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An Epitome of the Principal Events Now
Ailractinj; Public Interest
Inring Trnln Jtolibery.
Waco, Texas. The following par
ticulars of the train robbery on the
International it Great Northern Bail
road, at McNeil Station, have been
learned. Twelve mounted men did
the work, and they went at it with so
much system, and their plans worked so
well, that they secured a large amount
of money from the Pacific Express
Company. A passenger on the train
says : " When" the train pulled out at
McNeil Station it was found that the
agent and two gentlemen were in
charge. The robbers were mounted
and armed. They had rolled a log in
front of tho engine, and tho ehgineeer
and fireman were guarded by somo of
them, while others proceeded to fire
into the top of the cars. Passengers
were told that if they kept quiet they
would not be molested. One passenger
was shot in the hand and a brakenian
named White had his cheek grazed by
a bullet. The e.xpns agent refused
to open the ear and the robbers broke
open the door and knocked tho ex
pressman down. Tho safe was then
Inoko open and robbed. The amount
of monev obtained was variously esti
mated at from $21,000 to $35,000.
.After the robbers had bocurt.d the
"boodle" they told the trainmen to
roll the log ofl' the track and they
could go. They then mounted their
horses and rode away. The train was
delayed only half an hour."
itnir.F.K.
James Mauni, aged 11, was blown
to pieces at a Leadvillo, Colo., mine,
by an explosion of giant powder.
A dispatch from Bucharest says
Bouinania is fortifying rapidly under
the suporintendeneeof German ollicers.
Brigadier-General Jas. L. Solfridge,
shot and. killed himself at Philadel
phia. He was despondent, on account
of suffering fiom an incurable disease.
A St. Petersburg dispatch says that
Five of the men who took tho most
prominent part in tho late plot to as
sassinate the Czar have been executed.
Owing to the refusal of the Legislat
ure to appropriato funds lor tho'sup
poitof malitia, the First Begimcntal
National Band Guards of Missouri
have distended.
The will of Washington C. Depamv,
of New Albany, Ind., bequeaths thieo
million dollars to his family, and the
residue of his estate, estimated at five
millions, to benovolent and educa
tional purposes, including $1,025,000
to tho Depauw university.
Forest fires attacked Lake Linden,
a village neur Houghton, Michigan,
and tho whole town was destroyed.
Tho Comet and Hecla stamp mills,
with machinery valued at halt a mill
ion dollars, were located there. The
damage was over $1,000,000.
Miss Dauvray, of New York City,
has purchased for $500 a silver vase of
ohusic shape and intricate design,
known as a Grecian luving cup, which
she will present to to the baseball club
winning the pennant in 1SS7. She is
4in enthusiastic admirer of the game.
Justice W. B.Woods, of the Supremo
Court of the United States, died at his
residence in Washington. Ho was se
riously ill in California about a month
ago, but improved enough to enable
Iiim to go home. After his arrival be
continued to grow worse. His disease
was dropsy.
A sleeper on tho D. it It. G. Salt
Lake express was derailed near Salida,
Col. Grace Leslie, hading lady of
Jvato Castleton's troupe, was instantly
killed. Dr. George Cox received a
severe scalp wound and Pullman Con
ductor Aubrey was hint on tho head
and hip. After the accident tho troupe
cancelled all dates and disbanded.
John Becker, a farmer near Wan
heim, Pa., his wife Catheiine, and
their daughter-in-law, Mrs. Emma
Becker and little child, while crossing
tho Pennsylvania Railroad in a buggy,
were struck by tho Chicago limited
xprcHs. Mr. and Mrs. Becker wore
almost instantly killed and their
daughter-in-law seriously injured, but
their grandchild was carried 100 yards
on the pilot of tho engine without re
ceiving tho slightest injury.
Miss Jano E. Hall, of Montgomery
county, Pa., and her sister, have insti
tuted a suit 10 recover $1,000,000 from
the United States Government. Tho
ladies claim to bo lineal descendants
of Jacob Dellavcn, a wealthy French
man, who, it is claimed, in 1777 loanid
tho Colonial Government half a
million francs with which to pay the
troops, and during the latter years of
tho struggle contributed further
money. During Washington's first
adminifctration Congress allowed his,
claims, but there was no surplus at
tho timo and tho claimant died before
ho received tho money.
Tho contract .for constructing tho,
largest money vault in tho world has'
been let by the Treasury Department.
It was ordered at tho last session of
Congress. It will bo erected in tho
north court of tho Treasury building,
tho walls being of solid urir-k four
feet thick. It will not bo burglar
proof, because tho forco of watchmen
about tho Department is thought to bo
ample to guard it. from the depreda
tions of thieves, beside which en
trance would firet have Jo be effected
into tho building boforo tho vault
-ould bo approached. It is to be fifty,
one by ninoty feet and twelve feet
high inside, and is calculated to hold
100,000,000 silver dollars.
COAST CULLINGS.
Devoted Principally to Washington
Territory and California.
W. L. Hauser committed suicide
with a revolver at San Jose, Cal.
M. Cushman. aged 22, committed
suicide at Yreka, Cal., by taking laud
anum. Cyrus Smirs committed suicide
near Blackloot, Idaho, by shooting
himself.
A family at Santa Cruz, Cal., were
poisoned one day recently by eating
Fturgeon.
The dead body of an unknown man
was found in the brush near Melrose.
Montana.
Bobert Williams was crushed to
death on the steamer Virginia at Port
Townsend, W.T.
A Swede named Albert Wnlander
committed suicide with a revolver at
Noith Yakima, W.T.
District Attorney Begcnsberg met
his death by falling down an elevator
shaft at S.m Francisco.
Tho new commissioners of Douglas
County, W. T have located tho
County seat at Waterville.
Indian Webb Testament's son, while
gunning near Lewiston, Idaho, was
scalped by a cinainon bear.
William Pallett, convicted of horse
stealing at Walla Walla, was sentenced
to one year in the penitentiary.
Bobert Lynd, a lad of IS years, was
killed by the accidental di.-cbarge of a
shotgun at Virginia City, Nevada.
John Lanier, a miner at Murray,
Idaho, lately from Bodie. was run over
and killed in an incline of the Yellow
Jacket.
A warehouse containing .'1000 tons
of grain collapsed at San Francisco,
killing one boy and wounding several
laborers.
Patrick Fitzpatrick, aged (10 years,
was found dead near Taconia, W. T.
His death was caused by whisky and
exposure.
John Henry Bogers, a negio, was
was fatally shot By Policeman Grady
while resisting arrest, at San Luis
Obispo, Cal.
A sneak thief stole a newly planted
orchard at Whatcom, W. T., sticking
willow sprouts in the "vacuum" left by
the fruit trees.
Construction of the Point Sur light
house near Monterey, Cal., has begun.
Congress appropriated $100,000 to
complete this work.
James Colligan, fireman on tho
transfer boat Tacoma, was drovviud
near Kalama, while trying to swim a
slough after his horse.
Philip Keyonbenr, a cabinet maker,
aged 20, shot and killed Alary Fessler,
aged 23, and then shot and killed him
self, at San Francisco.
Whitman County, W. T., pays a
bounty on squirrel scalps, and since
last February 10(5,050 of them were
brought in, also 87 coyotes.
Two Italians working on the night
shift in a tunnel near Buona Vista,
Cal., wero caught by a mass of falling
rock and both instantly killed.
At San Barnadino, Cal., Callahan,
who killed George Terris, was found
guilty of murder in the first degree
and sentenced to imprisonment for
life.
Two log drivers on the Palouse
Biver, Jack Boyed and John Berger,
engaged in a drunken broil at Palouse
City, W. T., and the former was
stabbed to death.
Michael F. Flanigan, convicted Jjof
murder in tho second degree for kill
ing va sister, Mrs. Murphy, at Gold
Hill, New, was sentenced to eighteen
years in the State prison.
Severe cases of measles are still
prevalent on Camas prairie, Idaho,
and threo deaths occurred there in
one week. Tho disease was carried
there by immigrants from Arkansas.
The origin of the lire that occurred
at Butchertown, San Francisco, is still
a mystery. About 500 sheep and 500
hogs were burned. A revised estimate
of the loss makes the amount about
$125,000.
William Allen, on trial for theft at
Oroville, Cal., shot the complaining
witness, A. P. Frary, in open court,
slightly wounding him. He said it
was his intention to kill Frary and
then himself.
A negro harbor named Woods mur
dered his wife at Pocatello, Idaho, and
endeavored to escape. A icward of
$500 was offered by the citizens of
Pocatello, and Woods was captured at
' Corinne, Utah.
I Henry Beck, an employe of the
I Northern Pacific, who was working on
j bridge 2G was killed by a timber fall
I ing upon him while working upon the
j foundation the bridge. His remains
I wero taken to Elleiibhurg.
A Canadian Pacific conductor at
Donald, B. C, was playing poker with a
gambler named McGinty, alias " Pedro
Jack." Tho latter was discovered
cheating and tho conductor shot him
fatally. Tho conductor escaped.
Tho San Francisco mint haa started
up on tho convereion of trado dollars
into dimes. lao lirst turned out
wore $500 worth in one day. It is the
intention to countinuo coining dimes
until $50,000 worth have been pro
duced. The Piepan Indians of Montana,
says tho Bozeman Chronicle, have
made over $-1000 this spring skinning
tho carcasseH of cattle which perished
in tho enow. Tho Indians received
seventy-five cents for every hido they
brought in, and they exhibited such
industry that it beeamo necc esary to
wntflh tho herds to prevent them frjm
skinning every animal iu the Territory,
doad or alive.
OREGON NEWS.
Everything of General Interest in a
Condensed Form.
Near Scio is a red paint mine.
Albany is to have a fruit cannery.
Trout are very numerous on upper
Willow creek.
Baker City is to have a now steam
planing mill.
Tho Dalles will soon bo lighted with
electric lamps.
There are 720 fishing boats on tho
lower Columbia.
Carlton, on tho West Side road, will
have a new depot.
The measles are prevailing in Prino
ville, Crook county.
Lexington has a new town bell
weighing 530 pounds.
Milton G. Hope bus been appointed
postmaster at Vale, Baker county.
The residence of A. 1). Culps, near
Pilot Bock, was burned ; loss,$S00.
George Jackson who lives on Bogue
Biver, has this year forty acres of wa
termelons. Tho Dalles ships an average of 40
boxes of salmon, 100 to L"0 pounds
each, every dav.
Tho OreL'on it Califo mill lv'iilri-1'iil
company has built eight new stock
corrais at urain.
Independence hadji fire which de
stroyed the residono.e'of Honry Crow.
It was insured for $070.
Twenty-one tiro plugs are being
placed in the streets of Pendleton for
liru and street purposes.
Over M,000 head of sheep were
started recently, via trail, for Kansas.
Mot of them were purchased In Baker
county.
Francis, an eight-year-old son of
Fred. Oberg, of Astoria, broke his
thigh while playing with some school
mates. At Mountain Valley, Umatilla
county, William McChesney's resi
dence was entered and its contents do
moliched. Two box cars ran into the river at
Bay's Landing, one was loaded with
wheat. A break gave way, causing
the accident.
Tho postoilice name for Kennewick,
the station on tho west side of the
Columbia at the Northern Pacific
crossing, is Tehe.
Frank Berico, who bit the ear ofl'
a man- named Wallace, at Wallace's
Island, has been sentenced to one year
in the penitentiary.
Bogus live-dollar pieces are said to
be freely circulated in Jacksonville.
The counterfeit is said to be a good
ono and hard to detect.
Many farmers in Linn county, oppo
site Corvullis, are losing their colts
through some mysterious disease that
is not thoroughly understood.
A Grant's Pass paper learns that
one of the G.iridelli brothers, miners
on the upper All house creek, lost his
life by a bank caving on him.
The convict, Morton, who broke
away at Blalock's, is paying for the
attempt in forty days' solitary confine
ment., on a diet of bread and water.
Brank Border, a German, aged '15
at Gray's Bay, while working in tho
woods was struck in tho head by a
falling limb of fir, Ho was put in a
fishing boat for town, but when half
way across the river died. He leaves
a wife and live children.
Brigadier-General Siglin, of tho Ore
gon National Guard, has announced
the following ollicers of his staff: As
sistant Adjutant-General, Thomas G.
Owen, of Maishliold, Coos County;
Quarter-Master-General, L. II. Mom
taye, of Albany; Aides-do-Camp
Palmer Wheat, of Portland, and Isaac
A. Manning, of Salem.
Near, Silver City, Paul S. Gordon,
a -10er, met with a horriblo death, hav
ing had his foot caught iu the spring
of a buekboard to which was attached
a span of horses that wero running
away. Tho horses ran for live miles
before they wero caught, when tho
mutilated body of deceased was found
beneath the buckbo.ird.
Albany Herald: A young man aged
23 years, who was born and raised live
and a half miles south of Brownsville,
was in tho city for tho first tinio in bra
life, and had never before rodo on the
steam cars. That a young man should
reach that age and remain so exclu
sively at home, without even visitrng
tho county soat, seems remarkable.
Ed. Doty and Dick Lupert caught a
largo bear in a trap at Kings valley,
but the bear got off with tho trap arid
went to tho Luckimute, where he
swam with tho trap across tho stream.
Ho then went down tho creek with
the trap about two miles, whoro ho
got caught between two saplings and
was held fast until tho hunter camo
up and killod him.
A correspondent writing from Day's
creok to a Boseburg paper, says ; Some
parties by the namo of Vaughn, hav
ing brought their cattlo to tho Elk
creek country from Jackson county
last fall, came down this week to seo
how thoy had spent tho winter, but to
their surmise found nearly fifty head
shot down on tho range. This is
rather severe treatment to receive in a
civilized country.
Tho Indians have solected their por
tion of the reservation, Fays a Pendle
ton paper. It will bo from four to fivo
miles from Pendleton, and begin at a
point about three miles south of the
Indian school and run a straight lino
until it strikes the Wild Horse creek
at or in tho vicinity of Adams, then
following tho Wild Horse to tho moun
tains. This body of land will contain
about 125,000 .acres, and inoludos all
of tho wood and grazing lands allowed
tho Indians by the bill.
MARK TWAIN AS A FARMER.
A Speech That lie .Mlht llnvn Di-IIvitpiI
llrfuri an ARrlculturiil Club.
1 have been introduced to you as an
experienced agriculturist. (Laughter.)
1 love the farm. Adam loved the farm.
(Laughter.) Nodi loved his vineyards,
Horace loved the farm, as is shown by
that great book, "What I know about
Farming." (Laughter.) Washington,
Webster and Beeeher wore allured by
the attractions of agriculture. Some
one said to Beeeher: "Keep your cows
out of my shrubbery." "Keep your
s rubbery out of my cows," replied
Beeeher. "It spoils the milk."
Laughter.) Hogs are hard animals to
drive over a bridge. (Laughter.) 1
once saw a man carried several miles
on the back of a hog that
turned back in opposition to
the solicitations of tho driver on ap
pro filing a bridge. (Laughter.) 1
tell you of a -afe way to get hogs
over a bridge: Kill them and' draw
them over in a wagon. (Laughter.)
Hogs are fond of spring lambs and
spring chickens. Hogs will eat their
own otl-pring if no lambs or chick
ens are ollcrcd in the market. (Laugh
ter.) When a boy I was solicited to
escort a pig to a neighbor's farm. A
strong rope tied to the pig's leg was
placed iu my hand. 1 d:d not know
before the speed and strength of a pig.
(Laughter.) But they do not run the
way you want them to run. (Benewed
laughter.) A pig can draw a canal
boat with the tow-line tied to his hind
leg. but 1 would not insure the canal
boat. Hogs are cleanly, orderly, silent
and not bent on mischief (laughter)
lieu cut up and salte I and in a tight
barrel, with, a heavy weight on the
lid. (Prolonged laughter.) This is all
I know about hogs.
I love cows. (Laughter.) What so
meek and low-ly (laughter) as a
niooley cow? City people are fool hi
to be frightened at cows. I was never
hurt, by a cow but oiiee. He shook his
head at mo from behind a strong gate.
1 felt the security' of my position and
shied a pumpkin at hi in. He came
through the gate as though it was a
spider's web, and ihen I was sorry 1
did it. (Laugh er.) ' This kind of a
cow should not be fooled with unless
you are tired of niootony. (Laugh
ter.) The poet loves to dwell upon
milkmaids, milking time and lovers
sparking over the farm yard gate, but
no such poet could ever have milked a
cow in 11 v time. (Laughter.) lean
not imagine a successful love
suit at such a season. I
milked the cows one night when the
boys were oil' on a Fourth of Juiy.
(Laughter.) That is, 1 milked one and
one-half cows. (Laughter.) The last
one was so busy knocking oil' Hies with
her hind foot I thought I had better not
disturb her longer. A pail of fresh milk
kicked over a boy does not improve his
clothes or temper. Some say I milked
from the wrong side. (Great laughter.)
I thought I would bo sure anil be rifht,
so I niibied half on one side and half
on the other. (Renewed laughter.) I
was on the other side when she knocked
oil' most Hies. Can any one tell me why
a cow should be permitted to dictate
which side a man shall milk from! 1
claim the right of my choice at least
half of the tim .
Sheep are my special delight. How
giaeofully the lambs gambol over the
green. I trust you never gamble over
the green. Nothing so patient anil
modest as a sheep. (Laughter.) Some
say a scamp is the black sheep of the
(lock, but a black rheep is just as re
spectable as any, and the color lino
should not thus he drawn. (Laughter.)
1 once fished on the hlull' and "casually
discovered a sheep with large crooked
horns coming at me with head down
and lire in her eyes. The tish were
not biting well, so I left my sport and
dodged behind a stump. The slnep
fell on the rocks below and broke her
neck. For this act I have since been
accused of non-protection of the wool
trallic This reminds me of a commis
sioner of agriculture iu old times who
purchased six hydraulje rams for the
improvement of Ahi'iricau Hocks.
(Proloncd laughter.) Feather beds
are made from geese, but all woolen
goods and drums are made from sheep
skins. (Applause.)
I take great pride in tho horse. "He
is the noblest Roman of them all."
(Laughter.) I once led Stephens' horse
to water. How proudly ho arched his
neck and tail. He was so fond of mo
he, tried to embrace me with his front
feet. But I was so shy ho turned about
and playfully knocked my hat ofi" with
his heels. (Laughter.) I told Stephens
1 thought horses looked much better
walking on four feet than on two feet,
A horse presses hard when your toe is
caught under his hoof. I speak not
from theory, but from actual experi
ence. (Laughter.) 1 went riding with
Stephens' horse and he shied and
danced prnvokingly. "Treat him kind
ly," said Stephens; "never heat a
horse." By and by Stephens thought
he would get out and walk for exercise.
"You may let him feel the lash a little
now," said Stephens. "A little discip
line now will do him good." (Pn
longed laughter.)
Here is a composition I wrote on
fanning when a hoy: Fanning is
healthy work; but no man can run a
farm and wear his best clothes at tho
same time. Either the fanning must
cease while tho new elothos continue,
or the now clothes must cease while
fanning continues. This shows that
fanning is not so clean work as beluga
Congressman or schoolmaster, for thoso
men can wear good clothes if they can
find nionoy to pay for thuni. (Laugh
ter.) Farmers get up early In tho
morning. Thoy say tho early bird
catches tlt-i worm. If I was a bird 1
had rather got up lato and eat ohiimos
tu place of worms. (Laughter.)
Farmers don t paint their wagons when
they can help it, for they show mud toe
quick. The color of their bouts is red,
and don't look like other people's boots,
because they are twice as big. (Ap
plause.) Farinc s' wives have a hard
time cooking for hired men, and the
hired men find fault with the fanners'
wives, cooking. Why don't farm
ers' wives let the hired men
do the cooking while they do the
finding fault. ((treat applause.)
Fanners dbn't get as rich as bank pres
idents, hut they get more exercise.
(Prolonged laughter.) Some ask:
"Why don't fanners run for Con
gress?" They run so much keeping
bins out of their peach orchards and
melon patches they don't have any time
to run after any thing else. If Con
gress should run after fanners, one
might be caught now and then. Law
yers can b' at farmers at running for
most any thing. 1 know a fanner who
tried to run a line fence according to
his notion. The other man objected
and hurt the fanner. The fanner hired
a lawyer to run his line fence, and now
the lawyer runs the farmer's farm ami
the fanner has stopped running any
thing. Speaking of running teniiiids
me of our calf that ran away to the
woods. There were not enough men in
the county to catch that calf. We
turned the old cow loose into the woods
and she caught the calf, proving tin'
old saving that it takes a thief to catch
h thief. (Laughter.) -iV. 1". World.
THE GROOM TROTTED.
How a Itrltlo from tin- Country l'rmctt
lt.- Authority With C.rciit Sticri-n.
lie was a tall, lanky young follow
with watery blue eyes, faded hair, and
a mustache which looked like a streak
of rod paint. From head to foot he
was attired in store clothes, and but
for a very pronounced expression of
anxiety on his face he might have
passed for a jolly young fanner seeing
the city. In his arms were half a
dozen bundles, and beside him stood a
pretty young woman, who wore over a
silk iross a plush cloak of fashionable
make and a Cleveland hat. The color
on her cheeks was suggestive of long
acquaintance with country air. It was
plain as a whitewashed fence that they
had but rocontl' been married. They
stood on the corner of Clark and Madi
son streets and watched the cars go by
for a few momenta, and then he said,
with a little cough of importance:
"Well, Sarey, 1 reckon we'll git on
one of these cars and ride over tew
the depot. It's 'bout time we was
goin'."
"Mercy, Steven, how you talk.
There ain't no use of ridin' when we
can just walk over to the dapo."
"Now, Sarey, I'm s'priscd at you op
posiif what 1 want to do. I'm your
husband, ain't I?" sputtered the young
man.
"And I'm your lawfully wedded
wiife." replied the bride with great as
perity; "but we might jest as well have
it out right here. It nin'tn speck nioro'n
fivo squares to the dapo, and that ain't
,uo further than it is from our house to
the pump in the mender, an' you've got
to walk that, every lnornin' and night,
suro's you're a foot high. You can't
take no street car for that pump, an'
you can't save ten cent no quicker an'
no better way than jest n-trojtin' over
to that dapo with me. You can argue
or trot, jest which you choose, hut I
ain't goin' to get into one of them cars
if I staid here till Sally Wiggins' baby
is an old man."
He decided to trot. Chicago News.
MISLED BY MIS WIFE.
Her I)cKrrlit.!oii XV m Sloro Tlmii niowlnir.
Hut tint Words Ciiiiio Clicup.
The picturesque is always a feature
of a woman's description of any thing.
Slie talks grandiloquently of colors,
ami if you hear her describe a table
cloth you fancy its a gorgeous thing of
tapestry or some equally ell'ectivo pic
ture. "My wife," said the husband to the
man in the store, "has sent me for
something she looked at yesterday."
"Yes!"
"This is tho description of it," and
he pulls out a piece of paper which has
in II a inn description oi an eiaoo aiu
pattern of myriads of colors, and all in
nomenclature that souu Is like some
elaborate picture. "You'll excuse me,
I can't remember the blamed thing."
"That's all right, I know what she
means."
"You'll please wrap it up vory care
fully, for if itgets spoiled before it gets
there she'll ho mad."-
"Certainly."
Then tho man goes to a shelf and
pulls out roughly a piece of something.
Hold on," says tho husband, "that
can't be the thing, That's chintz, or
damask or soniotlihig, ain't it?"
"This is tho article, sir.
"What does it cost?"
"Forty cents a yard."
"Great Scotti Forty cents a yard! I
thought from tho description it would
come to about ono dollar." Han Fran
cisco Chronicle.
Knew a Thing or Two.
"There," said Fill rip to his friend
Dilhy, "there Is a man who has a
knowledge of the fitness of things!"
"Why, yes," said Dllhy, "ho has an
intelligent face what is he?"
"Oh, he's my tailor," answered Fil
trip, eyeing his new suit complacently.
-r-JJctr'oit Free 1'rc-in.
The connection between phrenolo
gy anil farm work has .been demon
strated by an Ohio fanner who has
sent a demand to Castle Garden for a
farm boy, "a Protestant Irish boy of
from twelve to fourteen years old, anil
wish him taken to a phrenologist to
have his hoad felt," -A'. Y, Herald.
A CARNIVAL OF DEATH.
Acinic of Mm Horror of tho Pnnilnn Pn-viUlliit-
In Imlln In IS?S-':0.
After being delayed a week at Jooty,
where at the Government expense I
lived sumptuously, I was ordered to
Madras, where I did not fare so well,
but was finally ordered to Tinnevelly.
the most southern state in all India.
From thence I was sent to Ootipa
tlarani, where the eollec'or had catnl
lislted a huge camp, and where tu
thousand to twelv-i thousand pauper
were being fed. The village of Ooti
padaram sits on a huge treeless plain,
which plain iu better years raised vast
amounts of grain, and the village was
the most thriving of that district. But
now its rich Brahmins wero dead.
Used to a life of ease and plenty, they
had been the first to succumb to want
and privation, and there in their
houses with their hands clasped
across their knees, or writhing
on the tloor in agony, the' had
gasped out. their breath calling on God
for succor. Women who were once
beautiful lay dead with their children
iu their arms, ami on the putrid bodies
on tho grim skeletons lay golden
anklets, bracelets, ear-rings and the
fine golden platter which adorns the
wealthy Brahmin woman's head.
Jewels lit for crowned heads lay scat
tered about jewels which had been
oll'erod for a handful of millet, and had
been refused, and through all this
gloom and misery stalked the profes
sional beggar, poking and prying" to
find something with which to stay tho
gnawing at his vitals.
There were thousands of human be
ings busy making tho camp, and vory
little food. But the grain was
coining, coming as fast as oxen
could drag it, and tho man' hungry
people, elated with hope, strug
gled bravely against death. In all that.
vast and starving crowd there was no
murmur. Once or twice an importun
ate woman would catch my leg anil
ask whether it were true that tho grain
was coining. No shudder of hoiror
electrified their frames when thrice
each day the carts laden with dead
would pass from out of the camp and
(lump the hudies iu the long trenches.
At last the grain train came. Every
pauper outside the camp was driven iu
and securely locked up within the fence.
The grain was unloaded but the
food they so anxiously wanted to eat
was denied many a one. The strain
in many instances was too great. The
joy was too violent, and in sight of
plenty they died. And after the arrival
of the grain the camp was organized
and two daily doles were made one
in the morning and one iu the evening.
The dole consisted of rice and chile
water, and after the first day's food tho
mortality in the camp was frightful.
It rose to over one thousand a day.
The paupers were ranged in long lines;
each was furnished with a platter, into
which was thrown the rice and then
sprinkled with chilo water. Ere the
hand could convoy the food to the
mouth the expectant eater would he
dead; others whilst gulping down their
food would he seized with convulsions;
some who had finished their rice would
linger an hour or so, tholr stomachs
swollen to an incredible size, and die
raving maniacs; somu would dash their
heads against, the ground delirious from
joy. Iu every horrid shape stood death
death iu every revolting and hideous
form. Cor. Sun Francisco Chronicle.
'SOME FANCY TRIFLES.
ItlriM'tluiiM lor MiiUlin; I rcx lic led Uiutier
mill Snrvli'iMililo llriiHh IIoIcIith.
Aii ornamental little all'air for tho
coimnode iu a sleeping-room, and ono
that Is vory useful iu a sick-room,
where rat ling, clashing noises are to
be avoided, is a liusher for the lower
half of tho ewer. It is erouhoted of
white knitting cotton. Make a chain
of nine stitches, close it into a ring,
and work into it loops of nlno chain
stitches each. Into these work loops
of seven stitches each, working round
and round, ami widening at rogular in
tervals to keep tho work flat, until
you have a circular pieeo as large as
a tea plate. Then work about an Inch
more without widoning. But In work
ing this last inch crotchet back
and forth instead 'of round
and and round, so as to leave a
placket at one side. Somewhere in tho
depth of this inch, crochet an orna
mental stripe, hut tho last row must ho
opon work, into which when tho work
is finished, is run a tasseled cord of
scarlet wool. Sot tho owor down in
the center of tho husher, draw tho
crochet work up ovor it vory tightly,
cross tho cords under tho handle of tho
ewer, then bring them outside tho
handle and tie thero in long loops, lot
ting the tassels fall about an inch.
Another pretty, easily made trifle U
a pocket for the handle of tho hair
brush or hand mirror. This is
crocheted of single or split zephyr iu
the same stitch used for tho
ii.fslier. Shape it to fit the handle,
but make it only two-thirds tho
length of tho handle since it looks best
drawn ovor it very tightly. The draw
ing string I a twisted cord finished
with hall tassels. This little affair
keeps tho handlo free from grease, be
sides being very ornamental. When a
hand mirror is to bo given as a Christ
mas present, one of these llttlo pockets
tied over tho handlo adds much to tho
beauty of the gift.
Crazy patchwork of velvet makes a
pretty holder for uso about a parlor
stove. Cut it in diamond shape, lino
with woolen, and hind with dross
braid. Tho pieces of velvet not qulto
fresh enough for other uses do very
well for this purpose. Velvet vrnny
work also makes a handsome border for
table scarfi. Xclly Browne, in iowje-hold.