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rfBBEVILLE PRESS AND BANNES! BY HUGH WILSON. ABBEVILLE, S. 0.. WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 15, 1884. NO. 16. VOLUME. XXIX. |gg|||| M THE BEST SHIP AFLOAT. H Of all the ships afloat By On Atlantic or Pacific, Or far within the tropics H On the Indian ocean's breast, With white sails all a-gleaming, With brilliant colors streaming, P There's no ship 5 Like Friendship, 8 The staunchest and the best! k When the tempests hover nigh, And the sea is lashed to fury, j When loudly roar the breakers; ! And above the sea-gulls swarm; I When tho skies aro overclouded, And the sunshine is enshrouded, There's no ship Like Friendship, To battle with the storm! A welcome sight is she Whenever we may meet her, With canvas spread out finely, With pennon bright and blue; To none sh? is a stranger, And in the hour of danger There's no ship Like Friendship To bear us safely through! -*t~ From port to port she sails, -'' The bearer of dispatches From Love, the mighty monarch, 1 Her outfit all complete;? ' l" And though little skiff or clipper i May in a race outstrip her, ' r There's no ship I Like Friendship 1^. In all the royal fleet! R Of all the ships afloat ? f( On Atlantic or Pacific, Or far within the tropics 1 On the Indian ocean's breast, 1 With white sails all a-gleaming, 1 With brilliant colors streaming, There's no ship .-a* Like Friendship | '* The staunchest and the best! i ASfANiMiimLMjiil. c A correspondent of the Cincinnati '1 Enquirer sends to that paper an account 11 I of a bull fight at Seville, Spain. The ! ^ I writer's account of the brutal, spectacle ; * I is as follows: ! * S * How the bull got into the ring I do * not know.^^A-us looking at the proces- j sion, the members of which were ar- js !H I ranging themselves in place, the swords- j * 99 man and daggermen having retired be-!1 H hind the fence, the mantle carriers stand- j * SB ing in closc to the face of it, and the ' c picadors stationing themselves at their | c J J four respective stauds. All this time ? W the music was resounding, but I really I " became conscious of it ouly when it1 ? .,^1 I oo?- tVn Kill) r.llinr.mr, I I DWy^V*. lilVU X ?... mv W|U1J,..US..6 toward the center of the ring. i1 No lover of nature could withhold a v tribute of admiration from this magniti- i v cent beast, lie was black as coal, big, ! " brawny, and so tiery that sparks seemed * to fly from his eyes. A great rosette s with many colored ribbon streamers had s, been stuck into his sides. With a leap ? and a bound he reached the center of the ? I ring, tossing the air with his head and 11 I fairly sniffling with exultation at e his might. For a short moment he itood j * 6tupetieil, it seemed, at the gorgeous 15 panorama opened out before his eyes, but J1 only for a moment, and then it was a 11 Question with him which man or horse : " should he kill. It was truly an embar- ] f- rasse des richesse. Scattered along the ? / fence were the fellows wich the cloaks. J1 Right and left were the horsemen, all i clad in colors odious to his eyes. Straight- u way he tore down the ring at a man. I* But the man quickly sprang behind the ? shield, and the bull disdained to look ^ I again. For here was another victim! right in front. This man had to spring ;f for his life, and over the fence he went, j s Now, then, what ? Leaping all the time, ^ he next rushed up^n a picador. But * un somehow the horse got wind of the beast c Lhe could not see, and suddenly whirled t , about, so that the horn of the bull en- c tered deep into the flesh of his rump, and c tore up a deep gash over a foot in length. ; ji The blood streamed in a current from , the poor wounded horse, rau down his j leg and weltered on the sand. But he I could still stand upon his legs, and the i a brutal picador, who had received some u hisses for having permitted his horse to s turn, stuck him deep in the flank with j 0 the ciant smir he wore, and faced him 0 about again in place. 1 s Y The bull, with his righf horn, drip- j 8 ping blood, elated by his victor}', was still plunging on. lie had as yet received not a scratch since he came into j 8 t' the ring. Every enemy he had met had J f taken to his heels. But what audacity j J is this before his eyes? A man was actu- j 8 [ ally waving a red cloak in challenge and [ ^ ( defiance. To reach him, to rip up the j!' I cloak with his horns, was the work of a j I second, and now the mun was waving u the piece he still held. At him again with a sudden turn, but the cloak was 0 E successfully swung about his head. Here R is now another ficador, ten paces off sit- T ting stolidly upon his horse, lance at 8 | rest. No sooner had he seen the bull s jf making in his direction than he lowered F I it, and as the bull reached him, stuck it 8 to the rim through his skin. But no | e such obstacle as that could for a second ! 8 check such momentum as the bull's. He j ;! was now at the horse, head down, horns i under his breast, and the next moment, F oh! most sickening sight, the horse and j !' L - rider were both lilted bodily into the air. "Whatever goes lip must come down,how- 8 ^ ever, and down they came in a mass, bull's head, horse and rider, but horse and rider flat on the ground. The bull, with some dif- * |? Acuity, extricated his horn which had en- ^ tered to its base the bowels of the horse, to ; , turn immediately upon the rider, fastened . B to the trrouud bv the weight of his horse , 00 his leg. In three seconds more the | jj BK horn of the bull will penetrate the breast j or the bowels of the man, but here came j K running at breathless speed n whole | H crowd of chulos with their banners, | which they spread over horse and rider, ! completely covering both, and so con- ; I fusing the bull that he does not seem to | j know which man to attack. Pretty soon ( HHBp he dashes at one waving cape, and is { t HB thus seduced away from the fallen pica- I j dor. His comrades now carefully drag ! t BH him out from under the horse, but he I t BB cannot stand, and he is carried out like i ( a wounded soldier, with all the honors I < of war, to be cared for, as I was after- ) MH ward informed, by physicians 'or his 1 HH body and priests for his soul?u .listers j attendance at the fights. t chill along the JUVOC11 (If I J the bull next! t ^pus ] white and restless in his j j^^^^Bseat. His voice stuck in his threat, as j , HMIhe tried to speak, but I could not move < from my chair. All this time the bull ! was plunging about the ring, first after this color and then that, though no longer with the same intensity of ardor as at first. HH And now as he began to tire a little in i fight, there suddenly appeared before < one of those wiry young bandcrillos j arms stretched out over his No bull would ever take a chal i \ BHKBBBlikr that, and so lowering his hea l , Ijde a dive for his enemy, but, alas, Fo toss his head in vain to the air, i he banderillo had sprung to one side, ] second it seemed, but he had waited < enough?when lie did I could not ] kp have thrust his daggers into the < crs of the bull, for there they hung, Krs to the breeze, and from each i ^ kling down the sides of the bull ] ^Stream of blood. It was like a . |^n-hand performance to me, but the |^Kith which it was done brought [^Kening roar of applause of the EH;. Bravo! bueno! viva' viva! ' on every side; hands clapped, |^kiiefs waved, and the banderillo ' N^fcro of the hour. Nothing sue- ' B^Vsuccess. "When a bull pitchcs ' Aid Af rino im O V* rtVCP de cry bravo tora! When an who skillfully sticks the Inbly leaps out of the way, Iprowd cries bravo torero! vident now that the bull nnt stimulus to fire him up. vipping from his flanks, and Klpitation of his heart was Kh his side. But the stimuBttking. The chulos couR^kte him with their capes nBs stucK him with their was still savage, BB^kut only at intervals. showed that ho DnH R ^ I had enough. But the sallies he still ; made under the exasperating torture of : his enemies were often fearful to see in ! that there was now no reason in his mad- j ncss. lie would make the blindest on- | slaughts on the horses, those already dy- I ing on the ground as well as those j mounted, always burying his horns in | them to the base until all four of the i original horses lay sweltering in blood j on the ground. When his presence was ; diverted sufficiently far from the horses ' a man not in uniform, armed with a small dagger, would quietly step into the rinjr and dexterously stick his dag- ' ger into the back of the horse's neck to j put him out ol misery, an we say. But I the wound inflicted by the bull must be 1 mortal to sccure for the victim this hap- | py relief. One of the poor horses on this occasion struggled to his feet and staggered across the arena, tangling i and dragging his protruding intestines ' with his feet. This horse was killed when he finally fell; but if the intestines i can be replaced with the hand the operation is quickly done, the external j wound sewed up with a stitch, and the poor mute is made to do duty for the ' rest ot the fight. This last official, to ! secure euthanasia, is known as the each- i etcro. and his office is much despised. j At last, when the bull can hardly be tantalized more, all the subordinates I j leave the ring and the espada appears ilone. He steps into the ring bare- j tieaded, as he had at first appeared ill 1 ' the procession. He has in his right i i hand, a narrow, delicate blade of the fin- I i ;st Toledo steel, and in his left swings i i i small cape, of exquisite texture appar- j I >nt1r in color a flamintr scarlet. He ! i steps up to the lodge of the director, 1 1 where he receives permission to kill the : jull. lie then walks over to the animal. I ivho has now in his rest of a few minutes : 1 ecoycred some of his lire, and stations j 1 limself directly in front of his face. J i yian and bull face to face; thus they ! 1 ;ye each other for a moment or two, ! 1 vhen the man suddenly waves nis scar- j i et mantle?muleta, it is called?directly ! j n front of the eyes of the bull. The j ' jull dashes at it with all his force. The ; i ispada quickly swings it over the head j J >f th<- bull and as quickly steps aside. | { \.nd uius he toys with the bull at will, i s eading him just to the spot where ! t Hull is tn die "au nieds ue sa mai- I t rc9e,'' a Frenchman told mc, if she is ; t here. I 1 It is impossible not to admire the ease t md grace with which the espada handles ! t he bull. It is impo sible not to recog- | t ?ize the thorough knowledge he has of j \ he habits of the bull. It is the triumph | r >f dexterity over brute force, of mind j t ivcr matter; and, though there is the ; s onstant presence of the most imminent i j 1 anger?through a slip, a false step, an i wkward move would let the horn of the ' i iull into his body?there is never the : j east mistake. All the while the espada | t fears on his face a quiet smile. One j L i-ould not think it possible, but there is t ot the least lack of dignity in his gait. ; t le does not jump or spring; he merely j j teps aside. Airived at the proper spot, i tanding still to fa.-e the bull, so close J a hat he could put his foot on the lowered a ead and spring over his whole body, as, | c ideed, he is sometimes forced to do, he j i: xtends his sword and watches his chunce ; e o thrust it in to the hilt. It must enter , u o the heart, or to the great vessels about : k t, and must avoid in penetration the / iead, the sninal column or any of its uu- ; fi lerous prolongations. So he must close- . 1 y watch his chance, as the least move- i a aent on the part of the bull will derange ! i: lis calculations. All the while he must j t ook out for himself or the bull will I v nore recklessly, but with equal effect, ' a tut his weapon into him. Once he ! ^ truck him; I caught the quick f lash of the steel, but it struck a bone, i e ?he scenc was right at my feet; I saw ! i: he handle of the sword quiver with the j ^ hock. The blow was not fatal. There | c iras a dead silence over the vast amphi- j v heatre. The espada of Seville, the great ti enter of tauromachy is Spain, had par- ; a l'flllv fnilff] in his stroke. Watching his t hance, still toying with the bull, he t aught his sword by the handle and j e |uickly drew it out. Let me not pro- , t ong it; it is an hour siuee the fight j f egan. The second time the sword went I o tome, the bull sank upon his knees with [ a , loud groan, the first and only sound he ; v ittered, and then rolled over upon the 1 c and. The espada received the applause t f the crowd with the same quiet smile v n his face, though I doubt not it covered a ome chagrin; and with imperturbable j v Tavity walked from the field. j g But the bull was cot yet dead. The , o emorrhage was internal and slow, so the ; t ame man, the cachetero, who had given a he coup dc grace to the horses stole in f t i-hind the bull and struck hira in the | b pinal cord at the base of the brain. A \ 0 uick shiver of a convulsion, a stretch- i d lg to rigidity of the legs, a sudden re- j s ixation of the whole body, and now the j eed is done. v Thfi band struck a nrean in celebration 1 v f the great victory which had been won, v nd the great deed that had been done, s rhile the harnessed teams drive in at full g peed, bells around the necks of the hor- t! es, to drag off first the bull, then the n ioor horses, one by one. The sand a prinklers jump into the ring with scrap- c rs to cover up the blood and efface every ii ign of the struggle, and we arise to leave, t! linking the show is over, when we no- ' ice that no one else arises, and suddenly ; d ight;in front of us, without any other | f oterlude or preparation, a new bull has t een led into the ring, and there he c tands, sniffling the air and dashing his n ail in bold defiance to the scene. fl But I had had enough. One bull fight 1 all suffice for the lifetime of an average 13 inglo-Saxon, and iny curiosity was sated j i o the core. 'J his show introduced three ' 3 mils, which were all killed, of course, I nit not until after they had killed eight r lorscs. Three bulls killed; eight horse3 :illed; one man wounded; and all to e uake a Spanish hoi iday. n =5== t The fork Crop. s The cork harvest in Spain, France, * >ortugal, and Italy, whence the priuci>al part of this supply is obtained, is be oming every year more scanty, owing 0 the greed of the growers, who have | J njured the stock of trees by stripping ! . hem of their bark too frequently. The j ree which produces the must valuable J* :ork does not come to maturity for a juarter of a century, and can only be '. marked to advantage every eight or ten | ,cars; but the temptation to made rapid j >rofits has been the injury or ruin of nany plantations. Some of the quick c jrowing varieties produce an inferior j cind of corks, but the best are the slow- j :st growth. The French government has | ately given special encouragement to the formation of cork-oak plantations in Al- ( jeria, and England is urged to do the >ame in India and her western colonies. Working up an Interview. Thft Iiiavs of interviewing admit of a tvide margin. Charles Wvndham was f clliug mo recently how he was interI'iewed in America. The energetic reporter caught him just as he was chatig- 5 ing between acts. "I haven't a minute i :o spare," replied the actor, hurriedly, "This is one of my quickest changes." , "You have been very successful," con- | Linued the interviewer. "I aru glad to ( liear it," replied Wvndham. "May I L-allon you to-morrow if" "Unfortunately, , [ am off early in the morning, so I fear I |' :annot give myself the pleasure of seeing , you." "Good evening, then." Good nigbt." This conversation the next morning occupied a column and a half. ?London Truth. 1 In the effort to keep stables for horses j larK, especially wiosc unuergrouuu, ven j tilation is often neglected. The large imount of ammonia given off from horse ! urine when fermenting is very injurious , to the eyes. More horses go blind from this cause than from any other. The I . escape of ammonia may and should be j ' prevented by free use of absorbents, but this will not obviate the need of ventila- ] tion so as to keep horses in good health J in Avnrv rpQnppf v,w,j ?r~? , Of the 200,000 miles of railroad in the world we have 120,000 in the United i States. We are gridironed with rail i roads. The land office shivers under six hnn- < rlred thousand pending claims for seven million acres of public lands, mostly claimed by land-thieves. AN APPALLING CASUALTY. [ i A LINGERING DEATH PROM INJURIES AT A PLAZING- Oil. WELL. ' A ?Ian Burned Horribly on his AVed' dliap On)- Miisi rn in Inicnitc -Suf? fcringr fur 'fweniy Yearau i A recent letter from Tidioute, Penn., j to the New York World reeitcs the folior,*- , ing reminiscences of a horrible catastro- I phe: The announcement of the death of I Wallace Riley, at Saylorsville, Ohio, re- I calls the first terrible casualty in the his- |1 tory of petroleum development in this ; j country, 01 which disaster iic wasmc last ; surviving victim. It left him a blind aud helpless cripple and subject at times to fits of insanity, during which he seemed to suffer all the agonizing experiences through which he passed on the day of ! the great disaster twenty-three years ago. In April, 1801, there was a cluster of i wells on Oil creek yielding from 100 to 800 barrels of oil a day. Ilurlcy & Merrick sank a well to the depth of 200 feet, but us the yield was small they took out the pumps and started the drill to make the well deeper. About 5 o'clock in the afternoon of April 16 the drill had gone to a depth of 300 feet when it struck a vein of oil and gas, and instantly the oil rushed up the five and a half inch tubing, hurling the tools high in the air, and gushing up in a fountain fifty feet in height. The well was spouting at the rate of 100 barrels an hour. In a very minutes petroleum was running in streams in every direction. Dams were built and trenches dug to collect the fluid that was running to waste, and in a short time a lake of oil surrounded the derricks. "Wallace Riley, then a young man of iweiitv-four. arrived at the scene of i :he excitement at G o'clock from Mead- f rille. He was to be married that even- fi ng at S o'clock to the daughter of a >.rraer who lived on Oil Creek, near the * llarley and Merrick well. Hiley went ? .vith his prospective father-in-law and 0 oined the crowd at the flowing well, c I'he nature of petroleum gas was then inknown and while the crowd stood ibout, with no thought of danger, the ( jns from the spurting well was slowly v ipreading in every direction and tilling s he air with its presence. There was 10 lire nearer than a quarter of a mile * o the well. That was in the boiler- ? louse of a well then drilling. By 7 >'clock in the evening the gas from tho j lowing well had reached this boiler and j aking lire in a second the whole oil vas in a flame. With a crash and a 0 oar like the discharge of a field of ar- r illery the fountain of oil became a tream of solid lire, falling back to the ground, over an area of 100 feet, in blaz ng glooes oi uoiimg on. i\. scene 01 e naescribable honor ensued. Scores of leople were thrown to the ground by \ he explosion and surrounded by the a turning oil. The most of these managed o reach the outer circle of the fire with ' heir lives, but all were horribly burned. Lt the time of the explosion everything v n the neighborhood for :i distance of tl quarter of a mile took fire, t nd shanties,derricks, engine houses and c Iwellings were ar once wrapped e n flames. The boiler at Dobb's well, ighty rods from the original lire, blew r' ip with a tremendous report, instantly p lilling the engineer, Wesley Skinner. il 1- 4-V.n .1 V.U1UHJ? iuusu w 11 u wucpiustiatcu uy tuc u irst explosion of the gas was Wallace liley. lie succceded in gaining his feet 1< nd, making his way through the burn- (~ ng oil, fell, all ablaze, on the edge of Sl he fiery circle. He was seized by others, n i ho plunged him in a hogshead of water ^ nd carried hiui to a neighboring shanty. Vithin tlio circle of flames, not ten feet ? rom the edge, at the spot where Riley I' scaped, four bodies could be seen boil- " ng in the seething oil. II. R. Rouse, of Varren county, one of the most promi- ? icnt of the early oil-producers, from vhom Rouseville was subsequently ^ lamed and whose income from oil wells ' ,t the time of the great disasteramounted ' o $1,000 a day, "was stauding near the rench tliis mun was digging when the c' xplosiou occurrcd. lie was lifted in he air and thrown more than twenty | ? eet away, alighting in a pool of blazing 0 nl. ile rose to nis ieei ana ran, an blaze, for a short distance and fell. lie i*as seized by several men, his burning lothing extinguished and lie was carried 0 o a shanty. Not a vestige of clothing C vas left upon him except his stockings - nd boots. His hair was -burned off, as t ell as his ears, his eyelids and his fin- ? ;ers. His eyeballs were entirely burned f ut. His body was blistered from the 1 >reust down. He never lost consciousess but lived nine hours, during which p ime he deliberately dictated his will to * is lawyer. In this will he left $100,- f( 00 to the poor of Warren county, but he ft ied before he could acknowledge and h ign the document. 11 Beside Mr. House, twelve dead bodies ^ fere taken from the ilames before they 5( iere entirely destroyed. Twelve men tl rho were known to Lave visited tho f' pot, strangers sight-seeing in the oil re- " ions, were believed to have been among he victims of the disaster, as they could t] ot be found and were never heard of ft fterward. Thirty-four men were resued as Wallace Riley was, but their ?< aiuries were so great that twenty-two of hem died. The scene of the height of the fire is " escribed as having been the most fright- ? ul and at the same time grandest spec- ei acle ever witnessed. The flow of oil ^ ontinued unabated for months, and as o human power could extinguish the I u lames continued burning furiously. ; f< "he well finally exhausted itself and the I ti Irn win nt ln?f rniimiprpfl Hundreds of ^ "v ""v "v *""" " ? ? fj housands of barrels of oil were con- j v umed, and the well which would have j n >een an enormous fortune to the owners r uined them. j "Wallace Riley was burned in almost 1 xactly the same manner as th" unfortu- j jj iate Mr. Rouse had been. For wed:s ci lis sufferings were intense, and he con- | U tantly begged to be killed. The young ; J' koman to whom he was to have been I Harried on that terrible evening was his j ^ onstant attendant during all his suffer- , n tig. His life was saved but he was left | ?. iglit less and without hands, while his j ace was terribly disliguied and his lower c imbs were fleshless and drawn out of I " 1 n;.. !?< IlllJJU. 1UO 111UIU 14J.-V/ UitVVivv., ^ 11(1 although he recovered in a great J, neasure his mental powers, lie was sub- :'i ect to frequent lapses, which lasted onietimcs for days. During these spells 5 ic raved continually about the horrors Jj >f the scenes at the burning well. It : ^ vas during one of these paroxysms that ! j ic died, apparently in the greatest agony, v Ie had been cared for twenty-two years fi a brother. The young woman to '' vhom Riley was engaged to be married - > ? if..i 110(1 Willi:II ;i vrar unur uu; hi^uul j atastrophe at the burning well. 1? WISH WORDS. Wear a cheerful countenance. If your j e nirror won't sniiie on you, how can you ; r xpect anybody else will? ; " Public discussion is an intellectual j itampinir mill, where the worthless quartz I t s cru.-hcd and the pure gold set free. , r It is much easier to lind a score of men | .vise enough to discover the truth than : ^ ;o lind one intrepid enough, in the face if opposition, to stand up against it. c Great talent for conversation should be * ittended with great politeness. He who . clipses others, owes them ?rrcat civili- | ies; and whatever a mistaken vanity ' *..11 t* io 1\A+ts>r +r\ nl/?ntn in pnn. 11UV IUII ur>, A C lO UVUVI ?.w ? vw . rersution than to shine in it. ! r It is of the essence of resource that it j usually lies dormant, and often unsus- pected, until necessity awakens it. It is ' i draft payible on demand, the very de- i 5 mawl being essential to create the assets, [n a word, it needs the '"power of the ' moment" to evoke the "power of the D a man." Thn Rimremc rrifts of the cods can * "" 1" ~ O . w . neither be discussed nor deserved. He- I c lieve in happiness; expect it; make room 11 for it in your life! llave faith! Faith j moves mountains. And happiness is of i r the swift-footed immortals, and descends j N only on the garlanded altars of her wor- I shipers. j J Intelligence and energy and conscien- j tiousness, all united, can never evolve | >] true justice if sympathy be absent from I t the heart. This is no merely abstract | and unpractical idea. It lies at the root j 1 of moral education and self-culture, for i J it declares that just conduct depends j upon right feelings, and cannot be de- j j yclopcd without them. I ( / ,0*, i. ' ' ' ' i . . > .. .-x STEWS SUMMARY fnifcm and ^lliJdlc stnfoi. During a Republican flag raising at Taft- j ville, Conn., tho flag-staff fell, killing Mrs. Paul Tetrault and fatally injuring another woman. At the annual session of the National Biennial Conference of Unitarians, held in Sar- [ atoga, N. Y , there were present 2,00!) persons representing 2t'J churches and thirty-thr?e ronferences ami associations The session lasted five days; People ill tiie vicinity of Alton, Ponn., liave had an unwonted visitor in the shape of t a genuine Western tornado. The tornado ap- ] peared 111 the form of a fimncl-shn]H-d cloud from the northeast, and it rushed along at ' terrific speed. Its path was strewn for a ' juarter of a milo on each side with great Iiemlock trees, which had been torn out of c 11 ic earth by their roots, and carried bodily through the air. Lumber and debris 1 )t all kinds darkened the air. In t [lie town of Alton seven houses were c blown to pieces and a long bridge over a ;tream was lifted from its foundations and ' landed three rods away in a swamp. The itorm lasted less than throe minutes. Eye- t witnesses say that for fully live minutes the lir was tilled with (lying trees, timbers. Household furniture, bedding, and yelling ' legs. (! John Teemer, the young oarsman of Me- f (veesporfc, Penn., defeated Wallace Ross, the , Canadian, in a five-mile boat race at Boston, ["he race was for a purse of $2,000. Teenier fi ;ave his opponent a start of five seconds, and t1 von by a few feet. < George Hurst and his wife, of Pittsburg, c 'enn., ha ve separated because they cannot t igree in j>olitic8! 1 A v;re at Commodore Kittson's famous | itock farm, " Erdenheim," near Philadel- ' )hia, destroyed considerable property, includ- r ng a thoroughbred mare valued at $4,00 ). 1 The Pennsylvania Salt Manufacturing J ompany'a acid manufactory, at Natrona, v 'enn., has been damaged by lire to the ex- . ent of 8100,000. ( The Vermont legislature assembled at r tfontpelier. Governor Barstow delivered his i arewell message, and Governor-elect Pin- t free his inaugural. 1 A State convention of Pennsylvania ^ ireenbackers in Bellefonte adopted a resoJuion to fuse with the Democrats on half the c lectoral ticket, and a committee of eight was i appointed to carry out the purpose of the res- 1 ilution. s i South ana Wert. s Incendiarism is rampant nt Cleveland, J1 )hio, several attempts having been made J ver since the recent large fires to burn down 1 oine of the finest business blocks in the city. ? Miss C. I. AVeltox, a wealthy young lacly jrom New York city, recently perished in a J now storm while descending Long's jjeak iu [ Colorado. She was frozen to death. ' Simmons & Sewell, millers, of Virden, 11.. have failed. Liabilities, $200,( 00; assets, ;l(i,(HX). I, Mr. Blaine was welcomed at Cleveland* $ Jiiio, uy u, lux^e luxcuu^iio juirziuu, wiuuii uu eviewed in company with General Logan. Five new attempts to set (ire to houses in Cleveland have been unearthsd, and a reign f terror was reported to prevail Rathdrum, a town in Idaho, has lost its ntire business section by fire. His first Sunday in Ohio during the tour hrough the Statewas passed by Mr. Blaino t Mrs. Garfield's home in Cleveland. a curious feature of a once important ranch of trade in St. Paul, Minn., is the act that the entire "catch" of bulHo robes lii* year is only four. Last year the catch n ras 10,(>00. ThLs significant lact shows that ii lie animal which a few years ago roamed lie Western plains in numerous herds of t ountless thousands has become practically a xtinct. By a collision between a freight and a pas?nger train near Farmington, W. Vr.., two ailroad employes were killed and six other ersons injured. A cloudburst at Dayton, Ohio, did great g a mage to canals, houses and barns. .Timv AtrCui.i.nrnn. the famous acton ^ jst his mental balance while performing in f hicago, and nil his engagements for the sea- p 3ii have been cancelled. c] About thirty passengers were injured, but v mn fatally, by a collision between two rains near Leadville, Col. 11 There was a small vote at the election for n overnor, State officers and members of the 11 risluture in Georgia. H?nry G. MeDauiels us re-elected governor wil hout opposition. ^ Thousands of people attended the opening f the N< rth Carolina State exposition at laleigh. After a prayer Governor Jarvis ?? le an address of welcome, and United 0 a *s Senator Hawley, of Connecticut, then v . vvi o 1 the oration of the day. The cxposiioii was then declared open. w Iowa Prohibitionists have put a State and tl lectoral ticket in the lield. o A convention of the National Irish-Amerian Kepnblican league, held in Cincinnati, j, dopted resolutions ratifying the nomination f iilaine and Logan. ci WanliinRtont T Payments from the treasury on account f pensions (hiring September were $030,1)0.). n Ivor ?10,0W,UUJ was pam out ior pensions in mgust. n The acting secretary of the treasury has jj :sued the one hundred an.l thirty-first call nr the redemption of bonds. The call is for 10,000,000 of the three par cent loan of u S>2. Thk committee on expenditures in tlio doartment of justice, which, durinz the last jssion of Congress, investigated the star 1' Dute prosecutions, has completed its report q >r submission to the House. It is signed by >[ [essrs. Springer (chairman). Van .Alstyne, [emphill, Fyan and Crisp, Democratic leinbers of the committee. The report (J lys that the government has been defrauded (i f over $4,000,000 by the star route mail j ?rvice during the past eight years, and that le whole number of routes upon which 61 audulent service was proven amounted to S inety-three. There was a great diversity of y ;stimony, the committee says, and there ere many causes.which operated to prevent io successful prosecution of star route of nders. \ i iik secretary of war lias ueciaeu mat jlored men may and shall be enlisted in the nited States signal corps. During the last session of Congress, the Dmmittee on expenditures in the department f justice examined a large number of wit- < ; esses relative to the charges against the government, mado by United States marshals nited States supervisors of election and other -s' dicers appointed by or connected with the it epartmcnt of justice. A report based jj pon the testimony taken has been mado jr submission to the House of Represeiitaives upon the reassembling of Congress, t is signed by the Democratic members of lie committee. The Republican members ill submit a minority report. The lajority report says that "the investigation I Bvenls the wonderful ununimity with which lie.se officers of almost every grade and in iveral portions of the country have plundered lie public treasury by false, fraudulent, and ctitious charges," and various cases are ei ited to .substantiate the committees claim int most of tho officers of the department of istice are guilty of corruption. The public debt statement for September ^ nows: Decrease of debt during the month, 1 12,047,tW.i.44: cash in the treasury, *-r,V>,- j( debt less cash in the treasury, n i,4ij,40Tf0rw.2r. At the vai ious United States mints were i lined during September 1(15,.>*>gold pieces, * /ipfcli S-> 1--K > !- ? !'\M I) III cf-nn.lni-.l "liars; T,-J(H),(>KJ dimes, worth !?72,<HHI; n 2,4!>7,SU0 minor coins, worth $04,(IS-!?a . >tjil coinage of 5,074,1385 pieces, worth $4,0lo,- , iirt. 1 Phesidext AitTHt'lt has appointed J. L. e lillignn, chaplain of the Allegheny county v t'enu.) jxinitentiary, to represent the United ], tatesatthe International Prison congress, 2 hiehis about to be held in llome, Italy. Mr. f tilligan was proniine.it in the war, during J In li lie received the appellation of "th- c jilting chaplain,'' and he has been the in l nnihent of his present oilice tor twenty i ears. * 1 Foreign. t The decline of receipts at. tliocustom houses 1 f Italy,owing to the prevalence of cholera,is < ttimated at < ( A train near Battleford, Canada, got loos0 \ liiile going down a steep grade. About sev- ( nty workmen were on board, and nearly all c eceived injuries in the way of broken limbs ] ,nd severe bruises by jumping from the flying . rain. < At Lachine, province of Quebec, twenty- ' hree dwelling houses were destroyed by lire, j vkiirltifin r fiffv fnmilio* )ktliii'liKV It is re|K>rtoti from Tientsen that the em* ' iress (if China has decided to conclude a peace ' vitli Franee. ^ Some thirty thousand workmen are out of ' mployinent in Lyons, France, anil ' tormy meetings are of frequent occur ence. J UUSICAL AND DRAMATIC. I i mackli.v, the actor, played Shylock at j linety-five, and died at 105. , The oldest actor living resides in St. Louis ^ -N. M. Ludlow, eighty seven. The New York Actors' fund has had 1 eventy-tour iunorais in iouryeare. i Lady ushers at Hankin's Third Avenue 'heatre, New York, have proved a success. Tub mounting of M. Sardou's new drama it the Porte Saint Martin, Paris, will cost ipward of $00,000. Mme. Magda Irschick will make a tour ?f the United States this season, supported >y her own company. M. C'oquetix, the elder,the eminent French ictor'and dramatist, will take a four months' vacation in America in Verdi, now seventy-three, white-haired md bearded, calmly stands on a column of 25 oi)eras of his own composing. Owing to the death of her father, Madam rrebelli has resolved to pistpone hor return o the United States until October, 1885. Emma Abbott has purchased a now opera jy the author and composer of "Tho Twelve ' roily Bachelors." Itis called "Don Filibusto." Langtry has notified seveml American 1 nanaxers to cancel hor dates. They threaten o mako it warm lor her if sho returns to this wuntry, _ _ ' . THE CHOLERA SCOURGE. ?, , tfarch of the Dreaded Pestilence in Europe. rotal Number of Deaths Since the < Outbreak. ! J A special cable dispatch from London says lint up to midnight on Thursday the total lumber of deaths in Europo from tho cholera j iince tho outbreak in Toulon was 14,132. Of j heso Italy had 7,074; France. 5,798, and I <pain, JMSO. The actual totals, says the s :orrospondont, may bo higher from ' ho twn r.nisns of olHcial con- t raiment and bad reporting, but I have very death which found its way into any eiKirt, local or general. The Provinco of Naples lias now furnished more deaths than ho whole of France, tho total being 5,923> >f which only IKK) or so belong outside he city. Next in Italy comes Genoa, with >'2~, two-thirds of which como from little Spezia. The disease has now, kowever> jot a tirm grip on tho city of Genoa, dcpite the ridiculous cordon kept aroitnd >1 o/.i:i to savo tho marble ity. To this barbarous measure, which litrally seared and starved tho Spozians into lie disease, may bo ascribed the frightful nortnlity that has prevailed thero. A genIonian just arrived from Geneva tells mo ho back quarters thero aro very dirty, md that the epidemic is likely to have nany hundreds of victims. Tho Province if Cimeo has had 4C4 deaths, half of them eing in tho city of Biiscn, which likewise las lieen a martyr to a mediaeval cordon, riie other provinces which have had over 100 Icaths are Bergamo, with 300; Massa Carnra, with 1 IS; Parma, with 112; Turin, with <>:], niul Canipo Basso, with 101. In tho last hroe the plague seams now to have died out, jut it is raging in new fields. In all, 41 pro inces in Italy have been infected. An Italian frienjl of miuo who is a member if a Republican society in Italy tells ne the curious fact that his latest circurtrs from headquarters announce secesions by the hundreds from membership, ncltiding some of the best men in the oeiety, owing to the admiration for the :ing's courage in visiting Naples. The iaribaldians from Milan who volunteered o nurse the sick at Naples, and who wear red hirts, and are to a man Radical, were met in lie slums tho other day by Cardinal San Feice. Tho prelate shook hands with all of hem, and thanked them warmly. This fact ms done more for the real unification of Italy nan n, is easy 10 uenuve. In France there aro now twenty-threo demrtments where cases have been reported, md nineteen that have had deaths. The tricken communities number 237. Mareilles has hail 1,7.>S deatlis, Toulon, 'J8~; ^.rles, :?So; Perpignan, ISC; Aix, 162, and Carcassonne, 11)0. The feature of the week ias been the spread of the disease into now ilelartments?Iscre, Gers and Cantol?and its ippearance in the northern suburbs of 'aris. Five different suburbs have had leaths since the 14th. The River Seine at ?lichy and St. Eenis is in a horrible state?so md, m fact, that a party of scientists who uade an examination yesterday were made iolcntly ill by the stench. It will be no mater for surprise if the genuine Asiatic cholera iraiks out there and invades the Bellevillo md tirenelle quarters of Paris before many 1 lays are passed. 1 In Spain the plague continues to be confined o three provinces with rumors of an outbreak 1 it Barcelona. 1 LATE Pi NEWS. Governor Cleveland made a trip to uffalo, his first visit to his home since ,he as nominated for President. The city was luminated in his honor, and there was a arade of about 120,000 men, including many tubs from outlying towns. The governor reiewcd (he parade from the balcony of his otel, and made a short speech in resj oase to n address of welcome. On the following iglit he returned to Albany. C m.oxel John T. Marsh, of Springfield, r [ass., has declined tho nomination of the eople's party for lieutenant-governor. ( William Harrison was sitting on a keg t f powder near Oskaloo.su, Iowa, with a < ghted pipe in his mouth. Hisftwelessness [ as rewarded by an explosion which killed r te snicker and dangerously injured live 1 tlier men. General Butler has been making speeches t 1 the West. j While Governor St. John, Prohibition i mdidato for President, was journeying to ^ erre Haute, Iud., some one iired a shot ^ trough the ear, narrowly missing the gover- r or. A construction train with twenty-two j! ten on board plunged into a washout near c iayfield, Wis. Two men were instantly illed ami fourteen more injured, several *ith probublj fatal result. Secretary Frelixgiiuysen opened the iternational conference which met in the de artment of stnt.' to discuss nud consider the ucstion of a prime meridian for all nations. e here were fol ly delegates in number, repre- ^ jnting Austria-Hungary, Brazil, Colombia, 'osta Rica, Denmark, franco, Germany j; Ireat Britain, Guatemala, Hawaii, Italy, aj an, Mexico, Netherlands, Paraguay, Rus- I in, San Domingo, San Salvador, Spain, weden and Norway, Switzerland, Turkey> <3 'enezucla and the United States. ^ The cholera is slowly abating in Italy. n A burmxu steamer at Kostroma, on the y 'olga river, in Russia, drifted from her loorings and set fire to several other vessels t: i the river. The surface of the river was 61 ke a sea of fire from burning oil. General Diaz has been publicly pio- j laiined president of Mexico. France's proposal that the United States b liould act as mediator in the trouble between * ; and China has been scornfully rejected by lie Chinese government. ^ SIEGE OF KHARTOUM. ' g low G'cncrnl Gordon Ilcpollcd the r Ilclicl mucks. s Tlie London Times correspondent at Khartum under date of April 12S reports that Ueii_ t ral Gordon was laying mines in all direc. 1 ions. Food was dear. General Gordon had ^ isued paper mmey, tho treasury being at t lerbcr, and to paying tlie soldiers with it 'lie town was quiet. Half of tho population i ained the rebels previous to the beginning of ? lie siege. No news had been received from the , tritish government Under date of July 130, , lie correspondent says: " The town has been 3 losely besieged for five months and will bo ,ble to hold out only two months longer, lla- ' ions are being issued to the poor." The cores|>ondent s.-nds tho following extracts from i lis diary: " March K)?Ila-.san and Safid were xeeuteil for their treachery during a battle I'hieh occurred on March 10, when wo ust MHO killed and wounded. April 1(5 to !.; ?The rebel; attacked tho town, but sufered heavy losses by explosions of the mines. Jay 1 ?An accident occurred t>day. AuolU or trod upon the connection to one of tho ni*i'S and caused an explosion. Six men were cilled. May o?A man reported that the Engish army wore at Berber. To the cud of day tho rebels made frequent attacks upon lie town, suffering losses from the mines, hiring Juno steamer expeditions under rommand of final 1 Uev, were mauu Lilly. Our losses on tfieso expeditions vere slight. We captured ninny cattle. J11 June 'M> Mr Cuzzi, the English on sill, informal us of tlio fall of i Jerlier. Mr. Cuzzi was sent to Konlofau. On IniiCoO, Santi Hey captured a quantity of :orn and killu.l ~(M rebel*. July Hi, Saati Hey Jiiriied Kalakla and three other vilages. Ho i!s;> attacked Uatarub but was defeated. >nati lley and his ollieers were killed. The oss was fituvv Colonel Stewart had a narrow . scape. On June ~1) we bi at the rebels outof [inn, on the Blue Nile. A number of the enmiy were killed, and wo captured a quantity if material. The steamers advanced to ElFan,clearing V.i rebel fort-s. Since the siege lie;an our loss has been under 700. July HI, tlio >iege has been very close. Arab bullets are lying on all sides, s^ine of theni falling on .lie palace. Fowl is tremendously dear. Since ny recent dispatch, all hope of government plinf tins fimf> nnil wn milV denend Oil tlio steamers. It is impossible for as to cut our way through tho rebels, burdened as we arc >vit!i numbers of women and children. One \rub horseman suffices to frighten 200 of our neii. On the clay Snnti Bey was killel eight ebels charged 200 of our men armed ivith Remington rilles nnd disjwrscd them. Tlio only men wo are able to lejiend on are the negroes. July 2ft?Xlehonet Ali's action yesterday was very successfill. Five armored steamers, after clearing thirteen forts, found at (taivlY two jjtrong forts. Tho vessels engaged tho fortsforeight lioui's under a terrific tire. Tlie cannon in tho forts were finally' disabled and tho rebels Iriven out. < )ur loss was only three killed ?rwl tliirtvk/m U'.minlad ffflPflftll will I won seii'l two steamers toward Senaar to try to recapture a steamer taken from S.iloli Bey. Beneral Gonlon is well." A Frcnch newspaper 1ms discovered that it is the custom at marriages in Lithuana for the bride's mother to publicly box her daughter's ears. The object of this proceeding is that should the daughter subsequently desire to get rid of her liusband she can plead sho was forced to marry hiin by violence. ST, JOHN'S ACCEPTANCE. Letter of the Prohibition Candidate for X'rcmidcnu The secretary of the national Prohibition mrty furnishes tho following letter of acceptance from Governor St. John, the candidate )f that party for President of tho United States: Olatitk, Kan., Sept. 2>>, 1884. Hon. Samuel Dickie, Chairman of the Committee, b?c.: My Dkar Siii?In formally accepting tho nomination for President tendered to me by :ho National Prohibition convention at 1'ittsJiirg,Poim.,July?t,18W,I take theopportnnity io state that whilo tho honor was neither sought nor desired liy me, yet it is greatly lppreciatid, bestowed as it wa-t by a eonrention compowsl of delegate i who in joint of real worth and mental ability woro ully equal if not suiierior t<? thoso of my political convention that ever assembled n this country. Tho war for tho Union in )ver. The rebellion has been crushed. African slavery has been abolished. Tlio old issues have passed away, and with them should ro the old prejudices and sectional strife. To luy tho products of tho North and South float 11 friendly relations in tho same channels, inder the samo flag, every section of our :ountry acknowledging allegiance to the samo jovernmcnt. There never was a time when our people ould lxjtter afford to, and when it was more mportanb that they should, stop and think ;han now. With manufactories shutting lown, hanks breaking, merchants failing in jusiness, securities unsettled, Western wheat selling at the home market for forty cents X)i* bushel and hundreds of thousands of inlustrious meehauics and laboring men who ire willing to work but can get nothing to I lo, it seems to me that the time lias como or tho ]>eop!e, who are the source of all wlitical power, to call a halt and stop und hink, for there must lte a reason for this xindition of things. The little time and space tho old parties 'an spare after dealing out the full measure )f personal abuse and vilillcation that each teems to think the other merits is mainly derated to the discussion of the tariff question, gnoring all matters that relate to the moral ilevation of the peoplo. I am of the opinion hat the manufacturer who, by reason of tho lepressed condition of busiuess, has been " I-j. / .'0iii])0lle(i to inano ail assignment lor wg jeneflt of his creditors, will not litid relief in he agitation of that Question now, nor will he average farmer become enthusiastic >ver its discussion, with Ills wheat not vortli so much in the bin as it cost him to .iroduce it. Tlie amount received by tho government 'or duties on imports is less than *2<;0,000,0ix) uinually. There are about 175,(J0U retail dealers n intoxicating liquoi-s in the United States, sach of whom pays to our government $25, in consideration of which sum they are pernitted to carry on their business for a term >f twelve months. AVhen we add to this the imount paid by distillers, brewers and wholeale dealers, we find that the interest of the jovernment in tlie manufacture and sale of ntoxicating litjuors is about SSO,000,000 anmally. This traffic, sanctioned as it is by he laws of our country, costs the people, at i low estimate, a thousand million dollars a rear, not to speak of the destroyed homos, tttnnU/wl tVMfOl't-V llOOt'tflphp ICUUUtUCU lliuuiiisisu, IA/TWVJ, , rime and corruption it produces. This disgraceful business should De suppressed, and ho enormous sum of money that under he present system is worse than thrown iway, saved to the people: and thus a proaction would be giveu to the industries of his country that would enable us successfuly to throw our doors open wide to the com>o tit ion of the world. The Republican and Democratic parties 'avor the continuance - of the manutacturo md sale of intoxicating liquors ns a beverage, vhile the Prohibition party demands that tho wme shall be forever suppressed Thus an is;ue is presented to the pooplo in which is inni-n^Hnn of nvurv hnmfl in tllO aiul. It in not a mere local issue either but it s a national as well as a practical question, jpon which a large and respoctablo hody of ltizvns?against whoso convictions party liscipline is powerless?have decided to vote, md they will not be found halting between ho two opinions touching this matter, but vill work and pray and vote against this great ivil, until it is driven from our land lover to return. The government is simply a eflex of the individuals composing it. We vant an honest, sober jjeople.but we can never lave an honest, sober people so long as the covernment sanctions that which makes Its itizens dishonest, drunk* n and corrupt. The declaration of principles, which I icartily indorse, as set forth in the platform >f the prohibition party, is entitled to the houghtful consideration and earnest support >f all good citizens, without regard to locality >r former political affiliation. Our country iceds an administration that will rise above uere partisan considerations, and in the seection of public officials make honesty, society and efficiency nnd not service to party it should ho romlucted. not in ho interest of any particular scc'cioG, >arty, raco or color, but 111 tho interest of the vhoie people. To accomplish this all good itizens should promptly step to tho front and x! counted for tlie right. This is 110 time for lodging. Moral cowardice will never win, uul surely n >ver deserves victory. Then let us look to G<xl for His guidance, ind fearlessly and faithfully do our whole lutv. never doubting that He will take care if tuo results. Very truly your friend, " John P. St. .Tons. THE NATIONAL GAME. The Philadelphia club has had seven pitchirs this season. E. Dugan, pitchor of the Virginia club, is mt nineteen years of age. Providence audiences have averaged a Ittle over 1,00'J pur game this year. Over 140,000 people have witnessed the .?ague games in Boston this seasjn. Ex-Governor Foster, of Ohio, is a freuonf-. nttjinrlniit. nt. tho luill (ramus at Colllin ius. At Fremont, Ohio, the Froinont club beat , club composed of Potavvatamie Indians by 7 to 2. Already the clubs throughout the counry are looking around for players for next sason. Radboukxe, of Providence, has struck ut more batsman tliau auy other pitcher in be League. Each League club plays 112 games this eason, and there will be 44S games played by ho eight clubs. It is probable that the pitcher of 1SS5 will iave a foot more room. Nearly all of them ind the box too small as it Is. A recent Cihrimiati-Allegheny game was emarkable for the fact that six double plays vere made?a very rare occurrence, indeed. Neither in the American or the Union as (XJlULlUll is HiULU uticm iuii kv tuu > uiv equtring the ball to bo delivered bolow the hgulder. The Irontons played the Dnytons, in Dayon, Ohio, recently, two games, one of which vas most interesting from the fact that it vas the quickest played oil record, lasting cxictly forty seven minutes, the previous best >11 record being fifty-five minutes. At the end of tho twenty-second week the ecord of the League clubs in the champion(hip race was as follows, the Providence nine jeing too far in front to prevent their winling the pennant: Clubs. ICun. Lost, j Clubs. Won. Lout. I'rovidence 79 '.'4 | Chicago 54 60 Boston 07 34 Cleveland 38 CT liuflalo SS 4111 Philadelphia 33 CI NcwYork 53 441 Detroit.... '25 "7 The record of tho twelve American Association clubs at tho end of tho twenty-second week was as follows: Clubs. Hon. Lost. 1 Clubs. Won. /.out Metropolitan....G3 30 | Baltimore 53 12 Columbus C4 34 I Brooklyn 41 5'j Lonifvllle 03 S4 I Toledo 37 Go Cincinnati 6-2 30 | Allegheny 29 "o St. Louis GO 37 | Indianapolis....VS 07 AtHlcctic 55 43 | Virginia 21 7-J Up to date the League clubs had played ,'581 games andtno American ciuus tiuKiiuiis*. exclusive of ten games, making a total in ail of over a thousand', championship matches in five months, a record unequaled in the history of the national game. FATALITT_AT A FAIR, Two Men and a < irl rmhe?t During a Cnlluon Aftcentnioii. The lust day's exhibition of the Erie County Agricultural society, at Erie, Penn., terminated with a terrible fatality. When Oscar Hunt's balloon was inflated and moved oil', it is alleged that some malicious person cut tho ropes which held a largo pole which held th? balloon, and the pole fell, instantly killing Pamuel C. Pherrin, a farmer and a leading man in Erie county, crushing his head into a shapeless mass. A daughter of Pherrin, who was standing beside him, was badly in. jural. James Wadswarth, a ucll-kiown turfman of Girard, was struck down and fatally injured. Wm. P. Edwards, of Erie had a leg broken. Great excitement prevail <I, ami mis rAiiiunuK. once, all of the races and tho rest of the programme being declare* 1 oir. Hunt, the balloonist, l>eiug greatly affected by the accident, lost control of his balloon, and sailing over the lake, fell with his air ship.and was picked up nearly dead from exhaustion. Miss I'hernn was badly hurt, but it is believed will recover. Her injuries are aggravated by the death of her father and miv anjury received at tho hands of a would-be lover a few years ago. Her lover, a respectable young man who Jived on an adjoining "farm, lost his reason, and one night scaled a ladder, entered lie* bed chamber, struck her on thu head witth a hammer and then fled. Tho Erie fair this year hns been attended by a number of fatalities. While returning from the lirst day's exhibition, Mrs. \V. S. Quay, of Mill Valley, drove olT a narrow bridge over French creek, and, with the horse, was drowned. Her two children wero saved by a passer-by. At the second day's exhibition one of Buffalo Rill's wild Texas steers broko away,and rushing into a dense crowd gored and trampled Beveral jiersons seriously. William Hallihan, who was returning from the fair, was struck by a fast train on the Lake Shore railway and killed before bin own door. A TERRIBLE TORNADO." . A Village in Now York Torn to Pieces. Several Persons Killed and Thirty Houses Destroyed, A Bradford (Penn) dispatch says: The tor. nado which passed over this region last Sunday crossed tho Now York Stato line flnd Ktruck tho villngo of Shongo, eight miles south of Wellsville. The littlo town Is to-day a scone of death, rain and desolation. Twi persons wero killed outright, about twenty wero badly Injured, and thirty buildings In tho business jmrt of tho town wero destroyed. The tornado came from tho southwest and was evidently at its height when it struck Bhongo. Those killed wero Mrs. Edward Pratt ami Willis Oardnor. A son of Doctor J. A. Elliott was so terribly injured that lie died. Miss Anna ILancaster is not exported to live Among others injured are Mr. and Mrs. Edgar Peet, Doctor A. A. Elliott, wife, and three children; Austin Kemp, Duano Kemp and wife, Edward Pratt, husband of the lady killed; Edward Brundage, wife, and two children, and Mrs. Asa Quinby, of North Bingham. Hoi-ses, pigs, cattlo and poultry were killed and orchards destroyed. The tornado's belt was narrow and its duration only a moment or two, but there was a terrific and destructive force wrapped up in it. After plowing a narrow area of wreckage among tho forest trees over the hill to the Buuthwest of tho doomed village, the current settled down and crossing the valley struck Shongo, more than two-thirds of which is now a ruin. Mr. Gardner and his daughter were alone in their dwelling. Gardner was instantly killed, but the daughter miracuously escaped. Mr. Edward Pratt, his wife and daughter. arara in f.hnir honsn. Mrs. Pratt was killed and the husband and daughter were severely injured. Dr. A. A. Elliott suffered the total loss of his home, office, and barn, and his horse was killed. Doctor and Mrs. Elliott were both hurt, and their three children, Lena and John and an infant child, were severely injured. John "Williams, his wife, and two children miraculously escaped, as did also the family of Edward Brundage, whose house was whirled across the street. So fierce was the wind current that in the | Deautuui vuiuko ?uici?ij umi tones were left standing, all toe rest being ! thrown to the ground, and some were even carried out of the cemetery across the street. ! APPLYING THE TOROE Ulany Incendiary Fires Started in Cleveland. A Cleveland, (Ohio) dispatch says; Threo more attempts to start incendiarj fires wero made in different parts of the city last night between the hours of 1 and 4 o'clock, but the fiendish designs of the fire bugs were frustrated by the vigilance of th? poople in the vicinity and the sharp movements of the flro department, which is now I constantly on the alert. This makes ninet >en fires that have been lighted by the torch of the incendiary within" three weeks, in which over 82,000,00;) worth of property hat i been destroyed, and (hi result is widespread consternation and alarm among the business men and property owners of the city. As a consequence insurance rates have been increased, hazardous risks are being refused, money is being withheld, and in two or thre< instances capital has been withdrawn and firms have retired from the lumber and other trades that seem to be the objective prey of the communistic fiends. Unless the plague is speedily stamped out the business interests of the city will be seriously cripple;!. Whether these fires are the work of cunning cranks or the fruit of a fiendish plot concocted by an organized band of men has not yet been determined, as only three arrests have been made on suspicion, and no positive evidence has been obtained !< throw light upon the subject. An oflicer of the Cleveland Sawmill and Lumber company, whose property was fired, sai I: "These flies are having a rernuiy disastrous effect upon tho lumber interests of the city. So great is the present danger that many insurance companies refused longer to "hold" lumber risks at any rates. Within tho past week policies to the amount of ?27,000 had been cancelled by companies on the lumber of our company alone. The fire, it was said, would have the effect of placing insurance rates exorbitantly high and driving the business from the city. The proprietors could contend against other disasters, but when property is in such danger of being reducea to ashes it is time to quit the business." The whole city is in a fever of anxiety and excitement, and the stroke of the fire bell or the'movement of an engine is a signal for the speedy gathering of a crowd, who indulge in savage threats against the firebugs, and express anxiety to take a band in stringing them up in case they are caught. WORK OF FIREBUGS, rnccndinrisui in Five Pennsylvania CountieN. For the past few weeks, says a Reading (Penn.) dispatch, fires have occurrei nearly t tmu.n?h>r T.nlmnnn. OVCJJr UUjr AU UQUlgu, mwuvmvv.? ? , . Montgomery and Barks counties, which were of an incenrliary origin. The properties destroyed mostly were of tho finest and most substantial in their respectivo vicinities. The losses will aggregate some $75,000, not one-third of which is covered by insurance. The police authorities were unable to trace the perjietrators, but it has been discovered that tliero is a large gang of men composed of the most worthless characters, who have formed themselves into an association for the purpose of robbery and incendiarism. The victims are nearly all fanners who have their fine barns and year's crops destroyed, and they are now so alarmed that they do not consider their lives or proj?rty safe. In several of the counties named meetings have been held to devise some means of protection, and strong resolutions were adopted. At Alleutown, John McGuire and James McGee were bound to answer tho charge of being connected with lire? there, the town * ? i<?oitHorrriifcinns in Having uoi i?? tn>.i. one we &, all incendiary. The prisoners are vagrants who have been loafing about the town, sleeping in stables and too lazy to work. Thcv are supposed to belong to a gang of incendiaries. The citizens held a meeting at the City Hall to consider mentis ami measures to effect the arrest of the incendiaries who infest the city. After an exchange of opinions and s.'iitinv.nts tlte following resolution was unanimously adoit-.'d: "Uesolved, As the sense of the meeting of citizens and business men that every effort should be put forth by the city authorities to detect and bring to punishment the person or jierson: believed t> be guilty of incendiarism 111 our midst, and to this end Wt> will approve the most energetic and effective measures possible; ami we would also rt commend the apiMrintment of a vigilance committee in each of the cities." This was done, and to-night there are thirty special policemen patroling the streets. NEWSY GLEAN~rosT*~"" Tiv mines are the latest sensation iu the Black Hills. It is said flint only one small herd of buffalo remain in 'lexas. It co.st fifty million dollars to pick last year's cotton crop. Mkxico owes English creditors $(>0,000,000 and Americans j:20,00 yio.i. Tiuutkkx States have labor bureaus. Massachusetts set the example in 1800. In some parts of Kansas grain remains unharvested lor want of tho necessary laliorers. U.nk gold mine in Utah has never :evied an r.s -eminent, antl has paid <S,U0 i,<JOO in dividemls. Indiana employs 5,400 men and $2,0>m),0(k) in getting !2,">C'(),<:0J tons of coal of -CHS mines yearly. Fiiiim one squirrel killed by 0. XV, Fleckler, near Santa Cruz, Cal., till I kernels of wheat were taken. A Mormon* elder has taken an annual bridal trip for the past live years, each time with a separate briile. J 1st sixteen years ago the interest on tho national d.-bt was . ?14:>,O.K),000 a year. It is now fOtyXAMKH). The populitionof the United States inereases at (lie rate of thirty-two per cent, every ten years. AVo.H. production in the United States amounted to 47.">,0:K),(XX) pounds last year. Ohio stands at the head. A. t\ Van "\Va<;enek, of St Remy, X. Y.? lias t< matoes that weigh two pounds and are jierfect in every resjiect. No less than fifty-seven expositions, it is said, are to held in the United States during the remainder of the year. IU'Uai, Consrressinen will be allowed two j million bushels of seed* to distribute anions their jx-t constituents this year. Tiik standing armies of Kuropo aggregate 15,^01 ,!)71 aide lMxlieil men. The taxes for their support aggregate ?-!!)"),f>15,(iO-'i. TltKHE is a suggestion of the introduction of camels into England as beasts of burden, their use having proved very satisfactory in Australia. Tiie pipe lines connect with -1,000 oil welli in Pennsylvania, receiving from them daily 85,0 HJ barrels of oil. Forty-one million barrels are stored in tanks. Ox the open plains, in the county of Ximint's, Mexico, live large springs of water have suddenly burst forth w hore there has bean continued drought for ten years. There is n great scarcity of corn in Mexico ami dialers in the city of Mexico say that the country requires at leisf, ,,0,(j0'.),0(i0 bushels ft'oin the United States, but. freight rates will have to be reduced, in order to bring it within tho means of the people, JOHN W, GARRETT, Rkclch of the I,ate Head ol tlie Baltimore and Ohio Iload* John W. Garrett, president of the Balti* more and Ohio Railroad company, died at Deer Park, M l., after a protracted illness, in the Hixty-lifth year of his age. He had been at Deer Park for some time and it was supposed that the mountain air would be of b?ne lit to him; but las mental as well as physical prostration was ho great that lie could not rally. Mr. Garrett was born in the city of Baltimore .Tnlv :tl 1S'20 nnrl w/is t.ha second son of tho latn Robert Garrett, a wealthy merchant and banker. His education was completed nt Lafayette college in the State of Pennsylvania, when he entered his father's counting-room, and was shortly after, at tho ago of nineteen, made a partner in his father's business. His lirst connection with th? Baltimore and Ohio railroad was in October, 1857, when he was made a director of the company, n time when the embarrassment of the road was of a most serious character. In 1858, Mr. Garrett was elected to the presidency of l he company, which position he has since retained. Tho practical wisdom of tho policy inaugurated by Mr. Garrett was shown at tho close of the first year, the aggregate net gains of tho company during the first year of his administration being In the second year the improvement in the affairs of the company were even more marked than during the first. During tne wur tne geographical position of the road placed its lines in constant jeopardy, but the indomitable will and energy of Mr. Garrett made tho road useful for the transfer of troops at all times, and the practical utility of the road was never lost. Alter he became president and gave his time so largely t) the duties of his office the directors, by unanimous vote, increased his salary from >4,000 to #10,000 per annum. This increase Mr. Garrett declined. He repeal elly declined to accept the offers of the presidencies of other railroads, though accompanied in one case by an offer of a salary of *30,000, and in anutncr by a proposal to give him #50,000 a year. Mr. Garrett was also the head of tho hanking house of Robert Garrett & Sons. Mr. Garrett was estimated to be worth $5,000,000 or $6,000,000. CHINA FOB WAB. Her People Bidden to Reiitt France ?War Koten* A Hong Kong dispatch says that an imperial edict has been issued to the viceroy of Canton ordering him to issue a procla" tnation urging and encouraging the Chinese people to resist the French, rhe viceroy is also instructed at the same time to forbid any attempts to poison che food of their enemies and to refrain from nnduly exciting the populace. The antagonism toward Europeans is increasing on the nnrfc nf the flhinesa eonseauont UDOn the fiTOV jrnnment compelling the Chinese laborers to assist in unloading French vessels. Admiral Ccurbet has soiled with- his fleet from Matson, but his destination is unknown. The occupation of Tamsui in addition to Kelung is considered necessary to provent the Chinese from obtaining needed supplies, and the latter expect tho next attack to be made by the French upon Port Arthur or Shanghai. They have accordingly warnei Europeans that the positions of Tamsui and in the south are unsafe. Hong Kong would be utterly helpless in the event of the French landing on tho south of the island. It is again stated that the government of France is willing to resume treaty negotiations with China, provided the latter government will strictly observe the treaty of TienTsin and pay to France an indemnity of 90,001),000 francs. The French can easily stop the cable at the mouth of the Saigon, and messages via Haiphong are to be under French control. The Chinese Charge d'Affaires at Berlin has returned to China. The English fleet is being scattered along the entire coast, the frigate Audacious going norttu The French searching of several English vessels is severely denounced. PROMINENT PEOPLE. Fbancis Murphy has been holding temperance meetings in St Paul. Dr. Norvin Gree.v, president of the Western Union "eleqraph company, is a great sugar eater. Ex-Unite^ ates Senator Nesmith, of Oregon, has become insane and has been placed in an asylum. Muley Hassan, the emperor of Morocco, can read and write, and is the only subscriber to a newspaper in the empiro. The International Forestry exhibition, at T7V!mKiiroli hna nivnrdoH ft crnld of thw fii st class to Professor Riley,of the Department of Agriculture of "Washington. General Pleasanton has not abandoned his "blue-glass" theory. He says he has three-year-old colts reared under blue glass that are as large as five-year-olds raised on Kentucky blue grass. Nordenskjold, the famous Arctic explorer, is said to be anxious to try his luck in the South, and has made plans for an expedition to tho South Pole. He is writing his experiences in the Arctics. Poor Carlotta, ex-empress of Mexico, spends only a few thousands a year in her mad-house, and tho accumulated interest of her immense fortune has become enormous. Her heirs will be her brothers. Algernon Charles Swinbcrni, the English poot? detests tobacco. "James the First," ho said recently, "was a knave, a tyrant, a fool, a liar, a coward, but I love him. I worship him because he slit the throat of Waluiffli urlin invAnf/vl t.hl'Q uiai; uiagn^uuiu > MV , WM?V- . flfthy smoking." Edward Kino tlrus writes from Paris of two noted men: "Victor Hugo and Marshal von Moltke were both at Raggatz in Switzerland recently. I think it would be difficult to And in America two such vigorous old men of eighty as the famous Prussian general and the celebrated French poet Neither of them seem to have any intention of dying for the next quarter of a century. ' Oklahoma" Pjlyxu, the man who has made himself notorious by htstnunrsions Intp the Indian Territory, is described as an ordinary-looking man, who poscsses a strong magnetic influence over his followers. He is about six feet high, sttongly built, wears a moustache and full chin oeard, is of dark complexion aud has dark eyes. Captrin Payne speaks with coarse fiuencv, ana appeals to the passions to accomplish his ends. Senator Wade Hampton stands at the head of the sportsmen of the United States Senate. His specialty is fishing, and he is said to be ono or tbe best amateur fishermen in the United States. Tho late Senator Anthony was also a capital fisherman. Senator Vest loves to hunt and fish, while Senator i? ow??rinv}i<?rn worth mention JDeciv uua iiuuiAA* sswm j .... _ ing in tli6 United States and Scotland. Like bis prosjwctive colleague, Mr. Blackburn, he is passionately fond of good horses. NEWS AND NQTES FOB WOMEN. A circle of rubies forms the newest engagement rings. Mull, in all shades, was never as popular as this season. Pink is to be the fashionable color for nil evening dresses next winter. Brown is as fashionable for tailor- -?iade dresses this fall as gray was last spring. Fichus of mull, trimmed with lace, are popular now with all kinds of evening gowns. There arc not more than two or three women whose wealth is greater than Queen Victoria's. Comparatively few decollete dresses .i.:? ?????? Tho mm cut lire WUIU iiiia scaovu. ^ ?v w ueck is preferred to any other. Alligators' teeth are now used for butt ons, bracelets, earrings and bangles They take a high polish and are very dur-. able. Women and girls own nearly one-half of the deposits in the savings banks of Massachusetts, having to their credit Dog collars are in vogue again. The velvet ribbon worn is now dark maroon instead of black. It looks particularly well against a soft white neck. "Turkey-red " petticoats of the cotton by that name, trimmed with white lace, are serviceable as underskirts, as the dust can be shaken out of them as out of wool. Large old-fashioned lace collars are now gathered on the wrong side of the dress collar and turned over on the right side. They are fastened at the throat by a satin or velvet ribbon, loosely knotted in front. There is a woman in France who is a veritable magnet, as she draws light bodies to her without touching them, and her hair produces sparks when combed. Strange to say, slic lias never ycc uiawn a husband. The slippers for house wear are made in wine and scarlet colors, in alligator, ! kangaroo or dangola skins, which are durable as well as easy. White shoes are not in stock now, aud white slippers are no longer worn, save by brides aud their attendants. An English exchange is accountable for the following recipe for getting rid of Hies and other insect pests in the house: Suspend pieces of tow, sponge, cotton waste or other absorbent material, saturate with carbolic acid and keep moist, i The scent, which is wholesome, will drive tho peata away, 'our humorous harvest. |i COMICAL STOSZES OLE AH ZD FROM vabious aouBoas. iffrm Jones Knew?She Hod it Right? '"$& A Court Crier?Hetrenihtneni Sec- " c*?arf?Capturing' Their Votes* ' ?' Jones bought n new hat. On the in- '-''ill side was the motto, "Moveo et proficio." . 'v$| He took pains to find out the meaning of the words, and at an evening party ^ introduced the subject; but when ho attempted to translate it he could not re- ?~ member it, and appealed to Lis wife. ". "Maria," he said, do you remember Jem what was in my hat when I brought it home Saturday?" ; "Perfectly," said J Irs. Jones, with . composure. "And what was it?" he asked, lookincr round on the company as much as to say: ' "Now you will see what a scholar my wife is." "A brick."?Indianapolis-Sentinel. She Had It Bight. "My dear," said a jocose Cornplanter township farmer to his wife, "why is your deceased grandmother like my -1 threshing machine?" " "I don't know; why?" "Because the is no more and my threshing machine is no mower." "That is a good one," said the lady, ' "and I must go and see if Mrs. Pikrust can tell." When she saw Mrs. Pikrust the lady . "John has told me such a good conundrum. It is this: 4Why is my grand* ?W mother like a threshing machine?''' Mrs. Pikrust did not know. ' 'Because my grandmother is dead and . ^jes you can't mow with a threshing maohlno " xrna tho t.rinmnVin.nt r*nlv.? Nashville Sunday Journal* ** A Conrt Crier. A lawyer, living on Walnut Hills, has a son about seven"years old and a daugh- . ter about three times that age. The fjffl boy has been around the court rooms a good deal and the girl has a solid bean. " The other evening the gentleman passed '" vsSj the house and the young lady wanted to "^8 sec him. "Johnny," said she to the kid, 1'won't you please call Mr. Mann?" Johnny knew the state of affairs, and with a ready 'of course" he flew to the _ front door and called oat in the usual .W loud monotone of a crier: "John Henry Mann, John Henry Mann, John Henry Mann; come in to Mr. Mann camc in and Johnny withdrew to a safe place.?Merehant-'Tuuder* Retrenchment KccoMSTf. "John," said the proprietor of a rail road restaurant to his head pie-carver, .''John, we must cut down expenses in some way. We must retrench or I shall V-.VvaB not be able to buy a brown-stone block y out of this year's profits. How can we ;'::v3?B reduce our outlay?" "I really don't see how we can squeeze ; down our expenses any further," answered John, after a moment of thought. "We are cutting our pic in seven ten- tent pieces now." "4r>?M "Seven ten-ccnt pieces!" thundered , .'i, the proprietor, while his face flushed vjg with anger; "no wondei4my profits are falling off. You mean to ruin me, 1 suppose. Remember, man, that those pies cost sixty cents a dozen. We'vo got to have a little profit in this business. >|j After this hour don't let me hear of a Die beinc cut in less than nine ten-cent pieces." i And the proprietor went out Jo-buy a cheap ham to make up the semi-annual *?#39 batch of 50,000 sandwiches.? Middleto ten Transcript. , Capturing Their Vote*. I heard Zeb Vance telling how he captured the vote of a backwoods settlement in North Carolina when he first ran /-jS for Congress. He said he had never ' -18 been in that settlement and didn't know -;$aj the boys. He rode over the mountains 'A and found about sixty sovereigns at a $3 crossroad grocery, and he got down and : ^afl hitched his horse and began to make their acquaintance and crack bis jokes aroupd and thought he was getting along V# "A pretty well with them, but he noticed an old man with shaggy eyebrows and big brass spectacles sitting on a chunk ana marking in the sand with a stick. The 1 old man didn't seem to pay any attention to Vance, ana alter awuue vance coneluded that the old man was bellwether of the flock, and that it was necessary to capture him, so he sidled up close to him 4 and the old man got up and shook himself and leaned forward on his stick and said solemnly: "This is Mr. Vance, I believe?" "Yes, sir," said Vance. "And you have come over here to see my boys k about their votes, I believe?" "Yes, sir," said Vance; "that is my business." "Well, sir;" said the old man, "afore '--.A you proceed with that business I would A like to ax you a few questions." * JJ?|5 "Certainly, sir, certainly," said Vance, "What church mout you belong to?" said the old man. That was a sockdoleger?Vance didn't belong to any church. He knew that religion and meeting was a big thing *- . in the backwoods and controlled their politics, but he didn't kn^w yj-hnf religitm? -, wrfrcn Carolina was nowerfullv spotted. But he squared himself for the responsibility and said he: "Well, now, my friend, I will tell you about that, for it is a fair question. Of course it is. Well, you see, my j grandfather came from Scotland, and " you know that over iu Scotland everybody is Presbyterian." Here he paused to note the effect, but saw no sign of symjjathy with his grandpa. 7^3 "But mv grandmother came from England, and over there everybody belongs to ti^ Episcopal church." He .. paused again'and the old man marked another mark in the sand and spit his tobacco away off. "T1-1 *1"*" ti.oo liArn in t.Tllfl * "13 UL Illy iaiuvi wwtM ... country in a Methodist settlement and so he grew up a 3Iethodist." Still no sign of approval from the old man, and ~ so Vance took his last shot and said: "But my good old mother was a Baptist, and it's my opinion that a man has to go under water to go to heaven." ^0 The old mau walked up and taking him by the hand, said: "Well, you are all right, 3Ir. Vance," and then turning to the crowd said: "Boys, he'll do and you may vole for him. I thought that lie looked like a Baptist."?Atlanta Constitution. Duplicate Cities. f t^|?i There are in the United States 4 Phil-^, adclphias aud 8 Pittsburgs, while tl>cTecord of other cities is as foIlowaTBrooklyns 18, Bostons 11, Baltknores 5, Buffalos 10. Burlingtons 17, Charlestons 17, Chicagncs 4, Cincinnatis S, Clevelands 10, Columbus 19, Daytons 25, Detroita 5, Indianapolis 2. Louisvilles 5, Lowells " WM 1 >r--L..:n 15, Memphis jMiiwuukcus >, ^usuvuma 14, Omahns 5, Portlands 24, Quincys 25, Kichmonds 22, Springfields 25, St. Josephs 15, St. Louis 4, St. Pauis 12, Toledos (J, Wa-shingtons uO, Wilniingtons 13, and Williamsburgs 28. Vj Birds Calming the Sea. A Fiji correspondent writes to an English paper: "Often, wnilc sailing among the South Sea islands, I have passed ~ ? ^ J Hocks of birds, principally icrns auu -?v? whale birds, resting in vast numbers on the sea. It is remarkable that, however rough the sea may be at the time, yet V where the birds rest there is not a ripple i to disturb them. This must be caused l>y oil, but whether it is purposely deposited by the birds with the intention of quieting the water, or whether they do mo from natural causes, is a question the ( answer of which, I think, would interest many of our readers." Leprosy wa9 known in the United States before the appearance of a Chinaman. It existed in Louisiana a century asro, anrl in 187."? a hospital of lepers j was erected near New Orleans. The railway postal-car service cost ?J I'ncle Sam $1,G'25.000, and the salaries of I . the railway postal clerks amount to I $4,1300,000." "I [ A solution of gutta-percha in chloro- I form (lour to thirty) Is useful to protect the skin over projecting bones, and to 1 prevent bed-sores la wasting diswigei, , I