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BY HUGH WILSON. ABBEVILLE, S. 0.. WEDNESDAY. SEPTEMBER 30. 1885. NO. 14. VOLUME XXX.
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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
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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.
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| 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.
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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.