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ABBEVILLE PRESS AND BANNER.1 t BY HUGH WILSON. ABBEVILLE, S. C.. WEDNESDAY, JUNE 4, 1884. NO. 49. VOLUME XXVIII. ttSR MAJBSTY, MY QUEEN. a "With'Fancy's brush ft portrait of mv queen j, . -paint, as now in memory she stands'- \\ fier form, a pofm from a Masters hands I An oral face with i'jro ence serene, g Whose dimpled cheeks, though snowy in their h sheen, n Fluih like the shells on Coromanilel'9 sands; P Eyes, blue as those in far Circassian lands. Beneath a brow that wears a royal mien. li Moon-tinted like Alhambra's palace wall. ! tl And fitly framed in strands of Orient gold: i d A noi-e and chin Rome's sculptors migh^ adore; | ^ Lips, char-cut rosebud's, from whose portals a: fall P Soft, rippling music?never could they j Bcold. | l1 - 'As time rolls on I love her more and ? - Ci moi e. I ?Edward A. Oldham, in Chicago Current j P theTwisible. s tl al Three times within a year and a half S] had that mysterious creature eluded me. ? The first time, I expressed polite regrets; jr the second, I called her the lost Pleiad j ai out of that constellation of seven; the ji third time, I determined to see her if I had to intrench myself for the winter in tl Collegetown. d - They were a fascinating bunch of seven * girls, their father's scholarly head tower- ta ing from the midst of them. Kate, to be ai sure, was married, and lived in South d Bend, but she was always counted in. vi Through Kate partly I discovered the rest- of the constellation, for I was a South Bender, the literary son of a banker, and guilty of enthusiastic pilgrimages to the j shrine of native talent. We have sweet; * great people in our State, and cherish i jj their home perfume. I came to College- j jc town first to find for myself some of these people, and in their set were the Carew i sa girls, to whose acquaintance Mrs. Kate ' ja paved my way. Some of them I met at a reception, and 1 think they were in-1 a] clined to pass me over as too sensitive, 1 ^ too womanish, a man. But immediately j afterward I had to make a speech at a soldiers' reunion and I used all mythun-1 ders directly at the Carew girls. From jn calliner ou them with an elderly friend I c was promoted to stopping at the house as , the guest of their father. That fine old gentleman and I talked classic sentences while I thought about the girls. They all attracted me, even the youngest, whose mother had died at her birth eight n( years before. ! From ceiling to floor, and from the tem- j pie-like parlor, into which you opened cl the front door, lo unexplored regions of w its one-story spread, their house was lined with books. They had not a fury for i L culture, but they seemed embodiments of k high thinking, and their manner of liv- j b< ing put a premium on poverty. I despised y< my father's solid mansion when I com-. si pared it with the old cottage, which liail; f( Deen picturesque and venerable before tl ^ any of' the Carew girls was born in it. a> Many books could be written about Miss Carew alono* for you never ex- tl hausted her individuality. She was a swift, wholesome, incisive woman, and > pi edited the priucipal newspaper in Col- \ b< legetown. Her very feminine hands 01 could pack a valise at the shortest notice w for a journey after interesting materials, I and she told me she considered herself in going to school to learn journalism, and ; she grudged no pains, that would give h< her a hold on the general public. Besides her newspaper office she had a den i)( in a house not far from her home, where jn she could study alone, and Avhere the ar treasures accumulated by her talents smiled around her. Many un eveniug j she burned the oil of the night-laborer in there over her manuscript; but many w another evening the girls with some guest ra made the den hilarious. Her table, rug, v( and chairs, her waste-basket and cur- J?c tains, the dogwood flowers she had ar painted around the grate, nnd the freize sn />1?a ua/1 f1 %ji miiiuuciics one uuu AUUUU umc tv set L.sa beneath the ceiling, were all extensions ( b( and expressions of herself. Miss Carew j w never was called anything but Mar; Honor ! w by her family and set. While I had not ?t the hardihood to address her so, I always Uj bestowed her title on the second sister, 0i Miss Clara, who taught in the public w schools, and looked as if she were made at for laughter. All the curves in her face | turned upward, and she talked frank y( epigrams. Then there were Psyche. | ^ who had a Grecian head, and fell into unconsciously beautiful poses, and Bess, ,<( who doted on music, and was in a quiver of bashful pleasure when she took her seat before you at the piano. These two, ^ with the eight-year-old; ister, were school- ai ^ [^rl" They were always consulting to-! M gether, and making a group with their1 arms around each other, and watching jn Willi Keeu, inoaesi eyes uie many mier esting people who came and went at their i ^ house. "Well did I know and enjoy the j ^ companionship of six Carews, but there remained a seventh, completely invisible. ' The order of her birth had been between the goddess of laughter and the Greek jj, profile. I reckoned her age at about C( seventeen. "You'll not see Leda,'' said Mary m Honor, briskly and frankly, tin first time ^ I sat at their table. "She's a recluse, j0 and never shows herself." w <:"She does the cooking,M Bess ex-; plained. And in my passing thought I gj y pictured Leda as some elderly step-sister, j , . grown stoical among the pots and kettles. ^ But there certainly was no drudgery about that house. It must have been delight to prepare such dishes as you p( found at the Carews', and the ta"ble- < j linen and well-preserved flowered ware ; ei are even now a retrospective delight to U] my senses. ".Leda was my pupil in housekeeping ~ at first, because she was younger than I," L said Miss Clara; " but in my old age I i tj turn to her for instruction." j T fVian /Ionulnrl T.urlo tnitof l?r? /1a. A. ?.VU ?VWUV? " | g] formed, or scantily supplied with those gifts which the others had in abundance. | And afterward, while talking with a! w friend of theirs, T made inquiries about her. st "Oh, no," said he; "they're all , ^ straight, well-made girls, and bright from lirst to last. Let me se: she's one s< of the three or four in short dresses, isn't ? she?" ]11 "She cooks," I replied. _ "They all do; they're trim huusekeep- j P ers. The wur'cn praise the way they've 1 ? riloted along ever since their mot her died, i /Inn't tViinlr T'vf? m>t>n thnf unn for a. vfiar or two." 11 When I felt impelled to tell Psyche how handsome her head was. its front became j steeped in pink from chin to low-reach- ^ ing hair as she replied, sincerely: "You ought to seo Lena's hf-ad before you make any speeches. She is Mie beauty of the ^ family." ''Then why does she hide herself so?" j 6! "Oh, because she waniS to. She al- d ways did." S( "And does she read and talk and study ^ like the rest of you?" c' "She studies a great deal more than I I do. She reads Spanish and German, and 11 knows shorthand." 0 "And French?" "Oh, yes. of course," with an accent of i a contempt. j w "I think I am classing her now. She's w a bookworm, and perhaps rather near- w sighted." Psyche called on Bess to join her in a cl well bred giggle; then they hastened to st explain to me how strong Leda's eyes j y were, and how pretty. "She has the truest eye for color of any I ci of us," said Bess. "Iler dress and things have to be just so. Leda would perfectly n fc. fly if she had to wear inharmonious tints." "And her favorite is green, isn't it?" - - said I. "And she vanishes into tree tl tmnks and foliage when mortals come "w by." it "People seem to annoy her," acknowledged Psycbe. L "She ought to pity us," I said. "She just wants to be let alone," apol- a: ogized Bess; "and she would rather we ii didn't even talk about her." k By degrees Leda bemme a tantalizing a: " vanisher before me. Let me watch and I, listen ever so warily, I could not hear her si footstep or catch a glimpse of her dress, v She went regularly to church?perhaps si through the air, for I guarded the I entrance to Episcopal services two different Sundays in Collegetown without dis- p tinguishing her, and I knew I should recognize her as soon as she materialized to my view. I remember rising early in t! ? the -morning and sauntering past that b house that I might discover her in the 1 ct of taking inilk from the milkmnn, or hisking a market basket through the ack gate. Frequently while talking rith her father. I led our talk up to her. [e always smiled, and said she was a ood girl, they were all good ?rirls. And e said no further. Naturally I could ot expect him to share my fervor in the j ursuit of Led a. It became an actual pursuit. The terature emanating from my pen at j nat time bore her tint and impress. I ( ealt in vague and shadow}- things, and It myself shaken with rapture over ! 'eats' "Endymion." It seemed a healthy | od delicious phase of life to be forever ainnns 1110 invisible to njvseii. n >ss gross an adoration than that expressed in kisses and vows. But experience hurried me on, and I i ame to Collegctown the third time 011 urpose to see the invisible. The friend* ho entertained me were going that very 1 reniug to Mary Honor's den, where an iformnl knot would discuss Schiller, and icy took me along. I had my views bout Schiller, but I also had views rejecting the C'arew girls. Their father j as there. Miss Clara was there, laughig and embroidering; Psyche and licss id the little ones were there, with their ngers in their lesson-books, and their limls and faces in a receptive state for le conversational grain which might be ropped. They received me as they al ays did. A tire burned 111 the grate, j iking the chill oil the autumn evening. ! id before Schiller came upon the rug for iscussion I asked for Mary Honor's in- ; isiuie bisiui. "Oh, Leda wouldn't coiue over," relied Mary Honor, 11s a matter of course. You didn't expect to see her?"' "I never expect to see her," I replied, j "Why, certainly not," said .Mary j onor, as if she left incapable of guard- ! ig the invisible gem indefinitely. "I don't believe there is any Leda,"; lid I, despondently. She began to ! ,ugh. and toid the others. "Because we have left her at home j one?" inquired Psyche. "She doesn't i ind." "Xo; I think you've been deceiving e," I complained, half seriously, bracig my back against the end of the man- ' 1. " How can I be certain that objects j xist which have never appeared to me j trough any of mv senses, even on the | ridence of such reliable people as I in ? "The testiraonev of one's senses can \ 5t always be relied on," chuckled their j ither. "But T would like to give mine a lance," said I, pursuing the subject; ith unconcealed stubborness. " Then go over to the house and see ! eda," exclaimed Bess. "If you just) nock at the front door, she won't come. ; ?canse she knows we're all out. But if I in <ro to tlie long side window and rap, j ic'll think it's one of the girls run back j ir something we forgot. He thinks j lere isn't any Leda!" giggled Bess. side to Psvche. - * * T -i.--l.-Jl -1 ! It struck my iancv so mai i sutncu at , ic word. "But won't she be frightened?" I nised to inquire, holding my hat in j 3th liunds, and feeling as keenly as any j ic present the absurdity of the errand 11 as undertaking. "Not at all," said Mary Honor, lookg amused. u You won't see Leda.'' i 1 left the door saying that I believed jr. There were plenty of stars overhead, ' it no moon. The street lamps bloomed j yellow radiance at irregular intervals, ! id on the dusty sidewalk the fallen aves crisped under my feet. I had but i few steps to go, and I traversed tliem | ipetuously, opened the .('arew gate, j ent .to the long side window, and j pped. There was a dog harking be- j >nd the woods which inclose Wabash ' liege. The September air was pleas- i it around me, with just a breath of leaf J aoke in it, and far down the street Ij w some little figures capering around a >nfire of proportionate dimensions. The indow at which I rapped -was curtained ith white, and a lamp burned within. I I ood in tlie dim shine which it spread ! jon the ground, and watched for a face i a shadow. Not even a shadow re- 1 aruea ine; 0111 I Ileum sume uuc luuvc, id tapped again. "Is tliat you, Mary Honor?''inquired a )ice at the side of the curtain. She had ien become a voice. "I told her who I was, and she said Oh!" with a little catch of the breath, hich I heard distinctly. "Nothing has happened to father?" ic asked; upon which I envied father, id told her I was the only one to whom lything had happened. "And what is the matter with you?"; quired the voice of the invisible. 1 paused, and thought of Romeo under le balcony, and his sudden infatuation emed most natural of all the things pon the earth. "Are you J?eda?" "Of course I am Leda?"'?iuterroguvely, as if she wondered what else 1 >uld have to say. "The sound of your voice convinces e you are not one of the others slipped ick to mock me. What a pity such a j iw, delicious voice should go about the | orld in an invisible body!" "What a pity a young gentleman lould stand so long outside, neglecting ) inquire where he can find the rest of le girls and father!*' "I don't want the rest of the girls and ither. I just came from them. If it is ossible, I want to find you. What can do to get a sight of you? You seem /ervwhere about me. vou tantalize me mercifully, but I can never see you." i There was silence within. She was 1 robably holding her breath with alarm ; ; my unusual conduct. While I knew : lat my actions must seem very erratic | > her, 1 felt that I could uot act differ- t itly. "If you only saw me," I pleaded, "you j ould understand." "I have seen you a great many times," ! lid Leda. "I am quite well acquainted | ith you." "Now how cruel that is to wrap your lf in clouds, and put me at the mercy : f your lightning! How did you like ly looks?" "Well, you're too brown for a fair raise," said Leda. a* if the quotation line aptly to her after searching for the uth. "Did you yet the papers I sent larked?" "Yes, and read them all by myself." It gave me a spaMii of delight to think e had one slight secret between us. "Thank you," I breathed. "1 thought the rest of the gills would tugh at them.1' "But you didn't laugh? How can you muse \ourself at me when 1 am in such readful earnestI have come miles to ?e you, and all you have to do is to draw lat curtain. The window is open. 1 [>uId push tlie curtain aside myself, hut beg you to do it. Look how it trembles i the wind, as if shaken with the breath f our destiny!" "Oil, fiddlesticks!" said Leda, allowing bubble of laughter to come around the indow-frame to my waiting ear. She as but a few inches from me, with the all between us. "I love you," I shot back, leaning my heek against the frame. "And 1 shall :ay right here until you either show me our face or drive me away/' "What sort of man are you?'] she ex-laimed, after a pause. v "Vou ought to know. You have seen le." "Lorenzo or Merrutio?'1 "Well, in one respect, Mercutio. For ie hurt I have got is not as deep as a rell nor as wide as a church door; but ,'s enough. "I guess you'd better go away," said >cda. "I withdrew my face from the window, nd looked around at the pleasant town 1 its night aspect. "Doesn't it seem bard to lose the place nd all its associations at one blow,"said , "and nearly two years of my life beides { But the women who abode inisible as oracles always treated mankind 5. Oh, don't give me this bitterness ! las any other man seen you ?" "No, I think not," was the serious rely "Then why do you turn me away ?" "I have been quiet and happy," said he voice behind the curtain. "You ughtn't to coine and disturb me." "Have I disturbed you a little ? Wh%t a blessed thought! I can't go yet, Leda j I ask you again to show me your face, i! I it's only in silhoutte on the curtain. M] ! ideal is centered in you." "Why do you wish to destroy youi ideal ? "Keep it, and carry it away al nicely wrapped up In your fancies." "Ideals and fancies are nothing com pared to a glimpse of reality." "Don't llatter yourself," gurgled th< voice at the inside of the window. "An you quite sure I'm not deformed anc near-sighted ?" "Quite." "Oh, yes, I remember you made in quiriesabout that." "Go on, invisible oracle," said I. V/iii L-nmi* u-hnt I tinvn done in the oast tell me what I will do in the future." ''You will walk clown the street tc t. corner, strike a match, and light "No," I said, leaning against th< house. "I'll stand right here, as 1 threatened. You will have to give m< some visible sign of dismissal?a piece oI geranium leaf, or an old glove, or even a bit of paper with 'Begone!' written on it Here are rose-geraniums growing nearh up to the window-ledge." "Ilelp yourself," said Leda. ''You'll have to break the'piece off foi me: and I'll carry it in my pocket, and breathe its breath, and remember nevei to come near Collegetown again." "If you see me," she said, hesitatingly, "it will all be different to you, and you won't talk so anymore." I remained silent, and watched tht curtain creeping aside. The sash was turned back on its hinge within. Thai organ which controls the flow of tht blnod shook me with its fierce musculai action on my left side. She rcached forth and downward for the geraniun scrap. She had become a hand and ant ?a graceful arm and white hand?whict snapped off the perfumed fragment and glanced back. " sflid Leda. nushiny the cur tain quite aside?"now, here I am. There's nothing wonderful about mo. Take your piece of geranium." The backgound of lamp-lght threw lie? into relief, and rounded her small ears and shone through the golden frizzh about them. I took a gulping look al her, if eyes can gulp." Her style was more marked than Psyche's would evei be; she had Mary Honor's koen vitality and intelligence, Miss Clara's archness, and the grape-bloom innocence of th< youthful child, upon her face. She was beautiful, and I had discovered her. but I stammered when I tried to speak to her How many a man had followed thf hidden goddess, of his thoughts to find her a mean sort of clay 1 I knew I wai huppv, whatever else came to me in inn world. The night swam around me it swift harmony. Leaf smoke was incense, and the breathing of the woods was ar anthem. "Thank you for everything, Leda," ] breathed. "Even for the geranium leaf you wanted as a sign?" "But you've shown me your face," 1 claimed taking hold of her wrists and kissing her hands. "This will be a nice tableau for the girls or the passers-by!" she exclaimed, with a start, answering the beat of mj pulses. "Only one word more, then, Leda. Drop that piece of leaf on the ground." "There it goes," she responded. "Now take yourself and your token off." "Myself, certainly. But here iies the token under my foot. Do you think I could step on anything you had plucked, if that thing did not mean despair? J trample despair underfoot, then. And I shall forever claim you by the right of discovery, and bestow on you mj name." She laughed, drew her hands from me, and pushed the sash shut. Just beforo closing it she said, through the narrow space, "Isn't it funny that father and mother saw each other first through this very window?when they fell in love I" Harper's Bazar. The Guillotine. The first cart contains the l>ois de justice, the apparatus of death, the other a rough receptacle which conies empty,bul wili go away full. The red timbers ol the guillotiue are raised some fifteen paces in front of the principal gateraised almost noiselessly, no hammers being used, but every part being screwed into its place. By the light of a couple ?f lanterns the knife of the guillotine is fixed into the grooves, and the executioner makes his experiment to ascertain that it runs smoothly. By and by the spectators increase. The riff-raff are there, the amateurs of the sensational, some journalists, and?shame to relate? a party of youthful dandies with the berouged accomplices iu their debauches. Order is kept by the police, but latei march up the municipal guards and trol up the splendid gendarmes of the Seine, massive troopers in bear-skins, like the Scots Greys, and they form an enclosure round the machine of reprisal. The exe^ cutioner on this occasion was Hendreich. He did not prepare himself for his work on beer and hoarhound; his peculiarity was to make a meal off rusks and new milk before approaching his dreadful task. The peculiarity of his successor, Koch, was to supervise the proceedingi without removing his tall, shiny silk hat. M. de Paris, as he is called, has highei emoluments than his Knglish colleagues. He receives 0,000 francs a year from the state for exnenses. ami $4,000 foi salary. As the dawn approaches and the gas over the jail gate waxes yellow in the advanced shafts ol day, the chaplain drives up in a cab and enters, and such sinister adjuncts of the function as buckets of water, bran, and the zinc bath-like case to receive the head become visible. Hendreich enten after the chaplain. Tl.e hour is at hand. The gates flv open and the procession appears. The felon, with hair cropped and naked to below the neck, still in the straight waistcoat, hobbles along; at the foot of the ascent to tlic guillotine the chaplain kisses him on the left cheek, Hendreicli supports him under the right arm-pit, an assistant under the left, another presses from behind. A fourth stands by an upright plank which rises to the level of the felon's breast-bone. As 1 he reaches it he is pushed and falls on ; his stomach to the plank, which is shot rapidly forward until his neck falls intc a semicircular hollow under the knifei the upper part which completes thecirclf i is dropped, Hendreicli touches a lever, the blade flashes downward, the head jumps into the zinc ease, the body i< turned over into the tumbril, the head being shaken from its couch of blood dabbled bran alongside it. All is over There is no senseless formality of in j quest. The severed remains are gallopec off to the Turnip Field, there to bi i-buried, the head between the legs, be ?vom?<ifo ftv\m i)\f* hdUflif >l)<4 Jltlf j -1WV. w.v: |.?..r.n , the unclaimed unfortunates from tin morgue.?Tinxtei/x Muijminc. . Oil on the Water. Bede's Historia Ecclesiaseica, writtej in ?'2U, gives an account of a royal wed i ding party that was saved from shipwreel by pouring oil on the waters. A pries I had been sent into Kent to fetch Kin; ! Edwin's daughter to lie married to Kin< I Oswin. Befyre starting on the voyage ; he went to the bishop to have fair weathe provided for the voyage. He was givei | a pot of oil to cast on the sea, accom panied by a prayer, in case the wave j should become boisterous. As was feared j they were caught in a heavy squall, ant ' their royal ship was threatened with de i struction. The oil was cast upon tin ! seething waters. In a moment the whit< j caps ceased to break, the deafening roa died away, and the sun shone out bright ! ly. A number of other instances an ' cited where vessels were saved in a lik manner. It was a common custon j among sailors on the inland seas of Pal estine before the Christian era, to oi ! the water in ease it got too rough. Seven hundred of the girls emplovet os silk-weavers by the firm ot Bonnet (5 Co., in Lyons, France, live in the mil premises. They arc a picture worth see ing. Besides their labors they are taugh sewing and housekeeping, and their mor als are well looked after. The whole 70* sit down at once in one dining-room ! They are well fed, clean and healthy,am i rather jolly. They get small wages, bu what they do get they save, in which re | spect American factory girls might wel follow their example. FARM, GARDEN' AND HOUSEHOLD. I ; i Tlie Poor Irian's Bird. Tho duck is peculiarly the poor man's i bird, its hardiness renders it so entirely independent of that care which fowls perpetually require; and, indeed, all those classes of humble life who have sloppy ofTal of some sort left from their meals and who do not keep a pig to consume it, ducks arc the best save-waste for them. Even the refuse of potatoes or any other vegetable will, with a little bran meal, satisfy a duck, which it thankfully accepts, find,with a degree of pood nature which it is pleasant to con template, swallows whatever is presented to it and very rarely occasions trouble. Though fowls must be provided with a roof and decent habitation, and supplied with corn which is costly, the cottage garden -waste and the snails and slugs which are generated there, with the kitchen scraps and oflal, furnish the hardy ducks with the means of subsisi tence. And at night they require no better lodging than a nook in an open shed. If a habitation be expressly made tor mem it neeu ijul necessarily ue maue i more than a few feet in height nor of better materials than wattles and clay mortar, a door being useless, unless to secure j them from thieves.?Doyle's Domestic Poultry. i Xbe Meadow. ; It is often found tl at a farm sells the ! better the more grass land there is on it. j It also often rents better. And it gives i the owner a fetter income when he I works it. It is no small labor to change grain landB into grass and should be car: ried on systematically and with care and I skill. If land is first put into clover the I ground may be fully occupiod to the ex[ rlusion of weeds, and whenever the cloj ver gives place to other longer lived j grasses it leaves the ground full of a ncti work of roots which enrich it and in de- | caying leave spaces for air and moisturo ! I ind thus also greatly benefits tbc soil. j I If whenever grass become? thin, it is i | resown and hayseed is scattered over the ; I meadows and stock fed upon them the j j weeds may be kept down, the quality of ; | the hay improved and the product greatly j | increased. On some soils a rolling har- i | row set with teeth and followed by a ! I tprinkling of grass seed is a great reno- j vator. Where ordinary grass, blue grass ?.Tune grass as it sometimes is called? j nnd orchard grass may be sown to ad- , vantage. But the more clover and j timothy can be made to flourish the bet- i ter. In most places red top should be j sown. In every place the better grasses j ! may be made to take the place of the j ! poorer and of weeds and of waste, : I greatly to the benefit of the farm, the J stock and the farmer. Pout Fences. The durability of fences, says an e\| change, is the lirst consideration. The I most durable wood should be selected I stAsln** vtrliifn na/1 a lur pust?, SUUll ilO AGCi tcutu, uiiiwu ^uui, I locust, white oak, and other kinds which resist decay a long time; but the selec* 1 tion of the kind of timber merely is not all. Its durability depends much upon ! the mode of preparation and the way in i which it is used. If, for instance, posts are cut and set before seasoning, the moist soil may prevent its drying for a 1 I long time, until it becomes sap rotten. ! If, however, the soil is porous and hapi pens to be very dry this bad result may not | occur. On the other hand, if the timber 1 is cut at midsummer, when the air is j warm and drying, and placcd where evaporations may rapidly take place, the I wood will become hard like horn, and such posts set in the ground that has a I perfect natural drainage, or over an under j drain, will remain dry and last a number ? j of years. Posts set in wet ground, or j where they become thoroughly soaked j i every spring and dried every summer, j 1 will soon decay. Filling- the holes with j stones around the post is now generally | discarded, as it becomes impossible to t pound them firmly enough to hold the j | post from sagging, and unless each hole is well drained, they admit every flow of < water more freely to the post, thus promoting decay by a constant alternation I of moisture and dryness. Helpful Hints. When oats or other feed get low in the ^ granary, instead of straining to reach them, nail a stout strip to a bucket or box with which they can be easily lifted. A horse of mine takes especial delight in rolling in mud or manure. I tie an old | broom stick to the curry-comb and stand , off at a clean and safe distance until I get I the worst of it removed. If in plow; ing the land-side horse is a lazy one and | crowds over against the one in the fur- j ! rows, take an inch board about six inches j square, and through a hole in the centre | drive a wooden pin sharpened at one end. i j Tie this to the back-band of the furrow j horse so that the lazy one will strike it j I every time he crowds, and he will soon fet tired of doing so. Always have on and a paper of copper rivets of assorted i i sizes ana a piece 01 oiled learner ior cui1 ting strings to keep the harness mended ; ! with; then breaks can be readily mended, ! i or those threatened in tugs, lines, straps, j i etc., either by riveting or sewing with a ' Btout leather string. When a calf persists in sucking after being separated from its dam for several weeks, | take an old halter and through the strap passing around in front of the nose put nails, having the points filed eharp and standing outward. A piece of leather sewed over the heads keeps i the nails in place. With this halter 011 ' the calf the cow will kick and keep it at a distance, and it. will soon give up in disgust. Formerly I was often annoyed and delayed by the loosening of nuts on ; j coulters or rolling cutter, until I hit upon the plan of putting leather washers under I the nuts, which stopped their working 1 i loose. If at work in a field where you cannot place the jug of drinking water 1 In the shade set it in the furrow, throw i a bunch of grass over the mouth to keep i it clean, and plow the jug under. The ) ground will shield it from the hot sun, i and being cool and damp will help keep ! the water cool. In plowing, to keep dirt ! out of the shoes, take the legs of an old pair of trousers and cut oil pieces about i a foot long. Draw the pieces on over ; the shoes, tie the strings down underneath just in front of the heel. Then j fasten the upper ctd; of the pieces ...,,....,1 '.i?. ??bu. f,or_ i tors. For ii marker to lay oil corn rows ! among stumps, put two wagon wheels > on an axle, of a length to keep the wheels ' ; just the distance apart the rows are dc1 tired. Any stout stick of wood will do ' for the axle. Fix on a seat to ride if ilcsired. This marker will pass over or dinary stumps, and can be easily turned to avoid those directly in the way of the I wheel.?American Agriculturist. .%pple-l ree Hortr*. ' ; One of the first enemies which claims 1 , the attention of the fruit-grower in the ! spring is the apple-tree borer. As soon | us the frost is out of the ground, and the | weather is suitable, every apple tree ) j should be carefully examined; to do this i the earth should be scraped away from I the tree down to the roots, then with a t lar^e knife scrape the tree, so as to make j it smooth, and if any borers have found i their way into tlie tree, tlie fact will Ijc i ; at once discovered by their castings; if ) they come from an egg deposited last ?! summer, they will he quite small, say ; | half an inch in length, arid will be found 51 about four inches down from the point , | where the egg was deposited, and will j 1 j be found in the sap of the wood, just under the bark; in fact, by cutting away 5 the bark they will be seen laying in the ! channel which they have made by eating t into the solid wood, to kill them when thus found, is but the work of a moment; i t but if they have been in the tree long 1 E enough to mature, they will have eaten : 3 their way back to the point where the ! egg was deposited, and there they will : 1 l linro intn flip, wnnf] and trn 1111 fmm fnur ; to eight inches, where they will change j to a miller and come out as soon as the ; ] weather becomes warm. When they have j advanced to this stage, they do no further j I injury except to lay eggs for another gen cration. To prevent this, they should be t killed; this can usually be done with a very small whalebone ten inches long, 3 running it up into the hole until it reaches the worm. 3 When the tree hus been thoroughly t examined, and all of the worms killed, - the eartli should be put back again and J a few shovels of fine gravel placea around the trco, making a cone up to where the 1 * - * trunk is smooth; this need not be disturbed until next autumn, when it should be removed nnd the tree again examined. The borers once out of a tree can in this way be kept out.?Massachu- t setts Ploughman. ?'? 6 High Heelu. A writer in the Horscshoer says: 1 'My ^ theory is that a high heel is always the bost. Never cut the heel unless it grows . faster than the toe. Keep the toe short; 1 if the heel is cut too much, it is like a man walking up hill. Keep the heel high c bo the leg can exercise its natural functions and not strain the cords. More { horses are'ruined by cutting the heel than any other way, and, beside straining the j. cords, the heel gets bruised and forms corns. A horse never gets corns nor has strained cords that has a good high , heel. When I have more time I will en- 1 deavor to give you more on this subject." * Another horseshoer says: "I think no man ought to claim to be a good horse- i; shoer unless he can make good shoes and c understands the anatomy of the horse's foot. I have no trouble with interfering |] when I get to shoeing the horse c regularly and learn his ways. I mukc most of my shoes for in r terfering high on the inside?not high l: on the heels alone, as some men do?but right up to the nail. When I see the ( horse and how he stands, I sometimes ^ change from this pjan. Anyhow I shoe interfering horses for men, no cure, no pay, and have splendid success." Still ' another says:?"I have used the bar shoe " for quarter cracks, but I think if you* 6 would turn, clip up on the shoe right at the lower end of the crack it does very o well; trim the hoof out underneath so it 5 will not bind on the shoe is a good idea. L For a split in front of a foot I use a bar running from each side of the shoe to r the front and bolt the two ends together |, and keep that screwea up tight; that j keeps the crack closed up so as to give it a chance to grow together. But the shoe should never be allowed to come off a foot of that kind, for the weight of the . horse without the shoe would burst it open again. For interfering, I make the inside of the shoe the thickest, and make 1 it nearly straight, and have the loose r edge made a little level. In this way I I hardly ever fail to stop a horse with "the first shoeing. For a horse forging, that 1 is, to strike his front toes with his hind 1 ones, do not shoe too long in front and u maKe tue toe ox mc amu suoe squur' across." t ? Household Recipes and Hint*. C Baked ham will not keep moist so long as plain boiled; this should be born in t mind, so that too large a quantity will not c be cooked at one time. r It is said by one who has tried it, that 1 if you forget to put dried corn in watei to soak all night, steaming it for two * hours will soften it much more than boil- I ing lor the same length of time, and it 8 will retain its sweetness and distinctive ' flavor better also. ' An appetizing sauce for meat of uny f kind, or for fish, is made of two table- 1 spoonfuls of grated horse-radish, one of v made mustard, half a tcaspoonful of salt, c the same quantity of sugar, with vinegar enough to cover it. The quantity, of j course, may be increased, but these pro- c portions should be observed. t Cut cold boiled potatoes in slices a 1 third of an inch thick. Dip them in melted butter and fine bread crumbg. v Place in the double broiler and broil i over a fire that is not too hot. Garnish c with parsley, and serve on a hot dish, t Or. season with salt and pepper, toast till a delicate brown, arrange on a hot r dish, and season with butter. Fish soups can be made of blue, white , 3 or black fish, sea bffss, catfish, cut up in ' t small pieces. Bones and skin will improve the soup, but must be strained out j s before serving, putting back the dice of | c fish. When thoroughly strained add a ! c quart of milk, some shreds of sweet mar- t joram, and marble dumplings, of flour c and butter, and cook a little longer. An excellent meat sauce is made ol c one pint of vinegar, two spoonfuls of c mustard seed, two of horse-radish grated, v two small onions cut in fine bits, a tea- c spoonful of red pepper, and a little salt, I Put this in a glass can and set it away for a week or two, and it will be very ? well prepared for the table. If any scum ! c rises on the top skim it off before pouring j f out the sauce. I 1 Very rich fritters are made of one and j c one-half pints of flour, the yolks of four | eggs, two small teaspoonfuls of baking I v powder, butter the size of a large hick- i orv nut, salt to taste, with enough milk | i to make to thick batter; fry in lard that J ( is heated to the boiling point. A rule J r for plainer ones may be wished for also. | Two eggs, one cup of sweet milk, a j e little *alt, and flour enough to make a I i stiff batter. These nre nice with maple I j syrup. j Custard made in this way is delicious a for the filling of a layer of cake: heat a coffee cut of sweet milk in a bright tin \ basin, beat one egg very light, and beat c with it until smooth one heaping tea- c spoonful of flour, add sugar to suit the i taste; when the milk is hot stir the flour, \ eggs, etc., into it; it will thicken in a r very few minutes. Take it from the fire I and flavor with lemon; if you choose, g blanch some almonds, cut them in three or four pieces and stir into the custard. Potato rolls for breakfast are made in this way: IJoil six good-sized potates with their jackets on, take them out with J a* skimmer, drain them, and squeeze them 1 with a towel to insure their being mealy | ? and dry, then remove the skin, mash them ' 1 until perfectly free from lumps, add a j c tablespoonful ot Dutter, tneyoiKsoi tnree j ' eggs, a pint of sweet milk, and a table- i c spoonful of yeast should be bc:iten in j i with them when they are cool enough so that the yeast will not be in danger of \ being scalded. Beat in just enough flour j to make a still dough; when this rises t make it in the shape of small cakes, let j them rise the same as biscuit, bake a del- j cate brown. These are nice for breakfast ( or supper. 1 A Marine Wonder. | ^ "Speaking of big shells," said a New ! r York conchologist to a Sua reporter, i 'here is a specimen, though this is only | j eight inches long, that for its kind is a , ^ wonder. It is the common ship worm, j teredo. They are found all over the ; j world, but create the greatest, devasta- J ' tion in the tropics. They are at first free j swimmers, moving about in the water by j ^ the aid of little oars or paddles, and j fimillv- nttiinh themselves to woodwork i unr) bore, secretin"; ;i shell as they go, until finally there is a tunnel of lime six j J or eight inches long in which the animal lives. The hulls of vessels unci piers of i doeks become completely ridilled by j them right here in the East river. In i Florida I saw an entire dock go down ' one day, the supports having been com- \ . pletely eaten to pieces. These are all j 1 small, but were large enough to threaten ! ' Holland some years ago, the dykes that ( keep olT the sea being found to have ! ^ been eaten all away by the toredo. In a 1 few months they would have burst open f and thousands of lives been lost as the v result. A number of years ago, after an earthquake near Sumatra, some natives 1 walked out on a flat that had been raised by the convulsion and found numbers of 1 strange objccts like posts protruding 1 from the mud. At first they were considered to be the spiles of some old dock, but when others were found scattered over a large area the attention <>f some , white men was finally called to the subject and one of the posts brought in. It required two men to pull it from the mud, and it proved to be a lime column about seven feet long and live inches thick, completely incrustcd with shells i oi innumerable Kimis, so unit itweignea : nearly fifty pounds. To tin: amazement i of the finders, upon breaking :i portion i open accidentally, it was found to eon- 1 tain an animal. and further investiga- 1 tion showed that it was a gigantic teredo i that had burrowed into the mud and < there secreted its enormous tube/' j 1 ?? ; i Miss Aria Cody, daughter of Buffalo 1 Kill, is a student at the female seminary < at Morgan park. New York. She is a ' handsome young lady of seventeen, and ! 1 among her other accomplishments; is a i ' skilled shot with the rifle and au expert | horsewoman. ? | t A paper chimncy fifty feet high ; I been erected at Vreslau. France. \ NEWS AND NOTES FOR WOMEN. | j Short strings on bonnets nro the style, j Champignon is the craze in color this eason. , r Si High collars and high coiffures aro 1 een everywhere. i | 8 The success in bonnets this season is ! 'K' he small capote. ' j h Kibbed socks as well as ribbed stock- j'i ngs arc much worn. ' s, Sailor hats of straw arc the correct :ountry wear for little boys. \ r< TWh rrirla nnrl hnvs wear sailor hats in I "v"' fc> J - ? ? lie country and at the seaside. j r Embroidered Swiss muslin dresses will ic the most popular at tho seaside this ! I ear. j |j Flowers aud feathers figure largely in ; j, he new evening, dinner and ball | a oilets. : 0 Edward Eggleston's daughter, Allegrn, i i claimed to be the best woman wood- j J,1 arver in America. | <> PuiTs or wristlets of ribbon, velvet and j * [ice with jet buckles and ornaments are ' [rowing in popularity. j it An expensive Paris novelty is gold lace j M nade of fourteen-carat gold, which is j jv ised for trimming bonnets. ! r. Two daughters of the Archbishop of j I' Canterbury arc among the students in the I 11 Voman'shall at Oxford, England. 1 . 1 ? ; i> Most of the new spring goods are j n ighter than those of last year, though | V nany brilliant reds and purples are i ^ een. Old-fashioned rag-carpet is to be seen t, " * - - e *-1. - I V n tne noors 01 souio ui me imtutus m i * ome of the fashionable New York L0USC9. j ? A long-wristed laced glove, having ; icither hooks or buttons to tear dainty * aces and easily adjusted, is shown by jondon glovers. j T The latest gloves are bound at the prist with black, have black buttons and re heavily embroidered on the back of y he hand with black. The favorite trimming of the Henry [. hat is a broad band of velvet, or large aetal, jet or jeweled buckle and a n mnache of feathers. b The wide, full French skirts consist of |t engthwisc plaitings, made up on a close- n y-gored foundation not more than two j iiid three-eighths yards in width. j Queen Christina is intellectual and a j s horough Austrian. She detests the j " Spanish bull-fight. King Alfonso is j ' lark-eyed, slender and good-looking. | j' Very inharmonious and unbecoming is j he combination of color adopted by some j S Iressmakcrs in trimming gray suits with j b lavy blue colors?cold and lacking con- ' rast. n' In Paris small presents are given to b MtAnin* n fnnr KlnOCnmfl I II veuumj^ ^uuata, a icn u*ui*^v uiuu-v...? , _ or the button-hole to gentlemen and a ' * atin-covered package of bonbons to the ! 'p adies. j li Gray in all shades prevails in all kinds j if dry goods from dress fabrics to stock- | 11 nga, but gray is generally brightened jj; vith vivid colors in figures, stripes and ! 1 :hecks. | t] The embroideries on new tussores and j " )ongecs arc in bright colored silks, in ; :hain and back stitch; but those em- ? >roidered in self colors are much in dc- ' n nand by conservative ladies. ! ci Both shot and changeable silks will be vorn this summer, us well as a new va- ' 0 iety having a satin stripe brighter in 11 olor than the ground and outlined by a ^ hread of contrasting color. ? Mrs. Meikleham, the only surviving i (frand-drnughter of Thomas Jefferson, is i (1 eventy, though she looks twenty years : ounger. Shie is tall, well formed, and b ms rosy cheeks and bright blue eyes. Ex-United States Treasurer Spinner ays that women clerks count more ac:urately and rapidly than men, that they , ? pnuninrfeit monev with more cer- i ii ainty and that they arc honestcr than , T aen. j ? Miss Margaret Ruff is a clever and sue- i essful artist of Philadelphia who makes ,[ harming jiicturcs of still-life objects in tl vater-colors on rough paper. She was i I" >ne of the first artists who made these ; licturcs. A girl's uniou has been incorporated ftt Ian Francisco. Its object is to form j * lasses for instruction, to provide rooms fl or music and reading, also to furnish ( ? odging and board to working girls at | fi aoderate cost. ! tl The half belt will remain in use this " ear, and may be fastened in front, mak- J ng a straight line, or pointed and fin- I shed with drooping loops and ends. ,'olor i9 preferred to white for belts and i i ibbons this year. The new sunshades have the lace gath- 1 1 red so as to form rosettes on each gore, ; a lalf the rosette lying ou the satin and 1 1 talf hanging in a full festoon. The effect j s very good, especially when the lace | ^ ,nd satin differ in color. j " Some of the taffeta glase silks come in j ?i 'cry small brocaded stars and dots on a ; 'J ihnngcnble ground for the principal part j jJ if the dress, while for the basque and [ u Impedes the same ground is brocaded n villi the same dots and figures in satin, i ' ;nd sprinkled over these are larger velvet J >rocaded flowers and stars in ft darker ^ bade of the same color. SCIENTIFIC AND INDUSTRIAL. ' a : 11 Mr. Gustave Trouve has successfully i ipplied a system of incandescent electric j 1 ighting to brooches, bracelets, hairpins, t ^ jentlcmen's breast-pins, knobs of walk- j { ng-sticks, etc., and the current, which n :an be turned oil'or on at will by means I >f a switch, is supplied by a small battery ( " iarried in the pocket, and it supplies a !' jood light for half an hour at least. J s A peculiar kind of bui ding stone is 1 j' ound in some localities in Oregon, hav- j ng the property of being uninjured by | j, he action of cold, heat or moisture. It j K s called a granite sandstone, is verv rich j p n silica, of a close, tine grain, highly '' :rystalli/ed, unlaminated, and of a tine 1 jrown color. On being brought to a j l' vhite heat, and suddenly plunged in cold ,| vatcr, it comes out as solid and firm as j fl it first. j t' The Marquis of Lome, in his lecture at 1 j he society of Arts, on "Canada and Its ! a Jroducts," speaks of some of the cures | i-k . fleeted by Canadian Indian squaws and ' ^ ncdicine men. Although many of their j nedicines are known to medical men, ! t( ind in spite of the hocus pocus, or incan- ! [J ations, practiced in their application, he j relieves that there arc many herbs which j vould well repay the examination, and i lossibly lead to the discovery of valuable ! eraedies. n Fish glue, or isinglass, is nearly pure ! (i gelatine. It is prepared from the airilndders of sturgeons which are fished ,, >n the shores of the Caspian sea and in h he rivers flowing into it. It is employed si n considerable quantities to clarify wine, 11 ilc, liquors and coffee, and sis an article : t| )f food. For jellies and creams it is in ' ti jreat demand, and also to enrich soups o ind sauces. It is also used with certain ruins as a dressing for ribhons and other I tillc articles. ' The I'o'i/nlinif st.-.tes that the use of li taper towels in cleansing wounds has ' jeen found very satisfactory. Sponges : '' lave always been regarded witli sus- 0 licion by surgeons, as it is so difficult tl o keep thein in a perfectly purified conlitiou. But the paper towels are to be ised once only, and as they cost only ? rom $l> to per I,Out) are available 11 the sick room. They are from Japan, md the j>ale colors with which they are ? lecorated are found to he unobjeetion- a ible. it is very probable that the vegetarian novement must sooner or later collapse, 1 n ilthough at present it is promoted by j .'cry '/.calous advocates, who ignore the c 'act that the division of animals into* ? icrbivorous and carnivorous 110 longer . 11 lolds good. A recent writer thus pretty iccuratelystatcsthecase: "With the ex- , 1 .'option of the ruminant group, whose ^ lighlv specialized digestive organs are ,] idaptcd to deal with liu?^e quantities of sparingly nutritious matter, the majority t! >f mammals are omnivorous, capable of t idapting themselves either to an animal r a vegetable diet, or to a mixture of s loth." I n - j v We have 891 consulates, and the fees t I1 hey gather more than pay their expenses. J,' [.11st year I lie surplus was over $40,000. | 1 JEWS OF THE WEEK, j Eaxtcrn and Middle States. Only ono failure was reports! in TValJ ; ireet on the third <lny of the financial whirl- i find. But in Newark, N. J., the Newark avings Institution, which hod been consid- j red one of the stanchest depositories in the tate, was forced to suspend and go into the nnrls of a receiver. The bank's trouble was mused by tho suspension of the New York rm of Fisk & Hatch, through whom the intitution had invested its government bonds. rt,.? !,/? TT?,.lo,v. Coil. i i nr. ill-ni inu ui um ??"' I uul company's car shops in the upper part of lew York, causing a loss of about $200,000. Destructive forest fires have again been uging in the vicinity of Wilkesbarre, Penn. Great excitement was caused at Krie, 'enn., by* the suspension of the Erie County avings hank, anil disappearance of its presicut, Adam Brabender. The batik was mainly atronized by German farmers, mechanics nil railroad men, and the deposits were $360,00. General Bctler has sent a reply to the Dinmittee appointed to apprise him of his omination for President by the Anti-Monop ly convention at (Chicago. In his letter he iys: "Concurring in each measure (" public j?olicy set forth in the resolutions f the convention, I neod only add thai the votes of the electors shall intrust me *ith the executive power of tliat high office, very one of tliein shall bo fully, justly anil nergetically used to make every measure of 'lief to the people and reform in fe&ernment ointed out by your plutform oSfirinciples, julities of administration." w Ferdinand Ward was ordered to apjjear efore the New York grand jury, which proosed to investigate the affairs of Grant ! I'ard, and of President Fish, of the suspended j larine bank. One man was instantly killed, and six more I era injured by a collision between two I rains at Wheeling Junction, forty miles from j 'ittsburg, Penn. Ferdinand "Ward, of the suspended firm J f (irniit- Kr \Y~nrrl wns nrri*5t<?fl 1111 comnlnint f J. Nelson Tappan, chamberlain of New "ork city, who charged him with obtaining on false pretenses. After a continuous run of several days the 'enn bank, of Pittsburg, Penn., closed its oors. Fifty thousand children took part in the fty-flfth anniversary walk of the Brooklyn unday-school union. South and We?t. Gf.oroe Horn and William H. Gibben, ged twenty-four and twenty-nine, were anged at Ashland, Ohio, for "the murder of [arrv Williams. Ten thousand people col ctea around tho fail, and nine companies of lilitia were callea upon to preserve order, as ; was feared that the crowd would tear down le enclosure about the scaffold in order to see le hanging. On the same day, at Greenville, . C., three negroes?Riely Anderson, for the jurder of Louis A. Griffith and daughter, and Jfred McC'ullough and his son James, for tho lurder of Ephraim Saxon?were all hanged jgether in the presence of a large crowd Miss Ella. Faiiran, of Greenbrier, White ulphur Springs, Va., eloped with John riggs. The young lady's father and brother allowed tho eloping pair in a buggy, and mght sight of them as they were crossing the iver in a small boat. Jumping into another oat the pursuers overtook the fugitives in lid-stream, and a straggle between the elder arran and Brigjjs followed. The boat was rertumed and the two men were drowned, he younger Farran reached the shore with is sister. Colonel J. F. H. Claiborne, ex-Congressian,and long prominent in Mississippi political nd literary circles, died at Natchez at the ge of seventy-seven. There is an unusually favorable outlook for :ie grain, corn and hay crops in the Northwest. The Planters and Mechanics' bank, ol etersburg, Va.; the City Exchange bank, of aporte, Ind., and the banking heuse of Brenan & Co., of Charlottesville, Va, have loscd their doors. Three men wero instantly killed and two ! there fatally injured by the explosion of a j lill boiler near Lewisburg, Ark. Senators Pendleton, Hampton, Butler, ance and Ransom, and Representatives lowd, Evans and Bennett were present at 'harlotte, N. C., where Senator Pendleton elivered an oration on the one hundred and intli annivei'sary of the Declaration of Indeendence, signeil by residents of that neigh-, orhood May M, 1775. The Into Cyrus H. MoCormick, of Chicago, ft an estate valued at $10,000,000. Eighteen boys after playing ball near Har Tusuurg, ivy., suiran m searuii oi wuu arsnitw, but got hold of tho deadly hemlock isteau. The hoys were taken violently ilL wo of them died almost immediately, five ore not expected to live, and the others suf?red severely. A woman and her three children were r< iwned, and two young men wore in jured by I le fall of a bridge across the Sirioto river at j 'ortsmouth, Ohio. WaMhingtou. Rbpresrntative Lowekino, of Massaehu tts, who recently introduced a bill providing | ur a pension of $8 per month to all officers, ildiers and sailors who served sixty days or lore in the civil war, is in receipt of petitions pom a great number of Grand Army posts uroughout the country urging the passage of bo measure. The House, at a recent evening session, ussed thirty-two pension bills. Under orders of President Arthur the board f representatives of departments, created t.;> repare exhibits and represent the United states govenmipnt at the coming World's Ex osition in New Orleans, met and organized < ith Colonel C. S. Lyfonl, United States arm v, is chairman. The government is to be fully epresented by exhibits at the expositions.' "Sam" Wakd, once known as the king of i Washington lobbyists, died a few days since I it Pegli, Italy, aged about sixty-seven years, i le was a native of New York, had traveled ; J1 over the civilized world, and was well ac- ; [uainted with the famous jxjople of many j nut Is. He was a noted gastronomist, and it: las often been said that what he didn't know ibout cooking wasn't worth knowing. For nany yeai-s he cut a proiniueift figure in the lalls of legislation at Washington. A sub-committee of the House committee hi naval affairs has reixirted a bill providing or the appropriation of .?40;),000 for the reief of the otlicere and crews of the United States sloop-of-war Cumberland and tho 'nited States steamer Monitor, engaged in j ction with the Confeileratesteamer Merrimac 11 Hampton Roads on March * and ! , 1 SlL'. | The state department has received word : ruin our minister in Mexico that the Mexican ;ovenunent appropriated *10 1,00!) for the j iiirpose of taking part in the World's Indus- i rial and Cotton Kxjxisition at New Orleaus I lext Deceinlier. At a meeting of the House committee on ! nilitaryaffaire, Representative Slocum was ustructed to re|>ort favorably his bill tirovid- | ug that honorably discharged soldiers or j nilore shall be preferred for appointment to j ivil ollicus when they are found to possess | he necessary business eaj>acity. A stati'k of Martin Luther was unveiled , i Washington, a few days since, before a ! rent throng. Supreme Court Justico Miller resided, and the oj?ening oration was deivercd by Senator Conger, of Michigan. The House committee 011 agriculture deided to report adversely a resolution approbating $ .'."5,(10!) for the purchase of seeds for istribution anion" the sufferers bv the over ow of the Mississippi liver and" its tribu- ! urics. A mortgage bj-General Grant t<i "William I. Vanderbilt, on the general's two houses in Washington, has been Hied. The mortgage ; to secure the Mini of ?lf?0,0;i0, loaned to rrant by Vanderbilt. Thk House committee 011 j>eiisioiis agreed > report favorably a bill providing for the aynient of a pension of $40 |>er month to the idow of ('uptii in Do Long. Foreign. Thk Stadt theatre, a leading place of amuselent in Vienna, has been totally destroyed by re. Emperor Wim.iam has accepted the resigution of Prince Histnarck from the presidency f the Prussian cabinet, and has appointed as is successor Herrvon lioettidier, the i'rusan minister of state and ini]ieriid minister of le interior. St. 1jktkrhl'rg lias just lieen celebrating ic majority of the czarevitch, the heir to the irone of Russia, with various state and court ?remonies. Nkaki.y all of Bei-l'azar, a small city in lie province of Angora, Asia Minor, has lxvu estroyed by tire. Altogether 'JoO dwellings, I I warehouses and shops, eleven mosques, ftecn seliools. nine khans and lit! other uililiu^s were burneil. Eleven jiersons crislied in the flames. \\"ii<Ksi'i{KAi> destitution and ncarlya score I siiieides have followed the recent failure of lie Oriental bank, of London. A keihock collision took place in Linares, lexico, between government troojis and llicialsand the ]H'opIe. The Spanish cortes was opened l?v a sikh'cIi roin the throne in which king Alfonso said Iiat hereafter the representative at l<on<lou 'onM have the rank of minister instead of mbassador. (tkuiiiik Peteks, a laborer living at. Sharot Lake, a village in (Intario, while drunk hrew alighted lamp on the lloor, and the ext instant his frame house was on fire, 'eters, a .Miss Urogdeii and Kllen Peters. an ight-year-old girl. were liurne<l to death. Irs. l'eters mid her sister Maggie were ijtnvd lieyond liojie of recovery. Many houses have bivii destroyed by u tiro ti Kief. Russia. Immense damage to property lias lnvn done y a evelone in Hurmali. Several vessels were "riven" ashore and a lighthouse disappeared. A Km .Janeiro i Brazil) dispatch says that he eniancipiit ion of the city is moving ncively. Kvery two or threedays the covering f a street with leaves, the waving of (lags rom windows, the discoursing of more or less weet sounds from I minis, a course of speechlinking. and the equally inevitable ivas and rockets announce to the Kissers that some street or square has cleared tself of slavery. The excitement among the laves is great; nothing is heard among them nit the talk of the freedom they expect to re , five ut once, and on the plantations,although 1 the excitement is less openly dis >laye;l, it is intense. A RELIGIOUS festival in celebration of tho five hundredth anniversary of the death of John Wvcliffo was inaugurated yesterday in England. I Naval and military expeditions are l)ein^ ' prepared in England for the relief of Khartoum. _____ LATER MEWS, Ex-Judge "Welcome R. Beebe, seventy years of age, tho oldest practitioner in the United States district and circuit courts, was I struck by a locomotive near Plainfield, N. J.? I and crushed to death. Ferdinand Ward was taken to Ludlow | Street jail, New York, and installed in the quarters once occupied by William M. J Tweed. j Five new bishops were consecrated at the Methodist Episcopal General conference, in Philadelphia. The secretary of the treasury has issued j the l'.'Sth call for the redemption of bonds, j The call is for $10,0,0.000 three percent, bonds 1 issued under the act of Congress approved July 12, lt&S. Notice was given that the j principal and accrued interest would be paid ! ut the treasury of the United States on June ' ">< , 1x84, and that the interest on the bonds j would cease on tliat day. George H. Levis o]>ened a banking and j brokers office in Washington a year ago and w us remarkably successful, many government officials putting their surplus cash with him j for investment A few days ago Levis disap- j pcared, and his customers are out about #200,- [ (KM, The report of the Senate committee on ' postoffices and j)ost roads, prepared by Sena- ' tor Hill, on the subject of the postal telegraph j has been finally adopted. The committee is ap- [ parently iti favor of building a government j line, and sets forth the advantages of such a projecK Hanlax, the champion American oarsman* 1 defeated Laycock, the Australian champion' j bv half a lxiat length, in a match at Sidney, | New South Wales. The British ship Syria has been wrecked at the Fiji Islands. Seventy of her passengers, all coolies, were drowned. Ten men caught trying to wreck trains in ! Mexico were summarily shot by the authori- i ties. . LATER CONGRESSIONAL NEWS. Senate. The SeHate debated without action the bill i to establish a bureau of labor statistics A bill was passed making the Cantilever bridg* j over the Niagara river a post route... .The ' pension appropriation bill was reported, with , amendments The bill provides for the re- . appropriation of the unexpended balance of the appropriation for invalid pensions for the current year (estimated at $W5,000,000) and fop the appropriation of an additional $20,000,000 for the payment of pensions; ?509,CO J for fees of examining surgeons; 1330,200 for the pay and allowances of pension agents, and $10,000 for the contingent expenses of pension agencies. House* After a stormy debate the House decided the ' Indiana contested election case of English j against Peelle,the sitting member, in favor of ; the former by i:>0 yeas to 127 nays. A resolu" [ tion was introduced by Mr. Bayne empower- ! ing the committee on rules to report whether j or not "William H. English, father of the [ successful contestant, had not violated i the privileges of the floor. Mr. i Hammond offered an amendment to ' Mr. Baync's resolution, intrusting the inves- 1 tigation to a select committee of seven mem- j bers, to be appointed by the Speaker, and requiring it further to inquire whether any exmember employed as agent or attorney in any i contested election case, or for any railroad or | other corporation having any claim pending, | has, during this session, abused the privileges I allowed him under rule thirty-four, and re- I port who they are and how they have abused [ the privileges. Adopted. SUMMARY OF CONGRESS, j Senate. A hill was reported favorably by Mr. In- i galls to establish another United States judicial circuit... .Mr. Lapham introduced a bill to authorize the bridging of the Hudson.... j The Senate insisted upon its amendments to | the Indian appropriation bills The Senate accepted a portrait in mosaic of the late President Garfield, by Dr. Salviati, of Venice : Debate on Mr. Blair's labor statistics bill was continued. The Senate passed a bill extending 1 to August, 18SG, the time to begin laying the cable authorized by the act of August. 1882 The Agricultural appropri ation bill was amended and passed.... The only changes of importance made by the Senate are an increase in the amount of appropriation for the laboratory from $16,000 to $50,000; the addition of the item of $30,000 for sinking artesian wells on arid lands, and an item of $15,000 for the encouragement and ; development of silk culture. Hills; were pa.sse<i as ionowBijrur u. uuuuu | building at Jacksonville, Fla, $175,(.'00; one ' at Vielisburg, Miss., $1'X),000; one at Chat- I tunooga, Tenn., $100,000; one at 0|>eloasa. j La., $">0,0j0; one at Troy, N. Y.. 1175,000; one at Portland, Oregon, $25Q,00<); one at I Sacramento, CttL, $100,000; one at Ashe- j ville, N. C., $100,000; one at Saratoga j Springs,N. Y., $100,000; one at Dayton, Ohio, ' $1*0,000; one at Springfield, Ohio. $100,00:). j Bills were also passed appropriating $5,010 for the erection of a public ouilding on govern- | ment property at Fortress Monroe, and $37,- . 500 for the erection of necessary buil>lings, including a gymnasium on the government res- j ervation at West Point, N. Y....Petitions were presented with regard to government ontrol of the telegraph both adverse and favorable. IfouMe. A bill'appropriating $00,000 for the publica- | tion of &5.0J0 additional copies of the compendium of the census was passed.... A motion by ' Mi1. Collins, of Massachusetts, to make the j Senate Bankruptcy bill a special order for ' June 10 was lost, after a debate in which j Messrs. Holman, of Indiana, "Willis, of Kentucky and others opposed the bill, on the | ground that it would encourage dishonesty i ....The consular and diplomatic, the army, and the District of Columbia Appropriation I hills were jwssed The legislative, judicial I and executive appropriation bill was reported and referred. It made a total appropriation j of $'J0,7:M5,870, Mr. Hewitt explained that he did not write j a letter to Henry W. Oliver, jr., which was j signed with his name and published Senate , amendments to the Dingley shipping bill were ! concurred in Coasideration of the contested | election case of English against Peelle was ; begun.... On motion of Mr. Hiscock, of New j York, a bill was passed declaring the Cantil- | ver bridgo across the Niagara river a post | route. ! ) MUSICAL AND DRAMATIC ; Edwin Booth will art next year only in New York and Boston. Mary Anderson travels about England in ( I a special palace car, refitted for her exclusive [ j use. "Confusion"' is the great success of the year in London. It has already passed its , \. J )tli night. Henry Irvino's next season opens in ; Quebec on September :,0. He left his scenery | | and stage effect in New York. I Fral* Janisch, the Austrian actress, now j ; on a t<>nr with Bandmann, will api>ear next i season in English in a drama by Sardou. "Mv Partner*' has heen played 1,:JS*2 i turns, and J. \V". Hagui?, who impersonated j | Scraggs on its first production, has never j missed a i>erforniance. AVii.hei.5I Gericiie, who is coming from j Germany to succeed Mr. George Henschel as j ! conductor of the Boston Symphony society, ! is promised a sjilary of if i,;>uu yearly. Miss Emma Nevada, the young American I prima donna who has recently made a pro! iiounced success in Paris, is at present con| sidering an offer from an American manager I to return to this country this season. C'o.vstaxtinr Stervbero, the pianist, will make a new departure in his line next season. He intends to improvise at the wish of any j ]N.>rson in his amlience, giving an idea of the ' wonderful things a man may develop in I music. Robert E. Stoepel, the musician an" | director, has brought suit against Henry Irv! ing for the use of the music employed by him [ in several of the iilays he appeal's in. I ap?rs | J were served on Mr. Irving previous to his dei parture for Europe. Lami'erti, the noted vocal teacher, has a i young and charming American girl for a pupil, who, it is said, jwssesses a marvelous ! vos-v. sin* is Miss Ida Marshall, of Boston, | and her voice and techni<|ue am attracting ; much attention in musical circles in Italy. So pronounced was the success attending Ivcene s [M'riortnance of Marc Anthony recent ( IV. Mint .Manager U.K. Iiaviieil lMlCKUiimin^ with ilii' Cincinnati festival directors for the I jmrclia.se of tin* scenery, properties, etc.. of Julius Oi'srr,'' with a view of adding this play to Keelie's reju-rtoire for next season. A staii prima donna of tho very first magnitude. when taking her lienefit at tho iin\ perial opera, Sr. 1'eterslnirg, was called lieforo tlie curtain more than twenty times. At last she addressed her enthusiastic jmtrons a | few words in the Russian language, and then offered to show her gratitude for their favors l?y singing them a song in their own tongue. This was received with rapturous applause; hut judge of her surprise when, after retiring from the stage, the management fined her .',000 francs for addressing the audience without permission. THE NATIONAL GAME. Trre Piute Indians have organized a bca>ball club at Virginia City, Nevada. Frank Hart, the colored pedestrian, plays ihort stop for a colored bas?l>all club known as the St. Louis Black Stockings. , Tim strain caused by the overhand throw by pitchers is so great that they will be glad to return to the old method of pitching. Ewing and Ward, of the New Yorks, receive salaries of $:i,20). The Bostons pay Morrill $3,00), Whitney get3 $2,500, Joe Hornung, Hackett, Hines and Sutton $2,000 each. It took the Harvard nine thirteen innings to defeat the Princetons by a score of live to four. The New Yorks won their first twelve championship games?a feat never before accomplished by a league club. St. Louis has tho baseball fever worse than any other city in the United States. Business houses, manufacturing establishments, medical colleges, and even tho theatres have organized clubs and are playing games for the local championship of each of their respective trades and professions. Will White, pitcher of tho Cincinnati American Association club, is a member of the Baptist church, and will not play ball on Sunday. The management of the St Louis American team has adopted a novel idea for protecting the field from the effects of rain, which will doubtless be generally adopted by other claba. The home plato, points and base lines are covered with tarpaulins at the first indication of rain by tho ground-keeper and his assistants. The heavy rain canvas turns water readily, and keeps the most important points in tho "field practically dry. "Wnois that young man walking on the h other side of the street? Ho must be some fugitive from justice. See the nervous,haunted expression of his countenance." "Oh, no. He's no criminal. You're mistaken. Poor fellow, he's a baseball umpire, and his experience on the field has taught him to be constantly on " & the watch for some one throwing something at him.?Blizzard. At the close of tbe third weeic or the beague championship campaign the record of the eight contending clubs was as follows: ' ;;jjj Won. Lost | Won. Lost New York.... 13 11 Chicago 4 9 Boston 12 2 Buffalo 4 10 Providence....10 2 Cleveland.... 2 10 Philadelphia.. 7 0 Detroit 1 12 Total 41 11 Total .11 41 The twelve clubs of the American Association stood as follows at the end of the third week's play: Won. Lost. | Won. Lost ' % Metropolitan.9 4 I Louisville.. 11 2 Baltimore....7 5 | s5t. Louis.. 9 2 Athletic 7 5 I Cincinnati, fl 5 Brooklyn 5 6 Columbus.. 6 ? Pittsburgh....5 8 | Toledo 2 11 Washington ..3 8 | Indianapolis,1 9 Total 36 38 | Total....35 85 % The record of the Eastern league in the champifiu*hip race was aA follows: Won. Lost. Won. Lost? Wilmington.. 12 1 Reading 5 5 ?Trenton 9 3 Hurrisburg....2 8 Virginia 7 .1 Baltimore 2 9 ' ??. Newark 0 3 Allentown 1 9 Total 34 121 Total 10 SI 'h PROMINENT PEOPLE. ^ Secretary Frelinghuysen has a fine cot itfuon oi iuusu.it;j. Francis Murphy has been holding temperance meeting;) in Chicago. Henry Ward Beecher has been thirtyseven years with Plymouth church. do.v Carlos, the Spanish pretender, is Btaying at Naples, under the name of Count de Lucar. Thomas Bailey Aldrich, the American author and poet, is fair and slender, with a fin? prattle and a blonde mustache with wared ends. Lord Tennyson's wife has been an invalid for the past twenty years, and never mixes in general society, as she is unable to leave her sofa. - ' O5O The Earl of Dunraven, in a paper in the Nineteenth Century, pronounces the United States Senate "the strongest, most efficient and most capablo legislative body in the world." f Congressman O'Hara, the colored memlir-r from North Carolina, is a graduate of Harvard and a lawyer by profession. He lives in good style, and has a white tutor for his children. The Rev. Joseph Cook has a stereotyped motto which he invariably writes in addition to his signature when solicited for an autograph. "Duty done is the soul's fireside," is the sentiment. Messrs. Breitung and Houseman, the two wealthy German representatives in Congress, from'Mir-higan, were bora in the same town in Bavaria and afterward were poor clerks in stores in Kalamazoo and Battle Creek. Adelina Patti was born at Madrid, Spa' j, April !>. 1s43. She first appeared on the stage at New York in the winter of .1359ti), bafore s!i j was seventeen. Christine Nils son was born at Husslay, near Wexio, Sweden, August .'5, 18 M. Her first appearance in opera was made in October, 1861, at the Theatre Lyrique, Paris, in Verdi's "Trariata." "38 John* B. Gouoh, now sixty-seven, com from. England to New York in II) 2), learned th.; bookbinder's trade, and for several yearn was chiefly distinguished for getting drunk, singing songs and giving recitations. He becam ' a temperance advocate in 1840, making his first speech in the oldBroadwav tabernacle. Mr. Gough has gone to California in search of better health. ; 'V-'-i ?_ BUTLER IN THE FIELD. < i?2 Accepting the Anti-Monopoly Nomination (or I*rc?idcnt? General Benjamin F. Butler, who was nominated by the National Anti-Monopoly organization for President of the United States at their lute convention in Chicago, has accepted the nomination in the following letter: "Lowell, Mass. " ; "Gentlemen : I have the honor to receive your courteous note giving me the action of tlie convention held at Chicago on the 14th instant, of representatives of the anti-monopoly political thought of its members and ' the public sentiment which was there repre- \ sented. The honor of the designation by such a liody as candidate for the presidency of the republic cannot be too highly appreciated. Concurring in eacn measure of public policy, set forth in the resolutions of the convention, I need only add that if the votes of the electors shall intiust me with the executive powers of that high oiHce, each of them shall lie fully, justly, and energetically used to make every measure of relief to the }x>ople ana morm m government pointed out by your platfonn of principles, realities of administration. "Accept for yourselves personally my most grateful consideration. "Bexj. F. Butler." FALL OF A BRIDGE A "Woman and Her Tlircc Children Drowned. Shortly after 11 o'clock a. m. a fearful crash was heard in the direction of the Scioto river nt Portsmouth, Ohio, and an immense crowd soon pat hero 1 along the banks of the stream. The large sus|x>nsion bridge, which was built about twenty years ago, gave way, carrying with it into the river many jn-ople who were crossing it. Mrs. Jane* Fullwiller, with her three diildren. the youngest a babe of four months, were naifway across the bridge at the time of the accident anil all were drowned. Two young men were slightly injured and three men saved themselves bv swimming to the shore. The -- - " A1A AAA bridge, which was built at u cost 01 }w,uw ui lijthi, is a total wreck. A Knotty Problem. This story was told to mo years ago, and if it has ever been in print I have not seen it: A jolly party was gathered one winter's evening around the bla/.ing fire in the barroom of Green's old tavern in Maiden. The great iron loggerheads were buried in the coals, and the aroma of Hip floated gratefully upon the air. They agreed, | finally?there were a dozen of them?to [ put knotty <|iiestioii- and problems, and 1. i... u i,,, <ii,)iild :isk a iiuestiou j which he could no: himself answer, should |?:iy tin* lli|> for all hands. At it i they went with many :i laugh and jest; lint ere long a few knotty problems calling for serious thought sobered them. Finally. Sam Fmmerton, the villago blacksmith, asked: Why is it that the common striped squirrel, though he may burrow a dozen feet under ground for winter quarters, never brings any dirt to the mouth of his hole?" They considered deeply, and gave it H'* \\ hv is tt. Sam.' Meeause." answered Sam, with the utmost gravity, "the squirrel, being naturally timid and suspicious, always commences to dig his hole at the bottom. That is one answer. I can give you another. and a philosophical one, if you want it." Yes."' cried Jo Nichols, in hot haste, - * I nit I'd just like to a-k you. Sam Eramerton. how the squirrel gets down to the bottom of his hole to commence diggingf" "All, Jo, that is a question of yor.t own asking. You must answer it.'' The only solution Jo could offer was to pay for the twelve mugs of hot flip.? Amrriraii Youmj Folk*.