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FRA5X P. BEARD, Publisher. VOLUME IY. Jfj /&77j I j - fch? $ft*taw PUBLOHMD KVX&Y WXDHK&DA Y AT CAMDEN, KERSHAW CO., S. C., FRANK P. BEARD. Terms of Subscription i UMTAatAMir IK AJfTAMCM.) - .... tuo To kll VtaWM, .... 1.00 iirfvbof tmm, ? i.n To rtob* of Iwwty-ftre, LH 5 *? i ?? m of AA y ?rtl?lng i or Im, tLM for tk? ftnt loaorUoa, IIMM _id?d thoo* wUo kdroriiM be ik?WL or twelw monthe. 9r a mm* m u uj um in?r im tp i?r MmttNBkwt, nnliM ottmriw?pm> ft A Ballad of the French Fleet, ocroaaa, 1746. Mr. Thomas Prince, loquitur. ^ 4sst with flags arrayed Ballad from the port of Brest, And the admiral's ship displayed Tbs signal: "Steer southwest." ft* this Admiral D'Anviile Had sworn by orosa and crown To ravage with fire and steal Oar helpless Boston town. :t>i Tbsw were-rumors in the street, In the bouses there was fear Of the coming of the fleet, K And the danger hovering noar ; Ana while from mouth to mouth r ? Spread the tidings of dismay, I stood in the Old Sooth, Saying humbly : " Let us pray ! *"0 Lord! we woul? not adviso ; But if in thy ProTrtdenoo ^ A tempest should arise To drive the Frunch fleet benoo, And Matter it far and wide, Or sink it in the we a. We should be satisfied, And thine tho glory bo." Th|s was the prayer 1 made, For my soul was all on flame, And even as I prayed Hie answering tempest came. It came with a mighty power, Shaking the windows and walls, And tolling the bell in the tower, Aa it tolls at funerals. ? The lightning suddenly Unsheathed its flaming sword. And I cried : ?' Stand still, and see . The salvation of the Lord !" Hie heavens were black with cloud, The sea was whito with bail, And ever more fierce and loud Blsw the October gale. The fleet it overtook, And the broad sails in the van IAe the tents of Onshon shook, Or the curtains of Midi an. Down on the reeling decks Qrashed the o'arwhelming seas ; Ah, never wore there wrecks So pitiful as these ! Llks a potter's vessel broke The prea^shipe of the line ; - Tfcay were carried away as a smoke, Or sank like lead in tho brine. I**d! before thy path vanished and oeased to bo, thou didst walk hi j F TOTS, THE PEACE-MAKER. To^s was just upon the poiut of stop- i ping into IkxI when an idea struck her. L It had been, a trying day for Tote all the way through. , From morning until ,,*ught this insignificant member of the ! family had been in difficulties, and a Source of much discomfort to herself ? ?*her people. It was hot, everybody ?poR8, aud Tots, whose resources in the way of entertainment were limited, had had great trouble to dispose of her time. In the morning she had gone fishing in the duck pond, with a crooked | pin for a hook, and a bull of worsted for aline. After waiting patiently'for her pray for somo time, sho had tired of this amusement, owing to its non-success, ' and determinod to go after some water lilies. When Tots grasped the water lily, the board upon which she rested ! her tiny feet slipped from under them, ! and Tota was sflmmarily precipitated j into the poiid. When she appearod at 1 the farmhouse, her bedraggled condition ' brought down such a storm of denjmoi- j ation upon her hcAd that the unsuccess ful angler, who had ex]>ected nothing bat congratulations upon her narrow os oape from drowning, was disgusted. Aunt Susan dressed her, and Tota suffer ed so much during tho operation that j ?he vowo'.l never to go near the p<md ?gain. After dinner she wandered out to the arbor, underneath whose leafy roof Flo Stanton was playing with her clergyman- i w-r s heart, as if there was so little tin the world that she oouhl afford to kufacture more. Tots listened to tho >le interview, and watched tho minis ' go away, too woll behaved a young ~an to interrupt the tete-a-tete. But having furtively watohed Aunt Flo ' M her heart would break, for tho hour* succeeding his departure, JtWllglit she might venture upon a little oonsolation. It really was too bad that her well meant efforts only resulted in a pair of boxed ears, and abrupt or . ders to ?? go away." Then life beoamo a burden. Tots be gan to look upon the world as a melan oholy place. Thore was nothing to do and everyl>ody was too full of their owii affairs to pay her any attention. It was a gleam of brightness when the )>ell rang for supper. In spito of her weariness and general disgust with sublunarv affairs, Tots still retained her appetite, and her brew! and batter and strawber ries certainly did their part toward rais ing her spirits. Hut After supper name the culminating disaster of the day. In a thoughtless moment Tote, in spite of the earnings of past experience, wander ed into the kitohon. The kitten lay un der the stove, and Tots made a rush to faka possession of her pet plaything. Her foot slipped, she fell against the table, and a big china dish went bump ing. bonnoing, crashing, on to the floor. o tor upon which burnt naorifloo* wrn-o daily offered lay broken in a hundred , pieces. Aunt Susan witnessed the whole transaction, and in two minutes Tots wasiseised, spanked, and sent to bod. ITiare was nothing to do bnt yield kte and Aunt Susan. They are a combination too strong for Tots to orer ? ?* **Mle? np stairs, lays asidei the gahnent she has worn during button* into her I*?0* ni^ht dress. ? Then it is that the idea comes to her. ?Tots, notwithstanding her tender years, ?? devoted to fictitious literature. She herself, hut she takes great ~ to listening to Annt Fanny, "?es entertains the family by ?A JTfcair last author was Tot'er greatly excited by the beautiful story of David Coppertield and his child-wife, little Dora. "If," says Tota to hereelf, "I oould only marry somebody. Now Dora was just a8 good for nothing as I am, and yet Dodo loved her, an (1 nobody called her a nuisance and boxed her ears. It must j have been very nice to live in the little liouae with Dodo and Jip. I wonder if I oould find any body to marry me ?" Then, all of a sudden, Tots thinks of | the miniater. His name is David, and he Uvea all alone in the cunuingest little cottage, with an old woman for a house- i keeper. " It would be just the thing," thinks Tota. " IH ask him " "With Tots, to plan is to execute. She withdraws tho foot with which she Las begun to soale the heights of the bed, ami goes to the window. The moon < shines brightly. She isn't a bit afraid. In two minutes she has scramiuled over the roof of the shed, seized a bough of the old apple tree, let hereelf quietly down to the ground, and is on her way to the minister's house. The Rev. David Thornton, sittiug gloomily in his study on tho ground flcx>r of his house, and fighting manfully' with the heartache caused by a girl's j careless words, is suddenly startled by two white legs tearing their way through the vines that grow in front of hia win dow, and a small body turning a somer sault into the middlo of his room. " I caught my too and tumbled," ex plains Tota, assuming an upright poBi- j tion, and car#*ning the injured foot. " What are you doing here at this time of night ?" asks the clergyman, be ginning to smile. " I want to get married." ?" To whom ?" "You!" This time the grave man Laugha, and j seating himself in his arm-chair, takes 1 the child on hia kjiees. ??What for?" " 'Cause Aunt Sue spanks me and Aunt Flo boxes my oars, and I've been hearing about David Copperfleid and Dora, and I want to get married and be a child-wife like Dora, and have a dog named Jip, and I'd like you." Tots ac companies this statement with a kiss. 1 <--mHL7?U .DO??' L0ldJ your pens. Th?J are futftacitu* aif home, and there is nothing to do, so I thought I'd come and ask you to marry jno. I wish I had thought of il before I got undressed;" and Tots surveys her toilet, realizing for the first time that | she has oommitted a breach of the pro- j prieties by appearing in public in panta loons. " What did Aunt Flo box your ears for ?" "After you went away this afternoon Hhe began to cry so that I thought yon had been pihehing her. It hurts so, you know, when you tako a little nip. Hut then I heard her say sho had been so wicked, and done something to you that you n^ver would forgive, and that j yon would never come ck again; bo j then I thought it must have been she'! that pinchod you. So she cried for an j hour awful hard. Then T took her some , jam. When 1 cry, and they give me I jam, I always stop. But sho boxed my | ears and sent me away. Don't skeese me so; it. hurts." "Tots," said the minister, "you are ! the dearest child in the world, and I am | going to take you home." "I won't go. I want to stay with] you ; only I must have some clothes." ?' We'll go for thjn clothes." Aunt Flo is sitting in the parlor wip- j ing a very red pair of eves when the j Rev. David appears wiHi Tola on his j shoulder. " Florence," said the clergyman, " may | I forget all tho harsh words spoken this | afternoon ?" " Can you forgive them ?" " Were all the tears Tots tells about shed for me ? I have just had a visit, from the little lady." The clergyman looked tenderly down at the red eyes, j and Flo's hand feels its way into his. Poor Tots ! here nro two more people j who won't pay her any attention. "You aro going to marry me, you J know," tugging at tho Reverend David's [ disengaged hand. " No, Tots, not you?Aunt Florry." Tots begins to cry. "Never mind, pet;" and Aunt Flo takes the child in her arms. " You shall j have your reward. ' Mossed are the peace-makers,' Tots, and I'll give you a big cake in the mort\ing. Now Aunt] Sue will put you to bed." I "I don't know what. 1 peace-makers ' are, and I don't want a cake. I w-w-want t-to g-g-get married 1" Tots is borne screaming away. A "Merchant's 01ft, The gifts of tho late Oeorge Pealmdy to the poor of I<ondon are being judi oiously administered. The last rejKirt of the trustees shows that the amount of the fund, which was ?M)3,f\27, in 1874, had increased in 187ft to ?f>4.'l,3l7, ex clusive of ?27,428, expended in the pur chase of land and the erection of build ings. Twelve blocks of buildings have been built, and applications for rooms have been so numerous that f/mrteen additional bh>oks will soon be oonstruct ; ed, with accommodation* for two hun ; dred and seventy-two families. The net return from all the buildings now oocu I pied is $66,422 per annum, or over three per cent, of the capital invested, which is more than could be obtained by in vestment in the funds. A young Turk fell in love with a Christian girl. She loved him in return, srnl finally with deep agitation gave him s piece of soap. $0 pressed it madly to his hoaom and went home and took his maiden bath. His father whs so en raged next day when he caught sight of his white skin that he took the lad into the woods and whipped him to/ That was tho beginning of th< dreadful Turkish war. FARM, GARDEN AND HOUSEHOLD. DouiraClc Hlata. Ginger Cookies. ? One^ cupful of ?ugar, oue of molasses, one of shortening, one of water, two teaspoonfuls of soda arid two of ginger ; mix stiff enough to roll thin, and bake in a moderately hot oven to a light brown. To Boix, Potatoes.?In order to have them dry and mealy, fill a pot half full of water, peel the potatoes, and put in a ooland&r and set in a pot (taking care that the water does not touch the pota toes), cover the oolander very tight, and let them steam. Salt while oooking. Try only with a broom Bplint. Oat Me ax. Bread.?Oat meal can be made into a bread " that will neither be hard nor sticky " in but one way. The oat meal crackers, so-called, are made of wheat flour, with a little oat meal worked in. Perfect oat meal bread js made by boiling whole oats in double boiler, in four times their bulk of water, for one hour and a half, and then stirring in a meal of oats until a heavy dough is form ed, when they are ready to bake in gem pans. To Fry Apples and Pork Chops.? Season them with Bait and pepper and a little powdered sage or sweet marjoram ; dip them into beaten eggs and then into beaten bread crumbs. Fry about twenty minutes, or until they are done. Put them on a hot dish. Pour off part of the gravy into another pan, to make a gravy to serve with theqj, if you chooso. Then fry apples which you have sliced about two-thirdR of an inch thick, cutting them around the apple so that the core is in the center of each piece. When they are browned on one side and partly cooked, turn them carefully with a pan cake turner, and let them finish oooking. I)ish around the chops on a separate dish. Codkjsh.?Always buy the very small fish, which is almos^ boneless. After freshening it thoroughly, take equal parts of flsh and cold potatoes. Slice the potatoes very thin, and pick the flsh in small bits ; have also some hard boiled eggs, and slice them ; be careful not to break them. Take an earthen baking dish, place in it a layer of pota toes, then flsh, then egg. Sprinkle a little black pepper over. Repeat until yom OW. (alLCovor wiU. A*?rt3rj -wdfjTr>nf. .tauJl pieoes of butter over the top, turn a plate over it, and Btaud whero it will <x*>k oue hour slowly. To be eaten with buttered toast. (Growing Touiatoca. "Constant Reader" writes: I have about one-eighth of an acre of land that was lying in soil for many years, and was planted with potatoes the last two years, and would like to plant with tomatoes tho coming summer to put on the mar ket early. The soil is a blackish loam mixed with clay, with a clay subsoil. Is such a soil suitable for a crop of toma toes? Would it be sufficient if the plants were thoroughly manured in the lull ? I have a quantity of hen manure to dispose of; could it bo applied to the tomatoes effectually, and how ? 1 intend to plant Conqueror and Ford's Early Cluster. Are those kinds good? Is there any advantage in pruning the plants by cutting o(T laterals ? Reply.?This soil would doubtless glow a good crop of tomatoes, which do not need very rich soil lest they grow too much to vines. The manure is best ap plied in the hill for this crop when grown for market. As you do not give your locality, it is impossible to say anything about varieties. There are several bet ter kinds than those you mention. Trophy, llathaway's Excelsior, and Canada Victor are tho throe best kinds; tho last is very early. The plants should bo pruned by pinching the tops, and so forcing a bushy growth, but it is not probable that there will bo much of this to do unless your soil is very rich.? Xi tn York T.imcn. Prepare the llomrw. Soon the busy season will lie on the farmer. He must then be ready to im prove it to the best advantage. He will want the teams to be in prime condition for their work. They cannot be in this condition without preparatory work. Most farmers have need for severnl teams, fho horses should now be mnted and worked more or less daily in hauling wood, rails, manure and rubbish off the fields. Don't put all the work on one team, if you havo more?but use them all more or less to season their shoulders and muscles, and to inure them to work. Farmers know that for the want of this | preparatory training their teams get sore breasts and muscles the flrst two or three hnrd days' work they do. Their shoul ders and breasts keep sore all the spring, and they work in pain ami to very great disadvantage. Tho utmost care should be used in getting good-fltting collars, and not only good-fitting collars, but the very best to bo had. The best are tho cheapest. They should then be kept clean ami dry. Particular pains should be taken to prevent any sores from com ing on the shoulders of horses. A good sponge should be had, and the shoulders should be washed whenover the harness is taken off. The horses should be oughly cleaned with curry oomb brush, the last thing at night and flrst thing in tho morning.?Co Mural World. Kff?-llnw (nnroMfi. Tf nn increase of eggs be A the ixmltry yard, before large sums of money are expended In the purchase of everlasting layers we would reeommend the system of keeping no hens after their flrst or, at the most, their second jmr. Early pnllets give the increase, and the only wonder is thai people per sist as they do in keeping up a stock of old hotfs, which lay one day and atop three, instead of laying three days Jbd In som't parts of England nvariable rule to keep the ?ma year. Feeding will (a ?arpi in the production of eggs ; bat not when the old hens are concerned. They may put on fat, but they oannot put down eRg*- Their tale is told, their work is oyer. Nothing femains to be done with them but to give them a smell of the kitchen Are, and the sooner they get that the better. Of course, there are old lavoritioH whose lives ought to besyiKfd as long as they oan tend forth the lljUUJLntatives. Judicious mating ?by which we mean the advantage of a comparatively youthful cockerel?may be the means of even exhibition poultry making their appearanoe from the good old hen ; and upon which We have the exception to the rule.?London Agri cultural Gazette. K?rly Pol mora. Early potatoee have the best clianoe of oscaping bugs. The bugs hatch early enough for any kiud, and ore frequently 011 hand l>efore the potatoes are, and put in their time on tomato plants and early weeds, but the campaign is shott^r in the case of the early potatoee, they escape the multiplied hosts of the later season. Plant as early as tho ground can bo got ready, and rush the crop along with oarly plowing and frequent attention, so as to get them off tho field of battle a* early as may be. Paris greeu is tho rest of the story. Wanted to be Treated. A San Francisco oorn doctor was summoned by a man who lived four miles out of the city. Hastily gathering up his case of instruments, files and acids, he walked through the pouring rain to the address indicated, and was shown into the parlor. The physician sent up his card, and shortly after the door opened, and a florid man, with un steady legs, entered the apartment. " How do, Doo? Take a Beat. Didn't think you'd oomo out iu this rain, but you're a regular brick, and I knew it when I read your card. I wish you'd oome and live out here. The who}* neighborhood are a set of darned teeto tallers. " Tho practitioner opened his case of instruments, and a*k6d his pa tient to put up his foot on a chair. The man assented, remarking that he never felt more comfortable in his life. He resented, however, all efforts of the doo tOLto " ~ ' boots off. 14 How oan 1 treat you I soe your corns?" cried tho chiropodist. "CornB be blowed 1" answered the dweller in the suburbs, " I ain't got no corns ! Don't your card say, ' Gentle men treated at their own residences ?' and I Bent for you because I am out of liquor, and I waut some brandy protty darned quick." There was a cry of anguish as the doctor took his largest file and'rubbed all the skin off his pa tient's nose. A Fountain on ^ Spire. The Virginia (Nov.) Enterprise says ; One evening recently the eyes of hun dreds of persons on the streets were directed to ward the top of the spire of the new Catholic church, where wna seen a fountain spouting numerous jete high in the air. A large iron pipe is carried up through the steeple and up the large cross surmounting the same. Tho pipe then takes tho form of the cross, behind which it is hidden, and from holes per forated at propor intervals tho jets aro sent up. From tho top of the cross and from the end of each arm large streams ascend to tho height of about twenty five feet, and between thoso aro thrown up a great number of smaller jets. The height of the top of tho cross from the ground is one hundred and seventy feet, and tho air being calm, tho nutnerous jetsspead out in the shape of a fan. The rays of the declining sun fell upon the jets and spray at just the proper anglo I to light up and bring out the whole in a beautiful roseate glow which surroundod tho top of the cross liko a glory. This novel fountain was not constructed ft>r mere ornament. It is intended for use, in case of the breaking out of a large fire, as a protection to tho spire and roof of the church. It is but tho work of a moment to turn 011 tho water and drench the spire. The height to which the water is thrown above the ero?w shows tho great force of tho water works of tho city. ^ The Paris Exposition. Mr. Nathan Apploton has been in oon ! sultation with the late centennial au j thorities of Philadelphia, says' a Wash 1 ington dispatch, and presented to Secre tary Evarts a sketch of sn organisation ! for tho proposed American exhibit at the Paris exposition, together with an esti | mate of the necessary expenses. He estimates that 8300,000 is the leant amount with which a proper oxhihit can be made, and this on the supposition that the goods will b4 received at ^fow York in government warehouses and whipped to Havre 'in United Htat^a government vessels. . He l>olieves, howl ever, that $500,000 should be appropri\ ated to do the eouaift credit at Paris. The gentlemen k*ho are shaping the *k.i? entertain strong nt ?A'be able "in tbifl the 88,000^^^^^ blanks, match making In vUitj,lR card* are women. A printing lino, that are engsg*iinjb<*t style America. Giro ufc ? call.?? ft is not rigl,t^M|^rj,,,0rCgl? if least mind hi It up. THE SLAUGBmcJED IMMIGRANTS, Lti _ ,?* by On mt Tmrty tkti Uft Ar Hnu 8?t?4 Mae The followinj^fthe subetanoe W some information o/^^^rest concerning the Aik&iuw trtiu which was in tercepted at ?>tma Meadow, Utah, on the September, 1867, as furnished by 'pi' the original immi grant party to Jhnorrespomlent of the New York HenJt With the exception of the seventeen infants spared hj' tlie i Mormona, or .aoh of them aa yet sur vive, but four p^|ons are known t? be i still alive who sf oat with the train from j the Arkansae lilis The lives of the lat- j tor were saved trough a quarrel which I resulted in thflr separation from the! main party a Ur days previous to the! massacre. Tl^ir names are Epliraim ' Mathias, residing in Nevada; Joseph j Ware, believed n be somewhere in Cali fornia; Mm. luck, widow of W. B. j Duok, who was oader of the little party j which abandon*} the train, residing at Fort Wayne, IW., aud P. K. Jacoby, a brother of Mrs. Duck and a member of the police fore* of San Francisco, who furnishes these particulars. The train w? organized at FairviUe, Ark., and startd on its journey in April, 1857. It m&^ered about 140 souls? men, women aid children. They had with them dOOhead of cattle ip a herd and 100 woritilg oxen drawing the six teen wagons. Che leading families were the Bakers, oi Arkansas, consisting of the Elder Bskr, with his wifeaud family and two sons, with their families; the Hough lily, frdfR Arkansas, and the Reejfe, f jm Missouri, comprising Reed, ffiffijBufamily, ami his son and family. Mr. ?nck and party, including Offloer Jacohi, joined tho train from Ohio. * Tfce FWs and Bakers were the principal omfta of tho stock, and also had in their possession a considerable amount of A'fcle, their design being to aoftke large {Vestments iu tho southern pert of Calif(uiia. There were also half a dozen othiMBimlies, whose names are rat now reOahberod by Jaooby. A large number oOped men oooompanied the train e? bWMtaokers and stock herders, i end the pet^ included between thirty from infancy I the train at 'erritorj, the laet ,. up river to the >iciuity of Pike's Peak, and from this locality on tho middle immi grant road to Fort Bridger, which point was reached about tho beginning ot Sep tember. During the journey the immi grants wero frequently molested by the Indians. Oa one occasion, shortly be fore reaching Fort Bridger, the whole nine hundred head of loose cattle were stampeded ami run off in the night. A strong detachment was counted off foin the train anil started in pursuit of the Indians under command of a noted plainsman from Missouri. The chase was continued for three days, in which time the party captured an Indian and pressed him into the service as a guide. To save his own life the redskin conducted the part? to an Indian village among the hills. The savages were sur prised and stampeded in turn, and all the cattle were recovered, with the ex ception of seventeen head, together with a good quantity of loot in tho way of buffalo skins and other effects to partially compensate for the trouble the Indians had caused. Before reaching Fort Bridger, Hough, fine of tho loaders from Arksnsns, was bitten on tho hand while asleep by a tarantula, and his suf ferings, which delayed the party some days, resulted in death, leaving a widow aud a large family of young children, but, as fate decreed, they did not long survive to need his protection. The train was composed of antago nistic elements. The larger proportion of those composing it wore from Arkan sas and Missouri, but a party, of which Duck was the leader, came from Ohio ami other States that had boon slow to recognize the validity of the fugitive slave law. On reaching Fort Bridger, then an outpost of the Mormon horde who wero in rebellion against the gov ernment, the defection in the train re sulted in the withdrawal of Buck. Tho Ohio family, with about one hun dred head of stock, had struck out from Fort Bridger down the Bear river, on what was known as tho northern route, and reached California without further mishap of consoquence. Al>out two weoks from their departure from Fort Bridger they received intelligence from a par+athat* overtook them that the Ar kansaimrain, which they had abandoned, hod al been massacred. Tho bloody deed wks attributed to Indians., for Opening a i/ove Letter. . Crosier, Jr., editor of tho ([Texas) Appeal, who killed r, his former pat-tnor, was a natite bxvillo, Tenn. Hunter opened a ^ love letter <rf Mr. Crozior's dun absence, and showed the samo^n re?. Mr. Crosier, when h4' te oinf routed Mr. Hunter, ai)6 ] utn that he intended to tfl it liim for opening iter repli Oct. 36. m I on thf stitch MILLIONAIRES' PALACES. rfcree Urtldnrr* thai ('??( Allo?ri ?7,OOO.OOO? KxprudK ? rr. For nearly two years past, says tho San Francisco bulletin, the summit of California street hill ha* been the scene af building operations on a gigantic scale. The crown of thiH hill is the site selected by the railroad magnate* for their residences. D. D. Coltou wm tlie first to build, erecting his house on the northwest corner of California and Tay lor streets several years ago. Leland Stanford, the president, and Mark Hop kins, the treasurer of the Central Pacific railroad company, purchasod conjointly the block surrounded by California, Powell, Pino and Mason streets, which they began to improvo over two years 1 tigo. Although Mr. Stanford's resilience, at the southwest corner of California and Powell street*, has been tenanted for some time, it is only very recently thnt it was completed. Mark Hopkins' house, at the southwest comer of Cali fornia and Masou streets, is well uuder way, tho roofing being nearly finished. The house of Charles Crocker, at the northwest corner of California and Thv lor streets, is almost ready for occu pancy. These three buildings are the largest and most costly in the city. Hitherto no reliable estimate of the cost ha* ever been made public, being vaguely set at from $.r>00,<X)0 to $1, (XX), 000 each. Le land Stanford's residence lias, however, cost a round 82,(XX),(XX). The total out lay 011 the residence of Charles Ciockor will amount to about 82,300,(XX). Mark Hopkins' residence, which is the most elaborate in design, will have cost when finished nearly $3,(XX),(XX). Over 87, (XX),000 is thus represented in these three residences. The external appearance of these dwellings give* the spectator but an in different idea of the costliness and mag nificence of the interior. No expense has been spared anywhere. The bath rooms in tho Crocker residence, for in stance, have cost 84,000 each, and ihere are about half a dozen of them in the buildiup. Even the three-runged step ladder in Mr. Stanford's library cost over $150. In all the interior woodwork tho most valuable timber, specially imported from South America, has been employed. This has been Handsomely carved and iUKlJEr polished. . All of the finished woodwork (oren v6 mh 1., and frames) for each of the three houses has been made at tho railroad workshops at Oakland Point. A large quantity of furniture for the Stanford and Crocker residences has been made also in the samo establishments. Massive pieces of furniture for the Crocker residence are being manufactured at the railroad work shops. The elaborately carved frame work of tho handsome conservatory re cently built on tho Pino street side of tho Stanford mansion was also made at tho railroad shops at a cost, in round figures, of 830,000. The appointments of the various rortms in each of these mansions havo been prepared with the same disre gard of cost. The architects represent that 110 estimate was made of tho cost of either building when the plans were submitted. The plans wore simply nc cepted and all the details faithfully fol lowed, the mid most expensive ma terial being employed in their execution. Hiirylng a Fort. Quito an original method of taking a fort is described in /llackwood's Maga zine. In 1090, a large Russian army besieged the Turkish fort of Azof, which was sit iated on a plain, strongly fortified, ami had a small but well dis ciplined garrison. No common ap proaches could be made to it, and the Turkish cannon swept tho levwl with iron hail. In this case the engineering skill of the Russians was bafflod, but General Patrick Gordon, the right'hand man of Peter the Great, and tho only one for whose death it is said he ever shed a tear, being determined to take the place at any cost, proposed to bury it with earth by gradual approaches. Ho had a largo army; the soil of the plain was light and deep, and ho set 12,000 men to work with spades, throw ing up a high eireumvallation of earth wall before them in advance. The men were kept in gangs, working day ami night, the earth being thrown from onf to another like the steps of a stair, thf top gang taking the lowest place ever; half hour in succession. In five week* the huge earth wall war carried for ward nearly one mile, until it rose to and abovo tho highest ramparts, and th< earth began to roll over them. Thii caused the Turkish governor to hang oui tho white flag, and give in. Had he nol done so, General Gordon would hav< buried the fortress. Life In France. In weatem Franc# mnoh of ilio farm ing i? atill of the most primitivo kind, hut the ana aeema to make np for all HhortoomingH. "Everything flourifdioB here," Maya Miaa Edwarde, Hpeaking of Anjou; "every fruit yon can think of, every vegetable that money can pnr at Oovent Garden, Working peo l, green peaa and etraw ;day, an they eat bread and > Rich and poor alike of eatahlea and drink and clothing at home more ahopping done 'living on an ocean 0* Over Keren Feet Hitch. At a Maryaville, Oil,, Htahlo there ha* on exhibition an imraenae ox. He like a frame of a maatodnn, a* he i? poor in fleah, The animal atande a little over aeven feet high, and weigha 1,760 ponnda. Tha ox ia aix or aeven yean of age, and haa been running in the foothill* of tha eoeat range. It ia WropoMd to take him to San Franoiaoo, and try the experiment of fattening him I *t one of the breweriee. <j AMERICAN MEAT ABROAD. Tke Ron?t Berf of Old Knttlnnd N? Brttrr than Our Bp?-f. Two years ago it wan impossible to get American beef in England, unless from the stores of some ocean steamer sailing to and from this country. Last week nine thousand and two hundred quarters of b?ef grown in the West and killed and dressed in New York or Jersey City, were shipped across the sea in refrigera tors, to arrive abroad as fresh and juicy as any meat of the same fTudc that is sold in New York a day or two after kill ing. The demand in England for more and cheaper meat than the home pastures supply has long been a pressing one, and many American sjMKMilators during the past ten years have attempted to meet it. The first shipments were of meat cut small and packed between layers of ice in jrreat tiers. l$ut no buyers could be found for such messed and questionable looking meat as this was when it reached tiie other aide. It was found, also, that the ice injured the flavor of the meat, leaving it as juiccless and flat as it looked. Then Nelse Morris, a butcher of this city, tried sending the meat just as lie would send it to Brooklyn, trusting to the temperature of December and Janu ary to keep it fresh. But that tempera ture changed so many times during the passage that the meat had to bo thrown away when it arrived in England. Then the various American refrigerator manu facturing companies, whose inventions excel any devices tor similar purposes in the world, entered the field one after an other. None of them was wholly satis fied with the results of the ventures, but their experiments attracted the attention of the butchers, who saw fat profits in I case the trade could be properly ostab- ' lished. Mr. Timothy Eastman, now the larg est exporter of American beef, was the pioneer. He studied the merits of the various refrigerators. Having determined which ono needed the least alteration and improvement, ho constructed an experi mental cooler on the steamship Wvom- I ing, filled it with tho meat of forty-five cattle and 100 sheep, and sent it to Eng land. When it arrived, the meat had I lost its external appearance of freshness, and brought prices upon which Mr. Eastman suffered a considerable loss. '' lift nqtiSjuJJJ^J^jyj^Uieinettfc was ?wanted over there, and f pnt it on the market there fresh, bright and clean; and so I determined to ship i some every week, fitting up a differ ent ship each time, and improving in the refrigerating system in every ship." Seventeen months have passed since then, and in that time Mr. Eastman has expended over 1800,000 in the construc j tion of refrigerators in his slaughter house and on shipboard. Houses to ex i port the beef six steamships of the An chor line, six of the Williams <fr Onion ; line, and Hix of tho White Htar line, and on these vessels he has thirty-one boxes. Every week he exports 1,000 head of cat ; tie, quartered and dressed, consigned to butehors in every city in England. The meat arrives in England ten days after it I is killed and usually about twenty days after it leaves the pastures of Illinois or j Indiana. * Having been killed and dressed in the* j usual manner, and quartered after the poculiar fashion required by English taste, it is hung in,a chill room over the slaughter house, whero it remains until | idl tho animal heat has left it and it is I thoroughly cold. Thou each quarter is enveloped in a canvas cloth, sewn close ( around it, aud those quartern are hung from the ceiling of the refrigerator in the ship by which it is to be transported over the sea. Tho method of keeping these chill boxes eold is at onco simple and in genious. A portion what is known as tho orlop deck?the deck immediately be neath tho upper or passenger deck?is I partitioned off as a tight, cloned room. I he iron walls of tho ship are covered with a sheathing of wood aud paper. A groat ice box, holding thirty or forty ] tons of ice, rests in the center of this J compartment. Over tho box is a fan or blower, worked by a donkey engine, which gets its steam from the ship's boil , ers. When tho meat is hung around the box, and the box is filled with ice, this blower is set in motion, and a great and ^ constant volume of air is thrown against ? he ice, through which it finds its way, 1 to escape at tho bottom of tho box, fiil ' ing the compartment, and being sucked out of an orifioc in the wall, to bo again , ' and again forced through the ico box. i i By this means the temperature in the ? I chill box is kept but a little above tho ; i freezing point. No outside air can find , its way into tho refrigerator. When tho I meat reaches its destination it is found U> ho bright and purr, find, aa many per sons Hay, tenderer, from being hung up, than the same grade of meat on Hold in Now York. Mr. Kaatman'a refrigerators have cost liim from $1,500 to #3,800 ?orh. For the Kngli?di market, boevea aro quartered ho as to .eave two ril>H on the hindqunrter. Kootob butchers nut the hindquarter so aa leavo four ribs on it, and the export, beef from thin country in quartered in accordance with thin cuh tom. In this country the f<?requarter in the heaviest, and no ribs are left on the hindqunrter, hut n the Uni'ed Kingdom the hindquarter fetehea the highest price, and therefore it ia cut aa large aa it is poaaible to have it. When, a little over a year ngo, Ameri can l>eef waa flrat shipped to F.ngland, F.nglish l>eef brought from Kd. to 9d. a pound?2d. more than could he obtained for the bent American. For a long time the Ilritiah public were unawnre of the fact that American beef was finding itn way to their ah or en in any considerable qn*ntitiea. From Australia cooked and spiced meat, in cana, had been imported ?'"* great quantities, but it fell dead on ft market, and created a dislike among English people for foreign meat. The bvtohers oombinod againat the introduc f JOB PRINTING. Tfca Qurm offloa la oapable oI promptly tad oaatly tucuuui til iljlo ot Job PrvnUuf ?t lb* Vt+it4f0 CanU, nr am tmrala, H'e44<Nf Hall Tichvtm, CHrmlmrm, /nrUati?n?, Handbill a, JV?Ter?f Mm, Z>o?#yrr?, fro^rammri. In ahort, we here the prwm sad material for ftliinf u; order which may be glrec us. We eoHoit a trial. tion of American beef, nJul sold it with out mentioning where it came from. When it began to come in great quanti ties, ami the press fastened popular attention upon it, the butcher* still sold it a* prime English beef, and labeled the toughest and meanest meat they could get "American beef," To-day, how ever, the meat finds its way to the tables of the people with its origin unconceal ed, and press and people have together declared it to be better than th?ir best. It sells, as it has all idong, at 6^d. or 6|d. per pound, wholesale, but the best English beef has come down to the came llgures. From this price of sixpence halfpenny, or thirteen cents, per pound, an estimate can be formed of the pro'Its our ship pers reap. They are not exorbitant. At home the same meat sells for ten cents a pound, and from the three cents of ap parent profit there is yet to t>e deducted the cost of shipment. The steamship companies charge for the refrigerators by measurement, nt the rnte of about thirty shillings por ton. Mr. Eastman estimates that the meat in the chill rooms oeeuuies only about one-sixth of the space measured; if he is charged lor 300 tons measurement, he has really little more than fifty tous of b?>ef ; the rest is ice and waste room. One of the exporters prophecied to a ?Sun reporter that in six weeks the price of beef will be too high to permit its shipment to England. " No provision has been made," said he, " for such an cxj>ort business as is being carried on. Something like 'J,5(H) head of cattle aro shipped from New York alone every week, and new firms are constantly engaging in the traffic. Already we see what is to follow; for, while the price of beef usually falls in Lent, it has steadily risen this year. But I don't fear for the business. The roast beef and the splendid joints of old Eng land, that we have all heard about, is tlio rare and costly exception there, among the thin and tough meats that como from different parts of Great Brit ain. Eorevermore, or as near forover as any one cares about, America will sup ply Europe with beef. We'll have a dull season now, but next year there will be an adequate supply, and so there will be ever after." ? ? How the English peoplo handle the I beef when it reaches them may be seen ! by the following extract from the Lon j don Daily News : T-'ViyTH^>i thejy^Lhaying been taken from flio refrigerating board tlio Wyoming, was convoyed thenoe in two vans of spoeial construc tion, inveutod by Mr. Acklom, and an adapted railway wagon to tlio Northwest ern railway station, and in thoso.vehicles it was brought by railway and through the strocts to Lts destination, Mr. Ack lom's van is a dust-proof chamber, al ways perfectly ventilated. The walls or sides are composed of double panels of folt, the exterior panel being lipped into a cylinder, the water from which, after percolating it, returns to a tank, whence it was originally pumped by an auto matic windmill, worked through the ac tion of the train. The thermometer registered in the van forty-live degrees; and such is the effect of the construc tion, the hotter the weather is, the lower is the temperature, as the result of evapo ration. After it reached the market hall, the supply was placed in a refrigerating room, which forms part of a vast space beneath the Cannon street railway sta tion. The whole area available being equal to about an acre and a quarter, it is calculated that at>out '20,(XX) tons of meat might be stored there. A vault close to tlio river is to form tlio ice house of tlio establishment, being spa cious enough to hold 500 tons; ami tlienco cohl nir will be diffused to the rooms used for storage, the walls of which will be covered with canvas and paper, so as to exclude the ordinary at mosphere. 'Besides the basement, there is a story above, which is designed for tlio reception of game, fruit, butter and ofher importations; and thoie are three or four landing places for the disem barkation of meat and other foreign provisions. In refrigerating rooms like the one tie scribed are also stored the oysters ship ped from New York at the rate of 1 ,CKK) barrels per week, and tlio lobsters, ox ported in ^rcat tanks from Portland, Maine.?j\'cw York Sun. A l?enr Price for Stiipldity. The engineer on a Tennossoo railroad train blew his whistle for Hlaughtors villo. At that moment a countryman stepped out upon the platform and jumped from the steps into the dark ness. Just as he made tlio leap the conductor grabbed at him, merely touching his coat, but nothing could have saved him. The train, which was behind time, was rushing along at the rato of about forty miles an hour. The conductor held his breath as he thought of the awful fate which must have at tended the countryman's leap. He rang the bell and put on his air brakes with a suddenness that cheeked up the train within a remarkably short distance. The train men went back expecting to pick up a corpse, but the man was alive and talkative. Ho said that he had never traveled on a train but once bo fore. When he came out of the car, he saw the ground and thought the train was About to stop, so he jumped off, with the intention of hurrying to his country home hack of Hlaughtcrsvillc. As he loft the caj* his Iwnly was turned round, his back being toward the direc tion the train was running. All at i.nee he felt a terrific jar, and found himself at. the foot of a telegraph |"?'e. < )n taking him to Hlaughtorsville it \*i,h found that his wrist and leg had In en broken, his hip knocked out of pluec, and the back of his head badly bruis?,|. It is thought that he will h< areely hiii vivo his injuries. / J is . / /