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^ 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Were withdrawn from my heart as the sun j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
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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
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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.
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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
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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. , '/*
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