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KE. U MoHKZfBT, I litiTiO IS. ; • THI father of Bayard Taylor, -who tiie other day, had never seen a ialbcat, locomotive, or street-car. thought a wheelbarrow good s enough for common folks. • THE Saturday Bevieu- declares that Nowhere else is the art and mystery of writing short stories better understood '111an in the United States, and that it ^ Is in the domain of the fantastic that , l!he American writer of short stories has been most successful--certain of them being "unsurpassed and unsur­ passable." COLONEL INGBBSOLL, in a recent lee- said : "Don't talk too much about le men. Do you know, gentlemen, l^e probably have not in the Americrn ongreas s man so learned in the ience of government as Harriet Mar- man was? Amerioa has never pro- luced a novelist as great as George Mot, and we have never had a poet ;^qual to Elizabeth Barrett Browning." A GRAND piano just presented to H|Princess Beatrice is an unique affair. < jit is in a black case, ornamented with gold. The sustaining pedal, enables the player to prolong the Bound of one ; %r more of the notes, on the organ prin- ' %iple. The piano.lias so elastic a touch . fhat all the gradations, from the most I iubdued whisper to the greatest fortis- iimo passage, can be accomplished with '•line effect THE wife of Jacob Berean, of Marl- "~t>oro, New York,'on account of cancer, • kad lier right leg amputated. She Complained that two of the toes of the loot buried iii the ground overlapped each other, and that it pained her (Inadfnflv, Unknown to her, Mr. Be­ rean dug up the leg and straightened tut the toes. He then went home and sked his wife how she felt, when she ' told him that she suffered no more. A THUNDERBOLT struck a Georgia negro fair in the forehead, but glanced off aq£ burnt his arm, then ran down his leg, tore his pantaloons in strips, *nd after demolishing his great toe S>a?eed out of the bottom of his shoe, leaving a hole as if made by a bullet 0. large dog near by was killed. The %lnan*s remarkable escape goes to eon- firm the southern belief that if you int to kill a negro don't stwfce him n the head. ,v ;**• n GENERAL LEW WALLACE lias two new Hovels in preparation. The plot of one laid in New Mexico, and that of the jther in Constantinople. This dis­ tinguished author has the widest range #f contemporary novelists. His great­ est success has been achieved, hitherto, 'In representing the life of people in istant ages, and if, in either of his forthcoming works, he shall essay to fpive a picture of some phase of modern life, that one will have a special inter­ est DR. FEBRAN, the Spanish discoverer f the cholera vaccination, is a most en- husiastfte disciple of M. Pasteur, to whom he givs all the honor of his dis­ covery. In a recent letter to the French fcientist, Dr. Ferran attest* that the results of the cholera vaccination are "becoming xhore apporent every day among all classes of society, and that Wherever he has tried his experiment lie has been highly satisfied with its result. Dr. Ferran concludes his let r by saying: "The two most eminent en who hate been giten to humanity 4re Christ, who brought ns moral re demption, and Pasteur, who have given - us the laws which must lead to our physical redemption." VASSAR COLLEGE trustees having cast their eyes over the country in search of a President for that institution and finally fixed them upon a man--the trustees themselves are men, be it re­ marked--the New Pork Post rises to fay that it is -about time a woman .IJ^houjd be4 plajp^d |t the, Jipad of the school which claims to lead in the ; fiigher education of girls. In the lan- guage of the Post, "a woman ought to be better qualified thsn a man to su­ pervise the education of girls, and there are enough women of trained capacity and executive skill Among the coun­ try's army of female instructors to gite promise of finding in their ranks the "*"~°**ight person for the Vassar vacancy-- (certainly enough to invite a Aearch in that direction on the part of the trus- • Jtees." 4Tbe suggestion is a good one, Jttnd is the more remarkable coming Mirsf, as it does, from a paper whose at­ titude towards women is usually that of patronizing condescension aa to in­ ferior beings. ,M. WctaTJL jthi miyi dress-ibafer of aris, has created eonsternation among I names appear i*" pro- it fife will learn mt tits first tine that the victim of a "misfit* dress la really wild in her rage. WASHINGTON Telegram: Colca-l Clay Taylor was in the rotunda at Wil- lard's, talking ol a visit he had made to the White House. "I was a witness to-day to something whieh pleased me better than anything I've seen in Wash­ ington," he said. "There were twenty- five or thirty of us waiting our turns in the President's reception-room when a little girl--she couldn't have been more than 6 six years old--stepped up to Mr. Cleveland, and as she shook hands she said: 'I am so glad to shake bands with a Democratic President I want you to give me your photograph With your autograph on it' She spoke out as self-possessed and easy as if she was an accomplished society woman. Well, sir, the wheels of this big Gov­ ernment stopped right there; not an­ other turn was made until the Presi­ dent had hunted up a picture, written his name upon it, and presented it to the little Miss. Senators and Repre­ sentatives, and the rest of ns, with all our errands, jnst stood still and looked on until the little one's business was duly attended to." -- . . • * ' A GREEK merchant, who claims to have been in Eartoum when it fell to the Mahdi's troups, gives a picturesque­ ly vivid account of the sacking of the place, and of the assassinations that followed. According to this story, Gordon was shot in an upper room white reading his Bible, hia head cut oft and taken to the Prophet while his body was cut into pieces. We have no more idea that this narative is true in detail than have been the others which affected to give the particulars of Gor­ don's murder; but it may be accepted as additional and confirmatory evi­ dence that he waa promptly killed when the Egyptian rebels secured con­ trol of the Soudanese capital, and f-hould serve to set at rest the nonsens­ ical stories of escape of the distin­ guished prisoner. It is also to l>e said that the publication of Gordon's dia­ ries is already beginning to have the effect of creating a revolution of feel­ ing in favor of Mr. Gladssone and his government in their treatment of the Egyptian problem. The diaries give evidence that when he started from London, Gordon did not intend to obey the orders of the government, only so far as he pleased, and that his whole course while in Fgypt was dictated by his 'supernatural vanity and egotism, for the results of which Mr. Gladstone cannot be justly held responsible. The responsibility of the government was for the sending of a man into that coun­ try who believed he could compose the troubles by means of high-sounding proclamations, and by affectations of religious superstitions even more bi­ zarre than that of the Mahdi himself, and who thought he could snbdue the fierceness of the fanatical spirit of the Egyptians through the machinations of a consecrated stick. '1 here has been no BUch specimen of an ill-balanced crank s'nee the days of the crusades, and Gordon's spectacular performance in the Soudan ended much as did the crusades. . . . I' patrons by the announcement that Vfie is about to issue a black-list of de­ linquent and undesirable customers. Ostensibly the list is for the benefit of an association of dress-makers of which . Worth ^president but it is not unrea­ sonable suspect that M. Worth is animated chiefly by a desire to hasten the payment of bad bills. The threat- . «ned list will, it is said, compromise three classes. Class A includes Ffefich ^jaud foreign customers who are utterly dishonest; class B contains the names of ladies who, out of pure vanity, order dresses that they are unable to pay for; class C consists of those who, though amply able to pay nil bills, worry" their dress-makers by delaying payment un­ til forced to it by process of law. If the distinguished man«milliner's advertise­ ment of his scheme is intended to fa- c litate collections,.it will undoubtedly " prove so effective that in a short time - no need will exist for issuing the pam­ phlet. If it is really published, as ^threatened. Hie trouble M. Worth has had to please fastidious and fault-find- „;intr women heretofore will be as noth ° -- . • ^ - _ m Yen i : t o that whick will overwhelm him \ ;i A Royal (Jaine. Tennis has been a royal game; so very royal that Edward 111. (1365.) de­ cided that no one but kings and their associates should be allowed to play it at all, and his example was followed by Henry IV., Henry VIIJ.. and other reigning sovereigns of England and Franee. It kept gaining in popularity, however, and some sort of out-door tennis was played with inflated balls very early in the history of the game. Lvery little while the royal com­ mands would be forgotten, or soinfe convenient war would break out, and, after it was over, tennis would "bob up serenely," as a very popular amuse­ ment Henry VIII. had the tennis fever in a violent form, and the most famous roya! set ever played was that in which Henry VIII., of England, and the Emperor Charles V. were matched against the Prince of Orange and the Marquis of Brandenburg, while the Earl of Devonshire "stopped" (that is picked up balls and kept count) for one side and Lord Edmund Howard did a like service for the other side. At last, the kings gave up the vain attempt to keep so capital a game to themselves, and graciously vouchsafed it to their loyal subjects, simply be­ cause they could no longer prevent their playinsr. Of course, there still remained the difficulties arising from the great eostliness of regular courts, but iliese could not interfere with out-of-door tennis. This was, however, a very un­ scientific sport, and wa\ of course, de­ spised by the gentry who could afford to play the court game. In fact, it was not until a very few years ago that the play-loving English public awoke to the fact that some one had reduced out-of-door tennis to a sci­ ence ; that something very like court tennis could be played on the lawn, under the blue sky; and that "pent­ house roofs" and galleries, railings, tambours, chases, and the rest were relics of the dark ages.--Charles L. Norton, in St. Nicholas. j The Question of Creation. A nicety in the vocalization of the first word in our Hebrew Bible is high­ ly significant and of great moment to the profund thinker and philosopher. Genesis does not pretend to describe the beginning of all time, and the vory first manifestation of activity in the eternal, but merely the creation of our present world. It says "Breshith" at a beginning, and not "Bareshith" at the .beginning. The suppression of the definite article "Ha," is not signalized by the vowel of the preposition, the '•beth" having a "shvah" and not a "Kamets." Hence a correct translation should say: "At first" or "at a begin­ ning God created Heaven and earth," implying merely the order of the di­ verse creative arts, and not "the begin­ ning of all creation and the commence­ ment of time." "CURED patients are employed by certain San Franciscan physicians and stationed in the waiting-rooms'to tes­ tify with tearful earnestness, to new pa­ tients how they themselves were cured of precisely the same disease by the prince of medical science inside. EDUCATION begins the gentleman, but reading, good company and reflection nmstJnish him-Locke. When an AnMticiiB vfaini to visit in iiia progress, beyond an exceeding number ot stone steps, which are apt to exhaust his wind, unless lie knows where to find the elevators. He enters the building from any quarter, without challenge, and winds from pillar to post and from floor to floor, until he finds himself in the corridors of the galler­ ies, from which he can step into the spaces reserved for the public, the seats thus set apart for his use afford­ ing accommodation for 2,000 visitors in the House of Representatives and 1,200 in the Senate. And when the day's session is over he can go down stairs and saunter upon the floor and ait in the Speaker's chair if he chooses, or strike up an acquaintance with the members who linger around him, or seek miscellaneous information from the clerks and pages. But we will suppose this person on his travels and bringing up at niglit hpfore the gates of the House of Par* 1 lament There is a rush of cabs all about him, streams of people are going every way, and a great glare of light is flooding the night and illuminating the splendid structure and the Gothic beauty of Westminster Abbey opposite. The visitor enjoys the scene a few mo­ ments and then steers for the principal entrance, He encounters a policeman at once. Policemen are innumerable, omnipotent, and vigilant Very likely they were noticing him as hp was standing in idle admiration on the curb-stone. They ask him what he wants, and he says he wants to go in. Then they explain, in civil but short sentence^ that he must find a member, must get a pass from him, and must present it at a particular door at a par­ ticular time; and if, after investigation by detectives, he is reported to be an inoffensive person, he can then be ad­ mitted if there is room. Being a stranger, he doesn't know any member, and certainly has no claim on any one. He insinuates to the policeman that some slight assistance would result in an interchange of coin, but is told to stand aside, and ultimately slinks off in the darkness, quite relieved that he has escaped without arrest But perhaps the next day he finds some one who knows a friend who acquainted with a member, and so gradually he works up to an introduc­ tion. That is the first step. The mem­ ber is complaisant and says he will try. Then he gets the stranger's full name and address, undjtinally tells him to go to the member's entrance opposite the rear of Henry VJI.'s chapel in the Ab­ bey, show a card, and keep on till he gets to the lobby of the House, where he will come out and give him the pass. At the proper time he makes his ap­ pearance at the door. A group of po­ licemen and two or three overwhelm­ ing door-keepers in full dress defend it, but, armed with the credentials, he boldly makes known his errand and is motioned in. The first barrier is passed. He goes to the end of a hall, and a sec­ ond group of police ask him his busi­ ness. He shows his card and passes on, through the great hall where the dyna­ mite explosion occured. Police are as plentiful as hops, and the visitor' is made aware that his person is closely watched for protuberances. Now he is in the lobby, with a little assemblage of favored people who have gotten as far as he has, and he gives his card to the magnificent door-keeper and sub­ sides into line with others, all rnder the inspeetion of the polic& Pretty soon the member issues from the closelv-guarded portals, and smiles and says he will try. And he does try. He walks rapidly off to some mysterious part of the building, where the Speak­ er has an office, and in fiiteen or twenty minutes returns, bearing an order from the Speaker, on the member's recom­ mendation and responsibility, for the stranger's admission. So, following in his wake, he passes the third cordon and is in the inner lobby, where, if he tries to loiter to look about him, he is instantly pounced upon by a po­ liceman and told to move on. He ia shown a door, and open­ ing it, he begins to ascend a wind­ ing staircase to find himself pres­ ently before a turnstile. At this gate a very grave man sits with a large open book, and behind him two or three more policemen. The very grave man hand the now thoroughly-cowed visitor a pen, and bids him write his full name, London address, and nationality. The pen is bad and sputters, the visitor for­ gets street and number, and as he writes United States he breaks out into a cold prespiration under the stony glare of the policemen's eyes. But, rather to his surprise, he isn't arrested; and now the last barrier is passed, and another gorgeous door-keeper mo tions him to a seat in a gallery about as big as a horse-car, and less comforta­ ble. Nothing surprises an American vis­ itor in the House of Commons more than the small size of the chamber, and its limited accommodations for both members and the public. Architectur ia^tahiwilijyfi fen is the Tbelie wKli color, the «th«r hand, tW editor who goes flaking with ikMnî and spends the entire day in s hammock, and--1 uy* » salt cod on his way home, deserves to be drawn and quartered forthwith.-- H. S. Keller, in Carl PreUeCu Weekly. Ceekery In China. Our kitohen certainly is not so cozy and neat as American kitchens usnallj are. The smoke goes through the sky* light and wherever it finds an outlet. The walls are black with the accumu­ lation of years of soot. That large stove in the corner is built of brick. On the top of this stove is a large round iron spider about three feet in diameter. In this rice is cooking. Straw, being cheaper, is burnt in this stove, ins.ead of wood, and some one is required to leed the fire constantly. Turning to the left *e see little clay stoves, on which food is frying in spiders or boil­ ing in earthen pots over a wcod tire. Vegetables are cut into bits and boiled with pork or mutton, making a soup. Greens are boiling. Fish is steaming, frying or stewing, with or without vegetables.. Meat ia cut fine; when the spider becomes heated lard is put in it, then pieces of onion, then the shred meat, and all is stirred till well em­ browned. then turnips, potatoes, and sometimes other vegetables are added, and after boiling water is poured in the whole is left to simmer and stew. All food, we observe, is cut in pieces be­ fore being cooked, or el- e before serv­ ing, for no knives, no forks, are used. At 10 a. m. the tables are set; these for men either in the wings or in their rooms; those for the women in their common sitting-room or parlor. Each table will seat eight persons. No table linen is used. Chopsticks and spoons are placed before each place. The food is brought in large bowls or plates. Bice is carried to the table in a wooden pail or wicker basket, from which it is servted in small bowls. The servants summon the inmates to breakfast The youjlger ones do not presume to sit till their elders are seated; then after mtr&ng a show of asking permission to eat, when the elders gravely nod assent, the breakfast begins. Soup is taken first; tljien each person, holding the chopjstfcks in his right hand and the bpwTof ricejn the left, lifts his food to his mouth,pushes the lumps in with igrl the sticks, alternating this motion with JO "picking meat, fish or vegetables from the dishes which are common to all. One must take only from that side of the plate which is nearest to him, how­ ever. It is a breach of etiquette to reach over to the opposite side. When one finishes he bids the rest to "eat leisutely," which is our mode of saying "excuse me!" The Chinese invariably wash their hands and faces after every meal. Tea is drank about tho same time. It is taken without milk or sugar. 'Coffee is not common in C hina, and we are not accustomed to driuk cold water. Tea is the national beverage, and ia taken to assuage thirst at all times and occasions as water is in America. At noon a lunch of cakes or pastry may be Berved. The majoritv of people are satisfied with two meals a day. Supper or dinner ia served at 5 IK m.--lan Phon Lee, in Wule Awake. 4II Ashantee Gentleman. The author of the book, "Chronicles of No Man's Land," describes minutely an Asliantee gentlemin: "He has neither a flat nose, nor thick lips, nor ebony skin. To take Bnssoonaga as a specimen, he is not darker than many Spaniards, has feature of a European cast, and an eye that protrudes in a manner admired by French poople, and called ajfcur de tete. His dress, even when a prisoner, as I saw him, ia a mir­ acle of taste, uuequaled since tho Bo- man toga vanished. One single piece of 'cloth' it is, a cotton print, home­ spun and home-dyed. Your native gentleman, whether from east or west, would not condescend to wear Man­ chester stuffs, and he is conspicuously right. To see Bossoonoga was to see a picture of antique grace. It was a mar­ vel how he kept so clean that sheet of cotton, adorned with blue arabesques and flowers on a white ground. Noth­ ing else did he wear bv day except the "breech-clout," fringed with silk, the ends of which fell below his knees. At night he rolled it round him, and so slept; but the stiffening never went out o: it, and its folds weie always stat­ uesque. He looked a swell, every inch, bright and wholesome and cour­ teous, though tied by his wrist, and trudging barefoot through the mud. When permitted the use of a carriage hammock (instead of walking chained to a common soldier), Bossoonoga stepped into his conveyance with a courteous bow toward the marine. Through my interpreter he expressed regret that circumstances over which he had no control forbade him to re­ ward Private Smith for his "uniform consideration," etc. The face of that gallant soldier, when he thoroughly mastered this parting shaft of polite­ ness, did one good to see. "Why--why!' he said, 'this nigger--he--oh, blow it!' Words would not come to him fitting to describe his sentiments. I saw him memoers ana me pu.uic. *rcnueciur- ; iQ two d aft with bis Temain. ally it :s a superb hall, and its acoustic | Btil, 'in tnw ppivil^ efleets are fine, but to American notions it is entirely inadequate in dimensions. --London tetter in New York Times. The Achromatic Liar. I love the achromatic liar who can call chestnuts from the proverbial tree of knowledge, and foist it upon a long- sutler nig paople as an original plum plucked from the oerebral of mental acumen. But Lord deliver me from the liar who adds fresh varnish and re­ constructed stuffing to the equine chestnut The season of the year, har­ binger of editorial mendacity, draws near. In the van of this joyous hey­ day of pastoral delights and Waltonian lore, the gentle smile, like the forerun­ ner of moral elasticity, enlightens the editorial sanctuary and threatens to halo the bald bump of self-esteem ere trout season is o'er. If some good soul who is more fuliy endowed with the gilt of peispicuity than I am, will ex­ plain to me why an editor poses as the non-achromatic fish liir par excellence beyond equivocation, 1 will present him with a year's subscription to Ayer's family ulmanac. No man of general knowledge can fail to agree with me, viz.: When I make the stupendous as­ sertion that the editorial quill will grapple with the actinic and non-act- iuic colors of the mendacious rainbow, simply to win encomiums from the press in general, when the subject of fish plays havoc with the mental pow­ ers. A bad lie poorly told ia a blot upon the escutcheon of the editorial fraternity. But a good lie poorly told is a disgrace beyond redemption. Snakes and fish, twin handmaids of mendacity, should be banished from the take'hook. The pen toiler who goes forth in all the blissful serenity of unruffled temper and buys a good catch from a base foot-urchin of rural pro­ clivities. should be Jorever disgraced ing captives still in tow. Private Smith had changed into a thoughtful man; the sublimity of Ash antes man- nert had overpowered him." "Walking Typhoid." A case of uncommon, but not unheard of, malady came under the writer's no­ tice recently. A young married man sent a note to his wife that he was sum­ moned to a neighboring town on busi­ ness and would be away all night As this contingency frequently arose in his occupation nothing was thought of the announcement until the next day, when, he not having returned, inquiries were instituted, but no trace of his whereabouts could be found. Five days later he was'found in a distant western city over one thousand miles frc m home, about to take a train which would carry hm still further toward the Pacific ro*st. He was brought h me ill, and suffered a course of typhoid fever, from which he recovered as well as ever. His physicians diagnosed his case as talking typhoid, and the recital in detail of his wanderings, which he waa able later to perfectly recall, was terri­ bly suggestive. He had passed one en­ tire night walking up and down tiie susptnsion bridge at Niagara Falls, under the impression that his wife was to meet him there and would be fright­ ened to find herself alone in such a place. Distressed at her failure to be on haad, he started in pursuit of her. He stopped at various hotels and res- taurarts, boarded and left trains always with a definite purpose. Fequently he came to his senses and knew that he was fa; from home and traveling under a deluaon, but before he could fully recovei himself the hallucination was strong upon him. It is possible that manv disappearances begin in just such a half-ntional desire to wander with, liowevei, not the same fortunate' end­ ing.- -Nov York Graphic. It Sweeps Aero* Southeast Philadel- pfcia and Crosses to den, V. J. Fire Persons Killed and Half a Han- iured, Many of Them $488,416,719.43 140,911,350.00 .190,213,086.00 31,680,000.00 [Philadelphia telegram.] A terrific cyclone, sweeping up the Dela­ ware River, struck this city near Green­ wich Point demolishing a portion of the works of the Pennsylvania Salt Manu­ facturing Company and injuring several employes. It then took a course across the river, wrecking the river steamer Major Reybold and the ferryboat Peerless. The storm blew Pilot Emery Town send and Capt Eugene Reybold. of the steamer Reybold, into the river, drowning the former and painfully injuring the Captain. The Peerless was swept clean, almost, to the iter's edge. When the Mfijor Reybold left her dock for Salem, N. J., she had on board about fifty passengers, although, as no tickets had been sold, it is impossible to ascertain the exact number. There were also about four­ teen officers and deck-hands. Of this num­ ber of peoplo upon the wrecked boat it does not appear that any lives were lost ex­ cept that of the pilot. B. I. Warner, one of the passengers, describes the scene. He was standing on the upper deck and saw the black storin approaching, but as it moved rather slowly he supposed it was a rainstorm. When it struck the boat he discovered that its immense force came from its rotary motion. He and several others were thrown through a hole to the lower deck, and all the upper works were swept away like chaff. The confusion among the passengers was indescribable, and several of them jumped into the river; but Mr. Warner believes that all of them were rescued. While the cy­ clone was upon the vessel, everything was black as the blackest night. iSofas were broken to splinters, and carpets torn to shreds in the cabin, as if they had been paper. The cyclone, he thinks lasted about a miaute, and, after it passed, the vessel rolled and pitched frightfully in the great waves, and eanje tear swamping. The storm then passed over to the Jersey side, striking John Dialogue's ship-yards, below Kaighn's Point, and destroy­ ing the buildings of the establish­ ment. It then took a course along the New Jersey River, demolishing all the buildings in its path up to Bridge avenue, Camden. At this point the cyclone took an easterly course to Fifth streot, Camden, embracing in its path all that section of the citv between Second and Fifth streets to the Delaware River, which washes the southern section of the city. Passing over the river, skirting Petty's Island, the storm passed over to that part of the Twenty- tifth Ward of Philadelphia known as Rich-* niond. In its ravages in Camden scores of dwelling-house^ were unroofed and Some of them thrown down, and the damage to the business property along the river front is enormous. Hundreds of families were rendered homeless, and one victim, Charles Daizey, was killed outright at the American Dredging Company's wharf. Another, Harry Stevens, had his leg cut off by a flying piece of timber, and will prob­ ably die. The path of the storm through Richmond was ̂ marked with death and destruction. Iu track was al­ most due north from the /Port Richmond coal-wharves. About 15(| dwelling-houses were wrecked, or so UhdlAdamaged as to be rendered unfit for habnation, and 200 families were driven from their homes to be cared for by their neighbors. A number of people were seriously and some fatally injured. A girl of ten years, Lizzie McVey, was killed at her home, No. 1721 Melvale street, in sight of her mother, who was herself pinned to the floor bv fallen rafters a few feet from her dying child. The cyelone is described by those who wituessed its progress up the river as an immense black, cone-shaped cloud; with its apex resting upon the water and its base mingling with the rain- clouds which hung in dense masses from the sky. It is impossible as yet to estimate the amount of damage done. The following are the names of the killed and injured, as far as can be as­ certained: Dead--Emery Townsend, of Salem, N. J., pilot of the steamboat Major Reybold; Charles Daizey. aged 49, a ship- carpenter, killed instantly by flying timbers at the wharf of the American Dredging Company, Camden; Lizzie McVey, aged 1(1, ('rushed to death between timbers at her home, No. 1721 Melvale street, Phila­ delphia. Injured (on steamboat Major Reybold)-- Morris Doyle, engineer, Blightly; Capt. Reybold, severely cut; Welch, a deckhand, severely cut; W. Gesner, a passenger, temple artery severed, injuries serious. Injured at Camden--Harry Stevens, aged 21, probably fatally injured, his right leg severed below the knee by flying timbers; Stewart Johnson (colored), of the dredging tug Pacific, seriously injured about the face and body; John Welcher, injured seri­ ously about the head; Benjamin Smith, right arm broken and injured in- ternullv; Alonzo Maxwell, aged lt>, injured by falling walls; Qharles Thompson, man­ ager of the ( amden Tool Works, injured in the face and neck by falling walls; Ja­ cob Miller, leg broken; Freedom Peak, head cut; Elmer Locke, bruised about the body: Mrs. Josephine McKinley, cut about the face and body; John Brown, injured; John Silk, head badly cut. In Philadelphia--Annie McVey, aged 50 (mother of the dead child Lizzie McVey), badly cut about the body; Annie McVey, 15, cut about the face and limbs; Francis Golden, aged 24, badly injured by falling timber; Michael Kent, aged 55, back brok­ en; William A. Harb, of Short & Harb, ho siery manufacturers, struck by falling brick, causing depression of the biain; it is thought he will die. The following employes at Short & Harb's mfil were also injured: Anuie Baitz. aged 16, arm broken; Annie Raren, aged 16; Emma Power, 19; Emma Thomas, 1$ £m ma MichenVr/l'J; John Thornton, 15. AT BALTIMORE. [Baltimore dispatch.] Advices from various points throughout the State show the storm to have been the most disastrous that has ever visited this sec tion. A cyclone swept a path 200 yards iu width through Cecil County; houses, mills, and bridges were carried away; trees were blown half a mile and a loaded freight train with all brakes down was blown a mile along the tracks. Two men were bad­ ly injured by being Btruck with flying debris. Through the Middletown valley very heavy damages are reported. The loss throughout the State is roughly estimated at $15 ',000, and may be considerably in excess of that amount. AT BEADING. [Reading (Pa.) dispatch.] The rain here was very heavy, and ap­ peared like a cloud-burst. Many streets were filled with water from curb to curb. The cellars of many houses were flooded. The workmen were driven out of many foundries by the water running into the working-room. Great damage was done to the orchards and tobacco crop. IN DELAWARE. TSmyrna (Del.) dispatch.1 A terrible cyclone visited this section this afternoon, totally destroying properly for miles in a swath 300 feet wide. Stock was killed,,and orchards, cornfields, etc., were destroyed. No lives were lost 8tetan*t of the Beductioa in ths FnbHo Debt Boring July. Hw debt statement Ifned on the 1st IwUnt •hows the decrease of the public debt 4ur> to* the month of July to be 18.602,799.M: Cash la the Tieasnrv Gold certificates outstanding.... Silver oertiHiateo oatotandinc.... Certificates of deposit oatatand- inr Be funding certificates ontstand- taut Legal tenders outstanding. Fractional currency (not includ­ ing amount estimated as lost or destroyed) Net cash balance on hand The following is a recapitulation of the debt statement issued on the 1st instant (new form): Interest bearing debt-- Bonds at 4 ̂per cent Bonds at 4 per cent............... Bonds at s per cent. Refunding certificates at A par cent. Navy pension fund at 3 per cent. Pacific Railroad bonds at 6 per cent «4,623,512.00 Principal Mfio/r&iixoo Interest. 8,557,003.00 00 >*6,681,018.00 15,337,136.88 44,062,929. T5 tHo,ooo,ooao3 737.728.900.00 194,190,500.00 233.200.00 14,000,000.00 Total. ,H.tt9,3Miu&oo Debt on which interest has Ceased sinoe maturity-- Principal.......... $4,0M.4ft.VM Interest. 225,856.1# TotaL... $4,240,341.45 T>ebt bearing no interest-- Old demand and legal-tender notes IttS,738,931.00 Certificates of deposit 31.420.00 Gold certificates 113,2R9,000.> 0 Sliver certificates M,8S7,lo^00 Fractional currency (less *8,875,- 9:*4 estimated as lost or de­ stroyed) .. 6,961,19Z 78 P r i n c i p a l . . . . . . . # 8 0 7 , 2 8 1 , 1 2 9 . 8 8 Total debt- Principal. ..$t,872.07i;fi27.14 Interest. 8,782,858.73 TotaL $1,880,854,496.87 Less cash items available for re­ duction ot the debt $260,290,397.83 Less reserve held for redemption of United States notes 100,000,000,00 Total.....*.... $360,230,397.83 Total debt less available cash ̂ items $1,580,684,289.04 Net cash in the Treasury 44,052,929.35 Debt, less sash in Treasury, Aug. «1,476,571,359.00 Debt, less cashin Treasury, July 1, 1885 1,485,234,149.65 Decrease of debt during the month as shown by this state­ ment $8,663,789.96 Cash in the Treasury available for reduction of the debt- Gold held for gold certificates actually outstanding $123,289,000.00 Silver held for stiver certificates actually outstanding,, 88,872,106.00 United States notes hela for oer- titicates of deposit actually out­ standing 31,420,00a 00 Cash held for matured debt and interest unpnid 6,647,925.02 Fractional currency 1,366.81 Total available for reduction of the debt $262,230,397.83 Reserve tund held for redemp­ tion of United States notes, act July 12, lMSi. 100,000,000.00 Ina vailable for redaction of the debt-- Fractional silver coin. $25,353,020.23 Minor coin 857,072.02 „ Total $26,212,092.25 Certificates held as cash issued, but not outstanding $57,923,300.00 Net cash balance on hand 44,052,929.35 Total cash in Treasury, as shown by Treasurer's gen­ eral account $488,418,719.43 REFUSED TO €ARRY THE MAIL. The Pacific Hail Company Deftea Uawle Sani. fWashlngton telegram*] The Postoffice Department is in receipt of information that to-day an agent of the department attempted to sail on a Pacific Mail steamer from San Francisco for ports on the west coast of Mexico and Central America, taking with him a trunk, for which he offered to my the regular charge for extra baggage. The postal officials in San Francisco presumably are too familiar with the Pacific Mail Company's officials, for the purser on the steamer had informa­ tion that the trunk contained the usual mail matter for Mexico and Central America, and he promptly refused to accept pay for the trunk or permit it to be put on board the steamer. The mail was then ordered to be sent by rail from San Francisco to Jiew Orleans, and thence by steamer to Mexicari and Central American ports. By this route mail sent from San Francisco will reach ports on the east side of Mexico and Central America in twelve days. The Pacific mail from San Francisco to ports on the Western coast is nineteen days, so that a week will be saved in the new route. On the 1st of April it ceased to be compulsory with American steamers to carry the mails, but it can not be pretended that this change of the law relieves the steamship companies from any of the obligation of common carriers. They have a regular published tariff of charges on freight of different classes and on extra baggage, and it is certainly an ex­ traordinary proposition that they can dis­ criminate against United States mail mat­ ter when packed in a trunk, and taken with him by one of the passengers. MALCONTENT MORMONS. HABBT GABFIELP, eldest son of the martyred President, will take a professor­ ship in St. Paul's School at Concord, N. H. His brother James will study law iu New York City. A WBLli of natural^ exed near Clinton, 111. is has been diacov- Tlwy Are Inciting Snvages to Hostilities Against the Whites. [Omaha special.] Advices received here show that there is an nneasy state of feeling among the Indi­ ans of Utah at various points. For a few days past thirty lodges of Utah Indians have been camped near Evanston, Wyom ing, not far from the Utah line, and they have had several war dances, and have been on several drunks from whisky sold to them under cover of essence of ginger by design­ ing Mormons. A leliable and intelligent half-breed is authority for the statement that the Utah Mormons have been quietly circulating among various tribes to induce them to go on the war-path against the whites. This half-breed, whose name is given as Fonte- bille, fears the situation, and expresses his belief that there is liable to be a general up­ rising. Indians are roaming over the country iu small squads. They are quite numerous in the vicinity of Henry's Fork, fifty miles south of Evanston. Indians from all the reservations in Western Wy­ oming and in Utah are said to be off their reservations, and acting in a suspicious manner. Gen. Howard has gone west, presumably for the purpose of personally investigating the situation, ns reports indicate a threaten­ ing attitude of the Indians in the western part of this department A "RATTLER." ewifc' A Snake Ten Feet LOOK and Carrying Around Twenty-flve or Thirty Rattlea. [Jonesboro (Ga.) special.] The people on the line of Fayette and Clayton Counties are iu terrible excitement to-day over the appearance of a monster rattlesnake in that section. A Utile off the McDonough road there lives a man . named McJunkin. Last night he was called upon by a friend, who sat up late with him, while Mrs. McJunkin retired. The two meli drank quite freely. When the husband retired his companion was mystified by peculiar noises inside. Striking a light, he went in and found coiled up between the couple a huge rattler. The apj earance of the light broke its charm, and, gliding across the body of the sleeping woman, it crawled under the bed and through an opening in the floor and out. The reptile was not less than ten feet in length, rusty and scaly, and having be­ tween twenty-tive and thirty rattles. The settlement turned out this morning with shotguns in pursnit of the reptile, and at last succeeded in running it iuto a hu ?e hollow log. where its body was perforated with a hundred bullets. Wonderful stories {.•re being told of other reptiles by the ex­ cited people. WISCONSIN dairymen have formed • eteese popl to increase prices. Ihirteg the vne Daniel Smith, the Stephenson County, his centennial birthday. . <^| --Engineer Fred Hartman,of the' Central Railroad, waa instantly Cairo by the engine being thrown from i track. -- Janes A. G4S^>a resident of since 1846, was buried last week. prominent merchant and ear'.y days. --The lumber dealers offered to fire-boat, if the city of Chicago man it and supply it with pumps and 1 and the Council took them up. --Tho next meet ng of the Central Ofi» . * nois Tnrnfest will be held at MoKne in tho , - " spring. The headquarters of the district have been removed from Decatur to PakiB. --George Hossack. a driver, hatf bettl ,; r: arrested in Michigan for absconding tMk •• | the trotting horse John R., record SdML Mr. Rufus Ingalls, of Belvidere, Is owner !' of the steed. --John Sea, a prosperous peddler, had m dispute with James Kellam at the supper ^ table in the Ihomas House, Decatar, dv« ing which Sea fired six shots at Ke&aaavttt | a revolver, one striking him ia thegroi^ ^ producing a dangefbus wound. t --William F. Milligan, one of Chicagafar ^ best-known business men, died suddssd^ .' last week. He was formerly associated fa | hnsiuess with Monroe Heath, ex-Ui9«*> "i giving up his connection with the firm ft little over a year ago. He was fifty-eigfek ,,i years old, --The valiant cowbe? has been eurris4 • at Chicago in a way that must have raised great lumps on his proud, free spirit. H» 1: took umbrage at a policeman because ho^ ^ had been arrested for filing his weapon in the street After his release he laid for the ^ officer, and, coward like, "got the drop osi ' him" and shot him in the back. The p»*,t \ liceman turned to see who his assailant was, and saw a revolver pointed in an air ; ? l i n e a t h i s p e r s o n . N o t h i n g d i s m a y e d ; h » ; : i drew his own, and the fusillade was tag#; up until both had emptied their "guns,** the officer advancing steadily while the firing was in progress. Before the cowboy could draw another weapon he was knocked down and dragged off to the bastile. Abooft ten years iu the penitentiaiy would be th* proper thing for him. Ufe-Savors. ' tfVom the Chit ago Evening JoumiiL} In these days of cyclones and other at­ mospheric disturbances on sea and oft shore, when, all too frequently for humaft comfort, "night comes on a hurricane, and seas is mountains rowlin'" it be* tomes not a little interesting to in­ quire about our life-saving stations, it- is, moreover, not less interesting thaft curious to discover that comparatively few people in £he city know the least thing concerning this highly important institu­ tion. They read a paragraph in the papers once in a while, telling them that the crew ' of the life-saving sta­ tion went to the rescue pf some unfortunate party struggling with the mad waves, but about the brave fel­ low* who compose this beroio band, and who are at any moment called upon to risk their lives, jnst aa our firemen are, thefce seems to be sinimiaiiy tnnaHifcteMflfrtiiaik* Let any inquirer, cartons enough to goattd see the modest little^establishment at pis mouth of the river, ask along the linfio it. over the Randolph street viaduct, WMCft the life-saving station is located, and robably nine out of ten persons will te& im that it is "away out somewhere i ~ Evanston." Certainly there is one --well equipped, manned by volunteer crew, made up of stude commanded by Captain Larsen--which is i doing noble service; but the Chicago sta» " | tion has perhaps more constant dnty Oii&i? its hands, and it is quite an teresting spot to visit A breezy place it is almost at any time Of i the day or night, and it is really stir*' r prising to encounter such a sttddtn change from the hot, sultry air Of thft streets, where, it may be, not a breath of air is stirring, to the lively blast that greet* you as you pass over the viaductand behold - the merry waves with their white caps on, and a whole fleet of little sloops and boaitf!; t dancing and tumbling about on ihebQlowa. There are long lanes of lumber to be far* ̂ ersed before one reaches the life-saving station, which is built on a strip of laftd It ~ the mouth of the river, known as Central Railroad Pier No. 1. It was estisS* lished in 1875 as a life-boat station, by ft volunteer crew, whose support was derived from an allowance by the Government ot $10 for each life saved. In 1878, thiS VOl* unteer service was supplemented by a pakt crew, which is maintained by the General Government. ^ The crew consists of a captain and sevett* ; i surfmen. The rales of the service reqniMl that one mau shall be on watch night and ^ d>y continuously, and in thick weather ftl | night time the surfmen have to patrol the v beach, one to the right and one to the tsflfc^!^ of the station, the principal object befall to discover any stranded vessel thftt maj have run ashore. The site of the commands a fine view of the harbor, anl •' the thread-like line of the Government breakwater stretching away in the distance •';?•. to Twelfth street, forming the basins. F hi Captain St Peter is an unpretending; quiet-mannered sailor, of Fr origin, who talks and looks like a man thoroughly comprehends his duty and 1ft ready to obey its call at any moment family live with him in the I aside from the constant danger with 1 they are encompassed, their life wot seem to be quite a cheerful one in i breezy region. They lead a sort of i life all of them, and to visit the spoti*aii4 most like going into an entirely now eovik-' try and strange surroundings. "The aetea go out," says the Captain, "when the wind is off land and it is smooth enough aloof the shore, but as soon as you get out abosk a mile the whitecaps oome, and then it fft>: all one cm do to get back to shore again. So that the life they lendis one of peqpet- ual danger and excitement." , "This is the life boat." he said, opening* a eliding door which led into the apniteMt' where it lay ready at a moiuviit's notice tft, be launched into the waters. "It is built, on the Ei glish model, and is a self-rider and Belf-bailer." "What is a self-rider?" "It means that if the boat should captrise sha can right herself up alone. 1 A self- bailer means that she bai;s herself out akme by means of these cheek valves; so thMl she is virtually unsubmergable. You aUt stave a hole in her bottom and yet she would tloat, having, as you sec, sixteen air- : tight compartments." The life-boat can be launched in two minutes, manned by the snrfmen, and wMh storm sailE. The surf-boat is a light-boiM - craft, made of cedar, and about ten J in length. The station is a clean-kept and well-disciplined ment, and the men on duty are ft 1 daring, and brave set of fellows, whoj doing splendid work, without, it W|pL seem, getting very much reward, elttWi the wav of money or of popular appreci tion. But thev seem to regard this as a mat- • ter of little concern. They love the servisft | for its own sake. -- Wfllinuj Burchanser, proprietor of t Anna Roller Mills, made an assignment. „ '"V* : EJIlt'l