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BY HUGH WILSON. ABBEVILLE, S. C.. WEDNESDAY. DECEMBEK 24. 1884. NO. 26. VOLUME XXIX.
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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.
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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.
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