Bloomington Courier, Volume 9, Number 48, Bloomington, Monroe County, 29 September 1883 — Page 3

It is General Grant's opinion that Arthur cannot be elected if nominated in 1884, ,

The following represents the number of deaths per annum in. the United States out of 1,000 inhabitan ts, according to the censuv of 1870: New York, 25.H2;Boston 19.80; Fhii adelphia, 17.20; Chicago,17.20; St Louis, 18,19; New Orleans, 21.60. The deaths per 1,000 in the following European cities were as follows: .London, 2.88; Berlin, 27.81; Paris, 22.04.

The following states will hold elections this fall: Ohio and Iowa, on the second Tuesday in October; Maryland, Massaonus tte-s Misaiesippi,Nobraska, New Jersey,New York,Pennsylvania and Virginia on the first Tuesday after the first Mon dy in November. Of these states Iowa. Maryland, Massachusetts, New Jersey and Ohio elect governors; the others only minor offices.

THE KEPUBLIOANS MUST GO! On the ground that consistency is precious jjm wa recgimend those Republican journals that are engaged in mouthing over the acuttal of the ex-baadit, Frank James, byVhat they are pleased to caU a "Democratic Jury in a Demo era ic State," to read up the acquittal of Dukes in Pennsylvania, sitoke in New ' York; the Republican acquitted ot theliotror makers of ; Tewksbury, and a few more score; of similar "judicial" results in the cultured precincts -where Republicans rule. American Register .

discontinued by him beeause unprincipled principals of rival' schools got hold of them for the base purpose of offering lower rates ot tuition to the. girls, and thereby edtioing them away. It is possible that pare nts, when they understand thevSrue inwardness,"will favor the issuing of catalogues once more.

WkndstlPhiTaLIPs is out in a card suppoiting Ben Butler lor Governor of Massachusetts. He is an old-time abolitionist and a man who always had the cour

age of his convictions. Hear his denunciation of Massachusetts Republicans in the following vigorous style: I distract and despise the Republicans as hypocrites and time-eerrere, as double-dealers, as soulless carrion mastiueradtnjrin tfce grave clothes of their honored predecessors. . They have no right to seek their candidate among high-minded and honorable men. Let them choose a fitting leader from among the Tewkabury marshes those peddlers of poor men's boces.

Gettwayo not long ago was claiming

Queen Victoria's protection, and asking an inquiry into the schemes of his enemies. The protection accorded to the luckless monarch now comes in the form of an order from the Cape Government o surrender himself within ten days, on

pain of arrest. As troops are already ordered to Okowe, he may be fortunate to secure bis ten days. Meanwtale,civilization has another 'of its peculiar triumphs in prospect, as a correspondent arriving

in Darba front Zululand reports that the m fives there are on the eve:of mutual extermination.

Tkb commanding officer of the Tallapoosa, which scraped on a rock recently, though, perhaps, with less damage than she received when she ran aground on the Florida coast a few months ago, is reported as accounting- for the accident by saying that "he knew the location of the rock' well enough, but the night was dark, and he thought ho had escaped it." This recalls the old story of the pilot who when his knowledge of a harbor was somewhat doubted, declared that he knew every rock in it; 'and there,'' he added convincingly, as the ship struck, "Shore is one of them now."

The report that Turkey also proposes "to join the Anatro-German an 1 Italian alliance,' if true, is indicative of a radical

tnange m rne policy or rne government of that country. Since the British imjbroglio with the Porte respecting Egypt

il"'-' IIWM HI1UUUI V illi W UUW between the Sultan and the British amhar sad or and cabinet, ami a fctroner lean

ing toward Russia. If the Sultan has offered to make a diversion upon the Prench in Tunis and Algeria, it can only be throngh the aid of the still" powerful Turkish fleet. At the same time such a diversion would- be a most dangerous movement to France, as it would threat-

her Mediterranean fleet, and be a serious menaceto the sending of reinforcements to ho-armies in eastern Asia.

Senatob Logan says of his recent interview with Sitting Boll and his fellow Indians: 'Why, I saw the whiskers of one of bur massacred soldiers which had been cut, flesh and all, from his face dangling to the pipe of one of those Indians, and this pipe was passed around as the pipe of peace. I say to you that I don't want to talk about any policy which but T won't say it," Many thousands of people are like General Logan, BayB the Indianapolis Journal.- When, for instance, they see such a chief as Benita, who killed Judge MeComae, outraged and murdered his wife, killed their daughter and probably killed their son strutting np and down on a government reservation big as a lord, fed by the government, protected by the government, they are not dis posed to accept the bran bread view of the Indian question.

The presence of the foot-and-mouth disease in Great Britain in an aggravated f&fb, by raising the price of beef in that country, is cansing larger than usual importations of the product into England not only from the United States but Australasia. In this connection we observe that Mr. Griffin, our consul at Auckland, New Zealand, estimates the fresh mea s lpply of the Australian colonies at 700,000 tons per annum, or 2,000 per day. It ia important to our American trade also to know that the - consul says the real limit of the supply is simply the capacity of the tonnage at the command of the colonies; thai meat can only form a portion of a cargo of steamers or sailing vessels, aod there must be farther inward as well as outward cargoes in order to pay. Mr. Griffin consequently t uinks that there is no prospect of one-fourth of this capacity (of 2,000 tons daily) reaching Great Britain yearly for years to come. Nevertheless, steamers of great capacity are ronfftintly being constructed in England for t be trade, which fact should spur our people engaged in it to newer and cheaper methods of transportation.

Ik some of the Eastern colleges for girls uo catalogues -giving the pupils names have been issued forv years, the reason offered being that eviloninded persons obtain the addresses for the purpose of sending pernicious literature to the innocent maidens. It has been naturally fupposedby confiding parents that t he literature in question was of the species pursued by Anthony Comstock. Bat snob, it seeing is not altogether the case. The various college faculties are able to cope, with vile publications, which they consider a minor evil, but when designing managers of other schools began to send t heir corrupting propositions into the folds it became a serious matter. The indignant principal of a Pittsburg college eaa pubhcatioii of a catalogue was

Mbs. Gakfibed has made her home in Cleveland and selected her surroundings in so quiet and carefol manner that comparatively few of the late President's moie intimate associates have any knowledge of her plans and of her daily life. Her house is a plain brick structure situated on a small lot in Prospect street. She paid $50,000 for it, and regards it more in the light of an investment than as a permanent home Jor. herself, and family. The affections of the Garfield family are evidently centered in the cottage at Mentor, and there is an impression that their residence at any other place is only temporary. The occupants of the city home at present are Mrs, Garfield; the mother of the late President; Miss Larabie, his sister, who is in failing health ; MiesMollie Garfield, and the younger boys, Irwin and Abram. The solemn-looking footman who urshere the visitor into the drawingroom is the only ceremonious person to be found in the house. In consequence of Mrs. Garfield's withdrawal from all so oiety, the family usually dine alone. Grandmother Garfield seldom sits a dinner through, and when desert is served she takes whatever she fancies in her hands and adjourns to the- library. She is the one occupant of the house who is always visible. With her white hair and white cap, she can beseen at the window m a little wicker locking chair, busied with her knitting or the daily newspaper. DEMOCRATIC UNITY IN NEW YORK. New York Son. Some of the Republican newspapers say that it the present Republican S tate officers are renominated, they can be elected. Let us look at this in the light of experience . For the four years from 1874 to 1877, inclusive, the Democrats elected the State officers. The party was well united There was a little scratching of thejtacket but no organiz ed bolting. For the next four years the Republicans elected the State officers. Their success in each case was due to divisions in the Democratic party. Twice ere the Republicans torn by feuds, but they were saved from overwhelming defeat by the quarrels of the Democrats. The election of A. B. Cornell for Governor in 1879 is a notable instance of this kind of Democratic folly. Perhaps there are prominent Rspnbli cans who do not wholly despair of carrying the State this fall. They rely for success upon Democratic blunders and contentions, particularly in this city They will be disappointed. The Democrats wU not divide and throw away the State in this critical year, but will unite and carry it and thereby put the party on the high road to greater glory. The New York Democrats will not split themselves in pieces this fall to gratify their opponents. The Republican party must & o ! The Pretty Man; Lime Kiln Club Proceedings. "If Clarence de Melville Bungs am present wid us to-night I should like to spoke to him," said Brother Gardner as the meeting opened. brother Bungs was on the back row with a looking-glass in his hands and a new brand of hair-oil on his hair. He rose up with a scrape and bow, made a great spread of a blue silk handkerchief, and finally stood before the speaker's desk. . . "Brudder Bongs'resumed the old man, 4I reckon you am the prettiest member of ae Lime-Kiln Club. You puts ile on on yer ha'r, wax on yer moustache, an' de perfume on yer clothes reminds me of de wild roses of Vrginny. Yes, you amde purtiest an' sweetest one of de lot." "Yes, san," replied the brother while his face betrayed the fact that he was tilled half to death. "But, by de way, Brudder Bungs, what am your present bizness?" Tse out of job jist now, sah." "When you work now muoh do you airnr ..... "As high as seben dollars a week,sah." "Jistso. Am dat suit of clothes all paid fur?" "No, sah." "An you am how many weeks behind on yer board?1 "Not ober six, sah." "An you owe die lodge $3 dues?1 "Yes, sah.' "An' you owe members here as much as $20 for borrowed money?" "l'se borrowed some, sah." "Brudder Bungs, l'se had some 'sperience wid purty men, an' nabber seed one yet who wasn't a fraud on the word mangootjt When a man sots out to be purty all de hoss sense leaves his head. No man can labor and be pnrty too. He darfo' lets work alone. He beats his board his tailor, his shoemaker, an' all of his friends. He looks killin and smells like a cologne factory, but he doa't pay up. Eber' nmile beats somebody outer twenty-five cento, an ebery giegle costs somebody half a dollar. l'se had my eye on you for some time' "Yes, sah." "Six months a?o you had. steady work, good pay, respectable clothes, an' was outer debt You sat out to be purty, an' to-day you wouldn't sell fer 'n-uff to pay yer debts. You smell awful mce,but you owe a $26 board bill. Your ha' r curls beautifully, but de tailor am whistling fur his money fur dat suit. Your form am elegant, but you ha? borrowed money until no one will lend you anoder cent. You smile like a bntfcercup an raisa yer hat like a Chesterfield,bat yer butes ain't

paid far! ' "l'se gwme to square np."' "Maybe you is, Brudder Bangs, but It am too late so fur as dis club am concerned. Secretary I" - "Yes, sah." "Scratch de name of Brudder Clarence de Melville Bung3 off de roll ! ' "She's dun scratched, Bam" "Janitor!" 'Yes, sah.'' "Escort dis pusson to de alley doab 1 He am too purty to remain heah wid us. He sm gwine oufc owin' us for dues, an' wall, nebber mind." There was no need to past the janitor. Every one could picture htm as he cleared a space to swing his right leg, and if anybody doubted that Clarence de Mel viile Bungs was "lifted, into the alley he had only to listen to the labored brea th ingof the janitor as he re turned to his seat,

SERMON IN RHYME.

If you have n friend -worth lovipp.

Love him- Yog, find lot Mm k;iow

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Tba you lov; him ore 1KB

Tinge his brow with miuiDt gfiw.''

Why should ood vrords Wer be said Of a friend till ho is doad? f If you hear a sons that thrills yuu, SunK by Bny child oE song. Praise it. Do not lot the singer Wait deserved praises long. Why should one wlio f brills your heart Lack the joy you might impart? If you hear a prayer that move? you By its humblo, pleading tone. Join it. T) not let the seeker How before his God alone, Why should not your brother share The strength of "two or three" in prayer ? If you see the hot teaTS falling From a sorrowing brother's eves. Share them. Aud, by sharing Own your kinship with the skies. Why should any one be glad When a brother's heart is sad? If a silvo 'y laugh is rippling Through the sunshine on his face. Share it. 1 1Mb the wise man's saying For both grief and joy a place. There's health and goodness in the mirth In which an honest langh has birth. If your work is made more easy By a friendly, helping hand. Say bo. Speak out bravo and truly. Era the darkness veil the land , Should a brother workman dear. Falter for a word of oheer? Scatter then your seeds of kindness, All enriching as you go; Leavo then . Trust the Harvest Giver, Ho will make each seed to grow; So un til your happy aid, ; Your life shall never lack a friend,

A HERO OF THE FLOODS.

Nowhere throughout the overflowed river bottoms of the West did the devastating, floods of 1881 come upon the people with such calamitous swiftness and cover the country to such depths, as in the valley of the far-i eaohlng, and snowfed Missouri. Long and bitterly remembered by hundreds, whose homes were swept away with scarce a moment's warning, will be the icy overflow of that calamitous senson. From all its numerous t ri hutaries, from tbe triekliDg, rills of the soow -capped mountains to the broad and sluggish river Platte, the bands of icp, suddenly lpssed, let forth watery torrents to swell the mightier river till it poured down to the Miesissipi with a destructive haste th at had never been witnessed before. Many a tired farmer who went to his rest after a hard dfiy'a work and dreamed for a time, perchance, of growing crops and abundant harvest as th9 result of his labors, acroas to find his farm a watery wase, the angry river already at his very door, and his livestock wading and swimming distractely abtut amid floating masses of ice, brushwood, and the debris of other inundated farms above. In vain he sought to save his horses, his cattle, or his househould goods; it was often all ha could do to save even his wife and littie ones. Upon a broad and well-cfa tiffed farm on the Nebraska side Mipsouri, there lived a family named JVilson, in a frame house that stood in a grove ot large but scattered rees near the b?nk of the stream Cultivated fields and well fenced stock pastures extended back across the intervals. The soil was dark and extremely fertile, the land lying but little above high-water mark, on which account the spring freshets always caused Mr. Wilson considerable uneasiness. The oldest settlers thereabouts, however, had never known this tract to be entirely covered; and this, with Mr. "Wilson's own experience, had, as the years went by, consid-, erably lessened his first misgivings. Therefore, the great flood of 1881 found Mr. Wilson wholly unprepared, and at the time of it coming, both he and his wife were abrent from hom. They bad felt a little reluctant about leaving home as the river was swollen nearly to the high -water mark, but urgent business compelled them to ride to the nearest railroad town, some thirteen miles away from whioh they intended to return on the day following. 1 Mrs. Wilson carried her youngest child and there remained at home Henry, a lad of fifteen, and two little daughters aged ten and six yearp," with the hired man, Budolph. Rudolph had relatives living two are three miles back from the r iver, and when the chores were done at night, he left the house telling Henry that he was going over to see his "folks," and would be back at ten o'clock. The "boy and his sisters had been left alone of an evening before. They were not afraid, and went to bed by nine o'clock to sleep eoundlv, as children will. When thelxy awoke the next morning he found the sun peeping in at his window, and leaping out of bed, he called to Rudolph, as his father was in the habit of doing. But Rudolph did not answer. Rude must be up and doing the chores thought Henry;, and then, speaking aloud, he said, fWhat a tremendous roaring the river makes this morning. It sounds as if i t was all around us." "Goodness? I b'lieve it is," he added, after listening a raonent; and then he ran to the window to look. Stouter hearts than his might have quailed at the scene which met his eyes. Every where was water a turbid, black tumultuous flood dashing up against the trunks of the great trees, flooding the stock-yard fences completely out of sight, Logs, boards, and great cold-looking cakes of white ice, even the bodies of dead cattle, were swept furiously on. The heads only the heads and horns of some of their own cattle could beseen -here and there, as the poor creatures swam feebly to and frc. Looking down in frightened awe from the o;en window the lad saw that the delving, guttering current had already attached the foundation oi; the house, which stood cmsideVably higher than the cattle-yard, and that the doorsteps below were under waf er. As the dan ger of the situation dawned upon him, tha lad's terror grew. Again and again he shouted to Rudolph; but there was no response save the rush and the roar of the river. Then he ran to the room of little Jennie and Izab, whohad already been awakened by his shouts. With frightened sobs the children clung to their brother, scarcely daring to look out upon the fearful scene about them, "Where is Rudolph? Where is Rudolph?" They sobbed. Henry soothed them as best he could, and leaving them at the head of the stairway, he wont below to see how high the water had risen. To his moroused alarm he found that

the kitchen floor was already covered, and the muddy water was pouring in through the cracks about the door. It was rising fast had risen even since lie first looked upon it. Then for a few moments the bov'fi oonraxe almost deserted him; he trembled violentlyy and the tears came into Ms evs '0 father! mother! why ain't you bore?" he cried out. Then the crash of a huge ica-oake against the door aroused him Young as he was, he realized tht the house must be swept away if the water continued to rise, and almost fiercely wiping away his tears, he tried to think of some means by which he might save his little sisters and himself. Through the kitchen window he saw the trunk of the grea' elm beneath which stood the grindstone, only a few feet from

the broad doorstep a huge tree, four or Ave feet in diameter. The watorg werp

dashing against its massive h unk, thai, at !east,seemed proof aerainst their utmost strength. s "The old elm! the old elm!" he cried. "If wo could only get up among the. big limbs!" And then he formed his heroic plan and proceeded to put it into execution. The elm had great outstretching branches, one of the largest of which extended across the corner of the kitchen roof, whioh was nearly flat and easy of access from a window in th second story of the house. Henry had often climbed out there and mounted the branch, from which be could ascend nearly to the top of the tree a dizzy height, however, which he seldom attempted. "The flood can't dig the old elm out' he thought. "It's stood there too long." But little Izah and Jennie! he feared for them. It was as much as he himself dared do climb the tree, and he feared the little girls would grow dizzy and fall into the rnshing waters beneath. The brave boy thought of all this, and aolved the problem in a manner that speaks well both for his courage and his invention. Wading through the water on the kitchen floor, he reached the woodshed and there procured his mother's clothee. ina also a coil of larger rope and an old doer, besides a number of loose boards which stood in a corner. Carrying these p stairs, where the little girls stood crying and calling for "papa and mamnuu" he put them out on the kitchen roof. "Stop crying, girls," he exclaimed, cheerily; "stop crying. Pa and ma will be here as som as they can get a boat, and I'll take ca'e of yon till they come. We're going to get up in the big elm and bnild us house up there and take up victuals. The water will never take that old- tree away, and we can live up there like squirrels." The energetic lad now sped about the house to complete his prepaaations for their strange place of abode. Even little Jennie, the youngest sister, caught something of his courage; and both girls run about, helping in whatever way they could. Some loaves of bread, a bucket of doughnuts, together with dried beef, a smoked ham, and several woolen blankets were laid out on the kitchen roof. Then Henry bound the clothes line about his waist and climbed on the great branch and hence up the large limbs above, to a height of some twenty feet above the rushing waters. Seltcting a spot where two limbs branched off parallel with each other, he now lowered one end of his rope to his sisters for the old door and boards. Before climbing up he had instructed them what to do and how; to do it; and in a very short time the boards, the door, and the other coils of rope were hauled np, one after another, and seenrely fastened. The door and boards were then placed on the parallel branches and tied with the rope, and in this manner a small floor or platform, six or eight feet square, was laid, large enough for all three to sit or lie on. It did not take long now to draw op the food and blankets, but there tiill remained for the lad the harder and more perilous task of hoisting up tho little girls to his airy platf .rm. He had reserved the Ion rest aud strongest rope for this purpose, and Icoping it in the middle over the limb and letting the two ends fall to the roof, he descended and tied an end firmly beneath the arms o! both Izah and Jennie in turn. To climb back to the old position, was but the work of a moment. Then came the real work. Tzah was a plump little girl, and Jennie was still heavier, though not so old. They were frightened, and screamed considerably, but he hauled them safely on to the platform. Meantime the wild rushing waters were steadily rising, and nownearly reached the kitchen' window sills. Still larger cakes of ice were driving ponderously along among the trees; giving it ftheaw, jarring bump, or-struok the walls of the house with a force that made the timbers crack. The little girls trembled with fear, and now that the excitement of climbing into the tree was over, despair again seized upon them. In vain Henry trie 1 to quiet their fears. . Great sobs would well up iu spt3 of their childish efforts to b3 brave. It was in truth an appalling situation. Faster poured the ever-rising flood ; and now the ice-cakes and gre it drift-logs were smashing in the lower windows. Nothing was left of the stock yards, shed and barn; but here and there some of the wretched cattle still kept their heads above water; and more disheartening than anything else were the poor creatures' mournful lo wings. There was no hope for them. Their drowning was but a question of an hour or two; everything was going down beneath tho black, rolling current. And well mighfc the children feel than kfal if even the great elm withstood the battering cf the ponderous ice-cakes which came grinding in among the scattered tress of the grove. Henry' s heart almost failed him. It required the best efforts to keap from breaking completely down, and giving way to his fright and grief, But, mastering these terrors at length, ha earaestly set to work to make everything secure He felt, too, that he ought to save the bedding and the most valuable of the household furniture, for he saw that it might be hung upon the limbs of the elm if only he had dared descend after it into the shattered and rocking bmlding. But th0 creaking and groaning of the timbers oommiugling with the hoarse gurglings of the water, appalled him. The house seemed on the point of taing swept away, aud sadly tje watched i$

heave and sway at eaoh fresh, heavy mass of ice came plunging against it. Fearing to trust tho little sisters npsn the frail platform unsupported, he tied them securely to the limbs above, leaving the ropes slack enough to allow ot their moving about. Once for a niomant he almost made them smile by calling them his "little ponies picketed out to grass." He oven tried to tell them stories, anil kepi co rage in their little heart by the assurauoe that "pa ad ma" would soon come and take th jm away in a big boat. Then the hours woro on. The house stood still, but the waters crtpt higher, till at noon the river ran nearly even with the tops of the windows. Still the old tree gave no evidence of yielding, and at length the pangs of hunger making themselves felt, they ate a hearty moal in spite of their strange and almost desperato situation. Tho aftamoon pT333l. Onoa they thought, they heard distant shouts; but the topa of tho trees prevented fchem fromlookiug off clearly. Night drew on; and still the house stood, wonderfully aa it seemed to Henry. As night closed darkly in, tho little girls cried themselves to sleep, pillowing their heads in the lad's lap; audi thus through that long night, never o,.oe closing his own eyes in sleep, h Bat and. he! d them. Not long after dark Henry heard i terrific crash, aadindisticctly saw the house melt away midst the mad waters beneath him. When at last the day dawned, there was not a familar land mark to he seen save the trees; and many of the smallest of these had been broken down by the masses of the ice. It was a bitter awakening for little Izah and Jennie; and it was long before Henry could again accustom them to the terrible dreariness of their situation. Bnt help came shortly after daybreak, .Even before the pangs of hunger had brought them to- think of breakfast, cheery voices were heard shouting from the river abeve. The neighbors had espied them on their platform through the leafless branches. It was a strange sight, and one that would have inspired less resoluto hearts to attempt their rescue. The young,anxious faces expectantly looked out over the dreary waters,and watched with hope and delight the efforts making to save them. It was an hour that they would never forget. Cold and hungry, but safe and happy, the gallant boy and his little charges were taken aboard a boat, manned by the faithful Budolph and several other young men, who had worked with energy, but in vain, on account of the floating ice, to reach them the day before. Mr. and Mrs. Wilson were delayed longer than they had expected; and not returning till evening of that day, they learned nothiog of the danger to which the children had been exposed till after

they had seen then safe at the house of a kind neighbor,

What the "Scott Law" ot Ohio is. As the Ohio campaign turns to a certain extent upon the Scott taxing liquor law, which the Democrats assail and the Bepubiqans defend, the reader may be interested in the following brief summary of the provision of the law, given by Dr. Scott, the author of the measure. It provides: "L Tha every person in the State engaged in the traffic iu intoxicating liquors other than the manufacturer .'there of from the crude material, and who sells in quantities of one gallon or more, shall be assessed, and pay annually a tax of $200, if he sells distilled liquor, and 8100, if he sells fermented liquors alone. The lar makes the tax a lien on property in or upon which the liquor is sold, and punishes by severe penalties any person who sells on the premises of another without his written consent. '2. It further provides that any municipal corporation may prohibit the sale of intoxicating liquors within its territory and when that is done, persons having paid the tax shall be reimbursed pro rata for the unexpired portion of the year for which the tax was paid. "3. The law re-enacts the old statue, as old as the State itself, prohibiting the sale of intoxicating liquors on the Sabbath day as a beverage, and further provides that any municipal corporation may by ordinance suspend the operations of this provision, so far as the sale of beer or native wine is concerned on any part of that day. "4. It provides heavy fine and imprisonment for selling to minors, persons who are drunk or in the habit of getting drunk. "5. It repeals the law of 1854, which forbids the sale of intoxicating liquors to be drank on the premises when sold."

Putting it Strong. Texas Sittings. ......... A certain colored preacher near Austin not long since, undertook to describe the utter and unapproachable sinfulness of the best men in the world, and in doing this he had recourse to the iollowing vigorous language, "Bredderin and sisters, ef all de waters what am under de furnament and on tho top of the furnament was changed in de twinkling ob a eye enter de brackest ob ink, an' do skies was tor be changed inter letter paper, an ebery blade ob grass war a pen, an et all de folks who has ever fibbed was ter write day an nightunfcil dey was a million times older dan Methnsalom, dey wouldn't hab time, nor ink, nor pens, nor paper enuff ter write up de sinfulness ob de beat man in de hull world, ah."

CURRENT HISTORY,

Some Public Matters, of Details which will be Found of More than Ordinary Interest.

Moslem Prediction. Devout Moslems confidently predict the end of the world on November B, the end of the Moslem thirteenth century. Tradition declares that in the present montb, during the Bamadian fast, the sun shall riso in the west,the day of mercy and forgivoess shall cease, and that of judgment and f retribution begin. Thus, a proclamation has bean issued from Mecca warning all true believers to prepare for the coming day, which ha3 been widely circulated, and haa crepted a great impression. Corrections About Niagara River. The water in the chasm of tb Niagara Falls, according to the United States topographical survey, in the deepest part is only 18 feet deep, and not 400 feet deep as has been erroneously reported. In the whirlpool rapids the depth is little more than 125 feet. The largest vortex or "suck hole" is not in the center of the whirlpool, but near its upper end, and rest to the Canada shore.

. TUB APAOHBS. The Apaches are making themselves a source of trouble tor e Mexicans. Chief

u comes out to the wns and trades with the people. He a reared at a town near KI Paso, Tex., a few lays ago with 900 braves, and had large urns of money and a number of watches hioh he had evidently plundered from his victims. The Mexicans have a body of troops engaged in quietly surrounding him and his band, while several companies of United States infantry and oavlary have left Sacramento, OaL, for Casas Grandes to assist in the capture, TUB WAB OP BAOBS IN THXAS. The telegraph still is burdened with threatened outbreaks between the blacks and whites in Texas. The report! as published show a state of terror on the part of the white people that is seemingly unaccountable. Women and children are being placed for protection in strongly guarded gin houM and other secure places, while the whites are buying arms and ammunition as if a servile war impended. There has been np suoh scare since before tho war, when the abolitionists of the north were charged with stirring up the blaeks to all sorts of deviltries But really this exhibition of abject terror on the pai$ of the whites of Texae. is ridiculous. Therare in that State 393,394 blacks all told, including women and children, while the whites number a total of l,591,749,or nearly four times as many as the blacks. GHE8H.VM A5f D IiOTTBUrES. M. A, Dauphin, manager of the Louisiana lottery, sought to svade Postmaster General Greshams recent order by having tho business transacted through the New Orleans national bank whereupon an order has been issued directing the postmaster at New Orleans not to deliver any registered letters to, nor redeem any money orders for, said bank until it has given the department satisfactory assurance that it has abandoned the partnership scheme. In his defense ;n the lottery company suit, Judge Gresham will show that the company has no corporate existence, having failed to comply with the provisions necessary to its creation in the beginning. This will knock the complaint out of court. Postmaster General Gresham is about to start on a personal tour of inspection of the big offices east and wedt. One of his objsots is to inquire into, and, if possible, regulate and equalize cerk hire, iso as to give ornamental clark le pay aad the mea who do the work mora fcAND TR0U33LBS ABROAD. The English and Scotch farmers are preparing for an a?ressive movement against their landlords. An association has been formed which has sent delegates abroad, especially to this country and France, to inquire into the land-tenant system in both countries. The object of this association, known as the Farmers' allitince, are to secure the admission of farmers to parliament, county" governments in which the farmers shall be rep

resented, the reduction of tithe charges and modifications in the laws for conveyancing lands, and pay for the improvements put upon their holdings. That the allknee is determined to accomplish something is evident from the way it has gone to work, and that it will foroe recognition is probable from the number of farmers composing vL The English farmer is not by any means the equal, either in intelligence, business ability, or education, of the American agriculturist. Many of them are uneducated, and illit -eraoy is by no means unoommon among them. This will be the great hindrance in the way of their accomplishing tbe reform for which they are contending. The alliance in England and Scotland is significant, showing, ae it does, that the curse of landlordism does not blight Ireland alone of the united kingdom. o'PONNEIiIiIN BJTGIAOT. Che slayer of Care)' at the Cape of Good Hope has arrived in Louden and is being guarded to prevent a. rescue should hie friends attempt such a ishing. The examination of O'Donnell at the Cape, previous to his being returned to England, gives a different appearance to his crime than the public had reason to suspect from the first reportu ot the affair. In stead of O'Donnell having followed Carey to the Cape with the implied intention of killing him, he did not know that Carey was on board the ship until when near its destination a paper was received on board from the shore that gave Carey's name in the list of passengers. When O Donnell heard of it he w as greatly exoited, as h had made Carey's acquaintance on the trip without knowing who he was. It also appeared that O'Donnell had recently suffered from a sunstroke, whioh had affected his head and prevented his using any kind of liquor. As soon as he ascertained that Carey was the fellow-passenger he began drinking, and became an insane man. In this condition he shot Carey. These are what appeared to be, in brif, the facts as developed at the legal examination of the prisone. How far they will be born out in his trial it is impossible to say, but in this country a sharp lawyer would upon such facts base a defense of emotional insanity that quite likely would clear him. In England, however, there is far less nonsense and gush over such matters, than there are here. There euoh ruffians as Frank James would have been convicted andhung; here he is nisde a hero of. WHAT GBEEIiY HAS TO KELY ON. A Washington correspondent says Lieutenant Grely's case is regarded as by no means hopoless, as he has the advantage of daylight in whioh to raova If he left his station as orderednot later than Sept. 1 the days it is said, whioh would be lost in outlitting a vessel and tho voyage to Greenland, will be utilized by him in arriving at Cape Sabine, not far from Sept. 15, perhaps earlier. He will there learn of the Garlington disaster, and determine on his plans for the winter. If he attempts to go south upon the Danish settlements, he has 740 rations at Cape Sabine, and 240 mora on an island in its vicinity, went of Brevoort inland, and 240 at Littleton's island sufficient for forty-eight days for his command, but he may choose to regain Lady Franklin bay, a distance of 250 miles. At that place he had more than a year's supply of the best assorted food, including breadstnfis, canned meats, fruits, vegetables, chocolate, ooffiae, milk, preserves, s&U-cesj and also ligtit, fel and skitter.

For his journey northward he would have at Cape Sabine and on the island Wufc of. Brevoort some thirty-nine days' food ut starting, and i the road there are depots at reasonable distances whioh he will not have emptied on his way down to Cape Sabine. Of these depots there were at Cape Hawks oyer two months supplies, ten days' supplies at Cape Ool lison, and ten at Carl Bitter bay. From one to another of these hecau travel comparatively light, and is sure to find plenty on his return to Lady Franklm ba. He can not fail to know chat the m st earnest efforts will be ma ie -to release him next year, and plans will at once be prepared to pub on foot an expedition whioh, it is said, will meet all the wishes of the moBt amxioua friends.

, : Montenegro's Prison Discipline. Tinsley's Magazine In the principal street, that which you

enter in coming from Cattaro,. you find on the right hand first, the powder magazine, an insijfnifloant- looking square building; second, the prison. At first sight you suspect that your guide is imposing on you. The prison has no windows, and the door is a permanent aperture without means of closing it. The prison system is as old as the prison. A malefactor is ordered to lodge himself in the abode of culprits, and he goes there. He ha uo special guards the community watches over him. He receives no food, but the Government gives him three ha'f -pence a day to purchase all necessaries. Under the circumstances it can be imagined that, unless succored by bis family, he can scarcely live luxuriously. Unaccompanied by any guard the prisoners go daily to water the Prince's garden and take his horses ou t for exercise. They gallop about for a couple of hours, and then having puis the beaaia in their sablee, return to their uncomfortable quariers: A condemned person on that account does not by any means forfeit his claims to public confidence. One example will suffice. A short time before the declaration of war a commercial house in Trieste notified the Prince that a cargo of ammunition had arrived at- Cattaro, but jould not b delivered until its price, 90,(XX) francs, had beau paid. The steamer should leave in three hours after the receipt of the dispatch, and, under ordinary ciroumstauoes, six hours at least are required for the journey to Oattaro. Unless redeemed at the time there would be a delay of many days in delivering the cargo. i The. authorities bethought themselves of a heinous criminal, an individual with chained ankles, and who, for the crime of murder, was undergoing an exceptional punishment. In or er to prove an alibi, he had traversed an extraordinary distance after his crime and in an incredibly short time. The idea struck the authorities that this 'man might be useful under the circumstances. Among these mountains a man on foot moves much more quickly than on horseback. "Can you cairry tbese 90,000 francs to Cataro in threa hours?" was asked the man. Certainly" he replied. . He started,the sum was duly delivered, and, having returned with the receipt,the man returned to his unbarred prison. In another country it is more than probable that under the circumstances the prisoner and money, would have both disappeared. But iu Montenegro the case is different. Love of country is the predominant feature, albeit the country is not worth muoh. It is so small thj criminal cannot hope to esoane detection : and he cannot endure the ide of perpetual ostracism, Sometimes the Montenegrin goes abroadc for five or six years, but it is only that he ay return later on to display his splendid wardrobe, fche fruit ot his toils in foreign countries in Albania, in Herzer govina, even in Austria.

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Saving the Wheat. WnlllStreet New. Just when the reapers ougl;t to have bet n at work in the wheat fields of Michigan it was raining every day, and a dozen time b per day. and farmers were a blue lot. Sunday came, and it was a clear, fair day. At Delta, in Ingham county, a fair sized c mgregation had gathered at a country church to hold the usual service, when the minister arose and said: "Brethren, the Lord has finally given us a fair day;" . He paused.here and a couple of farmers slid out. "He has given us six days to work and one to rest, but during the last week you. have rested six." V. , Here four o:r five more went put, and he turned to the few left and continued: "A tarmer who has forty acres of wheat aching to be reaped should realize that the Lord knows that no man can worship Him on an empty stomach." . The last f aimer starte t for home, and the good man. looked over the women and h ildren and said: "Old Mrs. Raid wick is nearly blind,and deacon Johns on has no wheat out. I guess the three of m can visit with the Lord so well that he won't hear the rest of you driving the reapers and loading tho wagons."

"My nama 1 Asur " said the lad With modest. jvriniprioas wsat 'Mjmarae is Arthuf watt toy dad?' Ia br.uk from fightiu;? m se-West." "Oh, tell us. yo ath th a v& aides cried, "What foemen perished in the frajv And in the battle's aething tide ..-V-? How many Injnhu did he slay?" - :JjjT "Oh, let us elasp your honored hands." ' 4 Exclaimed the aenfolks, bowing low."And was your sire with Custer's band, $? Or following CJrook in tfexioo?" " And then the young man tossed his bend, ' '

and answered them, impatient grown;

My dauntless father fought," he said, 'Mosquitoes in the Yellowstone.?

,, Leave-Taking. : Not alt have learned the fine art of leave-taking ;tn an appropriate manner When you ara about to depart, do so at once, gracefully and politely, with .no dallying. Don' t say "It's about time I was going," aud thai settle baok and talk on aimlessly for another ten minutes. Some people have just suoh a tiresome habit. They will even rise,, and stand about the room in various attitudes, keepin g their hosfcs also standing, and then by an ffort 5uooeed in getting as fer as the hall, whan a new thought strikes them. They brighten up visibly and stand for some minutes longer, eayiag nothing of importance, but keepirg every one in a resliless, nervous state. Affeer the door is opened the prolonged leavetaking begioB, and everybody in general and in particular is invited to call. Very likely a last thought strikes the departing visitor which his friend must risk a cold to hear to the end. What a , relief when the door is finally closed! There is no disguising the faot that they are truly glad ha has at last gone. Don't-go that way. Make your leave-taking generally short. There is no need of being offensively abrupt, but when you are ready to g' go. r. " Murders ia Kentucky increased 135 per. cent, during the term of the "pardoning" Governor Blackburn, and they now average over two a week, cemmitted generally for the most tnval oaupes, says the Oioverport (Ky.) News. . .

ttRNrrcRATi Misnw.T.r.AKY:

Where do this steel pens go? There are

uirtuutcturea Tery wees; iroxa a,uuu(wu to 23,000,00d of them. Birminghan, Eag-

iMwa -i . a. i a. i z. a . m a i :

xuuu, wuub hum tiuouf i wo'tniiue ok lino ; number. x ' ' : ; In .BiahoT7Ate etrAftfc. Tjnndnn. ia a

ler where o ouutormer can be served withliwo successive drinks at'one sitting. ,

If he wants a second glass he must gel through the form of leaving the place and

returning. This rule has been enforced

The amended liquor law of Arkansas includes cities of the first and seoond V olaei in its provisions. By a majerity vote of the iuhabitauts the sale of intoxio-

ui.i iir nririu. muv no mvinimron. isnrnin

three miles of any church or school house. Woman arA alTfiwaA f -vnt-A tn tho nnv. .

tion. ; People who are saving up five cents v

pieces without the werd cents" on them,

in the fond hope that thev will be worth

dollars some day, may like to know thai the government nut 5.200.000 of them in .

circulation. Thev are eellioe bow in

Warn V"Amir a 4M m.Sj ViU''..

price than they will in all probabilir,

uxiu-n maxu. UlUiU DUO UfAV III W . The Mormons say that in hades water is not Tlfmfev. an d hantiam nan nnl Iia nit

minifiteredleast of alL baptisat'- by mv .

mersioQ. But no one can be saved who

is noli baptized. Therefore the living may stand in the place of the dead and

receive the ordinance vicariously". ; This .

is "baptism for the dead." :r ,; ' . " A "Drink Map" of Oxford, England, v, hna inaf. Vmati iflflno). frnm vlzinh i an. .

town must drink fully as madras they y study. Oxford has ia populatien- of only 35,000, and yet there ire in it 319 pieces r lincensed to sell liquors Dhey are well patronized, and intemperance1 is? very-:

common.

Tbe largest cattle ranch in the world is.; said to b9 that of Charles Goodnight w the head of the river Texas. He began hnvinc land at fchirfrv-fi vr . onka naranm:

In the meantime the pr ice has advanced. ;' from $1 to $2 per aere, but he ia still?

buying and controls 700,000 acres. To in close his land possessions 950 miles ofg fecce is required. Oa the range he has J $i0,000 worth of cattle. , ;"; ' On Sunday, Rev. John Butler, a color-1 ed miniftter of Wyandotte, Kan, was iu the midst of his diseonrse. when ke snd-; denly exclaimed: "Dispatched to heaven ; quickly,' and leaning forward upon the-

alter expired. The congregation did iKt understand th e oonditon of things, and? quitely waited for the preacher to resumed After two are three minutes one of ttedeacons went forward and found that the preacher was dead. Heart disease was th i eausft. "r.J?''-ri . There are living near Gainesville, Gavtwo young men named John and Sam Pasco, who are twins and look, and dross exactily alike. Two or three; years ago they married twin sisters, who look and ,

dress exactly alike.' The boys built cot

tages tnat loos: exactly aiise, ana eaonr ledy has a child about the Bame age that look very nearly exactly alike.' . AH are ini exoellant health, and laH week the whole

party came to the city behind a span of beauti ful mules that were nearly exact; 'li mi. J ' L' A. - 'L. ' . 1

mercantile ousiness,, ana are proaperona gentlemen. ,' ' .,1 ' Sitting Bull has had his first ride n a railroad. He believed that the train was

idly to the rear under the superintendence of a magician employed by the company.

witii aoouc v,uuu oiner sioox encsing

Bull is now held in honorable osnhnenient at Standing Bock agencv. He livos under an amnesty for all past offenses;

concin.onai upon guua ucnuvzur. nw wus with difficulty induced to attend the Vil-

lard ceremome. at JSismarcK, out wniie

fhAr.a Aiei a Innrl cffi&m hnoiriMW SAllina- hie

autographs to bloated Euroran aristo-. crate at L50 a piece. ' ' ' y- " CONDIMENTS ' J-; Marry in haste, aud repent at- ypnr father-in-law's. 'vv.' When an Oakland (OaL) girl goes into a shoe-store with a sweetheart she winks J

at the clerk and asks for "Langtry twos." r The a they take her-into the bai&yard and

try tbem oo. A fashion exchange says that short

. dressss are almost uuiyersalt We tairtitf

see how that can be so. We shonld jadge,1 that the shorter the dress the moreuuiy- r ersal it would be. But perhaps we err. ' . Speaking of the bouse of a idy who

sparing tho rod, somebody remarked how.

said Fogg, 'every think is like w!xacks

work." o ;;, - ;v

A young miss of lb aaks wtsat'isne

proper thing for her to do when she ia serenaded by a party of gentlemen at a r late hour. We-are jfiflad to beable to anjawerthia question. Steal softly idown. stairs and untie the dog. . ' I A face forlorn, a tired look, .... . -

Ax Mount veeerty a snaay nooK, - He wears, she reads from out a book, v l

Not so! He's not that kind of gent, ; He sings, "Tisgonel'his last red cent.

' An mdiBoreet son-m-law. wxonr moth-er-in-law appears to have a pain in th6 side?" Not at all. She has a tbofchache.

But every now and then I see her put her hand on her side, as though :sb1i8 f A ; a pain there." "That is because she has put her teeth in her pocket.'' . On the stage or in real life, a man at ways puts his arm round a girl to, pro-? teot her. Now unquestionably a man :

wilih one arm occupied in hugging : a girl isnt in the best form -fciS;;wo; .oa?: dncer but still it's a? gool cuwtom, which we woulda't for the World see go into disuse

the danger is so often imaginary.

New York's grape orop wilj be enor? monst , ;

The Cry of Overwork.

Oinoinnati Ck)inmeroiHl-Gaasetto. ""' ... ; . ; Now and then a business man sinks under too much work, and seeks reliet

from mental denression in suicide. Bntf

saioides are much more common among

liquor guz?lera and loafers; who

thf necessity of working for a livings

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