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'***-'""" " - ? ...... ,. ? ABBEVILLE PRESS AND BANNEI.1 BY HUGH WILSON. ABBEVILLE, S. C.. WEDNESDAY, JULY 22, 1885. NO. 4. VOLUME XXX ^;?|| LABOR'S ROYALTY. The poet's song may please the ear That lists in idleness. The novelist may creatures rear To educate nnd bless. But he who toils in mill and field, " Where fame ne'er gives a crown, To usefulness as much can yield As he who reaps renown. ~James A. Waldron, in the Current. FOUGIITFORmSWIFE. "Bill, I must say that you ouglit to be ashamed of yourself." "I don't sec why. Mrs. Collins." ! "You don't see why? You must be as blind as a bat." "But I hope that I am not so tough." "Oh, go on away, Bill, and don't j bother me." Mrs. Colling was a widow. She owned j a farm in southern Arkansaw, stood ; high in the society of the neighborhood, I Hnd, was consequently happy. Bill i Spotts was an eighteen-year-old boy. I * lie had fallen in love with Mrs. Collins and, as the neighbors expressed it, was ; dead set upon marrying her. Although | ordered to go away, and although the i inar.ner as well as the words of Mrs. Collins plainly indicated that the boy ( was wasting his time, yet, undaunted,he ; lingered in that rich abundance of hope , which for a time accompanies youth along the road of life. "I will not go, Mrs. Collins, until I have had a satisfactory answer." 'I told you Xo!" "But '2so' Is not satisfactory." "Now, look here. Bill, I want you to go away and let m* alone. I've got work to-do, I want you to understand." ! "Oh, I understand, and I am perfectly willing to help you do your work." "Rill wliv Hnn'f Tr>n mnrrv crimp young girl?" "Because I want to marry you." " Why do you want to marry me?" " Because I love you." "Why do you love me?" 41 Because I can't help it." *' Am 1 so hnndsome as all that?" "You are the prettiest thing I ever 6aw." "You are complimentary, I must say; but a*man--or rather a boy, should be sensible as well as complimentary." " I think.the persistency with which I-, urge my suit shows my sense." "It does not; it only shows your pig- J headedness." "You arc equally pigheaded." "My goodness, boy, go on away from here and let me see a moment's peace." "Then I would be eternally miserable, j Say, Mrs. Collins, will you please state your objections to mc." "You are too young. My son Dan is as old as you are. He is equally as large j and I haven't the least doubt but he { could whip jou right now. A stepson should never be ahle to whip his stepfather. Dan is always hungry for a fight, ! and to thresh you every day would be j the delight of his soul. That would be embarrassing to mc, for no woman likes to sec ner nusbanu wmppea." Bill reflected seriously. "I bad not! thought of that." he said. "Say. Mrs. j Collins, we might make a compromise with Dun." "No, such a thing would be impossible, lor Dan hns often said that he in- ; tends to whip the man I marry." "I respect your objections, Mrs. Col- ' lins, but I do not intend to be cheated j out of my rights." "What can you do?" "1 must whip Dan." "Impossible." "No, it is not impossible. I'll take I boxing and wrestling lessons until I can down him every time. Then he will reBpect me." "Now, Bill, I am going to be frank. I love you?never mind, sit down. I will aid you all I can. and when I see that you arc able to whip Dan, I will marry ! you." "Enough said," Bill joyously ex- ! claimed. "I will go at once and sec that boxing man." Hank Jasper, a retired boxer, lived I about two miles from the Collins place. J Bill called on him and explained his ur- j gent need of fist science. "I enn soon give you mii3cle and ' slight," said Jasper. "Three lessons a | week for two months will fix you all right. Of course, I'll have to chargc you pretty well." "Oh, never miud the cost," Bill rc? plied. Well, we'll begin at once." . Bill,with an ardor which such a cause would naturally inspire, began the work 1 of preparation. He hung up a sand-bog in his room, and with charcoal, drew on j one side of it, what?he -.onceived to be a ; likeness of Dan Collins. "Now, Mr. Collins," he would say, | as he rolled up his sleeves and squinted : at the bag, "1 am prepared to give youi another mauling. Don't want mc to j marry your mother, eh? Don't think j tnat i am entitled to tne rignts ot an , American citizen? Reckon you have ! told your mother that you intend to whale mc, eh? Well, we'll see." Then he would da h at the pretended j Image of the youth who stood between ; him and his heart's desire, and, it may be strange to say, he was always successful. Jasper took great interest in the stu-. dent and so far forgot his professional eiiquette as to let the youth into some of the deepest secrets of the sciencc. He assured the lover that he could not fall short of victory, and, on several occa- } sions, shook hands with him in a congratulatory manner. One day, just before the two months of training had expired. Bill, while riding along the road, met young Collins. ' Say, Bill, ma tells mc that you want to marry her." "Yes, what have vou got to say about it?" Dan laughed. "What have I got to! say about it, why. confound your hide, J.. T UU VUU 5U|jpU5t: luia i ?uuiu niiun sutu a plug ugly as you arc to marry my mother? Why, I'd have to call you out early evcrv morning." "What for?" ? "To take your shipping." "It would take a better man than you to whip me, Dan Collins.'' "Yes, that's what yon think, but whenever you feel lide trying your hand, just come over and I will give you a lew touches that will show you who's in the field." "Dan, blowinsr amounts to nothing, but say, if I whip you fairly?whip you until you arc satisfied, will you then agree that if I marry your mother you will behave voursclf?" "Yes." "All rigJit. Let's see: Suppose that we give each other a trial next Saturday." "I'm willing." it- l.? ..rlcntn?" CUUU 41/ '/V putikVi "No, we want to invite all the neigli- ; bors." . "All right, and to make the thing more binding, we'll lmve papers drawn | up, stating the object of the contcst. J These articles of agreement shall be ' read before the contcst begins, and ! judges from the crowd shall be selected." i . That suits me.'' The arrangements were completed, j The neighborhood was greatly excited, i Hundreds of temporary benches, forming an arena, were constructed. Although j the crops were not "laid by," people : from all parts of the country flocked to see the combat. The neighborhood band, composed three fiddlers, two banjo pickers and the agitator of a triangle, took1 an assigned position and soothed the j crowd with swet symphonies. Bill had cordially invited Professor Jasper, i but the professor, declaring that such scencs were a bore to him, declined. Time was called. Handkerchiefs flat- i tercd. Everything bore a tremulous as- I tj:II ...? A ???i ? _?/i PUCU XJJli n vn'jaotu in u iv;u uuiiuvi i 6hirt and a closely-fitting pair of cottonnde trousers. Dan wore a hickory shirt ' ADd nankeen trousers. The band played an inspiring tune, j and then the combat bc^an. Both young i men capercd in the agile movements of improved science. Bill caught Dan ' under the jaw, but. quickly recovering himself, Dan knockcd Bill down. Then there was dancing in imperious haste. The combatants flew at each otaer, but neither oue could secure a conquering advantage. At last, however, Dan got Bill down and bumjped hia deyoted heal against the face of the earth. Bill modestly remarked that he had enough for one time only. Dan let him get up, and the j udges announced that the widow's son had gained the victory. ".Mrs. Collins," said Bill, when the crowd had dispersed, "I am in hard luck. If my arms were as strong as my love, I would have knocked Dan over into an adjoining township." "Don't despair, Bill." "Oh, nmv, sweet thing, I shall devole myself to study and will try him again." When Bill went to his room he saw, with the eye of an artist, that the sandbag picture of Dan was not correct. The first thing he did was to wash off the incorrect lines. Then he drew another picture, in which he gave particular prominence to the nose, remembering that Dan's nasal feature was of more than ordinary size. The next day Bill called upon Professor Jasper. "Professor," said he, I was downed." "I am sorry, Billic, but we must try it again." "Professor, I don't see how it is that an uninstructcd man can use his hammers so disastrously." "Main strength, Billie. Main strength can hold out for a while, but it must finally give under Pay me what you owe and take a dozen :uore lcseous." Bill paid the professor and again submitted to rigid training. He learned many new dive1, and, after a while thought that his iscience could certainly overcome Dan's s rength. He sent Dan a note, stating th it he desired a fight at an early day. Dnu replied as follows: "My dear, unprospective step father: I whipped you once and i can wnip you again. I am willing to give you every possible chance and will do anything for you except let you whip mc. For this? lack of gallantry I earnestly beg you to excuse me." Bill raved when be read the note,and, goiug into his room mauled the sandbag. The time for another bnttle was appointed. The crowd was even larger than the crowd which first assembled. The band with the addition of a coonskin tambourine, made thrilling music. This time Bill wore a blue shirt. His step was firm, his courage indomitable. Dan smiled upon the young ladies and declared that he was confident of success. Bill, remembering the words of the professor, felt happy. He knew that uncultivated strength could not long stand up against science. When time was called, each man stepped proudly into the arena. Bill caught sight of the widow's face. A great hope swelled within him. Bill aimed a blow at Dan's nose. Dan dodged, jumped, wheeled his leg around and knocked Bill down. Bill scrambled to his feet and seized Dan. Then Bill fell, but unwillinir to acknowledge dc feat, he squarred himself and again entered the encounter. Dan moved around with a grace that surprised every one. The muscles in his arms bulged out the sleeves of his shirt. At an auspicious time, Bill knocked him down, but before the advantage could be seized, he sprang to his feet and gave Bill a blow that brought to view many stars hitherto undiscovered. The audience became almost frantic with cxcitemcnt. Evioently both men had greatly improved; for while Bill had impro7ed in science, it seemed that Dan had improved in strength. The result was sad. Dan, catching a curious hold of Bill, threw him. He struck the ground with a loud sound, as | though a strong man had struck the bare earth with a board. Bill struggled fran- J ticcllv, but was forced to acknowledge that he was beaten. "Bill," said the widow, when the noisy crowd had dispersed, "don't give up yet, for you know that Ilove you." "I will never give up. The dying sun of future ages will find mo lighting for the woman 1 love." "Dan's strength is remarkable, but I think that you must eventually wear him out." "I shall continue, sweet widow". : i Again Bill called upon the professor. "I don't understand it," said the lover, j "I know that I have improved, but wliv cannot I conquer him?" "Ah, my dear man," the professor replied, "the hardest thing in this world to overcome is strength. Science is wonderful?it enables a man, after a i while, to come of! victorious, but at first : it stands?or rather falls," ho added in | a whisper, "in sore disadvantage. About ten more lessons, I think, will "finish the ) gentleman. Pay me what you owe and we'll begin the third course." i Bill paid him and look up the finish- i ing touches of his degree, lie noticed that the nose on the sand-bag was not quite prominent enough, and with improved artistic skill, he drew a picturc that could not fail to represent his enemy. Other tired men went to bed, but Bill, persistent man, fought the bag, until the rooster shook himself and declared that daylight had come. Thinking that he was undoubtedly capablc of vanquishing | Dan, Bill sent him a challenge. I)an replied as follows: " I am glad that you appoint another day of strife. Nothing gives me more pleasure than to whip a friend. I have given you several opportunities, still you have not married my mother. Why should you delay a marriage that promisessuchhappiness? I had always thought that a lover was ardent, but I must say that your laxity, or rather your weakness. has astonished me. Why don't you go away somewhere and submit yourself to severe training. If I wanted a woman I would be willing to tight for her."' Bill snorted whon he read the note, lie rushed into his room, made the no3C on the sandbng more prominent, and mauled the thing in a frightful nnnner. lie was so successful that a buoyant hope swelled within him. The day for the battle was appointed. The news had spread, and people from adjoining counties assembled. The band j had been materially improved. A drum made of two sheep skins and a nail keg had been added. Additional benches were provided. Everybody was in a high state of ex- \ citcment. Again youug women smiled on Dau. Again he was sure of succcss. Bill was dressed in flax breeches and a hunting shirt. Dan was appropriately clad in a yellow muslin shirt and hemp overalls. The band gave a grand burst; women clapped their hands and the combatants took their places. The capering was beautiful. Bill knocked Dan down. The defender of his mother's widowhood arose,but was ajjain knocked ^A\vn Tho r?nnnlp. rlu?r?rr?ri Instil Rill muttered a prayer and bucked against his assailant. Again Dan went down. Rill jumped on him and compelled him to declare his willingness to the marriage. The ceremony was performed with great pomp. Young girls scattered ilowers all over the yard. ' Well, Dan, 1 downed you," said Bill. "Yes, but it was my fault." "IIow?" "I failed to keep up my studies." "Your studies?" "Your studies?" "Yes. Professor Jasper, quite a while ago, told me what you were doing and gave me lessons at half price." Bill turned away. He contemplated whipping the professor, but, beins pursuaded by his wife, allowed the matter to drop. Bill is now a happy stepfa t her. ?A rkarwi w 1'rureler. Norel Wax-Works Exhibition. Wax-works, according to Mrs. Jarley, are not to be described as funny; th:y are classical. It seems that they may also become historical. A curious exhibition?not very happily known as theminiature Mmc. Tussaud's?has been opened at 2:> Hutlan 1 gate, which consists of history illustrated by wax-dolls. Little groups of miniature ligures representing tableaux from English history have been formed, and the dolls are "dressed" with due regard toarchxolog ical accuracy. Ilalciglispreads ins cioaK before Elizabeth, and York and Somerset pluck the roses in the Temple gardens with all the vivacity of life. The show has been devised for the benefit of the fJirl's Friendly society, aud it seems to be n yreat improvement on the hackneyed and now rather too frequent charity bazaar or fancy fair.?London St. Jama' Gazette. afc.-V .. ... '! L'-_ ...? ! THE CAPTURE OF BOOTH 1 HOW ABBAHAU T.INCOIITS ASS AS SI* MET HIS DSATK. fnRnl in a Barn-llnrolir* Snrrcntle ?Tlic Ilnru Fircil ? Booth SHo Drnd with ('arbliif ill Hand. Captain E. P. Dohcrty, who was witl the Federal farce which pursued J "Wilkes I?ooth, tells i:i tlic Baltimon lleruld how Lincoln's assassin was cap tured in the barn on Garrett's place ' Wc at once surrounded the barn," sax Captain E. P. Doherty, "and I went tc ' the door and tried to open it, but it wai loeked with n padlock. Youns Garret had the key to the padlock with him and, when he unlocked it, I called ou to the men inside: "'I have come here to take you. ] know who you are, nnd I want you. I I you do not come out I have men cnougl to take you, dead or alive." "At first there was no answer. Finally | in a loud, strong voice, IJooth replied I 'Who are you, and what do you want?' "I said: 'It's no matter what we want j deliver up your aims and surrender your j selves.' "lie called o:it again: 'Who arc you? j "I replied: 'That makes no difference, Wo know who you are, and we wanl you. 1 have fifty men here armed, and j you cannot get away.' I "Booth made some answer about his I beiug captured by his friends, and then ! he asked for time to think the thing | over. Finally I said to him: 'We have ' waited loDg enough; it is time for yot 1 to surrender.' Uooth called out: 'I air I crippled and alone. Take your men back fifty yards from the door and I will conic j out. You ought to give me a chance foi my life.' "I told him that we had not come tc fight, but to capture him, and he had I better come out. After a while Hooth called: 'There is a man here wants tn I 1-_ i? - ait'fill I bUITUIlULT, UUU nil 1119 LU ouutimti omaui ! bad.' "At tbis, Harold came out to the dooi and said: 'Let me out. I want to sur! render.' I Baid, 'Hand out your arms,' , and Booth said he had no arms. I took my pistol and told Harold to put both hands out at the door. He did so, and 1 caught him and pulled him out. Then Booth made some stage-like speech that 1 1 could not distinctly understand, but 1 j remember he said: 'Boys, prepare a ! stretcher for me. Another mau is slain j under our glorious banner.' A few | minutes later he called out to me again r to take my men from around the bam and give him a chance for his life. Just at that moment somebody, whether one of my men or one of the | dctcctivcs, I am not sure, lit n ; match and dropped it in the straw in the | rear of the barn. In an instant the whole I place was lighted un. Wc saw Booth standing on the floor of the barn leaning j over on his crutch. On the floor was the : straw, and then outlining Booth as he ; stood there glaring around as if trying j to see us on the outside. I do not think ho intended to shoot atui. but had made up his mind to kill himself. It was hardly a moment after the lire burst out be'fore Booth dropped liis crutch and took his carbine in both hands, still glaring | about the barn, and really looked as if j he were about to shoot. At this instant ; we heard a shot. Booth gave a yell, and j for the moment stood with the carbine 1 between his legs, his head bent over the I butt, and then, as he was about to fall, ! I caught him under the arms and pulled him out of the barn. Some one called out 'lie has shot himself,' nnd it was for some time my impression that that was the case. But Screcant Boston Corbett soon told me that he had shot, intending only to disable Booth's arm. ''Booth lived about two hours. I took the blanket off my horse, sewed him up in it, took an old negro with his cart and returned to Belle Plainc, where the steamer I. S. Ide, Captain "Wilson, was waiting for me; returned to Washington with the corpse of Booth and David E. Harold as prisoner, and at three a. m., on April 2ft, 180o, turned both over to the naval authorities in charge of the Irrm.nlfifl mnnitnr Mnntnnlc fit thfl X.ivv Yard. "Booth had on an old business suit? black, with little white spots. In his pockets were a lot of little onions. A diary was in one pocket. 1 did not read it carefully. Several pages had been written after the assassiuation. lie alluded to himself as the greatest patriot known to modern history. 1 turned the diary over to the war department. I think it was never published. "The prize money of $75,000 was divided on the plan governing the distribution of prize money in the navy. I was regarded as a captain of a vessel passing from one squadron to another, and making a capture on the way. I received $7,500, Colonel Baker $3,750, Conger $4,000, L. B. Baker $4,000, Corbctt and the other sergeant $2.5G5, seven corporals got $3,231, and eighteen privates got $2,0G3. Nearly all the men live now near Plattsburg, N. Y.. where they invested their money in farm3. I live in Louisiana, and am engaged in government work on the Bed river. I am happy to say I have multiplied my share of the $75,000 several times." New Jersey's Subterranean Forests. "If you want to see something curious," s iid a friend who was a member of a government survey, "go down >vith me to Woodbine." Four miles beyond "Woodbine, out on the sand stretch of old sea bottom or beach, that is termed the Cape May peninsula, we came upon Dennisville, where all the Dennises of all time had evidently settled. "We're all in the locgin' business, said a tall, thin Dennis, yet as far as the eye could reach not a tree could be seen standing that would make even the ghost *f a fair log. "They're 'underground. "We dig for them, or spear them, as you might say. Here's the tool," and stepping into a low hut he brought out a crowbar that, like every thing else, seemed attenuated, and wa* stretched out into a j long, slender-pointed rod. "We wade I along," continued the man, "and probe ; with this feeler, and when wc stiike a | log we feel around, and if it's a good j one we dig her up, and if it ain't we let her soak: that's about the way of it." "So, down in Jersey you burrow for your logs?" "That's about it," replied the man. ; "You know, we're obliged to be a whit odd or so; we've got the name of it, | oonynow. "The sccrct of this business," said my friend, the geologist, "is that ages ago all this area was covered with a fiuc growth of large trees, and the same are | found growing In some parts of the swamp yet. but the have died out aud fallen down and sunk into the soft mud, ! and so been covered up by mold and mud, until many other layers have grown over them; but in some remarkable way ; the wood is preserved and these sunken ancient logs are just as good for shingles and other articles us they were when alive; hcnce foi many years there has been a steady hunt for them, and Den| nisvillc is a result of the industry. To the botanist the tree is the evergreen white cypr?ss, and the numbers that once grew over this swamp and that have been entombed are beyond conception. The trees upon or near the surface are the only ones available and fortunately are the best, but far below theie are probably myriads of others turned to stone and representing the past geologi: cal ages of the earth. The logs were I worked out by the men who are nicki named 'S.vanipoodles,' and who live in . the midst of the malarious district all their lives. When a log is found a ditch is made about it, into which the water soon flows. A treat saw is then applied and the roots removed, and as a rule the ; log will rise to the surface and can be ! cut up and carried off, though :n many localities the shingles are made right on 1 the spot and dragged over the swamp on roads in many cases made of boughs and twics. This curious business is not confined to New Jersey, l?ut over in Delaware und Maryland there arc similar swamps, where the shingle busioess lias j been earned on for years. One of the swamps in Delaware extends over twentyfive square miles, and hardly a house in Sussex county but what, is shingled from ! the ancient deposit.?Philadelphia. Press. Miss Chamberlain, the American deputy who has had London at her feet for three seasons, is said to be losing ground. , ... ; ... ? WISE WORDS. Learn to lake life ns it comes, but b Burc to make the best of it before i goes. r | The two powers which constitute 1 j wise man are those of bearing and for lj I hearing. Some natures arc so sour and ungrate c ful that they are never to be obliged. . V Estrange. Any man who puts his life in peril ii I n cause which is esteemed, bccome s tl ) | darling of all men. 3 j In the man whosechildkood hns know: t ! rnrpsens thrro is ftlw.ivs n fihro of mom ory that can be touched to gentle issues 11 Those, though in highest place, wh< , j slight and disoblige their friends, slial -1 infallibly comc to know the value o i them, by having none wheu they shal 11 most need them. Human nature requires change for it '. I recreation. "Variety is charming," no only bccauso it is variety, but because . continuous effort in one direction pro duces lassitude, stalcness, and dccreasi of power. ' Pain and pleasure arc so intimately in , terwoven in our human life that eithc t alone seems to be incomplete. It is fo I us to accent them both, not for our owr >...1 r.._ ?t.: i.:_i | 511 kcs, uut iur sumuiuni^ mynci ui<ii either, that we have at hcait, and tha i j will mnke all sacrifice easy and all bur ; I dens light. ! j Much of love that promises to be eter 1! nal fades and pales from the lack of mu 1 | tual service. Friends, at first eager tc : i pour out their love in every possible way, ! j thinking no task too hard and no sacri '! tices too great that may add to the hap I piness of each other, after a while rcl:i> }; their efforts, perhaps almost unconscious ' ly. Each one, however, is keenly alive 1 to the change in tlie other, and hence 1 j arise suspicion and distrust and a sense M of injury; and love in such an atmos phcre is sure to languish. ; Why Bncliannii Never Married. Mr. Buchanan was regarded, almost a1 l the commencement of his congrcssion al career, as a confirmed bachelor, hii j1 iirst and only love affair having had c ; | sad termination. The lady's name wai ;! Ann Coleman, and she was the claughtci , I of a proud, wealthy citizen of Lancaster, I In ld20 Mr. Buchanan was electcd tc | Congress, and the next long session was j continued far in July, when he returned 1 home in the Baltimore stage, tired and I dusty. After he had washed and changed ' his clothes, lie started out for a short i1 stroll, in his dressing gown and slippers, ,! iuiss tirace nuDiey, sisier-in-iaw 10 ivii liam Jennings, who resided on tliecornci of South Queen street, the terminus ol the southwest angle, happening to be sitting in the parloi with all the windows open oc account of the heat, noticing thai 1 Mr. Buchanan had returned, went to the door, and, passing the compliments oi evening, invited him in, with which he complied, and they seated themselves by a large open window and engaged in conversation. Not more than twenty minutes thereafter an anonymous note was handed in to Miss Coleman, statin" that Mr. Buchanan wasktoo tired to call : on his aflianced, but that he could call on and sit and chat with Miss Ilubley. On perusing the note Miss Coleman was naturally somewhat troubled, and her father insisted upon seeing it. Ilis offended dignity was at once in arms, and within an hour the daughter was placed in the family carriage and on the wav to Philadelphia to visit her sistor, j Sirs. Judge Ilembill. Knowing 1 he unrelenting nature of her father, and probably feeling hurt at the inuendc thus annymously conveyed to her, although an intelligent and accomplished j young lady, and very much attached tc her betrothed lover,she became despondent, and in her despair took laudanum and was a corpse on the day following herreachingPhiladelphia. Mr. Buchanan : requested permission to attend the funeral as chief mourner, but was rudelj ; refused. Being a man of ardent alTection, and entirely devoted to his betrothed, i Mr. Buchanan's mind was nearly un hinged at the sudden calamity which had befallen him, so much so, indeed, ' that his friends became uneasy, and Judge Franklin persuaded him to remain in his family a few days. He never for got his early love, so sadly terminated.? I lien: Perley Poorc. ! Alfalfa mid Hie Dressod Beef Trade, It is well known that until recentlj our stockmen have been simply growing cattle for Eastern Slates to make beef of, instead of makinc the beef here in Colo' j rado, even for home consumption. Happily, this wasteful procc93 is changing. The remarkable productiveness of alfalfa i and its great fattening properties nrc ' now thoroughly understood, and instead j of bringing dressed beef iuto Colorado from the East, we shall soon be shipping dressed beef to the Kast, or if not that, [ at least our cattle will be thoroughly titted for beef. Probably 20,000 head were fed alfalfa during the past winter in this i State, and though all feeders were not equally successful, yet from 10,000 to 12,000 were turned into prime beef on nlfalfa alone, against not more than 2,1 000 so fed in tho preceding winter. It lias been demonstrated by actual i test that a steer weighing 1,100 pounds, | stalled, fed, and eared for as catt'.e are fattened in the East, gained in eighty ! days 240 pounds * in weight ou ' thirty pounds of alfalfa alone per day, being an average daily growth of three pounds, and when killed here Inst winter was found to be the finest beef seen in Denver for years. Another case is reported where a farmer took a lot of thin } steers in the fall, which cost him an j average sum of $25 per head, fed them I Ariiliiaivaltf An olfnlfo rliirinrr thn wintnr ' and sold them at an average pricc of $00 I per head, and when slaughtered they were equal to the best corn fed beef, i The possibilities of alfalfa raising and its uses in our State arc incalculable. It ' has been proved to be as cood feed for sheep and swine as for cattle. Some of ' the finest and juciest mutton ever sold in our market was fattened on alfalfa in six weeks' time. It enn be grown in any part of the State and three or four crop." gathered per year. That it is thoroughly ! appreciated by our farmers is shown by i the fact that fourteen cnrloads of the j seed were brought to Denver alone last year, and twenty to twenty-five carloads ! could be sold here this year if they could be obtained.?Denver (i'ul.) Tribune, Ghost-Raisers of Madagascar. The Ilovas or Ovahs of Madagascar, 1 who constitute nine tenths of the lowland ! population, arc ignorant to a degree, which exuberates in all sorts of prcposj terous superstitions. They firmly bj; lieve in the existence of an Alpine Alumbo Jumbo, a mountain demon, apt to promote the hostile de-igtis of the hill tribes, unless propitiated by expensive j but not wholly ineffectual ceremonies, I since they constitute the principal etnulunwinto nl' ?i nlf?r1inrir> nrirwthnnrl tlin Kan Kuyas, or "Ghost Kaisers." They have a sonir expressing Mtimbo's grief at a consignment of short-weight arrowroot cakos, and exhorting inlidels to deprecate his wrath by a prompt remittance. Whenever the periodical risings of the ! lietsiboka river are attended with floods, the shore dwellers soak the beach with a mixture of milk and sorghum beer, under the impression that the curdling I of the milk would help to assuage the tuW ulence of the stream. The hope of ejecting that without the assistance of the priests is, however, denounced as a grievous heresy, which can be expiated only by an extra sin olfering in cash, payable to the offended ecclesiastic. Their views on the origin of climatic diseases seem to approximate those of Dr. Thomas King, who ascribes malarial fever to the agency of a tipulary insect. At the outbreak of a malarial epidemic ghost-raisers and laymen join in a botan, ical still hunt, continued for days, till good fortune enables them to achieve the | discovery of a certain forest plant bearing on its leaves the symbols of the deity presiding over fevers and plagtu b. The chinees of abating the epidemic then depends on tiie success of a seriea ol complicated ceremonies. The surest way of governing, both in (omili- o I. ... io fr..- .? JJ1IVUI?> nimiij uuvi tl i%> IWI <1 ; j husband and n princc sometimes to drop their prerogatives. \iV ,-r . ' -itX.-AZ. .''?rr- iktibl'l A CYCLONE'S WORK. e Immense Damage to Property a Throughout the Northwest. Many Buildings Wrecked, Bridges Swept Away and Cattle Killed. ^ Reports from various sections of tho Northwest givo tho following details of a torriflc cyciono which raged in that region: 11 A Milwaukee (Wis.) dispatch says that the l" storm appears to have passed entirely across i. the State diagonally from northwest to 0 southwest. At Sparta, which city appears to . j have been the greatest sufferer, tho storm ' j raged for over an hour, during the greater f j part of which timo tli i air was I tilled with railing trees and nying aeons. A scoue of desolation prevailed. Buildings are wrecked on every hand, shade trees torn 3 from their roots, sidewalks demolished, and t fences blown down. Sevoral fine residence i c and a number of those less pretentious nro a mass of ruins. At I'lainfleld the storm was the most terrific ever known. A large num15 bcrof buildings wero blown down or unroofed and freight cars were smashed into splinters. . Port Edwards, in Wood county, had a planing miil, store and five dwellings blown r out of sight, lumber yards scattered r I to the winds, nnd other property inl jureiL The loss will aggregate $10,0 K). In i Hock county buildings suffered to quite an t extent, the principal damage being to tobacco sheds. About Edgerton more than 200 " tobacco sheds were demolished. Houses, lmrn* and other buildings suffered a like fate, and considerable live stock was killed. A new Catholic church, a fiat mill, resi* ' deuces, and barns were destroyed at Apple) ton. About ytoughton tobacco shed >, house} ( and bams were demolished and a large number . of horses nnd cattle killed. From scores of small towns reports of the storm's destruction are received. In many places where the destruction by wind was no' severe great damage was done by lightning. At Whitewater, Nienah, Fall ltiver, and Elroy the loss by lightning was particularly severe. At Dexterville, Wood county, the loss by wind and lightning will not fall short of f 15,000, ' I ami at iveiisvu.'e, nveuijr nniei Iiunimeii/, I I the loss is also quite severe. In all sections of the State traversed by tho storm crops have I I sulFerod great injury. At Lind. Wis., nineteen barns and six I houses were more or less damaged. John Pinkerton, a farmer, drovo into his barn just as the storm broke to wait till it passed by. 3 The wind lifto.1 the bnrn from its foundations i and carrio.1 it with most of its contents 1 > j feet. Pinkerton escaped without a scratch. The tornado injured a dozen persons and destroyed proiierty in Oshkosh, Wis., and vicinity valued at ?3JO.O'JO. Tho Northern ) Fair Exposition building, sixty fectwido and i 400 feet long, which was valued at f 15,0 K), [ was leveled to the groun 1. From twenty-live i to fifty houses wero damaged, an 1 a good many families were left without shelter. 1 Soveral of the persons injure 1 were soriously t if not fatally hurt. St. Paul's Episcopal church, a wooden structure, was blown down, nnd several church buildings lost thoir steeples. Meetings wero held and money : raised for the relief of the needy, f At Blooniington, III., Wiliiam S:hrjo lor, r fifty yours old, was instantly killod by light1 ning, and a number of persons wore stunned. Great damage was done to the bridges on the 1 Lako Erio and Western, and travel over tho line was entirely suspended. The bridges at ! Suybrook, Gibson und Elliott's stations were r swept away by the wa'er. At Gibson's sjv| eral buildings were damaged by lightning. The storm at Rockford, III., was the severest of years. Light ling demoli ished the residence of John Johnson nnd rendered five inmates unconscious. All es, caped with their lives From Monticello, Minn., coma tho followI ing details: A cyclone passed north of this ' j place last night. The track of tho storm was [ ; about fivo miles distant, and an ominous | looking cloud was watched by nearly every ! nnn in town. The cloud was of a crreenish ' j hua nnd funnel slmpcd, and as it "danced j across the prairie, now tearing up the dirt I i and again rising somo distance in | the air, it created a peculiar scone. A house i between Big Lake and Becker was struck j and nothing was left to tell where it stood, , 1 i pieces of timber nnd furniture being scattered 1 j along the prairie. The only thing that was t ! discovered near tlio piaco that was recognizable was a number ot knives and forks, which ' were found about !XJJ feet distant About ">00 yards further on an old stable was lifted from the ground and carried away, but the house standing nearby was unharmed, i A little child who was in the yard was picked up and carried some distance, but landed near a fence unharmed. The greatest rainstorm for many years I raged at Oskaloosa, Iowa, and vicinity. Over i live inches of water fell. Many bridges wcro ? washed out and bottoms overflowed. Eng, land's new business block was ccmpletely wrecked, and a man was caught in the full and slightly injured. Near Allagan, Mich., the tornado swept ! over a tract about three miles lonj> nnd ! eighty rods wide, resulting in great damage. 1 Buildings were unroofed nnd serious injury i was (lone to standirg timber and orchards. I 1 : 1 lie losses aggregate many thousands of doli j lars. j LATER MEWS j Joseph Bfxker, railroad gang boss, and ; an Italian laborer were instantly l:i" cd by a ' j cave in near Pottsviile, Penn. ! During tho trial of a caso in the Unite! States district court at Cincinnati, Judge Foraker, the Republican candidate for governor of Ohio, was assaulted by tho opposing counsel, A. A. Ferris. Tho former warded , oflf tho blows, and other attorneys interfered. I Judge Saga immediately reprimanded Ferris t ' and lined him $.j0 for contempt of court. I'llE 1'resident on tho 'Jtli appointed William K. Meade, of Arizona, to be United States marshal for the Territory of Arizona, i 1 and Joseph L. Morgan, of South Carolina, i to 1)0 secretary of the legation of the United States to Mexico. Postmasters: C. S- Stoy, i j at Butler, Ind.; Eli W. Brown, at Columbia ! City, Ind.; Jonah T. Howe at Trutnansj burg, N. Y. ! General Nelson A. Miles, commatidj iug the department of the Columbia, has | been ordered to relieve fieneral C. C. Augur, ; commanding the department of the Missouri, ! who retires from active service. General I Miles will go immediately into the field to assume command of the forces in tho Indian I Territory who are watching tho Indians. I Edward B. Yocmans, who has been ten dered the position 01 cniei i-jcrit ui mu uum| ury department, in place of Theodore F. | Swayzee, who has held the position about j three years, is a prominent lawyer aiul polij tician of Elmira, N. Y. A Cairo dispatch asserts that unless action is taken by September 1 Egypt will be completely bankrupt. Earthquake shocks continue in the Vale of 1 Cashmere, India, at intervals of three days. A revolution has broken out in VenoI zue!a, South America. The revolutionists have captured a steamer with prominent officers on board. THE NATIONAL GAME, j Pitchers are in great demand in the j South. Southern league umpires receive $75 pei month. ^ Meriden is the only club in the Southern Viin-lnnrl loncniA wliiph has not be?n shut out. The Eas'ern New England association umpires get $8 per game and pay their own expenses. New Yonx's team is tho only one in the i league that bos not been whitewashed this | season. I There is little doubt now about tho St. | Louis club winning the championship of the | American association. Extremes meet in tho Buffalo club. That team has fho dwarf and tho giant of the league, Force aud Brouthers. The league race i* much more interesting this season than it was lost, and all the lead[ ers are reaping tho benetit in increased gate receipts. It is said that each player of the Chicago team is promised a certain per cent, of the profits over and above a stipulated amount in case the club win the loaguo championship. Nichols, of Harvard, who led tho college I fcatsmen for his proficiency in this respeel i won three prizes?tho first ono, a prize bat, for the best record in all games, the second, o I silver cup, for the best batting,in champion| ship games, and the third,{another cup, foi I the best batting in the last five championship : games. A baseball exchange has been fitted up in Atlanta, says the Constitution, in whicti ! all tho games the Atlantas play away from homo are reported in detail on :i large black| board, and with pegs numbered to represent I the men, the game can be watched as closely os if the spectator were actually on the ground. For instance, peg No. 1 represent* 1 Cahill. It is stuck in the home plate when he goes to bat; if he hits a safo ball his pog i* , moved up to first base or os many buses as ho ! makes. Then peg No. 2, representing Golds| by, is stuck at home plate and monipulated j mo sumo way. t> ijcu ii runner i'i uiii>u.-r is put out his peg is retired, aud so 011 to the cdcI. The chnmpionship records up to recent date I are as follows: I TI1E NATIONAL LEAGUE. Won. Won. I^ost. New York 85 11 IJoiton 15 80 | Chicago 87 10 St. I.otiis IS 23 I'liil;t(lelp!:ia. ...24 2H Buffalo 14 31 I'rovldenc: 2S lt? Detroit 12 34 A1IRUICAN ASSOCIATION. ' St. l.onls 33 17 I Brooklyn 21 81 i Pittxliuri.' 32 21 Haltinioro ?1 SO Cincinnttl 31 25 | Athlctic ...26 28 Loubvlllo 28 27 | Metropolitan.. ,18 85 NEWS . SUMMARY Ftilern and Middle Mrs. Dudley, the Englishwoman who Bbot O'Donovan Ro3sa in New York, has been taken to the Middletown (N. Y.) insano asylum. Georqe Dunbar, one of the wealthiest and best known citizens of Pittsfleld, Masa., was found murdered in the street. He had been shot to death and robbed. KuroRTS received from the New England fishing fleet now off Newfoundland state that the schooner Lewis King lost seven men in a gale, and that the schooner Mary Jane Lea was run into by an unknown vessel and sunk. Henry II. Gorrinoe, formerly lieutenantcommander in tho United States navy, died a few days since in Now York. He was the naval cfflcer who brought the Egyptian oDeiisK irom l'-gypi to new ioru. General Grant wns feeling considerably stronger on tho UtlL A rnKMATi'RE explosion of a dynamite blast ata tunnel near McConnellsburg,Penn., resulted in the deatii of three men and injuries to four others, two of whom were also expected to die. Tiie party of twenty Mexican editors making a tour through this country called on General Grant at Mt MacGregor and presented him with an address. General Grant wrote a response, expressing his good will for Mexico. The Pennsylvania Republican State convention, hold in Harrisburg, nominated Matthow H. Quay for State treasurer on tho first ballot. A platform was adopted which demands tho repeal of the internal revenue taxes, except on spirituous and malt liquors, and that, nil revenues be raised by an additional levy on imports; calls for the establishment of a true system of civil service; tho preservation of a sound financial system; the protection of the national treasury from disloyal claims; tho maintenance of tho creditof the government; the protection of American national and industrial independence by antagonizing imported and convict labor, and denounces tho Demonn?iVnl n Qfnfn rn f i'am . v.i utiv. uubiviiai tiiiu uvaic auiuiiiubiubiuu^ Konlh and W?*f. A frkight trai.i, consisting of n locomotive and sixteen cars, fell through a bridge into a swollen stream near Fort Scott, Kansas, and the conductor, engineer, fireman, and another man were drowned. A crowd of striking car drivers and conductors at Chicago attempted to prevent cars from running, cut were clubbed by the police and more than 100 of their number were arrested. Edward Fincit, aged seventy-five years, his sister, aged eighty, both white, and a negro boy, about fifteen years of age? were murdered near Moncure, N. C., the object of the murderers being robbery. Joseph Harrison and his two children were burned to death, and Mrs. Harrison received fa'ftl injuries at a fire which destroyed their dwelling at Woodbridge, Ya. The child of a Mrs. Bailey also lost its life. An altercation between Irish and Polish workmen in a Cleveland saloon ended in a leinuiu u^iiitwuu KJiivin uiiu v;iuud, rivDiiiou were wounded, on > fatally. Tho alTray grow out of the 6trike in the Cleveland rolling mills. A firk at Stoughton, Wis., destroyed ten out of thirteen large tobacco warehouses, a railroad depot, and about twenty freight cars leaded with wheat and merchandise, causing a loss estimated at nearly $1,000,00J. Judge Lynch claimed four victims the other day. At Grenada, Miss., two men charged with the murder of a peddler wero taken from the sheriff by a crowd of men and hanged; and at Baxter Springs, Kansas, and Trinity, Texas, a similar fate was mqted out to two colored men?cne only seventeen years old?for brutally assaulting two httlog.'rls. At Viola, Wis., Elsa Shambaugb, aged fifteen; J. McFarland, aged eighteen, and Henry Fisher, ag. d seventeen, wero drowned while bathing in the Kickapoo river. McFarland saved onoof his couiradoa, and while in the act of rescuing another was himself drowned. Joseph C. Macki.v, a prominent Chicago politician, found guilty of fraud at the late presidential election, has been sentenced to five years in the penitentiary. A letter from Morehead, Ky., states that in the first week in August last bsgan in that county '-perhaps the bloodiest, longest and bitterest feud which has ever marke l the criminal history of Kentucky. Thus far nearly a dozen lives have been taken and, with the exception of one male and one female, two families liavo been exterminated." A political quarrel is tho foundation of tin troub'e. Rev. M. D. Tirner. a Methodist minister, during a moment of mental aberration committed suicide at Btone Mountain, Ga., by taking strychnine. Wnsfclnffton? Thomas E. Nash, of Centralis Wis., has been appointed chief clerk of the postofllce department, to succeed C. M. Walker, of Indiana, resigned. Owinb to continual, ill health, Mr. Hay, first assistant postmaster general, ha< resign ed, and A. E. Stevenson, of Illinois, lias been appointed bis successor. The President has mado tlio following appointments: Judge Lambert Tree, of Illinois, to bo minister to Belgium: Gaorge V. Brower to bo general appraiser of mm lmndisc in the district of New York: Sa rmcl T. Hauicr, of Helena, Montana, to Iw governor of tlio Territory of Montana; Montfor.l S. Jones to be United States attorney for the western district of Louisiana. To be attorneys of the United States: James C. J. William's, for the east district of Tennessee; John E. Lamb, for the district of Indiana. Further appointments of presidential postmasters: ft. P. Pnlliam. ut Eureka Springs, Ark.; Frank W. Havill, at Mouut Carmol, Wabash county, 111.; Annio Brennock, at Dunlap, Iowa; John W. Pence, ao Anderson, Ind.; Charles H. Reed, at Corinth, Miss.; Alexander M. Dick, at West Newton, Penn.; John T. Kilgore, at Long View, Texa>. Twenty-two suspensions of presidential postmasters also occurred on the same day. Miss Cleveland's book ot essays, entitled "George Eliot's Essays and Other Studios," has just been published, and has had a large sale. Three editions were exhausted on tlie first day of its publication. Thk Prpsirlmifc hnq nnnointe-l Frederick Gerker to be collector of internal revenue for the first district of Pennsylvania, and Willis G. Ciark to be collector of customs at Mobile. Luciax Hopson, of Texa?, who inventoJ and bad patented by the Confederate government a projectile which was used with some success in Clnrles'.on harbor against the Union vessels, recently filed an application for a patent for the "same projectile, and a few days ago a letter was sent to him from tin interior department informing him that his application had be.-n granted. More presidential postmasters appointed: Robert W. S[xi?r, at Denver. Col.: Thomas N. Goodnight, at Franklin, Ky.: Michael W. Ryan, at Mcdforl, Wis.; A. B. Waller, at Tus?arora. Nev.; I'd win S. Smith, at South Haven, Mich.; John O'Donnell, at Mitchell, Ind.; John Pepper, at Bosvobel, Wis. The President has accepted the resignation of P. B. S. Pmchback as surveyor of customs at New Orleans. Forelim It i3 stated that owing to her financial do prossion Mexico has proposed to our government to sell some of her territory, comprising six states on her northern boundary. The area embraced in this proposition is about 330,00J square milei Texas contains only 237,231 and California only 1?>S,982, while New York and Pennsylvania, the largest of the older States of the East, have only 46,003 squaro miles each. ^ Lord Randolph Churchill, the young tory leader whoso American wife went around oloctioneering for him, has been elected to tho British parliament by a vote of 532 to 405 for his opponent. Independence day was celebrated by the Americans in London. Cyrus W. Field gave a dinner to Minister Phelps. Senator Ed<-< --- ' < 1 n'-n? T?U? inuiKlS, L-onsui-uenerui ituuct, nuuu jjuqu.., the Duke of Argyle, and many other noted Englishmen were present. A cablegram was sent to President Cleveland, nnd a reply of thanks received. Six Canadian raftsmen were drowned in the Gntineau river by the npsetting of their boat. Big Bear, the Indian alley of Iliel in tho late rebellion in Manitoba, has been captured. His warriors have nearly all surrendered. Mn. Bradlauc.H has a^ain attcmptclto tako the oath as a member of tho British house of common*, but was refused permission by that body. The cholera has again appeared at Marseilles and Toulon, Franco, and a general exodus has begun. Two Mexican editors fought a duel at New Laredo, one of them being killed and the other wounded. ? ?J tin a i.. ? in A ?illf.Al ?.)IISII1VII ll 1.1 u.vh ... London by tho long articles published in a loading daily paper on the t-rrible slate of immorality which prevails in tho English metropolis. Follow i so is a day's record of cholera's ravages throughout Spain: Now cases, 1,70(1; deaths, 797. Political disorders in the City of Mexico have led to a largo number of arrests. a rnoi,Kit a report from Spain says that j tho situation in Aranjucx, a suburb of Mailrid, is terrible. Tho population of 14,<i0) has dwindled to",0.?>, and those who are unable to got away ted that, they are doomed. I Many who are attacked drop senseless as they i are walking about and expire before ai 1 can j reach them. More than one-tenth of t!:o sol- i diers in the garrison, including six ollicers, have died of clio'era within a week. Half of the j remainder arc in hospital. Every oneof tho : Kisforii nf Miti-v sent to nurse tho cholera I patients is dead. There nro no eofllns in tho j city nnd tho bodies of the victims are left by the roadside, wrapped in blankets, and are gathered by tho city dust carts, in which they are taken to tho cometeries and cast into | trenches. They have an orignal way in Vienna of j protesting against a bad tenor. A cent'email at tho Teatro Malibran recently o|>eiic:l his ! umbrella and held it. toward tho stage, evidently to keep ofT the shower of fulso notes. The auditorium at once became a forest of umbrellas. The tenor flod, the curtain fell and art was avenged. ? - mti ' RIOT IN CLEVELAND. Two Factories Forcibly Closed by Angry Strikers. A Superintendent Beaten, and Troops Placsd Under Arms. { Details of tho serious outbreak in Cleveland, Ohio, resulting from a strike of 5,000 men employed in some of tho rolling mills, are given in dispatches as follows: Large bodies of the strikers were astir at an early hour this morning, and by a o'clock ' fully 2,000 men, armed with clubs and revolvers, met in the Fourteenth ward, and listened for an hour to spoeches by Karl 1'nlka, agent for the Anarchists committee in this country. About 10 o'clock a procession was formed, and the information went from man to man that 1 hey were going to march to tho city and drive out the men who were working in the dill'ercnt manufacturing establishments controlled by the Chisholms. Tho strikers reached the II. P. Kail company works at about 11 o'clock. They made a rush for the works and drove out the workmen who, to tho number of 150, lied from tho building. Several men who stood by their machines were given live minutes to leave or be thrown out. They all took tho hint and left. The strikers then proceeded to the Chisholm Shovel works, but their coming had been anticipated, and the laborers had been sent home and the doors locked. A short distance from the shovel works is the largo five-story brick factory of the Union Steel Screw works. Fayette Brown, president of the company, had heard that the strikers intended to visit the works and in the morning applied for police protection. Two policemen were detailed to protect the works, as the striko hod not been considered at all dangerous. When the strikers readied tlie works they found all tho doors shut anl barricaded. Beside the men and boys employed at tho works there are in tho neighborhood of a hundred girls. When tho body of strikers drew up in front of the building the greatest consternation prevailed, as threats had been made to destroy tho edifice if the men did not quit work. Kayctte Brown and several men stood near one of the doors, and when several of the strikers demanded aduiittauco it was refused. In an instant the character of the procession changed into an angry mob. A fenco was torn to pieces and in a moment the door leading into the works was battered down and the strikers began to swarm into tho building. Fayette Brown stood right in tho way of the strikers, and they mado a savage onslaught on him. He was struck with a club, knocked down, and while down repeatedly struck and kicked. If it had not been for the exertions of several of tho strikers themselves would have been killed. He was taken to a carriage and driven to his lesidence! The physicians say that outside of a number of severe bruises his injuries are not at all serious. The mob then swarmed through the building, the men and boys who were at work leaving their places and jumping through windows and making their exit in the be?t manner they could. The girls were all told to leave, and wero permitted to pasj out luiuu^u mo \.\JVk. iiiiUJ Ul l/JJC ^ 1 lid fainted, and had to be carried to residences of citizens living near. Ono man who refused to Ieavo the building was knocked down with a club nnd badly hurt. He was thrown downstairs and had to b9 carried to his home. After every person had been driven from tho place tho strikers returned to the Fourteenth ward and dispersed. When the fact became known that Fayette I3rown. who is ono of the most prominent men in the city, had been so roughly handled, the greatest indignation was expressed against Mayor Gardner for not giving the company better police protection. The mayor, however, immediately called a meeting of the police board, at which it was determined to stop the violence of the strikers nt any cost.SmithnlghtV batten' was instructed to hold itself in readiness to b? called upon nt a moment's notice, Tho Cleveland Grays began drilling in their armory, nnd were put under private instruction from tho mayor. CHICAGO'S CAR STRIKE ENDED. After lasting eight days the strike of the conductors and drivers on the Western Division Street railway in Chicago has come to an end in a virtual victoiy lor the striker.*. The strike originated in the discharge by i the railway company of sixteen men who had been members of a committeo which had successfully petitioned the company for there/lrncc nf porhn in Tlirt o??nlo\*oo Ivi. VIA \J 4 VCI 4 i 4 I IV 1 UU'.Ui A WV> VIIIJJIWJ CO WV lieved that tho men were discharged because of j their having* served on the committee, and in- I sisted that they should cither be taken back or given a chance to answer any charges I there might be against them. Tho company j declined to do either, and the conductors and ; drivers, somo 1,500 in all, struck. The company has agreed to take back all j the strikers and to hold nn investigation ot ! the conduct, for three days previous to the beginning of tho strike, of the sixteen men who wcro discharged. The settlement of the strike was the result of conference? botween tho executive committee of tho strikers, tho officei-s of tho company, and the city officials, upon whose shoulders the maintenance of order has fallen. The strikers insisted that tho discharged men should have a fair hearing, and President Jones, after reflection, consented that they should. The terms of compromise thus determined ujK>n were submitted to tho strikers a meeting anil adopted. A DOMESTIC TRAGEDY. li. JcoloiiH wire Kills her Two Chll drcn nn l Diown* HeraelK A terrible domestic tragedy is reported from Howden, a little village in Indiana. A Mrs. Rogers, becoming jealous ot her hus band's attentions to lior cousin, ? pretty school teacher who was visiting at her house, ordered the young voman to Jo ive. Rogors thereupon struck lis wife to the floor, and left tho house with lis guest. When they returned in the evenng they found the two Rogers children dear] n the barn, their heads nearly severed with in ax, and Mrs. Rogers drowned in ft water Tough. Mrs. Rogers had evidontly brooded jver her troubles all day nnd fiinllj', just before the time for Rogers to return home, had taken the children to the barn and murderel them, and then deliberately lay down in the water trough and en le l her sorrows. HORRORS OF A STORM. IWniiy Persons Killed?A Town MOO House* Destroyed* Terrible reports of devastation by storm and flood continue to be received from many parts of Austria and Hungary. The town of Horodenka has been almost destroyed by a conflagration caused by lightning. Many houses were set on tire simultaneously, and 000 buildings were burned. Many persons wero burned to death, and over 5,OUO are homeless. The tower rf Zechovitz, in Bohemia, has been partially d . strove.I by a flood. At Visnitz, ill Galicia, eight persons have been killed by lightning, nnd thousands of trees have been blasted and uprooted. In Hungary the corn crop on thousands of acres has be^n ruined. At Csoka a church tilled with worshipers was struck by lightning. Two of the congregation were kill? and thirty-two injured. MUSICAL AND DRAMATIC Theoroke Thomas lost $9,003 by tho re- j ccut Sa:i Francisco concerts. Buffalo is to have a conservatory of j music, which is to open September I. : The French normal pitch will be adopted ' by the mflitary bands 111 tho German army. O.v the days betwoen tho lessons Liszt, the groat pian.st, plays whist every afternoon. London papers state that Marie Geis- j tingor will retire from the stage next spring, i It is intended to give a season of Italian ! opera next winter at the Grand Opera house, I Paris, with Patti. John McCullough, the well-known actor, has been confined in tho Bloomuigdale Insane i asylum at Now York. A young American singer, Miss Theresa ; Adams, a pupil of Mad. Marches!, has made a hit at the leatro Pagliano, Florence. The Munich court singer, Hoinrich Vogl will, on October 1, undertake a tournoo of thirty concerts, to be given in the principal German cities. * *1? i \ h.err al.bekt oikil 1, iuo uoiu.v j the Frankfort City theatre, Germany, lias completed his engage men t for the next opera j season in Now York city. Miss Anxie Lippincott, daughter of ; "Graco Greenwood." lately made her debut in Italian opera in Italy, where she has besn i an -earnest and diligent student of music for ! the last three or four years. The most extraordinary representation of "Hamlet" was one recently given at Stock- | holm, in which Ernesto llos-u played the title 1 j>art in Italian, Fraulein Aalborg the ro.'e of j Ophelia in Finnish, and the rest of the actors 1 spoke Swedish. W. S. Gilbert, tho playwright and humorist, author of "Pinafore," tho '"Mikado," etc., is a well dressed, heavily built man of j middle age, with gray h:nr and whiskers, ; closely trimmed, florid complexion and lirmly J fixed, severe and disdainful features. Dr. Lennox Brown has made inquiries of 3S0 singers in opera, concert, oratorio and i onthedral as to the effect of alcoholic stimulants upon the voico. No les? than threefourths of the whole number testify to their ! disbcliel in toe power 01 aicouui uirocujf ii? aid it. Mb. Mthon TV. Whitney hns signed a contract with the New York English Ojwra company for 10) performances ot opera and , concert His son William, who is now in Munich, has also been engaged, and will arrive home about September 1. Their engagements do not commence until January 1, , 188(5, '"III! ' I I H THE CHOLERA. SCOURGE. How the Terrible Plague is F*aging iu Jlurcia, Spain. A New York Iferald correspondent telegraphs from Madrid the result of a four days visit to the cholera stricken city of Murcia, Spain. lie says: Murcia city, according to the last ccnsus, has a papulation of nearly forty thousand, and the suburbs about sixty thousand more. Thirty thousmd persons havo fled from the place since tho epidemic broke out. Its streets are desertol, eighty per cent of its stores are closed and'hardly a house remains in which a cholera caso has not occurred. The yellow coverod stretcher 011 which tho cholera strick en sick ana ueau nro carricu turough the streets is 0110 of the commonest sights. Deaths have become so frequent that the tolling of the church bells usual thero on such events nas bei*n forbidden. Beginning on June 5, the cholera has since then attacked 3,*215 persons in twenty-four days, and of these 1,8(59 bodies have been already buried. Including th? full normal population of nearly 109,000 people, ono person in each 30 has already had the cholera, aiid ono person in each 75 of the population has been buried within three weeks. Under tho mosi favorable conditions 1,000 more deaths are expected by the physicians beforo tho fall. Under such circumstances the people have invented a new salutation. They no longer say "God:1 day," but instead, "Iiow many That is, how many have died to-day/ And for tho week 1 ho death rate was so steady that by listening for a moment on tho streets even the hour could be told. "Fifty" stood for noon and "100" for midnight. Startling incidents abound in such a city. A vilo smell cam? from one of the many closed houses. By order of tho authorities the doors were forced and then the rotting bodies of its inhabitants wero found. They had npparentiy died of malignant cholera after closing the house, and so suddenly that they had been unable to summon aid. Quarks of all kinds, who believe firmly in tho most extraordinary medicines, are the natural result of the panic. One man, a tailor, has loft his busiuefs, and.though without medical knowledge, is received with unquestioning faith by tho poor. He takes no foo: on the contrary, he gives to the poorest such help as ho can altord. Tho epidemic ha< also its heroes, among whom is the Count De Valle, one of the richest land owners of tho province. It is notahle that be goe3 among the sick fearfessly. By common report ho has already given away all his ready cash and has begun to mortgage his real estate to raiso moro funds for this purpose. As tho result of many interviews with lending men of Murcia your correspondent thinks th* following statements will provo true concerning the epidemic as it at present manifests itself : Tho cholera will extend throughout the greater portion of Spain. It may last until late in the fall. It is not impossible that cholera cases may occur next year. The disease soemj to follow the courso of rivers. It spreads olways below the place first infected. Thus, the head waters of the Tagus being now infccted, the cholera may b3 oxpoctod to pass all quarantines and enter I'ortugal. Cholera sprea Is rapidly with great virulence along tho course of a river. By land its spread is uncertain and slow, depending largely on porsonal contact ' between the inhabitants of neighboring towns. A man of average health, not given to excesses. usine onlv boded water for even such purposos as brushing tho teeth, who eats no green, uncooked food, need not fear the cholera in the least. Anything which reduces vitality, even temporarily, may at once lead to cholera. Women liavo more to fear from cholera, but with proper precautions there is little danger. Extreme four of the disease very often leads to an attack of cholera. Dr. Ferran's inoculation will not play an important part in this epidemic, however great its part may bo in the next one. Cholera germs live for an uncertain period. They are known to live for months and yet < retain sufficient vitality to cause cholera in persons oxpose 1 to them. Groat care regarding infeetod letters and i clothing is therefore necessary. Valencia cranges aud Malaga raisins of this j'ear's crop in ay carry cholera germ? to i consumers oven in distant countries. They are therefore anions: the things not to eat INSULTING THE FLAG. The Star? antf stripes lloiatod at ISnlNJlaaf in Salt Lake City. The indignation o.er the Mormons' act in placing tho national flag at half-mast on the Fourth continues unabated, says a Salt , Lake City dispatch. Excited groups of GentilesdiscussodtheafTnirallday. Onthedayof the Fourth an old veteran stood In front of the city hall looking at the trailing flag. Tears streamed from his eyes. Shaking his fist at tho Mormon policemen, who were -watching to see that the flag was not raised, lie exclaimed: "How long, oh, Lord! how long," and declared that h? would leave the "nest of treason" within forty-eight hours. Horace Eklredge, president of the Deseret National bunk, tho Lni'ed States depository here, says the half-mast is tho proper place for the flag, "as we have not more than half our rights." The Provo Enquirer, a Mormon paper, had on the Fourth a cofliu with the inscription, "Independence?Died July 4, 16S.")." The Deseret Newst, church organ, fnlly justifies the half masting of the ting in a fivecolumn article, conclusively showing that it was under church authority, and claiming that it was right to do it, '"liecauso Liberty is dead in Utah." . l NEWSY GLEANINGS. The population of San Francisco is now estimated at 325,000. The number of seit-maae ranruau um^ua?? in this country is 2-15. There were 48,000 visitors from the North to Florida last winter. Thirty-six persons died in London last year from starvation. The leather product, of this country reaches $200,000,000 per annum. Foi/r dollars a week is the amount earned by a good mechanic in Holland. The next orange crop in Florida is oxpected to reach the sum of $2,000,(XKJ. This year's immigration to this country in- i eludes -I.OCO Danes, who go mostly to the ( Northwest. c An international congress of botany and j horticulture will meet at Antwerp from Au- ' gust 1 to 10. 1 The lance has disappeared from tho list of weapons used iu the Austrian army. The lancers will be converted into light cavalrymen. Tittle's comet is looked for this month. Tcmpel's is overdue. Swift's is expected at the close of the year, but is likely to pass unseen. Five times as many oats have been export j ed this year as last, the war preparations in Russia and England having stimulated the ' business. i An Cregon man has hollowed out the stump ' of a huge tree in the Jasiiion of a room, cut a ' door and windows in it, and has there taken ! up h:s abode. 1 The American Sunday School union, dur- ' ing its sixty years of existence, has distributed by sale or giit nearly $S,0'J0,000 worth of religious literature. Neakly :;<),ojo,wu eggs are mhj>ijcu uuw , the Atlantic to this country, chiefly from 1 . Antwerp and Hamburg, during the summer , mouths of each year. . The number of passengei-s carried by all < tho railroads in all parts of the world, in 1 1581, is estimated at 2,400,000,000, or an av- ] erago of 6,500,000 a day. The great Irish industrial exposition has 1 been opened in Dublin. The buildings are J very largo and imposing, and all tho exhibits 1 are of Irish manufacture. j 1 A prominent chemist asserts that in every J j 100 pound-j of green tea used in this country tho consumer drinks more than haif a pouud j ' of pru-ssian blue and gypsum. Missouri and Pennsylvania are the last I States to establish marriage license laws, Governor Pattisou of the latter State having signed the bill for that purpose since the leg- j isJaturo adjourned. Thk dairy products of this country exceed ' the oat crop ?>50,000,000, the wheat crop I $100,000,000, the cotton crop $'J\!0,000,000, the j product of iron bars and steel $2->7,OJO,OOOand I the pigiron output $410,W0,000. PROMINENT PEOPLE. I iiiuiuuiuiij. a . Rf.v. T. De "Witt 1'almage Las gono abroad for tlie summer. General IIazen, chief signal officer, will ( spend the summer in Europe. C. P. Huntington, tlie railroad king, is { sixty-four years old and worth $j!>,UU0,0Ja Louis Kossitu, the Hungarian patriot, at: the age of eighty-three yearn, is still an enthusiastic botanist. Blanche K. Bruce, late registrar of the j treasury, gors back to Mississippi to live on : liis large estate. The President owns one of the finest vie- j torias in iho United states. Ho paid $],(62.44 for the victoria and the landau. Bartholdi is a native of Alsatia. Ho j represents in his descent and art three na- t tionalities?the Italian, the French and the ; German. President McCosh, of Princeton, has been 1 investigating the relations of college athletics I to scholarship. He finds the leading athletes the poorest scholars. Lord Salisbury is the first British premier 1 who ever earned a salary as a professional j journalist; in which capacity he u;cl to write lor the London lie view, -? 1*:??1,a ! Ex-Senator withers, 01 , now United States consul to llong Kong,and ! tho present grand commander ot the Knights I Teniplnr of America, hns issued n general ! order informing tho templars of bis absence j from tlio country, and delegating tho coin- j mand to tho oilicer next in rank. There arc 539,307,179 acres of land ] cultivated by the farmers of the United States, which is valued at $10,197,090,770. j AFFAIRS IN WASHINGTON. Occurrences of Interest at the National Capital. A National Convention of Scientific Agriculturists. ?J Tlie convention of representatives of agrl cultural colleges and experimental stations, held a few days since in Washington, was called to order by W, F. Switzler, of Missouri. The assemblage took place in the . 3 seed room of the department of agriculture ?a hnll of considerable size in the new build* ing in the agricultural grounds. The stores of last year's seeds, now amounting to about two car loads, were piled up in bags at one end of the hall and covered with bunting, ^ with which material, and flowers and plants from the hothouses, the hall was tastefully d?co rated. There were present at the opening between fifty and sixty delegates, representing all the leading agricultural colleges and expert- vjj mental stations of the United States. Or- * conization was effected by the election of Conmissioner Colman as chairman and Professor George Fairchild as secretary. A com- -.J mitteo on credentials was named. Commissioner Colman in his opening address of welcome briefly sketched the discussions m Congress which preceded the magnificent grants of lands lor the.endowmenfe of agricultural colleges in the several States of the Union, and said it would be conceded that the general public professed a degree of disappointment in the outcome of those insti- " A tutions. The predominant idea in Congress was that of interesting young men in farmi:i~ oDerations and in tho fundamental prin- w ciplea of plant culture by showing how "they might realize profits in raising crops. Thu object was in some dfgres a failure. A letter wai received from Mias Rose Elizabeth Cleveland asking if the subject of silk culture would be considered by the conven- I tion. She said she took a deep interest in the silk industry, "not only because it seems right and fitting that we should produce our .\. o*vn silk in successful competition with the -/ Old AVor'.d, but because this industry, when so established an it may be by encouragement of the government, will afford one more are- - 5 nue of self-support to women." The conven* ' m tion by resolution anuounced itself in sympathy with Miss Cleveland's sentiments, and . ;; invited her to be present at the meetings. ' \ Mr. K. Tumiri, Japaneso official commissioner of the World's Exposition, said that Japan was deeply interested in the questions before the convention. At the afternoon session a resolution was adopt.'d providing for the appointment of a r#m committee to urge upon the attention of Congress such legislation as might be favored by "V* the convention and to tike steps to secure favorable action thereon. A resolution offered by the committee on the order of business was one in appro vat of the plan of the commissioner of agriculture, \ - ' as set forth in his address to tho convention, for introducing upon farms connected with -- ,?ilSm agricultural colleges and experiment stations / 1 trnlnaliln nlonfa fllirl fcMM A/inntari '>* AJq to local climatic conditions from the various parts of the world. '1 his gave rise to a spirited debate. It seemed to be the opinion of a '-Vy if majority of the speakers that the distribution , of sywls should bo made entirely by the commisaioner of agriculture, who was supposed - < to be in a position to know or to learn what . varieties would be beneficial to any portico- * lar locality, and who could bo held reaporuible for result*. : A number of papers on agricultural topics were read by delegates. OK INTEREST TO OFFICE-HOLDERS. It is stated that there will be a commission appointed soon of one representative from yjs each of the departments in Washington to investigate the complaints that there are a . , renumber of the members of certain families ~'j* employed in the departments in violation of law. It is charged that this thing of husbanl and wifo, sons and daughters in government ? employ has been and is to-day carried on to a ; S very considerable extent. One family has, it is said, nine members in the different do- . partments. In another ease, it is said, a husband, wire; and two sons are employed in S one department. In a number of cases hus- . ? bands and wives are employed, the wives in some instances being employed under their v maiden names. There havo been a number ' $ of efforts in tho past to prevent this, Wit it appears they were without success. The rumor that a commission is to. be appointed to make the investigation lias created quite a stir among the parties interested. _ y ?' * 1?T1 HTTTT* nr\7TT ilX?CV rAWUTRRTfl* Commissioner Black, of the pension bureau, has had several hit?hes with the civil Bervice * c commission.of late with regard to some appointments and promotions which he desired ^ to make and which the civil service com- J. mission declined to approve. General Black Anally gave notice to tho commission, it is .. ?aid, that he intended to run his office to suit himself, and that while ho would observe ths . civil service law ho did not propose to be hampered in his work by the civil servite ) commission. General Black liad a talk with the President dbout it TnK WASHINGTON MONUMENT. A committee of scientists, consisting of Professors Rowland, Newcomb and Menaenhall, appointed after the Washington monument was struck by lightning to examine and report upon the besS means for protecting it in tho future, has submitted its report If recommend* that copper rods be placed around the root at each joint with 2JO needle points projecting therefrom. Colonel Casey anticipated the report, and recently placed four rods with twenty-eight needle points * U- euKmi'ffiyl thA PA near mi? cupsi/une. nc uiu ... port to the ^oint commission having in chargd the completion or tha monument, and it ij thought that enough additional poinls will I e added to bring itae number up to 20 J. ?, 'M THE VICE-PRESIDENT'S MOVKUKNTK. One of the first callers on the Presi lent the other <li}' was Vice-President Hendricks. Ho spent s 'ino timo with the President and called again in the afternoon. Wlwn Mr. Hendricks vas at the White House in the afternoon he lad quite an ovation. Vice-President HenIricks said that his recent trip East had imiroved him in every way. He said he never lad a better time nni where. He bade goodby o tho President for the summer. Mr. HenIricks left in the evening for his home ill Inliana. After spending a month or so thero *2 je thinks of takinga trip to the Pacific coast, ^ where he will remain some time. ' , ? OUTBEEAK IN ANNAM, Fifteen Hundred Asiatic!* and Sixty trench Troops Killed. General Courcy tclegraplis from Hue in Annam tint the night after his arrival at that place the Annamite garrison made an unexpected attack upon hi3 forces, but was re auls.'d. He described'the situation eight Hours >? "3540b later as follows: "Tho citadel is in our posses>ion, with 1,(XXJ cannon. The troops behaved splendidly, nnd I have full confidence in them. |z9Hr| Uur losses were considerable. The Annaraite SH ittack commenced at 1 o'clock this morning simultaneously against the part of the citadel t?S| cig occupied by us and the legation. The assail- "jjgj ints numbered :5U,000. They burned the straw oarracks with racket?. Tho soldiers' c(Toots ivero burned, but the ammunition and provisions are safe. Tho legation was ridlied with shot1' At midnight he telejraphed: "Wo remain in jiossession of the :itadel. After the shameful attack by all l&HKVj the Annamito troops our troops awoke and round their quarters alire arid themselves :..<v<2bH being bombarded. They held their ground until daybreak, when they advanced and routed tlie enemy. From 1,200 to 1,<SOO Anaduiite corpses cover tho ground. Our losses are sixty killed and wounded." The press of Paris, speaking of tho attack, insist that a soverj and striking plinishment should bo administered to the Annnmitcs They also express tho belief that the attack was tho result of a conspiracy fomented by China 5L do Freycinet, minister for foreign affairs, has ordered General Courcy to exact from tho eoverninent at Hue an immediate reparation" for tho attack. In tho chamber of deputies tho telegram? from General Courey were read by M. de Froycinet. General Campeuon. minister of war, said that the French forces 111 Tonqnin numbered 35,090, of these .'{,<>00 were available to bo dispatched to any point. Ho lagged tho house to feel reassured. Mgr. Frepjwl sail that the events at Hue had modified tho situation in relation to China, and he therefore moved an adjournment of the debate on tho Chinese ]k\-i''C treaty. 51. de Freycinet opposed the motion, anil the chamber sustained his objection by defeating the motion. Tho chamIter of deputies ratilbd tho Chinese treaty by a largo majority. THE FIRST HEBREW PEER, Hon* I uril ltotlt child Took Hit S ;nc in (he I9om?c of i.ord*. A Xcw York JlcraUl cablegram from London descrilws an occurrence in the house of lords possessing great interest to Hebrews throughout tho world and destined to become historic: Lord Rothschild took tho jH?crage oaths, escorted by the Karl of Kosebery, husland of Hannah Rothschild, daughter of the lato Baron Mayer, and by Lord Cnrrington. son of that Lord Cnrrington who, during ten years of contention, from 1*4> to 1 >">*, vote) against the bill admitting Lord Rothschild's father, Rnron Lionel, to the house of commons. In the gal'ery were tho proud and happy faces of Lady Rosebory. Lady Rothschild, Lady .Anthony de Roths-hild. .Miss .Alice do JKotlisebilil. t'aron rriMinnuu uc nuiu^un.. nnd Mr. Alfred do Rotl:s -hihl, who witched tho proceeding. The oath was taken with creat solemnity on a Hebrew copy of thfl Pentateuch, hel<l l>y Deputy Clerk Ralph Disraeli, brother of tho late Earl of B 'aconslield, whilrt Lord Rothschild stool with his head covered. Then, as the !lrst llebrewpeer took lis seat on (ho front opposition oeneli below tli- gangway, all his mi!ea;uM die red. Doubtless, inmy recalled how, in the year 1 from London all Jews wero driven into foreign exile, pursued by the execrations of the rabble and Imiv'iij* in the bands of tho crown all their property. . I