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BY HUGH WILSON. ABBEVILLE, S. C.. WEDNESDAY. JULY 2. 1884. NO. 1. VOLUME XXIX. $ ijM
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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