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A J. HAHP, Publisher.
TflE NEWS IN GENERAL.
HAPPENINGS of interest
from all points.
EASTHUN AMI BUOntB STATEN.
IT. II. Stvirr <t; Co., Now York Importers
s:,s±r;n,Ta of sugar, the principal firm engaged in the
immense stock is the cause of the failure.
connected Herbert with Mbaton, Congressman a prominent jockey,
Scott's stable,
was killed the other .lay by being thrown
from Island. his horse during a race at Coney
Justice Stanley Matthews, of the
United State. Supreme Court, was married
in Sew York a few days siuce to Mrs. Mary
K. Theaker, of Cleveland, Ohio.
S. J., would dir*.
Paul Wilzig, member of a New York La-
bor Union which bail compelled tbe proprietor
of a concei t hall to pay $ 1,000 as a line for not
immediately discharge uon-l'nion complying with its demands to
fuu nd guilty by jury of employes, the charge has been
Wilzig n of ex-
tortion. is the first of sevrftol boy-
<■ tters a ainst whom the concert hall pro-
prietor has brought similar charges,
eniHms cririira'ted th^evenl b?a V
and other festivities.
south and west.
notifi- The ntiou Papal of Embassy, the elevation bearing the the official
to cardinal-
ateof Archbishop Gibbons, of the Diocese of
Baltimore, arrived in that city on the 21st
from Rome.
The sr. it -htneu cn the lake Shore road
in nths Chicago the renewed their strike of two
m ago other afternoon, demanding
the bad discharge been in tho of employ eight non-union men who
of the Company from
eight to fourteen years. The demand was
refused by the railroad officials.
A mud drum in the International Cotton
Uiess Works at NewOrlean exploded, killing
tbe fireman and his assistant.
A boiler explosion at a saw mill near At-
k ns, Ark., caused the death of T. R. Adams,
proprietor, and two other men.
WASHINGTON.
The President,on the 21st, sent to Congress
flftiea veto messages, thirteen being private
pens on bills, anil the others prov.aed for
public build.ngs at Sioux City, Iowa, and
Zanesville, Ohio. In a long message accom¬
panying Congress these vetoes the President relukei
for " ha ho i alls its hasty pension
legislation, and sa ys ho is thoroughly tired of
disapproving d ial? in gifts his of view, public money right to indi-
v who, have no or
claim to the same.
The House Committee on Invalid Pensions
favors a bill i nposiug an income tax in order
to meet tho additional heavy sum rerpiired to
pay i ensions.
Tni!iTV-Forii ad verso reports upon private
pension bills were presented the other day by
the House Committee.
Additional nominations by tho President:
Registers K of tbe Laud Office—Pierce H.
yan, Carson at Humboldt, Nev.; Cal . W. K Copelaml,
Uitv, Hi hanl McCloud, at
Prescott, Durange, Arizona Cal.; J. David L. Camp, N. Burke, of Texas, New at
of
York, to bi Consul of the Unite! States at
Puerto Cabello; Bamuel L. Gilson, of Penn¬
sylvania. to be agent for the Indians of the
FoitPeok Agency, Montana. Postmasters—
Lewis C. Holmes, at Cobleskill, N. Y.: Nich¬
olas J. Macklin. at Stapleton, N. Y.; Henry
D. Linsloy, at Branford, Coen.: Jamas Mu-
(ley, El ut, Paso, Pottsv ills, Thomas Penu.; H. Fannie D. Porter,
at Tex.; Perry, at Alton.
Ill.: James A. Able, at Auburn, Ill.; John J.
Rymonds, Ankeny, at Minneapolis. Hudson, Wis.; Minn.: James 8. E. Curtis Mc¬
at
Donald, at l. g mier, lud.; Frederick A. Ed¬
wards, at AVebster City, Iowa; Joseph J.
Topliff, at Longmont, Col.
Seven- more vetoed pension bills were re¬
turned to the Senate on the 23d by the Presi¬
dent.
The Senate on the 23d confirmed the fol¬
lowing ister nominations: C. T. M. Niles, Reg¬
at Garden City, Kansas; R. L. Cropley,
Collector Customs at Georgetown, D. C.; H.
Virginia Shepard, Collector Internal Revenue, Sixth
District; E H. Bryau, of Califor¬
nia, Consul at Lyons, and some thirty post¬
masters.
The Senate has rejected the nomination of
John Seoman to be Postmaster at Dennison,
Iowa. His is the second nomination for that
office that has been rejecte 1. The Sonata
committeee charges that Seeman is conspicu¬
ously Keith, unfit, and was the mere dummy for
the first nominee rejected.
The Democratic Congressmen held their
first caucus this session the other afternoon,
and manifested a strong desire to adjourn at
an early date.
President Cleveland on the 24th sent to
Congress of twenty-nine more vetoes, mainly
date private pension bills. Up to the foregoing
the President had vetoed sixty-eight
bills. President Grant in the course of his
entire Administration, extending over eight
years, other signod only twenty-eight vetoes, and
no President ever reached that number
before him.
Thomas Additional confirmations by the Senate:
Funchal, C. Jones, of Kentucky, Consul at
at North Madeira; William Neville, Register
Joline, Platte. Neb. Postmasters—\V . R.
Logue, Central Long Branch City, N. J.: S. C.
Ixigan, Utah: W. City, Lyon, Neb.; Elkhorn, M. A. Shirley,
W, it. Wis. ;
“. Washington, Clendenin, Springfield, III.; George
nc, Hopkinsville, Pay City, Mich.; S. H. McKen-
Paso, Texas. Ky.; Fannie D. Porter, El
FOREIGN. mi
After the recent great victory of the Be-
cessioniits in Nova Sofia a wealthy old sea-
captain of Digby nailed the American flag
the highest tree on his farm and shouted:
That is our next question to vote on, aud
.von "ill find before long two-thirds of us
that wav of thinkirc- ”
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fE'iHYB 0 AT containing . . fifty persons can-
ifi Jcari twenty-five rr „° 8sl “K people a « ve were » - m drowned. Bohemia. At
Thk Midlothian Conservatives have decided
hot to contest Gladstone’s election.
The Panama Canal Company wants the
Fren h Legislat ire to pass a bill to permit
tnedire-tors to raise $120,000,000 by a lottery.
iniuw'T Inoculated against ° f , Pas ^ hydrophobia V s bitten has died. patients
The Great West Leads the World.
“I was at Fort Keogh ono summer not
long ago, when an explosion occurred in
the boiler which blew it some distance
tio.!i the fort into a swamp. The men
stinted after it. Wh-m they got there
the mosquitoes were so thick that it was
S3! tiisid • the boiler, and the n mo ‘ m quitoes “r
punched their stingers light through the
plated iron. The men clinched the bills
on the inside and kept on clinching them
tore *»*» «’ •«! hundreds ol -W
were fastened to the boiler. The
mcn bllilt ti fire inside of the boiler to
scare off the other mosquitoes, and the
latter started a fn flv V nwiv Tu y
Of course .v- those that ; were fastened f * .
.
tried to fly with the rest, and actually
carried the heavy boiler and the men out
( >te swamp ana on to the dry land.
Xftitv in!! ll • J
S ?° a C i i°l a T’ i au. ^
boiler miner into th - fort. r re How did they gei
)id of the mosquitoes’ bills? Why, thev
just tiled them off close and left then
there,”— St. Paul Q-lobe k*”’
A CHICAGO STRIKE.
POLICE OFFICERS TEMPORARI¬
LY overamed nr a mob.
An En/.lnc nml (Seven Cars Wreekrd amt
Itiiilrond Tracks lllorkndeil.
! The strike of the Lake Shore Railroad
i disturbance «•<«»*—*- on the 25th. At the * Root a serious
1 street
j ‘ r " SSIn ? °* t!| o railroad the police on duty
j | during early tho morning numbered thirty. There
was a prevailing impression In suite
I of - the - peaceful *
,rikors declarations of the
' - that trouble would occur,
<ar * oa< ' °f switchmen reached
Chicago , the previous night from To-
ledo. At 0 o’clock they were taken out to
0I R Ainsden. They remained in the car and
were not expostulated with by the strikers,
* hey numbered twe-.ty-flve and included
l? ai J y those brought to Chicago during
the last strike. (Shortly before ten o’clock
tne officials with the assistance of the police
i at tacned an engine and caboose to a wait-
1 mg freight train. Beyond the expostula-
t ous of fho crowd no trouble was ex-
i I’erienced until after tho caboose was at-
n ? d T re ‘Lr-eatcnin-.
1 he police and the railroad employes were
cursed and threatened with violence. In the
meantime the small force was divided be¬
tween the train aud in guarding the switohes,
to prevent the latter being turned so as to
make impossible the free movement of the
train.
With a shout, responding to the cries of
several leaders, the crowd rushed for the
police aud turned the svvit hes in spite of the
latter. The police had their clubs drawn
aud used them in a few instances, but they
awed were either by tho so crowd thoroughly that th astonished or over¬
successful resistin’ ly couid make no
e. A portion of the
crowd at the same moment surged toward
the train, w hich had commenced to move
out, but which, passing upon tho open
switches, was thrown from the track, the
engine aud all the cars being derailed. To
complete withdrawn the wre and k, the coupling pins were
then thrown awav.
ceeded During the melee the police sue-
in making two arrests. The ex¬
citement in the vicinity was very great
One of the men arrested was a member of
the Executive Committee of the Switchmen's
Union. A passenger train approached the
scene soon after the attack on tho freight
tram, and one of the rioters, picking up a
coupling-pin, platform. flung It it at a braketnaD standing
on a No other demonstration caused no damage how¬
ever. of any kind
was made against the passenger train opera¬
tives or the pa s mgers.
A meeting of the general managers and
Chicago superintendents of the railroads entering
was held during the day to discuss
the strike and the course to be pursued by
after^greeinfTtcj stand bv^tho^Lake^hore^
and 1-ake discharge any man whorefuses to handle
Shore business.
Some of the imported switchmen were at-
tacked by the strikers shortly afternoon and
several work oxviug were injure!. A number refused to
m a fear of viriene^
A ii'\ k f f y Linkertou detocti ves ap
pea red at (ho , Forty-third r . street yards of the
4Ake Shore road accompanied by thirty
switchmen The strikers still remained m the
vicmitv, ami when an attempt was made
to take an engine from the round
honse, the crowd made an effort to
tLI j~uS?niraa « li-o^w 8 ^ °(k , track.
SS 5 ssawwiffsatjr:
train guard was and successfully north made Thirty-eighth up under heavy
run to street,
where it passed upon the main track.
Guarded proceeded by fully one hundred police, it
again south aud passed out of the
rity.
In the . a train of ..... thirteen flat „
Rock evening Island cars
on the track, which are parallel
friend! C.dV^oVth7riXre sfxtf sfreTt 0 ^d1hete
of the flats At Forty five
thrown diagonally were uncoupled and
across the track
over whi' h the Lake Shore freight cars pass.
At Fifty fourth street seven box ears were
uncoupled, of the and Lake likewise Shore. thrown A over the
tracks force of men
were soon put hours to work traffic clearing blocked. the tracks,
but for many was
THE FIRE FIEND.
THE BOSTON INDUSTRIAL FAIR
BUILDING BURNED.
A Nnniber of Workmen Perish While Try¬
ing to Escape.
A fire which occurred in Boston on the
afternoon of the 2lst resulted in the death
of a number of workmen and the destruc¬
tion of the large Institute Fair building.
This structure was erected in 1881 by the
New England Manufacturers’ and Me-
chanics’ Institute at a coit, exclusive
of the land, of about $'01,000. The
building ha! about eight acres available for
exhibition purposes. The property was sold
recently to the Metropolitan Street Railway
Company for $300,000, including the land.
Since then it has been used for a car repair
shop and storehousa for cars not required tor
i immediate use.
The rapidity with which the flames
spread was appalling. Workmen sought
to save their tools an l lost bair and sk in
betorc they omil! g 0 t out <« le
About 100 < ars many of the .
varnished, was the mate al n which
the flames were feeding, lhe gnat barn
like structure was so full of flame that the
^ walls were blown out. Firemen
turn their streams through t he wm-
iosn, but tho water seemed to add to the
fuel and they could only save surrounding
I p operty. Workmen on the opposite side of
thoDuildinefromthepointof origin hiidad-
most as great difficulty in making t.ieir M-
cape as aid those nearer the hrst burst or
,
| «•*“£ " in the eft<it eud of the building,in the
| “ most heartrending
I pa 8bop , that, the
tragedy occurred. The windows, for some
unaccountable reason, were covered witU
sTeens made of quarter-inch wire, and to
this cause must he attributed the loss of sev-
1 eral lives of the imprisoned wm^men.
jb th * u?l wire ed ba * . rl J , vitn
1oot w hich became entangled and he was
burned to death in full view of the crowd,
his body falling within the furnace. Amin
u”. y y t onp ] eK over the window sill,
w hen the roof above fell in and
pinned him fast where ho was. No
ladder company had aM Ifn’outside
,
Hanfes^foUowed almost instantly and before the im- the
prisoned man perished iu agony
horrified eyes of his friends below.
his fellow-workmen. John McNulty trying and to J.
F. Fallen, were terribly burned
,,. a ] e th8 wall to reach their dying comrade,
u iE sufferings were mercifully short. Tne
awful furnace of (lane *°? a
him meats "p^tators. about were in shielded fire and smoke from the a “ d sight ^. . 1 “ or t { vae
Not long after the wall itself
Eav a way and uothing more was sean. lives
At first It was thought about fifteen
hid been lost, but a search among the ruins
vevealed the bodies of only six men. bo
j pecuniary damage is about J^WtOOO,
ELLAVILLE, GEORGIA, TilUKSDAY. JULY 1, 1880.
MATTERS OF MOMENT.
INTERESTING TOPICS FROM ALL
SOURCES.
A Corpse Talks Killed Her Areuser-Knd
ol n ilia Strike, Ktr.
Tho Corpse Hal Up and Talked.
It A singular story George comes from Cliuton, Ky.
appears that O. Daniols, of that
place, has been ill for several mouths
and last died. Wedncslay The body to all appear¬ la
coffin, ances where it remained for was put hours, a
srssa: “sn& twenty
l R‘ SErEs* m
^atoK?rashed remained, fram ther^m. Wabte
tinued. kiug he raised and. as the groans con¬
tha coffin lid and saw
that Daniels was alive. Selling the body
he placed it upright. A few spasmodic gasps,
a shudder, and the corpse spoke. The
relatives returned to find the man sitting
in a chair and conversing with reasonable
strength. Mr. Daniels claims to have been
perfectly passed around conscious him,but of he everything which
says he was unable
to move a muscle. He heard the sobs of his
relatives when he was pronounced dead by
the doctors, and He noticed the pro para) i ms for
the funeral. is about eighty years of age.
Killed ... Her Accuser. ,
Mrs. Leona Lyles, wife of a prominent
business man, at Denton, Texas, killed AV.
B. Roberts the other evening. She met
him on tho street, aud after charging
him with having slandered her, asked him to
sign a retraction, which he refused to do
She persisted in her request, telling him a.
the same time that if he did not sign he
would regret it. He again refused, where-
upon she drew a revolver and fired five shots.
each bullet taking effect. Roberts
died in a few minutes. Mrs. Lyles,
after snapping tho revolver several times
upon empty surrendered cartridges, herself walked quietly away
and to the (Sheriff.
Roberts leaves a widow and two thildren. He
was formerly Sheriff of this county- and stood
husband high in public estimation. children. Mrs. Lyles has a
and two
Big 8trikes Ended.
" All the collar girls on strike at Troy, N. Y.,
have been ordered by District Assembly 68,
ufacturer's Knights of Labor, to return to work at man¬
The prices.
manufacturers say that $125,030 is
about the usual weekly pay in all the cou-
has cerns. cost Consequently the girls this month of idleness
The molders’ strike, $625,000.
w hich has been in ex¬
istence at Troy five mouths and involved 800
molders and as many stove mounters and
other employes, is at last declared off. Both
the manufacturers and the men make some
concessions. The latter agree to return to
work ut Board prices pending arbitration,
and an adjustment of prices based outlie
average paid elsewhere.
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Canadian Sympathy for Ireland.
Two ministers of the Dominion Cabinet.
who from political motives refuse to allow
the use of their names, have subscribe! $200
each to the fund for the liberation of Ireland
from the oppression of England. It is under- j
stood that « the gentlemen is Mackenzie
Bowell, Minister of ( ustoms.
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BASE BALL BOTES.
-
•£*-»**• Pittsburg is the first Association club to
......—
Boston, but he lias been .>««« field
given poor
support.
The pit hers who were batted the hardest
ea rly in the seism are now becoming very
effective
No pitcher has as yet this season disposed
of a team without a base hit in a champion-
fihj
Cali eornia has the base ball fever so bad
that there is not a town or village, however
small, but has a club.
Jo* Gerhardt, second baseman of the New
Yorks, made but one hit in eight games, and
but one error in twelve games.
The Petroits to resent date had made four
teen home runs, twenty-one three-base hits
aud fifty-eight two-base hits.
Less home runs have been made on the
Charleston grounds than in any other city in
the Southern League—only three.
Kelly, of the Chii agos, has made more
runs than any other player in the League,
He earned the re. ord by fine base running. 1
Buffinton, of Boston, is certainly one of
the steadiest batting pit ‘hers in the League,
as he hits the ball in nearly every game he
plays.
Until Detroit ran into Chicago and
stopped short the nine had not been defeated
on the home grounds this year—eighteen
games in a’l.
President Wyckoff, of the Americ an
A°so nation, has issued an order that missed
third strikes should not be placed jn the error
column, but must be scored as passed balls.
O’Rourke and Connor, of the New Yorks:
Broutbers, Thompson, and Richardson, of
Detroit; Hines, of Washington, and Anson,
of Chicago, have each made over fifty base
hits this seas m.
Chicago has made 14 home runs this sea-
son Philatlelphiall, St. Louis New 8, York Washington and
6 Detroit 14, Boston 6, it,
Kansas City 3. Of this number Thompson, of
Detroit, has made 5, and Hines, of Washing
ton, 3.
Latham is the first player in the Ameri'. au
Association who has scored fifty runs this sea-
son. He did this by e vcellent base running,
and not so much bv hard hitting, as he does
not rank among’the first twenty leading
batters.
Dunlap, second ba-eman of the St. Louis
Maroons, made in cm game the following
unexcelled record. Three runs: four base
hits, one a three-bass drive and another a
home mu; eight put outs, seven assists and
one error.
Never was there such an even race as the
present one of the American Association. In
marked contrast the League fight has al-
ready settled down to four clubs, and the
third club has a higher percentage than the
leader in the Association.
Luther M. Frank, the thirteen-year-old O.,
BOD of Judge J L. Frank, of Dayton,
was instantly killed one day He recently engaged by
being hit with a baseball. was
in a game and was at the bat. Herman Sei-
hie, the pitcher, threw the ball, which struck
him in the region of the heart.
Notwithstanding that there are more
professional ball clubs and associations this
year than ever before known since the Na
tional game jumped into popular favor,there
has so far been only two disbandments-the
Lan asters, of the Pennsylvania of Eastern ^ Statu
League, and the Long Islands the
League.
The Little Nicols, of St. Louis, are going
on a tour to Indiana, playing at Mar nont,
Peru, Argus, Princeton. South Bead and
thateveTtook ther^L %he ’oldesf member
bring bare I v sixteen years old. They aro
raid to he fine of players, caiily beating despite their of v. much uth,
and capable material. teams
mor more n ature
Satisfied Him.
.oStor-Ki “Wh«t evidence have U.’ vou that vou are
M,. “
working-girl. under the mats, 6here-
“T aow sweep
plied P
“That ” said the great preacher, “is
I mfflcieut.”— ivl-Bits,
ROYALIST PRINCES EXILED.
REMARKARLE ACTION OF THE
FRENCH COVERS >1 ENT.
Ilrlvlna The llcnds of Former Itulina Fam¬
ilies of France From the Country.
The French Legislature having passed a
bill expelling from the country all the heads
of the families that had ouce ruled in France,
the Government has issued a decree to that
effect, The Comte de Paris, who is
( i ue f among these exiled Royalist Frinces,
sSSsSSSfesiss gBat&assrs
bj ' TheCoutode with
° k - ^arisshook hands
each one and briefly expressed his thanks.
his After expulsion, issuing a he manifesto took his family protesting to England. against
Prince Victor and fifteen of his most prom¬
inent adherents, including the Marquis of
Valette and Baron Hausmann, went to Brus¬
sels. The train bearing the party left the
station at Par is amid cries of “Vive l’Em-
pereur!” la Kepublique.” “Au revoir!" and shouts of hissing. “Vive
There was some
Several persons were arrested.
Prince Victor, at a reception before his
departure, said: “Do not expect a vain pro¬
test from mo. A people sometimes takes it
upon itself to open its doors to an exile. I
remain a representative of the empire as tho
Napoleons constituted it. I favor firm
authority, for alt creeds. equality of all citizens aud respect
Be assured that whatever
call duty may make I shall not be found
wanting in the fulfilment of what I owe to
the democracy and to my name. Au re¬
rob-. - ’
The Royalist press pronounces the passage
of the Expulsion bill the forerunner of the
downfall of the Republic. The Moderate
Republican papers of Fran e generally crit-
ici.se journals the measure ai Government unjust. The Opportunist discard the
urge the to
demands and of deniaud the Irreconcilables and Radicals, policy,
The they a firmer Republican
police have been ordered to arrest all
persons who make noisy loyalist demonstra-
tions in l aris and elsewhere on the occasion
of tbe departure of the expelled princes,
Count Foucber de Careil, French Ambassa¬
dor to the Austrian Court, has resigned in
protest against the action of his Government
in It expelling believed tbe French Princes. M. Waddington,
was that
French Ambassador to the Court of St.
James, would also resign in consequence of
the expulsion of the Frinces.
An invitation to visit America was sent who by
a group of well-known American officers
served in the civil wav to the Comte de
Paris, but it met with no further intimation response
than his warm thanks, and an
that America is too far away, The Comte
de Paris was one of the foreign officers who
tx>k part in the war between the States.
The that influenced ; M de Freyci-
reasons
net, the French Fro nier, in bringing the Lx-
pulsion bill may be stated in the I rentiers
own words. In a retent speech in tbe C’barn-
V*r of Deputies lie contended that the
theveryTact ^fjonal no.TtioTimrSSu tha/the/"represented^ an e/-
' n.Jl,..,., prinri-
P nf Thev held out the
: A promise of a Government different
f t i tj Oov^ntXA > tended to weaken
ooul.I ever tolerate such a state of things. He
considered ha! been increased that the danger to the Republic the
alter the death of
Prin e Imperial and of the Count de Cham-
bond, because the issue had thereafter become
concentrated in the Princes of Orleani.
These. he ^ had not uko the Count de
Chambord, i— had the nobleness to keep out of
,
* y * ■mtssi
luded . .< As fo the Pretender Princes,
there must he action against
them because they keep up the idea that
there exists a Court alongside the Republic-
» second government waiting to take its
place. The idea is especially diffused abroad.
1 am not afraid of the material but only of
the morai oflrect of this occuit government.”
MUSICAL AND DRAMATIC.
Signor Salvini’s fortune is set down as
no less than $600,000.
Lawrence Barrett declares that he re¬
gards Edwin Booth as the grandest figure on
tbe stage to-day.
It is said that Rubinstein is so popular in
Ixmdon that a premium of 100 per cent, is
paid for seats at his piano recitals.
Thomas W. Keene, the American actor
has so far recovered his health that he will
be able to resume the stage next season,
Another English professional beauty,
Mrs. McIntosh, has gone on the stage with
the intention of raking in the American dol-
lars in the near future,
In John 8. Clarke’s new comedy of “The
Alps” that eminent actor fills the congenial
part of an elderly English tourist among
those historic mountains.
A new comic opera is announced, with the
title of “A Thousand Eras.” It will present
scenes and incidents of life in a new-spaper
office and a printer’s composing room.
Mme. Nevada-Palmer has disappeared and
for a time from the lyric firmament is
living quietly with her husband in Paris,
Bhe sang at a recent soiree before Liszt and
Rubinstein,
Before leaving London, Sarnsate, the
Spanish violinist, refused $500 which was
offered him to accompany Patti in a single
song at her last concert before her marriage,
Ho demanded $1,000.
Justus Miss Lulu H. Rathbone, IIathbone, the the founder daughter of the of
Knights successful of Pythias in comic Washington, has She made has
a debut in opera.
a lopted the stage as a profession,
A coming American comic opera is
“Bounced,” the libretto of which is the work
of H. C. Banner, editor of Puck, aud Julian
Masnus. Louis Lombard of Utica, N. Y., is
composing the music. The characters,scenes
am q inciuents of the opera are essentially
American.
According to a L ndon paper a remark-
0 nle example of precocity by Miss Pauline in pianoforte Ellice
playing anoichestral was shown concert in that city recently at
qq le youthful performer, who is a pupil of
Herr Emil Bach, and only ten years of age,
rendered such worksas Weber’s “Concerto,’
in C, and Mendelssohn s “Capriccio, minor,
with neatness and fluency, and even with
some expression,
A PHENOMENON.
An Oily Scum rIoiik tbe South Carolina
Const Killf'ia Tlraiimimi* of Fish-
The people in tbe vicinity of Raleigh, N.
1 t\, are perplexed over a phenomenon that is
observed along the southeastern coast of the
State, An oiiy ficum on the water
extends for several miles out to sea
flnd the rivers for B long dig.
tance inland, making the surface smooth
and calm Fish are dying by thousands and
floating likiichips^on the surface of the water,
oily It is supposed but that whence they’are distroyer poisoned by this
scum, the coma
loaded nobody knows. A suggestion that a ship
with oil may have foundered in tho |
?eUy found and the coast is the dead
strewn with
quantities of the dead fish of ©very kind, and !
it is feaned that there are no live fish left in
Shallotte river or within ten miles of it-
mout h The water appear* to have become
,
presaion on it,
Compensation. I
In that new world toward which our feet are
set
Shall wa find aright to make oar hearts for-
gm
North's homely joys and her bright hours of
bliss f
Has heaven a spell divlno enough for thisl
For who the pleasure Of the spring shall tell,
When on the leafless stalk the brown buds
swell,
When the grass brightens, and the days grow
long,
And little bin Is break out in rippling songs
O sweet the dropping eve, the blush of mom,
The starlit sky, the rustling Helds of corn,
The soft airs blowing from the freshening
seas,
The sun-flecked shawdow of the stately trees.
The mellow thunder and the lulling rain.
The warm, delicious, happy summer rain.
When the grass brightens, and the days grow
long,
And little birds break out in rippling sob *
O beauty manifold, from morn till night,
Dawn’s flush, noon’s blaze, and sunset’s ten
der light 1
0 fair, familiar features, changes sweet
Of her revolving seasons, storm, and sleet,
And golden calm, as glow she wheels through
space
From snow to roses; and how dear her face,
When the grass brightens, when the days
grow long,
And little birds break out in rippling soi
0 happy earth! O home so well beloved !
Wliat recompense have we, from tbee ra
moved <
One hope we have that overtops the wh
The hope of finding every vanishod soul
We love and long for daily, and for this
CHadly we turn from thee, and all thy bliss,
Even at thy lovliest, when the days aro long,
And little birds break out In rippling song.
—Celia Thaxter, in the, Cental
Two Strange Meetings
They met first in the oddest way.
She was standing at the approach of
the suspension bridge in a bitter, blind¬
ing snow storm.
Her umbrella was inside out, her wrap
had broken from its fastenings and was
flying in the wind; the icy breezes and
fine particles of snow were whistling up
her sleeves, while her bonnet and hair
were in a white, feathery tangle, becom¬
ing momentarily more pronounced as the
fierce blizzard swept across it from the
river.
She was trying hard to keep herself
together, looking despairingly around
the while for some means of getting
across the terrible bridge in safety.
Wbat could he do?
He was not the man to look unmoved
upon such a picture of distress, especially
such a pretty picture, For she was
pretty.
A petite, compact figure, with unmis¬
takable evidences of refinement in every
curve and outline; bright, dancing eyes,
all the brighter in contrast with the glow¬
ing red checks; a small, firm mouth, and
a chin absolutely trembling in its soft
nest of feather trimming.
He took in all these details at a glance,
saw that she was ia real trouble, stopped,
and said:
“You had better wait for a street ear.
You cannot walk across the bridge this
morning. There is a blast coming up
the river that cuts like a million knives.”
“L cannot help it. I have to be at the
depot at nine o’clock, and there are no
street cars in sight,” was the breathless
reply, as she struggled with her unruly
umbrella.
He took the umbrella from her, and as
he forced it into the proper shape, said;
“Then you had better let me pilot you
across.”
She turned her eyes full on him and
looked searchingly into his face.
She saw a tall, handsome, brown-
bearded fellow, the bronzed cheeks tint¬
ed with a rosy hue that indicated the
lover of out-door life.
She saw that the bronzed face had a
kindly, honest expression, and as a proof
that her inspection had resulted satisfac¬
torily, she put her daintily gloved little
hand on his arm and said, quietly:
“Thank you!”
So he hold the umbrella to windward,
and with the compact little figure tucked
away under his arm, and the wind hoot¬
ing and groaning his disappointment as
it tried to get under and around the um¬
brella at the dainty bonnet and hair still
in a tangle, he pushed boldly across tha
bridge, with his heart thumping a sym¬
pathetic accompaniment to the pattering
feet of his companion.
Then as he handed her the umbrella
and raised his hat, she said:
“Thank you very much for your kind¬
ness. I should never have crossed the
bridge by myself, I am afraid.”
When the young lady got home that
evening, and told the assembled family
how she had crossed the bridge in com¬
pany with a strange gentleman, there
was a general uplifting of eyebrows and
shrugging of shoulders, though no one
was very much surprised.
Kate Selby had all the independent
spirit of her age, sex and nativity, and
rather enjoyed defying the proprieties
when it could be done with moderate
safety.
Perhaps it was this independent spirit
that made her adopt such an unusual
P> a " getting into the house of Mrs.
Douglas on the night of the fancy dress
1 ~.
This party had been the talk of society
for . weeks. It expected ^ to be
was some-
thing unusual in its gathering of well-
.known people, not only in society per ss,
tit in the professions of medicine, law,
literature, music and art.
The costumes were to embrace every
know n covering for the human form, and
the whole affair was to be an event to bo
remembered.
The Douglas and Selby residences
wore each surrounded by a largo lawn,
divided only by an imaginary boundary
line.
Miss Selby had chosen for tho party a
simple oountry girl's costume, and very
pyetty she looked as she stood in the par-
lor showing herself to her father, whose
tiresome, wounded foot, a reminder of
Gettysburg, would not allow him to go
out to-night.
A light calico, with a white apron and
pink ribbons and bows, aud a small bas¬
ket in her hand, made Kate Selby ns
sweet a picture, a la Watteau, as ever
met the gaze of a connoisseur.
Five minutes later, Kate Selby was
standing in a small grovo at the side of
thc Douglas mansion, watching the
dancers flitting past the long windows
reaching to the ground.
She could see nearly all over the room
from where she stood.
AU were masked, and as they moved
in rhythmical cadence to the music of
the orchestra, Kate felt that creepy sen-
sation which the sight of twoscorc people
with hidden fares, but piercing eyes, so
often produces.
She turned quickly and—looked into
the face of a red-bearded, dirty-faced
man, with a black eye and a livid scar
across his check, which did not improve
his naturally repulsive appearance.
The man was intoxicated. Kate saw
that at the first glance.
She stepped to one side, with an in-
dignant flash from her gray eyes at the
fellow’s insolence in looking at her at all,
and was about to run toward the side
door, when he placed himself directly in
her path.
“No 1 so fas’—hie—my dear, . wan’
shomc ze funsh—hie—an’ I’m goin' to
dansh wiz you.”
Heavens! there was another one!
A bundle of rags, whose shining black
face and close wool showed its Ethiopian
descent, made its appearance from behind
a large tree and grinned silent approval
at the other’s remark.
Kate could still see through the trees
the dancers passing the long windows.
She opened her mouth to scream, but
beforc she could utter a sound the red-
bearded man put his hand significantly
behind him as he said;
“Scream an’ I’ll shootsh yer.”
This was awful.
The ned-bearded man grasped her hand
and pulled her toward him.
Then—she never could tell how it hap-
pened—the red-bearded man fell flat o»
his back.
At the same moment the whole scene
seemed to be pervaded with a mountain¬
ous expanse of brown woolen, rope gir¬
dle, and tight-clinched white fist.
“Pax vobiscum!” said a voice she
thought she had heard before, as the
brown woolen, rope girdle, and white fist
resolved themselves into a Capuchin friar,
standing threateningly over the red-
bearded man and uttering the pious ben¬
ediction with a heartiness that must have
been very soothing to the drunken ruffian
at his feet.
The friar’s large, pointed hood had
fallen back, revealing a bronzed face,
with a brown beard, and two blue eyes
that blazed in the light which fell full
upon him from the long windows of the
house.
They recognized each other at the
same instant.
“You seem to be my protecting angel, „
she said.
“As is consistent with my saintly char-
acter,” he answered, gravely.
“May I take you to Mrs. Douglas and
get an introduction (” asked the friar of
Kate.
The introduction resulted in Miss Sel-
by finding that the friar’s name was
Morton.
But she calls him Fred now.
An Effective Prayer.
Some time ago, as the story runs, W.
W. Erwin the criminal lawyer, pressed for
a little change, dropped into the office of
D. W. Ingersoll and asked him for the
loan of $5. Mr. Ingersoll declined to
make the advance, but suggested that,
instead, if Mr. Erwin would go into the
basement with him, he would pray for
him. Mr. Erwin consulted, and the two
went into the depths, where on bended
knee Ingersoll prayed long and well for
his brother man. When he had concluded
Erwin said, “Now I’ll pray."
Mr. Erwin’s prayer was a peculiar one.
It was deliveren at the top of his voice,
and consisted of an exhortation to the
Lord to direct Ingersoll how to dispose
of his vast wealth wisely. As he warmed
up the pitch of his voice raised materi¬
ally, and Mr. Ingersoll grew nervous, and
urged him not to pray so loud, as it
would bring those upstairs down,
was of no avail. The exhortation grew
more fervent, and finally became howls.
Then Ingersoll, with a despairing ex¬
clamation, sprang to his feet, and said;
“Stop praying, Erwin; here’s your $5.”
The devotions ended at once.—St. Paul
Pioneer Press.
Borne one has figured up that it would
take a man 3000 years to read books ;
which are generally accepted as standard.
VOL. 1. NO. 40.
CHILDREN’S COLUMN.
A Cap of Tee.
A very old dame,
In a very small cot,
Made tea in a blue and white china teapot;
She drank it so black
I’m sure yon would think,
tv as the very worst thing an old lady could
drink.
Bhe never drank water,
Nor coffee, no wine;
But said her black tea wa* exceedingly fine.
She’d draw It at morn,
And at night drank It up,
Fi-om an old-fashioned blue and white china
teacup.
And she lived long ago,
Yet 1 have heard say,
She’s making and drinking her tea to thi*
day. —Our Little Ones.
Itaby Neal*.
If the fo\lowing account of the manner
in which young seals arc taught to swim
is true, says Youth's Companion, it is not
very much unlike the way in which chil-
dren are instructed in the same art by
Pacific Islanders. The babies arc simply
thrown into the water, but their fathers
stand by to rescue them if they should bo
in danger.
A seal mother gives a curious display
of maternal solicitude in teaching her calf
to swim. First taking hold of it by the
flipper and for a while supporting it
above water, with a shove she sends the
youngster adrift, leaving it to shift for
itself. In a short time the little creature
becomes exhausted, when she takes &
fresh grip on its flipper, and again sup-
ports it till it has recovered breath, after
which there is another push-off, follow-
c ,\ by a n ew attempt to swim, the same
process being several times repeated to
the end of the lesson,
Blrtli and Pen*.
Between forty and fifty years ago quill
pens were in general use in the schools,
and the pupils who could make or mend
a pen were considered quite accomplished.
The quills most commonly used for pens
are those of the goose. Swan quills are
considered better, but they are expen-
sivc - 0th,>r f l uills - such as turke y> ea S k ’
and others, have also been used more or
less, while crow and raven quills havs
heen used for drawing purposes, and for
,nakin K flne linM - 0nl y the flve outer
1 win 8' fathers of the goose are used for
quills, the second and third being tha
best, white those of the left wing arc pre-
ferred to those of the right wing, from
tbe fact of their curving outward from
the writer using them. Quills plucked
from living birds in the spring are tha
best, those from dead, and especially fat-
tened birds, being useless. Quills have
Lo be prepared for use by heating in a
sand bath (from ISO to 180 degrees F.) t
afterwards scraping away the outer
fatty membrane. After cooling the quills
are elastic, somewhat brittle, and are
then cut to suit.
Th« MaeUUoiil.
When I was a boy, twenty-five or thirty
years ago, I used to read in my geo¬
graphy, with a kind of a shudder, of art
awful whirlpool, called the Maelstrom,
off the coast of Norway, which sucked in
vessels that came anywhere in its neigh¬
borhood, and out of whose mysterious
centre nothing could escape alive. What
is the reality on which this story was
founded. Dr. C. 0. Tiffany takes pains
to tell us in a recent account of a trip to
T this . “ It is the one humbug of
Norway. It is simply a dangerous cur¬
rent at the south end of the Laffoden
Islands, between the islands of Mosken-
aes and Vseroe. When the wind blows
from certain quarters, particularly from
northwest, and meets the returning tide
in the strait, the whole sea between
Moskenaes and Vaeroe is thrown in such
agitation that no ship could live in it.
j n calm weather, however, it is crossed
j n ga f e ty three-quarters of an hour before
flood tide. What gives it the name aud
appearance of a whirlpool is that the set
of the tide is changed at its different
s t a ges by the narrow limit^ in which it
acts. Its movement is at first toward the
southeast; then, after flood tide, it turns
from south toward the southwest, and
finally toward the northwest; so that it
takes twelve hours to complete the circle
of its movement. Rather slow motion
for such a fast character as a whirlpool.
— Harper's Young People.
Bad Effect of Pickles.
The influence of acids in retarding j
arresting salivary digestion is further pickl?
importance in the dietectic use of
vinegar, salads and acid fruits. In ti
case of vinegar it was found that o<■
part in 5000 sensibly retarded this pro-
cess, a proportion of one in 1,000 render¬
ed it very slow, and one in 500 arrested
it completely; so that when acid salads
are taken together with bread the effect
of the acid is to prevent any salivary
digestion of the bread, a matter of littl-
moment to a person with a vigorous d
gestion, but to a feeble dyspeptic one <~ -
some importance. There is a very wide
spread belief that drinking vinegar is an
efficacious means of avoiding getting fRt,
and this popular belief would appear
from these experimental observntions to
be well founded. If the vinegai be tak¬
en at the same time as farinacoous food
it will greatly interfere with its digestipn
aud assimilation .—Nineteenth Century.
In Stuttgart. Germany, the tricycle has
been adopted by the Government for the
postal service.