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, ; ABBEVILLE PRESS AND BANNER.! BY HUGH WILSON. ABBEVILLE, S. C.. WEDNESDAY, MAY 28, 1884. NO. 48. VOLUME XXVlII. jf| i THE SECRETS OF THE SPRING. Come out an I hoar the robins sing, And hear th-> bluebirds' tile of spring. And see the swallows on thi wing. Come out an 1 listen, listen low And henr the gras es as tliey grow, And list the little winds that Mow, And learn to read their secret well? The secret that they softly tell To bird and bet; in drowsy dell, Of bloomy banks that are apt to be, Of fragrant field and leafy tree, And all the summer mystery ui oua ana nios-om, nowcr ana irun That quickens now in sap an I root, And now in teuiler springing shoot. Come out, come out, the days aro long But Naturo sings her *ecret song In secret ways?the days are long, But swift as swe.-t from day to day, Prom hour to hour, the t.mful lay Runs headlong on a changeful way. Come out, tl en. in the early glow Of early spiingtine's bud an 1 blow, Come out and hear the pra-ses grow, And all the sccrets of the spring That melt end murmur, speak and sing, To ears at'.un.d to listening. ?.Vera i'eri y, m the Manhattan. | JUST AS SHE TOLD IT. "What time is it? Lor-r-d! we'll have half an hour to wait, and I do hate sitting round in a hotel with nothing to do. Ain't Kew Orleans an awfully funny place? It can't hold a candle to Chicawgo. Some one told us to visit the French quarter; but. my goodness! it's awfully Ehabby?just awfully shabby; and as for the French market, you get up at an un earthly hour in the morning, and the cof fee they have's fit to poison you. 1 think ! it's your duty to see everything that's to j be seen; so 1 said to the chambermaid, I, the other day, "Where are your handsome i ( dwelling houses j1'' ( ''Ah! out Prytania and St. Charles, i, mum, there's ilegant tine mansions," she ' : said. So we went, and?would you believe I it??they're ail made of wood! Did you i' ever! Yes; this is a dreadfully queer!! place. 1 used to have sort of romantic '{ notions about the South?thought it must , be just per-r-fect. I thought, don't you know, you wore white dresses all winter, j and sat on piazzas in hammocks, and that the Southern men were all dark, and tall. 1 and very fiery; and the colored people ] were so funny, and sang, and played on banjos; but, gracious! they behave just like everyone else; and as for white dresses, I've never come so near freezing to death in all my life. Fred would say that s because I never j read anything, nor listen to what anyone's | saying. But that ain't it at all. j You'd just die if you knew Fred. He's I the funniest boy. Awfully nice, don't; t you know, only he will prose so about lit" crature and culture. Oh! he's too funny, j Why, when he likes one book by an author, he must rush right off and read all the J rest of 'em. He read "David Cop'field" - did you ever read "David Cop'field?" ( Well I did, and I declare, I thought I'd ? be old and gray before I got through; i but I'd promised Freu I'd read it. Well, j j then he read all of Dickuns. Same way j ( about ThacK'ruy. He began "Vanity i A Fair," and just went crazy about Thnck- ( 'ray. Ever read "Vanity Fair?" Ain't it i j, simply awful? I just struck. I told s Fred I just wouldn't read it if he never spoke to me again. ( . Fred ain't a bit like me. Now when I j , like one book by an author, I never read j ^ another, because I think I'd be sure not j c to like it half so well, and then I'd get to I hate the whole lot like poison. But you mustn't think Fred ain't nice, j He's real handsome and fascinating; has j ^ big brown eyes and the cutest mustache; only he will be superior, and it's so ! t fatiguing. Now what's the use of being j t superior? Why can't you just be happy j t and sensible? I've known Fred for per-r-fect ages. t Why, he used to walk to school with me. ^ and carry my books. But that was last g year, for I've been out ever so long. Wo neprf tn nimrrpl lilrp r>?fs OnpdflY ' w 1%%~?,v* " ?* " ? ? - ?J Jhe said to me: * 'Marie Cassidy, do you t ever intend to be anything but a frivo- f *10 j butterfly?" t "Frivolous fiddlestick's endl*' said I, s and I spoke very severely, too. If you j. wivnt superiority, just visit niommer seven % evenings a week." Mommer's superior enough, gracious j. knows. The way she goes in for general n 7' info.'mation is simply awful. ], ^ "Well," said he, "if you are content j * "'to remain?" ; j "Fred Delbcrt," I said, "am I a grif- j c fin or a Cyclops?" i r " Why, of course not," he said, open- j ing those big eyes of his. j i "Well, then. I ain't a Cyclops, that's j settled, and popper has lots of money? ! just dead loads of it?so what do I want j ^ with superiority? I'm sorry you find me j j . to unattractive. There's DeLaucy With-1 erton, he says mv eyes are like bits of s heaven on earth, and?" Fred got so mad he regularly stamped, j "Don't quote to me the inane remarks : ? of an idiot," he shouted. "Anvhnw " T '-hp likes me iust ' : as I am, and lie isn't always treading on ^ my poor little pug. *' I c "I hate pugs," said Fred. "They;1" always look as if they're making faces." j < Well, somehow or other we made up s again, and I made him kiss Gigi, because he'd said such horrid things about the , poor little pet. Gigi's just killing?you t ought to see him. , e Fred and I were sort of engaged. Not j quite, though, because popper said Fred { was young, and I was young, and he fl didn't want to give up his little girl just j yet uwhile. That made me cry, and feel I real badly, because I've never been any- j s thing but the bother of his life. But Fred and I had a serious row once. s You see, there was a crirl staying with t Mrs. Calvin, in our block; Pamela Stone- j ^ henge was her name, and she came from somewhere East. Some people said she ^ was so elegant and charming, and talked v about her "classic outline," but, Lor-r-d! snc was so tall and thin, and her nose c was miles too long. I don't care what i c anybody says, it was lon<r. i She was dreadfully profound and high- , ? toucd, aud Fred began to fly around her j j, a L'ctle. I didn't let on 1 cared a bit, because I wasn't going to set him up, j ? out I just flirted awfully with De Lancv. i ^ It was at Mrs. Jenifer's ball, and Dc j, Lancy and I were sittiug on the stairs, 1 when I saw Fred and the classic Pamela " skipping off to the conservator}*. Ain't , f men too heartless? I was sure he must i t have something important to say to her, j, so I told Dc Lancy 1 wanted to stroll ,, kbout and look at the flowers; and of course he agreed, for he was mashed? ! regularly mashed. I passed as close to j Fred and Pamela as I could. They were talking in a low, earnest tone, and I i heard something about "a scheme of' n cosmic philosophy." j t Now did you ever! The idea of drag-'s ging a girl off iirto a conservatory to jwhisper such jaw-breaking things in her r ea*! I felt sort of relieved, for it's a s comfort, after all, to have a lover who's n too big. a goose te flirt with other girls, j u Bat when I thought it over that night, n while I was taking out my hair-pins, I s began to think there might be more in i v it than met the eye. I didn't know but! p it was the intellectual way of making ! ^ love. ! e T irns vrrv rnlfl to him when he v. brought me chocolate creams. I told him ; t I abominated chocolate, and it was very ' t plain ho found it too troublesome to re j t member my likes and dislikes. Well, then, in the midst of this, he a bad to go to St. I.ouis on business; and ' t while he was away I repented, and began ] t to feel sort of soft about him. ; He bad written lie was pretty sure to * be home Tuesday evening. I was sitting j t by the window, aucl the gas was turned c low, and somehow I felt blue. I could see j Mrs. Calvin's bouse, where that horrid [ Pamela Stonehcngc was staying; and as 1 I was looking, two men went up Mrs. 1 r Calvin's steps. It was a hateful showery ! ^ night; but they were laughing and talk-! ? ing, aud when they put down their um- ^ brellaa I saw something that made me \ jump. g F *ed has an umbrella with the funniest r head, an ebony skull with Rhine-stones ryos that flash in the most life-like way, and there that thing was winking at me in the gaslight across the street. I was so mad I just cried?regularly howled. To think that Fred would go to see her first of all! "Well, who should walk in bright and early the next morning but Fred himself! He looked pale?with remorse, I thought. But icebergs and polar bears were nothing to me in the way of coldness. lie began, "I wanted to see you the first thiug, Marie?'' "Indeed!" I interrupted. "I feel quite | honored." He turned very red, and stared at me. j inen ne said: >vnut uo you meanf : What are you talking nbout?" "Oh! of course you haven't an idea," I said; and so it went on from bad to worse, until he just got up and remarked, with the most dreadful dignity: "You seem to be accusing me of something; but as you will not do me the justice to explain yourself, I will bid you good-morning and good-bye, Miss Cass:dy." Of course I never meant him to get on ! his dignity, and when I saw him going, 1 had half a mind to run after him, only I was too proud. Two or three days passed, but still no sign nor symptom of Fred. Mommer was getting ready to go to Chautauqua, and the house was turned upside down, and I was fairly distracted. At last I just wrote him a few lines, telling him I wished to explain something. I waited j all that day, and all the next, but no answer came. Then I got desperate. I just decided life wasn't worth living, and I'd be superior, and go in for sociology and demonolgy, and all that sort of thing. So I toldmommer I was going to Chautauqua with her, and she said she wa9 gliul I had awakened at length to a sense of my own deficiencies: and we started off. ' It ain't any fun to travel with mommer. She always declares she's suffocating in the Pullman, and she thinks the train's running off the track every few minutes, and drives the conductors half crazy asking questions. Then she's a'ways dropping her eyeglasses and handbag and handkerchiefs?particularly her handkerchief. Chautauqua's an awful bore, don't you know?a lot of old drones and mummies E^ning about, and pretending they enjoy it so much. 1 believe they really hate it, only they think it looks nice to be profound. . And then Palestine park! Oh, my! how those Eastern people can make such aruys of themselves, and dress in bags :hat haven't any hang, or fit, or anything, [ can't imagine. Mommer would drag ne about everywhere, to improve my nind, she said. She has a mania for neasurements and calculations, and one lay she was calculating the dimensions )f the Great Pyramid, and I said, 'Lor-r-d, mommer! you must have been i svolved from a measuring-worm." She I lidn'fc like it one bit, but I think she i night to have been g!ad I knew how to ipply my knowledge. I was so broken-hearted I took up i - -1 a. i a. tt~?? i .lcurew, anu it nwsi uuuucu me. nun | people could ever have talked in such a anguage! Well, one day I was in the steamboat )n the lake, and I was looking over my iccount-book. Popper always makes ;ueh a point of my keeping accounts, )ecai st he says it tc:iclios me the value j )f money, but no one ever knew the I ralue of money better than I do. I had i ?igi with me, and it's awfully expensive j )oardiug with a dog; and then the servants are always so grasping! I de:lare they're just like those horrid ' laughters of the horse-leech that said: j 'Give! give!"' hough why the daughters ! vere a bit worse than the sons I never :ould see, only people are always slanderng women. Snmohnir nr nthpr T npvfr rfin fret mv ceounts exactly right. There were four lollars I couldn't uccount for, so I just >ut them down to "charity," because 'sundries1' had such an unbusiness look, hough, to tell the truth, I'd only given i en cents to an organ-grinder. I was so hard at work I never noticed hat I'd been taken ever so far past ; vhere I ought to have got out, so I just | tepped out at the next stopping place, ind waited for another boat to take me ! >ack. It was quite a pretty spot, with ! rees and things, and a sort of cave not , ar off; and I sat and sat, and gazed at ! he beauties of nature till I was 'most j tarved. All at once I heard a noise be- j lind me, and I looked around, and there j vas Fred coming out df the cave! . ! I thought for a moment maybe remorse ! ind driven him to retire from the world j ,nd be a hermit. "Wouldn't that have j >een romantic? I glanced at him very haughtily, but ! le began right away: "Miss Cassidv? . >h, Marie! dou't let us make ourselves ; uiserable by keeping this up!" "Who's miserable?" I inquired, i 'Speak for yourself, Fred?I mean Mr. j )elbert." A horrid, unfeeling twinkle came into ! lis eye, and he said, "Do you remember tfiss Stonehenge?" "Oh, yes," said I, icily. "She had uch a long nosel" "She has it still?" "Don't jest on such a subject, if you )lease," I said. "Well," said Fred, "I admit that it - .. ?: ti,? b U MTIUUS U1JC. 1UO 19 tnai ouw vus married last week to ft professor of Sanskrit." 4,I suppose she's refused you," I said; 'and vou've corae to me to be conio!ud."* Then he said a lot of absurd things I von't repeat; and I told him how I j bought he'd gone to see Pamela that vening. It turned out that the poor >oy had come back sick with malarial ever, and wasn't able to leave the house; nd Ned Parkinson had dropped iu and >orro\ved his umbrella. 44 But that doesn't explain your not anwering my note," I said. "You see, when it came I was very ick at my rooms, and there wasn't a soul o do anything for me but an old man vith a wig?" "Well, did his wig prevent you from j vriting to me?" I asked; for I can be ! cry sarcastic when I feel like it. "Of course not; but I was too sick von to raise my head. As soon as I ould stand. I rushed around to see you; ?ut you had gone. Dellie Jones told me ; ou had gone to Chautauqua; so I fol- i owed you, and here I am." "Well," I said, very sternly, "I'll for- | ;ive you this time, Fred; but you've i rested me very badly. And, Fred, she las got a long nose?hasn't she?" "Shockingly," he said. So we were married, and came South or a wedding journey; and? Oh! i here's Fred. It's time to start. Ain't ! ie a darling? I)o tell me?is my bang ' 11 right? Thanks, ever so much. By- i >y.?Harper's Bazar. The Dog Carts of Antwerp. In Belgium the country people are mostly poor; even those who think hcinselvcs "well off" are not what we hould cull so. Some of them have small arms just outside the city walls, and tiise vegetables for the markets. They eldom can afford a horse, so they keep a umber of large, strong dogs?sometimes s many as five or six?which they harass to their market carts. If you could ee these dog teams tugging along, you i rould understand what it means when ieople say they have to "work like a [og." About all these fanners have to at is a sort of dark-colored coarse read; and the same kind of bread is fed o the horses. It looks very queer to see he cab drivers cutting olT the slices for heir horses. The bakers and butchers and grocers, nd a great many other people keep dog cams. Most of the milk-wom?n bring he milk to the city in shining brass cans >acked into their little dog carts; and vhen they go home again they pack hemselves in too, along with the empty :ans, and while the poor dog? tug along tome, they sit and kuit.? Wide Awake. The nearest approac h to perpetua notion is lound in some modern c ocks, vhich are made self-winding by an in renious arrangement. The idea ha9 >een utilized in some watches, which, >y the motion of the wearer in walking ire made to wind themselves up as they un down. A line of cars to be drawn by camels trill shortly be used in Central Asia. FARM, GARDEN AND HOUSEHOLD Bad Butter?How to .TIako It. Keeping cows in n dark ill-ventilatec; stables. Cleaning out the stables while the cow: are being milked. The fumes and dusl arising from these causes will taint th( milk during the procv^s of milking. Allow cows when ruling out to hav< access t j the manure from horse-stables, they being fond of eating the straw and hay mixed with the manure, also allow' ing them to drink the leachings from the j manure or stable-yard. Feeding them on damaged fodder 01 [ on damaged ensilage. [ Want of cleanliness in dairy and utensils. Keeping the milk in rooms oil the kitchen or sitting-room, where the fumes of cooking and tobacco-smoking will find their way in to taint the milk. Keeping vegetables, meat, or anything that will taint milk in a dairy or room where milk is kept. Givjng the cows water from a well into which the leachings from the stableyard can find their way. Milking cows when too near calving, or milking a sick cow, and mixing the milk with the rest. These and many other things will taint the milk and make bad butter that will not keep sweet. Of course, the contrary of this will make good, sweet butter if properly worked.?New York Witness. Planting1 Corn. The corn crop hns two destructive enemies; one is the crow and the other smut; but both of them may be avoided by good management.- The crow is a wily bird and very suspicious, but by taking advantage of its weakness in this respect we may be able to circumvent it. It has another weakness, common to another race of bipeds," which is a love for whisky, and we may also take advantage of this to save the corn from his dangerously kind attentions. No doubt the crow is to a large extent a useful servant, but unfortunately his services are so clumsily performed that he does as much damage ns he does good, or perhaps more; for in his search for and capture of cut-worms he pulls up the corn, and is thus a worst pest than the worm, which usually takes but one plant out of the hill. The crow hunts by scent, and if we can disguise the scent he is baffled or alarmed and his suspicions are aroused. At the same time the cutworm finds its way to the com by scent, and when we baffle the crow the worm is also avoided. To do this it is only necessary to cover the seed with a film of gas tar, which has a strong and offensive odor. This is done by mixing a small quantity?a tablespoonful, for in stance?in sufficient hot water to saturate a peck of seed corn. The water aDd tar are well mingled by stirring, and the corn is then put into the mixture, aud the whole is stirred together and left until the corn has absorbed the wuter. A thin film of the tar adheres to the corn, which is sprinkled with dry plaster or wood ashes or artificial fertilizer, to overcome the adhesiveness of the tar. The seed is then planted. Smut is perhaps a worse pest than the crow, or its smaller, but equally troublesome cousin, the crow blackbird. This is no doubt sown with the seed, as in the ca3e with oats or wheat, and to rid the crop of it the ss me precation should be taken. This is to steep the seed in a corrosive solution, which destroys the soft onrl fll^cArKnnf atmroo f\f fV*o amnt' ttliU <tvoviwvuv wi diuuvi phate of copper is the most eirective agent for this use. One ounce dissolved in one quart of water is sufficient to saturate four quarts of seed, and if the tar is added to this solution, as above mentioned, the seed is disinfected of the smut and coated with the tar, and two birds, so to speak, are killed by one stone. The prevalence of smut in corn amounts to a disaster. No one knows, and few try to realize, how much injury is done to live stock by feeding smutty corn and fodder. It is well known that the smut of corn has the same contractive effect upon the uterus as ergot of rye, and also affects the blood as a poison in the same way, producing gaugrenc of the extremities?just such a disease as has been prevalent among the cattle in Kansas, and which produced the recent foolish scare of foot and mouth disease there. How many cases of abortion in dairies occur from this cause no one can tell, but we may well suppose a large proportion; for scarcely a held of corn in tne country is exempt irorn more or less smut. So tbat precautions against it are imperative, and when we try to avoid the crow we may as well destroy the germs of the smut. A little corn steeped in whisky and strewn in the lield will upset the gravity of the crow and make it an easy prey to those who think the only good crow is a dead one.?New York Times. Farm and Garden Notes. Put wood ashes in your hills for potatoes. If you do not let your pigs run at large they need bone-meal. Dissolve some alum in the whitewash to keep it from rubbing off. Shut up fowls without food for twelve hours before they are beheaded. Do not let the sheep spoil wool with chat! and burrs. Cut tug locks early. Cottonseed meal fed to milch cows in summer increases the firmness of butter. l)o not xorget 10 moisten uie eggs under the sitting hens occasionally with warm water. Let the hens run in the orchard. They will do much toward keeping out the canker worm. The most unfavorable time to transplant a tree is just as the buds are beginning to burst. The cultivation of artichokes as food for stock is increasing every year, and seems to be profitable. Boil a few more potatoes tban you want for breakfast and mash them up with, a little cottonseed meal for the calf. The American Farmer recommends the cultivation of peach trees when young, but it should. cease when they begin to bear. The essentials to success in onion culture are plenty of manure, thorough liti fit. ,1 A ling Ol lilt: giuuuu, yuuu ai'cu uim uicuu cultivation. If you wish to raise a good many fowls you must keep them in separate small flocks. Large numbers do not flourish well together. Lime is an excellent fertilizer on clay soils on account of its power to render soluble many of' the component parts of the clay, and also to nuike it more porous. Nothing is more deceiving than a good bred horse's legs. They may look small to the eye. but when handled you often find that your fingers do not meet us easily us you expected. In putting manure on land for onion sets see that it is well rotted, and do not manure too heavily. Sow seed early, alter making the bind fine. The secret of good onion growing is fine tilth. Do not forget that swine require green food as other animuls. If you do not wish to turn them loose feed it to them in the pen. Th-.it which they get in ordinary "swill" is sometimes not enough. Paint which has become dry and hurd may be removed by rubbing the spot with oxalic acid diluted with water. Try a weak solution first, and if it does not remove the stain, increase the strength. Tn *V?n motfnr r\f trno "ninnfrinnr ti f?nr. respondent writes urging that trees be planted in groves and not along the public roads. He says by the latter method the roads are kept from drying out, and the roots -will interfere with the tillage of the field. In order to have a good supply of good currants put tobacco stems on the ground under the bushes and put them there now. You can get these stems of the manufacturers in your nearest town. They will kill the worms. With good bushes we have found any coarse tabacco, dearer than the stems, to pay. Any soil that will produce the ordinary farm crops will produce the small fruits. Work the land deeply by the use of a subsoil plow, and make it re&onably rich by the application of some fertilizer. Make the soil fine and mellow by repeated har . rowing:, but use nitrogenous manures sparingly. The more thoroughly decomposed the I manure the more available it is for plant food. If not thoroughly rotted in the ? heap, it must undergo that process in the t soil. Plants do not derive any benefit : from the solid portions until they are reduced by mchanical and chemical influ: ences, and the most insoluble portions , sometime remain for a long time dormant [ and inert, unless the process of decay is hastened by proper management of the i manure heap. Manuring in the hill before planting tor melons and other vegetables is often unsafe. But little manure should be nsfd and then it should be thoroughly mixed with the soil. If applied inquan; tity, and especially if put in in a lump it 1 soon dries out, unless it is very thoroughly decomposed. Some manures are too strong for young plants. "We have known young melons to turn yellow and 1 die when two inches high when planted I over lien manure. A flock of sheep will work up a more valuable pile of manure from the same feed than any other stock. In winter their tread is not so heavy as to prevent light fermentation ot the manure pile, which is thus fitted for immediate service. In summer they deposit their droppings more evenly than any other grazing animal during the day time, and at night will select some dry, poor knoll to enrich. The Spanish proverb is true which says: ilThe foot of the sheep is golden." In many experiments with wood ashes, the benefit derived is often due to the small proportion of phosphoric acid which they always contain rather than to the potash. This is especially true in cases where leached ashes have proved nearly or quite as helpful as those un1 leached. The potash'is very soluble, and ia tnl/on nnt hr lpanVlinnr whllfl m"i"' " *" ~J D1 the phosphate of lime remains, and is onlv liberated by the action of carbonic acid in the soil, and thus is always available as plants need it. Household Hints and Recipes. i A piecc of zinc placed on the live coals | in a hot stove will effectually clean out ! a stove pipe, the vapor produced carry! ing off the soot by chemical decomposi{tion. To clean carpets, dampen some Tn! dian meal, mix salt with it, and sprinkle over the carpet; sweep vigorously. Take ! a small sharp pointed stick to remove the I salt and meal from cracks and corners. A nice dish for breakfast is made by I cutting pork tenderloins in thin slices; ' fitcw them in water till they are nearly done then put a little butter in a saucej pan, and fry them till light brown; serve them on buttered toast, with mashed po| tatoes. [ While a boiled tongue is warm roll it with the tip inside and place in a round (tin or vessel just large enough to hold lit in pluce; let it remain over night, j when it will remain rolled after toeing removed from the pan. Serve it whole | on a bed of salad, water-cresses or pars! ley. Apple custard pie should be baked with an under crust only. The filling is delicious if made of one pint of sweet i milk, one pint of smooth apple sauce, 1 well sweetened, three eggs; flavor with lemon or with a little cinnamon. This i will make two small-sized pies or one very ! large one. To Make Onion Soup.?Chop two or . three large onions finely. Melt two or three ounces of butter in a stewpan, put i in the onions, dredge in some flour and , let them brown. Pour in sufficient water. A r\ i\ unit nnnnof ocn/1 n lltflp nilfmpflr I I'VI'I'W. nLet it boil a few minutes. Serve with two or three eggs beaten in the tureen. Fish, almost more than anything else, is improved by slow cooking; especially is this true when the fish is boiled. If cooked rapidly ic will fall apart, and will neither taste nor look so well. The great point insisted upon by scientific cooks of the present day is that of taking ; abundant time to prepare food in, and the fact that nothing'in gained by rapid boiling. Unless you have hired help whom you ! can trust implicity it is a good idea to use earthern dishes for milk in place of *1 l 4. 1Afla llli; IIIUV urc ivcpu vicuii witii uiu^u less trouble. The scientists of the present day and hour claim that the germs of disease hide in the crovices of a milk-pan and that nothing but conscientious application or absolutely boiling water will 1 remove the danger. A nice dish for dessert is made by peeling some tart apples, and removing the cores, leaving the apples whole; stew the apples in water enough to completely cover them, and when soft so that you can pierce them easily clcar through with ! a slender broom splint, lift them out of > tVm u'otpp nnrl let-, thorn drain on a colander. Then to the water in which the apples were boiled add sugar enough ilo sweeten it well; let this com.e to a [ boil, then drop the apples in, and let them 'ome to a boil; take them out again and place them in a jar. To the hot syrup add an ounce of gelatine dissolved in a pint of cold water. Let this come to a boil, then pour over the apples. The day after they are cooked these are ready for the table. If a small , quantity only is made, put it into the dish in which it is to be sent to the table, or put it into a mold, and turn it out cn a platter. Serve with cream if possible. Ttiii'nhi]it.i' of Rniik of Fnerland Notes Writing about the Bank of England in Harper''8 Magazine^ William H. Kideing says: The album in which specimens of the various counterfeits discovered are preserved, also contains some interesting proofs of the extraordinary durability of the notes. There are three notes for twenty-five pounds which passed through the Chicago fire, and were sent in for redemption by Mr. R. H. Nottin, paymaster of the Chicago and Alton railway. Though they are burnt to a crisp black ash, the paper is scarcely broken, and the engraving is as clear as in a new note. There are also five-pound notes which went to the bottom of the sea in the unfortunate training-ship Eurydice, and were recovered after six mouths' immersion. They are not even lrayed. The paper is stained a light brown, and that i* the only effect their long exposure to salt-water has had. We are shown in a small case covered with a magnifyingglftss ft few charred fragments of paper for which the bank paid ?1,400. They are the remains of several notes destroyed in a fire, and were redeemed at their full value, the holders being ' able to give their numbers and dates, and tc satisfy the bank that they had actually been destroyed. There is another note in the album which whs in circulation 125 years before it was returned to the bank for payment. No nnfn ia icanrwl t.ivifn As Kfinn AS (1 nntft is returned, even though it has been out but a few hours, it is cancelled. Very often a note issued in the morning is brought back to the bank in the afternoon of the same day, but on an average a five-pound note is out about eighty days. The notes have many strange adventures. One of a large denomination was found i keeping the wind away in the broken pane oi a cottage window, neither the j cottager nor his wife having any idea of j its value. Another, also for a large sura, | the disappearance of which had led to : many wrongful suspicions and accusations, was discovered, after many years, ! inclosed in the wall of the house from j which it had mysteriously disappeared. ! One thing the notes will not endure. | They will hold together at the bottom of ! the sea, and come out of a furnace intact, ' but they will not outlast the scrubbing, i the bleaching, and the mangling of the : laundry. That trial, to which they are I sometimes subjected through the inadvertence of ladies who send them to the i wash in their dress pockets, usually de: faces them, though even after it their i genuineness is still recognizable. i M Although a man's family rightly claims the first and highest place in his regard, his nearest friend the next, then those to whom he is drawn by some common interest, then his town or city, then his nation, and finally all the human race, like ever widening but more and more distant circles, yet the sentiment of affection should animate him and the principle of justice should actuate him through them all. ! GAMBLING AMONG WOMEN. 11 ; ! A HOVEL OAMBLIU'S PLACE XV THE METROPOLIS. C Tho Amuiemcnt Some \cw York fio- fi rloty l.aiiles Indulge In?A ' Club Hou?c" Kxcluvivcly for Woinon? f, A Western paper recently gave a- de- V scription of a gambling house engineered j and patronized by females. Since then, v says the New York World, the existence 1< i of such institutions in various other cities has been made known. The most promi- v I nent and noteworthy of them all, how- ? ever, has been overlooked. I ?( j It is located in a cozy, quiet-looking | h I old mansion of the stately and raonu- P I mental New York type and within two I blocks of the Brevoort house. To all 3' i outward appearances the place is ^ > only one of the many resi- o | dences of aristocratic elegance j a j which line the street. All the windows j ! are heavily curtained and a face is seldom ; j* { seen there. Even at night it i9 rarely | y j lighted in the front. So quietly and un- ^ ; obtrusively has the business of the estab* a I lishment been carried on that, although p j it has heen in existence for months, its ! real character has never been suspected, j j j The proprietress of the house was origi- i< ! nally"the friend of the proprietor of one j p of the most famous gambling houses in J1 this city. She quarreled with and left ^ him. Finding herself thrown on her own t resources ana owner of a vast collec- Is tion of jewels, she determined to profit by her experience. She hired a f< ; furnished house, the same in which she 01 ; now carries on her trade, and after in- p I structing two or three of her intimate t, : acquaintances in the mystery of dealing t< i and manipulating cards, began work d with their assistance, rue place was extensively advertised as a "Ladies' Club V j House,and soon became quite popular, P ! the more so as no men were admitted. J | Roulette and faro, as well as occasional ti j games of rouge-et-noir were at first dealt, ci 1 but the gaming soon resolved itself into 6i | faro alone. Heavy playing has taken I place in this house. One lady is known g ; to have carried off over $5,000 as a re- d j suit of a day's lucky play. Another fe- a male won upon three days in succcssion $4,800. The bank was so low at one * j time that the proprietress contemplated g, ! closing, and would have done so but for *<: , the appearance of a Creole gamestress, t( j fresh from New Orleans, who lost over ^ j $8,000 in money and jewels at a sitting ta ; and so replenished the nearly empty cof- it j fers. For the past few months the "bank" i9 said to have enjoyed an al- " j most unexampled run of luck, scarcely .} j ever losing. w For obvious reasons the games are all in confined to daylight. In order to obtain hi J admission it is necessary to have either a i card from the proprietress or an introduc- ^ ! tion from a frequenter. Regular habitues have latch-keys which admit them into i the passage between the outer and inner | doors, both of which are always kept j closed. The inner door is guarded by a j? | pretty young girl, whose orders are to j admit no stranger unprovided with the A ! proper credentials. The postoffice-box ^ j of the proprietress is daily filled with apI plications. ^ No gentleman, it is said, has been ad- ** mitted except in the basement where v I groceries, wines, etc., are delivered. 0, Tnc servants, of whom there are several, w j are all females, as are also all the dealers, case-keepers, and attaches. The house | originally belonged to a well-known ; millionaire, a former agent for one of the 0? ! great transatlantic steamship lines, from j whom its present owner rented it. Since I w then she has purchased the building out- j Pi ; right. It is furnished in the most lux- | t* j urious style throughout, nothing that 1 i taste could suggest or money procure I ^ ! being absent. i The gambling is carried on in a back j P< i drawing-room on the second floor. In j bthe first drawing room an elegant lunch is I t always laid, with the most delicate and ; g] ; costly wines. The upper floors are de- i ai voted to the use of the attaches of the es- j fli tablishment, who all reside on the prem- i S] ises. The proprietress is a woman verg- j ing on middle-age, of a commanding tig- . ^ ; ure, and very handsome. She dresses in ! black, is famous among all her acquaint- j ^ , ances for her love of pearls, which are i a the only jewels she is known to wear, and j * of which she is reported to have the most i magnificent collection in the country. | One complete set in particular belonged j jy to the Empress Eugenie, and the gems j in , which once queened it in the drawingroom of an empress now preside over the & fortunes of a game of faro. The execu- j bt | tive corps are all more or less equivocally j i famous and attractive, and are said to be | as skillful and cool in all the traits and ; trides of their trade as a veteran gambler, j I The housekeeping is on the most extravagant scale, and is chiefly served by j ^ two prominent Fulton market dealers I h( and a wine merchant ^vho supplies the vi principal clubs. All of these dealers or : affirm that the consumption of the finer i quality of their wares far exceeds that of bj many of the clubs where male New York r? ; finds such luxurious comfort. There are several other institutions for it j a like purpose scattered about this city i io , and Brooklyn, but they are on a far in- i S( ferior scale, and their use is restricted ' ^ positively to elected members. In these i ^ : places only round games of cards are | played; even at that limited rate, how- j gh ever, much money is lost and won. As ! wi to the incalculable wrong wrought, the Slace of which we especially treat is inubitably the worst. Women are pro- W( ; verbially infatuated gamblers, and once PI embarked on the sea of chance, with i their fates totally at the mercy of the t? fickle goddess Fortune, or worse, with ^ the chance of the game dependent on the honesty or dishonesty of an un- a. scrupulous dealer, the result may easily g} be imagined. en ! M B! The Home of the Codfish. ftt Be What a marvelous influence upon civili- cc zation and human progress the humble *? but nutritious codfish has had. He has been a mine of wealth to a vast population. It seems that good mother nature, p, foreseeing the needs of humanity, has made to i special preparations for a good supply of J this very necessary article of food for ; body and brain, she floated her icebergs, j 00 ' which were filled with the sandy bottom i of northern seas, down to the gulf j p? ...1 ?1? U.,,1 I ] Biream, wuuru iuuj iuuhcu uuu uu|;uoiutu *** i their debris, formed the grand bank of lo Newfoundland. It was the work, the i slow and toilsome work, of ages. Every pe ! spring thousands of these bergs, one- re ! third above the water and two-thirds ti< below, the upper part cle?ry sparkling ^ ! and translucent, reflecting the sunshine wj and giving it back to the enraptured eye th | with that prodigality and brilliancy of m ; coloring which only nature can afford, aI j the lower part mixed with the coast bot- ** ! torn of Greenland and Labrador, to the extent of thousands of cartloads, came | floating down majestically through Davis' j strait, and, meeting the warm air and ; warm water of the gulf stream, melted (_ ) ; and deposited their contributions until ca : those immense shoals were formed, where th : the cod and haddock swarm. And it is ^ ! said that these sand banks have huge de- ^ j pressions like vast valleys, which serve dl i as aquaria, and that when a vessel is m 1 lucky enough to anchor over one of them, I it can fill its hold and deck with as many ; as it can carry. For generations, the in- se habitants of Newfoundland, and the ven- er | turesome folks who live all along the j New England coast, get their daily bread ^ i or lay up a competency from this never- m failing source of wealth. What a vast ! number of people on the globe get their I m livinrr out nf nnd subsist nrinciualiv on. : ai the invaluable cod, nn;l wlmt vast quan- ?r tities have been landed by the fishing e fleet of Gloucester since her fishermen ^ first engaged in the business. co F1 ? Qi ! To Prevent Scratching Matches on Paint. r? tr A correspondent, in Florida, of New dc ! Remedies, speaking of the defacement of ti paint by the inadvertent or heedless nc scratching of matches, says that he has ! observed that when one mark has been made others follow rapidly. To effect- ^ ually pre%rent this, rub the spot with ; flannel saturated with any liquid vase- fr j line. "After that people may try to sa I strike their matches there as much as j they like, they will neither get a light L< I nor injure the paint,'' and most singular, j the petroleum causes the existing mark I to soon disappear, at least when it occuri m j on dark paint. ? - raWSOFTHE WEEK Eastern end Middle States John F. Smyth, the wt 11-known Albany tf. Y.) politician, banker and broker, ha* iUed. General Grant and his wife have trans" 3rred their property, including two bousos i "Washington, a nouse in 1nilad >lphia, a jrm in the suburbs of St. Louis, a cottage at one Branch and a hojs;in New York to I'ilfiam H. Vanderbi.t to protect him on his )an of ?lt0,000. Bctler B. Strang, a prominent Pennsylania politician, ex-spmker of the house and r-president of the state ssnato, in which osltion ho actxl as liei.t na-it-governor, ommitted suic da by shooting himself at l is ome in WestfL'ld. He had long been in oor health. Isaac D. Edrehei, a New York chemist, Icty-four years old. called on his wife, with hom he was not living, and after a short onversation shot and kille'l their six-yearid Ron. dtsDera'.e v woundid the woman nd killed hims.-lf. Charles O'Conor, the noted New York iwyer, died at his residence in Nantucket, 'ass., a few days siuce aerd eighty cars. He was a native of New York, ras admitted to iha bar in 1834, nd was conne ted with some of the most imortant cas.'s ever arguei in this country. In 37i he was nominated ffr President of the Tnited States by ihe "ritraight-ouf' emoerats at Lcuisvi.le, and by a ibor reform convention in Fhiadelhia, but declined, nutwithitandinj wni^h e received over 30,0^0 vo.eB. Luring the ist twenty-five years of hi* active Jife he ra8 acknowledged to be the most ditti.ig1-hed repre-entafive of tho bar not only of ew Yoric ci.y, bat also of the nation. Grant & Wards lia.bil.ties have bren )und to exceed tho colossal sum of $14,500,)0. A collision occurred near Connellsvilte, enn., between a freight train and a gravel ain containing about fifty laborers. 1 our;en men ware either crushed or burned to eath, and twelve more injured. The re;ent faili rej of "Jim" Keene, the ra'l 6tre2t speculator, followed by the <usensionof th -Marine National ban'c. and the lilure of Grant &WarJ, succeeded in turn y the embairassment of the ?e:onl I^aonal tank, led to a panic in New York fin anal cir 1m. sujh as h s not Leen w tnes ed nee ih memirafclj day when Jay Coue en. to t ie u all in 187;j. During the day two aniis?the Metropolitan Ivational and the rooklyn State banic ? closed incir cors. and seven pron inent firms of bankers nd brokers 8 i>p ndecL Wall street was a ?ne of tremendous excitem-.nt, and was rowdid fiom silewalkto tide walk with a ishing throng of people. Secretary l-ol;r, howevtr, helped a.lay the excitelent by ordering the treasury department > pay the #10,000,000 in luded in t.:e 12(th ill in advance of the tim? sot?June 20? ad the Ntw York llo iring-House as-o iaon, compos.d of sixty t.nee bank-, held a eating and nsived to stand by one on:her. Thii action in a measure quietei matire. The deficit of John R. Eno, president of 16 Second Notional bank, of New York, as larger than was at tir?t 8.ipposei. amount ig to about $i,l0j,m>0. It was made ud by is la her, and tl:e bank went on with its J8ine?, a.though many alarmed de- oatore rew out their money. Mr. Eno lost the loney in speculation. South and Weit. During the p ogress of a game of baseball i an en'losed pat k at Chillieothe, Ohio, the rand stand suddenly fell with a terri \c4 a-h, burying many people in the ruim.'' I out forty pe: sons were injured, ei^ht of lem with ssrious if not fatal effect Lightning destroyed a mill at Keyser, N. killed the engineer and injured two other :rsons. Abe Russell was hanged at Jonesville. a., for the murder of his brother-in-law, and l tne same day James S. Coleman (colored) as handed at Columbia, S. C., for the murirof his sister-in-law. John Boultree, a prominent barrister o r*rtn<rft Tji Prairi?. Manitoba, now in I'ort rdTOregon, has absconded with $'0,000 of her people s money. The Northwestern Car company, of Stillater, Minn., o.' wh'ch United states Senator lb n is pre-ident, has failed and a recMwr > n appoint d The liabilitesareestin.a'ed ; $1,0,0,1.00, and the asse a largely in excesi ! that sum. Mis nanagement is said to Le ie cau.'e of the company's downlall. Lawrence Spiller, a farmer living near b'ersburg, "VV.Va., vowed venzeance against s stepdaughter and a hire! man named lylor, who had eloped and got marriel. p.l'.er followed the pair, found th m tojtber, kiliel Taylor wit a a revolver shot, id then beat the newly-made bride, incting fatal injur es. After his return home piller was am ste i. The Cincinnati (.rand jury found fifty-four dictments against persons coujernei in the te r ots, A broken levee on the Missi-sippi in Ltnisna caused an inunda Jon whicn ruin.d the ops for milf8. At Shreveport 6,000 acres ei-e under water. Cyrus H. McCormick, head of the gr^at lrvefrter manufacturing company, and sup>sed to be one of the ricnast men in Chicago, ed at his home in that citv the other morngat the ago of seventy-five. john fokhytii anu ma who, iciiuij new ilem Chur h, Ark., were 011 their way in a igzy to atte.ul the funeral of Mrs. Forsy h s other when they were struck by a falling ee and both kille:i. i Waihlngton. The testimony in the Jeannette investfga- } Dn before t..e House naval committee en ied ith that o' ilrs. De Long, who testified t'jat !T husbind had studied the subject of proiions lor an Arctic voyage and had endeav ed to procure the best. Representative Collins was directed r the committes to favorably re lort a join solution proposing an ame ldment to Artie 15 of the Constitution. The ammdm.-nt nsista of the in* rtion o! thj word ' nativy " and ma es the lirst s ction read as xolws: "The right of c.tkens of tue Lnited :ates to % ote shall not be denied or abridged r the United States, or by any State on acmnt of nativity, race or color, or previous mdition of servitude." Story's statue of Chief Justice John Marall was unveiled a fe .v days ajo upon the est front o. the cnpi;ol in presiucj of many embeis of both houses of Congress ani her noted people. Chief Justi.e Waite -j- ?ahon] f'mnr.itinn of the dav UUU UU UUVU ?..W ^ is delivered by William Henry Kawle, of I biladelphia. Bv a vote of six to five, the House commite on elections agreed to r. port in favor of ating Wallace, the contestant in the Ohio ection cafe of Wallace against Mclvinley. the secretaries of war and the navy have >pointed General John Newton chief of enmers, Colon .>1 Q. A. Gillmore, corps of igineers, and lieutenant Commander d. H. cCalla, members, anl Lieutenant T. II. Iii8, First Artillery, recorder of a board creed by a resolution of the House of Reprentatives to cons d.r the expediency of the instruction of a line of int ,'rior waterways r the protection of the seaboard of the Atntic and Gulf States. ^ The House committee on elections in the ntested election cose of Eng.ish versus ^lle, of Indiana, deci led by a vote of five three to report in favor of seating Mr. aglisb. It was unanimously agreed by the House mm'ttee cn invali 1 pen>io!is to re?rt favorably a bill which provides that all nf-ions now on or herealter j la 'e l on the insion roll, wi.o while in the milita y or I ival service of fie Uni e<l States j st an arm or a 1 g4 shall be entire 1 to a insion cf &0 per month, and those who have it a hand or a too , sha'l be oiitit e.i to a nsio.i of per month, and if they have ceived a wound or ot ler disability in aldi>n thereto they s.iall receive a pension of 0 per month. All persons who nave a leg nputated at the hip joint and all p rs >ns iio have lost an arm at the shoulder joint all bo entitled t? a pension of $50 per onfch, an I all persons wi.o have lost an aim id leg shall be entitled to a pension of $72 x month. Foreign. A Winnipeg (Manitoba) dispatch says that artling developments have just come to rht, which show that the United States and inadiau governments have been sysiematilly robbei for years by collusions between <ir Indian agents and contractors lor pplies for the Indian departments. An id.an agent says he has documents which ill prove that a gigantic system of swining the American anl Canadian govornsnts has been carried on for years by such 1 usion. The British government has decided upon nding an expedit on lor tha relief of Gen al (cordon to Khartoum in July. Cz.\r Alexander, the Emperor Francis >seph of Austria-Hungary, and other so erjns and loading statesmen will probab.y I tet at .Nice this summor. Midhat Pasiia, thi great Turkish states- j an who dep-sea the Sultan Abdul Aziz id was aftcrwaid convict d of his murder I id sentenced to imprisonment for life, is I ad in his sixty-third year. The Norwegian bark Theresa, having on lard the remainder of the survivors of the llision between the ste m<h;p State of orida anil the bark Poneina, arrived at iie'jec. France and China have signed a treaty of >aco, the latter agreeing to w ithdraw her I oops from Tonquin. and th's form r abaun.ing all < laims to indemnity for lo vses sus-! ined during the troubles between the two I itions. A massacrk of Christians by a native ibo is reported fr. m South Africa. An anti-socialist law has been adopted by e German rciehstag. Bismarck's long-contemplated retirement om the German ministry has at last been nc.ijned by the emperor. The bark Venus arii/ed at Montreal from radon. tngland. with s*ven of the crtw of jeteen b-Ion injto a f!sh ng s:hooneron lard. Therj had teen & coll aion. and t ie hooner had gone to the bo.tom with twelve en. [ A motion to cenrare the Gladstone minis- f try for not taking measures to rescue General i Gordon at Khartoum was defeat *d In the I British house of commons by the i lose vo> of ! CO; nays to 275 yeas. Ti e government s policy in the Soudan was bitterly attacked. j General Gordon made a recent attempt i to escape from Khartoum, but was compelled j to rtturn to the city. I Much excitement was caured in the Lon1 don Exchange by the panic in Well street, i New York. | ' Dueino a revolt near Sana 300 Turks were i mac sacred. ! Osman Diona and hi3 rebel troops killed twenty-one friendly Arats n?ar Tamanieb. took forty women prisoners and captured t many cattle. Immmi ' J ? imr?i-v i.TiTTrn ? LAXM JNHiWI* i ? Vermont Greenbacks held a State con- e vention at Waterbury and nominated a full i ti ket headed by Samuel Soule for governor. ( j On the second day of the flnan.ial excite- c ] ment in Wall street a quieter stat3 of affairs j ! existed, and only two more failure;occurred, one of the twj firms of broiera susp?niing ? i being the prominent house of Fisk & Hat h< j ; t'ae junior partner in which was the president j I of the New York Sto;k Excha ge. The Met- fi | ropolitan bank again resume 1 business, Presi- j | dent George L. S< n^y resigning. j A fire which broke out at 9 o'clock in the i morning at the Papa?hoag mi. 1, Worcester, Mas j., spread so rapidly that many opora- j tives were compel'el to jump from the upper s windows. Nineteen male and female opara- ( tives were injured by their leap for life, * several with results likely to prove fatal. Th ^ entire mi'.l was destroyed, and an estirr.a'ed y ^oss of $150,COO was incurred. j There was a la-ge attendance of delegates j at the annual s s;ion of the Presbyterian General Assembly Norih, held in Saratoga- 8 i Highwaymen attacked United States Pay- ( I master Wh:'p Je and party in Montana, and t I kil ed Sergeant Conrad and seriously wounded : two privates. The mules attached to an am- c , bulance wazon in which the paymaster, hi- c clerk and the enclosure box were, ran away and they thus made their escape. W. Bogan Cash, sjn of Colon-1 Cash? some t'me since shot and killed Deputy Sherifl Richard*, at Cheraw, 8. CM and wi.h hi? father's help at th^ time succeeded in ei caping the posse sent to arrest him. A few days since ten young men of Cheraw, lei bj Deputy Sheriff King, surroundel thj Cast mansion to capture the fugitive. Young r Cash emerged from a barn and fired upon hi< ' pursuers, w hen a volley wa > poure i in! o him ]j and ha fell dead, riddled with bullets. i Judge Reid, a prominent Kentucky jorist committed suicide by shojting himself al Mount Sterlinj, Ky. Not long s'nce Judg< Reid fcai been caned by a lawyer nam d Corneilson, on account of troub'e about e law case in which the latter was interested The American Fish Cultural associator has held it". annual meeting in Washington. PRoraosoR James Law, of the cattle com I jii'.isXm, reports that there is no foot and g | .juouth disease among the cattle of Kansas e \ Illinois and Iowa as reported. t ! ? __ # s LATER CONGRESSIONAL NEWS. n d Senate. 0 The House bill to losn $1,003,000 to th? 8 New Orleans expositon was passed.... .A a resolution was^ offered by Mr. Morgan, di- \ recting the committee on finance to examine 8 into the causes of the failures of such of th? ? national banks in the city of New ( York as have suspended busim s; L in May, 1884, and to report whethei * said failures have to any extent rasultjd * from any violations of the laws regulating ; 1 their conduct....Mr. Cullom introduced a j & bill, which was referred to the committee on j J finance, to prevent speculation by officers of | 8< national banks....The psnnonsbill was re- \ c ported. The committee had reduced the ? ? airount of the un3xp?ndei balance of the p appropriations of tne current fjieal year to a ba reappropriated from $84,000,000 to $66,- h 000,000. ? Honig. ^ The Speaker announced the following a^ f< visitors to the annual examination at West ? Point: Messrs. Rofecrans, Beach and Ben- i ? derson, of Illinois, and the following visitors j tl to Annapolis; Messrs. Cox, of New York, < J Evins, South Carolina, and Goflf The f House concurred in Senate amendments to i o the bill for the New Orleam exhibition.... I p The House votsd down several proposed ? amendments to the consular and diplomatic a bill increasing the saljuiDs or ministers and consuls, which are cut down by the bill, and c adding to the appropriation in other wayB. * SUMMARY OF CONGRESS, i w SlenaU! v a The Senate tcoli up tae Indian appropria- w tion tiil and Mr. Dawes briefly recapitula- ei ted i:s provisions. The estimates for the year, n he said, ha i been $8,4 ;6,8.9.91 The amount i ai o? the bill as it came from the Houso had u been $5,458,389.81. The amendment} pro- I pi Lore! by the Senate increaf e I the amount by 11 $757,413. W?, makinz the total amount reported ; 1c to the Senate for t le Indian servise for the hi coming year 3 6,213,302.97. This amount exceeds the Indian bill of last year by $840,147, tl the chief element of whicn increase, Mr. t! Dawes said, was the amount for Indian ci EC jooLs. w Mr. Logan, from the military committee, ki reported favorably the bill to place General ol Grant on the ritired list, with the rank and w full pay of general of tin army, and the -n bill was passed at on-e without d.bate?A p m ,t on to oppoint a conference com-nittea on tl tbe shipping oiu was posse i oy m u h . u, The Indian appropriation b'll wai amended [ o' ar.d pas ed. The Senate has add d ab >ut : 1 $8o,(fc0 more than the amoant reported by the i ir Senate committee on appropriations. This I ir maces the who e araounc'ot' th) Senate ad- T dit o s to the bi 1 abou iT>,000 an i the total n am unt appropriated 80,30 a x>ut |9o0,- tl COJ m.r<j than the appropriation of last year, c House. The Hous3 ppsse 1 the bi'l granting $5,030 ' to the widow of General i-rancis P. Blair for he hu iband's service < in organi/in j troops daring the war. and increasing her pen-i n lo #.'0 a mon:h!...Most oI the day was spent | ? in debate on two bil.s, one approp iat.ng SO,CO1 for the relief' of Willis N. Anio d, of Henderson, Tenn., which was repor.ed fa- , v ra j y by the comm ttee on war claim.", the other tor the relief of Hiram Johnson and lorty sit other person? of the same place, which was reported adversely The iio.ise i > commi tee finally s b .litutod the Johnson . bill for t .o Arno d bilL * Mr. Cox. of 2\ew York, introduced a bill to pla e General Grant on thartt red list. Bills P were also introduced to resti ict the ownership o' real estate in the '1 er. itorie3 tod i ens oi the Unitei Ktat s; to r<j; eal internal rjvenue Cl taxes on tobacco and brandy, and wine made F fr?m fruit; and fc> repeal pre-emp- p tion and timber culture laws.... Mr. 6 Hewitt introduced a bill amending the tariff. The bi'l provides for simplifying 11 the a Imin s ration ufih9 custom laws. Cot- Cl * 1 - *. ~ 1? fA no & a Vilrhpr p iu:i auu u n u i o <*i o avu w ? ,. rate of duty than l'orty per o nt ad valorem; * hemp, jute and flax, tian thirty per cent; s' wool an i w oolens, than seventy per cent.; a carpits and carpeting, than th.rty-flve p?r ? cent.; earthenware, glassware and metals, than fifty per cent. On chemicals, wood, pro- c visions, books, sundries (other than prec.ojs s ones', audsucar, there shall bo levied ninety v D?r cent, of the d.ili s now imposed, and to- 81 bacco shall pay ii,hty per cent of t.iedut es 11 now imxs.'d. The bill wakes reduct or<sin 0 the iron schedule, ani a number of additions P to the iree list 0 The Senate bill to provide a civil govern- a ment for Alaska was passed?There was a F spirited debate on the bill providing that no *' lerr.tjry shall form a constitution, or apply * for admission as a Stats until it contains a c Sermanent population equal to that required v ) entire a Congre s district to a represent^.- a tive. Messrs. Cox an l Fotkr, of New York, 1; champiouei the bill, but it wa> finally tabled, z toy to 15. _ ? MUSICAL AND DRAMATIC, j I Emma Abbott goes to Europe this summer. A Comic opera will be given on the iron pier 8 at GYney Island this summer. e A monument is to be erected in Poris to Berlioz, the eminent composer. Anna Dickerson. it is said, will hence g forth bo seen in public only on the lecture s platform. 0 Marie Van Zandt has been appointed a d co.;rt singer by the king of ho.land. This ia ii an fco.ior rarely conferred. t Hakti.ev Campbell lias written a four-act c drama, which will bo produced at the Union I v Square tneatre, New \ ork, next season ' a Mary Anderson will make a tour of ^ Spain before returning to the l.yceum theatie, London, for a revival of 'lioiiieo and J" Juliet.' I' The Metropolitan Opera-house (New York) ej has swallowed fudy $a.*xi,(K)0 dur.nz thedis* nstrjus season that used up Mr. Abbey so t! badly. o: Thomas Nast is going to lecture noxt sea- d son He yearned t'er a p ay in Wiiich he w might sluw hi? t-ki.l as a drawer of cartoons, ri but could not get ono. ti ''Dksikie," a new American comic opera, the music of wan h is by John Philip Sousa, & lead r 01 the marine baud in V\ras!i,n^ton,haj ? made a decided lnt at the capital. ' Minnie Palmer continu ? hersuccea in ^ London, and there is some talk now of lurre- ti maining in England another season. At any ? rate it is not at all likely that she will return . In August, as arranged some time ago. W WALL STREET PANIC. Several Banks and Numerous Firms Suspend. Wild Scenes of Excitement in New York Financial Circles. A great financial storm which had been >rewing in New York since the failure o* ranei R. Keene, and which the suspensio 1 >f the Marine bank and the failure of Grant !c Ward precipitate 1, burst over Wall street, uid for a trief j enoi threatened to destroy < iven the most firmly established moneyed nstitutioas of the city. Details of t.ie finan- 1 j.i u a .j ii m.a j iuu inuu auu ui out) exuiieLuuiib wu uu ?u<;- i seedei, are taken from the met. opolitan pajers as follows: The Metropolitan ban1!, one of the largest ml best known of (he national bank) in \"ew York, and of vhi h Mr. George I. 3eney, th celebrated railroad financier and >hilanth. opi it, is j resident, closed i: s dooi s, ind tbe Atlantic State, of Brooklyn, alsosus>e ided. Therv were runs on otb3r nanks and Inaneial in titutions, and no less than seven ar^e bandng and broieraje firms anlounced to the Stock Exhange thjir na iuty to met their enga enents as follows: Hatch & Foote. 12 Wall treet: Hotchkiss, Burnham & Co., 30 Br a 1 treet; Nels n Robin *on & Co., 18 Wall street; ). M. Bogart & Co., 108 Eroadway: Donio*l, lawson & Simps:n, 100 Iroadway: J. 2. Wiliiatna & Co., 30 Broad street, ana Go fit k Bandle, 5 New street In audition there vere reports afectuig the cred t of s ores >f other banl s and frms, w hi*, h proved ncorrect, but which added to the g< ne al denorolizat on caused by the a tual failures. For a lew hours tha exritemeut in Wall treet and in financial and business circle ;enerally was the mo-t intensa that ha1! been mown for years; c rtainly not since ihe day >f Jay Cooke & Co's lal ure in 1873. For a Ime the deJior.iligation was complete. Ccnidence was shattered. Banks refused to ceri.y ex ept agaiist cash deposits; loans were ailed in, seiuriitiei of all kinds were thrown tut as next to worthless, and the loaning rats or money was run uo to 3% I er cent, per lay. vGrjat tanking hooses iefu ed t) ac- t MA aUa ?l*n An MArmfflVtln knnlfn rt r\ I Ujpi/ WJ tlx ou I'UOv'JU UU IC^UIOUIC UBUIU) OU.i j lemanded actual cash payment in all trans- j ictfon^ j It was reported that Jay Gould and his t ecretiry, Mr. Moioani, bad been seen isatening from the TiUst Company, where T hey deposit their 8 curitiej, with boxes 1 ontain n; their vast holding, the inference c .eina that they were endeavor ng to pledge hem la order to rase money. One re- 1 >ort was even bulletined, that kr. I Jo. ld was in feiious trouble. This was em- I ihoticilly deni d, however, by Air. Goul l, C ?ut durin? the day it transpired that a vast lumter of puis had betn unloaded on l.us- 1 ell S g>, and that operator la *r in the da/ lec'in d to a c pt any furtLer deliveries, ^ rbich increased tne excitement and added to 0 hedemoralizaton. Then came a reaction. Secretary Fo'ger f ame to t'ae res me with an order dire ting * he trea-ury departmeLt io pay the $.0,10: 00 bonds included in tie 12<th (all in ad- } anee ot the time set, June 20. 1 he Clear- * og-Houae a so iation, comprising s it/- i hree banks, with an aggregate capital of 1 (120,000,000 h?ll a meeting, appointed a _ trong committee and resolved to s: and by 1 ach other in this crisis. The action sen ea o calm the temr est and allay the excitement, c t being seen that this timely step wo la erve to prevent any further trouble. As the , jg'it closed in the panic of May 14, 1881, a ? jiy which will be aemoiablein the annals * fl7-.ll Mnanro/l rrtnflr(nn/V> * I VV (UL BUCCb; cuuoa m iwenvu wuuuvuw y nd hope. - * The s.ene on Wall street following the anLouncemeat of the failiues wa? me of the t Melt excitement thit defe> adeiuate decri.tion. The gieat r'ep ession oi Tuesday, be 'acticnot the Continental bank in lefos- g ag to certify the chicks of A. Dye t & J 'o., the ext aorclinary developments f a tie matt.r of the Second ( rational bank and the (lustrous spe:ula!i',ns of its j'oung president, Jr. Jobn C. Eno, coming on the tue's of the larine nk failure and the crash of O'r .nt t War.-, caused the day to open with the ' lackist clouds henj n j over th; street The ightning soon cleft the clo-dj away and the 1 torm burst Busine ss te^an at the stock ex- "! hanc;e shortly befcre 10 a. m., thi hovr ftr 1 penine. The market opeaed weak and lLsties. The opening sensation of the day was the nnouncemeut of the failure of Neabn Kojlson & Co., at 10 a. m. As soon at this was nown members began to rush into the be ardoom and the gallenes to fill with tpxtators. a fifteen minut s Chairman Mitchell tapped C or order again and r>.ad to a room B silent as if it were empty the noIce from 0. M. Bogart & Co., announcing I ttelr suspension. A m nuteor two later and | tie ominous raps of tie (hairman's gavil j rere again beard, en 1 tbe fa lui-e of Gone & I tand.'e wa; announced. The excitement now > ecame intense. Sto:k? which had opened j R ne and six per cent lower than the closing * il^es of Tuesday fell time and foir percent j J lore. Brokers awoke tolhe fa t that the j f torm droodel for so many oays had begun, | nd demoralization set in for a tim\ Again the ho inner I ell. and the brokers n rowded arotinl the roslrum. This time,how- ! i ver, the announcement was not one of disas- j b *- rn I if ?\ DUfc OL TCUSSUTlUlCe. J. uu CUOijiuau iu^u ? n otice from Bank Examiner Scriba, to the b fe t that he ha I im-e rtigatei the affairs c ' fie Second National bank, and that it as perfectly sou id and s )lvent. This | t tus3U a slight relief, but the gene al belief t as that the noti:e woulihave been of an / lVrjly di.ierent t >nor had not Ames R. Eno t< i de goo 1 the los es of his son, the p esident, d rnou l.iig to $t.000 00 > and caused by spec- t ation. fSc ireely had he eifect of this notice t ass .-d away wue.i the failure of J. C. Wil- il a as & Co. was anno meed. This was fol- I p > .vod by the notice of the fall of the great | e 5U-58 of Hatch & Foote. : d Ex itement was now at fever heat. When | n le nan e of the last Aim ell frcm the lips of j n le chainnin the t'oor of the Ex;lian?e was J a owded wi.h mem x-rs The announce ^ent i us r.ce'.ved with a tremendous shout. Br >- : p srs made for the door aud hastened to their j t lilcoi to loik a ter their a airs and their | \ ^oun'sw.ththisu-ipended houses. Tradirvj, i o us then to all intents ani put poses eis- It ended. Sleanwhi e the news had spread ! o it ugho it the street. The announcements j 1< t the tailures we:e received in every o.nce . n ver the tapes and the nev s was carried from i a p to l.'p wit i a rapi lit/ aim st ; t l rvulous. Cut iderB Leian to irowd i t lto th? galleries. At 11 o'cKck ! r hero W( re tu'ly 50U s.iectators in lha two j t ariow galleries. They wtr; jamme I in and h ios > wlo could not get therd crowded the i li JiridoM and stairways. The officials of n le Kxchaige th>u guve the order to clear i i le gall ries and adow only members t) I t iter the buidin;. This was imm di- o an/1 ftWA *?'" Q1 TXT irf ft 1 AV I H KJiJ c-\CVUiAJU UUU wnv ux*a??^*av | ^ ten were Bution a at the "Wall street v itrance to prjvenfc t',ie mob from stepping e ithin the building. For a minite it wat , p fen suggested as a Ivi^ble lo suspend ba i- g b?? on tha Exchange, as was done for tev- n al days during 18<;i. This, however, was p 3t serio tsly cousi 'ered, a; the cond.t on of It Fairs d.d not waiTant such an extreme 1 b icasure. j f' D irinr the rest of the session there wa? no i f< irther indications of un lue excitemeat.even ! tCter it ha i becoma known t .at the M tio- !i jlitau bank h id closed its do rs Only a j r< miparativelv few u.embais r? m i.nsd on the 3i ocrs, an 1 the so were stindnr awnnl ciiilis-ing the itmtion ai d a.vaitin^ d-velop- o ionts. Trad ng n&i thie..y < ontined to the lying in un ier the rule oi stocks to d for n le benefit or the susnendel firms. o '1 he decline in valu 8 on t'.:e Exchange dur- jj lg the day were ex inordinary. Th j net da- j 3 ine ranged from 10 1-2 pe.' cent, in Michi- , v an Central to 1-4 per cent, in Rochester and I itt<burg. In over eighty o: the act've i t tccks there were no transactions effe. ted ; 1 nd the quo at om were e tab.i hed simp y j "5 a the figures bid ani a.~kd T.iisissome- ; o ling unparalleled in the history of the Ex- o hange. ji uutsiJe of the Strck exchange, on the side- t ra'.ks, in front of banks, on ti e sub-treasury ; n taps and in eveiy c-'nter of interest, the-; i roitinten-e excitement prevailed. The news j ? i' tlio failure was bul eUned by every news- j a a; er, cries of ' extras' giving intelligen e ! 1 f tlio disasters tilled the streets and f venues, aiiu uiu wuuic uitv b^tuicu I 1 our its popuation into Wall street. | vt noon Wall stie t from the Trinity church ! j t le custom house was black wi li asur.in^ ' rowd of excit d m 'n. The crowd was the ehi le for the conveyan.e of the wildest | n 1 inof t absurd rumors. Vet for the most art it was a well-behaved concourse of citic ns. and iliee isp is-itioii appeared to be to ta <e * . c<. n erv< tive view of a!lairs. It was a most a; o?sible 11 wtd^e one's self through the e lass of i.e pie. All wei e eag. r lor the latest i!el igen;*e. The newspaper men, who made r heir head juarters at the ccrner of Wall and Iroad, found it difficult to do their work, iny one with a n )te-book in his hand was urrounded with an eager group of question- J " rs aft.r the lat st new3. Most of the throng were drawn to the ' t.eet by mere curiosity, but there were * tilers who had pecuniary' interests at stake, re at or small, and their presence on the c rorft was natural and anxiety wa* depict d i t n th ir fac.s. There were la ge grcu s of! l.positors all day iu front ot the Metropol- j t] ian Lauk and other institutions reported] _ 0 le in troube. ihi Metro ohtan j ? lofed its doors at a'lor.t 11:20. Po.i--emi n j, .-ere immediately placed in front of them ' 1 d no o- e was allowed to enter. A crowd , 2011 gathered on the steps and sidewalk | 1' rhich ha I not discern d, even when nigiit be- j tl an to s-et in. At Dt'l'iionico's ai d other a '.a es of rewrt, and in th > offices of the prin- i Lijal l rokers, there were ex -ire I gio ij s eag- ! n rly diga ting the 1 >to <t i itolli.co. j ji Alter the announcement ot t.ie failure of 0 .e Metropolitan bank there was a gap of tw o r three hours in which there were no new j _ isas era officially announced. The prrio.l ' I 'as oc< upied in the invention and d( nial of I 7 mnors aJfecting the credit of other insthuon-. i '1 hen cime the failur b of Donnell, Lawson 111 : Simpson and Hotc.ikisi & Buri.h un?fcoth ; ?] f them niomL.ent h' as 8. It was rt'i orted | ''' tiat I resiJ. nt /rfc'nr had 'rided ihrmgh! " i s firm, but t) is was deni d by 1'r rJotcn-1 is. '1 hfso la ures capped the climax tf tv je ^av's excixment and from this time on- lc ard there was an abatement of the sensa- t on. ' Mf . v. - v. THE NATIONAL GAME. 1 League umpires wear gray suits and straw hats. The female baseball tramps, the Blondes m 1 Bru Kt^cs, are aga'n on tae rampaje. ^ Baseball players are rat id as more dan e -ou) riiks th in powder ma'iera by accident ? nsu. ance agents I'VgOllJI aiJU XIUCUVVTO) Ittl ?MJTT. , Phi adalph.a L<ajie a'qui i ions, are highly . % >po en of, and have been doing very clever * work. The Eastern League have adopted th* ;:4 American rule giving a bate man a base every -J \^i :ime he is hi: solidly by the ba l from th? pitcher. The New Yorks have tenured Robert Fer- _?vl ?u=on, last year member of the Philadelphia ??).; League nine to p:ay second bas3 for them ' luring the coming s.asen. The number of baseball guides in drculA> ^ ionij enormous. Ihere are the Ieigos, fJg American As o:iation. Union, Eastern, DeWitt* and Ameri an Colli ge. The Saginaws poi -t prcuily to the'r flrtV^ 38 se nan, who stan Is six feet two "n has, and itopsanv bing thrown with suffl^nt accuracy to hit the side of a barn. The four Wet era cluts closed the fink ~j&, ?;ek of the League campaign with but-oa^ irtf/M v f a fViniw a*a if Atif r\f i ulna uaiiiM -H 'iVVUI J U-J VUUU VUV VI KTTW^V (MUSH) ^-, iud that was won by Cleveland. Bbjcthers, of tbe Buffalcs, has made 5J ncrj borne runs in tha preliminary season m haa anr' other pav.r in the coanoy. and . nore than aJ the otnjr Lisons com ined. .;| Toe Baltimore Amer'cin A s sociatlon, in- ? li:ted two deieats each upon tie Cleveland!* ind the Detroit They will a ow up finely.--^*; his season, and will draw immense crowd*. ' In the preliminary playing, fu^a'o wae he on y League dub that played afpint vj$ \mer can Assoc)a ijn clubs and Has not Oeeat d. Providence and Boston suffered bat >ne defeat. The Columbus team a1 one, of all the twelve \merican clubs, e3 ap~dde eat in April, while '> he tiuJalo tea n was the only League team limilary successful,.iceptt-e Chicago, which '*fm )layed only t.rae games. .' Iv Bal imore attempts have bee a made to letermine t. e speed oi different pitchers, but , lot with v^ry gr<-at suxe a However, two- SS llthsof a second S9tm? to be about theavrage timaofthe ball xroai the pltJi^rs hand 0 tJho e of the catjber. AN authority on bassball predicts that Bal- > J inure, St Louis and Cin innali will be rep- > e* n el in the Nati nal League next seasoo, n te d of De r^i;, CLvelan i and Piov.den e. ^ ? 1 hUcii a programme is carrielcrut it wH * . ioudy cripple the American asso Aatioo. . y~:<* At the c'ose of tbe scoond week of the l<eagu3 ohamp'onship campaign tlu record jSg if the eight c^n.enuing clubs was a* lodowr. ,' m Won. Lott. Won. lpsfc {Ja few York.... 1 0 Philadelphia...3 Boston 7 1 Buiia o 2 0 >ro?'idenoe.... 5 1 Clevelmd..... 1 5 '/a Chicago 3 4 Detroit ... O r fy'y, 'otal 23 6 Total .6 23 Ths twelve clubs of the American Aasodar,..^S ion stood as follows at the end of the seem r\ t*rni?Mo nl a w UW "toa 0 7TK ppK Won. Lost Won. LotL'*3$ !t. Louis 6 1 Col umbos 4 8./9fa Jetrcp )litao..6 2 Brooklyn 8 ' "8 >- i+% xulsville ....6 2 Fittiburg 8 5 Jin innati. ...4 2 Indianapolis 1 * 4 Uhletic 4 8 Washington....1 b iaitimore... .4 8 Toledo . ..0 9 /,:J'otal 20 13 Total*... ......12 The record of the Eastern League in th* hampionship ra e was as lolkms: .' ;vj#g Won. List Won. Loft Vilmington.. 7 0 Virginia. 8 4 .Yin'.on 5 1 Harrisburg... 2 - 5 Active 3 S Monumental.. 2 B v* \ewark 3 8 AUentown.... 1 5 Total 18 7 Total .. 8 19 % The Union Aasociation'cluba stood thru; Won. Lost Won. LotL St. Louis 12 0 Chicago & 0 .""jSC 5altinnre....l0 4 National 8 11 . -J Joston 9 3 Keystone 2 Ur 'J'ggf Jincinnat^... 9 5 Alcoona....;. 1 Total 40 12 Total 11 io The College championship record stood m ' ;?j? oliowa: Won. Lost. Won. LotL , M Lmherst, 2 0 Brown 1 : 2-'?i% fale 2 0 Princeton... 0 l larvard 1 2 Dartmouth. 0 1 K a T?t.i i t A''Ju! J.UUU M | AVMM.. THE FIBST CONVEMTIOBt feneral Butler Nominated for i - J dent by the Antl-nonopolMik The national convention of tha Anti-Mo* /' opolist pirty met at Hcrihey Muaic hall, , .'7? Chicago. The ca'l provided for betnwa ,500 and 1,000 delegate Tbe anvention was called to order by John \:*p. Henry, cbairman of the ' > ommit.ei. In his opening addren he said ' ./<; iat the convention had assembled at a tima ' rhan a panic was raging in Wall street .. ever be.ore equaled except by "Black PH> ly." A delegate shouted: "It couldnt $ a/e come at a tetter tixe." Mir. Ht^rt aen presented the name of Alton J. / ' treator, of IiliioU, for temporary 'Tv? hairman, and he wjschoeen to that petition. Mr. Killmer, of Niw Yore, read reaqto ija ions adopt* d by the ex cutive committed of be Anti-Monjroly league Oi' New \oric, oa Lpr 1 IS, to tae e tecttnat it waa inexp di at';-' V? o nominal j pr.sidential and .vic.-prajl- rQ ,jnt.ai candidate at thii convention, and ^ bat committees be a pointed to at- .:j and the conventions of otber p rties aid en- ' eavor to secure the nomination of men edged to anti-monopoly principles. Thh <' > ausxi a ripp e of exci em nt. and aftersomaiicussion and several motions the wbola is mtter was lail on the table by a heavy ^ lajoi ity.but it waa alterward taken up again 5 ^ n 1 placed o i lIj. Joan P. Henry, of New York, was apointed president of the convention and toe > jmporary secretaries were madepermanent, ? Vhea tbe convention re .ssexnbled at 7d0 'do :k, Dr. Boyd, of Ne* lork, moved .,i o take from the tible thi leioi t;on j )'. tbe New York Anti-iloni.poly jagua pres ntxi daring the feter- c J *,J kvi. /* t*' .^3 toon ana isaei. imi uuuuu ,n exdted debat ?. It was tinally de.lded to ike the rusolut.on* from the taule anl plaie '.'"y hem i n file. Charl.s Litchman, ot Aiasaahu etts, p esented the majority report of be committee on the pla.ioim, which olds that labjr and capital should e allies, no: enemies, "and we deitnrt justica lor both by prote ting the ights of all as aj inst tae privileges of a ew.' That "corp iratLns are the creator. J f law an I should bj contrjlle 1 by law.' Tha I 1 itform then calls for the ?na.tm nt and .goro-s execution of just laws, and uatit/ in rights. burdens, privileges, aid jwe 8; asserts t .at .1 is tna uiu/ ui mo overument to at once reauat) comlerce among States, including tae trans* ^ orta ion of money and transmision of ltdligence: denounces tha p esent t ri.f as i in ; iar0ely in the interest o. m ,uO o y, and emands tuat it be sp e .ily and raJca 1/ re- - j j:med in the in.ere. t o labor iosteal of capitl: ur^es that no further grants o public 7 inds be muie to to p jrati ns. i'aeminority' 3..or- wa> the plaUorm ado . ed at tae Anil- '. ) lonoi 0 y con mention hell o.i Jjly4.1883. The inajo.ity report wa> aioptel by a vote fWto2.. A mo! ion was then made to proceed to the oninati.nof ian idateafor 1 resident. An- - j th r d.s u e herj aio<' over tha me hod of rocjdure, a:.d State Senator Boyl. of New fork, seized h s bat and lefttjehalL He /as followed by tha delegates irom tha )istrictof Columbia. General Bu.lcr was >? hen pu in nomination suedes ive y by Mn 0 d. of Cali o.n a. Mr. hooney, or New : 1 ork. and several ethers. Mr. Blaochaid, f Verm jnt, put ia noini lalion J. B. \\ eirer. f Iowa. The chair h re annojxo.d that it ust hsd an interview wit'a Mr. Weaver, and hat he had not only declared he would ^ ot accept the nomination, bnt that he was' . yjf 11 favor of Gener 1 Butler. Mr. Uawd/of febriska, nominated Allen G. Thurman. On ,n informal bal ot butler receive! U4 votej, '.J ruurman >ev<.-n. and !-o on Chase, of Maine, in?. Biitl;r was ce lared tha nominae or i.o /lAtiuanHiin " <*bS5 NEWSY GLEANING& The hanl-wood interests of the south aw oing rapidly developed. Switzerland, by a recently published nirn, has 1,002 hotels with 58,137 beds. Eighteen thousand homesteads have been ntered in Flori la during the past year. The new city hall in P hilalelphia has al eady co6t $4,341,009, and is not jet finished A Spiritualist temple, to cost about $250, (X). is being erected in the Back Bay region f Boston. An i ebers three miles 1 one is reported as oating in tho Atlantic, and ships are warned ^ n limit nut for it. Over 1,000 women attended a recent exeution at Columbia, Ky., and one of them las since bei ome crazy. Oil speculation has gained such magnitude bat the sales in the different exchanges agregate .'0,0 H),l00 barrels daily, ana there re 30,003,01,0 pipe line certificate outstandig * The quartermaster has given orders for 4,< 01 yards of gold lace made necessary by tie change in the uniform of the United Statea nny. The balance-sheet of the gaming establish* lent at Monte Carlo shows a net result of fty suicides and the loss by visitors of 12,JU.t'OO francs. , Michael Davitt, in a letter to a Dublin r. df clar.\s th .t ne will re.urn to Ireland fier celive. ing lectur.s in Australia, Kew cala: d and the Lnited states. The mines of the Black hilh, in Dakota. five mined and milled 1,512,027 tons of gcoi e. yielding $10,434,116, an average of only 5. .8 per ton. imk ng a profit and payinsr in [\i.ends*3,14.y,0j. A kite fifteen feet high and twelve feet ide has been built at i>ew * aven., Conn., :r the purpose of experimenting tota t thi fting and tustaining power of th? atmo* ht re. The string is 1,100 fMt long.