FIR*, .GARDEN AND HOUSEHOLD.
Pan* Nat**.
The clover crop will he short in the
West. It was generally very ranch
damaged by the hard winter, and was
frozen onl in many place*.
" Ijtttinand Greek are all right," eaid
a Delnwnre fanner an he halted hia team,
"but giriVmo a mau who can plow around
an apple tree 'thouht touching the roots."
The New England Patrons purchase
on an average 10,000 laurels of flour |x>r !
mouth directly from nulla owned by
Granger*. The average saving i one
dollar and iAftv eeute jx*r barrel, or $15,-
000 per raAnth.
There arc over two lmndml grang**
in Vermont Canada has one hundred
and eighty-two granges, tweuty-seven
having been catabltahed in May. There
are one hundred and thirty-nine granges
in M.uytand with a meiuborslup of about
7,600.
The engineer of the Peruvian govern
ment has estimate*! the quantity of
guano in recentlv discovered U\ls to lx*
not leas tlito tons, or enough
to load a vessel of throe hundred toua
every week day of the year for a century
to come.
The farmers around Eufaula, Ala,, are
compelled to ovat 'ho ears, flanks, and
other parts of thur live stock with tor
and grokft to protect the® from the
buffalo mttL, and ida>to keen ft res burn
ing in tlfi Mock lota at night. This
pest is about lialf the site of the <m
men houffr fly, jet black, and has a hump
• back or shoulder like the buffalo,
whence the name.
Tfce litre* anrf Ifcv lwe rra.
The journals are beginning
to wake up to the fact that the idea
which we broached some tiuie age, rela
tive to the wholesale slaughter of tie
prairie chickeus and other feathered
game having its result in an increase
of the grasshopjier infection, ut fouudod
on substantial truth. It i* admitted that
the destrffajitib of th> larils law Wu
enormous, and that they have been trap
ped by thousands and fed to the hogs,
on the theory that pork can be salted
and sold while birds cannot. Now, let
the journals snggeet to their waders the
necessity of game laws, rigorous ones,
which will impose heavy penalties not
merely few killing the ohieke ns, but for
expoaiug them for sale, and let local au
thorities set* that such enactment* an
enforced to the letter. If this be done,
and if the MVsfern iuveutors will give
more attention to devising exterminat
ing machinery, by next year the hop
per*, between the acorckiug from the
machines and the hungTy crop* of the
birds, will find life utterly devoid of j
pleasure, and perhaps may be induce,!
to migratff aut of the Pniti-d States terri
torv, say to Canada or Mexico.
there is another reason why the birds
should be spared, and that is the potato
bog. Prairie chickens and quail, it is
said, will eat the insects, and other birds
are said to feed upon them greedily.—-
Scientific A merit:an.
Lwrli far Tnogtu.
Cold haled chicken, and oilier meats,
carve,! before starting, coM boiled eggs,
Graham dnwkers, brown bread, pickled
fruit of almost any kind, and jellies—
these are greatly relished by hungry
tmvelers. Pies and cake are less in de
maud by the locomotive stomach in a
healthy condition, than the substantial*.
If one most have tea and coffee on the
rail, he or she can carry a ttu cap to tie
filled at stopping places with the bever
age ready wuuler with scalding water
and make t|p infusion iu the cor. Ou
many accdnnts it is better on a long
journey to carry one's lunch than it is to
depend for refreshments on way station*. ,
It is cheaper, it is more trustworthy, for
one always knows just what he's going
to have, and then one can cat at leisure,
which is a great consideration.. If the
appetite craves a warm dinner, it may
be taken at the dinner stopping place ; i
if wheia all the zest of the
passengers are hurrying and scurrying
to get places at the table, eat, and reach
their seats before the cars start, our
Erovident traveler sits quietly, enjoys ,
is victuals at his leisure, and lias a good
tim- philosophizing on the necessity
and folly of being in a hurry.
Tfce Apple Tree Berrr.
As this is the proper season of the
year to prevent the apple borer from
getting into the young orchard, I will j
offer a few suggestions the result of ten j
years' experience, with a hope that oth
ers will try it Tm years ago I planted
a young ueahar.t,-and every spring I
run off a quantity of weak lye from the
ash hopper, after tlio ashes were too
much spent for soap making, and with
that I scrubbed my trees, using an old
corn broom. I also collected soot from
my and saved it carefully
until annum mixing two parts good 1
wood aahes'to one of soot. About the
middle of June I would clean away from
about tile bees all grass and trash, and
remove suckers, and apply one quart of
the soot and ashes around the collar and
wet it to keep it from blowing away, also
pressing it down with the foot. Now I
do not say that this is new, but simply
that I never had a borer in the orchard*
The tent caterpillar I destroy with a
long-handled stiff broom; this I de early
in the morning while they are in their
tents, and if#ho lldbe attended to every
morning until fney are all hatched out
and destroyed. t j . 1
I'are Cap Uapea la CkMua*.
A correspondent of the London Field
has the following for the benefit of poultry
men who are troubled with this disease:
One day I noticed a Hook of eleven pare
bred OCT— o<*ur chickens very bad with
what is called gapes. I remark ed to the
man who had them in charge that he
would not have many chickens oat of
that lot. " Oh, never mind," said be,
" I have got s core for them from a |
neighboring woman, which is a common
half penny tallow candle molted and
mixed into about a quart of oat meal
stirabout." The remedy sfes resorted '
to, and the Oreve-Cteura nave every one
recovered and grown into finely devel
oped chickens. I have since tried this
cure with Invariable suceess on Bra
xamas, Dorkings, etc.
81r*a a* Helper*.
Our friends, the insect-eating birds,
have been ruthlessly destroyed in all
parts of the country, and a war of ex
termination h Mid going on in commu
nities where we might expect better
things. These are but a small number
of the causes -which might be named, all
working together in giving the noxious
insects the advantage over the hnslmnd .
man, and bringing disastrous results
where good woufil -come if an opposite
course had been pursued.— New York j
Nun.
To Hot Rid of Ast*.
Lay old bones or sponges saturated
with molassegSßd water where they racist
do congregate, taking away everything
else edible- from that locality. When
the bones are black with tiyim or the
sponges populous with them give them
a bath in nqalding water. This remedy
is tedious, bof it is effective. If any
one can give a better a Detroit lady will j
be very glad t6 have it.
At Annoying Insect.
The worst insect pest of tropical
America, says a traveler, in the terrible
fire-aut, whose sting Is likened to the
puncture of a re<t-hot needle. It is
found only ou sandy noils In open places,
and seems to thrive most near houses
and in weedy villages. Towns are some
times deserted en account of this little j
tormentor. It is a small species, of a
shining red-color, pcit greatly differing
from the tfmrmon, red stinging ant of
our own country, except that the pain
and irritation caused by its sting are
much greater. WJvere it abounds, the
whole soil-is undermined by it; the
ground is perforated with the entrances
to their subterranean galleries, and a
little sandy dome occtirrs hero and there
< where the insects hring their young to
_ receive warmtli near the surface. Homes
are overrun with them; they dispute
every fragment of food with the inhabi
tants, and destroy clothing for the sake
of the starch. All eatables have to be
suspended iu baskets from the rafter*,
and the cords well soaked with oopaiba
balsam, which firths only means known
to prevent them from climbing. They
seem to attack persons out of sheer
malice. The legs of tables, chairs, and
stools, and Hie cords of hammocks, have
to be ameoztod in the same way.
TUE CASK OF BROWN.
A ft*4, Sal Mm if Ihe Mlaerv that a I .aver
•f Ham Wl-aaahl.
Here is the true story of ltemy Brown,
as brought to us in the late Philadelphia
papers. Not as pleasant reading, per
naps, the Trihwne says, a* the last fine
fancy in poeni or novel to take with us
to the shady nook or beach, but useful.
Five or six years ago William Brown
was a sober, hearty young fellow, well
I educated for hia statiou, and with a kin 1
heart and pleasaut manner, which made
him a favorite with all his kinsfolk and
( brought him plenty of friend*. The
friends led him to take a glass or two
now and then ; the glass or two became
| naturally steady drink : the drink
brought dismiwuil from his shop, idle
ness, dissolute habits. Still, Brown was,
to his friends, "a gxxxl fellow," with
I uo fault which sobriety would not cure
—nobody's enemy, iu short, but his own.
j About a year and a half ago, going out
to the jxurk one day, he met in a ear a
neat, prettv young girl, who was intro
duced to him as Bessy Heraheimar.
"From the first moment I saw her 1
, loved her," he says, and there is uo
reason to doubt that the jns-r wretch has
loved and been faithful to hia wife froru
that day until now. Love, however,
never kept any drunkan man from abus
ing his wife, or making his home a fore
taste of liell. The girl bore with him
for some mouths and then left him,
•supporting herself by sewing. "Will."
she stated, " follows*! her, drank or
solar," watehe*L her continually, bciug
jealous, naturally enough, as his wife
was praUv. and resolutely refused to go
liack to "her life of mia*-ry with him.
j One night he saw her accost some man
upon the street, in all innocence, very
likely, but it drove him to frausy. The
next day, according to his own account,
being sober, he avoided her, but in the
evening he vreut to a saloon for a drink,
and shortly afterward met her with
another woman. He asked her if she
wanted money ; she replied by a taunt; j
" then," as cue of the witnesses testifies,
"he threw his arm about her neck, and,
I think, kissed her, and the next moment
I saw the blood streaming from her
throat."
She died almost instantly, and Brown
escaped. He went to some of his kins
folk and told thein what he had done.
They " liked Will," and hkl his bloody
clothes, gave him another shirt, and set
| him ou his way. The man escaped from
the police, who were beating the country
for him, and reached Beading. There
was mulling to bar his way further until
safety was secure. But lie turned and
came deliberately bsck, lay secreted for
two or three days in the woods near
! Philadelphia, au*l then made his way to
his wife's grave. The lieutenant of
police of the district, knowing what
maimer of man he had to deal with, and
his morbid affection for the woman he
luul murdered, had placed a watch about
the o>inetery, expressing his belief that
Brown would cytno back to his wife even
I there. When ha was arrested a letter
to his mother was found on him which
shows his intention of killing himself
when he had reached the grave. Noth
ing in fiction or history— not the agonies
of Fagin, nor the face of his victim
that pursued Eugene Aram bv mgjit
and noontlay—is more tragic tlian tins
letter written by the murderer to liis
mother from time to time, as he fi.xl
through the country, a horror of great
ilarkness pursuing him. It is not the
gallows tliat be sees or cares for, but
" Bessy's blood running down her neck,"
or his own hand wet with it. He sees
himself dead in his coffin, with a dread- -
ful self-pity, and bids his mother bring
Mime young people of whom he is fond
( to look at him, as a warning against
liquor. It is not Bessy that he blames ;
" she is an angel waiting for him to cross
the river;" nor himself—the "Will"
that his mother knew and he knew ; but
the liqnor—the liquor. "If I had not :
taken even that last drink, this would j
not have happened."
Brown is in prison now, waiting his
triaL Whatever the verdict may be,
we may be sure he has himself placed
the guilt where it belongs.
The Original Confederate Flag.
At a recent meeting the Palmetto
Guard were made the recipients of the
first Confederate flag raised in the late
struggle, and as this 1 tanner was identi
j tied with the career of the company, it
' is doubly prized as a relic of the past.
The donor, Mr. John 8. Bird, of Lau
ren s, an old member of the comjtany, in
a letter accompanying the fiag, thus
tersely gives its history: In 1860, I to
fore the passage of the ordinance of se
cession by'this State, Captain Edward
Mills, of the bark Jones, belonging to
the Palmetto line of New York packets,
i raise*! this fiag at his masthead in New
York harbor, and his vessel was mobbed,
but they could not compel him to strike
his colors. On his return a gold headed
palmetto cane was presented to him by
some of the Palmetto Guard, and in
turn he transferred to them the custody
of the flag. The secession of the State
was quickly followed by aggressive mili
tary movements, and the flag accom
panied the Palmetto Guard in their
various encampments. At the siege of
Sumter it marked their parade ground,
and was used in ttu* truce boat tliat met
the United States barges. The Palmetto
Guard occupied the fort immediately
' after the surrender of Anderson, anil
' this flag was the first raised on its walls
nfter the salute and before F. J. Moses,
Jr., hod arrived at the fork The fiag
remained with the company until they
were mustered for the war, and was then
taken by Mr. Bird to his home, and has
: since remained in his charge—Chcnlea
' on Newt.
The Invention of the Wheelbarrow.
Says a writer in Scrif>nrr : It takes a
gentleman to do a little thing sometimes.
Who do you think invented that very
simple thing called a wheelbarrow !
Why, no less a man tlian Leonardo da
j Vinci. And who was he! He was a
musician, poet, painter, architect,
sculptor, physiologist, engineer, natural
j historian, botanist azul inventor, all in
i one. He wasn't a "Jack at all trades
and master of none " either. He was a
real master of many arts and a practical
worker besides. When did he live!
Somewhere about the time that Colum
bus discovered Ani'-rica. And where
wns be born! In the lieuutiful city of
Florence, in Italy. I'> rhapa some of
yon may feel a little la tter acquainted
with him when I tell you that it was
, Leonardo <la Vinci who* painted one of
. the greatest pictures in the world, "The
; Last Sapper," a picture tliat has leen
; copied many time* and engraved in
several style*, so that almost every one
i has an idea of the arrangement and ix>si-
Ition at the table of the figures of our Lord
and II is disciples, though I am told Ihat,
, without seeing the ]<aioting iteelf, no
one can form a notion of how grand and
beautiful it is. And only think of the
thonsands of poor, hard-working Ameri-'
cans who really own, in their wheelbar
row, an original " work " of Leonardo
j da Vinci.
Too Much of a flood Thing.
At the central market in Detroit, a
long-haired mau mounted a lx>x and
commenced : "My friends, who hath
redness of eyes? fho drunkard. Who
hath woe? The drunkard. Heaven
send us pure cold -water. There is noth
i ing like w—." At that moment a boy
who was throwing water from a garden
j hose used around there, accidently turn
ed the stream against the stranger's
back, and he jumped down and said it
was a case of assault, and ran after n
warrant. He said that no human being
could throw cold water or r him without
being made to suffer for .
A Bjear Stort.—A good deal of ex
citement was ronsed iu Luther, Canada,
i by the report that a little son of one of
the villagers had been carried off by a
wild bear. It seems that a servant girl,
accompanied by a little boy, went for
! the cows, which were in a piece of brash
! a short distance from the house, when
1 they came across a bear, which seized
i the little fellow by the back. The girl
I heroically came to bis aid with shouta
I and sticks, when bruin became alarmed,
let go his hold of the little boy, and re-
I treated a short distance into the bnsh.
i Several parties started in pursuit with
guns and dogs, but failed in getting a
t shot at the bear.
" Murder Will Out.'*
Few murderers escape without meeting
with the awful puniahiucut due ta their
crimoa. Many strange stories, indeed,
have been told of Uii" kind, some of
which, however, it must l> oonfoeeod,
stand ou too authority to la< re
jeotad. The following is translated from
a re|Hvtahlc publication at Basle, in
Switzerland : A person who worked in a
brewery quarreled with one of hia fel
low-workmen, and struck him in such a
manner that ho died u|miii the aimt. No
other peraoti ww wiln>a* to the deed.
He tlieu took the dead Itodv and threw
It into a large tire under the ttoiliug vat,
where it was iu a ahoit time so corn
pletely eouaume*) that no trace of its ex
I'tauoe remained. On the following
day, when the mau una mimed, the nmr
derer olwerved very coolly that he had
obaeived hia fellow servant to haw tax-n '
intoxicated ; and that he had probably
fallen from a bridge which he had to
j crossed on hia way home, and been
, drowned. For the spaee of seven years
i after no one entertained any suspicious
'of the real slate of the fact. At the eiul
of this perusl the murderer was again
; employed in the aiuue brewery. tlu\mg
; retire*! one evening to rest, one of tin
other workmen, who slept with him, j
hearing lam say ui hia sleep: "It is
now full seven years ago," asked him :
What was it you did seven years ago t"
"I put hun," replied he, still mek
mg iu his sleep, "under the boiling
vat." As the affair was not entirely for
gotten, it immediately occurred ti> the
man that his Itedfellow must allude to
the person who was missing about that
time, and he accordingly gave inforuia-
I tiou of what he luul ln-nrd to a uiagis
| Irate. The murderer was apprehended ;
and though at first he denied tliat he
knew anything of the matter, a cottfea
siou of his crime was at length obtained
from him, for which he suffered condign
punishment.
l'he f*llowi:ig event hapiteued iu the
neighborhood of Fraukrort-upou-tlie-
I Oder: A woman, conceiving that her
husband, who was a soldier in the I'm*
siou service, had been killed m the bat
j tie of Jena, in 1806, married another
man. It turued out tliat her husband
had been oulv wounded, add taken (wis
oner by the French. A ©one was soon
effected, and he joined one of the Prus
sian regiment: which entered into the
jaiy of France. After serving three
years iu Siiaiu, he was discharged ; re
turned suddenly to his native country,
and ap{>eare*i greatly rejoiced to find his
wife alive. She received him with every
mark of affection, but did not avow the
new matrimonial oumiectiou she had
formed. After partaking of some re
frvalmient, he complained of being quite
overcome with fatigue, and retired to
rest. She immediately joined with her
new hnstiaud to *lia|>ateli tlie unwoj*-* uue
visitor iu his sleep, which they accom
plished by strangling him, and' put his
laxly into" a sack. About midnight, in
couveyiug it to the Oder, the weight of
the corpse burst the bag, and one of his
legs hung out. The woman set about
sewing up the rent, and in her hurry and
confusion sewed in at the same time the
skirts of her accomplice's coat. Having
reached the banks of the river, and
making a great effort to precipitate his
load as far into the stream as poaaible,
he was dragged from the elevated
ground he ha*i chonen into the river, but
contrived to keep his head above water
for several miuntes. The woman, not
considering how important it was to
keep silent, filled the air with cries, and
brought to the snot several |xn*aiita,
who, at the hazard of their own lives,
1 extricated the drowning man from his
jx-nluus situation, at the same time dis
covering the cause. The man and
woman were charge*! with the crime,
made a full confession, and were executed
together.
The (Jreat Dhat Is It.
" What is the Keely motor ?" This
i is th* question over which mnny art"
puzzling their brains in vain. For what
ever this power mav be, a definite
knowledge of its capabilities is said to
I be known only to four men. including
' the inventor or discove;er, Mr. Kooly.
According to the statement* of those
who are in the neerot, this newly discov
ered power is destined to revolutionize
tlie entire mechanical world, and to ren
der possible feats which now seem lio
yond the power of the moat jn-rfect ma
chinery in the world. Guns are to lie
fired by the same power that drives the
ship that carries thorn; explosions are to
be rendered com) aratively . harmless;
engine* of 5,000 horsepower are to be
constructed so as to occupy uo mora
space than an ordinary steam engine;
and all the marvel* which an- accom
plished by sh-ani are to lx* ]>erform-d
, with infinitely greater cam* by the cold
vapor evolved from air and water. This
is what the Keely motor propone* to do,
for Mr. Kix-ly claims to have discovered
one of the powers of nature by which
vapor can lie produced. At present the
great anxiety of the discoverer and his
few confidential friends seems to lie to
keep the secret of what this motor is
until they have perfected the system of
working the power, so as to be able to
take out letters patent that will protect
them. Then the public will lie informed
about the matter more fully. Mean
while there will lie many unlxdievers in
a new agency of such tremendous force,
while others, rememlieriug the history
of inventions and discoveries, will watch
with credulous intercut for further de
- velopmenta.
Who Wouldn't be an Editor.*
The editor of the Vicksburg Herald
is incensed at the remark of a New York
York journal that four of the editors of
j the Herald had lieen killed in as many
months, and claims that the Sentitfl is
the guilty jarty, which luul five of it*
editors killed and then died itself. The
Herald states that " Dr. James Hagon,
the first on the list, was killed in astr<>et
encounter by the late Gen. D. W. Adams;
Walter Hickey, another, was killed in a
dnel in Texas; Mr. Ryan, the third, wa*
killed opposite Vicksbnrg in a duel with
the late Kichard Hammot', who was a
journalist himself, and the editor of the
Whig; two others, John Jenkins anil
W, D. Roy. were killed in the street* of
j the city." But, according to his own
confession, the editor of the Herald
i exchanged shot* many years ago with
1 Dr. Hagan, the first named of the above
j victims, and received n bullet in bis
body from the Doctor's weapon, and
subsequently had an affair of honor with
; Col. I "aae M. Partridge, then editor of
the Whig, and sent tlie Whig man off
with a broken leg or something. The
pistol is evidently mightier than the jien
in Vickaburg.
A Desperate Duel.
The Cologne Gaxeiie learns from Bonth
Russia that a new development of the
so-called "American duel " has made it*
4 appearance there. Two young men,
ricn, of good family, and intimate friend*
Tor a long perhxl, re* ntly lieeaine
enamored of an actress. The immediate
result was a coldness and distrust, which
; ended in tlie transmission of a challenge
from one to the other. It was agreed,
therefore, tliat the dispute should bo
I decided by lot in tlie " American " stylo,
i The man who drew the shorter straw
■ was to give up home, position in society
and wealth, and retire to a foreign land
to begiu life again empty-handed. The
drawing duly took place, and the loser,
after spending n few days in the settle
ment of his affairs and the bestowal of
his possessions for public purpose*, left
! his native place on foot, without n knap
' jick on hi* back or a coin in his pocket,
to take a position as tutor in the neiglilmr
hood, that he might earn enough to pay
i his fare to America.
Excited.
President White, of Cornell Univer
' { sity, did not stand upon his dignity
. when he heard of tlio second victory of
the Cornell crew. The Aubnrn Adrer
• titer says : He was taking dinner when
i he received the dispatch announcing the
i result, and became so excited that he
I rushed from the table, headed for the
t university, and arriving there, finding
i the doors locked, kicked them in and
, made for the ringing apparatus of the
■ chimes, which he pulled so vigorously
. as to disarrange the machinery, causing
i considerable delay before it could be
i adjusted and the ringing proceeded
with.
The Frightful Inundation* In France.
To form an iilca of the cause* of the
inundation in the aouth of France, one
lias to l<M>k at the physical geography
of the departments. They lie on the
northern slo|>e# of the Pyrenees, inter
•noted by nnmerous and rapid rivers, of
i which at Intent four unite to form the
Garonne Ix-fore it reaches Toulouse.
1 There lud Iteen heavy an>l continuous
rain over the whole of the mountain
range, ami a fall of anow at Lua, where
it wouhl awell the lmmlwuU-rM of the
(tannine, ami a contributory cause ia
furnished by the great destruction of
tinit>er m tile iliMtriet. Trena not only
at morb water largely from the aoil, but
prevent the surface fnmi Ix-illg listed
ami hardened by the ami, and they
eheek the rapidity and abruptneaa with
which nun wouhl otherwise ma. li the
ground. When it faila utiiui)edod upon
dry and barmn hillahlea, it will ruu
fnuil them alinoat aa freely an
fnnu the sloping nxifs of houses, and
a few hourn will carry the wab<r of the
mountain atorm to swell the voitune uf
the near eat river. It in euay to be wise
after the event; but in a district ao aitu
tttnl there ia great room for meaaurea
of preveittieu, and the riprarian authori
ties, whoever they may be, ahould be en
trusted with |vowera commensurate to
the maguitude of the recurring evila
which, by wiae preeautiona, they might
do much to mitigate or avert. Kvcn
after all ia done, however, the reaiatable
force of water may prove too much for
human foresight.
The l'i legraph, contrasting the Eng
lish ami French in the preeenoe of such
diaantera, says :
111 audi emergencies the lower and
even the middle claaaea in Frtuioe tx
ooine all but helpless. Energy aeema to
he paralyzed, precetlenta appear to la*
forgotteu, and exjx-rienoe to liave lost
•ts utility; the adminiatrative machine,
which in timea of tranquility ruua with
aueli la-autiful aimwithucaM, ia ho|a*leaaly
thrown out of gear; and, although tmli
vidual acta of heroiam art* common
enough, yet officiality as a rule lax-omen
beuumbod ; prefects ami aub-prefects
lose tlieir heads; and private generosity,
with all the g*xal will in tlu* world,
shows itself to be struggling, illxlireotod
and inefficient. Centralization, in Hue,
is pnt crucially on its trial, ami breaks
down, as it has broken down fllty times
before, in England the ap]>eartuice of
the chief of tile state on the scene of a
great public calamity would be deemed
wholly unnecessary, and week* wouhl
elapse ero Parliament was officially
made acquainted with the extent of the
misfortune and the need for alleviatiug
it by a grant of public money; but, in
France, personal government, although
its principle is indiguantly acouted by an
advanced school of politicians, ia, in
practice, accepted and relied upon in
cases of unusutd |s*ril not only by all
shades of party, but by millioiiN who
are not politician* at all."
A border Hunt a nee,
A romantic incident comes to u* from
the borders of Kansas, which read- like
a veritable Indian story. Among the
settlers was a man named Falconer, who
had a daughter aged seventeen, who was
engaged to be marTie*J to a y.mng farm, r
living near by. The night of the wed
ding arrived, and at the unpointed time
tlie brnh-gnsuu appeared, but the voting
lady had not left h*r room. Her parents,
went to th< door to warn her that the
time for the performance of the ceremony
luul arrived, when they found the r*x>m
empty. It was early evening and not
yet dusk, so they walked to the window
to endeavor to discover the truant
Their horror may la- imagined when
they saw, rapidly disappearing through
the timber on the creek bank, a man
enrying in hi* arms tin* form of a young
girl, which, from the dress, they im
mediately recognised as that of their
daughter. In an instant tin- alarm van
given, and the whole jxvrtv, well armed,
start.-*1 in pnrauit \\ ithin a few
minutes they were in gunshot of the fugi
tive, but were unable to urn- their
weapons in consequence of his shielding
his laxly with the loved form of the
bride-elect. The young lover was almost
frantic, and in his frenxy apjx-Arrd to
have gained the fleetnes* of the antelope.
Overtaking the almost bnwUilan ab
ductor, he O<H1 him, and after a brief
struggle, wrested the girl from him, at
the same tun.- discovering that the ab
ductor was a Cheyoune Indian who Itad
Ixx-n around the ucightrortuxxl for a
year or two.
The same time that the farmer regained
his sweetheart, the savage, with an eel
like wriggle, .-scaped from his bold and
started on a keen run down the creek.
The pursuer*, however, were t. >• much
for him, and one of their numlx-r bnmght
him to tlie ground by means of a well
aimed bullet from a needle gun. It was
soon ascertained that the red man was
only wounded in the thigh. He was
th.-u taken prisoner and lodgi-d in a
neighboring dug-ont, from whirh by
some means he eca|*ed during the night,
carrving the needle gun lall in his thigh
and has not since lxx*u heard of, although
a diligent search has ixx-n made by tlie
friends of the young lady, whose wed
ding has lxx-n indefinitely jxmtponed in
coiua-quence of an attack of brain fever,
the result of the fright she received.
The American ('tip.
After a spirited contest Major Fnlton
lias won the cup offered for competition
to thi- American riflemen by the council
of the British National Hide Associa
tion, hi* score Wing 133 out of a posri
ble 150. The cup does not become his
property, but he will have the honor of
conveying it to America, where it is to
be shot for on terms to lie decided by
the council of the American National
Kiile Association. Tlie scores made by
onr riflemen were remarkably good and (
excited general admiration. Mr. Can
field, Jr., poshed Major Fulton very
hard and defeated both Colonel Oilder
deraleeve and Mr. Colemiui. The shoot
ing for this cup was a severe tost of
markmanship. Each contestant lmd to
fire thirty shots, and the distance select
ed was the one at which it was thought
the Americnu riflemen were least expert.
The splendid scores piled up, however,
were a corrective to the opinion that
the Americans were weak at the thou
sand yards. The shooting also exploded
the notion that breech-loaders, except
when loaded at tlie muzzle, were not
equal to the Hritish muzzle-loaders in
accuracy. On account of this mistaken
idea a rule was this year made at Wim
bledon compelling breech-loaders to bo
loaded from the breech.
This rule was sjx'cially aimed at Major
Fulton, whoso accurate shooting was in
great part ascribed to the mysterious
effects supposed to Ixs produced by load
ing his rifle at the muzzle. A glance at
the splendid target he made will show
the unsoundness of this idea Nineteen
bull's-eyes out of thirty shots bear wit
ness to the splendid accnracy of tlie
American breech-loading arms, which
have proved their superiority over the
cherished old-fashioned muzzle-loader
as completely as did the men who used
them over their competitors. One of
the first effects of the shooting at Wiin
bledom ami Dollymount will be the
abandonment of the muzzle-loader as a
target rifle. The breech-loader has so
many obvious advantages over the older
system that it will Is* impossible for the
most ohstinate t deny its superiority
now that it has been conclusively shown
to possess the greatest possible accuracy
at the longest ranges.
Enrages of the Grasshopper*.
A special correspondent of the Chicago
Tribune, who has Ix-en through the
grasshopper regions for the purpose of
examining the condition of things oc
curring from the ravages committed by
the insects, nays he finds the northern
portions of Nebraska, Kansas, lowa,
and Missouri, which have been the
principal sufferers, embrace a district
eoual to about 20,000 square miles, in
which from one half to three-fourths of
the growing crops have been destroyed,
involving the loss of sixty days' labor of
about 20,000 people engaged in agricul
tural pursuits. Replanting has taken
place once, twice, thrice in some of the
districts, and now that the grasshoppers
have disappeared, fair orops are looked
for if the weather is favorable and the
fall frosts are late. There ia no destitu
tion or suffering this year, and in those
portions of the States not devastated the
crops will -be larger than ever before.
Served 111 in Right.
| Tito Portland (Mo.) Adoertiter d
scrilx-s tlio following adventure of Mr.
John N*al, the veteran author, |XJOI, and
critic of tliat city:
A iinnilH-r of our oldest citizens, in
eluding John Neal, were riding up
home Ml tlieJ*tr<-< t earn,id .out MIX I*. M ,#s
IN their wont, when two young rough*,
perluqm twenty two or twenty three
yearn of age, jum|*ed oil the front plat
form of tlie car, otio f them pulling
away at a villianoti* cigar. The front
door wa* open, and the cloud* of Mtuoko
rolling in tlie car almost cliAcd tlie oc
cupant*. At last one of the older gen
tlemen couUl nlai-d it no longer, and no
remarked, at which one of the other*
touched the smoker, *ayiiig that the
Hmoko w-a very offensive, and tliat the
rule* of the ooui]iaiiy did not |x*ruiit
smoking on the car*. To thi* appeal
the man |*ud no more attention than if
he had lxx-n a statue. Mr. John Seal,
leaning forward, remarked a* follow*:
" Voting man, that smoke i* very offen
sive, and you mut put that cigar out."
'•la that ao, old man I" replied the
rough, lazily looking over hi* shoulder
at Mr. Neal, without removing the cigar
from hi* mouth.
The color iu the old gentleman'* face
rose Nteadily, but rcpr.vtanig In* wrath
he again remarked: " Young man. that
cigar must lx* put out. Bmokiug is nut
allowed on the car*."
"Well, old man, what are you going
I to do about it I" replied the rough.
With the quickuosa of lightniug Mi.
Neal made a Ixmml on to that platform,
seized the cigar from the man'* mouth,
and lluug it in the *tr*-*-t. With one
hand he grasped the rough by the naix*
of the neck and with the other by the
left forearm, rawed Ititu off hi* feet and
.bodied him to tlu- platform, and a* he
placed hi* f.x.t on him ho exclaimed in
quivering tone*: "Thank your stars,
young man, I did not pitch you into the
street after your cigar."
The fellow was completely wived.
When we remember tliat Mr. Neal is
eighty four years old, the mere physical
energy and js.wer displayed was some
thing remarkable. Every oue will say
tliat ho served tlu* rough just right.
luridcntii of the Flood,
The following are among the numerous
incidents related in the Paris journals:
In the flooded plain between St. Jory and
CaMteluau, a Ixiat containing fifteen
person* came into collision with a|xq>lar
tree and was upset. Fourteen of these
were drowned, and the survivor, a girl
fifteen year* of age, na* lost her mason.
At Anterive a family of four |x'rwoua
took refuge iu the branches of an elm, a
great part of which was swept aw ay by
the torrent, and the four people dinging
to its branches were drowned. At
lioqiios and at l'iusaguel, it ia stated,
tin- crosses, the statue* of tlie Virgin,
and the images of the saints, are the
only tilings that tlie water* have ataunxl.
A poor (x-asant woman iu this district
remarked: " God punishes Franc**. In
the north it has been war; in the south
it i* the inuudatious. It is time for ua
to ojx-u onr eyes." At St. Gandeus a
Newfoundland dog saved in succession
twelve persons, dashing into the rushing
torrent bravely, but making the attempt
■ thirteenth tun. the poor animal was
drown<xt. At lluos, at the eonflueuae
of the Garonne, the family of a M. Tour
luelit had *u<vx-edod in getting into a
Ixmt, which was overturned. M. Tour
ment the younger, however, with des
perate efforts, managed to save all hi*
relatives. In the apartment for the
injured at the Hotel Dim, iu St. Cyprien,
is a young man whose foot has bx-n
much hurt. Unaided he ltad saved
sixtv persona. At Castelsarrasin a young
mother look her two infants (twins at
the breast I, tied them together, and
placed them in a large wooden trough,
used for kneading bread, and committed
it to the waves, hoping that it would
save her children's lives, as she felt that
her house was alxiut to fall. The im
provised lxsit swam safely for a time,
but SHW afterward the current dashed it
against tlie trunk of a tree, where it was
broken. The jxxir woman, to whom
maternal love guve a sujx-rhuman force,
MMMedcd in seizing ■ branch ami
rluulx-d into the tree. But it was too weak
and ix-gan to crack ominously. She
then ra(>idly tixl the infants to a branch,
kissed them, made the sign of the cross,
snd leaped into the waves. The two
little twins were savixl, but the devoted
mother was drowned.
A Horse Tamer'* llorse.
Probably no horse ws* ever more
C morally known tlian tlie celebrated
eras Cruiser, imported from England
in I8tl by John S. Rarer, whose system
of horse taming was for some time the
sensation iu tins country ami England.
When Mr. Rarey went to England his
system was thoroughly put to the teat by
oontact with Cruiser, an animal tliat was
so vicious that ho was closely and con
tinuously confined in a stable," in such a
way that ht* could by no jxwsibilitr reach
auylxxly, either with his mouth or
heels. His fixsl was delivered to him
through a sort of funnel, and he m-etmxl
to have lxx-n kept solely as an extremely
wicked curiosity. His splendid muscle
i lid activity gave him the widest scope
for tlwi exercise of his incorrigibility, and
he is said to have kicked so high as to
strike a tx>ard floor fourteen f*x-t alxive
the floor on which h<> stood. Ordinarily,
it wa* only the work of a few minutes
for Mr. Rarey to tame a horse, but it
took him three hours to subdue tlie ter
rific Cruiser. Afb-r putting Cruiser
under control, Mr. Rarey purchased him
ami brought him to this eouutry, and
pbuxxl him on the lUrey farm, at Grove
port, in Ohio, where ho Ixvame popular
among breeders. He tx-camn ao geutle
that the ixxtple alxmt the llarev farm
#could fondle him as they would a LitUffi,
ami his colts wen* noted for their kind
disposition. Strangers, however, wen*
not )iermittod to have mueh b do with
him. This was to prevent u*asing and
the revival of the old propensities.
Cruiser died at the Rarey farm recently
nt the age of twenty two.
A Wife's Trlrk.
A lady occupying high position at
Washington, wliose husbnnd was of the
government, made n trip to Europe with
him. She "doted" on lace, and hen*
was her opportunity. Talking of the
acquisitions she would make iu this line,
he told her she shoiil.l purchase any rea
sonable quantity, provided she wouhl
not smuggle any. fo this she accepted.
The gentleman took as part of his ward
n*bo a dressing gown, 'for, like must
Americans, in the privacy of his room
he liked to pull off liis coat. Several
times on the ship he observed the care
hi* wife bxk of his garment, and was
gratified for her anxiety for his comfort,
(.luce when smoking, while lighting his
cigar, he set his gown on fire and quite
a hole was burned in the skirt. His
wife wns considerably agitated, and he
was flattered that so trilling a danger to
him hail so moved her. One morning
immediately after their return to this
country ho found tlint Ix-fore he reached
his office that keys he needed he luul
left nt home, and retraced his steps to
get them. Letting himself in witu his
latch-key he proceeded to his ehamlx-r,
and on opening the door found his wife
on her kmx*s on the floor, hi* dressing
gown divested of its lining and spread
before her. and she, scissors in napd,
disengaging from it a white, flimsy
fabric with which it was covered. She
sprang up on seeing him, laughed, and
exclaimed : "You ore the smuggler,
i You wore that lace nil over Europe, and
i brought it home."
Tur. MISSISSIPPI RlVP.R.— Captain Ends
report* tliat provisional works 1,000 feet
1 long have already been constructed in
the south JWIHK of the Mississippi on the
' line of the jetty and are being pushed
1 seaward at the rate of two hundred feet
Eier day. Two hundred mechanics and
rdHirers and four pile-driving machines
, are nt work, and a large quantity of stone
with other material ia ready at hand.
Additional machinery nud acoommoda
1 tions ore being prepared, and in a short
1 time the working force will be largely in
1 creased.
i If a man lias got something to say, it
is proper to let hifti say it. If he is a
i reasonable man he will be satisfied with
i the permission to speak, and not expect
you to quit work and listen to him.
A TMRIU.INtI STORY.
Mail Riaarlaara af aa Calartaaal* l.a*v—
Tk> Wife mt aa *rai Ofllrrr Aaaanllrd aa
a Taabaai—llar ttaraM fraai aa laaaaa
A* j lam.
About twelve o'clock at night, aaya
the New Y'ork '/Sntrt, a woman of alxmt
twenty eight years of age, shabbily
dressed, but of a refilled and delicate ap
pcarantH*, waa taken into tlie fourth pre
riiit station by a patrolman. Hh* there
complained tliat an assault luul lxx-n
made upon her by five men on Ixtard
the tugboat Mike Norton. Capt. Wil
liams at ouce went to the Ixutt, which
was lying at the wharf <>u the East river,
and afb-r surrounding her with a cordon
of patrolmeu, made a search of the cabin*
ami engine r<*im, but am-<*eeded in find
ing only oue |x*raou, a boy of about
seventeen years, who was asleep iu the
galley, lie then made inquiry uu board
of the other vessel* lying near, but
could learn nothing of the crew of the
tug. He then determined to make an
other and more thorough search of the
I*>l, and this time was more suooeaafuL
Two m-u were found hidden iu tlie run
or lower hold of the vessel, and when
the officer who found them waa taking
them to tlu* pier, holding hia ianteru in
his teeth and his elub iu one hand, ami
lf-a.ling the uieu with the other, oue of
them jumped ovcrlxiard. As there was
a clear sjaoe of from thirty b* forty feet
around the vessel, it was thought that
he might be easily recaptured on oom
ing U> tlie surface, but, to the surprise
of all, h waa seen no more.
I'aid. Williams tlu li unit-rod a imrcful
mmrclt to lx- uiadu along tlio docks, and
oouducUxl it ill ]x-raou, to am wboUu-r
tlu-r- wore any tracm of any man having
lauded on the piers in wet clothing, but
could find nolhiug to indicate that any
such landing hail lxx-n made. Just as
ho was about to leave with his prisoners
s wan, who claimed to be tho captain of
tho tug, taunt- up, and appeared to lo
ver y indignant that any arrasts should
liavo btx-u uuido uu Ixmrd of his vessel.
There was something very peculiar
about his apix-arance, however, that iu
dutxxl Capt. Williams to arn-at him also.
This was that lie was dressed from head
to ftxit in ix-rfecUy new clothes, the
soles of his sbotrs showing that they hod
lxx-n worn truly a very short tune, the
gloss being still on them. He waa ac
cordingly token to tho station house
with the others. There ho gave his
name as Philip Ryan, the name of the
other man being George Miller. They
were confronted with the complainant,
who fully identified them.
The boy, she said, she had not seen.
The men were token to tho Tombs po
lice court, where they were committed
without boil by Justice Huffy, ou com
plaint of Capt. Williams, and the Ixry
was discharged, there being nothing
against him.
The lady who was assaulted gave her
name as Louisa MerritL Bhe told Capt.
Williams that she wan the wife of Col.
Merritt, of the I'm tod States army, and
that about three weeks ago she hail
made her eMcajie from a lunatic asylum
near Washington, 1). V. She had Deen
confined there by her husband, she
said, a year ajo!at September, iu order
to break her uf the habit of eating mor
phine. At the time mentioned she
managed to make her oacupe through a
hole in the wail, and went to Alexandria,
Vs., on foot. From there she went to
Baltimore, and thence to Philadelphia,
where she remained for some days. She
then sold a heavy gold ring she hail in
her ]w-xMon and procured a few
m-Arc-mary articles of clothing. Slie saw
iu tlie Philadelphia newspapers that De
tective McDcvitt, of Washington, was in
the city, and fearing that he might be
looking for her, determined to go away
at once. Bhe therefore took the train
for Jersey City, where she arrived on
Tuesday morning.
Hoping to find a situation she looked
over the advertix-mentA in the daily
papers, ami sow that a Ktcwardneas was
needed on a steamer, and coma to New
Y'ork to apply fur the position. Bhe lost
her way during the day, and at last,
when she attempted to return to Jersey
City, become bewildered and wand-red
aimlessly alxmt. N<*ar eleven o'clock at
night she found herself in Bonth street,
and while standing on a corner was ap
proached by a man who asked her what
she was doing there. She told him her
story, and he said he was the agent of
the vessel she was looking for, and told
her he would take here on board. She
then went with him to the tug Mike
Norton, and entered the cabin with him.
After she luul been there a short time
four other m n made tin ir appearance,
and the aoHault was made. The moment
she effected her rac*|x she sought the
protection of the first {mtrulman she
met, who bxik her to the police station,
with the result above stated. It was
with great difficulty that Capt. Williams
could get her to tell her story, OS she
said that she did not want her trwuhlas
to lx- made public, and that all she de
sired wo* to lx- allowed to go nway in
safety. She appealed to tlie officer for
protection only, Half a dozen ooarse
cotton handkerchiefs found in her pos
suasion are markix! "C. E. Waldron."
Bhe accounts fur this by saying that she
bought them in Philadelphia, and had
them so marked because she proposed
to take that name, as she has a brother
in-law by tlie name of Charles E. Wal
dron in lloston, a member of a largo
iron firm. Besides tho handkerchiefs a
quantity of morphine vra* found in one
of her pockets, and Capt. Williams says
he thinks she won under its influence at
the time she was brought to tlie station.
li says that her manner and language
indicate tliat ahe is a refined and culti
vated lody, though evidently suffering
from the excessive use of morphine. A
medical examination disclosed the foot
tliat she has several severe bruises on
her arms.
The Kljilum of Bummer*.
Bail Franeineo is the cirri tun of
" bniumera." Nowhere clue can a worth
less fellow, too lazy to work, too coward
ly to steal, got on no well. Tho climate
befriends him, for ho can sleep ont of
doors four-fifths of tho year, and the
free lunch opens to him boundless vistas
of carnal delights. He can gorge him
self daily for n nominal sum; get a din
ner thai a king might envy for fifty
cents. There an- two classes of saloons
where these middny repasts are fur
uisln-d—" two-bit " places and " one
bit " pliu-os. In tbe first he gets a drink
and a meal; in the second a drink and a
meal of inferior quality. He pays for
tho drink (twentv-flve or fifteen cents,
according to the grade of the place) and
gets his meal for nothing. This con
sists, in tho better class of establish
ments, of soup, Ixiiled salmon, roast
Ixx-f of the Ix-wt quality, bread mid but
ter, po tab HIS, tomatoes, crackers and
cheese. Many of these places are fitted
np in a style of almost Oriental grandeur.
A stranger, entering one of tliemoasnally,
might lalxir under the delusion that he
had found his war, by mistake, to tho
*alnn of o Ban Francisco millionaire.
He would find immense mirrors reach
ing from floor to ceiling; carpets of the
finest texture and the most exquisite
pattern; massive tables covered with
papers and periodicals; the walls em
bellished with expensive paintings. A
large picture which had adorned a famous
drinking and free-lunch house was sold
the other day for $12,000. Some of the
keepers ore men of education and cul
tnre. One is mi art critic of high local
repute, who has written a liook, mid a
very readable one, of San Francisco
reminiscences.— Scribnrr'n Month!;/.
(Irafiing. New Skin Upon a Wound.
Of lute years one of the most impor
tant anil useful operations iu surgery has
been that of grafting new and healthy
skin upon a wound or sore ami thus es
tablishing the healing prixiess and ob
taining a cicatrization. Hitherto the
particles of skin have been taken from
some nonnd part of patient's body
and to tlie diseased or injured part, but
M. Anger lias recently demonstrated
that pieces of skin may bo taken from
amputated limbs aud used successfully
in lieteroplasty. In one case M. Anger
took strips of skin from tho palmer sur
face of an amputated finger and applied
them to the ulcerated leg of another
person. Iu three days the bandages
were removed and the grafted parts
found firmly united to the surface and
evidently vascularized. To insure suc
cess it is necessary that the graft be
made immediately upon amputation.
AUVBAKY OF NEWH.
I ism* si Islsrsst from Itsms aa* A*ra4
Owing to prsvalanea of ItteamllaiiaA la
Cauada, tha London insurance coapaulas will
withdraw tliair sgsuoto* abortly Tho
ctiallangs cup, (xaupotsd far at Wlmtdsdon by
lbs Americans aluna, was won by Pulton.
Tb* bial rsvanu* raealpto of tlio Pranch
govarumout fur tha laai six montlia show an
liter MM of • 79,000,000 ovar thus* of tb# cor
responding |x*rind hurt year Tha bankers'
ounvsnUun at Narabiga adoplsd raaoluUons
favoring Immsdlale resumption of spool* pay
mania l)ry waatlier la doing unmans*
damaga to tb* ootlou crop* of Oaorgla A
terrible fight occurred in I'ardado, Kaoambl*
county, Ala., betwoso two families, Hatlslt,
and llyera, in which aU man, ouuaiaUng af
(tUisr and two sons on aacb aids, wars ao
gaged. Five uf the party were kUied outright,
ehite tke autb and last baa a load of buckshot
In bis aids, ablcb must OSUM death, ~.. Ac
countant Warren, of New York city, who baa
been examining lbs New York Htate treasury
at lbs request of Treasurer 1 tau.as. baa just
completed that work, and reports having found
• verything all right .... Alexander and Wm.
Cotlis, who recently failed in London, have
beeu arrested for procuring mousy on false
pretenses They wers held In #10,0(10 ball
sarb. One of the banks holds their paper to
the amount of #2,600,000.
The Maryland Democratic eouvaulioo nomi
nated John Ls* Carroll for governor. Tb*
|Utform protests against a high protective
tariff , and against lbs multiplication of federal
offices and lbs unusually high salaries ; de
plores lbs abuses of federal patruuaga, which
tend to corrupt the Males and free insUtuUons;
that agriculture, manufactures and commerce
aboukl be the equal oars of web-regulated
governments ; protests against an increase of
the circulating currency, and demands lbs re
sumption of sped* payment at the earbeet
practicable moment; oppoeee the granting of
sutsudiaa.. .Tb* contest at Wimbledon be
tween tb* Irish. Hootch and English rifle teams
for lbs Klebo shield, resulted in a victory for
lbs Irish, who mad* l.Sbfi point*, to tb* Hootch
1,603 and the English 1,605..... Tb* July re
turn* to the department of agriculture ehow
that the acreage of tobacco le greater than
that of last year E. O. Johnson, deputy
eollactor of internal revenue and a member of
tb* Florula Legislator*, waa shot and killed at
a still bourn about ten miles from Fernsudtna.
The assassins ar* unknown ....... The Ohio
rivet and lie tributaries overflowed their banks
on account of heavy rains, and much damag*
was done to ibe growing amps A san
guinary affray took place at Hkm bayou, in
tb* Chat-oka nation, twelve mile* from Fort
Hmitb, in which three men were ugoantly
lulled. The combatants were of tha rival
political factious of Doss and Downing. Tha
night following, lb* eon testing dans, about
thirty strong each, again met and considerable
firing aas indulged in, but with what result la
not known .... Tb* coroner's jury in the in
quest over the vidua* of tho coil torn on tb*
K x-kaway railroad, returned a verdict in which
they " severely censure tb* railroad company
in not employing good and competent men in
sufficient number to operate the road safely."
Advices from Newark. 0., state that twenty-
Mvon persons were horned by tb* explosion in
the building ablcb waa being made ready to
leet a fire extinguisher. Only one death has
occurred llogb Donahue, the pedestrian,
was comparatively fresh upon lbs completion
of bis wonderful walk of 1.100 mile* in LIOO
consecutive hours at Huston The steamer
Abbotef'jrd, qf the Philadelphia line, which
went ashore on the coast of Wales, baa keeled
over and become a total wreck The moat
important papers in tha Investigation of the
New York canal oontracts have been spirited
away, and the cases will probably have to b*
postponed until winter The bank
at Wtnlhrop, Mo., was entered by burg tare,
who Mew open the safes with nitro glycerine
and rifled the contents. The lorn amounts to
#50,000.... Tb* Fraabytariaa oouncti is Loo
dun bare adopt d the nam* of "Alliance of
Deformed Churches Throughout the World.''
.... Close A Hons paper mill at lowa City, la.,
was {isrUaUy destroyed by explodiug its cook
ing tanks, and Ave men were killed. LaeM
atxmt #100.000..... The department of agri
culture place the spring wheat crop at eighty
two per cent, of an average.. .. . .The woman
Calling herself Mrs. Col. Merrill, who created
so much sympathy for herself in New York by
her tale of outrage on a tugboat, has been
ulsnUflsd as an insane woman from Washing
ton Htshop Kmsth testified in the trial of
tha Moan tain Meadow case to I'lab. that he
oppoeed the massacre at a meeting of the Mor
mon dignitaries in IBS", and it waa resolved to
let the immigrants )*■>• harmlessly : subse
quently It was decided to destroy them, and
Lew took a party of soldiers out to where the
immigrants were firmly intrenched against the
Indians. By means of a white flag he induced
tho parly out of their camp, sod at tb* word
the Mormon soldier* shot them down. The
men. women and eldest children were shot and
ihetr throats rut. The young children wers
saved and well cored for. A few day* after
witness was sent with others to gather op the
l-roperty of the Immigrants, which they took
to the tithing-bouse. Bngharn Young told
them to ssr nothing of the matter.
The strike of the operatives in the ootton
mill* at Oldham. Euglaud. closes one hundred
milts and throw* thirteen thousand people out
of work An official statement msd* by
M. Coil lout. mm.iter of public works, to the
French Assembly, estimate* the total damage
don* to property by the inundations in the
south of France at #15.000.000.... Assistant
Htreet lnsjiectar Zcuner, of Cleveland, 0..
attacked Mr. Oowlen. editor of the Lemirr, for
an alleged libelous article. Zeimer struck
tiowtee a violent blow on the heed while the
latter was sitting down, and when two bystan
der* caught Zoimer's arms he drew a pistol
and was endeavoring to cock it when Cowl**
knocked htm down with a cone. Zeimer was
arrested A < iermon employed on a plan
tation at Frenchman's Dai ou. Ark., having
disappeared after drawing some money, sus
picion* were aroused, and two negroes with
whom ho was last seen wore arras led. They
confessed to having murdered and robbed the
man and showed where the body was hidden.
They also staled that they belonged to an
organized band under the leadership of a white
man named Burtou. and had killed and mur
dered a number of people. Tlie crowd hod
grown to a mob by this time and they were so
infuriated by tlie confession that ibey took the
negroes out and shot one dead, w hen the other
escaped. Warrant* were issued for ail the par
ties belonging to the baud of outlaw*.
By the breaking of the Canada government
boom in 8b Maurice river, over lea thousand
log* drifted into the 81. Lawrence Judge
Fisher has resigned his position as United
States district attorney for the District of
Columbia, and ex-Ooveruor Wells will take
tlie office A roan named Johnson, with
hi* wife sod five children in * wagon, drove
into 111* CooMwhatchie river, in Gordon
county, (it, and getting into deep water, the
* agon-box floated off. AU tbe children were
drowned. Tb* man and his wlf* escaped.....
Tlie steamer Severn, recently towed into 8b
John, N. F.. by the steamer Caspian, has been
libeled for # 115.000 salvage ... A disastrous
drought prevails in Portugal; the crops are
destroyed, cattle are dying of hunger, famine
is threatened and riots are imminent Tb*
bishop and priest* connected with the Ban
Mignef (Salvador) riot* have been aent ont of
the country l>y the authorities. It has been
discovered that similar outbreak* were ar
ranged for different ports of the country, to
take place in Ibe name of religion.
l'art of a train on the Pseiflo road went
through a bridge over the Mississippi at
Ilrainerd, and four peraon* were killed and
several wounded By an exploeion of gae
in the Pennsylvania gas coal company'* works
at Irwin'n Station, one man waa killed and six
others badly burned Of the one hundred
and elxty-twa mills at Oldham, England, only
six are running. Fifty mills have also been
closed at Asbton, throwing eight thousand
|>eraons ont of enqiloyment. Trouble is ap
prehended Tramp*, after having eaten
at the house of a Mr. Hill at West Berlin, Vt,
demanded money, but were driven away.
They returned two days afterward and at
tempted to fire the premn-ee, and the eame
afternoon four of tliero burst open a door and
fired at Mrs. Hill, without injuring her. Neigh
bors went in pursuit Tbecompaniee hold
ing policies on the life of Jackaon, the default
ing revenue officer of Louisville, Ky., had his
body exhumed for pott mortem examination,
and found arsenic iu hie etomach Report*
from Gloucester. Maaa., state that the mack
erel oatoh ia very light and prioea have ad
vanesd Prof. Jannsy, the govaranMmt
geologist, reports tbM hs baa discovered gold
ID PARING quantities ta lbs Blank Hilla . Tha
whole draft of ihsnswftpniiiah ooosUtattao has
been approved by tha oocnsrtHsa . ...Ooo
aidorabla •lntr-roatil waa caused in Unsocial
oirrlaa to New York city on nolle* being gtrau
of tha failure of Ibwoan. Hharmau k Co.. tha
bitiktri. Tbi hiMlltiii in it )!,•
000,000, and tha aaaata ara unknown. Tha lose
faila heaviest on country tanka holding papar
of tha firm's, and on traralara balding lattara
of or adit Tha failnra waa cauaad by tha
abrinkaga on railroad securities and ootton
bald by tha firm.
Huoran, Sherman k Co.
When we took about us for the cause
of the downfall of the house of Duncan,
Hberman k Co., aaya the Herald, we
find the subject to be one of unusual
difficulty. In this country our business
prospect* had only begun to brighten.
A prolific yield at home and the promise
of an active demand abroad were teach
ing ua to expect from our wheat crop a
revival of trade. The corn and cotton
mop* also give excellent promise. There
ia no unusual stringency in the money
market, and no fears bsve been enter
tained of s commercial crisis. In Europe,
however, and especially in England,
business hss lately presented a gloomy
outlook. Many of the hanks and some
of the greatest commercial houeee have
been overtrading. The deprneaion in
the iron trade caused the downfall of the
A tM-r dare Company. Another class of
miefortunea led to the auspeneion of Al
exander Colli* A Co., and many bouses
almost as prominent were dragged down
with them. The banks narrowly es
caped, and escaped only on the ground
of their ability to wit batend misfortune.
It la now believed that the difficulties in
their affair* and all the real dangers of
the situation have been successfully
tided over. Lately, however, there waa
a story of the failure of the Union bank,
of London. Had this been true we
would have had in it a ready explanation
of the suspension of Duncan, Htinrmaii
k Co. With heavy advances made upon
both grain and cotton, and with in,
rnense liabilities constantly presmtig
them from all parte of the world, it would
be simply impossible for the New York
house to go on in the face of the London
disaster.
In *uy event, or from whatever the
muw, the failure of a bonne like >'■! of
l>unaan, .Sherman k Co. in to be de
plored. If overtrading in the aauae of
the disaster the event in one to be (*•
pretted especially on that nooounL This
WM a banking honae that wan eminently
a credit bonne. Their draft* were cosh
all over the worH, and American toor
iata and traveler* carried their letter* of
credit everywhere. Their boant of un
exampled credit WM true only beoauae
jwxipir believed that it wan imponnible
for such a honrn to indalge in overtrad
ing in any direction. It wan not expect
ed that tli'-y could be "long " or "abort"
in anything, or that their dealing*,
either at home or abroad, oould affect
their solvency, The fact of their foliar*
in itaelf ap]iarenUy tells s different story.
Their lames and misfortune* which cam?
to tli. m so unexpectedly oonld have
oome in no other way than through
speculation. It ia liecanae of this fact,
neowaary upon every hypothesis except
thai they were dragged down by the ruin
of their correspond ants, that the failnre
is so complete s surprise, and the wonder
is all the greater because the crash came
at a time of business serenity, when the
pro*j wet* for the future were not only
bright but frightening. In this respect,
however, their story is only the old, asd
story common to business misfortune in
every sge and country, and we can
scarcely expect that the lesson of their
failure will be less true or mure regarded
ia the future than it has been in the
P"*-
Egyptian Wheat la Peaacytvaßla.
A correspondent of the I sin caster (Pa.)
Expresa says: The writer, in company
with a friend, paid a viait to Mr. An
drew Petersburg, thia coun
ty, to see the Egyptian wheat be is rais
ing. Mr. Holtx worth says that some
yean ago the body of an Egyptian was
taken up, and upon opening the stone
coffin, in which he may have lain for
thousand of years, a few grams of wheat
were found,"which were sent to (Jer
many and planted. From theae few
grains a small lot was raised, some of
which wire sent to Mr. HolUworth's
son, in Fort Wayne, Indiana, who sent
them to his father. From the first crop
Mr. Holtzworth planted one handled
aud thirty grains, from which be ob
tained two quarts. The next crop he
raised was two and a half bushels, and
this year he expects to have about twenty
bushel* of grain ou a three-quarter acre
of ground. H* has raised three crops of
this wheat in four years on the same
ground without a particle of manure.
One year the ground ansa planted in
potatoes. Our farmer* should secure a
supply of this seed, a* there is no doubt
thit it will be the wheat of the future.
Mr. Holtxworth would be pleased to
hsve persons call and see this remarka
ble wheat before it is cat. The straw is
excellent.
Millions of intelligent women sav that
Dobbins' Electric Soap (made by (Vagin
k Co., Philadelphia) is in everv respect
the bestscap ever made, and wilfdo three
timea the work of any other. Try it. •
The luster of Morocco leather is re
stored by varnishing with white of egg.
Farmers and sbick raisers have fre
quently laid us that tlisv hars seen very good
results from giving Shrridnn't Cavalry C<m
dUum fmvtkri to cows and swine before sod
after they drop their ycmng. The powders pat
Ihetn in good condition, and give them strength
to care and provide for the suckling*. One*.
We have often wondered whether
there is a person in the oountry who doea not
know and appreciate the value of Mws'l
.4 tndynt Ijinimrmt as a family medicine f It is
adapt-d to most all purposes, and is the beet
pain destroyer that can be used.—Cost.
Asthma ssl teiarrh. Ss* D. I Item tet
A MAN OP A THOI'SAMU.
A CONSUMPTIVE CURED. - Wtea Sssth WM
brarir upMtad from I eeswwiettwn. *ll IISISm
UMIW WM. sceldrat ld to s dSsnwf wberabf Dr.
H Jwrs cored Ms rah child with s tnresisUra of
OwM' testes. HP WW |tm mctps free sa MCM NF
two stamps to tea sipsos-* 1 *>•• Is sat m aksais
•!<spt..is of Urcmsats '-ht It doss sot dtaetoele—
Sl*l.l Swosts. Irrtlstteo nl tbs Kerra*. IMftoull Ktpse
torsiV-n. Misrp Pain* la Ihs l.ueg*. Nessse a* lbs
Stoiasch, IntC's of tbs H..sel rod *MU( of ths
Maarha Addrras It U.tHK'K 100 . tOSt Ram
Street. PhUed*l..hl>. I'm., string soars of tbw p*P*c.
The Markets.
Beef Psttle—Prtms to Fitra Bollocks UVS l*w
Common to Oood Trxsrst. MlfS HA
Milch Cows 41 AO ATI 00
Hots-Mrs r**A
Dressed IS A 10<*
Sheep 04.S A MS
Lambs t*WA W
Cotton-Middling UNA 1K
Flour—Rxtra Western...... * 7* dill
State Kxtra a... • 71 A * 1*
Wheel—Red Western..... 1 IS A 1 II
No. 1 Spring 1 94 A 1 **
Rye—Slate. 1 l A 1 II
Barley—State 1 A 1 in
Rarley Malt 1 10 A 1 TO
uete-Mli-d Western ao A *"V
Ctorc- Mixed Wee tern 11 * M
Bay. perowt M A 1 IS
Straw, per cwt SO A **
Hoye .". Via, ISA*I—olds 1 —olds OS A
Pork-Mess II 00 All *
Lard USA US
Fish—Mackerel No. 1, new.........17 00 All 00
No X new II oo u an
Pry Cod. per c5>t............ t "X A S SI
Ilerrlns. Scaled, per Sox SS A IS
Petrol-urn—Crude OS SAO® It' R-"od, I'X
Wool—California Fleece N S IS
T*xs •' m A M
Australia* " ' A M
Butter—State F * 1
Western Hairy IS A I*
Western Yellow ISA 91
Western Ordinary..... 11 A '*
Penrsylvanta Fine M A IS
Cheese—State Factory 0d A li
" Kklmmed 01 A 'S
Western 04 A 0<
Kgge—dfsts II All*
ALBANT .
Wheel 1 40 A 1 41
Rye—HUte 10* A 1 14
Oorn—Mixed MA *1
Barley—mate 1 rn A 1 SO
Oets—State 04 A 14
atrwano.
lour d Ml A 8 IS
Wheat—No. | Spring.....• 1 S4 AIM
Oorn—Mixed.. 77 A 78
Oats 68 A *3
57*- II A 1 II
Barley 1 40 A 1 40
aaLviifoaa
Cotton—Low Middlings 14SA US
Flour—Extra 8 60 A 860
Wheel—Red Western 141 A 1 41
Rye....... 1 00 A 1 04
C0rn—Ye110w............ Fg <a 81
Oats— Mixed i a 81
Petroleum OS A 06 X
ntuonrau.
Flour—Penneylvants Extra 400 A 160
Wheat—Wosteru Bed I M A 1 88
By 1 07 A 1 Of
Oorn—Y 'tow 8t A W
Mill MAM
Oate—Mixed 68 A 64
Petroleum—Crude. .0 CBSACB* Beflaed, 11
Healing restored. Great invention.
Bookfraa. O. I. Woo*. Madison. lad.-Own.
'• Healing on the wing*," aay all who
have mad# •* at 1+ Mfdfctr Balmtm of H*ti4
Ckerry. and by eneh us* been enrad of cnegba,
cokls, brooch I Us, Wire threat. inAttsftta or
oenaumption. The prudent win always keep
this standard ranMsfy by tbexa. Fifty earns
aed oue dollar a bottle, large bottles mush the
cbeeper. - Ctam.
Bend for a free specimen copy of the
splendid mammoth douWsbswt Han Praneieeo
WniM en able, epiey end feerlea*
paper. U alveya oonteise cmiydsi* eed ra
ftsbie market mtnjig and eloek reports i alee a
rahialil* agricultural detmrunent peoiaUy pra
pared by *t> exparienred editor, rail of valu
able information of ibe FactOe **. It ia
only gS <JU a year, and twenty oeoa* eddittnwel
for postsga, in idneea-dM.
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BONOS ilßnm
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rat The Maatae Waah-lr tileha, analhiyaa.-
s<<M a .. a raa aes. *?— faff sniemm
rfmrtatM aaaa lee grw piiyli sad i hllfcm AS
tea Tsa SUM h Ue ,tl* WWHHM Steam.
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BUXX FOX COXX, FLOCK * FX 18,
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