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ABBEVILLE PRESS AND"B^^ER| BY HUGH WILSON. ABBEVILLE, S. C.. WEDNESDAY, MAY 13, 1885. NO. 46. VOLUME XXIX 18 Itest and Lore. Tho glooming comes, the twilight blessed It drifts upon the ceilur boughs Liko du?ky snowfalls from the skies; It closes on my aching eyes, I.ito cooling hands on feverish brows, And I may rest. fhcy only know how good is rest, vYiio long with toil have been oppressed. So enmo thv lovo, my fair homo dove, Whose fond arms fold me closo and soft; So on my desolate life it fell, A soothing, sanctifying spell; It came so late though wiihod so oft, My own true love. ' He who would know how sweet is lovo, Long years alone must rove. ?J. H. Reagan. DARK DAYS HUGH CONWAY, Author of " Called Back." rf^tt i r?rrr?n vttt tttp t 4 ct ttaht? ! LllAi'lijU li.'VOi. HV'I U. They wero sitting in the courtyard, my mother and my wife. They looked the embodiment of serene happiness. Their large fans?the use of the fan came like an inspiration to I'hilippa, my mother acquired it after much practice?were languidly waving to and fro. Philippa's rounded arm was outstrectched; her fair left hand was in the clear water which fell from the fountain and lilled a white marble basin in which the gold carp darted about | in erratic tacks. She was moving her fingers gently backward and forward, startling the timid fish, and half smiling at their terror. It seemed to me, that my mother was remonstrating at the uproar she was creating in the brilliant, coted republic. That picture is still in my mind. That picture! I can sit now in my chair, lay down my pen, and call up every picture of that time. Nothing, save the grief, has ever, or ever will, fade from my memory. It was well for both of us that I had fought, out the battle with myself in solitude, where no eyo could see me where I could see no one. Even as it 1 was, knowing what a change my news must work, I paused, and a ghost of the day's temptation rose before me. : But it rose too late. The die was cast. Philippa had seen me and my mother's i eyes followed hers. I braced myself i -1 i. i. 1 + K nfl 1 up, anu went lowurn mem hiwi J'aunty a manner as I could assume, dy mother began a mock triade on < my shameful desertion of Philippa and 1 herself. Her words carried no mean- i ing to my ears. My eyes met those of j my wife. , With her I made no attempt at con- 1 cealment. "Where was the good? The ' worst, the very worst, had come. My : eyes must have told her the truth. } I saw her sweet face catch fire with ; alarm. I saw- her lips quiver. I saw ] the look of anguuh llash in'ojiju^'es- j ?-^eH-?fiew tbrrt HWB irelpless. } She rose. I made some conventional : excuse and went to my room. In a 1 moment Philippa was at my side. | "Basil, husband, love," she whispered, "it has come!" I I laid my head on the table and sobbed aloud. Philippa's arms were wreathed around my neck. "Dearest, I knew it must come. I have known it ever so long. Basil, do not weep. Once more, I tell you I am not worth Buch love as yours." f I covered her dear face with kisses. I strained her to my heart. I lavished words of love upon her. She smiled faintly, then sighed hopelessly?a sigh which almost broko my heart. I "Tell me all, my love," she said calmly. "Let me know the very worst." * I could not speak; for the life of mo the words would not come. With trembling bands I drew out tho newspaper, and pointed at tho fatal lines. She read them with a calm which almost alarmed me. } "I knew it must b?," was all she said. t I threw myself on my knees before her. I embraced her I was half distraught. Save for my wild ejaculations of undying love, there was silence for many minutes between us. j Presently, with great force, she raised my head and looked at mo with her sweet and sorrowful eyes. I "Basil, my dearest, you havo been wrong. The right is right, the wrong ! is wrong. See what you havo done! Had you not striven to savo me, only I should have had to answer for this. Now it is you and I, and perhaps a third?an innocent, stainless life, that will ba wrecked." I "Spare me! Spare me!" I said. "As you love me, spare me!" I Sho kissed me. "Daarest, forgive me. I should not blame you. Only 1 am to blame." Then, with a sudden change in her voice. "When do we start for England, lJasil" \ Although I expected this question, | I trembled and shuddered as I heard 11 it Too well I knew what England ' 1 meant. It meant Philippa's standing i in open court, in a prisoner's dock tlio j t center of a gaping crowd, self-accused j I of the murder of her husband! And as I i < pictured this, once more, and for the i last time, the temptation shook me. . 1 I spoke, but I averted my eyes from < hers. I could not meet them. My I i voice was husky and strange; it sound- i i ed like the voice of another man. A J; port of undercurrent of thought ran i I through me, that if i'liilippa would < but sbare it, I could bear any burden, 1 any dishonor. i "Listen!" I said, in quick accents. "Wearcfar away; safe. We love each other. We can be happy. Let the > man take his chance. What does anv thing matter, so long as we love and , i " are"together?" I I felt that her eyes were seeking ! mine. I felt a change in the clasp of ' hp.r hand. I knew that she was nobler I and better than I. ".Basil," she said, softly, and speak- i ing like one in a dream, "it was not my j husband, not the man I love, who said that. I forgive you for the sake of all you have done, or tried to do, for me. Tell me now,, when do Ave start for England?" Her words brought back my senses. Never in the wildest height of my passion had I loved Piiilippa as I loved her at that moment. I besought her pardon. She gave it, and once more > repeated her question. "With ihe calm of settled despair I consulted the railway-guide and found that if we left Seville to-morrow morning by the fir^t train, we might, by travelling day anil night, early on ! the morning of the twentieth reach 1 the town in which the trial was to be j held. I made the result of my researches known to my wife; and upon my j assuring her that we should have time j to spare, she left all the arrangement cf the journey to me. After this, another painful question arose. Was my mother to be told? j Philippa, who may, perhaps, ill her j secret heart have craveu for a woman's i cnrvriopf orw] ccnmn ?Vi t? in ll l.r !1 ntVOllfh - I o..FFw.v '* "I I ] ing trial, at first insisted that my ; mother should be taken into our conli- j dence?a confidence which, al s! in a few days'time would be gossip to the world. I besought her to waive the point, to spare :ny mother's feelings until the very lust moment. We could not take her with us on our hurriocl i journey. "We were young; sho was ; old. The fatigue, combined with the I grief, would be more than her frame: could endure. I could not bear to j think of her waiting lonely in Seville j' for the bad news which she knew nri^t | come in a day or two fr-m Kn; Ian !. j Let us say nothing respecting the j wretched errand on which we are i bound. Let us depart in secret, and f leave some plausible explanation be- j hind us. To my relief, Philippa at last consented to this. Then, after a long, [ tearful embrace, wo steeled ourselves | to join my mother at the evening meal, and to bear ourselves so that she should suspect nothing of the tempest within our hearts. We did not very long subject ourselves to this strain upon our nerves. It seemed to me now that every moment spent1 otherwise than alone with my wife was a precious treasure wasted, a loss I which I should forever regret. So very early we pleaded fatigue, and retired to our rest. Such rest! Fhilippa bade my mother good-night with an embrace so long and passionate that I feared it would awaken alarm, | especially when it was succeeded by mv ; own veiled, but scarcely less emotional j adieu. For who could say that w? i should ever meet again? I do not be- J lieve it struck Philippa that in accom-1 panving her I was running the slight-1 est risk. Had she thought so, she; would have insisted upon going alone. I But I knew that the part I had played in that night's work would probably bringasivere punishment upon my UVkU ill'd I. U Il.lt will L call? 1UI lliiU . Silently and sadly in the retirement! of our room wo made our preparations J for the journey, which began with the j morn. There was no need to cumber ourselves with mucli luggage. We should rest in no bed until the trial was over. What resting-place might then be Pr.ilippas, heaven only knew! So our packing was soon completed. Then I wrote a letter, to lie given to or found by my mother in the morning. I told her that an important matter took me post-haste to England; 4.1 l m.:ir. i .1 ?.1 1 . I LUilL. JL Milll UC'lfl IllUU'U cU aCCOlllpany me; that I would write as soon as wo reached London. I gave no further explanation. I hoped she would attribute my sudden (light to the erratic nature which she often averred I poses?ed. After all, the deception mattered little. In a week's time nothing would matter. Grief, overwhelming grief, would be my portion; a portion which, by her affection for me and for Philippa, my poor mother would be forced to snare. All being now ready for our start, we strove to win some hours of sleep. Our efforts were mocked to scum. Through that, the hist night we might spend alone together, I believe neither my wife nor myself closed an eyelid. , Let me draw a veil over my wild dis- j tress and Philippa's calm acquiescence \ in her fate. Some grief is too sacred j to describe. j Morning! Bright, broad, clear, cool, | Ddorous morning! Our sleeplessness i had at least spared us the anguish of awaking, and, while for a moment j glorying in the beauty of the world, | to remember what this morning meant { --- n:..:? 1 LU US. VllYlll^ t"3 <iuijuu iiun; j to reach the railway-station, we crept ? from our room, and, with eyes full of i blinding tears, crossed the pleasant [ patio. I paused in the center, anil j plucking a lovely spray from the great j grange tree, kissed it and gave it to my j wife. Willroutr a word she placed i"t In the bosom of her dress. As- -Sh.e drew her mautle aside to do 30, for the first time I noticed that she wore the very dress which clad her on that fatal night. Although it was utterly unsuited to the almost tropical heat through "which we should have to travel, I dared not remonstrate with her. ] Now, of all times, her slightest wish should be my law. Xoislesslv I undid the massive stud ded wooden gate, which at night-time 1 closed the entrance to the jwito. Unseen, we stepped into the shady, narrow street. Our luggage was light. I could carry it with ease to the station, which was not a great distance off. "We were there only too soon. 1 We had to wait some time ere tho 1 train, which following the example ot ' the true Spaniard, declines on any con- 1 sideration to 1)3 hurried, made its ap- 1 pearance. We took our seats in si- 1 lence. At last the dignified train con- 1 descended to move onward. We sat 1 side by side, and gazed in the direction ' of the beautiful city from which we wore flying; gazed until we saw the 1 very last of it, until even the great towering Giralda was lost to view. 1 Then and only then, I think we fully 1 realized to wnai enci we w ere speeding. | The next three days and nights seem ' now little more to me than a whirling |! dream. On and on we went to work j out our fate; over the sumo ground ' i which I had traversed, with scarcely , less agitated feelings, some months ago. I ground my teeth when I thought ! how little my strenuous and seemingly \ successful efforts had availed. Now, not from any omission of precaution; , not because the law compelled; not by the exercise of force; but simply on account of the great dictum of right and wrong, we were, of our own accord, retracing our steps to face tho d;mger 1 from which wo had lied. Oh, bitter irony of destiny! What was money to me? Nothing but so much dross! It could do one! -hing, only one, that gold which I : ayished so freely on that journey. It i :ou;d assure that Pliilippa and I might i xavel alone. It could give us privacy 'or the time that journey lasted, that iVas all! Yet although alone, we spoke but ittlo. Our thoughts were not such as ;au be expressed by words. Her hand j in mine, her head on my shoulder? | sleeping when we could sleep, waking I md looking into each other's faces ? knowing that every mile of sunny or Jtarlit country over which wo passed brought us nearer to the end. Ah! I understood then how it is that lovers who are menaced by some great sorrow can kill themselves, and die smiling in | each other's arms! We might have | been travelling through the fairest j scenery in the world, or through the most arid desert. I scarcely troubled to glance out of the carriage window. The world for me was inside. It was after we left Paris?Paris, which to-day seemed all but within a stone's-throw of London?that I aroused myself, and braced my energies to discuss finally with Philippa T tK..t i Will JMUI1 y>L tULlWU. A IVIU HHIW | my right course would be to go straight j to some solicitor, tell the tale, and ask | him to put masters in train. But I | could not bring myself to do this. Our secret was as yet our own. Moreover, through the misery of those hours one ray of hope had broken unon me. If Philippa could be brought j to yield to my guidance, to follow my j instructions, it was not beyond the \ bounds of possibility that we might be ; taved, and saved with clean hands. "Dearest," I whispered, "to-night. we shall be in London." Ilor fingers tightened on mine. 'And at Town ham V" she said. "We j shall be in time?" "In amp'e time. But, Philippa, lis- | ten" "Basil, as you lovo me, not one word j to tempt, to dissuade me!" Not one; but listen. Sweetest, if you will be guided by me, even now all may go wel. This man" "The poor man who is standing in my place V" "Yes; listen. Heaven forbid that I clinnlil tomnt. vim fliinlr* Vir? i< nr ! doubt, a man of a lowly station in life, l'hilippa, 1 am rich, very ri< h." "I do not understand you," she said, pressing her hand to her brow. "Mon> will compensate for any tiling. Let him stand his trial. lie is innocent. IE there is justice in the land, lie may, he must be found not! guilty." I "Hut the a^ony of mind he must I pass through!" "For that I will pay him over and over again, lie may may be but it boor, to whom a thousand pounds would be inexaustablo wealth, lint, whatever his station, the compensation sent to him by an unknown hand shall make him bless the day which laid him under tho false accusation. Kellect, look at the matter in every light. 1 I swear to you that in my opinion we may, with a clear conscience, await the result of the trial." She sighed, but made no answer. Her silence was a joy to me. It told me that my specious argument carried weight. I took her hands and kissed them. I told her again and again that I loved her: that my life as well as hers depended on her yielding. It was long before she yielded. The thought of a fellow creature lying in prison, perhaps for months, and to-inorrow to stand in shame before his judges, on account of a deed which she herself had done, was anguish to her noble nature. Then, growing desperate at seeing tho only plank which could save us from the wreck spurned for the snake of what, in my present mood, T was able to be too finely strained a scruple, I used my last and, as I rightly judged, my most powerful argument. I told her that it would be not only she who would suffer for that unconscious act, but that I, her luisbrnd, must pay the penalty due from an accessory after the crime. Heaven forgive me for the anguish my words caused that loving hear!! Philippa, on whom the intelligence of my danger fell like a thunder-bolt sank back in her seat, pale anil trembling. J la 1 I over doubted that my wilos heart-whole love was my own, that look would have dispelled the doubt. f?he prayed and besought me to leave her at the next station; to let lier finish the journey and make her avowal alone. My reply was short but sufficiently long to put all hops of my consenting to such a course out of her head. Then, for my sake, she yeilded. "On one condition?one only," she said. "Bo guided by me in this. In all else you shall do as you like." "I must be in tho court, Basil. 1 must hear the trial. If the worst happen, there must not be the delay of a moment; then and there I must proclaim the truth." "You shall be at hand?closo at hand. I will be present." "Xo! I must be there. I must hear and see all. If the man is found guilty, I must, before his horrible sentence 1 is pronounced, stand up and declare ! his innocence." i "All that could be done afterward." "Xo! it must be done then. Basil, 1 fancy?put yourself in his place! Xo'.h- 1 ing could atone for his anguish at hearing himself condemned to death ] for a crime he knows nothing of. I i must be there. Promise me I shall be Lhere, and for your sake I will do as J jrou wish." 1 It was the best concession I could ( ?et. I promised. I concealed the fact 1 :hat if, when sentence wa3 pronounced i woman rose in the bo ly or the court, ! ind asserted the prisoner's innocence , md her own guilt, the probabilities i ivero sue wouiu ne summarily ejected. 1 rhis made no difference. Let Philippa )e silent; let the man be found not juilty, and the next train could bear is back to Seville. Yes, even now there was hope! ^ [TO BECONIIliUBD'.]" A BOLD TRAIN BOBBER. He Assaults the Two Occupants of a Baggage Car. rben Empties the Safe, Leaps Off and Disappears. Tlio LouisviUo express train, on tho Louisrillo, Now Albany and Chicago railroad, due at Chicago at * o'clock a. m., stopped for water at Harrodsburg, Ind., at 11:16 j'clock p. m. "While there a tramp must javo eutered the train, as it had scarcely ;ot in motion when tho baggage man, Tctcr Webber, and the express inessen" ;er, George K. Davis, wero attacked by a man, who compelled Webber to open tho safe, when tho robber rifled it of its contents Die story is best told by Webber, who gives LUU lOIIOn jUJJ UCCUUIlk <Jl HIO tUUUClj . When the train stopped at Harrodsburg ho and Davis were asleep upon their train chests. Both doors of tho car were open, and they had no suspieian of anything wrong. Just aftjr the train got into motion Webber was awakened by a violent blow on tho hea l. The force was such as tu nearly stun him, but, staggering to his feet, ho siw a tall, muscular man, struggling with Davis. The messenger was bespattered with blood, which was gu-hi:ig from a wound in his head, and h,> also had evidently been struck with a club while asleep. The bSud- t goon with which this had been done, a largo j 1 hickory sti- k, lay on the flour covered with I j blood and hair. " Webber was too badly hurt to tako a part in the fray, anl fell to ( tho tloor. The robber was a largo , man, badly dressed, and had a bristling, ; light mustache, lie seeinc 1 to be about thirfcy-livo years of age This liiu h Webber noticed "as the two men struggle 1 in each . other's embrace. It was but f n-an instant, j Davis tnanagiug to loosen his right arm drew J his revolver, hut before lie could fire the man ' wrenched the weapon from his grasp, and j leveling it like lightning pulle I the trigger. J The ball struck the messenger in the head and . he fell dying to tho lloor. With the weapon 1 in his hand the murderer ordered Webber to ' get up an open tho safe. The baggage mas- 1 ter endeavored to obey, but could not unfasten the locks. As he worked with thorn - - i -i .~.?i < 110 KMC 1110 muzzle OI uio |ji3l >j against bis hoail, and tlio rubber coolly told him he would lire if he failed. In desperation j Webber stepped over the body of Davis and took his bunch of keys from his pocket, i With some dilliculty ho found tho ones 1 that fitted the locks, and in an instant the i safe was open. Keeping Webber constantly I covered with tho revolver the robber deliber- ] atoly wont through the safe, taking out tho money packages and putting tlum in his ] pocket, lie seemed to know exactly where they were and made no mistakes. Tho papers 1 of no value ho threw away at once. ] Tho rilling of the safe occupied but a mo- \ meat or two, and this done, bo turned to ] Webber and leveled the weapon at bis head. "Are you going to kill mo."' the victim gasped. "Yes, by , I am," replied tho robber, liring almost as he spoke. Tho ball went crash- , ing into Webbers head, and he fell to tho ] floor. Ilo was not, however, at onco de- i prived of consciousness, and managed to ' ? > -r.? i.? r?n rise to uis Knees, .-v sewiiu unci nu ivu and snatched the bell rope. This effort exhausted liini, anil iie dropped to the floor a^ain. The robber calmly picked up his club and while the train wa> slowing and just before it stopped, got oil". This was, in substance, Webber's story, told with the greatest difficulty. Ho said that lie would bo able to recognize the robber anywhere. The amount stolen is not known. Davis lived at Ixniisvillo, was 22 years old, and unmarried. "Webber lives at New Albany, is 28 years old, married, and has several children. HEWSY GLEANIN33. There are 1,500,000 acres of swamps in North Carolina. The English language is taught in 50,00(1 schools in Japan. Ax Alabama factory makes kindling out ol cotton seed hulls. There have been nine wars in Europe within the lust thirty years. Tnu total cost of the rescue of Lieutenant Greely and party was The population of Atlanta, Gn., is increas. ing at Mie rate of nearly 5,0j0 a year. Making envelopes out of straw paper is a new and flourishing industry in Ireland. A deposit of zinc ore thirty feet thick and two miles long has been found in .Marion county Arkansas. English lovers of cats are introducing a new variety from Russia. Thov are of a rich mouse color. Tiik lumber cut in Maine tho prist season was l#5,(MX),u;iO feet, or abjut 10,uui),0j0 less than that of 16"5'4. Ix Virginia peanuts are now ground into what proves a very lair fl<xir for making piocriut and other light pastries. lii.KCTiiiKiRD bulter will soon bo in the market. A French patent lias been obtained for a process of butler-making by electricity. The San Juan district of Colorado is rapidly devo! oping iuto a gold-producing country und is good lor J of the yellow me.'ai tliis year. What is said to be tho largest diamond in tho world is about to bo cut lu Amslcrdum. It was recently found in South Africa and weighs 470 carats. Mr. Lykexs, of Mines, a smalltown near Altoona, 1'onu., issaid to bo lather of iiva boys, three of whom camu into the world fully equipped with teeth. A lo.\g-ma!II!U> elephant, larger and moro perfect than *uny specimen hither go secured, is boin? extracted from tin ice at tho (uoulii of tho Lena lJelta, Siberia. There are now eight vegetarian restaurants in London, feeding from SOU to J,5Utf (KM'sons daily. The average cost of dinner m one of the most frequented is seven and one-half pence. / M . .: i&i. m iHitilMM " NEWS SUMMARY j Fnnfrni Rnd middle Ktateii Captain John O'Brien, who commanded the steamer City of Mexico oil her last trip to New Grenada, on which she carried arms for the Colombian insurgents, was arraigned before United Statos Commissioner Shields in New York for violation of the neutrality laws. New Jersey's "arbor day" was celebrated all over tho State by the planting of trees. Isaac W. England, for the past seventeen years business manager of the New York Sun, died the other afternoon at his homo in Ridgewood, N. J., aged fifty threo years. General Grant was feeling somewhat worse on tho 25th. It was practically settled that if well enough in July lio would occupy Mr. Joseph W. Drexel's cottago at Mt. McGregor, near Saratoga, N. Y. On the ?<>tti the general was feeling better again?better than ho had felt in weeks, ho said. President Costello has Issued a circular from the miners' general oflico in Pittsburg, IVnn., declaring that owing to unfavorable reports received tho long strike in the milrea l districts was at an end. An epidemic of typhoid and malarial fever has carried o.T many people at Plymouth, Penn., and caused a practical suspension of 1 business. 1 Reports from tho Delaware peach district predict an unusually large crop. The value of tho shipbuilding industry of . X . r,,.. isvl ,v>m.-.1,..,1 it! ft X) IMV'I iiii^uiuu mi ... Jt ju.tvuv.. i | Nine firemen were buried under the ruins i of a fallen wall at n firo in Pittsburg, Penii. | OneAvas taken out dead, two fatally and tho < Mliers inoro or less seriously injured. Yi\'E Russian ships were in the port of New York the other day, waiting to se? whether it was safo to take out cargoes Govehnoii Abbett lias signed the hill passed by tho New Jersey legislature making < it unlawiul to kill song or other birds for tho purposo of using their skins for decorative r purposes. ?] A fire at Railway,N. J., destroyed a largo 5 carriago factory and tho Gordon Opera ] house. The llamos spread so quickly that aid was telegraphed for to NewarK, Jersey City and Elizabeth. ' About I'OO dogs *of high and low degree. I and almost every breed known in the canino world, took part in the annual prize competi- j tion at the Madison Siiuaro Garden, rsew York. ? Much rlamage was done in portions of New c York and Pennsylvania by a heavy storm of I wind and rain, followed by 11co.Is. In some c places snow fell. t South and West. 1 E. C. fliBHARD was hanged at Trinidad, Col., in the presence of a largo crowd, for the ] murder of William Knowles in 1SS3, and ( at Union, S. C., Hanip Nethers (colored) sufrered a similar fate for tho murder of another colored man. ? Joseph Eaton, a Clinton county (Nov.) I lesperado, shot and killed Marshal Clay ( Jeans, and-was in turn similarly served by Sheriff Newland. Ex-Govkrnoii XV. D. Br.oxAM, of Texas, * lias declined the Bolivian mission, and has so notified Secretary Bayard. s The recent fire at Vicksburg, Miss., proved v no re fatal than was first reported. After % several days' search in tho ruins thirty-two jodies wore recovered, including tho corpses c )f five firemen, and it was feared the list i ivould bo increased. j A new government inuian scuuui auu i.um | ire to be located at Grand Junction, Col. Eleven miners in Colorado wore overwhelmed weeks ago in their cabin by a snow- a slide and suirocated. The other day their s xxlies were recovered. c A complimentary dinner was given to ex* ^ Senator Pendleton,' the newly-appointod lTnited States minister to Germany. Speeches were jnade'by George William Curtis, who c JPOSided, Senator William M. Evarts, Carl r Schurz and others. j. One-half the cotton crop in the Arkansas ? .alley has been destroyed by freshets. ADOLrn Hess, living near Concordia, Ohio, a tilled his wife and child with an ax and then langed himself. Ho had bean addicted to o lrink. c Smoke from a fire in the Lindell hotel at j 5t. Louis, largely occupied by women and children, created a panic, but all the guests 1 eached the outside in safety. Three fireman I vere injured. The damage, mostly done by i vater, reached $100,000. g Three prisoners at Winton, N.C., set fire :o tho jail as a method of escaping; but tho lames got beyond their control, and they .vere all burned to death. f Forest fires haxe consumed woods and r ences in five mountain counties of Virginia, t ausing the heaviest loss experienced in nany years. ^ Delegations from every ' board of trade I n tho country were present nt tho formal ipenlng of tho new Exchange building in j Chicago. The new edifice is one of the largest and handsomest of its kind in tho world, 0 ind covers a space of 173 by 1G0 feet. From 1 .ho ground to tho top of tho main flagstaff on e ,he tower is 300 feet. . Washing-ton. [ The President lias appointed Honry P. . Ivernoclmn, of Louisiana, to 1h> naval officer it New Orleans, and Cornelius S. Schonck, t :>f Oregon, to bo appraiser of merchandise in t llio district of Willamette, Ore. Charles Tanney lias been appointed postmnstor at Damden, N. J. ' ' Postmasteii-G ener al Vu.as the other day appointed sixty fourth-class postmasters. s Judge Andrew Wyme, of tno supremo c district court, has resigned. j The President and postmaster-general have lecido l in the case of General William Ward, Tostuiastar at Newark, N. J., that there is n lot enough in tho charges made against him I if having usod hisolliep for political purposes ^ ;o warrant his removal, and ho will therefore ,>e permitted to remain until his term exlires. v Foreman* Wilt.iam Dickson hns been ac- J (uitti'd of the charge of attempting to c >r upt the jury in the recent star route trial, md lias brought a libel suit for &' ),() JO against x-Attorney-! leneral Brewster. In answer to tho question whether Gcnoral j [/iwton's disabilities were removed by President Johnson's pardon, prior to .ho passing of tho foiirtoanlh ain-nduenfe to tin Constitution, Attorney 1 icnoral (Jarlanl lias given his opinion in h favor of Mr. Lawton, holding that he is qua!- . ified to hold a civil office under the govern- . ment. General Lawton had been appointed minister to Russia, but declined the mission * ivlien the question of liis eligibility came up ( The President has niado tho following g further appointments: Charles L. Scott, of , Alabama, to bo minister resilient aim consul- i general of the United States to Venezuela ; | warren Green, of Kentucky, consul general i it Kanagawa, Japan; John 15. Bacon, of South Carolina, charge d'affaires to Paraguay ! md Uruguay. To bo consuls?Berthold L4roeuebaum. of California, at Apia; Albert Noering, of New York, at Bremen; Joseph B. Hughes, of Ohio, at Birmingham, England; John H. Putnam, of Ohio, Honolulu: Victor A. Sartori, of Pennsylvania, at Logliorn; Robert 15. Withers, of Virginia, at Hong Kong; John S. Williams, of Indiana, to to third auditor of tho treasury department. A Washi.vgton* dispatch saj-3 'that "in view of tho excellent records of tho following consuls, tho President has decided that thoy should bo retained: W. P. Griunell, at Brailford, England: Lyeli T. Adams, at Genova; Samuel \\r. Dabney, at Fayal. The number of ordinary stamps required by tho postoflico department for tho next fiscal year is 1,45-,:;1 *>,of newspaper and periodical stamps, 2, i*i'viS.r>; of postage dua stamps, 12,'.?4'.i,:370; and of special delivery stamps, 5,UOO,OOU. Foreign. General Middletox's force of Canadian military had a pitched battle with Kiol's rebels fifteen miles south of Batocho, Hani- i toba. The fli*st reports received stated that tho houses of the enemy had been shelled and i many rel>ols driven from them to rofugo into the ravine. Tho Indian allies of Kiel fought vigorously in Indian fashion. Tho wholo number in tho ravino was estimated at IMO. ; The military lust about thirty in killed and wounded. France's declaration that tho Egyptian government must make reparation for tho suppression of a French newspaper at Cairo, or she would suspend diplomatic relations, created a commotion in England, whoro it ...no Vi..,nrn mid itmsm. w?ro actimr together. Ixird Granville tclegraphod to Sir Evolyn Baring, diplomatic agent of Great Britain at Cairo, to support is ubar Pasha to tlio utmost extremity in his refusal to mako apologies or reparation for tho suppression the Uusphorc Egyptian. The Abbo Gannahtit was oxocutad by guillotine in Paris for the murder last fall of i IIinc. Ballerich. j Much exeitomont was created in English : diplomatic circles by a rumored Russian dofeu t in an engagment with the Afghans. '1 he Russian force of 1,700 moil woro reported 1 nearly all killed. 1 At tho end of a long speech made by Mr. Gladstone in the British house of commons, and regarded as one of tho English premier's greatest o!Forts, the entire credit of $ )."?.00 y)00 for war purposes asko 1 for was | grant"U. Tho general opinion upon Air. Gladstone's speech was that war was inevitable. The Prince and Princess of Wales wore received at Omagh and Carrickforgu*, Ireland, with demonstrations of welcome by tlio loyalists. At the former place a counter demonstration bv tho nationalists was broken up by tho police. The Russians have made another advanco, occupying Meruehak, twenty miles south of l'enjdoh. Tiie Belgium chamber of deputies, by a unanimous vote, adopted tho bill authorizing King Leopold to accept tin titlo of sovereign of the Congo free state. The Prince and .Princess of Wales have returned to London from their visit to Iro land. A leadi.vg Pari; paper say* tin llo^thur,'. Eijuiiticn ulFair has boon settled through tlio intermediary o:lico:s of England upon tlio following bases: Egypt npologixo; to M. Tallandier. tho Kronen charge d'aflfaii<>;; tlio ofliceof theE(i':ijiliiui will be reopened and tho journal allowed to reappear forthwith; and Franco abandons herdemaud for tho recall of the officials who forcibly entered the newspaper office, in view of Egypt's apology. Russian sailors have begun to receive tho pay allowed in time of war. It is reported that at a council in St. Petersburg, presided over by tho czar, conciliatory measures toward England, proposed by the Russian foreign minister, were rejected. A Panama, correspondent says that 'Jof what was onco tho flourishing city of Aspinwall but few houses remain standing. Everywhere are the blackened walls of ruins and cellars filled with charred debris. Hundreds of persons perished in tho fire, and tho bodies of men, women and children aro still found among the ruins." Tub Arctic steamer Alert was returned to Great Britain by tho American government at Halifax, N. S., in presence of many noted personages. Tho Alert was a British vessel presented to tho American government for use iti tho search for tho G reefy party. Advices fromSuakim state that tho Arabs have again bocomo troublesomo to tho British, firing ovory night upon their forts and making constant attempts to destroy the railroad which is in courso of construction to Berber. Official dispatches from India confirmed tho report of tho recent defeat of the Russians in a second ongagoment with tho Afghans on tho frontior. A St. Petersburg dispatch stato3 that tho czar sent an ultimatum to Great Britain demanding that tho latter accept Russia's proposed boundary lino between Turkestan and Afghanistan. If Great Britain refused ro accept uns iioiiiiuary xiussin wouia proceed to occupy Herat. umfim George w. Slosson won the first prizo of >1,000 in tho final ga:no of tho billiard tour, lament at New York, his opponent boing (aeob Sc-haefer, who took second prizo of >000. Sexton won tho third prize, $100, anj Jaly tho fourth, Two prominent .Japanese polico officials lave l)03n inspecting tho New York city jolice methods. The Russian war ship Strclok arrived at sew York from Norfolk, Va, a few days iince, and was viewed by crowds with much uriosity. At Norfolk sho had been watched >y the English cruisor Garnet, and in tho ivent of war it was expected a fight between ho two vessols just outsido of American vaters would follow. A small sloop went nshoro near Oldfleld Light, on tho Long Island shore, off Conneciicut, and threo men wero drowned. Thirteen canal boats on the Hudson wero mnk during the recent severe storm. > Mlle. Alice Lafavre, a member of a :ircas company, while performing on the rapeze at Tronton, N. J., fell thirty-five feeti jreaking her nose and threo of her ribs. For tho first time since his sickness took a orious turn, General Grant on tho 30th vorked at his history of tho war, employing i stenographer and dictating clearly and sucinctly for an hour. An examination of lis throat revealed that the soreness and rritation about the roof of the mouth had ntirely disappeared, and there only remained >f tho alleged cancer a small cankorous spot if" the root of tho tongue and on the right ide. Colonel Fred. Grant said that both he ind tho rest of the family were now confident hat tho goneral would recover. A man* having the appearance of a tramp interod the express car of a night train when lear Harrodsburg, IntL, and having shot and irobably fatally wounded the baggago masor and the express messenger, rifled the safe ind escaped. Anthony M. Keiley, of Virginia, has been ppointed by the President tho envoy extrairdinary and minister plenipotentiary to Austria-Hungary. Mr. Keiley had previousy been appointed minister to Italy, but as lis appointment was objectionable to the talian government, owing to a hostile peech which he made in Richmond yean go, his nomination was withdrawn. Secretary Whitney has received notice rom Admiral Jouett that Aizpuru, the aIyaI lao/lrtit of Pnnomn hn/1 Qitrron<]or<v1 nml hat the Colombian troops occupied tho city. Ul was quiot ami business 'everywhere had ieen resumed. This ended tho revolution. A Washington dispatch of tho 1st states hat "Senators and members now in the city ,ro seriously considering tho necessity of laving an extra session of Congress in tho vent of war between England and Russia 11 order to repeal tho registration aws respecting shipping vessel?. It is icliovcd that permission for foreign vessels o sail under tho American [flag would give lie United States control of tho carrying rade of tho world. Western and Southern tiembers are heartily in favor of the movonent." Seven more of tho English transatlantic teamships plying between Now York and Jreat Britain have been chartered by the British government for war purposes. General Komauoff, Russian commander t tho battle near Penjdeh, has replied to Sir 'etor Lunisd?n,tho British commissioner on ho Afghan boundary question, denying the a 4.1?orrn:~ urrutlllfbs UJ. tiiuiatoui ? utxuuuuui. aiuui5 I rliich led up to tlio Russian attack on tho \f chans. THE WAE IN_MANITOBA. Piglitins: That Rcsnlteil In Sovore lomcv t<> i lie Dominion Troops. Tho following details of tho battlo betweon j Jenoral Middleton's force and the rebel army i Manitoba have b;cn received from Willi )eg: When the troops left Clark's Cross ng on Thursday, there were few in tho irtny who cxpected tho fight would occur. 3eneral Middieton, however, warned tho icouts to keep a sharp lookout, and the advance was inado with great caution. Tho roops camped for the night thirty miles vest of Clark's Crossing. A good light's rest was obtained, and tho forward narch was commenced at seven o'clock on ,he following morning. Tho scouts wero .veil in advance. Before proceeding five niles two of the scouts came galloping back uul reported to General Middieton that the rebels were intrenched in tho bluffs a mile in idvance of the column. The line of march was along a trail which winds among tho bluffs, and afforded a magnificent intrenched position to tho rebels. Tho trail at this point crosses Fish creok, which is swampy on jither side, so that tin troops had to wade meo deep in water. Middloton at once arranged his column and gave tho order to advance. As they approached, the rebels, from thoir imbush in tho timber on tho bluffs, openod [Ire, and poured a deadly volley into our troops. Ten of our men, principally scouts, toppled from their horses and at least fifteen horses rolled over dead. Tho genjral ordered a return flro, which was obeyed, but little effect was taken on the rebels. Our scouts then manoeuvred around to a position where stood two haystacks and % couple of log houses. The general then ordered Captain Wise, his aid, to bring forward an advance guard of the Ninetieth, under Captain Clark. All this timo the rebels, who were standing in their rifio pits or hidden behind trees, wero pouring their deadly bullets thick and fast upon our troops, who appeared perfectly helpless and unablo to dislodge the insurants from their position, chosen with so much foresight. Two guns of A battery then came up at a gallop under command of Captain Peters, tho guns being supported by the garrison division under Captain Peters and Lioutenant ltivors. After firing a couple of | shrapnels at tho half breeds the latter rotirecl into tho ravine. Our men were finally beaten back nnd retreated from tho knoll, leaving tho rebols in possession of it. Seeing matters wero growing serious and that defeat stared him in the face, General Middleton sent a courier in mad haste to tho river to summon tho left column on the op|K>sitesido to his assistance. Procautions had been taken to bring a scow up tho river to enable tho troops to cross in the event of a battlo. Lord Molgund was in command of tho left column, and when ho hoard liring on tlio opposite side about nine in tho : morning, tho timo at which tho battlo commenced, bo ordered his column to advance tjuickly and be at tho rivor banks ready to cross. In obcdionco to General Middle ton's order a scow was at onco got in readiness. No. 2 company of tho Tenth, under Captain Mason and Lieutenants Irving and Hay, then crossed. Lord Melgunu anl Captain Young crossed with them, and after a march of about three-quarters of i a mile from the river's bank, came up with ! tho right column who wero engaged with tho I enemy. Tho latter wero then under cover of ! a deep ravino. Meanwhile A battery (regit- j lars) and a company of tho Ninetieth under Captain Forrest, dashed across tho opening and gained the top of tho ravine. Tho rear troop? woro then worked forward and tho artillery constantly shiftol for an advantageous position for shelling the rebels who wero still in tho rifle pits ami old houses. Heavy losses occurred among our troops, but the los3 to tho insurgents was small. After several hours' fighting tho goneral, finding it impossible to dislodge tho rebels, ordered a withdrawal, mid tho army finally fell back on the camping ground of tho previous night. Tho loss of tho Canadian troops was about tight killed and lilty wounded. Of tho latter a number wero expected to die. As far as could bo seen tho enemy left no dead on the field, though twenty-nvo of them wero shot and a dozen captured. The rebols seem to bo composed of about an equal nutnl>er of half-breeds and Indians, in all not more than two hundred, and aro supposed to bo undor the command of Gabriel Dumont. ! i Russian mm. The Czar's Troops Take Another Step Forward in Afghanistan. Proposals for Conciliatory Measures Toward England Kejected A dbpatch to tho Brussels lndepcndance Beige from St. Potersburg says a council hold at that place, at which the czar presided, rejected proposals made by M. de Giers, the Russian foreign minister, to adopt conciliatory measures toward England. Tho roply of the Russian government to Earl Granville firmly maintains the tenor of the former dispatchos. From St. Potersburg comes a dispatch, Btating that Russia has ordored tho mobiliza" tion of her southern army. It is estimated that 300,000 troops will bo available in forty days. A London dispatch says: "Tho cabinet council this afternoon lasto:l two and a half nours. ucuuieu reports ot tue suite 01 iuo military! and naval war preparations were mado by Lord'Hartington, socretary of war, and tho Earl of Northbrook, first lord of the admiralty. A dispatch was received from Sir Edward Thornton, British minister at St. Petersburg, stating that he was unaware of any fresh engagement between tho Russians and Afghans, as reported. "News comes, however, that the Russians have occupied Maruchuk, twenty miles south of Penjdeh, on tho Murghab river. Tho ameer, whilo careless about Penjdeh, attached great importance to Maruchuk. "The mtnisters looked both tiro.l and flustered as they emerged from the council chamber and went to the house of commons. Some of the older members of the cabinet are apparently breaking down under their load of responsibility. It is now almost openly avowed that thoy aro manoeuvring for delay, and it is certain that they are anxious to shuffle oil their final decision as to peace or war until after the arrival of Sir Peter Lumsdon's messenger, Mr. Condie Stephen. It seems safe to say that the present condition of suspense is so intolerable that tho government would hail a declaration of war by Russia with a certain sense of relief. The challenge would, of course, be accepted; tho war would bo fought, and whichever way it terminated tho government would be justified. If England conquered, all past blunders would bo not only condoned, but forgotten. If Russia won, the wisdom of the government's present efforts to avoid war would be vindicated. But the responsibility of the ministers is fearfully augmented by the knowledge that if war is to be declared it must be declared by them. It is idle to suppose that Russia will declare war while she is marching successfully along her chosen line of expansion without any such declaration, and while the only effect of declaring war would be to authorize her enemy to strike wherever it was most convenient. "Russia is willinz enough to fight, and is fighting; but she will notdoclare war. and it is becoming generally belioved that she will not agree to arbitration. It has boon persistently rumored for some days that England has proposed to submit the quarrel to a tringle arbitrator, leaving itussia to cnoose between Emperor William and President Cleveland, and that Russia hns rejected the proposition- A variation of the rumor is that Russia has intimated that the only plan of arbitration she would consider would bo to mako the five great Continental powers the arbitrators. This means Germany, Austria, France, Spain and Italy, and in such a court England's friends would bo in the minority of two to three, if not one to four. The belief that arbitration has at least been proposed by England is strengthened by Mr. Gladstone's language in the house of commons last evening when he spoke of tho heavy responsibility of tho government to use ovei7 means consistent with honor to avoid war. "There has been a noticeable shifting of party lines upon tho question of peace or war within the past few days. Until now the attitude of each party could be defined in a single word, thus: Tory, war; radical, peace: whig, apathy. Now a considerable section of the tory party is becoming converted to the radical doctrine of awaiting Russia at tho frontier of India and letting the Afghans do their own fighting. Another influence, although perhaps not a very potent one, is being exercised in favor of peace. The nnnual meetings of religious socioties from all parts of tho kingdom have begun at London, and will continue for some weeks. They are all passing motions denouncing war, but expressing confidence in Mr. Gladstono, tho idol of the Dissentera "Immense quantities of coal are being Bhippod to Cape Town, South Africa, for the use of British armed cruisers and men-of-war. in the event of the Suez canal being blocked on an outbreak of war between England and Russia." The National Zeitunij of Berlin says that Gormany romains neutral in tho present crisis in the rolations of England aud Russia. No request has been received for mediation. GENERAL GRANT, Celebrating the Anniversary o! Ilia Sixty-third Birthday. vinwpiM. ranis an 1 congratulatory telo grams almost innumerable from every part of tlio United State3 camo pouring in oil day long on General Grant oa tho 27th, which was the anniversary of his sixty-third birthday. His neighbors hung out flags an 1 draped their windows with bunting in honor of tho event. Tho general was feeling well, and took a short drive ami walk, tie also prepared the following message for publication : "To tho various army posts, societies, cities, public schools, Stat w, corporations, and individuals, North and South, who have been so kind as to seul ma congratulations of my sixty-third birthday, I wish to offer my grateful acknowledgments. Tho dispatches have been so numerous and so touching in tone that it would have been impossible to answor them if I had been In perfect health. "(J. S. Grant." At the celebration of the Confederate Memorial day in Atlanta, Ga., the following language of an oration by Colonel C. C. Jones was unanimously adopted: " Remembering him now as the generous victor, who, at the ever-memorable meeting at Appomattox, to our immortal Lee and to tho glorious 8,000 veterans, the surviving heroes of the army of Northern Virginia, on the 9th day of April, 1865, conceded liberal and magnanimous terms of surrender, do we, standing by tho graves of our Confederate dead, and mindful of the memories which the observance of this occasion is designed to perpetuate, respectfully tender to General Grant our sincere and profound sympathy iu this, the season of his direful extremity." musical" and dramatic, Madame Marie Oeistinger has been singing in St Petersburg. f Charles H- Hoyt's "Tin Soldier.'' recent ly prouuwju ui .ouai/ju, nua jjiuuuuuucu u. great hit. Patti haa appeared forty times during the present season, receiving $4,000 for each appearance. Herr Schott .has abandoned the idea of giving another soason of German opera in New York. "Baldassaiie," a new opera,by Senor Viilate, bas been produced at the loatro Keale, Madrid, with a perfect success Augustin Dat.y has secured A. "W. Pinero's farco-comedy "The Magistrate" (done at tho Court theatre, London) for America. Mine. Fl'rscii-Madi, the loading vocalist of tho Thomas Concert company, receives $20,000 from Mr. Thomas for forty appearances. Charles Kelly, the English actor who died tho other day, was one of tho liusband3 ofl Ellen Terry. Mr. Kelly bad not lived with Miss Terry for several years. "Le Chevalier Jean," tho now opera by Victorin Joncieres, just produced at tho Opera Comiquo, is spoken of in Le ilencstra as decidedly tho best work its composer ha yet written. During the International exhibition at Antwerp, two oratorios, one by Franz Liszt, the other by Anton Kubinstein, will, it is said, bo performed, each under the direction of tho composer himself. Anton Rcbenstein bas been in Holland during tho last month on a concert tour. He has finished a now oratorio, which is to be brought out under his own conductorship at Antwerp during the exhibition. Bignor MozzuCATO.in tho article on Verdi states that tho barrel-organ, as ground in his native village near Buseto, in tho Grand Duchy of l'anna, by itinerant musicians, was the first to awaken his musical susceptibilities. Miss Bella Cusrmax Eaton*, of Boston, a grandnioco of Charlotte Cushman, aims to follow in tho footsteps of that famous actress. Sho bas ulreaay received many commeudations of her talent in reading before the literati of Beacon Hill. wilftelm Keller, while playing in Schiller's '"Bride of ilessinu," at tJchwerin, in Germany, lntoly, fell down dead at tho head of Don Emanuel's bier. The audienco thought it was a lino portrayal of ^rief, and appluuded till the truth was known. Judic, the French star who will visit America next autumn, is said by a correspondent to be "nearly forty years old, with a vigorous form almost Lor.loring on tho heavy. Sho has a purely oval face and a mouth that, effectually displays twp rows of pure white teeth." A Glen's Falls, N. Y., man has invented a musical instrument, tho sound being caused by water dropping into a tubo of thin, resonant metal, lie got tho idea by hearing raindrops patter on a tin roof. Its ton-s will bo as loud as those of a music box. The inventor will exhibit it throughout the country. During last year no fewer than thirtyeight now oporas by native composers were brought out in Italy, provided a revised version of Verdi's "Don Carlos'' can bo called a new opera. Among the names of the composers who are responsible for those works ouly one or two are kuown outaide of Italy. PEACE AT PANAMA. The Rebel Aizpuru Surrenders to the Colombian Troops, American Officers and the Consular Corps Settle all Difficulties, A spocial dispatch from Panama says tha^ " peaco at last dawn3 on tho Isthmus. Government troops from Cnuea, 800 strong, under command of General Reyos, arrived here yesterday. A conference was held to-day between General Aizpuru, tho rebel leader, Admiral Jouett and General Reyes, of tho Colombian troops, at Commander McCalla's headquarters. General Reyes demandod that General Aizpuru should surrender unconditionally. Commander McCnlla declared that ho would occupy tho city again if the latter attempted to light in tho streets, and furthermore stated that he hud made preparations for moving his forces against the rebel leader. At this Aizpuru became frightened, as he did not daro to meet the Colombian troops outside on tho savannah. Ho finally consented to surrender if granted a pardon for political offences. These terms were accepted by the Colombian authorities." Another dispatch says: Tho expedition of Colombian national troops which has arrived in Panama bay consists of 8o0 men, under \_yUK)IlUl ILLUIlbUyU U5 UIVU, UIIU OUIVI1CI Itoyes as military chief. Tho expedition has been sent to restore order in tho state of Panama. It will then go on to tho relief of General Santo Domingo Vila at Cartagena. A note signed by Colonel Mcntoya and Colonel Reyes, tho chiefs of the expedition, was sent to tho dean of the consular corps, in which it was sot forth that tho object of the expedition was to maintain ordor and give guarantee for tho safety of life and property and free transit on tho Isthmus. At a meeting of tho consuls yesterday afternoon with lieneral Aizpuru, tho latter said that while he did not ontiroly accept the titles conferred npon Colonel Montoya land Colonel Royos, he was willing to disband his forces, deliver up their arms, and retire to private lifo upon these conditions: First?He would resign to any ono who could constitutionally claim power. Second?Pardon for political offoncos as such, but prosecution and punishment of all offenders against the common law in Panama, Colon, and olsewhoro on the Isthmus. I These briefly constituted the terms upon which General Aizpnru desired to surrender. The commissioners carried these terms to the national commander, who refused to listen to any terms. The final meeting of tho consular corps, in conjunction with Admiral Jouett, Commander McCalla, and the contending powers, took place this afternoon, and the best possible solution of tho present political difficulties was arranged. Aizpuru surrenders unconditionally, and together with his follower will rotiro from the city. According to the treaty agreed upon, which is to bo signed to-morrow, tho city, with all the revolutionary armament, will be delivered over to tho goveramant troops, under command of Colonel Reyes, as soan as they enter tho city. Colonel Montoya will then assimc the civil and military governorshio of Panama until the reorganization of tfie stata government. Alt political offendors will roceive full pardon excepting those implicated in tho i-econt burning of Colon. These latter will be approhended and tried as criminals. Tho government troops are expected to disembark to-morrow morning (Thursday) at 4 o'clock. It is believed, thero will be no troublo. PROMINENT PEOPLE. Explorer Greely and wife will spend the summer in England. Minister Lowell is announced to sail for Now York on the 9th of June. A statue of Garfield has been cast at Nuremberg. It will be erected at San Francisco. Professor Baird, for so Ions of the Smithsonian institution,has accepted a scientific professorship at Yale college. Queen Victoria is editing the speeches of the Duke of Albany. Sir Theodore Martin will append a sketch of the duke's life. Joaquin Miller proposes to erect a log cabin, similar to that which ho built at Washington, upon a site near Lake do Funiak, Florida. Lady Dufterin, wifo of the viceroy of India, recently laid the foundation-stone of a hotel for the accommodation of femalo medical students in connection with the Calcutta Medical college. Mrs. Whitney, wife of the secretary, can afford to dress welL Her father is tae millionaire Senator Payne, of Ohio, and one of her brothers, it is said, as atrifling Christmas gift gave her a $10,000 ornament of rubiej. Marshal Bazaine, the French general who was atono time under sentenco of doalji for cowardice in surrendering Metz during the Franco-Prussian war, is now nenniless and in a most destitute condition at Madrid, General Grant, it i9 stated, rarely smoked prior to the battlo of Shiloh. The newspapers told of his smoking during that engagement, and, boing afterward deluded with boxes of cigars, he acquired the habit. Jay Gould has twenty-seven tolegraph in struments in his {oflic?. Sitting at his desk ho can be put in communication with any place that is reached by a wire of tho Western 1 Union Telegraph company. Therefore the managers of his properties are always accessible, no matter whiro they may bo. a boyTanged. Expintlun: tlio Crime oT TTurdor on Clio Uallowa lu Arknnsn*. The execution of Columbus L. Moflitt, who murdered William Wohunt three years ago, took place at Dana's, Polk county, Ark., the other day. Three thousand people witnessed tho hanging. Tho doomed man, who was not yet twenty-one years old, met his fato declaring his innocence. Tho crime * !-??> icc.i 1115 C*-\piUIO'.l WUS UUlllllliLU'U lil UUilC, l.vw, ] The culprit was a near neighbor of the man he wantonly killed. Wehunt, a thrifty and prominent farmer of Polk county, was 8hot from ambush whilo plowing. The missile crashed through his brain, and he fell over his plow a corpse. The assassin rushed from his concealment, and after rilling Wehunt's pockets, entered th-J house, near by, and robbed it of a considerable sum of money. "Wehunt's wife, who was cngagol somo distance away, hearing the gun fired and seeing the strange man, hastened to the house. At the door she met young Moffitt and asked him what ho was doing there. He mado no reply, but pushing her aside darted across the fields and disappeared in the wools. The murier and robbery created the wildest consternation, and large rewards wero offered for the murderer's capture, but he proved a cunning fugitive and a crafty prisoner. After escaping from the Dallas and Hot Springs jails, he was finally held at Dallas by being chained to the jail floor. THE NATIONAL GAME. The New York league club has so far shown great strength. Twenty-two professional baseball men have died within a year. Neahly all the Now York league playors are expert roller skaters. Each of the eight clubs in the National league plays 112 games this season. Five of tho clubs in the Eastern Now Eng I anil association will bo yory evenly matcneo. A Canadian base ball league has been organized at Hamilton, with ex-ilayor Sleeuiuu, of U uelpli, as president. The fourteen men under contract to play with the Dotroit^S'atioual league team, weigh 2,.'WO pounds, an average of 1 TO pounds each Tub Inter-State associations of Ohio, Pennsylvania and Jvontucky have applied for qualified admission to the national agreement. Baseball fa beginning to boom all through Canada, and that territory is now being iuvaded by several American professional players. Zach Phelps, the president of the Louisville American association club, is a promising and popular young lawyer, tho son of a rich tobacco merchant, A new i lea is to cover base balls with vulcanized rubber instead of leather. Tho rubber, it is explained, will not slip or knock of. A Philadelphian is the inventor. In describing SutclilTo. tho change catcher ! of the Chicago team, an Atlanta paper says: | "Ho is nearly seven fe >t high, has hands that j measure seven andthrvc-lourths inches across j the palm, size up as pig hams, and deliver tho > ball like a rillo shot." Tiie national agreement now embraces tho ( American association, tho National league, | Eastern league, Southern league, Western league, New England league ami tho Southern \ v L-..-i...wi <riw> luti.r.St/ito I ^IIqIUUU iva^uo. *,,u ...... ?? . league lias also applied for membership. Manager Pii ei,I's, o? tho Louisville club, I proposes to run baselnll on a high moral i plan, and to that end h.i issued complimen- | tariff to the ministers of tho several churches ! of the city. A number liavo accepted, and ! manifested a desire to attend tho games. A New Jersey Stato Iea^uo of amateur bis'! liall nlay. rs was formed at Newark re-j ceutly. Delegates from tho Jolferson and Orange clubs,of Elizabeth; Fatersons, of l'at- i erson; Jersey blues, of Jersey City, and j Unions, of .Newark, met aud perfected the organization. Nd .Sunday games will be allowed in the : South league, 110 liquor sol I on tho grounds j .Hid no betting permitted in any of tho parks j tinder control of the league. Everything has jeeu done to elevato tho gaino an 1 entitlo it ( !o tiie support it receives from tho best peo- I jio in tho Southern cities. A 11 he at number ot new operettas are soon I to be brought out. Carl Millocker is engaged j upon a libretto furnished him by (Jeneo und j Zell; Franz von Supjie has just laid tho scoro 1 for a text by Schnitzer; Alions Czibuika, tho j composer of "Pentecost in Florence," has accepted a text book from Riogou and Li en 00. I Johan Strauss is hard at work on his "GypsyUaron," and Joseph Bayer is soon to finish v new operetta for tho Theatre au der Wien. FARM, GARDEN AND HOUSEHOLD. A Mow Decorative Plant That style of gardening known a9 " Subtropical," hfes made comparatively slow progress in this country. In this kind of gardening, plants are employed for their beauty of foliage, their graceful habit, stateliness of expression?in short, not solely or even chiefly, for their flowers. It by no means disqualifies a plant, if, in addition to other beauties, it add that of flowers; but plants are choscn for other features than those they present when in bloom. Our people arc slow to give up the idea that to be ornamental, a plant must present bright colors. Beauty of outline, grace of form, and picturesque habit, are not appreciated if there are no flowers. It has been slow work to popularize the idea that a plant may be beautiful and not flower. Still, tho various public parks and private gardens, by presenting fine examples of this kind of garden decoration, have had a good effect in educating public taste, and though progress has been slow, it is gradually gaining. It is, in this country, especially, that sub-tropical gardening should be popular. Our hot summers are mc9t unfavorable to tho duration of flowers, and as a rule promote a luxuriant growth in plants with beautiful foliage. Under the most favorable conditions, the time that flowers last is brief, while the beauty of foliage is continuous, aud frequently it is greatly enhanced at the end of tho season, when autumn tints prevail. Con vinced that plants with ornamental foliage arc better suited to the decoration of even small places than plants, the beauty of which depends solely upon flowers, we have endeavored to do our share in bringing them to notice. A new plant of this class is Verbesina Mameana, of the great Composite family. It was discovered in his South American explorations by M. E. Andre, who named it in honor of M. Mame, one of the promoters of the expedition. It grows at an altitude of fonr to six thousand feet, in a temperate climate. "We have several native specics of Verbesina; two of them in the Atlantic States, popularly known as Crownbeard; they grow six feet high, but are coarse and weedy.?American Agriculturist. Farm and Garden Note*. Lice on young stock prevent their growing. Carbolic acid diluted with one to twenty-five or thirty, will destroy the lice by using as a wash. If seed corn is taken from any place except as hung up in braids on the rafters of a warm room, it will need to be tested before planting. In open cribs some of the corn is injured by snow or rains whipVi l'mnnirq thfi nrprm wViilo tn the eye it may appear to bc^sound. An exchange says that a New York dairyman has learned from experience that the quantity of skimmed milk required to grow a pound of pork when fed to hogs, will, when fea to dairy cows, increase the yield of milk and cream sufficiently to produce a pound of butter. The pork barrel should be looked after, and if any redness or scum appears the brine should be taken out, boiled until all the impurities rise and returned. If any of the pork i3 above the brine it will soon become tainted, and the taint will quickly affect the entire contents of the barrel. Dry earth is an excellent absorbent of manures, but it should be spread over tVio tnn c\( Vip.-inq nnrl that; vprv 1 -"w 'vr 1 r-i | thinly rather than raised in with the 1 manure. Earth in any shape is heavy j handling, and the less the quantity mixed with manures the more easily they may be applied to crops. It is seldom that a crop worth tho labor of growing can be got in a bearing orchard. If it could, in most cases it would be poor policy to attempt it. A well-cared-for orchard producos what sells for more than any other equal area on the farm, and nothing beside its fruit ehould bo expected of it. Whenever dependence is placed upon pasture for cattle, drought is sure to interfere with their rations some time during the summer. Many a farmer who has sown crops for the silo has found excelent use for a part of the fodder thus grown.to be fea green during summer drought while pastures are bare. ? -1 i--: 11 mill plover bCL'U uci Ujr vcijr biuuu mil sometimes fail from^drought with every precaution taken to save it. But ninetenths of the failures arc due to insufficient seeding or a hard unbroken surface on which tho seed falls. Harrowing j finely and sowing a peck of seed per acre will generally insure a good catch. It is not ccrtain that a hen, even when pressed by hunger, will eat the curculio insect. It is a formidable-looking monster even when quiet, and we have soen fowls turn from them as if afraid. The curculio, however, is a shy insect, and will avoid trees in yards where fowls run provided it has other plumb trees not so protected on w.'iich to prey. In some places the ordinary rosebug is proving one of the worst enemies to the fruit grower, increasing to incredible numbers and. eating leaves of pear and apple trees so ns to prevent fruiting. It is worse on sandy soil, as most insects are apt to be. It may be destroyed by spraying fruit trees early in the season with water in which Paris green has been I ot- iVin l-nto nf nno tlllllMnnnnftll i UUUUUy Ufc IUW iUVV v* to the barrel. The objection is often urged against harrowing winter wheat in the spring that it will uproot and destroy fall-sown timothy. In practice,however, this fear has not been verified. Possibly some of the timothy plants may be injured, and this also is true of the grain; but the remainder wiil grow so much better that the sod will be thickcr the following year where the harrowing has been most thorough. The great trouble with the celery growing is that the plants, at one stagcof growth or an another, arc permitted to suffer for water. This invariably causes ; tough and hollow stalks. Keep the plants growing from the time they appear above the ground in the seed lied. Transplant them to rich soil?give them water as often as they need it. and give it in abundance, and you will have tender, plump celery. Many growers of house plants make the ; mistake at the outset of trying to root j cuttings JD UIU suauc, icauiip vuuv ? . they arc put in the sunlight t'icy will j wilt. This is a mistake, csv-Jally in the case of the geraniums, which cannot have too much light when rooting, ^ive , them plenty of sunshine and not deluge them wilh water if you would not have them decay instead of rooting. Never attempt to strike cuttings, or even to grow plants, in any receptacle which has no drainage. A very common mistake, or /ault, is committed l?v farmers in permitting all kinds ol stock to run together in one yard or enclosure, lloises, colts?which are frisky creatures?hulls, cows, sheep, pigs and fowls all run in one yard or Held. The hor?cs worry the colts; the j colts chase the cows and sheep, the cows hook the colts; the bulls goie the horses: the pigs worry the cows and sheep, and often destroy the new born calves and lambs; the fowls and ducks are tiamplcd on and there is a sid time all around. And the farmer?lie says he has bad luck somehow or other?as something is always going wrong. Household Hint* and Itcclpw. Kc onomh.w, Scmts.?Let ''distracted housekeeper'' try the following soups when she has 110 "stock."' 1. Two quarts of water, a little parsley and half an onion very finely chopped, a small carrot grated, and salt to taste. After boiling gently ior mtecn minutes, sur ia gradually a cupful of farina which has . been mixed in cold water, and boil live , minutes, stirring constantly to prevent ! lumps. Just before serving add a little butter. 2. l'eel eight large potatoes, , cut them in pieccs and boil them soft1 with an onion chopped fine. "When they j are done, pour off the water, put a piece of butter with them and press them through a fine colnnder with hot water, add a little finely-chopped pnrsby, salt and pepper to taste, set on the fire and boil for five minutes. It will require about two quarts of water to make the soup of the proper consistency. It is better, however, to begin with less, as then soup may be thinned to taste. This soup may also be made with celery (leaving out the onion if it be disliked) and thickened with flour.?CulUcator. Boston Brown Bread.?Make thi* by substituting two parts Indian meal and one part rice flour for wheaten flour, adding, as well as yeast, a small quantity of soda or saleratus. It requires well kneading, and must rise for fire houri at least, and after it is made into loaves they should rise an hour longer. Bake a four pound loaf quite three nours; the oven must be slow. Ordinary family bread from white flour is generally mixed with "sponge"made overnight. A very good recipe is as under: Half a dozen potatoes boiled and mashed while hot, a quarter pint of brewers' yeast, two , ounces white sugar, two ounces lard, one teaspoonful soda, three cupfuls flour (a pint), a quart warm water?that in which the potatoes wero boiled. In_ mixing add the soda last of all. Cover lightly in warm weather and tightly in wintor. This quantity will make up from two to three quarts of flour?sufficient to bake at a time for a small family. The inex- .' ? perienced in bread making from sponge in place of yeast must remember that it requires to be twice kneaded?first when . the sponge and flour are well amalgamated, then the most thorough kneading is necessary, and again after the dough has risen, when ten minutes or so will suffice. Then, after nuttini? into irreased tins, or making into rolls. and laying them in one large tin, again leave the dough near the fire for an nour previous to baking.?CasselPs Family Magazine. Ammonia for Cleaning.? Ammonia - '? is chcaper than soap and cleans everything it touches. A few drops in a ket- . tie that is hard to clean makes grease and stickiness fade away and robs the ,? work of all its terrors. Let it stand ten ; minutes before attempting to scrape off . and every corner will be clean. It cleans ^ 3?| the sink and penetrates into the drain pipe. Spots, finger marks on paint disappear under its magical influence, and . it is equally effective on the floor and oilcloth, though it must be used with 'J care on the latter or it will injure the polish. There is nothing to equal it in ' cleaning the silverware, and it gives a ' .3 higher .polish and keeps Clean longer than anything elso. If the wlverbe only lightly tarnished put two tablespoonsful of ammonia into a quart of hot water, , J brush the tarnished articles with it and J dry with a chamois. If badly discolored they may need a little whiting previous ;; to tho washing. An old nail brush goea into the cracks to polish and brighten. :;.j? For fine muslin or delicatc lace it is in- , valuable, as it cleans without using the finest fabrics. Put a few drops into ^ your sponge bath in hot weather and yon . will be astonished at the result, as it im- <fi| parts coolness to the akin. Use it to , Vi clean hair brushes and to wash any hail / - ^ or feathers to be used for beds or pillows. When employed in anything that is not especially soiled, use the waste , -4 water afterward for the house plants that / are taken down from their usual position :r and immersed in tho tub of water. , :M Tho Only Woman Freemason. 3 The uninitiated, says the London . Telegraph, arc in the habit of asking: II ; ?Jj Freemasonry be such an admirable miti- ' i tution, why is it not thrown open to every one; and, furthermore, if it be good for men why are not women also in- . . ?3 trusted with its secrets? To this the V Freemasons reply that were tho privilege! ' ** ;> cf the order to be indiscriminately aia* pensed, its mysteries, becoming familiar, would lose their vulue and sink into disregard ; and, when pressed, they are fain to admitthaton one occasion a lady wai ^ actually passed through the degrees ol the craft and emerged a full Freemason. ' % It would appear that at some time during ,' ^ tho second quarter of the eighteenth century the meeting of lodge 44 used to be held at Donerailo house, the seat oi Lord Donerailo, in Ireland, his lordship V/5 being then the worshipful master. Lora Doneraile had a sister, Hon. Elizabeth M St. Legcr?afterward Hon. Mrs. Aid* ^ worth?and the young lady so managed .*1 affairs that she possessed hetself of all ? the secrets of the lodge workings. Some M say that the Hon. Elizabeth secreted herself in a clock case, others that she wit* nessed the working through a crevice in , - the wall of the apartment sacred to the "' < mysteries of the craft.. What were the . members of lodge 44 to do under the -'0 circumstances? Having discovered her, ' had they let her go free she might have revealed secrets, closo kept since the days . of the building of the temple, to all the ;'2 parish, and so to society at large.. We may suppose that her brother, the worshipful master, and the oncers and brethren assembled were hard put how to act for the best. Women might not . ' > become Freemasons. Yet hero was a woman who, so far as a knowledge of nf thr> moatimnortant secrets, never revealed to the outer or popular world, - v? was already one. The conatitutiona did ' .-;4j not provide for such a contingency, and it becamc necessary to create a precedent. Thereupon the Hon. Elizabeth St. Leger, only daughter of Arthur, first Viscount Doneraile, was brought before the au- 1 thorities of lodge No. 44 and solemnly inducted into the secrets and mysteries, the signs and tokens of afree'andaccepted 3Iason. What was imparted to the lady is not likely to be made public. ; For, as one of the most learned of Masons had laid down, "of all the arts which Masons practice the art of secrecy particularly distinguished them; and that it is agreeable to the Deity himself may be easily conceived from the glorious oxample which lie gives in conccalingfrom mankind the secrets of his Providence. The wisest of men can not pry into the " Arcana or neaveu, nor cau IUCJ UlTiUV Tjt| to day what to-morrow may bring forth. -r :-A Indeed, Hipocrates and Angerona were not more sacred to silence among tho Greeks and Romans thau is all that goea on in a lodge close-tiled to- the discreet Freemason. Whatever was told to Miss St. Leger, under the seal of secrecy, she possessed the conscience and prudence never to let pass her lips. Tbe Irish f&BH Masons revere her memory, und her likeness in full Masonic clothing is still pre- jjaB Couuting-Out Rhymes. Mr. II. Carrington IJolton, of Trinity college, contributes to the Boston Jour- "psB mil <>/ Ed 11 r, din n the following specimens ;vj|W of "counting-out"' rhymes collected by VaaB him from children, and by correspond- S Ono-cry, two-ery, ici.ry. Ann; Filliey, fallacy,"Nicholas John; Quovpr, quaver, Knglisn Knavor; Stiuckelum, starkelum, buek. . rj This rhyme is widely used, having been reported to me. from Connecticut, Philadelphia and Cincinnati. It is subject to many variations: "English knavcr" becomes "Irish Mary" or ^'Virgin Mary;" some insert the word "tarry" or the word "John" before "buck" in the last line. "Ickcry" becomes "hickory," "stinckclum" becomes "stringclum," etc. Ana, mana, mona. mtke; Barcelona, bona, strike; Care. ware. frow. fiack; Hallico, bollico, wee, wo, wack!?New York IV;/. This, also, is subject to countless variations: "Barcelona" bscomca "tuscalona,"etc. One form ends in: Huldy, gaVly, boo, out goes you. Ana.'niana. ilippery Dick; Hiteha, pitcha, dominitcha: Hon, pon, tush.? Central Sew York. In some districts the tiiira line is given as " Houtcha, poutcha, dominoutcha," aud in others " Ilotcha, potcha, ctc." "Tush" may also become "tus" or "tusk." llalcy, maley, tippoty fig; Tiney, toney, tomuo, nig; Goat, throat, country note; Tinoy, toney, iv/..?Rhode Island. Eatum, peatum, penny, pie, Babyloni, stickum, stie, Stand you oat thereby.?Scotland. Beside rhymes of the character of tho > above? i. c., consisting of a mixture of gibberish with disconnected words, thero are many rhymes containing no uncouth words, but possessing, in general, a jingle easily recognizable. One, two, three, Nanny caught a flea; The flea died, and Nanny cried: Out goes she!?Delaware, Rhode Island, etc. 1, 2, 8, 4, 5, I-,, 7. S, Mary at the cottage gate, Plating grapes ofT a plate, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 0. 7, 8. This is given, also, "plums," in placo of "grapes," aud "garden gate" for "cottage gate." When " cottage door" ends the second line tho counting stops at "four" to satisfy the rhyme. J