Evening Star Newspaper, February 24, 1883, Page 3

RELIGIOUS NOTES. THE CHURCHES HERE AND ELSEWHERE. — Waugh M.E. church, Capitol Hill, Rev. Wil- ford Downs, pastor, has received forty-two on ‘probation during the conference year. © — Dembarton-strect Mi. E. Sunday school | those who witnessed it took place in the bottoms pFaised for missionary purposes this year $373— ‘an increase of 25 per cent over last year. —To-morrow Archbishop Gibbons, of Baltl- More. will visit St. Mary’s Catholic church in the ‘morning and St. Joseph's in the afternoon and ,Sdminister the rite of confirmation. — It is stated In Baltimore that, McKendree M. E. chnreh in this city has asked for Rev. Dr. W. S. Edwards to succeed Rev. €. H. Richard- fon, and that Broadway has asked for the latter. — Rey. Daniel De Vinne, who died in Brook- Iyn recently, at ninety years of age, was a native | ef Ireland, but came here when y In 3815 he assisted in organizing the first Sunday school in that city. —Te revival, or.as some callit. the “awaken: Ing of religions interes! burch (Rev. ©. €. Meador’s), in South Wash ington, continnes. and the interest is incre s There have been fitte nversions sinee Janu- | ary Ist last. — Rev. Page Milburn, who was relieved of Ministerial ware (Md.) ME. ¢hureb, on account of Hl health. has greatly im- | Proved @nring the winter, which he has spent | i iy for work at the Baltimore outh. | J. Keane, D. D., formerly of St. | Patrick's Catholic church in this and now Bishop of Virginia, was in the eity afew da this week. Bishop Keane will sail for Rome in April. and pay his respects to the Pope, and | i Will also visit the Holy Land. | — The golden welding of Rev. Oliver Exe and | wife was recently celebrated at Mechanlesburg, Pa. Mr. Eze was formerly of the Baltimo conferen: ntered the ministry fift years azo, he father of Mre. J. of this c ze, after working & settied down at his | home. — Astwo ministers from other conferences Wili join the Balttmore conference of the M. E. ebureb, one of whom (Rey. Dr. Huntley) w »politan pulpit, there is consider- ure asto changes. T A little dowbt that Kev. Dr. Joseph France will be Feturned to East Wasiington (4th street). Rev. | Dr. R.N. Baer will, of course, leave the Me politan, but his future appointment is a matter ef conjecture, as uiso that of Rev. C. Herbert Richardson, of MeKendree chapel. —The revival work in the Sandwich Islands continues. — In New Orleans there Is but one white M. E. chureh and fourteen colored. — Rey. E. D. Owen, of High street church, Baltimore, took in six members last Sunday. wal in St. Peter’s M. EB. chureh at , has resulted in about 100 conver- A. Alri ixeopal chureh at ¢ rector of Emanuel | atham, Va., has re- Signed. — On Herefo ‘icirenit (Bast Baltimore cir- . E. church there have been about enit) of the fifty conve " — Mother Ferdinand, superior of the Sisters of Le Bon Se s. is seriously ill at the house | @f the order in Baltimore. | —Rev. Dr. Lyman Atwater, a well-known | Presbyterian divi author and professor, died | Fecenily at Princeton, N. J. | — Bish: on, of the M. E. church, ad- invest any money in mines that it prepared to lose.” urch in Philadelphia was dedieated on Sunday last. It cost #32.009, ot | . sined to be raised | hodists of England have | jonary work, 76 chapels, | nd 16,000 scholacs. e clear protits of the Book church for the past forty- —an annual averag Which sum but in Ceylon, in t 3,000 memie — Bishop Pinkney preached last Mark's P. E. church, & E. L. Kemp is ten persons. | —The Livingstonia mission of the Free | @hureh of Scotland lins stopped the slave trade Nyassa, Africa, whence 19,000 were fT. ight at St. more, of which Re id coofirmed a class if | — At the M-E. chureh in Alexandria a revival has been in progress for about two weeks, and the first fruits were nine probationers on Sun- @ay last. It is in charge of Rev. Dr. Poulson. — On Monday last, the 4th anniversary of the death of Bishop Foley, of Chicago, formerly of Raltimore, solemn requiem mass was celevrated at St. Martin's Catholic ehureh in the latter city. —By the will of the late Jesse Calvert his farm at Burnt Factory, near Winchester, Va., was directed to be sold and the proceeds paid into the treasury of the Missionary Society, of the M. E. churel. It was receatly sold for over $3,000. — Rey. John McCarthy, a Catholic priest, died at Pittsburg, Pa., Thursday. He was only twea- ty-six years of age. He was educated at St. Michael's school and at St. Mary’s college, Md., and was professor of philosophy at the latter in. stitute for some time. — The Baptist ministers’ society of New York, ehartered for the purpose of providing a com- forteble home tor disabled ministers of New | York, New Jersey, and Cofnecticut, has been Presented by Jamies Ancus with a deed for one and one quarter acres of land in that city, with ‘8 house of sixteen rooms. — Rev. Dr. Lansing, in a letter to the mission- ary committee of the United Presbyterian church, says that during the war in Egypt, in all the mission stations except two. the religious meet- | thus were kept up. no member of the cuurches was killed, an from the mission work being broken day stronger ths “Oxe Day,” said this gentleman, “before | Barvest, I met a fashionably dressed person with a large haadful of ears of wheat, taken from my fields. 1 saluted him respectiully, and ex- pressed my admiration of the beauty of the Wheat. “Yes,” said is truly a fine le, | at credit whogrew it. ed the compliment, and asked him | from which ef ay ficlds he took it. After he had | sured me he always liked to ea good sample home, a3 It Interested the ladies. “Upon this, noticing with admiration the style of his coat, 1 asked him to allow me to skirt. He readily did eo, and I quietly took out my pen-knife and cut'a large Piece from the tall. The gentleman bounced and swore, but I told him J always took samples of cloth as I found they greatly interested my wife. Tadded, that ne had no more right to take my wheat than I to take his coat, and that I wished the public to bear this truth in mind.” ‘This was experience bought with a vengeance.— Chambers’ Journal. ee Broopy WoRE Ix 4 LUMBER CamP.—A Chica; telegram says that at the East Tawas, Mich. Jogging camp, two mem Kot into a dispute over & a3 to whose team could haul the heaviest Joad. After the Uial the one Whose team was vie- torious went into a cabin and sat down. The de- feated one came beliind him, and with one blow of am axe severed his head from his body. The Folled to the floor, the eyes winked several times, ‘end the mouth opened. An alarm was raised. The gmeinbers of the camp took the murderer, placed a Jog-chain around bis neck and hung and Biaced a curd sround the body to await the ar- “val of the sheriff. Some men came from a neigh- boring camp to take the corpse down. A general Sght ensued, and seven men were kilied. paceman IRON AND STEEL PRopuction.—The secretary of fhe American Iron aud Stee! Assocation reports ‘What returns have been received from all the milis { the United States, which rolled fron and steel Failway bars in 1882. ‘The total ction of fron | evenin | hat on the hat-rack. A FUNERAL ON WATER. Taking the Body to the Grave in a Boat—A Floating Casket. Cincinnati Correspondence Pailadelphia Times. A sight that will not soon be forgotten by on Sunday. It was a taneral on water. The corpse was a child of Mr. Joseph Hilton, on Elm street. The child died in the morning early, and hardly had it bredthed its last betore the water rushed into the house in torrents. The crape was hung oa the door to announce the sad and donbie affiiction, and preparations were imme- diately made for its burial. There was no time to notify sorrowing or sympathetic friends of the ami father and mother. At 2 o'clock a neat white casket was borne to the residence ina ski the tender remains were placed in it. a few friends who had heard of the demise of the child, who came in skuTs to pay the last sad tribute due the dead. At 3 o'clock the remain were placed in a skiif that was-pro- pelled with mufiled oars by John Sturns and Tl nneral train was composed and as it moved its way over alent waters many were the sympa- 3 that dropped from the people who J the sad and solemn scene. was no funeral serman at the house,owing to the fact that no preacher could be found. The funeral train went down Elm to Brighton,down Brighton to Madison, up Madison to Hubbard, thence to the Newport and Covington bridge, where a hearse was waiting toconvey the remains | to their final resting place. The rief-stricken par- ents followed in a skiff containing the remains, and indeed deep was their grief as they were following to the grave their last child, this mak- ing the third that they have lost since the be- ning of the new year. The ins were taken across the Newport and Covington bridge aad thence to Linden Grove cemetery. in Coy- ere they were deposited along the two other departed ones. Short services were held at thegrave. Then al parents had to return, but not to a com- able home, but to one filled with water, and were compelled to work faithfully to save their househoid eff Another distres the fe ene occurred in Eglan- tine street on Sun The remains of Mrs. McCarty, who d the evening previous, were lying in state at her late home. The avater ros nddenty and before assistance arrived casket, containing the remains, was floating about the room in the wate The remaius | were re ed to the house of a friend tn higher quarters and wi aried from that place. <o.———— The “Mum” Soctabie. re Peck’s Sun. * “Lend me your revolver,” said a young man is eye blackened and his je around under his ear, and one oat torn off, as he came into a West Side saloon with his overcoat on his arm overshoes in his hand, and his clothes d with snow. “What's the matter with you ?” said the bar- tender, looking ugly at him; “do you suppose I am going to lend you a revolver to kill. some- ody, and then be arrested for being an acces- Not much! But what's’ the matter ? h you came out of a window. | x the matter with the door 7” man took a wet towel and sopped his nose, then went to a mirror ‘Ktie and turned his back and the blood of and fixed his ne in the glass to see if the absent coat-tail much. then went and leaned on the bar Ked at the bar-tender for a moment and “You look like a man that can ve trusted, and whose advice would be sate to follow in an emergency, and I will tell you about this murder that Leontempiate, and may be you can give me some points, as you have no doubt mur- dered many people, “The trouble is right here. Our lodge is to give a ‘mum social’ this evening. You kuow what a mum social is. Young people go toa house and sit aroundail the evening and keep their months shut, and never saya word till a signal is siven, then they all make up. for lost time and talk for all that is out. (Is my |noze bleeding yet? Thanks.) They wanted | me to go, and I just’ came from there. That is I came’ trom the house next door. You see. I went to the| if house and rung the bell. A man in his rt-sleeves came to the door and said ‘good ’ but I wasn’t going to be caught aking, beeause you have to pay a forfeit if pu speak. So I just walked right in and pulled oi my overcoat and hung it ap, and hung my The man looked a little bit annoyed, but he asked me if the“ weather was not softening upa little. I smiled, but didn’t say any thing, and I walked into the sit- | ting-room. I thought I was the first one there, and I felt very awkward. The man watehed me pretty close, and finally he said I had the advantage ot him, and I smiled again, but didn't say any thing. Now that I think of it, I noticed that he unbuttoned his shirt sleeves and began to roll them up. I did not think of it at the time, but his arms were as big as my legs. He asked me to what circum- stance he was indebted for the honor of this visit, and I thought he was trying to get me off my guard so I would speak, when they would have the laugh on me; so I smiled one of my best two-for-a-quarter smiles, and looked at him as much as to say, ‘You can’t play any of your games on the undersigned.’ I think he ‘Was the crossest man that I ever saw, and I wondered what made the committee have the mum sociable at his house. I thought it was time some of the rest of the crowd were coming, and I got up and went to the window to look out, when the man came up beside me and hissed in my ear, ‘What 1s your little game, any way.’ Well, I wasn't going to speak, and Well give myself away. so I looked at him sort ot im- udent, as much as to say, °O, and chase ourself around your feet.’ and thenI thought ightning had struck me. He took me by the thrvat with one hand, and by the vicinity of the coat tail, with the other hand, and he choked me so my tongue run out; and hie wife sereamed and said ‘Don't kill him,’ and the man hustled me out into the hall, and opened the front door, and he picked me up bodily and threw me out into a snow-bank five feet deep. I struggled a little going out of the door, and Tun my nose «against the door-casing, and I guess he forgot to let go of my coat-tail when I went out. Tetruck head first in.the snow, and before I could diz my head out the door closed, and I could not explain my conduct to the man. I was 80 madI could not have ex- lained anyway. Just as I got out of the snow- ink and shook myself the door opened and the man threw out my overcoat and hat and over- shoes, and he told his wife to burry up with the shot-gun, and he would take me on the fly as I went over the fence. Well, I didn’t wait for no | shot-gun, but grabbed my coat and things and came down the street ona gallop. I meta lote of the young people going up, and asI turned the corner I saw them going into the next house to the one that I visited, and that was the first I knew ct my mistake. Now, what I want Is for you to tell me whether! better shoot that maa or kill him with a club. I was raised in the south, and my warm southern blood will not stand = such treatment.” The bar-tender laughed and told the young fellow he had better go apologize to that man, or he would kick the other coat tail off the first time he saw him, and the young man said on second thought he reckoned he would. + American Fables. From the Detroit Free Press. THE HEN AND THE FARMER. A Hen having laid an Egg setup such a Cackle that presently the whole Barn-yard was in Confusion, and the farmer came ranning out to see what was going on. “What is it?” he demanded, as the Hen cackled louder than ever. “Why, I have laid an Egg!” “an egg? Why, a single Egg isn’t worth but two cents at the nt market price.” “Yes, I know; but if I didn't do two shillings’ worth of cackling over every two cents’ worth of egg the world would soon forget me.” MORAL. Send a bundle of old clothes to an Orphan Asylum and then interview a reporter. THE OLD MAN WITH THE ACCORDEON. A Peasant having saved up a sum of Money by hard work and peeling his Potatoes close, went to the nearest Village and Invested in an Accordeon. On his way home be playing the air of “My Grandfather's Clock,” it scarcely had the echoes reached the Forest when out ‘act is known. lived hap- came a np aA who cried out: Man! for Heaveu’s sake hang OP. on If our MORAL. neighbor doesn’t want our smoke him Way. { dred of her being able to dodie them. T@E UNLUCKY NASHVILLE, Which Was Hammered to Pieces by the Montauk—Unsuccessful Efferts to Evade the Dupont Sieckading Ficet —Fate of a Privateer from Which the Confederates Heped Much. From the Detroit Free Press. One of the quickest, neatest jobs performed by federal gunboat, outside the destruction of the Atlanta, was accompanied by the iron-clad Montauk in 1863. and, as by the capture of the Atlanta the confederacy lost a privateer which had cost nearly 1,000,000 in gold to fit out, so also it lost an equally valuable craft in the de- struction of the Nashville, brought about in a most singular manner. In the summer of 1862 an English iron-built steamer whose name I cannot trace ran the blockade into Savannah, carrying a cargo valued at over $1,200,000. She had scarcely entered port when the blockade was strength- ened by the arrival of two or three more vessels, and the steamer found it quite another thing to get out. She loaded with cotton, turpentine and rosin, and ran down the Ogechee to Fort McAllister, but there she came to anchor. The blockaders were waiting for her in the river and sound, and there was not one chance in a hun- For two or three weeks the ruoner remained in the river, steam up and hoping to tire the vigilance of the federals and tind some opening, but none came. Oneof the blockaders anchored in the middle of the channel not fifty feet wide, and no sort of weather could help the steamer to squeeze past such an obstruction. After walt- ing until further delay seemed useless the steamer returned to the city, unloaded her cargo. and the confederate government at once took her in hand and began the work of CONVERTING HER INTO A PRIVATEER. The Nashville was the name given to the new craft, and owing to her strong bulld and speed the work of remodeling her was not a diMcult task. Being intended for a privateer only, she Was not as heavily armed as the Alabama, At- lanta and others. nor was it expected that she could be made invulnerable. Her engines, pilot- house and other localities were securely pro- tected from the projectiles of ordinary gun-boat ordnance, but a dozen places were left where @ nine-Inch gun would send a shot clean through her. Men who had worked on fitting out the privateer deserted at different times and carried the news to the federals, and long enouzh before she was finished it was known in Washington what was going on at Savannah. Orders were issued to the blockading fleet to catch the Nashville at all risks when she came out, and for months some of the fleet gid not move a hundred feet from where the anchor first went down. To prevent any expedition from the fleet ascending the river and destroying the vessel, the con- federates arranged various obstructions and planted several torpedoes, and a water patrol Was maintained day and night from the fort to the shipyard. This was not labor lost. Three different expeditions were planned and pre- vented, and two tederal scouts who were sur- | Yeying the channels in a skiff one night were blown sky-high by a torpedo. A confederate patrol boat was within 200 feet ot them when the explosion took place. One of the men, who seemed to be the center-piece of a water spout, fell within ten feet of the boat, which Was at the same moment NEARLY 8WAMPED WITH THE WATER WHICH DESCENDED. The man was unconscious, and though he revived after a while, he was so badly hurt that he died within two or three days. The other man’seemed to ascend perpendicularly, and to a great height, for he did not come down for sev- eral seconds after the first. His body was found floating on the surface along with the fragments of the skiff, and those who overhauled it found legs and arms and almost every bone broken. It was said at the time that Dupont received a hint from Washington that if the Nashville escaped to sea through the negligence of any of his commanders some one would lose his official head. For more than five months a constant watch was kept for the privateer, and it was known to a day when she would be ready to move. After the Nashville was afloat, and her guns and crew aboard, she discovered that she had no More show to get out asa privateer than she had as a blockade runner. she ran down to the fort and reconnoitered and remained the several days, and then returned to her old berth. This program of ranning up and down was fol- lowed until everybody became tired, and con- federates began to hint that the Nashville needed anew commander. The greatest dare-devil m the contederate navy would not have taken the risks confronting the privateer. She had in front of her at least five federal vessels, all of them better armed, and each one of them with better mail than: she carried. To run out the river was to give the Nashville to the enemy. To remain was galling. THEN THE CONFEDERATES TRIED ANOTHER DODGE. Just after a bad spell of weather the Nashville hid herself in a bend of the river above the fort, threw out pickets ashore to prevent federal scouts from coming near, and it was given out among the garrison at McAllister that the pri- vateer had escaped through the fleet and gone tosea. Then a chance was given two or three men to desert, and they carried the news to the federal fleet. The Savannah papers gave an account of her dodging out, with a statement that she had been seen off Charleston. But Dupont was not the sort of fox to stop for a whistle. The sharp eyes aboard his vessel had kept too good a watch to be- Heve these stories, and after it was seen that the trick had failed the Nashville once more came down tothe fort. On the 27th of February, as the Nashville was making her usual run in the river, she struck a newly-formed bar a mile or 8o above the fort. As she had full steam on when she struck, it wasat once discovered that no little trouble would be experienced ingetting her off. The tide also began to fall just then, and after working away for 30 minutes it became plain that she could not be got afloat before next high tide. Every preparation was made to aid the tide in floating her next day, and but for an unlooked-for interference she would doubt- less have been pulled offall right. It soon be- came known to the blockaders that the Nash- ville was aground, and a reconnoitering vessel aoe ail obtainable particulars. Before mid- night A DESERTER FROM THE PRIVATEER HAD REACHED THE FLEET and given the exact state of affairs. A boating expedition had almost been decided upon, but when the deserter stated that there were no hopes of getting thecraft afloat before 10 o'clock next day she was considered as good aa de- stroyed. . At break of day the Montauk left the fleet and advanced to within less than 1,000 yards of the fort. By way of the river around to where the Nashville was aground was a distance of nearly two miles, but across the peninsula it was no more than 800 yards. If the Montauk could stand the fire of the fort, she could hold the privateer under short range. Settling herself down in her berth with the shot from the tort fying around her, the Mon- tauk soon trained her guns on the Nashville. Such a peconediny had not been anticipated aboard the Nashville and the excite- ment at once prevailed. She had no ordnance to compare with that of the Federal, and it was realized that she must be abandoned. Orders were issued to this effect, and in fifteen minutes from the ee of the Mantauk the Nash- ville was abandoned. Officers and crew saved most of their personal property and the retreat was made in good order. The Montauk now had it all her own way. The fort opened on her from every gun which would bear, but, Paying no attention to these missiles, she felt tor the range of the pri- vateer. At the third shot splinters were sent fying, and the fourth, fifth and sixth went After the fourth or fifth di on board the Montauk was fair range SHE COULD PLANT 4 SHELL WHEREVER DIRECTED, and each one seemed to start a fire in tlie hold. When the flames had taken a fair hold Fed- eral ceased firing and remained a quiet. specta- tor of the destruction of a craft over which Uncle Sam had worrled and grown thin for long months, About 9 o'clock she blew up with a lond report, and up to 1880 portions~vf the wreck were yet visible near the spot. The Nashville had depended upon the fort to drive the Montauk off, and the fort had tried its best todo so. The Federal was under a steady fire from five or six guns for over an hour, but not the slightest attention was paid to the fort. Shot after shot crashed against the armor of the Montauk, but only to leave a slight dent and drop into the river. The mission was to de- stroy the privateer, and even after that was ac- complished Commander Worden remained at anchor to watch the progress of the flames, while the fort was dropping an iron missle on his decks every thirty or forty seconds. One may search the whole record of naval affairs during the war and not find such another case where pluck and luck were combined in so happy a manner. It was only after the destruc- tion of the Nashville that the confederates, who had been sneering at her commander for not pushing his way the blockaders, realized what would have happened had she tried the experiment. e fifteen-inch shell of the Montauk would have penetrated the Nashville at 2.000 yards, though the firing would have been wild. ‘At the range she had it was almost rifle practice. One shell went clean through both sides of the ship and across the river before exploding, and years afterwards a piece of the shell weighing over two pounds was dug from a treeat a point eight feet above the ground. Hundreds of thousands of dollars had been spent on the Nashville, and the confederate goy- ernment had built high hopes on her success, and yet a bit of ill-luck, for which no one could be held responsible, led to her destruction be- fore her crew had ever beat to quarters or one of her guns been stained by powder. -s——__— Saturday Smiles. There won’t be a great deal ot spring house- cleaning in Cincinnati. After the Ohio river has h da sweep through the lower story of a tenement for three or four days there can’t be many cobwebs left.— Detroit Free Press. Ifthere 18 anything in this wide world that makes a man thoroughly sick it is to run half a block with might and main to catch a horse car which he hears but cannot see, and to arrive at the corner out ot breath and in a lather of per- ppeation only to discover that the car is going the wrong way.— Puck. The country editor now takes up his pen to We have received from Hon. Fixem Per- ember of Congress, several very valuable ‘public documents, for which he will please ac- cept our thanks.” Then he lays it down again and galls out to the office boy: ‘Here, John, throw these into the waste paper barrel,” ad- ding to himself; “Old junk’s increasing pretty fast these days—Great country! Great country!”—Boston Transcript. An Ithaca paper tells of a little 4-year-old child who, upon retiring the other ni began to say her evening prayer as usual, er re- peating, “If Ishould die before I wake” paused “What a rumpus there Then she recited the peneaae line of the prayer and scrambled into ed. “You are on the wrong tack.” said the pilot’s wife, when the hardy-son of the loud-sounding Sea sat down on it and arose with the usuai ex- clamations, ‘ ” he replied, after a critical examination, ‘mon the right tack, but shoot. me dead ifI ain’t onthe wrong end ofit.” Sophronia—‘‘What is philosophy?” It is something which enables a rich man tosay there 1s nodisgrace in being poor. Nomatter if the postage is reduced, it 1s just as much trouble to lick a two-cent stamp as a three-cent one.—New York Commercial. Young ladies who are pining to paint**flower pieces” are reminded that the flower piece that is the most attractive to the marrying man isa pees of good bread.—Boston Conimercial Bul- tin, In fact and In fiction: “There, that’s one,” said a gentleman to his son, pointing ata dul eyed man lolling in an office ,chalr.. The boy looked in the direction indicated, and then turning to his parent with reproachful eye, said: “Look here, pa, no use to try te fool me! Where's his knives and hia pistols and his dar- bies and his false wig and his sham whiskers and his basilisk eye and his active limbs arg his restless energy? No use to tell me that sleepy- looking -beefeater’s a detective!” The father, with tears in his eyes, assured the lad that the fat gentleman before them was indeed a de- tective. ‘‘Well,” sald the boy, *‘then I stick to the detectives I read about. I don’t want noth- ing to do with detectives outside of story papers, if that’s one of ’em.”—Boston Transcript Kind words are like bald heads; they can never dye.—New Orleans Picayune. A young lady when presented with a pair of opera-glasses asked: ‘How in the worldam I to keep them on?” “Pap, did Washington never tell a lie?” “No, son; he didn’t,” “Then I guess he never went,to school any.” Kentucky State Journal. Ingersoll says Ding [hats and suspenders are needed in the south before she will make much headway, as no people who wear slouch hat and let their trousers hang slovenly on their hips can ever become civilized. That's it. With the danger of breaking his suspenders and hay- ing his @7 hat smashed staring him in the face, & man will be slow about going into a fight.— Boston Post. ——___-e-______ Suicide on the Eve of Marriage. A young farmer named Jesse Smith, residing near Hagerstown, Md., while laboring under-an attack of temporary insanity, committed suicide by cutting his throat with arazor. He was to have been married to Miss Dora Manning, the daughter of a farmer, thisevening. He wrote a note, leaving all his property to his mother, On a scrap of paper he wrote that he could not bear the weight of care devolving upon him. He is the second member of the family to commit suicide. : ———_——_~-o-_______ FIRES IN MARYLAN ‘The hotel at Port To- bacco, Charles county, Md., known as the old “Reeder House,” or the “Carrollton,” and occu- ied by Mr. David Smoot, was destroyed by fire ednesday. Only ‘part of the furniture was saved, and some of the boarder® lost all their clothing. A heavy northwest gale was blowing at the time, the flames communicated to several adjoining buildings, and the courthouse ‘Sind whole village were threatened. There was no insurance. The residence of Mr. George Rich- mond, near Pope’s creek, was also-destroyed by fire last week. WIGGINS SCARES THE FISHERMEN’S he grelyh. Sf esr rediction of a terrible storm from Match 91 12th has deterred a number of Gloucester¢Mass. captains and crews (returned George’s Bank men from making the next trip, which. would bring them on the banks at the time of the storm, The Women are urging the men to stay at home, and it is feared that leness will become general among e George’s men, and the best time'in n fora catch Will be lost, i se ——— eee Ho. Perry H. Sure “a DisrractsD PERSON.”— In the matter of the alleged insanity of the Hon. Perry H. Smith, a well-known Chic: politician and millionaire, the jury We afters broughtin a ‘verdict to the tracted person. A motion for the appointment of Scorsetrae ct his estate will be made in,a few ——————+¢-___ Di1scovRaGinG To Foorraps.—In New York, Mon- day, the rufian who robbed Miss Isherwood of her purse and earrings a few weeks ago on ‘stair. from the 4th avenue car.track dn the for twelve i Bite her. The Nashville presented a fair pes ide, and when THE MONSTER FIFTEEN-INCH SHELL STRUCK HER the crash of fron and wood could plainly be heard fora mile. An opening would be made large enough for aman to crawl into, and the river was soon covered with splintered wood. Inside of twenty-five minutes after the first shot was fired the Nashville was on fire, but the Mon- tauk key ling away until the craft in col A serenaded girl leaned window, at Seth ato oe whe singers were, an the party and thelr song on t) poe wean at ee of her the Members of the Methodist ob ‘Vt., tound fault with the Revs ur. Wildey king a black The wrangle caused him to resign and a 2 charge elsewhere. je ‘ as bane hae eases Canadien papers report arrival of a new Pe mngioh sparrow. oo se eee idaho is relatively stronger in Mormonism te Utah, there belng teu Mormon represen cally. But the winters ot our northern states are actually as cold as those of a considerable part of Siberia. I say nothing of the extremes of northern Siberia, where the cold weather for the whole northern hemisphere, so to speak, 1s manufactured. But while in western Siberia, except in the high latitades, mercury does not freeze every year, in nearly all of our northern states and territories it freezes (at minus 39° F.) from time to time. though happily not every year. It is thus against winters that may be fairly called Siberian in their severity that we of the northern states have to protect ourselves. And our winters are not only excessively cold in their extreme temperatures, they are also ex- cessively variable. In none of our northern or northwestern states can an equally cold winter be found. How many an invalid has been lured away from his home, never to return, by false promises in this respect ! Our winter ctimate, then, 1s (1) aclimate of extreme severity, and (2) a climate of extreme variability. The two points which I wish to make about winter clothing depend directly upon these two characteristics. (1.) Theseverity of our winters makes woollen clothing essential, and especially flannel under- clothing. Robust persons will get along well enough with the ordinary ‘‘ mixed underwear,” but in winter flanneis are the warmest, in sum- mer they are the coolest of garments to wear next the skin. How is this paradox explained ? The fibers of the wool touch each other but slightly; in other words, the texture of the flannel is loose, and the interstices are filled with alr, which is one of the slowest of con- ductors of heat, so that the warmth of the body is retained—of course by virtue of the entangled air, and not mainly by the fiber of the wool itself. On the other hand, when in summer time the outer clothing is thin, the insensible perspiration which con- stantly passes through the woollen tissue evapo- Yates readily, and cools the surface ot the body. Count Rumford, who made the first important experiments ori thissubject, says that by wearing fianmel ‘the pores of the skin are disencumbered, and they are continually surrounded by a dry and salubrigus atmosphere.” He adds that the more general use of flannels would prevent number of diseases. A poor conductor of heat @ substance that allows the ready escape of per- spiration. a comfortable, light, and pliant fabric, and one that it is dificut to wet through, it is by far the best of all materials for underwear. No other possesses all these good qualities, and it is surprising to find a pope English writer saying in a recent manual of Health and Occupa- tion, that ‘for the well-to-do silken undergar- ments are better than flannel.” In what re- spect? This is the rapture of dogmatism. hether for the ‘‘well-to-do,” in the English writer's phrase, or for ordinary people, the pre- eminent value of flannel for under-clothing is well established. I think that careful housekeepers will thank me for a word about how to treat flanne s so as to prevent most of the skrinking which is their one fault. and a fault which prejudices many people against their us 1. Get a quality of flannel that isa little loose- ly woven, not of too tight a texture, and buy or cut the garments rather large, allowing about two inches in the length of an under-shirt against the moderate shrinkage that cannot be prevented. 2. In washing the flannels do not allow soap to be rubbed upon them, and‘do not let the gar- ments themselves be scrubbed or rubbed; this fulls the material, and makes them shrink. They should be washed by squeezing them in hot and strong suds, and then rinsed out in very hot water.. Bot! the strong suds and to the very hot water add liquid ammonia in the roportion of a table-spvonful to the gallon. ‘he French housekeepers, who are very practi- cal people, have found out that this is better than borax for the purpose. 8. Do not put the flannels aside wet. Put them out to dryas soon as they are washed, andiron them before they are entirely dry, so 8s not to have to dampen them again. Iron very thoroughly. Following these rules will prevent nearly all shrinkage. Aword should be added about mixed wear for under-clothing. This is what is generally found. in the shops ready-made; only in the large towns will you find ready-made all-wool under-clothing. A mixture of cotton and wool. if the cotton and the wool are carded together before weaving, washes very well. Canton flannel makes good winter under-clothing. But the all-wool is the best; and the garments are easily made at home or by the seamstress, and they wear so much better than mixed goods that it is economical as well as healthful to use them. (2.) The second feature of our climate is its variability. The second practical point in winter dress Is to dress according to the weather. It is not dimbult to adapt at least the outer clothing to the greater or less cold of the day; it requires a little care and forethought, but it is worth the trouble. One may be helped in this matter by the weather bulletins. I trust that I shall not compromise the serious purpose of this pare by giving a bit of advice which wi!l seem roll to soine of my readers. It is none the less sound, and it is this: Dress according to the in- dications of the signal service when you can, that ig.to say, when they are borne out by existii weather. They are generally borne out; the morning papers tell us pretty SEF Hid covered hairy exactly like that of the anthropoid apes. in his face not only had he a heavy, bushy beard and whiskers, similar in every respect to the hairy family at the court of the King of Burmah, who also came fromthe same region as that in which Krao and her ais were — every part was thoroughly en in ir. The long arm, and the rounded also imed his close alliance to the monk form, while his power of speech and his intelli- ice were so far developed ecg he was able to utter a few words in Ma- lay. Ag Assuming the accuracy of these statements, and of this septa little Krao, of course, at once acquires exceptional scientific import- ance. She would at all events be a living proot of the presence of a hairy race In further India, aregion at present mainly occupied by almost hairless Mongoloid peonles. From these races the large straight eyes would also detach the Krao type, and point to a possible connection with the hairy straight-evea Aino tribes still surviving In Yesso and Sakhalin, and formerly widely diffused over Japan and the opposite mainiand. ‘TTERS REMAINING IN THE iGTON CITY POST OFFICE, SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 24, 1883. eF-To obtain of theee Letters the applicant must egiifor “‘ADvmurin> Lerrens,” and glve the date of 27If not called for within onemonth they will be sent tothe Dead Letter Ofboe- LADIES’ LIST. 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Watkins Cora Jones Li J Wilett EA Mrs Knapp Ed8 Mrs iliiams Kaie L Eeftings Brame Walker salie’ 5 Lucas Fannie Young J M Mra Lewis A Youn 3 wood Yates Martha A Murphy aunie loore Annie GENTLEMEN'S LIST. accurately what sort of weather we are to have during the day, and for all but the most robust persons it is a simple mat- ter ot duty to guard against the waves of cold or heat that leap upon us from the west. Is it growing colder when vou leave home in the morning, with warning of a cold wave sweep- ing ward from St. Paul, and the mercury freezing in northern Minnesota? Then put on your warmest overcoat, and tie a silk handker- chief or comforter around your neck; and do not forget the woollen stockings. Is it a mild winter's day, with promise of a still higher tem- perature before night? Then leave the wraps at home; they will be overheating, and make the skin too tender, In fine, dress according to the actual need of the day, not forgetting what the day may bring forth in the way of a change before its close. Keep warm in the cold. and by keeping always warm enough and pot too warm you will the doctor for many a a ~ Ca us Munson Coan. ———_~+-o-____ Krao, the “Human Monkey.” . A. H. Keane, in Nature. Through the courtesy of Mr. Farini, I have had a private interview with this curious little waif, which he is now exhibiting at the Royal Aquarium, Westminster, and for which he claims the distinction of being the long-sought- for ‘missing link” between man and the anthro- poid apes. Krao certainly presents some abnor- mal peculiarities, but they are scarcely of a suf- ficiently pronounced type to justify the claim. She is, in fact, a distinctly human child, appa- rently about seven years old, endowed with an average share of intelligence, and possessing the facuity of articulate speech. Since her ar- rl al about ten weeks ago in London, she has acquired several English words, which she uses intelligently, and not merely parrot fashion, as has been stated. Thus, on my suddenly inc ing ve fedeci at the interview, rhe was at- t the glitter, and cried out coe cock, This that is, powers of generalization. accompanied by a somewhat detective articulation, and it ~ ear) that her phonetic system does not yet embrace the liquids?andr. But in this apd other re- thd abe haa already 20 far agapesa notre gS and she 80 ersel fee ways that the mere threat to be sent k to her own people is always sufficient to as vyteally ‘f ae its Aereral pace features. 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Oftena few dollars invested in these isthe | Mucleus of a speedy and colossal fortune,” For the benefit and guidance of those who are anaes quaintei with the methods of speculation, and whe ‘may desire to invest in a «mall way, we offer the follow- ing suggcetions, an observance of which will enable any ‘one to operate intelligently. Select from the list of active stocks one or.more in | which you may wish to deal, and send us the order to Duy or sell for your account at the best price. which order will be executed immediately on receipt of same at the best price at which the stock was sold on the New York Stock Exchange. ‘Our commissions are { of one per cent. of par valne, | Which is added to the price of the stock. For example, if you send an order to buy 25 ehares of Erie, and the last price was 405, we add the commission and fil] the order at 40% net, 20 that all over that figure is profit to you. We chanxe no interest for carrying stocks, nor is there any liability to the dealer beyond his deporit. For margins weaceept as low as one percent. Ten dollars buys 10 shares; $25, 25 shares; $100, 100 shares, ‘We deal in lots of from 10 shares upwards. While we take so small. margin as one dollar per share, it is not advieable to trust to #0 close a limit, and recom- ‘mend that at least $2 per share accompany the onier, although we do not close out any account until the en- tire deposit is exhausted unless ordered todo so by the dealer. An original margin of $5 per share is usual with those who desire to keep their accounts good under ordinary fluctuations ; 500 on 100 shares, or the same In propor- tion on emailer lots. ‘To make the conditions perfectly plain, let us suppose that you send us $25 to buy 25 shares of West -rn Union Telegraph Stock: after the receipt of your order we await the next price quoted from the New York Stock Exchange, which comes—for example—81';; we then buy for your account 25 shares at those figures, adding 4¢ for commirsions, making the stock to you S13, all above which 1s net profit. If the stock goes to 82's you have made $26; if 8354, $50, and so on, without limit, Until you order the account closegand settled, when we remit the amount due you at once. If, however, the stock should not cell up, but down, at 80%, your $25 is Jost, unless in the meantime you had sent mare money, or notified us that you would doro. In any case, where the dealer has money deposited with us, we will keep hie account good to the full amount, if #0 ivetructod. If you buy 25 shares stock at 8134, $25 carries it good down to 803, $50 to 7934. and #0 on, as far as you Please. You may notify us at the time of sending order to lose the account when any limit of profit or loss has been made that you may desire, Accounts may be closed at any time by wire. As already explained, it is better to start off with ade Dosit of at least two or three doliars per share, because the stock bought at 813g might go down to 82 5¢, Just low enough to exhaust a margin of one dollar per sbare.and then go up afterwards, 8034 being the lowest. If, how- ‘ever, it goes your way from the start, one per cent in as good as fitty. The general complaint from persons secke ine information about how to speculate in stocks is that all the circulars sent them explain too much, have too many Wall street phrases sbout ** Bulls” and “*Beara," “*Longs” and **Shorta.” ete.: — there- fore we have tried to make this very plain. Those who are already famihar with stock speculation, of course, know Just what to do; tosuch we have only to say that we accept orders to buy or eel any active stock, in large ‘or emall lote, on a margin of one ar more per cent, at dealer's option; that we execute the orders at last quo- tation from the New York Stock Exchange, charge no interest, and wait until total margin is exhausted before selling you out; that we telegraph at once the prices at which every order has been filled, and that deals may ‘be made or closed Ly telegraph or mail. We will accept amounts of from $25 upwards to invest in these stocks at our discretion for customers’ benefit. Experience, however, has not made us over sanxuine, and we prefer to fill definite orders only. Yet to such ae may prefer that we use our judzment entirely, we promise to do for them as for ourselves under the same circumstances, We guarantee todo for each and every customer as well as is possible under the circumstances. We have the largest and best appointed office in the city, with every facility for promptly executing and reporting every transaction. Respectfully, 8. H. SPRAGUE & 00., Commission Stock Brokers and Bankers, 40 Brosdway and 51 New street, New York. ‘Toe following is list of the most active stocks deald im at the New York Stock Exchange: Canada Southern; Chicago & North Western; Chicago & North Western erm; Del. & Hudson; Denver & Kio Grande; Hanniba! & St. Jo; Hannibal & St, Jo preferred; Iitinots Central; Indiana, B. & Western; Lake Shore; Louisville & Nash- Ville; Manhattan Elevated R.R.; Michigan Centeal; Mo., Kansas & Texas; Missouri Pacitic; Nashville, Chat. &8t, Louis; New Jersey Central; Erie; N.¥., Ontario & Western; Northern Pacific; Northern Pacific pre- ferred; Oreson & Trans-Continental; Union Pacific; Pacific Mail; Phila. & Reading; Rook Island; St. Paul & Omaha; St. Paul & Omaha preferred; Texas Pacific; ‘Wabssh; Wabash preferred; Western Union Telegraph, N.Y. Central & Hudson; Obio & Miss, ; Ceutral Pacific, Chicago, B. & Quiney. [From the New York Review.) Special Opportunities for Speculation, Seeing that so many persons, business and profee- sional men, farmers, capitalists and those who have