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ABBEVILLE PRESS AND BANNERS \. BY HUGH WILSON. ABBEVILLE, S. C.. WEDNESDAY. JUNE 18, 1884.. NO. 51. VOLUME XXVIII. | IS MMr??????????j| ; : A BALLAD OF LONO AOO. It was a moan* In clearing, A cabin rude anil lone; The little c narrow built her nest Beside the siopins stone; Across the briered Rate she singa L And where the ninllelns grow, But then, she sang beside the door? W Long, long ago. Vf The forest was of primal pine, j Unbroken ?hnfts and tall, , They stretched away in rank and line Behind the garden wan. Dark-crested ranges closing In With shagsry bills and low. Stood r row nine on ine siony neius, Long, long ago. ^ , Prond men of stubborn fibre This forest life witQstood; Eight boldly battled in their tein? New England's hardy blood; Such was the bearded eettler, Who left the farms below { To bnild his cottage on the hlll?. Long, long ago. j Nursed at the breast of danger To hot, rebellious life, Such iron courage strung the arm t v- ut ncr ne iocs 10 wucj L She pledged her hand to suffer, , : To five, endure, forego? Oh, women learned the price of lore \gM' Long, long ago. AL' day on Riga's rocky side* Ek His noisy blow* resound; 8 All day his grating plow divides H The stiff, reluctant ground; . All day he strips the knotty ears Or skims the creaking snow, [ g For thus revolved the silent years, Long, long ago. The morning of the New Year j J \Vaa breaking, cold and still, j t When, warmly muffled, Calvin How# ! Left for the Valley Mill; I Her children Clinging at her knee, She stood to see him go? He vani? ed down the icy path, Long, long ago: ' j ) No donht perplexed the simple care* Her steady hand pursued; i J I She made the lagging tallow dip, \ I She split the snowy wood; I The porridge bubbled on the crane, . \ The hearth was all aglow, i ( As Judith cut the wheateu loaf, m Long, long ago: j H She took the cedar bucket down H In evening twilight gray, To fetch the water from the spring I tA hundred yards away, i t AM kneeling on the slippery bank ! ] Where pine and hemlock grow, i g She broke the stiffening crust of ice, ' t Long, long ago: ; | \ A moment: from the dusky wood c Across the hollow shade She taw the fiercc and stealthy shapes Of Indiau ambuscade;. Dark threats of savage meaning ! Their lurid glances showSuch men avenged a ruined race, 1 Long, long ago! j ' I Her weapons? Woman's weapons? r Her very blood and bone? The flesh, the will, the strength, the life That Heaven made her own; To throw her body in the breach And end the battle so, j c It was her only refuse j J Long, long ago: j * i \ What! leave the kindly covering wood, ' ? Renounce the gift of life? ! j What! sell her children to the ax, J ^ The a-row and the knife? IShe eecB beyond the lurking group, The lighted pane below? , ^ The Inspiration of the world, 1 Long, long tfgo: ; j1 Ont, out among the dizzy pines! j ^ The way is steep and blind; [ f The ledges leap beneath her foot, E The forest swims behind; j ^ She hears the singing arrow, She sees tbte straining bow, But high resolve could deaden pain c Long, long ago: T Her fingers touch the jingling latch, j Her hand is on the key; j The pol?oned arrow struck her breast And never sound made she; j 8he draws the heavy wooden bolts, ^ The shutters, swinging alow, For every cabin was a fort Long, long ago: j Ob! tbrlce ehe Arcs the warning gun j ti Kg Upon t lie ochoing wood? il En He who would force ?u entrance here I v mm Must pay tbe price of blood! n ED Her band ngalnst her racking wound j] HI Will never stanch the tlo-.v, j H But pride was sent to a -&1 one's lips jj Long, long ago! j Ah! weil?the Pilgrim storlta " HE Are falling in decay: V 99 They fight another oittle now? | f The women of to-day. 0 Tbe Summer u'oos uubeeJed by, j c Unbroken lies tbe snow, j u BS Where Jndlth bore the parting pang s KB Long, long ago! ? ' r iflj ?Dora R. Ooodaic, in Youth's Companion v mJb ? A RURAL LOVE AFFAIR. j; WO HOW THE ARKANSAS YOUNG MAN WINS j * H * THE GIRL OF HIS CHOICE. > ? MM The love affair between the rural Ar- v jffl kansas boy and the girl of his choice is j ' almost pathetic. The young lady has no a H "parlur" where she can receive the young BH man, and where, safe from intrusion, l S make him feel the power of her smile. M The "old folks" stay in the room, and i i Mw?n thn inmiirir>c m?H)' hv thf? nlii I man concerning the condition of the crops, and the solicitude of the old lady 1 with regard to many matters of poultry 1 and household economy, there is very s little left for the girl to say. Sometimes, ? by studied arrangement, she manages to 1' place her chair near the vowng man. Then s they occasionally turn and regard each other with looks of deepest affection. a Sometimes the girl catches up a string t ?nd waves it coquettishly at the young man. He grabs at it, and says: 1 "You'd better quit that, ur he, he." t "No, I won't," she replies, "an1 you J ^H kain't make nie." < 8 "Don't you fool yourself, ur he, he." \ HW "Have yer run aroun' ytr co'n yit?" ' H asks the old man, who, although his * B early experience was very much like that 1 9| of the young man, seems not to under- I HH stand the situation. I "Sided it one way," replies the young c HH fellow. H "Cut-worms |?utty bad?" Bfl "(Aly tolerable." 1 HBR Then the old lady looks up und s R asks: HH "Did your mother's last settin'o'goos" ' HH eggs hatch?" BBl "I don't noine." "I 'lowed that the bad weather mout " 'ev had suthin' ter do with their not * Hfl hatchin'. A goose is-sich a plaguetaked ( ^H thing ter set when yer want 'em ter, an' 1 |H sich fetched things ter set when ver don't < Hfl want 'em ter, that yer kain't put no con- 11 RH fidence in 'em." t HH The girl looks at the young fellow and 1 Hfl giggles. . r HH "What'er you laughiu' at?" he asks. } HE "What do you reckon?" and at this j HHB brilliant repartee they both laugh. In 1 > HH the meantime she takes up the string 11 HB again and waves it at him." )t "I'll take it away from you if you don't t |H quit." BHj "You kain't." HQ " Keep on a foolin' an' I'll show you." ^H She "keeps on a foolin'" and he I catches the string, save " tbar now,"and puts it in his pocket. j " What're you going to do with thut old string?" ''Goin' ter keep it as long as I live," ! he says in an "undertone of care, lest the j old folks should hear him. Sunday, when they attend church, he conducts her to the door and then joins j the collection of young men who have deposited themselves outside on shawls. ' When the "hime" is begun, he saunters > in, and. during the sermon, should he \ remain inside, casts glances at the girl, j Meeting her eye he blushes and for some time he has not the courage to look at I her again. They take dinner at a neigh- j I boring house, where qiute a number oi t young men and women congregate, and t at night he accompanies the young lady < to church. Should a "revival" be in pro- i gress,the girl begins to look longingly at < him when the preacher calls for mourn- ] *rs, and after awhile when the perform- ] ance begins to glow with fervor, she goes } to him and begs him to kneel at the < bench. He hesitates, but finally goes i and kneels. This action tells the con- ] gregation that they are in love with each 1 other. After services, as they ride along, ; he says: "1 wush I had your pictur." 1 "What do you want with ltt" " I want it to keep. I'm going to hare my pictur tuck in :i few days." It is his hope that she will ask him for one. but as that on her part would be too decided a confession of love, she says ] nothing, except to speak to her horse and complain of his stumbling, regardless how sure-footed he may be. "I ain't goin' to have but mighty few tuck,'' he says, endeavoring to catch a J glimpse of her face, when they ride from the shadow of a great tree into the moonlight. " Why?" she asks. "'Cause I ain't." . i "'Cause ain't no reason for a man." i "It is for mo,'' he replies, with a sigh. ( "Nobody don't want one o' my picturs." "How do you know?" 'T'luian T inst Icnnw " "Somebody might want one." J ''I don't know who." h "Who do you reckon?" she replies, with c i little laugh. T "I don't know who wants it. but I 8 inow, who I wish did want it." "Who?" ,1 "Who do you reckon?" and he at- t empts to laugh. t. "I know somebody that wants your jictur," she says. t "Who?" t< "She ain't verv fur from here." v "How fur?" * # " "Never you mind; she ain't fur." ^ "I'd like to know?" '(_ "Kain't you guess?" t. "I might make a mistake." A "No, vou wouldn't. Just trv it an' J" ' * b ee.' "Is it Sue .Tovner?" j "Snft Jovner. the mischief!" fhe re- o >eats, contemptuously. " What docs hut great, strappin' ugly thing want ? vith anybody's pictur '{ I reckon you n vant hers." a "No, I don't.'' Ij "Yes, you do, and you know it." "Please don't treat me that way," says le. in an imploring voice. ? "Never mind, sir. I'll tell her that f< ^ou want her to have your picture and ? vhen you give it to her?" she almost j"' >reaks down, but linally says?"when ou main* her I?" here she breaks e| lown. s| Their horses stop in the road. Lean- 01 'v""" Ii.in/l on/1 CJTtTOO TQ hi; UVUj hi; raiuuwfl net ikuiu <?uv?. hat he will never marry anybody but ^ ler. They kiss each other, and with learts from which the dark shadows h lave crept, and into which the moon- I1 ight is shining, they ride on, purer in j.* oul, and with more unselfish uevotion f( han all your glittering engagements It vhere the diamond flashes under the a: ileander boughs. ?ArJcansmo Traveler. ? ii Making Pearl Buttons. 111 The Springfield (Mass.) Republican says sj hat a company in that city which makes pi >earl buttons is nnique among New Eng- ? and button-making industries in that it ises only simple machinery, depending (.( nainly on the trained hands and eyes of h< ts twenty-five or thirty workmen for the al >erfection of its products. The marine hells from which the mother-of-pearl is c ibtained?shells of the piutadina variety, a, :oming from the East and West Indies, C California, and, in tact, all quarters of the tl vorld?arc taken as they come packed, ire rinsed in water, and are then ready 0( or turning. The shell is made up of a he mother-of-pearl inside, this being of i creamy or varied coloring and a thinner p uter layer of a bony texture. The shell ^ s pierced through a number of times by ja , hollow boring tool, fitted to a common ot athc, some dozen of small discs being he result. Each disc then goes through jj' hrce or four or sometimes a half dozen y< nore operations at the hands of the men tanding in a line at one work-bench, w ach having a lathe and a three- w urcered file, sharnened to suit hjs vork. The bony" part is cut from b. he disc and the button shape given L, t while revolved by the lathe against ci he sharp steel held in the workman's land, no gauge being used. Some of the uttons are grooved with a few line3 on cl he face, and a few holes are punched in to ach. Part of the buttons are subjected o a nn -terious coloring operation in a evolving box, but the best grades are Dished in the natural colors. The ]>ol- d?. /I U.. ill iiimg m iiiuiuiv uuuc u\ Jiuuu. I iic ? .hole proccss is very quick, and the i" let hod has the great advantage of being ^ immediately adapted to any style of but- w on desired, no change in machinery df >eing required, but merely a fresh ad- p ustment of flesh and blood. All sizes t" f ordinary buttons are turned out, as 0\ rell as some "co lar buttons," though no cli ancy articles are made. The light-ccired material is the most valuable. Fifty 1 ents a pound is paid for the rough shells, ct ud the buttons are worth from one to ri even or eight cents each. The store- bf oora contains many bushels of these lo aluable little things, ready for the tin- pi ihing touches to till orders. The use of & iearl buttons has been confined mainly bt o men's clothing for five or six years, iut the fashion is thought to be tending oward a more general use of them by p( I'omen. The company has been gradually 0[ aoreasing its force for some months. The \\ workmen arc mostly imported lrom v* 'ennsylvania, and have served a long pprenticeship. They are paid by the }.* liece, and the better workers make about tn 13 a dav, others averaging as low as $2. tc II! The Hot Axle. The express train wa3 flying from Cork |i: o Queenstown; it was going like sixty? | hat is, about sixty miles an hour. No ight of Irish village to arrest our speed, io sijrn of break down; and yet the train lidtcd. We looked out of the window; w aw the brakeman and a crowd of passen- Ijers gathering around the locomotive jjj ,nd a dense smoke arising. What was ^ he matter? A hot axJe! ? 1 thought then, as I think now, that is tl he matter with people everywhere. In his swift ''express," American life, we ^ jo too fast for our endurance. We think r< ursdves getting on splendidly, when, in d he midst of our successes, we come to a lead halt. What is the matter? The " lerves or muscles or brains give out; we j* lave made too mnny revolutions in an t] lour. A hot axle! Men make the mistake of working ac- r< mv.lirw* in fliaii*nntiAptiinitiao otul OA. It iV/ KlkK'g* "I'I'VIVMUIIIVS, MUU ?VV | ording to their capacity of endurance. fj ('au I run this train from Springfield to e] Boston at the rate of fifty miles an hour?" ays an engineer. Yes. "Then I will ri tin it, reckless of consequences!" Can I >e a merchant, and a president of a bank, ti>d a director in a life insurance company, o ind a .school-commissioner, and help edit n i paper, and supervise the politics of our vara, and run for Congress? "lean!" he man says to himself. The store drives ? lim; the bank drives him; the school p liives him; politics drive him. He takes ? ill the scoldings and frets and cxasperaions of each position. Some day at the [ leight of the business season he does not ? ome to the store. From the most im- 11 ?ortant meeting of the bank directors he * s absent. In the excitement of the most ? m port a lit political canvass lie fails to be { it the place appointed. What is tne mat err ills neaitn nas uroKen uown; xue r rain halts long before it <jets to the staion. A hot axle.? 7'. IieWitt Talma/je. | A Lake Drying Up. Tulare lake in California has during ' he last frw years been rapidly drying ^ ip, and the time is apparently not far v listant when it will cease to exist. Within t he memory of men still living it was t hirty-threy miles Ion# and twenty-four 5 niles wide. To-day it is only about fif- ? een miles lo'ng and eight miles wide, v >eing a shrinkage in superficial area of e nore than 050 miles. The cause of this i' Irving up is largely due to human agency. 1 Jrobably the extensive systems of irriga * itfn recently put in operation in the vi- v unity are mainly the cause of the subsi- r lence. Nearly all the rivers and brooks vhich have acted as feeders to Tulare 1 ake have been tapped. In some cases t| hey have beee entirely diverted from <j heir natural courses, and have been made o minister to the reclamation of arid o listricts for agricultural purposes. And * n a few years every gallon of water j" which now empties into Tulare lake will ^ be carried through artificial channels to < hundreds of farms which would other- 1 wise be of little value. The fact is interssting as showing not only what man can ? do to remedy the deficiencies of nature, c but to what a large extent he may changc r the face of nature. In this case there is 1 probably no question of the propriety of * drying up the lake; but in a great num- j ber of other instances human interference with nature has resulted disastrously. 1 J CHICAGO CONVENTION. Proceedings ot the Republican National Party, Bow James Gh Blaine and John A. Tj-irran Wara ATnmina+Ofl. JJVgCbU TT U1U XWUiiiiUVVUi following Ls a detailed account, made ip from the New York jtajiers, of the proceedngs of the Republican National convention at Chicago: MUST WAV'S l>ltOCKEDn'?.Si When the convention, the eighth in the his on* of the partv. oj>ci)e<l, the vast hall was rowd?*d wtfn delegates and s|x<ctators. The lall has a seating capacity of 18,000. The onvention was to oj>en at *12 o'clock, but it i*as high noon !? ('< n e the bulk of the delegates nd alternates arrived. At that time the trains of a brass hand were heard. In a 1110uent a volume of music burst on the hall and rowned the sounds of the thousands of ungues which, until the advent of soniehing louder, had lillcd the mammoth audioriutu. At r,'I'. M. Senator Sahin, chairman of ho national committee, called the convention 3 order and introduced the Rev. Mr. Bristol, ,'ho in n prayer invoked tlie divine blessing ,p<?i the proceeding of the convention. Senator Subin made a brief address. He lid Chicago was known as the Convention 'ity, and it was the field of Republican vic>ry. Here it was that the immortal patriot Llirahani Lincoln was chosen: here the party hose that great chieftain. General Grant; ere it nominated that honored soldier, that teat statesman, that representative citizen, anus A. Garfield. (Cheers). Every action f the party oil this historic ground had been llowed by victory. Having succeeded gainst its o'pjxniciits'on all former occasions, : was about to put its house in order for iiotliT conflict, as a consequence of the vote dopted by the last convention. The present ody was largely male up of men instiucted by leir own constituents, and it was therefore > lie hoped that the voice of the jieople would e largely puissant in its deliberations. (Aplause.) He closed by prophesying victor}' jr the Republican candidate. Whoever he light Ite, and then projioscd for temj>orary liairman the Hon. Powell Clayton, of Aitmsas. In an instant. Mr. H. C. Ixxtee. of Massaliusetts. was upon his feet, and in a rapid >eech proposed the name of John R. Lynch, f Mississippi, amidst a tremendous storm of lieeis. The nomination was seconded by Silas B. utcher, of New York. At this point a great sensation was created y n six^H-h from W. 1\". Morrow, of Califoria. He said that.harmony was essential, and eonld l>est lie secured by not raising any I'-tionnl issues. It had been the practice for >rty years for the national committee to serta temjKirarychairman of the convention, nd a dejiartiire could not be made from the jstom without creating a bitterness of feelig. A dozen delegates sprang up to reply, and mid the wildest applause the chairman recogized George \V. Curtis, of New York, who lid that this was the supreme council of the art}. Representatives were met to open the impaign of 1NS4. It had l>een imquestionaly customary for the National committee to ame the teiiijiorary chairman, and for the invention to ratify it. but if the party as ?re represented so desire<l. it also unquestionblv had the right to revise the action of the ational committee in this matter and make a tairman of its own choosing. Mr. Stewart, of Pennsylvania, sustained the tion of the committee in the selection of layton. Mr. Horr, of Michigan, arguedlhat le question should be settled, not by a call of le is ill: but by a call of the States. Thus the invention could do in half an hour what it mid not do in the other way in an hour and half. The question was further argued by Messrs. rentiss, of Missouri. Roosevelt. of New York, ho favored Lodge's motion, Carr. of Illinois, "inston. of North Carolina, Reed, of Marynd. Thui-ston. of Nebraska, and Benjamin, ' Arkansas, the latter sustaining the. nomi itioii of Powell Clayton as a man who had jne more than any other Southern Kepub an to elevate the Republican cause in the Dlith. The roll call of votes was then proceeded itli and the votes of the delegates from ich State recorded amid a great deal of >nfusion and applause. The chairman unjunced the number of votes cast to have . en sill, of which irncli received 432 aytoii SS7 Mr. Clayton moved to make Lynch'* elecctn unanimous, which was carried hy acamation. and a committee was appointed i conduct him to the chair. Mr. Lynch with s escort moved toward the chair amid ti-eendous applause and was introduced by Mr. ibinas temporary chairman. Mr. Lynch -siid that he was present as a legate not so much for 1 lie pnr]>ose of seenrg the defeat or success of any particular an. hut to consider the liest way of making ie principles of the pnrtv successful next ovemlier. He believed that the convention ould so >lmpe itsjKilicvas to present a candiile wh<> would insure victory beyond a mbt. He did not wi.?h any mail to feel that selection was indicative of anything relate to the preference of any one candidate ;er anot Iter. He was prepared to give candates a loyal and hearty support. He was tiwtiiMl tlmf u'lum tlir* Tfiiiuiltlipunc \vi?nt I re the jwople their action would in.* ratified, K-ause tin* American people would never mseut to place the government under the lie of any party pledged to fraudulent illots. He believed the ]>eople were too yal to let any cx|x?nent. of Democratic inciple 1?; inaugurated. When the applause had subsided Senator nvell, of New Jersey, ni?<ve<l that the States s called and tho names of the committeemen pn-si'JitiiiK them lie submitted. Leslie W. usM-11, of New York, moved that Titus until if New Ynrk. and .losenh W. Leo. of tjimsylvania. Ik? much* temporary secivtaries ' the couveiition until permanent secretaries ere ap|M lintel, which was carried. Roswell . Hon*, el" Michigan. ni(tve<l that the rales wining the Inst conventionlieadopteduntil rmuncnt roles were made, which was also iriied. The States wore then culled, and le secretaries ami committeemen selected yesrday were rejiorted. After the introduction id reference of a resolution written by Alexider Sullivan, relative to the subject of l-eal t.ite owned in the United States by aliens, id a memorial from the Womans' Christian [ mpcnince Union, the convention adjourned nlil 11 o'clock on the following forenoon. M:C0\1> WAV's DKOIXftN. On ill" s'cond day. after the convention a* culled In order by 'JVinporarv Chairman ynch. piaycr v.-?s offered by the Rev. Dr. blm II. Harm*, of the First Presbyterian lurch. Junius A. (>ary, of Maryland, pretnted a memorial from the presdent and cretar v of lite ."tate Temperance Alliance of mt N'-.a-.e. cr?-.l iMlyiiiR resolutions, passed by int bo!-.-. jijK-aliiii; to the conventions oftho epnblican mi l Democratic parties to em(Kiy a civile in their ]>latforms distinctly co^nizin;; prohibition and to nominate canidates in accord therewith, and saying that neither recognized this principle the lemorialists would vote for neither, and that ' one of them did so. then the ballots of the lliauce would be c-.is? for the candidaje^of int liartv. . * *. (Jeorge V. Mnssay, of Delaware? 'offered a solution referring to the committee on reso itions a pro|K)sit ion to enlarge the term of :ii' presidential office to six years, and to rener a 1 incumbent of the office ineligible to reaction. Senator P. B. Plumb, of Kansas, offered .a[ solution against the ownership of lands in liis country by foreigners, as a svstem opposed i the doctrine of the fathers. deferred. S. W. Hawkins, of Tennessee, offered a resluti->n pledging ull delegates to support the oininee of the convention, whoever he may e. .Mi-. Pierce, of Massachusetts, opposed tho ^solution. hoj)ing that the convention would ot bind its conscience in the manner proo.sod. Delegate Wrinkler, of Wisconsin, also pixixnI the resolution. Mr. Hawkins said lie had offered the resoltion in go<Hl faith, and he trusted that no nan would l>e found voting against it. If ny delegate was not willing to support the lomiiice. of the convention he should not paricipate in its delilterution. No harm could oine of its adoption, and he thought its adopion desirable in view of certain whispers in Ill' (I JI. Mr. Knight, of California, advocated the { solution, and nl*i alluded to certain whispers 11 the air. and particularly to the editorial [eclaration of one of the great metropolitan ounials, as u reason why the resolution should ie adopted. Mr. (ieorce William Curtis, of New York, o whom Mr. Knight referred, warmly opposed the resolution and referred in the course ( his rerna: ks t" th?> action of previous con entions where a similar resolution was in roduced find voted down. He ,i]so reminded he convention of what was said and done four ears a^o when Mr. Campbell, of West Vir;inia, declined that he was a Republican who arried his sovereignty under his own hat.and ihen 'under the lead of Garfield) the gentlenan who presented a simile, resolution was riduced to withdraw it. He, therefore, asked hto convention to assume that every delegate k-as un honest and honorable man. He cnarcterized the resolution as one which was inworthy to In; ratified bj- a body of free nen. Senator Dolnh. of Oregon, moved to lay the ^solution on the table. Mr. Hawkins said that as his resolution had leveloped so much opposition, he would ivithIraw it. Mr. Rollins, of New Hampshire, presented i resolution reciting the evils of the liquor ruffle and proposing that this convention reommends the submission by Congress to the legislatures of the States a joint resolution ?rojK?sing an amendment to the constitution if the United States, providing for the prohi>ition of traffic in alcoholic leverages. f'corne H. Williams, of Indiana, chairman if the committee on permanent organization, eported that the committee had selected Genral John B. Henderson, of Missouri, for pernanent chairman, and would request the secctay to read the list of vice-presidents and I'fi-ftiirics. Charl<?s W. Clisbee, of Michigan, vas delected us principal secretary. The retort whs to. The chair appointed Galusha A. Grow, of Vnnsylvania; (kNjrgeJijlg^r, of MassachuL-tty. ajjii llliaiits. of Indiana, a committal' to conduct the permanent chair limn to the platform. ()n taking the chair General Henderson was cheered and made a sj>eech in which he I thanked the convention for the honor coni ferret 1 u]Nin him and praised the various can; didates likely to he presented for nomination before the convention. ] Mr. Johnston, of California, presented a resolution that the auricultimd commissioner be made a cabinet ollicer, and Mr. Hoar pre- 1 sented a resolution in favor <if woman suf- I frage. Both were referred to the committee ? on resolutions. ' A recess was then taken until evening. :| The evening session was Itegun at 7:t!5, but _ ns tlie committee on credentials was not ready to report, the convention adjourned until 10 , . o'clock the next morning. < v ! ' THIRD DAY'S l'RO('EEDIX?N, t | Chairman Henderson called the convention ' to order at ten minutes to 11 a. m. Bishop * Fallows, of the Episcopal church, made the 1 ojieiiing prayer. i y Mr. Ballard, of Vermont, presented the re- ! J i port of the committee on credentials, which 1 was rend by Mr. Fort, of Now Jersey, and unanimously adopted, the Mahone delegates 1 being admitted without a fight. On the presentation of the reixirt of the '1 committee on the rules and order of business a very long debate sprang up over the projio- ' ; sitinti of a minority of the committee to regu- J late representation in future national conven- J tions with reference to the Republican vote 1 cast in the several States nnd congressional ' districts. In the end the proposition was with- ^ drawn, and the convention adopted the report '' and rales submitted by the majority of the 1 committee. i ' On a call of the States the vurious delega- j! tions announced the names of members of the 1 national committee, after which the conven- ' tion took a recess till 7 o'clock p. M. i 1 When Chairman Henderson called the meet- ? ing to order at 7:fWi K M.. the vast hall was ' hall was crammed with 15,000 people in a space , | intended to accommodate only 10,000. As soon as the convention was in order, the } chairman aimoiuiced that the business was the 1 presentation of candidates. Rising to a ques- ? tion of privilege, Silas B. Dutcher, of Now 1 York, moved that M0 tickets of admission to j veteran soldiers and sailors l>e distributed to v veterans of the war. The motion was lost. The conveutiou then proceeded to the call 1 ' of the roll for the presentation of the candi- j dittos. Mr. Brandagee, of Connecticut, re- i ; sponded amid cheers, ami nominatotl Joseph ! ' K. Hawley, of Connecticut, concluding his j J speech with the promise that if the conven- j ? I tion had a better candidate Connecticut would ' I give him her support with all her heart. Gen- I j! , eral Hawley, he said, was a lawyer, editor. I statesman and soldier, and would swoop trio ; country from Bartholdi's statute to the Gol- j den Gate. (Applause.) ; n Delaware, Florida and Georgia made no re- ' v i sponse to the call. When Illinois was called ; 1 Senator S. M. Cullora stepped upon the plat- J x form amid most enthusiastic cheering. ''The i ; Commonwealth of Illinois," he said, "pre- j , sented to the convention one whose name 1 ; would he recognized from one end of this land i J to the other as an able statesman, a brilliant j [' soldier and an honest general?John A. Lo- ! ! gan. (Cheers.) General Prentice, of Missouri, j ? seconded the nomination. He appealed in ( 1 behalf of the men. the women, the children, , , the soldiers of humanity, that the nomination i be given to Logon. I ? Indiana, Iowa, Kansas, Kentucky and Louis- J iana ma le do responses to the call. Next j ( came Maine, and when the secretary pro- ' I nounced the name, a scene of the wildest de- I ? ! scription follow el. Everybody seemed to be j J shouting, and the air was white with waving ' J handkerchiefs. Hundreds of hats were thrown i ' in the air. This scene confine;! for five rain- 1 utes. Then after a moment's lull tho enthusi- I asm broke out with increased fury. Chairs were raised in the air, the ladies in the galleries tore t!ie bunting from the walls and 1 waved it aloft, and the building shook to its i c center. The band stnick up. but the tune was ! drowned. It was precisely eight and a half i j minutes liefore order was restored, and a I | nmaMir^u'nv t<> tlie ulutform could hardlv be i t made for Jud'e West, the blind orator of I i Ohio, who had been chosen to nominate Mr. j Biaine. i Judge West delivered a long and eloquent ! speech, in which he described the high qunli- > ties of mind and character that he ascribed to j Mr. Blaine, and concluded with the prediction j that if he should be nominated, millions now ' \ in waiting would rally to swell the column of | ! victory that was sweeping on. The applause ! that followed was terrilic and continued for a ! ( long time. Ex-Governor Davis, of Minne- | ] sota, ex-Speaker Grow and ex-Senator Thomas ! ' C. Piatt, of New York, united in seconding : } Blaine's nomination. i I At !?:58, when New York was called the j I convention broke into grand applause, the ! demonstration equaling that given | ' to Blaine. The cheering continued ! for several minutes, and was ; J increased as Martin I. Townsend, of New !1 York, rose to nominate President Arthur, ( the nomination l?ing seconded by John R. 1 | Lynch, of Mississippi; Mr. Winston, of North * ! Carolina: Mr. Pinchback, of Louisiana, and j Mr. Bingham, of Pennsylvania. Mr. Town- ' J j sends speech was frequently interrupted by j | cheers. He descril>ed President Arthur's ad- I ' ministration as In-ing wise, conservative and | jiatriutir, and said the President luui not : ! prostituted his otlic** to the pur]>oses of fac- ' ! tion. Great applause greeted his remarks. j I When Ohio was called. Judge Foraker nom- 1 I mated John Sherman. When he wound up x his climax with the name of John Sherman 1 the vast audience responded with cheers and * hurrahs. At a late hour Vermont was called, whereupon ex-Governor Long, of Massachusetts, j nominated Senator George F. Edmunds, whose ! name evoked applause. In his speech Gov! ernor Long descrilnxl Senator Edmunds as a man whom "'calumny cannot assail, and if it did it would recoil as from ? galvanic shock." The nomination was seconded in a speech by George William Curtis, of New York. Close after Mr. Edmunds' nomination, at i about 2 a. u., the convention adjourned until j J 11 A. M. 1'OtKTII DAY'S PROCEEDINGS. I The convention was called to order at 11 :'20 j a. m., and the roll of States was called at once j , I for candidates. The following was the result . of the tirst ballot, Total votes 818 Necessary to h choice 41<> j ! Maine 334.^ Arthur 27 s ' ! Kdinundn l.M i I.ot^aii | John Sherman IsO , j llawley IU . Lincoln 4 i (icncral Sherman 2 The second ballot insulted as follows: i I Blaine '!4ii ] j Aithur 271 I t Kriuiunds S.i j ou'an 5S , { John Sherman 30 ::\vley 12 : Mncoln > j (icneral Sherman 2 The result of the second l>allot was an" 1 | nimneed at 1:20, and the increase of Blaine's I ; vote was the cause of vociferous cheering, on the part of tile audience. The third ballot was proceeded with, and | resulted as follows: | ! Total votes 620 I ! Necessary to choice 411 Blaine...". 975 Arthur 27"> ] ' "Cdniunds G.) j I.o^an fit I John Sherman S3 I Ilawley 13 Lincoln Ueneral Shermnn v ' "After the third ballot had l>een taken, n j motion to adjourn was made by an antiBlaine delegate. The motion was defeated . nmi.l \-nllc onrl cliwix liv 4 M) 11I1VS to 8(54 VCflS. I Scarcely hud the third ballot been mi- I 11.111 need when n report shot through the I 1 * delegation*to tho eflfrci thai Senator Ijogun 1 . had telegraphed his supi>orters from Wash- i I ington requesting them to cast their votes for I 1 Hlaine. A nionieiit later a copy of the follow- 1 ing telegram. dated at Washington, addressed | to Senator Cullom an f "signed by John A. | Logan was produced: The Republicans of the States that must I Ik; relied u|k>ii to elect the President having so strongly shown n preference for Mr. Hlaine, t 1 deem it 1113- duty not to stun 1 in the way of the people's choice and recommend my followers to assist in his nomination." If the excitement hud lieen intense before it was now increased a hundred fold in its intensity. which was still added to by the quickly following rc|x>rt that the Ohio delegation would go the same way. Bingham, of Pennsylvania. and a couple of colored delegates 1 frantically endeavored to get a hearing, but their voices were drowned in the tumultuous cheers and demands to call the roll. Judge Foraker, of Ohio, here made a prop- 1 osition to nominate Blaine by acclamation.but directly afterward withdrew his motion. , When Illinois was reached, Itoth the audience and the chair refused to allow the Logan dispatch to l>e read by Cullom. But when the , vote of the delegation was announced and ' it was seen that thirty-one Loganites had ! g.me over to Blaine, the audience once, more went into paroxysms. The flnnl vote on the fourth ballot wus thus: J<!a:no M ' Arthur '-'(i! I hdmtindx ?> i Hawlcy "* I Iocan * Lincoln < The scene in the convention, when the re^ suit of this ballot ln-came assured in the mind of every one present, will probably never 1m 1 forgotten by any one who witnessed it. Men and women in ihe galleries sprang to then feet, waving handkerchiefs, umbrellas, and I whatever other articles of wearing apparel came handiest. On the floor the audiencetore j down every piece of available bunting and dec I j oration and waved it in the air in paroxysmsof enthusiasm. Processions of delegates were 1 formed and paraded the aisles, shouting and 1 j yelling at tho topmost pitch of their voices. The noise was kept up for nearly half an hour, ; rising and falling in volume like the mutter J ing and roaring of a tropical thunder storm, . or the deafening howlingsof a Kansas cyclone, i The motion to make tho nomination of Blaine unanimous was moved by Mr. Burleigh, i of New York. He promised for friends of i Arthur their hearty support, and to give i ! Blaine 20,000 majority m New York State, i Mr. McPhcrson read a dispatch from the Pres j iiltmt t/i Rlninr. ronfrrntnliitiiii<- him and sav j ing that be will have his earnest and cordial support. A recess to 8 P. xi. was then taken. On reassembling in the evening about 200 delegates were al>sent. Senator Plumb, of Kansas,in a speech,presented the name of John < A. Logan, whereupon the audience roared j lustily. The nomination was seconded by . Congressman Hauck, of Tennessee, and favored in speeches by Judge Thurston, of Nebraska, Senator Lee, of Pennsyl- i I'ruiin. Mr. Horr, of Michigan, Mr. Clancy, ' colored) of North Carolina. It was then moved by Mr. Robinson, of Dhio, tliat Logan lie nominated by acclama ion. The motion was declared carried; bu'c i|K)ji a call of States New York cast six votes 'or Gresham and ten for Foraker, and a few , )tlier votes were cast against Logan. A mo- | ;ion to make Logan's nomination unanimous was carried, and chairman Henderson then leclared the convention adjourned siiie die. <kctclie?of Blaine and l.ogan'ni Mves. James G. Blaine, Republican candidate for ^resident of the United States, was born Fumuiry31, lK^O. at the Indian Hill farm in iVashington county. Pemi. His father was ne of the heaviest land owners in Ponnsylania, and the son spent several years of lis early youth at, school in Lancast*r, Ohio, where the subject of our sketch ived in the family of the Hon. Thomas Ewing, vho was at that time secretarv of the treas iry and an undo of the future Senator, itoung Blaine entered Washington college at : rV&shington, Penn.. and graduated in 1847 at he aye of rcventeen years. After liis graduation Mr. Rlaine taught in lie schools of the neighborhood for ome years, at the same time making |uite a" mark its a writer for magazines and lewsjiapers. In 1851) he went to Kennebec, lie., where he afisutned the management of he Kennebec .7burnal. Shortly afterward ho , ook control of the Portland (Me.) Advertiser. ti 1858 Mr. Blaine. was elects to the Maine egislnturo, serving four years. At the Ikj;inning of his last term of two years he was lected Speaker of the House. iu 1802, Mr. ilaine was sent to Congress from Maine. At nice devoting himself to a study of the rules md practices of the House, Mr. Blaine be- 1 ore long bocame recognized as one ! >f tho ablest parliamentarians in j ho lower body of Congress. Ho was repeatdly elected to Congress from the same district, and in 18(19 was chosen Speaker of tlW -Tonun Hie riilimry! M-liUp in tlmt. nosition are ' aid to have been always prompt ami general- . y accurate. One of his most noted speeches 11 Congress was against what was known as he ' Ohio idea" of paying the national debt ti greenbacks. When the Republican national convention vas held in 1870, Mr. Blaine, then still a memK>r of Congress, was the most prominent can- j lidate for the nomination of President, but . 'roctor Knott's committee of investigation, 1 wo days before the convention opened, ' iresented a rej>ort charging Mr. Blaine | vitli certain iinpr?>i)er transactions as . Jpeaker; and the promulgation of these harges by his opponents in the conven- 1 ion, at. that critical moment, led to his de cat. Mr. Blaine denied these charges in a peerh made in the House, and read from the ! 'Mulligan" letters to show that the charges I gainst him were unfounded. In the linal \ ote at the national convention Mr. Blaine , eceived 351 ballots to 371 for Hayes. Not- : rithstanding his defeat, Mr. Blaine went into , he canvass and made many speeches for J laves. Mr. Blaine was sent to tho United States j Senate by the Maine legislature and entered j ipon his duties in 1N77. He voted against the nil forming the electoral commission to settle j he presidential difficulty on the ground that j t was unconstitutional. In 1SS0 Mr. Blaine was again a candidate or President before the Republican national onvention, but once more suffered defeat, Jarfield obtaining tho coveted prize. When Jarfield made up his cabinet he offered Mr. ilaine the portfolio of the secretary of state, ind the offer was accepted. Soon after Present's Arthur's accession, following Garfield's leath, Mr. Blaine resigned. Ever since he ius been living in retirement, busily engaged 1 i poll his historical work, "Twenty Years in 1 Jongress." | John A. Lofran. candidate for Vice-Presi- j lent, was bom of Irish parentage in Jackson | ounty, 111., February {l. IS','0. The infrequent | lessions of school in the new settlement where ip lived, led his father to take upon limself the early education of his son. Jpon the declaration of war between ho United States and Mexico he was made ] ieutonant of the First Illinois infantry, and i vas for a time adjutant of his regiment. At he close of the war he studied law with his ' incle, and in 184it liecaine clerk of Jackson j ounty. Afterward he completed his legal ' tudies at the Louisville University, and was i ulniittod to the bar in 1S5'2. In the rear of his graduation he was elected to the i State legislature, and in the following year I o the office of prosecuting attorney of the j Third Judicial district, holding that office j intil 1S-TT. He was re-elected to the State J egislature three successive times, and was i residential elector on the Buchanan and j Breckinridge ticket. In 18T>8 and 1800he was j lected to Congress. In July. 1801, ho left his I eat in the extra session of Congress and j oined the Federal troops on their way to the lisastrous battle of Bull Run. He was made :olonel of the Thirty-flrst Illinois infantry, j ind in March, 1K0~, was appointed brigadier- j jeneral of volunteers. During the summer of 180'3 he refused a i loniination for Congress, saying he preferred ] o remain in tne field. * or services periormm luring Grant's Mississippi movements he was j nude a major-general, and succeeded Slier- | nan as head of the Fifteenth army cor|is | n I8?W. When General McPherson wus tilled Logan succeeded him as ! oininander of the ariuy of the Tennessee. He j vas with Sherman in his ' March to the Sea." i villaining with hiiu until the surrender of i r<ilinston. After the wur he was elected to j lie United States Senate from Illinois, and ; las taken u prominent part in many of the I lehates in tne upper house of the national j longicss. MUSICAL AND DRAMATIC. \ Fanny Davenport has cleared nearly $80,- J 000 011 her first ''Fedora" season. Dion Bouccicault calculates that there !iro in the United States 2,552 theatres, worth fl 15,000,000. Phillippe D'Ennery, author of the "Two Orphans," is said to have amassed a fortune of $2,000,000. Michaei* B. Curtis has saved out of tho ] iuniings of "Sam'l of Posen" tho neat little | sum of $188,000. "May Blossom" will be kept on at the 1 Madison Square theatre, New York, until | September next, wb?n it will be sent on the l road. Two unprinted cantatas by Beethoven have j been found among the collection of a Leipzig lntiquarian. They were written when ho was twenty-one years old. Emma Abbott has sung thirty-eight consecutive weeks, giving seventeen difFeront operas and 310 performances without missing i single engagement. Mr. Howei-LS has not yet completed the ?mic opera for which Mr. George Henschel is preparing the music. It is uncertain when the work will be brought out. The entire audicnce of the Baldwin theatre San Francisco, was recently photographed by the electric light, and every person present was given a copy as a souvenir. Manager John P. McCauley,of Louisville, Ky., has given the use of his theatre for a uencflt for building a home for disabled Confederate soldiers in Richmond, Va. Rose Coghlan's salary has advanced materially during the past two or three seasons. She is now receiving $350 per week at Wal- j lack's, Now York, and $475 a week whon sne : travels. Mr. Robert Stoepel, the musician and I director, has brought a suit against Henry I Irving for the use of music employed by him j in several of tho plavs he appeared in. Papers i were served upon Mr. Irving before his de- i parture for Europe. Verdi's study Ls a sanctum sanctorum which i no ono dares to enter or approach without the I master's special permission, and that is seldom granted. He shuts himself up in it for hours every day, and sometimes for whole days, emerging only to eat and sleep. trominenTpeople. The revivalists, Moody and Sankey, will return to America soon. Mr. Froude, the English historian, is to take in America in his voyuge around the j world. Attorney General Brewster is said to i have one of the rarest china collections in this country. Florence Nightingale, celebrated as the ! Crimean nurse, has become an advocate of j woman's suffrage. TIr Lorimer. a nrominent Chicago clercy- ; man, is writing a novel, the basis of which is to be the Thirty Years' war. "Lucky" Baldwin, one of the California millionaires, aged sixty, lias just taken for his fourth wife a girl of twenty summers. Henry Bf.uoh, president of the New York S. P. C. A., favors cremation, and says that on hygienic principles the cemeteries should be gradually removed and abandoned. Bishop Green, (if Mississippi, the eldest bishop of the Episcopal church,lias transferred to the Rev. Dr. Hugh Miller Thompson, his ' associate, all the administrative work of his oflice. Mr. Cilley, of Nottingham, N. H.; savs that he reasonably hop's to live to the ago of one hundred years. At ninety-three, he is in good health and enjoys life, taking particular pleasure in reading the re] torts 01 me proceedings in the United States Senate, of wliiili lie was onco a member. StTDOE Richard Reid, who recently killed Kimself because Kentucky society turned ugainst him for not lighting a duel with the lawj-er who horsewhipped him, was atypical Kentuekian in nppeara:\ee. He wore a heavy mustache, long Ward, low-cut vest, tunilown collar, and no neck-tie. John Ericsson, the inventor, is eighty yours old, and has lived for twenty years or more in the same house in the lower part of New York city. His life is regular and methodical, llising early, before 0, lie walks for an hour, and, after a light breakfast, goes to work on his inventions; from II o'clock until 4 is spent in reading, during which he also indulges in a luncheon; and after an hour's i return to work he ends his day's labors with another walk through the lower part of the , - itv?conerallv alonu the wharves. j Lady John Manners lectures her British fellow eountrywoineu furiously on their ivcr-eating, of all things in the world, lifuiflc tluifc. their ovpr-dressinir is nearly ih bad, and extravagance lias grown at j <ucli a rate thai a voung man no longer lares to marry. (From the New York Telegram.] (jiu.i:spii; iii.aim:. NEWS OF THE WEEK. Eastern and middle States. President Riddle and Cashier Reiber, of the suspended Penn bank, were arrested at Pittsburg, Penn., on the charge of conspiring to defraud the institution. Right Rev. Benjamin B. Smith, D. D., L L. D., the oldest prolate in the American V.nisrv-inal elinrcli ami the oldest bishop, both in yearn and ofliw, of any church in tho world, died a few days since in New York. Bishop Smith was Ihji ii in Bristol, R. I., in 1794, and was const*:rated a bishop in IS*.'. A man named Westbrook has started in New York the experiment of living for sixty days on milk alone. Any infant could do that. Fisk & Hatch, the well-known New York brokers who failed during the recent panic, have resumed business. Jesse Carter (colored), convicted of being accessory to the murder of John Foster, was hanged at Pittsburg, Penn. "Babe"' Jones, the principal in the murder, was hanged last April. The Democratic State conventions in Connecticut, Vermont, and in other State* held recently, all declared in favor of the old presidential ticket of 1870. Sonlli and lVcst. Governor James m. Smith, of Georeia, was walking along a street in Atlanta. Ga., a few nights ago, when a man named Evans Wright fired three shots in the governor's direction. Wright was arrested. A camp of cowboys in Colorado was overwliAlmA/1 1\*T r? eur1/1/*vt nlrtti/Uunvt. U'ntiir coming with such force that it swept away everything in its jmth anil drowned eleven men. A cloud-burst swept away a house near Visalia, Col., and drowned all the inmates, consisting of Peter Stewart, his wife, mother, two children and a sheep herder. Two boilers exploded in a sawmill near McBride's, Mich., killing three men and severely injuring four others. The cargo of the steamer Wave, running between Wilmington and Fayetteville, N. C., shifted and the vessel sank. Ned Beel>e, colored cook; Lucy Graham, (colored), and Em pie Hill (white), passengers, were drowned. The Fourth Ohio Infantry regiment has been disbanded on account of inefficiency dur ing the Cincinnati riots. General 0. E. Babcock, formerly private secretary to President Grant, but or late engineer of the Fifth Lighthouse district; Mr. Levi P. Luckey, his chief clerk; Mr. Ben. P. Snttcr, of Washington. D. C., and a seamar were drowned in Mosquito Inlet, oft the coast of Florida while superintending the work on the lighthouse now buiioing at mat point. Sadie Hayes, a colored woman' has beer sentenced to death at St. Ixmis.for the murdei of Police Sergeant Jenks. J. H. Wendell, an old resident of C'ald well, Kansas, in a tit of insanity caused b) whisky, shot and killed his wife, and ther killed "himself. A terrible crime is reported from Kansas Mrs. John Anderson, wife of a poor farmer and her four children were all found mur dered near Plea.santon, and it was thought th( father had met the same fate. The Artdersor family had knowledge of a crime committee by one Lewis Wampler. The two men left till house together. Wampler returned alone saying that Anderson had sent for the family They started in a wagon, and on the way it L supposed that Wampler murdered the womai and the four children and fled. The remains of John Anderson, the sixtl victim of the Pleasonton (Kan.) murder, weri found concealed in a deserted coal shaft, witl a bullet wound in the head. Ax affray among the Indians at the Rose bud agency, growing out of the return to thi reservation of Crow Dog. the slayer of Sjiottw Tail, resulted in the killing of Chief Whit Thunder and the fatal wounding of two otliei Indians by the son and friends of Sjx)tted Tail Crow Dog had lx-en set free by a decision o the United States supreme court. A train' was wrecKiMi 011 a rauroau ueiweei Denison and Gainesville in Texas, ami four tee 11 i>ersons were reported to have been kille< and many others injured. At the election in Oregon the Republican elected a majority of their legislative candi dates and their candidate for Congress. Wnshin^tou. U. W. Middleton & Co., well-know Washington bankers, have failed for ubou $500,000. The last national debt statement issue( shows the decrease of the public debt durin| May to be $1.7^,^1.20. Decrease of debt since Juno .'50, 1883 $91,X2:5,714 8! Cash in the Treasury 389,3?>8,fl37 4! Gold certificates outstanding.... 98.812,2li0 0( Silver certilicates outstanding.. 117,W0,091 0( Certificates of dejiosit outstanding ll,0.r)0,000 0( Refunding certificates 291,100 0 Legal tenders outstanding 340,<581,01tJ 0 Fractional currency (not including amount estimated as lost or destroyed) 0,981,870 31 Cash balance available 147,817, WJ0 S Government receipts in May aggregate< $321,2114,(54<5, against $3(13.371.413 during May 1883. Government expenditures in May wen 1229,698,290, against f i">0.W7,190 during thi same period last year. During May the various United State milium coxneu ?i.iwguiu |iicutsf, ? unu COO; 2,520,000 silver pieces, worth $2,.'{31,000 and. 7,278,000 minor coins, worth $123,50(J Total coinage, 10,040,1(10 pieces, worth $o,400, 100. Secretary Lincoln telegraphed to th United States signal officer at Jacksonville Fla., to cause tho remains of General Babcocl to be embalmed and sent to Washington. Foreign. John C. Eno, ex-president of the Secon< National bank, of Isew York, and defanlte: in a large sum, was arrested at (Quebec as hi was about to sail for Liverpool. By the fall of a balloon-car containing twenty persons, at Lille, France, three of th< occupants were killed and tho l-est bafllj hurt. News has been received that a violen shock of earthquake occurred on the island o Kishm, near tho mouth of the Persian gulf Twelve villages were destroyed, 200 ]?ersoni killed and many others injured. Sixty persons were injured during an eleo toral riot in Clnusenburg, Austria. Ffve Mexican states have declared waj against the government on account of th< revenue stump tax. Osc ar AVii.de, lender of the a*sthetes, waj married a few days since in London. Five persons were killed and about thirtj more injured bv the precipitation of a trait down an embankment near Downton, Eng land. Fourteen of the crow of the brig Con fed erate. stranded on the ice floes of I Labrador have been lost. Ten suicides occurred in Vienna, the Aus trian capital, in two days. The Fals<" Prophet's follower in the Sou dan have captured the town ol' Abu-Hamad. A kike in London destroyed the East Ix)n don Aquarium. A manlier of lions, bears jackals and monkeys were burned to death. SUMMARY OF CONGRESS. Senate. The Senate passed the House bill fixing the rate of postage on mail matter of the second class, wnen sent by persons other than the publisher or newsagent. This bill, as it came from the House, fixed ono cent as the rate ol postage on newspapers weighing three ounce? or less. Mr. Marcy explained that the Senate committee on jx is to 11 ices and post roads ha<i found that some of the large newspapers weighed a little ovoi three ounces, and had therefore extended the newspaiier limit of weight for one-cent postage to lour ounces....The bill passed the Senate with this amendment Bills were passed providing for the collection of statistics of marriage and divorce; for the repression of the opium trafJIc.; to c? talilish a forest reservation on the head waters of the Missouri river and Clark'sr>f tint ('olumliia river. A bill was introduced providing for offering n. reward of $100,000 to any person who shall discover the true cause or germ of yellow fever Bills were passed granting an annual leave of absence with pay to letter carriers; granting a jwnsion to fhe widow of General Judson KiljMitrick; to regulate the payment, of bills of exchange. IlOtlWC. Mr. Buckner introduced a bill to amend the National banking laws Mr. Hutchins introduced a bill amending the act authorizing the coinage of the standard silver dollar.... The legislative appropriation bill was amended and passed. The House passed the bill to prevent the un lawful occupancy of the public lands. It pro hibits the inclosure of any public land wnet; the no mm or corporation making the inclos ure lias no claim or color of title to the land and makes it lawful for any person to teai down or demolish uny such mcloaure when i includes more than 100 acres. irromuie^cw i urn. j vitamin.j .JOIfiN AKjEXAXDKU IAWAX. THE NATIONAL - GAMS. 1 Michigan furnishes nine-tenths of the base- j ball bats used. Tiik Toledo club is said to have the slowest j runners in the profession. There is intense rivalry between Boston and i Providonco over the merits of their respective League teams. Indianapolis so far appears to Ikj the j weakest club in tho American Association, not ; excepting Washington. The Chicago excel all other players in their 1 hard and swift running to first base on every , hit, no matter how weak. Barnie will distribute ?21,000 in salaries to the members of his Baltimore American As- ' ' sociation team this season. The umpires are pretty generally enforcing the rule prohibiting anybody but the field caj>- j tain from questioning u decision. This Is as j it should be. ; In New York baseball is unprecedented!}- j popular. Not only are the games well pat- ronized, but every day in the week at all the ; ' vacant spots within the metropolis games are I going on. The championship pennant of the Ix-ague, during the whole of its seven years' existence, I has never been floated in any city outside of Boston, Chicago or Providence. It was held i in the last named city only one year. Sam Kino, first baseman of the "Wash- ! ingtons, is rich, and plays ball only for fun. He was the first baseman of the famous old 1 Live Oaks, of Lynn, and lives at WillaixTs > notei, paying a steep sum mommy ior ms room and board. Thk New Yorks are drawing much better at fifty cents than the Metropolitans at twen ty-five cents when both teams are playing in i the city at the same time. It is characteristic j" o? New Yorkers tliat they must have the best , even if it comes high. Kansas City has 100,000 population and no base ball club. The reason tor this omission i is said by a local paper to be because the \ grown people of that metropolis are too busy I to sit in the sun and listen to eighteen men quarreling with an umpire. The New Haven Neuis says, that with liis frontal liver-pad, his hands cased in thick , gloves and the familiar wire helmet on his head, the average base-ball catcher looks for : i all the world like an animated combination ! of a modern bed-l>olster and a medieval ; knight. ' Sweeney, of tho Providence club, catches 1 the batsman napping thus wise: The catcher j trundles the ball slowly to him j he picks it up, iu1u lpcluie uc uuo xuiiij ouuiqwiuiu* ihuu^ai. 1 ill his position the ball is driven over the pinto ' for a strike. The patent will expire before 1 the season does. The votaries of base ball are observing one 1 noteworthy feature in this year's League championship contest, which is likely to make it contrast widely with those which have pre ceded it. This 1'ea'turo is the superiority thus 1 ' far of all the Eastern to all the Western ini games won. Last year and in some others the Western clubs either had the majority of victories, or at least were able to put half of their clubs into the first half of the championship ' roll. ^ At the close of the fifth week of the league I c'uimpionship campaign the record of the j j eight contending clubs was as follows: , Club*. Won. Lost. Clubt. Won. Lost. Providence.. 20 -J Philadelphia. 8 17 i Boston 21 S Cleveland.... 8 16 I , New York... IT 8 Chicaijo 9 15 Buffalo 11 14 Detroit 4 20 The twelve clubs of the American associa- ' ,, tion stood as follows at the end of the fifth ' week's play: Won Lost. iron I.oiL Metropolitan 17 0 Louisville 18 6 Baltimore 12 9 St. Louis 13 9 a Athletic 15 8 Cincinnati 11 8 ? | Brooklyn 10 11 Cclumbus 14 9 ( I Pittsburgh s 15 'lolcdo 6 17 |J j Washington 4 17 Indianapolis.... 3 17 j. | The Eastern League record was as fol| lows: , Club*. Won, Lost. CMOS. IKON. LOHfi Trenton 14 8 Wilmington....10 5 I Newark 10 9 Allontown 7 12 Virginia 9 9 Harrisburg 4 11 Heading 10 10 Baltimore out s In tho college arena tho record was as fol' lows: Club*. Won. Lost. | Clubs. Won. Lost. Ilnrvard 5 8 I Iirown 3 3 Yale 4 1 I)artmonth....l 4 Amherst... 4 2 I Princeton 1 0 * t { NEWS AND NOTES FOR WOMEN. ' Most botinols are stringiest. It is claiincd that Mrs. Mary Ma pes , Dodge makes ^8,000 a year with her pen. ) Gates of llowcrs across the broad aisle J gave the last touch of elegance to a U fashionable wedding in New York. J "Pavement"' is the name given to the 3 i brocades in which the design in small blocks either square or hexagonal, j Mack silk petticoats are made up with 3 flounces of bright lace set under the 1 sharp points of the tongues into which ? the hem is cut. 3 3 One of the most responsible positions in this country is held by a Washington a colored woman. She does lip Mr. Urew" | ster's rulllcd shirts. i.' I French white frocks have all the seams - of tlie waist covcreci uv nanus 01 luumur stitching', n pretty fashion, which makes ? the liguie look slender. c The laws of Wyoming says expressly , that there shall be no discrimination with regard to sex in the pay of any kind of work. It is a good place for surplus 1 women to go. 3 There is a revival of wraps, both long and short, to match summer dresses of ; light wool, linen or batiste. These arc > either made in the form of a pelisse, " mantle or fichu, according to the material. f An English paper contains a pathetic warning as to the danger of betrothal 1 bracelets, which are in the way when the j arm is broken. Alight not the betrothal " | ring be inconvenient if the linger were I broken? j Instead' of black grenadines, black lace dresses will bo largely worn during i the siniitncr. The skirts will be flounced to the waist with black French lace or ' genuine C'hnntiily, and the basques will 1 be made up over a black satin lining. The ribbons worn with white frocks tin's year are not necessarily of pink and i blue, as is sometimes the case, but may ' be of any color. The glitter of satin is ' I preferred to the softer luster of ottoman, both with white and with colored costumes. In the new summer satteens we see , the block pattern, also checks, lar^e and j small, bars and the familiar dots and balls. The newest patterns in these goods are quaint designs in oriental colors that look as if they were wrought in . cross-stitch by the needle. ' In Paris, velvet will he combine*! with , gauzes ami other transparent, tissues I during the season. Gauze bodices will > have velvet facings trimmed to form a ; bertha. Similar facings are added to the | short sleeves, and cockade bows of velt vet to correspond are placed at random I among the folds of the cloud-like dra[ pery. Cockade bows of velvet with aigrette will be worn in the hair. > Three sets of floral favors were given 1 to the guests at a New York dinner. There were wreaths of lilies and spring ; blossoms about the dinner cards, shells of selected roses at each plate and Jacqueminot roses in the finger bowls. The centerpiece was a gilt chariot drawn by ' doves made by lilies of the valley. The freight of this fairy car was sugar plums. ' i The English postoflice had its ri-e in > a proclamation of Charles I., who commanded his postmaster of Kngland for foreign pa?ts "to settle a running post . I nv In-n tn rim nirrlif- niwl ilnv lii'hVPPH ; Edinburgh and London, to go thither ' and back again in six days, and take with them all such letters as shall be directed to any post-town in or near that road." A post to foreign countries ' "for the benefit of English merchants," . had been organized in the previous reign. ; but iu Charles's proclamation lies the r first evidence of the establishment of 11 a government postoHiee for inland letters. . Republican National Platform. The Republicans of the United 8tates In national invention assembled renew their al'egiance to ! he principles upon whici they have triumphed la ; It successive presidential elections, and congrata- i ate the American people o i the attainment of so j nany results in legislation and adm;nlstratlon by i vhich the Republican party has, after saving the , .'nion, done so much to rerder Its Institutions just. , fqual, and beneficent?the safeguard of liberty and | he embotllment of the best thought and highest i Mirpo.'es of our citizens. The Republican party j ia* gained its strength by quick andfaithful re- ' iponse to the demands of the people for the j reedom and the equality of all men, for a united milon assuring the rights of all citizens, for the ele ration of labor, for an honest currency, for parity n legislation, and for iniegrlty and accountabl.ity n all departments of the government; and It ac- j :iprs anew the duty of leading in the work of prog euB und reform. \\V lament the denth of President Garfield, whose <ouud statesmanship, Ion r conspicuous in Coniress, gnve promi?e of n strong and successful administration, a promise fully realized during the iiort perioa of his ofllce as President of the United States. His distinguished success in war and In peace have endeared him to the hearts of the American people. In the administration of President Arthur we recognize a wise, conserv itive, and patriotic policy, under which the country has been blessed with remarkable prosperity, and we believe his eminent services are entitled to aud will receive the hearty approval of every citizen. it is the first duty of n good government to protect the rights and promote the interesis of Its own people; the largest d.versity of industry is most productive of general p osperity and of the com fort and independence or tue people, wc mererore ; demand that the imposition of duties on foreign i Imports shall bo made, not for revenues only, but ! that in racing the requisite revenue for the gov- i ernmcnt such duties shall be ho levied as to af- . ford security to our diversified Indusrles and pro- ; tectlon t> the right* and wages of the'aborer, to ' the end that active and Intelligent labor, as well as j capital, may have Its just reward, and the laboring ; man hs full share in the national prosperity. Resolved, That appointments by the President to j offices in the Territories should be made from the bona tide citizens and residents of the Territories j wherein they are to serve: Kesolved, That it is the duty of Congress to enact i such laws as shall promptly and effectually sup- > press the system of polygamy within | our Territories, and divorce the polltl-cai from tho ecclesiastical power or the po-c lied Mormon chnrch, and that the law so , enacted should be rigidly enforced by the civil an- | thorities if possible, ana by the military if need be. The peop'e of tne United States, in their orga- j nized capacity, constitute a nation and not i mere | confederacy of States. The national government I supreme within the sphere of it* national duty, but ! the Mates have reserved rights which should be i faithfully maintained; ach should b? gnarded with jealous care so that the harmony of our system of j government may lie preserved and the Union be ' kept inviolate. The perpetuity of our Institutions rtsts upon the maintenance of a free ballot, anhon- i est count, and correct returns. We have always recommeoded the best money i known to the civilized world, and we urge that ai: j effort he made to unite all commercial nations In th" estihlishment of an Internationa] standard , which snail fix for ail the relative value of gold and j live coinage. 'llie regulation of commerce with foreign nation." and between the States, is one of the most I Important prerogatives of the general govern- J ment, and the Republican party distinctly announces its purpose to support such legisla- ; tion as will folly and efficiently carry out the eon- j Biitutlnnal power of Congress over Inter-state com- I mt'rce. The principle 01 me puonc reguiauou 01 , railway corporations Is a wise and solitary one for ! the protection of all classes of the p?ople, and we favor legislation that shall prevent nnjust dlscrlm- j nation and excessive charges for transportat'on, j and that shall secure to the people and to the railways al.ke the fair and equal protection of the I lawn. I We favor the establishment of a national bureau i of labor, tha enforcement of the eight bnnr law. as a wise and judicious system of general ! cdncation by adequateapprobatlo from the national revenues wherever the same Is needed. We believe tnat everywhere the protection to a citizen of American birth mu-t be secured to citizen* of American adoption, and we favor the settlement of national differences by international arbitration. I The Republican party having its birth in a j hatred of slave labor and in a desire that aM men may be fr<e and equal, is unalter- ; ably opposed to placing our worklngmen j in competlt on with any form of servile labor, i whether at home or abroad. In this spirit wede- : nonncc the importation of contract labor, whether ' from Europe or Asia, as an ofTence against the spirit of American Institutions, and we pledge ourselves to sustain the present law restrictingChinese immigration, and to provide sach further le^isla tion as Is "ccessary to carry out its purposes. Then-form of I he civil service, anspiciou&ly be- | gnn under Republican administration, should be ; completed l>y the further extension of the reform ' system, alre?dy established by law, to ail the grades ; of the service to which it Is applicable. The spirit i and pun,oco of llle reform should be observed lu all exccntlve appointments, and all laws at variance with the object of existing reformed legislation i should be repealed, to the end that the danger to in?ntiinnn* which mav lurk In the nowir i of ofllclal patronage may be wisely and eflec Ively ! avoided. The public lands area heritage of the people of the Cnited Stales, and should be rr served, as far as possible, for small holdings by actual settlers. We are opDOScd to the acquisition of large tracts of these lands by corporations or Individuals, especially where such holdings are in the hands of nonresident aliens, and we will endeavor to obtain i such legislation as will tend to correct this evil. | We dennind of Confess the speedy forfeiture of I all land grants which have lapsed by reason of noncompliance with sefs of incorporation, in a leases I where there hnsheenno attempt in good faith to perform the condition of such gran's. The g'a eful th inks of the American people are due t the Republican soldiers and sailors of tho | late ? ar, and the Republican party stands Pledged j t"snita le pensions for nil who were disabled and for the widows and orphans of those who died in the war. The Hepnbl can party al-o pledges itself to the repeal of the limitation contained in the arrears act of 1370, *o that all Invalid soldiers shall | share alike, and their pensions shall begin with the date of disability or discharge, nut with the Cttte of their application. The Republican party favors a policy which shall keep us from entangling alliances with foreltm na- j tlons,and which shail give the right to expect tbat foreign nations shall refrain from meddling In American affairs?the polic. which seeks peace can | trade wlih all powers, but especially with those of j the Western hemisphere. J -au?A.?HA? A# AnFntfV frt I to nlfL , LMll'lliailU LUC iCKLUiaiiuu u> uui ??v .? ... ... time strength and efficiency that it may, in am' sea, protect the rights of American citizens and the in- ! tcrests of America i commerce and wo call upon Congress to remove the hardens under wh ch American shipping has been depressed "so that It may again be true that we have a commerce which j leaves n sea unexplored and a navy which takes no law for a superior force. Aga nut the co-called economical system of the i Democratic party which would degrade our lab or to the foreign standard, we enter -nr earnest protest. T ho Democratic party has failed completely to re- I lieve the ptople of the bnrden of unnecessary taxtinn by a wise reduction of the surplus. The'Repnblican party pledges itself to correct the inequalities of the tariff, and to reduce the sur- , plus, not by the vicious and indiscriminate process of horizontal reduction, but by-such methods as will relieve the taxpayer without injuring the | laborer or the great productive Interests of the j country. We recognize the importance of sheep husbandry In the United States, the serious depression which it is now experiencing and the danger threatening its future prosperity; and we therefore respect the d mands of the representatives of this important agricultural interest, for a readjustment of dnty upon foreign wool in order that such industry shall have full and adequate protection. We | denounce the fraud and violence practiced by the Democracy in Southern States by which the will of the voter is defeated as dangerous to | the preservation of fne institutions, and we s Iomniy arraign the D mocratic party as being the ftuilty recipient of the fruits of such fra'd and vioence. We extend to the Republicans of the South, - .... .ffllutlnno ai,f regardless or me.r > unci |/.?n m..... cordial Fympa lr-, and pledge to them oar most earnest effor h to promote the passage of such legIflution as will secure to every cltizcn of whatever race and color, the full and complete recognition, po-a.'S.-ljn and exercise of all civil and political riw VERY OLD PEOPLE. Asa Aykks. a veteran of the war of 1812, <lieil recently in Michigan City. He built the iirst brick house in Cleveland. William H. Foster, of Salem, Mass., is the oldest bank cashier in the United States. He lias been fifty-eight years in the service. Mrs. Gordon, of BIuiTton, S. C.. is 110 wars of aire, and still continues her habit of Walking four miles to church at least once a month. A o re at lover of tobacco was Mi's. Sarah Smith, of Mattoon, 111., who has just died at the ago of 100. She continued its use to the very last. Mrs. Pollv Shoulders, of Jasper, Ind.. is eighty-seven veal's of age. yet she recently walked n distance of fourteen miles one day, and home again the next day. Henry Wheeler, of Hickory Flat. Ga.. has never seen a city and is ninety-four years old. He has grandchildren and greatgrandchildren. He never used ruin or tobacco. Two sisters and a brother named Plonk, living near Lincoln. X. C\, cling to life remarkably. The brother is still called "the baby," although ninety-eight years old. One of the sisters, Mrs. Nullie Weaver, is ninetynine years old, and the other, Mrs. Jane Toutheron, is ninety-eight. A ccrious wedding has just taken place in Ekatevindslav, Russia Both bride and bridegroom have great-grandchildren by former marriages. The groom's father, 1(M years old, anil the bride's mother, who is in her ninetysixth year, were both present at the wedding. The bride is sixty-seven years old, and the groom sixty-five. James Smith, of Kosciusko, Miss., has l>een married forty-seven years, and death has never yet visited his household. He ami his wile had twelve children, all of whom live and are married. They have eighty grandchildren. The entire family live within a radius of twenty-eight miles in thirteen residences. NEWSY GLEANINGS. There are prisoners in Mexican jails. The number of lives lost through disasters in the first quarter of the present year was ?,154. Notwithstanding its immense size, the average of tires in L mdon is not quite tlirooa night. There aro eighty Indian children with farmers in different parts of Bucks County, renn. Senator I.vuai.i.s says that there are as iiinnv Indians 011 this continent as there were in U'!?. ' A " hoy At." sturgeon was caught in the Onse, near York, England, recently. It was over seven feot in length and weighed nearly thirteen stone. On, sjieculation has gained such magnitude t l.at the sales in the different exchanges aggregate; *>0,000,000 daily, and there are 3?i,000,000 j>ipo-lino eertitieates outstanding. Fremont D. Palmer, of Norwich, Conn., has a collection of forty live snakes, and recently added three of tbe copperhead order to it. fie catches them with his hands, seizing t hem back of the head. A PLAGUE of "buffalo gnats" is making frightful havoc among live stock in portions of Mississippi and Arkansas. These troublesome little pests swarm in myriads, fastening upon the animals and literally sucking the lite-blood out of them. In the neighborhood i of Grenada, Miss., the number of recent deaths of horses and mules from this cause is estima ted at 1,500. ' Df THE NEW LAND OF GOLD-iS BOSHES AMOKO THE CEETJB D'AUQTI DIGCJIHQS XV IDAHO. The High Price* Paid for Labor mrnd I reilit-Some Fortunate i lads A letter to the New York decribing the newly discovered gold gings among the Cajur D'Alcne moan-:3jHH| tains in Idaho says: Dog-teams and., pack animals now do most of the hauling into the diggings. So great is the mand for carriage facilities that one see# on all sides of the embryo cities of Havens Osborn, Murrayville. Butte and',: H Camellvillc, signs calling for men to . bring freight from the summit, and fering eight cents a pound for miles and $4 a day for hauling hands. - IB But it is difficult to hire labor at above figures; nearly every one of 5,000 men on the ground preferxin?j^tf[^^H eitbcr to take ti Mr ciuincs ia wasmng;; ''iMH placers up and d*. vn the various galchc% j^^^H and ravines in the diggings, or in pro?v pecting among the mountains for lodes and nuggets. One man, named John ^ Campbell, while crossing the Bitter Root CfgflHG Range on his way to Eagle city, stumbled upon a huge bouider which JdHH showed free trold. It wns float quartz, and was plentifully speckled with pyntet. ; of iron and silver, showing little spots of uHH the precious metal all over it sufficient fUo 1?u?lru f n 11 r\xxr fs\ ron1!?A a onnn iV/i I Jils mty tkj lUllUII H/ < VMtMiV Mr (IMtMy little sum from his find, Mr. Campbell has camped in the neighborhood, and ia instituting an industrious search for the parent vein, of which he believes prize to be a mere surface outcropping Serious trouble is anticipated owing to the talk of cutting down tlie claims from twenty acres to :)00feet. Allclaimsthua iar located are under the act of CoDgrpt authorizing twenty-acre placer olaims. '^^M But as the Conir d'Alene is now beyond dispute a quartz country as well as a placet .-- JH country, new-comers openly dmand are* duction of ihr? pre-empted claims. The talk may possibly end in bloodshed. _ . The "widow's" claim has been jumped, flB AM/1 inVknm/y iirAr>lro/l Ktr/ilfitran rlo^armtnan - men, who swear they will stay by it through thick and thin. It has yielded to date about $10,000, and the tnen who have secured this sum proclaim their in? tention to hold on to it in defiance of the widow's right and title. Mrs. Edgerton, the "widow,'' seems to have been unfor- I tunate in more ways than one. Sheif was who first staked Pritchard, the man who discovered the new mines, and first started the cry of "gold" in tlie Corn vM d'Alenes. He made the prospecting torn v| at her expense, discovered, staked and uuuicu uiu wmuw a pujicivj ^vu? itvuwt in the gulch), and brought to l\er*at the :^^H| Edgerton hotel, of which she waa proprietress, in Butte city, the first specimen of gold from the Coeur d'Alene moun* tains. Hj Mrs. Edgciton promptly set oat for the . mines last fall, but rcached the mission just in time to be blocked by -winter'* : |H storms and snows. ,,' She remained there until Febrtuuy, , when the tide of gold-seekers began to flow toward the- new gold-fields in great numbers, but being blessed with 800 B pounds of avoirdupois, no one could )f6, induced to transport the bulky dame 4.1 1 ? J ul-.L. uiruu^u niuuuiuiu ?im utci summits to the land of promise. H?f -IM -9 only hope was to possess her soul in pa- ...xJHH tience and await the building of a boat fl to convery her to the headquarters of Lake Cccur d'Alene, which would place her within eight Uiiles of her property. Last week the World correspondent had the pleasure of meeting the "widow"' ?|9H near the mouth of Coeur d'Alene river. serenely seated on a pile of shawls and j|^D skins, in a sort of batteau or raft, which was being slowly poled and towlined alone: by a party of men wading near the oVinrp Nearly all of the gold mined in the . 'J diggings to date has been the result -of -JM placer washing. Two men on the cfeim adjoining the widow's on April 11 washed . ' Jfl out in that one day with a rocker $l3Din . gold dust. On Granite creek f 3 to *the ,'^H pan is the daily average result. While M digging for a cabin foundation^ two - Jqm weeks ago a man picked up one nugget H worth abo it $4.50, and a number of small . ones varying from fifty cents yf $3. .Of quartz any number of ledges nave been. found during the past three weeks, some of them marvelously rich in galena, silver and srold. One of the latest diar ' coveries of this kind was made by a bud- .? ness man of Eagle, who rau across a<jold lode just above the mother ledge a few '"lf| days ago. It is throe feet in width, free milling grayish quartz ia granite and is reputed by persons who have seen it to be I very rich. In the towns, especially Eagle, matter* are lively enough, particularly at flight. j| Miners, roughs, gamblers, tenderfeet and women come pouring into the towns as soon as darkness comes on, and either jgfl assemble on the comers in knots to talk, gather at the bars to drink and swear or ' "fight the tiger'' at the gaming tables. It is said that fourteen faro banks at Eagle were bursted during the past >9 week, causing a loss .to the owners of about $40,000. There is a preacher on < the ground, the Rev. W. C. Shippen, who is kept well employed in perforjx- | ing marriage ceremonies and preaching ??"nnns Tli? first, marriace in * luugiui Dl. i iiiviiOI Q. the diggings was that of H. F. Scott, of " *. Idaho, to Mrs. Laura B. Wright, of Leadville, Colorado. The first funeral sermon | ever heard among the Cceur d1 Alone hills * -3 was preached over the remains of A. B. ' isi Pierce, otherwise Known as "Oregon J John." He was a hoary-headed old : ~jm veteran of seventy-two years, who was one of the Fremont party that orossed~""~: ] the Rocky mountains in 1842. f "The "Kid's Fund" had just reached .'j2 the round sum of $5,000 when it was ' gobbled up by an enterprising youngster V3 of Eagle city, whose mother had walked H thirty-live mues from the railway a few " <:|| days previous to bis birth. Iler husband ?nt ?li/? fimo?n fr/>inrfif. hand iV ilO UL/dt'd I HI 1 K'iAIV *? """ - " A on the Northern Pacific railroad?and upon his return to his humble cabin, near the line of the road, he discovered that his spouse was missing. Making a few inquiries he learned of her departure for the mines. He lost no time in following her thither, where, upon his arrival, in addition to a fine bouncing boy, the mother presented him with a rather bulky pouch of $.!,000 in dust and nuggets. That boy was undoubtedly born with a golden spoon in his mouth. The father has given up railroading, taken to mining, and it is reported that he has since struck it rich near the head of Beaver Gulch, a tributary of Pritchard. How He Escaped. Daniel Webster was noted for his quick wit. When a boy attending the district i ?1 1 1? *?" w/vnrtJUltr AO mio/tVtiAvnna oa fl SC'ilUUl uu was pua^iuij no uiiowrnvtvuii ??# _ the average boys of his age and perhaps ] more so. One day he was called on the , floor by his t-acher for the purj>ose of receiving piini*hm<-nt by means of that well-known "'ruler." His hands were overed with dirt, and wishing to present as clean a hand as possible lor the pun- ^ ishment, when he made his way into the middle of the floor he touched his tongue to his right hand and wiped it upon his pants. When he held out his hand the teacher noticed the dirt upon it and said: ' Daniel. I won't punish you if vou will find another hand in school as dirty as that one." Upon this 1 )anie! immediately presented his left hand and thus escaped his punishment.?American Young Folks. He Hadn't. "Have you got fifty cents?" said a begtrar to a surly passer-by. "No, 1 haven't got fifty cents." "Well, have you got twenty-five cents?" i "No, I haven't." "Have vou got ten cents?" J "No.v "Have von trot anv sense .at all?" 'No?ves?what's" that? Get out, 01 I'll knock vour face off." The beggar got out, chuckling.?Merchant Truro': r. A Dreadful Moment. Madame I'atti, the singer, ia said to have a passion for precocious parrots, which amounts sometimes to the purchasing of 5000 birds. She likes to teach them to sing. Once she sang to a new bird for an hour, but he only blinked at her aud never uttered a note. Suddenly ho turned his back on the songstress and snapped out: ''Shut up, you eld snoozer." It was a dicadful moment for the petted Patti. ' ' "v"??