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ABBEVILLE PRESS AND BANNER.! -? ? - . ' .. il BY HUGH WILSON, ABBEVILLE. S. C.. WEDNESDAY. OCTOBEK 22. 1884. NO. 17. VOLUME XXIX. - ' ' . " HARVEST SONG. 4 ow the summer days are over, And the bees have left the elover, And the wheat is in its bin. Thankfulness may well begin; For th > summer, fair and pleasant, For the good gifts of the j>resent Time?and happiness therein. it. Where the lake so deep and still is, See, the lustrous water-lilies Still give forth their ereamv glow, There the rowers briskly row, [While others stroll along the shore, For the summer t< il is o'er, And this day no work they know. m. To the orehard two are tending, where the apple-boughs are bending E With the yellow fruit and red; In great piles are heaped and spread I Apples mountainous and fair? All their fragrance fills the air? But the applet blooms have fled. GbBs MHT Ah! I see th'? pretty maid, WlB! In the apple-tree's deep shade, WK Pick the gentian fair and blue; Bf But her lover near it, knew V He should have the pretty flower; 3f And, at length, a fairer dower? BBj^^ He shall have the maiden, too. ?Joel Benton. ? . HI CRUSADER. H|Ha snowy March day. Outside, tlic pouring out their white, biting K9H?> tormentors into the raging wind, j BMcli hurls them maliciously against the ! of a little group of women, who WKL walk quickly along through the furious storm. Inside, warmth and comfort in ! MM he houses of the rich; the sparkle of B^B^uddy coal fires in the grate; soft-cushDHl ,ned chairs, brilliant with glowing silk HH and woolen tidies; footstools of dainty handiwork; indolent women in warm! cozy corners deep in ihe latest novel, and j Hh indolent men. cards in hand, with1 a bottle between them, which grows | ^HM**':<?hter and emptier as the moments' H Tld'4 jMB All this indoors; and still, out in the i H riill cutting winds, the snow, ankle: 'mfeV *n s'ush city's thorough-' Hj^^Tares, the little band of women, brave j R^^Lxnd noble, pass ou their way, intent J DHbd a holy crusade against vice and evil. ; [Hj^^Hloside, the card-playing goes on. The BBB^Hottlc is empty at last,and by the flushed, K^H^Beated face opposite him, Roy Dcnzil HH^Hnows that it is not alone the loss by ^BH^nmbliug that is drawing the purple [H^^^reins into strong relief upon hiscompan-j ion's forehead; that it is not the misera-: ble run of luck that clinches the fists un- | til the cords throb under the feverish! H skin; knows this, yet smiles under his j |^k Bilkv, blonde mustache as he pronounces tthe bottle empty. "No emptier than that!" says the young man opposi c, holding aloft a netted purse, the work of fair, loving fingers, finished but a month ago. As he says it, he looks at the shining, silken Ksh, and his fevered thoughts rove ck to a third-story lodgings in the Rart of a distant city, whero live his pister and mother, who are even now dreaming dreams of a bright future this painfully earned money?the savings of three hard years of labor?shall bring to them: this same money that is emptied upon the little card-table in the clubhouse, and which is quietly swept into Roy Den/il's pocket after he has lit a costly Havana. "God help me!" moans the lad, who has lost his first money upon cards. "So bad as that?" asks Roy, indolently. "'Bad as that.' Can anything be worse?" comes in hoarse echo from the Iyoutn 01 iwenry years. " Surely," says Roy; looking at him with a tinge of surprise in his fine gray eyes; "surely you will not miss these ' few hundreds; you, with your Eastern es-; totes? You told me, did you not, that! lou were worth ten thousand a year?" k "I told you a lie!" and he dashes his , t upon the little green leather-covered Bble in savage emphasis. "I told you a Hamehii lie! The money was my B)ther's and sister's, and I, miserable Hoi, was intrused with their hard-gotHi earnings to find them a little place ] in the "West. "Oh, heaven, help , help me, help me!" I^My lad," and Roy's voice lowered itself insensibly, "listen to me. There is your money! I return it to you on two conditions, and they are?promise me uwu tnat yon win never taste spirits again, \ RHM and that you will never stake a penny on anything." "God bless you, I promise! I swear!'' J HM holding out a nervous, throbbing hand RfiD to Roy? But Hoy pretends not to sec it, 9|^B|and busies himself with refilling the ir purse. "Mr. Denzil, if I may be so bold, tell me why you?you?gamble and drink as you have done to-night !" QB "For pastime, dear fellow; simply ^^^Kvthat." "And you can find amusement in it? Hftu whose soul is far above " 'Bah! what twaddle have you been Jgrning ?" |^K51,You ^aVC m-' Prom'sc to stop all this; H^BLtYy I not,1' looking eagerly into Dcnzil's I^^^Hmeditative eves, "may I not ask vou to ^^^Hquit, too "How am I so indebted to you that HB^K|OU presume to ask me that V he asks. ^^^^Honchaluntly knocking the ash from cigar. "You're too enthusiastic, ^^H^ny dear boy !" Then, with a little Hn|ugh. "Even the ladies can't move me, flSHKlc^ them!'' HH "Then how can it interest you whether I drink ?" MB|^^^rYou? Well, you are young; you can HD^Vturn aside as you will. I was once as HHHyou are. and 1 would keep you away ^^^Hfrom the path in which 1 lost my reckon^^^Hing and stumbled so far into its depth |E|^Hthat | cannot now turn about. They say ^^^Htiiere is a better path than this. I can-j HMHot tell, I have not tried, but I would i Hfl^^EMj^Afcet that way before they know highroad?that is all." P^^^^^Rierc is :in unusual stir among the E^^HI^W-hred club members. A cold air and sca.ttcra-'fhc fumes of H^^^H^^Hi'ough this Indian summer-liko; comes eight chosen ones?the angels of the present ccntury. H?^HH^knc of the men shrink perceptibly, i bruve it out under the eight pairs loving eyes, while one man, ^H^^B^H)enzil, lifts his h-.it with iuburn HHffitl ness and listens with a listless j the services going on about him. the bov at his side kneels j HHHH and, leaning above a chair j ^^^^^usnPm, he presses the little purse i to his' lips and weeps great tears of re|WB morse. And when he lifts his head again the women have gone away, and j H Uen/.il stands,his eyes fixed upon vacancy, his cigar out, and a little of something ' BB long buried warming his heart with a 1 different warmth from that of wine. The HgH youth catches at Hoy's hand which hangs j BBM nervelessly near mm?a ocjcweien nauu shapely r.s a woman's? HMTTnd kisses it raptuously. ^^B -"Little fool!" says Hoy, snatching it |BH from him angrily. "Fools speak the truth sometimes.Mr. 9^B Deuzil; listen to me. The devil and the angel are battling within you. Oh, let the angel have the mastery!" H^B "That depends," is all the auswer he gets. The clock above the mantle rings out j B^a four hasty peals. Outside the snow H comes dashing against the pane and pile up awhiteriftin every corner. It be dark soon, and the chandelier B^^BwuTNjc ablaze with lights. Mean- ; BB "How is it my friend?" comes timffiB jdly up into Hoy's cars. NHH^V hti,? /!? !I li!u wr\n "hr> nnswered. IVith n sneer. "Wrong is so much strong- j er than light, now-a-days. Good night, ; my hoy," and he leaves him to dash j out int(i the darkening streets. Aloni a grand avenue walks Roy Den- j ze'i, feW of bitter thoughts and pitiful fancies. Ah, what might have been! Along the avenue, out ou the counlry road he walks, through the deep snow, | keeping in the little path unwittingly;! walking on and on, thousrh a pair of fine horses are champing and stamping irapa- j tientlv in their stables at'homc for a dash j over these sumo country roads with their mastcv's hand upon the ribbons. On and on: and at last, after crossing a crazy old bridge thrown over a narrow rocky chasm of sixty feet or more, he gains a crc road. He does not comprehend that lie has turned to the right and found a bridlepath near the fence; but he does so, and at last, after another quarter of an hour, he stands before the door of a brilliantly lit mansion. "Great Heaven! What have I come here for? Has the devil won, after all?" j Tap. tap, tap. "Good evenin". Massa Roy! Gracious, ' but I'se glad to sec yah! Come in, come i in. Misses am in do pahlah, and Missy Marjorie am in dc libraree," says the old fcbony familiar?Hoy's nurse when he needed one; but now promoted to be his mother's hall-servant. "Thank you, I'ncleXed; I'll gotothc library. Miss Marjorie is there, you o<* \ X 'Is-, massa. Done conic wisiting a 1 fortni't agone,'' says the garrulous old I negro. lioy passes through the long, richly- j carpeted hull, where he used to run riot in the days of early boyhood, but which of late years knows him no more; and, reaching at last a certain door, he pushes it softly open and enters the quiet, un- | lighted room. The flame of the firelight ! flickers about as tlie door opens and closes, disclosing the face of a girl, j whose eyes gaze almost mournfully into the fiery chasms between the bars of the i grate. "Marjorie!" and a tenderness thrills in the voice that calls her name. She rises, with a quick cry, and stands | before him. "Good cvcning, Mr. Pcnzil,''she says, after a moment's pause, cool and calm as the marble bust behind her and showing as nuie icciing. "Excuse me," lie says, turning to leave her presence; "it is not the Marjorie I expected. Good-evening." "Stay, Royal! AV 1:? do you live so wicked a life?" the troubled voice seeming full of pain. "Wicked? Who to]r] you that?" "Every one knows it, Koy?every one but your mother." "And she docs not?" "She docs not know it. They came to tell her. but I sent them awaw" " Why did you interfere?" he asks, not resentfully, but as if he enjoyed it ; rather. "l will t-r-11 von whv. Iioval. Your I mother believes in you as she does in ! heaven?believes you to be good and I true nnd jiure. God help her! If she lost faitli in you?the only one left her J in her old age?if she heard of your fol- j lies, your gumbling, your hard drinking, j she \tould die of shame!" "I?I will go to her,'" and he passed j from the presence of the voung, blazins- i eyed maiden to seek the parlors. Ilis mother greets him with a cry of delight: "Oh, Royal, my darling son!" "You are well, mother?" "As well as I can be without the sunshine of your presence," letting her eyes j rove from the handsome chcstnut-colored waves of siiken hair to the round smooth ! chin, whose dimples in his babyhood | were her pride. They talked joyously < for full au hour, until Hoy's clothes are , dried without her knowledge, and he is j ready to turn his face cityward. "Not goinir back to-night, Roy ?" "I am, indeed, lady mother," puliing j his tawny mustache uneasily. "Well, then, if you must leave me, j rinc the bell for me before you tro. Bring up a bottle of that oldest vintage, Uncle Ned," says the lady, as a black face and ^ray woolly head answers the summons. And, when the wine is brought, a little figure glides in behind the stately old servant. "Come, Marjorie, darliug; driuk with mc to Royal's health." "Is he sick?" she asks, gazing up at him in half-mock, half-serious gravity. The mother laughs, a merry, innocent, > laugh, as she pours the wine into a large j glass until it is brimming full. For herself and Marjorie she sets out two dainty ! little glasses holding half-a-dozen tliim-1 blesful apiece. Royal tosses the burning liquid down his throat at one swallow, and rctiils his I glass. Is'o doubt had the great brown j eyes remained in the twilight of the library, and not come to search his very j soul as they are doing now, the wine i, u i}?* if ;s I \>UUIU UUVU ULX'JI uuiaoitu, .wuv, t*o *V *.? I standing under the sunset glow of ' those limpid brown orbs, he feels an ; unconquewble desire to quarrel with her. I And so he drinks until the bottle is all j but empty, and his mother still sips at her brimming glass. The eyes and wine together prove too much for his brain, and he feels the I potent spirit of the long-imprisoned wine j taking fast and furious possession of j him. She sees it, too, this little Ma- | jorie, who loves him with her whole I heart and soul, and who sorrows, as the | angels might sorrow, for a creature gone j astray. "Come to me, Iioyal, after you have ! said good-night." In a moment he is beside her as she j enters the library. *? i 1 T TTA11 f A ! IWJUi XSVUM., 1. 1U.J/.V..VJWU uv' | go away from here to-night! I feel a , horrible presentiment?what it is I can- | not tell! Oh, Roy, stay! You are not j fit to ride to town to-night! Stay with us Roy, dear Roy!" But the wine is his master, and he ! knows not what he does save that there } is a fierce exultation in feeling that he is | opposing her wishes. Finding that he does not heed her, she leaves him and j runs out through the yard, which is j black as ink, to the stable, where the j groom's lantern, swaying about like a yellow, unsteady star in the still fulling j snow, makes the surroundings more , gloomy. " What beast are you getting out for Mr. Denzil?" "Prince, Miss Marjorie," looking' round-eyed at her bare head and dainty ! figure abroad in the storm. " Prince is well enough when Mr. j Denzil is sober; but to-night saddle my own horse. Reiran, and brintr her around. Mr. Denzil is too drunk to see a differ- | cnce;" which unvarnished truth she j leaves to astonish the groom as it may, as she whisks back with icy-powdered curls and limp little silk wrapper into 1 the front hali. i And Hoy is ready to go. A dreamy ! smile, with which the wine-spirit lit 1 up his handsome features, has changed i to a glance that is horrible to the little maiden who stands at the door to sec him off! "Good-night, little Prim; won't you kiss me once before I go?" Her lips touched obediently the fev ercd brow bent low'for her caress; for a presentment of coining danger is strong. I lie gets into his saddle and is away. I Down the long, rutty lane to the cross- ! road. A sharp jerk on the left bridal- j rein brings Regan into the highroad, and away through the darkness she gallops?straight for the crazy old bridge ; that lies half a mile beyond. Two feet beyond him 'Joy cannot see; ; and, giving the beast rein, he lets her j carry him on and on through the im- j penetrable drizzle of snow; over ruts and ridges, now down through a gully, now up over a snowy bank. On, and on, and on; and at last, with a loud snort, Regan stands still, stiff-kneed, immovable, in the dreary, penetrating snow-fall. "Curse the beast!" ejaculated Roy, cutting her sharply with his riding whip. 4'Go on Prince! Get up! You won't, eh?" he shrieks, in drunken fury, cutting the delicate Hanks until they quiver with pain. Shnrnor and sliarner descend the blows from the hand of the now infuriated I man, and still firm as a rock stands the tortured animal. Only a low whine, almost human, comes from her as the cruel lash cuts her once glossy brown, but now red and lacerated sides. Hoy works himself iuto a beastly? nay, it were better to say human? passion, and wreaks all his ill-feelings upon the patient, dumb brute beneath 1, mm. At last a little glimmer of apprehension breaks upon his dazed brain; he dismounts as beat he may, and creeps alonir the ground, feeling cautiously before him. And three feet further on h'"s hand finds no ground beneath its grouping touch?nothing save empty air. When it comes to Hoy's confused senses that the bridge has fallen and that he has been urging his horse to take him to his destruction, the emotions aroused within him outweigh every influence of tho wine, and, in gratitude, his arms go around the neck of his faithful dumb friend, whose face lie kisses in thankfulness; and when he remembers the cruel stripes his hand has cut, jjreat tears of bitterest remorse fall hotly down his pale checks. And the tears, once getting headway where they have been kept in so long a bondage, come storming from his eyes. Every better emotion is brought into play from his nearness to death, and his life has so different meaning from the life of a moment agd! And here on the lonely brink of a chasm, with the snowflakes falling about him, and the bitter wind cutting him like a knife?for the great coat has been doffed to cover the wounds of the suffering horse?here, in the blackness of the night, his soul's angels of good aud bad lii^ht a terrible battle between themselves?and the good angel wins! Back through the long, dreary road, side by side, slowly and painfully, the horse and man find their way,and stop at length in Dcnzil's stables. ''The bridge was down, John. Bring j a lantern; Prince is in need of? Regau!" I "Yes, sir! She would have it so? Miss Marjorie would! Said as how her I beast was safer and?law! he's gone!" He is gone; like the wind, lie llics to J the library?she is there still. "Marjorie, God bless you, darling, i come with me?quick!" The gray eyes j looking down into hers arc perfectly j sober; so she lays a wee rose petal of j a hand in his hand ana lets mm icaci l her away. "The bridge was down, Marjorie; look at your pet's flanks, and I see how hard a penalty she bore for dar- | ing to save my neck! Poor Regan ? your mistress will hate me now!" "I hate you, Royal? Think you I would not undergo sufferings even such as this to save you. Oh, Royal, put the love of a mere animal above my own?" "Do you mean it, little Prim? Thank God! Rut, my sweet *' John, the groom, having heard this much of their conversation, thinks it a I proper moment to go for the bottle of j liniment. When he returns, Marjories arms are about the ncck of her beautiful chestnut mare, and she says, softly: "What angel inspired you, darling Regan, to be so faithful and brave? Ab, Roy, how often these dumb creatures put us to shame! But you arc Regan no : lnncrpr T name vou 'Crusader.'*' Then, turning to Roy: "How came your I decision to be so suddenly made?" "Suddenly? It seems years. Your I Crusader took me to the heights and I? | climbed them." "What is the matter?" calls a breathless mother's voice. "I am come home for good, motherthat is all!'1 And hand in hand, like old-fashioned lovers, they go in from our sight. ... - _ Tlic Morphine Habit. The sickly, nervous system of a wornout, excitablc creature is all awry. Thousands of overworked, irritable nerve centers all over the body arc constantly firing their battery into the brain, already ready to break down from mental strain. This bombardment is too much for the poor mortal. He cries out for relief, lie gets a solution of morphia. He takes one-eighth or one-sixth of a grain at mgnt aua lies aown 10 sirc-i>. vr, giuu- j oils respite! O, surcease from torture! j But, stop! You have begun a habit that I is the chains of death! No matter. I; was sick, now lam well; I was tired, j now I am rested; I have found release. Morphia taken thus in small doses quiets the millions of crazy nerve-centers, j destroys the sense of fatigue, slightly stimulates mental activity; and thus a hypodermic injection of oue-sixth or onefifth grain transforms a being who was a minute or two ago tired and worn out, dejected in mind and melancholy, why he Jlqows not?a creature toiling over his books or machine starting at every sound, looking into a future of only ciouds and dark-' ness, suffering from rheumatism, backache and general wretchedness, into a i ii,f >,r> ! man wiiii uij^ui, Mjwuvuv j nervousness, no dejection, no inelan- j clioly. "What a change! The question ! very naturally comes: "Since all this! can be done and I rendered so completely happy who was an instant ago so ! wretched, why should I fear the cause? Such a medicine is certainly my friend, not my foe." But the amount is gradually increased; months wear on and he finds his mind is less active, his sensibility less acute, and : he sees in many ways that that which j was apparently his friend is really a most treacherous and insidious enemy. But wben he attempts to stop its use! Oh, | what twice tenfold misery! The most j extreme misery and hypenesthesia, or j over-sensation, which any one sutlers who > suddenly stops the use of morphia, to ! ? I.? l...? I ???1 olmncf I \> 11HJ11 UU lias ULUU II.UII, in (tiuiugb agonizing, and no words can express the torment. It absolutely compels the return to its use. I am convinced that this i is the condition of many who daily i peruse your paper. If "M " were branded on the foreheads of all in Chicago j who more or less use the drug to stimulate the brain and qui;t over-sensitivo , nerves the sight would be surprising.? Chicago Tribune. Guiteau's Curse. "Guiteau's curse is very active no wa days." remarked a morbid citizen to a Critic reporter. ' The murder of Officer rowler, one of the tin-ce mounted men 1 who guarded the assassin's van, is a j striking addition to the longlistof tragic deaths and misfortunes that have over- j taken jurors, doctors, detectives, bailiffs, j jailers, policemen, attorneys, and almost j every kind of individual connected di- ! rectly or indirectly with the assassin's j imprisonment, conviction, and execu- i tion. "The list of misfortunes as published j from time to time began almost as soon i as the assassin had uttered his tragic | curse, and has included deaths, sickness, j insanity, loss of position, prosecution . and persecution, scandal, etc. "Among the latest entries in the list 1 are the murder of Officer Fowler, tho tragic death of Dr. Woodward, and the i L'nitcd States hotel disaster, for which j Judge Cox, who sentenced (iuitcau, has j been found partially responsible by a coroner's jury. ' I can remember the evening the vcr- : diet was rendered, when the approach- 1 ing night and the blinding snow had j darkened the court room, and the lamps ! and candles placed on the bench and counsel tables threw fitful shadows , across tlie room. The verdict was ren- | dered amid the ino>.t intense silence. A spontaneous murmer of something like applause greeted it. and then the assassin. glaring like a wild liea^t swaying to and fro in an agony of fear and anger, invoked the awful curse upon all who raised a finger against him, or by any word or deed aided in his confinement j ana convicnou. "It was a very impressive minute, j The assassin's actions then were much more horrible and thrilling than in the moment of his death upon the scaf- I fold." _____ The Foot of the North Pole. "I undeistand that you are anxious to visit the North again,"said an inter-' viewer to Si-rgeant IJrainard. "Yes, sir,"' was the reply. "I'd go again to-morrow if my health would per- j mif rtf it ne T infonrl fn tn AT#*1 ville with u vkw uf accompanying his expedition. Although I had 110 particu- ! lar object in doing so I went one-half a ] mile further north than any party in our expedition, and can boast of the distinc- ( tion of having been nearer the North 1 Pole than any person who ever attempt- j ed it." ' What did you find there?'' "I found traces of vegetation, of foxes, hare and other animals, and thirty miles j south of that point we saw musk oxen and traces of them. I can also say that I claim the distinction of having rav name carved in a rock at that point, and just for the fun of the thing I carved an advertisement I have noticed all over | the United States on one of the rocks." I There are nine establishments in the United States producing 8,GiiO watches j a day, one establishment alone turning ) out a watch a minute for ten houis each | day. j ' FARM, GAKDFN AND IIOtstliOLW. Propnrinir Potatoes for Send. There exists a great diversity of opinion as to the best method of preparing potatoes for seed. Some farmers maintain that the seed should be planted whole: others believe in the "one-eye" system, while others again cut the tubers into pieces containing two or more eves. The difference of yield between large and small potatoes (whole seed) is a matter of some importance. Results gained for 1882 and 1883 on the cxperi| mental grounds of the Ohio Agricultural station and reported by the director, Professor Lazenby, so far ns yield was concerned, appeared to favor large seed. In 1S82 Burbanks, large, whole seed, I gave 301.5 bushels per acre, and the same variety, small seed, 194 bushels per acre, ft difference of 107;5 bushels per acre in ; favor of large seed. Comparing this with the work of 188:}, large seed gave a yield of 2fi3.7 bushels per acre, and small seed 208.1, a difference of 55.0 bushels per i acre. But the amount of seed required | to plant an acre must be taken into consideration before pronouncing in favor of either method. Of large potatoes about thirty bushels are required to plant an acre, varying with size; and of small potatoes about ten bushels. The expense of planting an acre is an important iten* if seed is costly. The percentage of unmarketable potatoes should also be taken into consideration. The above comparison also applied to "Snowflakes." The station also presents the results of its tests, during two years, with whole potatoes and the same cut to one eye. lk'fore giving the figures Professor Lazenby makes a few comments that may ftid in forming proper conclusions. The small cuttings were planted just as far apart in the row as the whole potatoes. For exact comparison this affords a good basis, but it docs not indicate what can be practically accomplished by the different methods of using seed. To illustrate; Twelve inches apart in the row is as close as, and possibly closer than, whole seed should be planted. If whole r, d- 1 : jiuiaiuua uau uu pjtuucu twuivu jiiuucs apart seed cut to one eye can ccrlainly be planted more closely, and thus more fully i cc.ipy the entire ground. This is an important consideration in favor of small cutting. By takingadvantage of these facts and by thoroughly preparing the soil wonderful results have been produced from the method of cutting the seed. The enormous saving of seed is also a very important matter, though this is in part balanced by the expense of cutting. The variety used by the station was Burbanks, and the 'potato was carefully cut to one eye?the seed end not being used. The yield from large whole potatoes, for 1882 and 1883, was, as before given, 301.5 bushels and 2(i3.7 bushels per acre, respectively; and of seed cut to one eye, for the same years, 1G4. bushels and 13o.l bushels, respectively. The per centge ot small potatoes tor lSbU was aboit three per cent, greater with large whole potatoes than with the small cuttings. Attention is also called to the fact that the former ripened nine days earlier than the later.?New York World. Farm and Garden !Votc?< Musty food is not safe, as many diseases may be t taced to the use of such. Horses should not be allowed to drink cold water when heated. It jnoduces colic. If farm implements cannot be painted, brush them over occasionally with crude petroleum. We must not let cucumbers ripen if we would not ruin the crop from the vines which feed them. Land that is not thoroughly drained will not pasture sheep without inducing the appearance of foot-rot. There is room for a live young man in every neighborhood who knows how to J 1 ...M. *1.- ! ^ x- - r it. * uuui wiiu iuu jusuci pusis 01 me iarm. A teaspoouful of saltpeter dissolved in a gallon of water has been recommended for killing ro.sebugs on grapevines. An occasional sprinkling of water on the celery plants will hcip them during this mouth, as they require quite an amount of moisture. The Arab compels his horse to feed from the ground in order to maintain the curve of the backbone. This is the natural way of feeding, and is an argument for low mangers. Unless a crop of corn is a good one it will not pay, but it is a crop which is more completely under the control of the farmer, as far as cultivation is concerned, than any other. Geor<rt' W. Walz writes to the Fruit Jiecor.ler that l.c has boiled leaves and stems of tomato plants until the juice is all extracted, and finds the liquor deadly to caterpillars, lice and many other enemies of vegetation. A daub of tar on the noses of sheep is an effective preventive against the attacks of annoying grubs. The sheep grub is not always fatal, but very disagreeable, and doubtless has a bad effect on the general health of the animal. One of the advantages of sowiug salt on wheat is that it partially prevents freezing of the soil, thereby obviating the dislodging of the plants by uphcavaf, as a lower temperature is required to freeze ground that has been salted than that not salted. Salt is being used freely by nurserymen in their pear nurseries, for the purpose of counteracting blight. Iron tilings and copperas in solution have been used for the same uurnose. If these remedies do no prevent the disease, they at least correet a disposition to blight. It is said that the development of flavor can be hastened by subjecting the cheese to a strong current of air. The flavor is developed by the process of oxidation. If the cheese is kept-in too close air during the process of curing it will be likely to be dcflcicut iii flavor. Mr. Allen, of Illinois, tests a cow that he thinks of buying by milking her quickly and clean, and at once straining an ordinary tumbler full of the milk. He says any cow that will not produce three-fourths of an inch of cream on that much milk should at once be rejected. Mnnv of the most desirable qualities of animals have been made inherent by in-breeding, yet, unless practiced by a very experienced breeder, in-breeding should be avoided. It is not necessary, however, to cross different breeds in order to mingle blood dissimilar,but resort may be had to several families of the same breed. A writer, sneaking of the economic methods of sheep feeding, estimates the allowance of corn for one sheep at threequarters of one pound caeh day, stating that on this quantity of grain and sufficient grazing or hay sheep will gain in condition and fatten. This is New York State, where dry feed is used for several months in the year. The best potatoes this year in many sections are from sets planted three or five inches deep below the level surface. In a dry season this is much better than planting in shallow marks and then hillinir ill) with a mound of earth. With deep planting draught is avoided, and there is no need lor hilling up around the plants to keep the tubers from becoming greened by the sun. The practice of buying cattle in the fall and fatening them 011 the farms as a means of enlarging the manure supply is every year 011 the incicH.se in the eastern part of the country. It is found that in the average season the animals can be fatted to a good protit and much feed which otherwise would have been marketed is kept on the farm in shape of manure, just as it ought to be. So far as possible manure should be applied at least a year before the land is ?n!au>a/1 Qa/1 wot 1 <An. dressed now or any time this fall will have its fertility thoroughly distributed through the soil by winter rains, and will be in excellent condition to plow for corn or potatoes next spring. The manure applied now will do twice as much good as that put on just before the land is to be plowed. Smut in corn is becoming more trouble| some every year, partly from lack of care in destroying smutty corn before taking | to the crib. It is most prevalent on land where com is grown year after year, showing that some of the germs remain in the soil through the winter. As it appears first on the tassel, or male flower, it is well to go through the field and [ destroy all that appears diseased. The ! smut falls from the tassel to the silk and j is thus propagated in the car. After having secured first-class milk the operation of making gilt-edged but' I ter depends entirely upon the appliances , we have and the skill with which we use I them. The most perfect tools and rooms ' carelessly used produced only an inferior I article. On the, other hand, the most j faultless skill, with faulty conveniences i cannot make really superior butter. The J essential requisites arc pure air, pure i .."rl l.? ! can control the temperature. In localities where fruit hag failed n | number of years it is well to try heavy manuring. A wagon-load of manure is not too much to apply to a single tree, spreading It as wide on cach side as the top of the tree would reach if blown down. The fall is the best time to manure trees, as the rains and snows of winter dissolve the manure and carry it to the roots. The manure also serves as protection to the roots in severe winters, especially on high, dry land where the soil freezes very deeply. Not so much is said now as formerly about the advantage of analyzing soil to learn what fertilizers arc needed. It is a very uncertain and unpractical method of finding soil dcticicncics. If crops arc poor in favorable seasons it is evident that some element of plant food is deficient. The lack is more likely to be phosphoric acid than anything else. Try that. Then if it does not producc the desired result, add nitrogen and potash. These will invariably bring a crop if applied in large enough quantity, however barren the soil. IIouMchohl Kccipcs nml Graham flour is sometimes used with good cfTcct to thicken the juice of stewed tomatoes instead of using bread or cracker crumbs. A cook of some note sayB that if peaches are peeled and arc put into cold water for half an hour thev will retain their color. Cold boiled turnips make a nice garnish for roast beef or lamb. Cut them in thin slices, and brown in butter, pouring hot gravy over them. Place them on the philter around the meat. A hot salad, which is n well-known Pennsylvania dish, is made by slicing green tomatoes and small onions, and a few potatoes and frying them together; salt them weli and send them to the table smoking. Custard made in tRis way is delicious for the tilling of a layer cake: Heat a coffee cup of sweet milk in a bright tin basin, bent one egg very light and beat with it until smooth one heaping tea* poonful of flour, add sugar to suit the taste; when the milk is hot stir the i flour, eggs, etc., into it; it will thicken in a very few minutes. Take it from the fire and "flavor with lemon; if you choose, 1 blanch some almonds, cut them in three or four pieces and stir into the custard. The happy owner of a pear tree may, after canning and pickling, dry the , pears; inferior ones will answer for this, and a most excellent way to use dried pears in winter is to soak them in lukewarm water until thev are soft, then ! simmer gently, and while yet warm pa*; tlicm through a colander, or better still, through a sifter which has a handle; the j pulp thus made makes perfectly delicious ; pies. The pies may have one or two crusts. A lower crust, with little strips . across the top is preferable. j I found one-half ounce of chloride to j one quart of water sufficient for taking ' out old grease stains from a tablecloth. I managed thus: Poured boiling water on the lime and stirred it well, then ( allowed it to cool, and when just warm ] soaked the stains in the clear liquid (the 1 lime having sunk to the bottom) for fully five minutes; just gave one rub, then \ rung out and soaked again in clean warm water for another five minutes. "When dry the stains had entirely disappeared. ( Great care must be taken in using this , solution, as chloride of lime, though a t good servant, is a bad muster, and will 1 ltiixn vnrv 1 Ciitfifin SCIENTIFIC AND INDUSTRIAL. j A new form of dynamite is made from poplar wood flour, and resembles a varnished doughnut. It is as explosive as f the ordinary kind, but far safer. i The progress of invention is well ] shown in the constantly decreasing price , of steel. In 1810 it cost about $201) per . ton ; to-day the same quality can be i bought for $37. 1 According to a recent authority, a , Japanese fish known as the fuku is so ( poisonous that death follows almost instantaneously after eating only a moderate piece of it. It is not infrequently the cause of death among thcr lower } classes, who believe it to he possessed of ; certain marvelous properties, on account j of which they risk the danger of being t poisoned. i Light travels at the rate of some 186,- J 000 miles a second, being propagated , (we know not how) in a series of undula- i tion, the broadest waves giving red light, i the narrowest giving violet light, the breadths ranging from these extremos ' through those belonging to the colors j red, orange, yellow, green, blue, indigo i and violet. White light is produced by .>11 ?a , IIKJ v UUl Uiiiui xv/ii wi <111 LI1V* ?mv,3, juot uq i noise is produced by the combination of multitudinous sound tones. The wild duck is probably the most destructive of all the enemies of the trout, for it confines itself entire to feed| ing on their spawn. Always a glutton, I when a duck finds the spawning beds of trout in the small streams that feed the main water, it will soon devour thousands ot eggs and shovel the entire contents of the breeding places into its stomach if not molested. One flock of wild ducks can easily destroy the entire breeding prospects of any trout stream in a short time. Much improvement has been made during the past few years in ornamental windows. A decade ago the only way : known to art for producing ornamental glass windows, was to produce the pat- j tern in outline with finely-made leaden i frames, into the grooves of wlricn pieces of colored or stained glass were fitted. ( Now very beautiful portraits, landscapes 1 and other paintings are produced upon large sheets of glass, with paints and i tinfoil of various colors and hues cut into varied designs. (5lr.ss painting is carried > | on more extensively and brought nearer ! | to a point of perfection in the cities of , I Munich, Nuremberg, Paris, Birmingham and Edinburgh than in any other part, of i the globe. It is from these places that some of the finest specimens of window decorations, now so popular in churches and also residences, are being brought. ' The Day of the Dead." The second of November is, in tho church calender, All Soul's Day. In j France the same idea is expressed by j the name '*le jour des morts," or, the i day of the dead. Graves are then decor- j atcil with real or artificial flowers and j i wreaths, by loving hands. j Everybody visits the graves of dead ! ; relatives or friends, and the crowds at | the cemeteries are so large that gendI armes arc stationed to keep the people | in line. Friends leave cards at the | tombs of their friends, so the families ; may know who has visited the last rest- 1 j ing place of their loved ones. The custom , 1 of leaving cards is observed through the i i entire year. Most of the graves arc as 1 ! vauits, with a little room or house over 1 ! them. The door is an iron grating. Cards left there arc protected from the | , ! weather, and when the family visits the I | place they take them and send return j < j cards by mail, (bus acknowledging tlie J | kind remembrances. ? YcutlCa Cvtnjmuion. ( ! What madness is it for a man to starve ; I himself to enrich his heir, and so turn a | < friend into an enemy! For his joy at 1 your death will be proportioned to what you leave him. ( Arctic research has advanced about 300 miles northward since Buflin immortal- 1 ized himself in the year 1616. Whatever is worth adopting, i9 worth ' ' sticking to. , NEWS SUMMARY Lnitern nnd middle State* During Liu short visit to Buffalo Governor Cleveland was entertained at a private banquet Thomas Gilmartin*, a ten-year-old boy of New York, was bitten two months ago oy a Spitz dog. A few days since ho died in great agony of hydrophobia. Flames in Philadelphia destroyed a sixfitoty storage warehouse filled with household goods. The walls of the warehouse toppled over and wrecked nine adjacent builriiiiga The total damago is estimated at ?500,000. i Five masked men entered tho house of John Sherry, at Edensburg, Penn., bound and ! gagged the inmates and carried off about 1 $6,000. Joseph "W. Rosenthal, wholesale dealer in clothing in New York city, Rochester. Albany and Baltimore, has failed for over W00,000. George Dolling, a miner at Honesdale, Penn.( made a pet of a young rat that he caught While playing with tho rodent it bit him in the forefinger. In n fow days Dol*1 ~tv> 4 C iL ~ iUJ? UILU lHJill tuo CilCUW Ul. LIU? IJ1W-. A Republican procession in New York the other night was reviowed by President Arthur and General Grant. Election returns from all but eighteen towns in Connecticut show that the Republicans control fho boards of registration in seventy-two, the Democrats in forty-nine, and twenty-three are divided. The pfoposcd constitutional amendment providing for biennial sessions of the legislature is carricd by a large majority. Fiiie at South Bethlehem, Penn., destroyed the Grand Ojwra house and adjoining projierty, causing an aggregate loss of about $125,000. The now People's party of Maine met in convention at Portland, adopted resolutions endoi-sing Butler and West and nominated presidential elector.!. Samuel J. Tilde.v has written a letter in reply to the complimentary resolution adopted by the National Democratic convention, which was presented to him last September by a stx-cial committee appointed by that body. Mr. Tilden thanks the committee, reviews the services of the Democratic party to the country, denounces the Republican party and declares that the Democratic candidates for President and Vice President ought to be elected General Jons B. Murray, whilo roceiv" inga Blaine banner at Seneca Falls, N. Y., was stricken with apoplexy and died tho next morning. Gehcral Murray was one of tho originators of Dccoratioll Day, and led the first procession that marched with mavtial music to strow flowers upon the graves of soldiers. At a secret conference of paper manufac" turers in Philadelphia it was determined to advance the price of white paper. It is claimed this step Is caused by the short supply of rags all over tho country, owing to tho government embargo ou imported rags from Asia. Richard Clark, an employe of Foropaugh's circus, while opening a ventilator in a cage at "Waterbury, Conn., had his hand seized by a tiger, and while trying to roleaso himself was seized by two tigers and dragged inside of the cage. The animals were finally beaten off with iron bars, after Clark's arms and legs had been horribly crunched and mutilated. Two farmers?James Cassock and Henry Boyer?while driving iu a wagon not far from Ccntralia, 1'enn., were fired upon from the bushes along the road, and both killed. George Hall and his sisior Alice, only children of an aged widow, of Stamford, Vt., were riding in a carriage when it was struck by an express train and both occupants instantly killed. Sonth nnd Weit. Wash Fletcher (colored) was hanged at Paducah, Ky., for the murder of Amanda Jackson in August, 1S8;J. Tlie murdered woman was the mother of the woman with whom Fletcher was living. Several more incendiary fires have occurred at Cleveland, and large rewards have been offered for the arrest and conviction of the firebugs. Jackson Hickman', a farmer, his daughterin-law, and her two children were drowned while attempting .to cross a stream near Florida, Mo. i Large parales and big crowds attended Mr. Blaine in his journey through Ohio. A t<vchlight procession of Io.imkj men at Cincin- j naii, nnd a parade of S,00) men at Columbus j i ivere reviewed by him. Crowds collated at ' j the various railroad stations to look at and i :heer the Republican candidate. I Five i>ersons?Harry (x. Percival, Mrs. Per- i j rival, her child, Hugh Mair and a man named i Furnival, a partner of the latter?have been | jrutally murdered in Nance county, Neb. ! Missouri Republicans who nre opposed to ;he fusionists held a State convention at Macon and nominated a full ticket, headed by J A.don Guitar for governor. A notice was Issued from the headquarters >f the national Prohibition party at Chicago, ailing upon the peoplo of the country to ob- ] ] ;erve October as a day of fasting and j I >rayer. j 1 In a collision between two trains near '. Dinaha, Neb.. a'i engineer and flrman were 1 nstantly killed, and another fi. email had both ' egs cut off. tVaahlngloru The secrotary of tho treasury has received ' i telegram from Captain Healy, command- i ng the United States revenue steamer Cor- 11 ,vin, announcing his arrival at San Francisco I from the Arctic ocean with thirty wrecked j > whalemen, (If ten prisoners from the schooner j Adele, ami five destitute miners. The C'orwin j eached within eight miles of Point Barrow, ' : .vhere navigation was dangerous and difficult j m account of icc, wliicb, together witn tne i :rowded condition of the vessel, made h.*r ro;urn to San Francisco almost imperative. Foreign* A desperate riot is reported to have t>ken alace at the town of Salinas, Mexico, o<. tho Mexican National railway. Jose M. Santos, ] iudge, or alcalde, of the town, and < ;he chief of police were killed. In all about i ;wenty persons were killed, aud many more ; voundea It is believed that the mob was j | ed by the celebrated outlaw El Coyote (tho .volf), who escaped from jail at New Laredo i few davs since. Judge Santos caused the , urest ofEl Coyote for participation in a train .uisvurjr a it*n jcuis i General Gordon is announced to have ! aombarded and captured the important city i )f Berber, in the Boudan. Tho Falsa Pn> j whet's rebels and hostile inhabitants lied when | ;he bombardment ceased. Intelligence has just been obtained of a , i Jisastrous hurricane in Iceland on the 11th ot' i last September. The accounts thus far re- ! :eived show that nineteen trading vessels and iixty fishing boats were lost and thirty-two rossels disabled. A very largo number of : i lives were lost. Hans Makabt, tho renowned Austrian j painter, who suddenly became insane a short :ime ago, has died of inflammation of the j brain. j < A fire in Copenhagen destroyed the royal , palace. Ten soldiers were burned to death, inri all th<? archives and manv important I .vorks of art were destroyed. There have l>eeii great inundations in the j Argentine Republic. Many towns have been j mtirely cut oil' eleven days. The damage is snormous. Entire families have been 1 frowned. and many persons are dying of [ itai'vation. At the Longclmmiis races, France, the Towd, dissatisliod with an English jockey's ' iding, pulled him olF his horso and fatally in- ; jured him. A riot followed ami the police ; md to protect the place from the infuriated ! nob. Fouhteex chiMren, while playing in abr>a6 m the river Dravc ia Austria, capsized it, I md all were drowned. Sixty hi u-cs have been destroyed by fire in the town of Montgrcland, France. Coi.oxki. Stewart. a prominent English ' jflicer in Egypt, i.-. reported to have been } killed, together with forty men on their way i to Donguln. Their steamer struck the roeks | and they wen- unable to float her. A bargain { was made with the Arabs to provide camels I 1.. . 1. ,|... mm C<U1<111<T ilit- pai'-j uiKHi^u ?m- ikiciiiiv | Mcrawi. Th> Aral* proved treacherous, J lioMvvcr, n:i 1 ma<*aiTed the first party which ' landed from the s'earner. They thou boardo 1 j ' l!i<* \<sd and killed 11 n>.-.< wiio remained, j villi the exception of four men, whose names | ( jiv unknown. Cholera is rapidly subsiding throughout ; Uuroj-e. A Fiiknch force, under Admiral Lespes, lias captured Taiusui, anil Admiral I-espcs ' lias wiit the thre l>attalions t>? elVe^t a june- ! I lion with A<iuiirai Courhct ai Kelung. Two men?Joseph Winfield an<l S. Fritz? j with their wives,were found murdered on( )<:to- j bur Si, al James ItafTerty's ranch, in tho Una ehuca mountains, Mexic i. HalFcr.y is lui.ss- j ing, and it is htlieved that ho has also lieen j muiilered, as a rumor prevails that a hand of Mexicans from Sonora committed the murders in revenge for the death of a Mexican, : who was hanged last July. Advices from the Nile state thnt after the | steamer on which were Colonel Stewart, the J British olliccr, and hi* men had stranded three natives came on hr-anl and stated that they were only a short distance trout Moraivee, which tli.'y could easily reach on loot, Mid where the)* could obtain assistance | !o float the steamer. They offered to guide | Hum there. Stewart ami two companions : started for tho village, and when they had traveled out of sight of the steamer a numlier ' sf men sprang out of an ambush and mur- j lored the party. They afterward attacked I those remaining on tho steamer, killing all wcept four. Twentv persons were killed and fifty in- , jurcd by acyelnnu at Catania in the Island j it Sicily. Many houses wore destroyed and I trees uprooted. Tin-: American whaler Seine has been total ly J -st on a reel' at Caixi Frio. Two of the ; :rcw \v,.re drowned, and the sull'erings of the remainder were terrible. Colonel Do.nnikk, with two battalions of the French foreign legion, two companies of infantry and u section of mountain artillery, ! had an engagement with Chinese troops in the valley of thf> Ixk> Chuan river. Tonquiti. which lasted six hours. The </hino-e made a ' stubborn resistance, but wetv finally com- 1 pletelv routed. Four gunboats assisted the French force?, Four ot the French, including a captain, ivera killed and twenty wcrt wounded. LATER NEW* j Two large demonstrations in favor of the Deifl&cmtic. candidates for President and lTico-President were held in New York city -one of business men in Wall street in t! o ifternoon, and tho other in and iround Union Square in the evening At tho afternoon meeting there was a pitrado jf Cleveland and Hendricks1 clubs from tho va rious exchanges, wit h speaking in front of the sub-treasury building. In the evening there was speaking in tho Academy of Alusic, Irving hall and from four stands in Union Square. A torchlight procession of about 25,000 men marched through the city. Among tho speaken* were Governor Abbett, of New Jersey, Senator Eaton, of Connecticut, and many others. The Tammany wing of tho IIVJ J'UilimTUUjr uiu uui 111 uw demonstration. The Union Loagno club,- of Now York, a a meeting adopted resolutions approving tho Republican nominations for President and Vice-President. A convention of supporter* of tho "National Equal Rights" party met at Dover, N. II., indorsed the nomination of Belva A. Lockwood for President, and nominated presidential electors of boUi sexes. An Indianapolis dispatch says that a widow of Parker's Landing, Penn., advertised for a correspondent about a year ago, and tbe advertisement was answered by a colored barber of Indianapolis) who represented himself to bo a white doctor. Finally tho parties were married by telegraph. Tho widow proceeded to IndianajKjlis, and deceived liv tho li"hfc-color?l annearaneo of her husband, lived with him some time, setting him up in business. Recently she learned ho was neither white nor a doctor, and tho trouble which followed lea to the arrest of both parties. A few days ago the Japanese envoy extraordinary and minister plenipotentiary to Uie United Statos, It. Kuki, arrived in Washington from San i mcisco. He was accompanied by Mine. Kuki, Miss Kuki and his secretary, K-Meta-Ki. The director of tho mint estimates tho amount of gold and silver coin in tho United States on October 1, 1884, to have been ?815,000,000. Of this amount $358,000,000 was in gold, ?182,000,000 in standard silver and ?75,000,000 in subsidiary silver. This is again from October 1, 1883, of $35,000,000; ?1.'),000,000 being gold coin and $22,000,000 silver. Harrowing" details of the cyclone which prevailed in Catania, in the island of Sicily have been received. Twenty-seven per sons were Killed anci *iw were mjurea. nundreds of "houses were demolished, and great distress prevails among tho poor. At Cibali and Aquina, suburbs of the city, many summer mansions are in ruins. The damage will amount to 4,000,000 lire. A battle has taken place before tho fortress of Dhofar, Egypt, in which 3<J0 of the False Prophets' rebels were killed and wounded. Four men were torn to pieces and two others terribly injured by an explosion in a powder factory at Cumminsvillo, Canada. The factory was totally demolished. MUSICAL AND DRAMATIC, There are ten variety theatres in New York city. Miss Johnson, late of Kentucky, is the latest operatic debutante in Paris. Clara. Louise Kellogg is to sing in one hundred concerts this season, with Brignoli as her tenor. i-? r? :n fill EiUWIS CUU1I1 ? SOiUjlMl ?111 I1UU >1U November 17, and he will then play "Hamlet" at the Boston museum. Mme. Christine Nilsson is rapidly recovering from the severe injuries she sustained,in London, by being thrown from her carriage. Frank Cuanfrau, the actor, well-known through his impersonation of Kit, the Arkansaw Traveler, died suddenly a few days Bince of apoplexy in Jersey City, N. J. Bertha Ricci is known in the McCaull companies as the ''emergency prima donna," from her quick study and readiness to jump Into a leading part on short notica In 1G02 Lincoln's Inn theatre, London, was built on an inlproved plan lor Davenant's company, known as the Duke of York, and there for the first time women actors were introduced. Ex-Rev.George C.Miln's latest grievance is that while playing Hamlet at Austin, Texas, his pet dog bit his stuffed calves and scattered the sawdust on all the stage, to the delight and derision of the audience.; It seems to bo settled that among the important novelties which Theodore Thomas will introduce in New York during the approaching season will be Listz's dramatic oratorio, "The Legend of St. Elizabeth" Anton Rubinstein is composing an opera to bo entitled "Tho Paviot." Ho is known in America as a pianist, having made concert tours here in 18 He is possibly tho greatest orchestral composer of this or any other age. Ttre. nlav Ii/miq&M of "RoTTrAltHv "Rrt varia, will be kept closed next year, it is reported, and there will be no more performances of Wagner there until 18S0. This is stated as the determination of the composer's family, but no adequaio reason therefore is given. Minnie Hauk, the America singer,was recently the object of marked attention on the part of the Crown Prince of Germany. On her way to Prague she rested at the Bayrische Hof, in Nuremberg. The same day the Crown Prince visited the picturesque town and stopped at the same hotel, where he paid the prima donna a visit George C. Mason's recently published reminiscences of Newport contain a note about a curious feature of fashionable life there a hundred years ago. As reserved seats at the theatres were never sold the following notice was made part of the advertisements n.wl ttlair-liillw "I .nHiiK will nlcnsn snud their servants to keep their places at 4 o'clock." Accordingly the servants occupied the seats and laughed and talked till 6 o'clock, which was the hour when the performance began, when they made way for their masters ana mistresses. ONE THOUSAND SLAIN, of the Engagement Hcttvccn tlie Fr.'iieli and Xon(|iiinc<tc. A dispatch received from Hanoi states that General Negrier's column had an engage, mcnt at the village of Kep with (>,000 Chinese regulars, who occupied intrench, ments round a central redoubt. The Chinese commenced the attack at 9 o'clock in the morning by trying to surround the French, and the lighting lasted until - o'clock in the afternoon, when the retreat of the Chinese toward the frontier of China was cut off. The ('liinese troops then (led in the direction of Uantfuan, pursued by the French. The Ivep garrison defended their position bravely, compelling the French to surround the redoubt and ;? nc ti,? i-nint ,\f the linvonet. TIio i ai i j iu -..v, ?? Chinese loss in the village alone was lino killed. Tfie French troops fought with spirit rind decision. They captured nil of the enemy's war material, inules and horses. A French captain and twenty men were killed and eight ofllccrs and lifty men were wounded. General Negrier was slightly wounded, General Briere do l'lsle started fur Kep. to nssist General Negner's forces. The Chinese were attempting to execute an nffensive movement on the Upper Lo )-(.'huan river. Their total loss was 1.0)0 men. Captain Deynet, of the French Foreign legion, was killed, and Lieutenant Hatuille was wounded. General Negrier's column went up the 1'hulang river to cut off tho retreat of Lhe Chines?. _ PRIVATE HENRY'S WILL. HrithiR It When 10c Hail Abandoned .III C[ojic of Itctiriic. The will of the late Charles B. Henry, oftho (ireely expedition, who was shot for stealing provisions has boon filed for probate. It is written in pencil on a scrap of paper about the size of a postal card, torn from a blank used in the navy. It is dated at Camp Clay, KllesmeresLaud, May 0, 1SS4, anil is as follows: 'I, Charles 15. Henry, being of sound mind and health, do hereby "declare this to be my last will and testament. All my property, pay due and that may become due, I bequeath to my parents, brother and sisters now alive, to ho equally divided among inein. ??imam Helms, of 26 South Water street, Chicago, I appoint as my executor. "Chari.es R. Henrv. " Private, Fifth Cavalry, U. S. A."1 The will is witnessed by Lieut. F. F. Kislinglrary and Private .Toll Bender. A post-aleard to .Mr. Holms tells of the couditiou o? the command, saying: II'/a. 11-lui.s, Esq.: (>nly six more days' provisions are left Seven have died of starvation, and w e are all ready to follow. Wo are living 011 eight ounces per day. If we do not get gjme before thy lath you can conclude all ot us to be dead. My respect and lovo to all tlio few friends I met in Chicago. I remain yours, CttAttf.Es B. Henry. Helms is Heni""'s troth-r in-law. A GREAT NAVAL FIGHT. How a French Fleet Whipped the Chinese. Graphic Description by an American Officer. A naval officer on board the United States ship Enterprise sends the following account of the desperate naval fight which took place in China: Wo found tho Chineso fortification? full of men ami everything in readness for battle. There were also several Chineso men-of-war at tho mouth of the rivor. Tho French had three vessels stationed near tho fortifications, and every day we expected the lighting to commence. Our ship proceeded up tho river as soon as the water on tire bar permitted, and on our arrival at Shanghai wo found everything in readiness to protect tho foreigners. The cap tnin of the Italian man-of-war Christoforo Colombo, beiu^ the senior officer present, had command of the united forces, and landing parties were formed on each man-of-war to land with small arms' and Gatling guns to keep back tho mob in case of trouble. Just before tho battlo yesterday morning an officer from tho French flagship came on board with his admiral's compliments to our captain and a message to the effect that they would commence operations in a few hours, as tho Chinese government had refused to nay the 8O,0.O,OJQ francs demanded by France. Tho vessels in both fleets prepared for | action. Three English men-of-war, this vessel and four or five merchantmen were anchored about half a mile down the harbor, giving a clear space to tho opposing forces. At 1:55 P. M. a single shot was flred from one of tho French vessels, and in a few seconds the bat tie commenced. It is supposed that in the I first minuto and a half fully 10) shots were fired, most of them from modern breccbloading puns. The French fleet consisted of thoVolta, Jagship; Aspie. Vipere,D'Estango,Lynx,Dou$ay, Trouin, Villard, and, later, the Triumphant The Chinese fleet consisted of nine sloopgaf-war, two gunboats, and eleven war junks. .\t 10:06 o'clock the flagship Volta opened 'Ira from her tops, when a genoral engagement followed. At 2 o'clock the Chinese flagship wda blown up by a torpedo. At2:f8 a Chinese gunboat was blown up. At 2:45 a Chinese sloon-of-war on fire drifted lown the harbor ana sank abreast of us with colors flying, while another Chinese rtoop ofwar on nro grounded on a flat island near us and blew up at 4:51. At another Chinese sloop-of-war on fire, with the French colors flying, drifted down the channel. . The French kept on bombarding the navy yards and forts on shore, which took an active part in the engagement Duiing and subsequent to the engagement fire rafts and junks came floating clown the river. The destruction of Yung Wo, the Chinese flagship, will show what a torpedo can do vhen properly handled. As soon as the Jght began a torpedo boat darted to J ill A'uru LIJU !U*iaM,-u rcoooij uiiu WJ au ur stunt there was nothing left of the stately craft but some drifting timber and broken spars. The Tunc Wo was built at the navy yard at this place. She was full shin rigged, of about 2,000 tons displacement, and was a beautiful vessel. Her destroyer, the torpedo boat, was about fifty feet long, cigar shaped, very low in the water, and capable of steaming about twenty miles an hour. After her terrible work she drifted down the harbor and anchored near us. We could see that some of her crew were wounded, as well as her commanding officer. Our vessel sent surgical aid to her aa soon as interna- | tional law permitted it. As far as could be seen, only one Chinese vessel made a dett rmined fight. This waa a gunboat commanded by a young Chinaman rho had been educated in America. His gunboat was the target for a great mauy French guns, but he went down gallantly, his flag flying, and just as his vessel was sinking he tired a parting shot. Th? mnulitv nr thn French fire comnletelv demoralized the Chinese, and the French gunners' marksmanship was excellent Their machine guns did frightful execution. One of the Chinese vessels that sank shortly after the tight commenced, was a lerriblo sight Her decks wore covered with blood and the mangled remains of her crew. The Hotchkiss revolving cannon on the French ships kept up a steady fire. One of these guns, properly managed, is enough to clear the deck of any slfip. Only two of the Chinese vessels were afloat after the engagement. They e3caped by getting up the river into shoal water. One of these vessels sank shortly afterward on account of injuries received in the fight, and the other one is now aground with her b iclc broken. The French fire continued until night. They shelled the batteries on shore, and drove the Chinese from them. The navy yard and arsenal were shelled, and a great deal of damage done to government property. At night fire rafts and burning junks came down the river, but the French gunners succeeded in sinking them. With but one or two exceptions the French vessels are uninjured. The Volta had been hit once near the water line. The D'Estange had two shot hcles near her rail. The loss of life on the French ' ?i? ? - ?,? ?:inK +Vm slllli was uillj SUA, uvaiuo WO U14UW Vfc VMV Volta, who was ail Englishman. The Chinese loss of life is reported as being nearly two thousand. ' PROMINENT PEOPLE. William T. Siiaw, of Pittsburg, is said to be worth $2o,l?0U,(X)a Ik Cleveland is elected, Mrs. Hoyt, his sister, will become mistress of the White House. James and Harry, the two oldest boy3 of the Garfield family, have decided to be lawyers. Bishop Ckowther, England's black bi9hop of Africa, was once a slave and sold for a cask of rum. i wo living American poets?muuuu cmley Aldrich and William "Winter?were born on the same day in October, ISoO. The Republicans of the Eighteenth District of Illinois have nc minateji Needles for Congress, and in the Eighth District of Missouri they have put up Pins. Two leading London publishers have made handsome offers to Lieutenant GrfHv for the MS. of his Arctic voyage. It will be published simultaneously in New York and London. Is his superb garden at Varzin, Prince Bismarck makes a si>ecialty of roses of all varietiis, and whenever at homo takes great pleasure in attending to them with his own George Bancroft, tha historian, has just celebrated his eighty-fourth birthday at Newport, K. I. He received many congratulatory letters and dispatches from all parts of tlio world. Kwanu-Si, tho present emperor of China, has a distinguished line of ancestors. He is the ninth ruler of the Tartar dyd&sty of Ta i?'in? Pupo " wliinh noma ! Olllg, i. lie UUUJ1IUOIJ' A UI Wj ?.MWH , into j)ower in 1044. Commander Bradford, who led the party at tho bombardment of Alexandria whicn swam ashore and spiked the guns of Fort Meks, has aguin distinguished himself at Padstow by swimming out to sea and residing a lady from drowning. Brioadier-Gexeral Nelson A. Miles has been detailed as a member of the court to convene at Washington, November 15th to try Brigadier-General David G. Swafm, judge advocate-general of the army, by general court-martial, in place of Colonel lilwoll S. Otis. SENATOR ^morrill., 01 > muum, ? uun , seventy-four years of age, the oldest member of the Senate; but a much younger looking man than Senator Edmunds who is his junior by some eighteen years. The State of Vermont now furnishes the oldest Senator in years and the oldest in term of office, and is the only State that holds its united represou- | tat ion in the Senate of eighteen years ago. THE NATIONAL GAME, The American association should abolish the foul bound next season. Games aro called in Washington at 4:20 to enable government employes to attend. At the comingaunu d meetings the vexed n<a ter of umpiring demands serious attention. Traveling expenses of League ball clubs are nearly thirty per cent, of the gate re- J ceipts. Wiutn'p. {, of tlm Bostons, has strained his back so bin 11 y that ho will be nnablo to pitch J nny more this season. I Baltimore wmilrl lik<> to have a club in the natior.al League aivl $ )0,ikhi capital is J ready if it can bo admitted Ths base ball umpire at present seems to be usurping the proud plaeo in newspaper j literature formerly ocvupie I by the inulo and | the mother-in-law. TitJi Metrop ilitan nine lead in fielding j among the American association clubs and ! are second on the batting list. The Athletes j lead in batting and are a tio with Cincinnati j for third place in fielding. Cf.EVi:t.A\n and Detroit have not ?up" ported their League teams very well this I season. The clubs have been steadily losing, I and this accounts for it, But Buffalo, with I a winning club, has a smaller attendance than oil Ekkohts ju*o being mmlo to provide Mom- j nliis citizens witli bas.'lall tins winter. Mr. : rotor (Jracy lias liaised tin ball ground there j and will put a team therein with the view to i plnving a series of games with each winter j club that goes South this winter. At tin) oii.l of the twenty-third week tin> record of the I/.ague clubs in the rhamj'ion ship rate was as follows: Club*. H?/i. Lost. I Clubs. ? i. Lost. Providence $ > -'?> j Chicago ">S i Uo.-toii 71 sr. i l'hi!:iilH|iliU X) i;s liiitliilo tin l.'i i CK.velan l .;4 7I New York .VJ 4s j I>e!roit -Jo Si The record of the twelve American Assooi- , ation clubs at the end of the twenty-third | week was as follows: Chilis. Il'oll. /.OA'. \ Cl'ib*. Hon. 1.0*1 I Metropolitan 7" 31 | Athlcciic 37 44 [ Colauihns 6tJ nil | Toledo 4-2 57 i l.f)iii>villc 64 ::? | lirooklyn .......US r.) I Cincinnati M 33 I Wttsbiir^ 31 1 St. l.oiiis fi't J lnillfin:i|ioli) ^9 U t.Hlilnmr- -is 4-!.' Virninta 2.' 70 TEN MEN DROWNED. Workmen Lone Their Elves In Lake Michigan^ Ten men, employed in the construction of a new water tunnel for tho villago of Hyde Park, near Chicago, were drowned in view of j the village at 6 o'clock A. v. Vja There wero fourteon men employed upon the work of sinking tho tunnel and constructing n new crib at a point in Lake Michigan one mile from shore. Abovo tho crib had been constructed a platform about forty feet square, supported by poles, bound together by heavy chains and supported "by hea\y timbers resting upon piles. Upon the platform had been built a small cabin, in . which the men slept and took their meals, having lived there for tho post three weeks. About 5 o'clock the sea became so heavy that portions of the platform were washed away. The men were awakened about 5:30 o'clock by the spray which with every wave washed the side of their' hut. They were not much alarmed and proceeded to" eat breakfast. The storm continued to increase in fury and finally a great wave struck tho cabin an i carried it away inra uio uoiung m*u, miu ?nu m tuoij iuau upon the frail structure. Twelve of the men succeeded in climbing upon the huge stringers, and lying face down with their arms around the beam, they awaited the arrival of assistance. Evory moment increased their danger, and the waves with terrible force toro them one by one from their anchorage, until only eight remained In the meantime the crew of the Chicago Life-Saving station had been advised of the peril of the men and were despatched to their rescue. They arrived at the scene about 11 o'clock, and when they were within throwing diitance a line was made fast to the timbers by the almost exhausted men. The eight surviver? attempted the feat of working through the surf to the boat along the rope, but only four succeeded in reaching tho vessel,the others being washed into the sea. Dna r\t fliom with ffiA fltn rtf fl nlflJlIf R11 ftfi < in reaching shore. FBANCE AND CHINA. An Engagement with Heavy Lomm? War Notes. General Do Lisle sends a dispatch stating that hearing that the Chinese troops between , vS| Bade and Langson were moving forward, he took measures necessary to drive than back iato their gunboats. A brilliant engagement ensued, 4,000 Chinese troops 3 being pitted against him. Commander Chalie of the Masaue was killed in the fight. When the dispatch was sent the Chinese were being steadily driven back, and had lost heavily of their number. Advices from Hanoi state that the gunboats Mousgueton, Massue and Hache, while cruising in advance of a party which was recoanoitering in the valley of the Lochnau. were attacked by Chinese regulars. One French officer was killed and thirty men were woundAdmiral Courbet has telegraphed from . '-S Kelung as follows: "I commenced operations against Kelung on Wednesday by occupying the Height ot St. Clement The Chinese forces after a fairly warm engagement Wednesday night evacuated two of their works .-V; westward of the height, which we afterward I rtn/.nninj^ T om nAnr fiHnrr thum /.'.l --1 shall operate on Saturday against their works east-word of the height. Our loss was 4 killed, 13 wounded, and 1 missing. The Chinese low is estimate d at from 80 to 100 killed, and 200 to 300 wounded. Admiral Lespes commanded an attack upon Tarasui, on Thursday, tad will occupy that port, if possible." A second dispatch from Admiral Courbet - states that he completed the capture of Kelunc without further resistance. NEWSY OLEMINQS The Black Hills tin mines are panning oat well. ' v''3 Ohio will send 100 varieties of wheat to the New Orleans exposition. Between six and seven hundred dwellings are burned every month in this country. Alabama coal fields as yet practically untouched, are half as largo as those of England. An English school girl has just died from the effects of a bite on the arms by one of her companions. , The taxable value of Georgia is $317,054,776, which is an increase of $10,14^,4^1 over the year 18&'i. In one week fourteen girls of New York and vicinity gathered up their wardrobes and young men and eloped. No white man ever set foot In tho fine coun- * try north of India, known as Kuliristan, until a little over a year ago. Dakota is the only Territory that pays a revenue to the postoflice department, and there are only ton States that do. A diphtheriatic child in Baltimore coughed in the face of Dr. Melville Taylor, and he died of diphtheria himself a few days later. It is a great year for crops. The peanut crop of 1881 was 3,000,000 bu-mels, the largest ever known. This year's crop will reach 4,000,000 bushels. The Mexican government pays a bounty for grasshoppers. A party of hunters recently brought in more than 200 pounds ?. dead grasshoppers, for which they received $175. A monster alligator, twenty-one feet long, was killed on the Lower Lafourche, Louisiana. recently. The head has been preserved, aad, j. tlin hirlp tlAfln K?nt to thfl World's Exposition, New Orleans. The patent office is preparing 2,300 India ink drawings of models to represent the mechanical and industrial progress of the country for the New Orleans exposition. Thirtyeight artists are at work making the drawings. Twenty-eight hundred models will be sent to New Orleans also. A HUMOROUS TRIO. ~?M "Ain't you almost boiled ?" inquired a kid of a gentleman calling on her father and mother. "No, little one, I can't say that I am. On the contrary, I feel quite comfortable." ' That's funny. I should think you would be." "Why so, Daisy ?" "Oh, because I heard mamma say your wife kept you in hot water all the time."?Merchant- Traveler. All the Difference^ "Nancy, is George still flying around with you?" , ? "Yes, ma'am,'1 answered the girl. "Why, I thought you had given him the mitten?" "I did. several days ago." "And he still comes! That's strange; a young man usually flies all to nieces and never speaks to the girl again." "He seemed to like it," answered Nancy, blushing. ." ? "Well, I can't understand him; can '-?$ you imagine why he likes it?" "Don't know, ma'am," turning very red, "unless it was l>ecause my hand wa? in the mitten when I /jave it to him." "Hum, that'senough, child."?Atlanta Constitution. Some New Question* in ftcogrraphjr. Of what is the surface of the earth X composed? Of corner lots, mighty poor roads, railroad tracks, baseball grounds, cricket fields and skating rinks. What portion of the globe is water? About three-fourths. Sometimes they add a little gin and nothing to it. What is a town? A town is a considerable collection of houses and inhabitants, with four or five men who "run the party" and lend money at fifteen per cont. interest. What is a city A city is an incorporated town, with a mayor, who believes the whole world shakes when he happens to fall flat on a orAccwil L" What is commcTce? Borrowing five dollars for a (lav or two, anil dodging the lender for a year or two. Name the different races? - 1 Horse race, boat race, bicycle race and racing around to find a man to indorse your note. Into how many classes is mankind divided? Six: being enlightened, civilized, halfcivilized, savage, too utter, not worth a cent, and Indian agents. What nations are called enlightened? Those who have the most wars and the worst laws, and produce the worst crimi nals. How many motions has the earth? That's according to how you mix your drinks and which way you go home. What is the earth's axis? The lines passing between New York and San Francisco. What causes day and night? Day is caused by night getting tired out. Night is caused by everybody taking the street cars and going home to supper. What is a iuap? A map is u drawing to show the jury where Smith stood when Jones give him a lift under the eye. "What js a mariner's compass? A jug holding four gallons.? Lrt'of.