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ABBEVILLE PRESS AND BANNEfl BY HUGH WILSON. ABBEVILLE, S. C.. WEDNESDAY, JUNE 10, 1885. NO. 50. VOLUME XXIX jj| * MM OF COBA. A Band of Filibusters Land an< Apply the Torch, The Expedition Routed by the Span* s> isli Troop?. Cuba has again been invaded by a filib u tering expedition. Details of the laid are given in the following dispatch from Havana v to the New York Herald: The unexpected announcement of the landI ing of a filibustering expedition on this island 9 has considerablv ex< ited the entire population. B The facts were either unknown or suppressed H until today. The expedition was commanda ed by Limbano Sanchez, a colored man, H who during former insurrections won reputa9 A..* ..l.l. ) 1.. 1 1 T4 nun us mi uuiu niKi i>i uvu leuui-r. it ?ujr posed to have been organized at St. Domingo, from whence the filibusters sailed, landing at Punta Caletas. on the south side of the province of Santiago do Cuba, in the very heart of tlio sugar producing district of Guantanomo. It is useless to say that the planters in the invaded localities already consider themselves completely ruined. Limbano Sanchez, following tlrs inetho Is of his predecessors, has commenced an indiscriminate use of the torch as his most powerful weapon, and destruction follows in the wake of his marches. Several batta ions of government troops immediately started in pimuit, overtaking the filibusters, an t in tho first engagement routed and dispersed them, killing one man. Among the articles captured are several packages of printed proclamations signed by Sanchez and Varona, urging the inhabitants to join the invaders in expelling the Spaniards from Cuba. The expedition is said to number only fom te?n. although at first the filibusters were supposed to be more numerous, it being asserted, and in tho first excitement generally believed, that several hundred men had landed from two large three-masted American schooners seen hovering in tho vicinity. Among the ftrst measures adopted by the governor general was the issuing of a proclamation declaring the entire Province of Santiago do Cuba m a state of siege. The unimportance of the expedition does not justify such extreme measures, and msny believe that in adopting it the governor general had in mind a more important object than the extermination of a handful of adventurers. His first intention was to proclaim martial law throughout the entire island, and your correspondent n informed tint such a decreo was sent to the o.'llcial Gn-.e'te. for publication, but wab sneedily withdrawn upon the judgment of otner prominent and influential persons, who pointed out to General Fajardo the barm which would result thereby to commercial and agricultural interests. "Tho idea of wilfully exaggerating the danger and alarming the populace is attributed to Paj>rdo. His object .is said to be to assist the Madrid government and secure tho approbation by the Cortes, with.mt opposition of the thirty-one million budget recently presented, by depicting tho situation of this island as precarious and exposed to invasion by the lealcrs of the last insurrection, and to unit? the several factions of the conservative party, who, notwithstanding assertions to the contrary by their leading organs, are as divided in Cuba as in Fpain. Be it as it may, this question is a serious one, and may cause ere long unexpected complications of a most conflicting tuai atvvi I am informed that Cimbano Sanchez and bis followers, instead of advocating Cuban independence, proclaimed annexation to the United States. This report must bo cautiously received, as it has no relation whatever with the political antecedents of other expeditions or the present opinions of th; adherents of free Cuba. All the papers here this morning devote considerable space to the details of the exposition. They all Lave editorials on it and say it is sorrowful to see a handful of coura geous men risk their lives in a rash enterprise of this character and willing to meet the fate of Aguero, P.onachea and so many others. One paper says that Cimbano Sanchez will receive no mi r .- assistance in the field than his predecessors, and must necessarily succumb. The conn try is completely ruined and tired of adventurers. As peace is the cbief desire of those threatened by hunger, they will irciiu as truninc* tvu ?uu uisiuru uie juiuiiu ; tranquility, and those parties abroad who contemplate a renewal of the war in Cuba should be convinced of this fact. The country is neither willing nor prepared to assist j revolutionary parties, and invaders of Cutian territory will enter it at tho risk of their lives, and may be certain of encountering an onemv in every inhabitant, A Key West (Fla.) dispatch says: Reports received from Havana of the successful land- ! ing of tho Sanchez exjHKlitioa 011 th? norther)! coast of Cuba created tho wildest excitement in Cuban cirrles throughout this city. The Havana newspapers containing tho ncccnnts were in great demand, whie parson zers w^ro eagerly bereiged for information. Cnban fla.^s which have not been displayed for several weeks w,?ro immediately unfurled. Tho reports were greatly exaggerated and naturally gaino I in-re ts*>d importance by repetition. Theeignr factories have been virtually closed all dnv. About 1 o'clock nn enthusiastic procession fornifd at one of theprincipat factories, and headed by a brass band with horsemen carrying large Cuban mi l American fia^s ja raded through the stre< ts several hours, only aeusiiiig wnen wiiipr-ui'ii oy win r;uii;-iunn. At sundow n the march w a? re.<-umod. and at 10 o'cio k they are srill parading and speechmaking. VICTOR HUGO, Death of ihe Great French AuthorSkctt h of Iiiw liitc. Victor Hugo, the renowned French poet, novelist, dramatist and politician is deadHe died peacefully at his home in Paris, Burrounded by his family and a few life-long friends. His doath was expected, as he had besn sinking steadily for some days. Eulogies on the dead writer wero delivered by members of the French sem:t5 and chamber of deputies, both bodie> adjourned out of respect to his memory, and it was ordered that tho day of his funeral should bo observed as a day of national mourning. Vicomte Victor Mane Hu^o was born at Besancon, February 2">, 1802. His father was a colonel in the French army. The first volume cf his odes and ballais appeared in 1822, and his early tales were written at this time. A second volume of poem*, iu indicated the change in his opinions, and in 1827 ho wroto his drama. "CromwelL" "Last Days of a Condemned Criminal" was published in 1829, and "Hornanl" was produced at Paris in 1830; "Marion de L jrmo." July, 1S30; "Le Roi s'Amuse," January, 1832, immediately interdicted. Victor Hu^o was admitted to the French academy in 1841, and was croated a peer of Franco by Louis Philippe He was made president of the peace congress in 184l>. After Louis Napoleon's accession in 1S52 Hugo remained in exile in the Channel island, an 1 refused the benefits of the amnesty. He went back immediately on the reestablishment of the republic, and was elected to the national assembly from Bordeaux. On March ?, 1871, he "resiguel his seat in an indignant note to M. Grevy. Ha ?went to Brussels, but was expelled from Bel?gium for his writings. After r>. residence in Luxembourg, h> returned to Paris to plead for the condemned Communists, July, 1871. At this time ho wrote numerous political satire3. iiis preat novei, 1*3 jiuriouiw, appeared in 1S62. Since 1S73 ho bas lived in Paris. A CONSUL IN JAIL, A (nllrd States I'eprevoniailve In Brazil Miooiw an Editor. Beckford Mackey, the United States con sul at Rio Grande do Snl, Brazil, shot and wounded the editor of a paper at t hat plac who had assailed him in his sheet and after ward attacked him with uplifted stick at the entrance of a theatre. Mr. Mackay, accompanied by the consul of the German empire, went to a police magistrate and surrendered himself. Amoritn, the editor, whose wounds proved not to he severe, then proceeded at the head of an armed band and demanded that Mr. Mackey should bo surrendered to l>ini. The police were over awed and fled, but Mr. Mackey drew his pistol and kept the mob at bay for a few minutes, when a number of citizens headed by the German consul, arrived an I res ucd him fron\ his as wlw, irn-o n Ivan-iii!? with their knives drawn. He was hell a prisoner, ns the offence is not bailable. All the foreign consuls visited hini in a body, and signed n statement juslitying bis nation, while hundreds of the hading citizens tendered hini their aid, ami the ieadinz lawyer of that province voluntcrod for his defence. Hi* trial will soon lako place. Mr. Mackey is onlv twenty-three years old. He is the son ofJud^e T. J. Mnckf.v, of South Carolina. NEWSY GLEANING The manufacture of broom corn toothpicks b a growing Kansas industry. The price of diamonds has fallen within a few years from $15 to 4^.75 per carat. New Mexico spent last year for liquor $6,485,000; for churches and schools, $45,000. - * -4 II a NKW t/aimncse uicuun&rjr ui mu luiu language, comprises no less than forty volumes. The pearl fisheries of the lower California coast are eairl to have produced $15,000,000 tost year. It is proposed to utilize the Yellowstone park for preservation of the bison, which is now very noarly extinct. The ship State of Maine recently made the distance across the Pacific in twenty days, the fastest time on record. Stormy and cold weather has been general throughout Europe, and much damage to crops and property is reported. A, narpoo.v of the pattern made over forty years ago was taken from a whale caught near Coos Bay, Oregon, recently. Zi'i&S&SZ'wi-l.. .,'2^ ! NEWS SUMMARY Faitrrn and ltflddle fttate*. The extra session of the Nett York legislaJ tiire adjourned aft< r passing a bill providing for the taking :>f a State census. The I same bill bad once before been passed and j vetoed by Governor HilL Right after adjournment the Dein :>cratic members of both houses met and issued a long address denunciatory of their Republican colleagues. Governor Pattison has approved the act ; passed by the Pennsylvania legislature prohibiting the manufacture of imitation butter ' in the State. T..r. t ir?.ijo/ini>opv T?mlinerliuv I i sen, at Newark, \va; attended by Ex-?resij dent Arthur, Govornor Abbett," Ex-Gover; nors MeCIellan, Bedle, Ludlow and Parker, ' and numerous other prominent people. | A yocng German out of work attempted to follow Odium's recent fatal example and i jump from tho Brooklyn bridge; but the would-Lie suicide was caught by a policeman just as ho was about to take the leap. , General Grant's houso in Philadelphia, presented to him after tho war, has just been sold at auction for $-2,o00. | William Sanborn, a fanner of East Con- | | cord, N. H., seventy years old, hanged him- I self. He leaves a widow aged twenty-five,to whom lie was married last September. ) Flkischer, the poor German who was stopped from jumping off tho Brooklyn j bridge, had a wife and eight children, ini eluding a babe a few days old. in destitute ) circumstances. When tho family's condition j beraine known through the newspapers, their i home was filled with groceries and provisions ' 1)}" benevolent Now \ orkers, and money con| tributions to the extent of $510 were raised for them in a few hours. The would-be sui- , cide was released on bail and given work. nnil i Goodwin* Jackson (colored) was hanged j j at Clarendon, Ark., for killing another col: ored man, whose head ho crushed with a , fence rail, and Jasper Rhodes, a mulatto, ! was hanged on tho samo day at Galveston, j j Texas, for wife murder. j Jefferson Rodger?, a worthless fellow | j near Sikeston, Mo., mortally wounded his i I brother, and was himself killed by officers | while resisting arrest. ^ The National Commercial convention at ! Atlanta, by a vote of 'J97 yeas to 107 nays, | adopted a resolution favoring the temporary [ suspension of silver coinage. Tho convention I alsa favored the abolition of the internal ! revenue tax on tobacco, liberal appropriaI tions by Congress for improving the Missis| sippi river, commercial instruction in the i public schools, and extradition treaties which | will reach fugitives from justice in Canada. I A proposition that tho railiwls should bo under national control was tabled. Advices from Tucson, Arizona, state that I Apaches under Chief Geronimo have swept through the San Francisco valley, killing settlers and destroying property. At least eight I white men have been killed. The excursion steamer John Green way, while on her trial trip on Lake Onondaga, 1 exploded her boiler near Geddes, iN. Y. uap- j j tain Kinne, tho owner, was killed ; Antoine ? Kinne, the engineer, was fatally hurt, and 1 I two deck hands were badly scalded- 1 i Senator John Sherman was tendered a 1 I public reception by the business men of San ! | Francisco. I A reporter for a Toledo paper who had r j written an article reflecting on the character i of several of the "best people" of Nonvalk, i ! Ohio, was enticed into a barn by four of the j aforesaid best people, tarred and feathered, , I and so severely injured that he will lose the , sight of both eyes. Two men?Jerry Taylor and Wesley Hicks j ?accused of incendiarism were taken forcibly from jail at Franklin, Ky., by a crowd i and hanged to trees. "Powhattan Pete," a < colored man in prison at Brownsville, Tenn., ] for burglary, met a similar fate on the same day. 1 Washington. j The President ba? appointed Michael M. ] ! Phelan, of Missouri, editor of tfcie Western , ; Watchman, of St. Louis, to be consul-general , i of the United States at Halifax;-B.x-Senator , Edward G. Ross of New Mexico, to be cov- ( ernor of New Mexico; Maris Taylor, of Dakota, to be surveyor-general of Dakota; j Mark W. Sheafe, register of the land office ] j at Watertown, Dakota; D. W. Ware of , ] Missouri, to be the superintendent of I j I the Yellowstone National park: Uni- , I ted States attorneys?Henrv W. McCorry, for the Western district of Tennessee. John E. Garland for Dakota, James H. Hawley for Idaho, and John Cripps Wickliffe for Kentucky. The postmaster-general tha other day I made about one hundred appointments of fourth-class postmasters. Many of them i j were made to fill vacancies caused by the removal of Virginia postmasters. As the result of a conference between the ^ i President and the secretary of war, energetic < ! mmsnrK nrv? boine- taken to c rush tho Apache i outbreak in Arizona and New Mexico and to 1 | prevent Indian outrages in the future. Fed! eral trcops l;avo been irJered to New Mexico j and Arizona. ] I Zach Montgomery, of California, has i | been appointed assistant attorney-general for ( | the interior department. I The President has appointed the following ' I additional postmasters: J. E. Eichboltz, at Sunbury, Fenn.; Jacob Odell, at Youncstown, 1 [ N. Y.; Samuel M. Smead, at Foil du Lac, , { Wis.; John J. Dudley, at Newport, N. H. I Professor Rii.ey, the entomologist of the | agricultural department, anuounces that the Hessian fly has appeared among the wheat fields of the Pacific coast. Heretofore it has been supposed that 1 his pest did not extend beyond the wheat belt east of the Rocky mountains. coreignt A nRASi) review of 14,000 native troops of I Nepaul, India, who have Leon preparing for : active service in tin event of war with Rus[ sia, has just taken place. i The Mohammedans of the Upper Congo j have resolved to assert tbeir claims to tne } centre of Africa, and have revolted. An I army of .'>,000 Mohammedans under Tipu Taib. lired by the reported success of El Mahdi in the" Soudan, are said to be advancing, pillaging the villages, and killing ' their inhabitants. A body of Arabs wore sui-prised by British I troops in the act of tearing up rails of the I new railway in the Soudan, and several hun| dred of them killed. I The late Victor Hugo left *10,000 to the I poor of Paris and ordered that his body , 6bould be conveyed to the grave in a "pauper l hearse,'' without any religious rites. In the | document containing this request Hugo afI firms his belief in God. His body was con veyed to the Arc de Triomphe, Paris, and I laid in state on a catafalque. A fund for a j national monument to the dead poet has j been opened. I After trie bloody collision between the I French communists and the police in the j cemetery of Fere la Chaise, Faris, a body of ! the former made a secoud demonstration. They entered the cemetery with red flags,and were addressed by Henri Rochefort, the com! raunist editor. The government forces had ! been withdrawn. j Advices from Panama state that a des| perate battle, in which many lives were lost, I lias been fought at Carthageno. Insurgents j attacked the citv by land and sea. but were | repulsed. Tho Haytian General Pautrizello | and George Davis, alias Cocobolo, a "West Indian negro, have been hanged for partici! pation in the burning of Aspinwall. Colomj b:'an troops attacked tho barracks at Culobar, massacred the fifty inmates, including two children, and plundered the place. ^Gp.eat destitution prevails among the pec pie oi me uurncu vmugc vi owuiciwu, vun ada. The number of buildings destroyed was 144, and the losses aggregate $301,000. A sevkre shock ot earthquake was felt at Smyrna, Turkey. More than sixty valuable pictures on exhibition at the Royal academy, London, have been defaced and otherwise injured by unknown parties. THE NATIONAL GAME. The Concord (N. H.) club has a deaf mute pitcher. The Female Baseball club was last heard from in Little Rock, Ark. Hugh Daily, the one-armed pitcher, will : play with the Detroit League cluo. The New York nine are the heaviest and tallest in the aggregate of any of the league clubs. The Western American Association clubs J are getting decidedly the better ot the East- j ! era clubs. J. HE OprillgllUlU uuuss.) I'llll), leUU'il 111 lilt) . Southern New England league, is playing re- | markable bull. Boston has the baseball fever bad. No ! fewer than fifty games were played in the ' Hub and vicinity on a ro'-ont Sunday. A. L. Grant, of I^awrence, inter-collegiate ! umpire, bad his collar bono broken by a foul ; tip in the seventh inning of the Dartmouth. ' | Yale gamo at New Haven, but pluckily stood I his ground up to the end of the game, i SC'lENCn has < oino to the aid of baseball | players, an.I announces for the benefit of i batsmen who are ambitious to make henvy ! hits, that tho ball should be struck at the j angle of twenty-threa degrees in order to senrl it to the greatest possible distance. ReI pcatcd experiments in artillery have prove 1 | that a ball lire ! from a cnnnoi at this anglo i wiil carry farther thai if fired at any other I angta with a like charge of powder. Tho record up to recent date is as follows T1IE NATIONAL LUAUl'E. iron. Lout, llo'i. Lo J Chicago 11 4 Providence 8 8 ] Detroit 3 11 St. I.oui* G 9 i New York 13 3 I'hiluilelpaia.... 9 g I Boston 6 9 Buffalo 4 lo AMERICAN ASSOCIATION. Baltimore 11 12 I Athlctic 7 I7 1 St. I.011U 19 6 I l'ilt-ibur^ 16 9 I Cincinniti 1t? ! | I.onisvillc ix is Brooklyn 9 15 | Metropolitan.... 7 EASTERN LEAGUE. National 10 6 | Lancaster fi 8 Virginia .12 1 Noifolk l> 8 Newark 7 5 .Teruey City.. ... 4 10 Trenton 10 4 Wilmington 2 15 SOUTHERN LEAGUE. Atlanta 17 3 I Coinm' ns 10 9 Angusta 10 13 Mac on 12 12 Birmingham... 5 13 | Mo mpbig 9 14 Chattanooga... 8 12 | Nohvllle 7.3 10 : '"'v. v'"V' BURIED IN THE RMS. Fall of a Tenement House in Jersey City. TTilln/3 r%r\r\ Tan 1UUI VilUUlOU JX111UU CbUU xou Persons Injured. The sudden collapso of a frame rookery on Colgat3street, Jersey City, N. J., buried in its ruins six families, numbering in all twentyseven persons. Four of tho irimates were taken out dead, and n number of those who escaped death were badly bruised, and one of them seriously so. Tho house was a three-story structure, built sixteen years ago and owned and partly occupied by James An. ilerson, a baker in the Hudson county peni tentinry. Its foundation, consisting of only a few beams, was laid on the earth. Half a block from that place the trains of the Pennsylvania railroad rattle along a high tre.stlework, and jar all the buildings. The own pants of Anderson's building felt the noif e more than the others, but they had become so used to it that when Hugh*McUurty, TvVir> with liia u-ifn njiil livn f?liilfltvn. orvu pied half of tho third story, jumped out of be.l and found the building rocking, ho paid no attention to it. A moment later he heard a cracking sound, find before he could cry out to alarm his wife and chil Iren the walls parted, and the next thing he rememlteivd was being dragged out from under a mass of timbers, plaster and furniture. Men and women wore climbing over the mass of broken timbers. When he got out ho went to work to extricate his wife and children. who lay near him in tho wreck. At the tune the building fell there were in the street 111 :n a:ul wonien hurrving to work in (he neighboring factories. Those who wore in the vicinity say tho only indication of a :ollapse was" a sudden quivering of tho frame-work. Tho clouds of dust which arose prevented those in the street from knowing it once the cause of the disast?r, but the irics of those pinned beneath the wreck led them to the rescue. An alarm was wrung from the fin box and tho firemen,who were >0011 joined by the police, worked earnestly to ;et out tho injured. Among tho first who eached the place after the building fell was Mrs. Anderson, the wife of the owner. She lad gone out to purchase groceries, and had eft her five children behind her. Sho ran 1. ... i.? i?...? 1171,?? JU'JK. IU imu uet" iiniuu 111 i nun. If won ifter another of Ler children was carried out 3f the debris dead, she became crazed, and he police found it impossible to control lier Word had been tc.ephoned to Mr. An ierson at the pemtentiery on Snake iill, and he reached the place an hour ifter the house liad fallen. He stuinjled rather than jumped out of the Snake aill supply wagon, which carried him down, ind was making his way like a blind man hrough the throng, when his wifo fell upon lis neck. His first question was "Where's nybaby?" "Oh, they're dead! They're all lead!" his wifo cried. Her husband ran land in hand with her to where on the sideivalk, lay the bodies of their tiiree children, rhey had just been dug out of the ruins. The next body taken out was that of Michael Webb, Jr., seventeen years old. His head lad been crushed in by a timber and his skull i^as broken. Ambulances were callod, but ifter the recovery of tlio four bodies referred to no one was found whoso removal to a hos Dital was deemed necessary. The names of the dead are: Mamie Anderson, aged 8 months; Ella Anderson, aged 8 rears; Bernard Anderson, aged 10 years; Stlichael- Webb, Jr., aged 17. The injured inmates who were cared for by neighbors or who went to hospitals are: John Coyne, life insurance agent, aged o9, badly bruised and cut about the head and body; Patrick Coyne, aged 10, injured about the face and scalp; Julia Coyne, agod 9, both inkles broken; Mary Cqyne, aged 12, injured ibout the back and shoulders; Bridget Coyne, aged 33, several ribs broken; Hugh McGurty, a moulder, left side of face badly injured; Mary Ann McGurty, several ribs broken; Maggie Anderson, cut about the head and one leg broken; Julia Carlin, aged 3, bruised about the body; Lizzie Hussey, jgod -Hi, of New York, who was visiting Mrs. Anderson, hurt about the head and body. LATER NEWS Governor Hill has vetoed the census bill passed by the New York legislature in extra iossion. Ho assarts that by adding irrelevant features the legislature has made the bill :learly unconstiutional, and has deliberately md unnecessarily rendered approval of itd legislation impossible. Pathick Prentiss, of Orango, Mass., placed a tumbler on his head and told his son to fire at it with a shotgun. He was obeyed and Patrick fell dead. His son was arrested. Both men had been on a spree. Fifty-five thousand children took part in the annual parado of the Brooklyn Sundayschool scholars. Hexry Herrman's big furniture factory in New York has been destroyed by fire. The loss is about $400,000. A proposition 10 pive women uie rlSn^. to vote at elections for church officers wa voted down at the annual convention of the Episcopal diocese of Illinois, held in Chicago. Crui's in the Northwest aro reported generally in a promising condition. Millions of young grasshoppers have appeared in Colorado. Floods in Texas have destroyed thousand8 of acres of cotton and washed away many houses. A number of people and much stock were drowned. The Kentucky toluicco crop will probably be one of the poorest evor known. Cyclones have done great injury to prop erty in Northeastern Kansas, wrecking railroad depots and demolishing residences. Several persons wero fatally injured. By an accident to the car in which thirteen miners were ascondiug a coal mine twenty miles from Charleston, W. Ya., four were dnshod to death and the remaining nine se. riously injured. The special train carrying the Theodore Thomas Concert troupe and Mmo. Materna to San Francisco was boardod at Coolidge> New Mexico, by a baud of cowboys, who, with drawn revolvers, made the musiciang play and the singer warble. Three young colored men, including exCadet Whittaker, of West Point notoriety, have just been admitted to practice law in South Carolina. Colonel A. Loudon Snowdes, superintendent of the mint in Philadelphia, has for warded his resignation to President Cleve. land, to takeeffect Juno 30. The President lias appointed Edward Campbell, Jr., to bo United States marshal for the southern district of Iowa. The appointment of Mr. Campbell is in place of C. L. Williams, who was originally selected for tho office, but whose commission was with, held in order to allow the President further time to consider fully tho wishes of the residents of the district. Advices from India report that reinforcements of Cabul infantry have arrived at Herat and that more aro going thither from Cuudnhar and Cabul; also that the Afghans are busily repairing tho defences of Herat. Chief Poundmakkk, tho leading ally of Riel in his late rebellion, lias surrendered, together with 240 braves, to General Middleton. The Paris municipal authorities censured the prefect of police and the police officers for their interference with a communistic demonstration at tho cemetery of Pere la Chaise. PROMINENT PEOPLE. General ^volselev, commander of the British forces in tho Soudan, has sailed for England. Baktholdi, the sculptor, will be in New York to soo that tho statue of Liberty is properly rear-vl. _ ? Kev. Al. J. Cramer, D. D., United States minister to Switzerland, lias been called to the chair of systematic theology in Boston university. _ Matthew Arnold pronounces Mrs; Joseph E. McDonald, who oi mo jnuinmiex-oujiawji, the most beautiful woman iu tbo world with a single exception. ' The birthdays of General Grant, Louis Kossuth, tho Hungarian patriot, and Herbert Spencer, the English author, occur on tho 6iune day of tho year. The three men in England who pay taxes on tho highest assessed value of personal property are Giies Ixider, $15,000,000; Richard Thornton, $ I4,00f,000, and Baron Lionel Rothschild, $13,500,000. The university of Notre Dame, Indiana, has a profts^or of anatomy, Dr. Neyron, who was a surgeon under Napoleon and present at "Waterloo. Ho is now ninety-four years old, but retains all his faculties. t With tho recent death at Bamb?rg, Ba n pn?i?0 vana, 01 mo nuruu wimuni'.. ?.. tho famous l'anlus family became extinct, and itscoat-of nrms was solemnly broken and cast into his open gravo upon his coflin lid. The queen of England had eleven children in seventeen years. Her oldest child is the crown princess of Germany and is forty-five years of ago. Tho l'rince of Wales is ono year, to tho month, younger. Attorney-General Garland lives as quietly now as when he was Senator, although ho has brought himself to put on o dross coat on extra occasions. His mothei keeps house for him and cares for his children, anu also entertains guests at the regulai Wednesday reception!. ?rV. . '.I.' ' MY STOUT OLD HEART AND I. i My stout old heart and I are friends, Two bivouac friends togetherl I Nor daily wars, nor daily blows, Have called out our white feather, j We've 'listed till the campaign ends? j For calm or stormy weather. | My stout old heart and I have been I Through serious scenes of trouble, j We've been denied; our hopes have died; ! Our load's been more than double. , And yet we've lived. And wo iiavo seen Some griefs in Lethe bubble. j My stout old heart and I have fought Some bitter fights to ending; ! And if or not we've victory got, i We've not been hurt past mending! The wounds are all in front wo've caught* And easier for the tending. I My stout old heart and I, you see, Wo understand each other. i ?Old comrade true, iny hand to youl On honor, tell mo whether j You're daunted yet? ?"To arms!" beats he, "Ketroat is for another!" I Eyes right! Guide ccntcr! Forward march! Dress where the coloi"s fly! I ?Six foot of ground, or triumph's arch? My stout old heart and I! ?E. Hough, in the Ciorcnt. IN A'JAR. ''The days are shortening," sighed Friend Decker, as he folded upjhis spectacles and replaced them in their tin | case: "or else my sight isn't what it j used to be. Well a-day! one can't cxj pect to be young always. Is it thee. I Leah? I did not look for thee so soon." Leah Decker cnnic into the room like a breezy young whirlwind. She had none of the repose of manner which is at present so much in vogue. Born and i j bred a Quakeress, there was nothing of | the Quakeress about iier, except ncr quaint Scripture name. "Yes, it's me!" 6aid Leah, shortly. "Did thee go to Friend Anastasia's?" ! gently inquired the old man, readjusting | the big pine lojrs, so that they should | burn brighter for Leah's benefit. "Oh, yes, I went there!" "I hope she is better of her rheumatism?" "Yes, she is better. But?but?she will not buy the apples, father, . Mean, stingy old thing!" cried Leah wrathfully flinging her coal scuttle bonnet on the table. "She says she can buy all she wants at fifty cents a barrel of old Jacob Joyce. So she can, perhaps?wretched, gnarly,wormy knots, not fit for the pigs! Ours are apples! She says thee asks an exorbitant price." Friend Decker slowly shook his head. "Friend Anastasia is under a misaprvroVionninn "qnid lift "Kltrhtv Cfintfl ft K.v?v-w.w?, 0~V ? | barrel is what they are paying at the | cider-mill. Only one docs not like to see : such beautiful, rare-colored fruit ground up into baleful spirits to set men's brains on fire." 'Much she would stop to think about! that!" said Leah, still ruffled. "I am sorry," sa d Friend Dccker, mildly. "I need the money much;.and I think she would have been better satisfied^with my apples than with Friend Jacob Joyce's." "And after all that," flashed out Leah, i the spirit of indignation still rife within j her, "she had the impudence to ask me for a jar of that plum-sauce I made. She says Friend Mary More told her how nice it was, and?" "And," quietly inlcrposcd her father, | "thee said, I hope, that thee would be j glad to oblige her?" "No, I didn't," bluntly answered Leah. "I said that I gathered the wild plums myself in the Crook Y/oods, and cooked them after Aunt Mahala's recipe; and that there were four jars, and that 11 wanted to keep them for thee; especially ; since thy health had failed and thy appetite was so variable." "I am sorry, dear," said Friend Decker. "Friend Anastasia is very old, and j old people are apt to be fanciful about j trifles. Moreover, she's our kinswoman, j a degree or so removed, perhaps, but?" j "Then why don't she do something ! ! tta 'J nit^ T nnli ''hocirlo rrir. I | iui UO) uaouvu vuv xivuii) fe* " ing us good advice, and tormenting us with her fault-finding? I didn't mean to mention it, father, but she told tne outand-out that she had adopted Moses Sawyer, and meant to make him her I heir." "Well, daughter, why should she not?" composedly questioned the old j man. "Because he is no relation to her at; l all," cried Leah; "and the property all I came from our great-grandfather Lennox, ! thee knows." "Thee attaches too much importance to mere dross, Leah," said Friend Deck: cr. 'Thee must study the text of the I lilies of the field in the Bible. 'We shall j all be provided for, if only wc can have patience to wait.'" Leah bit her full, red under-lip, as she gianced around at the sparsely-furnished room, and noted her father's drooping! figure, and rapidly-whitening head, but she made no reply, as she took up the coarse pile of vests on which she had been working button-holes for a neighboring clothing-contractor. "Father's a faint," thought she, "but I am not, and I'm afraid I never shall be. I should like to cud Anastasia Akerly's ears. If every one had their ; riirli**. half of that big Lennox farm I would be ours. She gained possession ! of it by the merest legal quibble; and if! j father was like any one else, he would , ; have gone to law about it long ago, and i I got back his own. And now to see it : willed deliberutelv to some one else!'1 I Aud Leah's needle flew vindictively in ; i end out of the cloth, like a miniature ! javelin piercing the heart of some unseen enemy. But the next mornlnjj, when Leah had gone to carry her bundle of vests home ' and get another batch of work, Friend j Decker put on his hat and buttoned the great coat which was getting so worn atj the elbows and shiny at the seams. "It is a bright, clear morning, albeit a ' , trifle frosty," said he. "I think. I may walk as far as the Lennox farm without aggravating mjr iuu?u. And under his arm he carried a neat j i parcel. i Old Anastasia Akcrly was winding! ' blue yarn before her tire when he came 1 in. She greeted him not without a! : shadow of suspicion. J Had he come like a spy into the ene- I iiiv's quarters? "I hope thee is well, Friend Anastasia," said ho. "I have brought thee a ; jar of my daughter's wild-plum sauce. Perhaps it may tempt thy appetite." Anastasia Akerly colored. "It ain't of no consequence." said she. . i "I dunuo a* I care so much about sweet ! things. Only there used to grow wild( plum brush on the hills at home, and I mother used to boil the plums with moj lasses. They was drctful sour, but there j was a flavor about 'em I hain't never t'S'ed since. And when Mary More told | how good Leah's was, I kiudo' uotioned ! I should like a taste of 'cm. But Leah said she hadn't none to spare." "Leah was mistaken," said Friend Deckcr, "In our house there is always i something to spare for an old friend like j thee!" Anastasia's yellow, old face was oddly mottled with crimson for a moment. "I didn't know th.it you looked on me as a friend!" said she, sharply. "Thee ought to have been certain of I i\.n L11UL. "There was ugly things said about the way the Lennox property was managed," said Miss Akerlv. "Nothing was said by inc, Friend Anastasia."' observed the Quaker. "And j as far as in mc lies, I am anxious to be 1 j at pcncc with all the world." 1 "Humph!" snid the old woman. j "Well, there ain't no use makin' up to . j me. My will was drawed up long ago; i nd Moses Sawyer is my heir." | "Thee is welcome to do as thee likes I with thy own," said Friend Decker, caWt'y, setting down the jar of wild1 plum preserves, and glancing wistfully | toward the cushioned arm chair by the i ; fire, for his iimbs were enfeebled by age, and he had walked a considerable disi tance. i But Miss Akerly did not. ask him to ; ' sit down and rc3t, so he took a fresh grip ; i of his knotty cane, and started on the p nomeward tramp, with a genial "tioodI morning to thee, Friend Anastasia!" to which the old lady only responded with 1 an inarticulate grunt. But when he was out of sight, she un- . screwed the lid of the jar. and, with an old silver spoon, worn thin by long usage, she tasted the tart sweetness of its contents. "Jest exactly like thein mother used to boil down with molasses when I was a gal," said she. <4I could'most fancy ^ I was a gal ag'in in wild-plum time, acuttin' across the lots with my sun-bon- , net hitched on by one string, and the red , J Will TOo 11 ? UOIT U'CUpUMU Ut mj uugia. ii?it *>? *? it ffon't seem like I was close on seventy , year old 1" Miss Anastasia had some of the wild- , plum sauce with her scanty dinner. It , gave it a relish. She ate some more, ^ with bread and cheese for her tea. "I never did taste nothin' that went to the right spot like them wild-plums," , said she. ' 'It ain't that they're relishin'; ( it is because they make one feel like I ( was % eal ag'iu out in "Wisconsin, with , the sassafras leaves turnin' yaller, and < the wind blowin' in my face." j Leah did not know, until a neighbor's ( rfcild brought back the iar neatly , wrapped in nn old newspaper, what a J treat she had unwittingly afforded her neighbor. "What is it, "Willie?" she said to the boy. "It's the jar that had wild-plum eass in it," said Willie; "and Miss Akerly 6he says she's much obliged?and she give me a ginger cookey fur bringing it back, she did." "Father," said Leah, turning reproachfully to the old man, "this is thy doings I Thee is ahvays thinking of 6omc one else." "It has done me more good than if I had eaten it myself. Leah," said Friend Decker, apologetically. Leah ran to mm ana gave mm a uug. "Thee is an old darling, father," saia she, "and thee makes me ashamed of my ! own temper, sometimes." And she put the jar on the top shelf oi ' the little pantry, and never thought any- ' thing more of it until one day, when she ! wanted a jar to put some stewed cran- 1 berries in. She was in a hurry, for Miss Anastasia Akerly was to be buried that afternoon. ; She had died as strangely as Bhe had lived?sitting alone before her fire?and ] this was tho day appointed for her l'uncral. ! Friend Decker had expressed a desire ] to attend the obsequies of tho kins- 1 woman who had been so little to him, 1 and Leah was hurrying through hei ' work, so that she might brush his well- . worn suit and take a much-needed stitch \ or two in his coarse worsted gloves. As she tore off the newspaper wrap- ( pings, she stopped suddenly. *\r uiuer, one, nuc io ? of thick, yellowish paper rolled up and ! put inside this jar that came from Friend 1 Anastasia's! "What does thee suppose it 1 is? Father, father, it is a will!" She ran eagerly with it to Friend j Decker. He looked dubiously at the 1 outside. "Thee is right, Leah," said he. ' "Friend Anastasia's heart has softened ' toward us. This is doubt'ess the will she meutionpd?the will in favor of Moses Sawyer. She has sent it to us to ' destroy. Nay, daughter?nay," as Leah j eagerly caught it up and hastened to" ward the fire, "give it to me. It is not ' for us to make or meddle. If Friend 1 Anastasia wished the will destroyed she ' should have done it herself. I shall ] take it back to Friend Johnson, the executor." j "Father," cried Leah, "thee never would give back the will?" ( "Does thee think it would be a right 1 and honorable thing to destroy it, 1 Leah?" ' "If she wanted us to do so, father?" "Hut wa no ritrht to r>resume anv- 1 ^uv "v 4*1" w " "O i * thing of tho sort, daughter," reasoned ' Friend Deckcr. buttoning it up undei 1 his coat. "Nay, nay! do not fret." Foi ' Leah, overcome by the sudden blaze of ! hope, the after blackness of despair, had : burst into a flood of tears. "It will be 1 well with us?never fear." ! Judge Johnson, tho great man of the neighborhood, received the paper with 1 some surprise. "December the flth," he read. "Hum ?ha! this is the latest document she has executed. Oh, yes, I remember it very ( well! I drew it up myself. But why ' did you bring it here, Friend Docker?" ] The old man briefly explained the circumstiinces. "Old people are apt to be capricious," 1 said he. "Doubtless the trifling matter ! of the plum-sauce pleased her. and she ' sought to reward us. I3ut I should ! never tako bnse advantage of Friend J Moses by burning the will." "But why in the name of common ' sense should you burn it?" said Judge j Johnson. "Arc you in the habit of hav- ' ing estates left to you every day, that you dispose of them so readily?'' "I don't think that I quite understand ] thee, Friend Johnsou," said Decker. But Leah's facc brightened like a rose. 1 "I see! I seel" she cried. "Father, J Friend Anastasia has done right, late though it be. She has willed the Len- j nox farm to thee!" And Leah spoke truly. The dead 1 woman had wrought a tardy reparation 1 in her last days, and Friend Decker and 1 his daughter had at last legal possession 1 of what should lone ago have been their own. No amount of reasoning or remon- 1 strnnce had availed with Miss Akerly, 1 but one of those sudden touches ""striking the electric chain wherewith we're 1 darkly bound," which sway the soul \ with disproportionate force, had induced her to perform an act of justice at last. 1 And the jar of wild plums, with its train of associations, had been the most eloquent special 2'lcading of all!?Helen Forrest Orates. Attractive Advertising. Nothing can be truer than tho fact ( that the most successful merchants are ( those who advertise to the best advantage. It is not always the man who spends the most money in advertising that secures the greatest returns, but he who, having an article that people want, makes the fact known to them in a business like way. It is conecdcdjby men who have made the deepest study of advertising that the most direct and effectual ay of reaching the public is through the press. An advertisement inserted in a periodical paper, be it a daily, weekly, monthly or semi-annual, is seen and read by more people than in all the thousand and one other forms of advertising combined. It is then of the utmost importance that the display lines in a paper be made as pleasing and attractive as possible, and that there should be some degree of harmony between the article offered for sale and tho type used to call attention to it. In no country throughout the world do publishers go to the I same trouble and expense in making 1 their advertising pages attractive as they J do in the United States, where every lino i of type or every illustration that can catch the public eye is freely used. In England the advertising pages of the daily papers are as bare of artistic effect as the white paper they are printed on. ?Printera' Register. Large Profits on Small Farms, It IS WCU Known tuut MllUii iaiuio I J plentiful in Los Angeles county and are ] j becoming more numerous every day, j 1 Farmers who have been accustomed to i attend to large ranches have not generally sufficient money to carry them on ! with profit in raising vegetables, cattle, i trees and hogs. But the small farmer, : who is taking all the way from ten to forty ncres, as he wishes, and according , | to his ideas of raising early produce for j i the markets, is winning success. Most J ' those farmers usually pay cash for their i lands and residences; but if not entirely ; j paid for the interest is very low on these j x ^ ? o?r*rrlo rrnn nf I j investments, uuu ? d,"b r , 1 deciduous or other fruits, or a crop of, j vegetables, will about pay the balance ; ' flue. All that is needed is experience ; t and energy in getting out good crops at: ; the proper season, and the planting sea son lasts all the ye<ir for these little suc! ccssful farmers. Some of these farmers make all the way from S700 to over $1,000 per acrc yearly from a varied crop of vegetables, which is the best crop known in our opulent county. ~-Los Ansjeles (Cal.) Herald. There is a sycamore tree in Green county, lnd., that measures forty-seven feet and four inches in circumference. rALMAGE ON AMUSEMENTS. BOW TO BZSOBIMZVATE BETWEZST GOOD AND BAD. Danger of Ovcr-lndnl?ence?People Who Seem to Have Been Built bjContract? Imaginative Picture*. Rev. T. DeWitt Talmagc preached at the Brooklyn tabernacle on "How shall wc discriminate in regard to operas, theltricals, billiards and all amusements, [jood and bad?" Tlifi text selected was the twentv-fifth eerse of the sixteenth chapter of Judges: "And it came to pass when their hearts were merry that they said, 'Call for Samson that he may mnkc us sport.' And they called for Samson out of the prison house and ho mado them sport." Mr. Talmage said there were amusements that were destructive and brought 3own disaster and death upon the heads 5f those who practiced them. The three thousand persons who died that day in 3aza were as nothing compared with the tens of thousands who had been destroyed, body, mind and soul by bad amusements and good amusements carried to 3XCCSS. lie had no sympathy with ecclesiasti:al straight jackets or with that wholcjalc denunciation of amusement to which many were pledged. The church of God aad made a tremendous mistake in trying to suppress the sportfulness of youth. ? ?1_ . i? j u:i mere were some persons wuu umuu uuiiards, they despised charades, they abhorred tableaux. They said "away with ill parlor games." They looked as if they would like to have our youth i Pressed in blue uniform like the children 3f an orphan asylum, to march down thn pnth of life to the tune of the "Dead ' March" in "Saul." The Young Men's Christian associations of the country were doing a glo- J -ious work. They had influences of the . jest kind, and now they were edding . gymnasiums and bowling alleys, where, : ipart from evil surroundings, our young ( nen might get physical as well as spiritual improvement. Students spent seven years preparing ; Tor the ministry, and they came out with jronclntis, dyspepsia and liver complaint, rhcy crawled up into the pulpit and the seople said, "Don't he look heavenly!" because he looked sickly. Who was this alack angel called religion? Our religon was a bright angel. Taking her 1 ?lace in the soul, she pulled a rope that . -eached to the skies, and set all the bells ! >f heaven a-chiming. Amusements might be judged by their . lealthful results or their baleful reaction. , There were people who were a sort of :ombination of multiplication tables and . statistics. They seemed as if nature had juilt them by contract and hnd made i bungling job of it. Persons of an exu- ! jerant nature would do well to look at the i eaction of their amusements. If an ( amusement sent a person home at night icrvous so that he could not sleep, and ' le arose in the morning, not because he svas slept out, but because his duty Iragged him fronj his slumbers, he had been where he should not have been. If an amusement sent any one home longing for a life of romance and thrilling adventure, love that takes poison or ihoots itself, midnight adventures and i aairbreadth cscnpes, ttiat person lmgm i iepend upon it ho was a sacrificed victim to unsonctiticd pleasure. If our recreations pulled us down as to our moral or physical strength, they were obnoxious. Those amusements were wrong that led i man into expenditure beyond his means. The table has been robbed to pay the :lub, the children's wardrobe had been cheated and the table cloth of the corner ; saloon was in debt to the wife's faded ; 3ress. Ladies whose lifetime business it was to "go shopping" had their counterparts in uneducated children and bantcruptcies that shocked the money market md appalled the church; had theirs in drunkenness staggering across the richly- ; Sgured carpet of the mansion, dashing into the mirror, and drowning the carol of music with the whooping of sons come home to break their mothers'hearte. When men went into amusements that they could not afford, they first borrowed what they could not earn, aud then stole what they could not borrow. Mr. Talmage then pictured the career af a youth who had indulged in unrestrained amusements. "What is this? Oh, this reckless young man has been killed in a grogshop fight. Carry him homo to his father's house. Parents will come down and wash bis wounds ana close his eyes in death. They forgive hira all lie ever did. The prodigal has gone homo at last. Mother will gc to her little garden and cut her choicest i flowers and twist them into a chaplet for the silent heart of a wayward boy, and push back from the bloated brow the long locks that were once her pride." Amusements might bo judged by their elTect upon physical health. Pcoplo needed physical recuperation. There , were some who thought it a good sign to be poorly. God would hold every one responsible for their invalidism if it was their own fault. Physical development which showed itself in fabulous lifting, in perilous rope walking or in pugilistic encounters excited only contempt, but he confessed to a great admiration for the man who had a great soul in an athletic body. Amusements should also bo judged by the companionship they afforded. Any imusemcnt that gave a distaste for domestic life was bad. Every man had a good and a bad ungel. To follow the leadership of the one meant a Christian resurrection. To be taken in by the allurements and temptations of the other meant damnation. The Princes of Wales. In alluding to a few incidents in the lives of the princes of Wales, it may be interesting to note, respecting the birth of the first one, that, "when the messenger arrived at Khudlan castle, where King Edward I. was residing on political business, and announced to him that his queen had given birth to a bov on the preceding day. the 25th of April, 1284, at Carnarvon, Edward in his joy, made a knight of the messenger, stuffed his pouches with gold pieces, and gave him house and lands to enable him to support his dignity becomingly!" Then follows the story, which every schoolboy and girl kuows, of the baby's presentation to (he Welsh chieftains, who vowed allegiance to him and accepted him as their prince. Some historians assert this to have been the occasion upon which Edward was created prince of; Wales. On the other hand, it is stated that "the original letters patent by which he was raised to the dignity of Prince of Wales" bear the date of 1301. Be that ns it may, Speed says, "his creation so contented the Welsh, because of his birthplace, they held him as oue of nil Simula nftorurnrrl lliuir?, Lllilt ? UCU au UIVUUJ Uiiv. ? forsake him, they always stuck most loyally unto him, expressing wonderful love and affection, and bewailing his heavy fortunes in woeful songs, which neither the dread of his enemies nor length of time could ever make them forget." "Heavy fortunes" indeed! for the first English I'rince of Wales was the first of our kings to be deposed and murdered. Although Edward III. is generully considered the second prince of the illustrious line, he was never created such, but he invested his son, Edward the black prince, with the principality in 13-13; after whom came llichard of Bordeaux, making the third of the house of Plantagenct. Two Lancastrians followed, viz., Henry of Monmouth and his grandson Edward of Westminster, tllenry VI. being but a few months old at. the death of his father never received the title.) Then two Yorkists, Edward of the Sanctuary and Edward of Middlcham, after whom two of the houso of Tudor, Arthur of Winchester and Henry of Greenwich. Of the unlucky line of Stuarts three have borne th2 title?Henry of Sterling. Charles of Dumfermline and Charles of St. .Tames. Next came the house of T1--"""- lmvA hpnn four IlUUUVtl, Vi muvu vmv.v w ?George Augustus, Frederick Louis, George William Frederick and George Augustus Frederick, the latter being uncle to Queen Victoria.?London Society. In the leading capitals of Europe it is becoming quite the thing to have baths sunk in the floor, with several steps leading do\rrv to them, iu the Pompeiian fashion. The Great Bore of the Amazoa? Mr. John C. Branner, formerly ?f tha imperial geological commission of Brazil, has published a paper on the j<ororoca, or bore, of tho Amazon, a manifestation of force peculiar to the northern division of tho month of the great river, of which the inhabitants of the adjacent country stand in extreme terror. It was not his privilege to witness an exhibition of the -phenomenon, although he \ much wished to do so, while the people j with whom he was staying desired that | he or any one else should not, but he i observed its effects and had tho sccne de- | scribed to him. Tho most impressive manifestations of the force of the wave are near the mouth of the Araraugua nycr. An eye witness of one of the appearances of the pororoca, at that place, one of a party of soldiers, related that "shortly after the tide had stopped running out they saw something coming toward them from the ocean in a long white line, which grew bigger and whiter as it approached. Then there was a sound like the rumbling of distant thunder, which grew louder and londer as the white line came nearer, until it seemed as if the whole ocean had risen up, and wns coming charging and thundering down upon them, boiling over the edge of this pile of water like an endless cataract, from four to seven metres high, that spread across tho whole eastern horizon. This was the pororoca! When they saw it coming the crew became utterly do moralized, and fell to crying and praying in the bottom of the boat expecting that it would certainly be dashed to nieces, and they themselves be drowned. The pilot, however, had the presence of mind to heave an anchor before the wall of water struck them; and, when it did 3trike, they were pitched violently forward and then lifted, and left rolling and tossing like a cork on the foaming sea it left behind, the boat nearly filled with water. But their trouble waa not yet ended; for, before they had emptied the boat, two other such seas camo down on them at short intervals, tossing them about in the same manner, and finally leaving them within a stone's throw ot the river bank, when another such wave would have dashed them on the shore. They had been anchored near the middle of the stream before the waves struck them, and the stream at this place is several miles wide." The si<?ns of the devastation wrought upon the land by this gigantic wave are very impressive. Great trees, dense tropical foroats. "unrooted, torn and swept away like chaff"?the most powerful roots of the largest tree cannot withstand its rush; the destruction of the banks for some distance inland; and the formation of Dew land in places are among the signs of its ravages. The pororoca is an accompaniment of the spring tides, and is due to the resistance offered to the tidal waves by the sand bars and narrow channels which they have to meet. Its effects are most marked in the northern channels of the mouth of the Amazon, while little is known of it in the southem channels. ?Popular Science Monthly. The Appomattox Surrender. Brigadier General M. R. Morgan, after j reading the resolutions of Colonel | Charles Marshall, chief of General Lee's 1 Btalf of the surrender at Appomattox, I writes: I was present, as an officer of General , Grant's staft, at the meeting at which the I terms of surrender were agreed upon, and I find Colonel Marshall's account the most accurate I have yet seen published. General Grant was dressed, as to uniform, as he had been for months past. He was Rccoinpanied by the members of his staff, all of whom were introduced to Geueral Lee by General Seth Williams, who had been Lee's adjutant when the latter was superintendent of the military academy at "West Point. The members of General Grant's staff remained in the room after having been introduced. In the course of the proceedings General r f-fonf tn Vijiva Vila LUU usacu uvu^/iui vimuv iv v ?. army fed, and the latter turned to me (his chief commissary) and instructed mo to feed General Lee's army in the manner related in the accompanying copy of a letter written by me April 25, 1879, to General Badeau: Headquarters Dept. of Dakota, ) Office Chief Coil of Subsistence, > St. Paul, Minn., April 25, 1879 J Dear Badeau: Your favor of April 7 was received yesterday. I remember the matter you allude to in your letter very well. After the terms for the surrender of Lee's army had been arranged (April 9, 1S65) General Lee asked Geueral Grant to have rations issufd to his army. General Grant, turning to me, snid: "Colonel, food General Leo's army." i asked: "How many men have they?" Gen9rnl Grant repeated my question, addressing General Leo. General Lee went into an exolanation to show why he could not toll tho number of his mea Ho said: "I have not a complete organization in my army. * * * Many companies are commanded by no? commissioned officers. The books are lost" When ho got thus far I said, suggestively: " Hay 25,Ow) men." General Leo said: " Yes. 25,000." I went from the room at once, ana meeting Colonel M. P. Small, chief commissary of General Ord's army, asked him if hs could spare throe days' rations (I think it was three days') of beef," salt aud bread for tha army of Northern Virginia, numbering 35,000 men. He said: "I guess I can." I waa not at all certain that he could do it, because we had been having some lively marching, and I doubted if the prevision trains and hera were up with the troops. But Small was equal to the emergency, and I told him to issue the rations. You remember we started back to City Point the afternoon of the next day, April 10, and I did not take much more interest in the number of men constituting the army of Northern Virginia I have since learned that the number of men of that army paroled at that time, officers and men, was 26,115, divided as follows: Cavalry corps, officers, 213, men 1,501; artillery corps, officers, 237, mon 2,797: Longstreet's corps, officers, 1,527, men 13,333; Gordon's corps, officers 674, men 5,833; totals, officers 2j051, men 23,464. You may be sure that this is correct. You may remember that Fitz Lee went off with his cavalry, and that Genoral Lee sent out after him to come in and surrender. He came in, I think, after we left. I remember you very well and pleasantly. Nests of the Bower Birds. In an article on "Bird Architecture,'' a writer in the New York Evening Post says: The bower birds are, perhaps, more remarkable than any other, in the exercise of purely abstract taste, if we may so express it. The beautiful Regent bird in the museum collection represents this group, and the "Museum Popular Guide to .Birds" has a picture of the "bower" and "garden" that these birds construct. One species pulls down tall grasses in a spot selected for the purpose, and forms a kind of tunnel by securing the ends to the earth, or to roots of other grasses. Ilcre the birds deposit bits of bone, shells, and any bright objects which they can carry. Heaps of these objects, amounting in bulk to half a bushel, are known to be collected in one bower. All this is wholly independent of their breeding places. Their j nests are built at some other place. The j garden bird, one of this group, con- j striicts such a wonderful work that no ..1,1 A\M\or*tnr1 tr? prprlik it wnro UIJU WUUIU VA^/Wkv^ it not vouched for by competent and trustworthy observers. The lamented Dr. j Brewer, the distinguished ornithologist, says: "TheirachievementsAvould wellde- j serve to be treated as improbable fabrics j were not their correctness attested by i the evidence of many witnesses whose j veracity is beyond suspicion,and did not ! museums not only contain examples of ) these architectural achievements, but also large accumulations of the colored i leaves and flowers, the bright feathers, } the polished agates and jaspers, cockle | shells, brilliant red and blue feathers, ; colored seed pods, bleached bones oi 6mall animals, etc., that accompany : them." Mr. Gould, author of "Birds in Australia," and other works, has given ! valuable information concerning these 1 remarkable birds and their works, from personal observation. Dr. Brewer says: "To removo all doubt, and to silencc all j possible incredulity,it may be added that I birds of this species?the satin bowet birds?confined in the zoological gardens in London, have been actually known to i construct their bowers, to decorate tnem, | and to keep them in repair for several years. Both sexes were observed to assist in their erection, but the malo was ' the principal worker." One of the cases reported at a recent! meeting of the Charity Organization so- | cicty of Washington was that of a pro- I fessional beggar who has two dresses?a begging dress and a society dress. Iler j name appeared in the society columns of j a city paper as receiving guests during i the inauguration, and she was found to j be living handsomely out of alms. SEEECT SIPTINGS. There are about 10,000 one'-lcgged men ia the United States. Twenty-five years complete the round of a well-cared for canary's career, The entire coast line of the globe, so far as known, is about 110,500 miles. The faculty or sense of equilibrium is thought to be in the deep part of the hearing apparatus. It is said that a large proportion of deaf persons are insusceptible of being made dizzy and do not become seasick. The nine worthies, originally comprising Joshua, David, Judas, Maccabaeus, Hector, Alexander, Julius Caesar. Arthur, Charlemasne aud Godfrey of Bouillon, appear from a very early period to have been introduced occasionally into English shows and pageants. The abolition of slavery in Scandinavia in the early centuries is unquestionably to the effect of the Christian religion. One of the first Christian kings of Norway, Knut the Holy, at the end of the eleventh century, publicly proclaimed that slavery should bo abolished. Wheat, now the most important cereal crop cultivated in all parts of the world, and one of the principal articles of human food, was derived from a wild form of grass, and can only be improved and maintained by careful culture. Although widely disseminated it is nowhere found growing wild. Colored people are more successfully photographed, as a rule, than white people are, says an experienced photographer, the medium mulatto making the finest photograph in the world. Light complexions are hardest to take, aud light"fllnrnil rlnthinnr dnnq not, look WftlT in pictures. In taking pictures of animals the instantaneous process is best. Cats are the best sitters. The giraffe has perhaps the most atastonishing mimicry of all animals. Its jjreat size, which enables it to subsist on i lofty tree boughs in its native African forests, makes it also a most conspicuous object to its enemies, of which the most dreaded are the lion and man. Such Is its mimicry, however, that the I most practiced eye has failed to distinguish the giraffe from one of tho dead i and blasted trees which abound in the i haunts of this animal. Reliable evidence 1 assures us that lions have been known I to gaze long and earnestly at a motion- i less giraffe, and, being unable to decide < that it was not a tree, to turn and skubc i away. I Married Peopled Would ha Happier. ] If home trials were never told to a 1 neighbor. ] If they kissed and made up after every quarrel. I If household expenses were propor- : tioned to receipts. If they tried to be as agreeable as in : courtship days. If each would try to be a support and } comfort to the other. If each remembered the other was a I human being, not an angel. i If women were as kind to their hus- I bands as they were to their lovers. j If fuel and provisions were laid in during the high tide of summer work. i If both parties remembered that they I married for worse as well as for better. i If men were as thoughtful for their I wives as they were for their sweethearts. I If there were fewer silks and velvet ! street costumes and more plain, tidy i house dresses. I If there were fewer " please darlings" i in public and more common manners in i private. Tf masculine bills for fancv Havanas and feminine ditto for rare laco were turned into the general fund until such I times as they could be incurred without risk. If wives and husbands would take I some pleasure as they go along, and | not degenerate into mere toiling machines. Recreation is necessary to keep the heart in its place, and to get along J without it is a great mistake. If men would remember that a woman i cannot be always smiling who has to i cook dinner, answer tho door baii half a | dozen times, and get rid of a neighbor | who has dropped in,tend to a sick baby, i tie up the cut finger of a two*yeAr-old, ! gather up the playthings of a four-year- | old, tie up the head of n fix year-old on i skates, and get an eight-year-old ready i for school, to say noirung 01 sweeping, cleaning, dusting, etc. A woman with I all this to contend with may claim it as I a privilege to look and feel a little tired I sometimes, and a word of sympathy i would not be too much to expect from ' the man who. during the honeymoon, I would not let her carry as much as a i sunshade.?Saturday Evening Mail. t India's Millitary Strength. ' The strength of India in war time is at , present a subject of much interest and attention. There are now in the Indian , peninsula about 60,000 British and 140,000 native troops. These comprise the , usual standing army. But in addition to these forces the Maharajahs or native 1 princcs maintain largo armies that could ' be made available in an emergency. The ! three great Mahratta states of Gwalior, Indore and Baroda can turn out 59,000 j infantry and cavalry and 116 guns. At least one-half of this force of 60,000 men 1J ?~:i? anapa/1 fnr ft W/lf with C0U1U vusujr uo opotvu .V. _ Russia. Then there are ninety-three 1 Hindoo States possessing 188,000 in- 1 fantry and cavalry and 3,096 guns, one- \ half of which would be immediately ; available. The state of Cashmere alone has 27,000 troops and 1G0 guns, while the twentytwo Mohammedan states, possessing 74,700 troops and 865 guns, would no , doubt be largely utilized against Russion aggression. Then there are 3,048 European volunteers in Bengal, 1,100 in the Panjaub, 3,500 in Bombay, , and 1,340 in Madras, who would relieve the British garrisons of a considerable portion of their duty, so that the greater portion of them could be spared for the frontier. The Afghans have an army of 60,000 which, in the event of war, it is I said, could be raised to 200,000. Taking ! all together?the Afghans 200,000, Cash! mere 27,000, theMahratta States 30,000, j the Hindoo States 90,000, the Moliara| medan States 40,000, and the British | troops 50,000 out of the standing army, : we have a grand total of 437,000. If Nepant joined there would be probably 150,000 more, bringing up u total of j 487,000 men. These troops could be j thrown on the Afghan frontier from the i furthest point of India in little more than a week. The military system of l railways in India enables the government I to concentrate the troops from all parts in the shortest space of time. The science of railway strategy has been brought to a greater degree of perfection there than in any other country.?New York World. Raiding' Millions From the Sea. ; John J. Boyle, general manager of the Vigo Bay Treasure company, sailed re- J ceutly from Philadelphia lor Liverpool. From Liverpool, says the Time*, he or go direct to Vigo bay and resume active operations to raise the sunken treasure which has lain buried beneath the waters of the bay since 1702. Vigo bay is a ] deep indentation of the Spanish coast, wherein 1762 fourteen galleons loaded with doubloons were sunk to avoid cap- ' ture by the combined attack of the Dutch-English fleet. Millions of wealth ' are supposed to remain in the holds of these sunken vessels. Repeated attempts liavo been made to recover this treasure, but all have signally failed. The Vigo 1 Hay company has a contract with the Spanish government to attempt to recover it, one-fourth of the proceeds to belon-. to the government. Mr. Boyle visited 1 the locality last year and returned with such cheerful accounts of the chances for raising the galleons that money has been raised to make this new attempt. There are three friendships which art advantageous, and three which are injurious. Friendship with the upright, friendship with the sincere, and friendship with the man of much information ?these are advantageous. Friendship with the man of specious airs, friendship with the insinuatingly soft, friendship with the glib-tongued?these are in jurious. An athlete advises stair-climbers not to hurry nor to spring from stair to stair. They should step firmly, leisurely anu 1- ? - JkCClJ vlvUVi | GAMBLING IN CHINATOWN. i Sa HOW IT IS CAB8XBD OV XV **W TOSKS CKXV23Z QUASTEX9. Heavy Celestial Play In Ihe Deal- :^ jJIethod? of Chinese Gambling D?" scribed by a Chinaman. ' Jag Wong Chin Foo, the Chinese reporter, >5 says in the New York World: Mott ' street, from Chatham square to Park street on the south side and to Pell upon. :; v?| the north, is one long Jist of gambling hells into which laundrvmcn. sailors. cigar makers and sight seers are hourly "$% inveigled and often times robbed. In one brief block no less than twenty-two p.: gambling dens are in full blast under the . very eyes of the police. In front of each place an almond eyed steererand - vj a pig tailed capper aland to-lure in citi- .Jftg zens from all the Oriental lands. For . ^ John Chinnman is but one of the victim* of these dens. An hour's circuit among / them will show the visitor Japanese, Ma- ".?? niilans, Hindoostanese, Maoris, Hawaiians, and even members of our own race. The vast commerce of our port brings fa daily hundreds of seamen and passengers : from these Eastern lands, and theseaerve as prey for the gamblers ofMott street^,;;/^ The dens begin at No. 4 on the north * side and end at 18; at No. 5 on the south side and end at 21. Each is backed byfrom two to ten persons, and employs v-, from one to five ropers-in. Altogether the industry supports about two hundred and thirty chevaliers d'industre, and enriches at least twenty-five capitalists. Each bank has a capital running front. SI.000 to 3(30.000. and does a businftsi of seldom less than $1,000 per diem... Like the American institution it takef some carc of its customers and supplies them (as long as they are able to play) v, with free meals, drinks sleeping accom- ?38 modations and occasionally tobacco. ..." JgjH While the profits of these dens are large the expenses are proportionate. -'^4 Each back supplies three meals a day to : /* employees ana customers, pays good salaries or commissions to its heelers, * large fees to its "Melican" lawyers, a heavy rent to its landlord, and other ;v items. The property is in vile condition, but is so managed as to bring in larger rentals than many palaces up-town. Of '.'-djS the twenty-two houses one-half "deal on the square," and the other half are * 'skin.n. ; ~ rhey are devoted chiefly to "Fan-tan,1" ?:$|g but allow dominoes and other ' short games. When you see one of the Sens you sec all. You enter a warm,close room, whose chief, if not sole furniture is a large and very high table covered js&& with polished white matting. At the ?19 -3 ? . X II J. 3^1.. aeaa 01 me wuie buiuus me ucaici, uw . ? usually to his right either standing or perched on a high stool is the cashier. * & On the table in the centre is a square tin plate, whose four sides are numbered 1, 2, 3, 4. The dealer sits in front of ;?_ No. 1, the cashier before No. 2 and the -j si players before Nos. 3 and 4. The game ; is started by the dealer putting on the table a double-handful of round, flat brass coins, perforated with a square hole, and covering the pile with a con- . :. $& cave metal cover. The players deposit their stakes, cither in money or chips, ; upon any one or two of the four number*; When the stakes are deposited the dealer .^3|? removes the metal cover from the coinsj'^gM ind with a long rod of the shape and size of an old-fashioned knitting-needle removes the coins lour at a time. The / last pull of the dealer leaves anything from one to four coins on the board ana , ^ bo decides the game. If a player has backed a single number he wins three ''jJsfj times his bet, less 7 per cent., the bank's V commission. If upon two numbers he: wins the amount of bis bet less the same percentage. In betting on two numbers these must be adjacent; 1.3 and 2.4 are barred; 1.2, 2.3, 3.4and 4.1 are allowed1.' If fan-tan money were aloAe used it would by easy to suppress the vice in twenty-four hours. But John, in his ingenuity, has devised several schemes whereby fortunes can be made or lost without a "Melican man" understanding the why and wherefore. In each bankV:\?|g| is a collection of "chips," whichinclode .1 ?J UIaaIp waavI Tinffnni '''''\M4nvn ruunu, wmio hum uiuua |iv<uji uuwwu*^ " ancient coins, Chinese dominoes, and '''?$$&> pink, white and yellow sticks. The - ; % value of these is empirical and is knows. only to tho bank and its customs. At No. .? 21 one day lust week a heavy jame, in which thousands of dollar* ;:^^0 changed hands, the only visible evidence '.i'fjft of the fan-tan was six saucers of white artificial pearls. Another system alto- " - , .'?? jether Chinese is the ' 'Gamblers' Benevoent Union." This is a trades union of ;hc best type. They rate all customers, .' &? nark them as good, medium and bad. The last aro white-listed when they re- "^g| fuse to pay their "debts of honor," and ifter sixty days' notice are black-listed . ind tabooed by the union. Under'this lystem "good" players win and loee lundreds of dollars without using noney. If they win they draw upon tho bank the next day; if they lose they re- _ nit the amount due within twenty-four 3gi lours. It would be difficult to stop the latter ^ form of gambling in Chinatown. There' ^ ire not more than ten Americans in New York who ever see the game, and :-^f only about seven who understand the language sumcjeuuy iv auvi* *****?? ?oing on. As most of these, if not all, . Save business relations with the moon- riSS 3yed fraternity, it is barely probable ^-3 that they would ever consent to act as -4f lomplainants against their friends. Tba small gamo and especially the "brae*"' ijnme can be easily suppressed. It sim- . ply is a means of robbing hundreds of " newly arrived clerks and laundrymen. A Baby's Tears. - I think there is no sadder sight on earth than the tears of a baby. To sea the little round face that looks as if it , v-? were only made tor jaugmng, an ... r up in a snarl of puckers, the bright eyeaj!^^^ squinted out of sight, and great, rea^^^H tears coursing down the pudgy chceksJB^B is enough to make a stoic weep in sym-^g^^ffl pathy. It is as if the man in the moon&^^H were cryiug. I knew an English fatherJB' Jm who, whenever one of his babes?an<^H fcijg there was a host of them?cried, woulaab^W say in tones of comical distress, "he'ffljBjlS rather sec a five-pun note than one those tears, any day," and it seemed ton H those little ones to be the height of de-!?ftj? votion and self denial on his part. ,^J^| Mis. Paddock, a writer of Salt Laka City, tclis a pathetic story of a broken-SSBBj hearted wife whose first baby neveiS^^I cried aloud but wept in silence all thq^^H time. Sleeping or waging me tenia ' flowed from its eyes,and in a few weeks""^^^ it died, its mother said of a broken heart. It had shed all the tears its "^pj mother had repressed before its birth, and its weeping face was a symbol of the face of Utah. In antithesis to these sad facts is a memory we nearly all can conjure up of some fat, rascaily baby who would cry and cry and cry until , every member of the family was enlisted In his cause, when he would suddenly > unbutton his eyes and lol not a tear would be there. It had been a crocodile bawl of the driest grief.?Detroit Fret Press. 1Vnr Statistics. From official records of the war department, based on losses given, and ; *U'j the total number of men furnished by the States and Territories during tho war, it uppcars that: Out of every sixty-live men, ono man was killed in action. Out of every fifty-six men, one man died of wounds rcccivea in &cuon. Out of every thirteen men, one man died ot disease. Out of every nine men, one man died while in service. Out of every fifteen men, one man was captured or reported missing. 4 Out of every ten men, one man was wounded in action. Out of every seven men captured, one died while iu captivity. A little bit of a girl living near one of ? ?- intn >ior mother from the tuc V.1UU3 ion iltw ..v. _ _ roadside with some blossoms in her han<is, and, full of ihe outside glow, exclaimcd: "Oh, mamma, how nice it is to live where somebody doesn't own everything. The length of the wire used in the construction of the submarine cable, now in operation, is computed to bo ten times the disinncc from the earth to the moon. The total length of the cables now used is 08,000 miles, each cable containing an average of forty strands of wire, and making over 2,500,000 miles.