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ABBEVILLE PRESS AND BANN ER.l BY HUGH WILSON. ABBEVILLE. S. C.. WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBEK 10. 1884. NO. 11. VOLUME XXIX. Jl| A MEMORY. San In my lattice and sun on the sea (Oh, but the sun is fair), And a sky of blue and a soa of green And a ship with a white, white sail between, i And a light wind blowing free, And back from the stern, and forth from the land Tho last farewell of a waving hand. Mistxra the window and mist on tho soa (Oh, but the mist is gray), And the weird, tall sha{>e of a spectral mast Gloams out of the fog like a ghost of my past, j And the old hoi>e stirs in me? The old, old hope that warred with doubt, While the years with the tide surged in and out Rain on my Window and rain on the sea (Oh, but the rain is sad), And only the dreams of a vanished bark And a vanished youth sliine throueh the dark, And torture tho night and me? But somewhere,! think,near somofair strand, That lost ship lies, with its waving hand. ?Ella Wheeler Wilcox. A STRANGE COINCIDENCE. i "Com? into the garden, Maude, For the black bat, night, hath flown; Come ii,to the garden, Maude." f The young fellow who was merrily whistling this well-known air broke off L suddenly, just ns he came near a high B" wall bounding ?ome inclosure. It was j night (10 o'clock had just struck from a steeple near): moreover, it was moonlight, the cold, clear moonlight of a chill evening in the early spring. No violet had yet opened its sweet leaves to perfume the air?the year was still too young for that; but one or two primroses had unfolded their pale yellow heads in sheltered nooks, and sanguine folks were beginning to hope that warmer days were at hand. Was it the presage of spring or the light-hearted, joy of youth which made Frank Conyer whistle so cheerily as he paced along the high road between the village of Dornton (where he had been dining with an old collcge chum) and hia uncle's house, which bore the name c f Forest Grove, and to which he had returned after a long absence. Perhaps the influence of buth youth and coming spring impelled him to enliven the still air as he stepped along quickly, free of heart, unburdened by carc. He had turned out of the high road now, and got on to the turf?soft, springy turf, which ran under the wall aforesaid. And as he ceased his whistling he was I passing a door in the wall. What was it made him pause so suddenly and look round ? His action was involuntary, unpremeditated, as the grating of a key in the lock of this door, and ktAvf Vw? AtiAftinr* e > f l f onl f ncif ll_ UUAt, IUU VMIflllll" U1 lUUUUUl KOVil JitHUrally causcd him to torn round. In so doing he came face to face with a eirl, a very young girl, who could hardly be termed "grown up." What followed happened so quickly that Frank was fairly bewildered, and was left standing ""y. in amazement under the garden wall. "I have been listening for you ever so long!" said the girl, "on, so iongl and I have been so frightened! But you ,r<[ promised to come for the letter, and here it is! Now, I must fly! Don't lose a moment in letting Margery have it. Hero ! here it is!" And in agitated haste she finished by thrusting a note into the astonished Frank's hand, and then vanished behind the garden wall, turned the key in the lock, leaving Frank more puzzled and bewildered than he had ever been during the three-and-twenty years of his life. * "Good Heavens! what am I to do with this?" said he to himself, as he stood in the shadow of the wall, grasping tight the missive which had been thrust between his fingers. "What can I do? Who is 'Margery ?' What am I to do ?" "Read the address!" shot the following instant through his brain. * But this was not immediately possible, for the shadow where he stood was deep, so he struck across the path into the moonlight; bur, clearly as the cold rays flooded the open space, the address on the envelope was written in so faint and running a character that it was not easy to decipher it. "Miss Margery Hood!" So much he could make out. but the two or three words bancath hi? could not read. "By Jove, thi^is an adventure!" broke from Frank's lips. "I must mako for the nearest cottage." Away he went through brakes and briar and fern, over the cold, damp grass, till he struck into the high road again, when turning down :t lane, he saw a light glimmering at a short distance. ^ Frank quickened his steps, 600n coming to an humble tenement whose thatched roof and latticed window looked pic turesque enough in the moonlight. "Who be there?'' said a quavering voice in reply to Frank's summons. "Let me have a light, please, and here is sixpense for you," rejoined the young coan. "A light? Your welcome, young sir," said the old woman. "Will you please to wnik inf' And then Frank read by the glare of a tallow candle the address: "Miss Makoaket IIood, "The Silver Birches, "Thornby." "I know where that is," thought Frank. "And this letter was to have been given to her by somebody or other for whom I was mistaken. Well, then I must deliver it myself?that is plain enough. 'The Silver Birches,' atThorn^ by; and Thornby is a couple of miles off." Putting the promised sixpence into the old woman's hand, Frank started off with a quick step for the place designated "The Silver Birches." All the way he went he ruminated on the strange adventure which had befallen him. lie was involved in some secret?some love affair, doubtless? without any volition of his own; but since the letter had fallen into his hands, needs must that he should deliver it. "I ought to have had my wits about me. I ought to have detained tnat girl, and questioned her. But it all happened in a moment. Well, let me see the end of it." On he strode, and in something more k * than half an hour ffor he was fleet of j foot, and possessed all of youth's en-1 k ergy), he reached some park gates, and a j B belt of trees, through those bare branches , looked dim and fair under the moonshine j a many-gabled domicile. 'Twice had he asked his way in pass-' .1.. , ing tnrou^ii uic u. iuviu^j, , he was sure, by the indications he had ; received, that here were the Silver | Birches. 1. "Going t"> the front door is out of the R& question under the circumstances; I ! should be required Lo answer too many j H interrogations. Let me try the back Pp door," thought he. And now behold our hero?a hand- i some, well-dressed, gentlemanly fellow ; ?in the back courtyard of the Silver i Birches, asking of the smart housemaid who answered his knock, "whether Miss : Margery llood lived here?" v "Yes, sir, to be sure. Mrs. Hood and Miss Margery have lived here nil their | lives. But you've mistaken the entrance, [ sir; this is the back door." "Yes, yes!" replied Frank, delighted ! that he had reached his goal; but it is so { late, I came round to the back. Can 11 speak to Miss Margery for a moment? ^ Give her this letter; I will wait here." "I'll take the letter, sir, "said tliemaiu, i smiling. "But Miss .Margery may be gone to bed. Won't you step inside, sir:" 1 E And with that she tripped away,Frank I waiting in the wi-'e passage, out of which ! the ofHce opened. I With eager eyts he watched for the return of his messenger. Would she re| turn alone, or accompanied by ".Miss Margery ?" |: There was a swing door at the end of 1 K this passage, and in a very few moments Frank saw it move, to let pass two tig- j BL urea?the maid and a slim, fair girl in a dainty, crcaui-colored dinner dress orna2T mented with knots of the palest blue p ribbon. How sweet a vision she appeared to the young man ? How lovely an embodi- i ment of loveliest girlhood! Frank felt his heart stirred with aflut- I tcr of emotion. Her graceful figure moved toward : him; her beautiful face had on it a faint flush of surprise and embarrassment. "You brought me this letter?" said -V '., | tho fair Margery, in a voice so musical' that it accorded well with tne lips from whence the sweet sounds issuedi "I did," replied Frank, his face flushing like that of any girl; "but may I explain that, it is through a curious j and unexplained circumstance that I became the bearer of your letter?" "Certainly," interrupted the young lady, with dignity; but do not let me keep you standing here." And she pushed open the door of ft room and entered, followed by Frank. To his surprise, no sooner was she relieved oi th<f maid's presence than she clasped, her hands and turned to him with a look of entreaty in her liquid eyes. "My cousin sends me this by you, therefore 1 may trust vou!" she cried. "She asks me, in a most urgent manner, to send her twentj- pounds, and she is such a child that I feel sure some one is imposing on her. Oh! is it possible that you can counsel her? Is it possible?" But here Frank interrupted her. "Do not go on, Miss liood. I ought! not to let you give me your confidence, j for I am utterly unknown to your cousin. ' It was by a strange chance that I was J the bearer of that letter. May I explain?, ?will you listen while I explain?" And then Frank, with eager voice, , shortly detailed the odd adventure in ] which he had figured. The fair Margery, meanwhile, listened i with changing face to his brief recital, j He noticed that she suppressed a start i of uneasiness?that a flush rose to her: brow when she realized the fact that it was no trusted friend of her ] youthful cousin to whom she was speak-1 ing, but to-a mere stranger. Frank's face flushed also. He was in- ; tensely anxious to reassure this sweet j girl, to be of some use to her in this difli-' culty. To go away and sec her no more I was already a pain to him; beside, he : had the curiosity of youth, and wished , to know the tcimination of the affair. j "Miss Hood," said he. with a goodj deal of evident emotion. "I should j deem it a privilege to aid you in any j manner possible. Although I myself am a stranger to you, I think you must know my uncle, Sir Andrew Converts name. Let that be my guarantee, and honor me with your commands." "Sir Andrew Conger!" exclaimed Margery. "Oh! mamma and I frequently go to Forest Grove. And you are his nephew? May I nsk how it is that we ' have not had the pleasur of meeting ! you there?" "Because, for the past three years I have traveled with an invalid brother; j now no more," concluded Frank, in a j softened voice. "Ah!" exclaimed Margery, "then indeed I may trust you! I know?Sir Andrew has told us of your sad loss? and how he looked forward to your return. Oh! how strange a thing it is that we should become acquainted in this manner! Mr. Conycr, this young j cousin of mine, who implored me to send her at once twenty pounds, will some j day be ^ very rich, and?and I fear there may be a design to get possession of her wealth, and that she has fallen into the trap. Her father is so severe! There are, for her so many excuses. Oh I! what am I to do? If I speak out she will j be subjected to endless persecutions; if I j am silent she will rush on her own ruin." "And for what does she need this money?" asked Frank, softly. "She has not confided to me anything," said Margery, "but she has given me:, hints of the truth, and I fear everything i from her folly, her inexperience! I be-! lieve she has promised her hand to her i old music master, who has flattered her j egregiously. Who knows but that she !, intends to arrange for her secret marriage! j For more than once she has told me late-' ly that before the violets are in bloom J she shall be a bride." "Do not send her the money?" cried Frank, his eyes furtively glancing with : admiration on the enchanting girl before : him. "Say that it is impossible to do so at once?and then, could you not go and i see her ancl discover the actual state of j i the case? You must forgive the interest; I betray, Miss Hood; let me beg of you j: to make me of use to vou.:' j i "Will you carry my answer to my' cousin May?" asked she, "for I cannot ' send it in the ordinary way. She is so ! great an heiress, Mr. Conyer, that she is I very unhappy. Every movement is j watched, and she is forbidden to write to j anyone." i "I am at your disposal now and hence-11 forward,'' replied he, with warmth. Margery blushed, and all at once it i1 rushed upon her that here she was, at 11 ; o'clock in the evening, exchanging con- j tidences with a handsome young man till |1 this hour unknown to her. liWkof eltnll T ovnlnimorl cKa in ?T UttL OUUil X v*vr. | distress, "I cannot detain you to-night. , IIow can I send you my answer to ray ! cousin?'' j1 "May I see you again to-morrow?;1 May I come here again?" asked he, im-11 petuously. 1 "lam giving you so much trouble!" 1 faltered Margery. And then she timid- j ly put out her hand in token of adieu, ' and Frank, as lie held it for an instant in j: his clasp, felt a new hea\ jn opening be- j: fore him. "Till to-night I did not know what j' a treasure this earth contained 1" mused j he, as he retook his road toward Forest 11 Grove. When Frank presented himself next | day at the Silver Birches (not this time . at the back entrance), and asked for j Miss Hood, he was somewhat taken j nKnstlr Kw na)iun?(l intft tVlf* TirPS- . r-?ence of a stately elderly lady. "My daughter lias told me all, Mr. j Conyer."6he said, "and it is well that, she did so. Without hinting at my real' motive, I shall persuade my young 1 niece's father to let her come on a month's visit, on the plea that the doc- I tors recommend care and change, for ' she has looked sadly pale and miser- ' able lately. As for the music master, I ! will get him quietly replaced,and at the month's end I hope to have presuaded ; my neico's father to permit her to accompany us abroad; that will create a! new interest in her life and she will1 forget the music master; and now let, mc persuaue you 10 reiumu whu us iui i luncheon, and I will drive you back to Forest Grove. What a bewildering hour of joy was that which the happy Frank passed at the Hirches! Margery was tenfold more | witching this morning than she had: seemed the previous evening. Could he ever forget the charm in her blue eyes when she raised them to his or the I wonderful beauty of the long lashes j which rested on her rose-tinted cheek , when she veiled those eyeB in withdraw-! ing her gaze. Header, he never did forget them; find [ a month later, when cousin May was in , safety beneath her aunt's roof, and the ! designing old music master had been 1 dismissed, on pretense of his service being no longer needed, since his pupil was to make a lengthy stay abroad. Frank seized a propitious moment to ask Margery passionately: "If she knew of what he should be thinking every moment of every day while she was away ?" "Of you, you only!" concluded he, folding her to his heart iu sudden rap- ] ture, as Margery's deep blush and sweet confusion betrayed her answering auction. ******* It was on the eve of Margery's bridal that cousin May (cured now of her fleet- j ing fancy for the music master) confessed 1 how it was that she had thrust the letter, | which had indirectly been the cause of this blissful wedding, into Frank Con- I yer's hand. The foolish girl had arranged with her elderly adorer that lie should send a trusty messenger who 1,1 norxir lmr Wt<?r tn Mnrcrorv Hood 9UVMUJ O (since funds were necessary for the pro-! jecte<l clopnient.) This messenger was to come to the door in the wall, and for signal whistle the first few bars of the song with which our story opens. Not venturing to come himself for fear of detection, the music master had sent his son (he wa3 a widower): the son mistook his road, arriving full twentyminutes late; hence, -when Frank Conyer came by May naturally took him for the one to whom she was to confide her letter. And all that followed?May's lucky escape and Frank and Margery's bliss?were brought about by a "A Strange Coincidence."?Young India? Journal. The Rothschilds own $400,000,000 of VWted States bonds. TRAMPS ON THE RAILROADS! how soke deadheads ahe cab- | HIED OST TRAINS. A Tramp's *'1'nlvernal Ticketand OihcrnethodN of ( cttiiip a Ride,: Without Paying Fare. "How 19 the racket worked?" asked I the reporter of a far-Western conductor who was discoursing on the magnitude of i tramp evil on the railroads. " Weli, there are lots of ways. The' old 'vets' use the 'universal ticket,'! whiah is good on every railroad in tho j United States and the Canada?, while the beginners work the box cars and tho ; ' blind' baggage. The 1 universal ticket' j is a small, thick board, about a loot and ; a half long and three or four inches j broad; a groove is cut midway in it deep enough to allow it to sit without slip- j ping across any of the connecting rods or i the break-beam of a freight car. Once j safely under the car the tramp fixes his board, which gives him tin A1 seat, and j as long as he don't fall asleep he can travel in perfect safety. No one can see j him except by getting under the car,and neither freight conductors nor brakemen ! have time for that. "Fellows who arc-a little too nervous j for the universal ticket try the box-car | 'racket.' They watch cars that are be- ' inc loaded for some point they want to [ go to, and munagc before the car is sealed to get in and hide themselves | away with some grub and a bottle or two ! of water. The wool cars that leave Las ; Vegas are infested with these tramps. You see, the cars are not loaded by the | company, but by tiie men who charter : them, and the laborers are only too ready I to help a fellow to stow away. Scaled . oars are never opened until they reach j their destination, and once locked in.the 1 tramp is safe from all interference until the end of the journey." "Kather roNgh, I should imagine, to be locked up with limited rations in the Seuson of washouts?'' broke in the scribe. "Well, no. Your tramp always brings along with him a fish-plate by the aid of j which he can always pry back the door ! sumciently to squeeze his body out at I onr Thft fn wllirh tVif* spjiIs I are attached arc nearly always long enough for that. For short journeys tramps prefer the blind baggage. The blind baggage is the car right after the locomotive. The doors arc on the side, and the conductor can not pass through it as through an ordinary car. The tramp, when he sees a passenger train j about to move out from the depot, sta- j tions himself on the off side of the train | from tho platform, and waits until the : conductor has jumped aboard, when he j lightly swings himself on to the front I p'atform of the car, and is safe until he gets to the next station. Of course, the tramp must slip of! and on at every stoppace, and so the blind baggage is usually used only for night travel, j It requires u follow to be sharp, too, for conductors never jump on until the train is well in motion. I used to brake on the San Marcial division of the road until 1 ruptured myself and had to get a lighter job around the depot. The smartest tramp I recollect in my time had only one leg. He had a Grand Army of the Republic badge, and used to make plenty j of money in all the towns along the line j from Deming to Raton. To see that j fellow hop on and ofl the 4 blind baggage' with that game leg of his was a sight. We never tired him." "Don't the engineers look out for tramp.? ?" "Not they. That is no part of an engineer's duty. He'd just as soon haul a ! tramp as not, and he hates the trouble of j having to stop to put them off?" " Is the train stopped every time a : tramp ha? to be put off?'' " wen, passenger trains arc, out wiiu i freight trains it depends. If the brake- j men are strong enough, they make him , jump for it. Sometimes the fellow i alights all right, sometimes,he gets hurt j and an odd time he gets killed. When i he gets killed you will generally read an ' item about an unknown tramp while try- i ing to steal a ride having fallen between : the wheels, or something of that kind, ! but we know better." IJere the conductor intimated that he had some freight cars to look after, and that it was about time for him to make his rounds, and invited the reporter to accompany him. They made a tour of the junction buildings and then wended their way to a side track, on which a number : of cars loaded with coal were standing. "This is where they got their stuff for the lires you see yonder," observed the conductor as he passed the cars. "It seems to me that could be easily prevented." "Not quite so easy, but It wouldn't pay, anyhow. "When a tramp has to : camp out, if he can't get any other fuel easy, he burns up the ties. Ties delivered on the track cost from four bits up to seventy cents, and I've passed tramps' fires near the track with as many as half a dnvnn tine hiirnincr (it, t.hn sanifi timo. Ties have to be placcd along the line at intervals for the use of the section hand9 in repairing the track. It's better to let them have the coal. They don't put off tramps as frequently on the Southern Pacific as on this line, because wood is Bcarcc and they don't want to have them burning it. -' "There arc a good many men who travel cheap by fixing the conductor, ain't there "Not many on this line now. There are too many spotters lying around, and conductors don't care to take the risk. When they do each conductor can only pass the man to the end of his division. The brakeman can be seen for about S2 each division, but the passenger has to j ride in a box-car. If he fixes the conduc- | tor he rides in the caboose, which is ! more comfortable than a Pullman if it hain't got a flat wheel." "What is a flat wheel?" queried your correspondent, to whoso uncultured mind it sounded like Oiruigu I UU? II IUU UI UU14CU lUIIC, Anil all around tho square. "A flat wheel is a wheel which, from Imperfect casting or wear, has lost its rotundity. It gives a fearful jolting motion to any car it is on." "When a conductor or brakeman is fixed by a passenger, don't the other j brakeman sometimes give him away?" "No there is a regular system. All the fftufl' is regularly and fairly divided at the end of a run amon# the crew, as the train hands are called. It would be a cold day for any fellow to be such a fool as to make himself so previous. Every officer of every road In the United States knows this thing is going on; and so long as it ain't run into the ground they wink at it. After all, it's only doing on a small scale what hundreds of thousands are doing, and worse, on a large scale." Animated Barometers. Two tree frogs bottled up in a candy jar sat on the top round of a miniature iltof i-nnnlinrl tr\ + litfi tin li/1 nf thn jar in a Vine stroet saloon yesterday. The tin lid was perforated with a dozen holes. The jar was one-third full of water. "Dot's my parometer," said the saloon keeper, pointing to the jar. "Yust pefore der rain gomes down dose dree frogs oud uf the vater gome und to der dop uf der ladder giimb. Den pooty soon right avay der rain gomes down. Dose dree frogs vas no vools," and the saloon keeper laughed till he choked. "How long have you had the frogs bottled up," was asked. "Dree mont. Und dey neffer miss glimbing up ven der rain is goming. Ven it is not going to rain dose frogs stay in vater all deF time."?Philadelphia Times. Wanted?A Friend. One who will recognize me when I am compelled to wear patched breeches; who will take mo by the hand when 1 am sliding down hill, instead of giving me a kick to hasten my descent; whowili loan me $5 without requiring $20 worth of security; who will como to see me when I am sick; who will pull off his coat and fight for me when the odds are two to one; who will talk of me behind my back as he talks to my face. Such a friend i9 wanted by ten thousand times ton thousand human beings throughout the broad earth.?San Francisco Newt \ Letter. mm ! There wore about. 35,000 deaf mutes in the United States when the last census was takes. FARM, GARDEN AND HOUSEHOLD. Setting Strawberry Plant*. Tho best time for this work, as every one is aware, is in the spring just as the young plants are beginning theirgrowth. Next to this in the season is immediately after fruiting, while the plants are in a partly dormant state, and before they fully recovcr from the exhaustion of bearing, but more care is then required. Most of the old leaves should be removed, the fine mellow earth pressed on the spread roots, and if the soil is dry they should be well watered, and a mulching of manure given an inch or two in thickness. This mulching will prevent the ground from crusting or baking if a second watering becomes necessary. Setting potted plants late in summer succeeds well, but the operation, first and last, is attended with considerable labor, and it is only adapUd to limited garden beds. An easier, and quite as successful mode, where the plants to beset are nearat hand or in the same warden, is to take up blocks of earth withtlie plants by using a spade, and to set them with their mass of earth, into openings previously cut with the spade, where tney are to remain. We have now a long bed of the Cumberland, and another of the James Vick, both in full and abundant bearing, set in this way during the latter part of last August. The plants were scarcely checked in growth by removal. With dry, light soil the work would be difficult, as it would readily crumble from the roots, unless the plants were carried one at a time on the spade; but with a strong loam sufficiently moist, two or three dozen may be taken up in compact blocks and carried on a wheelbarrow to the place for planting. It is hardly necessary to remark that last autumn rooted runners must be selected if the work is done now, but later in the season the new plants of the present year's growth may be chosen.?Country Gentleman. The Hoc in (irowin; Cropi* It has not been such a Ions: time ago cinr>n tKo imnlomonto impel in tpndiniT vm, '-r "" ? -o corn by horse power were so few and so. rudely constructed that the hoe was looked upon as indispensable to the work. But now that these implements have become so diversified, as well as better constructed, the hoe is thrown aside as no longer necessnry. Men arc so prone to accept of any theory that will enable them to live with less labor, that farmers have readily caught at the idea that all that was necessary to insure a crop of corn is to throw earth enough to it with the plow to cover up the weeds. - But that this is not all that is necessary we shall now endeavor to show. We start out, then, with the established fact, well-known to all, that the more the ground is stirred the better will be the crop. And why? Simply because the ground is then kept in its best mAjo+nro OO tuoll OQ UUlIUltlUll LU UU3U1U LUUlObUlU ?o ifVM fertilizing matter from the atmosphere, with both of which it is always filled. Not only so, but by the frequent stirring of the soil it is placed in its beat condition to druw up, through capillary attraction, moisture, as well as soluble mineral matter from below. But, some may ask, why may not all of this be accomplished by the plow? We answer, so it could if, by plowing, the whole surface of the ground was kept mellow, but as the plow throws the mellow surface all into ridges, leaving the spaces between as compact and hard as ever, the power of the ground to absorb is thereby diminished rather than increased, and in so far the crop is damaged. It is on this principle that summer fallowing is so beneficial to wheat. By this additional stirring of the ground it is put in better condition to absorb and hold the fertilizing matter floating in the atnirmnhpro nsnnpiallv when sunDlemcnted with a little plaster. The best chemical authorities tell us that the main uso of plaster to vegetation is its power to attract ammonia from the atmosphere and "fix" it in the ground forthe use of plants. Now the more the soil is pulverized the more its absorptive power is increased, and, therefore, uetter enabled to extract fertility from the atmosphere. This fertility consists of gases emanating from decaying vegetable and animal substances, and which, being brought down by the rains and snows, are deposited on the surface of the earth, and the more the absorptive power of the latter is increased the more this fertilizing matter it incorporates. It is evident, then, that the greater the area of surfacc pulverized tho greater the amount of fertilizing matter absorbed, and which is best done by the use of the plow; not in throwing the pulverized ground into ridges, but in mollowing the whole surface, as well as in killing the weeds. Weeds in a corn-hill are like parasites on an animal, drawing the life-blood out of it, and not to use tho hoe in thoir extermination is the very way to establish them on the farm.?Baltimore Sun. Farm and Garden Note*. A sharp, bright hoe is poisonous to weeds. Scalding the milk before feeding will usually remedy scours in calves if taken in time. Breed well, feed well and then sell well. There is profit in so doing; there is loss in the reverse. A Bath (Me.) man kills potato bugs with two spoonsful of ammonia in a gallon of water. It is a sure knock-down for the pest. Air-slaked lime in fine powder is a good nvnfrnnfiim r\f frnm manv lrinria of insects. It kills them by closing the apertures in their bodies through which they breathe. A small body of water is very useful on every farm. It will afford a drinking place for cattle, while it can be stocked with tish and mado useful in keeping ducks and geese. The use of blood as a food for cattlo has, it is stated, been tho subject of experiment in Denmark by a chemist, who, as a result, has now invented and patented a new kind of cake, in which blood forms one of the chicf ingredients. If hedges do not require more than two trinrmings during the year one should be made at cither the end or the beginning of the season, and the other about the first or middle of July. It is well to prune just before the leaves start in spring. If water be applied to the leaves of plants it will have a marked effect in dry weather. The constant evaporation from the surface of the leaves will use up r 1 J I 4 ? tne wilier uenveu irom a ury son. .applying water to the leaves checks the evaporation. Mr. W. 1). Hoard, the father of Wisconsin's dairy interests, says that " the logic of sound breeding teaches that no breed has yet been discovered which will combine and transmit Jersey results in butter, Ayrshire or llolstcin results in cheese, and Durham results in beef." It is a common notion among gardeners and mauy farmers that it uoes not pay to fight insect pests. This notion is no doubt due to the fact that cultivators are ignorant of expeditious means of lighting them. Many insects can be \ought as easily and effectively as weeds, and farmers shoulU inform themselves of such methods. Professor A. J. Cook, after trying pyrcthrum without success, found kerosene an effectual remedy for the squash bug. The kerosene was well mixed with five times its bulk of soapsuds, or, better, with the same proportion of sour milk, and driven with force on the bugs with Whitman's fountain pump. Merely sprinkling does not answer, as the heavy wings shield the insects. Every year, especially in droughts, there is more or less talk about irrigation. For mrrft crops it will not pay unless water is above the land to be irrigated, and can be turned on rather than drawn on by teams. It requires about eighty barrels of water to properly irrigate an acre. To draw this on with teams would tramp the land at one watering so as to do nearly as much harm as good. All the potato diggers yet invented relv for doing perfect work on having the potatoes planted not very deeply and hilled up. This brings the tubers some what nearer the surface and greatly lessens the labor of digging. The practice of level culture for potatoes has for this reason made slower progress among farmers. Many who hill up potatoes leave their cornfields as level as possible. A. Lowell correspondent writes as fol- ' lows: "Dogs troubled with mange should ; be washed with warm water and castile | soap. Twice a week sprinkle on the ; parts affected a teaspoonful of dry sul- i phur and rub it thoroughly in through J the hair. Continue this for some weeks, as the sulphur will keep off fleas, which ! are ao troublesome to some dogs," We have used carbolic acid soap for similar purposes with the best of results. Small or newly set garden plants or i vegetables, which need watering in dry | and hot weather, may be more injured I than benefited if the operation is not | properly performed. Merely wetting the | surface of the earth forms a hard crust as soon as it becomes dry. Covering the i surface an inch and a half deep with fine { broken manure will prevent a crust, and the earth will remain moist much longer. ; Newly transplanted plants will do much ; better with this mulcting.?Country Qen-; tleman. An exchange says: We have mentioned j on a former occasion that for many years | n/vfUinr* ar\ nffootliol in i YYU littVU iUUUU UUtUlUt; our buvuvum I preventing cut-worms from destroying i young cnbbage-plants as wrapping around the sterna, as they arc set out, the green ! leaf of some course weed. By the time i the leaf rots, the cabbages are beyond the j reach of the depredators. Burdock leaves j are just the thing, if the owner is so for-1 tunate as to have any growing along his | fences. Green leaves are much better than the paper which has been recommended for this purpose. The factory system has worked a revolution in cheese making in this country, but it has not done so much for butter making. The buik of cow butter is still made on farms, and there is one reason why it probably will continue to be. The skim milk is of great value for feedimr niira find for other numoses. while ?? i' *r?~ - i i . the whey from cheese is worth little or I nothing. The dairy system of butter making will probably insure a better and more uniform product, but there is another difficulty to be taken into account, which is the loss from churning the cream from a great number of cows together. Although analysis does not indicate It, coal ashes have a great practical value in growing fruits and vegetables. They change the mechanical condition of the soil for the better, whether it be light or heavy, and one of their best effects is in diminishing the ravages of insects. Trees planted in beds of coal ashes are invariably healthy. Squash vines grow with less liability of attacks from the borer, and radishes arc grown free from maggots. These well-attested facts show that coal ashes are far too valuable to be thrown away, as they often are. It may not pay t-> apply them to grain crops, U..4. ?n nrsl fh?T7 orn olmnaf n_q UUb 1U tup UiUliniU IUVJ ut u WW good as' a dressing of manure. For cherry aud pear trees coal ashes are better than manure. Houiicliold Hint* and Recipes. The livers of chickens and turkeys are nice fried with a few thin slices of bacon. Cut the liver and bacon very thin; season Avith pepper and salt. This is a good breakfast dish. The best labels for marking plants arc made from zinc, and nothing but a common lead pencil is needed to mark them. The writing is at first faint, the same as if made on glass, but soon becomes distinct when exposed to the weather. A teaspoonful of borax in the last water in which clothes arc rinsed will whiten them surprisingly. Pound the borax so it will dissolve cnsily. This is especially good to remove the yellow that time gives to white garments that have been laid away for two or three years. A nicc way to cook boiled potatoes for supper is to slice them as thin as possible and still have them keep their shape. Put some milk, butter, pepper, and salt into the saucepan and let it boil up once or twice; then put the potatoes into it nnd let them cook for five minutes, not longer. Cabbage cooked in this way makes a good entree: Shave the cabbage very thin, then let it cook until tender in a very little water; drain it thoroughly. Put a lump of butter into a clean saucepan, let it melt and brown, then put the cabbage into it and let it brown; season with salt and pepper; send to the table very hot. Rubber rings, such as are used on fruit cans, often become hard and brittle. They can be restored by letting them lie In water in which you have put a little ammonia. Mix in this proportion: one part ammonia and two parts water. Sometimes they do not need to lie in this more than five minutes; but frequently a half-hour is needed to restore their elasticity. Delicious cookies arc made after this receipt: One cup of butter?a small cup?two cups of sugar, three cups of flour, two eggs, leaving out the white of one; r<5ll out quite thin, cut in any shape li_ you choose?square one9 arc generally preferred; beat the white of the egg which you reserved and spread over the tops of the cookies: sprinkle cinnamon and sugar over them and bake them. To make squash pudding: Peel and slice a yellow squash, and boil it in boiling water until it is soft enough to rub through a sieve with a potato-masher; to each pint of squash add four tablespoonfuls of butter, melted; half a nutmeg, grated, or a teaspoonful of any powdered spice preferred, a cupful each of hot milk and sugar and four eggs, well beaten; bake the pudding in an earthen dish, with or without bottom crust; use it hot or cold. Here is a recipe for squash fritters: To a pint of cold mashed squash add two eggs, sufficient Hour to make the mixture smooth and thick enough to retain the form of griddle cakes when put upon a frying-pan; heat a griddle or frying-pan, well buttered or rubbed with a nioce of raw salt pork, and then bake the squash upon it in the form of cakes, or drop it by the tablespoonful into a frying kettle half full of smoking hot fat, and fry it in the form of fritters; if the latter method be followed take the fritters out of the hot fat with a skimmer when thoy are brown, and lay them for a moment on brown paper to free them from fat before serving them. Heroic Dudes. One accomplishment of this recent Arctic exploration will be to force a recast of the more robust sentiment of the day, wliich partakes, in a measure, of contempt concerning men of fashionable cut and tastes. No stout store is ordinarily put by a man who parts his hair in the middle, adorns the lapel of his coat with (i bouquet, and leads the german. The knowledge of this much about manv men has caused them to be called dudes. But perhaps Commander Schley and Lieutenants Grecly and Emery, although offending in this way, will be excepted from this stricture. Lieutenant Greely, as is shown by his picture, parts his hair in the middle, and looks not unlike James Russell Lowell, who stands in rough-and-tumble circles as the boss dude of the age. He has been so denounced, indeed, on the floors of Congress. Greely is a good dresser, too, and is nice about most things. Commander Schley is very fond of society, and subscribes to all of its fashionable requirements, and Lieutenant Emery is decidedly a devotee of fashion. lie is cast in a large masculine mold, but that does not prevent his giving particular diri-ctions to his tailor, and his having his favorite perfume. lie is a favorite in society, unrl Inst, winter, while waiting orders here to proceed to the land office und snow, was leading the geriuan and distributing the favors with great relish nnd success. It might be said, indeed, that he stepped right out of the ball room on to the ucck of his ship; and yet these three men, all of fashlonablo cut and | fancy, which ordinarily excite derision, ' have shown, in the facc of the greatest hardship and danger, courage and endurance that have challenged the admiration of the world. Greely, of delicate frame as well as of taste, outlived men of power, physical organizations, and Commander Schloy and Lieutenant Emery fought thtfir way to his rescue through mountains of ice and perils almost unexampled. All three now are down for ease and promotion, and can indulge in all of tnc society thoy have stomach for.?LouimlU Courier-Journal. UNCLE SAMUEL'S SERVANTS. 9 SOUS GO VERNM PB T OFF CIALS WITH TEST SHALL INCOMES. Fact* from tlie "Blue nook"?Two Tiiouwand Officials with Salaries I'Mi than 910 Each. The second volume of the government "Blue Book," otherwise known as "The Official Register of the United States," which contains a full list of the officers and employes of the postofficc department and the postal service, has made its appearance. This Blue Book is compiled every second year, the idea being to j furnish to each new Congress a complete [ list of the officers arid employes of the , government in all its branches, with tho ! salary paid. State from which employed, etc. The first volume made its appearance some months since. It contained the names or all the persons in xno cmploy of the various departments except those of the postofficc department. The second volume, containing the names of the postoffice employes, is the one referred to above. It is a volume of nearly 1,000 pages, and contains, beside the names of officers and employes in the department in Washington, the names of all the mail contractors, postoffice clerks, and agents of the various railoads, all of those employed in mail messenger service and railway service, all the carriers and clerks in post offices, j and all postmasters. The list of post- ' masters discloses some interesting facts. There are, in round numbers, about 50,000 postmasters in the United States, whose salarj/tffr^ire from $8,000 per annum down to nine ^2nts. The individual receiving the largest salary in this capacity is the postmaster at New York, whose salary is $8,000, thcsumcasthe Postmaster-general himself. The smallest salary appears to be that paid to H. H. Forrest, postmaster at Hedale, Pitt county, N. C., whose salary, according to the register, was nine cents. Postmasters below a certain grade, it will be understood, are paid according to the number of stamps rnnrf>l]p<i at their offices. Formerly thev were paid according to the number of stamps sold, but this system was not found to be satisfactory, some of the postmasters making a business of selling stamps in order to get their percentages. Now, they are paid by the number of stamps cancelled, receiving the full value up to the first $50 and u certain proportion after reaching that sum. Out of tho 50,000 postmasters in the United States, there are 2,000 according to this register, whose salaries are less than $10 each. Of course, it is not to be understood that these persons devote their entire time or attention to the duties of postmaster for this sum. These are places where postoffices are loeated in country stores or at private houses, and are kept either as an accommodation to the neighborhood or with the idea that their keeping brings some additional traac to tne proprietor 01 ine store or other establishment where they are kept. In Ohio there arc 24 offices where the salary is less than $10 per annum; in Pennsylvania, 55; in West Virginia, 111; in Wisconsin, 50; in Minnesota, 46. In Illinois theicare25; Missouri, 91; Florida, 20; Tennessee, 221; Virginia, 52. In Kentucky we find 139; Alabama, 160; Georgia, 140: North Carolina, 310. There are among these 2,000 persons whose salaries are below $10 no less than 34 whese salaries did not last year amount to the sum of $1 each for the entire year. Of those postmasters whose salaries were less than $1. Mississippi, Louisiana and Pennsylvania have one each; Virginia, Tennessee, Alabama, Wisconsin, Kentucky, Minnesota have two each, while North Carolina has no less than a dozen postmasters who get less than one dollar a year for their services in this line. There are fifteen whose salaries were less than fifty cents for the entire year. J. II. C'ockerau, of Vanally, Surrey county, N. C., received forty-eight cents last year for his services; S. W. Lane, ofLaneton, Sampson county, N. C.. got forty-five cents; A. Armson, of Tyrol, Stearns county,Minn., received forty cents for liis services, as did also W. A bey, postmaster at Fork postoffice, Butler county, Alu. A. W. Karns, of Wild Cat postoffice. Lancaster county, S. C? received thirty-five cents for his sercices. The postmaster at Muscatine, Davidson county, N. C., thirtynine cente; J. A. Barnard, of Buck j Shoals, Yadkin county, N. 0., twentyeight cents; W. D. Webster, ol Tradewater, Webster county, Ky., twentysix cents; G. W. Jackson, of Tucker postoffice, Vashola county, Mi89., twelve cents, and H. II. Forest, of Redalia, Pitt county, N. C., as indicated above, nine cents.?New York World. A Shower of Beetles. Men who go down to the sea in ships most decidedly do see some strange sights, nor are the yarns they i snin a whit less strange. No exception to the rule of sailors is Commodore Tern- I pie, of the United States navy, who,1 one night not long ago, sailing on the 1 vasty deep, heard u pattering as of n heavy-rain falling on deck. He got up to reconnoitre and found himself as- : sailed -with missies on all sides, which he j at first took for hail stones, but which proved to be beetles. The commodorc I was so disconcerted by this that he ''piped all hands;" but, as our contem- ' porary from whose columns we read this marvelous tale says, the men no sooner came on deck and got struck bj | the flying beetles then thev bolted in terror. The captain determined to have the matter out, though his face was j well-nigh pounded to a jelly, beside J being bitten and stung. lie discovered that he was sailing through the midst of a shower of beetles, which seemed to get thicker every minute. In fact, the living storm got so dense that he was1 unable to see a pipe lighter when he ! Jf fVin nnrt r>f Viiu ouj;iiv;u ix tv umv vuv? w* mm , The insects awarmcd down into the i cabin and engine-room, and completely j stopped the machinery. After an hour i of this sort of fun, the storm passed | over. It was then found that the bee- j ties, which were not much bigger than a j grasshopper, covcred the deck in a solid , mass to the depth of two feet, while the ! yards and shrouds were smeared with j them, smashed to a sort of yellow paste. It was fully a day before the sailors could quite rid the ship of them, and a ' large shoal of lish swam behind the ves- \ sel, waiting to swallow the "squash! bugs" as tncy were pitched overboard. To Cure Ilonnd Shoulders. More than thirty years ago, writes someone to the New York Tribune, I got a ' 1 1 11 1 T? ! liabit ol Doing round sauuiumuii. m uj-, ing to find a remedy, the following plan, which grew out of my knowledge ol anatomy, cmnc in sight: Hook the lingers of the hands together, raise the elbows as high as the shoulders and pull like a shoemaker. The museles about the shoulder-blades, to keep them in place, are thus strengthened, and in a short time enabled to fulfill their proper j office. While lying 011 the back press the head on the pillow so as to raise the 1 chest up from the bed on which you are reclining. This strengthens the muscles that should hold the head erect. When standing or sitting, where the head can 1 press against something solid, repeat the operation. By a little thought at othei j times to use the muscles, the difficulty j may be overcome. A Cure for Drunkenness. The Ilartford J'ost publishes the fol i lowing rcceipc for the cure of drunken- ' ness: | Doctor Robert Danger's Cure for Drunken j ness?Powdered einelionn rul?ra, one ixmnd: dilute alcohol, one pint; mix, let stand and J strain, then evaporate to one-half pint. Dose j ?Caaspoonful every three hours tor the first j two days. The third day reduce to one-fourth of a teasnoonful, then "down to ten and five j drops. Continuo it from seven to fifteen | days. : Any druggist can improve the above formu- i la by percolating a pint of the mixture as firs! made, and then evaporating it toone-halfj pint The moat influential man in Dodge i City, Kan,, is said to be Batt Mattcrson, | who has killed thirty-two persons, ac: cording to common fame, and is spoken of as a "sociable, good fellow, when he isn't crossed." Over GOO lives were lost by boiler explosions in this country during the past I year. Nearly 300 persons were killed outright and many of the remainder were | maimed for life. NEWS SUMMARY. ranlcrn nnd middle Slate*. The United States steamship Tallapoosa was run into by a schooner off Cottage City, Muss., nnd cut half in two, going to the bottom in six minutes after the collision. There ivere 140 officers and men on board, nearly all tsleep, but owing to the discipline prevailing they took to tho boats and rowed away with but small loss of life. Surgeon Clarence E. Black and one seaman were Browned, ami two other seamen were reported missing. The di-aster occurred just Wore midnight, white the Tallapoosa, with only her officers and crew on board, was en route from Boston to Newport, there to meet Secretary Chandler, who expected to continue his summer trip on board. Further developments relating to the luspcnsun o[ the First National bank of Albion, N. Y.. and the disappearance of the president, A. S. Warner, show that tho Burrows estato, of which Warner was executor. will lose about f500,0c0 in securities, taken by Warner and lunk in speculation. Just before his disappearance Warner, who is about 35 years old, converted everything he owned into cash. It Is thought tho bank's depositors will not lose much. \\ arner gambled heavily 111 stocks. Eight hundred sheep and hogs were killed Dyacollision between freight trains at Columbia, Penn. While bathing at Catskill, N. Y., llary McCabe, Bridget and Annie Hayes, New York shop girls, got into deep water and were drowned. Another of the Hayes sisters was tn the party, but was rescued. On account of the trouble between China 1 and France the Chinese have transferred to a ! New York shipping lirm thirty-three steamj ihips, the heaviest purchase in this line ever known. The transter was made to prevent the capture of *lhe steamships by the French. ScnoKON J. J. Woodward, ono of the physicians who attended President Garfield, committed suicide a few days since by jumping from the roof of an insane asylum near Philadelphia. He had been mentally unsound for tome time. Four Hungarians?two men and their wives?were found with their skulls fractured in a shanty near Dubois, Penn. Robbery was Ihe motive of the crime. The late William L. SchalTer, a Philadelphia bachelor, lor over fifty years a bank cashier, lies lel't in the following remarkably brief will an estate valued at more than $1,300,00'J: "I do hereby give and bequeath to inv oictm* T?li?rnhnt.h SifVmflfar oil mV rpfll nnH personal property of whatever description." Much damage has been done to crops in various sections of New England and the Middle States by heavy frosts. Investigation of tho vaults of the suspended First National bank at Albion, N. Y., thows that Warner, tho absconding president, had made a clean sweep, leaving nothing of value. Counterfeit silver dollars of unusually fine execution have been circulated in New England. All the prominent railroads are at war, and tho New York papers say there is hardly a road of importance between the Atlantic and Pacific coasts that has not cut both its passenger and freight charges below schedule rates. Samuel Roberts, for years the confidential clerk of Charles Parrish, a coal operator at TV ilkesl arre, Penn., confessed to being a defaulter in the sum of $70,000. Roberts, who wns a man of prominence in social and religious circles at Wilkesbarre, made an asrignment in favor of his employer. South and West. A fire which broke out in a stable at frntViinno Iv*V rftsnltflH in thft Hfiflth of OllO mail?a stable hand?and thirteen blooded horses valued at $25,000. A serious negro uprising was reported to Atlanta from Dawson, Terrell county, Ga.. and the governor of Georgia ordered several companies of militia to tho scene of disturbance. A train conveying the military to Dawson was wrecked near that town by obi structions that had been placed upon tho track. The trouble grew out of a determination on the part of the colored people to prevent the hanging of a negro who had been sentenced to death for assaulting^ a \*hito woman. The Bank of Windsor, at Windsor, Va., has suspended, but tho depositors will probI ably be paid in full. Memorial ctri ices were held throughout Utah in honor ot' the Mormon elders recently murdered in Tenue&e \ George Jonkh (colored) was hanged at Dawson, Ga., for assaulting a white woman The presence of State troops with two cannon prevented anticipated trouble. The Anti-Monopoly Greenback Labor party of Illinois mot in convention at Bloomington, delegates being present from most'of the counties of the htate. The Indianapolis National platform was indorsed and a resolution was pits o 1 favoring fusion witli either of the leading parties, as the State committee should deem best, upon the basis of half the doctoral ticket for Butler and "West. A Statj ticket was nominated headed by Jesso Harper for governor. The First National bauk, of Xenia, Ohio, has suspended. Its cashier speculated io grain and left for the West owing $33,003 tc the bank. At the Nebraska Republican State convention in Omaha Governor Dawes was re nominated by acclamation and the national ticket was indorsed. Waihlnj^totii Captain Healy, of the United 8tatc!i revenue steamer Corwin, lately cruising in Sehrinjj's sea and the Arctic ocean, confirm! the reported loss of the schooner Alaska, with all her company, sixteen men, while on the voyage from Godwin bay to San Francisco last October. A call for $10,000,000 of bonds of the three per cent, loans of 1882 has been issued by the treasury department. The principal and accrued interest will be paid at tn? treasury September 30. Propositions relative to low rates for government telegraph service have been presented by the united telegraph lines to the postmaster-general in viow of the plans for the establishment of a postal telegraph system. Tho Western Union's statement that government received the benefit of its lowest rates was disproved. The postmaster-general has appointed Judge W. T. Otto and J. S. Crawford, superintendent of foreign mails, to represent the United Slates at the Quinquennial International Postal congress, which will soon assemble at Lisbon, Portugal. The representatives are endowed with authority to conclude and sign such modified postal union conventions or treaties as may be agreed to by them, subject to the approval of the postmaster-general, with the advice and consent of tue President of the United States. The United States consul at Marseilles reports to tho state department that a pitiable condition of affairs exists there owing to the ravages of cholera, and appeals for aid from this country. He says that " no description can picture the wretchedness and destitution that already exist." Foreign* INVESTIGATION SHOWS tuub iJUUiuua ui of tho public domain in the West have been illegally fenced in by cattle companies, while additional millions have been fraudulently entered at the government land offices, and thus been taken possession of. In many cases entire counties have been illegally fencw in or fraudulently entered. A world's convention of the Young Men's Christian associations has been held in Berlin, about sixty delegates from America attending. Advices from Western Africa say that smallpox is raging at Cootnassio, in Ash antes. The king of the country recently died, and 300 subjects were killed at the funeral in his honor. A now king has l>een appointed, and the Ashanteo chiefs have asked that the country bo annexed lo the English possessioni because of his notorious cruelty. Ciror.KHA is on the increase in Italy, numerous deaths and many new cases "being reported in various places daily. The Chinese arsenal at Foochow was destroyed after a three hours' bombardment by * ' > ' i- 1. I I Admiral uouroeis rrunru mjuiuiiuh. a?c firing begun at two o'clock in the afternoon anil censed nt eight r. M. Seven Chines; gunboats were sun k and t\v<i escaped. Only one Chinese battery replied to the French tire, but did no damage. Tho Euro^nn settkin -nt was undisturlted. A fiiie in I lawn, Austria, destroyed .'500 houses and rendered 3 IKK) people homeless, j Fire has also destroyed 114 dwellings and :J27 farms in and about the largo market town of liozwndow, Austrian (ialicin. Tho harvest, which had just been gathered, was ull consumed. A Vienna sugar dealer and refiner has bocome embarrassed, with liabilities of 4,000,. 000. Two presidents nro ench trying to run things in Peru. Consequently roving bands of thieves overrun the country. French iron clnds which entered the river Mill in Ciiiua nnd nttempted to demolish Chinese forts wore compiled to retire after an Tln? Jirw?lin] lit. Foft-CllOW Is in ruins. Eighteen hundred workmen are out of employment. The arsenal cost #5>,4tH). 000, ami the arms and ammunition destroyed were valued at $-8,000,000. An international agricultural exhibition was opened at Amsterdam, Holland, with imposing ccivnionies. Further advices from the seat of war state that the entire Chinese fleet at Foo Chow was destroyed by the French under Admiral Courbet The Frcnch lost five men, including an American pilot, w ho was kilU on board the heavily a rtn *d French war ship Volta. Tlio French fleet sufTered nodamqgo. Ax earthquake shock lasting half a minute j was felt in the island of Jersey, Great Britain. | General "Wolselky, the British commander-in-chief, is going to Egypt to assume command of the English forces there. During the bombardment of Foo-Chow the French lost six killed and twenty-seven wounded, and the Chinese loss is estimated at | 1,000 killed and :{,000 wounded. Nine Chij nese men-of-war and twelve junks were sunk j According to reports received at Sontay 80,000 Chinese-troops have invaded Tonquin j and have already had an engagement with the French force. In this battle, it is as sorted, tho French wore annihilated, while f several thousand of the Chinese were killed. | The French troops, it B said, fought desper- < ately and repeatedly charged the Cbinase I lines, but as fast as the latter were broken j into they closed up again with remarkable ; ] military precision, and many hand-to-hand I encounters ensued, the French finally suo- I cumbing to overwhelming odds. A i.a.roe numlwr of prominent English ' and American scientists wero present at the i opening of the mo ?tinpj of the British associa- l tion for the Advancement of Science in Mon- ! treal Lord Landniow:ie, governor-general of i Canada, made the opening address. Many papers of scientific interejt were read during ihe week's session. LATER NEWS. ' An immmonso crowd witnessed the attempt i of Jay-Eye-See to beat tho best time on record at a mile trot on tho Prospect Park Fair ground, Brooklyn. The horse failed in his attempt, however, being unable to trot better than2:12>?, and Maud S. still remains n arch of tho trotting turf. The political campaign in New York has | ' ATVltla 1 ttv n moutiiirr r\f TfioU A mamnano f o. I 1 "JJVMVU KSJ u UIVQUU^ Ul XI IOU tvuiw ?? vorable to the Democratic ticket. Mrs. Pariiell, mother of the land league leafier, was present, and speeches were delivered by U nited States Senator Jones, of Florida, Congressman Collins, of Massachusetts, and others. One-half the business part of Adams, N* Y., lias been demolished by fire. Fifteen business places and many law and other o.'(Ices were burned out. The total loss is estimated at $200,000. Pompey Graham, a colored resident of Montgomery, N. Y., died a few days since at the alleged age of 119 years. The First National bank of Jamestown? Dakota, has failed. The Adrian (Mich.) Savings bank has suspended. Thirty-two negroes were taken seriously sick on a plantation near Eufaula, Ala., from eating of a pig that had been bitten by a mad dog. All the sick men had symptoms of hydrophobia. The secretary of the interior has appointed sixty-two special examiners for the pension office at an annual salary of $1,(300 each. A battle hns taken place in the streets of Lima, Peru, between government troops and a rabble under Caceres. For over six hours 1 there was a storm of bullets in the city. Finally the mob was driven out About 150 ? jxTsons were killed. x Emperor William, of Germany, was thrown from his horse while riding in tho park at Berlin, but not seriously injured. All the Chinese fortifications along the Min river have been destroyed by the French fleet The Chinese troops bolted. Manitoba, British America, has suffered heavily from a tornado. At Winnipeg many buildings were blown down. Crops also suffered severely. TXT A "D ?r xvju* The French Admiral Ordered to At- ' tack a Chinese Anenal. J The trouble between Prance and China arising out of the firing upon French troops ' by Chinese forces after the settlement of af. , fairs in Tonquin, and the refusal of China to ' pay the indemnity demanded by 1 France, has culminated in orders ' given by the French government which were i regarded as a declaration of war. Admiral < C-iurbet, of the French fleet,was instructed to ' bombard the arsenal at Foo-Chow, and lo < land a detachment of troops and destroy 1 the war material and stores accumulated there, which are of immense value, i This action was integdad as a reprisal for ( the action of the Chinese at Lang-son. At the < same time the French off Kelung were or- 1 dered to occupy the port and the coal mines 1 as security for the indemnity demanded by ' France. This indemnity, however, according 1 to the pronouncement of a member of the Chinese diplomatic corps, who was inter- ? viewed, the French are not likely to got The 1 Chinese attache declared that the Pekin < government womu uovcx i cvu^uu? that it owed Prance a sou as indemnity for the Lang-son affair, which was a pure misun- 1 derstanaing. The bombardment of Kelung < and Foo-CEo^,he said, had only tended to in- J tensify the determination to resist France's * demands. Vicomta de Semalle, the French < representative at Pekin, immmediately after I lowering the French flag at the legation, t started for Shanghai 1 The London Pall Mall Gazette says: "China < will not issue a declaration of war, but will t inform Franco and the neutral powers ] that she will regard a repetition of ? tho Kelung incident or an attack on the Chinese territory as ipso facto a ' declaration of war. China will ask the other powers, and especially England, to be strictly neutral. The English colony at , Hong Kong has been the base of operations against Tonquii:. China expects that in case the French attack is renewed the English colo- , nists will be warned of their duties as neutral. It is quite certain that the Chinese will immediately cross their southern frontier and ( invade Tonquin." < ST. JOHN AND DANIELS. The Prohibition Candidates Acccpl the Nomination. Ex-Governor John P. St. John and Willi,nn Daniels,the Prohibition nominees for President and Vice-President, were formally notified at Cuba, N. Y., by a committee of their nomination. Mr. St John replied as follows: In receiving this formal notice of my nomination for the highest ottioe within the gift of the people by the national convention of thy Prohibition party, permit mo, notwithstanding the distinction was neither sought nor desired by me, to assure you, in view of the unanimity with which it was given, of my high appreciation of the very great honor if confers. There are more political parties in the field to-day than there are political isBues. Upo;i thy great questions as to what should be done \vitn the traffic in intoxicating liquors as a beverage, both the Democratic and Republican party are upited in favorof making the tariff permanent, while the Prohibitionists demand that it shall be forever placed nnder the condemnation of the laws of the land. Thus an issue is clearly made, and I think it safe to say, the only one to-day that really reaches < the heart, and conscience of the citizen. ' Coon this issue we go to the people, , the source eX all political power. Let us appeal ti>- reason rather than to prejudice. Let those 'resort to personal abuse I and scandal who have nothing better to up- ! hold their cause. The Prohibition .party was 4. ' ?"> ?? (IP I liUl UXgUUl^Al OO ? liiVIO vuiwov VI It is the outgrowth of a rapidl} -increaling I sentiment against the great evil of the nee? " an evil that the old parties dare not attack, but against which tnis young party of the ! people, in defence of the homes of the nation, ' lias entered upon a warfare that shall never cease so long as the flag of our country | waves its protecting folds over legalized drain ' shops. In this struggle, let us ever re- i member that we are accountable to God, that our duty to him is paramount to our allegi- , ance to any political party; that political ties | will never in His sight excuse a ballot for any , party that does not stand up fearlessly for the right. The home will have nothing to fear if , the people vote as they pray. Mr Daniels also made a speech accepting ! the nomination for vice-preaiuent. < THE NATIONAL GAME. , I There were thirty-seven home-runs in the ' Buffalo-Chicago series. 3 Tjie total attendance at the Providence and ! Boston games was .7.),387. Mork Indies attend gam? in Columbus than any other city in the country. The Chicago, Cleveland and Athletic clubs will lose their grounds next season. 3 Tiie total losses of tho disbanded Northwestern league clubs amount to over ?o0,000. j The League pitching terrors nre Bullinton, ii Welch, Cialvui, Corcoran, Whitney aud Radbourne. a "C.vrcn on to this new drop of mine," said 1 the $1,200 a-year pitcher. And tho batsman was laid off for a week with eight ribs broken. $ WniT.sey, of the Bostons, is fast develop- n ing into an all-round player. Thus far ho has occupied live positions this season, namely? t] pitcher, first base, third base, right field and s, ceuter field. It has been definitely decided by tho Ameri- can association to have no more than eight ?. clubs next year. Mony rumors are afloat as to the clubs that will Ibe dropped, but proba- .. bly the most correct is that Brooklyn, Metropolitan, Baltimore, and the Athletics will be retained in the Ka>t; aud Allegheny, St. 1 ....iu Pinninnntf nritl ImiisVille will COTO* priso the Western clubs, andtho Virginiaand Columbus will join tho Union association. At the end of the seventeenth week the rec- t] ord of the League clubs in tho championship r race was: Clubk. Von. Lout. | Clubs. Won. Lent. v Providence 60 20 I Chicago 40 43 t Boston ..56 25 Cleveland 30 52 j Buffalo 47 33 | Philadelphia 26 55 Nctv York 47 35 j Detroit 19 62 t " The record of tho twelve American Associ- ) ation clubs at the end of the seventeenth week t was as follows: t Club*. Won. Jjont. \ Club*. Won. Loft, n Metropolitan .5fi 21 | Baltimore....40 32 Columbus. ...54 23 | Brooklyn 32 43 il 8t. Loota 48 28 Toledo 27 60 ( I.onicrille... .49 2? I PItUbnruh. ...S3 55 Cincinnati....47 30 I Indianapolis.22 64 ' Athletic 45 S3 | Washington..14 61 ] Advices from all sections indicate that t tramps are quite as annoying this year as ever. Country people should be on their guard, as unprotected women and children 1 are liable to be assaulted by them at any 11 time. I j LAND GRABBMr. M Hillion3 of Acres Illegally Fenced ' J| by Cattle Companies I 3everal Millions More Fraudulently , ' jji Entered. - j Sometime since the commissioner of the ' general land office ordered a survey of cer- 'J tain public lands in Colorado and Nebraska J with a view of bringing suits at the next term ;&Bj of court against cattle companies that hare illegally fencod in largo tracts of land In those States. Jfl A special agont, who has been superintend- :-~vB Ing the survey in Colorado in a report to the commissioner, says eight cases have been M found against the Prairio Cattle company, composed of Scotchmen. An examination . ~ has been made of tracts containing lOOaqusra ; \ miles, twenty-five square miles,sixteen aqnart -^?5 miles and seventy-five square miles, and. the agent is at present examining a tract />|S|j containing over one hundred square milaa. All of these are under the control of .Urn'" Prairie Cattle company, and the agent sayi ire illegally fenced in. j *'^HI Officials in the land office say the practice? )f illegally fencing large tracts of land and joking fraudulent entries has been greater the ~ mt year than ever before. They claim that , jgu wtweon five and six million* of acres an . '.'iJal fraudulently entered Complaints from nt lers are being received daily by agents vA J< Z '/m ;he land office here. The settlers say tha Cat* '' /-rffiffl lemen are driving them away and feakbK >.<|S ? rom them the lands which they bare settled 1 ipon. One of the land office officials. in ^ 'M peaking of the subject today, said that if no practice is continued cattle men will havs ranj n tire control of the best public lands in the KmbM Jnited States within twenty years. Relative to the fraudulent entries of land, H&guBI . land agentin New Mexico informs the an* WttKpiflSE iral land commissioner that of n that Territory ninety llont, and ano^ior-agCOSht and ranAovra^the number of 1 rsndulsnt entries that have been investigated Faring the past year, and approximately tae KH9 lumber of illegally fenced acres in the variius States and Territoriaa:? ||jn| Slates and Fraudulent Acres TUegaily Territories. Entries. Fenced in. 8^^*980 ^.rkansaa 70 ? Ba&aHBlM 3talonldo.V7.7.7.7.' 808 2*800,000 California 139 ? Jew Mexico 827 1?600^000 i ^g ^ rVasliington Ter... 109 ? jyj Nebraska .7.7!170 800,000 JaBI tfontana 24 Not lnrwtigafced :.^^3 - '-M looming ^10 250,000 lansns t 183 200,000 Nevada - ? 00,000 Beside the cases embraced in the faregoirg . | able there are about flve.thotmand ectrieson which action has been suspended until an ?*' ga imination can be made by special agent* ( '/Ha rhese entries will average about one himdnd r 5gl^H9 ind fifty acres of land each. Acting 'iff! nissioner Harrison says that no doubt there "', 'aj ire thousands of other fraudulent entries, but r ;hat the office can only investigate thole irhich are brought to its attention by nttlers ' i&m'vn l ^ i -' /Til mil uuiers. Entire counties are reported us being fenced n Kansas. In Wyoming more than one him' ired large cattle companies are reported M laving fend#? on the public lands. Some of ;hese companies are reported to be KnglWi . . $0 ind others Scotch. .jsSgMJS Referring to the practice of large oompop lies making fraudulent entries on lands file- gfizi jally fenced, Major McKenxie, of the LsndV'-^HpSl jfflce, said: "These entries are made along . the streams that run through the land. . Cattie men will employ men to herd their stool; , .>? .$i ind then will give fifty to a hundred doQan jo each one to make an entry for 160 acres. : y When he has secured his patent it is under- ','Srg M stood that ho must transfer it to the party who advanced the money. Many of the caitie dealers will not employ men mdep they trill agree to make the entries. ;:2I "A common fraud in New Mexico. Arizona. .. Jl'.mjBB California, Idaho, Wyoming, Montana, Utah -'-jgSflW md Nevada is practiced by means of the V Desert Land Act That act provides that in (electing 640 acre3 of desert land twenty-five ^lnB ?nte per acre shall be paid down, and thai ' jersons entering the land shall be allowed ; "^<9 'V"3 ;hree years in which to pay the remainder. , Instead of taking desert lands the practice is * 10 take the very best land. Parties hold it .""So md get the use of it for three years for coo* . jaratively nothing, and then they continue -t vfll ogettheuseof it while It is in dispute. . Complaints from settlers come from nearly - . ill the western States and Territories. 'M HDSICAL AND DRAMATIC. \ m Three London theatres are owned and . nanaged by women. Joseph Jeffersojt is said to be the support )f an army of poor relationa 3 M. Victoe C afoul, the well-known tenor, s to marry the daughter of a wealthy land- _ Mtsr Mary Awdebson sayB she would Ij^Hj je glad to get back to America, notwithstand- ; ^A3M ne all the money sue has made abroad. .. ,23mm Mr. Henry Irving, Miss Ellen Terry, tatd ;:JjM Ifty others of the Lyceum Theatre company, >f London, will open the fall season in Mooreal. ] Geo. W. Cable was never inside a theatre ^ intiihe visited the Madison Square?which . ^ s half a church?the other day, and now be sHa to write a^day. ^ Da Villikrs Stamford is engaged in set* ing to music an .elegiac ode prepared by fValt Whitman for the festival at Norwich, Sngland, to be held in October. Miss Clara Louise Kellogg, the wellmown American singer, has retured to this xiuu try from Europa. She will sing, in Amor- ng M ca in concerts; possibly in English opera. A young American violinist has won lion- MgBBjB >ra in Europe. Michael Banner, who came ? BH herefrom the Cincinnati College of Music, B&fifltliB took the first prize this year in his class in the .HmH Paris Conservatory. ^ M PROMINENT PEOPLE. ?|j General B. F. Butler wux do bixiy-tui pears old in November. The Queen of Rome has hair forty inches long, and thick in proportion. spsgW Governor Cleveland has a sister who I has been a missionary in Ceylon for thirty S j9j John B. Gough was a singer of comic songs in New York before he became a lec- -vS "L~IZJ;tenant Greely is thirty-nine years '"'SyjH jM, is tali,"tiin, dark, with blue eyes and ..^^9 black h:?ir, vary' JH^ir-sighted, but handsome. Victor Huoo still retains the habits of his ,^>9 prime by rising early, li^t^ftbstemiously, ... '.^j working only in the forenoon and iloiilgTliOw?if his writing standing uprat a high desk. President Arthur's state dinners, last winter, are said to have surpassed those given i-J| :>y any of his predecessors m costliness. The ' -gul line he gave last season averaged $800 each. rr~" ?r\t (laf\vrrf\ "R J(e- " 1' > Xac. UimirflBuuiiiv-iu. , Clellan, Mrs. Samuel McClellan, planted three elms in Woodstock, Connecticut, for ^ joy, when she heard the news of the battle of -^.^?9 Lexington, and they are now the finest elms ' v*3? n tho town. In his household expenses, Jay Gould r'.'tfl spends fifty thousand dollara; Mr. Tilde a, al- I though a bachelor, spends more; August Belnont's expenses are a hundred thousand a . 1 >-eor, and "VV. H. Vanderbilt's are said to 1 imount to two hundred ard fifty thousand. | NEWSY GLEAIOTG3. i|jl Paris has S3,000 beor shops, in which the urn of $150,000 is oxpendod daily. GRASSUUPfErtS and locusts have destroyed 2 mmenso quantities of grain and other crops ii Mexico. The sun's heat is reported to have baked j pples in the open air at 105 degrees, near Uiglc Bridge, Me. ( UUKlXi mo nnii iuut monies 01 iuia year 55,504,000 was invested in manufactures and lining in the South. A temperance wave has been rolling -- ? _ ? brougli New Jersey, and reform clubs have prung up in many places. Tiik coming corn crop is estimated at 1,97,lKK),<X) i bushels, against 853,(500,000 laat ear and 813,771,000 in 1882. Dwellings are burned in this country at i tie rate of 000 or 700, worth $1,000,000 a lont'h. This equals the destruction of a city f 4,000 inhabitants witli every new moon. Toting for President. The Brooklyn Union says the States id not always vote on the same day for rnsidpnt Tn tho rvimrviirrn of 1R44. .'hick ended in Clay's defeat by Polk, welve of the twenty-six states voted on he first Monday in November, three on ~'* he first Tuesday, three on the second londav, and the others at dilTerent imes, New Jersey taking two days, for he business, beginning with the first fuesday, Pennsylvania the first Friday ,nd Ohio the last Friday, and South 'arolina not choosing her electors until * he legislature met, about the first of )ecembcr. The ^mly requirement then vas that the electors should be chosen 'i vithin the thirty-four days proceeding ;he first Wednesday in December, but ;arly in 184r> the present law was passed, which provides that all electors tie chosen on the Tuesday next after the irst Monday of November.