7 Cut . fjrimn HENRY A. PARSONS, Jr., Editor and Publisher. NIL, DESPERANDUM. Two Dollars per Annum. ' VOL. XI. RIDGWAY, ELK COUNTY, PA., THURSDAY. JANUARYS. 1882. NO. 40. Hidden Treasures. -There are gem as bright, an precious, tying hid beneath the ground, As thoBO worn by lord or lady, Gems as fair as ever found. There are virtuos Just as noble Hidden 'neatti a load of care As those blazoned on the banner ' Which the conquering heroes bear. There are hearts that beat as grandly, Thoughts that never have a pen, Treasures locked in sacred caskets Never praised by tongues ot men. Rarest gems are aa'cr discovered; Shallow, hidden in the earth, In the deepest c&vcs of ocean Lies the pearl of richest worth. Search among thy fellow-workers, Probe beneath the wound of toil,. Surely thou shall find a diamond ' Bidden deep within the soil. Hearts are bound in ribs of marble, Gems are bound in ribs of rock. Happy be who bursts, the portal, . Happy ho who the gates unlock. Bi Emma V. Shalluck. SACRAMENTO. It was an odd name for a girl f?aora mento. So the girl herself thonght as she stooped down beside a spring at the foot of a cottonwood tree and lazily dropped ber pail into the water. " It ought to have been given to a boy, if it was a fit name to give to any body," she said, quite aloud. " But I'm more boy than girl anyway." This last was added rather bitterly, as she looked at her brown, rough bands and her bare ankles, and thought of the " boys' work" she had to do. And it was hard to believe that this was the best kind of a life for a young girl like Sacramento. Hero she lived alone, for her father was down at the mouth of the canon all day. The gar den work she was obliged to do, and the care of the cattle fell upon hrr, It was not cften that she saw any per son bnt her father, although now and then, in spite of herself, she came in contact with tbe rude men of the mm insr camp np above. let Sacrament j nail ber dream, one that she scarcely dired to own ;" bnt, it came to her often as she went about ber work. She knew that down at Santa Bar bara and in the towris along the coast and far, far away across wide stretcher of inn contineiit to the great taut, there w r-i t iris who lived lives veiy dif ferent frjra ber life ; and she dreamed of such a life fr r herself. "Oh, if I conM only go away from here! she crifd out, almost as one cries for hfln. "If I could only go down to San Frarcucoand go to f chord there for a single vear 1 Ah, if I onlv had five hundred dollars I" Suddenly there was a step not of a man, but a horse on the bank behind ber, and then some one spoke. She knew 'he voice without looking np. It was Pete Larrabee, a fellow who lived down on Hahnemann's plantation, two miles along the trail. He sometimes rode hy. He had Tiot heard her last words at all ; yet strangely enough his own were a repetition of them. "Five hundred di liars, Sac," said ht. "Five hundred dollars in gold I D'ye want ter earn it ! There's ycr chance," and he threw down to he'r a bit cf paper crumpled into a ball. She picked it up and slowly unfold ing it ran her eyes over its contents. $500 Reward. The above amount Mill be paid foi informa tion leading to ti e arrest, aead or Alive, of Walter Homeis, who has worked lor some time past on Maxwell's ranch. Said Sonicrs i about eighteen years old and five and a half feet high, rather good-looking, with Jigtit, curly hair. L'luo eve and a licht mustache. When last seen he had on a black slouch hat, gray business suit with blue flannel shirt, and boot's with red tops maiked with maker's name. The name of the county sheriff was signed at the bottom of the bill. Sac ramento, having glanced it through, looked up. " He's been stealin' horses," exclaimed Pete " Got cir last night with four of Max'll's beet somewheres. Thet re ward won't do much good, though. Ther Regulators'!! lasso bim an' string him up long fore ther law 11 git started They're hevin' a meetin' now np at the . Gulch. I tell ye, they are mad. They'll make quick work ef they ketch 'em. Yer father's there. Ye needn't look fur him afore right much." Then, after a word or two more, tho man rode on; and presently Sacramen to took U ber pail and with tbe sheriffs bill still in her hand went slowly up the bank and aoross the trail toward the house, tbinkiDg very seriously about the live hundred dollars all the while. It was some hours after this, and the afternoon sun was going down behind the tops of the mountains, that Sacra mento, having finished her housework, iraa preparing to sit down on the porch to do ber sewing when she was met in the doorway by a young man she had never seen before. And yet he was no stranger. The girl knew him instantly, although the slouch hat was pulled down over the flaxen bair and bine eyes, and the gray pants, torn and muddy, bad been drawn out of the boot legs so aa to no longer allow the rod tops of the boots with the n aker's name to be seen. It was the horseth ief . She did not, however, express any surprise ds she saw bim. She was ac customed to the sight 'of rough, evil men ; and at the first gianee she had felt that this one could not be either Very wicked or very dangerons. He was not much more than a lad, and had n air of gentleness and good-breeding about him that six months of Western life and the miserable plight be was in at tbe moment bad by n means de stroyed. Ho seemed to be short for breath, too, and was trembling as if be bed been running. Instinctively be raised bis band to ward bis bat and then, bethinking him self, dropped it again. "Gould yon give me something to eat. and drink V he asked, in a hesitati ng voioa. " Anything will do. I am 1 very hungry. I I have bad nothing to ear, since laRt mpnt.' " Gome in," said Sacramento, gravely in ner voice was neither kindness nnkindness. She was trying to realize the situation she was in. " Gome in and sit down." 'men sne went into the closet near by and began taking down from the shelves milk and bread and meat, as she slowly did so turning over the matter in her mind. Here was this man who had been stealing horses and for whose capture five hundred dollars was offered, in her kitchen. Five hundred dollars ! " Exactly the sum she had been wishing for the sum that would take her down to San Francisco to tcliool and help ber make a lady of herself. And this sum might be hers it sne could in some way secure this stranger or somehow keep him in the house until help arrived. Help? Why, she hardly needed help. He was weak and exhausted, and in the drawer of the kitchen table there was a loaded revolver which she knew well how to use. She came out presently and set the things before him, bringing also a tea pot from the stove and pouring for him a cup of tea. Then she went and sat down by the window and watched him furtively as he ate. In spite of his caution be had taken off his hat whilo he was eating. She rould better sco what he was like. It was an almost boyish face, worn, but not wicked, with the curling hair lying m a amp clusters upon his rale brow. In .he hands, small and well-shaped, and in all his motions and manner she felt that she could read something of nis story, Biie Had heard before this how young lads in the East filled with romantic notions about Western life and adventure sometime" left their luxuriant homes and foe nd heir way out io tne ranches of the rapine slope. x erunps he was one or these. As she looked at him, fancying all this, and realizing the teirible strait he was iu, and tho probable dark fate that was ueiore him, hei heart yearned with true womanly sympathy ; and her feel ing found expression before she was able to restrain herself. " Oh, how could you do it ? How could jou do ltV" she suddenly ex claimed, her voice quite fall of what she felt. He lcoked up at her in wonder; but as his eyes met hers he understood her "1 did not do it. Upon my honor, I did not i he said, "it was that man Dennis. Sacramento breathed a great sigh of relief, ilorte Ftealing was held in that section to be a crime worse than murder; and t-he was by no means free from the jjopuJar estimate of its grave nuiure. "Oh, I am glad of that l" said she. "Bnt " She hesitated, and then went on doubtfully. "But then how was it ? Why did they fay it was yon? And why did yon run away'" "It was Dennis' doings, their laying it to roe. aa did that to clear himself, And after that, you know as well as do, there would have been no use in trying to prove myself innocent. They always hang a horsethief first and then con sider his guilt afterwtrd. I had to run to save my life. "Do you know that tbo,re is a reward ollered for your capture ? ' "I know the Regulators are after me," answered the ycung fellow, sullenly, "They came pretty near catching me, too, this noon. I jutt escaped them and came down the canon by the moun tain trail. I have Lad a hard run for it, and what with no sleep or food for twenty-four hours I am about used up, I felt as though I could not go another step when 1 saw your houso. You- you have been very good to me. I shall never lorget "tsxxt what are you going to do now ? ' interrupted Sacramento. "You are not 6afe here. "I know it. But I threw them off the track at noon, and I do not think they are within five miles of me. Now I have had something to eat I will take to the woods again. I hope 1 may get away. If I don't" bis voice trembled and tears came into bis eyes. "If I don't, I shall get a hanging, I suppose. Oh, what a fool I was not to prefer heme to this sort of thing. And yet, I wouldn t care so much either, if it wasn't for my father and mother." And tl ere the poor fellow fairly broke down. " ilark ! ' Sacramento exclaimed. She had been crying, too : she could not help it. They both listened. In a moment they heard plainly the sound of horses coming down the trail. The girl turned with instant self-possession. "Uo in there! Ouiekl Ouickl There is not a moment to lose I Here, take your hat I" And handing his hat to him she half-pushed bim across tho room and into her own little room that led off from it. Then she harried ly cleared the table again, barelyfinishing tho task as tho horsemen baited at the door. There were three of them. One was her father. Sacramento knew the other two men by sight. They were rough, but of the better sort of those who made up the dwellers in Kelly Gulch. The faces of all three were stern and forbidding, and thov evi dently had been riding hard. Thev dismounted together. bc, began her father as be en tered the door, " hev ye seen anything of a yonng chap, afoot or a-horseback, coming this way ?" , bacramento had expected tbe ques tion and was ready for it. And she meant, if it were possible, to answer it without a lie. "A yonng chap 'about eighteen years of age and five feet and a half high, rather good-looking, and with red-top boots on ?' " replied she. "Yes I yes I That's him I" cried one of the other men, eagerly. "Have you seen him f Has be been here ?" "I was only quoting from this band- bill," said Sacramento, taking the paper from the shelf where she bad laid it. Then you hain't seen bim at oil?' asked ber father, 't; I have been right here all day, and nobody bas gone by exoept Pete Larra bee. It was be who gave me the bill, Are yon sure be came this way, the the horse-thief f "No; but we didn't know bat he mighter. The chances is thet he sloped off to the mountains, meanin' ter go through Stove-pipe Pass. They'll git bim, though, afore sundown." "It's sundown now," observed Sacra mento. "Then they've got bim now," was the sententious response. " And we should be too late for the hangin ef we Bh'd go back. Leastways "this was added to his companions "you'd bet ter come in and have a bite afore ye go." So presently the three men sat down to the supper that the young girl quickly prepared for them. And while they were eating she herself, at ber father's bidding, went out to take the saddle off Bueno, his horse, and give him bis feed. As she approached tho door once more a few minutes later she heard words which caused her tu stop and listen. " I don't like ter say anything against thet kid o' yourn, neighbor," one of the men was saying, "but it bes kinder seemed ter me all ther while 'a though she sorter bed some 'at on ber mind like. Ye don't 'spose she knows any thing 'bont thet yonng feller, arter all?" Sacramento's father laughed at this as though it was too absurd to be con sidered. The other, however, was not to be laughed out of his suspicions. "Fur we all know," persisted he, " she may hev bim hid here somewhere on the premmysiB." " It's easy enough to see," returned the proprietor of the said "prem rrysis," testily. "Where d'ye think she's hid him ? In her bedroom ?" As he said this Sacramento, who was now near enough to see into the kitchen, aw her father rise from his chair and step to the door of the room where she bad concealed tho fugitive. Her heart almost stopped beating as she saw him push opsn the door and enter the room, followed by his companions. " We 11 make a clus search of it while we're about it," she heard him say W11U1I1. And then she stood I here in terrible suspense upon the porch, expecting every instant to hear the shout that would follow the discovery of the fugitive. ! But no such shout was heard; and instead of it, a moment after, the two men came out again, her father still laughing at his friend. What could it mean ? Had the young man been able to conceal him, self m the room and so evade their search ? That was not possible Then she thought of tho window. Could he have escaped from tbe room by that ? ine window was so small she could scarcely believe that ho could have crept through it. And yet be must have done so. She went hurriedly to the back of tho houso and then down beyond tho horse sheas. Ao one- could be seen. She halted a moment nnder a live-oak tree just at the edgo of tho garden. Tho evening was very calm and still, and the twilight shadows were deepening iasr. was n the rustling of the wind in the bongh.8 overhead that caught ber ear t Mie listened. "Hist! I am here in the tree." Tho words came in a distinct whisper irom directly aoove her. fciho stood and thought a single mo ment before replying. Then she said, ou must get away from here at once, in an eager whisper. " One of tho; men snspects something, and they may at any moment make a 6earch of the place. I am going into the house a minute. Get down at once and go through the garden and across the trail to a spring that you will find there. It's at the foot of a big cottonwood tiee. Stay right there until I coma Then she went back hurriedlv to the nouee. ine three men wero still sit ting at the table, and Sacramento felt rather than saw that one of them still regarded ber suspiciously as she came iu. cm urn uoi Bueaic to mem ac ail, but went directly through the kitchen to her own room, and m a moment came out, went about her work in the kitchen, and took up a pail apparently to go to the spring for water. '1 en minutes later, standing in tho shadow of tho cottonwood. vonnir Somers heard a step, and then Sacra mento, leading bueno all saddled and bridled, appeared. He started forward. "Uushr she Baid; "they may conio out at any moment. Listen to what I say. Your life depends upon it. You must rule straight down the trail for a quarter of a mile. Then, close by a bie cottonwood, just like this, yon will strike a path to tho left. Bueno will know it, once you get him in it. It will bring you ont, half a mile on, at a corduroy road that crosses tbe swamn. This end of the corduroy bas got ont of order and there are somo iocs laid. Lead Bueno across and then puJl the logs away. If yonTcan do that it will make trouble for those who follow you. Beyond the swamp is a big plain. Strike straight across it, keeping the moon square on your right the moon will be up by that time and three hours' riding will bring you to the new railroad. After that God help you to got safe aTay !" bacramento paused and put out ber hand. "Can you remember ?" she de manded. "I can, but I can never forget" "Never mind that. Here, take this. It is a little money. You will need it. Now mount and ride slowly, a little way, and then for your life." The young man still had hold" of her hand. The tears came into bis eyes. The next moment be was gone. Xhe next morning Saciamento told ber father the story and coaxed him into forgiving ber. And the following afternoon a man brought Bueno over from the railroad town : and then she knew that the fugitive was cafe. Six weeks later a lawyer from4Janta Barbara appeared with a letter from Walter Somers. He was with bis friends at New York, and be begged Sacramento to accept, as a gift of grat itude, at least the amount of the re ward that bad been offered. And so it was that she went down to San Francisco to school that winter, after all, Youlh'n Companion, THE FA KM AX1) HOUSEHOLD. Tim 1'nro of .Too's and. Farm Imitlrmpnts. Dollar-after dollar dwindle, imper ceptibly bus surely away on marv farms during the winter season because reapers and mowers, seed-drills, plows and barrows are loft just where they were last employed to bear the injurious effects of pelting storms and dry winds. Tools worn or loosened and calling for simple repairs are used until past mending, and yet it is the leisure season of the whole year. A few hours spent each day by the farmer and his boys in the repair shop ok1, barn cleaning and oiling machines, painting wagon-bodies and repairing wheels and axles, replacing rake-teeth, tightening hoe-handles, sharpening the knives to reaping machines, making rollers and stnmp-puJiers, etc., would not only savo unnecessary loss in actual dollars and cents, bnt a vast amonnt of time, anxiety and annoyance in the spring when the rash of. work leaves little or no time in which to make re pairs or supply the place of lost tools, There are a variety of mixtures that may be applied to the iron parts of im plements to prevent rusting, the cheap est of which is grease that has not been salted. An excellent article for the protection of steel or iron may be pre pared by melting lard and common rosin slowly together and stirring the mixture until it cools. When required in large quantities it may be made m the proportion of about six pounds ot lard to two of rosin. If only a small amount is desired, a piece of rosin the size of a ben's egg will suffice for one pound of lard. This mixture can be applied with a cloth to the metal sur face, giving it a thin coat. The rosin prevents tho lard from becoming ran cid and the grease excludes the air and moisture. Previous to applying any protective wash, machinery should be thoroughly cleaned and the bearings wiped and oiled with castor oil or other lubricant. Castor oil, by the way, is counted among the best of oils for iron axles. A wheel well lubricated will not only revolve readily but runsmnch longer than when oileel with cheaper sort of grease. It is also economy to look after the woodwork of toob and machinery. Al ternate wetting and drying soon injures any wood, causing cracking and final decay. This may be prevented by the timely and occasional application r f rome cheap paint. When woodwork from exposure has become cracked it is advised to give it a wash of crnde petro- lenm previous to an external coat of paint. 1'etroleum not" only improves all wooden tools, but is alike valuable for rustic furniture, such as arbors, gar den chairs and vases that are exposed to the weather. Oj tar is sometimes employed as a paint for wagon wheels A correspondent who has made use of it in this way says that it forms a hard, durable black polish, somewhat like Japan on tinware, and dries in the sum mer sun on wood in one day and cn iron in two days. A good black print for coarse iron wotk, according to the Amrrican Journal f Jndualry, may 1 e made by mixing plumbago with "hot coal tar. Equal parts of asphaltuin and rosiu dissolved in common turpen tine, says the same authority, make also a good' cheap covering for heavy iron work. To preservo harness, leather-belting and the like, keep in some dry, airy place; take apart occasionally and thor oughly clean and oil every portion. Never oil harness until it has first been r. lieved of aH dirt ; scrape off the thick est accumulation of mud, etc., witn a dull knife, then remove the rest with a wet cloth. If oiled previous to clean ing the oil soaking through the dirt into the leather carries with it fine particles into tho pores of the leather, thereby rendering it hard and stiff. For har ness common neatsfoot oil is excellent, but when mice and rats abound pure castor oil is better, for these varments do not like it. Apply the oil with an old woclen cloth, putting on as mnch as will rub in and dry readily. After oiling harness and belting let it hang for two or three days in some warm. airy place and expose to the sunshine when that is practicable. Never keep leather appliances of any ort in a dark, damp place. AVio York Worhi. Farm and Uarden Notes. Sheep give back to the farm more, in proportion to what they take from it, than any other animal. Do not allow the cattle to tramp over the mowings when the ground is soft enough to retain tho imprint of their hoofs wherever they go. frequently after squashes begin to blossom they dry np and die. For this disaster no one has yet been able to give a satisfactory cause. Strawberries are much more prolific when four or five different varieties are planted together, although each variety may be a perfect one, than if bnt one perfect variety were planted alone. The opinion bas generally prevailed that a little bran mixed with meal would produce more pork than clear meal, but in some experiments lately tried it was found that clear meal made more pork than a mixture of bran and meal. Professor Brewer of the Sheffield Seien-- titio school, New Haven, Bays : " On acc'ount of the value of our straw and of the stalks of our corn for feeding it is found that an acre of corn, wheat or other grain pays as large a profit here as at the West, and that tbe labor - of each man is as well or better paid." The best thing to do with inferior stock, when the priea of grain aid other feed is as high as it is now, is to fatten them quickly, if possible, and sell them or dispose of them in some other way. Better give them away than, by keeping them, to deprive the better animals of an abundance of food. A correspondent of the London Live Stock Journal cured a horse of tbe bad habit of rearing when mounted by pro viding himself with a bottle of water, and dashing tbe contents "with vio lence on it head" the moment it began to get upon its hind jeet. A second ap plication was never needed. The Flemish farmer scrupulously col- leots every atom of sewage from tbe towns, be guards bis manure like a treasure, puts a roof over it to prevent rain and sunshine from spoling it; he aim gathers mud from livers and canals, and the excretions of animals along the highways, for conversion into phosphates. Store cattle, or dry cows, may be kept on the poorest forage nntil the cows come in, when they should have as good food as can be afforded. So tho best way to manage will be to feed up the poorest stuff first. If it is found that the corn-fodder is injured by the blackening and mildewing effects of the rains it should be fed before the hay ; bnt if it has been secured in good order before sustaining any damage it may be as well to feed it last or after the bay is pretty well fed ont. This is of im portance mainly as the feeding seasoa will have to be well extended into sum mer next year, or nntil soiling crops can be obtained. Heel pes. Griddle Cares. Take a cupful each of sweet milk and sour milk, a table spoonful cream or other shortening; sift a scant half-teaspoonfnl cream tar tar in the flour; dissolve a hulf-tcaspoon-f ul soda in a little water; stir in flour to make a thin batter; have the griddle hot and buttered, dip on a spoonful at a time and fry a light brown. Apple Cbeam. Peel and core one pound of apples, place them in a stew pan with eight onnces of sugar and a pinch of ground nutmeg. Let cook until tender; pass the apples through sieve and let get cold. Whisk np rath el stiff half a pint of cream, add the apple pulp, a little essence of lemon, one onnce of isinglass boiled in a gill of water; mix well together; pour into a jelly mold and let set. When re quired dip the mold into warm water for half a minute, wipe it with a cloth and turn it, cut on a glass or silver dish. Garnish with red flowers and slices of lemon; Mashed. Potatoes. Boil the pota toes gently, after having made them as nearly uniform in size as possible, by dividing the larger ones, cr what is better, by slicing all, but not very thinly. As soon as the fork goes through readily tnrn the water off (sav ing that for mixing your bread if you bake the same day), then mash through a colander into ihu same kettle or sauce pan. Add butter and cream and salt, and with a long-handled spoon beat a few minutes briskly. Set the saucepan where it will thoroughty heat again, and your potatoes will be a noticeable feature ot the best of dinners. Noodle. " Noodle," if properly made, is a great addition to soup, nnd is preferred by many peoplo to tho best " A. B. 0. macaroni." For a family of xour two eggs will be sufficient ; beat them until they are very light ; stir in flour as long as it is possible to work it in ; salt it well ; roll it ont on a kneed ing-board nntil it is almost as thin as paper and is perfectly smooth ; put a clean paper on a chair or table near the stove and lav the noodle on it to diy.. It should be prepared early enough in the morning for it to dry for an hour at leabt. About twenty minutes before thet snnn ia tnkon fvnm iha dnvo take the noodle and stir it over and over until you have a strip three or foui irjeben vidp ; fVtpn nitl n tiliavi-. 1nifa cut it in narrow strips; put these in iue soup ana jet them cook nom ten to fifteen minutpR. Went unnn trifli noodle, and a pinch of curry ) owder, is a uisu io ue some.wnai considered. IIcuHf'liolit Ilium. Alum is one of the bebt additions to make whitewash of lime that will not rub ofl'. When powdered chalk is ued, glue water is also good, but would not answer for outside work exposed to much rain. That rustic black Italian crape inav be restored by dipping in skimmed milk and water, with a bit of fine glne dissolved in it and made scalding hot. It should be clapped and pulled drv, like muslin. Common soda is excellent for scour ing tin; as it will not scratch the tin and will make it look like new. Apply with a piece of moistened newsnacer and polish with a dry piece. Wood ashes are a good substitute. Mildew may be removed from linen by mixing with soft soap a little now. dered starch, half the quantity of bait, anu tne uice oi a lemon, and applying it to the mildew stain with a unint brush on both sides of the linen. The stained article should then be left out on the grass day and night until the spot be removed. Something for Nothing, All newspaper publishers have had experience with nien who want to ad vertise themselves or their business in newspapers without cost to themselves. It is pitiable to see the thabbv means they take to attain the end they have in view. Men who would feel insulted if they were called dead-beats, will with bland efl'routery ask a publisher to " please mention so and so" (an adver tisement), or, handing in what is really an advertisement under the guise of a communica'ion, they will say, " Here's a little item that will help you to fill up with." Men who do this and there are some in every town call themselves honorable and would not think of ask ing a real estate owner to let them use one of bis bouses a few months for nothing; nor would they ask bim td lot them cultivate and use a part of his farm, without expecting to have to pay rent for it. The advertising columns of his paper is to the publisher what the houeo or farm is to tho real estate owner his source of income. Why any one should expect the newspaper publisher to be more generous in squandering bis sub stance than other business men is something that cannot be accounted for, except on. the supposition that some people have an idiotic idea that printers set up type for the love of f.he wcrk, and that ink and type and printing presses are gifts from heaven to sinful men, who publish newspapers merelv for the purpose of smoothing the path way of their fellow men on the tugged road to fortune, and who hope not for reward this side of the grave. Texas NEWS OF THE WEEK. " Eastern and Middle States. Tree Hon. A. A. Pottengill, for twecy-flve years editor and proprietor of the daily i.-wl-ard, died at Bridgeport, Conn, lie had been a State Senator, Congressman and Jnited States marshal, and was census commissioner of Connee'ieut. Ex-GovEiiNon Au xamjkr H. Bullock, of Massachusetts dropped dead on the sidewalk in Worcester, Mass., of apoplexy. He was born in Worcester In 181(1, and had been succes sively a member of the Massachusetts legisla ture, mayor of Worcester, speaker of the Stato house of representatives, and governor, to which latter office he was elected in 18C6, and twice re-elected, William H. Vanoemiilt gave a reception to his frionds at his new house iu Fifth avenue, New York, which cost (3,000,000 to build and furnish, and is considered the finest private residence ia tho city. More than 600 men were employed for a yearaud a half on tho interior decorations alone, while sixty sculptors wore brought from Europe'and kept at work two roars. fTho house is 81 feet front by 115 feet doep, and four stories high. ATjoanesville, Fa., the coal breaker oporatod by J. 0. Haydon ft Co., ono of the largest breakers in Luzerne county, was totally de stroyed by fire, together with about 200 tons of coal. The loss is estimated at (200,000. Governor Cornell has sent to the Now York legislature a special message, called forth by the recent railroad -slaughter at Bpuyten Duyvcl. The message calls attention to the need of stringent laws for tho prevontion of accidents on railroads. While hhisting at a stone quarry near Bead ing, Ta., three men were frightfully injured by a premature explosion, two of them having their eyes blown out. Tub one hundredth anniversary of Daniel Wobstor's birth was celebrated at Boston by a banquet, and at Salisbury, X. H., his birth place, commemorativo exercises wero held. Tub Pennsylvania board of pardons, in ses sion at Harrisburg, decided against the appli cations of six immlorur for a commutation of their death sentence. South and West. Mb. Lamau has been re-elected to the United States Senate by the Misnisaippi legislature. lNDiANOLA, ill., lias lost in LmsinciH part by liro, Tho court-house, postofllee and several other buildings ,il Abilene, Kansas, have also bmm dustioyed by tho flames. Another terriblo tragedy is reported froia Kentucky. .Tames K. Wilmot, a farmer living near Lanea9tr, killed his mother, aged oighty iiino, his wife and two daughters, age I about nineteen and fifteen, made an unsuccessful attempt to kill a son of twenty, aud thcu hanged himself in his baru. Tub flood at Nashville, Touu., inundated more than 1,000 houses and compelled no loss than 1,500 persons to abandon their homes The city was surrounded on tlm sides by wator. All the piinclpal streats wero ihiodcd, and houses and barns wero continually pasting down the swollen river. Fiuk broko out iu the house occupied by Oeoro C. Smith nnd l'amily at Clinton, Mo., and Mm. Smith, with four daughters, ranging in age from six to seventeen yearn, perished in the llamcH. Mr. Smith, with an eight-year-old daughter and a neighljor's child, escaped. At Seattlo, Washington Territory, .Tames Sullivan and William Howard, who had mur dered a young man named Reynolds, were taken out of comt by a crowd of 100 men and baugod. The crowd then proceeded to the jail, overcame the guards, took from his cell Ben jamin Payne, under arrtst for killing a police man, and Strang him up in company with the other two men. Ashkrsox .Tonk (colored) was bunged at Augusta, (Ja., for murdering a yonng merchant named Haraldou, and at Franklin, Idaho, Michael Mooney met a similar fate for the mur der of J. Hinckley, a station agent. John W.fiooNi:n, in Jail at Ironton, Ohio, on the charge of having murdered Dr. Joseph A. Beggs, bookkeeper and chemist for the .i:!na iron works, was taken from his cell by a body of masked men and hanged to a treo in the court -hoiiuo yard. An unsuccessful attempt was madu to wreck a special tiain on which Jay Goul l and partj wero goiug northward toward Sedalm, Mo The obstruction placed on the track was dis covered a few minutes beforo it was reached by the train. A farmer was arrested for the act, and ttatcd that some of his stock had ben killed by trains, and thathe attempted towreel 'lie train iu revenge. Heavy rains caused an increased risinj ol the Cumberland river at Nashville, TeuiL, and the inuudation hemmed in the city on nearh all sides. Ten thousand families wero driven from their homes. In many instances Hit people wero imprisoned in their houses by the Hood and had to be rescued by boats. Munj acres of business Iioubos and private dwelling wero iuundatcd, aud the pecuniary damage if very heavy. The bark F. I,. Carney, from Navaesa, West Indies, to Baltimore, loaded with guano, suns threo miles south of Hatteras inlet, N. C, and eight of tho ten men on board lost their lives. A laroe candy aud cracker factory and seven adjoining buildings iu Atlanta, Ga., have been destroyed by tiro, causing a lws of (300,000. Ouo man was buruid to death. . Mrs. Beukcca Rankin, a wealthy old widow, living near Newoomorstown, Ohio, becoming possessed with the ide that she would die it poverty, arose iu the night aud hanged herself A collision between two trains on the Charleston and Savannah railroad, twenty-seven miles from the former place, resulted in the death of two men and serious injuries to sev eral more. From Washington. Tub Senate select committee on tho rights ot women gave a hearing to a large dele-cation of tho members of the National Woman's Suffrage convention.' Colonlx Dudley, commissioner of pensions, iu an address io the Houbs committee ou pen sions, said if he had 100 men to place in the field aa special agents be could eliminate all pension frauds within three years' time. He thought such special agents should receive about (1,100 per year and expenses. The national board of health has at its meet lug declared smallpox to D6 epidemic iu tho L'uitod States. The inspection has been or dered of several of the most important quar antine stations, to determine if the rules and regulations of tho hoard, approved by the I'rosidtnt November II, 1881, are being prop crly enforced. , Vhk total values of the exports of domeetio provisions, tallow and dairy products during December, 1881, were (12,981,978, and during December, 1880, (15,874,787; for the twelve months ended December 81, 1881, (133,823,212, and for the same period in 1880, (143,882,670. Twbntt States and Territories were repre sented at the fourteenth annual convention of the National Woman's Snffrage convention. Elizabeth Cady Stanton presided, and numer ous addresses in conformity with the priuoiples of the party were adopted. The socretary of the navy has receivod the following dispatah, dated Irkutsk, Russia, from Engineer Mellville, of the lost .Teannette: " Melville, Danenhower and eleven men all well. Melville returned to Arctie ocean; found log books, instruments and four records left by De Long. No tidings of eeoond cuttor, Lieu tenant Chlpp. Search continued during the winter by Cossack commandant of Bolun aud Iakntsk, undor directions of General Teller naieff. Word from Kolyma river that no boat had arrived to date, November 19. I am ac quainted with the country where De Long and party are, and reqmst order to remain, with two men, to renew the search in March, Danen hower and nine men to return to the United States. Dancnhower's sight partly recovered." Scorctary Hunt replied, giving Mclrillo the or ders he asked. Foreign News. The English t chooner Weathergage capsized off Honduras, and eight passengers wore drowned. A fire in a theater at Rotterdam, Holland, . created a panic, and eevoral persons leaped over the balconies ami wero injured. The London Timet, in its financial article, says that a break-up of tho excessive specula tion which has been going on in Europe is now taking place. An ineui-roction against Austria has broken out in tho Balkan peninsula. The rising oom meuced in Herzegovina, extending to tho bor der districts of Dahuatia, Bosnia, Albania, and probably Montenegro. An Austrian army corps will be dicpatched to crush tho insurrection. Many men and horses were burned to death and much property was destroyed by tho burn ing of a circus in Bucharest, capital of Ron mania. Tue Holy League, a society formed to coun teract nihilism, will lie recognized as a branch of the Runxiau police. The insurgents iu the Balkan provinces have slaughtered a detachment of ten Austrian soldiers and defeated another body of Aus trian near Ble-lagoia. A triiie occupying a region near the South African diamond fields a.id which is allied to Great Britain has suffered a loss of 150 men from an attack made, by another tribe which was aided by Boer mercenaries. Mas small engagements have taken plao bitwecii the Au-trian troops and tho iinnr gents In tha Balkan provinces. Tti nr.E thousand French troops are reported to have died in TtuiN, North Africa. The panh iu Paris financial i-ircles has rpread to Yiouiu, and many cases of suicide are rcportt-d. Tulre are 70,0-JU claims fur ilio fixing of lair rent hefc.ro the Irish land court. Two hundred revolting Arabs wo.'o killud iu nn engagement with Turkish troops in Arabia. rOBTY-SLYEXTH CONGRESS. Hpnntn. Petitions for a commission of inquiry con cerning the alcoholic liijnor traffic, for an in crease of pay to members of the life service, and from citizens of Kansas for woman sum-age, were presvnto:!.... Hills were introduced pro viding for a coumiiFxion on tho alcoholic litjuor traffic; p.-iinitting Ward Hunt, supremo court justice, t r-tiro; granting a pension toLucretia It. liartield, etc.... The arrears of pension bill and the Miui-rnnn refunding bill wero euccos-sivelj- diH;issud. Tho bill to retire Supreme Court Justice Ward Hunt was reported favorably.... Mr. Blair of fered a resolution instructing tho committee on public lands to inquiro into the administra tion of tho land laws and sv-ttems, their opera tions in the practical disposition of the public lands, and any abuses and hardships which may exut in thoir administration, and to ro port facts and recommendations. Adopted.... Mr. Brown mado a speech on the currency question, his text being his resolution declaring the inexpediency of contracting tho currency by the withdrawal of tho silver certificates, or tho discontinuance or further restriction of tilver coinage, and that, gold and silver coin, based upon a proper ratio of equivalence be tween tlio two metals, and issue of paper predicated upon and convertible into coin on demand, constitute tho proper circulating me dium of this country.... The Shorman refund ing bill was further discussed by Messrs. Mor gau, Sherman, Beck and Bayard.... Mr. George introduced a bill to encourage agricul ture and manufactures. It proposes to repeal all duties and imposts now laid on machinery lor the manufacture of cotton or woolen goods or goods composed of hemp or jute; also on all tools of mechanics which are used solely in manual labor; also on all agricultural imple ments and on all iron cotton-tics. A lively debate took place ou the t herman funding bill, the participants being Messrs. Sauisbury, Windom and II ill.... The bill retir ing Supreme Court Justice Hunt was passed by a vote of 41 yeas to 11 nsys. Ilouae. Mr. Belmont oUereu a resolution asking lor full information as to the relations of the gov ernment with South America.... Mr. Roboon called up the report of the committee on rule increasing tbe membership of various commit tocrs of tho House. Mr. Orth offered as a substitute for the committee's report his amend ment for the election, at tho beginning of each Congress, of a commission charged witli tho duty of assigning tbe membership of commit tees. A long discussion followed, during which there was coueiderublo excitement. A motion Io lay Mr. Itobesou's report ou the tablo was lost by a vote of HO ncys to 107 yeas. A bill was introduced for the sale of the United States court-house at Boston.. ..A bill was reported for the sale of tho land of the Miami Indians in Kansas, aud a report was inade on the subject of mctrio coinages. . . .Tha report of the committee on rules, proposing an iucroase iu the membership of cerfciin commit tees, was further discussed. The day was chiefly occupied in the disous sion of the report of the committee ou rules iu regard to enlarging the committees ot the House; the report was finally recommitted by a vote of 159 to 90. A curious application of electricity is bow employed in tho Spanish array. Consent ts wishing to escape military service hava. it RPcoma. often racwvtar) in the trick of Lending the body while i . . . . . ueiug measured, io as to rring tlietr stature below tbe limit prescriUd for the service. To prevent fraud of this kind ia tbe object of the new device. When the man ia standing perfectly erect the backs of the legs at the knees presa against electrio contacts, causing two bells to ring, while a thiid bell ia similarly rung by pressure of the head. For a correct measurement the three bells bhoud.ring simultaneously. The ringing ceases when ther) is the. least bending. 1
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