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ABBEVILLE PRESS AND BANNERS BY HUGH WILSON. . ABBEVILLE. S. C.. WEDNESDAY, DECEMBEK 17, 1884. NO. 25. VOLUME XXIX. MM , 0 - THESONO BY THE BAR ADA. Over the brow of Labanon, In a blaze of splendor sank the sun, Its gold on the valley glowing; After a day now dark, now fair. With a wild sirocco sweeping bare The mountain paths, as we journeyed there, To stately Baalbec going. L All in the dusk our tents gleamed whit* | Where lone Barada lulled the night, [ Cool from the snows of Herinon; f Around us, rose and hawthorn blooms i Hung, sad, above Abila's tombs; And her ruined temples, through the glooms, Looked with a voiceless sermon. The wild wind fell: and, past compare, Up in the wonderful depths of air Floated the starry islands;? Floated so calm, so bright, so near, From the curtained door I learned to hear, Perchance, some song of the blessed, clear In the great o'eraching silence. By the tethered horses, from man to man Speech and laughter alternate ran, ^ lvVioro flio innlatxiAxc worn 1 v i n rr But gtory and merriment fainter grew, Till the only sound the tent-court knew Was the Dragoman's footfall echoing through. Or the wind in the walnut sighing. Listen! what steals on the air? has the breeze Wafted down from the shining seas A song of the s?rnphs seven ? Low and soft as the soothing fall Of the fountains of Eden; sweet as the call Of angels over the jasper wall. That welcomes a soul to heaven. It swells ! it mounts ! it fills the vale 1 The hawthorns tremble; the roses pal? At its passionate, glorious mazes !? Tis a Peri hymning of Paradise ! 'Tis the plaint of a spirit that yearns and I SIgUS Though lapped in the nameless bliss of the skies, For a lost love's embraces ! A moment's hush with the falling strain;? And the wild wind, rising, roared amain O'er the stream an J the covert shady;? Breathless I stood in the curtained door, But the ravishing melody came no more; And the dragoman, crossing the tent be fore Cried, "The Nightingale, My lady." Yet still when April suns are low, I hear the wild siroro blow, And see, in memory's vision, Abila's ruins strew the hill; The stars the Syrian asure fill; I While, listening, all my pulses thrill As soars that song Elvsian. ?Edna Dean Proctor, in the Century. PATTY'S PROPOSALS. UI wonder if I shnll ever have a pro- J posal!" mused Patty lJristow. "You?" gaily echoed Madeline Hall, her cousin. "Patty, what nonsense you ; are talking! As if anyone fell in love 1 with a dairy-maid!" "I don't see why they shouldn't," said Patty, who was straining the morning's milking into a row of glittering pans, j ' Beside, I am not a dairy-maid; I am a sort of Jack-at-all-trades." "And good at none," merrily retorted j Madeline, who had come down into the cool milk-room to get the glass of new j milk which the doctor had ordered her [ to drink every morning. "But don't | despair, Patty; some respectable clown j of a farmer's boy will come along some j J ' day." "T 1l t ? n> ! *1 vvuu t Luunjr a laiLuci t uicu x auv, i with deepening color. And in her enthusiasm, she filled the last pan too full, and the pearly fluid ran j out on the white-scoured shelf and the I cool stone floor. " 'Nobody asked you, I sir, she said,'" saucily sang Madeline, ' as she put down the empty tumbler for i Patty to wash, and danced gaily off up j stairs. And Mrs. Hall came bustling down, and scolded Patty for being so cureless. | and told her to go up and feed the young j 1 J xl.-i. 4.1 J : .1 -It. ?. ' vu.ts.b\9f aou see uj.il iuev uiu uut i^eu into the tall, wet grass, and to mend little Dick's trowsers, and dam the worn places in the carpet Defore it got any j worse. "Can't Dick's trowsers and the carpet j wait ?" said Patty. "I wanted to finish i my pink mmlin frock this morning " "What for, in the name of common i sense ?" said Mrs. Hall. "I'm going to the moonlight dance ; this evening," said Patty, catching her breath, as if terrified at her own audacity. "You are ?" repeated Mrs. Hall. I "Yes, lam!" declared Patty. "Why, shouldn't I? Madeline goes everywhere?" j "Well, well, go, if you please!" said 1 Mrs. Hall. "But if I were you, I wouldn't get in the habit of gadding | too mucfc. lou ve got your living to cam." "So has Madeline!" 9ul!enly retorted Patty. "Oh, Madeline will be sure to marry with her face ar.d her winning ways," said the complacent mother. "I'm not a bit afraid for Madeline. Colonel War- j ing is dead in love with her this minute!" ! In the Hall family, Madeline had always been the darling and pet, Patty the drudge. If any one had asked her, Mrs. Hall would have declared that she treated her daughter and her niece exactly alike, | only Madeline was delicate, and Patty i the incarnation of robust health. Beside, Madeline would inherit her father's savings, and Patty, as her aunt took frequent occasion to inform her, had her own living to earn. So Patty sewed diligently away on the pink muslin dress, and, as she sewed, she pondered. No. she would marrv no bnmokin. Leander Dalton was a pleasant young fellow surely, but she had had cuough of soap-makins, poultry-raising, butterchurning and riding into the village with the one-horse wagon, packed full of egirs, fresh vegetables and berries. "I'm rather pret*y when I am dressed ^iplind aiy hair is crimped," said she, with a sidelong glance at the mirror. "Who knows what luck may be in store for me?" Madeline went away early, in a whole wagon-load of merry, laughing girls, who were to deck the pavilion in the . grove with evergreens and June roses. Patty looked wistfully after them. "Isn't there room for me, too?" said, she. "Oh, there's room enough!" said Madeline; "but some one has got to get tea for the farm-hands, and put Bill and Dicky to bed, and take care of the milk. u j. ? j Jioiuer can i no even uuug, juu nuun. H Patty 18 brow gloomed over, and she a once more took up the burden of her H daily toil. w Was there to be no end to the domesB tic tread-mill? H But the hungry farm hands were at least satisfied with cold pork and beans, B stewed prunes and home made plumB cake; the children were launched safely I for dreamland, aud the great pails of B milk disposed of, and Patty was just adC justing the last loop of ribbon in her B pink muslin dress, when her aunt called 9 up the winding, wooden stairway. B ^'Patty! Patty!?here's Colonel WarB ing.. Came with a buggy?and MadeB line has gone, and you might as well B have the chance of a ride. .Make haste K uow; he won't want to be kept waiting B all night." B An to her infinite exultation and tremB ulous delight, Patty Bristow found herB self seated by the side of the city Adonis. Of course Madeline would be vexed; HrB but she could not help that. r"I am fortunate in being able to obtain a companion," said the colonel, looking graciously down upon her; "and since Miss Madeline has given me the slip, I hope that you will accept me!" "Will?what?" said Patty, turning pink and white by turns. "Accept me," said Colonel Waring. "I hope I shall not prove a disagreeable companion." "Ob, no, no!" said Patty, with her heart beating a perfect tattoo. "But I didn't think of any such thing. Colonel Waring. We have been acquaiuted so short a time, and no one ever made me a proposal of marriage before. But I'm very much obliged to vou, and please? yesl" The colonel uttered a long whistle. But he was ouly human, and Patty Bristow was exceedingly pretty; so when she put her little cotton-giovei hand so confidingly into his, and smiled so winnin<jly up into his face, he stooped down, and gave her a kiss. "You're a perfect little darling!" said he. ! ':Am I?" said Patty, smiling and dimpling more than ever. I always thought I ; should like to marry a city gentleman." The moment in which an explanation would have been possible had passed by. Colonel Waring felt himself hopelessly committed now. He was courting Madeline Hall, and now he was engaged to Patty Bristow. Well, it was destiny that was to blame, not he. And so the coloncl put his arm around Patty's pink muslin waist and gave her a ! second kiss. "What else could Tbe do? "I knew something was going to hapI pen!" said Patty to herself. "What will Madeline say when she learns that I am to be the fine lady, after all, and that she has got to stay at home and help with the farm work!" But the very first person she saw, on ; ahchting from the wagon at the grove, 1 was Lca'nder Dalton. j At the sight of his frank, honest face, her heart gave a great jump. "I thought you never "were coming, dear," said he. "Make haste! The band will be here directly, and?" ".May I go ?" said Patty, looking wisti lully up into Colonel Waring's face, j "Oh, yes?go by all means!" said the colonel, with alacrity. For Madeline Hall was beckoning to him from the vine-wrcathed platform above. "I don't know what the deuce I shall say to dear little Maddy," thought Colonel Waring. "I don't know how I shall ever explain it to Leander," pondered Patty. And as she walked along, leaning upon his strong, tender arm, she glanced half fearfully up into his face. lie wna handsome, even if, as Madeline said, he was nothiug but "a bumpkin." lie had such sort, lovins, limpid eyes; his teeth were so white when he smiled; there was such a healthy glow on hi^ cheeks. "I have got so much to tell you, Patty," said he. "Do you know I have bought the Blackbury Ridge farm? And now I have a home of my own to offer you. I can say what has so often trembled on my lips. I love you, Patty! "I want you for my wife!" "Oh, Leander!" said Patty, stopping short "but?but Pin engaged already!" "Engaged, Putty?" "To Colonel Waring," said the girl, with mingled shame and exultation. Le.mder Dalton looked at her as steadfastly as if those dark, tender eyes of his would rend her very heart. Patty felt a choking sensatioo rising up. up, into her throat." "Patty," he cried, "you do not love this man! You love me!" "Yes," vehemently exclaimed the girl ? "yes, I do love you, Leandcr! And I'll marry no man but you, not if I was engaged a thousand times over! So there! And I don't care what Colonel Waring says! And I don't care if I have to work my finger-ends off! I love you, Leander, and there's an end of the matter!" In the meantime Colonel Waring and Miss Madeline Hall were not getting on at all. "Why are you so stupid and so silent?" aaid Madeline, petulantly. 'T?I don't know," answered the colonel. "You told ine, yesterday, that you had something very particular to say to me to-day," mercilessly pursued the girl. "What is it?" "1?I tuiDK l iorget: barn uoionei Waring. ' How very strange you are!" said Madeline. "It must be the weather," said the colonel, wiping his heated brow and secretly groaning in spirit. What had he done, thus to become the prey of fateHe was infinitely relieved when Madeline's expressed wish for a glass of water gave him an excuse for being by himself. But even this forlorn hope was uot long left him. As he stood moodily staring into the woodland spring, Patty Bristow came up to him. "I'm sorr}7," said she. "but?but I shall have to take it all back, Colonel Waring, I don't love you, after all." "Oh, don't you?" said the colonel. "And I've promised to marry another maD, if you won't take it too much to heart," she murmured. "Oh.not at all," said Colonel Waring. "Suit yourself, and you'll suit me. And within fifteen minutes he was the affianced lover of Miss Madeline Hall. And when the two cousius undressed that night, in their pink-and-white bedroom up stairs, with the clock striking one in the morning, and their dip-candles guttering low"down in the sockets, they exchanged confidences. "I am engaged to be married to Colonel Waring, Patty," said triumphant Madeline. 'And I," said Patty, no less proudly, "shall marry l.eauder Dalton, on the first of September. He has bought Blackberry Kidge farm, and I am to have a hired-girl to do all the drudgery, nnd my parlor is to be furnished with a mirror and a real Brussels carpet.*' But she respected the feelings of her discarded swain, and did not tell Madeline that she had had the first choice of the colonel. "Two proposals in one evening!" thought she. "I never was so happy in all my life!"?Helen Forrest Graces. The First Bank. iL. i. it is one 01 me iuusl rumum-aiue ui phenomena that the first bank everestabiished won a success unequaled in later times. The Hank of Venice had its origin in 1171, from a forced public loan, raised to fit out a fleet, and is the first appearance of a public funded debt. Every citizen was obliged to contribute the one-hundredth part of his posses; sions. The persons assessed were then organized as a Chamber of Loans for their common protection and for the re! ccipt of the yearly interest of four per centum. Subsequently its creditors were permitted to transfer their claims in whole or in pait. The government, iinding that these transfers were in demand, reduced the rates of interest until no interest wa3 paid. Afterward it sold cash inscriptions of credit on its books. Those inscriptions cost gold, but were not convertible into gold. As a matter of fact, although termed a bank, its isrues were government paper,and its business was carried on solely for the bene, lit of the public treasury. This bank is still one of the foremost financial institutions in the world. For two hundred years the Bank of Venice stood alone. Trouble from the Mormons. Colonel H. A. Percy, of Arizona, said | recently to a New York Tribune reporter: During the past summer 2,000 Mormons have crossed over to Arizona, so that now we have ahout 5,000 of these outi laws in our Territory. They have all taken up government land. They locate in "colonies," and in many wards and precincts hold the balance of power and elect their justices of the peace. These I are but the advance of the hordes that i are to follow. Emmigration is coming : in from Europe to such an extent, that ; Utah cannot hold them all, and thev ! must seek other fields and more desirable j government lands. Their next step, when their members have increased, will be to ! control some of the county elections,and I ! to have a voice in the selection of the ; teiritorial delegate, a^ they now have in j Idaho and Montana. Next spring,when the usual exodus from Utah to Arizona j begins, it would not surprise me if > trouble occurred. i In Germany a man dare not cut down ! the trees in his own land without consent I of the proper authorities, so zealous is the government in preserving the forests. i i - ii Indiana has no less than 206 coal mines, which produce annually two and on?-hall I million tons of coal. i 1 BUCKEYE GRETNA GREEN. THB HAVE IT OF All XEWTT7CKY EUS. AWAY COUPi.ES. A. 'Squire TVho Ka? Hade One ^lore Than 15,000 C ouple# Since lie Began the Biiiinvss. A Maysville (Ky.) letter to the Philadelphia Times says: Maysville is at the foot of the rich blue-grass belt and has ;asv coramunicai.on with the interior. Opposite Maysville is the little village of Aberdeen, Ohio. It has been very aptly termed the "American Gretna Green," ind within its municipality there have probably been more runaway marriages celebrated than in any other place of squal size on the globe. Some of the best blood in Kentucky flows in the veins of people whose parents were married at Aberdeen. Some years a^o the legislature of the State, to forever settle the vexed questions brought about by these clandestine unions, passed a law declaring that all such marriages contracted previous to the passage of the act and all that might take place afterward, were and should be considered legal. Aberdeen is the Mecca to which the blue-grass lovers turn their eyes. For the last fifteen years 'Squire Beasley, self-titled "The Great American Matriraonializer," has carried on the business of marrying runaway couples at Aberdeen with no small profit to himself. The 'squire is a tough, grizzled old fellow of sixty-five or seventy years of age, with a great fund of hard, practical horse sense at his command. He claims that ninety-nine per cent, of the marriages he solemnizes turn out well, which is a strong statistical point in favor of the Aberdeen article. He is available for the purpose day or night. His house, a large, comfortable double structure of wood, stands near the river bank. The marriages are performed in a great front room, which was once a parlor. His scale of fees is a graduating one and is gauged according to the financial standing of the happy groom. If he is the son of a rich blue-grass farmer the old 'squire hints that a XX treasury note would be about the proper compensation. If he is a poor mountaineer, however, in rough homespun,the kindly old disposer of matrimnniul felicitv will do the iobfornoth ing, nnd frequently presents the blush- j ing, rosy cheeked bride with a .^5 note to begin housekeeping with. He told me the other day that he had made one over 15,000 couples since he first began business, and judging by the numerous Aberdeen marriage notices which I 6ee in the Kentucky local papers, I don't think nis figures are much out of the way. He can tell a hundred interesting stories born of his experience, and claims to have performed some years since the quickest marriage ceremony on record, i A couple from Nicholas county, young, romantic and of high social position, fled from home one bright, starlight night in midsummer aud mounted on" fleet horses galloped across the country toward Maysville. Soon their absence was discovered and a party of angry relatives started in pursuit. Just as the runaways were descending the ridge which overlooked the sleeping city, they heard the quick clatter of horse-hoofs and the excited shouts of the pursuing party. Not a minute was to be lost. They spurred up their jaded steeds and at last reached the river bank. Their pursuers had been steadily gaining on them, nowever, and the broad Ohio rolled remorselessly between them aud the ha^en of their hooes. A boat was drawn upon the levee, and pushing it otf, the expectant groom helped his trembling sweetheart to a seat iu the stern thwarts. Then leaping in himself he seized the oars and pulled for the opposite shore with all nis strength. When ho reached the middle of the river the pursuing party galloped down the Kentucky bank. Another boat was procured, quickly manned and a half-dozen pair of strong arms propelled it toward the runaways. When the first boat touched the Ohio bank and the young couple leaped ashore the pursuing party was within two hun. dred yards of them. Quickly they ran to the house of 'Squiro Beasley. The old 'Square had been called upon to unite a couple, and, having performed the ceremony, was about retiring. Sud- j denly the door flew open and the hunted couple dashed into the room. "Quick!" cried the man. "We are closely pursued. Marry us!" There was borne to their ears a faint shout and the 'squire Knew there was no time to lose. "Jine hands!" he cried. They obeyed. "Have him'" he began, turning to the girl. "Yes!" "Have her?" he demanded of the man. "Yes!" I "Hitched!" was the 'squire's laconic benediction, and then, as the newly-made husband displayed a well-tilled pocketbook, he added: "Ten dollars." The words had hardly left his lips when the pursuing party rushed into the house only to witness the young couple's triumph. A little ferry-boat, the "Gretna Green," plies between Maysville and Aberdeen, and it is principally patronized by runaway couples. When the river is locked in winter's frigid embrace the ferry-boat is laid up and the runaways cross on the ice. Women Bull Fighters. A bull light of a novel kind took place at Tarragona on Suuday last, the purformers being women clothed in the male torera suit. The bulls were all young and full of fire. The first one let into - J- -a?:~1.4. - c IUL* nreriii mum: buui^iii. iur uuc ui luc toreras, and sent her spinning in the sand several yards off. A second torera rushed to the rescue with her capa, which she waved before the bull to draw off its attention from her discomtitted colleague. The bull accepted the challenge at once, and with a rapid twist of the neck caught the banderilla and sent her Hying. She fell on her face, and followed the previous torera in her retirement, bleeding from several scratches. The third torera then advanced; but no sooner had the bull caught sight of her than he bounded toward her and tossed her. After this the bull took a quiet walk around the arena, waiting l'or fresh sport. No further competitor entering the list, the crowd began to show signs of impatience, which grew at every moment, until they finally began breaking up the seats and throwing brickbats into the arena, yellin^ nnnl.hfimai at. thr> eow.irdirf? of thr> torera company. The stewards then announced that the money would be returned. This was done partially; but the cashier's office suddenly closed, that official having bolted with the rest of the takings. A scene of indiscribable uproar oc curred when the fact became known, and the work of demolition was pursued with increased fury. The gendarmes were called in to restore order, but only succeeded in adding to the general confusion, in which they were roughly handled. The arrival of three companies of infantry enabled the managers to clear the amphitheatre. The most extraordinary part of the affair is that, undeterred by the fate of the first company of toreras and their manager, who were marched off to prison beside, the workwomen of the tobacco factories of Madrid are preparing to give an exhibition of their prowess, and a troupe is organizing to do the round of the arenas in all the principal towns of Spain.?OalignanVa Messenger, Paris. Blood Baths. Curiosity in regard to the peculiar efficacy of blood, the Cincinnati Enquirer says, was the belief prevalent in the days of the Egyptians and in the middle ages that blood baths possessed curative powers. Pliny speaks of the leprosy called elephantiasis, of which he says: "When the kings were afflicted with it, it was a sorry time for the poor people, who were killed to furnish blood baths." In the middle ages it was believed that the blood of maidens and children must be employed, and innumerable cruelties were practiced; but after a time the belief became common that no blood would be efficacious unle3*it was voluntarily offered. Louis XI. of France had the insane idea that his approaching death could be warded off by the drinking of blood of young children, but the experiment was unsuccessful. / NEWS AND NOTES FOR WOMEN. | Children's hats are not so large as 1 were those of last winter. The changeable bison cloths are called by the pretty name of chameleon. Wedding cards and invitations arc very plain and unpretentious in style. Chinese primroses are excellent window plants for the dark days of winter. Elegant costumes are again made of ; corded silk combined with brocaded j silk. Tall pot plants in bloom, set on t^ools i on each side of the fireplace, ornament I English drawing rooms. Importod hats for young girls have , beaver crowns and felt brims with three j or four runs of stitching. When the Russian waistcoat is used in a basque, the back is usually cut postillion, although it is sometimes round. The new embroideries, braids and cords show gold, silver and steel threads combined with those of silk and wool. Flowering bulbs of all kinds are now in demand for indoor culture. Hyacinths, tulips and narcissus are most popular. New photograph albums have silver legs and a cover that automatically becomes an easel that holds up the pages one by one. The new sets of braid ornaments are so made as to cover the whole front of the waist and extend around the neck and down the back. The richer sorts of brocade are used to trim cloth suits in the same manner as velvet, and they are almost as becoming; those of curled, uncut velvet are the i | prettiest. Striped skirts are made up with the i stripes extending diagonally across the i aprOn, but are so plaited in the back as to hide the red stripes under those of the darker color. Mme. Sophie Kavalevsky, a Russian, born Countess Karvin-Krakovsky, holds the chair of doctor of mathematics in the Stockholm university, Sweden. She is oniy thirty years of age. | Haircloth is still the best material for [ bustles, nothing superior cither in durability or elasticity having been invented. It is never cheap, but it costs less in the end than materials far less costly. Clock novelties include one modeled on the cuckoo plan, only instesd of the cuckoo coming out wnen tne nours j strike, a ravan appears and gives as many "caws" as there are beatings of time. English women have discovered that a rather small mirror may be made almost as useful as a large one if set on an easel in the dressing-room, and :hat an old | easel painted brown or black is a good I substitute for one of solid walnut. The newest English fur capes have a bow with ends sewn around the throat, and they are called Mury Anderson. They are very warm and fit so closely about the throat that it is not necessaay to wear a silk kerchief under them. Waists which seem to be tied together ! are among the novelties of the season, j j The linings are buttoned and the plaited ; outside is crossed by ribbons tied in knots, which the wise woman sews, and fastens with concealed hooks and eyes. | I Pillow-cases and sheets of colored su- j Ml- 1 l__ 1?4. i:??^ | ran, wnn a siik uruuuu uuvcuct. uucu ! with satin, is the latest fancy among inj valids who receive in their bedrooms. The invalid must, of course, wear a i wrapper to harmonize with the colors i displayed in the bed furnishings. The Japanese girl, when she goes into company, paints her lace white, her lips and the corners of her eyes red, with two elate-colored spots on her forehead. She would be thought immodest if she did : i not do so, as being so conceited as to | think her complexion did not need im- j provement. Gold and silver are in both ground j and figure of the brocades, and by dex- : terous weaving some are made to look burnished and some unburnished, so that, the whole looks like goldsmith's wcrk. ' The figures are very large and not only flowers and palms but Oriental ! vases and jars are found among them. j Among the latest costumes is ono . made of biscuit-colored cloth, trimmed ! round the plaited skirt with a wide band of mahogany-brown velvet. The hat, , collar, culls, and band round the edge of , the basque were also of the velvet. The \ Waldeck is a nice little cloth jacket, j braided in circles which gradually de- : | crease in size as they recede from the J | buttons down tho front. This makes , the design very becoming to the figure. ; _____ The Ticliborne Claimant After having served out a term of eleven years in prison, the Tichborne 1 claimant has becD finally released. His sentence was for fourteen years, for the { crime of perjury; but in accordance j with the English system of "ticket of ! leave," lie was set lree three years snort of his time, on account of his good con- | duct during the period of his imprison- : ment. The "ticket-of-leave" system, by the i way, means that while the prisoner is ; allowed to go at large, he still remains t under the eye of the police, und may be j at any time arrested and returned to | prison if he breaks the promise made to abide by the laws. This release of the Tichborne claimant j is the sequel of the most audacious at- i tempt at imposition in the history of modern times. It was the subject of j two of the most exciting and momentous trials which ever took place in the Eng- I lisli courts of justice. The man who has suffered the penalty of his crime for eleven long years i claimed to be Sir Roger Tichborne, a youth who had left his home and crossed the seas, and who was supposed to be lost by the wreck of the vessel on which he was traveling. The story of the pretended Sir Roger was most skillful- i ly and artfully made up. It imposed not 1 only on many of the real Sir Roger's ! | schoolmates, servants and old friends, i but even upon Lady Tichborne, his own ; j mother. Lady Tichborne swore posi- J ; tively that the claimant was her long- 1 j lost son. The mass of testimony which j he brought to sustain his case was siinI ply prodigious. A large number of wit; nesses swore that they recognized in him ! the real Sir Roger. When Tie went upon thf" stnnd Iih mivfi an ficnount of his wanderings and escapes, and related in: cidents of Sir Roger's youth, which con- I | vinced many English people, among them persons of rank and influence, of the justice of his claim. Several ser- i j vants of the Tichborne family, who had j ! seen Roger grow up from infancy to early i manhood, were emphatic in their asseri tion that they saw their young master, 1 grown stout and middle-aged, before them. But despite all this formidable weight of testimony, the case against the j pretender was doubly strong. It was proved, not only that he was not and could not possibly be the real Sir Roger j Tichborne, but that he actually was one ' Arthur Orton, a butcher of Wapping, who hud lived in Australia, and had somehow got hold of enough of Roger's ! story to put it into his head to personate him. When the jury, after a thrilling trial, which extended over months, declared him to be an impostor, Orton fled from i the court-room, and tried to escape out of Engiand. But the officers of the law were too active for him; and he was ar?<-.1 .._.1 !. ;?:i It'Mt'U ilUU U1IUWIJ into jaxi. I The second trial found him a prisoner j in the dock, on trial for perjury and for- ! gery. This (rial, too, was long and in- ! tensely interesting, and resulted in the prisoner's conviction on all the counts in ! the indictment. Throughout the eleven years of his ; | confinment at Portland and Dartmoor, j ! the claimant has unvaryingly continued ' I to assert his identity with Sir Roger I Tichborne. In this, too,strange to say,he I has been supported, in spite of his con- j viction, by large numbers of the English people, who still believe that what he says is true. It is not at all unlikely, therefore, that we may see some revival of the agitation to reinstate him in the title and estates which he stoutly maintains to be his due. | lie may resort again to the courts, with I new evidence; or he may stand as a canj didatc for parliament. It seems pretty ! c< rtain that the world has not yet heard I the last of him.?Youth'* Companion. STEWS SUMMARY Eastern and middle State*. Intense excitement was caused at Middletown, N. Y., by tho failure of the Middletown National bank, organized under the State banking laws in ISM and considered one of tho safest institutions in the State. The failure is due to the president, Thomas King, accepting drafts irregularly from Benjamin D. Brown, a Western grain speculator, who failed and made assignments to the bank. Mary J. Brown, a Philadelphia colored woman, fifty years old, is gradually turning white. Governor Cleveland has returned with a polite note of declination a fine Newfoundland pup sent him by an enthusiastic Brooklyn admirer. The governor has also declined to attend a grand banquet at the Philadelphia academy of music. Major General Gershom Mott, of Bordentown, N. J., was walking up Cortland street, New York, who;i ho suddenly fell back and expired of heart disease. At the' time of his death General Mott was in command of the New Jersey militia. He was born at Trenton in 1 served in the Mexican war, took a prominent part in the civil war and in 1875 was apjwinted State treasurer of New Jersey to fill a vacancy. Mr. Frank Saunders, an inventor and manufacturer, was b j much affected by the sudden death of his wife while on a visit in Brooklyn that he killed, himself at^ier side. The body of Laura G. Clancy, an actress, was burned in the new crematory, Lancaster, Penn. Howard Sullivan,a colored boy of seventeen years, was hanged at Salem, N. J., for the murder of pretty Ella Watson, a fifteonvear-old girl, last August. Sullivan crept behind the girl as she was walking through the woods, killed her with a stick and then robbed the bo;ly. Francis D. Moulton, who came prominently before the public as the "mutual friend"' in the celebrated suit of Theodore l'ilton against Rev. Henry Ward Beecher, died the other day at his residence in New York of paralysis of the heart, aged fortynine years. Mr. Moulton was active in the promotion of dairy farming, and during the recent presidential campaign worked hard for the election of General Butler. South and Hc?t< Official figures of the vote in Indiana show that Cleveland has 244,992; Blaine,238,480; Butler, 8,71(3; St. John, 3,018, Cleveland's plurality, 0,512. Wisconsin's total vote was as follows: Blaine, 101,147; Cleveland, 140,454; St. John, 7,649; Butler, 4,597; Blaine's plurality, 14,093. T\ ",TV ' "D- ??'? nf fVin LJ A V1U U, X A I ?>?., IU? IttUlUUO Actual?* vi vuu Oklahoma Boomers, who is known throughout the land as ''Oklahoma Payne," died suddenly while eating breakfast at a hotel in Wellington, Kansas. At a Democratic jubilee in Atlanta, Ga., fivo States?Georgia, Tennessee, North and South Carolina and Alabama?were represented in the torchlight parade. Special trains carried thousands of people to Atlanta, and at the head of the procession were Governor McDaniel, Senators Brown and Colquitt, and the spccial guest of the occasion,Hon. Samuel J. Randall, who delivered an address. A woman and her twelve-year old daughter, while walking home from a relative's funeral at Oconto, Wis., lost their way in a swamp and were frozen to death. Hon. E. W. Wilson, elected governor of West Virginia at the recent election, has been served with a notice of contest by the Prohibition candidate for governor. John Jondro, alleged to be 121 years old, died the other day at Arkansaw, W is. Captain A. 11. Murphy, a prominent New Orleans politician and superintendent of the city's workhouse, was shot dead in the streets by fivo men, who madea simultaneous attack upon him. Recorder i nomas *oru, not ween wliom and Murphy there had been bad blood, and all his court officers were arrested. Thomas M. Watkins and John H. Diggs, editors of rival papers in Maries county, Mo., had an encounter in the streets of Vienna, growing out of a personal controversy in their respective sheet*. Watkitis was shot twice by Diggs and killed. The Farmers' National bank, of Bushnell, 111., has suspended. It was organize! in 1871 and had a paid in capital of $5v>,0;K). Governor Hamilton, of Illinois, has awarded the certificate of election to Leman, the Republican candidate for senator in one of the Chicago districts, whoro there was a close vote and a contest. The Chicago grand jury returned a number of indictments for forging election returns in connection with this case. A fire at the Wisconsin State university, Milwaukee, did damage to the extent of $235,OUU. A party of men entered Stephen Goodwin's house at Camilla, Ga., and killed him and Mrs. Gregory and son in their beds with axes. Oyster pirates having again begun their depredations in Virginia waters, Governor Cameron sailed with his stair for Chesapeake Bay in the Stategunbo.it Chesapeake, on his third cruise after the raiders. WatlilnRlon. The annual report on the Life Saving service shows that the disasters to vessels within the field of station operations for the last year have amounted to :i37. On these vessels were 4,25:1 pei-sons. of whom 4,237 were saved, und only sixtean lost The number of shipwrecked pjrsous succored was 532,' to whom 1,310 days' reliet were afforded. The estimated valuo of the vessels involved in these disasters was $7,075,075, and that of their cargoes $3,454,050, making the total value of the property imperilled $10,530,025. Of this amount $0"090,134 was saved, and 1 ,439,891 lost. The number of vessels totally lost was sixty-four. There were 102 casualties to smaller crafts, such as sailboats, rowboats, etc., on which wero 17U persons, 175 of whom wero saved and four lost The net revenue of the Federal goverment for the last fiscal year wa3$348,510,809, being $40,707,712 less than the previous year. The net expenditures wero $244,120,244, a decrease of $21,2S1,8'J3 over 18#X An overhauling of the capitol building lias taken nlace during the congressional recess. Various improvements have been made, among the most important of these being the placing of electric belLs in every committee room in the Senate wing, with which to summon Senators to the chamber. It is stated that the bills for the admission of Dakota and Washington Territories as States will undoubtedly be pressed by the Senators who have them in charge. A Unitkd States consul has forwarded from Brazil to the state department samples of a drug which is said to bo a euro for cancer. One member of the Senate (Senntor Anthony, of Rhode Island) and two members of the House died during the recess, and two members of the House resigned. President Arthur has presented through Minister Lowell the gold watch and chain bestowed by tho American Congress upon the British captain who rescued the crew of the American ship Rainier, which was lost off Marshall islands, in Micronesia, in January last. Surgeon-General Hamilton, of the United States Marino hospital service, in his annual report says that during the year ended Juno 30,1884, 41,751 patients received relief, of which number 13,078 were treated in tho hospitals and 31.673 at the dispensaries. A suitable hospital for sick and disabled seamen at New York is greatly needed. For the payment of pensions the present quarter $17,000,000 will bo required. A great social sensation has been occa sioned in Wa-Iiington oy tne runaway marriage of Miss Mary Willard, a society belle, with William Paxton, a poor young patent lawyer. The young lady was engaged to be married to George Simpson, a Now York banlcr, and 1,5U0 cards had-been issued for her wedding a week hence. M iss Willard and Mr. Paxton had know each other a long time, and her approaching marriage to the New V orJt banker was against her wishes ; hen'.-e the elopement. Tite President has sent to the Senate a large batch of nominations covering appointments made during the recess, including Hugh McCulloch.of Jlaryhnd,to be secretary of the treasury; Frank Hatton, of Iowa,to bo p.stmasler-general: John Schuyler Crosby,of New York, to be lirst assistant postmaatergeneral; James Hai'lan, of Iowa, to be presiding judge of the court of commissioners of Alabama claims, and Wnlter O. Gresham. of Indiana, to be circuit jud^e of the United States of the Seventh Judicial circuit. Foreign^ A collision bet we .n the bark Luks Bruce and the steamer Durango, in the English channel, resulted in the sinking or tne latter and the drowning of twenty persons. Several v:..I n: ear.iijua shocks have been felt at Gineva. Switzerland. A tragedy in Paris lins civutel a great sensation. The wife of M. liugitcs. a member of the French legislature, slio1: and killed M. Morin, a pro:nin.'ut o'licial. Tlw laly h id been slandered by M. Moriu, who ha I btvn sentenced to tv.-o years' imprisonment for the slander, but bad managed to have the nass postponed from time to time, until, e.-.i nerated by the law's delay, Madame Hugues killed him. Her deed is generally applauded by tho Parisians. Tiie boiler of a Fr"n? h inanof-war lying off the coast ot Formosa burst, killing thirteen persons. Two monster meetings of natives were held in Bombay, at which resolutions were adopted to present an address to the -Marquis of Ripon, the retiring governor general of India, and fi!),000 rupees (?->0,<H>0) were subscribed on tho spot to found an industrial institution as a memorial to tho marquis. Cholera is officially declared to have disappeared from France. The town of Shendy in the Soudan has been captured by the British. Suakim,another important town, has been besieged by the False Prophet's troops. The schooner Mary Joseph, belonging to Newfoundland, went down off the coast of that country with all oil board. General Diaz has been quietly inaugurated president of Mexico. The bark Clyde, l'rom Mauritius, was wrecked near Akaroa. New Zealand. The captain, his wife and three children, the officers and all the crow except one, were drowned. ? . ' j LATER NEWS ! The annual benefit perforn zance given by theatrical managers in New York for the ; benefit of the Actors' Fund, was attended by I Governor Cleveland and party, who occupied ! one of the private boxes at tho Academy of j Music. Governor Cleveland came down from | Albany in a sped al train, and returned at i once to the State capital after tho performance. An* explosion of dynamite at the residence of Stephon Young in Stafford, N. H., resulted in the injur}- of fright persons, four of whom were not expected to live. The house, with all its contents, was destroyed. Mr. Young was having n well dug near his house, and the dynamic was intended to be used in blasting. Casualties occasioned by falling through the ice are being reported At Rondout, N. Y., three boys were crossing the ice on a pond when they broke in and were all drowned. The overweighted floor of a malt house in Goneva, N. Y., suddenly fell, carrying down nineteen men a distance of twenty feet and burying them under tho maJt and timbers. One man was killed, another fatally injured, and several others wore badly wounded. Dr. Calhoun Lawrence and Lucius V. Simpson, cousins and prominent residents of Nechesville, Texas, met in the street and niiorpala/T n emoll /laKf TTimbIIw drew revolvers and shot each other dead. The returns from the electoral colleges of the States have been received by the president of the Senate. Ex-Congkessman- Boteler of West Virginia has heen appointed pardon clerk in thi j department of justice. The solicitor of the treasury has order*.d suits to be begun against Captain Howgate's sureties to recover $133,000 which his accounts show he owes the government. Howgate, it will be remembered, suddenly disappeared and has not turned up. The chief of the bureau of engraving and printing reports that during the year 8,194, G7G sheets of notes and securities, repiresont] jng $268,340,108, and 21,137,407 sheets of internal revenue and customs stamps, were completed, and that the bureau expended $979,301. Four schooners were lost with all on board during a gale off Newfoundland. An imperial decree urging the natives to poison the French has been issued in Tonquin. A midnigzit attack made by the Falsa Prophet's rebels upon the British at Suakini was repulsed with a loss of fifteen rebels killed and many wounded. The British suffered no loss. LATER CONGRESSIONAL NEWS. Senate. Mr. Cameron, of Pennsylvania, submitted to the Senate a resolution directing the committee on finance to inquire whether it would be expedient to expend the surplus revenue of the United States or any part of it in the revival of the shipping and export trade by allowing a rebate from tariff du" ties on foreign goods imported in ships built and owned in the United States' and by also allowing a premium on American grown products and articles of American manufacture exported in American vessels, and to . report by bill or otherwise. The resolution whs 'aid over, and then Mr. Hill,of Colorado, offered a resolution declaring that at tho present time, wnen tee industrial interests of the country wero so greatly 'depressed, no valid reason exists for any additional restrictions upon either the coinage of silver dollars or the issue of silver certificates, and that the recommendations of the President and secretary of the treasury in favor of such restrictions are calculated to create alarm, and thereby aggravate the difficulties of the situation.... Mr. Mitehel introduced a bill to grant a pension of $5,000 a year to General Ulysses S. Grant. House. A large number of bills were introduced, among them being: By Mr. Oates?Providing for the establishment of a United States court of appeals. Mr. Morrison?Directing the secretary of the treasury to apply to the redemption of United States bonds the sur plus revenues at any time in the treasury in excess of $100,000,000 and not otherwise appropriated. The bill also provides that when any of those bonds are redeemable at the pleasure of the government it shall not bo awful to apply any part of theaurplus revenue to the purchase of bonds at a premium. By J. D. Taylor?To prohibit the removal of any honorably discharged soldSer, sailor or marine, or any widow or dependent relative of the same, from any office in the civil service of the United States except for special cause On motion of Mr. Wemple the Senate bill was passed appropriating $40,000 to provide statuary and historical tablets for the Saiatoga monument....The House resumed the consideration of the unfinished business, being the inter-state commerce bill. t THE NATIONAL DEBT, Statement of Federal Financcn for November-Increase In the Debt. The following is a recapitulation of the public debt statement for November: INTERUST-BEARENG DEBT. Bonds at 4X per cent......... $250,000,030 00 Bonds at 4 per cent 73?,<593,450 00 Bonds at 3 per cent 194,190,500 00 Refunding certificates....... 2lW,150 00 Navy pension fund 14,000,000 00 Principal ....$1,11)0,147,100 OiJ Interest 10,157,198 3'J DEBT OX WHICH INTEREST HAS CEASED SINCE MATURITY. Principal $9,238,435 2(1 Interest 276,735 09 DEBT BEARING NO INTEREST. Old demand and legal tender notes $340,739,306 00 Certilicates of deposit 22,095,000 00 Gold and silver certilicates.. 254,0f5,471 00 Fractional currency ($15,350,213 36) less amount estimated lost or destroyed, (fi,375,934 6,974,279 3G Principal $030,424,056 36 Unclaimed Pacific railroad interest 4,229 96 TOTAL DE75T. Principal $1,835,809,591 02 Interest 10^438,184 04 Total $1,846 247,775 06 Total cash in the treasury.. $423,340,788 97 DEBT LESS CASH IN THE TREASURY. December 1, 18S4 $1,417,906,980 09 November 1, 1SS4 1,417,159,802 56 Increase of debt during the month 747,124 13 Decrease of debt since June 30, 1884 32,143,249 11 CURRENT LIABILITIES. Interest duo and unpaid $1,764,511 48 ri-u* K:?U Uno I XJVKJU VII lUbVIWV uiw ceased 9,238,435 20 Interest thereon 270,755 liO Gold and silver certificates.. 254,015,471 00 United States notes held for redemption of certificates of deposit 22,(105,COO 00 Cash balance available December 1, 1SS4 140,?50,615 54 Total $42S,340,788 07 AVAILABLE ASSETS. Cash in treasury $42$,340,'88 9? Bon is issued to t iio Pacific railway companies, interest payable by the United States, principal outstaud! iug 04,023,512 00 ! Interest accrued and not yet j ^ paid v v............. 1,615,58" SO interest pam Dy mo muc.i | States 03,000,504 18 1NTEIIEST REPAID BY COMPANIES. By transportation service... $1^,876,002 42 By c ash payments, "> per eent of net earnings 655,10S 8? Balance of interest paid by United States ... 43,503,243 83 | __?? THE MINTS, ! Amount or Colnnjjo ?>ccntp;l During I,umi .iloiillii The following is a statement of the eoinav? I executed at the various United States mints during November: DENOMINATION. TIECKS. VAL1K' Double eagles 10,300 f386,nth) Eagles 81,701 817,?:10 | Half-JCngles 60,318 3:i:,r,:?0 Dollnrs 1,000 l,if!) Total gold 108,330 $1,535,7110 Standard dollars 2,450,000 $2,450,000 | j Total silver 2,450,000 $2,450,000 | Pivocents.; 1,080,000 $->4,000 Total 1,080,000 *.>4,000 Total coinage 3,608,339 $4,039,705 ELECTORAL COLLEGE, How the Vote of New York, the Pivotal State, waa Cast* The electors of the various States selected by the voters at the recent election, met at the capitals of the different States and cast* their ballots for ,the presidential candidates whom they represented. Twenty States voted for Cleveland and Hendricks and eighteen States for Blaine and Logan. Outside of New York there was no special interest attending the performance of the duties of the chosen electors. The twelve ballots cast for Cleveland and Hendricks in North Carolina's electoral college consisted of miniature Uatted States flags made of silk grown in the State. Following is a description of how the electoral college of New York, the pivotal Stato, cast its vote at Albany: Flowers in pretty forms decorated the desks of many of the electors when Eugene i Kelly, of New York city, called the Elec torai couege. ot new iorn logotner. . J.no Rev. Joseph U. Mulford, of Troy, offered ; prayer. Upon the .roll being called it was found that John Delmar was absent. A recess of half an hour was taken, and a messenger dispatched to the Delevan house, where the elector was found in his room. Mr. Delmar was ushered in at 10:50 o'clock, panting heavily. Secretary Dayton proceeded immediately to call the roll again. When Alvin Devereux failed to respond a perceptible smile crept over the faces of the majority of the electors, and the proceedings again lapsed. Mr. Devereux came in in a few minutes. Messrs. Clark, Delmar. and Underbill were appointed to receive ana count tho electoral ballots for President and Vice-President. As the secretary called each j elector by name he proceeded to the desk at which tho tellers were seated and deposited his ballot When all were through Mr. Undorhili said: "I beg leave to state that we find thirty-six ballots have been cast for Grover Cleveland for President." President Kelly tried to say something, but his voice was drowned by the loud and continued applause which followed the mention of the name of the President-elect. "Mr. President, your tellers would report that thirty-six votes have been cast, all of them for Thomas A. Hendricks for Vice-President of the United States," said Mr. Underhill, and deafening applause followed A recess of twenty minutes was then taken in order to allow the ehctors to sign the returns. On motion of Mr. Black, a committee consisting of Messrs. Black, Jackson, and Haldano was uppointed to deposit the returns in the postoffL-e. The Hon. Erastus Corning was delegated as messenger to convey the result of the balloting of the college to tho president of the United States Senate, and Frederick A. 'Fuller, of Cattaragus county, was intrusted with a like message to the judge of the Northern District of New Mr. George L. Thompson offered a resolution, which was adopted, providing for the printing of 3,000 copies of the proceedings of tho college, and that twenty-five copiet bo sent to each elector. Thirty minutes was then occupied in signing the appointment of messengers by the electors. Stat? Treasurer Maxwell then issued checks at the rate of $15 a day and twelve cents per mile mileage to the olectorB, tho amount disbursed aggre gating $2,250. At a o'clock the committee returned from the postofflce, having the postmaster's receipt for the returns posted. Erastus Corning offered a resolution directing Secretary Dayton to convey to the Speaker of the House of Representatives' one ot the original lists of the votes cast for President and Vice-President, after which a vote of thanks was tendered to Secretary of State Carr and his assistants for their courtesy and the faithful performance of the duties devolving upon them. Then, headed by President Kelly, the members of the college proceeded to the Executive chamber and congratulated the President-elect, who firmly pressed the hand of each member. THE TOTAL VOTE, Complete Return* of the Presidential Vote from Every State. The following table gives the total vote of the country for President, as officially announced in ea?h State but Nevada The change there by the official count will be very slight: Cleve- Blaine. St.John. But- Han- Gar. land. lap. r.ock. flald Ala 92,970 59,444 610 762 91,185 56,221 Ark. 72,9U7 50,895 1,844 00,775 42,4:10 Cal. 8X/107 100,Ml 6 2,640 1,973 SO,420 80,348 Col. 27,027 110,277 759 1,957 24,047 27,450 Conn 07,199 15 V. lit 2,:t05 1,088 04,415 07,071 IJ-1. 17,054 12,778 65 6 15,275 14,1W Flu. 81,709 28,089 74 27,904 2:1,654 O a. 94,567 47,964 1 84 125 102,470 54,086 111. 812,855 :;:(7,474 12,074 10,910 277,821 818,037 Ind. 244,992 2118,480 8,1)18 8,716 225,522 282,164 Iowa 177.280* 1'.)7,ok9 M72 105,845 181,927 Kan. 90,1)80 1511,896 4,278 17,044 59,801 121,543 Ky. 152,757 118,674 8,100 1,055 149, 068 106,:106 L-v 62,450 46,847 300 110 65,067 88,687 Maine 52,140 72,209 2,100 8, >58 05.171 74,089 Mil. 96,912 85,699 2,794 581 93,706 78,515 Mans. 122,852 146,724 9,923 24,882 111,960 165,205 Mich. ]K9,:M1* l!>!,?09 18,4'3 763 131,597 185,841 Minn. 70,144 1:1,9.'3 4,091 3,547 53,31> 93,903 MiFS. 7>1,547 42,774 75,750 34,854 Mo. 235,972 202,201* 1,506 208,009 158,567 Nel>. 54,354 76,877 2,858 28,523 54,979 Nov. 8,000 9,090 11,613 8,732 N. II. 89,166 43,106 1,57 1 052 40,794 44,852 N, J. 127,784 123,432 6,155 3,494 122,505 120,555 N. Y. 56.1,154 562,005 25,006 17.004 534,511 555,544 N. C. 1W.072 124,397 124,208 115,874 Ohio !108,'.'8) 4O0.C82 11,269 5,170 340,821 375,04^ Or". 24,593. 26,852 488 723 19,948 20,619 I'cnn.393,510 174,208 13,101 16,992 407.4-.M 444,704 K. I. 12,4:18 19,029 941 425 10,779 18,195 S. C. 09.890 21,7:13 112,312 58,071 Trim. i:?,270 1'J4,090 1,131 'J57 128,191' 107,677 Texas 223,208 88,353 3,511 3,321 150,428 57,893 Vt. 17,331 39,514 1,752 785 18,316 45,567 Va. 145.497 139,156 143 128,586 84,020 \V. Va. 67,317 63,096* 939 57,391 46.343 Win. 146,454 161,147 7,649 4,597 114,649 144,400 Total vote?Cleveland, 4,914,058: Blaine, 4,844,252; St. John, 150,134: Butler, 131,02$; Hancock, 4,444.952; Garfield, 4,451,416. Plurality?Cleveland, 69.8J0; Garfield, 9,464. Fusion. In 1880 the total Greenback vote was 808, 578, and the total Prohibition vote was 10,303. PROMINENT PEOPLE. Mr. Moody has been holding revival sar vices in Detroit, Mi.-h. Zachary Taylor turns up as a Congressman-elect from Tennessee. Mrs. McElroy will be the mistress of the IVhifcn House acniu this winter. Henry M. Stanley is lecturing in England on the horrors of slavery in Africa. Gladstone, Tennyson, Professor Blackie, Charies Darwin, Mrs. Browning and Dr. 0. \V. Holmes were all born in the year 18U9. Mu. Gocgh, in a recent lecture, said that in the cour.-? of fifty-two years he had delivered 8,0U0 addresses, and had spoken at bnt three political meetings. Strauss, tho composer of waltzes, enjoys the felicity of receiving many letters telling him of matrimonial engagements made by lovers under tlie spell of his music. Frederick Archer, the leading English jockey, arrived in New York recently. Ho lost his wife not long a^o. Archer rode tho American horse Iroqouis to victory in the race for the Derby. Judge Albion IV. Tourgee, the author, is being examined in supplementary proceedings at Mayville, N. Y., tor an accounting ot property. Ho is financially in trouble, having lost a large sum of money in publishing Our Continent. Everybody has heard of "Nasbv" (Locke) , of tho Toledo Wade, but few could imagine How he looks. Ho is tho shaggiest and most uncouth specimen of manhood that can well bo thought of. Ho is short and very broad, and his face is a rod, red sun. Daniel Lamoxt, Governor Cleveland's Erivate secretary, is a little man, with a rownish rod mustache and a very bald head. He was for a long time a reporter on tho Albany Argus, and of late years has reported the sessions of the legislature for that journal, as well as writing occasional editorials. I Mn ntt.rapfjwl tlin jitt*?nfinn ot' mr Tiltlen when the latter was governor. Blond in', the famous tight-rope walker, is now sixty and slightly gray, but ho is as clever and daring as ever on the ropa. It is now more than a quarter of a century sinco ho first cross?I the Niagara river, and ho looks hack to that feat as tho greatest of his life. His home is named Niagara Villa. Tho ropo on which ho walks at exhibitions is two inches in diameter, made of hemp bound around a core of steel. His balancing poles run from thirty-seven to forty-seven pounds in weight, according to tho height at which ho i>erforms, which ranges from forty to 10J feet. Ho has never yet had a fall, and only 0110 slight accident. Ho was called Blondin, by the way, on account of the color of his hair, his real name being Jean Francois Gravel?. REVENUE MARINE SERVICE. Itcportof tlie Clilcf for I lie I*imt Fiscal Year* The annual report of tho chief of tho revenue marino division of tho treasury shows that the vessels of that service now number thirty-eight, tho same a? last year. Of theso two are nut in commission. They are manned by about !t.V) officers and men, und are stationod in such manner upon the sea and lakes j as to cover in their cruising the entire coast lino of the country. The report says that tho work of tho ser-1 vice for the year represents a high average as j compared with former years. The vessel* have covered in their cruising an aggregate of :il7,84:J miles. Tiicy have boarded and examined in enforcing the customs and naviga-1 tion laws 2(1,282 mcrc!:aat vessels. Of these I they found 2.270 violating (lie law in some j particular. They were either seized or re-1 ported to tho proper authorities for action. | Tho fines and penalties to which the i vessels so reported were liable under law j amounted to the sum of $i!8o,t542. The relief work performed by the vessel! ' af the revenue marine excels that of any for- [ mer year. They assisted -4(> merchant vessels which were shipwrecked or in distress, ; valued without their cargoes at $7,015,572. j Upon the vessels thus assisted were 4,310 per- I sous, many of whose lives were imperilled. ' Sixty-three persons were saved from drown- ! ing by lieing picked out of the water. j NEWSY GLEANINGS. lg The Standard Oil company employs ?3,000 men. The value of this year's crops in Kansas is q put at $159,000,000. n Ay international inventions exhibition will n be held in London next May. oi The fruit crop of this country, according n to Marshall P. Wilder, of New York, is worth 01 110,000,COO a year. ? The British national debt has been reduccd ? about $30,000,000 a year since 1880, and is & qow $3,730,000,000. ci The experiment of teaching sewing in the L girls' departments of the Philadelphia public n schools is being tried. G The total cranberry crop of 1884 is esti- u mated at 330,000 bushels, which is about 70,000 bushels less thau the yield of 1883. K A factory at Stockton, Cal, is engazo^ in 5 making coffee from chicory. It is raised near j* there. The crop brings at the rate of $30 an , j acre. tl TiIE first lord of the admiralty of England, n Lord Northbrook, urges tlie necessity for an ti addition to the English navy of 250 torpedo n boats. ci A nixe-ton lump of coal, claimed as the h largest ever mined, will represent the coal in- S terests of Birmingham, Ala., at the New Or- h leans exhibition. S A whale sixty feet long and six feet across ^ the tail was found on the shore of the Mo* P quito river at St George, Me., recently. It ? had drifted ashore. " The crop of peanuts in the United States A in 1383 amounted to 2,010,000 bushels, nearly ^ one-half of which were grown in Nirginia. n They net the raiser $1.75 per bushel. a The average yield of the potato crop of the a United States during the past season is esti- bc mated at ninety bushels per acre, the total ol yield being about l'JJ,0J0,0U0 bushels. tl In her workshops the United States em- ai ploys nearly 3,OUO.OOO people, of whom about JJ JO,000 are in woolen goods, 40,000 . in silk Jj goods, 130,000 in cotton goods, and 22,000 in ? carpets. b. A factory is being built at Akron, Ohio, ' for the manufacture ot electric headlights, under an invention that has been tested successfully on the Western branches of the Pennsyl- ^ vania railroad. The total valuation of Texas is now $583,- uj 000,0C0, against ?311,000,000 four years ago. it The increase in population has kept up with tl the increase in wealih, and the emigration p? into the State is still very great & THE MORMONS, f ta Report of the I'tah Commission?A " Revival of Polygamy* The report of the Utah commission, re- P ferred to by President Arthur in his message ^ has been made public. It describes the re? ^ cent elections in Utah, says the commission al believes all polygamists were excluded ri from voting, and describes John T ! Caine, the recently elected delegate to ^ Congress, as a Mormon who has never lived li in polygamy. Daring the present year, the ci report saya, there appears to have been a a polygamic revival in Utah. Mormon fanatic- ri ism is described as having been blown into a tl flame by the completion of the new tomplo at tl Logan. Three-fourths or more of the Mormon adult* have never entered into polygamy, tl but every Mormon in good standing believes n in plural marriage j as a divine revelation, d The sect of the Josephites, however, discards * polygamy as a spurious revelation. They ti are few in number, and are treated as schis- ti ma tics. The trial of the recent case of the United States against Rudger Clawson under the Edmunds act for polygamy is described. No be- e. liever in polygamy was allowed in the jury tj box. The case was tried twice, the jury dia- j agreeing the first time, when tho second wife t] did not testify, and finding a verdict of guilty a the second time, when she did testify. The v sentence imposed was $800 fine and four n years' imprisonment The defendant is the t] son of a Mormon bishop. It rras found im- j possible to prove the second Marriage except 0 by the testimony of the second wife. The n commissioners think the conviction of Claw- g] son will probably have a restraining effect upon the "practice of polygamy, and rocommend further legislation in the same direction ? as that already passed. m ALLEGED VICTORIES. E e p Remarkable Chinese Achievements sf that are Claimed in Tonquln? S A Tien-Tsin dispatch states that the Chi- ^ nese claim the following successes: w October 2.?Captured the forts and city of Lohg-nan-Hsien, in Tonquin; sunk a French T gunboat after an engagement. The elders of o' over twenty Christian villages tendered their 9* submission to the Chinese commander. J} OcToiiEK 8.?The French were defeated at k Huo-wei, Tonquin, the French commander " shot himself, the troops were demoralized " and fled. ? November 13.?The Black Flags repulsed ? three French attacks upon Seun-Kwan. The p some day the French were defeated at Tam- (r sui. November 19.?The French, including u Turcos, were forced to take refuge in the u woods near Seun-Kwan. At Formosa the a fighting continued for six hours. Tho French " losses were very heavy, including two superior w olllcers. They lost several guns aud were pursued to the water side, where four French iuum;ues nnoouuiv. The Chinese in Kam-gsi, province of Ton- " quin. succeeded in defeating the French, the latter losing seven officers and their general rj being severely wounded. The same day the French made an unsuccessful attack upon the Chinese positions at Kwan-yin-Kio. ? MUSICAL AND DRAMATIC. I tu Ristori is said to have been addicted until h lately to snuff. q Bund Tom, tho negro pianist, Is playing ai through the South. dt Mme. Ristori's daughter Bianca is a good w amateur actress, and is over thirty years of P* age> rt Frank Mayo will retire from the stage r after this season and devote himself to play- a. writing. tii Miss Gertrude Elliott has made a novel & feature of Shakespeare in "The Lightso' pi London." ta Lotta has declared her irrevocable deter- ? mination to retire from the stage after the present season. "j Mlle. Valda, an Amorican, has scored a ? great hit at the Paris Italian opera in "Ue Sallo Mascliers." ^ It is said that Miss C.ara Morris will, at sb the close of her present season in this coun- i-e onil fam t Mjr, UUHUUIl. Mme. Ristori bos been playing in Chicago, be The papers of that city give high praise to her Elizabeth. It was compared to Irving'a Louis XI. Emma Abbott has ordered a solid gold crown set with ten largo solitaires, to deco- , rate her head when she appears in "Semi- p" ramide."' in; I.v a Philadelphia theatre one night recent- th Iy a lady in 0110 of the boxes drew from her th finger a superb diamond ring and threw it to ^ Lotta, who was playing Musette. ^ Janisch is said to speak English better . than any other foreign actress on the stage, and yet she was only thrjj months studyin ; this most difficult of all tongues after the Qi Russian. g0. The German comedy adapted by Mr. Au- *jj gustin Daly tor his theatre under the name of "The Woodou S[>oo;i" has also been adapted 01 by a Chicago man, aud it is said Mr. Johu T. an Raymond will produce it. eif It is said that an opera founded on the tei story of Noah, written by Halvey, and the W( orchestration of which was completed since 1 Hulovy's death by his son-in-law, Bizot, composer of "Carmen," has been discovered. Mme. Christine Nilssox will remain in Pa England during the greater part of the win- fu] ter. She will appear next year at Drury ni Lane, in c njunction with Mr. Maplesoa's , company in "La Juivo" and several other 101 works. toi The Gerster-Campaniui combination is ftn confidently spoken of as having de:ormined I)( to make a tour of the United States early ^jj next year. Beside the principals. Signor Ga- y lassi, the baritone, and Signor Mnr.ni, the , basso from La Scala, Milan, are to pin it. j Madame Gerster, it is said, will appear in 1 I sjveral new roles. I """" A Missouri .Methuselah. tie .Macon COliniy, lHIsauun, can uuiim u man who was eighteen years old when th' Sir Moses Montetiore was born?and h:?s gr; not been given a celebration either. His "b name is Robert Gibson. lie lives with cei his son, two miles southeast of College w< Mound, and is described as "lather small W: of size, can get about the house and go ha out in the yard, sit at the table and eat 9tf without help.'* He was nota solder in the war of 1812?being too old to perfo m foi military duty at that time. He drank a to good deal of whisky in his early days, sil bift finding that the habit was growing tin on him, abandoned it, and has been a be teetotaler ever since. He has chewed an tobacco for sixty years, and "does not be think it hurts him." He does not know tai when he was born, as the family record iu< was lost long ago; but, putting this and usi that together, it is made out that he first wi saw light in the year 1760 in Randolph tei county. North Carolina, moved with his father to Kentucky at an early day, and came from that State to Missouri in 18:50. cu He has been m.irricd twice and had six- w? teen children, twelve of whom are living. He has l."i0 direct descendants, children. "io grandchildren and great grandchildren, th ?St. Louis Republican. th fir Congress chosc the present site ot Washington for the seat of governmenf Tl by an act of July 10, 1790. ne iUMARY OF (MGfiESS. -M Senate. The second session of the Forty-eighth ingress opened promptly in the Senate at -;ftw oon. Immediately att?r prayer, the usual ' v-gn ^solution to notify the President and Hooss '}<&& t Representatives that the Senate was \ .rx3BI jady for business was adopted. Then a re- -jM 5ss for one hour was taken. Even before the Z'&M lotion for a recess wis adopted, the Sena- .tffffm jrs left their -eats and began to exchange ' <S routings with each other. It was no- 3 ceable that the Djmocrats were espe? y, ially cordial in their greetings to Senator ogan. Numerous floral tributes orna- . tented the desks of the Senators. Mr. orman, chairman of the Democratic exec- ~ tive committe?, appeared to be an special favorite with those who testify their -"rffl steem through gifts of flowors. His deek -JH ras literally covered with mammoth designs. wo huge roosters, composed of roses, car- ' .\aSM ations and pampas gras-i, stood up as if in . le act of crowing. But the design which at- . I -acted most attention was a miniature chair _>jg iade of roses and grasses, with an inscrip* , '$3 on: "Reserved for A. P.O., Ih8 in im- . z&SM lortelles. This signified that the seat now oo- c npied by Mr. Gorman will be reserved for im at the next Senatorial election in hif >3M tate. Senator Jones was a'so remembered by -jjjjM is Democratic frion Ls vritii a floral rooster. '.g: enators Harris, Matey, Voorhees, IngaUs, -/,5a apham, Conger and Sabin also received very retty floral tributes. The credentials of Mr. hemeld, the Senator from Rhode Island, to -jftS 1 lcceed the late Mr. Anthony, were read, V^3j| ut he did not appear to tako the oath. . - '^gSm -t the expiration of the recess the Senato pro- --"'ray seded to the consideration of the tutuU lorning business. Bills worj introduced s follows: By Mr. Cullom?To prohibit here- , VJSS fter distinctions being made in the military . *1 :rvice of the United states against any clan f American citizens. To enable officers of ". fa learmy, who were promoted for gallant ~ rSMg ad distinguished services in the civil war. ;~|3H ) be retired with the rank and full pay of ?;'<? - le grade to which tlisy were so promoted. o facilitate promotion throughout the army v* y retiring from active semce, upon their ' mi application, officers of the army who '-afmr.-. >rved in the civil war. By Mr. Dolpb -To authorize the transfer of one of le vessels of the Greely relief expedition . 1*388 ) the treasury department for a revenue ~; -j?& ltter, and the retention of the other two for * .'-SaH * ?e in the navy.... Mr. Inga'.ls offered a reso- ">'?SK ition which was agreed to, instructing le committee on public fands to reart such legislation as may be necestry to authorize the secretary of the interior ' L ffl > summarily remove all fences illegally con- /VjSgM ructedon the public domain of the United tates On motion of Mr. Hawlev at 12:55 'baB m. another recess of half an hour was < J>j? iken. At 1 :35 the Presidents message was 5~t9| tcelved by the Senate and its reading was at p ice proceeded with. a *Ua fUa .Trtumal Mf w . Sheffield, the new Senator from Rhode .'?j|? iland, was sworn in Mr. Vest offered ? jj resolution directing an investigation by le committee on Indian affairs into ' Tg* 11 leases of lands in the Indian Ter- . jZ&m tory for grazing or other purposes by the idiaa tribes, the number of acres embraced -fM i said leases, their terms, and the persons or i irporations becoming the lessees; also directig the committee to investigate all the dr- -- .13lmstancee under which the leases were lade, the means used in obtaining the Ieaaes j.'| iferred to, and whether such leases were au- ?. 3 lorized by law. The resolution went over to * -'. M Mr. McPuerson introduced a bill to suspend ' le coinage of the silver dollar.... Mr. Vest's j| notation to investigate leases made by In- . ian tribes of lands in the Indian Territory " tfm ras passed after having boon so amended a? 3h j include within the scope of the investiga . ." jgB ion leases of lands in the Indian reservation. ' Houec. (Then the House section of the Forty* / Ighth Congress was called to order at noon he galleries wdre crowded with spectators. rrumerous floral designs ornamented >< le desks of members, among them :'y$SH handsome ship of state which ??9 Ir. Cox, of New York, wai the joipient An immense bed of chrjsan- -' 'Jg iemums covered the desk occupied by J. 8. -' larbour, of Virginia, and a tasteful basket t flowers adorned the Speaker's tables The ? * lembers indulged in the usual greetings, ex- :$m banging congratulations on re-election or indolence on defeat The Republicans made . ood-naturecl replies to tne equauy gooa- iJQX atured chaffing of the Democrats on the re- -V lit of the Presidential contest, and no bitter- :s."i ess was manifested on either side. Promptly '?>' , t noon the Speaker's gavel called the Hoase . 'fffiaj > order. In nis opening prayer the chaplain ave thanks that the members had been Brmitted to return in health and ifety to their legislative duties. The | peaker then directed the clerk to call the amm >11. The roll disclooed the pretence of 222 ,-*M lembers, more than a quorum, and the Clerk . as directed to inform the Senate that the ' iouse was ready to proceed to business I#gS he speaker appointed Messrs. Randall, Cos, rag New York, and Brown, of Indiana, as rpHSCT jmmittee to wait upon the President in con- ^rjl motion with a similar committee from the " .v$2M euato and inform him that Congress was ;ady to receive * any communicaon he may be pleased to make. . Mr. [olman, presented the credentials of B. T. I hively as member-elect from the Thirteenth idiana District, to succeed W. H. Calkins, esigned). Mr. Shively appeared at the bar H H f the Hoase and took the oath of office. At { - yjSflj 3:35 the House took a recess for fifteen min- H tea. After recess a communication was re- 9H H jived from the President, and his message I | as read. When the reading of the message as finished the House adjourned. 9 Mr. Foliett, of Ohio, introduce resolutions ' investigation and impeacnment of United [ A$f& tates Marshal L. M Wright, of Cincinnati. ir usurpation of power and intimidation of oBB ' ?%& iters alleged to have been perpetrated i the October election in his State. [r. Keifer and Mr. Reed opposed the reso- 9181 itions on the point or order tnat tne tiouss mid not bring in articles of impeachment, *& ->?lj id under them merely conduct an investiga- SB on of the marshal and his office. They also ma lleged that it was not a question of jprivige under the rules of the House. Messrs. Pa ''iwS ox, of New York; Hammond and Follett, rged tbat it was right and proper for the ouse to adopt such a resolution. Speaker ^3 arlisle overruled Mr. Keifer's point of order . id the resolution was taken up for general ' ibate, and finally adopted. The matter ^ ill be investigated by the committej on ex- .. mditures in the depar:mont of justic^ ? The House passed the bill malting -tempo-xk try provision for the naval service. Mr. v-' andall. of Pennsylvania, said that the total " I ipropriation for the navy for the current i.-al year was Sl-j,03-'i,lc>J, a reduction of . .M 558,208, from the appropriation for the -/ -bvious year....The rest of the day was ,ken up by the discussion of tbe inter-state immarea bill Mr. Long, of Massachuwtts, lought that the evil of the railway system as not that of extortion. The commissioner . ' railroads had said that the United States id the cheapest railroad transportation in ie world. In Mr. Long's opinion there had sen unjust discriminations which Congress tould correct. He advocated the passage of medial statutes and the establishment )f an ter-state commission, whose duty is should i to see that thosa laws w re obeyed. SELECT SIFTINGS. Dr. Spitzka says the popular delusion at the human eye has an influence over sane people similar to that claimed for e same organ over wild animals, is one ^ at is often ridiculed by the insane >jg| -: j? emsclve8. lie adds that whoever atnpts to utilize the notion will recognt its absurdity promptly. Eighteen ravens were captured near idley, Cal., a short time ago iu a mewhat curious way. A Hock of reehundred swooped down on the backs :-|j?3| 'i|| a number of sheep that were grazing, d in the lords' eagerness to get away ?j jhteen of them got their talons fasjed in the sheep's wool, where they ;re held captive until sccured by Fg9 :'v There arc in the country eleven St. mis, twenty Bridgeports, eighteen Buflos and Xewarks, seventeen Brooklyns, evclands and Hochesters. sixteen Hartrds, fifteen Louisvilles, thirteen Bosas and Pittsburgh*, eight Cincinnatis. -ixM d Philadelphia?. six ( hicngos, seven $ troits, five .Milwaukee'sand St. Louises, ? irty-two "Washington* and four New ?rU-c !inr1 Hiiltimnws TCflw Orfoiins and n Francisco are not duplicated. The method of curing hay in Norway p'^^9 peculiar. Iu driving along the highly one notices out in the midst of a id ten or a dozen lengths of post and ;1 fence in a straight line. What is e object of the fences? When the uss is cut it is laid over these rails, tier ove tier, to dry. In the coring pro3s it has the benefit of the* wind as ill as sun: and, in ease of rain, the iter runs of! readily. The color of the y is nearly as bright a green as the tnding grass. A physician who has compiled hints travelers seriously advises every one carry a crochet needle to relieve posile ennui at health resorts, a very disiguished Chicago merchant having en greatly benefited of his dyspepsia tl insomnia by learning to crochet autifully during a long winter at acern New York spring. Hereafter all )thers will teach their sons the delicate 'i of the crochet needle, and tidies 11 not be spurned by masculine connpt. "Old Aunt I'attie" says: A certain re for chilblains can be cdectcd by ishing the feet or other parts affected before they are broken?in water as t as you can bear it, then dry them oroughly with a clean cloth, and rub em with spirits of hartshorn before the e; keep them warm afterward by apping them up and going to bed. lis should be done at night. I have vcr Known it to fail. i :