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ABBEVILLE PRESS AND BANNEM ?m BY HUGH WILSON. ABBEVILLE. S. C.. WEDNESDAY. DECEMBER 3. 1884. NO. 23. VOLUME XXIX. "jf : , m ONLY A CHICKEN. (A recitation for eight little girls;) FIRST LITTLE GIRL. A wonderful story I will tell: A chicken crept from a broken shell, And, standing cn its tiny feet, It peeped and peeped for a crumb to fat? On a beautiful summer morning. SECOND LITTLE GIRL. But out of a dark hole popped the head 0 an old gray rat; with a cautious tread He stole along whoro the grass was thick And quietly pounced on the peeping chick That standing on its tin}* feet, Was crying for a crumb to eat. On a beautiful summer morning. THIRD LITTLE GIRL. Then out of the doorway leaped a cat, That, put her paw 0:1 tile old gray rat, That out of a dark hole popped his head And crept along with a cautious tread, And a cruel look, where the gras3 was thick, To quickly pounce on the jieeping chick, That, standing on its tiny feet, Was crying lor a crumb to eat? On a beautiful summer morning. FOL'RTH LITTLE GIRL. Around the corner there fiercely flew A savage dog, of a yellow hue, That fixed lus teeth "in the tabby cat, That put her paw on the old gray rat, That out of a dark hole popped his head, And crept along with a cautious tread And a cruel look, where the grass was thick, To quietly pounce on the peeping chick, That, standing on its tiny feet, Was crying for a crumb "to eat? Ou a beautiful summer morning. FIFTH LITTLE GIRL. But a naught}* bov with a wicked sling Of a crotcned" stick and a rubber string, Looked over the fence with a mean intent, And a smooth round pebble swiftly sent, That struck the dog of a yellow hue, That around the corner fiercely new, And fixed bis teeth in the tabby cat, That put her paw on the o d gray rat, That out of a dark hole popped his head, And crept along with a cautious tread And a cruel look, where th? gra<s was thick, To quickly pounce on the peeping chick, That, standing on its tiny feet, Was crying for a crumb to cat? On a beautiful summer morning. SIXTH I.ITTLS GIRL. Next came a man 011 the double quick Who beat the bov w ith a blackthorn stick, For hurting his (log of yellow hue, That round the corner fiercely flew, And fixed his teeth in the tabby cat, That put her paw on the old gray rat, That out of a dark hole popped his head, That crept along with a cautious tread And a cruel look, where the grass was thick, To quickly pounce on the peeping chick, That, standing on its tiny feet, Was crying for a ci umb to eat? On a beautiful summer morning. . SEVENTH LITTLE GIRL. The tumult caught the watchful eye Of a tall policeman passing by. Who, walking up with a pompous tread, Arrested and nearly broke the head Of the man who came 011 the double quick To beat the boy with a blackthorn stick, For hurting the dog of yellow hue, That round the corner tiercelv flew. Arid fixed his teeth in the tabby cat, That put her paw on the old gray rat, That out of a dark hole popped liis head, And crept along with a cautious tread And a cruel look, whore the grass was thick, To quickly pounte on the peeping chick, That, standing on iu tiny feet, Was crying for a crumb to eat? On a beautiful summer morning. EIGHTH LITTLE GIRL. In a court of justice sternly sat The pertly judge, in a white cravat, Who told the sLeritl', for lack of bail, To put the man in the county !ail Who came in sight 011 the double quick To beat the hov with a blackthorn stick. For hurting the dog of yellow hue, That round the corner fiercely flew. And fixed his teeth in the tabby cat, That put her paw on the old gray rat, That out of a daric hole popped his head, And crept along wilh a cautious tread And a cruel look, where the grass was thick, To quickly pounce orf the peeping chick, That, standing on its tiny ieet, Was crying for a crumb to eat? On a beautiful summer morning. ALL TOGETHER. The greatest evil often springs From the ill effects of the smallest things; And all this trouble on many fell Through a little chick from a broken shell On a beautiful summer morning. ?Eugene J. Hall. WILD FRANK While awaiting the arrival of the Western bound train a few days ago on the platform of the littledepot inTovah, Texas, a man of splendid physique, carelessly dressed, armed to the teeth and mounted on a big blood bay horse, rode across the plain at a swinging gallop and drew rein opposite where I was standing. This horseman was "Wild Frank" Tower, an old friend and fellow scout and one of the best known, honest, most reckless, dare devil rangers on the Southwestern frontier. Tower was born in Iowa, and when he came to Texas, fifteen years ago, was a boy of 17. He found employment at a cow ranche on the Pecos river, and the wild, rough life he led in camp and on the trail hardened his muscles, steadied his nerves and developed ail of those courageous qualities which distinguish the frontiersman. lie became a superb horseman and wonderfully skilled in the use of the six-shooter and Winchester. The ranche adjoining the one where he was employed was owned by a man named Flanigan. a hot-tempered, brutal fellow, brave as a lion and the hero of many scrapes in which tirearms had played an important part, lie had killed several men and was feared and respected accordingly. "Wild Frank met Flanagan at a "round up." They liecame involved in a quarrel over the ownership of a cow. Tower was cool and polite, but as lirm in the maintenance of his rights as adamant. Flanigan, accustomed to ride down all opposition, applied an insulting epithet to t?e boy who had dared to dispute with him aud, seizing his heavy riding-whip, sprang toward him. ''I'll give ye a hundred lashes, ye Bpindle shanked puppy," he hissed. The cowboys glanced at each other apprehensively, and Frank's friends, not daring to interfere, so much did they fear Flanigan. trembled for their comSmnion's safety. The object of the billy's wrath faced the ruflian coolv. ' Don't touch me!" he cried warningly, but Flanigan, with a bitter oath prang upon the boy, and seizing him by the collar, was about to administer the threatened chastisement. Accounts differ as to how it all occurred. There was a chorus of curses and 1 >ud cries, a fierce struggle, the onlookers heard the swish-swish of the cuarte, and through the c'oud of dust which enveloped the combatants, saw Flanigan writing on the ground, while Frank, wielding the whip with a quick and heavy hand, rained blow after blow on the bully's head and facc. The sharp lash cut the flesh like a knife and the blood streamed from many wounds, and. mixing with the choking dust, blinded the prostrate man's eyes. Several times he endeavored to regain his feet, but lie never succeeded, and when at last, weak from pain and ins* of blood, he fainted. Wild Frank threw the bloody whip to the ground and. inouutinghis horse,rode aw**y. The whole atfair had been so sudden and unexpected and had resulted so differentlyfrom what the spectators imagined that the boy had disappeared behind a roll in the plain before the astonished cowboys recovered their senses. Thev raised the unconscious bullv up. washed away the blood and poured whisky down his throat. He recovered sufficiently to be assisted back to his ranchc, and when a week later he was able to leave hi3 bed he swore a big oath and vowed to have "Wild Frank's life. Intelligence of Flanigan's purpose was brought to Frank. He made no counterthreat, but there was a peculiar gleam in his eyes which led his informant to believe that the boy would be ready. About two weeks later,at another ranche, the two again met. Both were mounted, ^ and drawing his Winchester from its ~~ scabbard, Frank spurred His horse toward the bully and shouted: "Look out, Flanigan!" The ranchman raised his rifle, with a wicked look in his small gray eyes. Both fired at the same time antl, still pressing forward, discharged their Winchesters in rapid succession. Flanigan pitched from his saddle with three bullets in his body, and, satisfied that his enemy was dead, Wild Frank rode to the nearest ranger camp and surrendered to the commanding officer. Public opinion on the frontier has a great influence in a court * of law, and Wild Frank wns acquitted. The ranger captain had taken a great fancy to the boy, and he urged him to become a scout. Accordingly he enMfl ed in B company of the frontier battalion, and remained in the command \ - ' V ' - V ' ' * *. .* - ' several years. It was a company of brave men, but none wore braver than Wild Frank. With a perfect disregard for 1 his own safety, he was always in the . front when dangerous work was to be 1 done, and many times risked his life in defense of a fellow-scout. When Frank left the rangers he de- : termincd upon a trip through Mexico, ! and this was one of his numerous adventures in the land of the Montezumas: He crossed the Rio Grande at Presidio dei Norte, and amused himself for four or live days hunting and fishing. Game t j of all sorts was abundant, and the simplehearted peasantry were kind and hospitable. One afternoon the sky became I overcast, and when toward night a furi- , I ous storm burst he sought shelter at a casa ranche. No one was in siaht when he rode up to the massive gate of the corral, and j it was not until he had pounded vigor- : ously on the barrier with the butt of his cuarte and called loudly several times ! that the door opened and a sour-visaged, wrinkled old Mexican woman appeared on the threshold. *'ranK aemanuea shelter in Spanish, but before the hag could reply a brutal-looking man, who spoke English like an American, pushed ! her aside and began to question the i J stranger. Frank's answers were evident- i j ly satisfactory, for the ranchero bade ; ; him enter and a peon hoppled his horse | and turned the animal loose to graze. | i Frank's host provided him with a change ) of clothing?his own was wet?and after I supper conducted him to a room. When j i the door opened a young and beautiful ! i eirl rose and faced the two men iuquir- ' inglv. The ranchero addressed her: "This stranger will camp with us, I I Eleanorhe said. "He will occupy i this room. You can sleep vith Dolores." | The girl bowed and, gathered up some j fancy needlework upon which she had I been engaged, left the room. " She's my daughter," said the stern- I j visaged ranchero wnen they were alone. | A\ hen he finally retired from the room [ j Fiank closed tho door. It had no lock, I | and, placing his six-shooter under his i | pillow, he threw himself upon the bed | without undressing. The anomallv of a | ! beautiful and accomplished girl being j I the voluntary resident of a miserable i 1 ranche house and acknowledged as a ; : (laughter by so villainous-appearing a I man as his host excited Frank's susj picions, and he examined the room care- j i fully to discover some due to the identity of the fair stranger. The room was \ i comfortably, almost luxuriously furnishj ed, and the books which filled the shelves i I of a hanging closet and were scattered | J about the room, the pictures on the walls | i anu cliu ltuucnn an ui luwutiijuui wu' vinccd him that the girl was far above j the average raachero's daughter I in education. He looked through the books and searched every bit of pa- , i per in the room, but without finding a ! clue to the mysterious Eleanor's identity. Still thinking of her and her strange surj roundin^s Frank fe 1 asleep, to be aroused by some one gently shaking him. He started up and discovered by the dim light of a taper which she bore that his visitor was the beautiful Eleanor. He attempted to speak, but she signed for him to be silent and whispered the words: " Follow me." Buckling on his six-shooter belt Frank followed her from the room and she led the way through several narrow entries to the yard. His horse stood ready saddled aud bridled just outside the corral gate. The gill pointed to the capari; soned animal. "You are an American," she said. "Your life will not be safe here" She pointed a^ain to the horse and re- ! treated into the house. After a moment's i hesitation Frank mounted his animal j ? j ... i .. iw. r I ana roue awav, unv He ruade inquiries about the ranche people he had just quitted, but could learn nothing concerning them. A few months thereafter while at Saltillo he strolled by | the walls of a rich convent one evening. The heavy gate swung open and two sis- ' ters of the order came out. They started at sight of the stranger, and Frank ut ! tered an exclamation of surprise. One of the nuns was the beautiful Eleanor, I who had so mysteriously assisted him to leave the old ranche house. \ "Eleanor!" he said and started toward ii ; her. The nun shook her head and laid 1 ! her finger on her lips as a sign of silence, j. I The scout drew back, the two nuns passed j j and he saw tlnm no more. The next j j I morning the citizens of Saltillo were hor- j j rifled and excited. The nunnery of Saint j1 Delores had been robbed of valuable j j j plate and jewels and it was presumed i ( [ the vandals were led by the celebrated j J ! female bandit, El Chiquaita, who bad a ; , hiding-place in the mountains toward the ; Kio Grande and was the terror of all that I 1 country. The daring woman had en- < J tered the convent iu the guise of a pious j [ novitiate, had learned the secrets of the ' ; cent and at the first favorable moment ' ! admitted her confederates, who had rob- ' ; bed the nunnery of all its valuable treasI ure and escaped safely with their booty. I They described the false nun, "and," ; concluded Frank, as he told me the story, I "will you believe it, the description ex actly tallied with Eleanor. She was cap- 1 i tured by the rurals about three months I! I thereafter, and I was on the plaza when I 1 ! she was shot. She died without making j J j a confession, and no one knew who she j ' was or where she was from. Her career i J had been wilder than the most exaggera- * ! ted romance. She was reported to be ! ; wholly devoid of mercy, but she did me j a good turn, and?well, she was an j American, and I felt sorry for her." ' j A Marvelous Little Stream. ! The following is an extract from the ] work, "Across the Pampas and the ] ! Andes:" At a distance of thirty miles i I south of the river Diamante, our route ' passed by a natural object of considerable interest?a stream, or rather rill, of 1 yellowish v.hite fluid like petroleum is- J suing from the mountain side at a con- i sideiable height and trickling down the < ; slope till lost" in the porous soil of the ' i valley below. It was formed like the ! crater of a volcano and full of black, bi- ' tuminous matter, hot and sticky, which 1 could be stirred up to the depth of about ' , eighteen inches. I Floundering in it was a polecat or i skunk, having been enticed to its fate < j by the desire of securing a bird caught < in the natural uirci-nmc, uii a ouuct < from the revolver of one of the party ( terminated the skunk's struggle to extrij eate itself from the warm and adhesive bath in which it was hopelessly I held captive. The overflow from 1 this fountain was, as described, like a stream of petroleum two or three feet i wide trickling over a bed of pitch or i some such substance, which extended to ' a much greater width along the edge of the running stream at its contact with it. 1 j This material was of a very sticky naj ture, becoming gradually harder as it ' i spread further out, assuming the appear- i ance of asphalt mingled with the loose sand of the adjoining soil. While engaged in examining this natural curiosity we camc upon two small ! birds, caught in the sticky substance at the edge of the stream; they were still l.alive, but upon releasing then both the I feathers and the skin camc oil where i they had come in contact with the bitui minous matter, so that we hud to kill them to put an end to their sufferings. No doubt they had been taken in by the ap: pearance of water which the stream preI sented, and had alighted to drink, when 1 ?1-? ,1 a *?/) fVw.if mictoLro fnA Info lllUJf UI3UUVCUU lui.nuuv vw ..?w. Their fate suggested the idea that in a district so devoid of water others of the feather tribes must constantly become victims to the same delusion in a similai manner, and upon a close inspection ol the margin of the stream the correctness l of this inference was established by the discovery of numerous skeletons of birds imbedded in it; nor were, those of small quadrupeds unrepresented, anion:; which we recognized the remains of a fox. Another electric girl has been discov, ered in France. Angclique Cotton, and , her peculiarity is throwing about furni! ture. When she sits on a chair and several persons hold it tight, the chair is j hurled from tbeir hands broken to picces. | The finest tobacco comes from the | province of Roumelia, in Southern Turkey, where tobacco cultivation is almost j the sole source of the inhabitants, both young and old. The New York market is extensively upplied with foreign eggs. A. UNIQUE THOROUGHFARE. THE BOWEEY BY SUNLIGHT AND BY ELECTRIC GLARE. One of the Host Peculiar Streets in >'cw York? Its strange Feature* Graphically Described. The Bowery has been well called the i Cheapside of New York, and yet it is more cosmopolitan than any other portion of the metropolis. From Chatham square, on cither side, to the further extremity of the Bowery, the thoroughfare at all times is packed with all sorts and kinds of human beings. Several lines of surface cars moving continuously make the middle of the street lively, while the cars upon the elevated road thunder along up and down, imparting a supernatural element to a scene of turbulence already multitudinously noisy and distrait. From early morn until the vast procession homeward bound at nightfall crowds the street, the Bowcrv is the busiest portion of New York; but when the evening shades prevail and night lakes up her wonderous tale the panorama is even more diversified in vividness ?picturesque, unique and weird. The never ceasing tinkling: of the bells gives a fairy-like tone to the picture, an<f the huge bull's-eye light of the rushing motives overhead strikes one like the sudden coming of a ghostly apparition, needing no particular lively imagination to endow it with all sorts of spiritual activities. The Bowery from end to end is one great glare of electric fire. Two hundred and eighteen electric lights blazo along the pathway. Every theatre, every museum, every dive is made luminous by the novel flame of modern invention. Xo tailor is too poor, no gimcrack store so impecunious that it cannot afford its electric light. Some shine like blazing stars far up upon the tops of lofty buildings; others dazzle the eyes of pedestrians upon the sidewalk, hung so low as to almost literally endanger the heads of the passers by. The two distinguishing features, in fact, of the Bowery are brightness and medley. Every language known to the habitable globe is spoken there. English, Dutch, French, German, Spanish, Down East Yankee, Indian, South American and Japanese tongues may be heard volubly shouting their wares or pressing their commodities. In other days the Bowery was infested by thieves, pickEockets, bad men of every sort and kind; ut it is as true to-day as it was when the Scriptures were penned that darkness is the cloak lor evil, ana that light and brightness are the garments of decency and the good. The police records show that, although there are many disreDutable dives on the Bowery, liquor saloons practically innumerable. Chinese joints by the score and lager beer saloons by the hundred, deeds of violence are veiy rare, and brawls and midnight disturbances are ! among the things of the past. Long [ lines of peddlers make the clean light furnished by the electric fire lurid with the smoke and yellow llame from their alcohol lamps. In various tongues they vociferate cries of bauanas, chestnuts, apples and other commodities. Other people go to and fro with wagons loaded with fish. Men sell shrimps and women , offer flowers. It is a curious fact that i among all the crowds that throng this ! busy place strange faces are very rarely I seen. Now and then, going in or com- j ing from the museums with which the I placed is fringed, rural visitors are seen; but as a rule the people who swarm upon the sidewalks, look in the showy windows, patronize the stores and spend their means in rum or beer seem perfectly at home in every place they g<> to. Shops and stores upon the Bowery are , kept open hours after kindred bazaars are closed on Broadway and in other , parts of the city. Cheap joints abound . there. Pawnbrokers are on nearly every . block, second-hand stores find many . lustomers, and every variety of 1 tradesmen, showmen and tricksters can there be found. All sorts and kinds of buildings line the street?new | ind old. marble and brick, high and low, stone and wood. The Bowery is j just as different from Broadway as San , Francisco is from New Orleans. "When ;ho theatres are over men and women ] stream in and out of the beer gardens. rhe old ana the young of both sexes and j ill ages haunt those places, spending j thousands of dollars every month. The \ record shows that there arc many wealthy j wretched homes as well. It is a kind of j ] ;entre where people who pick up a bare i j lubsistence find their headquarters, j i From the cellar of a junkman to the j i warehouse of a merchant there is a long , iistance, and that distance is occupied ; , jvery inch of it by men. women and j < :hildreu who live and have their being j < is best they can. Some of the homes \ ire comfortable, some are luxurious, ] some simple depots to which the rag- ] aickers brings his odds and ends. Here < he storekeeper owns his shop ; there a i :enant occupies a room as dark as a dun- ( jeon, with no bed but a pallet of straw, i 20 furniture but a rickety table and a j itool. Dealers in old clothes, old hats, ( nusical instruments, pots, kettles, raw j neats, strings of boiogna sausages, ] women's attire, pipes, old coats?every- ] ;hing known to the oil-scourer of the iarth are there. The entire gamut, of ;reation is found on that street, and the j ladder of life has every round from end ; :o end. Some of the cellars are queer ; aoles by day, and cxtraordi." y places i it nie;h"t. Italian families taking lodgers j , it five cents a night occupy cellars and ' , sub-cellars. Sour beer at two cents a i' pint or three cents a quart finds ready ] purchasers. Some of the places are : Kollof onrl fV*ott ctir\\rr i i LlZLliy kTUJUiiV* WC liMky ?*uv?. tuwj ouwv sights tliat baffle description. j The place is dirty, the air is foul. ( Heaven and the garbage gatherer alone icnow whence comes the food furnished in these extraordinary lodgings. The 5ffal of the markets and the boxes on the sidewalks perhaps could tell the story. : There are no bedsteads. Filthy looking 1 mattresses are spread on the lloor. The | 1 Inmates do not undress, but go to bed with their clothes on, including boots 1 j inu shoes. On pleasant nights, as late ; ts eleven and even twelve, wretched lit- . tie chidren. wan and pinched and filthy iirty, may be seen grouped about these ' cellar doors, while within a block or possibly in the very next house may be com- ' fortably lodged the family of the man who owns his store, and is comfortably 1 fixed for this world and happy in his be- 1 lief of the one to come. Walking along the Bowery one's ears ire always saluted here and there by music more or less discordant, according to the number of instruments in the band, which may consist of a tinkly piano or of half a dozen horns, with violin and bass j viol accompaniment. Huge plate glass J windows and two clectric lights give an J air of comfort and respectability to these | places, many of whicli are as low and as l vile as it is possible to be without, coming under the absolute domination of a j lax police. Into these places the people ! pour at times. The rooms are ablaze j with light and heavy with tobacco smoke. Motley crowds fill the rooms, j The performances, as a rule, are Punch I and Judy, patter songs, boxing matches, solos, comic ballads and dances. Quar- j rels are of very rare occurrence, but j liquor is sold iu great quantities and for- | tunes are made every year. Were it not i for the blaze of light which illumines ! every inch of the thoroughfare from be- j ginning to end it is probable that broils j and rows and disturbances of every sort j would be of nightly occurreuce. As it J is, respectable people find no opposition, no interference, encounter no insult, j hear nothing they need not care to. and see nothing except a strange, odd, ex-! traordinary display of human nature in wtsistrl ?Win Y,n'h JJprnl/f 1L3 1UUOL ouuv. muuu. ?v, w.?. ; In the cotton States there are 197,000,- i 000 acres of land in farms, of which : 67,350,000 are improved. 'J'he cotton area actually tilled was about 44,000,000 | acres in 1S7!>. The crops in tillage now occupy about 53,000,000 acres, the difference representing the increase since the census from which the above figures were taken was made. The census value of productions for this section is $547,000,000. During the first four months of this year, $54,000,000 was invested in southern manufacturing. The honey crop of the country last year was estimated at rising 4,000,000 pound*. SELECT SIFTINGS. I American railroads use more than 10,- | 000,000 iron car wheels. Four wheels weigh one ton. In San Jose, near Vera Cruz, Mexico, | a trench 900 feet long, three feet deep and three feet wide was recently dug for the burial of grasshoppers slaughtered by ; an outraged populace. Dahomey, Africa, takes the palm for ingenious cruelty. The commander of j the forces having been found guilty of 1 high treason, he was buried chest deep [ and then shot at by the Amazon regi- | ment until dead. It is a quarter of a century since Mr. Pullman ran the first sleeping-car that j ever appeared on an American railroad, j It was an August night, on the road j from Bloomington, 111., to Chicago, and he had four passengers, who were charged j fifty cents each for the accommodation. I At a recent meeting of one of our med- I ic:il societies a list of more than 100 rem- ' edics for cholera was presented. Yet a I distinguished doctor stated that probably ! no real improvement had been made upon the remedies of sixty years ago, which consisted almost wholly of calomel and opium. The French doctors are j experimenting. For some time past it has been known that a colony of bees had established itself in the roof of Stourmouth Church, England, but the vicar would not allow them to be disturbed. On his death recently the bees were destroyed by fumigation. On the honey being taken there was found to be nearly two hundred weight of It, and the bees filled two moderately large barrels. It is stated that during hot weather the honey used to drop into the church. Moravian Town is a little village in the township of Oxford, Canada West, on the bank of the river Thames, near which General Harrison defeated General Proctor in the battle on October 5, 1813. The settlers were Indians who had been converted to Christianity by the Moravians, who lied to Canada from the Muskingum, in Ohio, in 1792. By an order of the provincial council in j 1793, about 50,000 acres of land were granted for their use, on which they proceeded to build a church and a village. At the time of the battle this ! Christian Indian village had about 100 ' VA../.AA ?fAll o coVir?r\l-Vmnao I ULUUSCS, UiUOllJ ncil uuui| t* UV/UVV4 and chapel and very fine gardens. A Chinese City. Foo Chow, the capital of the city of the province of Foil Kien, and one of the few ports in China open to foreign trade. The Chinese name of the city is Hok Chin, which signifies " happy region.1' Foo Chow is situated in latitude 26 degrees 5 minutes north and longitude 119 degrees 20 minutes east, about 420 miles northeast of Canton, and 375 i miles southwest of Shanghai. It stands on a plain about two and a half miles from the north bank of the river Min, and twenty-five miles from it3 mouth. An amphitheatre of hills surrounds the hills about four miles distant, and it is | protected by one of the peculiar walls ot i China, which is seven miles in circum- : ferenee, from twenty to tweuty-five feet high, and from twelve to twenty feet in thickness at different points. Seven gates afford entrance to the city proper j througn tnis nign wan, ana over eacu 01 | the gates is a high tower which is jeal- I ously guarded l>y watchmen. The whole ! district between the city and River Min, l the island of Nantai, and the southern | bank of the river are occupied by extensive suburbs, and the river itself is occupied by a large lloatiug population, which lives in the boats which crowd its waters. Communication from bank to bank ' ' of the river is afforded by a stone bridge, j wtiich is about a quarter of a mile long, 1 and is supported by forty piers, placed at uneqal distances. Across these piers ' are laid immense stones, three feet square 1 and about forty-five feet long, and over 1 these a granite platform extends. The bridge is known to the natives as the bridge of ten thousand ages, and it is 3aid to be over eight hundred years old. It is lined along the sides with shops, ' and is constantly filled with the people :>f Foo Chow. The city proper of Foo Chow is regu- 1 larly built, but the streets, though paved with granite, and in many instances ' planted with trcea. are filthy, narrow, I ind infested with beggers. The popula- I 1 tion of the city has been variously esti- j aated by travelers in China at from 600,- j 300 to 4,000,000 souls. The most re- i aiarkable establishment of the city is the ! arsenal, situated about three miles down ;he river Min, at Pagoda island, where the seagoing vessels usually anchor. It ivas founded in 1567, and has been conlucted, under the direction of French ;ngineers, according to European methods. In 1870 it employed about one :housand workmen, beside fifty European superintendents. Foo Chow is known in China as a city of the first ;lass, and is the seat of a viceroy, or govirnor-general, whose jurisdiction extends jver Fokien and Chekiang, the province idioinincr Fokien to the north. The city J o - | ls also a great literary center, and numjrous gentry who have retired from office i n other parts of the empire and men of high literary attainments reside there. It has several cotton, paper, and hardware manufactories, several hundred factories for making porcelain, and factories of blue cloth, screcns, and combs. Near by are productive lead mines, and i great tea-growing district lies within seventy miles of the city. The commerce ' sf Foo Chow is principally with Japan and the maritime provinces of China. The chief exports ure black teas, timber, bamboo, fruits, orange-peel, tobacco, potash, spices, grain, copper and lead. The imports are opium, which sometimes amounts to $5,000,000 in value for a year, salt, sugar and European manufactuers. The Gulf Stream. The Gulf Stream, which, if not the, most extensive, is at least the best known of all currents, has justly been styled the most beautiful oceanic river in existence. Its course has always puzzled philosophers. After passing round the Gulf of Mexico, it rushes out into the Atlantic with very considerable force between i Florida and the West India Islands. On ! entering Florida strait from the Gulf ol ' Mexico, its rate is from sixty to one hun-1 dred miles per day, and, on leaving the j "Narrows," from seventy to one hundred ] and twenty miles. When the extension j of "the Gulf Stream drift passes between' the British Islands and Iceland, it moves only with an average rate of live miles a j day?a rate which would occupy upward j of three months to carry itB waters from the southwestern extremity of England to the north of Scotland. In its earlier stages the stream is known by its cloai blue waters and accompanying fail weather. On passing Cape Hatteras it i increases in width, and when skirting the southern edge of the grand banks of Newfoundland, it proceeds with diminished velocity and temperature. In the vicinity of lialifax and Newfoundland it : meets the waters of the cool Arctic current which is setting to the southward, ] and these waters run side by side without mixing, the line of separation some- | times being so sharp that a difference oi j temperature amounting to thirty-three ! degrees Fahrenheit has been obeserved within the distance of a few ships'lengths. An Ardent Canine Fisherman. "William Farrell, of Rutherford, N. J., has a blooded liver and white poiotei dog which has developed great fondness for fishing, and he fishes with such skil that the family have been furnished witfc several messes of grass pike and catfish. The discovery of this accomplishment was made by a member of the family. The dog, whose name is Duke, wai missed from the house, and, after a long search, was found standing flank deep it ! a mill pond near the house. The pond j is full of catfish and grass pike, and the j rJ rtr onnll lino loff tVlU'flfpr milt* ! '""6 VA* J T j low. When discovered, the dog wa?, pointing at something in the water, and j suddenly thrust his head beneath the1 surface. When he withdrew it he held in his mouth a large catfish. He cam?; ashore with it and laid it on the bank, where he had already deposited foui others. He then went back and in ? short time had captured three grass pika in the same manner. Since then Duk? j will fish whenever he is permitted to, j and is always eager to get into the watei and exercise his skill. A GREAT RUSH OF WATERS." SOW THE TIDE BISES IN THE BAT OP FUND?. A Silvery Thread that in a Moment Becomes a It nulling Hivcr?Filty Feet Wide?The Great Wave. In a letter from Falmouth, Nova Scotia, to the Philadelphia Times, the writer says: The tides of Fundy are perhaps almost familar to almost everyone, and though they are remarkable, like the maelstrom and other marvels they are greatly exaggerated. To thoroughly understand the phenomenon the lhape of Fundy Bay must be considered, and it will be seen that the great daily tidal waves that sweep over the Atlantic, caused by the attraction of the sun and moon, strike the New England coast and tend northward until the great body of water is squeezed into the narrow limits r>f Pnv <if TAinrlv insf-. ns we see a great wave from a steamer entering a brook from a lake. The effect is to immediately raise the water level, and so in Fundy the tidal wave rashes in and suddenly compressed with the narrow bounds immediately rises and the water forms a wave and rushes rapidly onward, tilling up the rivers and bays along its passage. A fumous place to observe the phenomenon is in what is called the Minas Basin, a branch of the Bay of Fundy, that extends into the country of Evangeline and cuts it up in a curious manner. Especially at the smaller towns along the Avon river is the sight to be seen that haB_been wondered at by so many. Windsor is a nine townoi auout iuree thousand inhabitants, on the elevation at the intersection of the Avon and St. Croix rivers, and is a very lively place for so a small one. Here the Avon river is about a mile in width, and if you happened to strike the river from the interior you would wonder what the inhabitants and the farmers lived upon the borders of such a gulch for. You stand upon the edge of an enormous mud crevasse, half a mile wide and extending ;i9 far as the eye can reach, and as some one refers to the river you put on your glasses and discover in the center of this slough of despond a narrow, trickling stream about two feet wide. Can this be the river, you ask? It must be, as here are bridges, two of them, but so woefully long and shaky on their pins and high above the stream that they appear like the very ghosts of bridges on stilts. From above, the chasm appears shelved and cavernous in its aspect. The Bides seem to grade off into terraces of red and gray mud, until finally the pan of bottom rock is reached, alone which the pseudo river flows. Something is expected, as here are expensive dykes, that are reared to keep the water from the farms in the back country; then again vessels lie at the docks of this inland town, high and dry, miles and miles from water deep enough to float them. Do we wait an hour or so all this will be changed. We first notice the silvery thread of water stop in its course, then the water is seen to tlow up-stream, and if you turn your head for a few minutes you find upon again looking that the silvery thread has grown to a stream fifty feet wide. Twenty minutes later it is a raging flood, as wide as the Schuylkill, foaming, rushing and boiling, rising in waves that break against each other, ever pushing on, as if propelled by some mysterious force. In this sudden rush of the water animals are often caught; pigs that have wandered out into the niiul are overcome by the onward rollers and fowl have been seen surrounded and floatea away on the waves, to be rescued, perhaps, far up the stream, thirty feet higher than the Rnnfc where thev were taken un. Flocks of birds frequently follow the tidal wave or bore, as it is called, feeding upon the 6eh that are cast ashore and catching them as the tide goes out. Why the wave should be so high in coming in is explained in dilTerent ways. One theory is that it is formed by the tidal current rushing against the current of the river and passing over obstructions of more than ordinary height that tend to push tho water up. In the Hoogly river the wave lises to a height of twenty feet; in the Amazon thirty and in the Tsientang, China, about the same. The wave in Fundy, however, is not to be compared to these in any reipect. As to rapidity, the tide comes in about as fast as an ordinary horse can trot, and a man would have to exert all his speed to escape. The height to which the water actually rises differs in different places and depends upon circumstances. Thus, if the sun and moon could pull together, so to speak, and a strong wind set in at the same time, an exceedingly high tide would be the result. It is claimed that it has risen sixty feet at Monet on; at Sackville a fifty-feet fall and rise is common; at Huaco, thirty-four feet, and at Parsboro, opposite Cape Bloomidon, about forty-five feet. These are remarkable figures and the sight of vessels that say "in the morning have been alongside the dock, now forty feet below and no water in sight, is still more remarkable. Tea-Cup Lore. Pictures in a tea-cup? Well, the idea is not altogether a new one, and many of my little friends have, co doubt, tried the old-fashioned plau of making pictures, or, as I think it is called, "telling fortunes," in a tea-cup. In fact I have a friend who is quite renowned for her success as a fortune-teller through her skill in shaking and tapping a tea-cup until the grounds, or tea leaves, in the uuixulll ui iuc ico-V/up awuun;, 111 a i aau way, certain shapes or iorrns representing people, animals and various other images which she professes to understand as referring in some way to the person whose fortune she happens to be telling at the time. I was present once when she told, in this way, the fortune of a young lady. The prophecy and the method of making it seemed to me to be very vague; but the gist of it all was, that ia a short time a young gentleman of extremely prepossessing appearance would arrive, and that he was, in some unexplained way, to exert a powerful influence ou the future prospects of tho young lady. Wishing to discover what there was in the cup to warrant such a forecast, I obtained possession of it without being observed. In the bottom of the cup I saw that the tea-leaves had assumed a form which, with a little aid of the imagination, might be accepted as resembling a very spare, delicate, and altogether dilapidated youug man. With the aid of a teaspoon, and iising a few other grounds or leaves that were lying on the bottom of the cup, I quickly changed the young man into a most disreputable-looking old tramp, with a big bundle on his back, and accompanied by a fcrocious-looking bull-dog. Then I awaited the result. Presently, the young lady whose fortune had been foretold took up the cup, with a blush of pleasure, to examine its contents. The moment she saw the dreadfill ligure of the old tramp, she exclaimed, " What a horrid old fright:"' '1 heti there was a great commotion, which was only quelled when I acknowledged my yuilt. liut 1 had learned something, which was that, with a little management, and a tea spoon, pictures of many kinds could be made in a teacup.?St. JSichola*. Deadly Oriental Poisons. 1 ThtProgres Medical describes two new Oriental poison?, both of which cause ( death by arresting the heart's action. One of them comes from Borneo, and i; i an arrow poison. Almost all that scien- 1 tists vet know of it lies in the n :inber ?>l, unfortunate dogs they have destroyed ' suddenly with it. Of I he other poison it is stated that an animal of medium size, wounded with an arrow whose point had 1 been imbued with it, would make one bound and then fall back dead. Even an elephant will succumb to its effects, ( after running half a mile or so. The composition of the poison is not yet i known, as it is kept secret by the Mois, I from whom a specimen was obtained bj 1 a subterfuge. The substance is said tc ! be innocuous when taken into the stom j ach. i During the last ton years Italy has ex- I pended one hundred million dollars on ] monster war vessels. A NEWS SUMMARY Eaalern and middle States* After the official canvass had been completed in the State of New York, the following figures of comploted election returns were given by the Associated Press: The canvas? shows that Blaine's vote in New York city was 89,977, Cleveland's 1X5,013, Butler's U,!i76, and St. John's l,100i Tho total vote in the State was: Blaine, 561,8S3; Cleveland, 502,901; Butler, 10,945; and St. John. 25,075. This nmkes Cleveland's plurality in the State 1,078. Belva Lockwood received about fifty votes throughout tho State. William L. Fitch, of Kingston, N. Y., the largest blue-stone dealer in the State, has just failed fo.* about $150,000. Mr. Fitch is one of the Democratic presidential electors, and was myster oasly shot in New York city a short time ago. Indignant Republicans have been hanging St. John, the Prohibition candidate for President, in efiigy in various parts of New York and other States. The official returns in New Jersey give Cleveland a plurality of 4,407. The Republicans have one majoritv in the senate, and ten in the assembly. The Prohibition vote was 0,150 and tho Butler vote 13,491. The congressional delegation stands four Republicans to three Democrats. A large number of the devoted personal I , tiiJLi pviitiLui 11 IUJIUO UL lui. JL>IUUJU oci eiiaucu , him at his residence in Augusta, Me., as an j expression of personal goo;' will and admiration of his conduct of the national campaign, i When the procession reached Mr. Blaine's j house compliments and friendly regards were j expressed in a speech by Mr. Herbert M. , Heath, of the Kennebec bar. Mr. Blame reBponded in a lengthv speech, in which ho complimented Now England and the West, .spoke with gratitudo of the largo majority given him by Pennsyl- j vania and asserted that "the course of affairs in the South has crushed out the political power of more than six million American citizens, and has transferred it by violence to others." At the conclusion of his address he . hold an informal reception in his house. An immense school of biack fish?a fish I from ten to twenty feet long, valued for its J oil?was discovered off Cape Cod and driven into shoal water, where for three days men, ; women and children engaged in their slaugh- | ter. About 1,5"0 of the big fish, valued at $25,OOi), were captured, A fire in Patterson, Penn.. destroyed the postoflice and seven stores, inflicting a loss of about $'J0,000. Two French brothers?Louis and Edward Gueld?came to New York from Ohio a few dnys ago for tho purpose of returning to their sweethearts in France. They had been working in this country, and had saved money. "\\ hile in the city Edward spent some of his money in riotous living; his brother reproved him, then joined him in a debauch, anrl eventually the two men matchcd pennies to see which would end tho lives of both. Louis lost and put a pistol ball through his brother's head, after which he blew his own brains out. Daniel Manning, the well known Albany editor and chairman of the New York Demo cratic State committee, was married a few days since to Mary M. Fryer. Governor Cleveland was tho first to congratulate tho newly-married pair. Pugilists have been having things their own way for a long time in giving so-called "exhibitions," frequently aiwroaching the brutality of a prize light, in New York. But the law has stepped in at last, and at a contest in tho Madison Square Garden between Sullivan, the American "champion," and a newly-arrived pugilist from England, both were arrested at the end of the second round. They gave bail, but were indicted by the grand jury. The corner stone of a crematory, designed to burn tho dead, was laid the other day at Mount Olivet, Long Island. Gov. Brown, of Rhode Island, has aprmintn/1 "Willinm P RhMHnlH nf Nmvnnrf". tn the United States Senate to succeed tne late Senator Anthony until the assembling of the I legislature in January, when a Senator will be elected. South and Went* Kansas official returns show the following: Elaine, 153,3%; Cleveland, (10,030; Butlor, 17,044; St. John, 4,27:5. Blaine's plurality, 63,300. Martin, Republican, for governor, has ii p'urality of 38,557. Congressmen are all Hi p ti'lican. Joachim Dexslow and his wife, living near Des Plains, 111., were called out of their house at night by unknown parties, who clubbed them to death and ransacked the building for money. Ohio's official vote is: Total vote, 785,179. Blaine, 4"0,082; Cleveland, 303,280; Butler, 5,170; St. John, 11,200. Blaine's plurality, 31,802. Jonv Waldev, town marshal at Belle j Plaine, Kansas, shot into a crowd, instantly i killing a young man named Crouch. Wal- I den wns taken to jail but a mob took him out i and hanged him. Some sixteen little children, all under ten ; yeai-s of age. amused themselves by lighting a large bonfire in Chicago. To make a big- j ger blaze one little fellow rolled up an empty kerosene barrel and another secretly secured I his mother's can containing some four gallons j of oil. These they put on the fire, and danced ! about it singing and laughing. Almost instantly there was a terrific explosion, which j fairly shook the houses near by. Burning staves from the barrel knocked the little ones down and mangled some beyond recognition, j Seven children were killed instantly, and four others were fatally hurt. B. H. Black, a prosperous merchant and sheriff-elect of Lamar county, Toms, was called to tho door of his residence at Blossom Prairie and shot, dying before he could make a statement Fire at Goldsboro, N. C., destroyed twen ty-five business houses, causing a total esti- i mated loss of $250,000. Hon. Joseph E. Brown has been re-elected to tho United States Senate by the Georgia legislature, only two votes being recorded against him. A national convention of cattle owners has just been held in St. Louis. Alabama's official vote shows that Clevo land received 92,973; Blaine, 59,-144; Butler, ; St. John, 010; Cleveland's plurality, 33,529. A large procession at Baltimore welcomed Senator Arthur P. Gorman, of Maryland, chairman of the National Democratic Executive committee, during the rocent presidential campaign. Mayor Latrobe modo an address of welcome, and Senator Gorman responded. The Illinois Republicans will contest the ' ejection in oranu, wno was uecjareu oy ino official count to lmvo a plurality of ton over , his opponent, and whose return to the legislature would give the Democrats a majority of ! two on joint ballot, and insure them the return of a United States Senator. The official vote of Maryland is as follows: Cleveland, 9U,932; Blaine, 80,099; St. John, 1 2,794; Butler, 531. Cleveland's plurality, 11,233. Toisnot, a village in North Carolina, has been destroyed by tire. It. A. Howard entered the house of a farmer named Peake, at Claysville, Tenn., while the family were dining. He intended to settle an old feud. When Peake saw him he shot him in the abdomen, indicting a fatal wound. In his dying throes Howard raised his shotgun and killed both Peake and his wife. In West Virginia the official count shows the highest Democratic eloctor has a majority over the highest Republican elector of 4,203, a Republican gain over October of 704. Washington^ J. Schuyler Ckosby, Governor of Mon- , iuiki icn iLui j, iiua iiiuuo uis annum repuri, ; to tho secretary of the interior. He estimates the population at about 84,000, an in- | crease of 4,000 since 16S5. He says that tho : cattle in tho Territory number more than 1 (XM.OOO, and he cslimates tho value of the taxable property, which does not represent j one quarter of the wealth of the Territory, at I between WO,000,000 and $00,000,000. Ho adds | that it will at an early day apply for adinis- j sion to the Union. A treasury department order forbids the j imiwrtation of rags from Franco and South- j ern Europe on account of the l'ear of cholera infection. During October there arrived in tho United States 154,411 emigrants, as again t 48,SG.j in October, 188:!. Dr. James Law, in a report to the commissioner of agriculture, recommends a re- : formation in the system of slaughter in the large cities and villages as a mean9 1 of suppressing the evils now resulting j f join tho sale of the meat of tuberculous ani- ' nulls. One municipal abattoir, he says, should j be established in each great center of population. In this alone stock should be slaughtered for food, and the carcass and viscera of every j animal slaughtered bo examined by a competent veterinary insDector. i-'r.tiuent inimection I of Jairies which supply large cities is also rec- I cmmended. The annual report of Mr. D. S. Alexander, j fifth auditor of the treasury, shows that the consular fees collect? I during the past fiscal year amounted to *?!).">, 7*0, and tho consular | expenses aggregated ?873,343, being an ex- i ccss of receipts ovar all expenditures of I 4o5. Tho tot U collections of internal revenue I amountci to Stai,;?S3,0.W and tho total ex- | petises to ?4,( 6S,40'.?. The naibnal hoard of health has sent a communication to the governors of all the j States, urging upon thjm t > take every pos j sibie precniuio.i to prevent the introduction and sprend of Asiatic cholera in this country, j TfiV. nnvril n/UM?nrTT l\nnr/1 ! eel to the secretary of "tho navy that the liavy lie increased by twelve new cruisers, to bo provided for in tlie appropriations for the fis al j'ear ending Juno 30, 188G. The total estimated cost of tho twelve vessels is $9,443,918. It is estimated that the November payments from tho Treasury on account of pensions will amount to $13,000,003. The annual report of the second assistant postmaster-general states that the cost of inland transportation was for 11,7:29 star routes, covering 22li,729 miles, $5,089,911; 117 steamboat routes, 1-5,591 miles, $59i,573; j I ,.573 railroad routes, 117,100 miles, $i5,012,M\. . j The second controller of tho treasury in a . report of tho transactions of his otllco for the j fiscal year ended June 3D, 18S4, shows that the 1 total number of accounts and claims settled j ivas 27,780 amounting to $ 102,030,4 J3. Governor Clxveland and his immediate f party Have engaged quarters at tho Arlington from the last part of February until the 4th of March. Foreign* A collision between two railway trains near Hanau, Germany, resulted in the death of fourteen persons and serious injuries to many more. A severe shock of earthquake, accom j panied with a terrific explosive report, oc- j purred .at CJitharno. .Eivrlrnirl. , Tiifl aboclr | tnrew down norses and wagons inthe streets i and caused great consternation and excitement among the inhabitants. Spartali & Co., London merchants, have | failed for $2,500,0J0. An explosion of dynamite in Valle de Angeles, Honduras, totally destroyed three nouses, killed two men, and dangerously injured twelve more. Advices by way of Panama state that peace has been restored in Colombia. The town of Gaduas, captured by the rebels, who subsequently laid down their arms, was the scene of many atrocities. A picket of twenty-five men, who had defenaed the school house for five hours, were slaughtered after surrendering. Many houses wore sacked and numerous persons assassinated. (jovEtiN'MENT troops in Peru captured the town of Trujillo from the rebels after a desperate resistance. Three hundred men were killed on both sides, and more than four hundred wounded. Fourteen men, women and children were murdered in San Salvador, Central America by a mob of li'K) persons. The crimes were committed owing to a dispute as to the proprietorship iu some lands. Baron Alexander Von Steglitz, the most fnmous banker in Russia, who died reI cently, left a fortune of nearly $75,000,01)0. Eleven men engaged in raising machinery from a sunken vessel at Pictou island, Nova Scotia, were proceeding to the wreck in a lifeboat when it capsized and nine of the men were drowned. A great agricultural depression prevails throughout England. Crowds gathered in the streets of the city of Mexico, shouting "Death to Gonzalez," the outgoing president. The crowds were needlessly fired upon by soldiers, and a few persons were killed or wounded. A crowd in front of the house of General Diaz, the in* coming president, called for him to appear and state his position, but he made no response. AN immense lake?an inland sea about as large as Luke Superior?has been discovered by an expedition to the northern extremity o? Canada. Forty-hiree persons accused of complicity in tho recent anti-Jewish riots have been found guilty at Pesth, Hungary, and sentenced to imprisonment. LATER NEWS At a fire in a large building at Haverhill, Mass., many persons barely escaped with their lives. One girl was fatally injured. j William H. Kurtz, a fanner of McAuley, | Penn., and a neighiwr named Isaac Klaine | were fatally burned while trying to save the j t-tock in tho former's burning barn. A congratulatory celebration has been held by tho Brooklyn Democrats. Thero was a parade, many buildings were illuminated and decorated, and Mr. Hendricks addressed a largo audience. General McClellan spoke at a Democratic jubilee in Wilkesbarre, Penn. William D. Foulke, of Indiana, waselected president of the American Woman Suffrage association at its annual convention in Chicago. The other officers are: Mary A. Livermore, Mary B. Willard, George Wiliinm Curtis, George F. Hoar, Mrs. W. T. Cutler, Mrs. D. G. King, and Mrs. R. H. Jennings, vice-presidents; Mrs. Lucy Stone, chairman of the executive committee; Mrs. Julia Ward Howe, foreign corresponding secretary, and-Henry D. Blackwell, corresponding secretary. Flames destroyed the sugar-house of Oliver mrne in bu James parish, together with l.*.0,OCU pounds of sugar. The loss is $150,000, with no insurance. Adams & Leonard, bankers of Dallas, Texas, have suspended with liabilities estimated at $:it)0,000. Chief Brooks of the secret service says in his annual report that the events of tho past year give evidence of a revival of the manufacture of counterfeit paper money, which was practically suspended during the years 1SS2 and 1853. He also says that although lie reports for lhe past year the smallest per rentage of circulation of counterfeit paper money since the first issue of such money, he is of opinion that there aro to-day in tho hands of counterfeiters nearly $:J00,000 of new spurious notes of the denominations of ?10 and >-0, which have been produced sbice Junuarv 1. 1884. The commissioner of customs in his annu.ii report says that during tho past fiscal year the number of accounts adjusted was 5,837; that there was paid into the treasury from customs and other sources the sum of $197," 10!,7o:{, an J that there was paid out of the treasury the sum of ?22,78(5,287. The French gunboats on the rivor Claire repelled a vigorous attack upon them by the Tonquinese troops. Prixce Bismarck has formally opened the ( Jorman reichstag. There has been great popular excitement and an outbreak in tho city of Mexico over a bill providing for tho payment of the English bondholders. Immense crowds paraded the streets, and in an encounter between them and the military in front of the building where Congress meets many persons were injured. THE ELECTORAL VOTE, Complete Return* From all the State* ?The Pluralities. Tho New York Herald, prints the following table,showing t'ao division of the clector.il ! vote, with tho pluralities for both candidates: I DEMOCRATIC STATES. States. Plurality. Electors, j Alabama 30,000 10 Arkansas 28,000 ? Connecticut 1,200 (j Delaware 4,276 3 Florida 5,104 4 Georgia 45,000 32 Indiana 5,500 15 Kentucky 4 >,000 13 Louisiana 20,000 8 Maryland 10,000 8 Mississippi 33,00!) !> Missouri 20,000 10 Now Jersey 4,112 !) New York 1,105 30 ! North Carolina 9,000 11 i South Carolina 43,000 9 I Tennessee 20,000 12 I ( Texas 98,500 13 j | Virginia 14,000 12 1 West Virginia 4,000 0 | Total 440,797 219 REPUBLICAN. States. Plurality. Electors. California 3,500 8 Colorado 4,000 3 j Illinois 10.S29 22 1 Iowa 18.742 13 j Kansas ttvMi 'J Maine 20, OX) ? 1 Massachusetts 10,000 14 Michigan 5,0<K) 13 . Minnesota ?2,009 7 Nebraska 20.000 5 J Nevada 1,000 3 New Hampshire 4,(J00 4 Ohio 31,SOS 23 Oregon 2,100 3 j Pennsylvania 80,020 30 Khodo Islan;l 7,000 4 Vermont 25,000 4 Wisconsin 9.000 11 Total 352,559 1S2 RECAPITULATION. Democratic 219 1 fepuliliaui 182 Cli'V-'lanrl's majority, 37 Cleveland's plurality on popular vote.. 93,93? . TBE PATENT OFFICE. 't'lio tniiunl Iterorl of tlic Commis- ' Nioiicr?llusinoss of (he Year. < In his report to tho secretary of tho interior of thebusiness of Jig patent office fortlie 1 fiscal year ended June 80, 18S4, the commis- I sioner of patents, Benj. Butterworth,submits the following statement: Number of applica- j ' tinns for patents received, 35,204; number of-M applications for de:i;n patents received, 1,- j j number of applications for re-issue pat- j i entsreceived, 214; number of applications! for registration of trademarks, 1,077; j f number of applications for reg- i j istrntion of labels, 5)75; total, 38,S22. Xti??hr?f nf fllnrl nnmhor of I patents granted, including re issues and de- J si^ns, 82U; number of trademarks reg- I Utered, 1U3; number of labels registered, total. l'4.55S. Number of patents withheld I for non-payment of final fo?s, 24,013; number > of patents expired, 10,2:30. The receipts from all sources were $1,145,- . Ian increase of $10,51* over the receipts J during the preceding year. Tho expenditures (excluding printing) were $901. ll:$, leaving a surplus of $.'11,019. Tli" increase during * ISM over number of applications for patents, c designs, etc., received during the preceding year was .'!,0S5. The number of applications e awaiting action by tho office on June 30, 1834, I was 9,180, an increase of 5.0V7 over the accumulated applications at the end of the pre- a to-ling year. 1 UNITED STATES NAVY. Facts from Admiral Porter's Annual Report. The Efficient War Ship of the Future Described, Tho annual report of Admiral David D. Porter has been submitted to the Secretary if the Navy. Admiral Porter says there is a general impression throughout the country that a very large amount of money (over $300,X)3,000) has been spent on the navy since the war without anything to show for it,and this impression has hindered the advance of the navy. It must be remembered, he says, that after the war, and up to 1W.J a large sum of money was drawn rroin the treasury to pay war debts as well as to provide for the main luiiuiicu ol uiu navy; ana it was nut uuiu 180!) that the navy settled down to run on a reasonable annual appropriation for its maintenar.c?. During tnis time bills to the amount of ^ 15K),000,0fJ0, in round numbers, had to be paid for work contracted for during tho hjight of the war. while $80,000,003, was refunded into the treasu *y. When it is considered, he says, thit all the naval appropriations since 180!) were simply for the maintenance of the navy, with the exception of about ?o,000,0J0 for new cruisers, the amount expended will be found to be nothing more than reasonable. Since 1869 the average annual expenditure has been about tIG.OUO'OQO. Compare our expenditure, says Admiral Porter, with that of any other navy of importance, and it will be proved that we have kept within reasonable bounds. Yet half the people in the country are convinced that naval appropriations are recklessly expended. A comparison of the expenditures in foreign navies with our own will go far to put a stop to the cry that wasteful extravagance has been shown in the administration of its financial affaire and will show the necessity of our doing somethingjtoward build ing a navy if we want to keep pace with the spirit of the age and to hold ourselves ready to maintain the respect of foreign natijns. The assertion that we want "a small but effective navy " does not cover the case. No small navy can bo an efficient one, if we consider the needs of the country. It must be largo enough to command the respect of tho greatest naval power. Up to 1850 or thereabouts our policy was to build better vessels than were built in any part of the world, and thus, for some years, wc maintained a small but very effective navy. A1J the powers of Europe have been engaged for the last twenty years in increasing their navies, while we have been indifferently looking on, not even taking trouble to profit by their successes or failures in modern shipbuilding. During this time some grand ships have been built,wnile others have been shown to bo unequal to modern requirements. Admiral Pnrhftr nrnr*ftArii to di?j"rihfl thfi features of a modern vessel citinz the Esmeralda, a ship of 3,000 tons, built in England for the Chilean navy, as tne most perfect ship of her class ever constructed. She will, he thinks, prove a more formidable vessel than either the Boston or Atlanta, and shows herseif to be unsurpasod as a commerce destroyer. There is no reason, he says, why we cannot build a ship of 5,000 tons on the lines and plans of the Esmeralda that will give a speed of nineteen knots an hour, which would quite equal the speed of any merchant ship afloat. Admiral Porter submits plans for a good boat, which, when completed, he says, will be a match for anything in our navy, and will Rave speed enough to escape from a superior foe. He estimates that her hull and engines will cost 1350,000, and requests that an appropriation of that amount be asked for. He says we have but one torpedo boat, and she is not completed. He recommends her completion and that she be put in condition for offensive warfare. aii oiner nations ore paying great avwjution to the building of torpedo boats. France, Russia and England have about one hundred each, and now England proposes to build 250 more for cruising and home defence. She will probably complete the whole number of them while we are considering the project of building three or four. Admiral Porter submits, in conclusion, what he thinks the government ought to do In the next two years: First, complete the unfinished monitors and arm them with heavy rifled guns, making them rams as far as their models will peimit; second, i appropriate money for all the vessels that were proposed to Congress last winter; third build as a commencement four of the heaviest monitors of great endumnce and speed, each to carry four six-inch rifles in turrets; fourth, build twenty torpado boats of not less than 100 tons each, with a speed of twenty knots; fifth, one cruising iron clad of not less than 4,000 tons; sixth, have all our ships of over 1,250 tons supplied with torpedo boats, fitted with noiseless condensing engines, so that they cannot be heard when approaching an enemy. The ships' launches, which are now called torpedo boats in our navy, are perfectly useless. Admiral Porter appends to his report a table exhibiting the expenditures of the leading nations of the world for the maintenance of their navies during the last fifteen years, as well as for the construction of new ships since 18(35. It shows that the expenditures for the maintenance of England were $805,000 000; of France, $630,000,000; Russia, ?34,).UOU.OOO. Italv. *142.000.000: Germany. $144,000,000; United States, $251,000,000. For the construction of new ships England has expended $'.11,000,000 France, $121,000,000; llussia, $ & i, 000,000; Italy, $83,000,000; Swepen, $14,000,000; Germany, $26,000,000, and the United States, $4,907,454. AN EDITOR SHOT. Assaulted on tl?o Spot Where His Ilrollier Wa* Killed. Michael H. Do Young, proprietor of the San Francis ee Chronicle, was shot in the lei't arm and shoulder by Adolph Spreckels, son of Claus Spreckels, the Hawaiian sugar king. The affair grew out of a long-continued series of attacks made by the Chronicle on Claus Spreckels in connection with the Hawaiian reciprocity treaty, the Hawaiian Steamship company "and the Hawaiian Commercial company, in nil of which Spreckels was interested. The bitter feeling existing between Spreckels and De Young was increased by the fact that the former exercised a strong influence in turning the flnfmon rnfn nrroitiof a rolofiVa r\f Flfl Vnnno UC1 1UUU TV?tU UgiUUdV U t VIUV* I V WL 1/V A vuug who was a candidate for county clerk in San Francisco at the late election, and who waa defeated. Young Spreckels followed De Young as he entered the Chronicte office and accosted him. Do Young turned and on recognizing Spreckels attempted to draw his revolver. Before ho could do so young Spreckels fired, striking him in the left arm. A second bullet struck Do Young in the shoulder and lie fell to the floor. A clerk in the office of the Chronicle who witnessed the shooting drew his l-ovolver and fired at Spreckels, wounding him slightly in the left arm. Other clerks rushed forward and seized Spreckels before he could fire in return. Tho police at this moment rushed in and prevented further shooting. Spreckels was arrested and released on bail. Do Young was taken home in a carriage. His wound is a painful one, the bullet having entered at the shoulder joint. De Young fell on the exact spot where his brother Charles fell when he was killed four years ago by Isaac M. Kalloch, Jr. In 1*7!) Rev. Isaacs. Kalloch, then the Workingmen's candidate for mayor, was shot and dangerously wounded by Charles De Young. Thu De Youngs had attacked Kalloch in their paper, reflecting on his family, and Kalloch had retaliated in * ? J .U 1 ? &II1U. JlUIIUl'U icuuveicu auu nao uicvbdi mayor. April 34, 1S80, younp: Kalloch, a son of the Mayor, enteral tho office of the Chronicle ind began firing at Charles De Young. Ho tiral several times ineffectually, but the last shot entered Da Young's mouth, lodging in bis brain. He died in a few moments. A renewal of tho old quarrel between De Young md the elder Kallo.'h was tho cause of the iifficulty. Young Kalloch was acquitted ifter a long trial on the plea of insenity. NEWSY GLEANINGS, There are 100,000 Quakers in tho United States. Nearly 2,000 watches are made every day n New England. A Columbia county (Fla.,) farm is making rine&ar from tomatoes. Mississippi has increased in taxable wealth )ver *11,(XX),000 since lbS3. A father and son are both under sentenco )f death in a Farmersviile, La., jaiL An ex-govornor of Ohio, once a man of arge property, is now selling cigars by sample. * Two Boston houses send about 600,000 gal ons of rum to the Congo, Africa, every r-ear. China is the largest consumer of pig tin. ;t is chiefly used for the manufacture of dols. An electric railway in full operation is itnong the attractions of tho Mechanics' Fair, 3oston. The United States 'ship Monooac y is shut ip in the Min river, China, by the French ilockade. During ^ the^ late cholera ^visitation ct >apies uy iai tuc ^icawouuuuiuvi ui victims vero women. It is said that a first-class duke's title, in ;ood order, can now be bought in republican 'Yance for about ?10,000. Mary Garfield Larrabee, a sister o' 'resident Garlleld, died at b'olon, Ohio, reently, aged sixty years. England makes 900,000.030 gallons of beer very year, Germany 000,000,000, and the Jnited States 600,000,000. Since the cholera appeared in Europe ibout five months ago there have been o\ er 3,000 deaths from the disease. THE FAEMING INTERESTS. Annual Report of the Coinmlvuloncr of Agriculture* Commissioner George B. Loring, of tho department of agriculture, lias submitted his annual report to tho President. In addition to Mr. Moffat, whose communications from London upon the trade and industry of Europe have been extensively published, there are 2,300 correspondents of the depart" mentin this country, who are constantly furnishing the materials for statistical estimates of tho bureau. -;?s The report of the statistician shows thut between 18*50 and 1880 the value of meata * increased from $300,000,000 to$800,000,000; of corn from ?3*50,680,878 to $094,>sl7,304; of wheat from $124,635,545 to *430,(>08,463; of hay from $168,(571,168 to $109,505,788; of dairy products from $152,350,000 to ?.352,500,100; of . cotton from $211,510,025 to $271,030 121, and other products in proportion, moro than doubling tho aggregate of value and increaa iu% 11 irom $i,uuu,uui/,uju to ^o,r>w,vnAj,v/iA/ m round numbers. With good prices the current production of the agriculture of tho United States can belittle snort of $(,000,000,0C0;and the values are those of the home markets, and not of the Eastern commercial cities or ports of exportation. The preseni year's history of crop growth in tho statistical bureau indicates a production above the average. The cotton crop bos been injured by the drouth, yet it promises * to exceed 6,000,000 bales. Corn apparently averages twenty-six bushels per acre, whicu is about the average of the prior period of ten years, giving a crop not heretofore exceeded in absolute quantity. Wheat has made a yifld ; of fully thirteen bushels per acre, and a pro- r duct exceeding five hundred millions. The supply of cereals will average fully fifty ^ bushels for each inhabitant. Potatoes of both kinds are fairly abundant, and other products generally in full supply. On the subject of forestry, Commissioner . jx Loring says that while the destruction of forests is going on at a constantly increasing rate, the work of planting trees is rapidly increasing. So far as the forests of the country are in private hands, there seems little reason to hope that their rapid consumption by the ax and by fire can be checked. Impor- ' LEUIb U10WTCii03| oajo uio wiuuiux?vuci 1 uatv been made as to the insect destruction of forest trees in Maine; the enemies of the cranberry and hop crops; those affecting wheat and small grains in the VTest,nnd those affecting the orange and other fruit trees. The bureau has continued its labors for the promotion of silk culture in the United States. In accordance with the act appr> -. J priating $15,000 at the last session of Congress, a special agent was appointed, who, i(m under the direction of the entomologist, dovotes his whole time to the investigation of all subjects relating to the culture and rais- Vi| ing of raw silk. EXCITING TIME_WITHFISa Fifteen Hundred Finny TOonatera Captured off Cape Cod. A dispatch from Provincetown,' Mass.. says: For three days the tip end of Cape Cod has been tho scene of much excitement *>91 ?jveryuuuy oig euuugu tu uuuuiu u weapuu has been killing blackflsh. A blackflsh chase <r- " ' has become very rare of late years. The fish , is of the whale family, from ton to twenty feet long, and its oil is very valuable. The school was about two miles off shore when ,/ sighted, and the water was alive with the great ci-eatures, which were disporting themselves lazily upon the surface. The first boats that arrived soon changed ; the scene to one of excitement. Each Mat Pro was soon fastened with lance or harpoon to a big blackflsh. Then the chase began. The moment blood was drawn the school started toward the wounded, and thousands of fins cut through the water toward the bay. Every effort was made to drive the fish iiito shoal water, where they could be more easily killed, but they avoided the shore and kept along the coast toward Wellfleet. i Early on Sunday morning, the pursuing . fleet being reinforced by boats from Dennis, Brewster and Wellfleet. the battle was re <1 newed. All day long the slaughter was kept up. The boats dashed into tho midst of toe school about dark and killed many of the largest fish with case-knives. 1 hey succeeded in capturing about sixty. The remainder of the school escaped to deep water and were I chased across the bay by part of tho fleet | Early yesterday morning the fish were | driven between the headlands into Wellfleet harbor. Twenty miles had thus been covered 2 % in the long chase of thirty-six hours. The sight in tne harbor at daybreak was a wonderful one. Further than the eve could reach tho bay was full of fish. The great creatures caught in an immense trap were in a frenzy of excitement, rushing zigzag in all directions, and lathing the waters to a spray. Then the great slaughter began in earnest. I Every one who could get afloat, and even | those on shore took part. Many men used harpoons and lances. Others used scythes, knives, picks, daggers, and axes. Every now and then a frantic fish, wounded and desperate, flung itself upon the shore ^.niy ha -*-* despatched by the women and enfldren on land. Nothing else was done on Cape Cod that day. The work continued until this afternoon when, it is supposed, every fish was captured. Every town from Dennis to Provincetown was reDresented in the slaughter. The number killed is estimated at~l,5C0. The proceeds are to be divided into 500 shares. | The value will probably amount to $25,000. i The fish are to be sold at public auction tomorrow. A TRAIN WBECKED, Ten Persona Killed Outright and Many injured* A frightful wrefck occurred near the town of Hempstead, oil the Houston and Texas Central railroad in Texas, at about 4 o'clock in the morning. Tl*e story told by one of these men was to tilf) following effect: It was the aprth-bound night express,..which was goiijj^at a speed of about twenty miles an houV. There ^is a bridge at tho . point where tho accident occurred. The engine passed over in safety/'but.the baggage and express cars flew the track,down . * an embankment thirty feet. The snI*^in&-?' car, two coaches, and two sleepers followed. The cars were crushed and broken into kindling wood. Tho wreck immediately caught fire, and it looked as though all tho passengers in the ruius would be roasted; but the engineer and fireman, who were on the engine and unhurt, worked like heroes, andextinguiehed the flames before they attained much headway, thus saving many persons from a horrible death. As it was, ten persons were killed and seventeen injured, some of tlio latter being maimed for life. As soon as the dead were taken out and the wounded cared for an investigation into the cause of the accident was begun. It was evident at the first glance that a great crimo had been committed. Some person or persons had drawn the spikes and removed two fish plates evidently for the purpose of wreck- '^-#5^ ins the train. irnmn i t I nt? I\T> A If A TOTA JllUBlUAL M\U VRAMAlLli, " Ivaitroff" is the name o( tho new great society melodrama. r Mary Anderson's Juliet has captivated London, acceding to cable reports. A German translation of Shakespeare's " Coriolauus" was played in Munich with considerable success. Henry Chanfrau, son of the late actor, Frank Caanfrau, has made a failure as his father's successor as " Kit." ^'^9 Over fifty combinations have already collapsed this season, and the largo cities-aro thronged with unemployed actors and ac- i'j tresses. A five-hundred dollar diamond ring fastened to a boquet was thrown to Lotta by a Spanish lady who occupied a box iu Philadelphia. Owing to the subsidence of the comic opera craze, many good vocalists and other artists are being forced into burlesque and semi-variety companies. Colonel Mapleson's contract with Patti for the London season limits her salary to $2,250 nightly, and that ot Xilssou to $1,750 for each pertormance. Mr. Gladstone, England's premier, is said to havo a very sweet tenor voice, and to sing English, Irish and Scotch ballads, and even negro melodies, with great taste and feeling. Contrary to usage, all the witches in Macbeth, as produced by Ristori, will bo played by women. The repertoire consist-; of rour plays. A new one may do auuea Deioro the season is over. Victoria Moro>ivi Schelling, whose elopement with her lather's coachman created so much excitement in New York some time ago, has signed an engagement to sing in New York. Her husband will collect tickets. The Conservatory of Music in Mexico has over 2,000 pupils, and a high decree of musical talent, with all necessary means for its fnlt.ivnfinn nvi?,fci in that country. Nearly every house has a piano, music is taught in the schojls. and tho military bauds are unsurpassed in excellence. Mary Anderson will reappear in New York, October 12, ISSo, and in Boston on the 2&1 of the following November. Her repertoire will bo "Romeo and Juliet,""Pygmalion and Galatea,'" " Comedy and Tragedy," and " Ingomar," and there is a chance that " Cymbelino" will be added. Trashy music, tho London Times declares, has taken tho place of th-ir own beautiful old melodies with th > English lower cl.isses. It says: "In out-ol'-the-way places which the 'march of civilization' has ml yet reached, and ospec.a ly in Scotland an l the north of England, this is different. Tltcra popular song is still a living fnrc? called into action by cotton famine and other events ot public or domestic int.'ro .t, and Lmcastv/ more especially can pjint t > Mr. Edwin Waii^h as one of tho fow modern {o.'ts who, i:i 'Coma whoain to the childor and me.' has produced a genuine 'Volkslied.' In London, on the other hand, folksong i'i as dca 1 as ths great Pan; even its last echoes aro rapidly dwindline from Donular consciousness.' Jk