Evening Star Newspaper, May 22, 1886, Page 3

Written for Tim Evewixe Stam THE GREAT BATTLE OF THE WAR. The Pennsylvania Reserves at Gettys- burg. (Copyright, 1836.) PART L HISTORICAL DATA. ‘The Pennayivanis Reserves were @ unique or- @enization. They comprised thirteen regiments Of infantry, ome artillery, and one of cavalry, Bumbering at the outset of fifteen thousand and some hundreds of men. Thus they were in themselves a complete army, five times the foree with which Gen. Taylor fought the battles ef the Kio Grande, and one-third larger than the army with which Gen, Seott won his victo- Ties in the valley of Mexico. They represented the overtiow of Pennsyivania patriotism under the stimulus of the first great wave of righteous {n@ignation that swept over the north upon the Insult to the flag at Sumter. The state bad promptly filled its quota of the 75,000 men first called for by President Lin- coin, but the assigned number fell far short of the fall measure of her loyalty to the cause of the Union. More thau thirty regiments in ex- ess of w! were called tor ware organized,and Gov. Curtin was Importaned to get thetr ser- Vices accepted. The governor did his utmost to induce the general government to take them, but without avail, The sanguine notion of Mr. Seward that the wouble would be over in 90 days bad gotten possession of the governmen- tal mind in Washington, and the Federal aa- thorities steadily reiused all protfers of more men, asserting that they already had more than y kuew what two do with. The people wt large, however, viewed the situation differ- ent! ‘They kuew that the trouble had been brewing ior long years, and they did not be- eve tuat it was suon of easily to be set right. They took more stock in Mr. Seward’s former Ades of an irrepressible conflict than he seem: bow to do himusell. To their thinking the hour bad struck. Fully possessed of this conviction, tose who had organized themselves into mili- tary bodies kept them intact, and went on drilling in sublime indifference to governmen- tal discourageni ‘nd ninety-day prophecies. In this condition fairs it occurred to Gov- ernor Curtin that as Pennsylvania was practi- cally a border state, It would be well to utilize this surplus patriotism, and create out of these supernumerary regiments a force which should be availavie primarily for state defense, and jee of the general gov- contingently for the se ernume: the legislature in special session, and on bis ion it passed the act «athorizing not the Reservesas a state force. ghnents were accepted, but from ady in existence cer s were selected, and these, to- gether with various independent compaiies, constituted the material out of which the Re- serve regiments were aiterwards made up. The Men came trom every part of the state, and probably nota township, certainly not acounty, from the lake to the Delaware was unrepre- sented. They were placed in camps of instrue- tion, and in due time were organized Into regi- inenlis, the Whole torce being put under the command of General George A. MeCall, a grad- uate of West Point, who bad served with dis- tinction in the Florida and Mexican wars, but had resigned Irom the army in 1831, and was t the outbreak of the civil war living tn re- Urement at his country-seat of Belair, West Chestei It is no partof my purpose in this paper to give in detail the history of the Reserves, but iucrely to teil the story of their march to. tysburg and the part they took ‘n that historic conitliet. ms BEFORE GETTYSBURG. At the opening of the Gettysburg campaign the Reserves were lying within the Department of Washington, where they had been brought to recuperate and refit, after long, arduous, and distinguished service at the front. The cireum- ding their organization, and the fantry of the division, which of course constituted its bull, bad always been kept together. naturally developed and fostered @ State feeitug beyond the cominan; and it will be readily understood that it was with no ordi- Bary degree of emotion they received the intel- ligenee of the probable invasion of their native Slate by the Contederate forces, They reflected that this was ju id of contingency they ized to meet, and it be the very irony of fate that when it was about to Occur, they should n detached irom the “Army of the apparently doomed to stand aud to be permitted to take no part {na campaign that appealed so forelbly to all their instlucts, whether as soldiers or as Peonsyl- Vauians.” They petitioned their commanding Officers ‘to try aud get them ordered to Join aguin the Ariny of the Potomae, or to be sent direetly to thei? State, that they ‘might particl- pate in her defense. Meauwhile the vanguard of the Army of the Potomac began filing by the camps of the Re- ; and some of th curred, as, debouching frum the cedar thickets, the dusty’ marchers from the Rappahannock would come suddenly upon these camps, were not @ little amusing. The Potomac fellows would wke ours for home-guards, or at least ew troops not yet initiated into the full artand Inystery of war, and the mutual chafing that would ensue before they would discover that the supposed home-guards were veterans like themselves was highly edifying. When the dis covery Was once made the fraternization was hearty and thorough. The Reserves were at thts time commanded by Brigadier General %. Wylie Crawford, whose career in the war was buth brilliantand unique. A nativeo: Pennsvivania,he had been educated as a physician, aud entered the regulararmy as an assistant Surgeon In 1851. After several years of service in Texas, New. Mexico, and the Northwest, the — outbreak the civil “war found him staaioned with Major Anderson at Fort Moultrie. He wok an a and ga lant part in the re- moval of the garrison from Moultrie to Sumter, nthe defense of the latter, and for bis Services on that occasion Was appoi iujor in the regular army and a brigadier general of volunteers. Previous to joining the Reserves he had beeu severely wounded while commanding adivision at Antietam, and he remained in active service with the Army of the Potomac, participating brilliantly in all of its battles down to the closing Scene at Appomattox, deing, I ve, the only officer Who enjoyed the distinction of baving heard both the frst and last gun in the war. At last tue ardent wis ri nad for them so pecuikar an {2 incidents whieh oc- and of the Reserves to be campaign whied rest Wis, 1n part at least, gratified. Two the First, under comm Metandiess, aud the 3 © Fisher, were ordered to join the Army of the Potomac. “The Secvud Brigade was retained for the deiense of Wasiinzion, muen to the dise dieriy commander, Horatio G. Sickel, and Veteran foilowers. At Frederick, Md. day. the 27th of June, the two brigades jomed u tue Ariny of the Potomac, and received heariy weicome frou their old comrades of the Full Corps, to which they iound. themselves ‘ouce more assigned. oN THE MARCI. Then began the totlsome march towards that ‘aw yet undetermined battle-tleld, which, as the event proved, was to be in and about the hith- 104 tle town of Gettysburg, then nest- environment of green fields and suseloUs of the distinction fate future, hot much given to in- duigence in ment, but to these Pennsylva- nia boys there was in the situation a goud deal to move the heart and imagination. Some of them had their uomies in the very region which ff was now Lecomin probable’ would be Ui ing contict. This tact 1 differentiy from in the war had ee last days of June wer ith them all. The 27th of en battle of feated the What any pr done. Then, te onivers wud had there army on the first ficid in the al Lee commanded tn person. had sought again at Sout bad § pated in € tat Glendale, and on the Ist : e¥e tne glorious suces y were thinking y Went trudging along, and very the memories which zh their minds, the tragic, the pathetic comic all in tur ig themsel © Chain Of associated ideas which these Veries cuied up. On tui f the 20th of June they biveu mare from the line which ad from their own PeuusylVania, and their last waking theagnt ast rolled themselves in their ou the morrow they sh uid INSPIRING THOUGHTS AND SCENES. The moraiug of the Istof July broke brightly, and With the first notes of the reeeille the boys tumbled out of their blankets and answered to the rulleall. Atter they had made their simple 4 and resumed their march the © of thought and conversa- They had come to under- was the same old “Masou und about which they had beard and . ore the war. In their Thougiuis they bad lavested it with a palpable. hhessw hich took i ely out of the category of id uuade It so real a thing to seemed ty expect to find It round in visible if not tangible en they bad gut almost to the line re halted and formed into three sides yuare, and Genera! Crawiord, the division ander, read them an address, 10 which ted in glowing terms the fact of the rebel invasion of thelr native state, and the high duty which devolved upon them of Tescut il trom the pollution of the rebel hordes ‘Then the old which up to. this enveloped in their otl- were tender! ried, and, as and straightened y tage wh revereutiy watehed the Which,” though pro- audible, yet penetrated mt Fecesses of thelr souls. It told. ngers dared, deieats endured, and Each ribboned strip seemed & ue that bade them go forward and do, and dare, and die, if need might be, in de- fense of theif native State and their loved ones at home. Aud then the bands siruck up 4 livel inaren, and at the word of command the coe umn moved briskly on. Just at this moment ared abreast with the head of the column an old white-haired man, his object evidently being to point out to the cuthusiastic soktiers the landmarks ‘hat indicated the live. Who he was or where he came from nobody sewed to Know, but he was a very picturesque cess, t Acting on this idea, be convene@y Two ot Ewell’s divisions, those of Khodes a ‘of | trooped | to the adjunct the bit Dioused “soldiers, thelr fades” ith their ices aciow with fi and of the tid aad’ stat of to & beautiful grove of big, full-foliaged trees, tree fromany undergrowib,carpoted with vel” vety 1 ‘and clean as a drawing-room floor. Tt was an i tul shade was a Jurther exalt the feelings of our Pennsylvanians atready wrought to a hign pitch by the stirring address of thetr commanding general and the céreumstances attending their ge of the boundary-line. Gazing upward as be lay upon the ground, one of them discovered through the leafy branches of the trees, plainly visible not- withstanding the brightness of the sun, which ‘as yet two hours from its setting, glittering like a diamond in a fel Announcing his discovery to bis comrades, soon every eye was directed heavenward to catch a glimpse of the radiant visitor whose apparition Way hailed by the enthusiasticwoldiery assign of weleome and a harbinger of victory in the coming conflict. Oue fellow, who pragmatt- cally asserted that the star was just as visible to the rebels as to them, and that ihey had just as good @ right to consider it a favorable omen, was hooted at and set_upon In a way which for a time threatened to make his seeing of stars | far more comprehensive than that of his com- nt rest under the trees, thoug! gonsiderably prolouged beyond the regulatio ten minutes generally accorded soldiers at the end of every hour of marching, came to an end @ little before nightfall, and the line of march was resumed. The Reserves were still a full day's march from what had now been settled was to be the scene of the great conflict. Although they did rot know it, the first act in the momentous drama had been pertormed. MOVEMENTS OF THE CONFEDERATES. It would exceed the prescribed limits of this Paper to attempt to trace the Confederate inva- sion of Pennsylvania trom its inception, but a general view of its course trom the time the southern forces first set foot on northern soil to the opening of the battle of Gettysburg seems to be proper and necessary. Emerging from the Shenandoah valley at its opening on the Potomac, the Contederate van- guard, composed of Ewell’s corps, completed its passage of the river on the 22d of June, his cavairy, under Jenkins, having crossed on’ the Ath and occupied Chambersburg on the 15th, Johuson, entered Chambérsburg on the ne other under Early took the road to York by way of Gettysburg. On the 25th the two other corps Of the Confederate army, under Longstreet and A. P. Hill, which bad erdssed the Potomac the preceding day at Willlamsport and Shepherds- fown respectively, united at Hagerstown, atid, pported by their presence, Ewell with his main body pressed on to Carlisle, whieh he oc- cupied on the 27th, Jenkins’ brigade proceeding towards Harrisburg, and reaching "Kingston, only thirteen miles from the capital. “The pas? Sage of the Potomac by Stuart's cavalry on ‘the same day brought the whole Confederate army north of the river. Lee, ignorant all this while thatthe Union army wasat his heel, was playing the part of the successful invader, spparently in. blissful confidence that he was It) no danger of Meetlug other opposition than could be wifered by the Nastlly-gathered and poorly-armed levies Of militia whieh were being collected. On the 28th, however, Lee learned that the Army of the otoinac was at Frederick, and a change came over his dreams of invasion aud conquest. Re- cognizing at once the necessity of creating a di version to relieve his rear and draw away the Union army from his line of communteation, he determined to threaten Balumore with his Whole force, and accordingly sent orders to his corps commanders to concertrate at Gettys burg. What turued the Confederate army to- Wards the scene of the epochal conflict of July | 1, 2and 3 was, therefore, the fact of its being | stragetically the point for a concentration pre= | Imunary to adescent upon Baltimore, by meaus | of Which General Lee hoped te draw the Union. army tarther east and away from his line of | communication and retreat, should necessity | for the latter arise. THE UNION FORCES. Now let us see where the Union army was, and by what movements it came to confront the Confederate torces at Gettysburg, and then we shall be prepared to carry on intelligibly our narrative of the Reserves’ participation 1a the great battle. Following the plan we have ob- | Served in respect of the Consederate movements, Wwe shill limit our view of the operations of the Union forces to what took place after they had arrived north of the Potomac. On the 28th of June, the day on which Gen- eral Lee determined on his diversion In tho. direction of Baitimore and the concentration of his army at Gettysburg, the Union army was at Frederick, with its left wing, consisting of the First, Thitd, and Eleventh Cor eral ‘Joun F. Reynolds, thrown forward. to Middietown and Boonstoro’, General Buford, With is division of cavalry, holding the passes of South Mountain. General Hooker had on that same day been superseded In. the com- mand of the Army of the Potomac by General Meade. On the night of the 20th two brigades 0: Buord's cavairy covercd the left tank of the Union army near Fairfield, with one brie | gadeat Mechaniestown. The Firstand Eleventh | Corps were at Emmettsburg, the Tuird und ‘Twelfth at Middiebury, the Fifth at Taneytown, the Second at Uniontown, and the Sixth at New Windsor. The first determination of any part of the Army of the Potomac to. Gettysburg was General Pleasonton’s direction. t General Buford on the 29th to occupy it the nex: day, and holddt until the resto! the army shoud arrive. So far as our side is concerned, Geu- » under Gen- eral Pleasanton seems to have been the first to recognize the Importance | of Gettysburg asa strategic point in reiereuce to the campaign. Tue evening of June 30 found the First Corps, the extreme leit of the army. at Marsh Creek, on the Emmetisburg road, wiile the Sixth Corps, its extreme right, was al West- ininsier. Between these extreines were posted, from left to right, the Eleventh Corps at Eine metisburg, the Second and Tuird at Taneytown, the Fifth at Union Mills, and. the Twelfth al Frizaleburg. General Freneh, wit the greater partof the garrison of Harper'sFerry,lad moved up and oc-apied Frederick. A glance atthe m wil show that this arrangement of the several corps of the Army of the Potomac. brought the | lett wing much nearer Gettysburg than was the gut. Upto tts time neither Meade norLee had ‘eu conscious bow surely the law of suratesy, working like that of gravitation, inexorabiy | bringing them towcrucial test olsirensih at Geuysburg. “Meade's ides was to take up a de- fensive position on Pipe Creek, and there await } an attack by Lee. ‘The latter, Suil without dei | nite information of his oppoteut’s position, ane | ticipated vecupying Gettysburg without serious resistance. Gen. Reynolds had been orderd to Gettysburg, but hud baited is corps at Marsh Creek, as previously shown, his reason being | that the enemy were reported to be coming front the direetiua of Fairfield. Now, however, oo the night of the Sut ou! June, Meade had’ be- come fully apprised tat the e: ids Was Intermed of the situation he de termined tomove forward and vecupy the town, aud hold It against the Confederate advauce, He direcied the Hleventh Corps to move up asa | support. to the Fins and he recency tae | did not order, the Third eorps to do the same. WAITING FoR THE sitock We have seen that Gen, Buford had already been sent forward to occupy und hold Gettys- burg tll support should arrive. Thuson the moruing of the Ist of July, we find Buford hold- | ing. the ridges to the west of Gettysburg. with | bis cavalry division, composed of Guinble’s aud Devens’ brigades. ‘With uls videties well, out a the roads leading north, west, aud east. of jettysburg, a large part of ‘his command dis. jounted aud in line of battle, and his batteries strougly posted, he waited on one side the ap. Proacu of the Contedetates, whiie towards the other be anxlousiy watched for theappearance uf | the First Corps. Here was presented tue picture of the nortiern army coming trom ‘the! south towards the point on whieh were coverging the }southern battalions “appprouching irom the | north, A bird’s eye view ot the situation to one | knowing nothing of the combatants would have created wi linpression exactly the everse | of the fact. “Such ab one would have naturally Supposed that these blucclad soldiers that Le | saw south of Gettysburg were inaking an’ ine vasion of the north, while the gray and butter. | mut masses, marching southward from. Girection of Hurrisburg, and Car- und Chambersburg, he “would have taken to be the defenders rather than the In- | ¥adersof the soll north of the Potomac. It Were a long, and for the purpose of this paper | an unprofitable, task to follow in detalt the | moveme Opposing forces as they mar- | shaled themsslves for the struggle of this first of the three July days dur! he storm town whose hame his how pussed into the world’s annals as one of tue key-polnts of human history. It must suffice that we recall in passiug how on that 1st of July, along the banks of Willoughby Run, w littie west of Gettysburg, and separate | from the town by Seminary Ridge, Buiord's two calvalry brigades checked the advance to- wards the town of the vanguard of Eweil’s ‘orps; how Meredith's “Iron Brigade” and Cut- ler's Brigade took up the figuting under their brave division commander, Geueral Wads- worth; how Hull’s Maine battery hurled shot and Shell at the advancing foe ull the horses of his last guns were shot or bayoneted; how Reynolds fell, and Double- day succteded tw the @mmand of the field; how the Second and Third Divisions of the First Corps, under Kobinson and Kowley, respectively, coming up, the battle waged flercet and flercer, and the batteries of Cooper and Stewart and Reynolds and Stevens swelled jouder than ever ‘the deep diapason of war; how, later ou, General Howard arrived and the Eleventh Corps came up; and how at lust, after ong-hours of gallant figiting on the part of the First Corps, assisted towards the close by the Eleventh Corps, the Union forces were out- uutabered and forced back through the town to the ridge behind it, THE CLOSE OF THE FIRST ACT. Thus ended what may be termed the first act in the drama of Gettysburg. The troops that | bad represented Iu this initial scene the Union gause had played well the part assigned them, They had held in check the Confederate ad- Nance ‘upon Gettysburg, giving time for the iain body of the ariny of ‘the Potomac to push forward the process of concentration; they bad inflicted serious loss upon the enemy; and, chiet of all, they had secured to the army of thé Potomac the position to which they had now falien back, aud which was destined to coutri- bute lo a most emphatic sense to the great vic~ tofy Aually achieved. i a tion, known as Cemetery Ridge, It generally” speaking, south ot ‘Gebysourg, aad Roughly rescuibles « fisl-hook In ahape,—s fsb Fmean, as fisb-hooks used to be made,— with two e: Zatinaptiy be toned. Tueend of the notinaptly be likened. The en sponding to thi nt of the fish-hook rested on ‘k Creek, a little east of south from the towa. The curve was directly south of the town, bulg- ing towards it, and was the site of the cemetery which gives the ridge Its name; thence, trending a little west of south, ran the long stretch of the ridge, corresponding to the shank of the fish- hook, and terminating in the two Round Tops which I have compared to the terminal flanges of the old-fashioned fish-hook. There has been some controvers; was due the credit of having select as the sition of the Union army, nolds, Hancock, and Howard each being as- signed it by partial admirers. Ido not think that any phenomenal acuteness was necessary to enable an Intelligent commander ta recog- nize its value asa military ition, The fact it, thatall three of the generals named did recog- nize its importance, and each in his turn selected it for the immediate purpose with which he was individually concerned, Rey- nolds as the place for his reserve in thé first day's ght, Howard as the rallying-polnt for his corps when worsted, ayd Hancock, who Was sent forward by Meade virtually as ‘com- mander-in-chief ad interim, as the position for the whole army to deliver battle from. Geo. A. Woopwarp, Colonel, U. 8. A. a ‘The Physical Differences. Now, can any one seriously argue that, on the physical side, divergence of pursuits and habits is not indicated for the sexes? The com- mon sense of mankind has long ago answered the question, and even our female reformers, 1 believe, admit that plowing and driving cattle, soldiering and sailoring are not appropriate to women, nor feeding and rocking children, nursing the sick, and keeping house, to men. Not that women’ have not as much’ physicai strength and energy in their own kind as men in theirs, but that energy appears to have a dif- ferent seope. Men would find the common tasks of women desperately fatiguing and irk- ‘@ man, for instance, Would certainly not cultivate manly strength and energy asa child’s nurse; yet the nurse exercises a great deal of strength, carrying and nursing a heavy child, ‘The ignoring of this differentiation of physical energy in the two sexes is always the note of barbarism or degradation among man kind. Where you tind women put to tasks which do not suit with their physical constitu. tion and functious—a practice always evi- denced by premature decrepitude—there you have @ people low in the scale of humanity. Now, human nature being all of a piece, it 18 but reasonable to think that a divergence as be- tween the sexes in pursuits and habits, which is strongly indicated, and admittedly wise on one side of it, ts likely to be wise on the other, ‘The energy of women, asit differs in kind and in seope trom that of men in physical matters, 30 differs in moral and intellectual matters. No doubt it is not so eusy to discriminate be- tween the intellectual and moral powers of men and women as between their bodily pow- ers; but there is & real difference throughout their veing, and It ought to be (as at present it at thelr ~u practically is) recognized in the scope of their action as members of the commonwealth,— ‘The Nineteenth Century. coe The Salt of the Earth, From the San Francisco Bulletin, If the salt formations of Nevada were in rail- road cemmunication there would be no market in this country for the foreign article, In Lin- coln county, on the Rio Virgin, there is a de- posit of pure rock salt which ls exposed for a length of two miles, a width of halfa mile, and is of unknown depth. In places canons are cut through it to adepth ofsixty feet. It is of ancicat formation, being covered in some places by basaltic rock and voleanic tuia, The deposit has been traced on the surtace tor a distance of nine iniles. It is so solid that it must be blasted like rock ‘and so pure and transparent that print can be read through blocks of it a ot thick. At Sand Springs in Churehill county there is a deposit of rock salt fourteen feet in depth, free trom uny particle of foreign sub- Stance, Which can be quarried at the Tate of five tous a day to the 1 boldt salt field is about 15 miles long by 6 wide. When the summer heats have evaporated the surface water, salt to the depth of several inches may be seraped up and underneath is a stratum of pure rocksalt, of unknown dept! Soda, borax and other valuable minerals also existin large quantities near these localities, and braneh ratiroads will sooner or later bring them Into market. A considerable business ia gathering borax ts already established on the fine of the Carson and Colorado rullroa l. If Nevada will cat down wer working expeises and devciop her natural resources, she will be above the necessity of seeking ‘lund grants from her neighbors or from the general govern- ment. The great Hun ++ _____ The Probiem Solved. HOW THE MORMON MOTHER-IN-LAW I8 HAP- PILY DISPOSED OF. From the Salt Lake Tribune. ‘There fs a “character” connected with one ot the livery stables In this city who has on more than one occasion been the subject of anathe- mas from the Deseret News. His offense con- sists In driving tourisis about the town to show them the sights of Zion, point out the double households, and in bis own inimitable way tell the bisfory of not a few of tue chief pulyga- mists whose conduct render Utah odorlferous in the nostrils of Christendom, , ere,” he remarks to the attentive tour- is where Helder — lives with twosisters tor his wives.” Various comments trom the strangers foliow, when one generally makes the observation that the only redecining tcat- ure of the thing fs that the polygamist in that case manages to hold two wives with only one mother-in-law to make things interesting. ‘Theo the driver chips in with the soothing it: formation that the possibilittes of matrimony in Zion without the element of mother-in-law cutting any figure is au accomplished fact, and piace Zionon a plane tar above the civilized worid in its dealing with the question of “What shall we do with our mother-in-law?" “Now, in in our chureh,” he procecds, “we get rid of'er in y cases by marrying oler. "Ere is where der — lives. ’E ried mother and daughter, and Solved the problem, ‘Ere is waere Helder Mc— used to live." married one old goman with Wwo daughters, and when they got to be thirteen and fitteen years. ’e married them, too. Poor man, ’e fell off’ a load of'uy a tew years ago and died. They are widdies now. He remarked yesterday, “Oh, It’s a fact, I dont tell these tourists all T know, but I gives vem enough to chew, and 1 could give. the nit, bat T won't, it might spoll Lknows ‘em ail.” Xnd then he proceeded with a list as long as a hoe-bandle, Of this fellow who married bis step-daughter, d that fellow who married his wlie's grand: mother, and the other one who married’ three generations of females in one family. “You see they wants to cut me off, is Why the priesthood has patd $30,000 fora livery stable. It is the tourists they are alter.” cor Smoking While Their Lords are Absent. From the Chicago Tribune. ome of my very best trade,” said a tobacco- nist recently, “comes from women. You would be astonished if I gave you names, but it would ruin my business with them, Do they use the tobacco openly? By no means. They all smoke in secret and their husbands never guess the Vile practice of the wives ot whom they are so proud. Oiten several women assemble at oue house, shut out the outside worid, put on thelr hubbards and enjoy @ regular Old-fashioned smnoke, just Mke the men at the club room, Most of the women smoke only cigarettes, but aiter awhile these are not strong enough'and they must bave cigars. One cusiomerin par- Uedlar I have, # Wealthy widow, who Would be deeply ollendeéd did any gentleman smoke in her presence, and yet I venture to say no boy, Man or woman enjoys a good cigar better than ‘vant girl gets to loving the weed ir mistress indulge. “Whenever the husbands fad out the habit then there's fun in that household, and often he threatens ine with personal violence if I do not quit sell- ing to is wire.” . 0s Hardy Flowers that Will Pay Forthe ‘rouble of Care. From Vick’s Magazine. ‘The snowdrops are a host in themselves; and then come the very large family of narcissus, ordatlodils. It we are looking buck among th: pleasant scenes of the past, which are hidden away in the memory,it is not the grand con- servatory we think’ of or the magnificent orchids that the miud loves io itnger over. No; itis that old orebard full of daifodils, cluster- ing under the appie trees and in the hedges, or that old fashioned garden so full of snowdrops, and where the scent of violets, white pinks, musk and mignonnette fills the alr in their re- spective seasons. With the summer came many things suitable tor cutting—the colum- bines, all tue dianthus tamily, the carnation, ucotee, pink and sweet william, the Canter- wry pelle, delpniniums, pyrethirums, single and double, and roses in endiess variety. 10 special situations pweonles and popples are use- ful: where show rather than sweetness Is de- manded, they are excellent. For large vases in. the corridor or hall they are valuable. All the iris family are excellent for cutting; they are things, ‘but ‘fresh hol so lastlug as “many dlowers are opening datly, and the effect. is gorgeous. Everiasting peas, though not so nice ids Sweet boas, vet they ikru Very showy. How beuutiful the old Walie Litum ‘candidam is in very large, tall glasses or vases, All the spitwas and the perennial suntiowere are good. Jor cutting. The phioxes are bright and showy, but do not last so long as a good cutting flower should, The same muy be sald of the pentste- mons and Veronicas, but the rudbeckias and the asters or starworts wre very valuable in autumn. The Japanese anemones, though od for cutting, are hardly lusting enough, “oxgloves, though not generally used in a cut state, associate well with the poppies and other things for large bold groups. Your Hapiruanzy cheerful man is an old fraud and a liar. He is well dressed, while his chilaren are the ray bays of the neighborhood, He has a dollar for clgurs when his wife. wears & bonnet six years old. He passes for a whole. souled fellow with the public, but is t& fault. finder at home. You'll sce ‘hin taking the cool breezes on the river, while his family are swole tering in # stuily house on some back street, I Want lo sec a man grin when theres anything w grin at, but when Green gets up in the mori ing and declares that he hasu't had a meal fit to ‘eat for the last three munths, and that Le can't see Why his wite 1s always groaning around and his children always whining, he has no business to stop the first mun as meets, with a smile clear back wo his ears und shout out: “Why, old tel, how solemn you do look! BP, man—ilte I Hines overt anny ite Haworth thellving ten THE SUMMER FASHIONS. SUMMER GoODS—SILKS, LINENS, PONGEES AND GINGHAMS—NEW HATS AND BONNETS—FANCY WRAPS—PABASOLS, ETC. GRADUATION Daxsses aro simpl New Loursives have fine, basket-like effects, RUCHINGS are novel, inexpensive and stylish, GINGHAM and sateen dresses are trimmed with lace, Suor SILx is worn under etamine with pleas- ing effect, , Cur Gass Beans serve a @ finish for neck and sleeves, SATEEN, ALPACA AND SILK are used for foun- dation skirts, Inpra SILxs in plain colors are always cov- ered with lace, PARISIANS wear bodices differing in color from the skirts. PONGEES are shown in all colors, embroidered, Printed or plain, ALL New SuMMER MANTELS are more or less in the visite style. Festoons or Jet BEADS are arranged upon the fronts of visites. FANcy STRAWS are edged with ltttle straw balls instead of beads. EMBROIDERED crepe lisse flounces are in de- mand for dressy toilets, LAVENDER AND WHITE are worn for deep Mourning for house dresses, Fine WHITE MULL Dresses have alternate flounces of lace and embroidery. BLACK SILk Dresses may have revers, vest, color and cuffs of black velvet. LINENS For Suwa WEAR have thread-like stripes, dark figures or small checks. PLAIN SURAH AND FouLakp are combined with tartan plaid of the same materials. RIBBONS For SASHES are of satin-faced vel- vet and double-faced satin with picot edges, Escurta Lacs, with bead embroidery, is employed for panels, vests, collars and cuffs, Buack Crere DE CHINE AND GRENADINE Will be worn for deep mourning this summer. THIN BLACK Tissugs, worked with jet, have ‘stripes, which may be cut in lengths for trim- ming. Consents of silk or velvet are worn with Woollen bodices. The fabric should be flue and so! PONGEES are shownin the natural tint of tho (silk in colors, embroidered, printed or plain, For Youne Lapresof slight figure the bodice, finely pleated both back and front, ts very be- coming. MULHoUsK or Alsatian cretonne and stamped “satinetle” are shown in excellent desig: for summer wear. BANDS oF BRETON EMBROIDERY are used for trimming canvas materials, serges, jackets and Jersey bodices, THE “MILKMAID” Dress of last season has taken a new lease of life. Itis now employed for tennis costume: OPENWORK striped tissues and transparent canvas have corresponding taffetas or fuille to complete the costume. BonNeET CROWNs are a continual surprise— horse shoe, heart shape, indented, puffed out, square, obiong and round. PINK AND MAUVE are rival colors this sea- son. Pink is combined with a variety of colors, as green, heliotrope and blue. COLLARS AND CUFFS for evening wear are of ribbon covered with net, gathered full and fn- ished in a trill at neck aud wrist, SKyY-BLUE Is never out of fashion, The new blues have agrayish tint, although the latest variation of this color is as dark as supphire. CoacHiING Coats of drab cloth have seams like those on men’s coats and have lurge white |e baticay engraved with scenes trom couch- ing life, DoMEsTIC SURAHS have become almost as standard as domestic cottons, and are made up plainly, or with w little lace, passementerle or embroidery. 1kISH SILK GUIPURE, the finest of silk cro- cheted lace in black, creain or ecru, is used for trimming. Panels of the ecru silk lace are empioyed for sumer dresses. TH ‘Muscovite” Bopicr, with sleeves rather large and drawn in about the wrist by a band buttoning on the outside, is seen in many of the imported walking costumes. ToILe D'ARAIGNEE in the most delicate nts of pink, blue or white, is employed tor fichus, Gauze ribbons witi tine pearl edge are used for trimming these web-like creations, SILK “CrePoN” cuton the bias and laid in double tolds, or bias crape of all colors, edged with rows of delicate pearl beads, are the meweee materials for neck and sleeve accesso- ries. Wuire Batiste collars and cuffs, with printed borders in red and blue, with nain- sook cravat having an embroidered di on the euds of the bow, are worn with waiking costumes. As Lace Dresses are to be as much worn this season as last, silks no longer in their first, youth will form exccilent foundations for them, Beaded plastrons, tavliers and pancls complete these rich toilets. ‘TRAINS ov Rick Vetver are plain and ex- tremely long. The adjustable train is again in vogue. Itis # most coavenient adjunct, trans- forming a short dress into a robe ot ceremony. ‘The bodice must correspond to the fabric of which the train is made. Srynisi MILITARY CLOAKS for traveling are made of flue dark blue camels’-hair goods, the high standing collar, pockets and cuffs trimmed with silver braidwork in Roman patterns. Down the entire trontis seta row of buttons in raised designs of old Kou Hous. Wuure Dresses with deep embroidered flouncing on the skirt haye the flounce looped high over the hip on tie lett side, showing three nasrow flounces corresponding to. the Wide one, or else of plain material. “he bod. A of Unese dresses are belted or made with basques. MACHINE Laces are now so beautifully inade that it is impossible for ordinary mortals to distinguish between them and the hand made. Dentelle Roubaix, a silk luce with point d@Alencon desigus, is genaraliy used for trimn- ming light dresses, Livre Cares of brown yeloutine silk with velvet figures have the design embroidered in beads in three ones of brown, and have long narrow ends in front. Epaulets of loops of narrow veloutine und velvet ribbon are ar- rauged on the top of the sieve, Some ov THE WutTE Woot SpuFFs come with borderings of drawn work, clustered cords and loops of cord simulating fringes on one sel- vage. This is intended for the bottom of the skfrt, the narrower band of woven effects trim: ming the bodice sleeves, waistcoat and Lunic or searts drapery PARASOLS OF STRIPED SILK AND SaTIN are pale On the outside, the inside showing the bright hues. The handles of parasols are quite large and are 1n all manner of fanciful shapes, some of them resembling Lfe-preservers. A bow of ribbon just above the place where the handle is held ts imperative. AFTERNOON RECEPTION Dressxs of faille have the skirt mounted at the sides in wide plaits, the front breadth being flat. These are ornamented with beads and knots of velvet ot the same color as the taille. The bodice is close- fitting, cut low at the back and front, und is filled in with beaded tulle, with elbow-sieeves t correspond, Very DeicaTeand becoming chemisettes to wear with handsome dinner and dancing dresses of India silk, foulard, Florentine veiling etamine, and other ele itimaterials, are made of crape or tulle laid in }, Sott tolds in surplice Jashion over the chest. Beyond these are revers of ruby, golden brown, dark blue, or other col- ored velvet, und about the round waist ts laid velvet ribbon to mutch, with loops and long ends falling at the left side. Some oF THE New pretty straw hats and bon- nets have either the crown or the brim veiled with tulle, plain or beuded. Others have the over crown Ce with i ny, beads in clusters ofturee. Again, some of the large hat of feather-weightlace brald, with confeu crowas and medium wide brims, ‘show the entire hat veiled with net or tulle and trimmed with very slender coronets of flowers and grasses, Tne latter hats are for cool, airy wear in thecountry, Some of the white etamine and canvas goods for summer are made up witha box-pleated blouse waist with full bishop sleeves gathered in at the wrists to deep cuffs. The leats, wide marine collur, aud cutis are decorated with’ briar- stitching worked with blue, brown, or scarlet Washing silk. ‘The kilted skirts have extra deep hems turned up on the outside, these also trie, med with the briar-stitching, and the deep reverson the milkmald tunio is similarly tie ished. For THE Coot Days or Summer short tancy wraps of colored velvet will be worn of golden brown, marine blue, Russian green and bli the bucks and fronts’ cut bias, thus doing away le to tit with darts, while'still allowing the mantl the form closely. Many of these are odged with beads matehtng the color of the wrap material. Some of the most expensive of these dressy gar ments have large doluan sleeves made of vel. Vet striped ctamine, broche net or figured gren- adine, wrought with adiue, wroug! beads, und edged with lace Bows ov Rrpzow are still favored as trim- mings for airy evening gowns. They are made with short ends, very mueb frinj sed, and are ar- Tanged in rows running vertically or di: onally across the skirt, or set here and there Lil e but tertiles among the billows of tulle, luco ‘The best sort Of ribbon tor the purpose is glace sassenet, with plootedge, Ttibae bright Deimtln, and, ‘can easily be fringed out besides Ing firm enough to form the best quality. should be chosen, and thous @ simple trimming, It is durable enough todety ‘@ dancing-room erush better than flowers, either Feal or artiicial, ‘The French , has decided to intro- uco'in the ‘chamber of dapution ptt to dis- pose fi of the ‘of the nally rel ‘Orleans HOME MATTERS. TABLE MATTERS —SOME DAINTY DISHES— PRETTY DECORATIONS—PUTTING AWAY FURS HOUSE CLEANING HINTS, wi SiNGue Paxgt Scnxex has a branch of te lilac. This d is very effective when Painted on the pate green seamless soatuing. A CHARMING BaBY BASKET is in the shape of @ shell mounted on bamboo sticks. It is lined with blue satin, a full lace ruche inter- mingled with tiny ribbon loops finishing the iy You Have Prorures hanging against an outer wall protect them from any possible damp by covering the backs with sheet lead, or else keep them trom contact with the wall by corks fastened to the lower end of the frames. A DAINTY DisH for breakfast or lunch is made of slices of tresh crisp toast, buttered very slightly. On each slice put salmon and cucum- ber, or cold meat and chutney; sprinkle with pepper and wrap each slice in a jettuce leaf that as been stee; in vinegar. DovBLE DAMASK TaBLE LINEN in cloths of different lengths for breakfast and for dinner, simply hemmed, and very large napkins to match the design of each cloth, also hemmed— not fringed—are an excellent wedding gift. You can also add doilies, a buffet cover, and small covers for trays. All wedding gifts are sent to the bride.—Harper's Bazar. A Prerry ALL Over DxsiGn for a toilet set is made of mull with dots the size of a quarter of @ dollar, The dots are worked over with golden yellow silk to form the center of daisies, the peial being worked in white silk. The set consists cf scari, pin-cushion and bottle covers, which may be lined with silk or sateen. This mull embroidery is also effective for window eurtains.—New Fork Commercial. CoRx BREAD ts more wholesome than hot rolls for breakfast, Made in this way itis ex- cellent: Half a pound of Indian meal, half a pound of flour, one teaspoonful ofsalt, and one tablespoontul ‘of baking powder sitted into a bowl." Beat one ounce of butter, one ounce of sugar and two eggs together, and add to the sifted meal and flour. Add gradually one pint of milk for a thin batter and bake in a hot oven, Purrina Away Furs.—Before putting away dark furs they may be cleaned by rabbing them with hot brau. It should be rubbed in with the hand. The fur should be well brushed. afterward to remove ail particles of dust. They may then be put away in cedar chests with camphor, first securely fastening them in news- paper. Should there be no cedar chest, the articles, atter wrapping them in paper with camphor, may be pat in paper boxes caretally wrapped in newspaper, pasted so Ught together are carefully looked over and brushed and then pul away as directed there need be no fear of the ravages of the household pest. HAMBURG STEAKS prepared in this way are relished by many for breakfast: Scrape the lean meat trom the sinews ofa rump steak; Season it with salt and pepper and form It into flat, round cakes. Mince un onion and fry it brown in butter; then fry in this the steaks a delicate brown. ‘They may be rare or well done according to taste. Gravy or sauce piquante Is served with them, The sauce may be easily made. Put into the pan in whieh the steaks were cooked one tablespoontul of shallot, one teaspooniul of minced ley, half rardsre ful of browned flour, hull a saltspoontul of bi: Pepper, # littie sult, three tablespoontuls of vin- egar aud a cup of broth or stock. Simmer tor & Jew minutes; strain and serve with the steaks, House CLEANING Hints.—In this season of general up-turning and house cleaning it may not be amiss toremember that ammonia in water cleanses glass and palut much better than soup does; that it sometimes costs less to have a badly soiled room. uted, after a moderate Us¢ of the mop aad brash, than It does to have it scrubbed and scoured, to say nothing of the expenditure of strength; that salt au Vinegar brighten brasses ay Well us any more modern and expensive notions; that & sinall ¢ of charcoal huzg in arain’ Water barrel purifies it perfectly; that plaster busts and statuettes may be Cleaned, when itis not de- sired to paint them, by dipping them into thie! liquid starch und ‘arying, and wien the d stureh 1s brushed off, the dirt is brushed off with it; that it fs a good pln to go over the bed- steads before beginnin by ol the cleaning, as delay in these days when the sun bas become Strong is apt to increase the trouble tere; that it is wise vo open the campaigu at the top of ie house and in the unused rooms, and so give less contusion and prominence to the affair; that, on reuching their breeding uaunts at the bottom of the house, powdered borax mixed with a lite powdered su about in spots, will prove certain death to cockroaches and to and ifthatis not handy, afew drops ot pirits of turpentine sprinkled bere and will be as effective in the case nuisances as it is In the case of moths.— 's dbazar. 00. My Ship. Oh, my eyes are weary waiting for @ sail I cannot see; And my heart is tired waiting for my ship to come to Such precious cargo 4s she bears, I'm sure you've never se ‘ingdom to me—and I shall be the For she brings # ‘queen! She bears a freight of cherished hopes, as dear as life A relas: ‘Fom toll and burdens, anda life frum care set free. But ihe chisicest gitt she brings me—by far of ail the Dest, Oh; I'm growin; s0 impatient! for the ship will bring me Hest. Rest from the petty worrles that harrass me every Hoar, Rest rom the daily grinding wants that hold me in thetr power. 1 do Wot sbe'for riches, and a life of naught but euse— Tam but « weary woman—I shail not be hard to please, But the time grows short and shorter—and my ship sul far away 1am growing older, sadly older day by your And ihe ér. and di And I'm striving to be patient—though my ship does not come 11 Margaret Lee, ams my soui has cherished grow far away Irons vs. Powderiy. THE KNIGHTSOF LABOR NEARLY SOLID FoR THE MAN FROM SCRANTON. From the Cleveland Leader. In speaking of Martin Irons’ ambition to succeed Mr, Powderly as grand master work- inan at the Richmond convention in October, aprominent local member of the order said yesterday: “Cleveland Knights of Labor are heartily in sympathy with Mr. Powderly’s con- servatismn and fair-tninded manner of settling labor questions, Every assembly in Clevelaud Witl adopta resolution asking District: Asse1 bly No. 47 to instruct its delegate to the Rich- mond convention to vote for Powderly. Po; derly is sure to be re-elected. ‘The New England states are solid for him. All tho Middle States will vote for hin, With posstbly. the exception of one district in Pittsburg, where the feeling of the Amalgamated asso: elation azainst him is strong, because he says that the Knigits of Labor must be the first or: guuizaiion ot the kind in the country. The delegates from the Ohilo districts with possibly the exception of the Springtieid district, will vote tor bowderly, Indiana {6 solid tor hin, sad Illinois bas only one doubuul district in the northern part ofthe state. The northwest is for Powderly, as is the south, ‘The three kie ing districts 'may not vote for Powderly, but there is no certaiuty that they favor Irons. The members of the order in the west and south ‘west will work and vote for Irons, I do not take any stock in his saying that he is not a candidate, He has been before every con- vention, and last year succeeded in gaining a nomination and several seconds. If Powderly is defeated there will be @ bolt, but Powderly himself will never leave the order. Since the circular was issued 400 or 500 new assemblies have been instituted, and many of the old as- semblies favor his views. You may be assured that our grand taster workman will receive over 125 Votes of the 175 in the convention,” ———-—+e2 The Phantom Train. From the Boston Herald, May 15. An old story, which may be of interestto the students of psychical research, comes from Old Orchard. Before the Boston and Maine rail- road was extended to Portland, visitors reached Ola Orchard by @ branch of the eastern road. Since the building of the former road’s exten- sion the branch has been abandoned, and no trains have run over it for years. The rails are up, and in many places the roadbed destroyed. Last summer, as a party of Canadian xentle- nen, three in number, were walking along this deserted road, they heard distinctly the rumble of an approaching train, It came nearer and nearer, and yet nothing was seen. Ag it came close to them they all involuntarily jamped from the track, and the invisible train’ passed them, golng toward the beach, the sound grow- ing tainter as it weuton. The gentlemen were much frightened, and one was quite overcome by the occurrence. He could not shake off the impression that had been left, and declared that he knew something terrible was going to happen. That very afternoon he received adis- patch from friends in Montreal telling him that his wife and only child hac been killed by railroad accident that very forenoon, ‘The Great Strike. From the Chicago Rambler, Scene. Night. —Mrs. Jenkins —Do Henry, oud Gold this chile 3 whi Lay ed Jenkins—Not much; we have just decided that éight hours per night should constitute a pight’s work—thav’s the kind of @ union man am, ————+e0________ ‘The Illinois Light, Heat and Power company mnise to furnish in Chicago for 50 and‘ Ponts per thousand feck ‘cents per ‘The Seawanhaka Yacht clut New York, has subscribed tor a $1,000 Dr torbo saliod for at the regatta of Jane 19. ‘The Puritan, Pris- gilts, a are invited to enter. Betas wears thirty bookmakers who been books at the races. a How te Sell Jewelry. From the Springeld Republican. A Main street jeweler says that he finds the women a hard lot to deal with, in some re- Spects, while in others they are very desirable customers, “If @ man buys a $10 watch and finds that it gets two or three minutes out of the way in course of time, he comes back and Wants to dynamite the store. A woman buys watch for its looks, aud if it is five or ten minutes out of the she doesn’t care. Would prefer not to have it stop altogether, though. Now and then a school-ma’am comes in here and shows quite a masculine desire to havea tme-keeper, but she is an excep- Yor. Then it is hard for’a woman to make up her mind about @ purchase, anyway. Isold a fine gold watch to ‘a woman yesterday,” con- tinued the merchant, “after she had been in gertainly ‘ten times ‘to look over my stock. Since she started out on her search she had been to every store in the city, I know she had. She Was accompanied on her just visit by amale friend, who advised tor my watch. She kept me all through my supper hour, but of course, She didn’t think of that, and I was satistied. Sometimes we have to resort to Hitle tricl of trade, women came in here the othe day and said they had an hour in which to buy a clock for their pastor. I showed them a beautiful French clock worth $75. | The price Fag shout right, but they couldn't be satisfied #0 easily, and were for starting out on a tour of inpection. I took the clock to pieces, showed them the works, expiaiped the mechanisia, and got them go interested that they forgot how the time was flying; the hour went by, they did not have time to look further, an Were well satisfied to buy the clack. The secret of successful selling is always to be courteous ‘and interested in your customers, In no bus! ness is this so important as in ours, in whieh sales have to be curetully cultivated from the first feeble nibble to the final bite. Here comes: @ man now that I bave been trying to sell dia- monds to for a month.” ‘The door burst upen, the jeweler left his cozy quarters to meet the visitor, entered into a pleasant chat with the would-be buyer, got out the familiar casket and displayed its contents to the best advantage. ‘hen he leaned care- lessiy over the show-case, Whistied softly and gazed outat the people on the street. But the Visitor's part was not played so nicely. He turned over the jewels nervously, put them on his tngers, took them off, looked at them in every light, twisted Lis handkerchief in them, ‘Theo as if with sudden determination be held Up a ring, asked the price, criticised the fit, hag- gled over the price a litile and said he would take it, The purchase was quickly made, and the jeweler came back with a smile of triumph, “He paid $5. more for that diamond that i would have given it wo him fora week ago,” he said. “It almost amounts to a superstition with me, but I make speetal efforts to sell, and at good’ prices, on rainy days. Some days w sell $10 worth of goods, und some days $500. Rainy days, and sume others, are set down as bad ones for trade. So I exert myself to bring up the sales ii possible on the off days; we hang out Jor a tuir price if we can get it; we take a low price if we must, but sell we will. Que sees @ good deal of human nature, for few things touch a man's innermost sell’so closely us his pocket-buok; and few things touch his pocket- book like a jeweler's line of goods.” - os Bill Nye on Pugtlism. From the Chicago News. Mr. Dempscy’s great force as a debator Is less Perhaps, in the matter than in the manner, His delivery 1s good and his gestures cannot fail to convince the most skeptical. Striking in appearance, aggressive in his nature and happy in his gestures, he is certain to attract the at- tention of the police, and he cannot fail to rivet the eye of his adversary. I saw one of his ad- Versuries not long ago Whose eye had been suc- cesstully riveted in that wa, And yet John E. Dempsey wasonce a poor boy. He had none of the advantages “which Wealth and position bring. Bat confident of his latent ability as a middie-weight convincer, he tolled on, ever on, sitting up UnUL long after other people bad gone to bed, patiently. knock: ing out those who might be brought to him for | that purpose, He never bung back because the Way looked long and lovely.” And what is the result? ‘To-day,in full vigor of manhood, he Is sought out and petted by every one who takes “an interest in the Onward march of pugilisin, { Is & wonderful record, though brief, It shows what palent Industry will accomplish unaided, Had Join E. Demipsey hesitated to enter the ring and said that he would rther | ko to school, where he would be safe, he might to-day be an educated man; bat what does that amount to bere in America, Where everybody n have an education? tHe wouid have lk his talent asa slugger and drifted steadily dow ward, perhaps, (il he became a school teache! | Or a burrow-chested editor, writing things day after day Just to gratity thé morbid curiosity of a sin-cuised world, In closing I would like tosay that I hope 1 | Rave not expressed «uv opinion in tae above Unat may hereafter be used against me. Do Not _undérstaid ie to be the foe of education. Edueation and refinement are good enougit ii Uncir places, but how shall we attract attention by trying to become refined and educated in a jand Where, as Tsay, edacation and reflacment seem altnost to run fam Heretotore, in’ Aime ant? ca, Pugilism has been | made sub.crvient to th schools, Pagitism aad polyxa both been erowded to tie wall. “Now pugilism is about vo assert itseli, ‘The tin ear to the iront and the nu progressive pugilism aud the prize ring will laice the place os the poorly vate ated common school and the enervatigg prayer meeting. -s08) 4 Haunting For an Acrelite. PROF, EMERICK’S LONG SEARCH FOR A FALLEN METEOR AND HIS ACCIDENTAL SUCCESS, The finding of thogreat wrolite which was seen by many persons in Independence town- ship, Washington county, Pa.on the night of September 14th, ts told at length by the Pitts- burg Dispatch, About month after the sro- lite was seen and was said to have fallen, Prot, Jonathan Emerick of William and Mary col- lege began searching for it, His search led him into Butler county, then into Allegheny, and, although he decided that if the stone fell anywhere it must have been near Claysvill he’ examined very minutely — that region 2 country lying contiguous to Claysville, extend- ing his researches north and south of that point for about six miles, and also spent some time in wandering terough that partof West Virginia lying adjacent to Washington county, On the 15th of this month the savant was Te- warded by finding the huge stone on the farm of Mr. Frederick Miller, about two miles nort of Claysville, It was lying atthe base of a high hilt, which is heavily timbered with oak, and was deeply imbedded in the soll and almost concealed trom view by the dead leaves the wind had blown over it. ‘The discovery was only n accidental occurrence. The protessor belug weil ee with the geological strata of western Pennsylvania, was engaged in locating @ well for the Claysville Oil hemes yt 4 in the discharge of this duty stumbled apon the spot where the immense serolite lay. It re. ‘quired three men several days tounearth the monster. It had penetrated the earth until it came in contact with a stratum of limestone, when this sudden cheek of its tearful velocity caused it to break into many pieces of ail sizes: and shapes, yet when the earth was removed from around it, it still preserved its original shape, so that the professor was enabled to have @ photograph made of it, and itonly tell to Pleces when the specimen hunters tackled it, Prot, Emerick states th: there are only 18. well-authenticated cases in which #rolites have fallen in the United States during the last G0 years. Besides these there are 261 the date of ‘whose fallis reasonably well determined, There are ulso 74 instances of wrvlites in which the date of fall is not given authorita- lively. Add to these 86 masses, which from their ‘peculiar composition, are belleved to be wrolites, though the date of their tail is not as certainable, and we find the entire number of eroll ites which have fallen to be about 430, Prof, Emerick says this stone will weigh per- haps 200 tons, betng considerably heavier than the aggregate weight of all which have hereto fore Lilien, On an analysis it was ascertained Uhat there was in its composition chromium, nickel, aluminium, copper, magnesium, tin, and other metals and metalloids. It contained 87 per cent of iron which may be readily worked. This indicates that the stone is not of terrestrial origin, for while iro: are abuudent in nature, iron in the metalic state is exceedingly rare,’ Italso contains in a sinall quantity a substance called schreibersite, # composition which has uever been found ex: cept in wrolites. Its specifie gravity ts 7.41 about twice that of the Gurnsey, Ohio, wrolit Which fell on the Istot May, 1860, ‘The elev: ton of the wrolite was computed to be about 52 miles above the earth's surtace, and its puth Was nearly horizontal. ‘The length of its visible miles, and it moved from hortheast_to southwest, The time of its flight Was estimated between 5 and 10 seconds, tudi- velocity of not less than 15 or 20 miles per second. ores Dress Goons AT MARKED DOWN PRICES. INDIA PONGEES in beautiful designs, reduced to $1. PONGEE reduced to $20, Pr COLORS and BLACK PON from $1.50 to $1.25. GOOD BLACK PON ‘CY BOX ROBES AND DRESS PAT- 'S, greatly reduced, BLACK SILKS, at $1 and $1.25 that cannot be matched for the price. JUST RECEIVED A LOTOF PRINTED BATISTE | in the Newest Styles, D FRE, most Select Styles. WHITE GoODSin great variety. MOURNING GOODS of all kinds. CANTON CREPES, CREPE DE CHINE, & (CH SATTEENS and Newest and W. M. SHUSTER & SONS, 919 Pennsylvaniaave, my20 ONE PRICE! Senators on Prohibition. MR, VEST, OF MIssoURI, RELATE: SrORY ABOUT ML PLUMB, OF K From the Kansas City Times. Senator Vest has sutliete: appear dally In bisseat. Vest Is a wit and a natural story-teller. On an excursion to the Yellowstone Park he so charmed President Arthur with his ready wit and never-iailing supply of amusing stories and incidents that be Was a marked favorite with the President and atthe White House during the remainder of Arthur's tern. To a small group of jolly ti entelly Vest not long ago relat exper ing bout wit P tly recovered to portance of timent of Kaw nough to fasten pi tating the temperance which was powertul bition on the stu his tndulze.se drink ian. hai . Plumb is very diservet in In intoxicate, buL ood Whisky as muci as any Ke Vest suid that he, Plumb and two others ged in asmall game of power, and yielde Ing to tue allurements of the game’ kept WU up upuiGa.m. They drank freely, liberaity, all through the nigh up Vest confessed that they y drunk.” Vest descrived Piumo’s e} his legs as twisting and his he Manlicsting an obstinate desire to bob over first w one side aud then to the other. Vest succeeded in reacbing a cab and upon arrivin: At bome threw himself upon a bed and slep Until about noon. He says that he awoke with a head oa him that felt several times its natural siz, but he diagged himself to the chainber, Wits ais head throbbing as would break, he says be got to his desk in Senate chainber atid dropped luto his dropped iis aching head upon nis hand aud supported his elbow upon the desk, feeling wretched. He says he heard & voice loud, cleat andemphbatic declaiming upon the evils of in- temperance und earnestiy” advocating some pending measure jor the forcible restraint of the liquor traffic. By a great effort he turned his aching head so as to get a view of the speaker, aud in his inimitable way Vest de- scribes Plumb as he stood pounding his de: and with the carnestpess of a preacher at a baptizing enlighteniug the country upon the oys of total abstinence. eee Don Patricio Lynch Dead. THE DISTINGUISHED VICE ADMIRAL OF THE CUILIAN NAVY DIES AT SEA, ice Admiral Don Patricio Lynch, of the Chiljan navy, died at sea on his way from Spain, where he was minister plenipotentiary, to take the post of minister to Peru. His body was landed at Teneriffe. He was the son of an {rish merebant and a Chillan woman and was born at Santiago in 1825. In 1879, when the war broke out between Chili on the one hand And Peru and Bolivia on the other, he was still ber of the government. Although bred service his achievements on land var Were the most distinguished of his Ite. With a mere handful of men he invaded the northern provinces of Peru, achieving most brilliant success. He ravaged the enemy's territory, sprend desolation far and wide, cap- tured cities contalning 10,000 inhabitants, and then, retreating to the south, took part ‘In a campaign which reduced Lima and termi nated in adecisive manner the war vetween Chili aud Peru, Lynch then became com- mander-in-chict of the Chilian army of oc- cupation, with headquarters at Lima. That city, it was sald, was never betuer governed. ‘The’ piundering of the capital, the despolling of the public parks, the library, the university, ete., under previous commanders were sternly Gisipproved and repressed by him. He en forced exact discipline and his civil adminis- tration was as eflicient as the military. In the summer of 1833 he had eee. to the rank of vice udmiral (the lef oilicer) of the Chilian navy. Later in the year he was the ministry of war and maine, but. declined it, Having taken interest in the treaty of peace between Chill and Spain, which was concluded in 1884, President Santa, Maria’ government urged him to accept the place of ambassador to renew the diplomatic reiations with the Spanish court. ‘This he accepted and on his way home again died as stated ubove. sopra Waar 1s THe Rep FLAg Dornc on this side of the Atlantic, any here. This is the count workingmen, native born or fore believe in God and are law-abidi their red aug: What have the’ u ve the Aruiurs w do with the Herr Mosust American i and con- HEY Say “Every Cioud has a Silver Lining.” We are not so well posted in clonds, but if the sun sinines to-day and toumorrow Spring Suits will be in demand, and as our stock is faultless in fit and finish, and very reasona- able in price, we shall expect you tocall and examine it, E SPRANSY, ONE-PRICE CLOTHIER, 607 SEVENTH ST, N.W., Opp. U.S. Post Office, my21 Wres Tue Crovrs Rou. By YOULL WANT THI 3 YOU CLOTHING, NOW, OUR STORE Is THE PLACE TO FIND THINGS, AND THE LI BEST PLACE 10 SEE THEM. IN LIGHT WEIGHT CASSIMERES, EITHER LIGHT OR DARK COLOKS, IN SERGES, DRAP D'ETE, ALPACAS, MO- HAIRS, OR “WHAT NUT,” YOU WILL FIND THE NOVELTIES HERE, IN LIGHT WEIGHT DRESS GOODS, SU DIAGONALS, WORSTEDS, CORKSCREWS, TRICOTS, AND CLOTH-FACED GOODS MADE UP VERY LIGHT FOR WARM WEATHER WEAR, WE HAVE SOME SPECIAL TIES. ; IN CASSIMERE TROWSERS, LIGHT COLORS AND LIGHT WEIGHT, TO WEAR WITH DARK COATS, WESHOW SOME NEW AND BEAUTIFUL LINES, IN SMALL BOYS’ SUITS WE HAVE JUST RECEIVED SOME BEAUTIFUL STYLES OF SERGES, LIGHT AND DARK, LIGHT WEIGHT CASSIMERES AND FLANNELS. BOYS' SAILOR SUITS, BLUE, GRAY AND WHITE E. B BARNUM @ CO, myld 931 PENN. 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