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Tit (HOE MWM, PUBLISHED EVER F TCESLA V. FOBSYTII, - - GEORGIA The Philadelphia A’w* gloats over the fart that the Quaker eity has a bigger ahret of plate glass than New York, but \ thinks that Philadelphia architecture ••makes the city a laughing stock.’’ A young lady teacher in the high school at Tiffin, Ohio, accomplished the fca of whipping thirty-five boys, rang ing from nine to fourteen years of age, in thirty-five minutes. Next day she wrote an essay entitled “Woman the weaker visstff,” and that night sat up with a young man six hoars. But, de tpit'- her many talents, she can't vote. Frank Boling of Cherokee, Kan., threw himself on a feather bed that lay on the floor during a thunder storm. He neglected to draw up his legs, and his feet were touching the floor, when the lightning struck the house and played about his feet, burning them and knock ing him senseless. That part of his body that was on the bed was not hurt, and a child lying by his side was uninjured. All of which may be used to show that feather beds are good places of refuge in thunder storms. A traveling snake charmer says that it is easy to win the confidence and affec tion of a youthful boa, or anaconda, as they are not venomous or vicious, and can only exert their power of crushing by getting a purchase with their tail on something that will offer sufficient re sistance after they have completely coiled themselves around the limb or body of their intended victim. If surprised or an noyed, they may bite, but can do no seri ous harm thereby. Tlieir tongue is as soft and slippery as velvet. A singular enterprise is announced— namely, tlie formation of a company with $1,000,000 capital stock to dredge the Carson river, in Nevada, for quicksilver and amalgam. Eighteen miles of the river bed have been located. It is estimated that ten per cent, of the bullion product of the Comstock mines has flowed as tail ings into the Carson river, and that at least $40,000,000 will be recovered. The proprietor has dredges at work at New Grenada which have been successful in recovering much treasure from the river beds. In acquiring Burmali, England has got possession of vast forests of teak, which, never plentiful in India, was becoming commercially very rare. Of all the woods grown in the east this is the most valua ble. It is neither too heavy nor too hard ; it does not warp or split under ex posure to heat and damness; it contains an essential oil which prevents its rotting under wet conditions, and at the same time acts as a preservative to iron and repels the destructive white ants; it is, withal, a handsome wood, of several va rieties of color and grain, and takes a good polish. The New York Graphic remarks, edi torially, that “electricity has now come into use so generally for illuminating purposes that it is somewhat strange that no successful attempt has yet beeu made to apply it to the lighting of railroad trains. One of the most disagreeable things about railroad traveling is the of fensive odors given out by the ordinary oil lamps. This is especially the case with sleeping coaches, where, as a gen eral rul.\ the w indows are closed, and the traveler wakes up in the morning half smothered with the close, smoky at mosphere. Electric lamps would do away with this sort of thing, and the man who succeeds in introducing a sys tem of electric lighting in our railway cars will be hailed as a benefactor.” A most extraordinary memory is that of llans Yon Bulow, the pianist; in fact, it is said that there is no musician alive who can appro ch him in the ability to carry in his heal piauo and orchestral scores. One of the most femarkftble ex hibitions of his memorizing powers was ..4/lyeii in a recent series of concerts at "■'JiOndon, where he played the Sonatas of Beethoven, thirty-three in number, at the rate of five or six each night, with out notes. It is said that on one occa sion he conducted a performance of "Wagners famous “Neibelungcn-Lied,” which occupied four consecutive even ings. and during the entire representa tion he did not require the assistance of so much as a scrap of print or manu script. lie knew every note of the mas ter's composition, and all that he had to do was to devote his attention to the or chestra. One of the strangest sights of London is the yearly collection for the hospitals on Hospital Saturday. In almost every corner of the great city and its suburbs are to be -ecu ladies seated at small tables ret on the sidewalk. A large pla cura is attached to the table soliciting a contribution. On the table is placed a box with a -lit in :h? lid through which a penny can be dropped, and on the box is printed the w o and . “For the hospitals. ” The lady doe- n t solicit contributions. She sits on a eh dr beside the little table, sometimes kr.i ting complacently or has a book in her hand. Often a couple of liit.e g rl- a.. as solicitors and modestly request the passers-by to remember the sick aid ;h wounded. Ladies of the highest social standing do no: consider it beneath tli m to attend to contribution boxes on Hospital Saturday. These lit tle tables obstruct the crowded thorough fares. They are on the bridges and along busy streets, but everybody cheerfully givi s way for them, and few pass them by without dropping their mite in the box for the hospitals. “The sway of the gamblers,” says the New York correspondent of the San Francisco Argonaut “increases in New York every and ay. Many of the gambling houses have been re-opened, and all the o ird-men who have recently been run out of Philadelphia and Washington have come here. They are clannish to the last degree. They move up and down Broadway in pairs, infest the best restau rants. -tare women out of countenance, and stand in small battalions in front of the St. James Hotel. They are a well dre-sed, scrupulously neat, carefully gloved, and a polite body of men, but they are a unit when any one of their members gets into trouble. It is rather odd that a gang of gamblers should wield such a power in New York. The secret is found in the fact that a great many have a strong affinity for Wall street men, and they are all hand-in glove with the local politicians.” A goose which had just died at Stutt gart left the flock, while still a gosling, and resolved to have nothing more to do with its companion geese, but to try a new way of life for itself. So it boldly marched into the barracks of a Uhlan regiment one day and stationed itseli next the sentry box. The Uhlans were touched by the goose choosing to ally with their corps, and built a shed for it to live in. For twenty-three years neither threats or persuasion were able to separate this bird from its adopted regiment. When the corps changed quarters the goose went with them, and when the Uhlans went to fight for their country the desolate creature took up for a time with a battalion of infantry; but no sooner did the first Uhlans enter the town than the goose marched out to meet them, and went with them to her old quarters. Since her death she has been stuffed, and is to be seen in a glass case on the gate of the barracks of Stutt gart. Statements derived from official sources place the total wheat product of the world last year at 2,100,000,000 bushels. Of this aggregate Europe is credited with raising sixty per cent, largely in Russia. British India produces fourteen per cent. The exporting countries altogether raise almost one-half of the total of the world’s product. The separate figures are given as follows: Great Britain, 82,000,000; Russsia, 209,- 000,000; Chili, etc, 25,000,000; Austral as;a, 37,000,000; India, 288,000,000; United States, 357,000,000; and Canada, 35,000,000. Total, 1,033,000,000 bushels. That is about twice the size of the largest crop ever raised in this country. Accord ing to the Detroit Tribune, “These totals of the crop of the world show that there is far from being an over-production of wheat, and that there is no likelihood of any such thing happening. The enor mous aggregate given is, after all, but a bushel and a half to each inhabitant in the world for a year’s supply, while the consumption of the English-speaking people alone is about five bushels per head per annum, ft, then, all peoples should be induced to use more wheat for food, double and treble the largest total product ever reached could be consumed for bread and seed. The value cf wheat before it was moved last year was equal to $1 per head for the entire world’s pop ulation. Evidently, there is yet room to develop trade and open the way to dis pose of all the wheat surplus it is possi ble for the United States to produce.” Importance of the Hen. For the year 18S3 the poultry product of this country was $5(50,000,000. Under an equal division each man, woman ani child in the country would have paid over one dollar to the poultry farmers. But we paid more than that, for we im ported about half as much .as we pro duced. China alone sent us r?,000,000 eggs. These are tremendous figures. Our poultry inter< st, it seems, is more than double the value of the dairy inter est. It was worth in 1883 $150,000,000 more than the cotton product of that year. In the past two years a great advance has been made in this industry in the Ohio valley. The state fair last fall and the poultry show the past winter prove that. Small and large farmers, and persons having but small lots and back yards, have been penetrating the mysteries and cultivating the different breeds of Cochins, Brahmas, Hamburgs, Black Spanish, Wyandotte* Plymouth Kecks, Andalusians, and all the others for all they are worth. It was but a few days flgo that all Ohio man refused SSO for a nine-months-old rooster, had de mands lor all the eggs his fowls could produce at $3 per “setting." and had to rent several hens at $5 each for two months in order to keep up with the de mands for eggs.— Wheeling (IT. la.) llegizter. Lines by Longfellow. In the portfolio of Mr. Longfellow soon after liis death were found the fol lowing lines, which were written by him in July. 1879. and which were not made public until recently: In the long, sleepless wat hes of the night, A gentle face—a fa e of one long deal— Looks at me from the wall, where round its head The night-lamp casts a halo of pale light. Here in this room she died, and soul more white Never through martyrdom of fire wasted To its repose; nor can in books be read The legion of a life more benedight. There is a mountain in the distant west That, sun-defv ing, in its deep ravines Displays a cross of snow upon its side. Such is the cross I wear upen my breast These eighteen years, through all the chang ing scenes And seasons, changeless since the day she died. Tito Baseball Season. When summer hanvs her jewels rare On every plant end tree. And soft and balmy is the air. As happy still is he. The baseball season has come round. And. with a joyous shout. He rushes to the baseball ground Ea h day when school “lets out.” You'll find he can at once recall Each champion player's name; He's an authority on all The technics of the game. Some early day you'll see his face And eyes with rapture shine— Wh-n he achieves the honored p’.a e Of captain in the nine. First lease of power that be has known; Who can describe bis joy? The sceptred monarch on his throne Would envy then the boy. — Boston Courier. THE NEWS IN GENERAL. happenings of interest FROM ALL POINTS. EASTERN AND MIDDI.E STATES. The discovery of another big well in the Pennsylvania oil field has caused a tumble in petroleum. FTre has destroyed the main building of Harrison’s Chemical Work-, Philadelphia— the largest of the kind in the country. The loss exceeds SIOO,OOO. A can of kerosene exploded in the house of Michael Feehan. a miner, near Mt. Pleas ant. Penn. Three of his children, who had been playing with the can until it ignited, were burned to death. R. S. Spofford, of Newbury port. Mass., attorney for the American Fisheries Union, says that the inland fishermen will unite with New England in opposing future treaties with Canada bearing on that industry. Springfield, Mass., has been oelebrat ng the two hundred and fiftieth anniversary of its settlement by a big procession and other festivities. An Anti-?a!oon Conference of New Jt.-.-ey Republicans was held at Trenton on the 36th, delegates from all over the State at tending. E. A. Armstrong, Speaker of the Assembly, (ailed the meeting to order. A platform was adopted and a State Commit tee appointed. SOUTH AM) WEST. The prospects are good for large TV extern grain crops. The Knights of Labor convened in general assembly at Cleveland, Ohio, on the 24th, repre ; entatives of the Order from all over the Union being in attendance. The discus sion and adjustment of differences between the Knights and trades unions, a change in the laws of the order made necessary by a too raj .id increase in member.-hip, and the powerlessness of the General Executive Board to prevent strikes and boycotting, were the questions to which General Master Workman Powderly hal directed attention in his call. Will Whitehead fatally shot Miss Laura Harwood, at Calrollton, Kv., and then killed himself, because ths girl’s parents ob jected to him as a son-in-law. A novel strike occurred in Chicago, a few days since, t‘he employes of a large foundry, whose demand for eight hours had been com plied with, striking fora return to ten hours a day. James Dawson’s bouse, near Rush villa, Ind., caught fire at night, and his three chil dren, asleep in the upper story, were burned to death. Governor Oglesby, of Illinois, presided at a large meeting at Chicago in favor of Irish home rule. A btre at Wausau, Wis., -swept over lum ber yards covering half a mile of territory. The loss is $200,000. Twenty-five Mormons have been sen tenced at B!a 'kfoot, Idaho, to various terms of imprisonment for violation of the law against polygamy. General Miles, with a strong force of Americans and Mexicans, is in hot pursuit of Chief Geronimo and his murderous Apache followers iu Arizona. The General has offered a reward of SSO for each Indian or head of an Indian brought in and $2,600 for Geronimo or his head. One man was instantly killed and three others were mortally wounded by the explo sion of a sawmill boiler near Deshler, Ohio. Cecil Marriage, chief engineer of the water works at Oskaloosa,la. .and his cousin, Miss Hettie Marriage, were drowned a few days since while bathing iu the river at that place. A large building in Chicago, occupied by publishers and kindred trades, burned down on the 26th. The losses aggregate $1,000,001. WASHINGTON. The President has vetoed four more private pension bills on the ground that the claim ants were not entitled to the money voted them by Congress. The claims of all four had previously been rejected by the Pension Bureau. Nominations by the President; John J. Finch to be. Collector of Customs for the District of Sandusky, Ohio. To be receivers' of public moneys: Amos J. Harris, atKirwin, Kan.; Alexand ier H. Baker, at Grand Rapt ids, Neb.; Ezra W. Miller at Huron, Dak. Confirmations by the Senate: United States Consuls—H. M. Jewett, of Massachu setts, at Sivas; Charles H. Wills, of Mary land, at Managua; Francis H. Wigfall. of Maryland, at Leeds. Collectors of Customs— John F. McDonnell, for District of St. Marks, Fla.: J. McGuire, for the District of Pensacola, Fla.: William A. Mahoney, for the District of Fernandina. W. L. Dankins, of Mississippi, to be United States Marshal for the Southern District of Mississippi. H. F. Stevens, of Michigan, to be United States District Judge for the Western District of Michigan. President Cleveland has vetoed two more private pension bills. The revenues of the government during May are about sbi.KtU,ooo in exees-i oi the expenditures during the same period. FOREIGN. Man y Turks were killed and the Greek General Loris was mortally wounded in recent engagements on the frontier. The Greek losses before Grizovali were 150 killed and wounded. Quiet has been restored by an armistice. There has been a serious labor riot in the town of Trani. on the Adriatic. A mob overpowered the garrison and burned dowu the law court buildings, the town hall, the custom house and a theatre. Several per sons were burned to death and others were murdered by the rioters. Forty Odd Fellows were injured more or less seriously by an accident to an excursion train near Bromptoil, Canada. Rjel. wife of jjje hanged Manitoba jrebeh Jpas jug: died near Winnipeg, A toiTxado at Wetzlar. Prussia, destroyer) q railway station and unroofed many facte? fito- and dwellings. Barges were lifted out of the river Lahn and carried considerable distances in the air. In the neighboring country enßre forests were uproot e;L "The Derby, the leading English racing event, was won this year by the favorite.the Duke of Westminster's bay colt Ormonde, from a field of nine starters. Peace prevails again between Turkey and Greece. The Powers will raise the blockade of Greek ports. Twelve men were killed by an explosion in a dynamite factory at Valencia, Spain. The Belgiau Government has prohibited the holding of a contemplated immense So cialist demonstration. Thunderstorms have been raging in Ger many for three days. Many persons and hundreds of cattle were killed. A DIABOLICAL. OUTRAGE. A .Man and his Wife I.ashed to a tree and Whipped. Ritchie county. W. Va.. omes to the front with one of the most diabolical outrages eve r perpurated within the bordeis of that state. As on other occasions of this nature, the per petrators are what are known as • R and Men,” that organization of outlaws whic 1 for half dez *n years, has fl mrshi-d in ti at state, despite attempts of the authorities to s'amp it cnt. Ihe vic ims this time are Mr. and Mrs. George Keck, who live on Goss Run in R tehie countv. Two nights ago. they were aron-ed by the shouts of the mob. which hal surrounded their house, and on the door being opened the red men took Keck and liis wife into the woods near by. rrp:d them to trees and boat them in a most brutal manner with hickory switches Tnev then burned the dwelling and its contents 'o the ground and departed. Alter daylight Keck succeeded in releasing himself, and after removing his bleeding and fainting wife to a plaee of safety, swore out warrants for such of the mob as he had been able to recognize, and twelve of them have been arrested and placed in ja;L O-her arrests will be made. Mount .'Etna's Eruption. The flow of iava from Mount Altna continues undiminished. The destractioa of the town Nicolosi is inevitable. THE PRESIDENT'S MARRIAGE CELEBRATED IT THE WHITE HOUSE. WA>HI.\OTO\. V. C. The President and Hi*-, Frances Folsou. Married.—A quiet Wedding. President C eveiand was married at the Whi'e House on TVedu sdav evening. June 2d, t > Miss Frances Folsom. The recent death of a relative of Miss Folsom changed the original plans for the wedding and invitations were limited to a few of the n ar relatives and mem bers of the cabinet and their wives. Rev. Dr Sunderland, of the Firs Presbyterian church of Washington, officiated. Toe ceremony was followed 6j a collation, and the wedding in all of its details was plain and unostentatious. Miss Folsom arrived at New York from Europe the previous week on the Antwerp steamer Noordland. She was met on the steamer at the quarantine station by Colonel Dan Lament with a revenue cutter and landed at one of the uptown piers on the North river. Her coming by an Antwerp steamer was so little regarded as within pos-ibilities that only two of the New York morning papers and not any of the tele graphic repoterrs had the news. The reporters generally were watching British steamship liners. The long agony is over. At last the public is in possession of the great sicret. Washington breathes easier, both because all mystery is at last cleared away from this absorbing topic, and because the happy event has occurred there instead of at the home of the Folsoms, as was hitherto reported. President Cleveland, ac companied by Miss Cleveland, went to New York Sunday night. On Monday he attended the decoration day exercises. Tuesday morn ing the presidential party left on an early train for Washington. Miss Folsom, her mo:her and several other relatives came to TVasliington on the same train. The Folsoms were the guests of Secretary WThitney until the wedding.which occurred at 8 o’clock Wednesday evening, at the White House. Only a few friends and relatives, the members of the cabinet and their families were present at the ceremony. After the marriage there was a reception to congress, the diplomatic corps, army and navy officers and invited guests. The date originally set was June 16tb, but it was moved up two weeks on account of the incessant gossip and the variety of comments which is said to hav been very annoying to both parties. This was the first wedding ever had in the White House. It is thought perfectly proper that Miss Folsom should be married there as Mr. Cleveland is her guardian as well as the groom elect. THE STORY OF THE COURTBHIP. The president was married in the blu 3 parloi where, just a trifle over twelve months ago. Miss Folsom stood with Miss C.eveland to re ; reive alone of <£#• Saturday aftei noon recep tion. A lady, lWlescribing the scene, brought hack vividly a in incident which occurred, in which the brifprt and clever Kate Bayard figured. Someone, looking at Miss Folsom, said : “She is a pretty girl, Miss Biyard, don't you think ?” “Yes,” she replied, “and soon to be Presi dent, Cleveland’s wife.” The same iady (a prominent society leader} went on to say : “The relations between her father and Mr. Cleveland were so intimate that in the Folsom household the president was treated just like a member of the family, and Miss Folsom re garded him the same as a much esteemed 'amilv friend. When Mr. Foisom died, and Mr. Cleveland became his daughter's guardian, the relation exi-ting between them became no stronger—it could hardly become so—but when as the years passed and Miss Foisom, from a careless, thoughtless child, developed into a thinking woman, and learned of the fidelity with which the president had guarded her in i' rest® .can you wonder that she painted h.m as 1 1 v-uea. ? The president, on the other hand, ha. one whathadsq often been done before. ~Tg_ i hfft p He watcotd her develop and expand and become the beautiful woman she is, and yet only m a dim, unconscious way, realized that the little tiring whom he had at one time carried in his arms was now a woman with a woman's heart and a woman’s love. It had never occurred to him, I suppose, that the little gir. had substi tuted for the love she foimerly bore him, as her father’s friend, a deeper and more passionate affection. In ca-es like these there is a sudden awakening sometimes needed, and it came in this instance. “Had Mr. C eveland never been elected pres ident, he would probably have ended his days as a bachelor. L tst winter Mrs. aud Miss Fol som were guests at the white house, and, of course, there was nothing more natural than that gossip should associate their names, as they had done with Mi6s Van Vechten’s and others. The president heard of this gossip and then awoke to the fact that he loved his beau tiful ward. The troths were plighted in Washington and then the president showed the greatness of his nature. He feared that Miss Folsom might have given her assent be cause of the relations that had previously existed between them, and told her he wished her to go abroad, so that if during that time she should find any one she thought she loved better, or that she could not love the president well enough to become his wife, then the fact of the engagement should never be made pub lic. Miss Folsom protested there was no necessity to send her abroad for a probationary period, but the president was inexorable, and she went. This was why the matter wTts kept so secret, and although the letters which the president received from Miss Folsom left r:<s doubt that she would eventually become his wife, still he decided that Ike should not be made public until Miss SGlsMaTacT turned and again renewed her troth. Had not the truth leaked out, the public would have remained in ignorance until the formal an nouncement had been made from the While .House,’ PERSONAL MENTION. Ex-President Arthur's weight has de creased from 250 pounds to 130. | ISam Jon vs, the revivalist, is a small eater. He is fond of oatmea , imiK. fruit, lemonade, and only drinks come occasionally. A monument to General J. E. B. Stuart is to be erected on the Yellow Tavern battle field, where he received his fatal wound. Samuel J. Tilden’s • yacht, the Viking, has been fitted up for a cruise which her owner is going to undertak • this summer. The “father of the House of Commons” is Mr. C. R. M. Talbot, of Glamorganshire, who has just completed his eighty-third year. G. D. Patterson, who becomes postmaster at Home, Tenn., at $240 a year, is a son-in law of ex-President Johnson and was once a United States Senator. ! James G. Blaise and Stephen B. Elkins have together purchased a 500 acre tract of land on the great natural gas belt in Alle gheny Count.-. Penn. Senator Berry, of Arkan as, is the only Congressman in the T oper House whose in juries in the Civil War cause him to walk with a crutch. He lost a leg at Corinth. The title of Miss Rose Cleveland's new book, which a Washington paper says she is writing for a Detroit oubiishing house, is “You and I; cr, Moral, Intellectual and So c al Culture." The Duke of Newcastle, who is coming to thus country for a visit of several months, is only twenty-one. and is of the Duke of Newcastle, who came to the l nited States in ltifiO as special guardian cf the then youth ful Prince of Wales. The Czar of Russia is sa ; d to be in public and private, honest, frank and straightfor ward. He is hard-working, resolute, and intensely patriotic, but is unable to make rapid decisions on account of the red-tapeism which characterizes official methods in Russia. Not Quite What He Meant. Little Brown (a horrid bore) —“Do you believe in a man’s sighs, Miss Robinson. ” Miss Robinson (tall and stately)—“A man's size? Yes, certainly I do! I think no man ought to be less than six feet in height.”— London Judy. INDICTING ANARCHISTS. TRUE BILLS FOES J) HI A I YST TUI. ( HICAdO PHIsOS EBS. The tlri'ai Slrike rf Miners in the Clear, lield It eg in ii Ended. A Chicago dispatch says that the Grand Jury have found true bills against the leading Anarchists, charging them with murder ns accessories before the fact. It is said the in dictments include the names of August Spies. A. R. Parsons, Samuel Fielden, Michael Schwab and Hermann Schnaioble. It was agreed to withhold the indictments until all the cases have been disposed of. The police have made two new arrests, which they consider important. Information com erning the men was given by one ol the Anarchists already under arrest. A quantity of dynamite, a bomb, two revolvers and a Winchester rifle were found. Tlie chief of detect.ves refuses to give any information regarding the capture. The 3.060 packing house employes of Sidney A. Kent, who began the eight-hour move ment at the Union Stock Yard- in Chicago, have had a consultation with Mr. Kent, at which the latter agreed to (ontiuuethe eight hour plau until October 1. The men in all the departments are to receive nine hours' pay, except the lahorers, whose wages were only reduced from .<!.<•'> t > The other packing house employers had an no', need their intention to return to ten hours on June 1. The great strike of coal miners in the Clear field (Penn.) region has ended. The men re turned to work at the old wages and the mine-owners make the following concessions: “Absolute guarantee of just weight. Ac ceptable weighmau to bo placed on every tipple, and his wages to be paid in the office as agreed upon by miners. Abolition of the store-order system and cash payments iu even dollars to the loth of each month, with full settlement at the end of tho month, and the men to go where they please in making purchases without any restraint. Questions of price to be paid for all dead work and other mat ters of dispute shall be referred to a com mission agreed upon by both parties, said commission being composed of the Superintendent of the mines and one of the miners. That no man shall be dis charged on account of his participation iu the present strike, but all the old miners shall be employed without any discrimination.” At a mass meeting at Hut-edala. Penn., the agreement made by their committees and the operators at Tyrone was unanimously rat ified, and the men re-olved to re sume work on the terms specified iu the agreement. H. G. Fisher of Fisher, Miller & Cos., who Is in the milling business at Huntington. Penn., and whose flour has been boycotted throughout tho bituminous coal region on account of his ac tivity in looking after the interests of the operators,has received notice that the boycott has been removed. A Boston dispatch says that the employes of all the steam railroads running from that city have been quietly organizing thems lives into local assemblies of Knights of Labor. A general move has been made in the and rec tion of higher wages all along the line, under the counsel of the Executive Board of Dis trict 30. Notices were received from several of the railroads that the requests had been laid before the Board of Directors. MUSICAL AND DRAMATIC. There are 1,000 professional musicians in London, of whom 3,000 are Englishmen. The veteran actor, William Davidge, will soon celebrate the fiftieth anniversary of his services on the stage. “Engaged” seems to have taken anew lease of life after a long sleep. Six com panies are now doing it. Miss Louise Montague, who pla3-s the part of Evangeline in Rice’s “Evangeline,” is the celeb: ated SIO,OOO prize beauty. Miss Mary Anderson’s manager has sailed for England. When he returns next autumn it will be with Miss Forteseue, the celebrated English actress. Daily’s Theatre Company, of New York, now in Lmdon. will visit Fans aud Berlin after their London season to j erform Ger man-comedies adapted by Mi-. Terriss. Charles Dickens, the novelist’s son, is about to follow in the footsteps of his father as a reader. Asa writer he has no success, but it is thought that he will be happier asau elocutionist. The Duke of Edinburgh took an active part in an entertainment given the other day on oue of the ships of the Mediterranean squadron, joining in the vocal trio and play ing a couple of solos on his fiddle. Miss Somerville, Miss Cameron, Mis | Dolaro and Miss Amy Ames are known a ; the “four fat queens or comic opera.” It pi ! sad tli -ir combined weight would make thg ] scales kick the beam at a thousand pounds. e I Mr. Mark Smith, the baritone of the Me- j Call Company, is an amateur astronomer ■ and nightly sweeps the heavens through his ; telescope, an i it is noted that his manager is abo on the constant lookout for new , stars. MissLeonoreTifft, one of the numerous American sopranos now sojourning in Italy, writes home that Manager Monzoni, of j Milan, offered her an engagement without salary, and said that plenty of American girls would pay him handsomely if ho would } bring them out in opera. French theatres share with Kings the privilege of having private physicians at tached to them, even w hen they are in fiour i.-hiug health. There are ten attached to the Comedie Francaise, fourteen to the Opera, without counting several dentists for the lat ter; eight to the Gvmuase. an Iso on. - . CONGRESS OF CHURCHES. Annual Meeting of Representatives of the Various Reliefs, The second annual meeting of the Ameri can Congress of Churches has just been held in Cleveland. The meeting lasted three days. A circular officially issued thus set forth the scheme of this new departure in relig ion: “The American Congress of Churches has for its object to promote Chris tian union and to advance the Kingdom of God by a free discussion of the great relig ious, moral and social questions of the time. The general management of the Congress i; in the hands of a council of twenty-five, in which the various churches of America are unofficially represented by clergymen or lay men or both. This Council ha- no intention of establishing a society or organizing a plan of union or putting forth a creed. It simply aims, by holding public meetings from time to time, to make provision for a full and frank discussion of the great subjects in which the Christians of America are inter ested, including those ecclesiastical and the ological questions upon which Christians differ.” In the council of twenty-five the following denominations were represented; Congrega tional, Episcopal, Presbyterian, Lutheran, Disciples. Baptist, Swedenborgian, Christian, * k Reformed, Unitarian and Methodist. Governor J. B. Foraker, of Chio, was pres ident of the meeting, with a Img list of vice presidents, including Governor Robinson, of Massachusetts; Congressman C. R. Breck inridge, of Arkansas: Rev. T. L. Cuvier, of Brooklyn: Dorman B. Eaton, of New York: Rev. Henry M. Field, of New York; Rev. E. H. Captic-e, of North Hampton. Mass.: Cor nelius Vanderbilt, of New York: Bishop Ruhson. of Pennsylvania: Chancelor C. N. Sims, of Syracuse. N. Y., and manv others. Among the more imper ant topics of dis cussion were: “A True Church: Its Essen tials and Characteristics:" “The Present Ne cessity fora Restatement of Christian Belief:” “Readjustments in the Church to Meet Mod ern Needs in City and Country and in For eign Missionary fields:" “Religion and Our Public Schools.” i On the second evening one of the burning questions of the time came up for considera tion under the title “The Workingmen's Dis y!ust.,“Church: Its Causes and Reme dies. The appointed writers and speakers were Rev. Wav-land Hoyt, D. D., of Phila delphia: Everett P. Wheeler, of New York, well known as a leader in civil service re- Mr. John Ja-rrett, of Pittsburg, one of tbe post prominent of 4 4 workingmen,* 7 for merly president of the Amalgamated A soHa tion of Iron and Steel Worke s, and Mr. Henry George, whose fame as a writer on social and economic questions is world wide. Mr. George is a member of the Protestant i Episcopal communion; Mr. Jarrett, of the Congregational. A Hunted Hnnier. Of all the native birds iu Florida none is more interesting than the Heron tribes. The king of all these tribes is the great Blue Heron. It grows to an extraordinary size. Captain Dummitt. who planted the most noted orange grove in th. .’ta.i. kiiled one on a bayou near Mosquito La goon fifteen years ago which measured nine feet seven inches from the point of its bill to the tips of its toes. I lie coast wise bayous and lagoons arc usually dot ted with small mangrove islands. In South Florida the mangrove grows to a height of sixty* and eighty loot, but north of Cape Canaveral it is a gnarled busn from ten to fifteen feet high. Flic bushes cover the little islands as hair covers a man’s scalp. The islands arc veritable thickets, and woe betide the man who i> lost in them, for they are intested with sand flies, red bugs, mosquitoes and scov jfions. Creeks, intense in crookedness and of uneven tide, wind among these islands like the paths of a labyrinth. These solitary creeks are the favorite fish ing grounds of the great blue heron. Some of the happiest days ol my life have been spent in hunting the bird in these haunts. Seated in the bow of a Canadian canoe, with my gun on my knees and a guide in the stem, 1 was noiselessly poled over the winding creeks beneath the arching mangroves. At sharp turns there was frequently a scream of affright. Huge wings were unfolded. The great bird wafted itself into tlie air, and was brought to earth by a shot well aimed. It is dangerous sport, however, for a stranger. Even the best of guides are sometimes lost in the green labyrinth and suffer untold tortures. Unpracticed hunters are apt to lose their eyes; for tho beak of the great Blue Heron is as sharp as a needle, and his long neck masks im mense sweep and great power. The bird strikes with marvelous precision and with the rapidity of lightning. "When wound ed it is especially dangerous. I was once struck on the cheek within half an inch of the eye. The blow was made by a crippled snowy heron on an island in Lake Worth. It was just after twilight. The darkness saved my eye. I was in a thicket looking for birds that I had shot while on the wing. I saw a snowy spot in the undistinguishable foliage, and took it for a dead bird. As I stooped to pick it up my cheek was pierced as though re ceiving a thrust from a stiletto. This ad venture made me extremely cautious while hunting herons, and finally led to a laughable scene. In the spring of 1875 I was encamped in the heart of Turnbull Swamp, about eight miles from the head of Indian River. The weather was very dry, and there was much less water in the swamp than usual. I was hunting paroquets, wild turkeys, wood ducks, deer, bears, wild-cats and pumas. The swamp is streaked with savannas a hundred yards wide and miles in extent. Deer becom ing scarce in my vicinity I set a savanna on fire one morning while on a turkey hunt. After the burning of the dead grass the new crop would serve to bait the deer within a fortnight. At sunset I was miles away from camp. At dusk I saw several gobblers fly into a grove of tall cypresses, and marked them, with the intention of returning in the morn ing at daylight and shooting them from the trees. The reddened sky gave me bearings on my way back to camp. After wading for ten minutes through mud and water, listening to the doleful music of a death owl, I emerged upon the burning savanna. The sky was overcast. It was as dark as Erebus. A brisk south wind was driving the fire northward. The flames were leaping over the tall, dry grass, and tinging the clouds and the tops of the cypresses an orange hue. Suddenly I saw in the lurid light far above me four great Blue Herons. 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But the burnt part of the savanna, despit, the lurid light from the rolling wave of fire in the south, was as black as tlie bellying darkness of the clouds. I ivurd the bird strike the earth with a thud. bur. did not see where it fell. The black ashes of the burnt grass were ai kV leep. 1 searched for the prize, but did not find 1 was jx'rplexed. Suddenly a feathery Form arose from the ashes ten feet away. It seemed to hover above me. It was the heron. It had elevated the white piumc on its head as an angry cockatoo draws forward its topknot. The plume alone could be distinctly seen in the darkn With a blood-curdling scream the bird darted forme. I knew the danger. On the spur of the moment I turned and ran toward the blazing savanna. The bird gave chase, screaming frightfully at every jump. I divined the situation. Its wing was broken, and it was thoroughly infuriated. If it struck me in the rear with its sharp and powerful beak I fan cied tliat its head would go through me. In my haste to secure my prey I had ne glected to withdraw the empty shells from the fowling-piece. It would not do to stand the chance of a light by using the gun as a club, for it was so dark that I could not guage the bird’s distance. Besides the bird would be facing the light, and I would be facing the darkness. I continued my retreat; I rau as though the evil one was after me. In my flight I threw open the barrels of my gun, and drew out the empty shells. In mad haste I reloaded and relocked the barrels, still running at the top of my sjieed. Then I stopped, wheeled about and banged away with lx>th barrels. The bird shrieked worse than ever and was untouched. Again I sped toward the burning grass. I had regained my composure, however. Fear gave way to mirth. I laughed out right at the absurdity of the situation, blessing my stars that no friends were near to chaff me. Again I reloaded the gun, turned and fired. I was on the verge of the blazing canes, and had a fair view of my pursuer. At the second shot the heron fell, and the impetus from its speed was so great that it came against me,legs, wings, neck and beak, in a limp lump. I had shot it through the neck. Its head was attached by the skin of the neck alone. I carried the prize to camp. Its plumage was the perfection of feathery beauty. Old Conner, my guide, was awaiting my return with a supper of roasted venison and yams. The bird was so tall that Con ner fastened its beak to the back of my coat-collar, drew the neck over my head, and the feet touched the ground. He after ward severed the head from the neck, and hurled it across the fire at the trunk of the palmetto—l have seen performer-, at a circus handle a knife in a similar wav— the sharp beak entered the tree, and stood quivering there like a heavy-handled bodkin; and for all that I know it re mains there to this day.— Amo* J. Cum miag* in the Cook. Discriminating Heathen. 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