The Abbeville press and banner. (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, September 29, 1886, Image 2
The citizens of Rapid City, Dak., hav<
just learneJ that water won't run up hill
The engineer of that city iu surveying fo:
the waterworks located the reservoir sev
eral feet above the fountain head of thi
water supply, and now the water won'
run into the tank, and therefore the city'i
$50,000 water system is of no use.
A chirar*ey statistician writes that a'
the Mechernich lead works in Germany
the tallest chimney in the world has re
cently been completed. It is 440 fee
high, six feet more than the famoui
chimney of the St. Rollox chemica
"works, near Glasgow, Scotland, which
until the German one was built, wai
without a rival. The flue of the Mecher
nich chimney is eleven and a half feet ii
diameter at the bottom and ten feet a
the top.
Most smokers are proud to own a rea
amber mouthpiece. "What would the}
say to a room, seventy-five or one hun
dred feet square, lined on all sides wit!
amber clear to the lofty ceiling ? Thai
is what some American tourists saw th(
other day at Tsarskoe Lelo, an imperial
6ummer palace near St. Petersburg. Th<
precious fossil gum was cut and dove^
tailed so as t"> make beautiful figures o]
cupids, fruits aud flowers. The whol<
is in the highest state of polish.
Aberdeen, Ohio, claims to be the mosl
popular Gretna Green in the United
States. The cause of its wonderful at
tractivencss to anxious lovers is that the
usual restrictions imposed by law are ig
nored and no license is required noi
questions asked. Squire Beasley, in the
fifteen years that he has held the most
lucrative office in Aberdeen, has married
3,7G0 couples. During the opening ol
the Mayville fair a few years ago he mar
tied sixteen people one morning before
the raccs began.
The New York Commercial observes
4lIt aim >st seems a pity now that we did
not get into war with Mexico. An offi
cer of our army, sent by General Mac
kenzie to investigate the army of Mexico,
reports a standing force of 40,000 men,
divided between four great districts.
Ten new batteries of field guns have ol
late years been imported from France.
There is a factory for small arms neai
the capital. The officers come from the
National Military School at Chnpultepec,
and the rank and file are the lowest ol
the peons.
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Ignorance, violation of all sanitary
principles, miserable poverty, the extreme
rigor of winter, and neglect by
Irunken parents are said to be some of
the principal reasons why out of 1,000
children born in Russia scarcely 423 will
___ reach their twentieth birthday. Statistics
show that 343 out of each 1,000 die
in the first five years. The Russian Gov'
ernment is seeking means to diminish
this frightful iufant mortality, but with
little hope of speedy success, since the
main causes can only be eradicated by
the progressive education and reformation
of successive generations of the peo
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Paper is used for the manufacture of
go many articles that one is not surprised
to hear of tbe new u>es to which this
material is put, Still a Californian is
rather ahead in p:o\ing its adaptability.
George Phlilips, of Binghamton, Solano
county, has just completed an organ
containing 400 pipes, the largest being
sixteen feet. All the pipes arc made of
old newspapers rolled and fastened with
a paste made of glue and alum. The
woodwork was made entirely of old
fence boards, posts, dry goods boxes and
the like. He was two years in building
this instrument, which i3 said to have an
excellent tone.
An Italian in New York is a whole
band to himself. This is the way the
Trllune de.-ciibes the novelty: His head
is adorned with a sort of compound helmet,
composed of three stories, around
the edge of which are little bells which
sound whenever the wearer nods or jerks
his head. Strapped to his back Is n
drum through which passe j a strap
which is fastened at the lower end to
the heel of the musician; the other end
connects with a pair of drum-sticks
n*V* I /-.V? nwA 1 nci/lft 4 Vl rt /lotim An f ft
vtuiiiA aio iiioiuv; lug uiurn. vu iujj
of tbe drum- is a pair of cymbals connecting
through tho side of the drum
with the machinery inside to which the
heel strap is fastened. The musician is
further armed with an accordcon. When
he i9 in working order the accordcon
gives forth sounds more or less musical,
the bells begin a tintinnabulation, the
strap sets ol drum beats, the cymbals
clash together?and the small boys rapidly
gather and the pennies for soup and
maccaroni begin to flow in.
Steven?, the indomible correspondent
of an American magazine, has been
obliged to give up his trip through Afghanistan,
but he is still determined tc
get around the world on his wheel.
Finding that the Russians would not allow
him to carry out h;s original plan oi
proceeding by Merv to the Oxus, he np
plied to Sir AVe?t Ridgeway for permission
to join the camp of the bjundar^
commission, with the view of findinj
his way thence to India. Sir West Ridge
way replied that the plan was impracticable.
Thereupon Stevens went frorr
Meshed southward to Birgan, where hi
Buccceded in crossiug the Afgan froiitie
ft and ieaching Farrah. Th<?nce he hope;]
to go to Buetta by way of C;ind iliar, bu
the Governor detained him and eve-ntu
ally sent him to Herat. lie was kep
some days outside Herat, and wa< thci
Kfint. under pscort to the Persian frontier
The attempt to ride across Afghanistai
was thus baffled. Stevens now propose
to wheel himself to Lahore and to Cal
cutta, and then go by sea to Canton, t<
ride to Northern China on his bicycle
and finally to take ship for Japan atu
" anerica.
j So rapid is the progress of events ii
. this country that it is hard to believe tht
r first anti-slavery man sent to the United
. States Senate ou that issue is still living.
? but such is the fact. Joseph Cilley i?
t the man, says the Philadelphia Call, and
3 he remains on his old family homestead
at Nottingham, New Hampshire. He is
96 years old, and talks of the old-time
t political struggles with remarkable ea>
ergy and clearness.
t A Nevada newspaper calmly alleges
3 that some months ago W. J. Marsh, ol
I Fort Churchill, built a fence around one
, of his meadows along the bank of the
* a- J
s river, ana ior posts u*eu jrvuug wnuu
wood and willow trees. A gate was made
i in the fence and an extra heavy post was
t put in the ground for the gate to swing
on. It was noticed that a number of the
j green posts were sending out branches,
but no attention was paid to this
7 fact. After cutting the first crop of alfalta
in this field some cattle were turned
1 into the inclosure through another gate,
away from the river. They were soon
J found outside of the fencc and a man
was sent to find out where the fence
was broken. He had found the fencc
all right, but upon coming to the lower
^ gate found it raised about five feet in the
5 air?high enough for cattle to go under.
The post to which the gate was hinged
had grown that much and carried the
, gate with it.
I 3 .
David Lindley is an old Irishman who
5 lives in Louisville, Ky. He is possessed
' of a singular affliction. About four
r years ago he was standing under a tree
5 at Winter's Gap. East Tennessee, when a
k violent storm came up. The tree was
1 struck by iigntmng ana ienea to 1113
^ ground. Lindley was rendered uncon"
seious by the shock, but otherwise was
5 uninjured. During every electrical storm
since he has experienced a peculiar tingling
all over his body similar to that pro:
duced by an electrical battery. When
f the storm ccascs the sensation leaves
' him, and is not again felt until another
storm. Any person can reccivc a slight
1 shock by catching hold of his hands dur'
ing a storm. It is frequently tried by
his neighbors, by whom he is considered
a magnetic wonder. Mr. Lindley's
health is in no wise impaired by the
electricity, and he is of the opinion that
: it benefits him. lie has a constant fear
I
of the lightning, and dreads the ap
proach of a storm.
The United States letter sheet envelope,
a unique device for correspondence
through the mail, is a combination in
, one of a letter sheet, envelope and the
oew postage stamp of the denomination
of two cents, bearing the military portrait
of General Grant. These letter envelopes
will be sold at the rate of twenty1
three dollars per thousand, in any derired
quantities, separately or in packages
or pads of twenty-five, fifty or one
hundred each, or folded in incased
packages of twenty-five each, especially
adapted for use when traveling. The
letter sheet is of unruled paper, siDgle,
with a space nine and a quarter by two and
ave eighths for writing. It has gummed
;ides and flap, and perforated lines to
| serve as guides in folding and opening.
On the face is an ornamental design, a
shield and wreath, and the words
"United States letter sheet envelope,"
ilso a two-cent stamp bearing a portrait
)f General U. S. Grant, all engraved in
steel, and printed in green ink. In the
left hand corner are the words, "If not
lulled for in ten days, postmaster wil!
olease return to," and on the flaps, outside
of the perforations at both ends, the
directions are given, "To open tear off
the ends." These new letter sheet envelopes
arc to be furnished only for the
present to a few of the larger postoffices.
A Bell's Five Hundred Years.
The city of Breslau has just celebrated
the five hundredth anniversary of an occurrence
which was memorable in the
history of the town and is known whereevcr
German poetry finds a home. The
bell which haugs in the southern tower
of St. Mary Magdalen's Church and is
named "the poor sinner's bell," rang out
morning and evening to remind all who
heard it that it was cast 500 years ago.
i Next day (Sunday) the preacher re,
minded his congregation of the pathetic
s'.ory which has made it singular among
bells, how, when all was ready for cast1
ing, the founder withdrew for a fewmo1
ments, leaving a boy in charge of the
furnace, warning him not a meddle with
l the catch which secured the sceth'ng
metal in the cildron. But the boy dis:
regarded the caution, and then, terrified
1 on seeing the molten metal beginning to
i flow into the mold, called to the bell
i founder for help. Hushing in aud seeing
what he had intended to be his mas
tcrpiecc ruined, he slew the boy on the
1 spot. "When the metal had cooled and
> the mold was opened, the bell was
found to be an exquisite work, perfect
[ in finish, and of marvelous sweetne s of
tone. CJominir to his senses, be recognized
his bloody work and straightway
gave himse f up to the magistrates.
; "Blood for blood" was the law; he w.;s
condemned to die, and he went to his
doom while his beautiful bell pealed an
invitation to all to pray for "the poor
' sinner," whence its name.?London
1 (/'ICO.
Children in Mexico.
A correspondent, writing from Mexico,
ray-; the laud is flocd-'d with children,
aud a small family is a thing unknown.
j They greet you, he says, at every win,
djw, at every corner, on every woman's
' ba k. Theyjfill the carriages on the
plaza, they arc like a swarm of beis
around a honeysuckle?one on every tiuy
t (lower and hundreds waiting for their
j chance. A man died the: other day who
was followed to the grave by eightvseven
sons and daughters, and had buried
' I thirteen, so that he was the father to the
t grand total of 100 chi dren. There i?
. another man living in Mexico who l a:
^ had two wives, and who has. living fortyfive
children. Allow'ng the sma 1
1 average of five to the family, one < an .see
. how numerous the grandchildren would
i be. I am acquainted, he adds, with a
3 gentleman whose mother is but thirteen
find a half years older than lie and she
* had eighteen more of a family. It is a
3 ble:-9cd thing that the natives are able to
live in a cane hut and exist on beans and
j rice, el c the list of deaths by starvation
would be something dreadful,"
EXPLOSION ON A FAR!
The lJoilcr Attached to a Tlires
Bursts With Terrific Effect
.Bodies of Victims Hurled Two H
dred Feet Through the Air,
A terrible boiler explosion occurred
other morning on the farm of Rutger
derburgh, in North Greenbu-h, about
miles south of Troy, N. Y., by which
men were kilted and three others serio
injured, one fatally. The following are
naniesof the victims: David A. Phillips,di
Archie Hankie, dead; Newton De Frc
fatally injured; William H. Livingston
jured; Rutger Vanderburgh, injured.
The boiler was a portable one, attache
a thresher, and was purchased, n
three years ago. The other al
noon the thresher was placed
Vanderburgh's barn and the boiler
engine on the outside. Fire was kindled
der the boiler at six o'clock next morn
Shortly bo fore seven o'clock David
Phillips, of North Greenbush, the ov
of the thresher: Archie Hankie, of B
the engineer; Newton De Freest, the
of a neighboring farmer; Nelson
dell, a farm hand for Vanderbui
William H. Livingston, of Sandlake,
Rutger Vanderburgh were about thctres
the two last named being in the barn. ]
lips stood by the side of the boiler; Hai
and Do Freest by the firebox. Wandell
just started away to get a hayfork, but he
not proceeded ten steps when the boilei
ploded with terrific force, crashing thrc
the large barn, tearing out the rear wall
part of tin roof. The largest portion, we
ing about fifteen hundred pounds, sti
the ground two hundred feet from the
of the barn, and then bounded about tw<
feet further aud fell into a small br
Smaller piases were carried still greater
tances. The coals from the firebox set
barn in flame.', and the structure and its
touts?the entire croptof the farm?wen
stroyed.
Phillips's dead body, with the ba^k of
head crushed iu, was found thirty feet'
of the spot where the boiler stood,
leaves a wife and two children. Hankie
Do Freest wore hurled over a earriago In
and fell about five feet apart in an a
orchard, two hundred feet from the b
Hankie was dead, his body being shockir
mangled and all his clothing, shoos excef
was striped from the body. De Freest
iu a semi-comatose condition and mort
hurt. His clothing from above the k
was also torn off. He was fourteen y
old and a son of Laeas J. Do Fre3st, a pre
nent man in the count}'.
A piece of the burst boiler struck
broad rim of Livingston's straw hat, cut
it off clean. Splinters of iron broke
right arm and cut a deep gash in his n
Vanderburgh's right leg was severely cu
a timber.
H inkle, who was a single man. belor
to a pecul arly unfortunate farmily.
father was killed by the cars at Greenl
in issi; his brother Charles, a brakemui
the Central and Hudson River Railroad,
his death in a railroad accident in 1*84,
another (Jesse) was killed by the burstin
a gun on July 4tli last.
LATER NEWS,
Twenty thousand people attended
inter-Stats grangers' picnic, at Williai
Grove, Penn. During the several days w!
it lasted the people were addressed by
rious candidates for political honors.
YELLOW*fever has broken out at Bil
Miss., and has terminated fatally in t
cases.
The Cincinnati (Ohio) Exposition wasfi
ally opened on the 1st. The event i
marked with great popular demonstrat
and a procession of military and civic sc
ties which was witnessed by 200,000 pec
Mr. Van Pelt, Democratic candidate
State Senator in West Virginia, while
gaged in a political discussion was i
twice and fatally wounded by "Jake" Isl
a brother of the candidate of the Li
Party for the same office. Isbell was
rested.
THE hirst uenerai uonierenceui
dian Methodists since the union of all
branches of that denomination in 1884 c
mepced on the 1st at Toronto.
Beach, the Australian, easily defei
Teenier, the American, in the internatii
rowing match on the Thames.
Quarantine against Biloxi, Miss., wi
fatal cases of yellow fever have occuri
has been established at New Orleans,Mol
Pensacola and other Southern cities.
Republicans of Indiana and Miss<
and Democrats of California have just 1
State conventions and nominated cai
dates.
Charleston, S. C., was visited by ano
slight earthquake shojk on the mornin
the 3d. Offers of relief were sent to
stricken city from all parts of the land,
population passed two days aud nights in
open air before many of the people venti
back to their houses Up to the !3d the 1
ies of thirty-five victims?ten whites
twenty-five colored?had been recov<
from the ruins.
Secretary Bayard has telegraphed
Sedgwick his disbelief of the publis
charges regarding his acts in Mexico, and
dcred him to continue his investigatioi
the Cutting case.
During August the national debt
reduced $l,!?10,0i?9, leaving the principa
tho 1st inst at $1,378,17(5,5S0.
The acting Secretary of the Treasury
issuod a circular calling the attention of
nmnlnvfls nf t.hrt TrA?*siirv
-?1- -J? ? J
partment to the President's order of Jul]
ISSi), warning Fe<leral officers against k
ferenco in politics.
Czar Alexander, of Russia, has cu
repulsed the friendly advances of Pr
Alexander upon his return to Bulgaria,
predicts that dire disaster will follow
Bulgarian ruler's return to hi; throaa.
A MINE DISASTER
Five Miners Instantly Killed t
One Badly Injured.
There was a terrific explosion of fire-<lr
in the Fairlawn mines, near Scranton, Pe
at 8 o'clock the other morning, a little \v
after Edward Pierce, the (ire boss, and
other men had gone down the slope. T
had gone into the mino to t?lo*v out tho
toin rock, preparatory to putting propi
the chambers.
A rescuing party immediately went
search of the men. They hail great ditlic
in getting t> tin bottom of the slops, 100
from the surface, on a -count of the esea]
gas and the debris. Six of th3 men \
lyhi? behind the door to a chain
mice or who 111 were <iva<i. i
were Edward Vaughm, 4.r> years
who leavo3 a wife anl five small <
drt'ti; Hugh Connors, 45 years, wife und
children, and Mil hael Pryle, 45 years. 1
rii'd, but 110 children. Tlie latter's skull
nearly Mown o!F. John Kerrigan, .*?5 y
and n arried, died while he wasboiug car
up the slop*.*.
Tlio body of Edward Pierce, the fire I
was not foun 1 until the afternoon. Pi
was a single man, about twenty-live y
old. The only survivors of the sc
wo.e Patrick Comer and John Nafin.
latter was badly burned on the face
arms. He is thirty-five and man
Comer re eive I two severe scalp woi
and a wound on the km e. He
ablo to tell how the explosion occur
Pierce was several feet ahead of the part;
they were going up the slope in the lo
vein. His lamp lighted th3 lire damp, a
mendous explosion followed, aud the i
were hurled with great violence against
side of the passageway.
Miners have loug looked upon the F
lawn mine as a dangerous one on accoun
the rapidity witfc 'which gas accumul
there and the inade juacy of the mear
ventilate.
| NEWS SUMMARY
Eastern and Middle States.
liei ^r,E strike of New York horse-car employes
lasted only a few days, aid ended in
. defeat for the strikers.
A KiiiE at Montrose, Penn., dstroyed thirteen
business houses and two residences, inAiding
a loss of about $75,000.
Av Albany (N. Y.) dispatch of the 28th
stated that President Cleveland had appointed
Deputy State Comptroller Thomas E. BeneI
diet to the office of Public Printer. This
the position as head of the Government Printing
."an- | Oflice at Washington has been much sought
two airer?W()
Captain Wiixiam Cook, a vBteran of the
late war, and siuoethe war profossor at Harusly
Vard Univei-sity, accidentally shot himself at
the Chatham, Mass., with fatal effect,
ead; A sealed package containing nearly
sest &W.000 was stolen from the Adams Express
. ' Company's safe in Philadelphia a few day#
? m* since. Ralph Pratt, a clerk in the office,
was arrested on suspicion,
i to Lawrence M. Donovan, a New York
ew, printer, has jumped from the Brooklyn
rter. bridge, for dime-museum glory. He was
flshel out ol! the East River uninjured, arin
rested aud fined $10.
aU(l Edward Redsongton was instantly killed
. -m" and four companions fatally injured, by the
lu5- upsetting of an express wagon in which they
A- were riding from Dedham, Mass., to Boston,
rner
atjj Dr. Older Wendell Holmes has reS01'j
turn>3d to Boston from his European trip,
ran- Three truckmen working on a railroad
rgh; near Summer Hill, Tean., were struck by a
aud passing engine aud killed.
?er, a fire in South Royal ton, Vfc, destroyed
Phil- nine business stores and fourteen residences.
nk,? Loss $1(J0,0.K).
J?J Brevet Major-General George H. Gor.
don, a veteran of the Mexican and Civil wars,
h h died suddenly at Framiugham, Mass., a few
and ^a3's since iu his sixty-second year.
igh
-uck South and West,.
rear A sttock of earthquake lasting several seconty
onds has been felt at Summerville, S. C., and
ook. vicinity.
('js' A skiff containing six young men upset
? in the Ohio River at Cincinnati, and four of
COI1* Art/iiirnntfl wora HrnwnpH
) le- ?
The California Republicans have nomine
nated John T. Swift for Governor.
ivest The fourth Southern Exposition has been
He successfully opened at Louisville, Ky.
and * jN the twinkling of an eye Lafllin &
ouse Rand's powder magazine, in the outskirts of
PP'? Chicago, was the other morning swept
urn. from the face of the earth by a bolt of light'Kv
ning and a consequent explosion of powder
?ted, aU(j dynamite. One person was killed
/".'J1? outright, four were fatally in " "y
jured, a large number were more
uees or iegg seriously bruised and cut, and a
ears great amount of damage was done in the
mil- vicinity and in Chicago. Nearly 120,000
, pounds of powder and dynamite were ex.
? ploded, and the concussion was so great that
i everything in the neighborhood was either
"*s leveled to the ground or riddled with flying
? . stones and timbers. People twenty to thirty
t "y mile> away felt the shock and thought it was
jrr(? j an earthquake.
j?,s Mrs. Flizabkth Rodgkrs, of Chicago,
Jus|1 has been appointed Master Workman of Disj
ou trict No. 24, Knights of Labor,
met Three negroes were lync hed :o?ar McNutt
aud Lake, Miss , the other night, for an at tempted
g of assault on some young ladies.
Three lodges of modern Know Nothings
are in existence near Chicago.
Washington.
the The aggregate rereiptsfrom Internal Rev,
enue during July last were $'.*,735,488, an in
crease of as compared with the rehich
ceipts during the corresponding month in the
va- preceding year.
Mr. A. G. Sedgwick, the special envoy tc
oxj Mexico in the Cutting matter, has sent u
, f ' telegram to Secretary Bayard denying the
two charge that he had "gone on a tear'' with
some of the "young bloods" of the Mexican
arm capital.
vas
ions Foreign.
>cie- -A- dispatch from the City of Mexico states
. that Mr. A. S. Sedgwick,the New York law>ple.
yer sent as a special envoy of the Ameri an
> for Government to inquire into the arrest ol
en- Cutting, has been having a "hilarious time'
shot some of Mexico's young bloods,and thai
he has not conducted himself ai: all in keepbell,
iUg with his high mission.
kbor Prince Alexander again srtepped upon
i ar- Bulgarian soil at Rustchuk on l;he 29th, and
was received by an immeuse concourse. M,
Stambuloff formally welcomed Alexandei
in the name of Bulgaria and restored to him
the the reins of power. A body of otiicen
om crowned the Prince and carried him on theii
shoulders to the palace, followed by cheering
. crowds. From Rustchuk the re-erownec
itoa ruier proceeded to Sofia, the Bulgarian
ana capital.
A hurricane has swupt over the island oi
[i?re New Providence in the West Indies, doing
great damage to houses and shipping at Nasf
' sau.
In a railway collision near V iennu, seven
IrillaH ft r?H t iVflnl V-t Wfl rCHll aH
>uri A special cable dispatch says that "the
held greatest war of the century" is close at hand,
1(jj. The contesting parties will b-3 Russia on one
side and Austria, Turkey and Bulgaria,
backed by Germany and England, on the
ther other. Russian intriguos for an extension ol
? of its power are given as tbe i ause of the coming
?tho c?l?ssal struggle.
A fishing schooner which has just arrived
at St Johns, N. F., during a gale lost six
1 tlja dories containing twelve men.
;rei company of English capitalists propose
bod- to build a railroad from Tuxpan to the city
aU(j of Mexico at an estimated costot' #25,000,000.
!red FATAL EARTHQUAKES.
Hundreds of People Killed in Greecc
?Six Towns Destroyed.
^ or* Advices from Athens state that Greece has
1 ia again b?en visited by an earthquake, which
has been inoit disastrous to life and property.
wa; The village of Pyrgo and the town of Philia '
on tra, both situated on the western coast of th?
Morea, were tho chief suffered. In
has Pyrgo not a house is left standing;, while
! all Pbiliatra is almost swept from the face of
Ue_ the globe, swallowed up in the convulsions of
., the earth. The shocks were experienced
' ' throughout tho entire o f Greece in a greater
iter- or less degree. Iu the town of Zanl e every
house was damaged and the inhabitants fled
rt]y in terror to the open country.
. 3 Several towns in Italy were also vinited by
ince the earthquake, but not to any Rerious exand
t.'Ut, Naples Brindisi, Foggia, Case:rta and
tha Taraato being of the number. Among other
towns in Italy where the earthquake was
felt are Syracuse, Reggio, Calabria, I'otenza,
Poz/.uoli, Bari and Avcllino. The people
were panic-stricken and took refug* in the
fields and churches.
. A dispatch from Naples says that a second
1 earthquake shock occurred tiere. The population
were crowding the streets and many
imp families wt-ra fleeing from the city. There
uu havo been two eruptions of Vesuvius tnd the
.volcano is still vory active.
Au earthquake sho.k was also experienced
six at Athens.
'hov Violent shocks of earthquake hare also
J ' 1 "* A lava ni^ v-ia nfV>?r
^?.t" jiarts of Egypt, causin? terror among the
3 In natives, but so far as known doing no serious
damage.
' l ater advices state that tha area of the
"" y etrth disturbance >n Greece was phenomen.
c ally wide. At least six towns were entitoly
1>,u? destroyed, nud a score of others were partially
destroyed. On the mainland much
,, 1' damage was done, but there was little loss
, Y of life. On the islands it is estimated
" ,i' that six hundred persons were killed and one
r thousand seriously injured. The undulations
"ve were curioi>ly regular. Tub atual shocks
,,ar" a\evaged twelve Ee.-ond!: induration. Feowas
p]e ex C|-y whero are camping oat i:? tha fields.
The breaking of the telegraph lines delays
tlie lweption of details. Tho Greek
Cabinet has been sitting at Athens almost
>oss, continuously, considering relief measures. A
erco transport with tents, food,doctors, medicines.
ea:3 and a company of pompiers was sent to tho
!??n stricken districts.
* , The latest roturns show that 100 persons
and wer0 killed fit Filiatra a id twenty at Garga'iey*
liano. Both towns are iu ruins.
mds
was
red. <JF correspondent who have written
v as about fairs to the Amcricttn Agriculturist,
wer nearly five hundred state that no fairs will
trc- bo held iu their counties this year. These
men co,mtios which have no fairs are main'y lo.
the catod in the Southern States.
'air- A nothershock of earthquake has been felt
t of in Malta. The Captain of a steamer reports
ates that -00 miles east of Malta, ho witnessed the
is to upheaval of a column of water thirty feet in
diameter tc a distance of feet.
AN EXCITING EVICTION.
Novel Defence of Besieged Tenants *
in Galway, Ireland.
Exciting scenes were witnessed during the
recent evictions in Woodford, county Gal- '
way, Ireland A force of 550 policeman, j
strengthened by a large number of "emergency
men" and extra bailiffs, went to the 6
house of the tenant named Saunders, ?
which has for some days been 1
defended from within by a number of armed '
men, and has been actually in a state of siego.
The roof of the dwelling has bsen pierced with ]
loopholes, through which the inmates threw 1
boiling water upon the officers. Several \
policemen and bailiffs were severely scalded. 1
A more novel form of defence was the let- <
ting loose of a swarm of angry bees, which <
clustered among the attacking party and i
proved quite efficient in demoralizing the
o Si cere of the law. Scaling ladders 1
were procured, and finally, after a
despefate hand-to-band struggle, the ]
house was carried by storm and its twenty 1
defenders were made prisoners. The officers, ]
on entering, found large caldrons of water 1
boiling over a huge fire, a bag of lime to be 1
used with the water,amd a quantity of stones i
ind other missiles. <
MUSICAL AND DRAMATIC.
Six hundred American girls are studying
music in Milan.
Hue. Patti is to begin her American tour
on November ]6, in New York.
There are nearly 700 musicians in Phila- ]
delphia aucl not one first-class band. i
Alice Rees, tho new prima donna of Mr. '
Duff's opera company, is a young Australian
girl.
( Margaret Mather has made a hit in j
San Francisco. Tho Call says that she is the ;
Ideal Juliet
Lester Wallace will open his New York
theatre October 11 with Hamilton's new play, J
"Harvest." (
Katie Putnam, the actress, has an an- i
nual income of $[U,QUO from her fruit farm
ia Michigan. 1
Mn. Louis James, the tragedian, is one 1
of the original members of tho old Ellsworth
Zouaves. 1
The Anglo-Italian opera company has
completed its bookings for a tour from New ,
York to San Francisco.
Mrs. Thomas Jefferson, the wife of ;
Joseph Jefferson's youngest son, has written <
a comedy entitled Class."
Mrs. Cleveland loves "the music of the
future," and is one of the most appreciative
of listeners to the works of Wagner. J
Maud Banks, daughter of General N. P.
Banks, made her theatrical debut as Parthe- '
ilia at Portsmouth, N. H., the other night
The American Opera company will produce
live new plays this season, besides reviving
those which met with the greatest
favor last ytar.
Lady Archibald Campbell, formerly
Miss Blood, in addition to being a handsome
youug woman and a clever writer, is also a
skilful musical composer. Her sougs are i
very popular in England. i
Janauscilek, great actress and brave ]
woman, suffering under a mortal disease and
not appreciated by a dull and trivial public, 1
returns to the stage this year, undaunted by
the disfavor of fortune and fate. 1
Mr. Lewis Morriso.v, who is to play j
' Mephistophelos in the new version of Goethe's (
"Faust," by Dr. Gustavus Haas, of New
York, will represent the character with a j
"cloven hoof" from which electric sparks will (
issue, as well as from the sword he uses.
German musical papers place the number
of Liszt's known compositions at 047. Of i
1 these 03 are orchestral works, 33 being tran- I
scriptions for the orchestra of other compoi
sitions; 517 arc for the pianoforte, 300 being
i transcriptions; 20 are compositions for the
> organ, and 30 vocaL
: NEWSY GLEANINGS.
The Louisiana rice crop promises to be
i heavy.
Muskrats damage the Erie canal $50,000
i worth every year. *
; Lynchburg, Va., is getting ready to eelbrate
its centennial (
It cost Chicago about $4,000 apiece to convict
eight anarchists.
Sod schoolhouses are still used in Cheyj
enne county, Nebraska.
The Czar of Russia has donated $20,000 to
the Pasteur institute fund, which now
i amounts to $320,0J0.
> Thrones are cheap in France. Two made
' for the last Napoleon are now valued at $10U
> each, and find no takers.
Nathan B. Moore, a Maine hunter, aged
sixty-eight, enjoys the distinction of having
, killed 275 moose since his youth.
; President Cleveland's house in the sub;
urbs of "Washington will not be refitted and
ready for occupancy till October.
The new mail route to Cuba, going tc
Tampa, Fla., by rail, thence to Havana by
steamer, shortens the time two days.
A deacon of a Greenville (Penn.) church
, has a string of buttons half a yard long
which has been taken out of his Sunday col,
; lections.
! I An inspection of the 500 mail bags that
; : were sunk in the Oregon, and have since been
recovered, shows that ladies smuggle a great
' many French gloves, with laces, ribbons
etc., in newspapers sent by mail.
An archaeological discovery just n-ade at
( I Athens, Greece, is exciting much interest. A
number of columns in a state of perfect preservation
have been uneai thed on the acropolis.
They belong to a period before the Persian
wars.
MASSACKE OF CHRISTIANS.
i
Fifty Killed in CochinChlna-Whole
Villages Destroyed.
Advices from Ching-Too-Foo.tbe chief city :
of th2 province of Sechuen, state that the na* (
! tives of the eastern part of that Drovince and
those of Northern C:>chinChina, have
i risen against the Christians aud are massa|
' creing them and destroying their property.
, This active parsecution is attributed to the
' ; imprudence of the Engl sh and Ameri au
. missionaries.
In Cocbii China above fifty Christians
have been killed, their houses burned and
their farms destroyed.
In b'echuen a general massacre cf Christians
U reported to bo in progress, and they
are killed wherever foun J. It is said that
i whole villages o.-cupied by Christians have
liren destroyed and that all land occupied oy
tbe profe sors of that faith are being devastated.
The aposto'.io vicar's residence in
Sfichuen has been burned to the ground. Not
i a pieee of furniture, nor a book, nor a paper
was saved. The foreign cousuls barely escaped
from Sechuen with their lives.
Dr. E. C. Adams, of St. Joseph,
Mo., has brought suit against the proprietors
of Tootle's Opera House, oi j
j that city, claiming $25,000 damages for
slander because a minstrel company
held him up to ridicule in its local gags,
j This is rather a novel suit, but the ,
| Doctor will have many sympathizers
! among those wlio have long been dis|
gusted with the growing tendency
| among the lesser lights of the tli9atei 1
to court favor with their audiences at I
; the expense of prominent local charac!
ters by supplying low and vulgar gags
in place; of their legitimate lines. Dr. J
J Adams is a man of means, and promises
; to push the case for all it is worth.
| Success to his efforts at ridding the :
atnco ol this cheap nasu.
a Cincinnati plckpocuet, seeing a
young man with a young woman on
each arm, deftly relieved him of his
watch. TIio young man saw the deed
and tried to grab tko thief, but the girla
clnng to his arms and cried, "Don't
go; he'll kill yon," and more to that
effect, until the thief got well away.
Thoy were not confederates of the
pickpocket, eithor, but nice average
Ohio girls, who were bound the young
. taw shouldn't get liurty
IEISH HOME RULE.
Sladstone Issues a Pamphlet Up
the Subject.
Ex-Premier Gladstone has just issued
Dauipblet upon the queotiou of Irish Ho
Rule which has attracted great attenti<
rhe brochure is under two heads. The 13
i a history of an idea, in which Mr. Gli
;tone summarizes the following conditio
mder which alone, in his view, home rule
:ame possible:
First?The abandonment of the hope tl
Parliament could serve as a passable Iegis
tive instrument for Ireland. Second?1
inequivocal and constitutional demand
the Irish members. Third?The possibil
)f dealing with Scotland in a similar way
circumstances of equal and equally clear
sire.
Mr. Gladstone then passes on to def<
tiimself from the charge of haviDg sprung
Home Rule measure upon his friends. ]
plying to me cnarge 01 naninguon t
Chamberlain that he had conceived the ii
precipitately, aud to the charge of Bri|
that he had concealed it unduly,
denies that it is the duty of a M
Ister to make known, even to hiaLcolleagi
Bvery idea forming in his mind, which wo
tend to confuse and retard instead of
business. He continues:
"What is true is that I had not publi
&nd in principle condemned it, and also tl
[ had montally considered it; but I 1
neither adopted nor rejected it, and for
very ample reason that it was not ripe eit
for adoption or for rejection."
In the second portion of the pamphlet,
lessons of the elections, Mr. Gladstone beg
irawing certain lessons from the elections
they affect the Liberal party.
' Look at the question," he cOntiuu
"which way we will, the cause of Irish s
government lives and moves and can bar
fail to receive more life, more propuls
from the hands of those who have been
successful opponents in one of its particu
forms. It will arise as a wounded wan
sometimes arises on the field of battle t
stabs to the heart some soldier of the viott
ous army who had been exulting over hir
Mr. Gladstone then looks at tne eleotii
from a geographical point of view,
shows that even in the case of England w
we have is not really a refusal, but is onl;
slower acknowledgment Tha effect of
this in Ireland he describes as follows:
"All the currents of the political att
sphere as between the two islands has b
cleansed and sweetened For Ireland n
L-nn-vo what. nVin hns n?v*r known hflfr
that even under her defeat a deep rift of
vision runs all through the English natioi
her favor; that there is not throughout
land a parish or village where th
are not hearts beating in unison w
her heart, where there not mi;
earnestly bent en the acknowledgment i
permanent establishment of her claims
national existence. Under these happier i
cumstances, what is there in separation t
that would, tend to make it advantageous
Ireland^ As an island with many hundr
of miles of coast, with a weak marine an
people far more military than nautical
its habits, of small populations i
limited in her present resources, why sho
she expose herself to the risks of invas
bud to the certainty of an enormous cost
the creation and maintenance of a in
for defence rather than remain un
the shield of the greatest mariti
power in the world, bound by ev
consideration of honor and ini
est to gnard her? Why should
be supposed desirous-to forego theadvanti
of absolute community of trade with
greatest of all commercial countries to
come an alien to the market which consul
lay nine-tenths of her produce and insteac
using the broad and universal path of enf
prise now open to her to carve out for h
self new ana narrow ways as a third-r
State-!" ,
RESTORED TO HIS THRONE
Prince Alexander, Bulgaria's I
posed Kuler, Again in Power.
Prince Alexander, deposad from the I
garian throne through Russian intrig
has been restored to power. His subj<
were clamorous for his return, and a rev<
tion in his favor, led by M. Stambulo.T, <
successful. Prince Alexander arrived
Sfetova at 8 o'clock the other morning,
entry into the town and his progress throi
it were one continuous triumph. '
people lifted the Prince from
carriage, and carried him on tl
shoulders to the 'o eek Chui
where a te deum was ring. The Pri
afterward started for Hmova, and arri
there in the evening. Thence he proceei
to Sofia, the Bulgarian c apital, where an
thusiastic reception await* d him.
. A manifesto has been issued by Prince
exander. It approves the measures tdop
by the Stambuloff regency, confirms the
isting Ministry, and the appointment
Mutkourof? as Commander-in-Chief of
army; thanks the people and the army
orH vocnlnfa offifn^A in tfl
of independence; implores God's blessi
and urfr?*s all to unite in promoting the v
fare of Bulgaria.
Advices from Sofia ?ay that the city i
excited, and that some disorders had
currcd. M. Zankoff, the revolution;
leader, was attacked by a mob and nea
killed. It is expected that the military p
ters will be executed, and that amnesty i
be granted to the other conspirators.
The Bulgarian Cabinet has be^n rem
eled, and is now strongly anti-Bussi
M. Na hevi&s, the Foreign Minister, was
leading spirit in the movement to countei
the Zankoff plot by which Prince Alexan
was forced to abdicate.
King Milan of Servia has telegraphec
Prince A'e cander, congratulating him u
his return to Bulgaria, and expressing
fullest sympathy with him.
The KaravelofT-Stambulcff regency has
signed its powers to Prince Alexander.
U.ve of the first plants to turn from gr
to ?carlet is the poison ivy. Beware of
Remember, the poison vine has three lea
in a cluster; the leaves of the harmless wo
bine are in clusters of five. Another ga
bued plant of the earlv autumn is the ooi
sumac or the poison oak.
James W. Fitzgerald, the Presidenl
the recent great Irish-American Convent
at Chicago, was an original Fenian i
marched into Canada with hostile inte
He is now Judge of the Police Court in (
cinnati.
THE MARKETS.
new YORK. 35
Beef cattle, good to prime 1 w
Calves, com'n to prime veals 6 @
Sheep
Lambs
Hogs?Live 5 @
Dressed, city 6 @
Flour?Ex. St., good to fancy 8 30 ? 3 '
West, good to choice 3 90 @41
Wheat?No. 2, Red S7*@ *
Rye?State 57 @ 5
Barley?Four-rowed State... @
Corn?Ungrad. Mixed nO52J
Oats?White State 3-5 @ j
Mixed Western 82 @ J
Hay?Med. to pr. Timothy.. SO @ ?
Straw?No. 1, Itye 60 @ '
Lard?City Steam 7 60 @76
Butter?State Creamery.... 21>?@ 2
Dairy 18 @ 2
West. Im. Creamery 11 @ 1
Factory 10J^@ 1
Cheese?State Factory 7 @
Skims 6 (<$
Western
Eggs?State aud Peun 16 @ 1
BUFFALO.
Sheep?Good to Choice 3 25 @42
Lambs? Western 5 30 ($ 5 {J
Steers?Western 4 60 @ 5 2
Hogs?Good to Choice Yorks 4 95 (<i 5 2
Flour?C'y ground u. process 5 25 (<t 6 2
Wheat?^o. 1. Hard Duluth. 87 (<t S
Corn?No. 2, Mixed New.... 39 (<?. 3
Oats?No. 2, Mixed Western 33 (<' 3
Barley?Two-rowed State... ? (sS ?
BOSTON*.
Beef?Ex plate and family. 10 50 @11 0
Hogs?Live 5,V??
Norchern Dressed...
Pork?Er. Prime, per bbl... 10 5'j (<i ll 0
Flour?Winter AY heat pat's. 4 50 (it: 4 (>
Dorn?High Mixed 53 (iii 5
Dats?Extra White 4'>J<; <r-' 4
Rye?State 7J of 7
WATERTOWN (MASS.) CATTLE MARKET.
Beef?Extra quality 5 25 (<i 5 5
Sheep?Live weight 4^(3
Lambs (i (>%
Sogs?Northern, d. w
PHILADELPHIA.
^iour?Penn. ex family, good 3 75 (? 4 0
Wheat?No. 2, Red ? @ 8
Elye?State (t? 8
3orn?State Yellow (<5 51
Dats Mixed 37 @ 3i
3utter?Creamery Extra Pa 20 @ 2
Uw&e?N, Y. Full Cream,, !
r I
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SITTING ON THE STILE.
on She turned the music swiftly o'er,
Her lovely color came and went,
a She tossed her jaunty hat aside
me And sat before the instrument.
jns The ivory keys, her ivory hands
,rst Touched with a master touch, the while
id- With sweetest voice she sang that sweet
ns. Old song, '' I'm Sitting on the Stile."
k?" He softly stole within the room
To hear her sing; entranced he sat
!j^ Upon the most convenient chair, Tje
The chair that held her jaunty hat.
of She turned and looked with anguished
eyes,
de, He turned and looked with sickly smile,
Beheld the ruin ha had wrought
;nd And said, " I'm Sitting on the Style.**
?Mrs. George Archibald, in Tid-Bits.
md
IS PITH AND POINT.
he
;in
Weather report?A clap of thunder.aid
A question of moment.?What time is
it?
h?t The small boy s oouDie?a green ?pind
pie. ?Si/tings.
the Glass-put-in men are very panes-taking.
her ?National Weekly.
the When the scales fall from a man'*
ins ejea ought to be ablo to see a long
'88 weigh,
i69, A man may read the signs of the"
elf- limes on the roadside fences.?Burlingrjj
ton Free Press.
ion
its The reason that tramps are so poverty- \V '
lar stricken and wretched is bccause they
^ don't advertise.?Puck.
>ri- "I don't see the point, but I realize it?
n." force," said a man when a bee sett ed oa
the back of his neck.?Philadelphia Call
hat The man who wants but little here be7
a low may feel tolerably confident that the
^ desire will be granted.?Detroit Frte
__ Press. "J.'V
DO- > ? y >
sen We are sometime? a'most led to think
ow that the busiest men in a community are
those who never do anything.?PhiladeZ,in
phia Call
the When a man starts out to lecture he
puts on a dress suit. . A woman before
1. itartincto le.ture puts on a night-gown.
nas - o . . _
md Boston Courier.
-40 The bravest boy will quiil when he
^ appears in public for the first time after
i to be h&s had his hair cut by his mother.?
eds New Haven Never.
din "What can give such a finish to %roon?
lnrl as a tender woman's face i" asks a writer,
uld A tender woman's scrubbing rag.?Burion
lington Fret Press.
A musical composer writes: "Have
der you noticed my 'March for the Piano V 'r
me We have not. When we observe any
one to march for the piano we invariably
sllrJ march in another direction.?Sifting*.
ige, During the fruit-preservation season,
the the men are unable to work twenty-five
^ hours a day, but the women can. (A
j of diagram will be sent on the receipt of ?>
?r- seven-cent po6tage stamp).?Norristoicn
er? Herald.
A young man who has a good deal ofc'
spare time on his hands, wishes to learn
, of something that will keep him occu-..
pied. We can think of two things right
)e- off?getting married and tipping over a
beehive.?Burlington Free Pro*.
Ju*" In the "language of post ige stamps,'*"
,u?' the stamp placed on upside down meansj
"I love you." The young man or the
)lu" young woman who adopts such an idiotic
was form of proposal must be upside down in
the head.?Narrintoicn Herali.
The Danville Breeze tells or a young:
lhe woman riding with a young .man, ana- v
his exclaiming at the sight of two calves:
ch" "Oh.Jsee tno;e two little cowlets"' "YoonCg
are mistaken," said the young man;
ved "those are not cowlets, but bullets."
ded If you would a rraiden woo, . - ;
en- Always keep this rule in view:
. Do not rush, or go too slow.
Do not scare wheu she says no;
ltea Do not fret, for caa't you guess,
ei* When she says "no," she mtans "yes?"
^ ?St. Louis Chronicle.
tor Tom Anjerry, of the university ot
vor Texas, has trouble in meeting his bills.
To a pressing creditor he said: "I can't /
pay you anything this month." *'That'a
what you told me la t month." "Well^
I kept my word, didn't Ij"?Texas Siftary
ing.
irly
A row and a row, though spelled alike,
lot* Have very different meaningful
One's on the water with a girl you like,
And the other is when you come home at 3'
10<** o'clock in the morning with your eyes
a**- crossed, a dark brown taste in your
lll? mouth, and you try to go to bed with act
your hat on.
der ?St. Louis Chronicle. J
t "Tom, I gave you a very liberal ftllowpon
( ance when I sent you to college; neverthe
theless, I hear that you have had some
trouble in me?ting your bills." "Not.
're" the slightest in the world, lather. I as
sure you. It has b.'en all I could do toeen
keep out of their way.''?Merchant Trixtik
tier.
iod. The conductors of the Paris omniily
buses are witty as well as polite. Theson
other day a woman of immense size stood
on ;the sidewalk and hailed a passing:
? 0f vehicle. "Is there room for me?" she
ion asked. "Xo, madame," replied the
and conductor ith great suavity, ''there i*
only room for one.''?Tid-Bits.
.in- J
? The Great Eastern.
The lot of the Great Eastern hai not
1%^ as yet been marked by disaster, but she7
has had a peck of troubles, and has suf4X
fered more losses than Dogberry ever
? heard of. Owing to the breakage of maY*
chinery a couple of dock- laborers were
'0 killed before she could be successfully
i'O launched. The Queen is said to have
objected as too Biblical to her original
'8 designation of the Leviathan, and she
y was fain to change her name to the
W Great Eastern. Ill luck was her portion
(4 as early as her trial trip; for, while she
? was on her way to Portland, a steamn
? J "
? jacket round one 01 ncr masis um?i, urn*
thirteen poor creatures were scalded to
!l death in the engine-room. Her first
> commander, the gallant Captain llarrison,
was drowned in a piuldle, 60 to
7 speak, while his ship was lying in tho
8 Southampton waters. Since that period
S the history of the Great Eastern lias been
i ?nn nlmnst tvmtinuouslv d:smal record of
failure and mischance. She has bee 1 the
^ property cI several companies and the
15 subject of many law-suits. She has been
5 in pawn, and she has had, time and
~\4 again, the brokers in. Highly succassful
in laying ocean cables, she has been
on the whole a failure as an ocean passenger
steamer. At or.e time it was
1 rumored th.it the big shin was to be
V-g littcd up with lefrigerators and devoted
7 to the purpose of t! e frozen meat trade
!: between the New Zealand ports and Plymouth.
Then it wa< stated that this
/ white elephant of the waters would
5 steam to Gibraltar, have her engines
taken out of her, and le thenceforth
? utilized as a coal bunker. That de^radatiou
she has happily been spared, and
7 if she be sensibly used a* a show ship
and kept in proper repair, she may really
0 in the end turn out to be not only a
g?'ng but a paying concern.?New Tvrk
?,? i Hour.
1 | Vineyards of from 1.000 to 2,.'500 acres
are aum ious iu Scutum California,
i ?