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_ .. "' . ' ' . __1____1_? ABBEVILLE PRESS AND BANNER 1 BY HUGH WILSON. ABBEVILLE, S. C.. WEDNESDAY. JULY 8, 1885. NO. 2. VOLUME XXX ??? i n. ???? ^ ^ ????t - FIND YOUR LEVEL Yon can be a fishing shallop if you cannot be ashlp, If you cannot bo a lighthouse bo at least a tallow dip; You con be a valiant soldier though you may not be a host, You can watch a single headland if you cannot guard a coast; There is everything that's noble in the wisdom and the grace Of fulfilling every duty, whatsoever be your place. If you spend tho day in pining and in staring at the sun, You will find that you aro blinded long before the day is done. Better bo tho humblo limpet that is safe where'er it clings, Than attempt an eagle's soarings when you lack<ho eagle's wings. There are some as swift as swallows, there j are others who must creep, And you never saw a turtle try to take a tiger's leap. If you cannot l>e a Faixhan with its thunderous report, He content to .carry powder in a corner of j the fort; If you cannot rule nn army with a great | commander's skill, You can fire a common musket in obodionea to his will; | There is but a single compass in the ship, | however great. But each rivet aud sail-fibre holds a portion ! of its fate. I "Ktkvor trrln ImM n if (IpsicilOfl to hold : a peck. Or outreach the cranes and camels with yf ur half an inch of ne< k; Never try to rare with dolphins if you can. j not even swim, Or to challenge hawks for vision if your eyes f be old ami ditn; Never spread a grain of butter over fifty ! yards of bread, Or attempt with penny trumpets to awaken up the dead. Not every stick of timber that is fit to make a mast, Not every structure builded is a Pyramid to I last, i Not every piece of music is an anthem or a psalm, Not every growing sapling that h pine or j lofty palm; Yet everj mossy atom has its own peculiar grace, And each its perfect usefulness or beauty in its place. These truths are old and hoary, yet we need 1 them every day, To reconcile our longings to the limits of our way; The only true philosopher is he who learns , content, unough quartern! in a palace .or due sneitered in his tent; TVbose cheerful soul is ready to cncompass what it can, Nor vex itself in criticizing God's etern?l plan. The secret of the journey is to know and bear ( its length; The key of evory ciTort is to rightly gauge your strength; Acceptingjwhat is given you with the patience i that but asks The knowledge for its purpose and the courage for its tasks; Content to struggle bravely and with honor in his strife, Whether called to lead or follow on the battle-fields of life. We ask no higher mission than successfully to teach: The vanity of grasping for the things beyond our reach; Of wasting modest talent in ambition's useless fret, To reap but bitter failure and the ashes of regret. Go, study what is in thee, and to be a noble man, Know first; then do thy duty in the Great Eternal's plan. Soshalt thou know contentment and con. tentment's rich increase, A life endowed with blessings and a spirit filled with peace; A dearth of disappointments and of hours j with pride perplexed, Of jealousies, heartburnings that so many j lives have vexed. When dead, though princo or peasant, 'tis enough that they should toll, "He knew his placo and purpose, and performed each duty well." ?J. Edgar Jones, in (he Current. , ANEXiyr_S_ ESCAPE, i Several years ago a Russian gentleman, j l whom I met at the house of a friend in i Paris, told me he had been an exile in i Siberia, and had also visited America. ! "I went from Siberia to America," said he, with a smile, "and you may infer i that I went without the emperor's permission." "Of course I understand," replied I, "that you escaped from captivity." "Quite right," said he. "Audi will tell you how it was. "1 was charged with being concerned in a Nihilist conspiracy," he continued, "but whether the charge was true or false is of no consequence at present. I was sentenced to fifteen years' exile in r " i :? uie invYiiiLV ui nuu was JUImediately started with a party of about fifty prisoners of all grades and kinds. We went by railway from St. Petersburg to Nijni Movgorod, then by steamboat to Kazan and 1'crm, and from Perm we 1 walked over the Ural mountains to Ekaterineburg. Some of the prisoners were in fetters and others were not; I was one of the former, and carried five pounds of iron chains that extended from each ankle to ray waist, where they were fastened to an iron belt. With this cncumbrancc it was out of the question for me to think of running away. All who wee fettered were obliged to wear their irons day and night, and every time a prisoner moved in his sleep the ?chains clanked horribly. * "We traveled in all but the very worst weather, and slept at the stations which nro ctrf>fr>ipfl nlnn" flip rnnd nt intervals of about fifteen miles. The stations are horribly dirty, and there is nothing but the bare floor to sleep upon, but we were so w*arv when night came thatanv 6ort of couch was welcome. Cabbage, soup and barley, with black bread and an occasional piece of meat, composed our food, and there was generally enough of it. "The object of exile is to provide a population for Siberia, and consequently the government has no object in starving a prisoner on his way to execute his sentence. "I was six months in reaching my destination, a small village a hundred miles from Yakutsk, and five thousand miles from St. Petersburg. The governor allotted me a piece of land, gave me tools for cultivating the ground and building a house, and told me I would be supplied with provisions once a week for three years. At the end of that time I was expected to have my land under cultivation, and must support myself. I could also catch fish in the rivers, and hunt for game in the forests, but under no circumstances must I fail to report ft tt-flol/ fr\ tVio nr V?pn.f] UUV/C a ncga iv iwiu*vwvvp, v. ? mm of the settlement. The village contained a dozen houses, all occupied by exiles like myself. They were all without education or refinement, and. therefore, I could not obtain much companionship from them, but they showed the most kindly spirit, and gave me all the help they could. "With their assistance I built a small house, and they showed mc how to mint and fish, and in a little while I was settled ki my exile home. The government offered to bring my family to Siberia, but I declined the proposal; the wife and young children of an exile can always follow or accompany him at government expense, but they cannot return to Russia until his term of banishment has expired. This is done in order that the exile may be contented in Siberia by having few or no tics to bind him to Europe. "The first thoughts of a prisoner arc always directed to securing his freedom, and I was no exception to the rule. Not ???/i r rli/1 nof wh'aIva in mv a ony passuu iuoi * uiu uw .v.v..v ..... mind the possibilities of an escape, and thi means for accomplishing it. "1 speedily abandoned all hopes of ! going to European Russia on account of the enormous distance that separated | me from my home, and the almost sure | detection that would follow if I succeeded in reaching home. Then I turned J my thoughts eastward, and decided that I would escape in that direction, but it was more than two years before I could I execute my plan. | '*1 developed a great fondness for I hunting and trapping, and when I se a .. KsUixjd a |/?ii 1iv.uiai ij iiiuu V/A ^IAIUV ; I presented it to the Starosta. ! "One clay I told the Starosta -I had 1 found the traces of an unusually laige | sable, and hoped to secure the animal very soon. Early the next morning I I left everything as usual in my hut, and 1 made the circuit of my traps; then I started in a northeasterly direction across the hills that bordered the valley of the river where our village lay. "While I was hurrying alung with no thought except that of my newly gained freedom, a bend in the hill brought me facc to facc with Starosta! "'Where are you going, little brother.'' said he. "I tried my best to appear calm, as I answered that I had a trap in that direction, and wanted to visit it. " '1 will go with you,' said he. "I was in a dilemma! I had no trap there, and what to do I did not know, but I soon hit upon a plan. "It was in the spring of the year, and there were holes in the ice on the streams. In crossing the stream 1 managed to fall into the water, and was wet to the skin. After soundly rating me for my carelessness, the Starosta abandoned the idea of Koing to the trap, and ordered me to go home and dry my garments, of which I had but one suit. "I waited another week, meanwhila settinir two or three traps iu localities that would give an cxcusc for long journeys in the direction of freedom. The next time I started I had better fortune, and got safely away. I felt that the Starosta had not suspected my intentions, and would not be alarmed about my disappearance foratleasta fortnight; moreover, he might think I had fallen into the water again and been drowned. ""When night came I was a good thirty miles away from my viilagc. Not daring to light afire, I passed the night very uncomfortably, after making my sunper on some crusts of bread 1 had brought in ray pocket, and the raw flesh of a partridge I had knocked down with a stick. "For fifteen days I was alone in the wilderness of Siberia, living upon the birds, which I killed with my bow, or caught in snares. On the fifteenth day the birds were more shy than they had been, and I knew I Avas approaching a native camp. Sure enough, before sunset I descried a column of smoke which led me directly to a village of Tungusians, the aboriginals that inhabit the region bordering on the Arctic ocean, and wander from place to place in search of pasturage for their vast herds of reindeer. "Some of them knew a few words of Russian, and partly by conversation and partly by signs I told them I was the only survivor of a ship that had been wrecked on the coast of the Arctic ocean. Shins have been lost there at different times, and my story was plausible enough; luckily, the absence of a common language saved me from a troublesome cross-examination. I asked them to take me to a Russian settlement, but to my great joy they were not going to one at present. They were intending to pass the summer on the shore of the Arctic ocean, arid would start for it the very next day. "My skill with the bow and arrow sccurcd their friendship, and I was allowed to travel with them, and soon to join their tribe. Pretending to be one of them, I adopted their dress of deerskins and threw away my old clothing, as it might lead to my detection in case Ave encountered any Russian explorers. I Avore my hair in Tuugusian fashion, and stained my skin, so as to resemble my new friends as much as possible, though I could not flatten my face nor turn my eves up at the corners in true Tungusian style. "It was two months from the time I met these aboriginals before avc reached the Arctic ocean; we nr.de our camp close to a summer village of C'huckchccs, the people inhabiting that part of Siberia near Rehring's straits. With some of the Tungusiaus I visited the Chuckchee village, but soon returned in great alarm. I had met two Russian traders in the village, and Avas consequently fearful of detection. One of them spoke to me in Russian, but I stared at him with an expression of ignorance, and replied with a few words of Tungusian. "Three days after we formed our camp I went out in the morning aud saw something which brought my heart into my throat. An American whale ship was sailing along the coast, and not more than three miles from shore. "At the risk of being discovered by the Russian traders, I went again to the Chuckchee village, and persuaded the owner of a baidar,, or sealskin boat, to carry mc to the ship under promise of a tine sable skin when we returned, Great was the astonishment of the crew when I hailed them in English, which I had learned in my youth, and asked to be taken on board. Drawing from my jacket the promised sable, and giving it to the owner of the baidar, I ciimbcd the side of the Annie Gibbs, of New Hedford, and was soon facc to face with her captain. " Not daring to explain my real character, I told the captain that I was the sole survivor of a 'urman ship that had been crushed in the ice during tin: previous summer. I offered to work my passage, and lib readily accepted me, as he was short of men. The ship was very successful in catching whales, and had a full cargo of oil by the end of summer. Then she went southward, and I was a^ain in great peril, as the captain dropped into the harbor of Petrcpavlovsk, in Kamchatka, to take in a supply of water. Russian olliccrs came on board, and I thought I was recognized, but happily it was not so; I was the most delighted man in the world when we i sailed out again into the broad Pacific and steered for San Francisco. " As we dropped anchor in front of I that city, I touched my cap to the captain and told him I was an escaped Siberian exile. " lie looked surprised, and stood unable to speak for fully half a minute. Then, putting his hand in his pocket, he drew out two shining double eagles and gave them to me. ' I don't want to know anything about it,' said he. 'as it might get me into trouble with the Russians. I took you for a shipwrecked German, and that's what I believe you are.' " And this was how I escaped from Siberia."? Youth'* Companion. . Chinese Minces. At a Chinese dinner the attendant puts before you three small saucers. In oneisSe-Yu; in another, (Jai-Kot and in the third Moi-Ta-l'ng. The lir-t is a li<jii id reseinbli ng or suggest ing very diluted Worcestershire, the second is an acid mayonnaise dressing and the last is a semi-solid sweet sauce made from sugar and the fruit acids of tamarinds, dates and prunes. These make up the list of condiments served. Salt and pepper boxes, the cruet and castor arc unknown to the Mongolian epicure, or if known arc marks of poor cooking or inferior foods. To him a dish should indicate in flavor and appearance, its component elements. It should not be smothered in a firev deluge of pepper, nor serve as a vehicle for a new dressing. That nearly every dish neeis an additional something to make it enjoyed by the individual is admitted by the Oriental as well as the Occidental. The latter supplies this want by inundating , his food with a sauce regardless of the tastes of his convives; the former serves the sauce or sauces separately and allows his guests full discretion in their use. In general the Kuropcan pours sauce on a food and the Chinese dips food in a sauce.? Wong Chinjoa, in the Cool:, A sheep has eight fronl teeth, all equal in size the first year. The second ve;ir the two middle teeth are much larger i than the others. The third year two very small teeth appear on both sides of the eight. At the end of the fourth year there are six large teeth. The fifth year i all are large. Th* sixth year all begin to show siguB of wear. i . DIVING AFTEIITIIRCORAL SWIMMING ABOUT IW STOHTT G.EOVES FAR BELOW THE SEA. j Queer Troatiirc* thai ^lako Tlirlr Homo in Kraiirlir* of Coral Irons ?An .Adventure. ''Too much?" repeated a man, a3 he held up a big bunch of coral in the cabin of a schooner near Fulton market. "If you had to yit it up you wouldn't think so. "You know," said the man, after the would-be purchaser had crawled up the | companion way liulclcr, "some folks git I the idea that I bring this stud on for fun, and give it away. 1 div a like o' fifty foot for that piece, and that chap wanted to take it for twenty-five cents." "Ho you dive for these specimens?" asked the writer. "Yes, the best arc fotchcd up that way," was the reply; "but a good many are taken with coral hooks. Me and my brother takes a trip, oil and on. One of us collects the stall and the other sells, and between the two, and as acting as cook fur the steamer, we make it pay. "Yes, we see some curious sights, but we git used to it. We go to what they call the '.Markovs,' about forty miles or i so the west'ard of Key West. You can git coral any time, but the summer's the j best; tlu-n there is little wind a-blowin1, and you can see the bottom in forty foot. In the winter wc use a boat with J a glass bottom, so wc can set and drift along and look down through, and when j we see anything git over for it. " There's half a dozen kinds of coral j j that are common, and mostly they grow I j apart and in certain places. What wc ! call branch coral is found all over the I j flats where there is sandy bottom, growI ;? ,.r i?,? i:l?. i?,t if rrlto ' llii; IV11114 1UM linir, UUb n UVM a v | along toward the edge of the channel, the branches grow longer and look like regular branches of a tree, and matted so thick that you can't sic bottom or git your fist in between 'em. Sometimes, when wc want to git out a fine piece of branch, wc dive down into the channel, and I tell you it's a line sight. When you git down thirty foot, say, it's as light as day when there's a good sun right overhead, and there you arc in front of a wall of these 'ere coral points, a solid front, all of a brownish or olive color. If you git way down to the bottom you'll sec crawfish whip3 wavin' to and fro. They live under the coral, and on top and in between the black spots arc big sea eggs, with spices six inches long. The coral is covered with fishes of all kinds?parrots, angels, yellow tails and grunts. The fishes have a dozen or more colors, and one kind that I think beats 'email is pure blue from head to foot. It's only about six inches long, and I never saw them away from the big heads. 44 Aftpr nracticft vou can stav down three or four minutes, and by swimming along with your eyes open you can git a look at the lot, and then try and J break off a branch with a boathook of iron. Sometimes we have to go down four or five times to git a piece; then, if it's big, put a rope around it and haul it up. Most of the small coral can be picked up with a hook that looks like a pair of oyster hooks, but it's apt to break it, so I generally go overboard wnen the coral ain't too thick. There's one place I know where for a hundred acres it's so thick that there ain't a place to put your foot?one big piece of branch coral. The big heads generally grow on the edge of the channel, and I can take you I to a spot where there's coral heads that j arc ten foot across and six high. Some j of the big ones weigh over one thousand pounds. When they git big they often die away on the tcp, and finally get hollowed out and look like big vases hold- j ing angel fishes, crawfish, and a little of everything. You never see the big heads here, bccause vessels can't git near 'em, and a small boat wouldn't hold one. In water about twenty to twenty-five feet deep we git the best pieces, what they call rose coral. I git them by divin', as they're so small you can't see them hardly. I've got bunches not bigger than your hand, and got $10 for 'em. Pretty ain't no name for cm. Inst one I got came near clcanin' me out." ' How so?'' "Well," replied the conl diver," wc have a fish on the reef called the stingaree; it's as flat as your hand, with two side wings that move up and down as it swims along. They are about two or three feet wide and six or eight long. The tail is just like the lash of a whip, and right where it joins the body there arc three stints of Oonc, one right above the other, rive or six inches long, with j edges like a saw. They have a way of | sinking clown to the botton, and with a i shuttle something like that ol a hen in | the dust, covering themselves with sand, j This day 1 speak of I was driftin' along i in about three fathoms, layin' in the j boat lookin' through the glass, while my ! mate was at the oars ready to stop her when I sung out. All at once I clapped j my cye3 on a beauty head of rose coral, and over I went. I reckon it was about fifteen foot jest there, and I went down with such a rush that I went near to the j botton right over the little brown head. J I grabbed at what 1 thought was a bunch of weed, to hold on while 1 pickcd up the coral. 1 got it and then let mv feet down on to the bottom to give myself a shove up, when, blim! blitn! came some thing around my legs, and I'm dogged j if I didn't think they were olf at the j knees and a big stingarce flew up by mc, takin' me on all sides. The next thing I knew I was in the dingy, but how I goc there I didn't know. l>obsaid he looked over and saw blood in the water and the fish and thought a shark had me. The fish IU12CU IMllU i\ UU">C UlUU i\SL il llllllULb 1IU coulda't see nothing, but he grabbed the grains, then seein' me on the bottom put 'em into my drawers, and hauled mo up. I'd fainted, clean gone, as sure as you're alive. I looked like that old fish market over yonder, all streaked with gore. There was a dozen cuts across my legs, jist like a red-hot iron had been put on, and if I'd been alone it would have been a gone case." "Do you ever have trouble with sharks?" "I never worry 'em, and they don't worry me, but they're as thick as Hies in 11 y time on the reef. "Yes, the coral business is tol'able. All the schools and colleges take collections, if they can git 'em cheap enough, and we sell a heap to the seaside resorts. The country people think they come out of the water right along shore; it's all the same to them. The kinds 1 deal in is brain coral, branch, pepper, leaf and rose-shaped coral, rioatin' coral brings a big price. It floats after it's bleached, and pepper coral tastes like pepper after it's dead. Then wc fetch sea fans, sea eggs, sharks' jaws, gulls' eggs, hawkbill turtles, and a little of even-thin^. Corals sell by the piece from twenty-live cents to live dollars.?York Sun. Revolutionary Survivors. Karly in the late civil war it was announced that none of the soldiers of the Revolution were alive, and this, falling under the eye of a gentleman living in Hartford, who knew that at least one survivor remained, lie determined to learn if possible wnether there were others, and to obtain a record which would determine accurately to whom belonged the honor of surviving all his comrades. The result of hisimpiiries established beyond all doubt that in 180-1 six soldiers of the revolution lived. These were the Kev. Daniel Waldo, then aged 10-: William Mutchins, aged 100; Adam Link, aged 102; I emuel Cook, aged 10"); Alexander Milliner, aged 101, and Samuel Downing, aged 102. Unfortunately it was impossible to learn which one of these survived the others, i though there is some reason to believe that the oldest of all, Lemuel Cook, was the last to pass away. All died within a year or two after they had been seen by the gentleman referred to, and one, the Rev. Daniel Waldo, within several months.?Nem York Sun. During (ho reign of Catherine II. of Russia, Kalatin, a peasant, made a musi cal repeating watch, about the size of au ?-gg, which bad within it a representation of Christ's tomb, with sentinels on guard. On pressing a spring the stone would In* robed from the tomb, the angels appear, the holy women enter the sepulchre and the ;ame chant whiefc is sung in the Greek church on Easter eve accurately performed. V f i SELECT SITTINGS. j The Japanese form of admiuisteriag J an oatli is to (lip a finger in ink. The crocodile is said to swallow stones | sometimes, like birds, to aid the gastric i mill. The first wedding in America wa9 : that of Kdward Wilson and Susannah i White, of Plymouth, Mass. A Presbyterian minister of Hawick, I Scotland, lias sent to Queen Victoria a small plow made from spears, sworas, nnd dirks. There was a tunnel under the river EuI phratcs when ancient liabylon was in j all its glory, and the ancient Egyptians I had a Suez canal. The principle of the slcreoscopc was 1 known to Euclid, described by Galen I 1,500 years ago, and more fully in lo'Jt) | A. I), in the works of Baptista Porta. An oyster has a stomach and a heart. I In America it lias sex, but none in EuI rope. We have male and female oysters on the American coast. Those of Eu| rope combine the two sexes of the ani| ma I. I An ordinary spider's thread, just visit ble to the naked eye, is the union of I 1,000 or more line and delicate threads of t-ilk. These primary threads arc drawn out and united by the hind legs of the spider. The Mexican Indians when at warfare with troops make a shield out of their blankets by wetting and holding them up by the upper edges, liullets sway the blankels instead of penetrating them, the blankets acting like a bali-tio pendulum. These blankets arc hand-woven and arc fulled until thick and waterproof. It ought to be generally known that a man's hat will serve in most cases as a temporary life preserver to those in danger of drowning. When a person finds himself in the water lie should lay hold of his hat bet ween his bands, keeping he crown close under the the chin and the mouth of the hat under water. The quantity of air contained in the cavity of the hat will keep the head above water for a long time?sometimes for several hours. Of the twenty "oldest Masons1' in the world, so far as anybody knows, the three who take precedence live in Great Britain, and Sir Moses Montetiore, centenarian though he is, does not coinc among them. So far as the Masonic Token can tel', the really oldest Mason is John Tressider, of Falmouth, England, who was initiated in 180.1, on the Cth day of August. The oldest in America still appears to bo Captain Sylvanus Hatch, of Port Lavacoa, Texas, initiated in 1809. The Exploration of Hudson Hay. In the month of February last a report was laid before the parliament of Canada detailing the results of an expe"* * * * -1 - i-l 1 1.? il.. ssf union aispaicuL'u uy iuc yu?ui uiucuk ui that country particularly for the purpose of inquiring into the navigability of Hudson strait and bay, and, at the same time, of gathering information concerning the resources of that region, and its availability as a field for settled habitation. This report represents the first properly organized attempt that has ever been mude to pierce the secrets of Hudson bay for the public benefit. It is at first blush not easy, to understand why this mighty expanse of water, occupying the peculiarly important position that it does, should remain for so many generations comparatively unexplored, ancl wholly unutilized, except as hunting ground for a few New Bedford | whalers, or a mcdum of easy communication betwen some half-dozen scattered factories of the Hudson Bay Company. Although called a bay, it is really an inland sea, l,000milesin length by COO in width, having thus an area of about 300,000 square miles, or quite half that oi tiie .Mediterranean, it arains an expanse of country spreading out more than 2,000 miles from east to west, and 1,500 from north to south, or an area of 3,000,000 square miles. Into its majestic waters pour feeders which take their rise in the Kocky Mountains on the west and in Labrador on the cast, while southward it stretches out its river-roots away below the forty-ninth parallel until they tap the same lake-source which sends a stream into the (Julf of .Mexico. Despite its distance northward, its blue wave:; arc never bound by icy fetters, and its broad gateway to the Atlantic is ccrtainly navigable four months out of the year, and possibly all the year round to properly equipped steamships. Its depths abound in tinny wealth, from the mammoth whale to the tiny caplin. Its shores arc 1 serrated by numerous streams, some nav- i | igablc for long distances inland, and all stocked with the finest of fresh-water fish, and clothed as to their banks with | valuable timber ready for the lumber- ! man's axe. Its islands arc rich in mineral ore of many kinds. The country whose margin its tides lave is well adanted for nasturacc. while all around the region swarms with animals and birds whose flesh or fur renders their chase a highly lucrative employment.? Popular Science Monthly. Picrcc nml tho Poker Plnjors. An "Old Stager"' tells the following story to the Washington correspondent | of the Cleveland (O.) leader : "It was on a hot July evening away back in the i fifties. Two Senators and myself were seated with our coats o(T in the rooms of Senator Clemens of Alabama, having a 1 quiet came of poker. It was a game of ! live-cent ante, and the coins were lying on the table, when a gentle knock was | heard at the door. Senator Cletncrs | i yelled out in a stentorian tone, 'Come in,' and the door opened and in walked i Frank Pierce, then President of the United States. As we saw him we all nushfifl our chairs back from the table ' and arose to put on our coats as a mark j of respcct. but President Pierce said, 'Don't disturb yourselves, gentlemen. I have just come in to make a social call upon my friend Mr. Clemens, and I do not want to interrupt your game.' No one stirred, and Mr. Pierce sat down and chatted a few moments with us and then arose to go. As lie left the room he asked some questions as to how the game was going, and said, "I am very fond of cards myself, and I wish 1 could i stop and tak<; a hand with you, but I have other engagements, and it will not be possible.' With this he left. Such an action in this day would be remarked upon all over the country. In 1850 it was accepted as a matter of course." A New Industry. I The number of Angora goats is in? I creasing; the intelligent handling of tho same is much more extended, and the prospect of the industry is every day becoming more important. All along the line of the Kockv .Mountains, at the out i posts in the military stations, arc to be j found bunches of the goats of greater or ' less purity. Here ar.d there are conI siderable (locks, like those of Col. Moxon. in Texas; 1J. Bailey, in Nevada; [ J. I). I.ee, in Oregon; Tallant of Idaho; Chase of Montana. J The shepherds are encouraged by the ! growth of the mohair manufactories at the East, at which they find sale of their mohair from a price of ten to fifteen I cents for the first cross, to that of fifty to sixty-live cents for the thoroughbred I fleccc. There is. in my judgment, a large and profitable future for flic mohair inI dustryin this country. ? Fibreuml Fabric ! An Indian Prince Weighed Against I'urc Gold. A curious ceremony was performed the i other day at Travaneore. The Maharajah j was weighed against a mass of pure gold, which was then dispensed in charity. This custom called ''Tulabhara," is one of great antiipiity, and is said to be traceable in Travaneore to the fourth j century, it is not unknown in other | parts of India, though, of course, gold : io ..nil. nofl in flu. i-.icn of wealthv nor | .o V,..v . , I sons, tliu humbler sort being content to I wci<jh themselves agains spices or grain. On I lie present occasion the Mahara I jah weighed a little over nine stone. ) The liralimin-i, it is said, wished to deI fer the ceremony, in the hope that the Maharajah might morn nearly approach the weight of his fat her, who did not undergo the rite until 4? years old, when ho weighed lljj ptone.? London Timet.. The city of Mexico hau sixteen daily papers. "" \ - ' .-s I ENGLAND'S NEW PREMIER The Marquis of Snlislmry Succeeds Mr. (Jladstone. j The Conservative Leaders who have Come into Power, i Tlir* Mnnink nf Snlisiiiirv lias accoiit'vl I'lU'on Victoria's request to become < j tone's successor as England's prime minister, uul to form a new Hritis'i cabinet. As a remit of the queen's efforts Ilia Marquis of Salisbury also resolved to accept Mr. (Mad (tone's promise t > use his influence with ill? iberals to prevent factious opposition to the j >oiicy of Hie new government. , Sir Cliar!e< Dilke, (lie lil-ornl leader, adiressing a meeting of liberals, said ho was prepared (o give the conservatives reasona>lo assurances. Ho wished to study in Ireand a plan for the devolution from parlianent to Welsh, Scotch and Irish luxlies much >f the business that |>'triiain.'lit. is now not oinpetent to discharg . IIo would risil Ireland as soon as possible or that, purpose. H<? lielicvei tiiat nany Irish oflicials were iu favor of deeoitralixation. and many agreed that ii was leeessary to abolish Dublin Ca-.t!e, He bought that Lord Salisbury's recent atlitude savored of Mull' an I brag and was not likely o induce tho liberals to ent"r into a formal oiu] act. The following is an authentic list, of tin lew British cabinet: Prime Minister and Secretary for Foreign \ flairs?The .Marquis of Salisbury. First Lord of tho Treasury?Sir Stafford I ?<orl hcote. Ohancellor of the Exche<|tior?Sir Michael 10. Hicks-Penvh. I Lurd High Chancellor?Sir Hardinga Gif"ord. Lord President of the Council?Viscount Crnnbrook. Lord Privy Seal?The earl of Harrowby. Secretary for the Homo Department?Sir Richard Assheton Cross. Secretary for tho Colonial Department? Colonel Frederick Stanley. Secretary for War.?Right Hon. William Henry Smith. Secretary of Stato for India?Lord Ranlolph Churchill, Hrst Lord of tho Admiralty? Lord Georga Hamilton. President of tho Local Government Board I ?Arthur James Balfour. J President of the Board of Trade?The Duko of Richmond and Gordon. I Vice-President of tho Council?Hon. Edj ward Stanhope. -Jx>ru l,10UCeiiaill 01 jieianu?1 no am ui Carnarvon. Lord Chancellor of Ireland?Right Hon. Edward Gibson. Postmaster General?Lord John Manners. Altorney General for Ireland?Mr. Holmes. Solicitor General for Ireland?Mr. Monroo. Chancellor of tho Duchy of LancasterHenry Chaplin. First Commissioner of Works?Right Hon. David K. Flunket. Parliamentary Secretary to tho TreasuryRowland Winn. Parliamentary Secretary to tho India ofj flee?Lord Harris. Secretary to tho Admiralty?Charles T. Ritchie. Civil Lord of the Admiralty?Ellis Ashmead Bartlett. Tho members of tho cabinet proper are Lord Salisbury, Sir Stafford Northcote, Sir Michael I Hicks-Boaoh, Sir Hardinge GifTard, Viscount i Cranbrook, Lord Harrowby, Sir Richard Assheton Cross, Colonel Frederick Stanley, Right Hon. William H. Smith, Lord Randolph Churchill, Lord George Hamilton. Ix)rd John Manners, tho Duke of Richmond and Gordon, Hon. Edward Stanhope, tho Earl of Carnarvon and RightJIon. Edward Gibson. The Earl of Granville announced in tho house of lords, and Mr. Gladstone made a similar announcement in tho house of commons, that the Marquis of Salisbury had accepted office and that ho had gone to Windsor Castle to so inform the nueen. The uueen confirmed Lord Salisbury's cab inet. The Irish secretary portfolio was offered tc five others and declined before Sir William I Hart Dyke accepted it. There are symptoms already, says a I-onI don dispatch, that the radicals will do their utmost to harass the conservatives. At ai: informal meeting they decided to light tht financial budget in parliament unless it is fully satisfactory, and to oppose the issuo ol exchequer bonds to meet the deficit. THE NEW PREMIER. The now English prime minister and secretary for foreign affairs, the Marquis of Salisbury, eldest surviving son of the second Marquis of Salisbury, wa* born at Hatfield in 1SS0, was educated at Eton and at Christchurch, Oxford, where he was graduated,and was elei t *1 a Fellow of All Souls' college in 15.V5. In that year bo was elocted member nf parliament I'or Stamford, and represented the conservative interest for fifteen years, when he succeeded to the marquisate on the death of his father. Ho was known as Lord Robert Cecil in the lower house, but 011 the death of his elder brother, on June 14, l-Stia, he took tlio title of Viscount Cranborne. Ho was ap pointed secretary of stale for India in Lord Derby's third administration, in July, ]SM, but resigned in tho following year cause of a difference of opinion in regard tc tho reform bill. Lord Salisbury again bo rnmo secretary of st:ite for India in 1874, when Disraeli returned tooflice, nnl in IST^hc was appointed secretary of state for foreisr nll'airs in tho place of tho Earl of Derby, resigned. In company with the Karl of Beaconsfield he represented Great Britain at tip Congress of Berlin, and they were warmly received at Charing Cross oil their return! Tip man pi is is a member of tne council of King's college, London, deputy lieutenant of Middlesex, and honorable colonel of the Herts militia. GRAND ARMY REUNION. Ruaincun Heeling of the ('rgaulzation ? Km 4>ro\vth mil Condi (ion, Tho business meet ing of the Grand Army Encampment was held on tho third day of its session at Portland, Me. After call | ing tho encampment to order ComI mnnder-in-Chief Kountz delivered liis I annual address. He said that four years ago there was a membership of [ nearly 70,0'K). On March .'11, 188), thirtyei^ht departments reported 5,020 posts and I ('^4 members, while t he report of the Adj jutant-Uencral shows tho membership to be | !><, >.'! 7. The large number of 54,2!i'2 reported j by the adjutant-general as suspended duri ing tho year is duo in great measure to the negligence and inelliciency of post oflieei?. "Our finances.'' the Commander-in-Chief con; tinned, "are in excellent condition. We liavo on hand a cash balance of $15,'2:24.'' He added: "I heartily endorse tho organization known as the Veterans' Rights union, tho object of i which is to secure to our comrades their rights and privileges under the revised statutes of tho United Stut's. The union i urges, as it rightfully may and ought, that, when other qualifications are equal, tho soldier should be preferred, because lie was a soldier. "Knowing that there is nothing in tho Grand Army of tho Republic inconsistent with tho most exacting personal duty or tho strictest religion, 1 deemed it for the interest of tin order to appoint a special committee to lay its nature and workings before the proper Catholic authorities of tho Uni to.I states, that they might know . our organization lias nothing to conceal, and that our purposes arc connnendod by all who understand them. The committee reported, having fulfilled its mission, that assurances had been given by Archbishops Kyan and : Gibbons that nothing could be found in the aims of the grand army to provent any good Catholic from becoming a member." The commander-in-chief deprecated partiI cipation in politics as an organization, and i urgently advocated tlio Mexican pension bill and a bill to grant disabled soldiers a pension from the date of disability. He also urged that Decoration Day be not desecrated by 1 devotion to recreation and pleasure. Resolutions of sympathy with (ten. Grant were adopted by a unanimous rising vote, amid great cheering, as follows: Resolved, Hy the nineteenth National Encampment of the Grand Army of the Repub, lie, assembled in the city of Portland, Me., j representing ox-soldiers and ox-sailors in the United States, that in this first hour of our session wo tender to the distinguished comrade, soldier and [statesman, General U. S. Grant, our profound sympathy 111 hiscon| tinned illness, and extend a soldier's greeting to our beloved commander and comrado who has for months endured unspeakable agony I with that characteristic fortitude that has : challenged the admiration of the world."' NEWSY GLEANINGS, Tmk annunl income of Queen Victoria is $1,1.'!5,0:K). (Jiikat damage is l>oingdone to growing crops in Texas by worms. A stream of Mormon emigrants is pouring into Arizona from Utah. Tub first honors nt.a n-w iirunswick (X. J.) grammar svhool wore won by a Japanese student. It is estimated that ar-> expended in this country every year for photographic pictures. The fees derived front our consular system by the government are. $l?H),o;w more than the whole expense. Thk registered co-operative socio'its in England have i members, the majority of whom are heads of families. A TlVEtjVE-YEAK-oi.i) buy at I'ort'a iii. Oregon, ate throe pounds of strawLei riis in thirt 'cM minutes the other day. Till-: national cotton exchange reports that crop us the best for years. The acreage has : been increased by liSii.OOO or nearly ten per : cent. Two brothers, farmers in Nottingham. X. H., aged eighty-eight and eighty-one yoaii I resiwctively, have done all their own plowin: I this year. ; . i NEWS SUMMARY rnnlcrn nml middle state*. Bv the bursting of a machine in a mill near Eric, J'enii., Frank Dvko was instantly killed, Nelson AVin^ fatally injured, and three other men hurt. Herman Kipp, a five-year-old boy of New ark, N. J., was bitten on April S by a dog and a few days since died in intense agony of hydrophobia. John 0. Day, of Sharon, l'enn., twontyone years old, while intoxicat.d, quarrel'd with and killed his father. James It. McIvek, of I.opjsfown, Penn., shot his wife and then himself, both dyin< soon afterward. They had lived unhappily together. General Grant resumed work on his book on the 20th at Mt McGregor. On the 21st he had a refreshing sleep of nine hours, and folt much better. Firk has devastated the village of Ontario, N. Y., destroying the business section, causing an estimated aggregate loss of $*0,0J0, and rendering eighteen families homeless. An immense crowd witnessed the parade at tho national encampment of the Grand Army of tho Republic in Portland. Me. About 23,000 men were in line, 20,00 ) of them in uniform. Genoral Logan was present, and made a short address. Chaiii.es A. Hi'Ddenskik, tho New York builder whose poorly-built tenement houses recently foil and killed a man, has boon sentenced to ten years' imprisonment and to pay a fine of SoOil. Vice-President Hendricks was present at the commencement exercises of Yaloand Harvard colleges. At Boston he was given a reception by the Bay State club. General Grant was feeling much stronger in his mountain homo at Mt. McGregor on the 2Url. lie had recovered his voice, and for the first time in several weeks dictitod more of his memoirs to a stenographer. Business and social circles of New Haven have beon shocked by tho suicido of C. B. Demarost, a wealthy carriage manufacturer. He had been suffering from malaria and overwork. The officers of the French vessel which brought over the Bartholdi statue have received many attentions in New York. Sonth and Wcr. A man at Cleveland, Ohio, sold his wife anu Liaiijr iur iu iHiutiiur iiiiui, wiiu ujuk his purchases to Logan. The balloon in which "William ratterson was making an ascension at Charleston, W. Va., catiglit tire and collapsed. Patterson fell several hundred feet and was dashed to death. T.J. Cu;vERtrs, the young lawyer found ,nilty at Richmond, Va., of murdering his cousin, Mias Madison, has boon sentenced to bo hanged on November 2 >th next. When asked whether ho had anything to say why death should not bo pronounced again?t him, the prisoner, in a low and rather husky voice, addressing the court, said: "I will say, sir, that you are pronouncing sentence on an innocent man. That is all i havo to say, sir." Mayor Harrison, of Chicago, has requested every employe of the city to hand in a written resignation. At Ross Fork Agency, Idaho, some Indian thieves having treacherously murdered two Indian police, were .surrounded and four of their number killed. Mrs. Timothy Him. and her daughter Jennie, a handsome and cultured young lady, wero shot and killed at their home 011 Chincoteague Island, Md.. by William T. Freeman, who wound up his bloody work by committing suicide. Freeman was in tho employ of Mr. Hill, who found him n waif in the streets of New York yeai-s ago, and brought him homo. Tho young man wns madly in love with Miss Jennie, who rejected his advances. Henry Howard, a negro who attacked and terribly injured two young white girls near West Lafayette, Oliio, wa> forcibly taken from jail at Coshocktou by 100 marked aien and hanged to a tree in the court house yard. Five colored people?Andy Jackson and his wife, and three others?were taken from jail at Elkhart, Texas, by a crowd, and hanged. They had been imprisoned for tho murder of Mix Hazel!, a white woman. Mrs. Jackson had confess-\1 the crime. Mary Ki.emax. a voiin-' woman in iail at Chicago on tlie charge of trying to poison ier sister's family, 1ms confessed her guilt and also made further confession of causing tho deaths of her mothor, father and another sister in Dubuque, Iowa. Hi r mother died in July of last year, her sister in August, and lier father in March of this year. She assigns no motive for her crimes other tlfan she was impelled to commit them, and is evidently insan\ An* insect called the dumb locust is comi mitting ravage? on anple tre^s in some of the southwest counties of Virginia, and trees are dying by hundre Is. Tornadoes have done much damago in Ravenna, Ohio, and vicinity, nnd in portions of Missouri, Kansas and Dakota. Tho losses at Ravenna nro estimated at ?75,0.10. At Sherbrooke, Dakota, every house except tho county building was blown down. Charles Knco. of St. Helena, one of tho most prominent vineyardists of California, has failed. The liabilities are $-{0,000, and tho assets $1S1,000. Ho.v. Geoiujk A. Drx.viNGTO.Y, editor of tho Grafton (W. Vn.) Sentinel nnd a prominent citizen, has narrowly escaped assassination. While returning to his hotel a man sprang upon him with leveled revolver and fired. The editor struck down tho weapon, and the bullet passed through his leg. The would-be assassin fled. I TVaAhlngtoii. Comptroller Durham, of the treasury department, has written to Mr. Loring, Into commissioner of Agriculture, stating that in adjusting his accouuts a balance had I men found duo tho United States of S'.'O.NU". The ex-commissioner is asked to pay this amount'. Additional appointments i>y tho President: Herman (t. Weber, of Illinois, to bo marshal for the southern district of Illinois; William B. Fleming, of Kontucky, to be asBociate justice of tho supreme court of tho Territory of New Mexico; Benjamin Ryall, Jr., to l>o postmaster at Port Jorvis, N. Y.: William A. Day, of Illinois, t<>_bi? second auditor of the treasury: Robert W. Banks to bo collector of internal revenue for the district of Mississippi; J. P. Itnboden, of Georgia, to be consul at Yuscaran,Honduras; Shubrick Heyward. of Marland, to bo marshal of tho consular court at Kanagawa, Japan. j Fi rtjier appointments by the President: I To be collector.) of internal revenue?R. | Black, for the lirst district of Now York; j Matthew H. Vandorveer. for tho third dis! trict of New Jersey; Francis S. Shields, J for the district of Louisiana; George H. | Davison, for tho sixth district of Kentucky; J Thomas Hanlon, for the Seventh district of ; Indiana; James W., Newman, for the I eleventh district of Ohio; Chris; tian S. Knecht, for tho sixth district of Ohio; Adolph Biermann, for tho j district or diiiii'.csoin. 10 uu jiumiiuwicis? i J. W. McMaster, at Hazlehurst, Miss.: William S. Carter, at Viroi|ua, Wis.: Thomas R. Pearman, at Danvilio, Va.; James J. Oakes, at Southbridge, Mass.; Frank T. Lynch, at Leavenworth, Knn.; George W. Sent bier, at City Island, N\ Y.; John Hayes j Paige, at Schenectady, N. Y.; Samuel T. Bassett, at Richmond, Mo. Since March Internal Revenue Cominisj sioner Miller lias dropped :W0 persons from I the rolls of his department. Additional presidential postmasters appointed: Benjamin P. Brown, at Franklin, Ind.; Frank M. Fields; at Spencer, Ind.; ! Adam Ferguson, at North Platte, Neb.; j Joseph H. Shelby, at Princeton, Mo.; Howell | Tatum, at Belton, Texas. i Richard T. Merrick, a ]irominent Demoj crntio member of the Washington bar, is ! dead in Irs fifty-ninth year. The President has appointed Edward II. | Slrobel, of New York, to be secretary of the legation of the United States to Spain: Posey S. Wilson, to bo assayer of the United States mint at Denver; W. W. Allen, of Alabama, to bo United States marshal for the middle and southern distiicts of Alabama; William II. Denson, of Alabama, to bo United States attorney fur the Northern and Middle districts of Alabama; Mark D. Wilber, of New York, to be Tinted I States attorney for the Eastern district of j New York. General W. II. II. Davis, of I Doylestown, Pa., ]tension agent at Philadoli iihia. E. D. Bannister, of Lawrenceburg, | Ind., Indian inspector. General H. Pe'.h, of 1 Warrenton, Vn., and "William Parsons, ot Connecticut, spe inl Indian agents. A. Gahnoslcii, <>f (ieorgia, suiierintendent of the Haskell Institute, Kansas; Walter H. llron1 nan, of the Indian Territory, superintendent I of tlio Cliilocco Indian school. . The President lias suspended George "VV. Dent, a brother-in-law of General Grout, j from his position of appraiser at the Han j Francisco custom house. A Washinctmx dispat ch savs that Mr. Burchnrd, director of the mint, had been requested to resign, but had paid 110 attention I to tho request, claiming that ho was appoint ed for six years; that his term of olllce i^ different from that of any other, | and that he has yet two years j to serve. The dispatch stated further ! that os soon as the President could fix upon I Mi1. Burclmrd's successor ho would In? sits| ponded upon the charge of ineHiciency in the j management of affairs in the mint. | Tiie State department Ins receive 1 news I of tho death of S. L. Phelps, United States ! minister to Peru, at Lima. Mr. Phelps was a waiting the arrival of his successor. rnrcljn? Madrid has been the sivno of a violnnt outbreak, said to have boon caused by tlio opposition of the populace to the sanitary regulations against the spread of eholera. The streets wore occupied by the military, who were stoned by a mob. A collision occurred, and seven persons were killed. Information which is startling if true has been received from a Syrian who passed throe months at the residence of the Mahdi after tlia fall of Khartoum. He says the Madlii has General Gordon in secret keeping, having discovered him severely wounded, but not dead, and that Gordon recovered. The story is credited at. Massowah, and forms the subject of an otlicial dispatch. Kino Ai.fonso having determined on visit ing the cholera-infected districts of Spain,the* Spanish cabinet members offered thoir rejig nations. Senor Sajjasta, the former prime minister, declined King Alfonso's invitation to form a new cabinet, and advised tlio king to remain in Madrid. After much persuasion the king consented to abandon his journey and the ministers thereupon withdrew their resignations. As a result of the recent earthquakes in Cashmere. India 15,081 persons lost their lives; 70,(HW houses were laid in ruins, and .'W.OOO animals perished. The latest report puts the number of miners killed by the explosion in a colliery near Manchester, England, at 101), with many more still unaccounted for. More than half of the town of Dabrova. Austria, has been destroyed by fire. Hun dreds of families aro homeless. A boij.er explosion in a wool-scouring works near Lille, France, killed seven persons, including the proprietor, wounded forty pnil demolished the buildine. j Asiatic cholera is spreading throughout Spain, ami hundreds of deaths and new cases occur daily. Mr. Pf.ndi.eton', the new American minister to Germany, has been cordially received by Kmperor WVliam, who expressed the best feelings toward both America and the American p oplo. By the terms of the new treaty of peace between France and China the former country has practically secured possession of Annam, which becomes a French dependency. Tin: popo is about to create six naw car dinals. United States Minister Phelps and his wife were the guests of the evening at a grand ball given in London by the French ambassador. The Prince and Princess of Wales wore present, and the Prince led the dancing with Mrs. Phelps, whose superb atlire ana magnificent diamonds attracted general attention and admiration. At Funfkirchen, Hungary, Herr Lisch, the inventor of new dynamite patents, which liavo been sold in America and elsewhero, was killed by a fearful explosion which occurred in his house whilo ho was packing boxes. His mother was also killed, and the roof of the bouse was blown off. General Caceres, the rebel chief, has hof>n dofpftted bv the Peruvian covernment troops. The engagement lasted for three hours, and the loss on each side was equaltwenty or more killed and a like number wounded. An' explosion in n powder mill at Lucca, Itaiy, resulted in tbo death or severe wounding of every one in tho building. Soon after the explosion twelve bodies were recovered. LATER NEWS Vice-President Hendricks gave hi; views on civil service reform at the dinner tendered him in Boston by the Bay State club. David Quin.y, tho young man who recently fired at some Chinamen in New York, killing one and wounding another, has been found guilty of murder in tho second degree and sentenced to hard labor for life. Great alarm prevails among farmers in Illinois on account of the appearanco of the chinch bug. tho insect pest which did such immense damage to the corn crop four years ago. A woman and her two daughters were thrown from a high bridge near Indianapolis, Ind., by a railroad train and killed. Cowboys quarreled with Indiaas in Color J - -1 < Tti/li'nnc n ttUU IIUUUO aumo ayiow. *i?ui auuiuuj, ?. squaw and ber papooso were killed. In revenge that night other Indians killed a ranchman and wounded his wife. Flrthkb appointments by the President: Andrew J. Quindley, of Little Rock, Ark., to bo receiver of public moneys at Little Rock. To be postmasters: Edward Mullon, at Putnam, Com; James II. Moore, at Monongahela City, Penu.; Edward H. Krier, at Plum Creek, Neb.; Samuol B. Evans, at Ottumwa, Iowa; M. Glennnn, at Norfolk, Viu; V. E. Brewer, at Portage, Wis.; John F. Wedow, at Marino City, Mich.; Edward Duffy, at Ann Arbor, Mich.; William F. Roe. at Valley's, Cal.; J. R. Thome, at Picpia, Ohio. A committee of prominent importers waited upon Secretary Manning and stated that they were not in accord with the views of nnother committee of importers, who had expressed disapprobation in relation to the new system of valuations and appraisements that lias recently gone into tin Vr>w Vnrlr Custom house. This committee stated in a memorial that they "earnestly advocate tin present system of reappralsoments and reforms so recently adopt?d by the government, and most heartily approve the efforts of the government in its attempt to protect honest importers in thoir k'gitimati business.'' The President has issued nn executive notice announcing a diplomatic agreement between tlio United States anil Great Britain continuing the privileges granted by the fisheries treaty throughout tin season of ISSx As a p:irt of this agreement he will bring the whole question of the fisheries before Congress in December, and recommend the appointment of a joint commission to consider the question in the interest of maintaining friendly intercourse between the two countries. Portions of Scotland has been visited by the earthquake. General Caceres, the Peruvian rebel leader, has bojn abandoned by his soldiers. An appalling amount of sickness exists among the French soldi ;rj in Tonquin,China, the deaths numbering from fifteen to twenty daily. Three thousand invalided soldiers hive been sent home. A TERRIFIC STOBft fjirra.1 Ho (ruction of Life ami >lilp ping off ArivJoiuiciJariti, Advices from Nowfoiindiati I give tlm details of a terrible storm on thecjastof tint island, which show it to have been more disastrous than was at lirst reported. An enormous amount of shipping was destroyed an 1 many lives were lost. At Old Pelican all the fishing stages and other waterside property woro destroyed and upward of forty ves els were totally wrecked. Two schooners only rode out the gale successfully. A vessel loaded with provisions, Hound from Catalina for Twillingate, ami tw.? other schooners werj 1st Three vessels at Little Catalina were driven from their moorings to sen. At Bird Island Cove three vessels ami many small boats went ashore, j ami many fishing stages were destroyed. Eight vessels went ashore at Brown's Cove, and everything was swept away. Two schooners are ashore at Plate Cove, and at Bona Vista live schooners were totally lost, and a great many stages and fishing jacks aro also gone. The IhwIi is filled with drift tim'ier. The ship Chris'.abel, laden with salt at Bona Vista, drifted ?m*iw in nrrt?nf iv?ril Alld t llfl crew cut her masts away. One of the crew was drowned. Theivst woro taken oir tins hull. Seventy-li\\5 vessels, large and small, were driven ashore at bona Vista and some of them woro smashe 1. The storm is considered to be the worst that has visited Newfoundland in forty years. The fact that most of the vessels lost were loaded with supplies for the fisheries is probably the i worst feature of the disasters, it is rumored that three bait skill's, each with six men on board, left Holy rood and have not since been heard of. A bait skill", bottom up, flouted into Topsail,and it is supposed that she is one of the three referred to. MUSICAL AND DRAMATIC I Miss Mauv Ani>krson is touring in the I rli<i, l.j L*.% j Mmk. Skmiiku ii lias boon appointed royal I opera singer by tho king of Portugal. j Vox Siitk's latent light oj>ora is called ' "'.Ma!rosea Keimkelir'' ("Thi' bailor's Kej turn"}. i Tkiiesixa the violinist, is only eightI een years old. ami is under a concert engagement at ?:? ?,() mi a year. Miss Km.ma Thi ksby and Miss Ksther Jacobs are t> head a concert company under Max Strakwh's direction. 'I'llK ilnke of Kdinburgh p'ayed a violin j solo and Mario Koze sang at a recent concert 1 in Si. .fames Hall. London. Mi.an. iik < Viitiss, who is to star in "< >nly j a Fanner's Daughter" next season, is adver| tised as a recent Vassnr graduate. I IV. H. Cl.AitK, a bass who has sung ill Carletou's opera company, will take Wliitj ney's place in tho Host on ideals next se-ison. Thk new theatre being made out of the old j Masonic temple in riiil.uicljihia. will bo the I largest place of amus su'-u: in United States, ! seating li.'.CKl. Mmk. Nir.ssox. it is cabled, has gained j her action against her late husband's rela l lives, who have boon ordered lo poy her the [ sum of .*4 .',0,)il. A xkw tenor named Sa-ke has been (lis| covered working as a shoemaker at Toulouse, France. The manager of the Paris grand opera has secured liiin for next season. Jkxxik Pickthsox. nn American, has a contract with Carl Ko~a for a provincial tour as contralto in place of Josephine Yorke. Holing Thomas Ims written a now song in "Nadoshda"' for Iter. MissKmma Nbvaoa. the American prima dona, was the guest recently of the Prince I and I'rineessof Wales at Slarlbor nigh Hons*'. Miss Xeva<l:i delighted a brilliant company willi hjr beautiful singing. Wir.t.iam 11. I.F.K. a lioy soprano who sung years ago in a juvenile "I'inafore" company is now Signor Vansani of the Milan opera company, which is giving small cities remoto from operatic centers their first taste of ItolI ian opera. DISASTER MD CRIME Sixty-Five Lives Lost by the Sink- ] ing of a Steamer. Various Other Incidents of a Tragic j Character, fireat excitement has been causcd at Lima, Peru, by tho loss of the steamer Italia. The disaster is much deplored as a blow to the ^ new enterprise and commerce in general. She 3 carried a crew of eighty-four and fifty-four : passengers. The number saved is reported ' M:HA ti,^ ...I.m. [i ttt MAUJ -iimtj. xugtui^a, wi niii^u biio^icabci part was for coast ports, was nearly all in- ' snreJ. Tlio Italia struck a steep point near Loma-> 1 about 2 a. si. and sank in fifteen minutes in t deep water. Out of 134 passengers aud crew ^ sixty-five were drowned. On the followir.).- I Sunday the Caohapoal pickod up a boat con- ] taining thirteen survivors thirty mik* j south of Pisco. The sanio evening she reached the coast and found fifty- j four more survivors in Salinas bay, ( two others having started from there on foot 3 for Lomas. Boats were sent to bring off the ( party, but the captain of the Italia declined j assistance, intending to travel to Pisco and . thence by steamor to Callao. Among th< j saved are the captain, tho first officer, and about seven passengers, including one woman. , About twenty-five children were drowned. j An Flephaut on a Rampage. When tho elephant Samson appeared be fore an audience of 8,000 persons, mostly f country people, at a circus performance the I other day in Lapeer, Mich., it was seen that 1 the huge beast was in an angry mood. The < keeper undertook to make Samson perform I his tricks, but was met with flat rebellion. < seeing which the man endeavored to drive the j elephant back from the ring, so that he might be secured and coaxed into good humor. The j animal misunderstood theso intentions, and became uncontrollable. He charged upon fVm cnoh Ki-nlro fhnm ilniun with hie nnnrtflr. ous l)ody, hurled tho looso boards in every di- 1 rection, backed against poles and standards, 1 set the tent swaying and ran furiously from i one place to another. The audience became panic stricken and lost no time in rushing outdoors, tho country people intent upon getting to their teams ana wagons and escaping. No lives wore lost, but somo 20 persons had limbs broken. Samson hurried away to the woods and soon mired himself in a swamp in < a thicket. Being helpless toextricato himself from tho mire, he still showad fight and would j not submit to be bound until five bullets had | baen fired into him. He was at last secured, < the bullets extracted,and his wounds dressid. Twelve Kforne Thieve* Lynched* A citizens possj from the Texas and Indian Territory side of the Red river, in the neigh borhood of Delaware Bend, Texas, who have for several weeks past been chasing the gang : of outlaws who have been stealing horses and , stock, overtook the gang and captured eight , of them near Washita, and hanged them to oue troe. Tlioy then wont a few miles further ( and captured four others, whom they also , lynched; Abaut two weeks ago three others . were lynched, making a total of fifteen. Fully twenty members of the gang have been slain , the past spring, and half a dozen officers and ' citizens have lost their lives. JEnglncer and Conductor Killed. A collision occurred the other dav between freight and accommodation train'} on the Wabash railroad, near St. Louis, caused by j the watch of one of the conductors being be- ] hind time. Ensinoor Stewart, of the freight, ( and Con iu?tor Mann, of the accommodation, were killed. Three passangers wera wounded, ' but not seriously. The engines of both trjtfos ' were badly wrecked. It Is said the accident ' was caused by the gro-s carelessness of Con ductor Clarke, of the freight train. A Wife Beater Cici# Twenty I allies. Henry A. Myers, convicted of cruelly beating his wife, after au unsuccessful effort to f escape punishment through the court of appeals, received his twenty lashes in Baltimore at the hands of the sheritf. Ho bore the infliction well. Since the conviction of Pyers an.l Myers, the first two white men to receive the punish neat of the lash in Mary land, th*'C is mu? less wifo beating in Baltimore. DISASTBOUS CL0DDBD1ST. Larjre Tracts of Land In Tlllno'* Flooded?Halite* Swept Away. Great damage has been done by a furious rain storm in St Clairand Madison counties, 111. At G o'clock a. si., a cloudburst occurred at O'Fallon, 111., a small town on the Louisville and Nashville railroad. The ? nnfl frnr? wprfl WliUlO I'UUlllljr <I1U Iwtu.u .... r_ ruined. The people were awakened by a roar of rushing water aud on looking out found the water coining down in sheets and already covering the ground to the depth of a foot. Railroads were washei out,aud the Louisville and Nashville bridge over Richland creek wns swept away. The east side of tho river for forty miles south and thirty miles east was devastated. Richland creek" at Belleville, III., overflowed, and rendered hundreds of families homeless. The fine iron bridge which leads into Belleville from Georgetown, tho Centreville bridge and tho Harrison Machino Works bridge were all broken and carried down stream. The whole country was under water. The damage is estimated at $200,000 in Belleville. Three thousand acres of corn were under water near Collinsville, 111., and Canteen creek was swollen into a rushing river. Great dnniago was also inflicted on the farmers of the American bottom, a si rip of land forty miles long beside tho Mississppi river. It is said that 10,000 acres of corn and vegetables were under wator. At Casey ville railroads were washed out and the surrounding country inundated. THE GALLOWS. Mx Hen, including a Father and Son, Hanged in Cn Ray. Six men were hanged the other day in various parts of the country, as follows: Perry and William Melton, fat her and son, white men, were hanged in Farmersville, La., for the murder of John W. Cherry, their neighbor, with whom they had quarreled. Charles Campbell, (colored,) was hanged at Point a la Hache, La., for the murder of Theodore Tripcoviteh.an Austrian fisherman. This murder was also the result of a quirrol. William Morrow was executed within the walls of the Clarkaville (Tenn.) jail for the murder of Dick Overton, a colored man. Henry Ethcridge (colored) was handed at : r-h.itnn citL for tho murder of Tom Clemnis (also coiored). The murderer and his victim had quarreled about a girl's affections. George Schneider, convicted of having ; killed his mother in October last, was hanged at Hamilton. Ohio. THE NATIONAL GAME, j The games of the Southern New England I league are well patronized by ladies. Baseball is not booming in the West this i year. The East and South are the most profitable sections. The American association will most likely abolish the rule giving a batsman a base when hit by a pitched ball. The Providence club's salary list is $2^,000: 1 Boston pays S-'.'.OOU to its bail-players, and Philadelphia goes still higher. , There will be -.4 championship games played this summer, and probably between . tHJUlOOO and 70'.?,(KKi people will witness them. v T Ima li^in ! 1HK new UCIX7 k'wuv i<.ubuv . formed of the following clubs: Elizabeth, 1 1 Orange, Newark, Jersey City, Pat.*rson and i : Weehawken. What a remarkable second base Gerhard h is playing for the New York league nine. To < accept IT out of IS chances in one ganio is i , really wonderful. j Thk old league pitchers have not got hold | of their last year's twirl of the sphere, as is j 1 shown by the few strike-outs that they are | ' making. " That "knack" will got along in due j 1 time. It is just possible that ten clubs may com- | | prise the American association membership ' , next season, Chicago, 15o?ton and Washing- , ' ton being the additions, New York being ' dropped. 1 In the college championship contest, no col- i ] l>'ge has won ten straight championship I t games since the formation of the American ] Collego asso-iation. Hiiro Yale won nine straight games, but was defeated by Prince- i ton in the final game. ' Thk uniforms of the various clubs in the I < American association are as follows: l.ouis-, < viile, whit", witii dark red stockings and ; < caps; Cincinnati, white, with scarlet stor-k- 1 ings; Pittsburg. gray. with red stockings; j , St. Louis, white, with brown stockings; 1 Athletics, white, with blue stockings; }>alti- ] 1 moivs, white pants, pink-striped cap* and j j jackets and re I stockings; Hrouklvns, gray, : ; with red stockings; Mets, blue suits, with j white stockings. I ' I f Tho championship records up to recent date are as follows: THE NATION A I* LEAOfB. IITirt. /.out. ! Ilo i. St. ; New York 27 S Hoston. II 23 rhicaso 30 ti I St. Louis 13 22 ' l'hila<li'l|> in.... 19 IT , IinfT.ilo 1! 23 I l'rovideiice.... .VM II | Detroit fi 3<> j 4 AMERICAN ASSOCIATION. St. I.onN ;n 12 i Brooklyn I" 25 ! ' Pittsbiir/ 2:. 1'.' Baltimore 19 23 I I'in,.inn lli !< Athletic 21) 24 1 I i.oilittvlile -21 23 1 Mflropilitni. .14 29 | K A vrnits I.KAOI'fS. Virginia fi | I anrast-T It? Trculnn 20 13 Norfolk II *21 National '2! | i | .Jersey City . ... S 23 N"e?:irU 10 11 | Wilmington. ... 4 '21' i 'I'll Wilmington Hub lias hueii transforn'il to AM/iutii- Citv. .Hid hereafter will be named is from tlnit i i;v. surriiKtiN i.kaoi r. atiniif i :;t s Ciiiuin if is i!> ( AilJiU-l.i 'i> IT i Mac III VJ 9 l!irmiii;;li.itn... '.I 21 ; ?leni|i!il!< 14 '.5 | t'liauanoo^a...l3 _ 21J X.islivilic '20 16 THE WHEAT*OUTLOOK."" Probable Yields in the Various States and Territories. In Unprecedented Falling Off in Winter Wheat from Last Year. S. W. Tullmadgo, of Milwaukee, presents iia monthly crop report and second estimate n tbo probable wheat yield of the United States for 1883 as follows: There is no onger a question as to the damago and oss to the winter wheat of this counry. A falling off of ICO,(XX),000 bushIs in winter wheat from last year j" ' s a calamity, and is unprecedented in the bisory of wheat raising in the United States, rhe present condition of spring wheat is good, >ut we must have favorable weather until hardest to produce the amonnt of wheat ihown in the table, as tho estimates ire based on tho present conditions, rhe acreage in Minnesota, Nebraska, ' r ind Wisconsin is somewhat decreased, ind in Iowa about tho same as Dakota. ilightly increased. The estimates as tabulated jy States and Territories are based upon late nformation from the State agricultural departments and other reliable authorities, and iro as nearly correct as estimates can be. The estimates show the probable yield of spring wheat to bo 121,000,030 busnefs; win?r wheat, 210,000,009 bushels; tctal spring md winter wheat, 331,030,0V3 bushels. From these figures it will be seen that the crop of 1S8"), compared with 1S34, will show a shortage in winter wheat of 160,000,000 bushels, and of spring wheat 5^,003,000 bushels making a total shortage of 182,00!),330. The average wheat yield of the winter States for five years past' is 461,000,000 bushsis. T(.J estimate shows a shortage compared with the average for five years of icw.uw.uuu Dusneis. me rouowing taoie jives tho latest estimates by States and territories: SPRING WKEAT. Bushels. Minnesota *. 37,000,000 Iowa 30,000,000 , Dakota 34,003,000 Nebraska 15,000,000 Wisconsin 15,009,000 ' Total spring wheat 121,000,000 WINTER WHEAT. - Bushels. California 38,000,000 Michigan ...25,000,000 .o. " Indiana 20,000,000 Dhio 10,000,000 Dregon 17,000,000 Kansas 13,000,000 Pennsylvania. 12,000,000 Missouri '. 11.000,000 New tfork. ; 10,000,000 Illinois 10,000,000 roxas . 5,000,000 Maryland 5,000,000 Washington 5,000,000 rennessce 3,500,000 Kentucky 3,000,000 - V North Carolina 3,000,000 Colorado :;,000,000 Virginia 2,500,000 3eorgia 2,CO >,000 -.r,; v W??st Virginia 1,500,000 / South Carolina 1,500,000 New Jersey 1,500,000 Utah 1,500,000 Arkansas 1.500.000 Alabama 1,200,000 V/ Delaware 1,000,000 . Now Mexico 1,000,000 Montana 1,000,000 1 Idaho ......1,000,000 -7' Dther States and Territories... lotal winter wbeat 2io,ooo,odo ; rotal spring wheat 121,000,000 rotal sprin- and winter 331,000,000 GENERAL GRANT. Still on the Improving Ll?t-W?rk? In* at hi* Book. General Grant had the moat refreshing night's rest at Mt. McGregor on the 24th that he has bad since ho has been there. Att 2 o'clock in the morning, when his throa. was dressed, he told Dr. Douglas that he-had not felt so well since be came here He was dressed about 10 a. v., and very soon went to work on his book, writing himself. There was obvious elation on the part both of Dr Douglas and the family over the general's remarkable improvement, and this was shared by the people on the mountain and in Saratoga, who feel that the air had done the good work. Dr. Shrady came up for regular consultation, and reported General Grant's condition _ improved. His voice was stronger and his system n&a more ton?, 100 general nimseii f asked Dr. Shrady if he thought him improved, and the doctor replied that he did. PROMINENT PEOPLE President White, of Cornell University, nt Ithaca, N. Y., has resignei. Jay Gould goes back and forth dally between his couarry seat in Irvington and New York on his yacht Atalanta. Ex-Premier Gladstone is seventy-four years old, and fifty-three years of his lif? nave been spent in parliament. Ex-Postmaster-General Hatton haa bought the Mail, an evening newspaper in Chicago, and will settle there as its editor. "Sam"' Jones, the now famous Southern revivalist, was led by his father's death to thin e seriously of religion and finally join thfl church. Mme. Garibaldi, widow of the late Italian patriot, will shortly publish two manuscripts of her husband,entitled "Mille" and "Manlio." Garibaldi's memoirs, which are in the hands of his son Menotti, will be published later oa The tykoon, who was deposed in favor of the present mikado of Japan by a revolution which cost 100,000 lives, is living quietly in Sidsuoka, a small Japanese country town. Ho is fifty-five years of age and comparatively poor. General Phil. Sheridan is charged with inventing a new dish. It is young pig's tail fried with olive oil, trimmed with grated celery, seasoned with cayenne pepper. The general is said to regard*it as one of the greatest efforts of his life. * The Cleveland Leaders Washington correspondent says that General Rosecrans, who take* Senator oruce s piace ? ma treasury, is a short, fat man with a boyish face, a boyish air and a boyish heart. He has two handsome daughters who are fond of society. Sir William Harcourt, the English politician, is a man of imposing if not pompous pre* 'nee. He is inclinad to be facetious, and at time? attempts to be wit'.y. He has a more extensive literary knowledge than any other Knglish politician, with the probable exception of Mr. Gladstone. Ex-President Arthur has flowing gray hair, a skin moro gray and less rose-tinted than of yore, and it is apparent that ho is passing quietly into the decline of life with advancing years. He stands as straight as an arrow, is rather quiet and courtly ia tig poiso and dresses as well and tastefully as over. The Vatican. The most disappointing thing in the city, says a recent American visitor to Home, is the Vatican palace. Without design, ornamentation and finish, it would, if detached from St. Peter's, be taken for a factory building, of three stories in height in parts and four in others, with neither a tall chimney nor a shutter to a window to relieve the flat, yellow, lime-colored walls. The extensions mftdc to it from time to time changed the running course of the structure. so that it is zig-zag in line, and has every appearance of a collection of badly constructed, rambling buildings that ivould be decidedly improved by a coat if paint. The gardens adjoining are very beautiful, a portion being laid out in a park, \nd the remainder in natural forest. It is here, when in health, that the Pope Irives every day. Prior to the hour appointed for this recreation, sightseers ire made to come down from the overlooking dome of St. Peter's. The buildings and gardens arc enclosed with a high wall, within which jnly are allowed the Pope and his attcnlants and the servants, whose cottages clustered together, resemble a small village. The latter comprise in their number artisans, mechanics, laborers and farmers, with workshops and acres of jround, on which arc raised the needed vegetable supply, making the &Vatican entirely independent of outside sources for its food. It is a city within a city. Tiik Spirit of (he Times declares that FMivin Month has not played in Washington iinco his brother assassinated Lincoln, and this settles a question that is frequently raised. Mr. Booth's managers have frequently advertised his first appearance in U'ashington since theas<assination, but have failed to keep their promises, and it is this probably which gives rise to the idea that ho oas played there. Thk oyster fishery in the United States " v* ww m?rsons land vields 12,195,:<70 pmpiojn , _ I,ushels of oysters, worth .'V>,000,000. In Great Britain the Industry produces ?3,000,000. A rabbit ranch is talked about in Wells, Me., with a view to rnising rabbits for tbu Boston market. It is to be started with aaijBals from tho West.