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CHARLES E. U. DRAYTON, Manager. AIKEN S. C.TtUESD^Y, JUNE 29, 1SS6 VOLUME 5.--NUMOER 37. •• ■■•‘Cl YVASHINGl'ON liKTTKH. Fronj our Regular Corrcspomlcnt. WAbRixo'roN. June 19,188Q. Rrillinnt bospitallities at the White fionac; daily meeting of a large con- |ution of Nurseryhl en Seedsmen Florists fron) all parts of the kited Htates; a royal visitor fropn zil, and Congress talking 4t)out kyiug until the last of ^.qgust. So ithe heat of summer has failed to Uaqnietns to either gayety or busi- i at Washington. |ie Horticultural Convention now siou here, consists of three buu- delegates. Its members have 1 the Capital decked in her ver st, and they pronounce that best rod.' This city has become the Ition rendezvous of the United and most of the national us es will be held herein the fu- liut were formerly held in Bos- Jrincely tourist, who has been duKng the week, seeing the <hts and' s receiving attention from iplomats ahd other i>e<»ple of dis- -iction, is a grahd-son of Hon Pedro, [a i« said to liave more strains of roy blood in his veins than any other [ian living. He has the blood of the oyal houses of Germany ,1* ranee,hng- fand .Spain,lUly,Denmark and Brazil. The latibDjymler of AAistrailia, Hon. James Service^has also beeh study ing Washington during the we« k ; Old some visiting engineers from France who are making a foiir of this [ountry, have been 4hing tk® sh* 11 ® [•lie latter gentlemeu wpre particu- zrly struck by the simplicity of this ception at tiie White House, and .eally pleased by tbo cordial man- br iu which the President met ,8ni. “I never expected to speak to the L^hief Executive of a great Country Jko this in such au informal way,” flid one of the party. “He chatted Jlth those of us who speak English for 9ut ten minutes in a perfectly free inner, about the railroad interests France upd the L T nit<c4 States.” .Doubtless yog have been snrfeited late with Presidential and White Louse social gossip, nut still I must Jl yon soiijefhlng about how the Resident’s wife bore her % first pubr * ‘iTtiob', aTartrhow pinch admira- [e won. 7fhe test of her quali- llis a tryinjg one, and she emerg- L It in a way to prove that she |te equal to her position and of comparison in dignity, less and refinement of bearing ny of her predecessors. Jn per- [ttractions, she surpasses ah Stie stoo<i l)y tips President’s _.„3iviig the highest dignitaries Uindtritli iLn ease amj grace that everybody, and surprised irlio saw’ her. only a few months [when she was fresh from school. Lers of the Diplomatic Corps, brs, Judges ,pf the Supreme [, Representatives in Congress, of the army and navy, all lie same verdict upon her, ^voman,’* ‘‘a beautifnl wo- [ell proportioned and a tri- tban the President. She iridal drags of ivory satin en £_bodjotf,'and corsage bou- Twhite rqses. Her husband’s ^ft, a diamond necldace encir- T neck, long white silk mils >ed above her elbows, and an >mb surnjouuted her dark ^ut by unnnimooa consent her rnament w a 8 her fresh, beauti- 8. She seemed pleased with ling, and her pleasure was the I enjoyment of youth and fresh- Id simplicity. It was all new [and the cares of her position [ yet laid no burden upon her. iw .no fawning sycophancy in J; no sinister purposes in flat- [no hypocrisy in open admira- Vnd she got the full meed of en- tut oqtof all her srtrronndings. [as thought that the royal scion [ittemled the reception would de- from Mrs. Cleveland's triumph, Lerewas no division of houors.The (jiaired South American Prince ^ to his foreign guardians, the Jau Legation, while the throng Kmiage to the President’s wife, re were no atteropt at precedence! most ofiicial and card receptions |the people came in to be present- lust as they felt disposed. Some sing incidents occurred, as, for 1 nee, when a policeman^ in citi- attire, who did not know Col. put, requested him to stand aside dttlie people pass from Ahe Blue ito the Green parlor. “That’s tied the private secretary, ^re ;io privileged characters Palmetto. He Had Heen There. „ f'rce Press. Wife—“How long >yould a fish be hat would weigh twenty pounds?” Husband—“That depends. Why i you want to know ?” [Wife—“Why, Mrs. Jones says her psbaud caught a fish the other day it would weigh twenty pounds, and ras Wfuaeringhow Wpgit was.” lusbainl (carelessly) — “The fish labo^t four inches long.” | Wanted to Borrow. \lT Street Daily Fews. ago woman entered the of- mui agency the other day and d fo raise f 1,500 on ♦Jt.OOO jruiture. ^yhat is your low |f’interest?” ah leaps \ye generally *sk IQ sll. Bend yoqr examiner up jse. It is a speculation with Lpto business, ma’am?” COLUMBIA, 8. C. A Fiqo llostclrte Open* np in the Car olina Capital. Augusta Chronicle. Columbia,S. C., June 22.—Colum bia’s advantages (is a winter resort for IJorlhern invalids have been becom ing better known for several years, and the.result bas been that each year the number of vUitops have iucreased. Borne of them too haye become per manent residents aqd stand high among the ppofesional and business men of our city. Realizing the grow ing importance of Colurcpbia as a sani tarium, the Messrs. Fjpggn, who came here not many years ago, and \yho have by diligent business efforts ac cumulated a hand 800 !® fortune, decid ed to erect a hotel thRt should in all departments furnish every accommo dation to the mod exacting invalid. The building was completed a few months ago. It is located on the cor ner of .Lady gnd Main streets and is a most imposing brick structure. The step was to secure a tenant whose management would accord with the splendid appointments of the hotel. After rejecting beveral very tempting offers they leased the property to Mr. A. C. Rutjes, whose success in the management of such caravansaries elsewhere iq tlje Union has earned for him the fjrst plgoe among the pro prietors of giKsk institutions. The hotel is uevy ffom top to bottom, in side and outside. From the substan tial br‘®k walls to the spotless linen in the rqoins there is nothing that has ever been iu use defore. Yesterday the hotel was thrown open to visitors and the whole city turned out to show their appreciation of an enterprise that will do so much to advance the interest of the loveliest city in the South. As they wqhdered through the elegant parlors, the hand soniely furnished sleeping rooms, the attractive dining room and the most interesting section qf the building, the immaculate cook foonp, they all felt like tiiey had sudejen^’ dropped into one of the swell ipetropolitan hotels, se unusually complete \ypre all the surrounding^ for section of the Union. Mr. Rutjes stood in his fine office ajfl welcomed hjs visitors, his clerk >»73(£nn thp ppper floor to poi nt out the capacious parlors, sjttjng rooms and hjyety bfldql cbqnibef, the polite waiterspfided tbcipselyesQnthe tempting arrangement of the 4>niug hill, iiml the chief c.ook pointed out the numerous conveniences of his im portant department. The Messrs. Fagtm were every where jq the build ing entertaining their friends and re ceiving congratulations upon the completion of their enterprise. The bouse bas been named the Hotel Je rome, after the senior member 8f the firm, and it fs safe to say that in a short while the name will be as famil iar to the travelling public as the As ter House, of New York, and as popu lar as the Highland Park of Aiken. To-dav the hotel was formally opened. Dinner wa 9 served from one to four o’clock, nnd u large number of Invited guests were present. The bill of fare was such as to tempt the appe tite of the most fastidious epicure, and all the guests agreed that the opening had been most auspicious and predict ed the complete success of the man agement Food Blown into a In an article on “Plebeian and Aris tocratic Pigeons.’ by F. Satterthwaite iu Harpers, be says; “I remember once witnessing the process iq opera tion in London. The feeder was au el derly man with fiabby sqljow cheeks and protruding eyes, long matted hair and his general appearance was that of a man who b^d just ^merged from a coat of taj: and feathers. In his youth he had been one of the chief per formers in the ‘Passion Play’ at Ober- ammergan, but iu the sere and yellow leaf he had degenerated into a ‘squab fattener/ iu which calling he was emi uent. ‘‘In a tub of water was a quantity of millet and split peas. The feeder crammed his mouth wUb them until his checks swelled out to hideous proportions. Catching up a young bird and inserting its open beak be tween his lips tb® &>ed®r injected its crop fail, and in a second you could see, as Mr. Tony Weller would remark .‘it a-swellin wisibly before your wery eyes.” The astonished bird at once asi sumed a complacent look. With the greatest rapidity bird afJte.r bird was picked up and the food thuo blown into each. “The feeders got aboyt two cent 9 for each dozen birds thus fed,and when it is remembered that they can fill a bird with the rapidity which excels the mechanical bottling of soda wa ter, it is easily seen that the profes sors are enabled to earn a tolerably good living at their novel calling The birds are fed by this process twice a day, ynd in several days become fat and very tender. CANNIBALS ON THE CONGO. The Profit In’Apples. New York Sun. Brown (to his wife:) “Did you no tice that old woman on the corner with a basket of apples?” Mrs. Brown: “Yes.” Brown: ‘'She has stood on that cor ner every day tor ten years with her basket of apples. How much do you suppose she is worth?” Mrs. Brown: ‘,‘H—m! A thousand dollars?” Brown: “No.” Mrs. Brown: “A hundred thou sand?” Brown: “No.’-’ Mrs. Brown: “A million ? $hec^n’t be worth more than a million, John ?” Brown: “Not 9. cent, and she owes for the basket.” fork [Hite Man who Lived Among Them, Sun. was tele- ■ the whites >ngo stations ibv p^nuibals sved, because iveled up and ’ or two with- rences of canni- The Story of Fifteen M011J Frov\ike About a year] graphed over tl in some of the* had been kilh 'flie report wi a few white m4 down the rive! out discoverin'! balism except one tribe. Stanley's recently publjahed book threw no light on the subject of Congo cannibals, though it did repurd the appaling ru mor afioat amqng some of the tribes that the whites were yery fond of eating black people. Tiie report that the whites on the Upper River had become food for the natives proved false, as was ex pected, and recently a good deal of information has been brought back about tiie cannibal tribe whose numer ous villages Jino the river for a long distance about 800 miles from its mouth* The Congo State is on good terms with this tribe, theBaugallns, and has a station iu the midst of them. It was the Bangallas who sallied oqt in fheir big war canoes and gave Stanley the fiercest reception he encountered when he first forced hjq \yay d ow P the river. As is usual with capnjba} ff'jbes, they are superior Ifl courage, physique, and mental abjlity tofhe surrounding peo ples, and they lord it over a consider able area. Mr. VVesfmark, wfop })as lived qmqpg tjiprp for fifteen months, has just lectured in France on their peculiarities, and chiefly on the prac tice ^f anthropophagy as it exists among ffiem, Aceordingto him they engage in tiie practice only upon the death of well- to-do or influential men, when slaves are killed qt tlje graves of the de ceased persons, so that they may ac company their masters and minister to their wants iq the other ^yorld. It has been the custom to sacrifice at least twenty victims at the death of every important person. Bound hand and foot fife poor wretches are be headed, and h|df °f them are buried in the grave of their master. The bodies of the other ten are reserved for the mg fete that concludes the funeralMlremouies. Native beer in great qumtities is prepared days in advance of the feast. Tiie flesh of the murdered slaves is placed in great earthen pots full of water, and bojled until half tiie water has evaporated, and then the banquet is ready to begin. Tiie orgie continues fora day or two until all tiie refreshments are exhaus ted and a large part ot the male popu lation is dead drunk. The Congo mis sionaries appear to think that the Bangallas are sadly in need of reform atory influences, and they intend to establish a station among them. Mr. Westmark makes ffm luteresting statement that although cannibalism has beoq practiced to a large extent among the Bangallas, it has now con siderably diminished on account of the influence of the whites, and he believes that after Europeans have lived in the country a little longer it will disappear. Among the many millions of sav ages in Afripa there are very few can nibals. Schweinfurth fopiid that the large Houbutu trjbe on the VVel)e Makua were addicted to the practice. It also exists among the Mucollis of 4ngola ; among tiie Bangallas of the Upper Congo, qtqqqg some of the na tives on the Aruw’ini tributary of the Congo, and was formerly practiced to a small extent in some pacts of South Africa. Asa rule, tire natives who in dulge in the horrible custom try to conceal it froni the whites who visit' them, and newhpre does it loqg sur vive the growth of white influences iu districts where it has flourished. Presents from Antwerp. New JTork Sun. 'Vyh.en the$teamship iYesterland ar rived at her wharf yesterday it was evident to those around that some thing unusual was on b°$nL Th v e Captain seemed worried, and the first 1 officer's usually ruddy face was pale. They watched with anxiety .the mover meats of . t V' ro Sailors who were carry ing a large wicker basket down the gang plank. The Captain lifted the lid and out jumped a black French poodlCj with flerpe looking whiskers and a beautiful tuft on the end of his; tall. “He is qlive,” said the Captain thankfully. “’j’hank heaven!” exclaimed tiie first officer. “If it had died, wh^t theq?” said the Captain. “Yes, what then?” echoed the first officer. Tiie poodle was a present to Mrs.i Cleveland from Mr. Von der Bock, the agent 0/ the jjed Star line, and the Captain had received special in structions to look out for its safe trans portation, along with thp-t ,of a hun dred-year-old Dutcli clock that had been sent a# a present to President Cleveland. Mrs. Cleveland, then Miss Folsom, had seen the dog in Antwerp and had made friends with it. Mr. Von der Bock determined that it should be hers. He didn’t .think it right to neglect her husband, and sent along the Dutch clock. • The corner stone, of tiie Con federate going to take my soldiers’monunient.at Lexington, will (liters to the seashore, and j be laid with Masonic ceremonies on rry ’ciq ofTur drown ’em!” the 30th of July. Murdered with a Hoe. Newberry, Jupe 22.—Qn last Tue8 ; day, June 15, John Williams and Lewis Maize, while hoeing cotton, got into a trivial dispute, whereupon Wil liams struckMaize on the head wlthhis ijoe from thoytrects of which Maize died soon after. Williams has fled and ’ is still at large. Both parties are color- j ed and lived in the Broad River soc- I Uou of this county, some twelve miles from here. A BIG BLAZE IN BOSTON. Destruction of Five Hundred Thou sand Dollars Worth of Property— Kiahf Bodies Found, and More Sup- posed to be 1 n the Ituins—A number qf Persons Injured. Boston, June 21.—The New Eng land Institute Fair building was burn ed this afternoon. Four workmen were killed. The building was occur pied as a car shop by the He tro I )0 ll" tan Horse Railway Company. Loss $250,000; fqlly insured. There were many men inside when the fire broke out, and all rushed foi tiie rear windows. Most of them were helped out, but while a rush wiis being made to one of the windows at which a scorched and bleeding face was seen, the person who had been looking out fell back into the seething iqass and was past all help. A colocqd man, name unknown, went back into tiie burning buildiqg to save some prop erty and was not seen to come out again. Chester L. Hazeltine and E. L. Farren had plepty of opportunity to escape, but epdeayored to’pull out some of tiie ears and were frightfully burned. While thousands of spectators were vifcwjng J'rqiu the neighboring roofs Ihe magnificent spectacle a horrible tragedy was being enacted within and all out of sight and unknown to tiie throng. After the flames had been suffip|ent)y extinguished search was begun anions flip charred ruins for possible victims, and up to 9 P. M. eight dead bodies had been removed, most of them burned beyond recogni tion. It is believed that there are four more bodies in tiie ruins. The total pecuniary loss is $400,000. Tiie building was erected by the Mechanics’ Institute for exhibition purposes at a cost of nearly $500,000. Last wiutef ip >yp,3 purchased by tiie Metropolitan Stcppt ftaijway Com pany for $300,000. The firp lyas first discovered by a man working half a mile away, and before he goiild give tiie alarm the fire had gulped rapid headway. . . The Jury Amends Its Verdict. Atlanta Constitution. Col. Alfred Aldrich, of Barnwell, 8. C., tells a good illustration of the sud den ascendency to power pf the negro iu that State during the days of recon struction. A prominent farmer of Beaufort district liad conclusive evi dence that one of his negro tenants was stealing largely from him. A warrant was issued for the arrest of the negro, and his pqsq was brought for trial before a newly-appointed ne gro justice of the peace, who summon ed a jury of his own color to pass judg ment on the trial. The trial was brief, and the evidence was so over- whelming and conclusive against the defendant that tiie justice sent tiie jury out w’lth the statement that the ease was so plain that it was not nec essary for him to charge them as to their duty. After a few minutes’ con sultation the jury returned and the foreman announced that they had agreed. “W’at is your verdic’?” “We find Mr. guilty.” The an nouncement was a shock to the room, as Mr. was the plaintiff. “You fools,” exclaimed the indignant jus tice, “go bqck and bring in a verdic' ’greeble wid de fuc’s.” The astoqisIiT. ed jury withdrew and iu a few min utes, again returned with smiling countenanced. ‘‘Well, la you ready ?” asked the mahogany hue.d “Judge.” “Yes sir; we fin’ Mr. —-— not guilty, but guilty of accusin’.” Treasures Found Under a Head Pauper’s Pillow. Columbia Register. The Register noted a few days siqce the death of Mrs. White, the widow of a deceased Mexican volun teer aqd a pensioner of the United States government. She was suppos- to be in extreme poverty, and had for sometime been the benificiapy of the charity of,the benevolent ladies of the city and was fcMjried at the expense of the county. It now turns out that, after her deatli her sister a Mrs. Busby, who had come over from .Camden a tew days before, found $500 under the pillow of the deceased woman, and reported the fact to Mrs. Fripp upon whose premises she lia.d lived. Tfie fact coming to the notice of Probate Judge P.earsou, who is the legal custodian of ttye property of de ceased intestates, he cited Mrs. Bus by to apjiear before him yesterday af- ternnoon to inquire into the matter, but adjourned the hearing until 12 m. to-morrow. The case involves some nice legal points, and will probably absorb a large part of the money found before it is eqded. A Joke ou a Senator. Washington Critic A gentleman met Senator Beck yes terday-for the first time iu s dozen years, and the greeting was cordial. “Ah, Senator,” said the friend, “you don’t look a day older than you did the last time I saw you.-” •‘I’m a little grayer, possibly,” sug gested the Senator, with a pleasent siqile. ‘You are looking iu excellent health too,” pursued the friend* “Thank you. Aud do y ou know,” continued the Senator, “that I am six ty-foiq: years old and I never paid but .906 doctor’s bill in my life, and tbat was for a broken arm?” “Is that so?” asked the friend in sur prise. “Fact, I assure you.’ ’ “Well, Senator,”, said the friend, with a significant smilv', “don’t you think it is almost time you were pay ing some of them aqd preserving your credit?” Tiie Senator moved for an “execu tive session” and presented a biii of ex plquatiuns. THE CH lf7AG O t \N.YIiCH 1STS. Formal Opening or the Trial of Spies anil his Fals -Voluntary Surrender or Parsons. Chicago, June 21.—The first formal move in connection with the trial of the Anarchists was taken before Judge Gary this iqorning. A large crowd was present. Spies, Hchaw, Fielden, JMscher, Engle, Ltngg and Neobe, were arraigned. When the Court had concluded hearing the pleas of jurors be excused tfrom serving on tiie panel, Capt. Blqck, as counsel for the accused, asked leave to withdraw tiie plea of pot guilty, and entered a mo tion to quash the indictments, which was argued at some length. ^ Tiie Court at once overruled tiie motion. The defence then made a motion for seperate trud& for the accused. The Judge expressed the view that the in terests of none of the defendants would be jeopardised and he overruled the motion and directed the trial to proceed. The defence then renewed the plea of “uot guilty,” and tiie work of obtaining a jury was proceeded with. Shortly beforp 3 o’clock this aflernoon Anarchist Parsons, who hau been missing since the Huymarket riot, walked into the Criminal Court room accompanied by his attorney. His appearance was a surprise to the Court aud police officials. He is sup posed to have remained in biding in this city Since the night of May 3rd. He dro>e up to the Criminal Court building In a handsome cab and at once hurried to the Court room. Capt. Black asked that lie be tried with the other prisouere. It appears that last Saturday Capt. Black had a consulta tion with Mrs.-Parsons. He urged her, if she knew where her husband was to communicate with him at once, and get him to come to Chicago for trial. The woman refused at first, but finally bepame conyinced that it was best. He was sp thoroughly dis r guised that his own mother would not have known him. AYTlAVRrfTY UPON JUSTICE, In the itMiC A Change of Heart. Detroit Free One of “the boys,” now hanging out in Detroit was nabbed in Penn sylvanian few months ago for some swindling game, and was locked up iu a county jail pending examination. He ivas the only prisoner in the build ing, and hadn’t .been in thfere fifteen minutes before he felt that an hours’ r work would let hin> out. It was a tumble-down affair, built half a cen tury ago, and the turq-kpy was a ygung Quaker. As he received his prisoner, he sai.d: "I think I shall place thee on thy honor not to escape.” “All right,” replied the prisoner. “I want to stay right here aud see this case’through.!’, • He had the run of the corridor and an open cell, and about two hours af ter supper he had no trouble wrenoh- a, couple of bars off the corridor win dow. Waiting ‘for the jail to get quiet he lifted the sash and climbed out on the sill for a drop to the ground, but at that instant he heard a voice from beneath him s^ing: ' “Ou second thought I concluded that thy honor might uot be us safe as my vigilance. Gettheo back or I will blow thy bead oil?” The prisoner not only “got thee,” but the old crib held liim safely until he was taken into court. Why they Wear Long Dresses. JJobton Record. Speaking of Chinamen, the Histo rian fell in with one of tiie race as he was whirling madly out Washington- street, on the front platform of a car the other day. Extraordinary as if may seem, the car ceased to whirl for considerable periods, now and then, and one of these ceases Occurred in front of Jordan & Marsh’s store/ where there wasn’t much to gaze at except the dainty costumes displayed in the wjud < > w ’ ^l*® Historian and the Chinaman gazed at tiie dainty cos.- tumes, and there was a very superior sort of eniile clearly perceptible oq the Chinaman’s face. “Not many dresses like that for the ladies in China, John,” said the Cau casian. The Chinaman’s superior smile ex tended noticeably in either direction. “Chinese ladies no like such dress es,” said lie, “Too much cloth; likee show small feet. Melican lady heap big feet”—and he measured off a space of about two feet in tiie air with his hands; "gotlce wear big dress—no likee show feet!” The Barber Was to Blaiqc. Washington Crilic. There were innumerable little scratch marks on the girl’s face when she appeared at breakfast Monday morning. “My gracious, Kitty”> exclaimed her father, “your face is all scratched up.” “Yes, papa, she replied demurely: ‘‘George was here last«ight.” “What’s that got to do with it?” “Why, papa, yoy kyow the barber shops are closed on Sunday now, and” “That’s eqough,” he interrupted, “I’ll see about this,” aud hustled otl‘ to see the authorities. The Remarkable Y< gqson News and courier. Ninety-SiY, June 21.—The Fer guson murder ease has ended at last, the jury finding a verdict of not guil ty. This makes the fourth trial of this case. I am sorry to say that one of our Ninety-six men was on tiie ju ry. How they could find such a ver dict is more than nine-tenths of Ab beville’s sons can see. That, though is with them and their God. To give you some idea of the jury, it is said, by one of their number that while they were in the jury-room, having the case under consideration, one of tiie men asked tiie name of “that largo lawyer who made such a big speech.” When he was told that it was solicitor Orr, he asked which .^jde he was on. He then wished to know who W C Benet was, and asked if he was not on the saine side. He was then iinformed that Mr. Benet was defending the prisoner. Can the country expect anything better with such a jury as this? Abbeville County has a stain now upon her fair name that will take time to erqse, if it can ever be ’done at-all. It is a good joke on Messrs. Orr and Benet that one of the jurors .could uot tell from their speeches which side they repre sented. On the other hand it is a sad story to go out against our old cquuty thatwcha\c such men to sit on our juries. The President’s Salary. From the Baltimore American. A great deal of talk has been oc casioned by the mention of the fact that the President always used new money. Some people laughed at the idea that he handed a crisp new $100 bill to Dr. Sunderland for his mar riage fee, and, again, that he put a crisp new $5 bill in the collection plate at the Oakland church. ..People said: “Why, the President must have money made especially’ for him.” The truth is, the President always receives ue\y notes direct from the .Treasury. He never gets old notes, except in change when he pays a bill or makes a purchase. The’ United States Treas urer, on the last day of each month, sends the President his salary— $4,168 66—the odd change in bright new silver and copper cents, and the notes all new anti of tiie latent issue. Mr. Cleveland, like his predeces sors, keeps a private bank account with Riggs & Co., aud the day after he gets his salary he makes a deposit, reserving enough to pay current ex penses. It is sajd that his account lias shown as large a balance as $35,- 000, ok he has an income besides his official salary. Before he entered public life Ije made from $10,000 to $15,000 a year by his practice, and his expenses were not more than $2,500. He has saved muoh pf his first year’s salary, but now that he is married his expenses will increase. Emigration Out of Ireland. Correspondence of the St. Louis Re publican. The emigration out of Ireland goes on at a rate which bids fair to drain the land utterly. At every railroad sta tion a group of pqiigrnqt#, sometimes ten,'sometimes twenty, forty or fiftv, wjth all their clumsy impediments, were added to our train. So that fin ally there must have been by that one train alone six or-seven hundred peo ple taken out of Ireland never tore- turn to it. But the throngs of the self exiled poor are not the only testimony tp this exodus. Empty houses stare wiudowless at you out 0/ every farm. Ruiued barns, deserted shieldings abandoned homes, mark the road, no matter where you travel. The shrink age of the population has left these homesteads high and dry 011 the shore as it has receded, aud their emptiness is ibe most pathetic symptom of the disease that lias cankered the land for centuries. And they need so little to live. Many of these vacant tenements have but. one room. They are all stone, so that they will stand remorse- L-bsly asagh- st!y testimony to the ays tern which has made Ireland unin habitable by Irishmen. The poverty of the people is almost beyond belief. The Ferguson Case. * * < Abbeville Messenger. The fourth trial of this case came on at the June term of the Court. For the reason that the writer has been en gaged in this case ou behalf of the prosecution, this paper has had jiut little to say during the progress of the case in reference thereto. The same fact makes it incumbent to say but lit tie now. Nevertheless wo conceive it to be our duty to say that, in our opinion, the verdict of acquittal, ren dered in this case, is wrong and is con trary to the law and the evidence. Judges aud prosecuting officers may do their duty, but unless the juries do theirs, the law cannot be upheld and maintained. Trial by jury stands as the palladium of our liberties and our rights. It ensures to thp innocent man a safe, a fair and au impartial trial. It should insure to him who commits crime the same impartial, trial without fear, favor or affection, with the cerlajnty that if his guilt be proved b.is conviction will follow. Otherwise the effect and purpose of ’the law of punishment is lost. Bather Toothsome. Carl Pretzel. .“A najrrow escape,” said the bridge- tender, as he pulled a man out of the river. “It was, indeed.” .“Just got yjpu out by the skin cf your teeth,” said the bridge-tender. Hardly that,” • replied the half- drowned man. “I have got false teeth,” The Queen Anne house which Jus- , tlco Gray is going to build at Wash ington will cost about $75,000. David the King and David the Servant Troy Times. A certain clergyman had a man-of- all work, whom he ordered on a festi val to go to a butcher named David fora peieeof meat, and then to come to the church were the clergyman was to preach. The clergyman in the course of his sermon happening to turn towards tiie door as the hired man came in, exclaimed: “And what says David ?” Upon which tin- other roare l out: “He swears if you do uot pay your bill you need never send to his shop again. THgCSTREET 8CEI A Movratx 1.1*In* Pan JTREET SCENES OF TUNIS. »norama That I» ot Intense Interest to the Stranger. Tto staMt scenes of Tunis are a novelty > a European or an American, as you sec thing like them except in an oriental city, onperhaps iq Tunis itself. As I sit by ,ny hotel window and gaze down upon the i-treet, the moving firing panorama that is continually passing by from early morning until late at night is ever chang ing like the prisms in a kaleidoscope and never devoid of intense interest to the stratiger. Camels are as plenty as horses iu am American city, aud I seldom look out fbto'the street without seeing more or less of these uncouth animals crowding their yay through the narrow thorough fares, sometimes singly or in pairs, aud not infrequently a long caravan of forty or flft^or more coming in from far away interior tircrng, heavily laden with mer chandise onaaU manner of country pro ducts. jp Strapped to the backs of the camels, un til it would seem as if they would break dowu with the heavy burthens, are sacks of wheat and barley, bales of wool and compressed rags, hay, cord .wood for burn ing and, occasionally, sticks of timber. M&ny have large puniers made of grass, thrown over their backs, which are lilled with vegetables of different kinds, earthen pottery, rude stoneware, etc. These cara vans are usually preceded by an Arab mounted ou a donkey, who acts as the leader, and who seems to liave perfect control of tho loqg line of camels follow 1 ing. In going through the streets there is a stampede of the motley crowd of Arabs, and of vehicles, if there happens to be any, to places of safety, for, like sailing vessels, tiie camels have the right of way, and In very narrow streets, with the big panlers bulging out from cither side of their bod ies, they occupy all tho space'between the low buildings, to the exclusion of street loungers and wayfarers. In the kaleidoscope of humanity that meets the eyo from my hotel window are the Arab money changers, with baskets of coins on their arms: “medicine men” in ^eir grotesque costumes, who. by their strange, unearthly incantations, and for small fees, pretend to save souls from purgatory; wretched, half-naked beggars, howling, moaning, and beseeching, with outstretched palms, for the smallest of fa vors in the way of foot! or copper coins; street venders, bearing on their heads or shoulders baskets of merchandise or vege tables; jugglers plying their craft: Arab priests, or “holy men,” to whom the rabble paj deference by getting oqt qf their way and making Iqw salaams os they pass by. Occasionally one of the bey’s ministers, or possibly the bey himself, in his gilded car riage drawn by four or siX mules, accom panied by an escort of ten or twelve ofli- cere in gorgeous oriental uniforms, mounted on splendid Arabian horses, goes dashing by, followed, perhaps, by a num ber of mounted Bedouins, who are testing the speed of their favorite steeds with those of their illustrious rulers.—Tupis Cor. Boston Herald. The Fourteen Mistakes of Life. Somebody has condensed the mistakes of life, and arrived at the conclusion that there are fourteen of them. Most people would say, if they told the truth, that toete Wan no limit to the mistakes of life; that there were like the drops in the ocean or the sands of the shore in faumber, but it is well to be accurate. Here, then, are fourteen great mistakes: “It la a great mistake to set up our own standard of right and wrong, and judge people accord ingly; to measure the enjoyment of others by pur own; to expect unformity of opin ion in this world; to look for judgment knd Experience in* youth; to endeavor to mould all dispositions alike; to yield to immaterial trifles; to look for perfection }n pur own actions; to worry ourselves and Others with y/hat can not be remedied; not to alleviate all that needs alleviation as far as lies in our power; not to make al lowances for the infirmities of others; to consider everything impossible that we can not perform; to believe only what our finite minds can grasp; to expect to be able to understand everything.” — Ex change. , ■/ Tattooing Abolished In Japan. The Japanese government, la its anx iety to complete the occidentalism of the nation, is passing very paternal measures. Its latest piece pf legislation prohibits the favorite practice of tattooing. No doubt the habit is a little barbarous, but it boasts an honorable antiquity, and its re sults are extremely picturesque, as was shown by the Greek nobleman who exhib ited the charms of his figured person to Londoners a year or two ago. The sup pression of artistic development is seldom advisable, and, except in the case of sump tuary laws, the limit of state interference are surely reached when the right of per sonal adornment is infringed. ’ And tattoo ing can scarcely be styled Sumptuous, though doubtless one effect of its abol ition will fiq tq throw a number of artists out of employment. But what seems to prove a graver objection to the new law Is that the Japanese, without the assist ance of the family totem pricked on the skin, will experience considerable diffi culty in distinguishing one another.—St. James’ Gazette. Washington’s Bed-Room at ML Vernon. Washington’s bed-room is almost ex actly os it was on the night of his death. Even the coverlul on the bed is the same which covered mm during his dying bou^s, and in the fireplace are the andirons which were in pse when Dr. Cralk, bn that memorable night in December, 1799, sat by the fire listening to the terrible breath ing of the dying man. After his death Mrs. Washington never entered thp r'bom, but went up on the third fiooV to a little hip-roofed room, which she never left from that time to the day of her death, which followed eighteen months later. When asked the reason for choosing out of the whole mansion this mean Tittle room, she said it was because from that window only could she see Washington’s tomb. During the little while she survived fiim her chair was always placed at that window, and even from her deathbed she could watch the grave.—Washington Letter. A Bronze Beauty In the Saddle. The Duchess d’Uzes is in despair. The empress of Austria is greien with jealous rage. Why! Because their fame as the greatest equestrian women in Europe is about to fade. The Princess Bargash Said Medfid is here. And who is she? The sister of the sultan of Zanzibar. What, a negro? Npt quite; and African, of course, but her complexion is only bronzed, and she is really a beautiful and cultured woman. But in the saddle! Why, she is accustomed to riding out to shoot lions, and she can outdoo any circus per former in the world. She has stood erect on the back of a galloping horse and with her rifle shot running antelopes. What are our European equestrians to Leri— Paris Cor. Chicago Tribuua " * FLIES ON THE WINQOW PANE. A Characteristic Anecdote of Holmaa Hunt’s Early Artistic Work. My father was from the first strongly opposed to my becoming an artist; he had had reason to see the ill effects of a loafing; idle life, and he believed, in accordance with the general opinion of those days, that artists were necessarily of a reckless, frivolous character, and led a useless, un stable fife. So, finding that at school | scribbled more designs than exercises m my copy-books, be removed me from school when I was 12.^ years old, with the intention of placing me in sojne city oflta*. Owing to a fortunate accident I was placed with an auctioneer and estate agent as a sort of probationary clerk, aud one ilay iny master, coining Into the offleo hur*- riedly, calight me putting away something in my desk, and, insisting upon seeing It, discovered that I could draw. This led to Inquiries on his part as to whether I ha4 painted, and it turned out that hq 1va» himself fond &f art‘ and, whenever he could get a chance, practiced painting. “One day,” he paid Wine, “when there’s nothing mu&h tb be done, yon ahd I will shut ourselves in here and have a day’s painting together;” and sq It happened. Hepe were the tables turned Upon my father with a vengeance! I was get ting artistic encouragement from the very employer who should have been distilling into me commercial principles. 1 This lasted about a year pud a half, .whefi owing to my employer's retirement front bqsihese, 1 obtained another situation iq the city at a Manchester warehouse, iq Cateaton street, managed by a London • agent of Richard Cobdeo. Hare I sat by myself iu a little room looking out at the three blank walls and made entries in a ledger, and seemed further than ever from my desire of becoming an artist. But here, too, curiously enough, another artistic ft lend turned up, in the pepsiqu of an occasional clerk whqsh business it was to design patterns' for the firm’s calicos, etc. Surreptitiously I also used to try my hand at designing, and attained sufficient proficiency to enable my friend to make use of my designs on various occasions. I remember an amusing incident of this period, which gave me great delight at the time. The window of my room wap made of ground glass, and, having but little to do, I parsed my time drawing with both pen and pencil flies upon its roughened surf^pe. A good blot of ink sufficed for the body and some delicate strokes with a hard pencil for the wings, and at a short distar.ee the deception was perfect. Day by day the number of flies in thqt poem increased, till one day my empldy^r, coming in, stopped suddenly in front of the window and said: “I can’t make out how it is; every day I come into this room there seems to be more flies in it,” and he took out his handkerchief to brush thorn away.—Holman Hunt In Contemporary ‘Review. ‘ The Railroad Aeroa* the Caucaaa*. The railroad across the Caucasus is a mifitary one—i. e., constructed primarily for purposes of troop transportation, eta, like nearly every railroad in the vast Rus sian empire, such as, for instance, the one now building from the Caspian to Tash- kend, a distance of 1,550 versts (abont 1,100 miles). The places between Batonm and Baku, a distance of 827 versts, are few and far between, and, with the exception of Tiflis and Elizabetpol, of no great impor tance. The scenery between Batoum and Tiflis is grand and varied. The railroad climbs on its way a mountain of 8,200 feet in height—the Sougame—and feats of engin eering skill are frequent all along the line. Of course, all this makes this line very ex pensive and unprofitable, and the govern ment annually has to put np for the de ficit Only one train every twenty-four hours starts between Batoum and Baku. The latter town is now sufficiently known to America as her great rival iq the petroleum line. A whole book ou the town and its wonders has lately been written by an Englishman, but he con flues himself to the technical points. Baku has now 67,000 inhabitants, and has grown to such proportions within the last four years. It is an old town, however, and the presence of naptha here was known even in the dimmest antiquity. The temples for fire worshipers, who used to come here as |p a sort of Mecca from all parts of the orient, have been destroyed. The fire is no longer worshiped here, but the oil is. Baku sent away to Russia and foreign ports last year no less than 25,- 000,000 pud (the pud equals 16 kilos, or 85 pounds,) and the oil delivered on board, refined, costs bnt 17 to 20 kopecks (8 to 10 cents) the pud.—Baku Cor. Chicago Times. President Arthur’s Happiest Pays. President Arthur always dressed well, and his clothes were always in accordance , with the occasion;' His usual suit when receiving callers was a black diagonal with a Prince Albert cout closely buttoned and cut so as to ’fit him perfectly. He wore business suits while in bis office, aud bis favorite hat was a tall plug, black during the winter and white in the summer. His fondness for fishing was well known, and is said that hecaugntthe largest salmon ever caught with a fly in this country. During his presidency he made many fish ing trips, ami about the only presents lie would receive •were thosa consisting of fishing-rods. When he left the White House he went off fishing as the first thing, and I think his happie.-t days were spent with the rod in his hands. —“Carp” in Cleve land Leader. S^ci *-,*? . >5 ^ ; 7 tS / 0 •/ / S7 L f- She Liked the Epilogue Beet. A young lady from St. Louis __ was visit ing her cousin, an Ashland avenue belle, a few weeks ago, and together they at tended a Modjeska matinea “As You Like It” was the play. The St. Louis young lady was delighted. “It was just spleudid,” she decSured to some of*her friends the next day, “and the audience fairly went wild. Whdn the play was finished the people didn’t want the curtain to come down, and cheered so that Mrs. Modjeska had to step down to the front of the stage and ma^e a little speech thauking the people 'for their kindness, and asking them to come again some time. Such a speech as it vftls, too. I never beard such a pretty one in all my life. I didn’t think there was any woman living who could make such nice speeches. Why, tLelari^uagewas os'pure and sweet as that Governor Marmaduke used in hia campaign addresses last fall”—Chicago Herald. * / * v 4. i., - Tku Value of Many Associate*. You can not live your best life without plenty of associates and ar ever-widening circle of associates. You draw a new life from tvery real friend you make. So does Jhat friend from yon. If you isolate and cut yourself down to au ever-decreasing circle of friends you are literally starving yourself to death. ' ' vr ou will never find a person iu good physical health or balanced in mind who went off from the world and lived alone. Tajse all the active minds of our time, the people WhC are live working powers' in the world, and you find them always people of wide and ever-widening iahge.&f ps&ociation. " ’ • The “crank” blooms in solitude—an un healthy growth through feeding on him self—over much self-communing and nursing'6! hls'peX idea until in his eyes it fills the universe.—Prentice Mulford in San Francisco Chronicle. It Ir.oicated HI* Popularity. Qtncesj^ker—Well, what was the meet ing like? Ward Politician—Entirely harmonious. Never saw anything like 1L You wers nominated by acclamation. “A spontahebyi outburst, eh?” “Entirely so, sir. It indicates your pop ularity. There wasn’t anything else to be expected. The spontaneity was all ar ranged in caucus the night before.”—Phil adelphia Call Ratnra’s Favorite Garden Spot. The terrestrial flowerland par excellence is the Caspian slope of the Caucasus range, near the pass of Derbent, the an cient Pyle Caucasian The mountains, to a height of 5,000 feet, are all summer aflame with flowers, both in the forest sad open glades. All sorts of blooming creep ers stretch their festoons from tree to tree; flowery mountain meadows attract swarms of butterflies; hollyhocks and tiger-lilies are found near tiie upper limits of arboreal vegetatldSu A correspwMlottt of The Ansland, who vlsito^ $hat C<a>pian Florida in the company qf a party of Rus sian railway surveyors, comes to the con clusion that the bigiilands of the east were, after alL nature’.* favorite garden spots, and that ti.e master races of man kind who abandoned tiiat paradise have, in many respects, goup Author to fare 1 jjug \ 1 1