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THANKSGIVING. I ' I For the hay nnd the corn and tho wheat that is reaped, f For the labor well done, and the barns that are heaped, ' For the sun and tho dew and tho sweet j honeycomb, | For tho rose and tho song and tho harvest brought home? Thanksgiving! thanksgiving I For tho trade and the skill and the wealth In our land, For die cunning and strength of tho workinguian's hand, & For the good that our artists nnd poets have L taught. For tho friendship that hope and affection have brought? Thanksgiving! thanksgiving! For the homes that with purest affection are 1 ^^")r tho season of plenty and well-deserved I rest, For our country extending from sea unto j eon. The land that is known as tho "Land of the , Fi'oo"? Thanksgiving! thanksgiving! Harper's Weekly. HOW WE G0T01IR TURKEY. A TIIANK3GZVING ETOHY. ... ry - HERE was 110 doubt yj/ that the country was ^ prosperous. No rea->^Js.^iyj??so!ial>le man could j1 deny it. The harvests had been plente- j ous, the earth had ' j j?g yij yielded u;> her fruits 1 ' fn i'1 abundance, and ^ ^ - vA there wore abundant reasons for thanks- J pivinp. I read the President's Thanksgiving message and | ' agreed with it Iic?;trtily, as far as others were concerned; but somehow I couldn't f see how it applied to me. Perhaps ' you will say I was selGoh. and I am willing to confess 1 am. The fact is ;1 that, when the cake is going around I ( want to get a piece. If 1 don't get it 1 ? feel disappointed. While I am glad in the abstract that others come in for a shnre of the cake, in the concrete I am mad becauscs it p;isses me. But, perhaps, after all, I am too sweeping in my conclusions. I don't know but that there is one person in the world who is capable of self-sacrifice of a high order, and that is my wife Nellie. Bless herJittlc heart, I r?sv?~itniiosl willing to overlook all the weakness of humanity for her rake. Why, I've known her to go without bread and butter when she ^ was faint with hunger so that the ehil r arcn vuiT. m, , _ was three years ago at Thanksgiving time. The memory of her courage and self denial makes my eyes wet. Yon see, Nellie was always practical i and unselfish, while I was impracticable and poetic. Why, if I had her cxecu ; five ability I'd liuvo been a millionaire by this time, a cool millionaire, with a yacht and a country house on the Hud son. P it she was handicapped by hci ; sex and the chr'Mren and couldn't oxer o else her natural gifts. v I must go on, however, and tell my v story. The month preceding Thanks- I giving Day of was the gloomiest 1 * time 1 ever witnessed. We Inci hist ur- < livnrt ill tlin ..ill. I'l."" ttlioiwl.il-nii \V \ t in the Catskills. I was a fnrmci ) hoy j s and Nellie was a farmer's daughtei He- I fore we wove married a famous . ger t spenl. the summer in our village. V?e night at a stf a wherry festival lie heard * me sing, and was kind enough to say | ? that*"jf-^jcd an excellent tenor voice, and 11 ) with proper cuWH^fc could command a i c good salary as a ehtSr singer in New York, js Of course such encouragement tired nie j 1 with hope. The farm became distaste- j J ful to me, and 1 determined to cultivate j ' my voice instead of cultivating corn. l|lM j] 1 f Nyilii? We had an old-fashioned niclodcon in the house, and with the help of a few t lessons the famous singer gave me and what I could 'earn from hints in the opening pagci of the choir hooks, I made j Kf.V. il?I.... i-.-.. ?i ? -r ??- < : 1 -- I'l? *' IfllMIV-ll I?M Ul<- I r.M. IN 1 III* |ilHlll\ w' tli my do, if. meing every evening. I n .1*^0 fair progress, too, under lit" eir curastances and Nellie fell in lovo with me on account of my voice. I renienilter distinctly thai her favorite was a little selection from one of Mendelssohn's songs without vror.l set to the following lines: Still, still with th? > when purple morning broak?tli, When the bird v..i';<*th .mil tie* shadow.; flee; Fairer than morning, lovelier than the day light Comes tlio sweet e Msoiouv.i:? , ' am with thee. Well, we were married, and for a time niv music was given up. Hut the ' life of a farmer fretted me, and ! took up my music again, and after two years' i hard work at it we moved to the city. I thought in my ignorance of metropolitan life that 1 should have no difficulty in procuring u situation, hut I soon found out iny mistake. In the II ru place I found that I was incompetent. I was dc ficicnt in style. My voice, tthile strong and resonant, had not been properly trained. Then, loo, there was n<> varan cies. Kvcn if 1 had been competent there were fifty applicants for every po-i tion. Itoforu I had been in the city for two weeks I heartily wished myself back in Shnndaken again. Jn the meantime the little money 1 had j 1 saved and brought with mp melted away like snow on the roof of a b.irn. My time was mainly taken up in running around to the musical agencies looking for n ' situation. I had a little job on Sundays i singing at a mission 0:1 Avenue A, where I earned $2,and for three weeks that was all I earned. We lived in East New j York ami my car fare over to the city I and back every day cost mo sixteen cents. You will readily sec that wc had to live frugally. In fact, for two weeks we lived upon oatmeal and molasses, and to ward the last there was 110 molasses, and Thanksgiving coming over the hills. ! Every night when 1 got out at Manila!inn j avenue my three little girls were standing I at the foot of' the stairway waitiug fori inc. I could see them from the top of ! the stairs, nil in a row, their little cloaks ; flaiynng ill the chill wimU-jtheir lips blue ana teeth rattliug like ; castanets. Wait a minute. It makes uie feel luint , to think of it, even after the l.Ypse of j three years. Well, it's all over now. I 1 don't know why it aflcets me so strongly. I There was something humorous, too, in J the way the lit I lo tots jumped around to keep warm. As soon as they saw the ! ikiiii ?wiug around me turn iney range* I themselves in a row and looked upward so wistfully, oil, so wistfully, to see their p? pa. For you must know that although p I one word of our desperate situation < 1 id been breathed in their hearing, yet. I their keen intuitions had told them some j i tiling was wrong, and they knew as well < is their mother that I was looking for ! work. How eagerly they looked in my j 1 far e each evening, so that if there was a ! ' ray of hope in it the eldest eould start on j t i run to tell her mother the good news! , \ Of course I cheered them with fairy r talcs of what a wonderful big turkey tve 1 ivould have on Thanksgiving. A goh t >le?- * ' . .l. tidous size,v who had strutted i .vhen alive like a prince in the story i looks. Then followed a description of c he cranberry sauce and the huge wedges l >f mince pie. All this took place while v was carrying two of the children in my c inns an?l the other was hanging oa to my r oat at my side. \ hope i shall be for- g ;iveu for those lies. For they iveic lies t ~ w ^ ;; >f tlie blackest sort. T knew there J rasn't one chant o in a thousand that w eonld have a turkey on Thanksgiving i lay. Hut I think under the eirouni- | . tuners that an angel of light would have j Icparlcd from the truth to see those lit I !e faces light up with anticipatinis. to ; " cc the cheeks Hush and the white teeth J are themselves as though rutting the ( ender meat from a turkey log. Hut the hardest sight for me to hear j vas the look Nellie gave me. .lust one piick glance into my face and she knew ill the sorrowful tale. It was not tier j ssnry to tell ' '.ow 1 had tramped the \ treels o.' oig city all day, how faint j , had iKeome from hunger; how I was aging at heart like a caged lion; how in ! J. ny awful rage I cursed the rich and lated humanity. Not. for myself, but or the hungry babies and their mother. Never a word of complaint from Nellie, i )nly encouragement and hope. Then entue the oatmeal alone. For ] lie molasses was all gone. I don't cat 1 latmcil bow. The taste of it is inuiffer- , il>le to me. My palate rises in rebellion Igailisi II. I HitM* iii iimi in mi- mi.in ii 1111 i ^ ?tc thirty quail in thirty clays. I wonder j whether he ever tried oatmeal for thirty i ' lays. On the morning before Th inksgiving j I was fairly crazy with grief anil antieipa t;ou. Nellie anil I hail a eonsultation (he night before, ami she suggested that I should write a piece of poetry about lite Thanksgiving turkey. The idea pleased me. It was a relief certainly from the brooding over the morrow. I got a hook of poems from my little store, which had so far escaped 1 the pawn-shop and hunted up a metre after which 1 copied, for of course I knew nothing about metre or poetical feet. Aleanwhile Nellie sat there mending he clothing of her babies and the tears fell thick and fast upon the garments. I couldn't stand il so I jumped up and went out into the streei to walk olT the ' clTect those childish voices had upon me. When I came hack, thank Iteaveu, they were asleep, fold' I in ea< h others arms. Then I got to work on my poem. It. [ took me one hour and a half to write the I lirst verse. I he-.inie discouragc-l before i I lia? 1 written two lines ami would have ! given 111> I hi! for Nellie's ciienurag' nient. ' "Now, what's the ii-c, Nell; just listen to this stuff,'' sai'l I. reading the stan/.r j The turkey i*n i:itcl!i high tonight? He's hid in the hemlock trv; In fancy I m>" eis plumage bright. Hut ho gfit>?-!es not. to;- mo. "Why, 1 think it's real nice. I didn't j know you eouhl write so well .as that. It's splendid; write another stanza." but. don't you see, Nell, that it isn't true. The turkey rlon't gobble at night." : "Oh, well, that don't make any differ , once. The poets always have license,you : know. Besides, how many persona will know that lie doesn't gobble a', night! , Not one in -a hundred.'' "I'm afraid it's no good and thai it won't go with the (alitor. Anyhow, I'll try a few lino* more." , The little clock ticked monotonously on t'ne mantel. The the burned low, ! and N'tllic put it sJu-vl over ha should* * era, for the room was growing cold. Bu1 the chill air did not affect me. I wai giving hirlh to a poem. The second stanza came easier. What bothered m< most was the rhyme. I think, to tlu best of my recollection, that the second | instalment consumed a half hour of in tense thought. I was better satisfied than with the first stanza, because I knew it was truer. Here It is, just as 1 read it to Nellie: His comb is as re I as ruddy wine. His breast is a shining sheen: But Ins eareass is safe from me and mine-? We can't pick his wishbone clean. The muse win rather skittish at the third stanza. 1 coaxed her with a pipe of tobacco, the fumes of which made Nellie cough, and 1 persuaded her to go to Iml. The clock struck 11. The wind rattled the window frame and I began to think thai- "i*1"?? 3 .?. . r~"htiuoHt fell asleep over this ntanza. While laboriously constructing it there rathe a picture to me of the old farm house in the C'atskills, the tabic groaning with its weight of good things. It occurred to me just here that 1 was doing the groaning now. When finished, after many interlineations and corrections, it read as follows: Th?ro was a tini" long, long ago. When deprived of Ills feathery vest. I seized his log in iny strong right hand, And dissected his meaty breast. By this time I had got into the spirit if my undertaking. The lines ran off Lhe end of my pen as smoothly as water uns oA a duck's hack. With a ronfilcnt smile 1 finished the last verse. Tile next morning I had to fill up the tole in a ten-cent piece with soap and ishos in order to deceive the toll-taker at lie elevated railroad station. All the ,vay down town 1 read and reread the ; illeged poem, trying to perfect it. When ' arrived in New York I hesitated before [ iie big newspaper ofvices, afraid to go : n. At last I managed to pluck up j mirage enough to go up stairs, where, | oiitrarv to mv expectations.! was kindly ! cceiled and was told that my poem ' vould be read, and if it possessed suffi- ' ient merit it would lie printed. 'Twas neon raging, to lie sine, lint what was I ' oing to do in the meantime for the urkey The day was spent in the usual way, , mining around looking for a job and . tiding none. I managed, however, to , arn fifty cents by carrying some coal, j t hurt iny pride to do it, hut the faces ! f the children rose before me, and I i ?i.i ..i?i.. - :**_.! -J-- I I Winn UMIIW.M tWIIIIIIIlUMl lHUrUi'I I ;ist then. With a heavy heatt I started to walk ver the bridge just after sunset. The ! 'inil blew cold from the northeast, and I 1 uttoncd my coat close to my chin. It- ' as a starlit night. The great towers I wined up above me like entrances to j ?mc gigantic temple. The river rushed j ud swirled below, ami reflected in ' cc learns the light trom the elct'tric lamps, aam It strangely drawn toward the river, 'or a lime 1 forgot the babies and N'ellie. tehind mo. war. the great, roaring city, rith its thousands of men ami . omen struggling for existence. T nd been trampled unde. foot in the rush. Why should 1 return and renew he battle? As I brooded over the river, hilled to the marrow by the searching rind, til'* water seemed to beckon me. is shifting currents whispered "Come;" ts shadowy, gleaming lifts, its miniature vilestronv- seemed to inv excited fancy r> say: "Here's rest for you. We'll icar vou away to dreamland, where huner and pain and sorrow arc drowned i:? lie nepenthe of eternal rest." in this state of partial uncouseiousiuss began to climb up the railing to reach he roadway below, when a policeman ouched me on the shoulder and told me o i ,I:.I .... 1,1,4 .. U "IIIUVU I'll. M Mt'l IJl'iM (III, (Mil III ii lazed, uncertain way, until I reached he Brooklyn entrance. Ilcro the crowd rosn the cars was pouring out in the treat like a torrent, and in the crush I vas hustled ahout and at last stumbled nto the arms of a stout man muffled in in old army overcoat, lie held me away rnm him by my arms. Then lie shook lie and said : What's the matter with you, Tom? i'c ain't drunk, he ye?" There was something familiar in the mice, and looking up I saw the homely 'ace of Sam .Jones, of S'.iandakcn, before 11c. Then came another shake, and this imc 1 came to myself again. "Bv George. Sam, I'm glad to see rou,'* 1 stammered. ' Well, let's go an' get somethin' to warm you up. You're near froze, man." Thawed and melted by a steaming cup if coffee, I told Sam ail the sorrowful story. How the children would be waiting at the station for me expecting the tnrkev I hud foolishly promised them and my inability to procure it. I was inter I rnptcd at intervals by exclamations from Sam such as: 'Well, I'll lie Messed! You kin bet yer boots them kids is goin to hav' their turkey! B'gosh! I allers did say that the city's no place fur a farmer!" t inier the cheerful influence of Sam > sympathy I soon regained niv lost courage. lie insisted ihat we should go tc the nearest grocery, where he picked out the higgo't turkey he could find. Then there were two ou.irts of cranberries, throe hi;; mince pies, a package of /tundj j for the children, a hunch of crisp colery /> * t and other things appropriate to Thanksi giving Day. _ ^ 1 When Sam left mc at the elevated 3 station he pressed a $5 hill into my band. 3 despite my protests, with the remark: I "Now, you take it, old man. I gat good prices fur my truck this seasou. that I am ouly lending itr to ye. Ye ve got to pay mc every cent back!" With a parting hand shake ho disap-j pcarcd. As the train rattled along over' the shining rails 1 could see the lights of the big bridge fading away behind me.; The river rushed below just as it had' done one brief hour before, but its turbid' waters had no fascination for me now. I wish every man aud woman who reads this story could have seen the faces of those three children ns they stood atthe foot of the elevated station. My units were tilled with bundles, and when' those three pairs of eyes gazed jupgn the . glorious sight whit an infantile shout went up! And how they daneed with glee! The eldest Insisted that she could' carry the turkey, hut she couldn't, it was loo heavy. But each one had to carry a bundle. And go, like a conquer-; ing annv returning with the spoils, wo; marched around to the house. And Nellie! Well, bless inc, if she didn't s;t right down on a chair and cry like a baby. I can't remember distinctly, because, you see, it's three years ago now, but I have an indistinct recollection that a few salt drops ran down my checks. As for Sum Jones, I think he would have felt fully repaid lor his kindness if he could have heard Buclah say her little prayer that night. That simple petition is carvcn go distinctly on the walls of my. memory that 1 cau repeat it word ^for wonl: * t i i "Dod bless T'an'sgivin', en pupa, enmamma, en Sam Joues. Do od nv?ht|"l Tommy and the Turk. The Turk and Tommy. The Hoy's Opinion. Oh. Valentino Pay is well enough, And Fourth <>f July is jolly. And Christmas time is beautiful, With its gifts and its wreaths of holly. New Year's calling is rather nice, And Hallowe'en sports are funny. And n May-Day party isn't bad. When the weather is warm and sunny. Oh. all of them are well enough; But the day that is hjst worth living, Is when we all go to grandmamma's, To n splendid, big I hanksgivinz! ?Emma C. Doiotl The Little Fiend. "You must feel some satisfaction in eating the turkey that, chased you around i the yard a week ago," said the minister, j "He was a very saucy bird when alive, wasn't he?" "Yes." replied liltle Johnnie, "and ina said when you got through there would he nothing left but the cranberry sauce." Thanksgiving lie very. I naw.r had a sweet gazebo To glad me with its soft, black eye, But I would love it passing well Baked in a rich and crusty pio. If 1 could have a bird to lovo And nestle gwootly in my breast. All other nestling birds above. The turkey, stuffed,would be that. bird. ?Ottawa Free Trader. Hardly a Ihirguin. "What, a kind, tbou^V/ul hit" by yon are," said the young wiffident?I (fy her arms around his ncek w1?ij^or~"^?"ght homo a turkey, '-and Wi.?. littlo \ bird it is." u*., "I should say it was deaf," ho i growled. "I won it at a ruffle. . Too Honest to Succeed.! ' t "What kind of bread do you like best," i asked a kiwi-hearted old lady, who was , ! getting sor iThing for the tramp'sThank* ' giving. ' , j ' The bread of idlen?^ yo,"J i THE ^'WS. Mark Km-, who kicked hia wifo to death nt Hnzleton, pu., whs ??ntenced to six yea s iu state prison. Henderson, Hull & Co . of Phi'n lelphia, obtaino 1 a vcrillct r* I ?;a nit the Heading Railroad, f?l destruction by Are of th ir sisli fact ry, caused, ns they alleged, li.r sparks from a pissing locoinotirv-?A man named E jgel shot and ki.ied Sophia flo'.h, a waitor girl in a hotel at Elgin, 111., because sha refused to marry him, and thou committal Mioide. Ivan Pavin, th" Russian literati ur, renounced infidelity, and was received l?y baptism into the ld?p ist Church of Minneapolis. A , Kins 8 jit Ige decided that n hotel bar i< not , a dram shop. Tlio Southern Lutheran , Seminary will le located at Newberry, S. j V The West Virginia tirand Enoinip-Ttfo^Imiotiing cir on an ow ttu Pennsylvania Railroad ] "wtfruer dl tl at P.ttsbnrg and took Are, sev- , eral passmig-.Ts being badly burned. Gov- | ernor Fleming, of Florid i, has transmitted to Secretory Ublno tlie cmiplamts of tho ( Key W?st Board of Trade of tho Smnish t consul aid.ng and inciting the striking eignrmnkere. The lirst new<in o yoar tro:n tho j Umtol States governmoat surveying oxp"- | dittoe In Alaska has teen received at St. 1 j Lou s ly tho fatberof John Mc'lratti, una of ! 1 the IcoiKrs of tho cxpediti >n, who reports ' J the party making good progress. j t Willie Bucknlew, aged twelve years, was f killed by a Boltimore and Ohio Hailroad lo- | "J comotive at Koysor, W. Va, - -Win. J. Wind- j sor's canning factory, near Salisbury, Md., | was burned. Dr. Win. Wilson, chief law 1 clerk of the House o* Commons of Canada, ^ was taken suddenly ill on the street in Now n York city, and d.od in a st ition-house. o Thn secretary of tho Young Men's Christian Association in Jersey City was arrested for distributing traet^ and permit*' g tho mein; u Oors to sing on the street* eTJefiny CTty.? The l'yuo Point Woo'.Jyi fi tils, In Camden, ^ N. J., were burned, by ?P;.tHK). Twenty- * eight horses and mull perished in tho burn- a ing of Ilowe & i'arkr Ice Company's stabler, t at Nasbvillr, Ten/. T. C.. I .cake, Jr , 1 prominent in various mining and land com- ^ ivudes in tho Bouth, and president of tho Alabama hand and Improvement Company, ' died at Richmond, Vu. "Blick Birt" 1 Holzhay was convicted of murder and-stage j, robbery at Besiein?r, Mich., and 8?ntenccd to hard labor for li e. Diphtheria i? rag- 11 ing at Elkhart, Ind., ono family alone losing e four children In two days. A quarrel, in r regard-to a lawsuit for ono dollar and a half, t at Opliu, Utah, caused Charles Wayinan to shoot and kill JatnosKelly. William Mur- ^ l.-y, a proiuiuent sporting man of 3m Anton;o, T4xas, was shot and killed in a sad* on by ' James Ellis. The Tradesmen's Bunk, of ^ Coushohopken.Pa .which was nearly wrecked by the de.a'cution of Cashier C. estnn,will bo reopened for business.-^U.oi ge 1'a ophrey, K a brukemau on the ^ew York, Susquehanna v to death a flrurnmcr, ot Newark, N. J , whither they j had gone from Now York to spend tho honey- t nuou. The coul miuer^ strike In .Sprint; jt Valley, III., has settled. Tho no ninal cap- , it?l stock of the nc-w steel combine will Id I $12,000,000. The Patriotic Order of S >ns | of America in Columbus, Ohio, h is sued tl.e Hoard of Elucitlon to prevent it from allowing ? Catholic priest to occupy rooms in oue of the school buildings. The Iblril Monninl session of tho Unpad j Bynod of tho Evengcbcal Uitherau Church Bou'h convenod in Wilmington, fli. Q\ One hundred nnd lift}' of the cadets a' West Point Unite 1 Stat-s Military Academy ore J ill from au i IT otion of the bowels. I lie i next annu >1 session of tho Woin lids Christ ian ! i Temperance Union will I e held in Atlanta, I ' Gs. The governors of all tho states liavo j l oon invited to n m-etiiig in Washington | next month, to urge upon Congress tho n,?- I propriutiou of a sum to secure the or etioa j of a suitable monument in Pliiladelph'no >in in?morative of the Declaration of Independence, nnl of the tlrst one hundred years of the constitutional history of tho United States. The coal miners of tho four pools in the Monongnheln Valley will strike for nn a<lvance o." one linlf corst per l.ushtd in tho price of mining. Three nun were killed in j a railroad wreck near Atierdeon, Mi s.? I The Cnliforni i raisin growers nro expectin c a boom, on account of tho shortness of tho Malaga c op John Henry, an id I soldi r, fell or jumped from a pas eager train near ! Williamsport, 1*? ?-? vimnei J. Hock ird, aged sixty years, of Wiieolin/, W. Va., wiih ! struck by a rail run I train and fa'ullv hurt. | iteiinund Holzhny, alias "Bl.iek liurt," ] oa tnal at Belleville, HI., for the muni r of j a banker, has confessed his several train and I stage coach robberies ?Nui tv per c.*nt. of till forgo camp mien of tne United .States have formed a com d.uition for mu u il pro- | (evtion. ?y mi exp hsioii o? giant | inva r, b x men belonging ioii cons ruction corps on i the Northern l*n< ill Ilnilro.nl, nenr Unite, | Montana, were killed. ? I'ho Capital Hotel at Dallas, Texas, win I u ne<l. Doss Gil.Ub.'; I insurance td.l.UO ?. Miss It- rth i Dates was i thrown from a horse at St. Jolrisbury, V?t., ; an I in" foot catching in a stirrup, sli i was | d-..gged through the s reels anil killed j Cuief Justice VV. N. M. Uiintli, of the North C.rohna Knpio.uo Court died at Raleigh.- Th units JMuriiin, a pnsonger on the stoarncli p British I'r.nc s-, trim Liverpool, was arrested ia l'liiI nielpliia, charged with for! gory iu the r>g?stry department of the Jti it I mil postollt.-e at Castle Itullington, Ireland. The 1). ited SStatcs slo >p of-war Saratoga, at I I'uiladelpbia, w a form illy transferred from j lbi service of tho government to the c introl | of the Loard of man igers of the I'eiinsy Ivania Nuutical School.? Chelate John Cr?rnr, of Cbicagi, leaves ban Isomo b? <j usti to l'roabyterian churches of that city, and over f\J,OJJ,UOi for a pui lie library. 1 Gen. Cassias M. Clay, the lat? Colonel Oo? dloe's gieat une'e, bus a record wtthi^the knbewhn h is no oworthy even for a iCentuckian. Ho bud three personal encounters be ore t'.ie war, in wli c'.i knives wero iiomI, and in each ho succeed ?l in killing his o.ipouent. A feuitn v.o.i'ii li < cat utmost to pi ice', but tho man w.is b. itched up an I recovore I. Afewyeaisago bo killo I a 110,10 *wn-> hid insii ted him, again usin 1 tlu? knife. Govcruor Warinoth, of I/ou.siaaa, saved li s life in New O. .eans a few years ago by vivisecting w nh a knife a man who attempted to as ' eossiuato bun/ FARMERS OF IMRICA. A National Congress in Session at Montgomery, Ala. Drlevatr* Present I rum Kvrr.v Ntnfo Addresses ?!' Urli'itino by jjt'.ly hiiiI Mate OIIIcKiIn tKiiniltuml PollltS. The Farmers' Nnioi.a! Congics* cs e milled iu the hall of the House of U'prestitdui ivcs at Montgomery, All. Too eongre?s weg well nttonded by delegates from every State and Territory. Ad .ress?s of \v? looine were delivered t>y Mayor (jr.tli i??? 'er the eity, T. J. Carlisle for thoMtito Agrieu'.t Ural Soe o!y sod Commissioner K.old on behalf of tlm State. Responses were male by A. 11. Smith, ffp.iiror.CoPntriiioni. C>tiit;;;ss.oiier Rnlli, president of the cougio-s, de.iveiod Ins annual add res'. 1t was an elaborate pnpr, saver.the purposes :?ud spirit of I.ie or ^nn zilion. A committee of on > from eaeli del 'Ration sus appointed on resolutions. 'J'he eongr- m .lien uilj -time I to at'.en.i t lie Mo it tier a < xpolitiou now being held h re. Tli evening session was largely attended ind ..1.1.. I I ?" ing ol thecittoncrop wnKdiscii'.sed n.y Jl??n. i J M> edge, of 'It' x is, an I tl ill it l'? st,?>t Mali im i. They advocated r d eul e.ianges ii t.ii? pa sent method of hn <1 ni;; cotlo.t, clvising packing "> >? ilnl bales and selling tin lie no ?>p r.tlivo p in. lion. IIf. Norton, it Wisconsin, tli-.fii<Siil agr .culture, mom ucMuv nn l cnmn roe, nU.? aivicaiuig ilio tills.ill/, ng of ulu .msnip. plyi", lit'Uvtv ii tlit) JniU'tl States mill .Sonill American p'.mts. ion 1.. Ml. Colli.', of loon, iikkIo an t'l> t| i.-lit ilon in lit'liall t I railroad brukemon to. tlio mproved coupler. An interclinuiC'iof fraternal greetings with lie National lirauge, in sesnon in ii ioimn^nto, Cal., ivai one of tlu lo-Unres of the veiling. Nee iiul Oil)'. The eio tuil day's session of t_lig .IfiiiUMeW-.. Ai the morning sess on, Jti Igo Ijiwrenoo, if Ohio, pr?si lent of the \V ool-O rowers' As trout ion, iruin n majority of tins eoninuheo in iesc.ulions, roj ono I a lo.oltiii ,ii tni tlio ittitii.lv of the fanner with regard to pro ectlon, and denial.ti ll/ that, in o ise ol a on.iiiiirinco of tlio prottcuve pol oy, nil tninn nod nets Mhull lie as lully pioioeie I at any rtiele ot m inufacturo. Mr. Willnie, of Missouri, ottered a niino:ty report, ptedg r.g h lirm ?rs id t Ii II a He. I it ites to il r> tl ictloii of tiio lai'.tr, a.el ton lia ge of duties, from the n< coin tr.es to the iixui it's of life, as tar as p issihtt*. 1 tot It reports were laid over, and will come ip for notion lat -r. Judgo I .aw relic i offered rcsolul oils hi the ff.n l that tlio government tin s not need > Ito evonue rais -d hy the t m on spirits, an 11 Ii ,t he question bo relegated lot lie stiles; ai.->o, avoniig ti e repeal ot tlio tax on tcuaeeo. loth rebo.utions were r- -porta t advei.s ny by Ii comin.iue. Jimi. L. ii. Colli.i,of Iowa, deliver'd mi <ulr. as on.railroads an 1 tneir 10 aliens lo ill) aruior. 'i he speaker was slim ply critic./ <1 y a number ot delegates as being loo umio'i ii sympathy with rnilroadsand corporal .mis. Judge litiwrenco rtud a p-p.-r on w o.rowing and mill ton pi mincing, p iiiiingu.it ho greui. biMivtit winch would arise to the rholo people Iroui i. c eus-d slxvp raising, nd urgim protection for this mien st. Judge aawreues's addrers waa followed by soui.. d veyse diicu-slon. . V* AC v?? afternaou asanioo a PQiyr w#i jxvef. nyV^*- . iWbwit, tUJUiaa^ ??JitfcL -jjA, 'edibilities of Agricultural m AlaUin >y J. S. Newman, professor of ngi icultoie in uo Alabama Jtgi iculiure and Mechanical ,0.1ege. Many speech s were do'.iverod by deleg tes ro.ii the North aud West, ail udvuc.aling vool prot.'cton. Tli re is a pn spoot of a "eguinr tnrilf debate cm tlie uiiuority and Majority report ot tbo Coutiu.lt txs on It colons. Hon. James A. MeK-'itz e, of K .ntuoky, Kill probably reply to Judge Liwienc>*. The ro'ing is by congressional representation, till the delegations lroin Ohio, l.iiiois, I iwn, j M clfg tit and Indiana are p. uctioil y solid j lor Juoge Lawrence's rep >ri. I'lli nl O.'i.v. Tho Nation tl K.iriiurV U ingress before | adjourning to-day adopted resoluti mis re- i luting to the tnrilf adopted by t; ingress. I I'ltey d iiiundo 1 that the duties on mutton, sh ep ail 1 wool of ail kinds shall l> > so increased us to cq t illy prohibit too impir.ulion of mutton, sh *ep and wool of every kind wlii ca ?, under protection, be sulltc.ently produced at fairly reintiucr .live prio.-s in the Unite I .States to supply u l American wants, inclu lug the litter class oi carp.-t wools, especia l, since carpats us luxuries, are entitled to less iuror lhull lurui and ranch proJucts. Ucsolvcd, That the tnrltt' on wool imported t j inak j carpets should nt least be as high as that imported t> make coats. "If projection to this extent be denied," continue the resolutions, "we will c >11 upon the farmers of the United States to assert their power at the bahot-box, nn I otherwise right the wrong and injustice of discriminal on against ihoiu." 11. F. Kolb, o.' Alabama was re-elect .d president, and n vice-president from each State was also chosen, it. F. Clayton, of Illinois, was elected secretary, an I Mr. Caw. reneo of Ohio, treasurer. Tno n- xt meeting will bo held in Iowa and the secretary w is authorize I to det riniiie between Sioux City and D.s Moines. WANTONLY MURDERED. Tiir Mi't'i>>* SImmiI lion it mi tucil <oti|>lc in 1,1 in* :|l II I'll ll il I,V , V . 'sit. Two more victims have been .-uurilio :d hi tho notorious II itlialdMcCoy w ir. Tiioy were shot down in wanton rov .?n;o by tho Met Joys. W lil!h i>ir. mi l iii i s. riim diiiiiiiijiu, <? aged couple, wort- ntsuppcr soini one kn<>-kml at tlii- door. As tln-y had iiov?T hem c >a ncotid with ttio feu I many way old M\ Hluii H -Id opened it without hcsitn?i->n. In an instant li?? was piere si with ()v? I.ill lets. His wi o, who stood tiosule li-ni, was fatally woundod, lait liv-l long ?*:i -u ^ h t? t-ll Ih" story of the murder to In-i-in-ig ibor*. I? >ih of the victims were ov.-r 7 i y? n s old. The nuird-'r has stu r <! u;? t -e II iili??ids and If ii in f i -Ids, mid apirty s'artnlout to nvengo tho death of lha whit" lutir--d c u,-l >. At a nio.-ting o cili/.-msof Lincoln county, hold at Hninlio, th< coil ty-s'.at, a u imuiit tec was d|i(? uiiied to wuit upon the gov--i no and upi>ei?i for troops. WRECK ON THE RAIL. Two Freight Trains t'ollldr on I lie Virginia Vflilluiid One tlmi lilllcil. T wo freight trains on the Virginia Midland Railroad collided near Rushy Branch, a small creek passed by tho railroad just south of Clinton, Va. Fireman Murphy, of the south hound train, was instantly killed, and Beveral others were seriously injured. , Tli collision o curred about u'yloek In t lie morning, and is said to have Is en due to misunderstanding of orders. Train No, 21 left Alexander going south, and met trni ' No. 21, a north-Imiiiml freight, in cliargo ol Conductor Ro lii.s, n ar C ifton, n ling t? tfc engines and their trains over the cans inkin lit. Tliera were eight cars full of cattle j on tho south found train, and nine cars full | of catt eon tho north-houiul tra.n. All die-a ' wrre thrown over tho embankment in liopo less confusion. Resides James Murphy; ih: fireman who was killo I, there wore several other injured. CABLE SPARKS. The irridentUts have cat ried the election* In Trier to. 1 he question of f<si -rat ion la being consld?rod l?y tbo Australian colonics. , j Tho report of tho murder of Missionary Kivage in Now Guinea is declared to bo unit u-. It is ofllciAlly denied at Koine that ffio Buienrinu question will bo submitted to the Pope's arbitration. Tim news of tho massacre of Dr. Peters ami his party i y natives near Korkora, lias 6 Africa, is cotilli mod. ? An explosion occurred in n dvnnmite fantory tuar Itiltioa, Kp.iiu. Four persons wera killed and many were inj ircd. The condition of the Grand Duko Nloholas, u icio of tiio Czir, is l>ccoiiiiiig worse. 'I he oancorous lorniatiou iti his oar is sprea llng. Minister Uoliert Lincoln's son Abraham Is . picrn-ntigj'tiV'i fbsnTt ot ao nccul -util out on tlio tinker. Crete is returning to its normal peaceful s ttalb. Trade is active at Coroa and other V places, ami Christian families nro arriving --y by every steamer. \j Kx King Milan will arrive at Hel-rrtflo jf / next week lo reach a deliuilo sett lament w touching the position of ex ij'ieen Natalie " Willi tho government and tiio regents. i nn conservative conuiiitteo of Birmingham ill cuss?! III a atlit '?(,i of the conservatives towards iho liuvrv-l iimoii sts mil dociih-il to insist u.io.i larger representation. Lord Prassey, in a lot tor to tl.? iiins'cr lighterim-n, o| Hundon, concur* in tlio ndv coo C iiilinnl .Manningand lln? Hord Mayor * Mint l ho muster* Mil-render to iho employe*. TlioStciiiush p tjiio iiiii<-ro, fi otu It iltiuinro for Hiverpod, wi'ioknl t?fl' ttio const ol lioland nfior living on llrn, has brosoti nmiil ships.and nn enormous i|iinntity of wreckage liu- II.>ate.I iihiioi'o. S r Charles Mills? has dea'iu d the urgent mi.l unanimous riquest, of the Kiilham Liberal Association th u Ii i become n candid ite for I'nrli anient for that district at ti e iiexa oleclion o.i iho ground tliat Ii s heavy lilvr- _* ? tiry work tukesjip ins avlioht ?1 " -- lr itnJTIIPIilily niinoiino -d at Rome that dervish s r.o.-ntly attaokoil Gond ii-, il?<? capital i f Ahysaiuui, and burned tlio city. Niibs?qti-utly n I'oroo of Ahysdnias attacked ilia dervi-lies and i o.rated iIu iii, killing three of the chiefs. Sir Henry .lamer, speaking in behalf of Iho H uul m '/'line* t-elnro (In* 1'ai uell coiiiuil-kioii, qii'itcd npi eolios i.y l'.irin-ll and olhei * advocating boycotting, and contended thnfc tlie speakers were respuiisibl lor the crimes in Ireland following tlie delivery of ll.o speeches. The St. Petersburg .Vtvf says that China is nrmiiig her troops on ilio Russian I rentier wiih repeating r ll *s, and that, tlio soldiers Of? being dial ed liy Gri'iiiau ollicvis, Tlio Ktian oi Kliwa intends to uinko it tour of i. ii rope, beginning with Russia. Pushup U'liwyer, of Limerick, has issued a pistoriil letter forbidding tlio clergy of iho liluce-o to grant atiso iiiiou to any person / guilty of boycotting or pursuing the plan of campaign. Tii? Bishop r* tains to himself alone the right to absolve such persons. IN A BUHNlNli CAR. Horrible Arriilint to a I'm nay 1 van In II*press Traill. a.. ...... 1.1,... t.. ii... ii'n.l..? ? '? /? II llVVIUVIIb *" r ?U*. M* HOVVI II * A [M COl Ull VIIO l'oniisylvuni.i road at riltsburg, nearly resulted in n terrible holocaust. . As it- wan, a largo number of. per eons wore iuJuraq,.o6^^-Ur*alMrtlg<^yiothere Atttlcttgix*?4^ Thai express which leu for NewTonc'w* 7.15 1'. M. was proceeding through the yards ut the rate of about eight mile.* an hour. When near 8.v.-iit.?eiitb street the third ear, or siuoker, Ictt the rails, and after being pulied a distance of aLout JUO loot turned coiupl ;tely over. Auuosl simultaneously with the upsetting of the coach lire broke out at both ends and in the centre of the car. Between 1) and 50 second class passengers, including a number ot woiuoii, were in the car, and the sc.'iie following was of the wildest kind. Men tr..niple'l over women uud fought their uiilortuiinto brothers in their eagerness to esc.ip ? cremation. The crash of breaking windows uud the shrieks of these imprisoned in (h i burning car could bo heard a .oug distance. Fortunately, the trainmen and tho crews from oilier trains were elo;-e at huud, anil the il lines were extinguished before they ad i (.auo-l much headway. The passengers who i liml uotnlrca ly escaped through tli? windows tv?ie thm removed. It was louud thot will e I nearly everyone in the cir hud been out or j bruised, only one, Joiopli liruo.?cr, of Cliicv I go was Iniuiiy injured. When the car was upset be wassOited near tbo stove, and it was tin own on top of liim. . lie was so tightly pinno I down that it wa i t-oiuo tilll > lefoiu bo could bj ex tr.ea tisl. ' Meanwhile ho was being slowly burned to death, and when taken out liaally una side was burned to a crisn. The phys.clans say lie will die. Wix other , were badly but not dangerously hurt. The c luse of the acchi'nti* not yet known, but it is thought the ruils spread. All the passengers hut lirucker ana the six others were ao.o to proceed on their journey a. few hours later. DISASTROUS FREIGHT WRECK. One *1 an li . Ile?l, T?? o In |u i oil, iiimI I lie .Money I.oh* Very Ureal. One of the most disastrous Ireight wrecks : in the history of the Northern Central Kaii1 way occurred ut Mnldletowu Perry, l'enn., | between ~ and d o'clock in the morning. Two Mc ions of fast freight, laden with perishable goo Is cons'gned to parties in N<-w York ' Slate, were running at a rapid speed, when the machinery of the locomotive of the first section was brok -n. The engineer stopped to lix it and the 11 igman was s"nt l-ack to warn t lie second section. The engineer of the second section, however, did not heed I ho warning. It is alleged ho was asleep and ran I y Hie II igmuii, dashing Into the rear of the fi stsecuon with an awful crash. t'upturn Haines, conductor of tho fl-strec' tion, saw tho other truin bearing down on hint and jonipjd from tho c?l*n s?, nt the j samotnne calling to Kind l/ahcy, (h? roar i brakoiiinti, to save iiiinsolf. lit h-y wax too j into and wax caught in the crash and instantly killed. llaiiH'M escaped. Kngineer ApI polio, of tiio roar train, was badly Injured, I mid tho fireman, who-o naino could not he I learned, was slightly hurt. I Over thirty cars were crushed to pieces : and tho |toris!riblo freight oil both of ilio | trains will be Ids'. Four cars wore burned and one locomotive wrecked. lh) loss can not bo intimated. BLACK BART A HYPNOTIC. lie Claim* lie UommlMod IlisC'rlA^a While Under ? Nprll. ilcimund Hole toy, "ITIuck Burt," on trial 1 at Bessemer, Micb., for tho murder of Banker Flt'iahbbln, of Belleville, Iil., and the robbery c f tbo Uogobic stage, took thestand 1 in his own defense and made a confession. ' Ilol/.hny told tho story of Ids life from the 1 day i f bis I irtb in Germany to that of hla 1 urnst nt K-public, Mich. He admitted that lie roblxsl the Milwaukee and Northern train ' sis months ago; that he hold un the Wiscon> s ii Central train at C.idott, Wla.,a month Inter, in d that ho waylaid th ? U >gobic stage ' and shot Banker Fleischbein. > lloishay claimed that he saver.il years ago s hurt by a fall troni a horse, and since no.ij j't time had been subjected to "spell-*," ' i ur.ng which lie did not know what he was I doing, lie suid he was under this "spaW" when the various crimes were committed.