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ABBEVILLE PRESS AND BANNER.! BY HUGH WILSON. ABBEVILLE, S. C.. WEDNESDAY, APRIL 30, 1884. NO. 44. VOLUME XXVIII. ' c : r* - j TRUTH. White-throated Truth is like a pertectflww" Filled up with odors rising oa the air? A fragrant incense through its holy bowers I Where darkness pales, and ruthless winds j forbear. Untrammeled Truth is like a summer bird ; Swift nying to the heights above tho earth, Who warbles in its flight no groveling word. But lifts on high these souls of lower birth, t She never sins, she never dreams of shame. But walks upright, v.ngarbed, and fears no blame. She sweeps up error from the path of men; Her mission is to purify and bless, Her home tho grave of mystery; oh, then Accept white-haired Truth and nothi n less. ? "\Tprlnrrt CIn vb LADY BEST'S MISTAKE, j Ilicy lived in a creeper-covered cottage nestling among verdure in the highly-cul- j tivated valley of one of the Home countics. There was a small didry-fann attached to it, upon which I.adv Best bestowed all her j leisure hours, and thereby managed to ! add no inconsiderable sum to her income, j which, since her husband's death, had j been rather limited. With the money derived from this j ^ source she had been able to send her only son, Arthur, to Oxford?Arthur, who was i the apple of her eye, the one only bein^ I for whom she really cared. She had ! given him a first-class education, and it , had not been received on 6tony ground, for Arthur was clever, and a book-worm, ' too much so for worldly purposes, since he had indulged in study and contempla- j lion tili he had become a dreamer. By the time he reached the age of twentyfive it had been declared by all the neigh-' bors, and Lady Best's circle generally, ; that Arthur would never do any good for himself in life: a hard verdict, consider- | ins that he had not a single vice, and was ' handsome and manly-looking. Not that; his habits and pursuits were exactly man- j ly; fishing was the- only sport in which he : had ever been known to indulge, and hespent his time for the most part in wandering listlessly about the valley, wearing clothes of a somewhat rcsthetic cut, which was ivirtirnlarlv distasteful to his rural . "neighbors, a sloueliiug felt hat on his' < heud, and a book -generally poetry?in his hand. Idolizing Arthur though she did, it depressed Ladv Best not a little to see him take to an effeminate do-nothing style of life; and .since he had now wasted more than a year in this sort of dream, she began to despair of swing him embiirk in any of the professions for which she had hoped his education v ould have fitted him. What she was to do?how she wan 1 to change the current of events?she did not know. "Was he in love? Had lie had a dis- J appointmenther acquaintances asked her till she was tired of answering. The j question, however, at last suggested a | remedy. Why should not a touch of the , very disease from which people thought i that he was suffering, bring about nis ' cure? Girls! she would surround him with ! girls; of course, while she hud a due , regard for good looks, never forgetting that in her estimation nothing made the ' eyes glisten with so much pleasure as the \ sight of gold. So Lady Best gave a tenuis party and invited all the beauty of the county, in- ' eluding two or three heiresses, but before ' the afternoon was half over Arthur had j disappeared. He had wandered down the ; valley away from "the noise," as he . called the musical laughter of these 1 maidens, promising himself to return as 1 soon as they should all be gone. Ladv Best was disappointed but not , crushed: she would try again, this time ' in a quieter, but she hoped* a more effectual way. ;, 'Arthur was out so much she was at times very dull," she told him; "moreover,.she wanted some assistance in effect- .11 ing one or two dairy reforms. Her eldest.' brother's daughter?Hannah Milton? aged nineteen, was, she understood, a decidedly practical, energetic girl. She . had not seen her since slit* was a baby, but she should like to invite her on a ' long visit and make her acquaintance. ' Had Arthur any objection?'' "No; none whatever. Of course his mother was perfectly free to do as she ( liked " "... ( But would he lie civil and kind to this unknown cousin when she came? ' "If she pleased him, certainly; but, j doubtless, she would in no way interfere ' with his pursuits." I Not very encouraging if Lady Best had *' anxserious intentionsin reference to Miss < Hannah Milton, who?we will observe in parenthesis?she believed would ' sooner or later come into the possession ! ' of at least a hundred thousand pounds. ' Not a word of this, however, did she ' utter to Arthur, but, without furtherdis- ' cussion, wrote an affectionate letter to 1 her niece, asking her to come and stay at ' the cottage as long as she could endure 1 the frugality and smallness of her impe- ' cunious life. ' Miss Hannah Milton answered by re- | turn of post that -he should be delighted ' to avail herself of her aunt's invitation, 1 more especially as her father was goiug ' abroad on business, and she should be ! her own mistress for the next two 1 months. She might be expected to ar- : rive bag and baggage, at the cottage on the 5th of July. It was then the end of June. To this announcement followed a post- 1 script that she hoped her dear aunt did 1 not object to living,animals, as of course 1 she could not leave her's all alone at Milton Hall during her own and her father's absence. Lady Best was delighted at the success of her letter, and wrote again to say that both she and Arthur were particularly fond of pets. Arthur had read Miss Milton's letter aud merely said that he hoped the dogs, if they were dogs, were thoroughbred;! he hated everything that was not perfect, i So, till the 5th of July, the Cottage, : Vrtlmr <v?nf lit 11 ffir it POllId not be expcctcd that he should endure j fuss and clatter?was convulscd with preparations for the arrival of the heiress-niece and her retinue. A bedroom was turned into a boudoir for her private use, and two bedrooms adjoining were set aside for herself and her maid. ' The Cottage was one of those elastic establishments with countless small rooms, capable of taking in a far larger number of people than its exterior would lead you to imagine. llanuah Milton's home was in the North. It would be quite evening before she would arrive, and T.ady Best passed all the day in a state of feverish excitement, wandering from room to room. She seemed to feel that there was h destiny at stake; whih' Arthur, the indi-j vidunl who in all probability the mosL concerned, was j rt'cctly cool and collected. and passed the hours in his habitual plac-id enjoyment of a hook. . The mystic shade of-twilight was al- j ready creeping up the valley, wlum ' wheels were heard approaching the Cot% tag'-, and Lady Best went out into the porch to receive her guest. Fain would j 8he have persuaded Arthur to accompany her. hut he preferred an aim-chair by the ! window. At last the carriage is at the door, and j Hannah Milton, having sprung out, is i clamorously kissing her aunt. There is nothing u'sthctic or dreamy , "about h<r. She has a broad, plain, hon- ; est, open face, with fine eyes and a large mouth lull cf strong-looking white teeth j ?r.ot the slighest pretension to beauty, i but you-can sec at a glance that JIannah Milton is a thoroughly good, kind, sin- j . cere woman Her voice is very loud, j lmt it. has the rinir of a true heart. It frightens Lady Best, howerer, as she* I thinks: "What will Arthur say? Will ! ho run away from Hannah, or allow him- i self lo be subdued by her?'' In the carriage beside Hannah, half concealed by bird-cages, a Persian cat "' ? ' and three small dogs of different breed", there is a girl?the maid, of course. The dogs and the cat spring out after Hannah and the footman tako the bird-cages. Just as the unnotictd occupant of the carriage is stepping out Hannah turns round. "Oh! I forgot; let me introduce my dearest friend, Agatha Burghley. Of course you expected her; she never leaves , me, you know." Lady Best held out her hand in a wel" v ' Y come to which her ho:irt did not respond; I rudr did she speak, except to say: "And your maid, Hannah;'' Miss Milton hurst out laughing. "That , is a luxury in which we don't Indulge? j do we, A<jgvWe arrange our toilets ourselves, and very effective they are sometimes, ehf" Lady Hest looked again at this companion of whom she had never heard before. No. decidedly; if she had known of her existence she would not have j asked Hannah to the cottage. For Aga- | tha was beautiful, of that refined spir- J ituali/.ed beauty about which poets rave. ; For an indefinite period she had invited Hannah, and this companion, this Agatha, was she also to be their daily associate for weeks ? The meeting with Arthur, however, j could not be deferred, and Lady Hest led -? -i? .1 Uie W!IV Kill) Ull' UIil? iii<;-iuuiii. Ho was as cordial as it was in his na- i tare to be in his reception of his cousin, but when the same formula of introduc- ! tion with which Lady Hest had been greeted was gone through, and Agatha, dragged forward by her energetic friend, stood before him, with the pule gleam of the rising moonlight on her face, he started back as though he had seen a spectrP, more in fear than admiration, as it seemed, to his anxious, watching mother. There was no time, however, for spec- j ulation as to what feelings Agatha had awakened in Arthur's breast, the necessities were asserting themselves and Hannah in her blunt way declared herself to be famishing. "A rapid toilet and dinner. C'ouie on, \ Agatha, we shall not keep Lady Best ! waiting long," and the two girls went! quickly up into the rooms that had been prepared i'or them. In less tlmn a quarter of an hour they came back, looking as spic-and-span as if they had made no long journey. It was (. very obvious that the services of u maid were unnecessary. The evening, however, was scarcely a j1 merry one. Arthur was more than usually silent and meditative, Agatha very tired; : '< she was not so robust as Hannah, who was the only lively one of the party, and 1 chattered ceaselessly to Lady liest, who, . for once in her life, was not a good lis- !. tcner. All her attention was riveted on "that young person." as she already in her mind, designated the somewhat lack- j ( adaisical Agatha. , Hannah was very full ol the projected j, dairy reforms. She loved everything that gave her practical tendences full vent; j i?ut Lady I Jest was by no means as keen 1 as she was. j "While they were reforming what : would Arthur and this beautiful Agatlri l>e <loiay?'' she asked herself. "Oh, if | Hannah would only turn her lull attention on the far more important work of , reforming Arthur!" Lady Hest was, however, too much of 11 i diplomatist to let her thoughts appear ' iu words; 110, she must act, manoeuvre, < watch. i Qf course the first thing next morning ] Hannah expressed a wish to go over the ; ] farm, and accompanied by Agatha, she i 1 uid Lady Best started on a tour of inspec- j tion. Arthur had seen the farm ad nau- j < ieum, he said, and it did not amuse him; 1 lie preferred remaining in the house till 1 luncheon-time. 1 1 With the explanations and discussions j which this farming pilgrimage entailed, ] Lady Best's spirits rose and she became 1 horoughly absorbed in her sub let, re- < juicing that she had found so congenial a 1 companion and able co-worker as Han- j j rah. On a sudden however, her spirits 1 Tell to zero?Agatha had disappeared. ] "Of course she had gone to join Arthur; < t was a preconcerted plan between them," 1 ind the mother as she thought of it be- < ;anie perfectly miserable. ] >>0 more talk about gallons of milk, j London market, home consumption, etc. j >he was tired, she said, and if Hannah ( lid not mind, they would return to the i louse. Thev reached the bottom of the ^ jarden. which lay in front of the draw-1 ng-room windows, just as Agatha, ac- | :ompanied by Arthur, strolled up the j errace toward the wood. i The sight was pa:?t bearing; this then ^ ivas to be the end of all her loving care ( fur Arthur; he was to marry Hannah's j penniless companion. Nor did Hannah's emark, as she too perceived them, tend o calm the excited mother's fears. "Oh! they are jjoing to have a little t T told Afnrv tne sooner it was * ?~ "OO.' - ^ >ver the better." "A chat with my son ? Has this? ( his Miss Burghley met Arthur before V Hannah laughed. "Did you not know? x >h! then I must not tell the secrets of j he prison-house. But pray don't look j >o rueful, aunty mine. The secret is not t }f a very dreadful nature." Ladv Best was, however, by no means omforted by this intelligence. "Arthur iiad been carrying on with this girl un- i known to her and hence the reason of j lis de jection and listlcssncss. Of course :he neighbors were right; love was the {| oot |of the evil. Aijd to think of the f ittle minx forcing herself in here mder Hannah's auspices. Oh! it was :oo bad?very much too bad; she had r aeen treated shamefully!" j And, her heart too full to speak with- ^ >ut committing herself, which pride pre- [ vented when she remembered that his . niece had been conniving to deceive her, j she went indoors, up into her own room, ! f ?f which she locked the door, and then w indulged in the luxury of a tempestuous _ Imrst of tears. For more than an hour she remained t there, sobbing and composing herself by turns, till at last she heard voices under ' the window. Carefully concealing herself, she peeped from behind the curtain. There they were, all three talking and laughing, a ''woke up" look on Arthur's / face which she had not seen there for (( months. ' It was strange, very strange; and as i ^ she stood aud watched them she could not make up her mind whether she had 1 or had not made a mistake in asking these people to come. After all, if his love for Agatha saved Arthur from despondency and nude a man of him, she : . /.nnuiilm. Vior uliioft nr.'linprl iu vuiumvi ..v.. vp, Anyway, she made up her mind to be silent for the present and take notes; , und so deciding, she washed her face, j smoothed her silvering hair, set her cap i daintily 011 her head and went down- ' ( s!:tir<, where the luncheon was decidedly !' far more cheery than the dinner had been on the previous evening. And the days passed on?life at the Cottage seemed very bright to all but its j mistress, who could not reconcile herself to the fact that she had been de ' < reived: not even though it gladdened | l her heart to hear Arthur laughing mer- j rilv, as he sometimes did at his cousin's j : sallies, or to see him take an interest he | never took before in the farm and its t 1 workings. Agatln's pale, beautiful face would j come between the mother and the change j her presence seemed to have effected, i and Ladv Best felt that she could never love Agatha, even though Arthur's whole happiness was centered in her. j Hut it' she had lostu son stie naugaineu : a daughter, for, appreciating Hannah's j merits its she did to the fullest, she felt j that she was each day learning to love : hei more and more. Many times was it ! on her lips to tell her how grieved she ) was at the direction Arthur's fancy seemed j to have taken, hut pride held her back, j At last, almost before they could be* i lievc in its approach, St. Partridge ar- j rived, and with it a letter from Mr. Mil- l ton, saying he should be back in less | than a week: that lie would take the cottage on his way, see his sister and escort j his dauglitar home. What tears and heartburnings did this j letter produce! Hannah was evidently in despair at leaving the cottage, f Arthur became as despondent as lie was I two months ago; only Agatha seemed to have no regret. i "Of course not, since she expects to stay here always; not with me, though. She will not live here with iwy' raged j Lady Best to herself. And in this mood Arthur found her | ouo when he sought her in the little morning-1 >om she called her den. ! He broke the ice without any preliminary skating o\c" it. "Mother, will it noi be a pleasure to you if I bring you a daughter to welcome ?" "Oh, Arthur, if you only knew how I have dreaded this question!"' "Dreaded it, mother ? I thought you would be delighted." - * y "IIow could voir? A penniless, lackadaisical, intriguing"?the rest of her sentence was a sob, interrupted, however. by an exclamation from Arthur. "Penniless?Hannah? Why, her only fault in my eyes is that she has money, and my uncle may think " "Hannah! You don't mean to say it is Hannah you love.' Oh, you dear Ar tinir?my own boy!" "You did not think it was Agatha ? Why, she has been engaged to my old college chum, Laurence Wilmot, for the hist year. They had a little breeze just before she came here, which I hail the pleasure of making up. I could not tell you, because the whole thing was a.secret o/innnnt nf l.ic lliwlc Till* f>l<1 (Tell tlcman, however, has given in, and they arc to l)e married very soon.'' Lady Best soon forgot all her anxiety and the unliappiness of the last few weeks in her present joy: ami of course she promised to negotiate matters with Mr. Milton when he should arrive, and she did do so most elTcctually, for he seemed as pleased as she was; and from the day the marriage was finally settled, she began to unbend and lind a place for Agatha in her capacious heart, showering upon the girl?in very gratitude for finding fliat her love for Arthur was all a mistake?:is many kindnesses atul presents as she bestowed on her well-beloved Hannah. And when, at last, the two marriages took place at Milton llall on the same clay, the uninitiated would almost have thought that Lady Best was the mother of both brides.?Ca&tcll. SELECT SITTINGS. Flotsingen, Wurtemburg, has a brigade nf forty-two female water carriers belonging to the lire department, each of the four squads being commanded by a "female corporal." Inns were established about the close of the fifteenth century, when the nobles began to grow exclusive in their habits, '.1 . . i.:1,?1| mm It) UUjeCl IU UIMUlj; ill iui; .-<uiiic nan with their servants and making all compis welcome to the board. Sonic idea of the increase of the button manufacture may be derived from the fact that in a single French village near , Paris there are more lhan ."5.000 persons engaged in making agate buttons, although in 18.11 there were but G,U3S button makers in England. The clerks in the government departments at Washington say that the returns and papers received from the Pacific States have a resinous or balsamic odor strong enough to be perceptible even when the papers are mingled with others from many parts of the country. Whales were eaten by persons of the upper classes in Europe as late at least as I he latter part of the thirteenth century. The tail and tongue dressed with peas ;>r roasted were prized as choice dclicauics. The Princess Eleanor do Montfort paid, in 12GG, the sum of 24s. for "100 pieces of whale" to be used as food in lier household. Many visitors to Statuary hall, in the apitol, at Washington, have noticed has in the statue of Washington, conributed by Virginia, both the upper and lie lower lins hnlice out into undue ; iromiucnce ami give tlie expression a lit her curious cast. A native Virginian, ivhile in Washington the other day, - leared up the mystery as follows: "I lon't believe that it has ever been in >rint before, but the real reason why these features arc distorted is that a short time x'fore his death Washington used a louble s'*t of fals?- teeth. They were nude in Paris on gold plates, but they lid not lit him. As a consequence, when le died thev were in his mouth, and, as ' said, they bulged the lips out. The )laster cast faithfully reproduced this listortion." The origin of the word "queer" is due o Quiu, the actor. He bet ?100 with a lobleman one evening, that, by the next uorning. at breakfast time, there would >e a word in most people's mouths that vns never heard before. That night, vhen the theatre had closed, lie got all he "supers" and others whom he hired, urnished each with a good lump of balk, and instructed one and all to jo througix the principal streets of I,onlon and chalk on the flags the word Mimnr " Till* TU>vf irmrriinnr lionnle ..... -) , j vere startled by seeing such an unusual iijht. Some believed it was significant >f danger?that a secret enemy was near, ,nd this was his watchword; so the word vent the rounds in a most amazing way. t might be said to he not "in most peoile's mouths.*' but "in everybody's nouth.*' Quin, of course, won the wager. Why Eyes Shine. Swan M. Burnett, M. D., suvj in Popuur Science Monthly: Place a child (beause the pupils of children are large), nd by preference a blonde, at a distance ?f ten or fifteen feet from a lamp which s the only soiree of light in a room, and ause it to look at some object in the diection of the lamp, turning the eye you vish to look at slightly toward the nose, sow, put your own eye close behind the amp-flame, with a card between it and he flame. If you will then look close ?y the edge of the flame covered by the aid into the eye of the child, you will ce, instead of a perfectly black pupil, a eddish-yellow circle. If the eye happens o be hypermetropic, you will be able to iee the red rellex when your own eye is it some distance to one side of the lame. This is the true explanation of the luuinous appearance of the eyes of some mitnals when they are in comparative jbscurity. It is simply the light reflected rom t lie bottom ol tueir eyes, wnicn is fonerallyofu reddish tinge on account )f the red blood in the vascular layer of he choroid bach of the semi-transparent retina, and not light that is generated there at all. This reflection is most apparent when the aninud is in obscurity, jut the observer must be m the light, iml somewhat in the relative position indicated in the above-described expeiinent?that is, the eye of the observer nust be on the same line with the light md the observed eye. The eyes of nearly all animals are hypermetropic, uost of them very highly so, so that they ?md out the rays of light which have Mitvred them in a very diverging manner. To Preserve the Kyesiglit. The general rules for preserving a good eyesight put down by the author of a recent work may be summarized in the tlvif llm i< IWI|UA> WAllikUl . v?..tv .... ..^..v ... sufficient, and that it falls properly upon your work. Xcver sit facing it. It is best that the light should fall upon the work from above or behind. Failing this, it may fall from the side. Never use the eyes at twilight. Any artificial light for the evening is good if it be brilliant enough and steady. Heading while riding in any conveyance should be avoided: it requires too great an exertion of the accommodative power to keep the eyes fixed on the letters. Never read when lying down; it is too fatiguing for the accommodative power. Many a tedious case of weak sight has been traced to the pernicious habit of reading in bed after retiring for the night.?J'uU Mall Gazette. Freaks of Earthquakes. Tf been ascertained thai, in many cases, these convulsions bring about profound alterations of tln^ level of land and sea. A large portion of the county of New Madrid, in .Missouri, which was involved in a series of terrestrial disturbances, lasting lor several years from 1811, was found to have sunk permanently a distance of several feet. A contrary effect was produced in 1822, 011 the coast of South America, where, after a violent disturbance of this character, the whole of the country between the Andes and the Pacific coast was found to hare been elevated permanently to a height of from two to seven feet.?Youths' Compan ion. Tli? only drawback to enthusiasm in any good cause is that it may so absorb 11s as to prevent us from recognizing something else equally needful. We are large enough to include both, the more zeal we possessed the better; but, we are so limited in power, we should beware of exhausting it in a single direction, , S THREE STRANGE BROTHERS. 1 ! THE ISOLATED LIFE LED B7 THEM TOR MANY YEAHS. One of Thciti for Sixty-three Years a < Imiueri Hanlac-Thclr Antipathy to Women and .Matrimony. The following strange story has been i made public in ti recent letter: Five j miles south of Huntingdon, Penn., in | Juniata township, on the banks of the j Ibiystown branch, a graceful stream i which courses through the most beautiful and picturesque scenery to be found i anywhere in that Slate, lived a family named Hawn, consisting of three elderly brothers, one of whom has been a maniac from his youth. The united ages of these brothers aggregate 2-13 years, nnd bv indnstrv and the strictest economy they have amassed a very large fortune, J the 'greater part of which is popularly believed to be secreted on the premises. ! Singularly misanthropic, these brothers have from their youth up strenuously objected to any one of their number marrying. The llawn brothers have been known for many years as honest, respectable farmers. And probably no other men can be found in this country who have performed as much manual labor. Asan instance of their frugality it might be mentioned that in clearing land or falling heavy timber they would assume a kneeling position and cut the trees level with the ground. Their work l was always so well arranged that each j one knew just what was required of him. j Until recent years the culinary and othci domestic household duties were per- ! formed in turn by the brothers, their dis- j like to the opposite .sex being so great | that for fifty years no woman was ever | known to enter the house. Finally, j however, owing to their declining years, | they were compelled to renounce their i edict against the employment of female j help, and reluctantly engaged a house- j keeper. The commodious frame house, sadly in need of repairs, strikingly re- I semblcs the inn of fifty years ago. The | surroundings indicate the very common- j est mode of living, and out of all proportion to the luxuries and even comforts of life that could be allorded. Carpetless, though bright scoured floors, unadorned walls and the plainest furniture greet the eye at every turn. Yet, accessible as the house is to the visitor, there is one apartment in it barred against all comers, and this is a modern exemplification of the mythical "Blue Beard's closet/' This room or cell contains the oldest maniac living in Pennsylvania to-day. Daniel llawn, the youngest ol the Hawn brothers, who is now eighty-four years old, has existed in this hovel for sixtythree years. His room contains not n single piece of furniture, for this he would destroy. Behind the chimneyplace, and in the furthest corner, he sits vear after vear. His face is framed in a (lowing silvery beard, and the play of musclcs as he wrenches and tugs at the chains that, secure his person shows his great physical power, lie is securely bound to the floor by linked chains which encircle his waist and which are fastened 1 to the floor by an iron staple. He talks incoherently, and at times manifests ! great violence, lie lives in total darkness. During the winter months he is protected against the cold by a stove j I encased in the partition, so that the fire i i can be attended to without having to j i enter his room. The cause of this in- j curable mania is attributed to his having, j when a boy, drank freely of cold water while overheated in the harvest field, , whereupon he took a chill and at once j became a raving maniac. Ilis condition ! | is extremely touching and pitiful. Se- | eluded from the sight of man, and de- ! j prived of pure air, sunlight and the j, necessary attention his case requires, this j ( unfortunate being is left to grovel in his dungeon when by the expenditure of a small percentage of the hoarded wealth J of his more fortunate brothers he could j be properly cared for and protected. i, Ho Mighty Patient with Children. J Parents and teachers o ight to be ( mighty patient with children. Some have L more capacity and some more memory. ( .Some arc slow and some arc quick. It j is not the smartest child that makes the : , smartest man or woman. It Is a power- : , ful strain on some of 'cm to keep up, j | and the dull ones oughtn't to be crowded i, until they hate books and dread the time j of going to school. Some folks send ' their children to school to get rid of 'em, I but my opinion is the parents ought to i help tiie teacher every night. It shows | tht* children how much interest they feel | in their education. It is a sign of a good j I teacher when the children get ambitious to keep up and get head marks, and 11 bring their books home at night and i> want to go to school if it is raining a 1, little. Wrap 'em up and let 'cm go. There is nothing that demoralizes a i scliool-boy like staying at home every j few days and getting behind his class, j1 We used to walk three miles to school, j 1 and we never minded it at all. It was [! a frolic all the way there and all the ' way back, and we did have the best din- j ner in the world. Delmonico never had 1 as good things as our mother used to fix up for us. It seems to me so now. A i child's life is full of romance and fun? i the best sort of fun. A child's dreams are splendid, but we don't dream now, hardly ever. I used to read Robinson Crusoe and dream it all over again. How I did long to be shipwrecked on an island and raise monkeys and goats and parrots. Slow children are generally sure chil- I dren, but they don't show oil much, j Daniel Webster was most always foot in i his class, but when he learned anything he never forgot it. Some boys are restless and have no love lor bonks, but they oughtn't to be given up or hacked or | nnn 11 llllM 11V If tllf'V llllVU imod "vlwvu * ? ?' n I parents they will come to themselves : alter awhile. It is astonishing how humiliation will ; follow a boy. One time a boy stole a i quarter of a dollar from another boy at i school, and that followed him to his ; grave, lie got to be a great man and i was thirty years in Congress and was ti , Senator, and one day when lie made a bit i ter speech against the corruption of the opposite party and denounced their steal i ing and plundering by wholesale, one of j his opponents replied by saying he would j remind tly; gentleman that preachers^of j morality should come into the pulpit with clean hands?that lien .Franklin said, j " lie that would steal a nin would | steal a bigger thin ^,'' and he asked no j quarter from the gentleman on that ! score. So, boys, remember and keep your ! hands clean. Folks will forgive mischief j and a heap of other thing.--, but they won't forgive meanness.?Bill Arp. Anecdote or Stephen A. Donglns. j "Know Douglas?Stephen A.? Yes, indeed. I knew him when lie was n : young man," said Rev. John Fisk in n i recent interview, "lie had just opened j a law office in Jacksonville, 111., and I ! was studying with him. One morning ! as 1 came into the office Douglas stood 1 with a letter in hi^ hand and was gazing at it intently, thinking about something. 1 lie broke out limdly with: "1 have just jot a letter from Vandalia saying that they are going to elect an attorney gencneral day after to morrow. If I had a home and a little money I would go j down there and see if I couldn't get it.' j Vandalia was then the seat of govern- I ment and was seventy-live miles from Jacksonville. 1 ioiu mm, ncn, mere s that old gray horse of mine, and I've got about $S, and if that will do you any good you're welcome to (lie horse and money.' Ho thanked me and accepted tlieoifcr. 'Go catch your horse and I'll go.' So I got tip the horse and Douglas startecT. He had about twenty miles to go before he struck the prairie, and then there were twenty miles of straight prairie. He had to ride through this in i the darkness of the night, but lie wanted to get into Vatidalia as soon as possible. 1 Well, he not only got there, but he got ! elected. It was the lirst office he ever ' held. After that he kept rising from one j position to another, j\ist like so many 1 steps going upstairs.?Detroit Free Press, j Armies of rats arc ravaging portions of Central America. This occurs frequently in tropical climates. There are now sixty life convicts in Sine Sine prison. i ?cf_ J j' NEWS AND NOTKS FOR WOMEN. American surahs nrc increasing in favor. Velvet skirts will be worn again this summer. The "Venetian," a new waist, has thirteen seams. Immense and diminutive collars arc alike lashionablc. There arc eleven States in which women vole for school directors. The wife of a Chamberlain, S. C., street car driver is worth $:}00,()00. A woman started the first daily paper in the world in 170*2 in London. Waists of jersey webbing to be worn over a waistcoat of velvet are out. An Albanian belle paints her face profusely. and her tasle runs to cherry lips and checks. Forty lady students arc studying in tho Paris hospitals the majority of whom are Russians. Poplin is now a favored material and bids fair to be quite us popular as it was some years a<jo. Sleeves and the now French shoulder capes have still a decidcd tendency to fulness at the top. Short skirts of smoke gray velvet are much worn with Louis X V. polonaises of dove gray brocade for elegant c;.rri.igo dress. New walking jackets arc short, with trimmings of braid. The collar is high find .Iraiirht, the buttons small and the sleeves full at the top. r.M . : I lircc :MI1UII(;;iii lauita nuii v,uiio|/*v,iious at the recent hospital bazar in London?Ladies Mandcvillo and Randolph Churchill and Mrs. Ronalds. .Miss Eva Muckay, daughter of the bonanza king, is at the head of a society of young ladies who go about doing what good they can among the poor of Paris. In Dakota married women retain their own real and personal property, and may make contracts, sue and be sued, as if single. Neither husbanrl nor wife has j any interest in the property of the other. I The daughter of Rev. E. P. Roe, the | novelist, gives promise of being a novel- j ist, too. She is only seventeen years old, j but she has already written an accepta- | ble story called "Quits'* for the Chicago Current. Stockinas match the dre>s or are of ! black, which is stylish with anything. 1 The latest advices from abroad say that white stockings are again the height of fashion, but here, as yet, they are only j in demand in silk. Women are employed in considerable ' number in mechanical drawing in Great , Britain. They make drawings of ma- I chinerv, steam boilers, etc., and give | excellent satisfaction. They have been tried chiefly in shipbuilding and engineering offices. More examinations have been thrown 1 open to women at Oxford, England. ' Hereafter the regular university examin- I fit ions in mathemat ics, modern history : and natural sciencc will he free to them Higher education for women is steadily gaining ground. Miss bli/.abeth P. Peabody, of Boston, j now nearing her eightieth year, was the first to introduce the kindergarten system in this country, and for more than a half L-entury has been prominent in works of | philanthrophy and sympathetic with the American progress in art and literature. ; Arc English girls try:ng to become too i muscular ( Is the physical development produced by excessive indulgence in the horizontal bars, the trapeze, and other . graceful forms of exercise, good for thern ? This is a question asked by a. medical man in the columns of a London newspaper. Mrs. Armytngc dclincs the attire of a perfectly dressed woman as original withDut eccentricity; personal to herself, yet following the latest fashion; attractive, yet undemonstrative; developing to the utmost her peculiar charms. There are two classes of women who fail to dress in accordance with Mrs. Army tape's admiriblo definition of perfect attire?the one Iocs not select apparel in keeping with the complexion, figure and character; the at her, having selected a becoming style uf dress, does not know when and where to wear it. To these classes the advice sf a trustworthy modiste is invaluable. *. ! WISH WORDS. Character is perfectly educated will. ' The world is a comedy to those who think?a tragedy to those who feel. We never injure our own characters so much as wheu we attack those of others. Satire often proceeds less from illnature than from the desire of displaying it. The human will is not of adamant, and the sternest resolution will often suddenly melt iu a tear, or dissolve in a sigh. A mother will sleep through the rattling of thunder, and yet wake at the ; sigh of the child. Her ears are in her heart. The most influential man, in a free ~ .<? i..?L:t Ic flio tmin who has the ability, as well its the courage, to speak , what lie thinks when occasion may require it. The fortunate man is he who, horn pooi, or nobody, works gradually up to wealth and consideration, and having got them dies before he finds they were not worth so much trouble. Exclusively dwelling upon ourselves, on our own virtues and failings and experiences, weakens our power of synipa- . thy with others, while it increases our acuteness of sensibility as regards self. . A great man under the shadow of de- j feat is taught h.nv precious are the uses of adversity; and as an oak tree's roots arc daily strengthened by its shadow, so all defeats in a good cause are but resting places on the road to victory at last, j --* Churchyard Poetry. That the following, at Lillington, nea. j Leamington, is genuine, there is no reason to doubt: the lines arc touching, j They are in memory of a man named John Trees: ' Poorly lived. Ami poorly died, Poorly buried, And no ono cried.'1 K(jiially melancholy, though with n dif- | ferent kind of sadness, are t lie rhymes on John Hill; thev come from 'a churchyard at Manchester"'; "Here lies John Hill, a man of skill, His a^e was five times ten, lie ne'er did good, nor ever would, Had lie lived as loti? again." Very likely not, for if in half a century o man does no good he will hardly turn , over a new leaf at lifty years of ,.gc. Is j the following to be considered as an' eulogium 011 the person commemorated:, "Proviist Peter Patterson was Provost ol ; Dundee, Provost Poter Patterson, here lies lie, Hallelujah, Hallelnjee!'' And what is the meaning of this j singular inscription in Cusop churchyard. Herefordshire? lias it anv meaning a' nil ' II earth be all AViiy ( Vraixi o'er n heaten path Yoii walk and ilraw up nothing; new. Not so our martyred seraph did "When from the Verge of Wales he fled." ; The martyred seraph was William Sow nrd, of IJadsey. Worcester, who died Oo tobcr 2vJ, l?i'i;liow a man could be > seraph, and how a seraph could la martyred arc unexplained mysteries. It is somewhat curious 1o iind a persot not only writing his own epitaph, bir doing it in the following manner. Mr Thompson speak' of himself as dead am l.I. .,,,,1 vi.i In. ciii'vivcd liimself fo the splice of sixteen years. At Kirt Braddan, in the Isle of Man, wc read: j "Ilore underlyeth the body of the Reverend Mr. Patrick Thomi-sox, Minister of God's Word forty years, At present vii ar of Kirk l.raddan, | Aped (i7, nnno HIT.'!. Deceased ye tilth of April. Anno HJSIl." | This vicar apparently looked fonvarc j with calm e?pianiinity to his death; li-j calm despair' is indicated by these rael , aucholy lines: "At threescore winter's end I died, ? A cheerless bein;<, loiio und sad, The nuptial knot i never tied, And wished my father never had." ?Ixtmlon Society. . Hi ['A HMD MAM'S CRM ! The Old People Hacked to Death With an Ax. ; Ohocking Murder of an Aged Couple in Illinois. Following are details of a toiriblo tragedj enacted a few days sinco in an Illinois farm j liouso; At about 10 o'clock on Wednesday j night a double murder was committed neai : tho village of Bandin, six miles northeast ol ! Charleston. 111. Tho victims wore Nolu-miah Fleetwood and wife, aged sixty-eight ; and seventy years. Tho Fleetwoods lived iti j a two-story house. They slept downstairs,and the hired man, James "Winlcleback, occupied the room directly above them, while across ! tho hall, upstairs, slept the grown daughter, Kniina. Tho family retired early on Wednesday night. At about 10 o'clock Emma wa> partly aroused, and heard Winkleback, she I thought,talking with the old folks below. Sh? urufjjjeu uii w niucjj a^uiu, mm wimu afterward she heard another noiso below, but was not wide awake enough to know whether it was tho sound of a revolver or i blows with a hammer. Again she went to sleep, but was soon awakoned by the smell oi : smoke. She saw that the house was on fire, and called across the hall to wake Winkleback. He pretended to just wako up, and told her that sho could not get down that way (the stairs leading from Winkleback's room to the room below occupied by tho old folk:;), | but she burst through the room and | down the stairs to the old folks' bedroom. 1 With hurried efforts she put out the lire and cried out to Winkleback to run for help to the neighbors. He brought no help until he had been sent the seconcftime. ' Alter putting out the lire tho daughter found tho dead bodies of her father and mother lyin? in tho charred remains of the bedstead. Their clothes were burned from 1 their bodies. fitovo wood had been ! brought in and placed on tho bed to feed tho Are. -Neighbors arrived and found that Fleetwood had been murdered before tho fire was kindled. Tho old man's head ; hail been crushed,and was completely severed from tho body. His wife had been shot, the ball passing in at the corner of her eye. Her throat was also cut from oar to ear. | Circumstances point to Winkleback ns the murderer, although he denies all knowledge of the crime. \\ hen it was suggested to search the well for the missing axe he protested that he had loft the axe in the woods. The well was pumped dry, and in the bottom was found Winklebacks own axe covered with blood and gray hairs. Stains of blood were also found on his trousers. The next morning ho appeared dressed in a clean shirt and refused to account for the one he had discarded. Winkleba k was arrested, and the sheriff started with him for tiio jail at Charleston, as a crowd of .WO jieivons, who had collected at the scene, threatened to lynch hira. A revolver, whi :h Winkleback acknowledged as his, was found with two of the chambers empty. It is believed that ho shot Mrs. Fleetwood with it before cutting her throat. The object of the murder is unknown. The old folks had no money. It seems that Winkleback was in lovo with Emma, ami had in vain sought for her parents' coasent to their marriage, but this would hardly give him cause to take their lives. Tho coroner's iiuiuest resulted in a verdict holding Winkleback responsible for the crime. The jail at Charleston was guarded by about a score of tho friends of the sheriff, and all were fearful lest the mob should come on and attack it. A hurried consultation was held, and it was soon determined that the safety of tho prisoner demanded his speedy removal to Mattoon, twelves miles distant. Winkleback was handcuffed and conducted to a waiting carriage, and was driven to Mattoon. During tho ride an 0110:1; was nia lo to get something out of the prisoner, but ho was shrewd enough to understand tho importance of keeping his mouth shut. Ho said, however, that ho was innocent SUMMARY OF COXGliKSS. Senate. Tho naval annronriation bill was Dasse'l with an amendment, appropriating 8?, (tO,00) for the construction ot new steel cruisers: also an amendment proposal by V r. i'ayard requiring the secretaries of war and the navy and the gun foundry board to report to the next session of Congress plans and estimates for a gun factoiy to complete euns from six inches to sixteen inches caliber. .. .'J ho i-enat? took uo the bill to establish a uniform system of bankruptcy thro.igho .t this country. Sections constituting the distirot courus of bankruptcy, and providing tor the appointmnnt of comniissioners in bankruptcy to have all the powers of a ma-it t in chtnjery, and supervisor.* in banlcniptcy to examine into the administration of proceedings, were a^rood to....The postoflica appropriation bill was reported with nearly ?5,600,000 added. Asam.-irlcd by the Senate c immittee it provided for a total appropriution of $40,72o,400, which is in oxcess of the amount appropriated last year, and $:;, l!)D,.r>0i) in excess of the amount called for by the bill when it left the House. A hill was reported favorably to provide for a (ommission on the subject of the al oholieliquor trafllc The House joint resolutii n providing that certain books bj furnished to the Cincinnati law library was amended and passed....'!he Bankruptcy bill was li.rther considered and much progress u as made. The Senate agreed to the resolution directing the judiciary connnitteo to inquire whether Paul Strobach, whose nomination for nmrshal of tho .Middle and Southern districts of Alabama was rejected by tho Senate, and v. In is now performing the duties of that o lice, is entitled to oc< u>y the oflice. Tho Senate took' up the bankruptcy bill. Amendments were o ler. d by Mes3:s. George, Hoar, Ingalls, Wi son, hike, Harrison, Uaibmd and Call, most of which were agreed to. The bill wa< read to tho end and substantially agreed to, several amendments, however, being indicated to be ma le when the bill is reported Ironi committee of the whole The bill to pro VlUt! U JJUrilUH Ol Ltir ic-ici tuuuii u tin Kiou<c i:ati ns of Indians into separate reservations and secure the relinquishment of the Indians' title to the remainder was passed. House. After a short debate tho House passed the Senate resolution offering a reward of $2.y OUU for the rescue of the Greely party. This reward, Mr. Ellis explained, is expected to stimulate the sealers and whalers who go north early in the season, so that they will be on the alert and take pains to explore tho hays, coasts and islunds and seek for traces of tho Greely party....In committee of the whole the pension appropriation bill was considered. Tho bill appropriates $20,054,401) and ^appropriates an amount estimated at ?00,000,000. The appropriations for the current year were $120,000,Will, of which only $25,073,003 were expended during tho lirst half of the year. Mr. Turiie.1 introduced a bill reciting 1 hat the bondholders and millionaires have pai l no tax on incomes to support t jo government for over twenty yeais: mat taxes should be imposed, and that there should be no favored class; and providing th.it an in-onie tax of three por cent, on over $5,000, live per cent, on over $10,000. and ten per cent, on over ? 100,000 bo collected A" bill was introdu ed by Mr. Dorsluimer authorizing the 1-resilient to appoint and retire John C. Fremont with the rank of major-general. A similar bill was introduced in the Senate by .Mr. .Sherman .Mr. Kins; introduced a bill to plaee agricultural implements, cotton ties, flannels, blankets, knit uoods, and s: me oth;r articles on the free list.... A resolution was passed directing the (ommitteo on agrieultiro to investigate tho reported introduction of tho foot-and-mouth disease into .Maine. 'i lie intere t m uiife.^ted in ti e tariff 1 i'l on the opening of the d . ! ate was not renewed on tie sojoi d day of the discussion, ih ntt-ndnn-e in the galleries being snail. Mr. Ku 8.'11, of Massuchus tts, spoke in opposition to tiie fill, hi-; remarks, like th >so of .Mr. Kele : ( n ihe previous day,Item; chiefly devoted t > the p.iuper labor of Kun p \' Mr. Blount, o." (Jcorgia, spoke in support of tho bill. A HORRIBLE CRIME, A Father PellbiTiitely Kills lll? Five I.ittlu < lliltlrcil. Edward Dowse, who is he!d in jail at Waynesboro, On., charged with th" murder of l:i; live t hildr n, la; confessed his guilt* He ititcs that his eh .'dr n kept accumulating inx.n him, while his a' ility to support them (1 mini?l:e<l. The childrtn were. accord lo the <u toin of Southern fo'd hand;, lo k (1 uji in t'lo cnl in whi'o tlx pirent< were nt work. At 10 o' lo k in the morning In: felt nn un ontrnlhi' ledesiro to riil lii'iiselt' of Iris b.:rd?:n, and, pr. t inline to his wife thut h s wanted some lie essary arti le in the mbin. he mounted n in ile and went there. <'puning the door he i loscd it l> hind him. Ho atta ked tlm youngest child with nn ax and killed it. .Meantiin the others ha I lio'd of him by the le.-s. b s-e hing him to spin c the ch M 'itirn'n? from his de-id vieWin. I.e Rra jm d tv?> o hois of ti-e i hi Id i en one in each hanil, an I beat tie- li ad-, agains each o hcr nn il tliev lccain? uueonseioiis. W ith th" ax lie t! en killed the n. Tie two ivnni'iii'ii; children had .-ought refuse Ulld-T the licit. nt'lli-lllil- in uh-iii, Iiv h.,u u tli'! ii ills) mid lo t the live dead Imdiis on tlio floor. Closing 'lie door, lie r?turned to work. giving no sign of I he bloody w<irk in which hi h id liceu engaged. It was th" nhsenireof an explanation o, thotrngely more tlrm anvthing e'sj which led to his arrest. At first he stoutly deni< d all knowledge of the crime. It is believed that, his wifeand s-ister, who have disap; wared, are also guilty. The scene of the wreck of the steamer Daniel Stcinmann, near Halifax, on tho Nova Kcotian coast, is a memorable one. All nlon^ this iron-bound and roelcv coast innumerable vessels have been lost. Tlie greatest calamity, however, on record in this vicinity is the l<is.of the W liite Star steamer Atlantic on Meaglier's Rock, near Capo I'rosnect, twenty-two iniles west of Halifax. In tniv wreck, whic'i occurred on March SI, 1ST;J, oliO lives were lost out of a total of 978. | " A twice-convicted felon has been choset speaker of tho Queensland parliament. NEWS SUMMARY. Eastern and Middle States Joseph Agate, a retired mcrcbaut worth about $'?,000,000, chiefly in real estate, com! mitted suicide in a New York hotel by shoot' ing. He was a resident of Yonkers, N. Y., , and left a note sta'ing that ho was suffering ' ! from nervous prostration, and had not had an i hour's natural sleep in lour mouths. ! After the lapse of nearly a month fourteen of the one hundred uiid fifty odd miners killed by the catastrophe at Po ahontas. \ a., i were lound, partly decomposed and disfigured almost beyond identification. f Tiie body of I'ayno V. C. Thilly, a promi nent saloon keener of Cincinnati, was reduced to ashes at the Lo Moynoy crematory, Washington, Penn., mnking the twenty-ninth case ; of cremation which has taken place there, i Forty-o.\e trndo org inizations mar.bed [ in procession to L liion Square, New York city, I and held an open-air meeting in favor of an i eight-hour law. i Two men were instantly killel and several seriously in'ur.'d by an explosion of tiro1 damp in a coal mim''hear Elizabeth, Penn. | j The Unite I States and Brazil Steamship | company s steam h p Reliance*, running bj1 j two >n New York and Itio di Janeiro, Miazil, was wrecked whi'o cn her homewmd trip from the latter pla e. She was valued at 0,(X)0, and her cargo contained among ! othert.iing- 7,000 bag* of otl'eo. All on board, ln< luding momas a. usuornu, uuiwu States minister lo Biazil, were saved. f John C. Perky, recently appointed chicf f just he of the supreme court of Wyoming ( Territory, died suddenly of apoplexy while i walking with his daughter in Brooklyn, N. Y. He was Lorn in Sullivan county, .V. Y., in ltcy, was a lawyer by profession, had long . resided in Brooklyn, and had served in the t Mow York senate and assembly. ( i j At the Pennsylvania Republican State convent'on, hold in Harrislu g, Galudia A. Grow j re iled. (General Osborno, of Luzerne, i was nominated for Congressman at large, six J delegates i.t large "to tho national convention at Chicago were ele ted, three elector; at largo wer.5 chosen, and a plat'orm was adopted which declares that James (t. Blaine c and Robert T. Lincoln are the choice of the Republicans of Fenn->ylvanitF for President j ana Vico-I resident ivsre tively. and that the delegates at lar^c be instructed to vote for , them so iong as their names shall bo before the convention. t South and Westk f ! The secretary of the California State Ag- f ricultural bureau predicts an unexampled ( wheat crop for tho Pacific coast. I Charles B. Finlayso.v, seventeen years c old, convicted of his grandmother's murder, ; banged himself in tho Portland (Ore.) jail. j A remarkable ease of insomnia is reported from Wheeling, W. Va., where Joseph g Saulsbury, a ship carpenter, sixty years of f age, has not slept an hour at a time,nor more j than ten hours in all, since January 1. Otherwise he seems sound and healthy, and 7 i works every day at his trade. j Eight prisoners at Gainesville, Ark., as- f faulted tho jailer, probably fatally injuring ] him, and escaped. The citizens met the escaping prisoner-, and after a desperate fight Km riv fieri in ltil:in(r one and woimdimr and recapturing three others. | Two Spanish war vessels have been cruis- j ing off Key West, Flo., on the watch fcr filibustering expeditions for Cuba. United ; ; States 1-evenue vessels are also on the lookout in that region. * i Nine buildings, forming the yrincipal c i business houses of Ta < ma, Washington lerritory, have been completely destroyed by fire, resulting in an estimated aggregate loss * , of & 175,0.0. ? j The commissary general of the army lias r received a dtpat.h lrom Captain Whitehead at New Orleans saying that he bad shipped , bO.OOO rations lo the recently flooded region. He says matters are looking more favorable and promising. t Fifty masked men went to Jackson, Ky., c at night took Henry Kilburn (white; and Ben j Strong colored* from the jail and handed j them. 'J he two men were imprisoned on thj | ( ciiurgi- ui mur.ier. I I Charlks (iiBBs, a negro employed by a farmer named Moore, in Burleson county, j Texas, murdered his employer's wife with an ax and (led. He was capturel by a crowd, tied to a stake and burned to d ath. A number of persons were killed or injured and much damago was done to property by a t rmido tint swept thrush portions of Georgia. Mississippi and Alabama. At Chipley, Ua., Lee Alt'ord was killed and his wile and three children were badly injured: .lohn I angford and son were badly liurt and his wi.e and child ki led. A do^en houses in thi-> place wire demolished. At Black Ilawk, Mis;., several persons wore injured and a number oil buildings partly destroyed. At the third annual banquet of the Iroquois club, of Chicago, an organizut'on comp: sod of prominent DemocratSenator Pendleton and others made addressss and letters were read from Samuel J. Tilden and Senab r Bayard. Nine thousand railroad employes from Illinois, iowa. "Wisconsin, Mnuies./ta and Dakota attended the funeral of Assistant General Superintendent Atkins, of the St. Paul rood, in Milwaukee. Special trains . from.all parts of the State mentioned were run to Milwaukee. Tiik Alabama and South Carolina Republicans have held Slate conventions for the j purpose of elo ting delegates to the Chicago | ( national i ouvention. Both deleeations aro ! 1 understood to be solid f< r Arthur as first thoi.e lor President. 1 At the "\VYsb Virginia Democratic State con* vention. held in Charleston, delegates to the ] national convention at Chicago were elected, J a resolution, proposed by United t-ta'es Senator Kennu, wus adopted de.-laring that ( ' Samuel J. Tilden wus the convention's choice s for Pre-ident, and the delega ei were in- j structed to cast their voto3 tor Tilden and ! Hendricks. ( j The Illinois Republi.an State convention ( nt Peoria nominated a lull ti.-ket, headed by i Ex-Uovernor Hi haid J. Uglesby for irover! j nor, and ele ted delegates to the national t on- j vention who were instructed to prosent the 1 , | name of General John A. Logan for President, | ( . and give him their undivided support. Waihington. , A special camp tire of the department of i the I'otomac of the Grand Army of the He- ' I public was held in Washington to commemo- 1 rate the operations against \ icksburg. ben- l arul .Iricnnli H \-t n\vl#*v nnrl nmnnrr 1 i the guests were President Arthur, General | Grant, fcecretary Lincoln, and General L i ; i gall. I I | Members of the House committee on public j , lands are of opinion that a bill will be re- ! , ported to repeal the pre-emption and timber | ; i culture acts, and to amend the homestead i a"' Co :plete returns of the postal revenues , irt o fij'st and second quarters of the preset* liscal year and estimates for the third quarter give the following results: Gross re, ceipts for tho ouarter ended September 30, 1 lh&i, $10.51)5,8 >7; for the quarter ended DeI cembel'31, 1NS3, ascertained, $11,159,010; esti1 mated for tho quarter ending March 31, lJ?8t, i $10,709,014: estimated for tne quarter ending 1 j June 30, 1SS4, $10,737,349; total estimated 1 ! ; revenue for the vear, $43,202,44#; total reve- I nue for year ended June 30, 1S83, $15,508,092; I ! falling oir in the revenue for tlie present year, ' . $2,240,240. I During the first quarter of this year there ! j hns been a large increase?more than twenty- I seven per cent.? in the sale of two-cent postI age stamps over the corresponding period of ! ; I8t<3. The issue of posta! cards has lalien off I about 13,000,000 pieces since the two-cent rate I was begun. | A bill to restrict tho use of distilled spirits ' tn thp iirfs mid mnniiff?r?tiirnc linu Knun 1 , ported adversely in the House. I A numrek of Lusiness men representing [ the boards of trade and chambers of com- ! niei ceof various cities anpearol ber'ore the , ! House coinage committee and made arguments in favor of the tusponsion of silver | coinage. Geokoe Tickxor Curtis, bofiore the House 1 committeo on the judi -iaiy advocated j the adoption of a constitutional amend- ; i ment limiting tlie power of the government to iss-ue paper money to times of war. He ! 1 criticised the recent decision of the supreme court declaring reissued greenbacks to be a legal tender, and said that it was contrary to views expressed by Justico Marshall, and that the court's construction of the Constitu- \ j tinn wus unwarranted. He favored the adop- ] tion of an amendment declaring that Con- , grcss lrnd not the right which tho supreme court said it had. A him, 1ms lien introduced in the Sennte by ! e iator Saliiu tj revive the grade of geno'al of the army. , CoMi'TitOI.l.fu TC.vox, of (he Unite 1 States j treaury, ha> a-'opted ihe presidenev of tho i : j Ration il Bank c>f ilie Itepub i of .Now Vork. I The House conimitt o on fic tions, by a , , j vote of seven to lour, agreed to report a rcso- I | : ltitiou pr ivicling lor the renting of Ten ell. the contestant .11 the Virginia ele -tioii 1 a e : i of Ti riv 1 against I a il. i , The treasury uopnrtment has decided that ! 1 ; a 1 q or dealer v\ ho .sells at one time dill'eront. ' ' kisuis of lii|iiors t the amount of five gallons j I us to bo con-id' red a whole-ale dealer. Chaki.es 1*1. cdo.v, of New York, has been ' ' I rnnlt! nw? I hv f lin ? --.4. ? !? ?<- ICtiU V of the treasury i;i the j?I?; e of John C. New j ' resigned. ' 1 1 Skamkn' XiN Di'.rm \\ iind Xorns and Fireman Kurlln't test! ed be o e the tiou.se co n- | ' mitt.e imx-tigat ng the .loannctto ?*\|u-di- i , tion Tho latter st >te I ti at it was propn ed I am >ng the .leaim- t ' men at one tim d r i:ig h; retre-it, t'n in the wre keel \css.-lto plaee l.jeu en.m f h i?i> m charge, as Do Loiik was too slow. Foreign. I ? Ciiari.es Reahk. tiir noted English novel | ist, died a few days ago in London at tho age : of seventy years. Qkrat excitement was created in Binning- I liam, Englawl. by tlicarrest of a man named j Daly with a number of dynamite bombs and j other explosives in his pockets. His arrival in England had Ihvii discovered by the police, ' and the man at whose h< >use he boarded was : also arrested as an accomplice. , Latest advices from Shanghai Report a [ serious political crisis at Pekiu. The empress has publicly degraded Prince Kting and four I nicmbi Vi of the privy council. They were : strippid of nil their honors because of the , I dilatory manner in which they have dealt ' with Tonquin affairs, i London' newspapers are calling upon !\jnerica to put a stop to the dynamite war. [tis asserted that there is a coalition of French, Herman, Irish and English dynamiters. A band of forty-two Cuban insurgents was ittacked by Spanish troops and thirty-eight ( >f them killed. Edward M. Smith, United States consu it Mannheim, Germany,died a few days since >f apoplexy while on a railroad train in England. He was born in Rochester. 2s'. Y., 1 n IS31, nnd had served as mayor of that city. General Aquero's insurgent force in ?uba has been increased to l,s(X) men. Henry J. Byron, the English dramatist, s dead. The French-troops in Tonquin attacked T lie villages before Hong-boa, and-that town 1: vns thereupon tired and evacuated by t he \ Chinese. Large numbers of people are leading 'anada for the I nitcd states, principally lor Sew l.ngland. c Infernal, machines found on arresleJ t lynamitcrs in l-.nglai.d ar ,? mi d to bawl ecu s nade in meri a, and .he Engli-h pai c. s aro 1 n eh exercised and tailing for the Interven- < iou o: the American g<,vcrnn:o:it. 1 At Naples, Italy, a drunken s >ldi r fired at ^ l niimner ot comruue-> rooming m tuu ionnitory with him, killing live of them nni voundin; three. President Barrios, of Guatemala, C n;ral America, was sPghtly wojnded in an a'.empt to assassinato-him. The capture of Hong-hoa by the French erminnt.s the campai.-n in Tonquin. The ;nant ial question remains to be settled with ' ,'hina. The French demand will he very icavy. An uprising against American residents jccurrea at h ra"asras. Mexico. The popuace burned railroad bridges ami to'e up the rack for miies. Troops were called out to [Uell the disturbance. MUSICAL AND DRAMATIC, Mme. Patti has decided not to sing in Lonlon this spring. Mrs. Lanotry returns to New York shorfcy to play "Pygmalion and Galatea." D. D. Lloyd, the editor who wrote the play 'For Congress," lrns gone to Europe. Mme. Modjeska has fixed upon June 7 as ;he date of her departure for Europe. The gross receipts of tho seventeen per' 'ormances of Mapleson's opera company in ian Francisco are stated to have been XX). ? The statement that Theodore Thomas would v conduct concerts at Coney Island the coming aimmer is contradicted. He sails for Europe ji June. Kate Forsyth,the actress,lost several thousand dollars' worth of personal effects by the ire Monday afternoon in the St. George flats, Vow York. Mr. Palmer, of the Union Square theatre, 'few York, tolcl a reporter in Paris that he rnd paid Bronson Howard more than $70,000 or nis author's rights in "The Banker's Daughter." Gustav asiberg.the manager of the Thalia jompany, of New York, is negotiating for an American tour of the famous Meiningen com)any. that made such a sensation in London a cnv years ago. At the Berlin Theatre Royal last year there rere twenty-seven representations of Shakes>enrean plays. Seven of hia plays were v icted. There were eighteen representations >f Schiller and three of Goethe. "VVhex not acting, Joe Jefferson leads a feasant life on his plantation of ten thousand icres in Louisiana in the region occupied by he Acadians, fishing and painting, and surounded by a colony of grandchildren. An organization known as "The New Eng and Musical Charitable Association" has been I ormed by the theatrical managers of Boston, c ts ohiwt bfiin? to care for sick members of f h? professionlvho derive no benefit from any >ther society. There was a novel dramatic performance n London recently, when the members of a leaf-mute mission presented "The School for scandal," and "The Sorrows of Mr. Snooks," ntirely in the sign language and to an aulience of mutes. L. V. H. Crosby, one of the originators of icgro minstrelsy, recently died at Reynolds, Ja. Ho first appeared as a minstrel forty rears ago. Ho entertained President Polk md family at the White house in 184ti. Mr. rosby was a bass singer. Herr Anton Dvorak, whose "Stabat Hat?r" has won for him a high rank among nusical composers, has had a curious history, ie was born September 8, 1841. in an obscure 3ohemian town, of humble folic. At the a^e >f sixteen he entered the organ school at 3rague. having exhibited previously marked nusical talent. At the age of twenty-one he )layed in the back row of the violas at the >j)era house in the same city. Subsequently )oth Brahms and Liszt, recognizing Ills gelias, became interested in his fortunes, and hen Joachim brought his chamber music nto prominent notice. Dvorak's music was irst introduced to an English audience by rlerr llanns, who, in 1879, performed the first >f his Slavonic dances. PT?nMTATfiNT PEflPr/R X XIV/1U.XX1 liil JU i. uvx uu. ~ ~ I General Grant still hobbles about on Tutches. Dyspepsia and neuralgia torment United States Senator Edmunds. I Rosa Bonheur's pictures are always sold 1 ong before they aro painted. The youngest son of General Robert ELee, Bod, is a ciniet farmer. Ho lives near Richmond, on tne James river. General Fremont's health is not bad, al:hougli several newspaper reports have repre- 1 seated that he is failing. Mrs. Fremont, who is in Washington, is in excellent heaith. D. 0. Mills has been given a vote of ;hanks by Lhe California legislature for his ' *ift to the State of a piece of statuary representing "Columbus before Queen Isabella." Mr. George Ash worth, of Lowell, Mass., is said to be oldest Odd Fellow living in this , . ountry. He is more than eighty years old, md has belonged to the Order sixty-one years. Mrs. James G. Blaine is tall and not slim, md she is grave and dignified in manner. Born in New England and well educated, she met Mi'. Blaine in Kentucky, and was his first love. Her companion and cousin is Miss Abigail Dodge, the "(Jail Hamilton" of literature. Henry George, author of "Progress and Poverty," began life a printer; later he became a sailor, then a reporter on the Sacramento Record., the owner of the San Francisco Post, and afterward a lecturer. He is fortyfive. His wife is of Irish parentage and Ausralian birth. . George "William Curtis, the editor of Harper's Weekly, was asked by an interviewer recently: "Are there any new authors on either side of the water of special promise.'" His reply was: "Not one: and there is no important literary movement of any kind under way." John Bright is described as "perhaps the * - ' ...j4-.,a c11. only living man m wuoui ure umw.^ preme gifts of the orator?the most brilliant imagination, the most exquisite sensitiveness, the finest humor, the surest judgment, the most upright conscience, and the most elegant, pure, and vigorous language." BREAKING JAIL, Figlit Hetuccn Eliflit Eira|iin; Prisoner* and Pursuing Citizens. The town of Gainesville, Ark., county seat of CJreen county, has been the scene of a most exciting episode. There were confined in the tiainesville jail cigh'. prisoners, one charged with murder, three with horsj stealing and four with minor offenses. The jailer's name is William Unsby. The other evening about 5 o'clock he made his usual rounds of the cells with supper for the inmates. He was the only person in the building, excepting the prisoners. When he entered the enclosure in which the cells were located lie noticed nothing unusual, but while enga ;ed t ^ emit!,mlv Ill lilt' (iisinuuuuu ui struck a blow 011 the back o; the head and knocked down. As he junioed to his feet he 1 found himself surrounded by a desperate Kanj; of criminals, armed with chair backs chair leirs and such weapons | as they could secure by breaiiing ui) the stools in tlieir cells. 1 lie fou?rht valiantly and sweclcd in i shooting ?>ne of the prison* r< in ilie le^. bur, , h was beat.*n into a Mate of insensibility and ( disarmed. The | rHoners tli n ina.eadadi lor tin- dour, ha1 i e; secured possession of tin * keys, and. wi h fit wa-t ng any time, 1 made for the jailor's house, where th y , knew tlure was stored unite a <|i:a'i;ity o. arms ami amniiiniti'ii. Bourin; ' the arms the crowd darted out into i the strert. The shotting in the jail had , ,'ilanned the town, and when tlie jail birds ' merged they weiv met by a great crowd ??f 1 :,i * l'"f men and t tt'ull armed ami ?li<l not lu-situto sluiMia; ^ blood l:> elicit their escnp;\ Tlic> jh-opk? p-iw-rally haired their doors, many i)f 11ii*iit licitig under tin' impression that tlif town was I wins raided 1?y a jcanij "l outlaws for piu'imisi's of plunder. The outlaws started on a run down t In* main thoroughfare leadiii<; irom theeoiirtdious" and tail with citizens<>n in.it and Itorseluiek following in lint haste. Tin- chase was an ex- i citing oiti*. in fact .a rc-fiil-ir running ti^lit, in wliii-li ovi-r a hundred shots were fired. Th? pursuing citizen;, with tin-town marshal at ' (licit- head.shot with po ur aim. an I so did the ! escaped prisoners. One of the latter? . I a n ti *s liei kman - who had heen imprisoned 1 o- a burglary of a store. raised his gun t > sh > >t Aloa.-o St edmun, a citizen, l> it S.? dm in k >! in hi-i wo k iir-t and shot i'ci'knun t! r-itijrli the head, killm; linn nstantly. Th:o> <>' ' tHe other pri-mi as w.-iv woini i'd in Hi sliii in s!i, and w? ro disarmed ;nid taken hade to . ad u.ider a siron^ ^ua <1. The re.-t of t ie ?an# continued th ir llight. th - li'izcas following, and I It* chase ?as only given n| when tin fn.itivis roach d n eyjnv.ss swa:il|) a .<1 uai nit nl>tir-uit int > 11i:it r 'g.on wry danherons. >on of tlr.-citi/nis were wounded. \ li. ti it whs m'.-u that lurthT pu:suit was 1 usi'le.^ (li iMrn;i <l p'.jc'hu'c return-d to tin ' jail ami ntn-h |?:-??|>:?i-.?ti ns to lynch tho 1 wounded men, who hail been recapture:!. hut 1 Jailor < nsbv. though himself fatally wounded, interceded :or them an 1 prevented a lynching. 1 TIE TARIFF DISCUSSION. Consideration of Morrison's Bill .Begun in the House. The Vote by Wliicli it was Obtained ?Opening of the Debate. Following is an account of the manner.in rhich the great debate on the tari f bill wa >eg.in in the House of Representatives a Vashington: At the conclusion of the call of committees n the Iiouso Mr. Morrison moved to go into ommittce of the whole on the tariff bill. On he viva voce vote there was but a weak reponso on either side. A few nmmbereof the Republican side called for a division and one >r two demands for yeas and nays were leatd. Mr. Kelley hoped that no objection woild )o mad to going i. to co.nmitt e. The objeoion <o.ild be raised at a iat r s a^e, when he taruf bill w uld be rea -h d in < o nm.ttee. rho demands were thereupon withdrawn and ho hous! went into co urnifr" e (Air. Co *, of New York, in the chair- on the bill indicv iwl. 7 he title of the bill having b en read. 'Jr. Faton ob?e ted o i s con idera ion, ana lis obje: tion was reinforce 1 by Mr. Ke ley. Hie c mnitt e then rose ani repoitei tua i!Wn tion 11 the Ho ice. ilio spcakor stated the question to b? vhether the committee should consider thfc >ill, and it was decided in the a'fHrma.ive? I'L ea3,140; nays, 13$. An analysis of the vote shows that 135 DemKrats voted for consideration, and that Ive Republicans vo.ed wi.h them. The "T ive Republicans who vo.ed to ale? up tue bill were Mes a* Anderson, of Kansas: James, of New York; kelson, Strait and Wakefield. Ninety-nine Republicans and thirty-nine Democrats voted n the negative. The Democrats were: Hewtt, of Alabama; Budd, Glascock, Henley, Tully, California; Eaton, Connecticut; Lamb, nrliana; Finerty, Illinois; Hunt, Louisiana: sndlay, Marylind; Ferrell, Fiedler ana iIcAdoo, New Jersey: Converse, Foran, aige, Warner and H'ilkins. Ohio; Boyle, !)urtin, Duncan, tlliott, Ermentrout, HopJns, rest, Randall, Sfcrm. Mutchler and nrttX). Fennsyl?ania; Barbour and Wis?, r'ir^inia; and Arnott, Hardy, Muller, lobinson, Van Alstyne, Wempe, springs and Stevens, of New Yoric. The tariff debate of lo84 was then opened >y Chairman Morrison, who read until he vas weary, from a speech in manuscript, and . brained permission to print tne r> naindtr. Judge Kelley spoke next V larze portion ot the sp e:h .-&& vas devoted to a relation of Judge Keliey'i ibservations during his visit last year of the ondition of the 'workingmen, women and :hildren in England. He also dwelt for some ime on his favorite proposition to repeal all n ternal taxation. Mr. Mills, of Texas, next asserted that ho Morrison bill would reduce the cxb >f Imported goods, enhance the price* if American export-!, advance the r vages of American workingmen and confer lumerous other blessings upon the people of he United States. About 100 other memers have informed the chairman ot the com- -X" nittce of the whale that they intended mak-" ng srecches, and the debate will be long and icorous. LATER NEWS. . . fjM Major Eugene H. Weir man, private ecretary to President Johnson during his >residential term, dropped dead of heart liseaso in a New York hotel. The discovery >f a loaded'pistol and several farewell let cera u his pockets disclosed that he was about o commit suicide when death from natural auses intervened. The Delaware Republican 8!at?convention n Dover e'e.ted delegates at large t> the ,1 lii ago national convention andjassed rcso. ulions fa\ oring Blaine as the party's candilat > for President, but leaving the delegation ininslructcd. U.mns'irccted dclejute3 to the Chicago at oral convention were elected at the New Jer ey Republican State convention in Tren ;on. A desperate fight lasting two hours took late b tween thirty or forty Hungar.ansand y Polis em j lojed in steel works at Brad lock, Penn. RhtoJy and knives were drawn, and ffhen the fight was finally quelled by an or"* "~ ;anized body of eithers, it was found thai three men had been dangerously wounded . ; and a number of others slightly huit. Indiana Republicans, at the'r State Conrei tion in Indianapolis,electtd anuninstructxl delegation, headed by ex-United State.? Senator Harr'sm and ex-Secretary of the N*a\y Thompson, to tie Chicago national o.ivmtion. 1 he delegation's fL'st choice ia understood to be Harrison. The Tennessee Republican State committer hold at Nashville, nominated a full ticket beaded by Judge Fran!: T. Reid for governor, and chose an uninstructed delegation for the natio lal convention at Chicagra^jK}*? The House committee jjo foreign^SMrs lias reported a resolution ihafc "the President >: be directed to bring to the attention of the government of Venezuela the claim of John E. Wheelock, a citizen of the United States, for indemnity for gross outrages and tortures inflicted upon him by an officer of Fa d Venezuelan government, and tad tnand and enforce, in such manner as he may deom b.'st, an immedlsue settlement oi said claim.' 'iluzvportaccompi-; u in; the re-olution says: "Your committee ,< is of th j opinion that more vigorous measures than diplomatic corre p ndeuc) are noc- if esary to se:ur justice for thi citizen of the United States thus rievou ly wronjtd."' Mr. Wheelock's claim is for $>0,000. The secretary of the navy has issued a proclamation offering a reward of $ 15,000 for the discoverj* of Lieutenant Greely and his ooir.pinions in the Arctic regions. The epidemic of smallpox continues to rage with great violence at Madras. An* English lady offered ?20,000 for the rescue of General Gordon at Khartoum. The insurgents under General Aguero are reported to have been successful in several skirmishes with the Spanish troops in Cuba. Queen* Victoria and Princess Beatrice were received by a large crowd upon their arrival in Darmstadt, Germany. LATER CONGRESSIONAL. NEWS. Kenatp. Mr. "Wilson offered a resolution declaring that it is competent for Congress, by law, to prevent freight pooling a reements among railroads, and by his re ,i e.l it was tabled, in order that he might ask unanimous consent on calling it up to make a speech Mr. Mater's bill to forfeit th> unearned land v grants ot the Northern Pa iflc railroad, and tie bankruptcy bi 1 were Loth considered without action, except the adoption of a few - ^ Hf- 1, .oil mil' nanienii to me una??>i. w ?. v? tro Iuccd a bill to provide for theappoin ment of a Missouri River commission, to carry into i*ffe< t plans for the improvement of the river lo its head waters. Hoaas* Consideration of the pension appropriation bill was resumed. After an hour of general debute, the bill was read by paragraphs for amendments. Mr. G'oF, of "West Virginia, offered a proviso that no proof shall bo required either in pending cases or thos? liereafter tiled as to the physical condition jf the soldier at the time he was mustered into the service; and all claims heretofore -ejected on account of a lack of such proof shall be reheard. Against this proviso Mr. ttaudall and Mr. Hammond, of Georgia, nised points of order, and it was declared nit of order. Mr. Hancock offered an amendment increasing from $"? to $10 per one hunlreil vouchers, the allowance to pension i^euts for vouchers prejwid and paid by 0 liem in excess of $4,WO per annum. Agreed o. A DiiADLY TORflAJJO, Hitch J.oss of R.ife an.i Great Destruction of Cropcr!)* in ( 'c.trziai Petails of the tornalo whi li ravaj'eJ a portion of f.'eorgi i are as follows: The tornado was (.'ret heard from in Harris "o mty. It moved from southwest to northeast. Fortv-six houses were completely !>lown away in the county. Among tho dead lire Eiward A; pleton," Mary Divine, Leo Mr.... i m.?, i. ('I'tiiri I.arv.rford. Kilward I mitffordVaud A. J. Irvine." Mr*. Mary I>n\ is was fatally in ured. In Chi pie/ Mft houses were demolished. hi Verri wether county fully $ WO,050 worth r?f property was destroyed. Ihe Powell pla -o, mie <>r' tlie irost noted in the State, was ntin lv swept away, and Mr. I owell, Sr., ids grandson, Ben l owell, and four negrce3 were Id led o'itri;;ht, while tivo other persons ire sc M!.-n,'led that some of the'ii wiil die. .-everal ne;;ro e! ild vn were blown away uid li e not in e !? < n heaul :roin. f'u t on i ?tr.:r? } e'.e Col oil's p a?.', i e tioyin : Hvry.ling except the dvcii.n;. A negDjiiil ivi> kill ilon 1 r ''e sley's larin near and wn. Six i-u'o ed ; eople a-e knoun to h i< o jer>> Kilitd on < lie plantation and io..r o.i ir..th T. Many ho i es wo o de.-troye ' n a Uti.rans.ii'e and a Baptist church was blown o pi ces *