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THE GREAT WORLD OUTSIDE. EPITOME OF MOST INTEREST¬ ING MATTERS. OSEAT LAB JR AGITATIOX—SPBIX9 STORMS— DEATHS OF PROMIXEXT PEOPLE—ACCIDENTS, FIRES, SUICIDES, ETC. The German man-of-war Olga, wrecked in Apia bay, has been floated. The cruiser, Charleston, at San Fran¬ cisco, Cal., is almost ready for sea. Forty houses were unroofed in Balti¬ more, Md., on Wednesday by a storm. Bridgeton, N. J., Wednesday, was visited by a and se¬ vere cyclone on bouses windows being blown down. Xenia, Ohio, is excited over the at¬ tempt of a mob of negroes to lynch Sher¬ man Jackson, who stabbed Frank Law¬ rence to death at a dance. The sugar crop of Cuba this year shows a decrease of between 45 and 75 per cent. The falling off is attributed to the cyclone of September. It is very probable that peace will soon be declared in Hayti. Negotiations are going on between Hippolyte and Legi¬ time that may lead to such an end. Rev. James McCosh, ex-president of Princeton college, N. J., is lying at his home in Princeton very ill from pneumo¬ nia, following an attack of brouchitis. The whole country around Blunt, Dak., is being devastated by prairie fires. One fire driven by a sixty-five mile gale, burned everything in its path, including human beiugs. Thomas C. Williams, a wealthy tobac¬ conist, M. Rosenbaum, a wealthy dry goods merchant and Peter V. Daniel, a well known railroad lawyer, died at Richmond on Tuesday. The switchmen in the Erie yards at Buffalo. New York struck on Wednes¬ day. The men went out because three of their number were discharged ten days ago and not reinstated at their de¬ mand. Their places are being filled as rapidly as possible. half-holiday Sir John Lubbock has presented Par¬ a bill before the British liament, which proposes that whenever two-thirds of the shopkeepers in any given district vote for a half holiday on some one day each week, all the shops in the district shall be closed at 2 o’clock on that day. A freight train on the Chicago, St. Louis & Pacific railroad, near Centreville Ind., became detached from the engine at the top of a long, high grade, smashing and ran back into the second section, the locomotive and nine cars, Hix tramps in a half loaded car were badly hurt, and two were killed. Reports were received at St. Paul, Minn., of a bad railroad wreck on the Northern Pacific, near Missoula, Mont. A passenger train ran into a freight and Green, the freight fireman, and two tramps who were stealing a ride, were killed, and some others injured. The accident was caused by a misplaced switch. ■* The closing episode in the record of the steamer Hayden Republic as a trader between Boston, Mass., and Hayti oc¬ curred Tuesday, when the craft was sold at auction for $41,000. The purchaser is William Lewis, of New Bedford, who will fit the Republic out for Behring’s sea and the Arctic ocean as a whaling supply steamer. Judge Alexander McCue, ex-asristant treasurer of the .United States,died at his home in Brooklyn, N. Y., on Tuesday. Judge McCue was stricken with paraly¬ sis on the 20th of March, and has been confined to his home ever since. He was appointed by President Cleveland to be Solicitor of the Treasury, which office he held until a year ago, when he was made assistant treasurer in New York. The recent hurricane in the South Pacific ocean swept over 1,200 geograph¬ ical miles, embracing in its track the Hervey and Society groups of islands. The American ship, Red Cross, from New South Wales, for San Francisco, was driven ashore at Baratonga aDd wrecked. The crew was saved. The American ship, Ada Gwen, was wrecked at Ouara. Her crew was saved. Wreck¬ age from the British ship Suakim, from New South Wales, for San Francisco, was seen at Aitutaki. No doubt tho crew perished. A hurricane started on Tuesday in Aberdeen, Dakota, and continued all day. Roofs were blown off the Park Place hotel and other buildings. The storm in several places had the added terror of fire. Yankton, Dak., reports that Yolin, a station on the Northwestern Road, was burned. A thousand tons oi hay were burned, and all the barns in the place. The fire invaded the large cattle corral and forty or fifty cattle were b-.dly burned, the rest breaking through the enclosure aDd escaping. The de struction was caused by a prairie fire. The French Chamber of Deputies, bj a vote of 306 to 236, rejected the Senate’s proposal to prosecute summarily all papers guilty of libelling government officials. M Cocarde says that Gen. Boulanger being warned Tuesday that the governmeat was preparing for a coup, arranged so that he would not fall into the government’s hands and left the city. The police are mystified. “The general,” adds Cocarde, “will appear when duty requires him. It is our im¬ pression taat he has hidden temporarily, perhaps in Brussels.” * In the Reichstag, on Wednesday, the naval secretary, referring to the loss of the German warships in the recent hur¬ ricane at Apia, 8amoa, said that the re¬ port of the German officer in command there did not show that the lives or prop¬ erty of Europeans were endangered and he was sure that the British warship Caliope would not have left Samoa ii the position that had been critical, He an nouuced the government intended to replace the wreckod German vessels as soon as possible, as the United States government was about to send three cruisers to take the place of the Ameri san warships that had been lost. TELEGRAPHIC. By completed returns of the Rhode Island election, the Senate stands: Re¬ publican, 21; Democrats, 11; with four to be elected. The House stands: 28 Republicans, 37 Democrats; 12 yet to be elected. Advices received at Brussels, Belgium, from Stanley Falls, state that the Arabs who have arrived there, report that Henry M. Stanley and Emin Pasha were heard from in February. They were then marching towards Zanzibar with several thousand men, women and children. They had 6,000 tusks of ivory. The British man-of-war Calliope, which escaped possible destruction in Apia Bay during the ravages of the cy¬ clone by being able to put to sea, has arrived at Sydney, New South Wales. She reports leaving Samoa on the 21st of March, and that the United States man of-war NipsicJaad been floated off of the beach, the natives lending material as¬ sistance. Police Lieut. John M. Ilaines, of Chi¬ cago. Ill., was held to the grand jury in bonds of $3,000 by Judge Attegeld on Thursday, on a charge preferred identified by Law¬ the yer Frank H. Collier, who lieutenant positively as one of the two men who lured Collier, of the La Salle club, by a bogus telephone political message excite¬ one night during the recent ment. and sand-bagged him in the dark. THE FARMERS MEET; “Millions for cotton bagging—not the farm¬ oni cent for jute.” That is to be ers’ shibboleth in Georgia for the coming campaign. By almost unanimous and a very enthusiastic vote, the Farmers' Alliance of Georgia, representing 80,©0C farmers, in session at Atlanta, Ga., or Thursday, resolvdd that they would use col ton bagging for the baling, of then cotton —and would not use jute under any circumstances. It is said that three fourihs of the delegates came from their county alliances instructed to vote for cotton bugging under any and all circum stances. While this obstructed impar¬ tial consideration, it gives enthusiasm and earnestness to the movement. The size of the bale will remain unchanged. An attempt was made to reduce the bale to 250 pounds, so that lighter ©snaburg would would hold it, but this was not done. Such a change would have re¬ quired a change of presses, compresses, and a large amount of farm machinery, which the Alliance did not thirnk best to undertake. It is the old size bale in a new style dress that has been-determined on. And now it is a question of endur ance and courage between the farmer* and their plunderers. UNIQUE THEFT. Moiles Brothers, of Detour, Mich., who are largely engaged in lumbering in that vicinity, have packed up their goods to leave for Canada. Hard & Hornstein, of Buffalo, N. Y., held a mortgage of $45,000 on the mill of the firm and it was due in a few days. Recently, the tug Dowling, towing two vessels from Sagi¬ naw, landed at Detour after a five day’s rough trip, presumably for a cargo of lumber, but at night a hundred men, concealed in tho boat, came ashore and began removing the machinery of tho mill and movable property on board. All was loaded except the boiler, and work¬ men began tearing down the mill. The sheriff received notice to stop operations at any cost, but no authority was sent. Telephone and telegraph wires were cut in three places. All was loaded by midnight, and the tug vessels were on their way to Spanish river, Canada, where the firm has lately purchased a site, before legal papers could be pro¬ cured to stop them. A BIG CROWD. The Musical Union, of New York is endeavoring to prevent the landing there of strolling bands from Europe. Almo*t every incoming German meimcr lia 1 * ou board a score or more of mu-icians. who have been in the habit of coining here with in the Spring and returning in the Fall the money earned duiing the Summer. It ia urged that such immigrants foreign come within the provisions of the con tract labor act, but heretofore they have escaped detention by swearing that they came as individuals and not as hands under leaders. When the 3'.eamer West¬ ernised arrived Wednesday at New York, lrom Antwerp, Superintendent Simpson, of the La ding Bureau at Cas’le Garden, discovered that there were no less than four hundred musicians on board, nearly all of them having spent the Summer in New York and vicinity fir years past. STRICKEN DOWN. Edwin Booth, the tragedian, was stricken with paralysis during his appear¬ ance in “Othello,” at Rochester, N. Y., on Wednesday night, and is dangerously before ill. Mr. Barrett later appeared that Mr. the curtain and announced Booth had sustained a partial stroke be¬ of paralysis, and feared that it was the ginning of the end. Booth was taken ill upon the stage during the last scene in the second act. He became unsteady, reeled and fell, and had to be assisted off the stage by those near by. The doctor expressed the fear that Booth had sus¬ tained a partial stroke of paralysis. FOR FARM AND GARDEN. Feeding Young Beeves. It is generally conceded that pig pork is not only superior, but most profitable to the producer, yet there is a question as to fattening beeves young. But Dr. H. Reynolds avers that by judicious and liberal feeding young beeves can be brought to a suitable condition for the market at two years of age, and even younger, and he thinks such beef can be made so that it will be of the best quality. Some object to young beef as being inferior to that of older animals, but it is not necessarily poor. Young beef, as ordinarily fed, is undoubtedly inferior in quality, but good feeding, begun when the animals are young and continued right along, will produce beef that is of first quality.— New York Wit¬ ness. 'Using Manure. The process of composting does not add a singlo element of fertility to raw ‘table manure. It relieves it of part of its great volume and weight, renders it more convenient of handling and appli¬ cation, and makes it quicker in aeiion, but it also surely deprives it of a portion of its elements of plaut food, not only through the escape of ammonia, but also through the leaching and washing away of soino of its mineral constit uentp. The gardener who desires to sec quick results, but is afraid of the living iveed seeds and injuiious bacteria so often found in raw manure, has no other al¬ ternative but to compost it, and to take the risk of loss. The farmer, on the other hand, has no need of hesitating to apply it at once to his fields or meadows, or even orchards, lie has little or noth¬ ing to gain by composting, but much to lose. The best and most advanced farmers now take the raw manure to the fields about as fast as made, and con¬ sider it the most advantageous method general ly .—Farming World. Cabbage for Live Stock. By the liberal use of cabbage I have been able not only to keep up but to largely increase the yield from my cows, and that without any deleterious effect either upon tho animals or the product. I began to feed very moderately—fearing that the flavor of the milk, might be im¬ paired—and gradually Increased the ration until I was feeding very nearly as much as tho cows would eat with a rel¬ ish. Calves also do well on it, and a lot of young pigs,turned in upon a patch of 3000 heads that were a little too slow for the season in heading up, showed a marked improvement in an almost in¬ credibly short time. It would be profit¬ able for any farmer to grow a piece of cabbage for stock alone, as an acre will produce from fifteen to twenty-five tons of rich nitrogenous food; but better still, grow the cabbage for market and feed the refuse—soft heads, stumps and outside leaves—and get from that part enough to pay the entire cost of produc¬ tion .—American Agriculturist. The Ideal Team. The best team ever used on the farm was a low, blocky-built, close-coupled, heavy boned pair of grade draft horses that weighed 1(150 pounds each. They were strong, willing, active and always ready for a good day’s work. With this team wc thought nothing of plowing four acres per day of less than ten hours, with a IG-inch sulky plow, or putting in 20 acres of small grain with an eight foot seeder, and on a self-binder they would do as much as threo 1100 pound horses, and were much nicer to handle as there was no occasion for them to crowd each other, as a three-horse team invariably will. Then in heavy teaming about the farm or on the road there was a great deal of satisfaction in knowing that the team would draw all an ordinary farm wagon could cany. This team could, and did by the watch, walk four and one half to five miles per hour on the road both with an empty wagon and drawing a heavy load. We would like to sec more such teams used on the farms everywhere, they are not only valuable for the amount of work they will accomplish in a satisfactory manner in a sin¬ gle season, but when one has such a team to spare they will readily bring $600 or more .—National Horse Breeder. Butter Beans. Many people at tho South do not ap¬ preciate the value of what is known as the small Lima or butter bean, There are three varieties of the Lima bean— the small, the large and Drecr’s Im¬ proved. The last named produces beans much larger than the small variety, but is less productive, and does not continue bearing throughout the season in the South as does the small variety. The large Lima has been superseded by Dreer’s Improved, but the small white Lima, commonly known as the butter bean, is the one most generally culti¬ vated in the cotton States, where it is subject to the attack of no insect enemy, is not depredated upon by poultry, and affords a delicious dish for table use, either as a green or dry shelled bean. It is a universal occupant of the Southern gardens for use in summer while greeu, but few have as yet realized its value for winter use, as a dry beau. It is more easily produced, and more easily preserved than any other species grown In the South. It is considered by some superior to the celebrated “Yankee’’ or “navy bean;” at any rate it is a perfect substitute for that famous variety. Tho only difficulty about growing this bean is the fact that it needs a support upon which to climb. This support may be most cheaply fur¬ nished by using tall growing varieties of corn. The bean may be planted in the rows of corn, and occupy the stalks un¬ til gathered. We feel satisfied that they could be grown with profit anywhere in the south. Unlike the other varieties of beans, no weevil attacks it, and hence there is no difficulty in preserving them through the winter. They should he prepared for cooking by soaking in water 12 hours previous to boiling. They may, however, be cooked without previous soaking, but more time will be required in boiling. They are found on the market, but arc not grown in suffi¬ cient quantity to place them within reach of the multitude. The supply being small, the price puts them out of reach of the majority of families. This is n crop that should be largely grown in the South for winter use to supply home necessities.— Farm, Field and Stockman. Farm and Garden Notes. Are your seed potatoes iii a frost-proof cellar? Atc tho mice eating dollar wheat in your stack or mow? The last coat of paint should not be put on that new building until spring. Evergreens may bo as safely planted in the fall as in the spring, if care is taken with them. Every man should raise something for his family that he can not buy as well, for mere money. Don’t forget the ground, you can’t ■cheat the ground—you may cheat your¬ self but you can not cheat the ground. Every shiver of a half-frozen cow will show itself in the milk-pail, Warm barns and warm bedding serve in part for !ood. Profitable milk production in winter means liberal feeding of grains, no mat¬ ter how generous tho supplies of other provender. To deepen and enrich the soil is bet¬ ter than to enlarge the farm, for while the crop is increased tho cost of produc¬ ing it is decreased. Old newspapers wound around the bodies of young apple trees have proved good winter overcoati, preventing sun scald and girdling by rabbits. Tarred building paper is also used by some or¬ chard Old ists orchards fo^the same lie purpose. renovated by may thorough cultivation, digging, destroy¬ ing the borers, cleaning up, whitewash¬ ing the trees, pruning and doing such other work as may be necessary to get the soil and trees in a first-class condi¬ tion. How the Pages Make Money. The pages at the Capitol have so per¬ fected the science of securing tho auto¬ graphs of members that an energetic boy on the doorkeeper's pay-roll can get the names of from 100 to 150 members per day, depending somewhat upon the character of the business that at that time is occupying the attention of the House. If the matter under discussion is of a character that occupies general at¬ tention, the autograph fiend cannot ply his nefarious calling, because the mem¬ bers will not permit themselves to be in¬ terrupted. If, however, the enterprising page starts out on a day devoted to pri¬ vate measures or district legislation, or something else in which tho statesmen take no interest or have no concern, he will wind up with half the members of the House enrolled.— Washington PosL The Parted Lovers. If I e uld know that after all These heavy bonds have ceased to thrall, We, whom in life the fates divide, Should sweetly slumber side by side, That one green spray would drop its dew Softly alike above us t. o. All would be e ell, for I should be At last, dear loving heart, with thee! How swe t to know this dust, of ours, Mingling will feed the selfsame flowers, The scent of leaves, the song i ird’s tone At once aer, ss our re.-t be blown; One breath of sun, one sheet or rain Make green the earth above us twain! Ah, sweet and strange, for I should be, At last, dear tender heart, with tlieo! But half the earth may intervene Thy place of rest and mine between, And leagues of land and wastes of waves May stretch and toss. etween our gr »ves. Thy bed with s .miner li ;l t be warm, While snow drifts heap in wind and storm My pillow, wh' se one thorn will be Beloved, that I tun not wi:li t..ee! But if there bo a blis-ful sphere Where homesick souls, divided here, And wandering wide in useless que t. Shall And their long-for haven of rest, If in that higher, happier birth We meet the joy we missed on earth, All will be well, for 1 shall be, At last, dear loving heart, with t'loe! —Elizabeth Akers. HUMOROUS. A chest protector—The night watch¬ man. A crusty individual is generally ill bread. An act to Amend—Sowing on a patch. A high-handed proceeding—Gilding a spire's tip. When a little man is hopelessly in love it greatly increases his sighs. The mop is very fri quently floored, but not in a household argument. The carpenter is not necessarily bank¬ rupt when his stock goes under the ham¬ mer. The lobster is a fish that never appears on the table without getting red in (he face. Mountains are rarely jealous of each other, but they sometimes show a great deal of peak. . Home is the dearest place on earth; consequently many people hoard on ac count of economy. “Father,” said the lad, “I grant you Yoar parental right to whal', I But ere yon begin proceedings, Biease remove the sliinglo nail.” “John, I am going to raise you:- rent, ” said a landlord. “Sir, I’m very much obliged to you, for I cannot raise it my self." There is one good thing about the magazine diale d story. There isn’t a law in the universe that obliges a man to read it. Husband (starting)—Isn’t that a rap at tho door? Wife—Yes. You had better go for it, darling. I had it sent C. O. D. Chicago is organizing an aristocracy of its own, composed mostly of success¬ ful wheat speculators. They are, of cour. e, all high-bread personages. Bobbie—Say, pa, a bee hums, doesn’t he? Father—Yes, my boy; but run away and don’t bother me. Bobbie— Well, pa, if that’s so, ain’t a bee ahum bug? A Nevada man who had seven homely daughters, got a paper to hint ttiat he had seven kegs filled with gold in hi cellar, and every girl was married in five months. Head of the House—“Is your mistress in?” Mary—“No, sorr; she’s gone shopping.” Head of the House (with a sigh of relief)—“Oh, shopping. Well, a woman can shop all day for nothing, but matinees cost money.” “Wiil you trust me, Fanny?” he cried passionately, grasping her hand. “With all my heart. Augustus, with all my soul, with all myself,” she whispered, nestling on his manly bosom. “Would that you were my tailor,” he murmured to himself. George: What's the matter, Cholly? Been sued, or what? Cholly; Just got a letter from—from her. Gccrtre: What does she say? Cholly: Only two words: “Youni forever.” George: N oth ing the matter with that, is there? Cholly: She sent our engagement ring in the note. Funny item in funny paper: “If a building catches fire in its upper story, it may burn down; if it takes fire in the basement, it may burn up. ” Naturally, then, if fire starts about half way be¬ tween basement and roof, it will bum sideways, and finally go out by the lira escape.