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N * ' ' ABBEVILLE PRESS .AND BANNER.! BY HUGH WILSON. ABBEVILLE, S. C.. WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 12, 1884. NO. 20. VOLUME XXIX. "ijJ bells of the night, The grass is wot with dew, And the stars are faint and few In the sky; The fireflies soar aloft, And the crickets chant a soft Lullaby. Then, floating on the night, Comes a melody so slight, It would seem Less a thing to name or own Than an echo overblown From a dream. The heavy odors sweep From the tropic coast of sleep Far away! And the music, vague and low, Seems to languish, seems to blow E'en as they. How it saddens! How it cheers 1 How it lulls the drowsy ears With its spells! Oh. the midnicht music sweet That thy airy towers repeat, Distant bells! ?N. A. Lindscy, in Boston Transcript. TILE BAR OF GOLD. "Look Ned! I>ook now. It's like! them curlccue things on Mrs. Jones' wall, ain't it?" "So 'tis," said Ned, looking over his sister's shoulder. "Nell can do any thing." "This ain't so good," said Nell, mod- | estly. "I wish 1 could do anything, Ned; I'd paint a nice lot of flowers to hang over your bed." "Do, Nell! " Jim exclaimed. "Yes, make that for us, Nell," Ned added, as he looked admiringly upon the drawing on the table. At that instant the little group around the table were silenced by a woman's voice. "If I were your father I'd take them notions out of you mighty quick, miss!" The girl looked up, turning a frightened face to the speaker. He* lips trembled, but she mastered her emotions as she replied; "I washed the dishes, ma, and swept the kitchen." "After I told you a dozen times or more. "Why don't you hunt up your clothes and sew the buttons on them, innfrtn/I vmftinrr oil tho xrnrlr on mp?" DIVUU Vi puiViiiL, v??* WMV 1' vi*?. MV. "I'll mend them, ma. I didn't think it was any harm to learn to draw and paint a little." "Learn to paint! What does a colt like you know about drawing? It's downright laziness, and I'm going to see if your father's going to encourage it, when you ought to learn to make your own clothes. When I was old as you?" The supposed head of the house entering at that moment, Mrs. Chapman turned to him, wrathfully: "That girl has had the impudence to talk back to me because I spoke to henabout attending to her own clothes in stead of fritterin' away her time in nonsense on paper." Mr. Chapman, who, after taking to himself a second wife, discovered he had voluntarily placed a heavy yoke upon his neck, looked at the little group now huddled together mute, ana with scared faces. "I tell her, if I washer father, I'd take that laziness and nonsense out of her. A girl as big as that ought to be to work. You ought to take her to the factory with you, Chapman. She can carry spools up and down stairs, or do something useful, 'stead o' sprawlin' all over paper and slates, usin" up pencils." "I didn't think Nell big enough to go to work yet. I'll think about it." The father's heart pleaded for the little girl whose upbraiding eyes forcibly recalled the deaa, and reminded him of his obligations to the living. "Well?only don't be too long think ing about it," said Mrs. Chapman number two,asshelefttheroom. Nell stole to her father's side, apd slipped her hand in his. "Don't mind, pa. If it wasn't for Ned and Jim, 1 wouldn't care, but I'd rather be with you in the factory than at home." "Hush!"' He felt asbamed of it but he was afraid his wife would overhear her. "I'll see about it?don't fret?and don't talk back. You must be good children." This was addressed to the group collectively. The boy mutineers were preparing to knuckle their eyes, when he added harshly, "None o' that now!" whereupon the boys choked lumps down their throats, and pushed their fists straight down into their pants pockets. while their father glanced at the paper Nell left lying ou the table. He beat suddenly over it, then turned to Nell: "You copied it." "No, indeed I didn't pa." "I saw her do it," said Jim, coming to his sister's aid manfully. ;iShe did it all out of her head, pa," Ned affirmed. They both looked at Nell, and Nell blushed as she cast her eyes down. "I can do ever so much better than that, pa." Mr. Chapman sighed. He wished he was not quite so poor. He wished he could send her to school. He wished? 30 many things that he realized keenly for the thousandth time, he had made the mistake of his life in marrying Hannah Cone. It would not do to let this nonsense grow?to encouiage it. Best take Nell to the factory. Work would occupy her time?keep peace in the house maybe. So it was settled to the satisfaction of Mrs. Chapman number two. Nell, at the age of fourteen accompanied her father to the factory the following Monday. Hague's factory was so vast, the crowds of men, women and children who were shut up in it from early morn till night, so numerous that a score more or a.: a n j less were never noiiceu. xt initue a great, difference to Jim and Ned however. The stepmother's breath grew colder now that Nell was out of hearing. They had * x more surprises now in the shape of smart blows, frrrti the stepmother's voice grew shriller. Two pillows were bedewed oftener with tears, and two trembling, fearful children became afraid of their own shadows. Meanwhile the great chimneys at Hague's factory projected the smoke of thousands of tons of coal heavenward, the looms produced acres upon acres of beautiful and costly fabrics and Nell Chapman's feet toiled up and down stairways that seemed to lengthen as the day wore on wearily until there seemed to be no end of them. "It was easy work," Mrs. Chapman number two said. "A baby might carry spools.'' Meantime Nell, with dark, heavy-lidded eyes, hollow cheeks, and tired feet dragged herself to and from the great factory, until?but 1 will not anticipate. The inhabitants of N were stunned one burning July day with a sound that smote their cars like the crash of worlds. Doors were burst open; walls trembled; the earth vibrated; every pain of glass in the town was shattered. It was just after the noonday meal. The great engines in 11 agues carpet factory had made two or three revolutions, when the workers were appalled by a sound accompanied by a blow that threatened the total destruction of the factory. The towns people running to their doors, looking .oward the factory saw a puff of yellowish smoke hanging a few moments over one corner of the mill. When the smoke cleared away, a hole in the wall as large as the side of a small house was observed. Around this the workers in the fuctory, now standing silent and grim, gathered with pale faces. The towns people mingling with them beheld a few courageous souls bearing out the dead engineer, and half r? ivv, thu a BfOrt- IIJtlJUITU 1U1 I11C. IIU'.U luu uu thorities collected their wits, and investigated the matter, they arrived at the unexpected conclusion that it was a merciful dispensation of Providence that so few were injured, and but one killed, when, had the "accident" occurred five minutes later, or fifty minutes earlier in the day, hundreds would have been killed and wounded by the explosion of the boilers. As it was the factory would resume operations in a week, or ten days at most. * * * * * Chapman was among the wounded. ' AH his own fault," Mrs. Chapman number two said. "If he had been minding his own basiness?in his own ?l*ee?it wouldn't haye happened," - This in the ears of a man to whom the doctor hinted his chances for ever seeing sky or earth again was problematical, was as bitter as anything in Job's ! experience. To die upstairs iu a close back room and hear a shrewish stepmother scold his little boys all day was hell on earth. There was. .in these days of utter wretchedness, a y-'iud of hurrying feet, and then th$?>'hrew's tongue lashed the "lazy lumy\hat ought to be working in a neighbor's kitchen." As there never was any love in the case at all, on the second wife's part, when dire poverty flung the door wide open all the windows in the house were not large enough to echo her discontent and ill-huinor to the end of the town. * * * * Xell Chapman sat ir. silent despair in the one room set apart for herself and her brothers. Although it was a little past the high noon, and the air was stifling hot. her little brothers were compelled to remain in their Toom. Ned and Jim had been guilty of the enormous offence of littering the house" with the trimming and pieces of paper they had gathered at Judge Hanner's house, where the paper hangers were at work. Such brilliant paper was never seen before. The boys swooped down upon it as misers might appropriate a gold mine. They wore it round their arms, legs, and bodies, and waltzed away with it home, where in due season Mrs. Chapman gave them "such a warming" that they both cried themselves asleep in broad daylight in their bedroom. Ned on the floor, Jim in Ned's shielding arms. When she laid him down beside Ned gently, and seated herself again, it was an attitude the Almighty never intended youth to take. Her elbows were planted on her knees, her palms clasped her chaek and chin, and she looked straight before her into vacancy. As she sat there in the darkened room, she recalled a face in which compassion and tenderness blended so sweetly that her memory could not grasp the approach of a frown upon it. It was not possible the dead could see the living? if her dead mother could see them now, it would be torture inconceivable. "What could a girl like her do? If her father did not recover his eyesight, her brothers would be bound out. It would be as much as she could do to pay her own way." As she eat there with stony eyes staring at the door, the cat pushed its way in, and rubbed against her, purring. It hastened to little Jim's side?it always purred around him when he cried?and curled beside him. Mrs. Chapman number two banged at the front door, leaving it wide open, and when Nell, recalled to herself by the sound, looked down upon the floor, a broad bar of sunlight, falling tnrougn me aoor 01 me room, siumeu across the floor. It fell upon the tangled trimmings of paper "them little wretches brought in'' around their legs and arms, and drew with them in a heap as they tied from the heavy hand of the stepmother. The scarlet tints burned like tire; the purple shimmered; the yellow stones shone like gold. As Nell looked at the queer patches of purple an I dull brown interlaced with a network of" tangled trimmings, she started. Her pulse quickened. An idea formed itself slowly in her brain. Then she flew?fairly flew to her treasure ih the cupboard, brought forth her poor little box of cheap water colors?pathetic in their cheapness, and her shabby pencils and a piece of paper, and began to paint. The flies hummed through the open door, the cat purred loudly beside her little Jim. the air palpitated with heat, but Nell was oblivious to these. It was only when Mrs. Chapman number two returned and noisily slammed the door to, that Nell paused in her work. Then she put her paint box and paper in their hiding place. ******** ? "If you please, indeed sir, I did it all myself." "Il'm!"' Mr. Hague, the elder, looked rlmun tmrm hpr throncrh his classes in a "" -rwM ? o" ? o way that almost made Nell's heart stand still, 6he was so overcome with awe by the appointments of Mr. Hague's private office, and by the manner of Messrs. Hague, father and son. " My father did not intimate a doubt of the truthfulness of your statement; he simply expressed surprise. This is, I must say?oh! by the way, what is your name?" "Nellie Chapman." "Young Mr. Hague looked meaningly at the elder Hague,wthe elder Hague said something in a low tone to his son, then the latter asked abruptly: "How is your father, Miss Chapman?' It sounded so strange to be called Miss Chapman that she was flurried, but she managed to say; "The doctor thinks he may see again." "H'm! h'm!'' said the elder, in a peculiar manner. "Very odd?unaccountable." "Not at all," said the son. "I have heard of cases almost similar." "H'm? rare?rare, I should say." He wheeled around to Nell suddenly, then, "My child?this, I scarcely know what to say of it. Best put it in Boone's hands and let him decide." "Now that is precisely what I do not propose to do," said Hague, jr. "It won't be fair. Boone must not know where we obtained tne design, i suggest I be permitted, as usual, to order him to supply any details that may occur to him in preparing the design for the frame." "You are right?quite right. And you Miss?this is the most extraordinary case that ever came under my notice?call on us?say in a week." "Make it Saturday, if you wish," interposed Hague, Jr., kindly, as he looked into the wistful eyes that seemed to search his very soul in their anxiety. "I will be back Saturday," Nell said, simply, as she skipped out. She thought she would have fainted if she had remained a moment longer, her joy was so great. The present owner of Hague's factory, the foremost in the land, point to an elegant residence on the summit overlooking the town, where the hobby-horses of the grandchildren and children of Hague, senior nw^mnior snine unucr mc irees. The Hagues amassed a competency and retired from activc pursuits. The greatest stroke of business the firm of Hague & Son ever did was when they put their famous "Bar of Gold" pattern on the market. The series of patterns following yielded them larger profits in two years, than all the profits of the two years put together. There is a story current in the trade that the profits of the original "Harof Gold" pattern amounted to upward of two hundred thousand dollars. Incidentally I may mention that the succeeding profitable patterns were designed by the same hand?the hand that was appropriated by Hague, Jr., before the firm retired from active business. Needless to add that Nell's brothers and father shared her good fortune, or that her father thinks to thi< day that there never was a pattern as handsome as "The Bar of Gold." Not From the Chinese. It's the five-minute horse that travels all day. People who live in glass houses should have plenty of curtains. Blest is lie who has a friend that lasts o nf ancnnnfUrR. ~ J.*... , The turtle is not as swift as the grayhound; but he makes better soup. Some people are more particular about blots 011 their letters than blots on their escutcheons. Ca'sar, with all his greatness, couldn't snap his fingers with impunity in the face of a buzz-saw. The bull-terrier is not as long-headed as the average business man; but then he never loses his grip. The rain falls alike on the new eightdollar silk dicer'' of the dude and the faded felt hat of the statue-pe idler. The professional carpet-layer is morefrugal than the average clergyman, because he wears great leather pads on his knees to save his trousers. The dog with the handsome silver collar doesn't always make the biggest fight. Flora Temple drew a vender's wagon before she'broke the record.?Puck. There are three chandeliers in the White House that cost five thousand dollars apiece. I mi NEWS AND NOTES FOR WOMEN. Brocades are fashionable, and will be worn all winter. Plain velvet costumes will be the height of style this winter. Chenille again plays a conspicuous part in dress trimmings. New bonnets are characterized by pointed crowns and fronts. This winter black tulle will be used extensively for ball dresses. Young misses arc wearing their hair flowing loose down the back. The Princess of Wales designs the styles of her children's dresses. Bronze slippers and old gold stockings are popular for house wear. Female telegraph operators in Germany rcceive $240 a year, with no vacation. lioman silks in unique patterns are among the new high-priced dress goods. Bonnet garniture is fashionably worn, massed at the top instead of on one side. Plumes, fancy feathers and adjustable front pieces are preferred trimmings in millinery. No class of dress goods exhibits this season a larcer number of novelties than do wool fabrics. Thirty thousand women are said to be engag"'! in the manufacture of artificial flowers in Paris. Woolen dress fabrics give the impression of great weight and a general shaggincss of surface. Tucks are used to trim the fronts of skirts with which the old-fashioned cur- j tain drapery is formed. The St. Louis Post-Dispatch says tobac- j co chewing is Decoming a habit with many women in that city. In one of the mountain counties of Kentucky a woman has held the office of justice of the peace without legal author- i ity for the last ten years. Long side plaits are seen on many dresses. The plaits are usually confined to one side while the other is jjlain or is ! ornamented by bows of satin ribbon. Among the novelties are Italian aprons j r>f sillr nr linf>n wit-h hnnHu nf lnr? I insertion and edging, and Greek aprons \ of satin or surah, richly decorated with embroidery. Black silk frocks are made up by London dressmakers with three flounces, all pointed, and all edged with lace, a plain, round waist, full in front and a silk poiuted girdle. American escurial brocudes are a novelty. They have the designs outlined with white cords as in escurial laces. The figures look like lace applied to a lengthwise repped fabric. Cording in vermicelli patterns covers the entire crown of many of the dark felt hats which are intended to accora-' pany cloth suits. They look especially well when the costume is braided. A simple but pretty trimming for a basque consists of two rows of ribbon velvet coming over the shoulders, forming a point in the back and outlining a vest in the front, ending in tabs below the waist. Among the richest imported fabrics for bonnets is the gold embroidered camel's hair, made as stiff as metal with threads of eold. It costs $140 a yard, and is so narrow that but two crowns : can be made out of one yard. The lily pattern in brocade is pro- ; duced in white and in pink. The front I and sides of a dress of this material are j draped off with white or pink satin embroidered with lilies in pearl, white and i pink chenille and gold thread. A new and beautiful material for wraps is shown for the first time. It is a natte ground with a combination of raised plush and uncut velvet figures in i all colors and Bengalines in all conceiv- j able shades and especially rich in design, j Again fashion has unwittingly favored economy, and last year's felts, if soft and pliable, can be made extremely stylish by means of a few bold plaits and folds, till the original shape is lost entirely, i Gilt braid combined with the velvet is very popular for trimming. The lucky woman who can wear woolen gloves without roughening their hands now lind very good long-wristed gloves quite nice enough to wear under a muff for twenty-five cents. Even the j longest jersey-wristed taffeta gloves cost but eighty-three cents, and the shortest may be bought for fifty. A poplin dress seen recently was cream white, made en princesse, with bouffant black drapery; front trimmed with ruffles of Oriental lace, Jabots of satin ribbon down either side of the ruffling; bodice square, bordered with lace and sleeves to the elbow. The sneen ox tne popun was suDaueu uy me i lace, and a large cluster of crush pink j roses added to the effect. A Present for the President. The state department at Washington : has received advices from our minister ; at the court of Siam that a very handsome present for President Artnur has ; been received at the legation in Bangkok, J consisting of a Malay kriss of the finest j temper, with a solid gold hilt, and en- j cased in a gold alloyed scabbard, and ' two spear# of quaint Malay fashion, with : gold sheaths for the beautifully polished i blades. They are reported to be of great beauty, and are very valuable. They ! were sent to the President under singu- j lar aud interesting circumstances. Many , Americans, particularly if either owners ! or underwr'tere, will remember that in , 1881 the bark Coringa, of Boston, while I on a voyage from Siam to Java, went j ashore, during a heavy gale, at a1 point on the peninsula of Malacca, I called Tuluban, and went to pieces almost immediately. The crew and officers reached the shore safely, and were received by the chief at that point most hospitably. He took the captain, his wife and child into his own house, 1 and provided for the others in the vil- j lage. lie kept them for nearly a month, and treated tnem with the utmost kindness and courtcsy. "When the news reached Bangkok, our minister at that port took the necessary steps for sending relief, and they were all brought up to that port and shipped via Singapore to the United States. Our minister, Gen. 1 Halderman, in his recommendation to 1 the government on the matter, recom- j mended that this hospitality shown to ; distressed Americans should not go un- , rewarded, and on this recommendation 1 the government caused a valuable gold medal to he struck and sent out.togethei with a Winchester express rifle mounted most elaborately, and gilt and nickeled ! profusely. These were sent to Gen. Hal- j dertnati, and by him presented in person ( to the chief, at his own village in Tuluban. The poor rajah was quite overcome ! by the great honor done him. for. as he thought, a trilling act of kindness, and in return for the attention shown him, had these superb presents prepared for transmission to his brother chief of the American confederation. Tuluban is a Malay and Mahomcdan state, though a dependency of Siam and attached to the j province of Patani Funeral Stories Some people attend every funeral they ( can ht-ar of, simply because they have a mania for (loin# so, and many go to en-! joy the drive to and from the grave. I j knew one old laily of the latter class who j would go to every funeral in her neigh- ' borhood and would weep over the corpse j so profusely and descant upon the de-1 ceascd's virtues so eloquently that the undertaker would infallibly feel it his j bounden duty to ask her name and have i it put down in one of the best places on i the carriage list. You know Sydney j Smith says: "For the heartiest mirth and I jollity in the world commend me to the j last carriage at a funeral." Speaking of humor in connection with j funerals, 1 remember burying the wile of | a prominent iron manufacturer who never I lost an opportunity to advertise his busi-1 ness. lie purchased a lot in a cemetery which I need not name, and surrounded it with a very ornamental fence of hi? own manufacture. After I had laid his good lady to rest within it he erected to her memory a handsome tombstone, on which were carved these words: "Here lies Mrs. Annie B , wife of Robert B , proprietor of the Iron Works, where the elegant fence around this lot was manufactured. Similar oneB made to order,"?Philadelphia Times. | LIFE UNDER THE OCEAN. ! WATCHING FIBRES IN" THEIR OWN ELEMENT. A .\aturalist as a Diver?How Fishes* Swim?Tlieir Domestic JLife?Wonderful Shape*?The Pelican Fish. ( '"Making a collcction for tlic museum?" asked a Cincinnati Enquirer writer of a . scientific man who was overhauling a : curious-looking armor. "Not exactly," was the reply. "I'm repairing my diving armor. I have taken up diving to study the habits of some animals under water. I have made fishes j rather a speciality, and last fall it oc curied to me as I was going South that as the water was extremely clear I could use a diver's armor to advantage, so I j got a complete outfit and had very good results. The water there is so i clear that you can see sixty or seventy j feet without any difficulty, and ' for a number of years I have used I a boat with a glass bottom. I ! boiurht a small sloop that had a well . in ncr to noia usn, iook out, x,uc ! bottom and inserted several panes of i heavy glass, and there I had a perfect j window in the bottom of the boat so 1 that even in the roughest weather I ! could lie and look down through it, and sec the smallest objects on the | bottom, and so make my collections. | By this means I made some valuable I finds of rare shells and corals, and ; perhaps you know that there are numj bers of small fish that follow boats, keeping close up under the bottom; these I I could see and watch their motions. ' Curiously enough, they did not appear j to see me, and I would watch their every movement: but this only made me eager to get a nearer view, and so I began to think of the diver's armor, and I bougtft I this and had the helmet altered so that IJ could see perfectly well, and as I was ' not going to visit any wrecks there was no danger of breakage and I was perfectly safe. I made my first experiment on the Florida reef. ,;Onc of the most remarkable features of this life under water is the fact that the fishes were not afraid of me, but swam about when I did not move, evidently taking me for an old wreck; and wiicii x raisuu my uiui liiuj wuuiu uait away for a few moments, then suddenly return, and were as curious as some people, their great eyes staring, ever open, presenting oftentimes a ludicrous spectacle. 1 have even had fishes rub up against my armor, as you often see them against the bottom, probably to rid themselves of some obnoxious parasite. The way I made my observations of fish and their movements was to recline upon the bottom among the coral and have a supply cf cray-fish bait that they are very fond of, and in this way I often had a perfect school of fish hovering over me, and so could observe their every movement. Did you ever watch a fish in the water? Take the common sunfish. As it poises in mid-water you will see the aide or pectoral fins moving in a kind of Bide motion, just the same movement that you intuitively try to make with your hands when you try to 'tread ' water or keep yourself motionless; in short, the pectoral fins are the arms of the fish, its fore limbs. In the ; flying-fish the arm-fins are wings; in \ some of the sculpins there are regular fingers by which the fish crawls ov r the bottom; in the Periapthalmus they are , used to walk on dry land." "Hold on, j professor," cried a listener, "we've heard j of the fish out of the frying-pan, but draw the line on their leaving the water." "It's no tish yarn," replied the scientist, with a laugh, "but actual fact, and, indeed, I have observed it myself." "In observations of this kind," continued the speaker, "you notice things that can not even be seen in a good aquarium, as there the fish are under certain restraint. While I have been lying low, literally, with all these fishes hovering over me, I have seen performances that were exactly akin to our games and sports. When a lot of young fishes were about they were continually engaged in games of chase. Now one would dart, and, followed by half a dozen others, the pursued dodging here and there behind bits of coral until some other fish in turn seemed to attract attention, and tho. rntirfi rrnwd would rush nell-mell after it. One day I saw two fishes, called smelts, approach each other in a solemn way, open their mouths as wide a9 possible until their lips met. Then they would slowly diaw or back off and then repeat the operation. You may call it what you like, but judging from our Btand-point I assumed that they were kissing each other. They were certainly not fighting, as I repeatedly saw encounters, and they were always characterized by rapidity of motion and display of temper natural to the occasion. " One of the most remarkable sights that I observed," continued the amateur diver, "were the coral beds. From a boat they present nothing unusual?a brown mass of pointed stems or branches; but one day I had the boat placed on the edge of a channel, and gradually walked down into it until 1 attained the bottom, in about thirty-five or forty feet of water.andl tell you the scene was impressive. I seemed to be in the streets of a city. The bottom upon which I stood was a pure white sand, hard and firm, and perfectly free of coral; but on either side rose a perpendicular wall of the branch coral nearly forty feet high, all the points extending directly outward or toward me, and presenting a magnificent unbroken surface of a rich olive brown hue. "Hidden and only noticed when the coral was broken away, were myriads of sea eggs or Echini of all shapes and colors. Some were jet black with spines like needles. Another kind had short spines, and were albinos, or perfectly white. They are eaten in some parts of Italy, and considered a great luxury; but they are not used in Florida. They have no lobsters there,'' continued the naturalist, "but their place is taken by what they call crazy fish. It looks like a lobster, only is a yellow hue, and instead of having two large claws, has two enormous whips or feelers. This great mass of coral was perfectly undermined by these creatures, their whips projecting and waving to and fro continually. "How about that fish that crawls out on dry land?" asked some one. "The lisli," continued the naturalist, "is a little fellow that looks very much like what we call a sculpin, although it has none of the barbels and curious appendages that characterize those tish. I first noticed them in the Spice islands when I was there in 187*2. 1 was walking by the shore one day at low tide where the beach was formed of dark mud and weed-covered rocks, when my companion said, pointing to some small objects that were hopping along shore near the water: 'Isn't it rather queer for frogs to go with salt wa'er?' I replied, perhaps it. is something new.' So we determined to find out what they were, and, taking oil our shoes, Ave waded in and along the bench so as to drive the supposed frogs ashore. But all at onoe one started right up under my eyes and gave a hop of about a foot, and to my astonishment it was a fish; and so I announced to ray friend who was behind, lie wouldn't believe me; but when he came up, there the littlo creature was, high and dry, resting on a stone, with its head somewhat raised, on its prominent pectoral fins. I made a jump forit, and my friend did the same, but away it went, hopping just like a toad. iukl for several moments there was a race between man and fish. We soon hemmed it in, however, and I have it in my cabinet now. The side fins are almost arms, and are strong and powerful, and on them the fish rests and jumps. In Australia some years ago some geologists found some fossil bones that were pronounced to belong to a large fish. In 1870 some one discovered the identical fish alive. "The way they did so is somewhat TKni? worfl An o Vinntinrr trin Vv UI iVUO. ? UUJ nvib VIA I* uuanuQ VK|J up the country, and one night camped near a small stream. In the middle of the night one of the party was awakoned by a curious barking sound, and thinking it might be some wild animal after their horses, he slipped on his clothes, took a rille and went out. The noise came at regular intervals fiom the river below, and, taking a narrow path he started after it. The monn was bright, and when he got down to the level 01 the water he heard the bark, and saw a large glistening object, and then srrv it leap along or flounder through-the grass. Upon this he fired, and, to his nm izcment, found that he had shot a fish. The shot awakened the rest, and the creature was brought into camp. It was about six feet long, had a small head and enormous scales, while the body ended not in a fin, but in a point. It was found that they breathed both air and water with perfect ease, and that when hungry the great fish, which was a vegetable feeder, would come to the shore, expel the air that it held in its air-bladder, thus making the barking sound, and wander over the flats in search of food. "The other day they dredged a fish ! that was all head, and its mouth had a ! pouch large enough to contain seven or eight bodies of its own size. It had no eyes or fins, and its gills were more or less upon the inside. It was taken from water a mile or more deep. Another fish found, and related to the cod, had a stomach that was so like rubber that it could swallow fishes over three times its own size. Its iaws worked cxactlv like those of a snake, and in swallowing this monster pulled itself over its prey like a glove." Running the Gauntlet. Sebastian Beck is a plain, honest-looking German, probably fifty years of age, and lays claim to being considerable of a linguist and capable of speaking seven languages in addition to Sioux Indian, which he speaks with great fluency, apparently. During nearly ten years Beck was a member of the Sioux tribe. His story of how he ran the gauntlet is thus told: "We did not know what fate awaited us. But we had scarcely arrived at the Indian camp than we were given to understand that we would have to run the gauntlet. This consisted in running between two lines of braves, five hundred in each line, and taking all the blows that these could give us while we made the run. which was twice ud and twice down tiic line. The lines were just far enough apart to give us room to run, a line of guns being placed along on each side between us and the Indians, which could not be crossed by either us or the Indians. "We were compelled to keep within this line, and the Indians were not allowed to leave their positions in the line, but could inflict all the punishment possible while we were in reach of them in turn. The Indians were armed with sticks, moccasins, and everything that could be used to strike with of n nature that would inflict pain without doing great bodily injury, but chiefly with a kind of cat-o'-nine-tails used by the Indians in riding their ponies. "This is a terrible weapon, having a large number of strings, on the end of each of which is a chunk of lead. There were a large number of squaws in the lines in addition to the braves, who : appeared to take as strong an interest in the matter as the latter. We were stripped naked, with the exception of breech clouts which were given us. I was placed first in the line of twenty-five, the run being made by all together in single file. "This was a decided advantage to me, as I could go as fast as I liked, not having to depend upon the speed of others. A IViendly Indian, the ono who had en couragea mc at nrei, signaieu mc, giving me to understand that 1 was to rnn as fast as I could. I did not heed the advice after I got well started, but it served me until I got past the first dozen, a9 1 started while they were chatting among themselves. "But the rest of the way I got it, I tell yon. I just ran for dear life,, taking the blows as they came. I could not repress some exclamations of pain as the j whips cut into my flesh, but I managed to keep from disgracing myself in the minds of the Indians, although suffering terribly at every blow received." "Did many of them miss you?" "After the first dozen none that I know of. They laid on the blows as j hard as they could, but conformed strict- j ly to their law, which is not to leave ; their place in the line to inflict further i punishment. "When I reached the end of the line the first time I was covcred with blood , and thoroughly winded, being scarcely able to stand. We managed to get ' through with our lives, not one of the ; twenty-five falling or giving up. We ; were then admitted to membership in , the tribe." Beck is now traveling among the Indians looking for his wife and children, ; whom he lost when captured years ago. ; ?Uenter J\eics. Wonderrul Sleepers. A wonderful case is on record of a snail which went to sleep on March 25, 1840, and did not wake up until March 7, 1850. It seems that' this snail was Sicked up in the Egyptian desert, and as e had retired to the topmost recesses of the whorls of his shell he was gummed on a piece of cardboard as though dead, labeled with the date and sent to the British museum. He slept unconcernedly for nearly four years, when, showing some signs of life, the authorities ordered him a tepid bath, and at the first touch of the welcome moisture the snail thrust forth his head very cautiously and i began to walk to the top of the basin. The West African mudfish affords another instance of long-continued existence in a state of torpor. The fish known a3 the Lapidosiren?lives among the shallows of the river Gambia, which are completely dry during the tropical summer. But before the drought comes the mudfish is wise enough to hide deep down in the soft clay at the bottom of the pools, and there it lies in a torpid state for months together, while the surrounding mud hardens into a CHke. While in this state the natives dig them up and prize them as a great delicacy for the table. That he does not live without breathing the mudfish proves by leaving a small pipe open from his cell leading through the hard mud to the open air. Tokio Streets. The stre?. of Tokio, Japan, are so narrow and crowded that it is an annoyance to ride through them. Every driver carries a horn, in order to warn people ; to get out of the way, yet such 'a the ! crush of stages, cars and ginrekaha9 that j the blockades are frequent and sometimes disastrous. A correspondent of the San Francisco Bulletin narrates his experience in a Tokia horse-car, as follows : The other day I was riding in from Asakusa on one of the cars, when suddenly we came to a halt. Looking out of the car, what should prove to be the cause of the interruption but a monster pine tree, of the dwarf species so com- J 111011 iu Japan, which was being transported on a wagon, evidently constructed for that purpose, from one part of the i city to anotlier. At the base the trunk j must have been six feet in circumfer- | mop lint it wns onlv about fifteen feet high, terminating in a flat, broad cauopy of branches. The blockade lasted several hours, during which time street-cars ceased running and everybody took the whole thing as a matter of course. The motive power in transporting the tree ' was a long string of oxen and scores of i street coolies, who put their shoulders to j the hugh, canvas wrapped wheels, and I chorused the usual customary grunt of I Japanese coolies. ? The American (Jirl on Her Dignity. , "Absolute dignity of manner is unknown to the American girl," says the j London World. This was written by a 1 chump who never attained the distinc- j lion of standing on the train of an : American girl's party dress at the precise moment when its fair wearer is taken with a spasmodic impulse to rush across ; the room. If it isn't absolute dignity of manner that she exhibits when she turns upon ner ncipiess oiienuer peruana suuicbodv will say what it is.?Philadelphia J Press. An esteemed contemporary, talking of a man run over on Monday by a Market , street car, says he has four doctors in at- ' tendance on him, and then unnecessarily 1 adds: "It is doubtful whether he wil! i recover."?San Francisco Post. When a book raises your spirits and inspires you with noble and courageous feelings, seek no other rule to judjje ' the book by. It is good, and made by J a good workman. . I ABOUT TRUCK FARMING. HOW XT 13 CABBXED OS ABOUMD : SEW YOEK. The Many Uncertainties of the Bu?l- ] new* and the Profit* It Brinpv? I What In Grown by the Farmer*. Many persons who observe the beauty of the vegetable gardens near New York, and see the advantage of having them on i the outskirts of a large city, also see a great deal of available land in the suburbs which appears to be admirably suited for the same purposes, and they won- j der that more of it is not under the same j high state of cultivation. A truck farmer was asked by a Newark (N. J.) Sun !<tg Cull reporter vliy j more land was not used in growing gar- i den truck, and he answered: "For several reasons, and the chief one is that I truck farming is a lottery, and people ! whr> want, to rrnmblc with their raonev ! can find easier ways of doing it than j spending it in manure and employing their bodily strength and hired labor digging it into the ground." "What are the other reasons?" "Weil,taxes are too high in the neighborhood of towns, and competition is altogether too lively in New York, where the local truck gardeners are obliged to contend, first against the shipments : from the South, and later against the j immense truck farmer on the cheap lands of Long Island. "A score of years ago," he continued, "a few men accumulated fortunes by truck farming, but they did not do it without the most diligent labor and attention, and at that time the competition was comparatively light. Market gar dening ia liard and steady work, and to j make a living at it a man must work j early and late, and watch every item of j expense closely. At times favorable cir- [ cumstances may permit a man to save a | few hundred dollars, but he must always | expect to meet with a spell of bad luck, j when he will be obliged to spend all he ! has made. Sometimes his bad luck will j lie in poor crops, but oftener it will result from an over-production and conse- ' quent glut in the market which forces him to sell his truck for less than the cost of raising. There is no such thing as holding back the stuff he raises, for when it is ready it must go upon the market for what it will bring. Cabbages, which are a great reliance of the gardeners, grew too plentiful last spring, and lots of; money was lost through them. It is only by using the same ground two or three times in a year that any money can be made, and this is only possible when manure is plentifully applied. Most of us use manure on every inch of cultivated ground twice a year, and this is one of the heaviest items of expense. Labor also is very expensive, although the very cheapest "kind * - Wa mow f rr\m Pnafln ib ujlljpiujcu? tt o iujiv jlik\ju. aavu* vwwiviw i Garden, give the bed, board and wash- [ ing and pay them ten to fifteen dol- | lars a month, all the year round, | At certain seasons we have help from women living in our neighborhood. They come to work in the gardens for one dollar per day, and thus help their husbands to make both ends meet. We employ them mostly in weeding, and they work on all fours as they creep to and fro between the rows, nnd sometimes they use a putty-knife for weeding, and sometimes they just pull up the weeds with their lingers." The variety grown by the market gardeners is very great, and comprises almost ail of the spring vegetables, as well as a great deal that is known to produce dealers as "heavy stuff," x such as potatoes, turnips, beats, sweet corn, cabbages and melons. Their chief reliance, however, is the more perishable green stuff, in which they have little competition from the farmers of the State. Early spring ?;reens and vegetables offer advantages or market gardening, and only find competition in the shipments from Bermuda and the South. The home-grown truck presents a fresher appearance, and consequently secures a better prica, which is the only margin upon which the gardener can depend for profits. He commences operations as soon as the : frost is out of the ground, and plants ! radish, lettuce, onion, spinach and other j seeds in frames covered with sashes. The I soil in the frames is warmed by a liberal i use of stable manure, and the plants are, j in a measure, forced, so that tney are on the market as early as the same kinds which come from remote Southern ports. The life of a market gardener is a hard one; he must be up before the sun every day, and upon market days he begins to load at about midnight. He works as long as there is light to distinguish plant I from weed, and often spends hours of I lamp light in assorting and bunching. His wife and children must share his toil if they wish to succeed, and while the working season lasts they must not expect mucn leisure for amusement. WISE WORDS. Society is a crucible in which all gold melts. Out of it is drawn only one or two prizes?vanity or disgust. Pretences go a great way with mjn that take fair words and magisterial looks for current payment. The excesses of our youth are drafts j upon our old age, payable with interest about thirty years after date. The fruits of true wisdom ure modesty and humility. A vain or proud man Is in a positive sense an ignorant man. To say little and perform much is the ' characteristic of a great mind. Adver- j eity borrows its sharpest sting from impa- j tience. The same littleness of soul which i makes a man despise his inferiors and | trample on them makes him obsequious to superiors. j If a man empties his purse into his j head, no man can take it away from him. | An investment in knowledge always pays the best interest. It is only in some corner of the brain j v/hictx we nave em pry mat viuu can uu- i tain a lodging. When she knocks at our i floor be able to say: "No room for your i ladyship?pass on." If you have great talents industry will improve them; if very moderate abilities ' industry will supply their deficiency, i Nothing is denied to well-directed labor. 1 Nothing is ever to be attained without it. j The Stone in the Road. There was a duke once who disguis:d [ himself ana placcd a great rock in tho , middle of the road near his palace. Next morning a peasant came that way ; I with his ox cart. " Oh, these lazy peo-1 | pie!" said he. " there is this stone lying j ' right in the middle of the road, and no . j one will take the trouble to put it out of: the way." And so Hans went on, scold-. i ing about the laziness of the people. ! I Next came a gay soldier along. Ilis Vinn/1 wno Vii?M Qiifnr hiirk- thfit lie didn't ! ' notice the stone, and so he stumbled 1 ! over it. lie began to storm the country j 1 people around there for leaving a hugo ' : rock in the road. Then he went on. i Next came a company of merchants, i When they came to the atone the road i was so narrow that they had to go off in single file on the other side. One of them cried out: " Did anybody ever see 1 the like of that big stone lying heie the ; whole of the morning, and not a singlo ( person stoppiuir to take it away?'' It lay there for three weeks and no j , one tried to move it. Then the duko ; sent around to all the people on his lands , | to meet where this rock lay, as ue had something to tell them. j | The day came, and a great crowd gathered. Old Hans, the farmer, was 1 there, and so were the merchants A onrl u anlpuriirl PRVftl- ! lawm wua uvttiv, ? - ~r- j, cade came galloping up. The duke got ( down from his horse and began to speak to the people gathered there. "My friends, it was I who put this 1 stone here three weeks ago. Every j j passer-by has left it just where it was < and has scolded his neighbor for not i i taking it out of the way." j, He stooped down and lifted up the 1 i stone. Directly underneath it was a 1 round hollow, and in the hollow was a ; 1 small leathern bag, that all might sec j what was written on it: "For him who 1 j lifts up the stone." He untied the bag [ i and turned it upside down, and out upon i the stone fell a beautiful gold ring and j twenty large bright gold coins.?Golden , ( Argosy. j B 4 . VICTIMS OF FIRE DAMP. Fourteen Men Killed in a Pennsylvania Mine. Pitiful Scenes When the Bodies Were Eecoverei An explosion of fire damp in a coal mine near Youngstown, Penn., resulted in the death of fourteen mineis and serious injuries to four others. Six of the miners were taken out soon after the disaster. Two of them were dead, and two of them fatally injured* The efforts to reach the other men were continued throughout tho night, and by morning the dead bodies of twelve of them had been brought out This made fourteen deal Tho scene at tho mouth of the pit as the disfigured bodies were brought to the surface and given to their widows and relatives was very distressing. The mine was inspected every morning, and whenever the presence of nre damp was ueieciea tne men were not admitted to the mino until the gas had been expelled. The officials say this nilo was rigidly enforced. But it is assorted by the miners that the company discharged a competent fire boss about two months ago, and has since employed one who was not competent to determine whether the mine was safe or not. The names of the killed are Joseph Selbley, married; Solomon Van Sicale, married; William Minor, married; James Price, father, and James Price, son; Thomas Cole,married; Jesse Miller, father, and Jesse Miller, son; H. J.Sape, rope rider, married; Albert Taylor, Abo Wilson, married; Frank Niclow,father,and Willie Niclow,son,married,and George Cunningham; Taylor and Cunningham were found locked in each other's arms and their faces were in the water. The dead men were found in ovnrv />r?nr?ol vnhl? Twsit.inn "Mnsf". nf thfim were suffocated by the after damp. Some were burned to a crisp, and others were badly bruised by being knocked against the sides of the pile. These persons were saved, but were more or less burned and bruised: Welsh Keffer, Frank Miller, Jacob Cole. David Cole. James Darby, Jerry Ringer and Chauncey Wilson. The two latter may yet die. Wilson's right arm is broken and his face burned to a crisp. The explosion shook the earth for more thaD a mile. PROMINENT PEOPLE. James Gordon Bennett has Ave homes in nearly as many different countries. El Mahdi, the false prophet, sleeps during tho day and transacts business at night. Philip Abmour, the Chicago " pork king," is credited with a fortune of $25,000,OC0. Senator Edmunds is in Washington for tho winter, hard at work on legislation to be introduced at the approaching session of Congress. Mr. Will Carleton, the American poet, author of "Betsey and I are out," has been making " a brilliant success " in London with his lecture on the " Science of the Home." A remarkably strong likeness is observed between Queen Victoria and 'her granddaughter, Victoria Alexandra Olga Mary of Wales, who is now about sixteen years of age. Sitting Bull has an enormous head. He wears a number 7 34 hat, which is largei than was Daniel "Webster's. He has a salary during his present engagement of 1300 a month. Admiral Courbet, the French commander in China, entered school intending to become a soldier, but changed his mind m favor of the navy after reading one of Captain Marryat's novel's. Humbert, of Italy, is even more of a man than a king. He directs that the subscription now raising to strike gold medals in his honor shall be devoted instead to families suffering from the cholera epidemic. Professor Bell, the inventor of the telephone, is tall, broad-ihouldered, with full, black beard, dark complexion, very pleasant and approachable, thoroughly well posted, a good conversationalist, a close student, and a hard worker, age about forty-flve; wealtn almost unlimited. The Earl of Aylesford, who has a ranch at Pig Springs, Texas, is thus described in the El Paso Times: "He is a cow-boy in appearance, with a riding jacket, pants stuffed into top boots, an ugly revolver on his side, and a belt of cartridges round his waist,and crowned with a broad sombrero. Belted and spurred, the English earl has all the appearance of a bad wan, though his tastes incline him rather to social conviviality than to bloodshed." The now Japanese minister to this country, Mr. Kuki, speaks English fluently, and appeared recently in New York city in English dress. Two of his suite also are at home in our language, and much of their conversation Ls carried on in it Ten years ago Mr. Kuki visited the United States on his way home from the Paris exhibition, and made himself familiar with our mode of life. One member of his party is about to enter Amherst college. The English language is now thoroughly taught at the university o( Tokio. Mr. kuki is thirty-fou* years old, and of average height and weight MUSICAL AND DRAMATIC. Lotta says this is positively her last professional season. Charles Wyndham will not make an Asierican tour this season. Haverly is reported to be slowly climbing the hill of prosperity again. Vianesi, the conductor, will lead French opera in New Orleans this season. Edwin Booth will begin a series of representations in Berlin next February. The Milan Opera company began their sea son at the Star thoatrt, Now York city, with "Aida." Mary Anderson is again reported engaged. This time Mr. Alollix, a London uruggist, is the happy man. "Having had Italian opera and German opera in San Francisco, they are now having a tasto of the Spanish variety. A company from Mexico sang there the other night Mazda's " 11 Maestro Campanoni." 1 "Nadesl-da" is the name given by Mr. Goring Thomas to the new opera which he lias composed for Mr. Carl Rosa. It will bo orought out at Drury Lane, London, in the course of the next ojieratic season. Mme. Etelka Gersteh will shortly commence her concert tour in America. She was under management with the managers of Kroll's theatre, Berlin, but has partially can- 1 teled that contract in order to hasten her de- i parture for the United States. It is now settled that both the Academy of if?' 1 .!.- Ua.k-o in OiUSIU tillU II C iUUUU|A/llWUll VJA.1 C* UUU1V Ml in New York will bo opened for grand opera this winter. Dr. Damroch's Germans will ocDupy the Metropolitan, and Colonel Mapleion's Italians will sing at the Academy. Mb. Chaxfbau leaves a largo estate to his wife and two sons. Tho oldest son, Henry, will mcceed his father in the role of "Kit," in the play of that narna. The youngest son, Frank, a at school. Mrs. Henrietta G'hanfrau, the wife, will probably retire permanently from the stage. " Medea" will be the first play in which Ristori will appear in America during tho joining tour. Mme. Ristori will do ull her traveling in a special car. She will bo accompanied by her husband,tho Marquis del Griiio, Signor Ohizzola, her personal representative, v private secretary and two maids. A cable despatch from London says: " Mile. Nevada will create the part of Lak ner in her debut in New York. M. De)i:>es (he comtwser, will go to New York to superintend the production of the work. He has written tho music for a new ballet, and has tlso enlarged tho contralto part tor Mine. Scalchi." Mr. John' C. Fiieund, a New York journalist, has written a new play entit'ed "Trtio Nobility," which will probably be produced in Philadelphia about tlie la.--t week in DecernHT.. 1*' 7.^ + lt*? ii?rtnMi.t/I L/CI. iTJ.1 . X'# I". iHUi. ivii> j mu uiownr'n-4iv,u iharacter actor, will play the principal part Hie drama is written in live arts and said to jo very interesting. Most of the famous operas of the century , tvero written xrom lS'JS to 1S4'i, a period of twelve years. Hero are the lx*t: "William Fell," "Masaniollo," "Fra Diavolo," "La Juive'' (IJSo-j), "Kol>ert lo Diable," "Les Hu- | juenots,"' "Mile du Regiment" (1840); "Fa- , rorita" (184tt); "Norma," "SumnamLula," "Puritani" (1S^J5); "Anna Uolena," "Lucre- 1 da Borgia''(ISJ4): "Elisia d'Aniore" (ISi'Ji; "Zampa," 'Lucia'1 (ISM); "Foliuto" (1SWI), 'Salfo" and "Uuiramento." THE NATIONAL GAME, . Tut? TToef li.ilrlc r?hn rrmirm chinc in ISSn. J is in 1884. Now begins the great hunt for good pitches and catchers. ! The South seems likely to be the ball play- \ ;r's Mecca this winter. . The hard times of 1SS4 have left their im- , print on the National game. Captain Moiikiu, is in favor of a return to |ow-ann pitching next season. 1 CSovehnoh Chittenden, of Missouri, fro- ' piently attends the professional games in St. < Louis. 1 Theiie is nothing to indicate that there 1 will I** fewer clulis and lower snluries next season. 1 iiAKERALL stranger dude to physician? ''Say, what's the best nine in the Distric t of 1 Columbia, mister J" Physician to baseball 1 iude?"At this season of the year I judge 1 ;hat it is quinine." Unofficial League averages indicate that \ IVhitnoy lea Is the pitchers in fielding, Hack . ;tt the catchers S. art tho first basemen, Mor- ( rill the second basemen, Sutton tho third ( lasemen, Irwin the short stops, Wood, Ilines md Evans the outfielders. The champion Providence League nine i played the champion Metropolitan American i association nine a series of the liest two in i three matches for tho baseball championship of America. The matches were played on the Polo grounds in New York, and the Prov- ] idenco club won tho first two gnmes by scores J of 6 to 0 and 3 to 1, thereby becoming the bas&- i ball champions of the country. i / - -- NEWS SUMMARY I Jsaslern and Ididdlt State*. The forty cotton mills of Fall River, Mass., after being shut down for a week, have started up again on full time. All the baseball clubs in Now York held a torchlight parade in honor of the Metropolitan club, winner of the American association championship. During a paroxysm of delirium, brought on by typho malaria fever, William T. Grier, professor of Latin language and literature in the university at Lewisburg, Penn., committed suicide by cutting his throat with a razor. General Frrz John Porter has been made a New York police commissioner by the mayor. A Bradford (Penn.) dispatch says that the ' Armstrong No. 2," the biggest oil well yet discovered, had been gushing oil to the enormous extent of 252 barrels a day. South and West. Captain T. H. Pickett, a brilliant young lawyer, of Dawson, Ga., was shot and instantly killed by G. W. Cheves, editor of the Dawson Journal. There had beeu bad blood between the two men. Griffin Halstead, father of Murat Halstead, the Cincinnati editor, fell over an embankment in Clermont county, Ohio, and broke his neck. A Mobile (Ala.) dispatch says that "on this the ninetieth day of the drought, a general rain, extending as far north as Tennessee, and perhaps further, has passed over the country." A collision between two freight trains near T.aylorville, 111., resulted in serious injuries to fourteen persons, all Italians' The Ohio supreme court?three Democratic judges assenting and two Republican dissenting?has declared the Scott liquor tax law unconstitutional The decision necessitates the refunding of $3,000,000 already collected from saloon keepers, and will require the levying of a special tax to pay the police and other departments dependent upon the Scott law. Wilbur F. Story, proprietor of the Chicago Times, is dead He was one of the most ? - w not jjiv/uiuicut uuvYspapcr puuixoucio ui uuo ?r ww, and had for some time been of unsound mind. George T. Jackson, president of the Enterprise Cotton factory of Augusta, Ga., has misappropriated money of the concern in various amounts that may reach $100,00J. Eugene Beck, of Clayton, Ga, while in. toxicated, shot his wife through the brain, and his sister-in-law, Miss Addie Bailey, through the breast His wife died instantly, and his sister-in-law was fatally wounded Clayton was lodged in jaiL Wuhinirtoib Judge Ferris, second auditor of the treasury, has submitted his annual report for the fiscal year ended June E0, 1884. It shows that the aggregate number of unadjusted accounts ana claims on hand in the second auditor's office on July 1, 1883, was 41,928, of which 36,112 were for arrears of pay and bounty. To these there were added in the year 25,741 new claims, of which 14,919 were for arrears of pay and bounty. There were 24,988 old ana new claims disposed of, leaving 42,681 unadjusted on June 30. The amount drawn out of the treasury in payment of claims and in advances to disbursing officers was $23,867,578. The repayments on account of unexpended balances, etc., were $762,529, leaving the net amount paid out $23,105,049. The President has appointed ex-Secretary Hugh McCulloch to be secretary of the treasury, and Secretary W. Q. Gresham to be circuit judge of the Seventh circuit, to succeed Judge Thomas Drummoncl, resigned. Mr. McCulloch is a native of Maine, and a graduate of Bowdoin college. He became a bank cashier and president in Indiana. President Lincoln appointed him controller of the currency, and he was made secretary of the treasury in March, 1865, retaining that office until 1869. During the post fiscal year the post office inspectors made 756 arrests, of which 698 were for offences which were tried in United states courts ana ?s in state courts, ui tne former class of offenders there were 36 postmasters, 'M assistant postmasters, 31 clerks in postoffices, 8 railway postal clerks, 25 letter carriers, 25 mail carriers, 53 burglars, and 496 others charged with various offences. The convictions numbered 439, and the acquittals 58, while 151 cases are awaiting trial Foreign* Sib Moses Montefiore, the Hebrew banker and philanthropist of London, has just attained his one hundredth birthday. He was deluged with congratulatory letters and telegrams from all parts of the civilized world Services in honor of the event were held in Jewish synagogues everywhere, and numerous Christian ministers referred to the event. Great preparations are under way in China for tne war with France. The German bark Sonora has been lost at sea with all hands. Great political excitement prevails in England, and at a radical demonstration in favor of the abolition of the house of lords, held in London, more than 100,000 persons attended and a long procession marched through the streets to Hyde park. " General Gordon has offered freedom and pay to slaves who desert the False Prophet Objection to the French blockade of Formosa has been made by Germany. Cholera is practically extinct in Italy. The British ship Littlebeck, while on a voyage from Ibraila to Rotterdam, was wrecked. Fourteen persons were drowned. At-. Ran Pnnlo. Brazil, twenty eichtconvicts succeeded in breaking out of their cells and surprising and disarming a sentinel and then the guaru of twenty-four police and an officer. The officer they butchered in his bedroom, and they wounded five of the policetwo mortally. Twenty-seven convicts e caped, but five wero recaptured. A violent storai throughout the British Isles and the neighboring seas has done great damage to shipping and other pror.erty. Many vessels were driven ashore ana numerous houses wrecked. Cholera is raging in the French fleet in Chinese waters. Six miners were going down a mine near Londonderry, Nova Scotia, when the cage in which they were descending gave way, and they were thrown to the bottom, a distance of over 000 feet. Three of the men were instantly killed and tht other three fatally injured. Storms off the coast of Lower California have caused much loss of life and great destruction to shipping. A steamer from Masatlan went down with fifty-seven persons Nino schooners were lost. LATER NEWS A fire which at ono time threatened to destroy the town of Fayetteville, Penn., burned down six buildings before it was sub" dued. Ristori, the great Italian actress, arrive^ I in New York a few days ago. She will make a professional tour of the country. On tho day of her arrival, Signor Brignoli,the once ] famous Italian tenor, died in New York. I Ex-Governor Moses, of South Carolina, f under arrest at Detroit, Mich., for swindling) 1 attempted to commit suicide. ] Tiie People's bank at Canton, 111., has sus- ] pended with $100,000 liabilities. i It is proposed to establish a new depart- i inent of the government to embrace all the 1 scientific bureaus. ' In a railway collision between Mos | cow and Rias.in four Russian peasants were 1 mortally wounded and thirty severelj in jured. I Mr. Lathrop, our consul at Bristol, Eng- * land, in his report to tho state department, . clescrilHJs the advantages of government con' < trol of the telegraph. l Thousands of operatives are out of em" ! ployment in Dundee, Scotland, and the mu- i akupal authorities are devising measures 01 relief for the needy. i i A TEREIBLE TYPE03N. j .Nearly One-Half of Yokohama, j Japan, Swept Away. The steamer Arabic which has arrived at , San Francisco from China and Japan, bring* 1 the following additional details of the great 8 Typhoon of September 15, which caused such ^ terrible destruction of life and property at Yokohama and Tokio. The storm Mine up so rapidly and with such .rpinendous fury that no precautions :ould bo taken. In Yokohama the en- ^ tire lower part of the city, called the "settlement," was completely wrecked. No house was left standing. The inhabitants made no it tempt to save their property, but fled for , their lives to escape drowning from the rush- , ing waters driven upon land by the fury of the wind. The newspapers make E no attempt to furnish details of ( the destruction in that part of the city. They I summarize by saying as tho settlement was j destroyed it is useless to publish any details, t the higher portions of tne city, being more ( ?xp<>seil, were equally unfortunate. Several ( nf the largest and most substantial buildings i were swept away as if built of pasteboard. I In that section alone TJS houses were I destroyed and MHO damaged. The loss ? jf life on shore was less than at sea. Out of 1 aighty sailing vessels, fifty-three were lost, I | tvith ii'i persons on board. Twelve vessels, I with WO {persons, are also missing. Of live I lifeboats that went to rescue drowning crews, ( four were swamped and ten men of their ; :rews were drowned. The typhoon is the severest experienced since 1870. V. TOE INDIANS. J|| Annual Report of the Commls- > M sioner of Indian Affairs. Needs of the Indians and Their Progress in Civilization. Hiram Price, commissioner of Indian af- a fairs, has made his annual report to the sec- " retary of the interior. The commissioner says that more Indians are living in Bouses ' ag and fewer in tepees than a year ago; more are cultivating the soil and fewer following ' mm| the chase, and there are more in the^nechan- , i?|S| ical shops, and several hundred and more Indian children in the schools. In the near future it is fair to presume that the Indian will ' '38 be able to care for himself, and be no longer a burden upon the government. With regard to t he cast of the Indian service, the Commissioner says: "The Indians actually get of the money A appropriated to feed and clothe them only , % about $7 per annum per capita, or a fraction !>Sa less than 2 cents a day for each Indian. The appropriation is too small, if it is expected to transform the Indians into peaceable, indus- & trious and self-supporting citizens in any rea- \j sonable time. Among the items for which xjg more liberal appropriations should be made is for pay of police, pay of additional farm- : $ ers, and pay of the officers who compose the _ courts or Indian Offences. More liberality ' ?, in paying Indian agents and assisting such Indians as show a disposition to help them- . selves, would be true economy." The commissioner says the needs of the In- ' -y. dians require that the Indian appropriation * :i<? bill be passed early in the Congress session. The misfortunes of the Piegan, Blackfeet and M other Indians, he says, are due to the-disappearance of game, and their inability to sup- ' *, - _ port themselves for the present by agriculture. They will have to depend almost wholly ' ^ on the govornment for food for several years. 1;* These Indians, with proper assistance, will , * in a few years own teams and have land under cultivation, which, with a few cattle, will vy| he sufficient to make most of them indenen- *St dent No law exists to prevent the sale of anna -^3 and ammunition to Indians, and the result has been much trouble and loss o? life. Con- v gress is urged to pass a prohibitory law on. the subject The commissioner complains of . ' the inadequate punishment of offenders ' against the law forbidding the sale of liquor . V 'vS to Indians, and asks Congress to make the . -vSJ peualty so severe as to make it dangerous for any one to violate the law. Referring to the Courts of Indian Offences , the Commissioner says: "At every agency where the court has been - .^1 established it has been well received and the' decisions of the judges respectfully acquiesced in. At some agencies this court has been ; ^ instrumental in abolishing many of the most barbarous customs that have existed among the Indians. If the Indians are properly encouraged, I believe that in a few years polvg- * amy and the sun, scalp, and war dances will be ' '.%? entirely abolished. An appropriation of . "'-a $50,000 is needed to pay the officers of the ' courts." The Indian police service is very efficient ' but so inadequately paid that 128 members of - ' '.5 the force have resigned within the past year. Larger appropriations for educational pur- , poses are needed. Compulsory education has been successfully tried at four agencies, and -; I3 the system is to be extended by withholding . either rations or annuity payments from those who do not send their cnildaen to schooL The . agency physicians report a total of 78,Ida ' cases of sickness during the year; 68,968 re- ' "'M covered, 1,586 died, ana 2,628 are now under -*#2 treatment, many maians stui preier to my . sjjo on their native medicine men. UNITED STATES MINTS, Their Operations During the Put Fli- /' J cal Year?The Director'!! lieport* The director of the mint has submitted to ;he secretary of the treasury his annual report. It shows that the deposits of gold dur- -' &i ng the year amounted to $40,826,679, of which T. jver 129,000,000 was of domestic production* ; ^ rhe silver purchased for coinage and deposited for bars amounted at its coining value io $36,520,290, of which over $31, COO,000 waa jf domestic production. The total ralue of the gold and silver deposited and ^13 ourchased, including redeposits, was $87,- . ""jf &j,155, being about the same as during the . previous years. The coinage amounted to '' 'A { 7,880.921, of which $27,932,824 was gold; {28,973,387 silver. The coinage of gola waa . ibout $8,000,000 less than in the previous ^ year. In addition to the coinage executed tor the government 81,000,000 in silver waa itruck at the San Francisco "taint for the Hawaiian government in denominations, weight ind fineness corresponding with the coins of .. '.he United States," but bearing Hawaiian ievices. Beside the manufacture of ' ^oia, gold bars of the value of 123,875,586 and silver bars of '.he valuo of $7,639,724?a total of W1.515.S10 ?were prepared at the mints and assay .'-A offices. Gold bars were paid out in exchange for gold coin during the year under the provisions of the act of May 26, 1882, to the valuo of $25,800,000. The number of silver lollars distributed durine the year amounted to over 17,030,000. The total amount estimated to be in active circulation on October I was over $40,000,000, being an increase of *.^3 $5,000,000. The total expended from appro- , J priations for the support of the mints and assay offices during the year amounted to $1.291,977.. a The total earnings and gains from all sources ur.ounted to $543,102, and the total expenditures of all kinds amounted to $1,676,002. The director estimates the production of- v the mines for the ca'andar year 1884 as fol,ows: Gold, $29,000,000; silver, $48,000,000which is about $1,000,000 lees in gold and not quite $2,000,000 more in silver than for the previous year. Replies received to circular letters sent to persons and Anns engaged in the manufacture and repair of articles of ornamentation and use in the United States 5how an annual consumption of the precious metals for those purposes of over $20,000,00J. of which $14,500,000 were gold and $5,$00,UX) silver. The director estimates the amount of coin in the country on October 1 to have been: JQ Gold, $557,000,000; silver, $257,000,000; a total of $814,000,000. Counting as part of the metallic circulation the bullion in tne mints and assay offices l>e- -i. longing to tho government, which amounted October 1 to nearly $53,OJO,OGO in gold and | about $5,000,000 in silver, the total amount of coin and bullion available for coinage at | that date in the country would be: Gold, j $610,0:0,000; silver, $262,000,000; a total of 1 J8?2,000,000. '-'yM The coinage in 1883 of 23 of the principal : countries of the world amounted to over ? $101,000,000 in gold and $113,000 in silver. Of the silver coinage nearly one-iounu was executed in the United States and two-fifths by Mexico and India. In the coinage of gold in the United States still stands first, Crerr-'.any following with a coinage of $21,000.000, Australia $16,000,000, and Russia over $32,000,000. A BURNING- FACTORY, rbriliiny Scenes at a Fire In Chicago ?A Hero's Death. The large brick building at Laaalle and Michigan streets, Chicago, caught fire at ibout noon. The building was a five-story structure, occupied by Schnabel & Co., barbed wire manufacturers, Campbell Printing Press company, Dauheizer Bros., chewing gum manufacturers, md W. E. Fisher's cigar box factory. The latter was on the top story, ;| ind employed twenty-one men an 1 eighteen jirls. The foreman of the shop, James Carr, jot all of the thirty-seven souls together in ' ;ood order, and coolly led them to the firer\y*s\s\f c^oira onr? tiafolv thr> trrmiml Troubled with doubt as to whether any were left behind, Carr quickly returned to , j the fifth story, but remained a few moments xx> late, as the flames liad cut of every ave- .Jk iuo of escape. He hurried to the roof, and, imid the wild excitx^nent of the thousands af people below, a irje was thrown to him from the building on the opposite side if the street, and, making it fast, he began his perilous descent, while the > firemen held a heavy tarpauiin beneath. Suddenly the rope snapped undt-i* the man's weight, or was burned uy the bursts of flame, md Carr shot downward, head foremost, md, to the horror of the crowd of i>eople, went directly through the tarpaulin, ana .vas picked up from the stones with his neck jroken and mangled almost beyond recogni:ion. Another thrilling scene meanwhile was aking place at the fire escape from the chewng gum factory. Eight-ien girls, panic tricken, came down pell-mell, and when vithin twenty-five feet of the ground the ast eight jumped to the pavement, falling iu i contused heap. Fortunately only three vere seriously injured,they receiving nainful ruts and bruises. The loss will reach $100,000. EMIGRATION. rhe Arrival* During the Past Fiscal Year?Where 'J hey Conie From. The following table shows tho number and lationality of [emigrants arrived in the ;a- J in TTAiro ntiilftfl .Till V Jlllieu ouiwa Ul jw*o v?.V - ind 1884. Countries. 1883. 1SS1 ingland 63,140 55,918 > reland SI ,-*><?? t>i,3 44 Scotland 11,859 9, Wirt Jreat Britain other... l,i:07 972 iermanv 194, ? >!? 179,070 1 Sweden. 38.277 20,552 1 Norway 2:1.398 10,'. >74 ' Denmark 10,319 9,202 j Switzerland 12,751 9,38(5 Yanee 4,*21 3,008 taiy 31,792 ii;,r?io iurop, other 40,918 01,004 Jominionof Canada.. *0,241 00,584 yhina 8,031 279 ,?>*^.11 other countries 3,*90 5,523 d Total 603,322 518,593 J