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BY HUGH WILSON. ABBEVILLE, S. C.. WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 28, 1885. NO. 31. VOLUME XXIX.|ff|M
WILL.
As wars tho tree within the blast,
Yet falleth not but grander grows,
Grasping tho firm rock giantly,
And fending, hero-like, all blows;
So toils the iron will of man
Before stern fate's tempestous stroke;
H? conquers e'er if true at heart,
And, lo!?a mighty human oak!
?C. 0. Blanden.
. HIS GREAT FIND.
BY THOMAS DUXX ENGLISH.
As a scientist, Professor MacDougal
stood high. lie left Yale at twenty-one,
went through Giessen afterward, and
concluded by a course of study in the
School of Mines in Paris. He was recognized
abroad and at home as a man of
profound learning, and at the early age
of thirty was made professor of natural
scient ? at Barncville College. He came
of a race of scientific notables. His
grandfather, a Scotsman, had been pro- J
fessor at Glasgow. His father, who
came to this country and married, and
settled down here, though he never
taught, was more distinguished, and
Professor Roderick bade fair to surpass
his predecessors in scientific renown.
But the close pursuit of knowledge has
its penalty. The first commencement
day found the professor quite broken up.
Nearly six feet high, and with muscles
to fit, he had been the crack oarsman at
Yale, and at the head of tho first class j
of the Turn Verein at Giessen. Now j
he had grown lean, weak and listless. |
His colleagues viewed his state with i
alarm. One of them, also a skillful
physician, gave him a prescription.
"Mac," he said, "you have worked
wonders for us during the course, but at
your own expense. Go to the country.
Get away from books entirely. You
have three months of vacation. Use it
up by absence from ink of all kinds, or
you will be used up."
The professor thought on it. "I
ought to devote the vacation to my
treatise on the Gryllidse," he said. "But
perhaps you are right. Up in Mountain
county there is a gneiss formation, permeated
by veins of coarse granite that
must be rich in minerals. It has been
little explored, and I may make a great
find there, and get a specimen or so that
I shall be proud to show to my friends."
So the professor bought a coarse gray
suit, packed his valise, added a leathern
satchel and belt, with hammer, chisel, |
and blow-pipe, and started for Mountain j
county. On the cars he fell in with an !
old friend, who happened to know all
about his place of destination. He was
told to get off at Firwood station, where
he would find a stage-coach to take him
to Rockborough, the county town. The
The inns there were were execrable, and j
he was advised to seek boarding in a I
farm-hodse.
" Can you recommend one?" asked the |
Professor.
"They are about the same kind," was ;
the reply, "clean, coarse, and with no
chamber window that will let down;
from the top. The natives have a j
horror of letting foul air out or fresh j
air in. There is one exception: old j
Squire Martyns has a nice house, and j
lives well. His maiden sister is his
housekeeper. He has a very pretty
daughter; but she is off at boardingschool.
The squire takes boarders only
' now and then?he is rich?and only for
company. If he likes you, and bis sister
should like you, he'll let you stay. Ho
lives three miles cast of Rockborough,
and any one can pilot you."
"Thank you. I'll try him."
"I must tell you, however," resumed
his informant, "that the squire is a
character. He is a fairly educated man,
and as you say you arc a mineral-hunter,
he can help you, for he has a collection,
and knows the localities. But he'll accost
you in the vernacular of the region,
and keep it up until he gets to know
you."
Thus it was that one afternoon early
in Ji^ly, Professor Roderick MacDougal
was carried in a hired wagon from Rock,
borough to Martyns' Nest, as the farm
was called. The farmhouse, standing upon
rising ground a short distance from the j
high-road, was half hidden by wistarias
and creepers that draped the wide veranda
and climbed the brick wulls to the eaves
of the gambrel roof. There was an attempt
at a lawn, with beds of gay-colored
flowers. The place looked comfortable
and home-like. The man who sat on
the veranda with his chair tilted back,
his shirt collar unbuttoned, and a cob
pipe in his mouth, looked at home too.
Wny not? He was the owner. He i
brought his chair forward and arose as
the professor came up the steps.
"Squire Martyns, I presume," said the
professor, blandly.
" That's what they call me. Is it book
or lightnin'-rod?"
" Neither," replied the professor, smiling.
"My name is MacDougal, and I
have been advised to try the nill air for
a time. I called to request you to accommodate
mo with board for a few
weeks."
"May I ask what you do for a livin'?"
"I am a professor in Bameville college."
"You ain'toneof them snake-catchera
an' bug-hunters?"
"I know something about reptiles
and insects, but I expect to amuse myself
by collecting the minerals and plants
of the region."
" Stuns, eh! There 'ain't been a stunhunter
in these parts not sense the time
of the Jollylogical Survey, an' there's
right smart of queer stuns here yet.
Plants, eh! That would suit my Hetty,
if she was to home, for she's got lots of
'em upstairs in books?Lucy Ann!"
A tall, neatly dressed old lady came to
the door, and said, "Well?"
"Can we make room for a stunhunter
?"
Lucy Ann surveyed the professor, who
smiled at the scrutiny, and then said,
"There's plenty of room; but if this
irentleman be huntiner minerals, there'll
Be a nice pair to clutter us up."
And with a laugh she retreated.
"Approved by the higher powers,"
Baid the Squire, laughing. " Who
brought you over ? I sec now: John Adkina.
John, bring in the professor's
things. Sit down and rest yourself. I
There will be no difficulty about terms, I!
think."
The professor soon lound that his informant
had been right. He had come
to the best place, lie was assigned a ]
neat and pleasant chamber opening upon ;
a flower garden, at one end of which j
were several hives of bees, which made a
pleasant humming, while the odors from |
beds of fragrant herbs smote pleasantly j
on the nostrils. From the windows he I
had a fine view of mist-covered ridges j
in the distance, over a long stretch of
ULdulating valley, dotted with fields of
grain, patches of woodland, farm-houses,
and out-buildings, aud herds of kine 1
grazing in their pastures. When supper- j
time came be found the comforts of the
inner man would be well cared for.
Whether Miss Lucy Ann Martyns or the
9 plump hired girl who brought in the
dishes and waited on the table were the
cook, it was evident there was somebody
about who could cook, Scientist as he
was, the professor liked to eat. But is
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The next morning early the professor
arose, and brought down his belt and
satchel, prepared for an exploring expedition.
To his delight he found his host
overhauling a similar equipment.
"You sha'n't have the best things
without sharing," said the squire. "I
shall give you my time for to-day, and
after that you can paddle your own
canoe. You won't iind any corundum,
which used to be abundant. I bagged
all that long ago, and made a pretty penny
out of it But you'll not lack specimens.
I saved a lot of duplicate crystals, and
you can pick and choose from them at
your leisure."
They made a day of it, and the professor
came home at night with his sack
full and his pockets crammed. After
that he went alone, and explored the
neighborhood thoroughly.
A week passed on, and the professor
heard of a quarry fifteen miles oil, which
abounded in kyauite and black tourmaline.
So he walked there to be absent
for two days.
It did rot turn out as well a3 he expected,
and he started to walk back next
day. About noon he was within a mile
of Martyns' Nest, and crossed a field to
~jBt short a turn in the road, when h
heard a female voice crying for help. 1
He looked up and saw a young and pretty
girl mounted on the top of a hay-stack,
and making frantic signals for assistance.
He got over the fence to see the cause of
these extraordinary motions, when a
vicious looking bull pranced around from
the other side of the stack. The professor
got back again. Ho comprehended
the situation.
"Keep where you are," hccried, "until
I drive the bull off!"
It was superfluous advice, and
his purpose r )t easily carried out.
Ho threw atones at the bull;
but he was not.to be diverted from his
object. The animal would prance forward,
bellow aud then resume guard
over the stack.
Then a bright idea struck the professor.
Linen handkerchiefs are inconvenient
for travelers, and for mineralogists
in particular, for they are bad for use as
sacks when satchel and pockets arc full.
He had provided himself with stout
silken bandanas, and had one in his
pocket. - As Alexander Dumas would
describe the affair:
It was of a bright red.
He drew it from his pocket.
He waved it frantically.
| The bull saw it, and made a dash for
the offensive thing.
"Ran, young lady!" cried the pro1
fessor from the safe side of his fence.
The girl ran, and got safely over the
fence on the other side.
As in duty bound, the professor went
around, leaving the bull to his chajrrin,
and joining the girl, inquired if she were
hurt.
"Not at all, sir," she answered, "but
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sistance."
She seemed to be goinpr the same way
with himself, so the professor, who,
though not "a marrying man," as the
saying goes, was gallant, entered into
conversation with her. They drifted
from the weather and the scenery into
books and current events, and he was
astonished to find how much the bright
little lady knew. "Who could she be?
Some visitor, doubtless. ' Though plainly
dressed, she had the air and manner
that showed her not of the type of the
neighborhood. lie began to skirmish to
find out, when she broke into a light
rippling laugh.
"I beg your pardon, 'sir," she said,
"but I tnink I know you. You are Professor
MacDougal, are you not?"
He nodded assent, still more mystified.
"We used your work on botany as a
text book at St. Sebastian's; but you'll
excuse me for saying that I always
thought you to be an old gentleman. I
only got home from the school last evening,
and I was returning from a visit to
a neighbor when that cros3 bull made me
climb the haystack. I am Hester Martyns."
The acuuaintance thus made, the two
grew quite familiar by the time they
reached the Nest, where Hetty told of
the adventure, and the professor declared
that ho would put the bandana in
lavender as a souvenir of the method he
had employed to trick the bull.
That evening there was a visitor at
Martyns' Nest. Mr. Jotham Jones, a
wealthy young farmer of the neigliborhoad,
made his appearance. Jotham
was the champion athlete of that section,
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tie any one in those parts. Lord of many j
acrcs and herds of kine, he had great!
confidence in himself, and swairgcrcd
around out of doors. That night he sat
almost tongue tied, using little more than
monosyllables. The professor, though
he did not know that Jotham had known
Hetty since she was a child, and always
admired her, concluded that it was a ca3c
of courting, and so discreetly left the
room and went to his chamber, where he
labelled and packed his specimens. The
squire, however, Remained, which was a
sure sign that he did not regard the
suitor with special favor.
From that timo forth Jotham came
quite often. The professor, who saw a
deal of Hetty, ana who, having turned
his attention to plants,'got from her the
location of scarce varieties, took a special
interest in the result of this siege. "I
have a pitty for Hetty," he said to himself.
"She is really a charming girl,
and fit for any position in life; but it
will end by her marrying this coarse
clod."
The more he saw of Jotham, tho less
he liked Hetty's prospects. And then
he began to discover by unmistakable
signs that Jotham did not like him.
Jotham glared at the professor when
they met, and spoke of him among his |
associates as a -sione-cruoiier uuu a
"crank"?the last word being always
applied by fools to any one they think
to possess brains. The lover did not let
his hate for the stranger interfere with
his siege of the maiden. At all the pic- j
nics and rural festivities he followed j
Hetty like her shadow. She gave no
tokens of dislike at this, and every one, j
even the professor, thought i*. would !
eventually bo a match. Y/hy not ? j
Jotham was even richer than the squire, j
There was nothing between the farms but |
a narrow patch of land, which was in the
market. That bought by either, and the i
combined Jones and Martyns places would j
cover nearly two thousaud acres of the j
best land in the county. The very prox- j
imity suggested a matrimonial alliance. j
The time of vacation had nearly slip- j
ped away, when there was a merry-mak-.
ing on the faim. The Martynses had al- \
ways given an old-fashioned harvest- j
home to their neighbors after the main
crops were gathered in, and Henry Martyns
was not a man to slight the custom j
of his forefathers. Aunt Lucy Ann's
resources of larder and kitchen were i
taxed to their utmost. The neighbors, !
young and old, were all there. The
feast was held in the great barn, and
after it was all over the threshing-floor '
was cleared, a fiddler installed in state
upon a stool, and dancing began, while I
at a little distance off, on a patch of
greensward, a party of young men
inmned. ran. and nracticed all kinds of
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muscular fun. The professor had been a ;
great danrer in his student days, and
though he had not stooped to anything
so light while holding a chair at college,
felt it his duty to ask the daughter of j
his host to open the hop with him. Just :
as she had consented, Jothain came up
with a similar request.
"I have promised the first set to Professor
McDougal," said Iletty, 'but the
nextisatvour service, Mr. Jones; and I
he had to be content with that. He saw {
the professor dance in earnest, not
walking through, but falling into the !
spirit of the occasion, pirouetting, j
pigeon-winging, and heel-and-tocing in i
the rustic style, to the admiration of the
spectators and the chagrin of Jot ham,
to whom it was gall and wormwood.
When Jothnm's turn came, the professor
watched in turn, and when it was
over, and Hetty seated, and .Totham bent
over her and talking earnestly, the professor
felt an uncomfortable sensation
for which he could not account, and went
and joined the young men 011 the green.
There ho found* the old squire looking
on.
"Everdo anything of this kind?"asked
Mr. Martyns.
"Sometimes in my under-graduatc
days," said the professor.
But he took no interest in their sport,
and soon went back to the barn. Iletty
was not on the floor. She was still
seated, with Jotham at her side. He
! was talking eagerly, and she was blushing
while her lingers picked nervously at her
dress.
4'I would like to take that fellow
: down a peg," said the professor, viciously,
and then walked back and rejoined
! the squire. He stood irresolutely, and
I made vague and inapt replies to his
! companion's remarks. Suddenly the cry
arose:
"Here comes Jones! Now you'll see
jumping!"
Jotham dashed in among them excitedly,
looked at the heel marks of
the others, aud took oil his coat, lie
was very much agitated. But seeing
the professor, he gave him a savage look,
and going to the starting-point, made a
great leap, and landed a foot farther
than any of the rest.
"There!" he said; "I'd like to see any
dtide stone-cracker beat that."
This drew all eyes on the professor,
who walked forward, looked at the distance,
and calmly handed his coat to the
squire. Then he jumped fully eighteen
iuches farther than Jotham. The latter
did not like the storm of applause which
greeted the feat. He cwtwmined to
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show lii9 supremacy in another way. 80
he said, in an offensive tone:
"You're good at the jump, Stonecracker.
How are you at the rsssle?"
Squire Martyns frowned, but before
he could utter a rebuke, the professor
replied, quietly:
"I did not come into the mountains
to show myself off, Mr. Jones; but as
this is a gathering of neighbors, I havo
no objection to trying a friendly fall
with you. Only, as I am out -of practicc,
you must be light on me."
Thus saying, the Professor divested
himself of waistcoat and cravat. Tho
crowd eagerly formed a ring, and tho
two antagonists stood facing each other,
Jotham lowering and malicious, the
other calm and indifferent. A few feints
and they locked. Jotham was thickest
and sturdy; the other 'supple as an eel.
A struggle, aud then?so" quickly that
no one could see how it was done?the
two went down together, Jotham on the
broad of his back, and the professor uppermost.
The latter sprang to his feet,
but Jotham lay there for a minute incapable
of motion. When he arose he wa3
in no condition to renew the contest.
''Professor," said tho squire, as they
walked toward tne Dam, "woiua you
like to be a member of Congress?"
"I think not," said the professor. "I
have no taste for politics. Why?"
' Because if you'll settle down here,
and flail half a dozen bullies, as you have
Jotham Jones, you'll go in by a large
majority."
It was evident that MacDougal's
strength was restored, and his appearance
showed hira to be in good health;
but his spirits were depressed. During
the few more days he remained he made
no more mineralogical or botanical excursions,
but lingered around the house.
Hetty avoided him, and if they met was
shy.
" She resents the humiliation of her
lover," he thought. "And there is
nothing in common between them. She
is beauty, grace, animation, and intellifence;and
he? Well, it can not be
elped."
The day of parting came. The professor
bade good-bye to the squire and
his sister, and was invited to pay them
another visit. " I have charged a price
this time. It is my way to avoid
an influx of strangers. But when you
come, you come as my welcome guest.
We all like you."
"Thank you. The liking is mutual.
Where is Miss Hetty? "
"She went over to Joyce's."
" T?iM Knr rrnnrl.hvfi fnr raft. Mv Valise
has gone ou to Rockboroii?h, and I shall
walk over." And with a renewed handshaking
the professor left.
lie soon came to the fencc where he
cajoled the bull with the handkerchief
trick. "There is the hay-stack," he
said. "How pretty he looked!" And
he crossed the fence and walked toward
the stack. A girl sat, with her face
bowed in her hands, on some loose hay
by the stack.
'' Why, Miss Hetty!" said the professor. .
The girl started, sprang to her feet,
and looked at him wildly. He noticed
the tears on her cheeks.
"Why, Hetty!': ho exclaiimed; "what
is the trouble?" Ho took her hand, but
she made no reply. "My dear child,"
he coutinued, "tell me if lean aid you.
I know that it is to Mr Jones you would
naturally go, but I am your friend,
and?"
"I detest Jotham Jones!" exclaimed
Hetty, withdrawing her haud.
A light seemed to come to the professor.
"Hetty, darling," he said, taking her
hand again, "do you detest me?"
The professor came home jubilant.
Every one noticed how well he looked.
He displayed the contents of his boxes to
his colleagues.
"Very good specimens indeed," said
Dr. Brainard, "but not such a great
find."
"There is something finer than these,
Hnf if ;0 hphinrl in Mrmntjiin eountv. I'll
have it here at the beginning of the new
year."
The professor went off during the holidays.
He telegraphed back the hour of
his return, and on hi# urrival his colleagues,
with their wives, went there to
meet him. He had a lady on his arm.
They gathered around to welcome him
back.
"My good friends," said he, "I told
you I would bring home my best specimen.
I did not bring it in my satchel.
I do not intend to put it on a shelf. Let
me present you to Mrs. Hester MacDougal
the greatest find of my life."?Earpev's
Bazar.
Eating in a French Cunadian Town
It is characteristic of St. Francois and
the early hours of the place that the
housewife who does not arrive at the village
market by 6 or 0:o0 in the morning
subject her household to the perils of
semi-starvation. The farmers' wives who
bring in the fruit and vegetables and
butter and eggs from their farms are all
in their places by 5 o'clock, and fcqr 8
many of them are already jogging along
on their way homeward. And the market
is the chief place for the purchase of edibles
in the town of St. Francois. Its
supply is meagre enough, and its customs
are primitive. The market-womeo, all
ask one price and take another; hence a
purchase involves an immense amount of
bargaining and chaffering and gesticulating,
and the worthy townspeople bid
each other good-morning, ana josue i
each other with their market-baskets and
peer down over each other's shoulders
along the meagre array upon the counters
with much bustling and curiosity. Berries
and vegetables are sold in
what the natives call "tureens,"
?a most vague and elastic
term, as a "tureen" appears to an
outsider to be anything from a teacup to
a scrub-pail. You may buy a tureenful
of raspberries for ten cents, or one for a
dollar, and you can only give an indefinite
guess at the quantity you arc getting
for your money. The supply is very
scanty, and poor in quality, too. The
tiny wild strawberries, wild red raspberries
and chokeberries form the bulk
of the fruit obtainable in St. Francois.
The French-Canadian farmer is a slow
and conservative gardener, and many
Vegetables and fruits which would ripen
easily in the climate are not cultivated
nowadays, simply because his grandfather
did not cultivate them before
him, and his sluggish brain has not yet
awakened to the fact that it would be a
wiste and profitable thing to raise them.
But, if the vegetable market is scanty,
the lish market on summer mornings is a
sight to behold, from the numbers of
eels which crawl over and under each
other and wriggle along the counters
and fall off on the floor, where they lie
writhing till the merchant, seeing his
: wares escaping him, picks them up and
stuns them by striking their heads
against the wall.?Lippincott.
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I The Amenities of liar.
| Generals Pierce Young and Custe
! were messmates and classmates and de
, voted friends at West I'oint. In the war
they were major generals of cavalry on
j epposing sides. One day General Young
I was invited to breakfast at the Hunter
I mansion in Virginia. The beautiful
| young ladies had prepared a smoking
breakfast, to which the general was addressing
himself with ardor, when a
shell burst through the house. Glancing
through a window, he saw Custer charging
toward the house at the head of his
statr. Out the window Young went,
calling to the young ladies: ''Tell Custer
I leave this breakfast for him." Custer
enjoyed it heartily, and looked forward
with pleasure to the dinner in the
distance. In the meantime Young,
smarting over the loss of his breakfast
and his hasty retreat, drove the Federal
line back, aud by dinner time was in
sight of the Hunter mansion again. Custer,
who was just sitting down to dinner,
laughed and said: "That's I'ieice Young
coming back. I knew he wouldn't leave
me here in peace. Here's my picture;
give it to him, and tell him his old classmate
leaves his love with this excellent
dinner." And out of the window he
went and away like a flash, while the
Georgia general walked in and sat down
to dinner.?Atlanta Constitution.
The total production of cigars in the
country, as estimated by one of the
largest manufacturers, is about 3,000,000,000
a year.
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j FARM. GARDEN AM) HOUSEHOLD.
Points on Poultry Keeping-.
Fowls arc never properly fed unless
1 they are fed regularly. They look forward
to meal time, as any one may see
who notes their actions, and are restless
and discontented if they do not receivc
their expected rations, just as their attendant
would be if similarly treated.
The laying of soft-shelled eggs sometimes
result from over-feeding and sometimes
from a deficiency of shell-forming
material. The necessary lime may be
supplied in several ways. Bone meal or
ground oyster shells can generally be
had, and in their absence keep a supply
of old mortar where the hens may help
themselves. The Tribune and Farmer
says that over-feeding will bo as ineffectual
as not giving enough, for a
hen that is fat will seldom ever lay well.
Mashed potatoes mixed with scalded
corn meal, or buckwheat flour fed hot,
is excellent. They should have fresh
meat if possible twice a day in 6ome
form; either lard scraps, offal from the
butchers, or wild game, sucn as rauDits,
squirrels, etc. The more of this kind of
food given, the greater number of eggs
will be secured, beside hens will never
eat their eggs when furnished with all
the fresh meat they want. Meats that
have been cooked and highly seasoned
should not be given.
Pure water furnished daily is also very
important, for they will not do well
without it. A lump of lime dropped
into the water is highly recommended
by some.
The hen house will require a supply of
boxes nailed around the side walls containing
straw and nests, and in each an
artificial egg to prevent loss by freezing.
Many think that when hens are confined
in a room a nest egg is not required, but
any person seeing the discontent of a
fowl when ready to make her deposit,
wandering fron\ place to place in search
of an egg to sit upon, will be convinced
of the importance of supplying it.
The Farmers' Review expresses the opinion
that the most profitable egg producers
arc early hatched spring chickens,
which begin to lay in the fall, and if
furnished with warm quarters and proper
lood, will produce eggs quite freely
through the entire winter. Hut it is not
wise to reduce the flock in the fall |
wholly to spring pullets, since hens a j
year or two old make more reliable setters
and mothers, and a sufficient number
should be kept for this purpose.
Green food is fully as essential for
poultry in winter as in summer, says the
American Agriculturist. Their confine- j
mcut to dry food during the continuance '
of cold weather goes far to account for 1
the scarcity of eggs at that season of the
year. Fresh winter eggs are always in
demand and bring a good price in every
market. Hens, like cows, should be producers
as well as consumers during the
cold months of winter. Farmers, as well
as fanciers, should have a supply of green
food safely stored away for the winter
use of the poultry. Fowls are not very
particular as to the kind, they readily eat
celery, tops of onions, turnips, etc. , lettuce,
cabbage, and apples also are relished.
If such supplies have to be purchased,
it is cheaper to buy one or two
hundred heads of cabbages of second
quality, which can be had at a low figure
in autumn or early in the season. These
should be delivered with their roots, and
buried up to the head in sand in the cellar.
Hang a head in some convenient
place in the house where the fowls can
pick at it.
Farm and Garden !Yote?.
A fair ration of turnips for a full
grown cow or for ten sheep is a peck per
day.
For sheep it seldom pays to grind
corn. For young st*>ck grain may often
be profitably cooked. Potatoes may often
be cooked and fed to young stock to advantage.
The man who led the first emigrants
across the plains to California, in 1849,
died recently at the a^re of eighty. He
was worth $3,000,000, made by raising
cattle in that State.
Oat-meal and wheat-bran Is one of the
best of rations for milch cows; but the
Rural New Yorker thinks that a still better
ration is made of new process oilmeal,
bran, corn-meal, and a liberal supply
of yellow globe mangels.
Professor William Brown, of the Ontario
Agricultural college, has repeatedly
declared that peas form a cheaper and
better food than does corn for stock.
Others who have experience assert the
same, yet very few peas have ever been
fed in the United States.
TVia A mwlnnn Drtin/mnn anra iq
one point that should be deeply impressed
upon the dairyman's mind, and
that is, if he wants to make a first-class
article of butter he must churn often.
Never let the cream get over three days
old, no matter how cold it may be kept.
If cold, it will get old, flat and frinky.
If sour, the whey will cat up the best
butter globules. Churn as olten as you
can.
One of the special recommendations of
raspberries and blackberries is that they
aro so easily propagated and will take
care of themselves and multiply to any
extent desired. One hour's work in
taking up a few uatches of tho shoots ?
and clearing of the canes?a foot square
and placing them at some fertile fence
corncw, will presently supply all the
berries that you will carc to pick for tho
family. Try it.
As a rule farmers should save what
pumpkin seed they need, and from the
largest and heaviest specimens. There
is a great deal of difference in the quality ;
of pumpkins. Seed from tho stores is I
very often from inferior specimens. Some I
farmers have been stuck this year with I
pumpkin seed that only produces speci- j
mens about as large as a two-quart pail,
while better seed on the same land quadruples
the size aud value.
Hoot crops, which often demand the
use of the hoe, cause the land to be kept
very clean, thus destroying weeds. It is
best to put down such crops occasionally
for that purpose, as they are important
in a proper system of rotation, and also i
prove remunerative crops as compared
with other kinds. A crop that assists in
destroying weeds saves labor the following
year, and is, therefore, more valuable
than may be supposed in some respects.
The fault of the wind-mill is its makers
try to do too much for too little money,
and the result is unsatisfactory to all
parties. I apprehend the farm windmill
of the future will do something
more than pump water. "When the problem
of the storage of electricity has been
solved more completely, then it will perhaps
not only pump water and do other
familiar jobs, but furnish the material
for electrical lightniug. ? Country Gentleman.
It is a misfortune to have a cow thin
in flesh when she is about to calve. Her
milk all the season will be less in quantity
and poorer in quality than it would
be if she were in moderately good flesh.
Excess of fat is not desirable, mainly because
it shows a tendency for food to go
to building up of flesh rather than the
making of milk and butter. But a good
cow thai will calve toward spring will
I bo all the better for liberal feeding
through the winter.
Household Rccipnu and Hints.
An appetizing saucc to serve with
roast beet is m-tde of one tublespoonful
of grated horseradish, one teaspoonful
?f nnwrlmwl anrrni- frmr tnlilr?qnr>r>n fIII
| , .v,...
of vinegar. Slix them thoroughly together.
Delicious filling for a pie Is made by
j stewing some prunes until they arc very
: soft, and remove the stones, sweeten to
, your taste, and add, for one pie, the well
j beaten whites of two eggs; beat with
! the prunes until thoroughly mixed. Bake
I with two crusts, or, if you can get it,
use whipped cream in place of tho upper
crust.
When roasting lamb or fowls, if you
do not like the flavor given by thin slices
i of salt pork or of bacon, which are
usually put over them, take some hard
butter, roll it in flour, and separate it
into small iumps and lay here and tnere
on the meat. This will give richnessand
flavor to the liquid with which you baste
them.
llere is a new way to make a rice pudding:
Wash a small tcacupful of rice in
cold water; then put it into a quart of
cold milk; add salt and sugar and vanilla
to your taste, and a small lump of
butter. Put this into the oven two hours
before it is. to be eaten; stir it occasionally.
Follow these directions carefully,
however skeptical you may be, and you
will be pleased with the result.
One of the most appetizing ways to
warm over cold fowls, particularly ducks
or fowls with brownish meat, is to cut
them into pieces, and let them simmer in
gravy. Take a part of a head of red
cabbage, cut it in the thinnest and
smallest pieces you can without chopping
it, wash it and drain it and fry it
in fat; this may bo part butter and part
dripping or even lard; season with salt
and pepper. "When it is done, spread it
out on a platter, moisten with vinegar
and lay the pieces of fowl upon it.
A pretty ornament for the wall i3 made
by cutting a lan out of very stiff pasteboard,
cover half of it with plush or
velvet?put this on plain?on the other
t-,if i. r_i.3_ ~r
nun pui, iinus ui auLiu, icuyiuwioc, i>v
imitate the folds of a half-open fan.
Around the edge put a narrow band of
swan's down, at the top or handle put a
bow, and a cord and tasjels. In the
center of the fan put an oval or round
Christmas card; it should be unfringed.
One made of pink plush or satin was
handsome?one less delicate and likely
to become easily soiled was of winecolored
plush and satin.
Potato omelet for tea is an agreeable
dish, and the flavor may be varied so
that it will seem like a new dish even if
it appears on the table frequently. To
a large cupful of mashed potatoes allow
three eggs, you may add four or five,
but three will do nicely; tho yolks and
whites should bo beaten separately as
they will be so much lighter in that case;
a teasnoon even full of salt, half a teacupful
of milk, and a vorv little sifted
flour, not more than a heaping teaspoonful,
complete the ingredients, with the
exception of the flavoring. Parsley
chopped very fine may be used, or lemon
juice, with a little black pepper, and an
audacious cook may add a "trace," as
the chemists say, of nutmeg. Heat and
grease a large saucepan and pour the
mixture into it. Brown it ligntly and
serve hot.
The glass stopper to a bottle often becomes
so firmly fixed that it resists all
ordinary efforts to remove it. Apothecaries,
who handle such bottles daily, often
acquire skill in starting the fixed corks.
A sudden tap with a bard stick or knife
handle will often allow the stopper to bo
readily taken out. If this has been put
in place while tho bottle is somewhat
tVtn noAlr rvf fV>n VifttMo TVlll
tract and hold it very fast. If the neck
of the bottle be surrounded by cloth wet
with hot water, the glass will usually
expand and allow the stopper to be taken
out with ease. The most difficult cases
are -where the liquid in the bottle is of
such a kind that it may form a sort of
cement between the cork and the socket.
Place such a bottle stopper downward in
a saucepan containing water. Let the
whole soak fbr some hours; then place
the saucepan on the stove and heat the
water gradually. Try the stopper from
time to time; usually it may bo removed
long before the water is hot enongh to
boil. By this method we have rarely
failed to remove glass corks that resisted
til other means.
SELECT SIFTINGS.
There are certain crabs which live od
dry land, but they manage to keep theii
gills wet.
The highest velocity that has been imparted
to shoot is given as 1G2G feet per
second, being equal to a mile in 3.2
seconds.
Duels in France in the reign ot Henry
IV. resulted directly and indirectly in
the death of 20,000 persons. In 545
duels fought in that country since 1809
but eight have been fatal.
In a certain province in southern
R"?o!o O nnin ia fMirrfnt whiph 1R iriildfl
in the form of a wafer from the juice of
a tree. Their value is so microscopic
that 250,000 of them would be required
to purchase an American dollar.
Francis Atkins was porter at the palace
gate of Salisbury, England, from the
time of Bishop Burnett to the period of
his death in 1761, at the age of 104
years. It was his oflicc every night to
wind the clock. This he did regularly
till within a year of his dcceasc, though
the clock was on the summit of the palace.
The use ot the magnet for the cure of
diseases was known to the ancients. It
was know to Aetius, who lived as early
as the year 500. He says: ''We arc assured
that those who arc troubled with
the gout in their hands or their feet, or
with convulsions, find relief when they
hold a magnet."
A recent calculation shows that a man
weighing 100 pounds, and running a
mile in six minutes, performs work about
equal to that of a half-horse engine, while
a walker sustaining five miles an hout
for a long time does work eijual to that
of a quarter horse engine, and consumes
only one-twenrieth of the weight of food
or fuel.
A New York Dhotocrraoher ia quoted
assaying: "After Twcaty-fi ve years
experience under the skylight, and photographing
over 157.000 people, 1 have
become convinced that in nineteen cases
out of twenty the left side of the face
gives the most characteristic likeness,
while to the same degree the right side
is the most symmetrical."
N otices of mermaids are scattered
abundantly in books of by-gone times,
mermen and mermaids, men of the sea
and w omen of the sea, having been as
stoutly believed in as the great sea serpent,
and on very much the same kind
of evidence. Ilolinshed gives a detailed
account of a merman caught at Oxford,
in Suffolk, England, in the reign ot King
John, lie was kept alive on raw meat
and fish for six months, but at last
"gledde secretelye to the sea and was
newver after seene nor heard off."
In the United States, even as late as
1821), it was estimated that there were as
many as 3,000 debtors conlincd in the
prisons of Massachusetts. 10,000 in New
Vork, 7,000 in Pennsylvania, :!,000 in
Maryland, and a like proportion in other
States. In many of tho debtors' prisons
no provision was made for sickness, or
even for ordinary cleanliness or comfort.
There was often no separation of tho
sexes, and these victims of misfortune
were confined with robbers, vagrants
and murderers. Between 1821 and 1845,
imprisonment for debt in the various
United States was abolished, except in
cases where fraud was reasonably suspected.
now Jefferson was Inaugurated.
Thomas Jefferson was the first President
inaugurated at Washington, says a
letter to the Cleveland lAiulcr. The city
was then a country village scattered over
an imineuBC territory, and Pennsylvania
avenue was a muddy country road.
There was a fence about the capitol
grounds, and it is said that Jefferson
rode there on horseback and jumped
' - > ?!-.! L:? il._ 1
| irom His norse aim ucu mm m mc uuis
I while he went up to tlio bi# white building
to be sworn in. lie was dressed
very plainly, and only a few friends accompanied
him. The inauguration took
place in what was then the Senate chamber?now
the supreme court room?and
only 1,000 people were present. Of
these 150 were ladies. As the Presidentelect
came in the Senators stood up, and
Aaron Burr gave tho President's scat to
Mr. Jefferson. John Adams, the retiring
President, was not present. It is reported
that he said lie did not proposo
to graco the inauguration of thft party
opposed to him, and that he left tho
White House on the night of the lid of
March at midnight, and that before day
he had departed from Washington forever.
It is estimated that the island of Ber
muda exports annually about 330,000
boxes of onions and 45,000 barrels of
potatoes. The land upon which these
arc growu is worth from $150 to $200
per acre, and under favorable conditions
the value of the crop produced in a single
season is from $IJ00 to $850 per
acre.
General Scott is credited with saying
that terrapin is tho best food vouchsafed
by Providence to mortal man.
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NEWS SUMMARY
Eastern nnul Middle States.
Captain Thoma* Phelan, of Kansai
City, Mo., was stabbed several times by
j Richard Short, in tho oftlce of the United
! Irishmen, edited by O'Donovan Rossa, in
I New York. It appears that Phelan had ein!
bittered tho feelings of many Irishmen by
utterances which he is credited with in an
issue of a Kansas City newspaper. He apparently
came to New York to make some
explanations in regard to these utterances.
The wounds received by Pholan were thought
to be fatal. His assailant was arrested.
Four boys were drowned bv the ice giving
way while skating on a pond at Pottsville,
Penn.
A ball held for charitable purposes in
Buffalo, N. Y., is described as "the most
: brilliant event of the kind ever held in the
| city." It was opened by Mr. Cleveland.
scarlet fever is ravaging several villages
in tho immediate vicinity of Urooklyn, N. Y.
Numerous deatlis have occurred, and the
schools have been closed.
Captain Phelan, tho Kansas City man
stabbed by Short in tho United Irishmen
oflice. will probably recover from the eleven
wounds which he received. The affair created
a great sensation among Irishmen everywhere.
While on a trip to England in 188.5,
Phelan was suspected of being a "dynamiter,"
and was under police surveillance.
While drunk Lewis Carl, living near
Bethlehem, Penn., abused hid wife. His son
interfered, whereupon the father killed him.
Carl was arrested.
Charles W. Foloer, only son of tho late
Secretary Folger, died of consumption a few
days ago in Genova, N. Y., aged about forty
years.
By the explosion of hor boiler the iteam tug
Mike Dougherty was completely demolished
near Elizabeth, Penn. Two of the crew were
killed and three others badly hurt. The boat
had put ashore at a landing to innko repairs
to some part of tho machinery that had
broken down, an 1 tho explosion occurred
while she lay there.
A boiler in a sawmill opposite Williamsport,
Penn., exploded, killing two men and
injuring seven others, one or two with fatal
effect
A chemical factory and a number of
dwelling houses in Yonkers, N. Y., were destroyed
by fire; estimated total loss, f20J,CO).
A fifte at the Slade mills, Fall River,
Mass., did damage to the extent of about
?'200,000.
Captain Isaiah Rynderb, well-known in
New York as "tho old Democratic war
horse,'' died in that city a few days since. Hc
was eighty years old, voted for Jacksou in
1828, and many years ago was a power in
city politics.
By an explosion in a soda-ash works near
Syracuse, N. Y., one of eight immense distilling
tanks was blown seventy feet high and
landed thirty feet away. It weighed 10.000
pounds. Eight men were injured, the case of
two of them being considered hopeless.
Professor Benjamin Silliman, of Yale
college, one of the leading Amorican scientists,
is dead in his seventieth year.
Shortly before his death the late ex-Governor
Coburn. of Maine, was swindled out of
J.1*! 10,000 in railroad securities by a conspiracy
of Boston sharpers. Rather than prosecute
the rascals Governor Coburn pocketed the
loss.
Gregg & Son, boot and shoe manufacturers
of Bingham ton, N. Y., have failed,
with liabilities of $130,000.
Two men were burned to a crisp and three
more injured by an explosion of dynamite at
tho Somerset Chemical works, Somerset,
Fenn. The factory buildings wore completely
wrecked, tha pecuniary damage being estimated
at $100,000.
South and West.
Eleven* persons were poisoned while at supper
in the house of Mr. Van Forsen, a resident
of East Liverpool, Ohio. A little girl died.
Rat poison was found in the coffee pot.
Mrs. Myra Clarke Gaines died tho othei
day in Now Orleans, aged seventy-eight
years. For a long time she had been a prominent
flguro in Washington society, and for
nioro than forty years her name had been fa
miliar in tho newspapers through her efforts
to obtain property which she claimed belonged
to her family. In May, 1883, the city
of New Orleans wtis declared in debt to her
nearly |J,0(10,000.
The Bonk of Augusta, Ga., an institution
chartered by the State many years before tho
war, has made an assignment The capital
stock of the bank is $150,000, and depositors
will be paid in full.
Herman Mack, a Cincinnati bookkeeper
of considerable social prominence, committed
suicide in order to escape the result of a heavy
I defalcation that hud been discoverrd in his
accounts.
A party of cowboys visited the store of
James Davis at Sand Creek, Washington
Territory, and attempted to take possession.
Dnvis proved more than their match, for after
he had killed threo of the cowboys tho rest
made a hasty departure.
The award* of premiums for cattle on exhibition
at the World's fair in New Orleans
have been made. The attendance is increasing.
Three new Western governors were inaugurated
the other day, as follows: Governor
Gray, at Indianapolis, Ind.; Governor
Marmaduke, at Jefferson City, Mo., and
Governor Martin, at Topeka, Kan.
A cyclone, sweeping over a large section
in Alabama and Georgia, killed a number of
persons and wrought great damage to property.
Numerous houses were blown down,
mills wrecked ond forests demolished.
Two prominent New Orleans officials attacked
George Osmond, editor of the Mascot,
in his oflico for publishing an article reflecting
on tho brother of one of his assailants.
Revolvers were drawn and a general fusillade
followed. All three men were wounded.
The Earl of Aylesford a large property
owner in Texas, died at his ranch in Big
Springs. He was a prominent English noblo
man, whose life had been clouded by his domestic
relations. His body was ombalmed
and will be sent to England.
A H(5dy of 200grinders in the Oliver Chilled
Plow works at South Bend, Ind., struck
and, armed with iron rods and clubs, marched
to the other departments of the factory and
forced tho other employes to quit work.
Where the men refused to do so they were
beaten. The belts were cut and the
sinners nnauy went to me engine-room
and forced the engineer to sbut down.
The next morning the strikers, who are principally
Poles and Hungarians, attacked and
badly injured a number of men who tried to
gaii: admittance to the works. Considerable
property was also destroyed. Governor Gray
ordered out a military company from Elkhart,
and by its aid quiet was restored for the
time being.
A steam saw mill, near Smitbfleld, Ohio
was blown up, killing three persons, fatally
injuring two others and wrecking the building
Joseph Dibiile, a farmer, sixty years old,
living at Osceola, Mich., was married recently,
nine weeks after tha death of his first
wife. Ho was givon a charivari party, and
the other night tho serenade was repeated.
Somo one from Dibble's house fired into the
serenadors, killing out man and wounding
three others.
United States Senator Jones has been
re-elected by tho Nevada legislature.
Washing-ton.
Colonel Lamont,private secretary to President-elect
Cleveland, has been on a visit to
Washington. The object of his visit is supposed
(o have been principally the securing
cf temporary quarters for Mr. Cleveland bofore
ho enters the White House.
The secretary of the treasury has received
a conscience contribution of $401) in an envelope
postmarked Newark, N. J.
Congressman S. S. Cox's resolution to
appropriate $100,000 for the completion of the
pedestal of tho liartholdi statue in Now York
narl)or has been rei>orted favorably to the
House from the committee.
General IIazen,chief signal ofllcer of tho
army, hus filed with tho secretary of war
formal charges against General Cbauncey
McKeever, assistant adjutant genoral, for
alleged remarks derogatory to Lieutenant
Greely and the management of tho expedition
sent to his relief by the signal office.
General IIazkn's charges against Adjutant
General JlcKouver have been returned
to the author, and it is understood no ollicial
notico wid be taken of them.
foreign.
Portions of Franco have been visited by
earthquake shocks.
Dissension has arisen in tho French cabinet
on a propositi of Genoral Lcwal, the minister
of war, to declaro war ngainst China
The Phelan-Short shooting affray in the
ofii?*e of. the New York bnited Irishmen
created much excitement in London, and
was for days tho principal subject of discus
81011.
A French gnrrison at Lambor, Cambodia,
was desperately attacked by Chinese insurgents
and suffered heavy losses.
A company of forty soldiers in Mexico
mutinied, murdered their captain, his wife
and several other jwrsoiis ana then fled in a
body for American territory.
11 err Rumpff, chief of police at
Frankfort-on-the-Maiii, Germany, was found
murdered in front of his residenco in a principal
thoroughfare. He was actively connected
with the recent prosecution at Leipsic
of the anarchists Reinsdorf, ltupsch, Kuechler
and fivo others, who were engaged in tho
Niederwald attempt to kill tho emperor,
crown prince and other distinguished personages
of the imperial suite. The three named
were sentence i to death anil two others to
ten years1 servitude,the remaining three being
acquitted.
Arnauts havo plundered three Servian
frontier villages and killed tho sentinels and
several villagers. Troops havo been sent to
tho scene.
The town hall of Warminster, England,
has been partially destroyed by a dynamite
explosion.
Tiie name of Arizona, the Sentinel of that
Territory says, was not bestowed through
any poetic arrangements of Indian or Spanish
names, but is derived from arideus, dry, and
zona, a girdle or belt.
LATER NEWS
The New York Stato Dairy commissioner
says in his annnal report that at least 80
per cent, of the illegal traffic in adulterated
butter has been broken up.
George E. Traviss was hanged at Wellsboro,
Penn., for the murder of Martha Sylvia.
His victim's burned body was found in
the ruins of a- barn shortly after ho had paid
frsr fifty dollars for three cows, and he is
supposed to have murdered her to get back
his money. Traviss denied tho crimo to the
last.
The President has nominated William A.
Richardson to be chief justice of the'court of
claims, vice Mr. Drake, resigned, und John
Davis to be an associate justice of tho court
of claims, vice Mr. Richardson. John Davis
is the present assistant secretary of state.
The National Swine Brooders' association
have had a two days' session in Washington.
Colonel F. D. Curtis, of New York, presided.
The association passed resolutions approving
the inspection by the government of hog
products intended for shipment abroad.
The chief of tho bureau of statistics reports
that in 1884 there arrived in the cus*
toms districts of Baltimore, Boston, Detroit,
Huron, Minn,, New Orleans, Now York, Passamaquoddy,
Philadelphia and San Francisco,
453,083 emigrants. These arrivals compriso
about ninety-saven per cent of the emigration
to the entire country. The arrivals in
1883 numbered 560,196.
A Dublin dispatch states that there is in
creased activity in Irish secret societies and a
proportionate watchfulness on the part of
the British authorities.
By an explosion of fire damp in the great
coal mine at Lievin, Franco, forty-eight men
were entombed alive. Twenty-eight dead
bodies were recovered soon after the disaster.
LATER CONGRESSIONAL NEWS,
Senate.
Mr. Hale reported favorably the bill for the
relief of the sufferers of the wreck of tho
United States steamer Tallapoosa
Mr. Miller, of California, intro.
duced a bill to increase the pension of Mrs
Frances L. Thomas, widow of General George
H. Thomas, from $360 to $2,000 a year?the
same as the pension already granted to the
widow of Admiral Farragut....In executive
session the Senate discussed the reciprocity
treaties with Spain and Nicaraugua.
Home.
The McPherspn Funding bill was discussed
in the House. Mr. Wilkins, of Ohio, said
that its purpose was to increase the circulation
of national bank noto3 from ninety per
cent, of the bonds doposited to secure it to
100 percent Mr. Yaplo, of Michigan, maintained
that the measure would not necessarily
odd one dollar to the circulation of the coun.
try. Messrs. Hewitt and Potter also opposed
tho bilL A motion to adjourn, which practically
shelves the bill, was carried by 130 yeaa
to 112 nays.
SCHUYLER COLFAZ
'
Hii Sudden Death in iRlnnetttftSkctch
of hi* Life.
Ex-Vicc-President Schuyler Coifax dropped
dead at the Omaha depot in Mankato, Minn.
He arrived on the Milwaukee and St. Pau^
load from the East at 10 o'clock and walked to
the Omaha dopot, a distance of threefourths
of a mile, with the thermometer thirty
degrees below zero. After arriving at the
depot he lived only about Ave minutes. It
is supposed that the extreme cold and sulwequent
beat and over-exertion causod a stoppage
of tho flow of blood to the heart. The
House of Representatives and both bodies of
the Indiana Legislature adjourned out of resj)ect
to hia memory.
Schuyler Colfax was born in New York
city on March 23,1823. He removed to Indiana
in ISoJ, and was for somo time a clerk in
a country store. After studying law and
working a* a printer and newspaper reporter
he established at South Bend in 1845 a Whig
newspaper called the St. Joseph Valley Register,
of which he remained proprietor
till 1800. He was secretary of
the Whig National conventions in
1848 and 18T>2, and in 1850 a member of the
State constitutional convention. He became
a Republican shortly after the destruction of
the Whig party. He was elected to the
Thirty-fourth Congress from the Ninth Indiana
district, which he continued to represent
till 186!). For two terms he was chairman
of the House committee on postofSces
and pest roads. He became a prominent
figure on the Republican side, and was elected
Speaker of the House in the Thirty-eighth
Congress in 1853, and was twice reelected.
| In 1865, with the lato Samuel Bowles and
other journalists, he made the overland trip to
California In 1S(>8 he was nominated and
elected Vice-President on tho Republican
ticket with General Grant In 1870 he
cave notice of his intention to withdraw
from public life at the end of hig term,
but be was again a candidate for the
nomination for Vice-President in the
Republican National convention in 1872.
and received 314 1-2 votes against 884 1-2 for
Henry Wilson, who got the nomination. In
1873 he was implicated in the Credit Mobiller
scandals. He escaped impeachment on the
ground that the offence had been committed
before he became Vice-President After his
retirement to private life at the expiration of
hig term as Vice-President in 1873, he had little
connection with and no influence in poli[
tics. He was a fluent speaker, and in the
last few years occupied himself with lecturing.
MUSICAL AND DRAMATIC:
German opera in New York has proven a
great success.
The roller skating rinksare becoming sorious
rivals to the theatres.
Verdi favors tbe lowering of the musical
pitch and the establishment of a uniform
diapason for the entire musical world.
Plutus, the new comic opera upon which
Lecocq is now engaged, has boen purchasxl
by a New York manager for America.
Frank Mayo calls Henry Irving "the
greatest of dramatic artists," and Edwin Booth
" tho greatast actor " of modern times.
It is now stated that Lizzio Annandale, the
contralto of the Abbott company, will soou
be married to n inembsr of the Spanish legation
at Washington.
The title of a play in eight acts recently
submitted to a prominent theatre in Now
York city is "Tho Ked Wheelbarrow on tho
Night of December 13, 1834."
Mme. Kate Roll a, reported recently as
having made a successful operatic debut as
Lucia, in Milan, is Mrs. Kate Wheat Rammeisburg,
of Wheeling, W. Va.
Mr. E. Cholmeley Jones, the baritone,
has been engaged by Manager Max Strakosch
for a series o? concerts i<-> ui_- (jitsu m ..
York and the New England States during
tho winter.
A Western paper says that tho only sister
of the lato General Custor is giving dramatic
readings for a livelihood, and that she is in
great demand for such servico among tho
different grand army posts.
Mhe. Christine Nilssojj will bo in this
country during tho season of 1S35 NS, under
Mapleson's management. Sho will produce
several new ro!e< which she now has iu preparation
for the Loudon season.
"Tom" Mathews, the famous clown, who
was Grinialdi's most apt pupil, is living at
Brighton, England, eighty years old, halo
and hearty. Ho is just about tho ago of tho
average circus clown's jokes.
Since the walls of tho Brooklyn Theatre
crumbled away in flamo and smoke, nino
years ago, four theatres hovo been consumed
in Now York city?tho Park, tho Windsor,
tho Standard, and tho Comique, In every
base the firo occurred wbon tho theatre was
empty.
THE MINTS,
Annual statement sixmlnjf tho Papci
. and I oin Circulation.
Tho director of tho United States mint has
mado las usual annual statement and estimate
of the changes and increase during the year
in the United States gold and silver coin in
the country, both total and in circulation,
outside of tho treasury.
Tho coinage, less tho recolnage. has been:
Gold, $2-'i,7-0,SVJ; silver, $'JS, 119,078.
Tho imports of L'nit.d States coin have
been: Gold, ?4,i?.0,S5; silver, *7:25,150-a
total gain of J ">7,401,048.
Ho estimates that #4,875,000 of United
States gold and $210,000,000 of silver coin
wore molted for use in the manufactures and.
the arts, and that (>,000,0 i0 trade dollars, constituting
a part of tin silver circulation in
previous years,have been entirely withdrawn
from circulation.
Tho exports were: Of united States gold
- fin* MI
coin, tl 1,878,138; silver coin, t-<i. iu-net
gain during the year was: In gold coin,
$11,213,573; silver coin, $22,10i!,lj'.>7. This
added to his estimates of tho total amount in
the country January i, 1884. makes tho circulation
on the ls>t of January. 1885,
000,000 gold an 1 $2l>l,0C0.0i)0 silver-ss total
Of $827,000,010.
A comparison of the corrospondlng amounts
of paper in tho United States used as money
or as representatives of coin shows atthe close
of the year an increase in tho gold certificates
of $28,/i!Ki,2-'!2; Silver certificates, $28,200,1)80,
and a decrease in hank notoi of $21,324,200?
a not increase of over #35,000,000.
Tho gold bullion in the mints awaiting
coinage on the first of the present month was
1*61,422,047?a reduction of about $3,0 >0,00J
from that on h&ud at tho beginning of the
previous year.
SUMMARY OF CONGRESS f||
Senate*
Tho lnter-stato commerce bill was coii!
eidered. Mr. "Wilson's amendment making it .,*%?j|
unlawful for railroads to discriminate against ' '-7!localities
or individuals was added to the
bill. A motiou to recommit the bill was de- V4
fpatcd, 18 to24....Mr. Slater called up th* -'-I?
Oregon Control land forfeiture bill,which has
teen in abeyance subject to Mr. Morgan'd vl'la
motion to recon-ider. and Mr. Morgan then . .j||j
withdrew his motion to reconsider. The bill .
therefore stands passed as amended by the ' }%
Senate, and now goes to the House of Bepre* .."j
sontativos.
Among tho petitions presented was one by '
Mr. Hoar,from Mrs. Belva A. I^ckwood,praying
Congress to see that the votes cast for ber ."
at tho last presidential election bo count*! v<g?
Senators Wilson and Mitchell introduced
bills to increase tho pensions of widows or ?$&
minor children of deceased soldiers or sailora
of the United States in the lata war from $1
to $12 a month....A hot debate occurred
over Mr. Hawley's resolution calling for a
certain letter to'General Sherman filed in the
war department
Mr. Hawley's resolution calling for tha ?3
Sherman-Davis papers was Again discussed ..
and finally carried by 52 yeas to 10 nays.... M
Mr. Dolph reported favorably from the com- ?3
niittee on public lands the House bill, with .
amendments to repeal the pre-emtion desert
lands and timber culture laws, and to anwnd
tho homestead law....The Senate furthei ^,-'5
considered tho inter-stato commorce bill, and .vi
Mr. Vance's amendment that no railroad ....
company be allowed to charge a higher pr> ";???!
portionate rate for the carriage of small than .
of largo parcels was agreed to.
Mr. Edmunds called Mr. Frve to the chair,
toot the floor, and called up the bill providing
that the Provident may appoint to tho retired ;2
list one porsou who has occupied the position ..
of general commanding auy of the armies ol
the United States, or toaoral-in-chief of th?
United States army. He moved to amend il
by adding, "with tho rank and full pay ol
such general or geceral-in-chief, as the cas?
may oe." The amendment was agreed to. . '- :tm
if- it J.-,:?l Amtmi . .
AN OFFER DECLINED.
The Grants Refuse a Fortune
from W. H. Yanderbilfc.
He Buys in Their Property and Offers
it to Mrs, Grant
Mr. William H. Vandcrbilt, who obtained
a judgment against General U. S. Grant for
$150,000 lent him to ward oil the failure of
the Marine bank, bought in tho real estate
and presents of tho general namod in the bill
of sale. He then presented the property to
Mrs. Grant for her separato estate, but she
has declined to receive it Tho following correspondence
will explain tho matter fully:
CIA A 1A 1 oor
UX1. V-W. Al CU UWU CU LV 1 CWI U IUJ f VMW >.jM
the bill, not knowing -whether tho yeas ftn-J - f >-y.J
nays would be called en it. Tbe retired lift, 2?
he said, was not the place for private citizens. *\ - vS
It was created for officers who, being still io
tho service, had been rendered unfit for duty. '/:'2?||
There was neither justice nor propriety iii |
placing private citizens on such a list. Gen- tSjj
eral Grant was now enjoying the receipt ol
|L">,000 a year, which was enough for tho sap
port of auy American citizen. Mr. El- *'|Q
munds said he concuiTed in the gen- . ;<wj|
eral principle laid down by Mr. Cockreli ask .'.?8
the retired list, that it was not the place
for private citizens. Ha (Mr. Edmunis) waa
on that point a Democrat of Democrats. Bui
as a Senator and citizen he was glad of tlx -'.'Lj-a
opportunity to ask tho passago of this bill
General Grant had sei-ved his country fdlth- ;; ;_-aS
fully and gallantly in the Mexican war whll? rjjjgj
a young lieutenant He became general ol
the armies of the United States on an occo Ipv*
sion of very considerable importance and intereat.
General Grant had been removed
from tho ofDce of general of the armies oi r-?D
tho United States from which he would ?
have been retired when ho reached
the proper age and put on this verj
list to assume again command of tha - /y-'S
armies of the united States as com- .
mander-in-chief under its constitntion. TJgk
He had not sought it. He had obeyed tho >*?j
call of duty. That removed him from tbi r 3 <*
technical place that he had held in the army -vj
to a higher place as tho constitutional commanderof
the United States under tho law. *;
"When his term expired he became a private .... y?
citizen. In that s ate of.the case and tinder ' ~-%3i
the circumitancos which all knew, and in
view of tho honor, the respect, the gratitndd ' -Cjj
and the duty that we owe him as primus is .
illustrius in the history of this country, Mr. ' "ifl
Edmunds would be glad to have a unani- ~ i ' 3?
mous vote for the bilL Tbe debato was brief, , ^
and tho bill was passed, yeas 49, nays ft..
u-t./ i'luti ?ian. iu, io?.
Mrs. Ulysses y. Ghajtt?Dear Madam?
So many misrepresentations have appeared in
regard to the loan made by me to General
Grant, and reflecting unjustly upon him and
mysolf, that it seems proper to briefly recite
tha facts. On Sunday, tho 4th of May last.
General Grant called at my house and asked
mo to lond him $150,000 for one day. I'gave
him my check without question, not because
the trnn.saction was business-like, but simplv
because the request came from General Grant
The misfortunes which overwhelmed him in
the next twenty-four hours aroused the sympathy
and regret of the wholo country.
You and he sent me within a few days of the
time the deods of your joint properties to
cover this obligation and urged my acceptance
on tho ground that this was tho only debt of
honor which the general had personally incurred,
and these deeds I returnod. During
my absence iu Europe the general delivored
to my attorney mortgages upon all his own
real estate, household effects and swords,
medals and works of art which werothe memorials
of his victories, and the presents front
governments all ovor tho world. Theso
securities were in his judgment worth the
$150,000.
At his solicitation the necessary steps were
taken by judgment, etc., to reduce these
properties to possession, and tho articles mentioned
have been this day bought in by me
and the amounts bid applied in reduction of the
debt. Now that I am at liberty to treat these
things as my own, the disposition of tho whole
matter most in accord with my feelings is thjs:
I present to you, as Your soparate estale, the
debt and judgment I hold against Gen. Grant,
also the mortgages upon his real est i to, and all
the household furniture and ornaments,coupled
only with the condition that tlio swords, commissions,
medals, gifts from the United States,
States, cities and foreign governments, and all
articles of historical value and interest, shall,
at the general's death, or, if you desire it,
sooner, ho presented to the government at
Washington, where they will remain as perpetual
memorials of his fame and of the history
of his time.
I iuc'ose herewith assignments to you of
the mortgages and judgments, a bill of salo of
the property, and a deed pf trust, in which
the articles of historical interest are enumerated.
A copy of this trust deed will, with
your approval, bo forwarded to the President
of tho united States for deposit In the proper
department.
Trusting that this action will meet with
your acceptance and approval, and with
kindest regards to your husband, l am yours,
respectfully, W. H. Vanderbilt.
? declined with thanks
New York City, January 10,1885.
Dear Sir: Mrs. Grant wishes me to answer
your letter of this evening, to say that
while she appreciates your great generosity
in transferring to her the mortgage given to
secure my debt of $159,000, she cannot accept
it in whole. She accepts with pleasure the
trust which applies to articles enumerated in
your letter to go to the government of the
Unitod States at my death or sooner, at her
option. In this matter you have anticipated
the disposition which I had contemplated
making of tha articles. They will be delivered
to the government as soon as arrangements
can be made for their recoption.
Papers relating to all other property will
be returned, witn the request tnat you have
it sold aud the proceeds applied to the liquidation
of the debt which I so justly owe you.
You have stated in your letter with the minutest
accuracy the history of the transaction
which brought me in your debt I have
only to add that I regard your giving me
your check for the amount without inquiry
&s an act of marked and unusual friendship.
The loan was to me personally. I got the
money, as I believed, to carry tho Marine
National bank over a day, being assured
that tho bank was solvent, but,
owing to unusual calls needed assistance
until it could call in its loans. I was assured
by Ferdinand Ward thnt tho firm of Grant
& Ward had over jfGOJ.O 0 to their credit al
that time, in the Marine bank, beside $1,SO),000
of unpledged securities in their own
vaults.
I cannot conclude without assuring you
that Mrs. Grant's inability to avail horself ol
your great kindness in no way lessons either
her sense of obligation or my own.
* Yours truly, U. S. Grant.
W. H. Vanderbilt, Esq.
he will not be defeated.
540 Fifth avenue, Jan. 11, 1885.
General U. S. Grant?My D?ar Sir: On
my return home last night I found your letter
in answer to mine to Mri. Grant. I appreciate
fully the sentiments which actuate
Loth Mrs. Grant and yourself in declining
the part of my proposition relating to the
real estate. I greatly regret that she feels it
her duty to make this decision, as I earnestly
hoped that the spirit in which the offer
*as made would overcome any scruples
in accepting it But I must insist
tbat I shall not bo defeated in a
purpose to which I have given so much
thought nnd which I have so much at heart
I wil" therefore, as fast as tho money Is received
from the sales of the real estate, deposit
it in the Union Trust company.
"With the money thus realized I will at one*
create with that company a trust, with
proper provisions for the income to be paid
to Mrs. Grant during her life, and giving the
power to her to make such disposition of the
principal by her will as she may elect Very
truly your8?
William H. Vanderbilt.
accepted by the general.
New York City, Jan. 11,188-5.
Dear Sir?Your letter of this date is received.
Mr?. Grant and I regret that you
cannot accept our proposition to retain the
property which was mortgaged in good faith
to socure a debt of honor. But your generous
determination compels us to no longer resist
Yours truly, U. S. Grant.
W. H. Vanderbilt
refused by mrs. orant.
New York^ Sunday, January 11, 1885.
My Dear Mr. Vanderbilt?Upon reading
your letter of this afternoon, General
Grant and myself felt that it would be ungracious
to refuse your princely and generous
offor. Hnnce his note to you. But upon reflection
I find that I cannot, and will not accept
your munifiojnee in any form.
I beg that you will parrlou this apparent
fa scillatiou and consider this answer definite
and final.
With great regard and a sense of obligation
that will always remain, I am
"Scours, very gratefully,
J ulia D. Grant.
To Wm. H. Vanderbilt
PROMINENT PEOPLE,
Miss Anna Dickinson has ro-ontered tho
lecturing field.
Rev. Dr. T. De Witt Talmaoe has just
celebrated tho fifty-third anniversary of bis
birth.
Both of Georgia's Senators have been
preachers, Senator Brown as a Baptist, Senator
Colquitt as a Methodist
Hon. Thomas A. Hendricks has consented
to deliver the annual address before tho
Yolo alumni and graduating class in June
next
Dr. Wm. H. Furxess, of Philadelphia, by
his ordination in 18-', tho oldest ^ Unitarian
clergyman in inis cuumrj.isjuu
his ministry.
The czar of llussia has an income of moro
than $8,(100,000 a year. The emperor of Austria
receives $ 1,030,030,and the queen of England
f 2,300,000.
Mns. Mary Ashley Towxsend, the poet
of the exposition opening at New Orleans, is
an Iowan by birth,and her husband is a New
Orleans commission merchant.
James L. Graitam, the new Speaker cf the
Pennsylvania House of Representative, is
sixty-live years of age. In early life he was
a Methodist. He has amassed considerable
wealth.
By the queen's command, a largeand handsomo
chair of polished granite has been placed
by the sido of a private road at Balmoral as
a memorial of her son, tho lato Duke of Albany.
That road was ono of his favorite
walks.
Oscar Wilde keaps right on in his crusades
against modern fashion in dress. Hf
told a Glasgow audience the other night that
a Lancashire mill-girl with a shawl over her
shoulder and clogs on her feet knew more
about dress than a fashionable London lady
just returned from Paris.
II. H. Warner, founder of the Warner
Observatory, in Rochester, N. Y., has recently
purchased Cameron's painting,
"Niagara Falls in Winter." Tho purchasing
price was 1.500. The picture measures
nine by eighteen feet. Mr. Warner will
placo it in his private gallery, which already
contains many masterpieces.
A Buffalo pap?r states that Mr. Hill, the
r.?,v Vi,i-lf " President
elect Cleveland,was th mayor of a city throe
years ago. Ammij distinguished ex-mayors
still living are Horatio Seymour and Koscoo
Conkling. In this connection tho lact may
be recalled tluit Do Witt Clinton resigned the
United States senatorship to becoino a
mayor.
Ex-Governor Adser Corurn, of Maine,
whose death at the ago of eighty-one year*
aud ten months recently occurred, was a poor
farmer's boy, and by his own efforts an<l astuteness
accumulated a fortune of ?(J,0'.W,(10U
or $7,(H)0,0>.t. He was liovor married, lie
was the last of eight brothers, no one of
whom left a male heir, tho last of them,
Stephen's sou, having been drowned with his
father a few years ago.
Among the Democrat! Messrs. Maxey, Voor- > ; ?
bees, Georgo, Gilson and Jones spoke alfo in
its favor. The Senators who voted nay wen . rf|
Messrs. Beck, Coekrell, Coke, Harris, rendlfr - &
ton, Baulsbury, Slater, Vance and Walker.
Honie<
Resolutions were adopted calling on thi 4!
President for information about tlie Conge
conference, and for copies of a'l correspondenco
between this government and Franct
in regard to the French and American Land
Commission since November 23, lfcfSI. A '-v
large number of private bills will be intro* v.'Sg
duced.
Tbe House further considered the consuls! :'\l
and diplomatic bill without reaching a voU
A bill was passed authorizing the judge
of ihe supreme courtof the District of Colum- *
bin to appoint a competent lawyer to prepare , ^
a criminal code for the District....Mr. Rogers
introduced a bill authorizing the appro
priation of $8,000,000 toward the enlargement
of the Erie canal to a sufllcient capacity to ' ",<*
pass war vessels twenty-five feet wide and - -J*
one hundred feet long and merchant vesseli
of <500 tons burden.
There was passed a bill limiting the tima
for the presentation of bounty and back pay
claims to three years from the passage of thw
act, of all other claims, ezcepl pern-ions, to
six years, and providing that claim; hereafter
arising must bo presented within six
years from the time they originated....Mr.
Browne announced the sudden death at
Schuyler Colfax, once speaker of the House, . '-j
and late Vice-President, and out of respect to
his memory the House adjourned.
The French spoliation claims bi!l was
i passed by 181 yeas lo 71 nays. This in the ' 1 >*?1
I third timo such a bill 1ms passed the House
since 1802. The amount of the claims to b?
! presented is variously estimated at from$S,000,000
to *13,000,000 without any allow* ?;
I anco on account of interest....The Chinese '" 3
indemnity bill?a bill to return to China
$.<58tt,400.M left over from an indemnity fund
! paid by the Chinese government to Americans - ^
: to repay them for losses to property sustained . ;
through lawless bands in China more than
twenty-five years ago?was passed....Upon
i notice of Mr. Randall the sum of 11,500 was S
; appropriated to send a special messenger to ; V
Iowa and Oregon to obtain the certificates ot
the electoral votes of those States, such
certificates not having been received by the
president pro tem. of the Senate.
i
TWO BIG FAILUEE8,
Well Known Bankom and a Great .
I: on Firm Suspend.
Two big suspensions on the same day?'}%
in Now York and the other in Pittsburg?ha v*
startled the business communities of the
East. In New York tho widely-known
banking house of John J. Cisco & Soi
was obliged to close its doors and make an as"
sigmnont. Ilumors affecting the financial
soundness of tho firm caused sueh a run upon
its funds by alarmed depositors that it finally
went under. The effect of tho rumors
was naturally quickened by tho goneral dullness
of business and tho persistent deprecia- w
tion ot' raiiroad soeurities, with which tho
firm are said to bo heavily la len. Tho liabilities
of the insolvent firm are estimated at
from $->,000,000 to $3,000,000.
At Pittsburg, Penn., on the same day, the ?gr:
great wire ana st<*l manufacturing-firm of
Oliver Brothers & Phillij.-s, and tho Oliver &
Roberts Wiro company, (limited,) issued tho jgg.,;
following card to their creditors: ^
"We are to day compelled to suspend paymcute,
a:rl propose calling immediately a
meeting of those interested, to whom wo
believe we can show assets amply sufficient, dB.v
with some indulgence, to pay every dollar of
our liabilities."
'1 he report, of the embarrassment of Oliver 'jjH
Brothers & Phillips. tlio greatest iron firm in
the city, (lew like wildfir.) and set the town jfgsl
ag'g with excitement. Suih an event was
recognized as a catastrophe uncqualed by any
?evious failure. The firm had about 4,(WO
men in its employ, ami owned more than 100 'fjggt
nuudliug furnaces. A failure to meet some **3^
heavy notes is said to have b>en the immediate
cause of its sus|iension. Harry W. Oliver,
jr.. is tho best known member of the firm
outside of Pittsburg, by reason of his candidacy
for United States"Senator in 1-SS1 and
his membership of tho Tariff commission. He
has been known as one of tho Stalwart Republican
leaders in the State and a liberal
contributor to campaign funds, but has
never held any local ortice. The firm's lia- 4
bilities are placed at S 1,01)0,000, and it is asserted
they will bo able in time to pay creditors
in full.
NEWSY GLEANINGS.
Ice sells at ten cents a pound in the city of
Mexico.
In 1*S4 there wero upward of 2-jO hotels
burned in this country.
There are ."0,000 roller skating rinks
established in this country.
The expenses of tho Democratic national
convention at Chicago were $1.30,000.
In Clermont county, Ohio, gold ore has
boen found that yields $1,OOJ to the ton.
It is said that the writings of Nathaniel P?
Willis are acain coining into public favor.
The main exposition buildin? at New Or
j leans is believed to be the largest building
ever erected.
A life insurance man calculates that in
Kloo there will bo living 1,333 survivors of
the civil war.
A French astronomer claims to have discovered
that in Venus there is a mountain
seventy miles high.
Mexico maintains an agricultural collegeat
its capital, ih j appropriations for which
las t year were $ 5:}:)
The secretary of the interior states that
there is no land within the limits ol the Indian
Territory subject to settlement.
Within a few years the manufacture of
che?>sG has increased in : his country from
TO.OOiJ.OtO pounds to 4")D,i)00,0 W.
London is now one of the quietest cities in
the world in consequence ol' tlio prevalence of
wood or asphalt pavement in all the chief
thoroughfares.
A package of glass globes, of the value of
$15, was received at Portland, Oregon, by ex-n
press recently from the East, (ho express
charges on which amounted to over $'50.
Each messenger carrying the electoral vote
of the several States "from the <:*ipita!s of
their respective States to Washington, f^ceived
twenty-fivd cents per utile as compensation.
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