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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.
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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 |
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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.
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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, .
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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.
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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. ?
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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. }
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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.
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