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BY E. B. MURRAY & GO._ _ANDERSON, S. C., THURSDAY, JUNE 12, 1879. VOL. X1Y-NO. 48. FISH CULTURE. Ilute liing Wf Egg* for th? Unlocking or River*. New York Herald, HAVRE DE GUACE, Md., Juno 27, 1S79. Thc hatching of shad, which ia carried on hero under tho joint auspices of the United StaU-s government and tho State of Maryland, luis just como to an end. Tho Beason, which began in Albemarle Sound pbout tho 1st of April, luis been prosperous. With the slight and inex Scnsivc but very perfect machinery used Ir. Ferguson, to whoso ingenuity the completeness of this machinery is large ly owing, nud who bas been for some years at the head of tho Maryland Fish Commission, as well as' an assistant of Professor Baird, of the United States Commission, has been able to batch out over fifteen millions of shad eggs, of which a largo quantity luis been distributed to different rivers, tiic remain der being used to stock the Susquehanna and also the North Carolina rivers emp tying into tho Albemarle Sound. Tho shad batching operations have been carried on at Spesuite Island, near Havre do Grace, at tho mouth of tho Susquehanna!] Uiver, for four or five years, and Ibero is already evidence in the greater abundance of shad this year and of thc great value of tho artificial batching. Fishermen know that there are years of abundance and years of scarcity in the fisheries, aqd they say hero that berring and shad aro usually abundant or scarce in the same year. Now the present year bas been one of scarcity for herring, and should, ia the natural course of events, have been one of scarcity for shad, but the catch of shad bas been uncommonly large, so great, in fact, that tho fishermen complain that tlie price of abad bas run down toa point where it is no longer noarly as profitable as formerly to take th .m. Moreover, it was noticed during this season that tho shad once more appeared in abundance in ono or two of tho minor trib"taries of the Lower Susquehanna, where i jr some years they had been so scareo that fish ing stations established there bad been given up; nnd this is accounted for by thc fact that Mr. Ferguson several years ago took pains to scatter some of the young sbrd which had been hatched out in these stiearas, to which they are now for tho first time returuiug in tho shape of marketable fish. Th? ?had requires four years from tho time he is batched to become a full grown fish. At three years be is large euough to eat ; at four years the feuialo shad be gins to spawn, and during the present year the results of the Fish Commission era's operations have made themselves felt in the greater abundaucc of the fish through the return of thoso hatched out iu these waters to Bpawn. HATCHING OUT THE EGGS. Simple ns tho operation of hatching out the eggs of the shad seems to tho vis itor, it is the result of good many years of patient experiment. Formerly the eggs ol tho shad, after they had been mixed with tho milt of the malo fish, wore placed in boxes, a long succession of which, fastened together by cords, were anchored in the tideway, tho object be ing to keep the eggs in running water. The difficulty with this method was that the current of water running through the boxes had a teudency to conceutralo tho eggs in tba farther id of each box, where by the pressure mauy eggs perished, arid only a comparatively Rinull number were hatched out. More over, a storm or a change in tho current deranged tho boxes and did still further damage. This plan worked sufficiently well for small operations, but something different was seen to bo needed for tho wholesale and extcusive operations con templated by tho United States Fish Com mission under Professor Baird and bis able assistante. Mr. Ferguson, a young Maryland mau, being placed at the head of tho Fish Commission of that State co-operating with Professor Baird, origi nated and, ia 1S77, perfected the plan which is now used and by which millions of shad are batched out at small expense with but a trifling loss of eggs or fish. THE PRE8ENT SYSTEM. As the system ?B perfected near this place the batching is carried on in a scow or flat bottomed vessel, which contains a small eugine. The shad fishery, w hich is a very large business here, is plied only after dark, tho fishermen going out in their boam with their seiues and gill nets, and taking their catch during tho night. Mr. Ferguson has a steam launch and a number of small boats. These aro out every night to gather tho supply of eggs. It is not every female shad taken that can bo used to furnish eggs for artifi cial hatching. The shad must bo ".-:pe," us il is culled-that is to say, sho must be in that condition in which Bho is about to spawn, and is taken by tho fisherman in tho net, as it wero, and with the eggs running out of ber. Sho is then called a rino shad. By an arrangement with tho Fish Commission, whenever ono of the fishermen in tho bay takes such a shad in his nets he hoists a light or shouts, and initnediajidy one 01 tho Commission's boats comes to him and strips the shad of her eggs, strips n malo shad of tho milt, puts these ?u a proper vessel, returns tho fish to th?. Lshernian and gives bim a yel low pasteboard ticket, which is afterward and at bis leisure redeemed by thc Com mission with fifty cents. This is com monly called a fiat shad, and it differs from Mr. Kwinc's nnrl Sonntor Jones' cel ebrated fint money in thia important par ticular, that while it is not a legal tender it is redeemed on demand in money. At headquarters on thc scow'a regular account is, of course, kept of thc num ber of ripo shad procured each night ; and it strikes the visitor curiously that out of the thousands of shad caught ev ery night not moro than from fifteen to twentv are useful for the purposes of the Fish Commission. A female shad con tains from 20,000 to 30,000 eggs. Fif teen would at this rato yield from 800 0<)d to 400,000 eggs in a night, and under Mr. Ferguson's system tho loss io; this number is butavcry trilling proportion less than ten per cent. PROCESS OF HATCHING. Tho small boats carry tho eggs collec ted to tho steam launch, which in tu/n takes them in to headquarters at the scow wdicre they are to bo batched. Herc they aro placed in largo tin cans, which have n bottom of fino gauze, the openings in which aro large enough U> admit water, but so small that when the eggs are hatch ed it is impossible for even tho smallest tho young-fish to escape. The caus aro nbout threo foot high and oighteen inches in diameter. Tlpjy aro suspended outside of thc vessel from wooden arms, which have a slow up and down motion - \vcu them by the engine. This motion ?" somewhat irregular, being slow up ward and a little moro rapid downward, the object of which arrangement is that tho eggs shall not nt any time sink to the bottom of tho vessel, there to be crowded all together, to the dotrimont of the fish in thom, but shall bc kept suspended in tho constantly changing water within the cnn. This motion of tho can? goes on day and night, because it is necessary to the success of tho hatching process that there shall bo a constant current or sup ply of frcsh-wnter around tho eggs. In from four to Rix day?, moro or lesa, ac cording to thc temperature of the water, the young fish burst from their shells and appear in the waters almost imper ceptibly small but very lively ; their eyes and the little bag of mod on their backs tdug the most noticeable parts of them. They grow pretty rapidly, and in about ten days arc ready to be shipped. Those which aro to be sent ofi* aro then placed in f.esh water in large milk ams,andar? transported to their destination under the care of experts, whose duty it is to strain oif the water and replace it by fresli at certain intervals until they reach their place of destination, whero they aro im mediately emptied iuto tho stream aud loft to care for themselves. DETAILS OE THE BUSINESS. ?Since 1871 over forty-eight million of shad eggs havo been hatched and the shad distributed to different rivers all over thc country by tho United States Fish Commission. They have been sent to California ; the Western and Eastern rivers have been stocked and the tributa ries of tho Mississippi have also received largo supplies. In fact, the United States Fish Commission, under the management of Professor Baird and bis assistants, ban supplied the young shad to tho amount of nearly 00,000,000, of California sal mon to the amount of over 10,000,000, of Maine salmon to amount of nearly 7,000, 000, and of lake whitefish to tho amount of 10,000,000, to different States of the Union, tho demand coming from almost every State, including such interior States even as Colorado, Arkansas, Illinois, Michigan, Ohio, Georgia, Mississippi, and even Utah Territory. EFEOItT TO RETARD HATCHING. This year Mr. Ferguson has begun at til is place an attempt to retard the hatch ing of shad e^gs by the careful use of cold, with a view of trying to ship thc eggs instead of the young fish. There is a great demand from European govern ments, mainly from tho German States, for American fish. It is difficult and costly and also risky to transnort th? young shad for so long a distance, because experience bas shown that the water which they get on tho way docs not con tain a proper supply of food for them. They can oe shipped for a journey of seven or eight days without much diffi culty or loss, but if tho journey i? pro tracted for ten days or longer great num bers cf them die cu ibo way, and they are supposed to die of starvation. If the plans now undergoing trial for retarding tho batching of eggs by the uso of cold should provo successful it will be possible to ship shad eggs to much longer dis tances and without risk of loss. THE HOCK OR STRIPED BASS. Professor Baird bas been anxious for some yenrs to obtain tho eggs of the rock fish for hatching. This is tue fish known on the New England coast aa the "strip ed bass." Its spawning ground has been looked for five years, aud in vain until this year, when, near the close of the shad-hatching operations in Albemarle Sound, Mr. Ferguson was so fortunate as to take from the seine of a shore fisher man three ripe rockfish. Each of these fish contained not less than 200,000 eggs. As their habits were not known, some loss was experienced in spite of great care. It was found that where the shad egg requires six days to hatch, the eggs of tho rock or striped bass batched out in tho same temperature in from twenty four to thirty six hours. Tho eggs are a third smaller than those of tho shad, much lighter, and more disposed to float. This made it necessary to reverse the mo tion of the bucket so as to keep the eggs down instead of keeping them in suspen sion, as is done with the shad eggs. The ?oung striped bass when they were atcbed out wero so much smaller than the young shad that they escaped from tho buckets in considerable number./ Enough were Baved, however, "Ho show that they are hardy aud can bo trana fiortcd to oven a greater distance than md. It is believed that the Btriped bass, does not spawn north of Chesapeake Bay, and whore this noble fish is found on the New England coast it is migratory. Pro fessor Baird Bays that no ripe rockfish bas ever been found there. Its time of spawning comes probably in the waters of Albemarle Souud toward the closo of thc shad season, aud is thus convenient for the Fish Commission's operations there. The iudustrial importance of this dis covery of the placo whero the striped bass spawns is very great, because this fish is in season, wherever it is caught, during at least ten months in tho year, and is a favorite fish in the market at all times. If it can bc made more abundant by tho operations of tho Fish Commis sion it will therefore supply employment to fishermen aud food tor tho markets during a great part of tho year, whereas the shad season is very snort, employs the fisbernicu during but a few weeks in in the year, and duriug that time the market is often so glutted that the fish are sold at very low prices. They brought this year at this station no more than $G or $7 per 100. Even now it is believed by experts that, large as is the product of tho shad fisheries on this coast, tho total value of tho rock or striped bass product nearly equals that of thc shad. EXPERIMENTS WITH HERRING. During tho last season, in Albemarle Sound, Professor Baird and Mr. Fergu son experimented with the eggs of her ring. They hutched out four or live hun dred thousand egg*, -mil with ?uch com plete success that they established thc fact that tho herring eau bo artificially hatched in quantities for restocking rivers, whenever it shall become necessa ry, with perfect ease. Tho herring eggs are much smaller than those ot tho shad but are treated in tho hatching operatior very much as shad eggs. During thc last threo years Mr. Ferguson, acting foi the U. S. tish Commission and tho Stat? of Maryland, has thu. added the striper bass and tho herring to the number o fish which can bo successfully hatchet: by artificial means for tho restocking o rivers, and also the smelt, of which h< batched out half a million on tho Kari tan River, near New Brunswick, N. J. and scattered tho young fish in Marylant waters. For ali this his ingenious appa tua has proved completely successful Professor Baird bas also used it in hi: successful experiments in hatching ou codfish at Gloucester, whero 12,000,00( of this valuable fish have been produced Tho artificial batching of codfish an? ninckerel ia now entirely practicable oi a large scale, and Professor Baird, wh bas devoted himself with great success as is well known, to this work, believe it possible and easy to restock our water with theso fish in great quantities at au; time. Tho fish batched out by the Unitei States Fish Commission aro, of course an absoluto gain. Tho eggs are prcserv ed from the fish which prey upon them i and the young fish mc nut only sent t different parta of tho country where thc are applied for, to restock rivers, bu when tliey are pat into the water lor a independent life are in that stage C growth whero they aro much more abl to escape their enemies than they woul be under the natural condition of tbingi ENKMIES OP THE SPAWN. At this fish-hatching station ono se< a curious eight, showing how uurncrous and greedy are tho enemies whicli prey Upon the spawu of tho shad and other marketable fish. No sooner is a tin can containing shad eggs lowered into the water alongside the boat than thc whole surrounding water becomes alive with perch, catfish, eels and other fish who dart nt tho can and about it, attracted probably by the odor of tho eggs. GOOD RESULTS ATTAINED. So evident to the shad fishermen nt thia point has been the good result of the hatching operations which have been carried on here for three years or more, that this year some of the gi Hers declined to receive pay for ibo ripe fish furnished the Commission by them, saying that they saw very clearly that they were sufficiently beuefited by tho increase of fish. In 1854 one hundred black bass were brought from the Ohio Uiver in the tank of a locomotive eugine and cast into the Potomac, where thc black bass was then unknown. Now this fish is so abundant'that thousands of pounds are caught every year. There ia no doubt that the operations of the United State3 Fish Commission will in a few years rev olutionize the fish business ou our coastH and rivers. The Commission has now hatched out in large quantities shad, California salmou, laud-locked salmon, Maine salmon, salmon trout, codfish, whitefish, smelts, halibut, and is engaged in thc hatching of carp, which aro being brought from Hungary. Tho Maryland Fish Commission, for whoso support the State of Maryland appropriates ^10,000, co-operates at this and other points with thc United States Fish Commission, but Mr. Ferguson, the Maryland Fish Com missioner, has established a hatching house in Druid Hill Park at Baltimore, where trout and salmon are batched out in largo quantities. Thc Southern Exodus in ifs Political attd Economic Aspects. . WASHINGTON, D. C., June 22. Representative Witthorne, of Tennes see, hns forwarded a communication to Chairman Goode, of Virginia, of tho House Committee on Education and La bor, touching the propriety of the pro posed investigation into the cause of the recent colored exodus from the Southern States, After a general review of the re lations which existed between slayehol dcrs and slaTts, Mr. Whitthorne says: "Possibly in the whole history of the hu man family there was never such a spec tacle presented of goodly feeling at the close of a long, bitter and bloody strug gle, involving the fortunes, rights and lives of twelve millions of people, as was exhibited, and which admittedly existed between the white and black races occu pying the late slave States at the close of the late war. The civil war of four years had desolated those States and ruined all fortunes. The losses amounted to billions, and there was mourning in every household. At the same time that the 8,000,000 whites were in this stato tho 4,000,000 blac! s, suddenly free, were left with scant di .oases against starva tion, disease and crime, and with no means of support but their own hands. "Here, then, is the place to test tho innumerable charge made in every way and on all occasions, that the colored man in the South is denied legal nnd political rights and deprived of the just rewards of his labor and kept in danger of his life. Thcso partisan statements can best be tried by the test of work done. Since 1SG9, cattle and swine have increased 3,000,000 head. For eight years before 18G1, 27,142,2S5 bales of cot ton wero produced ; in the last eight years the pn uct has been 33,226,531 bales. In 18/1 there were 7,500,000 acres in cotton ; in 1878 there were more than 12,000,000 acres. Moro than $200, 000,000 annual product of Southern labor enter into tho purchase of merchandise and manufactures in the Eastern and Middle States. Southern railroads have increased in earnings, Southern cities and towns in growth, while all Southern industries have largely and materially improved." Mr. Whitthorno shows that while tho Northern furm laborer is paid at the rate of $7 per capita of population, the Southern farmlnborer is paid at tho rate of more than $10 per capita of pop ulation. Nine million Southern people pay $97,007,174 for lnbor, while fifteen million Northern and Western people pay only $114,892,364. "Looking to these facts," ho continues, "can it be said that tho laborer of the South is not os well paid as the same class in other sections of our country? Can it be urged that the labor of the South has been so disturbed that its stal wart men have been so iuterferred with as to compel one-third of them to aban don borne and birthplace, and that so out rageous is the oppression and the danger that they should stand not upon thc or der of their going, but to fleo without thought of the present or provision for tho futuro? It is believed by many that, upon n thorough examination of tho facts connected with this exodus movement, in it will bejshown to have ita origin spec ulation in Kansas railroad lands, to which a portion of the freedmen's money through the Freedman's Bank was first dedicated, and that the parties who nided in tho robbery of that institution con ceived that their were millions in temp ting its depositors and their moo to be come occupants of tito lands upon which they held mortgngo bonds. * * * * I feel sure that when all the truth is known that it will bc econ that Loll, races bavo suffered from tho madness and craft of politicians, and that it can be shown that thc people of the South have a christian civilization, that whilst it en riches mankind is just and generous to all within its influence; that it only asks to bo judged in that charity which Bpcaks in love and asks only tho obser vance of that decree: 'That with what soever judgment ye would bc judged, judge ye.' "If," says Mr. Whitthorno, "tho investigation can be had in this spirit, let us navo it hy nil means, but, if it is to bo used for sectional purposes and to make tho South once moro tho Clay tiling of partisan bato, it should not o proceeded with. Both races have suffered too much in the past by this sort of thing to want more of it." ? DOES Urn OWN WOUK.-Does she? What of it? Is it any disgrace? Is she any less a true woman, less worthy of re spect than she who sits idle in fine clothes, vain of fingers that never labor? "Does her own work." We listened to this sneer a fe" days ago, nnd the tono in which it was uttered ootokened a nar ro v.-, ignoble mind, better fitted for any place than a country whoso institutions rest on honorable labor as one of tho chief corner stones. It evinced a false idea of true womanhood, of genuine nobility. It showed tho spirit of caste, of rank, which n certain dans try to es tablish-a casto whoso foundation ia money. Position in their rank is bought with gold, and each dollar is another round in tho ladder by which elevation is gained. A pleasant and cheerful room is essen tial to tho health of tho bnby, and tho usual pains and ills of thc young ones soon ;aniah after thc usc of Dr. Bull's I B?by Syrup. Price 25 cent?. CRUEL REMOLLER. Tho Ma*KachiiM>tt* Father Who Shut Hin Three Children After Attempting to Pol non Them. Nothing since tho holocaust at thc French Catholic church, three or four years ago, has caused so much excite ment in tlii? section as a humble tragedy at Holyoke this afternoon. John Kem mlcr. a German at South Holyoke, in tho absence of bis wife this afternoon, shot his three little girls, aged respec tively fifteen months, four and six years. The details of thc crime aro too sicken ing to seem possible, and even compass in horror tho recent Pocasset tragedy. ' All threo wi re shot through the head- j Ludmilla, tho eldest, and Kinma, the j youngest, being apparntloy killed j instantly, while Anna, tho little four-year-old, was breathing at last ac counts though unconscious and with no possible chance of recovery, her brains protruded from both sides of the bead. Every one who has not scon Kemmlcr says he must be insane, but, "If this be madness, then there's method in't." The murderer is an intelligent, well informed Gorman, who bas lived in Hol yoke about seven years. During this time bo has always been employed nt Borne of thc mills, and last worked at the Germania woollen mill. He bas always been sober and industrious, and though be has at times acted very queerly, he wai never considered otherwise than an "edd genius." Before be came to Holy oke ho worked in Northampton at the Bay State cutlery works, and Inter at the Buy State paper mill, and, till within a few months, has had money in tho sav ings banks, both at Northampton and Holyoke. He has at different times drawn out'bis money and talked of buy ing a farm, and then would afterward deposit it again. About the first of March he drew out all thc money ho had in both saving banks, and, after paying what debts be owed, hud about $110 left, with which be started for thc Black Hills. About three weeks ago be carno back, and since that time bas done noth ing. He has not, so far 1.3 known, tried to obtain employment, and basbecu pos sessed with the idea that he could not work any more, aud was unable to sup port his family, and be had had a con stant impression that his little girls would grow up "and go to tho bad," as be expressed it. Acting ou this thought, ho resolved some time ugo, before bc re turned from the Black Hills, he says, to kill his threo children as tuc only way to save their souls. His wile bas been afraid of him, and bus feared that bc would carry out some of the threats he bas made against ber and the children, but Ecems to have been taken off her guard. Ho savs that bc bad fixed upon to-day as the day when the children must die, and two or threo days ago bought Bomo cyanide of pata3sium to poison them. Ho apparently watched his op portunity to have the children alone, and this afternoon 6ent his wifo up town to buy a hat for tho youngest. After sho had gone he called the. children in from the Btreet, where they were playing, tell ing them that, they were to be washed and dressed, and theu be would take them up street and get them some can dy. After getting, them in tho house bc attempted to aumistcr tho poison to them, but as they would not take it bo deliberately shot them in cold blood. Ho then wrote a letter in German to one of his neighbors, telling what he had doue, and hinting at suicide, and closed by saying that bis wife kne*. nothing about it. Carrying thc bleeding body of little Abala into the room where thc oth ers were murdered ho laid it on the bcd beside the baby, leaving the eldest on thc floor in a pool of blood. Ho then went out, locking the door and cutered Blaise Borlin's inger beer saloon, near by, where be told what ho had doue and asked for a glass of beer. Deputy Sheriff Kingsbury happened to be in that part of the city, aaa followed Kemmlcr up thu street, and found him in Martin Smith's saloon. Ho was at once taken to thc station-house and put under guurd. Meanwhile so great a crowd bad gathered at the Bcone of tho murder that the officers with difficulty effected an entrance to the bouse. When they bad dono so what a sight to be hold ! Tho tenement was a small ono of four rooms on tho third floor. Every thing spoke of poverty, but tho rooms wcro neat and clean, showing that the poor mother bad doue ber best to make her borne pleasant and cheerful. Tho first room eutered was evideutly used f iv a sort of a living room, and on a clothes line hung tho dresses and aprons of tho little victims, washed and ironed ready for tho Sabbath. Scattered here and there on tho floor were tho playthings they bad last used. On the tablo stood tho bottlo of cyanide of potassium, and near it a tea cup, which smelled of tho poison, Bhowing that thc unnatural fa ther bad tried to feed it to the children be fon) shooting them. In thc cupboard v. ;.s half a loaf of bread and the rem nants of thc noonday meal. Opening out of this was the bedroom where iay tho bodies of Anna and Emma, with a bullct-holo through tho head of each. Tho former was just breathing, while the latter lay as if shot while asleep. One litllo band was raised to its check, and all blackened, as was tho face, with powder. Tho bullet that did thc deadly work was fouud in tho pillow, having Kissed completely through tho head, udmilla, tho eldest, had evidently stood br >ido thc bed when ?hot, and fell over on the floor, where her body was found in a pool of blood. All three bullets were found by Sheriff Kingsbury. They were .32 caliber, and the pistol, when taken from the murderer, had four cham bers discharged, ?bowing that ono shot bad been fired that did not tako effect. Medical Examiner Dr. L. M. Tuttle made an examination of tho bodies pre paratory to an inquest, after which they weio bunded over to tho undertaker. At the station-houso Kcmmler w?s placed in a cell, whero ho is watchem constantly lest be should deviso some way to com mit suicido INTERVIEW WITH THE MURDERER, 'i bo lierahl reporter secured an inter view with bim there, aud learned from his own lips tho details of his crime. His utter-: JCS were strongly Teutonic, but tl'ls accent will not bu attempted her?. Bep.rtcr-They say you have shot your children. Is this possible? Prisoner (with emphasis)-Yes of course I have. I ?hot them all, and they died right off and went to Heaven. It.--Why didn't you shoot yourself? P.-Why, that wouldn't bo right. I should go to boll if I should shoot my self. li.-But how could you shoot thoso lit tle innocent children? P.-How could 1! How could I KCO them grow up and como on the town, and byc-aud-byo seo them going into bad bouses? I thought that if 1 killed them now they would bc all right; they would dio and go straight to heaven. lt.-But they would not need tr? como on the town; you aro not au old man, and could support them well enough. P.-I am about forty-eight years old. I nm too old to work, and it makes no difference what becomes of mo ; and now my wife won't have the children to take caro of. She can do washing and other work, and earn enough to live on. It is better for her limn t" have the chil dren. . H.-Did you love your children? P.-Why, of course I did, and that was why I'shot them. They didn't feel it. I put the pistol un close to their bends, and they died riglit off and went to heaven. R.-But Anna didn't ; she is alive now, and has suffered terribly. P.-Is that HO? No, it can't be-you aro fooling me. I can't understand. I thought I killed them all. I meant to, and, if I had supposed that Anna was not dead, I would have given her anoth er shot. I lind plenty moro cartridges, and if you will let me out I will go right down there now and finish her. R.-Tell me just how you shot them. P.-Well, you seo my little Emma was lying on tho bcd, anti my eldest lit tle girl was taking care of her. The lit tle one ?fell off thc bcd the other day nnd hurt her very much, and I felt sorry for her. I always loved my children, anil could not bear to sec them tako um buri, so I told tito oldest to take caro of her when sho was on tho bed, and see she didn't fall again. So she was stand ing by tho bed, and I cnlled my littlo Anna into tho other bed-room nnd told ber I had gol something to show her [with a fiendish laugh.] Then I pulled my revolver out of my coat pocket, nnd when she was looking at it she said, "Ob, how pretty!" and I put it un to her tem plo and shot ber and Bhe fell riglit down. Then I went into the bed-room where the others were, nnd my little one lay right there on the pillow, and I thought I could shoot her, too, so she would die right off and never feel it. R.-And then you shot the eldest, nidn't you ? P.-Ve?; it was the dav they had got to die, and I thought I wight as well kill ; her then, nnd so I shot h. r, too, and ts':c ', fell right down on tho floor. R.-Did you bring Anna into thc bed- I room and lay her on the bed ? P.-Yes, I picked her up off the floor , and carried her into where the others were, and laid her on the bed just as nice as I could. lt.-But. yoi! left the eldest lying ia the blood on tho floor. Why didn't you ' pick up her body, too? P.-She bled so much Hint I thought the blond would get all over the bed, and it could be cleaned oil" from tho floor much moro easily than from tho bed. R.-What do you suppose will be dono , with you? P.-I don't know. Perhaps they will shut me up in jail. It makes no differ- J encc. I am just as woll oil* there as any- j where. R.-But they will hang you for this. P.-Well, I don't caro. They may do ', what they please. 1 don't make tho , laws. I had got to do it ; those children , couldn't live to come on tho town and , ?o to bad houses. I wouldn't have it. , f I wasn't a christian, I might. R.-Then you arc a Christian, aro you ? P. Yes, I am a good Protestant Chris tian. I never have had time to go to . church in Holyoke, becauso I always had to work Sundays ; but I used to go when I was in Northampton. Kemmler's account of the crime was so shocking that the officers could hardly bear to listen to his talk. Ile seemed throughout to think that lie had dono a meritorious action, and talked as free ly of bis disposition of the children as though they had been simply treated for sickness. He never once speaks of it us ! a crime, and perhaps this of itself is sufficient evidence ot his insnnity. A man in his right mind could hardly talk as he does, unless he was indeed devoid of all semblance of a soul. His nppear nuce is singular, but ho has moro of an expression of treacherous, cunning BOUI lcsaness than of viciousness. A later dispatch from Holyoke gives tho following additional particulars of the tragedy ; When Kemmler arrived ut Omaha on his return trip, he tried to ob tain work of a farmer, but could not make a bargain. Ho made up his mind while West to kill his children when he got home. He said: "They aro small now, and good as anybody's children. If I kill them, they will go to heaven and will never do anything bad, and will never be bad girls." Last r- linday ho thought thc matter over, and decided to kill his children this week. Ho was with tho children down by the river Thursday night, and thought of their falling down on thc'cold dump ground. He thought ho would wait and kill them in the house. Last evening ho went out and practiced with his pistol ) seo if it was aii right, and this afternoon he sent bis wife away and killed them. He hud rather toe them buried and in heaven than see them bad. He repeatedly said : "I'm growing old, and 1 can't make money to send them to school and dress them well, and I am afraid they will bc bad." While he waa narrating this sto ry an officer cunio in and told him one of thc children was alive. At thic no jumped at the grated door like a caged ti ger, and shouted: "Let mo outl Let me go and kill her! I don't want her in pain I" When the oflicer told him that the child would Boon die, ho quieted down and said; "Oh, it is all right then !" Ho repeatedly asked the by Btanders ii they did not think ho did right. Ho Haid he would not have como back from thc Black Hills had bc not determined to kill the children. Ho wanted to free bia wife so lhat she could support herself while bc was away.. He said that his wife had been obliged to lock the children in tho house and go out washing to support them, llethouglit at first that ho would poison them, and got the poison, but ho thought that would be painful for them, and he did not want to hurt them. He said he loved his chil dren very much, and could not think of i their growing iii) without schooling and I without good clothes to wear. At one time, when making this statement, he stopped, and, looking down to the floor, muttered, "It isn't right ; it isn't right !" Tears came into his eyes, and be called for his handkerchief. This was all tho emotion he exhibited during an interview of an hour. Whcaa gentleman answered him that it was not right, Kemmler said, "O, you aro rich ; it would not bc right for you to do it." About 7 o'clock Undertaker Flint vent with an assistant and cared for tho re mains. Tho agony of the mother was heartrending, and it is believed that the I shock will drive her insane. At mid- j night ono of thc children was still living, 1 but it was thought she could not HU rv i vc till morning. Kemmler nays that, whilo bc was working in Connecticut ir. 18G7, ho wan Bun-struck, and his head has troubled him a great deal since . This wiii probably be thc basis of adefensoon tho ground of insanity when his caso comes LJ trial. Tho popular indignation against him is intenso, and, if opportu nity offers, it would not bo surprising if there should bo an attempt tolynch him ; at least this han \iecn openly threatened. - There is no friend to man so true, so kind so reel and so good aa woman. A MILLIONAIRE PLASTER. Who Controla thc New Orleans Cotton Market. Edward Richardson lives in Jackson, Mississippi, hut be has properly intercala all over tho State. Ho owns nineteen plantations in the marvellously rich river country above Vicksburg, including parts of Washington und Iwaquena coun ties, and the Ynzoo district. He has 18, 000 acres under cultivation, 15,000 of them in colton. Ho raises about 10,000 bales or -15,000,000 pounds of cotton an nually. Ile bas "1,0.00 acres in corn and oats for tho support of his stock and his people. And yet ho has not land enough. Whenever a planter is hard up and wants to sell his placo for cash, ho i applies first to old Ned Richardson, knowing that from him he will get a cnsli ? oller, though a low one. I heard Mr. i Richardson offer the owner of a planta- ( tion $8,000 cash for lund which tho lat- ; ter valued at $15,000; and though tho i oller was nt first refused, I was under thc i impression that it would ultimately bo 1 accepted. Nor is Mr. Richardson's dis- i Unction derived onJy or solely from his | plantations. llb controls tho cotton i market to n higher degrco than any other i living man. Ho is tho "Old Hutch" s of New Orleans. When he takes snuff i all tho other brokers sneeze. As men- : ber of the first firm, in point of tho vol- \ tune of business, he receives and disposer \ of more than 100,000 bales of cotton an- t nually. Ho is tho heaviest exporter, t Ile has constantly tho largest supplies f on- hand. For instance, when cotton i sold, soon after thc crop was marketed '1 for eight cents and a fraction, ho kent n back tho bulk of his crop. Ho hus sold i most of it hince February. Last week 'J he let a lot go for ll and 12 cents. He v has still 1,100 bales buck, on which he t expects to realize over lil cents. "If I 1 hadn't waited," said Mr. Richardson, "I t would have quit loser on tito year. Rui 1 I'll make a littlo something on iffsf r yenr-y crop, and, if tho indications for I this year don't fail, or this exodus don't J break things, I ought to clear $50,000 to v ..100,000 on this year." Mr. Richardson n ivas not boasting. These statements I were pried out of him by questions on ? Dtker points. His shrewdness asa cotton f 'euler is evident, moreover, bv tho fi'ct ? Lhl'.t, While br. 5? =.;!-i::g St ibo iiigiiesi - price ho bot ght nt the lowest. I1 As chief owner of the cotton and woolen l tn'Ua ut Wesson, Miss., in which he now " r' .s 10,000 spindles, and is putting in e ,t 00 more, Ito has to buy 4,300 to 4,400 ules of cotton annually near the mills, when bc does not plant himself. All \? this was put in at 8 cents and a fraction j per pound. Il it could be sold now, thc t, probt on it would bo about $35,000. h Phis would make it worth while to close ^ the mills, but for tho throwing of tho op- h aratives out ol' employment. It is not e ii simple thing here, where new hands " would be hard lo obtain, to shut down i work and let tho operatives go; and on lj this account Mr. Richardson has not ut- 5 tempted lo reduce wages during all tho r hard times. He says, indeed, that these t cotton mills are profitable. And there is j consequently, no renson why wages 0 mould bo reduced. Tho mills return r about 12$ per cent, regularly on tho cop- I ital invested. The colton they use is all 1 bought ut thc door, and costs usually two y and a fraction cents less per pound than s thnt used in Massachusetts. At the or- \ dinary price of cotton hurt year this ? would be a difference of 25 por cont, in i favor of tlie South. The labor hero is t also cheaper ; and wherever Ibo capital y can be obtained nt reasonable rales, such 1 enterprises, in tho opinion of Mr. Rich- c ardsou, aro always bound to succeed, g Their success would mean more, he be- t Hevea also, than the profit of a few fdr- t t?nate individuals. If lhere were os i ninny cotton mills in Mississippi, in pro- u portion to population, as there are in i Massachusetts the labor problem would i be solved. There would be a place to \ uso lubor which cannot now bc employed i in the field. Poor whites and members 1 of tho negro family, who aro now bur- r dens on tho community, would be I bread-winners. Mr. Richardson cited a ? number of instances of absolute paupers, who had become self-sustaining in his miils, and asserted that 435 out of the , 530 employed therein would have done t nothing for their own livelihood if they B had not been offered these situations. I | asked why the mills were put at a dis? ( tunco from tho river, apparently at un t out-of-the-way placo. Ibo answer was t that they were then in the midst of j a rich wool growing section. Tho mills fc use 1,300 to 1,400 bales of wool, or GOO,- , 000 to 700,000 pounds; and all tho wool , ns well as all the cotton, is brought to tho . door on wagons, from tho neighboring I ^ country. Jeans, striped Mittons and ( brown goods aro the principal products ? of tho mills. t ( Mr. Richardson owns a cotton seed oil ? mill on tho Mississippi, mid has many ] other small iron . in ibo fire; but tbeso , only do, as Col. Sellers says, "lor side , investments," to keep his money em- , ployed. He is reputed to be w?rln from *\ $3,000,000 to $5,000,000, and though he , and his partner ut New Orleans have , $1,400,000 already advanced ou the grow ing crop, they have still left moro money , than tiny know how to employ. They | are frightened away from government | bonds by tho prospect of only 4 per cent., , but they are after investments that will j yield 10 to 12 per cent.- Corrctjumdenee i Chicago Tribune. A Di N.s Kit Surr M ED BY AN EAU I.E. - A veracious gentleman residing ncur Centreville, Md., says that as his son and himself wero standing near his house, i they descried three dark objects about the size of small birds fur up in the air, cir cling and darting hither and thither. 'Wo watched closely, and after awhile, they approached moro nearly the earth. Wo then discovered that they were two ducks and a bald eagle ; tho eagle en deavoring to capture thu duckH. und tho ducks exerting themselves to elude their pursuer. Far away in the distance wo could discern tho main fbc';, from which thc two ducks hud been separated, flying steadily to thc cover of tho forest. Tho eagle would pounce first upon ono and then relinquish it, in order to capture tUe ot' cr. Dropping that, ho would re turn to his first capturo, seemingly liko the dog in tho fable, greedy to sccuro both. This was kept up for some time, when tho engle, suddenly darting for ward, struck one of the birds with his talon?, then swooping upon tho other struck that too. Tho first bird fell at our feet ; we had hardly timo to pick it up when tho other fell, with tho euglo following. Wo picked up tho sec ond one, and tho eagle observing our presenco flew screaming away. On ex amination it was found that tho caglo had struck tho ducks on thc head, nearly severing tho heads from their bodies. They were finc-Eizcd canvas-backs, and wo had them cooked for dinner. TKY THEM.-Housewives who uno Dr. Price's Special Flavoring Extracts avoid dWappointmcnta often experienced by thc uso of tho oidinnry flavoring extracts. Thc personal attention of Steel A Price in superintending their laboratory, makes Dr. Price's Extract? so reliable. KILLED KY LIGHTNING. Tiru Little ?Irl* Struck ?ead lu Each Other's Ann?. Emily timi Ada Wiswall, sisters, aged respectively seven and five years, while seated one afternoon Inst week in the garden that surrounds tho residence of their parents, at 17th street and Fulton avenue, were struck by lightning and in stnntly killed. Tho dwelling is situated on a rocky eminence and is imbedded in a forest of hickory, cedar and cherry trees. It is a two story framo structure, and is picturesquely situated. From its isolated position and tho deep shado in which it is embowered, the placo was lo cally known by tho name of "The Rob bin's Neat." Here Mr. and Mrs. Wiswall resided,witli their three children. George, tho eldest, who is uino yei-rs of age, ro ndes with his grandfather, Mr. Adam Kerr, who occupies a comfortable homc itead across tho street. Mr. Kerr is a talesman at Arnold & Constable's. Tho Joy bad crossed over and was about open ng thc latticed galo which leads to his inrent's residence when tho fatal bolt lescended about a dozen yards distant, ?using tho instant death of hin two little ?isters. Thc family bad retired from tho liuing room to tho parlor. When an ?vercast Bky gavo warning of an ap proaching storm, Mr. and Mrs. Wiswall vent to tue side entrance where they re named for a moment talking. In the ncantimc the two children bad hurried rom thc houso and taken their position Hider tho shade of two towering oaks, riie*e were situated about three feet ipart, the trunks at tho baso becomiug nterlwlucd in a knotty protuberance Fbe trees arc close to the gravelled walk rh ich lentis to the house from the en rauce on 170th street, and aro connected ty a scat which forms an attractivo ro reat from tho fierce glare of tho sun. 1?re tho children, having loft tho dining oom, hastened to enjoy a nursery book. Omi ly was a preencious child for her ears, hnndsomo and vivacious. They ?.ero very much attached to each other, nd were inseparable companions in heir studies and amusements. Sho wns outed next the tree further removed rom the .'street, and held the open book n ber lap while both children nestled ir.?w'y together to read ibu book, i ?ie licturo was so pleasant to the purents hat they continued to Witch tho move lents ol their children, dveply interest d in what waa taking placo. THE LIGHTNING 8TIIOKE. At this moment thc gathering storm egan to breuk in largo drops of rain. Ir. Wiswall mado a forward movement 0 interrupt tho children in their studies, eut upon bringing them into tho houso efore the threatened shower increased, mt he hesitated to disturb their innocent njoyment. Suddenly the increasing 1 om deepened and a bright and blind ng flash, lol lowed almost simultaneously iy a deafening crash, startled Mr. and Irs. Wiswall. The next moment they calized their terrible calamity. Tho hunderbolt had descended anil struck iead their children. Emily sat upright n the scat in a natural position, still etaining in ber lap the outspread book. 1er features showed no indication that ifo waa extinct. Her large, dark eyes fere wide staring, nud a pleased expres i?n illuminated ber countenance. Ada iud fallen or was burled from the seat, .he was yet alive, but unconscious. A nessenger was at once despatched for nedical attendance, and Dr. Comfort, vho resides in tho neighborhood, prompt y responded. Boforo bis arrival, how iver, tho littlo ono had expi-^l. The ?rief of tfco heart-broken mu* .ja over hu sudden and untimely loss of their :bildren, who but a moment before were u tho enjoyment of health, was most iffecting. Thc unhappy mother wont uto hysterics, and the anguish of Mr. iViswall, although not so demonstrative, vas equally intense. The latter ia super utendent of tho car shops of tho liar cm River Railroad. Ho waB devotedly ittachcd to bis children, and thc sudden lereavement has nearly affected his rea ou. APPEARANCE OF THE BOIHE3. Tho lifeless foims of the littlo onca vero at once placed in charge of an un lertakcr. Their clothing was burned in l?verai parts by the electric fluid. Emi y's garments, in particular, were singed o a deep brown. Her Btockiugs and underwear wer o damnged much more bau her outer clothing. The children lad not been dead an hour when their ?kin becamo discolored in parts. Tho -igbt cheek, side and band of Emily .urned purplish, and similnr marks made heir appearance on tho face nud limbs )f little Ada. Both children tts they lay :ogether in a. single casket, dressed out n muslin '.frappera, with their tiny fold ud bauds, looked as if asleep. Tho pa rents, friends and other members of tho liousehold, to whom tho children were mdeured by association, crowded tho Iwelling and could not conceal their lorrow. Tho parents became so frantic that they bad to bo removed from tho presence of their dead children and kept ipart under friendly restraint. Miss Coylo rents the premises and oc ;upies them in part with tho Wiswall family. Sho keeps a pr.-ate school in tho back part of the first ?oor and occu pies sleeping apartments up stairs. Sho aid in speaking of the death of tho ?wo little children : "I had go::c tc my room and was reclining on a lounge reading. Suddenly tho leaves of tho book became illuminated and my eyes weio dazzied with the gluro. An awful uoiso shook the house and nearly fright ened me to death. I thought the place had tumbled about our ears. I had not time to recover my presence of mind when I beard a prolonged cry of distress down stairs. Something told me at tho time that a terrible catastrophe had taken placo. I hurried down stairs as fast as my fright would enablo me. When I reached the garden I was confronted with , two dead children. I was almost paral yzed at tho sight. The children wero as dear to mo as if they had been my own. I Last Friday we held our commencement1 and littlo Emily distinguished herself among all tho other children for her smartness and goodness. Sho recited a picco culled "The Merry Brown Thrush" with much feeling and taste, the burden of which was that the world waa running over with joy, and nono but good pconlo could appreciate the advantages of thia life. A fairy piece was also enacted, and both children took leading parta in tho exercises. It is a terrible calamity, and ono which I fear will break the poor mother's heart. The littlo girls were her prido and ambition. She luis only one other left-littlo Georgie, tho eldest-r ?f:ho also narrowly escaped falling a vic tim to tho thunderbolt. He had been across tho street to his grand father's, by whom ho is adopted, ana was in tho act of opening the gate to join his slaters at tho moment they were stricken dead. I thought for a moment that no one would bo left alive in tho house, the flash was so blinding and tho nobie wa<* so terrible." COURSE OF TUE BOLT. Mr. Danfield, who resides ia tho neig* - borhood, had hurried out of his houso at tho approach of the storm in search of his grandchild. Tho latter was stand A'cic York Herald. ing at the gale, close to Georgie Wiswall, when the thunderbolt descended a few yards distant. Mr. tanfield says that tte saw a ring of fire surround tho topt of tho two tall white oak trees beneath which tho doomed children were seated. The flame played about tho trees in a spiral shape and then disappeared toward tue base. Tho bark was stripped where tho lightning struck in ila downward courre. It travelled down thc tree by which little Emily waa rested, and pass ed along tho connecting seat to the base of thc trunk of the adjoining tree. The electric current discolored tho heads of the nails on tho seat on which the chit dreu wero seated, and finally spent its force in the earth. It took a zigzag course around tho trunk of tho tree, leaving a reddish swathe on the bark, but not injuring tho branches or limbs. Tho neighbors proclaim that tho noise caused by thc clap of thunder was ap palling in the extreme. No indications were given of tho approaching thunder Htorm beyond a passing cloud and a slight sprinkling of rain. During the afternoon and evening, crowds of people continued to visit the Bccno of the disas ter and curiously investigated tho courso of tho thunderbolt. RIVERS OF DESTRUCTION ! Tko J.avn from Active Ktiin Flow? Slowly Out Surely. ROME, Juue 7. Tho full accounts of tho destruction caused by the terrible eruption of M?:int Etna oro heartrending. Catania was ono of tho provinces of Italy where there was a promise of a good harvest, but now the green Gelds and vineyard., ure buried under a heavy weight of ha\\, gray lava. The possession of the Sicilians living on tho Bides or at the foot of tho mountains aro destroyed, and many a proprietor who in May w<w rich, in June ?B ns poor as tho humblest of his servants. Tho Btory, only one of many, is told of a proprietor, tho father of nine children, who yester day saw everything he possessed, nouses, barns, ctbius, olivo trees, corn and wheat fields and vineyards, all destroyed. Tho i' abitants of tho towns and country houses near tho courso of the Inva are discouraged at the extent of their mis fortunes. They remove nil tho IIOUBO hoid goods that can be transported, tho cattle, the wine in tho collars, nnd oven tho tiles on thc roofs of the houses. Tho roads near tho advancing lava are li?c a batticfieid. . Wagons laden with goods, herds of cattle, crowds of weeping women and children fleeing from their homes. Innumerable strangers from every nation, on the contrary, go forward on tho rona and advance so near tho lava that tho 5uards are obliged to send them back. .1 though they can advance so renr as to light a cigar ar tho stream of lava it is dangerous, as the lava, which at oue mo ment looks dark nnd dull, is liable at tho next to burst open by its own weight und make a new path for itself whero it is uot expected. Regiments of soldiers are stationed all along the roads to keep order, and lines of them*guard tho edges of the stream. A correspondent from Randazzo describes how the inhabitant j of that town and of Lingungrossa stood on tho national road watching tho lava slowly advance, and os it hogan to cover tho road they sadly shook hands and said farewell when the fiery stream sepnrated them. Thero was a cry of despair from tho people at this point when tho bridge of Piciara was burned, and tho lava foll from a little height into lovely vineyards and filled them up. Tho mountain bas been disturbed for five months. Ou tho 22d of May tho crater threw out with a great noiso a vast ?uantity of dense salt and smoking mud. 'his mudo au intermitting fountain rising sometimes twenty-four feet above the level of the soil. Occasionally great balls of mud filled with gas grew larger and larger until they burst. Tho river of mud coustnutly . fed from the crate* descended the sides of tho mountain, and for a distance of four miles filled np tho canals used for irrigation. Tho fright ened country people, unconscious of tho worso ills that were coming upon them, sought to defend their fields from tho entrance of the enemy by building walls of stones. On the afternoon of tho. 26th of May tho eruption began, which is said to bo the most violent of this century. Tho people were startled by repeated shocks ot earthquake, loud thunder, high wind and a heavy rain. Two new cra ters wero then seen on the northwest {?art of tho mountain, which vomited ava, smoko and fine ashes. Tho next day three columns, of smoko wero been on the back of tbe rr mtain, and (he lava began to descend. The movement of this Incandescent stream was at ?ii t rapid, bul as ic increased in sizo and spreud out over tho lower part of tho mountain aud the plains it became slower. Ita advance now is estimated at forty-fivo feet an hour, and tho width of thc tin co streams into which it is divided are variously estimated. That which threatens tho town of Moio, with two hundred inhabitants, and the river Al cantara is said to be fifteen hundred feet wide, and this width continually increas es on account of the height of the stream. If tho river Alcantara, which is one of tho principal streams of Sicily, and sup plies several largo towns, gardens, and mills with wator, ts filled up tho calamity will bc incalculable. Tho lava is already within a few hundred feet of the shore. and Slowly a?vaucing; bul it is imped that it may turn and run along the bank, or not have strength to reach the water, tho violence of tho eruption having di minished. One of tho streams of lava hos traveled a distance of thirteen miles from tho crater; it is estimated that in lesa than four days more than two hun dred and thirty million cubic yards of lava have been thrown out. The spectacle of thia tremendous con vulsion of nature is wonderfully and fearfully beautiful. It is especially im nrwadvo at night, when tho fiery current often throws up in its progress groat masses of molten stone. Tho column of smoko and fine block sand which follows the lava reflects the red tint of the fire, and looks like an aurora borealis. From thc craters on tho top of tho mountain riso dense columns of smoke, now very white and again densely black, and often pierced by sharp streaks of electricity. Tho travellers who have flocked thither view these wonders with ecstacy, but the poor and the rich man reduced to begga ry weep over the ruin of their homos., In the daytirao tho cloud of smoke and ?ind ii so dense that the sun is invisible, and tho day seems to bo almost Uko tho night Spectacles and umbrellas aro ne cessary protections for whoevor walks out in the neighborhood of the moun tain, for tho fino sand covers everything with a heavy coating, and blows into the eyes. Tho eruption is accompanied by constant rumbling noises HVo the boom ing of artillery ; tho earth tiembles, tho sky is leaden. Tho mass of lava is from Alleen to thirty feet high, aud, according to ita height or tho timo of day, varies in color from a bright, flory rod to ti dull leaden shade. If lt was hot for tho jots of smoko which tone now and then from this moss it might be thought dead lava of half a century ago, but wheft it moves ita waves slide over each o aar and emit jets of fire.