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ABBEVILLE PRESS AND BANNEII BY HUGH WILSON. ABBEVILLE, S. C.. WEDNESDAY, JULY 29, 1885. NO. 5. VOLUME XXX if IS THEWORLD FROM THE SIDlrWALK. Did you ever stand 111 the crowded street, In the glare of the city lamp, Ana list to tne treaa oz tue minion loci. In their quaintly musical tramp? As ths surging crowd go to and fro. Tis a plea-<ant sight, I ween, To mark the figures that come and go In the-ever-changing scene. Hero the publican walks with the sinner proud, And the priest in his gloomy cowl, And Dives walks in tho motley crowd "With Lazarus, cheek by jowl; And the daughter of toil, with her fresh young heart As pure ?s her spotless fame, Keeps step with the woman who makes her mnrt In the haunts of sin and shame. T7nw lio-Mlv trine fho fvmntrv lfLS* In tbo midst of the city's ills. As freshly pur? as the daisied grass That grows on her native hills! And the beggar, too, with his hungry eye, And his lean, wan face and crutch, Gives a blessing the same to the passer-by As ho gives him little or muciu When Time has beaten the world's tattoo, And in dusky armor diglit Is treading with echolcs* footsteps through The gloom of tho silent night, How many of these shall be daintily fed And shall sink to s'umber sweet, While many will go to a sleepless bod And never a crumb to eat! Ah, me! when the hours go joyful by, How little we stop to heed Our brothers' and sisters' despairing cry In their woe and the:r bittor need! Yet such a world as the angels sought This world of ours we'd call, If the brotherly love that tho Father taught Was felt by each for all. Vet a few short year* and this motley throng Will all huvo pa?sod away, And the rich nnd the Door ani the old and .the young * "Will bo undistinguished clay. And lips that laugh and lips that moan Shall in silence alike be sealed, And some will lie under stately stone, And some in the Potter's Field. But the eun will bo shining just as bright, And so will the silver moon, And just such a crowd will bo here at night, And just such a crowd at noon; And men will be wicked and women will sin As over since Adam's fall, With the same old world to labor in, And the same God overall. ?Boston Transcript. a summer song with plenty 0 of chorus Oh! Summer is here with her roses, And the richest of fragrance they bring; And her buttercups light up the grasses, And her song-binls right merrily sing. Bright as purest of gold shine her sunbeams; Her dew-drops like diamonds are, And the hum of her bees is most pleasant Tralala! tralala! tralala! Tra la la! tra la la! tra la la! Oh! Summer is here, and the -waters Are flashing and sparkling as though Many beautiful rainbows bad on them Been shattered and left there to glow: And over then snowy-winged vessels Before the wind gracefully go. Every now and then courtesying lightly. Yohoho! yohoho! yohoho! * Yo ho ho! yo ho ho! yo ho ho! Oh! Summer is here, and the hammocks In the shadiest plaoes are hung From the boughs of the trees, and there's always Some sweet, pretty girl to be swung: And the ground for croquet is quite ready, And the time for lawn tennis has come, And also for dancing by moonlight. Ri-tiddity-iddity turn! , Ri-tiddity-iddity turn! ?Margaret Kytingc, in Harper. nAT A\TP1 ITT TlVTin T "P I f\ UJLVIUiL ALLCiN o LbAr. Colonel Allan's boyhood wu passed in Nova Scotia, of which province he was a citizen till about his twenty-first year, though he received a part of his education in Boston. When the colonics declared their indepcndenco and the war of the Revolution began, young John Allan, who was an ardent American patriot, made a strong effort to have Nova Scotia and New Brunswick join I with Maine and Massachusetts and declare themselves free of England; and if he had succeedcd, those two provinces would be free States of the American Union to day instead of colony possessions of England. But the Tory influence there was too strong for him, since he was then only about twenty-one or twenty-two years old; and he was obliged to lly for his life to escape hanging. He came over the border into Maine and settled at Machias; and from that time forward, through the whole war,he was the mainstay of defence for the people of the eastern frontier. For though a quiet man, he was a very determined one; and his rule of always doing exactly as he engaged to do soon made him loved by the Indians, over whom he gained nn almost complete mastery and leadership. This was very important; for the Indians of the Penobscot and Passamaquaddy tribes were then very numerous and very useful in war. The government at that time could give Colonel Allan but little assistance, though he was well known to Washington and Knox, and acted in concert, with them. At one time, fearing that he should be unable to give certain supplies to the Passamaquoddy Indians, he left his two sons, William and Mark, as hostages, in their hands, and proceeded to Boston, hoping to hasten the tardy appropriations mnde for them. Delay followed delay, and the lads, then aged thirteen and eleven, spent two years among the Indians, hunting porpoises and fishing with them, getting nothing better to cat all that time than ptrched corn, fish and occasionally a bit of moose-meat. Ah, how poor Mrs. Allan worried about, her boys, whom she was unable to sec during all that time! "When at last they did return home, they were dreadfully dirty, clad in skins, and their hair hung in tangled locks down their shoulders. The British were greatly incensed against Colonel Allan during all this time. Many attempts were made to cap-1 ture him, and Indians were several times sent from Nova Scotia to assassinate him. The friendly Indians were coming and going from the colonel's hou^e at Machias every day and sometimes a dozen iimes a day. One afternoon ns the colonel, who was ill that clay, was titling iu a chair, with a bedspread around him, talking with his sons, John and Mark, one of the Indians, named Sam Jack, canre in and sat down without saying anything. But as tho colonel nllowcd them to come and co as they liked, no questions were asked him. By-and-by, as they went on talking, Sam Jack got up and got behind the door leading into the colonel's bedroom, which stood ajar, just back of his chair. They were so busy talking that they did not notice it, or forgot it in a few moments; and after a time John and Mark both went out to rlr> anmo work, lcavillf? the COlODCl alOHC. as lie thought. Some minutes passed, and he had fallen into a drowse, when suddenly the outside door flew open with a bang, and a gigantic Indian, named ''Seek-'um-Ocum,' from down Halifax way?not one of the Maine Indians,but one that the British had hired to kill the colonel?leaped into the room, frothing at the mouth like a mad dog, h*v>ug wrought himselfup to a fearful pitch that he might have courage to commit the deed. lie was brandishing a huge knifo around his head; and Colonel Allan, who was quite unarmed and wrapped closely in the bedspread, could do nothing save fix his eyes sternly on those of the assassin. With a frightful howl the savage sprang npon him to strike, but at that instant Sam Jack, who had somehow heard of his coming, and who had been standing behind the bedroom door all this time, bounded out, and with one blow of a club which he had concealed under hia frock, laid the red miscreant tiff on the floor 1 r drawing his own knife, Sam Jack | might have had Seek-'um-O cum's scalp | off in short order. But the colonel forbade him; and when at length the would-be murderer camc to his senses, the colonel merely pointed to the door, and bade him "go home." At another time while alone on a trip, during the early part of winter, to confer with some of the Penobscot Indians, then camped on the Schoodic lakes, lie was chased by a party of six hostile In dians from across tho border, who wished 1 to tak# him prisoner, iu order to get the I large reward offered for his cnpturo.dead or alive, by the British. These savages had been dodging his steps for two days, and finally came up with him as he was goiug down tho lower lake on skates. Chancing to glance over his shoulder, when About a half-mile out from the shore, he saw all six of them dash out upon the lake in full chase. They also wora on skates, Col. Allen well knew what his fate would be if taken. Like a strong man who feels that his life is at stake, he struck out with all his powers to escape. But tho Indians were more practiced skaters than he; glancing back, the coloncl saw that despite his utmost exertions, the savages were slowly coming up wnh him. " Their exultant whoop3 sounded nearer aud nearer. Worse still, he now discerns a black line of open water, not more than a mile ahead, stretching far out from the shore nearly across the lake. It did not look very wide; but exactly how wide it was, he could not at first tell. If too wide to leap across, he would surely be taken! But, reflecting that to drown was as good or better than capture, the brave colonel strained every muscle, and skated straight at the open water. The nearer ho came, the broader the gap looked ! "It's a rod wide, surely," thought the colonel. "But God helping me, I can clear it?if I get a good jump!" He was now within ten rods of it, and a couple of lunges more brought him within a hundred feet of the black water. It now looked wider still. "Heavens! it's twenty feet!" muttered the colonel. "Can I? I can't. But I must!" nud ho collected nil his strength for the terriGc jump. The Indians now saw what he meant to do. Thev were scarcely a hundred yards behind him, and seeing his design, they yelled horribly?to fluster him. Two of them hurled their tomahawks, one of which whirled past the colonel's head; the other skipped along the icc between his feet ; and both plumped into the water ahead of him, just as he jumped 1 For collecting all of his strength at the final forward lunge, he sprang for the ice on the other side? barely landed on the brink of it?fell and slid far along on his hands and knees! a third tomahawk whizzed by him, and cut into the ice, before he could regain his legs; and one of the Indinns who had halted a little way back to unsling his gun, fired at the samo instant, sending a ball skipping along the ice. But the Indians hacl all stopped, isoi one of tho six dared take thnt perilous leap; and as the colonel scrambled to his feet again and dashed away, he heard one of them exclaim: "Ugh! big jump!" Before they could go ashore and clnmbo through the thick brush eo as to come out on the ice below, the colonel had a mi'.e tho start of them again, which so disheartened them that they gave up the chase. For they knew there was a block-house at the foot of the lake. An hour later Colonel Allan arrived at the block-house somewhat fi tigued?but otherwise none the worse for his race and his big jump. ? Youth's Cw-paiiion. Knitting Machines. The art of knitting stockings, asserts the Chicago Inter-Ocean, is said to have originatecl in Scotland about the close of the fifteenth century. In less than one nunarca years u gave rise iu swcu uu iudustry that on the first attempt to apply machinery to it?in the invention of the stocking-frame by William Lee in 1580 ?the short-sighted government refused letters patent to the new invention on the plea that it would destroy the market for handmade goods and ruin thousands of stocking-knitters. Lee took his machine to Franco and established a factory at Rouen, but he was soon driven from this place by political troubles, and died on his way to Kngland. having reaped nothing but loss from his valuable invention, llis brother took it up, secured a patent for it, and established a stocking factory in Nottinghamshire, England, which hns ever since been the centre of the stocking manufacture in England. The Lee machines were introduced in this country in the eighteenth century, first in Philadelphia and Germantown, then in New York city and other places. The adaptation of the machine to power was first accomplished by Timothy Bailey, of Albany, in 1831, and the first machine thus run was at Cohoes, N. Y., in 1832. The original stocking frame produced a straight strip of wcl> of any length desired. which was cut up and formed into the shape of a stocking; later, it is not known oxurtlv when, this was improved upon by a frame producing a circular web, to be cut oil in proper lengths nnd shaped. The knitting machine is very complicated in its mechanism, though the simple principle of forming loops in succession on a single thread, each one locked by that which follows it, is the one essential of its work. There are a number of machines in use, each one distinguished by the kind of needles they use, and also by the manner in which these are arranged, whether ! on a straight horizontal line, all pointing the same way, or around an open horizontal cireie. all pointing toward the center. The latter are known as the rotary round machines. Every needle is hooked at the end, so as to hold the thread for each loop, while the loop previously formed on the same needle slips back on the shank as the needle is pushed forward, and on its return runs over the hook and off the end. In the straight frames the work is done first across the needles in turn in one direction and theu back in the other, and so on; but in the rotary round machines ! the needles are carried constantly round | in the same direction, each one taking i up the thread in turn. The machines made for family use arc all simpler than these for factory work, arc worked by ft J crank, or treadle, are much smaller, and use fewer stitches. Cariosities or Commerce, A man on one of the North Rivei Pennsylvania Railroad piers, who was looking at a carriage marked to go tc Norfolk, Va., yesterday, said to a bystander: "The wood in those carriage wheels came originally from Virginia in logs. Now it goes back as a finished product/ "Why cannot the Virginia wooi be worked up on its native ground?" "Because no one has established the shops. Bu' more singular things than that have happened in th2 history ol commerce. On Octobcr 14, 1853, foi instance, the ship Adelaide airived in New York, bringing a cargo of wheat, barley, etc., from San Francisco, which paid the shipper a clean profit of fiftj per cent., the wheat then selling at two dollars a bushel. The ship was at once loaded for San Francisco again, and nmong other things carried out were 1,500 barrels of Hour. Cailifornian* had to go 17,000 miles to mill in those days. "Another curiosity of commerce wai i noted in the early Australian trade. While the gold excitement was hign merchants ia all parts of the world flooded the markets there with goods. A Glasgow maaufacturer sent a quantity ol hardware to the new gold fields, but when the ship reached the Australian port the market was so full of the stuff J that the consignment was put up at auction, and brought less thatthe freight charges. The man who bought it shipped i it back to Glasgow, where he sold it at a profit, although a shade under whole- j sale prices. The Glasgow purchaser at once reshipped it to Australia, and there, after having three times crossed the in-tervening seas, it found the market ready and good prices waiting, the demand at the mines having cleared out the stock in band during the months required to make the round trip."?Nat ' York iSwu | / HUNTING AFTER MONKEYS. agcxdthts akd zhczdbvzb i? the search. Dr. Ward's Hcnenrclic n In Many Conn* irtra to Sccnrr a full Collection for the .lletropolltnii Miwcum. At the American Museum of Natural History in New York there has arrived almost the last installment of the two hundred specie? of quadrumana, or monkeys, upes, baboons, etc., which Mr. Morris K. Jessup, a wealthy resident of the metropolis, at his own expen;c, authorized l)r. H. A. Ward, of Rochester, to collect from every quarter of the globe. Dr. "Ward told a Times reporter of his efforts on both hemispheres in collecting lm niiml rn mnnt "There are two hundred and twentyfour species of quadrumana in all, nnd I was instructed by mr. Jcssup not to stop until every one was sccured. I have now delivered something over 'one hundred species, and have little hope of obtaining the rest, on account of the difficulty of reaching them. The family of lemurs, for instance, comprise liftv-onc species, thirty-three of which alone come from Madagascar. Now that isiaud is at war with France, and a French fleet has it in a state of siege. The consequence is that all foreigners arc taken for Frenchmen, and oa my recent trip there I could do nothing whatever. I even took the trouble to go to France and have both the United States minister and the foreign department of that country certify that I was an American and wished to visit Madagascar for purely scientific purposes. The scheme aid not work, and I was assured on arrival that if I attempted exploration on the island my lifs couldn't bo iusurcd for a cent. However, I set a trader there at work, and he may do something for us. IJy various means I have managed to secure thirty species of the lemurs. The remnlning twenty-ono are divided among Madagascar, the interior of Africa, Siam, and Ceylon." "It is said that some incident In jour career caused you to give up shooting animals." "Well, that is perhaps true. When I arrived at that state of mind I was in Nicaragua. Here is a species of monkeys called the bowlers, which have a trumpet apparatus in the throat by which they make a terrible noise that can be heard for miles. One day I observed one of these howlers up in a tree which seemed to have a strange swelling on the neck. Having a great curiosity to lcat-tt What this seeming lusus natur? meant, I shot the animal. Down it cattie with a he&vy bump. As it fell a little one wis released aud dropped to the ground. It had been clinging to the mother's neck, and had appeared in the distance like a freak of nature. When the mother touched the ground she just reochcd over to the little one, clasped it to her breast and died. This act was Bo human and touching that it affected me more than I can tell, and for life. In British Guiana these hoWlers are used for food. The nativfes broil their arras, which are about as lbng as and very much resemble, hutilart arnis. The taste is very gcod. To see lines ol these arms hanging up in a native village causcs strange sensations to the traveler in British Guiana. "Any one who will examine old specimens of the gorilla in museums will tind on inspection that their hands and ftict are made of plastcf. For a long time it was almost impossible to find gorillas in the wild state in possession of theso limbs. It seems that the natives of Gaboon, Africa, recognized them as their natural enemies. So, instead of killing them off, they caught the young and cut off their hands and feet. We had to teach the natives tho difference in the value between a whole and fragmentary animal. When they learned the lesson we began to get specimens that were whole and the natives more value in return. "New-Yorkers seem to have much fun with Mr. Crowley, this chimpanzec in Central park, and well they mnv. These animals come from West Africa and are hard to secure. Much less is kuown about them lliftn the frorillrts. They are smaller and More intelligent. Mr. Crbwley's hftnds are pink on the iilsitJe, but they will turn dark when lie gets older. In Sumatra I secured the slender gibbon. They aro a peculiar anthropoid ape and are great feilows to swing. I have often seen them swing on a limb like gymnasts on a trapeze until they had secured sufficient momentum, when they would jump to another limb and go back and forth from limb to limb in that way. "Pi>rkn? Hip onlv ntfpmnts which have been made to civilize the monkey is itl Malabar, India. A fine species indigeneous in this quarter is the Nelligherry langur. The natives here have fanning machines called the punkia. Iti other days the punka, which consists of a movable frame, covered with canvass and suspended from the ceiling, was kept in motion by a slave pulling a cord. An English officer conceived the idea of teaching the langur to work. lie took one of the spccies and tied its hands to the cord, while by menns of another ord the machine was kept in motion. The movement of the cord is up and down, and, of course, the monkey'3 hands being tied to it. went up and down, and the animal saw the machine move. Its master patted its head and fed it with candy, and tbo langur soon learned to think it fun to work the machine. When I was in Malabar securing specimens of this species, I saw thousands of them working the punka, the Indians having immediately put the animnln in /tarvHirifn wkon fhpi? CflUT iKnih *" ,"ivu utility. "In GabooD, Africa, I found the most peculiar baboon of all, the mandrill (Mormon maimon). In Abyssinia they go in groups, like dogs, and are very hostile. The? always came out and barked at me. One cf them will no attack alone, but a band of them wil push each other on and bark encouragingly to cach other. As long as you stand and face them you are safe, but the instant you shoot among them or run you are gono. They then rush on you tn a body and tear you in pieces. They have teeth three inches long, like tusks. T wftu nmnspH to sop thorn nether the prickly pear. This fruit is covered with sharp spines and is difficult either to pick or skin for citing, as the spines stick in one's fle-h and sting terribly. I would take my field glass and watch the mandrills from a distance, as they arc apt to run away when observed. They would come down off the rocks for the pears. They would take hold of the fruit gingerly with their long teeth, rolling up their lips to escape the spines. Darwin would have said that the long teeth were cultivated by natural selection for this very purpose. After pulling off the pear they carefully roll it in the earth with their-fcet to wear off the spines. Often they would get the prickles in their hands, and then it wai amusing to sec them set up like human beings and pick the spines out of each other's handsr Just before morning they would go into the cornfields to steal corn. They would pluck all the ears they could carry in their arms and hasten to some deep ravine. Here they would husk the corn and eat the cobs clean of kernels. If discovered they quickly dropped their booty, rolled over into the ravine, and disappeared. Tlio Effect or Wind on Snlt Crjstnls Coarse salt is made in the "West Indies by the solar evaporation of sea water. The places chosen for its production are selected on account of the extraordinary saline strength of the water there. The water is allowed to run into shallow ponds direct from the ocean, and when a proper depth has been obtained, gen erally two or thrre feet, the entrance to the pond is closed and the water is evaporated bv the sun and winds, and a deposit of salt is left. It requires about four months to evaporate three feet of water. The salt is then gathered into piles ready for delivery. Its quality depends almost entirely upon the caprices of nature. A dry and windy setisou will producc large ;?n(l hard crystals, the most desirnble characteristics of coarse salt, while if little wind blows the salt is line-grained and poor. Seventy-nine per cent, of the soldiers in the Russian army are unable to read or write. > i n NEWS AND NOTES FOE WOMEN. Chatelaines are again worn. Ella Wheeler Wilcox has written 2,000 poems. Black silk costumes arc always fash ionable. Canvas and lace woven stuffs are all the rage. Tucked skirts arc much worn here and in Europe. Embroideries arc much used on summer dresses. The pendant, set with gems, is a favorite ornament. White costumes aro exceedingly fashionable this summer. The scarf of gold shot etamine is the favorite seaside hat trimming. Copper, steel, and lead tinsel braida trim many seaside ramble suits. The pretty Gretchcu dress for littlo girls is as popular this as last season. There is a steady tendency to return to the styles of dress of fifty yonrs ago. Miss Louisa M. Alcott is a successful author. Her works have reached a sale of 500,000 copies. American silks are all the lime increasing in favor on account of their excellent wearing qualities. Summer silks are trimmed with black velvet ribbons. Some dresses snow a velveet vest, cuffs and collar. Gloves for evening wear ate made of kid as far up as the Wrist, while the long j arm consists of silk net or lace. Whorl oMe does riot possess a hot-Water I bng it is suggested that they substitute j ft bag of hot saud for neuralgia; The British climate is said to hive greatly benefited Mary Anderson, who is how more beautiful than ever. Some lovely wide garden hats have been made of plaited gauze over net frames, with satin ribbon and MarabOiit feathers for trimming. Small necklets of plaited silk crape, pink, Cream, blue, lilac or red; with a I small pompon to match at the side, are I most fashionable for dressy toilets. ! Printed plush continues td be used for I upholstery of odd fchairs, aud fOr light ! gilt chairs it is specially desirable. It alsd I forms desirable cushions for wicker chairs. Wide rlbbohs arb used for panels a9 well as 8ashe3, and also across the front of dresses, but fdr sashes more especially, the vety long ones reaching nearly td the bottom"of the skirt. The latest device fdr dn orhament to d room is a gilded rollingplri studded with i gilt hddks, which is hung up by bright , ribbons. After awhile the emblem of i mail's humiliating subjection will be j cdnspicltous in every room in his house. WhitS pluitics will be fashionable all summer upon dressy white hats, but ; with this exception the lovely wreaths, : montures, and sprays of line French flowj era, grasses ?"d foliage will quite usurp : thb rcigit df feathers as a garniture for j hats and borttidts until thb autumd I breezes bldw. | Small pelbrincs of whito muslin or eta1 mine are a very graceful substitute for {an out-of-door mantle in hot weather. | These pelerines are trimmed with 6orad I sort Of pretty fancy lace, and with bow. I of ribbon rtiatchiHg ithe drcsB, or eled; : more soberly, with black velvet ribbon, i suitable to wear with any dress. wA.uld Robin Gray" was written by j Lady Anne Lindsay, daughterof the fifth earl of Balcarrcs. She was born on No^ i vember 27. 1759. and at the earlv ago of : twenty-one produced the ballad which Sir Walter Scott says "is worth all the dialogue which Corydon and Phyllis have had together from the days of i Theocritus downward." Bbys wedr jackets plaited in the middle of the front and back, and fastened much below the waist with a wide belt. Some have the front only very nicely plaited, so as to form a plastron, with a narrow revcrs fastened down on each side with a row of small buttons. Knickerbockers have come into fashion again, aud bOys wear them with various kinds bf jackets up to ten or twelve years of ago. As a rule hats for the seaside are eccentric and fantastical in the extreme, i and those of the present season arc even ! more extraordinary than wc are accus! tomed to see them at this time of the j year. The high conical crown is still j further heightened by enormous loops of ! ribbon which shoot up beyond the top { of the hat, while an enormous cluster of I field flowers, wheat-ears and grasses is i ! poBcd in front. Uuglazed kid gloves, in various shades df buff, are still worn with all toilets. Fiftc thread gloves, however, are conj sidcred in good taste with washing I dresses. They arc worn very long, with 'open-work borders nt ihe edge; some | havo lacc cufTs, embroidered with silk, j matched in color to the trimming of tho ! dress. Mittens are not much seen this ! ummcr; they ore not admitted in elegant toiler, but only in quite neglige dress, j In place of white collars and cuSfs, . velvet bands cncircle wrists and ucck; j these have more of novelty than beauty I to recommend them. Ordinary crepe 1 lisse and lace frilling arc out of date, and continue to be replaced by many I novelties. Bands of cream ctamine, ' shaped somewhat like upright linen col; lars, embroidered in cross stitch, with red and blue ihgrain cotton or silk, are the latent. These are very stylish. Bands | of colored satin, just appearing above the dress collar and below the sleeves, j are fashionable, and bands of gauze, threaded with go d or silver, are very becoming to tho face. SCIENTIFIC AND INDUSTRIAL. Paper bottles now made in France aro built from sheets of paper ro'lcd together and cemented with albumen, . lime and alum. They are said to be imj pervious to water and alcohol, and hcnce I are reckoned specially valuable for travi elcrs. An electrician asserts that iu bodies in which life is not extinct the temperature rises upon the application of an electric current, but never in the case of actual death. This fact supplies a test for use j in cases where life is suspected to remain in persons apparently dead. The French society for the encourage' inent of natioual industry has awarded I the prize for the discovery of a useful | new alloy to the M. Manhes. The alloy i is prepared by mixing three parts of copj per with one of manganese,and adding it j in small quantities to the molten copper, : after refining and just before casting, j A8 copper so treated with manganese is j only very slowly acted upon by sea-water, it is capable of very important applica{tions. M. Foyc, a French astronomer, maintains that the earth and all the planets f /? ? rtMftF Kftn lm Oil 11 I which was a nebular mass far outside their orbits and subsequently it passed over to the center of the planetary system and consolidated itself as the controlling power. This agrees with Genesis, which teaches that the earth, formless and void, was created before the sun gave light. An electric tooth-pulling machine, which is quick nnd almost painless in its operations, is said to pull seven teeth in five seconds. A pair of forceps protrude from a nickcl tube which is connectc.d with a wire. The forceps are applied to the tooth, the operator touches a spring, a spiral arrangemeut within the tube winds up in a wink, draws clown the forceps like a Hash, and in an instant the tooth is jerked from the jaw and cast on the floor. A scientist lecturing in Philadelphia on coal, says it takes a prodigious amount of vegetable matter to form a layer of coal; that it is estimated that the present growth of the world would mp.ke a layer r\f on fhirlr finfl UU1J V/UV/'VI^Ulli I'A Uli tllWf* 1...^ that it would take 1,000,000 years to form a coal bed 100 feet thick. Tho United States has an area of 440,000 square inilcs of coal liclcls; 100,000,000 tons of coal were mined in this country Inst year, enough to run a ring around the earth at the equator 5^ foet wido and 5^ feet thick, and there is enough coal in the United States to supply tho who'c world for a period of 1,500 to 2,000 years. When cual is burned for illuminating purposes at least uinety pjr ccnt. is wasted, . - * f ' A HMD TO HMD FIGHT. : An Encounter Between Police and ( Strikers in Cleveland. ! i Several Workingmen and One Po- , liceman Fatally Injured. j i Details of tho terrible encounter between j striking workmen?mostly Piles and Bohe- ( mians?anil tho police in Cleveland, Ohio, i are givon in dispatches from that city as fol- j lows: A t'inti rwilri'M tlit* eveninsr betwonn the strikers and police, in which a number of the strikers Were severely injured and several jx> licemeit badly hurt, one of thorn fatally. '1 ho circumstances connected with the riot are as follows: This morning tho report spread throughout the Polish and Bohemian settlement that the rolling mill company would start up the plate and wirt} mills. The polico noticed that great uneasiness prevailed among them, and seventy policemen were sent oitt to the works to anticipate any trouble which might occm'i Garsuch, the socialist) Went out to the Polish and Bohemian districts and called upon them to come to a inoeting which would bo held in the afternoon at the "Poach Orchard," tho favorite meeting place of the strikers. At o o'clock a crowd of at least -MHKJ, consisting of strikers, their wives and children) met at the "Peach Orchard" and listened to Oarstlch. Ho stated to them that he had been informed that the rolling mill company had started tho plate and wire mills and called it[)on them to advance to the miils in a body and break through the inclosures and drag the men from their wtirk. He said they should not remain hnwnrrt; hnfr. fi i/lit. nnrl if Mia nnlinn nr nnv other body of men stood in their way to sweep thorn from their pnth. The speech Boon had its ofToct, nnd tho men. determined to make nn attack upon tho mills, and with tho cry of ''Bread or blood," they commenced their march to tho mills. Tho womon, girls, arid children who had been in attjndnrtce at tho meetirig, instead of going to theit* homes, followed tho men, who In about t :2U ntiniites Reached the mills. A high bonrd 3 fence incloses the mill property, and tin strikers, about 1,000 strong, gathered at the B southwest gato. Tho narrow street was j choked with men; women, and children. Id- r side the gate stood a force of 75 police, undetf < charge of Deputy Superintendent McMahori. The ci'owci surged forward for a few minutes: . wheri suddenly liOO or H<HJ sprang forwahl j and began to tear down the gato and fence. The worried, many of them with babes id 1 their arms; lirged the men forward. WitH a crash the gate fell in, and in an instant f tlie police charged tho rioters. The scene 1 wnicn loiioweu cannot oo aescriosu. ine onslaught of the police was terrific. With their heavy clubs in their hands they did terrible execution. The few strikers who had folldwed the gate as it fell went dovrri before! the blows of the police. Their friend:; closed the gap and used blubs and knives freely on the polico. Tho o(Heel's Eressed forward, men going down with their eads a niass of blood under the blows of the clubs. The women urged the men, and the fight Was a desperate one. The women rushed right under tbe blows of the police, and whenever a striker fell they carried him to the rear and frpm thence to his home. Nbws of the fight spread like wildfire. Tho strikers bad with remarkable tact thrown ri force across their redr and although 5,000 or (i,0d0 people stood ^atchiug the fight no assistance was giverl and the police had to fight alone; The battle waged fiercely fdr half ail hour when the strikers suddenly retired, leaving six of their number in the hands of the police. The men are all badly injured. TwO of them," Joseph Pollock and Johri Wilskoskd, are fdtally injured, their heads being smashed in. They will die before morning. The others?Thomas FanderS, Charles Doollttle, John Kcska, Michael Kocek and Johri Ryan?are almost bettered to pieces, but it is thought that they are hot fatally injured. The women succeeded in carrying away a number of tile injured men. It is estimated that from forty to fifty are badly hurt. They aro hidden in the Polish and Bohemian quarters. Tho police also suffered. Officer Manzelman was struck On tho head with a club and his skull was fractured. His injuries are bonSidbred fatal. Officer John Caldwell was struck in tho face With an iron boulder; and his nosa wtU smashed and his faco badly cut. Officer Frank lies was struck on tho head witli a cindbr and in tho faco with a club. He is badly ctit arid bruised. Officer Fred Wood was struck on the kneecap by a striker who ' had been knocked down by the officer. But ' he raised up on his elbow and struck the offl- ' irer A terriblo blow. Officer Jake Reese had his wrist broken. About fifteen other officers were struck with clubs and rocks, but ( they received only slight injuries. Not a single shot was fired on either side. , As soon as news of the fight reached the , Central station a force of eighty-five men was immediately dispatched to the scene of tho trouble, and when the officers reached the \ place the men who had done the fighting were resting and everything was quiet It is 1 learned that tho strikers made tho attack in order to force tho men In tho plato mill td 1 lfavo their work. Captain Smithnight was ordered to hold his battery in readiness to movo at a momont's notice. Tho Superintendent of the police said that ho would not call for help until the police were driven off. Isaac Bessels, one of tho men who returned to wofk nt the plate mill; di'opped dead during the fight from heart disease, superinduced by fright. He was at work in the mill at tho time and thought tho DblllVCIS WV/UIU UI ocm IHIW VUO 1IIUI U,1U l,,lu" j \ der him. Ho was flfty-flve years of ago. TflE SOUTH'S PRCSPEEITT. i >cw Industrial Fntcrprl*c? ? Fins Proa pert* for tlio Crops. I Tho Baltimore Mannfacturers' Uncord has 1 just published its semi annual review of the 1 Soutli's industrial growth, giving the nam?, location and character of business of all enterprises organized iu that section during the | first half of 1SS5, showing that, notwith- 1 standing the general depression in business, j | there has 1>oon groat activity in tin South in j , tho organization of now industrial enter- . prises. There i? also a wide diversity of how in- j dustries, including iron furnaces, foundries j , and machine shops, steel works, cotton sosd | i oil nulls, cotton compresses fruit canning factories, flour, saw, planing and grist mills, factories for manufacturing carriages ami j wagons, agricultural implements, sashes, : doors and blinds, shuttles, toliacco, ice, fertilizers, furniture, stoves, wire fences, soap.eto.: glass works, and gas works, etc., and slate 1 quarrying companies and companies to mine ! ore, cold, silver, mica, natural gas, oil, etc. : The total amount of capita), including cap- ' ital stock of incorporated companies repro- ! sentod by tho new enterprises organize;! in tho South during the last six months and in \ the enlargement of old plants and tho rebuild- ' ing of mills destroyed by fire, aggregates ] {36,534,000,divided among tho fourteen Sjuth- 1 ern States as follows:?Alabama, $:!,">S0.(W; J Arkansas $-175,000; Florida. $4?.U>00; Geor- ' gia, $1,5S0,000; Kentucky, $10,021,000: Louisiana, $1,407,000; Maryland, $l,63o,0"0; Mississippi, <=416,000: North Carolina, $1,585,- ' 000; South Caroliua, $427,000; Tennessee, ' $U03,000; Texas, $1,310,030; Virginia, $2,- ! 00*,000, and West Virginia, $*3,532,000. Tho outlook for business in the South is now very promising. Rarely if ever havo 1 tho prospscts for the growing crops been ! uivi v viu.uiiia&i"? in iu:*ouuui nmn nc pres- . ent. Every indication points to magnificont corn and cotton crops, the largest ever produced. while for rice, sugar, fruits and vegetnb'es tho prospsct is quite as gratifying. With abundant crops produced at a low cost, with railroad, manufacturing and mineral 1 interests stoadily improving, the South bids | fair to enter upon an era of great prosperity 1 this fall. 1 BAYONETED TO DEATE i Conflict Between Civilian* and the miliary in ireiund. j A Waterford (Ireland) dispatch says: The j anniversary of the battle of the Boyne yes- ] fcerday caused a large incroase In tho usual j Sunday number of drunken inon to bo on the . j streets last night. Among them wero many of the soldiers bolonging to the Welsh rogiment doing garrison duty here. A number of citizens ' got into a drunken row with the soldiers, dur- j ing which the latter bayoneted to death ono | i of the former, a man named Peter Grant. The I 1 commotion attracted c rowds of men to tho J ' scene. Whon tho civilians realized thatone of ' their number had beon killed they bvcama fu rious, and fell upon the soldiers with such | J fnrnfl flint". fKr\ Ifttfiir I beat a liasty retreat to their barracks. Tho J mob followed thorn up, but being threatened ' with powder anil hall if thoy attempted to 1 force an entrance to tho barracks, they con- ' tented themselves with sinashihg the windows of tho barracks with stones. The ox- j citementinthe city lasted all night, and every i soldi >r met in the streets was attacked. Homo I 1 straggling soldiers were fearfully handled, ' being stonod, beaten, and kicked until un- 1 conscious. Those who escape I mob violence * did it by fleeing to the barracks or police sti- i tious for refuKo. Two privates woreanvstoil 1 on suspicion of being guilty of tirant's inur- 1 der. A number of civilians profess to bo ablo ( to identify tho soldier who kille I Grant. Tho rage of tho populace was so great, this morning t hat it was deemed best to transfer tho Welsh regiment to some other place. , This was none immediately, and as tho soldiers marched from the barracks to the rail- 1 way station surrounded bv uolicom-jn. a mob 1 followed them, hooting ami stoning the sol- ' diers. Severn! Parnellite memlters of parha- 1 menfc have telogrnplie<l that they will bring 1 the matter l>efore tho government and demand an immediate inquiry into tbe outrage. It is generally bolioved that tho soldiers began < the row. I The Orange celebration at Cnrrick Hill, Ireland, was also the occasion of considerable rioting, during which several ]K>licemen , were injured. Twenty arrests were made. In Hertfordshire, England, similar rioting occurred. A Ci'ttRANT-ORATE that has no seeds is grown to a very great extent in many parts 1 of Greece, the annual product being 015,000 ton.", of which the Unitad States buys annually about 10.00U tons. i NEWS SUMMARY Fnilftn and middle Utatth General Grant received a call from Gensral Buckner, tho ex-Confederate officer and ft follow-student at West Point, on the 10th. Tho general was feeling somewhat weakor than usual. Intelligence has reached Augusta, Me., jf a nc3nt fierce fight some miles above the forks of the Kennebcc river, between 1 party of thirteen river drivers and i cavalcade of some sixty Frenchmen, jngaged In trading and harvesting the hay n*op. The fight took all day, anrlat its con- r :lusion several of the river men were killed ind the rest all wounded and captured by the / Frenchmen, a number of whom were also badly injured. A thief1 entered the Fourth National bank. ? jf Pittsburg, Perm., distracted the attention i )f a clerk for a moment and disappeared frith $8,000. J A f!re at Belfast, Me., resulted in the c lestruction of the American house, the city's j catling hotel, stables of a livery company, ;he Telegraph building and otfter property. t rwo mou in tho stables and twenty horses ivere burned to death. Forest fires have ruined a large belt of :ranberry bogs in Burlington and Camden !ounties, N. J. The bolt was ten miles long ind in some places five miles wide, and the : osses approximate $500,0J0. ? Firemen were vigorously fighting tho 1au\es In an Albany (N. Y.) piano factory, ivlien a wall suddenly fell, crushing to death j Foreman John A. Luby, tho city's ex-collecwr, and Daniel Wheeler, and fatally injuring F, J, "VValleil. Rufus K. Townsend.son of the state adjutant-general, was also badly iurt, and iwonty-three horses perished. General Grant was roported on tho 12th n be much improved. His old pastor at Washington, Rev. Dr. Newman, preached in ;he forenoon from the porch of the hotel at Mt. McGregor, and during the sermon frarmly eulogized the distinguished sufferer in ;he adjacent cottage. The Mexican editors on a visit to this Oilntry hrtvo been entertained by tho Now SToHi journalists and shown the sights of the netropolls. Professor Chari.es Kendall Adams, of tie University of Michigan, has been elected Resident of the Cornell University, Ithaca, ST; Y. i w.o. J-.L:^l. t.1. ,1. 1L. u:n? f /V WATERSI'UUT wiuuu uuisu un tue uiiia outh of Titusville, Penn,, carried ttway 1 ioii?os ana bnrris iri its path, Uprooted imrtense tfrees and drownea a hUmber of live c >tbclr. t BenjamI.v ScnOFiELb'g yatn mill, In West tfanayunk, Perin.Jhas bedri bUrned,causing a * oss of #200,001. Thft?o thres-story dwellings i :lc8"3 by wore also dcsfthjydl fl At tile international convention of window ;lass workers, held in Pittsburg, delegates 8 *ere present representing tho United States, f Sngland, France, Belgium and Germany. An ^ ntornational organization was effected. t August Erwin, a Now York gaiilblei1, juarreled with, and shot his \Hfe add thert fl limself. EOtli received probably fatal ivoiinds. t t frontTi an4 Wejfj " Twestt-nixe horso3 were burned to death t n A fire near Baltimore. ? . i < A great Btnko oi lumoar mm men ior ien nbtcad of eleven Lours as d ddy's wclfk Wgari i few clays since at Bay City, Mich. About 115 mills, employing 15,000 men, shut down; During a heavy storm at Rantoiil, III., igbtning struck the house df Henry Kinlear, instantly killing his two childrert; aged ? ;wd and four yean! respectively; prostrating . iiimself and leaving his wife insensible'. CHRiSTorflfeR Mann, a native of Vtf- f finia, died a few days since in Independence, Mo., at the ace of 111. 1 Scores of detectives, armed with rifles a irid revolvers, were sdnt to the scene of the j liimbermeii's strike ill Michigan, ds tt-oilbld ; was feared. The mayoi* of Saglriaw called 1 upon the governor for protection/ artd several > militia companies wero ordered tinde* arnis. Word has bceti received from the special } igerit at thti Cheyennei agency that the Indians are calnilng down; and that thefe is little danger of the Uprising so much feared 1 by the people ot Kans/li k All the World's Exposition buildirigs at ii New Orleans have been sold at auction ta a netf company, known as 'Thj North, Ceritral: and South American exposition," fdr 1 fl75,000. Tho new company will fwperl tUd e sxj>ositiori. t \v H. Gardner, of Mobile; president bi |] the National Cottoil Exchange, states iri ari . interview that cotton promises to' bo better this year than aiiy year ainfco tho war; with the cxcojition of '75; '78, '80 and perhaps '82. d rhe business outlook, he says, is brighter than 5 it has been for two year*. Five murderers in jail at Asheville, N. C., overpowi-nxl tho jailer and escaped to the r mountains on the 13th. A posse of citizeris I and a company of State troops went in puf-- c suit. <] r..??w*?p 11'* v tv o wonlMiv f nrmnr m tAI.Mll.w. ? ..v. j committod suicide because steps wore being taken to remove him from the postmastership of Melrose, Md. t Hailstoxes as large as walnuts fell I during a storm in Steubenville, Ohio, ana ( Vicinity. Much da fringe was done to houses; barns and crops. ? A. H. Rose, an extensive farmer of Oak- 8 land, Cal., has failed for about (S'JO,000. o Joseph Palmer (colored) was hanged the t other day in Cincinnati for the murder of t "VVllliard H. Kirk in his stable two yearsago. t William Berner and Palmer plann??d and executed the murder. It was the veMict Iri e Berner's case that was tho chief inciting cause of the bloody riot in which the Cin- ^ cinnoti court house was burned in March; 1884. Berner is now in the Ohio penitentiary, ? serving out his sentence of twenty years. * Washington. a TnE President has appointed Colonol John ( Ribbon of the Seventh Infantry, to be a . brigadier-general of the army, vice General C. C. Augur, retired. 5 The last report of tho agricultural depart- ' ment shows a slight improvement in winter t wheat, which advances the general average j betwoan two and three pointa, or from sixtyLwo to nearly sixty-live. The winter wheat region, which does not include tho Territories, now promises about 215,000,(100 bushels. _ The condition of spring wheat continues high, though tho average is slightly reduced, being lieariy ninety-six. Indications now point to a crop of about. 148.000,000 bushels, making an acerecate of .'M>.'5, (.00,000 bushels. Corncondition is higher than in \ny year sinco 1*8), except the last. The area ] is 74,iK)0 acres. Cotton has made a material c improvement during June; average condition increased from ninety-two to niuety-six. ? Attorney-General Garland has ren- r :lered a decision on the three points relative 1 to the acceptance of the new dispatch steamer r Dolphin by the government submitted to him by Secretary Whitney. The attorney-gen- J jral holds tlmt tho vessel cannot bo accepted c by the secretary of the navy boi-auso it is a defective; that no contract exists between Mr. John Roach and the government, and 1 that the large sum of money paid to him for the vessel nny bo recovered. Mr. Garland's f decision will probabyl lead to a bitter con- ^ troversy in the courts. ; Land Commissioner Sparks has rendered ? in important decision affirming the right of ' jntry under tho public land laws and de- f risionsof tho supreme court of the United J States of lands heretofore withdrawn 1 hv the voluntary action of tho gen- ' ?ral land office for ratlroad indemnity pur- n poses where no requirements of law existed * Tor making such withdrawals. The effect of ' this decision, if sustained by the secretary of * the interior, will be to restore to entry under ? the homestead and other laws many million F seres of public land which have been kept out v 3? tho market for many years because * :lainied by railroad corporations. * James G. Wixtersmith, doorkeeper of .] the National House of Representatives, died ' i few days ago in Louisville, Ky., aged thirty- i j six years. Ex-Secretary Chandler has written a % etter iu reference to Attorney-General Gar- v Lmd's recent decision that the contract with t Mr. John Roach to build the steamer Dolphin I s void, that payments to Mr. Roach nre il- : legal and may be recovered back, and that u tho government should seize and hold the n Dolphin as security for tho repayment. The n ;x-8ocretary combats Mr. Garland's reason- c Ing and defends Mr. Roach and the Dolphin. I Fi'rthkr appointments by the President: t Larner B. Harrison, of Cincinnati, Ohio, to ? tie governmont director of tho Union Pacific ' railroad, in place of Mr. Noyes, who de- ^ :linod. To be .collectors of customs?Adelnrd " ruernon, for tho district of Minnesota; s Henry W. Richardson, for the district of I '' Beaufort, 8, C.; I). Hugen Ward, for tho | ' listrict of Georgetown, S. C.: William C. | 0 Bird, of Floridu, to be United Htntes s narshal for tho northern district of Florida; u William H. White, of Washington Territory, ' n l?e United States attorney for tho Terri- s wry of Washington; Maurice F. Holahan, )f New York city, to be chief of division is ;he ofl'ice of commissioner of customs. The President has appointed the following ?ostmastcrs: George W. Martin, at Cliatta ?ooga, Tenn.; Gustuvus A. Van ' tloon, at New I,ondon, Ohio; Thomas Hall, at Preston, Minn.; j IV. J. Thomosson, at Gilroy, Cal.; Robert W. j ] Jowen, ot Ashland, Ohio; Jacob Vande- | ? jrift, at Riversido, Cal; Isaac llorton, nt ! : Northeast, Penn.; Frank W. l'iatt, at Tunk- i ' lannock, Penn.; Cornelius L. Barrett, at j Charlotte, Mich. } i c Foreign. ! j The French chamber of deputies has i roted an appropriation of $8W,0JI for t maintaining and educating every seventh j i ;hild born in French families in needy rir- 1 Bumstances. This action was taken to revive j i !in obsolete law unacted during tho French j 1 revolution in the interest 01 inci eaaa m mo i < French population. | ' Anarchists of all countries are about to ! j ronvene in a universal congress at Barcelona, ( * Spain. ! Edward Moloney, a fireman, and John j , A. Stutt were instantly killed by tlw esp'o- I ( sion of a boiler at tho West Hamhorough | , (Canada) paper mills. I ( The Anuamitcs who recently attacked tho | i French at Hue have nearly all surrendered. t The terrible state of immorality in 1-on- } ilon disclosed by a loading paper came up m ' the British parliament, and it was an- J nouncod that steps for- its repression would fe be taken by the police. Cardinal Manning < ins accepted tho proposition made by he proprietors of the rail Mall lazetle to submit complete proof of all its evelations, including every name and detail, o a party of responsible men, to include the ordinal and tho Hon. Saiftuol Morley, tho xaminers to have the privilege of reporting o the public upon the affair as they may leem best So great was the excitement hat the paper's publication office was naricaded, and the police had to be called upon o control the immense crowd in the vicinity. Opposi'ftojj of tho people to tho payment if certain taxes has led to a serious outbreak n Lerida, Spain. The governor, who atempted to pacify the rioters, was stoned, rhe military wero called out to restore order ind fired on the rioters, killing three of them. Dne soldier was killed and many of the riotsrs were wounded. Owing to heavy floods dozens of villages nil-* icua Wi. luuuouiiua ui ticiun ui u uj? im>u >een under water in South Hungary, causing i] most total suspension of harvesting in that egion. A waterspout which deluged tha :ity of Pesth caused damage amounting to S2.70.000. Fifty houses in the commercial quarter of ho city of Kursk, Russia, have been lestroyed by flro. Tho loss is heavy. While Emperor William, of Germany, vas taking a drivo at Ems a miserably Iressed man threw a flower pot at his caringe, exclaiming, "Thus will tho ompire >reak!" Tsodamage was done. Tho man wa3 irrested, and he is supposed to be insane. ' A German* prince, a near relative of Em?ror William, while on a spree, boxed n ieutcnant's ears. The lieutenant, feeling limself dishonored, otiquetto forbidding his Ighting a duel with a prince of tho royal louse, committed suicide. The Soudan is in a state of anarchy. 3sman Digma, tho False Prophet's chief ofiller, blackmails all caravans and travelers on ;he pretext of raising war funds. Theue is a cabinet crisis in Spain, several >f the ministers having tendered their ro3iglations. The London Pall Mall Gazelle announces hat tha archbishop of Canterbury, tho jishop of London, Cardinal Manning and he Hon. Samuol Morley have consented to ict as a committeo of inquiry into tho :harges of iniquitous traffic in young girls imong tho aristocracy made in its recent evolations. Tr?r. .V 4-U^ x nt iuxj?-i.ujii/iuucu uiuu^uu IU tua auuiuTn provinces of Russia hna completely uinecl tho crops iu that section. There were three murders and five murlerous assaults in the streets of I'aris on Sunlay night. EffflLAND'a new premier, the Marquis of Salisbury, in sympathy with the depression n the farming industry, has reduced hii ten.11 to1 rents ten par cent for three years. Edward Withers, ago forty-eight, chief tatistical clerk of the custom house at Haliax, Nova Scotia, whlto insane, shot and ;illed his daughter Maggie, a pretty girl of wenty-one, and then committed suicide. Violent earthquake shocks have been felt it Smyrna and Cnesine, in Asia Minor. LondoK dispatches of the 15th stated that he relations between England and Russia md again become serious and that there was i revival of the war feeling. Fresh claims jy Russia in regard to the Atgbun boundary, o which Lord Salisbury was unable to ac*de* were given aa the source of the trouble. LATER NEW,} JosErfl fAYLon, a convict who murderod lis keeper, Michael F, Doran, on May 151, SS4, wds hanged the other day in Kiiladeliliid. The English j-acht Genesta drl-ived at New ifork a few dnys since, and attracted much ittention. fche is Iho yacht which will essay, n a race against American yachts, to win Jack tile cup won by the America in British vatera many years ago. Three young people?Mis3 Agues Iloo, Mr. iVilliam Ticlkenor and Mr. John Hedden? tcre droWned the other evening while yaehtng off Pachogiio, Long Island. They were :nocked off the yacht by the boom's swingng suddenly around. The Virginia Republicans havo nominated ho Hon. John S. Wise, Senator Mahone'a andidate, for goternor, together with a full itato ticket. The convention, which was told in Richmond, was controlled by Senator laliOne. Additional appointments by the Presl' lent: Francis H. Underwood, of Massachit ett?, to bo consul of tho United States afc ilosgow; Chinn Coy Woo to bo interpreter if tlie United States consalato at Canton; L. i. Sale, of Michigan, librarian of the patent iflke, vico Weston Flint, reduced; William P. Carrington to be collector Of the ciistomS or the district of T^che,- La. The President has present.nl gold watches o Captain Morrisey and Mate Lear}*, of the British ship Brcedmoor,for rescuing the meii )f the American sciio'otief Mary E. Lang; ;old medals to Captain Comfort ClenrfeaW ind Edward Wyman for rescuing the inert If tho American schooner Sarah Louise, and o A. Auntspoto, chief of tho Desquiaht ribo, of British Columbia, fur services to ho crew of the wrecked American ship Mallvillc. A kire has committed havoc amo g the iVashington newspapers. Tlio flames broke >ut in the Post building and dostroyed theediorial, composing and press rdoins of the daily ''ost, daily JJe/juWican,daily Critic and Sun- ( 'ay Gazette. A press owned by ex-Secre- j ary Chandlpr, valued nt ?'J5,00flf, vt-as also , lestroyed. The total losses will aggregate 150,000. j Arabs of the upper clnss in Cairo believe ( hat El Mahdi is dead. Tlio famine in Kor- J ofan has become torrible, and has extended 0 Khartoum. THE LONDON INIQUITIES, 1 ndii Ticc?iiijf or Wonton?ncv> Jir? Nliurgeoii'fl tferinoM* A mass meeting of women was hold in 'rinc-e's hall, London. Sunday afternoon, to onsider ways and niuaris td f/rotect young ;ir'.s from the horriblo pitfalls of London as evealed by the Pali Mall Gazette. Mrs. 3ooth and other ladies nirlo addresses. The neeting resolved that the laws on the subeet should forthwitii l>e made more efficient, lenounced state regulation of vico, ,nd voted to send copies of the record of its >roceedings t) the house of commons. The Ilev. Mr. Spurgeon preaclie<l a powerul sermon on tho patrician iniquity of Lonlon asoxpose.i by the Pn'.l Mull Gazette durng tho past week. St. I'aul, tho preacher aid, felt it nocesiary to montion the lidoous vices of the heathens, and left in re'orrt an exposuro of tho sin if his diy which crimw.e 1 tin ch-ek of he modest when they roid it. It had to be vritten to .shame tho abominations of an ago linost past shame, There was judgment for in in this worl t for both men and nations. Vs?yrin, Babylon, Persia. Koine and Egypt rere empires of oppression and cruelty and ull of iniquity. When the sin of these pooiles could no" longer be tolerated, they were l iped off tin face of the rarlh. Thus of 11aions. But no one could tell what bIo_/dhedding nn<l suffering cam? uj>on men or their iniquities. "Why should Lonlon," exclaimed the preacher, "be more faoro 1 than Home .' What is there about our oastful race on this or the other side of tho Atlantic that we should monopolize God's fa or/ Gcd will judge men's secret sins too ile to lie spoken of, and which cause the union to shudder if dragged, as they ought lo ie, into daylight. Deeds of ni<ht, of the losod room, (lone when tho finger is put ipon the lip, and the avt committed winch nust never be mentioned lest the nan himself be regarded an an outast, abhorred even of his fe!)W sinners: All, all shall bo revealed. All hat wo have for our own comfort blinded nm- (r?i'/A frnm ? lur VJLS IU (lllu u.ci v?. uconveniont to see?shall Iw revealed. We lere imko a different hetwoen the socret ,nd the public, but (Jo 1 does not. Kvcry ecret sin is ,?e?ret only by n lyiii? phantasy if the imagination. It is public before (?> i. t is necessary for the church to warn men it what will finpp-n if they continue in their ins and not k >ep thein inn fool's p.irndiso intil they bo sent down to hell's damnation t becomes every preacher to cry aloud nm< 1 pare not." THE HESSIAN FLY. i Farms In Western font nl New York Vcvnsinlotl by the Cent* I A Lyons (N. Y.) dispatch stntcj that "tlio Hessian fly ii destroying hundreds of fields of ^ growing wlusit in this vicinity, and the ( armors have been thrown into a state of jrcat alarm. Moreestensivo ravages ingrain | lave never before been known in Wayna ind Ontario counties. -Iessiau flies appeared n the towns of Lyons and -Arcadia a month f 150, but nothing was dono to check their inireaso. They have now extended many uiles in all directions and aro moving rapidy toward the northern part of Wayne :onnty. The total amount of destruction of vhoat thus far is estimated at over one umdred and eighty thousand bushels. [11 Lyons, Junius and Areadia wheat fields of .wenty-flve and thirty acres each havo 1*011 .0 injured that they appear wholly barren where thrio weeks agoa harvest of thousands jt bushels worn proriuscu. m uuihub astation 1ms I icon so comploto tliat farmers here ara about to burn the whole of the tvhont straw on their lands in order to shock, if possible, the tulvaneo of tlio jiest Uany fanners have lost so much grnin that hey will he unable to nuike payments on the nort??ges on their j-r. jierty, and will proba)!y have their farms sold by the sheriff. The ;reate^t fear is that the pest wiil rapidly detroy the grain until harvest, and that huuireds more of fields will bo ruined." f MATTERS OF MOMENT. Exciting Episodes Gleaned from tho Press Dispatches. A Lynching Party in Indiana Fired Into by a Sheriff An Indianapolis (Intl.) dispatch is to the following effect: In Maridn, Itid., on Satur uuy iati u negro man uameu ?v auacj assaulted (he fourteen-year-old daughter of a well known citizen namel Vinson. The girl was thrown into spasms, and her condition grew hourly more alarming, until yesterday, when her death was declared to bo but the question of a few days. The feeling against Wallace reached fever heat last night, and when it became evident that an attempt would be made to lynch the negro, Sheriff llolman resolved to protect his prisonor and enforce tho law at till hazards, and surrounded himself with a strong guard. Soon after midnight a mob organized in tho rear of tho jail, and a few minutes lafc.'r made an assault on the jail. They were met by Sheriff Holmau and his guard, who, after giving warning, fired a volley, instantly killing James Kelly and wounding three or four others. The dead and wounded wore carried away, and the leaders of tho mob, after a short consultation, decidod to postpone further hostilit ies until to-night. Tho mob threatened that unless Wallace was delivered to them they would blow up tho jail. The town was riotous with excitement, and it was thought there would be more bloodshed beforo morning. DYING IN HIS tOFFIN. Forty years ago Mr. David Gamble, a wealthy farmer near Emmitsburg, Md? made a coffin in which ho slept every night without failure. His novel bed waa chosen, ho said, as a constant reminder that death is always near. His desire to impress this fact upon himself was owing to the sudden death of his wife, at the age of thirty years, by heart disease. Just before homaide the coffin they bad been to a ball, and after returning home retired to bed Fifteen minutes later Mr. Gamble found that his wife bad died in his arms. The shock waa believed by many to have unsettled his reason. He always kept bis coffin thereafter in the corner of his dining room. He would got into it every night and pull the lid np until only his face was exposed to view. One day be had a traveling photographer take a view of him aa he lay In the coffin. This pictnro ho had framed and hung up over the dining room mantel piece. Tne other night he retired to his coffin at the usual hour, but when the servant called him this morning it was found that he was dead. The body was not dis* hV,a/1 ?*mrf in til Ivt hi 1 rift/1 aa if tiro a fAtinrl bUl UtJUj nnu n lit IA) UU1ICU uo tu nuo tvuuu* Mr. Gamble was a charitable man and much liked. A BIO RANK FAILURE IN IRELAND. The Munster bank (limited), which has it bead office in Cork, Ireland, and brand la Dublin, bas failed. The liabilities of the institution are $8,750, OX), and its shareholders are chiefly ladies, whose aole dependence is on the dividends accruing from the shares. The directors of the bank exprets confidence in their ability to settle all claim* in full. The notice of suspension said it was due to the withdrawal of several heavy deposits since the litigation of Jackson versus the Munster bank directors, which produced an uneasy feeling among depositors. The bank was unable to realize quickly enough to meet the demands. There is an uncalled capital of ?975,000. Last yoar the shareholders met and adopted a resolution requesting Mr. Bhaw, M. P., the chairman, to retire, and Messn. Jackson. Fitzgerald, and other shareholders instituted a suit to make the directors responsible for deficiencies caused by overdrafts to themselves. It transpired that Mr. Shaw wa? indebted to the Lank in the sum of $400,000. TRAGIC END OF A HONEYMOON. A. H. Ross, aged twenty-seven years, shot and killed h!ms?lf and probably fatally shot his wife. Maria E. Ross, aged nineteen,at their home, Jeflfersonville, Ind., the other morning, at o'clock. No cause fat assigned for the net, but it is presumed jealousy was the chief reason. The parties have been married only a month. The shooting occurred in their bodroom while they were alone. The wounded woman was too liadly hurt to give an intelligent account of tho occurrence, but snid she did not know why her husband bad shot her. The residents along Chostuut street were startled by the sound of five pistol shots in rapid succession, and immediately thereafter the streams of a woman. Ross and hi? wife live 1 alone in tho apartments where the shooting o - cur red. SIXTEEN MEN FALL WITH THE RUINS. At fl P, Mi, two of the walls of the boiler hotfse ndjolnjn? William Arratt's 8tar Mills in Philadelphia, fell in with a tremendous crash, burying ten men beneath the ruins and hufling six others who were on the roof into the Wrecked building. The unfortunate men were Samuel Peoples, a contractor, and fifteen of his workmen, tho entire force having been employed in tearing down the fallen building when tho accident occurred. A squad of officers hurried to the fallen mill and drove back t'ie exritcrl people an.l began helping Mr. Peoples and such of his men as were able to work in the task of rescuing their buried comrades. One old man died soort a fief he had been taken to tho hospital, and five others wefa dangerously injure<L The rest were not seriously hurt THIRTEEN BOYS DIE OF LOCKJAW. Within the last four days, says a Chicago dispatch, thirteen boys between twelve and Fourteen yeflra of ago have died of locfejaw. All these deaths are tho result of wounds. The ticfiiFfl are Michael Quinn, Adolph Fick, Prank Oliver, Ralf Vanderberg, Edward Uliricht, Albert Mixa, Joseph Musar, Cornelius D'Rourke, George Ashelman, Ruben T. Lye, Frank Dorsch. William Saunders and John Hillis. _ NIAGARA. FALLS, Ccrcntonie* at the opening: of the Sintc Reservation. 1 ho boom of a hundred guus tirod at sunrise rose above the roar of tho cataract, says a dispatch from Niagara Falls, and awakened every body for miles around. The catinort proclaimed the freedom of Niagara Falls, which dates from to-day. Extra trains had been arranged for from all parts of western New York, and began at an early hour to land thousands of oxcursionista who were bound to sco at any cost the transfer of Niagara Park to the State, which makes tho s|>ot free to the world hereafter. The stores, dwelling-houses, and hotels of the village were decorated in honor of the occasion?red, white, and blue bunting predominating. There was also a liberal showing of the national colors. Before the exercises begun fully 35,0>)0 people had crowded into the park. Governor Hiil and his stalf appeared upon the platform, followed by many distinguished guests, The Hon. Erastus Brooks opened the proceedings by introducing Bishop Coxe, who delivered tlie opening prayer. Tho band and chorus fol- i lowed with the national anthem. Mr. Brooks ! then delivered an oration, in which he traced briefly the history of the efforts both in Can- I nd.i and New York to make tho great talis public property. In the name of the executive committeo of the Niagara Falls association he tendered thanks to all who had labored to make Niagara free. Letters from President Cleveland ami tho governor general of Canada were read, and also adispatch of thanks from ex-Governor Tilden. Ex-Lieutenant-Governor Dorsheimer, president of tho Niagara Park commission, next delivered tho address of presentation of the lands to the State. Governor Hill spoko in response for the State of New Ydrk. Mr. Janie> C. Carter, the orator of the dav, was then introduced, and delivered an eloquent address, which was listened lo with tho most eager attention and warmly applauded. Lieutenant-Governor Robinson, of Canada, also spoke. LIGHTNING FREAKS. LifiHT.vrxo struck a Chinese restaurant In Helena, Montana, and Ong Ong Jonk's face was changed from copper color to black, but lie was otherwise uninjured, Wiien' a storm came up at Butler, Va., Pierce Hackett was plowing. He hitched his mules to a barlied wire fence, which the lightning struck half a mile away. It killed the mules. Aaron Lowe's cat had her hair singed off from her entire body by lightning, whilo Mre. Lowo and her mother were thrown to the floor of the sitting room of their noma in | Sew Haven when lightning struck the liotise. A little detached cloud hovorod over Paker Hollow, uenr Brooklyn, nnl threw out from every side zigzag flashes of electricity that made it appear like an immense firo wheel. Ezra Foster wont to his window to ret a good view, when a l>olt passed through bis head from oar to ear and killed him. Lightning woke up John Houseu, of Arkwright, >". V. Ho found himself paralyzed and his wife unconscious by his side. After they were nblo to get out of bod they fouud Mrs. Honsen's bangs had l>een burned of! and n neat strip of skin taken from her forehead, while the husband had severe bums on bis arm, shoulder and leg. Thomas II. Malony had just stepped on a rail of one of tho switches of the Cincinnati , Southern railroad, at Chattanooga, Te?n., when there came a blinding Hash, and he fell dead instantly. The lightning struck the rail, entered Malony's body by the hcol, cut off his shoo as if with a knife, cut his clothes open, and took the crown out of his hat. Dan Stone's umbrella was turned insido >ut and the cloth cut into ribbons bv lightning at Otisflelil. Then it ran down his arn; and split open his hand, and so thoroughly destroyed 11 peck basket lie was carrying that no vestige of it could bo found. Every seam of his shoes was cut open as clean as though done by a sharn knife, but without inlury to the leather. lie survivod. I ..it.... REBELLIOUS MOEMONS A nixing imminent in Salt Lak* City?Troop* to be Held Headj> flhneral Howard, commanding the department 9f the Platte, has returned to Omaha fromi Saifr Lak? City, in which placebo spent thef Fourth of July. He say*there is great apprehension there over the< bad feeling existing between Gentiles and - > Mormons. The situation has assumed grayer proportions and has been greatly Intensified by the insult offered by the Mormonr to our fiag. The end is not yet, and serious trouble . . rrtay occtfr at any hour on the slightest pro text. The Gefltfles and United States soldiers are very indignant The bitterness of feeling is much greater than the public is awe re of, as the half has not been told in the published accounts. In anticipation of on oatbreak occurring at any day the war department has made preparations for it By order ot General Howard the troops that wen to leave Fort Douglas and Fort Laramie for Kansas to suppress the Cheyennes have been retained at their posts. A collision between Mormons and Gentiles is looked for, says a dispatch, and should the former attempt to repeat any such performance as tbey carried out on the Fourth of July then will probably be bloodshed. The Mormons in Salt Lake are all armed. ' On the Fourth of July they gave evidence# wj of this by freely flourishing revolvers in the faces of Gentiles and defying and insulting them. Backed by the many thousands who will be in Salt Lake on anniversary day,they no doubt will be inclined to be more defiant and insulting than before ml will invite and challenge a conflict ? YACHT LOST IN A SQUALL- j . ' Ten Pfnonv, Iffcladlng an Ex- % mayor of Minneapolis, Drowned* A Minneapolis (Minn.) dispatch gives the I following particulars of a sad drowning casualty which occurred a few days since at a well-known summer resort: Shortly after 5 o'clock this afternoon a heavy wind and rain < storm passed over Lake Minnetonka. Thesmall steam yacht Minnie Cook, with tern persons on board, was capsized ana every ouo> /> was drowned. Ex-Mayor Rand owns a cottage on the lak? \ and yesterday he organized a small party for a soil When the squall sprang up, instead of putting in at once like mo6t brats, be tried to cross where tho lake is narrow to Breezy Point where his cottage stands. The boat keeled over and went down without warning not a hundred yards from Breezy Point Kg U 1. t .1 .1 ' .38 M.uuj youyic iruiii iuo JUIUIO IAID UUOV when toe squall struck her. The full list of drowned is : A. C. Hand and wife ; his soil' Harvey Hand, ago fifteen; bis nephew Frank Rand, age eighteen; his daughter Mary Rand, age eighteen; J. R. Coykendall and wife ana daughter Luella, age twenty-six; George Mao- a* Donald, engineer of the boat, age twentyseven, and K; C. Huseey. A special train went out to the lake with friends of the dead as soon as the news arrived. Ten steamers began dragging for bodies, which were all finally recovered. Mr. Rand owned a large property in Minneapolis, and represented some millions of Boston capital invested here. He served as mayor of Minneapolis tbreo terms and was president of numerous companies, Mr. Coykendall being his son-in-law. Seven deaths are virtually in one family. Two married sons survive. ? THE CHOLERA. SCOURGE ' $ I A Total of 30,000 Cawt and 13*000 (Tenths lu >paln. A Madrid dispatch gives the following figures as the previous day's record of the cholera epidemic in Spain: In the whole of Spain yesterday tliere ware ],lOT?new caws 01 cholera and 5S8 deaths. The cholera has broken out in four places in the province of Jaen. Forty-two new ciw? were reported ia that province and eighteen death* from \ the disease. The official report shows a total i' of u0,000 cases in Spain since the inception of the scourge uo to last evening, an J a total : of 13,000 deaths. THE NATIONAL GAME, Bowdebs, of Nashvillo, received $25 for making a home ran with the bases full. The new young president of Bowdoin college was the best college ball player" of his time. The South has become the Mecca of many ball players who would otherwise be now lying idle. Roger Cootor, of the New York dab, leads the Natioui League batsman with an average of 39S. The colleges have famished much good mnterial to the professional ranks, notably several good pitchers. The Southern League thus far has shown more back bono than any other similar new association organized. The ages of the Chicago nine average moro than any other League team,while the Louis' . ?? ville has the youngest players. ** The Brooklyn and rrovlduuca UHUflUnaJT" ~ be amalgamated next' season and go into the League under Brooklyn's colors. In a game in Seneca, Kansas, Dan Fynn, pitcher for the St. Joseph club, struck out three men in succession on nine pitched balls, a wonderful pitching feat. One would think that twelve players at most would bo enough for any club to carry, yet there is scarcely one League or American club but has more than a dozen players on the pay-rolL ' ^ ^ The championship records up to recent date are as follows: N THE NATIONAL LEiQUB. Hon. fat. ITon. LostNew York...?.S3 13 Boston 18 82 Chicago ?...S9 13 St. Lou la 21 39 Philadelphia 25 27 Buffalo 1# 34 Providence..-...30 19 Detroit IS 33 AJIEBICAN ASSOCIATION. St. Lonls 43 17 Brooklyn 23 88 Pittsbnr* 34 27 Baltimore 23 85 Clnclnniti 35 26 Athletic 27 82 Louisville.....33 271 Metropolitan....20 83 ZASTZRN LEAGUE. Jersey City....- 9 27 I Norfolk 19 S3 Lancaster 24 26 | Trenton 26 24 National 36 13 | Virginia 40 8 Newark 23 23 | Wilmington S 83 EOUTBEBN LEAGUE. Atlanta 43 13 Colnmbns 24 80 Angotta 33 22 Macon 25 27 " Birmingham...10 34 Memphis. 20 80 Chattanooga...20 29 Nashville 30 19 PROMINENT PEOPLE. I Admiral Porter will complete his history s of the navy doling the civil war, this summer. Miss Cleveland, though urged, refused u i to allow her picture to appear in her new I book. Ira D. Sankey has bought a house a mile and a half from Mr. Moody's at Northfleld, Mass. Joseph Nimmo, the statistician, is collecting material for a book on cattle raising and ranches. Dr. John Ai,cock, the celebrated English export, declares that the late Victor Hugo was insane. After a reign of forty eight years, Victoria has in Lord Salisbury, for the first time, a prime minister younger than herself. Ex-Empress Eugenie says of herself, In a private letter: "I am left alone, the sole remnant of a shipwreck, which proves how fragile and vain are the grandeurs of this world." Mrs. James K. Polk lias lately been visited at Nashville, Tenn., by a New Orleans cori es[)ondent, who describes her at eightytwo as still retaining many traces of her former beauty for which she was noted while mistress at'the White House. United States Senator HsNRy B. Payne, of Ohio, has been selected to deliver the oration before the Alumni association of Hamilton college, Clinton, N. Y., during cominencinent week, INS I. Senator l'ayne is a graduate of the college of the class of 1SS2. Three sons and two daughters of General Robert E. Lee survive hinj. His sons are f irmers in Virginia and the daughters are b ?th great travelers,the elder having explored Australia, Japan, China,' India and Egypt, in addition to the European circuit of sights. Professor John TYNDAix'sgift of $10,!?00 to each of throa colleges?Harvard, Colum- ' l>i:i nnd Pennsylvania?is tlio sum ho earned by a lecture tour twelve years ago increased by compound interest, nnd is characterized as the noblest and richest; gift ever made to the cause of education. Professor Artemcs Martin, of Erie,Pa., who lias been recognized as one of the greatest of living mathematicians by several British and American societies, has just received tho honorary degree of L.L. D, from Hillsdale college. Dr. Martin is a market gardener and attends his market stall daily. We read that "tho Princess of Wales, tho daughter of the king of Denmark, is fascination itself and is much beloved by all classes of Engliih people. The princess is amiable nnd of a gentle, quiet nature, the type of character most admired in England. She is a devoted wife and mother, sympathetic without familiarity,prudent without prudery, dignified without haughtiness. She was hrnnelit uti as she is now brincinz up her own C-jildren, with the greatest simplicity." NEWSr GLEAOTQS, Tjikhb are 170 street railroads in the United States. Four thousand persons are annually buried in "Potter's Held, of New York city. The Chinese make, ns well as wash, most of the white shirts worn in San Francisco. Ti:k new New York city directory indicates a population in that city of nearly 1,? "().?, coo. HoR.Nr.n toarls soil for fifty cents each afc Cni-son City, Nov., and arc in demand to send east as curiosities. Tiikkk are at present in tho United State* | 1 l!J me lical schoo's, and there is one physician | to every .Vm inhabitants. Ok the total area of the United States, forty-four per cent or 1,30.5,000 square miles, is devoteU to grazing. -a