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Abbeville press and bannee! BY HUGH WILSON. ABBEVILLE, S. 0.. WEDNESDAY. SEPTEMBER 30. 1885. NO. 14. VOLUME XXX. ' . "v . J TIE PURITAN'S VICTORY. Details of the Great International Yacht Race. ? The Americxn Sloop Twica Defeats the British Cuttor. . THE PRIZE CUP. After three vexatious postponements, ?.l w.. *?,? InAV r\f \rinr1 mi 1 n IllOrO VOX vau9^u uj iue iavn v.. ? ? atious delay on account of a foul, tho English cutter Gonesta and tho Boston sloop Furitan found a day when they were enabled to sail the first of the threo international yacht races for the America's cup over tho course? 1 a distance of about thirty-eight miles?in the | time required by tho articles of agreement. While it is true they had not overmuch time to spare, owin; to several "deaths" in the wind, there were ample opportunities to test ths boats in all kinds of weather and chances, except the single one of severity. Thero were fair winds and head winds, light winds and fairly stiff winds, but there was never any approach to a blow. And in each of tlie>e variations the Ameri- 1 can boat came out ahead. It was altogether a grand day. an.l ia the weather that prevailed tho Puritan proved herself an emphatic victor. The trial was a good one from the start K : THE PC HIT AN UNDER FULL BAIL. though the Puritan was at no time in the rear, and soon after the start had an advantage which mado it evident that, barring acji'ient, the victory was hers beyond doubt. The scenes at t he point of depjuture were identical with those at Sandy Hook on the mornings when the. rmce was first attempted, with the exception teat tne auena- ; ant yachts and the excursion boats for sight- . seers were not by any means as many as pre- : vlously. Still there was a sufficient number ' of all kinds of craft to make the scene a brilliant one,. and the more especially as the ' stretch of water in the narrows confined them to closer quarters, and presented a more com- j pact view than at San ay Hook. Early in the morning the indications weie ' all favorable for fair wind and weailier, ai d , active preparations for the event began wii h f the break of day. . Soon after i) o'clock sails ' were sent up on the two racing boats, and * they at once started for Bay Ri lge. and cot .? "into position convenient to the starting point. ' The Lnckenbach, whi.-h again carried tho ] judges and other oSScia's, steamed up about ( 10 o'clock, At this time a stiff southwest c - wind was blowing at ihe rate of thirteen ? m 'miles an hour, and tha yaclitmen took on 1 board tho racing boats, and the attending i fleet were in high feather at wliat was now 1 almost a certainty that the trial would be brought to a successful conclusion. The 8 judges wasted no tiin\ but at onre hoisted 1 |the signal to tho captains of the Puritan I and Genesta to prepare for the start. N ine F | minutes was consumed by the two boats in ' getting into proper position, and at thirty- ' ifour minutes past 10 tho start was made, the * s yi : THE GEXESTA CNDEK FULL SAIL. two yachts going across the starting lino almost simultaneously. Tho yachts started on the port tack, and the Puritan at oneo besran to gain upon her opponent, aud in less than five minutes had a good boat's length the best of it. The pair soon changed to starboard, and the Puritan continued to gain, leading by fully half a mile as they parsed Fort \Vadswortli. At 11:80 the wind diod somewhat and veered to southeast, the boats in Kr\fVi KaViI n'lur tin (lilt] 111 t LUC UiCUllUlUO ISV/Vll i/vcuiu^ up W ?V4 ,? ... tho water and seeininglv becalmetl Toward 1 noon the breeze, which was then very light, 1 veered to southwest, and at 12 | the yachts were again going PMHro on a i>ort tack, with tho Pun- < tan about a quarter of a mile in the I lead. Twenty minutes later the Genesta j went about on the starboard tack, tho Puri- ] tan going to pert, and the latter was soon s two miles ahead of Uio English boat. The wind now began to increase in volume, and the yachts were soon moving at a lively pace, the Genesta gaining somewhat, both being k headed east Hounding the buoy on southP^Htest'Spit.the Puritan was ever three minutes ahead, and at 1:50 was to windward heading toward the stalieboat, which was six miles off. The wind had again dropped to a light breeze, but soon freshened again. The Puritan reached the stakeboat at 2:15, and live minutes later the tfenesta made tho turn and the homeward journey was begun. The " <"< 1 rvMitirv.KvI to increase in ve the runttav, close hauler in a wiiot.e-jaii breeze, indicating llsit jieeljno. locity, and the Puritan was making the most of it, gaining gradually on her rival, and both traveling very fast Tbe Gene.-;ta, however, made up some lost time in tha r.e^t livo mile?, and whea the furl tan wis nii'Bn rnws Hum iminti m<? rutter was only four minutes' traveling distance in the rear. The .Puritan was doing grandly, however, on the port tack, the Genest:* bein^ to starboard, and it was evident '" that the former had a winning lead ten miles fr^m th<* finishing lin?. The relative distance wnicn separated the boats did not alter materially to the end, and the Puritan crossed the finishing line at 4:8:30, the Genesta following at 4:44:30, six minutes behind, the actual tim3 of the race being 6h. 4m. 30s. The Geiiesta's time allowance was 31s. When the Puritan went over the line a winner, the din that arose was deafening. Beside th-j vessels that bad accompanied the boats over the course, as many more had assembled at the finish, and between the shriek ins whistles and booming cannons, the \Hre-cracUers, torpedoes trumpets, drums, b lis, tin-pans and many other uteusila ij THE OENESTA, CLOSE nAOLED IN* A WHOLE-SAtl I BREEZE, INDICATI.NO llEB 11EEI.1N0. of noise, a person could not hear I i his neighbor shouting in liis car. And it was t ' kept up for many minutes, while dozens of boats tried to surround tho victor and con-! t gratulato her owner. The Puritan finally anchored off Stapleton, Staten Island. When I ( tbe Gcnest i came along sho met with a re- ( ception fully as enthusiastic, and SirKiohard I | Sutton, h'r owner, was kept bowing right and left for a quarter of an hour. The cutter was towed up to Tonipkinsvillo by tho judges' boat, Lucknubaeli, where it was discovered that her upjM?r cap or ! * "yoke,*'that holds the tonmsust in place at I 1 the mainmast head, had boon cracked. Un j 1 this account Sir Richard asked that the sec- i ond race be postponed for a ciay, and to this | i the Kegatta Conimitt-.-e consented. i j . { The Second and Final Victor)** Two days alter the Boston sloop l'uritan's j ? first victory over the English cutter Genesta j ? in tho international yacht raeo for the ' America's cup, the second of tiio series of | ? contests took place. The result rendered a . third race unnecessary, as the Puritan won again after a magnificent contest. The cup which was wrested froin England by 1 the yacht America thirty-four years I a^o, and has never gone back," although fre- j I quently contested for, now remains in this | country until tho noxt would-ba champion | comes across tiio seas to claim the yachting I supremacy of tho world The course was ' from tiie Scotlan I lightship outside of New i r York bay, twenty miles to leeward, which | f was east-southeast, and return. Wind and j } ware wero favorable to bringing out the best i > points oi tne ungusn uoar. ine mu i lumpy, and tho breeze fresinned almost to a gale. Details of the race are as follows: The judges' boat, Luckenbach, dropped | ' over to a point just cost ot the Scotland Lightship and dropped anchor, forming the line of start. At 10:45 she sounded the warning signal, and the yachts front through their manoeuvers for position to cross the line. It was a beautiful sight to watch them taclcing for position, with a clear field to themselves, tne excursion boats and accompanying yachts for once keeping well to leeward and astern. At 11 o'clock the pre- | paratory signal was sounded and the yachts , approached the lino. Tho Genesta was to j leewarJ of the sloop, but many lengths ahead. It seemed as thougii tho Puritan was an\iou3 i tc have the cutter cross the line ahead. If j that was her purpose, it was accomplished, for the boats made their start thus: H. M. S. H. M. S. Genesta...II 05 1(5 Puritan... 11 Ot! 01 As the Genesta went over the line she sot ler big spinaker and shook out her jib topsail. The Puritan hung out her spinaker and set out her balloon jib topsail. Sheets were siactceu on, uooms t-ujieu uwajr uuu, auu ^ the race was begun. The breeze blew over ( the Dort quarter at not les3 tlian a seven- j inot pace, the sea wa3 smooth a:id the tide flood. The weather gratified the Puritan's j friends at this time. There was not such a large fleet of accompanying vessels as on any previous days when [ ihe yachts met, but there was still a" goodly j lumber of steam yachts and steam passenger j j x>ats, and the latter were all crowded. 1 s As the yachts started on their journey the I t areeze began to freshen. Tho Genesta began 1 1 :o poiut away to thesouthward, and the Puri- j j an ran up to leeward of her, and within a | ^ lalf hour was on her beam. Tho Yankee re- ? nained in this position for some time and r ;hen began to forgo slowly ahead. The , |j 3enesta's spankor was not" drawing very ] tvell. Bat presently sho caught a D jreeze that the Puritan did not feel, and j j igain came up almost abreast of the sloop. i The boats were now abont a mile apart, with e ;he cutter to windward, and they remained t n that position for several mile3, when the t Puritan once more gained a leal of a few engths. The sloop seemed to ba advancing I 0 o a decided lead when the Genesta suddenly j r nade a break and passed her by a half-mile. v so the boats remained until near 6 ;he buoy, when the Genesta j iau!ed down her big topsail. Tho j Puritan followed suit, and in addition housed !j ler topmast. But tiie cutter ran up a galF : ; opsail. The breeze had kept on increasing, 5 uid many thought that the beat hotne would lavo to b? made without topsails. In this they ii vere mistaken, although the Puritan evi- j I lently had no intention of using a topsail igain. Sho lost several minutes by this tardy f hortening of sail. The buoy was rounded as j t ollows: i c IT c XT "\T Q! I XI. iU. O. II. iu. K7. ienosta 1 05 U0 Puritan 1 07 ?(> j It will thus bo seen that the cutter had ! gained one minute and twenty-two seconds oil I j he ru:i before the wind. j n When the boats had rounded thero began j . me of the grandest races that was over s?en : it American or any other waters. The boats' | ^ irst tack was on the starboard. The Puritan /as a full quarter of a mile behind, and as j * he wind was now blowing strong and tho ea w&s getting very lumpy, her ad- , ie rents becamo less enthusiastic than tliey n lad been at any time bofore. They plucked r ip courage, however, when they saw tho way n which the sloop outpoint-.-d the cutter. It j vas growing to bo regular cutter weather, i ret tho Puritan, by her cIosj sailing, almost ! c viped out half her ground lost on tho lirst ack. Tho Genesta kept her topsail up,whilo t hs Puritan sailed without hers. The sloop's j : taysail and jib shook considerably, and the i ] utter's mainsail and topsail did" the same i j hing Tho Pui . tan made tho first tack at 1:25. j rhe Genest.i at once went about. The Boson boat had the better handling this time. C( >iie went around veryquickly, and headed up (| o the wind as proul as such a bjauty had c' he right to be. The Genesta's foresails were t j shaken in a vain effort to point with liar op- y jonent. Tho wind was now stiff. Carrier pigeons a hat were loosed from time to time from the *0 LiUckonbach had troublo in getting hea lway igainst it. It had shifted a coupla of points o tho west. Tho water had become more '! lumpy, and tho Genesta's people must have J mrnmo full wpII satisfied with American weather at last. I J "A grand raco!" was the unanimous ex- c ires?ion, and the yachts flev.- on. At i:o-? ;he Gonesti's skippar concluded that his top* t =ail was of no use, and had it hauled down, I The Puritan was' slowly outpointing anil out[ootinz the Briton, bat tho latter was still e :mlf a mile to windward. She was plunging t >n, with her decks awash nearly all the tune: c ret she again ran up her gair topsiil. Th? i t Puritan was riding the seas beautifully and | ] joing to windward. About 2 p. M. a brisk squall came up but it ( inly sent the rivals ahead the faster. Tiie j ^ Benesta stuck to her topsail just the same j 1 ind plowed ahead with gunwale under. The j E'uritan took the weather finely. The ya-'hls : c itoo I on a loii" tack this time, hea liii ' \\\ by J 12. \ The Genesta wejit about at 2:10 and the ' Puritan followed half a minute later. Tho ' course was about west northwest The Pur- s itan was ahead, but nearly half a inile to leeward. On this tack tho Geneva had the best s of it at first Siie outfooted the sloop, as < though from enthusiasm at the appearance of < a bank of heavy clouds forming in the north, 1 aiul forboding a continuation of the i stormy cutter weather. But her gain ' did not last long. The Puritan soon resumed good work and went ahead as before. At 2:45 the Puritan was nearly a mile to windward, and perhaps a quarter of a mile astern. In fact she was toolar to windward, I and her sheet had to bo eased off a trills, i >> 1L11 U113 i'eiltfl Mir J1UIY lUIUU^U HIV UUIVI ] and caine up abreast of tho cutter. Tho Gen- j 1 esta's topsail was not benefiting her. It was | always flapping and seveial times went aback: , t but the Britou let it remain in position. j : Tho Puritan had sailed free for but a short j " time when tho sheet was again hauled aft. : ' At 3:05 it was slackened again, and livo ! t minutes later hauled taut. Tho Genesta had \ t never been able to ease olF. j The Luckenbach now put on sfam in order ' to roach the homestake in season. The tuc < went ahead at the rate of twelve knots an ' hour, yet she only left tho yachts very ' . slowly. At:>:15 the Puritan let her sheet j' off several points and ran down to the Genes- ! 1 ta's weather bow. Tho Genesta tried to J point up under the Puritan's stern, but tho j l'anked was there too. me rurltan in a few minutes crossed the cutter's bow, and stayed several lengths ahead to leeward. Then the Gcnesta appeared to pick up on ! I her antagonist for another short spell, but ( suddenly the Puritan slsot ahead and increased ' her lead to an eighth of a mile or more, still j ( to leeward. Again the Yankee showed her j pointing powers, and within another mile was ; ' nearly a quarter of a mile dead ahead. After j j that it was only a question of how much the ; sloop would win by. She increased lvr lead j { to a full quarter of a mile, by which distance ' she beat the Genesta over the finishing line, j The Genesta had sailed closo-hauled over the j ' entire boat hom^. The yachts landed home so: i H M. S. H. M. S. !, Puritan 4 01) 15 Genesta 4 10 ol) i Tho screeching of whistles, firing of can- | ( non, ringing of bells, blowing of trumpets, i unci cheering accompanied either boat as it j finisho 1. Tho crews of the contending yachts j also cheered each other heartily. Hero is a summary of the race: Klapsed Corrected Finish 'lime. Time. H. >t. S. H. M. S. II. M. S. I Puritan 4 ??;> 15 5 o:$ 11 5 o:i 14 Gene3ta 4 ID 5 05 Si 5 01 Tti Tho Oenesta had tho best of the start by forty-five second*, ?n 1 the Puritan finished one" minute nivl forty-five seconds ahead. Tliis gives the Puritan the victory over tho I forty-mile course by two minutes and nine ' sejonds actuil timo. and by one minute and thirty-eight seconds after allowing her antagonist tho thirty-one sojou Is time allowance I of corrected time. After crossing the lin? both i yachts hove to, and wore ta';on in tow to j their moorintrs off Staten Island. 1 rc Hie scene auout rstaten isiand after the ! two racers camo to an anchorage, was a re markable one. Yachtsmen by the hundreds i visited each craft. On the Puritan a feast was spread and partaken of with many j sincere wishes and much mirth. ; The officers of tho American sloop were near- j ly shaken to pieces by their enthusiastic ad* i tuirers. Upward of 100 congratulatory dis-' patches wore received from Boston, where ! Llie greatest enthusiasm prevailed over tho ; Puritan's victory. j NEWS SUMMARY, j I'aHtrrn nnil .Ulritllc Mate*. A Shamokin fIVnn.l dispatch alleges that i ' Molly Maguireism is again rampant in tho | lpper and lower Luzerne districts. Nino uurders have recently occurred in the north- ! >rn coal fields, and mines are frequently fired. J Murderers and firebugs go free and tho Coal md Iron police seem powerless to afford proaction to life and property." A coal train ran into the handsome dex>t of the rennsylvania railroad at limitngton Pen 11., completely demolishing tho I irestcril Halt 01 ll.c sirucuut: auu vauntu^ | ?20,t)00 damages. Tho a-! ion was duo to a | xain band's failure to open a switch. Thuee young men?Charles Young, E. k. j "'urtis and Arthur Wheeler?wero sailing j >n a pond at Rockland, Mass., when their j joat upset ami all wore drowned. Laugh numbers of women votersliavo been j egistercl in Boston. Mrs. Barbara lU*ETM.vr;En and an infnnt j ;on were instantly killed by falling down a j ight shaft during a tiro in a Now York tone- { nent house. ScnscujrTioxs to tho Grant national mon- j mient fund are coining in slowly, a late ro>ort of th-> committee at New York showing i total ol'6i.y>ll.C5. At an auction sale in New York twentyeven head of registered Jersey cattle were old. Tlio highest pries ( ? >,:.50) was paid for he fatuous cow Oxford Mate, with a record if thirty-lime pounds twelve ounces of buter in seven days. A bull calf, son of Black i ?rinco of Linden, brought .? ;,0U0. The Willow Palo Co., of Boston, having its nanufactory at Meriden, Conn., has faded or $4:U.OU?. Tho concern manufactured nankets exclusively. South and West* Emory A. Storks, one of the most promileat lawyers of tho West, died suddenly a I bw days since in Ottawa, 111. "He | vas bcrn in Cattaraugus county, X. Y., j n 18i54, and since ISo'J had practiccd law in ,'hicago. Tht.ee ladies?mrs. Dr. Marshall, Mrs. 5aul and a friend?were drowned in Lako Traverse, Minn., by tho upsetting of their >oat during a storm. A freight train plunged through a bridge lear Pleasant Hill, Mo. Fred Karl, engineer, ma P. McHenney, fireman, were drowned in he wreck Striking Bohemian and Polish iron workers at Cleveland, Ohio, attacked a foreman >n the street, when lie drew his revolver and hot at his assailants, wounding two of them. Reports from tho western com belt are avorable to a heavy crop. Tho yield will >e the largest in years, tho estimate in Ohio >eing 11J, 19bushels. ! A passenger train left the track near jexington, Kw. and rolled down an embank uent thirty foot high. Frank Watts, tiie ngineer, and Fred Burger, tho fireman, were :illeci Thomas J. Nichols, a prominent Kentucky turfman, and a colored woman vero fatally injured, and three other raiload employes were badly hurt. . While a threshing machine was iu operaion on the farm of Richard Lord, at Bryan, jliio, the boiler exploded, killing (J. G. Jaster and Wesley Heuner. Wa?liingtc<i> Numerous appointments ->f fourth-class >ostmasters are being made. Further appointments by the President: Tenry W. Gilliert, of New York, to be conul at Trieste; .Inmos M. Ilosse.of New York, I o be consul at Three Rivers, Canada; Moses V. Hopkins, of North Carolina, to be miniser resident and consul-general to Liberia. The Rev. Moses A. Hopkins was born a lave in Montgomery county, Va., and after ;aining his freedom pursue 1 a course of study ind was graduated at the Lincoln university, 1 Pennsylvania, m 1S74. lie was aLo gradu- | ited at tho Auburn (X. Y.) 'theological sem- , nary. In addition to his services as a Pre3lyterian clergyman, he has been engaged in 1 ducational pursuits and was tho principal of he State Colored Normal school at Franklinon, N. C., for several years. ' ; The President has appointed Ross A. Fish, if the District of Columbia, to be assistant i egister of tho treasury, vice W. P. Titcomb, rho has been reduced to a fourth class clerkhip. Within twenty-eight days sixty postoffices lave been burned or robbed by burglars, "he average loss in each case was less than 100, which falls upon the government Mr. A. M. Keiley has formally tendered lis resignation as United States minister to Austria. EicnT-moro clerks have just bean removed rom the treasury department Jt is stated hat their places Will not be filled for economial reasons. Forcljfii, Fi.oons have destroyed the crops in Bengal, ndia. The Calcutta district for fifty miles round is submerged, and n famine is intending. A Fiii'xeif trans]>ort was returning from ronfjuin when a fight, broke ou: between the ailors and soldiers on board. Afterward a uutiny broke out among some of the sailors vlio had boen punished, and they attempted o scuttle the ship. They were landed at Alters under guard, and will bj tried for muiny, and probably shot or guillotined. Civil war still rages in Peru. A gale at Paris did great damage to proprty, and many persons w.-ro injured. Ax international exhibition to illu-.trate ho history and development of traveling by and, sea an 1 air will open at Liverpool in Jay, IS^'ii, and continue through the summer tad autumn. At a reunion held by King Christian, of >enmark, at i'redenbuiv, there were present lie Itussian czar and czarina, Fringe anil Prin?ss of Wales, King George of Greece, and lie Due and Duchesso do Chartros. The occasion was tbo formal betrothal of Marie, augliter of the Due de Chartres, and Prince V'aldemar. youugest son of King Christian 'i'i!K small-pox epidemic at Montreal is raving the city. Ten deaths in one housj in ne day were reported. Asiatic cholera lias become insignificant 1 France an I i< fast diminishing in Spain. *i Italy. however, infection centers have be tii? ostnh'ish'Hl at I'arma and at Palermo, 'lie Italian government has begun to issue holera bulletins. Details of the battlo at Canta, Peru.show hat the government troops were badly leaten by the rebels under Caceres. Santos, the man who was recently arrestid in Ecuador and released upon demand of he American government because ho is a itizen of the United States, will put in a litle bill of over $100,000 damages against the Ecuadorians. There is a movement on foot to open the government buildings in Washington to the mblic on Sundays. The President has anpointod the following :ollectors of customs: John McWilliains, for ho district of Providence, R. I.; John S. iager, for the district of San Franeisc-'>, Cal.; iVilliam J. McKinnie, for tho district of /Uyahoga, Ohio: John Flanagan, for the outliern district of (tj-egon. AdlSPATCH from Retina. British America, ays that Kiel, tho rebel leader, lias been respited pending the decision of the privy ouneil of Great Britain. Riel appears t<: iave 110 idea that he will hang, and is defiant md unrepentant. LATER_NEWS. A. J,. Dcxcax, of Pennsylvania, and R. A. | i'an Cleave, of Mississippi, have been ap- j winted special agents in the land office. Great excitement prevails in Kansas over ' he decision of a United States circuit court j judge declaring ti~,0U0 acres of land hereto- j 'ore held by the Southern Kansas Railroad i :ompany a part of tho public domain. As ' soon as the decision was niado known in ! southern Kansas men in wagons, buggies and i )ii horseback camo in great numbers to i IVoodson and Greenwood counties, and Ik.- j ;an staking oft claims, saying that Judge j Brewer's decision declared all lands hereto- ! 'nm liv tin. Missouri. Kansas and Texas : ailwav to bo government land. The Prohibition party in Maryland havo [icltl a State convention in Baltimore?tlio !irst in tlio party's history?and nominated a :ooipletc ticket. A destructive fire whi< li broke out in tho Southern Pump company's works, Nashville, renii., burned over tiiirie macros of valuable lumber and destroyed oth?r property, causing a total estimated loss of SIV'.OJO. Two young men?Charles Chnpham and Frank Oucera? wore drowned in Luko Winnebago, Wisconsin, by tlio capsizing of their yacht. j J(111 v Haukrwood, a farmer, and his son > James were killed in tho woo ls near Nash- j ville, Tenn.. by a falling tree. Ix Wyoming tin Knights of Labor havo I taken a decided stand against tho Chinese, : and their ultimate expulsion fr<>m tho Terri- j lory is regarded as probal lo. Thomas Hvi.axu, a policeman of North j Columbus, Ohio, shot and kiiio.l hi; wife and ] then infii't >d a fatal wouu I on himself. I'lJESiOEXTiM. p'istma.-tors appunt.'d: IMv/.ird II. Thayer, at Olinton. Ohio: II;nry Williams, at Fre l?>rH?, Md.: J. Iienry Ujvoars. at Chi':', Cal., Vice James M. Onnsbv, susp *nde 1 bewiusj a deilcieney of in hi> accounts was discovert} I. Tho po.stof fico inspectors colic.'to 1 lho doQnoncy fro:u Ormsby's bondsmen. Commander-in-Chief Buudette, of the Grand Arxiy of the Republic, has issued a general order calling upon nil members of the organization to contribute to a fund for tho erection of a monument to General I T1 Grant. A sum equal to a contribution of fifteen cents each is required. Honorably discharged soldiors and sailors, not members of tho organization, are invited to join in the n movement. The solicitor of tlio treasury is about to bring suit against George B. Loring, late , commissioner of agricult ure, for the recovery of about $20,000 of government funds allogoa ^ to have been illegally expended by Mr. Lorlng in tho purchase of seed, etc., for tin do. partment of agriculture. ^ The wrecking schooner, Edwin I'ost, while jui at work on a wreck in New York bay, was iri run into by another vessel and capsized. jo Captain James ]3. Smith and John Phillips, ?ri tho colored cook, were drowned. jf Jumuo, tho big elephant killed by a train *o: in Canada, has boon dissected. The skin will jit be stutTod and presented to tho TufTt college, Ju cl' Massachusetts. 'J'ho skeleton will go to Cc tho national museum at Washington. ill! Adam Bherexdkk,president of the defunct nu Erie county (I'enn.) savings bank, on trial for ari frau l and embezzlement, was found guilty re' of ton founts in tho in lictnnnt azainst him. J'u. Adi:i.a:dk Kr-haudsox, aged forty- th seven, resident physician at Mount Holyoko co seminary, South 11adloy Falls, Mass., com" ?,x til milted suicido during a temporary fit of insanity. m, LoL":svir.Lr, Ky., has just held a great eel- th el ration ever tho sale of tho one hundred l,r thousandth hogshead of tobacco in that city this year. This was tho largest year's sale i ever known, and represented over $12,000,- Ct 0J0. The proeos-io:i in honor of tho ovent was of an industrial and commercial charac- th ter, and was eight miles long. Fifty thousand co strangers wore in town. co liisiioi' Henuy Ciiamplix Lay, of tho Episcopal diocese of Easton, Md., died tho sq other afternoon at tho church homo in Balti- g11 more, Me. He was born in Richmond, Va., in 1*33. ar Two men wero instantly killed and a third er n?a:i was fatally inj.ucd by tho fall of n ?P bucket in a mine shaft near Butte, Montana. ' ^ Uexekal I'. II. sneridan was elected or president for the ensuing year at tho annual on reunion of tho Cumberland army, held in i" Grand Rapids, Mich. q Thk President 1ms appointed Lemuel B. m< Fowlor to bo postmaster at Augusta, Me. 111 Dr. J. B. II a mi i.to.v has resigned as super- to vising surgeon-general of the United States of marine hospital service. m Additional appointments of presidential postmasters: Russell T. Dobson, at Bowling ?), Gronn, Ohio; James Murray, at Fremont, gi Neb.; William H. Evans, at Princeton, Ind.; ?I' John Crull, at Marietta, Penn.; Joseph B. Smith, at Fayetteville, N. C. th President Diaz, in his annual message to m; the Mexican congress, recommends tho early ratification of the postal and extradition of (jr criminals treaties which tho Mexican minister hn in "Washington has negotiated with the T1 American government. jj?t] Numerous cases of cholera liavo appeared m( in Paris. At Palermo, Italy, the soldiers have Hi boon attacked by the disease,and tho wealthy J?? residents are fleeing from the city. ti, Nxri-Es, Italy, has had a shock of earth- \v< quake which lasted eight seconds. of M Oj, ell JEFFfRS0N_ DAVIS. Deny ins Cer?aln M:iteiii<ni* in He br saril lo fc'3i* Capture. W1 The following letter from JeXerson Davis to the Now York Herald has been written by the ex-piv i io:it of t!i > c >nfo leracy in denial >f certain recent statements regarding his sa capture at tho close of tho war: Beau voir, Miss., Kept. lSSo. ni To the Editor ok the Herald:?On my on re'urn after a protracted absence from home cs [ received a slip from your journal, which I i" lincloso for greater coiivcnienco in noticing its contents: M Indiana poms, Ind., August lf>, 1SS5.?At jY the recent reunion of tho veterans of the ' Fourth Indiana cava'ry, in this city, Lieuten- j!J nut Isffritrir. of tho command, who was J. provost marshal at Macon, Ga., at tho time of tlio capturo of Jefferson Davis, related tho circumstances of tho capturo. Ho describee! his par- !) ticipation in this affair as follows: "I went '' out to the lino of my jurisdiction to reccivo Davis. Two miles and a i.alf from Macon lie beeamo my ])risoner and I brought him to I tho ( iy in an old farm wagon. It was a vehicle with a great deal to condemn it in the way of unsightliness. It bad weakness all , over it, but sufficient strength to hold Jefferson Davis, myself and secretary. Tho rebel ln chief sat between us, and over his head, 1 from a pole fixed to tho seat, lmng the hoop in skirt, calico wrapper and an old straw hood, lot which formed his disguiso when captured." "So J el? was disguised?" ju? "Yes. It is 110 uso to question Ilia fact. nr' The articles of his cestuma hunaf from that pole. Davis bo:o himself with tho fortitude . of a brave man in trouble. He was courteous y to mo and to the guard; talke l freely <>n ^ every question but that relating to the rosult 1 of the war. ' When we stopped at tho International >'t! hotel,and were about to j;etout of tho wagon, jul Captain Thompson, of tho Fourth Indiana ' cavalry, drew his revolver to liro at Davis, no I saw his movement, struck tho weapon with i boi my arm, and !ho bullet tore my coat and M< uiiii-K At. tim nmmnnf. Dnvis. sneinsr Thomu- I son's purpose, cried out, 'For Gotl's saico, cj| Lieutenant, save my lifo!' I got the prisoner j0f out of the wagon and into the hotel with a good deal of alacrity. j,0 "After that I met Davis at the Louisville , hotel in 1872, when ho recognized me, and ap- . proaehing, said: 'I must thank you again, '?: Lieutenant Isgrigg, for saving my life.' We had (iint'.i a chat about the war tlien. Before ?a! this I had received a letter of thanks from him. He was my prisoner eight days, to- i.cl gether with his wife, daughter and ttio com- IO' missary of his guard. These three wo took a" into Macon in au old family carriage. JcfT was not sulky as a prisoner, but one could ea see that the breaking of the Confederacy bo bore grievously on his thoughts." H< Though accustomed to see slanderous st! publications in regard to mysel. I have road t0( this with no little surprise, becauso of the vj total absence of any foundation or pretext on an which to build the fiction. 1 avail myself of tjc your courtesy in asking you to publish this jj, seriatim refutation of the several statements [C of the story. It is not true, as stated, that I was turned w over to the custody of one Lieutenant Isgrigg two and a half nnles (or any other distance) from Macon. The troops by whom 1 was ^ captured remained my guard to Macon, and a detachment of them accompanied mo to pi Fortress Monroe in charge of their own officers. l'i Equally untruo is it that I rode with the said Isgrigg and my sacretary (or with any- <3t one else) in "an old farm wagon." My pri- j>j vate secretary, Burton N. Harrison. Esq., ei now a member of the bar of New York, was Lc captured with ma, and rode on horseback to Macon. I had for several days occupied an ambulance with my wife and children, and i)c rode into Macon in it. There was no such cowardly attempt to Xi offer insult to me as would have been shown Ni by hanging over my h >ad the articles of clothing which Isgrigg falsely avers I had worn at ^ the time of my capture. Nor did my captors A obtain at the time of my capture the hoop- Ui skirt, etc., which Isgrigg describes, unless cl "mf fnnnrl ninonr* tlm annarel taken when the trunks of my wife and her female I servant wore pillagod. On our arrival at the hotel in Macon a small body of troops in front of the entrance were at open ranks, facing inward. When I got out of the ambulance to enter tho hotel . they presentod arms while I passed through, tuiri 1 received the saluto as an expression of the feeling bravo men show to a fallen foe. 01 Tho story of " Captain Thompson, of tho Fourth Indiana cavalry," attempting to shoot K mo as I entered tho Macon hotel i< wholly fictitious, and I leave it to that regiment itself K( to repel the imputation that one of its officers g would have been guilty of so dastardly an assault on a prisoner. Upon that falsehood tho narrator hangs t?' another, that I met him at tho LouisviLe hotel, in 187^?, recognized him and renewed thanks to him "for saving my life," and that I o: had previously written a letter of e1 thanks to him. I have not been in tho Louisville hotel sinco the J war; 1 do not remember ever to have seen or tl heard of this Lieutenant Isgrigg at any timo si or place, and it is not true that, as ho allogos, I was eight days in his custody, or that I have over written to himalett rof thanks. u I remained in Macon but a few hours, and j. was sent forward to Fortiv.-s Monroe tho evening of the day of mv arrival there: Yours respectfully, Jkkkers?>x Davis. ^ AN INSECT PLAGUE. t t! Whole District* In Mexico Ilavajfed ,| l?y Grasshopper*. j To n<ld to tho distress of ttio fnvor infected e district of the state of Vera Cruz, Mexico, it s is learned from wealthy residents of Vera Cruz who have fled from that fever-strickon " city, that tho country is swarming with myriads of grasshoppers, which ate ilJvouriiig tho crops and everything 11 ^reou. They are similar to tho Kansas grassi hoppers, but smaller, anil sweep the country c of every vestige of verdure, even to tho ten- v der shoots of the trees. Tho liean crop, the 'J j solo reliance of the poor population, is com i; p:ete!y destroyed, which wi.lentail great sutfori tig on that class. Tho grasshoppers are ! rapidly spreading. They have appeared ir i other southern states of Afoxico, and tbn rav- v i ages aro reported as equaling those reported j j in tho 6tato of Yora Cruz. t A BATTLE ffl PERU, i lie Capture of a Town by Gen- I oral Caceres* Rebels. LHand-to-Hand Fight in Which No Quarter was Given, Tho latest advices from Lima give details the battlo of Canta on tho 15th ult. On 3 morning of that day a detachment of vcrment troops occupying the town of uta, sixty miles from Lima, in the valley lining parallel to that of tho Rimac, was rprised by a division of General Caceres' my, and, aftor a sharp action of several urs was forcol to fly in disorder. Tho govninent troops consisted of 3'>0 men tho line battalion "Cajamnrea," the crack rps of tho Peruvian army,with ono Galling n, fifty cavalrymen of tho "Hussars of nin," and fifty mounted gendarmes under ilonel Pachas, the wholo forco boing.cominded by Colonel Torres of tho "Cajalica." Canta had been occupied for sevxl days, tho Montoneros, or irregular eolutionary forces, retiring on tho iproach of this detachment. On j iday evening news arrived of o approach of a division of the enomy. A uiK'il of war was h.'l I, and the opinion was pressed by some of the principal ollicers at tho placo should be evacuated; but oth>, among them Lieutenant-Colonel lJustaL-nte, declared that it was necessary to hold o position and dclcnd it. Tlio arguments ou^ht forward by Bustamento prevailed, id be assured his comrades that victory was rtain. L)n .Saturday at i a. sr. tno mus enclosing mta wero occupied by tho enemy, appart!y 1,500 or ~',0:j0 strong, an;', with about 0 cavalry. The latter wero stationed at e outlets of tho valley leading toward the ast and to tho interior, so that from tho st the government forces wero ofTeetually railed. Colonel Torres hud placed his men tho barracks situated in tho principal uare of tho town, and mounted tho machine in on one of its towers, having aiso lall outlying squads behind some of e walls in tho suburbs. Caceres' tillery, four small fL-ld pieces, four-pounds, made at Arequipa from locomotivo axles, etied firo from the hill at Iluayi-hullani at JO, and in a few minutes the tiring became neral. Tho enemy deployed in skirmishing tier, descended tin hills, and attempted to ier tho town, but were repeatedly driven ick. For two hours the positions of the mbatants wero unaltered, neither could the icerists gain ground, nor did tho Govornunt troops yield it, the fire being all tho no very heavy. At midday tho defenders of the place began slacken their fire, for the limited amount ammunition tlu-y possessed, 10.1 rounds per an, was becoming rapidly exhausted, and r an hour they received without reply the illoys of the attacking party. Perceiving is, tho revolutionists brought down their ins from tho heights, seeking to ion at : 'iort rnngo against tho barcks, but tho remaining resources of e ueienuers were caucu upuu, .uiu o artillery was forced to retire. At 2 p.. tlio bugles of tho "Cajainnrca" called all tlio troops to tlio plaza, uhero they wero rnied, and a desperate attempt was made to ive the rebels from tbe town, which they id then ehtored at the point of the bayonet, lis failed and then the defeat was accomistied. The fight was hand to hand in the reets. No quarter was given, and tho ost dreadful seems of carnage occurred, ouses where some of the defeated soldiers ,d taken refuge wore broken open, and all und within wero murdered, without Uislction of age, sex, or character, and then jre burned. A few of the most determined tho government cavalrymen, headed by >lonel I'achas, cut their way through their ponents and made their escape. Tho maino gun ha 1 been dismantled and thrown to the river bst'ore the enemy could reach it. Dustainente, to whose counsel the defeat us due, seeing that all was lost, blow hia nins out on tho iield of action. This officer is the same who, some months ago, asultetl in the streets of Lima Don Kafael mevaro, tlio consul-general of Holland, iiv'ii liiit for Canevaro's dextority with his i:a h<> would have b;<*n out down by tho bro of his assailant. Colonel Torres escaped rly in the action, and tho government lias tnied another officer to command the deciated "Cajamarca." Of the 50U or (MX) men gaged on tho government si le probably 21)0 rimed by flying to tho mountains or followg Paellas. The Cacerists were commanded by Colonel orales liormudez, and it is said that Caceres ithhis stafF, arrived at Canta the day after e battle. The lo^sas of tlio revolutionary reos aro not known. From the fact that i Cajamarca battalion was decido lly tho i"st in ilio government service, the parting ?f (.'aceres are jubilant over his success. ie soldiers in garrison at Lima aro not . ill alerted by the reverse, and their ollirs are. confident of thoir loyally in ease of i at la -k on tho city. ME NATIONAL liAME. I"ii" Southern leaguo lias a surplus of ?l,Ol)G the league treasury. Nkw York has ma lo tho fowest changes the team, and the least experiments of any iguo club. N'kw York lra'ls tho batting ami tho fieldl of tho league. Six of their batsmen j anions tho tirst dozen in tho country, fin: .salaries of all tho league players will reduced twenty-live per cent, next season, lito a number now got more than ?o,0jd. Samuel. Wilson-, whilo umpiring a game baseball at Danville, Ga., recently, wai n into by a player ami probably fatally inrotl internally. rwo circuit suggested for tho Eastern league xu year coiuiiriscs ncuiun, *icvi iuiui, Jersey City. Bridgeport, Now Ha von, sriden and Hartford, Fiiom tho facility with which minor league ilis beat tho big dubs of the National igue and American association it is evident at all the best players have not yet been bbled up. 1'he New York clnb has Chicagoed every iguo team at least once. They have Chigood Buffalo and l'rovideneo throe times eh, and Chicago and St. Louis twice each; Lai, thirteen. Chicago has Chicagoed iguo clubs twelve times, viz., Philadelphia ;ir times. Providence threo times, Detroit d Buffalo twice each, and Boston once. The remarkable games of fourteen innings :*h were played recently in Zanesvillo, Ohio, tweeu tho home team and tho visiting mley club, of Richmond, Ind. The Zaneslcs won tlie first game by S to 7, tho score mding tied from tho seventh to the foiir311th inning. In the second gam J tho Zancslies led o.'F in the first inning with four runs d faileJ to score afterward. The Henlevs id the score in tho fourth inning and made o winning run in the lost half of the fourmth. The championship records up to recent date ere as follows: THE NATIONAL LEAQUE. Won. JjOhI. I W'on. Lost :w York. 73 22 Boston 39 g licngo." 75 19 | St. Louts '.'S C3 iiladelpi:ia....4> 4!t , Buffalo 36 5S ovldence. 47 45 | Detroit 30 61 . I.onls 70 ?9 | Athlclic 47 51 ttxlmtv 53 45 HrookJyn 45 53 ncinniti 5C 4:: | Baltimore 30 01 misville so 50 | Metropolitan.. .35 CO r.ASTE.'IN Z.KAOUC. Idgoport 7 9 | Norfolk 33 43 reey'City 9 27 i Trenton 42 4i inca*ter 23 39 ! Virginia 03 2S Itioiml CO V'4 | Wiltcrbtiry 4 ! ewark 35 45 | Wilmington 5 3i BOCTIIKKN I.EA<il-K. Hants CC 32 | Columbus 49 47 iigiifta CI ?.G Macon 51 43 irmingham....)S 77 , Memphis 44 50 iaitcnoo^a 31 59 | Nashville .CI 34 NEWSY GLEANINGS. This Tonquiu war cost $341,530,ODD. Artificial human ears niado of celluloid o new. China has 3,;>00 miles of telegraph line,and lly seven miles of railroad. lit Ki Ai.dics aro now bred at Goodnight, 'an., and buffalo calves sell at $50 a head. Ki.izaiiktii Hickman, of Xcnia, 111., lias a >it seventy-four years old, who is a greatrandfather. Tiiukk-qi'autkks of the "imported" giner alo used in tiiis country is manufactured l Rochester, N. Y It is est imated t hat at least 10,0 jo victims [ gas generated by sewers alone aro slain very year in this country. Cknsvk returns from various parts of lassachuselts show a considerable reducion in potuilntioM as coinparo.l with the conns of 1 ST.'>. MiNKHsin Idaho aro slaughtering fish by lie thousands, through mere wantonness, sing dynamite cartridges. There is no lish i\v in flie Territory. T r tknf Mx..--. .1 ro 1(1!).(Mio.no,1 nf acres f land on tho Pncilic coast of t!??? lluited tates ospocially adapted to tho culture of 'heat, which is prartiially untouched. A NLMliKU ol' llussians are to settle in a alley norih of Sitka, Alaska, nn agent of lii-irs who is now journeying across tlin coniuent having recently selected the sit.*. Thk first ( iraut inomunent coinpletod is on lio b'tnte Fair grounds, Peabody, Kansas. L consists of a shaft forty feet high, built of arj of corn, wrought into elaborate 1110}ics. Bv a singular error of tho engraver nu.l veisight of the proof-reader, new live-dollar ills of the Old Colony National bank, of 'lymouth, Mass., have tho word "of' twice i) the title. A Nkw Hami'shtue farmer has in a orner of his barn a load of hay rhich wns placed there thirty-four years aw. 'he hay is yellow from age, but its quality i said to be unimpaired. M.M.j; last New Year's Day 1.7) inventions ive been Mod in '.lie patent ollico relating > ri lli'i' skato-i ltoxwmd, c.f which the rlieels are generally made, has doubled u: ii in*. Contracts for 10,000 tons of steel for Lie skates have been given out. - .r " | JUMBO KILLED. I Tragic Death of the World's Biggest Elephant. ic v Run Over bya Train in Canada? 2 Sketch of His Career. fl h ti Jumlio, tlio *.'!(),000 olopliant belonging to Bnrnum, was killed on the Grand Trunk Air- ^ Lino track half a niilo oast of St. Thomas, d Ontario, tho other night. His keoper was b lending him along the track to load him,when ^ a freight train came up behind unnoticed and ran him down. Ho was injured so badly a that he died in thirty minutes. The trick n elephant To:u Thumb was also injured,his leg d being broken. y " c Jumbo was probably the most famous elephant that ever lived, and at tho time of his ^ death was tho largest animal in captivity, p He belonged to tho African specios, and was d about twenty-fivo years of age. Taken to Iho London zoological gardens when a baby, as hn attained his growth ho was used to con- i; vhv of children unon his back about tj tho gardens, and when* so employed was porfently tractable. As ho grew older, V however, hu manifested an unruly dis- ,, position when closely confined, and it was lor this reason, it is said, that tho coun- i< cil of the zoological society decided to sell . him when Mr. P. T. Barnuiu opened negotia* 1 tions for his purchase in tho early part of h They feared that ho would become possessed by the peculiar insanity to which ele- c phants at certain stages of life aro subject. When, however, tho fact became known that the council had made a definite contract to sell Jumbo to Mr. Barnum ior i'2,0U0, great indignation was expressed by tho London press, and in a short time an extraordinary popular "craze" on tho subject was developed in England. Jumbo becamo the chief topic of tho day, and his removal from the country was lamented as a national calamity. Every effort was mado to prevent it, even including an injunction suit in chancery, and the matter was brought before the house of commons. Tho members of tbo council, roundly denounced as they were, adhered to their legal contract, and lato in March, 1882, Jumbo was einbarke t for tho United States on board tho steamship Assyrian Monarch. ]j For weeks before the elephant's departure the zoological gardens were visited by y crowds of men, women, and children of all v classes of society, who went to take a farewell look at Jumbo and to feed him with u buns and other delicacies. Popular feeling . ran so high that there were rumors that a 1 riot would take placo when he was conveyed g through the streets to tho steamship dock, but tho removal was made in tho early morning hours without causing any demonstrations ^ except those of farewell. It is said that the total cost of bringing him to the United b States was $20,000, exclusive of the price paid * for him. The height of Jumbo was eleven feet and a I half. His immense bulkwa*such that a front view of him was about us imposing as a side a view. Other elephants looked like pigmies \ beside him. His irnnk for several feet after . litaving'.his head wasas thick as a stout man's l! Ivxly. When he lifted his head and stretched r lii.i trunk upward, he could reach up twentysix feet, or five feet higher than llie largest of d tho other elephants in his owner's extensive herd. SPAIN AND GERMANY, 1 riic Form or Country I nlio'di lier J Itiglit? to ilio Caroline Klnnd*. t Dispaccues from Madrid state that a i messenger was sent to Berlin requesting ( Germany to disavow any intention of oitab- , lishing a suzerainty in tho Carolines, and saying that Spain would rofuse to apologize ( for the recent insults to the German c embassy unless such declaration is t made. Tho dispatch also says that the Spanish note concludes with the expression of a hope that Germany will recog- 1 nize the prior rights of Spain, oven m mo s islands which German cruisers have occupied. . A correspondent says: "I hear upon high ' authority that Spain if G.-rmany admits tier ^ rights, will spontaneously insert in tho Ofli~ cial Gazette an apology in the name of tho S king, government and couutry for the insults * to the German embassy." A military rising in Madrid has occurred, d It was limited to one of the barracks, and was caused by a fow drunken soldiers, who ' spized their arms and shouted: "Death to our chiefs!" The authorities, who had feared that an outbreak would occur, were prepared for tho rising, and vigorously suppressed it before it had time to assume for- h midablo proportions. A dispatch from Madrid says that the Spanish commander at Manila telegraphs . that when it \yas found that the German Hag J had been hoisted at Yap tho governor of the I Carolines, Senor Babrilies. visited the com- c rounder of tlio German gunboat Itlis and accused liiin of piracy and breach of a international law. Tho German com- * tnander replied that he had simply obeyed orders. A hot argument en- \ sued, ending in a scuffle, when the German f commander retired to his cabin. The gov- ' ernor then boarded the Spanish man-of-war j San Quentin and requested tho captain to J! 4.1... 'I'Urt nnnfuiit I'fifuQOfl T I lire Ull kilt) l win. a HO ui|?uiu >?>?? , the governor of the Philippines hav- g itig ordered him to avoid a conflict. Bahrilles ordered the crow to lire, whereupon { I tho captain drew n revolver and threatened i | to shoot tiie lirst man wlio obeyed or repeated I the order. Babrillcs again ordered tho men g to fire, when tho captain shot Babrilles in the . shoulder. Babrilles was afterward taken as J a prisoner to Manila. } A Berlin dispatch states that the crown prince Frederick William has replied to the C note from Kins Alfonso. The crown prince , assures King Alfonso of tho friendly desire of Emperor William not to encroach upon ( Spanish rights. A definito settlement of the pending questions, ho says, can only be reached by a full agreement between the i great powers. INJURIOUS TO FARMERS. ; A OTnrylanil Senator Make* Charges ' Against tho I'atcnt Offlcc. j A Washi ngton dispatch states that "a ( speech niado by ex-Senator Hamilton, of Maryland, at a farmers' exhibition at Shep- 1 herdstown, W. va., lias creaieu someimng oj \ a stir in tho patent office. Senator Hamilton j charged that there wero moro frauds com* j milted against the farmers in the issuance ol I patents for agricultural machinery than there were in any other department of the gov J eminent. It is understood that Senator Ham? , ? ilton intended his remarks to relate to plows, I , threshers, wire fences and driven wells. It I ' has been contended for a long time that the t patent office has been too liberal in granting 1 patents for everything that tho farmer must use, mid that there is a combination between ( certain manufacturers of agricultural implements and employes of tho patent office which 1 operates dircctly against tho farmer. The policy of the patent office has been in tho past, it is claimed, to increase the receipts of tho office as much as pos- j si 1)1.; by issuing as many patents as they can, regardless of the question as to whether thoy i at\> of valus or contain new idea*;. This policy ha? operated directly against the farmer probably more than against any other e: ass of users of patent machinery. Senator; , Hamilton when in Congress was a member of ; tho committee on patents, and agitated un- j j suc.-K-sfnliy for several years a reform of the | 1 a?ent olico and its practices." 1 A CHINESE HORROR, 1! Stowing Ibe Iloncx of Bo?lie* Stol.-n I'rom CcmctcricM. A horrible discovery was made in Chinatown, San Francisco, the other day. Information was given tho coroner that a frightful stcnch was being emitted from a cellar in Pacific street. Ho went to the cellar, forced his way in, and found tho floor covered with ' 1 human skulls and b >i?es partly covered ' with flesh in the last stago of decomposition. In an inner room tho coroner i found a number of Chitieso engaged in boiling : I down tho remains of other bodies, while sov- I oral other Chinamen were engaged in scraping tho boiled bonei and packing them in boxes ready for shipment to China. It is esmated that the cellar contained over ?(X) dead bodies, which have bjen taken secretly from various cemeteries throughout til.- State. As an instance of Chinese ingenuity it is said that those in charge of these operations, fearing that tho sionch from the boiling pots would baso great as tj attract attention outside,had I procured two living skunks, so that the odor j the latter might ovonwiu tint of tho former. The coroner has t.\ken charge of all tho remains. MUSICAL^N0l)iuMATia I I Iti'BixsTKiN's now sacred opera, "Moses," has eight parts. Tin: Vienna Grand Opera house will in . ftiturolio supplied with electric lights. Gayahiik, the great Spanish tenor, will j Mug in 'L'Afriwiine" at tho Paris Grand j Opera. A Viennesecomposer,Herr It. Hewberger, | has composed an op-ra, for which "As You J Like it"' furnishes tho text. Frau Mater.va has returned to Vienna | I from her successful American tour, anrt is i now engaged for the Vienna Court theatre. This season is the worst for the circuses I that they have known in tan years. It is said j that not one has cleared any money, and I many have lost heavily. Lawrerce Bakkktt produced his new | pioco called "Wonder" in St. Paul. It is, ! however, not a real now or original play, but | 0110 that has been remodeled A cablegram from London states that | 1 Miss Van Zandt has been engaged to appear in opera at Moscow during the coming winter. She will receive ?100 for each performance. .. . ... it* y - ^ \ ' RELIGIOUS READING. Chrlat |u the Heart. The veteran soldiers of ^Napoleon lolizecl him. In their estimation he ras the perfection of all military enius and nobility. They would fight ar him, suffer for him, and die for im. As emperor he was as much iieir idol as he was on the tented field, ro language could exaggerate their evotion to him. An old soldier, who ore the scars of many battles, was rought under the surgeon's knife in hospital A tumor was to b3 reloved from the breast. As the knife id its work, and came very near to tie heart, the hero exclaimed, "Doctor, ut a little deeper and you will find he emperor I" lie carried tho emeror in his heart, so true was his evotion. The believer, In whose heart Christ ] formed the hope of glory, can say tie same about the Captain of his salation, "Go a little deeper and you /ill find the Master." To him Christ 3 "the chief among ten thousand and he one altogether lovely." Christ as no rival in that soul. Its conseration is honest, and it sings, "I Iov0 to kiss tno prints wnero iuou IList set tliine unseen feet; I cannot fear theo, blessed Will, Tliino empire i9 so sweet. "Wlien obstacles and triuls seem Like prison walls to bo, I do the little I can do And leavo the rest to theo." American Messenger. Religion in Early Life. No one at the close of an advanced ifo has ever regretted that his e?irly ears were spent in the service of God, iut thousands have regretted, when ;pon a dying bed, that tho morning of heir days was spent in rebellion gainst the King of kings. "If," said John Angell James, "there ie true honor in the universe, it is to ie found in religion. Even the heahens are sensible of this; hence the lomans built the temples of Virtue nd Honor close together, to teach the v*ay to honor was by virtue. Religion 3 the image of God in the soul of man. 'an glory itself rise higher? "What a listinction to have this lustre put mnn fcha nharacter in vouth! It was nentioned by Paul us a singular lonor to the believing Jews, that they irst trusted in Christ; and in referring o Andronicus and Junia, he mentions t to their praise, that they were in 3hrist before him. To be a child of Jod, an heir of glory, a disciple of Christ, a warrior of the cross, a citizen >f the new Jerusalem, from our youth ip, adorns the brow with amaranthine vreaths of fame. A person converted n youth is like the sun rising on a ummer's morning to shine through a ung bright day; but a person con'erted late in life is like the evening tar, a lovely object of Christian conemplation, but not appearing till the lay is closing, and then but lor a mtie vhile." Ilow to flcnr. Theodore Parker,speakingofhis early childood, relates the following: When I was a little boy in my fourth 'ear, ono line clay in spring my father ed me by the hand to a distant part if the farm, but soon sent me home ilone. On the way I had to pass a iitle pond, then spreading its waters vide; a rhodora in full bloom, a rare lower which grew only in that localty, attracted my attention and drew ne to the soot. I saw a little tortoise unning himself in the shallow waters it the roots of the flaming shruh. I ifted the stick I had in my hand to itrike the harmless reptile; for, though ! had never killed any creature, yet I lad seen other boys do so, and I felt a lisposition to follow their wicked eximple. But all at once something ihecked my little arm, and a voice vithin me said, clear and loud, "It is vrong!" I held my uplifted stick in t wonder at the new emotion, the coniciousness of an unvoluntary but in,vard check upon my actions, till the ;ortoise and the rhodora both vanished 'rom my sight. I hastened home and told he tale to my mother, and asked what t was that told me it was wrong. She yiped a tear from her eye, and taking i? 1 ? HCnma m nn lit) 111 Ilttl" iUlilS, OrtiU, Ouujo uiuu vu?* t conscience, biit I prefer to call it he voice of God in the soul of man. [f you listen and obey it, then it will {peak clearer and clearer, and always juideyou right; but if you turn a deaf far and disobey, then it will fade out, ittlc by little, snd leave you in the lark and without a guide. Your life lepends on heeding that voice. I am resolved not to go hence trusting for an opportunity to repent ifter death.?Joseph Cool;. Iiomeniber that you are not a tree, v,af nnn Hva nr stand alone. You ire only a branch. Anil it is only ivhile you abide in Christ, as the jrancli in the vine, that you will lonrish, or even live.?McChcyne. Toiii]i:-ranco \otc?. Them has'been a decrease of 390 saloons in Iowa since July 4. 18SI. In (Jivat Britain tiicrc arc 13,COO temperance organizations, ami it is estimated that 3,000,000 persons are total abstainers. Antwerp is to have a temperance convention for the promulgation of "advanced tcmperancc ideas"?total abstinence and prohibition, surely?in Belgium and throughout the continent. The (Jroton (Dakota) (luzettc is able to prophesy that in live years there will not he a saloon in South Dakota. There i9 no ?lonbt n strong Prohibition majority in that section.?.bY. Paul (Minn.) GloW. Alcohol can in no definite sense be considered a good ere :tnre of God, for it is not constructed like foud, being neither soli 1 nor innocent, and whether good for any proper end or not, it is an artificial product.?I)r. F. R. T.ees, F. S. A. How very seldom we meet with people who take their gla-9 of wine occasionally, say once a week. They take it either every day or not at all; showing clearly that it is the habitual use that creates the want.?Dr. It. E. Heath. Without an honest enforcement of our prohibitory liquor laws, the people will be educated in (he wrong direction, as I believe we have been for the last decade: educated to subordinate this great prin. cipie to partisan spite, spleen aud prejudice. Here all the trouble lies, and it is the most important lesson to be learned in our tempeiauce reform.?Portland Herald. TEMPERANCE TOPES A Temperance Sermon. A temperance sermon/ 'Tis lying tbere, With a crimson seal ou the flooring bare, Written dark and deep on the battered clay. What more could the voice of tho preacher say Than the helpless hands of a murdered wife, Cut deep where they fought with the frenzied knife? Little fingers frail, that were softly kissed, Ere a loving hand grew a drunkard's list; They are cold?so cold?with their bloody stain. They can never plead for her life again; o..? *? ? l: l?ni< n?11 jjuu lvi uiuui lives, ivuu, huot Lilted up to God from their ruddy pall. Little, dainty feet,that were wont to pass By the hedgo-rows sweety through the meadow grass In the shabby shoes of a drunkard's wife They have toiled on the road of life To the crimson door with its faded stain, Out of trials keen, out of want and pain. Pallid, parted lips. Ah, they used to know Merry girlish songs in the Long Ago. They have learned, alasl how the watchers sigh, How the hungry moan, how the fearful cry, Till the mouth is set with its lines of care. Ls there better preaching than this elsewhere! Doth the circle small of a goblet's brim, Grave and gallows hold in its shining rim? Can the liquid fire, with its glowing spark, Steal the light away from the homestead dark? A9 1>ZJU BUICUiii U UU^Cl "pUIWUCU huh white. Can a felon's death yonder treason right? ?Lcdaer. It la the End? Shun the bowl, it will only bring destruction and death. Why do jou drink? The answer is always the same: "I don't know, I just drink." Think of some loved ono far away to whom you writo nnd always tell her that you are not drinking a drop. Think of the old, gray-haired mother, to whom you gave | the solemn pledge, "I will not drink another drop." Think of the many promises you have made to friends, relatives and to your God. Yet you broke them and fell by the wayside. The man that insists on you drinking when you do not want it is not your friend but yoar enemy. Did you ever look into the future? You did not. Well, then, picture to yourself a young man who has all the facilities of making a fortune and good name for himself. He becomes addicted to the habit of taking toddy now and then, with his friends. He meets them more frequently and it becomes a habit. He is not satisfied with the Bweef. comforts of home life. Ho exchanges them for the more agreeable companionship of his friends (as he thinks) in tho barroom. Witness tho result. He soon becomes known among his companions as a hail fellow well met. He spends his money more recklessly. He thinks that I friendship never dies. He finds out his mistake when too late. His monej van| islies like chaff before the winds. He , reaches the end of the rope. Tho friends I in whom he placed so much confidence! leave him ono by oue. He /soon finds himself alone, and without money, and, as a consequence, without friends. Where are they? They are saying to ono another: "Charley is a good fellow, but he should not drink the way he does." Who brought him to it? His so-called friends. He becomes reckless and quarrelsome. People pass him by and tell each other what he used to be. He imagines that every man is his cneinv and acts accordingly; goes from bad to worso and finally the race is over, he dies the drunkard's death; is placed under six feet of earth; he is gone, unthought of and uncared for; not a flower marks the spot where his body lies. Think of it well. It will come sooner or later. It is the inevitable result. It is the end.? Etaimille Arc/us. Tito Driuk-Wa*!e. The New York Engineering Noes prints the following significant exhibit of statistics, as given in a recent address by Otis l'ettee, Esq., concerning the ex-, pendituro for intoxicating beverages in this country: ''In looking over the latest statistical returns of the United States a few days since I found tho item of value of manufactured liquors, including the liquors imported from foreign lands, to amount in the aggregato to $944,629,580. My curiosity led me to reduce this amount tn nvnirdnnoia weicht in silver currency. Upon inquiry at the sub-treasury I learned that one thousand silver dollars weighed fifty-eight pounds and twelve and a half ounces. Using this weight as a basis, it will require about three hundred and forty thousand silver dollars to weigh ten tons of two thousand pounds each, which is an ordinary freight-car load. To transport the nine hundred and odd millions of silver dollars would require two thousand seven hundred and seventv-fivc cars with ten Ions each, and, allowing thirty cars for a train, will re quire niucty-two locomotive engines to draw them. The ordinary length of a car is thirty feet, and the entire trains with their engines will reach sixteen and one-eighth miles to transport the liquormoney mado for a single year in this country. If the same amount of money was expended lor tuo necessities 01 n;e it would provide a barrel of (lower, a ton of coal, thirty pounds of beef and two bushels of potatoes for each and every man, woman and child in the country; aud, if we add the tobacco bill, I rather think it would furuish clothing aiso. Take the subject home with you antl think it over." "Croaalngthc Line/' a i.?? M-onf with his father on a A UVJ liuv iiv.iv ..... voyage to Soutli America, was anxious to sec the equatorial line, and said to an old sailor, "Jack, will you show mo the line when wo cross it?" "Oh, yes, my boy." After a few days the boy asked whether they hod crossed the line. The old tar said, "Yes, my lad." "Why didn't you tell me, and show it to me?" The sailor replied, "Oh, ray lad, we always cross the line in the dark." Moderate drinker, you always cross tho line between moderato and immoderate in the dark. Mental and moral night settle down on you as you cross the line between moderate drinking and inebriety, binding you to the awful facts or ruin and death only a little farther on in the road you are traveling. Alcohol in the Kitrhctt. "Of 022 moderate and immoderate j drinkers with whom I have conversed* j 337 tell me that they acquired the desire I for wine and other alcoholic poisons by j their use in articles of diet and in the 1 fornix onrl son in I circle, dealt out to them j by their wives and sisters and female ! friends. Of this number, 1G1 cases were I from tlio use of liquors in articles of diet. | Of the whole number referred to, :S'28 j fill a drunkard's grave, seventeen died of I mauia a potu, and tive by suicide." i These arc the words of a physician who ; has made the subject a matter of careful j study. If only women could be enlight1 ened on this one point, and ccnse to be tempters.?National Bulletin. Tue Woman's Christian Temperance inion of the State of New York will hold its twelfth annual meeiiug in the Baptist church, Cortland, on October 13, 11 and 15. DUELING AMONG STUDENTS. YOUTHFUL COMBAT AST8 AT OB*mas toxvsssztxss. Description of a Dnel-Flibliof in which No Lira are Loaf* bnt I'gly Ganhca Given. ..v^ An American student at Gottlagcn, Germany, writes the following account of a recent student duel: UA fight was just about to begin. . ;> The combatants, surrounded by seconds, . J umnircs and friends, had already taken their places on the floor. Their breasta and thighs were protected by thick pads,' ? on which tho black blood of former en- ' ; counters had gathered for years past. ' The veins of the neck were guarded by ?|ja winding around it a heavy scarf. Iron $?$ goggles, with plate-glass windows, con- .. '*f. cealed tho eyes, and the arms were also ' 'A covered with wadding. The swordi ; ^ were long and narrow, without pointa, One of the pair of warriors, a member of [M the blue-cap corps, was a pale, slender, ^3 good-looking youth. He never spoke a word or took his eyes off his adversary. Tho latter, one of the red-cap, was a big, burly fellow, whom the paas seemed to iTeatlv oooress. Perhaos he was frightened; I don't blame him. "The surgeon stepped back, looking like a butcher, in his long white apron, / V spotted with blood. There had been - ^ another duel before we came. The time- ygS keeper took his place at a little table. The seconds jumped into position, ejich ' % at the left side of his man, after polite bows to each other in true German '4x8 fashion. The fifty or sixty corps stu- dents who were sitting at little tables jjj around the room eating breakfast and drinking rose to see the fight. All was solemnity, and the silence was only ';5 broken by some dignified fellow's calling to an acquaintance clear across the floor and drinking his health, at the same time bowing profoundly and lifting his cap. There were a few sharp words of command repeated by one sec- . vg ? ? "3 ??? A/\mAfV{nM lilrA UUU ttllCi IUO Ut/UClj OUIUUVUUIK uaw 'Makeready! Got' and in an instant all one could see was the fasning of swords and tho flying of sparks, ana all one could hear was tlie regular 'whack, whack,1 of the blows. There seemed.to be only one kind of stroke, and each vJSj met the other half-way. 'Halt!*'cries r,|2 the fat fellow, and tho seconds run up to see where he is cut; but it was a J false alarm. They rub him a little and . let him sweat a moment, then at it again. - S Dodging with the head or moving the " feet or body is not allowed, the left arm must be kept behind the back. 'Whack! whack I whack I' as before, but also a clear swish.! and the next moment the blood is running from a clean, perpen- .? dicular gash in the big fellow's left ' - ^ cheek. ~ "About this time I wondered how the -1; hotel woman could stand it, for she had been carrying meat and drink from table to table all the time. I also had occasion to see a man who had for two seasons been punished behind the bat on the Princeton base ball nine, and who had $3 risked his life in one or two Thanksgiv- : :? ing day football games, walk with un- J& certain step to the window for a breath of fresh air. It isn't pleasant to see a man's cheek laid open deliberately. The next round proved'even more disastrous ^ for the plump red-cap, for he received an ugly gash above the eye, which will go with him as long as the eye itself. Next time his chin suffered, and then his nose. , % lie was out of breath and looked miserable. I went to the window and looked , at the clear blue sky and the golden ' ^ fields, and wondered why human society ' .; must so torture itself with useless and . cruel conventionalities. But the fascina- . tion of the raining blpws called mo back to the next round. A hum of interest ran along the. gallery front when the cool little fellow was seen to get by far the heaviest blow of the fight across his brow, which was soon covered with blood. "Thftv took off the croecrles and the blood ran into his eyes. Then they 2SS mopped it up and he was ready again, *knd in the next round gave his opponent ^3 another gash on tho left temple. It ";i seemed to me about time to call a halt for good, and presently they did. Under the rules a fight lasts lifteen minutes of ; fj actual fcncing, pauses not counted. With pauses reckoned in, this must have lasted about forty minutes. The gladiators carried their bloody heads into . | another room to receive the doctor's at-. tention, and preparations began for . another duel. I asked a student if either of our bloody friends had fought before, and he said laconically: "The little fellow has fought nine this term." Edible Eartli. Many travelers have attested, and it may be verified in many colonies, says the Science Monthly, that certain clayey . earths have been long used as food. Clay is composed af silica, alumina and water, colored by metallic oxides, some 6ampleg of edible earth are composed, at tripoli is, of innumerable microscopic and fossilized shells of fresh water infu- <- ' soria. How men came to have recourse to such ailment may be without evidence; but similar circumstances have led to like results in countries remote from each other. The Otomacs, a people of Southern America, take regularly a pound or more per day of a rich clay which appeases hunger without injury. Among the Indians on the borders of the Amazon clay forms a part of their food, even when other ailments abound. Edible earth is found in Bolivia, and one kind, which has given an agreeable odor, is much esteemed by the Peruvians. The negroes of Jamaica have recourse to it when other food fails; on tho other hanil, the negroes of Guinea, transported to America.seek for an earth like what they are accustomed to, and, in its absence they consume the white pipeclay, to the injury of their health. In the kingdom of Siam the women and children are earth-eaters; in Java (says Labillardiere) they make a sort of cake of ferruginous clay, which is eaten to produce leanness. It is an object of commerce in Anam and Tonquin. The usage is widespread, existing in Guiana, % New Caledonia. Siberia, Terra del Fuegc, and among some descendants of the old nawinmtnrq in PorfcunaL The Indians of the Dutch colonies of Java and Sumatra make a peculiar preparation with edible earth, reducing it to a paste with water, spreading it into thin plates, morsels of which are grilled in a pan over a charcoal fire. These little slips, rolled up, are like dried bark, of a warm gray or ruddy color. They also make roughly modeled figures like our gingerbread men and sweetmeats. M. Hekmeyer showed at Amsterdam, in 1863, specimen* of edible earth in its natural state and prepared also a few little figures, imitations of fruits and fancy objects. The flavor of these delicacies is empyre umntic, and the mild, sugnuy aruwuuu sensation which follows the first ta3te arises from the earth itself, to which no condiment is added. The earthly origin of the custom of making various alimentary substances into human shapes is obscure. Trotting a Mile in Two Minntes. Professor William H. Brewer, of Yalo college, has made the evolution of the American trotting horse the subject of much careful research and study. "During the past decade," he said to a reporter, "the recordi have steadily been lowered, aud Mr. llonner isanthority for the statement that lie expects Maud S. will surpass her time of a day or two ago before the summer closes. It is my )irm opinion, based on many years of deep study of the evolution of the :rot in.T linrsp. that before another genera tiou passes we shall hear of trotting horses that can make a mile under two minutes. Horses are bred nowadays for the single purpose of bringing out their trotting qualities, just as in England they are bred solely with reference to running. Now, if a lot of thoroughbred horses are bred within themselves, without admitting any mongrel blood, and if they are trained solely for trotting, there is no question that man can bring the record down to two minutes and under. Mr. Bobert Bonner, who owns Maud S ridicules such an idea, and he may think this an impossible result." I am aware, ns he says, that trotting is au acquired gait for a horse, and that running is his natural gait. But slill my theory holds, and if the thoroughbred trotter is carried through one generation after another, we shall one day see a horse which can trot in two minutes."? New Rautn Newt.