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? ABBEVILLE PRESS AND BANNERI BY HUGH WILSON. ABBEVILLE, S. C.. WEDNESDAY. MARCH 26, 1884. NO. 39. VOLUME XXVIII. .;j|j LONG AGO. 0 ringlet, with the golden gleam, What memories are clustered here! The shadow of a passing dream, The silent falling of a tear; A breath of summers long ago, Drifting across the moment's space: A long-forgotten sunset glow Upon a long-remembered face. ?.1. A. Dayton, in Atlantic. AN EXPERIMENT. Theresa Darcourt was wholly devoted to her brother Harry, and when his duties as a special examiner of pension claims led him to Tennessee, she bravely followed him, though she knew to what deprivations and inconveniences she would be subjected. Darcourt went first to Knoxvillc, and from thoie (o Boxborough, a little hamlet ?bf perhaps fifty houses, nestling right at the foot of a mountain. The postmaster, who owned the only house in the place which could boast of a coat of paint, took the examiner and his sister in, and ^ tried his best to make them comfortable. S But Theresa thought it a poor best; for the fare set before them was of the I coarsest, cheapest kind, the beds were u guiltless of sheets, and the cold Winter V air penetrated the thin walls of the bed^ room assigned her until she felt as if in an ice-house. "IIow am I to endure life here for f even live weeks?"' she thought, when her brother told her that he would probably j be obliged to remain for that length of | time in Boxborough. "I shall die of j simple inaction." But she did not say anything of the ^sOrt to Harry, who was rather inclined ; to laugh at the peculiarities ot their ac- 1 commodatlons, and was of far too amiable a disposition to complain of them. " You will have a chance here to study I the habits and manners of the native , Tennesscan, Theresa, he said, "and your experience may be sufficiently novel j and varied to till the minds of all your friends with envy when you return to , civilization." "I shall get all I can out of my stay here, you may be sure of that," said Theresa. " I intend to go to that tencent. entertainment in the school-house to-night, if you'll take me." "Certainly I will," said Harry; "but I am afraid you will find it vastly differ- j ent from any exhibition you ever attend ed in Washington." "I suppose so," said Theresa. "I'm prepared for anything," But she was scarcely prepared to find that the entertainment consisted solely of coarse comic sonss, sun?: in a loud bass voice by a one-armed man with a fiddle.* "This is awful?positively awful!" she whispered to Harry, at the conclusion of ten verses about a young man whose sweetheart's father had set a dog on him, thereby causing him to lose a very important part of his raiment. "I > ' wonder if he has many more like that in - his repertoire." And then she tried not to listen, and began to look about her. She had an j excellent chance to?tudy the faces of the j Boxboroughites, for they had turned out . en masse, jyid filled every seat in the house. The women, with few excep- , tions, wore calico, slat sun-bonnets, ' faudy shawls and homespun or calico | esses. All the older members looked dull and i careworn; as though the burdens of life had borne heavily upon them?as indeed they had, for the life of a woman in the country districts of Tennessee is not an enviable one. She is obliged to work i early and late, both in the house and field, is poorly fed and meagerly clothed, : and her children arc legion. The majority of the men were rough, j hearty-looking fellows, who laughed loudly at all the jokes perpetrated by the ! one armed singer, and seemed to enjoy j the entertainment vastly. ^ In one corner, sitting rather back from Fview, was a young fellow who seemed to Theresa rather above his companions, in appearance at least. He was of fair complexion, though a little tanned from exposure to the sun, and his struight, yellow hair was cropped close to a finely-formed head. His eyes were so dark a blue as to look extremely black at a short distance, and a long, j light-brown mustache shaded a mouth as sensitive as a woman's. Theresa looked at him long and 1 earnestly. "It seems tome that young man is worth attention," she thought. "Some- I thing might he made of him if some one would only take him up." Turning a little, she happenod to meet the gaze of a pair of flashing black eyes , belonging to a young girl who sat on one of the side scats just opposite the young man who had aroused Theresa's interest. The black eyes looked indignant, and Theresa saw at once that she had in some way incurred their owner's enmity, but how, she could not imagine. The girl was better looking than most of the women about her, and was better dressed; but there was nothing of refinement or delicacy in h'-r face. She laughed as heartily as the men at the songs and jokes, and was evidently I highly pleased when the performer re- j tired behind a calico curtain stretched across one corner of the room, reappeared after a few moments dressed as a negro woman, his face and hands liberally covered with burnt cork. In this garb he sang several sentimental ditties, and then declared the entertainment at an end. ****** " Well, how did you enjoy it ?" asked Darcourt.as he left the school-house with his sister, and, with the aid of a lantern, began picking his way toward the postmaster's dwelling, a quarter of a mile distant. " How can you ask, Harry ? It was a wonder to me that the audience did not rise in a body and turn the man out." " The audience, with the exception of ourselves, had never seen or heard anything better, probably." " -Morc's the pity," said Theresa. " I wish I could show them something better; it would be an act of mercy." "I don't agree with you, said Darcourt. "You would only make them discontented, since their lives arc cast where anything better in the way of ^ amusement than we had to-night is never A likely to come in their way. Why put w them out of conceit with their few pleasures ?" " 1 on may i?c ri^iit; out all tne same i would like to try the experiment?on one of them at least. There wasa young man there whose face interested me very much. He sat in one corner, to the left of the teacher's desk. Did you notice him t I It; had on a blue flannel shirt, and was very good-looking." Oh. you mean George Felton," said Darcourt. "Yes, I saw lie was there. He is rather good looking. He is one of the witnesses lor the claim of Nathaniel Brooks. He will be up to see me tomorrow, and ycu will have a chance to talk to him ?" "I shall improve it, you may be sure," said Theresa. "I shall tind out if his character corresponds with his appearance."' "If it docs, I suppose you will experiment on him; teach him 'something better than he has known.' eh?" said Darcourt, laughing. "Nothing more likely," answered his sister. "I must find something to do here, or time will hang very heavily on my hands. An experiment of that sort would interest me, at least." "Remember the fable of the boy and the frosts, ' saut uarcourr. was urn for that boy to throw stones, but it was death to the poor frogs."' ".Nonsense, Harry. If I do try my experiment on Mr. Felton, he will have every reason to bless the day that br mght me to Boxborough," said Tneresa. She was in the postmaster's sittingroom, bfarohing a box of papers for :i ^ letter her brother wanted when George ^ Fclton came in the next morning. Harry was engaged with several other witnesses, and after introducing the young fellow to Theresa, went into the next room to continue the taking of testimony, sublimely indifferent to anything else. George Felton was evidently pleased at having received an introduction to the examiner's sister. And she saw this at once, and it inclined her favorably toward him, Like all women, she liked f v.- - ... z to bo admired, and even the sulmiration J of an uncultivated, awkward young Tennessean was pleasant to her. I>ut sin; did not imagine how very deeply she impressed George Felton. ller manner, appearance and dress were so very different from those of the women i with whom he habitually associated that l she held a peculiar charm f<?r him all ' her own. And she was so cordial and j talkative that he felt at his ease almost immediately, and entered into coiivcrsa- I tion with her without a trace of embarrassment. By means of a pleasant exhibition of j interest in him, and judicious question| ing, Theresa soon drew from him the ! history of his life?a very simple, unexj citing one, as may be supposed. lie had I ! received only a common school educa- j 1 tion, subscribed for no newspapers, and had never thought of leaving 15oxborough, nor of striking out into a wider j i tii'lrl r?f nrtii-in lie had a mother and two sisters, and he lived with them, and tilled the land left him bv his father. The more Theresa talked to him the more intere-ted she became in him. Here was soil, she thought, which would repay cultivation, and she determined that , the experiment of which she had spoken ' to her brother should be tried. She began by telling the young man [ something of her own life, and painted " in glowing language the pleasures of j society and the advantages to be derived I from a residence in a large city. She , told of fortunes made by men who had begun at the very foot of the ladder, and !. she spoke of music, art and the drama. George Felton listened eagerly to every- ^ thing she said, his bright, blue eyes ^ scarcely leaving her face for an instant, , and when at length they were interrupted j by the entrance of Darcourt, he asked if j | he might see her again after his testimony : , had been taken. Theresa answered in the affirmative, sc- i ' cretly gratified that she had so thor- . j oughly aroused his interest. "In Jive weeks I can make a different mnn nf him " slie thoilfllt. "1 llCVOr l.)C- I gan an experiment that promised so j well.'' I, She took from her valise several books ' she had brought with her from home. 1, Milton's "Paradise Lost," Tennyson's Poems, ''Recollections of the Anti-slavery Conflict,'' and a volume containing . the biographies of several eminent men. j When George Fclton came into the j room again an hour later, he found her j j poring over these books as if perfectly absorbed. "You seem interested." he said, stand- ! ing before her, a wistful look on Ixis 1 ( face. : j ' Yes, I am; and so would you be j also, it you loved books as I do, Mr. < Felton. What do you say to reading } these with me ? Couldn't you come f up here every afternoon for an hour or j two ?*' " I shall be very glad to do so,''he answered. simply, "it is kind of you to ^ think of it, Miss Darcourt." ; < "I consider it kind of you to be wil- ! j ling to give up so much of your time to r me," she returned. "I had begun to j ( think I would be bored to death in this ;} place." s George Felton kept his word. Regu- t s larly every alternoon at 2 o'clock lie ap- J pear2(L at the postmaster's house, and i s read, studied and talked to Theresa until; c dusk. And so deeply was the young .t philanthropist interested in the eultiva- j c tion of her pupil's mind that it did not j occur to her that he had a heart as well, and that constant association with one ! so attractive as herself was rather dan- i 1 gerous to its peace. Rut she was rudely awakened one day r to the truth. She was sitting alone, j 1 some fancy-work iu her hands, and had j just glanced at the clock to see how i . soon she might expect her pupil, when , j the door opened, without the ceremouv -r _ i 1 ^ ?:?i * ! i U1 ?l KUUUlV, UUU il > uuuj; viuuivu. Theresa recognized her at once. It! was the owner of the black eyes whicli j had flashed so indignantly that evening 1 in the school-house. She rose at once. ; " Have you called to see Mrs. Dunn ?" j she asked. u She is in the kitchen." " No, I haven't called to see Mrs. Dunn," answered the girl, insolently, as she seated herself in a chair near the fire, j " I've called to see vou, and I ain't goin' ter leave till I've told you what I think j of you, neither." Theresa remained silent, too much sur- i prised at this attack to utter a word. ! "I suppose foudon't know who I am," j continued the girl. ''Well, I'm Mattie I Collins; and now, I reckon, you under- j stand what I am here for, don't you?" j "No, I do not," answered Theresa, quietly. 1 "Well, if you don't, you oughter. | There's some as might be afcared o' you, j with your tine ways an' your harnsome clothes, but thar ain't no fearcdncss | about me. I won't sit by an' see my feller took away from me 'thout savin'; suthin'. I've stood your goin's on for four weeks now, an' I aiu't a-goin' ter stand 'em any longer?so there!" "I don't know what you are talking about," said Theresa, moving toward the door which led into her bedroom, ' and I don't care to stay to hear the ex- j planation." Mattie Collins's face grew crimson. | She sprang before Theresa and . put her back against the bedroom door. ! "You will stay, though," she said. "I mean you to hear every word I came ter say. .So you'd better make your mind j up to it. I don't stand no foolin', an' I t told Sam Cosgrove ycstiddy that I meant j ter have it out with you, though 1 ain't i so sure : ? (Jeorgc Felton's wut.li so much j' talk, j...:?j She was interrupted by the opening of j the door, and the entrance of George ( Felton, whose face changed perceptibly j, as he saw the relative positions of the j two women. Theresa moved toward him at once. j "Mr. Felton," she said, "I must, ask your protection against this wumun. I j think she must be insane." "Insane!" repeated Mattie, with a harsh laugh. "George'll soon put you out o' thct notion. Why don't you j speak up, George, an' tell her you've . been promised ter me these two years j back. Not that I don't believe she's knowed it all along, though. But there's ( some women as can't rest quiet when an- j other girl's got a beau." George Felton had grown deadly pale ' during this tirade. lie scarcely waited its conclusion before he advanced to Mattie's side and laid his hand heavily on her shoulder. "Go!"' he said, in a voice smothered with rage?"go at once!" Mattie cowered under the fierce glare of his wrathful eyes, but she did not j move. i " You want ter be alone with her, I ! suppose," she said, throwing a disdain-I j ful glance in Theresa's direction. " Vou ! want to have some more fool talk over thy#n books. Hut I don't <jo till I've had ; my say out. I won't sit by an' see her ! a-ropin of you in this 'ere way. She's a line lady, she is, ter?" " Not another word," interrupted i George, fairly livid with passion, and in 1 spite of her violent elTorts to release her- I self from his grasp, he succeeded in get- j ting her out of the room and closing the \ door upon her. She stood for a moment on the step, { as if debating whether she had better i renew the attack; but finally walked of! j down the road, much to the relief of! m-.ic wntfliinif hpr from the ! window. j Theresa had sunk upon a chair and i > covered her face with her hands. She 1 was sobbing from mortification and ner' vous terror. Never before had .she been , so grossly insulted. George Pclton gazed at her in silence ' an instant; the next he was on his knees I by her side, his arms about her, his I breath on her cheek. "Theresa! Theresa!*'he whispered, in a voice shaken with passion. "Oh, my (darling! my darling!"' She started from him as if electrified, a ghastly pallor creeping over her face, a strange look of horror in her eyes. "No, no!" she cried, in a voice of the keenest pain. "Oh, Mr. Fclton, how could you think?how did 3*011 dare to think?" "Of loving you, I suppose you would say," he interrupted, bitterly. "Well, it is a strange thing for me to do, I know. But i loved you fiom the first hour I met you. I think." "And?and you were engaged to that girl?" gasped Thorcsa. "You are engaged to her now." '"Yes, I mil," ho answered, "and I am sorry for it; for I can never marry h ?now." "Why not?" demanded Thorcsa, looking at him with earnest, tear-wet eyes. "I don't like her; hut your honor, you know; and you cm scarcely expect.?" "To marry you," he said, as she paused. "No, I am not so mad as to expect that," and he laughed harshly. * lint after knowing you I cannot marry a woman so greatly your inferior. I should loathe her." "Mr. Felt on, I have done wrong. I see that plainly now," and the girl's head drooped. "I should never have encouraged your coming here; 1 should never have entered on so close an intimacy with you. liut. 1 did not dream for a moment that?that anything so unpleasant could arise from it. 1 wanted only to show you that you were capable of better things, and that you were wasting your life here in IJoxborough. The experiment has ended disastrously." "It has indeed!" he returned, sadly; "and yet I do not think I shall ever regret having met you. And I may feel, after a while, that all this was for the best. At all events, you must not. let liny recollection of me trouble you. I shall never think otherwise than kinuiy you, believe that.*' Ancl he held out tiis hand to her. "I shall not see you again, then?" she faltered. "I think not. TVc could not meet as we have heretofore done, you see." He held her hand a moment, looking at her wit h eyes in which lay a world of pain; then, without another word, he turned und walked away. Theresa was very glad to hear from her brother that evening that he would be able to arrange his business so as to leave Hoxborough the following day. She felt that it would be a great relief to her to know that twenty miles of mountainous country separated her from George Felton, of whom she could not think witliDut pain and self-reproach. Hut she said nothing to Ilarry of her mxiety to be gone, and packed her valise with such apparent indillercncc that lie laughingly accused her of regretting the necessity which compelled it. "Hy the-way," he said, as lie was driving her back to Knoxvillc the next day, "you have not told me anything about rour experiment. llow did it turn 3Ut ?" "Not very well," answered Theresa, in i low voice. "I didn't sunnose it would. I rather bought you overrated that young felow." Theresa let this chargc pass in silence. ?lic did not care to make a confident of ler brother, and so would not enter into my argument which might lead to embarrassing questions. * * * * * * Three months later she saw in a Ivnoxrille paper a notice of the marriage of Nimuel Cosgrove and Mattie Collins, of Soxborough; but of George Felton she lever heard again. Whether he ever re:overed from the wound she had given lim, whether he continued to pursue the tudies he had begun under her direction, ihe never knew. When telling her experiences in Tenneiee to her friends iu Washington, she was tlways careful to avoid any mention of hat very unfortunate experiment.?Florncc 1). JhtllotCfll. The Best Liked Travelers. " Yes, sir, I can tell In a general way, vithin ten minutes after his arrival, ibout almost every man who comes up to egister." said a well-known hotel clerk o a reporter of the Detroit Free Press. " What are the points?"' "Your old traveler comes up and puts lown his name, sees that he is assigned o a room and we hardly hear from him intil he pays his bill and leaves the city." "You mean your reasonable old ravelcr ?" ' Nearly all old travelers?men who lave been on the road ten or lifteen cars?are reasonable. Then there is the oung old traveler, the person who had >een kiting through the country a year or wo. lie puts down his name, calls yon old boy,1 and all the time insinuating hat he hates to ' kick.' that he is easily atisfied, demands an outside room with )ath, not too high up." " How do you satisfy them?" We do the best we can and make them jelieve they have got the best in the louse solely through their knowledge of raveling ways and their quiet demeanor." " What is next on the list?" "The novitiate?the man making his irst trip. He knows it all! He comes o the front with what he got in Buffalo, ?i ? rtl.: ^tUYClUIlU UI V/lluvn mv*\, iiu iwuuu his or that hotel, and 4 Now, my dear el low, I expect to visit you about four imes a year and want you to do well by ne.' He gets his room, and 110 matter f it's a first-lloor-frontcr, he grumbles; le swears at the bell-boys, curses the mil men, complains in the dining-room md in every way makes himself a nuisance." " What is the most interesting class of ravelers?" "The oncca-year visitor who makes a rip of fifty or 100 miles away from his lome. He comes to the counter in a strange sort of way and registers, the :hanccs being that he writes his name :orty per cent, worse than usual. Then 10 draws a sigh and looks the otlice and he clerks over pretty thoroughly. Then ic leans against the counter and takes a ooth-pick between his teeth. Strolling )\*er to the water faucet he takes a drink md begins to examine time tables, advertising clocks and play bills. You see le's not only a stranger, but he feels lonesome and does not know where to go 3r what to do. Presently he comes up to the counter and asks for his key, saying that lie 'guesses he will go up to his room.' So he disappears, but down he monies in about ten minutes and gets a sigar and a drink of water, after which lie again goes over the time-tables and advertisements. At last, staring at the ;-loek, he asks 11s what the time is, and getting a reply he goes to bed to dream that lie wouldn't live in a city if they would {jive him the whole town."' "Which class do you like best?" "The genuine old traveler has first choice, and the once-a-year man conies second." Henry Clay's Last Visit to the House. Henry Clay's last visit to the House of Representatives, over which he had presided so Ion*; and well, was at the funeral of .Mr. Kaulltnan, of Texas, iu February. 1851. He did not come in with the Senators, but he entered the House alone, and took his scat immediately in front of the Speaker. lie did not remove his blue cloth cloak, but remained well wrapped up and unvarying in his position. Iliad never before seen him look so hiuch like an old, old innn. The damp and gloomy day perhaps conspired with the passim; scene to depress him, or it may be that he was not in health. I do not know, but sure I am that from his appearance no 011-2 would believe his voice could be even audible in the Senate, much less that, by the power of his eloquence lie could control or influence its deliberations. His face shrunken and shriveled, his eyes lustreless and heavy, his mouth 111 repose only when open and expressionless, he seemed to have so long since passed into the " lean and slippered pantaloon "as to be no longer suited to the ardent encounters of the Senate. And vet, with a few rays of sunshine upon his brow and upon his heart, how lie could be himself again, old only in years!?Jka Pcrlcy Poorc. What mechanical means were employed by the Pyramid builders? Mr. I'etrii: says they used saws and drills fashioned of bronze?evidence of which is found in the green staining on the sides of the saw cuts?and that their cutting edges were furnished by fixed jewel points set in the teeth of the saws and on the face and circumference of the drills. The forms of the tools were straight saws eight feet or'more in length, circular saws, tubular drills, as much as liw inches in diameter, and lathes; there are even traces of the use in lathes of lixed tools and mechanical rests. Over $10,000,000 worth of icn was sold last year by thirteen New York companies, yet they claim they lost money. The governor-general of Canada is bald-headed and has a long, thin nose. :V.- :. -A' V '/ - ... , ' FARM, GAft-flEX AND HOUSEHOLD, tl ! ? ' u Culture of lEnrdy (iritpcB. w | J. T. Lovctt, of Little Silver, (he well known New Jersey fruit grower, says in C1 [ regard to the culture of hardy grapes: *c ' Plant in rows six feet apart and* the vines "1 eight feet apart in the rows. Dig holes , twelve to fifteen inches deep, ancl of a [ size amply large to accommodate the c' vines. They should then l>c filled to w j within six or eight inches of the top with I ; fine, rich soil, throwing in while doing j j so a few bones or some wood ashes, if to " be had. Cut back one-year vines to two | n| ! eyes, j)laeing the lower one below thesur- j j1' I face, two-year vines to three or four eyes, I and putting two or three eyes below the i surface. Spread out the roots (which | j' | should have previously had one-third i "] their length cut. off), place the stock of j I the vine at one side ol the hole, and till j ^ with soil, pressing it firmly. When plant-' " ! cd. set a stake at the stock (to which the j ; vine should be kept tied), which will be | ! nil the support required for two years. j c.' j Keep old wood trimmed off, growing 81 i fruit on new canes. Any manner of i v< | pruning that will admit the sun to the |111 | fruit will insure a crop; and living the tr , vines on the ground, even without cover- n< : ing will increase both the quality of the " | fruit and the size of the bunches, beside !'l j insuring safety from injury by frost. For 111 | mildew, dust with flower of sulphur while ;1j j the vines ore wet. i P' Economy 01 *01111117 tuiui', i ^ Soiling cattle is an economical practice ai ! lor the small farmer, says a New York | I paper. By this method of feeding twice ] the number of animals may be kept on I j the same number of acres. Dairymen J w ! who desire to provide green food for J i their cows during droughts, short pas- 1 8j j ture, etc., have done much toward in- j troducing the system of soiling among 01 , cattle-feeders. The latter, finding an acre of good fodder corn, millet, clover, 01 ' etc.. to be a gain over pasture, decided, j | many of them, to adopt the soiling plan b< I in States where land is high in price and rc | winters are cold. A first item in saving i?, of rouse, the land; a second is that m of fences, for where stock is not pastured lji (here is no need of inclosures except for j the yards. There is also a saving of di food, for under the soiling system food ta | may be given in such condition and quan; tity that all will be consumed. Soiling 8l i also admits of utilizing weeds, such as ai j plantain, daisies and thistles, which,when cut in a succulent state, are relished by Pi all animals. There are farmers who con- Ci I tend that soiling makes clean farms be- j j cause the frequent cutting of the weeds ta soon kills them. In soiling cattle for jc I beef a saving is experienced from very 0j ] lack of exercise, for exercise in foraging j j over large fields in search of pasture is at v< I the expenditure of food. Another great. r(: saving comes under the head of manure, t Advocates for the soiling system contend ri that the saving in manure pays for all the labor of soiling. The chief oppo- fj] sition to soiling is the labor required to w carry it out. This extra labor consists in n( r;i??inor snilinrr rrom and cuttinc and V>< feeding the same regularly. j S( Pear Blight and Pcach Yellows. I fn Pear Might and pcach yellows arc sub- si jeets of prolific and dissenting discussion !' ' at every horticultural meeting. Mr. hi Sattcrthwait, in a report on the diseases tl of fruit trees to the Pennsylvania State ci Horticultural society, points out the ' great difference between the two dis-1 bi eases, namely, that while the yellows is ft : extremely contagious, no one need fear ti to plant a pear tree where a blighted one tl ' has been removed, lie stated that he ai : had tnousands of1 trees, vigorous and en ! tirely healthy, that were filautcd beside "oi j the stumps of trees killed by the pear : a< I blight and not one was ever affected, ai lie regards it as proved to a certainty sr that pear blight is an entirely different M disease in its nature from the pcach ycl- (1 lows, and lie mentioned as additional. m proof that it is a usual occurrence .for pear trees to be locally affected, or in a lc i single branch, without the disease spread- b! ing and the tree entirely recovering its 1 h; health and vigor. j f>' Mr. Satterthwait reported favorably of, w the Kicffcr pear, about which opinions is ! arc so variable. With him it has proven si ' not only wonderfully productive, but! ' handsome in appearance and gaining In 1 high prices in market, lie believes the lc I quality of this much-disputed pear de- , ci I pends largely on properly ripening the tc fruit. Ilis pian consists in packing the ' sc pears in wooden boxes, containing about lc one bushel each, and placing them in a hi cool, diy cellar, one on top of the other, hi In this connection it may be well to state cl I that ('. M. ilnvey, of Iioston, is credited si with saying that the Kicffcr is the least , satisfactory of all his 800 varieties of the c< I pear, another indication that the Kieffer ' ol i gives different results in different locali- v< | tics under varying ciscumstances.?Xeio d: i York World. . hi w A Profitable Garden. p] M. A. Ayer.< writes to the American P1 Garden: w "As an illustration of how much a w small piece of ground can be made to P produce, my summer's experience may be of interest. i tl "My garden plat, of a little less than ' one-(|iiarter of an acre, is a rich, black i1,1 loam. Its glory were two Mammoth }AV squash vines, which produced eleven i ^ stplashes, of weight as follows: The largest, 142 pounds; the next, 82A pounds; ' a) two weighed 1:50$ pounds; two others, : ] 91 i pounds; one, sixty-one pounds; two, | j Hl j pounds; and two small ones, not \ 'I | matured, twenty-six pounds. Total; weight of the eleven, 01.> pounds. Ji "The remainder of the crops were ^ ] sixty-live bushels Early Hose and Beauty j of Hebron potatoes, thirty-five bushels ! turnips, and some two dozen or more j Hubbard squashes which, at our regular p market prices, would have brought the tl following amounts: 1 a I f't'i bushels potatoes, at 50 cents $3'3 50 i Ci j Mammoth squashes... 15 0i) 35 bushels turnips, at Scents H 75 I Hubbard squashes o 00 ,il d; Total ecil 25 j p. I Cost of production: a; ; Need $5 00 {\ Labor 0 -3 Sl 11 25 d a i Net profit $50 00 |j ! Being a profit^of two hundred dollars per > j, acre, and this without extra manure or ; C1 i better cultivation than is given to ordi- j rc nary field crops. As the ground in this ! n ! case was a formerly unoccupied waste : ()j ! spot of no value whatever, no charge is e, ! made for the land.'' i u f; | management of Voting: thick*. () In the rearing of chicks, particularly h J early ones, says a correspondent of the ! ai | Country Gentleman, the hen must be con- b fined during the pleasant j>ortion of the i o . day, so that the chicks may have the ad- u 1 vantage of runningand scratching in the j open air. This is an important means to o | success. In former years I used coops to 1 i keep the hens con lined, but finally gave ! a them up. During the day, when the hen i h j was confined and the chicks abroad, there j c j was a constant struggle on her part to get i p I nnt 1VIIU Piicllnua nnfl itnnnflnnf onrl 111' ; as in all broods, there are some little ones tl ; more delicate than the others; thesi re- H ! quire the tender nursing and brooding of s< j the lien. Iler attention is directed to- w ; ward the smart ones, and her whole de- J ; sire is to be abroad with them, conse- L quentlv the puny ones suffer. Early broods need protection, and must be housed in buildings at night. ; Of late years, I have tied the hen in a a j warm, sunny locality, on pleasant days. 1 give her a string about a yard long, fasI toning it securely to a pin, post, or tree, ! close to the ground. I use .1 piccc of soft f.( j "list" about half an inch in width. I j, make a noose in the end, and slip the y ; hen's leg through it. The harder the {j ! fowl pulls, the tighter the loop, but being , soft and broad, does no injury. When 't| ; first commencing this operation, I place ^ the chicks all safely in a basket, and ^ j cover with a blanket, so that they may 1 j not escape, and I then allow the hen to | try her best to escape. At first a hen i that is new to the business will fly, tug 1 at the string, and use her beak to loosen p ' it; but the more furious her trials to es! cape, the sooner she gives up and subj mits. My fowls an; gentle and accustomed to being handled, and are not easily frightened on my approach. y When sobered down, 1 place some food i , before her and give her the chicks. Then j , she is deliehted. and clucks and calls ( icm up to her. As the garden is conguous, I anchor her in one corner here she can do no damage by scratching, and be under supervision if any acdent occur. She soon becomes accus- * >med to the business, and becomes uiet. She has plenty of loose earth, id scratches it over day afterday, while , le little ones run among the early vegables and gather many insects and orins, doing no harm whatever. I keep er in this one place until the chicks are caned, which will be in the course of lrcc or four weeks, according to the f jc of the hen, and the quantity of food t lowed her. A young lien will wean ' it chicks soonest, often too early for r leir good. After the chicks are weaned le hen is put into the yard with the c yers, and the chicks keep on in theii ' Id runs, the tethering post beine their r eding place. In this manner they miss l le mother very little, and do not pine at < My method, perhaps, is a little differ- * it from that of the majority, but it is ^ mple and well adapted to my con- i ?nienccs and purposes. All may not 1 ndcrstand that fowls should early be ( nincd in the ways they arc to go. I do it put my chicks out when young and < ie season is chilly until the sun is well i |), say about 8, 0 or 10 o'clock, accord- v ig to the warmth Nof the weather and , ;o of chicks. I have a building for the . nrpose of housing the chicks at night, f 'hen young they go in at 2 r. sr., are ? d and put to roost in the basket, and ^ >vered. At 4 r. sr. they are fed again ; id put to roost for the night. j Hint* Toward Healthy Homes. c Swill-tubs should not be near doors or t indows. r House-caves should be guttered and 1 jouted. j Outside channel should bo in good der, and be regularly cleaned. I Garden plants should, of course, be in c der, and be properly cultivate!. n The ground floor of a house should not ? 3 below the level of the land, street or s tad outside. m The subsoil beneath a house should be 1 iturally dry, or it should be made dry j f land draining. v Cess-pools, cess-pits, sink-holes or c -ains should not be formed nor be re- 0 incd within house basements. ^ The subsoil within every basement t lould have a layer of concrete over it, id there should be full ventilation. c The ground around dwelling houses ? lould be paved, flagged, asphalted, cov- v ed with concrete or be graveled. n A bed of concrete over the site of cot- f iges will vastly modify an otherwise ob- j ctionable position; but, indeed, abed j i concrete should be used in all cases. t Schools, as a rule, arc very defectively t milatcd. Ordinarily flat-ceilinged loms arc totally unfit for public schools, j: ei\ono cIiaiiI/1 hn nnnn iin tn rnof djLjf, and this should be covered. n l)o not build on heaps of rubbish, f llings in with cesspool refuse, chemical ? aste, or on swampy ground which can- s at be drained. Thousands of houses a ive been so placed, and are now being n > placed in the suburbs of our towns. Pigsties should ever be kept at a dis- " nee; and, where pigs arc kept, there fi lould be rigid cleanliness. Improperly ceping pigs has caused much more " uman sickness and destroyed more life . inn all the battles the country has been " igaged in. Nurseries and children's rooms should 2 permanently ventilated. Dormitories 6 >r children should have ample vcntilaon; clothe the children warmly, cover ic beds warmly, prevent direct draughts, ^ id the cold air will not injure. a A site excavated on the side of a hill r steep bank is liable to be dangerous, ,-> ? external ventilation may be defective, ** id the subsoil water from above may >ak toward and beneath such houses. " iddens, ash-heaps and cess-pools, if at ic back, must also taint such base- j icnts. . n Avoid flue ventilation of every sort; t the fresh air come in direct as possi- n le. Night air is the only air you can ? we at night, so do not fear it. Dread b >ul, because tainted, air manufactured ithin the rooms. Any outside fresh air () better than lung and slcin tainted in- b de air. Houses arc unwholesome from accumu- s Jed dirt, carelessness and personal neg- c] ct, as when: Rooms are not sufticntly cleansed; carpets arc left down j >0 long and never swept; windows are |, ildom opened; closets arc dirty, neg- a icted and without ventilation; dirty P L-ds are unmade and shrouded by dirty ingings; dirty wardrobes and dirty * othes closets; nooks, corners and ^ lelves which arc never dusted. ,i Many houses, from the mansion to the ittage, arc also unwholesome for some P f the following reasons: Damp and un- jj mtilatcd basins; cesspools and foul j (| rains within the basement; rotten tim- b srs in floors and skirtings, and tainted all-papers; kitchen sinks in improper j1 laces, and unventilated; closets in im- t, roner places, and unventilated; rooms s in: |iro|iPi*t.y of small Jan I ownors in lnr;;?' s natures i* prohibited. s; Tiikiie nro over sixty-five Mormon elders Mgagc.! in proselyting in all sections of the tl South, and the force will bo doubled in May. y ithout adequate menus of ventilation; h ater cisterns and ]?umns in improper J laces, supplying contaminated water. To ventilate stairs and passages, open ie staircase or passage window, ov both, y drawing down the top sash several iches in summer, one or more inches in inter, and in some cases screw the sash f ist, so that these windows must be open ^ 1 the year round; if there is a skylight ^ jove the staircase, let there be ventila- y on here which cannot be closed. The suit will be improved health to the fam- j y. Pay no att- ntion to any casual re- n arks, "IIow cold your staircase is!" et t lie ladies put on an extra shawl. ? ut the remark will seldom be made. The Declaration Fail in? Out. t Few people know that the original s, eclaration of Independence is kept in ie library of the state department, says j Washington letter. It is in a cherry d ise and under glass. Hut the doors are t irown open all day long and strong ivs of light are eating up its ink day by j ay. The Constitution is written on ' urchmcnt. The text of it is in a hand t j (ine as copper-plate and the ink of lis part can still he plainly read. The J gnaturcs, however, are written in a ? iiVcrent ink, and they arc very fast dis- * Upearing under the action of the gilt. The bold signature of nhn Hancock is faded almost f itirely out. Only a J, o, h and anil c ;main. Two lines of names are entirely u moved from the paper; not a vestige f ink remains to show that names were j, /er there. Hen Franklin's name is \ [itirely gone. Roger Sherman's name is ( ist fading. I could not find the name !> f Thomas Jefferson, andElhridgc Gerry 0 as lost his last syllable. Robert Carroll ^ ud John Adams have been scoured oil s y the light, and only eleven names out t f the fifty odd can be read without a a licroscope. ? Just below the constitution lies the (, rigiiml of it in Jefferson's handwriting, n t is on foolscap paper, yellow with age, t nd worn through where the manuscript as been folded. The writing is lino and lose, and the whole constitution occu ies but two pages. The ink is good, nd it remains as fresh as when it left ie <juill of Jefferson over 100 years ago. t is full of erasures and interlineations, t Jine of which arc in Franklin's hand- ' riting and others in the strong script of olm Adams.?Corrcymitcwr, Clecchuid j aider. A White House Iloom. A room in the White House is decortcd in the style of tlie thirteenth ceniry. It eontains also a Japanese screen, :ie portraits of Grant and Van 15ure?, a icce of tapestry showing Gutenberg ading aloud from his lirst block-letter lible, ami furniture of cherry wood, ^'hen, after the lapse of a century or two, lie decorative artists of that period jareli for specimens of nineteenth cennry decorations, they will doubtless find hemselves a trifle puzzled on entering tiis room.?The Current. An Honest Opinion. Jones?"You were at Mrs. Blanks arty last night?" Smith?"Yes." Jones?"Heard me sing, didn't you?'' Smith?"Yes." Jones ?"How did my singing strike ou?" Smith?"It didn't strike at all. Ii ust kind o' grated like filing a saw.11Inll. ' <3-. < OSMAN DIGNA ROOTED, i Another Vi.tiry frr the British Troops in Egypt si 0 Q -fordcs of Arobs Charging the Brit- h ish IVith Ficrcc Bravery. I Another victory has been won by General i xialiarri's advancing army in tho Soudan, t he rebels uiid-r Osrnan Dfcna being routed inly after a determined resistaucs. The $ ebels opened fire at 1 o'clock in the morning. ? I'lio British forces were formed to repel a I :ha ge, but no attack rame. 1 ho men were C hereupon or 'e:e I to lie down a^ain. Tho ebols kept u;> a per istenfc fu-ii!ade until just P wfore i!aybreak. The bright moonlight ren- q lered objects distinctly visible at a long di?- S( mice, but prevented the enemy from at- v cmpling a sudden onset. The rebels directed v heir fire especially toward tho hospital u vagons, which were conspicuous in the j looulight. The surgeons an,! (ieneral Gra- p tarn's siafT ofllcr-rs had many narrow os- n a; ics. An oflicer and two in?n were wounded j( uul ono mail was killed. The fighting began at daybreak. At 6 ("clock a Gardiner gun and a nine-pounder j: ycre turned against the rebels, who were U, vitbin 1 ,:J0 l yards ot the British position and * ifTorded a most excellent target. The Arabs " vere soon compelled to retire to their main j] osition, nenr the Ta.nai "Wells. Colonel l' Stewart's cavalry arrived at (5!< o'clock ind tool: position on the Brinish left, n ?> ns to ttirn tho enemy's right, a "he British forces advanced in t^io brigades, S vhicli were thrown into the form of square.-. V series of encounters followed. Soon after } eaving Sariba the great body of the rebels p hargo 1 the leading square, spearing many v if tho British, Tho sailors, who were inside p he souare, immediately closed up and the eb<>!s were repulsed with great slaughter. ri he advance was again resumed, when im- g nense hordes rushoil upon tho British from c >oth sides. A terrib'e struggle ensued. The a ^rabs fought with the i-rcatest pluck and ^ iravado, but nearlyall w;re killed. Thesec- <p ind brigade met with obstinate resistance, C) tnd was at one time repulsed. The Uatling uvl Gardiner guns fell into the hands of he rebel--, and were only recovered after a 11 evere fi^ht, when the British likewise ^ ;ained possession of the rebel camp. ?he infantry and artillery completely routed he enemy from their pits and trenches. The a lattle had not lasted more than a half hour Cl rhen the victory of the British was made ertain. The enemy fought most stubbornly, 11 indth> battle was much heavier than the ingagemout at Tab. The sailors, th? B!a :k iVatch regiment, and the York and Lancas er regiment suffered the heaviest losses. ^ 'i ho rebels, under cover of the smoke, crept jj losi up to th:' British lines, and ('ashed igainst tho. marines and tho wixty-flfth and Jlack Watch regiments, throwing themselves a ipo'i tho bayonets of the British, and giving C nd receiving fearful wounds. Great con- f] usioii ensued^ Tho Sixty-fifth began to re- L reat, crow.iing upon tho marines, when all iei ame inextricably mixed. General Gra- a a:n and his stair did their utmost to rally C he men, retreating 800 yards to enable them 0 re-form. C A dispatch from Suakiin says that the E no :iy was enabled to penetrate the second E 'juare and capture the puns by the move- S nents of the Black Watch regiment, which w 1 ivanced impetuously and broke tho ranks. J 'umbers of rebels still hover around the a amp, and fire when cattle are being si aterod. The native guide-; bolted when tho <] piare was broken. The battle raged two h nd a half hours. The rebel loss is estimated : 4,000 killed and 0,0 >0 wounded. t. General Graham sent a dispatch dated Os- r lan Digna's ramp, in which he said: "The ^ amt> cr the enemy has l>eo i taken after hard ^hting since s o'clock this morning. Over i? of tho British were killed and 103 rounded." ? iHJSICAL AND DRAMATIC d h The first comedy was performed at Ath- fc' ns, 502 B. C. Mr. Lawrence Barrett will i'lay at the V .ycoum, I/ondon, t'll tho end of May. v* Henry Irving says that Joe Jefferson is " lie only foreign actor who has been univerilly accepted in England. el Johann Strauss has agreed to accept the Cl Her of th? imperial op-jr.i oc Vienna and ? . rite a genuine comic opera. MissAdeu, an American prima donna, dll make her debut in Paris, at the Opera 'omi<|ue, in GouuoJ's "Mirveillo." Mart Anderson, at the Lyceum theatre, " ondon, is playing to an average of ?3t>5 a Q ight; that is close on $11,000 a week. ^ Km ma Ah pott is said to have mad) more h joney in California than all the operatic ti onibinations, big and little, in the country ave mado this season. 0] Thursday, April 17, has been fixed upon o; s "actors' day," when spec.al matinees will 8t e given in the New York th-:atraj for tho 0 enefit of the actors' fun 1. v CtERTri'DE Griswold, one of tha American e< iris who has been singing in Paris, has been ^aged for the coming opera season at w 'ovent Garden in London. ci Manager Harris, of the London Drury w ,ane, is a b->ld and skilful advertiser. His $ itest is to invito the wives and children of 11 bishops anil clergy to come to see his s antomime without price. T A yocng American lft lv. Miss Ma'id ci Well, has achieved a succeis in London as a h iolinist. She is a pupil of the Paris Con- w !?rvatoire and has so far appeared mostly in b ociety concerts, b Colonel Mapleson told a Chicago re- -( orter the following story as illustratin ' the T emanlsof operatic singers: "Max Stra- 3' osch at one time had a number of big peole with him. He had paid everybody. Just \ eforo u matin e, one afternoon, ho was tl tricken with paralvsis. une or nis singers ; o eard oi il, ami immediately refused to sine, j J' Hut ho is v.-ry bad and is paralyzed,' they t a i>ld lior. 'What side of him is paralyzed? b lie a-ked. ' Tlie left side,' they said. 'Then [>l o can sign a mortgage with his right hand,' ir lie replied, and he actua'ly had to do it be- F ore she would sing." ft , tli PROMINENT PEOPLE. " Grant.?General Grant has gone to Old jj| 'oint Comfort, Va., for the benefit of his * lealth. P Astor.?The Astor family own in Nuw 'ork citv 1,200 houses valued at about $4'',.10,000. " SpcRGEOjf.?Mr. Spurgeon. tho fanion ~ "nglish Baptist preacher, has fal.ua heir to ? . lar^o fortune. Smith.?Ex-United States Senator Ti uinaii c, Smith, of Connecticut, is now in his ninety- 0 Ifth year, and continues to bo active in mind, hough weak in body. Pinkertox.?Allan Pinkerton, the hea l of c, he detective agency, is a Scotchman and the a on of a policeman. He employs nearly U00 0 etectives, men an l women. Wolf.?Simon Wolf, ex-consul general to ^ Sgypt, drew up t he Lasker resolutions of con- t] lolence intro luced in Congress by Represenative Ochiltree, and returned by Bismarck. a Davis.?JefTorson Davis has declined an ij nvitation to address the Mississippi legis- g aturo on the life of S. S. Prentiss. Ho says ij hat his health is tio feeble for him t j under- p akp any public work. Maso.v.?Mac >11 Mason, now governor of tfassowan, Egypt, is a Maryland man. A graduate of Vi est Point, he took tho losing i le in the war "f secession, and after Appo- P nattox sailed for Egypt. Xicwcomh.?Miss Anita Xewconib, now ) a tndying abroad, has inherited from^ her j ^ at iter, rroiessor newcomu, <u uiu .imm i ibscrvatory, remarkable mathematical pow- ^ rs, and is competent to calculate eclipses. Stanton.?Mrs. Elizabeth Cady Stanton vln> recently returned from a two-years' so- j oiirn in Europe, has decided to make Johnsown her future residence. There, in the old I 'ady homestead, where sho was born sixty- I " iqht years ogo, sho will pass tho remainder i tl f her days. j u Palmer.?Thomas Palmer, tho "lumber :ing" Senator from Michigan, is a broad- ? houldered, healthy looking man of fli'ty- *J liree, with a full lace, a black mustache .i'd restles < b ack eyes. He used -o be an imoteur artis". When he was in college his j y yesight failed and he we-it to Spain for his | tl iea!th, with a fellow student. They went m foot all over Spain, takiig pictures of in- b e-esting ruins, pretty uirls, etc., and thus na le up a collection of pictures whicu the V Senator still owns and prizes highly." C ... n PECULIAR ACCIDENTS, j Je.vxie YoU.ncss, of Ilojsick Falls fell b?- Ij we n the slats of her b;?d and was choked 1 0 death. j; Dkac'jx Joiin CmHwith, a wealthy farmer if Heaver Da n, Wis., losi his life by freez- j ng his big t.ie. tj Ji hx JIaruy, of liratiford, Conn., while n Irunk, rolled oil' a loungo I lis neck fell ti )Ver the round of a chair and ho choked to c Irntli. The eleven-year-old daughter of Allen rayl<>r, of Maylbl I. lvv., wliil playing in a wing pit li-r neck in tho rope and was h iked to death. c Whim: having a tooth extracted, tho v rating son of Joseph Dyson, of Fulton, Mo., lecam-sn fright'iieil that ho was thrown n nto sp isms and die I. p "While hunting', fiustivo Rotzler, of Kvnnsville, Col., stepped into the mouth of 1 initio shaft which tlio .-now h id covered f nmpletely. llo was iustantly killo I. b CiiaI'.les Downs, of Atlanta, chased a 1' abliit int > a tal! stump. While climbing, c lis left arm wa; caught in a split near tho M op, and ho huiK by his wrist. He ojiened lis knfe with his teeth in onler to cut off his c inn. Ho ma lo several gashes, and then si ninted. This caused li s musclos to relax, md he dropped to tho ground. t ? h KENCE-orrriNi; has been made a felony by ho Texas legislature, and the inclosnreof r STEWS SUMMARY. 11 Eastern and Middls States. s A tocng woman drosscd in men's clothes topped a young man early in the morning d n one of the principal Rtreetsof Philadelphia, r nd at the point of a leveled pistol compelled I im to "stand and deliver " nis money \nor- ^ bodox highwayman fashion. Great damage has been done alotigtho \ Indson to valuable trees and shrubbery by \ navy rains followed by freezing weather, he branches of many trees gave way under i he thick coating of ice. i A cheat rowing matz-h for a prize of t 2.'00 has been nrranged to take place at I 'ew York on Decoration day between Jharles K. Courtney, tho most prominent of t Linerican oarsmeni and Wallace Rose, the j lauadian victor of many aquatic contests, t A hill to punish wife boaters by flogging J assed the Massachusetts house. ii Peter Chvsterman, a prominent farmer, ' scertained that his daughter Mary hail been ? een driving out of Gold Mine Station,Penn., rith Ezekiel Henry, who had recently been rarned by Chustcrman to discontinue his s Mentions. Chusterman, with two friends, p ienry Rwope and Israel Moyer, started In t ursuit, ana overtook the couple about ten liles away. In the controversy which fd- c >wed Henry shot all three of his pursuers. j. The provernor of Delaware, not being em- c owered to commute a death sentence, has one the next best thing in the case of Lewis r '. List, under sentence to be handed for the s mrder of George Taylor. List, who is t tvonty-five years old, has been respited until { MO. Lieutenant Danenhower, of the Jean- e ette expedition, was married the other day e t Oswego. N. Y , to a daughter of expeaker Sloan. c William G. Morgan, who had charge at t Tartford, Conn., of the branch house of utnam & Earle, Now York bankers, and ? -as recently admitted as a partner, has !. roven a defaulter to the extent of $20,000. ^ A New London (Conn.) whaling Arm have r eceived advices from their brie Lizzie P. h immons, to the effect that the brig has ^ aptured a wha'e yielding 1GS barrels of oil ^ nd 2,500 pounds of whaleoone, and from the i ile of the stuff had realized nearlv $14,000. t his is believed to bo the largest whale ever s aptured. ? J. H. Fullerton, a clerk in the employ of t ;ie Manhattan Boacli Railroad company, I unning between Now York and Coney t <land, has been fraudulently issuing stock t f the company and pocketing the proceeds? u bout $45,000. Just before discovery he b ashed a check of tho company's for $:i'20 o nddisappearel. Gambling led to his down- ii ill. o q South and West; * Long-continued rains have caused much s; amnge to property and great delay in travel l Southern California. r A special posse of twelve picked men, n rined to the teeth and commanded by State ii lonstable Riclibourg. proceeded secretly I rom Columbia. S. C., to the residence of f; Lionel Cash near Choraw. Colonel Cash a as raptured, but his son oscaped into the d jo cent swamp. A posse of fifty men from heraw was sent after young Cash. A snow slide half a mile wido at Alta, 'ol,, swept away the works of tho New !mma mine, killing GusLybecker, foreman; I >. D. Wasson, machinist, and brother; an.uel Prethers, Charles Colgreon and 'ife; Edward Crockett, Lottie Pleon, O. J. ohnson, N. S. Delano, Wilhird Stephenson 0 nd John Richardson. This is the worst c ide ever known in the Little Cottonwood v istrict Tho snow was piled forty feet lgh. The damage to the mine is $15, OX). P Bishop R. ?. Clarkson, born in Gettys- a urg, Pcnu., in 1826, died the other diy in b imaha, Neb. He was consecrated Episcopal j] ishop of Nebraska and Dakota in 18*?. Jefferson Davis, before a joint conven- 0 on of the Mississippi legislature, delivered e eulojry on Sergeant S. Prentiss, the famous 0 linairoij/j/l vi JJ The appearance of the foot-and-mouth a isease among cattle in Maino and Kansas t as creatcd alarm among the cattle men of t> jo W est. p General Deloch, who ha- just died at j| aladosta, Ga., at the age of eighty-seven, !j 'on his title in tho Indian wars. He was jj le father of twenty-four children. / A fire at East St. Louis destroyed a larg0 i levator, seven houses and ninety-six loadod t ars. The elevator contained 300.0JO bushels s f enrn, 50,OH) bushels of oats and several j lousand bushels of wheat, and the cars were p early all loaded with hay and grain. The stimatud total loss is $750,000. c Henry Richardson, one of the leading f lembers of a Nebraska vigilance committee d 'liich has been waging a vigorous war on I gang of horse thieves, was himself hanged (1 y unknown persons. It is supposed the t anging was done by surviving members of t tie gang. n Ex-Congressman Robert Small (col- 0 red), was renominated by tho Republicans c f the Seventh South Carolina district to a icoeed the late Congressman Mackey. ? wing to t>e preponderance of tho colored ? ote Su all's nomination was considered 1 quivalent to an electiou. f' Ray and Anders >n, the revenue officers ho recently killed three men in Mitchell I junty, N. C., havo surrendered. The re- ! 'ard offered for their capture amounted to . *,> 00. g Colonel Edward S. Wheat, ox-United ? tates li arshal for the middle district of ennessee, and one of the most prominent t Itizens of the S;at<?. was shot and killed by ^ U fa! her-in iaw, Colonel William Sponce, 3, ho was his predecessor in office. The terri- j, le trageay was the result of business trou- c les that had existed between the two for c] >me years, and which, it is understood, n rew out of affairs connected with the marrnlship. 0 In Robertson county, Tenn., lived John, t; [artin, his wife, and three children, two of It lem grown young women, tho other a boy p f twelve. Martin was in his seventieth p ear and has eked out a moderate living on is farm, quietly doing his work, and avin,' the respect of every one. Tho ther evening the entire family were found i their home, brutally murdered. George J rench, a farm hand, was arrested, ana con>sscd thnt he and two colored men had mur Bred and robbed tho Martins. All three ere shot todiath without ceremony by the 0 Itizens. t Thirteen* persons lost their lives by a t idden snowslide at Woodstock, Colorado. [ hree persons were rescued alive out of a . arty of sixteen. Fire has almost entirely swept away the J jwn of Allegan. Mich., destroying twenty. iree stores, three newst aper offices and a c otel, nnucausinga total estimated loss of c' 500,001i. On the same day another Michigan c jwn-Grand Rapids?also suffered heavily [1 om a fire, oi^ht mills and factories suelimbing to the flames, with aggregate losses f Aim),ooo. s Prentiss Tiller, the Pacific Express com- c any's money clerk at St. Jjouis, who de- jamped with nearly $100,000 a few weeks t no, was arrested in Milwaukee, and $90,Qo0 f f the stolen money win recovered. 0 The Iowa senate agreed to a State woman t iffrage amendment to the constitution by 3e close vote of to 24. t The foot and mouth disease prevails to an s laming extent in Kansas and portions of n llinois, and the governor of the former | tate has called a special session of the leg- ? tlatnre to consider measures whereby the e lague may be stamped out. Washington; Since the introduction of two-cent lotter < ostage there has b-vn an unexpected rolucion in the number of postal cards issued and n increase in the number of stamps sold. Susan 13. Anthony, Phu>be Couzens, Mrslaggert, ai:d other members of the Woman nfl'rage ass ci'ition, in session at Washing a jn, made addresses before (he House judici- r rv committee advocating the extension of fl lie right of suffrage to their sex. John T. Caine, Congressional delegate u rom Utah, before the House commitloeon I ii territories. criticised the Edmunds bill and i \ ae C'assidy bill in relation to polygamy as ! I nconstitutional. Ho admitted the right of i s tie government to punish polygamy as a . v rime if it desired to do so. Nevertheless, j e said, the Mormons believed that it was I 3 ight. j | Aiiout sixty-seven per cent, of our last j h ear's corn crop ha* been consumed, leaving i 1 nirty-tlir.'o ]>er cent, still on hand. Tho j v rlicat remaining on hand is about 1H'.000,00.) | * ushels, or twenty-eight. i>er cent, of the crop. ! The President nominitod J. E. Irish, ot j u l*iscon>ii:, to be Un't.-d States consul at v 'ogi:ac, and Eliot S. N. Morgan, or Wyo- | r> ling. to be secretary of the Territory of j n V'voming. | Conki mixtions by the Sena o: Colonoi j t ohn Newton, to ba chief of engineers, with j lie rank of brigadier-general; Corman luck, to be a^s elate jintico of the supreme j i>urt of tho Territory of Idaho: W. Fitzerald. to be associate justice of the supreme I j ourt of the Territory of Arizona: John (.'. j 'erry, of New York, to lie chief justice of | lie supreme court of tho Territory of Wyo- | ling: John M. Valentine, of Penii*yl.\atiia. . f o lie attorney of the I"nited States for the . astern district of Pennsylvania Foreign. J J ISeaiu.y a hundred |>ersons .suspect^u 01 omplicity in dynamite plots ar> beins | ' Pitched by the police 1:1 1'ranee. j j Notwithstanding the furious attacks i ] la'lo upon liiiu by tlio German government \ j ress, Mr. Sargent the Aunrican minister to j lern any, husdeclled not torodgn. j [ Tin; bod'e< of Jerome Collins the meteorol- ! j gist of ih.? Jeanwtte, ami h?s moth'r, were t urieil lit Cork, Ireland. There was a large r roeessicn on land aud water, the former I onsifting of the town c >rporation, various t acieties, and merchants aud tradesmen. r Emtkhou Wii.i.iam, of (ierinany, and th r /ar of Kussia, will meet in Juno at Darin ; I tu.lt. ~ i * A I'.Kiu.iN dispatch snvs tlmt a majority cf : >\ he houses belonging to Jews in Nenstetcin j '' ave been destroyed by a rivib. v One member of the Canadian house of I arliameut at Ottawa, while intoxicated, i nvaguly assaulted another member with a I Lick in the legislative chamber, but was ilis- ! rined before he could do any harm. j Suitvivons of tiie Sinkat butchery report, : liat El Mahtli's rebels tore the bndy oi lew i k Bey, the Egyptian commander, into ! (leces and devoured his liver in accord a nco vith their superstition. The treaty of pcaco between Chili and 'era has been ratified by tin Chilian asembly. Wallace Ross, the Canadian oarsman, ' lefeatod George Bubear, leading English ower, in a four-mile race on the Thames. Hi bear received a start of ten seconds and vas easily defeated. It Is stated that at a meeting of Irish " In 'incibles" in Paris lots were draw i to seo ?ho should kill the informer McDerimtt. Solomon Shapiba, well known in collection with the recent attempt to sell in 'Ing'and a forged manuscript of tho Penla tuch, has committed suicide at Rotterdam, iolland. OsMan Digma, the defeated commander of ne Falso Prophet's forces, wro.e to Sheik Jorghani declaring that he was deternrne I o drink the blood of tho Turks and their alies. This savage reply aggravated tho feelnp of the British soldiers who, hince the batle of Teb, had desired to spare gj brave a oe The reply was sisrned by twenty-one sheiks, representing 10,00) inhabitants, a *t l ttt?n n \tvmprt'f/i/l ! XX ?' A I i ? Hj VI ILfC 111 11 VI IU l?ui 111 Ull 1C?U IUI, ackeil and burue 1 many villages and com- 1 *lled American and English missionaries to lee for their lives. Advices from Canton report that the Chilese i relations for war with 1-ranee are ncreasing, and all signs indicate a prolonged on test. A Berlin newspaper attributes the excitenent over the Lasker incide.it to the corropondent of the London Times which, it says, rants to stir up strife between Germany and America. Port Spain, Trinidad, has been almost ntirely swep: away by fire. The loss is stl mated at more than $400,0JO. Another explosion of dynamite has ocurred in London?this timo at a suburban lotel. One man was blown to pieces. Bismarck, tho German chancellor, apleared in the rcichstag at Brrhn and made . speech in justification of the course he had iursued in refusing to transmit the Lasker esolution to the rjichsta r. He said that he ad recognized tho goo.l intentions of the American Conzress; but he was unab'e to larness himself to the car of the opposition, 'he relations between Germany and the Jnited States had always been pleasant, he aid, and the German government had always tried to cultivate thsin. He declared hat he would have presented th? >asker resolution had be not ?een prevented by their form. The reso'uions contained a clause directed against the olicy which, in the emperor's name, he had ?en purpling and which Herr Lasker had pposed for years. Once Bb narcK was nterrupteJ by cries of "Shame!" from the pposition members or the reichstag, an I uite a scene ensued. The apjjearance of Vince Bismarck in thereichsfar isgeuera'.ly ttributed to his desire to maintain friendship with America. Advices from the Congo river, in Africa, eport that Henry M. Stanley has discovered nother affluent of the Con^o. The Arab ri a recent slave raid, captured 1,80') children, 'he natives recently attacked the European nctories on the Lower Congo, plundered carvans, and killed several Europeans. NATIONAL EDUCATION. 'roviNlons of the Morrill Bill, Reported to the Senate Favorably. The Morrill Educational bill, reported favrably to the United States Senate from the ommitteo on education and labor, proides for the setting apart forever of the n^t roceeds of the sales of public lands, and nnually of a sum of money equal to onealf of the moneys paid into the treasury a each year by Pacific railroad companies rPl,..? 1LA i unci iuu xiiui xiiuu cb'jii, n;r buc ^luuauiuu i t f the people, to be app jrtionod to the ser- ' ral States and Territories and the District f Columbia, upon the basis of population etwesn the ages of five and twenty year <, s an educational fund, aud to b?ar inerest at the rate of four per cent., the inere?t only to bo paid for educational urposes. Two-thirds of the income rising from this fund shall be nnually appropriated to the frco nd impartial education in public schools of II children between the a-?e- of six and sixeen years: one third shall bo appropriated o the endowment and support of agriculural colleges until the annual income of ; uch colleges shall havo reached the sum of ' 30,1)00, when only that sum shall bs appro- i riatod to them. I It provides for the establishment in theie alleges of schools for the instruction of emales In such branches of technical or inustrial education as are suite J to their 8"x. t also provides that a sum not exceeding | fty per cent, of the amount appropriated j o any State or Territory may be applied in j he first year to th j maintenance or ono or i oore schools for the instruction of teachers f common schools and not exceeding ten per | ent. of the amount in eacn year therefter may be applied to the same urpose. It provides that to entitle any Itato, Ten-it >ry, or the District of Columbia j 0 the benefits of this act it shall maintain i or at lpast three months in each year until | nuuary 1, 18S7, and thereafter f< ur months j 1 each year, a system of free pub ic schools i or all tho children within its limits between i he ages of six and s-ixteen, and;shall. through he proper officer thereof, for the year nding June 30 last preceding such pportionment, make full report to he commissioner of education, of he number of public free schools, tha nuoi er of teachers employed, tho number of chool-houses owned and the number of c chool-houes hirel, the total uunib'r of c WW. rmiTlir. rliirmrr t.lin v?vir. the actual r aily attendance, and the actual number of j f lonths in the year schools have been main- | lined in each of the several school districts j t r divisions of sa d State, Territory or dLs- I rict. and the amounts appropriated by the I r igislattire, or otherwise received, for the J urpose ot maintaining a system of tree tublic schools. AFFRAY IN A THEATRE, , fno Hcii Killed and One Fatally t Wounded in Texas* t Ben Thompson and King Fisher shot each ' ther dead in the Vaudeville theatre at San | Lntonio, Texas. Joo Foster, who attempted s o quiet the combatants, was probably fa- ? ally wounded. Thompson and Fisher had s ?en drinking together, and entered the heatre in company. They met Foster in r lie dress circle and somo words were ex- c handed, and :oon after shots were ex- t hanged. The dies* circ'e was quickly J leared, the occupants jumping into tne par- : luetfo below, ana through the side windows 1 nto the street. isooneseemstoknow whofired c he flrstshot.or how many were engaged in the hooting. Beforo the theatre was fairly i leared of its orcupants, 1,.">00 persons on the ! i utside were clamoriug at the close! do >rs ! t or admittance. The bodies of t ha two vie- j ( im.? were taken in charge by a host of c riends. and the funeral arrangements wore r irdereu "on the grandest scale, regard.?ss | t >f expense."' ! j The theatre where the affray occurred was j f he rceiie last year of the killing by Tiioin;)- r on of Jack Harris, who was the proprietor : j if the place. Fisher and Thompson were ' e >rolmbly the two most des;>erat-> a'id wid?ly i c mown men in Texas. They have each kilied } I i large number of men. e AN ALABAMA TRAGEDY. S >nc Sister Kill* Another and Mortally j Wounds a Nephew* j t Mrs. Harvey and Mrs. Hughes are sisters j ? nd wives of two well-to-do farmers in Coffee ounty, Ala. They live on adjoining farms, ; (; md the intimacy of their girlhood had | ^ icver bee:i interrupto I. A few day, , jj go Mrs. Harvey's c >w did some dan- j j go in the warden of Mrs. Hughes, where- ! (ij)on the latter drove the animal out, strik- ! ? ng it across the back with a heavy stick, j , Vhen this came to the know,e.l,'e of Mrs. , n larvey her rage knew no bounds, and she . | taried for the residence of her sister armed : t vith a butcher knife. j j, When about fifty yards from the house i r tlrs. Hughes met her and attempted an ex- J j, lanation. Mrs. Harvey made a plunge at ; | icr with the knife, sending it at one thrust je hrough her sister's heart. As the wounded : roman fell in an expiring gasp her son ran up | rith a stick and struck his aunt withiton the lead. The infuriate 1 woman then turned j ipon her nephew a idbe^a i ?:utring at him | v rildlv. His screams attracted the attention t - 1 ....? i f others, who hastene-.i to uro mtih; wm |mi . , stop to the bloody work. Mrs. Harvey I v taken to Jilva jail, where s!i~ will be ' I old for trial. The boy was s) bad.y cut ; t hat his recovery is doubtful. j r DANGEKOUS_EXPLOSIVES, ' rhe United Mate* Juining in tin; Cm- ! niilie Against I); iiaiuifc. I Attorney-General Brewster lias sent the . jj ollowing circu'a to all Unite I States at , j orney.s and marshals: I t liy direction of the I'resident I have to in I orm you it is reporled Hint certain persons j ire aiding in the prosecution of heinoie : rimes by shipping t-> foreign ports explosives j iaiiger-.us in the highest derive t > life and * iroperty. No proof lias been adduced thai ! ? his rum >r is foiiu le.l up m fa*% an 1 the I 1 'resident ca'.not believe its truth. The s ioivt of this ua ion, how.;ver? re pures that ; I t should not lie open to the itiipu.'ation, uu- j 1 ounded though it be, of the .slightest ap- r K'arance of tolerating such crimes, w.iether I o be comniitte 1 a.ainst our people or thost if other countries r Vour attention is therefore called to sec J ions *>, ""> I. 4^-78 and 4,'IIIt of th? | ' evi-ed statutes of the I'nited States, which | " egulate the shipment of explosives, and the ' 1 m-ddiuiont of those ivho infringe tneir pro i ' ' sions, and you ate instructed to b? dili i j cut in \ our eHoi ts to prevent th-? offense. j 1 < m ribeJ and to d< tcct and | ro>ecufe thosf j I'lio have or may commit the n. r An* American church is soon to bo built t it Dresden, the iHivssary funds having been || ai-edat a series of private theatricals re j ntly given under lh - auspices of the Aniori- , au colony in that city. The proposed reform bill in England will ii franchise 2,000,000 men. * A MINE CATASTROPHE Details of the Explosion in a Vi> ginia Colliery, Many Miners Suddenly Hurried to an Awful Death. Particulars of tho terrib'o explosion in a jijS coal mine at Tazewell, Va., arc harrowipg in the extreme. The mine in which t' e explosion occurred i3 situated at the bas? of ->^3 moi-iac lop mountains, wa-.cn aiviae v ir * '(&& ginia from West Virginia. Accounts of the ' disaster, mads up from various sources, are '"^5) as follows- ' Shortly after midnight a terrific explosion a'armod the residents of Pocahontas, Taze- ':%jk well county, \ra., and soon thereafter a "*?. J&a scene of the most intense excitement en- ! sued. Men, woman and children arose from raj their beds and rasfaed out into the open air. ,.<$!? in their night-dre.?ses. The streets were thronged, aud uli were at a loss to determine \ ?~M what baa happened. It was not long before ' the truth was known, and then the excited crowd rushed toward the principal coal mine *. in the southern suburb. Upon arriving there, a dense volume of smoke was found , '?*: pouring forth from the shaft of the mine. Scattered around within a radios of t iSjs quarter of a mile were broken timbers and . broken mining machinery of every deecrfption. Upon every side lay fragments of human bodies, some of which were lodged u.:on the top of sheds and in the branches of adjoining trees. The shrieks of the women and children filled the air, and added more 3$ horror to the scene. Everybody appear ed paralyzed at the spec* ffa tacle,and it wa< some time before the bravest A the men present realized the extent of the 3 i-aster, and began to take steps to ascertain the extent of the damage. After two hour bad elapsed and nothing accomplished by tbe "jsi raanic-stricken crowd, a man with a ghastly white face mounted the debris and cried out: . -*3 " For God's take, men, let's stop this. We ill have friends and relatives down beloW, ind maybe we can help them." "Let us see what we can do," he added: .jjj "and let the women folks do the crying." "33 Every one of the officials of the camp were below, besides one hundred and fifty laborsrs. There was no one to lead the rescuing y'-.JV party, aud it was with the utmost difficulty that volunteers could be induccd to go near " the mouth of the mine.. The leader again . . addressed the men present, and then, throw- 1 Ing a blanket around his bead, made an . - rtiA jflfort to ascertain if it was jpossible to enter ;he mine. He scon returned, and announced ;hafc all attempt at a rescue of the poor ;reatures who were entomb*1 was uselees. A dense volt one of flame then began pour* -?*?3 ng out of tLs mouth of the minerand ilia- . ; & nutated the country for miles around; :rowds of people collected in grouoe of a naif dozen or more, discussed the terrible situation, and lamented the death of either ' ' i tather, brother, or husband. When It became evident thit nothing could be done before daybreak, eveiv endeavor was made 2x3\ by the men to quiet the women, one of whom - - *53 n her frenzy tore the hair from out of her ' qffla lead by the handful and cried out: "Oh, ny poor husband! He is burned to death! . \\ on't some one help him;" When day dawned the horror became aj>s -J parent The men were by this time more lotuposed and tho women in a measure quietjd. The latter began to gather up the frag- nents of thebodieiof the unfortunate miners who had been working near the daft at the '*, >?.I ;ime of the accident and were blown upward jut of the mine. Every one of the fifty men it this time was overcome with the horrible ronviction, doubtless true, that every miner ? .vas dead, from the shocJc of explosion, or S5:.*S subsequent suffocation. The superintendent repaired to the mine* " .*j it oncj and the scene presented to his view was indescribable. V> or.is, he said, could iol convey th? faintest idea of the destruc* ion that was wrought in a few short seo- ' ^ >nda. Signs of it were visible on every hand. -.''i&Sl The entrance to the main shaft was entirely ;orn out and scattered pell-mell for hun- ~i'M ireds of feet. The little train traok ivas torn and twisted aud shapeless timber md ties mixed in confusion all around. The "> ;:>3 :ars were taken up bodily and torn in part . . i? uid their iron wheels were shivered. They ' ire re thrown three and four hundred feet : <>B iway. The searching party found a pair of ' hoes that had been blown t) the summit of - . ;he ridge, and a mule was found at the same jlace twisted into an indescribable shape. rhe .second entrance to the mine presented a ' ~ limilar appearance to the first At the ntrance of the fan tunnel stood the :ompany's large ventilator, which, with the louse around it, was swept entirely away,-eaving the engine standing on the found*- r&jgg ion shattered and broken, with the pipes wisted and forced. As indicated, the force if tho explosion was terrific. Rocks were . hrow.i through the workshops, and evwy "^?j >bject that stood in the direct course of the orced air was demolished. Several work- : .igB nen in the shops wero severely injured. The hops as well as the locomotive houle were -??? i.'v jlled with the ground. Of the one hunIrud and fifty men who were in the mine at he time of the explosion not one re- 'yx, urned to the surface to tell the fat? if his companions. Parties who ventured j-^j nto the mines the next morning discovered- ,'ff* evcral mangled bodies, one of which wse dentifled as that of M. L. Hampton, nizhtj oreinan, who leaves u wife and large family*' Vbout thirty-five Hungarians are auioug tne' ' ictims. The others are colored men and vhite miners from Virginia and Pennsylvalia. The accident was said to have been , '.i aused by the men going too far into the nines with their lamps. A relief train with ihysicians and a force of workmen on board rent to the scene of the accident; from Pe- ' : l%% ersburg. ^ SUMMARY OF CONGRESS. Senate. ., Bills were reported favorably authorising he postmaster-general to prohibit the^ de lvery or man u> joiicry i-um} umo, auu w , ab ishing the tim^s aaa place* for holding he terms of the United States district court, or the northern district of New York.... " Sills were introduced to create the pilot service of the U-ited States.. ..The Senate c;>n- ' S idered the bill providing for a bureau of . ' .*[ tatistic-!, without action....In executive ession the Senate considered the Mexican reity. The commercial treaty with Mexico wa<* . atifled by a vote of forty-one to twenty,. v >r just one vote more than the requslte twohirds majority A bill was introduced by Hr. Miller, of New York, to suspend for two rears the coinage of silver dollars. Mr. ./)?an introduced a bill to give pensions to . '3 le-endant relatives of deceased soldiers. Mr. Edmunds introduced a bill to provide 'or the establishment of a forest reservation > n Montana The committee on education md labor reported favorably on tho Morrill ducational bill. It provides for setting ipart the net proceeds of land sales, and an- - / mally asum of nuney e^ual to one-half of ^ ;he receipts from the Pacific railroads for mblic education?Mr. Jackson pro- >7% >osed a constitutional amendment raking the presidential term six fears, and making the President invisible to re-election. Referred to the orumittee on judiciary....Mr. Miller, of s'ew York, said the Senate committee on igriculture were in favor of passing the ' louse pleuropneumonia bill, after amend- :4$ n? it so as to provide that if the authorities if a State in which disease exists fail to take teps to stamp them out the President shall >rohibit the exportation of cattle from that ?tate.... Mr. Sevrell spoke in favor of and ilr. Wilson against the Fitz-John Porter (ill. , >.'<i After speeches by Messrs. Logan and Manlerson against, ami Mr. Riddleberger in faor of the bill for the relief of General Fitz Tohn Porter, the bill was read a third time ,nd passe i bv a vote of 33 yeas to 25 nays. t was discovered after th? announcement of ho vote thnt the preamble to the bill had lot been passed. The preamble was then iassed. The bill authorizes th9 President to .opoint Porter to the position of colonel in he army of the sarn? grade and rank held . >;! ?y him at the tima of dismis al. and also in 11s discretion to pla-e General Porter on the etired list as of that graie. General Porter, 10wever, to receive no compensation oral- " >'1 nwance prior to his appointment under the v IIoiimo* _> JjV A message was received from tho President without comment, transmitting to the House he Lasker resolutions returned by Prince Sismarck, with accompanying pa]?rs.. .Bills cere introduced to define the duties of the Mississippi river commission; to incorporate he Yellowstone Park Railroad company; to etire General G. H. Wright, and to enlarge he grounds around Washington's headluarters at Morristown. N. J. .. J. Mr. Morrison, from the committee on ways md means, reported a bill revising the tariff, ilr. JlcKiniey, from tho same committee, ntroduced a minority report.... Tho postiflice appropriation b:l! was debated without icti"i> A lull was |assed admitting to \nurican registry foreign vessels under cernin circumstances. Consideration of the postofflce approprlaion bill was resumed. After some debate ilr. llorr's amendment, increasing to $12,0;l,((00 the nppropriatiou for the compensaion of postmasters, was lost. On motion if Mr. Davis, of Illinois, the clause limiting ho salaries of postmasters to #1,0 K), was nfTorpil nn amend- ? mi'lYl'II Will. ?UI . ?AU*U.M.. nent, which wa< lost, fixing: the salary ofllg he postmaster at New York at $\0 X). A notion by Mr. Horr to increase the approbation (or clerks by ?12">,00?' was lost. Mr. Harriwi, fn.m the committee on Terltories, rep>rted fnv rahly an I ha'i placsd in the calendar the bill for the admission of Dakota.... The House resumed the considerition of thep'stofflce appropriation bill. In ommii toe of the whole, Mr. Skinner's amend' nent increasing the appropriation for th? aynient of letter carriers from *3,600,000 o $4,OJO,OOU, was adopted. A PiNfifLAR accident hapjwned lately at a nill in Nashvil e, Tenn. A workman waj hrown toward a circ liar saw, and thinking i?? w uld strike it, die ! from fright When icked up In was dead. but there wa^no sign f a bruise 011 his b >Jy. Texas nlants $)0,000 moro acres in cor.i hau sn* doej in cotton. . '-<3 ^