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ABBEVILLE PRESS AND BANNERJ BY HUGH WILSON. ABBEVILLE, S. C.. WEDNESDAY, FEBKUAKY 27, 1884. NO. 35. VOLUME XXVIII. ;p| COULD WE BUT KNOW! ' We purely love and seek with service sweet 1 Sume true response to earn; We give,and give,until our hearts may break, 1 And niett with no return. Oh, love, oh. slighted love, where dost thou go? Could we but know! We catch some noble hope, and tenderly We nurse it day by <lay, Even on our souls; yet weeping we may see It sjowiy ta-ie away. Oh, hojx\ sweet, flattering hope, where dost thou go? Could we but know! We build so patiently, we toil for yearg, We are so glad and brave; The end, perchance, is failure, loss, and tear*, And the low, dreamless grave, Oh, wasted labor, is it even so? Where did it go? Where do ihey go to, our neglected prayers, Our sweet, vain dreams and aims, Our patient, slighted love, our thoughtful cares, Lost labors, and lost gains? And are they lost, inriee 1.' Or, is it we, Why fail to see? Whore goes the perfume of the musk-sweet rose, The robin's happy song, The murmur of the river as it flows, The wind so fresh anil strong? The scent, the melody, the help, each gives Most surely lives. No good thing can be lost, no real worth, Nothing that's true and pure. We do not see the seed-corn in the earth: The harvest time is sure. Prayer, love, and hope, and work are golden grain None sows in yain. ?Harper's Weekly. DECEPTION"A dreary place." said Hugh Keppel, to himself, with a shrug of the shoulders, "but still?home!" The damp, brown leaves were matted by rain and tempest, where they had drifted up around the steps; the ampelopsis vine which garlanded the old tower had lost its scarlet glow in the cold touch of snow and frost; the cedars shuddered in the blast. For Keppel1 Tower was on a commanding hill, which, | although delightful enough in summer, j was not without its disadvantages in the i month of December. 31r. Keppel had been absent for three months now, and this was his first homecoming since he had returned from Paris. His mother's eyes brightened as she ; stood?a commanding figure in black 1 satin and rich old .Mechlin lace?beside the fire in the round drawing-room, with j one hand on the gold-headed cane which was her constant support, the other extended toward him. * "You are back again," she said. "Oh,; 7 Hugh, I thought you never would return to me!*' The room was very pretty, with the cheer:ul fire-light flu-ken ng on the blueand-white tiles of the chimney-piece, the curtains of wine-colored plush, and dec- 1 orations of old gold ribbons, ancient j brass, and art embroidery. In all these things he recognized Alice Amadine's taste?the taste of the distant cousin who , Ko/3 oluMiro livo/1 u'ttK \Ttsj I'onnol cinfo he (Hugh) was a boy. They had grown up together, in fact, and Mrs. Keppel had made no secret of her earnest wish } that Hugh might eventually marry Alice, j But Hugh Keppel, with all a man's j perversity, had rather chosen to fall in love with Myrtle Venuor, the blue-eyed j daughter of the old judge who lived in J the pretty country house two miles down the river. To be sure?which was some j comfort to Mrs. Keppel?there was no : regular engagement, but every one knew j that the young people liked one another, j "Don't mind, aunty, dear," said Alice j Amadine, with her gracious smile and ; slow, musical accents. "Love can neither be bound in fetters nor driven in | harness. .Myrtle vennor is a very sweet | Bjirl, and no doubt every thing is for the ( "My love," said Mrs. Keppel, kissing Alice's rich brunette cheek, "you are an angel! and how Hugh can be so blind is far beyond my comprehension."' " I can endure anything so long as you i love me,'' said Alice Amadine, effusively ' returning the caress. Alice was as beautiful as ever, in her i garnet-red gown, with cardinal roses in > oer hair, as she smiled her greeting; and . presently theywere seated at the little ! round-table at tea, by the softened light of a student lam]). "And how are the Vennors?" said i Hugh, after he had inquired after every one else, vaguely hoping that Alice or his mother would mention the subject, without his suggestive question. u Oh," smiled Alice, carefully measur- ; in^ out the exact number of drops of thick cream which Mrs. Keppel liked in her tea, "the Vennors are very gay this season! They are to remain at the Gransre until Twelfth Nisrht, and there are all sorts of balls and parties and festivities going on. And the last time I was at Miss Torrance's, the dressmaker, : I saw Myrtle's wedding-dress being made.'' " Her weddinff-dress?" echoed Hugh, i "And, oh," said Alice, still intent on the duties of the table. " It was such a ! beauty! Old white brocade, trimmed! with lace that must have been perfectly priceless, and a white velvet tablier front breadth. Auntie, will you have some Sreserved cherries? And there were owers embroidered in seed-pearl on the sashes, too utterly lovely to describe. Are ; the Vennors so very rich, Hugh?" " Then she is going to be married?" he exclaimed, gnawing fiercely at his lower lip. " Myrtle Vennor?I could not have t believed it; and never to tell me!" Alice Amadine laughed softly. " Dear me, Hugh!" said she. " as if a a f OAff /\ f Vl OT" COPrfttQ + C\ I KUT CUIUIUCU lilAUb OV/4 V VI uv i owivto vv ; her miscellaneous gentlemen friends. I And Myrtle Vennor always belonged to | the secretive kind, you know." " Who is he?" he asked, hoarsely. "The man. I mean?" "How am I to know?" said Alice, art lessly. "Colonel Fitz Vrse has been , staying at the Grange all the autumn, MT and Doctor Fenimorc, from New York, i comes there often: and there's Mr. Atwater and those two young Yale collegians, and?oh, dear Myrtle is very gay this year!" Hugh sat silently, looking into the1 fire. The poisoned arrow had sped to its destination, as Alice Amadine well knew. All the life and animation had fone out of him that night; ami when e had departed to his room in the central round-tower, where the windows j looked out on the surging tops of the cedar grove, Alice laughed exultantly. | "Dear auntie," said she, "do not i look so grave. It isn't pleasant to take a dose of quinine, but one feels so much better after it. Well, this news is a dose of quinine to poor, dear Hugh!" "Alice," said the old lady, "do you think we have done right? Is?is not this like deceit?" " Where is the deceit ?" lightly ques- , tioned Miss Amadine. "I did see the j wedding-dress, didn't I? The very one that Myrtle's mother wore when she was married, and that Myrtle herself is to wear next New Year's week. Auntie, you know as well as I do that Hugh never would have been happy with that , silly, frivolous, little Myrtle Yennor!" ; "No," said Mrs. Keppel, slowly, "I do not believe that he would. Oh, Alice, it is my hope and my prayer that he may ; marry you!" j "Wait!" said Alice, composedly smoothing the plush table-cover. "Don't j you remember the old Spanish proverb? i that all things come to those who know how to wait.' Only have a little patience, | auntie. There is nothing in all the world ?? ooot- ?.n / >! no ? V>onrf in tVip rpl?nnnrl_" ' And in the meantime, sweet Mvrtle ' Vennor secretly devoured her own heart, I and wondered why Hugh Keppel never 1 came to the Grange. "Can it be that he has forgotten me?" ! she asked of herself. "After all that he has jJV : looked and spoken?after the flowers he gave me, ana the little, old-fashioned ring, with the black pearl, that he placed ; on my finger? Do men's hearts change * in such a fickle fashion as that?" Myrtle Vennor was as unlike Alice Amadine as a sweet English rose is unlike a vivid cactus bloom. %'r. . ' She wss fair and delicate, with a com- f plexioii like pink and pearl; bright hair, short with golden threads; and blue, deep eyes, full of wistful, appealing > light. And her nature, too, was (lis- ^ similar to that of the wily brunette. { s It was, therefore, her first impulse to t] go to Hugh Keppel. and ask him what 0 dark shadow had come between them. j n But Myrtle had all a woman's pride, : n and so she kept within her own heart the j secret of her grief. I t * i: A ,..,.11 ,.lAnon.l . ~\UU AllUC .t'YlllUUUIU nas | ^ at the success of her subtle scheme, feel- j v ing. as she did. that Hugh was drifting v slowly and aimlessly into her toils. I p 4<\Vhy should I not?'' he asked him- ! a self. '"One woman will be very much n the same to me as another, now that I < f have lost confidence in Myrtle. My i p mother is fond of Alice, and I think ! t Alice will not be unwilling to be the mis- v tress of Keppel Towers." j fc And he made up his mind, one chill, j a bright day, when the hard-frozen snow J ^ gleamed white in the valleys, and the , hemlocks were weighted down with feathery fringes of pearl, to settle the i matter definitely that selfsame evening. "It will make my mother happy,he s thought. "And us for myself, what i v avails it f" j 0 Yet nevertheless a pang came through j . his breast as he stood there, under tho | ' shadow of the giant forest oaks, where, I last year, he aud Myrtle had gathered i mistletoe to adorn the great saloon at i n Vennor Grange. -r "Neveragain!" he muttered between his teeth. "My lost Myrtle, never again!" " . Alight step on the crackling snow, the ^ gleam of a scarlet cloak, disturbed the j melancholy thread of his meditations, : and turning he saw that Myrtle Vennor I ' Imrowlf JiorJ AmPrrrnrl fmm tli?? oven'reen I -- - -"O I a thicket, on her way across the glen, and ? stood there, with chceks glowing with exercise, and large, startled eyes. ^ ' Mr. Keppel!" she involuntarily exclaimed. "Myrtle!" he responded, taken by surprise. "I?I did not know that you were n here," said she, in hurried accents. "I i " hope you are quite well. We are hav- n ing lovely winter weather. Good-morning!" ^ And she would have gone, had he not v put forth his hand, to check her flying u footsteps. ^ "Do not go, Myrtle!" he said. "There " is no reason why we should avoid each J' other." 0 "You have avoided me," she flashed ^ out. n "But I will not hereafter," said he, c trying to speak composedly. "Beside, -n I have not vet congratulated you, Myr- " tie." ^ ' u 4 kTTnnn tvlvi t ?" ehp fmid. "TTnon the I ^1'"" -X- . loss of my faith in mankind ?" 1 "Xo, upon your marriage." ^ "Mr. Keppel!" she cried, flushing to ^ the roots of her hair, "you are wilfully n insulting me?" n "I, Myrtle!" b "Then why do you use such language as that!" cried Myrtle, wringing her small, fur-gloved hands. "Who should know better than you that?that I have s: no idea of being married ?" si "You cannot deceive me. Myrtle," he b said, sadly. "Alice Amadine herself, 8, saw vour wedding-dress being made. She n t i * ?? ? I told me?' n "My wedding-dress!" For a second, si Myrtle's pretty brow contracted with ri perplexity, and then it cleared instantly, ii "Oh. I know now!" she cried, "She o must have meant mamma's wedding- w gown, that Miss Torrance is remaking w for the tableau vivants, next week, when tl I am to be Giuevra, in 'The Old Oak t< Chest.' But as for my being married, w Alice Amadine knew that was not true!" a 1 ler cheek kindled with crimson-bloom; ai her lij) quivered; the blue lightning of her j tl indignant eyes were quenched in coming I fi tears. j b "Speak those words again, Myrtle!" j p cried ttugn, ia ii voice mm suou*. wim . repressed emotion. " Let there be no j b mistake in a matter that is so vitally es- ; sential to my happiness. You are not to j be married this next week ?" " I am not!" she answered, earnestly. | K He took the little, trembling hand in j n his. 1 f? " Sweet Myrtle, forgive me!" he said. , C "But my heart was torn with hot jeal- i tl ousv and burning anguish. I believed j 8< that you were lost to me, and life was o: scarcely worth having without your love. : A Now let us begin the world over again. ; yi Promise me, dearest, to become my wife, ai Let no more cruel doubts rise up between . w us forcvermore! Will you promise, j n; Myrtle ?" ' st And Myrtle answered, in scarcely audi- p ble tones: a " I promise!" , " Hugh Keprel's face was radiant when b he came back to the round drawing- a< room at the Towers that afternoon. His n mother looked earnestly at him. i ti "Dear Huch." she said, "you have fe had good news?" j ai "The best of news," he answered, r( brightly. ' News that Myrtle Venn ?r j n will become my wife soon; news that the | y; report of her marriage to any one else is Is unfounded!" I vi And as he spoke he looked full into j ef Alice Amadine's face. She colored deeply si under the scorching light of his eyes; j d but she knew that it would be fatal to n quail at this juncture, or to show any con- tl sciousness of her own guilt. si 4'Dear me!" said she, smiling as tl graciously as ever, ''what ridiculous o stories do get trumped up among the n neighboring gossips! Ami. so you are to | fi be married, Hugh? I am sure 1 wish you j tl every happiness." g And ro one who saw Alice Amadine at j that moment would have dreamed that her life-hopes had been cruelly smitten down; for women are heroes at heart 1? a Helen For rent Graves. r\ ... t: How Cakes are Frosted. 8 In the window of a "delicatessen" fi store on Third avenue, there appeared the head of a large porker ornamented with fc flowers and vines in an extraordinary s manner. A wreath of red and white j y roses rested between his ears. There j ti was lilies and pinks in his jaws until his i< teeth were buried out of sight, and a ' r miniature sunflower covered his snout, t The proprietor of the store smiled when asked about it and picked it out of the t window without saving a word The f questioner then saw that the head was t simply a cake ornamented with various t kinds of frosting. "There is art in is frosting ciike as well as in painting," said ] t Mr. SchilTerdecker, a confectioner. " It I f takes an artist to imitate nature 60 close- ! ii ly as to deceive the eye. The process of c ornamenting a cake is very simple. Sugars b of various colors are mixed with the d whites of eggs to a thick paste. The g mixtures are put in cone-shaped bags six s inches deep. In the apex of each bai; is s placed a tin cone-shaped spout the small A . .....,.,,1 c?,ro*,>rl or fill* I t/HU Ui ? nu n in luuiui V* dvi.i.wv. v. ..? ? according to the purpose for which we j t use it. Holding the hag in one hand jo and steadying it with the other we J t squeeze the mixtures through the tubes, b The shape of the tube helps us in form- j c ing the design. Thus flat tubes serrated j t on one side are used for leaves. Little ! c round mouthed tubes serve to make vines I j and tendrils. To build a rose we use a ' ti thicker moisture, and form the rose from | c it exactly as a sculptor would model one ' d in clay. I sometimes make a rose with s nothing but a little bit of wood not j s much larger than a toothpick. In fact, i f the tools used on elaborate pieces of con- ? fectionery are nothing more than what T r have told you, but we have to serve long as apprentices before we can do the g work."?New York Hotel Mail. s ? | 1 The Revise'I Old Testament. I r Of the forthcoming revision of the Olc j 1 Testament the Chrintain at Work say;: I < "Unless all signs fail, the book will be c twr.;vf.ri with far more favor than the New i c Testament revision has met with, and ! [ tiiis because the Old Testament is less I * generally read, because current religious ! belief pivots almost wholly around New I Testament exegesis, and because the ori- | ginal text of the Old Testament is so lost in antiquity there is nothing ! , to do but to take up with what we i ( have, and, while important, changes have ( been resisted in the New Testament, they j , will probably not be refused, if indeed, } they are not promptly accepted in the j , Old." , | I 'ARM, GARDEN AND HOUSEHOLD. ] A I'niveranI Insecticide# Tobacco is u universal insecticide. It ;ills ticks upon sheep; the troublesome cab insect; its related species which proluces mange and itch; lice, fleas, and all tlicr insect parasites which infest and nnoy animals; and root-lice, leaf-lice, nd all other pests which injure plants. | ?st at this season an application of fine obacco dust or snuff may be used eflec ively to relieve calves and fowls from the ermin which keeps them poor and n-etched, and a decoction of tobacco, apflied to house or greenhouse plants with brush, will destroy the pestiferous Teen ily and all other insects which inest them. The same liquid may also be loured around the roots of house plants hat arc infested with the small white k'orms, which are the larva; of a small lack ily that may be found in the pots ' nd upon the soil in them.?Neu> York Vimet. Llliiuru in nini?ucrrm> A New York writer on the culture of [ tra\vberries says: A sandy loam soil fell manured is excellent for tne growth f strawberries. The soil can hardly be lade too rich for this fruit. If manure 3 scarce Peruvian guano is the best subtitute, or, instead of this, a compost of rood a9hf*s, plaster, and fine bone-duflt lav be used with benefit. The best arieties for a light soil and for sale are Vilson's Albany, Champion and Cresent. These are good berries and bear rell, the last profusely; but this is rather do soft to ship except for a near market, "he plants arc set in rows three feet part and one foot apart in the rows. The eeond year the rows will be filled up ,'ith the youug plants and there will be full crop. A full crop is from 2,000 to ,000 quarts. The only cultivation reuircd is to keep down the weeds and tir the soil in the rows in the spring. Cacnmbcn and melons* It is not generally known that squashes, lelons ana cucumbers will mix and hyridize if planted near each other, and lay, aithough planted at a distance, by tie bees bringing pollen from one plant 3 another. Not only is the seed made rorthless, but the fruit is spoiled for ee, as the flavor is mixed. This has een doubted, but two years ago I grew lelons and cucumbers together, in ad fining beds, to test the question. Sonic f the melons were all right and some of tie cucumbers, but there were a great lanv melons that were too much like cu umbere and too many cucumbers like lelons. One cucumber was distinctly alf and half, being partly netjd and divided into sections. Most of tie melons were uneatable. Since then have chosen to grow melons in the garen and cucumbers at the furthest end of le farm. Watermelons do not seem to )i.\; they bloom much later than musklelons, and 1 have them growing side y side all right.?Caiman's Rural World. Culture of Pansiest. To obtain choice, large blossoms, panies require very rich soil in a somewhat leltered location. A bed which has een used as a hot-bed the previous seam, and left over, makes an excellent lace for them. Either of the following icthods of growings plants will l?e found nccessful: Sow the seed in a box of crnl oKnnf thn 1 cf nf Anri! nnfl cr?t i a sunny window. About the middle f May transplant them into the bed rhere they are to blossom. Another ay is to sow the seeds in a bed where ley are to blossom about the 1st of Sep- ; ;mber, and on the approach of freezing eather cover them with warm straw lanure. Or they may be sowed in ny bed of good soil and treated in le same manner. They will come out esh and strong in the spring, and can e left to grow, or may be translated to any desired location. Good ;ed, rich soil and good care bring fine lossoms. ZVitrate a* Fertilizer. Having always felt that more attention light be profitably given to the use of itrate of soda as a fertilizer by our irmers, I welcome Professor George H. ook's contribution in this direction, in le thirty-first bulletin of the New Jersy Experiment station. A top-dressing ! f 275 pounds of nitrate, applied .in ' .pril on an acre of wheat, raised the ield from twenty-seven bushels, that ol' ' a adjoining acre treated like this one. . ith superphosphate, but not with Ltrate, to thirty-four bushels, and the ! ;raw from 1,634 pounds to 3,227 : ounds; and both grain and straw were little richer in protein, without losing 1 any other respects, and were therefore ' etter in quality than the produce of the ; :re not nitrated. One experiment does 1 ot establish the usefulness of any fer- ' lizer; but this is not the only record in 1 ivor of nitrate; experiments in England tid Germany have given like favorable ! ;sults, the increased yield of grain 1 mging from one-fifth to one-third of the 1 Leld without nitrate; this fertilizer is irgely used in England, often mixed ith common salt. It seems to be nec- 1 3sary that cither this or superphosphate lould be used with it?the latter being ; rilled in. with the seed, the former uxed with the nitrate itself, in about : le proportion of one to two parts of the lit to one of nitrate; and in all cases le nitrate is applied as a top-dressing n the growing crop in early spring. This itrate could be bought last spring for -om $60 to $05 a ton, and was cheaper lan ammonia salts as a source of nitroen.?Dr. G. V. Caldwell. Seed Corn* There is no question that there will be lack of good seed corn in the spring, 'he large amount of soft corn in all secions of the country will bring to farmrs generally losses and delays next seaon. Much of the corn harvested last all will fail to germinate. Farmers who have given special attenion to the selection of seed corn may be aved annoyance and loss, but it will be rise for even this class to test the viality of the seed before planting it. It i also advised where there is thoroughly ipened seed of the previous year on hand o save this for seed. Much may be learned as to the condiion of seed corn by its appearance. Perect seed is plump, bright, and without I hat wasted appearance in the skin where j he grains come together. II the grain I s cut across or if carefully peeled down ; he germ will show the same bright, resli appearance. Such seed will germaate quickly and under favorable ciruinstances make thrifty growth. If, lowevcr, the germ or "chit" presents a liscolored appearance and is spongy, its ;erminating properties have been de- i troycd and it is worse than useless for eed. When there remains the slightest doubt i q the mind of a cultivator as to the j rust worthiness of his seed corn, he ught by all means to test it before put- ! ing into the ground. There are a num- i icr of ways of testing the vitality of i orn. A simolc plan consists in placimr | he grain between the fold of woolen loth, kept moist all the while, and sub- : ectcd to a temperature of about seventyive degrees. Some farmers keep the loth moist with water in which has been | lissolved a little saltpetre, say one tea- I poonful to a quart of water. Again the ; eed is pressed into moist earth in a 1 lower-pot or saucer kept in a warm place, j >eed thus treated will, if all right, ger- | "? 4. XT ,1 mnate in udoui lurcu uu>o. Perfect seed ought when tested to jerminate every grain, but farmers next pring will not find much of this sort. They will be obliged to consent themlelves with ascertaining the per cent, of I germinating grains and plant aceordingv. Seed that does not show a majority | >f germinating grains should be dis- j sarded for planting purposes. There is >ne fact it is well to remember in the j Termination of seed, that is, the older the ;eed the slower it germinates.?New York World. RccipeN* Peppernttts.?Four eggs, beaten light with one pound of sugar and half a pound Abutter; add one gill of thick milk, I >nc nutmeg, one teaspoonful of saler- j it us and flour, enough to make a ttilf dough. Roll and cut into round i ?akes ; sprinkle with sifted sugar and oake. Rtce Croqtjettks.?Boil half a pound of rice in one quart of milk. When j quite stiff remove it from the fire, add two ounces of butter, the yolk of four ; cgirs and a little nutmeg. Set it away in a dish until it becomes cold enough to form into smooth cone-shaped croquettes, i Dip these into the yolk ol' an egg, then | into line bread-crumbs, and fry them in equal quantities of butter and lard. Cream Puffs.?One-half pound of j butter, three fourths pound of prepared flour, six eggs, two cups of warm water; stir the butter into the warm water; set j over the fire and stir to a slow boil, i "When it boils, put in the flour; cook one minute, stirring constantly. Turn into i n deep dish to cool. Beat the eggs light ( ?yolks and whites separately?and whip into cool paste, the whites last. Drop in great spoonsful upon buttered paper, not i so near as to touch or run into each | other. Bake about ten minutes in a I 'f -r 1J I quiCK oven unui mey are .01 a yuiueu | brown. Old-Fashioned Noodle Soup ? j Choose a fine, large chicken, and put it to boil in a good quantity of water. Put one whole onion in the pot. While the chicken is boiling make a dough of five eggs and sufficient flour to make it very thick. Roll into thin sheets and spread on a white cloth in a warm room to dry. It will require several hours to dry them. Then roll up the sheets, and with a sharp knile cut into very fine strips. Remove the chicken from the pot, add peppei and salt to the soup, and about ten minutes before serving put in the noodles. Ten minntes is all-suflicient to boil them. The chicken is put into the oven and roasted, and is served at the same meal. Boiled Beets and Onions.?Wash half a dozen medium-size red beets, without breaking the skin; put them over the fire in boiling water, and boil them until they are tender; then rub ofl the skins, slice them, heat thera quickly with two tablespoonsful each of buttei and vinegar, and a palatable seasoning of salt and pepper; serve them with button onions laid around them. To prepare the onions peel them without breaking . 1 ? 1- ?:? ?<r *i,? tne layers or too cioseiy uuuiumg ull mo roots or tops; put them over the fire in plenty of salted boiling water, and boil them until they are tender and semitransparent: then drain them, season them with salt, pepper and butter, and serve them with the beets. Stewed Eggs.?Boil five or six eggs ten minutes, and throw them into cold water until they arc perfectlv cold. Then peel and cut crosswise in slices with a sharp knife. Have on the fire in a fryingpan a cupful of soup-stock or gravy, in which half an onion has been stewed five minutes, then taken out. The gravy should have been strained, and seasoned with pepper and salt. When it comes to aboil, heat in a tin plate a teaspoonful of butter, roll each s'.ice of egg in it, coat it with flour, ana lay gently in the frying-pan. Set tin; pan at the side of the stove to do this, then remove to a warmer " -11 il U?51 snot, OUt CIO noi uuow me ymvj w uw again, merely to simmer round the edges. Leave the eggs thus five minutes. Line a fiat dish with very crisply toasted bread, dipped in salted Doiling water and buttered. Lay the sliced eggs on this, :tnd pour on the gravy. This is a nice breakfast dish. Chopped parsely improves it. A Median ioal Detective. A mechanical contrivance, invented by n Methodist minister, and now in use on : the railrjads centering in Scranton, Pcnn., for the purpose of checking the manner in which freight trains are run by employes, lias recently attracted a jreat dual of attention, and been vigor- i ously denounced by railroad men. The ! r-l.iim is made bv the employers that 1 some such thing was made necessary to ! prevent the deceptions practiced upon j the companies by the crews running coal and freight trains faster than schedule I time, to make up for unnecessary delays \ at the various stations. The olficials al- ! lege that no matter how faithfully a conductor and engineer might promise not to run faster than fifteen miles an hour, [ there are times when they will disregard j all obligations and run as fast as thirty | miles an hour to make up for the time squandered with their qronies at some j of the stations along the line. The invention already alluded to makes j it impossible for railroad men to practice i iiny such deception. It is a simple piece of mechanism, constructed much on the principle of the tape that checks off the condition of the stock market. It is wound up like a clock, locked within a box and placed in the caboose, where it ii geared to the axle of the car. On a large | ;heet of stiff paper, marked into small ! squares, a pencil or tracer keeps moving j with the train and records the revolutions j r>f the axle, the delay made at any given point, the number of jolts and jars sustained on the trip, and where they occurred, together with other facts going to make up an accurate record of the journey. The record is laid before the superintendent, who sees at a glance how any particular train was run, and acts acj L'UllUUgl Y . It is claimed on the part of the com- \ paniesthat the irregularity of running coal and freight trains, and the ''soldiering" of the men at the stations, as well us their method of making up for lost time, have in the past been prolific ol j many serious accidents, resulting in much loss "to railroad property in wreckage, as well as in wear and tear. With the "tattling machinc" at work in the caboose, recording every throb of the locomotive with the precision of a thorough | shorthand reporter, this will be impossi- | ble. But the "tattler" is not liked bj j railroad inen. They consider it not only a nuisance, but a blunt warning on the ; part of the companies that their men are untrustworthy, and cannot be relied upon. Biff Prices for Old Postage Stamps. One of the rarest known postage j stamps, and consequently one of the most j prized by collectors, is the ten-cent stamp ; issued at Nashville in 1801 by Postmas ter McNish, and bearing his name. Some months ago Mr. Joseph S. Cards sold one he had had for many years for $25, and it was afterward sold in Paris for $50, It had been taken olF the original envel- j ope, and as counterfeits have been man- j ul'actured. Mr. Carels, before selling it, i had to get letters from Mr. McNish, Dr. J i'lackie, and others, vouching for its au- I thenticity. A son of Mr. Edmund Coo|>er, who is making a collection, found among his father's old letters an . envelope bearing a canceled specimen postmarked, etc. Recently he accompanied his mother to New York on a visit, aud while there he sold the stamp to a dealer for $37.50. The stamp being on the original postmarked envelope, and bearing its own credentials, so to speak, made it much more valuable. Even rarer than this stamp is the three-cent | stamp issued by Mr. McNish, as a used ! specimen lias never been found, and one j on the original envelope and well I authenticated would sell for a most extravagant figure. Mr. McNish also issued a five-cent stamp, used specimens of which sell from live to eight dollars, the* writer of this paragraph having sold a fine specimen for $10.?Nanhville (Teun.) American.) The Dead Sea. A writer in a German magazine give9 an interesting sketch of the famous Dead i sea. He substantially confirms all the I traditional characteristics, except as to j - J? 1 I IL1U HpjM'iirillll'U ui uiu laiius^apu miu ; some other minor particulars. He de- | clares that no Sicilian bay nor the Guli ! of Corinth presents more varied or beautiful coloring, only the water seems darker, as of molten metal. He denies the general statement that no bird flies over its waters, and tnat its shores are without [ vegetation. But he confirms the tra- I dition that no living thing is found in it; j fish coming down by the Jordan die at ' once on coming within its bounds. Thi ' water is so "thick" that he moved it with difficulty; its bitterness was terrible, the bottom was slippery, like soap, and one can scoop up with the hand a slime like mortar. The touch of it causei great smart to the eyes. "While the tem perature of the atmosphere was sixty de grees Fahrenheit, that of the water oi the Dead sea was sixty-four degrees. Or coming out of it the body was thickly incrusted with crystals of salts of magnesia and soda. A receiving teller?The hostess at i sewing society meeting. HOW BAGGAGE IS HANDLED ; A TALK WITH THE TETJETE FIEND AT A EAH.EOAB DEPOT. c He Draws a Line Between Varioiu ] DriimmerN and Tells How Bogus Claim* for Dainnffctf ai*e Ttlu.de. j "Wc handle all trunks carefully," said ? an old baggage-master of a well known railroad company as he deftly dropped a j huge Saratoga trunk so as to strain every ( rivet and nail that bound it. "The old ] idea of baggage smashing is done away 1 with. Trunks are made too solid nowa- f days, and can stand a deal of handling. Some years ago passengers with light , trunks bound them with strong cords, t knowing how careless baggagemen were, but now we rarely receive any with ropes i around them. Seldom do we get a trunk 1 that has been broken or torn while in J transit. Baggage-masters are too careful } ?the rules of the company are very strict i since they were obliged to pay for the carelessness af their employes. Trunks j ftrfl made of various materials. , ' The neatest and most substantial is , the sole-leather trunk. It can be easily c handled, will withstand much wear and 1 tear, and can be pitched and tossed without doing any damage. Good sole- 1 leather trunks are expensive, ranging J from $25 to $150. English tourists al- ^ ways have them. Metal trunks are also ^ much in use. They arc manufactured ol c zinc and tin, cost comparatively little and J are very durable. t "Commercial ?alcsmcn carry the largest j trunks. Of course the various trades t need different si/.es in order to hold theii 1 Bamples. "The clothing drummers' trunks are the largest. Twelve will easily fill half ' a car. They are generally made of wood E and a good amount of iron bands, steel r corner picces, and have from three to four locks. They are difficult to handle, being generally very heavy. It is not the weight we object to, but the ungainly ' size. Then the hat salesmen?theii , irunKs are large, uui nuu very uuovj. i Seme of them "would make a fair-sized s shanty. All drununcrs object to paying overweight on baggage. They resort tc all kinds of subterfuges, but our rules are inviolate, so they reluctantly pay the charges. "Last week we received a huge trunk from the trainmaster; it was in three sections. The cover came first, the next train brought the body of the trunk, but we found that the locks and straps were missing, so we telegraphed ahead and three hours later received them. We rarely lose a trunk: we have a perfect Bystem of tracing any lost article. If a loss is reported we usually send a tracer after the missing package and find it somewhere along the line. Sometimes we fail to recover the desired parcel and In that case the company will at all times do the right thing rather than be involved in litigation. "Last year we handled over 200,000 trunks at this end. We keep a record of every trunk, bag, package or parcel passing through our hands for which we give a brass check. Only seven were lost in transit. I come in contact with some curious peopic. some citurn uuggttgc iui o which they have no chcck. Others say c they have not received all that was delivered at the other end, while many cranks * call for packages, that are afterward ^ found by train-men, which they unconsciously left in the cars and imairine they t had them checked and lost the brass plate. t "Women are the worst to deal with. 1 Only lately a lady had a small package * checked. Through an oversight of the t parcel clcrk we failed to send it on the first outgoing train but on the following c one, thereby delaying the delivery about t three hours. Failing to receive hej ? package at once, she entered complaint ^ with the superintendent, who, after care- r ful investigation discovered that the par- c eel reached its destination a little late. J The parcel clcrk lost his position. I was J jurprised to learn afterward that the t package in question contained two pounds nf nrdinnrv mivprl rand v. valued at fortv c sents. Still it cost the clerk his job. "Another lady called some days ago and presented a check from another railroad. She insisted that the trunk was left with me. After soundly abusing me ahe left, (irmly vowing to sue the company. No argument could convince her that the desired trunk could probably be obtained if applied for at the right quarter. "We are obliged to be civil to every Dne. "Why, look here, lie continued, pointing to an ill-assorted lot of bags and trunks; "this is our unclaimed collection. We keep them for a year and then dispose of them. If any arc very valuable we send them somewhere to be stored for another year. Then if no claimant appears we sell them to pay storage fees." "Jb the railroad corporation ever tricked by sharpers who set up false claims ?" "Well, I should think so. Very lately the company paid an individual in settlement for a satchel that was actually lost $200. The claim was set up that it contained samples of valuable jewelry. Suit was threatened, and oeing persisienr, 10 avoid furtlier trouble the company handed over the money. Not long afterward, while looking through a baggage-car that had been standing for some time on & siding, the identical bag was found. On opening it, nothing but a miserable and worthless mass of single gloves was discovered. No two gloves were alike. [ tried to match some of them but signally failed. Perhaps the superintendent wasn't mad. lie looked as savage as a meat axe, and scowled at the baggage boys for a month afterward." ' 'What pay do you receive for your 3ervices?" mildly asked the reporter. "We get $00 a month and work ten hours?that is to say, of real manual labor about seven hours; discussing the merits of a disputed piece of baggage and answering foolish questions, about two hours; hauled up before baggageagents, ticket-agents, minor and general superintendents, say another hour. I tell you if I did not have such a strong constitution and felt physically able to withstand the pressure 1 would have been dead long ago. Haggage-men seldom stay over live years in the business. Then they are pretty thoroughly used up. All they can then do is to help build up 3ome physician's practice." And heaving a sigh indicative of deep regret, he once more turned his attention to the many long leathers from which hung suspended the thousands of brass plates commonly called "checks."?New York World. FASHION NOTES. The hair is worn high. So are the collars. New veils match the color of the 1 bonnet. Black stockings, especially of silk, are much worn. The handsomest tailor-made suits are i trimmed with fur. Studs for fastening the collar have gone j entirely out of style. Tinsel threads are seen in the hand- ' somest chenille fringes for trimmings. Dog colors of black velvet ribbon are i pretty when edged with steel or jet : fringe. A bunch of satin ribbon of a color i contrasting with the dress is worn on the ! corsage. j Quilted crimson satin petticoats, bor- , dered with fur, are among the comfortable novelties of the season. For the toilets of bridesmaids combi- j nations of soft pule blue, lilac, or rose i wools with embroidered gray gauzes arc new and tasteful. It is now the fashion for brides to ! wear only one glove, and that on the right hand. Their dresses are cut with , a square neck and elbow sleeves. ! Metal buttons in artistic designs in ! tinted effects trim dresses, redingotes, jackets, Newmarkets, and . all outside garments intended for utility wear. 1 Beautiful and elegant promenade muffs, , to be carried on mild days with grave costumes of gray and brown, are made entirely of velvet flowers and leaves in | the natural shades. t>~ 4.1,*. to-: .duiiuuls in uiu rriut'ussu muuu of shirred black velvet, with pompons of grey and black on the left side, and i Btrings of ribbon velvet of both shades, j ire bow worn by young ladies. NEWS SUMMARY. Eastern and Middle State* Professor A. 11. Guyot, the celebrated Swiss geographer, a professor in Princeton jollege, died a few days since at his home in J Princeton, aged seventy-seven years. An explosion of oil in a tank at Hunter's ' Point, N. Y., resulted in a fire which destroyed property valued at about $100,000. j The steamship State of Nebraska, from | 31a-igow, arrived jn New York, having on j ward the ninety-two men comprising the | >filcers and crew of the steamship Notting j Sill, running between London and New j Fork. The Notting Hill hail been struck by ! l huge iceberg and injured so badly that she j lad to be abandoned. Six convicts?five colored anil one white? j vere whipped a few days since at New Cas- ! .le, Del. Much damage has been done by floods and j ce near Harnsburg, Penn^ Four bridjfeSj i raluetl at more tnau jni/w, were crusneu i ind carried away. Three dams were washed I >ut and the mills connected with them so ' jadly injured as to prevent their running j mtil repaired. Mayor Edson, of New York, received j natiy telegrams from the mayors of flooded owns on the Ohio river, appealing for aid. Copies of the telegrams were sent to the various exchanges of tho city, and immeliate act on for the relief of the sufferers vas taken. Thomas Kixsella, a prominent journal- I st, for many years e litor of tho Brooklyn j Eayle, is dead. Miss Jen.vik Ai.mt, a handsome young voman. a private teacher, shot and mortally | rounded \ ictor C. Andre iwenty-one years j >ld, also a private teacher, in a crowded sta- I ion of the New York elevuted railroad, j rhen Miss Aliny shot ami killed herself. The j wo had been engagp.l to bo married, but it ! s asserted that Andre, who had come to his country six months ago and been ad- ; nitted to tho b?st society, had betrayed and j ;hen refused to marry tho girl. New Yohk* has been shrouded in the j loosest fog whica has prevailed there for i ears. Navigation on tho rivers was almost | intirely suspended and business wa3 very nucn ini])cueu. South and West. James Graham, a New Orleans lawyer, i formerly with a large practice, but deprive.! j >f it all through his drinking habits, lived rerv unhappily with his wife, whose large ortune he had also squandered. A few days Ince Graham, in one of his many quarrels vith his wife, shot her dead and thou com- ' nitted suicide. A straxce case is reported from Canton, j Dliio. On a small farm near that city live iVilliam Deweesana his wife. For nearly ,wenty-flve years the couplo, as the result of i trilling quarrel, have not spoken a,word j o each otlier. Tlie otlier day tne wiie, j vhile ill, suddenly ejaculated: "William, 1 ! wlieve I amdvinjf." She recovered, however, and to make up for lost time the two lave been talking to each other ever since. A dkspkrate shooting affray at Hot [ springs, Ark., between two factions ot gam>lers?tliree brothers named Flynu, who ! vere in a hack at the time, on ono side, and | even men on the other side?resulted in the :illing of one of the Flynns and the hnck j Iriver, the mortal wounding of another Hynn and two innocent bystanders, aud th? hooting away of ] art of the third Flynn's land. The men who flrel upon the Flynns j >egnn hostilities, a'id were arrested. Tho ifFrav grew out. of an attempt of two fac- ! ions to control tho gambling " business " of he town. The estimate ! total loss by the floods in | Wheeling, W*. Va., Qnd vicinity, amounts to >0,000,100. An apical for aid, issued from j A heeling, states that the suffering there and it point* above and below is intense, and | hat more than H>,000 people of the city "are J lenendent and will be so for weeks." There ' ire probably 20,00:? people to be fed and j ilothed from Wellsburg to Moundsville. The county jail in Wausau, Wis., was ! >uraed early "in the morning, and McDonald tnd Cary, two desperadoes, wern burned to leath. The Plattfcville bank, of Platteville, Wis., ! las suspended, with liabilities of $l;j0,000. | Eighteen drunken men captured a coal ! rain at Millcdgville, Ohio, fatally beat a ' irakeman, seriously injured the conductor ind drove him away, and compelled the I ngineer to cut his engine loose from tho cars o save his life. Great destitution is reported from the iverfloodiid banks of the Ohio and its tribuaries, and many api>eals for relief have been ent out. Thousands of inhabitants belongng to numerous villages and towr.s were Iriven from their homo-; to the hills for efuge, and were compelled to camp out withlUt food and with insufficient cl .thine. The ivers were higher than they had ever beeu >efore, and the stale of affairs among the >eople was describ d a< apj ailing in the exrcme. Fop.t Slm.lv, iu Dakota, has been burned j >ut. Thosoldiors there wore compelled to I lamp out, with the thermometer at twenty ive degrees below zero. A OANf? of nine counterfeiters were ar e.steu uy unmn nuiu:? coli vi k:i (lie UIU?r.-i at Louisville, Ky An out 2.j,000 persons in Cincinnati and he adjacent towns of Covington and Newtort were rendercl homeless by thj flood. Washington. Senator Mokhii.i.'s new coinage bill, inroduced by him in the Senate, provides tbac ;he new coinage shall Iw based upon the netric system; that the new fractional coins >ha.ll contain an amount of silver proportional to the nominal values represented by j hem as compare 1 with the standard silver j lollar; that a new five-eentsllver coin b.' sub- ' itituted for the present five and three-Lent , lickel coins, and a one cent nickel oin.for j ;he present copj>er c tins; that the fractional i ilver in the tie isury shall bo used in tho | soinage of the new pieces, and that the ' imount of silver thus u>-ed shall bo in lieu of j he monthly purchase of silver bullion re- | mired by law for the coinage of standard I ilver dollars. President Arthur has issued an order ! tli,i retirement of (Jenoral Shei- I nan, without reduction in his | ay and alowance, and paving a high tribute to hi; ?rvices while in the army. Representative Ekmentrout was initructed l>y the House committee on banking ind currency to re|>ort a bill for tha exjhange of trad-; dollars for st in lard silver lollars at par by January 1, 1885. Representative Townshend, of Illinois, vho represents in Congress the State confining most exporters of pork and other log products, expresses in an interview the opinion that retaliation is the only remedy eft us against the foreign governments .vhich are shutting out the American j log from their markets. A Chinaman who appeared in the district ;ourt at Washington for the purpose of b>joining a citizen of the United States had his application refused. Tiie House committee on labor ordered a favorable report on Representative Hopkins' bill for the establishment of a department >f labor statistics. The measure provides for ! the appointment of a commissioner, who | shall acquire all useful information uj)on the j subject of labor, its relations to canital, and j the means of promoting the material, social, religious and intellectual prosperity of the ! laboring men and women. Tho question of I contract convict. labor wa9 discussed without | reaching a conclusion. The House of Representatives pa-sed a joint resolution anthorizine the secretary of | war to issue rations for the relief of desti- j tute persons in tho district overflooded by J the Ohio river and its tributaries, and niak- j Ing an appropriation of S:;0U,0i)i) to relieve the sufferers. The resolution was then sent ! to the .Senate, ami that bodv D.vssei it at dhcp. The Senate, in executive session confirmed the following nominations: John M. Langston, minister-resident and consul-gen- | jral to Hayti, to bo also charge d'affaires to Santo Domingo; Henry F. Wild to be consul it Concei>cion del St. Oro, Mexico. Governor Ordway, of Dakota, addressed the House committee on Territories in favor Df the admission of Dakota as a whole into the Union. Judge Brookings and Mr. Tripp, ilso of Dakota, lavored the division of the Terrritory. Reti rxs receive 1 by the director of the [ mint indicate that during l*v> the total proSuction of gold in the United States amounted ! to $W,000,000. Foreign, The court of inquiry into the loss of the Proteus, tho vessel >ent by the United States j to the relief of the (Jreely expedition in the j Arctic regions, lias ma le its report. The j report states that Lieutenant Garlington, commander of the Proteus, committed j various errors of judgment, and that Chief! Signal OIHcer Hazen, who superintended tho ! atting out of the 1'roteus ox|x'dition, did not ; fully comprehend the necessities of the cas-j; ] fit the same time the court is of opinion that i no further proceedings but'ore a general court | martial are called for. Dispatches from Tonquin announce that I the rebels iu the provinces of Namdinh and I Sonlay have been dispersed w.th a loss of 1 Katu.uun .loo mill The ciinh i.'if Parceval I has destroyed nests of pirates at Savalow and Fo\\taii:son. killing and wounding j many. Excellent feeling prevails at line, i the t-apital of Anatn. The king has appointed two delegates to assist Admiral ("ourbet, of the French lleet, in pacifying the country. ' Di:iiiX(? a fight l>etwcen whites and na- j tives in the province of Angola, West Africa, | an explosion of guii|>owder killed forty of the latter. I'AUNEt.r., the Irish home rule leader, de- , chireil in an amendment to tho (Queen's ; speech, proposed by him in the house of ! commons, that, Kngiand's policy in Ireland | had faileif to tranquilize the people, wantonly j prohibited public meetings and incite 1 ill- j will and strife between tho different classes j of the country. A procession of 15,000 striking weavers j at Blackburn, England, carrie<l tho effigy of i a manufacturer with the intention of hanging it in front of his residenco. They were ; charged by tho police and several persons were injured. Miss Clara Barton, president of the j American National Association of the Red 1 Cross, accompanied by Doctor Ilubbell, the Bpecial field agent of the association, has gone from Washington to the scenes of the Bood along the Ohio for the dutpom of af fording relief by distributing supplies to the | sufferers. Nearly 5,000 bills, most of them of a private nature, have been introduced so far tn the present session of Congress. Great dissatisfaction has been created throughout Great Britain by the government's vacillating policy concerning the crisis in Egypt. As one dispatch puts it: "People cannot understand a policy of indifference to massacres in a country where England rules, and of indifference likewise to the defeats of armies' which Englishmen officer." A band of 800 Indians murdered all the principal residents of Unutlan, Mexico, ana plundered tho town. At a banquet given in Paris to leading members of the scientific press, M. de Lesseps stated that the scheme for creating a sea in the (SjVeat .Sahara desert, in order to transform the arid sand into a fertile country, would shortly he commenced. Mr. Bradlaugh, elected to the British house of commons, but refused permission to take his seat because he declined to take the prescribed oath for members, entered the chamber during a session and administered tho oath to himself. Upon motion he was excluded from the precincts of the house. It is announced from Sicily that Mount iEtna is in a state of eruption. Thomas Chenery, editor of tho London Times, is dead. While a wedding party was crossing tho River Theiss, near Domrad, Hungary, the ice broke and thirty-five members of the party were arowneu. The French bishop in Tonquin reports that one priest, twenty-two catechists and 215 Christians have bejn massacred, and that 1()8 mission houses have been destroyed. Queen Victoria has just published a book containing a record of ner life for the past twenty years, describing her personal emotions, and State affairs and family matters, and highly eulogizing her late body guard, John Brown. Sinkat, in the Soudan, has been captured Ijy El Mahai's rebels and its force of 6U0 Egyptians under Tewfik Bey cut to pieces A motion to c?nsure Gladstone's government for its vacillating policy in the Soudan was passed in the British house of lords by 181 yeas to 81 nays. A violent earthquake has occurred at Bitlis, Asiatic Turkey, destroying a number of buildings. Bradlaugh has given up the long struggle for possession of a seat in the British house of commons, and a now election in his district has been orderel. Seven persons out in a pleasure boat at Dundee, Scotland, were drowned. English troops have been ordered to the Red Sea ports to defend them against El Mahdi's rebels. Two mandarins have been executed for inst.gating the recent massacre of Christians in Tonquin. Mexico wants 40,000 feet of space in the main buildine at the coming New Orleans exposition, anil 120,000 feet outside for the Mexican garden, the building for the Mexican commission, and for a camping ground for a battalion of. Mexican troops. Over $^<K),0(Hi has been appropriated by the Mexicans, who will sena a magnificent band or musicians and a corps of cadets. MUSICAL AND DRAMATIC Mme. Pauline Lucca will undoubtedly sine in this country next season. A movement is on foot to establish a conservatory of music in Peoria, 111. Lotta is announced to open the new Casino theatre in Washington next autumn. Mr. Winch, the American tenor, is singing with success in oratorio in England. Fannie Davenport is playing "Fedora" on the road to average weekly receipts of ?f),000. Ristori, the celebrated Italian actress, is coming to this country in October, and will make a tour of the principal cities. Mrs. Langtry will not, after all, says an English paper, go to Australia, but will have a London theatre after the termination of her American engagement. Edward Millike.v, of the "Jalma" company, has written a new drama in five acts, which is purely American, and contains some novel scenic and mechanical effects. George Alfred Townsend, the New York journalist, bas written a drama called "Cromwell," which deals with the history of the protector up to and including the protectorate. Mrs. W. G. Noah, one of the great actresses of fifty years ago, who played rival engagements With Fanny Kemble and supported the elder Booth and Forrest, is still living in Rochester, N. Y. Edwin Booth, who recently finished a very successful engagement in Philadelphia, dec.ined an engagement in Pittsburg upon a guarantee of ?10,000 clear for a single week. He preferred to go to Boston. ' The Marchioness," as played by Lotta in London, is a new adaptation of the Incidents of the novel, by Charles Dickens, who has merely arranged his father's "Old Curiosity " caiM/w t\f /I icnnn not,l'lii any sense of the word, making a drama. The New York Orchestral society has an orchestra of amateurs composed as follows: Ten violins, one viola, one violincello, two double basses, two (lutes, one oboe, three clarionets, one saxophone, two trumpets (cornets probably), two horns, two trombones, one piano and two drums. The Modjeska ranch out in California, which cost her >,0J0, has commenced yielding a profit, bringing the actress #5,000 the other day, which she looke.l upon as "'luck money," and invested it in a tiara and earrings to wear as a sort of mascotte in Maurice Barrymore's new play. The I'a 11 Mall Gazette notes an interesting fact with reference to the well-known song, "I Arise from Dreams of Thee." It was composed by Mr. Charles K. Salamon, who, not recognizing the hit he had made, sold it for ?'S, copyright and all. The present holder of tl.at neht derives from it the nice little income ?f ?800 a year. Ma. T. Slater Smith, manager of 'Ranch 10," has purchased a new play, which will be produced for the first time in Philadelphia on March 17. The title is " Kentucky Belle," which applie. not only to the heroine, but to a celebrated race horse that has l>eon named after her. The play has a number of sensational effects, a novel fire scene, and a reproduction of a race course. PROMINENT PEOPT.P! IXlUiUJilUil J. A 14UA XJ1JI Vanderbilt.?Careful estimates place the value of William H. Yandarbilts outfit, when he drives, at $150,000. Yillard.?Henry Villard is not a very poor man after all. It is given out that he will manage to save $1,000,001' from the wreck of his fortune. Palmer.?Ex-Governor John M. Palmer, of Illinois, was in early life a clock peddler. He studied law by the advice of Stephen A. Douglas. Blackburn.?Senator-elect J. C. S. Blackburn, of Kentucky, is forty-six years old, and is tail, square shouldered and sinewy. His features are handsome, and large, blue-gray eyes look out above a heavy brown mustache. George.?Henry George,who is now fortyfive years of age, began life as a printer. Afterward ho became a sailor, then a rejxirter on the Sacramento Record, next owner of the San Francisco Post, and later he took to lecturing. His wife is a lady of Iri-ih parentage and Australian birth. Pierce.?Bishop G. F. Pierce, of Georgia, the gri-a'- Mechodi->t leader of the South, recently celebrated his golden wedding at Sparta. The bishop's father, Rev. Lovic Pierce, was the j..ieat apostle of Georgia an,] fn? nviai* holf ft <>?ntiirv the son lias followed vigorously the path set by the father as an ecclesiastical leader. Wheeler.?An intimate frieud of Miss Ella Wheeler, the poetess, now in New Orleans, says that young lady is to be married in early spring to u Mr. Yorke, of this city. She also says that Mi<s Wheeler is twentysix years old, and with her j>en has earned and paid for a lovely little home, in which she resides with her mother and a younger sister whom she e incated. Bradlaugh.?Charles Brndlaugh, the infidel member of the British parliament, has a brother who is actively engaged in evangelical work. The latter disclaims any differences with his brother, except in "religious opinions, and though there is no fraternal companionship between them, he says he loves him as much as ever anil confidently looks for his conversion to Christianity. A TOWN UNDER WATER The .TIayor Tells a Mory of threat Hardship. The following statement, made by the mayor of ForLsnnuth, Ohio, graphically j>or trays one of the many scenes of distress and hardship occasioned by the great floods on the Ohio river: "This city Is almost entirely under water, and ail communication with other points is shut Oir. Tho water is higher tlian during tho flood of 1 when the river was higher than was ever known before. The river is still rising. One-half of those who moved into their second stories are moving from their holies altogether, anil all the fratno houses are deserto i. Many houses are floating away. Great suffering has ulrea ly l>een experienced, and worsa i? expected. At ''aylight this morning a fire broke out in Green's feed store, cause I by the slacking of lime. Owing to the fact that hose could not be laid on account of the distance of the building from dry land, tin- Haines spread considerably before the fireman could cot to work. A flat-boat was towed to Sixtn street, where a fire engine was loade 1 on it, when it was towed by men in skid's to Second and Market streets, in the vicinity of the fire. Six buildings were burned to the water's idge and all tho walls fell in. " Our churches are all under water. All the engine-houses and school-houses avadiililo are filled with our drowne 1-out people. So far the most that eou'd be done lias been to keep our people supplies 1 with food. The river here to-night is rising over an inch and a half per hour ami a hard rain is falling. "We have not heard from nny place for three daya Our i>eopIe are iu great diatrass|? LATER JNEWS. The mining village of Olyphant, Penn., waa panic-stricken by a sudden rise in th^ i F _ ..... i 4-u, !,.<? uia^ivurrcbiiuar ht?Uj nuitu iiuwoa iuo iunlying streets and surprised a number of families in their houses. The women and children were removed to a place of safety on the backs of the miners, who waded at great peril through the swift current that was making its way along the streets. A girl of seventeen years was drowned. A large meeting was held in New York [n favor of the bill giriar the mayor the riglij to nominate public officers without making confirmation by the board of alder, men necessary. William M. Evarts and others addressed the meeting. Assemblyman Roosevelt, of New York city, a prominent member of the State legislature, has suffered a double bereavement, his mother and wife dyin ; a1: his residence on the same day, the wife .-.aving just become a mother. Maby Byrne when ten years old was run over by a train at Troy, N. Y., and lost a leg. The case was begun fourteen year'' ago, and a verdict in her favor for $7,500 ha3 just been awarded. I? ? J: Ho 111 x*i u UW|JOI?vu iiuiu uuo uiajut vi vmui polls, Ohio, to the mayor of New York, telling of the destitution which prevails in the submerged region, and asking for relief, the sender says: "At least 2,000 houses have been swept away or damaged to such an extent as to be uninhabitable after the flood has subsided. It is for those unfortunate people that we appeal for help. The formers have lost largely of their horses and cattle and nearly all their grain and feed, and all their fencing; the merchants and manufacturers their stocks; the mechanics are thrown out of employment: coal mines and sal; works are flooded, and everything is desolate indeed. It will be weeks, months, before business can ba resumed, and help will be needed long after the waters have gone down." Governor Knott ha3 issued a proclamation to the people of Kentucky calling upon them to aid the flood sufferers by private sub scriptions, contributions; ana otherwise, me Kentucky legislature appropriated $25,000 for the relief of the sufferers. The United States Senate committee of investigation into alleged political outrages in Copiah county, Miss., arrived at New Orleans and examined witnesses. Further confirmations by the Senate: Commodore Edward Simpson to be rear-admiral in the navy; Edward S. Stevens to be coasulat Victoria; Francis A. Osgood to bo collector of customs for the district of Marblehead; Albert Schunemann, of Denver, to be receiver of public moneys at Prescott, Arizona. In accordance with the recommendation of Secretary Folxer, the President has directed the promotion of Lieutenant Rhodes, of the revenue cutter Dexter, for gallant and meritorious conduct on the occasion of the City of Columbus disaster. The President has approved the joint resolution authorizing the sending of an expedl tion to the relief of Greely. "Witnesses testified before the Senate committee of investigation concerning the election trouble between whites and blacks at Danville, Va. Several persons were drowned, and an immense pecuniary loss was sustained by a waterspout in Arequipa, Peru, and its en. virons. Murders are now very numerous on the Isthmus of Panama. later congressional news. Mennte. Mr. Sawyer called up tho bill recently reported from the committee on postoffices an l post roads, making all public roads and highways post routes, and after some amendment it was passed A resolution was agreed to directing the committee on finance to consider the expediency of providing by general legislation for the change of names of national banks, and to report by hill or otherwise at the present session.... Mr. Logan introduced a bill to provide (hat Iiersons honorably discharged from the military or naval service of the United States shall be preferred for appointment to civil offices, provided they are found to possess the necessary business capacity. houh* The Senate bill for the construction of a building for the library of Congress was taken from the Speakers table and referred to the committee on the library The House resumed consideration of the contested election case of Chalmers against Manning. A debate ensued, but no action was taken. SCENES OF SUFFERING. Great Distress Caused by the Ohio Roods, The Inundations Greater Than Those of Last Year. Tlie great floods along the Ohio river proved worse than was at first expecte I, exceeding even the memorable inundations of last year. At first the chief point of suffering was at Wheeling, W.Va., and vicinity, but after the water hal begun to subside there, he.iv}- rains caused a continuallv in creasing rise in the Ohio at Cincinnati and adjacent points. A Cincinnati dispatch gave this vi/id poa picture of the situation. Thefloo.l of 1SS1. the worst which Cincinnati ever experienced, has been surpassed this year. At 1 r. M. to-day the rising fiooa roadie t the highest point attained last year: sixty-six leet and four inches. At 7 p. M.. six hours later, it hail risen seven inches: and at midnight it was fully a foot above last year's line, and still rising an inch an hour. The fact that the tributaries of the Oh o above here ure known to oe rising uiiu ueu*j u>w , has fallen to-day excites constantly growing I consternation. No one knows where the deluge will stop. It is hardlv possible to give an idea of the situation. Persons familiar with the city m:iy form an idea of the extent of the flool when it is stated that the water is now but little more t|>an tiOO f et from the Burnett house, which is distant from the river bank proper between three and four squares. All that can be seen is that the streets are iuumlated, and boats are gliding in all dire".tions. 'Ihe suspension bridge, which is 10J above low-water mark, forms a low arch above the inad flood. } The Newport and Southern Railroad bridges look a" it thi-y almost touched the water. ! The view from Price's Hill, in the western I i art of the city, gives a comprehensive outline of the flood-covered portion of the city, j At the foot of the hill, on the weat side, Mill | creek spreads to an average width of a mile, and reaches north out of sight. The back water runs beyond Spring Grove cemetery, I seven miles up the river. L'incinna'.i, CovI ingtou and Newport houses can lie seen i eering out of the water, while down the river I almost from hill to hill the valley is covered. . u.x .;i,i? ,ht? i.nst end is trrowine j woi-so. Over NJO houses are under water on ! the river front of Ward 1, and many eases of j destitution exist. Clliiimiiisvilie *s almost I entirely submerged, tlie depth of water I reaching all the way from lour to twenty I feet, lue postoflice has been removed: the j police station is abandoned. The Relief committee is ameliorating the prevailing distress. | Just one-halt of Newport is uuder water and | the flood creeps relentlessly on, spreading ; ruin in every direction. The estimate .3 made that 1 ,i300 houses in Newport are sub' merged: that not less than s.ixjo peo])le ai . virtually at the mercy of ebaritv. j An lndiana?o!is (lud.) disj>atch gave these t vivid details of the devastation caused by tha i rising waters: The river is higher all along j the lower border of Indiana than last year, j Stretching live miles northeast of Lawi encei burg is one vast waste of water. The city is surrounded 011 all siiies by the rushing floods. : The soml>er roofs of" all bouses and thetower1 ing church spires are all ihatcannowbe seen of it. Thirty-nine hou es have already been swept away and their inhabitants left ! homeless. Provisions are running short "* forintic Vrnm ' anil mi'siuierers uic uii m?.i . all along the border couie sad tale?- of dL?! tress ami desolation. The relief committee I at New Albany is besieged for aid. One thousand people have left their homes and [ multitudes are out of employment. Houses j are going down every hour. The steamer ' Kninbow, arrived at New Albany, re]>orts ! great distress everywhere. State aiil is j being asked from down-the-river towns, and | te.egrams have b>en sent to Senators Voorj liees anil Harrison and Indiana Congressmen | praying for government a <1. At Jefferson; ville the engineers have dammed bacli the head waters and kept out the back wa'er be- j J low The upi>er dams are giving away, and ' a large territory inside thcc.tv is submerged. ! Factories and snojs aro closed and eoods are | j l>emg moved into second stories a id to higher ground. It continues to rain everyl where. There is intense feeling at Hew AJIany ?iul.leIl"ersoiiviH\ AllUpelM, tiling short of tlio very worst is gone. Nenr: ly all the i?ooplu are c imj aratively j oor, j earning their living liy hard labor. '1 hus far I they have not suffered greatly. Bu^^ir I limited means and credituuMfltfj^K^ hausted, and widespread suffering must ansue. Leavenworth Is almost deserted. The court-house, churches and school-houses are filled with fugitives. Some have gone to the country and some still remain in second . stories. At Evansville the local packets and harbor boats are bringing in large quantities of , corn, live stock, household goods and /amilie4 . '.I from the innndated regions. Corn ready for shipment has teen removed. Reports from '% Vevay and Patriot are truly custrensing. Lawrenceber# and other flooded towns 3a ? A-| t 1 L. -ij ft. Til nave ujiegrapiiau uero >ur uu. n itui ua 8ent promptly. Flour, meat and coffee are ^ going to-night The board of trade baa issued an urgent call for prompt contribotions. Governor Porter has just issued a proclamation appealing for food and ;'%m money. SUMMARY OF CONGRESS |J Senate* The Senate pa*e<l the Mexican I and Gram , Titles bill Mr. Frye reported a bill for the ?*? relief of American shipping. Mr. Vest, for the minority of the committee, said that although they acquie.ced in th? \rtS bill reported, they by no means agreed that the bill touched the main difficulty which had struck down our commerce.... Mr. Lo; an introduced a bill creating a commission to inquire into and report upon tbe ^8 material, industrial, and intellectual progress ^ made by the colored people of the United States since 1805, and makin? appropriation 'jg* for the same Mr. Riddleberger offered* 1 concurrent resolution for the appointment of three Senators and five Representatives to --'-M inquire Into the cause of all removals of sob* ordinate officers of the Senate aud House. The chaii' laid before the Senate a com- r;\ munication from the secretary of war transmitting, in compliance with a recent resolution of the Senate, a statement showing the . .' number of soldiers of the late warwho served one year, how many two years, and how * many three years, and the amount of money " "'."'a required to equalize the bounties of those who served in said war Mr. Pendleton presented the credentials of Henry B. Payne, Senator-elect from the State of Ohio, for the >/SB term beginning March 4, 1885. The ere- 58 dentials were rea I and ordered to be filed. The committee on naval affairs reported favorably a bill for the relief of the survivor!" of the Jeannet'e expedition and of the widows and children of those who perished. -^aS Mr. Riddleberper's resolution providing for a joint committee to inquire into removals and aDDointments of Senate and Hooee "'3 employes was the subject of a long debate, participated in by Messrs. Vest, Kiddlebuv ' 3J5 ger and Conger. A message was received from the House announcing that that body was still "2jsSH unable to agree to tbe Senate amendment to "5* th 3 Greely Relief bill, reauirlne that the men > - ;h{ sent on that expedition should be volunteers. ?3gjS After some debate the Senate receded from its amendment by a vote of 29 to 22. A oiil appropriating S.r.00,000 to commence the construction of a building for these-' commodation of the library of Congress wm passed by a vote of 35 yeas to 6 nays Mr. Voorhee; asked and obtained unanimous consent to introduce, out of the regular order, a bill to prohibit officers and employes of the United States government from contributing money for political purposes. A ' -;&* debate, part'ciDated in by Messrs. Voorhees, " z Hawley, Beck, Dawes and Harrison, fol- Jag lowed. The bill was referre 1 to the committee on the iudiciary A bill was introduced by Mr. McPherson to suspend the coinage of ?V'yS the silver dollar. Mr. Hale, from the committee on naval affairs, reported unfavorably and moved the indefinte postponement of the iolnt resold* tion introduced by Mr, McPherson, limltinr the amount of money to be expendea" by the President on the Greely relief ;.35J expedition to $503,010. ?Mr. Voor-' hees offered a resolution directing \>:SH the secretary of the interior to withhold tp- ?? proval of selections of lands made by the Northern Pacific Railroad company within certain indemnity limits... .The Senate consirtered the McPherson banking bill and Mr. -. Bayard delivered an address in its support. Home* The House adopted tne report on the new rules after a two-days' debate. Mr.Randall' reported tne naval appropriation uw, ana .y crave notice that it would be called the next ao Tuesday. It appropriates #14,'263,000, being 30:2,000 less than the amount estimated for, awl f 1,631,000 less than the amount ap- .*> propriated for the current fiscal year....Mr. Willis introduced a bill temporarily provid- - '3 ingforthe support of common schools. It . ;-.i provides for uu annual appropriation of irom $10,000,000 to $1.000,0d0 for the next . - 'i& ten years, the appropriation to be reduced > $1,000,OOu each succeeding year.... Mr. Bayne . 'j introduce! a bill repealing all internal taxes ' on domest ic tobacco Mr. GoIT introduced . '{J* a joint &=olutio n appropriating $109,000 for " "jC? the relief of the sufferers by the overflow of . . the Ohio river and its tributaries....Mr. Fin- '38 erty, of Illinois, offered a resolution deslar ing that the House "laments the death of ; A "VV endell Phillips as a national bereavement." Mr. Eaton objected ami the resolution went over. Bills introduced: By-Mr. Bel or J, to facilitate the settlement ot private land claims; togi by Mr. Oates, restoring to the pension rolls the nam?s of those aroppe 1 therefrom oa account of disloyalty; by Mr. Bisbee to impose duties on exoauuts, bananas and . -jSj pineapples; by Mr. Townshead, a resolution . proposing a constitutional amendment providing for th3 election of President by a V majority of the vote* of tne people and the ''}??. abolition of the electoral college, and regulating the method of counting the votes by the two Houses of Congrejs; by Mr. Henderson, providing for the i "sue of circulating "^3 note) for national banking associations; by Mr. Poland, providia: that before registratinn in Utah and Idaho a votjr shall take an oath tint hedoes not belong to tho Church . ^ of tho Latter Day Sa nts. On motion of Sr. Ste wart a resolution was adopted directing the CJtnmittea on ezpenditurr-s in the department of justC3, in mak- f ing i ivestigation into the erpanditures on account of prosecution of persons charged V with frauds on the government, and especially in the Star Route nail service, to inquire into the manner in which such prosecutions are being conducted; and into the conduct, efficiency and good faith of a!l olIHals or persons in the pay of ''./ ?[ the government in connection with such j rosecutions, and whether guilty parties have been duly prosecuted? The House went into commilte.' of the whole on the -Si naval appropriation bill. CUT TO PIECES, Tlic Egyptian GarrUon alMnkatSIao ?acrcd by the Kebcl*. .. ^ The town of Sinkat, in the Soudan, long. besieged by the False Prophet's followers, a has at last fallen into their hands, and its J garrison of >0) Egyptians under Tewflic Bey massacred. TJio news was brought to Suakim, on the Red sea, by a friendly Arab chief. Tho news created great excitement in England, and seven men of war were at i-f ' one: ordered to Egyptian waters. A correspondent at Suakim telegraphed as follows: At last the heroic garrison 01 have been butchei ed. For a fortnight they had been eating roots ami tree leaves. It ?a< an enfeebled band indeed which sortied to die amidst the rebel hordes. Tewfik Bey had harangued bis men, saying that by fighting they might save themselves, Lut that by remaining they must die from hunger in a few days: flight was impossible. The men, thus animated with Tewfik Bey's spirit, des toyed the military stores, exploded the magazine, filled their (ouches to their utmost with cartridges, and isMjed forth, ?X0 strong, against i he rebels. / C'tman Digira's hordes rushed to the attack. Tew tin Bey and his men fought nobly. For a long time they repulsed every attempt to break their rank--. Finally superior numbers pra?aiKl, and with a tremendous rush the rebels burst through one of the sides of the Egyptian square. A general .-? massacre ensued, a. id not a soul escaped. to the latest reports only four sick men, who were unable to take part in tne sortie, the cadi of Sinkat and thirty woman were spared by the rebel-. Uefore the sortie a rebel sheikh approached Sinkat and summoned Tewflk Eey to surrender. savin,' that his life would be spared. The garrison answered defiantly, reviling the rebels. During the sortie the women ana children followed in the rear of the soldieri Large numbers of rebals were killed. The rebels are now massing in the vicinity of Suakiin, the Sinkat contingent having joined the main body." General Gordon telegraphed that in spite of Baker Pacha's defeat he was still sanguine of restoring order in the Sou Ian. He appointed Colonel Coetlo^on commander at Khartoum, and sent fresh messages to toe sheikhs to meet him. ECCENTRIC SUICIDES. Louis Walters, of Akron, while intoxicate.!, cut a hole in the ice and drowned him ten. A J)e Kalr county, Tenn., man cut a tree ur.til it was ready to'fall.and then let it crush biiu. A Sax Anto.v:o man cut his throat be- - causo a lottery ticket ho bad purchased prove.l a blank. Mrs. Thomas Paxto.v, of Howard Lake, Minn., killed herself brcause .she was married a^ain-it her will. Mils. Joseph WAOEXHAt'SER, of Youngs tow,;, Ohio, c ut her throat on account of ths death of her son. a kter injuring her knee in jumping a rope' June Becker, a?ed tnirteen, ot Reading, hung herself from a bxipost. Ax eleven-year-old boy in Corydon, Ind., commitied su'ride because his parents refused to Jet him eat at first table. While suffering from inflammatory rneun:at sin, Mrs. Benjamin Watson, of Bloomiiij;ton, I1J., threw herself into a cistern and wa^ drowned. Mrs. Ann Stump, of Columbus, Ohio p?!s n".l her pet do,.', fearing it mfcht outlive her. Remorse at the deed caus3d her to ki 1 herself with strychnine. Lemuel Whisten, near Enterprise, tied a lirtiter around his nock and hitched himself to his wagon. H??thHn scared the horses and made them run. Whisten's young wifa bad _ died but a few weeks before " "* -tB