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BY HUGH WILSON. ABBEVILLE, S. C.. WEDNESDAY. JULY 8, 1885. NO. 2. VOLUME XXX
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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
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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
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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
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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.
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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.
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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
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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.
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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"*
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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.
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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.