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,v.- . - _ ABBEVILLE PRESS AND BANNER! BY HUGH WILSON. ABBEVILLE, S. C.. WEDNESDAY. FEBRUARY 4, 1885. NO. 32. VOLUME XXIX. |S ? ? MY LIFE. My life to mo is as a station, "Wherein apart the traveler stands, One absent long ?rom home and nation In other lands. And I, as ho who stands and listens Amid the twilight's chill and gloom, To hear approaching in the distance, The train for home. WILD NAN. Cn.VPTEU I. Judge Cobbleson, an eminent jurist? all judges are?among other good trait9, * warmly admired the truth. Every member of the Daniel I.amber Club, a social organization of two hundred and forty pounders, were always glad when the time came for the judge to entertain the | meeting. The following is the last paper [ read by him: Shortly after arriving in Arkansaw, I then a territory, I was appointed prosecuting attorney of one of the districts. Of course, being young and not over-wise, I "?? ? CAmnflmoff T kova t> i45 aiuuiiiuua, c^mwumwo a r vutu uui v i to ride horseback fifty miles to discharge | uiy duties. There is one occasion that I' shall never forget. A new court house j having been built in Shakerag county, 11 et out for that place as court convened immediatelv after the last clapboard was j placed upon the roof. One evening as I was nearing the end of a tiresome jour- J ney?while riding along, wondering what j lo:t of a boarding house it would be my j fortune or misfortune to secure, a' piercing shriek brought ray horse to a stand- ! Itill. I was frightened, tor although the country was wild, 1 was not prepared for i ?uch a shock. Pulling down my hat which leemed to rise on the ends of my hair, , ! looked around, and was not long in j discovering the cause of the outcry. A j; ?irl, with streaming hair, was on the 1 back of a capering mule. The animal, : rithout saddle or bridle, was lunging at will. The performance was taking place on the edge of a small prairie, and every moment I expected to see the mule plunge into the timber and kill the rider. ( It was not a time for surmises. Gallop' Ing out to the edge of the prairie, I made l % dash at the mule. The' beast wheeled and threw his heels within an inch of my face, and, at the same time, threw his! i rider. Springing from my horse I ran to the girl's assistance. She was up, ! ( thcugh, before I reached her. She had j' fallen on a bed of grass and was not hurt. j 1 "It is a thousand wonders you were not killed," said I, not knowing what ( ftthpr remark to make. I | "Yes," she replied, "and it is a thou-: 1 sand wonders that you were not. Didn't j i you feel awful funny when you saw his ] heels reaching after your countenance?" ; < "I hardly had time to feel anything, j Having so much business on hand your- ' self, I wonder that you noticed the compliment which your friend was trying to i pay me." "Ah!" she replied, "a woman is never i too busy to watch the affairs of her neigh- i bora." 1 "But you are not a woman." ] "I am not a man." t i "Of course not. I mean that you are only a girl. What is your name?" ; '\Nanny Harlin, but everybody calls j me "Wild Nan." ! ] "I should think, too, that you have j earned the title. Were you brought up j here?" < "Yes, and brought down there," point- i lag to the place where she had fallen, j "1 don't live but a little way from here, j Won't you please let me ride your! horse?" "With pleasure. Come, let m: assist < you into the saddle." I expectcd that she would ride along j leisurely and let me walk beside her, but I striking the horse with the bridle-reins j she urged him into a gallop. I shouted. J < but paying no attention to me, she dashed away and soon disappeared iu the woods. ! 1 Naturallv I felt embarrassed. I followed i in the direction she had taken, but dark-! ness soon coming on, I lost the semblance : ] of a trail and -wandered aimlessly in the i 1 woods. After a long time, an age it [ seemed to me, a light gleaming away over on a hillside, stopped my rapid flow i of profanity. Reaching the house, ! which I did for u wonder without en- ', countering a dog, I was about to veil a lusty halloa when a man's voice, speak- j ing far more powerful than gentle, ar- | rested my attention. j ( "Where the deuce did you get that j 1 horse?" said the voice, and" thcu, with- j out giving any time to reply, added: ' 'Be 11 sent to tne penitentiary, the first thing ;1 you know. Everybody don't understand your foolishness. Now, suppose that ; man should fail to find the house to- ; night, what will become of your' 1 , " What'll become of him, dad, that's < the question." i "Look sharp, now. Don't give me i any of you foolishness. "Where were yon < when you first saw him?" 11 "J was on a mule." j < " On a mule?" yelled the man's voice. "Yep." j] " What where you doing on a mule?" j i "I was getting off 'bout the time he < saw me. I was being flung by old Sap. j; T oAmn onlf Ant for mnlao onrl while old Sap was lickiu', I climbed a ] tree an' got on his back. Then he rau ! out on the prairie and cut more monkey j shines than anything you ever saw." "Nan, education hasn't clone you a ] particle of good. Been going to school i ever since your mother died, and yet you don't know how to act." 0 j < "I'll be good, dad." I \ "No, you won't; you are going to i give me all the trouble you can; that's < what you are going to do. Mow, I've J j 5ot to start out and look for that man. j 'en chances to one he'll never find the < house." I > Here I shouted. The door was irnme-11 diately opened.' "Come in. said a strong j voice. As soon as I reached the door, a < man stepped aside, saying as he did sj. ; "Walk right in, sir. Man, hand the gen- ( tleman a chair." ' j The man was pretty well advanced in < years. The girl, whom I immediately i recognized, was not bad looking. In , truth, looking at her as she sat in the ; tire-light, untangling her long hair, I j rethought her face at timc->. when a wild 1 expression melted into a gentler one, to be decidedy pretty. "I dont't know how to apologize to < you, sir," said the old gentleman, when he learned that I was the owner of the horse. "In a more civilized country than this, the freak of my daughter would strongly resemble a crime, but I am suff, ; sir, tnat she did not intend to incon- j venience you." j; "I didn't go to do it," said the girl. ' Hush, >?an," demanded the lather. "Ever)'time you speak, you make matters - worse." "Do not give to the subject another j thought," said I. "The adventure, es- j . peciaily as it has had such a pleasant termination, is more than worth the trouble it has caused." After an hour's conversation, during which time we became pood friends over j, dishes of stewed vension and roasted bear, I explained I was enroute for j Shakerag courthouse. "Then you are fortunate, for if you j had gone much further you would have passed it," said my host. "The court- j house is about three quarters of a mile ] to the left of this place. Have you some thing to do with tnc court c I "I am prosecuting attorney for this 1 district," I replied, giving my name. "I am Dr. Hiirlin. Rather thinly j populated country for a doctor of any pretentions, but having passed the best part of my life in a crowd, I have de-' cided to pass the remainder of it in re- ' tirement." Before bed time I had engaged board I with the doctor. He made me promise j that I would be patient with Nan. To j this I agreed, especially as she seemed 1 to be growing better and better looking. "Good night," said the doctor, when he had shown me into a room. "Rather airy quarters, but fresh air is healthful.'' CHATTER It. If Nan's manners had improved ns much as her looks, I don't know but I , should have fallen in love with her during the first few days of our acquaintance. She was undoubtedly the most mischievous creature I ever saw. Watching her expressive face, ever changing under the influence of her revolutionary in:nd, I fancied that I could see her little plans of annoyance come to matur Ouc night, after a hard day in court, ] went to bed early. I was asleep about i the time I touched the bed. I was toe J tired to dream. I had not slept verj i long when I was awakened by something weighing heavily on my fpet. lieacliing ' for a flint and steel at the head of my | bed, I struck a light. Horror of horrors! i *1. MVl'lUlUU MUUU UU liij UCU. | ing up, I jumped into my pantaloons, i grabbed my other clothes and finished i dressing in the hallway. Then remera I bering my cowardice, I re-entered the ! room and" lighted the candle. The skeleton was gone. It must have been a nightmare, but I looked under the bed. I In snutling the candle, I extinguished | the light. Great Caesar! I heard the aw- | ful thing dancing on the floor. Strik- j ing a light, my terrible surmise was correct. There it was grinning and I grim. I thought no more of cowardice, I but with a yell, I rushed from ! the room. The doctor met me in the ! hallway. "My goodness, sir, what is the mat- j ter?" "There's a skeleton in my room!" "Xnn! oh, Xan!" No answer. "Nan, if you don't answer me you I shan't have that candy-pulling. Xan!" "Yep!" came a reply from the loft I over my room. | "Come down this minute." She obeyed deliberately. "What have j | you been doing up there? Hah?" "I wasn't doing anything." I ( "Didn't you take that skeleton out ol i the box?"' I j "Yes, eir, I believe I did." "Yes, you good for nothing thing, j; You ought to be ashamed of yourself. ! Go to bed." I She had moved one of the loose ( boards and had lowered the skeleton by | means of a black cord. I might have , + woo n V\llf U'llfln O rviiu\>u mat it nw <* uiun, uuv , uian is scared, he doesn't take time to reason with himself. My nerves had been so wrought upcn that I tossed nearly all.night, unable to sleep; and at ' last when I did doze, I did not lose en- j tire consciousness, but every moment j expected to be aroused by a skeleton. CHAPTER III. I had been nearly a month at the doctor's house, and the term of court wa9 drawing to a close. By this time, Nan was to mc perfectly beautiful; but gracious her manners were as ugly as ever. The thought that I might possibly be in love with her hail, doubtless, never entered her head. This was provoking. One day when the doctor had been ?allcd to visit a distant patient, I decided ' to inquire into the state of Nan's affectioDs?if she had any. "When I entered the sitting-room alter dinner, I found I tier reading a novel. An encouraging j . , ? . O ? >ign, evidently. \ "What arc you reading, Nan?" "A book." j "Of course it's a book. Do you find j t interesting?" "It might be to some people, but I am I lot carried away with it. Tells all about j i fool man that loved a fool girl, and, ; from the way they arc taking on at ' present, I think they will soon be mar icd." "Did you ever think of marriage, San?'' "Well, it never kept me awake at ; light. i , "Did you ever love any one, Nan!" j ^ "I never lost my appetite on that ac- ! lount." j , "Why don't you speak earnestly? Thi? ] . is a serious subject." ; ] "Yes, too serious for me."' "Xau, I am in love now. I love you." ] "Who told you so!" she replied, with- J j jut exhibiting thj least emotion. "Come, girl, don't trifle with me this 1 way!" "IIow must I trifle with you then!" j j "Oh, Nan, don't you see how I love j j rou?" "That's the way the felllow talks in j this book. Why don't you write a book, j ! ind make the men say 'ah' and the : , women 'do tell!' Take my left hand, please. I want to hold the book with , :he right one.'' "Nan, you will break my heart." "When?" j ' "You arc breaking it now." j "Don't be foolish, Mr. Prosecuting ' Attorney." "Is it foolish to love you!" "Yes, I think so." I "Then I am foolish. I would rather I : aie in such foolishness than to live and ! ' be wise. Oh, Nan?" "I tell you I need ray right hand. Oh, j behave yourself. I don't love you. | There now, go on away." I had been kneeling at her feet. I ; irose when she said she did not love me. j My hopes were withered like a mulberry Leaf in November. Without saying an- ; Jther word, I left her and wandered for j , i time in the woods. "I will leave her to morrow morning," I mused. "I shall ' say nothing to the doctor. 1 shall leave before day. I canuot bear to tell either i of them good-bye." I tried to appear unaffected when we ; met at the supper table, and I don't | think the doctor noticed anything. We j sat up unusually late, I in the hope that i N'an would say something to alter my ; letermination; but not a word, not a : look did I receive to encourage me. "Good-night," I said, still lingering in the doorway. Nan did not even look at me as she re- j r?irrlit- TInnr* nr* ! " ? f~ I :ons will bother you." | ; I did not go to sleep. By the heavy ; strokes of the great old clock in the sit- ' ting-room, I counted the weary drag ! of the hours. Five o'clock. I arose and. Pressed myself. Slipping out cautiously, | 1 started toward the stable. The air was sharp and frosty. The moon had gone , down. The morniug star blazed. The stable wa9 situated some distance from the house, reached by a path winding ! imong the scattering trees and stumps of a semi-clearing. I had not proceeded far, when I saw a light on a stump. I drew closer and a chill seized me. What i light! Its beams came from a horrible j Lcrin. I was frightened, but I was determined not to turn back. Closes, and with my heart beating wildly, I stopped, j Merciful heavens! The light came from ' r? linmnn clrilll TllPn T llPJIwl CTlCTOrlf* that I knew too well. "Nan!" I called. She stepped from behind a tree and approached. " Nan, what on earth is that?" "Candle in a skull. I thought you would need a light." " How did you know I was coming out here?" " "When you fed your horse late last night, I thought that you would attempt j to leave early this morning." " Attempt to leave?" I repeated. "Yes, I knew that you would attempt j to leave, but I shall not let you. Oh, Mr. CobblesoD, don't you know that I wor- I ship you?" grasping my arm. "If you | were to leave, 1 should" die. Come, let us return to the house." The old doctor never knew of my attempted flight. He readily gave his cousent to our marriage. Nan sobered down I into the gentlest of women. One of her i grand-daughters is very much like her, I but lack of opportunity prevents her ' from employing skeletons in the practice j of her mischievous machinations.?Ar- J kansate Tnuckr. _____________ A Graveyard Within a Bank. Few people are aware that the Bank j of England contains within its walls a ! graveyard, but such is nevertheless the j fact. The Gordon riots in 1780, during j wmcn ttie uanK was auacneu uy u mou, ; called alteution to the necessity for! strengthening its defenses. Competent authorities advised that an adjoining i church, rejoicing in the appropriate i name of St. Christopher-le-Stocks, was, in a military sense, a source of danger, I and accordingly an act of parliament was j passed to enable the directors to purchase the church and its appurtenances. The old churchyard, tastefully laid out, now forms what is known as the bank "garden," the handsome "court-room" or "bank parlor'' abutting on one of its sides. There is a magnificent lime-tree, one of the largest in London, in the centre of the garden, and tradition states that under this tree a former clerk of thu bank, eight feet high, lies buried,? Chambers,' Journal. There are eight lawyers in Philadel phia who have been in practice over fiftj years. SCRAPS FROM THE FEASTS. I A QUEER INDUSTRY WHICH FLOURISHES IN NEW YORK. Gathering 1,'p the Fooil I.eft Over at ; Faaliionnble Entertainment* ? How It i* Retold. A belated New York reporter found J himself in front of a handsome house | on Madison avenue at 2 a. m. A dilupi- ; dated wagon, drawn by an aged horse, stood before the house. The reporter j noticcd two men hurrying from the cart, ; with empty pans and pails, into the | basement of the house, and returning | speedily with the same tilled to the brim, j For a moment it looked like a burglary, j but the presence of a policeman on the ! ncaicst corner was assurance to the contrar}\ One of the men paused as if to rest for a 1110 ment, and the reporter accosted him: "What's the racket?" "The same old thing. Free lunches, cheap restaurants, and Eyetalians." "I don't quite catch on. What are you doing in the place!" "Why, don't you sec, they've had a party there to-night and a big supper. They've left three times as much as they've eaten, and we're buying it up from the steward. Well, take it around to our regular customers and sell it all before 9 o'clock to-morrow." "Regular customers? Why, is this a regular trade?"' "Of course it is, and has been for over ten years of my own knowledge. You see, there are a hundred parties and over ijivcn every night here in New York. N'carly all of them are supplied by regular caterers. About half are noticed in the daily papers. Now, at these rackets ;hcy always put up a lot more than they svant. They can't help themselves, because it would never do to have just us nuch as their guests needed and no more, tt would look just as if they were dead uroke. Old families order generally twice as much as they're going to use, icw families about three or four times as nuch, and shoddies five and ten times is much. Why, last week we took in a j swell place where they had fifty people, j >r,/l V>?X1 nnmifrli frruli for five hun 3red. Now, what happens? The party 3r wedding is all over, and there's all :hat stnf! left untastcd. All they can 3o is to throw it into the swill barrel. That's where we conic in. We come ilong and buy it up. Sometimes we buy it from the caterer. It saves him trouble and time, as we clean off all the Jis'nes and leave them ready for his ivashers. Sometimes we make the deal i with the cook or the butler, and some- j limes, but not very often, with the old man of the house. Anyway, we mauago :o connect and get the stuff." "What do you pay?" " Well, that depends. With a reliable caterer we can find out what will be eft over, and can make a fair bid. With :ooks aud servants we generally stake aim with a two or a five-dollar note. Alnost always we comc out ahead, but now j ind then we get left. Cooks are getting | :oo smart and want too much. With I :he head of the house, though, it's easy tvork, and a V will satisfy him every i time." " What do you do with the stuff?" - - ~ - _ rni .i. I "bell it to our customers, mures, ] 5rst, the cheap restaurants. They're al- j ways ready to take anything cheap. If they can get a chicken salad for $2 that ; would cost them S5 to make they'll take | it every time. You see, they can afford I to sell at twenty cents a plate and make money. "Why, one time I sold lobster I salad, thirty pounds for $2.2o. It cost j the restaurant keeper three cents a plate, md he could sell for ten and make I money. As a matter of fact, he sold it j ill before 4 o'clock for tiftcen cents a i plate. Then there's the free lunch saloons. They want sandwiches, pickles, | bread, cheese, olives and ham. They | ion't pay much, but they'll take all you j bring. There's one place downtown where they give a fried oyster, a sandwich, or something with every drink. That man is one of my best customers. "After you've worked the restaurants ind free lunches, you can always s^ll out what's left to the Eyetalians. They'll ; buy anything if it's cheap enough. I've sold them melted ice cream of different :olors half eaten Charlotte Russes, chicken bones, and broken cakes. At a ! street cleaner's restaurant in Marion j street last year I sold the leavings from i Hio r\iofno nf i liicr wprldiiitr retention for > u v' i/li*tv'i' " C? L I 3ne dollar. They made about three pail- j fuls, and had over fifty different things ! in them." "What do you get mostly from parties?" "First, leavings from plates; then , melted ice cream: next sandwiches, and j then cake. Occasionally we get Char- I lotte Russc and candies. In the old j days we almost never got salads; but j since they've used veal and boiled beef in making chicken salad, we get a good j deal. On warm nights we collar a good j many fried and pickled oysters; on cold ' nights almost none at all. 'When they I put up cold ham, corned beef, turkey I and vension, people don't eat a quarter j of it, and then we come in solid. "Hut you see it all depends on the ; kind of party it is. Literaries are the [ worst of all; they only have bouillon, i coffee, sandwiches, and salad, and there's nothing left over. Musicals arc almost as bad. Kettledrum? and afternoon rackets arc not much good either. The best is a wedding. They send out n thousand invites and set up for 700, and then about 150 comes. Jiecepuons to | public men are the next best. Then conic birthday, christening, and tin wed- j ding parties. Wakes, too. are sometimes ^ boss. The only way to size them up is i to kDow the caterer and get all the j points from him." "I)o you ever get any wine?" '\Na-o! The eld man of the house always comes down aud collars what's left. If he don't, the waiters drink it, and they are always helped out by the j servants. I've been in the business for J ten years, and I never j;ot even a half j bottle. That is, I didn't get any wine, I although I did get the empty bottles. I Tliev don't pay, though, unless you get ! more thnn fifty, and then they bring you j about a dollar. 15ut I've got to stop, as | I'm of! now to Washington market for ; our first customer.'' : | r V.?At.:A.inA A luidii; ifUL'iui a I.AJIL-Iicmc. j When Dr. Koch, the discoverer of scv- j eral kinds of bacteria, or the germs of j different diseases, brought forward the j cholera bacilli, which he averred could | not be mistaken for any other, the enthti- | siasm among scientific men was so great | that several students ottered themselves j as subjects for experiment, urging that j they should be allowed to swallow the j bacilli, to prove the truth of Dr. Koch's i discovery, and to help establish the ; chance of cure. Such heroism and willingness to sacrifice life to promote the science of the j healing art lias been not uncommon 1 among medical students in all times. A I still more recent case shows a physician ' not only offering to die. but really risk j ing and losing his life to save that of another. Dr. Kabbath. a young physician in j London, while removing the deposit lately from the throat of a child dying with diphtheria, applied his own mouth j to the tube"*and sucked it out, as the last j hope of rescue. The heroic sacrifice was useless in saving life. Doth the child I and the physician died within a few j hours. Hut it was not in vain. JJr. j Kabbath might have lived unknown, as ; (in obscure physician. But the story of j lus death was told all over the English- i speaking world, and quickened men to! unseltish heroism as with the sound of a j trumpet. "A living mail/' said one writer, "he entered heaven with a living child !*'? Youths' Companion. There are about 150 vessels and 200 Hampton boats owned in Portland, Me., which are engaged in the fishing business, giving employment to about 3,000 fishermen. The amount of capital represented in this interest is not far from $2,000,000, and the annual catch of tish is of about the same value. The present population of the world I is stated at 1,294,533,073, of whom j 7.831,080 are Jews and 370,879.000 are | Christians. These figures leave 915,721,827 to be classed as heathen. NEWS AND NOTES FOR WOMEN. Gray and black ostrich feathers are speckled with white,as if sprinkled with snow. Bronze slippers and royal cardinal silk hose arc popular for afternoon wear at home. Umbrellas now have natural wooden handles, the quainter and more eccentric the newer style. Black, cardinal and blue are the leading shades in hosiery, the stripes and plaids being rarely seen. A good novelty is a ribbon for use on mourning dresses, between Ottoman and faille, very durable, yet soft. Choice sprays of shaded velvet flowers appear upon some of the most elegaut little opera bonnets from Paris. "Worth, of Paris, will furnish a bridal outfit for a lady for $20,000, but she imiov wajivvi vii-ij luiiij; "?i .v_?j v,ummon. The very newest overskirts are made with very large plaits all around, and are shorter in front than at the sido and behind. Jet and black ribbon arc the favorite trimming for the very little wraps worn with woolen suits, no matter what may be their color. Basques and tunics for elegant house wear are made of Gobelin serge with antique figures and rich dull colors, and worn over skirts of velvet. Small gold and silver pins, in novel devices, both floral, fanciful and grotcsqe, arc thrust about in the luces of jabots and frills on dressy corsages. "Worth's most stylish wraps have a jersey effect in the waist portion, and the long skirts are draped to cling to the figure and produce a slender effect. A companion volume to " Men of the Times" is to be devoted to women of mark,and comprises over 400 names wellknown in art, literature, science, music and the drama. A new crape cloth has been brought out for widows' second mourning which really wears well. It is all wool, though heretofore there has been a cotton warp in such fabrics. For all but deep mourning people are wearing terry brochc thrown ou wool ground, all black, and for si ght mourning some charming specklcd stufTs have been brought out. A bride's cake, in London, for Sir Watkins - Williams - "Wynn's daughter, weighed fifty pounds, and had statuettes on top representing literature, art, science and music. A pretty fancy for dancing is the wearing of black silk stockings with jet clocks, and slippers of black satin with a jet swallow pcrched 011 each instep, the beak terminating at the toe. Muffs and bonnets trimmed with applique bands in solid colorings, or in the magnificent Persian effects in silk I cord, bead and cheniile are worn with wraps and redingotes similarly adorned. A most charming toilet, recently imported, is made of moonlight tulle, studded all over with tiny silver loops woven into the tissue, and through cach of which is passed the stem of a wood violet in velvet. The styles in kid gloves show few changes. The lengths remain about the same, although in soino brands are a little Wider in the arm and a trifle narrower where they button, and this is a j decided improvement. A charming evening dress is of white tulle and white satin. The train of satin is dotted with silver, and the front,composed of plaited tulle, is striped with satin ribbon, the panels lengthwise, the full front horizontally. The taste for all kinds of beadwork this season is a new idea in silk dress goods. The beading is not confined to white goods, but is used on satins and velvets ot ail colors, tiie uiacKs ueing especially rich in effect when embroidered with gold beads. Many of the large white collars of English embroidery have the pattern outlined in gold thread, and r.re more becoming and more elegant in consequence. Sometimes the metal appears only in the corners and at the border, and sometimes it is employed on the whole surface An English way of arranging ribbon as a trimming on a "hat is to make a very large and complicated bow of it in front of the crown, setting a few ostrich tips among the loops. The ends of the ribbon are passed through a slit in front of the crown and reappear at its top in the back, passing down to be tied in a bow j on the brim. The most beautiful of the European i royal women is said to be Queen Olga, of Greece. She is tall and of perfect | shape, with exquisite feet and hands, j limpid aucl Jargc daric eyes and long curling lashes. very long dark liuir, and a complexion delicate as a flower petal. She is almost as fine an equestrienne as the Empress of Austria. Her husband adores her. A Jlnu ">7llli Three Logs. In a Boston hotel recently a Bavarian, thirty-three years of age, named George Lippert, presented himself for examination and inspection to a number of physicians and surgeons. Mr. Lippert, says the Boston JJenihl, is known aud accurately described as the "three-legged man." lie has two legs which reach the ground and one that is turned up behind him, the latter originally placed in that position by Mr. Lippert himself, who was sensitive about his deformity and desired to conceal it. In fact, he does conceal it so well that its presence can not be cuessed as he walks alonjj the street, llis left leg is perfect, except that it has six toes. Where the right leg should be there :tre two legs growing side by side and covered by the same skin as far as the knee, or very near that point. There are two thigh bones, two ball and socket joints and different sets of muscles, and the motion of one leg is entirely independent of the other. Each of these legs, which may be called the second and third legs, has a separate knee-joint, and from the knee they are entirely separate from each other. The second leg below the knee has but one bone, and this ends in a bony knob with three toes attached to it. It is this leg that he uses in walking, the termination being protected by a padded cup made to tit it. The third leg has all the bones i and muscles to be found in the leg of any ordinary man, but at the foot is twisted in a most extraordinary manner. On this foot there are six toes, which all move as Mr. l.ippeit wills. This leg, though not 1 lie one used in walking, is, .i,?i? ,1 i?? r?tii uuvuriui'ivas, iui: i. libit | Mr. Lippert was .sixteen years of age he I used all three legs in walking, and each j had its own independent motion, but lie j could not stand the remarks his appear- | once drew forth, and the older he be- j came the more sensitive he grew, and I finally he strapped the outside leg up be- | hind him in such a way that it could not j be remarked. lie naturally thought the | outside lea was the superfluous one, | wheu in reality the extra one was in the | center. Tightly strapped up in the way j described, the muscles became rigid and ; contracted in such a way that it is im- ! possible now to straighten this lcic. An- ) other singular thing about this third leg j is that the toe nails grow under the foot J and not as in a perfect foot. Mr. Lippert has three brothers and three sisters, all perfectly formed; his father and j mother arc in no way remarkable, and | there is no record in his family of the j birth of twins, lie is another living illustration of the peculiar method in which nature sometimes works, and no theory yet advanced satisfactorily accounts for his strange deformity. Findinn hie nvtr.1 1 nrr 11 scriouq inconvenience *"b v""** *vt? * ? -to him in nearly all the walks of life, he finally overcame his modesty and consented to exhibit himself. Ginger biscuits, an agreeable variation of ginger cookies, are made of one pound of flour, half a pound of butter, half a pound of sugar, two eggs, two heaping tablespoonfuls of ginger, two tcaspoonfuls of baking powder; mix thoroughly and mold into small biscuits; bake in ft quick oven. A little salt is required unless the butter is very salt. Just sixteen years ago the interest, on he national debt was $143,000,000 a car. It is now $58,000,000. ! NEWS SUMMARY Frmtcm and Middle states. The banking houso of AmosS. Henderson at Lancaster, Pcnn., has gone under; liabilities, over JUUO.O^O. New Bedford, Mass., reports 1,000 cases I of measles, an average of one case to every | thirty jiersons. Five men were killed by the explosion of a sawmill boiler at Good Spring, Peun. Cashier Meech and Assistant-Cashier Webb, of the Merchants' bank, of Norwich, Conn., were arrested for embezzling from the institution's funds. Both gavo bonds to answer. The long struggle over a nomination for the successor of Hon. Elbridge (I. Lapham as United States Senator from New York ended by the Republican caucus awarding tho prize" to William M. Evarts, who received sixty-one votes to twenty-eight for Oliver P Morton and three for Chauncey M. Dopew. As tho Republicans have a majority in tho New York legislature, the nomination of Mr. Evarts was equivalent to an election. William M. Evarts was elected United States Senator from New York by the State legislature, receivinc nineteen votes in tho senate and seventy-three in tho assembly to thirteen votes in tho senate and fifty-two in the assembly for Edward Cooper, the Democratic causus nominee. Congressman Jonathan Chace was elected by tho Rhode Island legislature to tho United States Senate as successor to the late Senator Anthony. Oliver Brothers & Phillips, tho suspended Pittsburg iron firm, have made a statement to their creditors showing liabilities, Sl,50S,m?3; assets, $2,31U,352.42. An extension of five years is asked. The Connecticut legislature re-elected Hon. 0. H. Piatt to the United States Senate. The Democratic nominee was \V. H. Barnum, chairman of the Democratic National committee. Under instructions from Mayor Grace, the New York police are putting a stop to all gambling and rigidly entorcing the liquor law. The other night twelve gambling houses in the city were raided. Three right whales, known to whalemen as "two cows and a calf," were captured the other day off tho Long Island coast by the whaling crews of two villages. The whales were harpooned close to the shore, but making a desperate fight for life towed the boats fully ten miles to sea before spouting blood. They are valued at nearly $4,(X)J. A day or two subsequently another right whale was captured off the Long Island coast. It proved to be the largest yet caught, being seventy feet long and nino feet broad. The bone is ??l x-o cri/i VUlUl'U UK <W,?JUU. TnE failure of the Jamestown (Penn.) savings bank was followed by the discovery that its young cashier, I. Ross Martin, had disappeared and was a defaulter to tho tune of about $20,000. When last seen Martin was headod for Canada. Sister Theresa,a niece of the Hon. Jame3 G. Blaine, died a few days since in St. Mary's Catholic convent at Wilkesbarre, Penn. Ex-Mayor Gontiier, of New York, once a prominent merchant and politician, is dead. The boiler of a portable engine on Simon Benedict's farm in Groton, N. Y., exploded with terrific effect. Mr. Benedict and one son were fatally injured, a youuger son was instantly killed, and the engineer's body could not bo found. Mount Washington*, N. H., has just had the coldest weather ever experienced there, tho thermometer registering fifty degrees belo w zero. A Mrs. E. H. Green*, who is said to be the richest woman in America, had $2(5,000,00.') in first-class bonds and securities on deposit with tho recently suspended New York banking house of John J. Cisco & Son. Mrs. Green called for her projwrty the other day, and upon tho assignee's refusing to give up fcQrn (lilOwnrfh nf thA Hnimmcr thev must lie held as collateral for the loan of $SI)D,C00 made to her husband, the lady made quite a scene, bursting out crying, throwing herself upon the floor and refusing to bo comforted or quieted She finally left, threatening to appeal to the law. South and Wont. A DEsrEHAOO named Perry Pleasants, arrested in Albion, Idaho, fired his revolver with fatal effect at Deputy Sheriff Butterfield, who was guarding him, receiving simultaneously the contents of the latter sshotgun, which killed him instantly. A host of friends were present at Schuyler Colfax's funeral in South Kend, Ind. Governor Hendricks, Governor Porter, Governor Gray, Hon. W. H. Calkins and other prominent Indianians who were to serve as pallbearers were snow bound and did not arrive in time. A fresh railroad war has broken out, and emigrant passenger rates from New York to Chicago have been reduced to one dollar. Numerous towns in Oregon have been cut off from communication with the outside world by immense snow drifts. Five Kiowa Indians were found frozen to death in Indian Territory. riua. i-'AAILL, > UUIVIlAliH nuo iciiuiiiiuubvu to the United States Senate by th_> Democratic members of the Indiana legislature. The Democrats in the Indiana legislature have a majority on joint ballot. Large iron and brass mills in Ohio are again starting up, and reports give a more favorable outlook for the metal trade than lias existed iu many months. Senator Vest has been re-elected to the United States Senate from Missouri Mb. Yoorhees was re-elected United States Senator by the Indiana legislature, receiving a majority of forty-five out of the 14!i votes cast over ex-Governor Porter, the Republican candidate. Z. 13. Vance was re-elected United States Senator from North Carolina, receiving 128 votes. Tyro York, the Republican nominee, received twenty-five votes. "Wilkinson Call has been re-elected United States Senator by the Florida legislature. There was a disgraceful fight over pos session of the speaker's gavel in the Illinois legislature. Speaker Haines resigned at 10 v. M., saying that it seemed both parties did not want him, and ho would have to assume his old position ns tho Independent party. Immediately there was a free fight for possession of tho gavel, members hurling each other right and left in the ell'ort to obtain tlio insignia of oflice. An extraordinary scene of turmoil followed, nnd lasted for some time. Governor Scales' inauguration at Raleigh, N. C., was attended with an unusual civic nnd military display. During the wedding celebration of Colson Bninbridge, an Indian, near Wobber's Falls, Indian Territory, he was killed by unknown parties, who fired through the window. After his death the firing became general, and three of tho wedding party?ono man and two women?wero wounded. The Virginia fleet in search of depredators on tho State's oyster beds has made one haul of sixty-soven prisoners. Governor Cameron declares his determination to continue to make war upon tho "oyster pirates" so long as tliev continue their unlawful practices. Patrick Woods (colored), killed a constable at McCorab City, Miss. Forty masked men look "Woods out of jail and hanged him. H*anlii iicton. It is announced that two colored compa nies, tile Monumental Guards of Baltimore and the Elliot Grays of Now York, will bo present at "Washington during the inaugural ceremonies. Representative John D. Long, of Massachusetts. has been chosen by the managers of the Washington Monument commission to read the address prepared by Robert C. Winthrop, of Massachusetts, which Mr. "Winthrop had expected to deliver at the ceremony of dedication. Mr. Winthrop was the orator when the corner-stone was laid, and has recently been very ill. Tub announcement of J. Donald- Cameron's re-election to the United States Senate i was rend by the clerks of botli houses of the Pennsylvania legislature in joint session at | Ilnrrisburg. Tiie Colorado legislature has ele -ted Henry | M. Teller, secretary of the inti ri >r, as sucSessor to N. I'. Hill of the United States Senate. ^ a. l? i tt,? :i ?,i ?'\S U. IV. AUIHJ, posuiulMUr ami umivu States lan?l commissioner at Sarasota, Fla., was walking along the street ho was shot from behind and killed l>y two men, who conveyed their victim's body away in a boat Investigation is snid to have resulted in the discovery of a secret assassination society, whose object was the removal by death of 1 all persons objectionable to its members. Chief Justice Waite, of tho United States supreme court, has gone to Florida for the benelitof his health. President Aiithi r sent to the Senate the nomination of Carroll 1>. Wright, of Massachusetts, to be commissioner of labor; William C. hnimett. of New York, to be secre tary of the legation at Constantinople; Emory Sjiear, of Georgia, to be United States district judge for the southern district of Georgia, and II. C. Minor, to bo collector of internal revenue for tho district of Louisiana. News has been received that 4(J0 settler8 have taken possession of land in tho Indian Territory contrary to law, that the number is steadily increasing, and that resistance to Federal authority is threatened. After a consultation between the President and secretary of war orders wvro given to remove i tlie settlers by United States troops. The Senate in executive session confirmed the following nominations: John Davis, of the District of Columbia to be judge of the United States court of claims; William A. Richardson to be chief justico of the United States court of claims, and Samuel P. McCormick to be collector of internal revenue for the district of West Virginia. A bill lias been introduced in the House to prohibit aliens and foreigners from acquiring or owning lands within tho United States. Within* four years twelve members of tho House of Representatives?eight Republicans and four Democrats?have been promoted to tlje United States Senate. At a secret session of the National Woman SulFrage association, held in Washington, Elizabeth Cady Stanton, of New York, was chosen president, and Susan B. Anthony first vice-president. the wire ol Justice Stanley Matthews, or the United States supreme court, died a fow days since. Collections of internal revenue In tho first six months of the fiscal year ending June 30, 1884, were $50,518,5(58, of which $34,0(54,395 was from spirits, $12,732,399 from tobacco $9,570,492 from fermented liquors, and $151, 282 from miscellaneous sources. The total receipts are $4,270,780 loss than they were in the same period the previous year. The Senate has confirmed thE nomination of Carroll D. Wright, of Boston, to bo commissioner of labor. REAn-ADMinAL S. P. Quacken'bush has been placed on the retired list of tho United States navy. The olectoral returns of all the States, both by mail and messenger, have been received by the president of tho Senate. The returns from Oregon and Iowa were sent back for correction, and havj since been received in proper legal form. The House committee on tho public health has decided to recommend tho appropriation of $25,000 for the national board of health and S.500.003 to bo used at tho discretion of the President in preventing the spread of cholera should it appear in this country 1)0fore the next Congress assembles. Foreign. Edmund About, the distinguished French author, is dead. The English packet steamer Admiral MoorsoD.. plying between Dublin and Holyhead, collided with an American vessel and was sunk. Sixteen of her passengers and crew were reported missing. The city of Klagenfurt, capital of the province of Carinthia, in southern Austria, was visited by an avalanche which wrecked soveral buildings and killed twenty of the inhabitants. A small village at tho foot of the Simplon mountain, Switzerland, has been buried under ton feet of snow by an avalanche. A RAiLnoAD train struck a broken rail near Venice, 111. ; tho smoker and baggage cars were thrown into a ditch and many people were injured, oue fatally. Great suffering prevails among the victims of the recent earthquakes throughout Spain. Native peasants engaged to accompany the British army marching to Gordon's re Uer are deserting Dy nunureas. Thomas Parry was hanged in Galway, Ireland, for murdering his sweetheart, Miss Alicia Burns, who had broken her engagement with him and was killed In revenge. Fresh earthquake shocks, resulting in some damage, have boon felt in Spain. Many more villages in Italy are reported as having been devastated by snow avalanches,and the havoc and slaughter are described as appalling. At Frassino 140 persons wore killed; the village of Valgrano was partly destroyed and a large number of persons lost their lives; forty-two persons were killed at Deveis; the villago of Rabassa was almost completely buried under snow, and the victims there were counted by the score. CAPTURING A BIG WHALE. An Exciting Clinic Off tlio Long Island Const. A dispatch from Amagansett, Long Island) to the New York Sun, gives a vivid account of tho capture of an immense whale after a Tirnlnnff?1 'pnnt/iqt. with Din morino mnnciflr A party of whalemen wero cutting up the carcass of another whale that had been captured a few days before, when a black mound was seen rising above the water, two miles off shore, shining in the sun, and forging slowly ahead, moved by the lazy flapping of a gigantic tail. Blubber and try pots wero deserted, says the dispatch, and in ten minutes the thrco boats of the village were cutting the water in hot pursuit. Five men were pulling at the eras in each boat, with a sixth ns captain or boat header, standing in the stern steering and watching the monster's movements. Half a mile of hard rowing brought the beats to the point of the bar, and ns they pulled out into tho open ocean they saw tho three whaling boats from East Hampton come dancing over the waves. The whale at this time became suspicious and dived out of sight. Then all the whaleboats separated, eacli pulling toward the spot where its captain thought tho whnlo most likely to appear. At sundown tho whale still had the best of it. He had been down and up ing oil tho track nil but one of his pursuers. One of the Amagansett boats was htill with him, and was following closely every one of his movements. Old Joshua Edwards, tho oraclo of whales, was in command. Ho seemed to know just what the whale's intentions were, and just as tho sun set ho succeeded in fooling it. He had ail along carefully avoided crossing the whalb's track, because, he said, whales can feel a boat crossing their track. All the other boats being well to the rear, tho big monster stopped to breathe and take it oasy. Captain Edwards motioned to his men to make but little noise. The unsuspecting whale lay still on the water until the bow of the boat was within fifteen feet of the side. Then tho captain motioned to his men again. They stopped rowing, and Geo. Smith, laying astdo his oar, stood op in tho bow of the boat and hurled a harpoou deep into the whale's back. Then it was "stem all!" for their lives. The men backed water as hard o< they could from tho dangerous vicinity, but the vhale went off like a snot, lashing tho water with his tail, and dragging the boat behind him at. railroad speed. After tho first burst of fury he sank, and fathom after fathom of tho tow Jiao attached to the harpoon was paid oiIn a few minutes he rose again, and tore through tho water once more. Captain Edwards had taken up his position in the bow of tho boat, holding a hatchet in one hand, ready to sever the rope in case of necessity, and in tho other a long keen lanco, eagerly watching his opportunity to plunge it into a vitul spot, but the whale was a whopper, fifty feet long and his powersof endurance seemed inexhaustible. In a short time tho boat was dragged eight miles out to sea, with a long crimson wako stretching far behind it. The other Iwats were doing their best to catch up with the chase, but in vain. Occasionally tho stricken monster would lie motionless on the water and tho ;mon in tho boat endeavored to approach him by drawing themselves up hand over hand, but this strain on the harpoon generally spurred him to renewed struggles, and ho would start away again. He had been lanced a dozen times before 0 o'clock, but tho constant lashing of his torrible tail kept tho men at a distance, and tho wounds were not deep. At last, however, ho showed signs of weakness, and Captain Edwards, after drawing up as close as possible, took up instead of his lanco a broad, sharp instrument (ailed a spade. He hurled it with such dexterity nnd force at the monster's tail that he severed some of the muscles and seemed to paralyze it. The whale then lay at the mercy of his pursuers. The latter drew up without fear, and the captain, taking deliberate aim, inflicted a fatal wound. The whale sank at once, but soon came up spouting blood, and in ten minutes he rolled over and floated lifeless on the water. In a short tinio the other two Amagansett boats came up. All three boats were fastened, one behind the other, in tandem style,and the fifteen men, guided bv a big beacon tire built by their friends on the shore, started to tow their prize back. At 1 o'clock this morning the difficult task was accomplished, and tho whale lay stranded oil' shore. Tho work of stripping off the blubber and taking out the whalebone was begun at once, and it bus been going on ever since. There is great rejoicing in the village and no jealousy anions the crews,as each of the eighteen Amagansett men will receive an equal share, captains and men all faring alike, without anv preference for those who did the killing, l'he whale is valued at about ^.(XK), which makes a little more thau $1U0 to reward each man for risking his life. _______ MUSICAL AND DRAMATIC. Twenty theatres in Europe aro in receipt of state aid. Tnv.vn line lmnn lilnvilltr to "l)ic business" in Chicago. Riutori whs a failure in Now York, tho audiences being wiutchedly small. It costs a night to light tlie grand apera house in Paris. The fuel is Sl(i,(JU0 a year, and the expense of sweeping and dusting $7,000 a year. The largest organ in the world is said to be in the cathedral of Riga. It is thirty-six feet wide, thirty-two feet deep and sixty-five feet in height. It lias (i,N2C pipes. Laura Hoxky, daughter of tho famous comedian, George Honey, is dead She had written and adapted several plays in her life time. She died at Oakland, Cai. Sarah Bernhardt says she never studies a part. She thinks it over and it comes to hor. When it is obstinate she reads it before going to lied, dreams of it, and she Las it. Three great musical festivals will he held in tho provinces in Knglaud this year?that at Birmingham at tno latter end of August, ono at Hereford in September and another at Bristol later 111 the year. ? - *?-- ? ? the Italian menires are uk- uiich m m? world to hoar ami see in, though they tlo not compare with ours for decoration, i'hcy are oval instead of horseshoe in shape, and as fireproof as all theatres arc said to bo till they prove to bo otherwise. Many managers have visited the New York Thalia during tho past week to see "Nation.11 All agree that it is a most charming opera. A waltz aria running through the entire opera, which is the work of Genre, the composer who orchestrates all of Strauss' operas. English music is attracting at present considerable interest, thanks to the growing independence of young Knglish composers. Tho latest indication is the commission for an opera for tho Stadt Theatre, at Hamburg, by "V illiers Stanford from Manager I'ollini. In' the marblo memorial to Shakspeare in the Poet's Corner in Westminster Abl>ey. the bard, as is well known, has one arm thrown carelessly over a pile of bound volumes of his works. When David Garrick, tho great Shaksperean actor died, he was interred underneath tho lloor in tho Poet's Corner, and a few days afterward it was discovered that the forefinger of (Shakespeare's efligy pointed directly to Garrick's grave. It was purely accidental, j'ot nothing could be more appropriate. EL MAM REPULSED. 1 The British Force Marching to i Gordon's Relief Attacked. Horde3 of Arabi Throw Themselves Upon a Hollow Square. A despatch has been received at the war o.Tice in'London from General Lord Wolseley, which reads substantially as follows: General Stewart has had a heavy engagement with a portion of the Mahdi's forces near tho Abu-Klt-a wolls, about twenty-three miles this side of Metemneh. The ro'oels' had collccted from Berber, Met ciiiucu uim uiiuurainaa. mis last place, I regret to say, tho prisoners report was recently captured by tho Mahdi, and thus the men wore released from there to fight General Stewart. On the afternoon of January 10 General Stewart's cavalry reported "that the enemy wore in position somo few miles this side of the wells. As it was too late in the day to allow an advance and a successful encounter General Stewart bivouackcd whore ho was for the night. Tho enemy kept up a harmless fire all night and erected works on General Stewart's right flank. On Saturday General Stewart endeavored to draw tho enemy on to make an attack, but tho rebels hesitated In consequence of this General Stewart left all his impediments and camels under guard of tho Sussex regiment and some mounted infantry and moved forward, keeping his forces in tho form of a square. All the men were on foot. The British army passed around tho enemy's left flank, forcing them to make an attack or bj subject to an inlllade fire. The enemy wheeled to tho left and delivered a well organized charge under a withering firo from our men. The square was unfortunately penetrated about its left rear, where a haavy cavalry and camel regiment were in position, by sheer weight of numbors. Tho admirable steadiness of our men enabled them to maintain a hand-to^ hand fight with the opposing forces while se" vere punishment wa* being inflicted upon the enemy by all other parts of the square. The enemy wore finally driven back under heavy firo from all sides. Tho Nineteenth Hussars then pushed forward to the wells, which woro in our possession by 5 in the evening. Tho enemy left not less than fcOJ slain around tho squara Prisoners who were taken while the enemy were retiring report that tho number of the enemy who were wounded was quits exceptional. One immediate effect of the battle is that many of the rebels are submitting. It was necessary for the army to remain at tho wells some hours to obtain water. As soon as practicable tho intention was to push 0:1 with all expedition to Metemneh. The English wounded are doing well Goneral Lord vVoIseley says General Stewart concludes his reports as follows: "It has been my duty to command a force from which exceptional work, exceptional hardship and exceptional fighting havo been called for. It would bo impossible to ale quatoly describe the admirable supportgiven to ino by every officer and man of the force. I regret to say that our 1033 was severe, but our success has been so complete that it may dishearten the enemy to such an extent that all their future fighting may be of a less obstuiato character.'' Goneral Lord Wolseley says General Stewart's operations have been most creditable to him as a commander, and the nation has every reason to bo proud of the gallantry and splendid spirit of her majesty's soldiers on this occasion. Our losses were nine commissioned officers killed and nine wounded, and sixty-five non-commissioned officers and men killed and eighty-five wounded. General Stewart's force consi3ts of about 1,500 men all told. Among the number of the British who fell was Lieu tenant-Colonel Burnaby, who made the famous "Hide to Khiva." Beside Colonel Burnaby the following were killed: Major Carmichael, of the Fifth Lancers; Majoi Atherton, of tho Fifth Dragoons; Majoi Gough, of tho Royal Dragoons; Captain Darltsy and Lieutenant Law, of thd Fourth Dragoons; Lieutenant Wolfe, of the Scots Greys and Lieutenants Pigolt and Delisle, ol tho Naval Brigade. Lom St. Vincent and Lord Airlio were wounded. Colonel Burnaby was killed by a thrust of an Arab's snear, which entered his neck anc .1 W? in. Stewart's horse was ahot tho rider fell to the ground and was badly shaken, but lie soon recovered aiul obtained auother mount Gen. Stewart's orderly was killed by his side. The English soldiers had had neither food nor water since the night before the battle. Tho battle was a fearful hand-to-hand fight. Most of the Arabs were armed with spears and protected by spiked shields of ox-hide. They rushed to clo:->o quarters and swarmed over the bodies of their dead and wounded comrades. Tho English troops, after the iirst few rounds had been fired, fought with shortened sabres and with sword bayonets wielded at half-arm length. Tho news of a battle in Egypt surprised tho government, as severe fighting was not expected. Serious doubts are expressed as to whether General Wolseley's force is sufficiently strong to reach Khartoum. Colonel Burnaby's death is greatly deplorod in London. Ho was a favorite in all the clubs and in political and military circles, where the news has been tho great topic of conversation. His death has been more talked about than the battle itself. SUMMARY OF CONGRESS Senate. The Senate devoted the day to eulogies of the late Senator Anthony. His chair, in tho front row on the Republican side of the chamber, was draped in black. Mr. Sherman presided. Immediately after the reading of the journal Mr. Aldrich delivered a speech commemorating tho private virtues and public services of his former colleague. He was followed by Messrs. Edmunds,Bayard, Morrill, Pendleton, Hoar, Garlaud, Ingalls, Butler, Hawley and Manderson. A short speech by Mr. "Sheffield, Mr. Anthony's successor, closed tho ceremonies. Mr. Plumb olTen'd a resolution calling upon tho President to advise the Senate as to the status of the unoccupied lands in the Indian Territory, and upon the suggestion of Mr. Hoar tho matter went over... .Mr. Colquitt presented the credentials of Joseph E. Brown, re-elected Senator from Georgia.... Tho Senate resumed consideration of the Inter-State Commerce bill, which was discussed by Mr. Beck and Mr. Maxey. Mr. Coke yielded to a motion to go into executive session.. .A message from the President was received transmitting information relating to the foreign commerce of Mexico. Central and South America, the Spanish West Indies, Havti and San Domingo, and the share of the United States thcroin. The consideration of tho Inter-State Com mcrw UIJl ???0 1COU1IIWU, A'XUOOAO. vwn, *?*v, Pherson, Morgan and Harrison continuing the discussion.... A message was received from the House announcing the death of John Hamilton Evins. Mr. Hampton offered an appropriate resolution. Mr. Frye and Mr. Butler also spoke, and the Senate adjourned out of resjxjct to the memory of Mr. Evins. House. Mr. Hitt moved to suspend the rules and pass the Senate bill providing for tho exerciso of tho jurisdiction conferred on the United States in places out of j their territory and doiniuion. After j debate the motion was lost.... Mr. Cor introduced a bill to appropriate $i">0,0u0 for a nine hundred ton gunboat.... Mr. Phelps moved that the President be asked to furnish information as to tho imprisonment of Chas. A. Van Bockkclt at Port-au- i Prince, Havti Mr. Townshend offered a I resolution asking the President to send the | House the corro<pjndenco on file in the de- ! partments relating to the Oklahoma lands in the Indian Territory, and information as to the condition of the controvei'sy growing out of the attempted occupation of those lands. Mr. Oates, of Alabama, from the committee on public lauds, reported a bill prohibiting aliens aii'l foreigners from acquiring title to and owning lands iu the United States The House discussed the Indian appropriation bill. Mr. Ellis, of Louisiana, explained that tho bill apjsopriated fit, 1 :! ">, which sum was $I,8tU5,1114 Iws than the estimates, an I $lir>,000 less than tho sum appropriatedjfor the current year. The new legislation in the bill provided for tho punishment of any person convicted of furnishing firearms to any Indian except those belonging to tho civilized tribes in tho lu,linn TernuH-v.andma'lo more stringent tu?<>f nnlent, snirit iiuv a^iiiiisi , into tlu' 1 tit 1 i:t:i country. Tlio Agricultural Appropriation bill was roporte I to the ILmse. It carries which is about ?XKl,l)0) less than the appropriation for the current fiscal year... .Lulogisiic a'liltv*si's upon the private life and iniblic s.'rvi 'os of the late Senator Anthony, of Rhode Island. were delivered by Messrs. (.'haceuiid Spooner, of Rhode Island; Kelly, of Pennsylvania: i'olaiul, of Vermont : Morse, of Massachusetts, and Keifer, of Ohio, and then the Ilouse, as an additional mark of respect to the deceased Senator, adjournal. BURIED BY AVALANCKES," Village* in Italy and France Overwhelmed 1 diler >now. News has been received that villages in the highlands of Piedmont and Savoy, Italy, were devastated by avalanches. Three villages in Piedmont, including the important village of Frassono, have been imried under avalanches from the Picdmonteso mountains. Tho town of Chaumont in France,capital of the department of Haute Maine, at the foot of tho Wages mountains, is partly overwhelmed with snow, and many people there have been killed. Another fatal avalanche has occurred at Kparone, on Uio Dora Hoi tea liver, a lew I mill's south of Irreii. Fifteen persons nro known to bo buried nnI dertlw snow at Sparone, ami most of the j other inhabitants are engaged in digging out tin* survivors. The villagers who have been made Immeli ssare in great distress and have appealed for relief from the royal treasury at Home. Troops have been sent from Home to 1 assist the villager* RIVERS AND HARBORS, Principal Items of Appropriation by the House Committee. The House committee on rivers and harbon has completed consideration of the river and harbor appropriation bill for the next fiscal year. The bill appropriates $11,399,200. The estimates as prepared by the engineers in charge of tho various improvements amounted to $31,507,630. Following are somo of the appropriations for harbors: Massachusetts?Boston. $->0,000. Connecticut?New Haven harbor and breakwater, $420,000. New York?Buffalo, $75,000; Buttermill: Channel, $10,000; New York Harbor (for re* | moving obstructions), $5,000, Canarsie bay, $.3,000; Charlotte, $30,000; Flushing bay, $10,000; Great Sod us bay, ?10,000, Gowanus bay, $5,000; Greenport, $.3,000: T em linn. Mnnfrm-fmo I jjltirj UUUUO ut*Jl *?v,ww, $5,000; Ogdensburp, $10,000; Oswego, ?5,000; Rouse's Point Breakwater, $10,000; Rondout, $2,000: Sheepohead bay, <5,000; channel between Staten Island and Jfew Jersey shore, $7,500. New Jersey?Raritan Bay, $15,000. Pennsylvania- Erie, $.')5,000. Delaware?Delaware Breakwater, $100,000. Maryland? Baltimore. $75,000. Viiginia?Norfolk and approaches, $50,000. South Carolina?Charleston Harbor, $150,000; Georgetown, $2,000. Georgia?Cumberland Sound, $75,000; Savannah, $83,000. Alabama?Mobile, $120,000. Louisiana?New Orleans, $150,000. Texas?Aransas Pass, $100,000; Sabine Pass, $125,000. Illinois?Chicago, $75,000: Waukegan, $15,000. Wisconsin?Milwaukee, $75,000; Sheboygan, $20,000. California?Humboldt, $100,000; Oakland, $75,000. Oregon?Yaguina, $10,000. APPROPRIATIONS FOR RIVERS. Following are appropriations for rivers: New York?Hudson, $20,000; Newtown Creek, $20,000. New Jersey?Passaic, $30,000; Raritan, $15,000; Shrewsbury, $10,0J0. Pennsylvania?Delaware river, $125,000. Maryland?Potomac, at "Washington (provided title is good to reclaimed land), $150,000. I v;>?r{n<n?Tomoa S1 Kfl Vnrlr. *17.000 "West Virginia?Great fcanawha, $175,000; Littlo Kanawha, $22,500; Monongahela, $48,000. North Carolina?Cape Fear river, $70,500. Florida?St. John's river, $155,000. Louisiana?Red, $05,000. Arkansas?Ouachita, $20,000; White, $12,000; Arkansas, $32,000. Tennessee?Cumberland river, $112,500; Mussel Shoals, $350,00D. .. Kentucky?Kentucky river, $200,000; Ohio river, $350,000; Falls of the Ohio, $125,000. Michigan?Detroit, Hay Lake channel, $125,000; Saginaw, $50,000. Indiana?Wabash, $50,0.0, Illinois?Illinois river, $100,000; Hennepin canal, $1^0),000: Mississippi from St. Paid to DesMoines Rapids, $200,000; Dry dock. DesMoines Rapids, $65,000; Mississippi from DesMoines Rapids to Illinois river, 200,000; Mississippi from Illinois river to Cairo, $100,000: Mississippi to Cario to head of Passes, $2,800,000; survey of ths Mississippi, $75,000; removal of snaga in the Mississippi, $50,000; fitting up snag Doat, $50,000. Missouri?Missouri river, $450,000; surveys of the Missouri, $50,000. Oregon?Canal at Cascades, Columbia river, $125,000. NEWSPAPER POSTAGE, Argument In Favor of a ltcdncilon ? A he matter Before Congrre??, The question of a reduction in newspaper postage is now before Congress. The New York Mail and Express discusses the matter editorially as follows: Before the year 1874, postage on newspapers and periodicals?mail matter of the second-class?was paid by the subscriber at the office of delivery. Much of this postages was never collected, and in 1871 the present law was passed, which requires prepayment at the office of publication. As this change in the law caine at a tima when it was impossible for publishers to advance their rates to meet the additional outlay, the postage has always been practically a government tax upon publishers. Sineo 1874 the postage on letters and on transient newspapers and periodicals?such as are sent by other persons than publishers ?has been largely reduced, but on secondclass matter the rate stands where it was put eleven years ago. In view of these facts, a meeting of nswspaper men in the West and Northwest was called at Detroit five weeks ago, and at tiiat meeting, in which the principal journals of Ohio, West Virginia, W astern Pennsylvania, Indiana, Illinois, Wisconsin, Michigan, Iowa, Minnesota, Missouri and Tennessee were represented, a memorial wa3 adopted, urging upon Congress the expediency and justice of roducing the postage on second-class mail matter to one-half the present rates. The subject has been agitated for saveral years. In April, 1882, the House requested rostmaster-Oeneral Howe for information as to the weight, cost of carrying, and postage collected on second-class mail matter, together with his opinion of the "propriety of abolishing the postage on such matter. Mr. Howe replied that, in his opinion, such abolition wag both feasible and advisable. Tne total revenue to the government from this source was only about $1,500,000 a year, or between threo and four per cent of the total postal revenue. This amount t ha governments mid easily afford to lose. At present, falling upon a comparatively small class of business men, it amounts, in many cases, to a taking away of tho entire profits of a newspaper. Asido from all these consideration??and all that tliesj publishers ask is that the rate on second-class matter bo reduced in a ratio commensurate with tho reduction on first a'nd third-class mattor?it might well be argued that it is scarcely fair, in this land of liberty and intellectual light, to put a special government tax upon a business which more than any other tends to the education of tho people. There are already several bills before the House looking to remelial legislation in the premises. It is likely that the friends of the proposed reduction will uuite 011 some one of thesa measures, and press for an early consideration of it. Such a consideration it certainly ought to have. PROMINENT PEOPLE. General Butler denies the recent story that ho has engaged to write a book. Mas. Garfield, mother of the late president, has passed her eighty-third birthday. Tiie Tichborne claimant has made arrangements to come to America on a lecturing tour. Mrs. Gladstone, wife of the English premier, is a great worker among the London poor. The Sth of January the Prince of Wales eldest son, and, therefore, heir to the throne, came of age. Although still weak from the effects of his illness, General Grant is said to be rapidly improving in health. Ex-Vice-President "William A. Wheeler is in feeble health, wifeless and childless, at his old home in Malona, Franklin county, New York. Governor Ivinicead, of Alaska, says it will be impossible to build railroads in that country. Alaska is larger than all the United States east of th>) Mississippi river. Theodore Tilton is living in Paris, whore he is described as giving good dinners to good persons, writing a volume of poems, and mingling in artistic society, including *'iat ot' Sarah Bernhardt. Adjutant General Drum is said to agree with General O. O. Howard in the opinion | that deserters from the army ought to be branded. Ho says that during the last five years 10,1)01 soldiers have deserted fi om the regular army, or nearly every other man. It is stated by Harper's Weekly that "Mr. Hayes was the only President of the United States since Mr. Lincoln who did not smoke tobacco. President-elect Cleveland is a smoker, as were President* Johnson, Grant and Garfield, and as is President Arthur." A movement has been started to keep Erancis Murphy in Pittsburg as the minister of a "Church of Gospel Temperance." A fund of $.*>,(HK> has already been raised in its support. During his late campaign of eight week.< in that city Mr. Murphy obtained IS,000 signatures to the temperance pledge. THE PUBLIC PRINTER Facts of Interest from liis Annual Report, The public printer has transmitted to tho United United States Senate his report for the fiscal year ended Juno 30, 1SS1. Thereport says that the printing by order of the .Senate cost $1-I'.), 14:1. against $04,464, and the House printing 'ytti, against ?17.">,2'J", for t lie previous year. The ltecoril for the first s -ssion of the Forty-eighth Congress compnsod pages. It is recommended that iml.i tni- rm-wion 1 p romired to be lile.l with tlie public printer within live clays after adjournment. On the probable introduction of cholera in this country anil it; relu wn to -his ntlieiij the public printer says: "I am advised that imported rags uro largely used liy the contractor who snppliis jtajor. The Treasury Department has issued an order prohibiting the importation of rags from cholera intected countries. If there be danger in the use of rags at mills it would seem that the disease might be communicated in tho juii>er which is daily received at this ollice. In view of the exjiected approach ot cholera and in the name of 2,:.'0) people under my charge, I submit this as a proper question for the consideration of Congress."' An appropriation of (n.">,00J is askeil for the coming tiseal year against $1,014,000?the estimate for the current fiscal year. This docrease in the estimates, the report fays, 1> duo to improved press facilities and to the introduction of modern machinery and to the application of better business principles in tho management of the oftlce. A specific appropriation of $?5,000 is asko:l for the purpose of granting the employes fifteen nays leave during tho vear. ROASTED AM j| Terrible Death In a Blazing In- * | sane Asynlra. Many of the Bedridden Inmates Burned to a Crisp.- _ M A Kankakee (111.) dispatch says that tfaa '>.??. south infirmary of the Illinois Eastern HotpL -^-21 tal for the Insane was burned this morning '-Is'iiI at 4:2 j a. m. The fire originated in the fur nace room ana uaa ouuuneu a xiruug uw ,y.? way ho'oro it was discoverad. The wood ..-ty work being of Soulhorn pine, it burned very ' rapidly. The building was occupied by forty- - ^ flvo patients, six attendants and a night * J waUhman. 8 3 von teen patients in all an missing. All of the patients were infirm and incurable. . The bedridden one 3 were rescued first, and chose who were able to help themselves did not ivalize the danger in time, and they perished. The attendants narrowly escaped with thell' lives. One of them had to tie bed clothes to- $&? gelher to escape from a window to thegroaod. There were no facilities for putting oat tho ; fire, the State not having made any appro? >, priation for the purpose. Tho building was y a new one, and cost about 116,000. The following are the names of those who perished: . +*> Henry Brown, Rock Island: H. W. Belden, Galesburg: George Bennett, Morris; Joeeph . fA Calbert. Chicago; Orlando Ellis, Pontiac; J. . W. Galloway Macoupin; Thomas Hickerr, Snrincfleld; Matthew Hague, Chebanse; T. -'S Hachner, Stevenson county; Thomas Herely. 3 Chicago; John Johnson, Vermilion; Mfchaii }jft Jordan, Chicago; J. Nathan, Chicago; A. ' . Runyard, "Winnebago county; C. StroU, Chicago; J. W. Tyler, Chicago, and P. Weymouth, Putnam county. It was 12 degreee below zero when Watchman Cobb discovered smoke issuing from the -a floor above the furnaces. He at once awoke the attendants. Smoke was drawn through ' the hot flues and along the halls and stau> ways to all parts of the building. The fire "//'V? spread so rapidly that all efforts to save the ^' .*?3 building weie in vain. Attendant Reid be- - ,-Ti gan dragging and carrying oat patients. Many patients clad in night clothes only '.0Z rushed from the bitter cold tor back into toe "ffi building. Reid struggled on till twenty-one patient* wore leauueuj n uuu uo ucuuuo oiHimwuy p and was earned away. On the second Hoof, J%] attendant Rose and his wife heard the alarm J and escuped down the stairway just before it " felL Attendant Brown, sleeping on the same . **? floor, was awakened by the smoke, and at* ' '-*yg tempted to save a patient in an adjoining room. but failed, and, sliding down by the aid of a sheet from his window, jumped to -ij th6 ground. Superintendent R. S. Dewoy, with ladders. climbed to the second-story windows, and ' was able to rescue some of the patient* by tnis means. Almost all the patients refund *> ; '3 to co-operate in the efforts being made to save them, and were only rescued by being dragged from the flames and held from re- . turning. A marvelous escape was that of an inmate who fell with the second floor, striking the burning debris above the furnace and '^ bounding through a window to the ground uninjured. The remains of the bodies of twelre pa* S tienls have been taken from the ruins, burned . *'-A lo fragments. A coroner's inquest was held, ' : at which Superintendent Dewey testified that ' j he had asked the legislature two years ago ; 3 for 11,W0, to protect theso detached wards from Are; that f1,000 was allowed, all of Y.'i which was used in mains and hydrants.- He.jjiH gave two reasons for the great number of deaths; first, the patients wera almost all : -:':i sulFocated by smoke before tbey could be -S reached, and second, the insane were unable or unwilling to help themselves. The remains of the bodies, with one exception were simply handfulsof charred ashes. . H. W. Beldon, aged fifty years, of Galea burg, the only victim whose remains pre- . ''r served even the semblance of a human being, was a prominent man in his part of the State. He was on the second floor, was an ' invalid, and was unable to help himself. So- '* perintendent Dewey placed a ladder'to his -?9fl window and broke the glass with his hands but vi' being unable to break the sash descended for some implement to break it with. Meantime Bel den's shrieks for help were loud and agonizing, but as Deney reascended his cries died away. The smoke and flames poured from the window so that no help could be given him . Dr. Dewey, hearing calls for help from ail other window, hurried to the rescue, ana dragged a ISO-pound pntient through the 'i*}) window, and bore him safely to the groand. Attendant Harry Brown, who was sleep* 4 ing on the upper floor, escaped by.. tying his bed sheets together, letting himself out of the window, and dropping flfte:-n feat to the groand, with- ' <, out receiving any injury. All the twentyone inmates .on the first floor, except two, -tl were saved. Patient Hague, who lost his life on the second floor, refused to follow two of his companions down a ladder, and an instant later disappeared from sight, overcome by suffocation. It is probable that all the victims were first made unconscious by suffocation. NEWSY GLEANIN&a ' % eg The Standard oil company employs 98,000 men. ^'^8 Corn cots for fuel bring $1.50 a load in Nebraska. Train robbing is punishable by death In ; Arkansas. There were 1,500 roller-skating rinkabailt ' during 1834. , It is 1,413 miles from .New York to New Orleans by rail. Utah's mining output for 1884 is valued at $5,257,021.44. Sixty-nine army officers will retire during Mr. Cleveland's term The permanent population ol Washington is put at about 212,000. During 1884 the six faculties of Franc* produced about 700 doctors. The highest-priced pew in Grace chgxslfl??^^ New York, is $3,000 per year. A pearl bas been found on the western Australian coast valued at $20,000. The Danes formerly imported nearly all their sugar; now they raise it from beet*. Of the 32,000 Indians in the Territory of Dakota, 30.000 speak the English language. The value of the agricultural products of the United States for 1834 is estimated at about $1,000,000,000. The olive crop in the southern counties of California has been heavy this season where the trees have received proper care. Next to California, Kansas is the largest wheat producer of the States This year's crop is probably in excess of 40,000,000 bushA colored silversmith of Georgetown, Ken** SgsS tucky, made a miniature steam engine which attracts a great deal of attention at New Or- -7|Sn Ax Omaha pa[>er can connt 145 deliberate murders which have occurred in Kansas, JaBB Nebraska and Colorado since the first of last ;/jS8 There will be 12,000 tickets, at $5 each. issued for the inauguration ball. That will make $00,COO, an amount that will probably a great deal more than pay the expenses. Large numbers of colored people, who em- , /5J igrated to Kansas a year or two ago, now > find the climate too severe, and are reported *3 to be leaving for New Mexico and other "';-S points in the Southwest. TVuniN" four years past, in Tazewell, Russell and Washington counties, Virginia, 1,500 men and 3,000 horses have been engaged in the walnut lumlwr trade, bringing into these counties $l,o00,001 One walnut tree realized $000. A.v elephant seems to taice a coia 01 nis own sizo, wneu lie takes any, and Lis curative dose is sized accordingly. In Cincinnati, a short time ago, five tubtuls of whisky, molasses and giuger were given to eacli elephant in a show, and the mixture was apparently enjoyed. Georgia's Gold Mines. The story of gold mining in Georgia is one of peculiar interest, says a Dahloucga (Ga.) letter. Gold was first discovered in Cherokee purchase, within three miles of Dnlilonega, in 1820, by Benjamin Parks, who now lives in that neighborhood. This and other discoveries led to a rush of people to that place. After the territory was surveyed and drawn for by lottery and settled up by an intelligent population, it was discovered that other valuable metals and minerals extended over a large area from Alabama to North (iarolina. It is a settled fact that gold,silver, copper, nickel, mica, corundum, marble, granite, soapstone, slate, pianganese and stone coal exist in rich quantities. In many localities iron, coal and marble are extensively mined. The granite and marble quarries are extensive. The copper and nickel belts extend from North Carolina to Alabama, and have been partially developed. Gold veins and deposits have been found principally in the northeastern part of the State, and are worked extensively i.i tliecounlies of I'nion, White, Lumpkin, Dawson and Cherokee. Many hundreds of thousands of dollars arc invested in mines and fixtures. Many of 'he mines arc yielding a large profit on the capital invested. Within a radius of seven miles around Dahlonega there are now in running order twenty gold piartz crushing mills, with an aggregate number of -100 stamps, with capital, invested in land, machinery and apparatus of over $.100,000. A movement is now on foot to secure the rccstablishnicut of the United States mint here. T