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MIDSUMMER DRESSES. A TENDENCY FOR THE FASHIONS OF FIFTY TEARS AGO. Gowns Scant and Straight-Pretty De signs in Lace Patterns Are Now the Rage and Are Sold at a Moderate Price. Everywhere within the domain of the summer girl one especially notices the exc.eeding scantiness and straightness of her white gown. The woman who is tall paces the glistening beach, a grace ful, flitting image. The woman who is short trips over the elusive, reflecting sand, a dimpled, piquant figure, with inches enough added to her stature to make her-if she be not an extreme example-instead of dumpy. simply round and charming. Half the women under thirty look like school girls. The midsummer tenderness for modes a la 1830 makes small distinction possible between the young madame and made moiselle. Both wear white, morning. afternoon and evening. It would be safe to estimate that out of every five gowns turned out by competent hands this season at least two are Like a powder of snow from the heavens. Since spring the shops have over flowed with white materials. A collector of samples might easily accumulate scraps of half a hundred different white woolens, and, adding to these the silks, pongees, muslins, lacies, lawns, linens, silk gauzes and semi-transparent tissues of all descriptions, might go far towards completing the full century. The sum mer girl bathes in white flannel, boats in white serge, promenades in white nun's veiling, drinks tea in white China silk, dances in white tulle and goes home after the ball in a coachman's cape of white challis. White velvet and white silk are the-trimmings she puts on white woolen gowns. Occasionally she is charming in a white veiled gown. This last innovation consists of an un der-dress of striped silver and white on gold and white silk peeping from be neath a veil drapery of white silk gauze of-the finest texture, gathered into a waistband very simply so as to form pretty folds. The embroidered lawn and cambric dresses of past seasons have dropped en tirely out of favor, -though embroidered India muslins, which have been laid aside for perhaps a quarter of a century, oan be brought forward to advantage. White lawn is used only in its finer and more shear varieties when it is made up in quaint accordeon skirts, untrimmed aid plaited all the way around. The bodice and sleeves are likewise pleated, and the sash of the same material is laid in wide folds in Empire fashion across the front, tapers toward the back and is tied in a soft knot, instead of a bow be hind, the two ends falling nearly to the ground This makes a very fresh and youthful-looking dress, and the chief variation on it is a white lawn used as a crisp-pleated front'to a Directory gown of-black linen or sateen. Some of the prettiest white gowns for summer merry-makings are made of white China silk with round belted TYaidfInd having the fullness on the shoulders drawn in rows of thick cords forming points in front, behind and on the top of each full sleeve. The skirt is drawn upon cords for a depth of over foutinches below the waist, whence it falls in full straight lines. Few people t can eed telling that none of the skirt !'breadths is gored and that they are cut off straight around, except in case of a pronounced Empire dress which is made shorter in front than hitherto, showing the embroidered silken instep curving up from the satin slipper. High shoul dered full sleeves are the natural finish to sneb gowns. The belt, the collar e waistband are smooth white rib bons and-the flower-crowned white hat is net shirred over what looks like a foundation of green twigs and trimmed ishlavinug its queer but legitimate result, aburrin o the lies which divide ateh amenggon from evening attrate sme abrcsbeing used with Sout:distincion whether one sips an ice -oni the lawn of a Newport cottage or dances at the Casino, the transparent overdress being in either ease a promi nent feature of the midsummer fash iois. It is an interesting commentary on the ingenuity of womankind to see bowdressy girls are reconciling the edict h forbid bustles and reeds and steels with the contrariness of tulle and tarleton and muslin nature which tends lo limpness and flimsiness and tiredness ^an4general sadness unless the butterfly siitgare kept out from the figure. A -fashi.aable evening gown is complicated in its structure. First comes the full petticoat, which is made of the thin but 'wiry gloriosa silk of a shade just match m ig or harmonizing with the gown. SThis. has two or three narrow z> uffles about the bottom in front, and in e ~icl-t is flounced in the waist line, each frill being laid in rather stiff pleats, ~bug.without any undue protuberance. Qver this skirt, which is said to herald the return of the late lamented crino linue, comes.the plain straight silk un dergown, with three layers of net- or ]isse oitule over the foundation behind Sand only one tulle veil lightly draped in t' -ront. ~At the foot is set a thick pinked silk niche, another running about the front only or. extending all' the way -around. In this flowers nestle or the lisse or talle falls over it in a light veil. The bodice of evening gowns leans to ward the pointed French style, laced in - the back, crossed with a sword belt sash and edged at the top with tulle, in reac Stion from the cross over Empire waists foldi'ng1Mck and front and ending in a wide sash, which are still oftenest worn. There are many modifications in the sash, which is made of a full breadth of -silk, ties in the back just between the shoulder blades and has long streamers reaching the ground. This is pre-eminently ea lace season, -and the beauty and delicacy of many of the loom-made patterns join with their very modrate ~ -~ ~ men --with--ths airy grace of suchdat adorninigs. Black lace or black tull -Tosca is mounted on black silk in dressy toilets for morning wear, some of them showingthe -long Oriental sleeves which touch the ground and lend a subtle charm to a lithe, willowy figure. Pale green, light red and mauve are used for afternoon wear, with puffs on the shoul ders, pointed peasant bodice belts, lace hats and the same trailing Eastern sleeves. White net makes girlish gowns with the straight skirt hanging full over satin. For the waist the net is gathered and fulled about the neck as a guimpe and the elbow sleeves are puffed by rows of beading alternating with rows of baby ribbon. Brocaded satin makes the wide sash, which is looped behind. Three or four rows of narrow satin ribbon border the skirt. Primrose yellow Suede slip 7pers and gloves are the usual accessories. A new and pretty cape is beginning to appear as a finish to summer toilets Sat afternoon teas, folded like a fichu scarf about dimpled shoulders, with a .point in the bx.ck and two long pointed -~ends crossed in front at the waist line, drawn each under the opposing arm and .fastened under the knot of the sash be hind. With a rough straw poke bonnet, with standing bows and a straight, un draped gown open at the throat in a hmy V, it is as quaint and picturesque as one could desire. ELLEN OsiioRN. The Pennsylvania Republicans. Hanimss~no, Pa., August 7.-The Re publican State Convention met in this city to-day. State Treasarer Henry K. Boyer was renominated by acclamation. SIf elected, it will be his third successive -tem. The convention then adiourned. TELEGRAPH CHARGES. Mr. Wanamaker's Reasons for Demand ing a Lower Government Rate. Postmaster General Wanamaker has written a letter to President Green, of the Western Union Telegraph Company, replying to the latter's protest against the reduction of the telegraph rate for government business from one cent to one mill a word. In answer to Dr. Green's assertion that the privileges and benefits derived by his company from the government are purely imaginary. Mr. Wanamaker says that under the grants of the Act of 1 G6, and after wards the supplementary Acts, the Western Union Telegraph Company has claimed the rlght of use, without conm pensation of any kind as to right of way, all the highways of the coun trv. on the ground of their being post roads. It has broadened this claim to the extent that the streets of cities and towns are also post roads, and therefore open and free to its oceu paney and use. The courts have sus tained it in this claim. The company has thus been able to occupy and use the streets of cities regardless of the views of the local authorities and almost regardless of public opinion. The streets of all cities and towns in the United States have been kept open for the use of the company. Mr. Wanamaker says: "I am sure that, on reflection, you will hardly claim that such great benefits as these are 'purely iminginary.' Confer ring such great privileges and benefits upon you, the government, in my belief, expected and is entitled to receive not simply your exceptionally low rates to others, but even a lower special rate." Concerning President Green's state ment that 'for messages transmitted to a single customer, the government is our only customer enjoying reduced rates," Mr. Wa'uimaker says: "By this I presume you mean that this government has the lowest rate given to any single customer, its lowest rate be ing one cent a word for day messages and three-fourths of a cent for night messages: but this charge is made not only upon the nssage itself, but upon the a(ck-ss and signature as well, so that. for ten words in a message and ten words in the address and signature the above rate is, in fact, two cents per word in the daytime and one and a half cents per word at night. Is it not true that the large papers of New York, Chi cago and other large cities have a half cent rate for their special dispatches in daytime and a fourth of a cent at night, or a rate one half lower than the gov ernment has been grented? Is it not true, also, that this patronage from the enterprising press is the most profitable that you have, and that it would, in fact, give you still more profit if made still fewer? Reduced rates bring in creased business and enlarged profits. Your testimony before committees of Congress it various times has been steadily to the effect that every time your company has reduced prices it has gained increased income." Mr. Wana inaker is in favor of a conference on the subjct with President Green. Gen. tosser Explains. Gen. Thomas L. Rosser, the ex-Con federate cavalry general, whose recent speech in Maryland was criticised so generally in the North, is in Minneapolis. "Yes, I suppose my Minneapolis friends criticised the speech I was reported to have made in common with the people of the North generally," remarked the General to a reporter. "But 1 was very badly misquoted. The first speech was made to a body of Confederate friends at the time of the Chandler and Black burn fight in the Senate. I said that the puritanical Yankee was the man to make a great deal of noise and (lemon stration, but the very man who was not in the front to do the fighting when the fighting was needed. It seems that a great many people supposed I made a The seconid troublesome speech was made on Memorial Day. I spoke of socialism and anarchism in the North, and said that while we Southerners deprecated its existence we should congratulate our selves that these evils did not prevail in the South. The newspapers' report of it represented me as saying that I chuckled over socialism and anarchism in the North. I said no man could listen to the words socialism and an archism without shuddering. - I am not in politics, however, and am not to be hurt by these misrepresentations." The Honeymooners' Hotel. I am awaiting further particulars of that Honeymooners' Hotel, which, ac cording to a circumstantial correspond ent, is to be built on the South Devonshire coast for the %pccial, and, if possi ble, sole use of newly-married couples on their wedding trips. That the sur roundings of the establishment are to be made as idyllic and fairylike as possible, need scarcely be said. Romantic arbors in shady corners, gushing streamlets, secluded sylvan nooks are to be provided ad lib.; while with the aid of science every night will be a moonlight one and every day one of seeming bright and wam sunshine. The prospectus is even said to hint at the presence of mechanical nightingales, which, thanks to persistently winding up, will warble on every suitable tree. The decorations, artistic and other wise, of the hotel-are of course to be all in character, though I must admit that I questioned whether the proposed transformation of the 'ordina.my weak kneed hotel waiters and the some what too substantial chambermaids of the provinces into attendant Ganymedes and Hlebes as artistic in their poses as they are classical in their attire, will really be an advisable step to take. The laying on of xolianm harps and other mysterious nmusic iu every depart merit is another dletail open to criticism. But thete is nothing like actual ex perience after all, and I shall be curious to hear more about the lioneymrooners' Hotel when it has been openedl for busi ness for a few weeks.-Ibudon Fiyaro. Indians in North Carolina. Tn cvertnent school at which the hildrein o, . band of Chero kee Indians are educateuz is~. Cherokee, on Yellow Ilill, in Swain County, North Carolina, anid is very interesting to vis itors. The Society of Friends established the school in 1883, and now have charge of it. There are eighty pupils. These are taught mechanical work by the prin ipal and seven assistants. There are, during the fall and winter months, two other schools in the reservation entirely for Indian puplils. In Swain County are 1,500 Cherokees. andt there arc 500) others in the Counties of Macon, Graham, Jack-. son and Cherokee. There arc possibly some 200 or 300 in Norih Georgia and East Tennessee. Their capital is Yellow Hil, the residence of Tsa-la-te-he, or Charles Smith, their chief. The office is elective and the Indians vote for chief every four years. andl every' two years vot)e for c-ounihlnen. There are twenty of the latter: one for each 100 Indians. Poisoned by Lobsters. BosTON, August 6.--Something must have ailed last Thursday's lobsters, for reports from various sections of the city show that peole who ate those crusta ceans on Friday were made sick. In East Cambridge eleven families, number ing thirteen persons, sent for the doctor at the same time on that day, and in Roxbury one death has occurred attri buted to the same cause, it is a curious fact that a lobster which was captured a day or two ago in the waters off Minot Light, where the Cambridge lobsters conme from, was entirely blue. A Bed-Time Song. Sway to and ntoin the twilight gray, This is the ferry for Shadowtown; It always sails at rhe end of the day, Just as the" r.. :ess is closing down. Rest, little head, on my shoulder-so, A sleepy kiss is the only fare; Drifting away from the world we go, Baby and1 in the rocking chair. See, where the fire logs glow.and spark, Glitter the lights of the shadowland, The pelting rains on the window-hark! Are ripples lapping u; on its strand. There where the mirror is glancing dim, A lake with its glimmering cool and still; Blossoms are waving above its brim, Those over there on the window sill. Rock slew, more slow, in the dusky light, Silently low. ring the anchor down: Dear little passenger, say cood-night. We've reached the harbor of Shadowtown. THE APPOINTMENT OF WEBSTER The Waterloo of the So-Called Independ ent Republicans of South Carolina. WAsH1NToN, August 5.-The appoint ment of Eugene A. Webster to-day to he the Collector of Internal Revenue for the South Carolina District was the Water loo of the "Independent Republican" party of South Carolina, so called, and of its leaders and promotors in Massa chasetts, L. Edwin Dudley, and the members of the Massachusetts Club. He was the candidate of the regular Repub licans of his State, and. so far as the party can be said to be organized, had the party organization behind him. The candidate of Mr. Dudley and the Inde pendents was first George G. Alex ander, a Democratic State Senator from Kershaw County, and a sorehead. When it was ascertained that he could not win, the Independents trotted out other candidates, and it seemed for a time that the <ark horse would win. Webster was really the only Harrison man who came up p:-ominently for the place. lie was a delegate at the last Chicago convention, and one of the. few who didn't sell out to Gen. Alger. He voted six- times for the Hoosier can didate. The agents of the Massachusetts Re publicans took only a week in South Carolina to discover what a ground swell reform movement the Independent party representad. The come-outers had never elected anybody to anything; but Mr. Dudley was satisfied that they would if they had a little Federal pap for nourishment. Some hundreds of dollars of Massachusetts money were sent down to support the Columbia Daily Record, the State organ of the party, and Senator Hoar and Cabot Loige spoke for Iudley and his cause at the White House. A column and a half report was made to the Massachu setts Club, and the Republican papers of Boston went wild over it. W. W. Russell, a leading Independent, induced Mr. Clarkson to give him some dozen or fifteen postoffices; but gradually, as the truth came in from the localities most interested, the work had to be all undone. Between the regulars and indepen dents, Chairman Brayton of the Repub lican State Committee was in a heap of trouble. Ile was a Sherman man at Chicago, and is well known, and didn't sell out; but the supposition is that he knew that his delegates were selling out to Alger right and left. That is, nc doubt, the reason why John Sherman refused even to see Brayton when h called at his K street house soon after the inauguration. That was Brayton's first set-back. He went down and down. First he wanted to be the head of somp bureau here in the city; then he wanted to be the South Carolina District Attor ney, then United States Marshal, thea a Consul anywhere, and jnally, whet the "Independents" seem eo be making it hopelessly warm for W tehe took new hope and made a break for the In ternal Revenue Collectorship, his oh] position under President Arthur.-N Y. ~Sun. Cotton Xima in the South. -The numb~er of cotton mills now in the South as compared with 1880 has doubled, while the number of spindles and looms has more 'than trebled, the tendency being to build mills of greater capacity than formerly. From 161 mills having 667,854 spindles and 14,322 looms in 1880, this industry has in creased until there are now 355 mills, with 2,035,268 spindles and 45,001 looms. Moreover, there are many mills under construction and projected, and a number of old mills are increasing their capacity. Letters to the Baltimore Man ufacturer-s' Record from leading imanu facturers in the South, as to the outlook for the cotton industry, indicate that the production of coarse cotton goods in the South is temporarily in excess of the demand, and that the South must make the finer goods and also seek a foreign market by means of direct steamship lines to South America. A Youthful Couple. People living in the vicinity of Gum Springs, in the Southeastern part of the city, are becoming deeply interested in a youthful bride and groom who have been camping near the springs for the past few days. The groom is about 14 years of age, while the bride is little past 1:3. They were married in Texas about one month ago, and came over land in a covered wagon. The mother and step-father of the girl are with them. Sunday afternoon the troubles of married life commenced to come. The htorm blew their tent down and left them exposed to the fury of the rain, that came down in torrents. Application was made to Mr. J T. Smith, who has a store at Seventeenth and Vance, fror a stopping place. The young husband gave his name as J. 11. Journeman. Although air. Smith has very little space, he agreedl to let them stay inl his feed room. They accepted his offer gladly, and have since been moving in their household effects, which have beeni coming gradu ally from their star-t iug pinit ini Texas. Young Journeman is a stout, hearty-looking' boy, while his wife appears to he robust and strong. They inte-nd moving on to Tennessee eventually, but for the present will~top in Little Rock. It is undeod that a delegation of young ladies living in the Eastern par t of the city will call upon the yotung couple this afternoon. -Little Rock ( Ark.) (urectte. The Rice Crops. The reports as to the condition of the rice crops on the upper Pee D~ec planta tions are disheartening in the extreme. There was universal hope that after the disasters of last year the planters would have one or more good seasons, but this hope is (loomed to disappointment. The destruction by floods will probably be more extensive this year than it was last year. On Monday every glantation on the river as far down as Entield (Mr. B. W. Cannon's place) was under waler, hav ing beeni submerged for several days. The Pee Dee River at Cheraw wvas re ported to be thirty-four feet high and rising. Before thbis immense volume of water, which is now slowly descending upon the doomed plantations, can run off, the last vestige of the rice crops now standing on them will-probably be de stroyed. There is a rise in the other rivers also, as might have been expected from the heavy and continuous rains that have been falling for two or three weeks, but it is probable that the dam age on these rivers will not be very great, if at all appreciable.-Georgetown Enqirer. Dont suffer from weakness and debility. Don't let gloom and despondency take possession of the human heart. Get health, get strength, get the power of endurance from using B. B. B. (oatnic Blood Balm.) THE WAR IN HAYTI. Horrible Atrocities Perpetrated by Both Legitime's and Hippolyte's Soldiers. The last acceunts from Port-au-Prince are to the 28th of July. They show that the war between Legitime and Hippolyte has degenerated into a war of savages. The prisoners taken by Hippolyte are forthwith shot, while those captured by Legitime are at once brought into the market place and their throats cut in the presence of the populace, the Amer ican Consul and the captain of au Atlas Line steamer being eye-witnesses of tbe bloody spectacle. But Legitime has had only the savage satisfaction of cutting the throats of seven of Hippolyte's men, while Hippolyte has shot two batches of prisoners, numbering ninety-five in all -eighteen on one occasion and seventy seven on another, the captain of a de tachment of eighty men being surprised and killed while going the round of the works, all the rest, after surrender, be ing summarily shot, with the exception of two men who hid in the bush, and on their return to the city reported that they saw their comrades, while begging for mercy, shot down to a man. If the fighting were of the same fierce and relentless character Hippolyte, by all accounts, would soon be master of Port-au-Prince, and a gen eral slaughtcr of its inhabitants and a general scene of plunder would ensue unless the foreign war ships in the offing send a sufficient number of armed men ashore to protect the excited and dis 'tracted population from the fury and resentment of Hippolyte's men. The correspondent of the New York Times gives a dreadful picture of the condition of affairs in Port-au-Prince.' "Fear bor dering on frenzy," he says. "appears to have seized hold of many of Legitime's soldiers. They refuse to stand fire, and it only remains for the contagion to become, universal to enable Hippolyte to march unopposed into the capital of the South. The idea of offering quarter to surrendering troops has died out, and capture now means something worse than death. None of the inhabitants of Port-au-Prince expects the least mercy accorded him should Hippolyte's men ever force an entrance into the city." One or more attempts have been made through the American Consul to nego tiate between the belligerents, but Hip polyte, it is said, refused to listen to nothing but unconditional surrender. And so the desultory warfare goes on, with Hippolyte having the advantage of the best fighting men, but no artillery except one or two Gatling guns, while Legitime has an abundance of artil lery, but very few men who will stand to their guns. With the occa sional help of the war steamers Dessa lines and Riviere, Hippolyte's principal attacks have been directed against Fort La Coup, which dominates and protects the outer line of forts. He has twice assaulted La Coup and twice been re bulsed, although at one time if he had pushed his attacking column resolutely forward he could have carried the work. Since then he has drawn so near to the city that he can fire into it by occupying some dry ground in an adjacent marsh. He has thrown five hundred men into that position, but it seems doubtful whether they can hold it, as it can be shelled by steamers from a creek that runs through a part of the marsh. On the whole, therefore, the situation ap pears to be no better nor any worse than it was at the last advices, two weeks ago. The troops of neither belligerent seem to have any liking for close fight ing, so they skirmish for awhile at long range, and then either Hippolyte's men retire or Legitime's men run away and are protected from pursuit by the guns mounted on the outer line of forts. Such a war, with its incidents of sav attery, may linger on for mouths unless some occasion should arise that would -ive . ioto tlecomimadeafth. oreign war ships in the offing to land a body of marines and seamen to put an end to the interminable struggle and the bloody reprisals that accompany it. NEw YoRKx, August 9-Purser Squire of the steamer Alvo of the Atlas Line, which arrived from Hayti last night, brings Haytian news. The Alvo left St. Mare 1 p. m. July 26th and arrived at Port-au-Prince at 6 p. m. of the same day. Wheni the steamer came to anchor the noise of Hippolyte's cannon could be distinctly heard firing at the town. The attacking force was at the West of the place, about two miles away. With the aid of a powerful glass Purser Squire and the officers distinctly saw Hlippolyte on the seacoast. The United States man of-war Ossipee lay in the harbor of Port au-Prince, and near her was anchored an English and a Spanish man-of war. A tugboat named the Panama, formerly belonging in thd United States, of about 120 tons burden, was there too. She carried a few heavy guns and was in Legitime's service. During the afternoon of the 26th of July the Panama was ordered around to where she could attack Hippolyte's bombarding party in the right flank. As soon as the little tug got within firing distance she began to blaze away, and kept it up until darkness set in. The bombarding by Hippolyte's forces was kept up all night. The Alvo left the next morning. Legitime lost two men during the fiercest of the fight. One was killed instantly; the other lived a day. Hippolyte's losses can be reckoned in the hundreds, it is said. The Gatling guns used by Hippolyte played sad havoc with the outskirts of Port-au-Prince. The officers of the Os sipee said to the people on the Alvo that they (the Ossipee's officers) had become used to the continued firing, and dIo nut mind it. A Wild Runaway Ride. In Atlanta, Ga., Monday, Miss Emily English, the eldest daughter of Captain J. W. English, was the heroine of a wild runaway ride, and her escape. from a terribl.cutard~as~'almnost-~miraculous. The young lady, who is a splendid rider, was mounted on a spirited animal, which became frightened at a street ear near thc corner of Peachtree street and dashed up Peachtree towards North At lanta at a furious pace. The young lady plckily maintained her seat anid never lost her self-possession. Several blocks out the street was torn up on account of the chain-gang being at work on the. road, and a heavy rope stretched across to keep off vehicles. The rope was just high enough to miss the horse's back about two feet. Behind it were Belgian blocks~ and piles of sand. Miss English saw the danger, but was powerless to escape it. When within a few feet of the rope she bowed her head, but the rope was too low, and it caught her un der the chin, and in a second, when it1 became taut enough, swept her from the horse. Miss Euglish was hurled in the air and thrown a distance of almost twenty feet. She was picked up in an insensible condition, but soon recoverced consiousness. 1Her injuries were not serious. The Treasures of the Soil. A curious illustration of the treasures of the soil often overlooked for a long time is the discovery of mineral wax in Utah. It was discovered three years. ago on the line of the Denver and Rio Grande Railroad, covering an area of 150 acres. Over 1,000 tons a year are secured. It looks like the wax that is made by bees, and can be used for the1 same purpose. It is mixed with para phine in making candles, and is used in: the insulation of electric wires. It: mneed no refiningefr o rdinary use. THE INTERNAL REVENUE TAX. As the repeal of the internal revenue tax is certain to be made a vital issue at the opening of the new Congress, it be comes an interesting study for the people generally. The present outlook points to an enforced declaration in favor of the abolition of the entire internal tax system from the Republican House cau cus as a condition precedent to Repub lican unity, and as the Southern Re publican Congressmen who have taken a stand for the repeal of internal taxes bold the control of the House in their bands, it is quite likely that the over throw of the internal revenue system may be accomplished within the present fiscal year. In view of the possibility of the repeal of internal taxes, its effect upon the general revenues of the government becomes an interesting inquiry. Com missioner Mason has just made an official preliminary report of the opera tions of the department for the last fiscal year. The total revenue from internal taxes was $130,895,432. Of this amount, $74,313,206 came from spirits; $31,866,860 from tobacco; $23, 729,835 fio n fermented liquors, and the residue from oleomargarine, banks and miscellaneous. The total revenues of the government amount to about $390, 000,000, of which internal taxes make up about one-tbird of the whole, and during the last few years the expendi tures have been increasing with more rapidity than the revenues. It is doubt ful whether, with all our resources, including internal taxes, the statement of the treasury that will be presented in the President's message to Congress, will show as much as $40,000,000 of surplus for the present fiscal year, and the question will then present itself for positive solution, whether there shall be a repeal of internal taxes when the repeal must necessitate either a very large reduction in expenditures or a bankrupt treasury. The last Congress was largely in favor of a severe reduction of internal reve nue taxes, but the question was never reached in either body as a distinct proposition. Both the House and the Senate tariff hills largely reduced inter nal taxes, and both claimed to reduce the revenue about $70,000,000, but the effect of either measure upon the reve :.ue was purely conjectural. Could Congress have reached a direct voie on the repeal of the tobacco tax it would have succeeded by a large majority, and it is certain that all other internal taxes except those levied on whiskey and prob ably beer, would have been repealed if the direct question had reached a vote. It is probable that a reduced tax of about 50 cents would have been retained on whiskey by the last Congress, but that is the most that could have stood the pruning knife of our lawmakers. It is understood- that the Southern Republicans, who have taken a stand on the issue, will demand the entire repeal of. the internal revenue system, and if they shall stand to their guns, they can force its entire overthrow. They are likely to be heartily seconded by many politicians, from the President down, who have made profligate promises as to pensions and other speculative schemes, and want an excuse for not fulfilling their pledges. With the repeal of the internal taxes, increased pen sions could not be entertained, and only the severest economy in every depart ment of the government would enable the revenues to meet the expenditures. It is an open secret that the leaders of the prxesent administration are appalled at their campaign pledges about expen ditures which now confront them with the demand for fulfillment, and the only way to retreat frnm a policy of fatal profligacy is to cut down the revenues to a point that must not only forbid any andl every increase of expenditure, but that will enforce a large reduction in in a favorable position to win their battle, and it is not only possible but quite probable that the next Congress will strike off $130,000,000 of revenue by the entire repeal of the internal tax system. It would be a violent whirl from -profligacy to economy, bat it would be a most wholesome departure toward honest government.--Philadel, phia Times. SA RRTIAGE WAS NOT FAILURE. An Interesting Family Now About to Invade Europe. A large and interesting Mexican family sailed for Paris to-day on the steamship La Champagne, of the Coin pagnie Gencrale Trausatlantique. There were twenty-three persons on the family roster and two maids. The father is a Mexican official, who is going over to show his "little ones" what Paris is like. The eldest son, who is married and has his wife with him, is 35 years old, and the youngest child in the family still nestles fondly in its nurse's arms. This is the list of names that graced La Champagne's passenger list: Mr. F. Madero, Mrs. Madero and maid, Mr. Daniel Madero, Mrs. Madero and maid, Mr. Raoul Madero, Mr. Alberto Madero, Miss Mercedes Madero, Miss Maria Madero, Miss Magdelena Madero. Miss Barbarita Madero, Mr. Alfonso Madero, Mr. Benjamin Madero, Mr. Emilio Madero, Mr. Evaristo Madero, Miss Rafaela Madero, Mr. Salvador Madero, Miss Gabriel Madero, Mr. Ernesto Madero, Miss Angela Madero, Mr. Manuel Madero, Mr. Julio Madero, Mr. Jose Madero and Mr. E. Madero.--New' York Ecening, Telgram. TR1:A TEENT OP HYDROPHOBIA According to Pasteur's Method to be Practiced in a Chicago Hospital. Cm~CAGo, August 7.- Residents of Chicago or elsewhere who may be unfor tunate enough to be bitten by mad dogs will not hereafter have to go to Paris to be treated by Pasteur. The County's public service committee yeslerday, on the recommendation of the hospital committee, set apart two unused rooms in Ward 13 to be used by Dr. Antonio Lagorio for the treatment of hydropho bia according to Pasteur's method. Dr. Lagorio is a Chicagoan by birth, but he spent five years as a studlent with Pas teur. The hospital medical staff recom mended the utility of bacteriological work and preventive inoculation for rabies at the hospital, and Dr. Lagorio will undertake it. FIGHTING THE JUTE TEUST. Alabama Farmers Will Use. Cotton Bag ging for Wrapping Cotton. MONrGOMERY, Ala., August 7.-The State Farmers' Alliance of Alabama, aow iu sesssion at Auburn, has adopted the following resolution:' "Resolved, That the memnbers of the Farmers' Alliance reiterate their deter nination to use cotton bagging for Lrapping cotton, and will, under no 3ircumnstances, use jute; and that this resolutioni be transmitted to the conven tion of Commissioners of Agriculture of the Southern States, to meet in the city >f New York on the 9th inst., and by :hat body be presented to the Cotton Exchange." A Black Confederate. Eli Pickett, a colored man, has made tpplication for a Confederate pension from the State of Georgia. He rendered valuabl.e service, and was disabled in the nilitary branch of the Confederacy. The Atlanta Constitution says Picket will find that he has plenty of Confederate riends, and expresses the hope that his ~as may meet favorable cnsideration. BE WAS HANGED TWICE. A Georgia Man Recovers Damages for a Mob's Doings. On a bitter cold night in January, 1887, nine or ten disguised men broke down the door of W. O. Shellnut's house, in Santa Fe district, Jackson County, and dragged him from his bed, running his wife and mother-in-law screaming and terrified into the woods. The mob earned Shellnutt to Rehoboth church, near by, and there hanged him twice to a joist in the c'hurch with wagon lines, afterwards dragging him over the frozen ground to a fallen log, across which they held him and flogged him until he was nearly dead. Mr. Shellnutt was a one legged man, and the attair created a great deal of excitement at the rime. Nine of the parties were indicted for riot, three of them being convicted at the February term of Jackson Superior Court, and the remaining will be tried before Judge Hutchins at Jefferson, the County seat, next week. A suit for damages was filed against seven of the party on the civil side of the court. Ttis suit was tried in Jefferson yesterday, the jury remaining out until 11 o'clock last night, when they brought in a verdict awarding Mr. Shell nut $1.500 da'nages. Mr. Shellnut has been the night watchman of the Southern Agricultural works for the past two years, and has numerous friends in the city. SICKNESS IN JOHNSTOWN. The Doctors Unable to Respond to the Numerous Calls Made Upon Them. JHossTows, Pa., August 7.-Notwith standing favorable reports are still seat out from the Board of Health, there is a great deal of sickness here. I)octors are so busy that they cannot attend to ca!ls made upon them. A man living several miles in the country came to town to get a physician to attend a member of his family who was ill, but they were all too busy to go. Another case happened yes erday, where a gentleman wanted a doctor to make a trip five miles to the country to visit his child, who was very sick. He called on ten different doctors, but it was impossible to get one of them to go. Typhoid fever, malarial fever, dysen tery and a genuine case of scurvy were reported to the Red Cross hospital dur ing the past two weeks. The case of scurvy was caused by salt pork diet which the contractois' men have to sub, -sist on. Of Interest to Banks and Bankers. WAsHINGTON, August 9.-The Treas nrer-of the United States has issued the following circular "The Assistant Treasurer of the United States at New York will receive deposits of gold coin or currency, or draft payable to his order. collectable through the clearing house, in amounts of not less than $1,000, returns for which will be made in small denominations of new United States notes and silver certi ficates as may be available when de posits are made-shipments to be made by the Treasurer of the United States on receipt of the original certificate of deposit of the New York office. Express charges will be deducted from such remittances at government contract rates when the currency is forwarded." The above "notice" is intended to apply to all banks and bankers through out the country who may see fit to avail themselves of its advantages. She Can Drive a Horse Car. What cannot a woman do? The pas sengers on a West End street ear were treated to a novel exhibition of a wo man's skill last night when a fine-lookin, robust woman passed rapidly - gh the ear and engaged th -iver in con versation for a ment. Then they saw her take th reins, and, with one hand on the brakes, dri h~rses c oaucung the a business with 11 , dignity and effi ciency, adjusting t ,brakes at switches, stopping the car for '-assengers, urgina the horses to greater. cped, or restrain ing them, and fulfilling-all the duties of a competent driver. Then handing the reins back to the lover, 1&rother or friend to whom they belonged, she unfastened the chain, stepped outside. fasteped it, and swung herself off with a cheery "Good night!" amid the murmuiss of admiration from the surprised passen gers. -Detroit Free Press. Proposed Reunion of Veterans. A movement has been inaugurated in Vicksburg, Miss., originating with Con federate veterans, to have a grand re union of the veterans of the blue arid the gray from all parts of the country in that historic city on next Decoration Day, May 30, 1889. Letters have been sent to the different State societies of the Con federate Veterans' Association and to the various posts of the Grand Army of the Republhe, asking their Co operation in carrying out the plan pro posed. A committee will be sent to the meeting of the Grand Army of the Re public in Milwaukee, next September, to lay the plan before the chiefs of that society for their consideration. The most prejudiced Northern journal or politician will be unable to discover any thing disloyal in this proposed reunion of the veterans of the armies which op pcsed each othei- in the late civil war. The Case in Nutshell. The administration is. right in its course in the Behring Sea matter and in the seizure of the Canadian-vessel Black Diamoud, because the administration has no choice in the matter. Congress makes the laws; the President executes them. As to the right of the United States to exclusive jurisdiction in Behi rings Sea, that is semething to be de termined by a conference. It has never been admitted by England. England may be justified. or the United States may be. The diplomatists imust settle t he matter.- Washington Capital. Detained on Suspicion, NEW YORK, August 8.-The Labor Inspectors at Castle Garden detained twenty-four Sweeds to-day, suspecting that they came under contract. One of the detained men is Andrew Amberg, an American citIzen of Birmingham, Ala., who is indignant at his detention. He denies that his companions are under contract, but admits telhng them they could jget work at Birmingham. Each man paid his own passage here. Fatal Marine Collision. NORFOLK, Va., August 7.-This morn ing, while the Old Dominion line steamer Old Dominion was coming up the river, she was in collision with the sloop Ella May of Warwick County. James Henry Coombs, the captain, and two of the crew, colored men, were drowned. An Uprising Summarily Quelled. CITY OF MExICo, via Galveston, Au gust 7. -The prisoners confined in Fort San Juan at Vera Cruz revolted against the officers. The troops on (duty at the fort shot twenty of the prisoners and quelled the uprising. More Bodies Found at Johnstown. JOHNSTOWN, Pa., August 8.-Three more bodies have been taken out of the ruins near the lower end of town. One was a little girl and was found in the middle of Market street. At the last examination of candidates for positions as teachers of the Sumter County public schools more negroes in proportion to the numbor- of that race, who applied, proved proficient, and were granted certificates of qualifica tion, than whites.- Watchman. HOW HE RUNS THE RANCH. LARGE PART TAKEN BY THE OFFICE BOY OF A DAILY PAPER. His Well Developed Nerve Is Calculated to Carry [im Through Life a Winner. Other Positions of Some Importance, Yet They Shrink When Compared with His. Among all the attaches of a big newspaper there is one who imagines himself the head and front of the concern, the preeminent manager of the office, but for whose untiring energies and indomitable will the paper would never find its way to the subscribers' front doorsteps two hours before sunrise, rain or shine, every (lay in the week, including Sun days. Thisself important individual on whose shoulders re.sts so great a responsibility is no less a pe:onago than the office boy, the much abused, greatly maltreated, and ever underrated youth who spends many sleepless nights worrying about the editorial conduct of the paper. The office boy is not, properly speaking, a marvel of probity. Ho is a nearer kin to the devil He may think he gets up the paper. but he doesn't. He only assists, and he as sists in his own peculiar way. He is always in the way when one doesn't want him, and is never around when there is an urgent case on hand which requires his immediate etten tion. He is slower than his brother of the district messenger service, and chews gum, keeping time with his jaws to all his move ments. But he isn't aware, or pretends not to be, that there is anything in his general make up which tends to detract in the least from the many excellent qualities he thinks he possesses. Johnny thinks he has a hard struggle for an existence, but Johnny is mistaken. It's true he has to run back and forth a hundred times in the course of- a night between the local and telegraph rooms and the c6mposing room. It is also true that everybody wants him at the same time, and on such occasions he has to bring his fine judgment as a news paper man into play and decide on the spur of the moment whom to serve first. The copy in the local room must be carried into the composing room immediately; likewise a big bundle of news that has just arrived by the lightning process over a copper wire. The foreman, too, has some proofs which must be taken at once to the proof reader, but Johnny, if he is as bright as the average office youngster, knows just whom to serve first. Strange to say, he doesn't attempt to run all three errands at once. He doesn't go to the nearest place either, but hurries, after his own fashion, to the room where he would stand the best chance of getting a blowing up if he didn't answer the call promptly. Ten minutes later he shuffles into the local room. "Did you ring?" he asks. "Ring? Why we've been ringing for you for the last half hour " "No you haven't, either. rve been sitting out by the elevator for the last ten minutes and you haven't rung once during that time." "Well, here now, take this copy out and hurry up about it. Tell Mr. Jones that this leads the South side murder with a display head." "Who was murdered?" asks the boy. "Peter Brown. Hurry up, now." "Who killed him?" "Oh, Sam Willianmnkilled him in a saloon row on Clark street. Now take that copy out and hurry up about it for the first edition." "All right, sir. Did he shoot him or stab him?" "Will you take that copy out?" asks the copy reader, losing his temper. "Well, ain't I taking it out? What are you givin' us? Do you take me for a streak of lightning?" This is more than the copy reader can stand. He jumps up and makes for the fiery headed youth, but on these pccasions Johnny displays his latent agility. He invariably reaches the door first and slams it in the other's face with the parting '' he's "gettin' too fresh." Johnn sta -'with the copy after this "'e episode, and as he couldn't get the in formation he wanted verbally he stops on the way to digest the contents of the copy. It is Important that he should knew every thlihg that goes into the paper, but he hasn't educated the emiployes of the local room up to a recognition of that fact yet. He hopes to do so before long. He hopes also to get a rtaise of salary seen, for he is tired of "work lngtnslfso dath" for a dollar a week and Johnny has one Tyaptbung friend into whose willing ear he pourM, This is the elevator man. He gives the yoigtr all the free rides he wants down to the stl floor and back and thereby incurs his ever lasting friendship. Johnny swears by the man who manipulates the wire rope that con trols the movements of the elevator cage and that Individual is the only person whom he recognizes as his superior. For him he will do any service. Ho is the only person about the office whom Johnny envies his position and the only one on whom he won't play tricks. After Johnny has had one of his frequent rows with the copy re:ade rs in the local or telegraph room he seeks consolation from his friend. The office boy is the only person in a news paper office who does just as he p'eases. When the circus comnes to town he takes his day off without asking anybody's permission. On the Fourth of July ho touches off a big fire cracker under the proofreader's desk and sticksa crooked pin in the n.ght editor's chair to get even with that individual for sending hin out after his midnight luach. He never means to do any of these things. They and a hundred other annoying little tricks that he is responsible for are accidents, and when they happen he puts on his most sorrowful, look and seems so genuinely repentant that one doesn't have the heart to strike the lad. These woe begone looks are all on the surface, however, and as soon as he gets a chance to slip away he hies himself to an unfrequented spot and has a good laugh all to himself. His vacations generally come whenever he gets "sick," which ho does on every holiday and about one a week besides. The oflice boy, in fact, is probably the sickliest person living, but the redeeming fea ture of h'-sickness is that it always comes over him af'tho most opportune time for his own convenience. The omtce boy's position is not a sinecuro, after all. Ho is everybody's property and every one takes a kick at him when ho chooses. Ho is eternally kicking up a fuss in some department, but he invariably pays up for it by running his legs off on Im possible assignments about the office, but if the fellows "on the desk'' do get the best of Johnny in the long run he remains in blissful ignorance of the fact, so the victory is only hal~f a one after all, ana it is probably better for the copy readers that this is so, for if the boy could read the thoughts of some of them he would makitso hot for them that in self defense they would tender their resignations -Chicago Times. "Stephen Adams," otherwise Mr. May brick, the song writer and singer, is a tall, powerful looking man, blonde and handsome. When he sings he appears to be working ter ribly hard. A School of Devil Fish. Old ocean pilots and steagoing people who watched the school of dev-il fish that played about the pilot boats and the tug Uynthia before tiie boats got off in the regatta yesterday, say that. such a sight is very rare in the life of a ma riner. They played about the craft for fully half an hour, antd were principally young devil fish, from four feet long to six feet, and they looked like great hats. Some of thlem had she-d their tails, while others had caudal appendages fully a yard ini length. As many as twnzv of these hide-ous-lookiug miri ne uriosities werie seen at oneC timfe, anid one was shot by- one of the cr-ew or the Neca, antd after lashing the water of the sounid into a foam, it, sauk out of sight. - Sacannah (ua) New. -. +1 Labor Reforzns Demanded. Cu rANxooGa, August 9.-The Trades man has received authentic information that tile coal miners of Alabama are or ganizing to fight the convict labor sys tem and the company stores, and to :emand better mining laws. A conven tion will be held in &ptember and the struggle inaugurated. Leaders wiite the Tradcsman that it will be a war to ,te hitter cnd, ARCDA. There is a land that stretches far away Through candors of unviolated dreams, A land that to the vagrant fancy seems A paradise of sempiternal May. And It is caled Arcadia, they say. " Within its flower fields are quiet streams, And green and cool retreats, and beauty beams On every side, while pleasure lords the day 0, lovely land! thou Uest far away, Too far, indeed, for laggard stepe like mine: Yet I have heard returning travelers say That on thy frontiers they had marked a sign. Telling to each that happiness was his. Where pain Is not, and not where pleasure is. -Edgar Saltus in Pittsburg Bulletin. "Fishin' Jimmy." A short, simple story, pathetically told, is Annie Slosson Trumbull's "Fishin' Jimmy." "Fishin' Jimmy" was a quaint, old White Mountain character, passionately fond of fishing, keenly sensitive to the beauties of na ture and thoroughly "good hearted,",which Is another term for lovable. "To his simple intellect the fisherman's art was a whole sys tem of morality, a guide for everyday life, an education and a gospel It was all any poor mortal man, woman or child neede'l in this world to make him or her happy, useful and good." The old man is "converted" by a "fishing preacher," and finds great comfort in the fact that the disciples were selected from among fishermen. "When he was a choosin' the men to go about with him an' help him an' larn his ways so's to come a'ter him, he first o' all picked out the men he'd seen every day fishin', and mebbe fished with hisself: for he knowed 'em, and knowed he could trust 'em." The poor old man meets with a tragic end ing to his simple, picturesque life, but his faith and his ruling passion stand out clear until he is half across the dark stream p tween this life and the next.-Now York Star. A Drowned Man's Shirt. August Melching was drowned in the Co dorus creek while swimming. His body could not be found for some time, when one of the searchers suggested that his shirt be thrown into the water, claiming that it would float to where the body was. The suggestion was acted on and the garment thrown into the water where it was thought that he had dis appeared. It instantly shot out, then stopped, circled about a short time and in another moment disappeared under the water. A young man present on the creek's bank then dived to where the shirt was seen to sink and found the body of the young man where the shirt had disappeared. The singularity of the incident consists in the fact that the shirt was found clinging to the dead man's body. Two gentlemen who were on opposite sides of the creek at the time this occurred corroborate the truthfulness of the incident. This gives credence to the ancient idea that the clothing of a drowned man when thrown into th water will float to the body.-York CPa.) Cor. Philadelphia Inquirer. Bashful OriginalIty. An unpremeditated and bashful compli ment is often the most flattering. A young lady, who had gone to spend a summer with some country 'relatives, found it difficult to get on with one cousin, a boy of 16, who was so shy that any chance remark directed to him served to plunge him into direembarrass inent. One morning she proposed driving to town with him, and on the way the conversation waxed quite flourishing-at least, on one side. Presently a pause ensued, and the young lady became aware that her companion had turned and was regarding her hair, which was of the closely curling variety, lying in small, deep waves. "I like your hair!" he announced, sudden ly, as if determined to speak his mind, let what would cuze ofit. "Why?" she asked. "Because it's so full of them little jerksI" Youth's Companion. The English Spaitw. his ravages were not as notable. It was thonght that the millions that perished in the bUzzard of the early part of the year eo counted for the check. But 1880 brings the rascal to the front everywhere. The United States commissioner of agriculture recom mends a method of poisoning them with wheat soaked in an arsenical mixture. In England this manns is generally resorted to. The poison ls distributed along highways where sparrows resort and where other birds are not liable to pick up the poisoned ma terial. No greater pest to agriculture exists in the world than this pugnacious bird; all the worse, as birds In general are our best frends.-St. Louis Globe-Democrat. An Oldect Lessen. .,Don't write there," said one to alad who was raichinT with adiamond pin on a panc of glass in the window of a hotel. "Why not?' "Be ane you can't rub it oait." There are other things we should not do for the same reason-because we cannot rub them out. This person is lonely, depressed, in sorrow, and needs sympathy. Instead, a cold word, a heartless word is spoken. An impression Is made which is more durable than thatof adlamond on glaes. Break the glass and that disappears. But this may last forever. D'e careful what you write on the mind and heart of those you meet.-Ciergy man in St. Louis Republic. To Be Seen, Not Imitated. Much as we all admire the play of "Little Lord F'auntleroy," is there not a wondrous dearth of small boys who would like to be like Little Lord Fauntleroy? We have talked with a number of little fellows about it, and all have agreed +hat they couldn't be induced to wear their hair long, to wear a girl's hat with a plume in it, and to wear an enormous silk sash. The play interests all the boys, but when It comes to introducing the salient fea tures of Little Lord Fauntleroy's career into their own lives-that Is quite another thing, and the boys wili have none of it. And we do not blame them.-Chicag8 News. .Feonowed to the Letter. Editor (fiercely) to office boy-See here, boyl If you let another poet in here this weee I'll break every bone in your body, and hang you up for a towel. Mind you, now. No long haired person comes into this office hereafter. Office Boy cneekly)-Yes, sir. Editor (three hours later)-Who was that beautiful young lady wL'd turned in fronm the street andl then went avvay again? Office Boy-That was the new banker's daughter, Miss Lovelydot, and she wanted to subscribe. But I had to follow your or ders, sir.-Burlington Free Pra-'s. Made Himself Rlight.j The editor of a western weekly wrote up an account of the death of a good and promi nent citizen, putting over it the time honored heading: "A Good Man Gone." A fter the issue: was printed, but before it was distributed, it was learned that the dead man wvas an em-: bezzler. So the editor sat down and- wrote the word "Wrong" after the wordl ",laro" in: thadline in every paper of LUm hane. ew York Tribune.i The Southbound Railrcad. In the Superior Court on Saturday a charte'r was granted- O the Savaninah Construction Company, whose specific: object is the building of the Southbound Railroad. The capital stock is $250,000, divided into shares of $100 each, and, under the terms of the charter, the comn pany has the privilege of increasing its stock to an amount not exceeding $1,000,000. The charter members of the construction company are Chai-les Wal ters, John Lawton, Mike Brown. .John L. Hammond, Herman Myers, William S. Tyson, Thomas F. Stubbs and B. A. Dnark.-&u'annahi Nrs. Cotton Bagging. The jute bagging men have advanced the price of thlat article one-fourth of a cent a pound on each grade. and --it% now quoted at 10+ cents per yard for two-pound bagging. The Boston Onnm merial Bulletin says jute baggingz can be made and sold at a profit of chfht cents a yard. The same paper is ani thority for the statement that there will probably be 3,000,000 yards of cottont bagging made this y'ear, (t he West Point and Rosedale mills have orders for nearly two million yards), and thbat the competition for cotton baled im it is Hklrl to be liely.