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ABBEVILLE PRESS AND BANNER. BY HUGH WILSON. ABBEVILLE, S. 0.. WEDNESDAY. SEPTEMBER 16, 1885. NO. 12. VOLUME XXX THE OLD HAIL FEXCE. I'm told that foreign tourists without fear of consequence, Lightly spenk of one old landmark?of our zigzag rail-split fenceWhen talking of their travels. They would have us understand They thought little of this treasure held so dear in Yankeeland. But the rail fence in its windings heedoth not the critic, lightly Commenting on its symmetry. On it winds so gay and five; And capricious convolutions of the grain in i careless sway Weave lines of beauty round its form which no artist can portray. Oft I've lingered in its angles busy with a hundred thoughts Abo"t its weather beaten sfains of moss, its shaggy, oaken knots. And hnsU nf rflmiiiisrpnrn:? and obiects quaintly seen, -And tlie changing limit's and shadows of gray and fat in sheen. The old rail fence contents itself with wreaths of flowers to dress, Their creeping mallows all conspire to hide | i their nakedness, j 1 And stone piles in the corners clothe them- ! selves with ivy vine, And dewberry and cin<|iie-foil round about the stakes entwin \ I ( Tall brambles rise and yield their snowy j bloom to rifling bees, 1 Or later hanjj their tempting fruit among tho 1 yellow leaves; There are no raspberries half so large, nor ; hazel-nuts >o brown, As grown within the corners of a fence atumbling down. 1 , There rich green beds of sweet fern gave 1 1 their aromatic savor [ * To merry maid who there essayed to seek and 1 woo their favor. And oft the frisky squirrel, in* quest of nuts ' of brown ami gold To garner for midwinter (lavs, found a mine ' of wealth untold. I The white bloom of the aniso tells of sweet < beneath tho ground, i ' And artichokes and sunflowers are in rich j profusion found; < Till eddying November winds in its sheltered 1 angles whirl The dying leaves, and whistling winter winds ^ around the comers curl : s j i Anon tho clouds of drifting snow bedim the t evergreens, ; ? And sweep across the meadows with the fu- r rious rage of liend$; c Battling down the great, gaunt mulleins and 1 red-capped sumacs tall, And powdering up the old rail fence till it s stands a whitened wall. , ? c Whirling, curling, drifting, till fantastic t peaks arise, c Their glistening forms in grandeur pointing upward to the skies, r And huge o'erhaiiging eli/Ts the rambling v rails enfold, s Their great blue-shadowed crescents white v and dazzling to behold. Oh,Time! preserve this picture, photograph it n on my mind! c In richest colors print it there, leave no out- f line undefined! r What care 1 what foreign tourists tell, 'tis of little consequence? They can never mar the beauty of the zigzag old rail fence! I r ? Will M.McConnell, in the Current, i A VENDETTA. ! t Paolo Saverini's widow lived alone r with her son in a miserable little house on the ramparts of Bonnifacio. The city, { built upon :i projection of the mountain, t and even hanging directly above the sea r in some places, commands, across the strait that bristles with rocks, a ;jood r view of the lowest portion ef the i?ar- c dinian coast. At its feet, ou the other t side, but almost flarking it entirely, an t opening in the clill shaped like a gigan- j tic corridor serves it for a port, enabling the little Italian or Sardinian fishing smacks to advance to the first line of c houses, after a long circuit between two , abrupt walls. And every fifteen days r comes the old wheezy steamboat which n plies between the town and Ajaccia. a Upon the white mountain the mass of houses make a still whiter stain. They s seem like nests of wild birds attached to ;] the rock, and overlooking the terrible ( passage into which vessels never venture, t Without repose the wind labors the sea, | labors the naked coast, which it gnaws r forever, and which has scarcely a cover- i ing of green?it rushes into the narrow c dctroit, ravaging cither &uore. ihc ] long trails of white foain, clinging to } the points of the conntlcss rocks which a picrce the water everywhere, have the aspect of tatters of clothes floating anil quivering on the surface. The house of the widow Savcriui, j 8 perched upon the very cdqe of the clilT, | as if soldered there, opened its three ; windows to the wild and desolate horizon, j She lived there all alone with her son nnd their dog Allegro?a great, gaunt beast with loug, bristling hair, of sheep- ' dog breed. The dog aided the young } man in hunting. . One evening, after a quarrel, Antonio Saverini was treacherously kilicd?with i I a single knife-thrust?by Nicolo Havolati, . who, the same nigLt, tied to Sardinia. . "When the old mother received the! corpse of her child, that some passers- 6 by had found and carricd to her, she did not weep at all, but remained for a 1 long time motionless, staring at the s Vw.rlr* t'nnn cirff rhincr nnf Hpr UTinlrtofl ' t hand over the bud v. she proc'aimed a | 1 vendettn. She would not allow anyone ' to remain with her, and she shut herself 1 up alone with the dog, which howled. ' The brute howled continuously, standing up with his forepaws on the edge of 1 the bed, turning his head toward his master's fare, atid keeping his tail between his legs. There he remained, motionless as the mother, who now, bending over the corpse, contemplated it' wi h a fixed stare, while great, dumb ' tears rolied down her cheeks. Lying on his back at full length, still wearing his great coarse jacket, torn 1 and pierced at the breast, the youth j ! germed to sleep; but his blood was every- 1 where?on the shirt that had been torn ] open when the first attempt at aid was ;1 made, on his vest, on his trousers, on 1 his face, on his hands. Gouts of blood j 1 had thicke ned in his beard and hair. The old mother began to speak to 1 him. At the sound of her voice the dog '! ceased to howl. I ] "Never mind, never mind! Thou]' wilt be avenged, my little one, my own 1 boy, my poor dear child. Sleep! Sleep! thou wilt be avenged; dost hear? It is j mother who promises this to thee; and] she ahvavs keens her word, mother I docs!1 And she bent down slowly over him , pressing her lips upon the cold, dead i lips. Then Allegro again began to howl, j He uttered n long, monotonous plaint, j piercing, horrible. The two remained there until morning | ?the woman and the auimal. Antonio Savcriui was buried next j morning; and folks soon ceased to speak j of him in ISonifacio. He had left no brother, nor even any near tousins. There was no man to pursue the vendetta. The old woman I only thought of it?the old mother. From morning till night she watched a white speck gleaming across the strait ?on the low shore beyond. It was the little Sardinian village, Longo-Sardo whither Corsican bandits still fly for refuge when too c'oselv pursued. They alone constitute almost the entire population of the hamlet, fronting the coast of their own fatherland; and they wait ihcre for the chance to return to the mountain thickets. She knew it was in that village that Xicolo Ilavolati was hiding. All day long, while sitting alone at her window, she looked across the water, pondering vengeance. L?ut what was she to do without any man to aid ? a weak old woman, with one foot in the grave? Nevertheless she had promised | ?she had sworn upon the corpse. She couid not forget?she could not wait. "What was she to do? Bhe could not sleep at night for thinking of it?she could neither rest nor find ' peace of mind; she thought avid planned \ and devised incessantly, obstinately. ' The dog, which slept at her feet, occa- j sionally lifted his head with a start and howled at the empty air. Since his mas- ! ter had been killed the dog often howled like that, as if his inconsolable animal- j sold was also haunted by a memory j which nothing could elTace. Now, one night while Allegro was howling, a sudden idea came to his mother?an idea worthy of a vindictive j and ferocious savage. Sbc thought ovet , it until morniup. and. risincr at the first I gleam of dawn, she hurried to the' church. There, prostrate upon the pave- j meat, casting herself down before <>'od, she prayed llim to aid her, to sustain j her, to give her poor old body strength , to enable her to avenge her son. Then she went home. She had an old j barrel in her yard, which she used to j collect the rain water in. This she omp ! tied, laid on its side, fixed firmly to the ground by means of stakes and staves. Then she chained Allegro to this extemporized kennel and went into the house. She begau to walk backward and forward in her room, without ever resting ?glancing from time to time at the Sardinian coast, lie was there?the mur j derer. All that day and all the night following the dog howled. In the morning the old woman brought him a bowl ol water, but nothing else?not even a bit | of bread or a drop of soup. Another div passed. Allegro, worn out with hunger, slept. When morniiiL' came his eyes glittered, all his hair bris. ! lied, and he pulled cra/.ily at his chain. J Still the old woman gave him nothing j to cat. The brute became furious, and i . i i > ,._.i :?i.* i DUIKCU IlOai'SC'lV. ilUOlill'i IHU'IU |ju3?m;u. j Early in the morning .Mother Saverini' went to her nearest neighbor ami begged | for sonic wisps of straw. Then she took sonvj old c'otiies that had formerly be longed to her husband and stalled them with the straw so as to imitate the foric :?f a human body. Planting a pole firmly in the ground in front of Allegro's kennel she fastened the niannikia upon it so that it seemed lo stand. Then she made a head for it jut of some old rags fastened into a . ball. The astonished dog stared at this man 5f straw and stopped howling, although :ortured with hunger. Then the old woman went to the jutcher shop, and bought a long, black lausage, which she took home with her. She kindled a wood fire in the yard, neai ;hc kennel, and began to cook the sailiage. Allegro, wild with expectation, nad with the odor of the meat, that ntercd his very entrails, leaped and lowled, and foamed at the mouth. Then the mother made a cravat for the traw man out of the smoking sausage. ?hc tied it very tightly arouna the iicck ?f the mnnnikin, ns if to squeeze it into lie pole. "When this wa9 done she un- ' haincd the dog. AVith one tremendous bound the dog 1 eached the throat of the raannikin, and vith his paws pressed against the boulders began to tear. lie fell back vith a piece in his mouth, devoured it-eaped again, driving hi" teeth through . he strings, tore away another morsel? nd leaped again, and tore away furi- 1 msly. lie rent away the head with renzied bites; he tore the neck into ibbons. Silent and motionless the old woman vatched him, while her cye9 blazed. , flien she chained up the dog again: : nade him fast for two days more, and ecommenced the stiange lesson. 1 For three whole months she accu9omed him lo this sort of a struggle for j ood?to repasts obtained only by the itrength of his fangs. Then she ceased , o chain him; for she had him so well . rained that he would leap at the m:.nlikin the moment she gave him a sign. , She had trained him even to rend it, o devour it. when there was no meat atached to it. As his reward she always ravf? him r hi" niece of fried sausarre. ' ) ~"O i -- -Whenever Allegro looked at the manlikin his w'tole body would quiver with incitement, and lie would turn his eyes o the face of his mistress, wait for her 0 hiss the words "At him!" with finger minting. When she thought the time had come Id Mother Saverini dressed herself in nan's clothcs, disguised herself as an old agged beggar, and made a bargain with 1 Sardinian fisherman to take both her ind the dog acro>s the strait. She had an immense piece of fried ausagc in a canvas bag. Every once in i while she made Allegro smell it, so as o excite him. The dog had eaten tothing for two days. They entered into Longo-Sardo. The Id Corsican woman walked with a imping gait. She stopped at a butchtr's slio|? and asked where Is'icolo iavolati lived. He had gone back to lis old trade- carpentering. Me worked ill alone at the rear of his shop. The old woman pushed open the dcor tnd called him. "Hey! Nicolo!" He turned his head; she instantly let oose her dog, and cried out: "At him!?at him??tear him, tear lim!"' The maddened animal bounded forvard and caught him by the throat, riie man struggled to throw olt the jrutc?fell on his baek?writhed, beat he ground with his feet for a moment, rhen he lay very still, while Allegro juried his muzzle deeper and deeper in lis throat, tearing the flesh awav in great ihreds. Two neighbors, sitting on their door iteps, said they remembered distinctly o have seen an old beggar leaving the louse, accompanied oy a grcar. gaunt, jlack dog, which, as it walked along, iept eating some-thing?something jrown, which its master wag giving it. The same evening the old woman re.urned home. That night she slept well. ?From the French, Times-Democrat. In a Mexican Restaurant. From the miiitary plaza in San Anonia a half-dozen narrow streets branch >11. Dow a the narrowest of these, ivhich seem:, but a passage-way between lie rows of somber houses that line either i >ide?for this is ''greaser towu''?is a , restaurant. The presiding genius of the j place is a fat and handsome Mexican 1 whose unctuous complexion glistens in j the glow of the charcoal lire that blazes [ softly in a cavernous, horizontal slit in the gigantic chimney. It is like no ' >ther cooking arrangement that ever was seen and the method of the chef ' is beyond compare.*' Dozens of tiny saucepans and skillets, set flat upon the coals, I crowd the opening very much like invatided teeth in some great ogre's mouth, and in each of those little skillets and saucepans is the portion for one person. The treasures of earth could not induce that oily cook to consolidate his i dishes and more especially to fry more ; than one egg at a time in his egg-pan; ' his laws tire fixed ana unatteraoie, ana he rewards tiie protests of his guests i against cold eggs served :n congealed oil with Mexican indilTerencc. Thirteen plates for the thirteen wait- I ing customers stand ready to his hand, j and the long-handled frying-pan makes thirteen separate journeys with thirteen j separate eggs, the while that two assist- | ants, a degree dirtier, oilier and less fat, i chop on'on and grate cheese, which arc I spread finally over the chillcd eggs and cold oil and placed before the hungry j people, whom a day's Anticipatory fast has prepared to accept anything with , gratitude. In lieu of a fork a very Hat pancake called a "tortilla," is doled out j to each one. Years of practice are re- j quired for the successful manipulation of , this most useful article, which,when you i have done with as a scoop and have dili- | gently and successfully chased the parti- i cles of food in the sea of oil that fills [ your plate, you aie cxpectcd to cat as a final course?a most cleanly and labor- * saving arrangement.?Jlomc Journal. Mr. John Maguirc informed the Royal Astronomical society that in the period from A. I). 87S to 17-M, the sun has been totally eclipsed in every spot in the liritish Isles except a small place on the coa?;t of Ireland. Twice in 87S and 1715 London came within the narrow path of; totality. Twice als> did the moon's shadow fall on lhib!in and five times on Edinburg. 1 FARM, GARDEN AM) HOUSEHOLD. Turkey Ratmiii;. 1; To farmers who can give thorn unre- I strictcd range, there is no more pro tit a- L blc stock than turkeys, and it might also f be said with truthfulness, that" unless a you can allow them full liberty, they arc ii about as unprofitable as any kind of life e stock could possibly be. Turkeys re- t (juire free range; they will not, like n chickens, thrive in confinement, 110 mat- n tcrhow much attention and care is given them. But when they can have the Sl range of a large farm, and when only a the best and largest arc kept, such as p will weigh from twenty to twenty-five pounds by the holidays, the turkey crop v will be found to be a valuable one, and u the farmers wife can realize considerable ? ' pin money" from them. v Turkeys arc great foragers, and will c gather from the fields during the sum- S( mcr months their entire food, at the same time destroying myriads of grassliop- ^ pers, bugs and other insects that, prcv on the vegetable and grain crops. For f this reason they are not expensive or troub- 1 lesome to raise, and as the old turkeys 0 can take care of themselves, all that is ^ necessary in this article is to tell how to w care for and raise the young poults sue- j w cessfully. I rj The turkey hen usually commences to | lay about the first of April, and will lay | 0 from fifteen to twenty eggs at a litter. I jl The first litter should l>c given to good | . large Brahma or Cochin liens, aud the j 1 second to the turkey hen herself. The j P period of incubation is from twentv-six lo twenty-eight days. As soon as they i n nrc hatched and strong enough to leave | ^ the nest, they should be placed in a dry j coop. For the lirst two weeks after J n hatching, great care should be taken to j s: keep them from the scorching sun. drenching rains, and heavy morning and j " evening dews. It is well if the coops j t( can be placed in an open shed, with j " plenty of chulT, sand or dry earth for the I sl young poults to run upon. When two j weeks old they may be allowed their j S1 liberty with their mother, precaution | P being taken to avoid dews and rain- | storms, always closing them up early in g the evening, and not letting them out ir until the giass is quite dry in the n morning. After- they are six weeks j w old, or after they "shoot the g red," they may be considered o' past all danger, and do not require much c: care, only needing to be fed a little wheat li screenings, cracked corn or buckwheat, a when they come home to roost. Allow w * ' ?1 - At mem 10 roosc in uie trees wuu uikuiuiuui i n turkey, when they show an inclination tl to do fo, as it is lieallhier, and they do ta much better to most in the open air. The first food for young turkey; should ; p be hard boiled eggs, curds, scalded meal, j ni rice, ontmcal or badev, both cooked and Q uncooked, with a little tine chopped | p; meat (cookcd) occasionally, gradually | sf introducing the wheat screenings,cracked | c( corn and buckwheats as they advance in i ic age. If these hints are carefully ob- | tl served, there need be no trouble in rais- u! ing turkeys. I ai The varieties of turkeys recognized by I tl the American Standard of exccllcnce are ei the Bronze, >*arragansett, AVhite, Black, p; Buff and Slate. Of these, the Bronze arc by far the largest and most popular, and as size is the most important point, they will be found to be the most profitable. 0] ? Country Gentleman. 01 tl Farm mid Garden IVoien. Much barnyard manure in this country ! 0; is wasted. | C( What we want is more vegetables and i fewer weed9. ' tl Cut out the thin shoots from currants S ind the fruit will come larger. i n Sow some white clover seed and_ ashes j :)n the bare spots in me pasture, will ^ pay. Examine the mouth of young stock to .. see if they have loose teeth In the way of feeding. JJ Rich Jersey milk should be thoroughly w cooled before being carried any distance S{ in cans. Look out for caterpillars, not only on tj fruit tree?, but destroy them on all the tj wild shrubs. A ton of hay is said to contain 200 j n< pounds of mineral matter, which is taken it lrom the soil. ; It The soil is the farmers' bank, manure u draws the checks, and the stock grower j s< has the manure. j o. The best means of obtaining a profit j. from any class of stock is to keep the best and keep it well. Try plaster on all kinds of soil you j have, and learn where it does best and if it will pay anywhere. u A great improvement in dairy stock is a made by selecting a thoroughbred bull h of good milking family. p Watch your fields and sec where the s< water stands and where the soil remains 5 wet longest, so you will know where to f; put in drains next fall. j e; There is a way to onrich our lands; | P that is by plov.ing often and raising n clover, anil all of us can keep more stock and make more manure if we will only f1 try. We can increase our forage crops 15 each year by a little calculation before- v hand. ( A Colorado paper says that "the cow S may uc queen, the norse icing ana the j y sheep away up in royal honors; but it is '11 an indisputable fact that the hog, under i b the impetus of alfalfa and pea food, is J s approaching dangerously near the ,a throne." }a Teas are cheaper food for pijjs than j 1 corn. They fatten them very rapidly, al- . 0 though they do not irmke as solid pork ' as corn. They have this advantage over c corn: They mature early and can be fed c as soon as large enough for green peas, f the pigs consuming vines and all. 1 A small plot of ground, thickly sown j1 with barley so soon as the ground is dry * enough, will be eaten bare by sows. It ,!] is better tr> let tliem have !i little piece for themselves than to allow them to run J over winter and spring grain in the fields, or than to shut thcra up to keep them fl from trespassing. Oats when newly threshed are full of moi ture and not so profitable to feed as , old, unless there is much more than the usual difference in price. New oats will give some horses the colic and are theicfore not to be given to such on any r condition. The loss of weight by keep- ? ing oats till the following summer is i generally pretty well up to the amount 1 caiued by increase in price. If new oats have to be given it should be at first in ' rather small rations, which may be in- , creased if no bad etlects arc noticed. ^ I.overs of flowers should know that > one blossom allowed to mature or "go n to seed,*'injures the plant more than a s dozen new buds Cut your llowcrs, all f of them, before they fade. Adorn your f room with them, put them on your ta- c bles, send bouquets to your triends who ' ^ have no flowers, or exchange favors with f those who have. All roses, after they a have ceased blooming should be cut t back, that the strength of the root may t go to forming new roots for next year, j and on these bushes not a seed should be v aliowed to mature. s We Can state in Avhat situation lime r has been found useful. From its power | to decompose it has liecn found useful on [ t poor granite sous, r rom us caustic na- i \ iure it corrects injurious matter, such as sulphate of iron in soil. Limo breaks up and pulverizes sti!T clays, improving their texture. It decomposes inert veg- c etablc matter, peat, roots, kc. It hastens f, the decay of stable manure and dead j c carcasses, putrescent matter, &c., but in , all such cases if the nianurial ipiaiities , arc to hi; made useful they must be cov- t ercd with earth during the action of the ( lime to absorb the ammonia.?Joicn Jiaj- f isUr. , IIoii<m!io1il ItcriprM and Hint*. A tablespooful of powdered alum, j sprinkled into a hogshead of water and ] stirred, will, in the ccurse of a few ' c hours, precipitate to die bottom all the ! ( impure particles and leave the water i clear and jnire as spring water. Four ! j gallons would need but a teaspoonful. j t A r.ew way to make apple pudding is j t to make a batter of flour, sweet milk, j ; and one egg, with baking powder, in l r proper proportion. Pare and core six .? tart apples, stew them in a very little water until they are quite soft; then beat the apples into a batter. This is to be bak'.d in a buttcied earthen pie plate; it [ should be a deep p!a e. This is to be ( eaten with cream and sugar, or if cream a is an impossibility, use butter instead. t It is strange, says the Philadelphia | Vow, that so many pcoplo do not know j iow to cook corn. They cook it too ong. It should be popped in a pot of > toiling water?no salt?and left there j or ten minutes?ho sure the wat^r is in j groat rage?then taken out and wrappc 1 j a a large napkin until you arc ready to J at it. Boiled longer than ten minutes | he milk hardens in the kernels,and it is j ot a tenth part as palat ible, and it is J lucli less digestible. i Half a tcaspoonful of cornstarch dis* ! olved in a tablespoonful of cream and J ddcd to an omelet of five eggs will keep ; I light, and .1 bit of cornstarch will also ' revent scrambled eggs from becoming j atery, as tlicy often do "that last mo i , lent on the tire," but be careful not to j | se too much in either case. An cgn ! ell beaten and rubbed over the lower j ( rust of pics will prevent the juice from j ] >akin2 through, and the juicc of fruit ies thickened with a little cornstarch rill not boil over. j Rust can be removed from steel as , allows: Hub the article with kerosene j il and leave it to so ik for a day. Then ; rocurc fine flower or emery and mix | ith kerosene oil and scour the surf ice ' ith rotten stone. To preserve from j .1st. heat the steel and rub para'line. No I , [eel articles should be kept in a cellar j r damp place, but i:i a dry attic 01 j I losct. If they must be kept in a cellar j j icy should be well coated with paraf- j ] ne find wrapped in cloth or paper; oiled aper would b:; preferable. 1 One of the best salad herbs goes to j aste as a weed and pest of the garden. , hi Id re 11 know enough to cat sour grass ? ith its tender acid leaf. French cook-, umber it among the most excellent field . s dads, and doctors say it is soo:hing for * ic blood, preventing rheumatic and j outy disorders. It ought to he brought i 1 ) market by the bushel, for every Held 1 ns patches of it, and it is better than * linach or sjrrol for purees and bonne * imrnc soups, or it may he stewed with : a igar in porcelain as a delicate order of j 1 ieplant. i For coffee stains try putting thick 11 lycerine on the wrong side and wash- j \ ig it out with lukewarm water. For j f tspberry stains weak ammonia and ; * ater is the best. Stains of fruit on I j ood tabic linen can be removed with- t nt injury by using the following with | 1 ire: Four boiling water on chloride of j . mc, in the proportion ot one gallon to ; quarter of a pound, bottle it. cork it ell, and in using be careful not to stir . Lay the stain iii this for a moment, len apply white vinegar and boil the iblc linen. The happy owner of a cow can always rovide some d:sh for desert upon short oticc. Here arc directions for a "trifle:" ut several slices of sponge cake in small ieres of regular shape, say on inch a juarc; put them into a deep china bowl, i )vcr with a rich boiled custard, rcserv- ? ig the whites of the eggs to whip for j ic top, or if the cow producos cream, t ?e the whites of theesgs in the custard 1 id whip a pint of cream for the top of 1 ie bowl; flavor with vanilla and sweet- * i slightly; add the sugar while whip- j ing the cream. i Old Age. | With every year the average duration i F life is iucrcased, and we have more 1 Id people on our hands. Naturally, i ic quesiion becomes of increasing in- 1 ;rest, How shall we secure a healthful j Id age, and how can we prolong in ( jmfort this scniiity? 1 Sorr.c curious information regarding ' lis subject, though more especially re- ] rding what may be called "centena- ] anism," has been published by a gen- i Lilian \ji latuoC) xi? a ?, nuv, uv mw iformcd, has collectcd the histories of j 5,000 people that have passed the age , f 100 years. According to this author- , y, the United States leads in ccntcna- i an longevity, while Connecticut is bead among the States. As to sex, J omen; as to occupation, soldiers. i lilors and farmers are the longest lived, i mong the professions, 100 ministers, urty doctors and ten lawyers reached icir centennial. Of more practical and scientific charter are the statistics regarding longcvy obtained by the British Collective ivcstigation committee. These arc based j *' pon over 500 returns, and relate to perjns who have reached or passed the ace | c f eighty. I v Professor Humphrey, of Cambridge, j ^ as given some interesting deductions j ascd upon the returns in an oration dc- | c vercd belore the Medical society, of 1 1 ondon. j " The first requisite for longevity must j c an inherent quality of endurance, ? something which is inborn and per- l' aps inherited. It is noticeable that the I htliisical taint does not necessarily les- ! ^ ?r. the capacity for longevity. Among j [ 00 aged persons, phthisis appeared in 1 ithers, mothers, brothers, or sisters of j ighty-two, that is, in about seventeen u er cent. In one case both father and s lother were phthisical. ? A second requisite for long life is L reedom from exposure to casualties. It v 1 on this ground, in part, that more ? omen than men rcach extreme age 1 Hlier reasons, however, arc, perhaps, a * rcater natural vitality, since even in | c arly life the mortality is less among fe- c laics than males. It does not seem to I e proved by the data collected that v hort and small men and women have fi nv advantage over those who arc taller nd larger. The average height of old Englishmen is five feet six inchcs, that f women live feet three inches. Sir Ilenry Thompson, in a recent arti- 3 le on "Diet in 1'elation to Age," has j * ailed attention to the harm that comes [ i rom attempts to over-feed old people. 1 'hev arc injured, he truly says, by the so- j 1 icitous relatives, who think c hat in feeding there is sure v iclp for the waning strength, c 'he old need a light diet to correspond J rith the lessened work and nlowcr nu- c rition and waste of their tissues.?Mcdi- t %l Uncord. i s ? I \ Eel Farming. j c A newspaper correspondent ?.t South j 1 farmouth, Mass., has discovered a new c nterprise,which he describesas follows: * "wo gentlemen whose experience war- s ants them in trying the experiment pur- 1 hased a large fresh water pond.and into t his they put thirty barrels of silt water t e!s of all sizes. At a rough guess there ^ nust be in the pond 20,000 ;?els at the s resect time. The e are expected to in- i rease in size or weight at leust three- ' old by the first of October, njn they A vill be taken out and shipp;-' to the sew York market, where there is always great demand for them. Here ca the eacoast no one over thinks of eating a j ( resh-water eel; its flesh is soft and very j t ar, out tney are considered a great ueu- i acy by city people, and the larger the c ish the better price3 thev bring. To 1 eed them 0,000 "horse feet'' were caught 5 ,nd kept in a pound in the liver, and i wice a week 700 pounds arc thrown into i he pond, and by this time the eels have s earned to know they are fed, and the ( vatcr soon becomes alive with these < jpiirming specimens. The scheme has t iot found much favor with tlie village s icoplc generally, but perhaps when win- 1 er comes the gentlemen most interested i vill be the ones to hugh. I i Horrors of llnrti. i The people are called together by beat < if drum, usually at midnight. The ccr i i?I d IIIUIIY Ul'p;iu? If J iiuiiiiuiobv.1 Vtttuu in joining secrccv. Dancing then coin < ucnccs, the excitement being supple- t nented by copious libations of rum. ill one or more of the \vrctcl1c3 falls 1 lown in a fit, when the spirit of Youloux is supposed to have cnicrpd into hem. These orgies generally last three lays, but often much longer. On the < irst night a priest sacrifices & cock at I 1 he a'tar, the blood being drank, warm, j 1 )ancing then recommences, and the i' >rgies go on till the individuals arc in ! 1 :apable of further exertions. j 1 On the third night the orgies on- 11 inue, when a lit.le child is brought in; ,: he child's throat is cut by the priest, j ? he blood handed round and drank l 1 varrn; the body is then cut up and eaten i < aw, that which is not disposed of being j 1 a I ted for further use. ? "tijiorl ami IJ Trued" Captain KenneJy. ? "When you have many tasks to accom- J * )li<l?, don't try to attack them all a? | < >uce. Do one at a time, quietly and as i i veil as you can, and with a little pa- i ience you will get through them all. 1 CRUSHED IN A CAGE, j Terrible Fall of Rock in a Term-; sylvania Coal Mine. Four Miners Killed and Three | Others B.dly Injured. An accident, resulting in the death of four moil and the serious and porliaps fatal injury i of throe others, occurred the other morning I at the Oak wood shaft of the Prospect col- 1 lierv. beloncintr to the Lehiirh Vallov Coal company, in the northern part of Wilkesbarro, Penn. About 7 o'clock Patrick Smith, John J. Martin, John Gallagher, Patrick Mc- ] Groarty, AVilliam Harrington, Patrick Kearney, Jamos Kearnoy. Patrick Parcel, James Peterson and Thomas Jenkins took their < [ilaces oil tho "cage" to inako the descent of 1 the shaft for the purpose of going to work, j rho shaft is 7(;0 feet- deep, and tun men are lot down at a time. When the men had ihnost reached tho bottom of tho shaft < i loufl, rumbling nois3 was hear.l over- j , liead, an 1 immediately thoro was ' i great crash, a shower <>f heavy rocks, some | ] weighing as much ntoOO pounds each, crush- j < ing in tho top of tho cage and breaking | \ through sills and floor, killing threo of the ! i lien outright, and injuring the fourth so bad ] ( that ho died shortly after being taken to the i hospital. I | The names of the kille:lare Johu J. Martin, ! > l miner, aged thirty-fivo years, unmarried, i ^ md living with his widowed mother; James Kearney, a laborer, aged twenty-live, tin- j named: John Peterson, miner, aged twenty- ( ux, married and living at Parsons, and i 1'homas Jenkins, laborer, twenty-eight years, ] iiiiglo, and resided at Miners' Mills. Peter- | ion, when dragged out, was still breathing, c ind struggled a little, but it was evident t hat death was certain. Ho was. however t emovou m mi iiuiiiiiiiiiii-u w u>e iiuspuui, vbero ho (lie.'. Ho was bruised about the load beyond recognition. The 4-inch steam >ipe had been broken, and ho was scalded vith the steam and water. IIo was a Swede, ind leavers a widow, to whom ho had been narried less than three mouths. Martin had a large cut in tho right side of lis head, his hand was cut, and thero wero truises on other parts of the body. Kearney lad a gash in the side of his head just back if his ear, and his back was crushed. Ho lad been employed in tho colliery a long ime. Jonkins was horribly mangled. His lead was split open, and his brains fell to ho ground and had to b3 gathered up by the nen. Thoso injured wero Patrick Smith, bruised n tho side, l>a"k and head; Patrick Purse!, ?adly cut in the back, probably fatul injures, and Patrick Kearney, bruised in tho lip and on the right log. Vvhen the news >f tho accident becamo known there was ;reat excitement, mon, women, and :hildre:i flocking to the scene. The relations tnd friends of tho dead men gave vent ;o tiicir feelings by expressions of deep grief md sorrow. Aft.'r tne accident a force of nen was put to work clearing away the shat:ered wreck of the carriage, which had been Irawn to the top. Many of the iron bai-s md castings belonging to it wore shattered, ind one of the sills, a. stick of oak timber ibout eight by twelve inches in size, was iroken, as was also an iron rail of the travk aid upon tho cago for the accommodaion of tho cars when run on it to bo raised or owered from or into tho mine. A piece of he rock lay upon tho ground near by which lad been drawn up on tho cage. This piece veighed upward of 200 pounds. Several )ieces of stone must have fallen, and the fall nust have been 100 foot or more. One of the exposed men on the shaft reates the following story: "Going down the shaft I was standing almost precisely upon ;lie place where tho hole was broken through the floor of the cage by the piece of rock, out when I heard the noise of the rock :oming down against tho side of the shaft ibove and the smaller pieces striking the oof, I somehow stepped to the centre of md under the crossbeam, which suplorts the roof. Others were running back md forth to find a place of safety, as all knew whit the sound meant. The position saved me, as pie?:s of tho rock struck tho roof, and crashed down through on either j iide. My lamp was put out, and as tne carnage strucK i made a step itnd fell into the hole that had been broken in tho floor, one of the smaller pieces of stone hitting my hip. I got out of the placo and half fell off into the gangway. My presence of mind had not deserted mo, and my first thought was for my brother Jim. 1 called to him, but thero came 110 answer. Then we searched the wreck and I found the bodies of tho others, oil mangled 1 and bleeding, and finally Jim, his foct on the j edgo of the carriage and his body and head lying over tho edge and in the water, dead. ? How Cream of Tartar is Made. * Cream of Tartar is made from argols, he sediment found in wine casks. This rgols is either a white or a purple powrier, according to the color of the wine it omcs from. It is put in air-tight a csse!s ami treated with steam and f rater, which dissolves it. It is then 11 iltcrcd through many thicknesses of " anvass, upon each of which it leaves a f hick crust of sediment, becoming more c ml more pure as it advances. From s he filters it runs through a pipe and is ? rystalized in copper vats shaped like t averted pyramids. After that it is re- t lissolved, treated with bone black, re- a iltcred and crystulized, aik! it is then ? eady for the 'market. The sediment eft from the filtration* of the cream of B artar is made into tartaric <? cid by being crvstalized in leaden ves- ' els nftcr being condensed. It is dis- * olved once more inul run through bone n ilack, then crystalizcd again. Except n k-ater the only materials used beside the r> ;rape sediment is sulphuric acid, which s odorless. This is used iu making the artaric acid, being mixed with tartrate if lime, which is the chief residue of the n ream of tartar filtrations, to form sul hate of lime and tartaric acid, and vhich are easily separated, as one is a r olid and the other a liquid. v Utilizing the Monkey. ^ Perhaps the only attempts which have c )een made to civilize the money is in c dalabar, India, says Dr. A. II. Ward, t V. fine'speeies indigenous in this quarter % s the Nelighcrry langur. The natives j icre have fanning niachines called the ] mnka. In other days the punka, which c :onsists of a moveable frame covered c vith canvass and suspended from the ' :eiling, was kept in motion by a slave J Hilling a cord. An English officer con- \ :civcd the idea of teaching the langur l o do the work. lie took one of the ; pedes and tied its hands to the cord, j vhile by means of another cord the ma- ? :hiuc was kept in motion. The move- i nent of the cord is up and down, and 1 tf coursc, the monkey's hands being tied f o it, went up and down, and the animal I aw the machinc move. Its master pat-1 ed its head and fed it with candy, and i J lie langur soon learned to think it fun o work the machine. When I was in ilalabar securing specimens of this tc pecies, I saw thousands of them workng the punka, the Indians having im- t< ncdiateiv put the animals in captivity vlien thev saw their utility. M The Blue-Bloorteil Alnsknn. | In Alaska each family has what is j is :nllcd their totem pole?coat of arms? I ^ o represent the descent and previous al- ; ianccs of their people. These poles s( :onsist of carved in)ages of animals or " jirds, and represent what their family is supposed to have descended from nnd ; ^ nto what families their children have j narricd, all images representing the descent 011 the mother's side. Each town ! a )f Indians is divided into two families, I tl jailed the Koc-wau-ties and the Kcck-sa- A ies, meaning warriors and civilians, rcipectively. The head man of each fami- B y is the leader, but in descent a strange ? ule is followed; for, instead of rank and )ropcrtv descending from father to son, ti t parses from father to nephew on the ' n nothcr's side of the family. Hut in or- ? ler for a nephew to succeed to the rank j md property of his uncle, lie must be ible to make a certain number of pres- * juts to the members of the family, and 0 hen marry the chief's widow?his aunt j ?no matter how many wives he may a mvc already. o Didn't (Jet the Knife. j t' General (irant's early schooling was not1 ^ xtcnsivc. lie was not studious, but lie M ivoultl take a book of biographies of great1 ucn and devour it by the liour. Jle was j tl ilwajs punctual, but, though he had f{ ougii native courtesy, lie seldom spoke o any one. He usually sat on a stump ind watched the boys play, but would i ^ dways join in a snow-ball light. He was p .'.\trcmcly obstinate. He had one fight ^ ivith the schoolmaster and won it. Some >f tiie boys attempted to take Grant's ? vnife from him. The schoolmaster took / (ides with the boys'and ordered (i rant to | ? jive it up. which he refused to do. The p eachcrtook a long black hickory switch j iuil flogged the boy till his arms ached, j Jrant neither begged, flinched nor sur- t endcreil, but clung to the knife,and the i; naster had to give in 9* last and let lim keep it. j ^ ? A TERRIBLE SLAUGHTER. : Attack on Chinamen in Wyoming by Enraged Miners. . , Many Mongolians Killed and 100 Houses Burned. Details of the attack made l>y enraged ^ miners in "Wyoming on a Chinese camp are i given in the following dispatch from ChoyBnne: > The largest coal mines in tho entire Union 1 Pacific system aro at llock Springs, 'iVJ miles west of Cheyenne. Tho company recently ] imported a largo number of Chinese to take 1 the places of the wnito men employed Yesterday afternoon the entire force of white miners, about one hundred and fifty strong, organized, and, arming thorns-jives with shotguns, marched to China- , town. After firing a volley into the air they reloaded and ordered the Chinamen to leave. , Tho order was obeyed at once, tho Chinamen Heeing to the hills like a drove of sheep, closely pursued by the miners, who fired sev>ral volleys at tho fugitives with fatal effect. The Chinese quarter was then sot on tire and thirty-nine houses owned hy tho company were destroyed with their contents. The u'iners uoxt visited tho various mines in tho . amp, unearthed all the Chinamen at work therein and ordered them to flee for their lives. 3f ->0J Chinamen here yesterday morning not me remains. All are in the adjacent hills headng for Green river, fourteen miles west of ?ere. Fifteen were killed outright by tho shots fired by tho miners and many ivere woundeii. It is said that several who wero feeble and helpless from disease,perishe 1 in the (lames. Sheriff Young arrived from Green River on a special train yesterday afternoon with a po.^sj of deputies, >ut they were too lato to prevent tho mob from carrying out their plans. The miners jnietly dispersed after having made sure of , ;ho departure of the Celestials, and everything is quiet at this time. A later dispatch from Rock Springs, Wymiing, says: A much worso stato ot affairs ixist than was reported last night. Moro han Ave hundred Chinamen have been Iriven out of the town. Thus far only fifteen dead Chinamen have been discovered, mt there are probably as many more bodies n tho ruins. Fifty houses belonging to ;ho railroad company and fifty moro )wned by Chinamen were burned, rho Cinnamon aro yet in tho bills west of the town. They aro without food and aro atraul to go to Green River City, about ton miles distant. Governor Warren is now at Rock Springs with Gen?ral Superintendent Dickinson and SuperintendentWurtole, of tho Western division )? tho Union i'acilic raiiroaa. iso more ais- i urbance is anticipated. Food will be sent jy tho authorities to the starving Chinaman n the hills. Another dispatch states that the worst has jvidently not been told regarding the antiChinese outbreak in the western portion of Wyoming. According to advices from Evanston, where the serond largest coalnining camp of Ihe Union Pacific road is ocated, the outbreak was a preconcerted )ne. It had been arranged that the irst attack upon the Chinese was to be made n Carbon, a mining town about 150 miles inst of Rock Springs, to be followed by a ike movement in the latter place and Evans;on. The Rock Springs miners, however, ;ook the initiative, and the result there has wen announced. The mob at that place ooted the houses of the Chinese beoro setting them on fire. Tho outbreak commenced in Mine No. 0, where three Chinese miners were attacked and killed, rhen the riot cominenced all over the town, iven women joining in it with loaded shotjuns in their hands. Superintendent Evans, )f the coal mines, had been warned to leave ;own, and bo did so with alacrity. The iheriir of Uinta county telegraphed to Governor Warren as follows: "A Jargo number of citizens, with myself, ire satisfied that the outrages committed at Etock Springs will be repeated and are liable :o break out at any time. Wo need troops o protect the lives and property of our citi?ns." Governor Warren telegraphed to the comnanding officers at Fort rtteelo and to D. A. Russell, and the troops have been ordered to mid themselves in readiness to move at a noment's notice. DYING BY THE SCORE. ; A Strange DlwcaMc Depopulating a i? ?i ir^iuio vuun?|? A Wheeling (W. Ya.) dispatch states that a mnic prevails in that portion of Clay coun,y lying along Sycainoro creek, arising froin he frightful ravages of a strange an I fatal liseaso which has broken out among tin few nhabitants of that locality. So far about ifty persons have l>een attacked, of whom a ' core have already died. Tlie local pliy- 1 icians seem powerless to afford relief. A ocal paper says: "Every hour brings the sad news of another leath. At first the malady was thought to i >e flux, but it is now believed to be another md more fatal disease. A vague, horrible ear has begun to fill the breasts of some. It any noi be cholera, but thn symptoms re very much liko it An instance f the latal oflfects of the disease is aforded by tho family of Justice Sizenore, a well-known citizen. Three of his I oris are already dead, and as they lie in their ofTIgs three more arc writhing and screamng with the awful torture which carried off ho others. We havo been unable to learn ho exact number of deaths, but tho reports re most alarming. It is chiefly confined to i hildren, who aro attacked and die within an 1 our, seemingly paralyzed with pain." The Sycamore creek region is very sparsely at tied with a class of hardy mountaineers, i nd as tho region is one of pure water and enlthv mountain air. tho outbreak seems un ccountnblu. Tiio symptoms seem to suggest lie terrible disease that last year ravaged a umber of counties in the extreme south- j restern portion of the State and one or two ver the lino in Kentucky. ADMIRAL OOURBET. j rho French Naval Coininnndcr Hurled?Imposing Servian ( Tin body of Admiral L'ourbet, late com- j nfinder of the French naval force in Tonquin, 1 vas interred in the Hotel des Invnlides. Paris. < V largo assemblage attended the burial cere- ' nonies, notwithstanding the weather was in- [ j lement. In the concourse were deputations ( if tlio senato and chamber of deputies and at- 1 aches uf foreign legation?. The edifice < vas heavily draped with mourning and pre- ] ented a most impressive appearance. A argo model of the Bayard, the flagship of the , French fleet, commanded in China by the t leceased, had been constructed in front j ?? the building. The coflln was placed j n a colossal sarcophagus, which was irnamented at the corners by statles of Faith, Hope, Charity and Re- J igion, and which bore escutcheons em- j jlazoncd with scones of tho battle in which ' Admiral Courbet had token a leading part. ' This was lighted by incense burners and , apers, which emitted green flames and cast j i weird glimmering through the darkened ecesses of the chapel wliero tho body lay. : Juring the funeral ceremonies French troops ; >araded slowly up and down the esplanade md afterward filod past thecoflin. IUSICAL AND DRAWATia Emma Abbott is taking walking exercises c ) reduce her adiposity. c Path's spare moments aro being devoted 1 ) tho writing of her memoirs. 1 Mr. Lester Wallack will play a short lason through tho country this year. E Clara Louise KEt.Lor.r; has ha 1 a suc!s?fu' concert tour through the Northwest. WiLMAMCARLETON.ftwolI-knoivndrainnt- j t and singer, recently connnitto 1 suicide in ew York. Miss Ei,i,a Russell, a young American J >prano, has made a very success, ul dobat in Traviata" at Berlin. Tiie first prize for violin playing at the 'ionna Conservator! um this year has been , warded to a lad of ten years, Friedncli ' Lreisler. Miss Emma Nevada has been engaged for , concert tour in this country, beginning on 10 31st of next October at.the Philadelphia . icademyof music. " t Mme. Patti was askel to annear in "II t larbicro" and "La Traviata" at Munich with ii ^ing Louis of Bavaria constituting the entire j udionco, but she flatly refused. Ninety-three farcical comedies to be on ,] lie road this year. And they all expect to ;j lake money. Well, there is a line ionio- c hoce about hope and the human brea-st. Tins country, s > fertile in singers, has pro- t need scarcely any composers, an I Mr. 8. (i. u ratt, of Chicago, is, so far as wo know, the t nly American who has brought out a grand r pera in five acts. Pauline Lucca is venturing her fame on fnew opera by a new composer. The nanio i f the opera is "Cordelia," tlio composer's t oloview, and tho new work is to Im given at 1 le Inipcria Opera house, Vienna. Letters from Paris speak <>f Mi-s-> Hattie !<ldy, of Philadelphia, who isstudying opera it!i Mm", do Lagrange, as the coining cant, tri'jc. Her voice is s iid to ho superior to 1 lat of any American who has visited Paris i >r many years. < Miss Uoskord, a little American lady who 1 as just entered her teens, is attracting much ' ttention as a violinist in Lond m. SS.io.nndo 1 cp rli'but nt Hai'on von l>iiiis "ar iin;ue," laying suporbly ft ntmiiicr of dillicult pivivs ! rhicli oliler players fear. David 1). Li.ovn, the author of "For ('on- } ress, tho latest smrossfitl play in Mr. John ' '. Ilaymonil's repertory. severed Ins conn.'c- } ion with tlio Now York Tribune several lonths a.;o, ami has sin-e do vote. I him-ult' to lay writing, doing his won; in Paris. j Accordixo to the census recently taken ] ho population of Dakota in round numbers f 5 415,wo, of which South Dakota claims i (?j,0:)0. The total number of farms in tin; rorritory is SD.OOJ, varying in area from ,000 acres down. NEWS SUMMARY. ? 4,1 . bl Fastern and niddlc States nt A large chair factory in New York city lias been destroyed by fire. Tho pecuniary oss is estimated at $125,0 )0. One fireman (jl ivas killed by a falling wall and another rt( severely injured. re Oliver Wendell Holmes, tho poet-phy- fa sician of Boston, has just celebrated his 7(ith to birthday. m E do a it R. Cowan, United States Senator st from Pennsylvania for tho term expiring in w 1807, died the other day at his residence in hi Gfreensburg, Penn., aged seventy years. The burial of ex-Governor Fenton. at Jamestown, N. YT, was largely attended by ot public men of Now York and Pennsylvania c' All business was stopped in tho place and mourning emblems were exhibited on tno3t ch of tho buildings. ea Gold which assayed $320 to tho ton is allege I to have been discovered not far from B Williamsport, Peiin. ai Tost Davis, a notorious New York confidence man, was shot and almost instantly sa killed by a man who described himself as D James T. Holland, of Abilene, Texas. Holland If was buying what he believed to bo counter- E feit money from Davis, in tho latter's oflice. gi A confederate of Davis attempted m to substitute the valise full of alleged coun- n< forfeit bills for another containing worthless at paper. Holland discovered the attempted D substitution,and immediately shot Davis dead th and 11 rod twice through a partition at tho R confederate. Holland and a companion were jg arrested. if The Grant family have lelt Mount Mc- ri Gregor. Mrs. General Grant will make an Cj extended visit to her son, U. S. Grant, at his New Salem (N. Y.) farm. Jesse Grant and Mrs. Nellie Sartoris have sailed for Europe. o( Colonel and Mrs. F. D. Grant have gone on in a visit to Chicago and the West. ni with Miss Susie Westcott, of New York, stopping nt a summer resort near Red Bank, N. J., and because slid rejectod his advances he pulled out a pistol and llred at her, the bullet striking a steel of her corset .without * doing any injury. Then the doctor shot himself dead. He was twenty-nina years old. ai A colored man who died a few days ago on at Oxford Neck, Del., aged 107 years, lived to see five generations of children. (j0 The committee in New York having in j charge the Grant National Monument fund ; have thus tar received about $70,000. Soutli nnd Xl'euU th A violent shock of earthquake occurred ar the other day in Caldwell county, N. C. Eeoplo sitting in their houses were surprised to hear a noise resembling thunder. The shock lasted but a few socunds, but during su that timo there was a violent rocking. th John James and his nephew Charles quarreled over a game of cards near Franklin, c0 Ga., and shot each other dead. Samuel W. Collins was hanged at Bow ~ ling Greon, Mo., for murdering Owen Utterback, the vic tim's widow and two young sons witnessing tho execution. On the same day Se Henry Burnett, a colored youth of eighteen, was hanged at Lonoke, Ark., for the murder of a colored man; John Waiseman was Wl hanged for murder at Duluth, Minn., and fo Charles Townsend (colored) suffered a similar jg fate at Huntersville, Ala. Geneva, 111., has been the scene of a mysterious double murder, citizens returning home at midnight finding the dead bodies of )*< Officers McNott and Grant, two of the three men who constitute the police force of the fr town. They had either killed each other in a rtiinrrol np linan rmirHor rl hr t.hifivpa I"? "I ? ? J ? , , During tbo recent heavy storm three pilot boats from Beaufort, S. C., with fourteen men, were lost at sea. The revised es- Pf timate of the losses by the storm at Charles- &, ton, S. C., is $1,690,000, including $400,000 . along the wharves, $550,000 of private prop- 1 erty, $200,000 to shipping and $100,000 on Sullivan's Island. Br Al Lockie, the Texas monster who re- <jr cently murdered seven persons?several of ^ them bij relatives- and mortally wounded an eighth because they had charged bini with various outrageous crimes, was taken from jail by armed men and hanged. Rev. S. S. Idi.kman, a Methodist clergy- . man, committed suicide at Green Springs, W. Va., during a temporary aberration of mind. La Tiie much dreided army worm, produced ;ei by continued drought, is devastating cotton lc fields in Southern I ennessee. . an Later estimates put the losae3 by the re- >0] cent tornado in Charleston, S. C., at $2,000,- iv< 003. tlx The schooner Gustie Wilson foundered in a gale off Hatteras. The crew took to their F? boat, which was swamped by the storm, and in three perished. The survivors were rescued ia by a passing vessel. Judge FoRAKF.r,the Republican candidate J for governor of Ohio, delivered at Portsmouth his opening speech of tlie campaign. ^ Four masked men boardod a train at Blue iei Spring, Mo., with revolvers drawn, robbed >c< the passengers of ono car and then fled. ivr A tarty of nine working girls and two 3h men crossing Fox river at Oshkosh, Wis., >vi used a boat to cover the short draw in the 101 bridge. They became frightened and upset ?e1 the boat. Six parsons?four girls and two m men?were drowned. *as A Rock Springs (Wyoming) dispatch says the white miners in the Union Pacific railroad company's coal pits with pistols and ^uns drove all the Chinese, to the number of 500, from the camp into the mountains. -( Twenty-five houses in Chinatown were P 1 Tfr\r\r\a TOnfa oonf fnr ue The mine is the largest in the West. the cornerstono of the new Georgia capitol ?? was laiil at Atlanta with imposing ceremonies. Governor McPnnbl, 011 behalf of j.. the capitol commissioners, presented the j building to the legislature. General A. R c*" Lawton, of .Savannah, made the oration of Pa the day. tei IV n??li i 11 g 1 on. ta the treasury departm nt paid out more tjj than $10,000,000 on account of pensions during August. R The President has docidol to reappoint Mr. Julius Stahel as consul general to "? Shanghai, China. Mr. Stahel ha* served iu J?-' the consular service iu China tor ten or . twelve years. er the Chinese minister, Cheng Ts.10 Ju, who fo ivas stricken with paralysis immediately *. ifter his return to this country from Peru tir ast April, and who is still ill in Now York, ne ins sent his resignation to the Chinese gov- th jrnment, and Cliang Yin Huati has been appointed 111 his stead. re( In presenting claims for arrears of pay and of jounty, soldiers who have been honorably a j liscliarged, but who are charged upon the ba liilitary records with des;rtion, will be treat- ra >d, under a decision by Second Comptroller a I Maynard, as being absent without^ leave. nn the United States treasurer 011 tho .list, wi nailed II,till") checks aggregating $2,239,177 ;o pay interest due September 1 011 registered m< 'our per cent, bonds of the funded loan of I Ki 1801. | an postmaster J. J. mclean*, of Stanford- ! pa rille, Ga., and his assistant W. C. McLean, | 5"<i lavo been arrested for attempting to defraud ;he government by making false returns of cl< ;lie number of stamps canceled. ni: the following is a statement of United j an States currency outstanding 011 the 1st: j wj Did demand notes $77,900 j ce; United States, all issues 310,081,011) , ' Did year notes of ISOo 37,*S5 ar rwo-year notes of lSO'J 9.700' I'wo-year coupon notes of iso's... 20,2">o I Compound interest notes 202,510 I jj( fractional currency, all issues.... 15,:?:J7,40l I cii ! pi Total $3iU,:H0,:W2 , l'r A Washington special states that the or- ' ler of tho President calling for the removal j St )f nil fences on public lands will be enforced ?' o tho lettor, and with the full foivo of tho ! J ^ nilitarv if necessary. Tub White House, having b ?en cleaned j _ ind renovatod during tho President's absence, ,jt. las been reopened to the public. I in Ok the 2,"'52 presidential postmnsters in tho United States, changes have been undo in ! * ( 1ST casns since tho adjournment of the Senate. | Thkiie were coined at the various 1'nited i states mints during August :.'OJ,OJO goKl | liecos. worth $4,0SU,00); 2,447,000 standard | At ilvcr dollars and 2v,0!!2 dimes. [ j*.1 Di'iuxr. August tho national debt was de- ) i'| Teased i'J,870,0.ii 17, leaving tho tjtal debt, \ e>s cash in the treasury, at )7.-">2; j r.3h in the treasury, $4!),7Hi,57i<!'.?. GOVKItX.ME.NT 1 XSI'BCTOR ARStSTROXO has I )een making an inspection of tho Indian ! tr igencies in Arizona. He reports that am nig , ho residents of that Territory all fe ars of fur- ()| her Indian depredations liavo disappeared; I hat the Apachos at the San Carlos agency i lave raised a crop of grain this year, and are Pl peaceful and contented. Tub total collections of internal rovonus Pr luring tho month of July last wore SS-S'W,- | ill, or $jSI,-I lloii than fxr tlu same period Co )f 1**4. (Jkxkrai. Nbwtox, chief of engineers, es- | fa imates that an appropriation of about^lSI IU.iii) i or ?,o io.ij.U will I) re piire 1 to con- ! j,a iuue tho work of river and harbor improve- i w. iicnts during the next llscal year. I , John* II. .Mom;\x, the only sou of I'nitol | to ;tatos Senat'ir Morgan, of Ahibatni. nut S1( ilrs. lunina Delia Seta, a widow >mployed in lie general land oiliee. wore drowned in the ; . 'ot niia- by the upsotriug of th;i?* canoe. j ( __ : Foreign. g-i A ntOT lms o urred at A in-ria, in Ac la- ! yu usia, Spain. The increasing c lolera mortif* I '? iinvitiiT iiriv.Mi most of tho wealthy re?i- ! $ .' lents from tile eity, a largd numb?r of po >r Yi >eople wero deprive I of nil employ- ' 00 uent. Tliis desertion on tho j < lart of tho rich employers incensed ! ;he laboring people, and tli<? feeling of imli?- ( ,,, laliou culminated in a riotous outbreak. ' trj Many of tho houses of tho wealthy wero ivreeked by the mob. The soldiers were } ;alled out, and in tho conflicts that ensued JP right persons wore killed and twelve others von in led. j w< The peasantry of Soul h fiermnnv are much ' ilarmed because the rooks, whfeh for cen- 1,0 uries have mala their abode there, have a' uiddenly and unaccountably taken their do- ^ mrturc; and the general vacii'ition is re'arded by the peoplo as heralding the ap- . jroaeh of an epidemi'' of cholera. on The Rov. Mr. Talmago of the Brooklyn j I pa T. Y.) Tabernacle, preached at Belfast, Trend, before a congregation numbering fully l)0?I. He afterward addressed an assemage, computed at about 40,000, who could >t gain admittance to tho church. T1 Two ladies belonging to families of rank in ezzevo, Greece, wero some time ago abided by brigands. Tho abductors jnianded a ransom of $-0,000 for the turn of each captive. The Pi inilies of the women have just paid agents of tho brigands the $40,000 deanded, and the ladies have been safely reored to their homes. They say they were ell and honorably treated by their captors, 1 id made as comfortable as the circumstances the robber would permit. The dispute between England and Russia ^ rer the Afghan boundary question is de- c ared settled. yo There is a decrease in the number of kn< idera cases throughout Spain, but the dis- *3 ise seems to bo spreading in Italy. , Ludwio Restteb, a cloth merchant of runn, Germany, has failed with liabilities nounting to $1,250,000. ^a, Mr. Parnell, tho Irish home rule leader, a d id at a banquet given by the lord mayor of cio UUllll mac U nome ruiu weru rmuwu iu uiu a V 'ish thoy would make it impossible for the nci i:glish to legislate. England could either of a;*t the Irish the right to rule themselves or cht ake the country a crown colony. He de- of juncei outrages, saying that the continu- Ho ion of them would be a terrible blow to the Ell ish ca^se. The land question, he said, was eld e great question in Ireland. of The Allan line mail steamship Hanoverian fig' a total loss, having gone ashore on the ?J'< ewfoundland coast. The Hanoverian car- ani ed the mails between the United States, ors mada and Great Britain, and had on board Lo 0 passengers. Everybody was saved. Th A fire near London destroyed the works ' the Barrow Shipbuilding company, caus- ?yi g a loss of $1.000,000 and throwing 2,000 ei en out of employment. _^ei LATER NEWS S3 the to Maud S., the queen of the trotting turf, riv iled at Providence to lower her own record of of mile in 2:03%, but made the fastest half mile 'or 1 record?1:03>?. ^ By tho fall of a ladder at a tenement pre use fire in Now .York seven firemen were Ch. jured more or less seriously. The New York oleomargarine manufactur- gfe 3 intend to contest tho constitutionality of wb e law recently passed forbidding the use of ^ tiflcial coloring matter in their product ^ An explosion of gas in the Lehigh Valley the o. 3 colliery at Locust Creek, Penn., re- nig lted in the instant death of one man and nat e fatal burning of three others. un, An Armed crowd broke into the Lafayette 1 I unty (Ark.) jail and hanged George Cren- Th' aw, a negro, who had murdered Harry iud. a white man. iu a cottonfield. I Doi William M. Gwin-, twice United States gis mator from California, died a few days ?? ice at a New York hoteL His remains ^ ere embalme<^ijpd sent to San Francisco cor r burial. Ho was born in Tennessee in ^ 05; was once General Andrew Jackson's ivate secretary; was elected Congressman- nin -large from Mississippi in 1841, and a few wh ;ars later went to California. jj6 A fire at Cincinnati destroyed a railroad i.j1 eight depot and warehouse in which an im- hi3 anse amount of grain was stored. The foe tal loss exceeded $225,000. tur Pedro Prestan, hader rf the rebellion at w?, mama which resulted in the burning of I ipinwall, was hanged in the public plaza of tow e latter place. ~J Lieute.vant-Gexeral Babixoto.v, of the Ku itish army, was killed while shooting era ouso in Scotland, by the accidental disarge of his gun. ton DISASTER ON A LAKE. & Party of Seventeen 'JTlirown Info Cayuga I.akc?A Woman'* Fate. the A. strong wind was blowing at Cayuga ke, N. Y., the other day when a party of ,-enteen started to return from Aurora dea ross thelnkoto East Varick, about four Tht ies, on a large catamaran, in charge of a ored man named Cooper. The catamaran A is not properly ballasted, and when in J3 j middle of the lake, two miles from and her shore, she was struck by a heavy wave. r some reason the hatchways had been cut ttir< the deck of the floats, and one of these m?! tches washed off, and tho boat filled with r iter, canting the craft over on one side. e whole party was thrown into the lake. 01 ; 1, however, "succeeled in regaining the ?ro ift except Mrs. lliegol, of Varick. She 5PU 9 carried away from tho rest. Tin acciut was seen almost at the moment of its :urrence, and several boats started for the e"k. All were rescued except Mrs. Iliegel. 0DU e wore a heavy silk dross, and when thrown jrlioard the skirt made a balloon about her er d id and the waves twisted the tops of it to- ro"' ;hrr. She was not drowned but sulFocated su. the half hour her head had been thus en Z THE NATIONAL (iAME. B Cou There i3 a movement on foot to place tho ??r' tcher back five additional feet, so as to aid avy batting. rooJ Every baseball game that is played in Man. Ga., is witnessed by the prisoners in 0 jail adjoining tho grounds. ^ The Indians in Athens, Calhoun county, 0ffic have a baseball nine, who play with Kjst jbs in adjoining towns, appearing in war had jut aud leathers. stai Necessary for the perpetuation of pro- bini jsional baseball: More equal salaries; dru mis moro equal in strength: smaller salaries sicii r players so that small cities can support dot* em. is "You don't know what a strike is," said w9l irns, of tho Baltimore club, to Umpire Conill}*, in a Brooklyn-Baltimore game. "That st ball was a striko, nnu to prove it I'll just ir- vou was the umpire's response. 11 . The Detroit club has had seven pitch- SUD! 9, Ave catchers, two first basemen, Pre: ur second basemen, six third basemen, live ort stops and ton outfielders :at different 1 nes this season: has spent much money for w material, and despite all is once more at a foot of the league list. A rare and remarkable play was made in a . :ent Sandusky-Detroit game. Mulholland, A tho Sanduskvs, in the fourth innin? made met umping catch of a hot liner from A cQuery's jsiai t and catching Wood and Thompson, who o .1 on the hit, both at third base, executed ;riplo play unassisted. A similar play was s'S*1 ido by tho New Yorks in a recent game It th tho Providence nine. 0f ( A game of baseball in aid of tho Grant witl jnument fund was played at Lawrence, terf in., recently between nine county officials met d nine business men of the city, the partri Spa nts ranging in age from forty to seventy sum ars. The register of deeds fell in running cott ses and broke his arm, and tho county and >rk sprained his shoulder. Of the merchants' con: ne. one suffered a dislocation of a knee, nnd con other bad two Angers broken. The score A is 50 to 41 in favor of tho officials. The re- | cer: ipts amounted to ?150. I rej< ri'io championship records up to recent date ; nut e as follows: j l-'irf THE NATIONAL LEAQUE. J CC'C Hon. Lout. To'I. T^oxt. !W York 07 19 Boston 32 53 j J11 licaeo 07 18 St. I.oain '27 5i j ing liliulelp'iia... .41 4G Buffalo 33 53 | will ovldcnco. 4<5 36 Detroit '29 57 I per AMERICAN ASSOCIATION. ( . T.ouis 04 27 I Athletic 41 49: ] tMmr.' 51 39 Brooklyn.......40 43 I ncinmtl 52 40 | Baltimore 34 54 uisville 47 45 | Metropolitan.. .29 50 [ EASTERN LKAUUK. Iilfjooort 3 5 | Norfolk S3 43 j Ti r?cy City 9 27 | Trenton 40 36 I wi ncastur 23 39 | Virginia 60 IS j ,, itimml !>.> '.'1 j Wilmington 5 3J ! ^ol avnrk 31 43 | co:?l Sinco our last report the Bridgeport club ! pri; is boon added to the Eastern league. I 90UTUF.IIN t.EAOl'K. I vuli lanta CO so [ Colnmbnn 45 43 give itfti.-ta Si 34 Macon 46 4t tre:: rmin?hnm...l7 71 | Memphis 39 47 s||t.| !aitan io^a...30 5 : | Nashville 63 31 j lw NEWSY GLEASINM, j E" ' oth' TiiicitE atv tliirte-a Loudoiis iu this coun ! m.'ii >* ! , Bki'.mx hotels are using paper (mache) | 01 atvs. | California has an estiniat.-d colo.xd j,j|r ipu'ation ot'7,50 ? i ^ j,e W'rr.iiiNS, tlu Canadian weather prophet,) for edict i a very mild waiter. Ki.KcTHii'Ar, headlights are now on the lo- > motives of a Western railroad. A chuik'ii in Dakota has gone into tlu nning business in or.ter to raiso funds. Ir has been ligured nut that 5.400.?i;)(y)00 iron .ssengers were carried by tiio world's rail- ' [j( iys in | ant) Tub State census of Now Jersey gives a j x tal population of l,iro,S^5I a net ineivasi his c ice ! s>o of lf.'.ro.i. | . No less than l.VSJ/iOl persons have visited j Wii r International Inventor's exhibition in ( >ndi'n since its opening. |u"t] S >Mk of tha gamblers driven out of Chica- nroj have established their games in boats be r >nd the city limits on the lake. . | In Massachusetts SilO.OO) depositors have faili in l!i - savings banks. In New i >rk the saving> institutions hold i f |)0j i) of small deposits. j<vj. So many of the bovs sent to A Vest Point | i> - e 1 . " )v0 UIKlI'lo lo 1110 examuun iuii iui ?u- : )s ej ission that about lii'ty Congressional dis ?j._> icts aro unrepresented. i ro;i] Oxr.v about 15!) pounds of each beef ani-1 p il is lit l\>r <'aimin;, ht'iuns to provide :?.0 hi,- 0? p > pounds of canned bojf, or 5'J0(iMJ caiu, i?,: juld r;*i|ii:ro 20,noil cattle. j ,-S lV Tin: false tn.Hli of an eMerlv woman living pic; ar l,o.;an, Ohio, be.'amo dislodged during I w-vero spell of coughing, a day or two ago, ^ id slipjied into her throat, choking her tc j?g atli. bei Fkmai.k prismors lnv.< become so nnmnr- 1 con s in tin city jail at IVnsu'ola, Fla., that ma ey liavo bv:i p'lvl in an inclo*uiv an 1 j hen ; to brea'cin ? st >no for stre.-t purpjsoi to! the y their iiues. | sas, BOTH SISTERS DM le Terrible Result of a Druggist's Mistake. lling a Prescription with Morphine Id stead of Quinine. Che sad tragedy arising from a Hoboken , J.) druggist's terrible mistake aroused nnhllp ir? fhof ni'fw an/1 Vflto irk, where the bereaved parents of the two ling ladies who lost their' lives were well own. DotaiU of the terrible tragedy are follows: )ne human life was sacrificed, two hover the verge of death, two homes are plunged grief and Roboken's best society circles ve sustained a severe shock, and all because Irajgist blunder od. A handsome and spaus brown stone rosidence in the certtre of veil kept lawn stands in Hudson street, lr Eighth street, Hoboken. It is the home Charles F. Holz, a millionaire wine mer* int This luxurious dwelling is the house mourning. The family consisted of Mr. Iz, his wife and four children?Gretchen, a, Matilda and Willie. Gretchen was the est. She was an educated, vivacious girl, ninoteen years, petite but symmetrical uro, regular features, dark brown s and brown hair. She was popular, 1, although surrounded by a host of suiti, she gave preference to youngDr. August ewentbal, a neighbor ot the Holz family, ey were to have been married this winter. 33 Holz has been ill for some time. Her nptoms were those of malaria. She, with * sister Ella, a pretty blonde of fifteen its, visited the Catskills. week ago they returned, both suffering m malarial fever. Dr. Loewenthal, who ended them on Sunday night, suggested it Dr. Conrad, of New York, be summoned consult with him. When Dr. Conrad ared he proscribed forty-five grains quinine to be divided into ir powders, one to be adminised to the patients before reing. Young Dr. Loewenthal filled out the iscription, and visited the drug store of arles G. Am Ende,at the corner of Seventh i Washington streets. Am Endehasacired the reputation of being a skilful drugt and chemist He was in charge of his place len Dr. Loewenthal called and weighed the lg. The doctor administered a powder to :h of the sisters, and expressing the hoDe i medicine would give them relief bade ra good night about 10 o'clock Sunday ;ht Three hours later Ella, the younger %r, began to complain of cramps and isea. A few minutes later she lapsed into consciousness. )r. Loewenthal was hastily summoned, a symptoms were unmistakably those of soning. He called Dr. Kudlicb, Sr., who once pronounced the case one of morphine soning. The doctors declared the drugt had erred in preparing the prescription, strong was the faith of Mr. Holz in the jthecary that he would not credit the docs' opinion, and declared his daughter's idition arose from some singular action of quinine upon her system. The physicians re positive, and Dr. Loewenthal brought i druggist to the house. Morphine and quiie closely resemble each other; both are ite, pulpy substances. The druggistglancid the powder, and seemingly conflit that no had not made a mistake, said, guess it's quinine." He touched it with tongue, and in an instant tha color left bis e and he trembled like an aspen leaf as he ned and with an imploring look hoarsely ispered: 'I've made a mistake; it's morphine." le reeled, and like a dazed man moved rard the door and tottered down the steps, a moment messengers were dispatched for iical help, and a few minutes later Dr. dlich, Jr.: Dr. Loewenthal, Sr. ;Dr. Rosennz, Dr. Fisher and Dr. Conrad had arid. it this time Gretchen had shown no Sympis of having partaken of the fatal drug, tidotes were administered to neutralize effects of the morphia. Three of the rsicians labored with her, while the others their utmost to destroy the influences of poison in the younger girL Young Dr. iwenthal was completely prostrated by the affair. He knew that his betrothed and her or had taken enough of the drug to cause th, and he had to be assisted to his Jjome. > elder sister, despite the efforts of the rsicians, sank into insensibility at 4 o'clock. 6 she revived and there was a gleam of e. Half an hour later she again relapsed, at 7 o'clock died. Her sister Ella, who i first stricken, lingered in the coma Dugh the day but died early the next ning. he police authorities did not learn of the affair until several hours after the death ' Miss Holz. An officer's curiosity was used by the unusual commotion at the se and he questioned one of the servants, was instructed to seek Am Ends, the ggist. The officer called at the store, and clerk, Henry Frank, intimated that his )loyer had lied. [e stated that he had not seen his employluring the moritfng and refused to surier the prescription. Detective Gallazher sequently visited the place and the clerk litted that Am Ende had appropriated the scription, but had entered in the registry fact that a prescription for foriy-flve ins of quinine in four powders been filled for Dr. Loewonthal. nty Physician Converse called early y in the "afternoon at the drug store, and clerk confessed that Am Ende was in his n over the store. The county physician lired to the Recorder's Court and entered rmal complaint ot manslaughter against Endu. Detective Gallagher was directed arrest the druggist, who wanted the :er to procure a carriage. The drugwas ieft with a friend. Scarcely the detective reached the foot of tho rs when tho friend called him back to tell i his prisoner had swallowed poison. The Kgist had taken a dose of atropia. PhyiD3 were called and administered anti3s. Am Ende is forty years old and unmarried. It was thought he ild. recover, but with a shattered id. Mr. C. P. Holz, the father of the two ng ladies, sent a verDai message u> uru^Am Eude, assuring him that ho bore him ill-will whatever, as ho knew that the stitution of morphine for quinine in the scriptions was unintentional. THE CAROLINE ISLANDS, iiu Planting her Flag on the ?Imputed Territory. Madrid dispatch states that Spanish i-of-war have arrived at Yap, the chief id of the Caroline group, and planted the nish flag, no German vessel being in it i is also stated that the Emperor William Jermany, through a feeling of sympathy i King Alfonso, has raa'ie a personal in* erence in order to obtain a prompt settleit of the Carolines affair favorable to in. Spanish merchants and other conlers of Gorman products threaten to boy; all German goods. Firms in Wuerzberg Elberfeld have received notices from nnercial houses in Spain severing business auctions with tbera. l Ftench paper states that all Spanish ofTl?now oil furlough have been ordered to >in thi-ir regiments. The same paper is hority for the statement that several ;o Spanish mercantile houses have cand all their outstanding orders for German ds. The members of tho Spanish colony 'aris are indignant at Germany's occupy* tho Caroline islands, and protest against it they call Germany's usurpation and fidy. lOBBING- A STAQE COACH. 0 Highwaymen Captured While > enuring Their Huoty* lio Marysvillo coach was stopped by two 1 way men about eight miles out of Helena, itana, tho other day, and tho treasure box taining about fl.'jOjJ in bullion from the imlummon mine, taken. The passers were relieved of their * ' l,o,l muius. vuu wi inu * ^ >n tlio plot away to officer.*, nnd when the isuro box was beir.g broken opon tho rill' nnd .1 posse captured thj robbers and >vcred Hie booty, ihe passengers were io to stand in line at the muzzle of a gun I by one of the highwaymen while tho jr went through them in the old-fashioned iner. he prisoners are mined Jackson and Gor. Gordon will be released and get tho red oi .fijjt). Ja-kson 1ms served seven yenra I10 California penitentiary for stage robllo claims tint Gordon has worked samo schema before?jiving away plots robttery and (retting rewards. PROMINENT PEOPLE. " iss Ci.kvf.la'sd already has made $ >0,000 1 her book. >?:> Tennyson, the p jet laureat?, is sev six years of ago. eat, I)ow, the Prohibitionist, has turned ightieth year. r.t, th 3 relatives of ex-Vice-President >!er have died during the past ten years. ink monuments to Grant will be erected lis country unles; :>o:ne of tho present iocts fail. )HN 15. Goer;it, who has just completed ?ixty eighth year, is said to be seriously ing in h.-alth. rmvr?, tho mad king of Bavaria, is i;ht by a London elitor to look like on, whom some regard a* the mad poet oston's famous lawyer. Sidney Partlett, ghtv-six wars old and estimated worth - * - - " ?:i 0 rhiellyUenveii irom excellent rau1 sj>eeulation% resident vI.kvki.axi> kw;>sa scrap hook xrerpts fr<>m the newspapers in order to uformed <>f all sorts <>f uul> ic opinion. It lie fo rk's sole employment to collect and serve til >s? tilings. 'ora and .Neli.ik Ci.ark, the one jxissessa soprano voice of ram inorit and the other n^ a tine violinist, ?o to Europe soon to uplcto their mu-ieal e.lucnt o:i. They will ke their debut in Americi ahont a year itv. Tlio Mi-wes Clark are daughters of Hon. M. E. Clark, oi Leu\en worth, Kan