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ABBEVILLE PRESS AND BANN^Sl '-'??5?1 , : ff|| BY HUGH WILSON. ABBEVILLE, S. C.. WEDNESDAY, MAY 20, 1885. NO. 47. VOLUME XXIX / Baby-Land. Ho* many mllca to Baby-Land? - Ady ono con tell; Up ono flight ' To vour right? Please to rin^ the bell. Whnt can you see in Baby-Land? Little folks in white; Downy heads, Cradle beds, Faces pure and bright. L Wat do they do In Br.by-Lnnd? Dream and wnkc and play; Laugh and crow, Shout and grow, Jolly times have they. What do they say in Bnby-Land? Why, tho oddest things; Wight as well Try to toll What tho birdies sing. Who is the Queen ofBaby-Lavd? Mother, kind and sweot; And her love, Born above, Guides tho Jittlo feet. ? Children's Museum. DARK DAYS BY HUGH CONWAY, Author of " Called Back." (CHAPTER XIV?THE CRIMINAL COURT. | j "VVo reached Charing Cross at 4 i o'clock on the morning of September I 20th: The first train by which we j could get to Tewnham was timed to leave Liverpool Street at seven, so that we hail an hour or two to spare for such refreshment as we cared to take, such rest as we dared to allow ourselves. What with the fatigue of continuous travel, and the dread of what this day was to bring forth, it may be easily believed that we were thoroughly worn out. "We were indeed, more fitted to go to bed and sleep for a week, than to proceed upon the last stage of our dismal journey. But there was no help for It. If we meant to be in time we must go on by the early morning train. I begged my wife to lie down, and endeavor to snatch an hour's sleep. She refused firmly. .Much of that calm which had characterized her since the moment when I broke the fatal news to' her had vanished. Its place was now taken by an excitement, suppressed, but nevertheless clearly manifest to my eyes. The fear that we should not reach Tewnham in time for the trial seemed to haunt her unceasingly. It was for this reason she so premptorily refused to lie down and court sleep. She feared lest, our eyes once closed we should, from sheer exhaustion, sleep for hours, and so miss the morning j train. She was ever picturing the ; uorror 01 nuit pwr uusuuwu iuuii t belDg led from the dock, with the death sentence ringing in his ears. So the time which elapsed befoie w< started for Tewnliara we spent in the , hotel. I bespoke rooms by telegram : sent when wo reached Folkestone We made an apology for a meal; in i fact, what we could get at that time ol night was of itself little more than apology. We sat all but silent, w??toh ing the hands of the clock, which told us how fast the precious moment; were passing away. We saw the graj i morning struggle with,and at last conquer, the yellow gas-light We heard : the hum of traffic growing louder and louder in the street below us. Thee i we turned to make what may be right ly called our last adieus. Who could : say that to-day my wife and I might i not be parted forever? While at the hotel I tried to obtain 1 the file of the Times. I wanted to looS ! back and see If I could find the ac i count of magisterial proceeding! against this unlucky William Evans | He must, of course, have appeared be i fore the lesser tribunal, and could I se< the account of his appearance, I shoule i be able to judge as to the strength ol 1 the case against him. But tho file wat < not forthcoming. Perhaps it did not 1 exist: perhaps the sleepv-eved Teuton i ic waiter did not understand what ] j wanted; so, still in tha dark as to whj suspicion should have fallen upon thii i innocent man, we left the hotel anc drove to Liverpool Street Station. At nine o'clock our journey was en ded. We stood on tho platform o: Tewnham railway-station. My pool wife wore a thick black veil, so hei face I could not see; but I knew it was as pale as death. Now and again hei hand, which rested 011 my arm, presset It convulsively. I think wo were tin most unhappy pair on tho earth! "We were even denied the time foi any more farewells or expressed ro grets. The hour was chiming fron the old cathedrel tower. Tho bitsinesi of the Courts, I knew, always be^an al ten o'clock and considering tho crowc which would most surely be attracteC by so interesting a case as this tria for murder committed so many month.' ago, 1 felt sure that unless we pro ceeded at once to the Shiiehall, oui j chance of gaining entrance would b? but a small one. X hailed one of tin close cabs which wero waiting out i Bide the station. j As I flifl so I fplt. a hoavv hnnd Ir.it upon my shoulder, and heard a rich pleasant sounding and not unfamiliai j ] voice exclaim, "Basil Morth, as I'm j ' sinner!" , That any one should at this momea , address Basil North in a merry waj seemed a positive incongruity. 1 ! turned round almost angrily, and found j myself face to face with an old friend lie was a barrister namedGrant; a man four or five years my senior, but one with whom, before I foreswore the society of my fellow-men, I had been on intimate terms. I had not seen him for a considerable time; but had heard casually, that he was making great strides "in his forensic career. In spite of my distress, I returned | his greeting, and grasped his hand ; ^ ^ "Harmly. After all it seemed a relief ! to find that I had a friend left in the i .arid. "What brings you here:" I asked. "The only thing that could bring me | to such a place?circuit work. I have j an important case on to-day. That's the worst of a place so near London as | this one. One is tempted to spend the nights in town, which means getting up at an unholy hour in the morning, j But you! Why are you here? I heard j you were as rich oa Midas, and living j abroad in luxury." "I have been abroad for some time I hope to go back again very soon." "Happy manl" he ejaculated. I could scarcely keep the bitter smile from my lips, as I thought how ill applied were his words. As he spoke he glanced at Philtppa whuse grace and beauty of form defied the concealment attempted by thick veil and somber garments. "But what brings you to this sleepy old town ?" continued Grant I hesitated for a moment. Thent j thinking that truth, or at least half j truth, was the best, told him I had como j down to witness the trial for murder. "I should doubt your getting into ! <?nnrf." ho Qnirl ??Thn mnrhid Int.erpq ' excited around about here is, lam told very great. The sheriff is besieged by applications for tickets." "Couldn't you helpme?Tho fact is, I have a particular reason, not mere curiosity, for wishing to be present at this trial." I don't think I can," said Grant. "Does your?the lady wish to go with ; you?" "My cousin?yes," I said seeing that j he expected an introduction. He raised i his hat and made some courteous and j pleasant remark, to which Philippa i to my surprise, replied in a calm and fitting way. Grant knew I had no sister. I called her cousin because I had a wild hope that, if the worst happened, I might be able to conceal the true relationship in which we stood, and so be permitted to give evidence on her behalf. . . I trusted my wife would guess that I had a good reason for this deception "Try and manage this for me,Grant," I said so earnestly that my friend made no further demur. "Take me in your cab, and I will see what I can do." During our drive to the Shirehall T asked Grant what the knew about the impending trial. "Nothing," ho said frankly. "I hate murder cases? hate even to read about them. Of course I know that Sir Mervyn Ferrand was killed, and hidden In snow for days and days. But I know no more." "Who is the accused ?" ' I don't know. I thought from your anxiety, you must know him." "Will he bo found guilty?" "I don't know. Stay, I heard gome one who ought to be well informed say yesterday that the case for the prosecution was most feeble. lie seemed to doubt if the grand jury would return a true bill." As I heard this I pressed Philippa's hand secretly. I felt that she was trembling. The drive to Shirehall occupied only a few minute3. Wo did not go to the public entrance, in front of which I could see a crowd of people nearly blocking up the street. We stopped at another door, ami Grant, after looking round, caught sight of what appeared to be an inspector of police. He entered into a little conversation witb him, the result of which was that we were given into his care. "This is a breach of the law," whispered my friend as ho bade me good-by. 'You will have to attono for it by a handsome gratuity." We followed our guide. Philippa, although walking with a firm step, leaned heaviiy upon arm. I scarcely know by what door we entered that palace of justice The stalwart policeman led us through stone corridors and passages, which re-echoed with the i tread of our feet, and at last we found ourselves before a double swinging plain oak door, over which In old English letters was written "Criminal Court." I felt Philippa shudder, and knew that the sight of those words brought Ua Uawhaw nf fljo otfnoti/m fnllr V>nma vUG HUliV/1 V/l tuu oivut?u4v/u *.u4uvmw to her. Mechanically I pressed a sovereign in the hand of the venial inspector, or whatever he was; then holding my wife's hand, I passed through the noisless swinging door into the all but empty court. 1 A few policemen and other officials were lounging about. Two or three people, who had no doubt gained admittance in the same way as we had done, were seated in various coigns of . vantage. I led Philippa up the broad i steps, and pointed to one of the hard t wooden benches provided for the accom- 1 modation of the general public. These i benches were raised step by step, one * above another. Wo chose our position 1 about half-way up, on ths right hand * side of the court. Philippa, with her 1 thick veil falling down to her chin, and < so defying recognition, sank wearily 1 Into her seat. 1 placed myselt beside < her; my hand crept under the cloak she t worn anrl lifllrl hor hand. . Surely it was all a dream ?a dread- t ful, realistic dream! I should wake t and find myself under the great orange tree in that court yard in gay Seville i mv half-smoked cicar and the book ? J "" ~ " O , which I had been lazily reading lying at my feet; my mother opposite me, laughing at my somnolency, and Philippa's gray dark eyes looking with calm everlasting love into my own. I should wake and And the cool of the evening had succeeded to the glare of the afternoon. "Wo should walk through the merry streets, lounge in the Alameda, wander through the glowing Alcazar gardens, or drive out miles and miles over the fertile smiling plain.1?. Or I should even wake and iind myself nodding over my fire in my lonely cot- ; tage, the stolid William the only human 1 creature within hail; Phillpa's return, i the snow-storm, the dreadful discovery, j the flight, Seville, tho marriage, all, all a dream! In a kind of stupor?the temporary reaction, I suppose, consequent upon 3uch fatigue and trouble?I gazed j round me, and wondered where I was. ; "What is this great empty build- | ing, lit from one side by large cleresto- i ry windows of ecclesiastical design? ' \Vhat are these dull gray vacant walls; i that lofty ceiling, crossed and cut into j small squares by dark rafters; this lead- j sd floor, on which feet fall all but nois- i lessly ? What are those raised boxes on i cither side of tho building?those small raised platforms all but adjoining them, and all but adjoining that paneled oak structure at the end facing me? What j is that rectangular box-shappd erection with overhanging carved cornice? Let i as away from this dismal, colorless I place? Let me wako and find myself amid the flowers, orange trees, tho fair sights and surroundings of our Spanish homa. No! I have but to turn my dazed eye? to the center of space in which we sat t to know that I am dreaming no dream, that we must wait here and learn ouj j Fates. That oblong wooden enclosun j with high sides, topped by a light iron railing, brings reality back to me. It is the prisoner's dock. In an hour's | time a man will stand there. lie will j be brought up those stone steps which I lead to it from below, the topmost flag of which I can just see. He will stand there for hour3. As ho leaves the dock, declared innocent or guilty, so j will our livt'a be declared happy or miserable. My hand holds m y wife's still closer i for the last minutes which may be ours to spend together are slipping by so fast, so very fasti See, the clock under the balcony marks half-past nine. Tho all but deserted court begins to assume the appearance of preparing for busines?. | p/ilinnmon onrl rt'tior riffioinlq t*i?5q fn X VIIVVUIVU UUU VvHW* viuviiftu I'Mvm ?w I j and fro, some arranging papers, some replenishing ink-bottles, and placing < quill pens ready for the barristers and j solicitors who will soon fill those front j seats. Some one with what s< e n3 to J ] me bitter irony, places a magnificent ] boquct of flowers on either hand of th j , judge's vacant chair. What have flow | i ers in common with such a peene as i this? Flowers, too, which are beauti-1 ful enough to retail to my mind the!] lair Spanish home, which, may be, we j shall see no more. Flowers in this den ; of serrow! Rather should every seat, i every beam be draped in black. Now the doors on each side of the : 1 court open, and remain open, I hear a j shuffling of many feet. People in a i continuous stream, pass through the en. 1 trance, and wend their way to the 1 portion of tho court allotted to the gen- i , eral public. So fast, so thick they come j ' mat 'in ien nuuuies tins Bjmtc ir thronged almost to suffocation. Philippa and I are presed closer and closer to each other, as every inch of the bench j on which wo are seated is approrriated. ; The court isfull. Crowded by respectable-looking welldressed people, who have gained admls- j sion, as I heard, by favor of the sheriff, j Yet, respectable as they are, each man, each woman, rushes in eagerly and strives for the best available seat And for what reason? To see and heai a poor wretch tried for his life! In mj j bitter mood I look with hate on these sensation seekers. I hate them even more when I think thnt their morbid I craving for excitement may be satisfied with such food as they litcle expect;! and I clench my teeth as I picture tho scene at the moment when Philippa, in pursuance of her immovable resolution, rises, and makes her effort to proclaim her own guilt and the convicted man's innocence. Although I I strive to force the picture from my mind, by telling myself that justice ! can not err, that the man will be acquitted, yet again .and again the dread of the worst seizes me, .and I hate every face in that crowd, which may, by-and-by, be gaping, with looks of wonder and curiosity,at the woman I loveI As in a haze, I see some faces which are familiar to me. A number of gentlemen enter, and seat themselves on the benches which counsel usually occupy. Some few of these I knew by sight. They are country gentlemen from the neighborhood of Itoding who are now called to serve on the grand jury. I see also the thin faced hawkish looking woman who calls herself Mrs. "Wilson. I am thankful that she takes a seat in front of us | and does not see us. She, like our- i selves, must know that an innocent I man is this day about to be tried. t?o lor hair an nour i sit, gazing now i at the crowd of people, now at the empty dock and vacant bench in front of me; listening to the hum of conversation which rises from the packed court; longing for the moment to come when this dreadful suspense may i end; yet all the same dreading and I willing to put off that moment. ' And all the while i'hilippa, in her j black garb, close to me and, unseen by our neighbors, holding my hand. Hush! The door at the back of the bench opens, and at ten o'clock to the : minnfp f.hfl red-robed itulce annears. ! lie bows to the court, seats himself, j and by his action signifies that ho is ready to begin the business of the ! day. No trembling prisoner in the I dock ever scanned a judge's face with i more anxiety than I scan his lordship's ! at this present moment An old man, too old it seems to me, for such a responsible post; an amiable, pleasant looking man?not, I venture to think, one who can bear the reputation of being a "hanging \ judge." I breatho a prayer that he may this day be able to direct aright the course of justice. Ilush! Hush I Silence in the court! Oh, my poor, sweet wife, let mo grasp j that hand yet closer, for the moment which for days and nights has never been absent from our minds has comef What will it bring us. [to be continued.] A BEOOKLYN CALAMITY. A. Large Building Collapses and Catches Fire. Working People Buried in the Blazing Ruins. A' dozen men were at work at 9:15 A. Mmng the bulging wall of one of the tliroe of a largo building in State street, be;ween Hicks street and Columbia place, 3rooklyn, wlien tho wall suddenly bulged out n the middle and camo thundering to the ground, dragging down with it the connecting vails in the rear and the wall on tho opposite iide of tho wing. The building was filled .vith men and women who sank with tho loors, or fled screaming into tho adjoining .vings and into tho main factory in State itreot. The stoves set tho wood in the wreck iblazo. IVhen the firomon in response to an ilarm reached the scone, tho fire had spread Tom tho west to tho contcr wine, nnd thou 4j the main building and the east wing. When the building fell nearly 400 persons' nany of them girls, were at work in tho core or more of shops in the extensive and rregular but connected series of building? hat filled nearly the whole block. The spread >f tho flames was marvelously rapid, and vhilo in tho center wing a short but ruitless effort was made to check their )rogress by throwing hand grenades, ho inmates nearly all ran for :heir lives. Tho three wings abutted in tho rear of a number of tenement houses >n Atlantic avenue and Columbia ulaco. and ho only ejress for tho imperilled* workpe> )lo was through two narrow covered enranees in Atlantic avenue and one in Columjia pace. Some fled down stairways, >theri crawled down flro-escapes md made their way through moke, fire and falling bricks to the larrow entrances in Atlantic avenue and es aped. Others reached tho roof and ran ilong until they reached the roofs of tenement louses in Hicks street, while soino who were :aught in the main?building in Stato street, md could not got out by tho Atlantic avenue ntraixe dropp.nl from the lower windows nto State street. As tho flames swept hrough tlie o!d structure the brick .vails crumbled and fell as if they vere made of pasteboard. Tho iiremen found he entire building wrapped in flames, l'eojlowith broken limbs were lying under tho alien walls. Through tho dense volumos of unoko and white steam that rolled over the mrning building could bo so-.-n human beings unning about on tho root an 1 gesticulating ivildly for help. Many were half suffocated j vhen r> s.ued. The rear walls of the wings in facing had ilso crushed iu the backs of tho tenements in ' Atlantic avenue, maiming some of tho resi- j lents and setting fire to them all. Ambu- i anccs rattled up and carric I away tho in- i iurecl. Tho exertions of tho firemen were I imitcd to saving the tenement-*. Soon a lino j >f engines surrounded tho block, tho centre - f 1 1 i i. ? _ 1 - t ? w._ _ H Wllieu wiis iiku a nu^u iimiiiiu. rui u | vhilo thy walls of the Stato street building | itood upright, hut after tlie building had j icn burning a short time an explosion was leard and the walls tottered. Another ex)!osion followed, and the walls fell in with a i rash that sounded liko the rumbiing of an j arthquake, while tho tenements on the j lock trembled. SSouio of the bricks had i alien into .Stato street, where several j iremen were adjusting a lino of : lose. They started back up tho street. Just ; ifter the "wall had fallen a man rushed for- j vard from the crowd and pointing to a man- i lole in the street that led down into a cellar, j leclared that one of tho firemen had fallen ! nto tho cellar. Several of the lire- j nen went to tho liolo and peered j n. Tho heat was intense, anl \ hey were called back by tho foreman, nit tho order hail been scarcely given when i terrific explosion was followed by a shower if cobblestones in tho air. nnd two firemen lisappeared, while a great hole yawne 1 in ho street. An accumulation of gas in the pilar had explod-d and blown olf tho top. [In two firemen, Kuildv and Fay.were quicky dragged out of the debris and sent to tiie lospital. The fire was now at its height; the stroots vero crowded with an excited populace, friends, relatives and companions of tlioso vho worked m the fatal factory, anxiously ! eking tidings of them. The police fire ines were often disregarded, and several arrests wore made for breaking through thein. rhe efforts of tho firemen to prevent ;ho flames from spreading through the lenomeuts in Atlantic avenue wero suc. essful, and gradually the conflagration was Drought under control. At midday tho flames lad died out in tho center of tho ruined structure; but tho super-heated bricks still turned tin* waU>r from the h >so into clouds of I steam. The ruins presented the spectaclo of a tangled heap of tiiarred beams, gas pipes bent end twiste.l into fantastic shapes, and smoking bricks. , From tho middle of the State street building the tall chimney, all that rcinainoi standing, rose from where the engine r join had Iteen. At 1 p. M. the digging in tho rains [or the victims of tho disaster,whose number was not known, began. Fifty men were put at work, carefully picking over the debrisiu tho rear i f 53 Atlantic avenue, which was directly back of the wall, the collapse of j which brought down tho west wing. In a short time tho picks o* tho workmen exhumed tho l?ody of a man n few fe.'t lw)<iw !h"> surface of the <Miris. tiody was charred beyond all recognition. From the ruins of the wing itself two more | Lxxlies were recovered. They were all taken j to the Third sub product, where thoy lay ; wrapped in quilts. The clothing and so niuc.i jf the flesh had been burned oil' that they wero beyond recognition. Seven persons who , suffered injuries were taken to tho hospital, , and as many more went to their homes. At i midnight one woman and fourteen mon and j l?oys were reporttd as missing. Tho pecuniary loss is estimated at SmUJ.OUO. j AMERICAN INTERESTS, flow tliey Will bo Affectoil by War between England and IIiimIb, "The first effect of a declaration of war befcwann Rivrlfinrl fltirl Pnucin aai/l U 0 - DUIU iicjujr Clows, the well-known New York banker to I a reporter, "will 1)9 to make a soda-water | rise in stocks at the New York Exchange, | but in London and on tho continental courses j it will be just the reverse; a vigorous break j will take place in consols, rentes and Russians, | which will drag down Amori a*i and other | securities with them. Ixiwer prices in London will naturally produce lower priccs here . in sympathy during thesluck. America will soon, however, absorb her good properties at the reduced prices, but leave the poorer ones for European permanent holding. After American capitalists have bought up the best American stocks in the J<ondon market at panic prices, a basis will then lie established for a substantial advanco <>n this side. An Anglo-Russian war means war to tho knife and will be of long duration, and after its first shock, as abovo stated, is over, American securities wiil I eeomo appreciated largely over Ih'ise of all others, owing to tho absolute certainty that this country cannot possibly be dragged iuto tho European complications, while no other first-class nation is froa therotrom." . t&J v . NEWS SUMMARY Esitcrn nn?l JUIdfllo state*. | Commodore C. K. Garrison, tho well, known financier and railroad king, died suddenly at his homo in New York the other day, aged seventy six years. Before his failure a year ago tho commodore's estate waa estimated at $5,0.K),(X)0ito ?7,0t)0,(X>). Four Germans committed suicide in New York on tho 1st One was an old man of seventy-eight, and another a boy of eighteen years. Tue epidemic of fever at Plymouth, Penn., has spread through the surrounding country, which isdotted with hamlets clustered around coal-breakers, and many deatlis have occurred among the miners and their families. Two days after the arrival of tho Russian corvette Strclok at New York from Norfolk, Va., the British cruiser Garnet, which had been keeping her company at tho Virginia port, also arrived. Edison, the inventor, has begun numerous suits for infringment of patent against rival electric light companies in Now "iork. Ex-Senator Pendleton, minister to Germany, ex-Governor Waller, consul-general at London, and Madame Pntti, the operatic star, all sailed tho other day from New York for Europe. Fire broko out in tho residence of James A. I/Ogan, a prominent resident of Waterloo, N. Y., while tho family of seven wore asleep. Mr. Logan, his wife and youngest child wero burned to death, and tho eldest daughter was so badly injured that (hero was little hope of recovery. Three daughters escaped. Tex thousand barrels of boor were crushcrl in by the sudden collapse of 'Wainright's brewery in Pittsburg, Perm., and the liquor ran through the streets in torrents. The loss is about $80,000. James R. Osgood & Co., the prominent Boston publishing house, have failed, with liabilities of about $200,000. Commodore Vandkrmlt's widow died the other day in New York, aged thirty-nine years. Klio had been married before when sho became the old commodore's second wife in and was forty-live years his junior. A monument to Edgar A. Poo was formally presented to the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York on behalf of the actors of that city by Edwin Booth. The rail mill of the Lackawanna Iron and Coal company at Scran ton, Ponn., was destroyed by lire, entailing a loss of about $200,000 and throwing TOO men out of employment. Twelve more bo.lies were recovered from the ruins <>f the collapsed and burned factory in Brooklyn, making fifteen victims. Richard Short wa> acquitted in New York of stabbing Captain Pliolan in O'Uonovan Rossa's I'nitcd hishman ollice. Phelan told how lie came on from Kansas City, and was assaulted by Short. The defence brought testimony to show that Phelan was drunk and quarrolsomo at the time of the fight, and that his threats brought on the row. The judge expressed his astonishment at tho verdict. William Sexton defeated George Slosson in a cushion carom billiard match in New York by a s.-oro of 500 points to 4SC. Captain Paul Boytox, colebrated for his feats in tin water, undertook to show how easily a ship of-war could bo reached and blown up with torpedoos, and with this purpose in view got into his rubber suit and paddled out to tho British cruiser Garnet, lying In New York harbor, and fastenod an imita tion torpedo to her bow. The captain and a boat load of reporters wero captured by the Garnet's steam launch, but were let go again. Scnlh and West* Rev. Jesse Cook, a colored minister of Butler, Ga., became enraged at his wife, killed her with an ax and fled. Geoiuje Mack murdered Richard Parker, his employer, at Great Bend, Kan., and was arrested at Kansas City, Mo. On arriving at Great Rend a crowd took the prisoner from tho train and hanged him. At meetings held throughout Utah, Idaho and Arizona in all the Mormon tabernacles, a declaration of grievances aud protest, which liml boon formulated at a general conference of the Mormon church, was road. The declaration is a 1 dressed to the President and the people of tho United Statos, says the rights of Mormons as American citizens have been trampled upon, and defends the practice of polygamy. Afire in Cabery, 111., wiped out almost tho entiro village, destroying twenty-four business houses and fourteen dwellings, and causing a total aggregate loss of about ?100,t>00. One of tho boilers in the Tremont hotel at Galveston, Texas, exploded with such a terrific concussion that tne large flve-story brick structure was shaken ns if by an earthauake, and the guests ran out panic-strickon. The engineer, fireman and two other employes were killed and five more badly hurt. At Richmond, Va., Thomas J. Cluverius, the young lawyer, was placod on trial on the nth, charged with the murder of Fannie Lillian Madison, the young lady whoso dead body was found floating in the city reservoir. The prisoner pleadod not guilty. Brigadier-General Irwin1 McDow,ell,, on the army retired list, died the other day in San Francisco. General McDowell was born in Ohio in 1818, graduated at West Point, fought in the Mexican war, was the Federal commander at the first battle of Bull Kun, and afterward served through the civil war in a suljordinato capacity. Flames at Vincenncs, Inrl, consumed Green's Opera house, the iwstoflice, Odd Fellows' hall and other buildings, inflicting an estimated aggregate loss of ?10fl,(XX(. Corntv Jrnr.e Brooks, of Camn count,v. Texas, convicted of briliery and sentenced to two years' imprisonment, shot himself dead a few minuted after sentenco had been imi>osed. Martin Nelson attempted to commit a robbery near Bonito, Now Mexico, but was detected. Ho then shot an 1 killed a Dr. Flynn, Mr. and Mrs. May bury, their two sons nnd a littlo (laughter, and two other men. Nelson was finally killed by neighbors. \t'an1ilngton> A number of employes of the Philadelphia mint have been discharged and tho coinage of minor pieces has boen sus[>ended. The bond for $ 1.v),():)j given by Mr. Jordan, tho now treasurer, having been ajvproved, ho has relieved Mr. Wyman, his predecessor. About one hundred.treasury employes are engaged in counting the money unu scuiiriwus in uiu u cuauiy vuuiio. THEsocretary of tho treasury has appointed William F. Switzerlor, of Missouri, to bo chief clerk of the bureau of statistics. Further appointments by tho President: E. J. Hale, of North Carolina, to ba United States consul at Manchester, England; John Go-?le, of Virginia, to bo solicitor-general; William M. Merrick, of Marj'land, to bo an associato justice of tho Supreme court of the District of Columbia; Thomas M. Ferrall, to be collector of internal revenue for the 1st district of New Jersey; Spraillo Broden, to be assayer at the United States assay office, Boiso City, Idaho; George Hayes, to bo supervising inspector of steam vessels for tho 5th district. Our consul at Foo Choo, China, has made a report stating that the total export of tea last year was 85,78(5,124 pounds, of which 53, 807,15:5 pounds were s?nt to Europe and U,502.85-4 pounds to America. The President has appointed the following postmasters: E. H. Porter, at Bowling Green, Ky.; William Weeks, at Wauseon, Ohio; James McKinney, at Susquehanna, Penn.; John R. Parshall, at Faribault,Minn.; Daniel W. Connolly, at Scranton, Penn.; James B. Hutchison, at Hazleton, Penn,; Th.imas H. Bayless, at Hope, Ark.; John H. Golden, at Minonk, 111.; Henry S. Howell,at Watertown, Wis.; John B. Larkin, at Pittsburg, Penn.; William Brown, at Lake Geneva. Wis.; Thomas J. Seatnans, at Wabash, Iud. President Cleveland appointed another large batch of presidential postmasters on the 6th, including Charles H. Chapman at New Haven, Conn.; B. P. Hugor at Charleston, S. C., and S. Corning Judd at Chicago, 111. Joseph Nimsio, Jr., chief of the bureau of statistics, has resigned at tho request of Secrotary Manning. Admiral Jouett, in a dispatch from Panama, informed the navy department that everything was quiet on the Isthmus. He said that tho Colon would sail tho next day from Aspimvall for New York, and would carry ono half tho United States marines sent to tho Isthmus soino weeks ago. Foreign. European ndvices of tho 1st stated that there was a slight relaxation in the tension of tho relations of Russia and England. Russia appeared to bo disposed to entertain England's proj>osals to submit to the arbitration of ono of tho crowned heads of Europe tho question whether tho convention of March 17 was broken by Russia. It was believed that the king of Denmark would bo selected as arbitrator in tho event of mediation being accented. A London dispatch roports that the czarina, whose influence is nearly nbsolute over tho czar, wns actively assisting in tho peacM negotiations between England and Russia, and that a conciliatory dispatch had boon received from tho Russian ruler. king leopold, or iieigium, lormauy opened tho Intenmtional exhibition at Antwerp. RmvF.rx, tho English pedestrian, won a six-day walking match in London with a score of ):!() miles. Generals Aizi'cru and Sandoval and Doctors Vallarino anil Coroailles and other prominent rebels have been arrested at Panama bv General Reyes, of tho Colombian forces, for not fulfilling tho obligations stipulated in the agreement of surrender. Mount Vesuvius is again in a state of eruption, a new opening having formed, down which lava flowed in great streams. Tiie seven-year-old son of a wealthy resident of Taraton, Mexico, named Lopez, was kidnapped and the father was notified that tho child would be killed if a ransom of $75,( 0) was not deposited in a certain placo ' within two days. The noto to tho father was not delivered until too late to negotiate with the criminals. At the expiration of tho secmid day the fath?r found tho horribly mutiluU-d bli ly of the child in hi-! courtyard. The boy's sister, aged twolvo years, oil seeing Uer brother's corpso, fell dead. Tho falher becamoa maniac. , *1 * ) % -i-v. I i a dispatch from Battleford, Manitoba, says a flying Canadian column, under command of Colonel Otter, numbering about 300, comprising mounted police, men from the "Queen's Own" rifles, B Battery, the Ottowa Foot Guards and C Company, beside the mounted volunteers from Battleford, bad an engagement with Poandinuker's Indian forces on their reserve. The Indians numbered GOU The fight lasted from 5 o'clock in the morning until noon, and was most hotly contested throughout. The loss on Otters side is eight killed and twelve wounded, and the Indian loss is estimated at fifty. Otter's column covered over thirty-flve miles, fought the battle and returned to Battleford, all inside of thirty hours. Sin Peter Lumsden, tho British commissioner on tho disputed Afghan boundary question, has been ordered to England. Premier Gladstone said that General Lumsden has not been rocalled, but has been consulted upon tho subjoct and in conformity with his own views had been requostid to roturn to England. As it had been decided to carry on in London the future communications with Russia abiut tho main points in tho Afghan frontier line, both Sir Poter Lumsden and Colonel Stowart had been directed to come to London. General Reyes, having been promoted to commandor-in-cliiof of tho Colombian army at Panama, has proclaimed martial law on the Isthmus. In a fight bo! ween a mob and a small body of Colombian troops twenty of tho former were killed. Two rebel chiefs?l'ortazal and Cocobnlo? who advised and assisted Prestan in the burning of Aspinwnll were tried by court martial and hanged in tho ruins of tho city by order of tho Colombian commander. A World'b Exposition of Inventions was opened in London by the Prince of Wales. A Chinese ferry steamer plying between Woo-Sung and Shanghai was cut in two and sunk by a steamship, and seventy-three lives wore lost. LATER NEWS Six men wero terribly mangled by n promature explosion of dynamite while blasting out iron ore near Lebanon, Fonn. The relief committeo of Plymouth, Penn., the fever stricken town, nddre3sed an appeal fornid from the citizens of New York to Mayor Grace. The committee statod that one thousand pcrions were prostrated with typhoid fever. Another British war ship?the Corvette Canada?has arrived at New York. The election of a Republican successor to Representative Shaw (deceased) gave the Be publicans control of the Illinois legislature by ore vote. Shaw's district is Democratic by 2,00J majority; but the Republicans protended indifference and put up no candidate until late in the afternoon, when by previous secret arrangement they began to voto all over the district As tliD Democrats, thinking success assured , ' polled only a light voto, the Republican candidate, who was voted for at the eleventh hour, got in by a small majority. This as A# A T)ArvuVvlinnn PHrtnflcOAf fn OUI CU liUC 1DDU1U Ul U iiupuum uu ouv,w>ww* wv Senator Logan in the United States Senate. Mitchell Anderson, a Choctaw youth of seventeen, was executed according to the Indian fashion by shooting, for murdering another Choctaw in the Indian Territory. A tornado has destroyed the town of New. market, Ala. A large church and Masonic temple, the largest store in the place, and two ?ther stores were torn to splinters. Four colored men were swept ovei the Great Falls of tho Potomac near Wash, ington by tho upsetting of their boat and drowned. Further appointments of Presidential postmasters: Frank W. Rogers, at Norwich, N. Y.; George Donnelly at Waterloo, N. Y.; Ilcnry S. Bennor, at Gettysburg, Penu.; J Parker Veazey, at Baltimore, Md. Mr. Blanche K. Br uce, lighter of tl treasury, has tendered his resignation. He was tho first colored man who ever occupied the chair of tho presiding officer of tho Uni. ted States Senate and the first of his raco tc preside vor a national Republican convention, which occurred at Chicago in 1&>0. Numerous prosecutions against the lottery companies are to bo brought by the postmas ter-general Mr. Lowell, our late minister to Englan t unveiled in Westminster Abbey a bust of the poet Coleridge, the gift of tho late Rev. Dr. Mercer, of Rhode Island. mas. iveld'j.-v, an r^ngusu siugor, got verdict of $5J,00) in a suit for libel, slander, breacli of contract and assault, brought in London against M. Gounod, the famous French composer. A new ministry has been formed in Brazil. While a French steamer was on its way to Buenos Ayres, South America, the emigrants on board mutinied becauso of the bad quality of tho food. Thoy were finally over powered after a desperate fight, in which tho captain and several of tho crew wore severely wounded. Ten of tho passengers wore killod or wounded. FEDERAL FINANCES, Rational Pebt Statement?Government Itcroipt* and Expenses. Tho public debt statement for April was prepared at tho treasury department in both tho old and new form*. According to tha old form of statement, the reduction in tho public debt during April amounted to $.!5,4C4,.lj9'5.3S, while in tho now form tho amount of reduction is placed at $4,837,339.71. This discrepancy, | amounting to $027,256.67, is duo to the fact that in the new form two items, accruod and unpaid April interest on Pacific Kailrood bonds, amounting to $"29S,037.50, and the amount of increase during the month in fractional and minor coins, aggregating $3:29,219.11, are treated, the first as liabilities, and the latter as a=sots, unavailable for dobt reduction. In tho old form the availablo cash in the treasury is shown to 1)0 $155,810,043, and in the new form tho "net cash balanco on hand" is placed at $ .'3,957,421. Tho difference here is accounted for by adding to tho "net cash balanco" reported in the new form $100,000,000 reserve held for the redemption of Unite 1 States notes, regarded in the new form as a liability, and about $32,000,030 fractional silver and minor coin treated in the new form as asste? "unavailable for the reduction of the debt." Tho treasury now holds $125,030,030 in gold and about $110,000,030 in silver for gold anrl silver certificates outstanding, against $110,000,000 gold and $113,000,000 silver a month ago. The customs receipts for April wore $14,040,974, about half a million less than during April a year ago, and the internal revenuo receipts $9,290,337, nearly a million less than in April, 18S4. Tho total receipts of tho government from all sources for the ten months of tho current fiscal year amount, in round numbers, to $203,000,000, agaitufc $280,000,000 for the corresponding ton months of the preceding fiscal year, while the expenditures for all purposes for the ten months of this y9ar foot up $237,t'00,000, against $218,000,000 for tho ten . months of tho preceding year. Compared with the corresponding ton months of the preceding fiscal year, there has been a falling off in customs revenuo this year amounting to auouc *i*,uuu,ww, ana in internal revenue receipts of nearly $7,00J,000. Tho payments mado from the treasury by warrants daring April, 1885, were as folIoz-J: On account of: Civil and miscellaneous $7,727,MS 31 War 3,(i80,7li.'i 93 Navy 2,032,055 87 Interior, Indian 327,398 01 Interior, pension C, 192,571 38 Total $19,9(30,335 50 The following is a statement of the coinage executed at tho mint* of tho United States during April: Denominations. Pieccs. Value. Double cables 61,000 $1,2^0,000 Kagles 41,41)0 414,000 Half eaglts 71,600 K57.500 Total cold 173,910 11,991,505 Standard dollars 2,410,000 2,410,000 Dimes 220,000 22,0 j0 Total Silver 8,030,000 $2,432,001 Total coi nase 2,S03,903 H,423,50J PEA.CE PROBABLE, Russia Agreeing to Snlimit the Pendleli Affair to Arbitration. In tho British hous9 of common-! at t!io evening session, Mr. Gladstone duplicate ! the statement of Earl Granville in the house of lords in tho afternoon to the e!Foct that England and Runin hal ngrool to renew negotiations. Tho premier added that all disputol points which should arise at tho conforeneo were to bo referred to tho sovereign of a neutral state, that the Afghan frontier commission was to meet, forthwith to settle the details of tho boundary, and that Russia had consented to withdraw her outposts on the arrival of the commissioners, Generals Lumsden nnd ZclenoL It. was stated tho emperor of Germany would lx> asked to act as arbitrator and that ho would probably consent. Ry a vote of 130 to 2.) tho vote of credit of $'i">,(K?O.OUO wat agreed to in the house of common*. CoLowF.ii Xeiwocitan, the lately-appointed naval officer at New Orleans, has a sugar plantation thirty miles below tho city, consisting of 1,100 acres, of which ilOO are m cane. Last year his crop was 1,100,000 pounds ol Biigar. THE WAR IN MANITOBA. Canadian Troops Have a Fight with Kiel's Indian Allies. A Fierce Battle with Heavy Losses on Both Sides. Details of tho fight batween Colonel Otter's column of Canadian troops and a band of Indians under Chief Poundmnker, in Manitoba, areas follows: "Tho attack was begun by Indians suddenly, and it looked as if a trap had boen set for us, into which wo ranThe enemy was strong, and fought fiercely from cover, whilo we were comparatively open to their fire, fighting from the brow of a hill over boulders. Five minutes after tho first shot was fired wo appeared to be completely surrounded. Fifty mon woro sent back to clear the rear. We had just passed through a deep gully, thickly wooded, with a swift stream running through it on one sida Tho men sent back mado a bravo dash and accomplished their object, thus lossening th0 danger of the situation. The fighting, which was all skirmishing, was over a largo and uneven stretch of country, and our men were working at a great disadvantage, but they * ?-? lil-r* Untune on/1 with tiift Killings whistling in on them from almost ovory direction, never flinched for an instant. Every corps continued steadily on the aggressive and by 10 o'clock the enemy was almost silenced. They resumed again and the fighting was heavy. The artillery, two sevenpounders and the Gatlinggun,did good work, ropeatedly driving the onemy from cover. At 11 o'clock they were again almost silenced. Colonel Otter had already given orders to withdraw from a jwsition of such disadvantage. The Indians, observing this, endeavored te cut off the retreat ot tho men. Our troops fought their way out inch by inch, front always to the enemy. No praise is sufficient to describe tho bravery or our officers and men. Every one showed lumsolf a hero. Colonel Otter, with his staff, was in every part of the field, and his orders were as cool and decided as if it wero a sham battle. The men were badly used up before the withdrawal began. Our force comprised seventyfive mounted police and scouts, part of B battery, Ottawa footguards, mon of Toronto infantry, and a few ot the Queen's Own and the Battlcford rifles. The column returned to Battlcford on Saturday night" Another dispatch, by way of St. Paul, Minn., says that "Poundmaker, tho chief of cho band of Indians with whom Colonel Otter's flying column had a fight near Battleford on Sunday, with heavy losses on both sides, is one of tho most restless of the chiefs of tho Northwest. He has always been a source of trouble to tho Dominion government, but was borne with because of tho large number of followers ho had. Poundmaker was the cau e of the first Indian outrages in the present difficulties, and to his door may be laid the entire Indian rising. Further particulars of Otter's battlo indicate that the Indians' fought with coolness and courage, but they were poorly armed. Many squaws took part in the fight and behaved as well as the braves. Although exhausted after tho long march, Otter's column fought steadily for seven hours, by which time the Indians seemed to havo enough, and retired for a short distance. Otter took advantage of this to draw his men back for rost and refreshments. The Indians do not doem themselves defeated." In the Canadian house of commons at Ottawa Sir John Macdonald read tho following dispatch from Colonel Herchmer, of the mounted police, dated Eattleford, Manitoba: 'The column fought Poundmaker for seven hours, and demolished his camp. Tho rvMinn hnhnvnd with cri-rat courasre. receiv ing tho first firo, and holding an advanced position while tho column formed for attack, and remaining there throughout tho engagement. The total brigade loss is eight killed and fifteen wounded. Wo moved eighty miles in thirty hours, seven hours of which we were fighting. Tho enemy's loss is fully 103." _ AT GETTYSBURG, Pros Idem Cleveland s Trip to ?1?o Hlotikilc I.nCdcflcld. President Cleveland's visit to the Gettysburg battlefield took him away from the White House for tho first time sinco ho entered upon tho duties of his office. Tho trip was mado at the request o' veterans of the Army of the Potomac, ox. Governor Curtin and others. A spacial excursion train was run for the accommodation of tho veterans and their friends, and to this was accacneu a noiet car lor mo presi dential party, consisting of tho President, VicoPresidont Hendricks; Mr Endicott, secretary of war; Mrs. Endicott and daughter: Mr. Whitney, secretary of tho navv: Mr. Vilas, postmaster-general; General 15lack, commissioner of pensions, and Mr?. Black; General Rosocrans and daughter, and ex-Govcrnor Curtin. Mr. Lamar, secretary of the interior, joined the presidential party by a later train, reaching Gettysburg a littlo after 1 o'clock. Tho seven cars carried in all about four hundred persons. Tho train made the run to Gettysburg in three and a half hours. Very few stop3 were mado, and, .as the coming of tho President had beon made known in advance to only a small numbor of parsons there wero no marked demonstrations at any of tho stations along thj routoGovernor Pnttison and Congressman Swope met tho visitors on tho platform at Gettysburg. Tho visitors were then taken in carriages to tho National cemetery, 011 the ridge half a milo away, Mr. Cleveland, Mr. Hendricks and General Hunt riding together at the front of tho procession. A brief stop was mado at tho stand near tho national monument, whero tho exorcises of the day took place. ThePresidcnt had stipulated before coming that I10 was not to bo asked to speak, anil he was not even formally introduced to tho assemblage. Governor rattison of Pennsylvania welcomed tho visitors, and speeches were mado by General J. C. Black, of Illinois, Martin Mnginnis of Montana, and General Ilosencrnns. Before tho exercises wero concluded tho iTcsiaenu rniurneu to ins carnage, unu was driven over to the cemetery grounds, which wero a part of the battlefield, and command a view of the wholo scene of the great fight. Ihc tour of the field was completed l;efore sundown and the party was ready for the return to "Washington by (S p. M. Dinner was served in the car on the way to Washington. At 8:"0 j\ m. the seal-brown horses landed Mr. Cloveland at the White House door. MONEY BY TIE TON. Counting the Cash In the rnltcd State* Treasury Vaiilcs, Whenover a change takes place in the ofiic* of United States treasurer,says a Washingtor dispatch, the money in the vault of tha treasury building is counted. It is going oa now, Treasurer Wyman having been superseded by Mr. Jordan. It is a month's job, and is done by three men ?in this instance by Mr. Whitney, who represents Secretary Manning, and is an old hand at it; Mr. Cassell, who represents the outgoing treasurer, and Mr. Smith, who see3 that all is right on behalf of the new treasurer. There are also laborers who handle the bags. In all about 1U0 persons are engaged on the . During Mr. Spinner's tinn thare were two counts to seo how it was inside tho vaults. Once five cents was found which seemed to belong to tho venerable treasurer, and ho was so much richer after tho money was paid over to liim. On another oimQAoq as much as ton cents was found to bo 'Renting, which was immediately paid in, Gfld neither the old treasurer nor the country suffered a loss! The cash that has been counted and is yet to be counted consists of $9,000,00j in silver dollars and $3,500,000 in cold coin, in all nearlv 300 tons in weight. In addition there are al>out $175,000,000 in papjr, most of the denomination of $5 and under, and $$25,000,000 in bonds hold in security for tho national bank circulation. Tho hard money is in bags, each containing 1.000 silver dollars, weighing fifty-nine pounds three ounces, stamped "u. S. Treasury, 1,000 dollars, Washington, D. C." Thoro was a timo when cach bag was dumped and each pieco of money handled and counted. "When tho present count bogan a limited number of bags were emptied and tho coin counted, but that was suspended and the plan of weighing each bag adopted. Tho scale for this, of course,is exact m its working,tho very slightest variation being detected. Tho bags are brought from their resting places in tho vaults by men, who find it no easy work,kept up for hours together in an atmosphere that is almost stifling. When they have got through they can say what fow mortals can, that choy have handled nr> many to in of money 1 As tho bags are placed on tho scalo tho three men constituting tho commission pay attention. it is wnat tuey are wiuro ior. THE WHEAT CROP. A Report Iliac it Will tie Hip ^Iost BI?nitrouN in Ten lear*. Secretary Chamberlain, of the Ohio board of agriculture, places tho wheat arrea in that State at ninoty-throc per cent., and the condition of the crop at fifty-nine per cent., and says that, with pool weather, tho yield will bo ?>,S7!,r.::o bushels, as compared with a five years' average of -II,01)5,',4 7 bushels. From official and other telegrams and letters from twenty other States he estimates the shortage of tho wheat crop at 151),211,1111) bushols, as compared with the five years' average of 412, :>55,li'Jil bushels, or of over 200,(M),(Mil) bushols as compared with last year's full croii of over .f-0 ?,0?H),'J0) bushels. '"It serins," ho aids, '"that this year's crop is to bo the iuost disastrous failure for ten years." A TERRIBLE FIRE, midnight Scenes of Horror in a Xo.v York Tenement* Eight persons were killed and fourteen severely injured just before 1 o'clock a. m. by an outbreak of flre in a crowded tenemont lious3 on First avonuo, near Thirty-eighth street, Now York. Tho building is a now double tenementhouse, standing alono, next to a coal-yard on tho east side of the avoino. The groun l floor was occupied on tho north of the entrance by a roitaurant kept by John Humphrio3, in tho rear of which the flre broke out, and on the south side by Mrs. Burger, a saloon-keeper. Tho other four floors above wore occupied by seven families, one suite of apartments being untenanted. There was but one dark and narrow hallway through the building for the use of the forty inmates. Tho flre was discovered by Mrs. Koorner, who live3 on tho fifth floor. She smolt tho smoko nnd at onco roused her son Jacob. She immediately rushed int) tho hill and shouted at the top of her voice. The whole house was full of smoko, which was surging up in great black biilows from the basement. Down stairu in the rear there was a bright light which showed whore the flames wore cutting off the refronk A t fha cnniirl of t.hn wnm?n'j voicn I nearly everybody in the houso sprang out of l;eil, for they were all sleeping at the time. It did not tako long for them to realize their danger, and without waiting to put on their clothing their was a mad rust! of half-naked men, women aud children, shrieking and crying, for the street. A? soon as the firomcn arrived thoy began to pour streams into the rear of the house, and the flames were soon under control. At the same time they entered the building and groped their way through the suffocating smoke. At tho foot of the first flight of stairs thoy stumbled ovor tho bodies of a mother ami her infant She was Mrs. Humphries, who lived above tho ro3taurant kept by hor husband. At the first alarm sho had cfa*ped the child to her breast and started for the street. It is supposed that she fell down the narrow stairs and was suffocated while she lay wounded and in pain, almost at tho very entrance to the street. She and her chlid were carried to F. M. Horton & Go's., o.Tice in tho coal yard adjoining. Fireman Dalrymple got up to tho fourth floor by muans of a scaling ladder and handed down soveral persons from the front windows to firemen on ladders below. At the bead of the lower stairs, lying in the doorway of his own room, was round tho body of John Humphries, thirty-seven years old. He was fully dressed. In his room near the door lay the body of the family sorvant, a seventeen-year-old girl. She was in her nightdross, and had evidently dropped to the floor suffocated within a few moments after she had started from hor bed On the samo floor, but on tho opposite sido of the hall, wero found Christina Koerner and another woman. Mrs. Koerner was doad, but tho other woman was alive. Thus the flremeu brought form after form out or trie death-trap and laid their burdens on the bare floor of the office. The ambulance surgeon? sorted them out and those that gave any manifestation of life were tenderly put into the ambulances and conveycd to Bellevue hospital. The dead were laid in a row and covered with sheets. The list of dead was as follows; Joseph Humphires, aged thirty-five; Henry Humphries, aged four months; Mri. Christina Koerner, aged forty-eight: Pauline Kocrner, aged nineteen: Mrs. Mina Krctzscbmar, aged thirty-two; Richard Kretzschmar,* aged eleven; William Hurley, aged twenty; Mary, servant of Mrs. Humphries, ngedforty-Hvo. With the exception of William Hurley, who died tho noxt morning at the Presbyterian hospital, all wore taken out of the building dead. Beside the killed, there were fourteen persons injured. One of those?Mrs. Kate Koerner?idiod in the hospital. THE Mr AT PENJDEE Detailed Account of the Russian Attack on the Afghans. Eyewitnesses of the Penjdeh affair say that on March 29 Taib Salar, the Afghan commander, received Goneral KomarofTs ultimatum, in substance that utilesi the Afghans retired from the left bank of the Kushk and right bank of tho Murghab boforo tho evening of that date, the Russian? would drive them out. Captain Tate then conferred with Colone* ZiaCUarovuKI, us hiibuu) i ujjui iai i. iuu nuiuo night Taib Salar, after consulting with the British ofllcers, declined "to evacuate the positions referred ti, but olTered to consider reasonable proposals regarding pickets and outposts. General Komaroff maae no answer to the offer, and next morning, during a rainfall accompanied by heavy mist, the Rus-. sians advanced, tiie Turcoman cavalry covering the infantry. This movement drew the Afghan Are, when the Turcomans opened out, showing a battalion of the Seventy-third regiment, a sotnia of Cossacks, ond eight guus. Two of tho latter came into action, and tho infantry fired volleys for half an hour, sweeping the Afghans down in files. The Afghans, with muzzle loaders nnd wet powder, answered feebly, while two guns liadly placed replied to tho Russian artillery. Tho Kushlc was swollen and unfordable. The only means of rotreat was by the Pul-iKhisti bridge, seven feet wide. The Cossacks swept forward 011 tho loft flank of the Afghans, and tho Russian infantry charged their intrenchments and carried them at tho point of the bayonet, killing hundreds of the hratrolv A f. fhrt flrcf". I shot tho British officers, who were five miles south of Ak-Tapa, hurried to the spot and mot tlio Afghans in full retreat, both from Ak-Tapa and Pul-i-Khisti. Colonel AlikhanofF, with a strong escort, crossed the bridge and occupied the Afghan military governor's tent, but no pursuit was made. Colonel Alikanoff ordered his Soruk Turcomans to attack Captain Yate's party, which arrived during the Afghan retreat. Captain Yato askea Colonel Zacharevski fcr an interview, and requested that troops be sent to guard the British camp. No answer was given to this request. SomoTekko Turcomans appeared on the scene, and tho Saruk Turcomans, with Captain Yate, urged a retreat. The British retired undor the escort of tho Saruk chiefs. Taib Salar was badly wounded. The Afghans were demoralized. KILLED BY MILITIA. Striking Qimrrynicn in lllino's Fired Upon l?y Troop Dispatcho3 from Lonunt, III., give tho following particulars of a collision thero between striking quarryman and tho Btata militia: Tho strike among tho quarrymen hero and at Joliot has finally assumod proportions of magnitudo. The men who went out because they failed to receivj an advance of wages from $1.50 to $1.75 a day have been in a turbuleut condition for four weeks, I n.? ....o.Ttno lmvn nil UUIJU? >vimu J/vuvri cio vjuuiovim^.v... been idle. A number of the quarry owners had repeatedly trie I to resume operations, but the striker.? invariably drove the workmen away. It became evident on Friday that the county authorities could not control the strikors and tho governor was asked to send troops. He responded promptly by sending five companies from Joliet, Ottawa, La Salle, Strcator and Bloomington. The first meeting between tho troops and strikers occurred between Lemont and Joliet Saturday afternoon, but tne 4)0 strikers, who were marching on Joliet from Lemont, fled wlien exposed to a sudden attack by the militia. Seventy of their number, however, were captured by the troops, disarmed, and marched to Joliet uudor guard. On Sunday morning the sheriff of Will county released the prisonoi-s and they returned to Lemont. This has been a bloody day for the Lemont strikers, says a later dispatch. A collision occurred with tho troops this forenoon,in which two strikers were instantly killod aud sevm wounded, including a woman. Two of tho wounded men have since died. The street? are now quiet, and tho troops are encamped in a commanding j>ositiou, with four cannon and a Galling gun. They have their pickets out and guards are patroling the town. When the militia had gone thcp.'ople began to take an inventory of the casualties. It was found that two men were dead and six others had been more or less seriously wounded. Of these two have since died. The dead were al> Poles. One of the wounded is a woman. PROMINENT PEOPLE. Secretary Lauar outwalks all his colleagues in the cabinet. Lord Tennyson receives on an average $7,500 a year on royalties. Tawhiao, tho Maori king, has recommended his i>eoplo to embrace Christianity. Mrs. Garfield's property foots up about $450,000, and her income is about $21,00.). Mn. Ball, tho American sculptor, is hard at work in Florence, Italv, on the clay mouei of his colossal statue of \Vebster. Mr. Blaine will givo up his Washington house in Juno and po to his old homu in Augusta, wlioro ho will spend most of the summer. Miss Ada Sweet, who refused to vacato the Chicago l'ention agency, is a tall, lithefigured blondo with clear out features and chestnut hair. Li Huno Ciiano, the illustrious Chinee statesman, is a man of gigantic stature. Mentally he is als.o head and shoulders above his associates. Hkkp, Eye, Prince Bismarck's head cook, has been favored with a gold medal as a national token of gratitudo for his care of the chancellor's stomach. Governor Leon AnnETT, of New Jersey, preserves his digestive faculties by drinking a glass of orange juice every morning at breakfast, and lunching at noon on milk. Lieutenant Greei.y is said to bo haunted day and night by visions of his Ion/ period of starvation in the Arctic regions, and his physicians assort that thu only way he can preserve his sanity is to mingle freely with others. Paul H. Hayne, the Southern poet, is fifty-tive years old. He is nearly six feet tall, slender, with dark, dreamy eyes, delicate feature and a low, musical voice. His health has always been poor. FAR3T, GARDEN AND HOUSEHOLD. Handling: iwilk. Col. T. D. Curtis read a paper before the Mississippi Valley Dairy and Creamery Association at St. Louis, in which occurs the following passage: "Good milkers and the proper hnndJing of milk are essential. It is quite a knack to milk a cow properly. The operation should be performed regularly and in an orderly manner, without noise, and without excitement. Grasp the teat so as to have, as it were, a handful of milk in it, closing the forefinger and thumb above, so as to prevent the milk from moving upward into the cavity. Then close the hand gently but firmly, the upper fingers closing each a little ahead of the one next below, the whole operation being performed, as it were, simultaneously. Do not dig the nails or ends of the fingers into the skin, so as to hurt the cow, but continue to open and shut the hand as indicated, with a slight downward pull, and each time slipping the hand up so as to grasp a little of the uririor nnr? rrnwrl fhr> millc flown into the teat,as the thumb and finger close preparatory to the final grip. Tnc operation is much easier to perform by ono who knows how than it is to describe, but one quite easy to learn by one who wants to learn it. "The operation should bo performed in a cleanly manner, in a cleanly place, keeping all dirt out of the pail, and all bad odor9 out of the air by the removal of the droppings, and the free use of deodorizers. "If set for butter, the milk should be put to rest as soon as possible, as agitation hinders the separation of the cream from the milk. It should be set as warm as possible from the cow, as the more the temperature is lowered before setting, the more imperfect will be the separation of the cream from the milk. If the milk is earned to a factory, or the lowering of the temperature to any great extent is unavoidable, somo apparatus for raising the temperature to 100 should be provided. This will obviate the loss by lowering of temperature. The reason for this is, that crcam rises best with a falling temperature, and the farther the temperature has to fall, the better the separation. But in no case would I allow the temperature to go below 40 ?, for another law here sets in which makes a farther fall of temperature detrimental to the raising of cream?that is, the law of expansion, which affects the watery portion that has been contracting down to about forty degrees. Lower tempera ture, I think, injures the keeping quality of the product; but this is disputed by some. "It is essential that milk should be set in a clean atmosphere, especially with open setting, where the milk is cooled down below the temperature of the air in the room, for the moment the milk gets colder than the air, the moisture in the air begins to condense on the surface of the .milk and the cream to absorb the odors that are in the moisture so condensed. So long as the air is colder than tho milk the air absorbs the vapors rising from the milk, and to that extent the milk is purified by the surrounding nir; but when the milk gets colder than the air the process is reversed, and the air is purified by the milk. These facts should never be lost sight of in butter-making." Farm and Garden Noteii The amount of nitrogen supplied in manure is very much in cxcess of the amount recovered in the increase of the crop. It is the jrcneral opinion among douI try men that very fat fowls do "not lay well. Hence excessive feeding is condemned. To make economical pork the pig should be kept in a continuously growing condition from the day of his birth until he is delivered into the hands of the butcher. Do not plant trees in the garden. They will not only shade the growing crops to their detriment, but what is worse, will secure their own nourishment at the expense of the gnrden, robbing the vegetables and plants of tho elements of fertility. When potatoes are fed to cows, thev ought to be given in connection with other feed. Tho average ration of potatoes ought not to be more than onefourth to one-third of the entiro feed. Raw potatoes ought to bo cut in slices, and boiled potatoes ought to bo crushed. In planting young trees an Indian farmer mixes the soil that he intends to fill around the tree with one bushel or more of fine chip-dirt. This is rich and stimulating, and holds moisture well. In the fall he usually scrapes tho tree trunks and washes them off with whale oil soap and water. Coal ashes may be utilized to a good advantage in tho hen house by sifting IUAiiAiin^ An flnnr TKn finn tuciu aiuuuu uu vuv uuuii a iiw jjiiv dust that flics about and settles on every exposed surface will do no harm, and that which falls on the floors and under the roosts will act as a disinfectant and deodorizer. Where hogs cannot be allowed to run at large, as is the case on many farms, F. D. Curtis, an excellent authority, favors the planting of artichokes and sweet corn, or tho sowing of oats, rye alfalfa, the object to secure more green i food than is given in the common way i of raising hogs. Horses troubled with heaves should be fed little dry food. Clover hay is especially objectionable, not only from tho dust with which it is filled from imperfect curing, but also because horses liko this hay so much that they gorge themselves with it. Cut straw, well moistened and sprinkled with meal, will make a feed that will restore a horse not too far gone with heaves to activity and usefulness. A line of any kind of trees along a fence will injure thc crop for some disfonao inltinH Snmfl trnM nm worse than others, the hickory and butternut being i such gross feeders that they are said to poison tho land which they cover. In most cases their bad effects are seen much further than the droppings of their leaves can reach, and especially with po- J tatoes or other root crops, which need all ' the moisture the soil can furnish. A few fresh bones finely crushed are j excellent to make hens lay. Partially ' burning them will enable any one to pound them in small pieces with little I difficulty. They contain lime in much better condition for making the shells of j eggs than it can be got in oyster shel's, which are frequently recommended. As proof of the want which bones supply, laying hen3 will eat them far more greedily than fowls which do not lay. Smearing the shells with linseed oil is : reported to be a good way to preserve cgos- Rub the oil over the egg witn the tip of the finger and suffer it to become , dry on the shell. Eggs rubbed over j with flaxseed oil in three months lost | four per cent., and in six months four j and a half per cent, of their weight, and ! when opeued were found to be fresh, j with the smell of fresh eggs. Eggs not: so treated lost eleven per cent, of their j weight in three mouths, and in six months thirteen per cent. There is no such disease as hollow born. When cattle are sick their horns are apt to be cold, but we must look elsewhere than to the horn for the disease. Indigestion is quite apt to be the cause, aud this is often accompanied with loss ! of appetite, indicated by a refusal to ! . *1 J Ti. ? 1?. Mtptnlrn I CI1CW lilt' CIHl. 11/ u |JU|miai uil3iitnc to suppose that the cud has been lost and must be replaced. Wc might as well talk of putting an appetite into a dyspeptic man. Exercise and careful feeding will bring cattle around all right, and men also, for that matter. The lime process of keeping eges is to tako one pint of salt and one quart of fresh lime, and slake with hot water. When slaked, add sufficient water to make four gallons. When well settled pour off the liquid prently into a stone jar. Then with a dish place the eggs in, tipping the dish after it tills with the liquid, so they will roll out without cracking the shell, for if the shell is cracked tho egg will spoil. Put the egss in whenever you have them fresh. Keep them covered in a cool place and they will keep fresh for one year. The plan of keeping cows continuously in milk without allowing theia to have a calf is practicable, but not to be genT-: . 'V crally commended. There is not only a decrease in yield in cows so kept, but ' " the milk is less digestible. It is nearly or quite as much labor to milk a farrow cow as one giving a fresh flow of milk. The cow, if well fed, may be milked until six or eight weeks of the time for calving, or even up to it if necessary, * but it is better to allow several weeks for the cow to get into condition for .v ' / producing a large flow of milk when she calves. II in la on House Cleaning:* Oil of lavender will drive away flies. Grained wood should be washed with ? cold tea. For ordinary woodwork use whiting to rub the dirt of! and ammonia. If paper has been laid under the carpet all dust may be easily removed with Mortar and paint may bo removed -5 from window glass with hot, sharp vineCopperas mixed with the whitewash put upon the cellar walls will keep ver- > !?jjj min away. Ceilings that have been smoked by a kerosene lamp should be washed off with soda water. , ' * iielleoore spnntuea on lac noor ? <S2G night destroys cockroachcs. They eat ~ ^ it and arc poisoned. Drain pipes and all placcs that are sour or impure may be clcanscd with. lime water or carbolic acid. Strong brine may bo used to ad vantage in washing bedsteads. Hot alam water is also good for this purpose. The warmth of floors is greatly in- ' creased by having carpet lining or . layers of paper under the carpet. Cayenne pepper blown into the cracks where ants congregate will drive them away. The same remedy is also good f for mice. If gilt frames, when now, are covered with a coat of white varnish, all specka can then be washed off with wator with* -^0 out harm.?Farmer and. Manufacturer. : If the wall about the stove has been -;?y;! smoked by the stove, cover the black V *^?8| patches with {jum shellac, and they will fxSvgm not strike through-either paint or kal- $ somine. Curpets should bo thoroughly boat on ' . the wrong side first and then on the right side, after which spots may be re movca oy me use 01 ox gaii or amaiuaui - vvand water. Furniture needs cleaning as much as . other woodwork. It may bo washed ;'&ga| with warm soapsuds quickly, wipeddry, and then rubbed with nn oily cloth. To -?f polish it rub with rotten stone and sweet. ...'^$?1 oil. Clean off the oil and polish with chamois skin. "Where bard-finished walls have been ; kalsomined, the soiled coats should be 'Vaa washed or scraped off before a new one is put on. This is the most disagreeahle part of the process. The furniture should be covered, as lime makes spots that are , removed with difficulty, especially upon black walnut. ' * 4s Those who have tried piint upon.the walls of rooms speak very strongly in its favor. It closcs up the pored of the plaster so that it 'cannot absorb bad odors, it can be easily cleaned with soda and water (soap and water make It ' ~ ^ spotty), it can be made of any desired tint. In washing painted walls it is a gS* good plan to remove from the walla - 'igi everything that can be injured by steam, and then liang sheets wrung lrom not water in the room. The vapor condensing on the walls softens the dirt, and it . $ may be wiped off with woofen cloths % 12 wrung from soda. ;V.' * ,'^a Tree Day in the West The new spring holiday of tho West- vjjJ: em country grows in favor every year. ^ They call it Arbor Day, the word arbor being Latin for tree. Tho boys and girls, however, call it, when they are & talking with one another. Tree Day, which is a better name for it. On that festive occasion every maa, every woman and every child is expected ^ to plant at least one tree. The schools turn out and make a day of it. Colleges and universities have a holiday, of which *| they spend a portion in tree-platfting, J! and another portion in celebrating tho .\r-;i beauty, elory and utility of trees; and ' ^ you may be sure tnat some sonorous siu- .. dent does justice, or gallantly tries to do / justice, to Bryant's "Forest Hymn." . :'-t? It was but natural that this oxguisito^ holiday should have been devisod in the great West, where both wood and woods ; are so much needed?wood for daily use as fuel and timber, and woods for beau- ' X'.-gj ty, protection and tho garnering of the precious moisture upon which fertility depends. it is interesting, as one rides along over tho prairies, to notice how the settlers have striven to extemporize a little show of wood, and to shelter their homes from the steady, strong, unrelenting 7 prairie winds.. Sometimes, however,the trees are of too slight a texture to stand many winters on tho open plain. Nothing answers the purpose except good, solid, hard-wood trees, such as compose the forests of Ohio and Western New v York?oak, beech, hickory, chestnut . . and ash. Another thing surprises the traveler ~ Wuaf tnr tho firat time, and thftt U ; the splendid growth of hard-wood trees ~ in portions of Illinois, and even in newer Iowa, which, within the memory of farmers now living, were naked prairie. There are woods within a hundred miles of Chicago which, after a growth of less than forty years, exhibit much of the luxuriant beauty of the primeval forests in the Eastern States. Such woods show how adapted tho prairie land is to the growth of trees,and _ give tha greatest possible encouragement to tree planting. Arbor Day is now celebrated in many ways, according to the needs of the, re- ; giou in which the celobration is held. In the far West the effort is made to set |3 out the greatest possible numoer 01 trees, for the field is boundless And theMn^fl need urgent. In other places teachers and pupils direct their elTorts chiefly to j?a?!| planting slmde-trees along streets, and country roads, and in public parks.? Youth?a Companion. 4 A Senator's Ruse. Some years ago some Wisconsin lands gwW were advertised for sale under the gen- [yjlt eral law and United States Senator Sawycr, then, as now, a large Wisconsin lnnd holder, took care to post himself thoroughly upon the value of each parcel . put up at auction. When the sale day arrived a party of Eastern capitalists on the lookout for a speculation were on hand to bid. They knew Sawyer, and in every instance they raised his bid. They felt very much elated when they sr.w, or thought they saw, a look of annoyance steal over his placid countenance as section after section was kuockcd down to them. They bought nearly every parcel upon which Sawyer set a price, and went away delighted at ..i,m,,./innca Sfimn vpjira after thev UIUU JU.Vnv..,^. visited Wisconsin and called upon Sawyer. He was delighted to see them, invited them to bis house in Oshkosh, and treated them very hospitably. They were going to look at the lands they had purchased at the sale. Sawyer chuckled as he shook each by the hand, and invited them to call again when they camo back. They have not called to date. The Senator expected to meet sharpers at that sale, and so got a friend to bid on all the best lands for him and secured the good timber lands offered. The Eastern men still hold the titles to half the bogs in Wisconsin.?Minneapolis Tribune. "? Red Pepper and Salt for Cholera. A Massachusetts corresnondent calls our attention to the publication, about thirty years ago, of a very successful cholera cure, introduced in this way; The captain of an emigrant ship, coining from Europe, had lost many of his passengers by cholera, although freely dosine all who were sick with the remedies then usual. At last ho made a proscription of his own?one teaspoonful of red pepper and a tablespoonful of salt to a half pint of boiling water; this to be given as hot as possible, to every pntient whcD first taken. It is said that ttiis simple remedy acted as a charm, curing all the cases on board that ship, and attaining considerable general popularity during the time of that cholera visitation.?ikientijic American.