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ABBEVILLE PRESS AND BANNER) BY HUGH WILSON. ABBEVILLE, S. C.. WEDNESDAY. JANUARY 14, 1885. NO. 29. VOLUME XXIX. Jjg rENNYSON S "FREEDOM." A NEW POEM BY THE POET LAUREATEOJf ENGLAND. Oh, thou so fair in Summers gone, While yet thy fresh ami virgin soul Inform'd the eoluru'd Parthenon, The glittering capitol: So fair in southern sunshine bathed, But scarce of such majestic mein As here, with forehead vapor swathed In meadows ever green; For thou?when Athens reign'd and Rome? Thy glorious eyes were dimm'd with pain To mark in many a freeman's home The slave, the scourge, the chain; Oh, follower of the vision, still In motion to the distant gleam, Howe'er blind force and brainless will May jar thy golden dream. Who, like great nature, wouldst not mar By changes all too fierce and fast This order of our Human Star, This heritage of the past: Oh, scorner of the party cry That wanders from the public good, Thou?when the nations rear on high i neir moi smearea wnn ojoou, And when they roll their idol down? Of saner "Worship sanely proud, Thou loather of the lawless crown As of the lawless crowd. How long thine ever growing mind Hath stilled tho Ma-t and strewn the ware, Though some of lato would raise & wind To sing thee to thy grave. Men loud against all forms of power? Unfurnished brows, tempestuous tongues, Expecting all things in an hour? Brass mouths and iron lungs! ?Sew York Independent. A COW CHASE. Jerusalem Valley, about twenty miles long and five miles in width at its lower I end, lies between two outlying spurs of the Sierra La Sal. Near the upper end j of it, where the concave of lofty bluffs walla it rouud, our little party had made , a permanent camp, intending to remain j. for several weeks, since the locality fur- ; , uiauuu JU aiJuuuiuiLf luuat IUUI icvjuiaiiva i ; of a camping-out excursion, namely, grass for the horses, game, wood and , good water. Three miles below us a party of cow- j j boys were in quarters at a 41 dug-out," | and another squad of the same " outfit," i: had their camp at the lower end of the : 1 valley; while between them ranged ] their eattle, some thousands in number. "We had been living on a purely veni- \ son diet so long that it had quite lost its relish, and had become distasteful, in ; fact; such at least was the condition of 1 the writer's palate. So one morning, j . after we were fairly settled here, I de- I, termined to ride down to the camp of ! the cattle men, and see whether they j could be induced to sell us a bit of fresh : beef. Their dug-out was in the side of j the bluff, and a few yards away were the j corrals and branding-pens. Riding up ' to the door of the dm: out, I shouted: | "Hullo!" "Hullo yourself!" came promptly from the interior; and immediately the doorway was tilled by a stooping figure, | * which, as it straightened itself to its full j .CJ^UL, pi W > tU LU UU l/UU \J 1 Lilt iJULOf ( looking men I ever saw. lie was six : feet four inches in stature, powerfully built, with a frank, inauly face nnd clear i j blue eye. This was William Little, or j "Little Billy," as he was sportively; called, "boss of the outfit" and part owner of the cattle. "Mornin', stranger!" he said, cheerily, as he came into the light. "Good-morning," I replied. "I rode over to see if you could sell us some beef." "Sell you some beef? No, sir! you can't buy no beef of this outfit." The reply took me aback; but though ] the refusal seemed abrupt and ungracious, yet the tone in which it was de- I j livcred was so hearty that I ventured to j 1 ask: I. "Why not?" ? "Well, we aiu't in the habit of sellin' : beef to strangers. Thar's a two-yearold hangin' up dowu thar at the corral. Cut off what you want and take it along, uui uvu v juttci vuvi iv Jr w vvn-iuau for beef!" . "But I would much rather pay you for . it. There are half-a-dozen of us at the J camp up there"? j "IJon't care if there's two dozen of 1 you." * "And we'll be here a mouth or j more"? { "Don't care if you stay six months." 1 "And we'd like to make regular arrangements"? "Regilar fiddlesticks! Here,you wait a minute," and striding off toward the corral, he returned with a quarter of tender young beef on his shoulder. "There, tie that onto your horse, an' when it's gone, come an' git some more. We alius keep a critter hangin' up; an' if we ain't here, just help yourself." There was no resisting his blunt kind- | ness, so I rode oil with the beef, but, to be even with him, came back the next day with a deer that I had shot. t "Tankee!" said he, as I tumbled it * from the saddle. "Ven'zun's raity good s eatin', an' we don't git much of a chance j 1 to hunt. Ef you kin spare a little of ' that now and then, I'd like to buy some j1 from you." < "Well w? ain't, in thfi lcihit. nf spllin' venison to strangers. When that's {rone, < come an' git some more. We alius keep ! I a critter hanyin' up, an' ef we ain't |' there, just he'p yourself. But don't offer j 1 to pay a hunter for deer-meat." He laughed as I quoted his own words ef the day before, and from that moment : we were friends. "Little," said I, one day. as we were 1 riding together, "I wonder that, with all the cows you fellows have, you don't corral them, and have fresh milk and i1 cream for your coffee. "Too much trouble. Coffee straight's good enough for me.But you fellows are welcome to it if you want it. Milk the JjuB-vacada if you wanter; I don't keer." At camp that night I mentioned the matter to the boys, and it struck them favorably. The judge's mouth had been watering for cream in his coffee ever since he joined us; and he hailed the i proposition with delight. So the next morning we built a corral, or pen, of Cottonwood logs, and in the afternoon started out to catch some calves; ' for we surmised that if we had the youngsters penned, the mothers would be sure to stay around, and we could milk them at our leisure. We soon had half-adozen little fellows cut out from the I drove, and started to drive them up the valley; but I hope that I maybe pardoned for the strength of my simile in saying that it was like trying to drive so many I streaks of lightning! I never saw such active, mercurial, elusive little beggerg as those calves?some of them not yet a month o!d! They were as spry as squir- i rels, as liuht-legged as deer, and as slippery as eels. They would gallop awkwardly on ahead of us for a few yards, till one would get the idea into his little pate that he was too lar irosn ins oeioveu mamma, wncn be would wheel as if on u pivot, and with a plaintive "ya-a-a-a-p!" scud back like a rabbit. Then away the rest would go, zigzagging and twisting here and there, worse than a jack snipe on a windy day. If you were ahead of them, and tried to cut them off, they would bolt and dodge like a hare before the hounds. -But if i you were behind, or at the side, and rode i at them to turn them, they wouldn't tuin a bit, but keep straight on. A steer will sheer oft if you come thundering down on his flank and he sees that there is dun- , ger of a collision; but these little racers would send right along, head and tail up, : Hnd if you didn't hold up, you'd catch a somersault over them. The judge, not suspecting the existence of such idiotic perversity, fairly rode down the first one he attempted to overhaul, and calf, horse and rider tumbled together in the dirt. The calf was up and a hundred yards away before the judge regained his seat, and it cost him a scamper of a mile before he could turn it. At last, however, after infinite trouble, we succeed in penning three of the., calves, and left them to be hunted up by j their mothers. "These latter we Tound \ when we got up the next morning, vaine ly trying to reach their imprisoned offspring through the corral fence. The next thing was to catch and milk the anxious cows. The trees in the locality were so close together that we could not use a lasso, and the cows, as if suspecting a trap,would not be driven into that part of the corral which we had left open for them. Finally, my brother John took a lariat, and climbing a tree, lay out on a limb about twenty feet from the ground. The rest of us, on horseback, then tried to drive the cows under the limb. Two soon took fright and broke away through the woods, but a third, a beautiful black heifer, would not leave her calf. She was a very handsome animal, as slender a3 a deer, and her horns, a yard from tip to tip, curved up and out from her forehead like Turkish scimitars, tapering to points as line as a bayonet's. She dodged us here and there like a will-o'-the-wisp, now and then making a quick dash at one of us, and necessitating some abrupt movements on our part, till, in one of her rushes, she passed" under tbc limb where John lay, and the laiso, dropped deftly from above, brought her up, plunging and wild-eyed. "Soh, boss, soh!'' he remarked to her, soothingly. But '"boss" wouldn't "soh;*' a mighty plunse, a writhe of the body, - ^ i ,1 ?,i a ucaiciuus iisiUMiujivnu rtxvxv 11 viu uic frco bind leg, and down she came with a thump upon her side; while the campkettle Hew from John's hands and he danced wildly around on one leg, nursing the barked ankle of the other. But in a minute she was on her feet, and the same performance, minus the barked ankle, was gone through with again. Finally, both legs of the cow were tied fast. It was found, however, that even then she. possessed the power to "hold up" her milk. We could get very little from her. About a pint was at last procured. Then another lariat was passed around her horns, and with John at one lariat, myself at the other, and the judge acting as a drag behind, we started to take her to the corral, that the calf might have its breakfast. "We intended to imprison her there for another trial. For about ten yards all went well, then there came a sudden, violent bolt; til'.* judge was ''jerked" from his feet and landed, face-downward, among the sage brush, losing his grasp on the"rope: the lariat in John's hands snapped: and I had "a vision of stidden death" in the ?hape of a black bovine virago with blood shot eyes, and needle-pointed [ horns bearing straight down upon me. Getting a rope around one of her hind j leet we "stretched" her between two trees, so that she was comparatively helpless; and then John, with a campkettle, proceeded to do the miiking. All the cow's untamed Texas blood was up. IIow I got over that corralfence, ten feet high, I don't know to I this day. When I could survey the j scene from between the bars of my port- i cullis, the furious heifer had changed j her course, and vas precipitating herseLf j upon the judge, who was energetically j hoisting his two hundred pounds of flesh up a cottonwood tree. Disappointed there, she turned to John, who, cut off from the corral, and having no friendly tree in wtncti to taKe snelter, loutui tnat he had urgent business in the direction of the creek, which flowed between steep banks, some twenty yards away. The infuriated animal was between him and the one path which led down to the water's edge, and, with that thing of fire and i fury close behind him. he had no time to pick and choose. With one flying leap he disappeared from view, and a dull splash told that he had found refuge in the turbid water below. Checking herself on the brink, the wrathful cow turned, and catching sight of me as I peered through the poles of the fence, charged with a vim that shooic the whole corral. Then the judge, who tiad taken advantage of this diversion, ind had slipped down from his perch, was discovered by the cow and forced to scurry upward to a place of safety, like i squirrel surprised by a dog. John's head now appeared above the janks of the gulch, but the enraged aeifer dashed at him with a vehemence :hat caused him to disappear with the tuddeuness of a prairie dog diviDg into ts hole. Here was a pleasant state of affairs! We had the milk?but the milkee had is. To a disinterested spectator it would lave been very laughable, no doubt; the judge's portly form perched twenty feet from the ground, on a two-inch limb, lis chubby legs and arms twined around he body of the tree, and his mild blue syes glaring from behind his spectacles ike the lamps on a doctor's gig; .John's lead, hatless and disheveled, his face ind hair plastered with mud, popping sp and down from behind the bank of he arroyo, like an animated 'vlack-inhe box;" myself peering through the joles of the corral-fence, like a trapped -1 i 1_ xi 1- ~ i..? ~r u:~ ivoou-cnucit uirougu me uars ui ms :age; while in the center of the triangle )f which we were the apices, with eyes if fire, distended nostrils, and burnished 10ms raking the ground, lunged and larted the vindictive beast who held us n limbo. The lariats, which were still attached ;o her.flcw out like Berenice's hair,as she lushed hither and thither; and her angry inorts of rage gave full token that her jovinc gorge was up. She was bent on nischief, and she attended to it strictly, without allowing licr attention to be listracted by trivial matters. She had "treed," "corralled" and "holed" her tormentors; and she seemed resolved fully to satisfy her debt of vengence. The slightest move on the part of any one of us brought her in that direction with the velocity of a huugry hawk. Repeated failures, however, at last mado her sullen, and she stopped for a moment, so close to the corral, that the end of the rope around her foot lay temptingly near to the fence. Dropping on my kuees, I reached my arm through to secure it. Up to this time, the calves had been huddiing together in a coiner of the corral; but now?whether my position was taken as a challenge, or whether courage had suddenly returned to them, I know not?there was a patter of feet in my rear, a brave little bleat, like the crow of the bantam rooster, and "spang!" something struck me behind, as i groveled on all-fours, and my head was driven against the fence with a smart thud. Jumping to my feet, I faced this new antagonist. There lie stood, as game as a torn tit, his ridiculously thiu legs stitlly outspread, his thread-paper tail perked up with a comical twist at the tip, his little bullet-head defiantly cocked to one side, and his twinkling eyes fixed upon me with a look compounded of wonder at liis own audacity, fear of the possible consequence, and a funny determination to "do or die," in the defence of his persecuted mother. Compared to her, he might have been aptly termed a duodecimo edition, bound in full calf. I had but time fully to take in the grotesqueness of his appearance, when, with another bleat ol defiance, the doughty little hop o'-my-thuuib charged me. Catching him by the ear and tail, I ran him ingloriously back to his comer, bumped his head against the fence, just hard enough to give him a hint not to interfere in the sports of his betters, and turned again to watch the movements of our besieger. It had finally dawned upon the brain ot our oocKnev cook, uancrs, mat sumething was wrong; and he hud come around in front of the lent, about forty yards away, to see what was the matter. Our wild-eyed foe caught sight of him and incontinently charged. Appalled at the sight of the infuriated animal. Batters tumbled backward into the tent, trusting thus to elude the assault. It was a vain hope. The flap was up, and the cow dashed straight at the opening, struck the supporting pole, and down in one billowy heap came the white canvas, covering pursuer and pursued. We ran to the rescue. From under the wildly heaving envelope came a dire discord of mingled sounds - Hatters' voice calling lustily for ' 'Kip! 'elp!"the bellow of the frightened tow, the breaking of things breakable, and the "r r-r-ip!" of tearing cloth. At last the exhausted animal became quiet; and Batters crawled from the fallen teut, pale and scared, but unhurt, save a few slight scratch^ It took us fully an hour to free our late antagonist, and -when this waB done she , limped off down the valley, her spirit i cowed, for the time being at least, and | her calf apparently wholly forgotten. j The camp was in as demoralized a^ondition as if a cyclone had struck it. The tent was torn, the cords and stakes broken, and the ground littered with a chaos of splintered tent-pins, tangled cordB, beut and broken cooking utensils and table-ware, burst flour-sacks, j torn blankets, dirtied food, and a mis- t cellaneous heap of debris. That evening, after the wreck was put as nearly shipshape as possible, the judge passed around a paper, which I copy: JERUSALEM VALLEY DAIltY COMPANY. j FIRST TRIAL BALANCE. To 1 day's work, 5 men building corral and catching calves.. $20 00 j " catching one cow 100 " milking said cow 25 " 1 pair pantaloons torn climbing tree 1 50 " 1 hat los* in cr^eek 2 00 " 1 broken lariat 1 75 " damage to tfc: it, bet'ding, food, etc.! 25 00 " strain on temper, 3 men at $5 each 15 00 " resisting temptation to use bad language, say 1,000 00 TOtai 5>l,uuu >nj Contra by 1 pint milk 03>? ; Dr. to profit and loss $1,006 : "Gentlemen," said the judge, after j the balance-sheet had been examined, " I move you that in consideration of j I the statement just submitted, the Jeru| salem Valley Dairy Association do here- j by suspend operations, and that the as- i sets?one pint of milk?be divided > among the stockholders." Carried unanimously.?P. Ufford, I in Youth's Companion. For Want of a Latch. An old step-ladder lesson, setting forth j the Bad import of little neglects, is worth ; a thousand repetitions: "For want of a nail the shoe was lost; For want of a shoe the horse was lost; For want of a horse the rider was lost? And all for the want of a horse-shoe nail" This is said to be originally taken from j actual history?of a certain aid-de-camp i whose horse fell lame on a retreat and de- j layed him until the enemy overtook him i and killed him. Another actual case, embodying the same lesson against the lazy and shiftless habit of "letting things go" is related by the Jb'renca political economist, ai. say. Once, at a farm in the country, there was a gate epclosing the cattle and poultry, | which was constantly swinging open for j want of a proper latch. The expend!- | ture of a penny or two, and a few* minutes' time, would have made all right. It was on the swine every time a person went out, and not being in a state to shut readily, many of the poultry were from time to time lost. One day a line young porker made his escape, and the whole family, with the | gardeno*-, cook and milkmaid, turned , out in quest of the fugitive. The gardener was the first to discover the pig, I and in leaping a ditch to cut off his escape, he got a sprain that laid him up for a fortnight. The cook on returning to the farm house found the linen burned that she had hung up before the fire to dry, and the milkmaid having forgotten, in her haste, to tie up the cattle in the cow house, found that one of the loose cows had broken the leg of a colt that happened to be kept in the same shed. The linen burned and the gardener's work lost were worth fully 100 francs, and the colt was worth nearly double that money: so that here was a loss in a few minutes of a large sum, purely for want of a little latch which might have been supplied for a few half-pence.? Youth's Companoon. Reading Backwards. An interesting little volume entitled "Shall we Read Backwards?" has recently been published in London. The introduction by Mr. R. B. Carter gives much useful information on the subject of training the eyes from infancy in order to obtain the full benelit of perfectly-develojied sight. This is only possible by a judicious use of the eyes, which, however, does not consist in abstaining from wnrlr in which the eves are used, "idle- I ness of the eyes," according to one of Mr. Carter's former works, being "in every wny hurtful to them." It is, therefore, necessary to develop the vision by that "proper and varied employment which is eminently conducive to their preservation in beauty and efficiency." How, then, can we arrive at the highest possible stage of development without injuring the eyes? Reading is undoubtedly one of the commonest means, and "the most 'readable' print is that by which we may obtain the maximum of reading with the minimum of injury to the sight." The experiments which have been tried by many eminent authorities to settle the question are very various. Light and color are, of course, two chief considerations, to which a good deal of attention is paid in the little book; another is the way in which the type is set. European nations print, as a rule, from left to right, but whether this is the most readable style is by no means certain. In ancient writings there is much variety in the way of writing. Among these, the Mongolian columnar style is not suitable for European languages, because of the varying length of words, as may be seen in the annexed illustration: Commence here and read backwards, m I and The perpendi-alar | Mongols Chinese, lines. j write Japanese. It would, however, be less difficult to accustom the eyes to this system than to that of the ancient European end Semites: hgir morf nur sdrow eht rennam hcihw nl ni dedeeccus noos saw hcihw redro na .tfel ot .rehtona yb eporu E This was the double mode called boustrophedon ("as the ox plows"), which has the benefit of equalizing the muscular action of the eyes: "In it the alternate line follows an opposite degru erofereht evah einos dna ,noitcerid a return to this early Greek manner, eht yb dedeecci\s yllanli saw. hcihw present system of writing from the left "thgir eht ot edis Dyeing the Hair. The lady of Queen Elizabeth's time was an extremely complex aifair, and artificial to the last degree. Few people of fashion in those days possessed the moral courage of Benedick, who de1 clared that his wife's "hair shall be of | what coior it please God." Ked, yellow I and black dyes were in common use, the I first, perhaps, in compliment to the I n.linM nititriil )mif uplrlnm Qppn I .J.IWV.., , j was reddish in hue. She herself possessed eighty wigs of various colors. The demand for hair was so large that children were often allured into corners and sheared; even the sanctity of the grave i was not respected, and the dead were I robbed of their hair to adorn living 1 heads. This fashion of dyeing the hair I was by no means conlincd to women; | men commonly dyed their beards. Thus | Bottom, whtn about to personate that "most lovely gentlemanlike man," Pyramus, asks: "What beard were 1 best to play in?" and he concludes to do so in "either your straw-color'd beard, your orange-tawnv beard, your purple-ingrain beard, or your French-crown-color beard, your perfect yellow." lie does not inform us what shape he would select, but they were many and various. Some were? (,'ut and pruned like to a quick set hedge. Some were rounded, and more peaked. The calling of a person might often be j.? thn fiit. of liis beard. Insiciiuiiii u ijj - - Military men and gallants wore it in I spade, stiletto or dagger form; justices landgrave men wore theirs in "formal cut," while a rough, bushy beard was tolerably indicative of a country clown ?or at least a very common man. In the early part of Elizabeth's reign the members of Lincoln's Inn were restricted by act of Parliament to beards of a fortnight's growth, but this ridiculous law was repealed the following year. Gloves do not appear to have been worn in England before the end of the tenth century, and their manvfacture was at that time confined almost exclusively to Germany. The new American Episcopal church in Pans cost $500,000. FARM, GARDEN AND HOUSEHOLD. Border Carnation** J. Douglas, in the Garden, states that this beautiful plant may be grown in any garden in town or country without any further preparation of the soil than digging it well up and giving it a good dressing of stable manure. All soils are not, however, equally well adapted for carnations. If they incline to be of a clayey character, so much the better. Light, sandy soils with a gravelly foundation, are the least suited for carnation culture. I have, however, grown them well on such soil by digging or trenching them and placing a good layer of manure at the bottom of the trench. When the plants were put out, they were also placcd in a laver of loam about two inches deep spread over the surface. Soil from a melon bed just suits carnations; in fact, we generally utilize the 6oil that has grown one class of plants for the production of another class. Thm vnnr ??<? wnritprl to imh nilt SftV eral hundreds of seedling carnations, and as the ground is of a clayey character, the light, sandy soil from pots in which hyacinths had grown was used to place on the surface instead of melon soil, which is heavy. Last year I planted in an ordinary herbaceous border some of our best carnations and picotees, and they flowered remarkably well without any attention, except that of the most ordinary kind. Florists of old could not grow their flowers so well as we do now, although they took more pains to make up their carnation beds than some people do to make a vine border. There are very few carnations or picotees that require coddling up in the greenhouse. We grow them in pots to obtain purer and better flowers for exhibition or to produce an effect in the greenhonse, but in any good garden the same plants flower freely and produce useful flowers to cut for bouquets. Feeding Young Stock. Young animals require special care in feeding. There are several things to be tnougac 01 in regaru 10 uus part, 01 mrm work. A young calf. colt, or lamb must be enabled to build up a framework of bone before it can put on flesh. Many an animal is weakened before it has matur^Uts growth, so that it can never be hcanSFful. There are peculiar diseases which affect young animals that are produced by want of proper nutrition. "When a full-grown animal has formed its frame and clothed it with muscular tissue it requires such food only that will restore the waste of this tissue that is caused by work or exertion, expended in tlie vital functions, or in such labor as it may be called upon to perform. Carbonaceous food, as starch, oil, and cellular fibre, is chiefly required, and when fat is desired this same kind of food is given in increased quantities. But young animals cannot live healthfully or build up a robust constitution upon this kind of food. They require a large quantity of lime and phosphoric acid for the bones and of nitrogen for the flesh, while the carbonaceous elements only arc required to sustain the respiratory process and the animal heat. A much less quantity of starch and oil, then, is required, while a larger supply of the phosphates and of nitrogenous elements are needed in proportion to the carbonaceous food. uran. wuicii contains me lur^er portion of the phosphates in grain; turnips: clover hay, which contains more nitrogen thai} any other fodder; peas, oats, pea straw, linseed meal, and, were it not too rich to be digestible and to be a safe food, because it is so apt to be given to excess, cottonseed meal; all these form the best foods for young animals. But few farmers can be induced to give such foods as these to their young stock, because they are the most costly of all kinds of feeding substances; and in general these young animals, which really require the best, are given the poorest. A calf fed upon straw and the waste from the horse and cow stalls during the winter is a pitiable object in the spring; razor backed, hump backed, pot bellied, big headed, big kneed, hide bound, and in every way wretched. Many such calves are to be seen here and there, and but few comparatively of the fine, well formed, sleek, thrifty young things which have lived upon the "fat of the farm." This poor economy is a great waste. It is a waste because for all the food consumed not one ounce of growth is made, and a farmer mijrht iust as un wisely burn all his domestic fuel out of doors and waste the heat upon the wintry winds and leave his household shivering in a cold house as thus expend the fodder given to his young animals. This is a timely subject for consideration, and affects one of those matters of farm work upon which the farmer's profit and welfare greatly depends.?Ncio York Times. Farm and Garden \otei. One of the best coatings for tree wounds is gum shellac and alcohol. It excludes air, and the wound quickly heals over. Old dead or decaying fruit trees should be removed at once from your fields and orchards, and burnt up without delay. Many injurious insects will thereby be destroyed. A writer in the Home and Farm used about a quart of sawdust in each hill of one plot of potatoes and none in another plot. The sawdust hills yielded nearly twico as much as the others, and the potatoes were larger and smoother. Every henhouse should be provided with one or more boxes of dry sand for fowls to roll in during winter when they cannot get at the ground. The boxes should not be used as nests nor for any other purpose than for fowls to dust themselves with. Dry earth from road beds is excellent for this use and some should be saved every fall. One of the most valuable uses of agricultural colleges should be the collection of insects, properly classified, where practical farmers can learn more in a day than most of them can gather from their observations in the field through an entire season. It requires time, patience and knowledge to make such a collection, but its value well repays its cost. Gluten meal is one of. the by-products in the manufacture of glucose from corn. It consists of the outer shell of the grain from which the starch has been extracted by sulphuric acid. It is proportionably much richer in glutnn or flesh-forming food than the corn itself, but is not so fattening. The best way to feed it is with wheat bran or fine middlings, and the stock which will give the best results from its use is a cow giving milk. To grow trees after the original plan, as seedlings, and then top graft, even if considered desirable, is impracticable for general purposes of orcharding; but if the principle, as generally admitted, is the correct one, tlwn the preservation of as much of a desirable hardy seedling stock as is practicable on large nursery grounds, is certainly the desideratum sought after. Most barnyards are larger than need to be aud the consequent scattering of manure make it much more difficult to save. Early in the fall the entire yard should be covered with straw to the depth of a foot or more, to absorb the solid and liquid excrement that would be wasted. If the barnyard is too large for this a portion should be fenced oil and the stock kept out of if. It is not enough that there be a large -J-'J - r . _ * _ _ . rpi !? ?. AM yieiu yi puiaiuc.s. i nu ijumnj is au important consideration. Some of the heaviest croppers are so rough, coarsegrained and soggy that they are nearly worthless. As n rule, large crops grown by the aid of a large amount of stable manure arc rough and poor in quality. They are also more liable to disease than moderate crops of medium-sized tubers. A cow kept by herself will give better results than the same cow in a herd with others. The single cow will be better fed, and a more important point, so far as butter making is cqjicerned, will be the fact that nearly all the butter will be got from the cream, which is never the case when the milk and cream from a herd of cows are mixed before churning. Owing to difference in size of the butter globules the milk from cows varies largely in the time required to bring the butter. It hardly ever pays to "fill in" vacant spaces in old orchards with young trees. These latter cannot receive the proper attention and cultivation, struggle along for a while under the disadvantages of sod and shade, and at last succumb to ' the attacks of insects, which are always j numerous in old orchards, and ready to pounce upon everything young and ten- ! der. Bather select a piece of new ground, prepare it well as you would for corn, : and set out a new orchard. Proper cul- i tivfition will then insure success. Six Puddings Indian Pudding.?One quart of sweet I skimmed milk heated to a scald, and one j cup of meal mixed with two-thirds of a cup of molasses; then stir it into the j boiliner milk; keep stirring until it thick- \ ens, one tcaspoonful of salt, pour it into the baking dish, then pour over it one pint of cold milk, and spice to taste. Bake three hours. Biikad Pudding.?Take a quart basin. ! ful of stale bread, and soak in two quarts j of sweet milk two hours; then mash well i with a spoon and take out all the hard picccs. Beat light four eggs, and stir into this, then add two teaspoonfuls of salt; a little nutmeg, and one-fourth of a cup of sugar. Bake three-quarters of an i hour; serve with lemon sauce. Cracker Pudding.?One and one-half quarts of milk, one dozen crackers, one : cup of raisins, two eggs well beaten, two j spoonfuls of sugar, a little salt and nut- | meg. To keep the raisins from settling \ to the bottom, put them in a tin dish, j and pour on enough hot water to cover | them, let them boil up once, then drain ! the water off, and put the raisins in the j pudding. Serve with sweet sauce. Rice Pudding.?Boil half a cup of I rice in one pint of water thirty minutes, I then add one quart of new milk, and boil thirty minutes longer; then beat together one cup of sugar, three eggs, two teaspoonfuls of salt and a little lemon or nutmeg; stir this into the rice and turn the mixture into a buttered pudding dish. Bake thirty minutes. To be eaten without sauce. Cottage Pudding.?One cup of sugar, one spoonful of butter, one cup of milk, one pint of flour, two eggs, one teaspoon- j ful of saleratus, two teaspoonfuls of ; cream of tartar. Soften the butter and J then beat to a froth with the sugar and eggs; then add the milk, and lastly the flour, in which the saleratus and cream tartar are thoroughly mixed. Flavor with lemon, and bake in a shallow tin half an hour. Serve with lemon sance.. Chocolate Pudding.?One quart of milk, four teaspoonfuls each of com starch, sugar and scraped chocolate, two tablespoonfuls of boiling water, two eggs, one teaspoonful of salt. Reserve cup of milk, and put the rest on to boil. Put the sugar, chocolate and water in a sauce pan, or smull frying pan, and stir over a hot fire for about a minute, when ? " ? .1 j the mixture snotua De smooiu auu glossy. Stir this into the boiling milk. | Alix the corn starch with cold milk. Beat j the eggs, and add the corn starch and ! milk to it, also the salt. Stir this into ! the boiling milk, and beat well for | about three minutes. Turn the mixture into a mold that has been dipped into ! cold water. Let the pudding stand in j the mold about fifteen minutes. Turn ; the pudding into the pudding dish, and heap whipped cream around it. Serve with sugar and crcam. ? The Household. NEWS AND NOTES FOR W03IEN. j All brown furs are in high favor. , Large corsage bouquets arc not worn , so much as formerly. Chenille trimmings are in favor both for bonnets and dresses. Porphyry is a new shade of red between brick and garnet. Tnati'iir.tinn in arivvinrr lias llPP.n lntrO- 1 duccd in the Philadelphia public schools, j Mr. Burnand, the editor of London | Punch, has eleven unmarried daughters. ! Black satin petticoats, quilted and j plain, are still worn in place of white j skirts. Small ostrich tips are more fashionable j than flowers for evening wear in the j coiffure. The newest skirts are perfectly plain, i falling in straight lines from the waist to the hem. Little girls' evening dresses are beauti- I fully trimmed with silver braid and swan's down. Woolen velvet is used to trim the felt hats that are meant to endure every sort of bad weather. The majority of ball dresses for debut- I antes are of tulle over satin. Some are made of crepe. Bows of ribbon -appear on many of the ! dresses, and there is a great deal that is ! new in ribbons. Bonnets are worn with trained dresses | at New York full-dress receptions and 1 church weddings. All velvet dresses for evening wear are j made of two kinds of the same color, a brocaded and plain velvet. Flat, stiff feathers, upon which birds and insects are painted, are UBed by some of the French milliners. An old lady of eighty-six years, living in Lewis county, Washington Territory, cast her maiden vote at the last election. Half-fledged ducklings take the place of the halt'-fledged chickens used last season for paper weights and similar ornaments. There is an effort to revive the use of old Chantilly lacc, and new patterns are shown, designed for trimmings for wraps and bonnets. Massachusetts has a rival in the number of marriageable women. Paraguay j has only 30,000 men to 270,000 women, , a veritable woman's kingdom. Natural beaver fur is the trimming | f,,K ViunHaomP KVvvmflrkftt ' UIVOl# UOLU AU1 UM?wwtzu.v . coats. It is placed oa the neck and sleeves and down the front. There are 1,403 dust women in Eng- j land and Wales who spend their lives in raking over dust-heaps for what gain they may lind. And they like the work. The hair is generally worn this season in loops on the top of the head, quite far to the front. The style is to keep it in place by means of long, fancy hairpins. Very pretty mantles for young girls are made of velvet or plush, with the cen- i ter of the back of brocade, and also the culls of the short sleeves added to the fronts. Miss Kate Field, in her new lecture, goes for the Salt Lake saints vigorously , thus: "The whole Mormon territory might be fittingly roofed over as an j insane asylum." A pretty tea gown is of pale blue i crepe draped rather loosely from the left | shoulder, with the folds tied in at the ! waist with ribbons of blue and lemon ; colored gauze. There are now about 1,200,000 domestic servants in this country, who annually earn about $-10,000,000. In Eng land tlie same numucr oi servants wouiu . earn only $1)0,000,000. The New York hairdressers think that j curls, or rather tresses of hair curled at | the end and falling 011 the shoulder, are to be worn this season, and also fringes of light curls falling 111 the neck. There is a decided tendency to prefer gros grain in satin in dresses. This is especially marked in black. The silks chosen are those with a surface like Irish poplin--soft nnd yet with thick cords. Canaries are the newest birds used to ornament ladies' dresses. They are j mounted on twisted wires, and either i pcrched on the shoulder or so arranged as to seem to hold folds of lace together. Among newly imported jerseys is one made of white silk and embroidered with white silk and white crystal beads. With the addition of some lace it would make the prettiest of waists for a bridal costume. I Sm'r? Mra Tnrrfills at a woman's council in Kansas City: "Woman is a silent! power in the land." One who reads the j daily papers thoroughly is bound to come ' I across some valuable information where | least he expects it. Marabout feather trimming continues in favor for dresses and mantles, and has | been so improved in the making that it | will not rub off the foundation and will I stand rain. It is now made up on a very I wide foundation of muslin, marked out ! in inches, and can be torn down to any ; width required, and is to be had in all j colors. Ostrich feather and cock feathe" i trimming are worn, but not so much NEWS AND NOTES FOR WOMEN. Shirring is quite popular again. Large patterned brocades are much worn. J ong evening gloves come with painted backs. Brown bids fair to be the favorite color this winter. Jetted braids appear among the new dress trimmings. Lace and small fichus are worn with morning dresses. Belts and sashes are lied at the side, instead of the back. Gold crowned bonnets are no longer stylish, and aie but little worn. Crazy patchwork is said to have been suggested by certain Japanese patterns. Ribbed silk jerseys are the latest form of this most popular and comfortable jacket. Worsted lace is a pretty novelty and is seen in all shades. It will be much worn this season. TVio Oranitfl National br of Quincv, Massachusetts, is Miss Flora Underwood. It is predicted that full, gathered skirts, and boots without heels, will be the next fashionable cfprice. Bombay husbands cut off their wives' noses for punishment. In a single week five such cases were lately reported. As late as 1840 there were but seven vocations into which New England women had entered; in 1844 the number was 317. Miss Laura White, a sister of Congressman J. D. White, of Kentucky, has been admitted to the special school of architecture in Paris. Snakeskin belts are fashionable. The skin is highly polished and mounted in gold or silver. The rattlesnake skin is most highly prized. The old style English walking hat in pale brown and gray shades is coming in fashion, and will be worn in the street during the comirg season. Turbans made of marabout feathers are coming in style again. They will be worn down on the forehead, after the i Id fashion, and not on the back of the head, as they have recently been worn. Bag vests are atill worn, especially on the dresses made of soft, clinging materials. On the new imported dresses, the vests are invariably made of velvet of a contrasting shade to the rest of the I dress. A Troy, N. Y., robin found three pieces of costly lace lying on a lawn bleaching, and carrying them off built herself a very high toned nest of them. She was allowed to bring up a family in the nest. Painted fans are losine their poDUlarity in Europe. At a sale in Madrid a Watteau fan, formerly belonging to the Princess of Savoy, brought only $740. In London, fifteen years ago, one of no greater beauty sold fo: $2,550. The latest novelty in bouquets was carried by the Princess of Wales at a ball after the races at Goodwood. It was of roses, and in the middle of it was concealed a miniature electric lamp, the frnm nrViiph rmilri hf? turned On ftt. A.-... will by means of a little switch m the form of a lady's brooch. The hats and bonnets of the 'coming season are contradictions of each other. The hats are large, with tall, tapering crowns, and narrow or medium width brims. The bonnets, on the contrary, are small, and there is a tendency to revive the "gable roof" brim, a peak above the forehead, introduced two years ago. Empress Eugenie's long black coat and black cane, on which she leans constantly attract the deepest sympathy of the gay world at Carlsbad. She lives at the chateau of Westmunster.near the Schlossbrunnen, and is accompanied by the wife of General Bourbaki and M. Petre, formerly prefect of the police under the empire. Belts can be worn with all waists. They are narrow or wide, according to taste. Deep belts are not suitable for women with short waists. Silver buckle* ?re much sought after when artistically chased. Young ladies and misses wear belts without buckles. These are closed under a rosette or ribbon bow. The same bows are on the Bhoulder, and at the front of the neck. The directoire sash is also worn. It is wide, of soft fabric, and ifl loosely tied on the side. A Norwegian Farmer's Vehicle. The cariole is the Norwegian farmer's gig, a very unpretending vehicle, consisting of a narrow seat supported on a wooden frame by two cross-bars of wood which are fixed in the shafts and serve as rude springs. On this tiny seat the solitary traveler perches himself, his feet stretched out in front of him on the floor of the gig, or planted in two small rests at some depth below the seat. Behind the gig is a horizontal board, on which the traveler's small box or portmanteau is deposited, and where the post-boy (Skydsgut) has to accommodate himself. In addition to this cariole proper, or single gig, there is a double one, (the Reisekjaerrc), often used by traveling pairs. But the cariole is the earlier and better institution. Two persons with the necessary (juantity of luggage are quite weight enough to be behind one of the small Norwegian horses on a road which is pretty certain to be rough in places and to have some sharp declivities. The cariole seems, too, by far the more appropriate vehicle for this wild and solitnrv rotintrv. It is a kind of land canoe. by means of which one may easily part company with "the madding crowd" and penetrate into the perfect seclusion of primeval nature. For the postooy is, as a rule, given to silence and close attention to his horse, and, being out of sight, is readily forgotten. To one who finds a keen delight in now and then getting rid of customary associations and immersing his miud in wholly new surroundings hardly anything can be better than jogging along in a cariole on a fine summer day. One soon gets used to the odd bobbing movement of the little vehicle.?The Saturday lleview. HEALTH HINTS. Half a teaspoonful of common salt, dissolved in a little cold water and draik, will instantly relieve heartburn. I An old nurse says that rain water, if heated very hot, is very soothing to weak and tired eyes. The fumc9 of burning coffee are a ! powerful disinfectant. Pound the coffec in a mortar and then strew it on a hot iron plate, which, however, must not be red hot. When putting glycerine on chapped hands wash them thoroughly in soap and water, and when not quite dry rub in the glycerine. This process will be found much better than the old ones. If people were ns careful in avoiding the habits which produce disease as they arc persistent in seeking cures for their ailments, the number of invalids in the! world would be much reduced. The sulpho-carbolate of sodium, in i thirty-grain dose9 given after meals, is recemmended in flatulent dyspepsia. Also in ten-grain doses for nausea and vomiting, particularly in pregnancy. A nan of sliced raw onions placed in a room where there is diphtheria will absorb j the poison and prevent the disease from j spreading, The onions should be buried every morning and fresh ones cut up. Caught Napping. The following anecdote shows that if the guid wife lacked grace, her husband : did not make up the deficiency: A minister of the "kirk" of Scotland once ; .discovered his wife asleep in the midst of his homily on the Sabbath. So, pausing in the steady and possibly somewhat monotonous How of his oratory, he broko forth with this personal address, sharp and clear, but very deliberate: "Susan!"' Su9an woke up with a start, and opened her eyes and cars in a twinkling, as did all dreamers ^n the house, whether asleep or awake. "Susan," he con- j tinned, "I didna marry ye for yer beauty, | that the hail congregation can see. And, if ye hae not grace, I hae made but a sail' bargain wi'ye!" STEWS SUMMARY Eaaiern and middle State*. General W. T. Sherman, A. J. Droxel and Georgo W. Childs held a conference in Philadelphia to discuss the best methods of relieving General U. S. Grant from his embarrassing financial situation. As is known, the general has confessed judgment to William H. Vauderbilt 1 for notes amounting to $l*)0,00u,and the latter has issued an execution against him and attached every piece of property belonging to 1 the ex-President. It was stated that Air. Vanderbilt was willing to accept $100,000 in full payment of his judgment, and it was determined to raise that sum for the general's relief immediately. At tho New York Academy of music there was held tho other evening a "Grand Lodge of Sorrow, Ancient and Accepted Scottish Rite of Free Masonry." The ceremonies consisted of unique funeral services held in memory of seventy Freemasons who had died within the last six years. f Emauel Breist, a wealthy fanner, was shot and killed by his son Henry, aged twenty-one, in a tavern near Klingerstown, Penn. Mr. Breist reproved and struck his son. when the drunken boy drew a revolver and shot his father dead. There were 34,977 deaths, including 205 suicides, 30,2-44 births and 11,1)30 marriages in New York city during 1884. The turmoil in New York city local politics culminated on New Year's day, when Mayor Edson, whose first appointments of commissioner of public works and corporation counsel the board of aldermen refused to confirm. Mayor Edson gave up the keys of his office at midnight, and Alderman Kirk, president of the old board of aldermen, and Sanger, the newly elected president of that body, both entered upon the duties of mayor, each claiming to hold that office until noon, when Mayor Grace was sworn in. Thus the city had three mayors in one day. President-elect Cleveland held a public reception lasting two hours at the Executive mansion in Albany on New Year's day. He was surrounded by his military stair in full uniform, and shook hands with a large number of visitors. South and West* Three men wrecked a train near Purvis> Miss. The engineer and fireman of the train were killed. The three men confessed their crime, and were taken out of jail by a band of fifty railroad employees, including conductors, engineers, firemen and brakemen, and hanged to trees. C. B. Simmons, treasurer of the Louisville and Nashville railroad at Louisville, Ky., has decamped for parts unknown after leaving a letter stating that he is ?34,000 short in his accounts. Mrs. Williams, residing near Dahlgren, 111., during a flt of insanity, killed two of her children by throwing them down a well and then committed suicide. A FIR2 at Racine, Wis., burned the Blake Onera-house block. There was a hotel con nected wi'.h the theatre, and three personaMr. and Mrs. Russe.lS. Glover, of New York, members of a theatrical troupe, and a chambermaid?were burned to death. The total pecuniary loss exceeds $200,000. Brigands took possession of the village of Cortelos in Galicia, and burned the priest to death because he refused to give up the money collected by him for the poor of the parish. Congressman Samuel J. Randall made a Southern trip during the holiday recess of Congress. At Louisville, Ky., his firetstopEing place, he was given a reception by the usiness men of the city in the board of trade, and in a speech stated that tho object of his visit was to study in detail the business interests of the South. Mr. Randall was accompanied by Congressman McAdoo, of New Jersey. The sum of $20,000 was paid at Lexington, Ky., by a Lee (Mass.,) gentleman for the trotting stallion Alcyone. Sheriff Terry, of Karnes county, Texas, was shot and killed by Emmitt Butler. While attempting to escape Butler was< killed by an unknown person in the crowd. A fire has destroyed the greater part of Pierre, Dakota. A fierce wind prevailed during the fire, and as the thermometer was at twenty-five degrees below zero, the pumps were frozen solid and it was impossible to odtain water. Pleasant Anderson was hanged by eight masked men after a mock trial near Blakesburg, Iowa. Anderson had been tried a year mm for murder and acuuitted. The acauittal resulted in bad feeling among thoio who believed him guilty, and ended in his lj*nching. He protested his innocence to the last. A body of United States soldiers attempted to arrest a number of men who- had invaded the Indian Territory for the purpose of seizing the land. Not wishing to resort to firearms, the soldiers used their fists and clubs, but were badly thrashed by the would-be colonists. A train was thrown from .the rail near Grafton, W. Va., aruUbe engineer and fireman were mstautlyll^ffled, and several other [>erson3 were injured. The accident was caused by some one who intended to wreck the entire tram. Eight persons were lost and two saved by the stranding of the Norwegian bark Lena, loaded with sugar, on Hog Island bar, Virginia. Vessel and cargo were a total loss. Heavy rains followed by floods have done much damage in portions of Texas and Arkansas. c The German bark Lili, with five of her crew, was lost off the California coast. Washington. General Hancock has been invited by the committee to act as grand marshal of the of + nlnnf ( 'l/Mmlnnil'o innilfT. pLU U'.IU ai iicoiuuubTiCVi \.?;*uuuua IUUU^uration. * Sergeant Holtnorth, of the signal service at Washington, is to be tried by court martial on the cliurgo of conduct unbecoming an officer and a gentleman in having tampered with the private mail of Lieutenant Greely. Of forty-two retired officers of the navy now living in Washington, twenty-four, or more than one-half are rear admirals. This number is just one-half the total number o? retired rear admirals, and almost four times the number of rear admirals on the active list. The last cotton report ot the department of agriculture indicates the aggregate of yield for 1834 to be 5,580,003 bales. The rate of yield is much below the average. President Arthur's New Year's reception at the White House was a brilliant affair, the ladies' toilets elegant and tasteful, and the attendance large. The President was assisted in receiving the guests in the blue room by his sister, Mrs. McElroy, Mrs. Frelinghuysen, Mrs. Senator Edmunds, Mrs. McCulloch, Mrs. Chandler. Mrs. Brewster, Mrs. Matt on, Mrs. Teller ana tne wives 01 some oi the justices of the supreme court. Forel|rn> Increased excitement is roported in Germany on account of the recent refusal of the German reichstag to grant Prince Bismarck's request to create an office?that of a second director in the ministry of foreign affairs. The request was refused by a vote of 141 to ll'J, notwithstanding Bismarck's personal explanation that the office was necessary. The German women have taken the matter up. They have formed clubs in every hamlet and town throughout Germany for the purpose of''rebuking the majority in the reichstag and making plain to the emperor and the chancellor the sentiments of the people. Already many hundred thousand signatures have been obtained to a memorial to be pre seated to Bismarck. The signers place opposite their names the sunu they pledge themselves to contribute to a colossal fund which the women propose to present to Bismarck, in uiu siiupe 01 an investment cupauie uj. yielding interest sufficient to defray all the expenses lie may need in enlarging the sphere of tlio German foreign affairs department. Passengers from Havana report the successful landing of another filibustering: exDOdition to Cuba in the immediate vicinity of Matanzas. it is under the command of Maximo Gomez, accompanied by his staff. Later reports put the loss of life throughout Spain by the earthquake shocks at more than 1,000. Many persons died of fright. Severe shocks havo also been felt in Austria and Wales. Important discoveries of fraud have been made in tho Russian treasury at St. Petersburg.and some of the otliciuls have committed suicide to escape disgrace and punishment Advices from Tonquin report that daily encounters occur between the French and Chinese outposts. China continues to pour troops into Tonquin and Formosa. During an election riot in a Hungarian town six persons were killed. A Cairo (Egypt) dispatch savs that General Wolselay reviewed the British expedition to Gordon's relief as it marched out of Korti. The column presented an imposing sight, being nearly 100 yards wide and a mile long. A portion of the roof of a theatre at Cholet, a town in France, fell during the performance. There were about 1.000 persons in the audience nnd more than 1.x) were wounded, somo fatally. germany and France are not particularly pleased at the treaty between Snain and this country, now before the United States Senate for ratification or rejection. while six little children were playing on the ico in Ti ironto Bay, tho ico gave way and tLree were drowned. frrther earthquake shocks have resulted in continued disaster and death throughout Spain. Velez Malaga, a town of HS.OUO inhabitants, was | ar.tly laid in ruins and abandoned by the terror-stricken residents. A thousand houses in Alhama are in ruins. The town of Albuquerque was completely destoyed. The total number of deaths in Spain is estimated at more than 2,000. They had been quarreling about his next summer clothcs. She wanted to have his light suit cleaned up for 188.). and he wanted a heavier suit. "What's the use of fighting about this?" he said, finally. "I maybe in the cemetery next summer." "I think," she replied, "you will need your summer clothes wherever you may be."?Graphic. FATAL EARTHQUAKES. Hundreds of Lives Lost Throughout Spain. Entire Towns Swallowed Up and Provinces Eavaged. t A Madrid dispatch says that the details of the disastrous earthquake throughout Spain are arriving slowly, and are being gradually 1 published by order of the government, as tho 1 accounts which are now being received conj tinually increase the number of fatalities and the damages incurred. The excitement in , Madrid over the news from the south ! of Spain is intense, as the latest reports from Andalusia give harrowing details of suffering and death in i that division of Spain. No less than forty towns and villages in Andalusia were vio lently she1 ?n o.nd badly damaged by tho pro ; longer <hocu, winch lastea nny seconus. m# | town of /elez Malaga, population about flfj teen thousand, was half destroyed and many i of the inhabitants killed. The work of recovj ering the bodies proceeds slowly on account j of the scare produced by slight shocks which ! occurred at intervals, and which causes the i workmen to move slowly in their undertak| inc. | The village of Albuquero. near Granada, was also half demolished, and two hundred j persons were killed by the first shock, which ' caused a number of buildings to fall in before i the occupants bad time to escape. Arenus del Rey was nearly destroyed. The j number of killed is yet unknown, but forty I bod:es have since been recovered from the j ruins. ? , Kafarranja was completely wrecked and but few of ttie villagers escaped unhurt. Al| ready the bodies of twelve meu have been re! covered from the ruins. The town of Canilj las was also destroyed, and the number of | persons killed is as yet unknown, but is supposed to be large. Several bodies were taken i from the ruins. The town of Estepona also | suffered severely. The dispatches from there | mention the fact that the handsome church I and municipal and other buildings have | been destroyed, but say that the number of deaths cannot as yet be ascertained, but it is feared will bo heavy, as many persons are missing. Eight bodies have been recovered from the ruins. Dispatches from the different towns state that the rescuing parties are very timid, and each recurring shock, caused them to desist from the work and seek open places, hence the work of recovering the bodies proceeds slowly. The people all over Andalusia are terribly alarmed and are afraid to return to the houses left standing, preferring to camp out in the fields and open squares. So for as known 200 persons were killed in Andalusia The Alhambra, the famous palace near Granada, was not damaged. A "A/iAn/1 s1ioi>afs?V? COTTO* reports show that 250 persons were kilicd in the provinces of Malaga and Granada by the recent earthquake. The population of Gra nada are still encamped 111 the squares, and the richer classes are lodging in carriages along tfie promenade. Tiiu facade of the caiiedral was seriously damaged by the shock. Many houses were destroyed Jimena, and a whole family was killed in the villago of Cajar by the falling cf a chirruiey. Over half of the inhabitant? of Albunuelai were killed. Albania is mostly in ruins. The province of Malaga offered equally as much damage as did GrJma da. Commerce is paralyzed. Two hundred nouses at Alfarnetejo were damaged. Tb< panic is subsiding. The shock was not felt in the northern and northwest provinces. Th? government has granted $5,000 from the tional L'alamnity fund for the relief of the sufferers in the province of Granada. Later advices show that 300 lives were lost at Aihama. Seven hundred and fifty houses and a church were^destroyed and thirtj persons killed at Penana. The Town Hal and many houses were damaged at Torrox. where the inhabitants fled from the towi panic stricken. It is now estimated that COt4 I persons wore lolled in tne rrovince 01 maiaga. I including those killed at Aihama. CLEVELAND'S POSITION. Letter from Hie President-Elect In Regard to Civil Service Reform. The following correspondence has passed between representatives of the National Civi Service Reform league and President-Elect Cleveland: National Civil Service Reform ) League, Office No. 4 Pike striet, > New York, Dec. 20,1684. ) The Hon. Orover Cleveland: Sir: We have the honor to address you on behalf of the National Civil Service Reform league, an association composed of citizens of all parties, whose sole purpose is indicated by | its name, and which takes no part whatever in party controversy. '1 he vast increase in the number of persons j engaged in the civil service and the grave I mischief ana dangers arising from the ^en j eral proscription in tne service wmca iui half a century has followed a change of party control of the national administration have I produced so profound an impression upon j the public mind that the first effective steps | toward reform were taken with the co-operaI tion of both parties in the passage of the reform act of January 16, 1883. The abuses which that act seeks to correct, however, are so strongly intrenched in the traditions and usages of both parties that there is naturally widespread anxiety lest the j party change in the national executive ef| fected by the late election should show them ! to be insuperable. But, believing as we : do that the reformed system cannot j bo held to be securely established . until it has safely passed the ordeal j of such a party change, and recalling with j satisfaction and confidence your public exI pressions favorable to reform, and your i oflicial acts as the chief executive of tlie I State of New York, we confidently commend ! this cause to your patriotic care in the exerI cise of the great power with which the Amer! icau people have intrusted you Respectfully j yours, George William Curtis, President. William Potts, .Secretary. John Jay, M. Wyman, Jr., Moorfield Storey, Carl Schurz, J. H. Pleasants, Silas W. Burt, W. W. Montuomfry, A. R. Macdonough, E. P. Wheeler, W. C. Sanger, F. Cromwell, Wm. W. Aiken, Executive Committee. governor cleveland's reply. Albany, Dec 25,1884. The Hon. George W. Curtis, President, dtc.: Dear Sir: Your communication dated ! December 20, addressed to me on behalf of 1 ? - ? !? t j tbo national wivn oervicn iwiunu u?.6uv, 1 has been received. That a practical reform in the civil service ! is demanded is abundantly established by the fact that a statute, referred to in your communication, to secure such a result has been passed in Congress with the assent of both political parties; and by the further [ fact that a sentiment is generally prevalent among patriotic people calling for the fair and honest enforcement of the law which has been thus enacted. I regard myself pledged to this because my conj ception of true Democratic faith and public duty requires that this and all other statutes I should be in good faith and without evasion enforced, and beeauso in many utterances i made prior to my election as President, apj proved by the party to which I belong, and | which I have no disposition to disclaim, I I have in effect promised the people that this I should be done. 1 am not unmindful of the fact to which I you refer, that many of our citizens fear that | the recent partv change in the national executive may demonstrate that the abuses I which have grown up in the civil service are i ineradicable. I know that they are deeply J rooted, and that the spoils system has been i supposed to be intimately related to success in the maintenance of party I ninl 1 am not sure that all those | who profess to l>e the friends of this reform will stand lirmly among its advocates when they find it obstructing their way to pat| ron ftp; and place. But fully appreciating the trust committed I to my charge, no such consideration shall cause a relaxation on my part of an earnest effort to enforce this law. j There is a class of government j>ositions which are not within the letter of the civil service statute, but which are so disconnected with the policy of an administration that the removal therefrom of present incumbents, in my opinion, should not be made during the terms for which they were appointed solely on partisan grounds and for the purpose of putting in their places those who are in political accord with the appointing power. lint many now holding such positions have forfeited ail just claim to retention, because they have used their places for party purposes in disregard of their duty to the people, anil because, instead of being decent public servants, they have proved themseives offensive partisans and unscrupulous manipulators of local party management. The lessons of the past should bo unlearned, an-1 such officials, as well as their successors, should be taught that efficiency., fitness, anil .I.tr. nnhlir, rlntv nrn thA conditions of their continuance in public place, and that tlio quiet anil unobtrusive exercise of individual political rights is the reasonable measure of their party service. If I were addressing none but party friends I should deem it entirely proper to remind thom that though the coming administration is to bo Democratic, a due regard for the people's interest does not permit faithful party work to bo always rewarded by appointment to office; and to say to them that whilo Democrats may expect all proper consideration, selections "for office not embraced within the civil service rules will be based upon sufficient inquiry as to Utiles-;, instituted by those charged with that duty^jather than upon persistent importunity of uelf-solicited recommendations on behalf of candidates for appointment Yours very truly, Gkover Cleveland. MUSICAL AND DRAMATIC- J "Hugh Conway" is making $750 in royal- ^ Ses per week on "Called Back." The theatre business was never at a lower 3 abb in the West than at present . }**(. Mary Anderson begins lier season In this '-j country in New York October 12, 18?. Louis James and Marie Wainwrlght will iccompany Mr. Lawrence Barrett to Auatra- * ^ Bartley Campbell in five years has made . ,7-'| a profit of $250,000 out of his plays. Ho began . . ^ life as a newspaper reporter. - ?. .?? "Victor D.urand," the play just produced at Wallack'8, in New York, is by Henry Gfay Carlton, a journalist, and is a great succe*. ? Sarah Bernhardt made her first appear- >jg| ance in this country at Booth's theatre, New -y$M York November 8, 1880, in "Adrienne couveur." , Alexandre Dumas has presented the .--^W Comedie Francaise with a valuable gift, tha only guaranteed example of an autograph I play by Moliere. Mr. Boucicault says one of the two new plays he is writing will be called "Faugh-*13 alia eh" (clear the way, in English). It wiU ,:vai|-g | be a glimpse of English sporting life. - .jjsm Ponchielli's new ODera, "Aldona," recently produced in St Petersburg, is crititised in Le Menestrel as effective, out with- . -J9B out inspiration, and frequently vulgar. In view of the approaching bi-centenary at . the birth of Bach, the town of Cothsu, tn which he was organist from 1717 to 1728, to .' '/SM about to erect a monument to the composer. Orders have been issued forbidding tha v;*? managers of theatres in Germany to produce Jgugk any plays in which ancestors or collateral n- .? lations of the Prussian royal family are rep- ; . resented. Hugh Anoeer, whom J. H. Haverly to- ~&3 gaged in 1882 to sing in "Patience," has won his suit against Mr. Haverly for breach of :~^S contract. An Atlanta, Ga., jury gave An- '^a gier a verdict for $1,900. Howard Carroll, the New Yorkjournal1st, has written a play for Mile. Ithea, an* titled. "The African Countess." It will prob- -.igH ably be produced in Washington when ah* plays her engagement there. . Mart Anderson wears, as "Juliet." five ''-'S3 elegant costumes?a very pale blue brocade, with a large pattern, yellow and gold satin, '," 4 sea-green ana pink, pure white and silver ' tissue garment, in which she is carried to her Miss Marie Van Zandt, the American j singer, has won the hearts of the cold-blooded Russians by her sweet warbling. At a re* ' cent performance in St. Petersburg she wm . I recalled before the curtain forty times. Mia ' VanZandt will not accept another engagement in Paris at any pries. The blackguardism of . a certain set of critics has disgusted her with that centre of civilization ana courtesy, , PROMINENT PEOPLE k The empress of Austria is in very pool ' Governor Crittenden, of Missouri, is u sM enthusiast over baseball M Pasteur, the noted French scientist is going to Rio Janeiro to study yellow frrar i /Kino Humbert, of Italy, lo3t twenty pounds in weight by his labors in behalf of the cholera sufferers. The Rev. Phillips Brooks, of Boston, wH preach twice next spring before the university SK of Cambridge, England. Speaker Carrisle is said to receive a . heavier mail than any other member of Congress, and Senator Logan's stands next. . .3 Rev. W. H. H Murray, the well-known . American minister, is running an oyster saloon and restaurant in Montreal, and does his -<?g own cooking. Mr. B. F. Jones, chairman of the National Republican committee, is to be Mr. If. X Morrill's successor as president of the American Iron and Steel association. Genkrat Hazen, Chief of the Signal Service Bureau, has in preparation, "A Personal Narrative of Battles,'' in which he describe! . in events of the late war, in which he partid- '-\j Mrs. Abram Garfield, the venertbls -- '*^8 mother of the late President, is in very feeble health. She is reported to be brooding over her son's death, and not caring to talk of anything else. ' . Men with reputations make good wagea as - ^9 lecturers. Ineersoll is reported to have at '. '.358 ready cleared $28,000 this season. Mark ' vjj Twain and G. W. Cable are each pocketing "-?? about $1,000 a week. '. Sj? Judge David Davis has succeeded In re* ; ducing his weight from 384 to 375 pounds. He says he feels as if he could fly. He feels : so airy that he fears he will have to weight ' ?3 himself with lead to keep him on the grorinA ' H. T. Price, a farmer of Wolsely college, ! in Green County, Tenn., owns a coat madein ' I 1838 by Andrew Johnson, who was afterward President of the United States. The coat is rajj I to be on exhibition at the New Orleans Expo- . 1 sition. ,-s Mr. Moody has been holding a Ave dayrf ' a Christian convention in Cincinnati, and the Enquirer says: "The Lord knows he's need- ^ ed." It was his first visit to the city, and ha V? j was attracted thither by the riots of the Ootober election. The richest man in Colorado is Governor Evans, worth $3,000,000. David Moffat is worth $1,500,003. Joseph Chaffee took him "f'2 out of a stationery store and put him in a bank. Senator Tabor is slipping back from ' ! his large fortune. { Joaquin Miller is an intimate friend of r?S Buffalo Bill, and the two rode together in the ."-5j tame carriage on the opening day of the New ; Orleans Exposition, affording the delighted populace the chance to see the two lions in one show, and for nothing. xtdtxtott n t t K "MTMYia nxivvox ITJ itjaiij-Liuvj. A sixteen-year old boy in Troy, N. H., 41 recently hanged himself in his sleep. The emperor of Austria is noted for having the largest collection of pipes in Europe. The German reichstag will discuss this ! winter the abolition of capital punishment^ '.^55 A game of baseball was played in Boston " ! on a recent Monday night by electric lights. All the Atlantic cable companies have reJ duced their charges for messages to forty | cents a word. The rate of mortality in the United States . I navy is much less than among the dweller* i upon the land. The recently-elected new mayors of Camj bridge, Chelsea and Lynn, Mass., are all j under thirty years of age. The French government is having thirty -i - -S i vessels built, half of them in private docks < i Fourteen will be iron-clad and cost $26,000,000. Young banana trees are growing finely a* Los Angeles, Cal., and in some of the shel~ tered valleys there will be quite a large crop of fruit this year. The spot where, according to the latest accounts, William Tell didn't shoot the apple Xl - 1 * 1 1 Kv ft hitr mnnil. I on Ilia SOUS ueuu, la aiaiaiu Uj V. W.0 ? ment sixty feet in height. In Prussia, during 1883, no fewer than 1,628 marriages between first cousins were record- ^ ed, 147 Between uncles and nieces, and twenty- . ?jgjH six between nephews and aunts. Numbers of sheep and pigs are being I killed in sections of Dakota by wolves, packs I of which have been prowling about in the j vicinity of Bismarck, particularly in the i mountains. 1 A sturgeon weighing COO pounds was re- , , cently caught on the Pacific coast Its head ; weighed ninety-four pounds and its mouth j was twenty-two inches across. It could al\ most have swallowed a man ^838 A Nevada miner and capitalist recently ; returned from Alaska, reports the finding j . there of a remarkably rich marble quarry, in j which, strange to say, were both red and j white marble of the finest quality. i TJie Over-Entin;,' Cold. j Experienced physicians couut with en ! tire confidence upon a great run of calls * immediately after the holiday feast. I And the frank and communicative among ? them say to their patients, as ttiey come .^a | coughing and blowing into their offices, ! or are found shivering and burning in | their homes: "Oh! I know all about it j without any examination. '"It's the reg[ ular turkey and mince pie 'cold.'And such it commonly is?the protest of the stomach against abuse, and the sympathetic and resultant rebellion of other organs or functions. "I never take cold," said a little ladv, very watchful of her physical condition, "except when my [ stomach gets upset." It is a common experience, although few are thoughttul or intelligent enough to take note of cause and elTect in these matters. "Big dinners" and intemperate eating generally are responsible for more of "the sicknesses that start with so-called "colds" than all the sweet, cool airs of heaven, blow they never so fiercely.?Boston Herall. A Cartons Will. A French lady recently died at the advanced ajje of ninety years. Her will contained the following provision: "I leave to mv nhvsician. whose enlightened care and wise prescriptions have made me live so long, all that is contained in the old oaken chest in my boadoir. The key of the chest will be found under the mattress of my bed." The heirs were x much disturbed, for they foresaw a material diminution in their share of the property. The fortunate and expectant physician at length arrived. The notary | delivered to him the key of the chest. It was opened and found to contain solely all the drugs and poisons, still intact, which the worthy physician had given his patient for twenty years bark.?Herald of Health. v? i