Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

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1 0 I-I BO" l-T)1 1 41WW1O If' *~I~u4'I Cont. paa $re in Leon county, FI. bears the distincth 1i -which not a an iinh a prospeUr 003 *Governor recommen - ndietion of taxation. gold wMe has been discoveredI ren county, Ga., which,promises of the richest in. the State. Georgia this year 140,515 whi voters paid their poll taxes, and 98,U colored voters dit the same thing. A billhas been introduced in the Al bama Legislature to prevent persoi playing "erac-aloo" in publie places. The iron bridge across Yazoo rive twelve niles above Vicksburg, Miss., to cost $250,000. It is now under wa The actual capital now 'invested I Southern cotton mills is placed at $51 00,000, giving employment to 40,0( -hands. A bill has been introduced in .t Georgia Legislature to require railros companies to fence in their roads an erect cattle guards. Georgia farmers, elated and encou Saed by the immense oat crop harveste this year, are putting in a larger crc Whan-over this fall. The New Orleans Times-Democri and Charleston News and Courier a: agitating the project of organizing Southern Associated Press. The Commercial says Vickburg is c a regular business boom, * forging ahes at a lively rate, but the condition the' city finances is deplorable. The award of $100 for a design f the Confederate monument to be erecte at Nashville ha been ordered paid 1 SHenry 0. Avet-y, of New York. Waverly, Tenn., takes pride in poin Ing out to visitors the site on whi< stood the log school-house in which C Robt.!G. Ingersoll taught school twent five years ago. Virginia 'ranks' seventeenth in t1 lIstiof fish-producing [States, the oyste menhaden and shad fisheries being tI fthree branches in which her citizens a most extensively interested, 4 A Mississippi man has discovered th; an excelient quality of sugar can 1 made from sweet potatoes. If th proves true, a new usej has been four for one of the best and m ost prolific *American products. O. The News says Galveston may as we give up the hope of being aigreat cott market, in consequence of direct expo tation of the cotton of Northern Texas Liverpool and Bremen by spiunei prte throughout the State. 'bill providing for the erection of 4. new Capitol has been introduced in tl .44 . . Georgia Legislature. The bill provid that it be built of Georgia granite ax marble, decorated with Georgia pih .and walnut, and cost $1,000,000. On the farm of Win. J. Watkins,' Buckingham county, Va., is a momt between twenty and thirty -feet hig which is filled with the bones of mi~ and women, together with pieces of I dian pottery, arrow heads and oth elics. The many hundred thousands of cai fishing poles used in the North ea year are obtained near the head of B Black river, in Mississippi. Four hu dred thousand poles will be cut ai shipped this fall, besides 100,000 ama '~ er canes for pipe stems. Louisiana's icrops of sugar, rice ai cotton are enormous. Some of the si gar plantations are yielding three hos heads of syrgar and six barrels of mola sea to the acre. This is remarkable. TI' planters are in high glee. Net incomn from $50,000 to $500,000 are talked oi Lynchburg(Va.) Advance: The a nual report of the Hampton Indi; school shows thirty Idian girls and f ty-f our Indian boys in attendance. T students made 2,000 pairs of shoes a: seventy-five sets 'of harness, besit * many other articles, during the prese year. A Charleston (S. C.) woman blondi ed hier hair with some vile concoctic and then while braiding it,"-held it *her mouth. The stuff poisoned her lij and the poison soon found its w * throughout her entire system. Af weeks of doctering, she recovered, 1 only by the merest chance. , Montgomery Advertiser: Among 1 fruits exhibited at the fair duiring t present week was a barrel af Alaba oranges, raised by Mr. Tatum, Rep sentative in the Legislature from Ba win -ounty. Theyarctdgn attenson by their rich color and la size, and compare very favorably w the best Florida oranges. Mellomaize Is a South Ameriban real, suporior to both corn and wh for cakes and bread, which exprhime A iig has proved will grow succe...ally '~ ~~p~ oath, making from fity to hudrdbushels to the acre. In Soi ~ ~pl~a It has been grown for seve ~4y R~ev. H. H. Pratt, who it %od itsto this country. O-~r1a1 months ago the r.)1gic1 f St. Louis formed an assoeitlon Abeof tauttal aid and -proteeI to the world that, in ti Own ~uhU , raploer can be a - Se . un h e inge a TOPICS 'OP TER DAY. ilv MAXiGNANr diphtheria protais in ma AC around Philadelphia, Pa. e - - - nlo 7 art 8 "Tu Grover Oleveland" is the name :f a new overoost just placed uapon the market by a Chicago firm. : org ke Foisirs are endeavoring to introduce 80 the English custom of using 'right ar r, aowers at funerals in this country. Hq is ing Is r. EMIGRANTS to Teas are returning to go n their old homes in great numbers. They a ), somnplaip of great sickness, and their o Inability to become acclimated. THEnE is some style at Omaha. The if te social season was opened by Mr. and rei d Mrs. Levi Carter at the Baxton Hotel an d by a party which cost $6,000. The hotel aas just been finished. rec d AT Chattanooga, Tenn., they are ex- of pecting very high prices for beef. The th P cause of the scarcity is that nearly all of the cattle from that vicinity is being in Lt shipped to Cincinnati and the West. bel e so] a THE report is current in society circles wa that General George T. Beauregard, of w * New Orleans, La., is soon to marry t d birs. Cornelius Vanderbilt, of New Th York, widow of the late Commodore Vanderbilt. w >r PisTon TUCKER, of the Methodisl tie d Church at Norwich, Connecticut, is a op 0 most strenuous opponent of the Revival. tho ist Barnes. He calls his doctrines t- "damnable nonsense, and the fag ends h of Calvinism.' >1 s ,co Dn. TALhfAGE says that when Governor thi Waller is inaugurated in Connecticut all pr the newsboys of America should have a id( ie torchlight procession in honor of the 1e r, man who was oxVe a newsboy in the city at Le of New York. ce 0 AFTER two weeks' observation, Willie te Lt Winter, the admirable dramatio critic of be the New York Tribune, announces his th conviction that Mrs. Langtry's attain- th ments fully warrant her adoption of the di d dramatic profession. W1 0 K Ex-Gov. LELAND SANFORD, of Cali- df 11 fornia, it is reported, has leased William ri n H. Vanderbilt's old residence for the gi r- witer, at $1,000 a month. Dr. Webb, ui Mr. Vanderbilt's son-in-law,' has occi p] >s pied the house until recently. b4 ti THEnE are in the District comprising SL a the State of Florida, 120 cigar manufac- tl le tories, 89 of Nich are at Key West, and ci n 25 at Jacksonville. During the quartet ai d ending October 1, the number of cigars h eC made in the District was 10,571,826. n A GENTLEMAN who has been visiting d the far Northwest of British America, . with a Government surveying party, re ~n ports that the buffalo is fast becoming e scarce, but that antelope are numerous' b er Badgers and gophers infest the whole .Western country, and seem to have ehoney-combed the soil. hENGINEERt MELVILLE is reported to ig feel very keenly the humiliatioo of pub ni- lie discussion of his private affairs. He Ld does not care to talk for publication.a 1- But it seems to be understood that he Si still believes his wife insane, and that id while he will provide for her, he will not live with her any more." S IT Is stated on good authority that the O s' public pays for twice the gas they would bi 10 need with good burners. The gas corn- G es panies are pressing the subject now, as .they fear the electrio light, and wish to n- make a goodl showing. As long as they hi in had only candles and lamps to contend tc f.~ with they did not objet to this waste. ti b id WHEN Mrs. McElroy, the President's e es sister, was asked why she did not be ncome mistress of the White House, she a replied that she owed her time, first of r all, to her husband and five children, ti n- Her admirers in Washington say that if o nl, she chose to "do the honors" she would ~ in be popular for her gentle self-possession 8, and her quiet elegance of manner. a ay er TnE Sultan evidently considers him- S ut self blessed with loyal household retain- C ers. At the recent imposing public feast of 1 he Kurban, he called to himself his chief he eunuch, and, in the presence of the min- r isters and other officers, thanked him I nia for his good services in the past, and t Iei gave him a golden star, bearing in dia- ~ imonds the word "Faithfnl." This is a ral rare and highly-prized decoration, whuich e* has only been bestowed upon seven per ith sons. To the other eunuchs of his harem he gave rich~ gifts of olothing and money, CO- in token of their honesty and diligence. eat nt- Two physicians whose names became in familiar to the public during the illness ne of President Garfield, are seriously and ith fatally ill Burgeon General Barnies has ral been very low, and his life was despaired ro- of from day to day a month ago. He has rallied since, but his friends are not much en'couraged by his condition. His troUble is pronouosa Bright's disease of the kidneys. Another of Garfield's inphysicians, Dr.-Woodward, is rapidly isir falling of softening of the brain. He en- has returned from Italy wheie he spent Lur- the past summer, without signs of in !Wprovanment; but, on the contrary has a f worse und little hope is enter 4a inay recuperate, ai it Is sny be looked-for at 1 1parasite called a bacillus was con DnIMy announced. Now comes the Ieago Medioal Journal with the an Wdement that it will soon publish an Woe by Dr. H. D. Schmidt, a dis guished microscopist of New Orleans, ,0 claims that the bacilius is not an Manised body, but a fat crystal. Dr. timidt declares that he an produce inoiaUy every form of Koch's bacillus. i reached his conclusions by employ r the so-called Baumgarten process of dking sections of tuberculous lung in 10 per cent. solution of cdustic potash. is produced minute deposits of red in sue and sputa, thus faoilitating the rk of observstion. His conclusions, rue, are of great importance, for they ider nugatory what has been deemed important advance in science. ['BE Solicitor of the Treasury has sommended the acceptance of an offer $1,000 as a compromise in the case of United States against the bondsmen a former Receiver of Public Moneys Louisiana during the war of the ro llon, whose accounts were found to be ne $8,000 short, when a settlement a finally made. This suit has been ading for many years, and was about come to trial when the offer was made. e defense of the Itecever was that he a compelled to turn this amount of ney over to the Confederate authori i under duress. The Soliditor's Inion states that under a decision of ) Supreme' Court claims against of Ials for deficits during war times are Id, if it can be shown that there was her moral or physical force used to npel a surrender of the moneys in )ir possession. This was not only :)ved in this case, but indisputable ev mee was also given to show that the ceiver was a loyal man to the Union that time. THE translation o Arant Pasha's let rs, captured after his surrender, has ien completed, and they are held by e counsel for the defense to prove ree points: "Firstly, that he received rect encouragement from the Sultan, li, expressing entire disregard for the hedive appeals directly to Arabi tc fend the interests of Egypt and the ghts of the Khalif against foreign ag. ession. Secondly, that Arabi had the ianimous support of the Egyptian peo .e, as is proved by numerous petitions, aring the signatures of twenty-five kousand of the most influential repre, ntativss of every class and section ol Le population-offlicals, military offi )rs, civilians, merchants, land owner id Bedouin chiefs. Thirdly, that he ad the sanction of the representativer the religion of the country, as showr the Fetwa, signed by the heads o: 1 the four Mahometan rites, pronoune g the deposition of the Khedive, an( ijoining the continuance of war." Th< ridence taken in the trial so far hai een chiefly to show that Alexandi as fired by Arabi's orders, and othe: titrages committed at his commau< 'hioh make him criminally liablle, since iey exceeded the laws and usagesi o ar. If guilt is fastened upon him i ill hardly be necessary to consider thi boie three points. r Garnet Wolseley's Coolness on the Battleild. All accounts are agreed as to Sir arnet's dlemeanor both before and~ after e tight. His coolness and self-reliance ere extraordinary. On the miorning~ ~fore the battle, wvhen ho took all the encrals 11nd( their resp~ective staffs tc connoiter the enemy's lines he dis ountfed within a couple miles 'f Tel-el ebir, and gat hering the others around m~f, explained exactly what hie meni ido. With a short stick he pointed t< to intrenchmnents as he might to Lackboard in a. lecture-room, and qui ly indicated in turns the position o ich part of the attacking torce. H<4 ad the whole thing off by heart, knev rud explained in exact detatil wvhat ever' agiment had to (do. While they we~r aus occupied, protectedl only by a smnal ivalry escort, the enemy sent out arty to observe them, but made n< 2rther demonstration. Wolseley' lecture" finished, .they all remountei nd rode back to camp. After the battle was practically won ir Garnet came to the bridge across th anal communicating the right with th 3ft attack, and getting oil his horst nietly began to write his telegram at ounoin g the victory on a scrap of pa ecr handed to him by one of his sta! lere, too, he received the reports froi he~ various stall' oflicers of divisions an irigades, asking more particularly as I asualties. "'Are you quit2 sureP" I Aiways said. "Don't give mi - wron iguros. D~on't mention any oficher iamne unless you are quite positive he lit." All this time he was giving o lers right and left, now to one si alf-of ser, now to another, and through it al sonfusing and embarrassing as the sit Atlon might well have been, was p feclyqmet and unconcerned.- -Lonid< -James Collins, of South Lawrenc Mass., is in his 110th year. Born [roland, lie was left an orphan at ti age of six months, and buried the le of his five brothers over sixty years ag After living ninety-fivo years on a far in his native Erin, he concluded to set his fortune ini the land of the fr< riakig the voyage with little discoi fort. H~e buried his wife forty yes ago, and is cared for by five of his ch dren living in Lawrenco. He tall bears said sees woll, never took mne cine, and never was siok, saws wd& and walks for exercise, and has still< his head locks of his owni hair, which the genuine Irish auburn Ii never been silvered by time -It is. posble that the 1world on every man a lting, but his bees @1al for what Is 4ue Is that he has earned The Pate of Ezpjorers. From Singapore we learn that Mr. W Itti (formerl an officer in the Austrian army), an a orer in the service of the British North orneo Company,has been " treacherously murdered Liy 'head hunt- f ers," who also killed several of his g native attendants. Mr. Witti had,- it kc iseems, been making his way to the head ti of the Sibuco River. This region. piay el be considered at present quite hoy."md p the active administration of the British 0< Borneo Company. The Governor wai e; not aware that Mr. Witti intended to ti make so long and hazardous a journey. T At the same time, Mr. Witti being an b, experienced traveler, a brave man, and li on good terms with the natives gener- h ally, there was no reason to fear that lie might not go through the very heart of fr the country without molestation. Ho V had made, it seems, an important trip, f1 and was, It is believed, on his way to a Kimanis. Near the head of the SiIuco River he' would be on the frontier of s Dutch Borneo, and in a region whore i Mr. Carl Book found the natives un- f uually savage and unfriendly. Witti had 1 a party of seventeen men. He divided I them. Some nine or ten were told off 1 to attend to the boats. They were navi. I gating a river, and Witti had bought i boats from the natives. The other men I remained to push on ahead in company with the explorer. The natives had shown no disposition to hostility. The local chiefs (the tribes are, no doubt, the Muruts, though one account says they are Tandjoeing Dyaks) had hospitably entertained Witti, which is generally a guarantee of friend ship. While his little party were pre paring to move forward, Witti sat down to make some notes in his diary. Sud denly,from an ambush in the rlver,some three hundred natives, armed with poisoned arrows and spears, rushed in upon Witti and his men. Three of the latter fell almost immediately. Witti defended himself with his revolver and killed two of his asailants. The rest crowded upon him,however,and speared him to death. The others of the party had already run away, one of them,who was carrying, lVitti's Winchester rifle, taking it off in hii;-;ht. From a hiding place they saw one of the attacking party decapitate Witti, while others cut off the lower limbs of his dead attend ants, fling them, with the explorer's head, into a bat, and make off with their bleeding trophies down stream. They also carried off Witti's papers and dispatch- box. The event has created a sensation at Singapore and at Labaun. A police p arty, of the Borneo Company, has b , or is about to be, dispatched to tle scene of the massacre, with a view to a complete investigation of the affair and the punishment of the Muruts. The head of the Sibuco River is on the con fines of the British North Borneo Com pany's territory, occupied by tribes of an entirely different character to those among whom Mr. Frank llatt u an other scientilic explorer, is .at work in the northern reglons around about Kini Bolu. lie and'fiis party, includmng an Australian engineer, have been wvell re ceived. They found the company's 11. g flying at several somewhat remote points, andl, so far as the real work of the company goes, it is moving on saL isfactorily. *Mr. WVittI must have had the dangers of his expedition in his mindI at the oait set. It is quite likely, from what is known of his adlventurous spirit, that he had resolved to accomplish a great achievement even at the risk of his life, for, prior to setting out, lie made his wvill and left behinfhlim full instructions as to the distribution of his prtoperty. He was known to the Geographi il So ciet~y of London, whose ",Journal of Transactions'' contains several of his contributions to the geographical his tory of Borneo. Trhe commercial civilh zation of North Borneo is of great im portance to trading interests in the eastecrn . seas, and it will be necessary in the ini terests of Borneo and adjacent islands to make an example of the murderers L~ondcn Teleqralh. Catfish Catching Ducks. Recently the Bece mentioned the fact titat a wild duck ha~d hatched a brood of seven ducklings in the slough near D street. and~ couIld be seen early in the moring with the colony, the rest of the time hiding in the willow jungles. TIhey became about half-grown, but iwithin the past twelve days have met with a singular death from an unex )pected source. A gentleman who be s camne neistomedl to seeing and looking i for them as he wvent to his work was one morning surprisedl to see one of them suddi~enly sink in an awkward a manner and not ap~pear again, but con e eludedC~ that it had hidden in the brush. The next morning there were only six -of the young ones seen near the same spot. Sudldenly one of these went un decr witk a struggrle. a fluttering of half ni ledged Yvangs, and a quacking. What d was the force was a mystery, though o the other birds fledI in alfright. The 0 next two mornings tt q same was re g peat ed, the number being reduced one s each time. sThe fifth day the ducks seemed to be r- very cautious, avoiding dleep water and j.- brush. The next day1 the observer, who 1,had become very much interested, spent Li- half an hour watching the mother and r. her three remaining darlirngs. At a length they floated alongside the foot bridge where he was standling. When they neared a post in the water, up1 0. from behind it darted a large cattish in that was in waiting( for the feathered le victim. One wvas seized by the body, at and the jaws of the rapacious fish hid '0. the prisoner from view as the captor m deliberately swam away to its den in k the brush. The next day the witness e, saw another conquest from a distance, -but could not seiu the fish. Since thent rs he has watched four mornings, but has 1-not seen the mother and the other young :5- one. It is a matter of doubt whether -they wore captered or took warning by )d the fate of the six and left for parts un yn known.-Bza'ament~o Bee. of as ---An editor wrote a headline, *A Hjorrible, Blunder," to go over a rail WS' uead accident; but though It was the 1i pxinto.r's fault that It got over an ao t eo f a i ,nthe editor was the anth al THU XANGO TRICK. ow as N. me.- a Wmentesen 1swe. hermaues. [Rarpe wekly. With oortain Indian J aes the mango" trick in their mo TSeffective at. A mango seed is produced, and a :>wer pot filled with mol, and after a ,t of ceremony (in plain Englsh fuss), Le seed is put under the mold and sev -al coverings of baskets and cloths are laced over the pot. Then there is more remony and fin gring about the cov ,ed basket, and te pot is shown with te mango leaves just sprouting up. hen it is covered over again and more ocUssing goes on, and the cover is ited up again and the plant is seen to ave grown. The covermg, hocussing, o on, the plant meanwhile having irther grown and become strong enough > bear fruit, the blossom to a ppear, the nit to ripen, which is then plucked off ad given to be eaten. Now, we, for ouw part, can not under tand how any one can see through the erfornance. Nay even when to a Allow spectator, who once viewed this erfornance, we explained the details of he trick after it was over, he would not >clievo. but reckoned the affair wonder ni, and even partaking of the super istural. We can only attribute it to his aving been so mystified as to have been lctually mesmerized, though partaking f conscience. The real truth about this reat was that the green and ripe fruits, and every branch and shoot that was exhibited, were actually there, just as much as the seed and the flower pot all in the wraps and folds and baskets which formed the covering. We were carefully watching the man's proceed ings, and at that tune had acquired some kIowledge of juggling tricks. As we were not allowed to touch the in struments of the exhibition after the par ti-islar performaico began, the baskets, wraps, etc., could not be disturbed; but with our own eyed we saw the performer draw out the branches, etc from the folds of the cloth, and noticed him stick iug them into the pot beneath the cover ing, working away with his hands, and as we thought, very clunisily. The question may be asked by a doubter of our account of the process, bow about a green and a ripe fruit, as well as blossoms, being produced sim ultaneously, say at a period when there were no such things; that is, when they e -out of season? This, indeed, has been brought forward as a complete answer by those who believe in these jugglers. To answer this is not so dif ticult, however, as it appears. India is a vast continent, and from its southern most limit on the Indian Ocean, where there is little difference between sumnmer and winter, to its northern boundary on the snowy Hiinalaya8, there is existing every variety of climate at any given time of the year. The mango flourishes equally in Ceylon and in the sub Himalayan countries. We have our selves, In passing through the plains into the upper Himalayas, in the course of successive weeks, seen the mango season just over on the plains; a little higher up mangoes were just in season; the fruits forming higher up still; the blossoms in full flush a couple of thousand feet higher; while higher still the blossoms had not yet made an ap pearance. With this fact are to be taken two others, the first, that Indian 'ug glers all belong to one Masonic brother hood, and are in intimate communica tion with one another, all ever on the move; and the second, that even they will decline at times to perform this par.. ticular feat; that is, when they are not provided with the blossoms, green and ripe fruits. The seeds, shoots, etc., are always everywhere procurable. If there lbe still any other doubter, let us only add that after the performance detailed above we took the man aside (unwilling naturally to expose the man, and destroy the credit by means oj which he made his living) and asked himx if it was not true that the branches and fruits were all there in the wraps. The glance of our eye told him that we knew~ everything that he did, and so he con fessed that what we said was the truth, and apologized by saying that he mnusi mnaka aiin. Economy Is Wealth. A father, accompanied by his little son, called at a drug-store on one of th( avenues and asked fora cheap sponge. He was one of our rich citizens, and as he spoke he fumbled with his massiv4 gold watch-chain, and looked worth a million. The druggist put a lot of sponges be fore him, and he glanced through th4 lot and asked how much they were. " All the way from fifty cents to ont dollar," said the drug man. "Oh, but I want It for the boy'i slate," said the citizen; "it is hardl; worth while to pay so much." " Well, then, th~ese are what yoi need," said the dru ait, as he put ou a collection of mshard sponges "These are five cents each." The wealthy citizen fingered ther over, and examined them one by one and still did not seem satisfied. " Here are some at one cent each, said the druggist, who began to knos his man, "you might find somethin among these," The citizen examined each one an still hesitated. At last he selected small dark fragment, and holding it ui said: " This one seems to be imperfec How much will it be?" "Nothing." answered the druggis shortly, as he re-arranged his stock < sponges. "Have it done up?" " No," said the citizen, handing it 1 thea boy and following him out, whe the youngster was heard to ask: "Say, pa, ain't you going to give n the cent? ' And the mournful ann.'er floated bac to the druggist: " My son, do you thinklIam muadd money P" -Detroit .Free Press. -Out in Texas a benevolent baron breeding a race of stripe and spott4 ponies to please the chidren. He sel the little creatures all over the worli and Is Unable to keep pace with the d mand. They roaam over his enolosure which measures some 8,000 acrs, b are very gentle, sadleen be ceaght as Stanley's Latest Work. Mr. Stanley arrived In Paris mush improved in health after his joqrney of nearly forty days from St. Paul de Loan do, and he leaves this afternoon for Brussels, where he will make * report upon his mission and his labors in Africa during the last three years and a half to the Secretary-General of the Interna tional African Colonization Association This body was formed at the instanoe the enter prising King of the Belgians, shortly after the close of the Paris Exhi bition in 1878; and the first act of the King after assuming the Presidenoy of the society was to send for the young explorer and to ask him If he would p. his experience and energy into the labor of establishing stations along the tracts on the "Dark Continent" where settle ments were most available and likely to bring forth good fruit for civilization. After due reflection Stanlev concluded to accept the kind offer, wich was em inently flattering lin Its character; and he understood from the first, as every one else connected with the as'oclation understood, that the object of the work was not so much imniediate commercial gain as the civilizing and education of the savage or semi-savage poputlations. The company did not raise the flag of any particular nation, but adopted a banner of Its own, under which all Mr. Stanley's marches have been made, and all his efforts have been undertaken. In connection with the central and parent society at Brussels, It was arranged that national committees should do as much as they saw fit, and contributions in money and equipment were made to the main exnedition by various geogrraphical and lea;rned socletie. Mr. Stanley had told the association that the Congo Riv er was the main avenue of entrance to Central Africa, and that, so soon as the difficulties of getting around the great cataracts were surmounted and steamers were set afloat on the U pper Congo, the results for both eiviliz-itiom and com merce would be colos.:al. The young explorer therefore left for Africa, for the third time, in January, 1878, and since that tunne3 has been faithfully occupied in building roads around the falls, in organizing stations, each one of which is Rolidly fortified, supplied with rough but comfortable dwellings, and kept stocked with pro visions and clothes from Europe. Guns and ammunition do not form any con siderable part of thooutfit; for Mr. Stanley's boast is that one can go any where in the country which he has set tled up armed with nothing more for midable thau a cane. The natives look upon him as a kind of demigod; for they h4ave discovcred that civilization, to which they at first felt such a dislike, means getting more food to eat, and getting it easier than in the old times. Last evening the explorer gave me a picturesque description of a banquet which he gave some time ago to the 600 blacks and twenty-eight whites directly and indirectly Interested in the coloniza tion scbeme. The natives had never seen such a baronial festival before; Stanley had purposely determined to give them a Giargantuan spread which th1ey should remember to the end of their lives. There were quarters of beef roasted whole, vast wvood(en tubs filled with rice; butter and (cheese from Eu rope; milk from the cows, which are kept at each of the stations ; game in stacks and pyramids; and fruit in co lossal heaps . The ma~n were amazed, and sat, until the order to begin eating was given, with their lingors on their lips, and in a dazed, rapturous mood. When they had the signal to 'fall to," those nearest the prcious food plunged madly at it, but speedily found the men in the second rank crawling between their legs or leaping over their backs. lBut there was no quarreling ; every one had enough; and all went away with largely-increased impressions in favor of the white man. " We have done wonders since I last wrote you," said Mr. Stanley ; "and our greatest accomplishment is t he building and roofing of a long, handsome, well arranged two-story house. rThe second story is looked npon by the primitive populations in the neigh boring vill ages as something mysterious and m( ~agica-. almost as a proof of divinity. I have been living in a tent for abouit two years, and have found it usually very comfort able; but we wish to get solid buildings put up as rapidly as poss5ible. Well,' he added with a sigh, "the road is built, and is as nearly perfect as such a thing in such a new country can be. The sta Stions are established, and no one of them is in the slightest danger of being assailed. I have done my part to the best of my ability, and my conscience is clean;- and now I turn to the associa tion and say to it, 'What will yon do next P' "-Paris 0or. floston JTournal. Let te Light In. Th ,.s are few farm-a.uses in whi at least one room-often o.-e of t he besl -is n ot kept shut up most df t he time and the spare-room intended for vis 'titors in city honmes seldom fares miuci better, so far as the admission of ligh and air are concerned. Then we pu blinds on our windo0ws to keel) out thi d heat in summer and let them keep oul a the light all the year: we hang uip cu~ tains for purposes of household de0cc ration, and regard the resulting gloori as a necessity of modern life; we evoi devise all fantastic forms o' colore< gass for our dwellin gs in order to mod fy what litle light does get is. No house can be clean that is darlb o and no hiouse that is not clean can b nhiealthy. P:ire light is a purilier. dlestroys the poison of organic dlisca4 Itsecc in this reaspect may be illut trateld by the fact that the poison < k that most dangerous o' serpents, ti cobra, which will retain its fatal pow< indwinitely if kept in the dark, becomi innocuous after cont'nitiousR exposure1 the action of sunlight. L.ct the lig1 into every 'room. then. ov-.wv dag'. is h-Thomas Hughes, Judge of tl Nautwich County Court, and bett known as the author of "Tom Bro~r ScolDays," gave an li o6an d eision on the law of libel, bydokil Ythat an editor udght alter had4er~ cig meat to paent s #bol loK h q~ -~UAn rows i# ,eoud cross its team befois the traiRA ast by ton The." nesured by Ai e,. -mYou lady wrida. he. i %ea ai nonuh now, Wdt A pW .-'. o sr, "an't d age -were not Fou know - it. - aught and eaten', Bston Post. -"Women govern IS*a aan; "let us try to reader perfect. The more 3they ened, so much the more we On the cultivation of the Mid en depends the wisdom of mal -(drpheus drew rooks by the pelling power of his muslo. of the harmless, necessary more potent. It not only dra s but pokers, boot-jacks and all movable furniture. -Boston ' -It does torment a railroad ant keeper frightfully to have a opeM er ask: "How much will you o a thousand for such sandwiches as I'm going to build a house, and-1 they'd be more durablo than- brie Boston Post. - -A Michigan farmer pam 05 -- tw. divining rod and went poking abo$ w farm until tho rod sudde - Men were engaged to exoav spot, and in 'ess than half ani 6r had exhumed the bones of An old Urge -Detroit Post. -A Boston editor bounced the gook cuffed two children, left hiA wifel4k: tears, and made a bee-line for thf.o0lOB and wrote: "If you want to miako the world brighter and better, be iu bW ing kind and loving to thosei the sUU circle of you own family, and fronithat as a center work out as you *re permit ted to go." -..Detroi Free Press. -"You needn't put on no airs, you yaller-face piece. We keeps a cow ad nas got a pe* in the Blue Li ht (Austin) tabernacle besides," were te words of Miss Matildy Snowball, who is as black as night, to a saddle-colored friend. "I don'tkeer ef we habn't got no eow. We keeps a goat, and my mudder is gwine to hab a carbuncle on de back of her neck.'-Teas Siftings. WORTH KNOWING. How the Rouse Fly, the Wicked flea and the Mfouquito May All be Put 10 Flight. ;. [From Harper's Basar.] The pyrethrum roseum, or "Persian camomile," is the powdered leaf of a harmless 6ower growing in Caucasian Asia in greet profusion, where for cent nries it has boon used to rid the na tives of insects. With a finely-prepared dust made from these tiowere,. which can be purchased of almost ay ria bile druggist at about 70 cents p~l the house fly, the wicked flea ab l. mosquito may be put to flight h rest. In order tt> enjoy this decions riddance, it is only necessary to hnup d with a little cone one teaspoonfulorth drug pyrethrum, touch it with a lighte " match and watch the thin blue line of.~ smoke as it rises to the ceiling ar s' wafted through the air, changiug thie busy drone of insect lif'e into a weak wail of insect woe. Pretty soon den 2 they come plump on to the table rindi over your paper spin on their tiny hba& and then sheathe their lancets, curl tup their hair-like legs, and interest orac no more. Up stairs the little ones sleep unmolested, though there are thousands V of mosquitoes in the room; the ie~sta are sick unto death and elm as"' to the walls, too feeble to think of ~p ping the rich, warm blood that goh 5' mn ruddy little limbs just below ; the fume of the pyrethrtun has settled their b)usiness, and while it lingers in the roo~m outoiders are unwilling to make an entry, though the windows are raised and the lattices only half closed, Gauze bars are hot, stuffy things at s best, and one must be adl driven to attempt to sleep under such a cover; then, as we all know, the mosquito al ways finds his way through,- no matter - how carefully one may tuck up its folds3 about the couch. Smoke from the Persian camomile or its dusty powder we h'ive found moat efficacions, and your readers will bless ,, me when once they try it. The pli-ity. of the drug must be srured. This can readily be tested. It must have a brtighjt buff color ; be light, readily buned, andi give a pleasant, tea-like fragruince ; onti' pinch should kill a dozen flies, cdufined A in a bottle, at once. When it fails -of * these properties it has been adulterated, In common use, in large or breezy rooms, where, from great ddution, it fails 'to kill, it nevertheless produces on insect life, through its volatilized essential oil or resin, undoubted nausea, vertig. f piraory~ spasms, and paralysis. If :.. upon them through the minute spiracles, the breatintabes, that stud th~ sur- ,, face of their lttle b'odies, and fro the -~ delicate networ~k of veins in th~eir tiny ' wings. To human beings it is, so far-aa I can scertain, entirely inanoxion and J not disagreeable. That we---. amiyof eight persons, infant. and adulte-.-ho lived for several weeks in an atmnosph~ere of p thrum dust and smuoke om bined, during this present summe, In sufficient proof of my statement. To the periment : Pufthe pyrethrumi into a close, warm room, where fies most love to swarm, just after dark, ahut the door, and make another visit in thirty minutes.V The sight of seeing anillions of dead and spuirmimg vermin on the floor 'wil do ~ his heart good-that is, if he is humap - and not an angel, - Havig drafted our plan of bate e i against tese ittle foes, it beogires po prto speak of the care of the woT~4 Tcue mosquito stings, I know n - - ing bette rthan a 20-pew-cent, solgt~o*h either oil or water of pure cablio4, ;This is tobe rubbed well on the - e spot. To bathe one's tingln himu&. \~ ~t smarting limbs with this oution s. a cooling, grateful sensation thati V - to describe. Carbolic soap wiUl eedof carbol, .:.iu ,a -- nd dg S -Coffee-grounde mwahe a highly su~ itnessful fillbag for a pi-sio. The -.must be dried perfwi~l . before sp. - Put them in A h,.r ,.,~