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, t- ~ . . .". ' ". 'v; *. . * -V. ;. V,-.'<"S-S ABBEVILLE PRESS AND BANNER BY HUGH WILSON. ABBEVILLE, S. 0.. WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 14, 1885. NO. 16. VOLUME XXX. MGED TO ONE TREE | An Extraordinary Lynching in North Carolina. Three Men and a Woman Strung Up Together, The town of Fittsboro, N. C., was the Other night the scene of a terrible occur" j rence. At 1 o'clock a. m. .1 band of a hundred disguised inen inarched up to the jail and " rt^manded the keys of the jailer. They made threats when he refused to accede, and finally forced him to deliver the keys and show them to the cells in which four negroes j bharged with being the murderers of the Gunter and Finch families, were confined, j This done, they took out the four persons I wanted?Jerry Finch, his wife Harriot Fin-li, Lee Tyson and John Fattishall. The prisoners were in an agony of fear. They had for 1 ^ weeks dreaded lynching, and now their time ! L had come. The lynchers were inexorable and 1 marched the prisoners to a place about a mile j from Pittsboro, near a crossing on a public roaa. men an lour were Hanged to one tree. The prisoners made no confessions. W This was the horrible sequel to the murder I of the Gunter family in December, 18S3, and ' I of the Finch family in July last. Tho first ' f murder took place near Moncuro 011 Sunday, ! > D?rember 24, ISSo. Mrs. Olive Gunter, j aged eighty-nine, and Mis* Jane Gun- j ter, aged sixty-four, were brutally ' murdered, and a granddaughter of Mrs. Olive Gunter, aged eight years, was mor- | tally wounded. Near them lived Dexter | Gunter. Mrs. Olive Gnnter's son, Miss Jane { Gunter s brother, and th? father of the girl, j On the night of the 4th of July last a triple 1 murder, in manner and method starting!}* [ like the former, was committed within six ] miles of the same spot. In a thickly uttled ! neighborhood lived Mr. Edwin Finch, an old I bachelor, seventy-nine years of age, I with a maiden sister, asred eitrhtv- I one. With them lived a negro boy of se'v- I enteen, bound to Finch, who slept in the room to bo within ca>y call. Half a mile distant was the house of Mr. White, well , to do and the accepted heir of Finch. Ho had in his room some of the money was in a bureau, which he kept locked. Near by lived ! the negro Jerry Finch, with his wife, sister : and child. Jerry was acquainted with all that happened at Finch's* His sister milked cows there on Saturday night Jerry Finch and a negro named J>ee Tyson, who had a bad reputation, were in Pittsboro, where they remained until midnight, when they left for home. They said at the investigation that rain overlook thein and they sought shelter, and that tliey reached home before day and went to bed. They wore new shoes. On Sunday morning Jerry's sister left the house to go to the Finchs'. She noticed the door ajar and called the boy. Getting no answer she called Mr. White, telling him she feared something was wrong at the house. White and a little boy enme over. The boy ran into the house, but rushed out exclaiming: "They are a'l dead!" White called a neighbor and with others went into the hou e. They found that Finch had been stabbed in the throa*. and knocked on the head with an axe. Miss Finch had been similarly butchere l, w.iil* on the floor lay the negro boy, with his held nearly severed frorj^h^ bo'ly by cuts from an axe and his skull crushed in in a most barbarous manner. The teeth were knocked out The floor was covered with blood. Tlie top of th? bureau had been knockel off and the drawers knocked out with the axe. Tho contents were thrown on the flo^r. The axe nnd knife had boon thrown into on? of the drawers. The deed had evidently been recontly committed. The Ixxly of Miss Finch was warm until "noon. An examination revealed th? fact that two men with new shoos, whose footsteps agreed with those of Jerry Lynch and Lee Tyson, had crossed a plowed field and come to tho house, then had returned. Jerry Finch and Lee Tyson were arretted. Suspicion pointed to three other negroes. People linked the murder with that of the Gunters. beinz marvelous'y similar in character. Detectives were sent lor from Richmond, Vn. Tho peop'e wore nearly wild with rage. There were frcjuent and plain throats of lynching. The detectives nrrivedattbe conclusion that they would unearth both murders at once. They found that a negro named John Pattishall was concerned in the Hunter murder, and ^ search was undo for him. He was captured at Raleigh. It was found that he went to Moncure jus*, before tho Gunter murder, and that immediately thereafter he left for parts unknown. Later he roappeared just before the Finch murder, and the day afier that! [occurrence disappeared again and turned up in another county fifteen miles away. He toll the people there ot the murder. The jury met from time to timo, but hesitated to render a verdict, fearing.that - lynching would follow a decision against tho prisoners. The feeling of the negroes against the prisoners ran as high as that of the white people. On the night of August 26 disguise I |>crsoiis arrested tt'e wife and sister of Jerry Finch and swung them to a tree, attempting to extort information as to the murder. Each woman was hung twice. Both pers'sted in declaring that tbey know nothing about tlio murder. So matters progressed until September, when tha coroner's jury rendered the following verdict: "The jurors for a verdict do siv that F^lward Finch, Sailie Finch and Ephraim Ellington came to their deaths on tho night of July 4 last, from blows on the head, inflicted by an axe in the hands of Jerry Finch, Harriet Finch, Lee Tyson and somo other party or carties to the iurv un mown." Lee Tyson's wile,"Harriet, was thereupon placed in ja:l. The court was to have met in a fortnight Tho lynching was not unexpec ted,nevertheless it created a profound sensation. A GREAT CORN CROP. The Yield in the 1 nited Statrw Each mated at l,97J!,tt3e,000 Bushel*. The corn crop in the United States having passed tho critical stage, and whatever of danger menaced the cereal from frost being now ended, owing to the maturity of the grain, the Farmer's Review of Chicago, has called in reports from its 1,400 correspondents, giving the area and probable yield in every county in the ten leading corn-producing States, and has compiled from these the the following estimates of the approximate yield of the crop of 1885 as compared with that of 1884: 1884. lSf-5. State. Bushels. Bushels. Ohio 8o,:XW,000 131,500,000 Indiana 104,757,0.10 125,708,000 Illinois. .. 244,544,<J00 2#4,23!J,0C0 iowa U52,t>i>0,CHH) 200, 805,000 Missouri 107,850,000 IW,360,003 Kansas lt>S,500,000 188,720,(Kt0 Nebraska 122,100,000 137,302.0:10 Mitinesata 23,030,900 21,148,000 Wisconsin 25,200.000 21,200,000 Michigan 20,022,000 30,185,000 Total 1,251,500,000 1,486,2SH.OOO Excess over last year 184,040,000 On the basis that the States and Territories outside the ten named will produce as much corn as they did last year, or 543,400,000 boshels, and this would seem assured from a i study of the reports, it will give a total crop I of 1,0?J,630,000 bushels. MUSICAL AND DRAMATIC. Barntm and his circus contemplate a visit to Europe in 1887. There are only eleven theatres in tho en- I tire State of Virginia. Mrs. Langtry is wearing the boy's clothc* of a tramp on tho English stage. Madame Durand, the American soprano, j will sing at tho Teatro Real, Madrid, during | this winter. Few men are more generally and respect ! fully noticed by the public on tho streets o! , Boston than the venerable comedian, William Warren. David Oakley, of "Tho Diamond Broker' | company, is one of tho oldest actors in the profession. He tirst appearod upon tho stage! In 1830. Tnp Vii>nnfv r-on?f>rnit,orv awarded tho ' first violin prize to a ten-year-old lad, j Frederick Kreisslcr, the son of a physician of that city. A RECENT count of 296 companies at work amusing the American public, shows 201 dramatic, 2H variety, ^4 musical, 1I minstrel! and 12 circus. Mr. John S. Ci.arke, has mndo a plav or the subject of "Nicholas Nickleby," whicl has just be?n brought forward at the Strand theatfe, London. Antedilu%*ian music is exhibited by ar imaginative Parisian. Stones of different sizes are suspended on strings, making a range of two octaves. Sir Arthur Sullivan, the composer, con-' ducted the orchestra the other night at a gain performance of "The Mikado" at the Fifth Avenue theatre, New York. Flotow, tho composer of "Martha," left behind him a comic opera entitled " Widow I Grapin." It has just been played at Pesth, and is said to Ik? very melodious It may j Ejssibly 1 o heard at other European theatres ?fore long. Two American girls are to make their debut next season under tho care of Mile. Nevada?Nellie Everest, of Philadelphia, and Miss Johnston, of Washington. Both have been studying for years in Italy, and are said to be gifted with good voices. Mme. Christine Nilsson has finally determined to settle in England und is sumptu ously decorating a house in Kensington court, though at one time she strongly meditated making her residence in this country when she retired from the stage. Herr Rubinstein announces for the com ing winter in Vienna a series of seven con certs, in which he will execute pieces from the piano repertory of all ages ana countries. Tl?e performance will include pieces composed for the earliest spinets, clavecins and key boards. The concerts are to be repeated In Berlin, Tuns and London ' NEWS SUMMARY. Ffislrrii nnd TTIIddlo state*. Mrs. Mack Latiirop, the wife of a farmer near Stoughton, Mass., white trying to protoct a friend from tho attack of a yoke of oxen belonging to her husband, was herselJ disembowleu by tho angry beasts. Mrs. Fader, of Goutdvilto, Fetin., was stung by bees in her garden, aDd died in fortyfive minutes. The British yacht Genesta has added a third trophy to her victories in this country, winning tho Cape May International Challenge cup in an ocean race which lasted nearly two days, and resulted in an easy victor}' for the cutter. The Grant national monumont fund up to recent date had reached General Edward F. Jonf.s was nonnnat? . k,. v.??. v/.fb u\i iur Iifim.,iiiiuirr;u>uii"i yjj \,u\ * v. *?. , Democratic State committee in place of Mr. I Flower, clecliuetl. The Massachusetts Greenbackers at their State convention in Boston nominated a full ticket, headed by James Sumner for governor. Soutli and Wont, A fire in Chicago destroyed many million feet of lumber, causing an "estimated loss of $-l">,000. The most important new enterprise reported in the youth for a long time is that for the erection of immenso works in Virginia at a cost of '00 to manufacture steel, composite brass, etc.. tho annual capacity to be 100,00 ) tons. The purchase of 1*,000 acres of magnificent coal and iron land has already been made. A neighbor's bulldog kill the four-yearold child of Mrs. Parsons at Goes Station, Ohio, and was eating its flesh when discovered. The brute had to bo killed before it would leave the child's lxdy. Two men and a woman, residents of Tombstone, Arizona, were ambushed by Apaches, the men killed and the woman carried off into captivity. During an altercation between two physicians in Saybrook, 111., Dr. Georgo Barton struck Dr. Harvey L. Harris, whereupon the latter drew a revolver and shot his opponent dead. Jidge George W. Ward, editor of the Abingdon (Va.) Examiner, was shot by William White, Independant candidate for the State senate. A relative of White and another man also fired upon Ward, who received nine wounds, and was reported in a critical condition. Tho trouble grew out of an article in Judge Ward's paper. Jake Flowers, a drunken colored man, tried to assault three co'ored women near SummervilJe. S. C., and after failing in each attempt burned down their dwellings. One of the women was caught by Flowers while fleeing from hewbuniing building and fatally injured. * Flowers was shot dead by a constable \)a?hlnrton> The President has appointed the following United States attorneys: Daniel 0. Finch, of Iowa, for tho southern district of Iowa, and Fabius H. Busbee, of North Carolina, for the eastern district of North Carolina. Seven agents for the Indians in various sections were appointed the other day by the President, as follows: W. L. Powell, of Virginia; John V. Summers, of Missouri: Mark W. Stevens, of Michigan: Charles Hill, of Nebraska; Moses Veal, of Kansas; Henry K. Williamson, of Mississippi; Fletcher I. Cowart, of Alabama Postmasters appointed by the President: B. J. Sheridan, at Paula, itan.; Robert F. Chilton, at Santa Anna, Cal.: Edward Van De Casteele. at De Pere, Wis.; Harry S, Parker, at Farmington. N. H.; F. H. Spiuney, Medford. Mass.; Burritt B. Breed, at Lisbon, Dakota; Fidelia Kiigore, at Longview, Texas; L. K. Da vis, at Athons, Ala; Milton H. Westbrcok, at Lyons, Iowa; James B. Blacle well, at Marietta, Ga.; John Shearman, at Monroe City, Mo.; Thomas A. Gary, at Galveston. Texas; E. E. Waggoner, at Shelbyville, 111.; John A. Collins, at Washington, Mo.; E. P. Matthews, at Bowling Green, Mo.; John Flynn, at Duluth, Minn. There weret31*? patents issuo.1 for the week ending on the 2!ith, tho largest number ever issued in one week in the history of tho patent office. Additional appointments by tho President: Edward A. Stevenson, of Boise City, Idaho, to ho governor of the lerritory of Idaho; William B. Webb, of Hillings, Montana, to be secretary ot tho territory of Montana; James T. Healey, assistant treasurer at Chicago. Presidential postmasters: Walter W. McGrew at Eureka, Kan.: John C. Friend, Rawlins, Wyoming; Isaiah Garrett, Monroe, l^a.; Arthur D. Glover, Olympia, Washington Territory; James Blair, Grand Rapids, Mich. Foreign. British capitalists propose to build a ship railway across tho narrow isthmus which connects Nova Scotia with New Brunswick to carry vessels from the Bay of Fuudy to Cumbjrlaud strait. The pope has agreed to mediate between Germany and Spain with regard to the dispute over the Caroline islands. Many vessels have been wreckod at Falsa Point, n port on the bay of Bengal, India, by a cyclone. The feeling in Russia regarding the Roumelian question, it is telegraphed from llusiia, is "hourly growing more warlike," and the sympathy of tho masses is said to be strongly for the Bulgarians and against the Turks. One of Queen Victoria's sons?the Duke of Edinburg? wanted to pay the hop pickers on his estates in Kent twelve pence a basket for picking hops, tho *sual price being eighteen penco: ou11no wois-piMwro *><-" ?>j demonstrative that the duke became frightened and yielded to their demands. Four. Indians have just lieon sentenced to death at Battleford, Manitoba, for murder, and numerous others have received terms of imprisonment varying from two to fourteen years for arson and robbery. Captaix Hatkiei.d, with his command, overtook and hail a fight with a band of about sixty hostile Indians in the Cananca mountains, Mexico, killing several and capturing forty-three. Two Cuban leaders have just been killc l b\- the Spanish troops in Cuba. Laiiue trac s of lan I are said to have be<m recently purchased by the Mormons in Mexico. Tin: Turkish losses in the ten days' fighting at Dwakova were two hundred men. The Albanians 1< st 1,00!) kdled. Ax area of 2,5')!) miles in India has been devastated by heavy floods. Many lives have been lost and a great amount of property destroyed. Ix a recent light with tho Hovas, in Madagascar, the French were repulsed, with loss. Thomas Iamsdev, a wealthy Canadian farmer and stock raiser, was gored to doath by a bull which he was driviug to an exhibition at Winnipeg, Manitoba. THE OPIUM CRAZE, Luxurious Boston 'Moiiim*' Frequented by the High and Low* The Boston Globe has published a livecolumn article giving some startling disclosures of the subject of the use of opium in Boston that will awaken the city to tho senso of its hidden danger from tho pernicious habit. The article is the experience of reporters. They give the addresses of a number of resorts outside the usual Chinese dens where money has l?een lavished to tit thoin up in a most luxuriant manner for thi3 purpose. Those places aro in the most fashionable thoroughfares, and have been flourishing unsuspected for months under tho very shadow of the Massachusetts State house. The persons who patronize these gilded dens come in carriages, and aro recognized as belonging to the best circles of society. The following is a digest of what was seen by a reporter and his guide in ono of these establishments: As the visitors enteml they were greeted by a well-dressed man of middle age. witn light hair and complexion, who shook hands with both an 1 asked them if th<>v wished to smoke. The room is a large square one, richly furnished. On tbo bed, over which was thrown a rug. were si -eping two beautiful girls. They were both past consciousness. In one corner was the form of a talented young law student, who is re- I taiucd by one of the leading lawyers in l'etnberton Square. By his siilo slept a theitrical man anil his wife, whose faces are wellknown in popular comedy. A wealthy young man, wlio-o father is a prominent theatrical manager, was among the frequenters of the joint. In numerous other places well-known men were found who hart l?een followed from their place of business, the club or the theatro to these haunts. The Globe has in its possession a list of names of the patrons of these resorts, the publication of which would create a consternation in society. All classes arc more or less implicated in ihe habit. Several well-known frequenters of the dens occupying high social positions have left the city to es-ajw exposure, being informed that the police have their names down for witnesses. NEARLY DECAPITATED. Sickening Scones nl ?hc Clanging of a Wile Murderer. Patrick Hartnett, the Cincinnati wife murderer, was hango I at the Ohio jieaitentiary, Columbus, at 1 :'S> the other morning, lie was pronounced dea l one-half minute after the drop fell. The fall requite 1 in almost total decapitation. tli" hea 1 hanging to the body only by a small ^rip of skin at tlio lmck of the neck, 'i he scene was a most sickening one, and it was Willi great dirticulty that the exo- i cutioners roujd summon courage to cut tha j body down. Ilarin.'tt killed his wife on January 31, 1S8J. in Mount Auburn, a suburb of Cincin! nati. Early on tbe morning of the deed j when she aro e he ordered her back to ' bed and charge I her with unfaithj fulness, which she denied. He procured an ax, made his wife get on her knees, say her prayers and kiss the floor, an I then ! struck her t.vo blows with the ax, one crush-1 I ing h?r skull. Policemen found Hartnett | dancing a jig nnd playing a jewsharp around j | the body, and had some trouble in arresting I Jimi. " J FEDERAL FINANCES, j Lust Monthly Statement of the National I)eht. The Cash in the Treasury and the Coinage of the Mints. j The apparent (locroase in tho public debt ; i for September is f 12.7.VT,flfVj. This amount j I is reduced, however, by payment? of about ! j $7,500,010 due on account of interest on ' I bonds. Following is a recapitulation of the | [ lass statement issued: t NTK H EST- B K A RING DEBT. Bonds at I '4 per cent $i">0,000,000,00 Bonds nt ) per cent 7-J7,73i>,4")0 (K) Bonds ut :i per cent 1!?4, 100,500 00 ]{efunding certificates at 4 per cent ... 227,000 00 Navy pension fund at .'i per cent 14,000,000 00 Pacific Hail road bonds at 0 per cent G (,<>33,512 00 Principal S* 1,200,777,4!J2 00 Interest 12,214,788 8." Total $1,272,iW2,2>0 8:! Debt on whHi interest has consod since maturity: Principal S-J.S; 1,^85 2fi Interest 221,332 30 Total $4,0.12,717 50 DEBT BEARING NO INTEREST. Old demand and legal tender notes $346,7o8,8S0 00 f'artiHpntfw of denosifc 23.185.000 00 Gold certificates 118, t37,-7!?0 00 .Silver certificates 113,050,716 0) Fractional currency, less $8,375,I estimated as lust or destroyed .. 6,061,162 8S Princ ipal ?5!:8>679,554 88 TOTAL DEHT. Principal $1,853,32.$,402 14 Interest 12,436,121 13 Total $1,805,704,523 27 Less cash items available for reduction of the debt $210,027,074 70 Less reserve held for redemption of United States notes, $100,000,000 340,027,074 70 Total debt, loss available cash items $1,521,837,448 57 Net cash in the Treasury.... 03,'.103,100 30 Debt loss cash in the Treasury Oct. 1, 1885 $1,400,034,3 i2 27 Debt less cash in the Treasury Sept. 1, 18S5 1,473,092,307 52 Docrease of debt during tho month as shown by this statement 12,757,965 25 CASH IN THE TREASURY. Available for reduction of the debt: Gold held for gold certificates actually outstanding $118,137,700 00 Silver held for silvrr certificates actually outstanding. 93,056,710 00 United States notes held lor certificates of deposit actually outstanding 23,180,000 00 Cash held for matured debt and interest unpaid 5,945,000 71 Fractional currency 2,50199 Total available for reduction of debt $240,927,074 70 RESERVE FUND. Held for redemption of United States notes, acts of January 14,1875, and July 12, 1*82 $100,000,000 00 Unavailable for reduction of debt: Fractional silver coin $23,041,893 79 Minor coin.... 7%,852 20- 21,438,740 05 Certificates hold as cash.... 54,007,230 00 Net cash bulance on hand... 63,903,106 30 Total rash in the treasury as shown by the treasurer's general account 483,936,157 95 RECEIPTS AND EXPENDITURES. T* *? ; i\eueil'l8 ul me i iiuvvi owu'3 iui ?;v|nrur bor: #84 1885 Customs $17,662,632 $ 17,52l", 204 Internal revenue.. 9,930,832 10,440,101 Miscellaneous 1,6-9,653 2,003,66) Totals $29,229,119 $29,171,020 EXPENDITURES. Ordinary $13,040,934 $9,403,290 Pensions 1.352,212 3,800,110 Interest 2,7S0,714 2,749,010 Totals $17,173,912 $16,013,054 TIIE CO'XAGE. The following is a statement of the coinage executed at the mints during September: Denomination. Pieces. Value. Double eagles o9,503 $ V90,060 CO liaRles 5 50 00 Half Katies 220,001 1,1:50,005 00 Three dollars 4 12 0J Quarter eagles 4 10 0J Dollars Ill 111 00 Total gold 205,62$ $1,920,248 00 Standard doUlars 2,500,050 $2,500,050 00 Half dollars 50 25 0.1 Qtnarter dollars 50 12 50 ta: en r: tit J'lIUUS Iiu 'f Total silver 2,500,200 500.<;! '. 5") Five cents 150 7 50 Three cents 150 4 50 One cent 150 1 5l> Total minor 450 13 50 Total coinage 2,700,2^6 $4,420,354 UC *LATERNEWS. The owner of the British yacht, Genesta, refused $20,000 for the craft, but offered to sell her in Nev York for $.10,03a The famous collection of orchids belonging ; to the late Mi's. Morgan was sold at auction the other day in New York. Nearly 400 of the 2,000 plants were sold on the first day, and brought about $r,0iK), sixty-five of them bringing over $25 each. The highest prico paid for a single plant was $750. The Massachusetts Republicans, at their State convention in Springfield, renominated Governor Robinson, the remainder of tho j ticket being: Oliver Ames, for lieutenantgovernor; Henry B. Pierce, for secretary of state; A. W. Beard, for state treasurer and receiver general; Charles 1L Ladd, renomi- I nated for auditor; Edgar L. Sherman, for ' attorney-general. The platform demands | the suspension of the silver dollar and the ex- , tension of the principles of the civil service. In a fire which destroyed ono of tho buildings of the insane asylum at Warm Springs, Montana, three inmates?two men and a woman?were burned to death. The President has decided that the offices | of weigher and gtiager in the customs service cannot be filled without an examination under the civil service commission. This decision practically disposes of the case of Sterling, who was recently appointed weigher in the New York custom house, and then suspended by order of the President, pending an investigation into the manner of his appointment. Tiik President has refused to accept the resignation of Pr. J. B. Hamilton, surgeongenera! of the marine hospital service, declaring the beat interests of the service would be served by retaining its chief. A fire in Iquique, Peru, has destroyed the most important portion of thetown, very fow business houses escaping. The estimated nccrregato losses roach ?'2,000,000. Ex-U a kitxor Franklin J. Mosf.s, o[ South Carolina,charged with obtaining money mder fa Is > proteases from prominent citizens )f Huston, has been sentence 1 to three years' impris inment. Mr. William I'aoe, tho painter, ?nd formerly prosi lent of tho American Academy j if Oosigu, dio.l the otlnr day at his home : near Tott'iiville, N. Y., aged soventy-llvo 1 years. ! Bishop Ci.awson, a prominent Mormon ! 3f Salt Lake City, has boon found guilty of I polygamy tinder the provisions of tho United ' Statos law forbidding a plurality of wives, j and has been sentom.-oi to imprisonment. I Other Mormons similarly found guilty, escaped punishment by pledging obodieir.-e to the law. Four men were caught between coal cars at Cleveland, Ohio. Andrew Devir was instantly killed, Patrick McMannon fatally inI jured, and James Guilty and Owen Gallaj gher seriously but not mortally injured. I Senator Logan delivered a eulogy on General Grant at services hold in Wnshing! ton a few days sinee in commemoration of I the dead commander. Fi'rtiier appointments of postmasters by I the President; Richard J. Ashby at Charlesj ton, W. Vo.; James Helaney at Saint Peter, i Minn. | John S. "Wise, Republican candidate for 1 governor of Virginia, had an altercation in a train between Washington nnd Alexandria with ex-Congressman John Ambler Smith, Tho trouble ended In Wise's striking Smith in the face, drawing blood. A leading Paris papir says that Russia has decided to recognize the union of Bulgaria and Rouinelia; that Germany has offered 110opposition to the union, and that Austria mikes tho compensation o; Fervia , and Greece a condition of her asseut. m STOCKHOLM HORROR. T Terrible Disaster During Nilsson's c Welcome Home. T Many People Killed and Injured in a; c Sudden Panic. !T No event In many years has so profoundly ^ ^ agitated Stockholm, Sweden, tho "Veuico of i tho North," as tho calamity following Mine, j Nilsson's recent enthusiastic reception by her countrymen there. Since the occurrence ^ Mine. Nilsson has been so completely prostrated that she has felt obliged to cancel many engagements. King 0.<car, who has taken a T very deep interest in tho matter, has been active in extending sympathy and relief to T tho afflicted families. An account of the terrible affair is as follows: ' Owing probably to the fact that Mme. Nilsson had recently bought a handsome C hou-e in I/ondon and announced her intention of making her home in England permanently hereafter, tho great singer's visit to the lieantiful capital of her native land was regarded as a farewell one, and the popular excitemont attending her arrival was intense. Crcrtvds of her enthusiastic countrymen welcomed lier at tho railway station mid attended ber carriage to tho Grand hotel. Sin gave thre) concerts, doMsrliting g( the populace after each performance by sing- . ing home ballads in front of tho hotjl. As D early as 7 in the evening people were stream- c; ing toward tho broad cpiay opposite tho u Grand hotel from even the most distant part of tho twelvo islands upon which Stockholm is built When Mme. Nilsson arrived, . shortly after 9 o'clock, it is estimated that J3 the donso mass of people closely packing j li tlin Miinif And th? wiili* street of Uharles I XII. lor some distanco on either sido num- I n berod not less than forty thousand persons, v Deafening cheers groeted the diva's arrival. Unable to reach tho principal door of tho i r< hotel, she with some dillicutty managed to | li gain admittance at a sido entrance, and I presently was bowing to probably tho largest j _ and most excited audience she has ever J looked upon. After she sung two songs tho i 8( crowd began to disperse homeward. | k The first m nement of tin living mass b caused a lirightful crash, which was horribly _ intensified by tho pressure of a number of j * fresh arrivals on tne outskirts of the crowd, i 1 A rascally gang of roughs helped still further to precipitate the calamity by trying to I tl work their way through the confused and chaotic multitude. With a rush like tho flow i of a mighty river, the excited mass j of jwople directed itsolf toward soma ^ newly-built houses on tho site of the old it Mindre theatre. The pavement in front of yi the house had been torn up and the ground ^ was strewed with building stone, lime and Sand. Just before this uneven place was . reached the stone pavement ended at an ab- 11 nipt descent in the grade of the street Hero g those in advance of tho crowd halted an instant, but, pressed forward by the thousands _ behind, they stumbled and fell. p The crowd, swarming on with tho entire absence of reason or control characteristic b of such a crowd in an emergency, men, women and children wero instantly piled one ? upon another in one great crushed, bleeding, shrieking and undistinguisliable mass of hii- j " inanity. Tho horror of the scene ! L> was increased by the demoniac i ci yells of the roughs, who took n "advantage of the moment to attack and plunder people right and left. To add to the con- , fusion the only lamp that illuminated that 11 part of tho street was turned out by a street j Ci boy, who had saved himself by climbing tho post. Many others saved themselves by | ft breaking tho windows and entering the new i . houses, though they were severely cut by the uroxcii eias3. ? When the police Anally forced a passage e' nail removed the dead and injured it was t( found that eighteen persons had been killed a] in the mad rush. Most oi' these wjro women. Many people are believe I to havo been seriously injured oirly in the panic by ? b>ing tianpled under the tf foet* of a horse whic'i, with a light wagon at his heels, toro through the u crow 1. Others were pushed trom thy quay into the Norr-Strom outlet of the Malaren ^ into th3 Saltsjoti and drowned. A prom- j si i-i-nt fiti*.?n wa? sipar.it! I from h:s two , ai 111 ;"ifc ?.*?. o.n i'u ail t'n o'.h m* tiv.dv.i j year* ol.l; he aiU'nvard fou.id their dei I b*liei trample I alm nt bjyond recognition. Heap? of t >rn clothing, hats, umbrel- ^ las, shoe< ami m msols were taken to tho po- tl lic.? station A hatle?s woman, excite lly j] searching l or her child, broke into loud cries r' on sejing the row of cor^sej, an 1 it w.is found that she h id su I lenly gone mad. The police, numb-ring 'i H. were utterly pnverfevi to h prevent tii) a ;oM;:i; or g jvern tin crowd. h c RIOT IN MONTREAL * Ib Frcnrli Canadlano Itewlstlng Com- j ItiilHory t act-inatloii. j ' The smallpox epidemic that lias been rag- i ing in Montreal with great virulence for some C time has resulted in a riot, caused by tlio op- P position of tho French Canadians to conipul- tl sory vaccination. Particulars of tho trouble arc given in the following dispatch from 1! Montreal: Montreal was the scene of a violent riot j this evening, as the result of the movement 0 for compulsory vaccination. The French n Canadians have shown strong opposition to ei compulsory vaccination since the start, and n trouble has been feared. Tho English were determined, however, that no more delay 11 would be allowed, and decided at once to 0 carry compulsory measures into force, c, A branch ollice was started in tho east end a and orders were given to-day to begin the thorough vaccination of all'persons in tho French Canadian quarter. At an early hour ^ this morning tho ollice was openeil A crowd n at once began to assemble, and the budding Jj was soon surrounded. Several French Canadian citizens addressed tho gathering, which was becoming more and more riotous, and 8 advised pacific measures. A squad of police C was called out, and toward the afternoon the p mob dispersed, threatening, however, to re- c turn in the evening. They kept their word, j , At 7 o'clock to-night the building was sur- D rounded by a noisy, threatening crowd of French Canadians, who began operations by g storming tho health ollice, smashing all the t windows and creating a general havoc. i. The mob next went to the residence of , Dr. Laberge, of tho medical health 11 ollice, stoned it and shouted defiance, h On inarched the mob, gathering in fi numbers as it went, its objective point baing a the city hall. Tho authorities had by this j . time got wind of the mob's intentions, and i c tho lire bells sounded a general alarm, calling i F tho wholo police force from tho various j stations to tho central station at the city I t lia'l. The mob arrived, however, before the | police had mustered, mid took possession of tlio streets around the ball. Showers of ? stones were rained upon tho building and ii many windows were shattered. d In tho niidstof the din aery was raised, "To B the newspaper oflice!" and in a few minutes the crowd, now numbering several thousand, r had formed into lino anil were on the way. f Tho mob marched down the pi incipal streets, | i: singing and shouting, and made for tho oftice i a of the Atorniny llerald, a largo live-story ' building, oil Victoria square. Their number | . was considerably increased on the way, and 1 surrounded the newspaper olltce, several 0 thousand strong. The building, which occu- t pies a prominent position, was brilliantly }; lighted up. and formed a good mark for tho _ rioters. The windows were soon smashed, and the rioters took full vengeance upon tho 8 paper, which has boon the most activo and plain spoken alnjut the French Canadians. 1: For over half an hour the mob had it all c their own way, the police remaining inac- , tive in the station while the work of destruc- J tion was going on. While engaged at tho 1 newspaper oflice, tho rioters gave expression to various throats, and Slid that they | t would show the Knglish whether it was ! ? they or tho French who would rule the i . city. The Kngiisii were roundly abused, and | * a number ol violent scenes occurred. When j the polico did arrive on the scene, the mob n n.rnin mul inn rr*lioil li*l *Lr f ! 1 r? ii 1 r**)i f lift i streets to tho cast end, wheiv they hold a ; mass meeting, and, aflqr several iiillamma- j torv speeches, pruoeedod to the h >mes of sov- i ^ oral of the doctors and stoned thein. The i t crowd was dis|?ersed after a number of po- I j liceineu lriil been In-a ten. Tim military was 1 called out next day, ami quiot w:is restored, j ^ PROMINENT PEOPLE. I Tknnyson is about to publish another vol- c utile of poems. j Patti's spare moments are Iieing devoted ? to the writing of her memoirs. Alt. members of the family of the czar of ^ T.ussia speak tho Kn^lish language. ^ Gexkhal Jon Shemiy. the Confederate raider, is now a dairyman in Missouri. rir>vn?i , ? .il't VI t A v I_ flm stulir Liiftfivni' of the commanders of tho Army of the Poto- ^ map. f I)r. Hierme Hetsok, an eminent occulist, says that tho common electric light pro- e duces color blindness. , KltuPl', the < ermati gunnnker, is at pres- j t cut chiefly manufacturing guns for China, | Turkey. Japan and Kgypt. Pp.i:sidi:.\t Cleveland's stableman says tlio President does not caro inucli for horses. ? In. taking oxcivise ho much prefers to walk. ! 1 Mkissonier, tho great French painter, is I tho oltlest artist in Paris, having been born in j t I*'!?. He is as sensitive a-* a woman in regard to his ago. I i Stanley is fitting apartments in London I where ho will open out tho great store of Af- j , rican curiosities and Oriental fabrics which j he has packed away. j t Dr. Geor?e B. Elliott, the specialist, i I whoso microscopical investigations revealed : the true nature of General Grant's disease, ] aid who pronounced it cancer and incura- ( ble, is not more than twenty-seven years of age. | General Sherman positively declined to i 1 be president of tho St. Louis Grant Monti- i 1 meut associat ion, or to have anything to do | with it. "Grant," he said, explaining, "was | i worthy of every monument that can bo raised j to his memory, but 1 think that the one over i his grave should be finished before others are begun." i THINGS TO CHERISH. 1) Ite eyes Uiat loik with lovo on thee, v' That brighten w !. hy smile, r; !r mutely bitl theo hope again, j a. If thou art sad awhile; ! jfl he eyes that, when no words are breathed, n Gazo fondly into thine? ftl h, cherish them, ero they grow dim; f? Tliey may not always shine? S( ho faithful hearts around theo, That glow with lovo and youth, 1 hat time and rare ne'er yet have seared, Nor rnvishe 1 of their truth, he hearts whose beatings we have heard, When throbbing near our own? pj lh! cherish them. Those beatings hushed, rr Earth's dearest tonos are gone ! ai he days when thoro are hearts and eyes r( That throb and Dent for thee; P he few fleet hours when life doth seem Bright as a summer sea; ho thrilling moments when to speak J. The full heart's joy is vain? ill! cherish them. Once gone, alas! They ne'er return again. ESSIE'S 1'IANO. ! it "If I only had a piano!" si Even as the wish rose, almost uncon- tf ciouslv, to her lips, Essie Trowbridge si lushed a deep crimson tint, and her shy tl yes looked out half frightened irom fi ndcr her long lashes. "A piano!" ir The death of sarcasm in John Trow- A ridge's voice justified the shrinking of d is little daughter-in-law. t( "A piano! Wouldn't youlikcadia- A1 lond ncckliicc or a carriage with four h orses? A piano! This is one of the ti isults of a plain farmer marrying a fine t< idv!" '*1 was not a line lndy when Ilarrv h larried me, only a haid working district v: ;hool tcacher," said Essie, "and lie wa? cl ind and good, and never sneered at me li ecausc I loved music and pictures, and a " ' * 1 - T 1 J _ -anti?nil tne omer pleasures i uuu uc- i e* 5re my father died!" c< "Well, there, there?don't cry," said T ic old man, hastily. "I did not mean to T? urt your feelings. Ilarry was?h "But there the father choked, too; for 01 as not Harry his only child, the very pi lol of his old heart, lying in the church- w ard, and the six months' widow sob- sc in# beside him? fc She rose softly from her seat, andcrossig to where her father-in-law sat, said, ai ently: w "I will not try you again by extrava- ai ant desires. I know how good you arc ta ) me, and I will try to learn to bo a etter farmer's girl!" tl "You arc a very good girl, a very good w irl," was the reply, ''and it is only nnt- bi ral you should hanker for what you've fc een brought up to having. But pianos tl Dst hundreds of dollars, and I have tl: one to spare, Essie. I can't get round cl ic farm as Harry did, and I have bad gi im to lean upon so long that things go ci rooked enough without him." w Essie sighed, caressing the snowy hair, 01 er shy. brown eyes full of trouble. She new that the farm was suffering for the w mster hand nnd eyes, lying folded for- p< rer, and she longed to be of some use tl ) the father she hud promised to love ft ad comfort. )>' But she was only twenty, city bred it nd reared iu luxury. Just one year she ei lught a district school after her father ied a bankrupt. Then Harry Trow- fa rid^e, the handsome, tender farmer, cs 'ho met her in the country houses where m ic ' boarclcd-rouncl,'' told her his love 01 nd won the sweet, pure heart's afTec- P1 on. Only a few mouths after the wedding, w hen Essie was conquering one by one w ic difficulties of farm housekeeping, larry fell from a hay-wagou and was ti itallv injured. P' In the few hours of life granted him, f" is one desire was to keep his father and hi :s young wife together, to love and w omfort each other. Ul "You will give Essie a homo when I m pone,'' he begged* when his father si ent over him. "While I have a rjof to cover me," tr ras the answer. tl "You will not leave my father utterly c' hildless?" lie whispered, wheu Jessie C1 ut her cheek to his to hide the tears P1 hat would fall. h "I will never leave him while my love i any comfort," she answered. " And in the first days of mourning these tvo were an unutterable comfort to each S ther. lint as time wore on they found 01 lany rough places in this life contract, ach felt so solemnly binding. John Wvlirirlflw lmd a nrofound contempt 3r all womankind could not fill his f wn rough ideal. A woman who could ,r hurn, milk, cook, carc for poultry, keep ai house shiuing, wash and iron, and keep 01 1 perfect, robust health withal, was a " roinan after his own heart. A starving 81 liml, a hungry soul, were problems he ai ad never realized as existing. k ]t fretted him when Essie, bravely n' (riving to do the work so new in her ^ xpericnce, would faint at her post. It oused his roujjh sarcasms when the day sr loscd upon duties unperformed, when read was heavy and cooking imperfect, o; And Essie, hoping against hope to w row stronger, made herself miserable in 0 be supposition that she was a useless ^ urden where she so earnestly desired to n: e a comfort and blessing. She stifled er own cravinsr for the books and renements that had been second nature-, S1 nd yet slie could not fill the place they ad occupied by interest in chickens, igs and cows. " It added to her perplexities to know hat the farm had not paid its expenses P i the last year. Spring was still Bome t'eeks away, and provisions were grow- ^ ng scarce, while ready money was 11 iwindling down to a pile alarmingly mall. She felt like a thief when baking J' iroved uneatable, or a dinner was " 1 1 t_ .12 4 A poiieu, ann yet such uishsiuis hwuuuu n spite of her conscientious eflorts to f' vert them. . It had been a dreary day when her un- 11 ortunate wish broke from her lips, and ^ . sudden craving for the music that had icon her life's delight took possession of ler. Her penitence for the words was J1 cry humble, and she put away the de- j '( ire with many another longing. Hut John Trowbridge had ft kind j ^ leart under the hard crust gathered I .v ivcr it in years of toil, poorly paid. The I " onging of the shy brown eyes haunted i n tin). "I b'pose it is like telling the birds not ' l1 0 sing to shut her up here," he thought, j 'But t'? give her n piano. How in , 0 he world?" Then a sudden thought almost took 1 iway his breath. He got up from his :ha>r, and, kissing Kssic, went to the 1 t\r\r In think if. nvnr. Tim voiinL' vidow, warned that it was nearly tea- " ime by the clock, ?pcd to the kitchen, i n md did not know when her father-in- ' " aw put on his overcoat and h-.t nnd d vent down to the village. s He eaine back with some great pro- tl ect in every line of his rugged, sun- I >rowned face. I1 Tea was a success. The toast was i t lelicatcly browned, nnd the ham done j t' o a turn. When the meal was over, the j p >ld man said: 1 "Essie, do you remember the cross j s rou told me your father gave you for a j C )irthday gift?" i "My diamond cro=s!" |I "Veu would not like to part with it? j " Jerhaps it is your only reminder of your j s atherf" j 11 "1 have many other gifts. Nothing a io valuable as that. The gentleman j v vho took charge of my father's affairs i k old me I could keep all his gifts to j li nc." ] f! iifrtnM nnf lilrn fn rrivp I V I UII >UII "imiu uv/w tii?w *.W I 110 the cross to sell. Essie? Our money y s getting very short?" j L A kiss, tender nnd quick, stopped \ n he words that came so hesitatingly. j o "You sire gladly welcome to it,father! i t [ wonder I did not think of it before." I a Bo the dainty bauble lay in the fanner's ! n lorny pnlm, nnd while Essie clcared the a ea table John Trowbridge went once n nore to the village. d Dr. Heynolds, the only physician there, u Barry's fast friend for years, was in his a jftice when the farmer entered. ( ' Thereit is," said the visitor, triumph- p intly. "You are sure it is worth the e noney?" f "Perfectly sure. And Mrs. Trowbridge 4 wisher me to invest the sum I obtain in " i pitino." I "IJIess you, no! that's my part of it. ? Jt'ou sue, the ;>oor little soul tries to do & A cr best, but she ain't fit for her hard fc. If there was any other home for rr I'd send her away, though I'd ithcr miss the sunlight. She's as dainty i a butterfly, and yet she has no fine idy ways, cither. But she bankers for , piano, and she shall havo one. Ernest," ad the old man's eyes filled. "Her own ither gave her that gimcrack, and I've ien her kiss that often, but when 1 iked her to give that to me, because I ceded money, she put it in my hand ith a kiss, and told mo I was gladly 'eicome. She's a good girl, if she ain't luch of a hand at work." "She is not very strong," and Ernest eynolds stifled a sigh as he spoke, hen, with a quick change of voice, he ided: "I am going to the city to-mor)\v. I will sell the cross and buy the iano." But when the farmer was gone Ernest eynolds took strange liberties with tho swel he held in charge. He slipped a bbon through its ring and hung it over is own heart. The next day he had it valued by a jweler, and bought a piano with the im named, but the cross rested still on is heart, as tho bill for the sweet-toned istrumcnt was paid. It would be a vain task to describe Ego's pleasure when the piano was brought ) the sitting-room. She cricd and niled at the same time, and her earnest lanks brought the moisture to the old irmer's eyes. But the pressure of poverty was comlg closer and closer upon the farm, i ere after acre was sold to meet actual aily needs, and the wolf drew very close ) the door of John Trowbridge's house, fith stern pride he hid his wants from i is neighbors, but Essie knew of privaons and self-denials that wrung her own :nder heart. Like a burst of sunlight there came to or two offers. One to'be organist at the illage church, and another to take a iass of music scholars in the seminary, ve miles from the village. Twice a week carriage would be scot for her and the ilaries were more than double the injmc from the farm. Neither John rowbridge nor Essie knew that Dr. eynolds by quiet, unsuspected influence ad brought about this happy result. No le knew that he had driven the princinl of the seminary over on an evening hen Essie was pouring out her whole >ul in music, and held him spell-bound >r two hours on the farm-house porch. But they did know that a strong med Irish girl could be paid to do the ork of the house out of Essie's income, id that a'trustworthy man was found to lr/4 f hn form wnrlr nn ftharns. John Trowbridge began to realize that lere were women of some value in the orld who possessed but a small share of >no and muscle for actual hard work, >r sch^ars came nil the way from L?, ic market town seven miles away, to ic farmhouse. Concerts wore given for laritable purposes, and Essie was eniged at goodly sums to play. Strangers imc to the village church to hear the ondrous voice and playing of the young ganist. i And while tho comforts of the farm ere multiplied by Essie's generous exjnditure, while the rooms gradually lost ieir bare, dismal look by additions of irniture 'and ornaments, while flowers lossomed on barren spaces and the farm self was more fully stocked, Essie was rer the same. Tho same respcctful love for Harry's .ther, the same gentle shy woman, modit as a violet. Yet not the same as the onths sped by and the sorrow of widfvhood lost something of its keenest John Trowbridge wondered a little, hea the piano had filled its recess for a hole year, why Earnest Reynolds was so uch interested in an old man's rheumasm. He had always been nn attentive hysician and had never neglected the ither of his dear friend Harry Trowridgc, but of late he lingered long henever he called and often dropped in a professionally. E3sic learned to know his step and her ly eyes would brighten when she heard . Harry had told her of many noble j aits in the doctor's charantcr, and in i le village she had heard of his gentle i ttarities, his conscicntions discharge of rery duty,his ennobling influence where iin and the shadow of death crossed ] is daily path. i Ever shyly distrustful of herself, she ] id not dream of winning the love of lio horn nf hr?r husband's bovliood. this enerous friend of the afflicted, this hon- j red member of a noble profession. Sho bad given her first love, true and arm, to Harry. But the daisies had / lossomcd twice over Harry's grave and ic gentle heart was touched by other i ifluences. Juno roses -were blooming id Harry had been dead two years when i ne evening Essie sat at her piano, with cr fingers calling forth a melody full of i vcetness. It was neither glad nor sad, \ id not so loud but that John Trow- j ridge could hear the voice of Dr. Keyolds. as that gentleman spoke in deep, cartfelt tones. 1 When he had heard all the old man j lid: "Go to Essie, Ernest, and tell her the j nc wish of my heart will lie granted if, j hen I die, I leave hcriu the happiness ( f such love as you bring to her. It has , een my great sorrow that her short , inrried life tied her to an old man who j as so poor a companion for her. I be- J eve Harry himself would bid you God ( iced." , And Essie, when the love plea was hispered, the message delivered, bent ] cr head to hide the happy tears. I "You will let me love yon the doctor ] leaded. "You can love inc?". j Only the little hand nestled closcr in j is own for answer. But after a little f inc the sweet, clear voicc asked: "You will let me keep my promise to i , Farrv. Ernest? I could not desert j , itbernow." i "I only ask to help you in your cnrc >r him. Mv home shall bo his. And ' he will sell the farm he will have an icomc that will take away all sense of cpendence, while wo can still give him ' >ve." I "It seems so strange to think you love ic!" Essie said, after they had talked i mg. ''Little one, I loved you before Harry , on you, but I starved my heart for ours. I)o you know what I have orn there, Essie, for many a long 1011th. See?" And while he loosed the ribbon and ut the diamond cross into her hand,she ( earned for the tirst time tho true story f the purchase of that article of furni- ' ure, called at tho farm Essie's piano.? ( i'cio York Nciox. , Mrs. Brown on Fast Young Men. | ' What is my opinion of fast young i , ion? It isn't as good as it might be, | ( ii/i ctiii it. iu liKttnr than tho subject i , lerits. I sat at my window the other j ( ay. and I noticed four or tivc "bloods" i . tanding in front of a saloon from which ] hey had just emerged wiping their lips. ! . knew they were all society men, and | | ircscntly I saw a pretty young lady of , heir "set'' coming down the street ' | oward them. Now, thought F, if that j ( irl bad the proper nerve she would pass , hose fellows by as she would any other I ] e* of loafers whose character was as j :ood as theirs, but whose social position \ ?v nccident of birth was less elevated, wagered with myself that she would ' lot do it; and I won the wager. She ' poke to I hem ns sweetly and as womanly < s if every man in the lot was as pure and < s eood as she was. If they had bccD < i-oinen, instead of men, and she had f ;nown them, how quickly she would ; lave cut them from the list of her ac- f uaintances, and how haughtily she 1 ?'ould have snubbed them I These fast j J oung men spend an evening in a gam- < ling den, associate with disreputable ? icn, swear like a mad teamster, and so ? n down a long list of fashionable cccen- , t ricitics, and yet they have the gall to j pply for places of trust in the confidence : nd respcct of decent women and men, | nd the startling part of it is, they are s cccpted as tit associates for mothers, . [ laughters, sons, husbands, fathers. They ,! nay say jthey are not bad at heart, but | l re merely "sowing their wild oats.", I 'onccucd; but in the name of all that Is j I ;ood and respectable, why are they not j i xcluded from homes until the so-called , i lecessary "wild oats'' period is past? j. 'Wild oats" is a very contagious kind of j , vegetable, and the seed must be spread I jroadcast to grow up into a crop of , uined homes, dishonored lives, and de-; , truction! ?Merchant- Traciler. * i | A. VISIT TO A BEE FARM. A PLACE WBCBE MH.r.ZOWS OF BESS ABE AT WOBK. [Tlakln? a Homo for a Blf Family? War on Hobbcr Been?Baby Kctv and Bco Food. A tortuous path, overhung with crooked old trees, lends from the Germantown lane to the Wissahickon bee farm, one of the largest in this State. It is in a picturesque and historical locality. Near by is the buiial place of several monks, who long ago tenanted an adjoining monastery, since merged into a farm house. The Wissahickon bee farm has 120 hives, with about 25,000 beesineach hive, placed on terraces und watched over by hundreds of sunflowers. "You are in luck's way," said Arthur Todd, the proprietor. "One of my colonies is swarming. It is unusual and undesirable at this season. The weather has been so mild that the bees have mistaken it for spring." A c'oud of bees was rising in the air. It hovered about a hickory tree and disappeared among its topmost branches. Forty thousand bees had loyally followed their queen and alighted with her. The apiarist proceeded to capture them, which he did by using a "smoker" and a wood box. lie climbed the tree without rtAT7/>ri?c* and fVio inanofn handfula without being stung. "Now these fellows want to start housekeeping on their own account,'' he said, "and I must furnish them a home or they will run away. Scientific beekeeping has rendered this easy of accomplishment. The hives are all of one size, bo that frames can be put together with dispatch." A hive was rapidly constructed and the master of the bees scooped them up with both hands, placed them on the tops of the frames, which form artificial combs, and the bees at once went in and the cover was put on. Then he took the box and emptied its noisy contents in front of the hive. Each bee of the vast throng immediately turned its head toward its future home and moved on. "Now just listen to their hum," said Mr. Todd. "It's a different hum to their ordinary one. They aro starting a fresh colony, and the hum is a song of rejoicing. By and by the hum wili be sub dued. That will bo a contented hum. Yes, bees express their feelings. Those with vicious tempers will hum about like a buzz-saw. The cyprian is one of that class. He is a good worker, but he's such an almighty stinger that bee-keepcrs won't have much to do with him. The Italian bee has a low,sweet hum. indicating docility. He won't attack you unless he is provoked. Then he dashes about like a moth after a light, aud bis hum says plainly 'I'm mad.'" Bees are instinctively industrious, which accounts for their hatred of thieves. Their laws are unwritten but severe. Illustrative of this: Several robber bees had entered a hive and began stealing honey. Sounds of wrath were immediately heard within. Soon afterward a crowd of bees came outside, where they ferociously assaulted each other. The war lasted two hours. At dusk over a hundred bees were lying in front of the hive with their legs up. The bees were bringing out their slain foes and throwing them out irreverently. A pretty apecimcn of a stately Syrian queen bee was pointed out. Its mother was bom in the Holy Land. It is two months old and may live three years. It has a golden shield on the thorax and a Bmall mark like a black half moon. It is swift on the wing, flies a long distance in scarch of flower petals and is strong and activc. The race is numerous near Jerusalem. Monks residing there believe that Syrian bees have descended from the first bees given to man. A queen ranges in valuo from $20 to $100, the price being governed by purity of breed. The introduction of the queen bee into a colony is an important item in bee farming. She is put in a separate cell, with provisions. The bees eat their way into her cell and escort her thence to their combs, where she wanders about, always with innumerable courtiers in her train. If she entered a cell without this introduction she probably would bo killed. The baby bee is hardy from the time tie leaves ftis ccn ana is strong enouga to fly. He is not allowed that liberty, however, until he is domesticated. The big bees teach him how baby bees ought to behave when at home. He nurses the grubs and serves the young queens with food. When he is perfect ho goes out with his elders in quest of honey, and soon develops into an elder himself. The principal sources of food are the maple, poplar, and ''jolly smoker' trees, which abound in the neighborhood of the farm. There are clover fields not far away whoso crops are fertilized by the bumble and honey bees who visit them. Mr. Todd has seven or eight icres of buckwhcat, representing the winter supplies for the bses. "There is one matter connected with bee farming," said Mr. Todd, "that has not been ventilated much as yet. The bee laws are imperfect, indeed they are in a chaotic state. They arc not sufficiently defined to protect bee farmers against people who are so ignorant as to suppose bees will molest cattle and destroy crops. A case is now in the courts in which a bee-keeper named Freeborn is being sued by a farmer for $.100 damaged Viit hnoc anvirminrr nn thfi *6^? UWMU www ? clover fields of the plaintiff and preventing his shoep from grazing. A. bee* keepers' union is the outcome of this action. The stings of bees are used by homoeopathic doctors in the form of a medicine callcd "apis," as a remedy for rheumatism, diarrhoea and several other ailments." Bees are methodical in their habits? sometimes almost human. As night draws on they return to their hives and the majority retire at a respectable hour. Some old fogies linger about the stoop, is though snilling the evening breeze. A few young scapegraces hang about the sunflowers, possibly making love to them, humming to them in low, musical tones. When all have gone to rest there is peculiar mingling of bee harmonies xmong the hives. Millions of bees join in the refrain. The bees arc aboard ivith the first streak of day.?Philadelphia Times. The Cobra's Poison. The cfTcct of the poison of the cobra dc capello havo been studied by Herr GSnczda.' The poison was obtained in India by causing the snakes to bite into snails or mussels wrapped in gutta-percha jnd filled with water. The watery solution thus obtained was reduced by evaporation. The poison belongs to the class >f propeptons. Different vertebrates susceptible to the poison died when the 1 c ?'?w\nnfnrJ fn fliroo mcr .H'BU Wl 111L* jiUJDim amuuuiwi iv vutvv per kilogramme animal. The time when death followed a full dose of the poison was very various. Rabbits died after half an hour, pickerels after an hour, frogs luter, then cats, and lastly pigeons. Strong doses hastened death. Dilutions ?nd the introduction of artificial respiration delayed death. The poison affected the nerves, especially the central nervous iystcm, and had hardly any affect on the heart.?Nature. Peculiarities of Pike's Peak. The sensation at the 1'eak is of being in a vacuum, says a letter from Colorado :o the New Orleans Picayune. You look at your neighbor and 6ee him in an ethirealizcd sort of way. You seem and he seems to be distinctly different from yourself in less exalted regions. The itmosphere is like a crystal, and you are :he centre of it. I defy anybody to tell i lie on top of Pike's Teak. I believe :he lonesome, solemn placp, where for ill the worid you can scarcely get air nough to breathe, to be a very palace of ;ruth. Tiie .Eolian llarp. An /Eolian harp is an instrument so imple in construction that any boy, unskilled in the use of tools, can make one. Stretch in parallel lines, over a box of hin deal, catgut or wire strings. The jox is to hnve sounding holes cut in the :op. The strings being tuned in unison, me instrument is placed in a current of air. and harmony is produced.?Scientific American. In six years it will be a century since aid Philip Gintnr stumbled over a piec? of anthracite coal. List year ;]0,000,000 tons were mined ia Pennsylvania. TEMPERANCE TOPICS* The Temperance Tide. Roll on, temperance tide, Let thy soundings be deep, let thy teachings lw wide, Out of thnt ocean that circles our earth, Boundless and mighty, thy movings had UII til. Sweep o'er the fons of pollntion and wrong, For the cleansing of body, salvation of soul, For the help of tne weak and the joy of the strong, For a pathway of peaco let thy clear crystal roll Roll 011, temperance tide, For the waters of life in thy billows abide, Over the low sandg of dry, barren need, Dvor the rough rocks of hardness and greed, For the raising of life that in darkness has lain, For the healing of nation from plague spot and stain. For the helping of heart, for the saving of home, From the hand of the Lord let thy full flooding come. ?Aurilla Furber, in Union Signal A Hack. Drag. An Enclish paper once published a picturc of the wagon of the Bt'Je drawn one way by twelve horses and the other way by eight,and our temperance wagon can show the same phenomenon. It would be amusing, if it were not so sad, to see excellent Christian papers and wise secular papers and celebrated preachers announcing with the confidence of inspired oracles that prohibition of the liquor traffic is impossible. They must gather this verdict from their inner consciousness, for they advance no facts or rational ground for it. The same idea prevailed not more than a hundred years ago concerning the conversion of the heathen to Christ, and consequently no efforts were made to evangelize them. The present century might be called the worker of impossibilities; and to any common intelligence that sees the immense advances already made by the temperance reformation, the possibility of enshrining it In the law of the land must appear evident. Not only is such I a chance possible, but, judging from many accomplishments of the work it States and counties, highly probable, nay, even we might say, certain. But just here comes in a point which is very unfairly, we think, taken for granted by the opponents of prohibition. Man; point to eases, however rare, where in. toxicating liquors are to somo extent smuggled in and secretly sold in prohi. bition states, and they triumphantly exclaim, "Prohibition does not prohibit." Just in the same way and with the same degree of truthfulness might it be stated that the revenue laws arc useless, for there are always somo successful smugglers; or that laws against robbery or murder arc useless, for there are always thefts and murders. Would celebrated preachers or eminent religious journals nrv Hnwri thfl laws aarainsf. bagiuiv/iv v.j ? ? _c ? those offenses? To put the sale of intoxicating drinks as a beverage on the same footing with laws against crimes which the liquor-traffic breeds is all that Prohibitionists want and mean to have; and when all the states and the national government are on this basis, it will not be so easy to frustrate the laws as it now is to some extent in the present prohibition States. Men and women who decry the prohibition movement, take heed what you dol Your responsibility in flouting it is very heavy. But that conduct can only help the barroom a little longer to destroy the peace and prosperity of families, and iuc bodies and souls of men and women.? New York Witness. For Five Year*. A young woman, with a weary look on her worn face, stood before the crowds at the central station hearings the other morning. In her arms, was a babe, with death on Jts face. In the dock stood a bleareyed, swollen-faced man, shaking with the nervous twitching resulting from a prolonged debauch. A lawyer represented the wife and mother and told the court there was no desire to proso. cute the drunkard if he would reform. "Their child is dying," he said, "'and its mother will forgive her husband if ho will take the pledge and go home to helo nurse their little one in its last mo ments." The man gave the name of William McCloskey, and expressed his willingness to swear off. "For how long?" asked the magistrate.. "Three months," nervously answered the prisoner. Then as the magistrate shook his head, the prisoner pleadingly added, "Six months." "Make it forever," interposed the attorney, "or wc will prosecute. It wil^ be better for all if he never takes another drink." McCloskey looked frightened. Even then his throat was parching for liquor, and he seemed to be debating between his thirst and honor and a wife's affection. For a few moments the court room was still as the crowd watched the struggle going on in the drunkard's mind. At last five years was agreed upon, and the man staggered to the stand, and taking the Bible in a trembling haud, took the oath and shambled away.? Philadelphia Times. Wlint die 1.1 jiior Ilu?inc*s la. ^ It is a business which every merchant and business man hales and detests. It is a business which is the standing dread of every mother. It is a business which is the constant fear of every father. It is a business which is the terror of every wife. It is a businej-s which makes ninety n( tlip hi initios; of the criminal courts. It is a business which makes ninety per cent, of the pauperism l'or which the tax-payer has to pay. It is a business which keeps employed an army of policemen in the cities. It is a business which puts out the fire on the hearth, and condemns wives to hunger and rags. It is the business which fosters vice for profit, and educates iu wickedness for gain. Drunkenness sows the seed of other vires. It is the dictiouary of vice, for it includes every vice. Drunkennes means peculation, theft, arson, forgery, murder?for it leads to all these crimes. Temperance Notes. A home for inebriate women is to be established this year by the British Women's Temperance association. r**1 x' TT 1*>r??e1a + nrn ViflQ 1 lie ?>CW JltllU|J3UIIU ilgiiiuiiuiv ? passed a law prohibiting the sale of obscene and impure literature. This was largely secured l>y the influence of Miss I.ucv J. Holmes, national superintendent of that line of reform, and the hearty co-operation of the W. C. T. U. The legislature hns also passed an act prohibiting the sale of cigarcttc3 or tobacco in any of its forms, to any minor under sixteen years of age, after being forbidden by a parent or guirdiau. These, with the scientific temperance instruction law. are fit environments for the children of tho Granite State. RELIGIOUS READING. . Some Important Change* In the B?* vlaed Bible. In Genesis, ii. we come to a matter of far greater importance, n mely, the rendering of the name of God in ?ujIH, mon TInrf> In V?TiQ I UUUYDUftUU TTlbU UIUUI 4, we find in the text Lord in capitals, with the marginal note Jehovah. Now upon this point there was a great division of opinion among the revisers, of which the version bears clear indications. For some of the Company regarding Jehovah as the personal name of the Deity,, wished to retain it uniformly in all places; while others considered that the substitution for it of Loud had the , . authority of New Testament usage, and, as a minor point in its favor, referred to the fact that the right pro?n?nioHrtn nf th? wnrrl }<? n. matter of uncertainty. Finally, it was decided that Lord should be retained, but that the usage of the Authorized Version in occasionally rendering Jehovah (see Exod. vi. 3, Ps. IxxxiiL 18. isai. xii. 2, xxvi. 4) should be enlarged. Thus we now find Jehovah in Gen. xiv. 22, xxi. 33, xxii. 14, etc,, and this will at least serve to remind an attentive reader of the very frequent use of this name, so pregnant with meaning, in the original language. ; Another very important matter is the rendering of the Hebrew word Sheol, which signifies the abode or . : place of the dead, like the word "hell" in the Apostles' Creed. In the Authorized Version it was translated sometimes grace, sometimes pit, and sometimes hell; but the latter word is now misleading, because it has acquired the meaning of the place of tor-' ment. This rendering, therefore, now disappears, except in Jsal, xjv., wnere the sense cannot be misunderstood; but elsewhere, in the poetical books, Uheol is generally placed in the text, and grave in the margin ; while in the historical books Sheol is put into the ? margin, and pit or grave into the text. While evidently anxious to preserve the majestic rhythm of the Authorized Version, and careful to use no modern or slipshod words, tbe revisers have earnestly labored to make their version substantially correct, and the changes they have made are therefore numerous. To enumerate these would be impossible.?The Dean of Canterbury, in the Quiver. The Sabliath?Selection*. I do wish that all tired people did but know the infinite rest there is in fencing off J-he six days from the seventh, in anchoring th?j business-ships of our daily life as the Saturday draws j to its close, leaving them to ride peacefully upon the flow or the ebb until Monday morning come9 again.?Anna Warner. The setting apart of one day in seven as a dav of rest and religious worship is by divine appointment, and la the long run no man, no body of men, can tight against this arrangement with impunity. In his own time, and by " his own methods, God will vindicate himself, and make men feel that, hate and disobey him as Ihey may, he still holds the reins of government iii his own hands.?The Stiir. There is no better safeguard for the Sabbath than for each Christian father to spend it rightly in the company of his children. One of the noblest wo- >:'men of England says of it: "Sunday \ is a day of many memories of my dear father. It seems to me especially his. Perhaps the seeing most of him on that day made me first love Sunday; J but I always much enjoyed going to M church."?Exchange. J In two ways the Sunday newspaper is in keen hostility to the worship of God in Christian sanctuaries. Beyond dispute, it keeps vast numbers of both sexes from church-going by a counterattraction. It turns the scale adversely with multitudes who hesitate. It takes . up agreeably the unoccupied hours. It furnishes excuses ta a wavering connA/vluntlni* lKo nOMOQO'JPV | nuiniiwi IUI UV.^lM'b|Ug VIIV uvvv-uw preparation, effort or trouble. It is easier than church-going, costs less, is not finished when the church bell rings. To pretend that this Is only a fair competition Between two kinds of mortal production?a aermori^aad the contents of the paper?will noilfo^^l The public worship of Almighty God, j including prayer, praise, confession, o#^ r sin and the reading of his revelation, j is a far higher and holier function / than preaching. And in preaching i itself there is a warrant quite apart j from any question of fancy or taste. Indirectly the newspaper hurts the sacred ordinance' by perverting the? mind to alien moods and unfitting it for a hearty and sincere religious act By the more engrossing columns the j thoughts are sent off to affairo esseutially worldly or secular?the markets, J prices, speculations, politics, accidents, ^ vices, villainies, often with a prominent I exhibition of gross details. Every rule of devotion and every psychological Jaw teaches that in order to take a due advantage from the sanctuary ttyfc' " worshiper shoulri be attuned to its d<?sign, in harmony with its atmosphere*. It is noteasy to conceive of anyinstrfc- ?, mentality more exactly suited to kill j that advantage, to deaden religious irw- j pressions, to dissipate devotion, to / nullify the gracious purpose for, 'whid. the Lord's Day was made, than the multifarious matter which in recent years has been scattered through ou/: streets every Sunday morning. This , could be shown by a list of the contents of a Sunday paper lying before us. Are those? and they are not few anywhere?who, from a sense of duty both to God and their kind, refuse tg buy or touch this merchandise in any way the worse for refusing? What do they lose? Between a thousand men who get public news on Sunday and a thousand who get it on Monday. what Is tho difference? On "which side is the loss? on which the gain?? Bishop F. D. Huntington, D. 1)., in Congregationalist. __ THE NATIONAL GAME. . Anson, of Chicago, leads tho leaguo in two ( base bits. ' The directors of the Boston league club say this season has been a good one financially for them. N' ew Yobk is the only league club that has won tho series from tho Cnicago team this season. The Eastern New England league is finishing with more vim than new organizations usually display after a hard campaign. New Yokk won 12 out of the 16 games I with Providence. Now York made 90 runs, J l."?T hits and 103 errors to Providence's 41 I runs, US hits and 113 errors. There is every indication at present that n New England league will lie formed for 1SS0 of eight clubs taken from tho following cities: Kail Rivor, Worcester, Brocktou, Boston, Lowell, Haverhill, Mass.; Manchester, Concord, N. H.; Portland, Me.; Pawtucket. R. L At the beginning of the summer there were nearly a dozen different leagues and associations in the field, who were represented by between yeventv and eighty clubs. Or (l?at | number the Western leaguo has gone to ! pieces; the Kastern leaguo has onlv four of I |.,o ??,i | 113 Ul Cl?n? W<UIM IV Ui?t ?/i kxj VI lt? III is in a very shaky condition; the Southern loague has tinishe<l its championship seas'ni, but several of the clubs were obliged t > succumb, for the want of proper local patronage, before i In season was complete 1, Nearly all | the other leagues ami associations have siufcre l bv the loss of one or more Hubs before the championship schedule was finished. The championship records up to recent data | were us toilows: TUB NATIONAL LKAOUB. Hon. Loat. I Won. Lost,. \ New York. 81 23 Boston 41 63 I Chicago.........S3 21 | St. Louis 31 66 Philadelphia.....1*) 53 I Buffalo 3S : Providence. 49 63 | Detroit 34 iC AMERICAN ASSOCIATION. j St. I.Otlis TS 30 I Athletic 51 66 Pittsburz 65 52 Brooklyn 50 5T C'incinnul 63 46 | Baltimore 33 66 Louisville 51 63 | Metropolitan.. 41 63 EASTERN I-BAOCR. Bridgeport 9 14 | Norfolk S3 43 Jersey City 9 27 | Trenton 13 | i^iifH-i'r 'W :e?1 Virginia 69 Ui | National 70 25 | Waterbury 6 < i Newark,,.......3T 481 Wilmington i 31 / M