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* "BY HUGH WILSON. ABBEVILLE, S. C.. WEDNESDAY, MAY 6, 1885. NO. 45. VOLUME XXIX
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Clouds.
Shades of Earth and Oceau'e mis*
Floating pictures of the sky,
Rose oiid gold and amethyst
Minglo with thy tapestry;
CastloB fair and mountains grim,
Fleecy snows and Orient-hues,
Shapes no artist ever limned
Gleam in thy dissolving views;
But when with the darkness crowned,
Tempest-charged and lightning-riven,
How thy might*' masses Irown
'Gainst the imperial bluo of Hoaven!
Harriet Smead, in the Current.
DARK DAYS
HUGH CONWAY,
Author of " Called Back."
CHATTER XII.?TEMPTED TO DISHONOR.
1 I hate looking back and re-reading
. words which I have written while the
impulse was upon me; but I fancy I
i have some where called this tale a coni
fession; if not, I should have dono so.
^-It claims no more to be ranked as a
work of art than as a work of imaginaTTai??
aamI/I if *J T+ Vw\1/lo anlv f ? a
f liwjj* nutr wuiu it , xv Jiv/ivto vmr vn \/
characters?a roan ami a woman. It
treats but of their love and of a few
months of their lives. Nevertheless,
telling it I have endeavored to conceal
nothing. I have tried to describe my
thoughts, my hopes, my fears, my sorrows
and my joys, as they realy were.
I have, I believe, suppressed nothing
which could lead anyone to condemn
my actions more strongly than, it may
be, they now condemn them. My wish
has been to show myself as I wjis then
?no doubt am now-a weak, selfish
man; yet, for the love which he bore a
woman, one willing to risk fortune,
p life, even honor. If I had failed in
my attempt to represent myself as such
a one, believe it is not from intention
but from shere inability.
But whether 1 have so far nunceeded
or failed in my purpose I know not;
but I know that in this chapter I must
perforce fail. The language rich and
powerful enough to serve my needs
has yet to be born.
And yet the chapter will bo a short
one. It will be but the record of a few
hours! Hours durins which I struggled
against a temptation to commit, not
only crime, but base, cowardly crime;
a temptation stronger, I dare to think,
that pure human naturo has as yet
been subjected to. .My words sound
bold; but listen.
Oh, that one morning! ITow well
I can remember it! Our breakfast w*3
just ovor. The quaint-shaped little
table, with its snowy cloth throwing
Into relief the deep colors of the luscious
fruit upon it, still stood in the
awning-roofed patio. I was alone, my
mother and Philippa having retired indoors
to see about some domestic economy.
I lounged lazily and at my ease.
1 rolled and lighted a cigarette,
blaming myself as I did so for ray
barbarity in profaning the blosom-scen..
ted air with tobacco-smoke. Then 1
took from my pocket the London Times
which had arrived by the last post, and
I listlessly set to work to skim its
lengthy columns.
I had no fear as to what the paper
might contain. It was not from newspaper
reports that I apprehended
danger. I, had however,noticed that
Philippa, when she saw me with a
newspaper in my hand, eyed me
anxiously and inquiringly; so that generally
I contrived to glance through it
when she was absent. I never permitted
her to touch it until I had read
it; but iny only reason for this prohibition
was, that I feared lest some
chance allusion to the mysterious and
undiscovered crime might distress her.
Her own far-fetched fancy that another
might be accused of it gave me
not a moment's uneasieess.
So I turned and doubled back the
broad sheets. I ran down the topics
of the day. I skimmed the leading articles.
1 glanced at the foreign news;
paid scant attention to law reports,
and disregarded altogether tho money
market intelligence. At last I turned
my attention to the provincial news
r. column. A name caught my eye; a
cold shiver of dread ran through me.
My cigarette fell on tho marble pavement,
and lay there unheeded, as, with
agitation which no word can describe,
I read a short paragraph placed under
the heading of the principal town of
the county in which lioding was situated.
Read!
""William Evans, the man accused of
the murder of Sir Mervyn Ferrand,
Bart., in January last, will be tried at
these Assizes which open on the twentieth.
The case, which excites considerable
interest, will bo taken on the
lirst day. It is reported that although
fresh evidence against the prisoner
k will bo forthcoming, it will be of a
purely circumstantial nature."
Every word of that accursed paragraph
seemed like a blow falling upon
my head. For some minutes 1 sat as
one stunned. 1 felt my teeth chattering.
I knew that my cheek was 1
blanched. Philippa's fanciful dread
had come to pass! Another?an inno- ,
cent man?was bearing the blame of
her own mad act! Dazed, stupid,
I scarcely able to comprehend what must
1 be the full effect of what I had just read. 1
I sat motionless, with my eyes lixed 1
upon that fatal sheet. !
The sound of my mother's pleasant '
voice calling to I'hilinpa at last awoke 1
me from my stupor. They were coining.
. I could not face them. I doubled up '
I the newspaper, thrust it into my pocket, :
and rushed out into the street. As
vet I had not dared to imaeine what
this inteligence might mean to us. I
must have long hours of solitude, in
order to decide what course should he
^adopted to face this, the last, the worst
peril.
I passed swiftly through the iron
gate. I went up the narrow street at
a pace which must have made all who
saw me think me mad. Whither did 1
go? I scarcely remember. I ihink it
must have been to on? of the public
gardens; but in that hour all sense of
locality left me. I went instinctively
in search ot solitude. I found 1 know
not how or where, some shady deserted
spot. There, in tho anguish of mv
heart, amid the wieck of my s;indfounded
happiness, I threw myself on
the ground, and dug my finger-nails
into the dry soil.
At first I thought I was going or
had gone mad. The thoughts which
rushed through my mind were disjointed,
and wanted coherance. An inocent
man accused of the crime!
To bo tried on the twentieth.
The twentieth! and now it
is the sixteenth! Fresh evidence forthcoming!
The fools?the utter foofc!
TMo tho hnnctml flfttrrtivG skill! To
arrest on suspicion, to bring to trial a
man who must be ignorant of every
thing connected with the murder.
What is to be done? What can be done?
Oh, my wife! my poor darling wife!
Then, I believe, I cried like a childIt
seemed to me that all was lostThere
was but ono tiling to bo don<>
?one course to be taken. My darl rg
must give hen-elf up to justice, and iv j
her confession free this luckless wretch j
who now stands in peril of his life. <
She must bear the shame of the trial,
and trust to human justice and the
mercy which she had a right to expect. !
Oh, it was pitiful, pitiful! For a
long while no alternative course suggested
itself to me.
Human justice! What n justice?
See how it can err. It can arrest, try, j
and?oh, horrible thought!?perhaps
condemn to death an innocent man! :
How then would it faro with Philippa? ,
Who, now that marriage has sealed my
lips, was there to prove her madness
when she slew that man? I raged at j
the thought. It seemed to mo that we
were hard and f.ist in the toils. I
might, it is true, call William, my ser
vant, to swear that her manner was
strange and wild upon that night. I
might call the nurses to prove that
when first they saw her she was recovering
from an attack of mania. Hut
would they be credited? Would not a
clever lawyer soon convince twelve
ordinary men that it was not the madness
which prompted the crime, but
the crime which produced the madness.
"We were indeed moshed and bound;
hemmed in on every side; helpless and,
it seemed, hopeless!
And 1'hilppa must be told this! I
must tell her! How could I nerve
myself to make the truth known to her
?now, of all times, when her health
was all but restored; when a kind of
sad but placid acrjuiesoense in what
late h.id wrought seemed to be gradually
coming over her; now, when I was
once more building up hopes of happiness
for her as well a.s for me! For I
knew?ah! think of this, and pity me
?that before another half year should
pass there might be given to my wife
and mo a gift which would go far
toward sweeping away the menior.es of
gloom and which had of late spread
over oik lives. I even dared to hope,
to feel certain, that as she gazed into
baby eyes, as she pressed a tiny head
to her bosom, some, nay, much of the
lost sweetness and glory of life might
return to my love.
Think of this, and picture me lying
on the ground that day, with thedamning
intelligence fresh on my mind!
Think that in a few hours I must return
to my hom \ and tell my wifo
that the bolt ha 1 fallen! There w;is no
alternative!
Xo alternative? Stay, thero is an
alternative! The blood seemed to
course wildly through my veins, my
heart beat fiercely, my lips grew dry,
and a choking sensation came over me,
as for the iirst time the simplo yet certain
way of cutting the knot of my
diflicuities flashed across my mind.
f!n cimnlo p.isv it ;it first anneared.
that I laughed at my stupidity in not
having seen it at once.
Tear that accursed paper to pieces,
Basil North! Scatter those pieces to the
winds. Forget what you have read.
Go back to your luxurious, tlowerbedecked
homo. Meet the one you
love with a smile upon your face: you
have forced smiles before now! Greet
her as usual. Say nothing of this
morning's news keep your own council;
bury all you have learned in your
secret heart. I)o this, and be happy
forever more!
But the man?the man who in a
few days time is to be tried for another's
act? "Well, what of him? The
fool will doubtless be acquitted. Fool!
Yes, it is the right term for one who
can bring himself under suspiscion.
But if .Justice runs on the wrong track
until the end?if that man dies?
"What then? What is the miserable
life, what arc a hundred lives, whei
weighed against Fhilippa's happiness?
What is conscience ? What is right and
wrong? What is the phantom which
men call honor? What after all is
crime? Be silent,and forget. You are
asked to do no more. You have richrs
vonth. health, and stroncr will.
The fairest woman on earth adores
you. Why hesitate? "Why let one
boor's life weigh in the scale?
Argue the matter in another way.
Are not thousand of men slain every
year by the whim of a monarch or a
statesman? The thought of their
deaths trouble* not those who send
them forth to fight. Men kill each
other for revenge, for money, for a
point of honor, and the killer lives on
like other men live! Trust this man to
the vaunted array of Justice. lie is
innocent, and will come from the ordeal
unscathed. If found guilty let
him die. lie will not be the lirst innocent
man who has died, nor will bo the
last to die. it is but one life! lie is
nothing to you; think of him no more.
Come what may, you will always have
your sunny homo and the woman you
love. Her children will grow up around
you. Why hesitate? A life's happiness
is to be won by simply sealing your
lips. Its cost is but, supposing Justice
blunders, to bear tho burdon of one
man's death. A paltry price!
This was the temptation with which
I wrestled during those long hours.
Again and again I was on the point of
yielding. Once or twice J rose to my
feet with the fixed determination of
destroying that paper, and letting
things take their own course. Once or
twice I even forced mv steps some distance
in the direction of home, but
each time 1 turned, went hack to the
sheltered spot, threw myself again on
the ground, and fought the battle
anew.
Xo, I could not do this thing. I was
a gentleman and a man of Inn or.
Paltry as the price was when compared
with what it might buy, 1 could not
pay it. Although my whole soul was
merged in l'hilippa's welfare, I could
not, even for her sake, suffer an innocent
man to be done uniustlv to death.
The crime was too black, to base, too
contemptable! I felt sure that, with
the man's blood morally on my head,
tha snnremest iovs -.vhich lite coul'l
?r t
give would not lull my conscience to
rest. I knew it would not bo long
before remorse and shame drove me to
commit suicide.
Let tho prcachers say that sin is easy
that wrong is more alluring than
right. There may be some sins which
are easily committed, but I dare to say
that there are others which the average
man, educated by the code of honor,
and dreading shamo and coward
ice, finds it far easier to avoid than to
bring himself to commit. Xo, every
sin is not easy I
But all tho same my struggle was
a mortal one. At times i fancy?it
may be but fancy? that even now my
mind bears some traces of that conflict;
a conflict in which my victory
meant ruin to my nearest and dearest.
Was I not right when I said that my
temptation was an all but unparalled
one? Yet in reasserting this let me
humbly disclaim all credit for not having
yielded. I strove to yield, but
could not.
It was only when I had conquered,
on,i rmf-tpinntnf inn from me. that I
"u" i'"v 1
I was able to see how utterly useless J
such a crime as that urged upon me I
would have been. Doubtless l'hilippa,
sooner or later, would have learned
that Sir Mervyn Ferrand's supposed
murderer had paid the penalty of the
crime. How would it have fared with
us then?then, when reparation was
placed out of the question? Knowing
as 1 did every thought of my wife's
every turn of her impu'sive, sensitive
nature, I was lain to tell myseir tiiat
such news would be simply her deathblow.
But what was to be done? Finding
that I could not compass the treachery
which I dared to meditate, I cist about
lor another loop-hole of "scape.
What if I were to return to E inland
and accuse myself of the crime? To
insure Philippa's safety I would right
willingly give away my own life, it
showed the state to which my mind
was reduced when I say that I considered
this scheme in all its bearings, and
* 1:1 V.? ,-f ?,,ln.
xur uwiiiiu iinH^nt n, iuiu o.ivv. ?. v-?
tion of my dilHculties! I wontlcr if my
brain was wandering?
1 laughed in bitter merrirnont as the
absurdity of my new plan forced itself
upon me. I had forgotten l'hilippa,
and what the effect of such a sacrifice
would be upon her. 1 had forgotten
that she loved me, even a3 I loved her;
that my dying for her sake?for the
sake of saving her from the cynsequenses
of that gruesome night?would
make an expiation, if any were due
from her, the most fearful which human
or diabolical ingenuity could devise.
No! Neither by sinning against my
fellow man nor by a voluntary sacrifice
of my own life could I save her.
After all my protracted menal struggles,
all my lonely hours of anguish
and wild scheming, I was forced to re
turn to the point from which 1 started.
: I'hilippa must surender herself, and
froo this innocent man. There was,
indeed, no alternative.
And a day gone, or nil but gone!
The trial on the twentieth! To reach
England?to reach Tewnham in time
to stop that trial, we must travel day
and night. Day and night across sunny
or starMt Spain?across pleasant
France?we must speed on, until wo
reached our own native land, now lying
in all the rich calm of the early autumn.
I must lead my w fe, my lovo
to her doom!
I rose from the grounl. I felt
weary, and as if I had been cudgeled in
every limb. I dragged mysolf slowly
back to my home. '-She must be told.
JJut how to tell her?" I muttered as I
went along. My appearance must
have been wretched; for I received the
impression that several grave-looking
Sevillanos turned and looked after mo
as I passed by. Even as a cowardly
felon who drag3 himself slowly to the
scaffold, I dragged myself to the gate
/m*?? ?\1nne?inf otwI nn fnffnrin/v
VI UUl intiwauu inniiU) uuu v/*i
feet passed into that fragrant space in
which the happiest hours of my life
had been spent.
As I entered the remembrance of
some ta'e which once I had read flashed
through my mind?a lalo of the ferocity
of a by-gone age. It was of a
prisoner who was forced by his raptors
to strike a dagger into the heart of the
woman he loved. 1 know not where
the talc is to bo found or where I read
it.
But it seemed tome that mine was
a parallel case.
Pity me!
[ TO T.E CONTINUED J
A TERRIBLE TRAGEDY.
j Fearful Crime by a Young Graduate
of Yale Co*lcg;j.
Killing His Moth3? and Sister and
Committing Suicide,
A Now Haven telegram gives the following
particulars of the terrible triple tragedy enacted
at Greenwich: Tho village of Green,
wieh, Conn.,was tho sccno of a horrib'e triple
tragedy at 4 p. 1L, yesterday. Barclay
Johnson, tho son of J. Augustus Johnson,
a lawyer of No. 02
Wall street, New York, whoso home
is in Greenwich, shot and killed his mother,
his sister and himself. No other explanation
is offered for tho deei than that Johnson was
insane. He was about twenty-two years of
age, was the valedictorian of his clas3 at Yale
college, and was studying law in Columbia
college, Now York. Yesterday he complained
of feeling rather ill and remained at home.
In the morning his mother and ho took a
walK to me oki svimuiuuuv < u<u?
on fhe sound anil came back
to the house for luncb. They bad an engagement
to take an aflernoon walk to Indian
Harbor Point. Miss Mason, the daughter
of Tboodoro E. Mason, and Miss Peck,
the daughter of Professor Peck, were to be
members of the party. In the morning Johnson
sent notes to these young ladies,
saying that on account of his indisposition
the walk was to bo abandoned.
They did not appear, therefore, at the
Johnson residence after luncheon,as had been
arranged. Miss Eleanor Johnson came home
from school at She was only seventeen
3*oars old, and was exceptionally beautiful.
She canie in after her mother an 1
brother had finished their meals, and hurriedly
ate a little. Then the three stalled out
for the Point
It is a picturesque spot about a mile from
the village. On either sido of a rocky and
woody strip of land, jutting out iuto the salt
waters of the scuud, is a littlo stream of
water. One of these streams is Indian Harbor.
The other has no other distinction than
"the'ereek." It was to this romantic spot that
the party made their way. They were apparently
in the best of spirits as tuey
walked along tho road, chatting pleasantly
and nodding at jkisssrs-by
with every appearance of good humor
and good health. They went out lo the
Point and paused to lest by a collection of
rocks, where they reninined sitting about an
hour. Across the inlet is the home of
Charles F. Adams, a young farmer. He was at
work in his garden when ho heard a shot
I fired. Ho looked lip quickly, just in time to
see Barclay Johns-on in a little hollow back
of tho rocks and his sister Nellie scrambling
up over them, screaming at tho top of
h^r voice. She had only got a fow paces
when her brother fired a second time, only a
few seconds after the first shot, an I Adams
saw tho girl fall over backward, turn almost
entirely around and fall on h?r face at her
brother's feet. This was all done in a fow
moments. Tho mother had risen, but was
powerless in her terror. Advancing a stop
young Johnson lired a bullet into tho back of
his mother's head, and she fell to tho
ground. IIo then bent down over the two
Indies as if to see how thoroughly ho had done
his work. His sister was dead. Tho ball
had entered the back of her head about an
inch from her ear and had gono directly
through her brain. Mrs. Johnson's wound
was bleeding profusely, and she was uttering
moans that could bo distinctly heard across
tho inlot. Johnson's revolver was still grasped
firmly in his hand, ami he sto'>d fur perhaj s
two minutes as if uncerta n what to do. Then
ho raised tho pistol, placed its muzzlo in his
mouth, and fired. The ball passed upward
through his brain nnd out at tho right side of
his head, and ho fell dead.
A crowd of boatmen and farmers soon
gathered around the bodies. The murderer
and suicido was dca 1, and his sister gasped
her last ten minutes afb>r tho bullet si nick
her. Tho mother, howover, was found to be
alive, and a wagon was immediately procured
and she was conveyed to her home,
whero she died lato in tho evening. The
bodies of tho dead were loft in tho hollow,
' --I
justnswicy uau nmuu, h'?i ...
charge by Sheriff Dayton, while a coroner
was summoned to ho'.il an inquest.
DROWNED LIKE RATS.
A flatrli of 100 Hotels taken to Sen nt ,
Aiplnwall and Thrown Ovcrb oard. |
A City of Mexico special says that dispatches
received in that city state that the
number of rebels captured after tho burning
of Aspinwall by the Colombian government
troops has been considerably augmented
during tho past t n days. It is not
kuown just ho* many rebels were
held prisoners at Aspinwall, but good
authorities place t.io number at about 400.
Authentic reports state that the officials [
<>f the Colombian government selected 100 of
ti?3 worst rel?els imprisoned at Aspinwall,
u.ul placing them onboard astoamor, carried
them out into the bay, whoro tho entire 100
were thrown overboard and drowned.
Tho long and disastrous revolution which
has been depopulating and ruining the republic
sinc<s November last has led to tho most
awful consequences which up to tho present
have stained tho annals of revolutionary \
S|M?nish America. Only a portion of the
details has beeu published.
WASHED ASHORE.
ITow $39,000 were Recovered by a i
Orad Dlan'i Hclaiivrt.
A Halifax (N. 8.) dispatch tells this straugo
story : A romance has come to light con- I
UCCWU WJW1 M1U IH-1UWJ l MCiUIISIli|? I'diilCl |
Stoinmann, which was wrecked at Sainbro a j
year ago, when 124 lives were lost. Previous '
to his leaving homo Peter Andreas Michael- j
sen, ono of the passengers, deposited 800,- ;
570 and some valuables for safe keep- !
ins with ono Ilerschird, of Hasle,
Denmark, and took a receipt there- j
for. Probably imagining that no
legal evidence would ever t>e forthcoming :
that lie ha l the money, Horschird refused to
return it to the dead man's relatives. Tliero- j
upon tli Danish foreign minister communi- i
calod witli Mr. Tobin, the Dani-di consul at i
this port, requesting him to spare no effort j
to find the receipt. Tlio bodies and wreck- 1
ago washed ashore from tiiuo to time !
Irivo been carefully searched, and the ;
divers who have been working on the wreck
fftr the past year have kept a slmrp lookout
for the missing document, but nil without
success. Recently a small trunk was washed j
ashore containing a niimlxT of letters and j
papers. These were turne 1 over to the eon* J
sul. They were water soakol and the writing
almost obliterated, but iiniong them was
the long-looked for receipt, which, after much
difficulty, Consul Toiiin deciphered and trans- i
lnted. He has cabled tho good news to Cop?uhagen.
HEWSY GLEANItKli
The season's orange crop in Florida is the
largest over known.
A mki.o.v on a shrub is tlio latest fruit nov- J
city reported from California.
Fiiance is now getting largo supplios of
canned frogs from this country.
A SKVKN FO'vr niembor looks down on tho
rest of tho Mississippi legislature.
The three last lord chancellors of Englaud
have all been Sunday-school teachers.
The custom of appointing an Arbor Dny |
now prevails in eight Slates of the Union. j
The value of the shipbuilding industry of I
New England for 1SS t reached $0,000,000.
Fifteen hundred vegetariaus diue daily in
London at an average cost of filteen cents. '
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NEWS SUMMAET
Fnitrrn nnd Middle State*.
Arhoii Day war celebrated at Philadelphia.
Lancaster, and other joints in Pennsylvania
by tho planting of trees. Governor Pattison
participated in the exercises at Lancaster.
Tho day was observed for tho first tiino
this year in accordance with tho provisions of
a legislative bill decreeing that some April
date should l>e designated as "Arbor Day.'
Swarms of people gathered about General
Grant's house.situateJ in tho vicinity of Central
Park, New York, on Sunday tho lUth,
and when the sick soldier apj)earcd at a window
every hat was removed and ladies waved
tlioir handkerchiefs. This was the seventh
consccutivo dny of the general's improved
condition, nnd his family and many of his
friends felt hopeful.
A two-story frame dwelling on A. L
Wontzol's truck farm at Reading, Pcnn., was
firod by an idiot named Knoll, and four inmates?two
sons of tho proprietor, aged
thirteen and eleven years, and two brothers
named Hetzinger, aged twenty-six and sixteen?were
burned to death.
Pneumonia has prevailed to an unusual
extent in New York, Philadelphia, Boston,
Brooklyn and other cities.
Dan Mack, n well-known trainer ami
driver of fast trotters, died tho other day in
New York.
A fire at Lyons, N. Y., destroyed tho Exl.nfnl
o.,,l + l,r> 1
ciiurcb. Calvin I'orter, a guest, was burned
to death.
General Grant took a carriage drive
through Central Park on the 20th,and wasstill
feeling much stronger. Colonel Fred
Grant said: "A week ago I did not bolievo
my father would Uvea week or even a day.
Now I feel hopeful that [he will at least go
through tho outire summer."
For the first time in many weeks General
Grant took a short walk in the street on the
21st. He was obviously tired when returned
to his house.
Barclay Johnson, twonty-two years old.
a recent valedictorian at "V ale college and
studying law in Columbia eollege, New York,
shot and killed his mother and soventeen-y car
old sister while out walking with them at
Greenwich, Conn., and then committed suicide.
Insanity prompted the terrible dood.
Extensive forest fires have been ravaging
portions of New Jersey, Connecticut ana
Massachusetts.
The jury Investigating the death of a carpenter
by the recent fall of ten unfinished
buildings in Now York rendered a verdict
finding Builder Buddensiek, tho supposed
owner of tho buildings, a sub-contractor and
two public oxaminers of buildings responsible.
Warrants for the arrest of the five men,
charging them with manslaughter, wero issued
by tho coroner.
General Grant took another short walk
and drive from his house on the 22d. His
condition was so much better that the doctors
said no moro bu'letins regarding bis health
would bo farms led to the newspapers. The
following message on a card was receivod
from Mr. Gladstone: "With rcspactful sympathy,
and best wishes for a speody recovery
and a long and useful life." The card was
given to an American gentleman who had
called recently in London on the English premier.
Fire at Philadelphia destroyed the repair
shops of the Pullman Palace Car company,
including seven palace cars valued at $15,000
each. The total loss is about $14l),00u.
South and Weir.
MOSE Keaton and Pete Johnson (both
colored), wero hanged at Camilla, Ga., for
the murder of Stephen Goodwin, a bachelor
and Miss Gregory and her eighteen-year-old
son, thejmly other inmates of Goodwin's,
house. 'I ho murderers were uoortwins servants,
and their motivo was robbery.
All the settlers in Oklahoma, Indian Territory,
have been removed by the United
States troops, but the cattlemen have not yet
gone.
Prominent professional and business men
of Baltimore have organized a cremation society,
and will at once begin the erection of
a crematory.
Geokge McNair, an eighteen-year-old
boy, has boon sentenced at Jacksonville, N.
C., to Ik) hanged Juno 5 for assaulting aninoyear-old
girl.
Frank Watson and Francis Copeland
settled a horso raco dispute in tlio Indian
Territory by killing cach other with rifle
shots.
Fifteen houses wero swept into the river
at Kingman, Kansas, by the sudden rising of
its waters. Four women, one man and several
children wero drowned.
Tornadofs did great dainago to property
at Denison, Texas, and Stirling, Kan. Many
buildings wero wholly or ia part demolished.
A prominent Mississippi editor has forwarded
to President Cleveland a j>otitiou
j'.sking for the pardon of Jeirorson Davis.
The Hamilton family, of Northrop, Ohio,
wero taken violently sick shortly after eating
supjwr. Threo of the sufferers?Lizzie
and Amanda Hamilton and Kate Simpson?
died.
Vickshurg, Miss., ha~ had a disastrous
fire, the flames consuming a number of prominent
business houses, tlio doily Herald and
tho Western Union Telegraph oflico being
completely ratted. Tho losses aggregate
?i'50,000.
Wnsliliifinn.
The President has made tho following
further appointments: W. II. Drinker, of
Warrensburg, Ma, to lie associate justico of
the supreme court of Now Mexico; Thomas
W. Scott, of Virginia, to be marshal for tho
eastern district of Virginia; Henry W. Hobson,
of Denver, to be distri -t attorney for
Colorado. To be consuls-gcin-ral: James M.
Morgan, of South Carolina, for the British
colonies in Australasia, at Melbourne; Jacob
Mueller, of Ohio, at Frnnkfort-on-the-Main.
To bo consuls: Charles W. Wagner, of Mis
souri, at Toronto; Thomas it. Welch, 01 Arkansas,
at Hamilton, Out.; Francis H. Wigfall,
of Maryland, at Leeds; Charles Jones,
of Wisconsiu, at Prague; Richard Stockton,
of New Jersey, at Rotterdam;
William Slado, of Ohio, at Brussels; J. Harvoy
Brighnm, of Louisiana, at l'aso del
Norte, Mexico; William J. Black, ot Delaware,
at Nuremberg; Francis Wharton, of
Pennsylvania, was appointed examiner of
claims in the department of state. Postmasters
appointed: James I). Corcoran,
Rome, N. Y.: Jerome LaDuo, Westfield, N. i
Y.; Ezra Evans, Westchester, Pa.; Jamos
Drury, Bristol, Pa.; George T. (iross, Allentown,
Pa.; David Overman, Marion, Ind.
Commander Kaxe reports to Secretary
Whitney that ho retook the steamer Colon
from tho Colombian insurgents within a few
hours of its seizure at Aspinwall, and that ho
did all he could to prevent the city from being
burned, savins much property belonging
to American citizens.
Several colored delegation?, including
representatives of tho African Methodist
bishops, called at tho White Houso within j
the past few day?, and wore received b y th
President
The United States assay office has found
a twenty dollar gold piece coine I at tho Philadelphia
mint in 1S75 which contains fully
$ .'1.50 worth of gold. An iuvjstigatioa will
bo recommended.
FrnTHF.n appointments by tho Pro-Hent:
To 1)0 ministers resident and consuls general:
William D. Bloxham, of Florida, to Bolivia,
Bayliss W. Hanna, ot Indiana, to Persia;
Walter D. Foarn, of Louisiana, to Roumania,
Servia and Greece. To bo consuls of the
United States: James Murr.iy, of New York
at St. Joh!!, N. B.; Boyd Winchester, of
Tvontnrlfv nt. Ni<>rv I<Y.inre: Ohnrlo.; B. Kim- I
bali. ot Illinois, at Stuttgart, Germany. Mr.
Bloxham is an ox-governor of Florida.
Mr. Hanna was a law partner of Senator
Voorhies. and attorney general of Indiana.
Mr. Fearn is profossor of Spanish in the University
of Louisiana.
Tnr. annual mseting of tin American
Surgical association was held at the Medical
musnim, representatives from all parts of
the country attending.
General Lawton, of Georgia has declined
the Russian mission, to which ho had |
been decided eligible by the attorney-general.
General Lawton s action is baso l on a desiro
to relievo the administration of any ernbar- I
rassment which might result from the fight
which would probably otvur over his confirmation
by the Senate, many Senators holding
that bis ]x>!itical disabilities have not
been removed, and that he is therefore not
eligible to oillco under the Federal government.
Additional appointments by the President:
Christian M. Siebert, of New York,
to lie secretary of legation at Chili. Postmasters?Henry
L. Kenyon, at Northtield,
Vt.; John L. Lindloy, nt Ansonia, Conn.;
William B. Hall, at Wallingford, Conn.;
Jacob K. CofTroth, at Somerset, Ponn.; I)elos
Ii Birgo, at. Cooperxtown, N. Y.: Francis M.
Householder, at Noblesville, Ind.; Nelson
Bruett, at JefTerson, Wis.; James S. Catherwood,
at Hoopeston, 111.; Goorge M. Houston,
nt HuiTisonvillo, Mn.; noninmin H. isngiisn. i
nt New Haven, Conn.; Delancc Young, at
Auburn, Me.; Stephen S. Crittenden, at !
Greenville,S. C.; W. H. Dolo, at Knox, Penn.; I
Thos. A. B:iiley, at Darien, Ga.; A. II. Mor- |
Ran, at Norcross, Ga.; Nichtlas Best, at Mil- j
Jerton, N. Y.; Norman Fisher, at Huntinglmrgli,
Ind. Collectors of internal revenue?
Eilinunil W. Booker, district of Alaliania;
Elieti F. PillsWrry, Third district of Massachusetts;
Alexander Troup, district r>f Connecticut;
Charles Ii. Chase, district of M-iino.
Pkesidknt ('r.KVHr.and's first public rocoption
at the White Ilouso, which had ln>en j
deferred two weeks on account of (ieneral |
Grant's condition, was attended by n larg-;
number of people. The President was as- |
sis ted iti receiving by his sister. Miss Cleve i
land and wives and daughters of the cabinet
ministers.
A. U. Wymax,the United States treasurer,
has resigned. C. N. Jordan, formerly cashior
of the Third National bank, of New York,
ami treasurer of the New York, Ontario pud
Western Ilailro.nl company, has Iteen ap- i
pointed treasurer in the place of Mr. Wymau.
The chief of tlio bureau of statistics reports
that in tho twelve months ended Marcsi :!l,
1SH5, tlio exports from th s United States
were i;llV,o74,l.Vi more tlnu th; imports.
The President has appoints I/'wis McMullen
to l>e appraiser at the port of New
York, vice A. P. Ketchiun, sus|>ende l. Mr.
McMullen was nominated during the spj-ial
se?6ioii of the Senate,but no action was taken
on the nomination.
Foreign.
It was announced that tho emnerors of Ger
many, Russia an J Austria would soou meet
at ttio castle of tin Galician noble, on the
Hussinn frontier, in Austrian territory, to
confer as to the political situation.
Dispatches received in J/onilon state that
the Russians had stopped their advance movement
into Afghan territory, and that General
KaniarofT had also left Penjdeh.
The basis of tho reported compromise beteen
England nnd Russia aregiveu as follows:
Russia consents to an inmiediat) mooting between
General Zelenoi and Sir Peter Lutnsden
at Pul-i-Khatun, Russia and England
having agreed to limit the zone to be debated
to tho territory between tho Lesw line on the
south nnd a line from Ak-tepe to Pul-i-Khatun
on the north, excluding Pul-i-Khatun
nnd including Penjdeh. Russia renow3 her
Hssurancos that no further advance will be
inndo provide 1 tin Afghans do not attempt
to regain their former positions. Tho commission
are instructed to llnd a practicable
frontier north of Meruchak and to the south
of Pul-i-Khatun,restoring Zulficar and Akrobnt
of Afghanistan. Penjdeh is to be coded
to Russia, and a friendly agreement is to be
made with tho ameer.
Announcement is madoof tho outbreak of
a military conspiracy on a vast scale in Spain.
A St. Petersburg correspondent affirms
nihilism ho.* practically ceased to exist in
Russia. The nihilist societies, he says, have
dissolved Le:ause of lack of support among
tho common peoplo of Russia, owing to their
rcpugnanco to the propaganda of murder
nnd blood.
Tiik Hritish troops in tho Soudan liavo
I..." 1 U.eh...... .,...1 n,.r?ni/wl A
force of 5,001 A raits notiflo 1 General Graham
that they arc willing to join the British and
fight Os'mnn Di;;nn.
Tiik Prince and Piincoss of Wales were receive
I cordially in Dublin on their return
from the trip thin igh Ireland. On the journey
between Killurney and Limerick the
royal party mot with soma hostile demonstrations.
Jacob Bruno-kin, a banker of Konigsbcrg,
has fails i for f 1,(100,O W.
T.'ik French pre.w aro hot over tho suppression
by Egypt of the French newspaper
li ttnhbre Kjjp'in, pulil.s'.ial at Cairo.
Satisfaction was demanded, and fears were
entertained that th-i paper's suppression
T'i'jht lea 1t) a difficulty betwean England
and France.
News from the far-off scone of the Riel
rebellion in Manitoba, received at Ottawa,
Canada, on the 21st. was to the effect that
Fort Pitt, defended by tho police under command
of Inspector Dickens,a son of the great
English novelist, had fallen into tho hands of
the Cree Indiuns. Two of tho garrison wero
killed and the rest aro reported to have retreated
in boats in tho hope of reaching Bat
tleford.
Premier Gladstone stated in the British
bouse of commons that Sir Peter Lumsden,
tho English commissioner on the Afghan
boundary question, was seriously at issue
with General Komaroff, the Russian victor
at Penjdoh, and then asked for a credit of
foo,000,000 for the army and navy account
A kire in the town of Wischnitz. Austrian
Galicia, destroyed 150 houses aua rendered
COO jxjoplo homeless.
France threatens to send a fleet at once to
Alexandria if Egypt refuses redress for the
suppression of th? tlo*phore Egyplien, the
French newspaper nt Cairo.
A terrible volcanic eruption has occurred
at Passaroean, a province in the oast end of
the island of Java. A number of plantations
have been devastated, and it is feared that
fully 100 persons have been killed.
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LATER NEWS
A long drive and a short walk were taken
by General Grant on the 23d. He was weighe*^
and turned the scale at 140 pounds, a loss of
twenty-two pounds since his sickness. Tho
general accepted an invitation to visit the
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WiUSMU II1UUI1UI1II9 tiui uife j*. uu.u.
After passing tho bill establishing a labor
bureau, the Connecticut legislature adjourned
without day.
Martin Mitchell, a hunter's guide at
Black Fish Lake, Ark,, shot and killed three
men, with two of whom ho had quarreled.
Mitchell and tho three men had been seeking
each other, and when they met began firing
with the result stated.
Two brothers named Cockrill were killed
instantly and four other men mortally
wounded during a pistol fight which followed
a collision between two largo rafts on the
Kentucky river near Frankfort
Six bodies were recovered among the ruin?
of tho Vicksburg (Miss.) Are, and it was
thought that moro than twenty lives wire
lost.
JosEPn K. McCammon, assistant attorney,
general for tho intorior department, has resigned.
Incident to tho transfer of tho office of
United States troasuror from Mr. Wymm to
Mr. Jordan, a count of tho money in the
treasury is to be made by a cominitteo of
threo?two representing tho gentlemen
named and the third Secretary Manning.
Tho count will take about three weeks.
MUSICAL AND DRAMATIC.
The sultan of Turkey is said to be a very
good amateur pianist. I
William Donahue is forming an opera :
company for a Southern tour. 1
A British drama association has started
in England. Capital, $o00,000. .
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"THE Manners .L/UUgiiier MUCH iin HID
Union Square theatre management $150,000. ,
Miss Maud Banks, daughter of Major 1
Genor.il N. P. Batiks, is playing nt the nu'.vly- I
opened Lyceum theatre, New York. i
A new Moscovito opera, with the simple
ta'tle, "Nishegorcxisy," with the Russian com- i
poser. Neprawnik, whs lately produced with i
complete success at Moscow. 1
A two-year-old child in Macon, Ga., is i
exciting no little interest as a musical prodigy i
by her singing, and also the playing of her 1
own accompaniment on the piano.
A large and brilliant audience attended 1
the openingof the first Chicago opera festival.
Tho accoustic properties of the large
hall in the exposition building proved amazingly
good. ]
A. C. Mackenzie's dramatic oratorio ,
"The Koso of Sharon," was performed for the ,
first time in America at Steinway hall, New ,
York, recently, under the direction of Mr.
Theodore Thomas. ]
Richard Wagner's grave in his villa of
Wahnfricd, was decorated with three wreaths i
on tho rocent anniversary of his death. Two
wero from Wagner societies, and the other I
was sent by the municipality of Baireuth. I
Sarah Bernhardt has signed with Jar 1
rett for a European tour in the autumn. I '
' Theodora" and another new piece will be
given, and tho imnressario has guaranteed '
nls star $200,000 as ner share of the venture.
In the village of Rinker, Germany, there j
recently died the organist and teacher, Dahl- .
hofT.the last of a long line of predecessors in tho ,
office, which had gone uninterruptedly from ;
father to sou in the same family for the past i
210 years.
Jefferson and Shewell's effective '
drama, "The Shadows of a Great City," will ]
oe prouuceu in j-ionuou uuu muuuim nuu
season. During the thirty weeks the play
has been before the public tho gross receipts
have been $237,000.
Lately, during o performance of "Impulse"
at the Grand theatre, Leeds, England,
Mr. Beverly, who was playing the Colonel,
threw a. book from tho stage at n local critic
in a box, who had spoken adversely of his
acting. 'Hie performance was suspended and
tho actor apologized by attributing his booktbrowing
propensity to impulse.
William J. Henderson, Jr., the son of
tho theatrical manager who brought out the
opara, says that "Patience" was tho greatest
success of Gilbert and Sullivan's operas. It
ran six months at the Standard, and its receipts
the last week were |?,30;?. "Pinafore"
only ran Ave months. The profit on the latter
was ?50,COO, while "Patiencu'' cleared |
$00,000. Tho biggest business over done in i
tha Standard theatre was done with the ad- '
vanced prices in the first week of "lolanthe," j
when {10,300 was taken in.
PROMINENT PEOPLE,
Attorney-General Garland la doclared j
to be a toetotaller. 1
Governor Adbett, of Now Jersoy, lives ,
almost entirely on milk.
The late General Barrios,president of Guatemala,
Central America, left a fortune of
$10,000,000.
On tho twentieth anniversary of Abraham
Lincoln's death (April 15), an address
was delivered by General John A. Logan at
tho memorial services held in Springfield, !
ill.
Henry Llotd, president of the Maryland
Statu senate and successor to Governor Mc- '
La no, appointed minister to Franco, as governor
of Marylnnd, is only twenty-six years
old.
Stephen B. Elki.vs, ono of Mr. Blnino's
malingers in tho last presidential canvass, I
lias accepted nn invitation to deliver tho an- i
mini address beforo the Alumni association
of the University of Missouri at Columbia, [
Juno 4.
Pamsa, the Viennoso astronomer, offers to !
name an asteroid after anyone who will pay
him $3*2.5 in cosh. His (irst customer was a
Hungarian shopkeeper who proposes to baptizo
ail asteroid "I'aprika-Sehlesingor," the
uamo of his llrm.
Bahon Noiwbxstcjold, tho Swedish explorer,
is now reported to be preparing for
another vnynge in an attempt t > reacli tho
North pole by way of tho islands north of
Siberia. He intends to bo gone three years,
and lws excuses will bo borno by tho Russian
government.
Colonel Couch, since tho death of Payne
feho leader of the Oklahoma "'boomers," is a
native of Now York State and a "Fortyninor."
Ho is modinm-sizod, mild-mnnnere 1,
dresses in conventional garb, and presents no
suggestion of tho wild bordorman. Ho was
colonel of an Illinois regiment in the civil
war.
THE fORK OF DYNAMITE.
Attempt to Blow Up tho British
Admiralty Office.
A Secretary Wounded and a Room
Completely Wrecked.
A terrific exploiion, caused by an infernal
machine, occurred at IOioO o'clock a. si., in a
passage in tho ofllco of tho lords of the admiralty,
on Whitehall street, London. Tho
point at which tho explosive went oil was
close to, but not in, tho room used by
Edward N. Swainson, secretary to tho
admiralty. Mr. Swainson received a
severe scalp wound and some painful
bruises, and several clerks in the
ofllco were injured. Tho room itself and
ovorything iu it wero complotoly wrecked.
A fire broke out as a result of the explosion,
but it was promptly subdued by tho firemen
and police. Tho passngo in which the
explosion occurred is in tho basoment
of the admiralty building and immediately
in tho rear of the ofTlcc proper. It overlooks
tho yard in front of the residence of
IvOHi nuruiuruvn, iuok luiutn tuu uuiiuruuy,
and is connected by a staircase with tho
board room in the southwest corner of the
building. Tho iron railing of the staircase
was wrenched from its fastenings by tho oxplosion,
and windows fifty yards distant were
Droken.
When the report was heard tho relief troop
of Horso Guards, which was parading at tho
time, was instantly ordered to watch the
building, and additional sentries were placed
at every point of ingress and egress. Mr.
Gladstones, Earl Granville, and Lord Edmund
Fit/.maurico wero at breakfast in tin foreign
oflico when they heard tho explosion. They
hastened to tho spot, where they
were Boot i joined by William
Sproston Cain?, niembor of Parliament,
civil lord of tiio admiralty, who had
been summoned. It wa;at first thought
that a projectile, while being tested, had exploded.
Then came reports of a largo loss of
life and the fre? uso of tho word dynamite.
For a timo the greatest disorder prevailed,
and it was not till tho fire had b^en extinguished
that any idea of tho extent of tho
aamago cou'd be gained. It was then found
that there had been no lives lost, and that tho
damage was comparatively slight.
A report, and 0110 which is believed to contain
tho elenionts of truth, is that tho explosive
was carried into the building by a couple
of men who were supposed to be government
employe* engaged in the survey now being
made of the building. Although tho two
were not molested, they attracted so much
attention that two officers claim they could
identify them should they soe them again.
Colonel Mnjendie. chief of the bureau of
explosives, and Sir William Vernon Harcourt,
home sei-rotary, wont to the scene of
the explosion ana began nn investigation.
They were able to discover little in addition
to what is stated above. Tho face of a small
American clock was, however, found among
the ruins and is believed lo have been part
of the mechanism of tho infernal machine.
Mr. Abel, one of Colonel Majendie's
aides, says that tho explosive
used was gun cotton. Opinion is
divided as to the motivo of tho crime.
It is regarded by some as a dynamite outrage
of the same class as that* which was recently
perpetrated at Westminster. Oth'ts
think that it was dene with a view to retarding
the war preparations, in which tho admiralty
office is actively engaged. By others,
including the police and officials of tho
office, it is thought that the explosion
was tho result of private
malice toward Mr. Swainson, who
is greatly d'sliked by many people, including
some of those under him in the office. The
admiralty officials are positive that the perpetiatorof
tho crime was familiar with the
building, and not a stranger to tho guards,
the latter being positive that 110 unknown
person had entered the building during tho
twenty-four hours prior to the explosion.
Mr. Swainson's injurios are principally en the
head and face, and, while serious, are not
fataL
A prominent Scotland Yard detective asserts
that t>.e nihilists in London had become
very patriotic in their conversation since the
controversy between Encland and Russia re
gnrding tho Afghan boundary question had
reached a critical stage.
The admiralty occupies tho site of Wallingford
house, in Whitehall street, in which the
business of the lord high admiral, which was
first conducted there in 1028 under Villiera,
Duke of Buckingham, became permanently
established during the reign of William III.
The buildings are a high and mauivo pilo
of stone, situated near the Horse Guards and
within a few blocks of the houses of parliament.
Adjoining and communicating with
the admiralty is a spacious house for Iho
residence of tho first lord. The secretary and
throe or four of the junior lords liavo residences
in tho northern wing of tho buildinc.
GENERAL GRANT.
Aatonlalilng HI* Family?The medical
View of Ilia Cnac.
While the Grant family were at lunch on
the 10th tho dining-room door opened and in
walked tho general To the astonished
greetings of tho family he made no direct
response, but, turning to the waiter, he
said:
"Inform Dr. Douglas that we ore waiting
lunch for him."
A moment later the doctor joined the family.
The general was seated in his old placa
it the head of the table. The meal passed in
merry fashion. The doctor's face, which
J.I 1 1 41 1
was rwiui'lltm uy uuu ntiLuuio uc iovcitou)
was not allowed to bccomo serious all
(ho timo tho meal lasted. Mrs. Bartoris
was radiant with bright chat and
infectious laughter, while tho general, with
assumed gravity, helped hiinsolf to some
macaroni and a slice of cold mutton, which
tie cut in fine pieces, poured gravy over it.
and eat it as naturally as though he had
never got out of the way of eatine solid food.
After lunch he went upstairs on tho elevator.
This was the event of the day at the sick
man's house. Ho had risen oarly after a good
night's rest, under a roducel injection of morphine,
and with the exception of a short nap
it noon, sat up all day, moving about on the
second floor with little apparent effort.
The improvement of tne past three days
led Senator Chaffee to venture the opinion
that the general's ailment might not be cancer,
but ulcerated or malignant 9ore throat,in
which case there might bo hope for complete
recovery. Tho Senator so expressed himself
more thau once during tho day, intimating
that the doctors had diagnosed and treated
the case without understanding it. Inquiry
was made of the doctors in the afternoon
about this matter.
"There can bo no mistake about tho disBase,"
one of them said. " It is epithelioma,
[epithelial cancer,) and has been so proved
both by microscopical examination and by
its clinical features. What is the iwe of flying
in the face of victory? The case haa
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DOGII UI10 ui lips auu Uu?rua. xiu uuu
foretell what the next few days may bring.
It is certain only that he is much improved
and tlint we hope for continued improvement.
The rule in cancer is death. There
ire recorded exceptions in which the disease
ias been eradicated by an operation or by caustic
appliances. How this may turn out is by no
means settlod. No intimation has come from
my of the family that,' the disease is notcan:er,
and the stair of physicians know that it
3. All to be said now U that wo aro much i
jncouraged by this week's improvement." |
Dr.SbraJysai<latdiisk: "lam surprised
that there should bo any question as to ths j
iliagnosis in General Grant's caso. The phy- '
sicians have determined that the diseaso is I
jpithelioma, and there has been as yet no
reason to change that belief."
When General Grant awoke on the morning
of the 17th ho expressed himself os feeling
better than he had at any time for three
3r four weeks. He dressed himself fully, and
lfter partaking of the breakfast of liquid
food prepared for him and two cups of coffee i
walked about the room on the second floor j
for some time.
There was still a great improvement appar- J
?nt in General Grant's condition on the 18th, ;
ind ho wanted to go out riding, but the pliyai- !
cians refused their assent. Senator Cnaffeo ;
laid that he saw the genoral's throat during tho
lay,and that it had materially changed its ap- '
poarance since ho last looked into it. All j
?.? inirrrivt <v1<tp9 hurl disnnnoiired and the i
kiju ? w r i?? ?
stuff that gathorcd in his throat and choked j
him. General Grant aRrecxl with Senator j
Chaffee in thinking that his disease might be !
only an ulcerated soro throat.
In answer to a reporter's Inquiries Dr. For- |
iyce Barkor said that General Grant's j
trouble was epithelioma. "Just what opihelioma
is," continued he, "I can't explain to !
pou, for it would l>o a long matter and not j
Basy to understand. It is a variety of cancer, !
but is only local in its effects. All tho doctors j
are unanimous upon this point, and wo arc
treating tho general for this disease. The i
questions which have been raised alwut the I
nature of tho trouble have come from outsiders !
and not from tho physicians. Tliero have been .
cases of recovery from this disoase, but they '
?m fow Ahoufc fifteen are on record." i
GENERAL BARRIOS,
Hov; the I'rcsiiloiitof ( uaiciuala met
Ills Poatli.
Advices have been received in Washington
from Guatemala describing briefly tho scene j
of General Bnrrios' death. Tho contending i
armies had hardly begun tho battle when tho j
Guatemalan commander was killed. Ho j
was not leading tho troops on tho battle- '
Held, but was parsing leisurely along at some j
distance in the rear of the troo])s, when an on- |
slaught was suddenly made on him by a band ;
of tho enemy. Barrios fell mortally wounded |
by a bullet, and dieci in a few minutes. A des- j
perate struggle was made to capture his body ,
from his iKxlvguard, and twenty Guatemalan |
soldiers wore killed before the enemy were repulsed
and the attompt abandoned. It. was
in this fight that Barrios' son fell. It is common
belief that Barrios was deliberately
assassinated by the intrigues of Zaldivar, the
president of Salvador.
DISASTROUS FLOODS. I
Many Persons in Kansas Drowned
by a Waterspout.
Whole Families Swept Away by
the Rushing Waters,
A dispatch from Medicino Lodge, Kansas,
tells of the foarful results of a wntor-spout or
cloud-burst, to the residents of tho Medicine
river. The water rolled down over the
lowlands, east of Medicine Lodge City, in a
wave five to twelve feet high, carrying
diath in its wake. Several families
aro known to bo drowned. Parties who
went out to give relief found men, women
and children clinging to trees with nothing
but their night clothos to protect them, and
somo without any clothing'whatever,but still
alivo. Their cries could be heard as early as
4 o'clock in tho morning, above the waving
waters. Throe attempts were made to rescue
parties beyond the river, but each boat
in turn was swamped, and tho occupants
only saved themselves by swimming to trees.
tirorj picht movers' waeons camDincr
in tiie bottom? and ono old man recognized
the bodies of three of bis family?his wife and
two children. James Gibbsand his daughter
and nieco were washed away with their
h'jme. A Mr*. Harris and her little girl of
eleven yearn were found drowned. &. W.
Paddock and family, consisting ot a wife and
four children,were drowned. Frank Shlppllcr
put his wifo and child on the roof, and his
house went down. He was knocked off by a
projecting limb and swam ashore, several
miles below, but of the fate of bis wife and
child nothing was known.
The town is situated between the Medicinc
river and Elm creek. Early in the morning
tho flood came down the streams quickly,
overflowing their bottom lands to a ciepth of
about ton feet. In tho Elm creek bottoms,
east of the town,a dozen houses were entirely
destroyed and many of the occupants drowned
or saved only by clinging to tho branches
of trees. In camps in the bottoms were ton
or fifteen emigrant wagons filled with
families, and not half of the:o have yet been
found. North of there entire families were
drowned, others made miraculous escapos.
Tho stores in town were closed, and every
citizen was engaged in the work of rescuing
people by boats and rafts from thoir perilous
positions in trees and on housetops. This
work was extremely hazardons.nnd by nightfall
there were still some isolated prisoners.
A relief party was out all night picking up
those unfortunates. The people m Meoiclne
river bottoms had earlier warning, and I
all escaped with their lives. Hundreds j
of cattle were drowned and great fields of
crops ruined. Hundreds of dead animals also
lino the banks of Elm creek. The rise started
at dark and rain poured steadily for six
hours, which was followed by a great cloadburst
north of the town.
Among those known to be lost are the following
:
G. W. Paddock, wife and four children;
bodies of wife ana three of the children re
covered.
Jerry Gibbs and daughter.
Mrs. Hrrris and daughter ; bodies of latter
two recovered.
Wife and four children of Samuel Maddox
; bodies of the woman and two children
recovored.
FOUR MEN HANGED,
Rlnrderen Par the Penaltf ( their
rrimfl* In Three Maleii
Four men were banged for murder the
other day in throe different States?two on
the same gallows at Thomaston, Me., one
at Concord, N. H., and one at Fort Smith,
Ark. The following is a short account of
each crime committed:
Capone and Santore, the two Italian murderers,
were hanged at Thomaston, Me. On
the evening of September 7, 18S3, Pasquale
Cosica, an Italian laborer, was murdered
in Brewer, a few miles from Bangor. Santore
and Capone, his fellow laborers, were
arrested. Both made confessions, but
each asserted that the other took the
part of chiof culprit in killing Cosica. Tho
threo men wore walking together, when one,
whowalkel behind their vietim, shot him
with a revolver; after which the two took
the money he was known to have?$60- and
divided it equally. They went to Banjorand
both got drunk. Santore was forty years
old; Capone wa3 twenty-six. Both leave families
in Italy.
Thomas Samon was hanged at Concord, N.
H.,the execution being divested of nnv
special incident of interest,although thetripfe
crime which he committed was one of the
bloodiest in the annals of New England.
Samon, a French Canadian, thirty-six years
old, killed Thomas Ruddy, a respectable mechanic
of Laconia, and His child, and a Mrs.
Ford. The latter, with whom Samon had
been drinking and quarreled, was Kniea in
her husband's house, her body packed in n
trunk and conveyed lo the home of the Ruddys.
Sanion al o tried to kill Mi's. Ruddy,
but only succeeded in badly wounding her.
in his confession Samon said that he killed the
Ruddys because ho feared that they had discovered
the contents of tho trunk.
At Fort Smith, Ark., William Phillips, o
white man, was hung for the crime of murdor,
committed in tho Indian Territory. ?
GEN. HAZEN REPRIMANDED.
Sentence oT the Court -Martial in tho
Cfilef Signal Officer'* C'o?c?
Tho court-martial proceeding in the case
of General William B. Iiazen, chief of the
signal service, has been made public. The
sentenco is a reprimand, which is made by
President Cleveland as follows:
"Tho proceedings, findings aud sentence in
the case of Brigadior-Genoral William B.
Hazen, chief signal ofllcor, U. S. A., are
hereby approved In giving effect to tho sentence
of the court-martial it is to be observed
that the more exalted the rank
hold by an officer of the army the greater is
tho responsibility resting upon him to afford
through his own subordination to his superior
officers an example for all others who may be
of Inferior rank in tho s.?rvico. To an officer
of fine sensibilities the mere fact of being
brought to trial before a court-martial
must be in itself a mortification and punishment
In the foregoing case the
accused, whose high rank and
long oxporience in the sertt!~?
Hava irxsnirfld him with a fill] I
realization of that respect for constituted authority
which is essontial to military discipline,
had been adjudged guilty of indulging
in unwarranted ami captious criticism of his
superior officer, tho secretary of war, thereby
setting a pernicious example subversive
of discipline and the interests of
the service. Subordination is necessarily the
primal duty of a soldier, w hatever his grade
may bo. In losing sight of this principle the
accused has brought upou himself the condemnation
of his brother ofliccr* who examined
the charges against him and seriously 1
impaired his own honorable record of previous
conduct. It is to be hoped that tho lesson
will not be forgotten. General Jlnzen
will l>e released from arrest and resume tb?
duties of his ollicc."
A DEADLY WHIRLWIND,
People Killed and Housed Torn to
I'Icccn in Tex A*.
The Frnirie Grave neighborhood, eigl t i
miles south of Maxi.i, Texas, was visited
about 2 o'clock p. M. by a severe cyclone. !
caus!ng serious damage to life end projterty.
Tiie two-story school-house, in which were
about fifty children, was blown down and
torn to pieces, killing one child and wounding
several. Tho casualties were as follows:
A fourteen-year-old daughter of J. I'. Swing, i
killed; Estello Cook, leg broken; two |
children of E. Herring, leg and arm broken: i
two children of Mr. U'Hnrn, legs broken
and injure.! internally. The house of
S. MeKinnon was blown down, seriously
injuring tho owner. The storehouse
and postottice, owned by S. 1). Hughes, were
demolished and the goods promiscuously scattered.
The residences of M. li. Cox, II. ,
Thompson and T. J. Williams wero demo!- j
ished. Larkin Gentry's hotis >, some distance I
from the village, was demolished and himsel: j
ami wifo and chi'd killed. Other serious results
were probable, ns tho country is thickly '<
settled in the direction of the cyclone. !
Advices also come from Northern Texa<
noting a very heavy rainfall, extending ove r .
a large section of country. At Uaiuo<vill !
tho l'ecan and Elm creeks overflowed th 'ir ]
banks, and beside washing away much pro;- j
ertv several lives are rejiorte 1 lost. Wonui: j
and children clung to bran-h'-s of trees for j
hours before they were rescued, and in son:
instances whnle families were sw yt away in
their houses, but in m:?si instances they were
rescuod.
tiULLI AW U tfJLLV JiiS. 1
The Total Production In cliin Country
for the l'ciir ISV,
Mr. Burchard, t!iedirector of the mint, in
his spccial annual report on the production
ofgoldnml silver in (ho United States for
the calendar year l.^St, estimates the produc* [
tion of the country to lmvo been: !
Cold, $30,800,000; silver, o mputed nt the
silver dollur coinage rate, $IS,SC0,(MX>: i
total, *?J,<K)0,00<>. This sli-.nvs an increaso
over the yield of tho previous year of about ,
f.SO?,OilO gold and ? 2,4<K).0iM) silver. The total
deposits of gold at the mints during the year
nmounto 1 to $50,5I^,1"!?, of which $.'JO,S07,201
was reported as domestic.
Tho total deposits of silver bullion, exclusive
of redeposits, nt the mints and assay ofliccs,
iyns SW,070,731, of which Wf>,o;>t5 [
was entered as doincst ic.
l'itty-three incorporated companies working
gold and silver mines p:i id during the year, |
in 227 dividends, ^=7,*>or,i?!?S. During the
same period 207 assessments were levied on
117 mines, on which it is istimatcd that over
84,01X1,000 have been paitL
FARM, GARDEN AND HOUSEHOLD.
Fruit Culture.
With the exercise of the greatest care
there is always an clement of chancc in
fruit culture. Location, soil and other
:ircurastances have much to do with the
jucccss of even the most popular variety,
md it may not be all we wish for when
it comes into bearing. Even the stock
[ on which the variety is grafted will
make a difference. Pear and apple stocks
are raised from seed, and it is from seed
that new varieties originate. Among the
seedlings are some which if permitted to
sjrow to trees would be very vigorous
growers and others slow or stocky
ones.
The snmc vaaiety if grafted on stocks
of opposite character cannot produce
fruit in all respects alike, any more than
would a variety pear grafted on a quince
or the same grafted on a pear. Tlius, a
Duchess on a dwarf stock is different
both in eating qualities and productiveness
from a duchess grown on a standard
pear stock, because the growth or nutrition
in interforod with on the weaker
more than on tho stronger stocks. After
one has an apple, pear or cherry full
grown and it docs not come up to expectation,
it is well to graft it with some
other kind which by experience we find
is what we desire. Probably oue of the
reasons why the earlier fruit-growers did
better than so many moderns was that
they were mostly fond of grafting and
continually changing the tops with a
better kina. The o:d plan, and probably
the wisest in fruit culture, was to top
graft certain varieties. Every good orchardist
should cut grafts before the
leaves push and bury the scions in the
earth. After the sap begins to actively
1 ascend the grafting process may be begun.
If tho scions have been properly
preserved so that the buds do not push,
the grafting is much more likely to succeed
after the leaves of tho stock have
grown a littb than before. Though this
success may go on through into midsummer,
the sooner after the spring opens
the grafting can be done the stronger
will bo the growth of the scion.
The great enemies of the fruit grower,
insects and fungus growths, are now
measurably kept down by stem washes.
Even ordinary lime washes, colored to
prevent glare, are useful for large numbers
of species of fungi which like to
grow on dead wood or bark and which
will not grow on lime substances. Soapy
substances arc particularly noxious to
most classes of insects and species of
fungus, and it is an excellent practicc to
wash the stems therewith. Grapevine
diseases ore kept in control by those who
manage them under glass through the
washing of the stems, before the leaves
push, with lime and sulphur. No doubt
a similar treatment would benefit the
crop in the open air.
Increased attention is given to the necessity
of thinning fruit where superior
flavor is desired. In cases where quantity
is preferred to quality this may not
be of so much importance. A heavy
bearing often tells on the future vigor of
a tree. If pruning has not been finished
when the leaves have not yet commcnccd
to push it should of course be finished
nt oncc. The great aim in the care of
most bearing trees is to thin out those
shoots which show symptoms of exhaustion,
so as to keep a stock of young and
vigorous growth.?Thomat Mehan, in
Cultivator.
Farm and Garden Notes#
Turnip* excel on dry sandy soils.
Wood ashes make the best of fertilizers
for orchards.
Bagging grapes is now generally approved
by growers.
Oats and potatoes find a congenial bed
in cool, moist ground.
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eea your biock wun regularity uoiu
as to time and quality.
Ilcifcrs intended for the dairy should
not be fed on fattening food.
The best guards against drouth aro
keeping the soil deep, rich, clean and
mellow on the surface.
A Michigan farmer gets rid of Canada
thistles by the use of his sheep. He puts
a small quantity of salt at the root of
each thistle, and the sheep cat it off close
to the ground.
The bones thrown out in cooking or
from the table are much too valuable to
be wasted. Burned or ground they are
excellent feed for poultry,and this is perhaps
the best way to make the phosphate
they contain available as a fertilizer
for crops.
The whey left after making cheese is
poor food by itself, but if mixed with
wheat middlings or bran its doficiencies
aro supplied and it is then good for store
hogs. The acidity of the whey causes
it to be eaten with greater relish and also
makes it more digestible.
While every grape vine must ultimately
have a trellis, it is not necessary to
make the latter before or at the time the
vine is planted. The first year of growth
a stake is all that is needed. With the
second spring the trellis will begin to
come in use, though three to five years
will pass before it will bo fully occupied.
The first year after setting apple trees
corn is a better hoed crop to prow among
the trees than potatoes or any roots. It
makes a shade for the ground and for
the trees themselves, beside insuring
| thorough cultivation, which, however,
should be given with special caro not to
injure the trees by whilllctrcc3 and horse
cultivating implements.
The deeper the drain the purer will
be the water that flows from it, unless it
accidentally taps some deposit of soluble
mineral matter. At all events, the loss
: of nitrate from drainage water, which is
J sometimes complained of, will be less
when the drains arc deep. The long
roots of clover, which strike into the
subsoil, will very rarely go below the
depth of drainage.
i One of the best manures for the garI
den is made by mixing two bushels of fine
bone with a wagon load of stable manure.
The bone makes the manuro heat more
quickly, and the manure softens or dissolves
the particles of bone. If wdter
with which sulphuric acid has been
mixed is poured on the heap, it will prevent
lo-s of ammonia. Most stable manures
are deficient in phosphate, which
the bone supplies.
Except just at the time of calving,
when the quality of feed is as important
as its quality, liberal feeding is always
the best policy for cows. A good animal
will not accumulate fat, and it is difficult
to keep a line miiker in even tolerable
condition. Hut if she eats well, as every
good cow will, her owner may rest assured
that the feed is returned to him in
the milKpail, in a form more valuable
than most of the feed that is eaten on
the farm can possibly assume.
To plow deep is one of the English
rules for pood farming. If we had relied
more entirely on maxims of American
manufacture in farming it is pretty safe
to say that this would not be among
them. For the great American staple,
Indian corn, deep plowing is almost always
injurious. The soil c-in scarcely
be too warm for corn, and shallow plowing
keeps warmth near the surface. It
also keeps an amount of vegetable nevoid
where corn roots can reach it easily and
early.
No grain crop will be more quickly
benefited by manure than barley. Its
giowth is rapid, and at the beginning is
at a season when plant food docs not develop
fast in the soil. Hence some kind
of commercial fertilizer drilled with the
seed to give the plant its first start is especially
valuable'for this grain. Of late
years it is found that the weight of
grain, on which depends its value for
sale, is due to tnc application ui miiiiaui
manures. Where phosphate benefits
other crops sow it on barley. Where it
does not, sow salt, ashes or some form of
potish.
A successful florist makes his soil for
pot plants of a mixture of tufty loam,
garden mold, well-rotted manure and
sharp sand, in the proportion one third
loam, one third garden soil and the
other third made up of manure and sand.
For strong-rooted plants he adds less
sand than for those'having many small
roots. In all cases he adds sand cnougti
to keep the soil from becoming heavy.
Some plants, like fuschias, prefer leaf
mold and will do better in it than anything
else, yet line plants arc grown in
precisely the same soil given to gerani
utrs. Amateurs do not pay aumeient
attention .to the item of 6and. This
flcrst would sooner omit the manure
than the sand.
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"tactical Hint* for Preparing1 Bleat
for (lie Table.
Boilikg.?Between the fibers of every
species of meat will be found a material
known as albumen, which hardens under
a sudden aud intense heat, and softens
under a prolonged exposure to a moderate
Are or heated water. Albumen is
soft during the life of an animal, and
hardens after it is killed and becomes
cold. The meat of fowl or beast is generally
tender if used before tho rigor .. >
| mortis sets in; if not so used it becomes
hard, and culinary processes arc adopted
to restore its tenderness. By the action
| of timo a similar effect is produced.
Hence, in boiling it is essential that ;
tho material used should be slowlv
cooked. For instance, a piece of cornea > >
beef weighing ten pounds should be
nlnrpd in rold water on a fire, and sitt>
mered, not boiled, for five hours. For vigj
chickens, turkeys, or calfs head, a cloth
dusted with flour and saturated with
lemon juice should be put around them,
as this makes the skin white, and adds
to the nice appearance of the dish. Iti* '-r<|
desirable, also, that after being in gently
boiling water for ten minutes, the
mpat should be taken out and
plunged in ice-cold water until
cool, and then replaced in the pot to
simmer until done.
Broiling.?See that your fire it :';3|
bright. Charcoal, wood, or hard co?l
are preferable in the order given. Trim
the meat; there is no advantage in cook*
ing what is not intended to be eaten;
dust it with pepper; use no salt, itdrawa
out the juices; place it so near as to be
almost on the fire for the first few moments;
when browned remove to a mod- .
crate distance, that it may cook slowly
through; when firm to the touch, have a
hot dish ready, and with a meat-tongs
place it on the dish with a piece or two
of butter and serve.
Do not let your taste lor the pictur- 7Tv$
esque induce you to furnish a dish which
should be hot with ice-cold water crew- y
es, which chill the gravy, as well as the
soul of the gourmet. If in broiling tKb
fat of the meat should create a blaze,
which smokes it,a handful of salt thrown " ^
on will check the blaze instantly, otherwise V
your meat may be blackened, and taste
of soot. A beefsteak should bo one inch
thick, no mora, if thicker it will be
harder to cook well, and the same of a '
mutton chop. A lamb chop, being
white meat, should not be cut over hall
nn inch thick. In broiling fish, first v.
wipe the bars of the gridiron with a '?
buttered or oiled cloth; then dredge
both sides of the fish with floor;
this will prevent tho fish from
adhering to the gridiron.
Fryixg is boiling is fat.?Good oil . ,=Jj
is best; lard, beef dripping, or t?o fat of
salt pork, may also be used. See that
tho oil is boiling before putting the meat
or fish in the pan. Use nlenty of it,.so '
that the article be fried may float. -'/&?
Watch closely anu remove when of a ' ^
light creamy brown. You can decide
when the oil is boiling by dipping a bit
of bread crumb in it; if it browns rapidly
it is ready for use. A fine wire sieve *
is useful to lay your meat in while fry- . ing,
as it enables you to remove it from
IOC Oil mure mUIUUgLilJf nuvuuvuu. xen
articles from the larder are fried with- ; .
out previous manipulation. It will ta 'i
found desirable in the case of vegeta- ' %
bles to dip tbcm in ice cold water, and
then dry them before cooking.
ItOASTiNG.?Dredge meat lightly with
flour; place it at first quite close to the
fire, until it has taken effect on the surface.
This keeps in the juices. When
well browned withdraw it to a moderate '
distance and let it cook slowly through,
keeping it well basted with its own dripping
if it will furnish it, and if not, with
artificial basting.
Stewing.?This is the only process of
cooking in which the material cooked retains
all its virtues, whether of nutntion,
fragrance or flavor, always provided
that it be properly done. The essentials
are: First, good material; next, auffi- \ ' >
cient water to cover it; and last, the proper
seasoning.?New York Citizen.
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Greenland Vegetables.
In Greenland attempts have beon made - *. Jg
to raise some of the common plants of - ' j
Af *Vi/i TlonioK of a.
Xiurupean guiucuc. uu u, *-caaK
tion of Godthaab, close to the open sea,
turnips, radishes, lettuces and parsley
are almost the only plants that can be
cultivated with any success. Tho turnip,
indeed, requires a favorable summer to
produce anything like tolerable specimens.
The cabbages arc scarcely worthy
of the name; but at two inland stations
up the fjord, about thirty miles
narth of Godthaab, the climate is strikingly
different. Here, Dr. Kink in forma
us, turnips always come to perfection;,
carrots prosper well, and attain a fair
size; and cabbages, though unable to
develop thick 6talks. yet produce tolerably
largo leaves, which the provident
Danes stow away for winter use.
Attempts have Decn made to cultivate ^
potatoes, but the tubers never attain a
size larger than marbles, and are only
grown and eaten as curiosities. Undei
the most favorable circumstanccs green
p?aa only produce shells, in which thepeas
are barely recognizable. Thu
is within the Arctic circle, or at /'#
least on its immediate borders. In South
Greenland?the sight of the old Norsemen's
settlements?horticulture is practised
under more favorable circum
1 stances. At somo of the posts, in about
j the same latitude as Christiana, good
| carrots have been produced, and in a
i forcing frame strawberries have grown
j well, and yielded fruit for several years,
but they afterward died, owing probaj
bly to the severity of the climate,
j At Julianshaab turnips often attain ^ C'
, a weight of half a pound, and aro fit for
; table in the middle of July. Itadishe*
are tit to be eaten in the middle of Juno.
j Him barb grows pretty vigorously, and SB
I can be raised from sseds. Green
l cabbage attains a good size, but novel
j the normal taste and puugency of the
I vegetable. At Jakobshavn, Dr. Pfafl
i used to raise a few radishes, and the lo- H
calitv being sheltered, the tiny patch of
j earth on the rocks, which in that remote ?2?
place passed for a garden, produced
"crops" almost as luxuriant as Godthaab
j in the south.
Female Gymnasts.
There are on both sides of the Attafflic
j over one thousand wom'en who cam
their living as gymnasts, and of these
nearly three hundred are fouud in America.
The number is large, but so is the
country over which the performers arc
1 scattered, and therefore the Now Yorker
I should not be astonished and cry,
j "Where arc they all?" Only at one or
two variety theatres in the city are they
to be seen and at a big circus, such as
j Barnum's, wmcn occasionally visus me
I town. California and the Western cities
are their happy hunting grounds. These
athletic lailies will tell you that the
j Westerner is the most ardeut admirer ol
| muscle and nerve, cspeciully when dis;
played by the "softer sex."
The rem uncration these performers rcJ
ceivc varies from to $200 a week.
' The best of them, and of course the few,
can command the latter sum. But it
must bo remembered that for several
i months in the year they arc idle. Manj
j also have to support a mother of younger
i brothers and sisters. The latter is the
case with ouc well-known gymnast, who
is the neice of a United States Senator.
Her father in his latter days was financially
unfortunate, and, dying poor, left
a boy and girl to be provided for by his
eldest daughter. Her uncle told her sho
was disgracing her family by becoming
j a circus performer, but she did not re:
gard it in the same light. She satd she
I ...no tnL-n rarn nf lmrsolf. thfi rft
numeration was good and her brothei
and sister lwd to be supported. Thej
have now grown up, but still she con- ,
tinues in the profession because she has
a liking for it and it gives her independence.?New
York Herald.
At the Nob Hill residence of Senator
Stanford, in San Francisco, are fifteen
pictures of his dead boy, eight of which
are by Bonnot, of Paris, and twice life
size. The portraits cost $30,000.
There is said to be only one book tc
every 10,000 inhabitants in Russia.