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ABBEVILLE PRES^ANIT^lil^l
BY HUGH WILSON. , ABBEVILLE, S. C.. WEDNESDAY, OCTOBEK 8, 1884. NO. 15. VOLUME XXIX.^J
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SO LONG.
"But a week is so long!* he said,
"With a toss ot Ms curly head.
" One, two, three, four, five, six, seven?
Seven whole days! Why, in six, you
know
(You said it yourself?you told me so),
The great God up in heaven
Mado all the earth and the seas and skies,
Tbe trees and the birds and the bntterflies.
How can I wait for my seeds to grow?'
"But a month is so long?' he said,
With a droop of bis boyish head.
"Hear me count?one, two, three, four?
Four whole weeks and three days more;
Thirty-one days, and each will creep
As the shadows crawl over yonder steep;
Thirty-one nights, and I shall lie
Watching the stars climb up the sky.
How can I wait till a month is o'er?"
" But a year is so long!" be said,
Uplifting his bright young head.
" All the seasons must come and t*o
Over the hills with footsteps slow?
Autumn and winter, summer and spring;
Oh, for a bridge of gold to fling
Over the chasm deep and wide,
That I might cross to the other side,
Where she is waiting?my love, my bride!"
" Ten years may be long,'' he said,
Slow raising his stately head,
" But there's much to win, there is much to
lose,
A man must labor, a man must choose,
i And he must bo strong to wait!
The years may be long, but who woul^
wear
The crown of honor must do and dare.
No time has lie to toy with fate
Who would climb to manhood's high estate."
i' * ' ? 1?#- x 1 M M
"Aai me is noi. lung, xif sum,
Bowing his grand white head.
1 One, two, three, four, five, six, sevenSeventy
Tears! As swift their flight
As swallows cleaving the morning light,
Or golden gleams at even.
Life is short as a summer night?
How long, oh, God, is eternity!"
CONSTANT AND TRUE.
v ''What an industrious little thing you
are, Thalia! I, for one, fear that if
mamma relied for her three quarts of berries
upon me she would have to do without."
Sn nnrinnr hftiKlfinrnfl Ida. 'Minturn leans
her head upon her white hand while she
watchcs languidly her cousin's busy
movements.
It is a sweet, arch face that Thalia lifts
to her as she smilingly answers: "fired
already? Ida, I do believe you were born
to be a drone in the hive. Everything
seems to weary you except going to parties
and?"
"Flirting, I suppose you would finish
with. Well, you are not far wrong; and,
by the bye, Thalia, I have found a new
~ ^ ? asd delightful subject upon which to try
my powers of fascination. Pa should
have thought twice before he engaged
such a handsome overseer. To be sure,
he is rather cold and distant; but you'll
see yet how expressive I can make his
dark eyes look."
A delicate pink rushes to the younger
girl's fair facc as she springs to her feet,
nlmost. drnnninrr hnr basket of berries.
"Ida Minturn, I am ashamed of you!
Indeed, I was going to finish my sentence
in no such way. I detest the very word
flirtation,and 1 do not believe Mr. Holmes
would stoop to such a thing."
"Thalia, how seriously you do take
' things! If you could only sec how
dramatic you look?gory, outstretched
hand and all! But here comes Mr. Holmes
himself. I believe I will tell him of your
enthusiastic defense. I doubt not but it
would amuse him."
"Oh, Ida, please don't!"
And Thalia's cheeks grow to the deepest
rOSe o?-chA_pl<-at]3.
But there is no need for-fom, aa, with
merely a grave, courteous lift of his
straw hat, Mr. Holmes passes on to
"**-1 where, in a distant part of the field,some
men are ergagod at their work.
The golues summer months fill gently
by and it is not long befo -e it is plainly
evident to all eyes but Mrs. Minturn's
how affairs are temiitg between the
handsome young oreisee* of the farm
and the gentle young uirl who for the
, post three years has mule her home with
her aunt.
" I tlunk he's perfectly fcplendid!'' Ida
says candidly, is with many blushes
^ Thaiia confesses the fa?:t of her engageniC?^
"But mammfc will never consent,
&ju!^^ravsf*lf tnink you're very
1: . ThahaT^r^ r we'lenoigh,
k 'r -but I for one have ^ituitfourfi>^
y throw myself away on a poor vot ng man. !
I look a coronet at the voi/ loa^r,
and you, with your pretty face, might
certainly do better."
"Bettei! Ah, no!" And Tialia's
face is mi ye than pretty ?bpautilul?ns
she apeak i. " My Harry is noble and !
good. W1 it could be better than that/!
And. if he i? poor, 1 am too, but I count!
myself ricn ia hi:' love!"
Ida is riglit in prognosiivuir^- l>v
mother's disapproval.
"Engaged! And to a man not worth
a oennv. and of whose family one knows
nothing about! Thalia, I am shocked.
I have seen that you were very friendly,
but I had no idea cf this, for we have all
treated Mr. Holmes with more consider.
ation than his position calls for. And
what will your uucle say? Just what 1
do?that the affair m\ist be stopped at
once. I am your guardian, Thalia, and
until you are of age you can contract no
marriage without my consent. You
know that, and I now say that this engagement
must be broken.'
And all Thalia's tears asd pleadings
are of no avail. Mrs. Minturn is firm.
In two weeks' time they will ^o to London,
and she decides in her own mind
that she shall then sec that her niece is
plunged into the very vortex of that
i 111 C XU'IU MUIV?? MW JVV UVI
rs have kept her.
:ruel blow to Harry Holmes
; upon his employer's evident
5, he has suffered himself to
hopes.
years! Oh, Thalia, your love
survive such a test!"
no fear, Harry," Thalia anoluteiv,
"for neither time,
place nor surroundings can alter my
heart, and when your time of probation
^ is over, and I am my own mistress, you
have only to come and demand your own
?for I shall be yours then as now."
In the belt that clasps her slight waist
nestles a cluster of daisies. Stooping.
" 1: * tlinir foe.
iiarry uisuuumgico mv ui t>viu ?..o
tenings.
" I will keep them, Thalia, as a remembrance
of your words. And now I have
something to tell you. Since your uncle
told me the other day, that, after this
week, my services would be no longer
needed, I have received a communication
from Ireland, which has decided me
to go there at once. It is a letter from
an uncle of whose existence until now I
have been ignorant. But read it for
yourself.
This is what Thalia reads:
"My Dkar Nephew: I have only just
learned, after long inquiry, that my" sister
left a son, and that ho and you are one and
t he same. This letter will undoubtedly prove
a surprise to you, as. from my sister's solemn
vow. made ty me as she loft her home, I
know that you never can have heard my
name. Let me explain > At an early age
vour mother and myself were left orphans.
Time went by, and your mother met and became
attached to one whom beyond all others
I disliked, and for just cause.
"They were engaged and married, in despite
of my vehement protestations. I refused
to sanction the marriage or be present
at the ceremony. Margaret had to the full
the impetuous "character or ouriamny. un
the eve of her departure for her future home
she came to me and s&id: 4 Stephen, henceforth
do not ever expect to hear aught of
me or mine. You have chosen to wound me
* in the tenderest feelings of mv nature, and to
insult him who is my husband. I shall never
forget you. Never again to my dying day
shall your name, or any allusion to you, pais
my lips. I sever the connection between us.
Should I have children, they shall grow up in
ignorance of any relatives save those upon
their father's side. I have pledged my husband
to a like vow, and it shall be kept.'
! Before I could recover from the surprise ner
implacable words caused she had gone. That
was the last time I ever saw her.
".Now, my nephew, your mother's vow was
wrong, and "I have no doubt that ere she died
she would have gladly recalled it I am old
and alone in the world and in sad need. You
ore young and strong and to you I turn. I
implore vou, as the last of my family, the
J ccly one firing upon whor 11 haye any clai?,
to come to my succor if it be possible for you
to do so. Your uncle,
"Stephen Hartley." ,
"Mr. Henry Holmes."
"I am glad you are going, Hany," ;
Thalia said, as she finished reading, i
"Poor old man, all alone in the world
and needing aid?his is a sad lot.''
"I knew you would feel so, my dar- j
ling,*' Harry answers; and then, the letter
forgotten, they talk as lovers delight to
do, until the moments, flying by, bring
at last the dreaded time of parting.
"Who is the drone now, Thalia Kivers,
I should like to be informed?" exclaims '
Ida one evening coming into her cousin's .
room fully arrayed in an exquisite ball
costume. "It is almost time to be going, i
and here you sit with that everlasting
picture in your hand! Thalia! Thalia! j
haven't you forgotten that nonsense j
yet?"
No, Thalia has not forgotten, although
the last throe years have been a bewilder- j
ing time to the girl's shrinking, retiring i
nature, She is growing more accustomed
to the thousand demands and forms of
society, but they weary her infinitely. j
Not one word since their parting has
she heard from her lover; but, as she
had truly told him, "neither time nor
place can change her heart," and deep j
down in its pure recesses is still enshrined (
one handsome, dark face, with grave
brow and speaking eyes.
"What do you think Renie Andrews
told me this morning?" Ida says, a month j
later.
"I'm sure I do not know," Thalia re-1
plies, looking up from the book she is j
reading.
~ t "An cott if mv nor- I
WUUI, ?UUIU JUU oaj ? ...J
onetcd destiuy were even now on his way !
to England? Renie tells me that her;
cousin from Ireland is to arrive in time !
for her fete, and that with him is to j
come a veritable Croesus and heir to a J
prospective title. Henie says that he is
handsome, too, for she has seen his picture.
I tell you what, Thalia, I feel it
in my bones ?as nurse used to say?that
this young stranger will not return to j
his ancestral acres as unencumbered as
he comes. Some English girl will certainly
captivate him; and why should it
not be your humble servant ?"
By the time her cousin finishes, Thalia's
face is full of the amusement she
cannot repress; but Ida is too much engrossed
with her pleasant fancies to
notice or be offended. That same afternoon
the postman brings a letter to Thalia,
addressed in bold, manly characters. She
has never seen Harry's writing, and yet
I flnmro fromlilp nnfl her soft cheek j
| U? ... ,
t flushes, as she opens the envelope; for
j something tells her whose hand penned
| her name. Inside are only a few lines:
"Darling Thalia?(if I may still call you
so)?This day in which I write brines you
your twenty-first birthday, and the end of the
j period of your probation. If you remember
and still adhere to the words you said as we
I parted, send to mc a cluster of flowers like to
tlios': I took from you as a remembrance, and
which I have worn ever since closo to the
heart that beats now as fervently for you, j
aud you only, as it did then, three years ago.
Harry."
An address follows. The next mail
bears with it Thalia's answer. What it
is the reader may surmise.
The weeks glide by, and at length, to
Ida's delight,the day of the looked-forward-to
garden fete dawns. Ida looks
regally handsome. Thalia's quaint simplicity
of dress suits the giWish style well.
Tlie afternoon is waning, and as yet no
distinguished stranger has made his appearance.
Tt. ?.nt.m nn/i o litirr>d hv a frame
il, JO V.U. H,, o
of lawn-tennis, Thalia strolls off to a rustic
seat. Throwing aside her hat, she leans
her head upon her hand, and for awhile
loses herself in a happy day-dream. Sud!
denly a step approaches, and a well-remembered
voice speaks her name.
With startled eyes, Thalia springs to
her feet to find hersci: drawn to a warmly-beating
heart.
"Do you know me, Thalia?"
"Yes," she whispered; "it is my
lover come back to me."
He laughs?a Jojhjus laugh.
- My constant (lading!" he murmured.
"And you still are ready and willing to
leave you luxurious home and become a
poor man's wife?"'
"We will not be poor, Harry, for we
shall be rich in love."
A look of almost adoring affection fills
I ?Vn vm.nn man'. s>ai-nAct OTPS as thfiV
. 1.. :< """ -V ? ? ?. I
j r? . upoti the sweet, dowL'.ast face,
j "I nave something to teH you, little I
! one." he says, "th:it will surprise you. I j
j went to Ireland expecting to i';ud a 1
j relative, old, poor and needy: 1 t'ouud !
| an uncle, titled, aud the sole represcnta- J
! tivc of a rich and powerful family. His j
; letter had been worded thus iu i?y me. J
; He was in u^ed, he said, of affcction. ;
j I found him waiting and lonjrintr to ex J
' I end to me the fat hers love 1 had never j
I known, and I *t.uud here to-day us hi?.'
heir, waiting to claim the wife who f
loved m ' wheu ? ior an<l obscure, a id i
who, I iiust, will rure for me just na [ t
much in my changcd circumstances." j t
"You are a luc'cy little thir^''' Ida ; c
says, when tlie truth is made known <
to her, "andllbink your crse proves!]
hnt after all it itoespy to b' constant j t
ar.rt ti-ur* " j ,
Ant* ':nich to her wjr^l/ mother's j ^
rh/u-rir. <? vrar later, imtia'i '>[ i
j:>! ?: ??ft(!b-:a]kcd ofc??k>u< , Idu
her u?.u.. m; M.lf. lL'uinen'.ia-i' an-t
listlessness left beiuud. *3* poor > ni:;;:
bank clerk whose only claim to c '....du ?.
ation is an honest, loving heart. 1
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Lepers in India. (
Lepers are met with in every stage of (
misery in India,says a writer in the Nine- j
teenth Century, They flock to the bor- '
ders of the Ganges to end their hopeless J
lives on ''holy ground." Pilgrims, they }
crowd to Pooree to make prayers and 1
propritiatory offerings to the idol Loke- 3
nauth; and then, failing of their cure, (
they continue to haunt the neighbor- *
hood, and form fresh centres of vice as 1
vile and detestable as the foul corrup- *
tion that pollutes and makes Havoc ot
their bodies. Often herded by themselves
at night, the}* are scattered during
the day along the roadway and in the
bazars oegging of the pitiful, and filling
with horror the unaccustomed stranger.
Special hospital accommodation is provided
for them here and there; but in all |
India, with its millions of people and its j
over a hundred thousand lepers, the asylums
for the leper can be almost counted
on one's fingers; they are not a fourth,
nay, not a fourteenth part of the lazar <
houses that England in the middle ages
built for these despised "children of St.
Lazarus."
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Lost Hi vers. i j
I J
One of the most singular features of i s
the Territory of Idaho is the occurrence ! <
of dark, rocky chasms, into which creeks ! ?
and large streams suddenly disappear and ! i
arc never more seen. The fissures are j j
old lava channels produced by the out- 1
side of the mass cooling and forming a j
tube, which, when the fiery stream was j j
exhausted, has been left empty, whilst! i
the roof of the lava duct, having at j i
some point fallen in, presents there the ! \
openiug into which the river plunges and i
is lost. At one place along the Snake, | ?
one of these rivers appears gushing from , 1
a cleft high up in basaltic walls where (
it leaps a cataract into the torrent below, j ]
Where this stream has its origin, or at : j
what point it is swallowed up is abso- (
lutclv unknown, although it is believed I
that its sources are a long way up in the ' j
nnrth rountrv. Beside becoming tho i 1
channels of streams, the lava conduits J <
are frequently found impacted with the I
ice masses which never entirely melt. 1
The Cook An Artist.
The chef of a leading hotel in New ,
York lately admitted a reporter to his j
inner sanctum, and there confided to him j '
the great secret of the cooking art. j
" Everything in its raw state," says the!
oracle, "has a distinctive taste, but the '
cook's art is to bring it to the surface so j
that it reaches the palate. The secret in I
our profession is to supply flavors where j
they are absent and to develop them j
when they are there, just as the painter j 1
makes ills ellect stanci oui; irom me cau-1
vas.
??
During the decade from 1870 to 1880
the population of the United States increased
from 38,000,000 to 50,000,000.
A like percentage of increase since 1880,
a period of four years, would give a present
population of about 50,000,000 of
POINTED AND PIQUANT.
A BATCH OF BTORIE3 BY PBESS HUMORISTS.
The Terrible Sequel?Too Great a
Sacrifice?Her I*etter?Thero Are
TVorne Thing*, Etc., Etc*
Mr. Jones?"I'll stand it no longer,
madam. I'll lie down on the bed and
blow out my brains. Don't attempt to
dissuade me, woman. I've made up my
mind."
Mrs. Jones?"I don't want to dissuade
you, heaven knows. But you ought to
think of me a little. You might at least
have the decency to drown yourself or
take poison."
Mr. Jonc3?"Drown myself or take
poison ?"
JMrs.Jor.es?"les. just miuh. uun
embarrassing it would be for me to have
the coroner search all over the bedclothes
and not find any brains. Just imagine
what his verdict would be and how
that odious Mrs. Smith would say,'I told
you so.' "
Jones concluded to postpone the job.
?New York Graphic.
Her J.otter.
There is a young man in Oakland who
has a young sister by the name of Jessie,
who was sent to a fashionable school for
young ladies.
He said when she left home he wondered
if she would acquire the airs and
affectations that certain young ladies that
he knew had by attending the fashionable
seminary.
After being there a year he began to
flatter himself that his sister was proof
against such nonsense, when he received
a letter signed "Jessica," instead of Jessie,
as heretofore. In answering he
trrnfo cnm**fHinrr lik'A this!
"Dear Sistek Jessica: Your welcome letter
rocoi ved. Matnaica and papaica are well.
Aunt Maryica and Uncle Georgica started
for the Santa Cruz mountains yesterday.
Have bought a new horse; ho is a beauty; is
named Maudica, etc. Your affectionate
brother, Samica."
The next letter was signed Jessie.?
San Francisco Call.
Too Great a Sacrifice*
"Ethelinda Jane," lie said, in deep,
passionate tones, "will j*ou be mine?"
"If?if I thought you loved me," she
faltered.
"Love rou?" he exclaimed wildly. "I
adore you! I would wander this wide
world over for your sake."
"Then I will be yours," said the
maiden; "but only on one condition."
tJUTkof ia fVio bfi said, in
a paroxysm of joy; "name it, name it,
and if it was to snatch the burning sun
from the cerulean Armament I would
agree to it."
w"It is not so difficult as that," she said,
calmly; '"it is simply this?that you will
solemnly swear you will never say after
we are married that I can't cook as well
as youi mother."
The young man shook his head and
departed very sorrowfully. The sacrifice
was too great.?So mere tile Journal.
A Far-Siplitcd Official.
Bank President?"My dear, I suppose
you know that I am not" only the presirJpnt
of th<? bank, but the owner of most
of the stock?"
Daughter?"Yes, pa."
"And if I am not mistaken you are
becoming rather fond of 3Ir. Lightfinger,
my cashier."
' "Yes, pa; I confess it is true. But
how do you know?"
"I have eyes. But why have you
tried so hard to conceal this from me?"
"Oh, pa, please forgive me; but I
knew you would object to marriage with
a poor man, .and, dieuding your terrible
anger, I have tried my best to conquer
my feelings. Indeed, indeed I have!"
"Conquer them? Great St. Bullion!
I want you to marry him as soon as possible!"
"Oh, you dear, darling old pa! But
what has wrought this strange metamorphosis?"
"Oh. nothing; only I thought it
would be just as well to keep all the
bank funds in the family."?Philadelphia
Call.
There are Worse Things
' ? ? ? -- U t 1. ~
"1 (lon't see," sam an oiu laruier wuu
was going home over the Erie the other
evening, '"bow them Wall street fellers
dare 9|>eculate the way they do; why, I
should think they'd be afraid of losing j
money." j
"uh, t lie v do'."'replied his seat-unite, j
' I've beard tell that some of 'em were '
brought right down from riches to poverty."
"Yes- such ca*e? happen almost every j
day.'"
1 1 --U
''But, then, ;ili sioli feller? are appoint- j
id railroad presidents, riphr oil, and n
uon pick uj> agin. X?i?hin' so very t
Iretuil about it j.fier -ill, when you i ^
'one to tliink it over. 'Tain't like liav- j jj
nti a f iOO burn burned by lightning and J j,
:hc msuraucc company crawl out of pay- I ^
ueni, on th"- ground that I kicked a ' u
mtent churn ma oil the farm two w?.r ks i ,
. i u
uore. ??tf zcrtiti a wk. i r
J It Tiimtili'i! nt l.ns'fc
" i i 11"
l L W:?.? lOTi'.' t "St IIl? tlii'ir W,:vn 111 !
L-J brtvc -rone. and wuitld. if lie i
lad noticed the gup a she com online
n her hankerchief, but he hung on and , .
lung on, like a porous plaster in a hot ^
lay. Pause followed pause in rapid sue- ^
:ession, with still longer intervals of
iilence between, till after a season he ^
>raced up and said: " Siug me somehing."
" What shall it be?"she asked,
ounging to the piano, and wearily turn- ^
ng the music. "Oh, anything from
rour lips will be good." he said, with ^
:onsiderable enthusiasm; "sing some
nmg nice anci son una appropriate 10
he occasion." And so she toyed with
;he ivory keys for an instant and sang:
"Tired, oh yes, so tired, ?
Ready to sny good night?" ^
\.nd when she was through the first verse 0
ic wanted to know, in a faltering voice, u
f she remembered where she had laid T
lis hat, and when she produced it with 0
i singular swiftness, and asked, with ?
iome surprise, if lie was coing, he ex- D
Gained that he had intended to all the
svening, but it had slipped his mind.
3c is now wasting gas at the house of
in entirely different girl.?liockland
Courier- Gazette. e
Slaves in Timbucloo.
This girl was being brought in by the t
Morocco gate, on the road from the city t
)f Morocco. She was comely of face and c
igure, with large, dreamy, lovely eyes, 1
- ? j -i.?~ ~ I k?;uA?
UlU SUCUIIJUJJJ; 1UIJ?5 uiuuiv uuu. uti \
:olor was ofthe Ohvian type, which 8
shows the red blood coursing in tho
reins. She was of medium height and
xged about sixteen years. Four old Arab
u dealers," garbed in all the glitter and
:insel of the Orient, guarded this girl as
f she were an Amazon of strength and
prowess. One old Arab in a loud voice
:ried out her merits and nationality as
the group passed on to the center of the
town. Halting, the whole party were
suddenly surrounded by intending
buyers, both Christian and 1'agan. They
mme up to the crouching girl, pulling
tier arms to and fro, opened her mouth
ind looked at her teeth, made her stand
jrect, and then haggled over the price.
" She worth $100," say the Arab dealers
in one simultaneous cry, "but will let f
tier go for $00 if you take her now." Our 1
'Ipnimmnn trnn?lnff?i nnd tells lis llOW she t
v
will go to Egypt and fetch $200 at a first f
bid.?Baltimore Sun. a
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Business Was Dull. ,
A country merchant who doesn't ad- i
Fertise caught a thief going through his i
cash drawer. (
" Ilello, there," he sung out, "what t
do you want in that drawer?" <
44 Oh, nothing," said the man, sheep- ?
ishly backing ou and trying to get away. 1
44 "Well, don't let rac disturb you. <
Just go right ahead, you'll find exactly s
what you say you want. I've found the (
Vin??o fr\r- f}iA nncf civ WPAkfl." }
3U1I1U LllUl^ Ul/iV ?vt iiiv j./??uw u*.? .. ww..?.
?Merchant-Traveler. 1
j
In fifteen States and Territories moro c
than eleven per cent, of the white i
population over ten years of age can not i
write.
A substitute for genuine human hair .
is now made out of-the inner liuing of j
the bud of the palmetto tree. It can bo j
made of any length and dyed any color. <
NEWS AND NOTES FOR WOMEN.
A pretty engagement ring is a large
pearl held in place by two tiny diamonds
The new spiral ruchings are of tulle
with finish of embroidery silk at the
edge.
Necklaces of unset Bt&ries of many
colors arc among the odd things now in
fashion.
A little ribbon bow or small natural
flower or bud can be worn at the back of
the hair.
Waistcoats of Valenciennes lace are
worn under open bodices of black surah
or china crape dresses.
OUUI'L JilCiveiS II1UUC L>1 jtiavjf ntuuiug
arc in high favor with skirts of half-woru
dresses or with accordion skirts.
Loops of beads, the same color as the
dress, are worn suspended from the shoulder-straps
of evening corsages.
Large cut-glass smelling bottles are now
carried in cardinal silk plush bags, neatly
fitting the bottle and nearly reaching the
top.
One of the new neck ornaments consists
of satin or velvet ribbon set in a
muslin band to keep it firm. It is secured
by a clasp.
Young ladies are now wearing the
graceful Grecian sleeves, which are buttoned
across the shoulders and conccal
the upper part of the arm.
Kilt sk'rts of flannel arc now laid in
broad'piaits from four to eight inches
wide, and have three or four tucks above
the hem around the foot.
Beige color and dark laurel green
plaited woolen dresses are very fashionably
worn this autumn, both in pin checks
and large block patterns.
Rich, dark satin grounds show prettv
blocks aud figures in gay colors. These
arc manufactured for vests, collars, cuffs
and basque waists for combination with
plain gocds.
Pretty little dresses for children arc
made in Russian style of veiling, shot
silk, cashmere, pin-check surah, or cream
white woolen of finest texture, dotted
with tiny boquets of flowers.
A Quebec woman has applied to the
corporation of the ancient city for per
mission to exhibit herself as a curiosity.
She weighs 450 pounds, and her limbs
are four and a half feet in circumference.
Some of the new repped woolens show
brocaded figures like velvet, and others
have large balls of loosely woven silver
or gilt threads arranged on separate
breadths so that they will only be used
at the foot of the skirt.
A blouse for a little girl is of red adrinople.
It is shirred around the neck and
waist. Below the shirring on the waist
is a deep flounce of handsome white lace.
The sleeves are short, with long loops of
narrow red ribbon falling from the top of
the shoulder.
A pretty capote for fall has the edge
finished with n. narrow null of bricht red
velvet, a soft scarf of the velvet crosses
the top with a knot or pretty ornament
on the very top. The ties are the merest
bands of velvet, with a small made double
bow without ends under the chin.
A pretty suit for early fall is of dark
blue albatross and very light blue surah,
the latter forming the soft vest and plaited
skirt. The princess dress has the
waist perfectly fitting, the skirt is slashed
in deep tabs, a sash of the surah forms
over the hips and in loops, with ends in
the back.
The woman of Capri are described as
almost invariably handsome and healthy
looking. What strikes one most, says a
recent writer, is the statuesque gracefulness
of the girls in all their movements,
however mean their occupation. Capri
is n nreat resort for artists, and several of
? -- Q t ,
them have wived with women of the
country?their former models?and settled
down to a strange, half-wild and
half-civilized existence.
Killed His Child.
That there may be a world of pathos
in the apparently prosaic life of a policeman
is shown by the following incident,
related in the Chicago Herald:
"Did yon ever shoot any one?" The
speaker was a visitor at the armory, and
the person addressed was a patrolman
who looked up hurriedly and walked
away without an answer. "You see,"
said another officer, in explanation, "he
had an experience once that he does not
like to think ur talk about. He used to
walk iu th' Twelfth street district when it
was calied the terror district, and when
they hail the murder beii thcru. When
ever there was a shooting or killing iu
that precinct the belt was rung, to as to
notify all patrolmen th?t a crime had
hern committed, and mi'.ke Ihem mor<j
igi lant'" r? ^ -'?r
iesnrrjte characters. '>uc
ighr. this ottice;- obtained periniffi&Sfc
rom :he roundsman fo stcj) over to his I
Lome, a few blocks away, to get his nib- j
icr norit, aud while he was in the house j
ie loot er] into the room where his chil- ;
Iren wtire sleeping. Wishing to have ;
ne rcu.-lvcr outside of jiis cout he took i
d hi; belt snid laid the weapon on a bu-1
eau. .Just as lie was nhout to strap it j
ii he noticed mat the hammer wn; ;iown,
. it .1 Un\f !
III. ....... ?!4-> ll, .w j'm
ock tii thing was discharged. A little
irl jumped in) from tlie bed with'i r<:d j
ilutch upon her forehead, and o:nT><?, |
oli, papal' ft-li fiat ou her At
hat instant the murder bell r?:r.g, its.
ones coming: into the little h^u . i
onorous and horrifying. This otticer
honght it was lor him. but it was not,
f course. There had been a shooting
omewhere else, and the bell was ringing
or a tough and not for the heart-broken
toliceman. Well, that thing pretty near
[rove him crazy. The little girl never j
nnb-n nrrnin and cllf? dif'fl inside I
"o"*")
f a week. Tuc coroner exonerted
the father, but he never exonrated
himself. A few weeks after
his he begged to be transferred from
he terror district, away from the echo
f the murder bell, and that's why he's
ip here. He has told me that he
wouldn't live or walk a beat within sound
f that bell if he knew he would be made
general superintendent at the end of the
aonth."
Lndy Lobbyists in Washington
The lady lobbyists, says a correspond
nt, have played important parts in the
ocial life of Washington, especially since |
he Buchanan administration. Some ot |
hem have been the widows of officers of;
Via ot-mv <->r now* nthm-s have been the
laughters of Congressmen, and others j
iave drifted here from home localities i
vhere they have found themselves the J
ubjects of scandalous comments. A j
cw of them have been beautiful, some i
uid scorched their wings on ill-lighted j
orches, and they have generally been j
cry clever. It has been their business'
o so ingratiate themselves with Senator? j
,nd Representatives as to control theii
'otcs on matters which they have been ;
>aid to advocate or oppose. Failing in j
his, they have sometimes managed to se- j
:ure the absence of opponents of the bills !
vhich tliej' have been retained to advo- !
oAVinmou Thnv !
,ai<c uj j
it every question before C'ougrcss from 1
l business standpoint, and their smiles
vere for those whose votes were doubt- j
ul. To them the highest compliments 1
ind most honeyed phrases were thrown j
iway, for they knew their vanity. They i
'meant business." The parlors of some
>f these dames have been exquisitely i
urnished with works of art and brie- j
tbrac donated by admiring diplomats, j
ivery evening they received, and in the
ivinter their blazing wood fires were sur-!
ounded by a distinguished circle. Some
vould treat favored guests to a game of
iuchre, and as midnight approached
here was always an adjournment to the i
lining room, where a choice supper was !
icrved. A cold duck, a venison pie, j
>roiled oysters, or some one exquisitely j
looked dish with salads nnd clicese, con;tituted
the repast, with iced champagne
>r Burgundy at blood heat. Who could
jlume the Congressman for leaving the j
jad cooking of his hotel or boarding- j
louse, with an absence of all homo
:omforts to walk into the parlor web
,vhich the adroit lobbyist has cunningly
vove for him?
The assessed valuation of personal
property and real estate in the South, ac:ording
to the last census, was $8,400,978,886,
while in the North it was $18,- j
"U,102'69^l ^ ~ '
A TRAVESTY OF JUSTICE.
CRIMES AND PUNISHMENTS AMONG
THE MCOBS.
Horrible ^lutilaiions under the Sultnn'N
Kyc-Tlie Bastinado?Coufls*
eating the i;uuda ol Of(cnden>
A letter from Tangier, North Africa,
.says that 110 words can describe the cruelty
and the barbaric manner in which
justice is administered in Morocco.
Like Tunis, there arc in Morocco some
days in each week when the lowest and
most humble of the emperor's subjects
may step before the despot and demand
from him justice against his neighbors
or against government omciais. inese
public receptions are the most interesting
sight in the capital of Morocco, for they
are always attended by the entire court,
the army, and crowds of people. The
army, several thousand ragged, beggarly
fellows with crooked old guns and broken
swords, is paraded in three lines in
front of the imperial palace, forming a
square, open on one side. The sultan,
surrounded by a crowd of courtiers, generals,
and ministers enters the square,
mounted on a magnificent white horse in
gorgeous trappings. An attendant bears
the celebrated blue umbrella, surmounted
with a golden ball, the insignia of
the sultan'simperial dignity. The soldiers
L nffirtSnl nn/1 imnnrinl onrir.
prusuui Ul WIS, nil: uiiiv,jui uuu mi^vniu OV.
ants prostrate themselves, and the ceremony
begins. Onenfiierthc other, the
poverty-stricken, humiliated subjects are
led before the sultan. He rarely speaks
to them. After listening to their stories
or to that of the police authorities, he
makes his decision, or prescribes a punishment
which is instantly administered
by a chamberlain.
Until quite recently every subject
brought into the presence of the sultan
had to bring him a present, according to
his means. Sometimes great quantities
of gold, jewelry and precious stones are
ollered. The poor liedouins from the
desert brin# him sheep, dates, cheese,
large pots of butter and other articles of
little value. For the last few years the
sultan has not insisted upon these offerings,
but it cannot be said that those who
come to him empty handed derive much
benefit. There is no appeal against the
judgment of the sultan. If condemned
to death, the delinquent will be executed
on the Rpot. Executioners are always
on hand, and the most horrible
mutilations are committed in the
presence of his majesty and the entire
army. Decapitation is still in vogue,
but neither guillotine or swords are used.
A common butcher's knife or a large
dagger docs the service slower and more
cruelly, but with cflcct. Robbery and
theft are still punished by cutting off the
right hand of the criminal. Eyes are
torn out, ears, noses and feet cut off, and
the poor people mutilated in many still
more horrible ways. The detached parts
of tlie body are thrown to the doss.
Confessions are forced from the accused
by frightful tortures, by slowly roasting
their bodies, pinching, stretching and
squeezing, the same as in the eleventh
and twelfth centuries. It seems hardly
credible that this mutilation can still be
practiced in a country onlv a score of
* v - * e 1.1
nours distant irom uiui'mi^uiuuuu umita i
of the world, where ambassadors and
consuls of all the great nations reside.
England wastes thousands of pounds annually
in her efforts to suppress the slave
trade in Egypt and Nubia, but the carnage
committed daily by the sultan of
Morocco and his dignitaries is permitted
without protest.
Thejvendetta exists in Morocco. Any
murder, committed either intentionally
or by accident, will surely be reveDgcd j
by the relatives of the deceased. Should 1
they not be able to kill the offender the
authorities will do it for them. Otherac- J
cidents which may happen to a Mussulman
by the fault of anotner are revenged
in a similar way. "An eye for an eye and j
a tooth for a tooth" is still the law with !
these semi-barbarians. Every traveler is
shocked at the number of cripples he enencounters
in every part of the empire.
Mutiny is always punished by decapitation.
This is pracsiccd to such an ex
j tent tnat tne traveler emeu sees u, uu^u
human heads stuck oa high poles over j
the gates of cities.
The sultan is uot the only one who in- |
dulges in such crucltics. All his pushas,
governors, and caids follow his example
in different provinces and districts. As
in Tunis and Persia, the bastinado is the ;
most common punishment for slight of- j
fenses. Frequently, however, several j
' hundred strokes arc administered upon I
j tho ?>o]o- i: i the poor offender's feet, cans- i
; iag sometime.1* instantaneous death mid
i irfijiiently making rripples for life.
J The- favorite punishment with the sul !
' ?1 - !.? i
: inn :u;u mr j><i-u.in mv. .........
| the offender's money and goods. if there
is a decision t<> be given between several
: parties, justice is sold ;it auction. The
' lu.rtv odoling the greater bribe
be the winner. Of-'
feu.es h thr;
always punished by i
oJlendcr everything he posS?P|^^
whether found guilty or not. Shouk^^
any Moorish merchant or functionary :to 1
?|uirc considerable wealth, he knows that
he can live no longer in .-ecurity. The
sultau, master of his life ami pmperty, !
can take all from him when he Juast ex- !
peels it. and he may consider himself 1
fortunate if hi.- head remains upon his ; '
shoulders. This is why the whole eoun
try appear- '. Mi" traveler so poverty- ,
stricken -o destitute of all progress i
and w<*:!i'!'. .Ml the money earned in
*-m:i? :> .. i**41 * is !v hidden, t
for the ii* : w.-.'rh may 1
bring misery and dean* po---.-.
sor. His house may fall in ruins; ut ,
will not have it repaired. lie may need , J
a new burnous, but he dare not buy it, I
lest he should be thought wealthy. He I \
will never admit his prosperity. He will \
complain of bad times or of the govern- j 1
ment, and speak of famine and misery, j !
although he may have many thousand i
gold pieces hidden away. Frequently (
this docs not prevent the government of- I '
ficial from discovering the hiding-place j
of his treasures by fearful tortures. If i ,
any Mior wishes to destroy his enemy he j I
denounces him as rich.
The taxes arc collected in the same ' I
expedient and effective manner in which j '
justice is administered. Whenever | '
the sultan needs money he orders j
all his pashas to collect the tenth j (
prescriDed by the kornn, and | i
to send him the amount required j i
within a certain time. These j f
pashas pay themselves for their ser/ices j j
by doubling the amount; a poiicy which I (
is eagerly followed by their subordinates. J <
The poor, instead of paying the sultan j
his tenth, have to pay another tentli to |
the pasha, and a third tenth to the zap- 1
ticli" the caids and stiowsh. This is but
one of the many taxes imposed upon the '
Moors. Every date tree, each pair of j
oxen, every sheep and horse is taxed.
Imports and exports of goods, sales of ]
merchandise, and business transactions
of all kinds are taxed to the utmost. In- i
deed, only a small part of the earnings ; f
of the people remain their own.
The interior towns of Morocco are not j j
inhabited by Europeans, nor do consuls j ,
reside in them. Nothing remains for
the oppressed but revolt. The emperor | j
keeps his regular army and his guards j !
for the purpose of chastising such rebels, j (
A a or*ro\ no lio a ?nn?a r\f ft rnvnlf. llf> '
sends his troops lo the town to plunder : j
and destroy. Prisoners :irc rarely per-!
mitted to live. Their heads are cut oil ,
on the spot and sent to the emperor, who ]
has them exhibited over the gates of the 1
principal cities of his empire as a warn-.
ing to others. The emneror's army, I '
however, is weak, and the distances be- j '
tween interior towns arc great, so that | ,
he is only able to control comparatively ; j
small portions of his empire. The Bcr- j
bcrs or Kabyles in the mountains and the
TWinmnn rmar the southern desert are I
virtually independent.
A Rustic Rejoinder.
"How in the world can you content j
yourself to live. in this dead-and-alive |
place!" asked the city visitor of her I
country cousin. "I know I should die J i
if I had to stay here." _ ^ i 1
"Well,"replied the rustic relative, "I j
suppose I should, too; but then the city l ^
folks ain't here only a few weeks in the
year, you know."
The compensation .6? the postmasters .
in the Uoited States amounts to over
eir;o6o,000 per year.
NEWS SUMMARY
f.Q>1crn and middle States*
Rindskopp, Brothers & Co., an old New
York wholesale clothing house, have failed
for nearly a million dollars.
A number of miners were ascending a fBinJ
near Pottsville, Penn., when a heavy piece of
timber came tumbling down from the top
and knocked two of the men off the cage to
the bottom, a distance of (KK) feet The two
men were instantly killed, and two others
who were struck by the timber were badly
hurt.
Fraxcis B. Hayes died at his homo in
Lexington, Mass., ten days after ho had received
the Republican nomination for Congress
in the Fifth district. Mr. Hayes was
sixty-five years old and had served in both
branches of the State legislature.
Rornn nnrcrma r>f vnpiAiic rrlmpa
were publicly whipjKsd in Wilmington, Dol.:
ono of tliem also underwent the an! iquateu
ordeal of the pillory.
Miss Sadie Robinson, the thirteen-yearold
daughter of wealthy residents of South
Framingham, Mass., has created a sensation
by secreting a valise belonging to her mother
and containing sixty thousand dollars1 worth
of jewelry, securities and money. The girl,
who is pretty and weighs nearly 200 pounds,
was making preparations to elojie with a
young man whom she had met clandestinely.
The valuables were recovered.
Mil. Blaine's visit to Philadelphia was
made the occasion of a reception to him by
the Union League club, and a torchlight procession
of uniformed Republican clubs, comprising
about 25,000 men.
The total equalized value of real and per1
sonal property in New York State is returned
as $3,014,501,372.
At the Delaware Democratic convention in
Dover Congressman Ix;re was renominated
by acclamation, presidential electors were
cliosen and Cleveland and Hendricks were endorsed.
General Butlek's followers in Massachusetts,
at the State convention of the "People's
party," held in Worcester, nominated
Judge M. J. McCafferty for governor, and a
full Stn.t? ticket, electors nt, larco witb aIkc
chosen. After the convention Butler ap
peared and held a reception and made a
speech to the delegates.
Soutli and Wert.
An earthquake shock, not so severe as that
which visited tlia Atlantic coast some weeks
ago, has been paying its compliments to sections
of the west, including Ohio, Indiana.
Michigan, Wist Virginia, Kentuckj* and
Iowa. A shock was also felt in Ontario.
People were alarmed more or less, according
to the strength of the shock and of their
nerves, but no material damage was reported.
General Alfred Scales, Democratic
candidate for governor of North Carolina,
had a narrow escapo from a terrible death (
while riding in a buggy with a friend on the I
Coweo mountain, in Jackson county. His
horse ran away ana aasnea over a precipice, i
The friend jumped out, but General Scales |
went rolling down tlie mountain side, and
was only saved from death by lodging in a i
tree. Se escaped with a dislocated anklo and
some bruises.
Isaac Jacobson was hanged in tho county
jail at Chicago. Ho murdered his employer
because tho latter, to punish him for absence j
on a drunken spree, deducted one day's pay.
The Democratic an l Republican candidates
for Vice-President have been addressing immense
political gatherings in Ohio. I
Henry Clay, a grandson of the great j
statesman and orator by that name, and a
brilliant young lawyer, was shot and mortally
wounded by a salco:i keeper in Louisville, Ky.
A man fired into a train containing the
members of a circus at Burr Oak, Kansas.
The circus men returned the fire, killing one
man and mortally wounding tho mayor of
the town, who had been trying to preserve
the peace. Sixteen circus men were arrested.
A fortnight nfter tlio destructive tiro in i
the great lumber district of Cleveland,Ohio,
several conflagrations of incendiary origin
occurred in the same place within a few
hours of one another. A large amount of
lumber was destroyed, and the fire departments
of outlying towns were telegraphed to '
for aid. The losses will aggregato about |
$250,(XX). The excitcment over the acts of
the incendiaries was intense, and talk of <
lynching was heard on all sides.
Pobtland, Oregon, has had a disastrous !
fire, which destroyed a whole block, including '
the Esmond House, the leading hotel in the
city. The total loss is about SlifyWO.
The Newcomb-Buchanan company, ol ;
Louisville, Ky., the largest whisky house in !
the country, has gone into bankruptcy. Twc j
years ago the company failed for 51,500,000. :
By a collision between two freight trains
near New Cambria, Mo., three men were i
killed and two others fatally injured.
Fire destroyed ten buildings in Eureka, '
Nevada, including a hotel and a bank. Loss |
about $75,000.
Ax important land transfer in New Mexi- :
co has been made to New York parties 1
through the department of emigration of
the Santa Fe Railway company. The grant
comprises 2(3,000 acres, and the purpose is to |
found an Episcopal colony of Eastern people
in connection with which an' educational in-1
stitution will bo established.
Tkxas straight-out Republicans have put J
a State ticket iu the field, headed by Judge ,
A. B. Norton for governor.
Drought has seriously injured the cotton, i
peanut and other crops in large portions of j
Virginia and North Carolina.
Two young girls?Carrie and Bessie Water- !
liinrs, twelve and fourteen yews, daugh- j
u-rs i if James Wnterman, a fanner living near j
Ottawa, Kansas- -?!> '] n ropearound the neck
ct a iialf-brotliar. si\ y-ar& old, dragged ?iim
ntx>iit ati'l U.-at liim wirh a stick until ho was
deid. Th? uirls stated at the coroner's inrjinust
that they liar/".! (lie child and wanted
him dead. They were held for murder.
Washington*
A new vault to iioM fifty million silver
dollars has (jeen completed in the United
, St.-] tes treasury building.
Colonel William W. Dudley, the commissioner
of pensions, luis ton lered his resigthe
President, to tak? effect on No- i
ul'^' ^"Od that he will enix-mlwr
in Washington.
rage in private
mvnt
It is confidently predicted that TnWSfejwrj,]
meting of the vnipfcivtrs of < ?i rmmi^T?S^5tfVustria
and the czar of Russia will result in '
r* ,
*'Cth ;ti? j>ence to c.iu-op<\
A heavy gale ?t Yokohama, Japan, has
nused iiiiii'li io.js of lifo ".in! property, j.artieilarly
in tbe native parr of tuts ri:y
i.'aiko ft'lvict-s n'pirt tivo vieU>ries for Ceu r:i!
(ionl.iiiin battles with Ml Malidi's ivln-Is.
n lutii battlos Iht; io?T h-avily.
1'iim i'F.DKii II.. fiupcr.>r yf IJrax.il, wliilo
''' ' J from ?t naval roview had u narrow
escape from drowning. Th> boat wliicli
10 was in capsized, bat ho was rescued.
Choi.era has decimated a village near !
i'oo-Chow, China.
Thomas Fawcett, a prominent banker of
jondon, Ontario, has failed for about <\
51,IX,0,000.
A Foo-Chow dispatch says that the
Chinese are beginning to refuse to discrim- j
nate between the French and other foreign '
esidents. The dislike grows daily. In the i
ivent of an outbreak the native Christians f
,vill bo the first to suffer, and after them the i
foreigners. 1
The False Prophet's rebels Have abandonea ilie
siege of Khartoum, and General Woliolej
lias telegraphed to the British war office
x> stop forwarding troops to Egypt.
Tub British gunboat Wasp has been
wrecked off Tory island, on the northwest
;oast of Ireland. Fifty-two of the men on
board were drowned. Among this number
ill the officers were included. Only six per- ;
sons were saved On the r< cky coast where
the disaster occurred it was impossible to use
small boats in the attempt to rescuo the ship's
jrew. The Wasp had a registered tonnage of
l(w tons and carried four guns.
Gif.lie Leigh, a member of the British
parliament, lost his life in Montana by
[ailing over a precipice.
Six vessels wero lost on the Labrador coast
lurinc a recent easterly gale. In t ho White i
Bay district three thousand persons are starving.
!
Two Paris editors have fought a duel, one j
receiving a wound in the arm.
A desperate conflict took place at Rounlie,
in the province of Saratov, between !
several of the German inhabitants and Russian
i)easants who wero visiting tlio annual
"air. During the row eleven persons were |
killed, including one gendarme, and thirty j
nore were wounded. I
A tremendous flood is reported from Bue- j s
10s Ayres, South America. Many lighters i
lounuereu ana iuu .. ?o
iamaged. j 1
A disastrous conflagration has occurred
it Zeitoun, in Syria. The bazar and 400
houses were consumed.
The British war department ha.s forwarded
B500,(JUU in gold to General Lord Wolseley to
lefray expenses incidental to his expedition \
:o Khartoum.
Suspension of worlike operations by tho
French troops in China is said to bo due to
Sermany's mediation. Li Hung Chang, the
famous vicoroy of Pee Chi Li, and leader of
the peace party in China, has been reinstated ;
in all tho offices ho foriherly held.
WISE WORDS.
? . i'
Behavior is a mirror in which everyone j
ihows his image.
The society of women is the element j
)f good manners. ; ,
Envy feeds upon the living; after death : !
t ceases?then, every man's well-earned {i
lonors defend him against calumny. j i
The wisQ,men of old liave sent most of! i
heir morality down the stream of time ?
n the light skiff of apothegm or epi- ]
iram ,
No wo.nan can be handsome by the 1
torcc of features alone, anymore than .
>he can be witty only by the help of i
ipeech. 1
>
I
LATER MWS
Isaac Newton, chief engineer of the New
Vork department of public works, committed
suicide by cutting his throat with a razor.
Mr. Newton is believed to have killed himself
in a fit of despondency caused by long sickness
and pecuniary difficulties. He was the chief
engineer on board the Monitor at the time of
ber celebrated fight with the Merrimac.
Mrs. Nellie E. Hubbard, the divorced
wife of William Shepard, and the daughter
of ex-Governor Richard D. Hubbard, of Con"
necticut, has been married privately to Clark
Smedley, a New Haven business man. Mr.
nnd Mrs. Smedley will dwell in New Haven>
where her divorced husband, who it will be
remembered was her father's coachman, with
whom she eloped a few years ago, still live?.
The first marriage, which created a great
sensation, was an unhappy one.
Ma Blaine made short speeches at several
ogricultural fairs in New York on his tour
westward. At Buffalo there w09 a large parade
in his honor, many campaign clubs from
surrounding towns participating.
A fire at Pittsburg, Penn., destroyed Abel
Smith & Company's extensive glass works, a
large machine shop, five frame dwellings and
other property, causing an estimated loss of
$200,000.
From 75,0JO to 100,000 people were reported
present at a -"Democratic demonstration in
Columbus, Ohio. Clubs from, surrounding
towns nnrticinated in a torchlight parade: 1
speeches were mode by Messrs. Hendricks*
Bayard, Pendleton, Payne, Thurnian, Carlisle,
Governor Hoadly and other Democratic
leaders, and a letter regretting his inability
to be present was received from Governor
Cleveland.
South Carolina Republicans, after n
stormy all night convention at Columbia,
nominated a State ticket headed hy D. T. Cor'
bin (white) for governor and D. A. Strakei
(colored) for lieutenant-governor.
Tiie bodies of two horse thieves were dis.
covered suspended from a tree on Poplai
river in Montana. This makes thirty-seven
thieves lynched by vigilants in that region
this season.
ilU.NDKEUM 01 couvicio vveie tvincu uuiuig u
sanguinary out break in the jail at Mandalay'
the capital of Burmah.
The ravages of the cholera are again in"
creasing in Italy.
Kikg Humbert, of Italy, has been com
plimented for his heroism in visiting the
cholera-infected districts by the president ol
the French republic.
General Diaz has besn elected president
of Mexico for four years from December 1
next
Three Pullman cars attached to a train
running between Toronto and Montreal left
the track, broke from the other cars and
tumbled thirty-five foet down an embankment,
after which thoy caught fire. Forty
or more persons wero injured, twenty o/
them quite badly.
HERON AND HUNTER.
A Wounded Bird Nearly Kills a Ittan
in its Struggle for Life.
A Beaver Brook (N. Y.) dispatch says:
"William Janeway, a hunter, hud an unexpected
and very exciting adventure on Friday
last, near the head-waters of Ten Mile
river, in this county. He was hunting
along the margin of the stream, on the lookout
for wood ducks, and as he sat hidden behind
an alder bush he saw a large blue heron
alight at the edge of the water, a short gunshot
away. Janeway fired at the bird, and
it fell to the ground, where it lay fluttering
and struggling, evidently badly wounded.
With Mm ifTrtn. of it aliva
the hunter laid down his gun and
ran to the spot where the heron was.
The great bird had struggled to its feet before
Janeway reached it, ana when it saw him
approaching it turned and tried to run away,
but was hurt so that it could not, and fell
again to the ground. Janeway hurried on,
and bending over the heron to seize it, bo
was taken by surprise to see it regain its feet
and place itself in an attitude of defense.
The nunter had never heard that these
birds were courageous enough to attack any
one, and ho stopped forward to overpower
it. when it sprang to meet him,
and darting out its long neck, struck
Janeway a blow in the face with its
powerful beak that felled him to the ground
naif stunned. He staggefced to his feet and
found that blood was streaming from a
wound in his cheek mado I by the heron's
beak. He had no time to determine on what
it was best to do before the immense bird,
which stood moro than four feet high, Hew
at him again, throwing its body neavily
against his breast, at the same time striking
him just above the right eye with its
beak. Janeway fell again, and the bird followed
up its advantage and attacked him as
he lay on the ground. The movements
of the heron, although wounded were
so quick that it had given tho
hunter a third blow, this timo in the left eye,
ntuurtj uu cuuiu uiukc uiij umouao nuaivvc*.
Maddened with fain, Janeway sprang to his
feet and, rushing upon his singular antagonist,
caught it with both hands about the neck.
Its strength was so great that, strangled as it
was by the hunter's desperate clutch, it required
all of Janeway's power to retain his
hold until the bird was forced to succumb.
He held cm its neck until it censed to struggle
longer. Ho lnd choked it to death. He was
covered with blood and his left eye wasblind
od. He Hurried to the house of a lumberman
living uoar the spot. IIi? cheek wns laid open
to the bone where the heron had struck him
first with its beak, and there was a deep hole
over his right eye. The left eye was ontirely
destroyed, and it is feared Janeway will lose
the sight of the other one.
The bird with which the hunter hadsose
vere and.serious a struggle was subswjuently
t xn ea s u re 1
learly sev*?n foot from up lo up
fhese binls are rare in that locality, although I
>u?j o-'i-asionally hhii. Janeway is an old j
>onr an.l deer hunter, and has had many
drilling adventures while hunting them, bat,
le says, tho surprising attack of t!>" heron I
vas flercui than any effort ho ever saw a .
?oar or wonnrted buck make in defending I
tself. It wa. certainly a most terrible one j
or him, as it may leave him totally blind.
TWO EXECUTIONS.
rtvoHIcn Ilanscd In Pennsylvania*
One for Ifiist Father's .tlurder.
!
Joseph Sarver was executed at Indiana, 1
'enn., for murder. A priest remained with ]
lim from t) o'clock. Sarver walked with a j
irm step and stood upon the fatal trap with
inconcern. Tho only words he spoke on the 1
cairold were: "Jesus, crucified, have mercy 1
in my soul." lie exhibited no nervous- ,
less whatever. At 11 a. m. the trap was |
iprung, and death was almost instan- j
aneous, his neck being broken by tho j
'all. Only fifty persons were present |
Sarver, his father, and a housekeeper named (
Bella Kelly lived together in a tumbldown |
louse twelve miles from here. Sarver grow ,
jealous of the attentions paid to tho girl by J
lis father. She was the subject or ireqiiem {
[uarrels between thorn, and the son froquenty
threatened to kill his father. On the even- i
ng of Saturday, November 3, ISSo, at the i
supper table, .foo drew a revolver, and,
it'ter extinguishing tho light, fire 1 at his
Tnther, who was sitting opposite.
Tno ball did not take efTcct. nnd
:he old man fled in the direction of a neighbor's
house somo twenty or thirty rods distant.
Just as he reached the porch Joe shot <
urn through the head, killing him instantly, i
Returning to the house, young Sarwr fired
;wo shots at the housekeeper, one taking of- |
feet in her arm and tho other in her left ,
he >k. They were not of a faint character.
<ho be-ame unconscious and the murderer ]
led into the woods. i
Michael Murray was hanged on the same i
lay in the jailyard at Edonsbnrg, Penn., at
I :!."0 1*. M. in the pre-01100 of 125 porions.
Until 4 o'clock this morning he refused
ill spiriual advice, but at that time lu sent
for a priest ami two sifters. To the priest >
io mado a confession, and tho sacranent
was administered lo him. His
rime was the killing of John Hancuff on
Friday, October 12, 1 nk:{. on tho road near
Summit, llancutf and a boy ha 1 met Mur
ay, who was a o.uo-logged tramp, on tlie proceding
(lay, and the boy hail called the latter
iome names. Murray, who was gen-rally
egn rrled as weak mentally, met Hancuff,
iml after accusing liiin of calling him names,
Ircw a revolver and fired four s-hits, one
iking effect in th<- abdomen and resulting in
lentil.
A VISIT TO A JAIL,
Four 1'riMtncrN Taken Out by a ^Iob
and l.yn<lii'(l<
A special dispatch from Brookhaven, Miss.,
says that " a mob of forty men visited tho
CVonl.l.-,, ,-?;i ?,..,.^,1 f|,? iniInr
in# took out four negro prisoners and
lynched tbem to trees in the court house
|?ard. One was charged with an attempted
assault on a white girl, two with tho
munlerof other negroes and tho other with
irson and robbery. Four other prisoners j
ivero in jail at the" time?one charged with
criminal assault, tho others with arson?but
they wero unmolested. The mob informed 1
the jailor that unless the circuit judge cleaned
nut tho jail this term they would return and
make a clean sweep. The affair is greatly
ieprccated by a large majority of the citizens
of the county, where six men have been
sacrificed by Judge Lynch in eighteen months
past"
MOTHER EARTHQUAKE
Michigan, West Virginia, Indiana
and Ohio Shaken Up.
The Force Extends to Kentucky, Iowa
and Ontario-Three Shocks Felt,
Dispatches from various sections of the West
have given accounts of on earthquake shock
which disturbed the equanimity of the poop!e?
but was not nearly so alarming as the prolonged
shock which frightened the' residents
of the Atlantic seaboard
tome timo ago. Details of the shock are
firiven in the following disnntrhfis from vari
003 Western points, sent immediately after
the upheaval:
Chicago, 111.: Dispatches received from
points in Indiana, Michigan and Ohio indicate
that tho Western attempt at an earthquake
was bnt a weak imitation of the recent
6hakeup in the East. No damage to property
is reported from any quarter, ana the
shocks were very slight and brief, lasting
from twenty seconds to about a minute.
In Michigan the shock was felt at Ann Arbor,
Schoolcraft, Adrian, Grand Rapids,
Hillsdale, Hudson, Jackson, Lansing, Marshall,
and other pointa At Schoolcraft
Ihree distinct shocks wore felt The time of
the shocks is variously reported from 2:15 to
8 p. M. Three shocks were felt at Angola,
Ind, at 2:53 p. M., and between 2:15
and 3:25 P. m. shocks were felt at Auburn,
Aurora, Elkhart, Fort Wayne, Ligonier,
Marion, Michigan City, Muncic, Madison,
Indianapolis, Danville, Anderson, Wabash
and other points in Indiana. In Ohio the
shocks were felt at Cleveland, Delphoe, Mansfield,
Norwalk, Tiffin, Zanesville, Mount
Vernon, Columbus and Coshocton. As
far as reported the time was from*
2 to 3 o'clock. No shocks are
reported in Illinois or other States in this
iection. Tho tremor was accompanied at all
points by a noise resembling thunder. Tall
buildings were perceptibly shaken and plaster
lhaken from the walls. A second shock was
felt at many places. College students, sohool
children, ana prisoners were frantic with
alarm at many places and people rushed out
of their houses and stores.
Cleveland, Ohio: At 2:50 o'clock this
afternoon an earthquake shock was f$j$..
throughout the city. Many large
swayed slightly to and fro, and lfUdmSs of
people rusned into the streets ai&otMfy.to*
quiring the causo of the sudden; vibration
Three attaches at the Signal Service
station felt the shock?thin* * short
and distinct vibrations of the earth's surface.
The first one was timed at 2:47, local
time, and the other two followed in quick succession.
They lasted from five to ten seconds.
Tho mass of telegraph wires in front of the
Western Union Telegraph office and also in
front of the signal office were noticed to sway
considerably. The compositors in the Plain
dealer otlice experienced the shock, and many
compositors lelt their cases, thinking tho
building was going to tumble. The shock was
felt in tie interior of the State, and it apparently
extended over a large territory. In
North Amherst the shock was felt at about
2:40. In Bellefontaine it was also noticed
shortly before 3 o'clock. From Cecil comes the
report: "A violent shock of earthquake rocked
this town at 2:17. throwing goods from
the shelvings in the railroad station. The
passengers rushed out, thinking a train had
struck the building. It. lasted ten seconds.
In Archbold, at 2:13 p. M., standard
time, a shock lasting about twenty seconds
was felt. The buildings shook, but
no damage was done. In Fostoria the time
of the shock was put at '?:V3. in uenance at
a few minutes before 3 o'clock a very perceptible
earthquake shock was felt."
Indianapolis, Ind.: The earthquake shock
was distinctly felt in Indianapolis, but no
damage was done. Its manifestation was
much more decided in some places than in
others, and in a few instances occupants of
buildings were terror-stricken by the invisible
force. The Vanco block is ono of the
highest buildings in the city, and in
the upper floors the vibrations
were so pronounced that the occupants ran
into the nails or. the lower floors. The sensation
induced a fueling of lightheadedness. In
two of the public school buildings the children
were almost panic-stricken and one of
them fainted. City Librarian De Hooper
was the only statistically inclined observer.
He reports seventeen distinct
vibrations, lasting four or five
seconds. All high buildings were shaken,
but the visit was unsuspected by the great
majority of people.
Wheeling, West Va.: At 2:52 o'clock this
afternoon a severe shock of earthquake was
felt in this city. The movement was most
apparent to inmates of tall buildings, the
upper floors of which swayed sufficiently to
jar lamp shades, swing pictures from
the wall, and displace lignt articles on
shelves. Many people supposed a boiler
explosion had taken place, and
there was considerable excitement and much
inquiry as to the location of the accident,
until the real cause was explained. The
motion was from northeast to southwest, and
lasted from three to Ave seconds. No serious
damage has been reported. Bflllairj, Martin's
Ferry, Bridgeport, Cadiz, St. Clairsville,
Steuoenville, Barnesville, and other points in
TJastern Ohio report about the same state of
./fairs.
Cincinnati, Ohio: A few minutes before 3
o'clock this afternoon the telegraph operator
at the Bee Lino station, in Cincinnati, received
dispatches from the operators all
alfeng that road from Cincinnati to Lafayette,
Ind, inquiring if the earthquake shock hot
been felt in Cincinnati, and stating that It
had been perceptible at the offices from
which the inquiries were sent About
3 o'clock, Cincinnati time, the operator
penvived a slight tremor in the building.
The same thing was noticed in various
offices in the city, but was not attributed to
the earthquake until telegraphic dispatches
from the West had come in. It was quite
rinltrent in some of the suburbs of Cincinnati.
In Clifton the agitation was so violent as to
ring ticlls on tables nnd in some instances at i
I door*. In Cumminsville, the northwest- I
j ern ward of Cincinnati, the tremor j
was felt so fjjstiurtly as to cause
quite an alarm, not only in the j
public schools, where the pupils were j
with difficulty kept iu their S"ats, but also in :
private it< nisen. 1 he shoi'k wis so slight in tlifc j
misiucss jifirioi Tiivciiynsnoi vjdonoucea oy .
a majority of the citizens. Th?? time of the !
earthquake, as reported by those who noticed j
att?r ;
reported from
vices from Indiana rfljwrttiiat the shock was \ i
fo!t. at Seymour a few minutes before >f o'clock,;
anil that it was also felt with great severity ,
in Lawreneelnirg. ind., about the same time. | (
In the liitt- r town the shock was so violent as j
to be rocogni/W by every one as that of an j
errtli<jn:ike. It euu?ed groat alarm in tb-<! .
?ehoo!-house, which was nxio vacated
by the ptjyils. The clock was thrown ! '
frnu the -helf. Many of the children in !
their frantic endeavors U> get out of the i
building jumped out of the windows of tne
lower story. No on? was hurt, however.
The tremor, where it was not severe, resembled
that caused by a heavily loaded
uu^uii j'uaoiiiK uiuug Lite? suret ui a ruu*
road train l ushing by. The indications are i
that the wave passed from southwest to i
northeast.
Toledo, Ohio: Reports from various points
in this vicinity show that the shock of earthjunke
which occurred this afternoon was
juito general throughout Nor;hwestern Ohio
ind Southern Michigan. The duration of ,
the shock was from ten to thirty seconds
and the course apparently
from southwest to northeast.
It was most violent at Defiance, Ohio, where
he swaying of buildings created much consternation.
The people hastily abandoned
their houses, and the Methodist conference, iu
session ut one of the churches, immediately
ul jour tied and the people rushed to the ,
iti-eets. I
London, Ontario: A quite perceptible
shock of earthquake was felt in this city
about 3:25 this afternoon.
THE NATIONAL GAME.
Radford, of Providence, is said to receive
fo from his father for each and ever}* run he
makes.
Twenty-two thousand peoplo saw the
Chicago League team beat the Louisville dub
it Louisville.
Tall pitchers are becoming tho fashion,
but when tho League meets and legislates
igainst the high arm throwing, a short man
will bo given a fair chance.
The cost of running a good baseball club in
tho American Association during a sea-:on is
fully $.'i0,000. Lew Simmons,of the Athletics,
puts down tho expenses of his club on their _
last trip west at $:j,OOU. Hairj Wright, of
the Philadelphias, can travel for considerably
less. Hoth managers, however, agree that
the cost is very heavy. Here is the salary
list of the Athletics: Stovey, $'.2,500; Mat
thews, $2,200; Knight, $2,(XX); O Beioa, $1,- i
S00; Milligan, $1,700; Striker, $1,20); Corey, c
J 1,5(10; Liiroll, $1,300; Birchall, $1,20:); Tay- ,
lor, $2,000; Larkin, $1,000, and Houck, $1,- r
W0. The grounds cost $2,000 a year. Ticket '
takers and other expenses, $4,000. Mansjll, c
Birchall, Atkinson, Hilsey, Rowan and o.her t
players who wore on the club's pay-rolls part
of the time, run tlio sum total ot exjxmses up
to $.'J4,000. The Metrojwlitan aud St Louis ?
clubs are exj tensive nines, but they come {
within $.35,000 also. <
At the end of the twenty-first week the rec- f
m-il r\f tlm Ijyimie nliilis in thfl oh&mninnshin i
race was: .,
Clubs. Wuiu Lost. | Ciuit. - Won. L01'.
Providence T7 22 Chicago 62 4$ '
Bo.?ton 67 31 Cleveland 33 6T ]
buffiilo 6fi 41 Philadelphia 32 07
New York 66 42 Detroit 22 71
The batting rank of tho League clubs is as 1
follows in the order named: Chicago, Boston, (
Buffalo, New York, Philadelphia, ftovidenee,
Cleveland, Detroit. Tho fielding rank is: |
Boston, Providence, Buffalo, New York, ,
Cleveland, Detroit, Chicago, Philadelphia.
Tho record of the twelve American Associ- ,
ation clubs at the end of the twenty-lirst week
was as follows:
Clubs. Won. Lost. \ Clubs. Won. lAtst. ]
Metropolitan 64 23 | flnltlniore 61 S9 (
Columbus 62 33 . Urooklyn 36 6i ,
Loaisville 62 32 | Toledo 38 66
Cincinnati 60 85 Allegheny 26 69
St. Louis 67 86 | Indianapolis....27 64
AUilectic 64 40 | Virginia 31 09 -
MUSICAL MD DRAMATIC,
Italian opera in Constantinople is very
successful this season.
Verdi's hitherto unfortunate opera. "La
Forza del Destino," has made a great nit in
Rome.
M. Victor Capoul, the well-known tenor,
is to marry the daughter of a wealthy landowner.
Madam Ristori will play in New York in :
December,supported by an English company,
under Brooks & Dickson. I
Miss Fanny Kellogg has been singing in.^
the West, and has been engaged for "Six feral'""
vols in this coming season.
Bartlsy Campbell has had his new Mexican
play, "Paquita," acted once at an obscure
London theatre to secure the English
copyright
Rubenstein is engaged on a comic opera,
in one ace, to be entitled "The Parrot," the
subject of which is drawn from the ancient .
literature oi rersia.
Ecetel, the new German tenor, who was
discovered on his cab driver's seat in Hamburg,
now receives 1375 a night for his ting* .
ingat Kroll's theatre? Berlin.
Wilbklhj, the eminent violin virtuoso,
who delighted Americaa audiences several
years agointends opening a school for violinists
at Wiesbaden, next year.
Thi New York Graphic is authority for ;
the statement that Mr. Fred Gebhardt-is
studying for the stage, and will make his fint
appearance as Mrs. Langtry's support.
Spaik has lost one of its most popular
dramatic authors itfSenor Garcia Gutierres,
who has hearted at Madrid. He wrote the
play froinWnich Verdi drew "II Trovatore.'
The Cincinnati Society for the Prevention '
r\f Pwialhr fn {a onfnwvinw fka 1m "
Vk VIU?IVJ WV ViMAU* *-J UUWt V4UQ W*T?
which forbids children under fourteen years;
of age participating In any stage perform
ance.
Mice. Modjkska has written a friend in
New York that she will spend the winter in Poland.
She has purchased a Polish play,
and is having it translated into English for i
American production..
It is said that Minnie Palmer has made mora
money in Great Britain and taken away more5
from that country than any American octrees
who ever went there. Her manager, John B?
Rogers, claims that she has made $150,000 on
Mrs. Langtry will sail from Liverpool for M
New York on Jantuur
Norway. The Misses Long- <
. fetfow, one of whom will worry Mrs. Bull*' 1
brother, are with her, and her latest invited 1
guest is Miss Emma Thursby, who is going 1
from Paris expressly to visit her. I
PROMINENT PEOPLE. ,
General Grant is still busily engaged car"
his book. - ?j
General Butler's health is said to
gradually (ailing . *
Lieutenant Greelt will be made assta-V.
tant chief of the Signal office, it is said. ^
The salvation army, according to the com-. J
mander,Major Moore, numbers 30,000 soldiers
J ond 200 officers. jfiy
Richard Grant W hits deplores the fact '
that the letter "a" is disappearing from the
American tongue.
Miss Laura Fixes, the "Prohibition ^
Queen" of Minnesota, lias given a new nam* :
to whisky. She calls it "calamity juice." -3
General Logan is to pay $300 a month for*
the Yung Wing house in Washington. H?
has leased the property for only one year. ;?5
Stanley, the explorer, saj's that the gcid- ing
motto of hislifo has been: "Whatsoever i
thy hand flndethto do, do it with thy might." '
Bans Makart, the distinguished painter^
of Vienna, has recovered his sanity and has' <
been permitted by his physicians to resume
WOTk.
T> A r <? .v.
JiKM, DKliVA XX. uniKnuuv u lav ?. -.rr, ,
woman who has formally run for the presi- dency
.of the United States, Mrs. Victoria^
C. Woodhuli being her predecessor.
Professob William H. Pa?icoast, of."*Philadelphia,
has refused several reqnt^ toamputate
the big toes of foolish young man In order
to heighten the alleged beaatjr ftf theU^
Aubxliajt Scholl, now so eminent fla
Paris as a journalist, and dramatia^M
founded no less than ten lonrnab dorin^M
his thirty years' career, and lias fought neaMH
ly t rice that number of duels. His first eaB
gag ment was on the Xaiade, a little boul^H
yard sheet printed on gutta percha and sold qHH
the public bath-house. ,
Ma Folger was the thirty-fourth secrJS
tary of the treasury, and the fifth chosen frodHB
the State of New York. Pennsylvania buH
had seven secretaries of the treasury. Oh^H
four, Massachusetts three, Kentucky throeKH
Maine two, Maryland two, Georgia two, anJBB
Connecticut, Tennessee, Delaware, NeioH
Hampshire, Indiana and Minnesota one. jam
James Gordojt Bzxxktt has a greate^R
number of houses awaiting bis ciEcupatki^Hj
than any other American. He has one i jfl
Fifth avenue and another in Fort WashinsflB
ton, New York city, and then 'his rooms a^H
the Herald establishment are a snug plao^fl
for a bachelor. His Newport villa is alw&y^B
In readiness, and he has also a fine establislnH
monf. in Paris. ' J
? ?:? m
NEWSY GLEANim
Florida is already filling up with Northern i
visitors.
There are 14,000,000 starving goats in Mad- ' ,
ras, India.
There are 580 Icelanders in Manitoba, en< |
gaged as farmers. I
The Chinese war has sent no the London I
priO'.'S of t ?a, coffco, pepper ana tapioca. 1
Tuk railroads of Great Britain cort an avwy> J
age of f J04,000 a mi!-?, to a mile hcrtf^l
ir has been estimated that 7,009,000 sof-J
iiluiis are preached to Americans cvary
New York eats iw.tXXl bushels of oystariPa
every day, hat she has 1(5,0)0 moa-VoBH
S20.0i"?0.00n in the business. . I
Thf Shuh of Persia, in return for tbecoiqpl
te>ie< t > :iim w h:!u ill 1'aris, has pre* M
sent^i 'lie r.iunicijAlity with two camfthSpM
variety no larger than Shetland pvUies. .
A xu<;iiAuu r uu.iA.1, "muunxwi
Conway county, Arkansas, recently ztfve
birth io two lwys and two girls, ail or wUbof
and will probaBly llm ^
k alue in the
liscovered in the Yellowstone I'uiic. Hero-M
tofore it has boon obtninod only in GreffiilaixL i
Tue use of natural gas in Pittsburg :uanufactories
i? steadily increasing, and now the ::
right has been sold to a man who will try to
introduce it into houses for heatuue purposes^;
Tue death Li announ-vd at iJuenoet Ayres o
Nicholas Anchor^n^.-v. ho ha?!<ft <x.\1.000, .
He owiitxl an ^'ioifr...us pasfe.ra'. pi-?{jerty.
which carried 152,U00 cov*? ai..i 4" .?*? sheep
There was almost a riot in 1855 when Castle
Garden, New York city, was first proposed
as the landlo; olace for emigrants, and
since then 4,88$, ISO emigrants have landed I
Capitalists representing several Southern I
States, after protracted conferences in St I
Louis, have formed a syndicate with a work*
ing caDital of $6,UOO,OOJ, for the development I
of trade in the products of cottonseed.
MR. FOLGER'S SUCCESSOR, 11
Po?tniaM(?r-<>eneral Grmhani) SccmH
tary of tlie Treasury.
Postmaster-General Gre&ham received
;elegram at 11 P. m.. from the President,
lad been stopping tho past fortnight at S^e?*?jS|
etary Frelinghuysen's home near SomJuH
rille. N. J., informing him of his appoiJHfl
wnt as cAfTAfflrv of the treasurv. Judflrafl
jresham ininisdiately qualified, and sent BHj
ho President his resignation as postmasta6j?eQ
joneraL At 10 o'clock the next morning iBfl
Jresham went to the treasui^r departmcgCrJ
vith .Secretary Chandler. His appointmeMB' J
rom the President was given to him by Mr. 8j J|
/. Pruden, assistant private secret*ry to tICfH
^resident, and his commission by Third Assifl^H
int Secretary of State A. A. Adeo. The tuj3B|
issistant secretaries of the trensurv, Messi^^U|
Yench and Coon, were present, and tenderflHfl
lim their congratulations. The new
ary left in the afternoon to consult with tflj^H
>re>ident
Under the law, First Assistant PgJ|H|
iiastfr-Gfineral Ilatton Ixi'aiuo acting poafrvi^l
naster-general for ten days. 1
The Trainer and the Ti^er. SB J
A somewhat sensational incidcffj^fl
narked one of the performances,
:eutly, at the Cape menagerie Kt SfflH
itlenne, near Paris. Agop, the welBM
tnown trainer, had scarcely entered t^^H
:age of one of the tigers when the fer|H,4
;iuus ui uiu ajji aug upuu uiui auu
vorrying him with tooth and claw. TlfflSJ
ludienee screamed witl>rtl6rror, and '-tnB
jeneral rush for the door of the tent be- j
jan. Agop, however, kept cool, and in I
mite of some fearful lacerations all over 1
he body and great loss of blood fought 9
with such determination that ho linally I
ivercame the tiger, which crouched at I
iiis feet. Not content with this victory,
Agop was loolliardy enough to force it I
through its usual exercise, to tho won- I
icrment and admiratiou of the crowd, I
who had stopped momentarily in theif- I
flight. The tamer then left the ca?e, M
uid nil torn and bleeding as he was pro-^9
needed to that containing a lionoss-^^B
which had formerly made a meal
Pernet, one of his predecessors
perilous situation. He entered the^^^^H
totally unarmed, and succeeded i^H^H
ting the lioness through her h^^HRB
jumps, aftfcr which he left
Agop then had his wounds