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^ABBEVILLE PRESS AND BANNEEJ HUGH WILSON. ABBEVILLE, S. C.. WEDNESDAY, MAY 21, 1884. NO. 47. VOLUME XXVIII. ||| P. KISMET. it?, passing over Earth one night, Laid his stern seal on three new liv&; une died a King, one sank in fight, One wasted in his felon gyves. Thomas Collier, in The Manhattan. CARDONNE'S COURTSHIP. I.?THE TELEGRAPH OPERATOR. Northbrook came under the auctioneer's hammer by foreclosure of mortgage. It was a valuable country seat and did not bring half what it was worth. The purchaser was Cale Cardonne, an intelligent, wealthy, self-opinionated man, sometimes called by his friends "the German baron;" not because he was of German descent, but probably because of his ruddy face, fine physique, and brusque, positive manners, the latter verging upon rudeness when his passion was aroused. The neighbors speculated considerably about his advent at Northbrook. and prophecies were made which were not particularly complimentary. He would introduce new-fangled notious, | he would engage in foolish experiments; [ he would be an easy victim to the fala- j cies of theoretic farming, and the like. Well, he came and settled among them, and nothing of the kind occurred. I He left farming operations to an ex-1 perienced hand, devoted his leisure mo- j Hb ments to books, enjoyed the fresh coun- j try hair, and attended so much to his own business and not to that of other people that he was voted too exclusive. Tnere was a railway station at Northbrook, and one day he ran hastily up the steps of the tower to send a message by telegraph. He had leaped from the | train wunout uiiniung ui mo ?uusc i which he had placcd on the seat beside j him. Its contents were valuable, and he j was anxious to receive it by the returning .train. The operator was a quiet, demure looking girl, very compact and plainly clad; her face creamy white, neither approaching to pallor nor indicating ill-health. He stated his errand. Could she get a dispatch to Croyland before the train got j there? "Oh, yes," was the reply. "How can | you identify the valise?" Her voice sounded as clear as a bell, and her white, shapely hand was toying with the button of the telegraph instrument. "My name is on it," be said. "And your name?isi" "Cale Cardonne." She had heard of him but had never j met him. Sbe sun-eyed him in a specu-1 lative way, yet with no suggestion of i boldness. Her eyes were soft, gray eyes, | with fabulous depths,and just then tinged j with wistful interest. A few ticking sounds followed, and then she announced that the message had ; been sent and acknowledged. He tlung down a coin in compensation, aud then Eicked up a book which she evidently ad been reading. "Sartor Kesartus, by Thomas Carlyle?" he exclaimed, reading the title, an intonation of surprise in his voice. "You are?are?plodding through this ?" he asked, stammering in his choice of words. "Yes," she answered. "And?enjoy it?" was his next question, a little grimly put. A faint pink flush camc into her cheeks. "At least I do not consider the reading of it an >-Miction," she rejoined, a scarcely perceptible smile about her red lips. Her reply pleased him. He was standing almost directly over her, for she was seated. He noticed the linelv poised head, the compact brow, the delicate ears, the chestnut colored hair, with lurking shadows of bronze in it, and not a strand out of place. Her figure was lithe and graceful and her air modest and self-composed. His | proximity did not disturb her; the con-1 flMAno? oafl rvf Kia rlirl nnf*. pniiop hpr ! DUIUUOUgOi? Vi AUO nv* 1M U*vt ?vw MV. to depreciate herself. She opened a small drawer, threw into it the coin which he had placed on the table, and handed him the proper change. "Keep it," he said, with a toss of his head. "I cannot," she replied, "I am not entitled to it." "I am at liberty to give it to you." "But I am not at liberty to receive it," she answered, "or rather I do not wish to." He picked up the change with a frown. "You know my name," he said: "if I knew yours we might consider ourselves acquainted." i "My name is Janet Thorne," she re joined, in her quiet way. "He bowed, then descended the winding stairway. "Janet!" he repeated to himself. "A staid old name, and it suits her. Somehow I feel strangely interested in the little?thrush." II.?REJECTED. The two met frequently after thatJanet lived in a neat little cottage not far from the station. Her mother was dead, and she supported an invalid i lamer wuu uer eurnmgs. Cale Cardonne visited her at the cottage, sent her books and flowers, and Bometimes walked with her in the woods that stretched between Northbrook and ' the cottage. Having seen so much of the world, | being rich, handscme and a pleasant i talker, it was no wonder that she be came fon^of his society. He, in turn, ' was very much fascinated by her, and I sometimes wondered why. He hud! mingled a great deal in society, and had ; met with many beautiful and accom- j plished ladies, while she was but a quiet, | ordinary-looking girl. However, he was ! not the only man who tried to find his ; way out of such a quandary. He proposed to her one evening. Thev were standing uesiae me couage gaie. i The stars were shining softly overhead; j the young moon was just visible above j the low-lying hills; u subtle resinous i odor was wafted from the woods; the j frogs croakcd in the meadows; an owl called to his mate from his perch under ; the eaves of the mill. Why was Janet so long in replying to j Cale Cardonne's passionate appeal? He saw the color come and go in her face. rHe saw her lips tighten. "I am 60 sorry!" she said at last, with a gasp, her frame trembling. "Sorry!" repeated he, feefing a little dazed. "Because I have proposed to you?'' "Because I am constrained to depline your offer," she said. It required bravery to speak these words, dictated by duty, when love and desire wanted so much to rebel. He lifted his hand to his cravat, as if to relieve a choking sensation there. "I can do nothing but submit," he j slowly, ruefully said. He strode angrily down the path, but i stopped, turned and called out: "Good-night, Janet." The resigned, pitiful tone made her heart ache as it had never ached before, j "Good-night, Mr. Cardonne," she flung I back, startled at the sound of her voice, j it was so unlike her own. She stood alone for a few minutes in : her agony, her fingers twisted into a knot, i an ashen pallor in her face. in.?"yet, i love you. sir!" A week later Janet Thome met Cale I Cardonne at the gate of Northbrook. \ She had. stopped to deliver a dispatch, j He took it, but eyed her askance, his face ! rigid. He noticed that she looked worried, and that her hand shook. "Thank you," he crisply said, turning to go. "Mr. Cardonne?" Her tone was quick, decisive, tinged with desperation. "Oh," ejaculated Cale Oardonne, reddening, and biting his upper lip. His hand was a brawny one and she saw how tightly it closed on the upper i . rail of the gate. t * "If I knew the reason!" he asked. '* "You will not insist," she said, appcalingly, catching her breath. "Evidently it exists in myself," he rejoined. "No, Mr. Cardonre." She spoke with rapidity and with a quick fling of her hand. "Perhaps time, Janet?" 4 Ifo, "?ie Interrupted. "It will always "Janet, you are the first woman to f whom I ever proposed," he huskily said. "That is true, though I have almost readied middle age." "I believe you, sir," she answered humbly, regretfully. "I appreciate the honor vou have paid me. 1 am sorry." He did not want her pity. He felt like seizing her and flinging her down the embankment; but by a great effort he curbed his temper. "1 am too polite to insist upon knowing your reason,''he s?id. ''You might say I have not the right to demand it, and I don't know but that would be the j truth. I am grievously disappointed, I and it such a novel, and such a?a? j wretched experience to me that I don't know where to look for redress?or for | comfort, rather. You wish me to underI !??* + r? /llioom tr.lll'no lwifll'ortn 11C? zuaiili mac <* v.uaoiu ''Which can never be bruised," completed she, her tone firm, though she trembled, as he could see in the starlight. He wheeled around. She stood still for u moment, white and speechless. She was having a tierce tight with herself. "You despise me," she said, huskily. "Why, no, child!" lie spoke the epithet in tenderness, not because she looked so childlike, nor because he was a dozen years her senior. "I am very miserable over it, but cannot blame you," he said, "unless it may be because you have no business to be so | charming," and a queer smile came to his j lips. She lifted her haud in a self-deprecating way. "There is something I must tell you," she slowly said, looking past him into < vacancy. "In justice to myself, sir, and I licpe you won't think me bold, I re jected you, and yet I love you, sir. How j deeply, God knows!" The sweet gray eyes were looking directly at him then, a warm glow in them. His heart gave a bound. ".I.-inet, you have reconsidered?" She shook her head. 'Then you have simply increased the pain?the consciousness of the great i K.,/-vr> T liavo lnct Tin vnil flpliirht in I that?" j; His tone rose in volume and a fiery 11 sparkle came into his handsome brown j eyes. She recoiled, one hand pressed against i her heart. "I want you to know, sir, that I, too, , am suffering," she said, in a hushed, j measured tone. "It has given me more | pain to make the confession than it did i. you to hear it." 1 She walked rapidly away, and he started after her, slightly stupefied. "It is her candor that is her perfect J charm," was his his mental comment. | IV.?AN OUTBURST OF TEMPER. Cale Card on ne had but one congenial ] friend, a certain Dr. Went her by, a man a j i little crotchety, but a jovial, good- i hearted fellow withal, a most excellent ' physician and well read, not only in the j classics, but in the polite literature of the i j /J.... i/llrt AnAninrv Aifltnr fnnnrl . 1 uu>. iutc c?tuiu^ vibubi *wmmv* 1 i C'ale Cardonne in the office of the doctor | or the latter in the library at North- ! ] brook. - 1 "Cardonne, you ought to get married," i i the doctor said one evening. i t They were seated in the library, little l more than the top of the doctor's bald ] head visible in the smoke with which he : i had enveloped himself. < "Why so, Weatherby?" [! They had a familiar way of calling < each other by their last names. i "You might look elsewhere and fare ] worse," remarked the doctor. I i "You have some one to recommend?" i Cale Cardonne said, interrogatively. j 1 "Aye, I have," replied the doctor. i "One who is worthy, in every respect, of ; < any honest man's love. I mean Janet; 1 Thorne." ' t .Tncf- thnn cnmpJhinu- hsinnened which rather disturbed the doctor's coraplac- j j ency. A pair of brawny arms seized him. j i lifted him from hi:> chair, then replaced 1 s him in it with considerable violence. ! t The doctor was a small man. but if tough as a tennis ball, with very little , i temper, or else but a sluggish one. lie i shook himself, adjusted his shirt collar, i picked up his pipe, and recrossed his j i legs. 11 "Cardonne. T didn't know that you 1i indulged in profanity," he said, his pipe i once more in his mouth." s "Did I swear? You are to blame. You provoked me." i "Oh, I did. eh!" asked the doctor. 1 "Very innocently so, I assure you. Duel- t ing is under ban in this commonwealth 1 and generation. Still, I would be ex- t cused for asking for an explanation of j 1 such a sudden outburst." j ( "She jilted me," growled Cale Car- j < donne, his passion spent. j t "Who jilted you?" i "Janet Thorne." ^ j ( "No, she didn't," the doctor said,with t emphasis. "I tell you she did," declared the other, with equal emphasis. "Ought not I to know? I?I?underwent itl That's just why I am so sensitive." j "She did not jilt you," persisted the } doctor. _ j f Cale Cardonne was on his feet again. ! j "What do you mean?' he fiercely de- j manded. "Oh, you want me to be pre- j j cise? Well, she rejected me." j "That's the better word," rejoined j . the doctor. "It isn't so derogatory, i ( What possible reason could she have . had?" | "You might ask her," growled the ( owner of Northbrook. "I won't." ( "Perhaps she doesn't love you." , "That isn't very complimentary to me, \ Weatherby. She confessed she did love s me." ' j "Oh!" ejaculated the doctor, lapsing , infn cilnnna fAn o tima 'Ulu j I "Cardonne, if she loves you she'll i marry you," lie slowly said. "There is some mystery about this matter. She is J very frank and abominates concealments, j I have known her from babyhood, and her mother before her. Ila!" j The exclamation was sudden and ex- . plosive, and his face intensified. ! "I think I know," he said, possibly not aware that he was rubbing his! hauds. "Cardonne, if you'll apologize to me for that shaking I'll find you a j wife." j "Janet?" asked the "German baron," with an illuminated face. "Do it, and I'll get on my knees to you. I'll consider myself vour debtor forever. I'll?" "Oh, don't be so profuse," interrupted j the doctor, "but push the tobacco pouch j over this way." v.?YOUR MOTHER ISN'T YOUR MOTHEH. "Janet." Dr. Weatherbv said. "it. was j shabby in you to refuse Mr. Cardonne." j He had stopped in front of the cottage, i and she was leaning over the wheel of his g'g- ; The blood filled her face, then left it a marble white. "Did he think so lightly of it as to mention it?" she asked, her eyes snapping. "Lightly?" cried the doctor, with a | shrug of his shoulders. "I am glad we weren't on the top of Notre Dame when j he mentioned it! Janet, your mother j isn't your mother!" It was an astounding announcement, j and made in the abrupt way usual with j the doctor. It was an inconsistent, im- j improbable, impossible statement, and j yet Janet understood him. For a mo- ' ment she seemed bereft of speerhand mo- ' tion. . "Dr. "VVeatherbv, is that true?" she gasped. "1 es, .JHIltM. "And father kept it from me?" "There never was any need to tell you." j "Why is there need now?" "Answer that yourself. Janet. That ! is why you rejected Cale Cardonne." "Yes," gaspeu Janet. "It would not I have been right. You have guessed the i reason?as a physician, solely, perhaps, j And my mother?my real mother, my 1 true mother?was she insane?" " No, little one." " Father in heaven; I thank Thee!" | Her hands were clasped, her eyes were reverently uplifted, her face shining lilce the face of a saint. At least the doctor thought so. "Janet, your happiness lies at your feet," he significantly said. "You will be sensible enough to take it up." Janet stole off into the dim woods to be alone, wnder the trees and the wonderful revelation. Her tepmothes, whom i I slie supposed was her real mother, had died in the insane asylum raving mad. Poor Janet believed that she had inherited the laint; the dreadful visitation would come some time; she. could not bring sorrow to the life of a husband, or shame and suffering to her offspring. vr.?tne chasm bridged. There was a great crowd at the church fair. Cale Cardonne. looking not unlike j a German baron, passed from table to j table, chatting with the ladies and buy- j ing their wares. Once a pair of soft, sweet gray eyes met him from amid the festoons of ivy. j Ah, he knew to whom they belonged! I Ilic fnv inrminnt nnd the light went out of his face. "A letter for Mr. Cardonne," cried the postmistress from the little window ! of the pretended postotlice. He walked thither, paid the postage and received his letter. It contained but i one line: "The chasru has beeu bridged!" A tremulous hand and no name! What did it mean? It came to him so suddenly , that he felt that he was trembling. The evening wore away; the crowd dispersed: the ladies covered the table . for the morrow; the janitor began to put ! out the lights. Cale Cardonne lingered. Janet came to the door, drawing her shawl closely j around her, her face unusually red, con- j sidering it was usually so white. "Can I see you home, Janet?" Kim nrUtl n nnrl find ft i au^nugu una ?*?* ? . smile. The path led from the church across j the meadows, odorous with clover and [ flaunting with dandelion blossoms, the I sky an unbroken expanse of blue, stud- ! ded with softly twinkling stars. Janet was clinging to Calc Cardonne's , arm. "I received yo?r letter." he said. "Yes." ' It had but one meaning." ' There was but one intended." "Oh, Janet! you have made me inex- i pressibly happy!" She did not answer him. There wasn't , any need to. Perhaps she couldn't an- j swer; he had clasped her so tightly. "How was it bridged?" he inquired. "You are never to ask," was her hurried j answer. "Dr. Weathcrby knows." "Oh!" ejaculated Cale. "I recall a | promise he made. It was merely a fool- j isti laccy; wasn't itf 'At the time it seemed horribly real," Janet replied, with a shudder. "Thank . Rod, it wasn't real!" ' ; Transfnslon For Consumption. An enthusiastic young surgeon in this city has-introduced a novel treatment for j puimonary consumption, or tubcrcul jsis, for which a great future is predicted by j his admirers. His first experiment was undertaken four months ago, in the case i of a young man of 23, the only sou of a j wealthy dry goods dealer, who was so far j gone with the disease that medical con- I sultation had pronounced recovery hope- j less, and death only a question of a few j weeks. The remedy consisted in the repeated transfusion from the arterial svs- j tern of a healthy young man, who con- j sented to act as donor, of from four to : six ounces of fresh blood, according to j the method styled arteriovenous. The i patient was so exceedingly feeble when j the first transfer was undertaken that ! only four ounces were transfused, in con- I sequence of the disturbance of the action j of the heart that immediately ensued. The i recrudescence of the vital energies was, i hnwnvnr ovtranrfliniirv From thfi date. ilmost from the moment, of the cxperi- j ment the patient began to improve. The . tendency to emaciation disappeared, and :he pulmonary symptoms were greatly re- j luced in severity. Relish for food re- j :urned, and the nervous prostration was jreatly relieved. Three weeks later the operation was j epcated, with six ounces of blood, the ! nethod employed being that of Profes- | or Joseph W. Howe, the leading advo- j :ate of transfusion in the United States. ' rhc results of the second experiment >vere more encouraging than those of the ; irst. Three transfusions have now been ! indertaken, and the young man is now mproving so rapidly, both in general lealth and local symptoms, that the roung surgeon is confident of success .vithout another resort to the transfusion syringe. "The idea is not a new one," he re narked, in response to a request for in- j "ormation. "Dr. Howe was the first to ! ry transfusion in a desperate case of tu- j jercular consumption with such success i hat the late Professor Van Buren ex libitcd the patient to his class in a clini- ; :al lecture, at which I was present, and lescribed the operation. I firmly believe hat transfusion of blood is the true emedy for consumptiou and diseases illied to it, and if ever I have the oppor- ( ;unity I sliall test it in leprosy."?New j York Sun. A One-Line Railroad. The Lastique Balance railroad, which ! rns been the object of so much attention j it the agricultural show in Paris, con- j lists of a single bar of iron, supported in j ts horizontal position three or four feet j ligh by irou standards rising like the j egs of a trestle from a flat plate resting j >n the ground. Along the top of the 1 jar-rail runs a deeply grooved wheel j mrrying its own oil-boxes, and attached : :o a long iron frame on each side, which ' s bent downward and outward, and j itted with paniers or carriers hanging j lown to within a short distance of the , j i.i ! jruuuu. imu tuesu rcircfjiiiuiua id piaucu. ho load to be carried, half of it on each <ide, but if the one side should be rather nore heavily loaded than the other, the working of the apparatus is not thereby i iestroved, nor is the friction perceptibly I increased. The railroad can be put up j by a couple of workmen at the rate of i icveral hundred yards a day, and where i curves have to be contrived, all that is I necessary is to bend the bar-rail to the required extent. it seems that the apparatus, which has j since been patented, was devised by M. I Lastique in Algeria, to enable the Alfa ' [jlant, which is used in paper manufac- ! ture, to be brought from remote districts I to the nearest towns. Carriage on the backs of mules or camels was found so 1 expensive that it did not pay to trans- | port this cheap product in that way, and j it will be easily understood that if it was found cheaper to carry such things by the one-line railroad, there can be no objection to the new invention on economic grounds. With the help of it it is found j that a pony or mule or camel can draw 1 twenty to thirty loaded wagon baskets. \ Its utility in Europe is supposed likely to tjv uu ""Viv .V | be employed for divers purposes, such as t the carriage of roots, stonp, water anil manure. Jiy putting a chair into the baskets, each vehicle can also be made to carry two men with ease and comfort.? IA>//don Glohe. mm, The Telephone Fifty Years Ago. A little more than fifty years ago the employes of the Arms Shoe manufactory . at Deerlield beguiled their leisure hours | by kite-flying. Kites large and small j were sent up daily, and the strife was to ! see who could get the largest. The twine j which oheld them was the shoe-thread spun and twisted by the ladies of the village. One day to the tail of the ! largest kite was attached a kitten, sewed in a canvas bag, with a netting over the mouth to fjive it air. "When the kite was at its greatest height?snme 200 feet or more?the mewing of the kitten could be distinctly heard by those holding the j string. To the clearness of the atmos- j phere was attributed the hearing of the kitten's voice, and no telephonic patent | was applied for.?Sprincjfield (Mass.) ; Union. In the barroom of a hotel in Denver sat a one-legged man named Coyne. A stranger hit the house dog with his cane, | and C'ovne took the brute's part. The j dog followed Coyne all day, and when i he went to the attic for the night the I dog ran up stairs and crawled into the j bed. Coyne threw him off, but the dog j jumped back. In the night the hotel | took fire, and Coyne alone was saved, the j dog awakening him in time. In nineteen private galleries of New ! York arc pictures worth $6,000,000. [ Vanderbilt's form the most costly singl? ; collection. I FARM, GARDEN AM) HOUSEHOLD. Feeding for Beef. Tha. venerable John Johnson, near Geneva, N. Y., was a conspicuous instance of economical, systematic and successful feeding. Being a Scotchman and conversant with good farming in his native land, he placed a high value upon the manure made from fattening cattle to enable him to raise large crops and an abundance of fodder. His principal crop was wheat, but on a heavy soil he often raised from seventy-five to eighty bushels of corn per acre, and made his fodder of corn stalks and straw; but at times, he states, he used forty-five tons of oilcake in a year. When he put up a lot of three-year-old steers to feed he began with two pounds of oil cake, and then to five pounds of corn meal, and this was increased gradually to four pounds of cake and eight to nAt-n monl TTfl O 1 cn ovniflofl l/tu puunuo v/l VVIU lllVWt. AJL\, WWW M ? V* >*>, *? the too common practice of feeding a single food, however good it may be in itself. lie gives hay once a day, and sometimes bran and pea meal as a change. This system he has followed for more than forty years and has found that by it he could put upon a grade short horn steer three pounds of flesh per day for a period of 150 days. Producing Late Fruit. Small fruits can often be controlled for a period of two weeks in the matter of setting fruit feeds. Late strawberries are very frequently produced by keeping a mulch upon the plants until other plants are in flower. Blackberries and raspberries, as also grapes, if pruned to this object, can be laid down in fall and not be taken up until very late in spring. All fruits are rendered late by planting on backward soils, or on a northern slope. Such localities often have the effect of producing inferior fruit, however. On heavy soils the plant or tree is apt to errow too much and bear too little. Trees may be retarded by keeping a heavy mulch on the ground for a good distance about the trunk. The mulch should extend farther than the limbs to injure good results. If the ground is frozen under the mulch, or is covered with snow, a considerable retardation may be expected. An interesting instance of the retarding of fruiting is told by Sir Hugh Piatt, in the early days of English husbandry. Sir Francis Carew, it is 3aid, wishing to surprise Queen Elizabeth by a cherry-tree in full fruit a month past the usual time, accomplished his object by "straining a tent or cover of canvas over the whole tree, and wetting the same now and then with a scoop or hosue as the heat of the weather required, nndso, by withholding the sunny beams from reflecting upon the berries, they grew both great and were very long before they had gotten j their perfect cherrie-color; and when he i was assured of her majesty's coming, he removed the tent, and a few sunny days brought them to their full maturities." ? Cultivator. Rhubarb Culture. Rhubarb, like currant bushes, will grow almost anywhere and under any treatment, and consequently receives more ill usage than any other "green thing growing." But for this reason it should not be supposed that when growing under neglect and abuse it will do its best and produce as abundant crops j and of equally good quality as when j good treatment is given. After it is once planted rhubarb requires little cultivation, but it must have at all times deep, rich soil, the richer the better. In field culture the roots are planted about four feet apart each way, and cultivated like any hoed crop. In the family garden they should be planted two u> luxec iucl ujjuri, iu u aiu^iu iun, at least four feet distant from other plants. It may be raised from seed, but as there is little reliance in the seedlings being of the same variety as the parent plants, division of the rootsis the method of propagation usually adopted. Any piece of root with a bud or crown will grow if planted about two inches ] deep in mellow soil firmly pressed around it. Roots may be planted in autumn or early spring. Plantations are usually renewed every four or five years, yet when a liberal dressing of manure is given every fall the roots will produce a crop for an almost indefinite period. Heavy manuring, clean cultivation, and liberal space are the essential requisites for raising large, succulent rhubarb. The varieties best known are: Linnaeus, grown extensively for market as well as home use. It is early, very productive, and of a brisk, spicy flavor. IIS priuuipiu lllUll IS tllJU iL3UCu.-5 av/ Iiutij I that unless all flower stalks are cut off as | soon as they appear the crop deteriorates rapidly. Victoria is later, has larger leaves*and stalks, and requires very rich, rather heavy ground for its development. Paragon. This is a new variety, originated in England, and now introduced here. The Btalks are bright red, heavy, and produced in quick succession and great abundance. It is earlier, of more delicate flavor, and decidedly less acid than any other variety we are acquainted with. But its most remarkable and most valuable qualification is that it does not produce flower stalks, to which fact its great productiveness is mainly attributable, all the strength of the plant being used for the development of its leaves.? j American Qarden. Artificial Fertilizers. One of the most important services of 1 Oi-i- : l.nn K/?nn 1 Uie DUllC U.\ JIUl liutnu stauuus uiio uv.i.u the examinations of artificial fertilizers and the publication of the reports of these. There is no more easy way of ! swindling than by means of fraudulent j fertilizers, or rather by useless rubbish i sold as fertilizers, and the various State f experiment stations have been the means I of detecting and exposing many of these j and of saving many thousands of dollars to the farmers. If the farmers do not! take advantage of these services freely j offered to them by the State govern- 1 ments, it is their own neglect and fault. ! Reports are furnished to all applicants, | and every farmer who uses fertilizers | should avail himself of them. Fertilizers must necessarily be taken on j trust, unless the farmers exercise reasonable caution. The law provides that every bag sold should carry with it marks showing the analysis and constitution of its contents. The names of the leading manufacturers, whose business is beyond suspicion and reproach, are a guarantee of the purity of their goods, j because their reputation is too valuable ! to be risked for the uncertain profit and the certain detection of any dishonest practices. Any farmer may send a sample of any fertilizer to his State experiment station and have it analyzed and know that !u irottimr Tvh.it hf? is imvinc for. and "v J" bv b ~ i?^?o -- ? this fact alone is sufficient to secure the purity of any fertilizer made by a respectable manufacturer. The science of fertilizing is now well understood, and the frequent explanations and references in regard to this matter in these columns will help farmers to know what they want and what they may expect from fertilizers, The complete fertilizers made to serve as a substitute for ordinary manure and the special fertilizers for particular crops have been tried and used for years with the greatest benefit by farmers who have learned by experience the profit of using them. Their use is indispensable to success, for no farmer ever yet had a sufficient supply of manure for all his crops, and liberal fertilizing, like liberal feeding of cattle, can alone make agri?u *?11? T).,i Culture lUllj jhuhiuuic. uut viiu anuuiu know for what he pays liis money, and use only those which he has the best reason to know are worth what he pays for them. And this he has an opportunity of knowing through his State experiment station. As a sample of the work of the stations, the following from the recent report of that of the State of New Jersey may be given: 193 samples of the fertilizers of eighty-three manufacturers, and representing sales of over 30.000 tons, worth more than a million dollars, were examined. Some of these were practically worthless, and some were worth more than the selling price. Field experiments with the best of these lertilizerB gave net profits of $7 to $16 per acre. On one plot the fertilizer costing $3.25 per acre gave an increase of twenty-nine and one-ha'f bushels of com and half a ton of stalks; another test gave a net profit of $25.70 per acre, and r* " ' i another $35.30. Similar issults have been reached by farmers who have been 1 careful to note the effects of the fertilizers. Of course, in these cases only proved and well-known fertilizers were used.?New York Times. Household Recipc* and Hint*. Clear, boiling water will remove tea stains; pour the water through the stain, and thus prevent its spreading over the fabric. Mahogany furniture should be washed with warm water and soap, then an ap- i plication of beeswax and sweet oil upon a soft cloth, and polish with chamois, j gives a rich finish. To clean carpets, dampen some Indian meal, mix salt with it, and sprinkle over | the carpet; sweep vigorously. Take a ' small, sharp-pointed stick to remove the salt and meal from cracks and corners. ! A sauce piquante for fish is made by adding a teaspoonful of curry powder to 1 the ordinary sauce of drawn butter. Or you may omit the vinegar and chop two or three tart cucumbers fine, and mix them with the sauce. As a garnish for roast spare rib, or for pork chops, cut 6ome tart apples in | eights, drop them, after peeling, into boiling lard; when crisp on the outside remove them with a skimmer, drain j them well, and send to the table hot. An old-fashioned and toothsome spice cake is make of three pounds of seedless | raisins, and one and a half pounds of citron, two cups of sweet milk, four cups J of flour, six eggs, two tablcspoonsful of baking powder, three teaspoonsful of cinnnamon and two of mace. For a rich pium pudding, mix well and boil in plenty of water for four hours ' hall' pound each of currant and stoned raiaius, three-quarters of a pound of suet, i three ounces of flour, two ounces of peel, , six ounces of sugar, a little nutmeg, one 1 gill of water, and one tablespoonful of salt. People must consult their own tastes as to kind of tea. Mixed is the best to use with ice. Allow one teaspoonful for i each person. Use boiling water, but do j not boil the tea, and use while fresh, j Tea is best made in an earthen teapot? never in tin. Iced tea should be made ; several hours before it is needed, and then set upon ice. When ready to use it, sweeten and drink without milk 01 i cream. Use cracked ice to put into the | glass. In the course of fermentation all j dough passes through four processes if the fermentation is allowed to go on, viz: j Saccharine, vinous, acetic, putrefactive. The dough should always be put into the oven before .it passes through the first rermentation; the bread in that case will be good, having the sugar in it. If j allowed to pass into the vinous fermenta- j tion, so as to obtain alcohol from it, the bread will bo poor in flavor and in quality. A very excellent soup is flavored so strongly with carrot as to be called carrot soup: For stock take a good beef bone or a knuckle of veal; have at least three quarts of cold water and plen- j ty of salt; after it has boiled for half an j hour add rice or barley, pepper, and a j little dried parsley; boil for an hour longer. This may be strained, or be j served with a tablespoonful of the sliced carrot in each plate of soup. Some cooks prefer chopping the carrots tine, but this is a matter of taste. Fremont and the Modocs. In the spring of 1846 Lieutenant .jonn C. Fremont entered California on his j third exploring expedition to the "West ! and his second trip across the continent. ; His party consisted of about sixty men, many of them old and tried mountaineers, and all of them hardy and daring men picked by their commander for the ar- j duous service expected of them. After exchanging international compliments with General Castro, which at one time appeared certain to result in blows, Frc- j mont started north to visit the Columbia, i On the bank of Klamath lake he was overtaken by Lieutenant Gillespie, who had followed him across the continent with dispatches announcing that war had been declared with Mexico, and instructing him to seize California if possible. Late into the night those young officers, on whose shoulders such weighty responsibilities had been thrown, fat by the smoldering embers and counseled about their future course. Around them lay j their companions, wrapped in profound t slumber, their weary limbs stretched upon the ground. Fatigue nnd the ex- I citement of the news had made their leader incautious. lie forgot that he was in a country where the natives had shown signs of hostility. Filled with the great projects ot the future, his limbs weary with fatigue, he, too. lay : down by the fire and closed . his heavy eyes in sleep. In that silent camp lay ! the sleeping forms of Richard Owens, Lucien Maxwell, Kit Carson, Alex. Godey, Steppenfeldt, Basil Lajeunnesse, Denne, Crane, and others of those hardy mountaineers who had trapped the whole Western wilderness and fought the j , savage denizens for years, and never be- j fore been guilty of lying down to sleep j ' in an enemy's country without posting a guard. Slumber's chains bound the camp, but around it stole the 6inuous forms of j i savage enemies. Nearer and nearer they crept, until they stood among the sleep- i ' ing men by the fire. The Modocs were ready to claim the first white victims of j that band of murdered ones who have fallen in that sterile land. Even in his slumbers the sensitive ear - ? ~ j - ? i.V. A of Kit I'arson caugnt me sounu 01 mc , dull thud, as a blow fell upon the bead : of a sleeping companion. Leaping to his ; feet he kicked the smoldering embers of the camp-fire, and by the light of the up- j shooting flame saw the dark forms of the Modocs. Springing to one s.idc to avoid J : the light of the fire, the bold trapper , cried, "Indians! Indians!" and in an instant the camp was aroused. Crane, a Delaware Indian, sprung to his feet and ' endeavored to discharge his gun, which ' was uufortunately unloaded, and received five arrows in his breast. Remembering ; that his gun was also unloaded, Carson ( cast it aside, drew a single-barreled pis- j tol and (liscnargeu it at lue savage wuu was slaying his friend, but the brave was i dodging about so continually that the : bullet missed him and cut the string of his tomahawk. All but fhis Modoc were now in full retreat, and as he turned to , flee two bullets from the now thoroughly aroused camp laid him dead upon the ! 1 ground. lie was the only one of the attacking party who remained long enough to be hurt, and had they all been as bold i as he it would have fared badly with i that unprotected camp.?Portland (Ore.) 1 West Shore. Henry Clay's Heroic Son. j 1 "Do you know what killed Henry j Clay?" my genial Kentucky story-tellei , asked me the other. " If not, 1 will tell i you. He died of a broken heart, not be- i cause he lost the Presidency, but his son. !' Henry Clay, Jr., was his father's idol. He was sent to West Point, where he : graduated second in his class. After , four months in the army he resigned, 1 and began practising law in Lexington, 1 living with his father at Ashland. Not J a young man in Kentucky promised bet- 1 ter things than he did. When the Mcx- ( ican war broke out he was determined ] to go. His father made no objection, < and he went out as lieutenant-colonel of the first Kentucky regiment. At the j battle of Buena Vista, iranta Anna, witn 32,000 troops, nearly overwhelmed General Taylor, with about one-eighth that j number. Clay fought, hard, but, as his | regiment was falling back, a shot went 1 through both legs. He was not mortally wounded, and three men picked him up j to convey him of! the field. It soon be- ^ came evident that the Mexicans would overtake them. " Save yourselves, f boys," he said, and taking the pistol J which his father had given him, he 1 handed it to one of the men with the words, "Take this, and return it to my j father. Tell him I have no further use ( for it." With that they dropped him and ran after the retreating troops. The , last they say of Clay he was lying on his < back, fighting a squad of Mexicans with j ] his sworJ. Next morning his body was found, hacked to pieces and mutilated , by the cowards wno had killed him. < The pistol came to his father, then a i < Senator, and, though he lived several: ? yearn alter, I am convinced that he died j j from Ihoblow.? Cincinnati Ncw?-Journal. | NEWS OF THE WEEK !?h, la Eastern and Middle Statos Forest fires have done an immense amount of damage in portions of New York, Pennsylvania and New Jersey. In many diatri to c] the flames raged with rnexampled fury, ai sweeping away everything in thfir path for tl miles. The burning woods set fire to a powder company s works near Scranton, lViyx, q and by the oxplosion which followed one X, workman was killed and two injured. The lumbering village of California, Penn., was almo-it entirely destroyed by the flames, rOther towns were reported to bo ablaze or ' seriously threatened by the advancing flames. Several mountains in the threa States were a on fire, and many lives were reported lost Two men were instantly killed and five H others seriously injured by the sudden fall of if fho rafters of a building which they wore tearing down in Williamsburg, N. Y. in Oilman's Station, a busy hamlet in Sul- p Hvnn pnnrt.v. X. Y.. was destroyed by the it forest lires. In all eighteen buildings, 20,- tt 000,<10J feet of lumber, and four cars loaded li with lumber were fe:l totho flame .All the buildings destoyed belonged to Mr. Oilman, whose loss is Sl'jO.i 00, and many of his loU employes lost their all. A tract of laud ten miies long and two miles wide was burned w over. is Six men were killed by the explosion of a 113 boiler attached to the \Vhitney Marble company's works near (iouveraeur, N. Y. George Crossauvt, his wife and two 0| children were burned to death in a fire which destroyed several buildings in Clinton county, 1c Fourteen- men, including an Indian and a negro, started iu the six-day, go-as-you-pl'use * pedestrian match in New York. Seven men were on the track at tie end of the sixth day, having acccm- M plished (lie 62> miles necessary to obtain a ? share of the gate receipts. During tho week ^ th< re was a fierce contest ?or first place be- * tween Howell and Fitzgera'd, tirat one ani then the other baing ahead. Un the last day 8 Kowell made a desperate effort to rOga.n Ins T lost lead, but could not get nearer than t) la within four miles of Fitzgerald. Immtnse crowds vociferously cheered the contestants all tho wcm.k. The previous highest score 0j on record ? 600 miles, made by Haxael fr in ? was beaten. Following ara the scores of the seven men who divided the gate money, and the amount received by ?: each: Patrick Fitzgerald, of Hunters Point, Long Island, 010 miles, $11,000; Charle* ?' Rowell, of England; C02 miles, $4,300; Peter J. Panchot, of Buffalo, N. Y., 5(34 miles, 300; Gtorgo D. Noremac, of New York, 515 miles, $1,4C0; D. J. Herty, of Boston, ?39 miles, $1,000; Robert Vint, of Brooklyn, 530 miles, $800; Alfred Elson, of Connecticut, 525 miles, $OCO. A Siamese embassy to this country, with 0 Prince KromMunNares Varariddhi, the half I w brother of King Phrobat Somdetch Phra Paramendo Mahah Chulahlongkorn, of Siam, at the he id as envoy ex- ^ traordinaiy and minister plenipotentiary, (J were received with naval honors upon their arrival in New York. From the metropolis . they proceeded to Washington. Much excitement was created in New York al by the announcement that two lifeboats be- t! longing to the Oi.ean steamship State of j, Florida, from New York, bound for Glasgow, Scotland, had been picked up at sea. The 01 State of Florida carried thirty-five cabin and J] fllty steerage passengers, and her officers and crew numbered eighty persons?165 souls altogether. A sailing vessel which was sighted lc by another steamship sent out signals indica- tl ting that she had some of the missing steamship's people onboard. Losses from tho forest fires in Elk county* Penn., are estimated at $l,00l),000. Twenty thousand people were present at 81 the formal opening of the new Produce Exchange building in Now York. Y Hundreds of canines of high and low de" bl gree were on exhibition at tho dop show, which followed the pedestrian match at the Madisjn Square garden, New York. President Arthur was represented by a red mastiff. 1 he 1,117 dogs on exhibition were valued at over $350,000. Hon. Truman Smith, ex-United States Senator, and for several successive terms a tl member of the lower house of Congress from Connecticut, died a few days since in Stain- ; ford, Conn., at the ripe old age of ninety- u three years. re Wild excitement prevailed in Wall street m financial circles upon the announcement that 80 the Marine National bank, supposed t j be one of the most conservative and securest banks m in New Yoik, had closed its doors. About m *?- ? ^onlrlnff linnon r?f ftrftnfc fli bWU HUUid lai/Cl tug uuun.ii;& U| & Ward, of which General Grant is a special, aud his son, Ulysses S. Jr., general 111 partner, also suspended, -with liabilities esti- ai roaUd ut anywnere between $'00,000 and tii 11,000.000. lJro-ident Fish, of the Marine bank, is also a sp.e.-ial partner in the finn of Grant <$s Ward, while the last-named partner, Ferdinand Ward, is a director in the bank. Thus the bank and the firm were so identified financially that the collapse of the t? one was closely followe 1 by the suspension of H the other. The bank had a largo amount of tb money on deposit, including ?1.00),000 of . city funds, but it was thought the de- 1 po-itor.-s would be eventually paid in P< lull. It was claimed that lresi- pfi dent Fish and Mr. Ward had lost heavily in . joint real estate speculation, that the firm of Giant & Ward had overdrawn it3 account of at the Lank t.> the extent of more than | )00,- ofl 000, and that this caused the bank's suspen- v.sion. General Grant was reported to b * a heavy loser by the double suspension. The two failures caused a feeling of insecurity and alnrm in Wall street that has not prevailed there in year?. Some twenty-five friends of Congressman TV. E. Robinson, or Brooklyn, in the House, presented him the other day with a clock ?v< nnrf h ? fnndelabra. in honor of his seven- 111 tieth birthday. a" John F. Slater, thecntton manufacturer and philanthropist who gave $1,00 J,000 for gc the education of the colored men of the jn South, died the other day at his residence in j.;, Norwich., Conn., aged about seventy years. ar At the General Conference of the Metho- M: dist Epis opal church, held in Philadelphia, re many questions of interest to the dtnomina- bj tion were discused by the delegates. bi The suspense concerning t ;e fate of the ^ survivowof the stesm-hip State of Florida, J? frrm New York for Glasgow, was relieve! by a d spntch re.tived in New York from Que Lej announcing the arrival at that place of Pf the steamship Titania with twenty-lour of P1 the survivors 0.1 hoard. Th; State of 1 lorida had iollidid .n mid oc-ean with the bark Ponerna, aud botii vessels went down. Of ?0 t:.e bark's crew of fifteen only the captain and two smmen wera saved. Tne steamer | carriid thirty-five cabin and fifty steerage ^ passengers, and a crew of eighty-one men, QE and a stewardess. Tw.nty-nine of the crew, including the stewardess, and twelve pa's ?n- 5'1 Sers, were saved by a pa-sing vessel after rifting about in a email boat tor nearly two tl! days. Twenty-four of the forty-four survi- a? vors were afterward transferred to the steam- ri.( ship Titania, and taken, to Quebec. In all J about 1:J5 persons wore reported lost. jjj! Te South and West. tj, William McIIluh and Enoch Brown ra (colored) were hanged for wife murder?the Mi former at Cincinnati and the latter at Hali- res fax Court House, N. C. For a similar crime co; William Brooks (colored) wa* swung into >, an eternity at Alexandria, La ! For stealing $150, a colored boy eichteon vears old was taken out of jail at Burlington, ' ky., by a party of 100 masked men and wj banged to a tree. fln A tornado which struck the town of Del na Rio, Texas, killed one man, badly injured a!l Qve mote, swept away the n.w Episcopal tiv church a- d several cabins, and damaged j many other buildings. Se Edward Thompson, of Roland, Iowa, li>i struck his wife with an ax, when his brolher en interfered. Struggling together, the two re. men I ell into a well an l were both killed. 11< Mi s. Thompson was mortal y injured. fo The steamer B. S. Ford caught fire while l'r' at her pier at Chestcrtown, Aid., and was ,Wt burned to the water's edge. She cost $75,000 to build, and $50,00:) more naa oeeu e*pended on her in improvements. "c A grass fire started for fun by boys in Cecil county( Md., traversed a tract of territory eight inileslongund three wide. A large ' number of barns and other buildings, with much valuable timber, were consumed. ' A fire at Gainesville. Fin., destroyed thirty-live buildings. The total Iojs was esti- Ea mated at $lf>0,0!.'0. otl Violent stoims hive destroyed munh prop- ^ Bity in portions of Iowa, Illinois and Arkan- t sas. At Lit.lo Rock, Ark., a shed fell on a number of convicts emplove 1 in bnck-mak- a(. in?, killing one and s rious y injuring an- eV) ather. M( Joski h E. Mi*rrell, Jr., died at Mobile, ga Ala., the other day, of a strange malady, of, He was j-ubje t to te riblo convulsions when Ja jsleeponly. His father or some oth-r at- th tendnnt was, th.-refoie. always present at ' night to prevent his falling asleep, and the an on y rest obtained for u dozen years was a tv itato of dozing. the M. V. Wai.nkr, a prominent'business man tri jf Mnrs'iall, Mi ll., has just been re-olected mayor of that lively city by a largely increased majority. tht Strong feeling against the British govern- Is' T,n,,ni.. nf Kntriand on rnent exisK a u..u ,-v.w, _.._0 ifcount of the abandonment of General Gor- '"V Ion to his fate. f'liatime Kord, one of the brothers who Q( iillo I Jesse Jam *. t'e notorious Missouri *|-j, mndit, committed suiideat Richmond, Mo., rjv tvith a pistol shot. I ap A passenoku car and two sleepers belong- J br. ;iig to a train were th own into a ditch by a mc jiokon rail near Decat ir, 111. Thr e persons da ,ver<' fatally i-.nd twenty seriously injured. me TiiK twenty ninth nnntinl reunion of the 001 Sot.t'icrn Baptist cunvvnti ?n was held in Ja'.titnotv, Rev. 1'atrk-k 11. Mell, of Georgia jeing e.'e ted president. At the General Conference of the colored ] Uethcdists, in Baltimore. t!io quadrennial six iddress was delivered by Bishop Dickerson, lig >f North Carotin i. Ji'dan P. benjamiv.the notad lawyer and hy i'lvo ate. and ex-oflflcial of the Southern ' ni< Jonfrderacy, died in J'aris a few days a;o. ' Uo was born on the island of St. <'ro>x. of f0i Jewish parents, in 1811, wj.s admitted to the , we mr at New Grleans. became a United states | ( Senaher in 1852,and was returned in 1858: i e 1 to ?ame at'.orney-general in .JeTeimn Davis' | jit cabinet iu ltstfl, and was appoin'ed Conf<\ler- I tj ite secretary of war in 188:3, and afterward j secretary of stati; went to England at Ilia :lose of the war. where he practised law until vc > | a: he is retirement Inst year. He was th?n condered one of the foremost la wye: s in Eng,nd, and had amassed a larga fortune. Waaliliigton. During April the nat'onal debt was deceased $5,2iJ,07.>.2!), leaving the total debt t $1,4(^,010,7^5.80, with ^^1,753,20).85 in le treasury. The coinage executed in the various United tates mints during April consisted of loO,Xi gold pieces, worth Jfl,!W9,0ii0: 2,400,000 lver pieces, worth $2,310,000, and 4,995,000 linor coins, worth $103,350. Total coinage, 54o,70!i pieces, worth $4,403,410. the Dill nmenuing me v-unies? euu ;rauu;i ct pas-sed the House by 184 yeas to 1:5 nays. The Senate confirmed the nomination of enry W. Cannon to bo con'ro'.ler of the eurmcy. The House committee on invalid pensions istructed Hepienentative Morrill to report ivorably Mr. Kyatis bill, repealing the limation in the aiTears of pension-; act Th si? 10 bill introduced in the Senate by Senator lgalls. Foreign. The ship Atlantine. of Drammen. Norway, as wrecked in a ga'e near the Magdalen lands. Nineteen liven were lost, the second late being the only survivor. Sir Henrv Wikofk, well known in this juntry, of whi -h he was a native, as Chevaer "VVikofT, ex-journalist, diplomat, and man ' the world, died a fe?v days a^o in London, jed about sixty-five years. A call of the Eusian government for a ian of ? 15.00 ),03') lias b en respon ted to by xbsmption; amounting to mo:e than sevenen times that sum. It is stated that owing td the discovery at [oscow of a plot to assasinato the czar, the sstivities designed in honor of the coming I! age of the czarivkh will bo held at St. etersburg. M. Curchod, the manager of a prominent vviss bank at Lausann \ has bjan arrested, he institution has sunk ?*0J,00J in spajuLtors' accounts. A Dublin dispatch says Michael Davitt. le noted Irish home-rule leader, on account ! differences with Mr. Parnall. has retired om politics, and will sattle in Australia. A dispatch has b.?en published from Gen al Gordon stating that as there is no intenon of sending relief to him at Khartoum, to Berber, he will hold himself as long as j can, and then retire to the Equator. LATER NEWS. I *7ie remains of the late Dr. Samuel D. I lws, a prominent Philadelphia! physician( : ere cremated at Washington, Penn. Owing to the failure of tho Marine bank of ew York, and of tho firm of Grant & "Ward, eneral Grant and his sens, Ulysses S. Grant( i\, Ju.-se E. Grant and Frederick D. Grant, live all gone into bankruptcy j iid male assignments for the benefit of u ir creditors. The firm of Grant & Ward said to be involved t3 the extent of $10,)!),(X)0. James D. Fish, president of the! [arine bank,has uLso made an ais:gnment. The steamer Cit/of Port'and, from Bos. j >n to St. John s, N. F., struck on a ledge off | le Maine coast. Her passengere and crewt I Js pf r.-ons in all,were saved. The vessel was ! qIuwI at $123,000. Oct of ISO senators elected in Spain 150 are ipjoi ters of the government. 13Y nn explosion 111 a ayiiamite lactury m i orkshire, England, ten women wore I lown to atoms and two otheis severely ounded. LATEII CONGRESSIONAL. NEWS. / Senate. Tiie Senate insisted on rts amendments to ic F'tz John Porter bill and the pleuro-: leumonia bill, which were rejected I y j le House The committee on pensions i ported favorably, with an amendent, the house bill granting pensions to the j ildiers of the Mexican war. The amend- | ent provides that no such officer, enlisted ) on. or wi low shall be entitled to the bene- j :s of this act unless dep.nlent in whole or , part upon his or her own labor or a?sist. ice from others for support Considerajn of tha shipping bill was remmsd, and it as finally pa-sad with amendments Houib The bill appropriating $1,003,000 as a loan j the New Orle ans exposition came up. Mr. oliran strongly opposed the bill, declaring . at Congress had no constitutional power tCH1 an money to a private corporation. Mr ! utter took similar ground. The bill wa^ issod 132 to 87 The secretary of the in. rior submitted a supplementary (Stimate $272,020 for additional clerical force in th . i lice of the commissioner of pensions. ..Ae 11 reviving the patent laws was introduced- I mmlTcmitm! Senate* i Mr. Vaxi "VVycko.'Vereil a resolution, which | is agreed to, calling on the secretary of tho j terior for information as to what action, if j ly, had been taken in regar.I to entries or j iblic lands by the fc'ster iJor!c company, or I aiized under the laws of Great Britain and j ing business in Coloialo and made in the , terest of the Karl of Dumaven and other iglishmen. aad which said entries ! e alleged to be fraudulent r. Van A\ yck said his object in offering the solution was r.ofc only to have action takin ! r Congress to protect the public d main, I it to huve such a t'on taken very speedily, e a'so wished the action taken in'order t.iafc , may serve a< notice to innorent persons in reign countries who invest money in lauds. ! e title to which they sappo^o to have bejn ; operly acquired Discussion on the ship- I ng bill was continued. Tne ayr.cultural appropriation bill was ported back to the J-'cnato. The -Senate rnmittee has increased tbe appropriation r sorghum experiments from $1i>,010 to 0,000, and has adde l a provision for ariian wells to reclaim arid lands, #','0,000, j id one for encouraging s-ilk c.Utiue, $1">,0.I0 j ..Mr. Plumb introduced a billt> prevent j e acquisition of rea' estate l?y uliens. provides that aliens who bave not declared | eir intention to become citizens shall not quire title to real estate in any of theTerritots or in the District of Columbia. It pro- . les that no foreign corporation, more tnan l per cent, of the sto .-k or which is held by | tens, snail acquire une w any juuus ill rritories or in the District of Columbia, and nt no corporation, native or foreign, except ilroads shall acquire more than 5,00.) acres, r. Van Wyck al-o introduced a bill to strict the ownership by aliens and foreign rporations and compainies of public land | d of any land in t ie Terr.tories. After final sprclus by Messrs. Ranlall j d Kas-on against, and by Messrs. Morr.'s m : d Blackbu n in favor of the tari E bill, a ; jtion to s like out it> inictinj elans', | li -h p -a"(i ally ki.ls the bill, ivai carried, :id much excitement by 1-V.i ^oas to 155 | ys-forty-one Democrats voting in t ie | mnativeand four Republicans in the tie^a- ' e. Mr. Edmunds introduced a hill in the nate pla ing General t'r.:nt on the r. tired , t of i no ar.uy with the full j ay of a ten- | ?i Wo n the introduction w tli i nark<, in which heexj r.'.s?e 1 the h:>i>e that 1 3 committed on military a'airs would, , oiwious reasons, give th mat er , ompt attention. The reasons referred to, ! re General Gi ant's financial losses incuired j the failure of the New York firm, of which j was a member. The bill would secure to I neral Grant the pay of a gen ral, $14,.*.00, d tho emoluments attached thereto, lounting in all t > some $l!>,000... .The ship- j ig bill was further considered. House. The Tariff debate was continued in the | >use, brief speeches being made by Messrs. j iton. Belmont, Cox, Vance, Hoblitzell and iers An evening session was held for e consideration of pension bills. , rhe House decided in the Virginia conited election case of U'Ferrall against Paul at U'Ferrall was entitled to the seat. He once took the oath of office At the ening session speeches were made by js-srs. Young, ltolman, Woodward, Morn,Sumner, Jlreckenridge and Uatf s in favor , and Messrs. Feir.ll, Connelly, Davis, mes. Manner, opnggs unu j u_\ i n uji?u^ e tariff bill. Tho report of the committee on j rivi'ezes d elections in relation to the Cod a i co.in(Mi-s.), election troubles, was lai I l.eioro 5 Senate....The bill to provide for a free d-^e a ross tho Potomac ii/er w:i< poss.nl .The shipping bill was furlh.'r debate.!. The river and harbor bill was lcjorud to i Hous?. The total of the a propmtions Jl-2,61!',100. The largest appropriation U the Mississippi river, from it; mouth to its irce, anounting to S.'.-iOO.OOO, and not iniding tho $1,0:!0,(H)0 appropriate ! horetov. Fift e l ad l.tional grent rivet's the country r ceive S i,40 01, o total amount rerommendo 1 tor 13j ors and twelve channels js II,'1,000. Til> propriation for harb >rs, ire ha-bors : n I akwater is $4,0 8. 00....Sen\t- amenlnit to the House bill, repealing th * iron. 1 oath,was com urred in Senate air.e idmts to the Fitz John Forter bill were nonlnurred in. PROMINENT PEOPLE. [t is <-a:d tbaf. Mr. Matthew Arnold cleared : thousand dollars from the sweetness and ;ht he distributed ninon; us. Harbison, tho revivali.t, says that t'.io mn. "Jesus Saves," w a- written by the >st godly woman ho ever saw. M. De I.essefs often sleeps for twentynr lours on a stretch, and t lengocsawho e iek without a moment's dozing. lienettar, "Lew"' Wallace. <>ur minister Turkey, will devote himse'.f entirely to erar/ pursuit; 011 his return from Constanloplo. Gilbert De La Matyr, the Greenback adicate and ex-Congressman, is pastor now of fashionable church at St. Paul, into which 1 has introduced an orchestra. M OCEAN HORROR j 11 _ A Steamship Sunk by Collision j With a Bark. r 11 0 More Than One Hundred and Thirty * Persons Lose Their Lives. ' ' . - * I] The painful suspense that prevailed with j regard to the survivors of the di aster of the . [ tll-fated steamer State of Florida was re- j r lioved by the arrival at Quebec o" th3 Don . -J a'.d'on steamer Titania, from Glasgow, [ v with twenty-four of the rescued party. a The following is the official report of the third j t uuiucr ol ta*j ouue oi nunaa: "We 'o t New York 0.1 April 12. with abouf 107 psengers and cow a'ld a fu'l general cnrgo. All went well until the ni/ht of tha ISth, at 11::J0, when wa todided wit'it' obirk Pcnema, of Chatham, N. B., Captain Heyburn. li<th vessels went d ,wn aim ?t immediately, and cut of the steamers passengers and crew only fcrty-four, including the stewardess, managed to earape in tho bi a's. Of the i a'k's crew of fifteenenly the captain nnd two s anieu were saved. Thj i.oxt morning the bark was observed bottom up. Ti e survivors after having been thirjy-tlvo hours in t':e boats without food or water, were rescued by the Norwegian 1 atk 'lhere.-a, of Christiana, irom thatpo t bound for u t.e . On the -Sd twenty ! our of them were transferred on boar.l the i-hip Louisa, of and from Carditf, for Qutbec. Theyr maincd i ' on that vess 1 until the 5th ins ., whm they were taken on board the Titania, for Quebec, j It is believed that 185 lives were lost." The sam9 officer, James A1 en, in an inter- j [ view told the followi <g story: The night on i which th.> disaster occurred was clear, though j mojnless, and the sea Mas assmcoth as glass. < 1 The third officer retired to his bunk at 8 o'clock j leaving Chie.' Officer Thomp oa in charge j or the deck, auoul ii:ju tie tieiua me signal : , suddenly given to step th3 steamer's engines, | I followeu 6y a fearful crash. He rushed im- , j mediately on deck, and the first thing he no- i i ticed was a red light close on their starboard ! \ bow. 1 At the same moment he heard tin chief of- I , fleer's voice and a cry of " Collision," and | t perceived the bark which had run into them j \ go down. This bark he afterward learned J j lrom its captain and two of its crew, who ; j were picked up and saved, was the Ponema, j 1 rf Chafh"m, itf. B., bound from Liverpool to i J MiramichL - j J lu.numg to the side of bis own vessel, he ? endeavcrea to ascertain the damage done, f and percaiving and immenss goping hole into J which the sea was fast pouring, and leeling, J as he siid himself, that the steamer was a > i goner, he at onca hurried to the captain. Th) captain at cn? gave orders to get oit j ? t: e boats, fo ir of which were down ;n fifteen . r minutes, when th) State of Fl.rida just | 1 keeled over to port an 1 we it down stern j foremrst. As the vesjel ueut down all on 1 ? deck, including the captain, were washe 1 ol ! ^ by the sea ! * Mr. Allan further stated thattho captain ; 1 was exceeding'y cool?too cool, in fact, as h9 ; J did not seem to look upon the danger as ten-j * ous or p e sing, and this, together with the i y. fact that he appearei in no hjrry to save i [ himielf, was pos ibly the reason tl at mora of | * the passenger s were not 'aved. They would j 1 not tako to t'.e boats, as they supposed, wh n j: they saw him so co.l, that the danger was not ? so great, and, moreover, the s >a w as so (am. * Of the eight beats earned, four were sile- ? ly launched. Two beats were smashed by the J collision, and of the other two he knew noth- ' ing, but believed they w-re washed away ( when the s'.eamer went down. He did not z. believe that any one had e caped in them. < However, if they had, he did not want to raise any faire hopes, bis opinion being that ? they never would be he ird from again. ? when No. 2 boat was bein-j lowered the ? tackle was cut too quickly,and its occupants, | ? who were all p saen^ers, were upset into the \ ? rea. A number of tnem. including Mr. Ben- 1 " nett, of London. Ont, clung to the boat's k bottom during the remainder of the night, j | and were i:i.ktd up in tte morning by the j * other boats. . | ? On Sunday, after drifting thirty-five hours, ; E they were picked up by the Theresa. The mem d rs of tne res :ued party on board 1 the Titania presen'ei a pit aole appearance. 1 So sudden was the accident that many of ; * them, who were in their bunks at the time, ^ ha I to hurry on deck and into the boa's in : \ their night clothes. Most of 1h;m had a j ^ Very confuted idea of what really transpire 1. s There was a crash and a rush to the j "V boats as t'ae ship wc nt down amid the shrieks h and lamentations of the passengers. Those \ on duty at the I im9 remember seeing a red j " lfcht flash for an instant, fol'owed by an in- ' ^ stantaneous crash, after whi.-h nothing but r> confusion followel, the steamer beginning to pink, and hurrie I preparations being made to t1 launch th 3 boats. fi Tie Lark whi :h collided with them went a; down instantaneously. The frightened pas- ' y sengers rushed on deck in their night clothes, ii andasreneof indesci ibable confusion ensued. P The women went into hysteria, and the men c< refused to move. The women especially cb- E jested to leaving the doomed vessel, some F who could have been easily saved absolutely J reft sins to budge an inch. Those who clung U to th3 bottom of the capsized boat all night V suffered terribly from the ice co!d water, C though the R?a was calm. Nevertheless they ! ti did not lose heart. | d; Ujie of their numl er, a man named Don- F aldson, was underneith the capsized boat un- P til they were picked up by one o? the ether T boats in the morning. Wnen sho cap a?ed he ' ti kept His hold on I went over with her, man- N aging to secure a pesition atove the tars, wl.ere he remained ta'k'ng to himself and i moaning urt.I he swooned. His cjmpsnims ( on th > outsi le we r<3 uryxble tja sischm p In the mo "ning when they wore picked up u the bottom of the boat bad to ba broken through to get him out, when he presented a E horriule ap jcarance from hi-i long exposure j tD the waves ar.d lack of fresh air. . A few days afterward, howev.r, hi (?ot all ri^ht again. Dur'ng the t'lirty-tive hours t ey | tl were afloat they had net a drop of water to w onH u'em hpoiruiintr to fe '1 all thd hor- ui ivrs of extreme thirst when they were rescued by the bark Tbcr sa. Th >y allagre:d that ti:ecase of the Stat? of t] Flori ia was the quickest and moat appal ing , disf ster they ever heard of. Andrew Ske e, of Ayr, surgeon of the steamjr, was of tie ? opinion that the real inwardness of the acci- | F dent would n-ver to ascertaincd, as the w;:o'.e nr thin; was too sudden. The piss*nrers waie { tl a 1 in bad at the time, and so were th s sailors si off duty. He says theollicers, crew and pas tl sengors all se ;ni tj have leso their heads. 1 t Jem >s Bennett, of London, Ont., was tin G only first class pa.-sen.jer saved. Ho says w thnt when the order was giv.-n a rush was j made for the boat?, and a n mb?r of per- G sons, inclu<< ing himself, got in o boat nam- ol ber two. Tae panic on Loird the doomed ej ship was frightful. The lady passengers, n of whom there were only t'ire-3 or four, re- t< fused to go in t'10 boats, "a ni only one woman, ti Jane McFarlane. tl:e st>warc.'e<s, was to his knowledge of the time saved fro nhenelt'and b the te r.i le fate impending bv the ie'.f-saeri- j w lice and g illantry of James iiain, the chief h ' '" 4 t"' - i;r~ " nrin-r 1'flrS. lc engineer, who jo-si un mo m ? ? He hut to uso nil his srength to tear her b from the deck of t'io vessel ami force her into hi the b< at. Ju-t a', fiis moment the ship ca- j tl reened over to >tarboard. and went down ei with a heavy list, carrying with her the s: b ave e igineer and ail others remaining on Ji loard. tl i hose who ar-3 saved number in a'l forty- i four. Uf these thirty-two are members of f theorem, There were only t\\el:o p s en- j a: gers > a veil. ( ne of them was a tirst-class $ pass ,'iiger, two second-cla s p s engers, seven t< steerage pns-engers, and two men who were ol w rkin^ their pas-a^e. Two of the surviv- d <r.s are women, one of them tho st>wardesi b of the ve sel and the other a s-tcera e pas-en- tl S? r. t: The State of Florida was commanded by n Caj tain J. V\'. .Sadler. He ha-; been with the a; eompany siin e l*".'!. This was his first trip in in tho State of I'lorMa Ho was an ellerly si m-uiofiongb a cxp.ricote, w?s juwiku,?uu w bcl >nged in Ula?irow. ( hi The State of Florida w<ns built on the C.'yle is in 187U for a freight steamer for the l?iueen ? Steamship company, and was named the 1 C'ueen Margaret. fa hen sold to the Statj j line he was renamed. Two years ago a new deck was put in, and she was fitte I up in mode n styl> to accommodate 10 i cabin pas;muers sixty second cabin, and MX) steerage pasfceng. rs. ller cargo was valued at over $100,- t. 100. M NEWSY GLEANINGS. cc Texas has -1,000.000 sheep. ei There are 10,8.'o Quakers in Indiana. ai Tuere are l'J3.000 physicians iu this coun- P* try. pi Mtvttpitii n-ivn'n rrn Unrips fn Vort VI contain pictures worth $ii,000,000. u Canadian' li.iuor-sellers are taking Con- w federate hill-! in payment for drinks. o. Eighteen thousand homestead < have bee11 i 1 entered in Florida during the past year. ! " In England, Iceland, Sweden, Russia and ' fc America many women are aliva ly voters. j,, There has been a murder a month in Cih- ' tl cinnati for fl.teen years, and only one hang- t? ing. t< Illinois wants more girls. There is now o a superfluity of about 1D,0(j0 boys in that State. * East Tennessee marble is selling for 100 per cent more tlnn lialian marble in the y leading marke's. Last year there were 1,517 murders fn the w United States, ninety-three legal executions, sj and lis men were lynched. () A very laice number of Swiss emigrants is have boon arriving during tho pa-t few ' weeks who go principally to the Northwest- c ern States. 1 South Carolina has 1,563 flour, grist and w rife mills, employing 4.379 whites and lilacks, F' employing a < npital of $2.:5.>,7.*.0, and turn- " in^ out annually *.">,^,000 worth of tiour, ,, feed. et.\ j The British house of commons has rejected. b, by a vote of ll'.i to soVfiity nine. t'u> bill li-jcensing ereuatories. It was opposed by the'.t government < n tlie ground of j.ublic feeling 0; agains. cremation. j hi Dr. Charles F. Bean, of Chelsea. Mass., I i< wants a pen- on borause he weighs 443 pounds, j t< bis superfluous avoirdupois being the result of ! t an atta:k of malarial tevir which hehaddur- j w teg his services in the late war. I "w THE TAEIFF BILL H tofcatcd in ih? Koate by a Vote tf 13U to 15?. After a debate of several weeks the Horison tariff bill was rejected in th3 Hons? by . ; vote of 159 to 155 amid a scene of great exiteraent. The great debate was closed with f pee he3 by Messrs. Fandall and Kasion ?,. gainst, and Messrs. Morrison and Blackburn n fa* or of the bill .At the conclusion of h>rp3a.'b 8 n-alo to crowded gallere*,Mr. ':-^p 'on er^e moved that the enacting clause of he l i .1 be: tricken out, nnd t e motion wa? ia se 1 by 15tt yeas to 15l nays. Tne retu t ias received with yels and cheers and r/-ih k un .in; of c'e-ki by exited member*, .'lee was one mere formi.ity. All tblj . .-i al been dor.e in comra.tt.e of t'.e V;' v hole, and it was ne^siry thit i fom:al vote should le tken in he Hous>. Speaker Carlisle toak the ihair, ^ ;nd Mr. Cox. as chairman of tne committee, MS nno inced that in co nmittae the bil had . t cn r j cted I y th; pas ago of a motion to V": truce out, tne enacting clause, ltere iqio.ved a yea a id naMOiein the Eojie, and ' yjt he action of the committee was sustainel by "'ytgi i vote of 15.) to IV). Speaker Carlisle voted .-..ij** or the first time this stsrion. On the an- -;,?-T<aRC louncement of this vote thtre arose another ; rea t shout. 1 he vote was as follows; . ' Yeas?George E. Adams (HL), Anderson, ,TK \rnot, Atkinson, Bayn*1, Belfora, Bingham, ? 6D3e, Eoutelle, Eowen. Boyle, Brainerd, Breitung, P. B. Breimr (N. Y.), J. EL.Bre* .<] rTr (N. J.), T. M. Browne (Ind.), W. M. rM iiowna (Penn.), Bnmn, Eudd, Burldgh, . ' ^ Lallan, Jacob 11. Cam, b?ll (Penn.), Cannon, *?? ^hace, Connelly, Converse, W. M. Culbarlon (Ky.), Cullen, Cuitin, Cut:heon, George Davis (I1L), Robert T. Davis (Mass.), 3ingley, Dimcan, Dunham, Eaton, EUio'.t, .-^3 illwot d, Ern.entrout, Evans (PentL), Sverhart, Ferrell, Hedler, Findlay, Pin- ' '*35 rty, Foran. Fun;ton, Geddes, George, Gla?- i ojk, troff, liutnth.r, Han back, Harmer, 3art, H. H. Hatjh (Mich.). Hanee, D. B. M Imiersan (Iowa*, G. J. Henderson (IU.), Hep'jurn, Hia;ojk, Hitt, Holmes, Hoi ton, . ; v!S Jo pir, Hopkins, Horr, Houk, Howe/, Hunt, iut hins, James, Jeffords, Johason-Jordan, . ^ lasson, Kean, Keifer, Kelley, Kellogg, . '> *% ietcham, Lacy, Laird, Lawrence, leFevra, Libbey, Long, Lymnn, McAdoo, MeCoid, kLComos, McCormick McKirJey, Millard, 3. H. Miller (Penn.), Mil'.il en,Moray, Morrill, '/jjji duller, Murray, Mutch er, Nutting, O'Hara, ^vdSI 1 O'Neill (Penn ), Pai^r, 1 arker, Pattoh, Payne,Payron,Stanton,J.ie e(Ind),Perldnrf ?eitrs. Pt'ttitone, Phelps, Poland. Post, Price, ; jjgE rtandall. Ranney, George W. Kay (N. Y.Y, Dssian Ray (N. H.), Reed, Rice, J. 8. Rob-. .. nson (Ohio),.Hockwell, Howell, Russell,Ryan, vMia eney, C. R, Skinmr, (N.Y.), Smalls. Smith, '>-',2*1 nyjcr, Stooner, Springs, Steele, Stephen- ' ou, J. W. fete wart (Vfc), Stone, Storm, huSt treble, C. A. fcumner (CoL),E. B. Tay*or Obio), J. D. Taylor (Ohio), Thomas, Truly* /"an Alstyne, W ad Bworth-Wait, A- J. War- . -1%>B ler (Ohio). Washburn, Weaver, Wemple, Vhiting,\\ llkins. James Wilson (Iowa),Geo. ). Wise (Va.), John S. Wise (Va.),York?m ' Nays?J. J. Adams (N. YJ, Aiken, .Alex.nder. Baeley, Ballentine, Barbour, Barks* ' leh, Beach, Belaiont, B a kburn, B! an chard, Jland, Blount, Bie&enr.dgo, Broadhead, Juehanan, Bucknjr, Bnrnos, Cabell, Caldveil, Felix Campbell (N. Y.), Candler, Carleon. Cass.dy, Clardy, Clay, Clements, Cobb, :o!i:n?, Cock, Cojgrove, Covington, S. S. Cox X. Y.). W. R. Cox (N. C.\ Cnsp~D. B. Cuk ?: son (Texas), Dargan, Davidson, L. EL Dark ..v^Sa Mo.), Deufiter, Dibble (S. C.), Dibrell (Term.), )ockery, Dowd, Dortheimer, Dunn, ?1- " ircdge, Ell's. Evins (S. C.), Follett, Fcrftey, tAfp&Sm 'yen. Garrison, Gibson, Graves, Great, ireenleaf, Halstll, Hammond, Hancock, . & lardeman, Hardy, W. H. Hatch (Mo.). &JS lemphiU, Her.ley, Herbert, A. 8. Hewitt :*9 X. Y.). G W. Hewitt (Ala.), HilL Hoblitell, Holman, Housman, HurtL B. W. Jonea ;<gfa Wis.), J. H. Jonesi'lexasKJ. K. Jones (Ark.)'; . . T. Jones (Ala.), King, Kleiner, Lamb,Lan- , >? am. Lore, Lewis, Lovering, Lowry, McMil- . 'y'SH n Matwn, Mayburg, J. Miller (Texas), lills, Mitchell, Money, Morgan, Morrison, lorse, Moulton, Mtrphy, Neece, Nelson. L-. )ate. O'Ferrall, J. J. O'iS'eill (Ma), Fierce ' -Jg L W. Peel (Ark.), Potter, Fryor,Pussy, Ran- * V. g :n, Reagan, Rease, Robertson, John H. :<^b| togcra (Ark.), W. F. Eogefs (N. Y.),. tose^rans, Sca'es, Sevmour. Shaw, Shel... * -? m /1 oi_i /xr *-i \ ov. "tstoafiI sy, GlUgiecon, x. vx. cjuuuer ui. v./jOiuvum, \-\r [printer, Stivers, C harles etuart (Texas), llo ks'.ager, Strait, D. H. Sumner (Wis),. , 'albott, J. M. Tay'.or, (Tean.), Thompson, 'hrcckmorton, Tillman, Townshend, Tusker, ' : I. G. Turner (Ga ), Oscar Turner (Ky.), rance, Van Eaton, Wakefield, Ward, R. ",%i| Varner (Tenn.), Wellborn, We'ler. Milo "C;v Vhite (Minn.), Williams, Willis, W. L. Wil:n (VV*. Va.), E. B. Winans (Mich.), John I inans (Wi >.), Wolford, Av oodward, Worth* ' igton, Yanle, Younjr, Carlisle?153. When quiet was restored the speaker sold; '' -'-a: On 1 his motion the yea? are loJ, the nay? 55, so the motion is suatainei, and the Mills . sjected." - An analysis of the-vota shows that forty- ' ? ?i? 4.V. im u _i.i: i_ >70 Uemccruus jyjiou nmu in ivcuuuwoui ui -km Ivor of JiM^thotion and four K^publicans gairsfxt. The forty one Democrats who i oted in (heaffirmative were Araot, Hctoh- * . -? >! ;s, Muller, Spriggs, Van Alstyne and Wemle, of New York; Budi, Glaaxk, Sumner and Tuley, of California; - - V35 laton, of Connecticut; Fiedler, errell and McAdoo, of New . v'rjs ersey; Findlay, of Maryland; Finery, of 'ft llinois: Hunt, of Louisiana: Snyder, of West v; irginia; G. D. "Wise, of Virginia; Boyle, .'-JB onnoHy, Curtin, Duncan. Elliott, Ermen- > /r, out, Hopkins, Mutchler, ratton, rost,JR?aall and Storms, of Pennsylvania; Converse!. '.ivS oran, Geddes. Jordan, LeFevre, Murray, i?, '*8 aige, Seney, Warner and Wilkins, of Ohio. j' F he four Republicans who voted in the negave i?ere Strait, Wakefield, White ud elson, of Minnesota. ESTEEM, GRANT BANKRUPT. "X;|j [e and Hit* Son* Julgn In Favor of Their Creditor** General Grant has become a bankrupt -i-Zi 11 ojgh the failure of the firm of which M ^ as a special partner. Interest in the fall- i res of the Marine bank of New York, and of le firm of Grant & Ward was renewed by ie announcement that General Grant,Preai* \ -;5 Bat James D. Fish, Grant & Ward and . 3 le firm members individually, Colone* ' 7'^ redericlf Grant and Mr. Jesse Grant, had . ^ w lade a snnments in favor of their credltori, * lereby indicating that the failures have '> vept away the to tunes of every member of " le family of General Grant. All that the lat r posse sed, outside of the income from the ' - jg ?4'"?^ Hrm vhinh Has been roc eJ by tha op.'ratloos of its partner. e < inand i). Ward. That Colons! rait and Jesse Grant should have bjen *. Lliged to make Assignments of their prop- . '8 rty o:; asioned general surprise, as they ware ot partner * in the firm, and were supposed 3 be in exc.llent circam-tan:es, Jesses forme teing estimited at $4 Ri,(XX). Much s-ymj.at iy was expr s >ed in New York :'sinesi ciril s and by citizens generally .tli Gene.al Grant. It was well known that e liad r.ot been a partv to an/ of tha irreguLrities ch ,r?ed against the firm, tie a.UT* ~ ? ? ?.?? .is ness ot ttie concern navn^; n>eu m vu? ai di of Mr. Ward. It was also understood iat when the general's atfai.-s became diflltuneled from thjse of the firm th it subaiitial a^si-tnnce would ba reniercd to him. ; was stated in New York thatten days before ;e failure General Grant called on Mr. Wilam H. VanderoLt and requested a loan of : 0.000 to tide over thf a^ airs of the bank, r.d that Mr. \ anderbiltdiew his che.'k for 0 X). Mrs. Grant is said to have guaran;ed the payment of this check. This and the the r m <uey, it was said, had keen lost. The isappe:iranco of millions of dollars in the . in i pool established by Grant & Ward was . '' u s artlin.^ development in thu exnordiniry case. Lurod by the pro.i>ise to ukc? larfie profits, m:-ny retired merchants ? ii 1 j role sional and bu.sins> men invested avily in the linn's s.hemes to make money uvly, quickly and in large amounis.. V\ hen k> crash ca>tie many* of these investors lo.t "s -avily. The liabi ities of Grant & Ward, it thought, will reach the enormous "ira of iu.ooo.ooO. A TEEBIBLE FATE. ix Hen Killed by tlio Explosion ol ? a Hoilcr. At 11:30 a. m. a terrible explosion occurred the boiler-room of the AVhitney Marbl? mpany's woiks abouta mibfromGouvern. ir, N, Y. The boiler-room is in the saw-mill^ id it contained two boi.ers of fifty horse wereach. The boilers hai been out of relir and Oliver Dashneau and Jo s. Olive, of ^ at jrtown,had been ?ent on to fix them. Their Art/1 U'lion wfAAm u: *v waM ncai ?_<. ui^ vivu, ouu ?uvm . ?v~? as ma le th:> causes marked ninety pounds 1 one andflt'en poun's cn the other, aslmeau ami ulive were on top of the boi er ith the lowest pressure when it explodei ith a tremendous report Roth men were arfi lly mangled. The trunk of Dashneau'a j ly was discovered hanging over a beam in io debris. It s arms and limbs were s?nfcred about the building and his h.'ad was not ) be found. Olive's h ad was torn f at the upper jaw. Both bodits were it: rely stripped of cloth.'nr. Frank ew o nb, W. T. Mi 1 r an 1 i li Jackson, [ (Jouvenenr, wor' men in the mil), were iaantly ki led. Charlei Murray, ot Jutland, t., a workmen, was fatal y in ured, ani ie I r.t 5 o (.lock. M. rr..s o'haria i, anot. er mi kma i, stand'ng ne lr a wim.ow wheii tha lock < ame,' "us forced through the sa h and nrpin i tii rh'-fivp ; eet iu '1 an open lot. Hs i s r ou- y injure 1, but will recover. The mill was a wooJen struc ture, sixty by ighty feet, an I was ba it in September, y 3. it is a total wreck, and so great ras the force < f th>e\po ion that d.b i?was ir.ied a grett dis aace. A jie.e of the oiler was thrown 10J feet from the * lill. The shock shook the oraam?nts from i > mantels in sever il hi u*'S in the village, no toilers were furnished i.ew last Septem?r. and werj suj pose l to be l r.~t-c!ass. 'I he i ausa of the expksion is unknown, but i is supposed that one ot the workmen opea- ' 1 a valve lea<iin< fro:n the boiler wiih a full ead of steam to the b iler having but fifteen aunds of steam on. and the expansion at th< >p was so much gjreat^r than that at the bot>m, which contained water, that the boilei as forced to give way. The damage to th? 'oris is estimated at 125,000,