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ABBEVILLE PRESS AND BANNER. I , ', ;^>a8 BY HUGH WILSON. ABBEVILLE, S. C.. WEDNESDAY, JUNE 17, 1885. NO. 51. VOLUME XXIX | m^mma^mmmmammammmamaamamamamammammmmmaMm SLAIN BY SAVAGES. Shocking Sights on an Indian Trail in New Mexico. The Mutilatei Bodhs of Many White People Discovered, A dispatch from Silver City, Now Mexico, says: "The past we.'k lias been ono of uir cxainotal sunwise and t Twr i:i Silver Citv Never have the Indians 011 tii -ir Woody raids como so near the city. Tho newspaper ac" counts sent East are very meagre, because of the fear tint it wi 1 prevent emigration to this svti 'ii. The first news of the proximity of tho In. diaiis was revived on Wednesday of last week, when a boy riding a horse wiiite with foam dashed into town from Welty's ranch, on bear Creek. II" brought word that hostile Indians were in the hills nnd that an atta-k on the ranch. i:i which were gathered many wonvn and children, was expectel an 1 help was na.'tled. A volunteer company of thirty-live men was soon organized and * went t> tho res-ue. At T: ><) o'clock the ranch was reached. All the fami1 ioc wlthl'i n v iflitK ,if < ?vr?n mil worn rnl lected tlioro except one. A party set off to bring then: in. while two other |<arlies started for o water hole in t!ie hills where the}' expected to find the Indians, but the latter hid iled. Keturniug to ll.e ranch a larger party was organize 1 to go to Juniper springs, but the Indians had (led from that spot aho. Scouts spent two Inurs in searching for the trail, which led to Little Walnut creel;. "Along this stream the nio4 horribla sights were witnessed. I'ea 1 bjilio., frightfully muti'ated n:i;l na'red, were found at frequent intervals. The houses were pillaged, and el'thug and household articles were scatter? I everywhere. At William Ogdens live dead bodies, all scalped, lay in a pool of blood. A five-year-old girl had both hands cut o!T. Following the trail over tho hills Gomez ranch was reached. A number of children were gathered here who had escape 1 d-ath by hiding. Their parents living in the vicinity had all been killed. Six miles further, in the house of Felix Marquese, five dead holies were found. Mrs. Marquese and her seven year-old daughter had bitii s-uifcrtvl at the hands of the Indians before Leing ki led. The bodies wero slashed with knives and presented a sickening spectacle. From this point tho party Proceeded fifteen hours' ride eastward into the i'inos mountains without food or sleep but without overtaking tho redskins. By this time all but six or seven of the posse werj exhausted and the horses disabled A telegram was dispatched to General Bradley asking for fresh hor?cs, but he replied that ho had none. "X'lic troops were sent out to uiuo up the trail where the citizens had left it. "The citizens who followed the Indians must have been very close 01 them, as eight dead and three live horses an I one mule were left by tbe Indians along t'ie trail, all showing signs of I eing completely worn out. The troojtt proceeded on the trail, but the enemy was by this time too far in advance, and the chaso was given up. On the return trail the dead was brought in in v.a.'ons. The .Americans were cared for, but the bodies of tho Mexicans lay here for houis botore anything was done to them. "One of tho heroic deeds that occur on such occasions was performed by little Willie Carpenter. The parents wero some distance from tho house when the Indians appeared. Willie and his one-year-old sisler were playing in tho yard. Tho 1k>v, with wondertul wisdom, caught up his little sister and slipped into tho wco ls. He crawled a long distance and finally reached this city, having carried his sister five miles on his back. The parents were wild with joy to find their children, whom thev supposed the Indians had earrie i oil'. "Tho boy who brought tho news to town had a narrow escape. At one time ho found himself within a few hundred yards of the Indians. lie dismounted and hid in a pond of water for nearly an hour among tho weeds until they lial left, when he again mounted and rode on A miner named Clark was working Wednesday on a mine not far from Juniper Springs. He had just set ofT a blast and rushed up the hill to avoid tho falling ro.-k, whin on reaching the top he saw 1 he Indians between him and his c amp. He started for Little Walnut creek and warned all tho ranchmen, who moved their families up to Stewart's ranch. If it had not | boen for this every man, woman nnu cnuu in the vicinity would have bwn murdered. "The authorities claim there are only loo In diaus off th? reservation, but it is believed there are a pood many more than this. Up to this time the only fight between the troops and the Indians w.-.s brought on by Indian* attacking Captain Smith's command while the men were bathing in Devil crcek. Two of tho men, a trooper and an Indian scout, were wounded and two horses kil ed. The Indians were beaten bv:k. Suit they managed to carry off everything with them except a quantity of jerked beef. Aftvr this fight tho Indians went onto Stnlworlh's ranch, on which they made an attack, but v.vre driven off after having wounded JStal worth." The Mimbor of dead wliit'ss at la-t accounts was nearly fifty. THE WHEAT CROP. Estimated Shortage from dio Avcrngo Of 100,01)0,'JIM) ItuslieN. . B, W, Tahnadge, of Milwaukee, has pro pared his first preliminary estimato for the # season by States of the probable total yield of wheat in tho United States for 18S5. Tho igures are made up by States and Territories, with the assistance of the State agricultural nwiih and oth-r authorities anl are stated to bo bis.'J ii]) n thi a~t.nl acreage sown and present condition of the growing crop. The estimate shows the probable yield of waiter wheat as 231.000,000 bushels, of spring wheat WO,000,00) bushels; total of winter and spring :>01,(H}J," 000 bushels. The United States tlepartni'-nt of agriculture officially report the cr >p of 18S4 winter wheat iiH',0 O.'ioO bushels, spring wheat. 143,000.0 tf): total winter and spring 513,000,009 bushels. According to these figures tlio crop of !SS.">, compared with 1S84, will show a shortage in winter wheat of 131',000,000 bushels, spring wheat 00 > bushels; Uitril winter and spring shortage, 152,000,000 bushels. The average wheat yield of the T'nited States for live ven:s past is 401lxi>hels. The estimate shows a shortage, coinpared with tlie average five yeais, of 10 IKJO.ItUO bushels. The following is a table of the estimated prooablo yield tiy St.ites and Territories: SPRING WIIKAT. Pudio!s. Minnesota l!7,000,000 Iowa 25,000,0 )0 Nebraska 25,00j,000 Dakota -S,O0t>.C0:) Wisconsin 15,<H(0,009 Total I:j0,00 >,00j WISTEK WIIKAT. Bushels ' >^_jCaliXow?ia CO,<100.0 '0 ^Michigan 2">.0:?0,0(M Ohio :?i,0u0,0JU Indiana -"-.'.DO ?,0U0 Kama* 21,<0.),ft0>? Missouri Oregon l'i.'W.OJO Pennsylvania lV,oC0,tn)i) New York 11,0J'),(K)J Illinois I>t,l0 >,?)!) 1 Kentucky 00,< 0 > Mary.'and 5,01) ?.oo t Tennessee 4,(?X?,0.X) Texas 4.0 hi,o:K) Washington 4,(KM,0>? Virginia :;,U')o,ot<) North Carolina Colorado :>,0ti0,0;HJ West. Virginia L',( OJ,o 0 Georgia U.0*'H).imk? South Carolina 1,50 ',M0 New Jersey l,300,<t>) Utah 1.5(ii>,001 -Arkansas A 1?1 III l)l>) Delaware 1.<W0,0?) New Mexico l.Oio.D'M) Montain ].i 0 ).<t 0 Idaho l,'K)0,i?.'M Maine .. .VKJ.ictO Vermont :u>?,?0) New Hampshire Mississippi riiw.o-H) A ri/.ona CO; , M)0 Nevada 1H>,U>0 Other States :w,(H).) Total win'er wheat 2:'. 1,00 t,(KK) Total spring wheat i:? >,WO,?>OJ Total winter and spring SGI.'JOVKX) PROMINENT PEOPLE. SriAKEr. Carusle has recovered his health. Oenkrat. c?ra\'t"s book Ivnrs this title: ''The Personal Memoirs of U. S. Oraiit." i Mi:. I.cw: i.i.. our hito minister to Kng- j land, is the only American who has slept at j "Windsor costlo as a gunst of royalty. ....... rj ... fc."?;i < .. V .b , lllbitcv. . III! i.iiu, VI1TT nv^-,1 ,,vn J ... ? . divir.o, is an IrNun in !?y birth, who was sent | to this country by t!i? I'l.-ter Presbyterians i ft-i i with a return passage ticket, I u"::i f !ia> n ?ver yet u-e.l. ] '.> skwroii 'i i! it man, though in the i hvsf >'. h'i!th. witii iho exi'i'piio'i of a slight ' rl. :.tl:t>!:, says tint under no ar- ' ft:ii:sii.n.-es wot.11 !to accept tli<? ttoini nation for governor of i fhio. An his tunj ;>l Jiff, ha ! says, ho could not nTord it. A Washington correspond-nt says that i "George Bancroft has resumed liis long daily j rides. H? wears as a riding &uit a ?-iiort biack velvet coat, abovo which his silvery : Lair shines out in contrast, and on the bosom of w deb 'jIs long white beard falls like silk la< e. a soft felt hat which shades his eyes,and a pair of well-fitting pantaloon.-.'' NEWS SUMMARY Fa Mem nnd state*. Georoe Axteli. entered a restaurant at Deposit, S. V., while drunk, and becoming enraged at a waiter drew a revolver and be gan to shoot at random, two men were killed by his shots, and a third?an aged farmer?was probably mortallv wounded. Axtell was an exted and tHken to Binghamton. A dkvicit of $"j0.'l,000 in the funds of tho Shackamaxon State bank, Philadelphia, has compelled its suspension. The cashier's lending large sums without authority le:i to its failure. As many of the depositee are people in humble circumstances much public excitement prevailed. The stockholders say they will pay o(T every dollar of indebtedness. President Ci.evei.ant> and several of his I cabinet members spent Peroration Day in New York, reviewing tho big parade in (ho forenoon, visiting General Hancock on Governor's Island in the afternoon, and in tho evening, accompanied by Governor Hill, listening to an oration in the Academy of Music by United States Senator Evarts. Generai. Grant appeared ac n window of his residence in New York on Decoration Pay and reviewed some of tho Grand Army posts i and veterans that took part m the procession. The International Typographical Union i, ;,.,i oi.-m.i! moatimr in Now York, printers from all sections <>f the United States and Canada being in attendance , as delegates. The Stewart Memorial Cathedral at Oar- , den City, I.on;; Is'and, wa< consecrated witU im:?osius ceremonies, an 1 tho tit'o dee 1 <Jt?livered to Bishop Littlejohu l>y Mrs. A. T. Stewart. Richard S. Scott, paying teller of tho i bank of tho Manhattan Company, in New \ York, was absent from Ins post tho other morning, and investigation disclosed that h had fieti, taking along SlW.iKW of the institu- j tioa's funds. As the bank has a surplus of : nearly a million dollars, h'cott's theft will not cripple it. More of the United St it^s marines sent to Fananm during the recent disturbances there arrived the other day in New York on a steamer from Aspinwnll. Among tho passengers was President Zaldivar. of .Salvador, who said to a reporter that ho had resigned his ofticc and should spend tho remainder of ; his daj's abroad. Konth ?nd TTcit. A great religious revival is in progress at j Atlanta. Ga. Governor McDaniel, Mayor i Iliilyer and many prominent club men are I participants. Tho meetings are held in a : large cotton warehouse capable of holding j 8,(KJit persons. Mr. Moody has been engaged | to conduct the services during tho summer. I Archie Gibson (colorol) was haugoJ at j Richmond. Texas, for wife murder. ? in fiTi* l,m.n Uuin tlirrmn rink nf rt/il'll iV,WV JliCII IIU'V "VVU . v. , work at Youngstown, Ohio, and vicinity by tho shutting down of all the iron mills, the manufacturers refusing to sign the scalo of wages presented by the operatives. Postmaster W. C. Smith, of HoMen, Mo., committed suicide upon th- discovery of an inspector that ho was $1K)) short in his ac- j counts. John Terry (colored) was hanged at Barn- j well, S. C., for tho murder of the Rev. John ! G. Session. General McClellandeiivero 1 an oration i at tho Antietam National cemetery on Decoration Day. It was his first visit to the bat- | tie field since he commanded the Federal i forces there in September, 1"?G'2. Seventeen* bridges have been washed ; away by floods in Mc Lei lan county, Texas. Gabriel Dumont, Riel's right-hand man during the recent rebellion in Manitoba, was released soon after his capture in Montana by the American authorities. Maurice Hiegy, a member of tho suspended banking firm of Ryhnier & Co., of j Highland, UL, has committed suicide. The | firm failed recently for $500,000 alxive assets ; and investigation shows a gross misuse of the j funds of both American and Kuropean depositors. A. F. Bandolier, senior member of j the firm, has absconded. Chari.es P. Barnes, a farmer of Wood- J lawn, Md., shot Thomas C. Brown, his | brother-in-law, Arthur Barnes, his son, fourteen years olil, both of whom wero killed, | and a younger son. who was mortally wound- | ed. Barnes had been on a spree of several weeks duration. His habits anil virions disposition made it impossible for his wife to live with him, and those whom he killed had j taken her part. Thk final exercises of the New Orleans world's industrial and cotton centennial exs position wero held on the 1st The speakers said that the exposition had been successful, if not financially at least in the industrial effect it had in the country ana the South. After the Mexican band had played '"Hail Columbia," the exposition was declared ad- i journed sine die. Much damage has been done in the vicin- I ity of Burlington, Iowa, by a terrific hail, | rain and wind storm. Ruilroad bridges were washed out and houses unroofe.l At Rod Bank the losses reached $50,00.). The Chicago city council has finally declared Carter Harrison elected mayor at tho I municipal election two months ago by a ma- 1 jority of 2575. There will probably be a , rurther contest by his opponent in the court*. I Foil assaulting Mrs. Knott near Mount | Airey, Md., Townsend Cook (colored) was nr j rested. A crowd broke into jail, overpowered j the officers and lym bel Cook. Harry Champlin came homo drunk in Cincinnati and b-gnn to abuse his mother. Then he attacked his brother-in-law, Dr. E. E. Loy, a prominent physician, with a carving knife, and was shot dead by tho latter. Five persons?four'men and one womanwere killed by lightning during a terrifi thunder storm in Chicago. Tjip NW Orloan* fxnosition. ilist dosed. i Is to bo reopened in November next, and will j be continued another yeur. The boiler in LinsWU's phosphate works at | John's Island Ferry. S. C.. exploded, killing two negroes, dangerously wounding a third, ' and wrecking tho works. Washington* Further appointments by the President: ' Colonel Charles Den by, of Kvansville, Ind., j minister to China; James XV. Whelpley, of I New York, assistant treasurer of tI'nited States; 'Wendell A. Anderson, of Wi.?coni-in, i to be consul general at Montrealconsuls ' William S. Crowell, of Ohio, at Amoy; I William I). Warner, of South Carolina, at Cologne; D. Lynch Fringle, of South Caro- j lina. at Tegucigalpa, Honduras. Colonel | IJenbv, who goes as minister to China, to succeed Mr. John Ku^sr-ll Young, j is fifty-four years of age. He was born in Botetourt county, Yn., removed in 1S>5 to i Kvansviile, lnd.. served during a portion of the war in an Indiana regiment, has been j twice a member of the Indiana legislature, ' and is a lawyer. Captain Belknap, president of the board to examine tiie new government vessel, t no Dolphin, in a telegram to the secretary of the navy reports her fourth trial trip was satisfactory. ami that the requirements of the contract for tho vessel were complied with. Dt'RlXG May there was a decrease in the national debt of according to tho new form, leaving the total debt, less cash in j the treasury, at $l,4'.H,tfll,01 J. The tota cash in the treasury on the 1st was ?-')Ul,-T5<,- ! 5S1JL 124. Thk amount of national bank notes out- j standing on tho 1st (not including $4:>!l,4!i4 in ! notes of gold banks) is$!ils,4^4.4,^.'!) a decrease i of $2.(C2<,444 during the last month, and 1 $21,'.>4-,,,7;"S since June 1, 1SS4. Tho amount i of legal-tender notes outstanding is .?34ti,0Sl,- j 0H'?, a decrease of $ 1 ,S V>,-Vj:i since June 1, lSi>4. j Additional appointments by the I'resi- 1 dent: To be collectors of internal revenue? ) Robert M. Henderson, for the fourth district j of Texas; Robert Harriett, for the fourth dis- . trict of California. Robert A. Howard, of j Arkansas, to be assistant attorney-general; Albert X. Hatheway, of Connecticut, to be consul at Nice, France; George \V. Julian, of Indiana, to bo surveyor-general of New j Mexico. The President lias appointed Isaac m. may uard. of New York, to bo second controller ! of the treasury, vice W. AY". Upton, resigned ! by request, judge Maynard is a resident of j .Delhi, X. V.. and at present holds the office | of lirst deputy attorney general of the State, i He was tlio Democratic candidate for s?crc- ! tary of state a year ago last fall, and was | defeated, it is taid, because of his Prohibition record. The coinaeo executed at the various United States mints in Stay, was : 152,:i20 gold pieces, worth $1,<i31,ti00;* 2,401,837 silver doL j lars; 220,000 dimes, worth $22,000; total coinage, 2.774,157 pieces, worth $4,0">-'-i,477. j The chief of the postofiice inspectors has been informed that Postmaster F. N. Hibbs, of Lewiston. Idaho, issued money orders to amount of $l"i,W or $'JO,0tK), payable to himself. ordered hanks in different cities to col- j lect them and forward the money to him,and then absconded. lie was last heard from at Victoria, Ii. C. Representative Hoi,man's House committee to investigate Indian reservations and land matters throughout the West, lias started on its tour of examination. The members are accompanied by th?ir wives, atul will go to the point on the Union Pacific railroad nearest to the Yellowstone park. They will visit the Sioux agency, anil at Yellowstone will leave tlicir families fur the sumtn'-r, and go overland bv* team 1,2 )0 miles through Oregon, Idaho, Washington Territory and Nevada to the Pacific coast. The tour will last until October. The President has appointed Charles IIRcbin-on to be co!l;;?tor of customs at Wilmington, N. C; Tally Scott to bo receiver of public m-tneys at Oberiin, Ivan.: John <\ ityxbeu to Lo collector oi cuslo ns at New Haven. He has also appointed these presidential postmaster.-;: Davi I J. i-.ascburn at Fowler, Intl.; John L. Ktzel, at Clear Lake, la.; David F rakes nt Ouray, Col.; A. II. Simpson at North Clarendon, Pcnn.; John It. brunt at 0.<ngf) Mission, Kansas; Auzust'iie C. liespess at Maysviilo, Kansas; John Kiltie nt Seward, Ne!i.; Jos .jih F. Henderson at Aledo. 111.; Justinin i Mayjerry at iJurlingame, Kansas; \V. if. Gilibes ai ('o'unihia, S. I',; Aile.'t Went,/. *H Mec-hniiicsburgh, rcnn.: C. A. Gilder at Hraek"ttivil!e, Texas Martin E. Meredith at Fast Saginaw. Midi. Secretary I&.waro, Senators Vest and Co-krell and other prominent citizens par iriinted in the commencement exercises of ihe Missouri State university at I'olnmliia. an.l the unveiling of a statue of Thomas Jefferson. From Cohimbiu Secretary Fayard proceeded to Lawrence, Kansas, and de** .V* ' T~ . .... . - -v.Sa | livered an oration at the Stato university j opening. President Cleveland's rule of denying i himself to all visitors on Saturdays will hereafter bo followed by the heads of all the ex| ecutivo departments. ) The President has intimated that ho will | probably spend two or threo days this sum j iner in a visit to the New York State militia | encampment at Peekskill, N. Y. I'oreljii. Indians under Big Hear, the only chief si ill holding out in Mnnitoba, defeated a force of "to Canadian troops under General Strange, eomj>elled them to retreat and massacred thirteen men who had been left behind to guard the provision wagons. Mexican bandits, murdered Paul Holder* | Miperimenuem. ui iimivt-i iiiuio ik-?u >->>iuuu->, J Mexico, and his fourteen-year-old son. Tho j two had just arrived from New York, and were on their way to tho mine. Ix Cardinagh. Ireland, a ferocious pig devour? 1 threo children, ranging from two to even years of age, whilo tneir parents were absent from the house. Ix Zacatecas, Mexico, a man who had boon a prisoner twelve yo.!rs for abduction, and proved incorrigible, was ordered to betaken from jail and shot. Relatives and friends of the condemned man attempted to rescue him from tho military. A battle followed, in which the prisoner, his brother, sister and threo soldiers were killed. It is announced that Russia has accepted j England's counter proposals, which "practically settles, in a satisfactory manner, tho whole question ol the Afghan boundary. ] Both Maruchak and Zuliikar remain in tho possession of the ameer. The main features of the work of delimitation have been linaliy J <: 1 riAmmiccinn will c?t. I tlo t! 10 details. T.'m negotiations liavo been conducted in a most friendly spirit on both ] sides." Tin: wheat crops of the leading countries ; of Europe and of tlreat Jiritain will be much j shorter tiiis year than last. The False Prophet's Arab? are again at- i tacking Suakim. where much sickness pre- | vails nnioiig the British troops. Serious anti-Jewish riots have broken out j ia Austria. The shops of many Jews in | Vienna were wrecked ami their owners violently assaulted. Moro than forty per- 1 sins we're badly wounded. The police wero j obliged to call on the military for aid to i quell tho disturbance. Hostile Arabs made an attempt to wreck : tho Suakiin-Berlxx railway, but they were i dispersed by a few shells. A Nile boat, car- j rying a lorce of tribal police, surprised a I party of Osman Digma's men at Adiz. -A I fight ensued, and twenty of the hostile Arabs were killed and a number taken prisoners, i About 350 of their camels and 1,000 sheep J wero captured. The earthquake which destroyed the city I of Serinagur, ""ndia, demolished a Moham I medan mosquo twenty miles away, and killed 200 j>eople. About fifty soldiers of the garrison at Serinagur were wounded. Forty natives were killed outright and eighty others were injured. The colt Melton, ridden by Archer, the j champion English jockey, won tho Derby England's greatest annual racing event. Thk primo minister of Madagascar ha been strangled by tho Hova peace party. Asiatic cholera is ravaging the province of Valencia, Spain. Mr. Phelps, h19 new American minister j to England, was the principal guest at a ban- j quet given by tho lord mayor of London and responded to the toast to the United i States. r LATER NEWS. Governor Moody Ccrrie'A was inaugti' j rated at Concord, N. H. Abe Buzzard, t'.ie notorious outlaw of tho "Welsh mountains, lias Mii-rcndered to tho j ollicials of tho Lancaster (Pe:m.) jail. Buz-! zard has baen wanted by the authorities for : several years, and has been the constant terror . of half a dozen counties in Eastern Pennsyl j vania. He escaped from jail nearly three ! vears ago, and sinco has received credit for : many crim.'s committed in the vicinity of the I Welsh mountains. Milton L McKay, a prominent resident j of L?aksville, Miss., was shot to death early ) in May by a concealed assassin. David T. Fairly, a reputablo citizen ani neighbor of McKay, was suspected and arrntel. The ni lmi-mVlit n linnd of niaskod mpii ovfirnow ered tho jail guard, took out Fairly and hanged him to a tree. Tiik jury in tho ca;o or Thomas J. Cluverius, the young lawyer charged with theinur | dor of Fannie Lillian Madison at Richmond, j Vn., brought in a verdict of murder in the j first ricgre?. Tho ease lasted nearly a month, | and on account of the high sjcial connection* of both Cluverius and Mis; Madison, attracted great attentio.i. Miss Madison had I com to Richmond from tin interior and rog- j istored at a hotel. One day h >r body was ! foun 1 in a reservoir, with marks of violence on it, and t'luvoriu-, her cousin, was arrosted lor tli-j crime, suspicion having been drawn to him by the fact tint intimate relations existed 1 let ween t ho two. TK.Uiie disasters caused by lightning have | been of late ijuito numerous. Frank Truo's I residence at I'lano, Iowa, was struck and con- | slimed and the owner killed. Two men met j a similar fato on the same day in the doorway [ of their residence at Meudota, III. The Illinois senate has passed the house bill | giving colored jxople the same rights as ; whites in hotels, restaurants, theatres and j other public places. The President has amended civil service' rule nine, relating to the examination of ap- j pli.ants for office, by inserting after the j words "no person dismissed from tli^ public t servico for miscond tet,''and l>efore tho words j "shall be admitted t >examination within two < - ?< r < _ 1... li < .. ] | years mereauer, me iuiidwiu^ ?uiu?; auu no person who lias not been absolutely appointed or employe;! after promotion." Reports received by the war department indicate that there are not sulllcient trooj>s in New Mexico and Arizona to effectually quell the insurrection of the Apaches. Fckther appointments by the President: 1 General W. S. Hoserrain, of California,to bc register of the treasury, vice I'.lancho K. ' Bruco (colore:!), resigned; Herbert Fcote Beecher to be collector of customs for the district of Puget Sound, in th? State of Oregon and the Territory of Washington; Archibald Skillman to be collector of interna' j revenue for the district of Nevada, linker I'. J.cc to be collector of customs for the district of Yorktown, Vn. ilr. Beecher is a son of Rev. llenry Ward Beeelior and a resident of l'ort Townsend, (Iregon. Messrs. Skillman j and Lee are newspaper men. A motion to impeach the French ministry was lost in the chamber of deputies by a vot0 of to 103. Great damage has been done, especially to i shipping, by a cyclone nt Aden. Arabia. I i APACHE AT30JITIES. Tlon, Women nml < liildreu Butrh- j ered in llie Soulliwe*:. Advices from Silver City, New Mexico, j say that since tho Apu''lies' outbreak at Sun Curios Reservation it is estimated that sixty persons liavo been killed. Not only hav? they taken the lives of whites tho/ j capture 1, but they liavo tortured and j mutilated their bodies in a horrible I manner, especially those of- women. The most horrible bntch"ry was that of tho l'hill!ps family, consisting of old man Phil- ! lips, his son, I'oneral l'liiaips. wife and threo j children, tho form-r lii'tythrej years old; | Ceueral 1'hillips, aged twenty six, and th ; chil lre:i ojj" t hree and o to live years old. (Sen- i eral l'hilii| s* Jamily weie ki !e"l on their cat- ; tie ranch within ihree miles of Fort Bayard, where they had been living for | seven years. Jloth Ueneral l'hillips ::n 1 his I'atFior were horribly mutll- j ate-1. One little girl liatl been j taken up by the heels and j I her brauis dasn.-l out against tho . trees. A little boy was brut e 1 and mutilated, | ' and th-'* four-year-old ^ii i ha i ! oen lning on J | a meat-hook and was lound oni'j four hour* , i afterward by the reseuin:; pirty still hanging | ! and.-dive. She was tin-on-e^us nnd ?tlori 11 [ fow hours nftT lieing lesrued. Une of tlio | rescuing posse -aysl;eiimvr 1 1 sit h f right i nis'i a^o'iv in a human faee as was shown by the lit * !o girl. Three additional prospectors were k i I! ed nt j the south foi!c ?>f lh? \\"liit wat-r. On" was j .! :<) lhuilmr. Th> ligi.t was wiinessed by j j Hunting's partner. w!ki sm - eo 1 in killingl two Indians l?'l-.re the 1 n:? I g-t ?v?\ay. Cow- j boys divover"! the Louies <<f four Indians killed by li'inling and llaynesin Magellan j cre^k, covoivd with stones. * i | Four mil?-s from Silver t 'ity a family of (1 vo : j Mexicans were killed, The tl.iv.> children j were brained. Another Me\i? a:i was slmt at I j the same time but rsaped. as aNo did his i ! wife. At daylight the nQ.\t morning their | i boy, 0 years old. came to town bl inking an | I infant in his aims. It was supposed they had i I been killed with the others. Reports of kil.in come from other sections. Mexican troops are gathering on tlu border, waiting for ihe hos'.ii 's t?> eros^. Th" present i is the most bloody and bold raid made in ' many years. The Indian? a: . 'Coing through ! wvli . suit led sections. v.h.-ie pe/fcct ini- j I niunity from at!?ck was felt. I?nt the people aro thoroughly aroused, and it seems i tripos| sibio for the Indians to got back to their resI ervatiwi. If tin y lail to find a way to es| cane t?> Jfoxi'-o tbc campaign will probably i last two cu- throe months. Xios! of the squaws j and children are believed to have sone south j while the bucks kept tho attention of tho | troops attracted elsewhere. ] } i ~ - * ! A CITY DESTROYED. Scrinagiir in India Overthrownby an Earthquake. A Large Number of People Killed or Injured. The city of Serinagur, India, has been almost completely destroyod by an earth- j ' quake. The shocks, which occurred at inter j : vals of ton minuter, were of great violence" | ; The greater part of the city was destroyed ] and the cavalry barracks are a mass of ruins. | Fifty persons are known to havo boon killed, | and hundreds of the injured have been taken from the general wreck. The total loss of | jife or the number of the maimed must romain unknown for some time, as many of the inhabitants are still buried in the ruins. "When ( tho shocks wero first felt and the i people realized that they wero being subjected to the awful possibilities of an earth quake, the wildest panic seized them. Every j one ablo to do so rushed from tho trembling j houses and He 1 to the boats on tho river and ! 011 the lakes, or sought the open country. The ' terrified inhabitants camped in tho fluids that surround the town. Serinagur is mar tho I centre of the Vale of Cashmere, and that j whole territory experienced the terriblo earthquake shorts. Tho damago caused throughout tho Vale isenormous. The loss in | cattle alone is great. The affrighted peoplo | seom to bo utterly helpless, and succor is be-1 ing sent them as rapidly as the Indian I authorities can organize relief. Many of tho j houses yet standing show large rents in the J walls, and must be razed to tho ground ! The shocks continued for some flays, and this fact greatly retarded the work of rescuing tho people pinn?rt down in Tno deDris, ana it was feared ibat many of these would perish before they could be reached by tho relief parties. Serinagur, tho capital and cbiof city of Cashmere, was founded in the sixth century by Pravara Sen. It extends for three or four miles along both banks of the Jhyhun river, which is there only a hundred yards wide and j is spanned by seven wooden bridges on stone j piers. Many of the city thoroughfares aro canals, and these with tho river are crowded with boats of all descriptions and floating bath houses. Extending for six milos around the northeast side of the oil)' is the beautiful Lake of Dal, dotted with islands on which aro groves of piano trees, and also with floatiug islands artificially constructed, on which aro famous melon and cucumber gardens. Tho blue lotus flower also abounds there. Tho streets of the city are narrow and filthy. The houses are mostly of wood nn 1 in nilbricks, three or four stcries high. Ihe governor's house is in a huge fort at the southeastern corner of the city, and theao is a temple said to bo capable of holding (>0,000 worshipets. Apart from these there are no public buildings of interest. Tho city is tho center of tho shawl trade, one-fourth of tho inhabitants being emjagod therein. The manufacture of articles of papier mvho and painted wood ware is also an important industry. Some silk is produced.and large quantities of fruit are raised. Silver and copper wares arc manufactured, and lately a good deal or paper 1 has been made. In DJ75 an industrial exposition of the products of Cashmere was held tliova Ton vrar; ncn Rprininrnr had Kl'J.IXVl inhabitants, two-thirds Ix-ing Mohammedans, and the remainder mostly Hindoos. But the famine of 187$ reduced the population to less than ??:),00C, uud it now is probably not morn than 75,000. AN OCEAN DISASTER Only Two Tien Saved Out of a Crew of T\vnity-I *iir. In the history of disasters at sea few instances are recorded whero men are forced to face death so suddenly as was the caso with the ill-fated crew of the Fronch bark George Jeanne, which was sunk by tho Anchor line steamship City of Rome, when twenty-two lives were lost. The story told by a cabin passenger on the ! City of Rome, when tho steamship arrived at New York, was a graphic one. lie said: "I was seated in the smoking-room in company with several other cabin passengers. The : weather during the day had been ' very thick and foggy, so much so I that it was at times impossible to distinguish I objects a short distance off. The steam- j whistle and fog-horn 011 the steamer wore 1 being constantly blown, and men won sta- { tioned 011 the lookout. Wo were on tho edge 1 of tho Grand Banks of Newfoundland. At 4:'J0 r. M. I was startled by a sudden shock. On gaining t'io deck I saw, directly under j tho steamer's forefjot., tho spars and j rigging of a vessel. As I looked I could see tho steamship's engines stop, toon followed by a perceptible trembling of tho vessel. It could not have been two minutes before the 1 vessel with which wo had collided bewail to settle, au I in less than four minutes she ha 1 j disappeared beneath tho w iter. When j first struck we could see the crow of the bark j rushing frantically forward to the topgallant | forecastle. There tlwy huddled together,seoin- i ingly palsied with fear. The bark sank.carrying with her all but four men.who could bo plainly I seen struggling in the water, surrounded by the wree kagj which had flo.it- 'd from tho : dock of their vessel. In the mean time Captain Munro had ordered tho starboird an 1 port quarter-boats lower? I, the steamer having backed away about thsvo hundred yards. Of these four men 111 tho water 0110 was drowned before tho boats were lowered, two j others were picked up and tho third was lost while being liaulod 011 board the steamer. As he went down an excited pas^oi ger cried: 'One hundred pounds to the man who will savo him.' it was too late. The two men saved by the steamer's boat were hoisted 0:1 board and instantly surrounded by sympathetic passengars. Their names are Fiant Alphonse, twenty-six years old, and Albert Hubert, aged twenty-four. They were suffering from nervous prostration and were at once put un ler tho doctor's j charge." As soon as tho rescued men were safely on , board a subscription was taken up and IMfi realized. This money will be given to the men when they arrive at their homes in Kt Holier, Channel Islands, where they belong I THE NATIONAL GAME, Umpire Hoover was stoned in Kansas City J recently. The fielding of tho league clubs?outside J of battery errors?is not up to tbo usual aver- i age. It seems impossible in tho American association for the same club to win the chain- I pionsbip twice. Ball players consider Louisville audiences tho hardest to please, and Philadelphia crowds the most lenient. The Hartfords were the first Southern New England team to be whitewashed this j season. Meriden did it. Many of Pittsburg's most respected ladies can now Iks seen at every game of base ball played at Recreation park. Many of tho retail store* in St Louis close early on Saturdays, in order to enable the [ ck-rks to seo the cliumpiouship games. In threo games of baseball played within a , week the New York Leagua nine scored fortyone runs to one by its opponents, a record ! probably never before surpassed. JjOUIsvillk indies pet. as oxcitea over iuo fames as the men, ana applaud as liborallv. 11 one of the Athletic games ono lady, in her 1 excitement, broke her parasol in bits. A Cincinnati exchange prides itself upon j the excellent throwing of outfielders. It ; says: " Last season there wero more runs killed right at the plato by throws from tho Cincinnati outfield than by any other team in the country." Tho same is holding good this season so far. Among tho members of the graduating \ class of Columbia Law school is Johtinio Ward, the popular captain of tho New York I league club. The commencement exercises took place in tho Academy of Music, May 27. i Although Ward is only twenty-five years ! old ho has been famous as a ball player for j several years. He was born in Pennsylvania, i nnd has spoilt his earnings as a ball player UIl lilS eUUl'UllUIl. A special meeting of the Eastern leaguo I of professional bass ball clubs was held recently at Philadelphia. Tho pitching rules were aniendod to remove all restrictions from the pitcher while tho act of delivering tho liall. This wipes out tho balk rule, and al- , lows tho pitcher to deliver tho ball from above the shoulder. Tho league directed each club to place a piece of flagging or marble in front of the pitcher's box. The record up to recent dato is as follows : ; THE NATIONAL l.EAISI'E. Won. Lost. Hon. I.osl. \ New York 17 4 Norton R 12 j Clticucn 14 6 St. I.oiiis 7 13 | rhiladclp-'.ia... .14 8 Unffulo 4 is Providence; U 7 Detroit 4 ir> j AMERICAN ASSOCIATION. St. I.nuis 22 6 1 l!r"oklyn II lfi IMMmr.' 19 Yi ItaDimorc II lfi i <-:nrinmii 19 14 | Athletic I" 2n | l.oiiisviSlc 16 14 | Metropolitan.. . 9 '.'0 : TIASTF.HN I.EAOtTB. Virginia.. 14 2|lanca-t-r " 9| Ti en toil ....14 6 I Norfolk R 10 : National II 7 (Jersey Oily 6 13; Newark 9 7 | W iliiiui^lon 'i 19 SOUTH RUN I.HAOI'E. The clubs composing tho Southern League, with th" exception of tho iiirmmghnins. seem j tohepr.'tty well equalized in playintrstrength, ; <v; tiicro was only a variance of four gntiu's i between .si of tho contestants. The A limit a I cluii was stiil in tho van with a lead of five j victories over tiio Nasln illes, wiio are their! ui-'st formidablo opponent". The height of the foundation of the Bar tholdi |>edestal is 05 feot 10 inches, of the policial itself 8!) feet, and the statue lo top of | torch ! ">! loot, <>r u total of ;!>)/? foct 10 inches, i lie l:e-ght of Trinity Church spire, Now York, is ~'St feet, un I of Brooklyn Bridge | I towers 288 feot ATTACK ON CARTHAGENA. Defeat of the Revolutionists with Heavy Losses, A Deadly Hand-to-Hand Encounter on the City:s Walk Advices by way of Panama confirm the intelligence of the attempt of revolutionists to capture the important seaport, Carthagena, in the United States of Colombia. Gaitan, the revolutionary leader, on learning of the pproach of the government troops under Briceno and of their junction with the small force led by General Vila at Sinceiejo, which exposed him to the danger from an attack from the rear while sustaining a siege in his front, resolved on making a general attack on the city, assaulting it both by land and sea. He paid dearly for his temerity. Procuring a number of scaling ladders, he sent n force by sea to approach as silently as possible the walls of the city, and to cover this movement he began a furious attack along his whole line of siege works, particularly at La Popa. The assailants from the sea side succeeded in placing many of their ladders, and a number of men succeeded in scaling the walls. Had a sufficient number of them dono so before making a demonstration to attract the attention of the small number of the besieged, their triumph would have been secure, l>ut, with characteristic enthusiasm, and believing their success assured, when only about sixty men had reached the walls, they began the usual "Vivas," which brought upon them at once tho main force of the besieged, among whom were 300 regular troops. The attack by soa was repulsed with frightful loss, the bayonet, machete and knife doing their deadly hand-to-hand work. Every man who reached tho summit of tho walls was killed or wounded, and many at their base who sought to escape by swimming were drowned. In the meantime tho attack from La Popa was maintained, and had a vigorous attack been made while the troops were engaged in repelling the attack on the other side of tho city, 110 doubt Carthagena would have fallen. '15ut Gaitan gave tho order to retire, and two opportunities to capture tho city in oiw day were thrown away. The regular force in the city under General Palacio, who seemed to havo conducted the defense with great bravery and intelligence, was considerably reinforced by many of tho young men of the city who have been doing duty during the seige. The losses of Gaitau's forces were nearly 000 among killed and wounded, and of tho loyalists only twenty-three, of whom fourteen were wounded and nine killed. After tho repulso Gaiton withdrew his forces and proceeded to Uarran [uil!a to await attack by the government forces. It is probable that a pacific solution may bo reached beforo bloodshed. A MINE DISASTER, Twenty-two Mvcx l>o?t In a Colliery in Kngtnnd. Fire broke out at noon in the Karl of Durham's colliery, known as the Margaret PitT npar the city of Durham, England. About 350 men and boys were in the pit at tha tlnw and the excitement was intense. Relatives of the iinprisonod men gathered around the mouth of the pit weeping nnd wailing in the most heartrending manner. The flro occurred in the top seam of the pit, being caused by an explosion. T'.ventv-two men and boys were killed outright. The explosion was followed by a rush of water in immense volumes into the Sutton s-.-am. The miners, men nnd boys, in this seam were, however, all taken out alive. Working parties rescued twelve morecolliers, leaving only thirteen men imprisoned, and it was hoped these would also lw found still alive. A RESERVOIR BURSTS. A Torrent of Wa'fr 1-0 IVct High Cuiifcci <>'rent Dnmagc. Near Longmount, C'ol., at noon, a few days since, the Beaver Park reservoir, in South St. Vrair Canyon, burst, causing great dam. age to the surrounding country. The torrent, which Is estimated to have reached a height of 120 feet, rushed down the canyon with terrific force, earring away bridges, houses, Dnrns ana evoryunng wmcu uuamawu iw path, and flooding the adjacent country. So far ns learned, no lives ?vero lost. The damage to crops and meadows along the lowlands is very great The reservoir, an immense affair, covering an area of many acres, supplied water for tho highland ditch, which traverses a large section of land adjacent to tiio mountains. MUSICAL AND DRAMATIC Mark Twain's reading tour is said to have netted him nearly $-'J5,000. RortEiiT B. Maxtei.l has signed as leading man for Fanny Davenport. Joe Jefferson will only play fifteen weeks next s?ason, begimiing October 1. Kate Forsyth will go ns leading support to Salvini.tiie Italian tragedian, next s.aton. t ? c- ?i? ... i?? i? i? iiiwiria w ciiijn\ij ?*v?j ushers in the Grand Opera House, San Francisco. Lester AVam.ack fiaid he never had but one illness in his life, and that cost him ?50,000. A fiRFEK piny, third of a series, is to be acted by the university men at Cambridge, England, next November. The I allad has been driv.-n out of the market by clienp music, and ihe few ballads sold are bought by cainj>er.->out cliielly. I'atti has written to London to say that she will appear in that city in June, provided there are no signs of the cholera there at that time Tub London critics are unanimously of the opinion that Mr. Irviag's performance of liamlet has greatly improved siuco his visit to tin's country. An organization calling itself the Mexican Typical orchestra will give a series of tan concerts at the Star theatre, New York, beginning Juno 21. Rlbe.vstei.v's opera, "Nero," has failed at Vienna. It is scathingly reviewed by the critics, who condemn both the libretto and music with equal severity. The highest price paid for female trapese performers is $200 per week. The lowest price paid is $50 per week, and one has to be very expert even to get that. M. Polm.ni, director of the Stadt theatre, of Hamburg, has concluded a contract with Mine. Patti, for the entire winter ot' 1S?0-G, including tours tlirouguout iiuropc. It seems that M. Coquelin, the famous French actor, is to visit this country next season after all. He will play a four weeks' engagement at the New York Star theatre early in the fall. Bartley Campbell, the American dramatist, is launching out into the managerial field on a large scale. In addition to his New York theatre, ho has leased the Empire theatre, London, which ho will oj>en in September with one of his own plays. John Stetson, the New York'theatrical nianager.hns signed a contract to take a company to the United States from England and produce Gilbert and Sullivan's new opera, "The Mikado," in New York and Boston, beginning in October. Sir Arthur Sullivan has sailed for Now York. Ho proposes making a tour of the United States. NEWSY GLEANIS31 Thf.re are 12,000 convicts in tho prisons ol the Southern .States. Of tho 842 suicides in this country in 1&S4 but 155 wero women. There were 1,0>m) more Short-horns sold at auction in 1S34 in this country than in 1SSJ. Venice, Italy, is about to l>e lighted with electric lamps, and tho gondoliers are protesting. About 1,000 new families settled during the past winter in Florida ns jwrmanent residents. A young man in New Haven has a collection of 7,000 birds' eggs, embracing nearly 2,000 varieties. Santa Barbara county, California, offers bounties of $5 for killing a lion, #2. ">0 for a coyoto, and ?1 for a wildcat. Austria lost #44,000,000 from p!euro-pneumonia, introduced by a single cow that was supposed to havo recovered. A Texan who bad lived for years among tho cowboys says that many of them are graduates of Eastern colleges. There are 2,:>0S national and 5,140 private banks in tho United States, whoso combined funds amount to $2,000,000,000. One single excursion to New Orleans took nearly ;{,000 people from Iowa, requiring eleven trains to transport them. Trout are caught in tho Truckee river, Nevada, so easily that any one with a bit of crooked wire tied to a stick can get a basketful. Northern ice no longer finds a market at ?i? ?I/-iiirr dm vimhruirrl. ns (here is scarcely a Southern city of any sizo without an ice manufactory. Rosk Credle, 10S years old. living in Philadelphia, was blind lor twenty years. Sho has now her eyes opened and 1ms commenced cutting a new set of teeth. The agricultural department at Washington is now interested in all matters pertaining to irrigation, the object in vitnv Iteing to becomo acquainted with tho best means for improving arid lauds. The Rev. Dr. Tnlmago was once a smoker, but for many years has abstained from the use of tobacco in any shape. "Thirty-nine years ago," he says, "a Now York merchant began to save the money he spent for the six .Cigars a day which lie had been in tho habit; ol smoking, and $39,102.03 was the result at compound interest Last week he bought with it a beautiful home in the country for | ms cliuaren." SONG. , If May forgets not April's flowers, Juno willEven hearts that throb and thrill like ours Grow still. July forgets what birds and flowen Juno had? Even hearts whoso joy is deep as our flr-iw qi H I The pale leaves hear not what the flowers Heard told? Even hearts as passionate as ours Grow cold. ?The Spectator. BORROWING A HAMMER. BY CHARLES EOBEKT CRADDOCK. On a certain bolfl crag that juts far over the steep wooded slopes of Cross mountain a red light was seen one ' moonless night in June. Sometimes it [ glowed intensely among the gray mists . which hovered above the deep and som- , bre valley; sometimes it faded. It's life J I tlin hrenth of the bellows. for a blacksmith's shop stands close beside tne ' road that rambles along the brink of the mountain. Generally after sunset the forge is dark and silent. So when three small boys, approaching the log hut through the gloomy woods, la-ard the clink! clank! clink! clank! of the hammers, and the metallic echo among the cliiTs, they stopped short in astonishment. "Thar now!" exclaimed Abner Ryder, j desperately; ''dad's at it fur true!" "iMcbbc he'll go away artcr a while, ' Ab," suggested Jim Grycc, another of ! j the small boys. ''Then that'll gin us j our chance." I, "Waal, I reckon wc can stiffen up our . hearts tcr wait," said Ab. resignedly. I; All three sat down oil a log a short distance above the shop, and presently , they became so engrossed in their talk that they did not notice when the blacksmith in the pauses of his work, came to the door for a breath of air. They j failed to discreetly lower their voices, and thus they had a listener on whose attention they had not counted. "Ye sec," observed Ab, in a high, shrill pipe, "dad sets a heap o' store by his tools. Hut dad, ye know, air a i mighty slack-twisted man. He gits his j1 tools lost, an' (reprchcnsively) ho wastes , liis nails. An' then he 'lows how ez it : war me ez done it." lie paused impressively in virtuous in- j' dignation. A murmur of surprise and ; sympathy rose from his companions. ' Then he recommenced. "Dad air the crankest man on Cross | tr I Tt? .?lI 1?IUUI1UU1> i X1C >VUIl 0 iciiu uiu uifuu v/ | his tools nowadays?not even that little ! hammer o' his'n. An' I'm oblecged ter j hcv that thar little hammer au' some |' nails ter fix a box fur them young squir'ls what we cotehed. So we'll jes' hev ter j go ter his shop of a night when he is '1 away, an'?an'?an' borryitl"' The blacksmith, a tall, powerfully- ' built man, and of an aspcct far from ( jocular, leaned slightly out of the door, 1 peering in the direction where the three tow-headed urchins sat on the log. Then 1 ho glanced within at a leather strap, as if he appreciated the appropriateness of ' an intimate relation between these ob- . jeets. J Hut there was no time for pleasure now. He was back in his shop in a mo- i! ment. ] His next respite was thus entertained. "What makes liini work so of a night?" asked Jim Gryce. "Waal," explained Ab, in his usual 1 high key, "he rid ter the scttlemint this ! mornin'; he hev been a foolin'round ] thar all day, an'the crnp air jes' a suf- , ferin' fur work! So him an' Uncle . air layin' thar plows in the shop now, kase they air goin' ter run around the 1 corn tcr-morrcr. Workin', though, goes powerful hard with dad enny time, j I tole old Bob Peachin that when I war ter mill this evenin'. Him an'the t'other ' men thar lafled mightily at dad. An' 11 | latled to!" j There was an angry gleam in Stephen Ryder's stern black eyes as lie turned ^ wit tun, scizca tnc tongs anu mmst u piece of iron among the coals, while Tobc, 1 who had been asleep in the window at * the back of the shop, rose reluctantly and . plied the bellows. The heavy panting broke forth simultaneously with the red ' tlarc that quivered out into the dark ] night. Presently it faded; the hot iron J was whisked upon th; anvil, fiery sparks showered about as the rapid blows fell, , and the echoing crags kept time with rhythmic beats to the clunking of the 1 sledge and the clinking of the handhammer. The stars, high above the farstretching Cumberland mountains, seemed to throb in unison until suddenly , the blacksmith dealt a sharp blow on the . face of the anvil as a signal to his . "olrilrpp " nnfl t!in (nrrrp. WAS silent. As he leaned ag.iin.st the jam of the ! door, mechanically adjusting his leather ! apron, he heard Ab's voice again. . "Old Bob say he aint no 'count sca'ccly. He 'lowed cz he hed knowed him many a year, an' fund him a sneak- ' in', deceivin' critter. ' The blacksmith was erect in a mo- 1 ment, every fiber tense. "That aint the wust," Ab gabbled on. ' "Old Bob say, thought 'taint known ' gincrally, cz he air gin ter thievin'. Old ' Bob 'lowed ter them men, hangin' round ' the mill, ez he air the biggest thief on 1 Cross Mounting!'' 1 The strong man trembled. Ilia blood 1 rushed tumultously to his head, then 1 seemed to ebb swiftly away. That this ! should be said of him to the loafers at the mill! These constituted his little world. And he valued his character 1 as only an honest man can. lie whs amazed at the boldness of this lie. It had been openly spoken in the ; presence of his son. One might have ' thought the boy would come directly to him. But there lie sat. glibly retailing ' it to his small comrades! It seemed ail so strange, that Stephen Uydcr funtiad ( there was surely some mistake. In the | next moment, however, he was con- j ' viuccd tliat they had been talking of | ' him, and of no one else. "j tole old Hob ez how I thought they' ' l<n an Imrsl nil )>itil 07. lid ' yu5^t.. n, , wan't there lo speak fur hisself." | All three boys giggled weakly, as if | this were witty. , "Hut old Hob 'lowed cz enuybody j mought know him by bis name. An'; then he toldmc that olil sayin'? " 'Stephen. Stephen, so dweivin', Thatold Satan can't believe him!'" , Here Hen Gryce broke in, begging the i others to go home, and cune to "borry" i the hummer the next night. Ab agreed i to the latter propositi'>n, but s!ill sat on 1 the log and talked. "Old Hob say," he remarked, cheerfully, "that when ho do! git 'cm, he shakes 'em?shakes the life out'n 'em!'' This was inexplicable. Stephen Ryder pondered vainly on it for an instant. Hut I the oft reiterated formula. "OUt l?oi> i Bays," caught his cars, and lie was ab- ! sorbed anew in Ab's discourse. "Old Bob says ez my mother air one 1 of the best women in this world. Hut 1 she air so gin ter humoring every critter a-nigh her, an' tends ter 'em so much, ! 1 an' feeds 'em so high an' hearty, cz they j 1 jes' gits good fur nothin' in this world. ! That's how kctn she air cat out'n house j' an' home now. Old Bob say c/. how lie 1 < iir the hongricst critter! Say he jes' dc- ! | jpise ter see him comin' round of meal | 1 times. Old Hob say of i?c licv got enny I. good lef' in hiin, my m ither will kill it J out yit with kindness.'' The blacksmith felt, a: he turned back ! into the shop and roused the sleepy- I headed ' strike.*,'' that within the hour i ] I all the world had changed for him. j i i These coarse taunts were enough to show | in what estimation he was held. And < : he hail fancied himself, in country tied ' j phase, "respected by all," and had been j 1 proud of his standing! So the bellows begun to sigh and pnnt t oncc more, and kept she red li^hL ihiring | athwart in the darkness. The people f ' flown in the valley looked tip at it,glowing like a star that had slipped out of the sky and lodged somehow on Cross 1 mountain, and wondered what Stephen Ryder cotdd be about so late at night. When lie left the shop, there was no ' aign of the boys who had ornamented the ' lou earlier in the evening. lie walked 1 np the road to his house, and found his < wife sitting alone in the rickety little norch. 1 "Hev that thar boy ?one ter berl?" lie '; iskcd. "Waal," she slowly drawled, in a soft, placid voice, "he kem liyar Miont 'n haf- < len hour ago bo nigh cruzcd t?r go ter stay all night with Jim an' Benny Gryce ez I hed ter let him. Old man Gryce rid by hyar iu his wagon on his way home from the settlemint. So Ab went of! with the Gryco boys an' thar gran'dnd." Thus the blacksmith concluded his tools were not liable to be "borrowed" to-night. He had a scheme to insure their safety for the future, but in order to avoid his wife's remonstrances on Ab's behalf, he told her nothing of it, r l.?/l uur UI >V11UI u\z auu uvcuiv;au. Early the next morning he set out for the mill, intending to confront "Old Bob" and demand retraction. Tho road down the deep, wild ravine was rugged, nnd ho jogged along slow until at last he came within sight of the crazy, weather-beaten old building tottering precariously on the brink of the impetuous torrent which gashes the mountainside. G'raes tower above it; vines and mosses cling to its walls; it is a danlc, cool, shady place, but noisy enough with the turmoil of its primitive machinery, [iiid the loud, hoarse voices of the loungers striving to make themselves heard above the uproar. There were several of these idle mountaineers aimlessly strolling among the bags of corn and wheat that were piled about. Long, dusty cobwebs hung from thn rlifters. Sometimes :i rat. nowdered white, and rendered reckless by high living, raced boldly acros3 the floor. The golden grain poured ceaselessly through the hopper, and leaning against it was a tall, stoop-shouldered man of some forty odd years of age, with a floury smile lurking in his beard, and a twinkle in the good-humored eyes overhung by lieavy mcally eyebrows. "Waal, Steve," veiled the miller, shambling forward as the blacksmith appeared in the doorway. "Come 'long In. W liar's ycr grist "I hevgot no grist!" thundered Steve, sternly. "Waal?ye're jes1 ez welcome." said the miller, not noticing the rigid lines of the set, swarthy face, accented here and there by a cinder, nor the fierceness of the intent dark eyes. * "I reckon I'm powerful welcome!" sneered Stephen Ryder. The tone attracted "old Bob's" attention. "What ails ye, Steve?" he asked, surprised. "I'm a deccivin'. sneakin' critter? bey?" shouted the visitor, shaking his blackened fist?he had intended to be calm, but his long-repressed fury had found vent at last. The miller drew back hastily, astonishment and fear mingled in a pallid paste, as it were, with "the flour on his face. Tiis six startled on lookers stood as if petrified. "Ye say I'm a thief!?a thief! ?a thief!" With the odious word he made a frantic lunge at the miller, who dodged his strong right arm at the moment when his foot struck against a bag of corn lying cm the floor and he stumbled. lie recovered his equilibrium instantly. But the six by-standers had seized him. "Hold him hard, folkses!" cried honest Bob Peacliin. "Hold hard! I'll tell yc what ails him?though ye mustn't let on ter him?he air tetched in the head !*' He winked at them with a confidential intention as he roared this out, forgetting, in his excitement, that mental infirmity does not impair the sense of hearing. This folly on his part was a salutary thing for Stephen Iiyder. It calmed liim instantly. He felt that he had need for caution. A fearful vista of possibilities -mr>rmrl linfnrn him. lie remembered hav ing seen in his childhood a man reputed [ ;o be suddenly bereft of his reason, but ivhom he believed was entirely sane, bound hand and feet, and every word, ivery groan, every effort to free himself, lccounted the demonstration of a maniic. This fate was imminent for him. J'hcy were seven to one. He trembled is he felt their hands pressing upon the jwelling muscles of his limbs. With an ibrupt realization of his great strength lie waited for a momentary relaxation of their clutch, then with a mighty wrench :ic burst loose from them, liung himself lpon his mare, and dashed off at full speed. lie did no work that afternoon, although the corn was "suffering." He jat after dinner smoking his pipe on the porch of his log-cabin, while he moodily tvatchcd the big shadow of Cross mountain creeping silently over the wooded /alley as the sun got on the down-grade. Deep glooms began to lurk among the ravines of the great ridge opposite. The ihiiumering blue summits in the distance ivcru purpling. A rea mra, aien, .vested with a brilliant eye, perched idly )n the vines about the porch, having roinquished for the day the job of teaching a small stubby imitation of himself o lly. The shocks of wheat in the bare icld close by had turned a rich, red gold n the lengthening rays before Stephen Uyder realized that night was close at land. All at once he heard a discordant noise jp tho road which he knew Ab Ryder ;u!led "singing," and presently the boy ippeared in the distance, his mouth stretched, his tattered hat stuck on the jack of his tow-head, his bare feet 3ustv,his homespun cotton trousers rolled j up airily about his knees, his single suspender supporting the structure. His father laughed a little at sight of him, rather sardonically it must be confessed, find saying to his wife that he intended to go to the shop for awhile, he rose and J strolled oil down the road. When supper was over, however, Ab ' ivas immensely relieved to see that his father had no idea of continuing his . work. Consequently the usual routine was to be-expected. Generally, when summoned to the evening meal, the j blacksmith hastily plunged his head in tvntcr, thrust o!f his leather apron, and j ivent up to the house without more ado. ! [ 1c smoked afterward,and lounged about, enjoying the relaxation after his heavy work, lie did not go down to lock the shop until tied-time, when he was shutting up the house, the stable and the :orn-cnb for the night. In the Interval! I he shop stood deserted and open, and this custom was the basis of Ab's oppor- j (unity. To-night there seemed to be no .lcviacion from it. lie ascertained that !iis father was smoking his pipe on the | porch. Then lie went down the road md sat on the log near the shop to wait for the other boys who were to share the risks and profits of borrowing the hammer. I All was still?so still! He fancied I that he could hear the tumult of the torrent faraway as it dashed over the rocks. | A. dog suddenly began to bark in the L>!ack, black valley?then ceased. lie was vaguely overawed with the "big mountings" for company and the dis- j tant stars. He listened eagerly for the lirst cracking of brush which told him 1 that the boys were near at hand. Then all three crept along cautiously i tmong the huge boles of the trees, feeling very mysterious and important, and is if thev were getting much the better .c ?i... i.innboioitli Whon thnv reached JI uiu >/iav,i\oi<iiu>, .. _ the rmle window Ab sat for :i moment 3ii the sill, peering into the intense black- , aess within. ' It air dark thar, fur true, Ab," said Jim Ciryce, growing fainthearted. "Le's 50 back." "Xaw, sir! Naw, sir!" protested Ab, | resolutely. "I'm on the borry!'' "JIow kin we lind that thar little j lamnicr in rscch a dark place?" urged litn. "Waal," explained Ab, in liis high key, "dad air mightily welded tcr his cranky notions. An' he always leaves every tool ! in the same place edzactly every night. J Hound fur me!' lie. continued, in shrill exultation, as he slapped his lean leg. "I 1? ?! ?? 1K.... lit fin limrimcr nir sot l\!ll)W WJUH UKU11I..I tor roost!" He jumped down from the window in- j lidcthc shop, and cuta wiry caper. "I'm a man o' bone an' muscle!" he bragged. "Kin doennything.'' The other hoys followed more quietly. J But they had only groped a little dis- j Lance when Jim Gryce set up a sharp j yelp of pain. "Shet ver mouth?ye pop-eyed cata- j mount!" Ab admonished him. "IJ.ul will hear an'?ali-h-h!** his own words ended in a shriek. "Oh, my!" vociferated the "man of bono and muscle," who was certainly, to >, a man of extraordinary lung-power. "Oh, my! The j ground is hot?hot e7. iron! oh, my! | thoy always tole me that Satan would ketch me?an' oh, my! uow he hcv Jon<: it!" | lie joined the "pop-eyed catamount" in a lively dance with their bare feet on the hot iron bars which were scattered about the ground in every direction. These were heated, so that they might not reallv scorch the flesh, but would touch the' feelings, and peehaps the conscience. As the third boy's scream rent the air, and told that he, too, had encountered a torrid experience, Ab Ryder became suddenly aware that there was some one be siue themselves m tut; snop. lie couia see nothing; he was only vaguely conscious of an unexpected presence, and he fancied that it was in the corner by the barrel of water. All at once a gruff voice broke forth. "I'm on the borry I" it remarked, with fiorce facctiousness. "I want to borry a boy?no I a man o' bone and muscle?fur 'bout a minit an' a quarter!" A strong hand seized Ab by his collar. He felt himself swept through the air, soused head foremost into the barrel of water, then thrust into a corner where he was thankful to find there was no more hot iron. "I want to borry another boy!" said the gruff voice. And the "pop eyed catamount" was duly ducked. "'Twould pleasure me some ter borry another 1" the voice declared with grim humor. But Ben was a mere snip of a boy, the youngest and smallest, and only led into ? -i! r i <1.. TK-.. imucuiui u.v mu umera. iucy itcvti knew that the blacksmith relented when his turn camc, and that he got a mere sprinkle in comparison with their total immersion. Then Stepnen Ryder set out for home followed by & dripping proccssion. "I'll l'arn ye tcr 'borry1 my tools 'thoufc leave!" he vociferated ns he went along. When they had rcacked the house he faced round sternly on Ab. "Why don't ye kem an' tell me cz how the miller say I war a snenkin', deceivin' critter, an1?an'?an1 a thief!" Ilia wife dropped the dish she was washing, and it broke unheeded upon the hearth. Ab stretchcd bis eyes and mouth in amazement. "Old Bob Peachin never tole me no sech word sence I been bom?" he declared flatlv. "Then what ailed ye ter go an'tell sech a lie ter Gryce's hoys las' night jea' down thar outside o' the shop?" Ab stared at him, evidently bewildered. "Ye tolo 'em," continued the blacksmith, striving to refresh his memory, "ez Bob Pcachin say ez how ye mought know I war deceivin' by my bein' named Stephen?an' that I war the hungriest critter?an'"? " 'Twar the t-a-a-a rrier!" shouted Ab, "the little rat tarrier ez we war a-talkin' 'bout. lie hev been name Steve these six year, old Bob say. Ho gimme the dog yestiddy, 'lease I 'lowed ez the rats war eatin' us out 'n nousc an' norae, anmy mother hed fed up that old tom-cat o' our'n till he won't look nt n mice. Old Bob warned me, though, as Steve, the tarrier, air a mighty thief an' dccevin' ginerally. Old Bob say ho reckons my mother will spile the dog with feedin' him, an' kill out what little good ho hev get lef in him with kindness. But I tuk | him, an' brung him home ennyhow. An' las' night arter we hed got through talkin' 'bout borryin' (be looked embarrassed) the little hammer, we tuk ter talkiu' 'bout the tarrier. An' yander he is now, asleep on the chil'ren's bed!" A long pause ensued. "M'ria," said the blacksmith, meekly, "hev ye tuk notice how the garden truck air a-thrivin'? 'Pears like ter me az the peas air a fnllin' up consider'ble." And so the subject changed. lie had it on his conscience, howefer, to explain the matter to the miller. For the second time Old Bob Peachin, and the men at the mill, "laffed mightily at dad." And when Ab had recovered sufficiently from the exhaustion attendant upon borrowing a hammer, he "laffed too."?Youth*t Companion. The Queer Hats of the Corenns. A rflnnrfc hv Air. Carles, of the British consulate at Scul, dcscribcs a journey j made by him through northern Corea. The journey lasted about six weeks, and appears to have extended over about 8.000 li. Among the points noticeablo in this excellent report, we observe that in Corea, ns in a leas degree in Japan, there is a great disproportion between the number" of males and females, the former being more numerous. In the largo towns this is ascribed to the immense staffs attached to the officials, but in tho villages there is no corresponding balance in favor of females, and it is probable that an explanation which accounts for the disproportion by a greater number of deaths among girls in infancy is correct, for there was no evidence of female infanticide. Corea has been said to be a land of large hats, but this does not . tell everything. One would bardly expect the following dimensions from this statement alone. At Phyoun Yang, a large and historical town near the west coast, Mr. Carles records that tho hats worn by the poor women are baskets three and one-half fsct long, two and one half feet wide, and two and onc-balf feet deep, which conceal their faces as effectually as the white cloak worn by women of better class over their heads. The men wear as basket of tho samo shape, b'.it somewhat smaller. It, however, requires the use of both hands to keep it in place. A structure of a size but little larger, which ia used to cover fishing-boats, suggests to the traveler thht the women's hats should be convnrt-pd into coracles. Literature is honored in Corea as in other Eastern countries, but the monument erected over the graves of the doctors of letters are at least unique. It consists of the trunk of a tree painted like a barber's pole, some thirty feet up. The top and branches arc cut off, and on the summit 1 rests a carved figure of slim proportions, twenty feet long, and with a forked tail in imitation of a Corean dragoon. From the head, which resembles that of an alligator, depeud cords on which brass bells and a wooden fish arc strung. The total absence in even the most ancient and historical provincial (owns of any remains of art and culture, leads Mr. Carles to thiuk th:?t perhaps the Corea of olden days differed but little from that of the present time, and that her early civilization has been greatly overrated.?Nature. The Man Who Jumps. "Tnere's always some fool to jump off a train and get hurt," said a brakcmun, "and frequently the one that jumps is just the man who always claims that he knows better and gives other people lectures for their fool hard in ess. I'll never forget a little thing that happened one I day as we were going into Indianapolis. On the train was a sherilT who had in charge three imbeciles whom lie was taking to the asylum. They were not handcuffed nor tied in any way, but permitted to ruu about the car just as tliev wanted to. On board was a passenger who complained about this a good deal, lie thought the imbeciles should be tied up. 'They haven't any more sense than to go and jump oH the train,' lie said, 'and they should be better taken enre of.' But the sherilf lie just took things easy, and said he guessed they were all right. Well, as we were going into Indianapolis, I was standing on the rear platform. Tins complaining passenger came out, with his grip in his hand, and his shiny silk hat on his head. As ??m? tn .a street crossing, he said: WU I mill* ?-v ? w, Hiucss I'll get olT here,' and before I | could <lo a thing to stop him, he jumped. He probably thought wc were running slow, but those things arc very deceptive, lie landed on his feet, hut he didn't stay there long. He just assumed the shape of a half circle, bent the wrong way to be uncomfortable for him, and ended un with his nose in the mud and his heels in the air. Then he spread out and fell flat, kind o' sprawling out as if he wanted to cover the whole street. But the funniest thing was that as I turned to go into the car, I found one of them imbeciles looking out the door. He grinned as if he was never so delighted in his life and uttered: 'The fool did jump, didn't he!'"?Chioujo Herald. Silicon Stcrnbcrgcr, of the United Spates army, holds tlint "pneumonia is simply the failure of the system to resist the lavages of a micrococci or sort of vegetable fungus growth that exists in every healthy human saliva." MEN WHO HIT_ THE PIPE.1 A DRUGGIST'S B.EVEI. ATIOJTS ABOUT OPIUM SMOKING. The Pernicious Practice Common la l-araro Cities?How the Drug Is Smoked?Km Kffcct. "Although quite common In almost all the large cities in the West, the pernicious habit of opium smoking or 'hitting the pipe' as it is usually called, ia quite unknown in Detroit," said a wellknown druggist to a reporter for the Free Press. "This habit," he continued, 14 has grown to an alarming extent on the Pacific slope and in all other localities where Chinese are to be found in any great numbers. I have visited many of the Chinese opium joints, both in New York and San Francisco, and can tell at a glance whether a person is addicted to the use of the deadly drug or not. I have had straugers come into my store whose facial appearance indicated that they were the slaves of the opium habit, and so far as I know there is no sure cure for it except to shun the drug as one would a viper. "The opium used by the Chinese is of an inferior quality, and is brought to this country in the form of a paste, put up in small, round, foil-lined boxes, similar to those used for pills. The pipe is a curious looking contrivance, and might be taken for a common walking stick were it not fur the little metallic bowl placed midway between the mouthpiece and the end of the stem. The stem itself is constructed of bamboo, one end being plugged, the other fitted with an amber or metallic tip. In the bottom ot the bowl are two small holes, one of which leads through into the stem, the other only about half way. In using the pipe a small quantity of the opium paste is rolled up into a pellet and placed on a wire, the end of which is inserted in one of the holes in the bowl of the pipe. The smoker stretches his or her form on the floor er a low divan as the case may be, and ignites the opium by applying the bowl of the pipe to the flame from a charcoal brazier. If it be his first attempt the initial whiff will be sufficient to partially strangle him, as the fumes of burning opium are exceedingly pungent and distasteful. Very soon he bccomes accustomed to the peculiar taste, t?nd gradually succumbs to its influence, as one does in taking an anaesthetic, and finally drops off into a deep sleep. I tried it once and that proved sufficient for me. I had the most delightful dreams, and imagined that I owned the earth, and had a chattel mortgage on the other planets. When I regained consciousness my head felt as large as a Saratoga trunk, and for two days at least every bone in my body ached as badly as if I had been punished with a club. 1 had no desire to try it again. "With some people, however, the . > habit grows like the taste for liquor, and they can no more control themselves than can a maniac. The peculiar headache which followed my attempt does not continue after the first two or three lessons, and unless a person has a very BtroDjor will there is a likelihood of the practice being continued. Some of the \ joints in the Chinese quarter in San Francisco are fitted up regardless of ex| pense, and almost every night after the theatres are out men and -women?and some of them belong to the upper crust ?can be seen wending their way along Dupont street, when all of a sud| den they will disappear and that is tho last that is seen of tnem until next day, Some of them have become so accustomed to the narcotic influence that two or three pipes are required to produce the desired result. In the morning they emerge from tho dens with haggard faces and deep sunken eyes, and having a look of utter desperation as c&u only be produced by opium. The practice is kept, up day after day until their constitutions are wrecked and death puts an end to their sufferings. "As an instance of how far a man can go in this way I will state a little incident that came under my notice when I . was walking the hospitals of San Fran! cisco. One day a poor wretch was brought in, and on examination I found him to be delirious from opium smoking. In his ravings he begged for 'just one more pipe,' and finally to quiet him I administered a hypodermic injection of laudanum. He soon recovered and was discharged. A-bo'ut six weeks afterward the same man was brought back in precisely the same condition as at first. lie again asked for opinm, and on rolling up his sleeve for the purpose of giving the , 1 1 - ? T mna flnmatrllflf nypoaerraiu lujcunuu x nog ovui??uu> amazed to find the arm cohered with small pimples. On closer examination I discovered that the pimples were caused by the steel needle of a hypodermic syringe, with which the victim had injected laudanum into his veins instead of smoking opium. He did not live to repent of his folly, and that experience gave me some idea of the power of the drug over any one addicted to its use." "The Bed Room of New York." ' Brooklyn is not New York. It is not a. part of New York. It is an independent city, with a government, a locality, a character altogether its own. It is situfttea opposite New York, upon the other side of the East river, the channel which flnws between the sound and the NewYork bay. You get from one city to the other by the ferries, or by the new Suspension bridge ? a noble engineering work, which must satisfy even an American as the greatest undertaking of its kind in the world. Brooklyn is a city of some seven hundred thousand inhabitants, tho third city in the Union, greatly overshadowed, of course, by its neighbor over the river, but still contributing noc a little to the force and moral energy of those two millions and a quarter who live within a circle of ten miles from the New York postoftice. Brooklyn has been sometimes called the "Bedroom of New York," and it is true that many persona employed during the day in the business * - -r f'ifv Imvo thnir '? puns Ul IUU \y?vj UM v homes in Brooklyn. It is, in fact, a suburb of the great center of trade aud occupation found in the lower part of Man- ; liattan Island. Brooklyn spreads over a far larger territory than New York, for the occupation of a single house by a separate family is more common hero than where land is scarce, as in tho neighboring city. Hence its population is more homogenous. It has fewer millionaires, and fewer paupers. It is probably more American, more native, more Protestant than New York. It has more homes, less residences; more comfort, less display. It is a middle class city, rather than a city of extremes. In many parts of it, it is almost rural?u city of families, of verdure, of Christian life, of churches, of preachers.?Dr. LI. D. JJecan, in the Qu i?.r. Where Foe lVroto "Tho RaYen." I)r. John J. Moran, who attended Poe in his last hours and who is anxious to convince the poetry loving world that the author of "The Haven'' did not die drunk, says: "Since his death I have made the acquaintance of Poe's family, and have many interesting things about him. Only yesterday I made a discovery as to 'The Raven.' It was written in the house of a New York gentleman. The gentleman's daughter, then a girl of thirteen or fourteen years, is now the wife of a distinguished general. She used to r\n TIim linvpn ' nnH BUC I*UU at tTWinvt* - ?W often saw him give her father his manuscript to lock up in his iron safe at night, ller father used to deal in plaster and clay casts,and on a shelf over the door of the room in which the famous poem was composed was a 'bust of Pallas.' The lady told me that she never saw l'oe under the influence of drink, and neither did her father. That is an answer to those who say that the poet was drunk or delirious when lie wrcte "The Raven." A Donblc Faced Musical Creed. The following literary curiosity is ascribcd to the Kev. Charles Wesley. It inav l>c read in coiuniua ur suui^uu across with opposite cilcct: llsndol d'ye see'* A dowuriulit arrant block The man tor nie 1* .lohn Svl>a?tian Hach, \\ ho can write well Why none but Herman John But old Uandd Ouuiit to I o *pat npon, (iconic w for air 'I In- stupider' of com# Beyond compare lc It.tcSi at gracefnl tu a, J o Handel's nairic \\ ? all iiropine our hsto Give then the fame To Bach'? chromatic pat<?. ?The Keynote. - * * ? ?