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"ABBEVILLE PRESS AND BANNER1 BY HUGH WILSON. ABBEVILLE, S. C.. WEDNESDAY, JULY 9, 1884. NO. 2. VOLUME XXIX. LIFE ..wv IEATH., Ob solemn portal vejled in mist and cloud, Where all who have lived throng in, an endless line, Forbid to tell by backward look or sign What destiny awaits the advancing crowd. Bonnie crossed but once with no return allowed; Dumb spectral gate, terrestrial yet divine, %: Beyond whose arch all powers and fates combine, Pledged to divulge no secrets of the shroud. /-It .1 V..U:?,l ofrlvs tr> V1UGV) CIU3U Wiuxiii ??u c&uv* OUI?W W catch Some whisper in the (lark, some glimmering light; Through circling whirls of thought intent to snatch k drifting hope?a faith that grows to sight; And yet assured, whatever may befail, Th*t must be somevhow best that comes to alL ?C. P Cranch, in (he Century. A FAVORITE OF FORTUNE. Jason Hall, a quaint, old castellated structure, of the time of Queen Elizabeth, situated upon the coast of Essex, and ! overlooking the English Channel, was the seat of Admiral Strout, a rough, robust old British sailor, who flourished during the latter part of the last, and the ' beginning of the present, centimes. Originally the place had been called an m abbey. The admiral had jriven it its 1 Kfe present name in honor of the old Jason frigate, on board of which he had served i V as post-captain w hen it was the flagship of England's sailor-King, William IV., then admiral, and Duke of Clarer^e. In 1832, the time of which we write, ! Sir Thomas, grown old and battered in the service, had been honorably retired upon full pay. lie was never so happy as when he could induce old shipmates to share his hospitality. Admirals of the Red, the White, or the Blue were all gladly entertained by I Sir Thomas. Post-captains were always j welcome; and even a commander, if his : war-record was good, might find favor I in h?o eifrVit- Rut. ImvprthflTl that hfi did - I not like to go. In fact, he was an aristocrat of the first water?the very saltest ; of the salt; and would sooner have admitted to social equality the boatswains \ and the gunners of the old school than J have admitted a lieutenant of the new. The only relative which the old ad- I miral had was a grand-daughter, whom ! he came very near worshiping. He was j extreme in almost everything. His wife j had died when quite young, leaving only ! one child, a beautiful girl, who the proud | father was wont to declare was the handsomest, and the best, and the most intelligent girl in the kingdom. She, rather late in life?her father having kept the general run of lovers at a distance?became the wife of an earl, but the earl was so poor that when he died, five years after his marriage, he did not leave behind him the wherewith to pay his debts; the result being that Lady y Irene, the admiral's daughter, came home r to her father, bringing with her an infant daughter?the little Lady Emeline. At_the time of he opening of our story bir 1 nomas s aaugnter naa Deea c eau several years, and the Lady Emeline had grown to a beautiful maiden of nineteen, with a character that lacked nothing to make it lovely and lovable. And she had a lover?a young lieutenant of the royal navy?named George Ayling. He had come first to Jason hall, having been sent with a message to the old admiral by the board of admiralty. On that occasion he had to remain all night, and Sir Thomas had detailed Lady Emeline to entertain him. He was a brave, loyal, true-hearted man; twenty-six years of age; tall and strong and handsome?so handsome and genial and so pure-minded that his beautiful young hostess fell in love with him during that first visit. He was attached to the naval department at Whitehall, being on the stuff of one of the lords commissioners. His father was only a merchant, but one of the most wealthy in Loudon. In fact, few men had more influence at court than had the elder Ayling, he having been a life-long friend and dcvoied helper of the present king; and he never , obtruded himself. The only favor lie had ever asked lmd been in behalf of his son. Lieutenant Ayling had fallen desperately in love with Lady Emeline; and at length he told her of it; and he told her so heartily, and so ardently, and so lovingly, that she could not keep back her own confession, but said: "Oh, George! my love! my heart is all your own now." ; But when he talked of speaking with her grandfather she trembled. She knew the old admiral's whims and inconsistencies, and she feared he would oppose their union. "Fortune favors the biave," said George, laughingly. "Faint heart never won fair lady. I shall beard the tiger in his den. Surely he cannot eat rr.e." And, on a certain afternoon, when the lieutenant had brought down a packet from the naval office, and had seen and spoken with his darling, approached the old admiral in his sanctum sanctorum, and told of his love for the beautiful Emeline, and boldly asked the veteran for her hand. What a shock was that for the British admiral! At first he could not credit the evidence of his senses. It could not be possible that he had heard aright. And the ardent lover stated his case a second time?stated it so that there could be no mistake. And then the wrathful torrent Kimf -frwiV* k/U?DV iVl i>Ui What! A lieutenant! son of a London merchant! a mere nobody! a stripling, who had never smelt powder! who never had even seen a fleet put in line?of battle I marry with his granddaughter? the daughter of an earl! And so he went on to the close; and the close was this: "Get out of my house, sir! Get out, sir! And don't you dare to speak with the Lady Emeline again! You! You! You! marry with the granddaughter and heiress of Admiral Sir Thomas Strout! By heaven, if she should do such a thing as listen to your tale of love, I would?would?I don't know what I should do; but, if she should marry with you, I'd cast her off on the instant! Now, go! I think you have your answer!" The gentlemanly lieutenant was thunderstruck ? utterly astounded. He _ gazed upon the foaming old iiger as he 'jr~ might have gazed upon a South Sea Islander gone mad. "Well, sir, d'you hear me? Why don't you move? What are you waiting here for? I don't think you've got any more to say?" blustered the irate admiral, while the extraordinary rush of blood to the head gave to his rough and puffy face a color purely crimson. "Onlvthis. my dear sir, for the pre > ?-i;? ??/i 6ent," returned .lyuiig, umui^ mm modestly, and bowing politely. "I would like to know, sir, through you, if the specimen of speech and behavior which I liave just witnessed may be taken as a fair sample of the life and intercourse of th? quarter-deck in the historic and heroic days of his majesty's royal navy?" Having thus spoken he bowed again very low, and tneu turned to leave the room, passing out under a torrent of abuse. On the broad piazza George met the Lady Emeline. When she saw his face she caught him eagerly by the arm, and asked what had happened. He told her as nearly as he thought proper. "Oh, George, dear heart, I feared it? I feared it! I have been in a fever of anxiety all the time you have been gone. What shall we do?alas! what?" "Never surrender, my own dear nromised one! Let us consider We will take " T i n T.rmrlnn wVin 1 CiiUC. x uavc nicuuo am mvumv. will gladiy help us. At all events, we won't give up the ship just yet.'' Her love 1*3 strength and heartiness, his confidence in right and justice, and his masterful manner of spcech and purpose. soon brought the sorrowful maiden into a more hopeful state; so that when ! he left her he left smiles upon her face. The lieutenant, since his interview with Sir Thomas, had resolved to return at once to London. The stage-coach from Shoreham to Chichestcr would pass shortly, and his ucarest way from the Hall to the highway wa#-'i-Qugh the great park. He had strufk imo the well-beaten path, and had gained, perhaps, half the distance, when he was brought to a sudden stop by a scene that commanded at once hia earnest sympathy. ' : *--.V - -v. ^,'" - . An elderly gentleman, who had evidently been on his way to the Ilall, had been attacked by a savage stag that had broken loose from the deer-park. Ayling well knew the nature and disposition of this animal, as he had once had a bout with him on his own account. lie was one of the largest of his class; literally, ''a monarch of the glen,"which had been sent to the lord of the manor from the Highlands of Scotland. His widely branching antlers were of enormous size, and the man who should once get fairly caught thereon might calculate upon a speedy exit from this sublunary sphere. The individual attacked was certainly more than three score?perhaps nearer to three score and ten?habited in a sort of ! undress, free-and-easy naval uniform; naturally, one would judge, a pleasantfaced old man; but just at present so excessively frightened that marks of character go for nothing. When our hero first discovered him he had dodged behind a large oak tree, while the stag stood ready for a charge on the opposite side. Ay ling saw in an instant that when the | stag should make another onset it would i be next to impossible for his victim toes- j cape, and if the infuriated beast ouce reached him, what could save him? The brave youth hesitated only long enough to fully grasp the situation. He had great confidence in his own physical strength, and he believed he could throw the animal from his feet. At all events he would not sec a defenseless old man killed before his face, while he had strength and sense to make an effort. He took a critical view of every point, and then, with a bound and a yell, he leaped forward. Exactly how he did it he could never tell, lie caught the branching antlers, at the same time striking with heavy force against the stag's shoulder; then with all his strength twisting the head backward, and drawing it toward him, while he struck his foot with a solid kick against the leg nearest him. The effort was successful. He brought the stag down upon his side, driving his nose into the gravel, and pressing his knees upon the neck and shoulder. Then he shouted to the old gentleman to run. There was a gate not ten rods away, which he could easily reach. "Rnri fop the rrjitK and I will follow." I was his command; and tlio man had sense enough to obey; and when he had almost reached it, the lieutenant sprang to his feet and sped after him; and before the demoralized beast could recover his senses both men were safe. "Well, young man, you have saved my life. Don't you think so?" "I certainly think, sir. that I saved you from a great danger." "Ay, you saved my life. Who are you ?" Ayling was well satisfied that the old gentleman was nothing less than a retired admiral, and he respected him accordingly. ' I am George Ayling, sir, a lieutenant in his majesty's navy." "Are you the son of Arthur Ayling, the London wine merchant ?" "I am, sir?his ouly son." "Ay?I remember; I gave a word for him to the admiralty when he was seeking to get a place in the navy for his boy. Keally, I am glad that I have met you. Ard now what are you doing here ?" It struck the youth that if this man had influence, and was at the same time a friend of Sir Thomas, he might possibly help him; so, in a very delicate and modest manner, he told the whole story ?told of his love for the beautiful Lady " > ' i i t? v:_ ?f i.;? i??.? rjnenne?01 iter tovu iui mm, m mto interview with Sir Thomas, and of the result. The old man laughed outright. "Oh, the old sea-dog! What a growler he is! But, young man, do you come with me. By St. George! I'll give old Tom a piece of my mind. Come along; I won't let him cat you." Ayling hesitated but for a little time. His aged friend seemed so confident, and was so pleasant, eager, so jovial, that he quickly gave in, and turned back with him toward the Hall. Thev'had reached the broad, graveled drive-way in front of the mansion, when they discovered the Lady Emeline herself upon the piazza, sitting with her head bent upon her hand, like one disconsolate. " Hold on," said the old man; "do you let me go on in advance, and speak a word with the lady before you come up." And without further remark he passed on. Ayling saw hira ascend to the piazza; saw Emeline start quickly to her feet with an exclamation of surprise; saw him take her hand and raise it to his lips, and then he spoke. Presently the beautiful face was transfigured, and the dear trirl clanned her hands with a cry of joy. The eager lover could tarry no longer. He hastened forward, and as he joined them, and once more took his darling's hand, the good old man bade them follow him, and, as he thus commanded, he turned and strode on in the direction of the old admiral's sanctum, the two lovers, hand in hand, following close behind. Having arrived at the sanctum?or the "Growlery," as it was more commonly called?they found Sir Thomas there alone, with a pipe in his mouth, and a decanter and glass at his elbow. He saw the intruder, and was upon his feet in an instant, his pipe dropped and broken, and his red face the picture of astonishment. "What! Sire! If my old eyes do not deceive me, this is a proud and happy moment!" "Hold on, Tom. 1 am not to be welcomed unless you can also welcome one of the best and the dearest friends I have in the world. And here he is? Lieutenant Ayling. I propose to make him a post-captain as somi as possible. Say, old shipmate, shall we be welcome together?' Ayling, as might be supposed, when he discovered that it was his king whom he had rescued from mortal peril, was deeply and powerfully affected, but his senses did not leave him. He saw the pitiable situation of Sir Thomas, and, in the goodness of his heart, he moved quickly forward to his relief. "Sir Thomas," he said, extending his hand, "let us forget the past." "But don't forget me!" cried the king, jokingly. "No danger of that," responded Ayling, heartily, and with deep, true feeling. "When a British seaman forgets England's gallant sailor-king, we may look for chaos come again!" "Well said! You are right, my true hearted boy!'' exclaimed the oiuaamirai, plainly, by way of setting liimself right with his sovereign; and lie grasped the youth's outstretched hand, as he added, "That sentiment does you credit, my boy, and since his majesty?God bless and keep him?avouches for you, I should be a traitor and renegade, indeed, if I could refuse thus to extend the hand of friendship. Welcome! Welcome to the pair of you!" And then, having taken breath, he demanded, "Sire, pray tell inc, how in the world did you get here? I low came you, and when-e?" "My dear old Tom, I ran away from the turmoil of the court on purpose to get a day of blessed rest and recreation with you. 1 came in my own coach, and left it at the rear gate of your park, directing my grooin to lind the stables as best he could, while I took a coinfoi table walk beneath your majestic old oaks. Btt it came near to being a dear walk tome; and if it had not been for our brave and gallant boy here?son of one of the very best friends heaven ever gave me?you might never have seen William, the Fourth, of England, alive again. But I'll tell you about it over a pipe and a glass." Shortly after this the two young people were sent away to look after the work of the gardener, the king hailing our hero as he was turning away. "By the way, Lieutenant 1 don't like that title. We must make it captain. You have lost the stage coach for to-day, so you may tarry over night, if Sir Thomas can find a bed for you, and ride back with me." And then the two old shipmates were left to themselves to revel in the scenes, and to fight over again the battles of the times agone. We will only add, before the yoaag lieutenant left the hall he was permitted f to hold the Lady Emeline by the han<5 under the favor of a blessed fortune, for the old admiral had smiled upon their love and given his consent to their union j _ SELECT SIFTINGS. Of birds the grcenfinch is the earliest riser, as it pipes as early as half-past one in ttie morning. About half-past two the blackcap begins, and the quail wakes up a half an hour later. The sparrow occupies nearly the last place on the list. The reputation of the lark for early rising is entirely a false one. That celebrated bird is a sluggard, and docs not rise until a number of other birds have been up and about for some time. London Truth finds the following in the loots' Magazine of March, 1775: "There was lately presented to the empress of Russia a laboring man who has had two wives, the first, of whom brought i him four times four children at a birth. , seven times three, and ten times two. ! The second wife once brought forth ' tiirec children ana the otner six times two. The whole number of children by . the two wives amounted to seventy- i two." '| In a letter to the British Medical Journal, Dr. Armitage refers to the occupa- ' tions of blind persons as being, in many | cases, of an extraordinary character, j Among these specified are six painters i (artists), two dentists, one photographer, I twenty-nine coachmen, one hostler, one i fisherman, one sculptor and two loaders ! of wagons. lie knows a blind man who j buys poultry on commission, and knew j one, now dead, who was a dealer in | horses on a large scale. Indians eat the horns of the deer when i in the velvet. One day on the Sioux i reservation, in Dakota, a deer was killed near the camp and brought in entire. At sight of it, Pahlani-ote, a Minneconjon of some fifty years, dropped his usual statuesque attitude, knocked off the horns, and, seating himself by the fire, began at the points to eat them, velvet and all, without cooking, as if they were most delicious morsels. The others of the party looked on as if they envied him. They said they always ate them so Captain John Aaron, of Barren Island, Maryland, has, among other trees in his orchard, one which indulges in the peculiar and rather unfortunate freak of blooming only when some member of the captain's family is about to die. Although it is now quite old. itfras bloomed but three times. The first time it bloomed one of his sons died. Some five or six "? ?- 1 - - J 3 years aitenvara ir Dioomeu iiguiu, nuu uuother son died. Last year it bloomed a third time, and a daughter died. It stands near a graveyard, and notwithstanding appeals from different members of the family to have it cut down, Mr. Aaron stubbornly refuses to have it molested. As an anniversary of the deaths of emiinent persons, few days in the year can bear comparison with April 21. On April 21 died Alexander the Great, Diogenes, Anselm (Archbishop of Canterbury), Abelard and Bacine. Among other notable deaths that have taken place in April are those of Pope Constantino, Pope Benedict III. and Pope Nicholas IV.; King Louis II., John "the Good'' and Charles VIII., of France; Petrarch's ''Laura,"" Lorenzo do Medicis "the Magnificent," Rafaelle, Albert Durer. Tasso, Mme. de Maintenon, Mine, de Pompadour. Metastasion, Mirabeau and Niebuhr. The April deaths in England include those of Richard Coeur de L.ion, Edward IV., Henry VIII., Stow, the historian; Shakespeare, Lord Chancellor Jeffreys, Daniel Defoe, Ilandcl, Oliver Goldsmith, Cowpcr. the poet, | Bishop Ilebcr, Wordsworth, Byron and Lord Beaconslield. WISE WORDS. Compliments cost nothing, yet many j pay dear for them. Charity and personal force are the only investments worth anything. If you wish to remove avarice you must remove its mother?luxury. Treat servants as you would like to be i treated yourself, were you in their place, j Learned men are never anxious to ! seem learned to others, and to be called j wise. The wrath which on conviction subsides into mildness is the wrath of a | generous mind. Appearances are often deceitful; hence we should not decide with haste on the unfavorable side. Beauty soon decays, but virtue and talent remain with us and improve with the progress of time. Cheerfulness i9 not a proof that the mind is at ease, for often in the midst of laughter the heart is sad. Pluto being told that he had an enemy who spoke ill of him, said: "I will live in such a manner that none will believe him." "He is not the discoverer who first utters a truth, but who says it again and again until he compels mankind to hear him!" Begin your course in life with the least show and expense possible. You may at pleasure increase both, but cannot easily diminish them. Never be ashamed to own you have been in the wrong; it is but saying in other words that you are wiser to-day than you were yesterday. fintirp is ,i snrt of Hass. wherein be holders generally discover everybody's face but their own; which is the chief reason for that kind of reception it meets in the world, and that so very few are offended with it. It cannot be too deeply impressed on the mind that application is the price to be paid formental acquisitions, and that it is as absurd to expect them without it as to hope for a harvest where wo had not sown the seed. A Russian Legend of Sitka. /isitors to Sitka are at once attracted by the old castle on the hill, once the home of the Russian governor, who ruled with almost despotic power, but now, alas, converted into a United States signal station. Once destroyed by tire and once prostrated by an earthquake, it was each time rebuilt. Signs of dilapidation are observable, but its massive walls will probably stand for generations. The desolation of its appearance lends an added charm to the legends which hang about it. One of these traditions is to the effect that Baron Romanoff, when occupying the castle as governor, had in his household a niece, an orphan whose guardian he was, a most beautiful young lady, as nil traditionary maidens are or should be. She had bestowed her affections upon a younir lieutenant, and when the Baron commanded her to wed a powerful prince, then stopping as a guest at the castle, she refused. The Komanoff, concealing his displeasure un- j der a cloak of urbanity, gave the ob- j structing lieutenant an honorable com- j J . . K?.l 1.S ?? ?v_ I manu anu uispiiiciii-u uuu ujwu ??? pedition to some distance. During the I absence of the lover the maiden yielded to the threats aud demands of her stern uncle, and the wedding preparations were hastily made. The timid and heartbroken girl and the i>rince stood ! up before the priest, who solemnized the forccd union, the marriage bells rang I out their mock peals of joy, and revelry held sway in the great hall of the castle, j Suddenly the young lieutenant stood in the midst of the gay throng, his garments travel-stained and torn, and his countenance haggard with suffering. He paused before the unhappy maiden, took her hand in his, gazed into her face, and then upon the ring the prince had placed upon her i finger. Without uttering a word, and ' while the assembled guests were star- | ing with amazement and curiosity, lie j drew a dagger from his belt and plunged i it into her breast. He rushed from the castle and leaped into the sea, to find rest in the bosom of the waters. On the anniversary of her wedding night the spirit of the murdered girl can be seen passing through the castle halls, dressed in her rich bridal robes, tears streaming from her eyes as she presses her hand over the red wound in her breast. Often before a severe tempest she may be seen on the tower of the abandoned lighthouse, burning a light till dawn to guide the spirit of her lover on the stormy sea. ?Portland (Ore.) West Shore. I ANIMALS AS BAROMETERS. THE RELIABLE PREDICTIONS 07 rOWLS AND BEASTS. How Tempest and Sunshine arc Foretold by Cnts, Toads, Geene, Fi?h, Snails, Cattle and Gnat*. Weather fair or foul is predicted by the conduct of animals. Snails, cats, doc3, horses, geese, tishes, ants, gnats, asses, birds, swallows, crows, cattle, all will predict the weather if you understand their language. In a large glass jar that sat in a window-sill of an Eighth street residence an Enquirer man saw a small ladder, not over a foot long, reaching to the top, and two tree-toads frisking about in the water which about half tilled the jar. An old German, spectacled and dressed in a long double gown, was eagerly watching the motions r\f (tin VintpoMiinno "ThnSfl flTfi Qlieef pets, doctor," remarked the scribe. ''Pets! They arc not pets. They are my barometers. They tell me with accuracy when the weather is to be fair or foul. If dry weather is coming on, they climb the ladder away out of the water; but if it is going to rain, then down they go into the water." "But what do they have to eat ?" asked the visitor, observing nothing edible in their improvised cage. 'You should see them go for flies," said the doctor, at the same moment tossing one into the water. It was snapped up by one of the tree toads with the rapidity of lightning. "That will keep the toad alive for a week, but each ot them will eat ten to twelve a day if any one would catch them for them." "A cheap barometer, if it only tells the truth." 'Nothing better sir. There are few animals that do not have the instinct, or knowledge if you will, to predict either a storm or fair weather." I have given the subject much study, and find my observations are in accord with many old sayings and proverbs relating to weatherwise animals. There's the snail. I do not know of any surer way of predicting the changes in the weather than by observing their habits closely. They do not drink, but imbibe moisture during a rain and exude it afterward. This animal is never seen abroad, except before a rain, when you will see it climbing the bark of trees and getting on the leaves. The tree snail, as it is called, two days before a rain will climb up the stems of plants, and if the rain is going to be a hard and long one then they get on the sheltered sid<j of a leaf, but if a short rain on the outside. Then there are other species that before a rain are yellow; alter it blue. Others indicate rain by holes and protuberances, which before a raise rise as large tubercles. These will begin to show themselves ten days before a rain. At the end of each tubercle is a pore, which opens when the rain comes to absorb and draw in the moisture. In other snails deep indentations, beginning at the head between the horns, and ending with the jointure at the taii, appear a few daya before a storm. "Then there are other animals who are good weather profits. The old adage rvr: . J ?y - " '"When that the ass begins to bray, Bo sure wo shall have rain that day.' "And there is another one equally emphatic, which every haymaker knows: " 'Be sure to cock your hay and corn When the old donkey blows his horn."' "Yes, sir; nearly all animals have some way of telling the weather in advance." "Is it instinct, or do they perceive approaching signs more keenly than people?" "That's hard to answer. It may be that the altered condition of the atmosphere with regard to electricity, which generally accompanies change of weather, makes them feel disagreeable or pleasant. The fact that the cat licks herself before a storm is urged by some naturalists as proof of the special influence of electricity. Man is not so sensitive. Yet many people feel listless before a storm, to say nothing of aggravated headaches, toothaches, rheumatic pains, and last, but not lenst, corns." "Birds ought to be good weather prognosticators, then, for they can not be insensible to air currents and the different climates of the atmosphere?" "Most assuredly they are the very best. Every farmer knows when swallows fly low that rain is coming; sailors, when the sea-gulls fly toward the land; when the stormy petrel appears, or Mother Carey's chickens, as they are called, predict foul weather. "Take the ants. Have you never noticed the activity th'*y display before a storm, hurry scurry, rushing hither and yon, as if they were letter-carriers making six trips a day, or expressmen behind time? Dogs grow sleepy and dull, and like to lie before a fire as rain approaches; chickens pick up pebbles, fowls roll in the dust, Hies sting and bite more viciously, frogs croak more clamorously, gnats assemble under trees and horsea display restlessness." "How do you tell fair weather?" "Beetles flying late in the evening foretells a fine day on the morrow; bats flitting about late in the evening in spring or autumn; butterflies appearing early; cranes flying high; fishes when they swim low and won't bite. Hogs when they run squeaking about and jerk up their heads see a wind coming, hence the proverb, "Pigs can see the wind." "Are any other animals weatherwise?" "I would like to k.-ow what animals are not, if man had only the patience to watch and observe them. "When you see a swan flying against the wind, spiders crowding on a wall, toads coming out of their holes in unusual numbers of an evening, worms, slugs and snails appearing, robin redbreasts pecking at our windows, pigeons coming to the dove-coto earlier than usual, peacocks squalling at night, mice squeaking or geese washing, you can put them all down as rain signs. Did you ever read Doctor Darwin's poetical description of the signs of rain?" "Never heard of it." "Well, it's often quoted, and is remarkably correct. Here it is: " 'Tho hollow winds begin to blow; The clouds look black, tno glass is low; Tho soot falls down, the spaniels sleep, And spiders from their cobwebs creep; The walls are damp, tho ditches smell; Clos'd is the tho lightered pimpemelt. Hark! how the chairs and tables crack; Old Betty's joints are on the rack, Her corns with shooting pains torment her, And to her bed untimely send her. Loud quack tho ducks, tho sea fowls cry, The distant hills are looking nigh. How restless are the snorting swine; Tho busy Hies disturb the kine. Low o'er the grass tho swallow wings; The cricket, too, how sharp he sings. Puss on the hearth with velvet paws Sits wiping o'er her whisker'd jaws. 'Twill surely come, we see't with sorrow, No working in the flehIs to-morrow.'" ?Cincinnati Enquirer. Running n Hole Out of Town. A friend who has been traveling in Mexico brings back a good story illustrative of the peculiar lack of inventiveness of the people of our sister republic. A church was lately built at Logos, on the main line of the Mexican Central railroad, and when finished the fathers were annoyed to find that a big hole, from which the clay for the adobes used in constructing the edifice had been excavated, remained directly in front of the main entrance. Orders were given to have the unsightly hole filled up. This was done by shoveling into it earth and clay from the nearest bank. But this, of course, left another hole, and so the painstaking Mexicans went to work and filled that up in like manner, leaving another gap in the ground which was then filled, and the operation was repeated until the hole was run out of town, so to speak, and the good fathers congratulated themselves on being rid of an unsightly nuisance. People who wonder why the Mexicans are not moro enterprising than they are will find in this little tale one explanation of tho difficulty which stands in the way of a rapid development of the country.?New York Times. Lace is used in great quantities to trim stylish costumes. Sometimes one hundred yards of lace are put on a dress and as many as thirty yards to trim a mantle. England's army contains 63,0-10 Englishmen, 14.415 Irishmen and 2,456 Scotchmen. There are 3,985 paper mills in the world, which turn out annually 1,904,000,000 pounds of paper. NEWS AND NOTES FOR WOMEN. Black is extensively worn. High coillures and high collars aro in favor Navy blue and crimson nre" -worn together. Women now serve on juries in Washington Territory. There are now 155 women students in Boston University. Fifty-seven American women writers were born in Maine. Bonnets made of rows upon rows twine are of English origin. Jacket sleeves arc made comfortably tight and reach down to the wrist. In Holland the Van Gclderen sistcrs have passed their examination as dentists. Gray lace shoulder-capes, trimmed with steel beads, are counted among novelties. Pretty parasols arc made of satin and ruchcd over with a Spanish network of chenille. Decatur county lias a girl who captured-and sold fifteen wolves during the last season. Gendarme blue or dark-red cloth jackets may be worn with gray, brown or black skirts. The women of Mississippi are working actively to prepare for the coming Cotton Exposition. Few hats are seen. Small bonnets are worn with costumes at all times of the day and evening. In Boston there are -20,000 working wVt/ists* nrn/wnn ovAc.irrn r?T11 tT frtlir ? UUlUJJl ?UUOt aruogv VUlj ivu. to five dollars a week. The women in the Isle of Man are allowed to vote upon proving the ownership of twenty dollars. A dry-goods clerk says that it is far easier to serve homely women than handsome ones in shopping. The Chicago Ilambler says the American girl is lazy physically and ought to take long walks in the open air. Wrappers for ordinary morning wear are made in the old-fashioned princess shape, falling loose down the front. Laced boots are in fashion again for misses and young girls. They are high in the ankle and have deep toe caps. Ruches are worn for full dress, both round neck and wrists. The small turnedup collar is neat for morning costumes. Althmierh flowers are in rrreat favor as p O bonnet trimming?, there are some shapes that require feathers instead of flowers. Many of the small mantles are worn like scarfs over the shoulders. They follow the figure in the back and form small sleeves in front. Draperies falling straight down the back are seen in many of the new dresses, especially when the skirts have panel trimmings down the sides. Lemon-yellow and hop green are fashionable colors in dress fabrics, and for children and young people all shades of red are considered en regie. Cravat bows are not popular now. The narrow collar which finishes off all the high bodices, is always fastened by a pretty artistic or fancy brooch. In the beautiful imitations of Brussels and Chantilly lace the designs of the old lace arc reproduced and even the color bears the tone imprint of age. Very dainty is a small lace bonnet with a wreath of roses in front, surmounted by a cluster of humming-birds, with lustrous breasts and outspread wings. Velvets will be used all summer as bands and binding of hats and bonnets; also, to combine with the lightest and most sheer materials in forming dresses. White mull hats and bonnets trimmed with mull lace and white clover blossoms put on in bunches are correct carriage wear for watering places and the seaside There is a greater tendency than ever to Oriental ideas in fabrics of all sorts this season. Dress goods, carpets, mattings, tapestries, curtains, all show Oriental designs and colors. A new style in parasols is the Japanese coaching parasol, with sixteen ribs; it has a large flat ivory ring-top and handle. In the ring is a loop and end of ribbon of blue to match with the color *f the para sol. Odd boots to wear with a cloth cos tumc arc made of the olive-colored cloth and buttoned by fifteen small, ro md bead-like buttons; patent leather tips, embroidered at the end in tiny holes; the heels are flat and wide. Mull pokes for country wear, white, blue, rose color, gray and red, are trimmed with bands and bunches of flowers without leaves, and matching the color of the mull, or with rose petals sewn on in thick bands, and sometimes covering the entire crown. Riding habits may be made either of kersey, broadcloth or English melton, in black, navy blue or hunter's green. The latest style demands that the habit be bound with braid and buttoned with ivory buttons. The skirt is so cut that when the lady is seated in the saddle it hatigs the same length all around. Gray tulle, gray crape and gray silk muslin in pale pearly shades form many pretty Fanchon and capote bonnets, worn with gray taffeta glace silk carriage and reception costumes. The bonnet is then trimmed with violets, roses, or forget-menots, put on in bunches, according to the color with which the silk is shot. In Paris and elsewhere in France schools have been formed for teaching trades to women. In one school nearly 2,000 pupils have received training in millinery, needle-work, designing, painting on porcelain, wood engraving, and the like. Work shops connected with the schools furnish actual practice to the pupils. < WViifn >>nnnefii nf lnrfl tulip mull, ftnrl crape are made on white net frames, the material being shirred on in various styles, clustered, puffed, and in bias lines. Tho trimmings are white ostrich tips, white marabouts, rosettes, and scarfs of Oriental or Valenciennes lace and delicate flowers, lilies of the valley, white lilac, and small white bridal roses put on in bunches, not sprays or wreaths. Aerial Navigation. So far as the solution of the problem how to navigate the air is concerned, we believe that balloons have done more harm than good. The attention of inventors has been diverted from what is probably the only feasible way to obtain the desired end?namely, the construction of a machine, itself heavier than the atmosphere, which will be able to strike a blow on the air in cxcess of its own weight. Machinery worked by steam is much too heavy for this purpose; electricity some day, perhaps, will be available. An engineer who has made electricity his study recently informed an assembly of gentlemen that in the course of the next ten years he believed it would be possible to compress enough electricity in a substance the size of an egg shell to uiivc an cAjjiuaa nam iium i>uuuuu iu Liverpool. Science has not arrived at this poipt yet, but who can tell, after the telephone, the phonograph and the other marvelous discoveries of Edison, what it may do in the future ? Inventors should never forget that a bird is heavier than the air and that the bird flics because its strength enables it to overcome the difference between its weight and that of the atmosphere it displaces. To put the case in a nutshell, aerial navigation is a mere question of lightness and force.? Fortnightly Iteview. He Spoke From Experience. "What is this, now?" asked a kiudergarden teacher, as she held up a common dining plate. None of the scholars ventured an answer. "What do you eat out of at dinner whin you arc at home?" persisted the toucher, putting the question more directly. Still no answer. Again the question was put in the same words, and one scholar more bold than the rest, ventured to make reply. He said: "Please, 'm, a tin pan!"? Jjowell Citifin. Men make themselves ridiculous not so much by the qualities they have as by the affectation of those which they havo not jssi. . ; NEWS SUMMARY. Eastern and iTIiddle States* j Abraham Lev an, a noted blind farmer of I Berks county, Peon.. is dead at the age of I ' eighty years. He haa been blind sixty years, j but ho did all kinds of work on the farm. Ho j fed the cattle, husked corn, bound sheaves of wheat, ryo and oats, and even mowed grass by the sido of his brother, who directed his course. His two sisters were also blind, but ; adepts in housework. Tho estate comprises 1,000 acres of fine farming land, i Commodore C. K. Garrison, a prominent New York millionaire and railroad magnate, has become financially embarrassed and made an assignment in favor of liis creditors. The Commodore was at one time estimated to be worth $'25,00(1,000, and his liabilities are put i ! at $2,500,000, with assets largely in excess of | that sum. Two firemen were killed by falling walls, eight horses burned to death, and a loss of $50,000 was inflicted by a firo in Brooklyn, N. Y. I Twwtv rl rcnll in or linncnc nf. fill ATMlTirl fifth. Pcnn., occupied 300 Hungarians and Polanders, were destroyed by a lira An ocean steamer arrived at Now York a few days since with 500 men, women and children, mostly Scandinavians, on board, anil all bound for Utah. They were in charge of ' twenty-five Mormon elders. A public meeting of Republicans antagon* istic to Blaine and Logan was held in New i Haven, and resolutions in opposition to the Republican national ticket were adopted, i Joseph W. Burnham, of Hotchkiss, Burn-1 ham & Co., one of the prominent Wall street firms that suspended during tho recent financial storm, committed suicide by shooting himself at nis residence in Yonkers, N. Y. Ill 1 health and recent financial troubles led to the act. . Immense forest fires have been devastating [ portions of Maine and New Hampshire. M. Morgan's Sons, one of tho oldest private banking houses in New York, and sup posed to be one of the safest, have failed with liabilities estimated all tho way from $1,000,000 to $5,000,000. South and Went. Lieutenant-Governor Lewis, of Virginia, was seriously injured by being thrown from his sulky while driving to nis home near Harrisburg, Va. Four negroes were killed and another I wounded by the explosion of a boiler in a I brickyard at Albany, Go. Mrs. Katharine Messerschmidt, aged I seventy-six, and her daughter Margaret, aged twenty seven, residing in tho house of J. Cechurd, near St Paul, Minn., paid their rent to Cechurd's wife, which so angered the ! man mat ue uiilltou uiuii ruuws unuauiuwi them both to death. Cechurd wound up his | bloody work by committing suicide. I D. L. Wing & Co., owners of tho Plant flouring mills at Litchfield, 111., have failed I for about 13(35,000. Gardner & Gates, cotton merchants of Mobile, Ala., have made an { assignment, their liabilities being $165,030. Wampter, the fiend who butchered the An. derson family, near Pleasonton, Kansas, com. i mitted suicide in Arkansas to escape capture i The Choctaw militia of the Indian Territory I are hunting down organized bands of horse ' and cattle thieves. Twenty-one arrests are I reported. Most of the persons arrested will probably be shot. } J. C. Kershaw & Co., one of tho heaviest grain exporting firms in Chicago, have failed ' tor about $400,000. During a game of baseball at Central City, Col., a severe thunder storm arose, and the lightning killed Nicholas Newmayer an 1 fa. tally injured James Lick. The engine houso of a mine near Central City was struck an <! five miners were badly stunned. Louisiana has appropriated $100,000 foi the coming World's Fair and Cotton exposition at New Orleans. Oliver Canfiet.d shot and killed Molli< Ghorkin, a sweetheart who had discarded him. Canfield was lodged in jail at Vfticennes, lnd. Popular feeling grew so strong against liiir that at 1 a. m., a few days after tho tragedy, a crowd of 300 masked men marched to tlx ' ail, forced open the door, took out Can'ield nd hanged him to a telegraph pole The Indiana Democratic State convention, held in Indiana[>olLs, nominated Isaac P. Gray for governor, togethor with a full ticket. Ohio Democrats, at their State convention in Columbus, put a full ticket in the field, headed by James W. Newman (renominated) j for secretary of state. For slandering several white women near Caledonia, Miss., Aleck Leach, a colored man. was hanged and his body riddled with bullets by a number of lynchers. Three persons?two men and a woman? wore killed by a boiler explosion in a planing mill at Wausaw, Wis. WaHliinR^on. { It is expected that the balance sheet of the I government will show a total reduction of the i debt for the fiscal year of ?100,00 ?,0.0, and a j decrease in revenue from all sources of about | $40,000,0 0. This decreaso of debt is (XX),000 less than last year's. The commercial balance in favor of the United States for the current year will be $o0,001,000, against 000,000 iu the preceding year. The legislation which was designed to reduce the revenues caused a reduction of $l;j,000,00t) from customs, $20,000,000 from internal revenue I sources, and about 15,000,000 from miscellaj neous receipts. The House passed the sundry civil approI priation bill. General Ward B. Burnett, of New i : York, a veteran of five wars and the oldest j living graduate of West Point, from which j he graduated in 1832, died a few days ago in i Washington. i The investigation of the accounts of J. O. , P. Burnside, the defaidting disbursing clerk ! i of the postotfk-e department, shows a do- I ficiency of about $74,0<X). | The Mississippi contested election case of j | Chalmers against Manning has been decided ! j in favor of Chalmers, who appeared at J the bar of the House and took the oath of i ' office. Foreign* The French minister of agriculture wants ! to raise the duties on cattle imported into ! ; France. J An American cricket team is playing matches in England. i A disastrous inundation is reported from j Turkestan. A river burst through a dike and the rushing water destroyed a large mili- | ! tary camp and submerged a largo and fertile : tract of country. Many ]>ersons.were drowned, j Elder Smoot, a Mormon missionary, has j been expelled from Bavaria by order of the 1 minister ui suti/ti. oiuutiu iiuu auaccutsi in i making numerous converts, whom ho was j preparing to send to Utah. Tiie soldier named Misdei, who nnirde.'ed j six of his comrades, and who was sentenced to ! be shot in the buck, was executed at Naples, ! Italy. i The Prince of Orange, crown prince of the ; Netherlands, is dead. Moody, tho evangelist, made his farewell j address at a large meeting in London, at ' ' which man}' leading clergymen were present, i A disease which has been pronounced Asi- j atic cholera has broken out in Toulon,Franco, i and thousands of the inhabitants have ilcd ! from the city. All France has been greatly alarmed by 1 the outbreak of Asiatic cholera at Marseilles j and Toulon. Austria, Italy and Spain at | once took precautionary measures to prevent j tho introduction of tho dread disease into ; thoso countries. A Jewish synagogue in Nizhnee-Novgorod. I Russia, was attacked by a mob. Several I Jews were killed and. others injured. .Many | Jewish homes were also badly damaged. A I large force of police and military finally j j quelled the disturbance, making 150 arrests. Concerning the appearance of Asiatic I cholera at Toulon, France, Mr. Frank H. ; Mason, our consel, telegraphs to the State de- i j partment that the disease was kept a secret 1 for some timo. In ten duyslheiv were thirty, j seven deaths. Mr. Mason says: " The deaths < are equally divided between civilians and the | military, and are chiefly among the aged or young. The question whether it is Asiatic or j sporadic cholera is still undecided^ but tho iormer is prouuuie. inure uro nopes ui. checking tho epidemic by sanitary precau- j tions." THE GARFIELD MONUMENT. A IIartfor?l nan f?clN First Prize? Descriiilion of Hint Design. A Cleveland (Ohio) dispatch savs that the j trustees of the Garfield National Monument j association havo decided upon a design for the monument. Calvert Yaux, of New York. . and Henry Van Bnmt, of Boston, examined j the designs and gave the committee their criticisms. The first prize, ? 1.000, wn< 1 unanimously given by tho trustees and experts to George H. Keller, of Hartford; tlie second, $750, to Charles F. and Julius A Schweinfurth, of Cleveland, and the third, i $500, to Moffitt & I)nyle, of New York. ! Keller adopted the tower form of monument ; The tower rises from broad terraces rea< hi i1 by wide-spreading steps. A projecting poivl: at the base contains a vestibule, on one side of which is the keeper's ofliee, atul on the othci : a room for relics and the register of visitors The vestibule leads into a round vaultei chaml>er of stone, the domical roof of wliicl ; is carried on eight massive polished gran i ito columns in a circlo around the sculp tured tomb in the center. An aisle outsiil? ' of the columns surrounds the chamber. in tin side wall of which are niches for statues. A i spiral staircase leads from tho aisle to the top | of tho tower, ?">() feet high. Hie triple win(lows at irregular intervals command extended riews for miles, at one point looking1 out over Garfield's birthplace, eight miles j distant. Outside of the monument is a terra cotta band or frieze of sculpture six feci in height extending around tho ba'Svt o) { tho tower, which is forty feet square The frieze is divided into jiancli j with bas-reliefs representing Garfield ns m: educator, a soldier and a statesman, the long watch of the world over his deathbed ami tli< 1 funeral procession from Ellieronto Cleveland The cornice of the towel's ljcai's between tin corbels the arms of the different States. Gar. j field's remains will be inclosed in n crypt 1 below the level of the chnmlier under Ibe i carved tomb. A family vault is provided ir the back of the chamber. 1 LATER NEWS The Republican National committee organized at a meeting in Now York by electing 1 B. F. Jones, of Pennsylvania, chairman, and Snmucl Fessenden, of Connecticut, secretary, j The annual boat raco at New London, ' Conn., between crews of eight men repre- , sentingYnle and Harvard colleges, was won this year by the Yalo crew, who came in *1? ??*- .? <? bUICU ICU^blia CUJCCMA \JL lUCii UJ^J-nJUULIbOy CVXXC1 J t-owed the three miles in the fastest time on ; record for American college crews. The St. Petersburg bank, of Clarion county, Penn., considered one of the strongest banking institutions in the State outside 0; the cities, has failed. 11 At the South Carolina Democratic convention all the present State officers were renominated by acclamation. In Arkansas the Democrats have nominated ex-Attorney-General S. P. Hughes for governor, together with a full ticket, and in Florida the Democratic State ticket is headed by Mr. Perry for governor. The official vote for Congressman in the recent Oregon election is as follows: B. Herman (Republican), 35,099 votes; Meyers (Democrat), 23,652. Women's suffrage amend ment?For, 11,233 votes; against, 28,176. . The postofHce department has completed the readjustment of the salaries of postmas" ters. The number of presidential postoffices is 2,2*.'>. The salaries of presidential post-' masters amount to $3,S31,200, as against $3,707,500, paid under the previous adjust, ment in October, when there were 2,19o oi" ces. The salaries of the eighty postmasters of the first class amount to $284,900. Secretary Folge". has issued tho 129th call for the redemption of $10,000,000 of the three per cent, bonds. [Secretary Chandler appeared before the i Senate committee on expenditures in the pub. ' lie service and made a statement regarding the recently discovered frauds in his depart.! ment. The secretary explained the methods of transacting business in his department,and showed how the frauds had been committed in j the bureau of medicine and surgery by means ' of false vouchers for goods never delivered. ; An election for a member of the Danish , Diet for Copenhagen resulted in the choice of l a tailor named Hohn, a leader among the socialists. El Mahdi, the False Prophet, is reported ! to have been repulsed with heavy loss in an 1 attack on Khartoum, where General Gordon is entrenched. Four thousand Chinese regulars in" trenched themselves at Langson, Tonquin, in violation of the recent treaty, and attacked i 700 French troops as tuey were on mo murcu, | killing 7 and wounding 42. The French j troops repulsed the attack and routed the Chinese. France will demand satisfaction. I.ATKH CONGRESSIONAL NEWS. Sennto. The Senate passed the legislative, executive and judicial appropriation bill, with an amendment providing that no speeches not actually delivered in the Senate or House shall be printed in the Congressional Record, and that such speeches shall be printed just as they were spoken, except verbal corrections made by theirau- I thors. The bill appropriated $21,647,260, an increase of $1,037,423 since it came from the House. Of the addition, $15,000 was for tha ! purchase of Mi's. Fasiett's painting of the electoral commission The House bill extending to water transportation routes the provisions of the statute hitherto applied to land routes only, regarding the immediate transportation of dutiable goods was passed. , House. Mr. Bingham, from the committee on post- ! nffires anil nost roads, reported a bill fixing at i two cents per ounce or fraction thereof tha j rate of postage on mailable matter of the first class Mr.Oates,from the committee on pub- i lie lands, reported adversely the bill to declare forfeited certain lands granted to Alabama to , aid in the construction of railroads....The House, by a vote of 121 to 77, rejected the bil. ( to forfeit the land grant of the Backbone rail) road of Louisiana. j SUMMARY OF CONGRESS. ! I Senate. Mr. Blair offered an amendment to the sun dry civil bill, to provide that there shall beap- ] propriated out or any money in the treasury not otherwise appropriated, $500,000 "to pro- j mote the proposed exposition of the agricultural and mechanical capabilities of the col- j ored races of the world, to be held in the Exposition building in the city of Chicago, in No- 1 vember, 1885. The legislative, executive and judicial appropriation bill was reported by the committee on appropriates. It appropriated ' $21,047,259, an increase over the House bill , of $1,037,402, and a decrease from the esti-} mates of $20,042. The principal changes from the bill as agreed upon by the House were an 1 increase of $100,O K) for salaries and expenses of collectors ami deputy collectors of interna! revenue; of $130,000 for salaries of agents, surveyors and storekeepers in the internal revenue service, and an increase in the number of employes of the different branches of the government from 8,202 j to 8,759. This increase in the employes in- j eluded 255 in the pension office and ninety in the general land office. Secretaries for Senators were also included in the increase, and an appropriation of $.'4,000 was made for the j payment of their salaries. Tho Mexican pensions bill was finally passed i by a vote of 37 to 27. It has been extensive- ! ly amended sinco it came from the House,and as passed, provides, among other things, that j surviving soldiers and sailors of the i Mexican war or their widows, who I are sixty-two years old, or are subject to a disability or dependency recognized w ttin nancinn Inn-s ns pmisfi for erantiwr a *JJ vmw ? <p ^ pension, shall bo added to the pension rolls at | $8 a month; that the provision of the revised statutes prohibiting the payment of pensions j to persons who have voluntarily engaged in j rebellion shall be repealed so tar as relates to this act ; that those who labor under the political disabilities imposed by the fourteenth amendment shall bo excluded from pension; that all honorably discharged sol- i uiers who served three months on the Union j sido in the war of the rebellion, and, except through gross carelessness or vicious habits, have become disabled and dependent, shall have a pension, to commence from date of application and proportioned to tho degree of disability, but which in no caso shall exceed ?24 a month; that tho pensions of widows and minor children shall bo increased from ;?!! to $12 a month; that the record of enlistment and mustering into service shall be prima facie evidence of physical soundness at that time. Ilouse* Tlie committee on the judiciary reported in the caso of Hallet Kilboura against Sergeantat-Arms Thompson that it was best to let the judgment obtained by Kill>ouni for false imprisonment stand without further litigation, and recomiwuding that an appropriation be made to pa^ the amount for Thompson.... The Ohio contested election case of Campbel agninst Morey was decided in favor of the contestant, who was thereupon sworn in.... Mr. Mutchler, from tho committee on civil service, reported a bill to repeal tho enure of olllce act. House calendar. The committee on appropriations reported the sundry civil bill. It appropriated $.'0,9S8,!)3(>. The estimates were $5U,.'j4(i,!)W. The amount in last year's appropriation bill was $i!,7i:j,4()4 Iho electoral count bill was considered without action. The House passed tho Senate bill giving let j ter carriers fifteen days' leave of absence every I year, the Houso electoral count bill, ami the bill repealing the preemption, timber culture I and desert land laws, and amending the home- ' stead law. The latter, on motion of Mr. Hoi- j man, was amended so as to provide that hereafter no public lands adapted to ngricul- i ture, except mineral lands and town sites, shall be sold, but shall be reserved for actual and bona fide settlers under the homestead law. The bill is not to be construed to rejieal the act for the sale of timber lands in California, Oregon, Nevada and Washington Territory. Theelect< >rnl c< Mint bill as posset 1 provides for a joint session of the two Houses to count the vote, which session shall not bo dissolved until the result is declared. Any question as to the counting of the vote of a State, or as to which of two or more returns shall lie received, shall be determined by a vote per cajiita beginning with Alabama. The bill passed by the Senate in January provides tlmt in such eases the two Houses, acting separately shall concurrently determine the question. PROMINENT PEOPLE Queen Victoria has nineteen granddaughters. j James ft. Blaine has six childron?three j sons and three (laughters. Con'gkessman James F. Clay, a lawyer of j Louisville, Ky., is a grandson of Henry Clay. ( His father was lulled in the Mexican war. ( , 'Rev. Geo roe Worth int. ton, of Detroit, ; fich., has declined the bishopric of Nebraska, j to which ho was elected by the recent lipisco j pal convention. James Ruijens, a full-blooded Nez Perco | Indian, is in the Hast unking addresses on the | wrongs of his raee. 11 * sp/aks English wel. i and is eloquent. n,,,n.M\r Waiiii. known in times! past aA. Washington coiTesjwudent, lias just ! attained a still higher elevation by suoeessfully making the ascent of Pojxicatapetl, Mexico, 16,000 feet above the sea level. ASIATIC CHOLERA " The Dread Disease Appears in French Cities, Precautionary Measures Taken by Other Countries, j A Paris dispatch says: The outbreak of! cholera is the one subject of conversation at present. Mr. Horisson, Minister of Commerce, has convoked the national board of health, for the purpose of ' adopting measures for tho suppression of cholera and to prevent the spread of tho disease. It appears that tho first death from cholera at Toulon occurred on June 4 \ and that it was kept socret. Although seventeen deaths had occurred up to Sunday nightyet since that time there has been no death from cholera in the Toulon Marine hospital. Orders have boen issued to bury immediately the corpses of tho victims in deep trenches, which will be covered with chloride of lime. No bolies will be allowed to be taken to the -1 1 rri?*? ~_J- fmm Phii.n uiiuruura, jl 11 "j iiuu^pui u nui buc^ uiru* vu-uu. has been ordered to sea owing to a rumor that Rhe introduced the cholera at Toulon. However this may be, a majority of the accounts from Toulon agree that the fetid, unclean condition of that city are in disregard of tho most common sanitary precautions, nd amply suffice to account for tne outbreak. In Marseilles, too, a cholera panic prevails. It is reported that some deaths have o<. curred, but if it is true the fact has b^en kept very secret. The health officials of Marseilles announce that tho general health of the inhabitants is oxcellent and that no deaths from cholera have occurred here. The latest advices from Toulon say that fourteen fresh cases of cholera were reported. The gravity of the symptoms, it is asserted, is decreasing. Foreign countries have become alarmed at the news. In Vienna Count von Taafe has summoned the chief saritary council and invited the leading physicians to attend. In Madrid a cabinet council has been called to adopt measures to prevent the entry of cholera into Spain, while in the Italian chamber of deputies Prime Minister Depretis said that a precaution against cholera the government had forbidden French ships free pratique at Italian ports and had instituted quarantine. Indeed, the Spanish cabinet has ordered the strictest quarantine to be en forced against French snipping. Land communication with Toulon is prohibited. PRECAUTIONS IN AMERICA. A "Washington dispatch says: At the request of Surgeon General Hamilton, the Secretary of State to-day sent a cable despatch to .ie United States Consul at Toulon, France, with a view to ascertaining tho facts in relation to the reported outbreak of cholera at that port If the answer should indicate a serious epidemic the legal quarantine stations throughout the United States will be advised to adopt precautions against the introduction of the disease into this country. In the course of a conversation upon the subject Surgeon-General Hamilton said that he did not believe that the cholera, reported to have appeared at Toulon, would extend beyona the control of the French health officers. It had probably been brought from Egypt in troop ships returning to France from that country. There was little danger of a direct importation of the disease from Egypt into the United States, for the reason that our imports from that country are confined to rags, which are rigidly inspected by government officers. The surgeon general auaeu mat cnoiera was,ui uu uuuuii), perhaps the most difficult to quarantine against, and localities threatened by it should adopt every precaution in the way of perfect cleanliness and attention to hygienic conditions. Advices received in San Francisco by the Bteanier San Pablo, which has arrived from Shanghai, state that cholera has broken out in the neighborhood of Peking. Those attacked by the disease die in a few hours. The disease first made its appearance at Yangstun, a large town between Tien Tsin and Pekin. No particulars have lx>en received. Two cases are also reported at Tolrio, Japan. THE NATIONAL GAME, Providence falls into line and will have ladies' days. The Boston club has been drawing largely, and stock in that club is valuable property. The umpires are doing more fining tliisyear than was over dono before, and yet it does no seem to discourage the kickers. Boston is badly gone on base ball. Everybody has got the fever. If it was a bad case last season it is many per oent. worse this. ^President A. G. Mills, of the League, and chairman of the Arbitration committee, was a delegate to the Republican convention at Chicago. Daly, the one-armed pitcher of the Chicago Unions, has, in the eleven games in which he has twirled the sphere on the home grounds, made the remarkable record of 10 i strikeouts. There has been brought to New Haven from Madagascar, a monkey that throws stones with wonderful force and skill. It bolongs to a tribe distinguished for that accomplishment, and its owner thinks of importing eight more Madagascar monkeys and organizing a baseball nine. Ball players may not generally know tha crude oil is most efficacious in cases of sore or strained arms, relieving lameness in a short time. It should be rubbed on the afflicted limb briskly until a deposit accumulates, say in five or ten minutes, when the nnrt. should be washed in cold water. 5"he treatment is highly recommended. Thjs success or failure of a representative I club causes a correspdhding amount of gush or abuso in tho newspaper. Recently, when the Chicagos were East, suffering defeat on every side, a Chicago exchange had the following comment: " \Ve observe by the telegraphic dispatches that nine young persons, professing to. bo a Chicago baseball club, are wandering about the country for the evident purpose of bringing the athletes of this metropolis into disrepute. We refuse to recognize as genuine any alleged Chicago organization that suffers itself to become a doormat or lap-robe for other similar organizations." The eighth week of the League championship contest closed with the Bostons still in the van, the record of the different clubs being as follows: Clubs. I Von. Lout. | Club*. Won. Lout. Boston... 30 111 Chicago IT 22 Providence 29 H? Philadelphia 14 25 New York 25 17 | Cleveland 14 23 Buffalo 21 IS | 1'uiroit 10 30 The twelve clubs of the American association stood as follows at the end of the eighth week's play, tho Metropolitan nine still being ahead: Club*. H'on. lost. | Clubs. Won. Lost. Metropolitan.27 9 | Baltimore....21 12 Athletic 23 13 | Brooklyn 15 20 I.ouiyvlllc 22 10 Pittsburgh ...10 26 St. Louis 21 13 I Toledo 10 26 Columbus....22 15 I Indianapolis.. 8 25 Cincinnati....21 13 | Washington.. 1 25 In the college race the record was as follows: Clubs. Won. Lost. I Clubs. Won. Lout Yale 8 2 Brown 5 5 Harvard 8 2 I Princeton 2 8 Amherst 5 4 | Dartmouth 1 8 In the Eastern League race the Wilmington team held the lead: Clubs. Won. Lost. | Clubs. Won. Lost. Wilmington....20 7 Newark 12 16 Trenton 19 10 Allantown 10 18 Virginia 15 15 Ilarrisbure.. .. 8 17 Heading 14 15 MonumentalThrown out MUSICAL AND DRAMATIC. London has now about fort)* regular theatres. * Sarah Bernhardt is playing Lady Macbeth in Scotland and England this month. Mrs. Lanotry and Dion Boucicault are said to bo about to enter a business partner ship. Little Lotta will wing her flight from the j colli shores of England to America in Sep- j teniber. Maggie Mitchell is shortly to produce an | adaptation by Clifton \\". Tayleuro of the "Luck of Roaring Camp." Sir Arthur Scllivax has been asked to ; compose original music for "Twelfth Night," j which Mr. Irving is to revive. Lecocq's op.-ra, "L'Oiseau Bleu," is to Ik? brought out at New York early the coming season under the confusing title of "Blue Bird. Billy Emerson, Haverlv's $500 a week burnt cork artist, is reported as having crippled himself financially on the English race track. One of tho theatrical shows of next season ' will include a professional beauty to ropre- j sent the typical loveliness of each State in ! the Union. Actors have a dispiriting outlook for next se;ison. Managers anticipate bad business in consequence of the distractions of the presidential canvass. A season* of German opera undor Hans Richter's direction is now in progress at Covent Garden in London. The opening opera was "Die Meister-singcr." There will bo quite a deluge of English mivt: Vinson. Mine. Minnie Hank, Zolrlti Sequin. Abbie Carrington and Emma Abbott will havo tlv:ir own companion. Hekr So.vxkv.h.u.. an eminent tragedian of Herlin, is s;u.t t?? have been engaged by Mr. Conroid, the New York manager, for a few performances in this country shortly. It is said that Louis Gottschalk is just now tin* fashion in l'aris. His compositions are played c<instantly in the salons, a specialty being made of what is called the American symphony, which is none other than the famous banjo. TiiK.vriucAL malingers complain of the lack <>f actresses competent to play the roles jf leading young Imlics requiring tragic force and melodramatic power. There is a plenty who can play light, sentimental parts, but no new ones are coming forward to take the places of the ladies who are now growing a attle to old to till juvenile roles. ELAINE NOTIFIED, Ills Acceptance of the Republican Presidential Nomination^ James G. Blaino received at his homo in Augusta, Me., formal and official notification that ho is the nominee of the Republican party for the presidency. The committoe appointed by the national convention of one from each State and Territory waited upon him at his house alwut 11 o'clock a. m. After the committee had Iteon introduced to Mr. Blaine ami his family, the entire party proceeded to the lawn in front of the house, where Chairman Henderson, of Missouri, lato presiding officer at the national convention, in a laudatory speech officially notified Mr. Blaine of his nomiriAAf> Hlnino tvwl n. KTwrh in ronlv as follows: "I receive, not without deep sensibility, your official notice of the action of the national convention already brought to my knoivledgo through the public press. I appreciate more profoundly than I can express the honor widen is implied in the nomination for the presidency by the Republican party of the nation, shaking through the authoritative voice of duly accredited delegates. To be selected as a candidate by such an assemblage, from the list of eminent statesmen whoso names were presented, fills me with embarrassment. I can only express my gratitude for so signal an honor, and my desire to prove worthy of the great trust reposed in me. In accepting the nomination, as 1 now do, I am impressed-*! am also oppressed?with a sense of the labor and responsibility which attach to my position. Tho burden is lightened, however, by the host of earnest men who support my candidacy, many of whom add, as docs your honorable committee, tho cheer of personal friendship to the pledge of political fealty. A more formal acceptance will naturally be expected, and will in duo season be communicated. It may, however, not be inappropriate at this time to say that I have already made a careful study of the principles announced by the national convention, and that in whole and in detail they have my heartiest sympathy and meet my unqualified approval. Apart from your official errand, gentlemen, I am extremely happy to welcome you to my houso. TVitn many of you I have already shared the duties of public service, and nave enjoyed most cordial friendship. I trust your journey from all parts of the great republic has been agreeable, and that during your stay in Maine you will feel that you are not among strangers, but with friends. Invoking the blessings of God upon the great cause which we jointly represent, let us turn to the future without fear and with manly hearts." Senator Logan was notified of his nonrfnaiion forVice-rresidentat his residence inWaablngton by Chairman Henderson and the committee appointed by the Republican national convention. Mr. Henderson mode the addrea st notification, and Senator Logan replied briefly, saying ho accepted the nomination end endorsed the platform, and later on would aoceDt in a formal communication. SURROUNDED BY WHALES, T? What TVa? Seen in a Voyage From Savannah to New Vork. The schooner M B. Millen, laden with lumber, arrived at New York a few dayi since from Savannah. Her master, Captain Young, makes the following report of an in. cident of tho voyage: "While in a dead calm and smooth sea,was oiim-nnnilrvl hv n ophnnl nf whales. as far as the eye could reach; they were se&i coming to the surface and blowing; they camo in such close proximity to the vessel that they could be reached from the deck with a common harpoon, and in several instances within two feet of the vessel's side, spurting the water against the side, and lying perfectly still for several minutes at a time; they then rolled leisurely over and sank down tail foremost, until they would stand perpendicular in the water, so tuat their full length and size could be as nearly estimated as though they had been on dry land; they swam aroUnd the vessel for about three hours, and seemed to be holding a complete survey of her, and did not seem to be in the least shy as we threw several pieces of wood , at them, and in one instance a heavy chunk of oak was thrown at one and struck him on the end of bis nose; he throw his flukes high in the air, and made a grand display of foaming water as ho went under, but came up immediately after and swam clear to the side and lay for some minutes, then rolling over several times sculled leisurely away to the eastward ; it was a magnificent sight, the ocean being as clear as a mirror and not a ripple to obstruct the view. ' The whales were in size about thirty-five to forty feet in length; square blunt head, eyes small, about three feet below the top or the head, and well back from the end or the nose, near the jaw. Their blow was low and somewhat resembled water thrown from a sprinkler; a small round fin on the back, and cnimrA flnke: thfl heads were about five or six feet in depth, and the after parts much smaller in proportion. We could have easily harpooned a dozen or more of these monsters, out after our experience with the piece of oak,we feared to wound any of them, as I am satisfied that one clip of tneir flukes i against the side of tho vessel would have shaken us up considerably. After watching their movements for aboat three hours, a light breeze sprang up, and we sailed away home from the school, which did not seem to be making any headway to either point of the compass." LIGHTNING'S WORK ITIany Fatalities and Tfncli Daraagt to Property Iteportcd. During the recont heavy thunder storms * '* which appeared at about the same time is various parts of the country many porsoni were killed or injured by lightning, and much destruction was done to stock r.n;l property. A Pittsburg (Perm.) dispatch says: At Murray ville, Penn., a, boy named Wolf and four horses were struck by lightning and instantly killed. A younger brother of the boy was badly burned. At Wayneslmrg, Penn., Miss Josie Keener and William Paver were seriously injured by a lightning bolt, which also killed three horses. At Corey, Penn., several head of blooded stock belonging to Henry Case were killed. At Salem, Ohio, Miss Minnie Westphar, aged sixteen, while standing in the doorway, was struck by lightning and killed instantly. At Youngstown, Ohio, lightning struck the resiHpnce of Abner Meadsker, killing his daughter Minnie and seriously injuring several ether members of the family*. Three b iras were also destroyed near Youngstown. At Newcomerstown, Ohio, the storm was accompanied by a furious tornado, which uprooted trees, blew down fences, and did great damage to grain. A Richfield Springs (N. Y.) dispatch sayt that Jack "Waffle started from that village with a load of lumber for Springfield, and when about three miles from the village a boll of lightning knocked down one of his horsej and a second one killed the driver instantly. The horse finally recovered, nnd got up, and the team took the wagon to the home of hi* father, where it drew up in front of the door. The hands of the dead man still grasped th< lines. The fluid appears to have run around his body, and then jumped to tho ground, which it tore up for several feet. At Grant, Wis., George Brooks' house, wai struck by lightning, and his daughter Effie, sixteen years of age, was killed, and anothei daughter, named Cora, was stunned. Th? house was burned to tho ground, but Cora crawled from the burning timbers and wai saved. Tho mother and father of the childrer were at a circus. THKEE VICTIMS. One Man.Miooh Two Others, and 1? in Turn Killed. Between 9 and 10 o'clock p. M., a murderer killed two men and was himself killed by on? of his victims, at the house of James Howard) near Moimt Sterling, Ky. The house is situated in a wild place on Puckett's creek. The trouble grew out of jealousy over a women. On Sunday night Dillard JoBnston went to Howard's house and demanded admittance. Howard opened the door and looked out, whereupon Johnston, under cover of darkness fired at and killed him. Howard Cell from the door into the yard, dead. Johnston then walked awayand met a woman at the fence, about thirty or fort}' yards from the house. This was the woman who was at the l.jttom of tho murder. After talking with her a few minutes, Johnston went back to the house .and inquired for one Joseph Neall, telling Howard's wife that he would kill her if she did not tell him where he was. The terrified woman said she knew nothing of the whereabouts of XealL Johnston then forcibly entered the house to search for him. lie stoojwd down to look under tho l>ed, and while in this position was - " *--- v ...11 u..,w rvmepjllod snot m ine mi) u> .vim, behind tho cook stove. Johnston wheeled around an>l saw Xoall with I)is |)istol leveled ready to tire again. Johnston, quick as lightning, leveled his weapon also, and both men fired at the same insUnt, anil both fell dead. NEWSY GLEANINGS, A Chinese doetor j practicing with success in Dead wood. Dak. Tup. net profits of the Suez canal for 1883 reached ?7.000.0'10. Little Rock. Ark., is to have seven now churches this year. The conquest of Tonquin has already cost France $"20,00: ),< mm). Tf.v suicides were reported in Vienna inside of forty-eight lion: ;. There are s.tsw sehool teachers in Arkansas, S00 of whom are colored. Statistics show that Englind is drinking more grog anil less collet1 annually. Tnr.Enn.vrii wires were recently worked from Chicago to London?7,000 miles. The diamond recently found in tho Kinberly fields, Africa, is worth $15,OOJ. ()?M boots to wear with a cloth cos tome arc insult! of the olive-colored cloth and buttoned by lifteen smnJL. round bead-like buttons; patent leather tips, embroidered at l lie end in tiny holes; the heels arc flat and wide.