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ABBEVILLE PRESS AND BANNER.! BY HUGH WILSON. ABBEVILLE, S. C.. WEDNESDAY. JULY 2. 1884. NO. 1. VOLUME XXIX. $ ijM BUM? I A ? IIHI ?" I tjfjai IJII HWlWg?? L^aac SUMMER. Clear, dark#and cool, a shallow pool Lies underneath the summer sky, Low rippling In tho sedgy grass As wayward winds go tripping by; And fleetirigfbindows lightly skim Across tho *mter hand in hand, And vanish in a reedy point Wh*rre slender, waving cat-tails stand. And in tho wondrous summer sky "Old Sol'' his golden censer springs, And in tho pool the bubbles break And lose themselves in llonting rings; While bladed flags bend low to greet Tho bluo-veined lilies resting there, And high above their drooping heads Tho cat-tails drink the summer air. Across tho pool with filmy "lugs Tho "devil's darning^needles" fly, And deep among the shady flags The croaking frogs securely lie. A red-winged blackbird's liquid notes Sound clear and sweet "Co-cliee!?Ch-chee!" And in the breeze's cradling arms Tho cat-tails rock in airy glee. ?Earnest^Jc^fff^j"iii ciiTtrtr&rCurren!. A rili/tt YLMUKU. P BY J. J. KENNEDY. When one is newly married, and lias ' commenced life in small Moms on a sccn ond floor, there are lio long halls and high stairways to traverse between the cooking and sleeping apartments. Therefore, wlien I heard Mary till the kettle and stir the tire, mid the next instant saw her beside lay bed I took her sudden advent as n matter of course. But it is confessed that her opening salutation came weighted with an atom of surprise. "You know that vacant bed-room, dear? Well, we can furnish it now." "Can we?" I asked, iwrkly. "Have you been taking a risk in stocks?" "Here it is," she said, with a sudden tremor in her voice and a flutter in her hands. "A thousand dollars for fortythree stories. A hundred dollnrs ii/i one. iJiiy iur initiuier, unu su uii ; down. And newspaper men arc especially invited to try. You must take a day oil, and when we get the hundred j dollars we can tit up the spare room. I Let me see?forty dollars for a chamber set, twenty dollars for a carpet, ten dollars for pictures?and then we will send i ten more to father and mother to pay! their fare here and make us that long-' 4^ promised visit. Only a hundred dollars, jack, and see what happiness it brings!" i And the dear girl threw her arms about j my neck and gave me a rousing kiss. Well, when she settle! down to solid facts, produced n copy of the Chicago Current, and showed in" the tempting offer in plain black and white, 1 grew interested. I knew that newspaper men, and especially young reporters, had little time for true literary work, but imagined that with an incentive to spur me on I could gain an odd half day or so in the ft-* next two weeks and write out some of Y " the fragmentary ideas that had floated _ through my mind for several years, in ^ patient waiting for clothing and a habitation. We had no difficulty in agreeing that the attempt should be made, and none whatever as to the use to which the prize-money should be put. Mary had disposed of that without aid from me. The only question that confronted us was the character of the story, its location, tone and treatment. "\Vc gave the whole ! noon hour to its discussion. You *must be careful," said Mary, | with the air of one who for years had filled a professorship in u college for the education of fiction writers, "to give it a conversational form. Long paragraphs 1 don't look well, and readers are tempted , to 6kip. Put a little love-making " . " - "That's trite," said I. Is it I "Well, people never grow tired of it. Make it end happily, what* ever you do. Bret Ilarte's school may I suit the Bret Harte's, but one doesn't i like to be sent away from a story with a suicide or hanging as the finale; and ! above all things, Jack, chose a subject about which you know something. Don't flounder around in a my.-tic or far-away region on which you have never set eyes." "How would Alaska do?"' I asked, sol-1 emnly. "What do you know about Alaska? i Gr the Desert of Sahara? Or Patagonia! Keep inside of Ohio. Make it short, terse and put into it not only what might easily happen, but something that has ; happened." 1r l _ tA. ^ .1. . cc il.. A. 1.*_ 1 . I licit ner Cleaning ou me moic anu j singing softly to herself. I was due at ! | the office of the Daily Ke^tunc at 2 i\ m., # -to-ra:ei'*fmy assignment of local work. I had left a-hope blossoming at home |W that the day might be li^ht of work, * and that I might return soon and give a few hours to the opening of my prize story. The plot formed itself on my ^ walk to the street cars, and the scenes unfolded and fitted int</ ?ach other as the slow steeds covered the three miles between my home and tne office. I would be back by four, three hours of good work would help me along. I could close it up on Sunday, Mary could copy it at her leisure, the hundred dollars would really be a godsend. "You must get a rig immediately," 1 .. said the city editor, "and drive out to the Five-Mile Lock. There has been a , powder-mill explosion and several men killed. Throw yourself. Smithy, on this, as it has the making of a sensation." The newspaper instinct was alive and at work. I forgot all about the , story, the prize money, and had time j for only one tender regret for the disap- , pointed little wife at home. The day ' was cold, and the ram had turned to snow, the distance was long, the roads j heavy, aod the pursuit of information , difficult amid the chaos that reigned all about the lock. But my note book was eventually loaded, and 1 decided to stop at home lor a nurriea luticn on my way to the office. Supper liatl been waiting. The wife was cordial and kind, but a trace of tears on her cheeks showed the disappointment she was too good to voice. In our cozy sitting-room stood my table, drawn close to the grate, my chair and slippers beside it, and pens and paper in place. . "I have looked for you since four," l was all she said. "But I know, dear, that business kept you away."' "But we won't give up the story," I said, decidedly.- "We may not get the hundred dollars on account of a hurry about our work; but we will make sure of one of the fifties.'' "Fifty dollars," said Mary, "would buy the chamber set and a cheap, pretty ingrain,and we could put oir the pictures until your salary is raised." ( We were always nostponii.j: things to that golden Utopia. "We had in imagination spent and respent a dozen "raises." It cost little and was better than running in debt.) I kissed her good-bye and started to I the office. When i reached the street she raised the window to call after me: "Be sure and decide upon your subject, Jack, as we must commence it to-morrow." My usual hour of reaching home was 8 a. m. This time it was utter 4. A second edition had kept us. I walked the three miles too tired in body and mind to think of my story or anything else. I was just then more interested in the character of a powder-mill explosion, as related to newspaper reports, than ;n literature; and the fact that an expected promotion of the city editor to the "intellectual department'' of the Neptune, with a bestowal of his long and honorably worn shoes on someone else, might lead to the bettering of my position, kept me closely to the practical side of life. 1 went to sleep almost before I was un dressed, and forgot to give even a dream to the subject that had grown very close to the dear little heart at my side. All day and evening sessions of the , National Society for the Organizing of ^ South African and East Indian Missions held me close for the next week, and the mere mechanical labor of following longdrawn speeches and copying voluminous reports and resolutions with many "whereases" so used up my mental and vital energy that I had heart and thought for nothing else. I lost some of the best points in my projected story, and was compelled to explain the plot in full to my wife, lest I should lose it altogether A before the long-deferred time of placing it on paper should dawn upon us. "Perhaps we can get a few hours' rest on Sunday," I said, "and then we will hike oil our coats and ^o at it < )f course, I can't expect to strike the fifty-dollar class, with the time at my disposal, but we will he satisfied to go in at forty, eh, little one ?" "Of course we will, my dear," she said, brightly. "One can get a fair chamber set?but I guess we will have to let that go until your salary is a little more, and we will put the forty dollars into the book-case you have wanted bo long. Is it a bargain f" It was, ?igncd, sealed and delivered with a kiss. Sunday came, and with it a scattering j of the reverend gentlemen who had par- j ticipated in the mission deliberations and debates, to the various pulpits of the city and suburban churches. "Follow them around." said the city editor on Saturday night, "and get something of 'be services held by a dozen of the best of them. When that if? out of the way drop over and get old General Snodgeis'opinion on the debate. He has been in Washington, and ought to have something fresh. And, I by the way, I am going out of town, and 1 wish you would come around about 8 o'clock and run the local work for the rest of the night." "When Marv called me on Sunday mornT n citnnro i | llljf, 1 11 result SlKJ^y i> UIIU j/vtv v'n < | look iuto her face as long as I possibly"] could. I knew she had been out on Sat- I urday looking at book cases, and had set her heart on seeing that story dashed into ! with vigor and energy before 3 r. m. and perhaps whipped into shape by evening. ! When I drew up to the table, she moved the sugar-howl and milk pitcher \ to one side, gave rae a half-hopeful and j half-pleading look, and simply said: "Well!" 1 temporized. "Mary, we ought to have a new set of j curtains for our sitting-room." "Yes, but they can wait." "Twenty-five dollars would buy them ! and hang them." "I know it, but the $25." "Oh. that's all right. I tell you the ' plot is too deep to work up in the time i we have. Suppose we lay aside the , story on hand and reel off a little sketch that will strike the twenty-five dollar grade. You know that I can do that at any time. Shall we do it?" "Whatever you think best, of course. > We do need the book-case, but the cur- j tains would add greatly to the appear- ; a nee of the room. When will your sketch I get itself commenced* "That's easy enough. I'll give it a send-ofl to-night, after my other work is out of the way, and will show it to you ; in the morning. It will hinge on an old farmer who thought he had seen a ghost | in the ravine into which the Ashtabula railroad bridge went tumbling on that awful winter's night. "I don't like ghost stories,'' said Mary; "but then, I am not on the committee of award. Suppose you run into Stein's to-morrow and price the curtains." That night the Great Arcade block burned to the ground. The city editor was away, one reporter was sick, and several others busy on matters that could not be neglected. I cut the missionary gentleman oil with as few words as possible, and allowed General Suodgers and the tariff question to rest in the dim region of unintcrviewed security. All our energies were bent on making a report of the lire that would do the paper credit. But nothing seemed to go right. In the first placc, old Anthracite, the chief editor, had just come home from a trip to the South, and being afraid that his efficient managing editor was getting too much credit for the prosperity of the paper, decided to show the reporters that he was still master of the situation. An hour after the tire was under way, 1 and when the reporters were beginning to drop in with their fragments of news to dove-tail into a graphic account, the old gentleman bustled into the room. "Where's Jones':" "He is olT for the night.*' "What! IIow dare he, the city editor, go oil when the biggest block in the city is on lire?" It was suggested that the city editor j hardly knew that the fire was coming ...i?"1 ,i? i,:? \wiuii nc maut' in^ [MdLj.?. Then old Anthracite turned on a new tack. "Who's tilling his place?" "Mr. Smith.'' "Oh! Well, Smith, do you know that there is a big tire up street?" "Yes, sir. We are covering it." "I)o it well. Don't let the Jupiter 'scoop' us. If the Jupiter has two columns, I want four. If the Jujdtcr has four, I want eight. Now, sir, go ahead and do your best." And he stalked out of the room without suggesting how the information touching the Jupiter's purpose was to be obtained in advance of publication. (This is the Anthracite idea of news?by the foot. He belongs to a newspaper school not yet cxstinct, but happily rapidly becoming so). It was a night of vexation in ways needless to describe here, but affairs had shaped themselves into success by press time. But the Ashtabula farmer and his ghost were still in the weird land of imagination when I crept quietly into my home at daybreak. I had given neither a thought, and instead of reaching out for new worlds to compter, was thankful that I had steered safely through the fire, Anthracite, and other dangers of the night My wife opened her eyes as I entered. and murmured: "And how about the ghost?" The whole matter of that unwritten story rolled over me like a flood. Knowing that even the justification which my conscience could clearly allow would create only disappointment, I foolishly sought refuge in anger, and crossly answered ''Confound the ghost, and the | story, too!" She made no answer in words, but the arm that lay around my neck when I 1 ell asleep on other mornings was not lifted to its accustomed place. Before leaving home on Monday noon I said: "We will get that sketch out of the way soon, my dear." "Never mind it now," shesaid, "You have work enough and worry enough without it." " It will go all the same,'* I said, and meant it, too. Five days later I was given a halfholiday, work running light, and all the | space of the pap<;r being in demand in other directions. I rushed for a car, was soon home, and hurrying into the j house caught Mary in my arms and shouted: "I am free, now, and we will I go at it immediately?" "Go at??" "The story, of course. Hurrah for the curtains!" She placed h-1 arms about my neck, looked up with a half smile on her lips and a tear in her eve, and said in a whisper: "Never mind the story now, Jack. | The limit of time allowed by the publishers expired yesterday."?Prize Story, in Chicago Current. Characteristics of the Chin. Some student of physiognomy lias observed the following concerning chins: ! A pointed or round chin indicates a I person possessing a congenial love. A : person with such a chin will have a beau ideal, and will not be easily satisfied with real men or women. The indented chin indicates a great desire to be loved; hunger and thirst for affection. "When large in woinej, she may overstep the bounds of etiquette i and make love to the one that pleases her. A narrow, square chin indicates a decim tn love: aud is more common among women. j The broad, square chin indicates ar: dent lovo, combined with great stcad! fastness and permanence of affection. * The retreating chin is indicative of the 1 want of attachment, but little ardor in , love. The chin, in its length and breadth, indicates self-control, self-will, resoluj tion, decision, etc. Carnivorous animals have the upper jaw piojecting, while those of the graminivorous have the lower jaw projcct ing. In man with a projecting upper jaw | will be found large destructiveness, and I love of animal food. When the lower I jaw projects, then thi love for vegetable food. AMONG THE MERRY MEN. A FRESH CROP OF STORIES BY THE HUMORISTS. Ilncefor a Cup?An Ingenious Woiunu ?A -"Man to Trust?Too l.avi<ili in Lnn|;iiaKc, Ktc. "What arc these cups for?" asked a well-dressed man of a jeweler* pointing o poiue elegant silver cups on the showcase. "These arc race-cups, to be given as prizes to the best racer." " If that's so, suppose you and I race for one." and the stranger, with the cup in hand, started, the jeweler after him. The stranger won the cup. ?Dm Aluincs Mail. An JngriiioiiM Woman. "My wife is the most ingenious woman who ever lived," said Jones. "I believe you," said Smith, politely. "But you don't know why you believe me," intimated Jones. "To tell the truth I don't,"frankly re- j plied Smith, looking bored. "Well, I'll tell you. We've been -nul 1itr/vl in tlm ' UliUTJUU uaivf > till o uuu same house all the time, and this morn- j iny she found a new place to hide my slippers."? And Smith was paralyzed with nd- i miration. ?Denver (tyinion. A ."Hail to Trust. "Is Crimsonbeak a man I can trust?" | asked a lriend of 3Ir. Yeast, the other : morning. "Yes, indeed," replied the philanthropist, warmly; "you could trust him with every cent you are worth." "Well, I'm very glad to hear you say so; for I have heard reports which rellectc:l upon his honesty within the last ew days." "Ah, indeed!" "Yes; I have heard that he didn't pay hi9 bills." j "Is that all?" quietly replied Yeast. "Is that all! Great mackerel! I)o ; you think a man that doesn't pay his bills is a man any one can trust?" "Certainly, my excited friend, cer- j tainlv. Don't a man who never pays I his bills <?et more trust than one who | does. Now, Crimsonhcak is a man any I one could trust; but if you want to know j about getting your money, that's another | thing!" j Too Lavish in Lan^nagc. Springle was a bachelor and a man of education and wealth, and his friends j wanted him to marry. One day one of them met him. "By Jove, Springle," he said, enthusiastically," I know a woman who would just suit you." "Do you? Name her points," he replied, like a man buying a horse. "Well, she is young, handsome, rich and thoroughly accomplished." " How if "Uh, she is a musician, paints on china, has traveled aud read, and speaks five languages." "How manv languages did you say?" "Five." "That ends it. Most of the women I know speak only one, and, as far as I am able to judge, that's just one too many. You mean well, maybe, but you're too lavish in your language."?MerchantTravcler. She Saved His Specie. Julius Augustus Love joy was a meichant on Main street. He was young, ambitious and enterprising, but fortune went against him, and one cruel day the cashier at the bank refused to let him overdraw his account, and he knew that ruin stared him in the face. Sadly he wended his way home. "Angelica," he said, to his beautiful young wife, "the end has come?I am rninpd " Then he told her the history of his misfortunes. "Oh, my darling," she murmured, "be not so sad. Though the cloud of the troubles is black as inK I can show you a silver lining." "You?" "I! Listen. Seven years ago, before I married yon, I read a beautiful story of a young wife saving every cent she could unknown to her husband, and when the hour of need came she was to him a salvation." "And you?" "And I resolved to do the same thing. Night after night I have taken unconscious dimes and nickcls from your pocket. Sometimes a stray dollar found its way into ray savings, until at last I?" "You have saved me?the dimes and nickels mounted into scores of dollars, the scores in hundreds ? I see it all!" "Five hundred and ten dollars!" "You angel!" "And now, Julius, in all your sorrows what a joy it must be to you to think that?" "It is! It is!" "That you need not trouble about your wife's clothing. For this very day I bought a lace shawl, a silk dress, and a spring hat, and I sha'n't want anything more for a month." Julius wept.?EvaJisritle Argun. Working a New Line. A tramj) struck Detroit the other day who will trrow rich where others of his class will freeze and starve. It Las long been a wonder that none of these men seemed to know how to take human nature, but here is a man at last. He was yesterday working several streets in the northern part of tlic city. He made his calls at the front door. Selecting his house, and when his ring was answered, he would remove his hat and inquire: "Beg pardon, but is this place for sale?" "Xo, sir." "Ah! excuse me. I was told that it was for sale, although I could not understand why you should want to part with such fine property. This is one of the prettiest streets in Detroit." "Yes, I think so." "The air must be sweet and pure here?" "Oh, yes." "How nice everything around your house is kept up! Any stranger could at once see that the family had taste and culture. Sorry the place is not for sale." "I)o you wish to buy?" "Not exactly, but I know a gentleman who is looking for just such a place, and I volunteered to run about a little for him. I presume you would want at least $20,000?" "Oh, my, no! my husband values the place at about $0,000." "Onlv S'J.OOO! licg pardon, but I hope he won't be foolish enough to think of selling at that figure, lie might just as well get $ l(i, 000. I see that your neighbors try to imitate your curtains. 11a! hi?! Poor imitations! That is a grand flower you have there. I priced one in New V >rk the other day and it. was$000. "Yes," she replied, pleased and | smiling. "If I was an art connoisseur I should like to look over your house. Everything betokens that you have made art a study and traveled extensively in Europe. By the way, I'll step to the side entrance for a glass of water, and if the girl can l spare a bit of bread and meat I'll be thankful. My long walk has made me faint. Beautiful front view here?taste and culture apparent even in the way this matting is nailed down on the steps. Sorry your residence is not for sale, and I'll just step to the kitchen door." lie not only got a square meal, but she hunted him up a coat, hat and a pair | of boots, and then felt that she was in his debt.?Free 1'rexs. Taiiics ami Lobsters. A Statcn Island fisherman who spends his leisure hours in studying finance has hit upon two significant facts Every seven years there is a business t.hangc of j some sort, and every seven years also lobsters visit New York harbor. Lobsters came in 1850 when the gold fever of '4iJ was new, and also in ttie panic of 18.)7. Inflation and lobsters were booming 1 SOU, failures and lobsters in 1877, and this year come a Wall street panic and more lobsters. The immortal saying: "There's always j room at the top," was invented by a hotel clerk.?Burlington Uaickty* ! FARM, GARDEN AND HOUSEHOLD. I Careful ITIilking'. The large How of milk of our cows is I not natural but artificial. In a state of nature, animals give only suflicicnt milk to nourish their young. This illustrates one of the great truths of ethics and physics that nature allows no waste: Calves did not make butter and cheese, so nature did not provide milk for that purpose. Nor is it hardly correct to say that this large flow is produced by breeding. It is continued by breeding but produced by man's continual asking? squeezing?for more. It follows, that a cow's flow of milk may be increased by this tender manipulation of the teats. Squeezing always brings its own reward. Incomplete milking decreases the flow, "dries up" the cow, not because milk is left in the udder, but because nature soon learns how much is asked for, and gives no more. In milking, squeeze long, that the pail may be full.?Rural Neie Yorker. Good Whitewash* "We publish the following recipe sent out bv the lighthouse board of the treasury department, which has been found by experience to nuswer on wood, brick and stone nearly as well as oil paint, and is much cheaper: Slack one-half J bushel unslacked lime with boiling | water, keeping it covered during the j process. Strain it and add a peck of; salt dissolved in warm water; three! pounds of ground rice, put in boiling and boil to a thin paste; one-half pound powdered whiting and a pound of clear glue dissolved in warm water. Mix them well together, and let the mixture ' stand for several days. Keep the wash thus prepared in a kettle or portable furnace, and when used put it on as j hot as possible with a painters' or white-1 wash brushes. Here is another rcceipc for outdoor use: Take a clean, watertight barrel and put into it one-halt bushel of lime. Slack it by pouring | boiling water over it and in sufficient | quantity to cover five inches deep, stir-! ring it briskly until thoroughly slacked. ! When slacking has been effected dis- i solve in water and add two pounds of . sulphate of zinc and 1 one of common salt. A beautiful cream color may be communicated by adding three pounds of yellow ochre. This is much superior both in appearance durability to common whitewash. Increasing I<cnn ITlcat in Pigs* We may well suppose that the habit of the pig in laying on an excessive quantity of fat has been caused by long and excessive feeding of fat producing food, j and it is not likely that any sudden trans-. formation could be brought about; but it is well known that the pigs of different countries differ in respect to fat. We have only to contrast fattened pigs of this country with those in Canada. Their ; pork is fattened partly upon barley, but largely upon pens, a highly nutritious food, yielding a large proportion of j muscle, and our pigs arc fattened almost wholly upon corn, an excessively starchy and fattening food. The Canadian pork i has a much larger proportion of lean meat I and less lard. The difference is very i marked, so much so that in a market j supplied with both kindw purchasers easily select the one or the other as desired. Wild hogs do not have such ex- | cess of fat, and the Southern hog, which i is grown much slower than those in the Northern and Western States and fed I much less corn, is comparatively lean. There can, therefore, be little doubt that | the habit of depositing this excess of fat is caused by long continued feeding ( adapted to that end. The hog is naturally j a grass and root eating animal, and in its , domestication is fed almost wholly in this country upon concentrated food. ! Hogs fed upon skimmed milk have less ! i proportion of fat than those fed upon | corn. If young pigs are kept upon food i ! that will grow the musclc and bones and j develop a rangy frame they will possess : j so much muscle when half grown that a i j moderate length of time in fattening, j even on corn, will not pile on an excessive amount of fat.?Live Stock Journal. i W'liy Pastures Wear Out. A Maine farmer, writing to the Mirror and Farmer, says there ure several rca- j sons why pastures wear out. Among j these are: "Overstockingand allowing' cattle and horses to grub too late in the fall; also want of more grass seed of a' mixed variety; also the presence of j . weeds and useless shrubbery. In seed- j i ing pastures, put in orchard grass and ; ! "Western clover with other kinds. There j : arc many weeds that are allowed to grow j I in pastures that take the nutriment out | j of the soil and return no benefit, such as i buttercup, brake, Canada thistle and j ball thistle, also bitter weed and white j i weed. The buttercup can be eradicated j by taking a small, still hoe and cutting | it up by the roots. If neglected, be sure ; and mow it down as soon as in blossom, also mow the Canada histle, sprinkle a , j little salt over these and ttie cows will; eat them with relish. Salt the cattle where the thistle grows and it will soon kill them out. As to the ugly ball thistle, dig it up whenever you see one on the farm. If no other means are at hand, : tip it over with the foot and take the pocket knife to the root. The white | , and bitter weeds, if they have got the j j start, will take plowing and salt to kill 1 them. 1 have a pasture upon which I have kept from live to eight cows from 1 ! twenty to thirty years, and not a white , i or bitter weed is to be seen in the lot. [ ' For a top dressing I use scrapings of the , 1 ..4_. ,/l ifVw.cn 1 . 31 ICCl, ill uuiii/ ui aiuito aim tsju\yv,o nuviv horses arc often hitched. In this we get loam with the other dressing. I mix a j bushel of bone meal to a load of scraplings; spread broad cast over the barren I parts, and ashes on other parts. We 1 purchase ashes here at fifteen cents per 1 j bushel. The renewed growth "of grass j will surprise you. Mix grass seed with i the compost." i Protecting the .Haniirc Pile. Touching upon the point of keeping up the fertility of the land, the man who handles and breeds purely bred farm | stock mainly has greatly the advantage over those who force the farm animais I to roughing it: eating other than first ; class foods, and dropping impoverished | manure here and there, the owner makj ing no calculations, for getting it to' gether and putting it upon needy fields. ; | These advantages are mainly two?first, i that by feeding the more nutritious foods the manure is made rich; and second, through a systematic stabling process i the manure is kept in a snug shape?in j other words, in such form as to render | its protection easy. The manure is needed, and there is no farm, no matter how new or fertile, can do without it ! any more than a man, merely because he ] is in full llcsh, can do without food daily and regularly to rcplace that which daily exercise and work take from him. During the winter the accumulation, ! if on an impervious foundation, has doubtless been pretty well preserved; but if it be permitted Ion#01- to remain ! in the pile it should from this time j on be carefully protected from rainfalls. If in compact shape this may be cheaply done with boards; and, of course it matters not how indilTcrent the lumber | is in quality, provided it turns water when set on end at a sharp angle. A thick covering of straw or refuse hay ' will answer the same purpose. The main bulk of the manure is refuse woody fiber, j a substance that is of little value when put upon the land, and not likely to be washed away while in the manure heap, lint the real elements of fertility, the potash, soda, magnesia, phosphoric acid, j soluble silica, etc., are carried l>y each rainfall, if no protection is given, to the j most accessible sink hole, ditch or i stream, and hence lost. These valuable i constituents are thus readily washed out, i leaving a residum of too little value to i pay for hauling it upon the field. Yet, j a vast quantity of such so-called manure ! is carted upon the farm under the mistaken notion that in proportion as there . is bulk, in that ratio tlicre is value. Nor is it alone through the process of ! beir.tr washed away upon the surface that ! the manure pile is rendered loss valuable, i If it be upon a pervious foundation, there ! is constantly, even when all around the j pile is frozen solid, a secret unobserved process of wasting going on, the^surfrtce" j for several inches immediateTylbent^| the pile becoming riche^^jgfl^H foot in valuable constituents than the manure pile itself. On a certain occasion. the earth upon which manure had been lor several years stored and hauled off annually to the lields was removed, and its fertility tested alongside of the manure that had been stored above, the result being that the earth promoted a more vigorous growth of the crop than occurred updn the surface where the manure had been applied. Nor did the experiment stop here, the sand taken irom a depth of two feet and more from the surfacc, placed by itself, produced a crop of grass such as no mere sand, manured in the ordinary mode, could be expected to do. Therefore the store of manure should be kept upon a concave foundation, made impervious through the use of whatever material is most available and economi- * cal. Moisture in the manure pile Is of value, if it can be retained there without finding its way through the pile, sinking thence into the earth, or stealing out over the surface, carrying all there is of value with it. Ammonia, a valuable element in manure, is engendered within the pile, and escapes if the manure is permitted to dry up, as is often the case. Therefore, moisture without drainage or leaching, preserves the accumulation; and during the leisure time between now and the busy season any accumulation that is to be retained for future distribution should be forked over, put upon a suitable foundation, and carefully covered, provided there is any .opportunity for a rainfall to rob it of valuable properties. ?National Live Stork Journal. IIoitKuliold IIlntN and Recipcn. If the stair-rods arc dingy, their appearance may be improved l>v washing them with sweet milk; polish them with a flannel cloth. Nice rolls are made of two teacups of sweet milk, two eggs, three and a half scant cups of flour, sifted, of course, a good pinch of salt. Bake - in very hot gem pans, in a quick oven. Bread, biscuit, rolls, and the crust of pies are generally improved in flavor and color if they arc lightly brushed over with milk just before they are put in the ovcd. A little sugar dissolved in the milk is an excellent addition also. This is a good dish: Fry one pound of veal in hot lard, having first cut it in strips about two inches wide, and three or four long, when nearly done, add a little butter and half a pint of oysters chopped or cut in small pieces; season with pepper and salt; serve hot with or without toast. An old-fashioned and toothsome spico cake is made of three pounds of seedless raisins, one ana a nan pouuas 01 curou, two and a half coffee cups of sugar, two cups of sweet milk, four cups of Hour, six eggs, two tcaspoonfuls of baking powder, three teasponfuls of cinnamon, and two of mace. A nice cup pudding is made from this icceipt: "Weigh three eggs, and use an equal quantity of butter, Hour and sugar. Cream the butter and sugar, heat the eggs very light, aud when all is well mixed pour into cups; fill only half full. Bake for ten minutes and serve with sauce, and have plenty of it. Occasionally touching latches, locks and binges of tlie door with a drop of kerosene or a little tallow from the candle, and thus keeping them well lubricated, will insure the smooth and quiet shutting of the doors and prevent the jarring, grating or creaking so common in neglected cases. Hy this attention th doors and latches will last a great deal longer. An exceedingly nice way of cooking all kind of small birds is to carefully pluck, singe and draw them, and then run them on skewers alternately with thin slices of bread and bacon or small sausages; after they are so prepared they are baked in a very hot oven, or roasted before a clear, open fire; when they are done they are seasoned with salt and pepper, and served hot at once 011 the skewers. A Remarkable Operation. Skin-grafting has for some time been successfully practiced by surgeons for the purpose of cicatrizing unsightly wounds, but the transplantation of flesh is a new device in the healing art which Dr. George E. Shrady, of the Presbyterian hospital in New York lias adopted with signal skill. Bertha Kistler, twenty years of age, was the subject, and tne operation involved the reconstruction ol nearly her entire face. There was a large hole in the cheek and the nose and mouth were frightfully distorted when the doctor took hold of the case, and a year's treatment and twenty different operations were required to make the girl a new face, as it were. The most important step in the trt;atmcnt of the case was the filling up of the hole in the face. For this purpose a lar^e skin Hap was wanted. It was obtained by Dr. Shrady in the following man ner: A rectangular section of skin was partially separated faom the girl's left arm above the elbow. An incision was made in the left side of the forefinger of the right hand, extending from the first joint around to the thumb. The hand was then brought over to the left arm. and the detached edge of the skin fiap was sewed into the incision in the linger with tine silver wire. The hand and arm were kept immovable by plastic bandages. In about a week the skin llap became united to the hand, but the flap was principally nourished from the arm. To change the current of nutrition the flap was gradually cut from the arm, and when it had been nearly severed the finger, and not the arm, kept the skin flap alive. When this became apparent the entire skin flap was amputated from the arm. The hand, with the ingrown Hap, was then brought up to the face, the scarred skin on the left cheek was raised and the flap was inserted underneath. The hand was kept in position by plastic bandages and a plastic cap. In three weeks the flap became attached to the face; the current of nourishment was changed by gradual amputation from the linger, and finally, when entirely separated from the hand, the skin flap taken from the arm became the foundation of a new cheek. To restore the mouth Dr. Shrady decided to enlarge it 011 one side and sew it up on the other, and after this was done the lips were cut into the true and proper shape and all traces of distortion had disappeared. There is now only slight disfigurement of the face. From the first moment of her long martyrdom the girl has not faltered for an instant, but lias even been impatient for the next step. Sometimes the doctor would try to persuade her to forego for a time the operation, but she persisted in her desire. A singular feature of the ease is, that notwithstanding the suffering she must have experience:!, she has grown very fat. She has been constantly the recipient of flowers, wines and delicacies of various kinds from people who, though strangers to her, have become interested in her singular and remarkable patience. The gratitude she evinces toward Dr. Shrady is immeasurable. A Homeless Wanderer. Orrin A. Carpenter, whose long trial for the murder of Zora Hums, his housekeeper, will be remembered, is now a homeless wanderer. lie is the first man ever banished from Illinois, and he left his native town of Lincoln because it was impossible for him to live there. No one would speak with him, no one would do business with his firm; his wife and daughters are treated in the same way. Despite his acipiital, there are few people in Lincoln who believe Carpenter innocent, and when the result of his trial was announced a mass neeting of the citizens of the town was died to take action in the matter. As a result of the convention, a petition was signed by fully 1,000 men, asking Carpenter to leave J^ogan county immediately. This was served on him at his resilience by a committee of seventy-live signers, and it had the desired ellect. Mr. Carpenter sold his property and business and left, but ; whither he took his family no one j knows. I ?? A company in Connecticut manufacj tures nearly all the licorice used in this Uufttfatry ? 17,000,000 pounds a year. [ CatJectionery and medicines take>abou1 0,000 pounds, and the balancc goes tobacco. j The Sailor's Ilatrcd of Salt Water. i I One of the strangest of the many peculiarities of the sailor is his strong dig- j like for salt water, says the New York i ' Times. He not only has a great horror , t of being drenched with this fluid, but i | lie will not even consent to use it for , < j washing purposes. At first sight this f dislike seems unaccountable. One would ' . suppose that Jack would take as naturally | t | to salt water as the average sea-going 1 ' fish. lie is comparatively free from this i c . weakness when he enters upon his sea { career, but it grows upon him steadily j t as long as he remains upon the ocean, j , ; "While the dislike of salt water is grow- , ing upon him, however, his love for fresh ! water is strengthened in a corresponding 1 < degree. I 1 , Whenever Jack sees a heavy wave or | 1 even a shower of spray approaching him \ ' lie will % for shelter. lie is protected in a . , measure from the waves which board the < | vessel by his heavy oil-skins and sea-boots, i wiinnnmr lif> f.-inrios that there is anv dan- I 1 ger of bis being attacked by salt water he arms himself with his oil-skins, but these prove no protection to his face when a shower of spray Hies over him. , And the idea of salt water trickling down the back of his neck is about as agreeable to him as is the thought of an ' approaching mouse to the average woman. An old sailor in usually very i expert in dodging these sudden thrusts ! of Neptune, but when they strike him 1 unawares it gives his delicate nerves a great shock, and causes him to cry out as if lie were really undergoing great j agony. The approach of a heavy wave : will sometimes caiise an entire watch to | imperil the safety of their ship by dropi ping at a critical moment the brace on I which they aie hauling. Men have been | known to desert the wheel in order to ] avoid being drenched with spray. It otten Happens mat wnen huverai meu uu watch are engaged in conversation, one ' j of them will pause in the middle of an , argument, and, after giving a warning ' yell, will fly for shelter as if his life dc- j ! pended upon it,simply because he fancied I that his skin was in danger of being ! spattered with salt water. A green I hand, however, does not seem to mind a ; little spray, but when a shower of this | description strikes him he will look | around in surprise at the old sailors who j are lleeing in terror. " I once had a mate who had this fear ' of being struck with a little salt water as I badly as did any of the sailors," said a I sea captain recently "but in other I respects he was one of the bravest men I have ever met with, I have seen him j when the ship was not going at all steadi ilv lay out the fore royal yard and sit j astraddle of it closo to the end, while he I examined the fastening of the brace. ' And*yet the sight of a little spray would I make him run. I once saw him do a j thing to keep his skin dry that made me | fed like shooting him on the spot. Wo j were rounding Cape Horn from the westi ward, and were running before a heavy i gale. Several of the men were sick and were laid up, so that we were very short-' handed. There were only three men in the mate's watch beside the man at the wheel and the look-out. The wind changed a little and he told the men to i haul on the starboard main-brace while j he slacked away on the port side. lie ! had taken the brace oil the belaying-pin ! when he saw a shower of spray making j dead for him. He just dropped the rope j and ran as if a bullet was after him. If i the mainyard had swung around a little ! more wc might have been dismasted, but, j fortunately, no harm came from this i reckless action of the mate's. But I gave ! him a lecture right before his three men ! that I guess lie will never forget to the : last day of his life. A Plucky Robin. A mock little chipping bird sat on a fence post near the picnic grove in Clifton, N. .T. In an apple tree a few rods away a robin was busying herself at her nest. Suddenly there was a flash of somei thing in the air, and a sparow-lmwk I swooped down on the chippy, and the j next instant the hawk was soaring upi ward with the bird in his talons. A number of ladies were on the hotel , piazza, sorrowful witnesses of the capture. The robin seems to have been a ! witness of the abduction also, and, to the surprise of the spectators, started iu pursuit of the marauding hawk. OverI taking the retreating robber the robin at j once attacked it ferociously. She dealt blow after blow with her back on the I hawk's body with wonderful rapidity, j each blow being followed by a tuft of ' feathers from the large bird's plumage. I The hawk seemed dazed at first, and rose j almost perpendicularly in the air. The I robin followed persistently, and kept up j a ferocious onslaught. Then the hawk ! swooped downward and turned abruptly j in another direction. Still the plucky j little assailant followed, and at every I stroke from her beak the hawk uttered a | cry of pain. | The mid-air contest was waged in a ' narrow circle, so that it was in continu| ous sight and hearing of the ladies on the i piazza. The excitement was intense | among them. They loudly applauded I every blow of the robin on the hawk, I find Iitfororl rinrlpfiniior cries of enCOUr i agement. Tlie feathers of the hawk ! floated thickly about in the air. For at least a minute the fight continued, and then the hawk released his captive from his talons. The chippy fell like a plummet toward the ground. To the spectators it I seemed that the little thing had esj raped from the hawk only to be dashed j to death on the ground, when suddenly it found its wings, and fluttering an instant, gained a safe poise and Hew to a | perch near the one on which it had been I seized, and sat there as meekly as if I nothing had occurred to disturb it in the I least. The robin gave the hawk two | savage picks in parting, and then rej turned to her nest in the tree. The enthusiasm amoug the spectators ! was unbounded. If the hawk hadn't I lost his head he could have turned on I the robin nnd taken it along with the ! chippy to tickle his palate at his leisure, j All that could be found of the hawk's j feathers that had been torn from it by i the robin were picked up by the cnthusi' astic spectators, and will be kept as souj venirsof the unexpected and remarkable | rescue of the c. ippy by the robin.?Neio j York Sun. Camels. | The camel, says a writer, is the most ! perfect machine on four legs that we j have any knowledge of. A sacred I treasure, indeed, to the Arab is this ! "pudding-footed pride of the desert." The expression on the face of a camel I ' is rather pathetic. His eyes are large and liquid, and above them arc deep : cavities large enough to hold a hen's egg. The aquiline nose, with long, ! slanting nostrils that he can close tightly i against the sand storms and hot, burning i winds of the desert, give a very sorrow1 * * - - imrlnr j ful expression 10 un.- line. .... lip is pouting and puckering, and you i arc not at all surprised when the poor beast bursts into tears and cries long and ! loud liked a vexed child. i The feet of the camel are of very sinj gular construction, with a tough, elastic sole, soft and spongy as they fall noiselessly on the earth and spread out under j his tottering weight. This form of the ! foot prevents the animal from sinking in the sand, and he is very sure-footed on all sorts of ground. The average riite of travel for a caravan is between two and three miles an hour; and the camel jogs on, hour after hour, at the same pace, and seems to be j almost as fresh at night as in the morn! ing when he started on his travels. The | Arabians say of the camel: "Job's beast is a monument of God's mercy." The camel sheds his hair regularly once 1 a year, and carpets and tent-cloths are made from it; it is also woven into cloth, j Some of it is exceedingly tine and soft, i though it is usually coarse and rough, | i and is used for milking coats lor tne J shepherds and caincl-drivers: and huge | water bottles, leather sacks, also sandals, ; ropes and thongs are made of its skin. , The volcanic dust with which the I islands of the Indian archipelago were so i thickly covered by the recent terrible . i eruptions, has proved highly fertilizing j to the crops. ? T " i Four little girls under thirteeen years " of age turn out about l.?,U00 paper tor ptdoes in a duy in Boston. NEWS OF THE WEEK. rnntnm and middle Stntc*. Cashier Shepard, of the New York Con- , ral railroad freight department at Buffalo nysteriously disappeared. and an examination )f hLs accounts showed that he was short i tbout $-.'0,000. ? The receiver apjxnnted to settle the af- ( 'airs of Grant & \\ ard has filed a schedule of ho assets and liabilities of the suspended firm. 1 L'he cash assets are $15,1237.75 and a lot of so- t urities and bills receivable, mostly uncollectible. The liabilities amount, in round num- , x?rs, to $14,000,000. The People's Savings bank, of New Castle, j Penn., has suspended. A meeting of Massachusetts Republicans 1 opposed to the nomiimtion of their party at Chicago has been held in Boston. A commit\-ixn c\f IfWl wnc flnnnintivl, nnrl n s/?rip? <?f rosr> lutions were adopted declaring that the Chicago nominees "were named in absolute disregard of the reform sentiment of the nation md represent political methods and principles to which wc are unalterably opp< <sed," ind closed by saying: "Whatever aclction be taken by tho Democratic party in Chicago, we, tho Repul>ticans and Independents, direct our committee to call a convention in such manner as thoy may deem expedient after the Democratic candidates have been nominated, and not later than August 1, to tako such further iction as may, to them, seem necessary to rarry out the sense of this meeting with practical effect." Eight persons were killed and fifteen more injured, some with probably fatal effect, by a collision between a passenger train and a rain tilled with Sunday-school excursionists, near Camden, N. J. A boiler used in pumping an oil well near Butler, Penn., exploded, Killing Richard Walker, fatally injuring his son, and demolishing everything in tho vicinity. Senator John A. Logan visited Mr. Blaine at his residence in Augusta, Me., ami the two had a long conference, presumably regarding the most effective plan of conducting the campaign. General William McCandless, a veteran of the civil war, ex-senator of the Penn evlvnnin Stiito sprints and PX-flnditor-ceiieral of Pennsylvania, died a few days ago in Philadelphia, aged fifty years. A Reading (Penn.,) dispatch says that the late Helster Clymer, ex-member of Congress, ilid not die of apoplexy,as was at first supposed, but that he took an overdose of morphine, and that the doctors worked hard all night to save his life. Financial reverses aro said to liavo led him to take this step. The firm of Cavhart, Whitney & Co., one of the largest houses manufacturing clothing in New York, has failed. Liabilities aro placed at $1,000,000, with assets good. A statuk of General Bolivar, the "Washington of Pern/' has just been unveiled in tho Central Park, New York, with appropriate ceremonies. General B. F. Butler has written a long letter from Boston, accepting the nomination for President tendered him by the National Greenback Labor convention at Indianapolis. He says the questions presented by that convention are "higher and grander than any . mere jx)litical measure;" praises the financial system which sprang up during the war and endorses the platform of the Greenback party At the Maine Democratic State convention in Bangor 8S!) delegates were present. Mayor John B. Rodman, of Ellsworth, was nominated for governor. The British brig G. P. Sherwood, bound for Halifax, was wrecked off the Capes of Delaware, and all but one of the ten men on board were drowned. The survivor was picko 1 up in a small boat by a passing vessel and taken to New York. The Vermont Republicans, at their State convention in Burlington, nominated a full ticket, headed by Samuel E. Pingree for governor. At the New York Democratic State convention, held in Saratoga, Judges Andrews and Rapallo were renominated for the court of aj>I>eals nearly unanimously, and presidential electors for each of the thirty-four districts were appointed, with Oswald Ottondorfer ami William Purcell for electors at large at tho head. Contesting delegations from New York city were placated by the admission of thirtyone County Democracy delegates, thirty-one Tammanyites and ten of tho Irving Hall faction. Charles Francis Adams, Jr? was chosen president of tho Union Pacific railroad at a meeting of directors in New York, Sidney Dillon having resigned the office. A statue in honor of William A. Buckingham, Connecticut's "War Governor," was unveiled at Hartford in presence of a large assemblage. Bishop Matthew Simpson, the well-known Methodist divine, died in Philadelphia, aged ?:$ years. He was born in Ohio, and was elected and ordained bishop at Boston in lf?5A Bishop Simeon was tho author of "A Hundred Years of Methodism," "Yale Lectures 011 Preaching," and was tho editor of tho "Cyclopaedia of Methodism." In lf>7fi he was selected to offer tho opening prayer at the Centennial Exhibition. Ho was the most noted orator in the Methodist Episcopal Church. Sontli and Went. Lewellen Robinson' (colored) was hanged at Seale, Ala, for tho murder of another negro, and on the same day Carlos Recio, a colored Cuban, was hanged at Key West, Fla, ' aI ?1-.? ?? * n nnarml lor uiu munid ul u <.wiujjiuuuu iu u growing out of a game of cards. Ax explosion at LoOmis's Mills, near Little Rock, Ark., destroyed most of the structure, killed Anderson Carpenter, the engineer, anil Elias Lee, and badly wounded two others. A gang of counterfeiters which has been operating extensively in Michigan has been broken up by the arrest of the principal members?an old man named Daniels, at Flint, and Asa Davis and wife, at Corunna. Daniels was sentenced to ten years' imprisonment. Reports from the Southwest indicate that the cattle drive this season will bo equally as large, if not greater than that of 1883. Careful estimates put the number of cattle to be taken from Texas alone at 400,<XX) head. A dispute arose ltetween a Crow Indian and a cowboy at Fort Me Lend, Northwestern Territory. The latter shot th" Indian, who, in the throes of death, raised himself and shot his slayer with a revolver. Before dying the eowl>oy put live 'more shots into the Indian's bod)*. A tug-boat near New Orleans sank suddenly, carrying down a pilot and two engineers. Colonel Edward It. Platt, United States army, adjutant-general of the department of the Missouri, died at Fort Leavenworth, Kansas. President Arthur has been honored by Princeton college with the degree of LL. D.; the same degree was also conferred ujxm Governor Al>l>ett, of New Jersey, and Justice Harlan, of the United States supreme court. Wilwliillgloii. The vnlup of the exports of domestic breadstufFs during May was ?11,003,014 ns against $1 l,(W(i,551 in -May, The value of the exjxjrts for the eleven months ended May HI, was as against ?1!M,435,554 for the corresponding jxriod in 1882-'s."j. TriK House committee on public lands has directed Representative Pavsoit to report favoralily a Itill appropriating $'?' "><i.O'K) to reimburse persons wlio settled upon or purchased lands within the grant made to the Northern Kansas Railroad company, and to whom patents for such land were issued, but against whose right to the land decisions were rendered by the United States court on account of the priority of the grant to the railroad company. Foreign. Ax Arab claiming to lie tile sole survivor of the garrison at Berber has arrived at Korosko, and reports that when the False Prophet's forces captured B -rber tliev massa- j cred 1,500 of the garrison and 2.0IW of tlw. I male population, sparing only the women and children. Seven men were executed at Jerez, Spain, bvgarrote for Illack Hand socialist outrages The sentence of live others has lieen commuted to imprisonment for life. One Wcame insane, and another who turned informer committed suicide. Three thousand employes of the worsted mills in Bradford, England, have struck for higher wages. The Danish brig Elena has been crushed in the Arctic ice and ten of her crow were i drowned. i The British iron ship Syria, from Calcutta for Fijia, having on board 4S0coolii-s, recently ran on the Nasalie Reef. Seventy coolies weiis drowned. All the crew but three were missing. Drnixi; a balloon ascension at Bordeaux, France, George \V. Roosevelt, the American consul, was shot at and wounded slightly by a French s tidier, who esea|ied in the excitement of the movement. It is supposed that the soldier mistook tlie for an officer in civilian's dress against whom he lmd agrudge. Twki.vk persons?two Americans and ton Mexican laborers?were killed by tlio premature explosion of a blast on a railroad in Mexico. Thick*: boats belonging to the whaler Chieftain while in pursuit of whales olT the coast of (Jreeliland liecame separated front the vessel and were lost. Fifteen men were in tho throe boats. IjL'kk I'iiiim'S was hanged at Sandwich, On.-* tario. for the murder of his wife. (Jrain crops of all kinds in Canada are promising. A kiick destroyed the entire business part of 1'itios Altos, Mexico; loss, nliout SoOO/KM E.\ut, Si'KNCKlt. lord lieutenant of Ireland, unveiled a portrait of (t)ucen Victoria in Belfast. The large crowd which viewed the procession was silent all along the route, and at the town hall Karl Spencer was greeted with mingled cheers and groans. Nearly *W>0 miles of railway have been built in .Mississippi during tlie past two years, ami the rotton mill output of the state has been doubled. False teeth for pet dojjs are no\v bein# manufactured Dentistry seems to be keeping up with the times. Oriental lace is seen on a very lar<re number of summer hats. LATER NEWS. ! A rise in the Rio Grande has flooded so v. iral Iwrder towns and caused much damage. The National Homeopathic convention met n annual session at Deer Park, Md. A passenger train whichgwos crossing a jridge near Hubbel, Kansas, was derailed,and he jolting of the cars caused the structure to ;ive way, carrying down the entire train. The engine, smoking-car, day coach and deeper were completely wrecked. About [hirty i*?rsons were injured, several fatally. Train wreckers were at the bottom of the accident. The Indiana Republican State convention it Indianapolis nominated a ticket headed by Congressman William H. Calkins for governor. Considerable feeling was expressed by oine of the delegates at the refusal of the con vention to insert a prohibition plank in the plutform. From Senora, Cal., come the particular"5 of one of the most complicated tragedies tha' probably ever occurred. Edmund Gallagher, twenty-two years old, shot Mrs. Otis Greenwood, widow of a prominent lawyer, in the face and breast with a double-barreled shot" ah gun. ncr SOU UIW run ullvt uiuiu^uci 1uu (ired twice at him without effect. Robert Watson then pursued Otis Green" wood. The latter turned on Watson and shoj him twice in the neck and back. Watson fell, whereon Watson's son opened fire on Greenwood, but the latter escaped. Gallagher and Jreenwo<xl were both arrested. Mrs. Green" wood and Watson died. The tragedy is the result of a dispute about Watson's running water across Greenwood's mining claim. A meeting to ratify the nominations of Blaine and Logan, held in front of the court house at the capital, was addressed by Senators Sherman, Hawley, Frye and Mahone, Representatives Phelps, Bayne and Horr, and Governor Dingley, of Maine. Ti ik joint commission to arrange for the ceremonies upon the completion of the Washington monument organized by electing Senator Sherman chairman. A committe* consisting of Senator Morrill, Congressman Tucker, Dr. Toner, Professor Welling and Colonel Casey was appointed to take charge of the preliminary work of the commission. The committee will report to the commission in December. It is proposed to invite the gov emors of all States,military and civic organi zations and the public at large to take a part in the ceremonies. El Maiidi's rebels have captured the towu of Ghia, near the Abyssinian frontier, taking six guns, 700 camels and 300 of the garri fjn. Rears are causing: Jtreat havoc among th sheep in Joliette county, Quebec. IjATEK CONGttESSIOm NEWS. .Senate. The Senate passed bills to prevent the im, portation of tea dust into the United States and lo equalize the rank of United States nava academy graduates The Mexican pension bill was considered further -without action. Doom* Mr. Hopkins', from the committee on labor, called up the bill to prohibit the importation artd migration of foreigners and aliens under contract to perform labor. It makes it un. lawful to enter into an agreement or contract with any foreigner or alien to perform labor or service of any kind in the United States, or to prepay the transportation or in any way assist or encourage the importation or migra. t ion of any alien or foreigner under contract or agreement, parole or special, or express or mplied. It declares all such contracts void and of no effect. It makes it a crime punishable with fine and imprisonment for any master of a ship to land such aliens or foreigners, so under contract, in any United States port. The act is not to apply to contracts for skilled workmen in any new industry not at present established here, provided that skilled labor for that purpose cannot be otherwise obtained; nor professional actors lecturers or singers. Mr. Jones, of Wisconsin, offered an amendment, which was adopted, providing that nothing in this act shall be construed as prohibiting any individual from assisting any member of his amily or any relative to migrate from any ^ Kill foreign country to mo uqiu^u ouai^o> xucuiu vraa then passed without division. THE MASSACRE AT BERBER Thirty-five Hundred Person* KilJcd by the Rebel*. Egyptian advices state that an Arab has arrived at Korosko who claims to be the sole survivor of the Berber garrison. Ho says he was present when the rebels attacked Berber The garrison defended the town for two hours of severe fighting, but the rebels were too strong for tnem and forced their way into the city, where they immediately massacred the 1,500 men of the'garrison and 2,000 of the male population. The women and children were spared. This story is believed by Major Kitchener, and the son of Hussein Pacha Khalifa, governor of Berber. The London Pall Mall Oazette says: "We must now add 3,500 more to the thousands already butchered to make a holiday for Gladstonian principles. Humanity revolts at such a state of things, and somehow or other a stop should be put to it." Active preparations are going on in England for the contemplated expedition for tfle relief of Khartoum. THE NATIONAL GAME. Banks and baseball clubs differ in their fondness for runs. Thk use of the inflated rubber chest protector by catchers is becoming more and more imivnrcfll Counting last year's record Boston has won twenty-one consecutive victories from tho Philadelphias. Three members of the Providenco club are Californians, one is a Spaniard and another hails from Chicago. President Thompson, of the Dotroits, will give a white hat to every member of the team as a roward for the victory over the Chieagos. In Mexico, Mo., two nines have been formed, one of lawyers and one of doctors. They were to play a match after tho adjournment of the circuit court in that city, and the presiding judge was to umpire the game. The best game of the season so far was the first played between tho Providence and Boston nines, at Providence. Sixteen iu'iings were played, when the umpire called the game ou account of darkness, the score standing at 1 to 1. The Brooklyn club have a notice posted on the grounds in full view of tho sj>ectators to the effect that 110 abusive or disrespectful language to the umpire or visiting players will lie tolerated, ami that offenders will be ejected from the grounds. The baseball fever has extended even to Cuba, where large audiences of fair senoritas ami 1 lark-featured dons watch the game very closely, applauding to the echo brilliant plays. When a home run is made the audience shouts itself hoarse, and tho lucky player is compiled to pass up and down before the grand stand. Dl'KI.vg the first game of l?r?ball between the Louisville and Baltimore American Association baseball clubs, at Baltimore, an exciting scene occurred, and Umpire John Brennan. of Indianapolis, had a very narrow escape from serious injury. Tho game was a close one, and at the end of tho ninth innings the score was a tie?1 to 4. In the tenth inning Brennan decided Sommers, of the Baltiniores, out on third base. The ugly part 1 >f the crowd took exception to the decision and about 500 jumped into tho field and made a rush for Brennan. One man drew a pistol and was with difficulty prevented from shooting at tho umpire. The players of both teams surrounded Brennan ana, with bats in their hands, prepared to defend him. Finally the crowd was driven back anil tho game w is resumed. Thirteen innings were played, and the score still remained a tie at 4 to 4, darkness nreventinc further play. As the umpire was leaving tho grounds an unknown man struck him a terrible blow on tho cheek. Brennan was carried into the club-house, and kej?t there until the crowd had left the park. He asked to lie released from umpiring any more games in Baltimore. The seventh week of tho League champion ship contest closed with the Boston nine in the van. tho record of tho different elulis la-ing as follows: Clubs. Hon. Lout. | Clubs. Won. I!o*ion 28 6 I Chicago 16 li Providence 24 1(1 Philadelphia 12 21 New York 24 13 I Cleveland 10 '? CiiITmIo IT IT | Detroit 9 'l( The twelve clubs of the American associa tii>n sIixhI as follows at tho end of the seventh week's play, tho Metropolitan nino bcinp ahead: Clubs. Hon. Lost. | Clubs. Went. Lost. Metropolitan.24 8 | Cincinnati.... 19 11 Athletic 20 12 Brooklyn 12 " i ou^vt:le....l9 3 Pittsburgh... 10 21 St. i.oilis 19 10 | Toledo 9 li iiliinibns 19 18 I Indianapolis.. T 23 Baltimore....18 11 | Washington.. 5 23 In the college race tho record is as follows: Clubs. If on. Lost. I Clubs. Hon. Lost Yale 6 1 I Brown 5 3 Harvard T 2 I Princeton 2 T Amherst 4 4 | Dartmouth 1 8 In the Ka.st??rn league the Trenton club was ahead, and in tho Union association the tit. Louis teaiy_hadjh? beet of the race. A MGfflJL COLLISION. Two Passenger Trains Meeting '*9B on the Same Track. Eight Persons Killed and Fifteen A collision occurred at 9 a. h. on Camden and Atlantic railroad, near Aahlanftsigl ffial N. J., be tween a Sunday-school excura. 5 trai%^-'^?B bound from Camden for Lake Side Park, an?9 tho regular accommodation train coiraaKsSfli^^H Lng from Atlantic city to Fhiladelphit^^'^^^^^^B Eight persons were killed and fifteen in jured;v some in all probability fatally. The cause o$a > the accident was disregard of orders sent ta|?jfnj^^^H the agent at Ashland to hold the accommodaJ^.^fiM^B tion train until the excursion train had passed. After the accident, the condition of engine^ showed that the engineers had taken B every possible step to avoid a collision, and bad sacrificed their lives in the attempt to save the passengers. ' The engines were almost completely tete-' scoped and the forward cars of each train were torn into splinters. The first intimation ' -rglH the passengers of either train had of danger was the shrill whistle of one engine andtnen the other, and the air brake applications ' ?8 threw many of the passengers from tfaeir 'j seats. In a second, and before any of the paasengers could rise, tho trains came together. : Then the screams of the frightened paasen- '.' - gers, mingled with the hissing of the escaping . steam from the two locomotives, created a panic among the passengers who were unin- lfl jured. They climbed out through the car win(lows and fell over one another in their fright and haste to get from the cars, and in the panic - "iaSA many of those unable from fear or injury to move were trampled upon After the male ' sfflHfl passengers had recovered partly from fright, they began work at once to extricafig^Sgfc^^B the injured from the wreck. The cries of taK^aHB^W injured were heartrending and messengers in every direction for medical aid. ; Telegrams were sent to Camden and Ha<sB*a|M{i^fl donfield, and in a short time special trains rived hearinc a score of Dhvsicmns. Bv thai*28f399^lflH lime many of the iniureS had been renxrre(HEj9|^H^H and they were attended to at once. The deadjflreaflMPJB as they tvere picked up, were carried to a seSKM^Bflfl eluded spot, to remain until they could be carJRQfi^^^B ried away. The accommodation train consisted of there locomotive and seven cars. The excursion train had five cars. One of these, containing HH; lunch baskets and baggage, was completely smashed. The next car contained about fifty ljK^|^N scholars of the Wenonah (N. J.) Sunday H B school. The three rear cars were occupied bv several hundred scholars of the Secona Pre#byterian Sunday school of Camden. The bag- aBagB^B gage and express cars of the accommodation train and the smoking car were broken to pieces ^tBM Only a few of the excursionists were injured and only one killed, but tho passengers on the accommodation train suffered terribly. The Vsulfl debris was piled nearly fifteen feet high, and it required the work of every able man in the - .-,i\^B neighborhood to remove it before any of the injured or killed were reached. The follow- v v ??^B ing is a list of the killed: Wes. Palmer, aged 52, engineer of the ao* jg&SKL; ;B commodation train. .itB| George Baxter, aged 35, engineer of the exWalter Vaughan, aged 25, baggage-maa- ' rjgatt; IB Albert 8mith, aged 30, conductor of the ex- " : a| Scott Wyle, aged 35, mail agent ?B Nicholas Barker, fireman of the accommo- ; 'flTfJaBfl Frank Fenton, civil engineer, temporily employed by the railway company. ^B Gustavus Edwards, of Marlton, N. J. - -'- flB The wounded are as follows: i^B John Caskey, of Philadelphia, a boy, skull ' -':^aSB Leonard Bausch, back injured. " Cora Lippincott, a young girl of Sooth : Camden, lee fractured, 4*B Eugene Lippincott. aged 16, leg hurt. v -.^amBI Charles Hand, of Atco, N. J., hand cut John Sayre, brakeman, head, body and vJ&cyffgM ifenry Deets, special policeman of Camden, " ' I scalded ana nip iraciureu. _ Frank McCormack, excursionist, left leg broken, also scalded. " Joseph Rosenbaum, express agent, head badly bruised. I AL Glen, conductor of the excursion train, ? internally hurt ' fl William Caskey, a youngs** brother of John Caskey; internally hurt, probably fatally. r Louis McLain, fireman of the excurson 3m train; head terribly scalded. fl John Lager, brake man; thrown into the water and badly bruised. fl One of the passengers says: "After the collision occurea we all scrambled out of the . car, some escaping by the windows. Both lo- '< '^1 comotives were completely demolished, and "fl the escaping steam made it impossible for --13*9 some time for any one to approach within r.'* fifty feet of the wreck. Great excitement existed. The train hands were running to and fro, too much excited to render any assi*SUMMARY _0F_ CONGRESS. ||| Senate. H The Senate passed the House bill providing 'rj for the paymeAt of the claims awarded during * the past year by the treasury department for . .v&Mj commissariat and riuartermasters' supplies furnished to the army during the war..... 'v?sBS| Mr. Brown asked unanimous consent to take up the bill to piy the State of Georgia $*?,- . 555 for certain moneys expended in 1777. vJ^Hj After some debate Mr. Ingalls moved to recommit the bill. It was then discovered that a quorum was not present and the Senate *' :'rzM Mr. Plumb, from the committee on appit> priations, reported the army appropriation bill to the Senate. As agreed upon by the committee the bill appropriates $24,530,450, being an increase over the House bill of $205,0'J0, and a decrease* from the estimates of B 653 The Senate debated, without action,the resolution providing for an examination of I New York lianks Senate amendments to 1 the postofllce appropriation bill were insisted I upon The I tali bill was further debated. An angry controversy took place between* | Senator Brown, of Georgia, and Senator '-Xygm Ingalls, of Kansas, during which both were 1 called to order by the chair. The trouble grew out of Senator Ingalls charging Senator Brown with having interpolate*! a sentenco I m the printed records in some remarks made I by the latter derogatory to the former. M^. Brown replied to Mr. Ingalls' remarks of the . previous day concerning Mr. Brown's revision of his sjxwfi as it ap!>earcd in the liecoirl. 1 He said Mr. Ingalls's language was a deliber- ] ately planned insult. There was a sharp reply from Mr. Ingalls, who insisted that the j Record was intended to be an exact verbatim -' ] rejK>rt, and should not be changed. Consideration of the Utah bill was resumed. Various amendments were proposed and debated, some of which were adopted and some rejected. Debate was participated in by Messrs. Bayard, Vest, Ingalls, Hoar, ' Beck, Call. Slater, Dolph, Brown, Maxey, Lapham and McPherson. Among ' .\;2 the amendments olTered was one by Mr. Hoar to strike out the clause abolishing woman ?j? suffrage in Utali, which was rejected by a vote of 17 yeas to 34 nays. All amendments being disposed of, the bill was read a third time ana passed by a vote of IB yeas to 15 nays.. . foUNC. The House refused to concur in the Senate amendments to the consular and diplomatic appropriation bill, and to the pensons appropriation bill.. ..The House by a vote of 115 to . - 5'J, overruled the reconmiendation of the conferees on the |>ostoflicu appropriation bill, . V>A. and agreeil to the Senate amendment increasing from $3,600,1100 to $4,000,000 the appropriation for the free delivery service. Mr. Deuster. of the foreign affaire commit tee, introduced a bill to prevent and punish the prosecution, under the protection of the , United States, of fraudulent claims against foreign governments. The bill provides a i jK>nalty of fine and imprisonment similar to . that prescril>ed for making or presenting ; fraudulent claims against the United States > ....Mr. I/O wry, from the committee on elections. submitted a report on the contested election case of Campbell against Morey, declaring the contestant entitled to the seat >38 Laid over for fut ure action. - v'.VjfiB The House agreed to the conference reivirt on the Fitzjohn Porter bill, striking out or the bill the woiils "toeether with all the rights. titles, and privileges." and inserting the words '-provided that the said Fitzjohn Porter snail receive 110 pay, coni|)cnsation, or allowance whatsoever prior to , j. his apjiointment under this act," instead of the following words in the bill: "But this act shall not be construed as authorizing pay, compensation, or allowance prior to his appointment tinder it"....The deficiency appropriation bill was i>assed, an amendment by Mr. Randall aimed against jwlitical assessments lieing ruled out Mr. A. S. Hewitt presented a report from the committee 011 ways and tueansm favor of the 'j bill to carry into "effect the new treaty with / .+ Mexico. Mr. Miller, of Pennsylvania, offered, as a question of privilege, a resolution declaring James R. Chalmers entitled to the seat from the Second district of Mississippi. Mr. Thomjwon, of Kentucky, mised the ouestion of consideration and Hie House refused to consider it now. Veas. i>: nays. !<}!>. The Ohio 1 contested election case of Campbell against > Morey Iteing called up. the question of eon1 I... M? TI,oiii?nn of suieratmn was i-himm >.? - -?- ?- ? Kentucky, ami tin* House aL><> refused to cuuj sider it. 1 ' NEWSY GLEANINGS, | ' Silk is now grown in more than twenty of ho thirty-eight Spates. Chicago's live stock represent an annual bllsiniBSof 8210.000,000. The English salvation army is about to or, ganize a bicycle and tricycle corps. Tennessee loses 40,000 head of cattle annually from exposure to the weather. London is the only largo city in the old world that doos not possess a university. V Canada exported last year $1,705,817 worth 1 of butter and 1,870 wortli of cheese. In 1883 the United States exported 440,150,i <3?50 gallons of kerosene oil, valued at $o9.- W i 470.352. . _ . f i