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;SSSEEa"'sa ' ' A";~:' ABBEVILLE PE^SS~^D BANNER.! _ _ _" _ - ___^ 'r%6 BY HUGH WILSON. ABBEVILLE, S. CL WEDNESDAY. JULY 30. 1884. NO. 5. VOLUME XXIX. || ? mn || |B. II IIWIIIBIWIIIW II IB ! ? ? , , ' |llllMlimilHMHM^tlOTBTMMTmr? i?ttt, I, ? ??? ??1??^???? r HUMILITY. The tender flowers dream not how sweet they are. The buttercup's wee blossom, bright and g?y, That gems the meadows like n golden star, 'i'v inkling with dew at sunny break of day, Knows not how fair it makes this quiet spot? Sly heart, it knoweth not, it knoweth not! Swoet ore the roses in the pasture lane? Like flakes of sunset dropped from some rich cloud? Oh, sweet, indeed, but not with sweotness vain; Nor is the pasture of their presence prouA? Not for themselves they blossom, bud and nod? They spring to breathe to man the piece of God. I never hoard a songster's lay that told Of aught but simple joy and grateful praise. The oriole, with throat aflanio with gold, Dreams not he is a cli.inn to mortal gaze. No bird to laud himself hatheversung; His song if for the flowers ho chirps among. The rainbow streaming o'er the silver mist, "With hues as soft as morning-glories bright, Where, by the glowing lips of sunbeams ldswd. The airy clouds blush into colored light? Calls not for praise; but in a little while Hides in the passing stonn its modest smile. \ The mountains, round whoso brows the stars rejoice, Whose peaks are hoary with eternal snow, Look up as if to listen for that voico That woke creation, cen'uriesago, Thinking perchance its might again may rise And bid their summits blossom to the skies. Go ask the eagle soaring round their height. And ask the moon that with her beauty great Beams on their silent whiteness through the night, If e'er they breathe a whisper of their state. Unmindful ?how the praising world admires, They point to God and heaven their dazzling spires. The sun that fills the skies with summor calms, The stars that light unmeasured depths of space, Like distant suns that flash reflected charms, When on the night Jehovah turns his face? All those in humbleness tfteir glory wear, Grateful, not prouil, bocaus? Heaven mado them fair. Oh, vaunting man. go ponder on these things:; Think?what is glory in thy Maker's view? j Who wins the passing praise the cold world sings, Nor always earns the praise of Heaven, too. ! Thon mayst through life thy name with gods enroll, Yet hear rebuke of angels in thy soul. Oh, to be simple in the lives we lead! To know that what we hold is not our own! The lily is as modest as the weed, The mountain humble as the broken r* stone. Since man is proud, how wise it is, how just. ! That death should come to teach us we are dust! ?K W. Shurtleff, in Youth's Companion. j WHAT THE BEES DID. j "You can't eat no more idle bread in this house!'' angrily exclaimed old John Hurdle, addressing his son Abe. *'Xo. rir, no more idle bread in this house." "I must eat it outdoors then, must I?'' asked the boy. "No, you sha'n't eat it on my farm. I do believe that you've got less consideration than any man 1 ever saw. You know i 11 T _i. xi ? . OS wen as x uu luair luu uuiu aujiniu^ > for work, but as soon as iny back is turned you drop your hoe and sit down in the shade. I wish I may never stir again if I ever saw the like in my life. I am a great mind to drive you off. Go on back there and hoc that corn. Where're you goin'?" The boy had atartcd to enter the house. "Wantcr get something to cat." "It hasn't been three hours since you eat breakfast." '-'"Yes, but I'm hungry now." The boy entered the kitchen where his ; mother, among bright pans was scouring j a brass kettle until it had begun to shine like a mirror. "Abe, why do you give your father so much trouble? Why don't you stick to j your work. Pleg take that boy! Don't cut that bread." "Oh, I can't work all the time," proceeding to cut the bread. "I'm tired, an' so Sot out there." "Abraham," called the father. "Yes, sir." "Are you comin'?" "In a minit," and cutting off a piece of j butter with a butcher knife, he proceeded i to spread it on his bread. "Abe, do hurry up," said the mother. "Don t you know that if we could afford it you would not have to work?" The old man entered, holding with an > angry grip, an apple tree sprout. "Pap, don't whip him," the mothw pleaded. "I am sure that he will go on , to his work and stick to it." "I am a great mind to cut him in two. Of all the boys I ever saw, he is the most 1 trifling. I don't knc?r what will become of him when we drap off. What will you do, hah?" "JL>on t Know, sir," muncning ms bread. "What will you do for a living, bah?" "Eat, I reckon.'' ; "Ob, there's no doubt of that, provided you can get anything to eat, but if you don't make a great improvement in the way you stir your stumps, you'll starve to death. You don't want to work, ! you don't seem to care for play, but all you want is to mope around like you'd lost the last friend in the world. What do you mean by it ?" "I am thinking." "Thinking?" replied the old gentleman derisively. "A boy that's too lazy to play, ain't going to do much thinkin'." ; "Perhaps he does think, pap," said the boy's mother. "That's all nonsense. What's he got to think about? He's too lazy to study up mischief. Go on now, and hoe that corn." Abe slowly dragged himself away. The ^^(>ld man turned to his work of greasing a set of harness. After awhi e, looking up, be saw the boy poking around the yard. "What are you doing there ?" "Forget where I left my hoc." "I do think in my soul, that you are the most worthless boy I ever saw. What's that lvin' there by you, hah ?" "It's the hoe," lazily taking up the implement. "Now do you think you can recollect where the corn is ?" "Yes, sir, 1 reckon." He moved'slowly away and sought the ()lace where the corn-blades waved in azy whisper. The "chatter Jack" sat on the tall iron weed and sang his rip saw notes; the "snake doctor" flew around and ' zipped" the top of an old Btump; a squirrel chattered in the neighboring woods, and a toad, fat on a diet of bugs and a drink of dew, lazily fell from a clod, showed his yellowish underside and then slowly hopped away. Abe approached a stump and struck it with his hoe. A low hum, a loud buzz, and the air was full of bumble bees. The boy threshed himself with his hat and took to his heels; slowly at first, but when a bee alighted on the back of his neck and made known the exact locality of his whereabouts, tne ooy sci up a a-u and ran toward the house at the top 1 of his speed. The old man saw him coming. He was surprised to see his son travel so rapidly, and the old fellow, throwing down his harness, slapped himself and roared with laughter. Abe bounded over the fence like a deer. The old man was so much tickled that he had to support, himself against the corner of v the house, but the next moment he was ^ trying to untangle a bee from his "bushP* heap" of hair. His wild motions attracted other bees, and the boy now rescued, shouted with laughter. MCome, fight them oil!" shouted the old man. "Confound it, don't you see that they are killing me?" The old lady came out, but she was too prudent to rush to the rescue, and the old man, thus left to light his own battle, fought untill the bees "sheathed their swords through lack of argument." | "I ought to take a limli and whale you," said the old gentleman, smoothing out his ill-used hat. " Didn't you know j better than to bring the things here?*' | "I wasn't trying to bring the bees," I the boy replied, "1 was trying to bring 1 myself." j After an application of cfTcctive retne; dies for such ills, the old man said: "Wall, its proved one thing: Tiiat I ycr can travel faster than a creep. It was the fust time that I ever seed ycr j strike er trot. There must be some! bin' in you. .lingo, how my jaw hurts. Have | yer got any books?" ''Yes, sir." "Well, gethcr 'em up and in the mornin' you may hull out to school. A boy that's as pert as you are ought to be eddveated." The next day Abe arose early. His father was surprised to see him "beat the sun," "for," as the old gentleman afterward declared, "I lister have to pull him out of bed every mornin'." When Abe arrived at the school-house, where a learned bow-legged man smoked a clay pipe and put "him" in the noini! native case, the pupils threw up their sun-bonnets and hats, and shouted: "Ho, ' here comcs lazy Abe Hurdle." i In disappointment of all expectation, I Abe did not mope around the grounds, ) but plaved with a vigor which astonished * .v. \ 1 1 ! every one, including me teamen uuwleggcd man who often indulged in the false participle of "having went." In , the school-room the boy devoted himself to his books, and though he had lost i much of his laziness, yet he was still too j lazy to relinquish his mental hold on anything he once learned. He became a favorite, and the learned bow-legged man, who would sometimes allow a singular verb to follow two nouns, one day said to Abe's father: "That boy is going to make his mark, lie is quite beyond me already, and I ; would advise you to send him to town." "I ain't got the money." "Why, my dear sir, you have quite a large farm here. You regard yourself as being poor, when in reality you are quite well fixed. If you haven't the ready money, sell a part of your land." j "I'll be hanged if 1 dou't do it. The 1 boy is so pert now that I can't do too much for him." Abe was delighted with the idea of j attending a large school. He promised his ffitlu'r that if he felt the old feeling coming buck on him lie would lind a j bumble bee and sting himself. At the large school, by leniency called i a college, Abe retained his stubborn hold on every fact which came into his possession. lie entered the law class ;ind de-. voted himself to the sheepskin books. He graduated with honors, returned home and established a law office in the neigh-1 boring village. Years have passed since then. In the old farm-house garden there are two graves, side by side. Little children spell the words on the large stones, and at evening, a noted Congressman and his matronly wife sit under the great elm that shades the grass-grown mounds. In , a little field hard by, where every year the corn blades wave in lazy whisper, j stands a stone, bearing this inscription:, ' This is the spot where years ago, bumble-bees came from an old stump and nominated a candidate for Congress."? Arkansaw Trawl r. The Younarest Soldier of the Revolution. Richard Lord Jones was born at Colchester, Conn., on .May 1">, 1707. lie enlisted at Hartford,for the term of three years, in Captain James Watson's com- ) pnuy of the Third Connecticut regimenr, commanded by Colonel Samuel B. Webb, the father of the venerable General James ; Watson Webb, and was the youngest ; enlisted person on the pay-roll of the Army of the devolution. lie was im-1 mediately placed under the charge of j Bandmaster Ballentine, and instructed to play the fife. The regiment was at one time engaged in an enterprise having in view the destruction of a large quantity of lumber on Long Island. But the colonel and a number of men. among whom was Richard, were captured while returning, after a successful expedition, by the British sloop of war "Falcon"' and taken to Newport. Upon the arrival of the prisoners at Newport, they were taken before a British officer for examination. The colonel, being called forward, was followed by Dick, who was anxious to learn what his own fate was to be. The British officer, noticing the little fellow at the heels of the colonel, sternly inquired: "Who are voii?" "I am one of King Hancock's men, "an swered Dick, straightening himself proudly. "What can you do for him?" asked tne orncer, wiui a smue, anu so strung iui emphasis on the "you'' that Dick answered defiantly: ''I can light for him.'" "Can you fight one ot King George's men?" "Yes. sir," answered Dick, promptly, and then added, after a little hesitation, "if he is not much bigger than I." The officer called forward the boatswain's boy, who had been curiously look-1 ing on; then turning to the youDg continental, asked: "Dare you light liim?" Dick gave the Briton, who was considerably larger than he, a hasty survey, and then answered: "Yes, sir." "Then strip," said the officer, and turning to the British lad, "strip, and do battle for King George." Both boys divested themselves of all superfluous clothing as rapidly as possible, and went to work at once, and iu (lire earnest. It was a "rough and tumble" fight; first one on top and then the other, cheered iu turn by cries of, "Give it to him, King Hancock!" and "Hurrah fnr ICinnr ~ O~ * It was a memorable encounter for botb contestants, but at last the courageous little rebel got the better of his adver- : sary. The young Briton shouted "enough,'' and was rescued from the embrace of his furious antagonist. "With a generosity natural to greet minds, but seldom displayed during the War of Independence, the British officer ordered the discharge of our young hero, for his pluck, and lie was set at liberty. ?St. Niclivbig. Farmers and Dogs. If the fanners of the country who own worthless dogs could be induced to destroy them and substitute one well-bred shc,Vicrd pup, not more, to each farm, the wealth of every fanning community { would be vastly increased in many ways. ; Farmers, with a little tact in getting | along with a dog, would soon lind the ; colly saving them many a step. .Eager j and anxious to learn, willing to do every I thing within his power, the young dog 1 rxnK- ,i w\<i> Mtirl ruitiont restraint. " JtClU.7 VillJ m .1 .. v j ? j an intelligent direction, to become the most useful hand on the place. The colly is an alert and discriminative watcli-dog, answering for this purpose far better than the heavy, sleeping, stupid, savage bull or mastiff, who is liable to attack his best friends or eat up a child. Asa colly acquires ajje and ' dignity, if he has been well taught, he j imagines that the whole business of the ; farm hinges upon the performance of j his duties, and he becomes as punctual j and regular as the. sun. Canine coinI panionship, if at liberty, has a bad effect | upon the colly in most instances. Where I an old and wise dog is used to tutor youngsters by good example while at work, it will do to have two or more together. The duties of the colly are practical.and mean work; companionship means play and is demoralizing. Especially is this true of companionship with a hunting dog. The shepherd do? has enormous perceptives, and is very imitative; he quickly goes wild over game when led by a hunting do<;, con sequently neglects and shirks his work, and is spoiled.?Urcclcr* (tnzctte. The Nile Dike at Cairo. A canal traverses Cairo from east tc west. This canal is closed, when the inundation begins, at the junction with the Nile, by a solid and well-made dike, and remains thus closed until the watermark shall have reached a desired point. The rupture of this dike, which admits . the water into the city, is accompanied by festivities in which all classes of the populatian share.--Harper^ Magazine. THE SOLDIER'S FUiVERAt, THE PATHETIC BTORY OP A PHIVATE'S BuEIAL. Surrounded l?y Comrades, Far Away From Homo. lie Dies and h Laid Away Forever. Pome of the boy? will remember the day we buried Hilly Taylor, private, C company. Forty-seventh Illinois infantry. I remember, because it was the first time I ever marched in a military funeral, and I was only a l>oy; I hadn't seen my nineteenth year then, and I wasn't much taller than the musket I carried. Billy wasn't killed in battle. He had passed through a dozen lights; every time the Forty-seventh went in lie was close by the colors, and shot or bullet never touched him, but the gods of war demanded more lives than the ride and cannon could pile upon his reeking altars, and so dentil, wearying may be, of the red carnage of the field, often came to our tents to select a victim for the sacrifice. .So Billy was excused from duty i one day, and sat about in the tent, and tried to shake oil the sickness that came creeping over him, ami had time to write part of a letter, and then he planned 1 what he would do to-morrow. And the next day lie was excused again, and . stayed in his bunk, but it was hard, and he could feel the knots in the board under the blanket, nud it made him restless, and he thought if he didn't feel better to-morrow?but he knew lie would?ly; would go to the regimental hospital. And the next day he was better; so much better that he was pronounced well, and his name was stricken from tiie sickdist. It was also stricken from the company roll and he was marked off duty forever. Six men were detailed for pall bearers, a corporal and eight men for escort, and following marched the men ana olticers 01 me company, in the inverse order of their rank. Somehow, the sunshine seemed dim and misty as the muilled drums spoke mournfully, and our slow steps seemed to be marked off by heart-breaking sobs in a distant home away up in the far away Northland. The wailing fifea breathed the pathetic strains of "The Land o' the Leal" until the air seemed filled with tears: There's nne sorrow there, Jean; There's neither cauld nor care, Jean, The day is ever fair In the land o' leal. TVe could hear the sweet voices of women, tremulous, grief-stricken, in the mourning fifes. Women ? Since he kissed mother, sister and sweetheart good-by iu the Prairie State he had not heard a woman's voice syllable his nam(f. His last dying looks were bent upon bronzed, bended faces; and the kind hands that dressed him for the funeral march were hard, calloused with toil and war and scented only with the cartridges thev had last handlqd. The voice of a woman would have sounded to him like the blessing of God. To die, so far away from home; to die and know that at that moment, ignorant of his passing, the dearest of earth were joyous, singing, laughing, may be; to die and know that the days would creep on into weeks, and the weeks drag on into months before they whose names were quivering on his loving, praying lips,.would know it; to die and know they would be still writing letters to him when his eyes would be closed and the heart that longed and loved would be stilled forever. It is a sad, sad thing to bury a soldier. But sorrow's sel' wears past, Jean, And joy's a coinin' fast, Jean, The joy that's aye to last, Jean, In the land o' the leal. And they?what would lie the measure of their sorrow in the stricken home. Ilis dying kiss, his last goodby, the loving look in the closing eyes, the peace that death would print upon his face? they would never 6ee it, they would never hear it, they would never knsw it. "What wonder our soldiers1 hearts were heavy as the burden on the bier, and our tears were faster than our measured steps! And the mournful drums, iu their sad monotone, pattering hkc tears upon a coffin lid, sobbed 011 like the murmurous rushing of a troubled stream, hushing the shrill grief of the complaining fifes, softening their cries into the plaintive moaning of a sorrow that has wept its violence away, and mourns with the whispers of the plaintive niirht wind: '"Halt!" and how softly the corporal voiced his orders. "Rest on?arms!" The chaplain is reading something from the only book man read at that time: "I am the Resurrection and the Life; he that believeth in 3Ie, though he were dead, yet shall he live. And whosoever belicvth in Me shall never die." With broken voice he prays above the dead, and our hearts echo his prayer, as they seem to lie in the rude coffin with our comrade. "Attention! Shoulder?arms! Load at will?tire!" IIow the ringing volleys over the grave, making a thousand discordant echoes in the woods about us break iu abruptly and harshly upon our grief. "By platoon, right wheel?march! Column, forward, guide left, quick? march Cheerily the fifes sang out the dancing measures of "Gerry Owen," merrily rattle the close-strung, spirited and inspiring drums, with pieces at a "right shoulder"' caily back to the camp we marched. * What! we have followed the dead soldier and stood in tears bv his lonely grave?we have been away from camp nearly two hours?and the world hasn't slipped a cog; it hasn't missed a single heartbeat: it lia-u't stood sMIi a second. The second relief 1ml just gone on when we went out, and there goes the third marching out now. What arc the drums for? Fall in for dress parade.?ltunktte. Proteetiug the (ireat Statue. In erecting the great Statue of Liberty, two things had to be considered that seem very triiling. and yet, if neglected, might destroy the statue in one day, or cause it to crumble slowly to pieces. One is the suu, the other is the sea breeze. Either of these could destroy the great copper figure, and something must be done to prevent such a disaster. The heat of the sun would expand the ineta and pull it out of shape, precisely as it does pull the Brooklyn bridge out of shape every day. The br'dgc is made in four parts, and when they expand with the heat of the sun they slide one past the other, and no harm is done. The river span rises and falls day and night, lt.? i 1 ?U '1M.? H* IlCill Him UUIU til tui IIilLU. A 11U ^1UUI? copper statue is likewise in two parts, the frame-work of iron and copper covtring; and while they are securely fastened together they can move one over the other. Each holt will slip a trifle as the copper expands in the hot Awgust sunshine, and slide back again when the freezing winds blow and the vast figure shrinks together in the cold. Beside this, the copper surface is so thin and elastic that it will bend slightly when heated, yet keep its general shape. The salt air blowing in from the sea has thin lingers and a bitter, biting tongue. If he linds a crack where it can creep in between the copper surface and iron skeleton, there will be trouble at once. These metals do not agree to get her, and where there is salt moisture in the air they seem to quarrel more bitterly than ever. It seems that every joining of points of copper and iron makes a tiny battery, and so faint shivers of electricity would run through all the statue, slowing corroding and eating it into dust. This curious, silent, and yet sure destruction must be prevented, and so every joint throughout the statue, wherever copper touches iron, must be protected with little rags stuffed between the metals to keep them from quarreling. It is the same wherever two different metals touch cach other. Imagine what a tremendous battery the ; Liberty voulcfefcnake, with its tons of | copper surface and monstrous skeleton of iron. However, a little care prevents all danger, as provisions will be made, of course, for keeping the metals from touching cach other.??>t. Nicholas. While in 1700 there were but three patents issued by the United States government, in 1792 but eleven, and in 1795 but twelve the issue for the year before last was 18,135, and for the last year it was 21, IDG. ../ . ' i ... . "y { li FARM GARDEN AND HOUSEHOLDI When to Cultivate tlio Garden. With the exception of bciins, which are injured by being hoed when wet, all vegetables, bo far as we know, are much benefited by being cultivated while the [1 dow is on. This statement is verified by every farmer who hoes his garden in early morning, although none can tell why it is so. We are not aware that science lias offered any explanation of this fact. No doubt the freshly-stirred soil absorbs a great quantity of the dew, and the weather being cool little evaportion takes place. Certain it is that early morning is the time for work in the garden, and the earlier the better. As soon as weeds can be distinguished from the vegetables is a proper time for an hour's diversion in the garden. If this work appears unseasonable, it is to be remembered that it pays both in quantity nnU quality. .fcarly morning is niso tne proper time to do transplanting. It is preferable to evening, when the ground is dry and hot.?Boston Cultivator. Ensilage for Com and Horae*. An Atlanta (Ga.) farmer writes: "Finding that my cows and calves would eat corn ensilage in preference to the best cured hay I could purchase, I determined to try feeding it to my horses. At the end of a trial of six weeks (I would have continued longer, but ensilage gave out) I found that not only the cows but the horses were in splendid condition, much j better than I had ever scon them at that season of tho year. The feed given the cows was twenty pounds of ensilage per day, divided into two feeds, with four quarts of bran at a feed. The horses linil llift simfi .imniint. nf onsilnfo. with four quarts of corn in the place of bran. No hay was given them during that period. My impression is that chemical analysis shows that one pound of hay is equal to two or two and one half pounds of ensilage, as food for horse or cow. My belief now is that one pound of ensilage is a little better than one pound of the best cured hay as food for either a cow or a young calf. My belief is based on the condition of my stock when fed on ensilage, as compared with their condition when fed on hay, the other feed given being the same." Cabbazc Pcst?. Cabbages are attacked by a variety of I insects; the first enemy is the flea-beetle, ' which injure9 the young plants by eating the leaves; the next is the cut-worm, which bites through the stem and destroys the young plant after it is set out; the next is the harlequin bug, which sucks the sap from the halt-grown plants and kills them; then comes the fly, the j parent of the root grub, which causes club root; then the lice, which cover the leaves; lasuy, tne green worm, wunu eats the leaves, of which there are two species. All of these are warriors in their modes of attack, and what will be a remedy against one will be of no avail against another. Dry air slacked lime drives off the flea-beetle; wrapping paper about the stem prevents damage by the cut-worm; the harlequin bug can only be destroyed by hand picking, and fortunately there arc few of them; lime i spread about the roots drives off the root | maggot, and it never appears on new | ground, as it is a biennial creature and 1 does not travel; black pepper or Scotch I snuff fixes the lice; but hand-picking or i catching the white butterflies which are | the parents are the only remedies for the green worm, unless decoction of red pepper might be useful.?New York Times. Clover Hay* "It is worth while to give the matter , i much care, for poor clover hay." says a 1 ' writer in the Country Gentleman., "is poor j stuff for any stock to cat. The only ' proper way to cure it is in the cock. Cut, it, say in the morning after the dew is! off, let it lie and wilt, and cure as much as possible until sufficient time only remains to nut it up in cocks before night, and if hay caps can be provided to cover them, so much the bet- j ter. Next morning when the dew is oif open the cocks and spread j out the clover lightly, and as soon as i spread begin stirring and shaking it up : so as to let the sun and air have access to I every particle. Then, if (he weather is j favorable, it will do to go to the barn. 1 We have sometimes noted good results , from its being allowed to stand through | the second day and night in the cock, before shaking out, as it curcs quite as ! rapidly by heating. Moreover, when j cured in this way the leaves will remain intact much better than when cured wholly by the heat of the sun, and the ] hay will be less dusty when it comes to bo fed out. Last summer we saw the experiment tried of driving the clover direct to the barn, before it had time to wilt, even, but an examination of the mow in the winter showed that much of it had become musty and unfit to feed, j This custom, however, is practiced in ! some parts of the West, with good sue- j \ cess, we arc told, but good curing in the field is always sufest." I " Effect of Suit on Soil. i ! The use of salt, says Professor Sturte-1 | vant, may give an apparent increase of crop on some soils, and with certain; plants, and when nitrate of soda is used i as a spring dressing upon crops, the di- i lution with from one-half to two-thirds j ; its weight in salt has been found of ad-! j vantage as preventing in dry seasons ' what is called the burning of the young i plant, and in wet seasons the excessive developemcnt of straw. Salt, however, 1 seems to change it in some: degree the physical condition of the soil, and it has been stated to me by a good observer! that asparagus heavily dosed with salt furnishes a later crop than where the salt is not applied. In agriculture, however, j cheap and impure salt is used instead of the refined salt, and hence it may happen that other materials are supplied to j the soil, in practice, than chloride of | sodium alone. Thus the refuse salt i from fish packing establishments j may contain fragments of fish, etc. In our relations with the soil, we have ' to meet conditions of extreme perplexity. There is not a chemical con- j 8tituent as a factor which receives gen- j eral recognition, and also the transfer of i plant food within the soil through the action of moisture and capillary attrac-1 tion, the greater or less decompositions | continually taking place whereby plant food is liberated or changes its conditions, but we have also what we mav call' the mechanical relations, or, otherwise expressed, the capacity of the soil to receive and transmit impressions from temperature and moisture in their relations with the food, its varied capability to j the penetration of plaut roots, as well as the interactions between these and other named factors. Hence a change in the mechanical conditions of the soil, which admits of a greater freedom for plant feeding or of a quicker access to heat or moisture, may make available the plant food, and thus may seem to act as a direct fertilizer would through the addition of material to the soil. We thus oftentimes obtain the apparent cfTects of a fertilizer, as when sand is added to the soil, or coal ashes or other material, which act in like manner. We may also name drainage as a factor of this character. ProgTCftnivc noilci in Corn Culture. Each recurriug season a large propor tion of the corn crop is uriu piameu unu receives level culture. Comparatively few wideawake fanners practise the old method of planting corn in hills. Occasionally a piece of land, foul with weeds or insufficiently drained, is planted to I corn in hills, but when the ground is fairly cleaned and the soil dry there remains no doubt about the superiority of drill planting, over hill planting for corn. While flnt culture is largely practised, ! there remains a diversity of opinion as regards the comparative merits of deep and shailow culture. Advocates of deep culture claim that the mutilation of the roots of the plants objected to by the advocates of the other system, act as a pruning of the same and induce a larger jield of grain. This class, as a "ule, however, ' cultivate deep and close, so long only as the plants are making a vigorous growth, following with shallow culture when that is arrested. The plan of "laying by" corn after it ; has attained its growth and just before I the development of the tassel by deep j plowing is almost a thing of the past among Eastern farmers. Its injurious effects have been most plainly demonstrated during times of drought by the "firing" of tho crops and the development of dwarfed cars. Advocates of shallow culture, many of them, do not use even a light plow after the seed is planted, but keep the surfacc of the ground mellow and weeds subdued by frequent working of the soil?shallow and flat?with the cultivator. Mr. E. 9. Carman, who has succeeded in gaining excessive yields of corn on comparatively poor soil in New Jersey, is an enthusiastic advocate of drill-planting and level flat culture. lie also advises the use of a heavy roJler upon the drills after planting, and in dry weather, believing that a close contact of the soil with the seed induces early germination. Professor Sanborn has made a scries of experiments, the results of which appear to prove that, when the surface soil is kept fine by shallow culture it acts as a mulch to prevent evaporation, and the growing crop endures drought better than when the soil is left rough and lumpy by deep culture. Professor Roberts, of Cornell University, ufter some experiment, takes a conservative ground; lie believes that root pruning in wet soils, in moist or wet weather, when growth is very rapid, is apt to be beneficial; in dry, hot weatheritisliable to be injurious. The conclusions to be deducted from the testimony that is annually given in various sections of the country is that in soils requiring it deep culture should be given previous to dropping the corn,and ! th': day has gone by for stirring the soil j deeply at every plowing. Three things ; are requisite for the rapid growth of ' corn, viz: light, air and moisture, and to afford a constant supply of these a stirj ring of the surface is necessary. By , keeping the crust of the ground broken, i without cultivating deep enough to in! jure the roots of the plants, air can penej trate, giving a stimulus to the disintegraI tion of the nutrient elements and the ; chemical elTect of light passes directly to ! the roots. A large amount of moisture , i is also absorbed from the ntmosphere by ' the loose dirt, which acts as a sponge.? j New York World. Household RccipcM and Hint*. 1 A good hair restorative is a mixture of equal parts of alcohol and castor oil. If the combined quantity is four ounces, add to it two drachms of cantharidesand a few drops of uny perfume. [ Corn-incal muflins are appetizing. T<# I one pint of meal add one cup of flour, a lump of butter the size of an egg, two eggs, nearly half a pint of sweet milk, and a quarter of a cup of fresh yeast. Mix this at night, and in the iriorniag bake in muflin tins. A nice sauce to serve with whortleberry pudding is made of one cup of white sugar, a third of a cup of butter, half cup of cream; put into a saucepan, and add half a teacupful of boiling water. Let it simmer gently on the stove for five minutes; stir it carefully; ilavor with a few drops of vanilla. Cut cold boiled potatoes in slices a third of an inch thick. Dip them in melted butter and fine bread crumbs. Place in the double broiler and broil over a fire that is not too hot. Garnish with parley and serve on a hot dish. Or, season with salt and pepper, toast till a delicate brown, arrange on a hot dish, and season with butter. An appetizing way to prepare asparagus is to boil it in salted water until it is tender, then serve with drawn butter; or make a sauce of eggs, butter, pepper, and salt, put a lump of butter into the trying pan, break half a dozen eggs into a bowl, beat them with a spoon, and then pour them into the frying pan, stirring all the time; when they begin to harden pour them over the asparagus. To clean old marble or alabaster immerse the objects for two or three days in water to soften the dirt, lime, etc., then take them out and clean them with a brush or scraper. When cleaned in this way as much as possible, lay them in a mixture of one part of concentrated muriatic acid and three parts of water until thev appear perfectly clean. Sometimes it may be necessary to increase the "biting" property of the sour water with nitric acid. Finally, soak the objects in water till thev are pcrfcctly free from acid. The appearance may often be improved by rubbing with alittlcalmond ?:i | Educated Men in Congress. The number of college-bred men in Congress, says a "Washington letter, is linger than usual, although its treatment of great public questions has not developed any of the expected results of college breeding. As is well known, the President is a graduate of Union. Secretary Lincoln was educated at Harvard, and Secretary Chandler is a graduate of the law department of that university. The Harvard men in Congress are Senator Hoar of Massachusetts, Representative Adams of Illinois, Covington of Maryland, Hunt of Louisiana, Burns of Missouri, Weaver of Nebraska, Tillman of South Carolina, Dorsheimer and Belmont of New York, Davis, Long, Collins, Stone and Lyman of Massachusetts. Yale is represented by Senators Dawes of Massachusetts and Gibson of Louisiana, and Representatives Davis of Mis souri, Seymour of Connecticut, J5cacn ox New York, and Plielps of New Jersey. Union graduated Senator Warner Miller as well as the President he so much dislikes, Representatives Springs and Wcmple, of New York, Milliken, of Elaine, and Paige, of Ohio. Two Senators. Maxey, of Texas, and Camden, of West Virginia, and two Representatives, Rosecrans nnd Slocum. were educated at the expense of the government at West Point. Slocum was Sheridan's room mute. Princeton has in her alumni Senators Don Cameron and Colquitt, of (Seorgia, Kepresentatives Kverhart, of Pennsylvania. Find lay, of Maryland, and Jones, of Alabama. Hamilton educated Senator Ilawley and Representatives Van Alatvne, of New York, and Hatch, of Michigan. Dartmouth is represented in the House by Rannev, of Massachusetts. Dinghy, of Maine, and Rrewcr, of New Jersey. The gifted Ingalls is an alumnus of Williams, and Representatives Potter and Mdlard, of rsew i orK, gradual ci tneie ai.-o. Amherst prepared Rockwell, of Massachusetts, and Hatchings, of New York, for public life. Brown university is the alma mater of Senators Anthony and Hill, of Colorado, and Representatives Cox and Spooner, Senators Conger and Allison, are graduates of Western Reserve college, Ohio. Senator Palmer came from .Michigan university. Senators Harrison and Williams, of Kentucky, from Miami, Reck and Vest from Transylvania university, of Kentucky, and Senatorelect Blackburn from Danville university ! iu the same State Kcifer and llorr were educated at Antiuch college, the institution planted by ; Horace Mann. Frank llurd graduated | at Kenyon at the age of nineteen, and I Bel ford got his learning at Dickinson : college. The University of Virginia has j more graduates in Congress than any ! other institution, for before the war it was the Harvard of the South. The old William and Mary coliege has two Congressmen among its aiumni?Coke, of Texas, and George D. Wise, of Virginia. It is a singular fact that many of the ablest men in either branch of Congress did not have the advantages of a collegiate education. This applies to Edmunds, Sherman, "Wilson of Iowa, Bayard and 1 Pendleton in the Senate, and to Randall, j Carlisle, Kelley, McKinley, Reagan and Curtin in the House. Philosophy of Finance. The man who economizes saves, and he who saves most can invest most, and lie who invests most reaps most, in the way of net profits. This is the law iu a country where all roads are free to the citizen. All roaus are irec 10 ine citizen in this country. Thrift is not the absolute creatures of statutes though statutes may afford the means of thrift.? North American. Concerning the dampness and unhealthful condition of new brick houses, it is an old saying that the owner of ? new brick house should let it be occupied during tlu: lirst. year by his enemy, during the second by his friend, and during tin; third by himself. Six thousand venders of fruits and vegetables :irc licensed to walk the streetsParis. HEWS SUMMARY, Kaifcrn and .Tiiddlo state*. Four persons wero burntd to death, four others badly injured, two it is believed fatally, anil ten buildings wero destroyed by firo in Bradford, Penn. The imme liate dead [ comprised Mrs. Iteibly, Iter two young chil* | drenand a Swedish girl. John Ma y, a shoemaker of Conshohocken, l'enn., fifty years old, entered the room of his daughter Lizzie, seventeen years of age, and stabbed her seventeen times, inflicting fatal wounds, after wliich lie killed himself. The , crime is attribute 1 to insanity. A heavy dry goods failure lias occurred in New York, the long-established firm of Halstead, Haines & Co. having gone under with estimated liabilities of $1,0*30,000. The immense furniture factory of Martin Worn & Sons in Brooklyn, N. Y., was struck by lightning, caught fire and was destroyed, together with adjoining property. The total loss is estimated at ?-X)0,000. James Rkilly, a snoke charmer, whiloperj forming in Now York, was bitten by a rattle snake und died after twenty-eignc noui-s 01 [ great agony. While a gang of railroad laborers wore at work on an excavation near Parker, Penn,, on the Clarion river, the embankment caved in, killing two instan ly, and it was thought fatally injuring two others. The born of Thomas Leo, a farmer, at Roar" ing Creek, Penn.. was struck by lightning and destroyed with all its contents, including eight head of cattle. Two of the farmer's sons and n man named Rohler were fatally injured by falling timbers while attempting to rescue the stock. Senator Hawley, of Connecticut, and Ex-Secretary Evarts, were the principal speakers at a Blaine and Logan ratification meeting in New York. At a similar meeting in Boston, presided over by Governor Robinson, the principal speakers were Senator Hoar and Congressman Long. Mr. William Puiicell,one of the twodele" gates-at-large on the New York electoral ticket, has withdrawn. He has also asked and obtained a four months' leave of absence from his duties as editor of the Rochester Union and Advertiser. Mr. Purcell was strongly opposed to Governor Cleveland's nomination at Chicago. The Republican National committee has its headquarters at the Gilsey house, New York, and has begun work for the campaign. Congressman Samuel J. Randall in an interview in Philadelphia says ho is perfectly satisfied with the action of the Chicago Democratic convention, and will do all in his power to aid in assuring the success of the ticket. Edmd.nd Yard, Jr., & Co., New York importers of white goods and laces, have failed for nearly $1,000,000. The New York Green backers will hold a State convention for the nomination of an electoral ticket in New York city, August 27. Rev. L. o. Thompson, a popular Presbyterian minister, and his son, Sidney, and Freddie Bishop, of Medina, N. Y., lad.s about twelve years old, were drowned by the upsetting of their boat while fishing on the Illinois river, at Henry, 111. South a lid West* Three United States prisoners were execu[ ted at Fort Smith, Ark., for murders com mitteti in tne muian Territory?munuis u. Tbompsop^a white man; John Davis, a fnllblooded'^iioctaw Indian, and Jack Womankiller, alias Gal Catcher, a full-blooded Cherokee. On the same day Edward Altman and j Charles Malskey were hanged at Warrensburg, Mo., for murdering a young German. Two men named Bealo and Bowie quarreled in a hotel at Dallas, Texas, and each shot the other dead. An armed mob of masked men attacked the Owensboro (Ky.) jail, killed Jailer W. J. Lu: cas for refusing to give up the keys, broke ' into the prison, took out Richard May, a negro incarcerated for an attempted assault upon a white girl, and hanged lum to a tree. While two colored men were being conveyed to jail at Starkvilie, Muss., having confessed to poisoning two small boys in 1882, they were taken from custody by masked men and lianged. John B. Hoffman, who killed his son Robert at Cincinnati in 1883, has been sentenced to be hanged. Fletcher & Shabpe, of Indianapolis, Ind., hitherto considered one of the most reliable banking houses in the West, have suspended, with estimated liabilities of $1,800,000 and assets amounting to $2,200,000. Great excitement was causid in Indianapolis by the firm's suspension, and there was a general run on the other banking houses of the city. The boiler at Carter's saw-mill, near T?]^vn,{nrr+^m Til omlcwlpil and blew the I mill to atoms. Over a dozen men were in the structure at the timo. Four men were instantly killed and all the others severely injured. Albert Milks (colored), was hanged at Natchez, Miss., for his wife's murder. Waaliiiigrtan. Hermann* Bruggemax, a postofflce clerk, detected in stealing stamps, admitted his guilt. The secretary of the interior requested the secretary of war to cause the arrest of Cap-1 tain Payno and such of his party (reported to number 1,500 or 2,Of J')) now upon tho Cherokee | outlet lands of tho Indian Territory, in/viola- ! tiou of law. An exhaustive treatise on the laboring classes of tho world, their condition, etc., is in course of preparation at the state department Secretary Frelixqhuysen has instructed by cable tho consular officers at London, Liverpool, Marseilles, Havre, Bordeaux, Bremen and Hamburg at once to appoint > competent physicians to inspect all vessels j ana passengers departing wr uw States from tin so ports. The consular officers are instructed to refuse clean bills of health in all cases except upon the recommendation of the sanitary inspector that such bills be given. The consuls are instructed to rojx>rt by cable any case of infectious or contagious disease known to exist on board of a' vessel at the time of her departure for the United States. This course is adopted in. ? order that the health officers in United States j ports may have timely warning of approach- | mg danger and bo prepared to take such i measures as shall prevent the scourge from I gaining a foothold in this country. Luther Harrison, chief clerk of the Gen- | eral Land office, has been appointed to fill tho new position of assistant commissioner of the General Land offico, created at tho last session of Congress. The Indian offico has been informed that Koshiway, chief of the Sac and Fox Indian i tribe, now upon tho Pottawatamie reservation in Kansas, was murdered a few days ago and his body thrown into tho river. Koshiway was opposed to tho jjolicy of the other chiefs | of tho tribe, who wished to remove into tho Indian Territory. Tho commissioner of Indian | affaire has authorized the a^ent to offer a re- j ward of fcJUO for tho detection and arrest of the murderer. More than -'CO promotions have just been mado in tho clerical force of the pension office. The court of Alabama claims is on tho point of completing a series of judgments j numbering between 2,(HM) and 3,000, tno aggregate of the awards, including interest, bo | mg about #2,700,000. It has been learned by the treasury depart- | merit that paper rags supjKised to have lieen ' collected in tno cholera infect -d districts of j Egypt, Turkey mul the south of France, are | Iteing imported into the United State > through ! Canailian posts. The treasury department has just issued warrants for the payment of $'.),< HXJ,DUO 011 I account of pensions. Among the visitors to President Arthur the ! other day were ex-.Miui.ster Sargent, General ' Butler, General Sheridan and Senator Wade , Hampton. Foreign. The Canadian courts have refused to extradite Jolm C. lino, the defaulting ex-prosident j of the New York Second National bank, who (led to Canada during the recent financial | crash, and was charged with forgery. OltANOK celebrations in Ireland resulted in j serious disturbances between Orangemen and | Nationalists at Belfast, Newry ami < 'leator. j Two or tlu*ee wrsons were killed and many were wounded. Cliia's population is now given ut fwrsons, of whom 4<i,0US of the mules are Chi- | uaiueu. Lot'is Kiel, the leadi r of the Ro 1 river re- ! bellion of 1S70, is again at the head of an agi- | totion in the Canadian northwest provinces, j A storm in Moravia has caused immense I damage to crops. j I Great indignation was aroused in Gor . .. .1 t A utn/loiiti! ! IliailY I>V lIK-U'.-umi "I .-"Hi.- | who tore down :m<l bunted tin- German flags i displayed at the Hotel Continental in Paris, j l'rmte Minister Ferry lias apologized to tlw German ambassador to France ior (lie insult. : James Wai.kek. a suspected dynamiter, I was arrested in Glasgow after a desix;rnte re- j sistanee. Tub cholera is increasing in tho country I around Tuition. Tourists are evading I Southern France and Italy. The American j consul at Jjondon insists upon vessels showing clean bills of health before they will be al- I lowed to enter American ports. A DitOKKN axlo resulted in an express train ' leaving tho track and falling from a bridge j near 1'enniston, England. Twenty-fivo por- | sons were killed ami forty others more or less [ seriously injured. Orders have been given by tho Austrian government to arrest all Mormon missionaries detected in endeavoring to secure converts in Austria to their faith. Advices from Fondichcrry, capital of the French possessions in India, stato that a rocket exploded during the celebration of the fall of the Bastile. The building in which the rocket exploded contained a large quantity of fireworks, and a fearful explosion resulted. Fifteen tmtsous wero killed and many others in- j jurat The Spanish troops liavo been defeated j twice recently by tho Cuban insu'twl ionists | under Aguero. The ex-queen and king of Naples, who have been living in poverty since they were driven j | from their thrones, are now rejoicing over j {0,000,(WO left thein by tbo Dowager Em- | press of Austria. LATER NEWS. A prominent medical journal of Philadel. phia, declares tlmt "the progress of cholera during the past week has b-jen such as to war" rant the belief that it will spread throughout Europe during the next thirty days, nnd may reach our shores at any time. Its progres* | can be arrested only by the most watchful care on the part of our quarantine officers, for i this disease has always reached our shores by ships." Governor McLanE was the principal i speaker at a Cloveland and Hendricks ratification meeting in Baltimore. | Colonel John A. Marti.v, an Atchison editor, has been nominated for governor by the Kansas Republicans. The existence of a plot to blow up the pal. ace at Warsaw during the czar's stay therein lias been discovered. The steamer Thetis, Bear, and Lock Garry, of the Greely Relief expedition, arrived at St. j Johns, N. F., with six survivors of the ol> i jeet of their search, including Lieutenant Greely. Of the twenty-five members of the Greely colony, seven were rescued on June 22, near the mouth of Smith's sound, when at the point of death from starvation. One of these died on the way to | St. Johns. " Lieutenant Greely's retreat j begun on August 9, 1883, was entirely j successful until Cape Sabine was reached in ! September. Supplies of food gradually gave j out during the winter, but it una not until! last April that starvation and exposure began i to carry off the men one by one. The Greely J expedition was sent to the Arctic regions for j purposes of observation. A MOB BEFORE A JAIL, ' i Killing- the Jailer anil ISnn^ing a { Prisoner. At 1:30 o'clock, a. si., an armed mob at- j tacked tho county jail, at Owenshoro, Ky.f i killed Jailer W. J. Lucas, broko open the doors of the cell, took out Richard May, a negro, and hanged him to a tree in tho courtbouse yard. Between sixty and seventy men surrounded the jail and demanded the prisoner, who a few days before had attempted to assault a daughter of Mr. S. Kelly, a prominent fanner. The jailor called to his wife to have his pistols in readiness and re- i fused to open the doors of the jail. The mob then began firing and the fire was returned by the jailer and his son Thomas, aged sixteen years. They fired thirteen shots, the mob tiring as many hundred. Jailer Lucas fired from the porch and his son from the front windows. Two of the mob are reported to have been killed, but thev were auicklv car ried off. After firing six shots from the porch the jailer was shot, the ball entering his right breast near the nipple. He was carried to riis room, still refusing to give up the keys. His wife took a pistol and tried to repel the mob, but thoy crowded upstairs ana compelled her to give up the cell keys. The outer door was broken down with a sledge-hammer. The mob then took May from his cell and , liangcd him. The jail was badly riddled with ' bullets. The jailer earned a lantern in his j hand and afforded a good target for the mob. After hanging their victim tne lynchers de- | parted, leaving several masks about the jail. , May was the third negro hanged by a mob in 1 the court-house yard, and the fourth victim j of the gallows in the county. Jailer Lucas j died at 7 o'clock the next morning. ... THE NATIONAL GAME. i Yale has won the college championship for four successive seasons. An expert baseball player ought to have plenty to do in the summer, when good flycatchers are in order. The Atlantic club of Long Island City N. ?., has been admitted to the Eastern league tn place of the disband:>d Harrisburg club. Gardner, the right-fielder of the Baltimore club, has been dismissed for drunkenna33. Emslio and Henderson were heavily fined. The Chicago club would like to get Catcher Ewing of the New York club, and it is said that they are willing to pay $5,000 for him The California Indians have taken to play-, ing baseball. It is now only a question of time when the aboriginal race will be exter-. minated. AFTER LONGFELLOW. The day has come, the maddest of the year, "When every small boy sheds a briny tear, And asks his ma to buy a willow bat and ball To play with near the mossy, garden wall, i That good old soul, who always knows what's best, boon sets ins vast uneasy nun ac reai, By giving him a bat that makes him fall, And then the boy goes out and lias a bawL Another baseball crazy town is Piqua, Ohio. One day recently, tha Piqua club wont to Urbana, where they won a handsome vie- ! tory. Upon their return that night thoy were met at the depot by a thousand citizens and a brass band, who made a procession uptown as an escort to the club. There is as much enthusiasm over the affair as a presidential victory ordinarily occasions. These Ohio towns all have it bad. The eleventh week of the League championship contest closed with the Boston nine still in the van, the record of the different clubs being as follows: Club*. Won. Lout. Clubs. Won. Lost. Host on... 41 14 Chicago...; 27 28 Providence 39 1C Philadelphia 18 3S New York 35 22 Cleveland 21 30 Buffalo 29 26 | Detroit 13 43 The twelve clubs of the A merican association stood as follows at the end of the eleventh week's play. Club*. Won. Lost. | Clubs. Won. Lost. Louisville....34 14 | Athletic. 29 23 Metropolitan.34 17 i Brooklyn 22 28 Columbus....34 17 I Toledo 18 34 Cincinnati....32 17 | Pittsburgh .. .14 83 St. Louis 33 17 Indianapolis.. 15 34 Baltimore....93 21 [ Washington.. 9 40 In the Eastern League raco the Harrisburg nine have disbanded. Wilmington team still held the lead: Club*. Won. Tjost. | Clubs. Hon. Lost. \ Wilmington....36 8 I Newark 15 28 Trenton 22 19 | Allcntown 14 24 i Virginia 21 15 Ilartisbunr. Disbanded Heading 19 18 I .MonuraentalThrown out | I MUSICAL AND DRAMATIC, ; Remenyi, the violinist, proposes to go to Australia via San Francisco this summer. Madam Janisch, a German actres3, will star in England next season, under H. J. Sar- i g'Mlt. An" American pianist, Victor Benham by name, has had a decided success in Paris, although he is but sixteen years of age. One of the theatrical shows of next season ! will include a professional beauty to represent j the typical loveliness of each State in tho j Union. Mr. Lawrence Barrett is said to have signed an engagement to play in English in tho winter of 18S.>86 in a series of Shake>pearian revivals with Henry Irving and Ellen Terry. Albani will bo the leading prima donna at the New York Metropolitan opera-house next sciison under Gye's managemont. Ho receives a guarantee from tho stockholders of J90,00U tor tlfty-two performances, or over $1,700 for each. Sims, the London dramatist, says ho made $100,000 last year. Tho income of Sir W. Hull, the leading London physician, is $50,000. Millais paints about ?50,000 worth of canvas a year, and Tennyson can got twenty-five dolin re n linn nil Hm ru"wam? paii tppI fiff\ ! Dion Boucicault, who, it was supposed would make another dramatic tour of the United States the coming season, has, it is said, arranged for a long season in London | next year, to be devoted to the revival of his ; Irish dramas and the reproduction of a new one?"The Nine Live? of Fin MyCoul." Miss He.vriktta Polf.ak, a young German soprano, is one of the successes of the London concert season. She made her debut at Sir Julius Benedict's jubilee, and her delightful rendering of a charming English ballad won immense applause. Miss Pollak has a voice of high and brilliant compass, and she knows how to use it. The young lady will soon be a Used star in the musical hemisphere. TWENTY-FIVE DEAD. A Fatal Accident on nil English J II ail way. The axle of the engine attached to the ex" j press train on the Manchester and Sheffield railway broke near Penniston, and the train jumped the track and fell from abridge which It was on III. llltr lime. innuj'iiru |H.-IW1I? were killed and forty others more or less seriously injured. The scenes underneath the : bruise after the train had fallen were most terrible to witness. The carriages were m- I duced almost to splinters. Tho groans of the men and the shrieks of tho women and children were heartrending in the extreme. .Some delay was experienced before tho victims could lie extricated from the wreck. NEWSY GLEANINGS. Immense quantities of charcoal aro shipped from Stonewall, Miss. About 40,000,000 pennies were coined in tho United States last year. OVER $750,000 was paid last year as duty on patent medicines in England. During March, April and July thero were 423 suicides in the United States. Eleven clergymen sailed from New York for EurojK) in one steamer on Saturday recently. Tub latest fraud praeti-vd by the bird fanciers of London is to palm oil* painted sparrows for canaries. It is said that tomatoes and cucumbers aro so plentiful in Florida that hundreds of acres of them are plowed in because they am uot > worth the picking. , LIEUT. GREELY FOUND. Only Six Out of Twenty-fke Men Brought Back Alive. Another Thrilling Chapter of Arctic Exploration. Dispatches received by the secretary of the navy aivl General Hazen at Washington from Lieutenant Greely and Commander Sih'ey announced the safe arrival of tho Grecly lteIicf expedition at St. Johns, X. F. The expedition had been successful, but the success was marred by sorrow, as eighteen (.nt of the twenty five men who formed tho ? i : 'i > jHiny jHjnsnea irora Hunger aim i--ciinsure before tho relieving party reachcd them. "When rescued, on June 22, tho survivors were in a most deplorable condition, many having been frost-bitten, and all dying of hunger. In forty-eight hours more all would have been dead. Sergeant Ellison had both hands and feet so badly frozen that they bad to bi amputated, but ho did not long survive (h > operation, and ho died on July 0. Tho others are rapidly improving in health. The vessels that composed tho relieving expedition Mere tho Thetis, commanded by Commander Schley; tho Bear, in command of Lieutenant Emory, and the Alert, commanded by Commander CofUn. Both expeditions are regarded, from a scientific standpoint, as tho most successful that have ever been made into the frozen regions of tho North, and as all of the records of observations bearing on the researches of Lieutenant Grecly have been preserved,tho importance of his intelligent efforts cannot be over estimated. For the first timo in a period of three centuries America can claim the proud distinction of having penetrated to a point nn.imr thrv r?nln thon nn\r Atlinr /vwinfmr nn tho globe. The announcement of the safety of Lieutenant Greely was macle in the following dispatch from Commander Schley to Secretary Chandler, dated at St. Johns: Hon. IK. E. Chandler, Secretary of the Navy, Washington, The fhetis, Bear and Lock Garry arrived here to-day from West Greenland. All are well. We separated from the Alert 150 miles lior.h during a gale. At 9 p. M., June 22, five miles oil' Capo Sabine, in Smith's sound, the Tlielisaiul liear rescued alive Lieutenant A. W. Greely, Sergt. Brainard, Sergt. Fredericks, Sergt. Long. Hospital Steward Beiderback, Private Council and Sergt. Ellison, the only survivors of the Lady Franklin Bay exjjc lition. Sergt. Ellison had lost both hands and feet by frostbite, and died July 6 at Godhaven, three days after the amputation, which had become imperative. Eighteen of the twenty-five persons composing this expc lition perished by starvation at the point where found. One was drowned while sealing to procure food. Twelve bodies of the dead were rescued and are now on board the Thetis and Bear. One, Esquimau Turnsvik, was buried at Disco, in accordance with the desire of lh; inspector of Western Greenland. Five bodies buried in the ice fort near Iho camp were swept away to sea by winds and currents before my arrival and could not be recovered. The names of the dead which were recovered, with the date of death, are as follows: Sergeant Cross, January 1. 1SS4: Wederick. Esauimau. Amil 5: Sorgeant Linn, April 6; Lieutenant Lockwood, April it; Sergeant Jewell, April 12; Private hills, May 19; Sergeant Ralston, May 23; Private Whisker, May 24; Sergeant Israel, May 27; Lieutenant Kingsbury, June 1; Private Henry, June G; Private Schneider, June IS. Karnes of dead buried in the ice fort, with date of death, where bodies were not recovered, as follows: Sergeant Rice, April !), ISM; Corporal Solera, June 3 ; Private Bender, June 16; Acting Assistant Sergeant Pavy, June G; Sergeant Gardner, June 12. Drowned while breaking through the newlyformed ice while sealing, Jens Edwards, Esquimau, April 24. I would urgently suggest that the bodies now on board be placed in metallic cases here for safer and better transportation in a seaway. This appears to me imperative. Greely abandoned tort Conger August 9,18S2,andreached baird lulot September 2!', following, with the entire party well. lie abandoned all his boats and was adrift for thirty days on an ice floe in Smith's sound: His permanent camp w<w established October 21,18$), at a point where he was found. During nine months his party had to live upon a scant allowance of food brought from Fort Conger,that cached at Payer Harbor and Cape Isabeli by Sir George Nares in 1875, but found much damaged by lapse of time: that cached by B !<:bo at Cape .Sabine in 1882 and a small amount saved from tho wreck of the Proteus in lS&i, and landed by Lieuts. Garlington and Col >vell 011 tho beach whore Greely's part}* was found camped When these provisions were consumed the party was forced to live upon boiled sealskin strip.* from their sealskin clothing, lichens and shrimps preserved in good weather, when they were strong enough to make exertion. As 1,300 shrimps were required to fill a gallon measure the labor was too exhausting to depend upon them to sustain life entirely. The channel between Cape Sabine and Littleton island did not close, on account of the violent gales all winter, so that 2-1(1 rations at tho latter point could not bo reached. AH of Greely's records and all instruments brought by him from Fort Conger are recovered and are on board. From Hare Island to Smith's sound I had a constant and furious struggle with ice in impassable floes. Solid barriers of ice were 1 overcome by watchfulness and patience. Nc I opportunity to advance a mile escaped me j and for several miles the ships were forced ta ram their way through ice varying in thick I ness iroili turcu tu six. lc-t, uuu wucu muw much greater. The Thetis and Bear reachec Cnpe \ ork June 18. after a passage of twentyone days in Melville Bay with the two advance ship of the Dundee whaling fleet, and continued to Cape Sabine. Returning seven ilays later, we fell in with seven others of the fleet off Wostenholme Island, and announced ! Greely's rescue to them in order that they I might not be delayed from their fishing I pounds or be tempted into the dangers or ! Smith's Sound in view of the reward of $25r ! 000 offered by Congress. Returning across Melville bay we fell in j with the Alert and Lock Garry off Devil'! Thumb, struggling through tko ice. Com- I tnauder Collin did admirably to get along sc 1 far with the transport so early in the seasoD l before an opening had occurred. Lieutenant Kmory, with the Bear, has supported me liroughout with great skillfulness and unflinching readiness in accomplishing the great luty of relieving Greely. I would ask instruct ion about the Lock Garry, as the charter party held by her master differs in several j respects front mine. | The Greely party are very much improved j unce tlieir rescue, but were critical m iuo ^ i ;reme when found and for several days after. | Forty-eight hours' delay in reaching them | would hiive been fatal to all now living. The ?ea.son north is late and the closest for years. j Smith's sound was not open when I left Cajx) Sabine. The winter about Melville bay was the most severe for twenty years. This great result is entirely due to the un- I wearied energy of yourself and the secretary of war in fitting out this ex;>edition for the j work it has had the honor to accomplish. \V. S. Schley, Commander. A Talk Willi Commander Schlcy. j Commander Schley was found on the deck of his vessel at St. Johns. He said in reply to inquiries: j On the 'J*2d of June, white lying in the drift ; ice off Cape Sabine, in Smith's sound, latitude : 7S degrea 45 minutes north, longitude 77 de- I gives :><) minutes west, and which forms part of Kllesmero Laud, we sighted signals of dis- | tress at a distance of about seven miles. It was about 'J o'clock P. M. and the sun shining . brightly, but bitterly cokl. ! After considerable trouble we steamed i down toward the pack ice upon which they ; were, and a horrible sight met our eyes. Lieutenant Greely, Brainard. Fredericks, Long. Beirderback anil Connuil were crying like children and hugging each other frantically. They seemed frantic with joy. I put i j(l in a cutter, and alter gi'eat difficulty | reached them. They (low at me. and I at i first imagined they were crazy. They seized ! each of the men in the boat, hugged them, j kissed their hands and did every thing one : could imagine to show their joy and gratitude. All but j>oor Ellison. His feet and hands were so badly frozen that he could not move. J He lav still oil the ground and moaned. The others of the party, also, were more or i less frost bitten, but they seemed to forget ; their sufferings. The party on the ice looked as if they could not live live hours, they looked so feeble, not- j withstanding the almost superhuman strength they had shown when we reached them. Slow, ly. one by one. seventeen of the party had yielded up their lives tothedemon Starvation, j One of them, the strongest, had gone seat- i hunting. He never returned. He was , drowned while trying to get to a seal lie fore it reached the edge of a floe upon which they ) were. He miss <! his footing, fell into i? seam [ in the ice and was seen 110 more. We encountered a galo day before yester- I day which was so furious that tin* Alert ' separated from us in it. (freely, in his reiwrt j to me. said that on August !', 1SX!, he n'tan I tloneil Fort Conger. They traveled northerly. [ and. after considerable privation ami suffer- j ing from tlu? cold, reached Baird Inlet on | Septemlier 2;>. There was no one in the party j who was not in full [H)ssession of health, ami, excepting their isolated position, everything J was well. Krecly'* Terrible Experience. fJeneral Hazen of the signal service at | Washington received the following telegram from Lieutenant (freely at St. Johns: "Brainard, Ileirdyrback, Council, Fredor- i ieks. Li ng. myself, sole survivors, arrived j her > to day. having lieen rescued at the point j of death from starvation l?v relief ships The- . lis and JV-ar June 22at Camp Clay.northwest I of Cajte Saln'lie. All nre now in good health, | but weak I abandoned Fort Conger August j mi l was frozen iu the jmck oir Victoria | Head August ~!l; aliaudi med steam launch | September II. eleven miles north-| east of Cocked Hat island. When on the | point, of lauding we were three times driven j southwest. Iiy storms into Kane's sea. Finally i arrived September iu Baird inlet. Learn- j ing Iiv scouting parties *?f the Proteus disaster, and that no provisions had been left for | us iroin Capo Isubella to Sabine, I moved and established winter quarters at Camp Clay, half way between Sabine and Cocked a? Hat. Inventory showed that by daily ration. -v four and one-third ounces meat, seven of bread and dog biscuits and four ounces of miscellaneous, the party would have ten days' full rations left for crossing Smith Sound to Litti .-tnn island up to March 1. Unfortunately Smith Sound remained open tlio entire winter, rendering crossing impossible. Game failed, despite dally hunting from early February. Before tho sun toturned only 500 pounds of meat could be obtained. During this year minute shrimps, - ^ seaweed, sassafras, rock lichens and sealskin were resorted to for food, with results as shown in the number of survivors. The last regular food was issued May 14. Only 150 - . pounds of meat having been left by Garlington, compelled me to send in November Tour men to obtain 144 pounds of Engish meat at Isabella. During the trip Ellitoa froze solid both hands nnd feet, and lost them, ksSSHH surviving, however, through our terriblo i/jrcaggjB winter und spring, until July 8. Thesur- MjgSWfll vivors owe their lives to the indomitable energy of Captain Schiey and Lieutenant Emory, who, prc.eded by three and accpov- eglRSM pan it d by five whaleis, forced their vessels from Upeinavik, through Melville bay, into i North Water at Cape York with the fore- Hs|||9 most whaler. 'Ihey gained a yard |'^SBSEb wherever possible and always held it. Smith's Sound was crossed and tho party res- KreSaH cued during one of tho most violent gales i fyggNjgH have ever known, the boats beinc handled only at the imminent risk of swamping. Fop* of us were then unable to walk and could riot KSffl have survived exceeding twen y-four hours. 'B-M livery care and attention was ^iven as. Wo jgjS^sgj have saved and bring back copies of meteorological, tidal, astronomical, magnetic, pendu- 1' lum and other observations; also pendulum, BcBSB Yale and standard thermometers, forty-eight photographic negatives, a collection of blanks /' 'jQhM and photographic proofs. Esquimaux relics__y and otherthings necessarily abandoueJ. Tfie Thetis will remain here for live days probably." fKOMINENT PEOPLE. ' 'Wk Joseph E. McDonald mounted from a loa soldier's bench to & seat in t'ie United States Senate. B Franz Hilhan, the man who invented the BfgraZ polka, recently died in Prague at the age of H&gB eighty years. Moodt, the evangelist, estimates that he ' has made 30,060 converts during his last cam* : EsxjjS pAign in London. ,, B The Princess Louise is to execute the ststae BjSSB of her mother. Queen Victoria, for the Litch- Hn field (England) cathedral. Bartholdi took for the model of his statue PSfaSl of liberty, which is to enlighten New York BjajQ hai b 3r and the rest of the world, his own r^jaSp mother. M. De Lksseps says that there is no truth |WH in the statement of the failure of the Panama BKlwC excavation works. In 1088, at the very latest, Hyjjg9 he asserts the canal will be finished. Tt? ATwinMn Anr? IHnc nt Nflnlft? vlinfu-vA _ been firing in poverty gfnce they were driven. IK??S from their thrones, are now rejoicing over $6,000,000 left them by the Dowager EmprefiB of Auatri*. SELECT SIFTINGS. The Confederate statutes in paper ; covers sdl for $50 a set. The Guiteau trial for $25. It is noticed as a curious fact that after ' the prairie frass is once killed on Western cattle ranches the same grass does not ; M reappear. Philip, of Spain, says the Philadelphia .3*3 Caterer, gave as n reason for not eating 'j?.3 fish that they were nothing but elements congealed, or a jelly of water. Fumigation was first practised by Acron, a physician of Agigentum, who, ' jZjSI when Athens was visited by plague, caused great fires to fce lighted and aro? .,'|S matic substances cast upon them. ; Queen Mary, of England, in 1694, the . ' M emperor of Germany in 1711, and the . dauphin and dauphincss of France and their son in 1712, the emperor of Russia in 1730 and Louis XV. of France in 1774 are a few of the royal personages who have died of small-pox. " The Bishareen members of one of the "4m Soudan tribes have a rather amazing ' .7* method of arranging their hair. They ., f>art it just above the ears, and above the ^ ine they dress it so that it stands erect. Below the line it is plaited ana Jrizzea and drawn out almost straight, bo as to /. % shelter the neck from the sun. Roger Bacon believed it possible for men to fly by the help of a copper ball filled with fire. The Persian story-tellers ^ say that a Persian king named K&i-Kavos tried to fly on a litter borne by eagles lashed below javelins, on which pieces of goats' flesh were fastened, but the :',v. eagles became tired and the monarch - - -! perished miserably in a desert place. A medical observer who has been taking notes in the infant homes and asylums of Paris, reports that infants under three years of age cross the left arm over the right, older children crossing the right over the left, sixty per cent. doing so at six years of age. Robust children cross the right arm over the left; the idiotic and weak, including those who are incapable of working, cross the left over the right. Vegetable Diet In a recent issue of the Lonaon Time* appeared an article which will have some interest for eaters of flesh, as well as those who arc occupied in producing meats, since it attempts to show that "If it were not for flesh food physicians would have very little to do." The author, Dr. Allinson, holds that few domestic animals arc free from ailments, fat ones particularly being more or less diseased. The liver, kidneys and lungs of eaters of meats arc overtaxed to rid f >^1 the system of the excess of nitrogen taken in with the meat diet, and disease j <3fg results. Those who live in towns caa-~, <. &2| not with safety eat much flesh, bcc^MjrfgaB they do not get oxygen and exepdaft^^ jflfrgl enough to burn the excess of nitrogee^HM If they eat much flesh then they molt suffer from many complaints, such naiadigestion, bilious attacks,congested liver, hemorrhoids, gastric catarrh, and other jjjoB gastric troubles. If the habit be continned, gall stones or urinary calculi m>l follow, or rheumatism and gout. Tbifl the kidneys become diseased and mocfrSagJ '..-5]' work is thrown on the heart, which become diseased; the end is death lib one of the lingering diseases, whitw shows a diseased organ somewhere. Even epilepsy and many nervous diseases a*f aggrav ated by flesh. Of course, such views, Dr. Allison is a believer * diet of a purely vegetable nature, thf advantages of such a diet lying in the fait ' that it can be obtained without cruelty; -aIKSB that it can easily be seen whether it is a wholesome condition or not; that the human system is formed to assimilato _ ' such diet with little expenditure of vital force; it affords abundant nutriment at slight cost; by its use much disease is prevented, while a varied list from which to choose is offered. This list includes wheat, oals, barley, maize, rice, sago, tapioca, seinelina, hominy, peas, beans, lentils, etc..all being concentrated foods, very rich in nutriment. Potatoes, parsnips, beets, carrots, turnips, onions, cabbage, sprouts,etc., give variety, bulk and flavor; to those may be added the sweet 1.n.-Ko fnr mulrinrr saVOFV dishes. ApplCS, pears, currants, gooseberries, plums, strawberries, raspberries, blackberries and other fruits, with melons, peaches, grapes.etc., arc higher-priced but wholesome fruits. Dried fruits, as dates, tigs, apple rings, currants, ra'sins, etc., are cheap and good. To this rich list may be added eggs, milk, butter, cheese and honey, without cruelty to animals. That a diet such as is described above may be cheap, nutritious and palatable cannot iio rt/iniofl. The use of meats is a relic of ft savage age, beyond question; but the fact that the most progressive of races have been eaters of meat, while those which subsist on a vegetable diet are, to put it mildly, not the dominant races in the arts or in science, may be worthy of a moment's'consideration. The Red Man's Wail. A live Indian is lecturing in this country on "The Red Man's Wail." We have it?the wail, not the lecture. Most earnestly do we hope never to hear it agaiu. It is unlike any other wail in the Zoo. When the red man wails it is n" sign of grief, lie is sorry that you ? _ so far away. And ns he wails he tries to edgo up a little closer. And when you discover that when you get clear down to your inside record you can only hitch away at the rate of twelve miles an hour, while the wailing reel man is oasutuuy edging up an eighteen mile guit, with plenty of reserve force still left, there is in the sobbing cadcnee of his wail a longing. :i weird, fitful yearning, a wild thrill of pathos with hair on it, that makes you recklessly willing to trade off the whole Cour d' \lene country for just a ten minutes' ri^ht of way inside the New York State \xae.?BxtrdcHc. ?