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ABBEVILLE PRESS AND BANNER*! BY HUGH WILSON. ABBEVILLE, S. C.. WEDNESDAY. DECEMBEK 24. 1884. NO. 26. VOLUME XXIX. ' ? I THE 0 H RICH^ft.3 SHIPS. Through wind and light of morning-time, And through the star-lit night. The Christmas ships from many a clime Speed home in happy flight, With flying flags and sails so whitej So white, white, white. Ob, tossing sea, now be at rest, And skies, bend blue above ; The Christmas ships upon thy breast Carry such wealth of love. Such precious wealth of love, sweet love, Love, love. love. love. The wife keeps watch with tender eyes; Her loving fears are dumb. The mother prays, and softly sighs: "He said. 'Ill surely come ; At Christinas-time I'll come.' Oh yes 1 He'll come. come, come." The children on the yellow sands, With bare feet in the foam. . Chatter about the far-off lands, And father cc-mfug home? At Christmas coming home again, Home, home, home, home. The maiden braids her hair, and sings: "Oh ! shall not I be glad When Christmas-time my lover brings, My handsome sailor lad ? Oh, shall not I be glad so glad, Glad, glad. glad, glad.'' Thus as they sail from every sea, Good angels keep the ships ; True hoarts for them watch tenderly, And rosy, kissing lips Whisper their happy names : Oh, ships! Oh, ships, ships, ships! God grant when Christmas bells shall ring. No Christmas ship fall short, But each, like some glad living thing, Come sailing into port? With flying flags to Christmas bells Touch port, port, port. ?Harper's Weekly. A PT1 DTCTAf K C PA1IP7W A UUillOJ.iUfl.O IjUJI LiJL/1. BY MARGARET EYTTXGE. Miss Eleanor Slinghinder sat in her crimson boudoir on Christmas morning, regarding with a scornful expression h little bronze figure which she held in her hand?the figure of a pretty peasant girl, in cloak and hood, carrying a covered basket on her arm. And a scornful expression, though rather aud in rare in 6tances very becoming to some girlish faces, was not in the least becoming to Miss Slinglander. It wrinkled and shortened her nose, widened her nostrils and pouted lier full, red lips. All of which, as her nose was already a trifle too wide and her lips atril'e too prominent, tended to seriously detract from the beauty o. her face.. "The ideal" said Miss Slinglander, th' scornful expression giving place to a frown, which brought her much too near eyebrows so close together that thev seemed like one straight, heavy line, "ol Spencer lioyall sending me this thing for a Christmas present. Why, I expected something splendid from him with an offer of marriage. Heaven knows he's been dangling alter me long enoughhalf a year nearly?and I'm sure his "mother and sisters have set tlieir heartson the match. . Of course they have, and with good reason, too. for with the help of my monej Spent j could carry on the business in a much more, princely manner than it was carried on during his father's lifetime, and the returns would be much more princely in proportion. And I've beeu I agreeable, for they're a decidedly aristo cratic family, and Spence is by all odds the handsomest fellow I know, and has a very taking way with him, though Jack Kaymond is a hundred times jollier and three times as rich.* But J'm not going to stand this shilly-shallying any longer. I've been waiting for him to speak for the last three months, and not a word on the subject has he said. Something he droppod last night led me to believe the proposal was coming this morning. But instead comes this thing?pretty enough in its way and "artistic," I suppose, but I don't warn it. The house is full of peasant boys and girls, and shepherds and shepherd esses, ana cupius, una a:l the rest o. them row. What shall I do with it? Why, I declare, it looks like Ella Mellis. I'll send it to her. She's been sewing for us for the last six months and no doubt she'll cxpect a Christmas giftthat kind of people always do?and 1 don't feel like spending any money on her, so off this goes. She'll be delighted with it, and I can keep her an hour or two beyond her work hours, sometimes when I'm needing a dress in a hurry, on the strength of it. And. Mr. Spencer Royall, if Jack Raynor comes a-courting me again to day. my money will never help you and your family to greater magnificence. A bronze peasant girl, indeed, when I expected at least an elegant solitaire." An hour later Ella Mellis sat in the plainly-furnished room which served her and her widowed mother for sewingroom, dining-room, and parlor, holding the bronze figure in her little right hanu ?on the second linger of which was a well-worn silver thimble?and viewing it with a lo?k of delighted admiration that added wonderfully to the attractiveness of her dclicatcly featured face, ( lending as it did a charming light to her soft, tired brown eyes and a flush to her pale cheeks. "I never dreamed he would think of mc at all," she said in a aweet voice tremulous with joy, "and he has not only thought of me. but sent me this beautiful Christmas present. "Why, we have never met but half a dozen times since I became a sewing girl, and then always in the presence ot Miss Slinglander, with the exception of that night when I slipped out on the ice in front of her door?she had kept me very late helping her dress for a ball?and he, I happening to be near, helped me to my I feet and insisted on accompanying mc 1 home, aaving so kindly, "It is too late for any young lady to be out alone," and came in and talked to mamma for an kf, hour afterward. Poor mamuia! how glad W*- she was to meet some one whose father I* had known and loved papa! Y ^ "Dear mc! how happy Miss SlingL lander will be?for, of course, he is going W to marry her?though, for my part, I'd like a lover a little more lover-like. I've actually caught him yawning when she was talking to him?and I don't wonder, for she does run on so about 'style* aud i 'fashion'?and I've never seen him look at her in an adoring way. In fact, I really think he?looks?kinder?at?me. But, among wealthy people everywhere, I suppose matches are made much as they are among royal personages. Love isn't I OAncsnU^/1 of oil vvu^uubu ui an. "Oh! dear, if papa hadn't lost all his money I might?fori think Spencer used to like me a little in those days. "But how perfectly lovely of him to send me this, though no doubt he's sent r it as much for mamma's sake as mine, remembering wbat.she said to him that night about her love for artistic things. "Miss Ella Mellis. How much he writes like Miss Slinglander, and how simple and pretty this Christmas card is, I with its wealth of flowers surrounding f the words, 'From Spencer ltoyall.' But a those words are not in the same handf writing. Ah! I see, seme one else has written the address. "You dear, darling little peasant girl! I wonder what you are carrying in your 1 basket. Good gracious! the cover flics ; up when the handle is pulled and there's j something inside. A tiny velvet box, in | ?"nrf r\f rSnrra onrl a nnfo voo 1 *1/ lUt; IV ? V-Ht/OL V/i UUU "WWj J a note to me! | " 'My Dear Ella?By this rural maiden t I send you an offer of my heart aud hand. It may seem strange to you that I have never I spoken to you of 1113' wish that you should be| come my wife, but the fact is, I have b<?en waiting until my financial affairs, somewhat disordered by my father's sudden death, should bo brought into proper shape again. Now all seems clear ahead, and if you will consent to give mo yourself for a Christmas gift I shall be most happy. " 'Anxiously awaiting your reply, I am " 'Yours faithfullv, "'SPENCER ROYALL.' "His wife?his wife! Mamma, mamma, come here instantly. It is the merriest Christmas that ever was and I am the happiest girl in the whole wide world!" Spencer Boy all stood before the grate fire in his smoking-room 011 Christmas afternoon with wide-opened eves, a halfburned cigar in his mouth and a dainty notclet in his hand. "By Jove! here's a go,'' aaid he in forcible if not elegant s. i phraseology; "I send an offer of marriage to Miss Eleanor Slinglander and receive a note of acceptance from Miss EllaMellis. Pretty little thing. I've always been uiore or less spooney on her, but it seemed as though Fate insisted upon my marrying the other one. Perhaps Fate has changed its mind at the last moment. 'Pon mv word it's the strangest thing that ever happened to me. I must see if I can't lind out something about it." And ringing his bell he asked the small boy who answered his summons: ' Did you take the box I gave you this morning to Miss Slinglander?" "Yes sir." "By Jove! the riddle of the sphinx [ was nothing to this. You may go." j "Yes, sir?but, sir?" " Well, go on?go on!" " I stopped a minute in the kitchen to give the cook a message from mv mother ?the cook's my cousin Sarah Jane?and Miss Slinglander's maid came down with ' the box and says she, ' Miss Slinglander wants tins uox icok io .miss j^h? mcuu. She told me to git a messeuger-boy,' says she, ' but you'll do just as well and earn j a quarter.' 1 What am I to say?' says I. i ' With Miss Slinglander's compliments,' and says she, and I forgot to say 'with Miss Slinglander's compliments' and said Merry Christmas' instead, 'cause I'd been saying that ever since I got up and it come handiest. But that couldn't have made no difference of no consequence, could it. sir!" "Oh! no," with mild sarcasm, " not j the slightest." "And Miss Slinglander's maid said, j sir. that Miss Slinglander was in a orful temper at first 'cause you hadn't set her j something more waluable, but she'd got | over it and was a-making fun of you with Mr. Ravnor. And?" "There?there?that will do?clear out. The riddle is read. I see it all plainly now. Eleanor never thought, being in a tearing rage on account of the apparent smallness of my gift, of lifting the covcr of the basket,. but dispatched J the bronze at once to her seamstress, for- j getting in her indignation to detach my I card. Tom forgets to deliver the com- ( pliments which she sends with it, and as j \ matter of course, Ella Mellis thinks j tne ngure came atruigui, uum mc. ^he docs not look upon it with contempt, and uncovering her peasant girl's basket finds there a proposal of marriage seemingly addressed to herself, her nnrne being the same as Eleanor's diminutive. She replies to it in the sweetest and most artless little note I ever received. By Jove! I'll accept ihe situation. I begin to find myself very much in love with her. and Misa Slinglander may continue to laugh with lack Raynor.'* Christmas evening at the home of Mrs. Mellis: Klla?"How happy I am! I nevei J reamed you loved me. I thought that you had entirely forgotten that we had ever been friends. Imagine my surprise vben I fcund your letter in the peasant girl's basket. "What a cunning way to send it.'' Spencer?"Yes; I flatter myself it was rather cunuinsf. But. darling, don't breathe a word about it to a soul. To tell of it would break the charm." Ella?"Not for the world if you dont wish it, dear, not even to Miss Slinglander."?Detroit Free Press. A Country With Nine Women for Each Man. We clip the following from a South America ietter to the Springfield lte/mblican: I looked out of my cabin window to find that we were tied up at the most yellow wharf that I ever saw, and id front of a large barn-like building. I iid not dream that we were at Asuncion, uut going on deck found that the bam was the custom house for Paraguay, and that when Ave went ashore we were in the city of the republica incognita. A very nice little city we found it to be. Not that it is pretty or pretentious, or worth visiting?but it is an enterprising, republican go-ahead place. Most of the houses are small and old, and are built without any regard to being on the SireeiS. 1UU uuuut JUia^inc a Uiyiv *4regular assemblage of houses, but the symmetry with which the public buildings are built offsets this. The president's house, government house, arsenal, barracks and custom house stand on wide boulevards, and with the exception of the latter, are as well built as the similar buildings in any American city of the same rank. The word "asuncion,'' you know, is not Spanish for "ascension,"as we used to believe wheu schoolboys, but for assumption, and in the case of the Paraguayan city it is well bestowed, for it is not often in South America that there can be found a city that is more assuming, politically, socially, and generally. Remember that fifteen years ago it was sacked by the Brazilian army, and look at it now as a busy trading town of oO.OOO people, many of them of fine cultivation. In short, one need not fear to be proud of seeing such a city, a city built bv virsrin forests on a beautiful hill that slopes from sunny farm lands to the grand, wide Parana. I will not go into dusty details, but assure you that, though isolated, Paraguay is a State worth knowing. Situated in the warm heart of South America, it lies under the shadow of the Sierras, and between the two great rivers Parana and Paraga. Into its territory there have come three and one-half centuries of sadness and misfortune. Spain had no colony that was more enslaved, and it was long the prey of cruelty and adventure. Revolutions came at length and resulted in independence. From 1817 until 1809, first Francia and then the Lopez tyrants, held the country under a cruel despotism. Then Solano Lopez involved the State in war with Brazil, and after the sack of Asuncion, and the ravage of the country, the tyrant was shot and the reign of terror gave place to a reorganization of the republic, which was modeled after the United States. Appropriations are voted by Congress and that body also fixes the salaries of the officials. The president receives $0,000, the vice-president, $3,000, ihe ministry, $1,500 congressmen, $500, and the judges of the supreme court, $150. The population is about 300,000; and what is strange about it is there are only about 150,000 men and 270,000 women. Of course the females are the farmers, producers and laborers. They work slavishly ana are very poor. V.'hiie the men sit at home and drink and smoke, they indefatigably toil and support the families.?Sjtritigjuld Republican. WISE WORDS. True merit, like a river, the deeper it is, ^he less noise it makes. Politeness has been well defined as benevolence in small things. Poetry should strike the reader as a wording of his own highest thought. Thfi shortest and most direct road to popularity is for a nwu to be the same as he wishes to be taken for. Though reading and conversation maj furnish us with many ideas of men and things, yet it is o.ir own meditation that must l'orm our judgment. Words of praise, indeed, are almost an necessary to warm a child into a genial life as acts of kindness and affection; judicious praise is to children what the sud is to flowers. It is a great misfortuue to have a fretful disposition. It takes the fragrance out of one's life, and leaves only rank weeds where a cheerful disposition would cause flowers to bloom. This is true religious devotion, this is the sum of religious instruction-viz., that it shall increase the mercy and charity, the truth aua purity, ttie Kindness and honesty of ihe world. A. benevolent disposition is no doubt a gre;it help toward a course of uniform practical benevolence, but let no one trust t'? it, when there are other strong propensities and no firm, good principle. Ho-' often has adversity developed strength, energy, fortitude and persistence that prosperty could never have produced! How often has the dignity of self-support and self-reBpect been gained when an external prop has been removed! At a game of whist the cards may be distributed among the players in 53,(544,737,760,488,7!>1.830,287,440,000 different ways. ; THE WEATHER PHENOMENA. AN OBSERVER SHOWS HOW TO PORETELL WEATHER. Signs Which Careful Observer* I?Iay Kely I'pon-Tbe I.auk of Accurate Observation Amontr Farmers. A communication to the Southern Planter deals with the subject of weather i prognostics. Few intelligent people ; can have any sympathy with the so1 called prophets who oracularly announce J phenomena, giving dates, occasionally | making lucky hits, but as often tiring their random shots altgether wide of the ; mark. That there is, however, somei thing in weather philosophy, intelligent ! persons will De quite ready to concede, i and they will be in accord with the 1 views of the writer when he recommends the habit of obervation of natural phenomena, which has been long practised, its results being handed down to us in the homely weather proverbs with which all are familiar. There is good ground for belief that observations of this kin 3 will prove useful, the more so oo mn/l?rn apipnrp pnnhlpsi US to pd\*e the reasons, unknown to our forefathers, for many phenomena, and thereby to determine the value of indications, by the association of causes with effects, instead of following blindly the erroneous observations of others. An apt illustration of this is lurnished in the article under notice. Persons really intel. ligent and not uninformed have maintained that tho direction of the milky way changes and intimates the course of the wind, when, as every child to-day knows, this film of white crossing the sky is resolvable by the telescope into myriads of stars, whose position is of course independent of terrestrial currents. How this deeply-rooted idea originated is a mystery, since it could not have come from observation. Careful and intelligent study iu the field of weather phenomena would undoubtedly establish many facts, while it would dispel a great many errors and false inferences; the knowledge gained would be .beside of oractical interest and benefit to the observer and to the community, provided the observations were recorded. On this ground the writer's views well deserve commendation. He says: If one could read the signs, each day foretells the next; to-day is the progenitor of to-morrow. When the atmosphere is telescopic and distant objects stand out unusually clear and distinct, a storm is near. We are on the crest of the wave, and the depression follows quick. It sometimes happens that clouds are not so indicative of a storm, as their total absence. In this state of the atmosphere the stars are unusually numerous and bright at night, which is also a bad omen. It appears that the transparency of the air is prodigiously iffcreased when a certain quantity of water is uniformly diffused through it. Mountaineers pre diet a change of wentner wnen, tne air being calm, the Alps covered with perpetual snow, seem on a sudden to be nearer the observer, and their outlines are marked with great distinctness on the azure sky. This same condition of the atmosphere renders distant sounds niore audible. There is one redness in the East in the morning that means storms; another that indicates wind. The first is broad, deep and angry; the clouds look like an immense bed of burning coals: the second is softer and more vapory. At the point where the sun is going to rise, and in a few minutes in advance of his coming, there rises straight upward a rosy column, like a shaft of dyed vapor, blending with and vet partly separated from the clouds, and the base of which presently comes to glow like the sun himself. The day that follows is pretty sure to be j windy. It is uncertain to what extent birds and animals can foretell the weather. When swallows are seen hawking very high, it is a good indication, because the insects upon which they feed venture up there only in the most auspicious weather. People live in the country all their lives without makiug one accurate observation about nature. The good observer of nature holds his eye long and firmly to the point, and finally gets the facts, not only because he lias patience, but because his eye is sharp and his inference swift. There arc many assertions, the result of hasty and incomplete observation, such as, for instance, that the way the milky way points at night indicates the direction of the wind the next day; also, that every new moon indicates e ther a dry or a wet month. There are many other stories about the moon, too numerous to mention. Again when a farmer kills his hogs in the fall, if the pork be very hard and solid lie predicts a severe winter; if soft and loose, the opposite, overlooking the fact that the kind of food and the temperature of the fall makes the pork hard or soft. Numerous other instances could be cited to prove thnt the would-be shrewd farmer does not interpret nature in the right way, and that his conclusions, being hasty and incomplete, are wrong; and until he studies nature understandiugly, using a little common sense, so long will he be more or less under the ban of superstition and ignorance. A Cruel Caprice or Fashiou. "The cruelfashionof 'bobbing' horses' tails is being revived," said Henry Bergh to a Tribune reporter. "It was a fashionable craze about a generation ago, and was not entirely stopped until our society succeeded in getting stringent laws enacted against cruelty to animals. The 'bobbing' is mainly done by the wealthy people, of course. They have an idea that it makes their horses look more stylish, and to satisfy this caprice, God's noblest animal is made to suffer the most barbarous cruelty that fiendish ingenuity can devise. Of late the offi cers oi mis society nave uouceu a yioau many horses with 'bobbed' tails, and they were nearly all of them in fashionable turnouts. "The men who perform these cruel acts are blacksmiths or horse doctors. The animal is taken into a blacksmithshop or out-of-the-way stable late at night, or early in the morning. While one or two men stand guard outside, the doors arc barred and the horse is securely tied by the legs so as to prevent kicking. Its tail is then tied to the loft or the ceiling and a space of about an inch i3 shaved at a distance of about seven inches from the horse's body. A knife is placed ou this spot by the veterinary surgeon, and another man strikes the knife two or three blows with a mallet, driving it through the lleshand bone untill the tail is severed. The suffering of the horse is excruciating, its groans almost suggesting human agony. An iron, heated to white heat, is passed over the severed end so as to stop the future flow of blood, and an iron ring, red hot, is used to cauterize the flesh to the extent of half an inch from the extremity of the horse's tail, for the cauterized bone is crisp and hard and might disease the flesh. Disease and death often follow this cruel treatment, because the men who perpetrate it are quack veterinary surgeons and blacksmiths who are as ignorant of the anatomy of a horse as they are cruel. These men work very secretly, and though we have broken up several places where they practice their cruelty, we were unable to catch the fiends at work.?Xcw York Tribune. The Dog the Bravest Animal. People speak of ''brave as a lion." The lion is not brave; he is a coward when the royal Bengal tiger, regarded as his equal, is presented; he hesitates, makes a great parade, but docs not get very near. The'dog, on the other hand, will assail a lion, a tiger, a grizzly bear, an dlephant, a dog, or a man, and he does not stop to count the size of his opponent. Many a man has been saved because his little dog, who is as quick as a flash, has annoyed a bear, behind, that was pursuing the man to death; he would turn to take care of the dog, which would of course dodge back and keep out of the way of the bear, while the man would be gaining distance, and when the bear turned for the man again, the dog was at his heels biting his ham-strings. We know of nothing but a dog that will fight a foe forty times his bigne?3, or one of its own kind and bigness to death, with such unqualified and eminent bravery; and, therefore, we account the dog the bravest thing that lives.?Phrenological Journal. NEWS AND NOTES FOR WOMEN. Over 307,000 widows have applied foi pensions. ' A polonaise back is often seen with a 1 ihort pointed corsage in front. Vests are quite as much worn as during the summer, but the loose bouffant fronts are fast disappearing. Necklets of velvet, satin, metal and sorts of material are worn by women, young girls, and children. All fashionable wraps, long or short nre lield in at the waist line in the back j by Btraps of ribbon or elastic. Children's garments retain the puffed, j Moliere front, and a bunch of shir: ring in the back is added this winter. Bangle bracelets are in style, the most fashionable design being that of a chain and padlock, with a tiny key attached. The fastenings of mantles and cloaks of seal are carved antique heads in wood or stained ivory or fine passementerie. Scarlet flannel will probably be fashj ionable this season in Europe, if not here, as it is said to be preventive of cholera. Cashmere suits are, many of them, i oillr nrtr^nrAV lfl durable and at the same time less expen>ive than velvet. Overdresses are very bouffant around the hips, but they are disposed in folds or plaits, as loopings and pulls have almost disappeared. A bonnet with dark green velvet crown has steel lace brim and a bow schrirap pink terry ribbon, with an aigrette fastened high in front. Bengaline, printed in floral designs in buds, single blossoms and sprays, is a pretty material for dinner or dancing costumes for young girls. A new way of accentuating leaf and other floral designs or brocades is to outline them by hand with an embroidery of gold or pearl beads and chenille. T?onr?linna wiflinnf ofnnrr? VO|/UVVO uuu rauvuuu^ M?VUVUV ire worn, but, for all that, a stringless bonnet is not in good taste. . If one obi?ctB to strings she should wear a hat. Fichus of velvet, silk, satin, and lace ?"Manons" they are called in Paris and London?are much in favor, being worn with either low or high necked dresses, Mrs. Cftgley, the wife of an English life-guardsman, is said to be the coming London beauty. She waB a Miss Campbell and the daughter of a music dealer, j One mode of trimming toque hats which have quite high crowns is to put loops of velvet ribbou on the crown, beginning in the centre and drooping to the brim. One hundred and fifty pounds of pure ftold and a basketful of rubies were imong the valuables of the dowager Queen of Burmah before she was removed from power. Evening gloves reach a little beyond the elbow and are left slightly wrinkled ibout the wrist. Some of them are held by bands of velvet tied in a dainty fly bow on the outside. Dresses are worn much tighter than they have been for some years, and waspish waists are quite in vogue, to which the immense lournures seem to lend an exaggerated slenderness. Plain worsted goods have often a single narrow plaiting at the bottom of the skirt and a full round skirt above, with tucks two of three inches wide and about the same distance apart. The best shot in Dakota is said to be woman, Mrs. Lowner, wife of Colonen Lowner, of Fort Totten. She has killed 114 prairie chickens this fall and the first deer ever brought down from Moose river. Black luce over dark orange forms a neat bonnet for a middle-aged lady. Black feathers and an aigretto of golden oats compose the ornament at the top, while the crown is slightly embroidered in gold thread. On a dressy bodice of black satin are folds of lace, red rosettes and small tufts of chenille, and a ball dress of black gauze is worked with red and yellow chenille. It is gracefully draped over black satin nnd is trimmed with large crimson rosettes. The last census reveals the fact that of the 341) kinds of work done in England women participate in seventy. In three professions, medicine, education and the drama, there are more women than men; in the case of medicine nurses are includ ed in the profession. Groups of small birds, sometimes as many as seven nestled together on one hat, are seen among the fall importations. These have their little bills gilded nnd are arranged as if, after much sorrow and torture, their lives at last had fallen in pleasant places. A letter to the New York Graphic from AVashington Territory 6ays: "I have been serving on a jury, three ladies serving at the same time, and I do not hesitate to say that they were more than competent, exceedingly bright, aud gave their decisions and reasons with a force that would have done great credit to any of the lords ot creation." Women as a general thing live longer than men, as the statistics of various countries show. They seem to be endowed with a larger share of that constitutional vitality which conduces to longevity. The members of the "weaker sex" cannot do as much muscular work as lordly men, but they are formed to loof lnnrrpr urnrk ftf lftwftr TlTfiS sure, but have more endurance. The fashionable buttons for dresses are either bullet shape or coin shape. They are made iu dull vegetable ivory to match any shade, and in a composition which resembles pebble. The coin buttons are in plain gold, steel and silver, sometimee inlaid, engraved or intermixed with steel. Horn inlaid with metal are among the more expensive kinds. Then there are the netted and crochet buttons, which are always fashionable. Gold ball tilagree buttons are in favor. Origin of "Painting the Toiyii Red." Air. Welch, a minstrel manager, gave a Harrisburg (Penn.) Telegraph reporter the following account of the way in which the above odd expression, now so frequently seen in public print, originated: "On my last tour through the country with Oallender's minstrels?a year ago Ui uau uo ilutuuvo it^uuv M &11UU named Campbell, Campbell was a genius at advertising, and never permitted a rival to get ahead of him. One day in Buffalo I said: ' Campbell, 1 hear that Barlow and Wilson are covering my bills with their paper; I want that stopped:' I told him that he would strike them at Adrian, Michigan, and when next I saw him he had huge bundles of bills ready for shipment to Adrian. All were printed in bright red. 'What are you going to do?' 1 aske 1. I am goinjr up lo Adrian to paste these bills over Barlow and Wilson's and ou every dead wall in that place. I am going to paint the town red,'and he left. When we got to Adrian it looked as it it was on fire, so thoroughly had Campbell done his work. That expicssion, 'painting the town red.' was so comic that the colored minstrels caught on to it, and whenever there was any excitement or anybody got particularly loud, they always said somebody was ' painting tho town red.' Of course it spread, and is now in use by everybody. HEALTH HINTS. The best lung protectors are dry feet and warm comfortable body clothing, nc exposures, and an abundance of sleej: and rest, and no late sappers or dissipation. Eating a &mall piece of soap at stated intervals is recommended by a Berlin physician as a better remedy for dyspepsia and sour stomach than soda, magnesia, or lime water. A writer in the British Medical Journal says: The best remedy for cramp is y band of cork. Cut a clean cork in thin I slices and sew close together upon | a piccc of ribbon or tape an inch wide. It can be lied around the affected part and worn at night. It is stated that Louisiana lias about 48,000.000,0U0 feet of pine in her for ests. Forty-tive German cities and town* have now gone to the extravagance ?' the telephone. ! NEWS SUMMARY Eastern and .lliridle States. ! Fire has swept the business portion of west Randolph. Vt., destroying six stores, seven dwellings and one hotel, and causing an agj gregate estimated loss of $05,(XX). High winds and a heavy rain have caused j considerable datnago in sections of the East. At Pittsburg, Penn., a little boy was killed by a falling sign, and at Greensburg, Penn., ; the roof of the new court-house was torn off by the wind and carried across the street. The debt of New York city is now $S8,* 803,(00. Four men were killed, another was fatally injured, and a sixth was reported missing through an explosion of sulphuretted hydrogen gas at Henry Clay coal shaft, Sharaokin, Jrenn. The men were working with naked I lamps in the shaft when the explosion took place. Opdyke & Co., a prominent New York | banking firm, have suspended, with liabilities ' j of about $200,000. Three blocks of houses at Trenton, Penn., a small mining town, were destroyed by fire, and six persons?Frank Ferrell, his wife | and three children and a hoarder named Fitz! gerald?perished iu the flrunes. One of the Ferrell family?a child five years old?was Bave.l. A judgment against Ulysses S. Grant for $150,417.20 in favor of William H. Vanderbilt has just been entered in the New York count}' clerk's office. It was granted by the supreme court, with the consent of General Grant's counsel, in a suit brought by Mr. Vanderbilt for money borrowed by General Grant on May 3, 1*S4, just prior to the memorable failure of Grant & Ward and the Marine bank. Boston's municipal election resulted in the success of O'Brien, Democratic candidate for mayor, by about 3,000 majority. In Worcester the Citizen's candidate, and in Lymi the Workingmen's candidate for mayor were successful. Miss Mary G. Caldwell, a wealthy young lady of New York city, has Riven $.fl)0,000 for the establishment of a Catholic university in the United States. Other do nations by Catholics are expected to increase this amount to $1,000,000, and eventually to $3,000,000. Wilkinson & Co., bankers of Syracuse N. Y., havo failed with liabilities of $500,000; assets, about $150,000. South and Went. Three prominent Mormons have been convicted of polygamy at Prescott, Arizona, and sentenced each to pay a fine of 5500, and three and a half years' imprisonment. Two other Mormon bishops were sentenced to pay a fine of $500 and six months in jail. General Larkin Smith, a veteran of the Mexican war and a Confederate general died a few days ago at San Antonio, Texas, aged 71 years. A depreciation in real estate securities has caused the failure of Kaymer, Seagraves & Co., Toledo (Ohio) bankers, for about $500,000. B. T. 0. Hubbard, late cashier of the First National bank, of Monmouth, 111., which failed recently for $400,000, has been indicted for embezzling $270,000 and lodged in jaiL Hubbard lost the money in speculation. Two men?Colonel Torres and Jose Manuel Soto?were handed at Jinlinas, Cal., for murdering a Chinaman, and John Scott (colored) suffered a similar fate on tho same day at Mount Pleasant, S. C., for murdering a merchant who had arrested him for robbery. Thirty Chinamen who wore being smuggled from British Columbia int j Washington Territory were drowned by tha upsetting of boats. The temptation to smuggle Chinamen across the border is very strong, as for each one landed the owners of the boat generally receive Five masked robbers stopped a train near Little Rock, Ark., took complete possession, "went through" all the passengers, getting f bout ?4,(X)0 in money, beside watches and jewelry, broke open and rilled the express safe and then disappeared. They were followed by a strong pass?, aided by bloodhounds, and three of them captured. The J. I. Case Plough company, of Racine, Wis., has failed for about $>U ),UU0, with nominal assets of Mrs. Wilt.iasi Sciiultz, a resident of Thornburg Station, Iowa, wliilo her husband was at work, cut the throats of her two infant children and th.-u terminated her own existence in tlio same manner. As no motive I for the deed was known, slip was probably laboring under a temporary lit of insanity. Cuarles Stevens, a desperado who killed Hubert Kramer, at Marysville, Mo., was taken from jail after a light with the sheriff, by a mob, and hanged to a railroad bridge. General Wade Hampton' has been elected by the South Carolina legislature to succeed himself as United States Senator. Mr. Reuben* R. Sprint,er, so widely known by his gifts to the city of Cincinnati of the Music ball, the exposition buildings and the college of Music, died there a fow days ago in his eighty-fifth year, leaving a fortune of $3,000,000. A dispatch s'abs that one James Lyman, a resident of Brown county, Ind., was addicted to the most voluble profanity upon the slightest occasion, but that his tendency in this respect has been suddenly checked in a most extraordinary manner. While swearing with the utmost vehemence during a paroxysm of anger, he suddenly fell to the ground with speech gone, sight destroyed, and unable to move a muscle. The dispatch concludes: "On the arms of two strong laborers Lyman was borne to the house, where he has since been resting in a half-consciou^ condition." Washington. At a meeting of the House postofHce commit-.tAfl it was r.Kdl vrvl t.n nush the nostal tele graph bill, which provides for the contract system of postal telegraph; a bill to regulate mail contracts, which is intended to guard against any repetition of the star-route frauds; a bill fixing the rate of rlrst-elass matter (letter postage) at two cents for an ounce or fraction thereof instead of the present half-ouive rati, and other measures affecting the postal service. Mil. Blaine has returned to Washington, which will be his residence this winter. From various sections come reports of great depression in the iron and st-el industries and kindred trades. There have been a great many shut-downs in shops and factories all over the country, while in numerous other instances wages are reduced. Judge Lawrence, first comptroller of the currency, lias replied to charges of irregularity in his department maOo to the House committee on expenditures in the department of justice by J. J. Barker, a former treasury clerk. A sub-committee will investigate the matter. The Senate, in executive session confirmed the following nominations: Thomas O. Osborne, of Illinois, to be minister resident and consul general of the United States to the Argentine republic; Jehu Baker, of Illinois, to be minister resident and consul general of the United States to Venezuela: Willard P. Tisdel, of Ohio, to be agent of the United States to the states of Congo association. Oe.veral Foster, United States minister to Spain, arrived in Washington and presented to the secretary of state the proposed treaty betweou the United States and Spain. The terms of tho treaty have l>een made public and have caused great excitement in certain industrial quarters, particularly among cigarmakers and Louisiana sugar planters. By its provisions duties on Havana cigars are reduced und Cuban sugars are admitted free of duty. The Senate has confirmed the nominations of James Harlan, of Iowa, to tie presiding judge of the court of commissioners of Alabama claims, and of Walter Q. Uresham, of Indiana, to be United States circuit judge for the seventh judicial district. The national conference of State boards of health met at Washington in conformance with a call which sets forth the danger to this country from cholera and tho importance of adopting necessary measures to resist and restrict it. The sub-committee of the House committee on appropriations having in charge tho subject of ]>ension appropriations agreed upon a bill appropriating $150,000,000?tho amount asked by the commissioner of pensions?for the next fiscal year. L/um.-Mt nuveiiiijer emigrants ar- | rived in tho United States, against u5,!W3 arrivals in November, 18-vi Foreign. Cook Teets, a blind man, was hanged at Owen Sound, Ontario, for poisoning his wife. Ten Nationalists and six Orangemen were sentenced at. Dublin to iinnrisonment for U'rms varying from one to three months for participating in recent riots at Coal Island. Twelve Chinese men-of-war are reported to be on their way to Formosa to attack tho French fleet stationed there. M. Mom.v, the Paris oflicial who was shot | | by Mine. Hugues for slandering her, was not | killed, as first reported, and is likely to re- j cover. The all'air has been the constant talk | of Paris. | Advices from the west coast of Africa state that two Momammedan slave-catching tribes recently attacked the king of Talaba in his capital. The king's household and the ofllcers in tho royal building were blown up with gunpowder. - - - ? T rkM/lnn mH 1 now dalalilifua. is ia?,ill? hi x^vyuv*./v? ..w. . cases a week being rc|r?rted. In Hunger- | ford, Ontario and vicinity the disease is also ) raging to an alarming extent. A pearl weighing ninety-throe carats and valued at fl7,0iMJ has been shipped to London from Mexico. It is believed to be the largest in existence, and was purchased for $!?0 from an Indian, who found it at Mulieje, Lower California. 1 M. Mori.v, the official who was shot by Mme. Clovis-Hugues in Paris for slandering her, died after more than a week's intense suffering. 1 Terrific weather has prevailed off tho English coast, and many marine disasters are reported. The steamer'Pochard, bound from. J Cork to Liverpool, foundered. AH on board, believed to nave numbered thirty, were drowned. Another steamer went down in tho Jiritish channel with all on board. Captain Dud lev and the mate of tho wrecked yacht Mignonette, who wore found guilty bv a London jury of murder in killing the boy Parker for food to keep themselves alive, were sentenced to death by Lord Chief , Justice Coleridge. The condemned men pleaded for mercy in view of their terrible j situation in the open boat when the deed of ! cannibalism was dono. Queen Victoria was . advised to respite the prisoners. LATER NEWS A OAS tank at St. Louis containing 400,000 feet of gas exploded, causing a loss of $100,000. After the explosion a solid column of fire ! 500 feet high shot into the air. At a dinner given to United States Senator Gorman, chairman of the National Democratic Executive committee, by the business men of Ba'timorc, Governor McLane, many Democratic Senators and other prominent j Democrats were present. In order to avoid threatened complications j with Australia, the French government has ! transferred its punal colony at New Caledonia to Madagascar. Mr. Adams, tho* English lawyer who re- i cently gained a libel suit against Lord Chief ! .lustico Coleridge, has married tbe latter's ( daughter. General Emile Flecry, a distinguished French officer, is dead. A violent hurricane which raged for three hours in Vienna overturned omnibuses, cabs and even railway trains, unroofed numerous buildings, blew down high walls and injured many persons. CON4iItESSSON'AIj NEWS. Senate. A resolution by Mr. Sherman appointing February 21 for the ceremonies connected with the completion of the "Washington monument, was passed.... In executivo session Mr. Conger, of Michigan, offered a resolution to remove the injunction of secrecy j from the text of the Nicaraguan treaty. After some discussion tho resolution was I referred. Hoime. The bill appropriating SG0,(X)0,000 for pensions was reported to the House by the House committee on appropriations. It does not appropriate any unexpended balance that may be on hand at the end of the present fiscal year. -a? 4-.1 a..* ai.:- ?:n 1C IS esuiliu'.cu kUUV IU13 UIIUW.C mu uiuuuiiv i to about $30,000,003. It will bo placed in tho surplus fund of tho treasury. For several j years past the unexpended balances have been reappropi'iated' for tho use of the pension bureau. SUMMARY OF CONGRESS. Senate. Mr. Mitchell read a letter from General Grant relating to the bill recently introduced to pive him a pension. General Grant exSressod tho hope that the bill would be withrawn, as under no circumstances would he accept a pension, even if the bill passed both houses and received the approval of the i President. In deference to "General Grant's [ wishes, Mr.- Mitchell withdrew the pension bill i ....Mr. Blair introduced a bill to appropriate $500,000 in aid of the Colored People's j World's exposition to bo held in Chicago in I 1885. The bill providing for tho admission of the j southern part of Dakota as a State was taken up in the Senate, and Mr. Harrison, of 1 Indiana, author of the bill, advocated its j passage. He said that it proposed to make a j State of that part of the territory lying south of the forty-sixth parallel, and to give to the i part lying north of that parallel the name of " Lincoln," and continue for it the present territorial government. Estimating only four inhabitants to a voter, Southern Dakota would now ha ve a population of 230,000.... The bill to amend the sections of the revised statutes which prohibit delivery of registered letters and the payment of money orders to lottery companies was passed. The 1 amendment strikes out the word ''fraudu-: lent," making the law cover lotteries generally, and not merely "fraudulent" lotteries. Mr. Vest s[x>ke against the bill to admit the southern part of Dakota as a State. There j was no need to-day, he said, for the admission of new States in order to strengthen the 1 Union, and there was no need to rush this territory into the condition of a State. The population was not enough to entitle it to a Representative in Congress, and it would to a certain extent be a disfranchisement of the States already in the Union to give the present population of Dakota two Representatives in the United States Senate, as well as a Representative in the lower House of Congress. . .... Mr. Riddleberger in executive session, spoke against tho confirmation of Mr. McC'ul-; loch as secretary of the treasury, and further consideration of the nomination was postponed. House. Mr. Keifer, from the committee on appro- [ priations, reported the military academy ap- 1 propriation bill, and it was referred to the committee of the whole....Hills and resolu-1 tions introduced: By Mr. Townshend, pro- | posing a constitutional amendment providing i that treaties slia.ll be made by and with the j consent of the House of Representatives as well as the Senate. Mr. Cox, of New | York?A resolution requesting the opinion of the attorney-general as to whether section 3,738, revised statute.?, with reference to eight hours "labor1' applies to letter , carriers ; also, a joint resolution appropriating $100,000 to complete the pedestal for ! the Barlholdi statute, presented by France to the American people. By Mr. Warner?A bill to prevent the contraction of the cur- ! rency. By Mr. Beach?A bill to provide for a separate and uniform ballot upon which canmuarcs lur uu'iiincrs ui ivun^i er>a autm ik> voted for. Mr. Hewitt presented a memorial from the New York chamber of commerce praying Congress to mako an appropriation for the improvement of the defences of New York harbor.... Debate on the interstate commerce bill was continued The House went into committee of the i whole on the military academy appropriation i bill. It appropriates $300,771, being a reduc- ( tion of $40,792 from the appropriation for the current year, and $So,573 less than the esti- 1 mates. The bill was passed without amend- I ments. ( THE SPANISH TREATY, I Text of the President'* Mctwage j Relating Thereto. The following is the message sent by the President to the Senate with the Spanish treaty: To Ihe. Senate of the United Slates: I transmit herewith, for consideration by the Senate, with a view to advising and consenting to its ratification, a convention for ; commercial reciuroeity between the United States nnil Spain, providing for an intimate aud favored exchange of products with the Island of Cuba and Porto Rico, which convention was signed at Madrid 011 the 18th ultimo. The negotiations for this convention have been in progress since April last, in pursuance of the understanding reached by the two governments on , the ^d (lay of January, lSS4,tor the improve- . ment of commercial relations between the , United States and the Spanish Antilles by theVIIlth Article, of which botn govern- j ments engaged "to begin at once negotiations lor a complete treaty of commerce and navigation between the United States of America and the said provinces of Cuba and I'orto Rico." Although this clauso was by common consent omitted from the substitutionary agreement of February 1:5, 1SS4, (now in lorce I until replaced by the convention be- j ing carried into effect) tho obli- ] gation to enter upon such a negotiation was (loomed to continue. With the best desire manifested on both sides to reach a common accord the negotiation has ; been necessarily protracted, owing to the complicity of the details lobe incorporated in order that the convention might respond to the national policy of intercourse with the neighboring countries of the American system, ( which is outlined in my late animal message to the Congress in the following words: , '"The conditions of these treaties should ( 1)0 the free admission of such merchandise as , this country does not produce in return for ] the admission free or under a favored scheme | of duties of our own products, the benefits of , such exchange to apply only to goods carried . under the flag of the parties to the contract; ( the removal on both sides from tho vessel so , privileged of all tonnage dues and national | imports, so that these vessels may ply un- ( hindered between our ports and those of tho , other contracting parties, though without infringing on the reserved homo coast ing trade; the removal or reduction of burdens on tho <txported products of thoso countries coming I within tlie benefits of the treaties and the avoidance of the technical restrictions and * jienalties by which our intercourse with j those countries is at present hampered." A perusal of the convention now submitted will suffice to show how fully it carries out i tho policy of intercourse thus announced. I , commend it to you, in the expectation that 1 it will receive your sanction. It does not ' seem necessary to my present purpose to en- < tcr into detailed consideration of the many < immediate and prospective advantages which 1 will flow from this convention to our productions and our shipping interests. 1 Chester A. Arthur. < ?? , 'Mark Twain*,'" writes a friend, "is un- ; doubtedly destined to be the richest of Ameri- j can authors. No man has made so much money in tho short space of time as he has done. His wife has a largo estate, and to- j getlicr they now have more than $1,0U0,0J.((. : He is a sharp business man, increasing his j pilo all the time by good investments as well as by new books and lectures, and as he is ( still on the right side of fifty ho will probably turn his present million into other millions . before ho dies." It has been dis.-overei that cured porpoise i tastes exactly liko dried beef, and a Philadelphia firm has gono into the business of publing it up for tho market. It will be known as cured dolphin. A TMBj? PLAGUK . Fatality Caused by Bad Water in the Cumberland Mountains. o More than 1,500 Deaths in a Population of Less than 22,000, A correspondent, giving an account of the terrible plague which 1ms destroyed hundred8 of lives in the Cumberland mountains, says: Pike, Letcher, Harlan and Bell are the four counties in the extreme southeastern part of Kentucky wriich border on tho State of Virginia, where it forms a big V between them and tho State of Tennessee to tho south. Tho border counties in Virginia are Buchanan, Dickenson. Wiso ami Lee. These eight counties form the district in which a most fatal plague has raged for very nearly two months, carrying off more people in proportion to the number of inhabitants than the cholera in its worst stages In France during the past year. The center of this district is near the junction of Lctcher and Harlan counties, in Kentucky, with "Wise county, Virginia, a point that is about 150 miles southeast of Cincinnati It is ia this region that the feuds between families become known to tlio public through the extermination of one of the families and the subsequent acquital of the exterminators Jay a jury of their peers. The Cumberland is only one of many high ridges that trend from southwest to northeast in Kentucky and Virginia, and in consequence some of the rain storms that sweep up from the Mississippi valley are intercepted, and droughts are not uncommon in summer. But when, in Inst September, it was noticed that no rain had fallen for six weeks, the people who occasionally lounge in the few country stores to bo found in that region began to talk about the way the wells had all gone dry, and to say that they had never seen the water so low In Poor Fork or in Greasy, Brown's, or Puckett's creeks. No relief came with October. About the middle of the month Joseph Day, a brother of County Judge Day, of Letcher county, while on his way from White9burg court house to his home on Poor Fork, in the southeastern part of the county, was taken suddenly with sevore griping pains in the abdomen. In less t han an hour his limbs became naralvze 1. and friends carried him "-to " Lis home. A high fever at once set in, with a burning thirst and a swelling of the throat. Then he was taken with bloody Hux, followed by vomiting of blood and mucous, and in le^ than twenty-four hours lie was dead. Ha was the first victim of the plague. Before ho had breathed his last some of those who had helped him home were .taken in like manner, and from this point the disoase spread by jumps throughout the region, and in a modified form toward Cincinnati, as tar as Bath county. The work of the plague cannot yet be fully ascertained. The disease has been most fatal high up on the mountains that divide the two States. In Bell county and the eastern townships of Knox 211 deaths have been so far reported. In Harlan county 200 people have died. In Wise county,Virginia, the mortality has been more frightful still. The Gaysvitle Times has reported 150 deaths, including the entire Clark family of five whalived at the foot of Garrison's Gap In addition to this 41 deaths have been reported along Gold's Camp creek, including an entire family of four. Along Guests River creel; twenty-fiva more have died Six people were buried in one graveyard there in one flay. Crane's Nest is a four-cornered settlement in West rwintv. nrnr thb Dickenson county line. A gentleman who rode overland from that place to Ervinton, a distance of thirty-one miles, said yesterday that he passed houses where q few more than 403 people lived during the month of September, but in the last two months 116 of them had died. The population of Ervinton and vicinity is about 750. Of these forty-one have died of the plague in six weeks. Out of a population of less than 22.000 more than 1,500 have died. The plague began when the wells and springs went dry, and was doubtless the result of using water that was impure. The few physicians here say that the water contained mineral poison of some kind, because only a mineral poison would have produced the gripings, the burning fever and thirst, and the bloody evacuations that marked the disease. They say that ores of copper and arsenitea abound in th? mountains. The scarcity of educated medical help j and the peculiar habits of the people undoubtedly made the disease more fatal. When once a member of a family was stricken the rest were pretty sure to follow, and this was due in many cases to a great lack of proper care for the sick. The people usually tried to doctor themselves, and this increased the fatality. Beside a great variety of patent nostrums, the favorite remedies were liberal doses of hot mutton tallow, hog's grease mixed with burnt (mulled) brandy decoctions of tobacco and of blackberry roots, and all sorts of herb teas and at all stages of the disease whisky. There are not over fittflan nliv<iVinns in th.i eiirht counties, but if I kvv" r**j ? ?q - , there had been a hundred the people in many sections would not have hired them. In 18.^ I a similar but less virulent plague raged 1 through these mountains. There were more [ physicians then, but they know less of medi- ' cine than the people they tried to care for. j Quinine and calomel were the favorite reme- i dies, and the consequent deaths created a not ! unnatural prejudice in the minds of tha j people. Many of the people are absolutely destitute. The crops have been short for twa seasons, and there would have been hard times during the winter if the plague had not come. Relief committees have been organized in the larger villages beyond the mountains, but the only outside relief re-' ceived so far was #1,200 from the cattlemen's convention at St. Louis. The things most needed are clothing, medicine and competent physicians and nurses. MURDER BY WHOLESALE. Fivo Pcnoni Killed by a Jealous Lover, Who Commit* Suicide. Details have reached Omaha of one of the most diabolical wholesale butchories ever com mitted in Nebraska?the killing of five persons by one man, followed by the suicide of the mm derer. The scene of the slaughter is the town of Walworth, Custer county, a locality without telegraphic facili ties. The victims of the horrible affair wer? John Finley, a widower, about sixty years Did; Mary Finley, his daughter, aged sixteen; Fannie Finley, Mary's sister, aged sighteen; John Williams, a suitor for Mary's hand, and Charles Watkins, Fannie Finley's lover. The perpetrator was Thomas or Timothy Furquin, who was a rejected suitor of one of the young ladies, it is not known which. All parties were residents of the town where the tragedy occurred. The motive for this horrible butchery was jealousy. The two young ladies have for some time been receiving the attentions of Watkins and Williams, and it was generally suppose 1 that there was to be a double weddingabout Christmas time. Young Furquin has always been considered an exceedingly quiet, industrious and inoffensive young fellow, and though it wus an open secret that he had been an admirer of and suitor for one of the Finley girls and had been rejected, no one ever thought that he was capablo of such a crime- Ho has for some time been giving tokens of his unfriendly feelings ,.,1 tl,Q rv-.nnnr Trii.n ivlio nroved successful In winning the favor of the girls, but no one seems to have ever heard him make an open I threat. On Wednesday night the two Finley girls, in company with their lovers (Watkins and Williams,! attended a dauce. Young Furi|uin hail aske.l one of tlio girls to go with him. but she declined on the score, It is believed, of a previous engagement. This seems to havo boon the acme of bis bitterness over his unrequited love and to have driven him into a murderous frenzy. Ho did not go to the dance, but laid in wait for the I'arty, nursing his hatred and planning revenge. When the party drove up to the ,;ate ot the Finley homestead after their night of pleasure Furquin was thera ' with a double barreled shotgun, loaded with "blue whistlers." Tho party were in a spring wagon, just largo enough to comfortably carry tho four. The jealous man was hidden. Unseen bv his victims ho leveled his gun and fired both barrels in quick succession at them. Tiie contents of the gun literally riddled tho bodies of all lour, killing them almost instantly. Hearing the shooting and tho death screams of his laughters Mr. Finley rushed from the house to his own death. Tho murderer struck the aid man a blow over tho head with the butt ; of the gun, and repeated the blow until his brains were beaten out. Tho murderer tneu , completed his horrible work by blowing j Dut his own brains with a revolver. WASHINGTON MONUMENT. rile Groat Strnctnrc Read)* for the Final Ceremonies. The long expected completion of the Wash" ngton monument obelisk has been accom" Wished by setting in place the marble capstone ind its pyramidal apex of aluminum. The i ceremonies were few and simple, an elaborate j -elebration being reserved for Washington's birthday. The flag over the monument now floats from a flagstaff, the ton of which is exactly ! WO feet from the ground, thus displaying the : American colors at the greatest height of construction ever yet known in the world. ( The monument itself, with its total height of 5.">0 feet, far overtops every other structure of human hands. The aluminum apex ot the monument is en- ; graved with inscriptions as follows;?On one Face, " Chief Engineer an I Architect Thomas Lincoln Casey, Culonel Corps of Engineers: issistants, George W. Davis, Fourteenth United Stales infantry; Bernard R. i Sreen, Chief Engineer; Master Mechanic, , P. H. M Lau^hlin.'' On another, ''Corner stone laid 011 bei of foundation July 4, 1843. First stone at heigiit of l">- feet laid 1 August 7, 1SS0. Capstone set December t>, 1SS4." On a third, "Joint commission at , Batting of capstone, Chester A. Arthur, W. W. Corcoran, chairuiiu; M. E. Bell, EJward ('lark, John Newton. Act of August 2, 1876." And on the fourth face the words ' I/uis doo." i HOCKING VALLET, Distressing Scenes Anions' the Striking niners-Ooarding the nines. A correspondent at Nelsonville, Ohio, sends a distressing story of the scenes witnessed in Murray City. He writes: "To-day I made a trip through Buchtel and Orbiston to Mur ray City. All through the valley in their huts, hugging the bleak, barren hillside could be geen the starving miners and their families, some were mining coal for their own use in little entries where coal cropped out. At other places bare-footed, ragged children were raking over the slag pile for refuse coal. The women seein even more determined than the men to resist the operators. One woman, with scarcely enough clothing to cover her, said 'I will go out and lie down on the bank of the creek and die with my baby in my arms before I will allow my husband to work for fifty cents a ton.' "Al the foot of the hill, asone drive3down into Buchtel is the mammoth store of the Syndicate, the doors guarded by uniformed sentries, armed with repeating rifles and revolvers. There are fifty of the guards in the little hamlet of Buchtel alone. At the entrance 10 mo mines ana on tne surrounding nm-rops and in the commanding positions on the slag piles, strong forts have been built Three or four men in each could repel an attack of hundreds. They were Just finishing and equipping the strongest and most commanding fort to-day. The guards are quartered in the large hall over the company's store. The store is a large concern, supplying 1 o the minors the necessaries of life in exchange for. the checks that are given in payment of wages. These checks are good at the company's store only, where goods are said to be from five to twenty per cent, higher than at cash stores. Across the street, in an abandoned storehouse, 150 of the imported minors without families are lodged and fed. A boarding house keeper assured me that his profit on twenty-seven boarders for a month was $145. I was told that the monthly pay-roll amounted to $W,0Q0, and that $20,000 of this sum was coasumed in garrison expenses. "The straggling hamlet dignified by the title of Murray City, bristles with fortifications. A log fort on a hill top commands the narrow entrance to the valley, and a sentinel with a Winchester rifle over his shoulder paces to and fro. Near the hopper where the coal is loaded into cars is another fortification, in the center of the town another and still others at the front and rear entrances to the company's store. One of the several branches of the Hocking Valley road winds down the valley to Murray City. There are numerous bridges, where the railroad crosses the creek. At each bridge is a small fort, built generally of ties, the loop holes guarding every approach. A strong guard is maintained at each of these forts, aud every night a patrol train runs over the road and its branches." A FIGHT AMONG FABMKBS Desperate Combat Between two Factions In a Texan Town. A terrible shooling affair at Gatesville, Texas, which took place, resulted in the death of three well-known farmers and tW wounding of four others. Dr. Thomas Sauls, with his brothers, Green and Abram Sauls, were attending court. Between the Sauls and the Basham family, of Caryell county, a feud of long standing existed. Tho two factions met the other afternoon in front of the courthouse at Gatesville. William Basham, aftera few hot words, opened fire on Doctor Sauls. This was the signal for Henry Basham, Charles Parks ana Henry Harris to also open fire on the three Sauls brothers. A general fusilade followed, in which about forty shots were fired. The crowd scattered in every direction. Over a hundred people witnessed the fearful combat from a safe distance. The seven combatants doggedly blazed away, not one moving from his tracks. Dr. Sauls fell heavily,mortally wounded. Abram Sauls next succumbed, leaving Green alone facing his four mortal foes. As Henry Basham fell he cried out to his brother "Kill him! kill him!" At this the remaining Bashams, with Parks and Harris, made a rush for Green Bauls, whose revolver was empty, xne sheriff and deputies interferred in time to save Qreen's lire. Dr. and Abram Sauls and Henry Basham were fatally wounded, while the other four combatants, who were mora or less seriously wounded, were taken to jaiL The participants in the fight are all well-to-do farmers standing high in their communities. The wounded men refuse to talk about the matter. MUSICAL MI) DRAMATIC. Ristori's personal baggage consists of eighty-six trunks. Mr. Irvino's receipts in New York averaged $2,700 daily. The Chinese have built a theatre at Los j Angeles, Cal., to hold 1,20'J people. The burning of the Grand Opera-house in i St. Louis has disordered many an actor's route. Alexander Dumas' new comedy, entitled "Denise," will be produced in Paris next spring. Mi.le. Bartet is the actress who is caus" ing Sarah Bernhardt pangs of professional jealousy now. Mme. Rammelsberg, an American singer? has appeared with success in Milon, under the name of Mme. Rolla. THEVescelius Sisters will have a concert company for a tour of the country, under Major Pond's management. Paola GiACOMETTt, now dead, is the authorof " Elizabeth" and ''Marie Antoinette," the plays performed by Ristori. L?31?K n al.laliv, nuu sua ijiojo jutcuucharacters, was born in Wltf. He was at one time an officer in the English array and served in India. The oldest theatre now standing in this country is the one in Savannah. The one rankuig next is the Walnut Street theatre in i Philadelphia Charlotte Thompson's new play is called j "Phyllis; or, A Snow Storm." It is an adap- I tation of Hugh Conway's last book, called j "Dark Days."' Fanny Davenport claims that her profits 1 from " Fedora" this season are much greater I than last, and from this argues the permanent i popularity of tho play. Signor Salvini has astonished all Italy by reviving a dusty old French melodrama, "The Coast Guard," and making it a stunning sensation and success in Florence. Talking of McCulloch's mental troubles, " an Eastern paper alleges that the proportion of insanity among actors is greater tlian among members of any other profession. Bessie Bernard, at oiie time dramatic critic of the New Orleans Daily States, is on the road as the advance agent of Grace Hawthorne. She is the first fenialo press agent. Emma Abbott will mjve on San Francisco again the last of December. She carried off the victor's palm so far as that ciiy was concerned last season, having sung to upward of $50,000 in four weeks. Jenny Lind Goldschmidt is a member of the faculty of the Albert Hall College of ** * T '" OUf. io fUa /lai'nto<l MUSIC, J.OIKIUIl. Olio in iut mwu uu>vivu teacher you can imagine; tremendously strict, but appreciative, and the idol of her scholars." M. Lasalla, the famous baritone of the Grand Ojxira-hou.se, Paris, has made an engagement with Mr. Maurico Strakoseh to go to America within a few weeks. The price agreed upon is 4,DUO francs ^$*00/ for each performance. While Victoria Sardou's brilliantly successful play, " Los Pat.es do Mouclie." was being uerformed for the first time in Paris, its author spent the evening pacing the sidewalk in front of the theatre in a fever of anxiety. "If it takes,"'he said, "all right. If not, to-morrow I start for America to found a French newspaper there." He remained in Paris. Miss Clara Loiise Kellogg has nothing but generous praise for Miss Emma Nevada, the new American operatic star. She tii-st heard tho young nrima donna in L 'ghoru, four years ago, ami "was channel. There is a charm in her voice which few singers have. I cannot say too much of her. and I wish her overy possible success in her own country." One of the novelties of the musical season will be a traveling orchestra com;>osed entirely of pig-tailed Celestials fiesh from tho flowery kingdom. The company numbers ten pieces, and, with the exception of one instrument;, all the party will manipulate strings. Tho exception "is an oddly-shajx'd trumpet resembling that used by the Tartars. Pay During the IlcYolutlon. The scale of compensation was at the I extreme of moderation. In no degree, j however, in the absence of value to the currency in which it was rated, could pay have been invested with the attraction of reward. Yet it is submitted as no; devoid of interest. To the office of director of tlie military hospitals was attached the pay of $150 per month, two rations, one for servant and two of forage; to that of the chief physician and surgeon of the army, $110 per month, two horses and wagon. and two ration* of forage; to each of the three chief physicians and surgeons of the hospitals, $1-10 per month and two rations; to the purveyor. *130, and his assistant $75 per month; to tho apothecary, $130 per month, and his two assistants, $50 per month each; to the fifteen hospital physicians and surgeons, $120 per month each, and to each of the twenty-six mates, $50 per month. The stewards received each $-'55 pgj month; the clerks i and storekeepers Si per day; the seven matrons fifty cents each and a ration per day; the thirty nurses each two shillings and a ration per day, and the orderlies, | if soldiers, one shilling and a ration, anil if citizens, two shillings aud a ration a day.?Magazine of Anwirunllixt.ory. UNITED STATES BAIT. J The Annual Report of Secretary Chandler. ifa Recommendations for Increasing the Navy's Efficiency, The delayed annual report of the secretary of the navy shows that the expenditures of the department in the fiscal year which closed June 30, 18S4, were $17,292,<501. The estimate! for ordinary purposes and public works for the next fiscal year are $17,860,658. The esti* mates for the increase of the navy are $15,071,572. In this sum is included * ;, $4,232,654 for the completion of the monl- /.r.'yi, tors, $4,542,000 for new cruisers and gunboats, $2,900,000 for armored vessels, $2,001,918 for ordnance for cruisers and gunboats, " and $1,395,000 for other purposes, including two training barks and rifled ordnance., Onehalf of this sum for the increase of the navy ft win do neeaea ior tne coming nscai year. . ,;: <2 Much of the report is devoted to the new steel cruisers. Secretary Chandler says thf criticisms advanced against them last year are of little moment and based upon theories at variance with the progrea of modern ship buflding. Thi 'Jjti Atlanta has been launched, thf Boston is ready for launching, and the Chic* go is nearly compleled. The objection to the machinery in the Chicago are met by tlx satisfactory performances of the Louisiana, whose machinery is similar, and the pecoliai features of the Boston are to be found in thf Chilian vessel Esmeralda, which is the latest development of naval construction in Eng> land. Itis unfair, the secretary thinks, fir compare tne cruisers, unfavorably, with tin large ocean racing steamers, because th? . - $ ocean steamers attain their speed only by thf sacrifice of qualities essential to a ship of war. The new cruiser will, however, be able to overtake ninety-six per cent of thf merchant steamers of the world. The manufacture of such modern high-power guns at are needed for the cruisers being wholly new in this country, is slow and difficult, and the cost is greater than if they were procured ^ abroad. The secretary recommends the construction of seven modern cruisers annually for ten years, as 8 measure calculated to givf . the country at moderate cost a navy adequate i fa rtffl <viro mainfoin i fa ofi faf V . I W IIIOIU 1U3 VIUVCIO (MiVI 1URUIWUU *hW OHiVW/ K and honor. He adds that the speediest and most economical way to remedy the defenceless condition of our coasts ana harbors Is to ~ - 'i complete the partially constructed monitors. ' The secretary believes that the policy at trying at great cost to rehabilitate worn-onl vessels under the name of repairs is the tru explanation of the disproportion between th< expenditures end the results accomplished is naval administration. The secretary holds that only two naval workshops should be maintained on the Atlantic coast and on the Pacific. The New London and League Island yards should tx restored, the Boston yard sold or reduced in . ; size, and the Pensacola and Portsmouth yard*. . kept for naval stations. He advocates th? exclusion of politics from the management oi the navy yaras and workshops. The practice of securing the solicitation of jJ&H persons of political or social influence to Hecure agreeable duty for officers or to pttect the restoration by legislation of officers who have been dismissed is, in the secretary opinion, demoralizing to the service, and should be stopped. The retirement of two captains for every captain promoted and of one commander for every four commander! promoted would, he thinks, benefit the navy ' by hastening promotion andeliminating ofncers disqualified for active service. Naval . officers should be employed in the vessels oi the revenue marine and the lighthouse establishment Concerning the recently discovered irauds in the bureau of medicine and surgery, tha .' secretary says that they were made easier by the frequent use of the exigency clause under * , which purchases are made without advertising. The chiefs of all the bureaus were directed in December, 1883, to conform to tha law requiring purchases to be made by advertising, and in July, 1884, they were told that the public exigency had not required so larga ,. ^ a proportion of open purchases as had been " made. He adds that the amount of suspected vouchers is $124,835, but that, as some of the goods paid for were delivered, the loss would _ JJKjfl be less tlian that sum. The expenses of the Greely expedition, th? i secretary says, were $782,996. He recommends that the Thetis and the Bear be retained by the government for surveying purposes. The report concludes with the assertion that the only way' to encourage the es- ~ tablishment of American ocean steamship lines is through government aid in the form . | of bounties for tne construction of vessels or payment for carrying the mails. FAEM PRODUCTS, -y Their Prices as Beported by the Department of Agriculture* The department of agriculture reports the . prices of farm products in home markets The tendency to general decline 01 prices appears to have depressed values somewhat, aside from abundant supply. The average price of corn is 38J^ cents, which is one cent lower than the average for 1879, when toe supply in proportion to population was quite as large. It has been lower but twice in ten years, in 1877 and 1878, after two previous years of abundance. It is highest in Florida, 80 cents per bushel, and the lowest price is 18 cents, in Nebraska; Kansas, 22 ; Iowa, 23 ; Missouri, 26 ; Illinois and Minnesota, 31 ; Indiana and Wisconsin, 34; Michigan, 40; Ohio, 41; Kentucky, 43. It is 52 in Pennsylvania, 54 in New Jersey and 60 In New York. The range of values in the South Atlantic States / is from 36 in Delaware to 72 in South Carolina and 80 in Florida, increasing in the oi-derof movement, except that Georgia reports 06 cents, In the more Western States it is 45 in Tennessee, 54 in Arkansas, 61 in Alabama, 62 in Mississippi and Texas and 67 in Louisiana TK? ornrorfafflrm nrifH* r>f whAftt*. ifl fdxfcv- I five cents per bushel, against ninety-one cents last December. The December price in thirteen years lias previously been Delow $1 per bushel but five times, in '374, 1878, 1880, 1882 and 1883. The average in Nebraska is fortytwo cents, forty-five cents in Kansas, fortysix cents in Dakota, fifty cents in Minne,sota, fifty-flve cents in Iowa, sixty-two cents in Missouri, sixty-three cents in Dlinois, sixty-seven cents in Indiana, seventy-four cents in Michigan and seventyfive cents in Ohio. The average home grown wheat in New England exceeds $1. In New York it is eighty-five cents, in Pennsylvania eighty-six cents. It is eighty cents in Virginia and eighty-three cents In Maryland. The average value of oats is twenty-eight cents against thirty-three cents last December ana 37.5 cents in 1882. The present value j is the lowest ever reported by the department, J the lowest State average is 19 cents, in Nebraska; the highest is t>J cents, in Florida; Iowa and Minnesota, 20 cents; Kansas, 22 cents; Illinois, 23cents; Indiana, 27cents, and ' "jgflHI Ohio, 29 rents. The average is from 42 cents to tiO cents in the South. V; The plantation prices of cotton as reported averages from 9 cents to 9% cents per pound. It is 9 cents in Tennessee, Arkansas and Texas; 9 1-10 cents in Louisiana, 9 1-5 cents <39 in Georgia and 9 8-10 cents in the Carolin&j and Virginia. ? The average farm price of the entire crop of potatoes is forty cents per bushel. The lowest price Ls twenty-five cents, in Michigan. J The average in New York is thirty-nino '&SH cents, forty-two cent# in Ohio, thirty-five " cents'in Indiana, thirtv-four cents in Illinois, ^ twenty-eight cents in Iowa. tWenty-nino cents i, in Nebraska and forty-eight cents in Kansas. The average price is two cents lower than last 'y/j year, though the crop is not so large. 'J ._ % H?WSI GLEANINQ-3. The population of London now exceeds 4,000,10.1. There are 1,19S convicts in the Ohio pent tentiarv. J The best skilled workmen in Naples get but thirty cents a day. 'Vfl The loss of registered letters last year ;j i._j ?! 7flt; j ujuvjuuicu w/vucumvi v*v?j .v.? A clergyman's fee at a recent fashionable wedding in New York last week was $1,000. j There arc living in New England upward of thirty persons who are over 100 years of age. Over 10'1,000 cords of timber are manufactured into shoe pegs in^his country every year. ' ~ According to the Lisbon Official Gazette Portugal has r.'0,000 soldiers?Dig army, little country. There are 3,500 Indians on the Colville agency, Washington Territory, most of whom are fanners. According to the land office report there have been 400,000 farms taken up Dy settlers the past year. During the dry season, now about to begin, 5'J,000 men will be employed on the Panama canal. The value of taxable property in Tennessee is now $220,844,184, an increase of $4,206,311 over last year. The new custom house at Cincinnati has cos. $1,<>41,431. exclusive of the $750,000 paid for the ground. The Lop crop is much larger than last year. The gain on the Pacific coast is said to be 30.000 bales of 180 pounds oach. The first church in Newbury, Mass..which was established nearly 250 years ago, nas recently installed its twelfth pastor. The three heaviest animals shown at the 1 fat stock show in Chicago weighed respectively 2,240, 2,70J and 3,220 pounds. Ocr navy, it is stated, now contains 1.561 commissioned ollieers, or one officer to every live men and forty-five officers to every ship. The pauper authorities of Paris say they shall have to support or help 406,000 persons in ls><5, and that the work will cost $8,000,000. i