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ABBEVILLE PRESS AND BANNER.! , m BY HUGH WILSON. ABBEVILLE, S. C.. WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 20, 1884. NO. 34. VOLUME XXVIII. || THE GRUMBLER. He grumbles In the morning, On rising from his bed, He grumbles at his breakfast, At the coffee, cakes and bread' He grumbles at his napkin, He grumbles at his knife, He grumbles at the table-clotL And grumbles at his wife; He grumbles at the paper While he's reading o'er the news. He grumbles at the cobbler When he buys a pair of shoes. He grumbler at the clock Wben it's striking out the hour, And he grumbles at the "deluge," When there comes a little shower. He grumbles at the children When they're playing in the street, He grumb'es at the butcher, At the way he cuts the meat He grumbles at his little dog, If it only wags its tail, And when the wind but gently blows He grumbles at the "gale." He grumbles when a bill comes in, No matter though 'tis small, He grumb.'es at the servants, He grumbles at us all. He grumbles at the darkness, When he has to light the gas, And he grumbles at the matchef The unhappy, grumbling ass I He grumbles at the prices, He grumbles at his .-tocks, He grumbles at his feet 1 When he buys a pair of socks. He grumbles at the summer When the sun is rather warm, And he grumb'es ai- the ''winter" Every time we have a storm. He grumbles at a question, He grumb'es at a smile: At chur. h ho grutnliles at the people >\ ho are standing m the aisle. He grumbles at his daughter When she w.uils a little money, And he grumbles when she laughs At something very funny. He grumbles at the ri ll man, He grumble- at the i?oor, He grumbles at the beggars When they knock uj>on his door. He grumbles at h:s rent-dav, When the landlord's to be paid. He grumbles in the sunshine, He grumbles in the shade. He grumbles at a wagon If it stands 1-efore the door, And he grumbles if a crumb of bread Is dropped upon the lloor. He grumbles i.i his little room, He grumble- on the stairs, He grumbles a 1 the way to church He grumbles after prayers. He grumbles in his sleep While lyin^ in his bed? And I oft-n fancy to myself He'll grumble when he's dead SEEKING HIS FORTUNE. "Of course he'll make his fortune!" I said Lally Hilton. ^ "A man with his talents cannot possiW bly help it," said Hose. ' "I wish I was going to the city," said Joe, the younger brother, with a sigh which was pumped up from the very soles of his hob-nailed shoes. And Willis Hilton smiled in a superior t fashion and looked alter the key of his ; new lf?ntlir?r while the ?nmn time, he made sure that the steel chain of his silver watch?Uncle Zephaniah's gift ?was securely attached to the button of his waistcoat. i "Willis Hilton was a genius?at least, i so his mother, his Uncle Zephaniah and i the principal of the district school had always declared. He had a manuscript poem in his traveling-bag. as well as a series of sketches, which were meant to reflect in a sarcastic ityle on the leading follies and frivolities of the day, and the notes of a novelette which he intended some day to write. He had also a change of linen, a fountain pen, some new cravats and a celluloid collar, to say noth'ngofa bottle of camphor, some of Grandmother Smith's Balve and some home-made sticking And what more could any young man from the country desire for an outfit ? Mrs. Petronel, who had visited ;:t the farmhouse summer before last (and whose big trunk couldn't be carried up the f inding stairway, but had to be left in the milk-room during the whole of her sojour*), had told him, when she went away, always to consider her house, in Blackford Square, his home, and honest Willis had taken her at her word. So he kissed the old grandmother, wrung Uncle Zcph's horny hand, hugged the girls all around, and gave little Joe his one-bladed knife as a parting sou-1 venir, and then separated by the U o'clock train for the great city wherein, according to his hopes and dreams, wencentered all the germs of his future prosperity. Mrs. Petronel did not remember him just at first. This was a little awkward, especially as her sisters?two pretty, plum]) young ladies?stood watching the scene behind the statue of Psvche in the hall. >vlitis ftmon uiusnea, siammereu an<i explained, wishing himself, the while, in the autipodes. "So awkward of me!" said Mrs. Pctronel, with a su&ien gleam of recollection. "But. ydfc know it is ages since I saw yon. I remember now perfectly. Mr. Hilton, to-be-sure! How good of you to come and call! I'm only sorry we are just going out. I would ask you to dinner to-morrow, only there are a lot of people coming who would all be strangers to you, and you wouldn't enjoy it at all. But I hope you will drop in some evening when we are all alone. Family at the farm-house all well? So glad to hear it! But I won't detain you any longer. Good-bye?'' And .Mrs. Petronel smiled him out of the front door with so bland an air that our poor hero hardly knew that he hnd Hppn r-ivillv dismissed. until he fnimd himself standing on the outside of the huge black-wulnut panels, with :m echo in his ears which sounded very like? 'The assurance of these country peoee! Why, they are the merest strangers the world to me!"' Willis Hilton bit his lip; the color r mounted in a burning flood to his cheek. Had some one knocked him down, the revulsion could not have been more sudden or painful. Mrs Petronel hud stayed si$ weeks at Hilton Farm, and he had driven her out, taken her to the prettiest places in the neighborhood, collected ferns and grasses for her?in short, been her faithful ser x 1 i*? j.\.. ...i-.1. 1 vani unu cuvui;cr llir wikih: Uiur?mm now she ignored the invitation she had 80 cordially given, and " hoped he would drop in some evening when they were all alone." And he thought of his slender stock of money, and wondered what he had better do? Of course there would not be so much sordid difficulties to eonsider when he had once sold his poem and found a market for his ' Satirical Sketches." But in the meantime--"Mr. HiltonOh. I beg your pardon, but I've been running so fast!" And Willis found himself unexpectedly vis-a-vis with a pretty, rosy girl, who was very much out of breath. "I am Kate Petronel," said she. " I heard what my sister-in-law said to you: and, oh, I am so sorrv she was rude! 1 only there on sufTranee; but my cousin, Mrs. Rhodes, keeps a very nice, homelike little boarding house on Echo street. I'll show you the place, and she won't charge you anything if you tell her I sent you." Willis Hilton bit his lip. Had his face, then, 60 plainly revealed the consternation of his mind? "I do not wish to live on charity," he said. "Oh, but just for the present?" said Kate Petronel, persuasively. "Of course we've all got to begin in the world. ^ And I'm sure you'il like Aunt Rhodes." 80 Kate led him to the corner of Echo street, and pointed out No. 38, and bade him adieu. "I shall see you sometimes, I hope?" said he, wistfully. "I shouldn't wonder," said Kate, laughing. "I often come to Aunt Rhodes,' and help her with the housemending, of an evening. And I was at your grandmother's farm-house once, when I ms r. little girl getting oy?r the . _ >. ' _ . . mea9les, and they were all so kind to me. You were away ut t-chool. But I never have forgotten the sweet apples thcv baked for me, and the big pears I picked for myself off the tree in the corner of the garden." And Kate Petronel ran away with the tears sparkling in her eyes. The house on Echo street lacked the plate-glass and polish of the Blackford Square mansion; but old Mrs. Rhodes made him welcome, gave him the supper he so sorely needed, and showed him to a little room which was barely large enough to hold a cot-bedstead, a washstand, and a six-by-nine looking-glass. And here he slept soundly all the lirst night, although the horse-cars thundered by at ten minute intervals, the milk-wa<rons rattled over the stones, and the rag-and-bottle mcu aroused in their might at "5 o'clock in the morning." "My first day in Xew York!" said Willis Ililton to himself. "And I'm determined to make it a success." Alas, our poor hero! Need \vc follow him, in turn, to the sanctums of busy editors, who scarcely glanced at the literary treasures over which he had toiled so ceaselessly, to the swarming offices of the newspapers which seemed to spring up by instinct from the revolving presses, the elegant reccyition-rooms of hightoned monthly magazines? "An epic poem!" ejaculated Mr. Nimple, with his pen between his teeth. "Young man, where have you been brounrlit un? Xo. we don't want it. Si mon show in the next man!" Sketches?'' said the spectacled personage behind the desk, in another "private oltioc." "That sort of thing don't go down nowadays with the reading public." " If you would do me the favor to look at them, sir?'" faltered Willis. ".Much obliged; but we'd rather not," said the spectacled gentleman. "John, hand me the directory!" And this, with trifling variations, was the programme of the day. The last place into which Willis drairged his weary limbs was the office of a thriving illustrated weekly. The edi tor gave a groan. ' My dear young man," said he, "you arc the thirteenth person who has been here since noon to sell me an article which is perfectly unsalable. Poetry and sketches are played out. Do you see that scrap basket? Well, it has been emptied twice to-day, and is running over for the third time with just such pretty rhymes and spicy sentences as you have there. We don't even take the trouble to read 'em. Hut." with a softening of his voice as the haggard young man turned away, "do you really want to work ?" " If 1 don't work I must starve!" said Willis, despairingly. The editor looked at him with a certain pity in his eyes. Perhaps he, too, had owe been a friendless young man from the country. "Can you write a decent hand!" said he. "Here"?pushing forward a sheet of paper?"copy the leading paragraph of to-day's paper. Pretty fair?tolerably distinct. Well, we want a man to direct wrappers for us. Ten dollars a week. Not much at first, hut it may lead to promotion. if you understand yourself and are not afraid of work. Will you have it? Yes or 110? I've no time to dally!" '*1 shall be thankful to earn a little money for myself," said Willis Ililton, fervently. "And I am most grateful for this opportunity." And so went out the light of the rising author of Cedar Glen, the genius of the old Hilton farm. He burned his povins and sketches in secret, aud sat dilligently to work on the newspaper wrappers. Kate Petronel said she thought he had done right when next she came to Mrs. Rhoilps' to hcln with the house linen. ' I>ut I don't see why you left the farm," said she, looking at him with those slear, hazel, soft eyes of hers over a heap of disabled table-napkins. "I wanted to be something ab'ove a farmer," said Willis, sadly. "That's nonsense,"' said Kate. "A farmer's is the most independent life in the world!" , "Do you think so?" said Willis. "Of course I do," Kate responded. "A farmer needn't ask odds of any one. And than, only to think of being always in sight of trees, and buttereups, and cloverblossoms! Oh, dear! I only wish I lived in the country!" Willis Hilton said nothing more, but then and there he made up his mind. And the next autumn he came back to he farm. "Why, Uncle Zephaniah," said he, l,TVn tn ctir>L- in t)ir> olfl hllQl ness." "Eh ?" said Uncle Zeph. "But you're a genius, Willis, you know!" "I am not sure whether I am or not," said Willis, with a smile. "At all events I've determined to come back and display my abilities 011 the farm. My wife like? the idea, and?" "Your wife!" said Uncle Zephaniah. "Kate Petronel," explained Ililton. "We were married lust week. I'm going back after her to-morrow." "Well," said Uncle Zephaniah, reflectively chewing a dead cherry-leaf, "that's the best news I've heard yet!" So Mr. and Mrs. Hilton went to housekeeping in a modest way, and throve exceedingly, and Willis has almost forgotten how to make and like rhyme, but he is great on selecting a puir of oxen or fertilizing a field of rye. And when .Mrs. retronei, 01JMacKiora Square, hints how fond she is of the country. and how the gaieties of Newport and Saratoga pall upon her senses, Ivate and Willis are deaf. "She shall never be invited here again," says Kate, screwing up her rosebud of a mouth in a most decided manner. And Willis only laughs, and remarks, sagely: "My love, your will is law!' A Lighthouse Heroine's Home. A f i rnrrpsnnnrient savs: Within a short mile of the quay at Newport, Lyra- rode rises out of the water of Narragansett Bay. On this rock stands the old lighthouse which was tended for many years by the father of Ida Lewis, and of which she now under the seal of the Government commission, is keeper. Securing the services of the captain of a diminutive boat I sailed on the waters blue to her abode for the purpose of paying her my respects. As we approached the rock an immense mastiff, with head and paws like a lion and a roar like far-off thunder, came to its extreme verge and disputed our landing, lie was entirely successful until the heroine appeared, called him off in the lowest of tones, and locked him up in an outhouse. She then invited me into the little house on the top of which rests the beacon light which lias for so many years warned the navigator of hidden dangers, and at once entered into easy and unrestricted conversation. She said that she had for twenty five years lived on that rock; that she used to be fond of going into the city once in awhile, !* * plw. Aiiixifl x'nt'v litHo fnr if nAUT uui uiiu piiv; vuicu ? vt ? a4iviv- ?v. ? ~ . that she always had a great many visitors in the summer, a few years ago the number reaching thousiinds in one season. She showed me her medals, received from Congress, the State of Massachusetts, and the city of Newport, and a solid silver teapot from the officers at Fort Adams, all bearing suitable inscriptions in testimonial of her heroism in rescuing so many human beings from watery graves. Miss Lewis is rather above medium height, of somewhat slender figure, good features, and great earnest eyes, between brown and gray. While she cannot be called handsome, her face is one to interest and attract. Her style of conversation is piquant and vivacious, and although not educated stic is very intelligent. Everything about her and hei apartments bore the evidence of neatness. care, and good taste. Her mother, a venerable old lady, with thick silwi hair, was very talkative and discoursed on matters and things, personal and otherwise, at length. She informed mt she had the rheumatism in her feet and Ida insisted that it was because she had dyed her hair for so many years. She communicated the intelligence that hei daughter was forty years old, at which Miss Ida evinced a slight tinge ol annoyance and remarked: "Mother thinks she must tell every one my age." Bui she quickly added: "Well, I don'tcare, it dou't make any difference. I don'1 object to getting old." "BLACK FLAGS" OF ANXAM.' A REMARKABLE PEOPLE AND THEIR ABLE IiEASER. i Sudden (irotvlh of a People Who Have (aiven tl?e French ."TIncli Trouble?Their Origin. In an article on the Black Flags, flic . people of Annam who have given the ^ French troops so much trouble, the Shanghai (China) She/tpax says: Liu Yuen Fou was originally leader of ! a remnant of the Canton rebels (the Taep- j I ings). lie is now over sixty years of a^e. He has a full face and manly figure. His I beard and hair are like silver. Hischarj acter is of the heroic order, combining i i in fair proportion sagacity and courage; '< and he possesses great administrative and organizing ability, by which he has gathered around him adventurous spirits j from all quarters. Over twenty years 1 ago, when the imperial troops defeated the Canton rebels, Liu, driven to extremities, took refuge in the northern borders of Annam. The king of Annam was feeble, and could not drive Liu and his ! gang out by force, so lie sent a messenger to offer them protection. This Liu accepted. At that time the Black Flag followers i did not amount to more than a few thousands, and they made a treaty with j the king of Annam by which they were i allowed to cultivate the wild country | among the mountains of Tien-fu-Chang I on the understanding that they and the j natives were not to molest each other. ! After three years of cultivation of the I land they obtained still further recogni- I tion. Liu succeeded in gaining the favor ! of the king, who supplied him with oxen j and seeds for cultivation. Liu made it his object to draw people to him by j kindness and liberality. His good name I was published from mouth to mouth j everywhere, and multitudes gathered to his standard. The Yellow Flags and White Flags came in close succession, and many natives also gladly placed themselves under his protection. Liu j rnude allotments of land to them all, that | they might support themselves by tarm- i ing. Thus the population grew and the | extent of cultivated land increased. For | more than 700 li (200 miles), east and ! west, there were continuous fields with farm-houses and agricultural towns of growing importance. The expense of maintaining such a large population was very great and they were burdened by ?he taxation of the I Ann am government;- i.?, after a period of seven years, they took it upon themselves I to refuse further payment of taxes, and ' the King of Annam could not help himself. After this Liu undertook the government of his own territory. All matters of instruction and maintenance, all i | agricultural and military affairs, admin- | | istration of justice, and public appoint- j i ments, were duly arranged by himself. ! j Punishments were strict and severe. ! They had beheading, hanging, rattaning, j ! and beating, but no banishment or im- I | prisoment. Each town had a civil and a military chief appointed over it, who superintended the agricultural operations and military drill of a certain number of men. The youths were taught to read, but not to any great extent?only enough I to enable them to distinguish surnames and names, or to explain in a rough and j general way. j The country they occupied consisted ' of forest ami jungle, witn deep ravines ; I and water courses. The hills arc in( fested by tigers and wolves. Wood gathJ erers never venture to iro out except in companies. But no other kind of wild J beast is so abundant as the monkey. In | the stillness of evening, when no sound I is heard but the purling of brooks, the monkeys come out in scores and hundreds, screeching and jumping and playing and chasing each other without end. There is a tree called the monkeys' pro{ vision tree, about ten feet high, growing | all about the hills. Its fruit looks like ' a pomegranite, but it is hard and harsh, j not eatable by men. The monkeys, howj ever, eat it with great avidity. "When the Black Flags went there first their | chief article of cultivation was maize, I and in late autumn, when the maize was ! ripe, each monkey would go to the field j and pluck a head and put it under his arm, then, with insatiable greed, pluck another and let the first drop, and so on ! for a score of times, always cropping the ' last in its eagerness to take another. Acres of maize would be spoiled in this way in i one night, until the people took meas- j ures to frighten the monkeys away. Of late years the colony has enjoyed ^ ?e uio?L- i IgTuutcr prosperity. iiiu uuuiuci vl jmava Flag people is over 80,000, of the. Yellow Flag over 00,000, a?d those of the White Flag over 30,000. There are also natives of the place numbering more | than 20,000. The whole population can not be less than 200,000. The young j men, from seventeen to twenty-four J years of age, amounting to 20,000, are ] all swarthy,stalwart fellows, accustomed I to scour the forest aud spring tne gorges ] with the agility of monkeys. Theerefor j they are fierce and daring in the extreme; I nothing can stand before them, and, i moreover, they are wonderfully smart j and dextrous. Those young men make a j formidable army. At present the old j Black Flags occupy the mountain pass, which forms, as it were, their inner J stronghold. To approach this it is neci essary to pass over a succession of line ' precipitous mountain ranges, v/hich stand ! up like gigantic walls to hinder even the i flight of birds. I There are also two. great water barriers | which the Black Flags have constructed 1 by diverting the course of the Red river, j and 6trong guards are stationed at all | points within hail of each other. Beyond j all these barriers is Tien-fu-Chaug, with i its* wide streets?a great commercial cenj ter?the metropolis of the Black Flags, i In Tien-fu-Chang there is a general yamen | for the three Flags, and a separate yamen | for each. Every person wno wants to I ioin them must give an account of his j antecedents, and of his connections, if ; any, with the neighboring people, and I must state which Flag lie wants to join. I Then he is taken to headquarters and ! examined as to his abilities, and admitted i -jr rejected accordingly. i i Bits of Iron in the Grist. In a collar box on the desk of a down! town dealer in machinery for flour mills j ; were twenty-seven bits of wire of various | lengths and forms, two barbs, one nail [ head, two small lathe nails, two pieces ' of larger nails, one piece of a screw, and ; a piece of sheet iron. i "IIow is that for a grist?" he re marked. "Have you a machine to grind such j things as that?" I "Not exactly, but. millers run just such grists tshrough their millstones i every day in the year. Several years ago ! the genius of the reaping machine man j invented an attachment by which the grain was bound into sheaves as it was j cut. The binding was done with ! wire. As a consequence, when the < wheat was threshed a good deal of that j binding wire went through the thresher and dropped out in bits into the j wheat. Millers, particularly in the | Northwest, found so much in the grain ; ! that profits were seriously cut by the in- i j jury done to the millstones. Two or | I three associations of millers in different j States resolved to buy no wheat that had j i been bound with wire. That wouldn't ! work, of course; and it was not Ion/; be- I | fore a milling journal advised the millers j j to put magnets in the spouts through , which the grain was received from the ' farmer. The miller found that he ac- : I cumulated not only a lot of binding wire, I ; but odd and ends of metal that lie had ! never dreamed of. This lot in the box | came from a grist of fifty bushels. But ! the magnets had their drawbacks. They ! didn't catch all t he iron, and they had to be cleaned by hand. Then an inventor | devised a machine which consists of a 1 hopper, into which the grain runs, and from which it is fed in an even sheet over I a plate of sheet-iron. The plates serves as an armature for a gang of horseshoe I magnets beneath it, and becoming inagi nctized itself, it holds all the metal that reaches it with the grain. Once a minute an automatic wiper clears the metallic substances from the sheet iron. The , machines arc of various sizes and makes, . i ranging in capacity from twenty-five to i :J00 bushels an hour, and in price from ; j $4/i to $125."?Nerc York Sun. t 1 Forty of the students of the Texas university are women. FARM, GARDEN AND HOUSEHOLD. Vand for n ('lay Soil. Twenty-four years ago, says a writer in an exchange., wc hud three or four inches of sand carted on part of a garden, the Boil of which was too clayey for the successful or convenient raising of garden vegetables. V hen this sand was well worked in, the w.iole became an excellent sandy loam, just the soil for agreeable wcrk'u f. The labor of drawing on the sand was considerable; but it was done io winter, when there was little else for the man and team to do, and the fine condition of the soil remains a? good as at first, and probably will for a century to come, as the sand does not evaporate, wash away or become consumed in the growth of plants, as will manure. The Profit* of Egg*. The Poultry World thinks it more profitable to raise eggs than chickens. This is what it says: We make no allusion to those large establishments where raising chickens as chickens for a near city market is undoubtedly a paving business. But we address the common poultry-raiser, living perhaps a considerable distance from market, who wishes to make the most of his .stock. And to such we say raise every pullet your premises will accommodate. Treat them in such a manner that they will lay early and constantly through the winter, and you will make more money than you can by raising chickens to sell for broilers, unless at the fancy prices that such thing? bring in cities. Most country breeders have no such market for what they chance to have to sell, and the small prices they obtain at a country hotel ot the house of the wealthy citizen, by nc means pays for the extra trouble and care that early chickens cost. Of course, if you have a large number of fowls, there would necessarily be cockerels and ohl hens to fatten for sale, but do not make it your business to sell dead stock instead of making live hens give you hundreds of eggs every year of their lives." Sclf-Clcnnlng Ci*lorns. Not one farmer in one hundred knows how to manage a cistern so as to keep the water in it pure and wholesome. The majority use the water so lone as it can 1 nil ...1 *1? UC3 loicruieu. 111U11 n ucu uiu uuvi uv comes intolerable the cistern is cleaned out. The chief sources of impure water in cisterns are the inflowing of filth from the outside, gaseous contamination from an}' sewer or cesspool near at hand and decaying organic matter from the gutters and water pipes. The remedies are obvious; construct, the cistern so as to exclude all outside contaminations and keep the roofs and gutters, down which the rain washes into the cistern, clean and free from fallen leaves, etc. Professor R. ('. Kedzie.of the Michigan Agricultural college, has given the subject of cisterns and their contents much study and investigation. He says thai examination and analyses have proved that the purest water is always at the top and the. foulest at the bottom of the cistern, hence by keeping the receiving end of the pump-pipe near the surfacc of the water one may avoid most of these impurities. The pipe may be kept near the surface by attaching it to a float. A two gallon jug, closed with a good cork, well waxed over, makes an efficient float, Wire the end of the lead pipe to the handle so that the jug will float with the mouth down and keep the pipe within s foot or two of the surface of the water. Professor Kedzie recommends, also, fhat cisterns be maele selt-cleansing in means of an overflow pipe to carry oil impurities from the bottom. The overflow pipt may be of tin or galvanized iron in the shape of the letter f, three inches in diameter; the bottom of the f reaching within two inches of the bottom ol the cistern and the upper part of the tube passing water-tight through the wall of the cistern up to the height it i? desired to limit the filling of the cistern. When the cistern fills to the top of the tube the excess of water will flow awaj through the pipe, but ull the water thai escapes must come from the bottom, thereby removing foul water and accu undated filth. A cistern constructed sc as to excludc vermin, made frost-tight, with overflow pipe to carry off impuri ties from the bottom and the pump-pip( wired to a jug-float, so as to keep the re ceiving end near to the surface, will keej in good condition an indefinite length ol time and provide water that is whole some. ?New York World. The Value of (>rcen Maiiure?> Farmers have an exceedingly inude quate idea of the value of green manures, One who will sow his seed and wait pa ticutly for the crop will be too impatieni to grow a crop of rye or corn or clover t( nlmvftl under tn Mirinh thr> snil anr: return its rich harvest another year. Another will spend hundreds of dollar! for purchased manure or fertilizers, bul will not spend tens in growing a croj to plow into the soil for the same pur pose. And there arc farmers who hav< determined to plow under a clover soc and have top-dressed in the fall or win ter with this intention, but who hav< lost heart when they have seen a luxurian growth on the ground, which seemed t( be ' 'a waste of good fodder," as they liav< said, and so they have waited and liavi either pastured it or mowed it of and robbed the soil of food which i sorely needed. This would seem quite dif fereut if farmers would think of thei soil a? something to be fed ar-1 supportec to enable it to yield its produce, as mucl as a cow that yields milk or a sheep tha yields wool. There are some closi analogies between our fields and our ani mals. An animal is a machine?if w< like to call it so?by which we maki salable products from raw materials, i is inexhaustible for its teroi of life s< long as it is fed; but it is really inex haustible in fact, because, before its use ful life ends, it reproduces itself sevcra times and simply becomes a link in i chain which we may draw out indefi nitely without reaching the end of it So that in this view of it even an anima is inexhaustible so long as it is fed Arwl on.'r t.^;i Y,, longer, and, indeed, if it is not fed, i field will be mere dead, useless matter jus as a starved cow or sheep will be. Th fanner must learn to think of his land ii this way or he gets a wrong idea of it He must not neglect to study up th science of feeding his fields as he read up that of feeding his live stock He must become acquainted with feeding tables and rations and kind: of food for the land as well as for animals and must provide them liberally. An< nu ic n ruu m n t i>r1 nil fnn/ for stock so it is an excellent food fo land. Hut, at the same time, as then arc other fodders which can be usci along with clover, or as a substituti when helped out by more stimulating food, so there are other crops besidi clover which may be made to serve a food for the soil. Indeed, the soil is no very exacting in this respect, although i will never give something for nothing and always returns freely in exact pro portion to what it receives and no more but it is omnivorous and has an exceed iugly strong digestion. Ko that th farmer cannot go astray if he will alway provide something for it. It may b weeds anil no more, but it is better if i is a crop of buckwheat, and better stil if it is rye or corn or even turnips o rape, but best of all if we can give i rich clover which goes down deeply am draws food from the subsoil and open I IIS urouci ICilVl'S lO IUU HII 11IIU glUIHM ! from that source too, as well as other | which other plants cannot reach, and s< gives the farmer a hundred fold in re j turn for the seed and labor he has ex pended. There are other ways of manur | ing the soil, but among them plowing ii j of green crops has no superior.?Nei j York Tirru*. Farm nnd fiiartlcn Notci. Dr. Caldwell speaks very highly of oat j meal as food for milch cows. Money spent in paint for farm build ings and implements is money saved. It will pay everybody who keeps hen to provide them with plenty of cleat water or milk at this season. It is a mistaken notion that any soil ii good enough for beans. Beans requin good soil well prepared for paying re ults. Hare a big, cheap wash boiler. Pat j ^ it on a back kitchen stove, with soft j *wntcr. Into this put all the bones, po- ; tato peelings, bread scraps, gravy, meat, j i vegetables, etc., that comes from your , f| , table. Add any food?corn, rye, barley, t< meal?for chickens that you. may happen j t< to have. Add also ted pepper and salt, j Dump this into a trough for your chick- : ? ens while the heat of the boiling has not i Jf gone out of it. Crack the bones and it j g will pay in eggs. We give this feed in I t] the morning Some of our neighbors ; ? prefer it at night. We get the most eggs, j ei The Country Gentleman, reporting its | l! i experiments in sub-soiling during the j *! i past season, claims to have had best sue- g . cess witn potatoes. With this crop the i b increase in yield over those piantcd in the ; ordinary manner was about thirty-three I g per ccnt. in quantity, -vvinie rue quanty ; was much Improved, the tubers being j If larger, fairer and less affected with rot. ! tj , The results with corn were Ie9s flattering, j ^ although an increrse of about twenty per i 0 cent, was secured. The improvement in j s j the crop of potatoes was certainly suffi- ; c . I cient to make it worth while for farm. ers in general to give the plan a thorough \ ^ trial. Small potatoes, cut, were used for tl seed. | fi i To show how cold weather affects cows ! ? an intelligent dairy farmer mentions a I ]? case where a herd of cows, which had [ b usually been supplied from troughs and ; ? pipes in the stalls, were, on account of an j h obstruction in the pipes, obliged to be | ^ turned out twice a day while the weather ; a was cold to be watered in the yard. The ! i j quantity of milk instantly decreased, and j ? : in three days the falling of! became very | n j considerable. After the pipes were j $ I j mended, and the cows again watered as tl i before in their stalls the flow of milk re- a i! turned. Cows when giving milk : I are more sensitive to the cold than : i when they are d*y, and exposure to se- | ^ > ] verc cold interferes with the secretion a ; of milk. K ! If crops are not kept free from weeds * 1! fertilizers are lost or do more harm than n ' good by furnishing food for the weeds, b This was clearly shown by some recent Q experiments made by Sir J. B. Lawes, 0 of Rothamstead, where a plat of mangels c planted for forty years on tbe same ground & | | was much more tbifty than the main crop, b [: which had been heavily manured. The ! j experimental plat was kept exceedingly i 1 j clean, while in the main crop, owing to b | i the wet season, the weeds were numerous, fj ; It is an erroneous idea that corn alone ^ i ic tVir? Kocf rlinf fnr nirra Tt ia tnn TiPflt.- i. j .^V -w. I'-fc ? -v. ... n I in# and is deficient in albuminoids. To to 1: correct this we must add an article, says o I | the Breeder's Gazette, that will make up jj 1 for the deficiency. For example, skim j ' j milk is highly nitrogenous and has nearly h ' | four per cent, of true albuminoids. Two ? and a third pounds of skim milk contain ? j as much albuminous food as is found in j 1 I one pound of corn. But we cannot al- t: 1 j ways add milk. Linseed cake, meal or "V I pea meal greatly increases the value of ' corn as a hog feed. The pig kept in a 0 | small pen, getting milk and table p 1 i scraps, with a little corn, is noted 1 n j j for continued good health and even de- c | velopment. ? P Household Hints and Rccipeau a , To make corn bread, take two cups of j . i Indian meal, one teaspoonful of salt, two n , teaspooufuls of baking powder, one cup a . of molasses, one quart of sweet milk, two [ eggs; stir with wheat flour about as stiff j ? i as for cake and bake in a deep dish. e : Lemon cookies are made of one large ' 1 ; cup of sugar, a little more than half a ? l cup of butter, half a teaspoonful of soda ti dissolved in two teaspoonfuls of hot I r water; flavor with lemon, arid use juut; ? flour enough so that you can roll the n [ cookies out thin; bake in a quick oven, j ti ' | An old-fashioned and toothsome spice b 1 cake is made of three nounds of seedless 1 2 1 raisins, one and a half pounds of citron, j p ; | two and a half coffee cups of sugar, two I t : j cups of sweet milk, four cups of flour, I a !; six eggs, two tea^poonfuls of baking j ? !: powder, three teaspoonfuls of cinnamon g *; and two of mace. 1 1 j It is not generally known that when ' coffee beans are placed upon hot coals j ' or upon a hot plate the flavor arising is ' : one of the most effective and at the [ i same time agreeable disinfectants. If no 0 ": heat is obtainable, even the spreading a j of ground coffee on the object to be > [ I disinfected is most satisfactory. J, >1 For ham and eggs on toast, chop fine . cold boiled or baked ham. Toast and P , I butter slices of stale bread; crush the ? f j crust with a napkin to soften it. Spread . with the ham and set in oven for three or ? four minutes. Beat six eggs with a half cupful of milk, a little pepper and salt. : p Put this in a saucepan and stir over the | r! lire until it begins to thicken. Take off, ' b ' | beat well for a moment, spread over the , % ' | ham on toast: serve hot immediately. I ^ c To clean stained wood-work which is | e , also varnished, an old housewife rccom-1 a I mends the saving of tea-leaves from the " teupot for a few days. Drain them and ! n j when you have a sufficient quantity put j ^ t them in clean, soft water; let them' t , simmer for half an hour. When almost i h cohl, strain them out, and, dipping a A , flannel cloth in the water, wipe of! the 11 [ paint, drying it with another flannel cloth. One cup of tea leaves to one g j quart 6f water is the due allowance. S t -- J j How Indians Make Jewelry. ? 3 The California sea-shell is a regular B: article of trade among the wild tribes of j 8 t! Indians on the plains, as well as among j 11 t j th^ civilized ones. The shells are about | jj ; one-filth of.au inch in thickness, five or ; r - I * i - J1 * 1 1 l .j ! T 1 six incnes long, ana iour mcues uroaa. | f1 They are shaped like a saucer, and the t -11 1 outside is prismatic, the colors often | t merging into blue, green, pink and gold. | ^ B jSear the edge the shell is very thin and ! a delicate, but hard to break.. The Indians . n 2 saw it into pieces. Some round, others j S1 e square, oblong or pendant, and these, ? 1 they string together by means 'of wire ! 3 passed through little holes bored in the j r< pieces. Brass beads arc often strung on j T wires, as a sort of washer, between dif- S 1 ferent parts of the earring, while those j * suspended on sinew form the pendants. c A large brass ring for the ear generally ! e begins a Sioux ear-ring, and to this are j I hung five or six pendants, made of beads i ft supported on wire. To these pendants , 3 are attached ft crosspiece of green hide or ' II wool, then another column of pendants. J s t To these arc hiine large and small beads, i ' e then another crosspiece, and next three ! 1 large wampum-beads, beneath which is i p susnended the niece of shell that irives ! _ e the earring its value. A shell will make ' ? s one pair of rings, and it generally costs j two robes, or six dollars. They arc some- | n 1 thing over a foot long, and from three to ; fc 3 four inchcs in breadth at their widest ' e portion. What the ears of the Indians j ^ 1 are made of to withstand such a strain is i n 1 a mystery; but pride and vanity tell the b r story of savage as well as the more civil- v 2 ized dwellers in eiti and towns. H 1 | G 2 Superstitious Criminals. ' J 1, Superstitious to a degree known only n B to India, unprincipled men, who live by 0 s deeds of daring, quail before unreal dan- ! (s> t gers. Let but a hare or a snake cross j t his path, or an owl screech in the dis- i S ? tance; let but one of hi* party kill a 'j " tiger, or a dog run olT with the head of j ; a sacrificed sheep, and there is not a lob-} t - ber or highwayman hardy enough to pur- j t U sue his enterprise, even if petitions and , e s sacrifices have already been offered in 1 ^ t! due form to Bhawani, But the chirping ' fl t of a lizard, the cawing of a crow from a i f 1 tree to the left side, the appearance of a P r tiger, or the call of a partridge on the , J' 1 riirht. will restore his confidence, making 1 1 his success seem sure. The classical rob- j l h btT of the Hindu drama hastens cheer- e . _ v? I- :r x... _ 1.-1 - fi * lillly to ills worK. 11 uu juibsea a rui-nuiu. i s ?Atlantic Monthly. 3 " " I ^ . A ISigr Pearl From the Panama Canal, j The various industries along the lino I ' - of the new American canal seem to have ^ i already received an impetus from its con- j ji c struction. Among others the pearl s fishery is being pushed on with great vigor, and with a good deal of success, j as many fine specimens have lately been j ^ . found. Among some consigned to Mr. I ' Benson, Bond street, is a very fine-shaped ! ? pearl, called the "Lesseps," weighing ! * nearly 200 grains. It is about the most i n important that has been in the market j r s for many years, and takes its placc in j Ii 1 the list of the largest known pearls in | * the world.?London Telegraph. ? s 1 r The cellars under Philadelphia's new - city hall are the largest in America, their , area being four and a half acres. IUMMARY OF CONGRESS senate. Resolutions from the legislature of Ohio ivoringa torifT forrevenue, sr? adjiistCd 3 encourage home industries and afford promotion to labor, but not to create monoj.oes, were laid on tlio table.,..Tlie select immittoe on library accommodations rcorted a bill providing for the purchase of inds east of the cApitol g%>Unds for a conressional library building, and anpropriaing $500,(100 to begin work with. The coinlittee on judiciary reported favorably on the lOwell bankruptcy bill. Thy committee on ilucation and lab >r reported favorably on lie bills establishing a bureau of labor staistics, and limiting a day's wr.rk in the govrnment workshops to eight; hours. The entite authorized tho committee t!iat had een instructed to investigate allegel elecion outrages in Virginia and Mississippi to snd sub-committees to various places. Mr. horman offered a bill to regulate banking. The bill providing for the allotment of inds in severalty to Indians, and to extend be laws of the States and Territories over 10 Indians, wa< favorably reported hn hill siiRtvtiilinf/- for a further nariod I f five years the sectioh of the Revised tatutes, which prohibits the landing of uano except for use in the United tates from guano islands under the rotcction of tho United .States was passed. .. .Mr. Hawley introduced a^ain his bill of tie last Congress prohibiting pension azents -oin receiving any compensation for nroseuting a claim beyond the amount allowed y the commissioner of pensions. and reguitmg fees.... Senator Morrill introduced a ill which is practically a substitute for enator McPherson's financial bill. Mr. Miller, of Now York, reported favoraly the bill providing means for tho suppreslon and extirpation of pleuro-pneurnonia nd other contagious diseases among domes;c animals....The Senate, nfrer debate, a;sed the bill "to provide for the completion ; f tho capitol ten a. es and the stairways collected therewith." The bill appropriate? 777,580.9s Mr. Miller, of California, from lie committee on foreign relations, reported bill amending the anti Chinese act. Houm* Mr. Morrison introduced his bill ror the re uction of the tariff. Mr. Eaton introduced bill mtiking it a felony l or any officer of the ovemment to permit his subordinates to be ssessod for political purposes, and making an fficial who contributes money liable to indictlent. Mr. Cox, of New York, introduced a ill authorizing the construction of a bridge cross the Hudson river, and Mr. Dorsheimer bill for the free importation of coal, iron re and coke, and the" products of Canada. Ither bills were introduced by Mr. Long to stablish a life-saving station at Gay Heal; y Mr. "VVeller offering a reward of $100,003 i standard silver dollars to the master, wner and crew of any vessel that rescues lieutenant Greely and party during 1884; j Mr. Anderson, to prevent the lie of Pacific railroads before hey have fully discharged their obligations 3 th<? United .States ; by Mr. Houk a resoltion directing the committee on education > inquire into the working and management f agricultural colleges in aid of which lands ave been granted, and to recommend such leasures as will secure to the inustrial classes the benefits intended y the act of Congress The Ipeaker announced a few changes in the louse committees. Mr. Thomas takes Mr. Jhace's place on river and harbors, Mr. lockwell the place of Mr. Milliken on educaion, and Mr. Eaton the place of Mr. G. D. Vise on the foreign affairs committee. Mr. Dorsheimer's foreign copyright bill ras reported favorably from the committea n the judiciary The joint resolution proosing a constitutional amendment providig for the election of postmasters, revenue ol.'ectors ana Lnitea states district. at oreys was rej>orted adversely The House pent some time on the bill to eradicata leuro-pneumonia among cattle, but no ction was taken Mt. Finnerty introduced memorial from the Western Associated Vess, asking that the postage on newspapers lailed by others than the publishers be fixed t one cent for four ounces. A resolution reported from the committee n foreign affairs bv Mr. Belmont, ca lino; pon the President for copies of corresnondnce and information about extradition reaties and stipulations with Great Britain ince 1870, was adopted. A report accom anying the resolution states that the exradition treaty of 1*42 with Great Britain emains unenlarged and unimproved. It overs murder, assault with intent to murer. piracy, arson, robbery and forgery, but ot burglary, the fabrication and circulaion of counterfeit money, bonds and ank notes, ombL-z/lenent of public money r of private fur:d?, kidnapping, larceny, or ny of the modern c >mmercial crimes The louse spent a long time in debate on its bill a extirpate pluuro pneumonia. Messrs. Cox nd Potter, of New York, and others, opOt? I tho bill, on the gr. und that it tended to reak down tho old, well ordered division of Itatc and Federal powers. No action was iken. PROMINENT PEOPLE. i Arthur.?The President is flrty-four years j iH nrnicrhs t.wn hnnrlrnd and thirtv HOlinJs. rid is six feet tall Mubphy.?Francis Murphy, the great tenierance worker, has just been paying his rst visit to Boston. Cox.?Representative S. S. Cox is to be aid $75.0 ;0 by a Norwich (Conn.) publishing ouse for his remlniscenoes. Okfut.- Charles S. Offut, the new speaker f the Kentucky house of repro-entatives, is ; nly twenty-seven years of age. Jackson*.?Dr. Lois O. Jackson fills the osition of resident physician in a hospital ar children in Philadelphia. She is a pretty londe, twenty-three years of age, and i-s iving entire satisfaction in her positio i. j Rhodes.? Lieutenant Rhodes, the hero of lie (Jay Head disaster, has been in the rivnue marine service for eleven years. His ge is thirty-three, lie is n native of Con- j ecticut and has the iccord of a first-class lan. Armour.?P. IX Armour, leading man in he Chicago pig-jwoking business, is certain hat France and Germany ought tu be punshed without an instant's delay for excluding unerican porn, and rejoices that "Frenchmen are easily frightened." Mason.?Colonel Macomb Mason, a uative f Virginia, and graduate of the United itates Naval academy, who went with his itate in the rival war, and sincj then has een in the Egyptian service, is the "Mr. lason" whom buker Pasha has appointed military governor of Mas-owah. Shaw.?Mrc. Quincy Shaw, of Boston, pends $."0,0;X) annually out of her private icomo in support of thirty kindergartens nd twenty nurseries which sh.' 1ms cstabshed in those parts of the city where the ou?hest and most squalid features reign, n addition to this she spends $^00,000 a year n other charities. Smith.?The steamer of Leigh Smith, tho rctic explorer, was crushed in the ice, and e was forced to live in a snow house 011 seal nd walrus till rescued, but went a?ain imledintelv 011 a Dutch steamer, that was link, ife is now trying t j make arrangements to go again. He has spent his eatira ortune in exploration ventures. Capboit.?Tho emperor of Japan has consrred upon General Horaca ('apron, of Washington, the second ordor of the Rising lun. a mark of appreciation for the valuable aryicos rendered by thi latter to Japan, specially in the development of the resoures of the island of Yesso, the most northrnly of the Japaneso group. This is the ret time the order has been conferred upon foreigner. WENDELL PHILLIPS. ketcli of llio I.ifc or the Wcll-Knoivn Agitator* Following Is a sketch of the life of Wendell j 'hillips. the agitator am' lecturer. who died | t Boston after a short illness, in his seventy- ; aurth year: Wendell Phillips was b>rn on November j 0, 1811, bis father, John Phillips, having j ?? ft? - 1 Ue% /lit.v Hft I <wn Llie ill .11 lilUT UI VI v.vj, ?.... | d Harvard college, from which he graduaed in lK-'Jl. Two years later he graduated ' rom the law school of the college and a year j fterward was admitted to the liar. In'WJO i o became a Garrison Abolitionist and raa an ardent upholder of the riuciples held ami advocated by Mr. iarrison. In - October, 1S*>. when Ir. Garrison was mobbed while atDmpting to deliver an address at a ipeting of the Female Anti-Slavery society, f Boston, and 011 which occasion he receive ! uch rough treatment that lie was partly enuded of his clothing and was placed in nil by the mayor in order to save his life, Ir. Phillips warmly esj>oused his cause, 'hoy then liecame fn*t frien Is and in idl of lr. Garrison's efforts to abolish slavery Mr. j 'hillins was his ardent supporter. He coninuea to support the cause of abolition until j he accomplishment of this purpose at the j nd of the civil war. As an orator heiirst became distinguished | 11*37. In 18IK5 and 1SIJ4 he advecated the j rmin*, educating; and enfranchising of i reedmen, and for the two latter purjioses rocured the continuance of the Anti-Slavery ociety until after the adoption of the flfE-eiith amendment 11 !>(?'. 1. lie was a warm dvocate ef temperance and was the Labor teform and Teiniierancc candidate for gov-j rnor of Massachusetts in ISO, but was do- J pated, although ho received nearly twenty housand votes. At a meeting in Faneuil Hall in 1875, called ^denounce President Grant's Louisiana poliy Mr. Phillips appeared and made a speech in avor of the policy He was opposed to capal punishment, was foremost in the ranks of Ivocates for prison reform and the prohibtory liquor law and strongly upheld woman 11 ff rage. It was probably as a lecturer that he was est known. He had delivered lectures in lost of the Northern States, his more notable subjects being '"The Lost Arts" and 1 'n.n-nrhii-n " nnrl hw fimornl ' 1 uurrauiib uumci tuiv, ..,w ulogies on Theodore Parker and John Jrown uttracted universal notice. His peeches were never published complete, Ithoutfh several of them have been issued in lamjiblet form and have been widely circuited in this country and in England. Parill collections wore published in Boston in 8(14 and 18(19, and his other writings are cattcred through numerous periodicals and iewspapers. It is reported that a priest in Mexico has Uncovered the key to the Aztec writings. ratfiiiiii ,_ ? .... THE FLOODS. i Great Havoc Along the Towns of the ? Ohio Kiver, J H| Loss of Life, and Immense Damage to ? Prope;ty. J ? The havoc wrought last year by heavy rains and rising waters has been repeated this I jc yeai* in the Ohio valley. A number of lives | IS have b en lost ftnd millions of dollars'worth A of proporty has been destroy^, AWneeling n (W. Va.) dispatch say.?: One-half of tho city is s-ubmerged, from E .r),000 to 7,000 people are homeless, and tho lo-ff hi money will reavh from $750,000 to g SI.0011,000'. \Vhen daylght this morning a revealed a thirty-si*-fooft stage it was evi- -5 dent to all t'nas a Hood erf unprecedented proportions was at hand, a d the T thousands who were expowd to Ifiun- ^ dation at once commenced active ^ preparations to place nierchandis3 and ~ household effects in a place of safety. The 5! water was rising 9t the rate of a foot per * hour, and as the hours want by and the P b 'iling muddy torrent increased steadily and ^ persistently, "the excitement of tbe early moraine cave way to a panic, increasing us r. noon was reacherl. * Thousands have been driven from homo f< an I arc crowded indiscriminately together A in private residences, hotels and market- ? houses, or are walking tlio streets without a any shelter wha:evei*. Wheeling Island, E comprising ab )ut .S(JO acres and containing a population of 4,500, is entirely under water, ^ and the loss there alone is $400,000. Hundr. ds ? of warehouses in the businesj part of the v town are de'uged, and streets ift the huihor portion are piled high witn barrels of sugar, n salt, oil and nails, bales of prints and dry ^ goods, a id all the miscellaneous mercban- r( dise of a Oity of .Tj,000 inhabitants. Citizens y of all c asses and pursuits are on the verge of despair. Kain has (alien continuously for sixty hours, and from five to seven feet more water :s looked for. This will raise the stage 51 to fifty two feet, and will drive additional ? thousands from their houses and cause a * further loss of millions of dollars. Sev- y ' eral lives have already been lost here and in J* | the surrounding towns. From Bellaire, Bridgeport, West Wheeling ana marxins Ferry, Ohio, and Fulton, Wellsburg, Ben- n wootl and Moundsville, W. Va., heartrend- a ing accounts of suffering came. Home of these towns are entirely submerged, West Wheeling, for example, not having a solitary home out of th^ water. Within a radius of fifteen miles 25,000 people ore homeless, and b the loss will reach $5,009,01)0. fi The river at Wheeling, ordinarily but 600 feet wide, is now swollen to a mile and a I quarter, and this will give some faint idea of tl the havoc and ruin wrought Many streets k lined with handsome residences and tasteful grounds cau be navigated by steamboats, and q one filled with ice and heavy drift-wood g was whirled along by a five-mile cur- n rent. No trains nave left or arrived since noon, and all the railroad tracks are r far under water. Reports of narrow escapes L of disasters to property and suffering to 0 people, especially the poorer classes, are con- 5 stantly coming in, but several days must a elapse before anything like full ana authen- n tic information can be gathered. Deaths by a drowning are reported from several out-oftown coints. a A Louisville (Ky.) dispatch says: lhe ? river here up to ten o'clock to-night has C< risen to within eight feet of tht? highest point last year, and all the front of the river is J submerged. The rain has been falling S j steadily all day, but tho downpour is lighter, b I All of the shipping in poit and half of Port- y\ land suburbs ore fl^o ied, and 400 families j have been compelled to move out of ? j them. All business was suspended, q | and every vehicle that could be t] pressed into the service was in demand. The 0 I city is being searched, and shelter is ac- g I whoroi'or ih r?nn Ha nHf-flinfifl Thnsfl is j ..Uv.v.w u | who cannot obtain rooms are moving into b ! sheds and stables. Tha old exposition buildt ing owned by tho government for a custom- ji l house site, will be prepared by the city t] authorities as a refuge. It will accommo| date 3,000 peoule comfortably. Other halls I and buildings have been secured capable of i sheltering all the suirerers who may need it. n | A Marietta (Ohio) dis, atch says: The city V, : has been plunged into the depths of mourning Q to-day by a terrib e disaster, the result of the n \ high water. A lartre number of people were o I standing on the banks of the Muskingum | river, watching tho drifts on the surface, g ' whon the bank on which they were standing j. | gave way, and a large part of the crowd was ? thrown into the r.ver. Those who did not jj i fall in were overcome with panic, and ! niauv children were carried away by ^ the "switt waters before an effort could ^ be made to savo them. It is thought at least 0 fifteen ])er.>ons were drowned. The town is almost completely overflowed, and hundreds . of families have abandoned Iheir homes, 5 moving away in some cases with only what V they could carry. The river has reache l ?: | forty-five f-.'ut, an 1 reports from above conI fiim the belief entertained that the present 0 [ flood will bo without a parallel. I From Cincinnati, t o umbus and Pittsburg, and other points along the Onin, came simi- J lar tales of disaster by the rising waters, re- ? suiting iu immense damage to property of every description and untold suffering to R the inundated people, thousands of whom a have lost their all. & MUSICAL MITDRAMATIC. I t Mrs. Langtry is drawing good houses b this season. li ' Hazel Kirke" is in i:s fourth year under the Madison S juare management. c Carlotta Patti ami her hu-band De- ? Munck are coming back to At: erica soon for f a concert tour ui.der Max Strakosch. ) The recent performance, in Brussels, o Ernest Reyer's o; era. ".Sigurd,"'is pronounced ? the great musical event of the season. " - " > I 1 U.'? flj D IvEAlJS.-Sil is Ub nuvuiiu, UIII1 lie uiiu uia u<i< S1 die are being jobbed around the houses of the v swell Cubans. He will give public concerts Inter. Bonanza Maokey has guaranteed Patti 3 3ii5,0<K) for a stason in San Francisco, and ie Manager Maplesjn accepted the proposition r [ l'or her. Morris Barrymore, Modjeska's leading p 1 man, has written for her a play called "Mad- ^ | jerda," and she Till produce it at Baltimore I before long. Mr. Irving's engagement in Chicago was 1 the largest dramatic engagement ever played p [ i:i that city. The receipts for the fortnight 81 j were 1 McCaull is to bring outa new comic opera, g called "Desire?," before Ions,at Pbiladel] .11a It i.s the work of J. P. Sousa, once leacle.- of ? ! the one-time famous Philadelphia church | choir company, and now ot the Marine band ; at Washingntbn. k The twentv-flrst tritnnial musical festival 5 j at Norwich. Eng., will tnke place 011 October i ! 14, 15, lt? ami 17, this year. Among ctber ? famous pieces, "The Rose of Sharon,"' an ! oratorio composed expressly for the occasion ? J by A. C. Mackenzie, will be Riven. A new 11 i cantata has alsj bc.'n composed for the festi- ri i val" f ! In the absence of one of the actors in the p | burlesque of " Prospero,'' latch performed at , a London theatre, the blind daughter of one t? | of the property-It* ejiersto >k tli part of Ariel, directing iier action entirely by sound. More than this, atone performance she played ihe I? role of the heroine Miranda, and. although w of necessity often prompted and occasionally ^ even " ujxfken for'by another actress, she w wont through the play without causing the I au lience the 1 ast suspicion that she was [ gi blind. tl A queer occurrence took place recently at I ct a theatre in Christiana. Norway. The first | st representation in Danish of iSchonthan's w " l)er Schwabenstreich"' was about to begin, | when a ] atriotic Norwegian excitedly arose ; fr and exclaimed that it was a shame to allow j ot the production of foreign pieces while those ' M of the best native writers werecooly assigned . tl to oblivion. The sveech created a great ei sensation, and most of the audience left the tc Iheatre and-wont to another theatre where a ai play by a native was being enacted. These 1 lij patriots returned, however, before Schon- fe than's play wns concluded, and vigorously I cf hissed it oif the .staire. THE "TARIFF. lii A Proposed Kcdiiftioii of ^0 Per Cent. I ^ ?Many Addition* lo the Free liiat. By the provisions of Mr. Morrison's tariff n( bill, introduced in the House, a proposed re- tfc duction of twenty |>er cent, is ma le in nu- 1? raerous articles, while in a few cases the re- I irtH wm-ontor ,,! ii?s thnii thit rate. One _ provision prevents any reduction to a rate lower than ia the Morrill act of lS'Jl. The bill provides: On and after July 1, 1*84, in lieu of the in duties impose 1 by law on the importation ol the poods mentioned in the schedules of the tfc law approved March ">, ls8f, thero shall be th levied and collected eighty jkt cent, of the w duties now imposed on tlie.se articles: i bi Cotton and cotton poods, hemp, jute and T1 flax poods, wool ttnd woolens, metals, other th than ores, books, papers, etc., sugar, tobacco, ci wood and wooden ware, earthenware and ]y glassware, provisions, salt, coal, bristles, lime at ar.d chemical products, excupt as hereinafter th provided. No duty shall after July 1, 18^4, lie levied or collected in excess of forty per cent, ad < valorem on cotton and cot ton goods, lifty per centum ad valorem on metals, and sixty j>ei centum ad valorem on w ol and wooIcd goods. A The following articles shall bo exempt from ? duty: Iron ore, including n.an^aniferous b, iron ore, the dross or residum from burnl th pyrites, and sulphur ore; lead ore and load hi dross; ch.-otnie ore; coal slack, or culm; coal b< bituminous or shale; timber, hewn atio m sawed, or used lor spars and in building ai wharves: hay, chicory root, acorns and w dandelion root, jute butts, bristles, beeswax, tb lime, glycerine, ti?h glue, isinglass, sponges, jn dextrine, burnt starch, gum substitute or ^ British gum, extract of hemlock and other u, barks used for tanning, indigo, tartars, |0 content, whiting and Paris white dry, wood ! 41 tar, coal tar and its pro lucts, logwood and 1 other dye woods, de?octio:w of ochre, umber, | t.t andsienna. barks, beans, barrier, balsams, ! buds, bulbs, grains, gums, herbs, leives, , lichens, mosses, nuta, roots and stems, spices, ! fi vegetables, aromatic see ls, weeds, w.i-vjs j fc used expressly for dyeing and dried m?ot:. / d< raws _ SUMMARY. { Eastern and Kiddle States. At a meeting of cotton operatives, repre- q inting fifty-one mills, in Fall River, Mass., i was resolved to strike in ten of the mills & gainst a proposed redaction in wage.-. Eight |j lousand persons were thus thrown out of mployment, It was decided to pay single len of the strikers $4 per week, married " len $4.50, nnd twenty-five cents for <jach t hild while the strike continues, and also to ,| sk for assistance from the cotton operatives tirougl'out New England. T While members of various Masonic v dees were assembled in a hall at Guiliord, r f. Y., preparing to attend a funeral, the , oor of the hall suddenly gave way, precipiiting seventy men to the floor below. A 1 umber of men were severely injured. i Mrs. Catherine Dix, widow of Governor ?ix, died in New York a few days since. s The Queen of Tahiti, the largest of the ociety islands, has been traveling across the intinent, and recently arrived in New < rork. c A great crowd witnessed the funeral of 1 udge Packer, late president of ttoe .Lenign , 'alley railroa<i, at Mauch Chunk. Penn. usiness was entirely suspended and special f rains brought hundreds of people from New < rork, Philadelphia and other point*. The . all bearers numbered thirty-two, including 1 ongressman Samuel J. Randall. At Homer, N J., James E. Lines, a cariage trimmer, became involved in a quarrel ( rtth his wife, from whom he had lived apart , )r several years, and shot her twice, inicting fatal wounds; then he killed himilf. Lines was a man of violent disposition, t nd his wife had refused to go with him to ; lenver, Col., where he had been living. j "Billy" McGlory, the most notorious of ew York dance-house keepers, has been 1 mtenced to six months' imprisonment for r iolation of the excise law. t Governor Robinson, Mayor Martin, and i lany other prominent people attended Fendell Phillips' funeral in Boston. The . ?mnins lav in state in Faneuil haU, where J ley were viewed by thousands. s Fifty farmers from all over the country t 'ere present at the annual convention of , io American Agricultural association in few York. A paper by United State? Sena- 1 jr Vance, of North Carolina, on "The Or- 1 aniyation of Farmers for Political Pro- j jction," and other papers of interest to irmers were read Three Irish laborers were struck by a ' ight express train near Baden, Penn., \ nd instantly killed. j South and West. ^ The two stages running between Whites- 1 oro and Gainesville, Texas, were robbed a sw days since by three road agents. The s' r amer Natchez burst her boiler near r laton Rouge, La., and was run ashore by 1 he pilot. A colored boy was instantly t illed and one passenger terribly scalded. "Sandy" Robinson, a negro imprisoned at t irockett, Texas, for the murder of Deputy heriff Lathrop, was taken out of jail by 1 a asked men and banged. j At Rendville, Ohio, two men called Peter i !lifford, a brakeman, twenty-throe years j Id, to his door and shot him dead. Four members of the Hickey family of deepera- ? oes were arrested, and at night a crowd of len took JKicnara niCKey irom wie kuhj-us nd hanged him to a tree. Charles Palmer, of Youngs town, Ohio, railroad baggage master, was crippled in a ollision, aurl the company has paid him $25,30 damages. A Nashville, (Tenn.) dispatch says that udge Henry Cooper, formerly United States enator from Tennessee, has been killed y robbers in Chihuahua, Mexico, where he ras manager of a silver mine. After a long and desperate struggle in the Kentucky Democratic senatorial caucus, 'ongressman Joseph C. S.Blackburn received tie nomination for United States Senator, btainine on the last ballot 63 votes to 57 for enator Williams, the name of Speaker Carsle having b.vn withdrawn. Mr. Blackurn was born in Kentucky in 1S3S, studied iw, served two terms in the legislature, in H74 was elected to Congress, and has served hero ever since. , Washington. During Januaiy the various United States aints coined XJ.ISU gold pieces, worm *1,61,245; 2,350,COO standard siiver dollars; 1,? ( 50,000 dimes, worth ?105,OJO, acu 2,^73,800 t ainor pieces, worth $104,778, making a total , f 6,356,980 pieces, worth ?4,2.'1,023. Mr. Burchard, the director of the United itat?s mint, told a sub-committee of the louse committee on weights an 1 measures, hat he thought between five and seven milon trade dollars were out, and he believed i the hands of traders. The sub-committee as been considering the subject of ihe withrawal of the trade dollar from circulation by ongressional enactment. The President sent the following nomina ions to the Senate: Henry D. Lyman, of Ibio, to bo second assistant po->tmaster-genral: William H. Dickson, of Utah, to bo atjrney of the United State; for the Territory f Utah. The Senate confirmed the nomination of J. l. Leonard, to be consul-general of the fnited States at Calcutta; Oscar Malmros, of Linnesota, to bo United States consul at ?ith; Joseph H. Durkev, as United States larshal for the northern district of Florida, ' nd RichardS. Tuthill, United States a:- e >m?v fnr the northern district of Illinois. T Mb. Richard A. Elmer, second assistant <] ostmaster-general, has resigned his posi- e ion in order to take the presidency of the * Lmerican Surety company of New York. " 1 Edward McPherson, of Pennsylvania, \ as accepted the secretaryship of the P?epub i can congressional committee. Representative Yaple, of Michigan, ] ailed at the department of agriculture with 1 sample of ham which had b'en sent to ] im from NUes, Mich. Dr. Salmon examined "] he pork and pronounced it infected with y richina* to a greater degree than any he has 1 ver examined. The hog aqjeared to bo a ealthy animal when killed. A family of I ve peisoiLs jartjok of tlse ham in a raw jtate. One person is ilead, and four more e re re reported in a critical condition. c The naval appropriation bili provides for ? n appropriate in of being $8,320.- s 04less than the estimates, and $l,5U5,2i? J iss than the appropriation for the cur- 1 ent year. 1 rr,~? ?4- "* nami'nof.inn rtf ^ 1 hK neuuui im-. i wjoi icu nit u........?w t 'aul Strobach as United States marshal for Be middle district of Alabama. , Foreign. j Placards have been posted throughout t 'aris inciting the disaffected policemen and j Irving workmen to arms. e A Coru.vna (Spain) dispatch says that a a panish vessel was capsizea during a heavy r ale, and her crew of nineteen persons were rowned. ? The remains of Commander De Long and ' is companions of the lost steamer Jean- J ette were received, upon their arrival in J ierlin from the long journey through Rus- ' la, by United States Minister Sargent, The r afflns, which filled the ttoor of one car, s 'ere hidden by beautiful wreaths and F owers presented by various corporations en t aute. 0 El Mahdi's insurgents are reported to be xlling back from Khartoum. The False i a rophet's forces have made an unsuccessful " ttack upon the fortified camp of the ^ gyptians. . _ At a Nationalist meeting in Ballymote, v eland, a fight occurred between the Na- ^ onalists and a bodv of Orangemen. Three [ ationalists and two Orangemen were ounded. -? it-- t- 1 1 r^fnttan C, al'ukhwi ul ule u.n tnucicu ^ irrisou ac Sinkat, becoming desperate at t leir starving situation, wade an attempt to | si it their wav through to Suakini, but were j n irrounded by a large body of rebels and all tl ere raa-sacrwl. d An* immense number of visitors, chiefly om the United State-!, were present at the lening of the annual winter carnival in ,'ontreal. Upon their arrival in the city lc te Manjuis of Land>down?, governor-genal of ( anacla. ami his wife, were escorted i their hotel by a procession. Triumphal obes, gay decorations, illuminations, torch*ht processions and a brilliant bail ware, atures of the first clay's festivities. The irnival lasted a week, ^ The editor of a newspaper at Posen, Po nd. Jankovski by name, ha< been sentenced i two years' imprisonment because he pubshed a i address congratulating Cardinal F edochowski, primato of Poland, on his u irthday. ^ Baker Pasha's force of Egyptians, while ivnncing from Suakini, wore attacked by le False Prophet's troops and routed with a Ji :>s of '-',00;) men in killed and wounded. 1 At the opening of the British parliament ( le queen's speech M as delivered by royal unmission. _ Tew uk Bev, an Egyptian officer, and -100 ~a hw troops, navo Dueu surrouiraeu oy mo H surgents and massacre ri. li The slaughter of linker Pasha's troops by p le False 1'rophet's followers continued all w le way back to Trinkitat. The Egyptians li ere panic stricken and foil upon their knees; a it their apj eals for mercy were fruitless, lie Arabs seized them by the necks, thrust e: leir spears into their hicks, ami savagely p it their threat-. Six British transports 11 ing at Trinkitat took ahjanl Bauer I'as ha w id the remnant of his army, and conveyed h lem to Suakim. b At the great carnival in Montreal the iock attack on the magnilic.mt palace, built * : ire blocks, was witnessed by 125,000 >ople. V Prokkssor G. A. L'ather, of Ashville. n la., Snakes the following Hood prediction: I A greater flood will occur this year in the n isin of the Ohio and Mississippi valleys ii ian has probably over been known in the ] story of this country. It will be remem- v roil that our meteorological asi>ect for tlie s onth of January announced the appear- <! ice <>t high water indications. February 1: ill show trouble in the streams tributary to u le great channels. Nothing can av. rt the ? upending crisis except a tight freeze above le middle water belts holding them in check t itil late in the season. Tiiw must not be l oked for. The climax cold has bren reached, t id the thaw in February is likely to bo un- t recedented, an t accompanied with consid- Ji able drip." With regard to value of product the great , irniture manufacturing cities stand m the v illowing order: New 'N ork, Chicago, rhilaslphia, Cincinnati and Boston. t LATER EOT& Fire broke out at night in the factory of 'rofflman & Kluentner, Allentown, Penn., to* illy destroying it and a number of sirall uildings attached. As the firemen who rero standing on the ladders and in the uilding were doing their utmost to subdue he flames, the north and south walls sudenly fell outward, and soine fifteen men rere covered with the debris, titreams of rater were immediately directed upon the uins covering the men, which prevented ome of them from being burned to death* ^ rive men were killed, and eleven seriously njured by t ie fallen.walls. Betwee 5,000 and c,000 buildings were ubmerge by the rising waters in Pittsburg md Allegn*. '* Jity. These buildings tn. iluded the resio mces of 25,000 people; 10,000 >f whom were not able to occupy their tomes. Fifteen thousand persons were temjorarily thrown out of employment by the /vf millo on/1 /oAfiM.loo A nnmhAr KJL luaio auu lacbvi ivo> )f persons were drowned, and the estimated >2cuniary damage is $3,000,000. Henry S. Church, city chamberlain of Troy, N. Y., disappeared suddenly, and an lamination of his accounts showed that he ivas a defaulter to the extent of ISO,000. An immense ice gorge, thirty milee long ind in some places twenty feet high, formed n the Susquehanna river. At Wilkesbarre, * . i'enn., the gorge suddenly broke with a loud e>x>rt, and in less than three hours the river ose seventeen feet, flooding miles of terriory. Immense ice jams also formed on the Schuylkill and Delaware rivers. An entire square in the central part of lazelton, Penn., a town of 8,000 inhabitants, uddenly caved in, causing great consternaion. The drop was caused by the giving vay of the timber in a mine underneath the own. Three or four houses, including a lotel, were wrecked, and many other build* ngs were more or less damaged. Bv a collision between two trains near ,exington, Ky., five colored section bands vcre instantly killed and fifteen others inured. The Ohio legislature passed a bill appro- _ aS jriating $.50,000 for the relief of the sufferers jy the floods. * Vigilantes have recently hung a large lumber of horse thieves in Northern Neraska. As many as eleven are said to have >een strung up within a fortnight. The Senate committ.ee on commerce auhorized Mr. Frye to report to the Senate a lew bill for the relief of American ship>ing. This has been prepared by the comnittee as a substitute for all the various bills leretoforo referred to it on the same general ubject. , Hon. William M. Evarts, reoreeenting hn Western Union Tplptrranh mnimnv. an x?ared before the House committee ou postifficss and post roads, and made a long argunent against the proposed bill establishing a x?tal telegraph. He said that should either )f the three bills before Congress to-morrow jecome a law the problem of government jontrol of the telegraph would not be solved. Official advices from Cairo announces hat the total number of Baker Pasha's troop* tilled near Tokar was 2,250. This includes rinety-six officars, sixteen of whom were itaff officers. The rebels lost 600 men. Resolutions condemning the goveranent's policy in Egypt were introduced by ;he opposition party in the British houae of ords and the house of commons. In n discussion in the British house of lommons on the importation of foreign catle, a member quoted statistics w;hich de- >. :lared that, the number of cases of disease imong cattle imported from America* In 1883 vas .536, against 647 cases among cattle from Ui omer ccus-tries. AN ARMY ROUTED, ;3| Baker Pasha's Force Defeated bj ' the False Prophet " Two Thousand of the Egyptian Troops Killed and Wounded, Baker Pasha, the Egyptian commander, las been badly defeated by the Falsa Prophit's followers. Baker had with him 3,50C ^ 'i tien, and was advancing when attacked. rhe losses in killed and wounded amount to. 1,000 men. Baker with the remnant of hh orce succeeded in reaching Trinkitat -1 -^1-- ' 4. U lu-fn<* .. i' Tlioro UIO gUULHJUO u V dispatch from Cairo says the khedive las received a telegram from Baker ?asha reporting his defeat near To;ar. His losses were 2,000 men, four CruoD caunoa and two Gatling guns. The Turks and Europeans fought well. Baker , vill return at once to Suakim with the re ualuder of his force." The following details of the fight hare >een received: Baker Pasha began lis advance from the intrenchments it Trinkitat on Sunday. His force insisted of 3,000 troops, badly armed ind short of ammunition, and many of whom howed an unwillingness to proceed. Baker 'a-sba had sent from Trinkitat to Cairo an lrgsnt ap^al for rifles to replace the old nu>kets with which members of his troops vere armed. In reply he received orders to ry to force his way to Tokar without delav ind, with the English officers connected with he expedition, began the march, expectng defeat. The spies bad falsely re>orted that the roads were clear with ;he exception of small bands of rebels. On, tlonday forenoon a portion of the advance ncounterei a body of Osman Digna's troops md a fight ensued, which was more of a out than a battle. Baker Pasha lost all fcis camels and bag,'ago in the fight. Most of the Egyptianifficers and men bolted. Colonel Sarorim tried hard to rally them, >ut without success. The Europeans >ehaved splendidly. Colonel Sartorius narow.y escaped with his life. The enemy purued almost into Trinkitat. Tne Europeans, toiice and Turkish infantry were cut to lieces. Fourteen European and three native iffirprs arfi missfnr. I lie fight was begun by a few Arab horsenen attacking Baker Pasha's cavalry, which led. Baker then formed a square, which he enemy surrounded. The rest of the Egyptians then fled in confusion and the unners deserted their gum. Baker Pasha - as several times surrounded by the euemy, >ut with his staff managed to cut his way hrough. * The enemy's force was inferior in numbers 3 Baker f asha's. Only three sides of a quare were formed owing to the fact that ivo companies of the Egyptian troops stood till, being overcome with fright. Tne enely i on red into this gap, when the Egyptians arew away their rifles and flung themselves n the ground, screaming for mercy The oo: s on one side of the square killed many P their own men by wild firing. > Tho enemy betrayed profound contempt >r tiieir opponents. All the stores at Trinkiit have been brought away. C'oionel Burnab v is safe. A TEKRIBLE EXPLOSION. l Ctuilding Demolished and Eight I'crnons Kiiried ill the Idling A terrible gasoline txpUsion occurred In '. 11. Orr's stove and tinware store at Alii" t, nee, Ohio. Orr's st re was in a large new riclc block in tho middle of the town. Sevral itersons were in the store, and two fami ps livecKon the second and third floors, he force of the explosion broke the windows f che < ther buildings on the square. (>rr's block was leveled to the ground, and wo brick blocks, one on either side of-it, ielded to the shock, while others farther way were bally damaged. In a few molonfs the fames rose from the ruins, and the re alarm was sounded. Such excitement revaiied that the tiro gained so much headfay as to nearly tvnsume the ruins, and two ouses were burned l>efore it was got under ontrol Meanwhile the s^ene was harrowing in the xtremo. It was known that six or more er.-ons were killed or were then imprisoned 1 the wreck, or would jierish by fire. Men, nme , and children were wringing their nn.l-c miH rnlnr.iWK nt tlio inmatPi of the uildings destroyed wandered about in hopefcsneis and des:>air at their inability to save hem. F. M. Orr, Elmer Orr, his sod; Mr?. Holer of Highlands, a daughter: Mrs. Frank Ivans. and two children aged two and four iionths, were known to hare been in the raild'ng at the time of the explosion. These % 11 perished The women ami children were u the second and third stories, and are supiosoI to have been killed by the falling mils. Mr. Orr and son were both poken to while confined under the lebris, but weie burned to death. These ><>dies were all recovered, and were crushed >r charred so as to be harilly recognizable, vine or ten other parsons were injured The explosion was caused by fumes from h-> gasoline. A child of Mr. Orr turned a am et in a barrel and the fluid ran out on lie l!i-or. Mr. Orr was mopping it up. when lie g.i-i arising therefrom ignited from a gaam Nkvv Yokk's Fish commission has distrib" itcd ril,(KW,(XKJ (isii of various soi'Ls since it vas organized in 1W.>. Of this nuuioer 55,118,000 were shad, and this work has been hielly in the Hudson n'ver.