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SCHLEY COUNTY 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- ” . ”■ 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. __ 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. ------- 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.