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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.
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! 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.
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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.
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-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.
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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.
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