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ABBEVILLE PRESS AND BANNER^ _ _ _ _ ? BY HUGH WILSON. ABBEVILLE, S. C.. WEDNESDAY, JULY 1, 1885. NO. 1. VOLUME XXX J WE TWO. Ah, yes, It was years and years agone, When life to as had no care or blight, That we watched the white ships come aD<l g?> As we sat together each summer night. We climbed the hillsides hand in hand, With nnt. a Qhnrfnw r\f ill in vift\r * * *" * **v* *" ?.. ... ? And drank from Nature's sweetest spring, We Two! My swain he was noble, brave and strong, With a love as boundless as is the sea, And so I was all the world to him, < And he, too, wis all the world to me. ! Though clouds obscured the elorious bluo, With joy within we knew it not, We Two! Wo met when the broath of morn was sweet, In the shady lane whero the robins sung; And one blessed dawn we pledged our troth In a little nook where the bluebells hung, Where the roses blushed as the winds swept t>y. And lilies bowed 'neath their weight of dew, We walked and talked till tlio sun was liigh^ Wo Two! Ah, yes, it was years and years ago Since the wedding bells rang swept and clear; And our boys and girls are gone?all gonosome far away! some buried here! Now we sit with thin and whitened locks, And our days below we know ar<! few, But we love with a deep unchanging love, Wo Two! THE CONJURERS BRIDE. Trofessor George Sholbach wa<* a magician. He was not a commonplace j conjurer with blocks and balls and cancs , and trick tables. lie appeared before i his audience with no stage trappiug3 of i any kind, and, borrowing rings and I handkerchiefs, he amused the audience with really wonderful feats. The second part of his entertainment consisted of ''mind reading," and it was with that he most astouished and confound-! -J xi :-1- .V, w?? _ I eu me unuua ui iw u tnwu nu>a uvum em people among wliora lie performed. He had a circuit of towns, iu each of which he appeared at regular intervals. | He never went off his beaten track, and ! yet he always had crowded houses, for at each reappearance he announced some startling new illusion which proved to be more astonishing than any preceding one. ?omc of his tricks he imported from foreign countries; quite I as many wero of his own invention. His personal appearance was of some assistance to him, for he looked like a j magician. His hair was jet black, long and wavy. His completion was pale and bloodless. His forehead was low, j and under his sharply marked black brows burned a pair of coal-black eyes, brilliant as diamonds and restless as fame. In Montrose he was a great favorite. ' He had given his entertainments there a number of times, and was admired much by the townspeople. He had never, how-1 ever, made any friends among them. He j was courteous to those who addressed him, but he repelled all attempts at j intimacy. Among those who constantly attended his entertainments was Irene Washburnc, the daughter of the only editor in the place. She was only nineteen years of ace and was remarkably handsome. Her dark brown eyes and hair, coupled with I a complexion in which the blood came | and went like waves on a summer sea, her rosy lips and milk-white teeth were the loadstones that attracted many of the village beaux to her father's house, j She was a very intelligent girl, but was given to too much reading of tho somber > tales of Poe and the weird fancies of i Shelley. Night after night she sat in the town hall when Sholbach was giving J his performances, chained by a strange . fascination which she could not explain. ! She shuddered with horror when the magician's keen, restless eye lighted upon her, and when she found him gazing at her with a strangely steady, burn-1 ing look, as he often did, she wanted to J cry out with horror, but could not. j After each entertainment she vowed that she would never again visit the hall when the professor was there, but when j his bills appeared in the town she found herself irresistibly moved to go and see him. This had been the state of matters for ' eomc time, when suddenly Sholbach threw off his reserve and began to make j friends in Montrose. Twice, after per-! forming in the town, he invited several , vminor men to his rooms at the hotel and J 0 there opened bottles of wine and served \ them with cigars until they vowed that he was a royal good fellow. At last he asked one of them, a great friend of Editor Washburne's,to introduce him to the , newspaper man. The introduction was performed and Sholbacli made such a pleasant impression on the editor that the latter invited the magician to visit his house when again in town. When Sholbach next performed in Montrose the editor gave a little reception to him after the entertainment. > Once in the house of Washburne, Sliol-1 bach appeared to have eyes only for Irene. lie devoted himself to her, and attended to all her wants with a grave and tender courtesy that could not fail to make an impression on her. But the impression was not such as the magician wonted. While he fascinated her, lie filled her with horror, lie reminded her of a snake. "Why do you shrink from me?" he asked her. "Do I shrink from you?" she asked, timidly. She was afraid to acknowledge it; she would not have dared to acknowledge anything that might ollend him, for her mind was comnletelv subservient to his. He could have mesmerized her without a perceptible effort, had he desired to ; do so. "Yes, you do shrink from me," he $aid gravely. 1^^ They were alone on the piazza, where tho cold moonlight lent an additional keenness to the glitter of Shol bach's eyes. "I?I?am sorry," she said, trying to drop her eyes, but finding them irresis-! tibly fastened to his. "Do you know," he continued, "that I perform in this town oftener than in any other?" "Is that'so;" "Yes. And whv do you suppose I do it?" "I do not know." She did know. She knew what he was going to say, and she would have given her life t3 stop him; but she was powerless. "I love you." he whispered,in a hoarse voice. She shudd'.-rcd and clasped her hands. Whv r?n von not nnswer me." he said, bending closely to her. ''I tell you I love you." "I know it." she said in a faint murmur. She could not move hand or foot. "Then why do you not answer ine?" he asked. She was silent, "You 1 ivc me, then. This silencc comes from your shyness. I might have known it." And leaning forward he clasped her in his arms and kissed hi r lips. The charm was broken. AVith a long, quivering shriek, she broke from his arms and rushed madly into the parlor among the startled guests. Sholbach followed her, but she lied to her father for protection. "Take him away!" she ericd. "Take 1 ?!_ i.;ii l.ic Him hwjiv ; iiu ?ni rv111 iuv ...... ...o icy eyes?those serpent's cy-is. Take him away!" The next morning Sholbach had disappeared from the town, after announcing that he would never return.and Irene lay in a fever. * * * A year had passed away and Irene had i long ago recovered her accustomed health and spirits. * Sholbach, true to his promise, had never come back to Montrose. In the meantime John Manners, a stalwart young physician, whose ability was unquestioned and whose physical beauty was the envy of every young man in the town, had found the way to Irene's heart. She loved and was loved in return, and it had been arranged that they ehjuld be married at her uncle's magnificent mansion in St. Louis in the fall. The days rolled on, and a week before! the day appointed for the wedding Irene ! and her parents, together with her lover | and his parents, went to the city. The first thing which met Irene's eyes when she arrived in St. Louis was a bill; announcing that Professor George Shol-' bach would exhibit his wonderful illusions for one week at a certain hall. The bill stated that the magician would introduce his new feat of cutting off a man's hand and restoring it to its place again | without hurting the man. Irene shua-, dered and turned pale when she saw this bill. Ilcr lover noticed this, and, on being told the cause, laughed. ' .Sly darling," he said, "you ought to be cured of that trouble by this time. ! Kemember that in a few days you will have a husband to protect you. I know youi horror is only temporary. I shouldn't be surprised if you asked me to take you to sec him in a few days." j Was it prophetic? The desire to see Sholbach's performances ag?iin' grew upou Irene. The simple knowledge that she was in the same city with him" had a : strange fascination for her. hhe strug- j gled against her growing desire to sec j Sholbach, but found herself unable to ' conquer it. At length, in sheer desperation, she asked her lover one evening to take her to see the magician, lie laughed heartily. j tiT "-nrn />nrn/I C\ f mill I JtVUl'Vt \\J U VUIV\* , strange aversion for him. There's noth- . ing like a light heart and a good diges tiou to remove unpleasant fancies.'' Accordingly, they went in the evening to the hall and secured scats near the stage. When Sholbach's eyes fell upon !1 them he started as if he had been shot, llelixcd a burning glance upon them, j and in a momeut understood their position; for Irene clung to Johu for protec- : 1 tiou. Then Sholbach bowed slightly and j smiled reassuringly. From that time until near the close of the entertainment j1 he appeared to take no notice of them. The usual tricks had been performed ; and he began his concluding feat. A !' man was summoned from among the audience to go upon the stage. Then ! he removed his collar and necktie and |1 coat. Then Sholbach appeared with a 1 large knife and suddenly seizing the ! man plunged it into his throat. The 1 man screamed and struggled. The j 1 blood poured from the wound. The 1 audicncc, convinced as they were that the man was a confederate, were silent 1 with horror. Presently Sholbach j whirled the knife around with a quick movement and then held up the man's head. A murmur of horror ran through I the audience The body was removed |1 and the professor treated the audience to |' a three minute lecture. lie was inter- ' rupted by the appearance at the other 1 end of the hall of the man who had been j1 decapitated, alive and smiling. The au- ' dience heaved a sigh of relief and then , 1 awarded the succcssful magician a round J of applause. "You may think," paid Sholbach, I? "that the man who has just been on the , stage was a confederate. Now, in order i to convince you that he was not, I de- j iire any gentleman who has the courage j to comc upon the stage and I will repeat , the experiment." As he said this Sholbach looked at | John Manners. The powerful young j physician suddenly felt an irresistible i desire to go upon the platform. He arose as if to start. "John, you are not going!" exclaimed j Irene, in a tone of terror. "Yes," be replied, laughing; "I want ! to find out how it was done." j "Let me go with you?" And without waiting for his answer she followed him. "This is hardly the sort of exhibition , for a lady to look upon at close qu:ir- j 1 ters," said Sholbach. "You had bettor j sit behind this screen until it is over," j "No! no!" said a voice from tho . house. "Let the lady see how you do it | ii she can." * 11 Sholbach bowed, and gave Irene a chair on the side of the stage, opposite ' to Manners. As he went off to get tho , knife he paused for a singie instaut in frout of her and glared into her eyes. "Don't you move or speak," he whispered. Poor girl! She could not have j \ stirred if her life depended upon it. ( Cold beads of perspiration broke out j, on her brow and shivering chills ran : down her spine. But she was voiceless j and nerveless. Sholbach had bvought I, the full power of his will to bear on { her and she was completely mcsincr- , ized. When the conjurer stood before Man- , ncrs he gazed intently into his eyes, j , The young physician, strong as lie was, j | felt himself grow weak before that look, i ( He endeavored to spc.ik, but Sholbach frowned, and the words seemed to freeze , in his throat. The conjurer did not j, take his eyes oil the physician while lie spoke to the audience. "This man is very powerful," he said, |, "and I must allow him time to control ( his nerves before I begin, or he might do '; me some injur}-." j. Then for a time he was silent. The J ( audience waited and watched the three | , silent figures. At length, without tak- , iug his eyes from Manners, Sholbach ,! said: "It is time." Then with a sudden expression of ( frightful ferocity he plunged the knife i into the throat of the man before him. j i TJie head tell lorwaril ana tne nanus gripped the side of the chair convulsive- : ly for a moment; then John Manners was as still as if lie were dead. Sholbacb asked some of the men in the front row j: whether they could sec that the knife i had really been plunged in the man's ' i throat. They said there was 110 doubt of it. ' As the hour is late," said Sholbach, "I will not prolong this exhibition. I put this scrcen in front of this man so. Now in two minutes you will sec him enter that door.'' No one had noticed Irene while Shol- ; bach was performing his feat, but it was ' now seen that she had fainted. Two or j three persons made a movement to go to her assistance, but Sholbach stopped j i them with a wave of the hand. j i <;I can bring her out of the faint in a moment,'' he said. Then lifting her as easily as if she j i hadbeeu a child he carried her of! the stage. The audience waited until the two ; minutes had expired. Then they began 1 to look for the reappearance of .Manners from the front of the stage. But no one came. There was a deathly silence in i the house, and the stage remained empty. Three, four, five, ten minutes passed, and neither the physician nor the con jurer appeared. "There's something wrong here," exclaimed a man sitting in the front row. So saying he sprang upon the stage and overthrew the screen behind which the magician had hidden Manners. A horrible sight was exposed. The young physician sat still in the chair with the knife in his throat, the blood ( trickling slowly down tiis breast, ftead. j A dozen men rushed forward to examine, i There wa> no doubt about it; a murder had been committed, calmty and boldly, i in the presence of three hundred witnesses. The building was searched before and behind the scenes. Then, it was found that both the conjuror and the young woman had disappeared. The police were informed, an alarm was sent out; the news was telegraphed all over the country, but to no purpose. George Sholbnch and his victim were never seen - again. It is said that in Germany a con jurct is traveling about and giving remarkable second sight performances, his assistant being a beautiful, pale woman, who shudders continually, and whose eyes aro always fixed in a glassy stare, but who never makes a mistake i:i answering his! | questions. No one, however, has been ; able to identify the two a> George Sholback ami Irene Washburnc.? JK J. lien j derson, in Inter-Ocean. Cineinnntus received the notice of hi! election to the Roman dictatorship when he was plowing?is Elisha did his com mission lo lie a prophet. In each cast i the choice was a worthy one, and tliepo sition in which the news surprised thest | great men was nothing against their dig nity. The pendulum of the new clock in the Chicago Hoard of Trade building weighs 700 pounds. The dials are ten feet tea inches in diameter. I yef /rj A MARKET IN COLOMBIA. EABX.V MORJTING SCENES I IT A CEITTBAL AMEEICAN CITY. I.nr^e Fi!c? of Fiith-Kcci Holism r>y tlie Foot?Fruit in Plenty? Odd Sys (cm of .Tlarkctins;. Alfred Balch says in a letter from Baranquilla, in Colombia, Central America: Just before the first "pale streaks of dawn begin to lighten up the East," as some one somewhere has it, you have to get up. The bed you leave is a frame, upon which is stretched some stout cotton, and upon this a mat or sun-dried and very smooth rawhide. Such things as sheets arc looked upon as nuisances in the tro[)ic3, and he must be a cold-blooded person who asks for a blanket. There is around you, however, a tolda or mosquito netting, without which it would be impossible to sleep. Dressing and going out into the streets?which arc perfectly dark?you make your way to the market. This is by the lagoon, and consists of a lnrtrn niion sivipp unnn wlllfh ;irf> a four huts or booths. At this early hour, about half-past three, 1 lie canoes are beginning to arrive with the thing.1? for sale. They arc anywhere from twelve to forty feet long, cut out of solid logs, Find generally propelled by poles, with which the bogas push them along. Kach canoc has a patron or captain, who steers, anil it is his work to keep it when going up sticam just close enough to the bank to allow the men t<> easily reach the bottom with their poles. Going down they take advantage of the current and paddle, or simply float. But daylight is coming and the market men arc unloading. The market is divided into sections, in which are displayed the various classes of raw material, out of which arc to be made dishes savory or the reverse. Here to the left arc the fish, piles upon piles of them. The fresh specimens come from the river or the sea. Of the former there is a kind of giant catfish, weighing from twenty to sixty pounds: the flesh flabby and tasteless. This is very cheap and equally popular with the peon class. Another monster, a species of bream, is remarkable for its enormous scales, some of them being as large as the palm of a man's hand. Perch weighing about two pounds apiece are very plentiful and cheap, ns are the collern, a long, thin fish. I may say here that this name is spelled, as it sounds. Of ocean fish the red snapper is the commonest, and very good it is, too. Sometimes one come3 across a Jew fish, or, as 'J'om Cringle calls it in his "log," a ''most noble Jew fish," easily the best that is caught in these Southern waters. Pompano are rare, but none the less delicious when round. Pinkish red piles of shrimps, in 1 innl'rtfn rt n'Aitinr* Liill, iUUJIvA UilSCVUIZt, ttl U Vt tilling iVi n*v customer, and alongside of them arc heaps of yellowish brown things, the meats of other shrimps dried in the sun. Ihese are very popular, but arc almost too tough and salt. The dried fish hanging up tind a ready sale. One kind Df them tastes, when cooked,a good deal like finnan baddic. In the meat market beef is the staple, although sometimes you see goat meat, called muttou?there are no sheep?and pork is very common. The beef is all cut up in long strips and is bought by the foot. I should say that the animals are generally killed about 4 o'clock, so that the meat you buy is often still warm. Tho vegetables are in heaps on the ground, yuca, yams, potatoes, rice, plantains, corn, onions, garlic in great gourds, beans and peas bring the most common. Sometimes you will sec palm cabbagcs and lettuce, ISrusscls sprouts, kale, or cauliflower. The first comes from the woods, but tho others are generally grown in private gardens and the surplus sent to fmarket. Of fruit there is no end, in spite of the fact that the majority of Spaniards declare it to be unhealthy. Aguacates or aliigator penrs, r*ro n rrna CAmoflmfla limna mnorfla melons?very large and good?magos, bananas, guavas and cocoanuts. The system of marketing strikes a stranger as beng odd. It is done by the cooks, and as they never buy more than just enough for the day, you will sec in the wooden bowls carried on the head a small fish, a piece of meat, a yuca, a yam, m handful of garlic and an onion, four or five mangos, a large plantain, two or three limes, a small gourd filled with rice and some bread. The bakers' shops arc at one side of the market, a*id they make the most delicious little rolls. It is certainly a gay .scene, with the women walking about or bargaining with, the market |>co|ilc? generally women, by the way. The men arc bringing up EtuIT from the canoes; here and there arc the codec stands, where bread and coffee nrc sold. The yuca cakes, or wafers, three feet in diameter, made of grated yuca, stand like shields against the walls. There is a pcrfcct Babel of voices, pleasantly broken into by the constant peals of Inutrhtcr. and survcv ing the scene with the philosophic gaze so characteristic of them nre the hundreds of donkeys, upon which so many of the buyers and sellers have ridden in the ?ray morning to be in time for early market. Tet Animals oT New Gninca. In Australia the only big animal which is not marsupial is the dog. and this was probably iir.-t brought over by man. New Guinea has not only dogs, but pigs; iind ic seems to us an odd thing that the natives, though they have do*rs, should make pets of pigs. Papuan women will nurse and fondle a pig as an English lady caresses her dog?though the dog. too, lias been considered nn unclean animal. Dogs are sometimes sacrificed in .New Guinea. Australasia has another kind of strange beasts, lowly organized, and ranking even below the marsufials. Of these the best known is the famous "Ornithohynchus paradoxus,"' the platypus or duck mole, which its first discoverers hardly knew whether to cla-ss :is a beast or a bird. After a time another animal of the same order was found, a kind of prickly anteater, and two species of this creature was found in New Guinea. There is, therefore, every hope of finding new ami strange beasts, to *ay nothing of other nnimals. The birds of New Guinea are beautiful in the extreme: some of them have been known Ion sort ban their country; for hence comes the wonderful birds of paradise, which were brought long ugo to Europe, though living specimens such as those now in the zoological gardens, have been seen there but seldom. The skins were sent to the West with the legs cut oir, whence arouse the fable that these lovely creatures were inhabitants of the air alone, and never settled on this dull earth at all. The splendid crowned pigeons, great blue birds with the stateliest ciests, several of which may be seen at the zoological gardens, also come from New Guinea, where they were first noticed by the famous English navigator, Dampier.?G'itsacil'g Family Mt>jaziuc. The .Muse or Song. The loving genius of the more sensitive of mankind once appeared before Jupiter and prayed: "Heavenly Father, (Jive thy poor people a better language! for they have words only with which to express how to mourn, how they rejoice, how they love." "Have I not given them the tear," asked Jupiter, "the tear of joy, the tear of sorrow, the tear of love?" The guardian angel answered, "Xot even the tear gives sufficient expression to the heart, Heavenly Father give thy people a better language when they wish to say how they feel the infinite b>nging ?the remembrance of the little morning star of childhood ; the glow of the golden aurora of youth, and the contemplation in mature age, of the golden evening clouds of a future life, as they appeared bright and high above the vanquished sun. (Jive the heart a new language, my Father?"' Just then Jupiter heard within the realm of spheres, the approach of flu Muse i t Song. To her be beckoned and said: "Utscend to earth, oh. Muse, and leach mankind thy language Then came the Muse ot s-<?ng to us here below, and taught us the tones; and since then the human heart can speak.?' Paul. A woman is seldom merciful to a man who is timid. V i . : ; / J - ' % WISE WORDS. I The weakest and lowliest persons are I often instruments of great good. When a man has no desire but to speak plain truth he may say a great deal in ) narrow space. Some people's hearts arc shrunk in them like dried nuts. You can hear 'cm rattic as thev walk. It argues a poor opinion of oursclve? when wc cannot admit any other class of merit beside our own, or any rival in that class. There is in all of us an impediment to [ perfect happiness; namely, weariness o | the things which we possess and a desire ^ In rt iUinMn ^ 1\ n i- ?? /? Vin >/> *t/%f i iwi lac iuiu^a tuub v> u jua> u 111/w It signifies little what we say of our ac' quaintanccs, so that wc do not tell them j what others say against them. Talej bearers make all the real mischicf. Prosperity, they often say, is more trying than adversity. A3 with man, so it i is with meat; in adverse weather it will ' keep sweet for a long time; but only let there be a long season of sunshine, and sec how quickly it goes to the bad. That which wc arc we shall tcach, not voluntarily, but involuntarily. Thoughts j come into our minds by avenues which j wc never left open, and thoughts go i out of our minds through avenues j which we never voluntarily opened. ! Character teaches over our head. There is no subject or proposition that . should not be investigated by the mind. If it be of evil, investigation will determine the fact and give us an opportunity ( to avoid it; if it be of good, moutal in; vestigation will apprise us of the fact and permit us to entertain or favor it. Among the many arguments, while ! others have been refuted, this alone re, mains unshaken,?that wc ought to be! ware of committing injustice rather than of being injured, and that above all a man ought to study not to appear good, j but to be so, both publicly and privatei , Cost of Wheat Growing. Some interesting statistics on wheat : growing in the Northwest have been furi nished the press by Mr. Cuyler Adams, | of Spiritwood. Dak. His operations on l fVi? Kiiirifwnnrl farm hnro hppn nondueted on quite an extensive scale, but he bei lieves equally good results can be ob: taincd by smaller farmers, because, I though they pay more for machinery, i they do away with superintendent, cooks, and" other men neccssary in a large establishment. This may not be altogether ! correct, but Mr. Adams' statistics arc no less valuable. lie estimates the total cost of growing an acre of wheat to be five dollars, divided as fo lows: ' Intorest on outlay for horses and machine!-)' an aero at tiO ;>er cent, $1.17 1 Cost of seed at 8 ) cents a bushel, sowing 1 ^ bushels to the acre 1.20 Cost of stubble plowing the previous Fall, an a^re 82 ; Cost of see ling an acre 28 | Cost of cutting and shocking, including cord, an nere 92 j Cost or superiutendcnco, watering stock, etc., an acre Cl Total MOO This he divides by a yield of sixteen bushels to the acre?a low estimate? giving the cost of a bushel ;51J cents. Adding to this the cost of threshing, l 7 cents a bushel, and hauling to the i elevator, 1} cents, gives a total of 3!)$ cents. Valuing the land and improvements at $15 an acre, with interest at 8 I per cent.,gives $1.20 an acre per annum, I which divided by a yield of sixteen ! bushels, equals 7^ cents. Therefore, if : the wheat was sold at 47 cents there ! would still be a net increase from the ' lands of 8 per cent. But the average price received was much greater than 17 per ccat. and a yield of twenty bushels to the acrc was quite general j last year. Mr. Adams concludes tbat when the day comes that northern Minj nesota and Dakota farmers cannot grow wheat at the market price with a profit, that day will sec those States whose i lands arc worth $100 or cveu $o0 an acrc entirely out of the running. If any I part of the United States can afford to > grow wheat at a low price it is the Northwest; there wheat growing is tho cheapest, according to Mr. Adams' dc! ductions, and there will the largest i profits be. ?Brailstreets. The Turkomans. i The Turkomans are a nomadic people I occupying Armenia and the center of i Asia Miuor, and our kuowledge of them has recently been increased by the narrative of a Russian traveler, whose book ; is published in St. Petersburg. Proverbs are a good ir.dex to the character of a nation, and that of the Turkomans, read by the light of the following sayings, is certainly formidable: "11c who has seized the hilt of his 6\vord does not wait for a pretext." "A mounted Turkoman knows neither father nor mother." "Where there is a town, there are no wolves; where there arc Turkomans, there is no j eace." "Xo Persian crosses the Atrcck. ex ; ccpt with a rope round his neck." "The Turkoman needs not tho shado of trees nor the protection of laws." It is needless to add that people with such proverbs are not always agreeable neighbors. The Turkomans have no town worthy of the name. Even Mcrv, the Queen of the World, as it is called, is but a conglomeration of huts, and i is more of an agricultural dis] trict than what we are usually accustomed to call a town. The inhabitants of these townlcss steppes live in carts, cacli cart containing a family, and lead a wandering life somewhat like that of our own gypsies, only incomparably more romantic. Their women are industrious, possess much more independence than Mohammedan women of other nations, and wear no veils. The men arc nut j smart in appearance, and their national costume does not approach the splendor of the Circassian dress, or even that of the Cossacks. They treat their horses very allectionatcly, and though they are not graceful in the saddle, aud cannot perform any feats of horseman-drip, they are indefatigable riders. This quality ! of endurance their horses share with them, and a Turcoman thinks nothing of galloping twenty miles at a stretch. As the Turkoman's horse is his most valuable possession, hu bestows more I than ordinary attention on it. lie, his wife, and his children may be in rags, and starving, but his dear steed must 4V\f nrktliSrirr fliwl l?o rJMilv Pftiviri. ??aunv? unwiiMji, .j v?, soned and wrapped in several horsecloths.? Youth's Companion. From Peon to President. A Pan Francisco artist was showing a ftiM reporter some portraits of Central American presidents. One shown was a dashing military man with suflicient African blood to tell even in a picture. It was the late President Guardia of ('o?ta l?ica of such unenviable fame ? the same who died owing England millions for the famous Costa Pica railroad; the same who never paid even his per. eonal debts whenever he could avoid it. "He wa9 the little Napoleon of Central America," said the artist. lie made j himscif president.. He was a barefootod ! peon who was picking colTec-Lcans with his wife Dona Amelia," and the artist put next to Guardia's portrait the like ncss of a fine-looking laay, exceedingly white, but with a sad expression. "He became first a sol.lier and then a president, through a coup d'etat. He gained the adhesion nf eleven patriots, who, ! having procured sulticicnt pistols and machetes (long knives), hired a man for the purpose, who drove them in a wagon all covered up with zncrate or green grass. When they passed by the ctiurtel or barracks, the driver called the sentinel and told him to ask the commandant if he would il- l.A not uuv some zacaic; tmn, nc, the driver, would sell it at half-price on account of his having to ride far out into the country. The seutincl having inquired of the commander, who rejilied in the aflirmativc, the gates of the cu.irtcl were thrown open, the mozc drove in, the men jumped out, and bj killing the commandant and every one who opposed them, they obtained pos> session of the barracks, and Gunrdia proclaimed himself president of Costa j Rica." j Three Georgia weeklies are edited bj ' ladies. 4*>h THE BARTHOLDI STATUE. i Its Arrival at New York in a [ ' French Vessel. I Formal Transfer of the Great Statue to the United States, i i Tlio French transport vessel Isere, with the Bartlioldi statue on board, arrived safely in i the port of Now York 011 the 17th. When tho vessel came to anchor at Sandy Hook i Captain <le Saunne, hor commander, sont tho following telegram to General Stone, the acting secretary of the Bartlioldi Statue committee: "Isere, carrying statue, waiting instructions to remove. Answer immediately." To this General Stone sent the following reply: , "A thousand welcomes. I will go to see you immediately.'' General Stono and Agent de Bebian, of tlio French line of steamers, at once started for th3 Castle Garden dock, whero n tug was in readiness to take them to ihelsere. As they were about putting oir President of the Board of Aldermen Adolph Sanger, who was also president of the aldermanic reception committee, came running up to the stringpieco aud jumped aboard. This was about 10 o'clock in the forenoon. When they reached the Isero they found that tlioy had been preceded by the acting French consul and somo other French gentlemen. A steam launch from tho United States ship Oinaha had also come down from the naval station at Gravescnd, whore the vessel was anchored, with an invitation to tho Isere to come up to tho anchorage. Commander de Saunne's response to the invitation was that he should lirst receive the president of the American commit;ee. When General Stone arrived ho seconded the suggestion of the Omaha's commander, and it was arranged that the Isero should -proceed to G.-avesend late in the alternoon. The greeting between tho visitors and those who had gone to meet them was naturally a cordial on-.:. Commander de Snuiino took from a cabinet an elegantly engrossed pro- | sentation address signed by Bartholdi and by Count Ferdinand de Lesseps, chairman of the French conimitto , and handed it t'j General Stone, ropresentiug the American committee. It was in French on vellum. At one side was an illuminated white silk badge, with a picture of the statue upon it, aud at tho top tho words, "La France a l'Amerique." This was Known as cue document 01 inmsiur. n. i ouu:? Gexti.empn:?'The colossal statue of "Liberty Enlighting tho World" is this morning embarked on the national ship (sure, aud will soon arrive in its new fatherland. The French government has kindly joined in tho work of tho Franco-American uuion, taking upon itsolf its transportation. The official flag of tho French ropublic thus comes to complete tho popular action and tho great manifestation of friendship for the countrymen of Lafayotto. Tho ollicial transfer ot the statue having been made to his excellency Mr. Morton, minister plenipotentiary of the United Status at l'aris, wo have the honor of recalling to you now tho terms of this solemn act which, carrying the ollicial signatures, has been confided to the hands of Hie representation of tho republic-of the L'nited States in the year 1SS1, on the 4th of July, on the anniversary of tho American day of independence, in the presence of M. Jules Ferry, president of tho council of ministers and minister of foreign affairs. Count Ferdinand do Lesseps in the name of the Franco-American committee and the national manifestation of which that committee has been the organ that presei.t.Hl the colossal statue of Liberty Enlightening tho World, the work of the sculptor Bartlioldi, to Mr. Morton, minister plenipotentiary of the United States, requesting him to be the interpreter of the national sentiment of whicii this work is the expression. Mr. Morton, in the name of his countrymen, thanks the Franco-American union for this testimonial of the sympathy of the French people. He declares tliat in virtue of the powers which have been confided to him by the President of the Unite 1 States, the American committee represented by its president, Mr. William M. Kvarts, lie accepts tne statue, and that it will Ik? erected in conformity with the joint resolution of Congress of February Ort 1C77 '? rtf Vau* Vnrb n honr-An of tho ancient friendship existing between tho two nations. (Signed) In tho name of Franco: JULES FERRY. BRISSON. President of tho Chamber of Deputies. In the name of the United States: MORTON. In the name of tho Franco-American Union Committee; FERDINAND DK LESSEFS. E. DE LA FAYETTE. Shortly before seven o'clock in tho evening tho hero came to anchor ofT Gravesend, akngsido the Omaha. Commander do Saunno at once had his gig lowered and paid a visit to the American commander. A number of stoani yachts circled nbiut tho new arrival until sundown, each nno a; they passed firing n salute of one gun. Tim crew of tho Isere numbers (55all told. She is a transport vessel, carrying no guns, about.SO feet beam and 215 feet long. Her last journey before coming to America was in conveying French troops to Toncpiin. She is of f>5) tons burden. Tho colossal statue weighs 220 tons, aw' was t acked awnv below decks in 212 boxes >?i)c of (hem twenty /eft long, it >event'on days to stow then away so a* to prevent shifting when the vessel rolled nn<l tos-ed in t he troni?.idous b'llows. The work was well don.**, f( r Lieutenant Amot, of tho Iseiv, said that not a box move! from its I'la *o, though in the early put of the voyage there was ainplo provocation. Th.' hold i>f tho vessel was a itirious si;;ht. Huso crates, each containing many tons "f metal, wero packed away as neatly and with as tntich economy of space ns so many bricks on u Hudson river scow. The diadem was in an arc-lied frauii large enough for a horse and wagon to drive under. Other pieces, hardly recognizable from the careful manner in which they were packed, were pressed closo beneaHi it until it looked as though tho iron sides of tlio vossjl would bulge out under the enormous weight. Tho eyes and no;o filled one crate, the forehead another, an ear and part of the crown another, until every foot of space seemed to be utilized. A sheet iron curl looked largo enough for the smokestack of a small steam launch. A sailor said that it was eight feet long. Tlie Iteccpilon fcrrnionlc*. Tin* Now York Board of aldermen and tho members of the American committee started for CiiT Vfsend from the foot of Wall street ..1 !) o I'ioi k a. m. 011 the l'.'th. After formal givetii gs 011 board of tho Isere, a procession lonned under command of Commodore Chandler. ">f the Brooklyn navy yard, consating of the I 'nited States vessels 1'owhatau, Omaha and Minnesota, the committee's bout, th:: Isere ami the French frigate I/i Flore. When Bedlee's island was reached the com mnndcr of tho Isoro landed for tho purpose of making a preliminary formal transfer of his charge, lie then followed in tho French admiral's yacht tho rest of tho flotilla to tho landing at the Battery. The Seventy-first, tho Twelfth and the Sixty-ninth regiment* were at. tho Battery to receive the visitors. There were also in waiting tlu-re a force of mounted police, a number of representatives of French societies an.I detachments of the Guards Itociiambeau and Lafayette. The procession maivhod up Broadway to city hall. At one o'clock there were addresses in the governor's room by Mayor < J race, Mr. Frederick B. t'oudert and (ieneral Stone. An address adopted at the last meeting of tho New York board of aldermen was also presented to tho French officers. At two o'clock there was a luncheon in the governor's room. The governor's room and common council chamber were decorated, and tho windows and picture frames draped with French and American flags. OLEOMARGARINE. ? - - . ~ . Hie l<nw laranmt it in i>civ i otk Declared I nconatltiKlounl, Tho New York court of appeals lms givon a decision in tho cqsj of tho People agt. Morris Marx, which was prosecuted as a tost of chapter 20:1, Laws of 18S4. This act was " to prevent deception in sales of dairy products," and section <> prohibited tha manufacture out of oleaginous substances ot any compound except that produced from unadulterated milk or cream, designed to take the place of butter. _ The defendant, who was arrested in New York for selling oleomargarine, proved on his trial that the commodity was as wholesome as dairy butter, but this evidence was stricken out. This disallowance of testimony and alleged unconstitutonality of the law, as oppressive interference with legitimative trade.were the bases of appeal. The judgment of the general term of the supreme court, affirming the defendant's conviction under the law, is reversed by tho court of appeals, and tho above section of tho a<t is declared unconstitutional. Judge Rnpello is the writer of tho opinion, in which the whole court concurs. KILLED AND EATEN, llorri* Ic Fate of INiue llnitagr* In \Vc??t A trim. A sensation has been caused by the nrrivn] at Liverpool of private mail advices from West Africa which report a horrible outrage by natives. A small war has been in prog, less for some time between certain tril>es on the Brass river, in Oilmen, and nine prisoners who hid Iven captured during one of the lijrhts were held us hostages to secure tho I " . c . nmni.'lc nf paymi.'llt tu <i cei mm nuiiiin.1 V. ivory by their friends. The ransom not being forthcoming at the stipulated time, the hostages were killed, rooked and enten. their skulls being sent to their tribe as a warning of what tho next prisoners might expect. The chief 1 of tho cannibalistic tribo has a grant reputation for courage and ferocity, but was believed to have been converted by English 1 Baptist missionaries who have been laboring in tho valley of the Niger. ' ' NEWS SUMMARY | Fmifni nml iviltldio suhm, Oliver Bros., tho largest iron llrm in j Pittsburg, who employ 4,(KX) men,have signed j the scale. This, a Pittsburg telegram says, i virtually ends the strike in favor of tho Ironworkers. An explosion of gas has ruined tho Dorranee coal mine at Wilkesbarre, Penn. Tho pecuniary loss is $10 >,000, and 3JO men arc thrown out of work. Trf. wife of the lato President Rutter, oi the New York Central railroad, died nt Sing Sing on tho 14th, two days after her husband's death. Anthony Murphy wa; fatally, and two other workmen seriously injured by the full irg of insecure walls nt Pittsttold, Mass. a bill exempting soldiors an 1 sailors from civil service examination was beaten if. ths Massachusetts senate by a tie vot?. The great strike of ironworkers in Pittsburg, 1'enn., is ended, all tho manufacturers having signed (ho wage scale. The Cincinnati, Wheeling, Mahoning Valley and Chenango Valley manufacturers on the wage committee refused to sign the scale. Liohtxixo struck the lard oil refinery of "Washington Butcher's f-'ons in Philadelphia; the large building caught lire and was quickly consumed. The total loss is about #150,'wo. chauncey M. Pepew has succeeded the late James II. Rutter as preside it of the New York Central and Hudson Rivor railroad. Konth and ffoit, A mob at Osgood, Ohio, shot down Turner Graham, a colored barber, and his wife, as they were returning to their home. Mrs. Wruhani was killer], but her husband will recover. The sheriff arretted three mon for the crime. A cyclone has swept through Iowa, carrying death atid destruction in its track. The village of Pulaski was wrecked, not a home remaining whole, and four persons?Mrs. Myers and her two children and a man named Tutewiler?were killc.L The town of Neeola was a'so badly damaged and a largo number of farm hour.es in its vicinity destroyed. From numerous other jioints throughout the State come similar reports of devastation, and the pecuniary loss will reach many thousand dollars. Five persons are known to Itavo been killed, anu several fatally in jured. Owing to the exhaustion of the corn supply, and a meagre wheat crop, tho peoplo of the border counties in Southwest Virginia aro greatly distressed for food, and are threatened with starvation. A rORHO.v of Minnesota has suffered heavily from a cyclone. Two entire townships were desolated, two or throe lives lost, large numbers of stock killed, the crops destroyed and inauy buildings leveled to tho ground. Henry A. Meykrs, found guilty in Baltimore of brutally belting his wife, was sentenced to receive twenty lashe3, to pay a fine of $10, and be imprisoned for one year. This is the first instance in which a white man has I'cen sentenced to the lash in Maryland. Only ono colored man has be. n whipped for wifo iKating, though tho law was passed more than three years ago. The casualt ies of tho tornado in Iowa reach seventeen killed and sixty woun led. The damage to property amounts to moro than $1,000,000. James W. Nesmitfi. Democratic United States Senator from Oregon during the war, died the other day at his country residence in Derry, Ore. Tjirfe desperadoes were ca ight by a vigilance committee in tho Indian Territory and summarily hanged to a troo. Washington* A Washington special says that Frank Hurd, of Ohio, the prominent Democratic free trado member of the last Congress, will contest tlie seat of Komeis, his Republican opponent at the last eloction, in tlio next House. The contest will l>e tnade by Hurd 011 the grouud of fraud in the election. Till-: President has made tin following additional appointment*: John A\*. Twi/gs, of California, to be nssayer of the mint at Han Francisco, C'al.; Thomas Bet-k to be appraiser of merchandise of the district of S.m Francisco, Cal.; Daniel Z. Yost to bo assistant appraiser of merchandise in the district of San Francisco, Cal. Presidential postmasters: C. E. Cameron at Alta, Iowa; Jacob J. Zoller at Ottawa, Ohio ; James 11. Marrs at Danville, Ity.; John B. I/Oinbard it South Fraininghnm, Mass.: James It. Howard, at Castile, N. Y.: John II. Cochran, at Dallas, Texas; Frank T. Fortes, at Fredericksburg, Va.; John Finn, at Decorah, Iowa; Valentine Ilingle, at Wausau, A Vis.; John Warner, at Peoriu, 111.; John A. Young, at Charlotte, N. C.; George W. Crokell, at Concord, N. II.; Archibald H. Boyden, at Salisbury, N. C.; Orland Humphrey, at Nyack, N. Y. Further appointments by the President: Ernest Pillow to bo Uniied" States attorney for the middle district of Tennesson; James H. Freeman, to be United States marshal for the western district of Tennessee; Americas Warden, to lie supervising inspector oi steam vessels for tho Seventh district. To be postmasters?W. E. Lawrence, at Sing Sing, N. V.j William H. Swan 11, at Mount Morris, N. Y.; Henry Hid ridge, at Union Springs, ft. Y.; Effingham T. Brown, at Aurora, N. Y.; W. H. H. Mclbyar, at Cambridge, Ohio; Wm. J. Whipple, at Winona, Minn.; J. W. Sherman, at Osceala, la: ('has. 0. McCreedy, at l.'allston, N. Y.; Daniel W. Krisber, at North Manchester, In 1.: Ivor Boyce. at Augusta, Oa ; Kolicrt P. Menofee. at Bozeman, Mont.; Buren S Wasson, at La porte, la. James J. Brooks, chief of the secret service division of the treasury department, has, at the request of Secretary Manning, tendered his resignation. The President has ma lo the following dip loimtic appointments, all in one bitch: Judge John B. Stallo, of Ohio, to bo ; ir-'oy extraordinary and minister p'enipot nti ir. of the United States to Italy; Buyie-?s W". llmna, of Indiana, to be minister resident a i l consul-general of thu United .States o the Argentina Republic; (hailcs A. Dougherty, of 1 eiinsyi vania, to be secretary of legation of the I'uitet States nt Home. To l> > Cou uls Honeral? William L. Aldan, of New York, at Koine, Pierce M. B. Young, of Georgia, at St. Petersburg. To be Consuls?Georgo W. Savage, of New Jersey, at Belfast; Edward Camphausen, of Pennsylvania, a' Naples; Francis B. Gallery, of New \<>rk, at Kingston, Jamaica; John M. Birch, of West Virginia, at Nagasaki; O.scar Ricr-hnfT nf Kashmir nt Snniiobenr: Richard H. Stoddard, of Now York, nt Athens; Tlioodoro W, Downs, of Coune ticut, ut Quebec; M. J. Newiuark, of Californin, at Lyons; William H. MofYett, of Now Jersey, at Beirut; J. C. Monoghan, of Itliodo Island, at Mannheim ; Wallace Jones, of Florida, at Messina. Jndgo Stallo is a native of Germany, has lived in this country forty-three years, lias taught in various colleges, and for many years has boon a pro: f inent member of tlio Cincinnati bar. General Young was a major-general in the Confederate nrinv and has served four t.-rins in i Congress. Mr. Aldeu is an editor 011 the j New York Times. I'orcijn. L. E. Myers, the American champion short j distance runner, is in England, defeating the I leading English runners, lie won three races j in one day at an athletic tournament near ! Manchester. The steamer Speke Hall, from Liverpool for Bombay, has foundered in a cyclona in the Gulf of Aden. Theru was only one sur- ' vivor. Tiiehk has been a renewal of attacks grow- j ing out of land troubles in Ireland. A farmer ! was killed at Millstreot, county Cork, his j skull being battered in. A farm laborer near j Tippcrary was shot, but not fatally injured. J A ursi'EUATE street fight occurred at lie- j noa, Italy, between a procession of clericals j and a mob of ruflians. One man was kille 1 ! and many persons were wounded. The Emperor of China has ratified the " Pekin Treaty," or treaty of jteace with Franco. SERlors public disturbances have taiien place in ih.' Kingdom of Bootan. Prince Frederick Ciiari.es Nicholas, the only son of Prince Charles of Prussia, younger brother ot the Emperor William, is dead. Ho was born in liS-*, and took a prominent part in Germany's war with Franco. The cholera is spreading westward along tliq. Mediterranean. Twelve thousand porsons left Madrid in one week, and the exodus is increasing. The French minister of finance states that the deficit in France's revenue next year is likely to be :>00,OJO,(XK) francs (>o'i,0J0,<KW . Admiral CoritnET, conunandnr of tin French naval force which has been operating against the Chinese in Ton puu, is dead in his fifty-ninth year. Thr Austrian government lias retuseu to give its sanction to the organization of private cremation societies. Quekx Victohi \ lias offered Mr. Gladstone an earldom in recognition of his service* to the queen mid the country. Mr. Uladstono asked that hp Iw allowed tj lorego the honor. Pr.nn.K are living bj* thousands from tlio cholera infected districts of Spain. Thousands of people have lied from Mil rein alone. Shocks of earthquake have reoccurred in Cashmere, India, with iiifivasod violence. It is reported that 2,','Sl persons have perished in tho district of Muzumirabad. lionn Sai.ishi rv d.linilely accepted the Knglish premiershipns mi<- rssor to Gladstone on the loth. It was also >tat'd that Sir Staf mm .^oriiu'cif ini'i if f|n>-1 n |i-i-i ,i^c, ing Sir Micliaol Ilivks-H -r.ch to lead the conservatives, whoso opposition overthrow tin Gladstone liberals, in the house of commons. A i.aiior riot in Nnmn. Austria, resulted in a collision between t he people ami the military. Eight soldiers and many civilians wero injured. FtKi.n Mausiiai. vox Mantkitff.l, the distinguished German commander and Governor of Als ice Lorraine, died at Carlsbad a few days since, aged seventy six years. It js stated in notices of Sir Julius Benediet's death that of recent years he has been, ?ave Liszt, the only musician of eminence who had the personal acquaintance of Beethoven. Sir Julius, as a youth of twenty, saw Beethoven at Vienna, but Ferdinand Hllier, who died but a few weeks ago, was as well acquainted with him. _ "at mt j'gregor j General Grant's Journey Safely ! Accomplished. How the Distinguished Invalid Mado the Trip to the Drezel Cottage. General Grant, accompanied by his family and Dr. Douglas, has taken up his resilience at the Drexcl summer cottagd, Alt. McGregor N. Y. Incidents of the trip from New' York are given a3 follows: A few minutes aftor 8 o'clock three carriages drove up in front of the house, and shortly afterward Colonel Grant and' wife. Mrs. Sartoris, J.-sse Grant and wife, and Ulysses S. Grant, Jr., and wifo and tho children of F. D. and Josso Grant came out and entered two of the carriages. They were driven to the Grand Central station. The carriages had hardly turned into Madison avenue when <ho door was again opeued and the general came slowly out upon tho stoop. Harrison had hold of his loft arm until tho General reache 1 tlu top step, where ho stood for a moment and looked up and down the street, and at the windows on the opposite side, where there were many faces and many lnnds waving him adieu. lie curried a cane in his right hand and was -J 1 2? ? nitl. ? UirrI, oill. Ul USOCU 111 it OU1UUI. Ultima, IT avi* ??. nun hat. Ho waved a salute to a number of peoplo who were standing on the sidewalk, and then waving his attendant behind him, he put his cano under his arm and walked nloneand unaided down the stoop with quick, nervous steps. He limped slightly in walking from the stoop to tho carriage. He stood for a second at the door and looked back at the house. Ho was followed by Dr. Douglas and Airs. Grant. The carriage was driven down Madison avenue at a slow pace to Fortyfifth street, an I through Forty-fifth street to the depot-master's room. Colonol Grant and Dr. Douglas then took the general by the arms and walked hint quietly through tho depot-master's room and went directly on board the car Vanderbilt, which is the special car of William H. Vanderbilt. The general's family were already in tho car, and when he entered they spoke to him cheerfully; but ho said nothing and sank exhausted in tho large easy cushion chair that hail boon prepared for him. Ho was greatly fatigued, and his face wore an anxious, careworn look. Aftor leaving his houso he had bundled up his nock in a dark handkerchief. His hand as it rested upon tho arm of the chair was greatly emaciated, and the bones in his wrist wero skeleton-like in appearance. Hia silk hat was removed and a dark traveling cap put on his head. Ho ratsod his hand several times to his forehead and pressed it. There was an air of weakness and treiuulousness in every motion, and finally when ho spoke his voice was not louder than a whisper. Dr. Douglas bent over close to him to hoar what he 9iid Ho wanted tho windows arranged so that ho could not feel the draughts of air. His beard, which was nearly white, had been cut close and gave a full appearance to ma mco, uuu aiau ov i posed the largo swelling in his neck. As the hand of tho clock in the depDt I pointed to 0 a. m. thero was a sharp ring of the engine bell and the special train drew slowly oilt of the dep->t. A chenr went up from tho spectators as tho train .started, and tho general partly rose from his chair and sadly waved iarewelh Th'i journey to Saratoga Was uneventful. The general's family made no attempt to engage him in conversation, knowing that an effort on his part to make himself understood only increased tho irritation in his throat and further weakened his voice. Once when tho train was flying past West Point tho general raised hu stick < and called attention to the home of an old friend of his?Mr. Diusmore. Nourishment was administered to him at intervals of two hours. Most of the time he sat fronting the engine in his invalid's chair, but once ho walkod to the rear of tho car, sat down in a cane bot'.oin chair thero, and for several miles looked out of tlie raaf doorway. The train ran into Saratoga at 1:55. On tho little Mt. McGregor road a special car attached to the locomotive J. W. Drexel, stood waiting with steam up. On the car were General MaUagei* L. 11. Fonda and Director John Kellogg of the Alt. McGregor road and J. XV. l>rexel, General Grant's generous friend. The general was transferred to the Mt. McGregor train. Then the [pudgy littlo engine began tho toilsome ascent of twelve miles to Mt. McGregor. Tho run up the mountain was made in about thirty-five minutes, the. train arriving at Alt. AIcGregor about 2:40. Stepping out of tho cars and on to the platform, and declining assistance, General Grant walked about one hundred feet up the plank walk leading to the Drexel cottage. Detective Freyer and Constable Alinnick walked behind with a chair, and carried him in it for a part of tho distance to the cottage. The General alighted and without assistance mounted tho ten or a dozen broad stops leading to the piazza at a paco that astonished his assistant. Jt was a case of sheer grit. He seated himself for a while on the piazza and inhaled the invigorating atinosphero with evident relish. Then ho entered tho house, and fifteen minute.) later appeared in a black frock coat in place of the dressing gown that he had worn. He stood in the doorway, his hands on his hips for some moments, taking in the scene with much sat isfaction. Wit hout other assistance than his stick ho walked the length of the piazza several times, and tho family wero delighted with this evidence of vigor and appreciation. Directly after his arrival Dr. Douglas examined and cleaned tho general's throat, which hail become considerably irritated during the journey. The patientV roic? had also failed him during the trip. How loner General Grant will remain at 51 r. Diesel's cottage is uncertain. The novo lit<?r on to ,tho C'atskills has not yet boon decided on. An old veteran. Sam Willett. of i/cw Benedict Post,No. 5, Albany, lias had a tent put up near Drexel cottage, and will show his devotion to his old chief Dy keeping all intruders at bay. (literal Grant Worse. General Grunt slept well on the first night of his arrival at Jit. McGregor, and was up at l) o'clock the next morning. During the afternoon ho took a short walk along the mountain sido with his servant, Harrison. When tin general reached his cottage after his walk to the brow of the mountain ho was much exhausted and sank into a chair in the parlor of the cottage. Soon he indicated by signs that he wanted some writing materials, whi h . were provided for hiui. and th?n ho wrote for J ?1?1# i u-nxtwn Ifltters i neany nan un uum. ii.u. or papers. One wnsheaded"Momorandaformy j Family." In it the General had written that he j thought he was failing, and for certain instructions that ho desired carried out he referred his family to other and more definite memoranda prepared by him a little while I before leaving New York. The other note j ho folded and addressed to Dr. Douglas. He! hamlxl both papers to Colonel Fred Grant. The afternoon wore away with the general j sitting outside oil the piazza after haviug written as stated, The sunset found him stilt | on the piazza, and wl-.on the dusk deepened j and the lamps were lighted inside tho sick I man was yet outsid?, though tho air was chill j and a stiff breeze was swaying the pine tree j tops. It was after S o'clo-k when tho General j went inside* the cottage. Then Dr. Dougla*, sent a mo-isage to Dr. Sands in New York i asking him to come immediately. I A Change for (he IMti-r lit IIImCoiw dition. General Grant felt somewhat easier on the lSth, having recovered from the fatigue that followed his imprudent exertion in walking j on the day after his arrival at Mt. McGregor. ' Tho physicians, on examination, found no j particular change in tho condition of his j throrit. A dispatch from Mt. Mi\freg.T sijs: The 1 crowds of people who floek^l here from ; Saratoga and saw Geirerat^Grant su:i- I ning himself on the veranda of his cottage ; j found few signs of the fear which over- j | whelmed the latnily last night. To every i-rpi rer ea no thoros on>e: "Tin general is j .asw.ll as he has Ikj?ii for months." So the excitonent of the night before j j became a matter to wonder at: and yet it all j I cam.' about in such a way that the family i i wore quite jusiilie 1 in their alarm. The note | j which the general wrote to his physician t male Dr. 1,'ouglas more and more agitated ! every moment after reading it. In it ! the sull'erer intimated that h?r felt the j hand of death up.ni him and could *' II-Uf "" inn-Pi- Dr. i i;tv;> ii[> uivt ' o"? I l?oug!as knc.v tlint there was tvally no great | danger. The gtivrars inn.l lia 1 been affected by the utter wvnrrios< which the quarter j o" mile walk li.'t'l jir.xlucvii anil ho lift I given up hup.'. '1 his had ottuirrH uii"e Sv.ore, i:i tic cailvday.; of the light against the can J o r, luit General <!rant'sdespair hail not been | so ?tvaf. 1 r. D>ughis n >w watchel iiis every movement anxiously. Alt.T the cnernl had doZcd off Colonel l'red tirnnt called all tliclnmily Into tlso parj lor and read tin* missive to them In it' ion oral Crant said ho 1 t it weak and exhausted j and tha> his strength to resist disease was I pone and that lie did not believe he could last nut< li longer, l eelin^ that death was so n nr. he wi>hed to ?:raw their attention to a pap-r he had left at home which had never been spoken of nnd in which he disposed of the remnant of li s personal effects an I mementoes. As Colonel (irant read the paper the little group gazed at ea"h other in mute consternation. Foreboding lobbed them of speech. Then .Mrs. (irnnt utterly broke down. She wept and would not be comforted. Kvenaftor receiving the assurnires of both physicians that the general was better than he has been for weeks, she was much d .-pressed. 'I he rest of the family, however, were in good spirits. Dr. Douglas will not tell what were urn exact contents of tlio nnto General Grant wroto biin, but intimates that tlio great strain of the uphill walk hail nfl'ceted his mind and made him loso hope. He doj elared that ho felt so much weaker that ho j could not conceal from himself the fact that | death was only a matter of a few days, or I perhaps hours. Mis family were so overcome | by the i lulu they recti veil that the doctor j yielded to their requests and sent to New j York for Or. Sands. Gen. (irant sank into j a deep sleep after he had been reclinum about an hour, lie did not awaken until lo'clo k, | when he called for a drink of water. This : Dr. I louglas gave hin> and the general again | tank to rest. He continued to sleep fitfully j until 10 o'clock this morning, when Harrison I dressed him and he took liquid food. At ll;30_o'clock Dr. Sands came up ou a special trafa from Saratoga, wblllier no riaa come on the first train from New York. Dr. Douglas met him at the little station, and thoy walked nrm-in-arin up the bill, with Colonel Grant beside them. Dr. Sands had brought no instrument case with biin. Dr. Douglas explained to the reporters that no operation had been contemplated or would be performed. Ho had only sent for Dr. Si.nds so that his assurance, added to his own illicit aid in reassuring the family. Up to this time the general remained in- his room in a depressed state of mind. Drs. Sands and T\?H/f1rtOA?nmino/l Vum f/vrathaf n rwl oft At* a long wait eamo out of the house together. Dr. Douglas said: "We have examined General Grant's throat and found that there has been no change since Inst Suunday, when Dr. Sands last saw it. Neither Dr. Sands nor myself regard hiin as in auy immediato danger. He is better now than ho has been for many weeks." __ LATER NEWS Charles A. Buddensiek, the builder of the New York tenement houses which col lapsed recently and caused the death of Louis Walters, was convicted of manslaughter in the second degree. A peculiar accident happened tlv; othn* day to the steamship Guyandotta, which had ~ YAIWWIT fwAm Vfl tl'tfh f\ UlTlVCUaUllOn lUift i-i ^??? .iw.iv.a, , ? cargo of vegetables, etc. TIio engineer ordered a fireman to take apart a feel pump valvo' Instead the fireman removed tho cover from the pea valve. Naturally the water came rushing through tho opening, the vessel b 'gan to settle, and shortly wont to tho bottom. Tho fireman's blunder resulted in a total low of about ?8l),000. Shad Jones (colored), and Giovanni Nono, an Italian, quarrelled ai Evansville, Ind., ever the possession of a bottlo of whisky and inflicted fatal injuries ou each other. Horace Tekril and Joo Barlwur were hanged at Charlottesville. Va.,the former for the murder of Randall Jackson, and tho latter for tho murder of Emeltne Foster, a girl eleven years old. Ths criminals and their victims were all colored The naval board of examination appointed to investigate whether the United States dispatch boat Dolphin had been built by Mr. Roach according to contract, has ma Je its report to Secretary Whitney. The report says that tho Dolphin is not of sufficient strength and stiffness to make the requirod "sea-speed" of fifteen knots per hour; that the workmanship is not according to contract, and that "nothing short of a trial at sea for some time, and in rough water, can satisfactorily determine her actual strength or weakness, and in the absence of such trial or test, so much to be desired, this report om* bodies the most that the Board has been able to ascertain; but. as the vessel has been recently on a reef in the East river, it is necessary that she should be docked and her bottom examined. When this is done the board will submit th'e result of such examination." Before the report was made the Doluhin had inado four trial trip* Sec retary Whitney on the 18th ssnt a copy of this report tc Attorney-General Garland, with a request to be advised legally as to his duty in the matter, TnE President has appointed William LBancroft to be collector of customs for the district of Port Huron, Mich.; Israel Lawton to be superintendent of the mint of the United States at San Francisco, Cal.; A LKing, of Arkansas, to be receiver of public moneys at Harrison, Ark.; William F. Howlaud to bs collector of customs for the dis" trictof Beaufort, N. C., and John A. Rich ardson; for the district of Pamlico, N*. C. Yobk, Englani, has been visited by an earthquake shock which lasted several sec- : onds and caused great alarm among the people. A Cai.aMITocs explosion has occurred in a coal mine near Manchester, Englaud. Shortly after the explosion twenty-two dead bodies Were recovered, and sixty miners rescued Alive. Nearly 200 men were still imprisoned jn the mine, owing to the heavy masses of coal thrown down by the explosion. Official dispatches confirm the news o^ tho loss of the French gunboat Reynard. Tlie iieynara iiounaereu ia uiu i mu vj^iunw which recently swept tbo Gulf of Aden* Every one on board?127 persons?perished* Late adrices from Lima, Peru, state tha General Caceres with 3,000 men was about to attack the city, and that the government force of 3,000 troops was preparing to give the revolutionary troops a warm reception. THE WHEAT CKOP. Valuable Heparin froin Various Seem lion* of the Country. S. H. Seamans, of Milwaukee, secretary of the Millers' National association, ha3 completed and issued to the members of the association an exhaustive report of the present condition and outlook of the wheat crop as compared with tlw sam? time in 1881, compiled from replied to 0,000 circular inquiries sont to the milling fraternity and others. The roport makes ther probablo aggregate yield of wheat in the United States this year 33ft, 104,800 bushels, or 20,835,206 less than the estimate promulgated by the statistician of tha United States bureau of agriculture, and 173,.WJ less than last year. The roport is by all odds the most important crop statistics of the year, and is always anxiously awaited all over the country. The following is the summary of the reports from all the wheat belt States: Minnesota?Acreage, 03 per cent., as compared with 18S4; averago condition, 00 per cent., indicating a prospective crop of 3V Wi!,OJJ bushels; amount still in farmers' hands, 17 per cent. Virginia?Crop will be late on account of drought; prospect very poor; estimatos of crop, -JO per cent, of 1*84, viz., 3,000,000 bushels. West Virginia?Will not raise more than seed sown; estimated crop 35 per cent, of 18X4, viz., 1.101,300 bus!:els. Maryland?The outlook is for a crop of 65 per cent, of 18% viz., 5,370,000 bushels. Michigan?Wheat crop in rely moro satis- | factory; prospects never better; estimated crop, 27,50f),o0J bushels. Ai.ranrm nhmit the same as 1SvJ4: ,U"U spring wheat very promising; outlook favorable lor an average crop, viz., 27,725,000 bushels. New York?Acreage compared with 18S4 about 87 per cent.; condition below an average; outlook for crop S3 per cent.; of an average, 51,400,000 bushels. Wisconsin?Winter wheat, central awl western part of .State, goo.l; acreage aboit !W per cent, of last year; condition very backward: outlook 75 per cent, of 1*S4, viz., 15, 1*00,000 bushels winter and spring. Colorado?An increase in acreage of fifteen per cent, with prospects equal to 1SS4, would indicate a crop ot 2,700,000 bushels. Dakota?Slighc increase of acreage over last year; condition of crop first class in every respect, indicating an outlosk for a crop of at least 2"?,00>,00j bushels. Ohio?Acreage compared with 1S<4 is OS ])er cent.; plowed up, 27 per cent; present condition, except in northern }>art of the State, very poor: the outlook for crop indicates not to exceed 4'v-. j>er cent of 1654, equivalent to li*,ti75,U0J bushels. Missouri?The crop is nearly a failure; acreage sown compared with last year, SO per cent.; plowed up, 2S |>er tvnt.; outlook for crop, lo,4(W,0)0 bushels. j Indiana?Acreage seeded, S-S per cent.; p'owcdup Hij? per cent; outlook compai'ed with 1 .hs j 51 percent, equivalent to 21,o00,000 bushels. ! Illinois?Acreage sown, 00 per cent of 1SS1, I plowed up, jier cent., indicating a pros pec- j tivo eron of 2> j???r cent, eijualto '.',<W,000 bushels. I rit.T replies. however, report muon that was supposi-d lo lie wheat is heading out client. Und-r the most favorable circuiu( stances the above estimate may te consi lered a very lil>eial one. Kansas?Like Missouri the Kansas crop may bo called n failure. Acreage sown to , wheat as compared with ISSt. fSl per cent.; j plowed up :il percent.: outlook for crop, 38 per cent., equal to 13,300,0J0 bushels. Tennessee?Acreage seeded, .SS per cent.: plowed up 20 per < ent.; outlook fort rop equal to 40 per cent, of ls>4, viz., 3,72",000 bushels. Kentucky?Acreage, DO per cent.; plowed up, -T per cent.; out look for crop, 41 percont., equal to 5,50 t,<K) I bushels. Pennsylvania?Outlook for crop indicates i . 0!) jht cent, of 1**4, viz., 1 (,375,000 bushels. } California?The wheat crop of California for the yeer 1*h.us estimated by good author- j tties 1, 1*1,000 tons of 2,000 pound* each, equal ! to ?>5,7."'y?'>3 bushels. The secretary of the1 State agricultural department places the crop i even higher than this, viz.: ^.Oo-'I.OUO bushels, j while the United Stutes agricultural depart- ' inent's estimate is only I 1,820,000 bushels. | (ieorgia?The outlook indicates a j'ield of i I,"15,00;) bushels. Texas?Decrease in acreage of 21 per cent, j : The crop will amount to 4,3!>3,0tN) bushels. Montana?Crop lo per cent better than la-t j year. Estimate 1,4)0.000 bushels. Oregon?Increaseof 20 tier cent., or a crop , of 19,327,500 bushels. Secretary Seamans in a foot note adds: | This report carefully compiled from replies | 1 received to theikh) "inquiries : e it to prominent millers and other* in the different States | issubmii:el with the assurance that so far : j as it is possible to judge of the probabilities i ?i... ,-iwn-it this timo its conclu- I ! sions are approximately correct. Replies re! ceivel since tile licxly pf the report was put i into the hands of tin"printer nn to the etle?-t [ that insert depredations are on the increase, ami that many (itIds of winter wheat which ! were consulted pronging arc li?n>.liiu out a ] la rue percentage of "cheat." There is every probability tliat the estimated shortare may I be largely increased bj* the contingencies be' tween now and harvesting. TORNADOES IN THE WEST. m Destruction of Human Life and Great Damage to Property, Churches Blown Down, Houses and Bridges Daitroyed. '^1 A series of storms havo caused some loss of ? lifo a nH rrrant of nronartv throueh* out portions of the West. From Omaha, Nob., come the following details: The second sovero wind and rain storm within half a 1 week visited this section yesterday. Ono residence in Omaha was struck by lightning, but the occupants escaped injury. A brakeman named Sullivan was killed by lightning near Columbus. Great damage was dono in the country to windmills, shods and barns by tho wind. The storm along the -Ja Union Pacific road was particularly severe. At Millard, twenty miles we it of here, two lumber yards were entirely blown away. At Elkhorn two housasnnl a barn were blown down. For a distance of six miles we>t of Grand Island telegraph polee aro all laid flat The same storm struck the North Platte station and was blowing it to pieces when telegraphic communication was cut off. The depot at Phelp3' station, on tho Burlington and Missouri railroad, wa3 partly wrecked A great deal of damage was dono for a distance of fifty miles along the No? braska railroad in tho southern part of theState, a great many buildings being wrecked; At Jackson, Neb., a store was blown down; At Elk Point, Dakota, a number of buildings were blown down and the railroad coal hous? ?> and windmill weie demolished. No one washurt. At Coleridge, Neb., sixteen buildings were leveled. A. Hudson's general store wv - ?5 blown to pieces. Two childron were killed and three people seriously injured in fhecounAt IIntha sboHnff rfnl^ Ujr. a?liuivu.6.vu|..uw, O and a number of small buildings were destroyed. At Wake Held, Neb., a store was unroofed. A Sioux City (Iowa) dispatch says: A sovere wind storm struck tbis city at a quarter-past ten o'clock last night. The post- >. ofDce was unroofwl. The wholesale dry gocds store of Tootle, Livingston & Co., was unroofed and euu wails blowu in. Several other stores and dwellings were also damaged. Tee Methodist and Baptist churches are down. In all the country within a radios of twenty-flve miles of Sioux City much damage was done to trees, fences, windmills and buildings. A number of farm houses were demolished. "Word has been received from Lemars, Iowa, that the St. James' Catholic church was blown down and the steeple of another church demolished. The Plymouth mills were unroofed and the smokestack blown away. The gas works were leveled, the pera-house unroofed, the St Paul and Omaha depot wrecked, the new school-house unroofed and several residences blown down. The wind was first straight from the south, nnd then from the southwest Seven miles north of Sioux Cilf the housa of S. B. Hunneford was blown to pieces and ' the contents scattere 1, Mr. Hunuelord being -* slightly injured. The family had to take refuge in the ''cyclone cellar." Mr. J. B. Waddington lost a valuable barn and sixty ?cres of corn. His house was blown off its ' undation and badly twisted. The schoolhouse near there was wrecked. Peter Garvey's barn was wrecked and William Brill's grove, the finest In the county, utterly ruined. Thomas Leary, James Herat, William Drake, Thomas Flanning, Peter Petersen, Jnke Shendler, Albert Corawell and William Nesbitt, all farmers, lout their barns, -rops, machinery, etc. William Lorch's natural groYo nt James statioD, nve nines distant, was almost ruined, largo trees being ?.i broken off and torn up by the roots. No one was killed, as far as known in the country north, as the people bad ample warning -Vj and fled to cellars which were prepared for such occurrences. A Stillwater (Mina) dispatch says: A furious rain and wind storm struck this city abcut midnight last night, lasting two hours. -. f Public and private property was damaged to the extent of fcJO.OOO. Myrtle street was torn into ruts, twenty feet deep, and the water main was toi n out for several rods. From Dayton, Ohio, comes the following account of the storm's ravages: A storm of wind and rain pas-ed over this section of tho Miami Valley this afternoon, causing great damage to crops, orchards, bridges, and '.wildings in its track. The storm received its greatest momentum at Middletown, twentyfive miles southwest of Dayton. The damage was very coasiderable at f his place. The storm continued m a northwest direction, taking the towns of Miamisburg, Carrollton, Germantown, Frycowu and Alexandriaville in its course. At Miamisburg a bridge 70J feet long, acrosslha Miami river, was blown down. The town hall at Frytown was totally demolished. Tho damage in this city consisted of tbe unroofing of a number of houses and the general d<^ molition of shade and fruit trees. ?- " -M ONLY ONE SURVIVOR. The Nad Fate of a Onco Uea'thjFamilx ot AlleeUony C.ty. A Pittiburg (Penn.) dispatch says that "there is now only one survivor of the onca bighJy respsctod and wealthy family, the MoGeary's of Allegheny City. The father died rears ago in a mad house. His widjw soon followed him, leaving a large estate to each sf four sous?Harrv, Marsh, Abbott and Frank. Abbott diecf from delirium tremens, leaving considerable property in the care of Harry, as executor. A woman, who state ! that sho was Abbott's wifo and had been recognized as such by many parties -1 hero ana in other cities, produced a will by which all of his property went to her. Harry McGeary pronounced the pap?r a forgery and contested it in court The trial ended on Saturday with a verdict lor the woman. Harry was considerably worried over the verdict, and did not sleop last night nor o;i Saturday night About 5 A. M. to-day ho persuaded his wife to leave the room for a bottle of medicine. As soon as the door closed McGeary went to a bureau, drew out a revolver and shot himself in the head, dj ing iu a few minutes. It is said that he had squandered the major portion of his brother's estate, and was unable to satisfy the verdict of Saturday. His lawyers deny this. Marsh McGeary shot himself dead in a Cincinnati hotel iu November. Frank is the solo survivor of the family." ( THE NATIONAL GAME. It la a close race between New York and nhicmro for the League championship. ? ] The St Louis club seems to be the coming champion of the American association. Vice-President Hendricks attends near- . ly all the Indianapolis club games when at home. The American association and National V.3 league will hold a conference meeting August 1. Connor, of New York, leads the league in batting, and O'Rourke, of the same club, in runs-gecting. President Young of the National league has notified all clubs that rule 27 had been changed and that hereafter pitchers will have co restrictions on their delivery. At the opening game played by the Chicagos on their new ground?thoir opponent! being the St. Louis club?there was present 10,327people. The Chicago^ won easily. The greatest distance that a baseball has been thrown is lo3 yards 1 foot 7 1-2 inches, .* by John Hatlield, in Brooklyn, L. L, October 15, 1872. Crane's throw is not authenticated. Toe League club of St Louis has paid Hugh Daly's $500 fine, and he has been rein *??ith thA stated, and nas signeu ...... Louis team. DaJy is the noted one-armed pitcher. The ball season in Honolulu, Sandwich Islands, opened by a ganio between the Honolulu club and a nine tromthe U. & S. Hartford then at that port. Score, Honolulu, 18, Hartt'ords 2. Baldwin, tho Milwaukee's left handed pitcher, is a Michigan fanner. In addition to being a most excellent pitcher, he is very much of n gentleman, and is saia to neither drink, smoke or chew. a lead of five or six runs doesn't decide a ganio this year nor unnerve the players. Such lends ore overcome nearly every day now. Timo was when a lead of three runs was almost certain to settlo a game. Tho championship record up to re-cut data is as follows: THE NATIONAL I.EA0U8. l>'on. Lost. Won. Lost VcwYnrk 24 t> Itotton 3, 19 ?hic?c;o 24 fi St. i.oilis !0 20 'hilaik'lp'in... .IT 14 Buffalo 10 ja I'rovidi nce. 19 9 I'droit 5 25 AMEKIOAN ASSOCIATION. st. Louis 2? 10 | Brooklyn 15 9.2 ritt?hnrK 21 lrt Baltimore 16 */2 ( inciniiit'. " 111 At Miotic IT v3 t.oiiiovi!' 1 '.o i AU-iropcSfMr.. .',4 25 ' "r.v I.EAOI'B. Virginia.. ......25 4 11nncu?f:r 1< 13 J'rcntnn 20 10 I Niifjik 9 22 National 2' s | .frtsejr t'ity .. ... 7 2:1 Newark 17 JS | Wiiining'.un "> 23 SOtUIKKN I.KAdVE. Atlanta 2S 7 I < olnm' us 17 3D AtiRiista ?1 17 j Mac >n !S 18 Itirniificham... 0 '_' >! Memphis 12 22 I hutl*ooo?'a.. .13 19 I N.iahvil.'c IS i? 1'bofkssor Paine's assertion about the inconsidernMo part played by women S3 musical composer* has res'ulted in the collation ot Ui<j titles of a small list of well-known songs, t'ie sirs of which were written by women, and a few cantatas and operettas, but a correspondent, who aids in bringing to light tho not very numerous examples, adds, in a communication to the Boston Transcript: "There is nothing which can be brought forward iu c mtravention of i'rofessor Paine's assertion, and I think 1 am safe in saying that no i woman is entitled to rank even as a fourthrate composer."