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ABBEVILLE PRESS AND BANiXER! * "BY HUGH WILSON. ABBEVILLE, S. C.. WEDNESDAY, MAY 6, 1885. NO. 45. VOLUME XXIX . . Clouds. Shades of Earth and Oceau'e mis* Floating pictures of the sky, Rose oiid gold and amethyst Minglo with thy tapestry; CastloB fair and mountains grim, Fleecy snows and Orient-hues, Shapes no artist ever limned Gleam in thy dissolving views; But when with the darkness crowned, Tempest-charged and lightning-riven, How thy might*' masses Irown 'Gainst the imperial bluo of Hoaven! Harriet Smead, in the Current. DARK DAYS HUGH CONWAY, Author of " Called Back." CHATTER XII.?TEMPTED TO DISHONOR. 1 I hate looking back and re-reading . words which I have written while the impulse was upon me; but I fancy I i have some where called this tale a coni fession; if not, I should have dono so. ^-It claims no more to be ranked as a work of art than as a work of imaginaTTai?? aamI/I if *J T+ Vw\1/lo anlv f ? a f liwjj* nutr wuiu it , xv Jiv/ivto vmr vn \/ characters?a roan ami a woman. It treats but of their love and of a few months of their lives. Nevertheless, telling it I have endeavored to conceal nothing. I have tried to describe my thoughts, my hopes, my fears, my sorrows and my joys, as they realy were. I have, I believe, suppressed nothing which could lead anyone to condemn my actions more strongly than, it may be, they now condemn them. My wish has been to show myself as I wjis then ?no doubt am now-a weak, selfish man; yet, for the love which he bore a woman, one willing to risk fortune, p life, even honor. If I had failed in my attempt to represent myself as such a one, believe it is not from intention but from shere inability. But whether 1 have so far nunceeded or failed in my purpose I know not; but I know that in this chapter I must perforce fail. The language rich and powerful enough to serve my needs has yet to be born. And yet the chapter will bo a short one. It will be but the record of a few hours! Hours durins which I struggled against a temptation to commit, not only crime, but base, cowardly crime; a temptation stronger, I dare to think, that pure human naturo has as yet been subjected to. .My words sound bold; but listen. Oh, that one morning! ITow well I can remember it! Our breakfast w*3 just ovor. The quaint-shaped little table, with its snowy cloth throwing Into relief the deep colors of the luscious fruit upon it, still stood in the awning-roofed patio. I was alone, my mother and Philippa having retired indoors to see about some domestic economy. I lounged lazily and at my ease. 1 rolled and lighted a cigarette, blaming myself as I did so for ray barbarity in profaning the blosom-scen.. ted air with tobacco-smoke. Then 1 took from my pocket the London Times which had arrived by the last post, and I listlessly set to work to skim its lengthy columns. I had no fear as to what the paper might contain. It was not from newspaper reports that I apprehended danger. I, had however,noticed that Philippa, when she saw me with a newspaper in my hand, eyed me anxiously and inquiringly; so that generally I contrived to glance through it when she was absent. I never permitted her to touch it until I had read it; but iny only reason for this prohibition was, that I feared lest some chance allusion to the mysterious and undiscovered crime might distress her. Her own far-fetched fancy that another might be accused of it gave me not a moment's uneasieess. So I turned and doubled back the broad sheets. I ran down the topics of the day. I skimmed the leading articles. 1 glanced at the foreign news; paid scant attention to law reports, and disregarded altogether tho money market intelligence. At last I turned my attention to the provincial news r. column. A name caught my eye; a cold shiver of dread ran through me. My cigarette fell on tho marble pavement, and lay there unheeded, as, with agitation which no word can describe, I read a short paragraph placed under the heading of the principal town of the county in which lioding was situated. Read! ""William Evans, the man accused of the murder of Sir Mervyn Ferrand, Bart., in January last, will be tried at these Assizes which open on the twentieth. The case, which excites considerable interest, will bo taken on the lirst day. It is reported that although fresh evidence against the prisoner k will bo forthcoming, it will be of a purely circumstantial nature." Every word of that accursed paragraph seemed like a blow falling upon my head. For some minutes 1 sat as one stunned. 1 felt my teeth chattering. I knew that my cheek was 1 blanched. Philippa's fanciful dread had come to pass! Another?an inno- , cent man?was bearing the blame of her own mad act! Dazed, stupid, I scarcely able to comprehend what must 1 be the full effect of what I had just read. 1 I sat motionless, with my eyes lixed 1 upon that fatal sheet. ! The sound of my mother's pleasant ' voice calling to I'hilinpa at last awoke 1 me from my stupor. They were coining. . I could not face them. I doubled up ' I the newspaper, thrust it into my pocket, : and rushed out into the street. As vet I had not dared to imaeine what this inteligence might mean to us. I must have long hours of solitude, in order to decide what course should he ^adopted to face this, the last, the worst peril. I passed swiftly through the iron gate. I went up the narrow street at a pace which must have made all who saw me think me mad. Whither did 1 go? I scarcely remember. I ihink it must have been to on? of the public gardens; but in that hour all sense of locality left me. I went instinctively in search ot solitude. I found 1 know not how or where, some shady deserted spot. There, in tho anguish of mv heart, amid the wieck of my s;indfounded happiness, I threw myself on the ground, and dug my finger-nails into the dry soil. At first I thought I was going or had gone mad. The thoughts which rushed through my mind were disjointed, and wanted coherance. An inocent man accused of the crime! To bo tried on the twentieth. The twentieth! and now it is the sixteenth! Fresh evidence forthcoming! The fools?the utter foofc! TMo tho hnnctml flfttrrtivG skill! To arrest on suspicion, to bring to trial a man who must be ignorant of every thing connected with the murder. What is to be done? What can be done? Oh, my wife! my poor darling wife! Then, I believe, I cried like a childIt seemed to me that all was lostThere was but ono tiling to bo don<> ?one course to be taken. My darl rg must give hen-elf up to justice, and iv j her confession free this luckless wretch j who now stands in peril of his life. < She must bear the shame of the trial, and trust to human justice and the mercy which she had a right to expect. ! Oh, it was pitiful, pitiful! For a long while no alternative course suggested itself to me. Human justice! What n justice? See how it can err. It can arrest, try, j and?oh, horrible thought!?perhaps condemn to death an innocent man! : How then would it faro with Philippa? , Who, now that marriage has sealed my lips, was there to prove her madness when she slew that man? I raged at j the thought. It seemed to mo that we were hard and f.ist in the toils. I might, it is true, call William, my ser vant, to swear that her manner was strange and wild upon that night. I might call the nurses to prove that when first they saw her she was recovering from an attack of mania. Hut would they be credited? Would not a clever lawyer soon convince twelve ordinary men that it was not the madness which prompted the crime, but the crime which produced the madness. "We were indeed moshed and bound; hemmed in on every side; helpless and, it seemed, hopeless! And 1'hilppa must be told this! I must tell her! How could I nerve myself to make the truth known to her ?now, of all times, when her health was all but restored; when a kind of sad but placid acrjuiesoense in what late h.id wrought seemed to be gradually coming over her; now, when I was once more building up hopes of happiness for her as well a.s for me! For I knew?ah! think of this, and pity me ?that before another half year should pass there might be given to my wife and mo a gift which would go far toward sweeping away the menior.es of gloom and which had of late spread over oik lives. I even dared to hope, to feel certain, that as she gazed into baby eyes, as she pressed a tiny head to her bosom, some, nay, much of the lost sweetness and glory of life might return to my love. Think of this, and picture me lying on the ground that day, with thedamning intelligence fresh on my mind! Think that in a few hours I must return to my hom \ and tell my wifo that the bolt ha 1 fallen! There w;is no alternative! Xo alternative? Stay, thero is an alternative! The blood seemed to course wildly through my veins, my heart beat fiercely, my lips grew dry, and a choking sensation came over me, as for the iirst time the simplo yet certain way of cutting the knot of my diflicuities flashed across my mind. f!n cimnlo p.isv it ;it first anneared. that I laughed at my stupidity in not having seen it at once. Tear that accursed paper to pieces, Basil North! Scatter those pieces to the winds. Forget what you have read. Go back to your luxurious, tlowerbedecked homo. Meet the one you love with a smile upon your face: you have forced smiles before now! Greet her as usual. Say nothing of this morning's news keep your own council; bury all you have learned in your secret heart. I)o this, and be happy forever more! But the man?the man who in a few days time is to be tried for another's act? "Well, what of him? The fool will doubtless be acquitted. Fool! Yes, it is the right term for one who can bring himself under suspiscion. But if .Justice runs on the wrong track until the end?if that man dies? "What then? What is the miserable life, what arc a hundred lives, whei weighed against Fhilippa's happiness? What is conscience ? What is right and wrong? What is the phantom which men call honor? What after all is crime? Be silent,and forget. You are asked to do no more. You have richrs vonth. health, and stroncr will. The fairest woman on earth adores you. Why hesitate? "Why let one boor's life weigh in the scale? Argue the matter in another way. Are not thousand of men slain every year by the whim of a monarch or a statesman? The thought of their deaths trouble* not those who send them forth to fight. Men kill each other for revenge, for money, for a point of honor, and the killer lives on like other men live! Trust this man to the vaunted array of Justice. lie is innocent, and will come from the ordeal unscathed. If found guilty let him die. lie will not be the lirst innocent man who has died, nor will bo the last to die. it is but one life! lie is nothing to you; think of him no more. Come what may, you will always have your sunny homo and the woman you love. Her children will grow up around you. Why hesitate? A life's happiness is to be won by simply sealing your lips. Its cost is but, supposing Justice blunders, to bear tho burdon of one man's death. A paltry price! This was the temptation with which I wrestled during those long hours. Again and again I was on the point of yielding. Once or twice J rose to my feet with the fixed determination of destroying that paper, and letting things take their own course. Once or twice I even forced mv steps some distance in the direction of home, but each time 1 turned, went hack to the sheltered spot, threw myself again on the ground, and fought the battle anew. Xo, I could not do this thing. I was a gentleman and a man of Inn or. Paltry as the price was when compared with what it might buy, 1 could not pay it. Although my whole soul was merged in l'hilippa's welfare, I could not, even for her sake, suffer an innocent man to be done uniustlv to death. The crime was too black, to base, too contemptable! I felt sure that, with the man's blood morally on my head, tha snnremest iovs -.vhich lite coul'l ?r t give would not lull my conscience to rest. I knew it would not bo long before remorse and shame drove me to commit suicide. Let tho prcachers say that sin is easy that wrong is more alluring than right. There may be some sins which are easily committed, but I dare to say that there are others which the average man, educated by the code of honor, and dreading shamo and coward ice, finds it far easier to avoid than to bring himself to commit. Xo, every sin is not easy I But all tho same my struggle was a mortal one. At times i fancy?it may be but fancy? that even now my mind bears some traces of that conflict; a conflict in which my victory meant ruin to my nearest and dearest. Was I not right when I said that my temptation was an all but unparalled one? Yet in reasserting this let me humbly disclaim all credit for not having yielded. I strove to yield, but could not. It was only when I had conquered, on,i rmf-tpinntnf inn from me. that I "u" i'"v 1 I was able to see how utterly useless J such a crime as that urged upon me I would have been. Doubtless l'hilippa, sooner or later, would have learned that Sir Mervyn Ferrand's supposed murderer had paid the penalty of the crime. How would it have fared with us then?then, when reparation was placed out of the question? Knowing as 1 did every thought of my wife's every turn of her impu'sive, sensitive nature, I was lain to tell myseir tiiat such news would be simply her deathblow. But what was to be done? Finding that I could not compass the treachery which I dared to meditate, I cist about lor another loop-hole of "scape. What if I were to return to E inland and accuse myself of the crime? To insure Philippa's safety I would right willingly give away my own life, it showed the state to which my mind was reduced when I say that I considered this scheme in all its bearings, and * 1:1 V.? ,-f ?,,ln. xur uwiiiiu iinH^nt n, iuiu o.ivv. ?. v-? tion of my dilHculties! I wontlcr if my brain was wandering? 1 laughed in bitter merrirnont as the absurdity of my new plan forced itself upon me. I had forgotten l'hilippa, and what the effect of such a sacrifice would be upon her. 1 had forgotten that she loved me, even a3 I loved her; that my dying for her sake?for the sake of saving her from the cynsequenses of that gruesome night?would make an expiation, if any were due from her, the most fearful which human or diabolical ingenuity could devise. No! Neither by sinning against my fellow man nor by a voluntary sacrifice of my own life could I save her. After all my protracted menal struggles, all my lonely hours of anguish and wild scheming, I was forced to re turn to the point from which 1 started. : I'hilippa must surender herself, and froo this innocent man. There was, indeed, no alternative. And a day gone, or nil but gone! The trial on the twentieth! To reach England?to reach Tewnham in time to stop that trial, we must travel day and night. Day and night across sunny or starMt Spain?across pleasant France?we must speed on, until wo reached our own native land, now lying in all the rich calm of the early autumn. I must lead my w fe, my lovo to her doom! I rose from the grounl. I felt weary, and as if I had been cudgeled in every limb. I dragged mysolf slowly back to my home. '-She must be told. JJut how to tell her?" I muttered as I went along. My appearance must have been wretched; for I received the impression that several grave-looking Sevillanos turned and looked after mo as I passed by. Even as a cowardly felon who drag3 himself slowly to the scaffold, I dragged myself to the gate /m*?? ?\1nne?inf otwI nn fnffnrin/v VI UUl intiwauu inniiU) uuu v/*i feet passed into that fragrant space in which the happiest hours of my life had been spent. As I entered the remembrance of some ta'e which once I had read flashed through my mind?a lalo of the ferocity of a by-gone age. It was of a prisoner who was forced by his raptors to strike a dagger into the heart of the woman he loved. 1 know not where the talc is to bo found or where I read it. But it seemed tome that mine was a parallel case. Pity me! [ TO T.E CONTINUED J A TERRIBLE TRAGEDY. j Fearful Crime by a Young Graduate of Yale Co*lcg;j. Killing His Moth3? and Sister and Committing Suicide, A Now Haven telegram gives the following particulars of the terrible triple tragedy enacted at Greenwich: Tho village of Green, wieh, Conn.,was tho sccno of a horrib'e triple tragedy at 4 p. 1L, yesterday. Barclay Johnson, tho son of J. Augustus Johnson, a lawyer of No. 02 Wall street, New York, whoso home is in Greenwich, shot and killed his mother, his sister and himself. No other explanation is offered for tho deei than that Johnson was insane. He was about twenty-two years of age, was the valedictorian of his clas3 at Yale college, and was studying law in Columbia college, Now York. Yesterday he complained of feeling rather ill and remained at home. In the morning his mother and ho took a walK to me oki svimuiuuuv < u<u? on fhe sound anil came back to the house for luncb. They bad an engagement to take an aflernoon walk to Indian Harbor Point. Miss Mason, the daughter of Tboodoro E. Mason, and Miss Peck, the daughter of Professor Peck, were to be members of the party. In the morning Johnson sent notes to these young ladies, saying that on account of his indisposition the walk was to bo abandoned. They did not appear, therefore, at the Johnson residence after luncheon,as had been arranged. Miss Eleanor Johnson came home from school at She was only seventeen 3*oars old, and was exceptionally beautiful. She canie in after her mother an 1 brother had finished their meals, and hurriedly ate a little. Then the three stalled out for the Point It is a picturesque spot about a mile from the village. On either sido of a rocky and woody strip of land, jutting out iuto the salt waters of the scuud, is a littlo stream of water. One of these streams is Indian Harbor. The other has no other distinction than "the'ereek." It was to this romantic spot that the party made their way. They were apparently in the best of spirits as tuey walked along tho road, chatting pleasantly and nodding at jkisssrs-by with every appearance of good humor and good health. They went out lo the Point and paused to lest by a collection of rocks, where they reninined sitting about an hour. Across the inlet is the home of Charles F. Adams, a young farmer. He was at work in his garden when ho heard a shot I fired. Ho looked lip quickly, just in time to see Barclay Johns-on in a little hollow back of tho rocks and his sister Nellie scrambling up over them, screaming at tho top of h^r voice. She had only got a fow paces when her brother fired a second time, only a few seconds after the first shot, an I Adams saw tho girl fall over backward, turn almost entirely around and fall on h?r face at her brother's feet. This was all done in a fow moments. Tho mother had risen, but was powerless in her terror. Advancing a stop young Johnson lired a bullet into tho back of his mother's head, and she fell to tho ground. IIo then bent down over the two Indies as if to see how thoroughly ho had done his work. His sister was dead. Tho ball had entered the back of her head about an inch from her ear and had gono directly through her brain. Mrs. Johnson's wound was bleeding profusely, and she was uttering moans that could bo distinctly heard across tho inlot. Johnson's revolver was still grasped firmly in his hand, ami he sto'>d fur perhaj s two minutes as if uncerta n what to do. Then ho raised tho pistol, placed its muzzlo in his mouth, and fired. The ball passed upward through his brain nnd out at tho right side of his head, and ho fell dead. A crowd of boatmen and farmers soon gathered around the bodies. The murderer and suicido was dca 1, and his sister gasped her last ten minutes afb>r tho bullet si nick her. Tho mother, howover, was found to be alive, and a wagon was immediately procured and she was conveyed to her home, whero she died lato in tho evening. The bodies of tho dead were loft in tho hollow, ' --I justnswicy uau nmuu, h'?i ... charge by Sheriff Dayton, while a coroner was summoned to ho'.il an inquest. DROWNED LIKE RATS. A flatrli of 100 Hotels taken to Sen nt , Aiplnwall and Thrown Ovcrb oard. | A City of Mexico special says that dispatches received in that city state that the number of rebels captured after tho burning of Aspinwall by the Colombian government troops has been considerably augmented during tho past t n days. It is not kuown just ho* many rebels were held prisoners at Aspinwall, but good authorities place t.io number at about 400. Authentic reports state that the officials [ <>f the Colombian government selected 100 of ti?3 worst rel?els imprisoned at Aspinwall, u.ul placing them onboard astoamor, carried them out into the bay, whoro tho entire 100 were thrown overboard and drowned. Tho long and disastrous revolution which has been depopulating and ruining the republic sinc<s November last has led to tho most awful consequences which up to tho present have stained tho annals of revolutionary \ S|M?nish America. Only a portion of the details has beeu published. WASHED ASHORE. ITow $39,000 were Recovered by a i Orad Dlan'i Hclaiivrt. A Halifax (N. 8.) dispatch tells this straugo story : A romance has come to light con- I UCCWU WJW1 M1U IH-1UWJ l MCiUIISIli|? I'diilCl | Stoinmann, which was wrecked at Sainbro a j year ago, when 124 lives were lost. Previous ' to his leaving homo Peter Andreas Michael- j sen, ono of the passengers, deposited 800,- ; 570 and some valuables for safe keep- ! ins with ono Ilerschird, of Hasle, Denmark, and took a receipt there- j for. Probably imagining that no legal evidence would ever t>e forthcoming : that lie ha l the money, Horschird refused to return it to the dead man's relatives. Tliero- j upon tli Danish foreign minister communi- i calod witli Mr. Tobin, the Dani-di consul at i this port, requesting him to spare no effort j to find the receipt. Tlio bodies and wreck- 1 ago washed ashore from tiiuo to time ! Irivo been carefully searched, and the ; divers who have been working on the wreck fftr the past year have kept a slmrp lookout for the missing document, but nil without success. Recently a small trunk was washed j ashore containing a niimlxT of letters and j papers. These were turne 1 over to the eon* J sul. They were water soakol and the writing almost obliterated, but iiniong them was the long-looked for receipt, which, after much difficulty, Consul Toiiin deciphered and trans- i lnted. He has cabled tho good news to Cop?uhagen. HEWSY GLEANItKli The season's orange crop in Florida is the largest over known. A mki.o.v on a shrub is tlio latest fruit nov- J city reported from California. Fiiance is now getting largo supplios of canned frogs from this country. A SKVKN FO'vr niembor looks down on tho rest of tho Mississippi legislature. The three last lord chancellors of Englaud have all been Sunday-school teachers. The custom of appointing an Arbor Dny | now prevails in eight Slates of the Union. j The value of the shipbuilding industry of I New England for 1SS t reached $0,000,000. Fifteen hundred vegetariaus diue daily in London at an average cost of filteen cents. ' s NEWS SUMMAET Fnitrrn nnd Middle State*. Arhoii Day war celebrated at Philadelphia. Lancaster, and other joints in Pennsylvania by tho planting of trees. Governor Pattison participated in the exercises at Lancaster. Tho day was observed for tho first tiino this year in accordance with tho provisions of a legislative bill decreeing that some April date should l>e designated as "Arbor Day.' Swarms of people gathered about General Grant's house.situateJ in tho vicinity of Central Park, New York, on Sunday tho lUth, and when the sick soldier apj)earcd at a window every hat was removed and ladies waved tlioir handkerchiefs. This was the seventh consccutivo dny of the general's improved condition, nnd his family and many of his friends felt hopeful. A two-story frame dwelling on A. L Wontzol's truck farm at Reading, Pcnn., was firod by an idiot named Knoll, and four inmates?two sons of tho proprietor, aged thirteen and eleven years, and two brothers named Hetzinger, aged twenty-six and sixteen?were burned to death. Pneumonia has prevailed to an unusual extent in New York, Philadelphia, Boston, Brooklyn and other cities. Dan Mack, n well-known trainer ami driver of fast trotters, died tho other day in New York. A fire at Lyons, N. Y., destroyed tho Exl.nfnl o.,,l + l,r> 1 ciiurcb. Calvin I'orter, a guest, was burned to death. General Grant took a carriage drive through Central Park on the 20th,and wasstill feeling much stronger. Colonel Fred Grant said: "A week ago I did not bolievo my father would Uvea week or even a day. Now I feel hopeful that [he will at least go through tho outire summer." For the first time in many weeks General Grant took a short walk in the street on the 21st. He was obviously tired when returned to his house. Barclay Johnson, twonty-two years old. a recent valedictorian at "V ale college and studying law in Columbia eollege, New York, shot and killed his mother and soventeen-y car old sister while out walking with them at Greenwich, Conn., and then committed suicide. Insanity prompted the terrible dood. Extensive forest fires have been ravaging portions of New Jersey, Connecticut ana Massachusetts. The jury Investigating the death of a carpenter by the recent fall of ten unfinished buildings in Now York rendered a verdict finding Builder Buddensiek, tho supposed owner of tho buildings, a sub-contractor and two public oxaminers of buildings responsible. Warrants for the arrest of the five men, charging them with manslaughter, wero issued by tho coroner. General Grant took another short walk and drive from his house on the 22d. His condition was so much better that the doctors said no moro bu'letins regarding bis health would bo farms led to the newspapers. The following message on a card was receivod from Mr. Gladstone: "With rcspactful sympathy, and best wishes for a speody recovery and a long and useful life." The card was given to an American gentleman who had called recently in London on the English premier. Fire at Philadelphia destroyed the repair shops of the Pullman Palace Car company, including seven palace cars valued at $15,000 each. The total loss is about $14l),00u. South and Weir. MOSE Keaton and Pete Johnson (both colored), wero hanged at Camilla, Ga., for the murder of Stephen Goodwin, a bachelor and Miss Gregory and her eighteen-year-old son, thejmly other inmates of Goodwin's, house. 'I ho murderers were uoortwins servants, and their motivo was robbery. All the settlers in Oklahoma, Indian Territory, have been removed by the United States troops, but the cattlemen have not yet gone. Prominent professional and business men of Baltimore have organized a cremation society, and will at once begin the erection of a crematory. Geokge McNair, an eighteen-year-old boy, has boon sentenced at Jacksonville, N. C., to Ik) hanged Juno 5 for assaulting aninoyear-old girl. Frank Watson and Francis Copeland settled a horso raco dispute in tlio Indian Territory by killing cach other with rifle shots. Fifteen houses wero swept into the river at Kingman, Kansas, by the sudden rising of its waters. Four women, one man and several children wero drowned. Tornadofs did great dainago to property at Denison, Texas, and Stirling, Kan. Many buildings wero wholly or ia part demolished. A prominent Mississippi editor has forwarded to President Cleveland a j>otitiou j'.sking for the pardon of Jeirorson Davis. The Hamilton family, of Northrop, Ohio, wero taken violently sick shortly after eating supjwr. Threo of the sufferers?Lizzie and Amanda Hamilton and Kate Simpson? died. Vickshurg, Miss., ha~ had a disastrous fire, the flames consuming a number of prominent business houses, tlio doily Herald and tho Western Union Telegraph oflico being completely ratted. Tho losses aggregate ?i'50,000. Wnsliliifinn. The President has made tho following further appointments: W. II. Drinker, of Warrensburg, Ma, to lie associate justico of the supreme court of Now Mexico; Thomas W. Scott, of Virginia, to be marshal for tho eastern district of Virginia; Henry W. Hobson, of Denver, to be distri -t attorney for Colorado. To be consuls-gcin-ral: James M. Morgan, of South Carolina, for the British colonies in Australasia, at Melbourne; Jacob Mueller, of Ohio, at Frnnkfort-on-the-Main. To bo consuls: Charles W. Wagner, of Mis souri, at Toronto; Thomas it. Welch, 01 Arkansas, at Hamilton, Out.; Francis H. Wigfall, of Maryland, at Leeds; Charles Jones, of Wisconsiu, at Prague; Richard Stockton, of New Jersey, at Rotterdam; William Slado, of Ohio, at Brussels; J. Harvoy Brighnm, of Louisiana, at l'aso del Norte, Mexico; William J. Black, ot Delaware, at Nuremberg; Francis Wharton, of Pennsylvania, was appointed examiner of claims in the department of state. Postmasters appointed: James I). Corcoran, Rome, N. Y.: Jerome LaDuo, Westfield, N. i Y.; Ezra Evans, Westchester, Pa.; Jamos Drury, Bristol, Pa.; George T. (iross, Allentown, Pa.; David Overman, Marion, Ind. Commander Kaxe reports to Secretary Whitney that ho retook the steamer Colon from tho Colombian insurgents within a few hours of its seizure at Aspinwall, and that ho did all he could to prevent the city from being burned, savins much property belonging to American citizens. Several colored delegation?, including representatives of tho African Methodist bishops, called at tho White Houso within j the past few day?, and wore received b y th President The United States assay office has found a twenty dollar gold piece coine I at tho Philadelphia mint in 1S75 which contains fully $ .'1.50 worth of gold. An iuvjstigatioa will bo recommended. FrnTHF.n appointments by tho Pro-Hent: To 1)0 ministers resident and consuls general: William D. Bloxham, of Florida, to Bolivia, Bayliss W. Hanna, ot Indiana, to Persia; Walter D. Foarn, of Louisiana, to Roumania, Servia and Greece. To bo consuls of the United States: James Murr.iy, of New York at St. Joh!!, N. B.; Boyd Winchester, of Tvontnrlfv nt. Ni<>rv I<Y.inre: Ohnrlo.; B. Kim- I bali. ot Illinois, at Stuttgart, Germany. Mr. Bloxham is an ox-governor of Florida. Mr. Hanna was a law partner of Senator Voorhies. and attorney general of Indiana. Mr. Fearn is profossor of Spanish in the University of Louisiana. Tnr. annual mseting of tin American Surgical association was held at the Medical musnim, representatives from all parts of the country attending. General Lawton, of Georgia has declined the Russian mission, to which ho had | been decided eligible by the attorney-general. General Lawton s action is baso l on a desiro to relievo the administration of any ernbar- I rassment which might result from the fight which would probably otvur over his confirmation by the Senate, many Senators holding that bis ]x>!itical disabilities have not been removed, and that he is therefore not eligible to oillco under the Federal government. Additional appointments by the President: Christian M. Siebert, of New York, to lie secretary of legation at Chili. Postmasters?Henry L. Kenyon, at Northtield, Vt.; John L. Lindloy, nt Ansonia, Conn.; William B. Hall, at Wallingford, Conn.; Jacob K. CofTroth, at Somerset, Ponn.; I)elos Ii Birgo, at. Cooperxtown, N. Y.: Francis M. Householder, at Noblesville, Ind.; Nelson Bruett, at JefTerson, Wis.; James S. Catherwood, at Hoopeston, 111.; Goorge M. Houston, nt HuiTisonvillo, Mn.; noninmin H. isngiisn. i nt New Haven, Conn.; Delancc Young, at Auburn, Me.; Stephen S. Crittenden, at ! Greenville,S. C.; W. H. Dolo, at Knox, Penn.; I Thos. A. B:iiley, at Darien, Ga.; A. II. Mor- | Ran, at Norcross, Ga.; Nichtlas Best, at Mil- j Jerton, N. Y.; Norman Fisher, at Huntinglmrgli, Ind. Collectors of internal revenue? Eilinunil W. Booker, district of Alaliania; Elieti F. PillsWrry, Third district of Massachusetts; Alexander Troup, district r>f Connecticut; Charles Ii. Chase, district of M-iino. Pkesidknt ('r.KVHr.and's first public rocoption at the White Ilouso, which had ln>en j deferred two weeks on account of (ieneral | Grant's condition, was attended by n larg-; number of people. The President was as- | sis ted iti receiving by his sister. Miss Cleve i land and wives and daughters of the cabinet ministers. A. U. Wymax,the United States treasurer, has resigned. C. N. Jordan, formerly cashior of the Third National bank, of New York, ami treasurer of the New York, Ontario pud Western Ilailro.nl company, has Iteen ap- i pointed treasurer in the place of Mr. Wymau. The chief of tlio bureau of statistics reports that in tho twelve months ended Marcsi :!l, 1SH5, tlio exports from th s United States were i;llV,o74,l.Vi more tlnu th; imports. The President has appoints I/'wis McMullen to l>e appraiser at the port of New York, vice A. P. Ketchiun, sus|>ende l. Mr. McMullen was nominated during the spj-ial se?6ioii of the Senate,but no action was taken on the nomination. Foreign. It was announced that tho emnerors of Ger many, Russia an J Austria would soou meet at ttio castle of tin Galician noble, on the Hussinn frontier, in Austrian territory, to confer as to the political situation. Dispatches received in J/onilon state that the Russians had stopped their advance movement into Afghan territory, and that General KaniarofT had also left Penjdeh. The basis of tho reported compromise beteen England nnd Russia aregiveu as follows: Russia consents to an inmiediat) mooting between General Zelenoi and Sir Peter Lutnsden at Pul-i-Khatun, Russia and England having agreed to limit the zone to be debated to tho territory between tho Lesw line on the south nnd a line from Ak-tepe to Pul-i-Khatun on the north, excluding Pul-i-Khatun nnd including Penjdeh. Russia renow3 her Hssurancos that no further advance will be inndo provide 1 tin Afghans do not attempt to regain their former positions. Tho commission are instructed to llnd a practicable frontier north of Meruchak and to the south of Pul-i-Khatun,restoring Zulficar and Akrobnt of Afghanistan. Penjdeh is to be coded to Russia, and a friendly agreement is to be made with tho ameer. Announcement is madoof tho outbreak of a military conspiracy on a vast scale in Spain. A St. Petersburg correspondent affirms nihilism ho.* practically ceased to exist in Russia. The nihilist societies, he says, have dissolved Le:ause of lack of support among tho common peoplo of Russia, owing to their rcpugnanco to the propaganda of murder nnd blood. Tiik Hritish troops in tho Soudan liavo I..." 1 U.eh...... .,...1 n,.r?ni/wl A force of 5,001 A raits notiflo 1 General Graham that they arc willing to join the British and fight Os'mnn Di;;nn. Tiik Prince and Piincoss of Wales were receive I cordially in Dublin on their return from the trip thin igh Ireland. On the journey between Killurney and Limerick the royal party mot with soma hostile demonstrations. Jacob Bruno-kin, a banker of Konigsbcrg, has fails i for f 1,(100,O W. T.'ik French pre.w aro hot over tho suppression by Egypt of the French newspaper li ttnhbre Kjjp'in, pulil.s'.ial at Cairo. Satisfaction was demanded, and fears were entertained that th-i paper's suppression T'i'jht lea 1t) a difficulty betwean England and France. News from the far-off scone of the Riel rebellion in Manitoba, received at Ottawa, Canada, on the 21st. was to the effect that Fort Pitt, defended by tho police under command of Inspector Dickens,a son of the great English novelist, had fallen into tho hands of the Cree Indiuns. Two of tho garrison wero killed and the rest aro reported to have retreated in boats in tho hope of reaching Bat tleford. Premier Gladstone stated in the British bouse of commons that Sir Peter Lumsden, tho English commissioner on the Afghan boundary question, was seriously at issue with General Komaroff, the Russian victor at Penjdoh, and then asked for a credit of foo,000,000 for the army and navy account A kire in the town of Wischnitz. Austrian Galicia, destroyed 150 houses aua rendered COO jxjoplo homeless. France threatens to send a fleet at once to Alexandria if Egypt refuses redress for the suppression of th? tlo*phore Egyplien, the French newspaper nt Cairo. A terrible volcanic eruption has occurred at Passaroean, a province in the oast end of the island of Java. A number of plantations have been devastated, and it is feared that fully 100 persons have been killed. e . - LATER NEWS A long drive and a short walk were taken by General Grant on the 23d. He was weighe*^ and turned the scale at 140 pounds, a loss of twenty-two pounds since his sickness. Tho general accepted an invitation to visit the "-'-' in ?-. ? -i..-.-"- A???0f ;f nHt-? WiUSMU II1UUI1UI1II9 tiui uife j*. uu.u. After passing tho bill establishing a labor bureau, the Connecticut legislature adjourned without day. Martin Mitchell, a hunter's guide at Black Fish Lake, Ark,, shot and killed three men, with two of whom ho had quarreled. Mitchell and tho three men had been seeking each other, and when they met began firing with the result stated. Two brothers named Cockrill were killed instantly and four other men mortally wounded during a pistol fight which followed a collision between two largo rafts on the Kentucky river near Frankfort Six bodies were recovered among the ruin? of tho Vicksburg (Miss.) Are, and it was thought that moro than twenty lives wire lost. JosEPn K. McCammon, assistant attorney, general for tho intorior department, has resigned. Incident to tho transfer of tho office of United States troasuror from Mr. Wymm to Mr. Jordan, a count of tho money in the treasury is to be made by a cominitteo of threo?two representing tho gentlemen named and the third Secretary Manning. Tho count will take about three weeks. MUSICAL AND DRAMATIC. The sultan of Turkey is said to be a very good amateur pianist. I William Donahue is forming an opera : company for a Southern tour. 1 A British drama association has started in England. Capital, $o00,000. . * ?- T\ Li 11 lU* I "THE Manners .L/UUgiiier MUCH iin HID Union Square theatre management $150,000. , Miss Maud Banks, daughter of Major 1 Genor.il N. P. Batiks, is playing nt the nu'.vly- I opened Lyceum theatre, New York. i A new Moscovito opera, with the simple ta'tle, "Nishegorcxisy," with the Russian com- i poser. Neprawnik, whs lately produced with i complete success at Moscow. 1 A two-year-old child in Macon, Ga., is i exciting no little interest as a musical prodigy i by her singing, and also the playing of her 1 own accompaniment on the piano. A large and brilliant audience attended 1 the openingof the first Chicago opera festival. Tho accoustic properties of the large hall in the exposition building proved amazingly good. ] A. C. Mackenzie's dramatic oratorio , "The Koso of Sharon," was performed for the , first time in America at Steinway hall, New , York, recently, under the direction of Mr. Theodore Thomas. ] Richard Wagner's grave in his villa of Wahnfricd, was decorated with three wreaths i on tho rocent anniversary of his death. Two wero from Wagner societies, and the other I was sent by the municipality of Baireuth. I Sarah Bernhardt has signed with Jar 1 rett for a European tour in the autumn. I ' ' Theodora" and another new piece will be given, and tho imnressario has guaranteed ' nls star $200,000 as ner share of the venture. In the village of Rinker, Germany, there j recently died the organist and teacher, Dahl- . hofT.the last of a long line of predecessors in tho , office, which had gone uninterruptedly from ; father to sou in the same family for the past i 210 years. Jefferson and Shewell's effective ' drama, "The Shadows of a Great City," will ] oe prouuceu in j-ionuou uuu muuuim nuu season. During the thirty weeks the play has been before the public tho gross receipts have been $237,000. Lately, during o performance of "Impulse" at the Grand theatre, Leeds, England, Mr. Beverly, who was playing the Colonel, threw a. book from tho stage at n local critic in a box, who had spoken adversely of his acting. 'Hie performance was suspended and tho actor apologized by attributing his booktbrowing propensity to impulse. William J. Henderson, Jr., the son of tho theatrical manager who brought out the opara, says that "Patience" was tho greatest success of Gilbert and Sullivan's operas. It ran six months at the Standard, and its receipts the last week were |?,30;?. "Pinafore" only ran Ave months. The profit on the latter was ?50,COO, while "Patiencu'' cleared | $00,000. Tho biggest business over done in i tha Standard theatre was done with the ad- ' vanced prices in the first week of "lolanthe," j when {10,300 was taken in. PROMINENT PEOPLE, Attorney-General Garland la doclared j to be a toetotaller. 1 Governor Adbett, of Now Jersoy, lives , almost entirely on milk. The late General Barrios,president of Guatemala, Central America, left a fortune of $10,000,000. On tho twentieth anniversary of Abraham Lincoln's death (April 15), an address was delivered by General John A. Logan at tho memorial services held in Springfield, ! ill. Henry Llotd, president of the Maryland Statu senate and successor to Governor Mc- ' La no, appointed minister to Franco, as governor of Marylnnd, is only twenty-six years old. Stephen B. Elki.vs, ono of Mr. Blnino's malingers in tho last presidential canvass, I lias accepted nn invitation to deliver tho an- i mini address beforo the Alumni association of the University of Missouri at Columbia, [ Juno 4. Pamsa, the Viennoso astronomer, offers to ! name an asteroid after anyone who will pay him $3*2.5 in cosh. His (irst customer was a Hungarian shopkeeper who proposes to baptizo ail asteroid "I'aprika-Sehlesingor," the uamo of his llrm. Bahon Noiwbxstcjold, tho Swedish explorer, is now reported to be preparing for another vnynge in an attempt t > reacli tho North pole by way of tho islands north of Siberia. He intends to bo gone three years, and lws excuses will bo borno by tho Russian government. Colonel Couch, since tho death of Payne feho leader of the Oklahoma "'boomers," is a native of Now York State and a "Fortyninor." Ho is modinm-sizod, mild-mnnnere 1, dresses in conventional garb, and presents no suggestion of tho wild bordorman. Ho was colonel of an Illinois regiment in the civil war. THE fORK OF DYNAMITE. Attempt to Blow Up tho British Admiralty Office. A Secretary Wounded and a Room Completely Wrecked. A terrific exploiion, caused by an infernal machine, occurred at IOioO o'clock a. si., in a passage in tho ofllco of tho lords of the admiralty, on Whitehall street, London. Tho point at which tho explosive went oil was close to, but not in, tho room used by Edward N. Swainson, secretary to tho admiralty. Mr. Swainson received a severe scalp wound and some painful bruises, and several clerks in the ofllco were injured. Tho room itself and ovorything iu it wero complotoly wrecked. A fire broke out as a result of the explosion, but it was promptly subdued by tho firemen and police. Tho passngo in which the explosion occurred is in tho basoment of the admiralty building and immediately in tho rear of the ofTlcc proper. It overlooks tho yard in front of the residence of IvOHi nuruiuruvn, iuok luiutn tuu uuiiuruuy, and is connected by a staircase with tho board room in the southwest corner of the building. Tho iron railing of the staircase was wrenched from its fastenings by tho oxplosion, and windows fifty yards distant were Droken. When the report was heard tho relief troop of Horso Guards, which was parading at tho time, was instantly ordered to watch the building, and additional sentries were placed at every point of ingress and egress. Mr. Gladstones, Earl Granville, and Lord Edmund Fit/.maurico wero at breakfast in tin foreign oflico when they heard tho explosion. They hastened to tho spot, where they were Boot i joined by William Sproston Cain?, niembor of Parliament, civil lord of tiio admiralty, who had been summoned. It wa;at first thought that a projectile, while being tested, had exploded. Then came reports of a largo loss of life and the fre? uso of tho word dynamite. For a timo the greatest disorder prevailed, and it was not till tho fire had b^en extinguished that any idea of tho extent of tho aamago cou'd be gained. It was then found that there had been no lives lost, and that tho damage was comparatively slight. A report, and 0110 which is believed to contain tho elenionts of truth, is that tho explosive was carried into the building by a couple of men who were supposed to be government employe* engaged in the survey now being made of the building. Although tho two were not molested, they attracted so much attention that two officers claim they could identify them should they soe them again. Colonel Mnjendie. chief of the bureau of explosives, and Sir William Vernon Harcourt, home sei-rotary, wont to the scene of the explosion ana began nn investigation. They were able to discover little in addition to what is stated above. Tho face of a small American clock was, however, found among the ruins and is believed lo have been part of the mechanism of tho infernal machine. Mr. Abel, one of Colonel Majendie's aides, says that tho explosive used was gun cotton. Opinion is divided as to the motivo of tho crime. It is regarded by some as a dynamite outrage of the same class as that* which was recently perpetrated at Westminster. Oth'ts think that it was dene with a view to retarding the war preparations, in which tho admiralty office is actively engaged. By others, including the police and officials of tho office, it is thought that the explosion was tho result of private malice toward Mr. Swainson, who is greatly d'sliked by many people, including some of those under him in the office. The admiralty officials are positive that the perpetiatorof tho crime was familiar with the building, and not a stranger to tho guards, the latter being positive that 110 unknown person had entered the building during tho twenty-four hours prior to the explosion. Mr. Swainson's injurios are principally en the head and face, and, while serious, are not fataL A prominent Scotland Yard detective asserts that t>.e nihilists in London had become very patriotic in their conversation since the controversy between Encland and Russia re gnrding tho Afghan boundary question had reached a critical stage. The admiralty occupies tho site of Wallingford house, in Whitehall street, in which the business of the lord high admiral, which was first conducted there in 1028 under Villiera, Duke of Buckingham, became permanently established during the reign of William III. The buildings are a high and mauivo pilo of stone, situated near the Horse Guards and within a few blocks of the houses of parliament. Adjoining and communicating with the admiralty is a spacious house for Iho residence of tho first lord. The secretary and throe or four of the junior lords liavo residences in tho northern wing of tho buildinc. GENERAL GRANT. Aatonlalilng HI* Family?The medical View of Ilia Cnac. While the Grant family were at lunch on the 10th tho dining-room door opened and in walked tho general To the astonished greetings of tho family he made no direct response, but, turning to the waiter, he said: "Inform Dr. Douglas that we ore waiting lunch for him." A moment later the doctor joined the family. The general was seated in his old placa it the head of the table. The meal passed in merry fashion. The doctor's face, which J.I 1 1 41 1 was rwiui'lltm uy uuu ntiLuuio uc iovcitou) was not allowed to bccomo serious all (ho timo tho meal lasted. Mrs. Bartoris was radiant with bright chat and infectious laughter, while tho general, with assumed gravity, helped hiinsolf to some macaroni and a slice of cold mutton, which tie cut in fine pieces, poured gravy over it. and eat it as naturally as though he had never got out of the way of eatine solid food. After lunch he went upstairs on tho elevator. This was the event of the day at the sick man's house. Ho had risen oarly after a good night's rest, under a roducel injection of morphine, and with the exception of a short nap it noon, sat up all day, moving about on the second floor with little apparent effort. The improvement of tne past three days led Senator Chaffee to venture the opinion that the general's ailment might not be cancer, but ulcerated or malignant 9ore throat,in which case there might bo hope for complete recovery. Tho Senator so expressed himself more thau once during tho day, intimating that the doctors had diagnosed and treated the case without understanding it. Inquiry was made of the doctors in the afternoon about this matter. "There can bo no mistake about tho disBase," one of them said. " It is epithelioma, [epithelial cancer,) and has been so proved both by microscopical examination and by its clinical features. What is the iwe of flying in the face of victory? The case haa .J J ... i DOGII UI10 ui lips auu Uu?rua. xiu uuu foretell what the next few days may bring. It is certain only that he is much improved and tlint we hope for continued improvement. The rule in cancer is death. There ire recorded exceptions in which the disease ias been eradicated by an operation or by caustic appliances. How this may turn out is by no means settlod. No intimation has come from my of the family that,' the disease is notcan:er, and the stair of physicians know that it 3. All to be said now U that wo aro much i jncouraged by this week's improvement." | Dr.SbraJysai<latdiisk: "lam surprised that there should bo any question as to ths j iliagnosis in General Grant's caso. The phy- ' sicians have determined that the diseaso is I jpithelioma, and there has been as yet no reason to change that belief." When General Grant awoke on the morning of the 17th ho expressed himself os feeling better than he had at any time for three 3r four weeks. He dressed himself fully, and lfter partaking of the breakfast of liquid food prepared for him and two cups of coffee i walked about the room on the second floor j for some time. There was still a great improvement appar- J ?nt in General Grant's condition on the 18th, ; ind ho wanted to go out riding, but the pliyai- ! cians refused their assent. Senator Cnaffeo ; laid that he saw the genoral's throat during tho lay,and that it had materially changed its ap- ' poarance since ho last looked into it. All j ?.? inirrrivt <v1<tp9 hurl disnnnoiired and the i kiju ? w r i?? ? stuff that gathorcd in his throat and choked j him. General Grant aRrecxl with Senator j Chaffee in thinking that his disease might be ! only an ulcerated soro throat. In answer to a reporter's Inquiries Dr. For- | iyce Barkor said that General Grant's j trouble was epithelioma. "Just what opihelioma is," continued he, "I can't explain to ! pou, for it would l>o a long matter and not j Basy to understand. It is a variety of cancer, ! but is only local in its effects. All tho doctors j are unanimous upon this point, and wo arc treating tho general for this disease. The i questions which have been raised alwut the I nature of tho trouble have come from outsiders ! and not from tho physicians. Tliero have been . cases of recovery from this disoase, but they ' ?m fow Ahoufc fifteen are on record." i GENERAL BARRIOS, Hov; the I'rcsiiloiitof ( uaiciuala met Ills Poatli. Advices have been received in Washington from Guatemala describing briefly tho scene j of General Bnrrios' death. Tho contending i armies had hardly begun tho battle when tho j Guatemalan commander was killed. Ho j was not leading tho troops on tho battle- ' Held, but was parsing leisurely along at some j distance in the rear of the troo])s, when an on- | slaught was suddenly made on him by a band ; of tho enemy. Barrios fell mortally wounded | by a bullet, and dieci in a few minutes. A des- j perate struggle was made to capture his body , from his iKxlvguard, and twenty Guatemalan | soldiers wore killed before the enemy were repulsed and the attompt abandoned. It. was in this fight that Barrios' son fell. It is common belief that Barrios was deliberately assassinated by the intrigues of Zaldivar, the president of Salvador. DISASTROUS FLOODS. I Many Persons in Kansas Drowned by a Waterspout. Whole Families Swept Away by the Rushing Waters, A dispatch from Medicino Lodge, Kansas, tells of the foarful results of a wntor-spout or cloud-burst, to the residents of tho Medicine river. The water rolled down over the lowlands, east of Medicine Lodge City, in a wave five to twelve feet high, carrying diath in its wake. Several families aro known to bo drowned. Parties who went out to give relief found men, women and children clinging to trees with nothing but their night clothos to protect them, and somo without any clothing'whatever,but still alivo. Their cries could be heard as early as 4 o'clock in tho morning, above the waving waters. Throe attempts were made to rescue parties beyond the river, but each boat in turn was swamped, and tho occupants only saved themselves by swimming to trees. tirorj picht movers' waeons camDincr in tiie bottom? and ono old man recognized the bodies of three of bis family?his wife and two children. James Gibbsand his daughter and nieco were washed away with their h'jme. A Mr*. Harris and her little girl of eleven yearn were found drowned. &. W. Paddock and family, consisting ot a wife and four children,were drowned. Frank Shlppllcr put his wifo and child on the roof, and his house went down. He was knocked off by a projecting limb and swam ashore, several miles below, but of the fate of bis wife and child nothing was known. The town is situated between the Medicinc river and Elm creek. Early in the morning tho flood came down the streams quickly, overflowing their bottom lands to a ciepth of about ton feet. In tho Elm creek bottoms, east of the town,a dozen houses were entirely destroyed and many of the occupants drowned or saved only by clinging to tho branches of trees. In camps in the bottoms were ton or fifteen emigrant wagons filled with families, and not half of the:o have yet been found. North of there entire families were drowned, others made miraculous escapos. Tho stores in town were closed, and every citizen was engaged in the work of rescuing people by boats and rafts from thoir perilous positions in trees and on housetops. This work was extremely hazardons.nnd by nightfall there were still some isolated prisoners. A relief party was out all night picking up those unfortunates. The people m Meoiclne river bottoms had earlier warning, and I all escaped with their lives. Hundreds j of cattle were drowned and great fields of crops ruined. Hundreds of dead animals also lino the banks of Elm creek. The rise started at dark and rain poured steadily for six hours, which was followed by a great cloadburst north of the town. Among those known to be lost are the following : G. W. Paddock, wife and four children; bodies of wife ana three of the children re covered. Jerry Gibbs and daughter. Mrs. Hrrris and daughter ; bodies of latter two recovered. Wife and four children of Samuel Maddox ; bodies of the woman and two children recovored. FOUR MEN HANGED, Rlnrderen Par the Penaltf ( their rrimfl* In Three Maleii Four men were banged for murder the other day in throe different States?two on the same gallows at Thomaston, Me., one at Concord, N. H., and one at Fort Smith, Ark. The following is a short account of each crime committed: Capone and Santore, the two Italian murderers, were hanged at Thomaston, Me. On the evening of September 7, 18S3, Pasquale Cosica, an Italian laborer, was murdered in Brewer, a few miles from Bangor. Santore and Capone, his fellow laborers, were arrested. Both made confessions, but each asserted that the other took the part of chiof culprit in killing Cosica. Tho threo men wore walking together, when one, whowalkel behind their vietim, shot him with a revolver; after which the two took the money he was known to have?$60- and divided it equally. They went to Banjorand both got drunk. Santore was forty years old; Capone wa3 twenty-six. Both leave families in Italy. Thomas Samon was hanged at Concord, N. H.,the execution being divested of nnv special incident of interest,although thetripfe crime which he committed was one of the bloodiest in the annals of New England. Samon, a French Canadian, thirty-six years old, killed Thomas Ruddy, a respectable mechanic of Laconia, and His child, and a Mrs. Ford. The latter, with whom Samon had been drinking and quarreled, was Kniea in her husband's house, her body packed in n trunk and conveyed lo the home of the Ruddys. Sanion al o tried to kill Mi's. Ruddy, but only succeeded in badly wounding her. in his confession Samon said that he killed the Ruddys because ho feared that they had discovered the contents of tho trunk. At Fort Smith, Ark., William Phillips, o white man, was hung for the crime of murdor, committed in tho Indian Territory. ? GEN. HAZEN REPRIMANDED. Sentence oT the Court -Martial in tho Cfilef Signal Officer'* C'o?c? Tho court-martial proceeding in the case of General William B. Iiazen, chief of the signal service, has been made public. The sentenco is a reprimand, which is made by President Cleveland as follows: "Tho proceedings, findings aud sentence in the case of Brigadior-Genoral William B. Hazen, chief signal ofllcor, U. S. A., are hereby approved In giving effect to tho sentence of the court-martial it is to be observed that the more exalted the rank hold by an officer of the army the greater is tho responsibility resting upon him to afford through his own subordination to his superior officers an example for all others who may be of Inferior rank in tho s.?rvico. To an officer of fine sensibilities the mere fact of being brought to trial before a court-martial must be in itself a mortification and punishment In the foregoing case the accused, whose high rank and long oxporience in the sertt!~? Hava irxsnirfld him with a fill] I realization of that respect for constituted authority which is essontial to military discipline, had been adjudged guilty of indulging in unwarranted ami captious criticism of his superior officer, tho secretary of war, thereby setting a pernicious example subversive of discipline and the interests of the service. Subordination is necessarily the primal duty of a soldier, w hatever his grade may bo. In losing sight of this principle the accused has brought upou himself the condemnation of his brother ofliccr* who examined the charges against him and seriously 1 impaired his own honorable record of previous conduct. It is to be hoped that tho lesson will not be forgotten. General Jlnzen will l>e released from arrest and resume tb? duties of his ollicc." A DEADLY WHIRLWIND, People Killed and Housed Torn to I'Icccn in Tex A*. The Frnirie Grave neighborhood, eigl t i miles south of Maxi.i, Texas, was visited about 2 o'clock p. M. by a severe cyclone. ! caus!ng serious damage to life end projterty. Tiie two-story school-house, in which were about fifty children, was blown down and torn to pieces, killing one child and wounding several. Tho casualties were as follows: A fourteen-year-old daughter of J. I'. Swing, i killed; Estello Cook, leg broken; two | children of E. Herring, leg and arm broken: i two children of Mr. U'Hnrn, legs broken and injure.! internally. The house of S. MeKinnon was blown down, seriously injuring tho owner. The storehouse and postottice, owned by S. 1). Hughes, were demolished and the goods promiscuously scattered. The residences of M. li. Cox, II. , Thompson and T. J. Williams wero demo!- j ished. Larkin Gentry's hotis >, some distance I from the village, was demolished and himsel: j ami wifo and chi'd killed. Other serious results were probable, ns tho country is thickly '< settled in the direction of the cyclone. ! Advices also come from Northern Texa< noting a very heavy rainfall, extending ove r . a large section of country. At Uaiuo<vill ! tho l'ecan and Elm creeks overflowed th 'ir ] banks, and beside washing away much pro;- j ertv several lives are rejiorte 1 lost. Wonui: j and children clung to bran-h'-s of trees for j hours before they were rescued, and in son: instances whnle families were sw yt away in their houses, but in m:?si instances they were rescuod. tiULLI AW U tfJLLV JiiS. 1 The Total Production In cliin Country for the l'ciir ISV, Mr. Burchard, t!iedirector of the mint, in his spccial annual report on the production ofgoldnml silver in (ho United States for the calendar year l.^St, estimates the produc* [ tion of the country to lmvo been: ! Cold, $30,800,000; silver, o mputed nt the silver dollur coinage rate, $IS,SC0,(MX>: i total, *?J,<K)0,00<>. This sli-.nvs an increaso over the yield of tho previous year of about , f.SO?,OilO gold and ? 2,4<K).0iM) silver. The total deposits of gold at the mints during the year nmounto 1 to $50,5I^,1"!?, of which $.'JO,S07,201 was reported as domestic. Tho total deposits of silver bullion, exclusive of redeposits, nt the mints and assay ofliccs, iyns SW,070,731, of which Wf>,o;>t5 [ was entered as doincst ic. l'itty-three incorporated companies working gold and silver mines p:i id during the year, | in 227 dividends, ^=7,*>or,i?!?S. During the same period 207 assessments were levied on 117 mines, on which it is istimatcd that over 84,01X1,000 have been paitL FARM, GARDEN AND HOUSEHOLD. Fruit Culture. With the exercise of the greatest care there is always an clement of chancc in fruit culture. Location, soil and other :ircurastances have much to do with the jucccss of even the most popular variety, md it may not be all we wish for when it comes into bearing. Even the stock [ on which the variety is grafted will make a difference. Pear and apple stocks are raised from seed, and it is from seed that new varieties originate. Among the seedlings are some which if permitted to sjrow to trees would be very vigorous growers and others slow or stocky ones. The snmc vaaiety if grafted on stocks of opposite character cannot produce fruit in all respects alike, any more than would a variety pear grafted on a quince or the same grafted on a pear. Tlius, a Duchess on a dwarf stock is different both in eating qualities and productiveness from a duchess grown on a standard pear stock, because the growth or nutrition in interforod with on the weaker more than on tho stronger stocks. After one has an apple, pear or cherry full grown and it docs not come up to expectation, it is well to graft it with some other kind which by experience we find is what we desire. Probably oue of the reasons why the earlier fruit-growers did better than so many moderns was that they were mostly fond of grafting and continually changing the tops with a better kina. The o:d plan, and probably the wisest in fruit culture, was to top graft certain varieties. Every good orchardist should cut grafts before the leaves push and bury the scions in the earth. After the sap begins to actively 1 ascend the grafting process may be begun. If tho scions have been properly preserved so that the buds do not push, the grafting is much more likely to succeed after the leaves of tho stock have grown a littb than before. Though this success may go on through into midsummer, the sooner after the spring opens the grafting can be done the stronger will bo the growth of the scion. The great enemies of the fruit grower, insects and fungus growths, are now measurably kept down by stem washes. Even ordinary lime washes, colored to prevent glare, are useful for large numbers of species of fungi which like to grow on dead wood or bark and which will not grow on lime substances. Soapy substances arc particularly noxious to most classes of insects and species of fungus, and it is an excellent practicc to wash the stems therewith. Grapevine diseases ore kept in control by those who manage them under glass through the washing of the stems, before the leaves push, with lime and sulphur. No doubt a similar treatment would benefit the crop in the open air. Increased attention is given to the necessity of thinning fruit where superior flavor is desired. In cases where quantity is preferred to quality this may not be of so much importance. A heavy bearing often tells on the future vigor of a tree. If pruning has not been finished when the leaves have not yet commcnccd to push it should of course be finished nt oncc. The great aim in the care of most bearing trees is to thin out those shoots which show symptoms of exhaustion, so as to keep a stock of young and vigorous growth.?Thomat Mehan, in Cultivator. Farm and Garden Notes# Turnip* excel on dry sandy soils. Wood ashes make the best of fertilizers for orchards. Bagging grapes is now generally approved by growers. Oats and potatoes find a congenial bed in cool, moist ground. ' * 'it- 1 I--1L eea your biock wun regularity uoiu as to time and quality. Ilcifcrs intended for the dairy should not be fed on fattening food. The best guards against drouth aro keeping the soil deep, rich, clean and mellow on the surface. A Michigan farmer gets rid of Canada thistles by the use of his sheep. He puts a small quantity of salt at the root of each thistle, and the sheep cat it off close to the ground. The bones thrown out in cooking or from the table are much too valuable to be wasted. Burned or ground they are excellent feed for poultry,and this is perhaps the best way to make the phosphate they contain available as a fertilizer for crops. The whey left after making cheese is poor food by itself, but if mixed with wheat middlings or bran its doficiencies aro supplied and it is then good for store hogs. The acidity of the whey causes it to be eaten with greater relish and also makes it more digestible. While every grape vine must ultimately have a trellis, it is not necessary to make the latter before or at the time the vine is planted. The first year of growth a stake is all that is needed. With the second spring the trellis will begin to come in use, though three to five years will pass before it will bo fully occupied. The first year after setting apple trees corn is a better hoed crop to prow among the trees than potatoes or any roots. It makes a shade for the ground and for the trees themselves, beside insuring | thorough cultivation, which, however, should be given with special caro not to injure the trees by whilllctrcc3 and horse cultivating implements. The deeper the drain the purer will be the water that flows from it, unless it accidentally taps some deposit of soluble mineral matter. At all events, the loss : of nitrate from drainage water, which is J sometimes complained of, will be less when the drains arc deep. The long roots of clover, which strike into the subsoil, will very rarely go below the depth of drainage. i One of the best manures for the garI den is made by mixing two bushels of fine bone with a wagon load of stable manure. The bone makes the manuro heat more quickly, and the manure softens or dissolves the particles of bone. If wdter with which sulphuric acid has been mixed is poured on the heap, it will prevent lo-s of ammonia. Most stable manures are deficient in phosphate, which the bone supplies. Except just at the time of calving, when the quality of feed is as important as its quality, liberal feeding is always the best policy for cows. A good animal will not accumulate fat, and it is difficult to keep a line miiker in even tolerable condition. Hut if she eats well, as every good cow will, her owner may rest assured that the feed is returned to him in the milKpail, in a form more valuable than most of the feed that is eaten on the farm can possibly assume. To plow deep is one of the English rules for pood farming. If we had relied more entirely on maxims of American manufacture in farming it is pretty safe to say that this would not be among them. For the great American staple, Indian corn, deep plowing is almost always injurious. The soil c-in scarcely be too warm for corn, and shallow plowing keeps warmth near the surface. It also keeps an amount of vegetable nevoid where corn roots can reach it easily and early. No grain crop will be more quickly benefited by manure than barley. Its giowth is rapid, and at the beginning is at a season when plant food docs not develop fast in the soil. Hence some kind of commercial fertilizer drilled with the seed to give the plant its first start is especially valuable'for this grain. Of late years it is found that the weight of grain, on which depends its value for sale, is due to tnc application ui miiiiaui manures. Where phosphate benefits other crops sow it on barley. Where it does not, sow salt, ashes or some form of potish. A successful florist makes his soil for pot plants of a mixture of tufty loam, garden mold, well-rotted manure and sharp sand, in the proportion one third loam, one third garden soil and the other third made up of manure and sand. For strong-rooted plants he adds less sand than for those'having many small roots. In all cases he adds sand cnougti to keep the soil from becoming heavy. Some plants, like fuschias, prefer leaf mold and will do better in it than anything else, yet line plants arc grown in precisely the same soil given to gerani utrs. Amateurs do not pay aumeient attention .to the item of 6and. This flcrst would sooner omit the manure than the sand. """\-i "tactical Hint* for Preparing1 Bleat for (lie Table. Boilikg.?Between the fibers of every species of meat will be found a material known as albumen, which hardens under a sudden aud intense heat, and softens under a prolonged exposure to a moderate Are or heated water. Albumen is soft during the life of an animal, and hardens after it is killed and becomes cold. The meat of fowl or beast is generally tender if used before tho rigor .. > | mortis sets in; if not so used it becomes hard, and culinary processes arc adopted to restore its tenderness. By the action | of timo a similar effect is produced. Hence, in boiling it is essential that ; tho material used should be slowlv cooked. For instance, a piece of cornea > > beef weighing ten pounds should be nlnrpd in rold water on a fire, and sitt> mered, not boiled, for five hours. For vigj chickens, turkeys, or calfs head, a cloth dusted with flour and saturated with lemon juice should be put around them, as this makes the skin white, and adds to the nice appearance of the dish. Iti* '-r<| desirable, also, that after being in gently boiling water for ten minutes, the mpat should be taken out and plunged in ice-cold water until cool, and then replaced in the pot to simmer until done. Broiling.?See that your fire it :';3| bright. Charcoal, wood, or hard co?l are preferable in the order given. Trim the meat; there is no advantage in cook* ing what is not intended to be eaten; dust it with pepper; use no salt, itdrawa out the juices; place it so near as to be almost on the fire for the first few moments; when browned remove to a mod- . crate distance, that it may cook slowly through; when firm to the touch, have a hot dish ready, and with a meat-tongs place it on the dish with a piece or two of butter and serve. Do not let your taste lor the pictur- 7Tv$ esque induce you to furnish a dish which should be hot with ice-cold water crew- y es, which chill the gravy, as well as the soul of the gourmet. If in broiling tKb fat of the meat should create a blaze, which smokes it,a handful of salt thrown " ^ on will check the blaze instantly, otherwise V your meat may be blackened, and taste of soot. A beefsteak should bo one inch thick, no mora, if thicker it will be harder to cook well, and the same of a ' mutton chop. A lamb chop, being white meat, should not be cut over hall nn inch thick. In broiling fish, first v. wipe the bars of the gridiron with a '? buttered or oiled cloth; then dredge both sides of the fish with floor; this will prevent tho fish from adhering to the gridiron. Fryixg is boiling is fat.?Good oil . ,=Jj is best; lard, beef dripping, or t?o fat of salt pork, may also be used. See that tho oil is boiling before putting the meat or fish in the pan. Use nlenty of it,.so ' that the article be fried may float. -'/&? Watch closely anu remove when of a ' ^ light creamy brown. You can decide when the oil is boiling by dipping a bit of bread crumb in it; if it browns rapidly it is ready for use. A fine wire sieve * is useful to lay your meat in while fry- . ing, as it enables you to remove it from IOC Oil mure mUIUUgLilJf nuvuuvuu. xen articles from the larder are fried with- ; . out previous manipulation. It will ta 'i found desirable in the case of vegeta- ' % bles to dip tbcm in ice cold water, and then dry them before cooking. ItOASTiNG.?Dredge meat lightly with flour; place it at first quite close to the fire, until it has taken effect on the surface. This keeps in the juices. When well browned withdraw it to a moderate ' distance and let it cook slowly through, keeping it well basted with its own dripping if it will furnish it, and if not, with artificial basting. Stewing.?This is the only process of cooking in which the material cooked retains all its virtues, whether of nutntion, fragrance or flavor, always provided that it be properly done. The essentials are: First, good material; next, auffi- \ ' > cient water to cover it; and last, the proper seasoning.?New York Citizen. ===== Greenland Vegetables. In Greenland attempts have beon made - *. Jg to raise some of the common plants of - ' j Af *Vi/i TlonioK of a. Xiurupean guiucuc. uu u, *-caaK tion of Godthaab, close to the open sea, turnips, radishes, lettuces and parsley are almost the only plants that can be cultivated with any success. Tho turnip, indeed, requires a favorable summer to produce anything like tolerable specimens. The cabbages arc scarcely worthy of the name; but at two inland stations up the fjord, about thirty miles narth of Godthaab, the climate is strikingly different. Here, Dr. Kink in forma us, turnips always come to perfection;, carrots prosper well, and attain a fair size; and cabbages, though unable to develop thick 6talks. yet produce tolerably largo leaves, which the provident Danes stow away for winter use. Attempts have Decn made to cultivate ^ potatoes, but the tubers never attain a size larger than marbles, and are only grown and eaten as curiosities. Undei the most favorable circumstanccs green p?aa only produce shells, in which thepeas are barely recognizable. Thu is within the Arctic circle, or at /'# least on its immediate borders. In South Greenland?the sight of the old Norsemen's settlements?horticulture is practised under more favorable circum 1 stances. At somo of the posts, in about j the same latitude as Christiana, good | carrots have been produced, and in a i forcing frame strawberries have grown j well, and yielded fruit for several years, but they afterward died, owing probaj bly to the severity of the climate, j At Julianshaab turnips often attain ^ C' , a weight of half a pound, and aro fit for ; table in the middle of July. Itadishe* are tit to be eaten in the middle of Juno. j Him barb grows pretty vigorously, and SB I can be raised from sseds. Green l cabbage attains a good size, but novel j the normal taste and puugency of the I vegetable. At Jakobshavn, Dr. Pfafl i used to raise a few radishes, and the lo- H calitv being sheltered, the tiny patch of j earth on the rocks, which in that remote ?2? place passed for a garden, produced "crops" almost as luxuriant as Godthaab j in the south. Female Gymnasts. There are on both sides of the Attafflic j over one thousand wom'en who cam their living as gymnasts, and of these nearly three hundred are fouud in America. The number is large, but so is the country over which the performers arc 1 scattered, and therefore the Now Yorker I should not be astonished and cry, j "Where arc they all?" Only at one or two variety theatres in the city are they to be seen and at a big circus, such as j Barnum's, wmcn occasionally visus me I town. California and the Western cities are their happy hunting grounds. These athletic lailies will tell you that the j Westerner is the most ardeut admirer ol | muscle and nerve, cspeciully when dis; played by the "softer sex." The rem uncration these performers rcJ ceivc varies from to $200 a week. ' The best of them, and of course the few, can command the latter sum. But it must bo remembered that for several i months in the year they arc idle. Manj j also have to support a mother of younger i brothers and sisters. The latter is the case with ouc well-known gymnast, who is the neice of a United States Senator. Her father in his latter days was financially unfortunate, and, dying poor, left a boy and girl to be provided for by his eldest daughter. Her uncle told her sho was disgracing her family by becoming j a circus performer, but she did not re: gard it in the same light. She satd she I ...no tnL-n rarn nf lmrsolf. thfi rft numeration was good and her brothei and sister lwd to be supported. Thej have now grown up, but still she con- , tinues in the profession because she has a liking for it and it gives her independence.?New York Herald. At the Nob Hill residence of Senator Stanford, in San Francisco, are fifteen pictures of his dead boy, eight of which are by Bonnot, of Paris, and twice life size. The portraits cost $30,000. There is said to be only one book tc every 10,000 inhabitants in Russia.