Ohio. 1 wi
The work-, which covered a la: go area, were te
among the largest in the country. j ni
A financial crisis hasO'currerl at Load- j j"
ville. Col., through the failure of three of its : J01
four banks within a fortnight.
Washington.
Now that the Senate lias passed a resolu- j
tion giving en h Senator a private clerk, '
some talk has ari-en a nong members of the
House as to the advisability of a like pro- : ru
vision for the benefit of Representative*. |
John T. C'ajne, the delegate to Congress 1 '''f
from I'tah, has written and sent out for j
publication a reply to (! over nor Murray's
message to the Utah legislature. He says i de
the message was lillel with misrepresenta- . La
tions and perversions oi fact* evidently witn i |
the purpose of deceiving the Eastern public. | W(
The death of E. W. M. Maekey, the only wc
Republican Representative from South Caro- I sle
lino, makes the sixth member of the present j
Congress that ha-; died. Contrary to usual I an
custom, the announcement of .Mr. Maekey's j br
death ?a> not made bv n member from nii | Ki
own State, but by Mr. O'Hara. of North
Catolin-.:, the only colored member of the j
House. Mr. Mackey was born at Charles- j W(
ton, S. ('., in IsHi, and had been editor, law- I ^
j'er, aMerma'i, sherifF, assistant assessor of I
internal revenue, speaker of the State legis- |
lature and Congressman. | a'
The President has sent to Congress a { jC)
messacre reeoumv'nding an immediate ai>- |
propriation for the work of improving Hell j ,,
Gate in the East river at New York. rrj
Rki re extative Morrison*, eliairman of j ot
the ways and means committee, has com- |
pleted a tarilf bid. but will n >t introduce it j , .
in the House until o.lier memb?rsof thecouimit'.ee
have had an opportunity to consider
it and oiler suggestions. .\s prepared the "
bill provide-; for n general lion/.oniai re<iui- i
tion* <>f twenty per cenf.. but in no event j
is the reduction to lie lower than the tariff ye
rates in tl c Morrill bill of 1*01. j vi
Laches |{j.otm:ktt. of Philadelphia, for- j j*
merly chief of the customs division. ha<
br< u:ht a suit for "(> acres of land situate I I F?
in the fashionable | art of the west end of j "f
Washington. He claims to bo a descendant
of S?'nmitc? Blodjtett. one of the founders of j M
the city Three vears have been s|K>nt in the j
preparation of the suit.
A ckkat throne of people came to the capitol
to witness the fnn-ral services of Con- * '
pressman Mackey in the House. The spacious j
palleries of the House w.-re pack d with j
spectators an 1 the bo ly of the hall was j Sp
crowded with Senators and Representatives ; .j
and the mourning fimiiy and jiersonal j
,,c til,, ii.-i | ('oii-jto-snnn. Soo:i !
u!'t r I o'clock 111 Senators Hlo 1 into the hull ]"<
and were given svits in front of the Sjieakit's
desk. ,\ tnii of th-' SjN'akpr's gavel J"
brought the Senators ami Ilejnvsent.itives ""
to their I'eet.und they retrained standing un- l'r
til the eollin eoituiniu,; the body had been j
placed before the desk of the reading clerks, j 'J'J
As the |iroces<iun s'owly a Ivaneed a solemn j *"
silenee jirevaile 1. The widow and immediate j
relatives, clad in deep mourning, were {riven j
scats near theco.'lin. The servicescomprised : J*1
reading by the ehnplnin of the Senate of a |
few verses i'r >i!i! he Itilile, and a short, feel- |
ing and e'u |iient address bv Kev. Dr. Ship j ( ,
pen, alter which the beueliction was pro I fr
nounced l>. th?- chapluin of the House. The j
body was then li.irne away for burial in j sj|
tilenwood cemetery. near IVasliiir'twi. i vj
Sknatoh III aih's reVised educational bill, ! 2,1
reported by him to the Senate, provides that nr
+ha ruTTinco nf oiv>iirintr t.hn hflnftflfjl of 1
mtnon scfiool education to all the children
ing in the United States, there shall be
propriated annually tor ten jears a sum A
money beeinnina: with $15,000,000 and aga
ninished by $1,000,000 In each sue- CotI
;ding year, which sum shall be
id out to each of the several States and 100
rritories and the District of Columbia in lair
it proportion which tho whole number of trai
rsons of ten year? and over in such Stnte
Territory, or in the District, who cannot J
jd and write, bear to the whole number of the
:h persons in tho United States, according jay
the census of 1880. It provides that no part p
the money shall be paid out to
y State or Territory which snail not, dur pou
; the first five years of the operation of la^
9 act, aniiua'ly expend for the mainte- ,
n< e of the common schools at least one- "
ivd of the sum which shall be allotted to it T
this oronosed educational fund, and dur- | aga
? the second five years, a sum at least has
ral to the whole amount of the allotment ?
to it. ?an
roraian, Jjjjj
li re at excitement exists in Vienna over
b murder of a prominent detective named In
ocfi. The murder is declared to he the lag<
Drk of socialists or "anarchists," and the $o,(
urderer, a man of education, has been ar- j
?ted. The anarchists have published a
t of names (among which are those of and
ominent financiers and journalists) of rob
rsons who have been condemned by tho j-,
ecutive committee. '
Eleven persons were killed by an explo- Pr?
?n in a Welsh colliery, and a rescuing party T
three men, including the manager of the Bla
ine, also lost their lives. ;n^
Another heavy storm has done great dam- ta J
e to property in London, Paris and other
ices, and numerous lives have been lost. lV01
any vessels. werf> wrecked, and a large num E
rof persons drowned. mo]
Steamers sent to clear the Blue Nile of
Mahdi's insurgents have failed of their a
xpose. They were attacked furiously by T
0 rebels, who waded out to the assault and ^
>re only driven back after suffering heavy n
s. El Mahdi marched from El Obeid with
army of 37,000 men and plenty of Krupp
a* ri
Professor Klikker, a noted German as- r^i
momer, committed suicide at Gottingen
shooting himself. 0gr
Many houses in the manufacturing city of ii
lurvig, Norway, have been destroyed 6y a Ref
e. ii
The American Lumber company, of To- Feg
nto, Canada, has failed for fl,000,000. Lra
Permission to erect a monument to STar- ?
1 Luther at Riga has been refused by the ?'
issiau authorities. A
At an open-air meeting of 400 socialists in Six
iris a resolution was adopted declaring yya
volution the only means of ending the labor t c
isis.
Ten thousand persous, among them many ?rn
itinguisheJ Germans, followed the body of A
irr Lasker, the German statesman, to ita ^.m
st resting place in the Jewish cemetery at ..
'rlin.
mkolnvia trie
A BUUH CtJUUtULLU^ ai viuci fliuwij uuu.vuu
the German imperial family has caused Pitt
eat irritation in Berlin, where it was g0l
zed by the police, and its circulation in .
ance has been forbidden by the French
ithorities. The articles were reprinted from tion
French periodical. T,
Eleven men were lost by the wreck of a fav,
:amer near Cardiff, Wales. ^ou
Mr. Lowell, the American minister, ro- .
onded the other night to a toast at the din- ?
ir of the London chamber of commerce. T
9 said that commerce was the great pacifl- misi
tor between countries. It brought men
ca to face, and it was the great corrector T
the eccentricities of nature, so that a bad "
rvcst in England meant a good season for vvhi
innesota, Kansas and Manitoba. ban
p. W. Thomas, Sons & Co., prominent the
>ndon stock brokers, have proven defaults.
They owe $4,000,000 to customers.
Sevekal mountain tribes Jn Albania have
volted and seized the reins of government,
lev entered Montenegrin territory, but
3re repulsed with the loss of fifty men. jy
The king and queen of Italy are about to proj
sit the German court. *_
a cttppnsen Tilnt t/i murder the emDeror of
ustria in his box at the Court Opera-house of '
s been unearthed. A man was discovered ami
ncealed nea- the box with a number of in- pr0
ruments and wires. *,
... Kar
PROMINENT PEOPLE '2
Conklino.?Ex-Senator Roecoe Conkling'8 and
w practice yields him about $100,000 anially
bat.
Laird.?Congressman Laird, of Nebraska,
as only thirteen when he entered the army wa18?2.
and
Hendricks.?Ex-Governor Hendricks,who Ph?
now in Paris, writes that his health is ^cl
uch better than when he left this country. ^
J3ergh.? Henry Bergh, president of the .
jw York society for the Prevention of ^
uelty to Animals, is reported to be worth lhe
,000,00(). 1^4
Cameron.?Ex-Senator Simon Cameron ?tor
us left Hot Springs, Ark., for Mexico. He ,
in much better health than when he
irted on his journey. tire
Davis.?The New York Tribune states that
:he health of Jefferson Davis is extremely
ior this winter. His eyes give him much
ouble and his step is feeble.'"
Freeman.?Miss Alice Freeman. Ph. D., A
e president of Wellesley college, is deribed
as "a slight, girlish, young-faced a
oman, of great force or character and bril- F ,
tnt mental endowments. She is very popur
with the young lady students." anc
Valkra.?Senor Don Juan de Valera, the bri<
iw Spanish minister at Washington, is fifty eral
>ars cf age, with gray hair ana mustache, jjg.
e has been in the diplomatic service since jj1
! was fifteen years of age. He is also dis- ( f
aguished as an author. o
Boudinot.?Colonel Boudinot, the long- two
lired Cherokee chief, was an interested yiel
ectator at the Xutt trial. He accompanied awj
;nator Voorhees to Pittsburg. He was on niei
e stall' of the Confederate General Price fire
ti ing the war, and a member of the last pro
jnfe-lerate congress. wa^
Allison.?United States Senator Allison, liou
liois called "Lucky Allison," has had a long coil
jLMative caret']'. He served eight years in >1
e House, then was elected L nited States exti
;nator, and has just been re-elected a third j pen
lie for a term expiring in 1801. At that time in t
i will have been twenty-six yearj in Con- woi
ess. _ hac
Japan's Ruler.?Mutsohito I., emperor })U'
Japan, who is now thirty-three years of 'e-ss
re, is the 1:23d sovereign of that country, the
e lias reigned since the death of his father F
1807. His is the only dynasty that has ''iel
iled in Japan, and began (RiO B. C. There Evi
no other monarch in the world who can
last so unbroken a descent from so ancient L>ui
stock. 5 a" I
Victoria.?Queen Victoria will spend a 1,11
lisiderable part of the spring on the contilit.
She eoes at first to Baden-Baden, and ,
terward to L>armstadt to attend the wedng
of her granddaughter with Prince jj1' j
mis Buttenburg. ine rrmce anu
Wales are also expected to be there, after ??'.1
ttking a Jong stay in the Riviera, whither * ~
ey go shortly. the
Phelps.?Miss Elizabeth Stuart Phelps, Ian
hose gentle voice and pleasant manners are the
jrshi|>e.l by the poor people of Glouces- the
r, is a slender, graceful woman of thirty- ligh
ne years. The well known writer has dark
own ha r, sympathetic blu? eyes, a rather
ug, thiu nose, and a facile mouth, which is
ver nt rest. She is in delicate health. I.
ought about by her labors among the poor. J,
WINTER'S DANGERS. Jj
Hugh Talty, of Dubuque, was killed by ^
nning against a post while coasting. T.
StKir. Townsend, of Steuben, N. Y., aged ' ans<
*hty-three years, was killed by a fall on ' and
I ,
\ three-months-old child was frozen to ! mos
ath while Ivine in bed with its mother at '
i Laugue, Canada.
Seokge Frank, of Otterville, Canada
nit to the woods with a sled for fuel. He swo
is frozen in the snow by the side of the I.
d- felo
After thirty-six hours of exposure to sleet ?
d snow, W. Irving Landell, a railway
akemaii, died of exhaustion, at Lexington, 600
jntucky. 1.
In a drserted barn near Numedia, Penn., L
o men were found frozen to death. They I,
?re thinly clad and were locked in one (]ov
lother's arms. I
Charles Shepard lost a valuable horse t
id narrowly escaped with his own life in v
temptine to cross the Hudson river on the '
3 at Lansing burg.
A sled containing three boj*s and a girl a
ahanoy Plain, Penn., ran into a team. ?
larli's Gnylor's skull was fracture<l and the '
h?r masters were severely injured. j / l'J
"VViiex the sled of Thomas Brown, of Wood- i 11:11:1
Try, Mil., reached the bottom of the hill dea
i w'hicn he was coasting it went over a bank I do
id clean through the back window of a 1 u j,
iuse. He was badly cut. | .,
A youxo widow recently t-aved the twelve- j 11
ar-old son of the He v. J. Tisdall, of Pain* i "'V
uw, Minn., fr?mi drowning. She saw the <lri<
>y fall into an air hole while skating, and / not
irried to the rescuo with a ladder and a I 'i*)1(
irden rake. She slippd I he ladder into the
tie. and, goine: into the water, felt around J
ith the rake, until .-he brought him up. He ( CilP
as unconscious, but recovered. ; wlii
THE WHEAT SUPPLY. | Z
sfliiintc of the Amount of Wheat in ',n'
the Country. I !1'1('
The Cincinnati /'/ / < t'urrent has made a I n:m
ecial examination of the wheat, stocks in I
e conntry and will publish tho result to- J
orrow. The report will show the iotal sup-1
y of wheat to b> 17."?,0<H?.i:0U bushels, ' 'o thi.? i nal
added .Ti.O m.oiio bushels in flour in!
o h.-iii l< <?f dealers, tunning a total or i .
(i,i?bushels for the remaining half of the !
op year. Tin? estimated requirements fori '"W
at t ime are. for iloniestic food, etc., 1:2 5,-1 cil
t'jtHM) bushels; for export, including flour,' t)ir
,(*)(>,isnn bushels, leaving a >urplus of
O.(HK) bushels. This is calculated ujioti the '
?sis of experts of P.i(i,00(',(i(K) bushels this |
ar against !4*,000,(:U0 bushois last year. I nl?o
?? ? ? | con
Thk ostriches of the Anaheim farm in |
ilifornia laid Mo.') eggs during the season two
oil) the 1st of May last until the 1st of Octo 0?j
r. Tiie birds have lieen plucked twice ,
ice their arrival. The lirst dip in May 'ast 1
elded &VH). The clip in DiCeinber yielded st'Pl
ioO (|uills of all kinds from eighteen birds, nies
id is valued at ?l,n ,
LATER NEWS, ;||J
. jury returned a verdict of 138,927 |
inst the Boston and Albany Railroad
lpanyin favor of James B. David, of Bo?
- as damages for rersonal injuries susled
at Springfield, owing to the neglect oi
a men.
cdge Harry E. Packer, president of
Lehish Railroarl company, died a few
s since at his home in ilauch Chunk,
in., in hij thirty-third year. He was the
n^est and the lost surviving son of th* : j&
i Judge Asa Packer, the famous projecto*
builder of the Lehigh Valley railroad. j
he great California land suit of Emerio <ijj
inst the heirs of x-Governor Alvarado \
been decided by the supreme court at
[Francisco in favor of the defendants.
i case 1ms occupied thp courts for sevetr 0
1 years, and involves 18,000 acres of land a",
Contra Costa count/, including the vit" j>5
} of San Pablo, the whole being valued at
>00.000.
OHjf C. P. Collins, who robbed a stage
killed W. F. Cummings, a banker, whil? ' ,
bing him of two bars of gold worth
>00, was hanged at Nevada City, Cal., la g
sence of a large crowd.
he boiler in Twichell's sbinglo mill near
nchford, Mich , exploded the other morn,
killing Henry Roop and John Finlayson,
dly injuring a man named Gerrod, and _
mding several others.
xght persons were killed and as many
:e injured by an explosion of gasoline in <
ove store at Alliance, Ohio.
he last national deot statement issued
ws the following:
irease of debt during January $11,958,001
Tease of debt since June 80,
583 65,007,488
h in the treasury 393,415,233 jS
d certificates outstanding 101,250,620 ' ; ^?3
rer certificates outstanding... 110,137,051 ,
tiflcates of deposit oufotandig
~ 16,880,000 msS
unding certificates outstandig
307,960
;al-tenders outstanding 346,681,016 %>
.ctional currency (not includig
amount estimated as lost or
estroyed) 6,987,85o
. delegation of Indians belonging to the :
Nations, of New York, have been In
.shington asking for an indemnity of about : -.-M
?00,000 for lands surrendered to the gov- violent
many years ago. *'*iw
. delegation of six men, representing the '
algamated Association of Iron Workers, .
Miners' association of the Pittsburg db"
t and the Glass Workers' association, of y\:\
sburg, have been testifying be "ore tha ic
ise committee on 'abor. and endeavoring ; '
Bcure legislation to prevent, the importa- ^
i of foreign laborers under contract.
be Senate labor committee ordered a
irable report on the bill establishing eight
rs as a day's work for laborers and me- Vcr.^l
ics in government employ.
i.irtee!? school teachers have been difl- ..
sed in Servia for promoting the recent
jit. r
ord Castleton is the author of a schema
chproposes the establishment of aland ;-t
k for the relief of Irish landlords andfor X
assistance of tenants.
ATER CONGRESSIONAL. NEWS.
notue. '
!r. Dockery, of Missouri, introduced ft bill .
hibiting the removal of employes of the ?
ise except for cau e during the vacation
Congress. Referred. Also a resolution
mding the rules bo as to make a similar
vision. Referred.... On motion of Mr. ,
idall, of Pennsylvania, the further con-.
ince a>kel by the Senate on the Ureeiy
ef bill wai agreed to, and Mr. Randall ,l:4
Mr. Calkins wero appointed as conferees.
In conimitte on the wliole the de- .-sjjj
b on the Fitz John Porter bill jg
i concluded Mr. Wolford spoke in favor of
Mr. Calkins in opposition to the bill. Mr.
ilps defended the bill and Mr. Boutelle at- . .r.
ted it. After several amendments had
n made an 1 rejected Mr.-Curtin made a
r speech in favcr of the bill. This cloeed
debate and the H:u=e then, by a vote Of k
yeas to 7S nays, passed the bill which re- ? V
es Fitz John Porter to the army and aui-izes
the President to place him on the red
list,
1 TERRIBLE EXPLOSION,
- 'VK
Building
Demolished and Eigh<
Persons Buried ill (he Uuinv*
l terrible gasoline explosion occurred in
U. Orr's stove and tinware store atyUli* ;-;;
e, Ohio. Orr's st ire was in a lar^e new .'L*
:k block in the middle of the town. SevI
persons were in the store, and two familived
on the second and third floors.
i force of the explosion broke the windows r.-*ri
the other buildings on the square.
it's block was leveled to the ground, aud . >>
?brick blocks, one on either side of it, ;
ded to the shock, while others farther
ly wero ba lly damaged. In a few moits
the flames rose from the ruins, and the
alarm was sounded. Such excitement
vailed that the fire gained so much head- ?
f as to neany consume me ?un?, .....
ses were burned before it was got under ;
trol.
leanwhile the scene was harrowing in the
rerae. It was known that six or more
-ons were killed or were then imprisoned
he wreck, or would perish by Are. Men,. "
ne;i, and children were wringing their
ids, and the relatives of the inmates of the
Idings de-troyed wandered about in hopeness
and desyair at their inability to save
m.
'. M. Orr, Elmer Orr, his a on; Mr*. Ho- y
* of Highlands, a daughter: Mrs. Frank
uis. and two children aged two and four
it lis, were known to have been in the
Iding at the time of the explosion. These
perished. The women and children were
he second and third stories, and are sup3d
to have been killed by the falling
Is. Mr. Orr and sou were both .
ken to while confined under the
lis, but weie burned to death. These
ies were aU recovered, and were crushed
harred so as to be hardly recognizable.
e or ten other persons were injured.
I-" wns caused bv fumes from
gasoline. A child of Mr. Orr turned a '
ret in a barrel and the tfuiil ran out on
l!oor. Mr. Orr was mopping: it up, when
gas arising therefrom ignited from a gas- ~
t.
For Sweetheart and Swain.
ove knows hidden paths.
ovc makes labor light.
ove makes time pass away, and time
:es love pass away.
ove me little, love me long.
ove one that does not love you,
ivcr one that dues not call you,
you will run a fruitless race.
ove others well, but love thyself the
t; give good for good, but not to
ic own cost. -3
oves rules his kingdom without a
rd.
ove subdues everything except a
n's heart.
ove, knavery and necessity make men
d orators.
ove, thieves and fear make ghosts.
ove your friend with his faults.
nv*f? vnur neijrhbor. but don't pull
t J v' o '
i n his fence.
.overs' purses arc tied with cobwebs.
overs' quarrels arc love and redoubled.
,overs think others have no eyes.
Dreaming' in Cold Weather.
. I)r. Granville writes to the Londou
u.i: "Many persons who are not by
it 'dreamers' are dreaming a great
1 just now and wondering why they
so. The answer is very simple.
ien cold weather sets in suddenly and
uich felt at night, the head, which is
overed, has the blood supplied to it
i-cn from the surface to the deep parts,
ably the brain?the organ of the mind.
results are lii^ht sleep and dreams.
; obvious remedy is to wear a nightor
wrap the head warmly, at least
ile the cold weather lasts. I believe
of this generation suffer more from
in troubles than our predecessors, bc>e
we leave the head exposed at ni^ht
' 1 1 1 1 ' ----- AnNAUmll r\f
tne UlOOil vessels OI unr cvii-uimi uis
are seldom unloaded.''
Taming nil Eagle.
A workman,'' says tin- Spanish jourHl
I)'m, "who has acquired a certain
liritv bv his fortune in the hunting
>>, as well as for his success in trainwild
birds and animals had succeed in
domesticating an eagle so far that
liird would come down from the
litest height in answer to a simple
i or a slight, whistle. The eagle flew
ut with'tin; pigeons, causing no little
stcrnation among them at first. It
I t<> tlv long distances, but came back
i or three times a day to take its food
of the hands of its master. After u
days, however, a (lock of eagles were
i in the neighborhood, and thoir doiticated
fellow disappeared with his
nds, never to return."
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