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. is ' ' ^ %T< m ABBEVILLE PRESS AND BANNERJ BY HUGH WILSON. ABBEVILLE, S. C.. WEDNESDAY, MARCH 12, 1884. NO. 37. VOLUME XXV1IL ||| OF THE PAST. White flowers lie upon her breast; Her throbbing pulses are at rest; A circlet glimmers on her head; She is a queen, and she is dead. Around her all is very still; "Unchanged, behind a changeless hill, The western sun forever dips, And dying splendors kiss her lips. Her passive hand a scepter holds; Her raiment falls in stately folds; Her lashes slumber on her cheek; The world would listen did sho speak. She Will be still forevermore: Though crowned king or emperor Made bare his treasury for her, The quiet lips will never stir. She will be stid; but all around, Voices, which speak without a sound, Bid tender chords awake and thrill, Telling of her, though she is stillTelling how days had winged feet, How childish nights had slumber sweet, And little many-colored dream* Shone through the dark in fitful gleams. Then kindly Nature round in curled, The skies bent down to cla<p the world, And every star, a beacon-light, Was steadfast on its stately height. Content, we fronted wonders new. Rainbow and thnnder, flro and dew, And deemed the very highway sod * Untrodden till we caine and trod. And golden were the days of youth, When all was beauty, joy and truth, When sordid wealth na> nothing worth, For Lore in splendor walked the earth. Oh sweet, untroubled vision, stay! Cease thou, importunate To-day, Cease eager toil, and clamor shrill! We are with her?aud she is still. ?Harper's Magazine. NEW YORK WORKING GIRLS. . Innumerable lies have been told about New York girls, says a correspondent of the Cincinnati Enquirer. I don't think that I ever picked up an out-of-town paper in which there was any mention , tL'Knfovnr i\f Vnu* W?rlr rrirlc wit limit finding at least half a dozen errors be- j fore I got through with the article. The pictures which represent New York girls as playing leap-frog on Fifth avenue, j driving four-in-hand coaches down Broadway and acting as female barbers | for the fun of the thing, are sufficiently ridiculous to us. It is quite within the bounds of possibility, however, that somewhere the pictures are believed. I doubt if anywhere on earth, except in the coal mines of England, a more wretched, poverty-stricken, unhappy and miserable lot of women can be found than the shirt-makers of New York, i There are thousands of these women, and j they work all day long and part of every v night for a miserable pittance. The work is excessively hard. They make the garments for the big dealers, and so great is the competition that a day's labor, extending from 7 o'clock in the morning till 10 at night, results in the munificent stipend of forty-five cents a day! They live in garrets and cellars, and they arc, without exception, wan, sickly-looking and weary. It is rather odd that a majority of shirt-makers are , women who, by birth and natural advantages, are very much above the average of women workers. I remember one Saturday afternoon some time ago I had occasion to visit a large shirt house in Eldridge street when ! the women were presenting theiv checks ' for payment. It was the end of the week, and they had all brought in their ' work. There were perhaps one hundred ! and fifty of them in line waiting to be } paid at the cashier's desk. They had brought their work during the week,and had received a check for each piece as it was returned. At the end of the week they presented all their checks for payment. The sum which each woman re- I ceived was actually pitiable, and it is im- | possible to conceive how they can live ; and support their families on so little , money. As they stood in line I was struck by the extraordinary delicacy of the majority of the faces. There was not a healthv-lookinc woman in the ; entire crowd, and the majority had the ; pallid look common to those who spend ; the most of their time indoors. Most of them wore faded bonnets and were wrapped tightly in old shawls. Fully three-quarters of the number wore gloves very much out at the finger-ends. Among ' them were a number of faces which in ^ former years hud undoubtedly been those of thoroughly attractive women. 1 They were quiet, self-contained and reserved. There was not a womai among them who did not look as though she was fit for a better livelihood than that | of making shirts. I spoke to the pro- . prietor about it, and he said: " It is always a mystery to me. These ; women work like galley-slaves and ruin j their health because they think it is more respectable to do this sort of a I thing than to go out to service. More than that?and this is the strangest part of it all?they conceive that this work is very much higher toned than that of a shop-girl. They are overcome by the | idea of being their own mistresses, and so continue at the drudgery. Probably three-fourths of the women here in line could get good comfortable homes, easy hours and abundant food if they would go out as chambermaids or cooks, but they J leave that sort of _thing to emigrants, and toil on here."' Probably after the shirt-girls in point of wretchedness come the women and girls who work in factories of various sorts. They are obliged to get to work at C o'clock in the morning, and they arcnot released till G at ni lit. They make all sorts of things, from paper boxes to delicate flowers. They are herded in the lofts of immense buildings in manufacturing districts of the city, and are a class distinct aud separate from any other in New York. They affect to despise the more showy shop girls and the more miserable shirt-makers, and are ...1 piUUU VA IUUI | I VI1V1VII\ j ill iitvit V..44 special line. Th y have reason to be, for of all wage-workers in New York they are the most sensible. When a woman of that class goes out to work it is as I necessary that she should choose some special branch as it is for a boy who starts in life to choose a particular trade. Women who excel in any of the various grades of the numerous manufacturing industries in New York command good prices and are never in need of work. That they have to work very hard is indisputable. I shall never forget one woman who attracted the attention of at least fifty thousand people a day for several months in a carpet factory near the elevated road. The factory in question is situated directly opposite and within twenty feet of the Third avenue elevated station at Chatham square. From the station could be seen several hundred women sewing carpets on clanging and clattering machines al! day long. Business men who came dawn in the morning and were obliged to get off at Chatham square, so as to connect with the branch road to the City Ilall. watched the women curiously as thev waited for their trains. At night when they waited in the same place they watched them again until their train came along. More than fifty thousand did this every day in the year. One morning in the early part of May last the eyes of every man were attracted toward the southern window of the building?the one nearest the station. A new-comer had taken charge of the machine which faced the window. She was a remarkably handsome woman, and she charmed the eyes of the multitude from the moment she made her appearance. She had a superb figure, shapely arms, magnificent black eyes, lots of color, and regular features. Occasionally she glanced down at the multitude, who watched her eagrerly, but she never smiled at the ' du'des, nor gave the slightest glance of recognition to the bankers, brokers and respectable merchants who glared at her so amorously. She was a subject of conversation every morning for a long time after she made her appearance. The men looked for her as regularly as they looked at the city hall clock. When she first appeared her black aair was' drawn neatly down over her forehead and gathered in a tight roll at tfee back of her tad. She wore a bit of something white about her neck, and looked refreshing and pretty. This was just before the hot weather began. Gradually the woman began to fade; the heavy carpets which she was compelled to stitch became dusty, and the glare from the street and the heat of the air made the work more and more trying every day. She began to show truces of fatigue; she grew heavy-eyed; her hair, which had formerly been neatly arranged, was allowed to straggle over her brow, and the neatness which had characterized her whole appearance disappeared before the | oppression of the heat and the awful | amount of work which she was obliged ' to do every day. Her face grew thinner and thinner, the color departed from her cheeks and black circles came under her eyes. The fifty thousand men stared at her every day, observed the change and commented upon it. By the time the scorching heat of July had come slip hud wasted awav to a mere skele ton. The ]>;ilc and wan cheek ; was heightened by a hectic flush, and her I eyes were unnaturally bright. The fifty thousand men looked at her and bet ten to five among themselves that she wouldn't last until August 1. Those who had put up money on the endurance of the poor creature were more interested in her than ever. One passenger, a produce broker, whom I knew, said to me one morning: "I look for that face at the window and for the roof of the Produce exchange every morning with the utmost anxiety. If that tace goes away before August 1, I l shall lose $25. If 1 find a flag on the 1 roof of the Produce exchange I will know 1 that some of the members are dead, and : I hat will cost me $10 more. I can never \ I draw a long breath until I have seen both lotteries and am safely housed in my of! lice.'' The broker lost his money. Shortly before August 1 the fifty thousand men were shocked or gladdened, as the case might be, by seeing in the place of the beautiful girl who had so long sat framed in by the window a raw-boned, scrawny and freckled woman, with a face so positively ugly that it would stop a Chinese funeral. Speculation was rife as to what had become of the girl. One day three of us were going up town about 3 o'clock in the afternoon in August, talking as usual about the carpet girl, when somebody proposed that we should go up into the carpet house and ask about her. For a moment it seemed a rash and dreadful thing to do. But after a little thought we descended the steps and climbed to th/. cnprtnrl stnrv of the buildiner. When we got there we were stared at by several hundred employes, and guyed unmercifully until we found the superintendent. He was a little man, with a qnick, nervous manner, and a bald head. AVe stated our errand to him as quickly as possible. He said: ' It is astonishing how much interest that girl created. You are only three of three thousand men who have come up to ask about her. ller history was not remarkable in any respect, and she is now doing quite well."' "What became of her?" "You seem very anxious to know,'' said the little man with a very hard twinkle of his right eve us he stared at us. "Yes, we have come all the way up here to see if we couldn't find out what had become of her. We have no base or sinister motives. We are moved simply by curiosity." "No doubt," said the little man, with a.\. ^ ? Urtwl / ItffAt* in hlo ftvo TKflPO lilt: >UU1C I1UIU 111 mo vjv. iuviv was a painful pause. We stood and stared at each other, while the operatives kept on with their guying, and the little man kept on with his staring. Finally, after a long wait, some one of our party said: "Well, what the deuce did become of her?*' "She married," said the little man, laconically. There was another dreary pause. Finally I mustered up courage enough to say: "Who?" "Me," said the little man. Then we left. Another distinct class of New York girls are those who are under fourteen years of age,and who are obliged to work for a living. They are the cash girls in the big dry goods stores, the errand girls in small shops, and the workers in factories. One day I was walking along West Broadway, when a sign from the second story of a low brick building attracted my attention. The sign said: "Torpedoes made here." Impelled by curiosity, and having nothing on my hands, I wandered up stairs. There in a little room in the rear of the house I found about sixty girls, none of whom were over thirteen years of age. They were the most woe-begone, stunted little things that I have ever seen. There was something pitiable in their wretchedness. They were making torpedoes. One batch of little girls filled a number of holes in square boards, which they held upon their laps, with the pebbles and silver, of which toy torpedoes are made. Other little girls took the boards from them and stamped paper Into the holes on top of the silver and pebbles. Others extracted the material from the holes and wrapping it up in other bits of brown paper. All of them wore little leather aprons and their hands and arms were almost black from the work. Their movements were quick. They were as solemn as judges. The superintendent, an old German, carried a rattan. The children worked from seven until five. They received sixty cents a day. These are a few of the many classes in New York. Exercise as a Remedy for the Nervous. Dr. Oswald writes in Popular Science Monthly: "When I reflect on the immunity of hard-working people from the effects of wrong and over-feeding," says { I)r. Boerhaave, "I cannot help thinking that most of our fashionable diseases miirht be cured mechanically instead of chemically, by climbing a bitterwood tree, or chopping it down, if you like, rather than swallowing a decoction of its j disgusting leaves." For male patients, gardening, in all its branches, is about as fashionable as the said diseases, and no j liberal man would shrink from the ex-, ! pense of a board fence, if it would inI duct* his drug-poisoned wife to try her ; hand at turf-spading, or at hoeing, or ' even a bit of wheelbarrow work. Lawntennis will not answer the occasion. There is no need of going to extremes and exhausting the little remaining strength of the patient, but without a certain amount of j fatigue the specific fails to operate, and experience will show that labor with a I practical purpose?gardening, boat-rowing, or amateur carpentering?enables people to beguile themselves into a far greater amount of hard work than the drill-master of a gymnasium could get them to undergo. Beside the potential J energy that turns hardships into playwork, athletics have the further advantage of a greater disease-resisting capacity. Their constitution does not yield to every trifling accident; their nerves can stand the wear and tear of ori dinacy excitemeuis; a little change in i he'weather does not disturb their sleep; they can digest more than other people. Any kind of exercise that tends to strengthen?not a special set of muscles, but the muscular system in general?has a proportionate influence on the general i vigor of the nervous organism, and thereI by on its pathological power of resist mice. For nervous children ray first prescrip\ tion would be?the open woods and a J merry playmate; for the chlorotic affections of their elder comrades?some diverting, but withal fatiguing, form of manual labor. In the minds of too many parents 'here is a vague notion that rough work brutalizes the character, , The truth is, that it regulates its defects: | it calms the temper, it affords an outlet i to things that would otherwise vent | themselves in fretfulness and ugly pas| sions. Most school-teachers know that ' city children are more fidgety, more irritable and mischievous than their village comrades; and the most placid females of the genus homo are found 1 among the well-fed but hard-working j housewives of German Penns3*lvania. ! In France nearly all the railroad ticket i and signal clerks are women, who are j paid as much as men. They are proI ferred because of their sobriety. | The wooden boxes that bring orangeg from,Florida are manufactured m Maine. . m A BONANZA KING'S RISE. CABEEB OF MACXEY, THE CALIFOBNIA MILLIONAZBE. A Big- Jmni) from Comparative Poverty to liumciiMC Wealth?How lie .Tlftdc Hi* ITIoni'). j A recent issue of the Louisville Cour\ ier-Jounutl gives the following account i of the career of one of the wealthiest 1 mnn Jn thr. world' A mnnrr f he numbers "" " " v' ' ? ?n of men who lmve leaped from com paraj tivc poverty and obscurity in this couni try in the past half century, none stand | out more prominently than John W. i Mackey, the California millionaire, at I present living in Paris. Ilis name is known all over the continent, and the vast project of laying another cable : across the Atlantic, bringing the other J continent into instantaneous connection with ours, with which he is so greatly J identified, brings him before the people j again. To those familiar with his career I in the past few years and knowing his ! immense wealth and splendid surroundj ings, it seems almost miraculous that, i within the memory of comparatively young men he was poor and obscurp, without a dollar in the world. Although much has been writteu and said about him, as a matter of course, but few per- j sons are acquainted with his early life, j and the fact that he was at one \ j time a resident of this city has never been made public. As a reporter was [ passing down Main street yesterday, a | gentleman standing at me corner m i Twelfth street remarked: "You see that j building over there?" pointing to the house on the northwest corner of Twelfth j and Main. Upon the reporter's replying j in the affirmntivc, he continued: "I sup- I pose it would surprise a number of persons to know that Mackey once lived there, and kept a saloon. The story is not generally known, as he was not a man of wide acquaintance, and when ho j left the city all thought of him died j out. Of those who used to take drinks J from his hands across the counter, but j few recognize him in his new sphere. "Along aoout 1845 Mackey came to thiS'City in company with one or two others in search of employment, lie was i a young man, strong, active and willing J to work at almost anything which would i afford him a good living. An old two- J story frame building stood at the corner ; over there, and the front room had been : used as a saloon. The proprietor closed j up a few months before, however, and the building was left without a tenant, j Mackey had some little money, and as j the location was a good one lie resolved j to start a bar-room there. He made a j bargain with the proprietor and secured i the place, opening up about a week later, j The room and its fixtures would be in j strong contrast with the fine saloons of j the present day, with their gilded counters and fancy bars. The walls were ! covered with a simple coat of white paint J and the counter was a long narrow one j made of pine boards. Behind it was a j shelf on "which sat some bottles and j glasses. His coming was not taken much < notice of and none felt enough interest to inquire from whence he came or who he was. lie was an energetic and industrious man, polite and attentive to his customers, and his short figure and smiling face conld be seen at all times behind the bar. lie soon built up a very good trade, but he never appeared satisfied. { It was evident that he was not intended i for such an avocation in life, as he was ! restless, and, like Micawber, constantly j waiting for something to turn up. "The long-looked-for day finally ar- j rived, and he started for California,little ; expecting that such good fortune as fell j to his lot was awaiting him. In 1849 ' the gold fever was at its height, and every day emigrants were leaving for the \ Pacific coast, eager to reap the harvest ! of gold which they confidently expected | irntvi nwnitimr thorn Mlirkf'V WftS one i of the first persons in this city to be afflicted with the fever, and he endeavored to induce a number of friends to go with him. A party of about twenty-five was finally made up, and he was one of the leaders iii it. He sold his property ; interests for a small sum, and that was . the last heard of him until he jumped j suddenly into the lap of fortune. "I was," said the gentleman, "in Cali- ! fornia at the time of his arrival there, I and watched his career with considerable interest. He had previously known Flood and O'Brien, and they were very fast . friends. They were at. that time keeping a saloon in San Francisco and Mackcy ; worked in the mines. The two famous ; fields of wealth then were the California I and the Consolidated Virginia, and he j worked in both of them. lie was a very shrewd man, tolerably well educated, and had some little knowledge of civil engineering. lie clearly saw that money invested in the stock of either of these mines was sure to bring good results, and every dollar he could raise was in- j vested in that way. At his instance j Flood and O'Brien went in with him, and the three purchased stock at $8 a share. Soon afterward it went up to $7, and gradually increased to $18. In this simple manner their forlunes were made, and almost before they knew it they were wealthy men. Maekey then lived in a frame house on Sutter street, anu his figure became a familiar one to the frequenters of the mines. "He was not married then, but met the woman who became his wife soon afterward. This in itself is a little romance, and illustrates his character. She was a widow when he became acquainted with her, and was the daughter of Major Hungleford, of New Orleans. She mar ried a doctor and moved to Nevada city, where her husband died soon afterward. He was a poor man and left his wife and child in rather destitute circumstances. Mackey heard of this some months later, aud started a subscription for the widow's benefit, contributing liberally himself, and raising a neat little sum. This so touched the widow's heart that she ' called on him to thank him for his kind- | ness. She was young and pretty, with i a childish face and winning ways .and ' captured Mackey's heart completely, j His courtship was a quiet one and of short duration, and soon the pretty j widow united her destiny with his. Mackey was then a rich man, but he kept ! widening his field of action, until in con- | nevtion with Flood, O'Brien and Fair, he j established the Nevada bank, and Louis ! Median went from Baltimore to manage j it. Since that time Mackev's career has . been familiar to almost every school-boy. A TJath iti a Japanese Water fall. Arima has a great name for its mineral j springs, says a Japan letter to the Pall Mall Gazette. At the baths the water came hot out of the earth. We drank of them twice daily for a week when at the "hermitage." Hut they are so strongly impregnated with iron and soda that they disagreed with us. We resorted to stratagem to get rid of them without of- j fending our doctor, wlio believed the hot j springs were fountains of "jouvence"? j an opiuion shared by the natives. Near j the house was a delightful waterfall. ; Dick, following the example of some ] English missionaries, adopted the plan i of taking an early shower-bath m its 1 spray. lie was delighted with the change, and used to come home refreshed and exhilarated. One line morning, however, as he was enjoyiug the spray, a viper shot by his foot, and lie thought for a moment wanted to dart at it. lie jumped away, and when he j turned around to pelt the reptile it was j half way in a hole, so that he only i wounded it. This incident spoiled his , pleasure. A place that harbored such 1 ugly tenants was no longer charming. I j The Japanese look with artists' eyes at | their most dreadful serpents. The realism I with which they model, paint, and enamel them in decorative mohair is ' quite startling. One evening I was made miserable by a serpent shooting itself out of a hollow bamboo-rod. It was artificial; but 1 did not kuow this until it j was told me. Nobody could on tU?) ; evidence of the eye alone have detected \ the unreality. Ask Ma. An inquisitive youngster asked this i question one morning at the breakfast ' j table: "Pa, how is it a jury can con- j vict a man of manslaughter when he killed a woman?" Pa, bolting hifl breakfast?"Ask your ma; she knows more about manslaughter than I do." / - ^ LOVE. LAW AND POETRY, A CURIOUS BREACH OF FROMISS CASE PLEADING. I rhc Fair PlaiutirPN Complaint and | the l>cfcniinnt'N AiiMtvcr ITIudc in Verne?A I'nujiic Suit. A courtship has not unfrcqucntly pro1 voked the interested parties to poetry, but the only ca?e in which the rhyming was kept up after a suit had been entered fur breach of promise lias been brought to light in Brooklyn. The suit owed its celebrity to the fact that all the pleadings were written in mirth-provoking rhyme, i This novel proceeding was probably with* out a recorded precedent in the history ol American jurisprudence, and was given i the widest publicity in the papers through ' put the country at the time the suit was < Instituted. i The story was regarded by many as a 1 mere newspaper fiction. Lawyers differed in their opinions as to the legality of pleadings so unique in style and as to whether a suit could be legally insti- i luled in such a manner. Some thought ' that no court would entertain a case 1 brought before it on pleadings of so ex- i traordinary and frivolous a character; while others contended that the complaint i and answer were strictly legal, the plaintill having set forth every fact required ] by law to be alleged. < The following unique declaration was i filed in the case: City Court of Brooklyn. Arabella 1'arlhenia Featherstone against J. Uriah Allibone. 1 The p'aintiff, in seeking redress for her woes, Comes into court and respectfully shows: x. That she now resides, ah! mire is the pity, In Ten Eyek street, all alono in this city. The defendant, too. is ro-;iding here? But not alone, as will later appear. ii. That in 1870 The plaintiff said, Parthenia, Resided with her relatives In the State of Pennsylvania. A single worran she had lived Since birth?just thirty years? With heart untouched by Cupid's dart And ohceks unwet by tears, Until the said Uriah came? 'Twas first of last J illy? Tnfkh fnr trnnt. nml norch. and bream. With tackle, hook aurl fly, He wandered up an I down tho stream t Tlia bubbled oer the stones? ' faw nio one day, bowed low and said, t 'My na'iie is Altibone." from then he nev.*r lishod again? At least, har.lly ever? Unless he had mc by his side, His darling Arabella. He told to me tho old. old tale; How new it was to me! Declared I was his own true love, Himself from wedlock free. Oh! oh! tho happy days we spent A-wandering by tho stream; But now, alas! they are no more, And all seems but a dream. in 6 One day?July tin twenty fl,-st? { With wandering steps and slow, t He came and asked me "Be my bride, j, And share my joy and woer" And I, with trembling Hps, announced My life was his for aye, c And fixed November twenty-third 1 To be the wedding day; J And all my hopes were soaring high As dark November's moans Pro claimed the days were drawing nigh 1 When I'd bo Allibone's. f. iv. t I've learned t io late that men betrayNo soothing art can euro The soul-fe t wound that Cupid left ^ Where once my heart was pure. t Confiding in his promises , a [ waited patiently, 1 r Until Novemb?r came around An 1 he should call for me. But ere November came around, S Tl.? lr>er f IllOUllllUUl..H ...B .... Woo d ami won a city maid, a And had a city wedding. And now forsaken and forlorn, The victim of love's ravages? c Moc!.e<l at home and jeered abroad r I ask the court for damages. ?] Also for the costs of suit, By way of satisfaction, The plaintiff a-ks the court to give ? To carry on the action. i i v. r Ton- thousand dollars is the sum, * Though it would not requite me, ? Twill teach Uriah, anyway, \ How much it costs to slight me. f Se-nler & Towns, attorneys for plaintiff, City of Brooklyn, County of Kings, ss. r Arabella Parthpnia Featherstone, C 1 he plaintiff, being du y sworn, r Says: I have read the facts above? r Kama are true of mv knowledge born, < Save the defendant's vows o( love, And as to those I d 1 declaro t I did believa him?that I swear. s Aral eVa Parihenia Featherstone. t Sworn to before me this I2:ith day of March, 1SS0. ' 4 Augustus M. Price, ? Notary public. i Kinjrs county, N. Y. a Mr. Fales, the defendant's attorney, is a not one of those persons who must sub- a mit to a surgical operation before he can | Bee the funny side of things. He en- r tered into the spirit of the situation and t with the consent of his client he iiled an y answer which, regarded as a specimen of a special pleading, is quite equal to some e of the prose efforts of the old school d pleaders. o To the plaintiff's unique complaint, v the defendant tiled the following unique k answer. c n City Court of Brooklyn. The p aintiff, A. 1'. Feathers tone, I vs. t J. Uriah Allibone. ]; Unto the complaint the defendant replies, And every and each allegation denies; And second, defendant doth further reply, a That he was at the tim , viz., 1st of July, V When he met the said plaintiff, already en- 1 gaged | To marry a widow both wealthy and aged, . And that the said wedding was thoroughly 1 known t And offo'ii discussed by Miss Belle Feather- r stone; And that with said plaintiff his only relation Was the love called platonic and known as ' flirtation; 0 And further, that both tho said plaintiff and he Did only for fun and not marriage agree. And that ho no promise of marriage nad broken, As never such fubject was dreamed of or spoken. A furthor answer, and his third; That the said plaintiff gave her word Uj)on November twenty-third To marry James It. Wilder; And that upon the fifth or March, Corner of .Seventh strict and Arch, Said Vedder J. did wkI her. Judgment that said complaint should b^ Dismissed, d?fen lant aslc-;. anil a-iks to boot Thaf plaintiff mado t'> pay should be To him tho legal cost* of suit, William F. Fates, Deft's Attorney. Kings County?Allibone, J. U., First being sworn in manner due, Says the foregoing answer's true. Sworn befi re me, March twmty-three, Lascho, D. Frederick, Notary Public; Eighteen-cighty, the year of date. Count}' of Kings and New York State. J. Uriah Alliboue. i I lie Kccognizcd It. t A Philadclphian was sitting in n mining ' broker's ollice, in Virginia City, one (lay . last fall, when a stranger entered and showed him a pound hunk of silver ore which was at least ninety per cent, pure ' i stutl". j , "Found that on one of my hills," he said, as he drew up a chair and sat A down. " The ears of the man from the Quaker ' city began to work, and his heart to j { thump. The native looked green, and ! ? perhaps he didn't know the value of that I , hill. ' 1 " What you got ?"' asked the broker, , 1 as he came from behind his desk. | * "Oh, nuthin' much? jist a little hunk j * f found on one of my hills," was the I * reply. The broker took the hunk, carefully j examined it for a minute, and then quietly \ remarked: j g " Yes, I recognize it. T sold that hunk j i four weeks a<ro to salt a hill in the next ' r county ! I'lcasc put it in your coat-tail j pocket and move on. It's too rich for i our blood!"? Wall Street News. Meteorology ntid Finance. "F'inc morning, your honor," affably i remarked the man who was arrested the night before for being drunk and disorderly. " Yes, indeed," heartily responded the justice; "quite a fine morning; in fact, a ten-dollar line morning." After this little pleasantry, the gentleman was booked for the 44 Black Maria," and the business of the court went on as usual.?Free Press. Give work rather than alms to the poor. The former drives out indolenoe, the latter industry. * 1 SACRED WHITE ELEPHANTS. THE ANIMAL THAT IS WORSHIPED IN THE EAST. nadcancmbcr of tho Royal Family? li* Capture and Life?Burial Ceremonies j It is the general impression that the white elephant is specifically different from others, but this is not the case. 01 the fourteen or more various elephants that formerly existed in this country, Europe and Africa, only two, the African and Asiatic, are alive to-day, and white elephants arc likely to occur among either. Albinism, however, occurs more frequently among the Indian races than any other, and it is merely the result ot the absence of the minute particles of coloring matter that the microscope ithows us in the lowest layer of the epidermis, or what we call outer skin, that is. the color-tfivinjr layer. j Albinos have always been regarded ' with superstition in the East; especially lire white monkeys reverenced, and records from the earliest times contain mention of them. The common white ani- I mals were prized, and quite naturally the rare ones were reverenced by a people ! nmong whom superstition has reigned for centuries, and so it comes that the possession of these creatures is consid- j Dred the greatest possible honor. It is' *aid that the king of Ava is called the "Lord of the White Elephants," and j considers it one of his proudest titles. Twelve years ago the king of Siam at Bangkok received intelligence that a baby white elephant had been captured ; :n the northeastern portion of British : Burmah, in the vicinity of Tounghoo. [t was brought to the capital with magnificence and pomp, and nursed on the tvny and later by twelve native women selected especially for the honor. Even inder this treatment the infant died, and :hc nation went into mourning, all occu Rations ceasing for several days, and the ;ntirc populace shaving their heads. Suclj attention is not surprising when t is realized that the white elephant, be ic mottled, yellow, brown, or gray, is ;onsidered and looked upon as a memjerof the royal family, ranking next to he queen. As a matter of course, less mportant officials and dignitaries arc tnxious to claim relationship to it; hence he king of Cambodia calls himself the 'First Cousin of the White Elephant;" he prime minister of Siam, the "General )f the Elephants." The king of Burmab s styled the "Lord of the Celestial Eleihant," the king of Siam the "Master of Hany White Elephants," and the foreign ninister of Cochin-China "Mandarin of 21ephants," which,in fact, arc only a few >f the titles acquired by attendance upon hese pampered brutes. The royal white elephant has its corps >f attendants of royal blood, mnndarins >f the highest class, its cabinet, its pecial priest and medical attendant, or generally those who divide their services jetween the elephant and the human ting. In years gone by the white ele>hant has been worshiped by all classes tnd considered sacred as being the temjorary abode of a mighty Buddha. It is iow regarded as a deity and worshiped )V the Tower classes, the most intelligent lobles only considering it an omen of food luck to possess them, and an honor; nit this regard is carried to such an exrcmc that it is akin to worship. As early us 1500 the white elephant vas the cause of numberless wars bewcen Siamand other outlying kingdoms, ind during one conflict over one of the aninals five kings and thousands of soldiers verc killed. The animals are found by iccident when hunting for others, and he discovery is the making of the finder, is he is immediately, no matter how low lis condition, made a mandarin, exmpted from all taxation for life, and ewarded with a large sum of money. The news of the capture is carried to the :apital by a special messenger, and a seaon of rejoicing begins. A proper placc s at once prepared for its reception, and ts attendants appointed from the highest loblcs in the land. These proceed to lie place of capture, conveying choice fifts. If the captivc has been bound nth ropes, these emissaries change them or others of scarlet or white silk, and ich canopies of silver, white and goldloih, fans of feathers, coverings and ich robes arc all used to protect the lewlv discovered member of the royal amily from the heat, cold or from trou>lcsomc ftisects. If near a navigable tream, a vessel is especially prepared for he purpose, decked with silk, gilt and irecious stones, and covered with a canopy copied from that of the royal palace tself. Thus in gorgeous trappings the nimal sails down the river, receiving the cclamation of the villages on the way nd showers of gifts. If taken overland, it is escorted by aandarins and nobles and other elephants hat conduct it through the farms, the icople offering up their possessions with free hand. When once the city the ntire population enters upon u three lays' time of rejoicing. The mandarins if the nation now present their gifts, irhich are often of the most expensive ;ind. One lately described was a vase if solid gold that weighed 480 ounces, ^he animal is placed in the royal stall irepared for it, its surroundings being hose of a monarch. One nobleman (rushes insects from it; another feeds t with choice lruits. About its tusks re bracelets or bands of solid gold, vliile the blankets that cover its ugly lody arc of the richest stuffs that can )e obtained. If of a vicious disposition, t is shackled to the ground by a chain hat is gilded or plated, and made as ich and expensive us possible. If the white elephant dies, it is conidered a national loss. The body lies in tatc for soinc time, and then is placed ipon a magnificent funeral pyre composed if the choicest stuffs and woods, the gifts if thousands of mourners. Valuable log9 if sassafras, sandal, and other aromatic voods are used and finally lighted, the ire being kept up by four enormous gilt >cllows, one at each corner, that are >lo\vn by noWemen. When the body is entirely cremated, it is allowed to lie hree days, when the sacred ashes are :ollectcd by a mandarian and placed in <aluable urns, which are conveyed to the icmeterv of the King and buried with nuch ceremony. This would naturally ?e the last of the animal, but now arcliiccts and builders are gathered, and the mtcome of their conference and labor is i mausoleum built over the ashes, of ichest design and workmanship, and to his placc devoted mourners often go, caving gifts in memory of the great ciemrted. The money value of the white elephant s difficult to determine, and what was laid for the one that is to be exhibited o the Parisians and Londoners before eachinir this countrv. will nrobablv icver be known. Fifty thousand dolars is given by Sir John Bowring, an mthority on white elephants, as a posliblc money value of one, but he also caves us in doubt by saying that a few lairs from the white elephant's tail were vorth a fortune. This recalls a curious incident of Sii lohn's visit to the king of Siam. lie was iharged with a state message to the king, ind on his return home was presented vith a golden box with instructions to iresent it to her majesty as a gift from he king of Siam. It was delivered to he queen in due time, and when opened ound to contain a few hairs from the ail of one of the king's white elephants. For the Secret Police. After one of the frequent changes ol government in a certain South American 11 in artist, and ordered from him designs or new styles of official uniforms. "1 ivish," he said, "showy costumes, very ihowy, for the people like to see them so. [ have here some designs that I mysell lave made. Look them over, and adapt ,-our designs to these ideas." The artist 1 ooked over the album of sketches of- i fered for his inspection by the president. 'Very pretty, very pretty indeed," he 1 jommented. "This is evidently for the mvy, and this for the army. But, if you j :>lease, what is this for?this one com- ( sosed of great riding boots, yellow dresi :oat turned up, and trimmed with purlie, and a great plume on the three-cor- j iered hat?" "That is for the secret poice," gravely replied the chief of state. ( ? i Rabbit's feet sell for charms in Tusca- < oosa, GjOj^at $2 each. _ J NEWS SUMMARY. Eastern and Middle;States. About l!i5 gentlemen more or less prominently conn?cted with the Republican party In New York, Pennsylvania, New Jersey, Massachusetts and Maryland met in New York city for the purpose of perfecting an Independent Republican organization hav.n'j for its object the nomination of presidential candidates at the forthcomine Republican hational convention who?e record would " warrant entire confidence in their readiness to defend the a Ivancos already made toward divorcing the public service* from party politic*." Ujion motion of Carl Schurz a committee was appointed to perfect an orpani/alion covering all the States and to take such othor action as may be deemed expedient. Thieves entered a jewelry store in Troy,. ^ "v Arum fcoftt n nrl rnrried awav property valuod at $15,01)0. Vessels arriving at. Boston report passing immense icebergs and ice pac'cs. Some icebergs were from a half to nearly three miles long, and from 10) t> .*500 feel high. George William Curtis has accepted the invitation of the Boston city government to deliver the eulogy on Wendell Phillips, and has selected April 10 as the time for its deliver}'. A national bird show has been held in Boston, with more than '.',000 entries. Thomas B. Marshall, a prominent citizen of Girardville, Penn., committed suicide by cutting hi.s throat. Heavy financial losses led to the act. An ocean steamer collided with a tug boat near New York, and the latter went to the bottom with two of her crew. Representatives of prison management from twenty-two States met in New Yoric and discussed the various methods of managing prison*. At Newport, R. I., the officers and crew of the revenue cutter Dexter were publicly ? resented r solutions reco mixing their galintry in aiding the survivors of the City of Columbus disaster. Ex-Governor R. D. Hubbard died at Hartford, Conn., of Bright's disease. A fire in a New York tenement house has wiped out an entire family. The flames weie discovered in the early morning, and when subdued it was found that Cornelius Van Riper, forty years old, and bis three children aged resnecti vely thii t ?en,nine and two years, had been burnei to dea'.h. Mrs. Van Riper, aged thirty-two years, jumped from a window and broke her neck. A proposed b 11 to submit to the people of the State of New York a constitutional amendment prohibiting the manufacture and 6ale of liquor was defeated in the State assembly by sixty-three nays to sixty-one yeas. William McDonald, a New York city contractor, was brought before the bar of the State senate and committed to the Albany jail for contempt in refusing to answer questions put to him oy arsenate committee concerning material furnishe l by him to the New York department of public works. South and West. A fire at Jackson, Mich., destroyed the Union hotel block, occupied by a hotel, theatre, savings bank and other business 1 won Knttnnr) f/\ r?no t h an/1 nouses. WHO mail rrtio vv, four persons were fatally and one seriously iniured. The pecuniary loss is about $175, 000. Part of an express train foil through a bridge on the Hannibal ani St. Joseph railroad in Missouri. Soveral persons were killed and about twenty-five injured. W. B. Cash, son of Colo..el Cash, the duel ist who killed Colonel Shannon a few years ago, entered Cheraw, S. C, and after drinking heavily got into a difficulty with Town Marshal Richards, who was roughly handled. Cash then left town, but returned the following afternoon and approaching Marshal Richards drew a revolver and rapidly fired three shots. Tho fir.it ball struck an innocent bystander named Cowart and the second hit Richards, both shots causing mortal wounds. Cash then mounted his horso and rode rapidly away. The cabin of Beverly Taylor, a colored man living near Cincinnati, was burned to the ground at night, and it was at first thought that the owner, with his wife and a Ganachild, had perished in the flames. iter, however, the bodies of all three were discovered in the buildi.ig of the Ohio Medical college, whither they had b;oa carried for dissection. Allen Ingalls, a noted nezro body snatdier, was arretted, and confessed that he a-.d Ben Johnson ha I entered the cabin and killed the three inmates, taken tho bodies to a waiting wazon, driven by R. B. Dickson, and conveyed them to the Cincinnati medical institution, where they sold the corpses. Beside the three negroes mentioned, two others were arrested for complicity in the terrible crime. Two Denver (Col.) lodging houses occupied by railroad laborers were destroyed by fire and four inmates were burned to death. Numerous colored men's civil rights * />?/?nin7n'l ir> fVlA Woof, leagues are ucmg uigouiM.... The Rev Thomas G. Thurston and his daughter, aged sixteen years, were drowned while a: tempting to ford the Catawba river, near TaylorsviUe, N. C. Measles is scourging the Zuni Indians, of New Mexico, and more than 100 have died within a month. The scenes about the Indian villages are sickening. The subsidence of the waters of the swollen Ohio river has l>een followed by a rise in the lower Mississippi. For 100 miles above and below Shreveport, La., the country was reported under water, and steamers were employed in bringing people and s'ock to places of security. The river was filled with floating debris and dead cattle. Two Chicago boys who had been bitten by mad dogs died in dreadful agony of hydro phobia. J. 0. Beach, of Rideeway. Minn., shot and killed his wife, from whom ho had been divorced, and then put an end to his own existence. Four boys, from ten to sevonteen years old, while out hunting near Omaha, Neb., caused an explosion in a powder house containing six tons of powder. All four were blown to atomsA pitched battle took place in Clavton county, Ky., between four members of the Burke family and two members of ths Clayton family. Tho trooble grew out (5f an improper remark regarding a female member of tne Burke family,made by one of the Claytons. The battle resulted in the death of one Clayton and fatal wounding of the oiher and the death of one Burke and wounding of another. A special dispatch from Spokane Falls, Washington Territory, says that the rush to tho recently discovered Coeur d'Alene mines in Idaho during the spring and sum mer will l>e oveiwhelming. Already the craze has spread so that miners are flocking to the place without the prospect of earning a penny in some time. Telegraph and telephone lines are beii g pushed through the snow, and capital has b -en subscribed for staee lines, a railroad a id a steam navigation company. A writer in Fort Keogh says that, in regard to tho richness of the mines, oiraeir nn? whn has been on the cround speaks glowingly of the placar yielT?gold to the va'ueot from $10 to $310 being gathered. according to this correspondent, in a (single day's labor. Part of a Covington (Ky.) distillery, which was undermined by the flood, slipped into the Licking river, with SO,000 gallons of beer. Washington: The state department lias received by cable intelligence of the suicide of James R. Partridge, formerly,minister to Brazil and other South American State*, at Alicante, Spain. Continued illness is as-iljned n? the cause. Mr Partridge was appointed a; inirist r plenipotentiary and envoy extraordina y t> reruou April f>, l?M>. Ho was one of ihe most distinguished citizens of Baltimore, an l lia i been identified with the diplomatic service of the government for the past twenty years. The President has nominated Horace C. Burchard, of Illinois, to be director of the mint, and Commodore William U. Temple to be a rear admiral of the navy. Speaker Carlisle ha* received a lotter addressed to him personally by several of the most prominent members "of the liberal party in the German reichstag, express ng their high sense of appreciation of theaction taken bv the House of Representatives as a token of respect for the memory of the late Herr Lasker. The letter expresses the liope that the two nations may develop and continue in friendship. The commission appointe 1 by the President to examine tlio swine industry of the United Suites has male a report asserting the healthfulness of American pork products. The Senate has confirmed the nomination of Horatio C. Burchard to ba director of the United States mint. Representative Hewitt was authorized by the ways an 1 means committee of Congress to re|?rt a bill to prevent the imtwrtation of adulterated teas. The hill is >ased upon the recent recommendations of the secretary of the treasury. Chikk-Enc-ineer Melville, of thelo-st Jeannetto, will neconpnny the (Jreoly relief expedition as engineer of the advance sJ?ip Thetis. llNt'TKD States F.Mi Commissioner Ellis is distributing from the national lisli hatchery at Northvilte, Mich., 7T?,00>,i)() i white fish minnows for tho oiinin or great The postofllce appropriation bill, as prepared liy the House subcommittee, appro* priates $45,071,0 !l). Tho estimated revenues Tor tho next fi-cal year arc $47,1(11,11(1 >. The appropriation for tho current fiscal year id t44,4S91;VJO. The House cornmitteo on foreign affairs agreed by a party vote (De'incrats in fa or. Republicans opposod> t > a bill proposed by tho California members so am?ndin? tha Chitie-e act of last year as to greatly increase iis restriction upon emigration. Further confirmations of tho President s nominations: Max Weber, of New York, consul at Fa-ites; H. P., Trist, District of Columbia, consul at Mozambique; Georsre B. Clark, of Georgia, consul at San Luis Potosi; Cornelius S. Palmer, < f Vermont, associate justice of tho supremo court of the territory of Da'tota. The American Government has received an invitation through tho German legation at Washington to participate in on exhibition of dairy products at Munich in October Foreign. An Indian uprising has occurred in Mani I toba, British America, and twelve mounted police sent to quell the disturbanc3 are reported to have been massacred. The three men who murdered Count Von Majlath, president of the court of cassation at Ofer, Hungary, last March, have been hanged in Pe?th. A great crowd collected about the prison and cheered the condemned. The boiler of the steamer Kotsai, from Hong Kong to Macao, exploded. Seventeen passengers?eight of whom were Europeans, the rest natives?were killed. Seven thousand Arabs have reinforced tho insurgent army of Osman Diema in the Soudan. He has altogether 18,000 men against 5,000 British troops^ Emperor William, of Germany, and the ' czar of Russia are to have a meeting in the spring. Masses of stone fell upon and killed five ; laborers in a quarry at liienne, Switzerland. El Mahdi's emissaries are busy through- J out the whole of Egypt. Thoy go from vil- , !a"0 to village bearing the simple message: [ "lam coming Ba ready!" This passes on; from mouth to mouth, and the situation is becoming serious. Shortly after 1 o'clock, a. m., a terrible explosion occurred in a cloak-room at the Victoria railway station in Loud >n. The ex plosive agent was undoubtedly dynamite. A iarsre portion of the roof was blown off an 1 j nearly all the glass wor* in the sta'ion was ' destroyed. Seven men were sent to the h is- , pital with Revere injuries. Ext nsive damage was dono to surrounding property. A Russian government committee which has b^en examining the administration of Turkestan has discovered a deficiency of 100,000,000 roubles (about $70,000,000) iu the last fourteen years. Arthur "VV'ellesley has been elected speaker of the British house of commons War prevails am mg the South Sea Islanders. Twenty natives of one island were killed in an engagement with the na- j tives of another island. The British house of lords has passed the bill placing greater restriction upon the importation of ca.tle. Tennyson, the poet, intends to support in ' the British house of lords the bill legalizing j marr.aze with a deceased wife's sister. \V. H. Hunt, United States minister to i Russia, and ex-secretary or the navy, died in I St. Petersburg of dropsy. Mr. Hunt was | born in Charleston, S. C,, in 1834, bat early ' in life move I with his family to Louisiana, ; He was appointed by Hayes a judge of the | court of claims, a position which h'j held i when called to President Garfield's cabinet 1 as secretary of the navy. When President : Arthur reorganized his cabinet, Mr. Hunt was sent to Russia as minister to succeed Mr. i Foster. i Several other beleaguered towns in the Soudan have surrendered to the False Prophet's followers. Mi ch alarm has been create 1 in London by the discovery of several infernal machine-, of American manufacture, in railway stat:ons. By a collision between the military ana the people at a festival in Vallareal, Portugal, i fifteen persons were injured. Since January 1st there have been sixteen suicides and two murders at Monte Carlo, j the notorious gambling center. MUSICAL AND MAMATIG Sol Smith Russell has a new play, calle.l | "The Editor." ! T. C. Scoltron, the colored tragedian i started on his soutnern tour. Mme. Modjeski made a great hit in "Nadjesda," brought out in New York. ! Seventy different operas were given at , the Vienna Opera house during 18&'*. dONNENTHAL, the foremost leading man in Germany has been engaged for an American tour. Charlotte Walker, the soprano, will ' organize an English opera company for next i season. i Little Eva French, the child-actress, has I been takon from the profession aai sent to school. Teneseria Tua, the young violinist, comes to America next October for 100 concerts; i price, $40,000. Mme. Ristorj will make her appearance in this country at the Star theatre, New York, October 0. Mme. Marie Durand, the American lady i who created such a success abroad in the , opera "Gioconda," will soon return home. During Edwin Booth's first visit to England he was supported by a Manchester stock company, among whom was Henry Irving. Ten combinations have gone to pieces recently on the Western circuit, and from all | accounts the number will shortly bo doubled. Mrs. Charles Stratton, widow of Tom Thumb, applied recently to Mayor Edson, of New York, for a license to open a museum iu the Bowery. plan'quette'3 new opera, "inou uwynne, has made a gTeat success in London. It Is said to belong to the purest school of Frenc J cjinic opera and suggests Aub;r. Harlev, a tenor of the Hoyal Comedy theatre, dismissed some time ago for singing i out of time, has recovered ?250 damages from the director of tho theatre. Piccolomint, who was an operatic sensation in tbis country a quarter of a century ago, is now an old won-.an in very destitute circumstances. Her condition Is attributed i to her having married an Italian marquis. | It is said that Mary Anderson will mak9 a ; tour of Great Britain next season; the year j after she will follow Booth's example ani act ! through Germauy, and in the autumn of 1 WO she will begin a thirty-weeks' tour in this country. The liberal remuneration secured in France to dramat c authors, who for each piece repre ented are entitled by law to a certain proportion of tho gross receipts, is directly clue to the ag itation on the subject undertaken bv Benumarchais. There are in London 4,000 professors of music, including vocalists, instrumentalists, and tenciiers. but excluding musical governesses. There are about. 200 shopkeepers, musical instrument makers, and others en^a^ed in the music traie. In the provinces there are 6,000, including both classes. LAST SAD RITES. Tho Funeral of (he Heroes of the Jcannette. The dead heroes of the Jeannette were borne from the steamship at Jersey City to New York and thence to the navy yard in | Brooklyn with military pomp an 1 civil dis I play. The route of the processio 11 was lined j by sympathizing thousands,and many houses were draped in mourning, whiie the flags on the shipping in the harbor and everywhere n the city were at half mast. Ten hearses were used in conveying the remains. The hearse bearing the body of Seaman Heinrich H. Knaack was first. Three sailors and three boys of tho schoolship St. Mary j were on each sid >. After it in order came hearses bearing Machinist Walter Lee, Coal Heaver Nelse Iverson, Seaman Adolph Dressier, Fireman Georse W. Boyd, Seaman Carl A. Gortz and Seaman Ah Sam. The hearse of Jerome J Collins came next, ; and as pall bearers he had twenty friends, ; mostly newspaper men. The body of Sur- ' geon Ambler followed, with ten surgeons as j fall bearers. The memorial catafalque of Lieutenant 1 Chipp and the unrecovered dead followed, j and was the most noticeable object in the 1 line. It was covered with large floral designs. On tho top wa< a design of the Jeannette, fully six feet long. The hull was made of ivy leaves, and the masts were liung with j vine-. Lilies wera scattered all over it, and the boats on the davits were filled with violels. This was from the city of Brooklyn. The body of Lieutenant-Commander De ! Long, was in the last hearse. Twelve lieu tenant-command ts acted as his pall bearers. On his coffin was a wreath of Marechal Niel roses and laurel, which had been sent by the American Geographical society. The little band of men who followed on foot were tho center of much interest. These were the survivors of the Jeannette? I j Chief Engineer Melville, Lieutenant Danen- ! hower, Mr. Newcomb, the natnralist, and | Ninderm&n, Noros, Wilson, Ton Sine, and j Bartlett, seamen. "With th ni walked Lieu- ' tenants Berry aud Hunt, of the Rodgers relief expedition. Following the survivors of the Jennnette was a Ions line of carriages occupied by Mrs* De Long and tho relatives of tho other men As these passed the Twenty-third aud Sixtyninth regiments and tho regular army battalion fell in behiii'l. Their bands played dead marches and they marcuel slowly,'with re- j vers -d arms. Tho Hans were tied with | j crape ami the hilts of the officers' swords | were hung with crape. Carriages with invited guests followed. ; } The remains of Mr. Collins were taken for ! burial to Cork, Ire'and. Surgeon Amb'er's body was taken to his hoiuj in Fan! quier county, Va., and that of Fireman Bovd to Philadelphia. The ro-nains of tho others wero buried in Woo llawn cemetery, New York. | A SEKIE3 OF FATALITIES. five TIcinlicr* oS si I'aniil)' file, Four' front I'iro, in Ttvo JHonilii* ! In tho absence of Milton Highland, of Me- ' j chanicsburg, Ind., two months ago, his 1 j house was destr.ive 1 by fire, and his little girls, seven and four yours old, perished in I thy llaiues. A month after this his brother's wifo and child w iv buriivd to death, with four others, in tho Orr building at | a lliirii'ninL almost crazed by these i | calamities, dec dod t < move to 111 liana, for I I which pla-e ho started a few days a so with I his wife and a surviving daughter. When alj most within 'sight of his now homo he was j taken sick and di"d within a few hours. The j heart-broken mother, with her litt'o girl, the only roma ning member of what was two I months aio a ha-ipy family has returned to j j the vicinity of her former h'jme almost crazed ; through grief. A site has been secured at Lutterworth, j in England, for the ir.onu nent of John \VyclifTe, which, it is inteudod, shall b; set up to i commemorate the five hundredth anniver- I sary of his dfath. A FAMILY GONE. D eadful Scene at a New York Tenement Fire, A Whole Family of Five Persons Lose Their Lives. Details of the early morning fire in a New York tenement house in Stanton street, by which the Van Riper family of five persons lost their live", are as follows: Men who had gathered in the street heard a cry from one of the upper windows. Mrs. Van Riper had opene 1 the middle window, and was leaning out. She was clad only in her night dress. The smoke rolled out thickly around her as she waved her arms and shouted for help. A faint voice was heard inside crying, "Save mo! Rave me!" Mrs. Van Riper placed her knee on the window sill. Mrs. Presley, who stood below, cr.ed. " Don't jump. It will kill you." Mrs. Van Riper answered, "I must, I?" and, half turning her head, she fell to the stone walk below. Her head struck upon the flagpring, and her body was pitched violently over against a coa box. She was canned into James Corr's li juor store on the corner, where she died two minutes later. Just before the policeman 8iw the smoke curling from the w ndows, Frank Weaver, on the top floor, was aronsed, and ran into the hall. There he met Mr. Van Riper, who had just come out of his own door. "The two ! passed a few words, and Van Riper hurried back into his own room, shutting the door, and shouting to awaken his wife. "1 thought there was time enough," Weaver ?aid, "und went back to get my clothing, but as I reached my bedroom the fire burst through the side of the hallway and clear across the stairs. The smoke poured into my rooms so fast that I ju?t managed to break open my wiDdow and get my heal out. When I had caueht my breath I crawled through and reached up to the eaves. Being a ship s painter I am used to climbinz, and I had little difficulty then. I ran over the roof to the brick house. The engines were coming when I got down to the street, and a policeman was carrying Mrs. Van Riper across to the saloon." Engine 11, from Houston street, was the first due on the alarm. Foreman Fishor says he got the alarm at 3:37, and at 3:39 he had the water from the hydrant. As they brought up at the hvdrant the flame* burst from the upper middle window. In front of the burning building were grouped nearly a dozen women and children, scantily clothed. A hose wan led ud the stairway. As the nozde men worked their way they had to turn six times and play behind them to put out tho fire that kept breaking through the wall aud cutting them off. It was fifteen minutes before the fire was sufficiently controlled to allow the men to reach the third floor. Even then it was eating through the floors and ceilings. While most of the men tore off plastering 1 .a i i.i._ l? it j ? anu y >unug in vie uan uuu wic ioai iuuuu, two of them with lanterns entered the front rooms. Just beyond a sofa bed, and under the window, Jay what seemed to be a singid bundle of clothing. Closer examination showed that it was Jennie Van Riper, thirteen years old. She had on only her night dress. She lay on h?r side, with her baby brother clasped in her arms. Her limbs and one side of her face and neck were shockingly burned, but the little one, shielded by his sister, had not been touched by the fames. Both were dead. Through the partly open door of a bedroom a man's arm protruded. When the door vvas opened the body of Van Riper was tonnd lying on the floor beside the bed face down. On the bed, near the wall, hi3 feet drawn up, and his arms bent up as if to shield his" face, lay the boy A bert, a child of nine. HLs body wa. burned more than those of the rest, and particularly on the limb; and back. It would seem tbut the father had carried the girl and the baby to the window and had th> a returne I to the bedroom for the boy, when he was overcome by the smoke. The whole family had perished. The bodies were lifted into a market wagon and carried to the police station. There they were laid on the floor and covered with a coarse cloth. Cornelius Van Riper was forty years old. He was a cracker baker. His w.fe wen thirty-two yean old. The oldest child, Jennie, was thirteen, Albert was nine, and the baby, also named Cornelius, was between two and three. PLEUROPNEUMONIA. SynopMiM of the Bill as Panned by the Houne. The pleuro-pneumonia bill, as passed by the House of Representatives, provides that the commissioner of agriculture shall organze a bureau of animal industry and appoint a chief thereof, whose duty it shall be to investigate and report on the number, va'.uo r\9 thft flnmoQhir* Animals of UUU LUUU11IVU V4 vuw UX.UVW..W the United States, and also the causes of contagious and communicable diseases among them, nnd the means for the prevention and c ure of the same. He is au'.horized to appoint two competent agents, whoso duty it shall be to report upon the best methods of treating, transporting and caring for animals, and the nuans to be adopted for the suppression and extirpation of contagious pleuro-pneumonia. The bill further provides that the commissioner of agriculture may expend so much of the money appropriated by this ac- as may ba i necessary in paying for i he animals it is deemed necessary to s aughter, and in such disinfection and other means as may be necessary to extirj a e disease. The authorities of the S?at s shall pay one-half of the expense of the animals it s deemed necessary to slau^ht^r and one-half the cost of disinfection and care < f the henls of c&tt'e. It prohibits th-j transportation from one State to another of any Lve stoc't al'ected with any contagious or infectious dL-ease, and provides for the prosecution of any person violating this prohibition. The sum of $-'50,(X O is appropriated to carry into effect , the provisions of the bill. TinAifinrnTm nnnnr n ttiUMJDiUflii ruuriiEj, Bovnton.?Paul Boynton, the swimmer, was married recently to Maggie Conuelly at Chicago. Brown.?United States Senator Brown, of Georgia, has four iron mine3 in the northern part of that State, in waich he employs nearly 1.01W hands. Grant.?Jud^e James Grant, of Davenport, Iowa, pres.dent of the National Trotting association, says that there are in the association 5,000 hor.-es trotting below 2.:30. Beecher.?It is expected that Mr. Beecher will go to Europe on o lecturing tour in tha spring or early summer. It is over twenty years since Mr. Beecher was in England, where lie made many addresses upon the war Barnum.?P. T. Barnum being invited tha other day to lecture before a temperance society in -N'ew York wroto-in reply: " I have finished lecturing forever in this world." Mr. Barnum is a frequent visitor to the Bridgeport, Conn., jail, and often addresses tne prisoners. Cox.?Washington correspondents note the sprinkling of gray in Congressman S. S. Cox's hair. Though one of the youngest members in appearance, he is fifiy-nine years of age, and has been in Congress for a lonser period than any democratic member. Kelley, of i Pennsylvan'a, only exceeds him on the re- i publican side in length of servica. ODD HAPPENINGS. Amaziah Jordan, of Hartland, Me., in a fit of insanity cut off his toes, one at a time. A few weeks ago butterflies were numer- I ous in England, peas were above ground and ; roses were in leaf. A YOUNG dog was recently frightened to 1 death near Lafayette. Ore., Dy a child who j 1 I n?/l nhOCA/1 unl. I uivsseu uj) us uu^ttuuu ciuu vuw -... nial. A short-horn heifor named Lillie Dale, belonging to J. W. Dawson, of Russellvilie, Kv., died four hours after eatiug a leaf of tobacco. Mas. Nellie Keller, of Hyde Park, Vt, was severely burned in the lace, hands and arras by the explosion of a doughnut which ; she was frying. J. H. Smoot, of Owen county, Ky., cut a 1 rpi pntlv in whi -n a big hollow was filled with honey, upon which a colony of flying squirrels were living. Mrs. Louisa H. Ai.bert, of Cedar liapids, j has entered into partnership with hor hus- ' band in the practice of the hw. Their sign reads. "Albert & Albert, Attorneys at j Law." I In Beech Grove. Kv., live Wi Ham J. Har- j din.<4he father of twenty-ono children, William Miller. the father of twenty-six children, a-wl Cameron Story, who has twenty- j two children. In Minnesota is a well that freezes at a depth of seventy feet, but not at the surface of the water. A draught of cildairisues from the well strong enough to ta':e off the hat of n man stan ling at it< mouth. A i AitiiK lutii'i of <lrv Nile mud,with a hole in ono side showing that a mud fish wa? within it, lias l>t e:i in the posses-ion of the . Rev. J. (J Wool for four years. He recently cut the lump open and found the fish in goo J condition, doubled up, with its tall ovo its hi a I, ju t as when it went to sle.?p more t. an twenty years a ;o. MISCELLANEOUS ITEMS. Oni.y three executions for murder took place in France during 1HS'!. x, ? ? v v ,1m iUIlM. KHTIiG't UA.VIA. U1 HUJ, a......... while on tier knee* at pray t. Many V.'estern railroad camps are now forbidding the presence of Chinamen. Fourteen millions' worth of diamond* were exported from South Africa last year. The government envelope factory, at Hartford. I'onn., uses a ton of gum arabic every year. There aro thre? women in New York dime museums whoso combined weight is 1,96> i l>ouuds. California is at present producing not far from of gold and silver bullion j annually, I > SUMMARY OF CONGRESS ->| Senate. Mr. Ransom offere I in the Senate in the -'U mornintr, a joint resolution to appropriate $100,000 for the relief of the sufferers by the recent tornado in the Southern States. He said that over .7)0 people wore killed, and many thousands wounded. Mr. Harris said . ^ he would not vote a dollar out of the treaaury for any such purpose, and Mr. Morgan "* ' said he thought the new line of policy n dangerous. Mr. Voorheas believed the immediate supply of food, clothing, and shelter in a case of creat public calamity suoh as the recant floods in the West seemed indisnensable in the ca'ise of humanity. The - 1 /*Sc resolution was referred to fhe committee on ?? Tn,? kill a f*ar 3 a\jyi if * uvuuiia. x uv cuiivuvj wtt^ ??v ? -<GS debate, was passed. Mr. Hale introduced the following joint , resolution, which was at once read three < times and passe 1 without debate: . "Resolred by the donate and House of Representatives, That the act of her Britauoic majesty's government in presenting to the United States government the Arctic steamship Alert, which will be used in the cojitemp'atea . ' i?g expedition to relieve Lieute^aat Greely and .; rK his party, is recognized as opportuns and penerous, a>id Is deeply appreciated by the Congress and pe pie of the United States: That the President be, and ho i3 hereby requested to communicate a copy of this- ? resolution to her Britainic Majesty's . government" Mr. Sewell reported favor ably from the committee on milltary affa'rs the bill for the pe- . :'~gM lief of Fitz John Porter. It is the bill which \? <gfi parsed the House some time ago, with an . maniinwnh Btrilfinir ftllt t.hw Tirovision . . {2 for the restoration of Porter "to all "v4SS tlio rights, titles and privileges" of the . ,;*'g| rank held by him at the time of h.s dismisal . *fx from the army. Thus amended, the restom- ' t on provided for by the bill is simply the lotion of jolon-1 or the Fame grade and rank a-> wa< held by him at the time of hit '*:?iS dismissal This mates the bill identical In its provisions with t!ie bill wh ch passed the '.-Si? Senate of the last Congress?The bill pro* ' hibiting tho mailing of newspapers containing lottery advertisements was reported fa-. The House bill repealing the test oath war, ' passed after being modified by an amend- ,r%lB ment proposed by the Senate judiciary com- /A mittee, providing that no person wholield a commission in the United States -.M army or navy, before the war and wa<! afterward engaged in the , military, naval or civil service of the socalled Confederate States, shall be appointed $ tn flnv nosition in the armv or navv of the $4ffll United States....Mr. Sewell int^xftlced bill to grant a pension to the widow of G?neral Judson Kilpatrick?A bi'l was Intro duced to incorporate the YeUows-tono Parte Reservat:on company The pleuro-pttftomonia bill was amended .in committe ol the * whole and reported to thi Hou-e; Consideration of the hill for the construc- ' Jig j tibn of new steel crui<en was resumed, and ' '% several amendments were a 'opted Mr. . Injralls introduced a bill to relieve the mem- . V?8S hers of the original Fitz-Jobn Porter court ; ma'tial of the obligation of secrecy as to the 7;58fl| * otes of members Mr. Pendleton, by nquest, introduced a bill to facilitate the set* t'ement and dev elopment of Alaska, and ap- . propriating 1100,00) to open overland communication with that Territory. Hons* Mr. Springer introuucdi a proposed con- . stitutional amenJni9nt making the preti- 7^0 dential term six year3, aud rendering tbs >"??? President ineligible to rc-election for the next succeeding term. It provides for a direct vote for President in each State, aud abol- "" t ishes the electoral csllego Bills were introduced: By Mr. Beach, of New York?Aa thorizing the controller of the currency to ^ ~<3& changertne names of National banks; by Mr.- ' Dowa, of North Carolina?Appropriating $50,000 for the relief of the sufferers by Uw . ; v. jfr late cyclones in North Carolina; by O. D. ,'^dx Wise, of Virginia?For the completion of the monument to the mother of Washington at . Fredericksburg, Va By Mr. Dunn, of Arkansas?Appropriating f-%0,000 for the relief of the persons rendered destitute by the '-?? overflow of the Mississippi river ana itl tributaries Mr. Ellis, of Louisiana, rose to ' a question of privile ;e a id denied a recently published statement that Gr. F. Brott gave him a fee for service in securiag Star route contracts on the Donalds >n route. Mr. Ellis . offered a reso ution, whi:h wa-i adopted, directing the committej on -o^tofflces to investigate the chanrej reflecting upon him In connection with Star route frauds. ' , The Senate biil providing for the complet on of the statue of Rear-Admiral Samuel & Francis Du Pons was passed. The statoeia. to be placed in Du Pont Circle, Washington. .'-njj Mr. Broadhead, fmn the judiciary commifctee, favorably reported a bill providing ' for the increase of the sa'aries of the circuit *' ?? and district judges of the United States. qjaBB Committee of the whole. A motion to strike out the enacting clause of the pleuro-pneumonia dui was aeieacea? -t-ZZzM J13toll4 A resolution by Mr. Morrson was adopted, directing the secretary of the treasury to inform the Houss how much '/*-} money is now in the treasury of the United States, under what provisions of law- it Is , there retained, and how much, in view af-V-v^SM tho current receipts, expenditures, and legal ' liabilities of the treasury, can be applied at . : :j8 this time in liquidation of that part of \ the public deb' now payable, withoat Vv embarrassing his department Mr. .IOTH| Phelps from' the com nittee on foreign -4A affairs, reported back the resolution directin: thAt committee to in iuire a? to whether the minister of any for<>i :n power has endeavored to nullify the effect of a unanimous ' .S resolution of the He ^se by reflection on the honor aud integrity of its members. The.. committee had ma ie an investigation but had been unable to < btain any information on the subject, and asked to b ? excused from further consideration of the resolution. The report was agreed to without disrussion and the committee dischar red :rom the further -%y3& consideration of the subject. ' Mr. Deuster.of Wise rnsin, obtained unanfmous consent to have tho clerk read the resolution of the executive committee of the j Liberal Union of th<? German parliament. '.-yraB expressing irs appreciation of the action of the Houseof Represftntativesin adopting reso- 5 3|H lutionsin honor of Edward Lasker. Mr. Deustei sa*d he was convinced iha', the action of the Liberal Union was a true index of the feel- . . " $1 ine of unit?-d Gerimny. Mr. Guenther, of Wisconsin, expressed a similar opinion. Mr. Kasson thought the House would better / consult its dignity by waiting until some. " official communication reached it showing that improper commsnt had* been made tipon it} action, 1'pon his motion the matter wa? referre i to the committed on foreign affairs..... The nionro-nneumonia bill wai passad, 155 to .. j 2 Public business being'suspend^d. the Houss paid its tribute to the- memory of ih? la e Represen'a'lva D. C. Haskell, of Kansas. v .^3 Many eulogistc soea-hes were mad* by members, and as a further mark of respect '.j the Houso adjouruel ' ODE SWINE IHDU3TET. Report of the Cotmniiaion?Health- 'a fulness of Aiuerican Hog*. Commissiouer Loriuj has Ja.d before th< President the rejiort of tho commission ap * :-&? pointed to examine the swine industry of the United States and into the a'legations relativetothe healthfulness of pork products. ? ' The inquiry embraces the origin and history of hogs which make up the market suopiy, their condition on farm3, the methjda of management, transporting, treatment at restock yards, man er of slaughtering curing, > pac ing, handling and shippi. g of pork pioducts, the effect and extent or hjg disease, necessary preventive mea-ures ana effect of the curing process on trichinae. The methods of breeding and rearing and fattening of swine in the great h >g producing regions are elaborately ;6t forch, and the report is emphatic that there is no condition surrounding the industry which tends to propagate disease or render pork uuhealthfui ' U It finds the number of hogs raised anuua'ly to be about thirty millions, making a total of cured meats, lard and otliA* product* of 4,725,OOy,OOJ pounds. The most careful, thorough and minute inquiry soems to have >; i tionrliin'r nf nork from the Ut*t:LI luauc iu bMv ^ r farm to port of debarkation. I' rom returns from railroad and transpor- -V. tation companies, slaughter bouses, packers ' and strip,'x>rs, confirmed by those from b >ards of health, humane societies and ex- '$ perks ?m, loyed by the commission, it appears that the utmost care is pre *rved y- ,'S throughout; that hog-; which die of disease are never transported exccpt to offal render- ? 3 ing esiabl shments: that, diseased hogs are ret used transportation; tha" humane Jaws and sanitary regu ations ex.st at all stock .1 yards, enforced by local inspectors under penalty 01 fines, etc.; that rinid scrutiny is enjoined at a 1 slaughter houses; tha methods of slaughter and packing, qualities of material u*e 1. ins ectim, etc.. are regulated by rules of chamber* of cjmnierce and of trade, an i c meant care is exercUad to sea that no unhea.thful means are employod in any branch. Of tho extent o' diseases, preventive measures and the effect of salt on trichinae, the report is full of \altinb.'e an 1 interesting information. Even the extremely small percentage of tri'ihiniasis, a< slnwa by the investigations of the a,'ricul ual departing t, _ t Ktr nnvwuli nf seems to De .arge,jr icuiurm .v curing The decree of luat ncc^sary to render pork harmless is t entel ?t a: length. The commission ?Jenv that h >g cholera is dangerous to h im in health, ami assert thi impossibility of curing s jch meat even so as to deo-ive'tho m>st sup.-rfic -il examiner. The report points out the pract.bi.ity of a microscopic inspection, if su'h is necessary L.' to remove existing restrictions. The commission state that their exa nination prove.; our pork iu ly e jual, je naps i^perior, to that of France or Germany: no uen.ral disease exis s, an I the occasional presence of trichina1 is comparatively unimDortant. The report is * .-ignxl by Mr. fleorge B. Loring, chair nan of the board57 ... ? ? ?J -< r-u: Mi*. E.W. tfiatciuoru, <n i iuic.wi Chandler, of New York; D.\ D. E. Salmon, of the department of agriculture, and Mr. ! *. D.Curtis, of New York, and in conclasioa it favs: "\Vhilo ivo believo that 110 legit'mate i^rou d exists for the restriction* imposed in some foreign countries on the importation of American pork, we are satisfl *d thai microscopic insoe -tion of all pork for export can be secured at the paoking houses, ir' such inspection should be deman led.'' Babon Rothschild, of I.on Ion, is having built "the largest steam yacht in the world." The craft is to b3 240 fe t long, and i3 to bay? twenty-seven feat bea n. maAiHiH