Evening Star Newspaper, May 27, 1882, Page 2

CITY AND DISTRICT. — THE CITY MARKETS. FLOUR, LIVE STOCK, POULTRY AND V1 NATIVE POTATOES SCAKCK AND HIGH—OTHER TUE WEEK ethour market is steady, at about the same | week. No fears are entertained by any concession, but rather a feeling | ar Will be in steady demand for several | month 2, notwithstemding the unusually fine prospects for an early and abundant stock of new flour. It will probably be | nearly, if not quite, three months before | flour from new wheat will be to any great | extent he market, and untf! that time old ‘Stock wil! be wanted. The quotations are: Minne- sota (p #9; do, (bakers’ brands), | Faw. TICES), $7.25.87.75; doe | stan. 37; do. ‘(trade brands), S20 super, $4.75a$5.00; fine, $875085.25; middling, $2.23250; rye, $5.25235.50. | ‘The demand for the Southern is moderate, and something in the way of jobbing ts being done in ny. flour. he ‘n market {s quite firm, particularly for ood white ts steady at 9 cents, yellow corn meal Is firta at about the same | atis firm and in good demand at the Jeorgetown. ‘Tho stock of goo quality of hay Is searce, and theresore the prices keep firm at about the old figures. Inferior quality 18 more abundant, and, not being wanted, ts low In price. The salts of straw have been brisa the post week, and ts still wanted by the stables, Soutiern biack- eyed peas are rather scarce, sud there 16 some In- quiry for them. Beans of foreign kinds are Offered freety, and the prime are meeting w.th lib- eral sales. Onts are a little better, as the receipts have failen off, although a moderate and steady trade fs in progress. THR LIVE STOCK MARKETS teactive with upward tendency, the dest prime lot of beeves ruling as high as 9cents per pound onthe hoof. Fresh meats are also high. Prime Deef, hind quarters, are worth $15a316 per ewt; prune Core quarters, $10.12; common hind quart- ers, $9» sumon fore quarters, $7929. Mutton, me, 0.212 cents per pound; the cageasa Veal, prime, 6 Beet ts very scarce and prices bh advance since Iast_ quotations Vanes is anticipated. In cured meats, there seems to be a better feeling although the market is firm. Smoked sides have advanced to 12%: at wholesale prices. Be<t hams Dest western shoulders, 10%; breakfast 14% cents; beef tongues, # per dozen; sugar cured shoulders, western, 11%a13 cents, In jobbing lots; lard 13 cents. York state ts on the decline ant now pound cents; a1 to the consumption. The price for + kind, prime, ts 2J.22 cents in lota The Dest creameries are worth 27028, and the demand $0 Steady that but little distinction ts observable im the Sales of the prime and those of a shade lower grades. But smali receipts are reported of the near-py products thus far, and there 1s not quotations, and there 1s not much activity Market. Some good western and New York state lots are in store among the dealers on Louisiana avenue. POULTRY %8 active and the demand steady. Live chickens are worth 20a3) cts. per pound, and old fowls 11a12 ets.; no dressed poultry nor ganfe in the market. ‘Wash ts abundant and of very fine quality, and the sales are brisk and moving along. Eggs are of a Ittle easier tendency at 20 cts. per dozen in lots. Green Fruits—Apples are still in the market. Good russets are worth $5a$7 per DbL.; strawber- erties, 16825 cts. per ym North Carolina and 1 lemons have advanced; $4595 per box, and oranges art Norfolk. lemo: Oranges and are selling for a$7 per box. Dried fruits and nuts are in steady demand. Evaporated apples sell readily Mal3 cts: dried, Sa6cts.; do bright, 4a5 cts; do quarters, bright, dase Common, Buse. Choice p eles are in demand; also, cherries, currents, blackberries, and whortioberries. VEGETABLES. Kattve potatoes are scarce and high, they range from $1.50a31.60 per bushel, and but few good collec- tons can be found In the country. The early rose and burbanks are hard to be collected in the north and eastern section of the country. The peerless, excellent potato, {s a little more plentiful. ts range from 90 2. P beans, $2182.50 per per box; cymlings. $1.502 0 3, $1 3, per Dbl; bee lots; lettuce, 5 cents per dc s, 50 vents and $2 per dozen bunche $238 per bushel boxe ‘The new southern vegetables begin to come in freely and steadily, and all are selling well. Ever In the hew fruit and vegetahie lines are moving along satista ther has Deen cood for keeping vege! arrive in good condition. - The seas 45 a little backward, but both quantities and quall- tes were ne ver in better prospect. Police Court Lawyers. YHE CONTEST OVER SMALL CASES—SOME INTEREST- ING FACTS REGARDING THE DIGNIFIED COUNSEL- and lots LOWS, WHO PRACTICE AT JUDGE SNELL'S BAR. Althouzh we have a small police foree and our efty covers a great many square miles of terri- tory, we have as quiet and orderly a city as can be found in the country, and there Is as little crime committed here as in any other community of the ‘The poltce reports show that there are, on an rage, about twenty arrests made dally, Principally for trifling violations of the law, such a8 lor boisterous talking on the street, pro- mple assault, &. There {arrest for the more grave tent to kill, grand lar- ,&c. Nearly all of these violations Of the law are’ committed in two or three small neighborhoods that have almost entirely given up the lewd and depraved classes. THE SAME PACES. A constant visitor at Judge Snell's court will see that the majority of the prisoners are colored and fhe same people fill the dock day after day, and when hale old Bailiff Barton 1s directed by the Prosecuting attorney to call a prisoner from the @elis below to the dock-rall, tt will be known Just what face will next grace the dock. One singular feature of the trials at this courtis the large number of prisoners who have lawyers to defend them. This may occur because there Is so large a number of lawyers in this city that the competition 4s great, even for the smallest kind of business, There are innumerable classes of lawyers, and it 48 impossible to tell Just where one class ends and the next bezing. Our bar has many eminent ex- f the law, and possesses as sound legal n be found anywhere. It 1s trae some ases come before the Police Court, and able counsellors are called on to defend clients and und the law here. But also the most undigni- class of the counseliors can probably be found the multitude of attorneys who strive to living out of the poor ignorant wretches une before this court. The competition ts so great for even this small business, that some of these able counsellors some times nearly commit breac of the peace tn contesting for a client who Is claimed by two attorneys, WAITING FOR THE “MARIA.” As early 237 o'clock in the morning some of them ean be seen standing on the spacious pertico of the dingy oid Police Court buliding at the corner Of 6th and D streets, waiting for cilents, of which the “Biack Maria” invariably furnishes a plentiful supply. And within a few minutes after the rival of the “Maria” every prisoner who can ral even the smallest sum cin get an attorney to de- . ho Matter What the evidence is against @ majority of the cases that come before court are charges against colored people for he District ordinances by cursing and loud and botsterous talking on the e. for which tit larceny, ye no gx. But impress his client with the ite that he is in earnest, ard doing his him, and earning his fee, he cross-exam- ‘TOSsS-eXamines the witnesses, and then makes a speech in his behalf, which {§ more re- markable for length than cozency. After taking BP great deal of the vuiusbie time of the court he submits his case, the court imposes the usual Bae, and the prisoner walks into the dock wishing ‘that he had not employed the attorney, for then he would have a little more towards paying his | Qne. This has been carried to such an extent that Judge Snell has more than ones, in open court, explained to these ignorant people the utter use lessness of employing attorneys, and bas threat- ened t send the lawyers to Jail as vagrants If they persisted im soliciting business among the prisoers. SCENES IN COURT. Sometimes ridiculous scenes occur between the attorneys and their clients in this court. On one To the Editor of Tae Evextne Stam: Primary education has been a recent subject of debate in the legistative assemblies of Eng- land and France, and the theme of able edito- rials in the leading newspapers. Asa conse- quence the reading has a better concep- tion of what these nations think of a child and what they propose to do for him, than of our own attitude in reference to the subject, al- though ours is, par excellence, the land of pub- lic schools and of newspay The conditions out of which these different degrees of publicity have arisen re easily explained. Primary edu- cation never presented itselr to us as a problem to be solved. In our northern communities, at least. it came without observation, has kept bss with their growth, and exhibits the imper- ions and the vigor of a natural production. Free schools and school tax have no place in the public policies of England. The “national = represents the triumph of an idea in ita incipient stage merely, itis not the spontaneous action of had pei od in their own interests, but the effort of a class to raise the mass. The “Education Code” comes into parliament rather asa recognized necessity than as a popular mea- sure, and for a hearing in the English papers, presents the double claim of importance ant novelty. In France, free primary education is an ex- periment older than the present republic, but the principles embodied inthe ‘Education Bill,” which was so vehemently debated in the senate from the 13th to the 23d of March. are opposed to the convictions or prejudices of a | portion of the French peopie; hence the discus- sion is naturally appealed from the limited circle of the senate to the wider arena of the press. From these conditions which expose the in- feriority of France and England as compared with our own country in respect to the practical development of primary education, there has re- sulted a method of presentation, an analysis and exposition of details which is worthy of our attention. Within living memory our school affairs grew to such Loy Seana that they could no longer be managed by the people en masse, and were turned over to the care of boards and of special officers. With the relief trom an onerous re- sponsibility came the decline of individual in- terest and the rapid increase of delegated authority, so that, at last, between parent and child there has grown up an elaborate system whoge composition, powers and modes of opera- tion very few people know anything about. The doings are published after they are done, and in official documents which attract little general attention. In other words, bya natural pro- cess EDUCATION HAS BECOME A MONOPOLY. The father looking at piles of text-beoks, pro- grams and time schedules, has an uneasy con- sciousness that he has surrendered his right and title in his son's intellectual development; the mother seeing her nervous, excitable dangh- ter with a poky figure and a literary turn of mind, is haunted by traditions of an elder day when a mother’s notions had equal weight wit! the schoolmen’s in determining the training of girls. No one wants to return to primitive modes, but the conviction that the judgment of the mass of the people ought to have fuller recognition in the scheme of public education is steadily gaining ground. The newspapers, it would seem, afford the only adequate medium for the expression of this judgment. If any one supposes that the innovation would weight ilies with dull matter, he might be re- by an examination of the London Times of April 4th and 5th. The Times is rather a solid paper, but the report of the education dis- cussign in Parliament and the editorial sum- mary of parliamentary and popular opinions which appeared in the two issues referred to, rk reading lively enough for the American ec. THE PITH OF THE MATTER was In the consideration of advantages to be de- rived from the study of elementary science. It did not appear that an average English child is as highly favored in this respect as he would be on this side the Atlantic—as a Washington child in a Washington school; but parents who read the columns found good reasons for the choice of that class of subjects, and could bardly have resisted the conviction that the education of children is an interest which brings the humblest. classes into sympathy with the wisest and most powerful. The tendency in our own conney. is to confine the discussion ot public school affairs to educa- tional journals, as if the training of a child was like music, or engineering, or medicine—a mys- tery to all but the initiated; whereas it is ore of those grand problems of life so related to uni- versal experience that it is of interest to every- body, and may derive advantage from any man’s thought and observation. The school and the teacher educate the child, but they must be a part of the age, and the ex- poneat of the age Is the press. A.T.8. Georgia :Prodigies. Bob Yerby, of Winterville, has a four-legged chicken.—Athens Banner. Jake Sams wears socks with a button-hole boquet on the side.—Covington Enterprise. Mrs. A. Melton found among a lot of gos- lings one that had three legs, the third leg be- ing directly behind tne two used in walking. It is living and doing well_—Thomasville Enter- Mr. J. T. Harrison showed us the other day a peculiar thing. It was a chicken with two per- fectly formed heads and bills, with three eyes and only one body. Dr. Stephens took it, and has it in alcohol.— Crawfordsville Democrat. Mr. Felix Sloan, a farmer, residing near Re- sach, in this county, hasa mare who recently gave birth to two mule colts, both well formed— one the ordinary size and the other about the size of arabbit. The largest one is still alive. — Caihoun Times. Mr. J. D. Moore, living near White Plains, has a curiosity in the shape of a cat. The head and half the body is that of a cat, while the balance isarabbit. It eats peas like a rabbit and meat and bread like a cat.—Crawfordsville Democrat. There is a young lady in Lexington who has two engagement rings, and as each fellow calls, she wears the ring he gave her. They both called at the same time not long since and she was in a box.—Oglethorpe Echo. Mr. James Millians, of the fourth district, tells about a forward chicken that was hatched at the Widow Mize’s, in that district, afew days ago, and when only twenty-four hours old it crowed, and would go through with all the eti- quette of a grown chicken. The chicken should be saved, for the country needs an early kind.— Newman Herald. Green Hill, not satisfled with her wildcat bab: and three-legged pigs, manages to pull throt to the front this week with this: A cat gave birth to two kittens recently. One of them had only one leg in front, while the other kitten has seven legs, four on behind and three in front. At last accounts they were living and Going well. We are authorized to state that if any one doubts the above he can get a fight any time by calling on the proprietor of the cats.—Lumpkin Inde- pendent. ————— Bound Wer Chicks Should Swim. From the Bangor Whig and Courier. Some time ago a hen was set upon ducks’ eggs, and in due time the ducklings were out and on thelr way to the nearest water. Biddy was much alarmed at the apparent folly of her brood; but after a few days she lost all fear, and each morning she led them to the water and patiently waited until they were done bath- ing. After a few weeks the ducks were able to take care of themselves, and the hen was set upon eggs of herown kind. When the chicks were hatched she had not forgotten what ap- peared to be maternal duty. She led her flock to the water, but to her surprise not one en- tered. After some time spent in talking to them in hen language, trying to convince them that it was their duty to go into the water, she became exasperated at what looked like diso- bedience on the part of her children, selzed them one by one and threw them in, drowning he had not benefitted her, un- manded im to return her the had given him, which he reluctantly id. Then aj npr npn pices the Gisgust of the attorney) to the fifty cents she im. Sometimes two attorneys, tne white ood the other colored, will get up to defend the same client, when the court wil! demand to know which Of them is the authorized counsel If one of them has been fortunate enough to have received his fee in advance then he gets the preference, but If Bot, then it is left to the prisomer to choose be- tween them. Sees A Curious Storm in Vermont. the whole flock. of M. Grisel, the engine-driver who has just been made a Chevalier of the Legion of Honor, for the presence of mind which more than twenty years saved one hundred and fifty lives — seems to have been a pent te Correspondence of Taz Evrxinc STAR. Bio Sanpy, Ky., May, 1888. We left the magnificent panorama which spresd out before us on the top of the Cumber- land with reluctance. Ourroad carried us down into the invisible depths of the forests, upon which we had been gazing with such pleasure. Taken in the mass they were grand indeed. As our road wound through them, beauties of ¢e- tail in shapely tranks and symmetry of branches constantly awoke our admiration. Suddenly we descry a break in the woods. A zigzag fence of new rails shows us that man is here to mar these grand solitudes. It seemed like a sacri- lege to raise the woodman’s axe against these noble columns that rise along its grand aisles Freie the forest arches as in some old ca- wu Tree worshippers we were, and not pleased to see our altars destroyed by axe and fire, as the settler’s clearing soon revealed. But we had no pone to — or itn Pekepoter pete we gazed upon a large field oj upon the moun- tain si partly need ate stumps, amid which a few cornstalks ot last year’s crop at- tested the diligent toil that had won bread from the rugged mountain side. In another part of the field lay the huge trunks piled for the burner. Then again we saw SEVERAL ACRES OF “DEADENING” not yet felled. This process is adopted in all new countries heavily wooded, to destroy the timber more rapidly. In June or early July the trees are girdled—that is,a ring is cut clean round through the bark. The tree dies, and no sprouts come from the roots. In this clearing of thirty acres, at least six thousand cords of wood had been destroyed, or not less than half a million feet of the finest lumber. This, too, within seventy-five miles of a railroad, while the need of this timber is sorely felt. Our re- flections were suddenly cut short by A STRANGE SIGHT. Right in the. road before us, and completely blocking our way, stood a very tall, lank. big- fisted mountaineer, driving the smallest pair of oxen possible. They were hitched toa rough sled, and on it were a few stakes. Just behind was an old woman, three young women and two boys. The women and boys were bare- footed. The man had on coarse boots. All were dressed in home-made cloth, and thetailor and dressmaker had evidently no standard but comfort. They were all splitting rails, and building fence. How strongly it struck us. Yet looking back forty years ago to the forests of western New York something like this was to be seen. I well remember hearing a good old aunt of mine, who went with her young hus- band into the wilds uf Genesee county, N. Y., tell of it. She used to take her young baby and lay it in the shade while she helped her hus- band roll logs. Everybody, old and young, helped to clear the land of logs and prush them. ‘The race that sprung from these pioneers have made the county what it is. But they had good schools and New England training in all kinds of work. 80 we looked kindly upon our mountain friends bespeaking for them a similar success as to coming generations. Great possi- bilities are inapeople surely who hew down such forests on lands so steep and forbidding. The women did not look at us. The men nodded and speedily got their little team out of our way. For miles we passed a succession of these little clearings. The houses were all built upon nearly the same plan, hewed logs laid up very nicely and the chinks filled in with clay; a large fire place of rough stone with a chimney of sticks plastered with mud to prevent burning up and no glass in the windows. INDUSTRIOUS MOUNTAIN WOMEN. In each house is the spinning wheel for wool, generally standing on the porch; sometimes the small flax wheel, and usually the loom also. As we passed some were spinning, others quilt- ing, and preparing a piece for the loom. Sey- eral women were breaking and hatcheling flax— that is beating it with aclub and drawing it through a nest of sharp nails driven through a plank and turned points up. Sometimes the women were shearing the sheep. I did not see aman doing any ot these things in my trip. It is nothing against the men, however; they were busy in the fields preparing the land for the crops. Each house had a fine flock of fowls; geese were particularly abundant, the frequent streams affording them their proper element. The honey bee is also a favorite. They are ob- tained from the woods in quantities to suit. Everybody hunts bees and domesticates as many swarms as desired. They are kept in hollow logs called beegums. Each family has from five to twenty-five swarms. These forests afford the finest pasturage for bees imaginable, and bee- keeping ought to be a great industry there. Rude as the externals are, there is comfort in most of these homes. The orchard is a constant attendant of the house. Peaches, apples, grapes, guinoes; and all the small fruits are very fine. I did not see a single pear or cherry tree. We never sat down to a table which did not display honey, and at least three kinds of fruit, preserved or stewed, MOUNTAIN CHILDREN. The children at every house betokened the healthfulness of the climate, and gave promise of the future. Their clothes were not abun- dant nor fashionable, but in their chaste and scanty garb we saw happy and uncorrupted childhood, joyous.and pure as the mountain brooks. Compared with the neglected poor of the erent cities, and even the spoiled and petted children of the rich, how fortunate are they! From every house they came forth by the half dozen or dozen, rolling, toddling, waddling after each other to catch a glimpse of the strange sight to them of a wagon drawn by a pair of horses, Here there are only sleds. The land is ali turned up edgeways, and a wagon would turn over if driven out of the road to gather the crops. So the littletots came out to greet us, and we made them presents of cakes and candy, and thought how they would be statesmen, orators, pts, presidents, etc., and then we would come ack on them for our ‘‘cake cast onthe waters.” In some places the older children were met tending the cattle and sheep in the forest ranges. The cattle are small, but the sheep are very fine, large and healthy. *A race of shepherds ought to grow up here as in Scotland. The climate, soil and topography-are natural. We were told of a wonderful seam of CANNEL COAL ELEVEN FEET THICK, and having secured the direction went to visit the spot. On Isham Gibson's tarm, Letcher cofnty, we found the coal. A lad of fourteen was encountered, who took fright at our ap- th and ran away. We soon reassured him and he climbed with us about 400 feet up the mountain, where we found a seam of cannel coal of fine quality, three feet thick only. It had been opened for domestic use to save chop- ping wood. The slight thickness did not sur- prise me. The geologist in the field early tearns to discount the stories told at a distance. Tales of mineral discovery are, like snow balls, the farther you roll them the bigger they grow; or, as Saxe would say, “Stories grow till they reach a two-story size.” The shrinkage of the veins as we approached them was quite com- mon here as elsewhere. From this point we had broader vall and sandy bottoms that re- minded us our own good melon patches on the Potomac. The roads were fine on these bottoms for a short — at ecm But some greedy farmer generally runs his fence close to the ‘bank and crowds the road into the bed of the stream. As there are no wagons, and travel is slight, the greatest good to the greatest number is thereby secured perhaps. My companion, though a lawyer, was not a Litres po and his disgust at this was not difficult to perceive, Indeed, at times he expressed & wish that the parties who built the fence might bein a warm place. The re- angel will no doubt drop a tear and ex- hat hasty expression from the record. le certainly wil if he ever rode over the Ken- tucky mountains with only the ghost of an ex- tinct cushion under him. The fact is, land is so that the poor people cannot afford to | and scarce here waste it for roads. We are now amid THE HAUNTS OF THE “M00 but nelther they nor their works were visible to the vulgareye. We were told, however, that if we had come into these wilds duly refinement. The young ladies have never been beyond these hills, but they wauld grace an; society with their fine manners and rare int Philadel in said ta con’ amo: =foot vein of cannel coal. an coal 18 feet thick. It Is 13 we found abundant coal outcropping every- khouse where al the valleys. On the Rocl branch of Kent river several distinct veins were found from 8 to 5 feet thick. Some of them are coking coals, similar to those of the Connelsville district, Pennsylvania, and of the New River district, in West Virginia. These seams lie above water, with excellent roofs, and are free from guiniar. Some thin beds of can- nel were also AL, EVERYWHERE. Everywhere the bands of fron stone concre- tions attest the presence of the Richney ore peculiar to this formation in other districts. These mines are upon a tract of 50,000 acres, owned by J. B. Farwell, the great dry goods merchant of Chicago, brother of the Hon. Chas, Farwell, now in Congress from that city. The forest growth is magnificent. Black walnut is being cut wherever found here, its high price justifying a long haul at this time. it is now worth in the log #100 per thousand on the Ohio river. The finest oak, chestnut, hickory and poplar is here growing, and rotting or fali- ing before the axe of the woodman to be burned up. The waste seems wicked to an outsider. It would pay the state to extinguish the private title to these lands and preserve the forests. It ought to be done in the interest of civilization. Instead of that the state has surrendered the finest body of timbered land now left in America. TREE MURDER. They have been bought often at ten cents per acre by private parties, mostly speculators. Some are occupied by settlers often without a shadow of title. These last cut away the tim- ber worth a hundred dollars an acre with pro- Sigious labor, and plant wheat and corn. The soil soon washes away unless allowed to grass over, which it rarely is on the steep slopes. The old lands yield only 4 to 5 bushels of wheat and 10 to 12 bushels of corn per acre. And for such wasteful agriculture as this, the finest forests of the continent are being swept away. Thousands of hard wood logs were seen rolled into the ravines to get them out of the way. I asked Mr. Marr, our legal friend, why they did not burn these into ashes and scatter it over the worn out lands? “If you should propose it they would have you sent up to the lunatic asylum,” he replied. ‘They have no idea of replacing the wear of soils by manure orgreencrop. To grow what the land will, and then clear up some more is the policy here as in the west also too often. Leaving Whitesburg, we proceeded northeast through Floyd county to the headwaters of the Big Sandy at Piketon. Our route lay mostly now along streams of larger size, with some breadth of valley. We were in danger of seeing our horses starve before our eyes from scarcity of feed. The farmers were reduced to short rations tor their own teams. By dint of con- stant inquiry, picking up a few ears of corn in one place, and some bundles of corn blades in another, we kept the poor beasts in good heart. The last season came near producing a famine, and sooner or later unless the present barbarous agriculture is. succeeded by intelligent cultiva- tion, the country will be called upon to save the people from starvation in some bad season. A REGION WHERE THE SCHOOLMASTER IS NOT * aBRoap. The people have no realizing sense of better things, Few ot them can read or write. The schools are the poorest I have ever seen in any part of the south: We were told by the parents repeatedly that they would be glad to educate their children but have no schools. The school system is without vitality here. The school houses are rude log structures, generally with- ont glass or windows of any kind, and would be regarded as unfit for stables in the north. Light is admitted by leaving the door open. Again and again we dismounted and examined these huts that the rich state of Kentucky providesto educate its children. It would be incredible if not seen, that a people exist in the very heart of our country so far behind in education. The present generation will do nothing except as help comes from without. They know nothing of the value of instruction for their children, and will not [take sthe tronble to secure it. I commend this region to the agent of the Pea- body fund. The meeting houses are like the school houses, mere rude and neglected places. Lands can be bought for trom two to five dol- lars per acre. These poor people have generally either gone upon the land without title or paid 310 for a survey of 200 acres. They certainly de- pers the land they occupy whether paid for or not PRIMITIVE CORN MILLS. Onr curiosity was excited by some queer little log structures along the rapids of the streams. We thought them spring houses at first, but passing near one heard something going on in- tide. So we alighted, and the door being fas- tened we looked through the cracks. There we saw the nature of the thing. It wasa mill, and . Ofour trip down the been ina skiff, we will speak next time. D. ae Satan ean tatee NE EARLY SUMMER RESORT BREEZES. MOUNTAIN AXD SEASIDE. ‘The Elbveron hotel is open for the summer. ‘The Coney Island hotels will open to-day. This is the sort of weather summer hotel peo- ple rejoice at. Newport will have the benefit of electric light this season. The drives at Long Branch were seriously in- Jured by the recent rains. ‘The Spanish Minister to Washington will spend the summer with his family at Many improvements have been made in the grounds adjoining the springs at Saratoga. A topographical survey of Mr. James Gordon Bennett's cliff site, Newport, is being made. Martha’s Vineyard and Nantucket have both increased their hotel capacity since last season. The Asbury Park code in relation to swearing, drinking, &., will be strictly enforced this year. Gen. C, A. Whittier, of Boston, has taken the Cc. L. Anthony cottage, on Bellevue avenue, Newport. Cape May hotel people are counting on the heaviest season's business they have ever en- joyed. Several of the White Mountain hotels have maeiih more applications for rooms than they can fill. Neptune City is the name of a new resortafew miles below Long Branch. So far itis only a city on maps. Prices at all the prominent resorts will be from twenty-five to fifty per cent higher than they were last year. Old Orchard Beach, Me., claims to have “the finest sea beach in the world,” Cape May can safely contest this claim. Unimproved real estate located on the cliffs at Newport, when there is any of it for sale commands $17,500 per acre. It is contemplated having a signal arranged at the Newport post office whereby announce- ment can be made of the opening of the mails. Newport’s Casino is now open. Many im- provements in the interior are to be noted, and the general appearance is very handsome and effective. All the garrets in the farm houses on the Cat- skills have been cleaned up. and now only await the arrival of families with four and six childre: along with the crying baby. 5 If Vennor's prognostications prove correct there will be frost about June 7and possibly later. The possibilities are that Vennor will be sunstruck about that time. Any number of village maidens have gra- ciously accepted engagements to wait on table at the alleged hotels and boarding houses of Narrayansett this season. , The wreck at Deal Beach came a trifle too early for “‘business” at the Long Branch hotels, but people will have no difficulty in buying por- tions of it for weeks to come. Ocean Grove promises to be as prolific of camp-meeting and religious influence as ever. Itisa queer place, and one of which Dickens would have loved to write about. The recent fire at Rye Beach, N.H., will not retard or have any effect on the season. which is full ot promise to those who keep hotels. Rye Beach was the favorite resort of the late Admiral Farragut. Long Branch, following the example of the Coney Island people, is goingintothe fireworks business on an extensive scale. The exhibitions and displays will begin on the night of the Fourth of July. A new avenue at Long Branch, cut through the Sternberger property, near the Elberon, has been named “Garfield Place.” in honor of the late President, and a cottage colony below is to be called ‘‘Garfield-by-the-Sea.” The Seventh Regiment, N. G. 8. N. Y., is to make a trip to Newport in July. Such theater- goers as saw the play, “‘The Passing Regiment,” will probably find several lieutenants similar to Thorpe Suydam among the Seventh’s officers. Unruly, disagreeable, and impolite beings, who intend to inflict the resorts this summer with their presence should ever bear in mind that true politeness is perfect ease and freedom. It simply consists in treating others just as you love to be treated yourself. Twenty-five thousand dollars have been ex- pended by the Stewart estate in further beau- tifying and improving the Grand Union, Sara- toga, which opens in June, with Mr. Clair in charge, as usual. It is one ofthe largest and handsomest of watering-place hotels. The popularity of Long Beach is undeniable. Its attractions as a summer resort multiply each year, and so long as the moneyed aristocracy affect it as a place of recreation its success is assured. The great hotel at the place, with its addition of 200 rooms this year, opens early next month, ——$_—_+o.____ Unattended Ladies in London. The London Queen comments on the fact that & great change has taken place in that city regarding the freedom and independence of young ladies. The tendency is more and more evident every year to adopt the American rule and that of the Continent. “A gen- eration ago,” says the editor, “it was not con— such a mill! A water wheel with the simplest gearing connected with a set of stones about 18 sidered proper, and indeed was hardly possible, for young ies of d style and repute to walk alone in the streets of London. Freer inches in diameter, a rude hopper—that was all the mill. Over this hung a bag holding about two bushels of corn, which a little contrivance than their unmarried sisters across the channel, they were more closely held than those on connected with the gearing, shook, so that a the other side of the Atlantic; and youth was few kernels dropped constantly into the hopper. considered a state which needed protection Below was a tub of rude construction to catch from dan; and safeguards from its own rT dtaneas Nataraliy the higher the social the meal, which was of good ao This one belonged to Harry Johnson, who was away at work. Mrs. Johnson was shearing sheep, aided by her little boy. She told us that her husband built the mill in about ten days. Its capacity was tio bushels a day. It cost nothing to run it, and they ground thelr own and neighbors’ corn. We'saw these little mills frequently, and they struck us as an admirable contrivance for farmers wherever they have a little water power. The stones are of ordinary coarse grit, abundant in the hills, and anybody can make the machinery with axe, saw and augers. We struck the line of the railroad survey from the mouth of the Big Sandy, now built to Peach Orchard, 120 miles north, The route seems practicable enough. The people seemed quite indifferent to it. The lumber and coal willmake the road largely paying from the very start. It will bring the wealth of this region out into the valley of the Ohio. With a few tunnels an al- most unbroken down grade can be & At Abel Tockett’s, on the Boone branch, wi saw a fine sh ore! 8 hard, and coal is tound, out- cropping of the splint and cannel varieties. We are on the trail said to have been followed by Daniel Boone and his daring followers who crossed from inta to these wilds and founded the great west. @ great hunter has left his name here, but he had too much sense to stay long, and pushed on to the blue grass region. ADVENTURE WITH A MOUNTAIN WIDOW. We were unable to find a place to stay be- fore dark, for want of feed. We heard of a thrifty widow farther on who kept travelers sometimes. My companion, who is a handsome man and a lawyer besides, realizing our extrem- ity as twilight deepened, had framed one of his most melting speeches to be fired off at the widow at sight, He recited it with great glee and made, no doubt, that the doors of her hospit- able mansion would be promptly opened to us. We shortly arrived. My. egal iend leaped out se dogs jumped up aud’ barked Hercoly at savage jumped up ani jercel ha ‘A powerral woman of stern and forbid- aspect came out armed with a club. The status of the girl the more careful these safeguards, the more complete this protection— laxity in these matters being looked upon as essentially plebian and the personal freedom of young women being taken as the sign of want of refinement, of delicacy, of high bi and of fine feelings in both the parents and the daughters. But we have changed much of that, and at the present day a chaperon is the last thing by the modern girl, who loves lib- erty more than safety, and who trusts to her own Col and cleverness to carry her out of dangers and difficulties of which her mother,when her age, was not sup| know even the ex- istence. The modern girl scouts the idea of dan- gers to beconcealed from her, of dark places inlife where she is not allowed to tral She has renounced all belief in the fitness of things and. the appropriateness of knowledge to age and of action to state. The streets now are as free to her as to her brother, and there is a general con- sent to deny the possibility of id he ohio in this use of the ‘key of the fields” by those whom Papal erisowet pov tu nenot ese Neco Mat like precious jewels which might into Nevish hands unless well watched and looked after. Young and attractive girls are to be met wandering down Regent street and Pall Mall, staring into the shop windows. *Unas are they whose lion is their own int and who the services of dame or aq) pre- to encounter their own wild undefended, and to get over their own stiles unassisted. It is a curious state of ‘things to those of us who can look back some half cent or so, but it is one which has to be accepted w! er we like it or no. For phases of society, of public opinion and of manners have to be worked through like fashiona, ship for one example, or, for another, the exag- ee humanitarianizm which would rather ignorance ‘or: died by thousands of prevestiie or 01 le diseases than that ffog should suffer an hour's — or a guinea pig a day’s inconvenience. This daught ‘one of these phases have to be worked to RELIGIOUS NOTEs, NEWS OF THE WEEK—THE CHURCHES HERE AND ELSEWHERE—THE COMING EPISCOPAL CONVEN- ‘TION. = —Rev. Dr. Cuyler’s church, in New York, re- cently received 57 in confession of faith. — The Episcopalians of Boston have a thriv- ing branch of the church temperance society. — Rev. Canon Thyme is in this country in the interest of the projected cathedral at Truro, England. —Rev. D. D. Jenkins was installed as pastor of the eh of Frostburg, Md., a few weeks since. _— . , —The Kentucky Synodical (Presbyterian, south) Teport nearly 400 additions to the church in the last four months. —Archbishop Gibbons recently confirmed 198 at St. Patrick’s church, Cumberland—28 converts from non-Catholic families. —Rev. Dr. Haygood, president of Emory college, Georgia, declines the bishopric in the M. E. Church South, to which he was recently elected. —Two young colored men trained in St. Au- gustine’s normal school,: at Raleigh, were re- cently ordained deacons of the Episcopal church for work in the south. — Mr. Edmund Law Rogers, of Baltimore. has presented a site to St. George’s church (Epis- Copal) in that city, and the building has been commenced. —Rev. G. F. Watkins, of the Episcopal church at Port Tobacco, Charles county, Md., Proposes to erect a church for the colored peo- ple of Charles county. —The Chicago Theological Seminary (Bap- tist) has secured a $100,000 endowment fund in the west, and is endeavoring to raise a like amount in the east. —Rev. Dr. J. T. Murray, of Pittsburg, of the M. P. church, it is said will be called to St. John’s Independent Methodist church, Balti- more. —The Dubuque, Towa, congregational associ- ation has adopted a resolution that the churches in that state should declare themselves indepen- dent of the American Home Missionary society. — The Baptists are about building in west Bal- timore a mission church costing, with the ground, $30,000, and are taking measures for the erec- tion of a mission church in south Baltimore. —The Hanover (Ohio) Presbyterian church re- cently received 26 members, the results of a re vival; Park church, of Newark, N. J., 48; Jud- son, Ind.,13; Dennison, Ohio, 18; Washington, —Bro. Francis, of this city, was recently raised to the order of priesthood at St. Joseph's, Perry county, Ohio, by Bishop Watterson, and will hereafter be known as Rey. I. F. Colbert, of the Dominican order. — Evangelist Harrison has gone to St. Paul, Minn., to enter upon revival work. He is to conduct a meeting at Clear Lake, Ia., July 5-10, preceding’ the state camp-meeting—to be con- ducted by Chaplain McCabe—and the Sunday school assembly. —Rey. Phillips Brooks, of Trinity church, Boston, who goes abroad for a year’s vacation, refuses to receive any salary during his absence, directing that it be expended in supplying his pulpit with the most eloquent clergymen to be found. —The North Capitol M. E. congregation, whose church edifice—a neat frame on the cor- nér of North Capitol and K streets—is on ground recently sold under a deed of trust, will most likely compromise with the purchasers by mov- ing the building to a point about midway in the Square, and paying asmall amount of money. It is understood that the square was purchased for northern parties who intend to build it up at once. —Mr. T. K. Cree, of the National Young Men’s Christian Association, is assisting the as- sociation here in raising funds to purchase the Metropolitan club property on New York avenue, between 14th and 15th streets, which is offered them at $32.000. The association propose, when 20,000 is subscribed, to consummate the pur- chase, and such success is reported in getting subscriptions that there {s but little doubt that the property will be secured. —The second Sunday in June (this year the 11th) is celebrated by the Methodist churches as Children’s day, and of late years many other de- nominations observe the day. The exercises are of a very pleasing character, and in the reg- ular service there are usually responsive read- ings, singing by the school and a short sermon by the pastor. This year, besides the Metho- dists, a number of Episcopal, Presbyterian, Luth- ie and Baptist congregations will obs erve the lay. —The Baptist church of Norwich, Conn., re. ports 40 new members recently received, and the Third church of New London 22, and severa] other churches of that state report smaller ac- cessions. At Lagrange, Ga., there have been 40 additions this year, and at Concord, Ga., 13. Pleasant street church, Concord, N.H., recently received 13 new members. The First colored church of Petersburg has received recently 276 new members. At Burlington, Iowa, over 100 | -€e have been baptized recently. The thirty Bap- tist churenes represented in the general conyen- tion of California report about 200 accessions during the year. There is a Chinese Baptist missionary society In that state, and there have been a number of conversions among the Chi- nese recently. —The general assembly of the Presbyterian church at Springfield, Ill, was welcomed by the governor of the state, and the opening sermon was by Rev. Dr. Henry Darling, the moderator of the preceding assembly, in which he con- demned the public preaching of the gospel by lay evangelists. The subject of Sabbath dese- eration by railroad companies, in resolutions offered by Rey. Mr. Cross, of Baltimore, was re- ferred. The report of the work among freed- men shows the expenditure of $60,467 last year against $43,102 the previous year, while the re- cel] exceeded the previous by over $10,000. There are now 168 colored r= terian churches, with 12,456 members; 157 bath schools with 10,249 scholars. —The ninety-ninth annual convention of the Protestant Episcopal church of the diocese of Maryland willassemble on Wednesday morning next, the Sist instant, in the church of the Epiphany, Washington, of which Rev. Dr. tion of Mr. H. O. Bishop, of Baltimore, for holy orders by the standing committee. The effort of the church members to effect a change in the ding committee and make it more Church ‘clement is Urely to be parsed, aad, a ent iKely Pr “kip, I the Baltimore A: the mem- bers of committee, the — would like to see removed, are Dr. dean of the convocation of Ws betel) rector of mn; and Rey. Dr. A. M. Emmanuel church, Baltimore. A Chinese Drama. “Tm of Ran AAU eee ‘The drama that was presented on this ooca- Po his fot save youth. Injury to the nepal paeee is capital offence,”and the by declaring that she time after she gives birth ror has a great desire to infant heir to the throne. ing off a spurious infant on the nurse. mother detects the fraud, ascertains where the genuine child ts hidden, dons male attire, and at the head of an armed force (six “supers”) marches to the province and demands her child. A long parley is held with the governor of the province, but when the imperial flag is shown this functionary delivers up the infant, and the militant mother returns in triumph. Em- peror is struck with her ability, recognizes the child as his heir, and peace broods over the im- perial household. Ferd ———— ——— play—one of the ortest in the theatrical rej —was a at 6 o'clock and ended at midnight = lieved by not a single tary gleam of humor. hearest approach to pleasantry was furnished by the speech of the mperor when he killed his child, The mother exclaimed, ‘Alas! you have siain ourson.” To which his answer is: “Well, console yourself; T'm not going to kill him again.” This brought outa burst of laughter from the audience; all seemed to regard it as a finished bit of humor. They looked on unmovi however, when the gory corpse rose an retired from the stage, while a mem- ber of the orchestra handed to the murderer a false head, which he apostrophized in blood- curdiing terms. The only other expression of enjoyment was elicited by the disguise of the mother in man’s attire. When she stroked her Meee erp beard, = ~ the — ed heartily, wl aripple of sm! passed over the stolid Toons of the others. The roles of the two wives were played by Chinese men with fine soprano voices, One was a skillful actor, and imitated many peculiar feminine traits and gestures with much nicety. The leading man, who was brought over from Pekin, and whose ‘ape is $10,000 @ year, has a face brim-full of ‘an. IST_OF LETTERS REMAINING IN THB WASHINGTON CITY POST OFFICE, SATURDAY, MAY 27, 1882. £F-To obtain any of these Letters the applicant must gailfor *ApvanrisED Larrenus,” and give the date at in list FI not called for within one month they will be sem to the Dead Letter Office. LADIES’ LIST. 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