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BY HUGH WILSON. ABBEVILLE, S. 0.. WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 7, 1885. NO. 15. VOLUME XXX.
AGE.
How can I welcome age,
Or behold without dismay
The beautiful days go by,
And the great glide away?
Lightly I hold the world,
But I look upon children and wife,
And though I dread not death,
They make me in love with life.
?J. T. Trowbridge.
TOWN POOR""
They were both "town poor." She
had been left in a basket at the gate of
the institution, lie had only come to it
a year before our story opens, clinging I
to bis living mother's hand. She re- j
membercd nothing but the bare walls j
and desolate grounds of the poor house; |
the snubbings and snappmgs of matron
and assistants; the spare, comfortless j
meals, and the unhome like place that!
was the only home she knew. He had I
had glimpses of the woild outside, antl
was, beside, two years older?that was i
not very old. for lie was only ten.
He was to be bound out to a farmer; I
she tosomegood housekeeper, who would .
promise to teach her to read her Bible. |
Kn one ever knew cr cared whether the {
promise was kept, but it sounded well, j
and pleased certain people to exact it.
The chief tiling was to lie rid of the expense
of these pauper children as soon as
possibft.
She was hnppicr than ho, for she was
more ignorant; beside, she bad a doil! ;
Such a doll! It was a thick lump of
wood, about two feet long, with holes :
burnt into it for features, and looked I
somewhat like an Indian idol. Au old !
lame sailor in the house had made it for j
her, and had given the child a yellow i
silk pockethandkerchief, with a hole in
the middle, to make a dress for it. She j
put the head through the hole, tied a bit ;
of red and white cord she had found in
the doctor's ollice about its waist, and it !
was dressed. All day long she carried '
it nhmit with lior anil ftt ni?rht it slent.
-W -- 1 ? -- O 1 ? I
as she fancied, on her bosom. There I
were times when she dec'arcd herself to j
have had troublesome hours with her 1
doll, who had not been well. Of course
9he never called it Doll; it was always
her 4"Child."
There was a knot-hole in the wooden
fence between the ma'e and female sides
of the poorhotise grounds. lie peeped
through one morniDg, and saw a strange
child sitting with her doll on a large
stone.
"I say," said he, "come here."
She went to the fencc at once.
"What's your name?"
"Jane. What's yours?"
"Tom. You live here?"
"Yes. Do you?"
"Yes."
"What's that you've got?"
"My child, fcjhe isu't well to-day."
"Bother!"
"No, she isn't."
"Are there any more little girls in
there?" ;
"Three; but one has a broken back '
and goes to bed all the time; and two I
are bigger than me and work, Are I
"* there any boys in merer'
"Lots. 1 hate 'em all. They make
fun of inc." 1
"Then 1 hate 'em, too," said she.
lie came closer to the fence.
"Arc yon hungry all the time?" he
asked. ,
"No. Every day before dinner she :
gives me apiece."
"She" was the matron, and a "piece" '
was a slice of bread and butter.
"Ah!"' said he, enviously, "I'd like to J'
see any of us ask for a piece. I'm 'most i
starved."
*-11 ?- Till A* X7?_4. 4,*^^ i
"I'll It'll JUU WUtfcb 1 11 UU. XlCAb HUiVJ |
I get my piece I'll give you half. You !
come here to morrow to this hole and i
I'll fetch it."
* "Ain't you good!" said the boy, admiringly*.
i
So the friendship began. Every day i
the thick slice of bread and butter was
shared at the knot-hole. It was a good ;
thing for Tom. As for .Tane, it was at j
tVtnf 1/nAfthuf cVio Inamnfl hnw nn. I
happy it was to be a poor-house child;
?learned that other little people had a ;
Eleasant freedom unknown to her. He
ad lived in this outer world, had Tom.
When? He only knew that it was before
his father went to the war and wus
shot, and before his mother died. Long,
seditious talks did those two have concerning
the authorities of the poor house. |1
Once Tom came to the knot-hole with a i
great red bruise across his face, where
he had been struck with a rattan.
"Lots more on my shoulders.''said he. I
"Jane, when I'm big 111 beat that mau 1
?beat him till the blood runs. I hate
him!"
That day Jane wept compassionate
tears and gave Tom ail her "picce," pretending
she had had double allowance.
Moreover, she stuck the child's head
through the hole and told Tom to kiss
it. But neither bread and butter nor
v kindness could help Tom very much. He
grew more and more wretched. He became
a young Ishuiael in the poor-house.
He was tormented by the small and
flogged by the great. At last he came !
to the knot-hole one day, furious, unut- j
terablv wretched, and told Jane that he I
was going away.
"Going away!'' said Jane.
"Going to run away," said Tom. "If'
they catch me and bring mc back, I'll j
hang myself to the hook over my bed, i
but I'll try first. I'll go."
Jane burst into tears.
"Go away! 'she sobbed. "And TO i
never, never see you any more, Tom!"
"I didn't think about that," said i
Tom. "Dont cry, Jane."
But she sobbed faster.
"Don't!" said he; "don't! I say,
Jane, you come too! I'm going to be a |
farmer; I shall want a wife. Come with ;
mc."
"What's a wife?"
"You," answered Tom; "You shall
be ray wife."
"What would I have to do."
"Why, you must call me 'Husband'
of 'Tom,' and I must call you
^^WPTnStead of Jane." I must work and
get you things, and you must cook aud
mend my clothes."
"I've got a ball of cotton and a big
needle," said Jane. "She gave 'em to |
- 'me."
"You'll come, then?"
"Yes. I'm afraid; but, if I could i
never sec you any more, I should cry all I
the time."
"I'm going to be a farmer," said Tom.
"We'll go to where there's land, and I'll
plant beans and com. I've got seme
put by in a paper bag. I took it one'
day. When they grow I'll pick them, j
I'll build a house big enough for;
us out of boards or something, and we'll |
never come back here again?never. |
"Never! Oh, dear!" and Jane began
to cry. After a while sho said softly,
"Of course I shall bring 'the Child'?"
"Oh, yes," said Tom, "and all your
clothes."
Theu they decided how they wore to
escape, where they were to meet, how
Jane was to make bold to ask for an
extra "piece" that day, pretending the
dog had stolen hers, and how Tom was
to hide half his dinner in his cap.
Then, as some summoning bell rang,
they parted?Tom, bright and brisk with
his new ambition; poor little Jane, limn
with fear and remorse, but determined
to follow Tom, whatever his fortunes
might be.
At ten that nijjht Jane, with a tearBwollen
lace, a little bundle of calico
frock and red flannel petticoat under her J
arm, and "the Child" claspcd to her i
heart, met Tom at the big tree outside j
the poor house fcncc. There wa3 noth- |
ing to steal in the establishment; so, a3 |
no one ever wanted to get in, it was not, |
very hard to get out.
Beside "the child" and the frock,
Jane had her brea:l in a bit of newspaper,
and Tom had made quite a bun^
die of possession?. He had his little bag
fc.- ^.of corn and beans, a fire shovel, a shirt,
his old shoes, and along s'ick with a
f hook at the end, once the handle of an
umbrella. On this he slung all their
joint property, except the doll, and addressed
Jane as follows:
"Rememl>er, now, you are my wife,
and must do exactly as I say-that's :
the law : and I must be good to you
and do a'l the hardest work; but you
must cook and mend for me, and I
think you'd better begin to call me Husband
right away."
"Yes," sobbed Jane. "Oh, isn't it
riMtr _
"No," said Tom; "beside, if it is, all j
the better. "We'll get into the woods |
before they catch us. Wc shall be out j
of the town by daylight."
Then they walked on?poor Jane j
stumbling often, but Tom held her hand j
and did not let her fall. At length the !
last little white house was passed; then '
came the church with its tall st ire. and !
then long paling fences about bits of |
meadow land. They were in the country, j
but not yet in the woods, and both children
were growing very sleepy and very I
tired?so very tired that finally there j
was nothing for it but to pit down od '
the grass under a haystack, with Tom's
hmd on Jane's knee, and iro fast asleep.
Sunrise awakened them. They ato J
their bread ana butter, started on again, I
and in a few hours the woods were all
around them.
"We're safe at last." cried Tom. "Nobody
can ever find us here. I'll build a
house and plant my com right away.
I)o you know how long it takes corn to j
grow? And beans?"
"No," ventured Jane, doubtingly?
"not long, I guess." j i
"I guess not," echoed Tom; but I
wish we had some more bread and but- j i
ter." i i
By-and-bv the two explorers came too j (
nice little spot in the woods close to s 1
pretty brook. It was very damp, bul j ;
there was a clearing which it was easy to j '
plant. Tomdugit over with his fire
shovel, and put in his beans and corn in
straight rows. Then, with an old knife j i
that was his greatest treasure, lie cut un- i
derbrush and low branches enough to '
make a queer kind of leafy hut big !
enough for both to crecp into. | ,
"We can cut outdoors. "We shall only ; ]
want a home at night and when it rains," j '
said Tom. J j
But Jane felt doubtful. Her little flesh | ]
was black and blue already, aud yet the j
grass was l-ng in the hayficld; here it ;
was sparse and dry. Beside, she wanted j 1
her warm milk and water and her slice : j
of bread and butter. Tom found some j
huckleberries hard by, but they did not i ]
help the empty stomachs much, and even j
at sunset the corn had not begun to i
grow, neither did the beans show their i
heads above the earth! Suddenly an | ;
awful thought struck Jane.
"When it grows, Tom," she cried, | 1
"we haven't any saucepan to cook it in." j
"More we haven't,'' said Tom. Then ! j
hope dawned upon him. "We could 1
roast the corn," said he; "and I bet j
there's an apple tree somewhere." !
They wandered about looking for the 1
tree or more berries of some sort. The t
tree did not appear, but at last they i
found some berries-just one or two at a *
time?and the poor children had nothing ]
else to eat. Hungry Tom could have <
devoured his own shoes. Meek .Tane, <
before she lay fdown 'on the hard yet i
damp ground, asked just one question: j
"Do you think the beans will grow to- ?
night, Tom?" 1
"I told you to say Husband," said i
Tom; then added, graciously, "Yes, Ma,
I suppose they will." 1
Then Jano put the "child" close to ,
her cheek, and slept the sleep of the I
weary. t
Good Farmer Morton and hi3 plump i
wife, coming homeward trom a visit to 1
their married daughter about dark next e
aM morn wnllr o Q q1 1 Tf a a ,
i * i?y , iui> tuw uiu iiutiv ww uiv.. .j ??w v
she pleased through the wood-path, c
They had had tea and were in no hurry. 1
Suddenly, amidst the sobbing of the ^
little brook the old lady heard a louder ,
sobbing still. i
"Peter," she said, "there's a child ?
crying.'' _ j '
" 'Tisn't nothing but the water," said | ?
the old man, whose hearing was less j i
sharp than his wife's. I f
" It's a child," persisted the old lady. e
"I vow, I think I see one sitting on the *
fence. Stop the mare, Peter! Who is t
there?" t
"Me, ma'am?Jane," said a little voice.
"I heard a carriage and I thought it 8
might be a doctor. Oh, please he's so f
Bick!" t
"Who is sick, dear?" asked Mrs. n
Morton. s
"My husband." I
"Husband? Peter, isn't that a child?" *t
"Yes, ma'am," said Jane; "but he's t
3ick. I don't know what ails him. He i e
shivered, and then he was hot, and he j 1
seems so strange. And our farm didn't I c
come up?I mean the corn and the beans j 0
?and it rained yesterday, and came s
through the house and wetted us all over. I
Oh, please come and 6ee what is the J
matter with my husband!"
"Lord, preserve us!" cried the goad t
old lady; "is that child crazy? Come, r
Peter, let's sue what she means." c
And the two good people followed ]
Jane to the damp spot where Tom, sud- i r
denly smitten with ague, lay delirious, f
half in and half out of his leafy hut. 0
11c could say nothing, and Jane, mind- a
ful nf thfi warning he had snven her over t,
and over again, would tell u:>thing of J a
the poorhousc, and only said tlicy "had j t
no parents," and that she was his | j
"wife " ^
"Wherever thev come from we must a
take 'cm home to nijjht," said Mrs. o
Morton. "Poor babies! You carry the 1
boy, Peter; I'll fetch the little gal." ?
.lane looked up thankfully into the
old lady's face, and said: "Wait, please, r
till I get'the ehiid.'"
"The child?'' cricd Mrs. Mortou. "
"Land sakes!" t
Then Jane dived into the hut and ! ji
brought forth her doll, with its scorched j
features aud yellow robe: at sight of I
which the old lady laughed so heartily ! ?
that she had much ado to get into the n
gig again. t
The children were comfortably housed >
that day, and the whole truth was "
coaxed from them at last; but no one i
had the heart to return them to the poot u
house. Jane staid with .Mrs. Morton to >
be brought up as "help," and Tom wa? c
apprenticed to a carpenter. The inuo- ^
cent little family was broken up; and c
"the child," carefully treasured in Jane'e p
trunk?for soon she nad a trunk of hei a
own and clothes to till it?was only a *
memento of the past. v
* * * * * i
So the year^lided on. Jane grew a c
tall, slim girl; Tom a big, brown young
man. There was no sign of beinir "town I
poor-' about either of them. Thcv were t
wholesome, well-fed, bright young peo- j
pie as you wovild wish to see. But one 1
Saturday afternoon Jane, washing the ?
dishe3 beside the kitchen window, iook- ,
ing up saw Tom gazing at her, and t
blushed a rosy red?which certainly was j
odd in a wife of so many years' standing. '
"Come to ask you to walk a little, if (
you will," said Tom.
Jane promised to come as soon as "the
chores" were done; and this important
act being duly accomplished, put on hei
round hat and a clean white apron, ]
joined Tom, and the two, saying verj
little, sauntered down into the wood}
and along the wagon path to the edge o) n
the little brook that with all the changes o
that had come to them sobbed and gur- I
gled just as it did long ago. v
"Hcmember this place?" (i
"Yes," said Jane, shyly. (i
"And now, wncn we were 'town poor j
wc ran away and thought wc were mar t
ried, and had our house and farm, Jane?'
"Yes."' More shyly than bclore.
"It's a long while ago,'' said Tom
"But this place doesn't alter much s
seems just the same. You haven't al /
tered, cither, Jane. You were very, ta
very sweet, then." J1
No answer.
"Jaue," said Tom, "I'm going to have j
another little house, some bigger than c
that wc built then?not much?and a little
garden where our beans will grow. '
Will you run away with me again, Jane, :
and call me 'husband' for good? I'll trj <4
to make you more comfortable than I did u
then, my dear.'' J
There was a hand laid softly on the "
young girl's shoulder, and Tom looked t
flnwn into the hlushin" face. Suddenh
the tender eyes were lifted and theii J
lips met. L
"Land sakes?" exclaimed good Mrs *
Morton, wiping her eyes as she kis.'ed
the girl, who had become as a daughtei ii
to her old age. "Land sake3! Going 5
to be a real man and wife after all."? *
James M. llutchezon. \
The following figures of the digesti '
bility of certain substances is the result
of certain experiments, that of 1 eel
being assumed as 100: Veal, 15, mut (
ton, !>2; chickcu (li?lit meat), 87: s
ch'ckcn (dark meat', SI; salmon, !i2: '
mackerel, 80: haddock, 82: trout, 8T; ]
| lobster (larire female), 71); lobster, (large
male), OS); fresh cod, 72.
THE CIVIL SERVICE. j:
Dornian ]{. Eaton, Chairman ol
the Commission, Resigns. j
The President Writes a Letter Ac- i
cepting tlie K.signation. |
President Cleveland has sent to Mr. Dorman
B. Eaton, chairman of the civil service
commission, a long letter setting forth his
views and policy in relation to tho civil service,
and accepting Mr. Eaton's resignation,
to take ellect November 1. Mr. Eaton, in
In-: letter of resignation, says s
that when President Arthur noini- c
nated him, and ho was con- r
firmed as commissioner; ho was about to de- i
cliue the nomination, but the friends of ro ,
form, with whom ho had labored for many
years, insisted that he w.is in duty bound to .
accept, especially as the enemies of reform |
made clear their purpose of charging any 1:
rofusal oil his part "as a. coward- ;0
ly shrinking from tho speedy !
and disgraceful failure sure to follow any at- 0
tempt to execute so chimerical and impracti- I
iatilo a statute." He therefore entered on ii
his olllciaI duties, he says, with tho declared j
purposo of remaining hardly moro than a i j,
year, at which time he expected to get tint ^
system in working order. Mr. Eaton clones s
by expressing his absolute faith in tho con- '
tinued triumph of tho "reform policy." in- I
Jeed, he s lys, "the contest is aln a lv over in n
that part of tho government to which n
alone all legitimate authority and re- , s
sponsibilitv for appointments and removals I
rests, and in which alono tho thorough infor- J
mation needed for a correct judgment as to j
Lho utility of tho new system exists." He f
thinks, however, that it is possible that the n
politicians and Congressmen of the dominant 0
party may prevail over tho well-matured f,
judgment 01 ineir own aummisirauuu. ju ji
Sho contest which would result from such a t
?ourse he says he could far bettor servo tho \
;auso of reform in tho exercise of that full a
iberty which is hardly compatible with tho o
proprieties of his present oilicc.
the president's reply. jl
Executive Mansion*, ) Washington,
Sept. 11, 1SS5. j a
Th* Hon. Dorman B. Eaton. i "
My Dear Sir: I am in receipt of your let- j
:er tendering your resignation as n member J
)f tho board ot civil servico commissioners. ; b
[ cannot refrain from expressing my sincere i>
egret that you have determined to withdraw I
Irorn a position in the public service where s<
four intelligent performance of duty has ?
seen of inestimable value to the country. n
Tho friends of civil service reform and all
;hose who desire good government fully ?
ipprociate your devotion to the cause w
11 which you early enlisted; and they havo
;een with satisfaction that your zeal and i
faith havo not led you to suppose j 11
hat tho reform in which you were 0
sngagod is unsuited to the rules which j 11
jrdinarily govern progress in human at- I
fairs, or thai it should at once reach perfee- j ?(
:ion and universal acceptance. You havo ! o
>eeii willing patiently to accept good remits
as they, step by stop, could be gained, j,
lolding every advance with unyielding
steadfastness.
The success which thus far has att.ndeJ
he work of civil service reform is largely p
lue to the fact that its practical friends havo ! I.
. a/iaa/Iai! unnrt tUa f V?iiAftr fKnf rnol o I
U WCCTiVU upvift VUO VUCVi J VUUV IV.UI WKU | ^
lealthy progress can only be made as such of
;he people who cherish pernicious political (1]
cleas, long fostered and encouraged by vie- cs
ous partisanship, are persuaded that tj
he change contemplated by the reform w
>ffers substantial improvement and ben- j>
(fits. A reasonable toleration for
>ld prejudices, a graceful recognition of every
lid, a sensible utilization of every instru- ir
nentality that promises assistance, and a "
onstant effort to demonstrate the advanages
of tho new order of things are tho
neans by which this leforin movement will ! ni
n the future be further advanced, the oppo- j W
ition of incorrigible spoilsmen rendered ! w
nefTectnal, and the cause placed u|>on 1 H
l suro foundation. Of coiirso there I W
hould bo no surrender of principle, nor i 1>
lackward step, and all Isws ( r tiie en- j
orce.nent of t he reform shouM be rigidly j nj
xecuted; buc the benefits whicu ils ' (r
irinciples promise will not be fully ri
ealized unless tho acquiescence of tho poo- \\
>le is added to the stern assertion iif a doc- rj
rine and the vigorous execution of tho laws, jj
It is a source of congratulation that there it
re so many friends or civil service reform
norshaled on tho practical side of the uucs
ion, and that the number is not greater of .
hose who profess friendliness for the cause, (,nd
yet, mischievously and with supercilious
elf-righteousness, discredit every elfort not
n exact accord with their atteutuate 1 i leas, /
leery with carping criticism the la! tor of
hose actually in the field of roform, and. ig- ..
toring the conditions which bind and quality
very struggle for 41 radical improvement in '
he affairs of government, demand conipleto
md immediate perfection.
The reference in your letter to the altitude s'
if the members of my cabinet to the merit J!l
ystom established by tiio civil setyi.*elaw, ''
teside being entirely correct, axhibit6 an ap- "
>reciatiou of honest endeavor in the clirec' ion
>f reform, and a disposition to do justico to
>roved sincerity which is most gratifying. If S
uch treatment of those nr.on whom the duty
ests of administering tho government acording
to reform methods was the universal
ulo, and if the embarrassments and p^rploxi- ?
!'? atren litrr vjph rn rvl'niufot-ntio 1 were
airiy regarded by all those professing to be ?
riendly to such methods,the avowed enemies tli
f tho cause would bo afforded loss cncour- dc
gemcnt.
1 believo in civil service reform, and its ap- *r
ilication in the most practical form attain- jj,
ble, among other reasons, bo.-auso it oikmis
he door lor the rich and tho poor alike to a
participation in public placehol ting. Anil !a
lopo the time is at hand when all our people In
nil see tho a Ivantage of a reliance for such ' _
n opportunity upo;i merit and litness, instead y
f a dependence upon tho caprice or sellish in- (lt
ere-it of those who impudently stan 1 bet w. en sn
he people and the machinery of their govrnment.
In the 0110 case, a reasonabb in- J11
slligeuco and the education which is five'v .
unnslied or forced upon tho youth of our ci
ind, are the ciedjntials to oflice: in the w
tlier, the way is found in favor secured by a
mrticipation in partisan work, often unlit- JJ
ing a person morally, if not mentally and si]
ihysically, for the responsibilities and duties M
if public employment. sc
You will agree with me, I think, that tho
lupport which has been given t'? tho present c.dministration
in its efforts to preserve ^
md advance this reform by a party restored .(|
o power after an exclusion for 'many 1
ears from participation in the places ,
ittaclied to t!io public servkv; confronted "*
vith a new system precluding the re.listri- sj
jut ion of such places in its interest; called *|
ipon to surrender advantages which n pererted
partisanship had taught the Ainorian
jieople belonged to success, and perturbed .
nth tho suspicion, always raised in such an 11
mergency, that their rights in the conduct
if this reform had not been scrupulously re- el
;arded, should receive due acknowledgement &
,nd should contirm our belief that there is a In
entiment among the people bettor than a do- A1
ire to hold office,and a patriotic impulse upon
vhich may safely rest the integrity of our h
nstitutioris and tho strength and perpetuity 1:
if our government. b
I have determined to request you to retain r:
our present position until tho first duy of b
November next, at which time your resigna- p
ion may bscotno operative. I desire to ex- 'l
>ress my entire confidence in your attach- b
nent to"tho cause of civil service reform, and 1
rour ability to render it ellicieut aid, and I v
ndulgo the hope and expectation that, not- n
vithstandmg the acceptance of your resignation,
your interest in tho object for which
con have laborod so assidiousiv will continue
jeyond the official term which you surren- ,j
le'r. Yours, very truly,
GROVER Cl.KVEI.AND.
A FATAL COLLISION.
r
fl
rtvnSteaiticri Collide in Hhc IngUsh
* baimcl? seventeen Mtc? I.out.
A terrible collision, attended with aserious c
oss of li.'o, has occurred in the English clmr.- 1
lei. As tho screw steamer llronda, of West *
iartlepooi, bound from Bassorah to London, i;
ras coming up tho channel in tho early morn- s
ng she ran into a paddle steamer?the Dolihin,
of I/ondon. liolh vessels were seriously ^
latnaged. Tho captain of the Brent la, finding ]
he bow of his vessel was completely crushed 11
n and that she was makintr water rapidly, s
hapcd his course for Dover, where ho ro- a
eived prompt assistance from I.loyds'
gents, and was enabled to keep his ship ?
float. Tho Dolphin did not faro so well. '
Ls soon as tho Brewla had cleari-d from 1
ier it was found she was sink- 1
ng. und her captain, after ordering s
iio boats (o be got <>ut, headed his vessel
oward tho shore, which was several miles 11
istant. Tho Dolphin had not proceeded tar ! '
risen she sank. Most of her passengers and ' '
iew escnpL-d ill bo:its und tallied at Kin^s- j s
own, but several persons were drowned. j 1
(>ne of the passengers on the Dolphin, on '<
ipiiig interviewed, said that immediately j 1
iter the collision he found water bub- j 1
ling up through tho saloon !! ??r. '
{nshing on deck, he informed tho cap- f
uin. An attempt was made at onto to ^et 11
ut the boats, but they wero lashed so firmly f
hat they could not be lowered for some time. *
hie at last was launched. In an instant the
nen, careless of the five poor women on i ?
K.ard, crowded in and filled it. An J
.ttenipt was being mado to lower s
tiler boats, when 3S!r. Phillips, tho <
lassenger, seeing that tho vssel was sink- | J
ng, seized a life buoy just before ho was i '
wept into the waves. Several other passcn- j '
;ers had succeeded in getting into the boats, 1
hough there was fenrfu! c infusion on board. j 1
Vhen tho Dolphin settled and sank tho ttrcuda |
teamed away, leaving tlio victims 01 ner
mprudonco to their fate. Sovontvcn of the I 1
)olpliiu's passengers and crow were missing. ^
'I'liKHE are nino new opperettas by Vioiuiu !
i^mpLisers in preparation for next season, (
iniong them Strauss' "Gipsy Baron," Millo'
ker's "Vieo-Admirnl," (Jzibulda's "IIu.iti.ig
Pago," I.ouis Uotii's "Somnambulist,,'
and Suope's "Bellman." Fatti is engaged
lor twenty-two r.ights at the Grand Opera, '
l'aris, iu February. '
I i
NEWS SUMMARY.
'astern nnd middle State*.
The English yacht Genc-sta, although defeated
by tlio Puritan in the international [
adit race, does not return t'j England withnit
a victory in American waters. In a fortynilo
ocean race oir New York tho (ienesta
asily defeated a whole floet of schooners,
sloops and cutters. The prize is a silver cup, P
rained at $1,000. u
Apam 'Jiiahender, the aged cxprosident
>f tho Erie County (I'enn.) bank, found
juilty of confederating with his cashier, lieujen
l'ettit, to wreck the institution, has been
entcnced to live years solitary imprison- Ji
nont. Hrahender was onco tho pillar of his
hurch, tho superintendent of one of Erie's
iist Sunday schools, and an honored citizen.
rlc nnd his cashier used over $140,000 of tho pi
wink's funds in the grain and oil markets. cj
The various temperance organizations nnd pC
ovoral ot tho religious denominations of the
ountry liavo been colelirating for a week the
mo hundredth anniversary "of temporanco di
nfnrm A number of sermons wero delivered h,
ii New York, Brooklyn and other cities
igainst the evils of drink.
Ix the New York county clerk's ofllco has
een filed a certificate of incorporation of the w
' Grant Guards of tho State of New York," nl
undo up of tho colored men leading the
[< r.-i s attached to General Grant's catafalque
,t. his obsequies in the metropolis.
IIenuv Taiuiox, o youth of seventeen, was
hot nnl killed at Glenwood, Penn., by a
ne-armcil man named Hudson. Tho latter ^
lecamo enraged because ho had been thrown 0,
11 a wrestling contest by young Tarbox. jj'
Tin-: American Forestry congress lias been vt
n session at Boston. It was shown by sta- m
:>ti;-s tiiat the lorosts wero being rapidly do- pi
Inyo I. hi
' A tohxa do struck Barnum's circus during
pirfi rnianco at Titusvillo, Penn. Tho tents m
il l si-Ja shows wero wrecked and many per- w
jns seriously injured. f"
ac
South nud ai
CAi
GEXEit.M, Duitr.iN* Ward nml United Yjl
tales Marshal Wright, b ?tli citizens of Leb- t
non, Uliio, had a heat d discussion in a car ?,i
n their way home, and the latter struck tun
nnner over tho eye, drawing blood Other J\
ia:sengers separated the two men. The ""
rouble grew out of an attack mado upon
Vright by Ward during a political speech .
t Lebanon. Ward is nearly seventy years
Id, and Wright about fifty. jp
Ten masked colore.l men forced thoir way y,
ito the jail at lillieott City, Md., took out m,
"icholfts Snowden, a mulatto imprisoned for jj]
n outrageous assault 011 a little colored girl, fts
nd hanged him to a tree. This is tho fourth j0;
fuelling in Maryland within a year. Qf
Piiaikie fires bavo destroyed numerous
nildinss and an immense amount of grain th
1 Dakota.
Twelve prisoners escaped from tho JefTer5n
county jail at Steubenvillo, Ohio, by ?iwing
the cell and window bar-!, thereby
taking a hole large enough to get through. 101
CniXAMEN are a?ain working at tho Wyo
ling mines, where many of their number 0?
ere recently killed by angry white miners. |K
Five Chinamen in jail at Pierce City, 0f
laho, for murder and robbery, were taken cli
ut of confinement by a crowd and hanged to sn
ees. A
Captain Wilmam Jones, of the lifeboat n?
>rviee at Ilacino, Wis., was drowned while th
ut nraetisim with his crew. nc
A storm on the Great Lakes has resulted ai
1 disasters to shipping at various points. j
Wa?taington>
a few days ago there were threo defoated j J
residential candidates in Washington?Gen- t
ral Butler, Belva ixjekwood and Governor ,
t. John. General Butler was in tho city to
rguo a law case. Belva Lockwood was one t)
f the listeners to the argument, being intoritcd
in the same case, representing some of
10 parties to the suit. Governor St John,
ith his wife, called aud paid his respects to
resideut Cleveland.
Robert Bowie, a colored youth, of Washigton,
imitating the hero of a drama ho had .
itnessed, fired a revolver at his half-brother, /
illing liim instantly.
The President has appointed the following
nmed postmasters: Thomas Hardeman at sei
[aeon. Ga.: Charles B. Draper, at Oconomo~
.. ?..i. in Mlt
OC, U IS. \ 1*. IJ. lUt't'li, Ub J'^uioaoif ai*. *>* p.
ardeman, who was apjwinted postmasterat
aeon, was a member of tho last Houso of N<
epresentatives. tu
The President ha.; nppoin'cd tho following- Ai
imed additional postmasters: John F. Cutell
at Fort Scott, Kan.; F. S. Reefy, Elya,
Ohio; F. 1). Denton, ISatesvillo, Ark.; na
'illiam L. Williams Melrose, Mass.; Ad- ve
an Foote, Ashland, Mass.; E. A. Puoschal, er
akersficld, Cal.; Oliver I. Dale, Monticello, ij?
id.; 11. L. Stephens, Sacramento, Cal.
The secretary of tho treasury has directed sei
ie suspension of George IT. Sterling, recent- co
appointed weigher at tho New York cus- sti
iin-house in place of Captain George H. to
aeon, pending an investigation to be made .
y tho collector of customs of all the circumances
attending tho change in tho oflice. Tl
ho action of tho secretary is based on in- pr
irmation that the appointment is an iin- tjj
roper one. ^
Mus. Saraii Jenifer, a colored woman
ho died tho other day in Washington, was P"
ated in the doctor's certificate of death to
iulim i |o vnai-s old. It is said that care- wj
il invo-tigation lias shown that a colored ^
tan l.amed Nugent, now living in Washiugjd.
is l'J5 years old.
Dorman 1>. Eato.v, chairman of tho United
tales civil service commission, has resigned.
" flo
Foreign. ^
Mr. Gladstone has issued a four-column
lanifesto to his constituents. Tho ex-premier
f J'inglaii! invites n co!ii[>:irison 'netneon tho Ai
or!: <> tl- m o-'t anil that of ca
io parliament which preceded it, and confl- .
sntly appeals to tho electors for a verdict. a
Smallpox is increasing in violence at Moneal,
tho deaths averaging about twentyre
a day. of
Osman Pig.va, second in command to tho Cu
to False Prophet, was killed after a crush- y
g ilefeat of his force of threo thousand Ha ndowas
by the Kassala garrison and friendtribes
of tho Soudan. The latter, after the ar
>fiat of Osman, sent ample supplies to Kas- ^
la. f
A revolution* has broken out in Guate- Ir
ala, Central America, and a state of siego
is been declared. Prominent military otli- er
als havo been arrested and two ex-ministers
ill be banished.
Great excitement has been aroused in
.exico by tho discovery of vast deposits of
Ivor ore in tho Sierra Madro mountains,
any American miners are flocking to tho cc
one. di
Heavy rains in [tho southeastern part of ...
pain have resulted in tho loss of many lives
id tho destruction of an immense amount of IS
roperty.
Reports from Palermo, Italy, regarding dc
10 progress of tho choiera show a distressing at
;ate ot affairs prevailing there. Thirty
lousatid persons have lied from the city; al
nva rOncrvl nni] t.lin Rt.l*P?ts ttrfl
.most iletertol There is a great scarcity of b)
wd ami water, and tho epidemic is increas- th
ig with frightful rapidity. ^
It is reporleil that an agreement has been o()
Tected with Germany by which Spain reiin-5
the Carolines and tho Mariana and Paios
islands, while Germany acquires tho of
larshall and Gilbert groups. ?;
The revolt in Itoumelia against Turkey
as caused the war drum to sound again in
luropo. Sixty thousand Servian troops have ne
een called into tho field, for fear of an up- w
isi:ig. In Iiulgana'ull the ablo-bodiod men
etween eighteen and forty years are to bo
ut under arms, in anticipation of war with or
'urkey. Severe lighting has already occurrod T1
etween tho Albanians of Djakobo, and the tli
'urks, both sides losing heavily. Turkey
rill attempt to put down tho revolt in liou- f0
lolia. a
REVOLT IN ROUMELIA, TI
ol
rhc People irepowe (lie <;ovcrnmcn?
aiul I nilc with Bulgaria. jj,
Tiio populace of Philippopolis. tho capital
f Eastern Hounielia, almost to a man, have n,
iseu in rebellion, seized the govornor-gener<ilf ^
ei>osod the government, and have proclaimed
union with Bulgaria. A provisional govrnment
was established. The revolt was sC.
fell planned that 110 disorder or blood- U]
hod occurred, everybody being in sjynpaliy
with tho movement except the -governnent
ollicers. The foreigners in tbe city aro P'
ate, ns is also tiio property of foreign resiIcnts.
Immediately after the organisation ct
if the provisional governniont tho militia was
worn in. taking the oath of allegiance to lc
'rm''(> Alexander of Bulgaria. It is goner- 111
llv believe 1 in diplomatic circles that Kusia
arranged the programme of tho uprising
,nd su^c-.ted the union with Bulgaria.
Eastern Koumelia was created by the con- cc
tress of Berlin in 1STS. anil was given an an- sn
onninie government, though f irming an in- sj
egrat part of the Turkish empire. Tliwgovirnor-general
was appointed by tho port',
uii.joct to t'.io approval of tho treaty powers. Si
Tiio Bulgarian army lias been mobilized, p
nd a corps has been sent to the Itouni.ilian j
ri'iitier. Prince Alexander lias proceeded to
'hilippopolis, and has appointed as conunis- ai
ioner .M. Strati dry, who is now president of re
lie ttoiinieliaii |?r iVisuoial government.
The iusurg-'iits m Eastern IJouuielia, acting
mder tiio ord -rs of tho provisional governnent.
liavo occupied all the strat"gii: points rc
in tho Turkish frontici. blown up all tho
iriUXUS WHICH MUUIW ii'VU.; W VJ
i force advancing from Turkey to tho relief
l tho depose I government, and destroyed '
li j wires leading into Turkey. K
It, is staled that 1'rineo Alexander of Bui- j
jaria liti-s been assured <>f tho support of '
iluviiu, tieriiiauy and Austria, He will 11
;cn I ail army t-> Koumolia, and will
let'y the Turks. The sultan of Turkey n|
ins appea'el to t'.io powers to ell- i
'orce the treaty of Berlin. It is not b.lieved ;
li.it Lord Salisbury will interfere. Tiio J
Liberals applaud tho action of tho Rou- J
noliaus.
This latest episode in European politics j
las entirely overshad r.ved othor mooted |
|ii 'stions for tit- time being.
At a I'o.meil of tho Turkish ministers in!
;\?iHta:?ti:n?p!o, pivsid-d over by the snitan, !
t was de-ide l 11 appeal to tha powers to j (
maintain the rights of the porto in Kouui'-lia. j
I )rder- liav : bean issued to collect, a Turkish !"
irrny corps ai '\dria>io|>le.
Is California hundreds of tons of ptutns
unl other fruits have been allowed to rot. ] '
jpon tho trees this season. There is such a |
ilut that the price will not pay tho piukiDg. |
SMALLPOX SCOURGE.
row it Has Keen Raging in Montreal
and Vicinity,
ompulsory Vaccination Finally Put
in Force in the City.
It is ft weok ngn, says a Montreal (Canada)
spatcli of tlio 'Jlth, sinco tho health hoard,
1 tho recommendation of the French Canaan
members, a^re.'l to try voluntary cotniance
with regulation for isolation and vac
nation as a hope of stamping out the small- j!
>x. Tho attempt was to have a week's i
ial. It has been an utter failure. Tho '
seasa is rapidly on tho increase, instead of j
sing in any way diminished. Tho ^
>ard of health has been made to fe?l that i
10 opidomio has now attained proportions j
hich demand compulsory measures. Tlio
arming mortality shows tho utter futility
! tho measures that havo been tried. Tho
llcial mortality ret urns show that 318 deaths .
ive occurred in tho city from smallpox i:i
ss than six months, and that the mortality
r September is already nearly double that of
ugust. In view of these facts, at a meeting i
the boar 1 of health to morrow tho Eng- j
di mombsrs will demand that compulsory
iceination be at ont o put in force. Tin
xlo to by pursmd will boas follows: Tho ]
iblie vaccinators will go to the door of tho
his.!, and ask for proof that all its inmates 1
a vaccinated. It* th?y nrj not vaccinated,
11 rofun to bo vaccinated, tin otiicer '
ill at once take action against thus.) who re*
so, and the}' will bo heavily fined. Fresh
tion may bo taken for every new refusal,
id there will be no appeal. It remains to ho
en how the Fronch Canadians will take
eso stern jn -nsnrcs, nut. vn'. iohovviiu; c.nrial
utl orances ot 0110 of tin most active
ncjlish members of tho board to night ox oss
tho unanimous opinion of the English
ople of this city:
' Hero and now tho authorities intrusted
ith the city's weal havo a grave duty. Their
urge is to pass from porsuasiou to action,
ill give ofTeet to wise and just regulations,
respective of prejudice or crankiness, let
em oblige every man, woman and child on
is island to lie vaceinato.I, and every one
of smallpox to bo so secured and guarded
to bring to a speedy end the visit, of our
athsomo gu jst. All depends on tho finnuois
our boar 1 of health."
Tho returns show that there wero fiftyreo
deaths in the city yesterday.
At tho mooting of the citizens' commit too
is evening a motion ceu-uring tho action
tho government in establishing a military
,mp at La Prairie was carried amid
ud applause. A deputation of promint
ctizons was appointed to wait
on Sir Adolnhe Caron, ministor
militia, who is at th-j Windsor
itel, and urge the immediate disbandmont
tho troops and the disinfection of their
othing. It is held that if this is not done the
lallpox will be spread all ovor the province,
sp.'aker inontionoil that one street that
el to ho callo 1 tho children's streof, from
e number of children playing on it, was
it ? l.'44-l ? 1^,.n P?.nr,<.
>W .Slieuu Alio MI/UJ viicjj un-> uuni i
vay. i
At a nio.lin? of tho central board of
saltli. held this afternoon, it was resolved (
at the Iwlies of those who die of small-pox J
iring the day shall be buried within six ?
>urs of death, and during night within
rolve hours. It was forbidden to carry the .
dies of tboso who have died of smallpox '
public or private conveyances other than
ase proviiled by local boards of health.
LATER NEWS. !
CJeorge Wilkes, founder of Wilkes'Spirit J
the Times, died tlio other day at his homo (
Now York, aged (?8 years. i
The English yacht Genosta has won her
-olid race on this side by defeating tin 1
hooner Dauntless for the Brenton's Reef !
mllcngo cup. Tlio yachts started from J
3w York on tho 21st, and the Gonesta re- i
ruod on tho Sid, forty miles ahead of her '
men .an contestant.
Tiie New York Republican State ticket, j
minatud upon tho second day of the conntion
at Saratoga, is as follows: For Gov- (
nor?Congressman Ira Davenport; for
u tenant-governor, Joseph B. Carr; for '
LTetary of state?Anson S. Wood; for
mptroiior?James W. \V nds worth; for |
lto treasurer?Charlos F. Ulrich; for at- i
rnoy-general?Edward B. Thomas; for
ito engineer?William V. Van Reussolaer.
10 platform favors civil servico reform and
otection to American labor, and arraigns ,
o national administration for its position
yarding the currency and American ship- 1
Tub American champion yacht Puritan,
inner of the America's cup in tho recent inrnationnl
race with tho Gencsta, was sold
auction in Now York, bringing $13,500.
to purchaser is a resident of Boston.
Four miners wore caught by a sudden
od of water in a mine near Houtzdalo,
snn., and drowned.
At the eleventh annual session of the
nerican Bankers' association, field in Chigo,
more than 500 representatives of tin
.liking intorests from every leading city in
e Union were present.
Twextv-kive persons were injured, many
thorn severely, by tho sudden fall of acirstent
during a storm at Martinsburg, W.
a.
The two little children of William Winter
id wife, of Point Pleasant, W. Va., were
irnod to death during their parents' absenco
oni the house.
The colored peoplo of Mississippi will
eft a monument, to cost fifty thousand
>llars, at Vicksburg, in commemoration of
le signing of tho emancipation proclatnaDtl.
Commodore Alexander A. Semmes,
immandant of the Washington navy yard,
ed suddenly tho other afternoon at Hamion,
Va. Ho had served in the navy since '
81.
The American bark Cashmere, from Phila>lphia,
has been lost, with part of her crew, j
Tan"ga-Siina, an island of Japan.
Seventeen persons were crushed to doath 1
Stockholm, Sweden, after a concert giveu ,
' Christine Nilsson. She was singing from i
o balcony of tho Grand hotel at t,ho timo of J
o accident. Tho crowd numbered about
,000. ,
Prince Bismarck has accepted tho apology ,
Spain for the recent insult to tho German j
mbassy at Madrid.
The steamer Humacoa, which was wrecked
eeks ago, was blown oft tho rocks and sunk,
ivelve or fifteen sailors belonging to St. John '
tho neighboring city of Portland were lost.
liey wero taking her to pieces at the time of
10 disaster.
Goldsmith Maid, the trotter who reignel
ir years as queen of tho trotting turf, di-d t
few days ago on her owner's farm near
ronton, N. J. She was twent}'-nine years 1
d, and had trotted a mile in 2:14.
Tin: New York Democratic State conveutm
metnt Saratoga on the day following the
epuUican convention, and in the same hall, ;
id nominatod Governor I). li. Ilill on tho 1
rst ballot by a vote of out of 1580, A. S.
ewitt receivingvotes; Henry W. Slocum, j
and Roswell I'. Flower, 1. After Governor ,
ill's nomination tho convention adjourned J
itil tho next day, when the reaindcr
of tho ticket was nominated and tho
atfonn adopted. (
T. Maykieu) and his son Wesley wero :
died out of a store at Whato-. om, Washing- J
n Territory, and shot dead by an unknown 1
an, who made his escape.
The old wages have heen restored at the j
orks of the Cleveland (Ohio) 1 tolling Mill i
impany, whero there has been a stnko, re- J
ilting some time ago in a fatal collision,
nee last .1 tine.
Tiie Keptiblieans of Maryland, at their
tnto con volition in Baltimore, nominated ;
rnncis Miller for comptroller, and William j
Marino for elerk of tho court of appeals, |
id adopted a in otoctivo tariff, civil servico
tforin platform.
The bankers' national convention at Chi- !
igo adopted by a large majority a resolution
^juosting Congress to suspend silver coinage. |
Tin; 1'resident lias appointed the following
illectors of customs: Cliurlcs C. Sweeney
?r the district of Giilvoston, Texas; Otto I/,
hrolkeld, for the district ot Sahirin, Texas;
.1. Cocke, for tho district of Brazos do Sanago,
Texas.
The Karl of Shaftesbury, a prominent anj
liilaiithrophif Knglish nobleman, is dead in
is eighty -lit'th year.
PHAIRIE FIRES.
riio rrop* <ii iiiiicri>u? rmi
Oa'toin ICiiiiic<I>
Tlio devastation by prairie liresfrom Karyo i
,o Bismarck, Dakota, fnr surpasses ttio do- j
itruction of any previous year. liuudivds j
>f wheat crops liavf'biru swept out of ex- j
-tence. Tho :unou^* of wheat burnol in
N'ortli I'akotn is imm^n-o. It is est hunted :
liat the entiru crops of 100 farms beiw.-i-n
lanit's.'own an I liisin.ir. k have been de- j
jtioyed.
FIVE MEN LOST.
A Barge Cine* Down In Galvcalou
Harbor with All on Hourd.
Tho tug Ranger, having in tow tho barge
Orient, laden with HO) tons of coal, from Now
Drloans, arrived outside tho bar at Galveston,
,ho other morning, and in rounding to, partwl
her tow line. Tho bargo cast anchor, but
hero being a running, heavy sea, tho anchor
;hain parted and tho Orient was soon driven
iground. Tho Rangor was unablo to rcach
lie b.irgo or to rescuo her crew of M ve men. A
ileboat was immediately manned by live oxmrt
soamen and started for tho Orient. When ,
hey reached tho bargo tho sea was fast ,
trucking her. The lifeboat drew close to tho
>argo, when ono of the imperiled seamen
umpod into tho boat and caplzed
it. Three of tho heroic seamen
vho went out in the lifeboat camo ashore
lear tho Beach Hotel, floating on their life
iroservers. Tho two other men of the life
)oat's crow also camo ashore later, tho last ono
jetting in about 8 o'clock at night. The
lames of the barge's lost crew nro Thomas
3/strom, Fritz Johnson, Henry Jac'fcson,
:' vu o uuunuii mm imuniu* ?? cwju.
OVERFLOWING RIVERS.
Loss of I.ifc and iircat Destruction
oV I'ropcrty in Spain.
Heavy rains have prevailed in the southeastern
part of Spain. The rain came down
:i torrents, and soon tho river? overflowed
Lheir banks, can ing immense destruction of
property anl tlio loss of many lives. The
S***ura river and tho Lorca canal, which
runs by Cartagena, roso rapidly, until tho
water was seven fe..t deep around the walls
j: t'ie city. Houses, trees, and dead animals
iro being carried out to sea by tho raging
flood.
THE NATiOMf/fiAME,
A female baseball nine is traveling in the
.Vest.
Wiiat would many excellent players do if
here should ba no Southern league next seaon.
fiAMPsnf nlno innincrs without a run on
litiiei* side h tve been somowhat frequent of
ate.
The champion Providence club is now at
ho foot of tho league in batting and fielding.
iVhatafall?
O'Rourke, of the New Yorks, leads all
^eague players in run getting. He has made
iver 100 runs.
Gillespie, left-fielder for the New York
^eague club, made only one error in thirtyix
successive games.
McVey, who has tho reputation of being
iho best catcher in the Southern league, has
>een engaged by tho Brooklyn club.
New York ha; won (he scries from every
ilub in the league. Tho St J-oui< Browns
la'vo accomplished tho same feat in their asociation.
Glasscock and Briody, of the St Louis
jeaguo nine, are playing "for $1,200 this seaion.
Thej'signed for $2,200, but $1,000 each
is a lino
The baseball fever has become so strong
lore among the Mississippi negroes that it is
7ory difficult to get hands to pick the cotton,
low white in tho fields.
As extreme Southern league is talked of
lor next season to tako in New Orleans, Moifia
sVipovonnrt. Ponsacola. Montgomery and
iome other stnaiier towns.
There will be no $4,000 salaries among tho
jail-players noxt year, and $2,500 will ba
ibout tho highest wages p.iid for tho seven
nonths of field amusement.
The New York State league singulary apTears
to be quite a match for tho National
eague clubs. Thoy have won full as many
>f the exhibition games as they have lose.
Another American association club has
jeen whitewashed by an outsldo organizalion.
At Hartford tho Metropolitan failed tc
jot a man across tho plate while Hartford
node six runs.
The New York-Philadelphia series has rosulted
in favor of tho giants by eleven games
to fivo. New York made ninety-five runs,
153 hita with a total of 20S, and "had 103 errors;
Philadelphia made fifty-two runs,
ninety-eight hita with a total of 124, and
bad 131 errors.
The Eastern Now England clubs ara playing
an interesting game. First ono leads and
then another; ;one takes a good spurt on.^
week and falls back another. Tho tiling
could not bo arrauged any better if an effort
was made. There's nothing like evenness in
plnying of clubs.
In the Now York-Boston series the New
Yorks nave won thirteen out of sixteen
games. Tho New Yorks mado eighty-three
runs and 153 hits, with a total of 211, and
110 errors in theso gam?=. Boston made forty-fivo
runs and niuoty-niao hits, with a
total of 114, and !01 errors.
John Corkhillis condoled by tho Amorican
association players to be tho boss right
fielder. Phenomenal catches aro an everyday
oecurronco with him,and nothing is safe that j
comes anywhere within reach in his territory. |
He has dropped but one ball this season and j
matted but four in three years.
The Philadelphia League club has pur- i
chased from Chattanooga tho release of Seigle,
considered to be ths best outfielder in tho
Southern league. Ho is described as a sure
catch, a wonderfully accurate and long-distance
thrower, good general player, and ono
of the best batsmen in the South*
TnE fight for supremacy in tho National
league is now tho leading topic of conversa
tion in oaseuau circles. nvi-rjruuujr mwi i
ested in tho game at all seems more or less con- |
corned about tho welfare of either tho New |
York or Chicago club, who havo had such a \
close struggle for tho championship honors, i
O'Neil, of tho St. Louis, Browning, of the |
Louisvilles, Orr, of tho Metropolitans, Jones, j
of tho Uin'jinnatis,andStovey,of tho Athletic, j
lank tho first five in tho batting averages ;
of the American association. Connor and j
Dorgau, of the New York, Drouths.-rs and j
Richardson, of tho Buffalo, and Sutton, of
tho Boston, are tho five leading batsmen of j
tho National league.
Up to recent date tho New Yorkshad made i
80S base hits, the Chicagoes 804, Buffalo 802, !
Boston 712, Detroit 700. Philadelphia 678, St. i
Louis 048 and I'rovidencc 022. Tho fielding !
averages were: New York .807, Chicago {
,802, Buffalo .810, Boston .850, Detroit .848,!
St. Louis .844, Philadelphia .844 and Provi- i
donee .848. The Chicagos had made 024 runs, !
the Now York's 521, BulFalo 420, Detroit 338, |
Boston SO'-i, St. Louis 201, Philadelphia 384 *
and Providence 352.
Tho championship records up to recent date j
were as follows: i
TIIE NATIONAL LBAOUE.
Won. I.out. I Ifoi. Losf. |
VrtfL- 7i\ | Rnnhn 40 f.f) 1
jiiicaeo to yo) St. Louis 3i 65
I'hilailelp iia....l9 5? I Buffalo 33 ci !
I'roviUcnce. 43 49 | Itetroit 31 C5 j
AMERICAN ASSOCIATION.
*t. Lonis 73 30 I Athletic 4S 55 I
Pittsburg 54 49 j Brooklyn 49 53 i
Jincinnitl .61 43 | Baltimore 30 G5 |
Louisville 5'J 511 .Metropolitan.. .v9 CI !
EASTERN' 1.EAUUE.
Bridgeport 9 12 | Norfolk 33 .'3
Jersey "City 9 '27 | Trenton 43 .9 i
lam-aster 23 39 I Virginia... (17 '.6 \
National 6.3 .25 | Waterbury 6 5 ,
Newark 37 47 | Wilmington 5 32 I
SOUTHERN- t.KAOUE.
Atlanta 66 32 | Columbtn 43 47
Augusta 67 36 Mucin 51 49
Birmingham....13 77 i \le?n*?!iis 31 53
Chattanooga. ...41 62 I X.isliville G1 37
PROMINENT PEOPLE,
Victor Hrno's property is found to be
Torth 81,00 1,0,10.
Kx (SovKiixou rouTKit, of Indiana, is j
vritiujj n history of his State.
I.on/. Laxsdowsk, governor-general of j
Canada has gone on u tour to Manitoba and
hence to Hritish Columbia.
1'iuncf. Napoleon is about to start on a j
ourarou.nl the world in October. He wiil j
pond tlireo weeks i:i America and thou visit !
f...
UVJ I'Uilt ij'ui v/1 JUIIUU wumiivo,
Mr. Cleveland is now the heaviest Presi- !
lent that has over occupied tlio Whito Hons.-,
incl it' he continues to pain ho will woigli
ivor :i00 poiui'ls before the expiration of his
irst year's h.Tvica.
John Kyxastox Koss, member of pir.'ianent
for Bolton. England. lias come to the
7uited States to inquire i>it<> industrial qiies- I
ions in connection with tlio pro-out depres- |
ion in Great .'<ritaiu. lie is accompanied ,
)j his son.
Inspector General Davis, who has just !
>een retired from 'he army, after forty-three j
rears of service, is h native of Massachusetts, i
lo was breveted for gallant services in the !
var with Mexico, at Gettysburg and among [
;ho Apache Indians.
Ex-Governor William Smitr, of Vir* |
cinia, who bus just parsed his ninetieth birthlay,
walks over his farm m ar Warrington
laily, and is as erect in carriage, prompt in
;pcc'h, clear in faculties and perfect in
icalth as ever, and does not present the ap
learance of a man of more than sixty.
Youxo Itcriuke, tho claimant to the
;hroneof Mexico, is a great favorite among !
ho belles of Washington. Ho is deseribod as? j
jeing a tall, slender youth of twenty, with n ,
lecidedly aristocratic manner, and the most j
ludish get tip that can bj devised by tailors
lnd haberdashers. Ho has a pleasant address 1
?nd dances "divinely."
*T T1 TTTrt TT TH *TTlT/1fl
iNJjW&I U-JjLa.\ll\UO,
Tiiehe arc (i'J.O i.i organized minors and In
borers in tho anthracito c<ml region-;.
The race between the Puritan and tho (ioneslu
created great interest in I,onion.
Arcoiiuixcs to a Into estimate tliero nrc
^0 ),o;J0 Adventists in tho United States.
Tub American mosquito, having becomo !
aeclimatizod, is said to bo doing well in Kug- j
land.
IIioii-BiiEDcaU'os from 0:10 $.">10 Durham '
cow have netted Granger Vail,of Ueno, Nov.,:
Jliirrisn Coi.inttiiA Indians arc coming
into Washington Territory by t iu hundreds
for tho annual hop picking.
The le^atcos under tlio will of tho late Sir
Moses Monteliore number nearly :.'!li>, ranging
from liarl Shaftesbury to a cow herd.
A'r a Ii>"^sh royal bantpiet the platoon the
tables us: pc amounts to $l,?.">i),(UH? in value.
This is only hout a quarter of tho amount |
kept at Windsor. j
THE PUBLIC LMDS.
Receipts from their Sale During
the Past Fiscal Year.
More than Threo Million Acres Absorbed
by the Railroads.
Commissioner Sparks of tbe United States
Land office, has prepared a statement of the
lisposalso! public lands and receipts therefrom
during the fiscal year ended June 30,
1885, from which it appears tlio disposals were
as follows:
No. of
entries. Acres. Amount
Alabama,... 3,050 270,001.02 $00,385.70
Arizona 2,447 278,174.78 57,370.26
Arkansas... 4,303 244,582.00 (il,840.85
California... 15,813 I,2!)5,iK)l).03 784,031.76
Colorado.... 10,079 002,011.05 356,404.22
Dakota 53,304 4,547,749.772,568,760.50
Florida .... 3,'Jill 282,515.55 103,7'J1.05
'1 en DC) (111-1 nI 111 (too CO
AUUI1U ?.Ol}t/UUiVZ J
Illinois ? ? ?
Iiuliuna ? ? ?
Iowa 215 11,059.30 3,810.59
Kansas... . 32,574 3,030,840.159 007,08:5.17
Louisiana... 1,8S'.> 181,04:5.00 70,181.23
Michigan... 1,320 8.1,511.23 47,041.01
Minnesota..... 0,103 021,370.40 307,220.01
Mississippi.... 1,302 111,000.03 28,520.10
Missouri 3,038 201,277.33 00,750.04
Montana 8,059 1,112.140.57 198,354.07
Nebraska 37,fi80 3.098,:W1.76 903,810.10
Nevada 1,170 171,430.04 0,222.73
New .Mexico... 2,417 103,081.57 95,373.22
Ohio ? ? ?
Oregon 8,481 788,287.71 244,801.00
Utah 2,222. 184.853.62 55,880.02
Wash. Ter..... 10,778 1,010,117.75 327,753.18
Wisconsin 3,283 218,430.02 101,004.05
Wyoming 3,510 552,007.14 355,480.04
Total 220,3S2 20,113,003.38 97,086,114.80
The number of original homestead entries
was 50,877, including 7,415,885 acres, from
which tho receipts wore ?731,843. The number
of final homestead entries was 22,000, including
3,032,070 acres, from which the
receipts were $105,152. The number of
original timber culture entries was 30.008, including
4,755,005 acres, from which the receipts
were $425,420. The number of final
timber-culture entries was 750, including
00.3 )0 acres, from which the fees were $>2,764.
Tho total number of acres taken under railroad
selections was 3,558,914, made up as follows
(fractions omitted): Alabama, 33,108;
Arizona, 133,<)52: California, 370,445; Colorado,
14,252; Dakota, 700,093; Iowa, 0,014;
Kansas, 105,040; Louisiana, 10,887; Minnesota,
108,217; Montana, 703,450; Nebraska,
178,030; Nevada, (>0,012; Oregon, 245,386;
Utah, 17,123; Washington Territory, 535,216;
Wisconsin, 51,810.
Tho grand total of disposals of lands (20,113,063
acres) includes 881,850 acres of Indian
lauds. This is a decrease in tho number of
acres disposed of as compared witli ttie year
1S84 of G, 535,650, but as compared with the
year 18S3 it is an increase of 083,630 acres.
From sales of Indian lands $933,483 was realized,
making the total receipts from all sales
of lands $7,030,114, a decrease compared with
the receipts during 1884 of $4,159,532, and as
compared with the year 1883 a decrease of
$3,080,107.
DESTROYING THE FORESTS,
Interesting Figiirra showing Henry
Drain* t'pon Timber Laud.
At a session of tho American Forestry
congress in Boston, Rev. N. H. Egleston,
cliiof of tho forestry division of the department
of asriculture, Washington, read a
papsr setting forth that the recent census
shows tlmt tlio whole area or lana suriace,
Alaska being left out of consideration, i3
1,856,0?0,400 acres; total forest area, 440,J00,()00
acres: total farm area, iiXi.GjO.OOO
acres. Of unimproved and waste lands, including
"old fields," there are 1,115,43 J,400
acre9. Thero are 150,OIJO miles of railway,
including side tracks. It has required -i'M,1)00,000
ties for their construction. Supposing
that the ties roquiro to b3 renewed once
in six years, and that 10,000 miles of new rond
are built annually, if twenty-five years be
allowed as the timo nacessary for
tioos to attain a size suitable for making tios,
then it would roquiro 15,fXX),000 acres of stand- ]
ing timber to supply tho annual demand for
ties, or an area almost exactly equal to that
of Vermont, New Hampshire, Connecticut
and Rhode Island. But with the increase of
railroads it is to be considered that the annual
demand for ties is all tho while increasing.
The census reports the consumption
of 145,778,137 cords of wood, nnd 7-1,000,0)0
bushels of charcoal for fuol in dwol
iings, stores, factories, steamboats
and locomotives. This, in a single
year, would clear the forests from an area of
50,000,( 0 i acres, about equal to that of Now
York and North Carolina. Tho census also
reports that in 1*30 forest lires consumed the
trees on 10,274,089 acres, and there is no
reason to believe that a less area will bo
burned over this year than in 1880.
Tho census give.-* tho amount of lumber
cut in 1880 as 18.000,000, (HO
foot. Last year the cut had increased to 28,0|M,000,0;)0
feet, which would lay bare an
aroa of."),(WO,( 00 acres, equal very nearly to
that of New Hampshire. Altogether it appears
that tho forests of the country are subject
to an annual drain of 50,7.50,08!) acres,
which would clear a wooded surface equal in
extent to the area of all tho New England
States, togother with Now Jersey and Maryland.
RIOTS ABROAD,
Disturbances at llcetins?* In I.ondoa
and rarln.
At a monster meeting of socialists at
Lituehouso Yard, London, a riot was caused
by police interference. Warrants had bien
issued for the arrest of the speakers, but the
crowd prevented several attempts of the
police, and it was only aftor an hour's
fighting that they succeeded in capturing Mr.
Mahoti, secretary of the Socialist league
and tlio steward of a German club- They
also arreste l six spectators. On the way to
the police station tha c.'ow I followed the police
an I their prisoners, hooting and making
repealed rudie? nt them in the endeavor to
releasj their lricn is. The police, however,
stood their ground well, making free uso of
their clubs an I finally lauding their prisoners
in the lockup.
Paris has been the scene of a riotous affray
at a meeting in the Bourse. A dispatch gives
the following particulars: While Citizens
JotlVrln and Allemane were convening hundreds
of ex-communists inside the Bourse,
around a table covered with a red flannol
tablecloth, for the purpose of drawing up a
platform for the commiuiist party at the
coming elections, hordes of anarchists burst
into the vast hall, howlfng and yelling tho
names ol their own candidates in a deafening
i mm.? ?i,?o/1a <1 nhnnra fi\r
speaker's chair, which was carried by storm.
Smashing the table to pieces and breaking up
ttio seats, benches and chairs, they threw
tho del-ris among tho crowd, causing
much injury and inflicting severe
wounds. Tho doors of tho Bourse
wore thrown open and everybody
rushed toward the place of exit, tho anarchists
and >o-ia!i>t> lighting fiercely with their
fists and feet and with sticks. Revolver
shots were heard above the noiso of the
in -li e, an I the oxcitement. which was fearful.
was increased by I ho shrieks of the
women. A number of persons were wounded.
The pod.o tinaliy quelled the tumult.
A WOMAN'S REVENGE,
Itclicnriing- Iter IIualmn<l>? Aunt ?
Jealousy the .Motive. |
Sallic O'Niell and her husband lived with
his aunt, Kitty Keefe, in Silver Crook, I'enn.
The oilier night Mrs. O'Neill returned irom
a christening in the neighborhood, where she
hail been sinre early morning, and where she
had indulged freely in li<|ilor. Mrs. iv.-ofe
was nearly sixty years of age, but bein; an
Albino, looked younger ami was s'iil handsome,
Mrs. O'.s'eill was jealous of th-j old
woman, whom she accused of stealing her husband's
aflpcfioas. She quarreled with her
husband at the chrUtening at: 1 went home
alone und found Mrs. Iveefe.-ittingon the doorstep
of their litt'o log c.ibiu. What followed
can only bo cou.ie dured. Certain it is, however.
that Mrs. i f'.N'edl seized a Intchet, au I,
coming U|> b.-hin I Mrs. l\eefe, split her head,
thou Hacke I her face be * nd recognition,
and finally severed the head Irom the body.
Then with hair (lowing behind, her hands
red with blood, slio rati to a neighbor's
house. Tho ghastly remains lay in the
moonlight, half in and half out of tho door....Ill
f,,,,,,,| ennm tinii. hif,?r In- i wn men
who were passing. Tlioy foun 1 Mis. O'Neill
in the neiuhUor's house and gave tho alarm,
taking the woman back to the hotio with
them. They confronted h t w.tii he.- horrih!o
work, lire iking from them. ^h>* ran at
tho corpse, an I grasping if l>y t!is> heels
dragged it into the middle <?f the road. Th"ii
with a deiu >niae shriek s'io ran into tho
holism, ilomtielat thespectacle. (he men first
laid tho ni'ingle.l remiiiis hesi.Io llie liouse,
ami then too:; tho woman hit'custody and
lodged her in jai>. Her 11;>-iti I. who did
n ?t. learn of the work until nearly an hour
later, has Icon da.'.od ev.r sin.-o. lie is of
good c'.iaia tci*.
A. DUAL LIFE.
ShocliinT ICcvolation ?Inde by tho
rniiii'Nt Over n .Man*? IVill.
There died in a disorderly nouso in Hoston
recently Edward S. Sanborn, un old man
who has been known to the polieo for many
years as tlio proprietor of various disorderly
nouses. There was buried in Kingston,
>\ II., three days later, Major lv!ward
S. Sanborn, a conspicuous ami
public-spirited citizen, who was widely
known m his native State as a liberal patron
of the causj of education and religion. A
>n dispatch says that "the strange
story of the dual life of this m m?for the
contrasted descriptions truthfully apply to
the same individual?is rovealod by a contest
just begun over 11:> s^ttlomont of hi< largo
estate. Tlio litigation whieh is p,>n li:i; will
doubMo s develop tlio greatest social sjns.it iwi
New England has had for many a day."
1
TEMPERANCE TOPICS,
Monetary Wisdom.
The Canadian Monetary Times prints
ftt the head of its column of "Insurance
Notes" the following.
"The price, each day, of a single 'beer'
Will {ay insurance through tlie year;
And one cigar a day the less
Insures your life and happiness."
Drinlc and Crime.
The Iowa tilate lieg Liter says: "The
relation between whisky and crirao was
never more apparent than since the supreme
court affirmed the constitutionality
of the proceeding by injunction. The
active enforcement of prohibition since
that decision was announced has been
followed in inverse ratio by the decrease
of crime. In many placcs where the
saloons have all been closed the criminal
calendar has scarcely had an entry. In
Brooklyn the city council have concluded
that with the closing of the saloons there
is no occasion to maintain a police force,
and so thev have abolished the office of
city marshal, giving the mayor policepowcr
should it ever be needed. If the
criminal expenses directly or indirectly
traceable to liquor?and that means
three-fourths of all the crime?are not
almo3t completely wiped out in the
groa;er part of Iowa, prohibitionists can
charge the result upon their own remissness
in enforcing the stringent and sweeping
prohibitory law they now have."
Tho School and tlio Saloon.
The National Journal of Education
says: "Outside of a few favored districts,
no Boston boy can go to school
without passing liquor-saloons enough
| to destroy the morality of every pupil
in that particular district. The very
heart of New Boston on any summer
night is a pandemonium of liquor selling,
the streets swarming with noisy
men and vicious women, with multitudes
of half-grown boys and girls looking on.
Boston expends a million and a half of
dollars annually to school the children,
and, in spite of certain defects incident
to graded school-lifo in a great city,
these educational opportunities are not
su.passed by any community on the continent.
There is no such concentrated
forcc for practical morality among these
four hundred thousand people as the
public school system as now handled,
and henceforth public instruction
will be given on the effects of alcoholic
stimulants. Yet with strange inconsistency
the same city government thrusts
a vile den of pollution into the face of
every school child, and seems to makfl
no effort to keep these children of! the
I streeets recking with drunkenness and
lewdness, anil resounding with profanity.
Kin? Alcohol.
The history of King Alcohol is a history
of shame anrl corruption, of cruelty,
riigo and ruin.
lie has taken the glory of health from
the cheek, and placed there the hue of
the wine-cup.
lie has taken the lustre from the eye,
and made it dim and bloodshot.
He has taken vitality from tho blood,
and filled it with poison and seeds of
disease und death.
lie has entered the brain, tho temple
of thousht. dethroned reason, and made
it reel with folly.
lie lias taken the beam of intelligence
from tbc eye and exchanged it for the
stupid stare of idiocy and dullness.
lie has taken the impress of ennobled
manhood from the face, and left the
marks of sensuality and brutishneas.
lie has taken the beauty and comeli.
ness from the face, and has left it illshaped
and bloated.
lie has taken firmness aud elasticity
from the steps, And made them falterins
and treacherous.
He has taken vigor from the arm, and
left flabbiness and weakness.
! He has bribed the tongue to utter mad'
ness and cursing.
lie has taken cunning from the hands,
?nd turned them from the deeds of use.
fulness to become instruments of bru.
tality and murder.
He has broke the ties of friendship
and planted seeds of enmity.
He has made a kind, indulgent fathc,
? brute, tyrant, and murderer.
Alivayta Poison.
Years ago an aged and eminent man
said: '-If there is a particle of depravity
in a man's heart a glass of brandy wi'l
find it out and stir it up." And what ia
true of brandy is true of alcohol in every
shape. From the time of Noah till this
day its effects have shown that it his an
aflinitv for the worst parts of our nature.
Hence we cannot be too careful in guard
ing young people against it. Strong
drink is everywhere and always a poison.
Let us firmly resolve that we will have
nothing to do with it.
Temperance Notes*
Eighty per cent, of the crimes committed
are chargeable to the effects of
liquor.
John B. Gough, being asked the other
day if he noted any improvement for man
kind in the matter of intemperance, replied:
''Why, yes; every way; things
arc nothing like so bad as they were
when I was a boy, and they are going to
be better yet."
If a man who has been drinking for a
number of years wants to know what
| cffcct it has on his system, let him stick
; a small hollow tube about the size of a
- * * -1- J
darning needle into nis nesu, ;wiu m
hold a lighted match to it, until the gas
which passes out from the tube ignites,
he will find that it burns a blue blaze
which will have a sulphurous odor.
In localities where tbe decision of th(
I question of licensing the liquor traflic is,
j either entirely or in part,subject to pctij
lion, the temperance people will worrj
the liquor men, and will be assisted in
' gaining their point by giving notice thai
; they will publish the names of petitionI
crs for saloons, as wcil as of those whe
j may go on the bonds of .-aloon keeper?,
i Wherever this plan lias been tried it has
I worked well. it prevents underhand
j wcrk by saloonists, and compels ever)
man to show where he stands.
It appears to us as singularly unseemly.
and even iniquitous, that the general
government should grant licenses to sell
iii|nor in States which have prohibited
tliit sale. The Federal license does not
enable those who take it to sell against
I .ho laws of a State, but the licensed
j-crsons take their chance of being able
to circumvent or defeat the law of the
I State, and at any rate it sounds well for
! the distillers and brewers to be able to
, show that a large number of these eonj
tingent licenses arc taken out; and they
I and the papers that advocate the liijuor
i trailic, never condescend to state that
i they are only conditional. There is
such a crime as treason againtthc Federal
government, but we think that government
commits something very like
treason against the jiroiiibiIiott States by
"ranting licenses at all in them.?\cu
. 7.
York
RELIGIOUS READING.
The Butterfly.
Frail beauty ot tlie spring and Summer's no.
Tltou'lost a noiseless puth pursue ihioiifli
uir
Alighting on some pretty flower with cn: %
Sweet juices Irom ila nectary to sleul
As goodly lood for tlieo. I'hou doat icyeal
In silcnco to the thinking mind, n power,
And goodness great, Divine. 13ut in an
hour,
Thy dust will gathered bo; and all in vain
Will lii-ii/hrMHi aunhoama Rhine for tll'.o
ngnin,
Iliy brief and sunny courso will llicn bo run:
Thy goiilen wings betray thy life so short,
0! that I could tiic youthful hands oxhart
lo leave thee to thy pleasure sweet which
none
Can give thee buck when 'tis forever gone.
?F. Feel in the Quiver Jot Avgnl.
John Newton and llis Bible.
The Kev. John Xewton, who was
minister of St. Alary Woolnoth in London,
spent the former part of his life
at sea. IJe was, as he tells us himself,
a great sinner. From his youth up he
had often had convictions, but never
deeply felt his danger till in a homeward
voyage his life hung in doubt
before him. The vessel was in such
peril that every hour seemed as if it
would be the last The supposed nearness
of eternity filled his mind with a
solemn dread. To die happily, he felt
he had a need, a great need, he knew
not of what. Pilled with trouble, he
remembered that his mother was a .
great reader of the Bible, and that she
often spoke with delight of what she
found in it. He remembered also that
3he Lad given him a Bible when he
went to sea, with entreaties that he
would often read it. He thought he
must still have the Bible somewhere,
but he could hardly be certain.
Down he went to his chest, and at
the very bottom of it found his mother's
kind but long-neglected gift. He
opened it with eagerness, and the first
words that caught his eye were these:
"It ye then, being evil, know how to
give good gifts unto your children,
how much more shall your heavenly
Father give the Holy Spirit to them
that ask him 1" It came home to his
conscience that it was the Holy Spirit
that he wanted. He resolved to cry
earnestly for this gift. He did cry,
was heard and answered.
A Statesman on materialism*
In the course of an address to the
scholars of St. James's Sunday-school,
Atlanta, Ga., the Hon. Alexander H.
Stephens said:
Now, children, I want the humblest
and youngest, and every one to understand
that there is a spirit goiflg abroad
In this age, inculcating in the minds
of the philosophers, so-called, the idea
that man, after all, is only made up of
matter. They are c:illed Materialists.
These teachers?I may be pardoned
for calling the names of some of them,
Spencer and Huxley?their whole philosophy
is that there is no difference
between a man and a horse or a dog,
and that it is all matter, and when a
man dies his existence, lifo, passes
away, becomes extinct forever, and
that he passes into the grave just as an
inferior animal. What I want to impress
upon you, children, is that the
oracles of God, as given by Moses and
handed down from time immemorial,
teach no such doctrine. Little girls,
little boys, never entertain the idea
that there is no difference between you
and the dog, or a horse, or the animal
that is about you. Recollect that in
tiio first r>h:mtpr nf the Bible vou are
tuught that into man was breathed a
living soul, an immortal spirit, that is
to live hereafter. These philosophers
that 1 speak of are at this time doing
more mischief, more harm to the
world, than any other class of men
ever did. They do not understand
this doctrine that I wish to impress
upon these teachers and upon this age;
the mistake they make is between tiie
organization of nature and the creation
of man?who was the highest
type of creation?and into whom was
breathed a living soul that stamps upon
him immortality. It is the doctrines
taught in the Scriptures that it
, is the work of the Sunday school to
expound.
A Word of Cheer.
1 "And he said go forth and stand
upon the mount before the Lord"?1
Kings, 19:11. The same may be said
to all who suffer under the pressure of
temporal trouble, sorrow, need, sickness,
disgrace, or any other adversity.
Do the waves of the world thus toss
' you? Look not with Peter at the
storm instead of looking to Him who
1 can rebuke it. Look not with Martha
to the grave of corruption instead of
, to Him who is the resurrection and the
life; this is only to imprison ourselves
spiritually in our own gloomy cave.
There can be neither joy nor peace in
doing this. Go forth! go forth!
i stretch out the hand of faith toward
the mighty and outstretched arm of
divine love; spread the wings of hope;
, stand forth upon the mount whereon
is laid the sure foundation of Zion.
Hereby you will learn something of
the paternal heart of Him who, though
1 his ways are mysterious, nevertheless
doeth all things well; and you will
gain a prospect of that better country
where they shall hunger no more,
neither thirst any more, neither shall
the sun light on them, nor any heat;
for the Lamb that is in the midst of
the throne shall feed them, and shall
lead them unto living fountains of
water; and God shall wipe away all
tears from their eyes." Whatever our
circumstances may be, to place ourselves
'ii every occasion before the
Lord, with an open heart, without reserve
or guile, is the grand secret of
happiness and peace while wo continue
in this world.
Yes, and when the outward man
itself perisheth, and the eye grows dim
in the shadow of death, the soul shall
hear a voice behind it saying: "Go
forth and stand on the heavenly mount
before the Lord!"?F. W. Krummacher.
At one of the stations on the Chicago
and Northwestern railroad rcccntly an
( anxious inquirer came up to the door of
the baggage car and said: "Is there
i anything for me?" After some search
| among boxes and trunks the baggageJ
master rolled out a keg of whisky.
tl A ' ocL-n/1 tltr* wnf rrmr?nr_
, " 'n.uy IIJIU^ iiiutv.- imuvu >uv ,
"Yes." said the baggageman, "there's
a gravestone that goes with that liquor."
i The countcnnnce of the whisky man
: assumed a wrathy but thoughtful ap
pcarance, the door was shut with a slam,
> and the train moved on.?Union Signal.
; MUSICAL AND DRAMATIC,
' Emma Abbott's opera company has begun
a tour through tho South.
America is to hear another Swedish nightingale
this season?Miss Louisa Pyke.
Maiue Van Zandt is ?ai.l to have signed
I for sixty-six concerts in this country next
year.
Josekky, the notoil pianist, will begin a season
ot recitals at Stieuway Hall, New York,
; in November.
Mrs. Lanutry's reign is crw in London,
as s<lw has lately been playing at tho Standai
d, a very low-priced east side theatre.
A Wyoming Territory "Glee Club" has
| lynched six men for horse stealing this year,
so far, without interfering with us musical
, pursuits.
Verdi, the eminent composer, is manifesting
a singular aversion to hearing music. He
rarely listens to the rendition ot any music,
, even his own, and never touches a piano himlelf.
Katiierine Rogers, for many years leadl
ing woman at Wallack's theatre, New York,
has returned to tli'j stage, and is doing
'Claire, the Forgo Master" tnrough the dime
museums ami cheap theatres.
Ellen Terry is lully determined to recross
tho Atlantic with a company oi her
own. Having vainly urged Irving to make
, another lour, she is thought to be vexed with
11ns ulotinaoy, una is mcuuea 10 puiusu mm
lliorefor.
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