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TAR AND FEATHERS. Outrage .on Rev. Father JBap3t by . Know-Nothings.* His Terrible Experiences— Subsequently Hec tor of St. John's College. Fordham— ■ Blame's Paper Defends the Mob- Statement of a Gentleman Who Was on the Spot. [From the New York Mercury. | The tarring and feathering of the eminent ■ Catholic priest, Rev. John Bapst, at Ells- j worth, Me., during the Know-Nothing ex- j citement, which was briefly alluded to Thurs- ! day night by Congressman Collins, ..in his speech at the Academy of Music meeting, j was an outrage that started the entire country j at the time. Father Bapst is remembered as i one of the most devoted and popular priests i Of the day, and thousands of New Yorkers recall him subsequently as president of St. John's College, Fordham. THE HON. THOMAS D. JONES. one of the largest lumber merchants in the eastern district of Brooklyn, was at the time of the outrage a resident of Ellsworth. He had been born and reared there, and knew everybody in the place and all that was going | on of a public nature. Besides be was then personally acquainted with Father Bapst, and saw him after the assault upon him, when persons were endeavoring to clean the tar and feathers from bis body, lie also, with other liberal Protestants of the place, tried | to have the perpetrators of the act punished; but Blame's paper, the Ken^ebec Journal, lad roused such religious feeling in the bosoms of the great mass of the population that no grand jury could be found to indict the rufiians. Mr. Jones, who is now a gen tleman past the meridian of life, of a singu larly refined and strikingly Intellectual ap pearance, related the wnole incidents of th affair to a Mercury reporter in his oflice one afternoon during the past week. »'Now," said Mr. Jones. "I am a Protest- I ant. of Protestant stock. I drew my religion from my mother's breast, but I do not be lieve, and never did believe, that any one religion holds a monopoly of all the virtues and good qualities of humanity. I recollect when Blame came to Maine. It was, I am pretty positive, in the spring of 1834. He went there to edit the Keimebec Journal, pub lished in Augusta, the capital of the state. Ii was the leading Republican organ of the stale, and was read everywhere in the state. BLAISE'S NAME WAS UP AS EDITOR of the paper. Got. Merrill was the Republi can candidate for governor that year, and the leading issue of the campaign was the proposed exclusion of all foreigners Irom the franchise, Blame at once commenced a fierce advocacy of the tenets of Know Noth ingism and kept it up all through 1854, '55 and ';•<>. I might with justice s.iy that Know NothingUm owed its existence in Maine to him. lie was the heart soul of the crusade, and he bad much Influence with the people. The Catholic population of Ellsworth \va3 not very large in those days. They had a little church where Father Bapst attended every Bun day, said mass and preached, baptised ami married, and did all the other offices of his religion. He was stationed at Bangor. and performed the duties of bis religion and calling for a large section of the country around, tie priests were scarce up in Maine in those lays. He was a Frenchman and the MOST PERFECT GENTLEMAN I have ever met. He had a very flue, im posing presence, was thoroughly educated ami refined, and a true Christian in every sense, lie was liberal in his views aad huge In i.i tolerations. He was the last man -you could think of who would provoke the oat pa/ inflicted upon him. Were he narrow ini tided, bigoted, ill-bred and of a quarrel some disposition, the excuse mi. !«• pre sented that be drew it on himself. But be ■■'■■■• directly the opposite, and possessed the esteem mi respect of all the liberal minded Biirt«rrt»fK:eWblc Protestants of the whole df.-trlct in Which he served. THE TROUBLE FIRST AKOSB In this way: The know-nothing spirit was burning at red heat under the surface, ted and Inflamed week after week by Biaine's paper, and was only waiting for the slightest occurrence to burst forth with devouring effect. It ma;' have been done to provoke tin- Catholics, but however that was, a strin gent rule was enforced In the nubile school that the Catholic children should read the Protestant Hit. lf. Tin" Catholics protested against this. I think it was some time in July that the Catholics turned their church into a school house for themselves, and began to build a new church. This action brought out nil the spirit of know-nothing- Ism. The old church, now the school bouse, was burned down one night, and that por tion of the tew church which had been erected was burned and destroyed. There was naturally great excitement in the town next morning, and many of the law and order Protestants feared that the Catholics would take revenge by burning down their church ami Schools. Some of thorn came to our house and consulted my eldest brother, William, bo tried to calm tin ir fears by telliuir them the Catholics would not take such reprisals. However, it was thought well to call a meet ing fur the purpose of DENOUNCING THE OUTRAGE and assuring our Catholic fellow townspeople hat the burning of their church and school was the act of Ignorant bigots, and that all respectable Protestants held such conduct In utter abhorrence. Half ■ dozen of us wont to see Mr. Whittakcr, who was then chair man of the town selectmen, to have the meeting called. Mr. Whlttaker, although a Republican, was with us. The meeting was called for tho Sth of July. When we went to the place we found that the Know-Nothing element hud gathered in largo force anil taken possession. It was our intention to have Mr. Whittaker preside, but we s.imt m were outnumbered four to one, and know ing we could effect nothing we left. Besides, if wo hal remained it might be claimed that we, by our pres ence, countenanced whatever action might be taken. The meeting ■ was organ ized by the election of George W. Brown as chairman. Speeches, prompted and dictated by a spirit of persecution, were made and Cheered to the echo. The meeting then passed the following resolutions, of which 1 ! have just received a certified copy, taken from the town records by Mr. W. EL Chany, ' the town clerk. They ki:.w> as follows: Moved by Georgo W. Mai'.ox, that if John Bapst, S. .).. be found again upon Ellsworth soil we will provide for him and try on an entire suit of new clothes, such as cannot be found at the shop of any taylor (sic), and that when thus apparelled ha be presented with a tree ticket to leave Ellsworth upon the first railroad operation that m.iv go into effect. Voted, that the resolutions adopted at this Meeting be published in the Ellsworth Htrald ami Eastern frtnntut. Voted, that we now adjourn sine die. THE HEADING OF the RESOLUTIONS was received with shouts of applause, and they were adopted without a dissenting voice or vote, .- the Democrats and Liberal Re publicans bad all left when they saw bow things were likely to go. The procecfllngs won- published all over; but Father Bapst. not believing that they would put their threat into execution, went to Ellsworth the follow ing Saturday to be ob band to attend to his rvltelous duties next morning. He stopped at the house of an American Catholic named Kent. When darkness bad ad in the house was surrounded by a mob who demanded the , the production of the objectionable 'priest. A TKAP DOOE IN TOE FLOOR of Mr. Kent's kitchen led down to the cel lar, anil opening this he induced Father Bapst to descend and hide in the cellar, ex pecting tLe nob would go away when they ' could not find him. Mr. Kent opened the | doer and VIA him that Father '■ Bapst was not there. 'We know he i* and we must have him,' the crowd yelled. Mr. Kent invited them to look all over the ■ bouse, but they persisted in the statement that be was secreted to the house, as nome ; of them had seen him enter. Mr. Kent tried to narsuAiJle tic si that he was not there and 1 begged them to go away. 'If you don't pro duce him we will burn down your house and roast him alive,' the mob howled. They were proceeding: to carry out . the threat to burn down the house when Father Bapst, not wishing to see his protector made to suffer, pushed up the trap door and ASCENDED THOU THE CELLAR. He still hoped that the instincts of humanity would prevail in them over the spirit of bijrotry ; that they would bo open to reason and justice and would disperse to their homes. But he misjudged the spirit which controlled the mob. With a yell they rushed upon him, dragged him out of the house and up the road. They placed him upon a sharp rail and thus carried him along, yelling, hooting and cursing him, spitting upon him and raining blows at him. The men carrying the ' rail Jogged it up and down so as to inflict more pain and injury. Coming to v lonely place outside of the town they took his watch and money and his clothes, stripping him naked. They then * dragged him Into a wood, as I have learned since, and tied him to a tree. They piled brush around him and some of the ruffians tried to set it on fire. They would most likely have burned him to death did not their supply of. matches give out be fore they could get the brush lit. They then untied him from the tree and flung him on his back, and a man wiih a large knife was about to perpetrate a terrible outrage when a few of the mob revolted at the attempt and BATED HIM FROM IT. I was sitting in my home during all this time, unaware of what was going on. A rap came to the door, which I opened and a neighbor told me that a mob hud seized and carried Father Bapst off to the woods. I could not believe it, but I started out and on the ill outside of the town met my brother and the sheriff coming in.' They had gone out t > look for the mob and try to save the priest They encountered the mob, who flung stones at them, breaking the lantern the sheriff carried. The sheriff r<< a roan of courage and told the roughs that If they did not desist he would empty the contents of his • pistol among them. This had the desired effect; the crowd passed on, but we were unable to find Father Bapst among them. This, I suppose, was only part of the mob, the other part of the mob having the unfortunate man in the wood at the time. We ascended the hill and searched for the body, believing they had killed him. It ap pears that after they released him from the tree, where, COVEKED WITH TAR AND FEATHERS, they had attempted to roast him alive, they dragged him back to the town and told him to get out that night or they would most as suredly kill him if he attempted to say mass next day. When he got back I learned that Father Bapst was at Mr. Hunt's residence. I went there and asked to see him. I was at first denied admittance, but was afterwards permitted to enter the room in which he was. There stood Father Bapst covered with tar and feathers, and almost EXHAUSTED BY His INHUMAN TREATMENT. IK- was surrounded by a few friends who were cnJcavoring to cleanse him with soap and warm water. He extended his hand to me. It was a trying moment. The priest said that fortunately he had escaped a more terrible fate which his abductors bad in store for him through the pleadings of two " or three of the . maraud ers. As I stood there- and saw the poor priest's hair and eyebrows shaved off, as it was impossible to get the tar out, I vowed that I would light Blame until I died. I did fight him in Maine for fifteen years after. Father Bapst preached next day In bis church, for although of a mild disposition he had the heart of a lion in the cause of duty. That Sunday we feared the mob would gather ■gain. TheJlon. Charles Jarvls, one of the leading protestants of the town, took the father to his home, protected him all night and drove him to Bangorin his carriage next day. I saw him get into the carriage and shook hands with him when he was driven away. THE RSSFBCTABU rEOPLB OF HAXOOR Were much Incensed at the outrage, just as 'vc wen in Ellsworth. We received to punish the ruffians, and got Hon. George Evans, then attorney general of the state, and after wards a United States senator, to come to Ellsworth to present tLe ease to the grand jury. But the grand jury were all Kirhw Nothing! and refused to find Indictments,al though the evidence was most conclusive. Mr. Evans was so indignant and disgusted with the grand jury that he said he would not sleep a night in the town if lie got a present of all the state. Late an it was, be Insisted on shaking the dust of Ellsworth from his feet." "some terrible provocation." "Did Mr. Blame in his Kennebec Journal denouce the outrage upon Father Bapst?" the reporter asked. "No. sir, he did not. On the contrary, he said the people — mean ing the mob — must have got some, terrible provocation when they were forced to such extremes." Mr. Jones has been twenty years in bus iness in Grecnpoint, and bis reputation is the very highest a man enn achieve. Father Bapst never folly recovered from the effects of the usage he received that night. He died lately at the principal cstnblishracnt of the Jesuit order in Canada. Ill ii I in 1 unit *flltnr. It is well known in Washington among those well acquainted with the present aecre larv of the state and family and Mr. Bluine and his, that the latter have never felt kind ly toward the former since Mr. Frclinghuy sen' succeeded Mr. Blame as secretary of state. Neither Mr. or Mrs. Blame have ever as the writer knows, taken the slightest pains to conceal this ill-feeling. Mrs. Blame is always especially frank in mentioning openly her dislike of anyone. More than one person who was at dinner given in January, 1382, by President Arthur to members of his cabinet and a- few others has told me how openly both Mr. and Mrs. Blame, who was present showed that they felt aggrieved with President Arthur, and also with Mr. Biaine's successor as head of the .*.: tin.'ut of state. The dinner occurred not long after the suc cession had been > ted. Mr. Blame sat opposite the president, and the latter, with an evident desire to make himself agreeable to Mr. Bialne, addressed himself several times across the tattle as Mr. Secretary." The first time he did it Mr. Blainc. as my hi formaut, who was present, said to the lady next him: "If he calls me tdat again I'll take him up." "O, don't."' pleaded the lady; •'don't notice it.' But^ deaf to her wise counsel, Mr. Blame, the next time the pres ident called him "Mr. Secretary," trifled the whole table by exclaiming with acrimo ny: How can you call me by that title of which y\m have deprived me?" With con summate tact the president answered: "Oh. I thought once a secretary, always a secreta ry — 'once a general, always a general,' 'once a governor, always a governor.* But even this diplomatic reply did not dissipate the unpleasant feeling, and more than one who was present has said to the writer: •'lt was the most uncomfortable dinner I everattended.owlng to Mr.and Mrs. Blame's desire to make it so."— Philadelphia Time*. Giving a Million. 1 ' A WKAISin gentleman of New Orleans has lately made a munificent gift to the public of a million dollars for educational purposes, on terras* which have been accepted, and mutual and amicable arrangements have been made between the state and the Louis iana UulvAfvjty to pot the fund to an imme diate and practical use. This university, which has an endowment of perhaps 1 150,000 or more, a law school, a medical school, and a library, with a considerable attendance of .-tuJonts In proportion to its limited means, is to receive the benefit of this feud and to be called in the name of the donor, the Tv- Une University. '" Ifomnijr'to th* Ouster. . fD*°tijnore American. j Sweet bird of aqueous habitation, come: expand thy hardened wings and pour forth an epicurean song of saline sweetness, «port thyself in the milky stew, warm thy esculent form in the ascending clouds of steam — the Indigestible fry. Take on the robes of scalloped beauty. Mingle thy «cccul«!nce with the best of thi land wherever thoafiyest and wreathe the inner man with smiles of joyous exaltation. De licious bivalve, we greet thee. THE ST. FAUL JSUJNDAY GLOBE Sl>JN r DAY MORNING, SEPTEMBER 2 1884. THE BENDER FAMILY. The Killing of the Old Man and Woman and John and Kate Related by Capt. J. C. lice vet, anlHue- . . it tics.* of the Tragedy. The sudden disaprearance of the mem bers of the murderous Bender family after the revelation of their numerous atrocities and the failure of all efforts to discover the whereabouts of the fugitives enshrouded the whole affair with an uir of impenetrable mys tery. The veil was not lifted until some twelve months ago, wheu the Republican pub lished the story of one of the avenging party which overtook and annihilated the whole family in Indian territory not far from the banks of the Grand river. The author of that graphic narrative, Capt. J. C. Reeves, of Ap pleton City, Mo,, is at present a transient guest at the Hotel Barnum, and when seen by a Republican reporter he cheerfully con sented to give all the details of the Bender's tragic ending except tlie name of the man by whose hand they were slain. "When Dr. York was missed," the captain began as he lighted a fresh cigar, "Col. York traced his brother to the house occupied by the Benders. Being unable to obtain any further Information of his lost brother, he returned to Independence, Kan., and eomninnieated, the result of,the Investigations to Capt. Stone, sheriff of Montgomery county. The next day Col. York and Capt. Stone visited the Bender residence, and they were received by the man who married Kate Bender, and who went by the name of John Bender. John I Bender admitted that Dr. York had stayed at their house, and asserted that he had heard nothing of the doctor since. Being unable to obtain any satisfaction, Col. York and Capt. Stone retraced thf-irr stt-ps to Indepen dence. A posse mi formed and the compa ny started forth determined to investigate the matter to the bottom. When they arrived at the Bender homestead the birds had flown. The house and garden were examined, and in the garden were found nine bodies of mur dered persons, one of which was recognized as that of Dr. York. Public indignation at this discovery knew no bounds, and the i excitement became intense." ''What was the step taken for the purpose • of avenging this wholesale butchery" "A party consisting of S. S. Peterson, dc- I puty United States marshal, Col. York, Bell Wright, George Dawson, and myself was formed to follow the trail of the. Benders. We tracked the wagon toThaycr,Kan., where we found the wagon abandoned. At this point we took the railroad cars for Chaiiute, on the Missouri, Kansas and Texas railroad. At Chanute we procured another wasou and proceeded in the direction of the Grand river, which runs through Indian Territory, on the banks of the Grand river, that Col. York, who was in the van of the party, overhauled the Benders. They all died very suddenly, and they are buried in Indian Territory, near where they fell. I have nothing more to say. That ends the story." "Were they shot?" "Yes; they were shot with a sixtecn-shot repeating Henry rifle." "Who did the shooting?" "That I am not at liberty to state." "Did. Col. York offer any reward for the discovery of the Benders "No, he did not, although he was worth $100,000 at the time. The government of fered $10,000 reward, but nobody claimed it." "Do the Benders lie close to the river?" "Yes." "Are you certain that they were all killed !" "I saw them killed, all four of them — old man Bender and his wife, John Bender, and Kate Bender." "Were they 6hot by one man?" "Yes; by one man only. He killed them 'Bang,' 'bang,' bang,' 'bang." Every shot counted." "Where were you when the shooting was done?" "I was sitting on my horse a few yards from the man that did the shooting. I entered into an agreement not to tellanpthing about it." "Were there any United St»tcs •'-oops present?" "No." "Did you see the bodies buried! "I did." "Could you find the place again?' "I could, very easily." "How were they buried?" "We just dug a hole, tumbled them In, and covered them up." "Did you find anything on the bodies?" "We did not search them." "How were they shot, from behind?" "They were 6hot from behind and to their faces. We were very much exasperated at finding the nine bodies in the garden, and immediately we overtook them the firing commenced. They were not looking when we overtook them, but as soon as the firing began they turned round. The man was ahead that did the shooting. We had our carbines level ready to shoot, but there was no resistance offered." "What description of vehicle* were the Ben dersin?" "They were in a two-horse wagon. I think the two men were seated In front and the two women behind." "Are you sure you got the right people?" "We knew we had the rleht people. We all recognized them, and I Identified them after they were dead. I knew every one of them. At one time I had seen them every day for six months." "Where did you live?" "I lived at Independence, where I was running a marble shop." "What did you do with the tram .'" "We turned them loose." "With their harness on." "Yes." , "Did you never hear of them again?" "No." "What became' of the wagon?" "I think we burned it." "How far were the Benders from their home when they were murdered?" "About forty-five miles." "What time "were they killed?" "About 3 o'clock in the afternoon. They ' were on the prairie on the outskirts of the woods." "How long did the killing last?" "Only a few moment*." "Who was killed first?" "It was all done so quickly I do not know ! who wag killed first." "Did any one jump out of the wagon 1" "No." "How far were you off the wagon at the time: 1 "Thirty-five or forty stops." "What did you do after .the bodies were buried!" •'I started off to deliver the news, but aft er I had gone fifteen mile* I was overtaken • and told not to say a word about the killing, i •All right,' I replied, 'mum's the word.' 1 We solemnly agreed not to give the thing ! away, and the first time it was told to the j public, except as a suspicion, wad about a ' ! y«ar»^o. when I gave some of the facts to | Senator Wear for publication in the Jt'publi- \ can, but you haTe fuller details now than ; have ever been published."— St. Louis Be- j publican, - Good Manners in Children. How necessary that mothers should teach ' their children to be polite both at home and I abroad. It would be well for all children ! if they were thoroughly Instructed in good ; manners, for politeness Is but the outgrowth ' of habitual good manners. Would it not be j wise for mothers to so train their children , that their society might prove a pleasure. ! and not annoyance that they might please ] and attract, rather than disgust and repel [ those with whom they come in contact. A boy or girl with an uncouth, untrained; ! manner is had to be endured, except bj a fond mother: and there are more untrained child ren than may be at first supposed. While stay ing at the seashore last summer, though \ there were many children there, yet how few j were really well behaved; and it ia but little . wonder that people are so reluctant to re- i ceive children as boarders, for in many case* the mothers seem utterly, Indifferent to any annoyance their children may cau*e : others. A babe knows bat little at first bat i j must be gradually taught or learn from the j I example of those around, and a mother has it in her power to form her children man : ners as she desires; but how many mothers allow their children to follow their own will at all times and in all places. A child gets ; down from the table, it may be with creasy : finzers, or with a part of the dinner in its I hand* *, run from room to room, " leaving , read or cikc upon an upholstered • chair or table. Or it may happen that Johnny wants something to cat between meals. It Is right that Johnny should have something to eat when he is hungry, but It is also proper for Johnny's mamma to scat him in a chair while eating, and after he has finished to teach him to wipe his bauds upon a napkin, thus insuring safety to the furniture, as ( well as to the clothing of those who enter the house. A child should be early taught to eat properly. It is gome trouble for a mother, I am well aware; but few desirable results are achieved without trouble, and a boy ' taught courtesy in his early childhood will have an ease of manner when older grown, that can never be attained by the man whose early education has been neglected in' this respect. It is but little trouble to teach a boy to re move his hat as he enters the bouse. Or to bow to his mother's guests as he enters the parlor. It is not necessary to wait until he li an awkward, half-grown boy before teach ing him this, ami it is but little trouble, to teach a girl lady-like manners, to 'teach her to talk in a sensible, straightforward way without a senseless giggle. It would b<s well, oh busy mother! if you would spend a little time in instructing your children in these necesscry matters. ,They may not seem important to you, but your boys and girl.* are to go out into the world there to be Judged by strangers. If they an well-bred, will receive a consideration that can never be accorded to au impolite and 111-bred person. It will be but right for you, who should of all others, have your children's welfare most at heart, to carefully train them in these important details, that they may de velop into well-bred men and women, truth ful, kind and considerate of other's feclincs. These are the qualities of a true lady or gentleman; and politeness is the outward expression of these qualities. — liural Sea Yorker. SCIENTIFIC .MISCELLANY. Flting Machines — To accomplish f.iirht, according to Mr. Richard A. Proctor, advantage must be taken of motion athwart the air, this motion being ing the first place communicated while the aeronant or flying machine is on the ground. j Given an adequate velocity, with a sufficient extent of supporting surface, any body, how ever heavy, may. be made to rise from the ground; and there can be no no question that mechanisms can produce a sufficient velocity to raise either a man or a flying machine, provided with no greater sup porting surface than would be manageable in either case. The real difficulties to over come are to maintain in the air the velocity of motion attained upon the ground, to in crease the elevation to guide the aeronaut's flight, and to preserve the balance of the aer onant or flying machine. Mr. Procter Re lieves that these difficulties will be conquer ed. The masteiy of the problem of flight he regards as a solution of the problem of trav eling more swiftly than is now possible. Iron and steam have enabled man to surpass the speed of the swiftest of four-footed crea tures, and he has full confidence that the same useful servants place it in man's pow er to outstrip in like manner the swiftest of winged creatures. '.*"-, .*i ■' Volcanic influence upon rainfall.— Physicists agree in declaring that the pres ence of solid particles in the air facilitates the condensation of vapor, and an unusual quantity of atmospheric dust might be ex pected to cause an extraordinary fall of rain. In a paper read before the Paris Academy of sciences, Mom. Gay stated that the rainfall of the early part of the present year was very heavy, and he was Inclined to attribute the circumstance to the same dnst — evidently of volcanic origin — which is believed to have given rise to the brilliant sunrises and sun sets of last autumn and winter. It has been shown that several other volcanic eruptions besides those of 18S3 have been followed by red glows in the sky, and Mons. Gay thought that it might also be proven that they have been followed by abundant rains. Gum — A Dutch scientist. Dr. Beijcrinck, found that the gum which collects on the branches of certain trees-cspeclally the cher ry, peach and others bearing stone fruits is due to a disease of the tree. The disease i» produced by a highly organized fungus, whose action causes the formation of the gum, and it is quickly reproduced, in sound tree»,when they are inoculated with pieces of the gum containing of the fungus. This knowlcdgp of the nature of gum may enable fruit-grow ers to protect their trees from a troublesome disease, while it also indicates that the product of valuable gums like arabic and tragacanth, which are produced in the same manner, may be largely increased by a simple system of cultivation by inoculation. Singino Sands. — On walking upon or dis turbing the sand of certain beaches a pecu liar sound is beard, which has been de scribed as somewhat resembling the bark of a dog. The sound seems to arrisc from the friction of particles of dry sand. Until re cently these so-called singincr beaches have been known to exist at only two places, one in Europe and one in this country, but samples of the singing sands have now been collected In no less than twenty-six local ities in the United States. Mr. Edwin 11. Evan»,of Socmcdang, Java, reports what seems to him a remarkable case of snake cannibalism. On killing one of the most deadly of Javan reptiles, about a yard and a half in length, he found it to contain another snake of the same species, which, although not more than three laches shorter than the larger snake. had been com pletely swallowed, only a part of the tail about two inches long protruding from the mouth of the swallow Diseased Peas. — Samples of green peas, from a lot alleged to have caused sickness aDd diarrhoea, have been found by Dr. John Muter to be affected by a fungoid growth on the inner surface of the outer coating of the seed. When boiled with water the peas have a sickly, pale-green color, with yellow "''ts: but when the water contains a little so.** they show deep violet-brown markings, and emit a fragrant odor on keep ing. A Volcano of Venus. — From a careful study of a series of drawings of Venus, Mons. I. Lainey infers that a perfectly cir cular protuberance in the southern hemis phere, pcrsumably a volcano, has an eleva tion of probably Dot less than seventy miles, lie attempts to prove that the existence of so enormous a mountain on Venus is not in compatible with the volcanic nature of the planet. After a careful and laborious investigation, Dr. Edgar Holden conclude? that death from consumption, instead of being, as is almost universally supposed, most prevalent in ear ly adult life in this country, is in reality not so, but grows relatively more frequent as life advances. Among some curious results of a spectro scopic study of gases, the Astronomer-Royal mentions the fact that the spectrum of nitro gen indicates it to be a compound, while oxygen and hydrogen act like simple sub stances. The use of arsenical wall papers in all places where malaria abounds Is advocated by Mr. W. MatUea Williams. He considers slight doses of arsenic an antidote m malar ial poisoning. m A recent estimate, made by means of a very Intricate testing apparatus, places the rate at which an electric dot travels over a telegraph wire at 16,000 miles per second. Prof. A. H. Bayce has deciphered an As syrian record of a transit of Venus In the sixteenth century before the Christian era. Sh" ir»t« fmmt */. t.nui*. [Xarrajaasett Pier Letter.] One fair maid, blessed by nature with a beautiful figure, appeared a few days' ago in light suit of white flannel, blue silk stockings, with sandals to match. About her neck she wore a red silk handkerchief, with the point hanging down at the back; on her bead a little pointed cap of red silk. As she ran along the sand* she looked so fair and beau tiful that men and women cried out: "Oh. look as that lovely creature ." She made but one mistake, and that was she went into the water for when she came out, the white flannel dung to her like tissue paper, and the women said, turning their eye* away:. '•Did you ever *cc anything like that be fore I" Later in the day some one asked her if she did not know what would happen to so light a asterisk, to which she replied : "I've lived in at. Louis, and I cave sever bathed except in a bath-tub." Sweet simplicity J , CLEVELAND'S GRANDMOTHER. Something About His Family on the JUa'ernal Side, In various papers there have been accounts of Gov. Cleveland's paternal ancestry, but none of the maternal, which, to this part of the country, should be especially interesting. At the foot of Mount Tekoa is a large, two story dwelling known as the Falley house. Richard Falley, the progenitor of the Falley families, a native of the Isle of Guernsey, came here with the early settlers of New Eng land, and built the mansion still standing, though so often remodeled that the present building on the original foundation could not be recognized by the builder. Passing up the Montgomery road on the right of the house Is a deep rocky ravine, through which until the town of Westfleld with a sacrilegious hand diverted it from its natural bed, there ran one of the purest of mountain streams. On a spot near the present reservoirs Richard Falley, previous to the Revolution, built a eun factory, and, safely hid from British spies, asfisted by his sons Russell and Rich ard, did good service to their countrymen in the manufacture of muskets. Richard Failey was the father of seven boys and three girls; the second of these girls, Margaret Falley, became the wife of William Cleveland, Ruth Falley of Samuel Allen, and Louisa Falley of Medad Fowler, whom old inhabitants recall as a resident of Westfield, living at the east end of Silver street. Among her children was Margaret, who became the wife of Deacon J. H. W. Atkins, who lived and died in the old .' Fowler house, on Silver street. The youngest of her family, Louisa, was the wife of Alvin Fowler and still lives on Fowler street, and she and her brother in the west are the only surviving members of their generation. When the site of the present Methodist church was chosen anoth er old landmark, fell under the march of modern improvement. Westfleld people re call the old Dr. Holland house, which stood for so many years on the south side of the green and was known to the previous gen eration as the Atwater house. Probably the present generation are not aware that" this house was built and for many years occupied by the Falley family, and here it is supposed that Margaret Falley, the grandmother of G rover Cleveland, was born, spent her early days, and was married to William Cleveland, then removing from Westfield to Norwich, Conn. Some of the Fally family are buried in the old cemetery and others in the ceme tery on Mount Tekoa. Westfield has not only been the home of the immediate ancestors of Graver Cleveland, but is still the home of his blood relations, Mrs. Alvin Fowlei being his own cousin. At a quite recent date, the Mount Tekoa home stead of Richard Falley was visited by fifteen or twenty of his descendants, one of them an influential gentleman in business circles of New York city, whoso elegant home is in Connecticut, where reside several others of the party, all eager to take their part in electing their kinsman president of the Uni ted States. The party rolled along the shady ways to the foot of the mountain, and rested underthe two large maple trees in front of the house. They were most kindly escorted about by Mr. Wllllston, whose family are the present occupants; they examined the old stone walls, stood on the huge stone steps where Russel, Richard, Ruth, Margaret, and Louisa may have eaten their bread and molasses or hominy and milk, climbed to the immense flat rock where they danced, and to the summit of Mount Tekoa, the lookout for British spies; admired the remarkably fine plum, peach, pear, and apple orchards, first set out by Richard Falley, and searched for the exact location of the gun factory, but dense woods and changed watercourse made the search not entirely successful. — Spring field Republican. n. Unexpected Company. How we like to see a woman entertain unexpected company in a quiet, unembar rassed way ! There is no truer evidence of a good housekeeper than this. Unexpected company will come, and the pleasure of the one visiting is greatly marred if he feels that he has thrown the household into con fusion, and made extra work for the house keeper.' I know of families where, when visitors come unexpectedly, the whole household seems completely upset. There will be whispering among the members of the fam ily, children and servants will be dispatched to the butcher's baker's and grocery, and the housekeeper will worry herself into a fever. And what Is it all for? Simply be cause an acquaintance has come in to take a meal with them ! Now, I think there is nothing more fool ish than this. A wife and mother should not make such a distinction in her mode of treating strangers, as compared with that shown towards her husband and children. For any food that is suitable to be placed on her table day after day, is certainly good enough for unexpected company. We have always made it a rule in our horne — and a happy rule it has proved — to make little or no change wheu our friends come in without notice. We like to have thorn drop in and take a meal with us, and spend a little time in pleasant social Infer course, and so. to make them feel welcome and at home, we never have any confusion or extra work on their account. If the meal happens to be a plain one, we act just the same. , I once went, in company with two or three others, on a visit in the country. We were not expected by our country friends. It was almost night, and past the usual supper time when we reached the place. A short time after our arrival our hostess quietly left the room, and in a few minutes re turned and announced that our supper was waiting. We entered the dining-room, and on a snowy cloth was a loaf of genuine brown bread, a dish of fresh, golden butter, and a pitcher of delicious milk. That was all. There was not a word of apology from our hostess, but we visitors had a conscious ness of what caused our friend's plain table, for it was usually loaded with everything nice. It just happened that all she had cooked was that loaf of bread. And so, to save delaying our supper until late, and to prevent our feeling that we were causing her much extra work, she very sensibly gave just us what she bad. And bad she cooked half the night, she could not have prepared a supper that would have been enjoyed more than we enjoyed the bread and milk. The tune that most women under the same circumstances would have spent in prepar ing a hot supper, our friend spent with us In social enjoyment. Every household can keep on hand a sup ply of such things as will prevent all confu sion when such an emergency occurs. Canned fruits and jellied should never be allowed to give out. Cooked baef, spiced and pickled in vinegar, can be used at a minute's notice. A supply of fresh crackers will always be convenient. With such things on hand, no housekeeper need worry over what she can get for her company, and the time that she would like to enjoy with her visitors need not be taken np with cook ing. — Car. Country Gentleman. His Suspicions teere Confirmed. [Boston Globe. J A mild-mannered, athletic-looking young man stepped up to a stranger at the corner of Milk and Devonshire streets yesterday and pulled a twenty dollar bill oat of his waist coat pocket. 'I suspect," said he, con fidentially, "that that is a counterfeit. Can you tell me if it is!" The stringer looked the bill over and banded it back, naflnf that be couldn't tell himself whether it was bad or not, but if the' mild-mannered, athletic-looking young man would step over to the sub-treasury in the poet office be could very readily find ont be was sure. The yocng man crossed over and presen ted the bill to the clerk behind the bar*. He suspected the twenty was bad, be said. The clerk timed It over and held it up to the light. Then be went over to a corner of the enclosure and brought a big heavy stamp down on the bill. When be handed it back to the mild-mac nered young man the word "counterfeit" was cut across it in lasge let ters. BSiS "Why, you poor thine." said the young man, "you have spoiled it! What are you coins? to give me in place of it? I can't pass that thing sol.' ••Lucky thivz foryoa," said the clerk, calmly; '-you won't have a chance to try. I didn't spoil it; it never was good." And the clerk went about bis work. This angered the atLletic young mas. lie almost frothed at the mouth. "You red headed, white-livered, black-hearted son of ugun," he cried, "come out of your pen there and I'll wallop the life out ofgrou." The clerk didn't come out of his pen, and the athletic young man had simply to go away cursing. ' • Seeing and Hearing Under the Sea. ■ | London Telegraph.] "Can you see under water}" "Very seldom. I remember years ago go ing down to have a look at the wreck of the Forfarshire — the vessel Grace Darling and her father pulled to, not far from the wind ward of the island, as the story saye,but from the lee side, where the cobble lay ready, and where the water was smooth. I dived just out of curiosity, and saw the old hooker plain enough. Off that same coast I've been down in water so bright that I've stood among weeds as tall as this room, a beautiful garden of them, and watched 'em with delight, al most to forgetting the job I was down there for, and I saw all kinds of fish swimming about and appearing quite close through the glass in the helmet, though if I put out my hand to them I found them to be fathoms away. ' ' "But as a rule you can't see?" "No more than if I was looking through a London f»g. And then take a ship. Sup pose you were to come into this room at night without a light — you couldn't see. So it is with a ship's hold and cabin under water. It's pitch dark. A man can only grope." "It must be dangerous work moving about among cargo under such circumstances. 's "Why, not when you're used to it. A bit of a sea above is often inconvenient, by mak ing the vessel on the surface roll and tauten the tacle for heaving up the cargo, and so running up a mass of dead weight on a sud den before you're ready, and then letting it come down crash again. A ground swell — I mean the swell at bottom — is also trouble some, for it'll swing a man to and fro a dis tance of seven feet aud more. But this is only on deck. It's quiet enough in the hold." "Suppose such a swell should dash a diver against anything?" "It wouldn't hurt him, sir. The dress makes him so light. I have fallen through many a yawn in a ship's decks, fit to break a man's neck and back, you might think for the depth of it, and have gone very softly, and have come up again just as quietly." "Can you converse under water!" V ;. ; v "Yes; but very few know how it's done. If you were to stand up face to face with an other man each might burst himself with yel ling without producing the faintest sound. Now, how do you think you can hear?" . "I cannot imagine." "By lying down. You and your mate must lie down on your breasts — it must be on your breasts — head to head or side by side, close, and in that position you'll hear one another as easily as you and I can hear each other in this room." "I suppose the sound is conveyed by the deck or sand, or whatever you lie upon?" "Possibly, I only know it's true. When 1 found this out I spoke to another diver about, it, and he would not believe me. Well, one day we happened to go down to a wreck to gether. 1 told him beforehand what position to put himself in, and after we had been to work sometime we came together and lay down as agreed, anil I said, 'Jim are there many more casks left in the forehold?" "Heaps,' he answered right off. 'And so you can hear me?' said I. 4 Aye,' he an swered, 'wonderfully plain,' and with that he laughed and bo did I, and we both heard each other's laugh just as we heard each other's words." "How deep down were you at the time?" "In about eleven fathoms." Senator I'endloton Hopeful. A Cincinnati dispatch says: Senator George H. Pendleton was found in his law office by a reporter to-day, and was quite willing to give his views on the present situ ation in politics. "What do you think of the Presidential election?" ■'. :..;":.. "I judge entirely from my reading of newspapers and a limited personal observa tion. I think the canvass is proceeding well for the Democratic party. The brushwood is being cleared away.and the fight will soon be in the open field. The lies and slanders and libels which are being invented and published are being examined andsiftcd,and rated at their true value. Soon the people will come to a fair consideration of the par ties and their candidates, and will, I believe give judgement in. favor of the Democratic party." "What of Mr. Cleveland's letter of accept ance?" "I think it admirable. Brief, yet compre hensive; concise, yet clear; it covers every point. lie was not writing a platform of principles. The convention had done that, he was giving his adhesion to it, and emph asizing the points which would more particu larly come under his control as executive. Simple, plain, faithful, honest administra tion is evidently his view of the chief duty of a good president. His letter and his short speech to the committee notifying him of the nomination are both on this line, and to gether constitute a first-rate exposition of bis idea. There is not a superfluous or a weak word in either. There is not a senti ment which should not commend him to the respect of every hon'st citizen, «nd to the support of all who are not obstinately joined to thfcir 'idols' of the republican party?' When asked as to the chances or the Dem ocrats to carry Ohio, Mr. Peudleton said: •• "We will do our utmost. We have a good chance. Our party in Ohio is growing, and conditions favor us this year. We will do all that men can do. We'll try. I believe we will succeed, but we will not boast now that we are about to put on our harness, as 'He that taketh it off."' "Do you intend to take part in the coming canvass?" "I have many appointments already, and expect to have more. 1 shall be as active as usual." "Tough and '•l.imi>y" on a Cake of lee IPitUpnrg Dispatch] "Jimmy Tough', is probable the moptwide ly known of the newsboys. He Is about a yard hleh, is extremely careless about his per sonal appearance, has a very very roguish eye, and is a great gumbler. He crossed Fifth avenue yesterday to where Limpy" Mc- Mahon stood, in front of Tony Newel's,and with a buflling swagger said* "I ken beat you run in' for a nickel, "Limpy." "Limpy," who travels with the aid of a crutch, merely responded: Umph! Any body kin do that." "Well, if you want to gamble," said "Tough," "I'll bet I kin sit on one o' them cakes o' ice longer'n you kin." "Limpy" felt about in the uttermost re cesses of his pocket and eathered together five pennies, and, without saying a word, handed them to one of several bystanders who had become invested. "Tough followed this action, and each gravely sat down upon a cake of ice which lay on the sipewalk. The stakeholder took out his watch. For five minutes they sat there, and then. "Tough began to squirm. He complained that his plants were not what they should be, and that be was therefore at a disadvantage. At five minutes and a half he could stand the chill no longer, and jumped up and ran across the street, crying that the ice was burning. "Limpy" sat still thirty sec onds longer and captured the dime. Error of Judgment. A gentleman on East Fourth street found a ragged tramp sitting on the front steps eating bis lunch. "Here! What are you doing there?" he shouted. ♦•Partaking of a slight lunch. Will you Join me?" the tramp politely responded. "No, don't want any of your villainous feed.' 'That so: it is pretty tough kind of fodder. I just got it out of your kitchen. Your wife must be doing her own cooking BOW.* 1 '•What's that, you Infernal hound?" ex claimed the angry man, starting towards the tramp, still sitting quietly on the step. Don't get excited sir, don't get excited.' Think a minute. Aren't you mistaken in calling me a bound?" "No I'm not, and I'll '•But, my dear fir. yon are mistaken. I am do bound, I am a tetter," The gentleman gazed at the tramp in ad ; miration and mutts-ring something about a ; newspaper paracrapher gone astray, be left : him to finish bis lunch. — 2fcrcfiant Traveller. Something Wrong So he re. |Detroit Free Press. | ■ ; 'Do your women customers bother you much?" asked a citizen who was talking with a Woodward avenue grocer the other morning. "Well, they seldom want to pay the prices. It seems natural for them to want to beat down the figures. There comes one now wh*> probably wants strawberries. Here are some fresh ones at fifteen cents a quart, and yet if I should ask her only eleven she'd want 'em for ten. "Say try It on just for a joke. If she ask* the price put it at eleven." "The grocer agreed, and presently the woman came up, counted the sixteen boxes of berries under her nose, and of course in quired: -.;;; "Have you any strawberries this morn ing*" "Yes"m." "Fresh ones?" "Yes'm." "In quart boxes?" "Yes'm." "How much?" "Only eleven cents per box, madam." "I'll take the whole lot," she quietly ob served, as she handed out a five dollar bill, and take 'em she did. The citizen disappeared at that moment, and the grocer believes it was a put up job between the two. Told the Truth in Spite of Him.* elf. [Boston Globe. J 'Squire Borge of Bangor is wealthy, and wishes his friends to understand that he is wonderful sportsman. Last winter he start ed up country on a fishing trip, where he met with poor success. The first thing he did on returning to the city was to go to a market and buy fifteen |trout. They were beauties, and he told the talesman what he was going to do, and asked him where he should say they were caught.. "Oh, tell 'em they were taken from Linn* Pond." On his way home the Squire had the larg est one photographed. Underneath the pic ture he wrote : "One of the fifteen taken from Linus Pond, Jan. 8, 1834, by Timothy Borge, Esq." In two days he came back to the market man, and said: "Lookee here, where is Linus Pond, any how They asked me where it was, and I told them it was up in the north part of Hancock county. Then they got a map, and wanted me to show it to them, aud for the life of me I couldn't find it. Just tell me where it is, and I'll go home and fix thorn. Confound them, I'll tell 'em where Linus Pond is, and give them enough of it." Then the marketman led him gently out side the shop, and pointed to his sign. It read, "Linus Pond. Fish,oyfiters and game." A Sensational Trial. The proceedings at the hearing of the case against the homicidal burglar at Bow street, says The Fall Mall Gazette, read more like a chapter from one of Charles Reade's novels than the ordinary commonplace reports of a police court. Mr. Poland, in unfolding the history of the murder of the policeman at Dalston in the winter of 1882, told a strange story, which he connected by a chain of cir cumstantial evidence. Scratchlngs on a tool, a bullet picked out of a tree which had been fired at random to test a pistol, and found to correspond with the missile that inflicted the fatal wound, a missing hat, a mended coat, and other odds and ends tilled out his strange tale. The man who fired the fatal shot was interrupted in an attempt to break into a chapel at Dalston, and strangely enough the accused was a seat-holder in and frequenter of this place of worship, and on the night of the tragedy entered the building during a service, and undid the catch of one of the windows. When the widow of the murdered ofllccr enterel the jury-box a scene occurred as painful as it was sensational. The witness bitterly denounced the prisoner, and then, recollecting her loss, hysterically exclaimed, "Oh, my darling, why did he not shoot me?" The incident terminated as quickly as possible, but it Intensified the excitement occasioned by a more than usually romantic case. ' Question* and Answers. "Who is that angry looking man?" "That, my son, is a reporter." "Do reporters always look mad}" "Not always." "What ails that one!" "He has been to a church supper." "Wasn't he Invited?" "Oh, yes. Five of the prettiest girls in the parish urged him to go." "I should think he would have liked that." "He did. And each of these girls wan ted him to give 'my table a special men tion.' " "Did he get any supper?" "Of course he did. He bought a five a;nt sandwich for a quarter and ate it after the rest got through." "Where is he going now?" "He is going to the office to write that the parish church supper last night was a most agreeable success. Tin: lovely faces of the fair maidens in attendance on the tab]* whtire only rivaled by the charming liberal ity with which they dispensed the finest of viands." "Are reporters sarcastic?" "No, my son, never." — Watcrbury Amer ican. The Slam Elephant Corral. One of the most remarkable sights in the interior of Slam is the famous "elephant-cor ral which is surrounded by a very strong and high stockade, having only one strong outlet stands in a wide belt of swampy meadow land, about six miles above Ayutuia, the ancient metropolis of the kingdom, and rather more than seventy from Bankok, the present capital. Every year at a certaiu time, bands of native hunters are dispatched to the likeliest spots to gather the elephants which are there considered to be the especial property of the king himself, and valued ac cordingly. As soon as a sufficient number of them are gathered together, they are driven into the corral, the entrance of which is carefully closed behind them. The beasts are then inspected by a Siamese expert, who picks out all he considers worth keeping. These arc forthwith led away, and placed by themselves in a stable built for the purpose, to await their transmission to the capital, while the others are let go again. The in spection, however, has to be made through the window of a well-protected log hut raised a considerable height above the ground, the fury of the elephants on finding themselves imprisoned making it certain death to come within reach of them. A Curious Case. A case of peculiar interest came before I court in Cleveland, Ohio, the other day, in which a father sought an injunction to pre vent his sons from living at home. The father represented that his sons were ful-1 grown able-bodied men, one over thirty years of age and the other only a few years young er, and that they persisted in living in idle ness at home, never paying any board, and threatening violence to their parents when asked to work or go away. On these facts the injunction was granted. It is a sad state of family life that requires such action on the part of the father, yet, under the circum stances he could not be blamed for seeking relief in the courts from the burden of sup porting his lazy and undutiful sons. One cannot help but think however, of the many cases where injunctions are needed more to keep the boys at home, than 4 to keep them away. Oilhooly'n Discovery. [Texas Sittings.] There were pome fresh rolls on the table a the boarding house of the widow Flapjack,on Austin avenue. Gilhooly took one and broke it open. "Well," said he, drawing a deep breath, "the longer I live the more I find out." ••What new discovery have you made now?" asked Mrs. Flapjack, nervously. "The rolls are new are they not?" "Certainly they are." ' "Then I have imule a. discovery. Did yon know, Mrs Flapjack, that the cockroach had a talent for the theatricals?" "No indeed, I did not. You are so funnj this morn i "I am not joking a bit. Here is a cock roach that has put in an appearance' in an entirely new roll," and he held the insect up , for the infection of the boarders.