Decatur Democrat, Volume 25, Number 27, Decatur, Adams County, 7 October 1881 — Page 1

VOLUME XXV

THE NEWS IN BRIEF. Vermont baa her first presidential son. Sixty-three farmers, English and others, have sailed from Liverpool for Texas. Haitian will row Ross for SI,OOO a side, on the loth of November, at Toronto. Professor James P. White, president of the faculty of the medical department of the university of Buffalo, is dead. A Glouscester, Mass., dispatch says the schooner Guy Cunninghan, with fourteen fishermen on board, is supposed to be lost. Keenan, the murderer of the French Canadian Hensley, has been sentenced to be hanged in Chicago Friday, November 18. Lincoln was shot on the anniversary of the fall of Fort Sumter, and Garfield died on the anniversary of the battle of Chickamauga. Tlie furniture warehouse of J. M Robinson & Sons, on Lake street, Elmira, New York, burned. Loss over $100,000; insurance, $60,000. Gold memorial medals are to be issued from the United States mint at Philadelphia, on one side a medallion of Garfield, and on the other Lincoln. The committee considering the project of a world’s fair at Boston agree to come to a decision in two weeks hence as to the expediency of holding the fair. Negotiations between Germany and the Vatican have further resulted in an agreement that Kopp shall be installed as bishop of Hildesheim, in Hanover. The anti-Nihilist secret league, of St. Petersburg, has fallen through. The large sums collected have been wasted, and no prominent conspirator has been arrested. A London telegram says that the queen of England desires to originate a subscription for the purpose of placing a statue of Garfield in the Capitol at Washington. The czar has issued a ukase authorizing the construction of a canal to connect the rivers flowing into the , ■ White sea with the Volga and those flowing into the Baltic. Treasurer Worcester, of the Lake Shore road, denies that there will be any consolidation of the Michigan s Central with the Lake Shore & Michigan Southern railroad. John Boyd, a middleaged man, who was bitten by a spitz dog some months ago in Chicago, was seized with hydrophobia of the most malignant type, and died in great agonv. The confederate veterans of the I Shanandoah valley, accompanied by ‘ a band of the Stonewall brigade, were ■ cordially received and entertained by the Grand Army of the Republic at Carlisle, Pa. A Berlin dispatch says: Before Von Schloeser permanently quits Washington he wilt endeavor to negotiate a new agreement respecting tlie naturalization and extradition of Polish emigrants to America. The Irish bishops in resolutions . adopted by them at Maynooth college, ■ exhort their flock to avail themselves f of the advantages of the land act, and I every other means in their power to f improve the condition of laborers. The East Tennessee & Virginia & Georgia railroad company, the | Norfolk A Western, and the Shenan- » doah Valiev railroad companies have I consolidated under the name of the ‘ Virginia, Tennessee & Georgia line. The London Standard says in its | financial article that the revived interest in the confederate sterling loan was the novel feature yesterday. | Large amounts were taken for t Amsterdam at 2 pounds 10 sterling. Governor W. F. N. Arny, of New | Mexico, died at Topeka, Kan., a few g- days ago. He was on his way from I Washington to his home in New I Mexico, and, feeling unwell and f much fatigued by the trip, stopped I over at Tojieka. A dispatch from Paris says there is H an impression that France desires to * force a treaty on tlie king of Tonquin 9 and that there Will be a repetition of the Tunis affair there. Such a course would be very likely to involve a rupture with China. Fofty landed pioprietors and land B arents in county Carlaw, Ireland, pissed resolutions declaring it their intention to give effect to the land bill in a spirit friendly to tenants, and I asking their co-operation in re establishing confidence and good feeling. Russia, Germany and Austria have addressed a note to the Swiss governI nieiit, asking it to forbid th.- universal E congress of socialists at Berne. Mean- | while, as a counter-stroke, the socialBists seem to have circulated a report 9 that the congress will not take i» aca. I An attempt was made to blow up MKcaotaill Thomas Lloyd at Pallas WGreen, county Limerick, Ireland. ’ Tlie residence wa.- occupied at the time by Captain Lloyd and seventeen Memergency men ami police. One side * of the building was shattered by dy’"’nan'ite. Nobody injured. The Loudon Times publishes a draft cf the Scottish land bill prepared by the Scottish chamber of agriculture, and says it is one of the most farleaching measures on the land question ever submitted to parliament. It makes the strictest provision relative to compensation for improvement. A dispatch from Rome says the destruction caused by the earthquake in Abruzzi far exceeds anything indicated by first reports. The archbishop <>f Chie'ti appeals piteously for help. He says the disaster isonly comparable with that of Casamacc data. Over 1,000 houses are uninhabitable, and the remainder more or less fissured. Four-fifths of the population are shelterless. Captain Meyer, of the German I schooner Phoenix at Callao, reports t ' having discovered a new island about * 100 miles west of Puntagdj, the near■k est land. It is said to be of volcanic M origin, is about fifty feet high at the I highest elevation, one mile long and |. one mile wide. Her British majesty s I ship Kingfisher, the United States I schooner Alaska and the £ hihan I transport Chili have gone to verify | this new addition to the geography of I the world. The German ship Hugo burned on ■ the South Pacific August 9. Tr long boat with Captain Carpenter and I wven men- arrived at Chiloe, Chili, I having made SOO miles in nine days ■ Thev suffered terribly from want of I food and water. Two boats with the I rest of the crew have not been heard from. After parting with the capI tain's boat one man died in the latter I £fore reaching Chiloe. The Hugo I was 1,272 tons, bound from New ( astle I to San Francisco.

The Decatur Democrat.

TELEGRAPHIC. Dunkirk, 0., September 30.- A few days ago a couple of young men of this place, named Jerome and Harry Kibler, killed a man at Findlay, O. Marshal E. F. Shuee has been after them hotly, and was out last night watching for them. During the evening three Stangers were noticedin town, and the marshal kept an eye on them. About one o’clock this morning lie noticed them under suspicious circumstances, trying to get into a grocery. They saw him coming and walked down to the r ilroad where he overtook them. Nothing definite is known as to what took place there. Parties near by heard a scuttling, and then a shot fired, followed by groans from the marshal and the noise of the men running down the track. He was shot in the back of the neck, the ball ranging down through the bowels. He lived but a few minutes. The revolver was held close to his neck, burning his coat and the flesh. Five hundred dollars reward is offered for the arrest of the murderers. San Francisco, September 30.— Last fall the appearance of a finely executed counterfeit $lO piece was noticed in this city and Sacramento. The queer coins were made of Babbitt metal and lead and were electro-* plated. Other than being a trifle light they- were undistinguishable from genuine eagles, and were more than usually dangerous productions. The cities mentioned were soon flooded with several thousand dollars worth of the queer, small tradesmen being the principal sufferers. The detectives, after monthis of labor, arrested a woman named Antoinette Lawson to-day while attempting to pass one of the counterfeits. Several other base pieces were found on a man named Lawler in jail awaiting trial for making counterfeits. Louisville, September 30.—The first race, % mile, was won by Perplex ; Wendover, second; Jim Farrell, third. Time, Second race, stallion stakes, 1 3 4 mile; Bootjack, first; Granger, second; Oakleaf, third. Time, 3:14 Third race, I>3 miles; Fellowplay, first: Hegiaz, second; Mammonist, third. Time, 2:02.

Last race, 1 mile; Belle of Highlands, first; Pride, second; Hegiaz, third. Time, 1:46%. Little Brown Jug did not attempt to beat the record of Maud S at the fair to-day, owing to the stiff' wind, but paced a i exhibition mile with a running mate in 2:12. New York, September 30.—Tobacco manufacturers have been informed by the United States authorities that they are infringing on the law by placing scrip in their packages, as prizes. The manufacturers thereupon willingly surrendered the scrip and plates from which it was printed. Tucson, September 30.—A special from Don Carlos says: Capt. Bernard, of the First cavalry, has been appointed provost marshal of prisoners. The work of Christianizing the Indians seems to be far off. Yesterday, a son of Saco, formerly the war chief of Victoria, died, aud he applied today for permission to kill a squaw who is charged with bewitching him. The permission was denied. The surrendered hostiles of Sonchez and the other bands number sixty bucks, seventy-three squaws and sev-enty-six children. Judge Advocate General Egbert is to ascertain whether the renegades can be tried by military commission. An officer of General Carr’s command reports that when they returned to Cebicue they found the Indians had exhumed the bodies of Captain He;, tig and the soldiers killed there. The dead men had been buried in canvas tents which the Indians have carried oft', but left certain articles they did not want. Captain Hentig’s head was mashed with large stones and badly mutilated, and one hand and foot was gone. Tlie command buried the remainder and fired a salute. One tent has been found here occupied by an Indian who is believed to be the real murderer of Captain Hentig. He will be arrested. According to the United States census, the White Mountain tribes number 362 bucks, and 1,171 women and children; acres of land worked, 447; medicinemen, 7; farmers, 108; Indians police, 3; in the United States military’ service, 45.

New York, October 3.—Policeman Peter Nugent shot dead to-day a man named Baxter, who had broken away from him and mounted a high rock, and from which he was about to hurl a stone at the officer. Utica, October 3.—The writer of the letter said to contain threats of assassination against Senator Conkling has been discovered and interviewed by a represenative of the Observer. He is Henry J. Rowley, of the second ward of Utica, who has been a Republican speaker, and who offered strong Garfield sympathy resolutions at the late ward caucus, whiph received two votes only,a more moderate resolution offered by a stalwart being adopted. Rowley has no particular occupation, but says he formerly kept hotel in Canestota, where he employed D. H. Johnson, (not Jackson,) now of No. 14 South street, New York, to whom the letter was written. Rowley’s letter contained an expression of hope that somebody would put a bullet through Conkling ifhe attempted to enier tiie Republican state convention. A dispatch has been sentto Police Commissioner Mason on behalf of Rowley, authorizing him to make the letter public. New York,October 3.—The French frigate Magicienne, Admiral Hailigan, and the French ram Dumont d’Urville, Capt. Paul De La Berrere, in company with the flag ship Tennessee and Vandalia and Yantic, proceeded down the bay this afternoon to the narrows to await the arrival of the steamships Canada and Herder with the guests invited by the goveanment to attend the Yorktown celebration. Both vessels are expected to arrive on Wednesday. The salutes fired early this morning at Staten island, and later at the navy yard, were in honor of the French naval officers, some of whom were making visits to the United States vessels in the harbor and to the commandant. The state committee to receive and entertain the foreign gues's have completed their arrangements. Rhode Island’s committee has arrived in town. The French and Germans will be entertained on an elaborate scale in Newport and Providence. London, Ont., October 3.—At the inquest on the five persons killed by collision on the Great Western railway Thursday, the jury returned a verdict of manslaughter against John Maxwell, conductor, and Richard Womsley, engim?er. of the excursion train, in having disobeyed the orders of the company. Maxwell has tied the country and Womsley was killed.

London, October 3.—A dispatch from Cork says: The great success of the day’s proceedings here, on the occasion of the public reception of Parnell, was the splendid display’ made by the trades. A phalanx of horsemen called the “Parnell Guards” brought up the rear of the procession, which was nearly two miles long. In some of the streets triumphal arches were erected. Father Sheehy spoke in favor of Irish independence, concluding by saying that he spoke to the people in the present great republic in the west. James Redpath said: America is watching with the intensest interest the heroic struggle for a free fatherland Parnell, speaking at the banquet, said T. P. O’Connor would leave for America next week, and he was glad of to-day’s demonstration, as O’Connor could report to the people of America that there was no lack of spirit in Ireland. • Dayton, October 3. —Wilbur Conover, one of the oldest and most popular attorneys of this city, died at his residence this morning, after a protracted illness. Conover was for many years the law partner of General R. C. Spencer in Dayton. Boston, October 3.—Rossi, the Italian tragedian, played to night before a large and brilliant audience. King Lear was his impersonation. Longfellow went behind the scenes and congratulated Rossi at the close of the fourth act. Lawrence, Mass., October 3.—lt is reported that a large deficit has been discovered in the funds of the Pawtucket navigation company, of which General B. F. Butler and M. Boynton are the principal controllers. Charleston, S. C., October 3.— This morning about 1,500 men, laborers on the wharf, draymen and cotton pre-s hands, struck for an advance of wages. Some employers immediately conceded the increase asked. New York, October 3.—The fund for Mrs. Garfield and family reaches $334,679.

New York, October 4.—The Historical society to-night, adopted resolutions sharing in the general grief which fills the hearts of all our countrymen and overspreads the great nations of the world at the death of General Garfield, and deplores the public loss of one so eminent in station and in character, of the great citizen and the great magistrate. Wm. M.’Evarts, in a brief tribute to General Garfield, said: “It is a very sad fact for us as representatives. [I speak of our representative form of government and not of party] that during the term of the great office which our constitution provides, four of our chief magistrates have died in office, two plagued to death by the importunities of officeseekers, and two slain by assassination, really incited by some cause—one under wild personal excitement growing out of greed for office. Let us consider whether this plague of patronage, the placeman’s pride, the statesman’s scandal and the nation's shame can not be averted.” Freehold, N. J., October 4—Justice Scudder, of the supreme court, in his address to the grand jury, referred to the case of Guiteau, and said: “It will not be advisable or necessary for you to take any action in the matter at the present time, unless we shall be notified that the prosecution and indictment of the offense in this county are required to prevent the failure of justice, which does not appear probable, according to the statement made by proper legal authority at Washington.” Annapolis, October 4.—Sunday night the fourth elassof cadets, newly entered in the naval academy, was hazed unmercifully. The members of the third class were suspected, and when the matter was investigated refused to divulge what they knew. To-day the whole class of fifty members was sent on board the Santee. They bad to take bedding and other articles, and will have to stay’ on board the ship until further orders, not being allowed to speak to each other. Cincinnati, October 4.—The rolling mills are gradually obtaining nonunion men to supply the place of strikers, who have been out all summer. Last Saturday twenty-cae men, ten puddlers and their helpers, were brought here and distributed between the Riverside rolling mill aud Globe mill No. 2. They seem well content, and the mills expect soon to obtain from other cities more non-union workmen, Los Vegas, October 4.—James A. Lewis, known as “Arizonia Bill,” an old government scout, was killed by Marshal Hatch. Lewis being intoxicated, boasted that he could run the town, aud, it is said, attempted to draw a revolver, when Hatch tired five shots, three passing through his body, the fourth lodging in his groin, and the fifth shot probably fatally wounded John Lutz, a bystander. New’ York, October 4.—The paying teller in Bushwick’s savings bank in Brooklyn, was arrested on a charge of taking $4,000 of the funds since January first, and concealed the fact by forgery and false entries. Inadequate salary is one reason assigned for the crime.

Chicago, October 4.—A man was found floating in the river to-day with his throat cut and other marks of ill usage. It is suspected he was robbed, murdered and thrown overboard. From papers found on his person hj vas supposed to be a Mr. Mclntosh, a cattle dealer of Milwaukee, Ohio. New York, October 4.—The police are searching for four ex-convicts, who are believed to be the persons who entered a squalid tenement on west Twenty-eighth street during the day and brutally assaulted an invalid mother and killed her baby, only fifteen days old, in the struggle. Chicago, October 4.—The fatality from “Pink-eyes” is increasing, and horsemen are seriouslv alarmed. The attack is frequently followed by lockjaw, and the disorder is becoming very obstinate. Cleveland, October 4. —The monumental fund committee announce that it has lithograph certificates ready to be issued to all persons who may contribute one or more dollars to the Garfield monument fund. Total amount contributed to date, $5,430. Cincinnati, October 4.—King Kalakua passed through the city to-night from Lexington, Ky., on his way to the west without stopping. Louisville, Ky., October 4.—A terrible tragedy occurred in Jeffersonville at 11 o’clock last night, Ed. McDermott, a notorious character, killing John Keef instantly and fatally wounding Barney McCardle. A reporter was at the scene of the tragedy soon after its occurrence and learned the following particulars: Ed. McDermott went into Barney Dietz’s saloon and got into an altercation with one Hal Duffey. Dietz drove him from the saloon and the fight was continued outside. McDer-

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i mott was drunk. Barney McCardle, aged twenty-two, came along and endeavored to make peace. McDermott, without saying a word, stabbed McCardle twice in the left breast. Duffey, with whom McDermott was fighting, then knocked McDermott down. About this time John Keef, a young man who lives in the neighborhood, came along and seing McDermott’s hat on the ground stooped down to pick it up and was about placing it on his head, when McDermott drew a large knifeand made a thrust at Keef s throat. The aim was good and the knife struck tlie jugular vein. Keef fell at the murderer’s feet and was soon a corpse. The police of Jeffersonville found McDermott upon the streets and took him to the station, but did not lock the door and he made his escape. At 12 o’clock, however, McDermott was again arrested and and lodged in jail. McCardle cannot recover. McDermott lives near the prison south. He is the son of McDermott who shot his wife and baby, and then committed suicide a few years since. Ed McDermott is one of the most desperate men in Jeffersonville. John Keef was a worthy and respected young man. San Francisco, October 4.—A dispatch from Tucson says advices received to-day show the fight yesterday on the road between Forts Grant and Thomas lasted four hours. The Indians were driven from their position among the rocks, retreating across Arivaisa valley towaTd the Goulvo mountains. One sergeant was killed and four men wounded. Indian loss not known. New Haven, October 4. —In the Malley trial to day Mrs. Catharine R. Malley testified that Janies Malley was at his father’s house Friday evening, August sth. Louisville, October 4.—First race, 1 mile; Windover, first; Pinafore, second; Dave Yandeli, third. Time, 1:53. Second race, ? 4 mile; Sportsman, first; Fatinilza, second; Pride, third. Time, 1:20% Third race, mile heat; Belle of Highlands, first; Mary Carbett, second. Time, 1:49, 1:51%. New York, October 4.—Senator Mahone, by invitation, spoke to-night in the hall of the Union league upon tlie situation in Virginia. Judge Noah Davis presided.

Boston’s Lurid Sky. There were some very amusing incidents connected with the extr ordinary illuminations of the skies on Tuesday. One of them was the appearance at Hanover and Washington streets of an aged darky, who is an adherent of the doctrine of Brother Jasper of Richmond fame. lu loud tones he made the exclamation that “the sun do move," and that it was burning through the sky and would lap up the earth before it got through. The most wildly circulated and prevlent opinion in the city among that elassof persons who delight to indulge in superstitious ideas was that that the light in the heavens had something or other to do with the removal of President Garfield from the White House to Long Branch. An old lady was noticed to kneel on Bratde street and lift up her emaciated hands, while her lips articulated almost incoherent prayers. The restless throng of people passed her by, and only the representative of this journal knew she had been just informed that President Garfield had arrived safely at his cottage at Long Branch. Among the liquor dealers the appearance of the sky had a marked effect. They are always superstitious, and in this instance several of them could not stand the great yellow sky without some qualms of conscience. One man on Dover street was known to close his place and take his family to prayers. In the shipping of the North End, the sailors now in port showed many symptoms of fear at the sight in the heavens of such a peculiar light. “Did you ever see anything like it anywhere?” an old tar was asked by the representative of this paper Tuesday evening. “No, sir; I've traveled in every sea in the world, and never saw such an awful sight as that of to-day.” “Do you call it awful?” the reporter asked. “Well, it was beautiful, and I just thought that God was about to come through the clouds,” the poetic reply came. From the steamers the sky appeared even more beautiful than fn the city, persons who were passengers say that the golden light fell on the water and turned each wave-top into a miniature mountain of half yellow, half crystal green. To descend to the practical: People were obliged to light their gas in private families, in stores aud counting rooms. It was a semimoonlight evening the entire day. The excitement of the day, and th-: questioning, was concerning the phenomenon of the red sky. Nothing else, perhaps, could have drawn away the excited attention of the populace from the bulletin-boards of the newspapers. Several scientists and pop- 1 ular meteorologists were called upon, I but they could not furnish positive information as to why the country < should have have such a day. One ; gentleman, who is temporarily stop-1 ping at the Parker House, and who lives in London says that he has often noticed such days in his city. Another gentleman said that be also lived in London, and that he never saw such a day. London seems to be the foundation for precedents in the matter of this sort of weather: but a representative of the Post ran against a Scotchman at the Crawford House who nad once upon a time seen just such a day. He said that it was in Aberdeen in 1861, and that tlie heavens were of the same golden hue, and that the people of his parish were as much if not more terrified, than the residents of Boston. Business in the city was much affected by the strange light in the sky, and merchants, clerks, errand-boys and children all stopped their usual occupations to accost each other upon the curiosity of the event. Between 4 and 5 o’clock the red appearance of the heavens began to fade into a grayish tint, and before the latter hour had been tolled the sky had assumed its natural appearance.

Topham, popularly know as the “Strong Man of Islington,” although he failed to draw the bow of a Finsbury archer two-thirds of its length, justified the title bestowed upon him by rolling up a pewter dish with his fingers, bending a kitchen poker round the neck of an offending hostler and pulling against a horse with his feet against a low wall. With his teeth he could lift a tablesix feet long, having a half hundred weight attached to it, and coming upon a watchman fast'asleep in his box, he took up box and man, and dropped them over the wall of a burial ground.—Chambr's Journal. M rs. Harriet Beecher Stowe is writing a new story.

THE MAN WITH BOQLETS. People Who Bought His Flowers—Remarkable Reminiscences. “I just dropped in, like,” said “Boquet Johnny,” apologetically, as he seated himself the other day on one of the steps leading to the eyerie of The limes and fanned himself vigorously with his straw hat. His appearance has changed but little since lie last visited Philadelphia, except that his shoulde.s are a trifle more rounded and his gait indicates that rheumatism has settled in his off leg. During the thirty odd years that he has been engaged in this business Johnny’ has visited every American and many European cities and his varied experiences would till a big book. Shortly after the war Johnnv opened the “National Flower Depot” near Willard’s Hotel Washington, and made money, as he figuratively expresses it, “by the cart-load.” His raiment at this time was positively gorgeous and he lived in a stylish suit of rooms adjoining a noted gambling house on Pennsylvania avenue. The profits of the “National Depot,” however, were not large enough to cover Johnny’s princely’ prodigality’ and the expenses of his bosom friend and boon companion, the notorious Beau Hickman. One morning the regular patrons of the depot were astonished to find it closed, while the front door was half coveied by a huge sheet of card-board bearing the simple but significant word, “Busted.” Johnny has never owned a flower store since, although he opened candy shop in Philadelphia in 1876. He spends a few months in Philadelphia every year and makes the Continental Hotel his stamping ground. “I bounced over from New York to see how things show up. If businesses good, I’ll kill the winter between Philadelphia, New York and Washington. If it ain’t booming I’ll work South as far as Florida. Hot, ain’t it ? Worse than it was'in Washington in 1873, when the pavements melted and you couldnt cross the avenue without miring down in the redhot tar. it would pull the soles right smack oftyour shoes in five minutes and leave you standing right in your tracks with your shoe tops spread out around your ankles like a pair of terrapins. Oh, that was a red-hot summer, I tell you.” The recollections of that memorable year started the perspiration on Johnny’s forehead, and little rivulets chased each other tantilizingly down his face. “My right name is Dower, but I almost forget it at times. You bet, I've sold flowers to every’ prominent man in America, from Brigham Young to Boss Tweed; but the softest s ap I ever had in the way of customers were fellows who were gone on actresses. Why, it would curl your hair to know the amount of money a man named Marston, from New Orleans, spent in flowers for Pauline Markham. He got struck in New York and got me to order SSOO worth of flowers in one week. It cost him S2OO more in Philadelphia and in Baltimore the front of the stage was jammed with boquets. I followed Marston to Chicago and sold him altogether about $3,000 worth of flowers.

Another man followed Miss Neilson clear through to San Francisco and I followed him. He was mashed on her and I was mashed on him. See?” The idea of Johnny’s being “mashed,” as he put it, on the flower buyer seemed to tickle his fancy greatly and he smiled aud repeated the expression several times. “He was the chap that put up five hundred dollars for a single bouquet for Neilson. There were two hundred Marshal Neil rosebuds in it, and they cost from seventy-five cents to a dollar apieee. Oh, he was an oyster! For over a year I sold two bouquets a day to Jim Fisk and he paid forthem every Monday morning. I went into Daniel Drew’s office one day with a twenty-five-dollar bouquet. Jim Fisk was sitting there and he bought the flowers, tied a diamond ring to the bunch with cigar ribbon and gave me two dollars to take it up to Josie Mansfield. Vanderbilt didn’t know any more about flowers than he did about cabbages. Twenty years ago he stood me up for a five-dollar bouquet at Saratoga, and a month afterwards, when I met him on Broadway and asked him for the money, he gave me fifty cents. Lester Wallack for many years had a button-hole bouquet from me every morning. John Brougham and Charlie Thorne are very fond of button-hole bouquets and so was Sothern. During the first engagements of Lydia Thompson’s troupe in this country I frequently sold as many as seventy-five hand bouquets a night. Camille Duboise, a great favorite in the Thompson troupe, got nineteen one evening, and I bought ’em all back from her maid , and sold ’em again in front of the house. Just to show you what flats some men are, when the Prince of Wales was in New York a gentleman came out of the Filth Avenue Hotel and said, ‘I must have three eamelias.’ ‘They can’t be had in the city,’ I replied. ‘Get them anywhere you please and never mind the expense,’ he said. I came to Philadelphia that afternoon aud succeeded in getting ten camelias, for which I paid $lO. That evening the gentleman at the Fifth Avenue gave me s2o a piece for three of lhe camelias. I told him they- were the only ones to be had for love or money, and would you believe it, although I tried all night to sell the other seven, I couldn’t get a quarter a piece for them. “1 made $3,000 clear one winter and went to Europe next spring with sl,500 in my clothes. I got broke in two months and Dan Sickles gave me SI,OOO to come heme on. I used to give him bouquets for nothing after that. I went to Europe again on a racket in 1874. Grant’s son-in.law, Sartoris, bought about SSOO worth of flowers from me in this country. I never sold flowers to Boss Tweed, but when his daughter was married she bought SSO worth. Gamblers rarely buy flowers. They are too smart. “I once sold a sl3 bouquet to Mrs. John Morrissey, and when I went asI ter the money John paid me, but said I charged too much and kicked m down stairs. Old man Cameron once bought a $lO bouquet from m«, in Welker’s, in Washington, but walked out of the restaurant and left the flowers lying on the table. Grant never bought flowers. Conklin, was good for a $5 bouquet every three or four days and a button-hole bouquet every morning. Bob Ingersoll is fond of flowers and puts up for them liberally When Alexander H. Stephens was sick in Washington I had orders to send him a bouquet every morning at eight o’clock. General Sherman is good for a bouquet whenever he goes to the theatre aud Burnside buys two button-holers a day in violet season. Phew I this is a terrible day, I must l>e going. Come up and see me. So long.” Lady Blanche Murphy anti the Pope. The death of Lord Gainsborough recalls an anecdote of the time of his

conversion. The then Lord and Lady Campden, with their eldest child, Lady Blanche (Murphy), at the decisive audience with Pius IN., were moved to tears. Lady Blanche, who had never seen either'father or mother cry previously (she was at the time 5 or 6 years old), supposed the u ope had been guilty of some exceeding ill treatment to her parents, whereupon, with closed infant fists and feet, she took on herself to avenge the imagined grievance. J udge of the horror of her parents at seeing such irreverent deed committed o thesaered person of the Pope. Pius IX., much embarrassed between the tears of the elder and the cuffs of the junior neophyte, called a monsignor of his ante-chamber to the rescue. FARM AND GARDEN. It is Sir John Lubbock's opinion that bees are, in a rough kind of way, sensitive to color, and that the'ir favorite color is blue. The peach crop in Southern Illinois Is much larger than was at first suspected. Many thousand boxes have been shipped, and now the home markets are supplied with fine fruit at from 50 cents to $1 a bushel. As a bushel, worms. In St. Louis inferior peaches command twice ns much.

The bears of bearded kinds of wheat add materially to the weight of the heads. Given the weight of kernels to be the same, and the strength and height of straw, as between beardless kinds, it is plain the bearded will lodge before the beardless. Bears are of no known value. Hence, all other things being equal, it is desirable to cultivate beardless kinds. The Rev. J. G. Wood, tiie eminent English naturalist, in an article on “The Horse and its Owner,” says, in referance to bearing reins: “People see the horse champing its bit, flinging foam flakes right and left, tossing its head, rattling its harness, and assume that the horse is acting in the pride of its strength and fullness ol spirit, where it is suffering agonies of pain, and is trying to gain by these movements a momentary relief.” The present condition of the live stock trade, says the Kansas Farmer, ought to argue effectively in favor of improved stock as agaiust scrubs. At this season of the year there is a great difference made in the two classes. Coarse poorly fattened cattle are selling at least $1 per 100 pounds lower than ehoice steers ofthe same weight, and anybody knows there is no such difference in the cost of making them. r One bushel to the acre of clean, plump wheat seed, on good land, in good condition, sown broadcast, is amp'e. A bushel’and a half is detrimental, resulting in waste of seed and a smaller crop. Big crops have been grown from one-half bushel of good seed. Onejbushel equally distributed will occupy the land, and that is all you want. But the quality aud condition of the land must determine the quantity of seed in use. Prof. Beal, of Michigan, says: “If you h <ve money to fool away, seed "down your young orchard to clover and timothy or sow a crop of wheat or oats. Ifyou want the trees to thrive, cultivate well till they are 7 to 10 years old. Spread ashes, manure or salt broadcast. Stop cultivating in August, weeds or no weeds; this allows the trees to ripen for Winter. The question whether to cultivate old orchards or not must be answered by manuring the trees. If the color of the leaves is good and they grow well and bear fine fruit they are doing well enough even if in grass. But if the leaves are pale, the annual growth is less than a foot on twelve-year trees, and the fruit small and poor, something is the matter and they are suffering for a want of cultivation, or manure or both To judge of the condition of an apple tree is like judging of the condition of sheep in a pasture. Look at the sheep, and if they are plump and fat they are all right.

Our way of packing small quantities of butter.— “Isn’t it a shame to sell butter for ten cents a pound!” said a neighbor, upon whom I had called. “Yes! it does seem a pity to put in so much labor for so small a price; but why do you do so?” “Why: what else can I do? we only keep three cow’s; but then we cannot use all the butter we make.” “Can’t you pack it down and keep it till Fall or Winter? You know good butter always brings good prices then.” “Will it keep?” said she earnestly. “I never have any tiouble to keep it till people know I have it to sell. Then I often wish I had a great many pounds more; for it is like the old lady’s new bread, it goes like the dew, and it is just as sweet in Spring as w’hen first made,” “Do tell me how you manage, and I’ll try it.” “In the first place I am careful not to pack any but sweet, firm butter; no soft, oily, frothy stuff, such as one sometimes'makes when the mercury ranges up to 93 deg. or 96 deg, in the shade; that will not keep, and a few pounds will soon spoil really fine butter that may be put with it. When it is taken from the churn, it is thoroughly rinsed in pure, cold water direct from the well, then salted, and slightly worked. It then stands an hour or two, in a cool place for the salt to dissolve when it receives its final working, or pressing, to extract the last drop of butter-milk. Still I do not work the butter till it is perfectly dry as that often spoils the grain. I like to have it sweet when the brine will standout over it in tiny drops as clear as crystal. A handful of nice, fine salt, such as I use for salting the butter, is strewn over the bottom of the jar, and the butter packed in as solid as possible. A cloth wet in cold water, is spread over the butter, and a layer of salt on the wei cloth. When the iar is filled rounding full, I take a fresh cloth wet as before, and fit it nicely over the top of the butter and cover it thick with salt; over this I turn a plate and press it down close, so it will be as nearly airtight as possible; now a dry cloth and paper are tied over all to keep out dust, and it is put into the cool, dark cellar and kept till the Winter or Spring following, when it is greedily snatched at by customers, who are willing to pay the highest market prices for it. This has been our way for years.” Fall of a Mountain I’eak. A few days since a loud noise was heard in the mountain on the west side of the Bitter Root, in Montana, the report resembling the firing of a cannon and reverberations. It was caused by the falling of a high peak, and was distinctly heard for several miles. Thousands of tons of rock came down in the grand crash.

A Nihilist Prince. Geneva, Aug. 25.—This is not the first time that Prince Krapitkin ha s been expelled. In 1876 he was ordered out of the canton of Geneva lor irregularities in his papers and for going under the name of Levasccff, but was subsequently allowed to return. He is a cousin of the official who was murdered a few years ago by the Nihilists for his cruel treatment of political prisoners confined in a fortress of which he was Governor. Prince Krapotkin. -who served several years in the Russian army, was arrested in St. Petersburg some five years since on suspicion of being concerned in a revolutionary propaganda. After being kept two and a half years in solitary confinement he succeeded, by the help of his political friends, and probably by the connivance of his jailers, in effecting his escape. One of his sisters was afterward imprisoned on suspicion of being privy to his flight. He got out of the country with a false passport in the name of Levaschoff, which name he retained until compelled by the Geneva authorities to resume his right designation. He travelled to England, via Norway, and made a short stay in London before coming to Geneva, where he has been the leader and most act ve member of the anarchists of all nations who have taken up their quarters here. The most amiable of men, he is also a highly educated man, but his sufferings have made him a fanatic. The end he aims at is perfect equality, an utopia in which nobody shall be rich or poor, and none idle—an end which he believes can be accomplished only by a European revolution, more thorough than the French Revolution of 1789, and a reign of terror more searching and sanguinary than that esiablished by Robespierre and the Jacobins.

'High Art ('loth. It is evident that “esthetic” English women will not be able to keep their “ intense” style of dress all to themselves. Since Mr. Oscar Wilde, the founder and leader of the “too too” school, appeared last month at the Prince of Wales’ garden-party in a very high-art get-up of a terra-cotta-colored coat, yellowy-green tie, and an old-china-blue handkerchief carelessly dangling out of his pocket, the young men of the “greenery-yai-lerey, Grosvenor-Gallery” type are developing a taste for garments that are “quite too;” and an enterprising WestrEnd tailor advertises “HighArt Clothes” forgent!emen. Mr. Oscar Wilde, the esthete of esthetes, has worked hard this season. He has pervaded society; has influenced the drama; his sayings and doings have furnished society-journals with endless small-talk aud anecdotes; and his book of “Poems”—representing principally the “fleshy” school of poetry in its most unpieasing form, as the author lias no hesitation whatever in calling a spade a spade—has created quite a sensation. .Should Mr. Oscar Wilde care to carry his esthetic doctrines beyond the pale of London society. a wide field is open to him in South Africa. It is unlawful in Massachusetts to keep a drinking-bar in any place not visible from a public street, and screens and other obstructions to the view are prohibited, as well as any arrangement of bottles and casks to effect the same purpose. This law is now strictly enforced in Boston, where in many instances the bars have to be removed to front rooms, and windows cut through the walls. The Retailer, speaking of the liquor trade, says that the law has not lessened the sales at all. At first there was a slight hesitance on the part of some drinkers, but that quickly passed away, and the general result is to make the traffic more open and respectable. Arles and Her Daughters. Aries is famous for the beauty of its daughters. They are a fine-built race of women, and have a splendid manner of holding them selves. Very distinct traces of the Roman legionaries who settled in Gaul, are in the physiognomy and carriage of the Arlesienne. When I was last at Arles a Sub-Perfect took me through the town and its environs. He told me that from time immemorial the population was Republican—another Italian survival. There were not a hundred Bonapartists journals dailysold there when the Enpire was in existence. As soon as a Democratic organ came out in Paris it was demanded by a large number of persons at Arles. Although the town has a dull and, unless on Sundays, sleepy aspect, it is extremely prosperous. Those handsome girls who walk on Sunday in picturesque costumes on the mall earn a good deal of money. Their staple employment isin winding the thread from the cocoons of silkworms. Carnages are as rare in Arles as in Venice, but from different causes. The streets are narrow, winding, dark, and paved with shingle gathered along the Rhone in dry weather. Treed by A man who attempted to cross Cabbo Lake, in Texas, about ten days since, in a skiff containing a quarter of beef, was actually pursued bj’ a school of alligators. When about a quarter of a mile from shore eight of the monsters, attracted by the fresh beef, attacked the boat, endeavoring to upset it. By hard rowing the boatman reached a cypress tree some distance from shore, which he seized, and abondoned the skiff. He remained in the tree until next day, when two fishermen, who were crossing the lake, heard cries and went to his assistance. The alligators attacked the rescuers, but by a dextrous use of their oars and a doublebarreled shot-gun they succeeded in keeping the enemy at bay until the unfortunate man, more dead than alive, could be gotten out of the tree and rowed safely to shore. Snakes In and Out of the Grass. Two snakes were recently killed in the office of the Kansas Republican. A gang of workmen near where the Tictan River empties into the Natchez found a den of rattlesnakes and killed 142.

Two sons of Mrs. Martha Jones, of ' Valdosta, Ga., were bitten by rattlesnakes. Whiskey saved one of them, tut the other lies In a critical condition. As David Wagner, of Warren Centre, Ind., turned down the bedclothes preparatory to retiring, he found an immense rattlesnake there. It had eight rattles. After Jaeob Rexroth, of Canton Village, Conn., had killed a red adder he found that the throat contained twenty young ones that had run Into it for protection. The four-year-old son of Charles Mead of Garfield, Kansas, was bitten by a rattlesnake one Sunday and died on Monday morning. ‘ Whiskey might have saved him, but it was an

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hour and a half before any could be got. Miss Helen Dudley, of Ellenville, N. Y., while walking through a field, carried an immense snake on her ■■nk'e that wound itself about her and he.d its position until her screams caused :t to uncoil itself and crawl away. Mrs. Humphrey, of Bergen Point, was visiting near Ellenville, N.Y. She went to the Sbawangunk Mountains one day, and while reading a uew-paper in the shade a snake quietly crawled upon her, and followed up the paper and the first she knew of his presence was when .the head of the reptile appeared over the toj> of the paper, sticking out its forked tongue and hissing in her face. An eye witness says that she dropped the paper. While John Werner was cutting corn near Orwigsburg,Pa.,he was horrified to see a snake coiled about the body of his little child who was sitting on the grass. The child did not seem to be frightened, but patted the head of the snake as it lay in its lap. As Mr. Warner came up the snake became alarmed and crawled away. It was pursued and killed, when it was found to measure over three feet in length. It was of a dark brown color, and had a head as broad as a man’s hand.

While removing the debris after a blast at the silver mines in Indiantown Gap, Pa., in the solid rock at a depth of seventy-nine feet below the surface, was found a nest of three ■ snakes of an apparently unknown pecies. They were about a foot in 1 ngth, black as jet on the back, light . ay on the under surface, and as a d- stinguishing mark each one had dire ti ■ back of the head, extending around the entire body, a well marded and distinct ring of colter of bright yellow. They were killed by the miners as soon as found, as they seemed vicious and coiled to strike. ♦ I • A f lean Sweep—A Whole Family of Daughters to Be Married nt once. Marriage iecenses were granted yesterday to the following parties: Frederick Walter Jr. and Emma Bang; William Wetzler and Theresa Bang:D;. William J". Herman and ,1c atin-i Bang. At the issuing of tho licenses a most unusal scene was presented in the Recorder’s oilice—the father of the three young ladies appearing with his three prospective sons-in-law and consenting to give one o iis daughters to each of them. They all seemed in the best of spirits, and the occasion was enlivened by mirth and witticisms all a.ound. The circumstances of the case are quite interesting, and not a little romantic. Dr. Charles Bang, who for many years has kept a drug store on the coraer of Fifteenth street and Franklin avenue, is the father of three beautiful daughters, the eldest about 22 years of age, and the youngest a little under 18. A short time ago all three of th'm became engaged during the same week, and it was concluded to have the marriages take place at the same time. AH of them are highly educated and accomplished, and all of them belong to the Liederkranz, of which their father was once president. It was natural, therefore that an invitation should be given and accepted that the marriage should take place at the new Uederkranz Hall on Chouteau avenue. They are appointed to take place there on the 6th of Sentember, and .the ceremony will be performed by the Rev. John F. Jones, pastor of the Independent Evangelical Protestant Church, corner of Thirteenth and

Vebster streets, provided he returns 1 om Europe in time, as is expected, he being now on the way. The young men are In every way worthy the fortunate matrimonial prizes they have drawn, Mr. Frederick Walter Jr. is of the firm of Walter & Son, candy manufactuerers. Mr. William Wetzler is teller of the Fourth National Bank, and Dr. William F. Horman is a dentist of this city. The father having to be present to give his consent in the ease of his minor daughter, it was not necessary for either of the others to be present, as he could represent them all’ When he was called upon to sign the affidavit for the second he exclaimed “What! must I sign again?” “Certainly,” replied the clerk, “this isn’t a job lot; you have to sign for each one.” When the applications were all made out, the clerk said to Dr. Bang: “You ought to feel happy to get s-j many daughters off your hands at once.” The Doctor replied: “They .ook all I had; that breaks up the family.” “Yet,” said Mr. Wetzler, “that was a regular wholesale business: we made a clean sweep.” When toe clerk was asking for the names that went together in the licenses, Dr. Herman exclaimed “Don’t you make any mistake, now. and give me the wrong girl; I want the one that belongs to me.” M’hen everything was concluded except p ... ing the fees, Dr Bang said; “The next thing is—’’“The next thing is,” interrupted Mr. Wetzler, “is to go out and get some beer.” “But the licenses ate not paid for yet.” “No matter we can pay for them in the m< ruing, when we get them.” The party then tiled out gleefully, and no doubt hud the beer. The triple marriage recalls an anecdote relaied of an eccentric minister a number of years ago, was ailed upon to marry three couples at once. The parties were standing around promiscousiy, waiting for the arrival of the minister, and when he came in he marched up to the n exclaiming “Sort yourselves!”—[St. Louis Republican. An Example for Denis. The young Chinese students who have been recalled by the Home Government, and who made a halt in San Francisco on the way, attracted much attention in that city by the fashionable cut of their clothes and their general appearance of culture and refinement. There is a person named Denis Ke trney, in San Francisco, who has been for several years engaged in alluding to the Chinese as ‘moon-eyed lepers,” and insisting that they shall be driven from the count y. It is hardly necessary to state that Mr. Kearney would not attract attention anywhere by his general appearance of refinement and culture. —[Chicago Tribune.

Women are notoriously indifferent to their food. If a European community could be desert*,!, for a year by the men, we verily believe that , the women would slide back, first into a custom of having tea and a chon I at every meal, next into pecking at I some bread and butter at any hour i when they felt the pangs of hunger, lastly into the condition of savajzes who live on casual roots and the guin and bark of trees. It is man, proud man, who keeps woman up to the civilized mark in the matter of eating and dunking.— s Saturday Review. ‘ Deadwood numbers four ex-mem bers of cougres among its citizens.