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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
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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
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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
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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
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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,
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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 !
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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
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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."
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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
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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.