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ABBEVILLE PRESS AND BANNER! ?? 7 - -.^i&eL 1 ? ? 1 1 r "? ^ BY HUGH WILSON. ABBEVILLE, S. C.. WEDNESDAY, OCTOBEK 29, 1884. NO. 18. VOLUME XXIX. jjjl WHISPERS. UVhlBpertag, whispering low to my love, [ Telling my secret all over, Out where ths? night winds lovingly kisr Sweet scent od pastures of clover; Slyly the sweet face is lifted to mine, Brightened all over with blushes; Swiftly I bend to her, and?well, why not?The winds kiss the reeds and the rushes! DR. ~TPJM'S~ ROMANCE i. "Upon my word, mnmraa, I look upoi it as an impertinence.'' Mrs. Talbot lai< her baby across her lap face down an; jolted it gently, at the same time pattin; persuasively its exceedingly limp back "Positively an impertinence," she wen on; "it's as much as to say: ' You ar so expert in this sort of thing, and liav maTried off your own children so well pny help me out with mine.' Really mamma, it's an insult. I should writ Audi Trim a verv sharp letter, if I wer in your place." Mrs. Fargo did not reply. She sa tapping her gold spectacles lightl; ag*mst the open page of the letter shi had been reading, while her blue eye wandered abstractedly over the widi fields of bloomiug cotton t hat stretchec away beyond the garden fence. The imputation her daughter hinted a so resentfully did not disturb her in th least. If she had maneuvered a little t< secure advantageous settlements for he children, and she would not have deniei that she had, her mana'uvershad been si successful that she had nothing t< regret. Certainly, Ella Talbot had n< reason to complain. She had a kind indulgent husband, a beautiful homi and a baby which,though still too youni to excite much enthusiasm on the par of a novice in infants, was pronounce< by its grandmother a remarkably fin< child. Her other daughter and her two son were equally well provided for, and Mrs Fargo might reasonably have consid erea herself entitled to rest from he: labors. The mail, however, had just brough her a plaintive entreaty from her sister Mrs. Trim, that she would lend lier aic in marrying off her son Albert, a bache lor of thirty-five, who seemed bent upoi remaining single. He was a homceopathii physician in good practice, and wel enough in appearance; indeed, some o! his more enthusiastic lady patients main tained that he was decidedly handsome and of a very kind and amiable disposi tion. "None of the women here seem t< please him,'' wrote his mother. "It ha: occurred to me that one from the countr might suit him. l)o look about for t sensible woman of suitable age, and do mestic habits, and possessing other de airable qualifications, of which you arc so good a judge." It was probably the "other qualifica tions" clause that gave so much offens: to Ella, it having been charged tha for the sake of advantages covered bi this ambiguous euphemism she hat jilted a younger and poorer suitor, to accept the wealthy but elderly Mr Talbot. "I really believe Amelia Pullyn woulc do," said Mrs. Fargo at last, looking ai her daughter as calmly as she had con templated the cotton fields. "Mamma! you arc actually thinking of it ?" "Why not? I see nothing unrcasona ble in thinking about the happiness o my own nephew and the comfort of mi sister. If you will let me have ths carriage this afternoon, Ella, I'll drivi over and see Amelia." "Mamma, I protest!" exclaimed Ella shaking the baby up so violently as tc elicit a squeal of remonstrance. ''Be sides, Amelia wouldn't think of him You know she is determined never t< marry again." ".Nonsense!" returned Mrs. Fargo with her good-natured laugh, "yoi think because she refused John, she ii immovably lixed in her resolve. Don'i jolt the child so, Ella. He is quite ret in the face." Mrs. Tiilbot promptly reversed tin baby, who now began to protest sc violently against his mother's treat ment, that she called the nurse to re move him. John being her own husband, the allu sion was not agreeable. It was true tha the episode had occurred before she hat made Mr. Talbot's acquaintance, but fev women have the magnanimity to forgivi the superior discrimination of an ante cedent rival. "I'm sure John has reason to congrat ulate himself, at a 1 events," she said, i little sharply. "Amelia's drawl and he; melancholy combined would drive a mai wild. Beside, it is said she has con sumption." "Consumption!" repeated Mrs. Fargo laughing again. "She looks like it, anc as for her melancholy, you don't sup pose that is incurable, do you?" "I don't think Albert Trim is the mai to cfire it, anyhow. He is solemn as ai owl himself." "That's just the point. They will curi each other. It will be a beautiful illus tration of Albert's favorite principle similia similibus. His being a physicini _ is a great point in his favor, too Amelia win not Jeei mai sue is uisgruu ing Dr. Puliyn's memory by accepting i second husband of the same profession.' "Gracious heaven! You have got t< the accepting poiut already. You for get I)r. Pullyn was an allopathist." "Oh, that makes nothing," as Mme Pantin would say. "Love reconciles al differences." ir. Mrs. Pullyn, in deepest weeds notwith standing the heat of the weather, receivei her guests with that smile of soft melau choly that so well became her pale beauty "Sit down," she said, in the tone o one who invites to some mournful cere mony. "Are you well?" and she lc^oke* prepared for the worst. "OK"," }'e5t we urt always well," sui< Mrs. Fargo. "You are fortunate," drawled th widow, "I am never well." "What is the matter?" asked Mr? Fargo, as sympathetically as if she hear this complaint for the first time. "I aon t Know. :mu on, mm u wci possible to print her soft drawl. "I'v hunted all through the doctor's book: and I don't find any symptoms tht resemble mine so much as those lai down for consumption.'' "Do you cough?'' "No. but I have all the other synij toms, aud I am so languid and have n appetite; I don't know what can mak me so." * "Have you had advice?'1 asked Mr: Fargo, anxiously. "Why, no. You know I nave all tL doctor's books and his prescriptions an formulas, and?and everything. I don need to consult anybody." "But, my dear chiid, you arc surel not trying to treat yourself in so grave ease, a thing the wisest and most skil ful physicians never attempt. You' poison yourself, that's what you'll do.'' Mrs. Pullyn looked at her with mildl pitying superiority. "Nobody couid possibly know 11101 about it than he did," she said, "an nobody could understand my constit! tion so well. If the medicines he pn Bcribed do no good, nothing could (3 good." "Really, you ought to have been boi in India." said Ella. Amelia turned her large languid eyi toward the speaker, and her resigne 6mile provoked Ella to go on. " I think the Indian plan much bett< than yours. I should irrea'.ly prefi being burned at once to slowly sacriticin myself bv swallowing my husband medicines." At this moment a lovely little gi bounded into the room, and ran to en brace her mother. Mrs. Pullyn kisse her with effusion,then took her upon In lap, and, looking over her brown cur head at Mrs. Talbot, said gently: . " You can't suppose I want to die?" " Why, certainly not," responded Mr Fargo, again taking up the word, "an we don t intend to let you, either. So 1 prevent it 1 shall just take you in bar myself. Come here, Pet," holding ot her hands to the little girl, "come U grandma you' pitty name, sweet." "Go to the lady, Grade," said h mother, "g<> kiss the lady." Gracie went shyly, holding on to h b fcuhW, owy staving ior enough to plant a hasty kiss on Mrs. Fargo's chin,then ran back to her refuge in her mother's lap. "Yes, indeed." resumed Mrs. Fargo. " I shall just take you in hand myself. Your mother and I were schoolmates,and I was always very fond of her, which ! im-ns ?-* > n f.vi-t virrltf Airat* Knr r? fill frll - I *1>V= .uv - r,^. i w,,.. _ 1 tor. ion shall come down to the city with mc next week. My own house is all in disarray with the painters and paperers, but we will stop with my sister, and you shall sec a physician." Amelia did not reply, save by her melancholy smile. She seemed to be reflccting, however, and presently she said: j ! "Are vou going to the city next { j week?" nr | "Yes, for a few days. I want to see * i what the people are doing in my house, t and get measured for a dress or two bee ' fore my dressmaker is crowded. Won't L.1 you come with me?" "I have been thinking of going down. ' I have a tooth that troubles me. I ought to have it attended to, I suppose." e "Yes, indeed, you can never be too ' prompt about a matter of that kind." t 1 "Really, I don't know, my health is so y - uncertain," objected the widow. But ? 31 rs. Fargo was not to be put off. g ; "I shall come for you." she said, as e she kissed her good-by at the front door, i | "and mind you're ready. Gracie will I come, too." T ? ii 4i.? ? I "UH. yes, J1 1 go, mjjucu iuc nmun, j 1 "I never leave Gracie behind."' ?! I So, down to the city came Mr. Fargo , ! and Mrs. Pullyn, an amiable dragoness 5 llyiug peaceably away with her victim by steam train. Mrs. Trim's house stood in a quiet uptown street, across which the tall trees l met in friendly conference. Mrs. Trim t met them in the hall, an elderly woman j whose once blonde hair had faded to a , | yellowish white, and whose corpulency ' j bordered upon the miraculous. She s kissed Amelia affectionately, though she had never seen her before, and leading | : her into ihe parlor left her there while . she withdrew to the sitting-room with her sister. t ] '"You have beeu very prompt,'' she i i^ i if i , sam, sealing unrsew m uvr u?u vsjjcwiiui I ly wide-armed chair. "I was surprised - to find you had one already on hand, as j it were." 5 "I had never thought about her unjil 1 j your letter came," returned Mrs. Fargo, f "and I don't know now whether it will . , amount to anything. They are both so , duil, it seems like trying to strike fire . with two wet sticks. ) I Meantime in the parlor, Amelia had 3 taken off Grade's hat, and was hold(* | ing the half sleeping child upon her i lap, and looking abstractedly out - through the blinds into the quiet . { street. It was characteristic of Mrs.Far? go that she had not mentioned his sister's i name, and Amelia was wondering in her - own mind how she should address her > i hostess upon their next meeting, when a t 1 gentleman enteied by a door at the end f | of the room, and came directly toward I the sofa near which she sat. He was a tall, , fair man, with a little professional stoop , in the shoulders. Dr. Albert Trim, in fact, coming, according to his habit, to ! rest u lew moments Deiore uinuer in me t , shaded jmrlor. lie was close upon Amelia before he saw her, and she, slowly rising, and lett ting Grade slip to the floor, confronted him with a suppressed scream. "What, you!'' exclaimed the doctor, f coming to a sndden stand. ! j "You!" repeated Amelia, echo like. j "In my house." continued the doctor, j "I never knew it was your house, you tuny be sure, and I'll go out of it at , once." She snatched up Grade's hat, > and turned toward the door dragging -1 the child after her. . | "You shall not stir. I am delightod ) to see you here; you shall never leave." "I shall leave, and this moment, too." , ! She caught Grade up and made a i movement to dart past him, but he step3 ' ped before her with one arm outstretcht cd, barring the way. Gracie, alarmed I at this gesture, uttered a piercing shriek. j There was a sound of quick steps ap; proacliing. and Mrs. Fargo appeared > upon the threshold. Dr. Trim dropped ' 1 i 1:~ Ills urill, ;iuu jvmciia, ?itn iiusucu mkv ami indignant mein, approaclaed Mrs. Fargo. "What iu the world is the matter?' I exclaimed this lady. " Albert, I thought II you were a robber. How have you been ' "frightening Mrs. Pullyn?" ;| "Shall I explain?''asked the doctor. looking toward Amelia, who vanished i through the door without replying. | "Why, where are you going?" cried a 1 voice in the hall. It was Mrs. Trim, r who arrested her guest on the way to the 1 front door ' | Mrs. Fargo and Albert now rushed out, and the storm centre was trans: ferreci to the hall. 1 j " You must not go, Amelia. I entreat you do not go," cricd Albert, wildly. " Of course vou will notjro," said Mrs. 1 Fargo, with decision. "I never heard 1 uf anything so absurd; comeback directly. 1 insist upon knowing the meaning 2 of all this.'' She took Amelia by the " j arm, and almost forcibly led her back ; into the parlor. "It is clear, you two 1 have met before," she continued, as suming the office of inquisitor; when and where was it? "Shall I tell?'' asked Albert. Amelia maintained a haughty silence. 5 i " You do not object, and, really, I see no reason why you should. Mother,you have wondered that I did not marry. This is the reason." lie poiuted to Am<4ia, who still stood draped in her ! long widow's vail, clasping the white robed child in her arms. i "I was not to blame," she said,calmly, j "You were to blame; you should not - have let your father influence you.'' . j "You should not have disputed with f my father. He was older than you, and - i of course knew better." i | "That is an exploded assumption. But I am not going to renew that discussion with you." Then with suddenly awakened tenderness he advanced and took e from her tired arms the little girl who was nodding heavily against her shoulder. ' "There, sit down," he said, gently, d | "After all these years we may certainly : let the old quarrel rest. T was so taken e by surprise that I did not do justice to e the tender feeling my heart has always ? retained for you." 11 i "Tender feeling?quarrel! What in d the name of heaven arc you talking ; about?" cried Mrs. Fargo, impatiently. | "I am going to tell you," returned > Albert, laving the head of the sleeping 0 child against his breast, and beginning e to walk the floor. "How like you she is. Amelia," he said, looking fondly at ' her. "See, mother, this should have , been your grandchild. Yes, we were lt; engaged. You remember, Amelia, the d night I proposed? It was after the '?all t at the college, and we were walking ; home together through the moonlight V village street. You wore rose pink silk with tulle over it. and the tulle was all i in tatters, but you looked as lovely as an 11 I angel; and you said "Yes' without liesij tation, like the frank, sweet ill you y | were. Ah! we were very happy." "But you would always dispute with re papa about the proper treatment in d fevers, and the giving of calomel, and l* i all that," said Amelia, sadly. "Papa, ' j who had practised medicine forty years, lo ' and who of course knew so much better." j "Ah! don't speak of that," pleaded n | Albert, humbly, melting more and more, j wrought upon, not by memory alone, but 28 j by that inexplicable tenderness that will d I flow out about a little head nestled : against the breast. "I own that I was wrong." sr "You admit it, at last," exclaimed >g Amelia, with an air of triumph, s "WroDg in disputing, I mean; not in the principle." rl "You cling to your heresy? Papa said i* it was flat heresy." d "What have medical theories to dc 2i' with my loving you?" he asked, pausing ly before her, and looking earnestly at her. "You married, to pieuse your father, an old-school physician twenty vear.3 oldei s- than yourself. Did his medical ortho 'd doxy make you happy?" o "You shan't question me so," she rc id plied, making a last struggle. "Givt at J me my baby. I don't love to have any 'il one hold her but myself." "See how sweetly she is sleeping ii er my arms, Amelia. I have never been sr happy 8inc6 the night "nre walked home er | ftom the dance together. Doesn't youi >g heart tell you you owe me some repara tion for the happiness you hare kej back from me?" Amelia fluttered her fan and looked i the floor. It was a stained floor she nc ticed. l'T 1?aai\ iVin KnUr " V?n lirffpf [ "Let me leach her to call me papa." i A faint smile curved Amelia's lips, hi j she did not look up.- He bent on on j knee before her. "Say, 'yes'again, dear,"he whispered "I'll be so good to you both." The smile grew more decided, and sb bent forward as if to kiss the child's fa: temple, but Albert, perhaps misinte; preting her design, bent forward a!sc and the kiss fell upon his mustacheJ lij Mrs. Trim and Mrs. Fargo had tiptoe from the room some moments befon i Half an hour later Mrs. Fargo returne I lO IIIU punur, liiuu^llli U11J urcuuimu^ chair as she passed through the hall. "Well,*'she said, ''if you two hav come to a place where you can leave of perhaps you will come to dinner." "We have resolved never to leave off, said Albert, ''but dinner will not I amiss." "I'm afraid it will be very much amiss, ! observed his mother. "It has beenwaii | ing an hour." "Never mind," rejoined Mrs. Fargc ! cheerfully, "we'll wash it down wit 1 phials of Nux."?Felix Gray, in Ne Orleans Times-Democrat. Hoiv Werinan Laborers Live. "Will you describe to me in deta the condition and methods of livin ! among the laboring classes of Germany? j asked a Chronicle reporter of F. Brud j who has recently returned from a visi j to Westphalia. j "In the particular section where ; came from," was the reply, " there ar I ln^?n AArtl minno o t* A f Iwi minnrC ll'll I ICfcl ??0 vuai 1U1UUO, (IUU tuv iu<uv>u, ! would ranK as artisans, receive seventj j five cents a day, and an occasional fei j who are particularly adeut may receiv one dollar a day, which is likewise th ! wages usually paid to iron-workers | Each class works eight hours a day. Th ! unskilled laborers in the neighborhoo | receive from thirty-five to fifty cents day, and a day's work with them i twelve hours. The conditions in "West j plialia are however, in the German view exceptionally favorable to the laborei I There the expense of living, taken by th month, for a family of four or five, i ; House rent, $2.50; groceries (includin dried and salt meat3 and bread), $12 beef (Sundays), $1.50; beverages, $3 : taxes, $2. Total, $'22. j In explanation of this schedule , would like to say that the laborer usual ; ly rents. lie so rarely?I may say neve i ?owns a house free of encumbrance I The house which he occupies in countr j sections and villages consists of three o ! four rooms, and is sparingly furnished ; Some of these houses have a few of th ! modern improvements, but this is de ! pendent upon the ease and cost of sup ' plying them. My father keeps a grocer l store, so that 1 know exactly what, th monthly expenditure of the laborer is ii that direction, and it ranges from cigh to sixteen dollars a month. It is cus I toinary for all grocers to handle drie< | and salt meats and bread, and my fathe I conforms to the usage. "The laborer obtains his main sua : tenance from pens, beans, potatoes am ' sauerkraut. Sunday is a day of festivity ! and then beef is eaten?the only day ii the week. During the working days ; when it can be afforded, pork Is eatei at one meal a day, usually at midday 1 and then it is cooked with one o ( the other of the vegetables named in a kind of broth. In the absence o meat diet (for at best the supply is al ways limited), I presume it becomes al most a necessity for the l'iborer to sustaii himself largely by the use of beverages ; and these are more generally indulged ii by him habitually than by the naturalize* I or native American citizen. Clothinc i I an item scarcely to be considered. Th I laborer's and peasant's son, when con I firmed, dons a new suit larger in leg am body, arms and tail, than present require ments, which is carefully folded afterth : ceremony and assumed again at his wed i diug. A new suit is, in fact, obtainci I only once in four or live years, and i i then of the coarsest and cheapest mute | rial. The last item on the schedule is tha of taxes. At present there is a genera | complaint at the excessive tax which th laborer is compelled to pay, amountinj to one-tenth of his annual income. Yoi i will observe from the figures I furnisl tliat it is oni^oy me sinciesi ecouum and successful manngemcnt that the la j borer oau maki* the two ends ineet.") San Fraiicitco Chronicle. A Mine or Mummies. In the northeastern delta of the Nile on the banks of a canal which connect Zagazig with Luke Menzaleh, are foun< two places named San?Arab San am San-eMIagar. Suu-el Ilagar? perhap the most extraordinary spot in Egypt? j is a city of the dead. It was a magnifi cent capital, more splendid iu some re spects than Thebes. The canal was the 1 a noble river. The neighboring lake wa a fertile plain studdecl with towns am temples. Now the city, as its name in dicates, is a heap of ruins. San-cl-Haga I means "San of the Stones." Its an j cient name was Tsan. W i find it so written in th hieroglyphs. The Hebrews converte "Tsan into Tanis. The place remaine unexplored tin xnc laie .uurieuu ruuui 1 with small means and few men, first al | tacked the site of the principle tempi ' in 18(J 1. From lime to time, when afe\ hundred of francs cuidd be spared froc ! other enterprise.-,he continued the work | and his efforts were rewarded by this dis J covcry of a vast treasure of broken obe i lisks, sphinxes, shrines, architraves, col i umns and statues of gods and kingi ' Some few of these statues (most notabl; I those attributed by Mariette to th i Ihksos period) have been trans ported to the Boulak museun Some have found their way to th I Louvre. The rest, in countless pre i fusion, yet lie as when lirst unearthed heads, truuks, giants limbs scattered ( A.1 Ill plies ovcrcarowil, lll\U ;i uwui; giuu.i ! of Titans turned to stone. Thus Mai ' iette left the scene of his labor, aw thus it has remained ever since hi death. Such is the site which the Egyj Exploration Fund (uow in the seeon , year of its existence) after some negot at ion with the Egyptian Government ht undertaken to explore. Mr. Flindei Petrie is engaged in prosecuting the e: cavations. The prophesied Pompeii lias begun t | yield up its buried treasures and the n< cropolis its buried dead. The remains ? the new temple of Ptolemaic date ha\ been identified and antiquities of varioi descriptions have turned up in considc ! able numbers. The Cingalese. All the people in Ceylon, Irom babi just "feeling their leet" to old men an i women, their steps tottering on tl ; brink of the grave* wear gold and silv I ornaments. They even invent ne places for carrying them, and. it is now i common thing to see a Cingalese bel [ with the top of her ears covered wil I gold plate or wire, a large pair of rin< j pendant from the lobes of the ear. a gol j or silver circlet round her hair, her no ! adorned with rings, bracelets on h ' | wrists, rings on her fingers, and silv j plates on her toes. This is the pe fection of adornment; but in one ; j other of the fashions, or in several < I | them, the Cingalese woman, of whatev 1 J station in life, is set forth. I saw ru i | ning out of a house a sturdy little b< two years of age who had nothing < I ! but a silver key fastened around b j waist by a girdle of silver wire. Tl i ; men take their pleasure less cxpensivel They delight in gold earrings and ring 1 but beyond this arc contented to intru the recommendation of their personal a > pearance to a fine tortoise shell comb ; circular shape, set on the crown of thf heads, with the ends toward the for i head. The men evidently pride thcr f selves on their hair, which is general drawn back from their forehead and ti< in a neat knot at the back. As th< wear earrings, and not always whiske ; or mustache, it is sot easy at first sig to distinguish a man from a woman.Good Worth. t ' > California's wheat crop has for yea s been more valuable than her yield r gold, which is likciy be soon beat ; also by her fruit. m - THE CURES FOR ALL ILLS. it )- PACTS NO? GEWEBAI.I.Y K?OWH J ABOUT PATENT MEDICINES. 3C One of the World'* Staple Product#- \ it Four 1 boiiHaud Varl?(ie? of Patent | ' n ! lT<>(lirlair>u?Vn1in> nf Arlvrrfiolnir. "In the three words, 'pains and pana- l jr ' cens,' is comprehended the whole subject ! of patent medicines," snid a prominent 111 ;e wholesale druggist to a Chicago Herald I c< lr reporter in search of information on that ni r" well known topic. "People are bound >> to have the former, and as long as there 111 ' is au earth the latter ?'ill be manufac- tc d tured as cure-alls. Patent medicines p1 have become one of the staples Jt ^ of the world's products, and are a as certain now of being found on the market as wheat or baby carriages or 1 c corn. Where and when the patent medi- I ir cine, as it is now understood, originated, i is is hard so tell. I am inclined to the be- ]? " lief that, like Topsy, it just growed. J? e i "In regard to the efficacy of patent II medicines I have this much to say: While | it a larce number of them are, of course, | w , absolutely worthless, it must be ad- I c< mitted that many of them have a great i j> | deal of merit, and will do nearly what j In b is claimed for them. A manufacturer J p w i finds a recipe which, in its cures a; of certain sicknesses has be- g j come almost, a tradition in a lo- jc ! calitv, or a physician makes a study of tl jj: some special disease and prepares his sc formula; it stands to reason that iu lc m j either case the medicines must ha\j# j); ( merit. Many of these preparations are m jj compounded of herbs which the Indian, a( ; through a natural instinct, has been p( j using further back than the memory of m man goeth: others are really what your (J, 0 physician would give you at a higher ir ; price, while the many are but simple de- d v , coctions, which combined with the good p' ' j hygienic advice they make you follow, tl e ; effect their cures. . ! " There are patent medicincs without q, 'j end. In this catalogue I have here there J are <j,uiH? varieties uaiuu, ?uiw ?vi tively before the trade, and there are l9 j fully 4.000 varieties known. Then con- . | sider the vast number which have only \ a local reputation, and I have no doubt a 1 the total would be brought up to 6,000. ' I The amount of manufacturing done is ' js tremendous, but a larger number of 0 j firms haven't much capital to put into ? \ advertising, and consequently their pro'} ducts never secure anything but a local ' j reputation. The big Eastern firms have ? j' extensive manufactories, in which they .c.( _ | employ thousands of people, and many ' | of them have even arrived at that point , where they own large printing offices ' i and get out their own advertising matter. 111 ^ I It would be a hard matter to guess at, fll the total amount manufactured, but an , g j idea can be obtained by referring to a J1.' _ i few of the more prominent medicines i now before the public. Last year the I value of the product of a well-known . ^ Rochester linn was ?3,000,000, of a Philadelphia firm $2,000,000; of ani l l !, >1 r.nn rinh. tl i. ( otlier muaacipam mm, ipi,auu,wv, vx , a Ualtimore firm, $ 1,000,000; of a Bufj ; falo firm, ^1,000,000; of a Lowell firm, r' r! $1,000,000. Nearly one-tenth of this! j entire product was handled for the Western trade by the seven principal' w j ! drug houses of Chicago. One of these cc ' firms sends about five car-loads, or :J7,-" jj1 ^ 500 botiles of its medicine to this city; every month to be distributed through tl! ^ j the West, Northwest and South. This. (ll : gettiug medicine in car-load lots is, ofi J. i course, an exceptional case; but it serves' 1 as an instance to show to what a magui't i tude this business has grown. . . ' ' - t ,1 SI " | "The amount 01 iuivemsiug uuuc m the interest of patent medicines,through almanacs, newspapers, circulars, show- ^ { cards, posters, etc.,is simply enormous,", ? ^ ] said a well-known advertising agent' j i whom the reporter subsequently visited,! "and the money paid out runs' j up into the millions. Almanacs ?j i are printed by the ton, and when' ?' j: you figure out that these almanacs rc _ J will average sixteen or seventeen to the Cf g pound you can realize what that means,. *r and not one ton or live tons, but hun- p j I dreds of them. I know several firms 'e who issue from fifty to three hundred C( tons of printed matter every year, and, 9C | beside, do an immense amount of news- ?* , paper advertising. \v ' j ''About a year ago one of ihe more '1( prominent of the patent medicine manu- ^r| - facturers was interested in a trial in this w l city, and swore 011 the witness stand that w his advertising expenses for the preeed^ ing year was ?250,U00: a prominent Bal- 111 I tiinore firm I know expended nearly ~ i $200,000 last year, and there are many v* 1 firms who pay out from $50,000 to $100,- jj 1000. Why, tako yesterday's Chicago 11 dailies and figure up the number of pa- 1)! , tent medicine advertisements therein. rH g That will give you an idea of the extent 1}' j ; of the business." The reporter did so. o' 3 He scanned the columns of the paper and 3 : found therein nearly thirty columns of _ ; display advertisements setting forth the j.; merits of patent medicines. "That is exi elusive of reading notices, and could a have cost no lefs than $1,200," continued 81 # the agent. ''It gives you an idea of the ft j extent to which this advertising is car- w ! ried. In fact it has been pushed so much r that patent medicine advertisers arc con- e1 t. stantly devising new schemes and expend? incr money out of the ordinary channels." " I w j | A Fool and His Money. | d Ten thousand dollars was lost in ten | minutes Thursday night. The inmates P' , of a gambling-house on Clark street were e lazily hanging over the different games v 1 when the door opened and a neatly ^ Q dressed man entered. The new comer ! was a man of middle age, and seemed 81 i' somewhat abashed. His quiet demeanor j >. indicated to the casuul observer that he j ^ . was strange to gambling-house scenes. I j* Walkiug slowly up to the faro game, I y where 50-cent white chips were in order, j e he tossed down a bill. "Give me it thousand," he said. The dealer bowed to the new comer e and said: "All right, sir." i'< [. The stranger coolly divided his pile of v ' i chins into two piles and then placed them j j carelessly on the layout. In u sccond | l) r. ' tJoth stacks were gathered 111. j B 3 "Give me two this time," was all the | ft! s j plaver said as he handed over a couple of ? >t I bills. ? (j j Luck was against him, and he hardly | p1 i. I won a bet. In a few moments he had ; h l3 | lost $10,000. ! rg "Can you give me a cigar?" he said, as | c- he arose after his last bet. "Certainly," said the dealer, calling a j o waiter and bowing deferentially. j . The man who had just lost a small jf fortune lighted his cigar and walked (?it. rC He was John Dowling, the former prols ) prietor of the place.? (J'ucatjo News. Salaries of Foreign Ministers. ^ This country has four first-class mis- ? sions?England. France. Germany and tl j Kussia?-and the ministers to these j v missions get each $17,500. England pays j .. ' ! her minister here $30,000: to France,, j $50,000; to Germany, $155,000; to Bus-j T sia, $3!), 000, and to Turkey $40,000 each j per annum. We have seven nccond mis- i j sions, the salaries of which are $12,000 a , th i >'eur' v'z": u st ria, Brazil, China, Japan, I ' Italy, Spain and Mexico. England pays v ? , her minister to Austria $*10,000; to ' c j Brazil, $'20,000; to China, $30,000; to i k Japan, $20,000; to Italy, $35,000; to! ri ! Spain, $25,000. There are no diplomatic j v j relations between England and Mexico, i v Q* { Three ministries of the United States are , 0 worth $10,000, that to the five consoli- 0 j dated Central American States, Peru and J ^ Q Chili. Nine pay the incumbents $7,500 k * , each. They are the Argentine Ilepublic, ; Colombia, ilayti, Sandwich Islands, j ^ j Venezuela, Belgium, the Netherlands, ; s I Sweden and Norway and Turkey. I.ord | 1 i DufTerin, the English Minister at l'ou-| a j stantinople, receives $40,000 per annum, J ' while General Lew Wallace, who is the representative of the United States, re-1 ! ceives $7,500. j The Crocus and the Grain Speculator, j j n. j A Chicago florist said to a reporter: I _ lv : I keep a few common crocuses in stcck j v ' the year round to supply one person, j y ey j Every morning he buys a buttonierc of j r |>s these simplo flowers, never wishing ' |lt others of a different kind. Of course I! j _ know there is nothing strange in a pre- j j, i ference for a particular flower, but his. t : liking for the crocus is for an uncommon j t r3 J reason. Where he was born superstition ! t ()j ; connects daring and the crocus. He is a j j en j speculator in grain,and he believes wear- ' j j ing flower k?eps his courage up. J ? SCIENTIFIC AND INDUSTRIAL. Superior blankets arc now being oven of cow hair. The production of oil from sunflower .1 i l ? ?? i?/1noUft A# nnn. H'U IiaS UUL'UIIIU UU luuuabij v* ( , dorable importance in Russia. Evidence has been given tendig to show that birds avc a keen perception of color id love for artistic arrangements of )lors, aud a strong susceptibility to msical melodies. An investigation of the saltpetre beds liar Cochabamba, Bolivia, leads 31. Sacc > conclude that this vast deposit, large lough to supply the whole world with s nitrate of potash, is the result of the ecomposition of an immense collection j f fossil animal remains. Everyone knows that wood is madc ito paper; but making paper into wood a recent application. It seems to be a rocess of turn-and-turn-about. The new ivention comes from Germany. A Mr. arrass has devised a method for obtainig objects of all kinds with an artificial ood mass, which consists chiefly of illuloid and starch. Within a few months past markings ave been seen on the surface of the lanet Venus which even so cautious an itronomer as Prof. Young-has declared ive promise that we may be able to am something concerning the poles, le mountains, the continents, and the :as of that distant world. Mr. Trouve?t has discovered what he regards as robably the snow-clad summits of lountains thrust up through the cloudy mospliere in the neighborhood of its oles. The mountains, if they exist, lust be of amazing height, and it is oubted whether Trouvclot has correctly iterprcted what he saw. Yet that he id see some peculiar feature of the lanet?that he did get a glimpse, lough an obscure one, into this farivay world?the astronomers do not nestion. Humors of the Battle-Fiold. Many 1 norous incidents occurred on tttle-iiciu.s. A Confederate colonel ran "'nrl of hia rnnriment at Malvern Ilill. id discovering thut the men were not llowing him as closely as he wished, he ttered a fierce oath, and exclaimed: "Come on! Do you want to live former?" The appeal was irresistible, and many poor fellow who had laughed at the Jlouel's queer exhortation laid down his j fe soon after. A shell struck the wheel of a Federal i :ld-piece toward the close of theengageent nt Fair Oaks, and, shivering the >okes, dismantled the cannon. i "Well, isn't it lucky that didn't hap- < 2n before we used up all our ammuni- i on," remarked one of the artillerists, as 2 crawled from beneath the gun. Wl en General Pope was falling back i T aa1#. n/li-nnnft in flin Vi'rnrlnin vol ;iUIL* JA'U iHOUtiVU iu iitv/ ? ugiuiM . y, his own soldiers thought liis bulle- i ns and orders somewhat strained in j leir rhetoric. At one of the numerous inning engagements that marked that ] isastrous campaign a private in one of | ic Western regiments was mortally j ounded by a shell. Seeing the man's . : >ndition, a chaplain knelt beside him, i id opening his Bible at random read lmscn's slaughter of the Philistines with i ic jaw-bone of an ass. lie had not > jite finished when, a? the story runs, i ic poor fellow interrupted the reading ] , saying: ( "Hold on. chaplain. Don't deceive a ling man. Isn't the name of John Pope < gned to that?" < A column of troops was pushing for- \ ard over the long and winding road in j ( horoughlare Gap to head off Lee after | is retreat across the Potomac at the close ] : the Gettysburg campaign. Suddenly ] ic signal oHicer who accompanied the < ;neral in command discovered that some < : his men, posted on a high bill in the ] ar, were reporting the presence of a < msiderablc body of Confederate i oops on top of the bluffs to the right. halt was at oncc sounded, and the ading brigade ordered forward to un- , >ver the enemy. The regiments were ] on scrambling up the steep incline, Keers and men gallantly racing to see i ho could reach the crest first. A young j sutenant and some half dozen men ( lined the advance, but at the end of hat they deemed a perilous climb, they ] ere thrown into convulsions of laugh-1 i ir at discovering that what the signal i \ en took for Confederate troops were ' - - ill n?I. ?i ? A ? I UV a toicrauiy uirge uutiv ui juecjj. na j i le leaders in this forlorn hope rolled on le grass in a paroxysm of merriment, | j icy laugher] all the louder at seeing the i lie but determined faces of their com- I ; ides, who, of course, came up fully ex- | jcting a desperate hand-to-hand Strug- , le. I i It is perhaps needless to say that the , rigade supped on mutton that evening. , As the army was crossing SouthMoun in the day before the battle of Antie- j im. General McClellan rode along the i ( dc of the moving column. Overtaking j favorite Zouave regiment, he exclaimed ( ith his natural bonhomie: j "Well, and how ie the old Fifth this ( rcning?" "li'ircf.rnf/> opnprAl " rnnlied one of , * v? ft*" ? 7 - ic Zouaves. "But we'd be better off if j e weren't living 30 much on supposi- ] on." , j "Supposition?" paid the general, in a , uzzled tone. "What do you mean by ( lat?" "It's easily explained, sir. You see ( e expected to get our rations yester- , ay, but ?s we didn't, we're living on the , lpposition thflt we did." ; "Ah, 1 understand; you shall have ] Mir rations, Zou-Zous, to-night," re- , lied the general, putting spurs to his : orse to escape the cheers of his regi- 1 lent. And he kept his promise.?Gentry Magazine. Welsh Impromptus. "Wales is the land of bards, whose j adiness of wit and facility at impro- j ising are exhibited in the following uecdote. One rainy day, a noted Welsh aid, or poet, as we would say, met the , ev. David Davies, who also was known i a bard. In those days umbrellas were nknown in "Wales, and the clergyman as covered with layers of straw, fastled round with straw ropes. He was, i fact, thatched all over. His brother i aid cxclaiiucd, as he met him: "Oh, bard and teacher, famed afar, Such a sight I never saw! It ill becomes a house like yours To havo a roof of straw.' jstantly the clergyman answered: ' The rain is fallinjr fast, my friend, You know not what you say; A roof of straw, metliinks, doth well | Beseem a wall of day." At the death of Dr. Priestly, the j hilosopher and clergyman, Mr. Davies ! rote the following epitaph satirizing! le well-known materialism of the sa- j ant: Here lies at rest, in oak<;n chest, Together packed most nicely, he bones an<' brains, flesh, blood and veins, ; And soul of Dr. Priestly." Hint a Bather Cun Do in Salt Lake. . A bather can lie on the surface of the | atcr of the Great Salt lake without ex- j rtion; or, by passing a towel under his noes and holding the two ends, he can smain in any depth of water kneeling, ritli the head and shoulders out of [ rater; or, by shifting it under the solis f the feet, he cau sit on the water. The ! ne exertion, in fact, is to keep one's j alance; none whatever is required to ; ecp afloat. The only danger, there- ' ore, arises from choking by accidental- j y swallowing some of the water, for the trength of the brine is so intense that, he muscles of the throat are convulsed, : nd strangulation ensues.?Salt Lake i leraltl. Two English peers, recently deceased, I /ere each very eccentric in his way. | ,ord Lauilersdale once disappeared for cars, and was finally found acting as a laggage-porter on a railway. The Dnkc f Wellington used to quarrel fiercely | trith his father, the '"Iron Duke." Once | t'hen a friend called his attention to a mblishcd caricature of him, the old duke aid: " The only caricature that annoyed , dm was that," pointing to his son and icir. The point of the remark was that he son bore an extraordinary but groesque likeness to his father. He had he hooked nose and the high cheek >oacj, but all this was rendered fright-1 ul by a small and weak chin and a thiu ' Jid irresolute jsuv. / . t ? i A MAN'S FORTUNATE FAL! HOW ONE OF THE BXCH1SST Mim IS COLOBADO WAS rOOTYS. The Driver of a Burro Train Hurl< over a precipice into a Cave] Filled with Kick mineral*. A long line of heavily laden burros, fc lowed by two horsemen, were climbii a steep trail in the San Joan mountain William and Frank Smith, the drive nnrl nivnora nf tlio trnin worn brntlipi William, the cider, although yet a youi man, had been in the country long enouj to be considered a pioneer. Frank, t! younger, had only arrived from the En about two months before. He was graduate or Yale college, also of an eai em law school, and had come to Color do with some idea of engaging in t practice of law. Finding, however, upi his arrival at the little town, which w the county seat, that the field was co crcd already, and that the lawyers w] had preceded him had little or no bu ness, he accepted his brother's iavitati< to join in his venture and become "burro puncher." Although his handsome and still boyi: face was considerably bronzed by e posurc to the sun and rain, yet there w in it the signs of unusual intelligen (inrl r>f n rlisnnsition that was filwn happy. Indeed, this was manifested 1 the cheerful songs with which he co tinually enlivened the somewhat raonot nou9 and tedious trip. On the raornii in question the train had reached tl most dangerous portion of the tra where it wound around a bluff on tl very edge of a canon whose jagged ai precipitous sides and rocky bottc threatened instant death to the luckU traveler who would make one misste Familiarity with the trail and its dang< had made the young man somewhat cai less, and it so happened that just as ] was caroling a sparkling air from "Pi afore," and while the echoes of his mu cal voice were still ringing through t canon, his usually sure-footed hoi stepped upon a loose stone ana instant horse and rider were hurled over t! precipice. The horrified brother saw the accide from a point a short distance in advan just as he was about turning the blu Instantly lie ran to the edge; and on t rocky bed of the canon, where the Iit1 mountain stream boiled and hissed wi its tiny white spray, he saw the mangl* body of the horse lying a crushed ai almost shapeless mass. Making a detoi with infinite difficulty he climbed do\ the sides of the canon and reached t body of the horse, but, strange to sa that of his brother was nowhere to seen. Loth to leave without having d covered his brother's remains, he spe the whole afternoon in the search, b without having discovered a trace of t wherabouts of the body until the lengt oninir oViorlnvva \vnrnf>il liitn tn rMlimn 1 journey to the camp, still some miles d tant. Reluctantly he resumed his joi ney, and upon reaching camp told 1 wonderful story to the crowd of eag listeners who soon gathered around t principal cabin. The next morning party was organized, who spent tl whole day in an unavailing search f the missing man. The mystery deepened, and in t! minds of the superstitious miners savor jlronglv of the supernatural. Towa [lie close of the second day a group men, sitting at the door of the large L'abin, which did duty as a store ni post-officc, discussing young Smitl strange disappearance, were sudden itartled by seeing the figure of a m: toiling painfully up the steep trail ai Dver tnc trail bridge that crossed the tc rent which ran through the centre of t! little settlement. Upon his approachii nearer, what was their surprise to d ;over in him the missing man, but covered with bruises and so hugga ooking as to be hardly recognizable. i r ?;i :?1 J row (I 01 Wll llig nanus ua.iiaiuit uuu the door of the store, nnd after his war tverc attended to. the chief one of whit ivas hunger, their intense curiosity w gratified by the relation or the followii marvelous story: "It mu9t have been several hours t ter my fall before I regained oonsciou uess, and found myself lying on the flo 3f a cavern, terribly bruised and hungr rhc walls on either side were steep ai high, and upon groping around I foui that the cave extended into the mounta through a perfect labyrinth of passage Taking one of them at random I wa ilered for hours, dragging my wen HmDs siowiy aua paimuuy over i: rough ground. Finally overcome i fatigue, I lay upon the ground, and sle I know not how long. Upon awakenii to my other pains was added the keen one of hunger. I still pushed on, ho' ever, knowing that to remain would death, yet without any idea of a diflf ent fate should I continue, uncertain as was tfmt I was not getting farther aw from light and liberty. Suddenly I sc \ gleam of blessed sunlight coming frc 1 could not tell where, but heighten md magnified by the object upon whi it was shining. This I found upon e [imination was a mass of glittering ore. "Following the direction of the thre; of light, I saw far above me an openii in the roof of my prison. With tcrril labor and after several falls, I succeed* in reaching the top and made my escap emerging scarcely one-half mile from t :amp." The next day the young man, havii i ? i i 1 r COQSlUCniUiy reuuvuieu n um Alio iiijuii and hunger, accompanied by several the miners, proceeded to the place wi ropes and tools, and found one of t most enormous deposits of rich minei ever found iu the State, with natui shafts and tunnels adding immensely the value of the land. "This," said t narrator of the above story to a report yesterday, "is the story of the discove of one of the greatest producing mil] in the State."?Denver New*. Rare Epitaphs. The London Sjieclutor gives the f< lowing curious epitaphs. They are frc a Scotch contributor: T?l.? I lrl nnrlnr TTilmf v71i (ju1j11 mv/wm;iuwv., ........ nock, well known for being, while iile, constantly on the trot: "Here rests John Davie, sae be may, For faith the body's tired, Who never rested night or day, Till that day he expired." On Jushua Lodge, tailor in Edi burgh: " Here lies the body of Joshua Lodge, Wha died for want of mair cabbage; He never fail'd to hae a goose, Whilk was nao dainty in his house. But dt atlrat last cam' till his bed, An' shot hLs dart into his head, But left his wife to stay behind, To eat what cabbage she could find." In Leslie Churchyard, Fifeshire: "Here lies thebxty of Andrew Brown, Sometime a wright in Lunnon toon, In the year seventeen huner ami seven! three. When coining his parente for to see, Of a cauld and a sair host, He died upon the Yorkshire coast." On a schoolmaster in Cleish paris Fifeshire: ' Here lie Willie M hies banes: O >'ntan, when ye tak him, (tie him the schulin o' your weans, For clever de'ils he'll niak' em." An eccentric character named Jo] So, a native of Inncrkip, bequeathed 1 property to a friend, on the conditi that he would get engraved on his torn stone the following epitaph written himself: "So died John So, So so did lie so, So did l.o live, So did he die, So so did he s'>. So let him lie." The Name or "Nihilist." TurgcnielT is generally believed have invented the name of Nihilist; b although he revived the use of it cannot be regarded as its original Some fifteen centuries ago St. Augi tine, bishop of Hippo, used the sai substantive in almost the same sen; "Nihilisti appellantur," he says, "qi nihil credunt et nihil docent." ' judge from this the African Nihilii who plagued the pious father in t fourth century were much the same p( pie as their cousins of our times, min press and dynamite. St. Augustine jcrred to those black sheep of his d ccsc, wiiose only aim wa? Jestroy a deny everything that could cither v*trof ed or deaitd. ?rail id all Buds ? ^ - I L. NEWS SUMMARY B5 ! f.Bdcrn nnd middle State*. J Hoo cholera prevails in the western part I New Jersey and parts of Pennsylvania. _ ! At an address delivered to a laree pathe ~~ j inp of prohibitionists in Philadelphia, Gove I nor St. John, tho Prohibition candidate f< President, declared tUat ho was m tne ueiu )I- stay. itr At a meeting of the New York State Tei ig perance assembly an appeal was issued ' Republican prohibitionists urging them ,re vote for Blaino and Logan. Governor S fs. John, tho Prohibition presidential candidat ag lias published a letter in reply to tho appe rjj in which he urges all Prohibitionists to stai by their ticket. ig^ The Pittsburg (Penn.) grand jury ha1 found bills against President Riddle ai a Cashier Reiber, of tho Penn bank,for the er 3t- bezzlemont of #1,200,000, and against T. a- Watson, oil broker, for conspiracy to dofrai he the depositors. an The Vermont legislature has re-elect Senator Morrill to the United States Senat The vote on joint ballot stood: Morrill, 20 J* Redfleld,2*J; scattering, G. . Sitting Bull, ihe renowned Iudian chic si- is said to have made $-'50,000 since ho plaa oil himself on exhibition iu New York, a Governor Cleveland arrived in Ne York for the purpose of attending tho Dem nh cratic barlwcue iu Brooklyn, and was receivi " by many prominent Democrats, a iar| procession was reviewed by the Govern from his hotel. In the evenii ce there was a meeting at the Academy ys Music, under the auspices of Democratic ai Independent business men. Governor Clev land,Henry Ward Beecher,Governors Abbel n" of NewJersey, Waller,of Connecticut,McLea 0* of Mary'and, Pillsbury, of Maine, and othe ig addressed the till onged meeting, and the ie was a big torch light procession, il A bbonze statuto to tho memory of Jol [jg Harvard, the founder of Harvard colleg ^ was formally unveiled at Cambridge, Ma The Vermont Prohibitionists met in Sta convention and chose presidential electors. !S9 p. South and West* irs A horrible crime has been brought e- light at Troy, Ind., by the finding of tl ae headless body of a woman in a cistern on tl _ farm of Peter Backer. Tho body was reco .* nized as that of Mrs. Htilwell Hindersho who resided on a farm fourteen nrles back he Troy. Her husband and two sons were a an pp?trtl for the primp. Tli'* elder son was taki ]y out of jail by a mob and hanged, but not b i fore he had confessed that ho and his fath had murdered the mother because she woul not sign away the farm, to which she had nt deed. ce Charles W. Bctler, one of the mo g noted criminals in Ohio, the son of a wealtt , ' physician in Columbus, was hanged in C lumbia City, Ind., for the murder of Abb tie Butler, his young wife, in Pierceton, Ind., < th September 20, Ls8.'i. Butler escaped from tl e(j jail in Columbia City and was at liberty V j some days. His trial occupied nearly month. All that wealth and influence cou ir> do was done to save him from the gallows. A series of fires, supposed to bo of ince: be diary origin, have destroyed a great deal y, mining propertv in the now noted Hockii be valley, Ohio. Nearly all the mines whe the recent labor troubles occurred we; Ia* fired, and an immense amount of dama; nt was incurred. A crowd of colored men overpowered tl be jail guard at Boiling Fork, Miss., took o h- iDock Martin, a colored murderer, and liang him from a bridge. [g. The town of Liberty, county seat of Be ford county, Vn., has lost almost itsonti F" business portion by fire. Twenty-one bu us ness houses were- consumed and the nggi ;er gate loss is put at $150,00.). he Two little girls, the children of Garrt a Wiseman, a resident of Mitchell count le N. C., while passing through a strip of woo were attacked by a large catamount ai or killed. , A sawmill boiler exploded in Haralsi county, Ga., killing J. C. Rogers, the pi cd prietor; James Eson and Bud Pardon, ai rd injuring several others. of A patient at the Cincinnati hospital t< .gl; through a hatchway with his attendant, ai 1 j I both were killed. . >? The miners and the mine owners of t j Hocking valley region charge each other wi V setting lire to tho mines. ^ Fi r.st retu rns from the October elections ga id tho Ohio Republican State ticket a majoril >r- variously estimated at from 10,000 to 20,C he votes. The Republicans were reported have gained from three to five Congressine . o the present delegation standing thirteen Dei ,s" ocrats to eight Republicans. In West V: so ginia the first returns indicated theelection rd the Democratic State ticket by majorities i timated all the way from 2,000 to 10,COO. The excitement growing out of the poli t cal campaign in Ohio?the fiercest ever w; T? uessed in that State?did not culminate in t -h trouble on election day that was anticipate as although several tragedies werereported Cincinnati an ultercation between AH* Russell, a colored man, and Deputy Maryhi , Cayne, also colored, onded in I lI" latter's shooting the former dead. Two otb is- men were wounded, ono fatally, and a womi or was struck by a rock and "fatally injure y Two policemen in Cincinnati were also da vi gerously wounde<l by pistol shots during " Iracas in the evening. Immediately after the Ohio election ft! m Blaine made a flyingi tour through Michiga .'s. Drieny addressing me iiepuuncun mruu n- that greeted him in tho various cities a: r,- towns. tie A market wagon containing "William >v Pryor, a farmer, residing near Elkton, M< \ and two little children, was struck by an e P1- press train, and the three occupants instant killed. ? er ?? Waalilnffton* I | The removal of the appliances for electr i lighting in the capitol shows that tho built :r" I ing is in a most untidy condition, on accoui II ; of the billions of insects which the brilliant ay I of tho electric light attracted, and who lw | skeletons aro either hanging on the walls, tie I fast by a death grip, or a ,n? piled up in heaps all over tl ed j recesses of the roof. There a: ch myriads of May flies, beetles, crickets, ea | wigs, dragon flies, grasshoppers, caddis flie I honey bees, wasps, ants, Hornets, uuueruit , i moths, cicadas, froghoppers, plant lice, wat acl ! beetles, whirligigs, skippers, horned midget 3g i gnats, mosquitoes, and every spocies of inse de i toria known to the surrounding swamps ar ,, j | woods of Washington. ie j October returns to the department of a l ' j riculture indicate a generally good conditic ^ ; of the crops. The general average for cot is ninety-three. The wheat crop will excee ig I that ot last year by about 100,(XX),0 es I bushels. of I Toe secretary of the navy has issued a ge j eral order for the establishment of a collej . ! for an advanced course of professional stut i for naval officers, to be known as the Nav ral j 'War college. It will lie under the gener ral supervision of the bureau of navigation. T1 to I principal building en Coasters' Harb i._ I Island, Newport, K I., will be assigned to i "c use. 'cr i [ President Arthur has appointed Fir ry | Assistant Postmaster-General Frank Hutt< tea ! to bo postmaster-general in place of Juil; j Greshani, who succeeded the late Judge F< j ger as secretary of the treasury. i i >1- rorelftu im ; Henri Rochefoiit, tho well known Fren j editor, has just fought another duel. T ! journalist and his opponent, a French ca l.r" ; tain, were both wounded. ln | The Peruvian town of Paita has bei ; partly destroyed by lire. Loss, about I 000. j A violent gale lasting several days h | prevailed in th9 Gulf of Trieste. A lar; ( number of fishing boats have been wreck > and the bodies of their crews washed ashoi D" j Fire has laid low tho Third Presbyterii ! church, of Chicago, one of tho linest eh up ! edifices in that city. The loss is abo $125,000. ! A boat with forty Europeans and Egy 1 tians, accompanied by live negroes and thri I servants, grounded at Salamat, Egypt. T1 j Arab sheikhs offered hospitality to the pari and enticed them to their houses, where tin ! massacred all but fourteen of them, who we | taken prisoners. A messenger confirms tl ! report of Colonel Stewart's inurd j by Arabs, and says that the only survivors the party aro four black slaves. All the E j ropeans, including M. Nicola, tho Greek co ,y. stil. were killed. j Eleven pupils of tho school of agricultu ' at Bordeaux, France, havo died from tl | effects of eating mushrooms gathered in wood near the school. !]) i The International Prime Meridian conf< ' | puce has adopted the meridian of Greenwic Tho representatives of France and Brazil <1 j not vote, an 1 the representative of Han E I mingo voted against it. ';e PROMINENT PEOPLE. 1" Dom Pedro, Emperor of Brazil, will so I go on a two years' trip to Japan and Chini ^ Lieutenant Greelt's health is slow improving. Early in November ho goes Washington. Prince Edward, son of tho Princo Wales, will travel in Canada and the Unit States next year. Miss Mollie Garfield, aged sevente* daughter of President Garfield, is to bccoi a student at Vassar collego. Mr. Bergii says he is iu possession of wi to bequeathing $500,000 to the society for 1 iut ? prevention of cruelty to animals, he ! Sitting Bull has an enormous head. )r wears a No. 7 3-4 hat, larger than Dati Webster. Hs receives a salary during 1 ls' present engagement?$'.!00 a month. lie Miss Mary E. Garrett, of Baltirao sc. ago twenty-eight, is said to bo the wealthii lift unmarried lady in this country. S he f 0 herits one-third of her father's enormous f< jt.H tUnC' u- William II. Vandeiibilt and his so: says a New York dispatch in the Cineinw :0" Enquirer, have lost nearly $.">0,000 000 t us past fow years in ill-timed speculations of \ re- rious kinds. io- | Ji'stice Miller is said to be distinguish from his brethren of tho Supremo Court i . tho United States by being tho only memt who habitually wears a "swallow-tailed" cc 1 and a good-nature*I smile. : - V r LATER NEWS, Governor Cleveland held a reception of in the Brooklyn Academy of Music and then proceeded in the long procession to Ridger* wood park, where there was a barbecue, with I r- . . , mi 3r j roast ox in aounuance. mere was spuu&mg i to j from fivo stands, and tho governors I of New York, Pennsylvania, New Jersey, ^ i Connecticut and Maryland, beside many to ! Senators and Congressmen were present and It. j inado addresses. In the evening there was | another reception, and an immense torch1(j light procession. Governor Cleveland shook hands with thousands of people during the ra day and evening, and on the following mornid ing returned to Albany. *j A Columbus (Ohio) dispatch says thnt id "tho official returns from the election artcoming in slowly at both State headquarters, ?d and tho final estimates are made with difliculty. On figures received, subject to re1 vision, the Democrats concede on the n moWlfw f\f 1fWMT )[ Wioto Vivncu i* iiJUjwuwj Vk ?V,WI ;d vvhilo the Republicans estimate the majority at 10,792. The Democratic committee claim w eleven of the twenty-one Congressmen, whilp ,?J the Republican committee consider the go Eleventh district doubtful and say it will re" of quire the official returns to decide it" ^ A Republican procession was forming a 1C] La Crosse, Wis., when its leader, F. A. Bur e* ton, president of tho Blaine and Logan club :t? of that city, was suddenly shot dead by a j!j man known as "Scotty," who fired seven r 1 shots in rapid succession, nearly every one taking effect "Scotty" was hurried to the if jail, but an immense crowd battered down ft the doore, took the murderer out and hanged 53 , . 0 k him John A Atkinson, twenty-four years old, manager of the Chicago branch of the Liverpool hog-fa:king house of Davies, Atkinson to &Co.,l:a? been speculating on his own &cjjjj count with the firm's funds and has become g. a defaulter to the extent of about $200,000. + fP**? nnfit*A KiipJnaco rv%rfinn nf frioflalil K< X Jl?i UlibiiO UIUIUVM |/Vt V1VU Vfc VI >4ju^iv<j ?' Md., including several large oyster-packing ^ establishments and scores of frame dwellings, e- has been destroyed by fire. The loss is esti* ei mated at $200,000. ^ Baron Von Albensleben, the new minister from Germany, was formally presented st to the President the other day by the seeretaryof state. ?a The delegates of the International Meriju dian conference, headed by Admiral Rodgers, hi called in a body at the executive mansion to 3p Pa>' their respects to the President. They ld were presented to him in the blue room by Secretary Frelinghuysen. n- A strong anti-English feeling prevails at Hong Kong, and during a recent riot there several persons were killed. re A Halifax (N. S.) dispatch says that thei? schconer Charles Valentine has been lost, with all hands, consisting of six men. Turkish brigands attacked the Turkish Dd mail caravan from Bagdad and robbed it of $300,000. Three robbers were d- captured and part of the money reiovered. re __________________ siALARMING EXPLOSIONS, (tt y, Attempt to Dc?troy the Jfcw Pari lads mcnt Building* in Qucbci. nd Much a'arm has been caused in Qucbec, jn Canada,by. two explosions of dynamite which o- blew down large sections of the new parlia 'id ment buildings in the course of construction. Says a dispatch: The attempted destruction of the parliament house in this city to-day constitutes one of the most diabolical plot# he ever designed, and notmng snort ot a miracje th prevented, as one of its results, a terrible sacrifice of human life. At 12:40 p. Jttlie whole ve city was startled by the report of an exploit sion which causcd people to rush out of door? to and eagerly inquire tho cause. The new? >n that the explosion was in the parliament house spread like wild fire, and it was aston. 0f ishing to note with what rapidity thousand* es- of persons assembled at the scene. They saw, on reaching thr spot, a great gap in the front u wall of tho new parliament house some thirty jt- or forty feet squaro, and adjacent to the east 'le end of the wing of the department building d? facing tho Grand Alloa The structure is situated just outside St. Louis gato, and is built in four wings. The id three wings containing the public olHces have he been completed some time, but tho fourth, or which is really tho main building, is just in nearing completion and ready to receive the d- roof. It was to bo tho parliament house n proper, and was to be ready for the session of ! "> the legislature next January. Those who were in the immediate vicinity [r of the parliament house when the explosion lu occurred found themselves tottering upon cm their feet-Qm .tb? fares c" -ewsscsefcnr ltd The report was of terrific volume, and paralyzing in it? awful force and suddenness. A . shower of bricks and small broken stone and y" debris from the interiorof the building was ^ blown into the air and fell like hail in the j imaiodiato neighborhood of the structure. Immense blocks of cut stone were torn from tin outer wall and forced with fearful velocity I across the lawu in front of tho building, teari ing up tho grass in their course. Two ladies 1 who lived in the terrace facing the wing on the Grand Ailee w< re walking up the upper * end of St. Eustache street at the time, and j. narrowly escaped being struck by the huge blocks of stone. Several men had been seen about the building a few minutes previously, and the report was circulated that a number ef them had been killed. Fortunately, however, such was not the case. It was the work' men'9 dinner hour, and none of them except *' two were near enough to receive any injuries. J Only one of the two, a workman named Martel. was seriously hurt. j A reasonable timo having elapsed, a search was instituted, i n ler the direction of the Contractor, for further explosives, but without g- result. At about 1J< p. m., however, the >n crowd which still loitered around were '? startled aud terrified by a new explosion, this *1 time at the other end of the parliament house, and close to the northeast comer or rue diock. The masonry here is double the thickness of n- that blown away by tho first explosion, a Nothing but a quantity of lime and dust asly cendedfrom the building and no blocks of al stone were hurled from the wall, vet the al damage is far in excess of that caused by the lio first explosion. The whole comer is so bulged or out that it can barely hold together and must ts all be demolished, A number of officials who had ventured back into the department t offices since the first explosion lost no time in again taking leave of their desks, and nobody would again venture in the building for the ?, remainder of the afternoon. Mr. Charlebois, the contractor, had wisely dismissed his workmen for the clay after the first explosion. The government offered a reward of *4,000 for the conviction of the persons resi>onsible j for the explosion. ho ? THE PUBLIC DOMAIN. en >r Annual Rcpurt from the General nml Office?Sales and Recclptai. as Commissioner McForland, of the general . land office, lias submitted to the secretary of ln tho interior his report of tho operations of i h that office for the fiscal year ended Juno 30, ' ut 1S34, of which tho following is an abstract: The sales, entries and selections of public 'J, lamls embraced "0,831,011 acres and of Inio dian lands 698,129 acres, making a total of ty 27,521,170 acres?an increase over the year 1883 of 8,101,137 acres, and over the year 1882 of 13,^:22,003 acres. er Tno receipts from disposals of public lands 01 were ?11,*40,993, from sales of Indian land, |j] $938,137; a total of $12,779,130, being an in! crease over tho year 1883 of $1,073,804, and co | an increase over the year 1882 of $4,392,750, |jo ! to which is to be added $10,275 received for a J certified copies of iwniis, making the total I receipts for the year $12,789,405. !r. j The report says that pending congressional u j action upon forfeiture of certain railroad lid grants it has been divined proper to suspend )0. the issue of patents iu all cas.s where this question was involved in pending legislation. In concluding h's report the commissioner I says: "Thetime is mar at hand when there wdl ixi no public lands to invito settlement or : niroril citizens of the country an opportunity ' to secure cheap homes. Meanwhile vast I stretches of uncultivated lands aro everyon | where observable, titlo to which has been a. ' acquired by evasions of law. The numerous rly [ methods of disposal now existing and the laxto ity of precautionary provisions against misappropriation are resulting iu a waste of 0f j tho public domain, without tho comj)cn-ixl i sat'im attendant u]K)ii small ownerships for actual settlement. The time has fully arrived when wastefulness should 3n? | cease, and that jwrtion still remaining should tno | economized for tho use of aetu d settlers j only. An act reserving tho public lands, exills cept. mineral and timber reserves for entry .ho ! under the homestead law, with amendments I to prevent evasion of its wise restrictions, fj8 j would he a measure meeting this end.'' jol Tho commissioner points out tho i.eecssity hia | for the immediate adoption of some moasuro by which tho natural forests may bo preserved at tho head waters of important rivers and their tributaries, and in such other situations where their preservation Is expedient for climatic effect and other reasons of utility. He says there is no good reason why lands worth from $25 to $100 per acre for timber should bo sold for $1.25 and *ti 1 $2.50 per aero, as at present, and ho favors '10 | tho withdrawal from sale or entry under ex'a* isting laws of all the distinctly timber lands | of the United States until an examination ;ed ami appraisement of them fan be made, of | After examination permanent timber reserves >er j should Ik- csUiblislied where deemed desirable >at and provision made for the sale at not less ( than appraised value of the remainder. THE NATIONAL GAME. The baseball catcher will shortly go into retirement to grow a njw crop of lingers. Titfi'f. worn HiVht 1-!) pnm ?s in the Leaerne and American association respectively this % season. Providence won tho championship of tho I/3aguo in 1879, and has been second thrao times and third once. The salary list of the three largest baseball , associations in the country aggregate between i- i $600,000 and f:;0>,000. New York has the two men who are paid more for playing ball than any others in the world. They aro Ward and Ewinr, and each receives a little over $3,0'J0 for tho present season. The Providence directors have voted to present every ona of the players of th-j club with an order for an elegant suit of winter clothing and an overcoat upon their return from the West. \ The following players, now in League clubs, took part in tho professional championsjip campaign of 1174: Anson. O'Rourke, vVhite, Eggler, Start, Sutton, Force, Hinea, Burdock and Manning. Those in American clubs this season who were in tho championship campaign of 1874 are as Collows: Matthews, York, Nelson, Gerliardt, Uemsan, Bat? A tin, Fuliner, Farrar, Barnie, Mu-jt. Snyder and Bond. John Kelly, the umpire, tells of one instance in which Goldsmith, while pitching for the Chicagos, struck out four of the bat- ; lers in the last inning, and yet his club lost . :vv the game in that inning, 13 to 12. Flint : muffed three of tho four strike outs. On a pir with this is an incident of a lato game between the Baltimores and the Metropolitans, when three of the lattor's men made base hits in one inning, and not one got to second base, all three having been thrown oat ,'v trving to steal the base. "At the end of the twenty-fourth wee's the record of the League clubs in the champion- '< ship race was as follows, the season being practically at an end: Clubs. Won. Lost. I Clubt. BVu Lo*t. Providence S3 28 I New York 6") 50 Boston 73 36 Philadelphia 39 73 Buffalo 62 47 I Cleveland 35 77 Chicago 62 50 j Detroit 23 81 y The record at cue close 01 me season or ibto . stood as follows: Club*. JTon. Lett Club*. Il'an. LotL - jg Boston 63 85 Buffalo ?.G2 45 \53 Chicago 59 S9 New York 48 60 Providcnce...53 40 Detroit 40 68 Cleveland....65 42 Philadelphia... IT 81 In the American Association race, the championship has been won by the Metropolitans, of Sew York. The record of the twelve American Association clubs at the end of the twenty-fourth week was as follows: Cl'ib*. IFon. Loit. | Club*. Won. Lo*t Metropolitan....72 811 Athletic 60 43 Columbus 68 88 I Toledo 44 66 St. Loni* 66 89 I Brooklyn 40 60 Cincinnati 66 40JPltUbnrR 31 78 , Louisville 66 40 f Indianapolis v9 76 Baltimore. C2 43 | Virginia SI 79 ' . > MUSICAL AND DRAMATIC. ' I k Reuinye, when last beard from was fid- . iling around Honolulu. Miss Johnson, late of Kentucky, lath# Iate3t opera dubutante in Paris. Media will be the first plav in which Sir ? ^ri will onrtaoi* ?n Amnrir?n Hnrinc t.VlA mm* * ?! ing tour. Sardou first wrote "Dora," then "Fedora," and now he has named his new drama, "Theodora." An American boy only eight years old has , ;'i been admitted to the Paris conservatoire to learn piano playing. J Pauline Lucca, the prima, donna, hat '-> been a public singer for twenty-five years, and is now forty-four years old. Joseph Jefferson says: "One of the greatest needs of the American stage at the prea- ; ent is young,talented and attractive womea" ; Verdi, the composer,is seventy-three years of age. He has snow white hair and mustache He has written and publisuei 125 operas. Kino Oscar, of Sweden, has, in his office z. as president of the academy of music in Stockholm, delivered musical lectures on different occasions. Mme. Lucca, Mme. Patti aud Miss Clara Louise Kellogg, it is said, are each to celebrate their twenty-fifth anniversary on the stage tins iau. # . ~Wj When Patti used to sing at tho Tuillcriea s"3j concerts sbo receivod $W) each time, Nilsson received $340, Mma. Carvalho and Mr. Faora S 'OO each, Capoui $120, and Marie Ross $100. The rartest of all good gifts in the way of < music, a tenor with a fine sympathetic voice, is said to hive been discovered at Aix lea Bains. He is compared, with what justice is not proved, to Mario in his best days?and Marconi is his name. A plate was place 1 upon tho house 42 rue Mazarin, Paris, France, to indicato the spot on which opera was heard for tho tirst time in that city. The date was March 13,1671, and the opera "Poinone," which was performed every evening afterward for a year. \Xr\nif tkon mnci/Hkl nivrflHn "***" and minstrel companies ai-e now on the road. Of the 250 troupes that have orjjanked this year, 185 are regular theatrical companies, thirty-five are concert companies, twentyfive variety, fri'-.'uty. operatic awl_u*?- uin-?' voted to burnt cork. There is much difference in the cost of , stagers In Europe and America, as will be noted in the fact that Slme. Mnterna, one of the grandest pj*ima donnas on th-3 lyric stage, is engaged to sing the coming season at the Imperial opera, Vienna, at $300 a ni^ht,while Nilsson, with a fading voice, demands $2,500 a night in New York. $ Frank Chanfrau, the actor who died of , . apoplexy at Jersey City recently, was born in ]New York sixty years ago, early became a member of the volunteer Are department,and learned the trade of skip carpcnter. He had a taste for theatricals^ and joined a c mpa.jy oi amatuer acwiu. xio w uo & * i * i * * i-i -| and imitated Forest to perfection. .??-! A FRENCH VICTORY, Illore Than Three Thousand Chinese Killed?War Notci. General de l'lslo telegraphs from Chu, on '-i the' Upper Loochuan river, as follows: "Colonel Donnier, after a brilliant engagement on Friday, carried the heights commanding the fortress of Chu, I forming the point d'appui of I a large entrenched Chinese camp, which I was defended by five casamated forts. The Chinese forced were large. Their losses were heavy. On Saturday they attempted to as. sumethe offensive, but our artillery strewed the ground with Chinese bodies. 4 'After losing all their position'? the Chineso fled toward Langson. They hailed near Phutruong and Khanh. The French loss was twenty killed, including one officer, and ninety wounded. Two officers received slight wounds. Our troops were animated with the greatest ardor. The Chineso In this engagement were a part of the best troops of the ..." empire. They were perfectly armed, and v J " TI,o PhtnpflA C3H manoeuvred m cuiuinauuun losses were 3,000 killed, including their chief EgSH commander. The Chinese invasion of Tonquin has been arrested in the direction of ^ Langson. The wound sustained by General Negrier during the recent engagement noar f&g?9 Kep is healing satisfactorily. f ';V?5j General Briere de 1'Isle has advised the government that a further advance in Tonquin will be imprudent until the French army is heavily reinforced. . Warn Official advices to the French government SdJM state that the losses of the French in their re- . cent defeat at Tamsui were sixteen killed and forty-nine woundod. Of the latter thirty-two received only slight wound.?. fi FRANCE DEFEATED, Admiral Lc^iiv* and the French Fleet Itcpulscd at Tj^i?u!. ^ 2 Admiral Lespes and tTuTFrencir~Tt?>?t_at^ Tamsui have been defeated by the Chinese ? x The Chinese, by hiding in the brushwood. suffered some six hundred of the French forces to land and como within easy range of their guns before tl:ov apparel. The Chinese Ceneral Tso then led an attack ujv >n tho rear of the French forces, whuli InS-'amc punic-strickcn. The Chinese forces killed seventy men and captured one sun. They also Ik1- ysfigl heade i twenty-two French corpses, ! tit desisted from that horriblefeaturoui??n tin.-pro- PsBB test of tli.; British consul. The Chinese loan was 200 in killed an 1 wounded. Tho fighting lasted live hours, at the end of which time tho French retired to their snips. NEWSY GLEANINGS, Bounty is paid fof dead grasshoppers in Mexico. There are more drunken wohisn than man in London. There are over 275,000 school teachers in this country. There are twenty-six Methodist churches in Atlanta, Ga. Sixty-five thousand clergymen are preaching Christianity in tho United States. Leprosy among the Chines.' population of British Columbia is causing great alarm. Ostrich farms have started in M >xico Those in Florida and California were a failure. There are l.oOO.OOO cattle roaming over tho ranges of Colorado, valued at ?i0,0(Ji),000. Ax American circus is >aid to have just taken in $ii0,00<> in four jK'rforniauces in two days in Toronto, Canada Paris has just taken a census. It shows a no; illation ot 2,239,1128. of whom 10 7t>'J are English and 5,9s7 Americans. The past has b?en an unfavorable season for Western horse thieves. Thirty-seven of them have already been strung up by the vieiiauts in Montana. J'uk.ie arc 810 Youn; Men's Christian associations in the country, with a total meni- d boisuipof 108,137. They own eighty build- # ings and real eatate in all worth ?VJ.V5,000.