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- ^vnRraBHBnnnH ABBEVILLE PRESS AND BANNER.1 ' M , - mM BY HUGH WILSON. ABBEVILLE. S. C.. WEDNESDAY. AUGUST 27. 1884. NO. 9. VOLUME XXIX. '43 : FROM THE MOUNTAIN-TOP. Dmup World, looking down from the highest of heights that my feet can attain, I see not the smoke of your cities, the dust of your highway and plain; Over all your dull moors and morasses a veil the blue atmosphere folds, And you might be made wholly of mountains for aught that my vision beholds. Dear World, I look down, and am grateful that so we all sometimes may stand Above our own every-day level, and know that our nature is grand In its possible glory of climbing; in the hilltops that beckon and bend So close over every mortal he scarcely can choose but ascend. Though here,oh, my World, we miss something ?the sweet multitudinous sound Of leaves in the forest a-flutter, of rivule lisping around, The smell of wild pastures in blossom, of fresh earth upturned by the plow? The uplands and all the gre.n hill-sides lead the way to the mountain's brow. One world; there is no separation; the same earth above and below; Up here is the river's cloud-cradle; down there is its fullness and flow; My voice joins the voice of your millions who upward in weariness grope, ^ And the hills bear the bunlen to heaven?liu^ manity'a anguish and hope! _ Dear "World, lying quiet and lovely in a shimmer of go* i ->**** BeneatITtEF?ort nlnw o^'your mantle I can feel your h -art beat as I gaze; I know you by v. hat you aspire to, by the look that on no face can be Save in moments of high consecration; you are showing your true self to me. Dear "World. I behold but your largeness; I forget that aught petty or mean Ever marred the vast sphere of your beauty, over which as a lover I lean; And not by our flaws will God judge us; His love keeps our noblest in sight; Dear World, our low life sinks behind us; we look up to His infinite height! ?Lucy Larcom, in Harper's Magazine. THE LOST "LETTER They are standing on the veranda; he is bidding her good night. "I am going away, Miss Legrange," he says, looking earnestly into her face as he speaks. "Indeed! for long?" There is no tremulousness of tone, nor heightened color. He is disappointed; he has hoped that she would show some reluctance to part with him. "Six months or a year, perhaps forever," he adds, a little bitterly. She is startled, but she is calm and quiet when she answers: "We will all be sorry to lose you." 'Will you be sorry, Miss Rose?" he questions, directly. ? "Why, of course; have we not been good friends?" "Friends! yes; but?well, good-night. May I call again and say good-bye? I do not start until Monday." Something seems to fill her throat and ; choke her; she does not answer, but turns suddenly and runs downs the steps. She pauses before a white rose bush, :. growing beside the walk, nnd picks one; j1 when she returns to him, she has re gained her self-control. |; "Here is a rose for your buttonhole: j what was it you said? 'shall you come and bid ub good-bye?' We should feel very much hurt if you did not." She says all this in an easy running tone, j perfectly free from emotion. As she gives him the rose, he takes the !. hand that holds it, and kisses it twice, : ( then hurries away. "Fool that I was to suppose that she . ( cared for me," he mutters, as he strides :, down the street. "What am I to do , now?" he asks himself, as he unlocks his i i door and enters his bachelor quarters, j "Will she, or will she not consent to ! ' become Mrs. Lawrence? that is the oues- i tion." He liings himself into a chair and puts his boots on the table. "My scheme has worked far from satisfactory; 1 nevertheless, if I fail, I will go away, j anyway; I can take a vacation and ^o and see mother." i j He gets up discontentedly and paces the room. "By Jove! 1 have it! I'll write to her." Miss Legraxgk: I cannot see you again without telling you all that is in my heart. 'Tis useless for me to say good-bye without saying more. Useless? >av, impossible! You can guess what I mean. If you wish me to call again send me one word, ''come." 1 and I will be with you Saturday night. If , you cannot say more than good-bye. do not , Hk-~- reply to this, and you will never be troubled 1 again by E. Lawrence. i i "There, that will settle it. I'll go and 1 put it in the office to-night." i1 Saturday comes and goes, but brings ' no answer to Eugene Lawrence, waiting 1 and watching for one word. He builds 1 high hopes in the morning, and feels 1 sure of success. But it is with an ex-;( ceedingly heavy heart that he sees the 1 sun go down, still he does not relinquish j' all hope, for there may be some d61ay. ' So he waits as patiently as he can until 1 Monday, which wears itself into night, j without bringing him the welcome mes-1 1 sage. He waits one more day, hoping ! ] against hope, but to no purpose. Then I he wearily packs his belongings and 1 leaves town. And Hose? Longingly she waits!1 for the good-bye visit, and wonders j1 much when he comes not. !' Time passes, and in the early summer ' Mrs. Legrangc, Hose's mother, dies,leav- i1 ing Rose and her little brother Harry, j ' to tne carc 01 an uucie, in a cusiant city, i After the funeral, Rose starts for her j1 uncle's, not knowing what else to do, j' but feeling sure that she will not long j remain dependent. Her father has-been 1J dead many years, and it is his brother, .. whom she is going. !1 Mr.Legrange receives them coldly.and 1 very 60011 makes them feel their depend- J ence. Rose's is a sensitive, high-strung temperament, and she thinks she could endure anything better than the petty slights und sneers to which she is daily J I subjected in her uncle's house. 1 She takes a.small room and obtains some B Bcwing; the remuneration is very slight, I H but as nothing else offers she is glad to ' B get anything by which she can earn 1 Htttf enough to get food for herself and Harry, i 1 But soon her rent falls due and she has ! no means to meet it. She is wondering 11 A what she shall do; she has just finished j! some sewing for Mrs. Lawrence, but it is ( Saturday nignt, ana v o ciock, iuu i?ie for her to take it home, so she abandons j j the thought of dinner to-morrow, and ' j thinks Monday morning she will give all i1 I her earnings to the landlord, which will f fall short of what she owes, but may ' R perhaps give her respite. As she takes I up Harry's little toru trousers to mend, I her eyes fall upon a neatly-tied package, j J' marked "Mrs. Lawrence,'' and that 1 name sends her thoughts adrift, away back to another Saturday when she had < watched and waited in vain, for the ' y coming of one of that name. ' < Presently she hears a man's step com- j 1 ing up stairs; her heart beats faster and < she holds her breath as it pauses before j < the door; a second passes and then : comes a knock; she is timid about open- < ing the door. She Jjalf rises, then sinks i tack into her seat. The knock is re peated. Shall she open the door? Who < can it be? The landlord perhaps. With : this thought she rises just as the knock j1 isagain repeated. With a trembling hand j . ?nd scared face she opens the door. Her nerves are unstrung, and she almost screams aloud, as she beholds EuIgene Lawrence. "I have come for some sewing of my mother's," he begins, stepping across the threshold; the light is in his face, and B he has not recognized her. k She closes the door without turning i around,trying to keep her face from him, I but as she has eaten nothing since the day before, her step is rather uncerB tain and she staggers forward as her a hand leaves the knob; he springs toWk ward her and catchcs her arm. "Rose Lcgrange! Is it possible?" he exclaims, in consternation. "AG your service," she returns, trying to speak lightly, but sinking wearily in a fe... chair. ; "Has it come to this?" he asks, looking t Around the room. ! "I am not ashamed to work," she says, proudly. m , K. 'Ifo no! no! ashamed to! Oh, but ihat you should be obliged! Will you tell mc about yourself and how you came here?'' "Be seated, please. If you care to hear, I will tell you." and she resumes her mending involuntarily. "There is not much to tell,''she begins, she has been sewing a button on Harry's trousers; something drops out of the pocket and falls on the floor, and as she discovers a hole in the pocket she empties it, in order to mend it. She takes out some twine, marbles, an old key, nails and many other old traps, and at the very bottom, a bit of crumpled dirty paper, she lays them on the table, and resumes her sew-1 ing and her story. lie picks it up mechanically and ab- ' sentlv smoothes it out. It is a letter I sealed and stamped. Suddenly he becomes aware that he is reading the name of "Miss Hose Lcgrange," in his own handwriting. He hastily tears it open and reads his own letter to her written over a year ago. She is surprised at his behavior. "Mr. Lawrence,you forget yourself!" she says. "Will vow be kind enough to read that letter." he exclaims, excitedly, "it is evident it never reached you." She takes it wonderinglv, reads it slowly, then looks inquiringly into his eager | j " Do you understand!" he asks imploringly. " Hardly." she returns; then reads .it over, a light seems to break upon her, for the tell-tale color rushes into her face and be_tr&ys-kerr? - ~ "Tfad you received it when it was due, what would vou have said?" "Come." she whispers. 'My darling! my darling," he exclaims, eatching her in his arms. She falls limp upon his breast. 'What have I done! have I killed her?" he cries, in alarm. ''No," she answers faintly. " I am only faint and weak, it \\*ill pass presentlv." " What is it! what is the matter?" ' Nothing, nothing! I have had nothing to eat sinre yesterday, and have been working all day, and I am a little dizzy, that is all." " Great heavens! that is enough! you shall go to my mother to-night, I will not leave you again alone. On, that you should have come to this through me. Fool that I was not t? have spoken when I saw you, not to have trusted to luck!" She smiled at his vehemence. "Do you know, darling, it was alia ruse, my going away? I just told you that to see if you cared, and I thought you didn't." " Did you think I would let you see,if I did care?" " And you missed me?" "It almost broke my heart." " Oh, what an idiot I have been." c<T uko cai'Q rplpoQ A Ulil ?u uu; uvv, JUV whjv, >v.VMw ing herself from his embrace. " And you will go with me?" he questions, 44 Yes.'' she answers, confidingly. 1 'But wait, I will wake Harry, we must take him." "I suppose so." he returns, laughing, ";he little heathen, keeping that letter hidden away in his pocket for over a year." When they are going home they question Harry about the letter, but he re- j members nothing of it. After much thinking he does recall one morning when the postman gave him a letter to take iuto the house and he put it into his pocket and forgot it. 4,If we had not been so poor," says Rose, laughingly, "those old clothes I would have been thrown away long ago i and the letter with them."?Arkansaio Traveler. Salt Luke Dwellings. The houses built by the first settlers were mainly log cabins. Some few of these arc ; et to be found hidden away in orchards. The Spanish adobe house of Jried mud was also a favorite, and has continued so to the present, though instead of almost shapeless chunks of mud, plastered iti Mexican fashion, regular unjurnt bricks are made by macninery. rhese adobes are twice the size of ordilary bricks, and the wall into wVch [hey are formed is made twice as thick is one of burned bricks would be. Of :ourse this material lends itself readily to iny style of architecture, and many of :he elaborate buildings as well as cheap ??? ? rvf if- fKo onft rrrfl v tint uic uittuv; vi u, v**v ow*v o>vv . )f the adobe reminding one of the cream jolored walls of Milwaukee. Generally, lowever, the adobe is overlaid by a itucco. which is tinted. Low houses .vith abundant piazzas are the most common type in the older part of the town, ind over these so many vines will be rained and so much foliage cluster j :hat one can hardly say of what material j ;he structure itself is formed. The ! csidences more recently built have a j nore Eastern and conventional aspect, ' ind some are very imposing; but big or ittle, old or new, it is rare to find a lonje not ensconced?almost buried?in ,r<!6s and shrubs and climbing plants, tvhile smooth, rich lawns greet the eye verywhere in town, in brilliant contrast :o the bleak, bare hills towering over lead just without the city. As for lowers no town East or West cultivates ;hem more universally and assiduously. Salt Lake city, then, is beautiful?a paradise in comparison with the Buffalo plains or the stony gulches in which the jreat majority of Rocky Mountain towns must needs be set. The suburbs, except toward the rocky uplands northward, grade off into farms quite imperceptibly, the street9 continuing straight out into country roads between dense jungles of sunflowers?glorious walls of gold edged with green and touched with innumerable dots of maroon. And in these suburbs you may find some Df the quaintest, most idyllic homes. One such, for example, stands 3own in the Third ward. The house is hardly bigger than a good-sized room, and is entered through a queer narrow cowled doorway. The second story is hardly half as large as the lower one. leaving a slantiug roof between, and a picturesque hedge and fence inclose the whole. This would be striking enough ilone for its shape; but every two weeks the whole adobe and stucco affair is whitewashed from roof-tree to foundation, until it gleams like a fresh snowbank against the grapevines that creep mound its angles, and the poplars and maples that photograph their boughs in shadow upon its spotless sides. But to j set it off the better, the owner paints his ( small window sashes bright yellow, his I casings the reddest of red. and his sills j and shutters and door panels vivid green, j re ?v,? otT.iir hnd iimf- hppn handed ! ii care nuviv,?uM..-u>. out of a Dutch toyshop, it could not be more fantastic and childishly pretty.? Ernest Inyervoll, in Harper's. j Curiosities of the California Climate. ! A recent letter from San Fraucisco to ' the Philadelphia Press has the following: j Another effect of the curious San Fran- j sisco climate is of considerable interest i to strangers, as it makes nine out of j jvery ten sick the first week they are | liere. The traveler from New York or i even Canada coining here at this season ! Joes not bring his furs and flannels. Be- ! fore getting to California he crosses! thousands of miles of plains and deserts, j find is nearly baked, Ife smiles if a San . Franciscan happen to be along and talks | of overcoats, and, if the San Franciscan i is a smaller man, feels like knocking him ' down when he eits up and watches him i wipe the perspiration on nis orow anu i talks about cold winds and flannels. It must be confessed that, along the | Arizona or Utah desert, with the ther- | mometer boiling in the shade, the East- j erner has a right to feel angry with the | San Franciscan's talk, and even until : Oakland, only three miles from the city, ! is reached, his incredulity seems justified; j but now it is different. Mark the change that a short three miles brings. Mark j how a paltry half-hour will draw that i self-conndent Easterner up, will chill and j turn blue his erstwhile smiling lips. The i keen wind sweeps across the bay, and by the time the ferry lands at Market street, San Francisco climatc has got in its work, and the Easterner goes to bed shivering, while one of the porters goes out aud gets him a ' 'back-warmer" and some winter clothing. Wealthy people here go away in the summer to get warm, instead of cool, and about the first of every June the furs and flannels are packed away, while paterfamilias buys his ticket for Los Angeles and other hot resorts. HIE AMERICAN SARDiNE. A.IT EXTENSIVE INDUSTRY WHICH FLOURISHES "DOWK EAST." low It \\&h Kt'ffUii?'The Tlethod of Catching- and Preparing the Flsli for .Tlarkcf. An East port (Me.) letter to the Boston I Herald says: Very few are aware when they purchase a tin box of sardines, that I in spite of the gaudy anil attractive label 'it hears, with its French inscription and Napoleonic head.these "little fishes biled in ile:" are not the clupea sardina from the coast of Sardinia and from other parts of the Mediterranean sea, but are nothing more nor less than a Yankee herring caught ofF the coast of Maine, put up in cottonseed oil. The imitation is so complete that the imported sardine is scarcely, if ever, used as a hors d'o>uvre, but in its stead we have the little Maine herring, garnished with numerous slices of lemon, quite as inviting to the epicure and with a flavor as highly esteemed. In fact, the day of the imported sardine has passed, and ninetenths of the sardines now eaten in this pnimfnr mmn from Maine. How this was all brought about may be told as follows: For some time prior to 187.3, a New York firm, Messrs. Wolff & lieessing, were engaged in experiments endeavoring to produce an article similar to the French sardines. They hud a room fitted up in their store which no one was allowed to enter, excepting the two members of the firm and the Frenchman who was engaged in the experiments. On account of being unable to secure exactly the fish they needed, it seemed as if all their labor and efforts were to be of no avail, and they were considering the question of abandoning their project when Mr. Wolff, one of the firm, visited Eastport, Me., and, on seeing the small herring caught in that vicinity, which were then used for farming purposes, he felt that at last he had discovered the long sought for fish. As the result of his investigations in 1876, he established a factory in Eastport and commenced canning. Since then there have been eighteen other canning factories established in Eastport, two at Itobbinston, seven at Lubee,with one more in process of erection, three at Joueeport, and one each at Milbridge, Luinoine, Bass Harbor, Brooklin and Camden, beside one at St. Andrews, N. B. The herring used for the manufacture of sardines are caught in the waters of Passamaquoddy bay and vicinity. Large weirs are built, being constructed of piles driven firmly in a depth of water not exceeding twenty feet, while the space between the piles is filled in with brush interlaced with the rail which surround the piles. A large opening in the inclosure is left, through which the herring e iter at high water, and a drop seine is usea 10 ciusc mc upcuiu^ t>uvu the weir is well filled. Just before low water the fishermen enter the weir in a net boat, and with a huge scoop net take the fish out and deposit them in the boat. The fish are offered for sale by the hogs head to the boatmen of the different factories? about seventy-five in number, each factory emploj'ing from two to six boatmen?and the bidding commences, which, at times, almost rivals the stock exchange; in fact, it is the sardine exchange. If only a few of the weirs have fish, the bidding is spirited, and a high price is obtained for the haul; but, if fish are plenty, they do not bring so high a price, and the bidding is attended with less excitement. "When the industry was first started, $1 per hogshead was a good, fair pricc, but, within the last two years, as high as $J30 has been paid for a hogshead. After the fish had been transferred to the boat of the highest bidder, a start is made for the factory, a small signal flag being run up to the topmast, to show the owners at the factory that fish are on the way. When the wharf is reached, the fish are hoisted from the boats and placed in large tanks partly filled with salt water, to preserve them until they are all cut. From these tanks they arc taken iu large baskets to the cutting room and deposited on the long, rough tables, where they are seized by the cutters, and by a dexterous sweep of their large knives are quickly decapitated, the entrails being pulled out by the same movement. The operation is performed with such quickness that those skilled in the business will cut seventy V...Q o live u minute. mtu tunu ? w*. which, when full, is carried to the fore man of the room, and the cutter receives a tin ticket stamped wuh the company's initial and amount to be paid. These cutters are mostly boys and girls, from ten to sixteen years of age, and, in having what they term "a good week," they earn from $S to $10. After being cut, the fish are pickled." This is done by placing them in tubs and salting them thoroughly, after which they are washed in several changes of water, and then placed in low, flat baskets, when, after being carefully drained, they are hoisted into the flaking room. The flaking is done by women. The flakes are of wire, nearly three feet long by two feet in width, and the fish are spread on them, care being taken that space is left between each tish to avoid trouble in baking. When a flake is filled, it is placed in the racks which stand in front of the mouth of the oven. The man in charge of the oven takes them from the rack and places them on the skeletons in the oven. Each skeleton will hold four flakes, and it is revolved by steam power. The oven will hold forty flakes. By the time the last skeleton is filled, those on the first one are baked sufficiently and are removed to the racks, their places being immediately filled with flakes of fresh tish. From the racks men take them to tables, where the packers, who are women, place them in tin boxes, acoi'?n fl>o email oof hoinry t'UrUIllg ly lUCU VAAV auiuaivtfv MV4"5 used for oil and tomato sardines, the mediums for mustard and marinee sardines, while the largest are pucked in oval cans, and are called "sea trout." Into each box is poured oil and the various preparations of spice, vinegar, lemon, sugar and mustard that are used. When a can is packed and filled with oil, or the necessary preparation required, it is passed to the "header," who inserts the cover, and then it is carried to the sealing room in trays, and the covers tightly soldered. Thence after being packed in coolers, it goes to the bathroom, where it is placed in a steam process kettle and exposed to a very heavy pressure. Then it is "tapped," holes being pierced in both ends for the escape of the air, and then placed so that one hole shall be against a faucet of a hot oil tank. When tilled with oil it runs out of the second hole and both holes are then quickly stopped with solder, which makes the can air tight. It ie next carried to the shipping room, and placed in a revolving cleaner, which is partially filled with sawdust, and after being eleansed is placed in bins, where the "tester" sees by pressure of the hands whether the cans are tight, or whether they leak. If the latter the can is passed to the le ik-mender, who carefully resolders it, and it is again passed through the bath. The tight cans are properly labeled, and then packed in oases according to their brand and nailed up, when they arc now ready for shipment to New York, where they are sold to go all through the United States. The total capital employed is $459,530. Employment is given to 2,000 men, women and children, and about $10,000 is disbursed weekly for wages during the season. In uddition to packing sardines, some of the factories can lobsters and blueberries in their season. The Old Red School House Valedictory. The old time valedictory poem in use at the old red "skule houses" at the cross roads was not as pretty as the latter day efforts of the graduates of city colleges and seminaries, but perhaps it expressed the sentiments of the valedictorians quite as closely. It used to run something after this style. Good-by scholars, Good-by school, Good-by teacherBlamed old fool. ?Buffalo Express. The tributaries of Chesapeake bay alone contribute $100,000 worth of meat to the frog market every year. They are worth about fifty cents a dozen, and men make good wages hunting them with shotguns. Sportsmen also seek for thein occasionally, using small rifles. I . J I - WISE WORDS. Youthful rashness skips like a haro over the meshes of good counsel. Sloth, like rust, consumes faster than labor wears, while the key often used is | always bright. Women jump at conclusions, and gen- , ally hit; men reason things out logically, j and generally miss. He is poverty-stricken who is so ab- , sorbed in the one little inclosure of which he holds the title deeds that he loses his grasp on the bending universe. Calumny crosses oceans, scales mountains and traverses deserts with greater ense than the Scythian Abaris, and, like I him, rides upon a poisoned arrow. Courage that grows from constitution often forsakes the man when he has oc- i casion for it; couragc which arises from a sense of duty acts in a uniform manner. . lie that gives good advice builds with , one hand; he that gives {rood counsel and i example, builds with both; but he that gives good admonition and bad example. ! builds with one hand pulls down with ! flip either Intercession is the very safety valve ?f j love. When we fi el that we can really j do nothing at all in return for some re- \ markable kindness and affection, how ex- i ceedingly glad we are that we may and can pray. The detractor may, and often does, pull ! down others, but he never, as he seems to suppose, elevates himself to their posi- | tion. The most he can do is maliciously to tear from them the blessings which he ; cannot enjoy himself. All trust is dangerous, if it is not en- j tire; we ought on most occasions to speak , all or conceal all. We have already too < much disclosed our secrets to a man from I whom we think any one single circum- ! stance is to be concealed. A Constantinopolitan Fire Company. "We Booh caught sight of the captain of : the company. He was a tall, athletic J fellow, wearing short, loose trousers of while cotton cloth. His legs were bare I below the knees; he wore Turkish red pointed shoes on his feet, without stock- | ings?a loose jacket of brown felt over a white cotton shirt, and his head was ! covered with a metallic bowl, which ehone brightly. A leather belt encircled his waist, and was clasped with a large brass buckle in front, He was coming toward us in a double-quick trot, brandishing in a nroud manner, the brass spout that belonged to the hose. He ! was followed by the engine and firemen | that belonged to it. Oh, what a sight! I Most of them were scantily clothed, and j some did not even have caps upon their J heads, but I noticed that all wore the j regulation belt with the large buckle in | front. They were evidently of the class ' which composed the riffraff of the city. The engine itself was nothing more than a big-sized garden pump, carried on the shoulders of eight men, four in front and four behind. They relieved one another | every now and then with great dexterity and alertness. They 600n swept by us, followed by i the hose, which was coiled over a long i pole, the ends of which rested on the shoulders of another file of men. Just j as they reached the next corner there emerged from a side street another engine, whereupon a squabble for the , right of way immediately arose. The two companies jostled and pushed for- ; ward ftnnh nartv trvinir to tret ahead ot ; the other. After a loug harangue and i bluster,accompanied by constant yelling, i screaming and hard words, they lowered their respective engines to the ground and fell into a regular fight, wrestling, pushing and knocking one another down in a most ferocious manner. Their ; looks and actions were frantic, and they [ fought like madmen. " Ah! There comes the ser-asker, the J minister of war! He'll soon settle their dispute!"cried a voice near us. And he did. lie was preceded by a neovbetjee.who cleared the way for him, and when he ! came up lie promptly ordered the companies to take up their engines and fol- ! low him, which they did with the utmost meekness and alacrity. There was no chance now for either party to claim ! the victory, but they kept up a subdued | rattle of words all the way.?tit. Nicholas ! A Dentist's Bill. Several of our esteemed contempora- | ries have lecently made a prodigious fuss j over a bill of $7,000, which was pre- j sented by a prominent local dentist to a ! Venezuelan general for four days' work ! upon the teeth of the latter's wife. It is 1 very evident that our esteemed contemporaries have but little idea of the expense involved in gold-mining in Venezu- i elan back teeth, and as a simple act of I justice we publish the following items. It will be borne in mind that the rules are those fixed by the collcge of Odontologica'i Ethics, and are in vogue through- | out the United States and Cauada: To inquiring patient's name $ 5 00 ; To trying to recollect same 13 00 j To appointing hour for visit 10 Of) ) To recording same 2 00 j To keeping appointment with patient. 25 00 j Asking patient what's the matter 10 00 i Requesting patient to wait' a few minutes, at $2 a minute 70 00 ! Screwing up chair, $2.50 a turn 17 50 ; Telling patient to ojhjii mouth 10 00 Punching tooth witn crowbar to see if it is sensitive, at $5 a punch 25 00 i Finding out it is sensitive t! 00 j Examining tooth without mirror 20 00 < Examining tooth with do 20 00 Use of cuspidor 50 00 j Laughing gas, at $">0 a snicker 250 00 j Stuffing mouth full of cotton, at $50 a bale 150 00 Looking over box of instruments 72 00 Selecting instrument 300 00 Rolling up sleeves 50 (X) Getting to work on tooth 050 00 Pulling out wrong molar 500 00 Use of cuspidor 50 00 Blasting and dredging 450 00 Six bales extra cotton, at $50 300 00 Ascertaining which is right molar 700 (X) Jerking same 1 00 Use of cuspidor 05) 00 Showing tooth to patient 50 00 Asking uer how she feels 150 00 Asking her if she'd like to have the tooth wrapped up in a nice white paper to take homo 150 00 Being told "no" 50 00 j Charging items in book 500 00 j - '' ft\ /m I usb or cuspiuor .?j ?v Incidentals 9.50 00 Intereet on account rendered GOO 00 Wear and tear on nervous system ii">0 00 $0,850 00 Profit WO 00 , | M $7 000.00 -tow York Life. Popping the Question. Popping the question is a strictly mas- i culine institution, though it involves the j presence of a woman. If a man popped j all alone and no woman to catch on to , his pop he'd he a blamed fool for his j trouble. Men have been known to pop at all j times and in a variety of places, but 1 those who have beeu there say that a good solid pop over a garden gate lnys | over any other sort of a pop and is the ; poppiest kind of a pop. All women like to hear a man pop his | poppiest, and have been known to get J mad if the pop was a weak, sickly kind of a pop without style, self-respect or force of character. Men get off the best kind of a pop when they have both of their girl's hands in their own or have one of their arms around her waist. This action gives tone and force to the pop?helps to hold the fellow up while making it. Some fellows take naturally to popping, and are going off all the time. To others it is a painful and laborious proceeding, only to be attempted once in a lifetime and then only as small a pop as they can possibly get away with. When a fellow's pop is acceptable to a girl, it instantly involves a kiss. When it is not acccptauie, msaiug ia uui involved. When a fellow pops he always pops at his best girl. No fellow ever pops at his second or third best girl. There is no exception to this rule. Popping is a very ancient and honorable institution, and the girls like it. A girl who has never heard a pop never confesses as much. She invents a pop, so that the other girls cannot get the deadwood on her. TVe believe in popping, and shall probably experiment in that direction some day.? Winnipeg tiiftings. Louisiana has about 48,000,000,000 feet of pine in her forest*. : A BEWITCMD BLACKSMITH. account of the sisoul ab, powers op a mai5te 01 ait. Endowing With Kxlrnordinar}Mrrnicdi People Wlioni lie Touched ?ANtoniMhin? Jlaiilfestutloiis. A former resident of Gardiner, Me., said to a New York Su > reporter that one John Downs, oi Auburn, Me., was possessed of extraordinary powers. "Downs," said the reporter's informant, "is known as the bewitched blacksmith. When I left Maine, fifteen years ago, lie had just become aware that the exercise of his power was involuntary,and he was in great distress of mind over its possible consequences, having just had a painful demonstration of what might occur from its presence. Ho was not a particularly strong man himself, but by touching others he seemed to endow them with extraordinary strength. This singular power he was able not only to confer on numan beings, but he could infuse animals with it. I remember once seeing a team stalled in a road leading to Auburn. They were attached to a heavy load, and the forewheels of the wagon ran into a deep nit, and the horses were unable to pull them out. The driver was about to remove a portion af his load when Downs chanced to be driving by. lie stopped, and, teliing the driver to leave the load as it was, alighted. He rubbed each horse on the 1 J - - -1 1. 3^1 A IlUilU tlliu IlCCtv. ilUU illlllUM. Ultjf they became nervous and restless. Downs told the driver to start them up He did so, and the horses hauled the load out of the rut with the greatest ease, and went off at, such a gait that the driver found difficulty in controling them. Boys who were barely able to lift the heavy sledge hammers in Downs' blacksmith shop had only to receive the power from the bewitched blacksmith's touch to swing them with the case of old Vulcan himself. This sin<jular strength given to others would remain in force from ten minutes to half an hour, and in passing away left the subject weak and depressed, and sometimes quite ill. For this reason Downs finally refused to make subjects of any one. He was possessed, also, of great mesmeric power, and with this he furnished no end of amusement to his friends. Every day he had some one running on the most foolish of errands, or performing all Borto of odd monkey shines. On one occasion a stern, dignitied and greatly feared clergyman of the place detied the blacksmith to place him under the influence of his alleged mystic spell. In five minutes' time Downs had despatched the clergyman to a tobacconist's, a long distance away, for a clay pipe and five cents' worth of tobacco, with which he returned as meekly as the most obedient errand boy. "Downs finally ceased exercising this power also, and had not subjected any one to it for more than a year. Charles Woodward, a well-known business man of Auburn, and a great friend of the bewitched blacksmith's, the two having been in the ariny together,returned home from a long absence from town about that time. Downs went to his place of business to see him. He shook hands with him heartily, and threw one arm about Woodward's neck. This was on a Thursday forenoon. Soon after Downs went out Woodward began to dance and sing and manifest an exuberance of spirits that astonished his associates. Although a man of steady and very regular habits, he did not go home all night Thursday night, and did not put in an appearance until Friday morning. He boarded with a man named Kdwin Blake. Blake thought that Woodward, singular as it seemed, was celebrating his return home. Blake learned that Woodward had been around town smashing things generally. When he returned to his boarding house Blake got him to go to bed, and sent for a physician. People called to sec Woodward, and he astounded many of them by telling numerous family and business sccrets of theirs which he had had no possible means of becoming acquainted with. The physician said AVoodward was suffering from hysteria, and advised that he be rubbed with strong mustard water. Blake undertook the task. He had rubbed Woodward but a short time, when he was seized with a strange nervous twitching and contraction of the muscles. At the same time Woodward came to his senses. Blake took up the singing and dancing, and acted as Woodward had been doing for two days. Beside that, he became possessed of most wonderful strength, and it required four -A ??? m.m.irtck m TA tVna wnq Siruu^ UIUU IW AAA 11A A vr IMIU ?. ?%w added the still more remnrkable powei of telling what the intentions of any one of his attendants was, and what he wa9 thinking about, making it impossible for them to use strategic measures in dealing with him. "It was not until Woodward was restored to his seuscs that it was known that Downs had been to see him. It was then at once believed that he had been under the strange influence of the bewitched blacksmith, and that this had been transmitted to Blake. Downs was at once sent for, to see if he could not remove the spell he had inspired. IIo visited Blake at once, and by rubbing him soon restored him to himself. Foi the first time in his life, as he said at the time, Downs himself felt the influence of the power, or whatever it might be called, as he removed it from Blake, and for several minutes he couid restrain himself with only the exercise of his will tc the utmost, lie said that he had felt depressed and nervous ever since his visit to Woodward on Thursday, and had nol been able to account for it. There was no thought of mesmerism in his mind when he greetod Woodward on that day He said then that he would never shake hands or touch any one again, if he could help it. I have never seen him since I left there, and I had almost forerotten the bewitched blacksmith until the performances of the Georgia "Wondct called him to my mind." HEALTH HINTS. It is said that excessive tca-drinkiny causes neuralgia. A pleasant remedy jjfor a rough is lemon honey. It is made of the juice of three lemons,one pound of sugar, quartet of a pound ??f butter and six eggs. The mixture is boiled and taken hot. Lumbago may be quickly relieved by binding a piece of oil skin cloth, such as is used lo cover tables, over the loins, outside of the flannel shirt. Profuse perspiration is produced, which rapidly relieves the pain. It is said by the following simple method almost instant relief of earache is afforded: Put live drops of chloroform on a little cotton or wool in the bowl of a clay pipe, then blow the vapor through the stem into the aching car. You cannot cure corns with acids and such liquids, said a corn doctor recently to a Pittsburg reporter. They do moro injury than i^ood. The only proper iciucuj iu i\:iunvi: mu turn, \,uiu>? arc caused liy the stoppage of the circulation of blood by pressure, und then the skin becomes callous at the point of pressure. You could raise a corn on the back of your hand by stopping the circulation, but many corns come by inheritance. The children of a prominent politician and an ex-mayor came here to get t heir corns removed, and they can be accounted for only on the score of inheritance. Good and Had Meat. (Jood meat in a fresh state should bo firm and elastic to the touch. Tho characteristic odor of fresh meat should be present, and the meat-tissue should be dry, or at the most merely moist. ! The appearance of good meat is marbled, ! and its action on blue litmus-paper i$ j acid?that is. it :urns the blue paper to j a red color. Had meat, on the othei hand, is usually extremely moist, or even wet; it has a sodden feel, and the presence of dark spots in the fat is a sus picious sign. The marrow of the bones, instead of being light red in color, as in fresh meat, is brown-tinted, and often shows black spots. Tested by litmuspaper, bad meat is either neutral or alkaline, and turns red litmus-paper to blue, or does not alter either red or blue test papers. The odor of bad meat is highly distinctive; and its color, as a rule, suspiciously dark. ? Chambers' Journal. About 40,000,000 pennies wero coined in the United States last year. g| * ' ] NEWS SUMMARY, j I Eutern and middle State* i Philadelphia is to have a national elec- : trical congress. Part of John Roach's great ship yard at i Chester, Penn., has been destroyed by fire, j i The total loss is estimated at more than ! 1250,000. The national committee of the two promi- j nent political parties are now in full blast at j | New York sending out campaign documents by j the cartload and employing a whole army of { j clerks in their correspondence and mailing j ! business. Tns Greely relief fleet, consisting of the steamers Thetis. Bear and Alert, arrived at j New York with the bodies of eleven mem- j | bers of the Greely party who perished in i i the far north. Tney were received with | military honors at Governor's island by Seo- ! ' retary Lincoln and Generals Sheridan, Han- j I cock and Hazen. From Governor's island I j the bodies were taken to the homes of the j i dead men in various parts of the country for ! final interment As Mr. and Mrs. Dixon, their two children, and a man named CufT were crossing the ! railroad track at Connor station, Penn., | in a carriage, the vehicle was struck by l a locomotive. Mr. and Mrs. Dixon, one ; child and Mr. Cuff were instantly killed, the ! horses cut to pieces and the vehicle demol| ished. The driver and an infant child of the Dixons escaped with slight injuries. The par| ty was returning from a funeral. The Kemble Coal and Iron company, of ! Riddlesburg, PeniL, has failed; estimatedlia; bilitiea, $700,000. I A second and lighter earthquake shock i was felt in various parts of the Middle and Eastern States 011 tho dav following the great i upheaval. Another New York bank has been comJ pelled to suspendon account of tho dishonesty I of one of its officers. Tho Wall street bank is the institution, and the officer guilty of dishonesty is ite caahicr, John P. Dickinson, who used about $800,000 of the institution's funds in private speculation. When the bank failed Dickinson could not be found. The Republican campaign in Maine was formally opened at Lake Maranocook, a great picnic resort, by a meeting at which Mr. IJlaine made a short speech. The tenth annual convention of the American Banker's association opened at Saratoga, N. Y., with a largo attendance. Various : matters of financial import were discussed. Delegates from all parts of the country, Mrs. Parnell and two Irish members of the Britis-h parliament, were present at the second annual convention of the Irish National league, opened in Faneuil hall, Boston. President Alexander Sullivau. Mrs. Parnell and others made addresses. Lieutenant Greely declares in an interview that no act of cannibalism among the members of his party, an charged by a New York paper, came under his notice. He says Private Henry was shot by his order for stealing provisions. General Hazen says that no report as to cannibalism has been received by liim. Henry Hall, Sr., a prominent citizen and * Sshing-tackle manufacturer, of Highland ilills, N. Y., aged sixty-nine years, fled from impending ruin: and investigation showed he (laa been making notes on persons who Hnvu tin o-rictonro onH hn/1 navinc them I jashed by various banks and private parties. His son estimates the aggregate of such notes outstanding at ?80,000, with only $16,000 that is legitimate, the remainder being signed by Sctitious parties. South and West* About 3.TKX) Piegan Indians are reported to be starving at one of the agencies in Montana Three men were killed and two others fatally injured by falling walls at a fire in Wheeling, W. Va. The tugboat Mamie Glass was blown to pieces by the explosion of her boiler at Madison, Ind., and two of her crew lost their lives. A terrible fight has taken place between ten or twelve masked men and Mormon elders who have been working for converts in Lewis county, Tenn. Two Mormon elders and one of the attacking purties?a farmer bitterly hostile to Mormons?were killed, a woman had her leg broken by a shot, and a third Mormon elder was captured, taken to the woods and believed to have been killed. Three children named Robert Wood, Louis D. Wood and Kate Shaw, all under ten I years of age, living on a farm near South I iJerry, Ohio, were burned to death in a barn, where they liad been smoking, and which they I had set on fire. While George Rankin, aged nineteen, of Switz City. Ind., was showing his brother James, agea thirteen, how to handle a selfcocking revolver, the weapon was discharged, the ball striking James below the right eye. nflicting a fatal wound. George then turnea the revolver on himself and sent a ball through his breast, from the effects of which he died next day. The Grand Grovo of Druids of the United I States met in its twenty-fifth annual conclave at St. Louis, Mo.,15(J subordinate lodges, with ' a membership of 14,.r>00, being represented. j Missouri Democrats at their State conven- , I tion in Jefferson City chose presidential elecI tors and nominated General John S. Manna- I duke for governor. Washington* In 1883 suits were brought by the United | States government against 112 delinquent i officials claiming $497,08& Judgments were j ; recovered ror 51 ana couecwa. I The Washington monument is completed : | and ready for the roof. About three months i will be occupied in putting that up. The | j shaft is 500 feet high. | President Arthur has sent a valuable , gold watch and chain to Captain Brien, commander of Mia British barkentine Susan, in ! I recognition of his conspicuous bravery in ; rescuing the officers and crew of the Ameri- , cnn ship Tennessee, while that vessel was ! burning at sea. A colored woman named Chloe Ashby, died in Washington a few days since who is j snid to have been 110 years old. The Senate special committee, consisting of i Messrs. Dawes, Caini ron, of Wisconsin, Mor- j gan, Harrison and Walker, or Coke, appointed to visit certain Indian tribes, will soon enter upon its duties. The committee will visit j tribes in Upper and Lower California and the I Zuni Indians. A month will be spent among different tribes in the Indian Territory. Exports of brendstuffs from the United States during July reached $12,053,970 in value, exceeding July of last year by $1,700,3s'7 Foreign. Active preparations are still being made by the English government for the autumn exj>editioii for General Gordon's relief at 'Ihartoum. Ninety houses were destroyed by a fire at Villard-Lurin, a village in France. Vienna is almost in a state of panic in consequence of the largo number of incendiary tires which have recently occurred. Hardly a day now pusses without some notable conflagration. Bismarck is reported to be urging an A as ; tro-German confederation under treaties to bo ratified by the parliaments of the two counI tries. Cable dispatches state that the spread of cholera in Prance is now beyond question, : and greater alarm than ever prevails. In j England there are hundreds of cases of Eng- ; lish cholera, and in Italy the Asiatic form of j the disease is raging. The Gordon relief expedition to be sent by England will consist of 500 men,English and Egyptian, and seven river boats. A French squadron under Admiral Lespes. consisting of five vessels, has bombarded anu captured the town of Kelung, on the Hand of Formosa The town was taken to compel China's payment of the indemnity demanded by France for the recent firing upon French troops by the Chinese. President Dyett, of Trinidad, one of the largest of the West India islands, was drowned recently by the capsizing of his boat while on a sailing excursion. | Myriads of locusts have appeared in Mexico and Yucatan. Hundreds of square miles of the country were covered with the pests, and corn, grass and other crops were utterly destroyed. Durin? a severe thunder storm which prevailed throughout England, hailstones fell at Accrington three inches long and an inch thick. Houses, churches and mills with iii an area of two miles wero wreciceu as by a riot. Church windows wero riddled as if volleys of shot had beeu fired into them. Hundreds of gardens were destroyed. Two persons were struck dead by lightning at Burnley, two at Barnsley, one at I Darweii and one at Nottingham. A fierce storm has done immense damage in Upper Hungary. Streams were raised to floods, villages were sv opt away and many jK'rsons drowned. London has just experienced the most intense heat in twenty years, the thermometer going up to ninety-three degrees. In Paris the sun's heat set tire to a largo number of bales of cotton, causing a loss of 100,000 francs ifL'0,000). The Duke of Wellington, oldest son of the j great soldier who first bore that title, dropped I deail a few days since at Brighton. England, as ho was entering a railway conch for London. He was born in 1807. Thunder storms of unexampled severity | j have swept over the north of England and j Scotland. Many buildings in Edinburgh, Lcith and other cities were partially demolished by the lightning. Several penjons were lulled by lightning, among the number the | Earl of Laudordale, who was overtaken by the storm while out riding. ' NEWSY GLEANINGS. Tiierk aro over 38,000 locomotives in this i country. For oysters at wholesalo New York city an- j nunlly pays ?5,000,000. H oor.-RAisiNo is becoming an important industry in the Black hills. Tmk crop uiid livestock products of Illinois jor iss;: were valued at *250,SOU,000. It is est imated that 15,500 people were damaged physically on the "glorious Fourth." A okneral feeing prevails among cattle men of the West against barb-wire fences. The father of Charlie Ross has spent $00,- ! 000 in Uje search for his son, and examined j over 700 cases of boys supposed to be his. j LATER AEW& At the closing session of the Irish National league in Boston speeches were delivered by United States Senator Jones, of Florida, William 13. Redmond and Thomas Sexton, members of the British parliament, President Sullivan and others. Patrick Egau was elected president of the league, Mr. Sullivan declining re-election. A resolution was adopted by a rising vote expressing the deepest regret at the death of Wendell Phillips. Lieutenant Giieely, commander of the i unfortunate Arctic explorers, received a warm public welcome at his home, Newburyport, Mass. Governor Robinson welcomed Greely on behalf of Massachusetts. Jonx McMahon, a messenger employed in the Leather Manufacturers' National bank, of New York, was directed to take a package containing #20,000 to an express office. Instead of doing so McMahon left for parts unknown James G. Blaine has begun a suit for slander against the Indianapolis (Ind.) Senthirl. President Arthur has appointed Miss Clara Barton as the representative in chief of the United States at the Red Cross congress, in Geneva, Switzerland. During July,the total values of the exports of domestic cattle, hogs, ami of beef, pork and dairy products from the United States amounted to $0,001,024 against $13,224,459 the previous year. Lieutenant Gkeelv has made an official re])ort narrating the circumstances which led to tl e execution of Private Henry in the Arctic regions and requesting that a court of inquiry lx! ordered, or a coHrt-martial bo convened, should the secretary of war deem either idvisuble. General Hazen, chief signal officer, has secured the consent of the postmaster-general to hoist the cold wave flag on postoffice build, mgs throughout the country to signal for the tx.'iieflt of farmers and others the approach of old waves. The flag is of white, with black center. It will remain in position twentyfour hours after being hoisted. The British parliament, having closed its labors, has bei n prorogued. Anti-French mandarins poisoned the late idng of Annam. Kino Leopold, of Belgium, has thanked the American people for the interest they manifested in the International African association. " ARCTIC HORRORS, HUM * ! tci J .1111 I It Ui B .->uiu ?w Ut?*? Kat :n Their Dead Comrade** The New York Times contained, a fewJays since, a shocking story to the offset that the men of the Greely expedition who died were eaten by the survivors, and that Prr vate Charles B. Henry, a young German, was shot for stealing foo l, and then eaten. The story rests upon rumors and the gossip of the sHiilors upon tho relief vessels Thetis an(J **"ar. It Is given a color of truth by the refusal of the officers of tin relief expedition to deny or confirm it. According to the published story, tho suspicions of the frienas of the deaa men were awakened by the extreme care taken to prevent anyone from seeing tho bodies*. It was understood that the bodies were lcund in a horrible condition, and after being wrapped in many thicknesses of cloth were placed in metallic coffins at St. Johns. According to the gossip of the sailors of the expedition, the bonei of tho dead wore really found stripped of all flesh, each bundle of bone.* wrapped in a blanket, and marked with the name. It has been published that after tho game gave out early in February the party lived principally on sealskins, lichens and shrimps. As a matter of fact,it is alleged, they were kept alive on human flesh. When | tho rescuing party discovered the half-starved i survivors, their first duty was to look to the ! two men who weixi insensible from cold and privation, even to the point of death. One of them, a Gorman, was wild in his delirium. "Oh," he shrieked, as the sailors took hold of him to lift him tenderly, "don't let them' shoot me as they did poor Henry. Must I be killed and eaten as Hemy was? Don't let them do it. Don'tl Don'tl" The sailors were horrified, but at once re- ! Wrted the man's words to Commander Schley, hen the horrible reality was brougght out before an investigating committee, as asserted, Commander Schley instructed two or j throe gentlemen, among whom was Dr. Ames, the surgeon of the Bear, to make a careful examination and put their conclusions j in writing. I his was done, and the reports are now in t le hands of the navy department. ; Lieutenant Greely was decidedly averse to ' having the bodies of the buried dead disturbed. | He thought it wise, as they had I.em buried < so long, to let them remain in their Arctic graves. Commander Schley did not agree with him. The bodies were dug from their graves in the little hill just back of the permanent camp established in October, li&'J. Most of the blankets, it is averred, contained nothing but heaps of white bones, many of, them picked clean. Charles B Hemy was without any relatives j in this country, and joined Company E, Fifth | Cavalry, in Cincinnati. Driven to despair by his frightful hunger Henry saw his opportu- | nity to steal a little more than his share of j rations, and he made the attempt He was ; found out, it is said, and shot for his crime. | Ill tno puDilsned OlllCiai repoii uitj ueuui j of this man is set down as l aving occuired on June (5. When the body was found j his hands and face, though shrunken, were in- ' tact and recognizable; but nearly every where 1 else, the sailors say, the skin had been ! stripped from him, and the flesh picked'from j the bones. A bullet hole was found in the j skin. A reporter of the New York Evening Post went to the navy yard and found Command- ; er Schley. "I nave absolutely nothing to ; say about the report." said that officer court- j eously, but flrmiy; ''neither has anyone un- i der me." Interviews were had with Secretary Chandler, Rear Admiral Nichols, General Hazen and others concerning the terrible story that the Greely party were compelled by hunger to eat their dead comrades. The officials neither denied nor admitted the allegations. It is possible that a congressional investigation may be had. THE INDIAN TERRITORY. Would-be Settlers Ejected?A Settle* j mcut Burned* A Caldwell (Kansas) dispatch sayi: On ! Wednesday General Hatch, in company with 1 Adjutant - Gunoral Finley and Inspector ! Greene, of the Interior department, vielt?d | Payne's camp, at Rock Falls, Indian Coun- j try, and afti-r reading the President's procla- | mation to him and his followers, directed ! them to leave the Territory before Thursday j morning, and told them that if they did not j leave they would be ejected. This took place : in a small board shanty, occupied by the j Oklahoma Chief (newspaper), the forms of which were being "made up at the time. 1 Jfayne at first attempted to discuss tne iegai i aspects of the case, but soon became angry i and very abusive in his language. Coojier. i the editor, joined in with vitujieration and threats. The oflieers then retunied to their ) camp, ten miles distant. Yesterday morning at an early hour two squadrons of the Ninth United States cavalry, commanded by Captain Moore, appeared in tho boomers'camp, and under direction of Indian Agent Rogers, arrested the whole community and took chargo of the printing ofliee. All the women and children and the m -n who were new offenders ! were escort *d to the Kansas line,together with their personal property. .Six old offenders named L). L. Payne. I/. B. Cooper, D. G. Greatliouse, T. w. Ecl;li;bni%;er, John McGrew, andS. L. Mosely were loaded into six j mule wagons and started under escort of ; Lieutenant Jackson and fifteen men for Fort 1 Smith, Ark., three hundre I miles distant ( Tin' paper was rea ly to go lo press, and upon I inquiry a number of printers were found in the command, who soon printed an edition of > one hundred copies. '1 he press was then ! cart-fully in-ked and l>adel into a wagon j and started under an escort for Muskogee, it being confiscated property. The printing ofliee and other buildings, including two , boarding-houses,a drug store,a restaurant and j some cheap dwellings, were burned to the ! ground. Payne threatened to cut the throat of ihe first 111:111 whoaltumpted to arrest him, but one colore.I soldier marched him about the camp for an hour. Payne lias lost what ever prestige he may have had heretofore with the tienking class of the community. | He had been on a debauch for a week, and [ was unable on Wednesday night to attend a j conference of squatters "held after General tiati'ii i"it mi* hock fans. rue numuer < ejected from tliis camp was about two liun- 1 11 r?l and fifty persons. A detachment of tro: ps has lieen sent t > the remaining settle- ! incuts, wh>> will in u like manner arrest the j ringleaders, andtuke them to Kort Smith. ' PROMINENT PEOPLE, j Genkrai, Benjamin F. Bcti.er will be dxty-six years old in Novemlwr. The coincidence is rioted that Mr. Blain* ffas born in Brownsville,IVnn. .and Mr. U>gan ji Brownsville. 111. United States Senator Anthony's diet 'or about six months has lieen Graham bread cud sweet skimmed milk. Florence Marryatt, the English novel- i fit, poet, vocalist and musician, is coining to America on a lecturing tour. Kinu John, of Abyssinia, has determine^ j ?n abolishing slavery and prohibiting th*3 | ilave tratlic in his dominions. The health of Florence Nightingalo is very ' ?oor. She is sixty-four years olJ, and has j lone a vast amount of work for sulPering . M EARTHQUAKE. CJt!** and Towns on the Atlantic Coast Shaken. A Rumbling Roir, Rocking Biddings and Terrified People. Clti.^3 and towns oa the Atlantic coast hare beanl-shaken by nn earthquake shock such as was never experienced bifore in t'uo section of the country, in which the convulsion of nature occurred. From Wash * i*. i-i 1 uigw/u, ill mo ouuiu, 10 wua ieiu turuu^u Delaware, Eastern Pennsylvania, New Jersey, Eastern New York and Now England. It was felt in its greatest strength, probably, along the New Jersey and Long Island coast, but nowhere was any serious damage reported. From many places two shocks were reported, the first being generally reported at a few minutes after 2 o'clock p. m., followed bv the other, with an intermission of only a few seconds. A rambling sound accompanied tua shaking of the earth. The direction of the disturbance was given differently by the var riou3 observers. Consternation was created throughout New York city by the visitation of the earthquake. The shock was the severest one over known there. Buildings of every description were shaken on their foundations and in many quarters intense excitement prevailed. The suock was accompanied by a low rumbling sound, and commencel at 2:11 o'clock, lasting ten seconds. People who were taking their after noon nap were startled from their slumbers. From thi Battery to High Bridge the alarm was general The occupants of buildings rushed panic-stricken into the streets, and everyone was asking e very body else what it was. Many women fainted from fright, while others who were more collected turned pale in the anticipation that the worst was still to come. Many remained in the streets some time, fearing to go back into their houses. People on the streets felt the vibrations, but did not hear the rambling. Even some who were in their carriages say they noticed the hock. In the lower and more lightly conitructe I dwellings, tho rocking motion was distinctly felt, but was not sufficient to move largo articles of furniture. In residences, cr.jckery and glassware were thrown from their shelves and broken. In Printing House square, New York city, the shook was pronounced. Persons who have had similiar experiences remarked that they had never known so distinct a vibration. On Sunday afternoons Park Row is always crowded with people passing to and fro over the bridge and oy street ears from all parts ot the city. Men and women stopped aud- | aeniy ac me strange sensation ana loonea at one another in umizement. The first instant the jar was faint an 1 distant, but as it increased into a heavy rumble and tremor pedestrians rushed from ihj sidewalks into the middle of th-j street and gazed with expressions of fear and wonder at the tall build* ings. Tho real nature of the shock did not at first appear to be realized, but as it came with atterthought somo of tho more cautious ones hurried into the City Hall park, until ja considerable crowd gathered there discussing the cause ol tho phenomenon. Janitors and families occupying the ollice buildings presently made their appearance at the windows,and alarmed by the shock and the looks of tho crowd, rushed into the streets. Tho general impression prevailed at first that there had been an explosion in the neighborhood, and it was attributed to some of the boilers in the large printing establishments. As the real cause became known the excitement seemed to spread. The shock was also experienced in many villages, towns and cities of New England, Pennsylvania, Maryland and Delaware. In PAma nln^aa if ia ronnpf-fl/1 ad havincr Hiwm vorv severe,although it was not accompanied by any serious damage to property, or injury to lire or limb. At several points two shocks, one quickly succeeding the other, were experioncod, causing great consternation and drivinz the people Into tho streets. Some remarkable phenomena were observed in the Housatonic river, which rose in the form of two waves which started from the shores, met in the c?nter of the stream and fell to a dead level with the roar like that of an explosion. From almost every city and town on the Atlantic coast and the States as far west as Ohio came roports of tho earthquake's visitation. Reports varied as to the extent of the earthquake, but in many places it was sufficiently strong to set houses rocking, and it was accompanied by a rumbling sound that lasted for at least ten seconds. Tho great dining room of the Long Beach hotel, near. New York, was cleared of it? three hundred occupants in less than two minutes by tho earthquake Sunday. The guests were first startled by a prolonged rumbling sound, as if some heavy object was being dragged along the floor overhead. Then the building began to rock, and the door seemed to undulate. Some of the waiters dropped their trays and stood openmouthed with fright. Several ladies uttered low screams and "Oh, mysl" and started toward the main door of tue dining room. A few men lost their heads, pushed their chairs over on tho floor, and daubed toward the partially barred doorways leading out upon the veranda. A general panic followed. and during the next two minutes indescribable confusion reigned. Guests and waiters joined in a frantic rush for doors and windows. The stout bars across the veranda doorways were broken down, and the bewildered crowd poured out upon the veranda and down the broad steps toward the beach. Some of the people thought that the building was coming down, and others believed there had been a boiler explosion. Similar experiences to the foregoing were reported from Coney Island, Long Branch and other seaside resorts. The area | subjected to seismic influence seems to have extended as far west as the Alleghanies, and as far east as Portland, Maine. The States of New York, New Jersey, Rhode Island, Connecticut, Pennsylvania, Maryland, Delaware, Massachusets, part of Maine auu IUO x-riaurcuu ui vwivuubia are included in it. No serious or extensive damage is reported, however, and the earthquake in England last spring was much more serious and severe. That destroyed many buildings completely, injured much property and caused some lo6s of life. The earthquake of 1863 in California was again much more severe than that in the East. It destroyed many buildings,caused loss of life, did a great deal of damage to interiors, cracked many buildings it did not throw down, threw some of the streets of San Francisco into ridges resembling sea waves solidified, and in Contra Costa and Alameda counties, in the latter of which it appeared to center, produced effects in many respects strikingly analagous to the work of the electrical storms or tornadoes which have wrought such havoc in the West. These effects consisted mainly in the evidence of a gyratory motion, shown in the twisting of trees, houses and chimnies. A New York paper concludes its editorial comments on the earthquake by saying: "The public of the States affected by the late shock, may console themselves with the reflection that no really severe earthquake has occurred in this part of the world during the historical period, and that such shocks as that of yesterday are incapable of doing any damage, however alarming they may seem to nervous persons. One Western tornado is indeed more to be feared than very many such rumblings and tremblings of the earth." A REVOLTING STORY. rit<< Vccuml In Command (?' the (>nely Party Eaten by Comrade*. The Now York papers contain long account* of the disinterment of the body of Lieutenant Kislingbury. second in command jf the Arctic expedition,an lof the distressing results of an examination of the corps by ioctors. Lieutenant Kislingbury's remain,, h?,i !u?n l.nriLHl in Mount Hope cemetery at Rochester, N. Y. The rumors that the survivor of tho Greely party had turned cannibals, and the oft-repeated injunctions not to 3jHMi the collin under any circumstances, aroused in the minds of many of the Lieutenant's friends and relatives suspicions that there was some truth in the horrible story. Con-teqiiently it was determined to exhume tho remains. The coffin was taken from tho erave arid carried to tho chapel in the cemetery. There the lid was removed in the presence of Frank \V. Kislingbury and John P. Kislingbury, brothers of the deceased lieutenant. Dr. Charles Buckley, Dr. F. A. Mandeville. Superintendent Stellson, and Assistant Superintendent Maudeville of the cemetery and two newspaper men The medical examination disclosed the horrible fact that all tho flesh of the Ixxly had been cut completely off from the bones, except on the face, hands and feet. The organs of tho thoracic cavity were intact. There were no wounds on* the head. The remains weighed about fifty pounds. Kislingbury's body was eaten by his companions. NINE OUT OF FOUKTEEN, Wholesale Slaughter of Honr Thieve* by Montana Cuivboyn. A dispatch from Helena, Montana, says that particulars hsivo been received of another slaughter of horse thieves in the Muscle Shell region, 150 miles northeast of Helena,by cowboys, while in pursuit of stolen horses. A log house was discovered in the timber on the mountain side. It was secretly watched for a day or two, during which time several small parties of men came and went, some by day, others by night, having in their possession horses which wero evidently stolen. It becoming ovident that it was a hoi-se thieves' rendezvous, the cowboys congregated, and at night crawled up close to tne house and attacked the horse thieves who were about the premises at the time. Nine wero killed and five escaped. The cabin was then set on lire and burned. Never was there a period in the history of tho Territory when there was so much horsethieving going on, and the citizens are now determined to effectually stop it. Fully fifty thieves havo been hanged or shot in the put month. Moody and Sankey are announced to berin work at Cincinnati in October, alter vhich they will proceed to Itichmoqj^MH at the South. HH SHOT TO_DEATF. ! Lieutenant Grccly'a Account oT the Execution of Private Henry. A Portsmouth (N. II.) dispatch says that Lieutenant Grecly was seen by an Assodj a ted Press reporter in his cottago on Seavcy's Island. He gave an account ui iuo various events 01 mo lacier pan/ ; of the retreat southward from Fort Conger. About November 1 the party be, gon to be served with one-quarter rations, and debilitated health soon showed the effect j of this insufficient amount of food. The men ' were not before this in as good condition to : withstand Arctic weather as they had been a ! year before. About November 1 provisions were missed from the stores, and it was con- . ! eluded that they must have been stolen. '3 ; Much complaint was made by the mon, and j threats against the thief were loud. January : 2i the party was near perishing from a?- -'< ! phyxiaand several of its members were un conscious. j Private Henry during this terrible expert- . [ >'5 I enco was seen by one of the Esquimaux to : \ steal some of the bacon from the stores. He . ! soon afterward was taken ill from overload- M ing his stomach and\omitedupthe bacon un- "r*: I digested. An investigation was had and Henry was pioved guilty not only of this but several previous thefts. It was a terrible state of affairs. Henry's in- fyjjjj dignant comrades demanded his death. Over and over again Henry promised to reform, but this did not still the ciainjr for his life. fi Lieutenant Greely remonstrated with his men and all was quieted. Taking Henry in hand Lieutenant Greely represented to him y the enormity of his offense and pointed out !? to him the necessity for concerted action . ;'Sj in the party if all would be saved. ' tij Henry was then placed under guorl for sev- ^ eral weeks, until the increasing feebleness of " the other members of the party rendered it : necessary for them to avail themselves of Henry's personal services. Shortly afterward SBfc he stole liquor from the stores ana became in- .vSj toxicated. Again his comrades clamored for l**g?| Vli'u 1t#A nnrl n nnin f 1 tr rvifl'niniul fliAIM U19 All Cy UUU O^tUil U1UC1JT A UJOl IU11LU MIWII. ?|I7H On June 5, Henry again stole and carried away some of the provisions. Lieutenant Jnfj Greely spoke firmly to Henry and told him it r-'sH would tie policy for him to stop. Said the Lieutenant: "For God's sake, Henry, as you seem to have no moral sense, remempei that Hy| our lives depend upon our holding together." \}'gm With great earnestness Heniy promised not Km to be guilty of theft again. Lieutenant Kgfl Greely felt that he could not trust Henry. Ksjl After revolving in his mind their circum- Mreg stances the lieutenant, on his own responsi- Mf^a biiifcy, issued a written order, now in posses- 53 sion'of one of the survivors, commanding HRe that Henry be shot on sight of commission of . Wfl any more thefts of food. At this time the party had left, as a last resort, only pieces of sealskin and such shrimps 1 as they could procure. About June 6 Henry went to the old winter quarter at Camp Clay, near Cape Sabine, and stole some of , the last sealskin, which was the only food ' ' left. He also took the last pair of boots in ^ the stores. On being closely questioned by ' '*% Lieutenant Greely, he admitted his guilt.. He was again ready with promises to-do better. , ; His fato was upon him. He was, in s*. ' Ihs afternoon of that day, a little distance at the rear of the summer quarters ' alone tiy himself. The written order for his execution was committed to three of the party. ' . They were ordered to shoot him, encountering ns little danger to themselves as possible, as ; v . Henry was the strongest of the party. Sadly the men departed on their terrible . . . errand. Their comrades left in camp turned . > their eyes to the ocean. In a few minutes the breeze bore to their ears the sound of two ' ,'? quick pistol shots. All were .'silent Slowly, after a short interval, the men returned. The < _'; written order was handed to Lieutenant . Greely, and the horrible but necessary execu- ^ tion was over. Henry was never H?n again j by his comrades,and his body was understood * to be interred at the foot of the northwest ice floe. The order for the execution of Henry was ' that afternoon read to the survivors, and all concurred in the justice and necessity of tho ? act. No report of the manner of his death ' nas ever Deen maae m ijisutermnc ureeiy, ana . i the survivors tacitly ignored the terrible remembrance. The reports of cannibalism, Lieutenant c Greely says, are false. Of his own knowledge he knows of nothing of the kind and the survivors all indignantly deny it If any cannl- . V balism took place Lieutenant Grecly emphatically says it was in secret and not indulged in by the party, but to the best of his knowledge there was none. ' Why," said the lieutenant, "why did we not allow poor Ellison to die, if we were so past the line between humans and savages! Why did we share our food with him to the last drop?" All through the retreat the discipline, with \the exception of Henry's theft, was well maintained and a'l yielded implicit obedience . even to the last dread day on Cape Sabine. A verbal report was made to General Hazen by Lieutenant Greely shortly after the arrival of the relief expedition at Portsmouth. In regard to the exertion of Henry General Hazen said: "It was not only justifiable, but the noblest thing in the expeaitioa" A written report was submitted by Greely to the war department a few days ago fully \ covering Henry's case and a court-martial has been asked for by Lieutenant Greely if the facts seem to the war department to warrant it . THE NATIONAL GAME. :A Joe Stabt, first baseman of the Providena club, is forty years of age. Sutton, of the Bostons, was the first Leagw player to make 100 base nits this season. Columbus is the only club in the American association that has played two consecutiv* games without an error. I It is probable that many veterans on thi r.<v.foccinnfii flnld will retire at the end of tht season to make room tor younger blood. Five proninent men in Baltimore have sut> scribed $5,000 for a new club, if they can bi admitted to the national league next year. The Virginia club have resigned theli ' position in the Eastern League,and have been admitted in the American Association in plao* of tho Washington club. M| In St. Genevieve, ITo., a club bas beau \ 3; started, having for its players nine brother) named Griesbaber. They challenge any nini H brothers to play them a game. The out-field of the Cincinnati Americas H i club is the largest in the country, and tin ' $3 heaviest There are three six-footers, who S|B combine a weight of 540 pounds. ^zjp Evans, the right fielder of the Cleveland^, -Ma says ho can toll by the sound of a halted fail- -..WB in which direction it will go. If it wavfe; loud and clear it will be a long hit, and 11 muffled and iadtetinct it will land m the bs. In I field. & '??8 A special meertingof thb Eartora League {H was held at Philadelphia reoeDtly, when it wai fiB decided to admit two dnbs, one from Jersey City and one from Paterson, in plaoo of the a* Virginians, resigned, and the Actives, dis- rS ! banded. |H A singular feature of the national game Is |9 i seen in the fact that in a recent Philadelphia' ; | Boston gameMulvey, of the former club, playing at third base, ban fourteen fielding chances, while Sutton, of the Bostons, in the same position, had none at all. An old baseball player,says that left handed hatters, in striking the ball, give it a curve that makes it very hard to catch. At a recent game in Cleveland, Brouthers.uf the Buffalos, knocked a liner to the right of the centre: tho right fielder tried to catch it, but the ball, on approaching him, took such a ';urve that he j was obliged to retrace his step in a hurry, i and was unable to get it. Right hand batten knock a straight ball. where they all were. | " In court," said the card on the lawyer's doqr, i "Back in ten minutes," on many more; I " Gone to the hospital," on the doctor's slate, On another, "Sit down and wait," I " Gone to bank," on the notary's sign; " Arbitration," that young clerk or mine, " Back soon," on the broker's book, " Collecting rents," on my agent's hook, They were all to busy, a matter quite new, Very soiTy was i, i nad nothing to do. Then I hield mo hence to the base-ball ground, And every man on the grand stand found. ?New York Sun. At a recent Milwaukee-Minntaitolis game, Pearson, tho pitcher for tho -Miime<n>olis club, while delivering the ball, broke hi - urm above the elbow. It broke with a snapping sound that could bo heard all over the mamond, tha ball rolling along tho graiis to the captain's line. Pearson uttered a loud cry ot' pain and fell to the ground. Ho was immediately carried to a doctor's office, where the broken bone wa< set. Tho unfortunate man is a resident of Waterloo, N. Y.,and a member of the class ! of 'So at Hobart collego. j At the end of tho fifteenth week tho reoj ord of the League clubs in the championship | race was: j CM". Won. Lost. | Club*. Won. Lost. I Providence 52 SO I Chicago 3$ 35 Hoston 50 22 Cleveland 26 47 iiiiffHlo 43 29 | Philadelphia 21 52 New York 41 30 | Detroit 19 55. j The record of the twelve American As[ sociation clubs at tho end of the fifteenth week was as follows: | Club*. IKon. Lost. ! Clubs. W" i. Let. ; Metropolitan.49 19 | Iialiimore 31 29 Columbiu 4S 20 I Brooklyn 2S 39 I.onlsvlllo?4T 21 I Toll-do 23 48 ! Cincinnati....43 27 I Pstt^bnr?f!i....21 49 . 6u I.ouis 42 24 I Indian ip >IU..!'i 48 Athletic 42 'J9 | \S'as:;tu?'to:i..l3 63 The Virginia cltib, now a member of the American association in plaeo of the "Washington club, won one gam?, lost threo and | hail ono drawn. Tho records of all th; other association j races have bicomo too ono-siile<l and mixed I ui> to bo worth printing any !o;ige:\ The Wilmington* have the Eastern league chamI II,. | ? pioiismjj lit vuvu J A popular act rex; who at one time sup' ported tho character of nurso to dura .Morris' "Camille," recently said: "She is a per' feet slave to the opium habit, ami th's is the I whole cause of her ill health, and will ulta| mately prove her death. Shu carries it with I her every time she yoes on the stajje. cleverly managing to take it every halt' hour lea> | without detection." Hv the ileath of Victor Mas>e. the comI jK?t r, the third chair in the seel;: n of music ? j at the Kity Arts a<atdemy, in Paris, cumprixkonce more vacant; his only BHB^^^^tnce the foundation off this seo-^MB