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State mm emorrat UPPLE IO ILnT T. LATEST NEWS SUMMARY. MY TRLEDBAPH TO DATK. Fifteen hundred boiler makers re turned to work at New York on the 5th. An explosion in a sawmill at Iluokers ville, Va.. on the 3d inst,, killed one man and badly injured several other. The decree abolishing exportation du ties on gold and silver coin, bars and ore, and increasing importation duties on all foreign goods, as published bv executive deems will go into. effect in Mexico the first of next November. James E. Harvey was Lanced at Car ml ton, Yu., ou the 21 inst. for murder. The gallows was erected in a Held and the executiou was witnessed by 1U00 people. Win. L. More, who was to have been hanged at the same time and place, attempted snioide iu themoruing by tak ing morphine and will die from its ef fects. Hon. M. A. Otero died at his residence in Santa Fe May 31st of heart disease. Death was sudden and unexpected. De ceased was a prominent man in the polit ical history and commercial development of New Mexico, having represented the territory in congress for a number of years. The remains will be taken to Denver for interment. John Roach is president of the United States and Bralilian steamship lines, with American built iron ships, and sail ing under the United States dag, organ ized by prominent merchants of new York, Philadelphia, Baltimore and Rich mond for the purpose of running a semi monthly line of passenger steamships be tween the United States and Sooth Amer ican ports. Inquiry at General Sheridan's head quarters as to the truth of the report that he had left prematurely a fishing party in Michigan because of a telegram from Washington that General Sherman was about to retire from the armv, which would place Sheridan at its head, elicited the information that Geucrsl Sheridan left Point Aux Pellee merely because he had remained there as long as he wanted to. In the house of lords the marqnis of Salisbury said he had received informa tion that 6000 soldiers were erecting earthworks around Alexandria anil that the British governmect would not permit the fleet to interfere. Salisbury remarked that if they allowed the works to be con tinued grave consequences might result. He hoped the conference at Constanti nople wonld be a short one. Lord Granville replied that the government was fully aware of all the circumstances and must be left to judge how it is beat to fulfill her duty. A tragedy is reported from Yell county, Ark. Lazarus Brooks and James K. McGhee, farmers, quarreled over a land suit, and McGhee learning that Brooks would win it became furious with pas sion, snd finding him in the woods bunt ing cattle in company with a 15 year-old boy, after a few words shot him dead with a shotgun, and as the boy started to run sent a shot after him, breaking his arm, bnt not checking his flight. McGhee then reloaded bis gun and placing it against the forehead of his prostrate vic tim, shot the "Charge into' his head. He then walked off and is still at large. Indians returning to Arizona are sup posed to be trying to get back on San Carlos reservation again. Mexican troops are making it very warm for thehoetiles, and they have returned, to Arizona. A recent report states that a band of thirty Indians is in White Stone mountains, in the vicinity of Nelson station on the Southern Pacific railroad. A courier who arrive 1 on the 1st from Camp Rucker says that two brothers by the name of Hunt who were en route to Mexico were jumped by hostiles num bering about ten or fifteen, and one of the brothers was killed, ten miles south of Camp Rucker in Cbiricahua moun tains. A New York despatch of the 1st ssys: Although there is some talk to day of a more favorable turn to the labor troubles, many of the foremost business men of this city regard the situation as very significant. It is said by western men who have been in town this week that trades unions and other labor organiza tions throughout the country have at tained a more widely extended system of co-operation in strikes this year than ever before. So complete is the organ ization. they say, that not merely 10,000 but 100,000 men in different trades can be moved to one strike simultaneously. or by platoons, as circumstances, in the opinions of their leaders, may make ad visable. It is said that June 1st has bet n fixed on as the day on which a I reat number of iron and coal workers to strike. It is at the same time the be lief of some well informed men that over production and continued deprivation of foreign markets will before next December cause stoppage of many in dustrial works and force others to work on short time, and that the suffering and discontent resulting from such stoppages will tend seriously to increase the dis content of the operative population Those who hold this reproach republicans that they have so entirely neglected during this long session of congress to reduce taxes and reform the tax system. The following dispatches under date of June 1st record tremendous labor strikes: The iron and nail mills of Wheeling, W. Va., and vicinity shut down this evening for an indeLnite period, the proprietors saving refused to sign the new scale of wages for employes, which would take effect to-morrow. The Whitaker sheet iron mill signed the soale this evening mid will be the only mill in operation to morrow. Bv this stoppage DOUU men will be thrown out of employment. This morning the warfare between labor and capital in Pittsburg began in dead earnest. Fires in every iron mill in the citv. with one exception, have been taken out and mills shut down The exception is the Union iron mills of Cumoeio. Bros. & Co.. who signed last night. They will continue to run,, hav ing contracts on hand that must be filled This is generally considered a bad break and calculated to weaken the lines o the manufacturers. It is one of the largest iron mills, and has a capacity o 35.000 tons a year. The steel mills are rnnnin&r as usual. Most of them have siimed the scale, but as they do not em ploy many puddlers it is not thought that their signing will have any effect on the situation. It is expected that most of the sheet mill will sign within a few days. The threatened strike will probably not change affairs in. Cleveland. The Cleveland rolling mill company's works will be shut some time, and are expected to resume before long, as also the new Union works. The Forest City Iron Co. emnlovincr 100 men. and the Union roll ing mill company, having 260, have signed the scale and are running as usual. Other iron and steel works here employ non-union men and are not af footed. The president has appro veil the bill distributing the Geneva award. The 30th annual convention of the In ternational Typographical Uuion was held in the citv hall at St. Louis on the 5th. James Wiopenny, proprietor of Areola mill, Philadelphia, committed suicide on the 5th. He leaves an estate of $250,000. Mental derangement was the cause. The new system of telographio orders for train signals went into effect on the Northwestern railway ou the 4th. The time card for the 11th does not provide for a fast mail, as expected. Representatives of business interests of New xork stato met in convention on the 2d to form an association for protec tion of business men, merchants, manu facturers, shippers and farmers, as against ail questions jeopardizing their business. At memorial service iu Brighton, Mass., on the 4th under auspices of the G. A. It., Colonel J. D. Wash bo rue of Worcester delivered an address in which he advocated repeal of all legislation disqualify ing oonfederade soldiers from positions in the U. S. army. General Garabaldt died on the 4th: His will orders his body cremated, and ashes preserved in a porphyry urn near the tomb of his dead child at Caprera. The will is dated September 17, 1881, and eotrusta execution of his wishes to his wife. All Italy is in monruing for the dead soldier Prof. W. Frank Stewart, of Nevada, died at the Crawford house Boston, on the 5th after a short illneas. Previous to 1879 he lived in California and Nevada for many years, where he waa a miner, editor, state senator and mining expert. For the past year he has been interested in Maine turning interests. In Osage county, Fla., Mr. Worburton started iu a carriage with his wife and twin children, the entire family, for lake Eustas. On the way' he drove iuto the lake to water his horse. The latter drew the carriage after him into deep water and the whole family were drowned. The four bodies were recovered. Times Richmond : The proposition to remove the body of Thomas Jefferson from the old grave yard at Monticello, in this state, and place it in a emoterv at Washington, meets with widespread indignation in V inrtnia. It is safe to assume from all that can bo learned that the remains will not be disturbed. Lieut. Augustine Hewitt, of the 22d infantry, died at San Antonio, Tex.. after a short illness on the 4th. Prior to death and after his case had been pro nounced hopeless by physicians, he waa married to Miss Katharine, eldest daugh ter of Col. Blanton Duncan. Mrs. Hew ett is also very sick and not expected to ive. Lieut. Hewett was a native of Bridgeport, Conn. The town of Epis, in Sumter county. Ala., was almost totally destroyed by fire on the 5th. Particulars as follows: Io the afternoon a crowd of drunken negroes became very boisterous in the streets, insulting citizens and threatening violence. Some white, men banded to gether and drove the tnrbnlent crowd ont of town. After nightfall the negroes returned and set fire to the place and seven stores were burned. Four of the negroes boarded a train on the Alabama Great Southern railroad and were ar rested when the train arrived at Tusca loosa and returned to Epis. Eight counties in Kansas have reiiorted through their clerks to the secretary of the state board of agriculture their, ab stract of assessors rolls. These counties aggregate in ail about an area of 1,242,- 133 acres, an increase over 1H81 of IHti, 333 acres. A loss of 20 per cent, occurs in the acreage in wheat, while all other crops show increase in numbers. Sheep have advanced more than 100 per cent. Reports from correspondents indicate a heavy yeild in wheat, the product aggre gating more than that of 1881, and all fruits are in fair condition. The outlook for Kansas this year is promising. The new penal code of New York does not go into effect until December next. It provides for the punishment of all persons who break contract of service, or after hiring and knowing what the probable consequences will be, to endan ger persons or valuable property, thus taking cognizance apparently of striken; as lor example, when workmen tn an iron furnace agree to quit work just as the molten metal is ready for casting, when compositors on a newspaper with draw at an hour pnrposely, so late as to prevent issuing the next day s paper and when railroad hands stop at a fixed time along the line of road, leaving cars, pas sengers and freight wherever they may happen to be at the moment. Special from Apache, Arizona: A courier from Capt Kramers camp at Forest Dale brings intelligence of Indian depredations. One man was killed and some stock driven off. Captain Kramer and citizens are in pursuit toward tue Cibicu country. Pedro and part of his band of White mountain Indians were having a war dance when the courier left. It is thought they did not intend going on the war path, however. Depre dations are believed to be by Cibicu and a party of Pedro's young men, whom he could not control. The courier was fired on and pursued for some distance from camp. A troop of the btn cavalry was dispatched to Kramer's assistance. A Cleveland dispatch of the 5th says: The breach between Bishop Gilmoar and flock is wider than ever. His letter threatening to excommunicato lady mem bers of the land league was read in Cath olic chnrches to day, and commented on by priests who favored the Bishop's posi tion. A large meeting of the land league was held to-night, and the general senti ment favored the ladies, who have the support of all landleaguers in the city. The ladies are determined not to disband. Miss Mary Rowland, president of the ladies' branch land league, has written a bitter letter to Bishop Gilmour, in which she says women of the Paruell branch of the land league will continue in the work they have undertaken. Shu sets the bishop's threat of excommunication at defiance. A dispatch from Baxter Springs, Kas., of the 4th says: A report was circulated yesterday that some men digging a well for J. H. Naylor, in the . western part of the town, had struck a flowing veiw of fietrolenm at a depth of 41 feet. Several eading business men at once went out and found several barrels of crude ma terial had already been raised to, the sur face. Coal oil experts from the oil re gion of Pennsylvania pronounce it gen nine crude petroleum of extra good quality. It is easily ignited by the flame of a match, and is very combustible. Great excitement prevails, $10,000 has been offered for a fifteen acre tract on which thewell is situated. There is a movement on foot for the forming of a company to purchase the ground and put in machinery at once. HIGH HYtJTH ADVIftTUKE. HY LUCY KlIOKNIU IlN. Hugh Evans was growing angry; be walked one step forward and then was blown two feet backward by the raging blast. "It seems to me," he grumbles, "that whichever way I go, from that direction the wind begins to blow. Thank Heaven, hero's home at last I" With a feeling of groat satisfaction he reached the door of a handsome house that stood among a row of equally pre tentious mansions. He fumbled in bis tnH'ket for his night key, and after over ruling a dozen of loose papers, he sue seeded in finding it. He tried to lower his umbrella. "Wliat's the matter with the stubborn old machine?" he said. "This comes of lending it to a friend. I wish he bad uever returned it." The door opened, and a young lady rashed toward him. "Oh, you've oome at last!" she ex claimed. "Bello is almost wild because you delayed. Why didn't you oome sooner?'' "Beg pardon," began H.igh. "Ask y'iu wife's pardon, not mine. Harry! Let me take yotir dripping um brella. The doctor has been here," wont on the young lady, breathlessly, "and Belle is crying her eye out. How could you stay so long at the club aud leave uh lu re alone?" "What a hypocrite .pretending toorv!" said his companion "Where's mother?" be asked. "Mother? Whose mother? Jubya mother!" inquired the young ladv. "Why, upstairs, of course. Ho ftpraug up two steps ut a time. "Mother, ha shouted, "who's Belle? by ia the gas turned so low?" A female figure was discernible in the upper hall, and an he approached it, he was greeted by a shower of tears. "Go right beck, dear husband, and oall Dr. Cureall. I waut to vou hold the poor little dear for him!" said the sobbing female. "Zounds! Woman. I know nothing of fou or your baby. Where's my mother, say?" At this moment a furious ring at the bell was heard, a servant answered the summons, and a man heavily muffled came bustling iu. "What a night!" exclaimed the new comer. "My giacions! Brother Earnest!" ex claimed the young lady, coming for- ard. "Why, Earooat, how can you ha up sutrs aud down stairs at toe same time? How happens it?" "Go away with your conundrums. Don't try to be funny I'm not in the mood. I got in the wrong oar coming homo, and had to walk aero town in this di.zle. Mv feet are soaking. I must have walked out of my arctics when I stepped off the oar. Help me off with my overcoat. How's baby, Maud?" Hut Maud was already at the head of the stairs. "Really, madame. pinch me, I must be asleep, fur I've no wife, never had a wife, never expect to have a wife!" "What's the row?" cried Earnest, pushing past Maud. "Ia baby worse, Belle? For God's sake, tell me!" "Ob, Earnest!" said the weeping female, and forthwith fainted completely away, and would have fallen but for the protecting arms of Hugh, which gal- lautly received the sinking form. "Doctor," exclaimed Earnest, ad dressing Hugh, "my wife, my child! "Doctor, tell me the worst!" "Water! water! Don't you see the ladv has fainted?" cried Hugh. "Yes, doctor. Ring the bell, Maud. No matter I'll run for water." The disconsolate husband rushed pell mell into the bath-room; here was water enough, a whole bath tub full; but how to carry it to Belle? His eyes fell on a watering pot, and appropriating it, be thnrst the vessel in the tub and filled it. "Quick, Earnest!" called Maud. "Water:" again shouted Hugh. "Here's plenty," replied Earnest, try ing to steady himself. "Ob, Earnest, Belle wiU die! She will never come to her senses I fear she is breathing her hut!" sighed Maud. "Belle, Belle, only live! I'll give np the club I'll never smoke again! Only live I" he prayed, as he approached his unconscious darling. "Hero, doctor," he continued, "here s the water." Unluckly his foot slipped, and like a shower bather the contents of the inno cent watering pot descended on the fated four. Belle opened her eyes as the reviving deluge came and continued to come. "She revives!" broke in the loving husband. "Belle lives! "Oh, doctor, I oan brave any fate now P and ho shook off the offending drops. "I'm drowned!" vociferated Maud. "What next?" demanded Hugh. "Doctor, doctor, help me to carry my dear wife iuto the loom, and, doctor is baby so much worse?" inquired the anxious father. "Do not fear to tell me; I would know the worst." Again, a furious ring resounded through the house, and Dr. Cureall was ushered by a servant. "Why, Dr. Cureall, how can you be hero and there at the same time?' ex claimed Earnest, letting go, in his amazement, the hold he had on his wife, whose tiny feet came down with a bang on the oiled floor. "Strange time to jest!" said the doc tor, joining the. party. "What kind of trouble are you having?" Then, .as he noted the unusual appcar nnce of the lady of the house, a horrible suspicion took possessisn of his brain ; it was plainly evident that the unfortunate female had taken a drop too much; and he recoiled in horror. "Who are you?" demanded Ernest, confronting Hugh. "Who am I? More likely, who are yonr i am master here this bouse is mine. You must be escaped lunatics or usurpers. Now I ask again, who are yon?" fiercely cried Hugh. "Zounds! man, how dare you?" Belle's eyes were open now, and she shrank from she arms that enoiroled her. With Hugh's assistance she was enabled to stand. "Zounds! man," shrieked Earnest, "vou are master here! Belle, how did this man come here? Who is he, I de mann?" "Where is my mother? ' questioned Hugo iu returu. "Where berson ought to be," growled Earnest. "Belle. I see it all! You thought I would stay at the club until late, and you would have a quiet flirta tion with this villain; but I caught you. And you, Maud, my own sister, I could not believe that you would countenance such a proceeding!" The nurse came down stairs, exclaim ing: "I thought the doctor came. Baby Will is kicking and yelling; my arms and ears ache. He must have the doctor." "Where am I?" interrupted Hugh. Ho looked around ; suddenly a light dawned on his lefoggod snd beclouded intellect, and ho burst into a hearty laugh. "What are you laughing at. you double-dyed monster? Laughing at the misery you have wrought? Doctor, you are a witness to my wife's perfidy I" said the exoitablo Earnest. "Listen," began Hugh. "I will not!" returned Earnest. . "Listen let me explain. I live at No. 0, I street," said lingh. "And this is number six J street," bawled Earnest, so that his voice might lie heard uIhjvc the din which the cry ing child made. "Here's my card - Hugh Evans, at vour service. All I can say to this wk wark prcdioauiout is thut in the dark 1 mistook yaur house for my mothoi's. Will you not accept my apology ?" "Hugh Kvaus? Whv. old chum, it cannot lie ! Here we have boon liviug only one square distant from och;othr ! Give me your band. Ha ! ha ! I under stand it. Fine joke 1 Wife, I'll never bo jealous agaio. Forgive mo! Well, since you will not look after the haby, 111 discharge yon, Hugh. To think 1 mistook you for a doctor and then for vidian ! I must have boeu crazy,' said Earnest. "Well, Earnest, I'll start onee more for home," said Hugh. "Not until you promise to come again. I waut to talk ovor our m-ny oolUjfe daya onee more. Come to morrow niht, and you will not have such a ohilling reception as you received to night." "I'll go to Master Will aud ace if I can relievo him also," observed Dr. Cureall. Hugh Evans look his departure, and the next night found him again at the roaideuce of hia new fouu I friend. The evening passed pleasantly. Mautl Bar rows he found very entertaining , thou be discovered she waa remarkably in teresting; later he thought she waa fac mating, and before the hour arrived for him to aav "good night," ho knew do wns truly lovable. Evening after evening found Hugh at the aide of Mam), until Maud began to count the hours until it waa time for him to repeat his visit. Belle felt happier now that her him bind had left his club, aud Earnoat, ait ting with his baby ou lua kneaa, looked tbo picture of content. "Why, have you heard the oowa, Maud?'rhe said. "Our friomi Hugh is going to start for Europe soon; be called down town to-day, to tell me that his buaineaa requires him to get ready at once." Why waa it that Hand trembled so? How lonely she would ha when abe was gone! "There, I forgot; I must call oo a cli ent niw; Hugh will be hero soon; tell him I will return in an hour, at Boat," aaid Earnest; and Maud waa alone with her grief. "Hugh is going away. What shall I do?" ahe mow nod. The bell rang. Maud ran out into the hall and quickly opoao.l the door her self. "Maud, dear Maud!" aaid a voice abe loved well. What a homo feeling pos sesses me when I see you at the door!" They passed into the parlor. "Do yon know, Maud, that I am obliged to leave you?'' Somehow the teari could not be kept back. But, Maud, I return soon, and then ill you lie my own promised bride?" A happy, suMuod light ahoou in the maiden's eyes, but ahe spoke not. "It will bo hard to part with yon, but Maud, better still, say you will be mtue at once, aud over the water we'll sail together." Maud s lovely hoad dropped: somehow the lover took this as a signal that ahe consented , and clasped her to hia heart. "You promise. All my life, whon 1 shall look on my darling wife, I'll bless the storm that drovo me to the wrong house, and think tint mistaken aro often but the workings of fate."-Waverly. A True Snake Story. There is in almost all human beings an at least occasional desire to hear or read something startling or horrible. What is bad is noised about; and news papers and social circles find much to sav altottt it: but croodncs crocs like the sunshine, quietly through the world. In order to giro my readers something startling, I will narrate to them a true. yet horrible tale. snakes, in Brazil, as iu all tropical ooontriea, grow to an enormous size, snd have great muscular strength; it is ael dom that you hear of one attacking man, and the nativea are generally will ing to encounter the largest. There was an exception in the case of Asoencao Ig naoio do Bilva. He was a quiet, peace able person, beloved and respected by all who knew him. It is customary in that summary land for those living near streams to bathe in their margin, and numerous little dressing rooms are seen on the banks rudely constructed for the purpose. One Sabbath morning, when the clear sky was beginning to be inviting, Ascenoao, who, with his wife and little son (a boy of five summers), lived on the banks of the beautiful Rio N , requested his wife to bring the boy and they would go and bathe. When they reached the stream Ascenoao took the child's ham?, requesting Phillips to take the other and enter. Phillipa stopped, and pulling the child back pointed to a large snake that was swim ming down the river towards them. Ho laughed at her fears and plunged into the waves, Philippa watching with ner vous dread. Presently Asoencoa gave a terrible scream and sprang high into the air, when, oh, horrible! there was his manly form completely entwined by the fierce monster he had encountered, its head above bis, with its great mouth open, and its tongue out as H defying resistance. The eyes of the unfortunate man ap peared almost projecting from their sockets; his hands wero extended toward Phillipa, as if for aid. The poor woman screamed in agony for help. Her husband quickly disappeared. Onoe again he arose, but this time there was no sound, he ssnk. aud Phillipa noticed a disturbed state of the waters for a few moments. Then all was apparently over; the great rippling stream flowed on, with only a crimson streak on its silvery foam, showing where a life had gone out forever. All efforts to recover the body proved unavailing. Ascenoao had been crushed by the loathsome object he had scorned, and there is no doubt that had he been prepsred for the attack be would have conquered; but being off his guard and unarmed, he could give no resistance. His poor widow and orphan still live upon the bank of the Bio N to point out the spot, and toll the story. Playing Cards. A manufacturer of playing cards in this city, nays tbo N. Y. World, waa asked whero the most of the cards were made and what becomes of them. He aaid: "I ha vo often wondered, when thinking of the vast number of packs of cards manu factured iu all parts of the world, and what becomes of them all, just as the old woman waa at a loss to know what became 0f a the pins. llusaia has a population. I believe, of about 80,000, (MJ0, and they make the best playing carda iu Ht. Petersburg of any place in Europe. Besides, the authorized manu factory there by the government is the only one in that vast empire. It is a government institution, just the same as the mint or the United Htate bank treasury ia a government institution here. It is licensed by the government, protected by the government, and the net profits go to the support of a found ling asylum. The same system prevails in Mexico, in Prance and Germauy the manufacturers are licensed, but the buai neaa ia not so much of a monopoly there aa it ia to liuaaia. "How ia it in this country in this re spect?" "The only restriction that exist in tbia country b the imposition of a reve nue tat of (Ive cents per pack, and this tax haa to be paid on all grades of carda, regardless of their value." "What is the extent of the manufac ture of carda in this country?" "Probably about 5,000,0IO packs a vear. Of that number I supply folly :i,&00,000 packs. I employ 100 and manufacture my own paper. The ooly rival of any Importaaee in thi coun try ia the United Card Company. Iu my day I have aeon aa many aa twenty con cerna started , but they have all paaaod out of existence after a brief time. The great aecret of the successful manufac ture of playing carda is in the inanufao lure and preparation of the paper so as to secure the required elasticity, and the cutting and finishing of the cards so that they can be abutted and daalt. Here ia a pack manufactured in Chicago, which some one brought in hero as ample. They are matte of , pasteboard an 1 cut with a die. The consequence ia that they are not of uniform aizs, and the edges on one side are pressed down and left jagged, so that it ia itupoaaible to shuttle and deal them. The beat card are made two-ply that ia, of two aboute of wper paated together. Tne interior grades are throe-ply. Tho prices rauge from fl. SO to $12 per dozen packs, while forty years ago the rauge was from fifty oonU to :) per doxen. Tho improve ment haa been constant and steady, so that the third grade of cards now arc aa good aa tbo boat were thirty years ago. The boat good a are handled thirty times after the neuer is mad befo-o thev are completed and seedy for market. Aa to tho demand, I do not auppose there are any more cards made now than there wero thirty years ago. But one pack now will last as long as a doxen would that were made thou. Up to twenty years ago we used band-preasea, printed tea than a pack at a time, and bail aa many imprcaaions aa there were colors on tbo cards "How about the manufacture of marked cards, such aa gamblers some times uae?" "Those carda are generally marked by the gamblers themselves. Sometime they make them by cutting up carda and pasting them together in some peculiar way. No reputable card manufacturer will manufacture marked cards or have anything to do with them. The gamblers who use marked cards used to resort to the dodge of getting the regular manu facturer to print the face of the card, leaving tbo backs white, and they would get the backs printed and marked somewhere else. Mow, no reputable manufacturer will do that even. I have not printed a white-back card for any body in twenty years. There are, though, I beliove, one or two place in New York where they are manufactured to order for gamblers." "Are there any illuminated cards manufactured iu this country?" "None whatever. They are purely a Froneb invention and are manufactured in France." The rale or Poor Jeaate E Cramer. The fate of poor Jenny E. Cramer is a subject of universal interest in this country. A pretty young girl, gay and lively but innocent, falls into worse than questionable company, and ia seen with some of her associates only 7 or 8 boors before her dead body ia dragged from the water. The story is an exceed ingly sad one, and its incidents empha size the valne of wise and firm domestic management in. the preservation of youth and beauty iu the snares set for its destruction. The young girl, who was so foully murdered, lived with her parents in New Haven, Connecticut, who were in moderate circumstances. The names of her murderers are Blanche Douglass, James Malley and Walter Malley, and are now on trial in that city. Bhe was a pretty girl, of a lively disposition, and a favorite among the young people of the place in which she resided. At one time she served in a cigar store kept by her father, and this employment as a matter of course, enlarged her acquaintance with the young men of the neighbor hood. In New Haven a Mr. Edward Malley owns a dry goods establishment, at which a large business is done, and be is reputed a wealthy man. His son Walter Malley, and nephew James Malley, were consequently regarded with the distinction which wealth or re puted wealth is apt to give. They enjoyed the use of mean and leisure, dressed well and were dashing young fellows, on the lookout for a good time, with the health, money and freedom to enjoy the opportunity when it came. The precise time when these young men became acquainted with tne de ceased beauty does not appoar. James Malley visited hor the first time on the 12th of July, 1881. Between this date and the 24th of the same month when she received a note from him inviting bur to moot a female friend of his, he made her two other visits, and within a few days Blanche Douglass, the female friend re ferred to. and who is r i oved to have been an inmate of a disreputable house in New York Citv. and Jennio Cramer became acquainted. They and the two accused young men were much together after this tiuio. Ua Thursday, the tn oi August, the girls called on Jennie's mother, and Douglass accounted for tho deceased's absence from home all night by saying that they had slept together at the Elliott House, where .she had a room. Mrs. Cramer was greatly displeased on account of Jennie's imprudence and said to her: "Jennie, whon your sister comes home, I think it is best for you to find another place for her." The poor woman bad been very unfavorably impressed with the girl Douglass. These were the last words she ever spoke to her danghter, who left the house with her friend a few momenta after, without her mother's knowledge. Upon what passed between this time and Jennie's death, the iaaue of the triul now in progress altogether depends. Douglaaa states that ahe did not aee Jen nie after parting with her ou the same day of this oall on Mm. Cramer, ami the defence are aaid to rely upon the ability to prove that the deceased was not in the company of the Malleys or either of them, after Thursday. The theory of the prosecution is that Jennie waa robbed of tier innocence with force by James Mai ley, that she continued under the influ ence of the cousins and their female ac complice until Friday night, when she was seen in their company, that they eoiaoned her with arnenie and threw Wt body into the water at or near Ba vin Hock Orove. The corpse of the beautiful girl was found by an old fisherman early in the morning of August the 0th, near the Ba vin Bock Orove, and was buried in Evergreen Cemetery two day later. .Suspicion of fool play aroae against the Mai ley a ami later against Dou glass in whose company de ceased had been seen. On the 27th of Jannsry, 1882, tho body waa exhumed and traces of araenin found within it. Indictment against the ac cused were drawn up, charging them witb tho wilful murder of Jennie E. Cramer and their arrest followed; and on the 18th of April the trial now in progress greea waa begun at New Haven, before Judge Granger. Two attorneys ap pointed by the court defend Donglaas; two Walter and two James Mai ley. Bute-Attorney !.. little ia at the bead of the proaeention. Four daya were con sumed in the selecting a jury, and te-ti monv waa not opened until April 25tb. At tfita writing the ease for the proaeen tion ia nearly complete. Jt is churned to have boon shown tltat Miss Cramer was poisoned with arsenic, that she had been robbed of her innocence within aixty houm before her death, presum ably bv J aiiies Mai ley ; that a cooapiracy to ruin her bad been carried into fleet by the three accused per una and that one or more of these were seen with her aa late a ten or eleven o'clock on the night which imme d lately preceded the finding of her body . It will lie aeen that this faila to connect the accused directly with her death. There ia, aa yet, no evidence tending to show that they or any one or two of 'hem adminietered arson ic to ber, and the gap of six or seven hours between the time when they or any one or two of them were last seen with bar and the finding of her body remains to be filled up. The defence may rely either upon the weakness of the esse for the prosecu tion or rirnoMod in tho attempt Ui nrnvm an alibi in favor of all the accused and to show that the urosenoa of arsenic in the body waa due to deceased's habit of taking it for the purpose of beautifying ber complexion. James Malley ia described aa a stout, thick set young fellow with an intelligent face. He ia a cousin of Waiter, who ia a sharp-faced young man of slighter build than hia kinsman. Blanche Doug las ia an ordinary looking girl with white complexion and flabby faoe which weai s habitually a aad expression. Arclle Hunting. In his narrative of the experienoe of the Joanette crew. Lieutenant Danen howor aavs: "During the summer mouths some of ua used to take the dingy and paddle among the cracks. On one occasion Captain De Long was alone in the dingy and was interned by a bear, that suddenly came out of the mist nd stood watching him in the moat dignified manlier. The captain retreated in good order. During the summer it was verv difficult to get bear, because they could take to the water so readily and thus out off their pursuers. During the mistv timea they were very bold, and on one occasion a she bear witb two cubs ap proached the ship to within four hundred yards of the starboard quarter. Fortu nately tho dogs were on the port aide aud to windward, and did not scent the bear. The greatest quietness prevailed and a squad of about ten riflemen was immediately organised on the poop. I was watching the bears through a cabin air port, and it was a very fine sight to the mother and her two cub approach the ship in a wondering and cautious manner. I could see better under the mist than the peo ple on the poop. 1 heard the Captain say: Vo any or you think it is over 2ou yards?' All seemed to agree aud be said, 'Aim at 230 and wait for the word fire.' The bears reeled and made several turns, and I thought we had bagged of them, but I was astonished to them get up and walk away in the most lively manner. Of course all the dogs took the alarm and pursued them to the first crack, which the bears calmly swam across and thus escaped. But large drops of blood were seen and a she boar lay down once or twice as if wounded. Io making her retreat ahe drove her cubs before her, and became impatient if they moved slowly. The bear had been hit, but the distance had been underestimat ed, and most of tho shots fell short. This was not extraordinary, because it waa very misty." A Certain Rich Ma. A certain rioh man who lives in Phila delphia, wears socks for which he pays two cents uer pair, and gives 825,000 at a time without solicitation to colleges. Being complimented recently upon his public spirit and philanthropy, he smiled sardonically, and said: "Do you know why I give so largely to educational institutions? It is be cause I want to increase the sum of human misery." An explanation being asked for he con tinued: "I hate people. There is nothing good about them. Wheu I was poor they kicked and cuffed me, and now thai I am rioh they fawn me. I want revenge, and there is no surf r way to get it thau to make young men think much of them selves, and then let the world take it out of them. Parents strain every nerve to educate their sons. Poor boys them solves study and submit to every kind of contumely to learn enough to study a profession. Honorable and honest young fellows at the start, they find success is impeded by principle and soon lot the principle go. They acquire by education tastes which they cannot gratify ; for even if they meet with partial success , their whole lives are spent in a struggle to keep up appearances. Besides this, the more wide spread higher education becomes, the sooner people will find out that it is a failure as regards nine out of every ten boys who aspire to it, and the sooner the farce will be played out." What queer ideas a man must have to wear two-cent socks, and thus explain himself about his donations. aValiftft The seals of the North Atlantic are not hunted for their fur, as are their Alaskan cousins, but chiefly for their oil. and secondarily for their skins. It is an in dustry which profitably employs hun dreds of ship snd thousands of seamen, aud it receives tbe names of "sealing." You may know that near the end of winter enormous herds, chiefly of the harp-a als, come down and oougregate upon the floating fields of ice eastward of Newfoundland, where the young are born in March. These are the place and season of the largest fishery, but tbe lo cality ia never fixed nor certain; the fields, approached simultaneously by sailing fleets and steamer from New foundland, Nova Scotia, Scotland, Eng land, France. Germany and Norway, muat be sought for every year as though for the A rat time. This ia in the icy, tempeatoons North Atlantic, at tbe most stormy period of the year. Dreadful galea may drive the ship anywhere but whore they aeek to go. bergs may lie hurled against them, the ice may jam them between ita ponderous edge and crush the doubly braced bull into splinters, or cleanly cot away part of the bottom, ami leave the vessel to sink and tbe men to save them selves as beat they may upon tbe broken and drifting ice. Often a field of thin "bay ice" will lie right in the path. Then the ahip dashes into it aa far as it power can force it. When it stick, tbe crew leap overboard, chop and break tbe ice into cake which aro aboved under tbe floe or hauled out on top; or, if it is too thick to be broken, saws are brought out, and a canal ia slowly made for the ship's progreaa. Tbia 1 a time of groat desire for baste, and you may well believe everv man work witb ail hiamhzht. Well, when all this toil and danger are passed sometimes greatly prolonged, and in tbe midst of a frozen sea and the moat violent storms and the ship has the good luck to sight a herd, then be gin for the crew or hardy aaitora or about the most arduous labor that one can imagine. ir tbe weather permit, the vessel is run into the ice and moored there; ir not it sail back ami forth io open spaces, managed by the captain and one or two other, while the remainder of the crew, sometime sixty or seventy, or even more in number, get into boats and row swiftly to the floe. Tbe young seals lie scattered about bere and there, basking in the sun or sheltered under tbe lee or a hummock, and they lie so thickly that hair a doxen will often be seen in a apace twenty yards square . They cannot get away, oi at most can only flounder about, ami '.heir plaintive bleating and white coats might almost be those of lamb. Tbe old seal are friad awav bv the aooroach of tie sailors, and never show fight, aud the youngsters are easily killed ; so tbe men do not take guns, bnt only clubs, with which they strike the poor little fellows a single blow on the head, usually killing them at once. Having struck down all they can see within a abort distance, the small squad of men who work together then quickly akin, or (as they call it) "sculp' them with a broad claap knife, cutting clear through tbe thick layer of fat which lie underneath the hide, and so leaving a surprisingly small car cass behind. Bundles are then made from three to seven "pelts," and each man drags a budle toward the boat. Tbia ia sometime miles dis tant, the ice is rough and broken, he must leap cracks, trust himself to iso lated cakes, and often he falls into the freezing water .-or loses his way in a sud den squall or snow. It ia limb-cracking ami lirc-riskimr work. and. to accomplish it successfully, a man must school his muscle to endurance, his nerves to peril, and his heart to bitter cruelty; but every pelt is worth a dollar! By night, after a "seal-meadow" has been attacked, tbe decks of the vessel are hidden under a deep layer of fat, slippery pelts. After these have lain long enough to get cool, they are stowed away in tbe hold in pairs, each pair hav ing the hair outward. The hold is divided bv stout partitions into com part menta, or "pounds," in order to prevent the cargo from moving about and so rub bing the rat into oil, which would speed ily fill every part of the hold and the cabins, spoiling all the provisions. A vessel once had to bo abandoned from this accident, because it had not been ''pounded." Tbe European ships, hoi ever, generally separate tue lat at once and stow it in casks. From "Seals and Sealing in the North Atlantic," by Ernest Ingersoll. iu St. Nicholas for June. Americas Postage stamp. The portrait of Benjamin Franklin on tho one cent stamp in imperial ultra marine blue ia after a profile bust of Hubricht. Tbe head of Andrew Jack son on the two cent stamp in vermilliou is from a bust by Hiram Powers. The Washington head on the green three cent stamp is after Houdon's celebrated bust. The head on the five-cent blue stamp is that of Zachary Taylor. The Lincoln profile in red, on the six-cent stamp, is after a bust by Yolk. The seven-cent stamp in vermilliou gives the head of Stanton after a photograph The head of Jefferson on the ten cent stamp, in chocolate, is drawn from a life site statue by Hiram Powers. The portrait of Henry Clay in neutral pur pie, on the twelve cent in orange is after the Clevinger bust. The portrait of lien Scott on the twenty-four oent stamp in purple, is arter a bust by Coffee. The head of Hamilton, on the thirty-oent stamp, in black, is after tbe Cerracni bust, and the portrait of Commodore Oliyer Hazard Terry, in carmine, on the ninety-cent stamp, is after Woloott's statue. The style in which these adh? sive stamps are printed and the clear neas in outline of the several portraits, as well as the artistic excellence of the engraving, reflect credit on the head o the postofnee department, Mr. Cressweli under whose authority they were exe cuted. The seven, twelve and twenty four cent stamps have been retired from use. The new flvo cent stamp wil be a portrait of Gar field, from tbe pho tograph of which the queen had a copy, and which was approved by Mrs. Gar field. Naturalists tell that the stingray, starfish, prawns, boring, a iukleand gry phea are tbe deadliest enemies to the oyster. That's all the naturalists know about it. Tho worst enemy that the oyster haa is the spirituelle woman of 187 pounds, when she dec area, after the theatre, that she cannot eat a single mor sel, oh, indeed, no. Well, if she must, then, you may bring ber a very email bit of a cracker and just oae tiny oyster When tho oyster cease, to exist and joins the innumerable caravan, that's where it will be gone to. Robert Col Iyer say that when be was a boy it waa determined that ha must learn a trade. He aays: "There was an old blacksmith away over the moors, who taught my father, and he waa willing to teach me. In my father's time this msn was a fine, sober fellow, aad a superior workman, but the year had made havoc of him without our knowing, and, boy as I was, I found in lass than a week I had gone to live in the home of a con firmed drunkard. Still this was not tbe horror to me it would be to you. The proverb says the fox smells nothing amiss in his own den, and we thought of beer very much as we thought of bread, aa the staff of life, and never imagined that anybody could condemn its use, while we thought no more of its hurting us than yon do of yellow bread and dys peptic pies hurting you. I found again not only was tbe poor old man a drunkard, but the boys were ted to drink a great deal more than wa had ever thought of ia the old home. We bad each one of us about a quart of ale a day, and tbe farmers who came to tbe shop were forever standing treat. It is a painfnl story; stretching over eight years full of peril. I was in some sort manager at last, and came borne one day from another shop we bad, after an ab sence of a week, to find that the old man, who waa a tower of strength in my fath er's time, had taken to his bad. He had been on a fearful drunk, and it waa the last. I west in to see him. He looked up sadly, and said in our native speech "I'ae varra badly, lad, Tse boon to dee, and I want thee to read me snmxnat oot o' f Bible to get aa reedy." He did not allude to the curse that had slain him, nor did I. but saw to him three months, and then one morning a I was lifting him, great gouts of blood came welling out of bis chest, and he waa dead. Why do I tell you this? Waa I still a partaker in this sin? "The good blood began to teU now. and the clean breeding, and that help of God without which man's lite is a rope of sand. It was not hard work. The inimr i very simple. 1 saw it waa growing on me to love drink, and said: "This will never do. If I keep on I shall be in tbe gutter with tbe old man. I will never touch a glass of beer again, or any thing of the sort, until I am sure of my self, and forever sure, because in any fight between a man aad a beer barrti tbe man ought to win. I kept my word. made to myself. A Lecturing Ex perl It is bad enough to realia you are a failure; but it is quite too harrow ing to Ha tnia to you ace, and all the more harrowing when your informant doea not know whom he is addressing. Once, long ago, I gave an isolated lec ture in Manchester, on tbe Oar list war in Spain, from which I had recently re turned. It waa a poor subject, it waa a bad lecture, and it waa a worse lecturer. felt rather miserable as I stood in the auditorium, trying to converse with the secretary while the fag end of the audi ence slowly dispersed. A young gentle man sauntered up, and rot recognizing the lecturer, addressed the secretary. "infernal poor lecture," this friendly creature observed. "Don't you think so?" he asked of the secretary. That official remained dumb in em barrassment. "Don't you think so, sir?" said he, ad dressing me. I quite agree with yon, waa my re ply, made in sad truth. "Of course it was," he continued. 'We all know the fellow can write first- rate: but he ought to stick to his pen. and not try to lecture, for he can't lec ture worth a blank! Isn't that so, sir?" again addressing me aa a previous syma- thizer. Again I expressed agreement with him and he was proceeding with detailed criticism of an emphatic character, when the secretary, in cold perspiration, clutched hold of him, dragged turn one side, and whispered something to him. The next thing I saw of the frank in genuous critic was his fluttering coat tail, as he dashed headlong from the hall. He could not rally himself even to apologize ; and, besides, what had he to apologize f or? "f Archibald Forbes in the Century. A Surprised Policeman. "Talk about bold bank burglaries," said a member of tbe police force one day; MID UKKCBt MOU X ever UWU Ul the robbery of a bank down in t.o .l.k.t .t.) t i i r Rhode Island six or seven years ago. It was a bitter cold night, and the night patrolman noticed a dim light in the bank window, and going up to the door, rapped. " 'Is that you, patrolman?' asked a voice from within. " 'Yes,' was the reply. " Step in and get a heat,' said a voice from within. The patrolman stepped in side and encountered a dapper little fel low, wearing a green shade over his eyes and a pen behind his ear. " 'You are working late to-night,' aaid the patrolman. " 'Yes,' said the dapper little fellow, 'I've been detained to-night straighten ing up accounts. " 'Tne patrolman warmed himself at the roaring big fire that blazed on the hearth, and went out again on his beat. An hour after the patrolman came that way, and seeing the light through the window, rapped again. " Is that you, patrolman?' "'Yea.' " 'Come in and warm yourself.' -"The patrolman accepted the invita tion. " 'It's a bowling cold night,' said the man with the green shade over his eyes. " 'You bet,' said the patrolman. So he took another heat and returned to his beat. He was rather surprised the next day to learn that hia fireside friend of the night before had got away with $90, 000 of the bank's funds." How pleasant it is to gaze on the inno cent amusements of happy childhood! There is little Johnny playing beside tbe newly painted fence. He draws his dainty finger over the moist surface, making beautiful arabesques and unde cipherable hieroglyphics that would send an antiquary into hysterics of joy. Johnny's new suit is made picturesque by its borrowings from the fence, and his face and hands are effectually disguised by the pigment. Happy, leas, innocent child! And here Johnny's mother. How eagerly she seizes her darling! How closely aha hugs him in her fond embrace! Now sho has disappeared within doors. What are those sounds which issue thence? It is Johnny's voice. Is he laughing mer rily over the remembrance of his recent ! sport? Possibly. But it does not sound like laughter. Again we say, happy i axe laugnter. again we say, napp happy childhood! Boston Transcript.