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BY HUGH WILSON. ABBEVILLE, S. C.. WEDNESDAY. JUNE 24. 1885. NO. 52. VOLUME XXIX
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A TERRIBLE CALAMITY.
Fall of a Stairway in a French :
Court House.
Twenty-four Persons Killed and
More than 150 Injured.
At Thiers, n town in the department of
Puy-de-Dome, France, n murder trial batt
been in progress some time. The cirrum- j
tances of tho murder anl the exciting incidents
of the trial have engrossed the attention
of the people, and a few days since?the :
last day of tho trial?the court house was [
nw\tprlrwl with man nrid vi'nmpn n n v - i
lous to witness tlio dosing scon es I
"When tho people wore leaving, immediately
after the adjournment of the court, i
and were jammed n|>on the stono stairway ;
leading to the street, the lofty staircase fell, j
The scene that followed was appalling, i
Immense masses of masonry from above i
crashed down upon tho struggling people t
below, grinding through their flesh and |
bones and maiming ami mutilating them '
in a horrible manner. Tho fall j
of the staircase and the shrieks of the peoplo
lying helpless in the ruins caused a panic in j
tlie court-room, and there was a rush for the ]
now wrecked exit T hose who were in front I
were unaMe to withstand the pressure from i
behind and were hurled down n]?>n the men}
and women crushed in the fall oi the staircase, j
and whom the people in thestreet were already j
striving to rescue. When at length the panic
had exhausted >tself and the immense stono
steps of ihe fall- n staircase had bceu removed
twenty per>ons were taken from tho
ruins dead. The injured numbered not less
than sixty, and many of theie will die of
their injuries.
A later dispatch from Thiers says that in
addition to tha twenty persons killed fully |
ICO persons were injured. Many of tho in- \
jured were women, and their wounds are of j
a serious character. When the massive stono
stairway fell the scene was fearful to witness. !
Tho immense stone steps above, with tho peo- I
pie upon them, were precipitated upon the j
aeaa anaaymg teiuw, nuiuu^ hj iuo uvuw
of the awful spectacle.
A still later dispatch from Thiers makes the
court house calamity there far more disastrous
in its consequences '.hnn the earlier dispatches
indicated. The dead already number
twenty-four. The total number of the injured
is now placed at Hh Of these fourteen are
very seriously injured, and some of them will !
die.
TWO BROTHERS LYNCHED.
A Mob Forcing its Way into a
Prison in ronn.
A tragic story of murder followed by a
double lynching?all resulting from family
quarrels?is told in the following dispatch
from Marshalltown, Iowa: Soon after mid
night last night about 100 of the best citi
zens of Harden county surrounded the
jail at Eldorado. Some were on foot i
but most were mounted. A guard I
of ten or twelve, called by '
number, made a prisoner of the city marshal I
and the work of forcinz the doors bejran. At !
this point the jailor was awakened and called |
for help. Two men, by the aid of a ladder, |
reached his room and quickly silencod him,
but not until he had aroused Sheriff Boylan.
With the aid of a log tho doors were soon
battered down and the Raiasburgers' cells |
were reached. Here much time was lost j
while some one hunted up' a sledge with I
which to batter down the door. When the j
mob first appeared the men backed up against j
the door ana were disposed to be defiant, but
some one in the rear fired a shot which struck j
Mans Rainsburger and he began to realize hi* ;
danger. At tlie top of their voir-es tbey |
cried "Help" and "Murder," and begged for
mercy. Finally they ceased their outcries
and told a man" in another cell to
tell their families that they died like dogs.
When the door fell tbey mude a desperate
dash for liberty through the mob and succeeded
in reaching the edge of the crowd, j
TTie lynching party fired upon them, literally
riddling the two men with bullets. Seventeen
shots took effect on tho body of Mans.
Fin lay on the sidewalk with fifteen balls in
him. "The crowd at once dispersed, leaving
the bodies on the ground. The lynching is
the outcome of a family quarrel that occurred
nearly twenty veal's ago.
Quarrels and'fights were of frequent occurrence.
Occasionally stock was poisoned and
crops burned. Last October two or three
masked men called at tho bouse of Henry
Johnson, whose daughter had married one of
the Rainsburgers, and, calling him to the
door, shot him dead.
Johnson's daughter swore that her husband
and his brother did the deed, and they
were arrested. Indignant citizeus then took
the law into their own hands, with the result
above described.
MUSICAL AND DRAMATIC
John E. Owens will play a few large
Clues IIOIL Xisgil, nnu l/UCU louir.
Maria Bianechini is said to have charmed
all Milan with her sweet flute playing.
There are no less than 11,576 women engaged
in giving musical instruction in England.
Von Bulow has been obliged to abandon
his European concert tour because of a severe
injury from a falL
Mark Twain is traveling with Miles and
Barton's company, which is playing his
drama, "Tom Sawyer."
There are now touring the country no
less than half a down ild West''shows,
of varying degrees of wildness.
The play bv Wills which Mrs. Langtry
has purchased is entitled "The Little
Tramp." Mrs. Langtry plays in boy's costume.
Mme. Albani recently sang "La Traviata''
at The Hague for the benefit of seventvtwo
stranded chorus singers and netted over
*1,400.
The management^ the CornedieFrancaise,
Paris, France, intend to devote a week to
plays of Victor Hugo, with a gala night on
which an ode to Hugo will be presented and j
elections from his poems recited.
Miss Carrie E. Daniels, of Chicago, a
contralto whose voice Mr. Farnie calls phenomenal,
the lower register reaching F flat,
has made a ti-emendous success in the revival
of Boccaccio at the London Comedy theatre.
Henrt Rcssell, the composer, who forty
years ago visited the United State?, when he
wrote the music to Morris' "Woodman,Spare
i?a T?? >> ?lc/\ TTnoa Soriyannf-'c 44 A
LI mi/ ncc, auu aiav wv m
Life on the Ocean Wave," is living at a very
advanced age in England.
Reserved seats in theatres tire not a
modern invention. In the ancient Roman
theatre seats were numbered, and the spectator
was shown to his place by an official
called designator. The number of the scat
appeared on the billet of admission.
In Normandy bird-dealers arrange singing
contests between favorite chaffinches
which are sometimes compelled to sing alternately
as many as S0O times. Occasionally
the cruel practice of depriving them of
sight is indulged in, as blind birds are often
the best singer?.
J. E. Carpenter, the English song writer,
whose death is announced from London, was
the author of "What are the Wild Waves
Saying," widely popular twenty-five years
ago, and not without admirers now. It was
founded on a chapter in Dickens' "Dombey
and Son," and brought the writer considerable
money.
Miss Clara Louise Kellogg will make a
concert tour during the summer under the
pilotage of her old manager, Major J. B.
Fond. The American prima donna will visit
the principal cities of the Northwest. She
will be tupported by Miss Ottie Forbett, violinist;
Mr. Mockridge. tenor; Mr. Morowski, j
basso, and Mr. Adolpn Glosee, pianist.
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NEWSY GLEANING!,
Newfoundland has a population of 193,
000 - Between
50,000 and CO, 000 people annually
visit the White mountains.
1 There are 700 Chinese scholars in twenty- j
nine New York Sunday-schools.
The inventor of barbs on fence wire receives
a royalty of 1120,000 a year.
New Mexico spent $45,000 for churches
and $6,485,000 for liquor last year.
Canada's total fish catch last year is esti- j
mated at 17,7t>4,404, against 10,958,192 in ]
1SS&
About 1,000 new families settled during
the past winter in Florida as permanent residents.
The banana crop this year is very large.
The best qualities como from Cuoa and j
Mexico.
A New York State dairymaid has succeeded
in milking nine cows in twenty-eight
minutes.
Cholera still prevails in twpntv-two towns
- * ? At,- r< !
in Spain. It is spreading towaru mo rreuvu
frontier.
Grasshoppers are causing serious trouble J
on some of th > railroads and in ranches on j
the Pacific coast.
Excitement prevails in Mono, California,
over what is believe 1 to be the discovery of ,
large deposits of tin ore.
California fruit growers are introducing
negroes, to he substituted for Chinamen iu
the orchards and vineyards.
A great many napkins and other articles ,
of usefulness .-ire now madt* in Europe from
tne bark of tlu pap *r mulberry.
The slave ropulation of the empire of i
Brazil is estimated at 1,177,0-2, of whomtii'!,- |
274 are males and 553,748 females
Some Indians recently excavated ill Calis- |
tinbuaoa, a state of Mexico,a gold idol weighing
thirty-two and a half pounds.
According to newspaper statistics, Chicago
factories employ 8,WW children under |
fifteen years of age. of whom 2.000 are girls.
Horse raising is a rapidly-growing Indus- j
try in Montana. The pasturage is excellent,
and the thin air increases the auimals' lung
capacity.
NEWS SUMMARY
Tn*1em and !VII?l<1le siafi.
IIox. S. \V. Halk, who has just quitted the
New Hampshire gubernatorial chair, lias
failed, with heavy liabilities.
Kaxford Sisco, the colored youth who
murdered Abratn Gurnee, a storekeeper at
Park Ridge, N. J., on the night of December
I'U last, was hanged in the corridor of the
Bergen county jail, at Hackensack, the other
morning. Just before leaving his cell Sisco
said to the sheriff: "I was half drunk and
wanted money when 1 went to Gurneo's store,
but I killed him in silf-defence.''
Philip D. Si.occmb while sitting in the
counting room of his store at New Bedford,
M-.iss., \va? shot de ul by Charles Foss, a
sailor, w ho followed up his bloody work by
immediately committing suicide. Foss had
been drinking heavily.
1'avid viin.v, nnout twenty yvms ui?,
during a drunken Sunday spree in Now
York amused himself by abusing a party of
three Chinamen, an<l ended by snooting all
of the Celestials, one of whom was instantly
killed, the second mortally and the" third not
seriously wounded. Quiim was arrested.
Tmk ICeelv motor has como to the surfaco
again. Before a company of New York
journalists and business men Keely, at his
shop in Philadelphia, has just given another
exhibition of tho workings of his mysterious
motor, but refused to permit investigation
into his methods of obtaining a substitute for
steam. He rails his power "etheric vapor."
The Rev. Paniel Penison "VVhedon, late
editor of the M' tiunHs? (Juartcrbl h'rrif.ic,
did a few days ago at Atlantic Highlands,
X. J. Ho was born at Ueddes, N. Y., in IS K
.Tohnsox (', Peck, aged forty-one years;
Rufus Clark, aged fifty-two years, and John
Stott, aged sixteen years, who were burned
at the fire in Banbury, Conn., which destroys!
Beckerle's hat factory, died soon after from
tho effects of their injuries. William P?eck
erle and several tirc-nien were not expected to
liva The pecuniary loss was estimated at
$200,000.
Some of the mills in Pittsburg, Fenn., have
resumed work with non-union help. Other
mills havo signed the sealo of wages demanded
by the strikers and are running full.
A fauewem, dinner was given in New
York to Hon. 8. S. Cox. recently appointed
United States minister to Turkey.
A kike in Syracuse, X. Y , consumed John
Q. Smith's tin"factory, causing an estimated
loss of .<100,000. Frank Edwards perished in
the flames, and 1-ouis Hons? was run over
l>y an engine and fatally injured.
The bill to apportion Pennsylvania into
Congress districts was passed by the State
senate on the 10th over the governor's veto.
South nnd XVenU
A shortage of over $!'/0,000 has been dis
covered in the accounts of J. II. Aufdemorte.
redemption clerk in the United Slates subtreasury
at New Orleans. When the defalcation
was discovered Aufdemorte, who has
been in the public service lor seventeen years
and was well known on account of his
remarkable ability for detecting counterfeit
money, could not be found, and was supposed
to have fled to Mexico.
Through fictitious money orders Isaac
Hibbs, postmaster at Lewiston, Idaho, obtained
from $20,000 to $50,000 nnd then left
for parts unknown. The postal inspector
says the robberies will necessitate the reorganization
of the money order system of the
United Statt-s and other countries.
Onio Greenbackers met in State conven"
tion at Columbus, and nominated a full tick"
et, headed by J. \V. Northrup for governor.
Resolutions were adopted endorsing tho Indianapolis
plat form.demanding the expansion
of the currency, and that banks of issue bo
abolished and legal-tender notes substituted
for bank bills to the amounts of $50 per capita
for the immediate payment of bonds of the
United States and for public improvements,
favcring the submission of a prohibitory
amendment, and against a fusion with any
other party organization.
A grand meteor, "which lit up th?
country like an immense electric light,"was a
midnight sight the other day at Dallas,
Texas.
During the recent heavy storm at Chicago
the schooner Isellie Win lack with her cre w
of five men was lost in Lake Michigan.
A fire in Suffolk, Va., destroyed all the '
principal business portion of the place, including
the Suffolk hotel, tho Southern Telegraph
offico nnd tho Commercial bank. The
fosses aggregate f %'0,000.
Mr. Oterhoi.z and wife, of Charleston
S. C., died from drinking water drawn from
an impure cistern.
Flames broke out in tho center building of
tho Ea>tern Lunatic asylum at Williamsburg,
Ya.,and before they could be got under
control everything was destroyed. The build
ings burned comprise the original ones of the
Institution, and wera erected over 100 years
ago. The 500 inmates wers all rescued, but
one old woman wandered away and was
drowned. The total loss will reach $1.50,00J,
Immense swarms of locusts are ravaging
portions of Iilino-" and Tennessee.
The marauding and murderous Apaches
are escaping into Mexico, with United States
troops in hot pursuit.
Heirs of Martin Coonz claim half the
business section of St. Louis.
General Simon B. B;:ckner, of Kentucky,
the well-known ex-Confederate officer,
was married a few days since in Richmond,
Va., to Miss Delia Claiborne.
A suhgic\L caso without parallel is reported
from Chicago. Mrs. L. J. Putnam
had .suffered for thirteen years from
what' the doctors declared was nil
internal tumor, and finally determined
to submit to an operation for its removal
She was put under the influence of ether and
an incision made in the abdomen, when, instead
of a tumor, the oj>ei ator drew out a
child, which was alive and in good health!
The patient regained cons"ionsn<,ss and there
was hope of her rocovery. but she suddenly
becama unconscious, and died from shx-k.
v The following appeal was sent to President
Cleveland from Tombstone, Arizona, by the
sheriff and other county and city officers:
"About one hundred Indians from San C trios
have 'jeen raiding over th? country for
the lust week, destroying property and killing
our ranchers. last night W. A. D.m- ,
iols, mounted customs inspector, was killed
six miles from Bisbo\ There are plenty of
soldiers in the country, but they aiv in--om
potent to do anything. Can you not ii-lp us;"
Vubin;ton>
Secretary Whitney addressed the students
at the commencement day exercises of
the naval cadets, at Annapolis, Md.
Additional presidential postnias-t?rs appointed:
A. I). Tinsk-y, Sibley. Iowa:
.Thomas Ingalls, at Marblehc&d, Mas-.:
Henry A. Bills, at W'insted. Conn.; Kichan!
N. Hall, at Grenada, Miss. Hunter Woo 1
has been appointed collector of internal
revenue for the second district of Kcatucky.
Recent callers at the White House were
General Logan and members of the Iowa
Editorial association, on un excursion Ka>t
Among the scribtw was J. H. Hubbard, aiIowa
editor who was once President Cleveland's
teacher in Clinton, X. Y.
Further appointments by the President.:
Postmasters?E. P. Rutherfoid. at Clurks
ville, Texas; Martin V. Daggett, at Tui'-.'la,
111.: Charles H. Adam?, at Allegan, Mich.;
Win. H. Bennett, at Lon~? Rraiwii.
N. J.: Benj. F. Louthain, at Logansport,
Ind.: James V. Ward, at Cherokee,
Iowa; B. F. Ross, at Cohen, 111.; Edwin W.
Collis, at Martinsville. Ind. Collector of Internal
Revenue?William H. Yarborough,
for tbo Fourth district of North Carolina.
United States Marshals?Edward M. Boykin,
for the district of South Carolina; Rol>ert S.
Kellcy, for the Territory of Montana; Thomas
Jefferson Carr, for the Territory of Wyoming;
Rornulo Martinez, for the Territory
of New Mexico. United States AttorneysJohn
Catlett Gibson for the Eastern district
of Virginia; Gustavu; Van Hoorebeke for the
Southern district of Illinois; Anthony C.
Campbell for the Territory of Wyoming. Pension
Agent?Robert Taylor, at Knoxviile,
Tenn. Register of the land ollice?Geo. R.
Warner at Tracy, Minn. Seven receivers of
and o!iice3 in the West.
Additional appointments by the President:
To United States marshals?Frederick
II. Marsh, for the northern district of
Illinois; Henry ('. Urner, for the southern
district of (lino. To be collector of customs
?John P. Robinson, for the district of Alexandria.
Va. To be collectors of internal revenue?Isban
Hess, for the fourteenth district
of New York: Alfred C. Parkinson, for the
second district of Wisconsin. To be sur
veyors oi customs? jouu u. i. ?wihees,
for tlio port of Denver ; Addison
C'olo, for the port of Albany.
Kx-Mayor Fox, of Philadelphia, to ^superintendent
of the mint at Philadelphia. Dolores
Romero, of New Mexico, t<> be agent
for Indians of the Pueblo agency in New
Mexico. William A. Walker, of Wisconsin,
to bo agent for Indians of the fJroen Hay
agency in Wisconsin. G. D. Schwartz, of
Pennsylvania, chief of a division in the third
auditor's office.
Thf. adjutant general has completed a list
of casualties in the Federal army during the
late war. The aggregate number of deaths
is shown to have been 35!', 490. Of these
49S occurred among Union soldiers held as
prisoners of war. The total number of troops
reported as furnished by the various States
under the various calls is 2,772,403. Some of
the returns were duplicated, and it is estimated
that the actual number was abou
2,">00,000.
Rwuptativ Manning has revoked all or
dei-s heretofore made concerning the disinfoc
tiou of rags.
Foreign^
Sir Julu's Benedict, a noted English musician
and composer, is dead.
Thirty Christian villages in Tonauin have
been destroyed by the Black Flags, and
many of the inhabitants massacred.
Later official re|>orts say that eightyseven
persons were killed and 100 injured by
the earthquake in the vale of Cashmere,
India. Unofficial reports, however, state
that the earthquake was even more disastrous
in its effects than the first dispatches
indicated. Whole cities and towns are
6poken of as destroyed, and the absence of
definite news is attributed to the demolition
of the telegraph lines.
Asiatic cholera has appeared in France.
Continuous earthquakeshocks, accompanied
by loud rumblings, arc reported from the
Vale of Cashmere, India. The earth has
opened in numerous places, swallowing many
houses. Hot water and clouds of sulphurous
dust have been ejected, from the chasms. In
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i 6ome places whole villages Have been engulfed, |
' and the people who liavo escaped death are I
' threatened with the horrors of famine.
The wife and four children of .T. AVonch i
were burned to death 111 their house at Bar- j
rie, Canada. ]
Sin Pf.ter Loisdkn, the British commiesioner
on the Afghan boundary question, roi
ceived an enthusiastic reception a few days |
since ujK>n his arrival in London. .
Ft'lly 8,000 natives, fearing the wrath of J
} the False Prophet's chiefs, have fled from the
i Soudan into lower Kgypt in consequence of
I the withdrawel of the British troops. The
I Arabs are advancing upon the points abandoned
by the British. They have driven
| the friendly tribes from Ambukol and vicin (
ity,after murdering the Sheiks and the promi i
nent chiefs. I
j People are fleeing from the cholera-infoct t
ed districts of Spain.
The German army is to be increased from
! 41t>,000 to4S0,000. i
A kirk in the Stamboul quarter of Con- (
j etantinople hns destroyed 300 housos, fifty I
i shops and threo mosques. One person was ]
I killed and many injured.
i Seventy persons were killed and many in!
iured on a train in Russia which had been *
wrecked by robbers, who placed a bar of iron 1
across tho track. After the smash-up the i
I robbers plundered tho train. j
Ten members of (he Rhine club were
I drowned in a lake near Basle, Switzerland r
j y the upsetting of their boat
The latest estimated number of killed by
| tho earthquake in tho Yalo of Cashmere,
j India, is 200.
If;nape Boi'Roet, archbishop of Montreal, >
! is flead in his niuety-seeond year.
The cholera scourge has broken out in '
| Madrid. 1
The insurrection in tho United States of J
j Colombia ha* l>een suppressed.
A fire at Aux Cayes, Hay ti, has destroyed j
| 300 buildings and rendered about 1,( 0J fmrii- ,
lies homeless. The loss is is estimated at over ,
! $j,ooo,ouo. ,
A London dispatch announces that con- t
cerning the claim of Mayor Maitland to the p
I>audcrdale peerage, which is before the c
house of lords, United States MiniJter r
I'helps and Senator Edmunds will give testimony
relating to tho law of marriage as it 1
existed in tho American colonies in 177J. j
A half-breed named Remeau has reach- ?
ed tho mission at Calgary, Manitoba, in an *
almost dying condition and with a terrible "
ct/irv nf massacre bv Kiel's Indian allies un- ^
der Big Boar. Kemeau's story is to the effect '
that liis wife and five children and three other
families, while traveling toward Green Lake,
were caught by tho Indians and all foully
murdered.
Lord Wolset.ey denounces the evaeua
tion of the Soudan by the British troops, and
predicts that tho whole province will be
given up to anarchy.
The Canadian town of St. Cesaire has boon
swept by fire. Seventeen dwellings and
stores, the hotel and the chief buildings were
consumed, and a total loss of (200, UOO was '
caused.
LATER NEWS
Senator Blair was renominated for the
United States Senate by the caucus of Republican
members of tho New Hampshire
legislature at Concord. He received 108
votes, his principal opponent, ex-Secretary
Chandler, receiving 37; necessary to a choicei
100. The nomination was equivalent to
election.
The Pennsylvania lower house refused on
the 11th to pass the congressional apportionment
bill over the governor's veto, although
the bill had been so passed in the senate on the
previous day.
Two sons of William Leahy, of Grand
Manan, Me., twenty and fourteen years old,
were drowned there by the upsetting of a
boat.
For the second time Judee JoseDh B
Foraker, of Cincinnati, lias been nominated 1
for governor by the Ohio Republicans. The ?
| State convention was hold at Springfield,and li
the new wigwam was crowded. The plat- a
form adopted favors a national bureau of in- 1
dustry, the enforcement of tho eight-hour j
law, appropriations for general education, 1
and stringent laws against contract labor; 1
also favors a protective tariff, demands the (
restoration of the wool duty of 180", and de- {
nounces Cleveland's administration "for its t
general discrimination in the appointments *
so far made against Union soldiers and in fa- c
vor of men who fought against tho Union,' I
etc. *
Four soldiers were caught in nn Arizona
canyon L>y tin marauding Apaches and
killed. a
A tunnel caved in on a railroad construc. n
tion train at Now River, Tenn. Six persons .
were killed and twenty injured. f
Secretary Manning has ordered the rev- v
enuo marine cutters to observe unusual vigi" j
lance, and patrol the Atlantic coast from New
England to tho Virginia capes, to proven' <
tho arrival of vessels infected with cholera' *
yellow fever, or other contagion.
Rumors of the assassination of tho ameer ,
of Afghanistan were repeated on the | 1
11th in the Russian newspaper wherein they *
originally appeared. Thei>ajier added that the ; J1
people of Afghanistan were greatly excited i
over tho ameer's reported d?at:i. fl
Fresh earthquake shocks in tho vale of x
Cashmere, India, havo destroyed two more ,
towns and killo<l 400 persons. There has fi
also been great loss of life in adjacent vil. 1
ago*. ,
Three-quarters of tho town of Grodnot c
Russia, including tho government ollices and 1
numerous churches, lias been destroyed by | ,
fire. The loss amounts to several million t
roubles. '
Cholera in Spain is spreading, and the
increase in the number of cases now daily re <
ported is causing groat alarm among tho peo. j 1
I?le. ;
Ten men were killed and as many more t
injured by an explosion of giant powder in a <
mine near Zacatecas, Mexico. (.
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FRUIT AND OOP PROSPECTS.
Locusts have appeared in great numbers
in Louisiana, but no damage is reported as
yet.
The Tarboro (X. C.) Southerner says: "I\ncournging
reports reach us from every section
of the entire .State concerning tin crops.
Farmers of Waskoni, Texas, arocomplain
ing of too much rain. Grass looks unusually
line, and corn and cotton aro doing well.
The Hessian fly has crossed tho Rocky ]
mountains over into the Pacific States, where
it, is Hninp' r*ro:it il.imnc.i to tho iTOwinir
wheat. ? ? 1
A i.eadint. Texn-; wool denier estimates ,
this year's wool clip in that State at 00,000,- j ,
< 00 irounds, not withstanding the great lossot ! 5
sheep by the cold last winter.
Gkasshophers pass Kansas this season. I
Secretary Sims, of the State board of :;gri- I
culture, says that ho has had reports from s
more than 100 correspondents, and not one of i
them has seon a sign of these pests. >
Youxr; corn is being injured by the armv
worm ill some parts of Illinois. A despatch
from Shawneetown says thnt the worm is at
work upon the wheat, but that the rropis to#
far advanced to suffer great damage.
A review of the crops iu Tennessee is a
fair statement of their condition iu the ad
joining Southern States. Good prospects for '
an abundant harvest of hay and small grain !
I are as-ured by recent rains. It is too early ,
to form a positive opinion on the corn crop.
The Hillsdale Standard sums up the crop
j conditions of Michigan, after careful investiI
gation, as follows: ''A fair crop of npples, a
| light crop of }>ears and cherrics, no peaches, ,
a very light crop of small fruits, a heavy j
; crop of hay, and an average crop of all kinds |
! of Rrain. l'each trees were winter killed."
| rROMINENT PEOPLE.
Ruv. Dr. Talmaue has his life insured for
j $' ?(>,001.
Hei.i.e IJoyd, the Confederate spy, is teaching
< lo ution iu Little Rode, Ark.
, The Dii'.' do Noailles, the French historian
nn I ncadcmician, is dead at the age of eighty*
three years.
Hex: Pkri.ey Pooke, tin Washington coi>
| respondent, has shaken hands with seventeen
Presidents of the United States.
The only child of General "Stonewall1'
! Ja ksoi was inarrie 1 in Richmond, Va., a
lew ilays since, tj Jlr. William Christian,
i (j 'VKUNoi; Hii.t., of New York, isastu
! reader of Inn papers, mul keeps a scrap >
I bo'ik fi!I??:j with clippings on every conceivable
subje't.
Sevatoii Kh'.m'N'ds, of Vermont, hasgone j
to England to (.ratify in tho house of lords on j
points of American law upon some import'j
ant 'illation p 'inline bof> r that Uodv.
1)1:, Mct'osii, president of Princeton col- j
Ieg*>, is of tho opinion that a child's mind 1 j
| Itf^t ti ie?i for tho beginning of school educa I
lion \vh n tlio dul l is about twelve years old ;
1'iiil.tJ* Evakts, a son of .Senator Evarts, (
is a meniU r of tlio graduating class of tne
general theological seminary tins year, and
i is about t > be consecroled as an Episcopal
I clerg.inan,
i'uixrE (Jit aki.es Avtoi.vk of Hoh'.-nzol1'rn
is di*ad. Ho was b iru in 1811, and pre j
uided over the Prussian cabinet from ISVi to ;
is:',:'. Hn was the head of tlio CatholL- branch ]
of tho royal house of Prussia.
Miss Cleveland, tho Pi-esident's sister,
Ins sent to her publishers in New York the
title of her forthcoming book. Tho title is
"(ieorge Eliot and (Jther Studies," and is
taken m part lroai tho fii-st chapter, which is
a paper on "George Eliot's Poetry,." The
book is expected to be giveu to tlie public in
about a fortnight.
iiWPIilllft
mm MEMOIES.
[lis Personal Recollections of
Great Events,
Cncidents of the Great War and
Noted Battles.
"Wo give below extracts from Genera]
3 rant's memoirs, the firit volume of which
vill bo published on the 1st of December and
' - 1 ? A. ?? V. T*.
no seconu volume next mui ca m ?
hat 300,0J0 copies of tho work are already
miered. The frontispicco of the first volume
s an excellent engraving of Grant at the age
>f twenty-one, copied from a daguerreotype
on nod by Mr. George William Childs, of
Philadelphia. Pictures of the general's
jirth-place and of the McLean linage at Ap.
xminttox and fac-simili s of Grant's handwriting
will be nmong the illustrations of the
ivork. The dedication, printed in fac simile,
ends thus:
"These volumes are dedicated to the Amori:ab
soldier and sailor. IT. fc>. Gua.nt.
"New Youk, May Z\, 1hS5.w
GRANT'S BOYHOOD AM) KDITCATIOJf.
Here is one of tho author's earliest perional
reminiscences:
There was a Mr. Ha'ston living within n
;?w miles of thi village, who owned a colt
vhich I very much wanted. My father had
>fTered for it, but Mr. Ralston wanted
Wo. I was so anxious to have tho colt that
ifter the owner left I begged to be allowed to
ake him at the price deinaudei. My father
'ielded, but said $-0 was all the horse was
vorth, and to d me to offer that price; if it
vas not accepted I was to offer \ and if
hat wnukl not get mm, to give ui'* i
it onco mounted t he hor&o and went for the
olt. When I got to Mr. Kalstcn's house, 1
aid to him, ' Papa says I may offer you
or tho colt, but if you won't take that
am to offer you $2J.5'>, and if
roil won't take" that to give you
<25." It would not require a Connecticut
nan to guess the price finally agreed upon.
This story is nearly truA I certainly showed
ery plainly that I had come for the colt and
neantto have him. I could not liavo been
iver oight years old at this time. I kept the
iorso until ho was four years old, when he
vent blind, and I sola him for $-0. When I
went to Maysville to school in 18-6, at the
igoof fourteen, I recognized my colt as one
if tho blind horses working on the tread
vheel of the ferry boat.
Of tho circumstance of his admisssion to
Vest Point General Grant tolls tho follow,
ng:
My father received a letter from Hon.
Thomas Morris, then United States Senator
rom Ohio. When ho road it he said to mo,
'Ulysses, I believe you are going to receive
ho appointment" "What appointment?" I
nqulred. "To West Point: I have applied
for it."' "But I won\.go," IsaiJ. Hesai-lhe
bought I would, and 1 thought so, too, if he
lid. I really bad no objection to going to
Vest Point, except that I had a very exalted
rlea of tho requirements necessary to get
hrough. I did not believe I possessed them,
ind could not bear tho idea of failing. There
tad been four boys from our village, or its
mmediate neighborhood, who had graduated,
ind never a failure of any one appointed
rom Georgetown,except in the case of the ono
rhose place I was to take. He was the son
if Dr. Bailey, our nearest and most intimate
leighbor. Young Bailey had been appointed
n 1837. Finding before the January exnmilation
following that he could not pass, ho
esigned and went to a private school, and
emair.ed there until the following year,
vhen he was reappointed. But before the
text examination he was dismissed. Dr.
Jailey was a proud and sensitive man, and
le felt the failure of his son so keenly that ho
orbade his return home. * * *
I was impatient to got on my uniform and
ee how it looke 1. beside probably wanting
ny old schoolmates, particularly the girls, to
00 ine in it. But the conceit was knocked
>ut of me by two little circumstances that
lappened soon after the arrival of tho clothes
ind which gave me a distaste for military
ini forms that I never recovered from.
Soon after the arrival of tho suit I donnod
t and put ofT for Cincinnati on horseback.
iVhile I was riding along a street of that city,
inagining that every one was looking at me
rith a feeling akin to mine when I first saw
Jeneral Scott,a little urchin, bareheaded,bareooted,
with dirty and raggod pants held up
ty a single gallows?that's what su-tpendors
cere called then?and a shirt that had not
een a washtub for weoks, turned to mi and
ried out: 'Soldier, will you work? No, sir-ee!
'11 sell my shirt first1 The horse trade and
ts dire consoiuences were recalled to mind."
RECOLLECTIONS OK SCOTT AND TAYLOR.
The following concerning Gonerals Scott
,nd Taylor aro given as illustrations of tho
uthor's methods of personal comment:
1 had now been in battle with tho two leadng
commanders conducting armies in a
oreign laud. Tho contrast between tho two
vas verv marked. General Taylor never
wro uniform, but dressed himself entirely
or comfort. Ho movod about tho field in
vhich ho was opcrnting to see through his
iwn eyes the Situation. Often ho would lie
vithout stnT officers, and wlien ho was neompanie
I by tho n there was no prescribed
irder in which they followed. Ho was very
nuch given to sit hi? horso sideways?with
>oth feet on ono side?particularly on tho
>att!? field. General Scott was tho reverse In
ill these particulars. He always wore all the
miform prcscrilted, or allowed, by law; when
le inspected bis lines word would be sent to
d! divison and brigade commanders in adan-e,
notifying them of 1 lie hour when tho
ommandiiig general might bo expected. This
vas done so that a'l the army might be undor
irnis lo salute their chief as lie passed. On
lie-e dcrnsions ho wore his dress uniform,
oekcd lrit, nguilleltes, saber andspurs. His
tair pro;*;i\ inside all oill'ors constructively
m his stall"?engineers, inspectors, quarternatters,
etc.? followed also in uniform and
n pwribo-l order. Orders were prepared
villi pr -at > are and evidently with the view
hat tliero should bo a history of what followed.
I saw a pool doil of fJeaeral Taylor durng
my s.-rvice with the State. On ono occasion
he said to me that I ought to go into
he United States service. I told him 1 inended
to do so if iheiv was a war. lie spoke
>f his acquaintance with the public men of
he State and said he could pet them to re (
m-nend me for a position.and that ho would j
lo ail he could for me. I declined to receive
tvior; 'monts for permission to fight for my I
tountry. * * *
hkcom-ectioxs of fort doxelson.
At the siege of Fort Donolson, wlien the
noil found themselves without ammunition,
hey could not stand up Hj;ninst tho troops
vho seenie 1 to have pl -nty of it. The division
broke and a portion fled, but. mint of
lie men, ns they were not pursued, only fell
rack out of ratine of fire of the enemy. It
nust have ben about this tinio that Thayer
nislied h's brigade in lwtweon the enemy and
hose of our troops that wore without atnmulition.
At all events tho enemy fell I a -k
.vithin its iiitreiichiiionts and was t here when
I ai rived on tho Held.
i saw Clio men smnciin^ in iuiuu*, uuMng
n Mm most exeit-d manner. No officer
teemed lo he giving any directions. Tiio solli?Ts
had their muskets, but no ammunition,
vliile there were tons of it at hand. I heard
some of the men say that tho enemy had
ome out with his knapsacks and haversacks
Slled with rations. Th->y seemed to think
this indi "ito 1 a determination on his part to
>tav out and fight just as lontr as the provisions
held <mt I turned to Col. J. D. Web
<ter, of my staff, who was with me. and said:
"Rome of our men are pretty badly demoral)7.
-d. but the i-nemy must be' more s >. for he
lias att'-mpte 1 to force his w.iy out, but has
fallen I nek: the one who at'acks first now
will l?? victorious, and the en-my wi'l have
to be in a hurry if ho Rets ahead of me.'' 1
determine 1 to make th<> nssuult a' ?nen " >
Dur ltft. It was clear to my mind that the
enemy had started to march out with his entire
force, except a few pickets, and if our attack
could he made on the left before the enemy
could redistribute his forces along the lino,
we would find but littlo opposition except
from the intervening abatis. I directed
Colonel Wehsti r to ride with me and call
out to the men as we passed: "Fill your cartridge
boxes quick and get into line; the enemv
is trvintr to escape and ho must not bo
permitted to do so." This acted like n charm.
The men only wanted some one togivotliem
a command. We rodo rapidly to Smith's
quarters, when I explained the situation to
him nnd directed him to charge the enemy's
works in his front with his whole division,
.'dying at the same time that he would lind
nothing hut a very thin lino to contend with,
The general was off in an incredibly short
time, going in advance himself to keep his
men from firing while they were working
their way throught the alintis intervening
be. we?? them and the enemy. The outer
line of rifle-pits was passed, and the night of
tho nth, General .Smith with much of his
division, bivouacked within the lines of the
enemy.
TIIK f'APTl'ttK OK VlfKSBfRO.
Tho Vicksburg newspaper, which we receive
1 regularly (while before Vicksburg)
thr? ujh the courtesy of the rebr-1 pickets,
said, prior to the 41.l>, in speaking of t!ie
"Yankee." l.oast that th*y would take dinner
in Vicksburg that day, that the Inst receipt
for cooking a rabbit was: "Ketch your rabbit
first." The paper at thistimo and for
some time previous was fruited on th<> plain
side of wall paper. Tho last number was
>>ri>itx>/l nnd announced that we
find "caught our rabbit."
I have no doubt that Femberton commenced
his correspondence on tho .'5d with a
iwo-fold nurposo; first, fc> avoid an assault,
which he Knew would l>e successful; socond,
to prevent the capture taking place on tho
great national holiday, the anniversary of
the declaration of American independence.
Holding out for better terms a< he did, ho
defeated his aim in tho latter particular.
(in tho Itli of Jul}-, at tho appointed hour,
the garrison of Vicksburg mar hed out of
the'r wcirks and formed line in front, stacked
arms and marched back in Rood order. >ur
whole army present witnessed this scene without
cheering and without a single offensive
remark that 1 ever heard of.
lyogan's division, which had approached
nearest the rebel works, was the first t >
march in, and the flag of one of tho regiments
of his division was soon floating over the
court house.
The campaign of Vicksburg was suggested
and developed by circumstances. The elections
of 18ti2 had gone against the prosecution
of tho war. Voluntary enlistment hail nearly
ceased, anil tho draft had been resorted to;
this wai resisted, and a defeat or backward
movement would havo inodo its execution
impossible. A forward movement to decisive
victory was necessary. Accordingly, I
resolved to" get below Vicksburg, unite with
Banks against Port Hudson, make New Orleans
a baso, and with that base, and Grand
Gulf as a starting point, move our combined
forces against Vicksburg. Upon reaching
Grand Gulf, after running its bUteries and
fighting a battle, I received a letter from
Banks informing me that he could not be at
Port Hudson under ten days, and then with
ouly 15,(XX) men. The time was worth more
than the reinforcements. I therefore determined
to push into the interior of tho enemy's
country.
With a large river behind us, held above
and below by the enemy, rapid movements
wore essential to succoss. Jackson was captured
tho day after a new commander liar arrived
and when largo reinforcements were
daily expected. A rapid movement west was
hiado, and the garrison of Vicksburg was met
in fivo battles and badly defeatod. Tho city
was then successfully besieged.
LICE'S SURRENDER.
Ono of the most interesting parts of the
memoirs Is tnat wnicn aescrines i^oo s sur*
render. Following are extracts from this
portion:
I found General Leo hnrl been brought into
our linos and conducted to a house belonging
t > a Mr. McLean, and was there with one
of his staff officers waiting my arrival. The
head of his column was occupying a hill, a
portion of which was an apple orchard, across
the little valley from the court house. Sheridan's
forces were drawn up in line of battle
on the crest of the hill on tho south side of
the same valley.
Before stating what took place between
General Jioe and myself, I will give all there
is of tho narrative of General I/ee and the famous
apple tree. Wars produce many stories
of fiction, some of which aro told until they
aro believed. The war of tho Rebellion was
fruitful in tho same way. The story of tho
apple tree is one of those fictions with a slight
foundation of fact.
As I have said, there was an apple orchard
on the side of the hill occupied by tho Confederate
forces. Running diagonally up tho
hill was a wagon road which at one point ran
very near one of the trees, so that tne wheels
on that sido had cut off the roots of tho tree,
which made a little embankment.
General Babcock reported to me that when
lie first met General Lee he was sitting upon
this embankment with his feot in the road
and leaning against the tree. It was then
that Leo was conducted into the house where
I first met him.
I had known General Lee in the old army,
and had served with him in the Mexican war,
but (UU not suppose, owing to me uiuereiiL?>
in our ages and rank, that he would probably
remenihor me; while I would remember him
more distinctly because he was the chief engineer
on tho stiff of General Scott in tho Moxican
war. When I had left camp this morning
I had not expected tho result so soon that
wai then taking place, and consequently was
in rough garb, and, I believe, without a
sword, as I usually was when on hors?back
on tho field, wearing a soldier's blouse for a
coat, with shoulder strap., of my rank to iudicate
who I was to the army. Whin I went
into tho house 1 found General Leo. We
greeted each other, and, after shaking hands,
took our seats. What his feelings wore I do
not know. Being a man of much dignity and
with an impenetrable face, it wis impossible
to say whether ho felt inwardly gla 1 that the
end had finally come, or whether he felt sadly
over tho result and was too manly toshow it
Whatever his feelings were,they n'ere'entirely
concealed from observation, but my own
feelings, which had been quite apparent on
the recoipt of h:s letter, were aid and dopressed.
I folt like anything rather than
rejoicing at the downfall of a foo that
had fought so gallantly, nnd had suffered
so much from a cause which
I believed to bo one of tho worst for which a
I>eople ever fought, and for which tli ;ro was
not tho least pretext. I do not question, lowover,
the sincerity of tho groat mass of tho e
who were opposed to us. General Leo was
dressed in full uniform, entirely new, and
wearing a sword ot considerable vaiue, very
likely the sword that had been presented by
the State of Virginia; at ail events, it was an
entirely different sword from the one that
would ordinarily bo worn in the field. In my
rough traveling suit, which was the uniform
of a private, with the straps of a general, I
mast have contrasted very strangely wi h a
man so handsomely dressed, six l'oet high,
and of faultless form. But this is not a matter
lhat I thought of until afterward.
General Lee and I soon fell into con'jprsation
about old army time-;. Ho remarked that
ho remembered me very well in the old army,
and I told him, as a matter of course, that I
remembered him perfectly, but owing to the
difference in years?thorobeing al>out sixteen
years' difference in our ages?and our rank. I
thought it very lik<>ly I ha 1 not attracted his
attention sufficiently to be romomherc 1 after
so long a jieriod. Our conversation grew so
pleasant that I almost forgot the object of
our meeting. General Loo at that time was
nccomp mied by one of h:s staff officers, a
Colonel .Marshall. I had all of my staff with
m_\a good portion of whom were in the room
during the whole of the interview.
TUP cfTtirrp nnrcjTTn'Kr
xlijj ujjj v jjit yujjuiiuj.ii
Propnitd I cKiitlaiicn In (Iso Forthcoming
( un;r< K?
The silver question will undoubtedly bo
fully discussed in (he next Congress, and already
public curiosity is aroused as to tho
action that will be taken- A Washington telogram
to the New York Herald gives as follows,
"in its exact form as it is now being
considered by prominent public men, a silver
proposition which is in tended to form tho
basis of legislation in the next Congress:"
First?Issue certificates on the deposit of
silver bullion at its market price at the time
of dei>osit expressed in dollars, which shall
stand as tho declared value of the certificates
while in the hands of tho public. Tho average
value of silver for the previous month
might be taken as the market value at the
time of deposit.
Second?Such certificates to be made legal
tender for all purpof cs except in transactions
between private parties.
Third?They shall be redeemable in lawful
money, or at the option of tho government
in silver builion at its market price at tho
time of redemption. AVhen received into tho
treasury for dues to the government or redeemed
in lawful money, they shall bo held
and paid out again as other currency; but
when redeemed in silver bullion, to li* cancelled
and destroyed.
Fourth?The coinngo of silver to bo sus;
pended until required again to meet an actual
i demand for silver dollars. Oil tho coinage of
j any iiuJUon 1110 ceriuicaics roprc.senuiig mo
bullion shall be cancelled and destroyed.
Fifth?Fractional silver, or nt least tlio
lialf dollar pieces, to be made full weight and
! full legal tender and the redemption of sub1
sidiary silver to be discontinued.
Sixth?Withdraw the one and two dollar
I legal tender notes without reducing the total
j values of greenbacks; also tho live-dollar
, bank noto and issue one, two and five-dollar
coin notes, tascd on the silver dollars now
' coined, dollar for dollar.
Seventh?Redeem and recoin the trado
dollar into standard dollars or fractional
coin. f
Concerning the above proposed silver legislation,
the Herald correspondent says that it
originated at discussions held toward"tho close
of the last Congress by General Warner,
or Ohio, and other silver men.
uRUSHED BY A CYCLOHE,
Two Wisconsin Village* Alinont Enlirely
Destroyed.
A cyclone has dono great damngo to per!
am ami property in Wisconsin. Report,
; from country towns located in the path of
I the storm indicate that it was about eighty
I ?"? * ' ?.1
II111 US III Willi U, uiiu viuaani v?*v cuvuv
from tlio Mississippi river to Lake Michiganthe
counties of Vernon, Sank, Dane, JofTer,
son, Richland and Columbia being tlio greatest
sufferers.
The little village of New Allan, Houston
county, was almost destroyed. The railway
elevator, school houso anil seven resiliences
were leveled in an instant. The fronts of all
I business blo.ks were broken in, twenty
houses were unroofed and many barns blown
to parts unknown. Four people were injured,
one child dangerously. The school-house, a
fine, two story frame building, was raised
high in the air, dropped and crushod to
splinters. Boards were driven through framo
houses. The loss to New Albin and vicinity
is *";(), 1100.
The village of Victory, in Vernon county,
opposite the river from New Albin, was entirely
destroyed. The town building, two
small elevators, hotels, church, school-house,
three stores and fifty residences were wiped
out of existence. Tho loss to Victory is
placed at f HK),i 00. Several persons wore
seriously injur d there.
From this point east of I>ake Michigan the
damage was confine.1 to overturning and demolition
of farm houses and small
buildings and injury to growing
crops, gardens and fruits by hail
and wind. The forco of the hail-storm was
I unprecendented. In many places the fall of
j ice continued for thirty minutes, covering tho
, ground 10 a aepin 01 ironi wm u< mu muiw,
A RESERVOIR BURSTS.
A Torrent of H aiti 120 Fret High
C'aiiHci t-rcnt Dnmago.
; Near Longmount, Col., at noon, a few days
j since, the Beaver Park reservoir, in South
1 St. Vrair Canyon, burst, pausing great dam_
: age to llie surrounding country. The torrent^
which is estimated to have reached a height
of 120 feet, rushed down the canyon with
t< rritic force, earring away bridges, houses,
barns ami everything which obstructed its
1 nth, and flooding the adjacent country. So
tar as learned, no lives ?vere lost The damage
to crops and meadows along the lowlands
is very great. The reservoir, an immense
iiiVair, covering an area of many acres, supplied
water for the highland ditch, which
1 i n verses a large section of land adjacent to
the mountains. I
GLADSTONE'S DOWNFALL.
II is Defeat in Pari foment Followed
by his Resignation.
Jlie Tories Prepared to Take Office
Under Lord Salisbury,
A London dispatch states that the result of
tho defeat of tho government when the house
of commons refused to pass the budget to a
second reading on account of the obnoxious
incroaso in the tax 011 spirits, has been, as
was expected, the tendering of tho resignations
of Mr. Gladstone and his ministry to
tho queen, and all Great Britain is in a state
of excitement over the crisis. A good deal
of surprise is manifested over tbo
defeat of the government, which was expected
by the conservatives least of nil. It was
known thatnn effort would bo made to defeat
the clauso 111 the budget increasing tho
duties upon beer and spirits, but nobody
imagined that the opposition would succeed
in overturning the government, as it has
done. Tho disaster arose more from overconfidence
on the part of the liberals than
from the strength of the conservatives. Many
of Mr. Gladstone's party supporters in the
house had become dissatisfied with his management
nf the Russo-Afglmn question, and
they thought that tho vote on tho budget
would afford a good opportunity to express
their displeasure. With this object in view
many liberals refrained from voting, although
the party whips were freely used by the government
leaders who seem to be tho only
ones who realized the danger in which the administration
stood. The result was the disastrous
defeat of tho government, and this,
in accordance with long established precedent,
could be followed only by the resignation of
the ministry.
The cabinet council met at noon and was
in session for an hour and a quarter, while
the news of its defeat in the houso was being
discussed excitedly all over London and
throughout Great Britain. It is said that
t he meeting was a very stormy one. and that
charges and recriminations were freely indulged
in by the members, all of whom were
anxious to bhift the respousibility for the
disaster upon somebody's shoulders.
The question of the proper line
of conduct to pursue in view of
the defeat on the budget was discussed.
Every member of the cabinet was present,
and they all agreed on one point, if on
nothing else, that it would be inconsistent to
remain longer in oflice. At the close of the
discussion a vote was taken on the question
of resigning, and it was unanimously resolved
that the resignations of tho ministers
should be placed in the hands of the queen at
once.
The fact that the ministers lhad decided to
resign became known throughout London almost
beforo ihe cabinet meeting adjourned,
and there was an unusual rush lo the houses
of parliament by persons anxious to bo present
when tho announcement should bo made
iu the house of commons. The attendance at
prayer.) at the opening of the house was extraordinarily
large, and tho entrances to the
parliament buildings were blockcd by eager
throngs anxlouB to catch a glimpse of the
ministers as thev entered and to heur reports
of the proceedings inside.
Mr. Gladstone entered tho house of commons
at a few minutes after 4 o'clock, and
jwffect silence reigned as ho walked toward
the speaker's desk. His face was perfectly
calm, his body was erect, and ho walked
with the firm st^p of a man who is wholly
undisturbed. He paused at the speaker's
desk and held a low conversation with
Mr. Peel, which lasted for some momenfs.
The premier was smiling, and apparently
In tho best of spirits, and as
ho stcod talking to Mr. Peel a bur.st of cheers
broke forth from the liberal members of tho
house, which soon tock tho form of ail ovation.
In tho midst of the cheering Mr. Gladstone
walked to his usual seat and took it with the
air of a man perfectly self-possessed and without
a care on his mind. As he sat down the
enthusiasm of his followers was re loubled,an<l
cheers rent the air from all side? of the
chamber. Tho conservatives sat silent and
gazed upon the scene of excitement. The applause
was continued for several minutes,
until finally the premier, in response to the
greeting, aro-o and faced the house. This
Was the sisrnnl for renewed shouting and
clapping of hands, during which Mr. Gladstone
stood still smiling Dcnlgnly on his admirer.-:.
When silence was at length secured Mr.
Gladstone said the cabinet had come to the
conclusion that it was under an obligation to
submit to theipUH-n a dutiful communication.
This statement was greeted by loud cheers
from tho conservatives. It would bp premature
on his part, the premier continued, to
enter into partit u'ars concerning the
nature of that rommuni ation now, before
it Was in the jxissession of tho
queen. He would say, however, that, as
on fotmer occasions, a few days must elapse
before tho result of the communication could
Ik? arrived at so as to make it projter to disclose
it to the house. During that interval,
Mr. Gladstone concluded, tho house would
follow i'.s usual custom by refraining from
the transaction of its ordinary business, and
would therefore move that the house, on rising.
adjourn until Friday. The house agreed
to the motion and promptly adjourned to
l'ridav, as did tho hou. oof lords on moticn
of tori Granville, a few minutes
later. Although tho statement nf Mr. Gladstone
did not in diiwt terms antiounco the
resignation of the ministry, tho words which
he employed are th s> which havo been invariably
used on similar occasions, and were
accepted us indicating that the resignations
had been decided on and tendeied to the
queen, it would have been regarded as discourtesy
to her mnje.-tv to have made tho
announcement in niiy wore <iin i;i iunu uufore
she hart 1 ml nn opportunity to accept
the resignation.
Another dispatch from London states that
as to the personnel of the new ministry
nothing appeared In bi set'led. except Mint
Lord Salisbury would lo I lie premier an?l
that Lord Randolph < hurchiil would have a
place in the cabinet. The illness of Si*- Stafford
Northcote came at an inopportune time,
as it would prevent him from accepting; the
portfolio that would undoubtedly be offered
to him.
ENGLAND AND RUSSIA.
All Question* of Diffcreiicn between
Tliein Settled.
The London I'all Mall Unzetle says it is
glad to be able to state upon the highest authority
that the long standing question of difference
between England and Russiacoaccrn
ing tho noiaiiwe.se Aiguan ironuur mus wuuu
finally und satisfactorily settle I. A definite
agreement has been arrived at on all questions
of principle. The commissioners will forthwith
commence to mark precisely the delimitation
of the boundary. They are now on the
spot The Penjdeh incident will bo referred to
tho king of Denmark, who has informally
agreed to accept the oflh-e of arbitrator.
Tho arbitration will bo rigidly confined tc
the interpretation ol the covenantof March 10.
THE NATIONAL GAME,
The largest drawing Southern league city
Is Macon.
It is rare that a club's pitchers lea l the
team in batting, yet that s what Buflinton
and Whitney are doing for Boston.
Daily, Ferguson and Clarkson, all practically
young pitchers, are doing the bjst work
of any of the pitchers under contract to National
Leaguo clubs.
A Bridgeport (Conn.) druggist claims to
have dis-overe 1 a method by which base balls
can bo made luminous, lie argues that tho
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gailltf fan U'J jjiaycu tvo ??<.** ?.?|F V..? ?.v. v..
electric light as by daylight.
Affairs in the baseball world remain peaceful
as to the relations of the dilTnrent associations
toward each other, and with little prospoet
of the opening of hostilities which can
do nobody any good, howsoever they might
terminate, and would bo certain to work injury
to the general interests 01 the game.
Foil the first two weeks of the season the
batting of the American association was very
weak, out since then it has bjen harder than
ever known before. A remarkable feature
this year is the heavy punishment the invincible
pitchers of last season have received, while
the slow ones have been peculiarly successful.
A large pnrty of brokers from the New
York Stock Exchange chartered a special
train to bring them over to Philadelphia tc
witness the first league championship game of
the series between the New York and Phila
delphia clubs. New York won by 3 to 2. The
next game, played in New York, the Phila'
delphia nine won by '.> to 1.
The Hong Kong Press of March If
contains an account of a baseball match be
tween nine* selected from the United State;
navy and the Hong Kong Crickot club, com
posed of Englishmen. The Yankees won b}
It to o. Then they loaned to the Cricketers
their pit"her, a gentleman named O'Eeary
and the Englishmen won by 3 to '2.
The changing of the rules governing the
pitcher's delivery in both Leaguo and Atneri
can a^s iciation has improved base-running t<
a great degree. The pitjher can not now
keep a runner hugging first base like he could
Inst season, and unless ho is supported by r
first-class catcher who is liable to throw ac
. urately and swiftly to second, ho is at!
great disadvantage.
The championship record up to recent date
is as iouows:
THE NATION A I. LEACII'K.
Ilo/i. Lnsl. Won. l.r>al
New York 20 ft lioft"ii 8 1
Chicago 19 <i St. S.oui.* ! 1
I'hiladdpia... .15 11 linlTalo 7 ]
1'rovidcnci' It! 7 I droit 4 2
AMERICAN ASSOCIATION.
I St. Louis 25 K 1 lUooklyn 13 2
I'ittsbur.: 21 13 I'nlliinore 14 1
I'incinn iti 20 1?? | At hlfl ic 14 4
Louisville Is IT | .Mfliopclitiii. .11 ?
EASTERN I.F.AIit'E.
Virginia 19 3 | I.ancai-t-.T 9 I
Trenton Ifi 7 | Norfolk U 1
National 14 7 | Jersey City (i 1
Newark II 10 | Wilmington 3 "
POUTIIEttN I.EA'il'K.
Atlanta (i j ('oliiiu'll* 14 1
Augusta 13 14 Mficin '.4 1
liimilngham.,. 5 10 | Memphis 8 1
Chattanooga... 11 14 | Hiislivilie..^..!* 1
FIRM, GARDEN AND HOUSEHOLD.
Clean Cnlture of the lloot Crop.
Clean culture from the first is a vital
necessity of the root crop. For some
years past the writer has practiced an
easy way of securing this necessary culture
without nny hand weeding, and
merely by the use of a little more seed.
Six pounds of seed per acre will give a
stand of plants which will admit of running
a hand cultivator across the rows,
cutting out a strip ten inches wide and
leaving the plants thus ten inches apart in
the row. The cultivator, having two
scrapcrs, one on cach side, can be run
over the row of plants in this manner,
(tho * * represent the plants, the
inclined lines the scrapers,) and thus
# t * * * ;
clearing and scraping up the soil quite
close to the row. This cleans out all the
seeds excepting those which grow quite
close to each plant, and there will bo
very few of these if the ground is only
in moderately clean condition. Usually
no hand weeding is necessary, for tho
roots soon overpower any stray weeds
that may ehow themselves. Thirty
tons per- acrc of mangels have been
grown in this way with no more cost
than a crop of corn, and all by the use
of the hand cultivator. The middles, of
coursc, arc worked with the horse hoc.
Indeed, the hand cultivator will almost
wholly dispense with the use of the common
hoc, an implement fit only for
Indians and their primitive and slow
ways of culture.?New York Times.
Garden Herbs.
Few things add more to the pleasure
or a thoroughly good cook than to have
a full supply of kitchen herbs ready to
hand, says the Garden. A little of one
thing or another in this line often makes
all the difference between a successful
dish and one of mediocre quality. Every
garden should have a few, and where
they are wanting should be looked after
at this season. Perhaps the most useful
is parsley. That has to be raised from
seed, although if the flower stalks are
cut off as they come up in the summer
the same j'lants may be prolonged several
seasons. It does not go to seed, however,
the first season of sowing; so that
if it is sown early and gets strong before
summer comes we can get a pretty
good supply of leaves the first season.
The seeds, however, take several weeks
to germinate, and should be put
in as early as possible. Another herb
of great service to the best cooks in the
leek; a kind of onion which is no onion,
as it makes all tops and little roots. It
is not so strong as the ordinary onion,
and pives a delicate flavor to certain
soups and sauces which nothing of the
tribe will do. This has also to be sown
early and on very rich ground. But,
if possible, the richness should be given
to the ground the previous year. Fresh
and rank manure is unfavorable to good
icek culture. Many make good use in
winter of majoram and summer savory.
These arc raised from seed sown at the
usual time in the spring. Sage and
thyme are perennials; but they require
an occasional pruning or replanting to
get them in the best condition. If left
to themselves they become woody, scaly,
and somewhat barren of leaves, if they
are not entirely killed by the severity of
the winter. Thyme can be kept in good
condition by being simply sheared down
to the ground or cut back with a knife
every spring. This induces a good healthy
growth,whichisin excellent condition for
use at any time. Sage is often kept many
years in good condition by simply cutting
back; but often it needs starting
quite anew. This may be done by taking
cuttings oft the old plant and burying
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uiuui ui'Cjj uunu 111 1.11c ^iuuuu 01/ butu
the tops of the shoots are barely above
the surface. These root well and soon
make good plants. There are other
herbs useful on some occasions; but these
nre essential to every good garden.?
Farm, Field and Stockman.
Dairy and Stock !Votos?
Gentleness will help fill tho milk pail.
Oil meal and roofs make sleek cattle.
The pig is no exception to the rule
that all domestic animals reouirc salt.
A cream thermometer will save backache;
sixty-four degrees i3 the correct
thing.
More butter is spoiled by being overworked
than by not being worked
enough.
Cows become very fond of beanstalks,
after a littlo use of them, and prefor
them to good hay.
The Farm Journal advises that we keep
cribbing horses loose in stables without
mangers. Let them eat off the floor.
When the cream gets too thick in the
chum, add some warm water (not hot)
to float the butter, and it will come
ennnftr
When cornstalks arc fed, clover should
he fed with them, or cotton-seed meal.
Timothy and clovcr mixed is better than
clear clover.
Sheep should not be allowed to run in
muddy yards or be driven through the
mud to and from the field. Such treatment
may engender fool rot.
The best butter over produced from a !
churn would have been wretched stuff if
the cream had been allowed to absorb
odors from the cellar or kitchen.
j Most people feed horses too much hay.
| j Some horses will cat hay until they can
' travel 110 better than a cow. It costs
. somo men twice as much to keep horses
i as others whoso teams are equally well
1 cared for.
A good dip for young lambs infested
i with ticks is made of a mixture of one
gallon of soft soap, six pounds grease,
one pint crude carbolic acid, nil boiled
in ten gallons of water, with nine gallons
of cold water added.
Ilorses that arc troubled with worms
jnay be safely and speedily relieved by
j giving them a small dose of turpentine j
j two or throe times in their feed. It j
nauseates the worms so that they lose I
their grip on the intestines and pass
through with the excretions of the stom- i
ach.
Breeds of cows strongly predisposed I
to milk production will sometimes pfive j
milk before the heifers have had their |
first calf. The tendency is inereiised [
where the young calves run together, in :
which case, unless precautions are taken, j
they are almost sure to learn to suck each
other. !
A recipe for a small cream cheese is 1
given in the Irish Ayriculturai G'a;etlj
as follows: Take one pint thick cream, j
mix a little salt, according to taste; put '
j it into a wet, scalded cheese cloth, tie it, '
i and hang up for a day or two, and put i
1 a weight on it, by which time it will be i
i j ready for use.
Professor Caldwell says a herd of cows
j having only a very pure soft water to
, drink were seriously allectcd with the
; disease called there bone brittiencss;
when the herd was supplied with hard j
' ! water (lime) the disease disappeared, but j
only to reappear when the cattle were
; put back on the soft water again.
To fatten a liorsc, mix a bushel of flax '
i seed, one of barley, one of oats and one i
; of corn, and grind the mixture together, j
, Feed two or three quarts of the mixture j
, three times a day, mingled with a peek
of cut hay and straw. If the horse eats j
? readily, let the quanity be gradually in-)
creased until he will cat four or six ,
! quarts at every feeding three times a
i i day.
1 I The crosses of ordinary Jersey bulls on [
native cows produce some very good
1 rows, llut the uuilc calves are not re-j
, liable as breeders, and arc generally so ,
small that they will not pay for raising to
beef ace. A male grade Jersey is of so I
. little value that only a small sum can bo
^ got for him for veal; his best use is to
j be turned over to the butcher as soon as
l he can be fairly fattened.
If you do not get as good a price for
" your butter as some one else dors you
i may count that there arc nine chances out
of ten that the fault lies with you and
not with the purchaser, remarks an cx.t
chnngc. Really choice butter is not so
'? plenty but that any one who makes a
" really first class article can easily obtain
the highest price. It is very natural for
i all to think that their butter is just as
o good as their neighbor's, but if the neigh
bor's brings a higher price it will pay to
try and improve the quality a little.
llonseliold Hints and Recipes.
Anything mixed with water requires
a hotter oven than anything mixed with
milk.
Beef for roasting should not be salted,
as it extracts the juices. Simply sprinkle
with flour.
Old tea leaves may be utilized by
steeping, straining and washing varnished
paint with the water. .
"Wall paper may bo cleaned by covering
the top of a broom with a cloth and.
gently sweeping over the paper.
Knives and forks with ivory, bone, or
wooden handles should not be put into
hot water. But wo suggest that when
our readers buy knives for tho tablo
they get those with silver plated handles
and blades. They need no bath brick
to keep them bright, but only an occasional
rub with whiting, and save
"lots of trouble."
Cream muffins are delicious. Perhaps
only those who keep cows will feel
inclined to be extravagant enough to
indulge in them. Beat six eggs, a pint
of cream and a pint of milk well together;
add an ounce of lard and an
ounce of butter, a teaspoonful of salt
and a quart of flour stirred in lightly.
Half fill the rings, and bake in a sound
oven.
If you wish to have potatoes mealy do
not let them stop boiling for an instant;
and when they are done, pour the water
off and let them steam for ten or twelve
minutes over the fire. In the spring of
the year it is better to boil the potatoes
in two waters, pouring off the first as
soon as it comes to the boil, and then
cover the potatoes a second time with
cold water, adding a little salt.
To make erapc jelly, strip from the
stalk some fine, ripe, black grapes, stir
them with a wooden spoon ovGf a gentle
fire until all have burst and the juice
flows freely from them; strain off, beincr
on your guard that no pressure is applied
to the bag; pass it through and through
the bag until quite clear; simmer gently
for twenty minutes, when draw it from
the fire and stir in until well dissolved
fourteen ounces of well-refined sugar
(roughly powdered); boil the jelly quickly
for fifteen minutes longer, taking care
constantly to stir and skim.
Apples with rice form an appetizing
dish. Boil rice very soft, and line with
it a well-buttered pudding dish. Lay
over it a layer of sliced apple, using an
easily cooked variety, alternate layers of
rice . and apples until the dish is full.
Add a little water to keep the rice from
becoming dry on top, ana bake until the
apples are done. Another way is to pare
some apples and rcmovo the cores, and
fill and cover them with boiled rice,
allowing a cupful of uncooked rice for
each half-dozen apples; cook in a steamer.
Eat with cream and sugar.
After tea has been steeped in boiling
water for three minutes, over five-sixth9
ot the valuable constituents are extracted.
At the end of ten minutes the
IAAHAK n?A nlrriAnf fO 1TT
juavco ttlo ailUVDV VUbtt wamuu^wv*!
Prolonged infusion gives no additional
strength to the liquid, but it does causo
the loss by volatilazation, of the flavoring
principles. Hard waters are to be
preferred to soft waters in the teapot, as
the hard waters dissolve less of the tannin
cut of the leaves. The bearing of
these laboratory results on the art of
making a good cup of tea is obvious.
Curiosities in Bottles.
"Here is one of the neatest things
that has ever been brought out in the
glass line," said the clerk, as he handed
the reporter a small medicine glass.
Tea and tablespoonfuls are marked off
on it by lines, and on one part was the
name of a business firm and its address.
"You see a druggist can have his name
etched on here by hydroflouric acid, and
whenever he sells a bottle of medicine
he can give away one of these littlo
tumblers with it."
The huge bottles which, filled with
colored liquids, are seen in every drugstore
window are all blown, it was
learned, and not molded. They are
in three styles?the Roman, so called
from its resemblance to the old Roman
pedestals; the pineapples, also named
from its shape, and the Wayne, from
Wayne county, Pennsylvania, where it
is made. These show bottles are plain,
engraved, or cut, the cut glass, of course,
being the most expensive. The difference
between cut glass and engraved
glass, which may not bo understood, is
just this: The work upon each is done
by means of rapidly-revolving wheels,
varying in size from one-eighth inch to
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UVU 1UVUUO iu \4iuu4Vkw*.
work is done by wheels made of Scotch
stone called "oredlief," and has to bo
polished up before it is finished, whilo
engraving is done with copper wheels
moistened with emery powder and oil,
and is not polished. The chief reason
why America cannot compete with
Europe in the manufacture of glass is because
of the difference in the pricc of
labor. Just as artistic work can be done
here, but in Bohemia, for instance, the
peasantry, who are taught the glass business
from the cradle, visit the manufacturing
towns in the valleys in the summer
and take a load of goods to their
mountain homes. They are charged with
this, and during the winter they cut the
glass with their little foot-wheels and go
again the next summer for a fresh stock.
But, curiously enough, notwithstanding
the general excellence of foreign work,
the finost bottle-wear usually has one defect.
The glass stoppers are nearly
always loose. They seem to fit tightly
but they do not, and very often this
point is of the highest importance in
preserving liquida from evaporation.?
Boston Qlobe.
A Senator's Grief.
Senator Edmunds is disgusted withtho
> ' Tr:_i.i_?,i
old lasnionea nousc uu ni^muuu
and is building a fine residence in New
Hampshire avenue, near Mr. Blaiue, says
a "Washington letter. The death of
Senator Edmunds'two daughters, of consumption,
just as they had reached
womanhood, and the precarious health
of his only remaining child have told
deeply on him. Once during a night
session of the Senate, a member, who
had become both quarrelsome and factious
by frequent visits to the restaurant,
addressed several remarks to Edmund*,
who occupied his usual desk, having
been relieved of the duties of the chair.
Senator Edmunds sat silent and abstracted.
Then the Senator intimated
that the reason for Senator Edmunds' sileuce
was that he had neither the command
of his tongue nor of his legs. At
this the offender was promptly rapped to
order. Senator Edmunds arose hastily,
and going into the Vice-President's room
gave way to a burst of grief. lie said
he was thinking of his domestic sorrows,
and had scarcely heard what was
going on around him. After that his
seasons of gloom and despondency were
understood. Lately, however, lie has recovered
somewhat from his depression.
The Great Stature of the Blsmarcks.
Men who are intellectually great are
not always as physically well developed
as Prince Bismarck, who is the taliest,
and probably also the most stalwart, of
first class European statesmen. On one
of the posts of the door of the study at
Friedrichsruhe the height of each member
of the imperial chancellor's family
was solemnly registered.on the last day
of 1880 by the chancellor himself; and
the penciled inscriptions, which arc still
to be seen there, arc as follows, the
measurements being given In centimeters:
Prince Bismarck, six feet two
inches; Herbert, six feet one and onothird
inches; Bill (Count William), six
feet and one-half inch; Rantzau, (Count
Rantzau, the prince's son-in-law), five
feet ten and a half inches; Johanna
(Princess Bismarck), "standing on tip
toe," five feet eight and a quarter inches;
Marie (Countess Rantzau), five feet eight
I inches. If we put aside as unworthy of
i credence the ungallant assertion that
j Princess Bismarck cheated the measurer,
! we find that the average height of the
I six members of the family is slightly
I over live feet eleven inchc?. A well
grown race the Bismarcks, evidently.
The best oranges are those which feel
the heaviest in the hand.
In cleaning silver kerosene may be
used with advantage.
/
SOME FAMOUS DARK DAYS.
SUPPOSED TO ESHSB XV THE B3TD
OP THE WOBXiD.
l.nmin 11 pitted in iHfddajr? Strang*
Flicnomcna? !Vc\v and Old ExlilbU
lion*?Colored liniu and Snow.
"I went through a curious experience
lately," snid a steamboat man to the
writer. "Business took me to s smal
town in Louisiana, and I remained there
all night, and on turning in at the small
hotel I told the porter to call me at
eight sharp, and left the bliud open, so
that I should be sure and not oversleep.
A few hours, as I thought, later, I was
aroused by some one pounding on my
door, and I soon recognized the boy's :
voice, saying it was time to get "up. It
can't be more than four,1 I sung out,
'for it's as dark as pitch.' 'It's eight,
all de same,'yelled the boy; an de
worl's a cominff to an end:'
and then," continued the speaker,
"I heard yells and groans all about,
and I can tell you I wasn't long in get- * .'J'i
ting into mv duds, and when I gotdown
stairs there was a curious sceue. All
the lamps were I'ghted, and the rooms .
were full of negroes, all a yelling and
groaning that the end had come. The
white folks didn't look much more ^
cheerful, for it did look kind of queer,
as out of doors, where the sun, by good
rights, ought to have been three hours
high, it was as black as the ace of spades :
?uot an ordinary night black, but something
worse?so that it seemed like a
regular fog, and people got lost and ran
into fences and the like. It lasted for
about four hours, and* then, having
scared the people half to death, it began
to let up, and finally the sun came out.
It was what they called a dark day, and,
although there were plenty of theories
proposed, I doubt if any exactly hit the
mark."
The Louisiana dark day is by no . ?
means the first that has visited th?
country. In an old journal dated August
9, 1732, there is a note concerning a
dark day in New England: "At twelve
o'clock, when people began to go to
dinner, it suddenly irrew dark. Chickens
went to roost, and few persons returned
to their stores, and universal alarm was :: lj
felt. The gloom lasted well into the
afternoon, clearing away beforo sun*
dowD, however, as if to show that that
luminary was still in existence." In very
early times dark days have been recordoaj
and the one in England in the year 1076
was justly famous. In 1807, and 1816 v yj
England had a similar visitation. In
early days these occurrences were sun- ;
pos#d to precede disaster of some kind, __
as war, plague, or something of tha?
nature. In October, 1783, the sunlight .;
was shut of! over a greater part of
Canada so quickly that the inhabitants
in manv towns wore panic-stricken, and
a number of persons were injured by
losing their way and falling over cliffs,'
etc. In this cose the darkness was fol- J
lowed by a hurricane that caused great *!
damage throughout the country. During
the war of 1812 a remarkable dark day
was experienced in London, and in the
succeeding year the darkness came for
several days in succession, so that lamps
were useless, aod business was almost
completely at a stand-still. The display
was followed by a terrible snow
storm and a winter remarkable for'" its
severity. Probably the most remarkable
dark era, especially so for the wideness
of its range, was that which ap- ''
peared over .New England. Maine and
New Hampshire felt it the most, but it
was universal all over the States. In the '
Connecticut legislature one of the speak- ^
ers was quoting from the Bible the line >->
referring to seeing "through a glass '
darkly," when, like a shot, they were
left in darkness, black, ominous clouds
seemingly settling down over the locality.
The speaker, it is said, pointed to
the great window and remarked: "It is
rarely that we have an example bettor
than can be found in tho Bible, and I
move we adjourn and go out and see it,"
and, as the house was in almost total
davkness, it adjourned. Candles were
lighted at this time all over New England,
and the superstitious were positivo
that^ihe end had come. A peculiar feature
of these dark spells was that they
were all remarkable for a peculiar hue or
tint that pervaded them. Thus the fog,
if it can so be called, that spread over
New England had a remarkably brassy
hue, that gave all objects a spectral
appearance, while some observers"
stated that every
thing had a yellow tint, and claimed
that there was an' odor of sulphur. This
same hue was noticed by the writer some
years since on the Maine coast, and was - -J
supposed to be due to forest fires, that
filled the air with smoke. The wonderful
dark fog that fell like a pall over
England and other parts of Europe in
1783 is described as having a decided
blue tint. On other occasions the tint
has been red, gray or purple. One of
the most remarkable "blue days" on
record was noticcd a few years "ago in
South America, and in some towns,
where the houses were pure white, they
gave an extremely rich blue rcflcction of
many different shades. The great extent
of these periods of darkness is difficult
to explain.
It has been found that vast amounts
of organic and inorganic matter are always
floating about in space, aud it has . -i
been assumed that at times great bodies
of dust aye swept into the air?quite ,
enough, in fact, to occasion a series of
dark days under tho locality where the
dust was held suspended in tho air.
What are known as "red snow,"
"blood rains" and ether phenomena in
Europe are merely the result of the precipitation
of this matter to the ground.
They were even more dreaded in early
times than the dark days, and the people
of the time fully believed that blood
had fallen from tho sky. A blood rain
according to Pliny, fell in Constantinople
in the year 850. At Brixan there
wag a similar fall in 869; at Bagdad iu
920; at Vitcrbo in 1219; in Bohemia iu
1410; in Westphalia in 154:5; at Emden
in 156G; at Strasburg in 1623; Brussels,
1640, and at Venice in 1687. Other famous
blood rains occurred at Genoa in Pot:
1744; at Cloves, 1763; Picardv, 1765;
Italy, 1S03, and at Glessen in 1821. In
the records of all these rains there are accounts
of the terror of the people, who
firmly believed that some terrible visitation
was about to occur, and, indeed, " [?
they were not agreeable to the eve. The
snow that was pure white in the evening
would, in the following morning, have
changed to a ricn uuou-rea, so mat mo
entire country looked as though it had a
coating of blood. In the slang of to-day
the world was "painted red." The
cause of the peculiar color was explained
by the fact that tous of dust h.id fallen,
and the red hue was the natural tint of
peroxide of iron. >?or was the color of
those rains confined to red. In 1840 a
yellow rain fell in France,and so alarmed
all the inhabitants that it is said that
wild animals took to the towns, and utterly
lost their fear of man. This raiu is
said to have originated in So"Uth America,
and Khrenberg estimated that hundreds
of tons of organic matter was deposited
about the surrounding country.
This must have crossed the Atlantic in
some extremely high current. The yellow
pollen of plants at times causes what
is known as yellow fog, and that this
coloring asent is carried along through
the air great distances the writer can
testify, as in 1838 the rocks on certain
parts of the Maine coast appeared covered
one morning with a yellow powder
lhat resembled sulphur, and not a few
fishermen thought it was, but the microscope
showed it to be pollen, and investigation
proved that it must have blown
several hundreds of miles. ? Cincinnati
Enquirer.
Combustible (ins in n Hainan Body.
l)irWr>n<! ha<s linen much criticised for
his apparent acceptance of the fact of
spontaneous conbustion, but Sir W. Gull
lately testified to a surprising case before
the committee of the house of lords o'n
intemperance. A large, bloated man,
who was suffering from difficulty of
breathing and great distention of the
venous system, died at (iuv's hospital.
At the post mortem 011 the following day
there was no sign of decomposition, and
the body was believed to bo distended
with gas. "When punctures were n^ude
into the skin," said Sir William, "and a
lighted match applied, the gas which
escaped burned with the ordinary flame ?
of carburettcd hydrogen. As many as a
dozen of these smidl names were burning
at the same time." V
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