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-y..--- .-~ .?TOW, ..^y ?.,.._ _. ABBEVILLE PRESS AND BANNER."! ^ BY HUGH WILSON. ABBEVILLE, S. C.. WEDNESDAY, JULY 16, 1884. NO. 3. VOLUME XXIX. :| "WHEN MY SHIP COMES IN. Stimmcr and winter an* one to me, And the <*y is bright, he it storm or shine, For far awiy, o'er a sunny sea, 8alls a treasure-vessel, and all is mine. I 800 th? ripples that fall away, As she cleaves the azure waves before; AnH nearer, nearer, day by day, D|?w? the happy hour when she comes to shore. M But what If she never comes ?" you say. "If you never the honor, the treasure, gain?" It has made me happier, day by day, It has eased full many an aching paln| It baa kept the spirit from envy free, Has dulled tho ear to the world's rude din, Oh! best of blessing it's been to me, To look for the hour when my ship comes in. ?Edward S. Rand. THEIR WONDROUS POWER. All day in the fragrant grove The mocking bird snug in riotous mirth: " There's nothing but joy in tho wide, wide ; earth, Nothing bnt frolic and fun Under the light of the sun." And T Raid. " It is true:" for the eves of mv love Shone through ray heart as the son through i the grove. ? All ni^ht in the fragrant grove The mocking bird moaned in melodious pain: I ^ " Weary, oh! weary the night and vain! Nothing but wreck and woe From the far, cold stars can flow," And I said, " It is true;" for the eyes of ray ' love Were withdrawn from my heart as the sun j from the grove. Waken, oh! waken, radiant eyes! With the lift of your lashes morn flames in the skies. ?Ada Sturges. , A BORN-GENIUS. j "A very nice baby, indeed, my dear; does you credit?he docs really. There, nurse, cover up his dear littie tootsies, and take him away. I hope, my love, he'll have health and good looks and? what's that?genius. Oh, no?oh, dear, no! You don't know what it is to be the mother ofagenius; I do. I remember the time when my Augustus was precise-; ly such another pink, gurgling little bundle as the one that has just left us. That was in his innoccnt plays. But he grew older as boys will?and girls too, for the matter of that, poor things!? I and when he arrived at what should ! have been years of discretion he startled j me one day with the news thatiic meant j to be an author. Such a career, my lovel and our family had always been most respectable ? ironmongers from generation to generation?Amen! " 'What's to become of the business, Augustus?' I asked. 44 fKo Kncinncfl moTT CT(\ fn r opposite shop,'said he; and so it didv every bolt and nail of it. 'What does iron weigh against poetry?" " 'Well, if you ask me, Augustus, I should say iron was the more substantial of the two, and though you deride your j mother's opinion, as it is the fashion for I young men to do, still I know that iron j would fill your pocket and your stomach j sooner than poetry.' " 'But auntie,' began my niece Mary, ; who was in the room at the time?(11 knew which side she was going to take; I she and Augustus were as good as en- i gaged to each other)?'But, auntie, think how glorious it must be to write a ! book.' " 'Don't you be a little fool, my dear,' | I said. 'It's my opinion that more peo- : Sle write books than read them nowaavs: and if thincs eo on like this, the I subscribers to a library will be paid, instead of having to puy money.' "'But a poet, auntie 1?surely, there arc very few poets V " 'And no wonder, my dear, when modern advanced thought leaves us so 1 little to be poetical about. What is to rhyme with "love" if "Heaven above" is a myth ? Where is the romance of death , if there is to be no reunion ? It must be a very peculiar mind that could * find poetry in our ancestors, the monkeys.' 41 But of course my opinion went for j nothing. Augustus was determined to go 1 to London to try his fortune as an author. : Mary aided and abetted him, though 1 it would separate them for a time. So | off he went, instead of being content with ' iron, and a poet's corner in our local . newspaper. , "From the very day of his departure Mary t*:gan to look in the publishers' j column and amongst the reviews, as if \ she expected the book to burst into bloom at once and to receive a flattering notice. His letters didn't tell us much except about dinners and suppers, until I began to think that authors ate their way | to fame much as barristers eat their way ! to the law. In a little while he wrote to 1 borrow money. I had expected that, and sent him what I could spare. At last the book was announced. You can im-1 agine the excitement there was in the ' house and in the town when half-a-dozen beautifully bound volumes found their : way down to us. Mary never paid so i many visits in her life as she did in those j days, and wherever she went the first' topic was always my cousin's book of poem9. She carried them about with her everywhere, and read selections ; aloud, till I used to wonder she ever ftrtind any one at home when she called. | She recited them too, from memory; but I noticed sometimes that if she missed j whole stanzas here and there, the sense . didn't seem to suffer much. But then I i only like the old-fashioned poetry, which j one can understand. Certainly the book j was published, and no one could know j that he had paid every farthing himself j for the coat of printing, publishing and j advertising. "The next thing to do was to search the papers for criticisms. In some there appeared a few lines of faint praise, in others a few of contempt, but in the majority there was utter silence. About; this time the neighbors began to return 1 Mary's visits, and it was wonderful how ! many newspapers they all seemed to have 3een, and how carefully they had read them, and how very sympathetic i they were about the harsh notices. Mary, j A *" however, was not to be discouraged. " 'He has his foot on the first rung of j H the ladder,' she cried, 'he will never rest | ^ until he has climbed to fame and for- i tune.' "Presently there came another appeal : for money. I had expected that, too, j but this time I was obliged to retuse. I didn't mean that all the little savings ; which I had destined for him and Mary ; and their children should go to make j waste paper. Poor Mary would have ; sent every farthing she possessed, only j luckily she didn't possess any. "The next letter I received contained some very surprising intelligence. Augustus was going to be married. He said very little about the lady's beauty or accomplishments, but only mentioned that | she was the daughter of the head partner ; in a well-known publishing firm. Poor , Mary! she had fallen a victim to the | genius of which she was so proud. I had set my mind on the boy's marrying her, and I believe he was really fond of her; but what aspiring author could resist a publisher's daughter? Here was an opportunity of never again being 'declined with thanks.' Fancy the reams of rubbish that father-in-law would swallow. What a eo-between, a loving wife and daughter, and perhaps eventu- I ally a sturdy grandchild? I could hardly \ blame Augustus. Mary did not sav j much,, but she left off eating as far as was consistent with keeping alive, and { she put away the book of poems and j ceased to scan the newspapers. Indeed, [ she lost her interest in everything. Her a only comfort seemed to be in singing broken-hearted little ballads, always about a desolate girl who forgives her Jfaithless lover, and never reproaches ^ ''nira, but rests her weary head upon the sympathetic bosom of her mother. "One day I was startled by Mary rushing into the room, pale and trembling, an open letter in her hand. " 'Oh, auntie,' she cried, 'let us go to him, at once; something dreadful will happen, I feel sure. Oh, come, come!" "I took the letter from her while she rushed off and brought down my bonnet - and boots and shawl and gloves, all of jSv ' , ' . - which she thrust indiscriminately on my head, and feet, and hands, till I said* testily: " 'Keep your senses a minute, Mary, . till I see what it is that has happened.' " 'Nothing has happened yet, please , heaven; but if you stand there like a marble figure your boy will die.' "I thought that it was no less than a , summons from the doctor to say that he | had not a moment to live; but no, it was | from Augustus himself, and ran as follows : " 'Dearest Mart: '"My engagement is broken off. She whom I 'tried to love' (that 'tried to love' was a real stroke of genius, the only one my boy was 1 ever guilty of) 'has proved as false to mo as I | was to another. I dare not ask you to pity j me; I have not deserved it. Alone, friendless, j>enniless, there remains but one course for me. Farewell! Comfort my mother, and i forget your wretched, broken-hearted, "Augustus.' j "I did not believe in it. No, I did \ not believe in the letter. In the first place, I could not imagine any one con- ! templating a really desperate step and writing such a carefully-worded epistle. I Secondly, it would have been to me, not to Mary, he would have written, unless he wanted something more from her than merely a kindly remembrance after death. It looked to me much more like returning sanity than the madness of self-destruction. However, Mary was in such a whirl of terror and agitation that there was nothing for it but send for a cab and take the first train to London. I If I hadn't been afraid she would think j me very hard-hearted, I would have pointed out that if he actually intended to make away with himself, we should arrive rather late. But I did not feel many misgivings on that point. "\Vc reached his chambers at last, and Mary rushed upstairs too perturbed to ; speak. I followed.but paused a moment J before entering, and looking through the j half-open door, beheld a tableau which made me think he had calculated to a nicety the moment of our arrival. At a | table littered with books and papers sat Augustus, his hair very untidy, uis eyes upturned to the ceiling, one arm was thrown over the back of his chair, in the | other hand he grasped a pistol. At the noise of our entrance I observed he made , an elaborate attempt to conceal the pistol under a very small piece of blotting j paper. "Mary dropped on her knees at his ' feet. I felt inclined to ring for the cur- ! tain to descend. It was with difficulty j I kept myself from applauding. "'Oh, Augustus!' sobbed Mary, 'how 1 could you be so cruel? Come back to ! us. Your mother has forgiven you; I | have forgiven you! Oh! come back, and i let us all be happy once more.' " He put his arm around her and wept. As for me, I could think of nothing but the pistol; it fascinated me. I felt so j utterly sure that it was harmless that I j was not able to resist the temptation of i trying it. Pointing it at Mary, I ex- j claimed: "'Sooner than you give yourself to j one so worthless I would see you dead at my feet.' "Mary screamed. Augustus did not even change color, but taking the weapon from my hand, asked, calmly: " 'Arc you mad, mother?' " ' Oh. my poor boy! I am afraid it is you who are mad, when you contemplate committing suicide with an empty pistol.' "Hechangcd colorth.cn; but before he could answer Mary did the most sen- ! sible thing that any girl could have done i under the circumstances?she fainted j right away. The hurry and excitc- ! mcnt and reaction had been too much for her. So we had enough to do in trying to revive her; and when that was effected I thought the best thing was for j us all to have lunch, which we accord- j insrly did; and it was quite touching to sec Mary's pretty ways with Augustus, j She was anxious for him to forget the past, and try to be happy in the present, i as if he had been in no way to blame. "So there was nothing "further for me to do but persuade the silly boy to come home with us and make preparations for the wedding, and support them both until Augustus could hit upon some business where his intellect might have scope to work, and where lie could make money at the same time. The business \ has not been discovered yet. In the meantime, Mary is quite proud of being the wife of a genius, and looks important every time he takes out a sheet of j naner. and frowns if I move, or if the cat sneezes, while he sits nibbling his pen. J However, it's turned out better than I expected at one time. Only, my dear, i don't let me hear you wish that again for J your little innocent, un-stairs. It's not every one gets out of tne mire so easily, j Unless he has a fortune to spend, time to waste, and no one's heart to break, don't j wish him to be a genius."?Home Chimes. Revolting Practices. A Madagasgar letter to the Springfield Republican says: In this land, where superstition, treachery and murder predominate, it is not strange that funerals are j continually occurring, and that the strangest ani most revolting performances are indulged in upon these occa- j sions. The first funeral which I wit- j nessed was that of a man of no particu- j lar rank or positiou. As the corpse was bein j carried along it was followed by a rabble of mourners who were all screaming and yelling. At intervals along the road the corpse was placed on the ground and a series ot atnietic games were commenced, in which spear exercises were the most prominent. When the place of burial was reached the 1 corpse was thrown naked into a shallow grave and then covered up with earth. A large pile of rocks was then placed over the grave. Some pieces of silver and a few other articles were buried with the body in order to give the ghost a start in the next world. When people of rank are buried the ceremony is more extensive and somewhat different. At the death of a chief the greater pare of his cattle are killed, and his wives are obliged to cut off their hair and otherwise disfigure themselves. A coffin is made by cutting a log somewhat longer than the corpse. The log is split lengthwise, hollowed out, and the body placed within. The funeral ceremonies are never complete until the succeeding chief has captured a town or has fought a battle in which blood has been shed. : Whenever a sorcerer, or person of more than ordinary distinction departs this life, his body is allowed to decompose j before burial. It is covered with aromatic substances and placed on a bamboo platform in the sun, where it is left for several days. The decomposition produces a putrefying liquid which is caught in earthcrn vessels placed under i the platform. This horrible liquid is then divided among those present. Each tV>n limiul in his hand and ? - -quickly rubs it ali over his body. After this revolting performance the body is wrapped in a kind of cloth and buried with various ceremonies. Charlatan. The origin of the word "charlatan" is given by a German paper as follows: In the olden time, when the doctors, sitting in their studies, weighed the ills of their fellow-man and searched the depths of nature for remedies, they were not in the j habit of riding about; their homes were : hospitals, and they did not leave theii j patients. At that time a genius of a doctor, who knew more about calculating for himself than medicine, made his appearance in Paris. His name was Latin. He procured a small, one-horse ! wairon (char), upon which he packed his remedies for all possible directions, vvitn those he drove through the streets of i Paris, crying out his wares and looking for patients. He was the first driving | doctor, and soon became renowned, j Whenever he came along, the population greeted him with, "Voilu le char de Latan." This was soon abbreviated to | "Charlatan," which at that time denoted a driving doctor. Apropos. Apropos of the season when a young , girl's dreams gently turn to thought of ' creams: "My sweet," ho murmurs soft and low, As sank the sun in crimson glow. "Come, tell me, now, thy soul's desire?1' Deep in her eyes he saw the fire That sealed his fate. Close to his side she nestling pressed, He felt her heart throbs 'gainst his breast, While trustful love shone in her face. "I want." she said, with blushing grace, "Another plate." WALKING IN THEIR SLEEP. 80KE REMARKABLE FREAKS OF SOMNAMBULISTS. A German "Who Wrilo* Poetry in III* Sleep?Curious (:an? of nil Italinn ."Nobleman. A story is told of a (Jermnn student? a somnambulist?who on one occasion arose from his sleep and wrote somo verses on a subject which lie had vainly wrestled with when awake. ''Are many such stories told of somnambulists ?" asked an Atlanta Constitution man of a well-known physician. "There are," was the reply. There is a case on record of a man at Milledgevllle who used to arise in his sleep and go out 011 the roof of his house and walk along where it would have been utterly impossible for him to have stood had ho been awake. I have heard of a man who was accustomed to go down the steep side of a mountain to a creek, undress, j and go in and take a bath. lie would then come out, dress and return home, nil the time being wholly unconscious of what he was doing." "What is somnambulism ?" "I don't know. The somnambulist seems to dream, and to have the power to act that a sleeping man has not. Some of them relate as dreams what they do when they take these night walks. There is a story told of a young nobleman in the city of Brcnstein who was observed by his brother to rise in his sleep, put on his cloak, and, having opened the case- J ment, to mount by the help of a pulley to the roof of the building. There lie was seen to tear in pieces a magpie's nest and wrap the young birds in his cloak, lie returned to his apartment, having placed his cloak by him with the birds in it. In the morning he awoke and related the adventure as having occurred in a dream, and was greatiy surprised when he was led to the roof of the tower and shown the demolished nest, as well as the magpies concealed in his cloak."' "Do somnambulists always go with their eyes open?" "They usually do. I have noticed ' that actresses who play 'Lady Macbeth' all accept that idea. Did you never see a woman in the sleep-walking scene in 'Lady Macbeth?'" The reporter remarked that he had been quite horrified on more than one j occasion as a pair of glassy eyes stared , vacantly over the footlights. ''Those eyes in the real somnambulist cannot see. They look, but they do not j see; they have ears, and hear not." One of the most interesting case9 is re- ; ported by Muratori. Says he: "Signor Augustin was an Italian noble- j man, dark, thin, melancholy and cold- j blooded, addicted to the study of the j abstract sciences. Ilis attacks occurred at the waning of the moon, and were stronger in autumn and winter than in j summer. An eye-witness gives the following description of them: "One evening toward the end of Octo- j bcr we played at various games aftet ; dinner. Signor Augustin took a part in them along with the rest of the company, j and afterward retired to repose. At 11 I o'clock his servant told us that his mas ! ter would walk that ni^ht, and that we might come and watch him. I examined him after some time with a candle in my hand. He was lying upon his back, and j sleeping with open, staring, unmoved eyes. We were told that this was a sure sign that he would walk in his sleep. I felt his hands and j found them extremely cold, and his j pulse beat so slowly that his blood seemed not to circulate. It was about midnight when Si^nor Augustin drew aside the bed curtains with violence, arose, and put on his clothes. I went up to him and held the light under his eyes. | He took no notice of it, although his eyes were wide open and staring. He fastened on his sword and warmed him- ' himself in an arm-chair by the fire. He went to his wardrobe, took out some things, got others disarranged, put them in order again, locked the dooi*, and put the key in his pocket. He then went into a court and caught and bridled his horse. He appeared confused when he did not find the saddle in its accustomed place, but finally nountcd the horse and rode to another side of the oourt and tied his horse. From there he went into the house and walked into a parlor, where he played several airs on a harpsichord. After moving about for two hours ho went to his room and threw himself on his bed, where he slept nine or ten hours. The servants declared that they could only put an end to his paroxv.-ms by tickling him under the soles of his feet, or by blowing a trumpet in his ears." Negreiti was a servant about twentyfour years old. and a sieep-walker from his eleventh year, but his attacks only occurred in March. lie would arise in T--'- -1 *!.? ho/>lr IIIS MUtrp, unnu^u im; itti'iv, PWUUV* I/MVM of his master's chair long enough to give him time to eat, and then clear the cloth. He would then lock up the house and arrange for going to bed, and after doing 1 so would be awakened. He could remember nothing of his somnambulistic actions. He would awaken when water was thrown in his face.and would be faint and 6tupid for some time, lie acted from force of habit, and if a door through which he had passed was afterward shut he would run against it when he returned. If he carried a candle and a bottle was substituted he would not know the difference. It is said of Negretta that he sat down to eat a bowl of salad which ho had prepared. It was taken from him and some strongly seasoned cabbage put in its place; but he ate Without perceiving the difference. He sniffed ground coffee in place of snuff, which he had demanded. Other sleep walkers have been known to detect these deceptions. In general, somnambulists do not heat persons who talk aloud in their presence A young priest used to arise and write his sermons in his sleep, reading them aloud after doing so, and making corrections and interlineations with the most remarkable accuracy, oven correcting grammatical errors and incorrectly spelled words. He also composed music and wrote it while asleep, putting in cleffs, sharps and flats. Somnambulists have been known to fall from dangerous heights, and even to bo killed on being awakened while taking their sleep walks. The affliction is said to be hereditary, and is sometimes caused by intemperance. No Fly-Paper Wanted. "Would you like to buy some fly- papei to-day?" inquired a druggist of an old ; man who had been making some purq cno "Some what?" "Some flv-paper." "What for?"' "Why, to attract the flies." "Attract the Hies, eh?" said the old man; "attract the flies? That's just what I don't want to do. I can attract all the flies I want, and more, too, witb this bald head of mine." And when he raised his hat and displayed a head that might have been illustrated and used in a school for a globe, thedrugman became silent very suddenly and went to cleaning up the soda-wate fountain.?Puck. The Coco l)e Mer Palm. The coco de mer palm is found onlj in the Scvchcllc islands. It is from sixty to a hundred feet high, and its trunk is a foot in diameter all the way up to the top, where it is crowned with a tuft of huge leaves, some of them as much ns twenty feet long. The male and female flowers are produced on different trees. The resulting nut is about a foot long, ol irregular shape, and till the discovery in 1843 of the only spot in the world where these palms grow, was believed to be o marine product. The Malay sailors used to affirm that it grew under water ic placid bays; but if they dived for it it disappeared. The nuts were highly prized when found floating about on the Indian ocean. Pittsburg, Penn., has 1,380 manufacturing establishments, with an aggregate capital of $100,000,000, employing nearly b0,000 persons. The annual produc' is valued at $140,000,000. "That's a cross dog you've got there, Mr. Ilindman." "Yes; he's a cross be tween a terrier and a spitz." Man proposes and the other man?her papa?disposes of him in short order.? Hawkeye. FARM, GARDEN AND HOUSEHOLD. Culture of Cucumbers for Picklc?. The culture of cucumbers for pickling is very profitable under somo circumstances. These are when the grower is near a large city, or has facilities for disposing of his product in a fresh state to factories in which the vegetables are pickled either in salt or vinegar, or when he has facilities for preserving them himself for sale in distant markets, as in manufacturing towns, lumbering or mining villages and camps, or to dealers in ship stores, or even to village stores, where the pickles can be retailed during the winter season. As there is a large and regular demand for pickles, there are many places where factories can be established for their manulacture with succcss and profit, and more conveniently in conjunction with the business of cider making, with a view to providing a supply of pure vinegar; canning and drying vegetables and fruits; making jellies, and even adding to all these an outfit for making sorghum syrup and sugar from the cane. A factory of this kind could find work the whole year round, and would require only a very moderate capital for its furnishing, because the same building and much of the apparatus would serve for all these purposes, and some only would be required for each special use. But a pickle factory should be erected in a good apple country,where fruit for cider could bo procured very cheaply. The culture of the cucumbers is very simple. Although this vegetable consists almost wholly of water, yet it requires rich soil, or at least a liberal quantity of manure, to force the growth 60 quickly as to secure the requisite tenderness and succulence. A light, sandy, warm soil is the best. This is plowed deeply, because the roots of all the ground tribe spread widely and love a loose soil, in which they can find adequate moisture and warmth. For the pickling varieties, of which the Green Prolific is the best and is almost universally grown, the ground is marked out four feet apart each way, a deep furrow being made so as to leave room for a good shovelful of rich compost at cach crossing. This is worked in with the spade or hoe and the ground leveled. Five or six seeds are dropped in each hill, about one pound of seed being required for one acre. "When the plants are up they arc thinned out to three to each hill. "When the seed is sown a broadcast dressing of 300 or 400 pounds of Peruvian guano per acre may be given with great advantage, as this fertilizer seems to have a specially good effect ou this crop; superphosphate of lime is the next best, and line bone flour comes next. With this preparation and 400 pounds of guano per acre, costing S15, we have grown over 300,000 cucumbcrs to the acre, which is double the average crop and equal to about 100 to each hill. The excess in this case was clearly due to the fertilizer, as the product was more than doubled by it, so that the expenditure of fifteen dollars repaid nearly $200 in increase of crop, as the cucumbers were sold at one dollar and fifty cents per 1,000. Some attention is required to secure a good yield. The ground must be kept looso by frequent cultivation until tne vines cover the ground. The main vines must be pinched at the ends to keep them within bounds and to encourage the outgrowth of side branches, which arc the most prolific of fruit. The main branches bear chiefly male or staminate flowers, which are barren fruit, and the side branches bear the pistillate or productive flowers; so that the great secret in growing this crop, as well as all kin-Is of cucumbers, melons, and squashes, consists in this shortening of the main vine and the encouragement of the laterals. The fruit ;<a fivnrv mnrninrr as soon as it has reached a proper size, which is from two to three inches. The6e cucumbers are never cut, but are always preserved and pickled whole. The chief labor is in preventing damage by lice and the small cucumber beetle; for the former Ave find the best remedy to be to pluck off the iirst infested leaves, by which the otherwise rapid spread of this pest is prevented. For the other pest dusting with tinely ground gypsum is the best aud usual remedy.?New York Times. Farm and Garden Notes. In draining it pays to drain well. The zig-zag rail fence is a thief of the soil. Oilcake is a valuable concentrated food. Sheep should have their pasture changed once a month. An English authority condemns the use of phosphates for turnips. Sows are injured by having pigs before they arc fourteen months old. Turkeys suffer much from hot weather. Let them have plenty of water. Hens are not worth much for layers or breeders after they arc two years old. Charred corn, wheat, oats, rye or buckwheat. are ??ood for Doultry once in a while. Cut your first crop of clover, and plow the second under, if you wish to enrich your land with green manure. When you let your orchard run down it is a sign that you. too, arc running down, like Grandfather's clock. The Canadians converted three hundred thousand bushels of turnips into different kinds of jam laet season. A teaspoonful of saltpetre dissolved in a gallon of water has been recommended for killing rosebugs on grapevines. Oil the inside of horse collars after thoroughly washing them with carbolic soap, which both cleanses and disinfects. A foreign creamery feeds buttermilk to its horses with good results. A Jersey brewery gives lager, and the horses arc lively. One man puts green food, like clover and grass, in barrels and sinks them in the ground as a sort of silo to preserve the food for heas in winter. Joseph Harris says that to the farmer the entire cost of cabbage, planting, cultivating, harvesting, storing and marketing, need not be over one cent a head. Do not be afraid to pinch back your watermelons. It is better to have one good large one to a vine than to have threo or four little stunts that can never ripen, and wouldn't be worth anything if they did. In the work on feeding animals, by Professor Stewart, it is stated, as the results of careful experiment, that ten pounds of turnips and one and a half pounds of corn will fatten a young sheep or lamb faster than three pounds of corn alone. Flax culture is now receiving attention. This valuable crop requires a rich, loamy soil, which should be deeply broken, finely pulverized and free as possible from weeds or grass. It may go into the ground in May. If sown for seed three pecks to an acre is sufficient, but if for a tine soft liber the amount should be doubled. One bushel of seed will give a tine fiber and a yield of ten bushels of seed per ncre. According to the best evidence obtainable on the subject there is more profit to the dairymen in medium and small cattle than in larger ones. Those who are now advocating uie general purpose uuw, claim that she must be large in order ro make good paying beef. For our part we cannot see why a large steer is any more profitable than a small one. Each animal sells by the pound and eats according to his size. Cuts from the carcass of large animals cost no more in market than cuts from small ones. Lambs may be weaned when from four to five months old. They and their mothers should bo separated and placed in lots out of sight of each other, and along with the young things should be put three or four wethers or dry ewes to keep them tame. They should have a good pasture and a little grain daily, whereas the ewes should be temporarily stinted for the purpose of drying up their milk. Shearing time will, however, have arrived ere this, when the llo'ck should first be passed in review and dirty locks of wool cut ofT; Ihen the sheep should be washed, and in four or five days, or as soon as the wool is dry, they may be sheared. Washed sheep should be sheared on grass to keep the wool clean, the aeces sories being a pen to enclose the sheep i and a rough table on which to roll up 1 the wool. Notice should be taken of the J quantity and quality of the wool of in- | dividual sheep for future guidance. If | "ticks" arc numerous on sheep or lambs they are very harmful, and both should be dipped immediately, or soon after shearing, in a preparation which will destroy the pc9ts. A decoction of tobacco with a little sulphur added is as eood as anything. The lambs should be sheared in August. This is nn innovation on the custom of this country, but it will be found to have a good effect on their growth, and before the arrival of winter \ they will have acquired a fresh fleece j quite sufficient to protect them. Ifonschold IIlntM and Hectprn. j Whole cloves are now used to exter- I minate the merciless and industrious j moth. It is said that they are moro ' effectual as a destroying agent than I either tobacco, camphor or cedar shav- j ings. Leather chair-seats may be revived by j rubbing them with well-beaten white of j eirg. Leather bindings or books may also be cleansed by this method. White Roman bindings should be washed with I a soft flannel saturated in soapsuds. To make corn bread, take two cups of | Indian meal, one teaspoonful of salt, two j tcaspoonsful of baking powder, one cup | of molasses, one quart of sweet milk, two eggs: stir with wheat flour about as stiff as for cake and bake in a deep dish. An appetizing way to warm over potatoes is to heat them in a saucepan containing a coffee cupful of beef stock, well seasoned with salt, pepper and a little parsley which has first been browned in butter; cut the potatoes in thin slices and let them cook slowly until they are saturated with the gravy or liquor. A very nice way to cook mackerel foi breakfast is, after freshening it, to boil it for ten minutes, take it out of the water, drain it, remove the back-bone, then pour over the fish a gravy made of milk thickened with flour, and with a lump of butter added. The gravy is just like that which you make for milk | toast. Very tender asparagus maKes a de- | licious garnish. Pour boiling wa.tor | over it, and let it lie in the water for three or four minutes, then dip each piece into a little batter, and fry in butter, or you may fry it in butter without dipping it into batter; scatter pepper and salt over it and place around the meat or game on the platter. To make rhubarb jelly, take some rhubarb, wipe it with a clean wet cloth, peel it and cut it into pieces an inch long. To each pound of rhubarb add three quarters of a pound of white sugar. Put it to boil for about ten minutes, or until the juice is well drawn. Strain it into a preserving pan, let it boil quickly until I it clings to the spoon, skim it and put it I into jam pots or molds. The quickest j way to know if it will set is to drop a i little on to a plate to cool. "* The Pet Crocodile. When Herodotus was in Egypt about j 450 years before the Christian era, the : following was the way in which this formidable reptile was taken prisoner: "There are many ways of catching crocodilcs in Egypt, but the following : seems to be best worth relating. The : huntsman puts the chine of a pig as a i bait on a hook, and lets it down into the river. In the meantime he takes his station on the bank, holding a young I pig, which he beats in order to make it 1 squeal out. The crocodile, on hearing this, makes toward the sound, but meeting with the bait on his .way, he swallows it down. Then the men begin to pull, and after he is fairly hauled out on dry ! land, the first thing the huntsman does I is to plaster the crocodile's eyes up with ] mud. If he can succeed in doing thil I there is no difficulty in managing the J beast; otherwise it is a very troublesome j afTair." | The different treatment which this ! monster received in different parts of ancient Egypt is-cnrious, and not very j easily accounted for. In the southern i parts, near the cataracts, the crocodile I was an article of food, but probably j only with a particular castc, as in Doni gola at the present clay. In other parts, as the Thebes and near the great Lake Ivcroun, it was fashionable to have a pet crocodile, who was fed daintily and treated with great respect. 4'They put," said Herodotus, "pendants of glass and : gold in their ears, and rings round their i fore-legs; they also give them a regular j allowance of bread and meat, and take I all possible care of them while alive, i When they die the Egyptians embalm I them ..and put them in sacred sepulchres." Fortunately for the credit of j Herodotus, a mummy of a crocodile has I been found with his ears pierced for j pendants, which fact is particularly | mentioned by M. GeoiTroy St. Ililaire. j Strabo tells an odd story of a crocodile ! which he saw when ho visited Egypt, somewhat more than 400 years after the I visit of Herodotus. "In this district i they honor the crocodile very much, and ! they have a sacred one which lives in the i lake by itself, and is quite tame to the j priests. He is called Suehus, and is fed I with bread, and meat, and wine, which ! lie gets from strangers who come to see j him. Our host, who was a person of importanco in the place, accompanied us to the lake, taking with him from the table J a small cake, some roasted meat, and a j little cup of some sweet liquor. We I found the crocodile lying on the margin of the lake. The priests went up to him, and while some opened his mouth, another ' crammed into it, first the cake, then : the meat, and last of a(l, poured the drink down his throat. The crocodile, after this treat, jumped into the lake and 8warn over to the other side.?Eye. Sam Ward's Cook Book. The recent death of Sam Ward gives a fresh interest to the following gastronomic rhymes from his pen. Theycovcr I almost everything necessary to good living, says the Washington Ilntchet: Always have lobster sauce with salmon, i K 1 Wiocfivl lomK An aliu jjuu iiiiiiu oauto juui iwwww? v.? Veal cutlet clip in egg and bread crumb, Fry until you see a brownish-red como. 1 Great Gruyere cheese on macaroni, Make the top crisp, but not too bony. In dressing salad mind this law; With two hard yolks use one that's raw. Roast veal with rich stock gravy serve, And pickled mushrooms, too, observe. J Roast pork sans apple sauce, past doubt, ! Is Hamlet with the Prince left out. I Your mutton chops with paper- cover, [ And make them amber brown all over. Broil lightly your beefsteak?to fry it i Argues contempt of Christian diet. ; Buy stall-fed pigeons; when you've got them, ; The way to cook them is to pot them. ' Wood-grouse are dry when gumps have I marred 'cm, Before you roast 'em always lard 'em. To roast spring chickens is to spoil 'em. i Just split 'em down the back and broil 'em. J It gives true epicures the vapors j To set* boiled mutton minus capcrs. Boiled turkey, gourmands know, of course, Is exquisite with celery sauce. ' The cook deserves a hearty cuffing I Who serves roast fowl with tasteless stuffing. : Smelts require egg and biscuit powder. Don't put fat pork in your clam chowder. ! Egg sauce?few make it right, alas!? Is good with blue-fish or with bass. [ Nice oyster sauce gives zest to cod? A fish, when fresh, to feast a god. , Shad, stuffed and baked, is most dolicious; 'Twould have electrified Apicius. Roasted in paste, a haunch of mutton Might make ascetics play the glutton. But one might rhyme for weeks this way, And still have lots of things to say. And so I'll close, for, reader mine, This is al>out the hour I dine. A London correspondent has discov- j I ered that one may say either gown, dress or frock, when alluding to woman's outer gear, without being voted either old- I fashioned, vulgar or slangy. More vital questions are being cleared up this year i than during any similar period since the j war. A New York photographer who has j taken pic! ures <>f nearly 1.10,000 people] says that in nineteen cases out of twenty the left side of the face gives the inns' characteristic likeness, while the right side is the most symmetrical. FITZ JOHN PORTER Veto of the Bill for His Relief by the President. The House Passes the Bill Over Mr. Arthur's Veto, Following is the full text of President Arthur's veto of the bill for tlio relief of General Fitz John Porter: To the House of Representatives: After careful consideration of tho bill entitled, "An Act for tho Relief of Fitz John Porter," I herewith return it with my objoctions to the House of Congress in which it originated. Its enacting clause is in tho terms fol" lowing: That the President l>e nml is hereby authorized to nominate mid, by and with the advice And content of tho Senate, to appoint Kitz John I'orter. late a major-general United Slates volunteers and brevet brigadier-general and colonel in the army,to the position of colonel in the army of the I'niled States of the came grade held by him at the time o his dismissal from the army by sentence of court martiiil promulgated .Jmiiinry 27,18(53, ctc. It is apparent that should this hill become n Inw it will r-r.-ntr> n nmv ofHr-ft which call lie filled by the appointment of tho particular in dividual whom it specifies, and cannot bo filled otherwise; or it may be said, with perhaiB greater precision of statement, that it will create a new office on condition that the particular jwrson designated shal 1 be chosen to till it. Such an act, as it seems to me,is either unnecessary and ineffective, or it involves an encroachment by tho legislative branch of tho government on tho authority of the executive. As Congress has no power under the const itution to nominate and appoint an officer, atid cannot lawfully imi>ose on tho President the duty of nominating and appointing to offico any particular individual of its own selection, this bill, if it can fairly bo construed as requiring tho President to make the nomination, and by and with the advice and consent of the Senate the appointment which it authorizes, is in manifest violation of the Constitution. If such bo not a just interpretation, it must lie regarded as a mere enactment of advice and counsel, which lacks, in the very nature of things, tho force of positivo law, and can serve no useful purpose on tho statute books. There are other causes that deter mo from giving this bill tho sanction of my approval. The judgment of the court martial by which more than twenty years since General Fitz John Porter was tried and convicted was pronounced by a tribunal composed of nine general officers of distinguished character and ability. Its investigation of the charges of which it found tho accused guilty was thorough and conscientious, and its findings and sentenco were in due course of law approved by Abraham Lincoln, then President of the United States. Its legal competency, its jurisdiction of the accused ana 01 uiie sudjocis oi me ua-usutiun, the substantial regularity of all its proceedings, are matters which have never been brought in question. Its judgment, therefore, is final and conclusive in its character. The supreme court of the United States hus recently declared that a court martial, such as this was, "is the organism provided by law and clothed with the duty of administering justice in this class of cases. Its judgments, when approved, rest on the same basis, and are surrounded by the same considerations which give conclusiveness to the judgments of other tribunals, including as well the lowest as the highest." 11 follows accordingly that when a lawfully constituted court martial has duly declnred its findings, and its sentence, the same have been duly approved, neither the President nor the Congress has any power to set them aside. The existence of such power is not openly asserted, nor perhaps is it necessarily implied in the provisions of the bill which is before me; but when its enacting clauses' are read in the light of the recitals of its preamble, it will be seen that it seeks in effect the practical annulment of the findings and sentence of a competent court martial. A conclusion at variance with these findings has been reached after investigation by a board consisting of three (.Ilieers of the a. my. This board was not created in pursuance of any statutory authority, and was powerless to compel the attendance of witnesses or to pronounce a judgment which could be lawfully enforced. The officers who compos- d it, in their report to the secretary of war, dated March 1!), 1879, state that in their opinion : ' Justice requires * * * such action as may be necessary to annul and set aside the findings and sentence of the court martial in the case of Major-General Fitz John Porter, and to restore him to the positions of which their sentence deprived him, such restoration to take effect trom the date of his dismissal from the service." The provisions of tha bill now under consideration are avowedly based on the assumption that the findings of the court martial have l*en discovered to be erroneous. Put it will be borne in mind that the investigation which is claimed to have resulted in this discovery was made many years after the event to which these findings related, and under circumstances that made it impossible to reproduce the evidence on which they were based. It seems to mo that the proposed legislation would establish a dangerous precedent, calculated to imperil in no small measure the binding force and effect of the judgments of various tribunals established under our Constitution and laws. I have already, in the oxerciso of the par .lolling i>ower with which the President is vested, remitted the continuing penalty that made it impossible for Fitz John Porter to hold an office of trust or profit under the government of the United States. But I am unwilling to give my sanction to any legislation which shall practically annul and set at nntirrht. tlui solemn and deliberate conclusion of tho tribunal by which he was convicted, and 6t tho President by whom its findings were examined and approved. Chester A. Arthur. flic reading of the veto was received with applause on the Republican side of tho House, and with hisses on the Democratic side. Tho Speaker announced that immediate action ou the veto would bo in order. General Slocutn moved that the bill be passed, the objection of tho President to the contrary notwithstanding, and on this motion he demanded the previous question. Under tho constitution a yea and nay vote was necessary. It resulted, yeas, 108; nays, 78. There being a two-thirds vote in the affirmative, the bill was passed over the President's veto. The announcement of tho vote was greeted with continued cheering by the friends of tho measure, and with hisses by its opjxmeuts. The message went to the Senate, where there was no likelihood of iU passing over the veto. Attorney-General Brewster furnished to the President, at his roqut.-st, a long opinioti on the Porter bill, in which views substantially the same as those given in the veto mosfV-e are expressed. MUSICAL AND DRAMATIC. Mme. Modjeska will pass tho summer in Poland. B Madame Patti will apj>ear in Now York In concert next December. The loss to theatre managers in the city of New York lost season is estimated at over $000,000. Theatrical real estate in tho United States is estimated at $115,1)00,000, divided among 2,552 theatres. Sara Bernhardt is having a traaslation of ' 'Hamlet" made, with a view to playing the rolo of tho melancholy Dane. A friend of Madaino Vanoni states that a Western manager has otforod tho prima donna |500 a week for a starring tour next season. Josie Dell, tho remarkable child actress of "Her Atonement" company, is to bo sent to Southern Franco by her parents, whero sho will study five years. Wallace Ross and Frederick Plaistcxl, the rowing men, intend appearing on the stage next season in a piece which will expose tho frauds of sporting life. Miss Nellie Jones, a prominent San Francisco amateur, will join the professional ranks next season. She has been well spoken of by the Western press. Miss Florence St. John, tho leading comic opera singer in London, where she readily earns $500 a week, has refused an oiler to come to America to sing. Mme. Minnie Hauk is to bo heavily backed next season in tho production of English opera on a grand scale. Artists of the first rank are already being engaged. Mme. Nilsson was recently given a com* plimentary reception and banquet in Minneapolis, Minn., her entertainers being representative Scandinavians of tho Northwest. Signou Salvini, tho tragedian, is named in a Now York journal as tho happy man in a wedding at which his former Desdemona, Miss Adalo Belgrade, is to figure as tho bride. Mr. Barrv Sullivan, tho well-known English actor, will shortly start on his third professional tour round tho world, visiting the United States, Australia, Japan, China and India. The Bach society, of London, will celebrate tho bicentenary of the birthday of J. Seb;u>tian Bach on March Sil, ltWo, by giving some of his works with a chorus of 000 voices, a largo orchestra and several well known solois ts, Walter Stan dish has written a new play for J. K. Em met, entitled "In the Promised Land." It is an aduptutiou of the story of "Camilla's Husband," New music is being prepared for it and several original songs wid to introduced Iiivinu's tour of 1SS4-S-j begins at Quebec on September ;Ul. lie goes thence to .Montreal, Hamilton, Toronto, Bull'alo, Albany, Boston, New York, Philadelphia, I'lttaburgh, Cleveland,Datroit, Chicago, Baltimore, Brooklyn and New York, closing April 4, I660. 'A Washington correspondent says: "1; has been discovered that General Logan istlio first man the Republicans have nominated for a Vico-Presidency with a wife to share his honors. Dayton, nominated in 185G; Hamlin, in 18W); Johnson, in 1S04; Colfax, in lfcMVS; Wilson, in 1872; Wheeler, in 1870, and Arthur, in 1880, were all widowers. General Logan lives in the same house Mr. Wheeler lived in when he was nominated and occupies adjoining rooms. Mrs. Wheeler died a few days after the convention." . ' STEWS SUMMARY. Eastern and iTIlddle Stales, Twelve lives were rejiortcd lost (luring tho I recent heavy storm along tho Atlantic const. Hear Burnegat, Mass., tho schooner L. and A. j Babcock was run ashore and went to pieces, j Tho captain, mate's wife and three sailors | were drowned. At Soiner's Point, N. J., nino Italian laborers were trying to cross an inlet < when their boat upset and six out of the nine | were drowned. Another man was drowned ' in Egg Harbor inlet. Six men were injured, two fatally, by tho prematura explosion of a blast while exI cavating for a roadway at Johnstown, . Penn. Before a convention of teachers of tho deaf j and dumb, in New York, a deaf girl gavo a wonderful illustration of the Sjrfection to which lip-reading can be brought. y the movement of a speaker's lips outlined j in shadow on a wall she was enabled to de; cipher tho words uttered. Another body, that of Mr. Rowe, of New j York, has just been cremated at tho Wash! ington (Penn.) furnace. Destructive forest fires have been raging \ in portions of Massachusetts and Maine. A collision between some conl cars and 1 oil airs at Driftwood, Penn., resulted in a lire ; which destroyed fifteen buildings, niostlj j business houses. Loss, $55,000. A cremation society has l>een formed in New York, anil a crematory for the burnine of bodies is to be erect? J near Cranford, N. J. South and Went. i Five thousand spectators witnessed tho hanging of Dock Walker (colored) for the murder of Lucius Grant (colored) at Texarkaua, Ark. Eleven men were injured, somo fatally, liy a boiler explosion in a saw-mill aud car , factory at Toledo, Ohio. A number of horse thieves have recently I lx?en captured and unceremoniously killed by i cow-boys in Montana. | James Buiige, of Franklin county. Gn., interfered in a quarrel which two of his j daughters were having about some article of dress while preparing for church. One of the daughters?Lela, seventeen years old?seized : an ax aud killed her father. She was taken to jail. Seven persons were killed,and three fatally | and eight seriously injured by a toiler explosion j in a flouring mill near Bryon, Ohio. The i mill was totally destroyed. ! Great damage has been done in portions pf i Maryland by the recent storm. In Cecil : county the village of Rowlandsville was al| mo6t entirely swept away, and with it the j McCullough Iron company's works, which j was the principal industry of the place, in| volving a loss estimated at $100,000. Tbree children, boys, named Murphy, i aged respectively Ave,"seven and nine years, i were burned to death in their mother's resi; dence, at Youngstown, Ohio. The fourth and eldest child escaped by junipiug out of a second story window. Miss Lizzie Bheely, of White Cloud, Kansas, twenty-seven years old, became dei ranged, refused to eat anything, and finally died,after going fifty-three days without food. Allan Pinkerton, head of tho famous detective agency, diet! a few days since in Chicago. WaMlilngrton. TnE army' appropriation bill, as agreed upon in conference of the committees of both houses, with the exception of the clause regulating the compensation to subsidized railroa is for fumy transportation, appropriates $24,454,450. Eli H. Murray has been nominated by the President to be governor of Utah. Gilbert A. Fierce, of Illinois, has been nominated ti be governor of Dakota, and John H. Kinkead, of Nevada, to be governor of Alaska. The Senate in executive session confirmed ! the nominations of Eli H. Murray, of Louisville to be governor of Utah, and Henry F. Pickles to bo collector of customs for tho district of Delaware. President Arthur has appointed Cornelious R. Agnew, of New York, and Merrill Ii. Gates, of New Jersey, as members of tho Board of Indian commissioners; also, Commodore William T. Kamjraon, United States navy, and Professor F. A. P. Barnard and I Cleveland Abbo as delegates to the International Meridian and Time Standard congress, to lx) h<*ld in Washington on October 1. The President lias approved tho act establishing a bureau of labor. In tho Iowa contested election case of Fredericks versus Wilson, tho House committee on elections by a vote of six to five decided to report in favor of Mr. Fredericks (Democrat), and against Mr. Wilson (Republican), the sitting member. The Indian appropriation bill, as agreed upon by the conference committee of the House and Senate, appropriates $5,8 >0,402. During June there was a reduction in tho j national debt of $9,217,256.80. The fiscal year closed Juno HO, shows a rcduction in tho public debt of $101,000,009 | against $ I.'>8,000,0:0 for the preceding year. The available cash in the United States treasury in July 1 was $lo9,887,439. Expenditures by tho government during the past fiscal year were: Ordinary, $134,915,089; pensions, $50,00'$,995; interest, $54,578,884; total, $245,498,578, against $205,408,137 during tho previous fiscal year. Government receipts during the past fiscal year wore as follows: Customs, $195,027,291; internal revenue, $122,004,499; miscellaneous, $:?),1(50,!M4; total, $:W,798,7:U. against ?598, 287,582, received the previous year. Fnrrlirn. A most disastrous hailstorm has occurred in Erivan, a province of Southern Russia. Tho hailstones were as largo as goose eggs. The rivers were dammed, seventy houses were razed, ami property was damaged to tho amount of 3U?),UU0 vubles. Forty lives were lost. The nineteen prisoners, charged with th murder of five Orangemen on bt. Stephen' Day were all acquitted in St. John, N. F. amid intense excitement Fires aro made at night in the streets of Toulon, France, to purify tho city and provent tho spread of the plague. The city of Panama is full of thieves and bad characters and murderers and robberies are frequent. Several attempts have been mailo to fire the city, as well as Aspinwall. The elections in Portugal for members of tho chambers of deputies resulted in a largo majority for the government. Ten* thousand miners in Staffordshire! England, have struck against a reduction of wages. It is considered certain in Brussels,Belgium, that America, Franco and Germany are about to recognize the free States on tho Congo created by tho International African association. EionT persons were killed or injured by lightning during a severe storm at Lemberg, tho capital of Gtilicia. A kike in Edinburg, Scotland, destroyed tho Theatre Royal and several adjacent buddings. The False Prophet's rebels in tho Soudan havo issued fresh warnings that they will give no quarter, and their threats have caused great terror among the population. Twenty-five miners were killed and others injured by an explosion at a colliery in Wellington, British Columbia. Peopi.e are fleeing from cholera at Marseilles and Toulon, France, by thousands. Many deaths have occurred at these places, and other European cities are subjecting French vessels to strict quarantine. etnnupv htt nmznvw ouiJiiUA in ur wiivjinjuu. Senate* Tlie animal deficiency appropriation bill, appropriating $7,823,OtfcJ, un increase of $1,0S4,01? over the IIouso bill wk rejwrted The conference rejwrt 011 the invalid ]>ensioiis bill was agreed to Mr. Mahono reported favorably, from the committee 011 education and lalx>r, the bill t<> provide for the adjustment of the accounts of laborers, workmen and mechanics, arising under the eight-hour law. The bill provides that all persons who have been employed as laborers, workmen, or mechanics by or 011 iK'half of the government of the United States since June 25, IMS (the date of the act constituting eight hours a day's work),shall 1m* paid for each day's work at "the price per day as regulated by private parties in the vicinity in which tho work was performed, without reference to the number of hours work required by such parties; and that all claims for labor so performed in excess of eight hours ]K'r day shall be referred to the court of claims, to "be adjudicated upon tho basis that eight hours constitute a day's work and are to bo jviid for as above tated; all judgments givon against the United States in favor of claimants for tlie amount found due to be paid as other judgments of the court of claims against the United States. Mr. Blair, from the committee on education Mid labor, reported favorably and without amendment, the bill recently passed by the Houso to prohibit tho importation and migration of foreigners and aliens untler contract or agreement to {>erforin labor in the United. States The general deficiency appropriation bill was taken up. On motion 01 Mr. Hale the district attorney was authorized to pay Charles H. Reed, of New York, a sumnot exceeding ?3,000 for services as counsel for the defease of Guiteau. With those exceptions the bill Wfis {Missed substantially as rejMirtod Discussion on tho river and harbor appropriation bill followed, without action. Tho Senate passed tho House bill relieving from tho charge of desertion soldiers who served until tho expiration of their term and at tho end of tho war wont homo without 1>eing fonnally mustered out Mr. Butler's resolution for nn investigation of the New York national banks was referred to Hie committee on finance, o!? to 16 Tho river nnil harlx>r bill was taken tip, ami, after several amendments bad been made, was passed. It appropriated the Senate having added in it. Ilouwe. Mr. Valentine, -r Nebraska, arose and called attention t?> a sp.'ecli of Mr. MoAdoo, of New Jersey, on the establishment of a soldiers'home ill tho West, and said that in the Hrcortl Mr. McAdoo had tuke.i occasion to ariiit as part of his remarks a newspaper dispatch containing the names of nativo land 4 & monopolists, among which appeared that of John A. Logan as owning 80,000 acres of land. Senator Logan had desired Mr. Valentine to pay that, so far as related to him, 1 the statamont was false. Mr. Valentine acI cused Mr. McAdoo of an abuse of privilege. , I Mr. Cannon moved that the Record be so amended as to show that the speech of Mr. McAdoo was not actually delivered in the House, and intimated that Mr. McAdoo had , not had tho courago to avow on the floor what , he had caused to appear in the Record. Mr. j McAdoo defended his courage, and declared he did not retract a word of the printed speech. Tho list referred to had been printed all over the country months ago, and not a word of denial camo from Logan. Sev- i oral members desired to offer amendments to | the Cannon resolution so as to have it apply , to other speeches which have been published, although never uttered in the House. Pond- j | ing discussion tho House adjourned. ' The legislative appropriation bill was reported back with the recommendation to non J concur in the Senate amendment. Adopted ( j .... The conference committee's report on the | resolution to print tho agricultural report for , , 1884 was agreed to. Four hundred thousand , , copies are to bo printed for $200,000....The ( political discussion of the previous day came i .1 .1 1 Hf _ r.lnnfinfi'o I up us ins uimnisueu uusmw^, mi. > (numauo?? motion to correct the record being a privileged question. Upon motion of Mr. Cox of [ ' New "York, the whole matter was laid upon the table On motion of Mr. Hopkins, of j Pennsylvania, the House went into committee of the whole on the bill to adjust the wages of workmen, laborers and mechanics I under the eight-hour law. The bill provides for the settlement of claims for labor by the | court of claims, since June 25, 1868, on the basis of eight hours as a day's work, at the { same rate as paid for similar work by private parties, regardless of the time required for a ; day's work by such private parties. Mr. Lovoring, of Massachusetts, spoke in support of and Mr. Tillman, of South Carolina, against the bill. General debate was continual for j several hours, when the reading by sections was begun. Tlio first section was amended bo as to make it applicable to work hereafter jierformed, and without proceeding further the committee rose. The Fortifications bill was under considera' tion in committee of the whole, and speeches ,were made by Messrs. Horr, Cox, Finerty and Dorsheimer, advocating liberal appropriations for our coast defences, the present condition of which is such that we would be at the mercy of even any Becond-class power which might choose to attack us. Without reaching a vote the committee rose, and Mr. Elliott, of Pennsylvania. from the committee on elections, reported a resolution declaring John 8. Wise entitled to retain his seat as representativeat-large from Virginia The views of the minority were presented by Mr. Turner, of Georgia, and ordered printed. The House receded from its disagreement to Senate amendments to the po6toffice appropriation bill, but refused to agree to Senate amendments to the naval bill. The fortifications bill was further considered. liATRIl NEWS Hodges, Hersey & Co., manufacturers o 1 ; straw goods of Now York, have failed for : woo,ooo. Three men in New York have been arj rested on tho charge of attempting to swindle the elevated railroads out of 1100,000 by means of forged tickets. Onu man confessed that in two years he had stolen $14,000. Business failures in the United States during tho past six months, according to the New York Mercantile Agency of Dun & Co. I number 5,510, as against 4,037 for the first six i months of 1883. The liabilities amount to $124,000,000, as against $60,000,000 for the j first half of 1883. The Plymouth Savings bank at Plymouth, 1 Penn., and the Gloucester County Savings bnnk at Camden, N. J., have suspended. W. R. McGill, president of the Cincinnati ! and Eastern railroad, fell fifty feet from a j train which was crossing a trestle at Win. | chester, Ohio, and was instantly killed. Toe House committee on elections decided | to reconsider its previous action whereby it was agreed to seat Mr. Fredericks in the contested election case of Fredericks vs. Wilj son, of Iowa. Rev. H. V. Pluaier, a colored man, has been appointed chaplain of the Ninth cavalry, a colored regiment with white officers. Mr. Tlumer is tho first colored man ever appointed to the army and the first colored chaplain that tho army has ever had. General Francis E. Todleben, tho most celebrated of Russian engineers, is dead. A CUBIOUS CELEBRATION. A Famous Legend Commemorated %a a German Town. i j A special cable dispatch to the Now York Herald says: The citizens of Ha-Moln or Hamolin. in Brunswick. Germany, to-day C |i ebrated with much pomp and parade the as | himdredtli anniversary of the charming <JE the children of the Hamelin by the Pied ft per. For two months past a committee of ; twenty-nino citizens had b<*en busily en? gaged in arranging the details of the celebration. This was to have begun on Thursday, the real anniversary day, but had to be postponed ; until to-day because of the state of the weather. The advertisements of the festival brought to the little town several thousand visitors in addition to the usual number of Bummer tourists who wero staying at the place. At twilight this morning the people of Hamelin and the surrounding country were awakened by the booming of cannon and the clanging of bells. This salute gave assurance that the day was to be one of perfect weather. The people turned out in tneir best attire. All the schools, workshops and stores were closed, and the entire population I of the district made such a holiday as has seldom been seen in Germany. All the buildings hod been freshly decorated during the night, and the street archings had been reflowered and rogreened. Bands paruded all morning, and there was general jollity preceding tho principal event of the day, wnich was the procession after the general assemblage at two o clock in front of the "Old House." This bears on its outer wall an inscription stating that the Kattenfaenger von Hamelin, who lived iu that same house, did on Thursday, 60U years ago, by the charm of his pipe lure the children of the village |' from tneir homes into a cave in , i tho Keppelberg Hall and disappeared i with them there, in revenge ujK>n tho burgomaster for refusing to pay the thousand crowns promised the piper for ridding the town of its rats. To tho assembled j thousands the legend was recited hi front of i the old house. Then tho grand procession was formed and made up as nearly as possible like tin; historic procession or oiu. nuiwuwa of children dressed in the costume of six centuries ago led the procession, following the strains of the ancient pij>o to the sitot on the Koppelberg whither the legend declares that the piper disappeared with the children. The spectacle was exceedingly pretty. The costumes were historically correct, artists from Dusseldor? ami Munich having come to Hameliu to sujiervise their manufacture. Betiiiicl the children followed chariots drawn hy (nettled horses, alter the stylo of the rude vehicles of the Pied Pij>er's time. Knights in armor, men in lung hose and buff gherkins, women in graceful robes, and, finally, all the Handicraftsmen of that ancient time, wielding their primitive tools, made up tho balance of a pageant seldom equaled in this generation for historic interest and pic' turesqucness. The leading authorities of the town all had conspicuous positions in tho proi cession, and the brilliantly uniformed military ! of the province added their presence to the ?l>ectacular display. It had been intended to j jmbody in to-day's pageant representations i of all the familiar German legends concerning the pii>er, but at tho Inst moment this idea was abandoned, because of the time it would | have required to carry it out, but it was derided to confine tho representation to that of i the Urowningstory. The procession was a comj lilete success, and the children were escorted uaek to the town with band music. Tho after; noon was given up to concerts, and all sorts of iutdoor amusements. j In the evening at the theatre Nessler's opera, the libretto of which embodies the old legend of the Pied Piper, was rendered, many j noted singers taking part in the performance. ; Late at night the town was brilliantly illumi| naterl, ami tho day's festivities were closed ! with a great torchlight procession and a mag| uiticent display of fireworks. PROMINENT PEOPLE. Judge David Da vis has lost considerable in weight since his retirement from tho Senite. I i^A'OCiWlVAl Ai\i J^v/irvin !.-> Iiun at tun mini I *t Windsor, Vt., where he proposes to spend ;he entire summer. : Mit. BoutweMj, ex-governor of Mnssnohu' <etts, has in press n book with the title, ''Why [ am a Republican." Mb. Von Eisenoeckeh, the German mini ster, has taken final leave of the President i liul sailed for Europe. | Gknkiiai. Guzman Blanco, ex-president of Venezuela, was recently presented to the ! ('resident liy the secretary of state. Bismarck is said to have lieen in splendid ! form at the inauguration of the German parliament, recently. Ho walked around and chatted gayly with everybody. i The Comtc do Paris, the Catholic claimant to the French throne, is a lineal descendant of Admiral do Coligny, the old Huguenot to whom Franco is alwut erecting a statue. The Rev. T. De Witt Talmage has receive^ the degree of doctor of divinity from the : University of Tennessee, in accordance with fhe unanimous vote of tho faculty and board of trustees. Philip Bouuke Mabston, tho English poet ! who, in his childhood, inspired Miss Mulock's "Philip, my King," has lost his mother, his only sister, his sweetheart, his familiar friend j and his eyesight. p j -; i A TERRIFIC EXPLOSION. 4 Mill Destroyed by the Burst ing of Its Steam Boiler. . Y'iM Seven Persons Killed and Many Others Injured. A terrific boiler explosion occurred a few jvenings ago in the flouring mill of Behren & Eaefer, near Eryon, Ohio. About forty men fBflHj rrere employed in the mill at the time and the jxplosion was so terrible in its force that the argo structure was blown almost to atoms, ind among its debris wero buried twenty- : ^ (even of the employes, eleven of whom were ;.:3|? ixtneated in a dying condition. It was found iiat seven men were killed and three others mortally wounded. Besido these about eight Jther persons were seriously injured, while learly every man in the mill wafgmore or less wKff&St. mrf The force of the explosion was so great that ^ pieces of the boiler, machinery and stones from the wall were hurled through the air a ; Jm listanceof a quarter of a mile. One piece wlpqS Df the boiler, atxrnt three feet square an^ weighing probably; more than a hundred , pounds was sent flying through the roof of a 9HH liouso at that distance from the mill It took : nearly the whole roof off, and the falling timbers seriously injured Mi?a Nellie winters HpPs ind George Winters, two of its occupants. Edward Forster, the engineer, was thrown .? jEj nearly three hundred feet He was terribly scalded and mangled, but lived for three hours. E. R. Ayers. his assistant, was hurled through the roof, three hundred feet away. .!" ? rhe work of extricating the injured was not completed until this morning, and while the work was carried . on, women and children whose fathers and husbands were buried in the debris, filled the air with their lamenta* . Hons. The scene throughout was a pitiful one. ' THE NATIONAL GAME. :M Siffel, tlie new Athletic catcher, is the smallest man behind the bat in the profession. From the official record it appears that the }H||9 Athletic club still retains pre-eminence as a HH heavy hitting team. Whitnet, the Boston league pitcher, one ^Xjvj day recently was flnwl $10 by Manager Mor- j'jjflal rill, for refusing to go after a hit ^ Evans, of Cleveland, was recently fined Bj?Ej f2o by Umpire Van Court for "back-talk, afejfl and Bushong was similarly treated. xi&fgl It is quite a coincidence that the Boston and Philadelphia teams each have a Manning WsflB and Crowley in their ranks and they are in aH no way related ' The Detroits have secured a new catcher BKffia riomoH rioTriri Rootio TTn is ft New Yorker, EK3c Is six feet high and weighs nearly 200 pounds. /VitS His practice has been confined to a ma tour EMH clubs. ^8 The once almost invincible Chicagos, al- . *>$2? though made up at present of the same material of which the club was composed in it* Rip palmy davs, is no longer looked upon with <? aw e and rear fcty the otner contestants in the race, as thev seem to have lost their vitality * ~''j and are notaing more than an average league team. The Louisville Courier-Journal says: Tha ' -v story how Holbert, the catcher of the Metro- ' politans, first entered the professional ranks ii i-IS*' thus told by Mr. Charles E. Chase, who was one 3d of the directors of the famous Louisville nint of 1877: "I went East with the club on theii first trip in 1877, and one day, while we were . in Philadelphia, we ran out into one of th? * . /, mining towns in Pennsylvaniaa to play a ... game with a club there. "We had nobody .^j-j with us to umpire the game, and told the man- -' ''i ager of tho other club to select one. He said \m he knew a man who was somewhat of a ball ; player, and he would get him to act He ao- #wSg cordingly called a man out of the crowd and V-fv told us he would do. The man was one of the \ most remarkable specimens I ever saw. Hii clothes were ragged and dirty, his face covered with coal dust and his shaggy, brown hair stuck out through tho holes in nis hat in . 5W several places. Everything went all right until the fourth inning, when Snyder, oui catcher, slipped and sprained his ankle. W? -gsM had no one to take his place, and 1 turned to :$jjjg Jack Chapman, who managed the nine, and ; & said to him: 'Jack, you had better go in and "5* catch the rest of tho game.' He replied that hi could not catch, andltold him it didn't make any difference, just so he stopped the balls;as tin game was of no consequence. " "While w? were discussing the matter the umpire :. sidled up to us and said: " Let me . catch the rost of the game.' Hooked al ' him ntmin find commenced to laUZh. ">^8 but Chapman remarked, ' Let him try.' then; it doesn't make any difference,' ana I told him to go ahead. He borrowed Snyder's shoes, and Devlin commenced to pitch hitn a few balls for praotice. He let them go easy for a while, and then sent them like a jhot, but the miner clung on manfully. The ^ jj game was commenced again, and I was never more surprise* 1 in my life. Ho finished the remaining five innings without an error or a passed ball, and not a single man stole second on him. When the game was finished I asked ;* bim his name, and he said it was Holbert I "A (vanted to know how much he made, and be replied $1.50 a day. I found on further questioning that he would like to play for a living and I engage:! him on the spot. I gave him -A money enough to pay his expenses to Phila- ' ' delplua, and he joined us there next day. He said he wanted to get a suit of clothes, and I gave him $25. He went out, and when he returned he had on the queerest looking suit ? , '/> sver saw. The color was very gaudy, and the '<% ?at had stripes on it about as wide as my -;g hand, while tne pants were cut like a song and dance man's, and he had a tall plug hat He was "guyea" unmercifully, but betook it rood-humoredly, and caught for us against the Athletics the next day, and had not a ' lingle error, and but one passed ball That was his first championship game." The ninth week of the League champion- ?\V3S ship contest closed with tho Providence nine in the van. the record of the different clubs being as follows: , Clubs. H'on. Lout. | Club*. Won. IxmI- ' Boston 34 12 Chicago 19 2? Providence 34 11 Philadelphia 19 New York.......2S 19 Cteveiaud 15 3? 1 Buffalo 23 21 Detroit 10 3<1 The twelve clubs of the American association stood as follows at the end of the ninth week's play. Clubs. Won. Lout. \ Clubs. Won. Losl. Metropolitan.23 13 | Baltimore....S3 13 Athletic 23 IS | Brooklyn 17 23 Lonlevltle 26 li Pittsburgh...10 si St. LouLs 26 13 | Toledo 12 23 - ' 1 IK I 1A Oa l'01UmOUS....Xf iu | iuuiuua^uiio.,iv ?xj Cincinnati....25 14 | Washington.. 8 23 The college championship season is endcri, and Yale once more holds the champioaship pennant, as will bo seen by the appeudta record: Clubs. Won. IjOsL I Club*. Won. Lout Yale....'. 9 21 Brown 5 S ?r> Harvard 8 3 I Princeton 2 8 ; V 'ilfS Amherst 6 4 j Dartmouth I 9 , In the Eastern League race the Wilmington team held the lead: Clubs. Won. Lost. I Clubs. ' Won. Lost. Wilmington....28 8 I Newark 13 19 Trenton 18 14 | Allentown 10 2a Virginia 21 15 | Harrisbure.. ..18 20 Reading 15 13 | MonumentaiThrown oat NEWSY GLEANINGS. - H This is a groat fish year?they are largo and abundant. Nearly one thousand additional money#rder offices will be opened this year. There is danger that the prosperous town if Greenville, Miss., will slip into the river. Electric elocks will soon be placad in all of tlie government buildings in New York. Three and four pound Irish potatoes is what tiie neighborhood of Tallahassee, Fla., is raising. The public institutions of New York city feed 14,000 persons, and bake up seventy-five barrels of flour per day. Is 18.V2 the United States produced 2,000, 000 tons of coal, while last year about 70,000,00<) tons were marketed. Alligators' skins and teeth are now sufficiently remunerative to support a slaughter* ing force of three hundred men in Southern Florida. Type-writing has been introduced in the Chicago public schools in an experimental way. A class of twenty-five practises two hours a week. During the present session of Congress tha House has passed bills providing for the for feiture of nearly 70,000,000 acres of land granted to railways. Over 2,100 lives, it is figured, were lost during the first quarter of this year, by disasters, which resulted in the loss of not lesj than ten lives each. Mrs. Catherine Raker, of Taylorsville, Va., is ninety years of age. and attributes he! longevity to her use of strong colfee, of which she drinks a dozen cups daily. Charles A. Heed, of Newton, Mass , when he died, bequeathed $50,000 to the United States toward the payment of the public debt. That sum, with #.'5,000 accumulated interest, has recently been paid in the Boston sub-treasU1T m a BRAVE CONVICT. Defending tlie Warden Against Tw.-ik ty-Fonr Criminal.*?His Ki-ward. While a gang of twenty-five convicts won at work at Plymouth, England, <>"< <>f tin ' ' of tli.1 snlituri uurauer uircw u large smsmv ?.* , warder, which struck tin* olHcer in the head, inflicting a stunning blmv. Tho ping then rushed u|X)n the keejwr, I?u? a convict nnnied Stevens, who was serving a lifelong sentence, outstripped tho remain. tier of the gang, seized the warder's ritlj ami ammunition, and fired ujKin the advancing crowd of outlaws, six of whom he seriously wounded. When the ammunition was exhausts! Stevens clubbed fiv? others with the rifle, and when assistant* arrived lie was completely exhausted. Tin details of the affair wen* promptly ii> e>rted to the government, and Sir Vernon arcourt, the home secretary, gave orden that Stevens should be immediately release^ from his sentence. iVhen this was tnudt " known to the convict he was overcome with Emotion and fainted. , '/* * - - . . 'n . ...