TELEGRAPHIC TOPICS. EYENTS OP IMPORTANCE FLASHED OYER THE WIRES. " Mexican Bandits Create & Reign of " Terror Ou tho ltio Grande. A reign of terror exists in tho up river border counties of Texas, between Edinburg ' and Roma, tho result oZ the shocking depre- : dations of Mexican bandits. Since the.abduc tion of Senor Barara, whose f rieuda had to pay 41,500 ransom, almost every merchant has received threatening letters ordering pay- ment of heavy sums on, the penalty of ab duction and torture. The wealthy never travel without a heavy guard. The border Sheriffs, who are poorly paid, are doing what they can with their Deputies, to hunt the rob bers dovn, and a small force of rangers has been sent by Governor Ross to Bio Grande City, but it is feared that the whole force is not strong enough to round the bandits up in such a long extent ., of wild , bottom end wooden country. . District Judge . J. C. Russell, who is a large ranch owner in Stair County, acknowledged that the civil authorities were unable to cope with the matter. - In the meantime the bandits are continuing their work. On Monday, at high, noon, they entered the Havana Ranch, in Hi dalgo County , a place of about 500 inhabitants, surrounded the store of MagJileno Flores, drove the occupants out, and robbed the place of every bit of goods it contained. They then tore off the doors, smashed the windows, and threatened to . re turn and sack and burn . every house in the place. - The band numbered twenty one men. The day before another party of bandits, about twenty strong, attacked the Attasosca Ranch, on "the San Juan river, a f e miles ; above Camargo, - Mexico, ; and sacked the place, abusing and outraging the people. Tney were pursued by Mexican cavalry under Captain Lamadrido, and Plasuelas, a leader, and another bandit were secured. Plasuelas was executed at Camargo, and the other will suffer the same fate. Lamadride, an active officer has at his command . all the men that ; be wants, and gets a step ' in rank :' for every bandit captured. President Dia3 has ordered that the severest measures be used to put down banditage on the border, and General Velain, in command of this military d fst-riet, is anxious to co-operate with the American authorities, aud drive out and eliminate these pests. The State authorities of Tamaulipas are very lukewarm. Their party newspapers openly attack Velain for causing the capture of Lorenzo Vela, a noted bandit, and the murderer of Sheriff Martin, of Stair County, who was sent to the fortress of San Juan de Ulloa, at Vera Cruz, and are trying to excite a sentiment among the people in f avor of the wretches and against the party of law and order. . . A Man Kilts his Wife, Child, and iiroiner-in-iiaw. : : v Mrs. Mary Bruner, the mother of Mrs. Charles B. Brownfield, called about 10 a. m. the other day at the house of her daughter in jLxmisvijje, &.y. ro one answered the door bell, and she went to the window, raised it and pushed back the shutters. In the middle of the doorway 1 between the room occupied by her daughter and husband and little daughter of eight or ten years, and the room occupied by William Bruner, a brother of Mrs. Brownfield, was the body of Charles Brownfield, suspended by a strap at tached to the linteL On a bed in a dark (nr. ner lay the body of "William F. Bruner with his throat cut On another bed were the forms of his wife and child, age nine, their hands were almost severed from their bodies. Beneath BrownfieldV feet lay the razor with which the murders had been com mitted. On the bureau in the parlor lav a letter written by Brownfield, acknowledging himself as the triple murderer, and declaring that gambling had been his ruin. He wal twenty-seven years old. Damage Done by Hunters. A dispatch frtwn Portia, Ark., says: "The woods for ten miles around have been on fire tor four days. Cotton fields have been burned c-orn cribs, barns, dwelling houses and -fields ruined. The woods are bare, stock is comin out for shelter and some being run out on act count of the fire. Unless rain should come the damage will be widespread." A dispatch from Anna. HL, says: "For some days disastrous fires have -been rarina in the hill lands, the woods and bottom lands of this region and in the swamps across the "ver,m Cape Girardeau County, Mo. The long drouth has made everything as dry as tinder, and rain is fervently prayed for." Hanged for Murder. 7 Tuck Agee was hanged in tho inclosure of Z of, a (Iiy ) P on Friday. On hep. 33, 18fc6, Agee murdered his brother-in-law, James Faulkner, during a quarrel about the ownership of two dozen roasting ears. On the same day Henry Robinson (colored) was hanged at Union Springs, Ala. In May last he murdered an aged colored man who troubiyOUnR aUd Was 016 cauS3 o the Precautions Against Cholera. ' vSS nmioner Nichols. of New ork, has called upon Secretarv F.Miu , Washing TZi ra!rctn pftrS tir aou5 interview in re- twl?, !-adoptlon of measures to protect the Atlantic, norta aramd: rrrS vessels It io rrij . . infecver8 compelled to return they came . . arrival in America and to the country whence YELLOW FEVER. San ford, Fla. Quarantined and - - Trains Running Into the .: ' Stations. No Two deaths from fever under suspicious circumstances in Sanford induced the Duval County Board of Health to send Dr. Daniel, a yellow fever expert, down, there on a special train to ascertain the facts and report them.. Dn Daniel returned and made official : report to th 3 Board of Health, in which he said that' no reliable diagnosis could " be ob tained, but added; "There is undoubtedly room for grave apprehension, under all the circumstances, and am very sure the au thorities of Sanford are so impressed in reg rd to the matter themselves." -, v : Preferring to err on tho safe side, the Duval County Board of Health has declared a rigid quarantine' against Sanford. Trains will not be allowed to run into the latter city, but will stop some miles out and be met there by trains from, Sanford bringing the mails and through passengers. ' Through passengers will not be allowed to come to Jacksonville, but will be transferred at the junction ontside of-- the city limits to the roads leading north.- Sanford is 125 miles from Jacksonville by rail and 200 miles by river. Th. re are no tears of a spread of the disease.. . -- -. HURLED FROM A BALLOON. The Bag Explodes and the Aeronaut Falls Upon His Back. Anton Infantes, an aeronaut, had a trilling experience at an exhibition of the "Fall of Pompeii," g-ven at a suburban station on the West End Ntrrow-Gauge : Railroad, ntar . St. Louis. One of the features of the show was to be a balloon ascension with -trapeze performance by Infantes.- The balloon as- cended about one hundred feet and then ! . passed over the show-grounds. When about a block from where the ascent was made it . became unmanageable and tipped to one side j and began falling at a rapid rate. Infantes held to the bar, and' would probably have : made a safe, decent out ror an explosion which tore the bag. : . : The balloon was about thirty feet from the ground when the explosion occurred and the aero, aut fell on his back oh a stake which protruded from the ground , about twelve inches. .Infantes was unconscious when the attaches of ; the show reached him and was bleeding prof usely from the nose and mouth. Infantes was given restoratives, and on regaining consciousness utterea some thing in the Portugese tongue which nobody present could understand. His injuries are i, serious, but not considered fatal. " He sas's that the explosion was due to the fact that the balloon was not properly inflated. 1 - TELEGRAPHIC SUMMARY. Eastern and Middle State ; George J. Kelly, a Boston Globe report er, was choked to death by a piece of meat lodging in his throat while eating his supper in a Cambridge (Mass.) restaurant. ; !.: f , y'l A vein of coal worth $3,000,000 "has just been found in South Wilkesbarre, Penn., at a distance of -1,100 foet below the surface, tha deepest shaft in Pennsylvania. J: - .. David Scott, one of - the best known men in the'New York paper trade, has fled to Can ada after robbing the firm of which he was a member, and others, of over $100,003. V: : j Thomas WaTLlagk, a convict in the penf tentiary at Caldwell, N. J., was shot dead by a guard while trying to e-cap?. -. . Rev. Charles A. Berry, of England, has been finally chosen to succeed the late Henry Ward Beechor as pastor of Plymouth Church, Brooklyn. . y ... .... - -: - . 'y"--y..y - Twenty-sevejt stilts for -damages have baen entered by Salvation Army men against Augusta, Maine, for alleged unjust arrests. 5 ': Southland West. ' I ' ATLagro, Ind., the Rev. Andrew Luce, a Presbyterian minister, swooned away and died while the Rev. Mr. Kanouse was offer ing prayer, o. :---v r -X - -'--i- 3 : The guests at a merry-making in George C- King's housa, near-Liatnar, La. , were alt taken violently Bick after supper. ' Six white persons five men and one woman and one colored man died, and many others, at last accounts, were dangerously ill.. : i : Naval Surgeon George Arthur fell from a train near Salem, Va., and was in stantly killed. He was on his way from Washington to Shelby ville, Tenn., to be mar ried. . Q: i':ir'y -' 'r-:- '-'' Three; little grandchildren of T.'S. Oliver were burned to death in Faulkner County, Ark. The little ones were alonejn a build: ing at the time. -;. .. ' , r- : ; . ; Three of the condemned Chicago An archists Spies, Fielden and Schwab after the refusal of t he United -States. Supreme Court to grant a writ of error, signed a peti tion to Governor Oglesby, begg(ng him to commute their sentence of death, r i A band of masked men stopped an express train near Grand Junction, CoL, for over an hour, and robbed the passengers. , '.: Adam Fix, a t by of seventeen, shot him- self dead: in his father's barn at Cleveland, Ohio. ! -':,::?v-v,r -r-:- Commissioner of Agricoxtcrh Cole man asserts that Brooklyn, New York, and Baltimore have for forty years been plague spots from which pleuropneumonia in cattle "has been spread throughout the country. During October the public debt was de creased $ l(,833,t95, leaving the total debt, less cash in the Treasury, at 61,233,692,701. Net cash in the Treasury, $56,758,701. y. : The United States Supreme Court unani mously denied the petition of the condemned Chicago Anarchists for a writ of error. . ; ?An attempt was made the other night either to kill or maim Chief Justice Waite, of the United States Supreme Court, or to perpetrate a silly hoax, by sending to his residence a small box containing what seemed to be an - infernal machine. . It was sent through the postoflice. , A Washington special says the following changes will probably occur in the near future: Secretary Lamar to succeed the late Justice Woods on tho United States Supreme Court bench; Postmaster-General Vilas to succeed Mr. - Lamar as Secretary of the In terior, and Don M. Dickinson, of ii ichigan, to become Postmaster-General. . Mrs. Cleveland has received from " Ja maica, West Indies, an elaborate, fan, made at the Women's Self -Help Institution on that island, of native woods, ferns and flowers. , . f ::The British Government will prosecute all persons who took part in the recent midnight meeting at Woodford, Ireland, at which the proclamation of the Lord Lieutenant forbid ding the meeting was burned. - Anions those to be indicted are two members of Parlia ment. i . - y -. ' Foreign. De Lesseps, projector of the Panama Canal, says the great ditch will ba formally opened on February 3, 1890. - A violent storm has done an immense amount of damacre to shiDmns alone the coasts of Great Britain and France. - y. J The town of Kluzin, in Minsk, Russia, has been totally destroyed by fire. Three hundred were lost.-i i; .' ; - The Irish Prison Board at Dublin directed that Mr. O'Brien must wear the prison uni form and be treated in every way as an ordinary prisoner. i- Another Nihilist plot has been discovered in St. Petersburg, and numerous arrests have beenmade.a - : . . -.- Sixteen . hundred miners have struck work in the Beriage district, Belgium, the wvne of recent fatal rioting. T; Eighteen Nihilists have . been arrested in Kiel and Odessa. Russia. ' v PASSENGERS CRUSHED. A Street CarStrncfc by a Freight Train r ; j AY ith Fatal KfTect. An engine attached to a freight train on .the Fort Wayne Railroad struck a street cai at the Federal street crossing, in Allegheny City, Pa.,' land two passengers who jumped from the car were caught under the wheelj of the engine and ground to death. , ' Their namer John M. Culp, teller of th Odd Fellows Savings Bank, and Miss Har riet Weyman, a sister of Weyman Brothers, the tobacconists. I . . - The accident was caused by the gateman, Stewart " Cunningham, raising the safety gates too soon. It appears that the gates had be n lowered for a construction train. Aftei it ' passed : Cuningham, -not noticing th freight train coming in the opposite direc tion, raised the gates to allow the street cart and pedestrians to cross. ' Car No. 23, of the Manchester line," which was filled with pas sengers on i their way home, succeeded in getting nearly over the railroad ; tracks, when Mr. Culp and Miss Weyman ran out on the rear platform and jumped off, the other passengers remaining in the car. i The engine of the freight train struck the car and tore off the platform, but did no other damage. Mr. Culp and Miss Weyman fell on the tracks, and before the train could be stoppe 1 they were ground to death under the wheels of the engine. The other passen gers were not injured. ; The remains of the two unfortunates were picked up and 'con veyed to their homes. ' Mr. Culp was a married man, about thirty-five years of age. - Miss Weyman waa forty years i old, The accident created in tense excitement among the passengers, and several ladies fainted Cunningham" claims that he d.d not see the second train in time to hold the gates do wn. - GLEANINGS. Several, Guatemalan revolutionists have been 6hot. ; j " A Michigan train ran over a fox- and kiiled.it the other day. ' Tri-wbxkly public receptions have been resumed at the White House. - 'A society in Detroit of men sworn not to swear numbers nearly 1 ,003 persons. Kansas abounds in natural gas.' There are 113 companies engaged in developing it Bureaus for furnishing legal advice free tithn TVTor is t.hA tntpsfc thine in New JVorlr - The onion crop in the United States is this . er, and that is the exhaustion of the vir year about threetfourths of an average ci-ip. ; gin fertility of the soil Except m por- A well defined case of leprosy is reported tions of the older settled States, up to to have' been discovered in St. Louii by a' the present time farming has been largely prominent specialist. v : f''2i't of the pioneer order, which means c ear- It takes 14,800,0)0 callons of oil a year to ins- un the land and cropoinsr itin such a keep the railways of Great Britain going, and The trade and shipping of table grapes, in California, has greatly increased, and it is safe to estimate it at nearly double that of last year. ! , . y -. -'y. - . - r ' . . Sugar-cane in Louisiana, although it has fallen off somewhat in general condition, is still the best grown crop - in Louisiana for many years.; ;,y -..yy.- :yy. v:T . yy ':y:t --.r A late steamer from San Francisco . for China took out 300 tons of mining machinery. and six skilled American miners to aid in inin 1 HatrAlrknmQnf-. of t.Yt r t. nnn n f.r-v l The Piedmont Exposition at Atlanta, Ga., netted a cash profit of $10,000, besides pay-; - ing over Slou.OOJ " for th9 buildings and grounds. On account of this success there will probably be a World's Fair there ul 1889. AGRICULTURAL. TOPICS OP INTEREST ItEL. ATIVE i TO P AR5I AND GARDEN. ; ; - Soiling ,vs. Pasturing. . ! Careful trial ha3 satisCed those who practice toiling that one acre of land, well tilled, will support a cow a long as three acres' of. pasture and one acre, of meadow. A succession of crops must be town, of course. The first crop to cut in the spring is winter rye, then follow medium clover and orchard grass, timo thv aud a'.sike or nca vine clover, or both, : oats,: or peas and oats, millet, corn and I sorghum, lhe latter sowed vei-y thick to j keep the stalks soft, and if to this sys- item of soiling was added that of silage, and the latter used alter tne green grow ing ;rops were frozen up, and with the silage a variety of root -crops saved and used, how much more cheaply would we carry our stock through the entire year, (Mmarts Rural World. ... ; " ' - t Hints About Sheep. f I have made sheep- raising a study all my life, and find an the Shropshire just what is wanted .for a general'; purpose sheep. , Have crossed them on fine wools for six years in succession, and produced lambs that would average 120 pounds at from ten to eleven : months old, and which sold for six cents a pound each year at home market. Micigan Farmer. - There are probably few men who have fed sheep for fifteen or twenty years who can say that they; found them in every case profitable: and yet more men could brobablv sav this of sheep - than could say it of either hogs or cattle. Fat sheep never advance to the extreme values o casionally reached by other fat stock but at the same time they are less apt to go to an extreme the other way. In fact, taking a term of years together, no other stock shows as great uniformity in its quotations. -The man; who commands the fleeces and the carcasses : of a nice bunch of wethers every year finds sheep feeding profitable. national ctochman. ? One advantage frcm keeping a" few sheep on the farm is the fact that those fortunate farmers engaged in the pursuit have a ! clip : of wool, some fat lambs or sheep sell at a time when but few other farm products are ready for the market. Money is usually most in demand among farmers during the spring and summer, for it is then that they : are engaged in making, the crops to be sold the ensuing fall and winter. Combining sheep hus bandry with grain growing, pieces out an uncomfortable gap in the finances, when without it the farmer's business would for a while be all outgo and no income. Lewiston Journal. I j ; To those who have noticed how little mindful sheep are to the severest cold wcather;when-well feeced, it miy seem idle to say any thing about protection for sheep for two months, yet protection is even more important during the next two months than it will be in the sub sequent two. It is not cold weather that hurts sheep so much as it is wet weather. Wool is' always injured by getting wetl and when a sheep, is exposed to a cold rain, such as we are likely to have an abundance of during ; the fall months, and the netce gets filled with: water 'which must be dried out slowly by the heat of the animal's body, will not only injure the wool . but give the sheep bad colds, catarrh, and reduce the vitality of the sheep to a low ebb. v if goody healthy lambs are to bp expected it is therefore quite necessary that the ewes be pro tected irom storms.: Kural World. : Farming as a Business. Farming as a 'business," savs as a business," says Pro fessor Gulley, iu Home and Farm, 'is not what it has been in the past. : It re quires much more intelligence and skill to farm successfully now than it did for merly, and for" a variety of reasons. "Our : wants have . increased. The luxuries i of our fathers have "-. become everday necessities for our comfort. We feel that we must live better, - dress better, do more,: work fewer hours, and we . require more in the way of mental improvement, accomplishments and the like. This is as it should be." The farmer should have and should enjoy all th.it is within the reach of the merchants or professional man ; i he is even en titled to more than the town resident to make up for the isolation-of life on the farm.'..-;: '";'':' y. - . ; - . y "The fact that country people do not have the advantages of the town people, that farming at the present time does not hold out such ' strong inducements to young men as other occupations, not only prevents the town bred boy from be coming a farmer, but it alsodraws a large Eroportion of the brightest and smartest oys from the country to the town, and we have as the result a much larger num ber of the naturally-gifted, shrewd men of the country engaged in manufactures, transforation, trading, etc. j than we find farming, and it natu: ally follows that the smarter men secure the larger share of the proceeds of the industries. ; - -' Another disadvantage that the farmer labors under the outcome of greater ability possessed by men - in pther indus triesis the fact that improvement in method of manufa ture,1 trade, transpor tation and-distribution has been very much more rapid than in farming. These industr'e are growing Jaway from - the production of farmcropdl r -y-y y.4t T 1 1 ti n rr flo nacf -fi-f txr voora f li a -rnr of one man to turn raw products into . manufactured goods and distribute them to consumers, through tho introduction of improved m icliincry and application 1 01 scientific discoveries; has increase! from five to one hundred : or more times. . We have made no such advance in growing crops. h ;T ? - ; : - r i "It is true the introduction of large implement?, and the j binder and header, ' has increased the capaeity of one man tenfold in growing and harvesting wheat, -and haying machinery to ; Dearly; as great an extent in making; hay; '.but we have ' only increased a man's capacity two or - three fold in making; corn, while in cot ' ton growing it is probable that,, on-the average, one man really produces . less, years ago. , y - : ; . ; . . . I "There is fctill another factor that is detrimental to the interests of the farm- ; w,v to nroduce a crop wLh the least labor, regardless of the exhaustion: aid j loss of the fertility of the soil, compel- ttnrr ita nnw in ndnnt. srvmp svstem of fp.r- ( tilization that is necessarily expensive to make the land produce as much as it did .' formerly. : - ' r ; Ay:l:-.''" v"!fo much is said and 'written at the preseat t ime about monowlies and un just laws which are oppressing the farmer that m iny are ;led4 to believe that the con dition' of 'tie farmer ; m iy be improved simply' by lez'slation. I: While there miy hi so nc in u" tice done to : the farmer by jxnvciftii 1 crp ra ions aiil- lawmakers, Kt ill Vc must stu ly the underlving i)iiu- csp: m of agriculture aud its connection with other industries and raise it to a par with those pursuits before the farmer can secure a just compensation for his Farm and. Garden Notes; Do not allow your cattle to drink from a stagnant pool. " - ?i y-. The . flocks and herds need weeding. the same a fields. ..--i A good season for ditc'hiner, draining: and digging wel's. The very best mine for a farmer to in-: vest in is his farm. . " ' ? If your chickens have the diarrhoea. give them boiled sweet milk. h Rolling upland, with light or gray sub soil," well drained, is the best for wheat. Corn cobs make good fuel, and -the ashes of corn cobs contain stores of potash. -r The assertion is "made that potatoes which grow nearest the surface are most subject to rot. .- - Ducks can live with a bath . once a i week, but they are aquatic enough to enjoy a dozen a day. . : According to Dr. T. H. Hoskins the tomato rot is getting to be about as bad a disease as the potato rot. Be sure that your milch. cows have enough pure, sweet water. ' Else ; the typhoid fever may admonish you. v It is claimed that sweet-cream butter, though better flavored, docs not keep as well as that from slightly acid cream. It is charged that the English sparrow protects the caterpillars by driving away the native birds that would destroy them. ' ":y ?i-:y.yJy ."Young" turkeys should only be allowed to run in fields where' the grass is cut short, as wet plumage seems to be fatal to 'them. y.t y- :r:;y ;' Yyiy 'i r:yy--y,-i v. i Decay ing'vegetables should be thrown on . the manure pile, and not scattered about the door yard to befoul the" air in a hot dry time. ; -; ; . - ' - . The farmer who sells - the best and keeps the poorest seeds and animals is on the right road to the wrong place. Bet ter "bout face." - - - : Dutch belted cattle are not as large ae Holsteins, " but i are' said to rival the Ayrshires in hardiness, being well calcu lated for rough lands. T -y ; " y Cellars require care land attention to preserve them sweet, pure, and healthy. btagnant air, slops,, or decaying vegeta bles will soon vitiat e them. , , ; . Prominent apiarians advise extracting the honev from partially . filled sections at the end of the season, and keei ing the sections for, use the; next season. . jr. The use of soil on asparagus is - con fined to keeping down of weeds ; durins cutting time. Asparagus is a semi-marine .t.Kio v.,1 m..K ..it -nriii ;ni-n .. - . , J. lc- f -'. ; Thpm ia a brisk " demand and rood : r . floi, rsf j.u. F".LC ivl v65, i "l and geese, and- these fowls are easily raised. Some deem them more profita ble than chickens. - . . When fodder corn is in bloom it coh- tains but thirteen per cent, of solid mat- a . nrl . 1 1 1 l 5 i 1 -L ler. v vv uen lue Kcrueis uegiu 1.0 giaxe 11 1 ly orougnv uouie 10 weut uj uuiuu i tu nas twenty-five per cent. Don't cut it too a heavy indictment in this 1 month's Coa- soon, whether lor siloing or soiling. . -, j- ... - ... - If a silo is built in a hillside, the South ern. Cultivator deems the following a good way to construct it. Plank up inside with two-inch plank, then a course of tarred paper, then another plank on the paper ; all on the inside of tne silo. - The Southern - Cultivator avers that smoke is the great secret in the manage ment of bees. If judicially applied before a hive is opened and the frames are han dled with care, there need not beany diffi culty in performing all necessary opera tions in bee-keeping. John M. Stahl, the well-known agri cultural writer, says: "Ninety-nine of every hundred farmers get their knowl edge of and skill in their particular work by the picking-up process." " He .adds, however, that very few farmers show their sons or their laborers how to man age the details of farm work. "It i3 as if an apprentice were put in the black smith or carpenter shop and never taught." - - j . A Hot-Wind Day In. Australia A With strict impartiality it speeds alike down the hutter's chimney, formed of old kerosene tins, ; and the Elizabethan stacka of fashionable suburban man sions ; - charges up the busy i streets, "flashes through the 'omnibuses, in at one widow and out of t the other, like the clown in the pantomime. ' But not all of it ! not the six bushels t Shake yourself and see. Then it spins along the su burban highways, pounces down on the scavengers' heaps -of dead leaves and other odds and ends of" unconsidered trines,- and they are gone, and their place knows them no more. Poets seek ing new tropes and figures v of speech should try what can be made of an Aus tralian dust storm. Every window in the cities is closed, and the heated blast chafes and howls about the casements in a frenzy of impotent rage. - Should any one incautiously turn a street corner par ticularly sprucely dressed, straightway it makes for him. The air soon becomes a combination of atoms as lively -as aerated waters. The whole surrounding I f country seems shrouded by au atmos phere which has been whipped into the consistency of pea soup. One side of the street is sometimes as completely hidden from the other side as , by a November ! fo iQ jndon. Woe to '- the unlucky housemaid who has inadvertently left open a single. Window I, Repentance, in sackcloth and dust is her condign punish--ment. And thus the enemy speeds up and down the day through. The heat is stifling, but people all seek to close every avenue of approach. Batten down and stew is the order of the ; day. Of t wo evils it is by far the least ; indeed, the only defense, arfd every port is closed as n board ship in bad weather. . Should the demon succeed-in effecting an en trance he swreps through the hall, rushes up ; stairs, - and bangs every door like a maniac; The hotel kitchen is a subject of special anxiety to the functionaries concerned, and certain" venders of per ishable commodities ": close their I Bhops ; altogether. Murray's Magaiin e. . j iy -y. Weddings In Colonial Days. ; . In Mri Sanford's "History of Connec- ticut," recently issued, is the following "weddings in early colonial days were usually celebrated quietly at the home of the bride.-1 With the increase of wealth th ere was a marked cha n ge in this re spect. : Not only were the banns pro claimed in the church, but a general in vitation was given from the pulpit to attend the ceremony. :; Friends - and neighbora were entertained with a lavish hospitality at the bride's house. , On the wedding-day, muskets were fired; and those who attended the ceremony-marched in procession to' the bride's home. ;. The wedding-feasts lasted sometimes for two or three days. At a grand wedding in New London, on the day after the mar riage ninety-two ladles t and gentlemen, it is said, proceeded to dance ninety-two jigs, fifty-two. contra dances, vforty-fire Diiuuets aud serenteen hornpipes.". .TEMPERANCE. Thanksgiving Pay. Our grateful songs in rapture rise" For blessings from propitious skies, ; - t : - And mercies daily granted here . . Where plenty's star-ht banner flies. Lo, when we dreamed a-cloud was near, - A bowspanned the bright hemisphere! For bread the toilers need, not lack ' If at the plough he looks not back' . And winnews from his thoughts the tares. He'll find the shekels in his sack, , And the "love-cup" the favored shares From hands of angels unawares." , From teaming flelds bronzed labor tills i" Our vaults aud bins an J barns are filled, - And we are taught to toil and trust, i Our gift have been like rain distilled ' Upon the "unjust and the just," Eringing the fmitage from the dust. The Benjamin of nations born, " Our sacks' are filled with golden cornt " Food fit for continents of kings. . . .. ; With faces sad and garments torn, .. We be w not here; our homage brings ; - Us.tothe Gross, where Mercy clings. - : We best can show our grateful zeal ' By striving for our brother's weal, " -. Healing tho wounded heart that bleeds, And by our labors show we feel J - -: Another's woes and heed his needs. ' . . Good thoughts are blett when coined in - deeds. -- - -George TPL Bungaytin Temperance Advocate. Dr. nk'in .'ss Abroad. - When so many less "momentous subjects are the topics for discussion in internati mal and colon al congresses, it is gratifying to learn tha we hare at lengthau,ch a congress for the consideration xf inebriety, or what we prefer to call drunkenness. v: Dr. Norman Kerr deli vered the opening address of the first meeting at the Westminster Town Kail," ou the 6th inst. - It is lamentable to find that in all civilized countries this vice or, as the Congi-ess prefers to call it. this disease is so prevalent. The mo t educated nations Scotland. German v France are as deeply affected as others; and w hat is sadder still they ere the most b ameworthy m carrying the mater ies morbi to uncivilized peoples which are being demoralized and destroye 1 by drink; Cur-owl colonies are drinking badly.. Men of authority and medical ex perience say that" in Australia our fellow- sumects drink far: beyond ' anything in this ". country,-.;; and beyond f : their own Eotations . twenty years ,-ago , Cheva-er- Max- Froskowetz; tie Proskowmar- st ortr ; stated i at the ; congress that in Austria - drunkenness was . increasing evervwhere on a . dangerous scale. " ur. Petithan. of Liece, reported alcoholism in- Belrium to be increasing, with frightful rapidity. .Everywhere there are temper ahce reformers and noble men who set a splendid example of sobriety and self-denial The leaders of medicine every wheraby their pathological and other medical studies de- 4- 4UA i - 1. Arn. Kir aWIaI H . essential organs c-tthe body heart, liver. kidneys, brain and bladder. What is to be done against a disease so deep and a voice so fascin .tins? Dr. T. D. Crothers thinks that J - 4n the United States the time is not far dis tant when tho drunkard will be taken from his home and from the street, and Quaran tined in special hospitals. The inadequate liaoituai urunKara s diu or our own country is about to expire, and a few weak attempts tat strenethenmg it are to be made But f these are not radical remedies. Another sug J gestion at the Congress was that school 1 children should be taueht the effects of ' drink on health and national welfare, i Thi U to b commended. Mere eeneral intellieence is not so'much a safeguard as mierht have been expected. ' Specific infor mation drilled into the young of all the Euro pean schools seems louaiy cauea ior. c xne medical profession can do much. ' Statesmen and loyal families have a grave responsibili- 1 . 1 i. 1 a t temporcrj Recicio, entitled "Africa and the Drink Trade,!' which is F.ad reading for the countrymen of Livingstone and fotaniey. .England, Germany especially Germany ana the United States, the cnief representa tives of that religion of which Ghann ing said? 'Christianity is the mighty power before Which intemperance is to fall," are pouring rum and other spirits into Africa as fast as their heartless traders can do it, without re straint from their rulers at home, and against the piteous cry of the hapless people and chiefs of the country, who feel that it wilt destroy them, and that it is a- worse curse than the slave trade, which our fathers did so much to exterminate. London Lancet. , y A Few "Words With Boys About Beer. Rev. J. M. Van Buren'says in the Youth's Temjyerance Banner: ; : "A few days since I was talking with a gentleman, an invalid, who wanted to know what to do to get his strength. He thought that beer must be very strengthening, as it was made of tarley and had the substance of the barley in it. He seemed much surprised when I told him that was not the object in making beer, to have the substance of the barley in, it, and that the only purpose for which the barley was used was to convert the starch in it into sugar, and ferment this sugar and make alcohol. This is called glucose, or grape sugar. All the alcohol used for drink ing is made in this way.1 Whether the alcohol is in beer, or wine, or brandy, or whisky, the only difference is, there is more in brandy and in whisky than in wine and beer. . But, you say, how is the starch changed into sugar? To understand this you must know that sugar and starch are composed of the tome elements ; of matter." " There are oxygen, hydrogen, and carbon,-only in "dif ferent proportions. - The two elements of which water is composed oxygen and hydro gen united with these in starch, change it into sugar. This is done by sprouting the barley. Every grain or seed has starch in it ; that turns into sugar when it sprouts, by ab sorbing the moisture or water in the ground. The barley is sprouted for this miroofe. It is r put in heaps on a floor, kept warm, and wet 1 w in. wmer. iuier u la sprouivu iii u ui im, ' and the sprouts are taken off; it is then j crushed and fermented in warm water, and j the sugar is changed into alcohol. - This makes " beer intoxicating, v The- remainder of : the j barley is sold to feed cattle. '" '' But there is something else in beer ; liesides alcohol and water." There is a large quantity of hops used,. The substance extracted from the hops causes beer to produce a "Sleepy feel ing, and gives it ita bitter taste. " Ilia beer drinker has two appetites: .one for intoxicat ing' effects of alcohol, and another for: the narcotic effects of the hops. If "Tie takes plenty of it, one makes him drunk, the other makes him stupid. -. : v , v a. r As to nutriment, or-anything -to .-give strength, there is none of that. The little particles of the barley are separated and set tied, to make the liquor look clear and fine. Drinking beer takes away the strength; it don't give any. Where much is used, as it is by those engaged in making it, it shortens a man's life." The Germania Life Insurance takes off five years, and insures only the best cases, l hose who dnnKmucn beer look thick and full; this is called be?r-bloat.. If taken with sickness thev often die suddeniv.' Thev have not the, chance of recovery that other men have. - - --' - -- ' Boys, have nothing to do with beer if you want to be healthy and strong and live many years.; If you once get the appetite it won't be easy to get Tid . of ; it. :It is worse , than whisky; it causes two appetites, and is more deadening in its effects on all the functions of the body. - The Maine Plan the Best, . The British Medical iVcss and Circular comments as follows upon the modern fashion in Great Britain of honoring brewers and of making baronets of them: . -While the tem perance cause is claimed to have been making gieau Buviuit-es 01 lare years, governments, np matter what their parti.-ular' political and to our mind unduJv. cenerons in ennfr- ' ring honors on the princely representatives Tnere is hardlv a name which has become familiar from sseing it on oocties ana cosks. out is now embellished bv the addition of a title of some sort, though it is difficult to see- on what grounds." The Maine plan -of putting the brewers in prison is a great improvement upon the prevalent Briwsn usage 01 conrernng tit.es unon tnem. JSa.ional lempcr.in ce Advocate. Dr.- Ta 1 m ago, "Sot - Much H Dis niayed Aditor The Voice: It the Supreme Court ueciues aganisc us. sne nquor tratac win nna mac it nas sacuroa ono viciorr too manv That victory will arou'se the nation. It will be the death-knell of the liquor power. . ' ; ' S - T. De Witt Tajlmage. : Brooklyn, October ; 22, 1887. Texas, says the 8af i (Hot, voted about 14u,0U ) good, clean., white ballots in favor 0: amendment., .This vote was made up, even accoramg to tne admission . oc its enemies, from the morality, intelligence an 1 respecta biuty ot the htate, which, to a minority, is equivalent to a victory. . v .: -, HEN WHO TIN. Hundred Dollars Tarawa Away Ills AitaJVVas Success. A good healthy-body is almost sure to be sound associated with a e-nrw .miotifv.. A Close Student of bnmn-n Tin turn in rarolV Jvilhng to place large matters of trust in the bands Of another until hfl hra sAn tho nna Whom he is,to trust. He looks for the fresh health and vigor, the honest, frank counte nance and manly form, and in fact all that id attractive in men. He doubts the drsnentie With SallOW Skim drawn ont fontnaa ih evident weak and irritable nature. .- He feels as onacespeare makes Julius Cresar say: - " Let mo nave men abont me that afe ft; - '-i r Sleek headed men, and such a sleep o'nlghUf; : ; Ton Catsius hath a lean and hungry look; Be thinks too much; such men are dangerous!"' He does not doubt the honesty of the "poor Unfortunate, but fears disease of the bodv will affect the mind, bring misfortune upon the individual, and loss to himself. . t ; , It may be injustice to the weak, but if the man has not the mental strength, or if he is wrapped up in "his misery, he cannot take in the situation of the world, does not see ' that ideas - are broadening, and that isms and teacmngs are aavancmgi now can an em ployer hope for success from such a man? The dyspeptic look, the wax-like complexion and sallow Ieature3 show-disease. Tne far- seeing man notes all these signs, and knows that the great light of man, the brain, is af fected, or will be, at no distant day. -yr. . He discards the poor victim of disease who goes wearily out into the world. Discouraged. at last ne ta&es to nis sice bed. He seeks medical aid. Lacking the feroad ideas of the Kliccessfui mafl of the worldj he tries the sahle medical treatment that he has tried many times before. : The same bigoted coun sel is sought, the same drugs are administer ed by the same old f amilv friend that treated ' him months and years before, and his parents peiortj mm, auu. 111 sucu a way.as drags ouc nis miserable.; unsuccessiui existence. J Is he to blame? Why . not? When ho sees daily, and hears from every side, proclama tions of-"a remedy known as Warner's safe cure, which is becoming more popular daily, hourly; while he is becoming weaker. Obid, suffered for. nearly . three years with ayspepsia in its worst torms, having periodi cal spells of vertigo, fainting and chills. He wrote over his own signature: "I spent about all the remedies recommended without suc cess, until I was induced to try Warner's safe cure. I used three bottles, have gained twenty peunas ana teel use a new man." . ; Such a man as, we - have described, nine times out of ten, unconsciously to himself or to his physicianhas a kidney disorder. which is fast wasting his body and lite. He sees the . merits of Warner's sate cure at every turn. and hears it proclaimed from the house tops, and yet he does not use it, because it is said by nis miDerai physician that it is not profes sional, and hot admitted by the code. Mean- ' while the man of the world presses forward. cares not a fig for this or that school; his aim . in life is success, and he looks hopefully for ward to - the world beyond, believing and trusting in man in this world,and to his faith lor the world beyond. 5 : Books in their present form were invented by AttaJus, King of Pergamus, in 887, . An Important Arrest. . The arrest of a suspicions character upon his eeueral aUDearance.movemerlts or companion- Khin. without, wait. in - until he has robbed a t.ra.vnlAr. firp.fi a. house, or murdered a fellow- mn.-n. i an imnnrtAnt. f anction of a.8hrewd de tective Even more important is the arrest of rHuooarf Whiirh. if Tint. (hnf-Vftn'. will bllSTht and destroy a human life. The frequent oough,loss of appetite, general languor or debility, pallid : Bkin and bodily aches and pains, announce the approach of pulmonary consumption, which is promptly arrested and permanently cured by fr. Pinro' "Golden Medical Discovery." Sold by druggists. - r : The first iron ore to be discovered in this country was found in -Virginia in 171a. . ransnmDtion, Scrofala. CSeneral Debility, Wastinar Diseases of Children, Chronic Coughs and Bronchitis, can be cured by the use of Scott's Emcxsion of Pare Cod Li Oil with H vpophospb.it es. Prominent physicians use it and testify to ftsgreatvalne. t1aU read iha fol'owinjr: I used SCott's Emulsion for an obatina'e uougn w.ia Hemor rhage, Ix33 of Appetite, Emaciation, a'eep lessness, &c All of these have now left, and I believe your Emulsion has saved a case of well-developed Consumption." T. J. Fctdlet, M. Lone fctar, Texas- . Speak well of your friend; of your enemy say ncthing. - - --- .. The Special Oner ""-J of This Youth's Companion, which we have a Sublished,includes the admiraOie uouDie ja.011 ay Numbers for Thanksgiving and Christmas, with colored covers ana ruu-paga ijiuiuito, twenty pages each. These, with the other week ly issues to January 1, 1888, will be sent free to all new subscribers who send $1.75 for a year s subscription to January, lbtsa. ihb u)pa IOn has bee a greatly enlarged, is finely illus trated, and no other weeiuy literary paper eiyes so much for so low a price. A wise man is not inquisitive about things mpsrtinent, - . - .-- ; . -; . ..... 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