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ABBEVILLE PRESS AND BANNER. BY HUGH WILSON. ABBEVILLE, S. 0.. WEDNESDAY. SEPTEMBER 9. 1885. NO. 11. VOLUME XXX patience. Have patience, heart! There were no rose that vrer? not first a closed bud. How comes the clay? Not with the noonday sun o'erhead, But slowly stealing up the east, in faintest red. Have patience, heart! W ait so taine own life's dawning good. Have patience, heart! Seek r.ot at morn to make the day as bright as noon. Force net the bud, before its time, to be a rose. How slowly, when we watch the sky, the daylight prows; And yot, for nil, indeed, tho sun goes down too sjon. Have patience, heart! For rain will come; thine own self knows how tear-drops fall. Seek not to stay the clouds before they've spoilt their rain, Or else across thy sky the clouds may come again. Have patience, grieving heart! for good must come to all. Have pat ience, heart! "What though no kisses fall upon thy tired i eyes, i, Alia IUYO i UJUS iiui n> IVM' n? iii-t.-, 11vi uu< 13 | fair? Mourn nut; perhaps th}- lovo needs Heaven's , purer air. Oh, heart! be sure 'twill wait for thee in Paradise. ?Amy K. Blanch ant, in Harper's Weekly. MY VEILED CLIENT. At the time of the incident I am about ' j to relate I was a youug solicitor, with no ( very considt-rab e practice, and there- j, fore not always so discreet as I might -, have been had I been able to pick and 1 ( choose my ciients. My business hours ( were ostensibly from ten to five; but the ! . fact of my house adjoining .the office j ) made me subservient to the wishes of j, the public beyond the time stated on the , brass plate of my office doer. In fant, j it was generally after business hours that my most profitable clients came; and though I can say I refused many a time * the agency of some shady business, still ( I must confess wiih regret that once or i twice I found myself unwittingly in- i j volved in transactions which I would j , have much rather left alone. One of these I have occasion to remember too ^ well, and I can never think of it but i j thank Providence for saving me from becoming an accomplice unwittingly in a most audacious piece of imposture. I was iatcrrupted one night at tea by the servant entering and saying that a lady wished to see mc. Hastily tinishing the meal, I hurried into my businessroom. As I entered and bowed, a lady | rose, made a slight courtesy, and re- I maincd standing. I begged her to be seated, and asked of what service I could I be to her. It was a little time before she answered, and then it was in a nervous, frightened way. glancing round the room as if she were afraid somebody else was present. I saw that, although she was dressed in good Btvle, she had not the air of a lady; but as she wore a thick veil, I could not distinguish her features, though I made out a gray hair here ana there. "I suppose I had better explain who I am and what 1 want," she began. "I , am Miss Howard, of Graham square, and | I want you to make out my will." ! I started voluntarily, for this elderly person, though I had never seen her before,had been the subject of many a surmise and many a gossip with the neighbors. She was reported to be very wealthy; but had apparently abandoned t the world, for, during the last five years. ; she had shut herself up in her house, ; seeing no one but her servants. My curiosity was therefore piqued at the idea of j making out this old eccentric's will. J Taking up a pen. I asked her to give me the particulars of how she wished the property disposed of. "That is very simple," she said. "I wish my whole property to go to Mr. David Simpson, of Stafford street, here. ! I have never been married; and I want the will framed so as to cut off any heir who might claim relationship to me. I ' also wish you to act as my executor in , ?: ...:n ?(Tnnt ?> SCUiU^ J?Ij? Mill tauiCM miv vuvvv. ^ I made a note of the instructions, and , asked when it would be convenient for j her to call and sign the deed. , "If you could have it written out by ( to-morrow night I could call then and s sign it. I would like if you could arrange j to have a doctor present to be a witness , to my signing?a young doctor, if pos- i sible." "Certainly, madam. To morrow night ] at this time will suit, and I will arrange , about a doctor being present. Is there ] nothing else you wish mentioned in the , win?" * _ j, "No; nothing," she said,, rising. "But ] be sure you make it so as to cut off all , relation*." I assured her everything would be as , chp rlrxt rcfl and iiftor assisting her into , the cab which was w'ailinj, noticing the j while that she had a slight limp in her walk, I retired to my study to frame the will in accordance with my instructions. , Next night, punctual to a minute, she ' called; and as I had a doctor present, , the ceremony of signing was soon over, , the doctor signing as a witness along . with my clerk, and appending a certiri- j cate of sanity, as desired by ray client; ] and the deed was consigned to mv safe. . The affair had almost completely passed from my mind, when I was j startled one morn:ng by receiving a note from Mr. Simpson, the legatee in the will, informing me that Miss Howard was dead. I immediately proceeded to the house, performed the usual duties devolving upon a solicitor in such cir- 1 cums'tances. and made what arrange- 1 ments were necessary. After the funeral I had a meeting with Mr. Simpson, and ~ !%;?% > i\r.ci linn r\f nffoirQ CApiUlUL'U IU UIUI luv [luou.uu ... ?that he was sole legatee, and that I was executor. lie seemed to take the matter very coolly. I thought, but was : anxious that everything should be tealized as soon as possible. Our interview was very short; and I came away with a 1 stro:iff feeling of dislike for the man, ^ who, I fouj^l, hud acted as sort of factor 1 sfor the deceased lady. Acting within the duties of my e.xecu- j : torship, and also with a desire to find out if possible the relations the old lady 1 had been so anxious to cut oil, I inserted a notice of her death in most of the leading newspaoers in the kingdom. This had the desired effect; fjr in the course of a few days I was waited upon by a youDggentleman, Edward Howard, who informed mo he was a nephew of the la*e Miss Howard, an l had called upon me, having got my nam? and address from the ofrice of one of the newspapers to which 1 had sent the advertisement. During my interview with Mr. Howard, I was much impressed with his bearing on mv telling him the position of affairs, as be was much more concerned at his aunt's death than at the purpose of her will. lie told me that live years ago he had mar-icd against his aunt's wishes; she had refused to recognize his wife; and though lie had written her several letters, lie had never heard from her in reply. lie thanked me for my in- j formation, and said he would likely see . me a^ain. as he was coming into town to h situation he had just been offered. Some weeks after th'S, as I was returning home in thccvening from a consultation. my attention was arrested by the figure of a woman in front of me. She was hurrying along as if trying to escape j observation; but there was something in 1 her style and the liinp which she had tbatstruck iivj as fam liar, though I could not remember where I l ad seen her. Just as she was )mssing a lighted pint j of the street she happened lo look j round, and the face I saw at j once explained to me the familiarity of , her figure?both face ami figure being an exact counterpart of my late client's, Miss Howard! Somehow or other sus picion llnshcd across my min:i; inv instinct told roe something was wrong, and I determined to follow her and sec where she went to. Pushing my hat well over my brow and pulling the collar of my coat well up, I followed through two or three streets, and was almost at her heels when she suddenly turned into a public house, when, so close had I followed her, I heard the attendant say in answer to an inquiry by her, "timber thirteen,. ma'am;" and I saw her disappear into the back premises. I immediately followed, heard the doors of number thirteen shut, and glancing at the numbers, quietly opened number twelve, and after giving an order for some slight refreshment to the attendant who had followed me. I took a hasty look around the room. I found it was divided from the next one only by a wooden partition, which did not reach'thc ceiling, and that, by remaining perfectly quiet, I could "hear that a whispered conversation whs being carried on in the next room. The entrance of the attendant with my order disturbed my investigations; but on his departure, and regardless of the old saying that listeners seldom hear anything to their own advantage, I did my best to make out the conversation. I distinguished the voices to be those of two men and one woman. The latter I at oncc recognized, or at least mv imagination led me to believe, to be tlie voice of the person who had called on me a year ago to make her will. The voicc of one of the men was stAnge to nie ; but after the discovery I had already made, I was not greatly astonished at recognizing the voicc of the other man to be that of Simpson, the legatee in the will. The whole thing Hashed upon inn at oncc.and I saw I had been made the innocent machinery for carrying through a clever and daring piece of imposture. I, however, listened attentively to the' conversation, in order to fathom the wholeatTair. The tirst sentence I made out camc from the stranger: "I told you young Sinclair was the very man to do the work for you. These young lawyers never ask any questions as long as they get the business."' "Well, well," said Simpson, "that is fill right now. But tlitt present question is, what is to be done in the way of hur * - i??~ f 4.U^ Tying mm up wan me reau/.iuiuu ui mc estate without exciting suspicion? The ;ooner we all get away froin this the bet:er. I am clad that young fellow Howard iidn't ask any questions. Hut one thing's certain, we must get the old woman nvay from this immediately, or she's sure ;o get recognized. She's been keeping pretty close lately; but I dare say she's jetting tired of it. Aren't you, old ady!" "Indeed," was the reply, "I would be jlad to get away from this place to morow if 1 could. I'm sure I only wish you could have been content with half of the ;state with Mr. Edward, iustead of jurning the will, when you found it was o be divided between you and him, and retting me to do what I did. I'm sure t's a wonder my mistress doesn't rise rom her grave to denounce us all." "Keep ihat cant for another occasion, )ld woman; it's no use getting religious low. But I'll tell you what?I've got | in idea." Here the conversation got so low that ' could not catch more than an occasional word, and what that idea was I lever found out, as he never got the :hance to try it on me, for I had heard :nough to know that next door to me vere three of the most daring conspira:ors I had ever come across, who had Juped me, and made me, though un? * AI* in f hft i-?rvn - lYllllUglJ , LUC C1AICL utivi xia imv ;piracv. My first idea was to lock the 3oor of the loom they were in, and go 'or he p; but as that was likely to cause i disturbance, I determined to slip out ind trust to being back in time for their irrest. As luck would have it nearly he first man I met outside was a dctec;ivc whom I had known very well in :onnection with some criminal trials in ivhich I had been engaged. A few words 1 ;xplaincd my purpose; and signaling to he nearest policeman he placed him at he door of the shop, and loth of us talked in. He nodded familiarly to the jartender, and leaning over the counter, whispered in his ear. The shopman itarted, and gave vent to a long, low ivhistle. "You'll do it as quietly a9 you can for he credit of the house," said he. "Of course," said the detective. 'Show us in." In another minute wc were inside the oom, with our back to the door, the deective dangling a pair of steel bracelets ind nodd.ng smilingly round the room. The woman fainted. We had no ditlijulty in securing the men; and in half in hour wc had" them safely housed in jail. Before their trial camc on wc had vorked out the whole story. The woman vho had called on me and sigued the .vill was Mrs. Simpson, Miss Howard's lousekecper, the mother of Simpson, in vhose favor the will was made; and the >thr-r man was a lawyer's clerk who had ;ugge*tc(l to them the feasibility of such i scheme. The fact of Miss Howard's self confinement and my own imprudence lad nearly made the plot a success, but ror my accidental recognition of the lousekceper. Kachofthe prisoners offered to turn queen's evidence; but as we lad no difficulty in proving the case, this ivas refused, aud they were sentenced to various periods of penal servitude. I liad then the pleasure of handing over lie estate to the rightful heir, young Kdward Howard, who, notwithstanding that I had nearly been the means of depriving him of his inheritance, made me [lis a<;eut. The estate turned out to be much larger than I had at first thought, as I succeeded in proving inai u mrgc uumbur of investments in Simpson's name really belonged to Miss Howard, and the management of so large a property fairly [>nt mo <>n my feet as regards business. I iiave had many good clients since then, but I have ofteu thought my veiled client was my best one, as she was the means of giving me my first lesson in prudence and my first start in life. ? Chamber*1 Journal. An Indian Camp. The following extract is from a letter to the Chicago herald: The ride through the Cheyenne encampment to day was quite interesting. The tepees were pi'.ched about a mile back of the agency building, in a low bottom, and an ellort, not altogether successful, bad been made to get them in a huge semi-circle. There were perhaps 2,000 Indians, 1,000 ponies and 10,000 dogs. Many of the Indians had wagons, cooking utensils, and 1 noticed one or two of the tepees had bedsteads had mattresses. The vast majority, however, kept house in aboriginal simplicity. Every tepee had its ridgepole outside hung with stripped beef and entrails from yesterday's rations drying in the sun. One family I passed had a lire burning in front, and over this the squaws were roasting a dead dog? ugh' A few reds further on a snake which had crawled into camp was having its hrains beaten out by an old squaw. "That will be in tlie pot in an hour," was the remark of our guide. The long strings of entrails and other animal refuse drying in the sun were not appetizing, and we tried to avoid looking at them. The constant handshaking which the braves thrust upon the party was also something of a nuisance, and it was a relief to get away from it. The camp was a busy scene when Inspector Armstrong arrived. The Indians crowded around in their gaudy blankets, the ponies jostled each other in the midst of the tepees, the dogs kept up a continuous iiowling.and the chiefs and sub-chiefs harangued little knots of people in deep sing song tones. Out of such chaos no order could be brought, and after filling the air with profanity for a few moments, the inspector retired with a promise to come another day. A Curious Epitaph. irome curious things occasionally turn up on tomb stones, and when they do turn up are generally very funny. Among the most humorous specimens of ihissacrcd sentiment is the following inscription copied from a tombstone made in this city and shipped to .Montgomery: "Our Darling Billy Su^ar." "To the memory oi , son ot" . To our Darling Hilly. "In o'.ir thoughts of love we se?k thee ever. In our dreams thy bright form still we see Xnr can time nor thy absence e'er can sever, That fond memory that binds U5 to tlieo. Papa, Mama, Binion, Tottie, Sis, Lou, "Papa's gentleman. "Hless mama's man. "(?o Lijali and carry tho now*. another soul is gone home. lie beats bis little drum in harmony with the music of Heaven, and runs his hub train through the streets of the New Jerusalem. "Billy's dog 'Chap.1''?Mobile Register. FARM, GARDEN, AM) HOUSEHOLD. Common Venae in Feeding;. The report of the proceedings of the Oxford Partners' club, of Ohio, coutnins anion? other sensible talk the following on feeding: The reports of feeding cxi periments at experiment stations arc full i of instruction and hints to us. They are J north more than the testimony of any I one of us who might weigh our feed ! carefully. We would not then know ' what percentage of the feed was di[ gested. Too much of the feed often I <iocs into the excrement and isnotassim| ilated. liy noticing this and changing j the feed this may be corrected. This is the case where we see whole corn pass j the horse, ox or cow. Digestion is not i right or the food is not suited to the j animal in such cases. While our weigh| ing animals and feed given will help us. I still wc need more light than this can ! give. The careful feeder watches little things. Xo man can be a good feeder ; who is not a close observer and quick to | note the condition of every animal in his | charge. The chief thing is to suit the j ration to the animal. Fcedingissomuch of an art that not one man in ten knows ! how to feed most successfully. We do j not even know how to feccl ourselves to prevent dyspepsia and disorders which J come from improper diet and manner j and times of eating. It is evident that | this subject of feeding is one we need to | study much, for it is the foundation of j better husbandry. Care o? B'lnntcd Tree*. Newly planted trees require careful atj tcntion through the summer, and cspecially in dry weather. Mulching, by ! which is meant the spreading of coarse manure, half rotted straw, or any other | litter on the ground over the roots of the ! trees, will be always found of great ser- j ! vice in keeping the ground cool and 1 | moist and promoting the growth of j newly transplanted ticcs, particularly if the succeeding summer should be hot. and dry. There is a substitute for mulch- j ing that is perhaps better than a mulch, j but in the hurry of summer work it is so i sure to be neglected that the planter had | better mulch his trees as soon after plant-1 ; ing as possible. If, however, he will j keep the ground loose and friable around j his trees by frequently stirring the surface and never permitting it to become J baked and hard he may safely dispense j with mulching. Hut because it is re- ' commended to spread coarse manure on ! the surface of tiie ground let it not be. j therefore, inferred that it is ever advisa- j ble to place fresh manure in the soil j about the roots of trees. It is very j apt to kill newly planted trees, and I snre to do moie harm than good. ! If it is though' necessary to enrich the soil old and perfectly rotted manure j J tuny be thoroughly incorporated with it, but the safer way is to place the manure on the surface and let its fertilizing properties be gradually washed down by the rains. It is very seldom that trees which have been carefully taken up, carefully planted, and well mulched will require any watering during the dry summer weather. If it should be- i come necessary, however, to give them _ water, it should be done thoroughly. A mere moistening of the surface of the ground is worse than none at all. Give | enough to penetrate down to where the roots lie and to soak the ground about i them thoroughly. And now, if the trees have not been mulched, it should be i done immediately in order to prevent j the evaporation of the water that has , 1 been given and the baking and cracking of the earth under the rays of the scorching sun. If no litter can be had with 1 which to mulch the same result is effected by stirring the surface a few , hours after the water has been given and ; before the sun has baked the earth. If this is not attended to better not to give any water at ail, for the hot sun will only bake the earth the harder for the watering. Farm and (harden Xoton. Turnip seed may be sown where early peas have been taken olf. Corn-fodder can profitably be fed as soon as the feed gets into the pastures. Peach trees that show signs of the "yellows" should be immediately dug up and destroyed. The one successful principle of stock feeding is to feed liberally from birth until the animal is disposed of. Some breeders contend that green clovcr tends to produce barrenness in all varieties of farm animals pastured upon it. As a fall feed for cows, pumpkins arc i not sufficiently appreciated, and they are perhaps more cheaply grown than j vegetables. Grapevines will need attention every ten days or two weeks. Pinch in the new growth, so that the strength of the vine may go into the fruit and the wood that is already formed may ripen. A French agriculturist rccommenas as a preventive against the bites of gnats, : horsellies and the like a decoction of walnut tree leaves in vinegar. Animals may also be rubbed with fresh walnut i ; leaves. Yicomptc Chczclles, the French noble-j man who gave evidence before the Engg ish ensilage commission, is accustomed to place large quantities of nettles in his ! si'o. and states that the stock eat it : readily. One who has given it n thorough trial reports that hen lice will not trouble fowls where sassafras poles arc used for perches. Of course ttie droppings should be removed frequently, especially during warm weather. Leaves and b<ju hs of sassafras scattered around the henhouse will help destroy or at least scatter vermin. If there is any odd time when the ground is too wet to work, manure may be drawn ai'd spread on laud intended lor cropping next, season, it win ue worked through the soil more perfectly j the earlier it is applied, and on the sur- I face of either plowed or grass land manure, even in hot weather, loses little i from evaporation. Many horses have the habit of sleeping [ standing up. It is a very injurious habit, and the horse should be broken of it if possible. The narrow stalls in which j | horses are often placed makes a recumi bent position very dillicult. It is cruelty 1 | to the animal to place him in such a i j stall after doing a hard day's work. As soon as the presence of the onion j maggot is detected all the plants at- j I tachcd, which are easily known by the leaves fading and turning yellow, should ' . be at once pulled up, burned and lime ! ! water poured into the holes. Strewing ' soot or powdered charcoal around the plants, or saturating the beds with , strong soapsuds, has been found useful. Making hay while the sun shines was j the old-fashioned rule, and a good one under methods formerly adopted. Hut | , it has been superseded by the changes in i hay-making machinery. Hay as cut now j with the mower is spread very thinly, ' dries rapidly, and, excepting the first j few hours after cutting, most of its cur- i ing is in the cock, where it is protected } from rains to which it would be exposed I if made in the sun. A Massachusetts horticulturalist rej commends the following method for de1 stroyingtent caterpillars: Make a strong j | solution of soft soap and water, and with j a sponge attached to a pole pass the j sponge through the tent, saturating it i thoroughly. The work should be done ! morning, noon aud ni^ht, and the pest.* ! will be "destroyed easily, while no injury j will be done the trees. So much has been said of the advan! tages from pasturing hog? that many j 1 h ive probably concluded that pasture i j alone was sufficient. The truth is that J a pig running in pasture with no other j j food will gain less on it than almost I anv other kind of stock. Generally a 1 i ?in- ;n hut ; Jill It: llliiiv ui n uuutu, i/kk . corn or oat menl fed now to pigs in pasture will give twice or thrice as much I profit as that which is fed to pigs put up 1 in the fall for feeding on grain cxcluj sively. The cow pea, says the Cultivator, is the important renovating crop in the I South, mainly from a mistaken idea that clover will not succeed in so hot a climate. Ideally there is no climatic difficulty in "rowing clover in mcst portions of the South. Where failure has oci curred it is from poor preparation of the soil, or more frequently, from lack of ' lime or potash. It is better, even in the I South, to get the land in condition to grow clover than to sow cow peas for plowing under. Clover is decidedly better for green manure on Northern farms. Xlonaeliohl Hints and Recipe** Fried onions should be boiled first ic milk to be raikl and odorless. To prevent a door from creaking apply a little soap to the hinges. Boiled cabbage is much sweeter when the water is changed in boiling. If brooms are wetted in hot suds once a week they will last much longer and always sweep like a new broom. When basting a turkey take a clean stick and tic a cloth on the end, and wet this in the gravy or dripping with which it is to be basted; you can go over each part more satisfactorily than with a spoon. A very simple and nourishing dish is made of two pounds of lean round steak, finely minced, and simmered for three hours in one quart of water, salted to taste. Served with boiled ricc. If liked, curry-powder may be added to the gravy. Do not iron u red tablecloth at all; wash it carefully in warm suds (not hot), rinse well, and, when ready to hang on the line, take great pains to pull it so that it will keep the proper shape. It will retain its color much longer than if ironed. Delicately colored socks and stockings arc apt to fade in washing. If they are soaked for a night in a pail of tepid water containing half a pint of turpentine, then wrung out and dried, the colors will "set," and they can afterward be washed without fading. A delicious cream is made by this reoJnn Miv some msnberrv iarn or iellv (a small cupful) with one pint ot cream, and strain it into a bowl. Dissolve half an ounce of eelatine in a very little hot water, and, when just warm, stir it into the cream. Pour the mixture into a mold; set it on icc, and serve when very cold. Often a quart measure or its equivalent (four common tumblers) may be useful when the kitchen scales are out of order, for a quart of Hour will weigh one pound, one quart of butter (soft) a pound, and one quart of powdered sugar one pound one ounce. Three sheets of gelatine are equal to one ounce, and a tablespoonful of salt, one ounce. When irans become rough and smoky, lay a little salt on a board and rub tile irons well over it; it will prevent them from sticking to anything starchcd, and make them sm >oth; or scour with bathbrick before heating, and, when hot,rub wcl! with salt, and then with a small piece ot beeswax tied in a rag, after which wipe clean on a dry cloth. To get the full flavor of dried or evaporated peaches, they should lirst be allowed to soak for at least three hours, then cook them slowly; when they are almost done add the sugar, then set them away and let them get perfectly cold. If not used until the second day, they will be still better, as they will absorb the sugar and be much richer apparently. Wax beans make a delicious salad. Choose young beans, remove the strings, break in inch-long pieces aijd cook in salt and water. While still warm cover lliem with a dressing of oil, vinegar, salt and pepper. Be sure and remember in mixing salads the old saying: "A spendthrift for oil, a miser for vinegar, a wise man for salt and a mad man for mixing." Use at least twice as much oil as vinegar. WISE WORDS. Always use your own brains rather than those of others. lie that .gains well and spends well, needs no account book. A punctual man can always find time; a negligent on# never. It is the cause, and not the death, that makes the martyr. Have habits of order, system, rcguls??itv, and also promptness. Openness of heart and gentleness of manner are always engaging. A penitent's tear is an undeniable ambassador and never returns from the throne of grace unsatisfied. Whatever stress some may lay upon it, a death-bed repentence is but a weak and slender plank to trust our all upon. Learning makes young men temperate, -- ^1,1 or*r> otnnrlinrr fnr J3 I LIU UUUilUlU ui mika uxtuv....^ wealth with poverty, and serving as an ornament to riches. If rich, it is easy enough to conceal our wealth; but if poor, it is not quite so easy to conceal poverty. "We shall find that it is less diHicult to hide uthousand guineas than one hole in our coat. In all worldly things that a man pursues with the greatest eagerness and intention nf min i imaginable, he finds not half the pleasure in the actual possession of them as he proposed to himself in the expectation. Frankness and openness are the natural and healthful atmospheres of goodness and strength. Were all men perfect, there would be no reserve,for there would be nothing to conceal. Each would be sure of sympathy ami appreciation for himself, and be generous in bestowing them upon others. Filibustering in the National Senate. We had some memorable filibustering in my day. I remember one night when a great contest in the Senate, over a certain bill, culmiuatcd in twenty hours of I work! The majority had determined that they would "sit the bill" out that night. So they assembled in force, I ready to pass it whenever they might see their chance. The minority were also | on liand. Both sides were nearly exhausted. As tne hands of the clock approached the hour of midnight, there was scarcely a Senator in the room. I J remember that Senator Mcrriman led the | minority; Senator Logan "watched" for the majority. Senator Mcrriman had the floor, with the unlimited privilege of continuous debate permitted by the rules, and he seemed prepared to talk forever. But occasionally lie paused to allow another member of the minority to make a motion to adjourn, upon which the "yeas and nays" would be ordered? "And the clerk will call the roll!"' Those words were the signal for action. "Call up the Senators!" cried Senator Logan; "call up the Senators!" came from Senator Merriman; "call up the Senators!" echoed Captain Hassett. This is how we pages call them. Each of us would rush around through the various rooms and give one of these sleeping Senators a little tap, shouting "Yeas and Nays!" and dart away to find another. Sometimes a dozen pages would waken the same Senator. In fact, we usually ran in a line?all together. Soon the 8lcepv legislators cmuu uc seen creeping into the chamber from nil directions, half awake, with disheveled hair, nnd presenting a woe begone appearance generally. They would mechanically cast their votes, the motion to adjourn would be lost. Senator Merriman would resume his speech, and the other Senators, except the "watchers," would again vanish as mysteriously and as noiselessly as the soldiers of Roderick Dhu. When he had given them t me to fall asleep, he would again yield the floor to a motion to adjourn, and the performance would be repeated. During all this speeeh making, mos of the minority wtre asleep. They depended upon Senator Merriman (as most of the m ijoritv depended upon Senator I.ogan and their other leadersi to wake them at the proper time. They relied upon him to do all the talking, lie was, as I say, prepared to do it. llut hcmsdc a mistake, lie remembered the courtesy, but he forgot the rules of the Senate, lie had been yielding the lloor to his friends whenever lie saw fit, and resuming it again after they had said whatever they wished. Senator Logan at last interfered. lie raised the "point of order" that the Senator from North Carolina could not speak "more than twice" on the matter then pending. Senator Mer rman stood agiiast! The presiding ollicer sustained the point of order. That is where the demoralization of the minority seemed to begin. At ten minutes past seven o'clock a. m., the majority passed the bill! How would you like to be a filibuster 1 ?Kdm atd Alton, in M. Nicholas. NEWS SUMMARY Ffmrorn and nidillo state*. A kike broke out on board the old warship Tolorado, lying near Port Washington, Lone Island, tlie other evening. The flames spread !rom the Colorado to the following ships, all which were burned to the water's edge in-1 sunk: Minnesota,Susquehanna,Congress, South Carolina, Iowa, Lotta Grant, and Fair- I play. All, with the exception of the last ;wo, formerly belonged to tlio Unite:! States navy. Thoy had been condenine.l and wore sought from the government for the old iron Hid planks they contained. The estimated oss is f 100,000. James North, a New York policeman, was 1 (tabbed and almost instantly killed by a \ colored man with whom he had a slight al- . Creation. Charles and Arthur Wink ley, aged 1 Mghteen and twenty-two respectively, sons ] if Alonzo Winkley, of Lawrence, Mass., , were drowned at Salisbury Beach while :anoeing. 1 Fbaxz Josef Petmeky was hanged at Auburn, N. Y., for the murder of Mrs. Pau- i .mo i< roizcneim, in 1000. Thi: ocenn steamship Etniria ^as just triads i the fa3test trip on record across the Atlantic, the run from Queenstown to New York having been accomplished in six days, five hours i ind thirty-one minutes. Thomas Smith, a farm laborer residing near Roekaway, N. J., was shot dead by his ion Lodi in a quarrel over a game of clomiioos. D. S. Babcock, vice prasident and financial manager of the New York, I'rovideneo and Boston railroad, was killed by a train near t'rovidenee. Ex-Treasurer Adams, of the Framingnatn (Mass.) Savings bank, whose accounts lad been made the subject of a special investigation by a bank commissioner, committed iuiddo 011 the 24th by cutting his throat with i razor. Many irregularities in his accounts nad been discovered. While a young Now York lawyer, a personal friendof General Grant, was visiting :he flagship Tennessee, at Bar Harbor, Me., l lieutenant on board indulged in slanderous remarks concerning the dead commander, rue lawj-er became very angry, and on his return to shore immediately sent the slanIcrer a challenge to light a duel. Tho latter ieclined on tho ground that dueling is in violation of navy regulations. The irate gentleman then notified the officer that he would shoot him on sight unless he accepted the challenge. The lieutenant finally acceptad, but while the preliminaries were being arranged tho admiral heard rumors of the iffair, and declined to permit tho lieuteuant to go ashore, thus frustrating the duel. .Tiwfptt k Rdwe.v. the oldest master ma >on in th3 United States, died at his re.-silence in Philadelphia the other afternoon. < Eie was ninety-four years old, and was in- i i'alled the first master of a lodge sixty-eight years a^o. Ex-Governor Reuben E. Kenton died suddenly of heart disease, on the 25th, at I Jamestown, N. Y. At the time of his death he was writing at his desk in tbo First National bank, of which he was president. 3 Governor Fenton was born at Carroll, N. Y., ( in 1819, and in 1852 was elected as a Democrat to Congress, was defeated in 1854, but in 1850 was again elected, this i time as a Republican, which party he had j joined upon its organization in New , York in 1855. He remained in the House in unbroken succession eight years ' down to December, 1864, when he resigned, i In 1804 Mr. Fenton was elected , governor over Horatio Seymour, and in 1800 . was re elected over Mr. Hoffman. Ho was 1 sleeted to the United States Senate in 1869, 1 and in 1872 joined the Liberal Republican movement, supporting Mr. Greeley for Presi- , .lent. After the expiration of his term as Senator in 1875, Governor Fenton devoted 1 himself to business enterprises. At a meeting of the New York Republican i State committee the convention for the nom- ( ination of governor and other offices was called to meet at Saratoga on September 22, 1 two days before the Democratic convention, and in the same hall. i Snow fell at Harvey Lake, Penn., on the | 2(Jth of August. Tue Smiths of New Jersey met in their an ; nual reunion at Peapack, N. J. There were I *U.aa fUnncnnrl r\f tJioni tnffafhoP ' | :iUUUU IU1CU luuuounvt Wk vuviu w0v.Uv.. At the Pennsylvania Democratic Statt 1 convention, held in Harrisburg, Conrad B. j Day was nominated for treasurer and a platform was adopted which "cordially approves (ho Democratic reform administration ol J President Cleveland" and denounces railroad 1 monopolies. ' < General Locjan and his wife and twc i friends wera being photographed in a small . boat at the Thousand Islands, N. Y., when their frail craft was overturned, and all four were thrown into the water. They were res- i cued without difficulty. i tomb ui Weitt A reception was given a few days since 1 in Waukesha, Wis., to Vice-President and 1 Mrs. Hondricks. j A long freight train was derailed and j wrecked near Cleveland, Ohio. The cars caught fire and were consumed. Two tramps who wero stealing a ride in one of the cars were killed. ] Hogs are dying by the huudred in Illinois of cholera Returns from all the counties in Kentucky give Tate (Democrat), for treasurer, a majority of 07,507 over Fox (Prohibition), who was supported by the Republicans. This is the tenth time Tato has been elected treasurer. A S. Mariner, postmaster at Careyville, Tenn., has been caught robbing the mails and arrested. The captain of the steamship Alexandria 1 which arrived at B?anfort, S. C., reports tin 1 loss of the dredge Beaufort in a hurricane off the Bermuda Islands, with all hands, numbering probably ten men. The Beaufort was built on the Clyde and brought to this side to dredgo for phosphate in Beaufort harbor. She was one of tho largest craft of her kind in the world, and was valued at $151),(KH). Leonard 'Gardner, a Springfield (111.) restaurant keener, arrested for beating his wife, procured liail and then went in soarch of the two policemen who had taken him into custody. When lie met his captors Gardner immediately opened lire, killing Policeman Camp and mortally wounding Policeman Gall. The desperado was also killed by Gall. A partially successful attempt has been made to blow up the jail at Murfreesboro, Ark., with dynamite. One side of the buildin,'was blown to fragments, and a prisoner i-- ii.. ti.a \???c f a hlrtw un I UU 11V 111 UIL-U. XIIU VUJVV.W >V w.v.. .. r | two brothers confined in the jail tor a brutal murder. A NofJALKs (Arizona) dispatch says that tliree Americans ami eight Mexicans have been inurdeivd at Basaehucaby Apaches. Two Knights of Pythias?Henry F. Sandman, of Cincinnati, and J. F. Farnun.of C'ovin^t >u, Ohio?while at an encampment near Cleveland went in bathing, and becoming chiiled were both drowned. Senator .John Sherman opened the Ohio campaign fur the Republicans in a long speech before u largo open uir assemblage at Mount Gilead. Waihlnrton* The war department has received word that the Southern Utes in New Mexico were starving; that they had no supplies and were unable to procurc any, and that unless food was immediately secured for thein they would go on the warpath. Many appointments of fourth-class post masters have been mado recently. The remains of tho Hon. Seth Ledyard Phelps, late minister to Peru, arrived in Washington a fow days since, and were deposited in Oak Hill cometcry, Georgetown. Mr. Anthony M. Keiley, "of Virginia, who was appointo 1 United States minister to Italy, and on his resignation was transferred to Vienna, but was rejected by tho Austrian government, has returned to America. Mr. Keiley states that the assigned reason he was rejected by tho Austrian government was because his wife is a Jewess. Foreign* ? - r'ono.in on.l l.n 03lal#l*-rua. 13 *?* appeared in Halifax, N. S. The German corvette Augusta has been lost (luring a cyclone in tho He I sea. Her crew of '.SiS oflicers and sailors were drowned. Her value was ? 1,750,00;). Two trains collided in a tunnel of tho underground railroad iu London with territlc force. The engineer of 0110 train was instantly killed and tho fireman and five passengers fatally injured. Madrid has been the scene of a great demonstration against Germany for atinoxing the Caroline islands. More than 40.00J persons assembled, and tho chief speaker was a Spanish colonel in full uniform. Tho German legation was guarded by fifteen policemen. A leadixo London paper confirms tho ' statement that Russia has abandoned her j claims to Zullicar Pass, Afghanistan, and i says that pcace is thus secured. The condition of Granada, Spain, remains pitiable. Hundreds of peopleareattacked by cholera in a single street nearly every day. There are 110 doctors and no authorities to look after the victims, who often pass through their agonies in the streets and expire unattended in the gutters. Most of the unaffected population have (led, and tha few healthy citizens that remain are disheartened and apathetic. The recent disclosures of gross immorality , in London have resulted in a monster demonstration at Hyde Park. M>>re than 150,ouo people wero present, and thoro was a great i procession, the majority in line being women. | A resolution was passed simultaneously at, all j the ten platforms pledging tho meeting to ns- i sist in enforcing tho provisions of tho C'riini- | nnl Amendment act. Information has been received at Cairo, j Egypt, of a great massacre at Berber. Tho populace aro starving. Since tho beginning of the cholera epidemic in Spain, and up to the 'Jod, there have been l'jli, 077 cases and 01,521 deaths. Tiik rebellion in Colombia has ended with j tho capture of General Camargo an 1 twenty- j five other officers, and the disbanding of the rebel force. Prestan, the leader in tho burning of Aspinwall, has also l>eon captured and j will bo tried by court-martial. A native craft called a bugalow, loaded with pilgrims, was wrecked iii tho Uulf of Aden and Joo ot its passengers wcro :lrow*ned. A portion of Canada has been visited by a disastrous tornado. Two children were killed and many houses unroofed. i GREAT FLOODS IN CHINA j Wore than 10,000 Lives Lost in and Near Canton. Drerflowing Rivers Engulf Entire Villages-Scenes of Devastation, J)etailsof the destruction in Canton and vicinity by the great rain storm there have seen received in Washington. The flood wni tho most serious which lias visited Canton in Lnirty years. Moro than ten thousand porsons lost their lives, and a far greater number are left in a starving condition. Entire villages ivere engulfed, and the rice and silk crop3 were nlmost ruined. Many of the streets of Canton J were flooded for over n week. At Sz Ni city ' the water broke through the city wall. It is { reported that several thousand people were ( ilrowned in that p'ace. Tllo embankments of i tho rivers were broken in many places and t the waters swept across tho surrounding j country, carrying everything before it. A p foreigner, who was an eye witness of tho I scenes of the devastation, reports that one night the boat he occupied anchored near a c bamboo grove. Ry morning the water had t risen to the tops nf the bamboo?. At other i points it rose as high en forty feet during the i night. The inhabitants fled from the villages c and camped on tho hillsides. At Kun In, a I market place situated near an embankment r of one of the streams connected with the river c which brings water from the north and west c rivers, the majority of the inhabitants were h drowned by the water breaking through the v embankment. Some escaped to a piece of ris- \ ing ground in the neighborhood, but Ihe c wuter continued to rise and gradually over- i topped tho elevation, drowning tho;o who c stood on it. h Seventeen Chinese graduates in Canton s hearing of the distress and suffering prevahnt in their native villages, took passage s on a boat with a view to proceeding home to t render what assistance they could. On tho f way the boat was capsized, and all wl o r were in it were drowned. In some t ninfos nil-puts tied their children en t the high branches of trees, while they insti- r tutml measures for their general safety. The t trees were washed up by tho roots, anil the r heartrending crics of the children were si- f] lenced in the surging water. Tho body o! a bride dressed in her bridal robes was found 1 floating in the river at Canton. A largo tub ti was also seen. It was picked up and found t) contain a boy and a girl. With them was a paper stating their names, the day and hour jf tho r birth. Tho parents had instituted this means to save the lives of their offspring. 1 LATER NEWS t Reports received from tho eastern part of f >few York State indicate that the fruit and jther crops will be large. Aliiert D. Swan, one of the most promi ^ lent business men of Lawrence, Mass., was f >hot dead at his desk by Henry K. Goodwin, 1 fvlio introduced the telephone system into ' ? Shat city. After committing tho crimo Good- 0 tvin telephoned to the police that ho wa3 wait- t ing to be arr<?steJ. Goodwin claimed that * je had been robbed in business of everything ^ bo had by Swan. p Texas fever has appeared among the cat- f tie of Erie county, Penn., and is reported to v be spreading rapidly. . J Part of a passenger train crashed through v \ bridge near Natchez, Miss., resulting in tho ^ loath of the engineer, fireman and a brake- ? man, and injuries to nine other persons. t The Iowa Republicans, in State convention j it Des Moines, nominated a ticket headed by Senator William Larrabeo for governor, and (adopted a platform which declares that "the t issues growing out of the war for tho Union t mn never bo called settled until they are set- J tied right," and condemns tho Cleveland ad- j ministration. s Dp? H. P. Lynch, of Sturgis, Dakota, was s ;hot dead in his oflico by Corporal Ro-s Hal- * lis.of tlio Twenty-fifth Unitoil States infantry, c stationed at Fort Meade. Hallis, who had r shot Lynch out of revenge, was seized by a mob and hanged. a The acting secretary of the treasury has s appointed twenty women clerks to assist in T the count of tho pai>er manufactured at the J mills in Philadelphia for printing in- i, ternal revenue stamps, thus increasing the 1 force engaged in that work to forty-five. It c is exacted that the count will bo completed ^ by December. \ Bv the explosion of a boiler of tho steamer j! Argo at Trieste, Austria, eight [persons were j killed. ci Germany has established a protectorate i aver the whole territory between tho Tana and Juba rivers in Africa. Tex bodies were found in the ruins of a fireworks factory at Civita Vecchia, Italy, in which an explosion occurred. Many persons wore stoned and stabbod in 1 collision at Ballyfarrissey, Ireland,between the populace and 100 policemen, who were jvicting some tenants. t Austria is expelling all her Polish subjects. PERTTR OF TFTE RRA. < A Wa<erlos<*cil Hark Drifting Helplessly on (lie Atlantic. The steamship Zaandam reached New York city n few days since after a tumultuous passage of fifteen days from Amsterdam, with eight of the crew of tho British bark Brimiga, Captain Geitzler, which slio encountered on tho 'Mil about "03 miles east of Halifax. Thebrk's main and inizzenmasts were gono, and tlio espied work of liar deck had been washed away, aril sho had seven feet of water in her hold. Captain Potjer, of the Zaandam, sent out a boat to the bark an-l inquire 1 if she wante I any help. Captain G.'itzler said he had three injured s amen thai ho wanted taken off, and that ho was short of provisions. The three men were helped into l..o boat and were rowed to the Zaaixlam and carried on board. The boat then returned to tho l ark laden with provisions. Fivo more of her men said they . wanted to be trans orred to the steam ship, and , they were rowed thither. Captain Geitzler said ho proposed to stick by his ship and steer her into Halifax or into Davy Jones' locker, whether anybody stayed aboard with him or J not First Mate Honderbark, Second Mate j Olsen and the steward declared that they ! would stand by their skipper. Captain Pot- ; jer offered to tow the bark in, but the offer Ja/.li'nn/l nnrl Hm '/nanrlnm clAnnwl away from jliu battered, broken, waterlogged and crewiess vessel. J From the loth to tho Kith the bark had made j no headway. During tins time the men slept j on tho deck, as everything below was water- ! soaked. Tho steward, all of whose utensils 1 were washed away, rooked tho food on pieces j of thin iron rudely fashioned into pans. The faro was salt beef and baked dough, all tho ' hard biscuit having been rendered useless by j the water. Captain Geitzler called the men ! aft tho 17th and addressed them thus: ! "Wo have been sailing eight days and not Raining an inch. I propose that wo do ono of two things: make sail for St Thomas or bang around until wo get a chance to bo taken ofT by a passing steamer." i The men "had a talk among themselves, and announced that they were in favor of getting northward in the track of steamships. They fell in with the Zaandnm. After the captain i 1 hnd got provisions lie was reluctant to ? leave his vessel. He persuaded tho first j j and second mate and tho steward to remain j with him, but the men said they feared they j would never go to sea again if they did not J leave. The men think thero is little chanco c of tho captain and his threo volunteers get- c ting into Halifax alive on the water-logged 1 bark. r ONE MAN KILLS SEVEN. The Dojiicraw Aci of an Old ?Inn at j Joluuo!! City, 'lexhm. | ? F rem Johnson City, Teins, coinj tho de j } tails of a terrible series of tragedies. A1 j Lo> kie, an old citizen of extensive connec- j ^ tions was charged by his relatives : < with numerous outrageous crimes. I j Lockie the other afternoon left home, in- i , tending, as ho avowed, to go to John Green's j place to borrow some money. Green and i j family were away. He entered tho house I ( ami took Green's rillo and returnel to tho ' i rosidenco of his brother, Kerry Lockie. He then shot and killed Berry ind his ((terry's) wife. John Nicholson, i . a neighbor, rodo up just then. He forced J Nicholson to go with him to Mr. Stokes', | where lie shot nnu Kitten jsiokcs. i Here i Nicholson wns lost sight of. His horse was iied there when found,:m<l it is supposed that ho was also killed. From then' I.o?kie went to his own hou-e and shot and cut the throat >f Mrs. Henry Lockie, of Llano county, wife of his stepson.who was ona visit to him. Heals-) shot and killed Mrs. Stokes, wife of ' the Stokes whom he had already killed. Then | '.10 killed liis daughter. Lockio next at- ] lempted to kill his wife, hut, his cartridges I tieing exhausted, he could not fire another i ( ;hot, and slie escaped. He then cut his own throat, mounted his horse, and started in the direction of Johnson City. After riding a s few yards ho met Thomas" Brunswick, whom j ' ho attacked with a knife, inflicting fatal j wounds. Tho murderer then rode toward ; i Johnson City, but was arrested within two J c miles of thoro. I5y these murders about j twenty children are ieft orphans. , President Cleveland will probably visit < Richmond on the occasion of the Virginia i State fair, which commences on the 2ist of October and continues for four days. The j President will be accompanied by the cabinet , members, and will make an address. BUNNINGAMUCK. I Ulan Crazed by Drink slionN Four People anil Kills Iffiniaelf. Particular of a tragic occurrence in which lie son of a Salem (Ind.) merchant was the principal figure are given in the following lispatch from Louisville, Ky.: At 0 o'clock lost night the Sunday stillness )f Salem, Ind., was disturbed by two shots ollowed instantly by screams of distress 'rom a woman. The sounds came from the mblic square, and in a moment men, women ind children were rushing toward that spot 'rom every direction. Those first upon the scene saw a man milling down the street, and in a doorway found i young lady covered with blood. The lady .vas quickly recognized as Miss Laura Klerner, )no of the most popular and talented lead;rs of Salem society. In answer to ques;ious she said she had been shot by Fred 3erkey, Jr., the sou of a leading Salem lierchant, and a young man of dissolute labits. Before this explanation could be nade there was another pistol shot, and W. 3. Persise, who happened to be in the way of ;ho fugitive in his night, received the bullet n his hip. Berkey continued his flight, and, i moment aftorward, meeting William Clanmhan in tho street, he fired a shot at that gentleman, sending a ball through his left land. By this timo a crowd had started in pursuit >f the young desperado. Yells of "Hang lim!" "Kill him!" "Burn him!" and like o.i ouraging expressions filled tho air. Realizng that ho would bo run down Berkey orlered two gentleman who approached in a Juggy to liait. Tiny did not obey his comnand instantly, and ho aimed a l.all it them which struck John Paine, ons >f the occupants, in tho breast, just over the leart. Paine fell from the buggy, fatally vounded, and Berkey leaped in, placed his revolver to tho head of A. Bareer, the other iccupant, and forced that g> ntleman. to drive lim at full spoed toward the country. Such l crowd had been attracted by this time, lowever, that the fugitive was completely urrounded. Fearing that he would be captured and wung up to the nearest treo Berkey placed he pistol to bis head and blew out his brains, ailing into tho road dead. The pursuers reilaced the body in tho vehicle anl took it tack to the public square. Miss Klerner, the vounded young lady, had by this time been emnved to her home and given medical atention. It was found that tho bullets had iassed through her wrist and shoulder, makag painful but not dangerous wounds. When sho recovered from her faintness tho ndy explained that the shooting grew out of ier refusal to keep company with Berkey. STRUCK BY LIGHTHI5JG. rwclve Persona Prostrated and Seven Instantly Hilled* Many deaths have occurred this summer hrough lightning, and hardly a day passes mt tho telegraph records one or more fatality roin this cause. Below is one day's record: A New Orleans dispatch says: A violent hunder storm prevailed in New Orleans and icinity to-day, the lightning striking in sevral places. A large force of harvest hands rom Now Orleans and vicinity, who were larvesting the rice on the plantation of ilr. Norbert Loque, in St. Charles par;h, were driven in by the rain. Some if them sought refuge under an oak ree, around which they sat in a circlo failing for the rain to pas3 away, 'his oak is only about ono thousand eet from Mr. Loque's dwelling. The larty had been camped under the tree but a ew minutes when a terrific bolt of lightning pas seen to strike it. When the rescuing arty reached the oak they found all the men mder it stretched out. Five of the party rere found dead. The only survivor w.is a loy of fifteen. On the neighboring plantation >f E. St. Marten the lightning struck a negro abin, badly damaged it, knocked three of ho inmates unconscious and otherwise inured them. At Titusville, Penn., during a heavy thunlerstorm, lightning struck the home of Mrs. Jhambers, on Brown street, passing through he roof and killing her instantly. The husiandf on returning from work at C o'clock, n entering the hou:e found his wife ying dead besi le her bed. her body havng in the meantime turned black. It is upposed Mrs. Chambers was sitting on the ide of the bed engaged in nursing her two nonths' old Daby, for when found the baby vas lying in an unconscious state, while an ilder child was in tho cradle in the same 00111 crying hard. During a heavy storm, T. J. JelifT, station igent of the Tioga railway at Canoe Camp, k few miles south of Elmira, N. Y., was truck and instantly killed by lightning. He ran standing beneath the telegraph wire at be time, and the planks of the platform beicath him were shattered. Tho lightning aft no mark on the body whatever. Barney Vhitaker, who was standing within two feet if JelifT, was uninjured. An Krio (Penn.) disnatch savs: Erie was risited to-day by another t! inderstorm more 'iolent than that ofk.tv/eek. Tho re?ilence of the Rev. M.Moy.r, of the Cross and Jrown Episcopal church, a as si ruck,and Mrs. Joyer hurled from one room into another,renlering her unconscious and inflicting serious njuries upon her. AN ARMY IN AFRICA, Che Remarkable March of I0l>,000 jlloliamnicdaiivto the West Coast, Soeretary of State Bayard is in receij t of a' lispatch from Sierra Leone, giving accounts )f the movements of an army of 100,000 men n the interior ot Africa. The dispatch was lent by United States Consul Lewis, whe >ays: "1 havo the honor to bring to the notice of Ihe department of state the fact of an extrajrdinary movement among the Mohammelans of the Nigritian regions,extending from Fimbuctoo to the west coast. It appears that in 1BS0 a Mandingo named Samudu, of extraordinary intelligence and energy, connived the idea that he was called ot God to ivage a war for tho suppression of paganism and the oponing of the roads to -ho coast, which in certain districts have been tor generations subjected to excessive blacknail and to the plundering of vagabond iribes. During the last five years he has collected an army, consisting ot foot and horse, if about 10 i,00J men. Alouummedun youths, .vherever ho goes, fio.'k to his standard, anxious not only to secure the reward in the aereaiter promised to those who fight for ;heir religion, but to carry olf the rich ipoils of time which these expeditions hit battlo for the faith are sure :o win. It is said that Samudu's army is livided into three portions; one is operating war the headwaters of the Niger. This porlion recently drovo ccrtain French troops Tom the gold regions of Boure, of which they iatl taken possession, and are now besieging tfainmakoo, a large town on tho Nig.-r, oj:upied about three years ago by tho French, vho have been orecting fortifications ihnre. Another portion of the army is operating in the egions east of Liberia, and by suppiessing ihe disturbing elements, unfettering trade, md introducing a knowledge of religion and etters is in one senso opening the way for legro emigrants of intelligence and energy rom America to push out from the Atricakmerican republic to tho healthy and fertile egions of the interior. In another seme it s forestalling the whole region for Molammedanism and making it difficult, If not impossible, ii, indeed, it is de urahie, to convert mat coumrj iu mo 'aith imported from America by the emigrants. The third portion of the army is approaching the coast a few miles north n est of Sierra Leone. It has secured the submission iy force or voluntary surrender of all the ;ribes on the way for500 miles back." BUTCHERING- A BROTHER, Two Children Kill a Third ?Imitating a rig-Killing-. About nine miles from Talladega City, Ala., lear a little country place called l'eckerwood, T. H. McGownn, a respectable farmer, lives with lis lovely and intelligent family. The other lay he killed and dressed a pig for the ocal barbecue. It was killed, cleaned ind hung by the hind legs to a pole in the >ld fashioned way, and disemboweled ai.d eft to cool. McGowan's three children, iged eleven, nine and four years, hail witlessed the oi>eration. Next day Mcliowan vent to the barbecue, leaving his vife niul children at home. The hildreu were playing in the yard vliere tlio pig had been killed, when it tic urred to them to repeat the operation they iad witnessed the day before. The two other liildrcn, fur want of a pig, agreed tht-y vould make their little brother the victim. I'hey procured the knife used by their father md drew it across the throat of the fou:-,-ear-old child, watching him lying >n the grou id and bl-eding to death. They hen stui-k a stick in t he tendons of the eh.Id s oet and swung it across tho sa.ne pole 0:1 vhich the pig had hung. The corpse had jeen already stripped. They then disenijoweled the child, catching tlie entrails in a ub and repeated tin* proi-e.-s of washing the I jo ly a-i ilu pig had been denned. Aiiour 1 ins tune t?e motner oi tne cmiurrn Mine out to loolc after them, when her eyes n;t the terrible si^jlit of her dead child hnngng to the pole. Her life was despaired I'lio children aie ton young U} be held legally e';tniHil?li>. PROMINENT rEOPLE. Sik Moses Moxtkmohb died worth about ss.0(h>,0(j0. The empress of Russia wants Miss Cleveland's book translated in Russian. One of General Grant's paII-bearers, General Joe John-ton, had never s.-en him. Ex-United States Senator Cowan is slowly dying of cancer at his home in J,ig>nier, Penn. Sin Ahthl'r St'llivan, of musical celeb ity, lingers at Los Angeles, Cal., a placo of lelight, ho thinks. Nine monuments to General Grant will be ?reete.i in this country unless some of the present projects fail. Lord Woi.sei.ev was offered the post of xunmaiider-in-chief both in Ireland and in India, but he declined both appointments. Rosc o;: Conkuxg will be urged to deliver in oration on Grant at tlui New York Acad* smy of Music as soon as he returns from Kurc* e. SWEPT BY A STORM. | tei The South Atlantic Const Ravaged by Wind and Wave. Ee An Immense Amount of Damage S Done in Several Statss. la] a i Details of a damaging storm which has ravaged the South Atlantic coast are given jjjj in disputches as follows: N; A Jacksonville telegram states that the coast lino of Florida was ravaged by a storm tl of unusual violence. The gale, which had m been blowing all day from the south, in- til creased in severity in the afternoon, and at i d o ciock reacneu me proportions ol a nur- j? ricane, which wrought groat disaster to the ?0 coast towns. The little villago of Mayport, at tho mouth of the river, twenty-live miles below Jacksonville, suffered most. At this point the large and well-filled Atlantic hotel was lifted from its foundations and 1,1 dropped upon tho beach, demolishing its w porches and greatly damaging the house. Mrs. Gilbert Hunter, a wealthy Jacksonville cl lady, standing on the front stoop, was lifted tfc by asudden gustof wind and dashed upon tho 01 ground, breaking her right leg above the kneo ft and Inflicting other painful injuries. Other guests of tho hotel escaped without serious in- Y jury. The Jetty house was blown to pieces, ]e the Convent Cottage hotel blown away, three U] lighters, laden with stone and merchandise. ai wero sunk, tho house of Louis Arnun was blown down and the handsome ocean steam ship City of Monticollo seriously injured by pounding against tho docks, which were demolished. Nearly every house in the village i was unroofed and tho damage and discomfort ^ are enormous in proportion to tho size of tho town. Fortunately no lives were lost. ?' At St Augustine, Fla., tho storm raged with groat fury. The roof of tho ancieut K cathedral was lifted off. The colored Meth- tc odist church was turned entirely over and the streets was strewn with sjishes and shutters ei and doors blown from the house*. A car at le the depot was blown from the track and S2t B down in the marsh. pi At Fernandina, Fla., tho storm almost A amounted to a cyclone. Among tha house3 tl demolished are tho Colored Men's hall, the t nearly completes handsome residence of Mr. vi Smith, the photograph gallery, the oil sbed < and a dozen smaller houses. Hoyt's large ?_ warehouse was UHroofed and marly every glass window on the main street was blown in. It is estimated that nearly a hundred small boats were destroyed in the harbor. Persons from the Strathmore hotel on the beach say p[ the scene was terrific and beggars descrip- pt tion. The surf rolled mountain high end broke over the beach with loud and resounding roars in its wild fury The storm center pseamed to be more inland and culminated ci about Fernandina. L< The total damage along the Florida coast is estimated at $JOO.OJO. Reports from Lake Bl City, Falatka and other points throughout je the State indicate some damage to orange I La trees, but none to property. Ni A Charleston (S. C.) dispatch says: Charles- N< ton was struck by a tornado this morning, and one-fourth of the houses in the city are hi unroofed, parts of the spires of St. Michael'? and St. Matthew's churches are blown .. dow.. and the spire of the Cita- J, del Square Baptist church is de- gj molished. The wharves and warehouses CI are badly damaged. Four vessels which arrived yesterday are wrecked. The telegraph ij wires are down, and there are no cars run- Jl ning. The loss is estimated at $1,000,000. The work of restoration has already begun. Thj hurricane last night and this morning was terrific, says a Sullivan's Island (S. C.) telegram. A number of houses on Sullivan's Islan I were blown away. The New Brighton 01 hotel had over 100 guests, and groat fears were entertained for their safety. About m 9 o'clock this morning the storm reached its greatest velocity. Afc that hour, 0, while the hotel people were at ,jj breakfast, the Casino fell with a great crash. Fortunately all the rooms in that building had been vacated, but there wc.-a jj8 grave apprehensions that the dining room D< and main building would soon succamfc to the violence of the storm. At 9 o'clock re the storm increased from south- b] west. When the Casino fell it is thought that the velocity of the storm was It from sixty-five to seventy miles an hour. Tha \\ main building of the hotel is -intact, having cc stood the storm without very serious damage. It is said that the present storm was the most a violent in thirty years. The loss to the New h Brighton will be $30,0;0. d A Savannah (Ga.) dispatch says: Early last evening a stiff breeze sprang up in this city, which increased in violence untii at 4 'a o'clock this morning it was blowing sixty al miies an hour. Hundreds of trees were leveled or stripped of their branches, and fenc- ? ing was lata low in every direction. In front of the Pavilion hotel a large syca- is more tree was snapped off like a pipesteni p< and hurled against the house, carry- in itig away the roof of the porch and battering to in several windows, almost causing a stampode among the terror-stricken guests. The ij. storm was not furious until 2 a. m.f but after i u that hour very little sleep was obtained, jj Hundreds of terrified people were up and 0j dressed in every part of the city, momentarily expecting a recurrence of the terrible experience of 1881. *? The warehouse of George TV. Parish was unroofed and a large shed was blown down. The roofs of many houses were wholly or in part blown off. Aloi.g the wharves the gale was even more terrific. At the Exchange E dock the sailboat Alec Brown of Beaufort tc was run into and sunk by the sloop Pet, ami throj other sloop3 suffered the same fate. SI At 4 a. ii. the water was running over the i" whnrves. and nptain* hadallthev could do to keep their ver-sels from being dashed to ?; pieces. Several small sailing craft which g' ply between the city and adjacent islands j ijj were seen floating out to sea bottom up, and w it is feared that many negro vegetable m dealers have been drowned. One body has I alroady been washed ashore at Schuetzen j 0f Park. At Tybee Island, at the entrance | fitroi- fiiA <*?!? wns even worse than in ' this city. The wind attained a velocity of ! eighty-four miles an hour, and everybody on I the island expected to be blown out to sea or I drowned by a big wave. The summer residenceof Charles Carroll was leveled with the s0 ground. Mrs. Carroll, who was alone in the re house, escaped just in time to save her life. The house and its contents were worth 9U,- ? 000. 7 The British steamship Marion, from the la Cape Verde Islands for Savannah, in ballast, j which had been lying in quarantine for a . bi week, dragged her anchor and was lifted into cc the marsh. Sue was gotten off to-night. While J coming up the rivor to night the steamer Ma- | c rion collided with the river steamer Bridge- j la' ton, and tho latter was sunk. No live3 are , w known to have been lost. The British bark ! 2s'. Mosler. lying off Tybee. dragged her j anchor and went ashoro on the bea :h oppo- I . site Tyboe lighthouse. She was in ballast j f1 from Belfast, Ireland, to Savannah for char- j in ter. She is partly filled with water, and lies , in a position which will probably result in j aK her destruction unless sho can be gotten off . to-night. j " | G of i*-* nn-T r.ri ntrr" "crAmr ; pc from cholera. {" A number of cases of cholera aro reported 111 from several Italian towns. w i c,v j tli NEWSY GLEANINGS, j New York city Las Go,000 paupers. v? Tiibre are M.OOO families in London, each of which lives in 0110 room. j ?* California now stands third iu tho list of til petroleum-producing States. (li Onr of 1,0'.'5 voters reentered at Walla si Walla, W. T.. 4:JO are women. tl; It is estimated that foreigners own about 1J( acres of land in this country. 0| Tub population of the United States is divided into '?>, "> 18,8*20 males and ~4,DOo fomales. A hill has been introduced in the Georgia ! legislature to impose an annual tax of i0 upon all bachelors. - i ~ A Ci'simxg (Me.) farmer got up in his sleep and mowed a swath l<>rty rods long in his sc meadow before he awoke. Ward, Nov., which cast over five hundred In votes less than ten years ago, now has a total tl population of about lift>*. Tiie cotton crop promises to be tho finest j j ever known. It is now said to bo safe from ravages by tho caterpillar. Each year, it is claimed, about twelve thousand "tons of small grindstones nro disp ise.l of to farmers iu tho United Stat. s. 11 Is Rostov, Russia, there is a society of tl child murderers, who, acting as nurses, poison i children to spare them tho troubles of lite. fc Ix tho region of tho C'alsktlls there nro i t] nvreUnn I,IHX) hotels and boarding houses, | iu which more than 'JUi',000 visitors are ac- I I'ommodated. umiuja vi inu ijjavjjj.-. | i W Panic In (lie t anaiy (?lan<l??Clio'cra us in "-finln, France, and Italy. p;; Tho cxci.Qinent aiuoug the ]>eojd'j of the j j? Canary Islands, caused by a fear of cholera, tc amounts to a panic. They now refuse to permit any person from Spain to land. They j uj ?ide an excoptionin favor of the new {rover- | ca | nor, and allowed him to como asliu-e, I but received him with riotous demonstration, la: j and threw stones at him. The local authorities have residue 1, and many of the people have lied to tho interior in tear of tho approach of the scourge. Soldiers occupy the . streets and all tho public buildings. Throughout Spain 0:1 the -1st there wore j . 5,104 new eases of cholera, and 1,044 deaths ] 10 from tlie disease. During tho twelve hours mi ended at midnight fourteen new cases and ca nine deaths were reported in Madrid, and Vll 117 now cases and forty-ono deaths in the province outside. The seven deaths from cholera which had t 111 occurred at Gibralter up to the -1st were all cii within the Spanish lines. The government \ s<j of Gibralter has imposed a two days' quarau- , q-j tine against all arrivals from tho country. There were twenty-five deaths from cholera at Marseilles, France, on the 21st. St. Loup j tit ? Iti,., nf cni_ . UUIUiei 13 UVCUIIUU^ ~ -_r_ J demit'. The formality observed in admitting vc patients lo tho Iliaro hospital results, it is : thought, in many deaths through delay. Sev- i eral new rases of cho'era have been reported in tjJ France. The situation at Marseilles is grow- ti' ing worse. Between s a. m. and 5 r. jr. 100 . In ilo.iths were reported, of which lifty were n| rflE NATIONAL GAME. The Athletic club, of Philadelphia, co?mplates a Southern trip in October. P. T. Barxuii, tlia showman, is the princi,1 backer of the Brideeports, the now memr of the Eastern league. Jones, of Cincinnati, and Gore, of Chicai, are the boss run-getters?the one in the merican and the other in the league. Locis Hexki.e, first baseman of the Atuta club, died recently from the effects of collision with another player at first base. It is rumored that the Southern league xt season will include Richmond, Savanih, Charleston, Atlanta, Macon, Augusta, ashvillo and Memphis. The Buffalo and Providence clubs are of ie opinion that the twenty-five cent tariff ust be adopted next season, or they will rere from the National league. There is under consideration a plan to orinize anothor Eastern league for next year, take in most of the New York State and juthern New England League club. The Southern league's championship ason doesn't end till October 15. Just now lere is a fight all around to beat the Atlantas, ho are ahead in the championship race. People who think the Southern league ubs are not playing good ball should watch ie scores and see for themselves. For a new ganization this league has made a wonderil record. Philadelphia , Boston, Chicago and New ork have each played an absolutely errorss game this season. This means something ider the rule classing battery misplays of ly kind as errors. Crane, of the Buffalo club, the celebrated ng distance thrower, is in bad luck. He iceived an injury to his knee a short time ago, id it is doubtful whether ho will be able to ay any more ball this season. A dispatch from Toronto says that an fort will be made to resurrect the old Inxnational league, taking in clubs from ocbester, Buffalo. Detroit, London, Hamilin, Toronto, Toledo and Ottawa. The official fielding averages of the South n league show the following players to be ading in the respective positions: Tray, irmingham club, catcher; Clark, Columbus, itcber; O'Brien, Memphis, first base: Heard, ngusta,*second ba?e; McSorlev, Memphis, linl base: Hager, Columbus, left field; Dies1, Nashville, centre field, and Hlllery,Nashille. right field. The championship records up to recent date e as follows: TnC NATIONAL LEAGUE. Won. jAHt. I Wo'i. Lost. jwYork. <">2 19 Boston 31 49 ilcago.........63 17 I St. Louis 26 63 .ilaHnlnila 37 SX I Nllffftlo 20 B2 oviduncc. 46 31 | Detroit 25 54 american association. .Louis 81 26 Brooklyn 36 43 ttsbnrii 43 38 Baltimore 34 60 ncinntti 51 3" Athletic 39 43 laibvillo 46 42 | Metropolitan.. .28 54 eastern league. ldgeport 3 4|Norfoik 30 40 rsey City 9 27I Trenton 37 34 ncaster 23 39 Virginia 55 15 itional 53 20 | Wilmington 5 33 swaric 30 41 1 Since our last report the Bridgeport club is been added to the Eastern league. southern league. :lanta 56 25 I Colnmbas 43 40 ngusta 48 31 Macin 43 33 rmingham...lT 62 | Memphis. 36 44 iattanooza...29 50 | Nashville 49 30 IUS1CAL AND DRAMATIC. Salvini, the Italian tragedian, will sail ion for the United States. Edward Remenyi, the noted violinist, is 1 a concert tour in China. New York city will have Italian and Geran opera again the coming season Verdi is putting "Cthello" to music. The jera will be called "logo," and is to bo proiced at Milan in 1886 Sarah Bernhardt is to appear next year i Charlotte Corday in a drama which isnow >ing written by Sardou. Mr. John Francis Gilder is giving piano citals at various summer resorts, assisted f Mr. William H. Lee, the baritone. TnE greater portion of Colonel Mapleson's alian opera season will be spent in the restern citie3, in which he last year mod# insiderable money. Edwin Booth lives in a sumptuous Queen nna cottage on one of the lea.st fashionable, it most beautiful streets in Newport Mr. ooth is very hospitable. tfo c "pot tt flm a morirton ^mnaoor tely produced parts of his opera "Zenobia" ; Stemway Lall in London. Among the realists were Mis3 Griswold and Miss Hops lenn. a French adaptation of the "Silver King" being prepared for the Paris Ambigu. lta rformance there will be the first in Franco many years of an English drama adapted i the French stage. "Diane de Lys" is one of Dumas' plays lat has not yet been seen on this side. Fanny f avenport produced the play in England, odjeska will present a new dramatization ' the piece in this country. Richard Wagner's representatives, says ie London Truth, have positively refused to low "Parsifal" to be performed in America i any terms whatever except as an oratorio, (it wa3 given in London last winter. Miss Wixoji, known by her stage name, mma Nevada, is to be married in Paris Ociber 1 to Dr. Palmer, who was hor secretary iring her recent American engagement, lie will make a concert tour in this country November. P. S. Gilmore led his orchestra in playing N'earer My God to Thee" ot Manhattan oa*'h, Coney Island, one day recently, whilo s mother's funeral was in progress. He as compelled by the terms of his engageent to remain away from the grave, and he lided his orchestra, he says, through a fog tears. Wooden Shoes at> Premium. "Rat-tat-tat. rat-tat-tat," was the peiliar sound that smothered all other unds in the rotunda of Castle Garden ccntly. It came from several dozen pairs of Doden shoes that were worn by as many /inaf-nmprl ITnllftndnrs. UlUdl*V.M*?J vvw?MM.?? "They are not only the best dressed, it the most industrious peoprc that une to America, "said a clerk to a Journal porter, "and were it not for their outndisli habit of wearing wooden shoes ould be a pleasure to have aronnd." Furthermore, he said that lately many ealthy people who have a craze for cussities come down to bargain with the lmigrants for their shoes. . High prices are often paid for them, id in one instance, several days since, a ell-known society lady drove to Castle arden in a cab for the express purpose securing several pairs of these clap?r-cl ipper brogans. "What use do they make of them? 'ell, I'm sure I don't know as they arc ieful, but I've heard that they arc tinted, lined with satin and used for dies' work-baskets to keep sewing marials in. "One lady I heard had one pair fixed ) very fancy and used them as a jewelse." The price asked by knowing IIolnders for their foot gear is usually i.?New York Journal. The Mango. The Philadelphia O'/occr relates the llowing interesting story about the ungo, one of the choicest of the tropi1 fruits: A curious instance of the insion of a country by a plant of foreign igin is seen in the history of the mango Jamaica. In 1762, specimens of the anainon, jack fruit and mango were nt to the Hotanic garden of the island, nere the cinnamon was carefully fosred; but proved to be difficult of culre in the island; while the mnngo, hifih was neulected. became in eleven ars as common as the orange, spreadg over lowlands and mountains, from ic sea level to five thousand feet elevaun. On the abolition of slavory, imensc tracts of land, especially coifce antations, relapsed into a state of nare. The mango, being a favorite fruit ith the blacks, its stones were llung crywhere. giving rise to groves along ie roadside, and along the settlements; id the fruits of these again rolling jwn hill, gave rise to forests in the illeys. The clTect of this spread of ie mango has been to cover hundreds thousands of acres, and to ameliorate ic climate of what were dry and barren striets by producing moisture and lade, and by rctainining the rain falls lat had previous evaporated; all this, . side affording food for several months ; the year to both negroes and horses. Whore Green Grass Grows. "Why, where did you get those rare asses, my dear:'' said Higgles to his ife the other day. ''You must have :it a long way olf for them:*' "I didn't, though; 1 got them right ?rc iu Kvansville. Aren't they pretty in i?; vases?" "Yes. You say you got them here in ic cny; ' Yes. lii^lit on Ma:n street." "You don't tell me! Where!" "1 was going into old JSrown's stoic iv mistake) the other day and I found lem growing right in his doorway." "That's strange. Now do yoitacconnt >r such grass "rowing right in a man'g oorwnv (" "Easy enough. lie don't advertise!" grille Anjim.