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fr ft II THE CUBAN ItEUELLION. Something About Its Lender and the Cause Which Led to It. this morning at the office of I r. Man uel Aguero, publisher of El Jlispano Amcricano, at No. G10 Olive street, and asked him for some information re garding his relative, Gen. Aguero, who is at present conducting a very promising young revolution against il... O ill. ... ,.. 4 !.. 41... !1.....1 Hie npaiunii govurniuuiit in uiu isiiuiu of Cuba. Mr. Aguero said: Gen. Carlos Aguero is one of the revolution ists who did not accept the conditions of the treaty of 1878, commonly known as the Zanjou treaty, at the close of the uprising, which began in 1808. He did not come in, but kept up war fare with a few followers. Finally he succeeded in getting away from Cuba in an open boat and reaching New York. After his arrival there the Span ish authorities trumped up charges against him, accusing him of being a bandit, and made application for his extradition. He was cxaininod and the United States authorities decided that he was a rebel, not a bandit, and declined to surrender him. This hap pened in the latter part of last Jan uary. As soon as he secured his re lease he began making preparations for active operations in Cuba, where he soon landed again and started the present revolution. I see the Spanish captain general says that Aguero has only twenty-two men. which speaks well for his ability as a leader of a re bellion, for it is fully three hundred miles from the point at which he land ed, Ilicacos, to where he is now sta tioned, which is within the jurisdic tion of what the Spaniards know as present rebellion will prove a very sturdy blow for freedom. We want all the assistance we can get, and cer tainly think wo can have the sympa thy, at least, of all the republican gov ernments of the world; in fact, of all enlightened governments which are opposed to cruelty, tyranny, and op pression.'" In conclusion Mr. Aguero stated that Gen. Aguero is a young man of but lit tle over au, ana a uravc ana srciiuui, though technically uneducated sol dier. He was born in the jurisdiction of Porto Principe, where his occupation has been that of a planter. St. Louis Posl-Dispatch. store, and a woodpile 1'so gwineter haul oil' to-night. " The Justice thought that "do fust offence" plea was worn out, and the offender is now in the Texas peniten tiary. It does not pay to be guilty of the first offence more than half a dozen times in Texas, unless the first offence is shooting a man. Texas Sifting s. Cost of Women's Dresses. Much more is spent by ladies on dresses than was formerly the case; yet good, useful and pretty materials may be had for very moderate prices. When, however, the home-spun tweed, or the cambric, is made by a tailor or a first rate dressmaker 10 or 12 will be charged for it. This sum used to be the price of a silk gown. Many ladies at the present time, whose for tunes wannot be considered large, A Noted Newspaper Woman. Tt is thought that Mrs. J. G. Crowly, known as "Jennie June,1' has received more money for journalistic work than any other woman in America or, for that matter, in the world. She began to work on newspapers, writes a cor respondent, when quite young, and her brain product was sj well thought of that she speedily had commissions for articles in the highest class of periodi cals. Her writing, then as now, was original in a peculiar sense. She was always unconstrained, and her pen was inclined to kick over the traces of commonplace when the ordinary hack worked well, and she preferred to write on a given subject without reading anything that had been said upon it. ror instance, the second volume of INDUSTRIAL BREVITIES. spend six hundred a year on their toi-! Thomas II. Benton's "Thirty Years1 lets, and it is not unusual for a thou- View" was published in 1850, when sand tobeexpendcdbytho.se who go out a great deal. Sixty guineas for a Court dress is a not uncommon price. Though brocades and satins now rival in richness those in the wardrobe of Queen Elizabeth, they do not seem to possess equal lasting qualities. At all events, many of the wearers are "constant to a constant change.11 There are now costumes for every va riation of the barometer, specially adapted for ever' occasion. At live o clock tea the most glowing velvets Fremont was runninir like wildfire f v the presidency, and the editor of the Democratic Review, who really thought Mrs. Crowly inspired, wrote to her for an article on that great work. Ho; Porto Principe, called by the rebels .uui riuh laces may replace the sensible Camaguay. He has traveled from serg(. suit for .u; houl unji tne tea Cardinas to Camaguay in spite of all crown has to be changed for the less the troops the Spaniards have sent after him. As an actual tact, he is at present in command of 1,-100 men, who have joined him on the march. On his staff arc some Cuban officers who figured in the first rebellion. Quite a large number of Spaniards have comfortable but equally costly dinner drefs. oung unmarried girls were foir ci1)' dressed with the utmost sim plicity; wliile draperies, like those of Sir Joshua Reynolds used to paint, were considered in every respect most Rtiihi.hln for them: but now. too often. flocked to his standard. The Spaniards lhl.(,(,f Unxv or flve hundred a year are are arming everybody who can carry a musket. The laborers on all the roads are being supplied with arms, and that is precisely what we want, as we know that those arms will be in possession of the rebels before very long. A new complexion belongs to the present re bellion on account of a changed con dition of affairs, resulting from the last one. In that rebellion the Cubans had as enemies the Spanish element of the island's population, who at that time had nothing to lose by the per petuation of Spanish tyranny and mis rule, not being property-holders and producers. However, after the crush ing of the rebellion, the Cubans were deprived of their properties, which . came into the possession of the Spanish element, who were not slow to find out that the taxes imposed upon property and its products by the Spanish gov ernment were of a most burdensome character. These Spaniards objected to paying taxes at all, and when the imposition rose to over -10 per cent of the net products of the island they be gan to groan under the burden. Their discontent at the present moment is very great, and there is every pros pect that the Spanish element in Cuba will readily turn rebels as soon as the opportunity grows sufficiently favoi able. Another cause of this discontent is the fact that the Spanish govern ment has not recognized the debt they incurred-' during the wlfr. The Spanish bank of Havana, with a capital of only 8,000,000, has a circulation of over $00,000,000, which they were author ized to issue during the war, and over which gold is at a premium of about 2'10. '.Phis, together with a recent loan made by the government in Spain, to be paid with the income of the custom-houses of Cuba, has greatly added to the discontent among the Spanish land-holders. Here we look for a roat deal of assistance from that source during the present struggle. All over the United States Cuban sym pathizers are at work'; here in St. Louis several parties are engaged in forming a junta, to aid as far as they can the Cuban patriots in the field. What the patriots want especially is arms anil ammunition, not men. There is an abundant supply of the latter. It is safe to say that everybody in Cuba is a rebel, and 1 believe the spent on the dress of a girl whose for tune may never exceed that amount. How much kinder it would be, in stead of letting the money dissolve in to clouds of filmy net, to lay aside a part of it to increase her marriage por tion. It has been said that, no matter how humble the dwelling, wherever a young man and young woman make "their home, there is paradise. But with the expensive habits of our days it requires some courage for a young couple who have passed their early years in luxury to marry on small means. Experience, however, shows that those who determine to live with simplicity and to exercise self-denial for the sake of each other to enjoy the perpetual feast of mutual affection without spending largely. But it is easier to begin married life in an eco nomical manner than to retrench la ter. J Aidt Manners. His First Offence. "Guilty or not guilty?11 asked an Austin justice of the peace of a colored culprit, who was accused of stealing a whole line full of linen. "Dat ar 'pends on you, Jedgc. Hit's for you to say.11 "You must either plead guilty or not guilty. I have nothing to do with it.11" "Yes, you has. If vou is gwineter let me off with nufiin but a reprimand, like you did las1 time " "YVell, suppose I do let you off with a reprimand, as I did last time?" "In dat case I pleads guilty to six shirts, foah pilly slips, and about a dozen udder pieces.11 "But I'm not going to let vou ofl so easy. "Den, (if you is gwineter sock it ter me. I'll gib a liar one ob do shirts, and we will try dis case by a jury.11 "All right. I'll enter a plea of not guilty." 'Phis did not seem to suit the culprit very well, for he spoke up: "I say, boss, I don't keer to put do court and de sheriff to truble on my account. Jess lemine oil ag'in wid a rcpriman,1 as you did las1 week, on ac count ob hit being my fust offence, and I'll plead guilty tor live chickens I pulled las' week', an' a hog I stole las' winter, an' a par ob shoos from de must have it by the next morning, he told her, and it was imperative he could not put the licvicw to press with out it. She had this to sav about it afterward: "I was at home up town. I hadn't seen Benton's 'Thirty Years in the Senate,1 and it was not accessi ble, so I sat down in desperation and wrote a live-page review of it without seeing it at all. It appeared that month, and the editor complimented me on the power and lucidity of my analysis of 'Old Bullion's work.1 The fact is it was my 'Thirty Years' View 1 I had given a brisk and running sum niary of the events of whl h he had been a central figure, with some com ments from the proper point, of view. 1 know it was not quite the honest thing, but Brownson insisted on it, even after I had declined to write ij., and 1 dashed ahead. 1 had the infin ite pleasure of seeing it copied and praised far and wide in the democratic papers." Asked if she wasn't very much annoyed by requests from bud ding authors to get them a situation or sell their articles for them, she re plied: "I should think so! Once the wife of a well-known clergyman called on me at the office. Not Knowing her, I declined to see her without learning the nature of her business. At last she got upstairs past the vigilance of Mrs. Demorest's office, which often protects me, and gave me a roll of manuscript which was a story she was trying to sell. She would take ten dollars for it, she said. I looked at it and saw that it was a little story that I myself had written some weeks be fore as an advertisement for a sewing machine company and had got lifty dollars for. 1 did not tell her that I had written it, but, I showed her a proof of it and told her that it was to go in next week as an advertisement, and she went sadly away. I thought she must have been in a trying strait before resorting to such a thing." Philadelphia Pruyress. A London paper says: There is now some hope that at last the cattle plague is abating in those districts of the Russian interior where for more than a year it has been raging in every village. In the Petrovski district, 1, 926 head of cattle were attacked by the disease during the first half of last year, the deaths for the whole year amounting to 1,721 head, The average loss in each village is sixty head of cattle. At the beginning of the pres ent year an insurance company was started, in which cattle can be insured. 'Phis shows that the Russian villagers are at last learning by experience. Not long ago their superstition would not allow them to insure either themselves or their goods and chatties. Insurance was held to be a challenge to the gods, and evil consequences were held to bo sure to follow. An American who visited Franco said the gardeners are very careful about (he manner of gathering their asparagus. Thoy any that the neat as paragus knives advertised in the cata logues are intended for delicate people who are afraid of soiling their lingers, and the only proper way is to pick the shoots by hand. They consider it quite important to break them off at the point where they are united to the root, rather than in the ground above this point, as we usually do. They re move a little earth about, the shoot with the hand, then work the fore and middle lingers into the soil near the point of attachment, when a slight pressure of the finger under the base of the shoot causes the latter to snap clean off at the root. There are now IJl! cotton-mills in the southern states, having 1,276, '1532 spindles ami 2l,S7.nooms. while at. the time the census was taken in 1880 the south had only 180 mills, 71.5,1)8!) spin dles and 15,222 looms. The largest increase in the number of mills was made in North Carolina, where again of : mills and 110,)!)o spindles is ex hibited, while Georgia made an in crease of 1(59,1. 0(3 spindles and 22 mills. In 1880 the value of the manufactured cotton produced at the south was a little over J?2 1,000, 000, while in 1883 the value h.id risen to between $:55, 000,000 and -10,000,000. During three, years and a half about $20,000,000 has been invested by new and old southern cotton-mills in machinery. Mr. P. M. Augur, of Middletown,. Conn , the efficient pomologist, claims that twenty pounds of Concord grapes can be grown as easily as ten pounds of Delawares, but as the latter variety usually bring two or more tunes as high a price as the former, then; is no great difference in the net profits of the two sorts. Six tons is a good yield of Concords per acre, and there are single vineyards on the banks of the Hudson river from which ninety tons are annually jshipped to market. A popular method of training is upon a twine-wire trellis, with new canes grown every year for next year's fruit ing. .Medicinal Hem. The child of a very fashionable Aus tin lady was sick. The doctor came and wrote out a prescription, which the servant carried to the drug store. "If the child don't keep the first pow der on his stomach, you must give him another one," remarked the clerk, as he pasted the label on the bottle "Gib him anudder one!" exclaimed the colored lady. "Ob course we is gwineter gib him anudder one. We ain't no poor folks. You don't spect we's gwineter gib him de same one ober agin, does yer?" Tcjvts Siftinys. A scientist suys tlmt "water composes three fourths of the human body." This mny he true as a general thing, hut it is safe to bet that something besides water composes three fourths of the body of a politician in the year of a presidential campaign. Chicago would bo a good place for further fecicntitle investigation next June and .July. 'celt's Sun. The Silver King mine at Pinal, Arizona, is HghWd by electricity. Edwin F. Smith, secretary of the California state agricultural bureau, says the reports from his correspond ents shows that unless some disaster overtakes it, the Pacific coast will have an unprecedented wheat yieht that will exceed the crop of 1880, if it es capes the hot north winds of May and .June, which usually come about the time the grain is in dough. The Sacra mento and San Joaquin valleys will profit greatly by the bountiful rains which fell in March. The yield in these valleys may safely he placed at GO per cent in excess of last year's crop, if the effect of the hot winds be passed. Several eastern poultry-raisers are employing turkeys for hatching eggs. In some cases the same bird has hatched out three sittings of eggs in the course of a season. Land iu Australia is only expected to carry but one sheep to the acre. Shepherds do not dare stock it to its full capacity for fear of drought. The canning-works at Auburn, Mo., put up last year 70,000 cans of pump kins, -1 0,000 of tomatoes, and 50,000 of corn. The largest peach farms are in Mary land. On one estate there are 125,000 trees and on another 120,000. I