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ABBEVILLE PRESS AND' BANNE?! BY HUGH WILSON. ABBEVILLE, S. C.. WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBEK 3, 1884. NO. 10. VOLUME XXIX.7-|?li LIFE'S A BUBBLE. Life's ft bubble, so men say; See, joy's sunshine falls upon it; Trust no future, grave or gay, He's a fool who reckons ou it. If time past bo full of care, "Why then now give way to sorrow! We can't put things a* they were, Nor place them as they'll bo tomorrow. ; This, at least, is iu our power, Spite future ills, spite troubles past, To enjoy the present hour, And strive to make its pleasures last, Then the past wi'.l brighter prove, Gilt with memory's choicest ravs, And glad thoughts of joy aud lovo Light us through all future days. NO TRESPASSING. It was painted in very black letters on , & very white board. He who ran could | read, and Ruth Bennett was only walking very fast when she came to it. But J knew it by heart already. For Ihe last month she had re;:d it every day, and J.... .Inetr gvcij *-*?> uiv(;iv)\ luiutM nxtv/ tuv uuotj j road and male the lonj; detour needed i to get past Mr. Hale's grounds and into his next neighbors. Five minutes' walk . through that beautiful park would have ^ brought her to Mrs. Alexander's hedge.' f fcnd saved a modicum of strength and I . temper sorely needed for her trials as > day governess to the three little Alexan' ' t^ers. But she had never ventured on j the liberty, though she had wanted to every day, and the impulse had grown greater since she had asked Mr3. Alexander if it was quite impossible. "There's never a soul about, and it's an eighth of a mile certainly to the | house. I don't believe any one would ever see me, and if they did, I could tell them I was your governess." For it 1 seemed to the young girl a sufficient dis- j tinction to be that to Mrs. ltufus Alex- j ander, leading lady of the pretty town , where her summer home was located. "I would not venture if I were you,'' Mrs. Alexander answered, kindly. She was always kind to her governesses, despite her wealth and her Mayflower. blood, and she had a special liking for this bright-faced,eager girl. "Mr. Hale | is very particular. He is a new-comer here, and disposed to make every one respect his rights." It had been on the lady's lips to call him parvenu, but she j would not throw scorn at her neighbor before her governess. "Why, Miss Bennet," Harry Alexan- j der had added, as she turned away, "do you know that last summer his gardener had ordered ray mother off the grounds? Of course Mr. Hale excused it atterward i ?said the man had his orders to make no discrimination; but fancy?my mother!" and Harry's accent was more than the words. Half the village would have been V grateful had Mr. lfalc allowed a footpath to traverse hie splendid park; but he stood on his rights and dignities. But' to-day Ruth parsed. She was late for | * her lessons; sh - had lingered to put the j last touches to the pretty new dress she wore, and there was a thunder-storm: coming. Shoul^ she run the risk of of- j fending Mrs. Alexander and spoiling her j dress, or should she tresuass? No one ! was in sight as she looked about, and a i nearer roll of thunder helped her to a decision. She stepped through the iittlc gate which all those days bud mocked! ner with its invitation to forbidden ! ground, and hurried across the lawn. In { the distance she could see the stately house, the leaping fountains and bright flowers. She kept her eye on that, fear- j ingsome servant 011 the watch. She never looked the other way, aud so, when ! a step suddenly came beside her, she : started in conscience-smitten guilt. "Are you aware, madam," a clear, cut voice said, "that you arc on private! grounds?" She looked up. A stout, bald man stood beside her, a man whom her prophetic soul told her was Mr. Hale. He | had deigned to touch his hat, but not i out of respect for her, she was sure. He saluted rather his own dignity aud sense I of the proprieties. He had a pompous j air, as if one who feared his simple per- | sona'itv was not impressive enough,and j the neat perfection of his costume made more promilieul ii.s uuuiuiuupiui'v icu- i tures. "Yes, sir,'' she answered, meekly; ; "but I am doing my best to get out of I them." "You came in by the lower gate. You : saw the sign, of course?" he went on in the same magisterial tones. "Yes; but I was in a hurry, and I?I was afraid it was going to rain. I'm Mrs. Alexander's fioverness." She ven^ tared a glance at him as she said this, but evidently made no impression. "I ?I beg your pardon; and 1 can go back, I suppose. I thought that for once?and I did'nt want to spoil my dress," she finished impetuously, as a great drop of rain fell on her hand. She looked up with eyes whose appeal might have softened him. It seemed to j ' her a very ample excuse, but there was no relenting in his face. In his own ' mind, indeed he was making a conces sion.As she was his neighbor's governess, i he would not carry the matter further, and so he stiffly said, as he stood back to let her rctrace her steps. ''I am sure I?or Mrs. Alexander?win be much obliged for your?your unexpected consideration," Miss Pennett answered,-as she took up her skirls and prepared to beat a dignified retreat. There was no use in hurrying; she was sure to be caught in the storm now, and bo she turned and swept Mr. Hale a pro- j found reverence, whose disdain he could not understand. Put there was a dimness in her eyes as she raised them to his. After all, she was only a child, and so ( far the world had smiled into her pretty ; f&cc and treated her indulgently. That I was not Mr. Hale's attitude; but as she j walked away, something?perhaps the ! f>ride of self-assertion over this intrud- | Qg governess perhaps the thought of those eyes?made him relent. In five minutes it would be pouring, and he was not quite a brute. lie stepped forward and called 'Madam!" Miss Kemiett heard, hurried her steps i An instant, and then stopped. She would Uke to be proud to the bitter end, and ! Anyway she could not go back till she was told. ? Mr. Hale had to take a half dozen j i more steps ueiure hu ?ns m-ui cuuugu iu ' My, "as it is mining, miss, if it will i shorten your walk, I have no objection for this once." * "Oh, I shall not do it again," Ruth cricd; " I'd sooner go through a wilder-, ness." " But that is not the shortest way," he went on; "it is much nearer by the coach house. Ilere?let me show you." > "Oh, I couldn't think of troubling you. Thank you. but you'll get wet yourself." "Since I have undertaken it." j answered Mr. Hale, as if apologizing to 1 himself for his concession: and with the words he spread his neat umbrella, and walked with her. It was only two minutes. The path he took was shorter, ! and Miss Bennett hurried all she could. She spoke no word till she reached the Alexander hedge; then she said, as hastily, "I am very much obliged?and ( I shall not trespass again." " A pretty girl," Mr. Hale said to himself, as he watched her flying toward the shelter of the porch. "Mrs. Alexder's governess! Hum!" But what the last word meant in his thought he could i <->1/1 Pnrhnnq it onlv re- ! uaiuij minded bim that his three motherless; children would soon be needing one. i "Miss Bennett." Mrs. Alexander said a week later, "where did you meet Mr. Halo? He seems to know you; and last night at the garden party lie deigned to say that if it would save you time and fatigue, you might go through the nark. He h as noticed you, perhaps, coming up from the village." And when Kuth had told her story, she lifted her eye brows a little. '"It's a concession?a i great concession from him," she said. * "But I don't want it," cried Ruth. I'd rather go miles around now. You can't think how his manner humiliated j me. I felt as though I'd committed the unpardonable sin." Mrs. Alexander smiled at her vehem- j ence, but she had her own reasons for 1 not encouraging it. "It's quite on another footing now, since he perm^s it,' ?he said, "and really I wish you would. Since the hot weather camc I notice you art gometkaes very tired with the walk. Anything that will save your strength ' for your work, you know." And to that J Ruth yielded. She need not have been so fierce about it. she said to herself, after a week. She had the park all to herself, and it was certainly pleasant or than the dusty road. At first she hurried through as if a dragon haunted every bush; but gradually she moderated her pace and at last she made it j a gentle saunter, and even stopped on the i brink of the little stream which crossed one end of the pari to cool her hot head ! in its breath of freshness, and soothe her ' eyes in the soft greon depths of the wood . beyond. Once or twice she saw Mr. | Hale's children with their French nurso j in the distance: once Mr. Hale himself j met her, touched his hat stiffly, and stood j aside to let her pass. She wondered afterward if he expected her to thank him j for his great concession. Hut the burden of gratitude was not overwhelming to her proud little heart. But a few days later she met him again, and this time she repented enough to give him a very frank smile and greet- j ing. She felt like smiling on all the j world that day, this poor little governness who had youth and hope as her por- | tion, and was coutcnt tnerewitn. rer- ] haps a letter which she had thrust into j her pocket at sight of him?a letter she ; had herself taken from the office and j lingered under the * trees to read?had j something to do with her radiant face j just then. J "You lind this way much pleasanter j than the road, Miss Rennet?" Mr. Hale ' said, made affable by that smile. "Very much pleasanter, thank you," Ruth answered, demurely. "I might perhaps allow others to go I through," he went on. "if I could be sure th^y would not abuse the liberty. [ i But it is always dange.ous to give peo j pie an inch; they take an ell instead." j "Oh, I've no doubt you are quite in ! the right?from your side of the matter," < Ruth answered, and if there ivas the ] faintest touch of irony in her limitation, ; Mr. Hale did not see it. "Certainly 1 am in the right," he de- I clared, in his most magisterial manner; : but having thus, so to speak, asserted !. his dignity, lie sought to unbend and be j j properly gracious to so discreet a person < as she had proved herself. Ruth an- , swered all his remarks with proper mod- j esty, deepening the good impression; she had already made, and forgot all about him when she had crossed the 1 hedge. But the next day, as she sauntered along the path, a sudden sharp cry startled her?a child's cry for help. It came 1 from the river-bank, and as she ran to- j: ward it she understood its meaning. The ; youngest of the children, the little heir j of the house, had slipped and fallen into the stream. Th<i nurse was running up 1 and down wringing her hand*, and the two children were screaming for help. 1 The water wss not deep, but a child can j drown in very little, and when she ' reached the bank he had gone under for the second time. "Ran to the house for help," she cried to the children; but even as she spoke j she had herself seized the readiest means of aid. and was climbing down the bank. 1 It wruld ruin her dress?even then she thought of that?but she wa ied in 1 bravely, half supporting herself by cling- 1 ing to to a vine that curtained the slope. { It might give way?it certainly would if ; tVi/. 1 ctpn<r<rlo<] nnd ehp lost her hal- I ' ance; but it was the best she could do. I She was not conscious of any special he roism. Other people would doubtless ! come to pull thein both out later, but the i moments were precious, and the child? T And here he came up again, just out of j her reach, if he dropped the vine, took ' the step needed to catch him, and fell j with him to the muddy bottom. Ruth Bennett was chiefly conscious of her ruined dress and mud-bespattered face when, a minute later, she climbed up the bank with her burden. The gardener and coachman were there; Mr. Hale i was there, too; but he let the others help ! her up. and his paternal raptures did not | extend to taking his dripping son and ! heir in his arms. "Carry him up to the house, Bates," he | ] snifl after a fiance had assured him that: 1 J ? o . f the child was unhurt, -'and put hun 111 a bath-tub at once. And you, Miss Ben- 1 nett?" 1 ' I need to go into one, too, "she gasped, 1 trying to wring the water from her skirts. ' Iler ears were roaring with the water in ] them; she felt as if she had been drowned I and come to life again; but it was the j1 comedy of the situation which chiefly oc- I cupied her even then, and Mr. Hale's dl- j' vided mind between his wish to be prop- j1 erly grateful and his disgusted sense of j' her dripping condition. And then, ; woman-like, as she tried to pick up her ' 1 dress with some light remark on its state, ! ' she cried instead. j ' "I?I hope jvu haven't hurt yourself," i ] Mr. Hale said, evidently not knowing ; what to stay. "I?I am deeply grateful, I 1 Miss Bennett?more than I can express? 1 and I should be very sorry?for any con- 1 sequences to yourself." , 1 "Oh, it's nothiug," Ruth answered, as soon as she could speak. "The only con- ( sequences to myself are a ruined dress, ' and that's a proper revenge of fate. It 11 was to save this dress?it was so new ! 1 then, and so pretty," she added, pathet j ically?"that I trespassed on your; grounds six weeks aeo. I hope you ap predate the fact of the Nemesis." And ! therewith she held up the torn and I ] streaming silk to his astonished eyes. ] "You won't exaggerate my heroism," | ( she went on, 4,if I tell you that I thought i' more of this thau anything else when I j ' went into the river. I knew there was ! ] no real danger if 1 kept a steady head. ' ' Iiut I hope the little boy won't take cold; j ' and as that is my own danger just now?" ( And before Mr. Ilale could recover him- 1 self to find speech, she had swept him a ! ' mocking courtcsv, and was flying toward i ' the Alexander house much as he had 1 seen her speed six weeks before. I ".Miss Bennett,'' Mrs. Alexander said, J a few days later, coming into the library ' after the children had gone, "I have a < ?--% TH. ?A! 1 commission to uiscuar^e. it s ijuucr it j paculiar one, but I hope you won't mind ' such a thing coming through & third jjcrson. Of cour.-e the situation is pe- : culiar, and rather delicate for .Mr. Ilale. 1 lie thought he would rather put it into ' my hands; that is, rather let me find out first your?your feeling about it." Miss Bennett looked up bewildered. 1 "I don't understand, Mrs. Alexander. Is j J it about the little boy? Docs Mr. Hale ; want to reward me"?a deep flush suf- j1 fu.-ed her fairness?''for what I did? I !1 couldn't take his money, of course." i! ''I don't know that he would look at j1 it quite in that light," Mrs. Alexander > 1 answered. "It probably helped to bring i1 matters to a climax with him. Indeed, 1 he intimated as much. And perhaps it i1 is a reward of virtue. Certainly it is ( quite after the story-book style; but you j 1 are pretty enough and bri?ht enough, as ! ' T t?l,T unv nnaitinn ' 1 1 IU1U Ililll, lUi UllilVOV MUJ |/V^IVtVU. A*W J is a self-made man himself; it isn't such ! 1 a wonderful condescension when one re- t ' members that. He couldn't expect to | ' marry into the Mayflower, for all his !' wealth." J1 Miss Bennett felt as if her senses were j ' playing her false. "You don't mean? ' you can't mean," she cried, "that he 1 wants to marry me?" Mrs. Alexander put her arm about her J soothingly. "I suppose it is rather over- 1 whel ning, my dear. It was to me at first. But, after all, why should he not? Thera are the three children, of course, and he's twenty years older, and he hasn t much beside his money to recom- ] mend him; but it would be a splendid s home for you, dear. It seems he has j watched you ever since that time you I trespassed. And he has made inquiries of me. lie began making them some I ' * 1 * T jl'TnV nftfino T fhminrVif 1 lime agu, uuti umu t uwavv. a j perhaps he wanted a governess. Of course j I gave you the highest recommcnda- j tions," she added, laughing, "though I i didn't know the position he wanted you to fill, lie seems quite sure of his own feeling, and it is certainly a great triumph for you, my dear." Miss Bennett sank back into the chad from which she had half riven. Iler minr plainly could not take in the new situation; but she came to herself when Mrs. Alexander went on: "Of course you may want time to think it over, but he would like to see you this evening, and he hopes for an answer then." "Oh! oh!" Miss Bennett cried, springing to her feet. "There's no use. I couldn't if my life depended on it, for? I'm engaged to some one else. And I never knew?indeed, I never knew, Mrs. Alexander, until a few days ago, that I Philip was his nephew. You see,"' she ; went on, breathlessly, "his sister was with ine at school, and that was the way . I learned to know him. And Mr. Hale ; was very angry at his engaging himself to a 'Down-East school-ma'am,' as he called mo. He had promised to help him | before, but?but they quarreled over me, j and Phil went West and I came here. ' And it was only a fortnight ago that I j wrote him?because 1 hadn't much else to write?all about my trespassing, and what had come of it. And he answered ?I had his letter last week: "That's' my old dragoon of an uncle, and if you've , won one concession from him, perhaps you could do more. If he learned ' to know you, he might tuink 1 differently about our engagement, and though I don't need any of : his help now, Btill lie's my nearest rcla- j tive, and I should like to be on good terms with him.' And I had been hop- 1 ing?but now?now you see how impos- ! siblo it is. And if Phil has his own way to make, and we may have to wait a loni; t time, and perhaps always be poor, I love j him too much to mind." The soul of young love and trust was in her eyes as she " looked up at Mrs. ' Alexander, and the woman's heart in her | was touched. It was the philosophy of j the babes in the wood, indeed; she could have overturned it with a touch of; worldly common-sense; but she only bent j nearer her, and then suddenly Kuth felt j a kiss on her forehead, a kiss of a moth- i er's ccmprehendiug love. But when she had cooled a little from this unexpected touch of enthusiasm, ; Mrs. Alexander had her plans. She met ! Mr. Hale herself that evening; she confounded him with the news that the | school-ma'am despised for his nephew.] was his own elect; and she followed up L~_ -v ,1 ? A - ~ ? * 11 Urt AAttnnnfnrl f/"v rtVl \rOCQ I lier ttUVUUlilgC IIUUC tuuocu Ibu VVVA[/?VW his gratitude to Miss Bennett by the gift of a home?of which he should not be master. And since young Philip was doing well at the West, and needed no more of his uncle's help, the new home was hardly ready before he could claim its mistress. Only one touch of romance Mr. Hale allowed himself?the wedding Ejown which replaced Ruth's unlucky ilress.?Harpejfa Bazar. Chinese Delicacies. If the average citizen thinks that the \ Chinese residents of the metropolis are : not good livers he is grandly mistaken, j Their tables are served with delicacies which they expressly import, and which cannot be obtained elsewhere than in a Brst-class Chinese grocery. One of their strangest articles of diet consists of "in- j fant's eyes," or, in the Chinese language, ; "Ha Pan Lan." These are said to make i a juicy and most delicious stew. "Ha Pan Lan" is the product of a i species of fish indigenous to Chinese waters only, though possibly in course of time they may be raised in American waters and streams. The body of the j Ssh is very small, but its eves are of ex"* il *.,n ; cniorainary aize?luny as lurgu us u iuu Ejrown baby's. Only the eyes are secured j by the fisherman. They are dried so as i bo keep for years. There is also the Ma gu-ee, a dried 1 and salted fish not unlike a flounder in : shape and size, but having four llukos on sither side. Its meat is white and very 1 toothsome. Still another strange look- ' ing fish is the "Low-uee." The lower extremity of the body of this is diamond- i 3haped, and from the upper end, looking like a badly used spear head project a dozen or more feelers at least a foot long, on the extremity of one of which is the creature's head. The body proper of the fish is not much larger than a small Sounder. Still another article of Chinese food, ?nd highly esteemed, is the " Haei-mai." [n appearance, as imported, it is like a lot of maggots, or kiln-dried mealworms. The Haei-mai is the meat of a small shell-iish like our shrimp, and ivhen dried is of a light red color, and ibout as large round as a large knittingneedle. It is stewed in milk,and flavored with salt, pepper and butter. The Tupoee is a sardine-like fish, and is preserved like the sardine. Much in demaud among the Chinese is the Lap-chong, or sausage, which is made lUOUt tiie tuiCKness oi a man s wimiiu and six inches long. It is made out of some dark meat, with long pieces of t'Ork fat running through. Still another jreat delicacy is the Yin-waa, or bird'suest, a kind of gelatinous substance [fathered from the nests in which swallows have been reared. It is only gathered in the spring, after the young birds have quit the nest. Also imported by the Chinese for their Dwn consumption is the "La-chee," a singularly formed and very delicious nut, :he fruit or meat of which tastes like a raisin, though of a more delicate flavor, [t is about' the size of a lime, and the suter shell is rough and so thin that a Snger naii will break it. The raisin-like fruit inside encompasses a pit like a tamarind stone. These are a few of the principle articles )f food imported by the Chinese merchants in large quantities. Every year ldditions are made Jo their stock of ediales.?New York New*. Lithographic Stones. "The craze for illustrated advertising aas proved an immense educational factor n art," Baid an extensive Chicago lithDgrapher as be stood before a South side jhow-window and gazed at the display jf cards, representing different lines of business. "The public is insatiable, too, in its demands," he continued. "It requires a better and higher grade of work constantly to satisfy it. And, in fact, there is no limit to the possibilities of lithography. It is an art still in its babvhood. Why, we have not one idea j to-day, with the exception of the stearapress, and that portion belonging to photography that did not originate with its inventor, Alois Senctelder. He made jvery invention now in use. Of course hia been imnroved. as the constant improvement in lithographic work attests, but since his death not one oew idea has been furnished the business, although there are more than 100,[)U0 men to-day earning their living by the lithographic trade. "Do you know," he asked, "that this entire business is dependent on the use of ii peculiar kind of soft, greasy stone? Fact. The invention of lithography is owing wholly to Alois Senetelder's iiscovery of its capabilities. Should the supply of this stone give out entirely there is no present method known whereby lithography could continue. As far is I know it would then become a lost art. Nearly all the lithographic stone now in use has been obtained from the quarries at Lolenhofenen, although quite ?- f ,1 f!t? i,M Wi, rcccnuy stunu m cijuai ?juuun uuo u iiscovered in Italy. The American lithographic stone so far discovered is not as good as the European, being jundy, full of spots and dangerous veins, with different colors on the same stone. | This makes the work uneven, because j [he colors are of varying density and ; tiardness, the darkest always being ' hardest. The lithographer's stone is usually of a gray hue, called in the trade 'gray blue.' But come iuto my shop and , [ will show you the different kinds of i stone and how they are used."?Chicago : New. A Natural Snap Mine. On Smith's Creek, in Elko county, j Nov., there is a most remarkable! stratum of steatite resting horizontally In i steep bluff of volcanic matter which lanks the eastern side of Smith's Creek galley. The stratum of steatite is from thiee to ten feet in diameter. It is easily svorked and is a veritable soap mine. In | fnrm/irc /Mitt In mMn nnH alippn 1 lerdcrs iu that region all use the natural j irticle for washing purposes. Chemically considered, this peculiar clay is a 1 aydrated silicate of alumina, magnesia, potash and lime. When the steatite is irst dug from the stratum it looks pre-1 wisely like immense masses of castile soap, the mottling element being a small percentage of iron oxide. Professor Stewart has received a sample of this natural soap prepared by a firm in Elko j ivho have undertaken to introduce it into the market. It is similar in appearance j to the Castile aDap sold in large bars. ] Nothing is added to the mineral but a trifle more alkali and some scenting ex-! tracts. Its detersive qualities are as powerful as those of any manufactured , map. MOSEY LOST ON VESSELS. THE OWffBB IS is IVDCK WHOSE SHIP FOUHDEB8. A Now York Sblp-O wncr Who Takes a Gloomy View of (he BiiiinemProfita and Expenses. A distinguishing characteristic of South street is the appearance of the jigns over the offices ?f the ship brokers and merchants. New York signs are in themselves a curious study, ranging as they do from an expensive panorama in a Broadway window to a thrce-and-aquartcr hash placard in a cheap restaurant, each conveying an impress of artistic finish, in its execution and of comfort in its promise for the person for whom it is intended. The sign of the ship merchant is neither artistic nor expensive. It is simply old, so very old in some cases, that the paint una Uffu wuiu uiL uy lhu wiuu iiuu elorm, leaving only a faint outline of the letters in black or gold on a coffee-brown background, which might once have been either white or blaclc, forall a passing inspection will tell. The old signs which once read "Rowland & Aspinwall," and "Grinncll, Minturn & Co., have been wholly obliterated. Like wine, or like a choice meerschaum pipe, the old signs gain value with increased age. To remove them would give pain to BCoreB of gray-haired shipmasters, who first saw them as cabin boys, fresh from lome coast or inland village. In these shipping offices the visitor will usually find in the room marked 'private" a genial old gentleman who can name the products of every country on the globe, can tell the cost, the demand for, and the value of each, and the number of ships engaged in the traffic. With this information, the visitor is pretty sure to be told of the profits once made by shipowner?, and that never, since ships began to sail the sea, have profits been so small as now. "Ships must pay some profit to shipowners, or else the shipyards would be idle," suggested a young man to one of the pleasant old brokers. ' Some ships pay, of course, but at best the profits are not large." "What freight will a good East India Bhip receive now?" "The chief East India cargo is keroBene oil ten-gallon cases, which weigh eighty-four pounds each. A large ship will carry, say 75,000 cases. The largest cargo on record was carried by the iron ship Lord Wolseley. She took 101,000 cases out. The great majority of ships carry about half as much as that. We sent out a bark with 40,000 cases not long ago. She got 2C? cents. or $10,600 gross. If she is lucky she will get jute or sugar back at say $7. She will bring 1,500 tons or $10,300 gross, and she will earn it in a year. "A ship like that rosts $30,000, and $21,000 is a small gross income. Out of this sum of $21,000 she has sundry expenses which will astonish yon, perhaps. For a crew, she carries a captain, two mates, a cook, and fourteen men. The captain gets $30 a month and five percent, of the gross freight money, or $1,415 for the year. The first mate will get $000, the second mate $420, the cook, $480, and the fourteen men will get $3,360 ; or a total of $6,275 for waeres. To feed them will cost $9 a day, or $3,285 for the year. It pays to feed them well, but it could be done for less, of course. Then out of the freight money cornea 1? cents a case for stowing the oil, and thirty-five cents a ton for discharging the return cargo?a total of $1,225. The brokerage on the cargo out is five per cent, and back seven per cent, or $1,2G5. Port charges at {Shanghai are three cent* a case, or $1,200. Pilot fees will amount to $200. Then we have insurance at five percent.. $2,500: annual deterioration, five per ccnt., 82,500; tonnage tax at thirty cents a ton, $300; and interest on investment at four per ccnt, $2,000." "Is that all?" "There are a few small incidentals. Oh, I forgot the ship chandler's bill. It was $2,000. That's all that's worth counting." The young man had jotted down the sums. They aggregated for the Tear $23,550. "That's just about it," said the broker with a faint smile. "You cannot make a more favorable showing, because you have estimated the insurance at alow rate, and the return cargo is always a matter of some doubt. Beside, a year is a good round trip. You see, the owner is $2,500 or $2,600 out of pocket." "Why does he build new ships, then?" "Give it up." "Do all these ships sail at a loss?" "That one was only of 1,000 tone register. Take a ship registering 2,200 tons, and she will carry 75.000 cases of oil out, and will bring back U,000 tons ol cargo. Her freight will amount to about $40,000, while her expenses ovei those of the bark of 1,000 tons will be about $15,000, leaving a clear profit of | $4,000 on an investment of $110,000, provided she has ordinary good luck. The best luck that could happen to the owners of the bark would be wreck when she was fully insured." Postofflce Figures. The forthcoming annual report of the postmaster general will, says a Washington letter, show an increase of 12,000,000 in the number of postage stamps soI3 during the past year over the sales of the preceding year. This will bring the total number of postage stamps sold during the year up to about 1,215,000,000, or an average of twenty-four each for the population of the country during the year. There were, in addition to this, about 220,000,000 stamped envelopes, bringing the total Up to nearly 1.500,000,000. Adding 375,000,000 postal cards, which will be shown to be about the number used during the year, will bring the total mail communications of the year up to 1 KfM nnn ill round numbers, or an I average of about thirty-tiva letters or postals each during the year for the whole nation. Probably the estimate of thirty-five is too high, for it is based upon the figures of the last census, which make the population 50,00(1,000, to which should now be added 0,000,000 or 8,000,000, so that the average in the number of letters would probably drop to thirty-three, or something in that vicinity. The annual statement of the Dead Letter Branch will contain the usual interesting facts regarding the work of absent-minded people and bad writers of the country. The number of these amount to four and a half millions. Of these about twelve thousand were mailed without any address and nearly two hundred thousand without stamps. Half a million are from other countries whose owners cannot be found. Foreign dead letters are returned to the countries from which they come, Those originating in our country, and whose ownei? are not found, are opened. At the postolKceis a museum made up of the articles found in these letters, and it is a curious one. It contains everything from money down to a pair of dirty socks. The money amounts to nearly $40,000 for the year, while the drafts, checks, notes, etc., amount to $1,500,000. The number of these dead letters containing photographs runs up to thirtylive or forty thousand a year, and those containing articles of value of various sorts amount to nearly 800,000 yearly. Street Cars Without Ralls. An Alexandria (Egypt) letter to the San Francisco Examiner says: Here in Alexfnr fK/i firof f!mi? in mv lifo T Viairn seen street curs running without the aid of rails of any kind. The cars are like our ordinary open summer cars, though a little shorter and are drawn by two horses. The wheels are about twice the usual diameter, projecting up through the floor quite conspicuously. They are of wood, with iron tires. As the streets of Alexandria are paved with smooth blocks of stone, about two feet long and one foot wide, in such a way that the lines of contiguity cross the street half way diagonally and then reverse, they are specially adapted to the locomotion of these cars. The cars must be light-built, and I judge that there are regularly appointed routes for them. They move along at a decent speed, and are not altogether uncomfortable. NEWS SUMMARY, Eastern and IWddle States* John Saxe, a jockey about eighteen years old, was riding in a race at Brighton Beach, Coney Island,when his horse stumbled,throw ing the rider. Another horse stepped upon Saxe, crushing in his skull and instantly killing him. Investigation shows that all remaining of the capital stock of $.'500,000 of the Wall Street bank, Now York, which recently suspended on account of Cashier Dickinson's defalcation, is $14,520. The West Point Foundry association, owners of the famous cannon making works at Cold Spring, N. Y., has failed with heavy liabilities. Its authorized capital stock was $6c0,000. William H. Vandkrbilt, proprietor of the celebrated maro Maud S., which recently trotted the fastest mile on record, has sold th? animal to Robert Bonner, the New York publisher, for $40,01*0. At a labor demonstration at Rocky Point R. L, General Butler delivered a lengthy address, in the course of which he gave a detailed review of bis own career and of what he had done for the benefit of the workingmen. General George B. McClellan presided at the New Jersey Democratic State convention in Trenton. Presidential electors warn nominated, a platform indorsing the National Democratic platform and candidates was adopted, and addresses were delivered by Governor Abbett, Congressman McAdoo and others. An immense assemblage witnessed the installation of the Most Rev. Patrick J. Ryan as Catholic archbishop of Philadelphia. At the Connecticut Republican State convention in New Haven, Henry B. Harrison was nominated for governor on the second bal lot, receiving 2-r>2 votes to 187 for Phineas C. Lounsbury, and ten for William H. Bulkeley. 'I ho remainder of the State ticket nominated is: Loren A. Cook, lieutenantrgovemor; Charles A. Russell, secretary of state; Balentine B. Chambcrlin, treasurer; L. J. MeunBon, of Water bury, comptroller. Presidential electors were also nominated and a short platform indorsing the natioual platform w?a adopted. South and Weit. The Democratic convention of the Second Maryland congressional district, after taking 1,40a ballots without effecting a choice, adjourned sine die. Yellow fever has made its appearance at Key West, Fla., the first patient being Ensign Copehart, of the United States ship Galena. Much alarm is felt on the island. In Iowa the Democrats and Greenbackers have decided to make a fusion upon one electorial ticket, the Greenbackers taking six and the Democrats seveuof the candidates for electors. Fire has destroyed the business portion of Lampasas, Texas. Three colored men attempted to board a train at Cass stution, Tonn., and being repulsed fired upon the train hands, nearly killing two brakemen. An armed posse pursued the colored men and killed all tnree. The Arkansas cotton crop this season is estimated at 1,000,000 bales, or 800,000 bales more than in any previous year. An attempt to escape from the Frankfort (Ky.) jail led to the death of the ringleader, John Wolfe, a forger. Three convicts got away: but two of them?George Alsop and Theophilus Graves?were traced by a posse to a cornfield, and a bloody fight .took place. Both convicts and one of their pursuers?a wealthy farmer named Cassell?were killed. A M. West, of Mississippi, Greenback candidate for Vice President, has also been nominated for that office by the Anti-Monopolists The thriving city of Anoka, Minn., has been devastated by fire for the fourth time in its history, and for the second time its entire business part has been wiped out by the flames. Six squares, containing eighty-eight buildings, many of them of brick and cut stone, were burned over, the losses aggregating nearly ?700,000. A fire nt Grenada, Miss., destroyed seven ujr-uiguit uuuuui^a, cujujji LUW ^icai?r portion of the town's business section, and entailed a total estimate d loss of $300,1)00. John Pool, of North Carolina, elected a Republican member of the United States Senate from that State in 1808, died a few days since in Washington, aged fifty-eight years. During the war no was a prominent member of the "peaco party" in North Carolina. Crops have suffered considerably in portions of the West from the intense heat. Mormon missionaries are having a great deal of trouble in Tennessee since the recent | tragic occurrence in Lewis county. | Examination of the body of Private William Whistler, ono of the Greely Arctic exI plorers, buried at Delphi, Ind., but disinterred ; at his relatives' request, showed that he had i been the victim of cannibalism. The body : was a mere skeleton, all the flesh having been ; cut from the limbs. I Governor Ireland has been re-nominated | by the Texas Democrats. j At a State convention of the Illinois Green back Anti-Monopoly Labor party in Bloom' ington, Butler's candidacy was indorsed; but ! owing to a strife between the Greenback Anti! Monopolist faction and the straight-out Green| backers no presidential electors were nominated. I The Michigan Grecnbackers in Stato conj vention at Detroit adopted a resolution in I favor of a fusion with the Democrats, j Governor Begole was renominated by ac! clamation and a platform adopted which j commends General Butler's letter and reafi flio im( ionul rilnffnrm Uii?o vuo VIA wvuuuv.ft uthuvjutii ^luuiun^i Washington. A WASiu.vGTON' dispatch says: Thefafnily of Sergoant Cross, ono of the victims of tho Greely Arctic exj>edition. whose remains were placed in the public vault of the congressional cemetery here, object to having his body disinterred. A movement is on foot to have Congress penslbn tho widows of those who died, and Mrs. Cross, it is said, is fearful that the influence of the war department, otherwise favorable to the proposition, will l>6 exerted against it if she shall aid in any way in keeping alive this scandal against the good name of the service. The records of the Greely Arctic expedition have been received in Washington, and will form the material from which Lieutenant Greely will make up his report. The civil service commission says that owing to the large number of appointments made in tne departments it wiu ue necessary to hold examinations in the Southern States and some of the Northern States soon, as the eligible registers are being rapidly depleted. The States in which examinations are likely to lie earliest held are Alabama, Arkansas, California, Connecticut, Florida, Georgia, Kentucky, Louisiana, Minnesota, Mississippi. Missouri, North Carolina, South Carolina, Texas and Wisconsin. Foreign. Intense heat has caused an increase in the number of cholera victims in France. Three deaths of a remarkable character have occurred near St Petersburg. They were caused by blood poisoning induced by the stings of flics which hail been in contact with cattle infected with the rinderjxjst William Beach, champion oarsman of Australia, has succeeded in vanquishing Edward Hanlan, of Toronto, for years the world's champion, in a boat-race on the Parramatta river, New South Wales. The match was for f.r),0u0 and the world's championship, ami Beach won by six boat lengths. Beach first gained prominence as an oarsman last year. At Dombrovitz, Russia, a mob attacked tha Jews, plundering their dwellings and killing Beven of them. It is authoritatively reported that Generals Ramirez, Mejia and two others implicated in a recent conspiracy in Mexico have been shot by order of tne Mexican president. A dynamite explosion at Kazan, Russia, nttrnhnt/vl t.Vitt nihilists hfis rfwnilfcfvl in the death of 110 j>ersuiLs ami tho destruction of several buildings. A terrible plague of locusts has visited central Spain. The damage to crops is placed at $10,000,000. Several envoys of El Mahdi, the False Prophet, have been murdered by hostile Arab tribes. Hans Makart, the world-famed Austrian painter, has become insane. seventeen men were drowned by an accident while working in an underground canal Intended to connect tho rivers Oise and Aisne at Brayo in France. El Mahdi'h rebel forces have defeated hostile Arab triljes. Corpses of Arabs with their hands tied behind their backs were seen floating down tho Nile past Debbeh. MUSICAL Ml) DRAMATIC. Daly's American theatrical company has drawn full houses to Toole's Theatre, London. A descendant of William Pitt, tho famous British statesman, Air. H. M. Pitt, plays in the Kajah. i he unost amateur singer in ttio worm is said to bo M. Jules (le Soria, who has been singing in London society. The widow of Edwin Forrest is still living on Stolen Island, whero she has resided most of the time since the historic divorce. Sankky. the Evangelist, was for several years a balladist with' the Campbell minstrels. He was known then as George Julian. Lotta has pnid $48,000 as an installment of the purchase money of the Boston Park theatre, and about $20,000 is required. Lester Wallack was at one time an officer in the English army, served in India, born in 1S19, but still plays juvenile characters. During tho past season of Italian opera in London twenty operas were put on the stage, and of these just half were by Italian composers. The well known manager, A. M. Painter, has decided to secure or build a theater ill New York. None of tho plays which he produces will be sent on the roacL For the monument to Mozart to be raised in Vienna, in the design of which foreigners arc invited to compete, the equivalent of twenty-flve thousand dollars has be?n subscribed. -; - UTEii NEWS Great excitement was created at Albion N. Y., by the suspension of the First National bank, and tho disappearance of.the president' Albert S. Warner, who bad left a week pre vious, presumably for Canada. In an interview with President Arthur tt the Fifth Avenue hotel, New York, Commander Schley, of the Greely relief expedition, was told that he would be the chief of the bureau of oquiprnent and recruiting, in piaco of Commodore Earl English, who will tako command of the European squadron. a Springfield (Mass.) dispatch pays that "Reports from 325 points covering the Brit ish provinces, New England and New York, indicate that tho hay crop just harvested is nearly thirty per cent, less than last year. Tho average yield is seventy-three. Prices are higher than last year, when tho crop was very heavy in the great shipping counties. Many farmers will either have to sell stock or buy hay. Cattle will, therefore, be somewhat lower than one year ago." Nicholas Ford has been nominated for governor by the Missouri Greenbackers. Natives of the Zambesi country in East A frica have revolted and massacred the entire Portuguese fjree stationed in that region. fJUDT-EIlA is mnvfncr nt; Mnra?t1lp.A niul Toulon, but is incrag^ag in thj French provinces. China having absolutely refused to admit Franco's claims, the French charge d' affa ires was ordered by his government to quit JYkin iinme<jgtely, ami tho Chinese minister it Paris d^^kfcled and received his parsport. Fourteen houses and shops belonging to Jews in Yekaterinoshiv, Russia, were demolished by natives. The Jews defended them>elves vigorously. Two Jews and one Christian were killed and many wounded. BPTLEB'S MANIFESTOl \ Letter to ED in Constituent-* and Orpiii/atiou? Supporting Him. General Benjamin F. Butler, the presidential candidate of tin Greenback-Labor party and the Anti-Monopolist organization, has issued a long letter which begins thus: To My Constituents: In compliance with oft-repeated and anxious inquiries I hasten to give account of my stewardship of the political interests with which I was charged. They were four: 1. Hostility to all monopolies in commerce, industries and lands. 2. The preservation of the national legal louder currency of the people, constitutionally i.:cniaf 1 1 iv Pnncrress. 3. The needs of all men and women who labor in the production of wealth to be protected against the encroachments of those who absorb and consume without producing. 4. The necessity for reform and correction of abuses in government, so that its pressure on the people would be made as light as possile; its administration effective, to guard tho ighta of American citizens at home and abroad; to make public servants, individual or incorporate, subservient to the use and will of the people ouly, so as to restore the prosperity of the country, with equal rights, equal burdens, equal powers and equal privileges of all people. Capital chafing under even a partially fair division of its great profits with labor has sought to relieve itself from this scant measure of justice even, by the importation of foreign labor from every county whence it could be brought, from tho Chinas to the western shores of tho Atlantic. Why have they done this? Because these imported laborers can, and for a time do, live on what would starve the American working| man and so can work veiy much cheaper, for it has ever I wen the rule, and, if the workingmen do not take tho remedy for this feurful state of things into their own hands, ever will be the rule that the wages of labor are only so much and no I more as will support him and his wife and i fiiiiHron in tho lowest decree of comfort when all of lliem are at work who can work. | In addition to this imported cheap labor,and i the use of convict lalx>r at a nominal price wherever it could t>e had, thereby debasing and lowering the high standard of American lal>or, the perfection of machinery, by which so great a share of production is effected, has so lessened muscular effort in labor that capitalists have been enabled to utilize the labor of women and children to a very large extent to do that work which men formerly did. Thus the workingnmn's wife and sisters are made the instruments of lowering his own rate of wagts. General I3utler next says he is in favor of woman suffrage, and then speaks of financial matters as follows: "The time has come when fcho greenback is sustained by the supreme court as a constitutional currency against tlio opinions of the paid attorneys of every financier oftho country. The time will oome if the people of this "country can get the clutch of monopoly of its currency off its throat, when such a system of finance as I have sketched will give freedom to the industrial and business interests of the country from the terrible fluctuations which the people now suffer." Continuing, the manifesto says: "Experienoe.lhebest teacher,establishes the fact that commerce, the industries, the laboring man, the anti-monopolist, thegreenilacker, the farmer or other small pixxlucers, all of whose interests are identical, can get or hope nothing from either or both tne present organized parties." General Vtnt.ior attacks both the leading parties and adds: "Let no man say that 1 desire to array one class in this country against another class. Not so. I wish to set all classes against the corruptionists, tho plunderers ana the absorbers of other people'? earnings wrongfully by bought legislation." The manifesto then advises the formation o( a "people's party"in the following words: "The cry has already gone forth, 'If thf People put a third candidate in the field those who vote for him will throw away their rotes.' Be it so. The voter will do worse than throw away his vote if he votes for either candidate of the monopolists. Such vote thereby perpetuates the rule of his oppressors without protest, if by his vote he puts or keeps either in power. Fear not the people will not have to wait eight years for their triumph. Everything, including politics, travels faster now as there ft re more railroads and telegraphs to distribute intelligence. In framing your electoral ticket, make a fusion in all the States with the supi>osed minority, and make it upon thik theory; agree that you will run the same electoral ticket; and then have it ftgreed that tho electoral vote of the State shall be divided in the electoral college according to the number of votes thrown for your candidate, and tho number of votes thrown for the other candidate on the tame ticket. Organize in every State, and present at the polls an electoral ticket, and support it with your votes. Therefore,let the iwxnlo efanrl t/wrofhcp nml vnta tncfikhpr. 1111(1 sow the seeds o? a great and victorious party, if not at this election, at the next. If you do not sow now you will not reap then. The producers, the workingmen, the greenback men and antinionopolLsts are already organized, ami if men will hut vote tiieir convictions, irrespective of deluding party cries, the people can achieve a victory now; and there is no power on earth that can prevent it. Let as, then, organize a'peoples party.' It seems to me certain that at worst,even in the in fancy of our organization, we can hold the balance of power between the old parties; so that if we cannot wholly prevent bad and unjust legislation, we can force them to band together to enact ir, and thus show themselves in form, as they are in fact, confederated against the people. In many States, if we exert our strength, we already hold the balance ot j>ower. In quite one hundred congressional districts less than one thousand votes will determine whether a friend of laDor and the people or the tool of monopoly shall have a teat in Congress. Again, in balanced States make an Alliance with whichever of the other parties will choos so to do. Minorities naturally gravitate toward each other. Give them some State oflicera and take others to yourselves, upon an agreement that both parses shall vote the same ticket." The manifesto concludes with an address directed "to the Greenback-Labor party and the Anti-Monopolist organization, and to the laboring men," and another "to the Democratic party of Massachusetts." In the former Butler says that he had presented the platforms of the various organizations .lamed to the Democratic national convention in the hope that they might lie adopted, but that they were rejecto 1, and therefore: "We will fight the battle of the people together in the best manner we can, nnd I pledge to you idl that I have of remaining strength in declining years to do all that in me lies in behilf of tho principles that you and I hold dear, and without tho early prevalence and adoption of which this government cannot stand." In the address to tho Democrats of Massachusetts, with which the letter rinses, the writer says that the Democratic national convention rejected their principles nnd shunned their platform, and h'i would therefore unite ' iniiti mill tho t.nio nimseu ?iui wu - ? Democracy of the country to do ins endeavor with them to bring back the go vernment into control of the jwople, and ho invites every good citizen,of whatever political faith,to join the 'People's party,' to purify and reform tlx; administration and redi-ess the wrongs done by oppressive legislation." NEWSY GLEANINGS, Paper peach baskots are used in Maryland. A Mormon missionary has boon sent ta Hayti. Fifty Canadian papers declare for independence. Louisiana has about 48,000,000,000 feet of pine in her forests. American sowing machines and plows sell rapidly in Mexico. Cremation has become a fixed institution in somo parts of Europe. An average of hotels are burned in the United States each year. A combination of Minnesota fanners has built eleven grain elevators. Italy has 4, 800.000 lemon trees, which produce 1.260,000,000 lemons annually. WHAT GREELY SAYS. The Arctic Explorer on the Recent Disclosures. What He Knows About the Charges of Cannibalism. A Portsmouth (N. H.) dispatch to the New York Times says: Lieutenant Greely says of tho disclosures regarding tho condition of Lieutenant Kislingbury'sbody that it is news, horrible news, to him. All these disclosures an I dreadful charges, he says, came upon him with awful suddenness, and have caused him more mental anguish than all the experience? from which he suffered in the North. The lieutenant says that he can but report that it thevo was any cannibalism, and he ad. mils that there now seems to be no doubt about it, the man-eating was done in secrecy, without his knowledge and contrary to his discipline. "lean give no stronger denial," says the lieutenant. "1 have demanded an investigation, ond it will come in time, but I can say nothing more than I have already stated. All my papers, Kislingbury's diary, Locki - ?' ?? /? 1'n fnnf- flvapv e/>rnn woods UIOJJ, uiiu, U1U?.., ~~ r "? paper relating to the expedition are in charge of the war department at Washington. "The crew of the Thetis can testify that the body of the last man dead,Schneider, was not mutilated in any way, and the fact that we kept Ellison alive in the hopeless state we were in ought to convince anybody that we are not cannibals?at least not an organized body of cannibals. When I increased poor Ellison's rations, to tho detriment of all the rest of us. not a man complained, although knowing tliat it decreased our spans of life m a terrible degree." Regarding the story of tho trouble between Kislingbury and himself, Lieutenant Greely says it occurred in 1881, the first year of the axpedition. Kislingbury desired to be relieved from duty, and Lieutenant Greely, not rt'isliing to retain a man against his will, gave him his liberty. Ho went southward, but the Proteus was sunk, and he returned to duty. The lieutenant says there were not two factions, with Kislingbury at the head of one of them. When Lockwood died, Kislingbury was given the second place in the expedition. Lieutenant Greely adds that since his return to his cottuge here from New bury port, every man of the survivors has called upon him and assured him separately that tuey knew nothing about the condition of the bodies of their fallen comrades. Each man sol. "V,*,'TT Vir> woo innA^onf. of "I cannot Bar," the lieutenant said, "whether they told the truth or not, and I doubt if an investigation will reveal who are the cannibals. Perhaps those who died lost fed upon the bodies of those who died before, but all this is supposition. I can but answer for myself and for my orders to the party. For days and weeks I lay on my back unable to move. If in my enfeebled condition one or more of my men fed upon human flesh, it was beyond my control and certainly beyond my knowledge. "The reason why I did not telegraph at once upon my arrival at St John's the fact of the shooting of Henry was duo to my own wretched condition, mentally and physically. Henry was shot on my own responsibility, but the exigencies of the case demanded prompt action. I have since been assured by Secretaries Chandler and Lincoln that I did only my duty in acting as I did." Every Man for Himstelf. i * iu? 1 DC ULSSenuoilb uiiiuu^ tuu UI X.J, which were more or less marked during all their loug stay in the Arctic regions, ended at last, says the Times, in a complete division of the survivors. As time pushed at the camp on Capo Sabine, on i the outlook became more and mom gloomy and human flesh was finally resorted to as food, the stronger ones obtained the lion's share. Lieutenant Greely, Hospital Steward Biederbeck and Private Connell were the weakest ones of the party when the relief ships arrived. Sergeant Brainerd had a little strength left. He stood by Gresly as none of the others did. and supplied him with a share of the food. Sergeants Long and Fredericks were quite strong. The former was able to go about on short hunting expeditions, in which he was accompanied by Sergeant Fredericks. The game secured was shared by the two, so selfish liad thoy become by the desperate extremity to which they were reduced. The sufferings of the others aid not appeal to them. The two sergeants determined to live together and the others might die. All discipline was gone, and it was a struggle as to who should live the longest. A statement was published from Leigh Smith, of London, the famous Arctic explorer, in which he said the survivors should not have lieen so weak and prostrated if they had been living on human flesh. The truth is that the iirst reports of their condition seem to have lie?n much exaggerated, especially with i fi?ard to Long, Fredericlcs and Brainerd. Thu first named walked unassisted to the steam launch in a gale that tried the sailors of the relief ships to keep thoir feet. The others were quite weak?some of them too weak to walk. It is also true that the Jiangs of hunger were not such as to lead Long. Fredericks or Brainerd to overeat even had thoy been given the chance. Besides the duck which Long was eating when rescue n?mo. two other ducks which nad been shut by him were found behind rocks near the winter camp. Here was food for a day or two carefully put away. The men were jx>or and thin, but not reduced as much as many believe, and the three strongest would undoubtedly have lived many weeks more without relief. Brainerd, being by himself, would have been tho first 1 of tho three to succumb. But Long and Frcd' ericks, banded together and against the others, as they were, could have dragged on their wretchcd existence. When one of the party became too week to get about the inI stinct of self-preservation led his companions II to look out only for themselves. PROMINENT PEOPLE. W. H. Vanderbilt's income is a million a month. Max MclleRj the oriental scholar, keeps his muscles in trim by working in odd hours at carpentry. A niece of Mr. Blaine is the mother superior of one of the largest convents in the country, in Wilkesbarre, Penn. Tue grandson of Daniel Boone, tho Kentucky pioneer, Colonel Albert Boone, died at ! Denver lately, aged seventy-eight. I Roscoe Conklino goes -out rowing on the I Harlem river, New York, onco or twice each week, and is becoming quite noted as an oarsman. ! One of the Central Pacific millionaires, Mr. Charh s Crocker, says he began business at I nine by selling oranges and newspapers in the j streets" of Troy, N. Y. "General" Booth, the founder of the salvation army, claims that he has never drawn one penny from the army's funds since j ho started it, nineteen years ago. I Mrs. h endricks is d fine-looking woman of about fifty, with dark eyes and hair; she j weare eyeglasses, and has rather a distingue I apjiearance. Sne has 110 children, having lost her only boy. * General Butler's return to the assessors of Lowell, Mass., shows that his income from his profession is $100,000. His horses and yacht America are valued at $30,000, and his real estate in Lowell at $00,500. The inventor, Captain Ericsson, begins work at liis unpretentious home in New \ork city, after an early breakfast, and continues | it for sixteen hours daily, eitner with pen or tools, although he is eighty-one years old. Mr. Drummond, United States circuit judge, is considered to have one of the ablest legal minds in the country. He wears an overcoat shorter than his undercoat, ancient, dilapidated silk hat, broad, heavy clod-hoppering shoes, and trousers too short by three mches. Richard M. Hunt, the New York architect, has received from the republic of France the decoration of the legion of honor. Mr. Hunt is the architect of the Lenox library building and W. K. Vanderbilt's residence in New York, of the the National capitol extension at Washington, and other noteworthy structures: and he is trw designer of the ped.estals for (he Yorktown monument and for the Bartholdi statue?the latter being proba bly the occasion for the bestowal of the cross* Mr. Hunt went to Paris in 18-13, when fifteen years old, and was the first American student of architecture at the Paris school of fine arts. SIX MUTILATED BODIES. Oificial Sfntonicnt About the He* < ovcrcil I)end of the freely I'arly. flu- secretary of the navy and the secretary of war wore in consultation at the liiimHvti now vnnl VftstflfdftV with Com auinder Sehiey concerning the Greely relief xpedition. The following statement relative to tho recent reports of the treatment of the bodies of the dead of tho Greely expedition was obtained from them after tho consulta- ! tion: "From the revelations made by exhuming some of the bodies, inferences have lieen drawn that incisions had been made in all the < bodies, and that portions of the flesh had been I used either for food or for bait for catching shrimps. Tho f< Howing authentic extract | ! from Commander Schley's report, now bein" I | prepared for tho secretary of the navy, shot" I I a portion of tho remains to have been so j t treated, but that those of Lieutenant Lock- j I wood, Sergeant Israel, Sergeant Linn, Pri- j I vato Schneider, Sergeant Cross, and the Es-j j kimo Christiansen were absolutely whole and | untouched: "'In preparing the bodies of the dead for j t rans|H>rtation in alcohol to St. Johns, it was I found that tho bodies of six of them (LieuteuI ant Kislingbury, Sergeant Jewell, Private : Whistler, Private Henry, Private Ellis and j Sergeant Ralston) had been cut and the fleshy I parts removed to a greater or less extent. All the other bodies were intact,'" GOV. CLEVELAND'S LETTER i Text oT tlio better Acccptlng tlic Dcm> 1 ocratic domination. ! Following is the text of the letter of Govj ernor Grover Cleveland Accepting the Dein- > ocratic nominal ijn for President: Alb an v. N. Y., August 18. 1884. I Gentlemen : 1 have received your communication. dated July 28, 1881, informingmeof I my nomination to the office of President of the United States by the National Democratic convention lately assembled at Chicago. I accept the nomination with a grateful appreciation of the supruino honor conferred, and a solemn sense of the responsibility which, t in its acceptance, I assume. 1 liavo carefully considered the platform adopted by the convention and cordially approve the same. So plain a statement of . Democratic faith and the principles upon which that party appeals to the suffrages of the people, needs no supplement or explanation. It should bo l-emerabered that the office of President is essentially executive in its nature. The laws enacted by the legislative branch of the government the Chief Executive is bound faithfully to enforce. And when the wisdom of the political party which selects one of its members as a nominee for that office lias outlined its policy and declared its principles, it seems to me that nothing in the character of the office or the necessities of the case requires more from the candidate accepting such nomination than the suggestion of certain well-known , truths, so absolutely vital to the safety and j welfare of the nation that they cannot be too often recalled or too seriously enforced. We proudly call ours a government by the people. It is not such when a class is tolerated which arrogates to itself the management of public affairs, seeking to control the people instead of representing them. * i Parties are the necessary outgrowth of our institutions, but a government is not by the people when one party fastens its control upon the country and perpetuates its power by ca- ! joling and betraying tho people instead of j serving them. A government is not by the people when | a result which should represent the intelligent will of free and thinking men is or can be . determined by the shameless corruption of their suffrages. When an election to office shall be the selection by the voters of one of their number to assume for a time a public trust instead of his dedication to tlie profession of politics; when tho holders of the ballot, quickened by a sense of duty, shall avenge truth betrayed and pledges : broken, and when the suffrage shall be alto- I I gethcr free and uncorrupted, the full realizaI tion of a government by the people will be at ' | hand. And of the means to this end not one | would, in my judgment, be more effective tnan ; ail amendment to the Constitution disqualify- ' ing the President from re-election. When we consider the patronage of this great office, the allurements of power, the temptation to retain public place once gained, and, more I than all, the availability a party finds in an ! incumbent whom a horde of office-holders ! with a zeal born of benefits received and fos- i tored by the hope of favors yet to come stand j ready to aid with money and trained political service, we recogniza in the eligibility of the President for re-election a most serious danger to that calm, deliberate and intelligent action which must characterize a government by the peoplo. A true American sentiment recognizes the ! dignity of labor and the fact that honor lies iu honest toil. Contented labor is an element i of national prosperity. Ability to work constitutes the capital and the wage of labor the i income ot' a vast number of our population, and this interest should be jealously protected. Our workingmen are not asking unreasonable indulgence, but as intelligent and manly citizens they seek the same consideration which thoie demand who have other interests at stake. They should receive their full share of the care and attention of those who I 1 J UU1KU ?U1U CAtXUW WiU iitiro, wv vuo vuu. vuuv tho wants and needs of the employers and the employed shall alike be subserved and the prosperity of the country, the common heritage of both, he advanced. As related to this subject while we should not discourage the emigration of those who come to acknowledge allegiance to our government and add to our citizen population, yet as a means of protection to our workingmen a different role should prevail concerning those who, if they come or are | brought to our land, do not intend to become I Americans,but will injuriously compete with ! those justly entitled to our field of labor. In a letter accepting the nomination to the office of g overnor, nearly two years ago, 1 made tho lollo wing statement, to which I nave stc ndily adhered: "The laboring classes constitute the main part of our population. They should be protected in their efforts peaceably to assert tneir i rights when endangered by aggregated capi; toi, and all statutes on this subject should recognize the care of the State for honest toil and be framed with a view of improving the ; condition of the workingman." * A proper regard for the welfare of the workingman being inseparably connected with the integrity of our institutions, none , of our citizens are more interested than they j in guarding against any corrupting influences ! which seek to pervert the beneficent purposes of our government, and none should be more watchful of the artful machinations of those who allure them to self-inflicted injury. In a freo country the curtailment of the absolute rights of the individual should only be such as is essential to the pea^e and good order of the community. The limit between the proper subjects of governmental control and those whi<;h can be more fittingly left to the moral sense and self-imposed restraint of the citizen should be carefully kept in view. Thus, laws unnecessarily interfering with the habits and customs of any of our people which are not offensive to the moral ! sentiments of the civilized world and which i are consistent with good citizenship and the | public welfare are unwise and vexatious. The commerce of a nation to a great extent determines its supremacy. Cheap and easy transportation should therefore be liberally I fostered. "Within the limits of the constitution, the general government should so improve and protect its natural waterways as will enable the producers of the country to roach a profitable market. The people pay the wages of the public employes, and tney are entitled to the fair and nonest work which the money thus paid fthnnlri mmimnd Tfc i; tlin dntv of tnosfl intrusted with the management of their affairs to see that such public service ; is forthcoming. The selection and re' tention of subordinates in government ; employment should depend upon their ascertained fitness and the value of their work, and j they should be nt-ither exp?cted nor allowed I to do questionable party service. The interests or the people will be better protected; ! the estimate of public labor and duty will be immensely improved; public employment will be open to all who can demoni strate their fitness to enter it; the unseemly scramble for place under the government, with the censequent importunity which embitters official life, will cease: and the public departments will not be filled with those 1 who conceive it to be their first duty to aid : the party to which they owe their places, instead of rendering patient and honest return : to the people. I believe that the public temper is such that tho voters of the land are prepared to support the party which gives the best j promise of administering the government in . the honest, simple and plain manner which is | consistent with its character and purposes, T>ioy have learned that mystery and concealment in tho management of their affairs cover tricks and betrayal. The statesmanship tliey require consists in honesty and : frugality, a prompt response to the needs of the people as they arise, and the vigilant proI tection of nil their varied interests. I If I should railed to the chief magistracy of the nation by the suffrage of my fellow! citizens, I will assume the duties of that high j office with a solemn determination to dedicate j every effort to the country's good, and with an humble reliance upon the favor and support of the Supreme Being, who I believe will always bless honest human endeavor in the conscientious discharge of public duty. Grover Cleveland. To Colonel William F. Vilas, chairman, and D. P. Bestor and others, members of tha notification committee of the Democratic National convention. HENDRICKS'S ACCEPTANCE, l.etlcr of the Democratic Candidate for tlio Vlcc-l'rcsldrnrj'. The following is a copy of Ex-Go vernoi Hendricks's letter of acceptance of the Democratic nomination for the Vice Presidency: "Indianapolis, August 20, 1884. j "Gentlemen*: I have the honor to acknowl j C<lge Ull? receipt Ul your wuiuiuimauun Iiuu| fying me of my nomination by the Democratic j convention at Chicago as candidate for the orticeof vice-president of tho United States. I May I re[)eat what I said on another occasion, that it is a nomination which I hail I neither expected nor desirerl, and yet I reeog[ nize and appreciate the high honors done uie j by tho convention. The choice of such a Ixxly, pronounced with such unusual unanimity, and accompanied with so generous , I an expression of esteem and confidence, j ought to outweigh all merely per| sonal desiras and preferences of my own. It I is with this feeling, and I trust also from ; a deep sense of public duty, that I now accept the nomination, ami shall abide ( I the judgment of my countrymen. I have I examined with caro the declaration of principles adopted by tho convention, a | copv of which you submitted to me, and in their sum and substance I heartily indorse ( ami approve the same. I am, gentlemen, your obedient servant. T. A. Hen dricks. 1 ' Tothe Hon. William F.Vilas, chairman; 1 Nicholas H. Bell, secretary, and others of tho committeo of the national Democratic convention." Miss Clara IjOuisk Kelloqq is very much opposed to tho id. a of singing to American or English audionces in any language save the English. She says if sh? hod her way she would never sing in any language but her own as long as she lives. The first bawl of minstrels ever formed consisted of four persons: I)an Emtiu-U, AY illium Fell, Frank Brc.wer and William Whitlock. All are tit-mi l?ut Kmuiett. Tbey per- | formed in New York in ls4'-'. Lucca says she likes the meloilious music far better than merely "scientific music." There are many who feel the same, oven if they are not so frank in expressing it. THE NATIONAL GAME. f| Portland. Me., takes the lead with seven*. . ty-three baseball clubs. The Peoria (I1L) club's grand stand was re* cently blown down by a storm, which oo - .'lysBI casioned a loss of f JOO. There are not a few people who believa that the Union and American associations will tfffigBj enter into an agreement and leave the Leagne Ansox, of tho Chicagos, recently reached . hishundiWth base hit fur the season, and cel> ebrated the occasion by making three homs ... runs in succession. Bumirrox, of the Bostons, and Hecker, of the Louisvilles, have pitched more games this season than 8fny other players in their ra> j??2| spe?tive association. The Atlantic club, of Baltimore, having >'4^ thirteen victories and no defeats to its credit) a considers itself entitled to the colored cham* pionship of the country. Va? All the pitchers are now showing the tt- * ' fects of the hard muscular strain of the arm c"y-r8 required of them. It is a wonder that tha ; 38 arm can stand the severe wrenching it receives. Denizens of the rural districts, says the - i <8! Clipper, are puzzled to know what is meant ! J? by the baseball pkraso "in the box." That is '-**M the situation in which, to begin with, tho stockholders and directors put the pitcher. It - ? / \ is oftentimes tho situation, finally, in which the whole nine, along with the stockholders and directors, find themselves. At the end of the sixteenth week the rec- . ord of the League clubs in the championship race was: CM?. ?'?? 1 Club*. iron. tM?z - ' ProvWence 50 20 j Chicago. ? #3 .. Ro.,ton 25 Cleveland ? ** % f, $5g Buflnio.: 46 ao I Philadelphia U M New York 43 34 | Detroit 19 M The record of the twelve American Aar '-^33 sociation clubs at tho end of the sixteenth week WJU? U3 IVUV..W. __ Clubs. ITon. fjCtt \ Clubt. (Tin. Lott. Metropolitan .S3 20 | Baltimore....85 tt -V'-iSM Columbus....51 22 i Brooklyn M 41 \?lm St. Louis 48 25 Toledo.... ...25 M Louisville....4T 85 I Pittsbargh....?2 54 Cincinnati....47 28 IndlanapolU. M <*.W? Athletic 44 821 Washington..14 .. M ?g M In the Eastern league the Wilmington* :MaMH have virtually vron the pennant. The only flMQH interest left is in tho contest for second antfag'BEaiM third placts, anrl thise are likely to be^*',; pied at the fl"igh by the Trenton aogMRM|H^B^H Maa* HiD^iSSnt,-sndod^his day* Inapoorj. Jna. Tha-vkfcl Donntell, died in Weil H Battt, Maine, recently, aged 100 years and four Terry Johnson, of Jamaica, 1^ L, is oret acentury old. His wife died last month aged g The oldest active Free Mason in Ohio is EL .. 8.^Kendrick, of ChilUcothe, who is in hit ^ Mbs. Polly Shoulders, of Jasper, Ind..1 who is in her nintieth year, recently wxU?l . fourteen, miles in a single day. The centennial anniversary of the birth of ' Mrs Eunice Hollister; was celebrated at Bad .>,3| Glastonbury, Conn., a short time The widow of Peter Finegan, of Wasl ' i Chester. Penn., is xunety-foor years old Eat , v nnahnnii t.h? turn rtf ninfltrv-^lrhfe '?-T.;'yfSi At a recent wedding in Russia the parents V . ;:>j of the groom, who were both present, were ' aged respectively 103 and ninety-six years. tl A special act gives Simpson Harris, of :2s] North Carolina a pension of *50 a month tor * . raflB services rendered in 1814. He is 104 yeara Ox the ninety-second birthday of Mrs. Anna : Mclntyre, of Fonda, N. Y., she delisted her i ! guests by playing "Auld Liang Syne" on tbe ? A soldier named Pradier who died reoeotij at Anroux, Prance, was a century old before he married, and he lived with his wife fc* j] eight years. William McDowell, of Traverse C?iy?"J; Mich., died recently aged 104 years. He' bo?'.; came a member of tho Masonic fraternity in i June, 1807, in county Antrim, Ireland. Althocob ninety-eight years of age, James Caldwell, of Eastman, Ga., was an expert with a porting rifle and frequently went -'S^ngRu squirrel shooting last fall. He died a UtW Bat La Praikie was born in Michigan im 1772. He is part Indian and part FrtndfcjJM^-SS He entered the American army when thirty*. tqflB ^ four years of age, and was soldier, scout and. interpreter tnrougn trie war 01 xoiz. nm joined the army again in 1846, and served in SO the Mexican war under General Scott. His, . age and infirmities caused his rejection when '.J he volunteered in our late civil war, but h* ? was sworn into service during the Indian troubles in Minnesota. He was never wounded but once. He is now living at Marshflald, v SI Wis., and is supported by private contribo* A MINING- HORROR. n>?li! ft en Suffo.-atcd^lft Penn*yl? ' ''% vuitiu Colliery. The excitement over a fire at Buckrfdge ool? licry near Shamokin, Penn., was increased by -*1^^ the suffocation of eight men who were engaged " ' in tin; vain attempt to drive a hole from :j (freeuback colliery into the burning mifu^ through which to run the creek. : W Isile the two sujxrintendents having charge J uf the men were absent Peter Welker went ; down the Greenback slope to feed tin mules. j i.i descending he felt the wagon ia ,, ; '.vliich he was riding jar. He jumped - i and discovered the body of o .?.*? l mn lying on the track. Before ha c uld see who the man was the fire-damp ex- ' tiuguished his lam;), ami, almost overcome -''U ami exhausted, he managed to get into the ^ car, grasped the bell-wire and signaled to b? ? ' '^18 A few minutes later the wagon reached the C surface with Welker lying in it insensible. This was the first intimation the official V&raa liad of anything wrong inside. Frank War- j drop and Valentine Depner volunteered to go . down and reach the miners inside, but the attempt almost cost them their lives. They were hoisted out more dead than alive Both the Greenback and"|B$^2 Buckridge mines soon tilled up with gas ana HRfl every one working about the places was, HS9|H forced to the surface. The men who wer? driving the hole, and fifteen moles war* 8 BB still inside, and all of course perished. The mining engineers examined the slope as I -whm; for as they could with safety and gave It as their opinion that the gas forced its way from the old workings down upon the miners, HBnfl smothering the eight men engaged in driving l&WMB! the hole. Their names are William Car), Patrick Haley, William B. Clark, William w?fflREt\ Sliankweiler, William Taylor. George Beck. KgzSj Robert White and William Fox. fc'even of. i^M the men were married, with large families. LIGHTNING FREAKS. ||1 Nathan Miller, of Maryville, Kan., loal 6 his four daughters, aged respectively eignteen* seventeen, nine and seven years by a single ? ?] stroke of lightning. * There was no rain and hardly a cloud when - ? J. S. Lake's barn was struck by lightning; ' . The town of Hudson, Wis., wondered when they saw flames issue from his barn, for thert J; was but one discharge of electricity. Three men were working in a tiie yard at Bemeut, 111., when a thunder storm came apt, One of them was brought to his knees by a 3 stroke of lightning, another spun around ilka g a lop xroni its eaects, wnno me tnira, who -j-'MK was wheeling'a barrow, was instantly killed* When lightning struck the house of John Queen,ofJJacob's Creek, Penn., it knocked from the wall his loaded gun, and at the same instant his daughter Nancy dropped dead. Tin >2 gun was discharged and the contents struck her in the breast. Whether she met her 4 death by the lightning or tha shot will never be known. _ Several persons were riding on horseback ' ? at Shawnee Mound, Jackaon township, IncL, fleeing from an impending rain storm, when lightning struck a colored boy, who was on# , '< of the party. It burned his face almost plat , - ; recognition, and passing to his shoulder, left ; an ugly wound, but he will recover. Ha horse was killed uuder him. None of tht others were injured. Origin oi* "He's a Brick.'! Plutarch, in his life of Agesilaus, King of Sparta, gives us the origin of the tjuaint and familiar saying. On a certain ocasion an ambassador from Epirus, on a diplomatic mission, was showa IS by the king over his capital. The ambassador knew of the monarch's fame? ^ knew that though only nominally king -g of Sparta, he was ruler of Greece?and ~?*? he looked to sec massive walls rearing ii'.oft their embattled towers for the de- ^ fensc of tlie town; but found nothing of tlit* kind. He marveled much at this, uid spoke of it to the king. Sire," he said, "I have visited mosfe ;>f the principal towns, and I find no /% walls reared for defense. Why is this?" Oi? Amkiotnrlrtl- " rpnliffd Agesilaus, "thou canst not have looked carefully. Come with me to-morrow morning and I will show you the walls , of Sparta." Accordingly, on the following morning, the king led his guest out upon tha plnin where his army was drawn up in . full battle array, and pointing proudly to the serried hosts, he said: _ "There thou bcholdest the walls of Sparta?10,000 men, and evyy one u brick!" It is found that the seaweed known as Zostera marina, or wrack, sc be mndo -"cjj to yield, by treatment with mineral acid, 11 substance quite resembling horn, capa. ble of being manufactured into forms, nnd of receiving color from pigments,. ''?& This substance is called algin, and is 3} obtainable in large quantities oa all ex- 3 posed shores. JM