Bloomington Progress, Volume 17, Number 14, Bloomington, Monroe County, 6 June 1883 — Page 4

NEWS CONDENSED.

Ofelegraphle Summary.!

EASTERH. Anton W. Harries, a New York, city sTothier, has made an assignment, with Ha- . bilities amonnting to" 6!i,00O, and wets to io,wa A drunken wiie-beater at Pittsburgh, ta, net with a horrible fate, the object of his cowa: dly ayito taming upon him and thriving a red-hot bajonet through his breast, the weapon having been use as a rtove poker. Ex-Chief Justice Sharswood, of ronnnyivania, i dead. Miko Clenry, tho pugilist, sues Mayor King; of Philadelphia, and a Police Lieutenant for i,000 damages for preventtajf Hs amusing exhibition with John I. Soltivsa. Three railway laborers on tbe line of the Philadelphia, Norristown and rhosnixTille road, were fatally injured by a bank saving m upon tbein Six men were drowned in Boston harbor by the capoixin? of the yacht Skylark. . A crush and panic occurred on Decoration Day at the New York side of toe new Brooklyn bridge at the abort flight of steps leading to the main footway. For some reathose comimr from Brooklvn halted near

this spot, bat were pushed rapidly forward to the edge. Suddenly those In front were precipitated downward, and persons In the rear were tumbled on the victims three or four deep. The crie tkriekk and means of tfce throng were appalling, and in he a niggle the clothing of hundreds of persons were torn to shreds, Ifteen we're killed and hundreds were wounded

WESTERN.

While a pleasure party of five persons Mr. Beard, Was Lena Jtaxrf, nf Jttverton, la., and two members of J. W. Beard's tamiry, a young boy of 4 and a girl of 13 were boating on the riyer at, Arlington; Kan., ton. boat was carried oyer a' dam. The young lady, boy and girl were drowned. A new -play, entitled "The Power of 0010,'' by afteneh anther, will be produced at McYicker's Theater, Chicago, on Monday next, An excellent oompany has "been secured for the production, and it will receive all the scenic embellishments and mechanical appliances which tine house so we'l knows how to furnish. Hiram Snellwiss, of Cedar Hill, Jefferson county, Nov., killed his sweetheart, sis rival in love, and himself, a shotgun being the deadly weapon with which the bloody work was accomplished. A tornado -in two sections caused havoc in a amotion of Indiana, just south, of Terre Haute. The greatest havoc was wrought in day City, where twelve persons are said . - to have been kiBed and a large number hurt, while many buildings were wrecked. At Neat's mill seven people were killed and several injured. . Knob, damage was done to farm property and in some .villages in Shelby-county, and across the fine in Johnton county the town of Edinburg sustained considerable injury." Eight or ten men took shelter under a bridge that spans Eel river St- Hears mills, and, the structure going down before the fierce blast, the men and team and wagon were hurled into the water. Six or seven of-the party were either killed or fatally injured At Denmark Poetofflce, 'a hamlet about three miles east of Clay City, there were nine persons gathered in the home of John Croft The inmates saw the black cloud with iis perpendicular front moving stead fly toward them. The lighter deads were below, rolling up in front and backward over the black monster. It was a terrible sight They started for the cellar; Four of them reached this place of safety, while Ave who had not been able to get mto the cellar before the cloud struck the house wre killed in the wreck that followed. The house was torn to pieces, and the five person were oarried with the timbers, being struck by the -mfrrftes and caught in the crn'h of lumber. At Lancaster great havoc was done, number of honses being blo wn to pieaea, among which were a- church and a grist mill. The wife of Dr. John Williams was killed and her ehfld annihilated, no trace of it having been discovered. At Patncksbarg a number of dweffings were wrecked and several people injured, but no fatalities. In the vicinity of Oreensburggreae damage was inflicted upon farm property. At Edinburg the spire of the If ethodtet Church wait blown down, crushing thereof of the parsonage; and,-a few miles south a sen of farmer Deming was killed. An through the. center of the State, rnd as far north as Lafayette, a heavy rain prevailed, accompanied by high winds and an almost eontinnona electrical display for everalbouni succeeding the passage of the cyclone. The cyclone's fury was also felt near Lebanon, Ohfo, the houses and barns of three residents being demolished. A compromise was effected the other day between the Chicago bricklayers and their employers, by which a strike that had lasted for two months was brought to an end, The basis of the agreement between the masters and the employes is 40 cents per hour for competent workmen. These whose services are not worth this snm will be deemed as working under instructions, and paid what their labor is actually entitled to. It wai farther' stipulated that in January of each year committees representing the Bricklayers Union and the Master Kason's Association s.iall meet and determine the wages to be paid during the ensuing season. Should they fail to agree any Judge of the United States Court or other disinterested party can be called in to give the easting vote. Ex-Alderman John Geiger and his wife, of Cincinnati, were accidentally drowned in the out"k(rts of that city. Touching the recent battle between the militia and striking minerH near Coffinsville, III, a dispatch from that pace gives these farther particulars: As Deputy Sheriff Anthony addressed the strikers front a box on the depot platform, saying they had come to have no trouble but to see the laws complied with, a shot was fired at them from the hill, which came so hoar that he drew a revolver and fired at the spot whence it came. A general fasi'.sde from the mob followed, aa'i a sold er, get.Ing out of the c ira, dropped wish a bullet through Mi knee. Deputy SberiS Anthony asked CoL Barkly to give the troops tn order to fire, which he did, and the militia poured a volley into the strikers. The mob retreated and returned the firs, when a second '"Olley greeted them. The miners a-id w. men mattered like sheep through the gullies sod ravines. Iks exact number wounded conld not be learned, bnt twenty-rix of the m' b were captured, and are guaided at Edward' vi lie by Company T. The following lis"; of casuaitie is n"henWc: Fred Iloffmrster, gla (blower, kiiled shot through the head William Staikey, shot throogh thelradand hips, will die. James B.'auchard, wounded in the ride: dangerously. Martin Carroll, wounded eltjrhtty in the le.'t leg. Elnrer James, of Edivardsvillc, one of thi m'Ktla shot through th ncchy part of tfce leg; not dangerous. Tho e that were arretted were removed to the cenn y seat, Belleville, where, having boen examined on the charge of riot, they were put under bonds to appear tor tr:al. The t -wn was filled with sympathi e s with the prisoner and after the latrer hid bjen re'ea ;ed they Were taken upon the sho jldersof friends and carried thro gt the Court House jard, where they we e treated as heroes. Thirty students in I)eJ-ware (Ohio) 0Ij.c hitv: been su'pended for tran':enoCEit and billiard p aviosr. ftnf thV.ojR

put an ox hi rieddeitt Payne's room to

frighten him, and the animal ruined 300

worth of property. A considerable delegation of the nu

merous non-combatant relatives of the Aprehe Chief Loco have turrendered to the

ml ' tary authorities near Son Carlos, Arisona, bavin!' recently returned from New Moxioo.

They report jhat the hoitiles are anx-'ous to

s ibmlt them elves oncoTnore to the authoricy of the Great Father.

SOUTHERN. '

Pour legal hangings occurred in the South on Friday, May At Rtohmond, Ark., Joseph Young, K negro, was-banged for outraging- a white woman, John Taylor, the murderer of Col Ingmham, Of Claren

don, Ark,, paid the penalty of his orimo at that place. Jack Hinton .was hanged at Helena, Ark., for murder, and Leander Coleman ' (colored) suffered death for a

similar offense at Pea-ua Bossier pariah. La, A negro incendiary waft hanged by a mob at Mariana, Lee county, Ark. A mob of about sixty mounted and masked men from Menifee, county, Ky., led by the Sheriff of the county, appeared before the Mc ntgomery county jail at Mount Sterling, and demanded the surrender of eleven men, comprising what is known as the Barnctt gang.,. who have been, at war with the Hilton family for some time, the intention of the mob being to hang , the prisoners. The--prison guard warned them away, but they advanced to attack and were fired upon, the leader being dangerously wounded. The mob fired several hundred shots at the jail, but without effect, while a second volley from the guards wounded another of the attack-, ing party, who thereupon withdrew and returned to il-.eir own county. Joseph Nail, Assistant Postmaster at Atlanta, Oa, is 99,000 short in his accounts, In two 'Hours the Treasurer of Galveston, Tex., disposed oiillOO, 000 S-per-oettt bonds, the money to be used to carry on harbor improvement! until Congress meets.. The Grand Jury in Montgomery, Ala., has returned six new indictments, against Unltwd States Marshal Paul Strobach, eighteen against Thomas J. Smith, Register ofthe Land Office and nine against Samuel D. Oliver, t he Chief Deputy Marshal. " At Helenwood, Tenn., John and Biley Cecil, father and son, "were shot down by three brothers named Smith, The affray was the result of a feud of several years standing; A 'free fight between whites and blacks at Archer, Alachua county,Ala,, resulted, m the killing of one on each side, Mrs. Walter "Davis, of. Harrousburg, Ky., has published a long statement denouncing the court and jury that she claims was organized to acquit Phil Thompson, and making a ftrong defense of her husband, claiming Ids entire innocence of criminal Intimacy vith Mrs, Thompson, throwing all the blame on Jessie Buckner, and claiming that the reason her husband took Mrs. Thompson to his room at the Bt 'Clair Hotel last November was because MissBuokner's room -was closed against her at the time for the reasons which are bnt hinted at The most important fact is in the statement that a letter was found written bylavis to Thompson, andsdated April 38, referring to the scandal connecting him with Mrs. Thompson, solemnly declaring his innocence and his ability to prove it if he (Thompson) would give him the opportunity. This is Bupplemeated by -statements from other parties detailing conversations to the same effect, but which they were not permitted to give in evidence at Thompson's trial The publication has made a great sensation in the Bine Grass region, and the affair is not yet over with. XiynchbuTg, Va., was -visited by a conflagra'.lon in which a large amount of property in the busineis part of the city was destroyed, The loss Is estimated at 400,0U0. Five men were killed by the falling out of the walls oL one of the burning buildmga,' .. . - "

WASHINGTON. The condition of Hon. . William D. Kelley, who is suffering from a cancer of the jaw, says n Washington dispatch, is believed to be ukaM serious than at- first supposed. Dr. Agnew. of the quartette of physicians who attended Garfield, ' has the case in charge. The Secretary et the Treasury has decided the the 100,000 appropriated for the prevention of the spread of - epidemic diseases shall be disbursed by the Surgeon General of the Marine Hospital Service. - Lieut. Col. Hges has telegraphed to the Adjutant General withdrawing his resignation, saying he prefers being tried by a court-martial. The offense with which CoL Hges is charged is duplicating nay accounts. The Interior Department is investigating the charges against the management of the Freedroen's Hospital. ,

rOLXTJOAI The county elections in Virginia show decided falling off in the strength-of the Beadjuster orMahone party, its candidates having been defeated in several counties where . snob, a result was not even hoped for by the.' Democrats. Nansemond county; which gave the Mahone candidates 1,000 majority last year, now goes Anti-Hahone by 600 majority. Got, Pattisoh, of Pennsylvania vetoed a bill passed by the State Legislature bestowing tensions upon survivor of the Mexican war and upon the widows of soldiers and sailors of that war. There are indications that President Arthur intends to stop the distribution of official patronage in Virginia in the interest of Senator Mahone.

MIBCEXLA NEOTJ3. Advices from Hexicaaxe to the effect that a desperate battle was fought in the Sierra Miidrea, between Gen. Crook's command and the fugitive Apaches. The scouts were first caught in an ambuscade, and several are said to hare been killed. The entire command then 'a vanosd and engaged the hostrles, of whom thirty were killed, the remi under, taking to flight, with the troops in pursuit. Jay Gould and Gen. Grant and the Mexican Government hare signed a contract consolidating the Mexican Southern and' Mexican Oriental railroads. The former line, which was not subsidized, will now receive 16,000 per kilometre completed. The receipts of the American Baptist Pub'ication Society were last year 472,500 in exeesii of the receipts of any previous year. The United Presbyterian Synod, at Pittsburgh, adopted the report of tile majority on the mnsi : question, which Indotses mu'ieal instruments in churches A rather bitter fee-ling has resulted, and a number of Delegate? prepared a p otost which was presented to th synod, against the decision oi the majority. Wh revcr tho weathrr was propitious. Decoration day was. observed at tho North by the beautifying- of the graves oi tho-e wt o fell in the War of tho Rebellion There were exercises of a particularly-noteworthy character nt Washington and Annapolis, the ex Cov.f ..-derates imiUnpr at the lat':er p!it c with thosa who wore the blue. In many Iccalit'es the outdoor observances of the day wo e hindered by la'n. FOREIGN. A plot to kili the King of Bnnmnnh at tbe opening of Parl nment was discovered, and sumo of tho conspirators wore nrrasted. Loudon, j-apofa jniUwU stetotnento

hat O'Donovnn Boea andretor J. Tynan CNo. 1") are merely spies iu tho Irish onmp in America in England's pay. Abd-el Kader, tho .:agod Algorino chief, whose career has boon a, most remarkable one, is dead. Favorable weather1 has materially improved the harvest prospects in Great Britain. ' Oscar Wilde, says a London telegram, seems to be played out as an esthetic apostle. He worked the art dodge- in America for all It was worth, and lias now abandoned It He surprised his friendat a reception given to Mr. Whistler, the artist, by appearing as an ordinary individual, dressed in a commonplace suit and shorn Of his beautiful locks. He 1s regarded as crdxyt A duel with swords wns fought noar Paris, between Dolpit, a writer, and Al. phonse Baudot, the well-known novelist The former was slightly wounded. The third of the Phoenix Park assassins to pay the penalty of tho law was Michael Fagin, Who was ' exTOuterf'afcTJnblrh May ?8.- : Unlike Brady.and Curloy, who pre-, ceded him on the gallows, Fagta protested his innocence ofthe crime imputed to him, - Thomas J. Oarr, rector of MaynoothCollege, has been inad Kinliop of Galway, tbe Pope having assurances that he was not connected with the popular agitation, "; Ratifications of the treaty Iwtween tho United States and Corea have been exchanged at the Corean capital . The Pope's Peter's pence are deorensing ao rapidly that' he has addressed a note to the Bishops-urging them to exhort the faithful to more hearty support of the Holy Bee. At an Irish National League moeting in Dublin, -Mr. Sexton, M. P., said the recent action of the Pope indicated a perilous and intolerable intervention in the -future pbi litical oonis 2 of the Irish people. . '

BAPTIZED IN BLOOD.

LATER NEWS ITEMS. Silas. W. Burt, who last year refused a simrar'p'osition on tho National Civil 'Service Commission, has accepted the Chief E.vamincrshlp of the Now York State Commission, of which John Jay is President. Senator "Warner F. Miller, :of Now York, in a t interview with a' "Chicago reporter, said th t the Republican party has made for 'itself a distinctive record as a protection prty, and that any attempt to evade a square avowal of the principle in tho next National Convention's platform will result disastrously to the organization. Ex-Vice President Davis .and his brido arrived at their home in Bloorninjrton, 111. , last work. The Northern Oriio Fair Association has ceased to exist, and its' grounds near Cleveland were eold at auction tho other day. The Cleveland Driving Park Company, which succeeds the Cleveland Club, bought forty acres, which will be devoted to races. At Fremont, Neb., a Deputy, Sheriff was ehot in the month by one of two1 desperadoes, whom he arid the Sheriff attempted to arrest The Sheriff In turn shot the man dead, and after a long chase hia companion was captured, . The National Board of Health has suspended all quarantines agati st smallpox. The Government has accepted an additional section of twenty-five miles of the Northern Pacific BaUroad in W abington Territory. ; . Vice' President Blanchard. of tho New York, Lake Erie and Wcstari railroad, has been giving the English some cogent reasons for the construction of th 3 channel tunnel, chief among which is the suggestion that it might check tho growing i imposition of American buyers to go to the continent, rather than deal, as formerly, through English houses. James T. Kapier, Bevenne Collector of the Montgomery (Ala.) district, and formerly member of Congress, is dealt Mormon missionaries iu Western North Carolina have made many j roselytos, who were baptized into their new faith with shocking origios. Public fndignatlon has been arouted, and some lynching? are not improbable. There will be no strike of iron-workers at Pittsburgh. A dispatch from . that city . ays: "The conf eronce of the iron manufacturers and Amalgamated Association committee resulted in the" manufacturers aigningJast year's scale of $,;'0 per ton for puddling. This action happily averts

a strike. The manufacturers who

have-' all along. )Kriistcd that they would not pay more than 5, and who were supposed to have a solid front; give .as a reason for their unexpected action that they had positive informatU n that a number of Western miUs had rondo arrangements to

continue at the old scale, with Jhe condition t.at it Jhe mapufa ;tnrcra here wore tuccessfnl,',the work m erf would accept the same, wages; and, rather tljanu.biMifc.towe ing their trade going to other places, decided to pay the wages demanded' bylhe Amalgamated Association. President Jarrett, of tho latter says the scale was signed unconditionally, an'l characterizes it as' a vic

tory without aba tie," Intense satisfaction Is expressed on all ddes over tho settlement " Thi so foment "applies io all the

ix m mills in West Virginia, YoungMown'and Cleve'aud,

A dreadful accident is reported at Oleggio, near Milan, Italy. A boat laden with workmen capsized in the river and twenty-two were drowned. During the riots at RostoiT, Russia, on tho nigh, of the SSi of May, 130 Jew houses were destroye 1, while fifteen of the rioters were killed by -the military. . Fierce fighting has been iu progress between tho Ameer's forces and the ShincurralH in Afghanistan Baft loads ot dead have bean brought down the Cabul river. THE MAEEET. NEW YORK. BKEVBS..... t s.tt 0 T.10 Hoo8....: 1.30 T.W FLOun Snperflne 4.10 i 1.60 Wheat No. l White i.i No, J Red J.aS!4 1.291 COUN No. i .,") & .(Hi Oats Na .'....; 51 & MM Fobk Mess 3o.o atao.aa Laid. .UU .ia CHICAGO. Beeves Good to Fancv Steers. 0.20 & e.25 Cows and Hoircre 1.75 $ 6.4U Medium to Fair S S. M Hons. fi.M) & 1.00-Ej-ouu Kmiov White Winter Bx. 5. IS 0 0.25 Good to Choice Spr'B Ex. 6.oo & 5.25 Wheat No. i Bpruuf l.isWtS Ncaltotl Wiuwr.......' 1.14 9 1.I4ia Cork No. 2 mm . ' Oats No. a. -19 S .'s ltrE No s.; M'v .64 rUM.KV No. i ' .79 & M llt'-iTEi! Choice Crcamsry .1 S .a Edfis Fresb ' lB'sfi .17 lVitKMess....' 1K.I6 il0 30 liAnn UlsO .UH MILWAUKEE. Wbeah-No. 3.12M l.Wii tons-No. .6.-.JII9 a Oats No. il 39. V BK No.2..- .60 S .M?4 llAtU.tY Na a .n5'l! .66 Ptmx Mess 19.12V5I Lard , li'stg .uu BT. l.Ol'IS. Wheat No. a Bed J.lflis i.:o!s Cobs Mixed 507S ,5i'4 OXts No, 2 Wins ,4J 1WK.. M J0 .60 VfUIK Mess. 20.2S ' 20,50 IiADD. .nii0 42 ClNCiNNA'l'L WnRAT No. 2 Red l.M a 1.15 COSH M J .85 Oats. .43 KYK. OS'ttS .S l'OaK MOSS 2".60 2a76 La un. at eV .na TOLEDO. WlTEAT Not Bed l.M41.189 COJW .5 & .8Ji Oats-No. 2 .42 & .43 DETB01T. FlOUR 4.25 ffl 4.50 Wheat No. 1 White 1.12 rti t.u Cork-No. 2 5 & M OATS-Mlxed .45 B M VowMom 2H.&U 8921.011 INDIANAPOLIS. WHEAT No, 2 Rod 1.14 fills Corn No. 2 u & .) Oats Mixed .4lis .42 EAST LIOEHTY, PA. Cattx Best fi.ro tt n.5 - fair. .-" m .' Common. 6.W k 6.ou

Hoog 7. T.15 W 7.:

Shocking1 Catastrophe oil the East B-ivftr Bridge. A Tank, Followed by a Jam, in Which Many People Perish. The New bridge conmclinsf tlie cit'es of Ne.v Tfork and iirooklyn, anruss Eat llivor, bat bad Ha pnpUsni nf blood It nns the. feeno on locornii-n day of one of tho most Fii.gnlar and Mim-klng nocidonts In tho history of biiilfro disasters. The narrow new of tho footway for jiasrthwer was the' O we, of thecntas:r phe. There wa a crush- at the steps of the Now York ii)u roach to the bridge, nml n .hi 1 a ilc'tliiit foIloWoi somo tifteeit people lovt their lives and litany other wore bruised and eripp)l in a shocking manner. '1 ho pal lirulars of tbohorrur a u embraced in U10 following summary ot tho accounts telegraphed from Now York: The ong linn of people on fot on the center walk 01 the structure, going from and coming to this city, thickened, swelled, and stopy.cd in Its mo'.lon, jus; at the slairs leading from tile concrete roadway to the bridge proper. Ktiong men and feeble women, manhro l and infancy,-were wedeii together in . Lhut fearful piesbure of the cwAvd. Jw'Moh' extended miles, ono might say, on, either end of tho Una It was a remorseless, fearful, stupid force that held its victims as inim vblo .as the stono foundationsof the -bridge itself. Tun stoppage lasted nearly an hour, -during which time scores of peonlo fainted. To relieve the jam, some of tho bildge officials removed some of the Iron paling a few fe t from thsj strfrway on the Now York side, when, of couisr, those unfortunntq enough to be near, and weak and fainting as they were, immediately fell belter skelter, heels over head, down on the jagged, gravelly road beneath, a mass 'of bruiseii, discolored human tlesh. . Scores were trampled upon instantly., and to stumble was to fall to death Men were dragged out, of. that heap of helpless humanity with faces blue as indgo and tho' lifeblood trickling out of their nostiils, with children arid women pnle. dtsl;ev8llod, and dead The roadway on either side of the walkway strewed with dead and dying a pitiahlo sight, and vet, it is said, no efforts woie'mnde by the bridge otficlils to fctop tho people coraingi n the briilge. Tbedfai and d .-ing were carried oT iu wagon-?, carts,' eta, improvised on the momen, lor service, aad it was 11 Ion.? time 1 etore the p lice arrived ant anything like order was restored or an ambulmicc n; poarod. MoanWh'ilo teams were rushing both ways at full gitl.'oi over the roadways why no one could tell threatenrajr the limbs and lives of th "fe on foot who were attempting ttfi helfll the unfdrtniiajtei victims. Men shouted themselves horso to '-clear the wriv,"''and tho wagons ihttJing over the rough stones, i.nd men and womon crying in idl: dircct'ons madrflfc'ATJedlani indeed. A partv of mea in uniform did some serviso at the iint as volunteer police to check the vu'garaud curioua The dead and wounded wore picked up as speedily as possible ,. ai4 rrivd to thq hospital. hen the approach was. cleared at last, it was literally c overed with ariiclos of clothingnnd personal proportyjabandoned.in the struggle. , . FIERY RUIN.. ,

A (3 RAND OID UHMliUO.

A Fearful Oonflagration ' at Lynchburg, Va., Accompanied by a Horror. A clerk in the establishment of Jones, Watts A Co., Lynchburg, the largest dealers in hardware in Virginia, was sent do wii cells)! after some article, and lighted a piece ot paper, which he thoughtlessly throw upon the floor near a barrel of olL Tbe liquid became ignited, and in a few minutes the whole building, an immense iron-front structure, was in Haines. The- tiro spread with such rapidity that not a book or papot- could bo saved, and several of tho clout's found it difficult to escape from the burning building. Before any effort could be made to chock the progress of tho flames the building adjoining, occupied by the Virginian newspaper and the Commercial Dank, caught fire, and was soon completely gutted. All the vapors and money, of the bank were saved, hut everything appertaining to the Virginian job and newspaper establishment destroyed, The fire then consumed Beveral small buildings in the rear of the Virginian office, and found its way to the large tobacco factory of Flood A Feter. This building was very old, and burned with such ferocity that the flames extended across the street and completely destroyed two small dwell, tog-houses. The (lie was got undor control after raging two horns and destroying property to the amount of over 831)0,00(1 After Hie -tire was under control, six men took a bote into the ruins of the Virginiip building to pliry upon the burning embers. They had been there but a short time whon tho walls were seen to tremblo, and before the men could regain the street live of them were completely buried beneath tho ponderous weight. The sixth man wai knocked down, but escaped without serious injury. Not le-ss than 6,000 spectators witnessed this terrible accident. , i The City ConmcD held ameeting and passed a resolution of respect to the dead, and calling upon the citizens to suspend business and attend the funeral The Council also made arrangements for tho erection of a monument, over their graves. Business was practically suspended all day, and the oity was in geat gloom over the tragideath of the live per.-onH.

FOOD FOR FISHES.

Seven Men Drowned in Boston Harbor. A telegram from Boston says: As tho tug C. H. Herzoy was coming up the harbor this evening, two men were seen in the wajer, one dinging to an empty beer-keg and the other'to an oar. They were taken on board, and found to he loo drunk to give an inlellfgiblo story for some lime. When they liad got partly sobered oft Uiov told a pitiful tale. ' Thy, with six others, had started in tho schooner-yacht Skylark from South Boston to attend th ) boat-race at the Point of lines. After the postponement they started home, and in a uall wore capsized, and the other, six' men were drowneft The men lost were: David Butler, Matthew Kennedy, Jaiuej Wo id, James Cleary, .diehard O Brien, one unknown man, . In a regatta- of the Konlh Boston Yacht Club a small boat got In the way of the sloop Violet, and was run down. John Cauigan wai drowned and two other men thrown into the water, but rot e lied. FEARFUL EXVLOSIOKS.

BWije.

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Bursting of a Stoniu-fiage Coxslc en a Barge Probably Fatally Injures live Men Explosion of Gunpowder", (Boston Teloirram.l Boston-, Mass., Kay 30," The steam-gage cock on board-tho steambarge Androw Noster burst this at'twuoon on her way from the Point of Pinei, severely scalding John J. O'Leary, of Boston, and Edward Hurt, the engineer, who will probably die. Burt MeNamnvn, Henry Met 'arty, of East Boston, and Andrew Jlelutvre were also soverely eciudod, probably futility. IDispatchcB Krom tnebpc, Canada. I A frightful accident occurred atBotchuan, twenty miles bolow Point Esquimau. Kourteen men from the seal fishery were dividing two kogs of gunpowder In one of their houses Or.e was smoking, and a spark fell into tho powder. Tho house was blown to atoms, mid two men car.- i ;d about HKI yards. The entire par.y were badly burned, but none were killed outright. STOBY OP TWO OEOlUil.V JUDGES. Wo nr sorry to say that Judge Pate ao nepted a challenge from ex Judim Hawkins to try their luck in the si renin after eourj. adjourned. Court, clo cd after supper on Wednesday night and on Thursday nwruing at, :i o'clock, before it was good light, tlu-v starled to the creek. Tiioy had only moderate luck, but Judge I'm to gotbe.it. When their fish had buen put on the strings and they were ready to Mart. homo. Judge Pte was thinking how he could make il a "draw b'?t" with Judgn Hnwhins anil said: - Judge Hawkins, give m .-no or your fish ami I will have at many as you hove." 'N"," said Jielgo Hawkins, 'you give me one of join's and I'll have wioo us many as yon huvo." Now if you ui (oil how many iish each Judge hail, you can have one of t'npt. Martin's puzzles. Iawkiiicvillf IHijMt h. KxAflrnnATEi in tlio uit h-. by cats, a D11liu'iuo man went out on h s lioc porch, swung n heavy club to lot lly at them, er.ught ir in tho long mil of Ms n'giit shii-f., kiioo-.o.d bhn.-elf down the ntoiis a id broke his arm. Mn the following dav a m m in the fame city, wille absont-minde Uv triininiiig a tree, ? iwed oh' tne iinili t bat ho vvn sitting on, anil was half killed by the full A i-VEAH-oij) coloved boy living on Sabine river, in Texas, was pursuing a tarantula to kill jt with ft ilsiiiii.' -pole, when ihoonmnus in-'fi t sprung several ten, fasten njj its fangs in Ins right h md. from the oHeots o( whioh it ib icnght ho wi 1 die.

rho Opinion of a Snn Who Claims to Be Well Aoquaintiiil wirli the uU' Slioain. Bermuda Currenpoiiitonoo New fork Tlinos.1 The Gulf stream is ono of wy old acquaintances, and I propose to have something to nay about it. I have mot it in tho Yncatati channel, ho-vo rVromen adod with it in it great circle around tho Gulf of Mexico, Mvo gono with it through tho Ilaliama chnnnol, followed it np ptiiallol with tho Florida coast, and havo boon bui'ctcd and sickened by it in mid-ocean, so I know it pretty well; and I have very littlo hesitation ili sityihg that tho Gulf stvonm is a grand' old .humltng: 'Jhat it is a current of- water running- through the ocean, just as a river runs across the land, nobody will uudevtakts to. deny. It is a very few degrees warmer than the rest of the ocean, and that is all. Those beautiful school-book stories about frozen ships coining down ont of the cold north, their rigging freighted with, ice, and floating into the Gulf stream, where tho ice instantly molted off and tho sailors plunged overboard to limber their joints, are just about as true as. a good many other school-book yarns. If the ships wont far enough south they would Btrike warm water, of coin-so, but tho gulf stream would not have much to do with it". The common longshore idea of tho gfilf stream is that' it is a 'vast current of warm, viator, ruunjug northward, covered with gulf wood, and darker anil dirtier than the rest' of the ocean. The exact truth is, no landsman aliro can tell when he is in tho gulf stream or when he is out of it. If you want to know when you're in it you havo to ask the Captain; and my private opinion is that half the Captains caii't tell it from the rest, of the ocean. The water is the snmo color as other water, and it sets slowly northward, or northeast, at the rate of two. or three or perhaps four miles an hour. -It is anywhere from 100 to 300 miles wide, and there aro occasional littlo sprigs of seaward floating in it. This is the gulf stream in a nutshell. Its position ii the ocean changes slightly, according to season, as I have been told by several experienced navigators, so that it is liable to be found most- any time from fifty -to 100 iniles out of its course. This is a piece of information not to be found in any textbook, and somo people may not believe it, bat Captains who are talcing thoir ships through the Gulf stream two or three times every month ought to know more about it, I firmly believe, than learned scientists ho stay at home and write about it from a safe distance of a thousand mile's Or so. "What is this Gnlf stream we hear so much about? Where does it come from and where does it go to?" one of our company of passengers asked me. This was a stiekcr. We all know what it is, or think wo do. But where it cornea from- or whore it goes, is not so easy to tell. 80 1 went to tlio great source of all accurate and interesting information, and asked the Captain. "There's a good deal of humbug about it," said Capt. Proser. "It was oiice believed that the warm water burst out of an immense hot spring, but that, you see, would take a spring about the size of half the globe. It looks clear enough to me where the water comes from. The water of the Amazon and the other

' great Bouth American rivers lieing warmed by the equatorial sun is almost j hot. These rivers aro constantly pour- ! ing a vast body of water into the ocean, ; and this .water, helped along by ono of the unexplainable ocean currents, swashes around the borders of the Gulf 1 of Mexico and makes the celebrated i Gulf stream. The amount of water in i the stream v. ries at different seasons, just about as much, I imagiue, as the j body of water varies in these great- hot

rivers. Why lie Could Not Dance. "Heaven help mel"

Keino McCloskey looked up with a startled expression in her deep, fawn-

like eves as these words reached, her,

, and as her glance met that of George j W. Simpson she saw, ' or fancied that

she did, a look of Haunting fear ami

nameless terror pass over bus face, while the hand that held her own

seemed to tremblo slightly, and tho

nnely-oluseled lips quivered as if ui pain. "You are ill," she said, placing hor baud upon his arm and looking ul wist

fully at the face of the uuut she loved

so well. For au instant George did not reply.

Then, bending tenderly over her until his lips wero almost touched by the

coronal ot sunny hair that hor lamer

had agreed to pay for next month, he kissed the fair white brow that was Up

turned to him. "You love me, sweetheart?" he asked. ' "Belter than life," replied this girl,

drawing still closer to him and btroking with a gentle touch his hajnlsomo face, which was hot and fovorish "but you are really not well. -Let us go mto the conservatory, where the air is purer." "No," said George, "let me sit hero beside you for a few moments. ou have said that you love jne, Heine. Is that love the mero ephemeral pasiou of a girlish fancy, or is it a true, deep, .holy all'eetion that will go on and ou forever and ever, each day that dies on the horizon's purple rinr making it more steadfast and abiding?" For answer she placed her hand again within his own, and as she looked up to him ho sow that the beautiful brown eyes were suffused with tears. "You are cruel to ever doubt my lovo, darling," she said between tho sobs that made 'her words sound iike cider coming out of a jug "far more cruel than you know. JS'o matter what betides I shall always lovo you, and your smiles aud oar, sses' be ever to mo as tho gentle dew that kisen into new life tho parched and withered flowers of uu August day. Nothing in tho wide, wide world Van ever shake that love,", "Not even misfortune, or a 1 attar disappointment?" he asks. "Nothing!" exclaims the girl. But why do you ask?" and her ruddy cheeks become ashen with a tsuddon fear. "What has happened?" "Be brave, niv precious one," he murmurs, while Heine fits there in silence.

! every feature straim-d i iu.tfc'JViu agony,

awuitvug his next words. "We are engaged for the next dance, I believe, " ho says. "Yes," is the, answer. "It is the racquet?" "It is." "I c.mnot dnno with you, my darling." "Why?'' she asks, rising from the fauteuil, and looking at him in ghastly horror.' '"lleoauso," ho replies, in low, agonized tones, "yon have stepped oh my corn." Chicago Tribune. A New Invention. The latest idea in the ay of preventing the abuse of tho telephone ly nonsubscribers is that of tho photograph. Tho arrangement is siieh that when anyone calls the i-xclmt'gi1 (hero ia o.-posi-d to the view of the operator an instantaneous photograph of (he person calling. Tho photograph becomes a record, each ribbon on which they are displayed being capable of producing, when bought into action, 250 photographs. According to a system devised, these ribbons are chocked up, and tho

I subscriber is charged so much for each

person using not ontit led to its use. To the subscriber this will afford a

great relief, in that the exchanges will j givo them a bettor service, as the tele- '

j phone is Bunposod tn lie s noly for the : ' use of the party paying for it, ai:l not ; ' for thoe who do not possess one. This i

invention is looked upon as being away out of the serious annoyances arising

from the inordinate demands on the service by those who are not olaimauts for good work, as by reducing them to

a minimum the cost is lessened and tho '

A.-rvien in lirhtnorl "Provision nlwnva I

will he made lor tiioso-who want to pay for telephonic communication. EleCtrirul Hi-view. . . -

FARM NOTES.

The Effect of Unnsnal Air Pressure. I elinibod down kito 'tho tuiipel nndor the H nelson river through whioTi the railroad trains of the next dooade aro to run. The air-loek through which the Vimtor mut pass before reaching tho workmetf is eo different from all other places in tho .world as to merit a brief clqsCripUoiiH i In a well out tire shore I climbed down a ladder twenty feet or so, aud there found, lying portly concealed in the earth, a sort of hogshead mod of boiler-iron half an inch thick. As I was looking at the uncanny thing one eud of it mysteriously. opened aud swung inward, and a goblin voice said "Crawl in." I silently obeved, a.nd the iron door quickly oloseoV behind me. I found myself with another human being, who was attired in rubber as I was, and who had a candle.. "lteady!".he said, and turned a lover at his 'side. The inside of tho little tub in which we oroucheiV was filled with the most doafentng whistlo I over heard. I know tliathe was pow filling the chamber with compressed air. Presently it began to press upon my eyes, nose, throat 'and especially my ears, whose- drums seemed pierced as with pins. The eandle went out, and wo were left iu total darkness. The shriek increased. The pressure became very painful. I touched the arm -of the engineer ; in fact, -I could not help touching it, and he -reversed the lever for a moment to relieve the pressure, presently turning it on again with the unearthly' yell. The sensation was strange. Crouched in an iron tub with a stranger, in total darkness, under thfi earth, under tho ri ver for ought I knew) apparently flying somewhere at the rate of 500 miles a minute, feeling a terrible pressure on my eyes aud ears, hot as Tophet, submerged, in a bewildering scream, and at the mercy 'df levers and mechanism of which I knew nothingit was very much as I once felt when up in a balloon. I,t seemed half au hour that(I was in there was, BcnreA-oi eight minutes, probably, when the whistle suddenly faded awav, the intier door opened, and we orawled out into candle light tho top of another well that went -. down thirty feet further,. Down this we. climbed, and there were a score' or two of men building the brick shell of tho tunnel. ' The air 'is

about three atmospheres "thick," so to speak, and it is sufficient to keep the. water back, so that the. mea can dig uninterruptedly in tho black mud. 1 the air pressure were withdrawn for a minute the river would rush iu and drown the whole party. Great care is observed and they ore not afraid. Moreover, they seem comfortable and eoateuti-d in there, aud the contractor is not required to pay any advance on ; ordinary wages $4 a day or so. They ; come in and go out by tbe air-lock every day, but do not mind it. This is the most duTicult part of the river direotly under the great steamers lying ' at the wharves. Jtfeu York Corres-, pondent. ! The Oilier Sort f Swindler. There wero six or eight of us in the smoking-car as the train was running down to West jPoint from Atlanta, and everything was lovely until the seventh man got on at a Email station. He had no sooner entered the car than ho looked fixedly at the man who had . been telling us snake stories, and directly ho walked up to him and called out: ! "Hal vou Sfernal swindler. I've'

fouud you at last!" "Who's a swindler?" ,. "You are!"

"1 never saw you before!" ' "You're a liar, aud I'm going to pound S18 worth of cash out of you i" It was presently discovered that he recognized the snako story man as a fruit-tree agent who had sold him some grape vines which did not show up, and he was spitting on his hands and making roady to do the pounding, when the other remarked: - . . ' "My dear fellow, I insist upon-ii; that you are mistaken. I was ne ver in 'the fruit-tree business, aud I never ewuv'; died you out of $18," ' ' "I say you did." ..-!- I ."Never! Instead of swindling you out of $18 on grape vines, I am tho' man who charged, you $10 too much for a Ke.wiug machine, . and here's your money 1" ' , , , "Well, now, come to look more closely at you, I lielieve you're rjght," . said the seventh man. ' ! "Of course I'm right," growled 'the' other, as ho counted out the money, "and I warn you to be .a little more careful in future. I have a reputation to sustain, and grape-vine swindles are. not in" in v line'. . Here's your $16, and

now 1 think you ougut to apologize i M. Quad. Our First Great Writer.

To this period, between " the years 1789 and 1815, Washington Irving, our, first emment name in literature, be' longs. This is not the 'place to enter j into an analysis of Irving's genius, but it may be fairly said that, while in feel- j ing he was a thorough American, in lit-, erature he was a cosmopolitan. His eaiy style, tho tingo of romance, and the mingling of the story-teller and the antiquarian reminds us of his great contemporary, Walter Scott. In his. quiet humor and gentle satire, we taste the flavor of Addison. Iu the charm-' ing legends with which ho has Conse- s crated tho beauties of the Hudson ; river valley, and thrown over thati beautiful region tho warm light of his imagination, we And the-genuine loyej of country and of home. In like num? j nor we perceive his hisforical taste and) his patiiet'sm in the last work of his ( life, the biography of his great namesake. But ho wrought as well with the romance of Kpaiu and of Kngland. He was too great to be colonial ; lie did not , find enough food for his imagination in : the America of that day to bo thor-! oughly American. He stands apart, a ', groat "gift from America to English lit-1 erature, but not 11 type of American lit-' eraturo itself. He' had imitators and , friends, whom it has been the fashion ! to c all a school, bnt he founded no : school, and died as he hod lived, alone. Ho broke through the narrow trammels ' of colonialism himself, but the oolouial i spirit hung just as heavily upon tho ' feeble literature about him. AtlantiO ', Monthlit. j lie Knew Ilow It Was Himself. j "Mother," sn:d IJiukley's boy 01 he : ran into the hoiwe yesterday, ''brother : said 8'itue bad words-- the worst you ever heard -worse than father said! when the e.ilf kicked him." "Well, I'll attend to him. I'll lock him up iu the dark closet whera-l put : von the other dav when you sawed the j cat's tail off." " Don't do that, mother. Dou't put : him iu that elosel. There is a jar of i preserves on the ton stte'f, and he can I

reach it, and it will make him siek if ho eais t mueh of it, and don't you forget it." 7'c-ra tiifiinys. Farmkiis in tho United States havo tMi!,:JUi,S"i:M!fcl of capital invested in I heir business. This sum inclndi's

fiii'iiis, implement-!, live stock, fertdisiors 1 and fem es. I

As fluowTE with tho calvos is a greater object than ifat, a food that wijl produce muscle and bone is more desirable than ono which produces flesh. Therefore oats and bran are esteemed a better food for growing calves -than corn and bran Chicaqo Journal. A coBKESPCWDEfT of the PrairieFarmer seekH to discourage orohard-'. bits from v-raotising top-grafting, for the reason that cutting out nearly onehalf -of tho top seriously injures the vitality of the tree. He thinks, however, that in ease of very young trees ' this method of grafting might be beneficial. Thk old-fashioned idea that exposing '; stock, to the eold winter hardened them had at least this basis of truth : It took off tho soft spots, aud left only the bones and skin. Besides it destroyed tlio loss hardy animals, and, though often stunting tire growth of those that lived, they had generally a capacity for enduring cold. The small shaggy Shetland ponies aro examples of what this method will do for horses; but this is a direction in which few horsemen will wish to breed. Tn'K commonly-received advice to orehardists to scrape the rough bark from tho old apple-trees has been contradicted, somo having tried it and concluded that, the practice did more barm than good. The rough bark is a protection to the tree from sudden: changes of temperature. The benefit often claimed from 1 craping the trees comes from the great attention paid to them in other respects by those who take this trouble. Whitewashing appletrees is equally ineffectual for good. - It is marvelous how sheep awl woolgrowing have increased in this country within the past fifteen or twenty years. In I860 there were only about 23.000,-

000 sheep in the United States. We,

now Have nearly Du.wo.uuu. in 1S6U the wool qlipped amounted to only 60,000,000 pounds ; to-day it is nearly 300,000,000 pounds an increase within this period of over two-fold of sheep and five-fold in the . production of wool, giving' unmistakable evidence of our advance in this industry. If farmers will cultivate Well and without waste, if they will so build that their houaeb wall, be warm in winter and cool in summer, if they will plant trees and beautify their homes, if they will occupy their leisure in reading, id thinking, in improving their minds, and in devising ways and means to make their business profitable and pleasant, if they wil live nearer together and cultivate sociability, if they will come together" often, if- they will have reading rooms and cultivate musio, if they will have bath rooms, ice-houses and good gardens, if their wives can have an easy time, if tho nights can be taken for sleep and the evenings for enjoyment, everyliody will bo in love with the fields. Happiueas should be the object of life, and if life on the farm can be mode really happy, tho children will grow up in love with tho meadows, tbe streams, the woods and thb old home. Around- the farm will cling aud cluster -tho happy memories' of tho delightful years. The invention of underground drainage has been claimed as English. They cannot even claim priority in the use of tile. It dates back to the days of tho monks in France of wliich ino history of the time when it wns laid is given, unless it may yet be found iu monkish records. To tho English, however, is

due the elaboration of a system ending in tho abnost universal adoption of

porous pipes, and within the last fifty

years to a uigii man; 01 peneciuon, ra engineering, mechanical appliances, exactness of the work, and great excellence iu the manufacture of tile. Iu no country, perhaps, has so" strong an imnetus been given as within the last

few years in the West. And ' now that . , 1 r .il r 1 1

tue economical perxeevnu vi snapo ints been readied in rottud tile, both as to its outer surfaco and its caliber, there is no reason why, through tho mtdtiplication of manuf actories of tile, any person having a soil not naturally well drained, when the improvement of the crops raised will more than pay the annual interest on the capitalized cost of drainage, should hesitate to use them. We repeat, none such should hesitate to undertake drainage in a more or loss thorough manner, poa proper survey of the particular requirements of the soil for the intended crops, s "Ampere," in Breeder's Gazette. . Fouiowixa is ah account of anew systom of training vicious horses that was exhibited at West Philadelphia and the manner in whioh some of the wildest horses were subdued was astonishing. The first trjal was that of a Woking or ! "balking" mare which her owner said had allowed no rider on her back for a period of at least five years. She became tame in about as many minutes, aud allowed herself to be ridden about without a s'gu of hor former wildness. The means by which the result was accomplished was a piece of light rope, which was passed around the front jaw of the mare Just above the upper teeth, crossed in her mouth, thence secured book of her neck. It is claimed that no horse will kick or jump when, thus secured, and that a horse after receiving ihe treatment: a few times, will abandon his vicious ways forever. A very Simple method was also shown try whioh a kicking horse could be shoo. It consisted iu connecting the animal's head and tail by mean of a rope fastened to the tail and then to the bit, and then drawn tightly enough to incline the animal's head to one side. This, it is claimed, makes it absolutely impossible for a horse to kick on the side of the-rope. At the same exhibition horse, which for many years had to be bound on the ground to be shod, suffered the blacksmith to operate on him without attempting to kick while secured in the manner described. DOMESTIC KEC1PES.

A Tempting Dish. A nice dish for 'the supper of a convalescent is made by toasting two thin slices of bread; flatten and soften the crust by pounding it a little; butter the toast while hot, put" one slice on a warm plate and spread over it a thin layer of cooked ohieken, chopped or eut mto small bits; season with 1 topper aud salt, add a soft boiled egg, then lay the ether slice of toast oVer it. A wood authority on all matters pertaining to the table says that a toothsome salad can be prepared at any time during tho whiter if you have a supply of turnips in the collar and the turnips sprout well, as they often do, especially if the cellar is dark and warm. They (the sprouts) should be plunged iu hot water a moment and then, in cold. Let them drain thoroughly; then send them to tho table with Aho plain salad dressing or with mayonnoi snueo. Baked Titunti's, Fare and cook until nearly tender in salted boiling water; drain and lay in a baking dish, and pour over them a sanee made 08 follows: Two large table-spoonfuls of butter and two heaping table-epoonfuls of flour, stirred together in a skillet; when thoroughly heated and mixed odd a teaoupful of milk, stirring in gradual

ly with a little pepper aud salt; add little bits of broken butter over the top of tho turnips. When you have poured on the sauce boko in a brisk oven

twenty minutes. A Nick, Dkmoate Pnunnto. A deli cato pudding is made of three table'

spoonfuls of cornstarch dissolved in a littlo ool4 water. Have ope pint of

water briiflg" -the stove; in fait the corn-starch and thfe well-beaten

whites of three eggs; let it bo uw oneo; pour it into an earthen nnddnu'?'

dish which will hold three pints;. nte4$:

tne puacuug iur wu nuuuiee. i-or tne sauce use the yelk of three eggs, one cupful of s vtiet inilk and a pieoo of but

tor; boil for a few minutes; When coot,' flavor with lemon or vanilla. ThMad-;

ding should be eaten colli, ' i 'T Eoo Bails. During the. .jie when eggs are so much; used, it rnji afford variety to serve some of them, in . . . . . . . . n m

soup in tne loiiowuig way; Jtwu iour eggs hard, say for ten minutes, thatput them iu cold water; when, eoldvpui the yelk soft with the velk of one raw

egg and one teaspoonful of flour ;.adtfe pepper aud salt -and some bits of ;ptl8ley; Make in the lehapd of baihtnaU drop themin the noup; let thora boil? for about two minutes' 1 Tbe' W-hitOBTolr" the eggs can be used- td garnish a plWtor of cold moat for RnTH)er,'n?:jriay be-

chopped fine and added to tbe Roup." "

. Lemon jelly, to be . spread , .betwpnj layers of cake or on the top 6f sage "of

custard pudding, is made by jgrating"

n una, 01 two tenons ana squeezing ont the juice; add a heaping cup of sugar, a table-spoonful of butter. Stir these together, and then add Caree egg beaten very light; set the basin or lit tie pail in which, you have this iu another of boiling water; stir it constantly iu$! it thickens. When it is cold it is ready.; for use. '' A vert delicate and easily-prepWied dessert can be made of chocolate, and as almost all persons are extremAlyfond of chocolate, it is very safe. Take one and a half pints of milk, three squares of baker's chocolate grated ia milk ; let it come to a boil. When cool -add the yelks of three eggs, three tatile-

spoonfuls of corn starch,: one cujp.of'' sugar; prepare the whites of eggs.iiritti ' sugar for frosting, brown Ukly'aBiv serve cold. "

nnub

ffllOK

Wen Tbe Bet. "No, sir," said a man, who had arraigned bef ore n court, "havirlg

arrested on account of drunkenness. "I

never intended' to get drunk aahC

"X suppose not," replied; tbejudga I don't suppose that any man intends to make a beast of himself. No we, he,"'' in trying to offer excuses; There it ni excuse for drunkenness. Don't ssv fiiat

you met a convivial party, anil conhii

not get away. Don't say that you drnk;t

to drown sorrow, .voni say anyt

sir, but quietly snDmit to tue une I shall impose upon you.1' .1'

J udge, were you ever drunt i "That makes no difference, tmixitm

move me to sympathy ia that way." 9

n you Hau. over uwu, m anxuung man, I would bet you $10. .that you

3 LA. .l t .

womu nof line me aitec Hearing nry. timony." ..,&

"I was once a drunkard," the Xpi .XrO.-l U Tll l-.V. 1. 1,1.1- '

Alt?ight,t Sbine tune-ago! Io i solemn oath that I would' never drink again. I was firm; Icotddpotblia-. fluenced. A gentleman presented'. AM With a flask of very fine whisky, BeYI took rt home, but never drank a drop of it. I bought a qruirt of braudyyarWLdid rot taste it: I withstood all of hee temptations, and during the time -my-determination grew stronger, buUbMlrr . I fell." " "You have lost the bet-, exclaimed the Judge, "and I shall fine you. f, ,. "Hold on! I withstood, you unde stand, temptation,. but just fcsVT eoW-

cludtd that I was perfectly tp, 1 found a -bottle of whisky where tiom1 fellow had hidden it. Now, sh 7wiMii' to know if there is a man m 'tbw eourt. room who could refrain fromErhnabi when he finds a bottle?" " .-

(111. . T 1 A 1. 1 - .1 .

Alio i uugu brcuiuosu. . "I want to know, your HOiibr,' ' if there is a man anywhere who - raid suddenly slipup on a bottle "!$ oot drink?" ' st-".-i '

The Judge shook.' :-... "5t,--"A man may even be Bati 'tVom; country dance' after flddle-Mriiig -aba come back sober, but when ho gete. back and finds a bottle sitting m the corner of the fence, covered b in right piece of bark and aa.ohl baokbaud, won't he drink?" .'" i,-iSei.-Tho J udge quaked. .- - . 1 it "This is my excuse, your HoacfnoT T linnn vnn will take m nonmrile 'vfaW-ioft

the matter." '': : '' "Young man," said the Judgej, fit A . tremulous voice, "let me toUyouHnt$ yot r excuse: ovoraomee me. when I was a young man, I joined- the temper-' ance cause aud soon.became known as' one of its leaders in Arkansaw. , jfeaete! thrilling speeches, and brought BtSavj'S'-' man to the altar of sobriety. Xyd:neVcr tasted a drop of the vile stuitliATing' been born its enemy, and ray iMuenoe ' was great. One night, while' goirig to keep an appointment, my stirrup leath-: er broke and, while trying seBures

strip of hickory bark mthe irtod . , , . 1 , 1 . -rk ' 21.

iouna a. oopienear m sree, -j-i

ana iookoO) ai .. x wen bo find myself so o'ose to thp 1 don't know why. but I turni

bottle and took a long pull, I.

my horse and pulled again and

Anout an nour srwrwara j. wkuuu mi

the church swmguxg a stirrup Jd y injr like a tfanther. I eut Baldlieei

man ou the summit of th erwhun.t Fired By deviltry, I rolled tbe lbstm away from the door, climbed in: at" the window and drove the. eongregatooti People tumbled over each othsr in.

shameful manner, and? baMheads

gleamed in .the moonlight, Aftur tbia I reformed, and did hot take another drink unta about tbjrM,'waa4pt' when I found another bottle. J3t was' alcohol, butl.gulpedit dpwntl eiM't . help it You have woa the bet Here's your flO." Arkantim TtvniiUiri'i. . . How They Danes i Italy. ' In Italy, when the oountry rosa and:'

women dance together, the flr Vtm' they do is to toss off their shoes, ifahejt wear any. A man does not (rifrfif? girl and ask if she will dawga, SfAW fixes bis eye upon her from da'Auoa and uods. She nods in return, and then both kick of! their shces audfirili vanoe toward each other-end fcngmMn dance. The dance, besides ;being incessant up-and-down e steps, represents also quite a little love drain, un gestures, and tine success of the danoe depends on tho olevernoes of the dadeer to express this mimie ficene. Tim man courts, pleads, lieseeches, rung kftsi his dancer, tries to clasp' her waist kiss her all the time no is donom?. without ever piiusing. The girL of oourse, denies, laughs, shakos her hefe, ami escapes her partner, .ill 4.1aat, the donee finished, she ruehee to 4tef place and resumea he shoes. 1 I-, ' -" Twin ihwltoS. -;'.u '1 Nearly all the great stotesmea of-Me present day can look,hakHo.tlie,iima when they would rather "stand in,ffer . mud and water up to their kutfee (e fish for bull-heads than help plant ipwi ' tatoesin the best garden iu the oounS try. Even tho best kiad of a boy, )Wio is willing to work like major at-ttuj other season of the year, wefme tehav fk rAii.fit1 f-'nl I ;,,rv . , . all iA

Ifllov in flin eivi-ifr llnf. HnmcllA aa.

the boy grow?, up to manhood, and iinri:v ' iia a lw-iv of his own. and a

garden that demand attention; then it seems t! at whoa he wanta hk boy to, help in the garden," and fifteen utes later finds him iu tha slreet plsy ; ing marbles, he iorget how it asW he was a boy hmisolf, and M'f ' with liia boy with a hoe-hsndle, !TCws ever tluVH- r&U? Sun,