Evening Star Newspaper, July 31, 1886, Page 3

CITY AND DISTRICT. THE OLD CARKOL, Row. ructure on Capitol Hill be Torn Down. FORMERLY A FASHION A THE WAK A PRISON YEARS AGO—COL. 5 TIONS. EW AND DURING CAPITOL HILL SIXTY AMES A. TAIT'S RECOLLEC- Among the buildings soon to be torn down | to make room for the Congressional Library | building, is an old structure or rather row ot | Duildings to which is attached bie historic interest. This is the row on Ist | | street east, extending northward from A street south, and facing the Capitol ounds. Itwas formerly Known as the Duff Green row. Daring the war it was Known as the Carroll prison,and Since the war the houses in the row have been Used generally as tenement or boarding houses, &nd the row has been known as Carroll row, taking the name trom Daniel Carroll, to whose large esiate the property orizinaliy belonged. ‘There are five houses in the row. They were made of the generous width that character = days of the century. The houses, ves somewhat gloomy and prison: vant of the dull evlor of ihe walls are covered, roots and old fashioned ot the houses have been the war, and slate mething of a modern air. The wave the original shingle roof, wave pite! dormer windows. Som brightened up a little Fouls give thei houses ‘This row, which is now divided into five houses, was orizinaily ahotel. During the war ft became noted as a prison, in which tnany Dersous suspected of disloyalty to the govern- ment were confined. A few years alter the war At was bought by Mr. Ordway and others, with the View, a Was stated at the time, of securing « waite for e hotel. The hotel project, now- ever, was never earried out. €Ol, TAIT'S RECOLLECTIONS, Col. James A. Tait, as he sat at the door of his office on Pennsylvania avenue, Capitol Hill, last evening, was asked by a STAR reporter What he Knew about the Carroll row. Col. ‘Tait, who is seventy-two years old, has lived on Capitol Hil ali his life, “That row,” he said, “was erected long before amy time. T’can remember it when I was Seven ears old. It was then Nick Ques Nick Queén occupied «ii the Poses exe Pied then and tor many y Ewell, Who Was the author of Companion, quite a noted work. Duff Green’ dceupied the establishment. hotel pur- pt the corner house, which was oceu- by Dr. James Worked there as ers whom I knew and who are en worked there. Dull Gre nung estab Usbment and issued tr: the’ United | Slates Telegraph. You must con, Queen’s hotel with the Indian Queen Is Thaian Queen was kept by old) Jesse Brown on | Yennsyivania avenue, where now stands the Metropolitan hovel. In the days of my boyhood | Queen s hotel, called by its ow # fine structure comparatively, the principal hotels of the ¢ days ail the fashion was on Caj bers of Congress and many persons of Wealth lived on te hill near the € Of the houses one In those 1. Mem- ennsylvania avenue | » 1 ean stand 1 see OLLY OU bave not been built in my Why I used to shoot ducks on a pond over there | Deyoud Sid street, and ou the other side of Peun- Sylvania avenue used to trap rabbits. It was all & Waste east of that. There was no thorou fare from the Navy Yard by way of Penusy! Vania avenue. Coming the Navy Yard the road used to be over the hill by Providence | hospital and thence up 2d street by St. Peter's ehurep. Capitol Hill, or the Capiiel pars. in en's hotel, was then Lwenty-lour feet 2 it 18 now, tL was cut di in the days of the b Ite works, twelve feet Member seeing the stage coaches ¢ Toud to the hovel. Daring when the British burned brought in their suldiers woun) burg and ¢ house, as a bespital. Dr. Ewell and tue Surgeons atlenued the Wounded there. East Capitol market tien was a fram ture on East Capitol sireet, between Ist and streets, When it was torn down the timbers and cypress shingles were used in constructing the frame house vow standing at the ¢ st Capitol streets. Those shingle: They wilt 4 it used n twelve w be Capitol, tat Bhs congressional boarding touses, ws boarding houses up to te time of the War, when the building Was converted by the government into a prisou—the Carroll prisui The oid Capitol, which. was also used as Prison, had been" bourding-house, and there Jona €. Calhoun died.* a THE LURAY CAVERN. Bits of Subterranean Scenery Deseribed By a Star's Correspondent. To the Editor of Tue EVENING Stan: Were you ever at the Luray caverns? Many | of your readers have not becn, and for their be eiit mainly I propose to give you a very briet description of this celebrated cave as T saw it on Brecent Visit. It is searcely necessary that I should say so—and yet I feel fully justified in stating that no adequate description of this | wonderful cavern has ever been written or ever will be. The thing must be seen to be appre ied. Language is too feebie to present a word- picture of its wonderiulgrandeur. Theentranee | to the cave is reached after a walk, or hack ride, about oue and one-quarter miles from. the | Tallruad depot A beuse cove Aud the eave 1. reached by going a Hight of stairs xiy feet to eailed Ent From this bh ues radial Jeet In signt aud so extreme, yet nothi to daunt the visite must go back to thuse stairs leading down to | Eutrance hail long enough to note the very Yapid tali of temperature. The thermometer sround stood but SY the day I was d in descending this stairway the im- fession Was soon made ou my mind that 1 jad made # grave nistake in thai 1 bad ne- to putop a light overcoat. The guides temperature was Just 56 eave, and I presume U really It se that It was much colder, aud yet 1 ier at ail, and aiter « tew | 2 ts Prather liked it. Having somewhat | the | Various whieh we are fu behold the glittering stalactites in the Buge Muted coiun ceiling. Draperies in’ gr and im every tint and shade of cvior, are everywhere in sight, fling the be- with delight as well as wonder. distance we veloid what appeurs to be | les Of snowy Whiteness, Wilh dark es im the background, Ag, are brougat inte t sive stalise- | ies meas ein disuane- | Ger, tharty ic echung irom cething wo fluor. i sizes irom the | Kiauis just deseribed down to thai uf pipe-stem | dimensions are seen ing uuder th bs to dipiay colors and Ui having War bows Variety of holder dn the e, aul listen f, Su arranged 4 brilliant . are Appearance nnding name, and oulects of these special interest wo of te halls a pec: Utes, strongly resembiing te an organ, Was shown by our guide, Wh king | them lightly, played several tines In very good | iu “duotuer chimes were shown us. jows and hie Metropolitan bes Xcel those im WIS cave, Except tat more noise ou his than did rlaimly wo sweeter sounds, draperies are beautisul, Ts Wing,’ another the y interesting our View w Ine display ereh done up in bunch wetion Was show Tame of Hades Was used tor of lakes because of the extreme tude of the plice—as quiet, be said, “as ts Krave; and as we were alt endeavoring to tai Ja thé solemnity of the suiemi words of our Kulde, he suddeniy pointed loug and steadily With iis bouy Huger lo « yawning chasis Just Deyoud the takes, and, with slow emphasis, he ee te that sbeol is but 4 step beyond the grave! Seores of little gro muost wouderiul chemical ormations are ose WhO Visit uIOrt, 10 Lake to put on "as they us trom the very sudden and suould also protect We with g ixhting of the eave be Hmproved—while itis true that there are quite a number of electric lamps in the caverus, yet the fact remains tbat it is Nery pooriy lighted. The lamps are not suftl- @lebtin nuuber and the dynuno insuiticent Spparentiy even ior the luited number of enange of te Jauups now employed. HM A Lisciixe 1x IxpiaNa.—Leander Moody Piss !yuched at Seymour, Ind., Thursday night for outeagiug Ft named Lissous, dtoody evaded arrest two weeks, but Was cap- tured last Saturday by'vilie, Til. His Urlal was to bs a place Tuesday. “Thurs citizens Tose eu masse, and fore- dng open the juil doors, took Moody outside of PRES aed haiged ua to a tr Yeis alieged oue of the Missouri delegation in Congress de Moody's brotuerin-iaw. pies ‘soe — Ita VAGES oF THE CHOLERA.—The cholera re- wis irom Austto-Hungary for yesterday are: Fieste, ¥ new cases, 5 deaths; Fiume, 1 new gave, bo deaths, Tue Italian returns are: Man- duria, 26 uew cases, 6 deaths; Bologna,gS new cases, & deaths; Havens, 10 new cases, fdeaths, aud 20 new cases and 7 deaths elsewhere ns hotel. | aud all filled with | t | closets | will contain four commodions chambers, Tne | south =| ack of pret | extent than in Washington, and any |n | office, | Now this important business of the government | sophie seems marvelous in the | enterprise is in the | miles out, is one e¥ spoke tne truth, but brounded by the us, Teacuinz trom floor to | { THE PRESIDENTS COTTAGE. The picture given herewith of the President's cottageon the Tenleytown road will not be recognized by those who have seen the plain | two-story structure of stone that stood upon the elevated tract of land which the President re- cently purchased. The cut, however, represents the cottage as it will be remodelled @ecording tothe plans prepared by the architects, Wm. M. Poindexter & Co, Upon the stone walls forming the two stories of the house will be built a high over-reaching roof with the ex- r covered with shingles painted red. The third story will be in this highepointed root,which Will be piereed with dormer windows, theeaves: extending over some fourteen feet, thus form- {ne the roofof the pore in the second, story. here wiil be double porches twelve feet wi xtending on the south and west and part of the east sides of the house. In the rear will be a two-story back building, and the interior will be remodeled and fitted up in a style to corre- spond with the pretty modern appearance of a cottage, which the exterior will then assume, ed_position the old house, as im- proved, will present an extremely picturesque appearance, “It is expected that the house will be ready for use by the first of October. f= The extension of the building in the rear, to instructed of stone, will contain the kitchen, servants’ rooms overhead. The interior of the cottage will be arranged to suit the tasto of Mrs. Cleveland. There will be adining room, n room, two parlors, one of which the President intends to occapy as his study, on the lower floor, besides the pantries and large kitchen. On the second floor will be three chambers and dressing rooms, bath rooms, nd servants’ rooms. The attic story astern end of the piazza is built circular, the roof rynning up to some height and termi nating with an ornamental finial. The grounds about the cottage have already been much im- proved sinee the President bought the prop- erty, and landseape gardeners have been en- to further adorn the grounds and lay out hew approaches from the main road to the uilding. ————-ce+____ THE CITY OF THE ANGELS. A Chance for Boarding-housekee} ‘The Serv: lope. pers— it Question on the Pacific Correspondence of THe EVENIN@ STAR. Los ANGELES, Car, July 21. Los Angeles! City of the Angels! A quaint, dusty little town with rows of two-story frame dwellings and butone businessstreet. How the stranger looks for reputed attractions and fails to tind them! There are no pretty parks and fountains, trees are few and far apart and the only sidewalks are boards, loosely laid down. Spring street, the principal business thorough- fare, has recently been paved with conerete, which makes a great contrast to the dusty side Streets. Many of the homes here are called pretty, chiefly, I think, because of the general ss than from any other cause. ‘alyptus, magnolia and yew trees grow ht unknown. in the east, but we miss luxuriant foliage, the refreshing shade and he ev pied the corner house, Dr. Eweits | the beautitul lawns of a colder climate. Bourding hotwses abound even toa greater nterpris- ing, neat Woman can make a good living by taking @ house and renting rooms, as the ine ux of strangers during the winter months is simply m ous. Of course rooms are in de- ad, the prices arbitrary and readily ob- tained. A single room often rents for twenty. dollars a week, and good board is high. House rent and servant hire are both more expensive than at the east; nevertheless, a good manager could soon cover these, and in a ‘few years se- cure a comiortable inéo Every available space is used tor lodgings. Old barns are car- peted and fitted up, and shanties and tents are planted on every ‘vacant lot, Many of the sterner sex find it cheaper and more conven! ent to tent out the year round. Los Angeles is the greatest health resort on the Pacific slope. Because of the dryness of the the climate, hosts of people afificted with asthma, bronchitis, or lung trouble come here. In walking out one sees these diseases inevery Stage. their victims bearing about them, like an atinsphere, the signs of the wreck of many eristied hope and high aspiration. Many here too late, but many, very many come to find in the dry air of Los Abgeies or the more bracing climate of Pomona that which helps them to a new lease of life. THE STRUGGLE FOR EXISTENCE. Competition and the struggle for work seems to meas great here as at the East. A new post- F Father, a post-office is to be built soon, is conducted in a butiding devoted to manifold other purposes. Already five hundred applica- for clerkships have been received, chiefly a young men who have left their ‘eastern nes to follow Horace Greely’s advice. he most profitable investments made here e in cattle ranches; that is if the owners at. dito the business’ themselves—build adobe and settle down prepared to gneet philo- iy ail tie untshaginable rodelinesses-of uch @ life. Land is daily becoming more valu- 2 | able, and town lots which two years agosold tor visitor when fairly in | fifty'doilars are now valued at two oF. three ne Wonder! Every ot | thousand dollars. Every where the spirit of apparent, and this really makes the chiet charm oi the West. Every inan, wor aun and child is anxious to make inoney and ling todo almost anything to accomplish Los. Angeles has inereased in seven years a population of twelve thousand to forty- nd. We nave a line of cable cars ¥ is lighted with electric lights. fe many beautifal settlements within hort distance of the city, and Pasadina, eight the inost attractive.” Sur- Sierra Madra mountains, it nin a hollow, from which has upon acre of luxuriant orange orch- ‘ ‘ds owned by men who have made their forties in other parts of the state, come here, buiit beautiful residences, aud have settled down to enjoy themselves. > climate of California Teannot speak too ‘Though, in the suminer, there is often or ten days of extremety hot weather — neter stuod at 108 in the shade two The nights are always cool. Blankets the yeur round. About 9 o'clock in ning a cold breeze springs up, when all prudent people retire within doors. Such a thing as sun-stroke ts unknown here, and men work In the mid-day sun without running ‘any Tsk. A conflagration Is both an enemy anda friend here. From the loose way in which the houses are built aud from the number of old shanties every Where, there Is constant danger froin fire, and every one expects his house to be burne Sooner of later. But as a law has recently been ssed providing that brick buildings. shall lake the places of the frame ones destroyed, every conflagration benefits the town. THE SERVANT QUESTION. Here, as everywhere else, the servant ques- tion agitates the feminine mind. The Chinese are splendid cooks, but are universally spoken of aslazy and disobliging and shirking their Work on the slightest pretext, Many ot the servants reiuse to Iifta finger to do any- alter 6 o'clock in the evening, and very t them will consent to sweep oF dust, eo: ng this Work as belonging too essenilally, nen. washing is given out, and I must say that done by the Ciinamen i wretched, and the hes often come Lome torn or scorched. But vuntot pigeon English, no mutter how empuatic, makes wuy impression on the olive. skin culprits, wio ail auawer lo the pame of Jonn, though thelr baptismal appellation may be ever so melodious. As yet, rebel against it as she may, Callfornia cannot do without the Chinamen. They are Tealsinews of this mighty, growing state. Filled even more than the whiteinan with the greed of gain, they will do work whieh the low. est white man would refuse to touch, and as they seem to be indifferent to heat of cold they area boon Indeed to the ranchme - “coe nestles sprung From Town Topics. T heard a Maryland girl remark the other day that she would marry any man who would buy her clothes ata Fifth avenue tailor’s and her leweiry at Tiffany's, oo —___ He May Get through Unscathed. From the Pittsburg Gazette. It is reported that ex-Minister James Russell Lowell is the coustant guest of Dukes and Earls im England. Well, Mr. Lowell ts a steady- going man, whose ‘morals are well-grounded, aud be can probably stand the exposure with: ‘out serious harm, but they are evidently @ very tough lot to associate with, Tne BLUE AND THE Gkay.—The seventh an- nual reunion of the United States Sanitary aud Christian Commission was inaugurated in Pitts burg Thursday afternoon. A’ short addi de by George H. Stewart, of Philadelphia. Wen Mr. Stewart arose to speak he was given an ovation. During his remarks be turnedand grasped the hand of Chaplain McFerren, an ex- coniederate, of Tennessee, who was seated on the platiorm. The audience, numbering over 1,000, arose asone man aud cheered to the echo. ———_——-+e+______ Emanuel Chiarez, aged sixteen, cut off his step-mother’s head With an axe in Brownsville, ‘Tex. while she was sleeping because she re- fused to let him go to the cireus. Five cigar manuiacturing frins in Ne have lo rather than leave its ranks and join the Knights of Labor, IN THE BERKSHIRE HILLS. Fashions and Fancies of a New Eng- land Summer Resort—The Science of Dressing Discussed — .odern Re- sources Ransacked to Supply the De- mand for New Materials in White— Dressing for Tennis and Other Out- Door Games—The Inevitable Hat and Bonnet, ‘From Our Own Correspondent. New York, July 30.—The Puritan element ‘was never credited with any love of or desire to cultivate the beautiful. New England has always been spoken of and has figured in song and story as bleak and forbidding of aspect; its sterile soll and cold, grey skies offering little that was attractive to the stranger, and the grim foretathers and stiff foremothers, severe and disciplinary as their own straight, high- backed chairs, are considered to have been in exact harmony with their rigid surroundings. ‘This impression is subject to a sudden revul- sion when one makes acquaintance with the interior of Massachusetts and the beauties of Berkshire county for the first time in many Years Doubtless the primness and plainness Were characteristic thirty or forty years ago; but this favored region must always have pos- fessed Ite wonderful quality of loveliness; its Wooded hills and rich valleys, Its jewel-like lakes and unknown depths of ferns aiid flowers and summer foliage. All the marvelous tints of earth and air and sky were there when Jona- than Edwards wrote his treatise on the will in Bittle closet of a little house in Stockbridge. When Julian Hawthorne waded shoeless and sockless perhaps in Stockoridge “Bowl,” while his father was busied in the little red house near by, writing his story of the “House of the Seven Gables,” and Herman Melville was doing boy’s work on the homestead farm tarther along on the Lennox road, and had not yet dreamed of “Omos” orTypee"—all the natural beauty was there distributed, not over a township, but a whole county, and form- ing the natural home of poets aud seholurs—as the lake country did in England—and making it famous in the same way, long after those who have made it so had_ died or been driven away by the echoes of their own reputations. But in those days the well-sweep, the sunflower, the white-washed wall, the simple habits and man- ners were still masters of the situation, The ruminating cow was allowed to browse over the “common” unmolested. The unreflective pig likewise. Chickens were domiciled near the house and were almost part ot the family, aud trees which had been mercilessly cut down by the hardy settler were as scurce as pianos, There is # tradition in regard to one forest tree Which had been allowed to remain in the town of Pitustield, but was about to be demolished because it might be in the way of something or other, when a dame, near whose house it stood placed herself in front of it and declared they Should cut her downs first, and, her determina- tion being invineible, the old torest tree was left standing, ‘The lady is still living whose “happy thought” suggested the first. “Village Improvement Society,” and whose taste and energy, aided by helpful triends, have turned the bare streets into shaded ‘avenues, the Tagged doorways into velvet lawns, the stony common into the royal park. AN EARTHLY PARADISE is all this beautitul Berkshire country in its summer robes, peopled by the—to all seeming— happiestand most prosperous people under the sun. Lennox, the famous old town, is given over to the extremely fashionable and exce ingly wealthy; and noone worth under a mil- lion could thluk of going and staying over night except as a guest of some resident iillionaire. The season does not beyin till the first of AU gust; bucit lasts till the first of November, and the galety 1s not that of the old-fashioned “tea drinkings” and meeting house gatherings, but of grand dinners and private theatricals, lawn- tennis and gardea parties, poloand ciub racket. Most of the original inhabitants have left Le! nox; those who remain rent their little two- story houses—upon which they have put a cou ofred or olive paint, and to which they hi added an awning—for more money, for tw: or three months, than they would hav formerly dreamed of asking, for selling them altogetier. The wildest’ coal oil oF Calitornia excitement never produced suet: an advance in prices, as Lennox has seen during the past 15 ‘years. It to make Catharine Sedgwick turn in her grave, to find little irame houses, worth abouysl,500, renting for # thousaud dollar per mouth; and it must make Fanny Kemble groan over the sale of her “Perch,” old as she is, and notwithstand- ing the good price sue thought she got for it, A place which a certain judge sold tr $3,000, Was subsequently sold for twenty-five thousand and is now considered worth thirty thousand, In tact “ten times over” seems to be the point which Lennox property has reached, A ‘well- known lady in New York society who was so fortunate as to lease a house several years ago, now sub lets at double the rental she pays, and pays the expenses of her own summers else- where with the advance. THE EARLY SEASON in Lennox exhibits little signs of life. The Pretty houses, with their well kept lawns and Parterres, their exquisite “views” and shaded walks, are given over to children, governesses and nurses. The parents are abroad or at pore and will novarrive tll August; excepting perhaps the lather, who, if he Is a business man remains in New ‘York or Boston and only “comes out” over Sunday. ‘The children are lovely, and look as if they had ail been cut out of a live picture book. ‘Their legs are thin their taces are anzelic; their eyes like Raphacl's; and tueir bats, couts and trocks exact reproduc tions of the dress in the last Christmas chile dren’s story books aud papers. Certainly Kate Greenaway is responsible for the creation of & hew American type of child beauty. What a marvelous difference between these artistic Productions and the starched little misse: short skirts standing out stiflly, little boys of less than twenty ye: AN THE SEASON no finer dressing and none showing greater re- finement isto be found inthe world, There are now many women and girls who are rich in theirown right, who do not depend upon e whim or good nature for their pocket money; und there ure indeed few women Who make & display in society, but have private means, These ineréased resources enable them to keep abreast of the Umes; otherwise they would have to sink out of fashionable sight, For there has been an enormous advance of luie years in the luxurious detail of dress; in linings wad fit. tings and finisnings: and in the cost pat upon the making up of mexpensive materials, ‘Tne bareges are made over silk und combined with Crepe de Cine or real China crape. | White upd black lace—the new, lovely, Newport “point "— Js this season, often ‘made Over Watered silk, | black or crestin; and trimmed with watered tiv: | bons. ‘The tuick wools are lined with silky utd finished wit Velvet or moire; and eution dresses (unlined) ure sewed with Silk, huve silk ribbon walstvands and otten full. silk of lawn Vests, ‘The cotton dress of our grandmothers which regularly went into te ‘Washtub and came to its wearer freshly and stllly starched, every Lwo Weeks, 15 a thing 1 Ube pust; toreven the girl who eartis tue clothes sie Wears has er Print dress made up in so elaborate a fasion, that Wasting aud ironing, without spoiling, 1S Out of Lue question ‘THE GREATEST FAULT of modern dressivg is the ruuning on ohe style for all, fabrics, for all purposes ani for all soris and conditions of peopie. {t is the fault ‘abroad ag well as at home; tor Paris has greatly degenerated in this respect, aud While’ malt laluing a certain supremucy in tue design and Uechnique of dress can no longer be. trusted to classify, discriminate and adapt styles Wo ima. terials and persous. ‘TL tumes to-day ure the v Pou at the back ot the 8) These wre ap- plied to every thing—cotton, silk aud wool—tor Yyounz girls dud married woinen—in Paris as Weil us New York. Indeed, there is no longer any dillerence, Or uny discrimination anye Wuere. A woman calling lor a gondolier at tke edge of the Graud canal in Veulee wears exe actly the same mixed sort of toilette and wrinkled looking skirt, as a woman calling tor an omnibus on Broadway, New York. ‘THE ONLY DIFFERENCE absolutely, 1s among a few artists and very cul- tivated, often very rich people too, who have made w study of the subject, or bring to bear upon It the traditions of an old, educated and refined ancestry. 1 such families the children and young girls often dress in simple, quaint Ways that are picturesque and charming: at the saine time perteetly sanitary und convenient Bat it is the mother who desixns their clothing, not the dressmaker. ‘The troublesome elabora: tion and impracticablilty of the designs isall the more exasperating in View of the beauty and gheapness of the modern cotton materials, ‘There are lawns, mulls and the like, of silky texture and exquisite fineness, which, when covered with lovely embroidery—as they are nowadays—are dainty enough for the bridal rove of 4 princess and are titly made ‘up like other rich muterials and associated with tinted silkor satin, But itis not these that come within the resources of the majority. It is the blue, spotted cambries, the hairstriped Scotch inghams, the cool, ininuiely figured iinen fwas and the embroidered “robes ot winch: thousands are sold, in White and colors at irom: three to ten dollars each—that need. to be re- deemed from the tyranny of the pous and the panel, High fashion is not bound by one idea; its mission is to differ, not to agree, with the prevailing styte; and therefore the back dra- peries of such Of its skirts us do not hang straight are soft and long. 1t has restored the “surplice” bodice, the blouse waist; the Bre- ton Vest; and to this adds the straight, square collar, which gives breadth and character 10 narrow shoulders. A BERKSHIRE HOUSE WARMING. All Berkshire is not so distinctively elegant as Lennox, but it probably contains more wealthy residents and more beautiful homes than the same space any where else in the world; and # Berkshire nouse warn:ing is a very inte esting event. The newly completed dwelling Was # modern one, partly built of timber, partis Of stone, with towers and battlemented projec tions outside and much carved wood und stained glass within. The guests, many of them, came from afar; some in carriages and some’ by train; the latter fuding carriages awaiting them to bring them to the hospitable doors. ft was a wedding anniversary as well as @ house warming; and the hostess stood at the entrance with her young daughters on either side of her, as lovely a home picture as eyes need desire'to see. Sue wore a cream India silix sprinkled with brown flowerets, with 1ull brown, crepe de chine vest, and waistband and bows at the side of brown satin ribvon. Her fan was of cream gauze, painted with a flight of litte brown birds in « soft summer landscape. One nel and the of the daughters wore u costume of geranium red, the other cream eee ee Both had ets of lilies of the valley. ba 2 totiets of he cues were oe of any average ‘ork; bul there wa’ a. lek of ve distineti ideas, The useful black silk and the “combina tion,” which even when new always asif made up of two old 4 were in the ma- Jority. The pretty exceptions were the white dresses of some of the young girls and the Spotted foulards of some of the married women. A fine black silk dress (satin francais) was richly embroidered on the material and trimmed With masses of real thread lace. A fawn-colored silk was well combined with o brocade in cream, fawn and pale blue; and = soft silk in two shades of wood brown, had a Faure (fall) front, and was trimmed with white lace en cascade. A simple, but dainty dress, w: of grey satine spotted white, in round clots of di ferent sizes; and made with a tucked skirt front of white lawn buttoned with pearl. An- other very pretty cotton dress was dark blue, embroidered in an open pattern in cream ani geru tints and made up with full silk front. ‘The back, the sleeyes and a panel were of em- broldery; ‘and it also formed. the border to the long drapery and the short pointed basque. DRESSING FOR TENNIS 4s very Important in all country neighborhoods, and rather difficult for girls who have not an income, or allowance of their own, because it is an “extray” the tennis dress not being available for any other purpose. It is usually made of a striped material flannel. belng preterred—and consists of skirt and blouse waist, or Norfolk Jacket and what is known as a “blaezer” or ‘extra jacket to put on when not playing. The blaezer is a jaunty little affair, suaped at the back but With loose, cutaway fronts, Some- times it 1s made ofthe saine flannel as the dress, faced interiorly or lined with silk; some- times of the contrasting color of the’ stripe. Clustered hair stripes of brown upon cream, of pink and cream or mauve and cream are pre- ferred this year to red and cream or blue and eream stripes; and are certainly less like a barber's pole upon the tennis ground. A pretty novelty in a tennis skirt, consisted of a grey blue elastic cloth, opened in front and buttoned back on each side, froma black velvet striped front. ‘The basque was fitted and finished with velvet collar and cuffs. Ainong the most popu- lar of the tennis sults are those of cream flau- nel with pink or blue or brown silt collar and cuffs; the monogram of the club worked in the collar on the corner; or upon the little silk flap Of the breast pocket, into which is thrust the tiny handkerchief. Navy blue still’ hols ite own; and a navy blue, twilied flannel suit is not only presentable at tennis, but useful wear at other times, A. young lady, whose suit of navy blue flannel, Onee resplendent in gold braid, had become thé Worse for wear, recently remodelled it and made it a thing of beauty by cutting the plai jacket over in the Breton style and feather- Stitehing the vest, collar, cuffs and lower front of skirt with creain silk ut twenty-five cents for filty skeins. The twenty-five cents was the extent of her outlay, and the leisure time of three deys; but she obtained the credit of a new and originally pretty dre The full sleeve is a novelty in tennis suite. It is made to accompany the blouse waists; and the tulluess is gathered into the middle of the straight silk, velvet or stamped leather cuts, The amount of white worn suggests to every one that this is A WHITE SEASON. It is so indeed; if the light and sweetness Poured so abundantly over this happy land, can make itso. The whiteness of light is that in which all color is lost or transmitted; and has always been the emblem of the finest and the purest. White is not now confined to the ancient “muslin” or washing fabrics. In tact, unless these are unusually fine and beautitally Wrought, they are only desirable for morning oF iniormal house wear, not tor dressy occa sious. ‘The fine, transparent “India” muslins are choice as silk; ure usually lined with soft white silk, and oiten combined with a still More costly material, embroidered crepe de chene. The dainty nians’ veilings and trans- Parent bareges, the cream suralis, dress flan- hels and white wool cloths have all’ been added of late years to swell the resources for white gowns and costumes, which, excepting for ten- nis and other ouudoor games, ure prepared without any vulgurizing mixiure of color. HATS AND BONNETS. There is very little choice in shade hats or shade bonnets this season, the shapes running all to crown and little to brim; but the few there are show almost nothing in the way of ornamentation, but white mull, white gauze and white daisies or erysanthérums. ~ One large show window in New York is tiled with these tinted, white materials arranged In every conceivable’ way for ornamenting hats and bonnets. One does not realize how absurd it 18 for American women to confine themselves to one particular style or school of hats or bon- nets, until one leaves the lunge cities with its conventional ways, and find a litue varied ex- perience ina wind-tossed country; where the tuermometer uever kets above ® reasonable Point, and distances have to be covered by rid- Ing tirough rain and gusty spaces which have little respect tor tashion in head gear. In the country, IUis in fact, always sun, wind or rain that have to be encountered; and hothing could be more senseless—as protection trom these— than the high-crowned hats and smalt_bonnets which are uil there is at present to choose from: at least all that is seen in country resorts and neighborhoods, as worn by country peopie. ‘Lue intlux of New York life varies. the con- ditions somewhat. Pretty girls wear sailor hats With straight brims and stripe trimming to match the suit; and baby faces shine out trom the depis of “Granny” bonnets and great “wide-awake” hats, ‘The blue spotted cotton dress comes to the froutand handkerehiets of old silk or white mull play an important part, With one of each, in black nuns’ veiling and a holiday blue suting (not satin) the New York woman 4s equal to every occasion, silk can .be Knotted looscly round the neck or made to form ane fective shirt vest. The mull is a flehU,a piastron, a full vest or a neckerehies, at pleasure. Ludies living in the country obtain many. suggestive ideas irom city visitors; but they are quite as apabie of turnishiug them, il they were. more courugeous aud independent; aid "would ‘set such fashions as are adapted to their. wants, instead of strictly following those whieh’ have been wrought out under euurely different con- ditions. “Flannel, is above all others, the material for the majority of the summer days in Berkshire, and the country hat should ale Ways tori some sort of suade for tug tace. If straw hat manufacturers supply nothing’ suit- able, there is always white mull and) gray ude, and of which, lovely, large hats can be easily manutactured at hole. THE NEWEST DESIGNS in millinery, received from Paris, show no re- duction in the height of crowns; but many striking novelties in the way of pretty, striped, speckled and widestranded straw, which is smoothly finisued on tue surface’and olten transparent, Birds and jeathers bave disap. peared entirely. ‘The trimming is gauze oF tulle arranged in upright torms and ‘covering the clusters or branches of fruit or flowers. ‘The latter ure fine, ny, Chestnut blossoms, drouping sprays of pink tinted sweet peas heathery sprays, feather grasses with mustar ‘or cowslips aud ihe Like; all velled with misty. Which preserves the flowers and soltens their effec Fruit is "even more fashionably employed than flowers, Luscious looking cherries. three sinall peaches On w single stein, strawberries And raspberries, black-berries and currants are also pressed into the service, and grapes, both the smail German and larger varieties; the imi- tations closely following nature. A word must be said in regard to the im- portant part which pins now play in millinery. and dressing generaily. ‘The common black and white pins are probably, used as lavishly as ever lo torture aud stick int children; but the | pins for the toilet, the pins which every lady uses and carries «bout with her, are specially mude with smuil, round, black, white or colored heads; and “go through” lace, gauze or mull without hurting them. In more costly styles, the tiny sword bill, horseshoe and small’ ply diamond pins are’ used ‘to fasten ribbons, flowers, lace upon both dresses and bonnets, When the diamonds are reai, the effect 1s that of pins with electric points, | JENNIE JUNE, A Nation’s Call to Arms. Beat! beat! drums'—blow! bugles! plow, Phrousls the windows—through doofs—burst ke = Tuthless force Into the solemn church, and scatter the congregation, Anto the school whiere tite scholar Is studying, save LoL the bridegroom quiet,—no happiiess mast, he now bave w-th his bride, i Nor the , eaceful farmer any peace, plowing his field or gathering bis grain, So flerce you wiurr und pound, you drums.—so shrill you bugles blow! * eee SA wen ie beat! drums!—blow! buglest blow! Make no parley,—stop for noexpostulation, ‘Alind not'the thhid,—tulud uot the weeper hor prayer, Mind ot the old ian besveching the young mses Let notthe «lild’s voice be heurd, nor the mother's ‘entreaties, ue trestles to shake the dead where they ting tue hearse i strong You thump, O terrible drums,—go loud sou ‘bugies blow! ae u ‘War WHITMAN. ————+e0+-_____ THE CHESAPEAKE AND OHIO CAwaL.—The Frederick (Md.) Citizen this week says: “Che phgwing this Year will be most flattering, yet it is Impossible to Keep up this great highway unless @ certain amount of business is trans- acted. The ireights have been put down to the lowest figures in compliance with the demand of the boatmen aud people of Allegany, who are directly Interested in the matutenanee of this great work. Everything has been done to keep ulive the interest of the people in the canal, The coal companies alone can prevent the grasping railroads irom ending forever the days of the canal, If the present management fail this year in receiving tair and just shure of the pul shipped from Allegany, the people Of the staté may as well start in abd consider the question as to what shall be done with our great water highway. Mx. MeRtz’s Picyrc.—The one hundred em- ployes of Mertz & Sons, carpenters and joiners, Porichester, N.Y. insisted ‘Thursday upon at- tending a plenic of the Friendship Social club, ‘@ socialist organization, in spite of the protest Of their employers. Yesterday when they came to work they found the shops locked and a ni Yee on the door suying that it was Mr. Merts: time now to have a plenic, and that the shops would be closed indetinitely. The men are very angry. ‘SHocKING DEPRAVITY.—Peter 8, Tucker was held for examination in New York Thursday, charged with paving debauched Ittle girls whom he employed in his office at No. 150 Nassuu street. Grace Wheelwright, aged 14, and Lilie Jones, about the same age, are com: plainants. "Lillie Jones disap) ‘from home & few weeks ago, and some notoriety. ‘Tucker is 52 years old. = pe — soo ‘There were 8 cases of sunstroke in Philadel- phia yesterday, taree of them fatal, ACROSS THE CHASX. Perilous Feat of = Rope Walker— Crossing the Tallulnh im Mid-Air From the Atlanta Constitution. Prof, Leon has crossed the Tallolah Falls chasm, and won the greatest feat of rope walk- ing on record, THE SCENE OF INTEREST. ‘The river at this point rans east and west, Alongelther side rise precipitous mountains of gray granite, bearing the touch of extrethe Antiquity. On the Rabun county side, below the falls, is Point Inspiration. The rocks are steep and jagged, blackened with the drippings ofcenturies, and frowning flercely under the strong light of the noonday sun. Behind this Point the country continues to rise, fringed with stinty foliage, but rich in shrub and flowers. Across from it, on the Habersham county side, lies Lover's Leap, a huge platform of rock, which bulges out fromabankof fifteen hundred teet precipitous ascent. In the huge gorge between these points rushes the mad- dening Tallulah, gaining fresh fury with eve Succeeding fall, and plunging wildiy on towards itsestuary. Against the Rabun side the sun Was beating its scorching rays, while on the Habersham side the mountain shadow had already began to throw Itself out. THE ROPE ACROSS. This was the scene and time chosen by Prof. Leon for his great walk. Firmly stretched from Point Inspiration to Lover's Leap was the fatetul rope, securely guyed by fourteen ropes on either side, and stretching out in every direction. The'end at Lover's Leap was fas- tened ata point 1,000 feet above the chasm below, It sagged in one-third of the distance, fully fifty fect. ‘Thence to Point Inspiration itrun a straight line. PROFESSOR LEON APPEARS. At 4:30 Professor Leon and party arrived at Point Inspiration, and began preparing for the work ahead. The rope was found to have slackened a great deal, which necessitated considerable delay. Impatience was mani- fested by many, it being freeiy asserted that Leon would never dare the perilous feat. But he did! At 5:20, with his balancing polein his hand, he stepped upon the rope. moment later 750 feet of space. was between him and the earth below. Deep silence stole over the thou- sands and hearts paipitated, With carefully Selected step the walker passed twenty feet out and was at home in the air. To people along the water's edge he appeared to be an atom. He was walking at the rate of thirty-three steps to the minute until about one quarter of the distance was covered. ‘Then the rope mude a fearful swag, describ- ing a circle of not less than ten feet. ‘To see the walker balance himself, first to one side and then on the other, was marvelous. It was evident that something was Wrong, and eyes were closed lest Leon should go plung- ing down into the depths below. For one minute he walked with slackened pace, mak- ing only sixteen steps, then with a’ quick movement he fell upon the rope and was seated, but hundreds feared that he was gone ona longer Journey. He had been eight min- uteson the ‘rope. ‘He called out loudly tor the tightening of the guy lines. ‘This. con- sumed nine minutes. In an instant, amid the clapping of hands and inspiring strains from the band, Leon was on his feet again, and held his balancing pole tightly. AN INTERESTING BY PLAY. Among the lookers-on in the Lover's Leap assemblage wasa neat little lady dressed in black. Her tace was wrought up to the highest degree of excitement. She tooked long and inguiringly at the approaching figure, trembling atsigns of danger, and looking relieved at signs of success. By her side stood a little irl, four years old, dressed in white. The tte one would hold out her arms in imitation or holding the balancing pole, and appeared, by this mute language, to inspire the walker ‘These were the wile and child of Professor on. AL twenty-five minutes to six, Leon was firmly on his way, stepping thirty-three paces to the minute for three minutes, when the rope again began its mad pranks. By this time, Leon, who appeared tothe jokers on_ from Lover's Leap to be but a speck when he started from Point Inspiration, became visible in full form. The careful step, the balancing of the body, the working of the muscles, told too well the térrible strain under which the walker was laboring. There was a sigh of rellet when he reached his last quarter, in which he had to make an ascent of fifty feet. With this change of position Leon increased his steps to forty to the minute. The pecple, as Leon approached the edge of Lover's Leap, stood up in excite- ment. The walker’s hands trembled us he grasped the pole, his neck and face were livid, but his legs were firm as pillarsof steel. On more step atfitteen minutes to six, and the rock of Lover's Leap was but five feet below his feet. Another second and he dropped his pole, when he was supported on either side by Judgé Van Epps and, Mr. P. J. Moran, who led him Up the steep. ‘The wile rushed into his arms. The little girl leaped to his breast. A moment more and the walker was In charge of Dr. K. C. Divine, who was astonished at what he found. When Leon started out his pulse was steady, at ninety, while standing, and seventy-five when sitting, with temperature ninety-nine and three-quarters. When the feat was over his pulse was, sitting, 115, and standing 126, full yolume, with a temperature of ninety-nine. This Wondertul record will be appreciated by the medical fraternity. in ten minutes, Leon was himself again. WHAT THE WALK MEANS. The fcures by actual measurement are as follows: The rope trom the point where Leon stepped on it tothe point where he stepped off was 1,440 feet. When he stepped out at Point Inspiration 750 feet of space lay beneath him, Toward the center this was increased to about 1,000, and at Lover's Leap, it_ was 650. feet below. It took him just twenty-five minutes t cross the chasin, from which nine minute: shouid be subtraci guy ropes. ‘This makes not only the longest walk, but the highest walk ever accomplished by human being. H pole used by Prof, Leon was forty-six pounds In weight, Points that May Save a Doctor's Bi From Hall's Journal of Health, ‘The foundation of three-fourths of all cases of consumption is laid before the age of 25 years; in women, during their teens. ‘The hereditary element is not of special account as a cause of consumption, as less than 25 per cent of cases are clearly of consumptive parentage. One of the ruling causes of disease and pre- mature death in large cities is found in that xhausting strain of the mental energies in the ‘struggle for subsistence—a death-race for brea Insanity runs In families; but, asin the case of fainily likeness, itsometimes overlaps a gen- eration or more. Personil resemblance entails like character- istics of mind and disposition, A current ot the purest air from the poles for half an hour on a person sleeping, sitting still, oroverheated, is & thousandfold more destruc- tive of health and fatal to life than the noisomeness of a crowded room or vehicle or the stench of a pig-sty for thrice the time. To exercise in weariness, increased by every step, is not only not beneiicial, it is useless and worse Lhan useless; It is positively destructive. As no good traveler, after having ted his horse, renews his Journey in a trot, but with a slow walk, gradually Inereasing his. pace, so in getting up to address an assembly for a contin- ued effort the first few sentences should be uttered in a low, slow tone, gradually intensi- fled, otherwise the voice will break down ina Nery Jew minutes with coughing or hoarse- ness. A growing inability to sleep in sickness is ominous ofa fatal result; in apparent health it indicates the failure ofthe mind and mad- ness; so, on the other hand, ! disease or de- mentia,’a very slight improvement in the sleeping should be hailed us the harbinger of restoration, No one cin possibly sink if the head is thrust entirely under water, and in this position a novice can swim as easily as walk, and get to shore readily’ by liiting the head at intervals tor reath, Intense thirst is satiated by wading in water, or by keeping the clothing saturated witli water, even if it is taken from the sea, Water cannot satisty the thirst which attends cholera, dysentery, diarrhea and some other forms of disease; ‘ih fact, drinking cold water seems to increase the thirst and induces other disagreeable sensations; but this thirst will be pertectly and pleasantly subdued by eating a comparatively small amount of ice, swallow- jug iv in as large pieces as practicable and as much as is wanted, Inflammations are more safely and far more agreeably subdued by the application of warm Water than of cold, Very excessive effort in a short space of time, as in running or jumping a rope, etc., has re: Peatedly caused instant death by apoplexy of the lungs, the exercise sending the blood there faster than ttcan be forwarded to the heart, and faster than itcan be puritied by the more infrequent breathiay on such occasions. No disease ever comes without # cause or without warning; hence endeavor to: think back for the cause, with a view to avold it in future, and on the instant of any unpleasant ly sensation cease eating until It hus disap- eared, at least tor twenty-four hours; if still re- maining, consult a physician, ‘the more clothes a man wears the more bed- clothing he uses, the closer he Keeps his chain- ber, the closer he confines himself to his house, the more readily will he take cold, as the more # Ubriftless youth is helped the less able does he become to help himself. At New Albany, Ind., Prof. J.@. Strunk, on Tuesday, shot and’ killed Charies Hoover and seriously wounded his father, Dr. Hoover. It Js charged that young Hoover had been inti- mate with Strunk's wile. Gen. Vincente Riva Paicie, Mexican minister {o.Spain and Portugal, with’ three, members of his suite, en route from the City of Mexico, is in Kansas City, Mo., on his way east, ight, cuuued ‘great’ davnuge to cropa iusooge- it en Brodie, who Jumped trom th lya Haat ‘oth Wea anectorane al 6 > Was few York on the charge of auwinprod suicide, He was held in ball, however, ou a new charge riering with ‘& policeman digchargs of is duty. Ex-Secretary of War Linooln tells s Chicago reporter that he has no fear of wer with Mexico Ova’ report eagies Gairo tnat Khartoum has been ruzed by the rebels, and that the Soudan Would welcome the re-esiablishment of the Khedive's authority, MIDSUMMEWS SKIES. Planetary and Metecerie Phenomena for August. ‘From the Providence Journal. Jupiter is evening star. He still holds the highest rank among his brethren, and will be fair to see during August in the early evening. It may be called his last appearance on the evening stage, for when September makes its advent he will be #0 near the sun that it will take a bright eye to pick him up in the twi Light, Jupiter sets on the 1st at aquarter after. 9 o'clock in the evening; on the Sist, he sets at haif-past 7 o'clock. Uranus is evening star. The noteworthy event in his course is his conjunction with Ji piter, which has been described. After ti takes place, he will be left to move on alone in his slow course. As the three planets who have been close compantons for several months are all moving eastward, he will be west of his brethren, Will be nearest the sun, and the first to reach conjunction. Uranus is still visible to sharp-sighted observers about 2° southeast of Jupiter on the Ist, and may be easily found with the ald of a marine glass. Uranus sets on the 1st, a few minutes later than a quarter after 9 o'clock In the evening; on the 3lst he sets about halt-past 7 o'clock. Mars is evening star. Hie 1s traveling east- fardatarapld pace, and increasing his dis- tance from Jupiter.’ The ruddy planet Is a lively member of the solar fraternity during August. Mars sets on the Ist about a quarter before 10 o'clock in the evening; on the 31st he sets at half-past 8 o'clock. Mercury is evening star until the 16th. On that date he reaches interior conjunction at 3 o'clock in the afternoon. He is then between the earth and the sun, the three heavenly bodies being almost in line, Mercnry passing to the sun's western side and making his advent as morning star, Mercury sets on the 1st about half-past 7 o'clock in the’ evening; on the 31st he rises a quarter betore 4 o'clock in the morn- ing. onus is morning star. She makes a very close conjunction with Saturn on the elghth at 10 o'clock in the morning, when she is only 1’ south of her brother planet. One minute of space 1s a very small piece of blue sky, and if We could see the planets at their nearest point ofapproach their rays would be so blended that they would seem to touch each other. If their paths touched a little more closely we could witness the rare phenomenon 9f the occultation of one planet by another. The conjunction is invisible but the plan- ets will be near together on the morn- ing of ‘the Sth, when they will rise at about hairpast 2 o'clock, more than two hours before the sun, Venus being west of Saturn. On the morning of the 9th the position will be re- versed, Venus being east of Saturn. ‘The meet- ing between the planets is eastly explained, ‘Venus is approaching the sun and Saturn is re- ceding from him. ‘Theretore they must. pass each other. Venus rises on the 1st at a quarter after 2 o'clock in the morning; on the 31st she rises about a quarter alter 3 o'clock. Saturn is morning star. The ‘noteworthy vent in his course Is his conjunction with Venus, to which attention has been called. He has emerged from his seclusion In the sun- beams, is coming towards us, avd increasing in size. Atthe close of the month he rises four hours before the sun, and holds a prominent place among the morning stars. On the 11th he is in conjunction with Delta Geminorum being 11/ south of the star. Neptune is morning star. On the 20th, at 6 o'clock In the evening, he is in quadrature on the sun’s western side, his journey from con- Junction to opposition being just half ac ‘complished, At the close of the month Uranus, Jupiter and Mars are evening stars; Neptune, Saturn; Venus and Mercury are morning stars. Neptuuie rises on the 1st soon after halt-past 11 o'clock in the evening; on the Sist he rises soon after 9 o'clock. TOTAL SOLAR ECLIPSE, A total eclipse of the sun occurs on the 29th, which will be visible as a very small partial eclipse in the southern part of New England and the Atlantic states. The path ofgotality commences at the Isthmus ot Panama@crosses the northern part of South America and some of the adjacent islands, crosses the Atlantic ocean in @ southeasterly direction, strikes the coast of Africa near Benzuela, and ends in Madagascar. The conditions for observing it are more favorable than they were in the total eclipses of 1883 and 1885 when the lines of totality passed almost entirely over the Southern Pacific ocean, Doubtless astronomers will be on hand at many points to observe the cclipse. In Boston the eclipse begins at Gb. 16m. a. m., (a little more than an hour after sunrise), con- Uinues 22m., and ends at 6h. 38m. a. m. ‘It is so slight that it will hardly be noticed, ‘uniess attention is directed toit. The magnitude of the eclipse is only 0.018 of the sun's diameter, and it is on the sun’s south limb. AUGUST METEORS, The best behaved of all the meteor streams holds its anniversary on the 10th, and the few days preceding uud following, The Tears of ‘St. Lawrence, it is called, because it_ makes its appearance’on the day sacred to the memory of that August saint. We call this zone the best behavedot the family, because the flery rain never fails to fall, and no one. is disappointed who looks skyward) when” the shower is due and the clouds are. kind, The tny atoms ot which it is composed are sure to impinge against the eurtn's atmosphere, burst into yellow stars, and de- scend with trains of silvery light. Tie August meteors consist of a swarin of particles toliow- ing comet II, 1862, in its orbit... ‘The disinte- grating process has been carried on so long that the debris of the comet are nearly evenly seat- tered throughout the gigantic ellipse iu which they wander. One extremity of the zone crosses the ‘earth’s orbit, and the other extends far beyond Neptune. The earth encounters this meteor zone on the 10th of August, and countless meteors falling trom the “skies ‘attest the fact that — the earth is then plunging fall tlt through the swarming atoms. Gast year there was au un~ usually fine show of the Persids, as they are cailed. Itis well tO be on the wate ior the coming occasion, for such is the uncertainty of operations in thé cometic family, that @ grand outburst is not impossible at any tune. Faere- fore observers should diligently wateh the northeastern sky and the coustellation Per- seus, the radient polntabout which the meteors congregate. ‘The earth will plunge into the meteor zone as surely as sue turus upon her axis, and, if the tery shower Is Unusually bril- lant, observers will be on hund to see the exhi- bition and count the meteors as they fall. Only those that start from Perseus are Persids, The sky Is aglow with other meteor streams, radi- Sting from other coustellations, for more than a million meteors, large enough to. be visivie to Ue naked eye on ua dark, clear night, fall trom the sky every twenty-iour hours. Trapped by = Pretty Widow. HOW A PERJUKER WHO ESCAPED TO CANADA WAS ENTICED OVER THE BORDER. A special from Erie, Pa., says: A year ago Ezra Cooper, the millionaire land owner ot Union City, this county, attempted to assault ‘Mrs. Julia Dunn, a woman of great personal attractions, superior education and remarkable strength of character. She refused large sums of hush money and prosecuted Cooper in the county courts. He spent mouey freely, and the result of the trial was a technical conviction, Judge Galbraith imposed a tine of $1,000 an costs instead of sending an old aud wealthy citizen to the penitentiary, On that trial itis ulleged Cooper hired wituesses to perjure them- selves. He himself, with three other witnesses, is now waiting trial tor perjury and suborna- tion of perjury. Another alleged perjured wit. ness for Cooper, 8 man named Brown, eseaped arrest by ight to Canada. ‘Two Weeks ago Mrs. Dunn left her home in disgulse for the purpose of going to Canada and compassing the return of Brown to_ the states, where he could be captured under the indict- ment hanging over him. Concealing her iden- Uty so that Brown, who knew her for years, did not recognize her When she found him at Brant- Ross Raymond R Earth. A CLEVER FOX NABRED AT LAST—HIS SWIXDIA ING CARKER ON TWO CONTINENTS—BYRNES’ TERRIERS. From the New York Herald. July 30. Ross Raymond, the brightest and most un- scrupulous swindler that the United States has borrowed from England, was arrested on Wed- nesday night at the Hote! St. ( street, by Detective Owon I afer him for years. There charges against the prisoner, but the one 01 Which he is now held is the passing of two worthless checks on Edmund Kopp, ot the Belvedere hotel, last. month. A few years ago Ross Raymond was looked upon in this city by many asa hardworking, capable reporter, and_his genial, off-hand manner made him neral favorite. Very few knew that in Becember, 1873, Recorder Hackett had. sent Ross Raymond ‘for two years to Sing Sing for Stealing an overcoat in the Fiith Avenue hotel. Before coming to this city Raymond had Worked on several newspapers in Pennsylvania, When thiseity got too hot for him he went back to Philadelphia, and after swindling his iriends there became a regular hotel beat. Managing to escape punishment through his wondertu cheek, Raymond wentto London, There he was engaged asa correspondent of @ London journal during the war in theSoudan, Then he Managed to effect larg? loans trom officers of the English army. Kaymond was next heard of ia Paris as Ray. mond Pacha, the secretary of the knedive. He made lavish orders at a hotel in the name of his master, who never turned up. Raymond dis appeared with several hundred franes ad- vanced by a trusting Boniface. don was the next field “worked” by the industrious “beat.” There he was wined and dined by the mosi respectable people, to their financial sorrow. Since then he has “worked” this country, and one of his latest victims was H. Phebus, a hotel keeper of Old Point Com- fort, Va. who cashed a three hundred dollar drait tor Raymond. For another crime of a like nature periormed im Philadelphia Raymond Was arrested and released on $2,000 bail, The bond was forfeited, as Raymond disappeared, leaving A. N, Palmer and Syivester Fiske, his bondsmen, in the lurch, He will be arraigned to-day in the Jefferson Market police court, Raymond was arrested in consequence of @ Tequest tnade to all hotel keepers by Inspebtor Heres that word sould be snut to the detec- tive bureau the moment he arriv = ‘coe ¥, Who has been EI special to the Times, July 29, says: W.T. Crumes and Laura Highbaugh have been desperately in love @ith one another for many years, and after many consultations with the old folks upon the sub- Jectot matrimony they concluded not to ask their advice further, so yesterday afternoon, about sundown, they leit the old home tor tais place, riding three of Hart county's best ani- als. Just as they entered the Wasper-lane, about Ubree-quarters of a mile trom. the old man’s home, they glanced back and waved their handkerchiefs in defiance to. those stern objectors, but about the same time the old was coming through the lot with shotzui hand to pursue them, ‘There was “no use fool- ing.” Miss Laura bis always been noted tor her skill as a horseback rider, and so they did not stop, but hurried along over bills and vales until they reached this point, a few minutes be- Jore trai Uime this morning, and after making a few inquiries tuey boarded the train for Jem Sonville. The groom ts a connection of Gen, Simon Bolivar Buckner, candidate forgovernot of Kentucky, and is a prosperous young farmer, The bride is & beautiful bionde, wita a swe face, and is Wuat one would heir trip, and they eon the evening train, then went ie, Hart county, on horseback, to ieymoon, for Mome Secretary. A SIGNIFICANT APPOINTMENT MADE BY LORD SALISBURY AT THE QUEEN'S SUGGESTION. The appointment by Lord Salisbury of Mr. Henry Matthews, Q. C.,a Roman Catholic, as home secretary, has caused a great deal of sur- prise in England. Matthews’ appointment is Suid tohave been due to the suggestion of the queen, who was charmed by his vindication in the Crawford trial of the sanctities of English home life. The Catholic press is gratified at Mr, Matthews’ promotion, as it initiatesa departure from the tory tradition that no Catholicsshould be placed in office. Mr. Matthews is said to be @ strong anti-coercionis. The foliowing addi- tional appoinunents are aunouneed: Attorney general, Sir K. E. Webster; lord. chamberlain, Earl of Latham, and judge advocate general, Right Hon, W. @. Marriott, WELSHMES DEMANDING HOME RULE. Handbilis demanding home rule are being circulated throughout Wales. The circulars say: “The time has arrived when Welshmen should uave the right to govern themselves, The parliament at London makes law, not for the benefit of Welshmen, but vo enrich land- lords and idlers. Welshmien demand the privi- lege of making their own laws. They de- mand free education, the abolition of land- lordism, and the disestablishment of the Mr. Gladstone went to Osborne yesterday to submit to the queen a list of the houors that it 4s customary for @ retiring premier to bestow. The following gentlemen were recommended by Mr, Gladstone for elevation to the rage: Sir Thomas Brassey, Sir Michael Biss, "bart, the well-known brewer; Sir John Gieneaird, Carter Hamliton, wio tailed of re- election to parliament trom South Lauarkshire in the late contest, and Sir Henry Thring, of the treasury department. Mr. W. L. Booker, Brit- ish consul general ‘ork, and Mr.’ Joun Henry G. Bergner, superintendent of the treaty department of the loreign office, have been appointed knights commander of the order of St. Michael and St. George. A TERRIBLE STORY OF SUFFERING TOLD BY AN ESKIMO. An Eskimo who has arrived at St. Johns, N. F,, rom Okak, Labrador, says that the popu- lation of that settlement was nearly 130, yet, when he left with bis wife, not a soul remained. Early in Mareh food gave out. On June 3 they they had eaten nothing tor six days, and, goaded by hunger. they feasted upon the Corpses of severat Whules aud a few Indians that had been killed by the cold. When 01 of their own party died the body wasecut open, the entrails were taken out and the remainder was frozen up for use. From this food terrible dysentery set iu among the survivors, aud on July 1 there were but sixteen persons left alive, the bodies of over twenty-tive having been eaten, Tae sixicen survivors started down the coast ina sledge drawn by four dogs. When about twenty-four miles trom Cape Mugford a heavy snow storm set in, W the party were endeavoring to find their way they "were attacked by white bears, whieh killed all the party but two, the survivors being among the ‘umber at Cupe Mugford, 2 Spi ‘The Anarchists’ Terrible Eombs. FIVE OF THEM EXPLODED IN THE LAKE AT CHICAGO—IS IT SCHNAUBEL’S Bopy. A number of Chicago policemen went out on the lake yesterday and exploded five of the dynamite bombs found in that city recently. Three of these were discovered in difierent business houses in the city, the last being found @ few daysagoin Wilbur & Allen's crockery store on East Washington street, The bombs were sunk in the lake, a contrivance havin, first been arranged by which they coul: be ignited. The tug in which the policemen were then steamed 300 yards away. In about ten minutes # stream ‘of water six feet iu diameter shot one hundred teet into the air, and for twenty fect around thesurtace of the water was conVulsed, notwithstanding the fact that the dynamite’had beeu lowered some ford, Canada, Mrs. Dunn began to entangle him'in such a web as only a womun can weave and lure him voward a visit to the American, side. Last Suturday she waited him on the New York side of the river at Youngstown and Brown crossed to the meeting in company with another young man who was agecret confeaer- ave of Mis. Dunn, When well oft in the stream Brown's employer, a son of Cooper, who had learned where Brown was going, rode to the water's edge and shouted to him to return, but @ beautiful woman waited on the other side, and Brown pulled the boat himseli, which landed him at the appointed rendezvous, where she walted with an offer, “He was tilen in custedy. Cooper fell in a fainting fit when t news Was telegraphed him by friends here. Benefit of a Sponge Bath. A SURE CURE FOR COLDS AND CONDUCIVE TO A HEARTY APPETITE, A prominent physician, speaking of special baths and thelr uses, mentions the sponge bath, the form of bathing where the water is applied to the surface through the medium of cloth or sponge, no part of the body being plunged in the water. He says the practice of systematic, dally sponge bathing is one giving told benefits to the followers. Let a, the slight exposure, the victim of chronic catarrh, sore throats, etc., begin the practice of taking & sponge bath every morning, commenc- ing with tepid water in a ¥.arm rool (not hot), and following the sponging with friction that will produce a warm glow over the skin, and Spen alr ‘See you do not revien witha sed n alr. lo not return with & appetite” for, breukfust. “Atter huving Seed tepid water for few mornings lower the tem- perature of the bath until eold water can be ene with impunity. The daily cold sponging of a sensitive throat or iungs will often result most sat nf Pou, anteDreaictast spoage bud soul, cold, ant fast sponge bath should, how- ever, be avoided by the weak person and ‘ones whose lungs’ iy reaction following might not be strong énoug wo vent colds wi might hasten fatal re- he congested brain tu relleved and sicop comet J a cold wet cloth proves so Saoacitas iarprotoking aise: Re that Of. 8. Conant, editor ot Sarper’s who! ‘8 year ago, twenty-eight eet in the water. Hundreds ot fish were thrown in the air with the column of water, and Ube suriace was covered with dead ones. SUPPOSED TO BE SCHNAUBEL’S BoDY, ‘The body of a man fou::d floating in the bay at Erle, Pa., has been identified as that of An archist Schnaubel, who is supposed to have thrown the bomb at the Haymarket Flot in Chicago. Schnaubel is thoug! ve escaped from Chicago by way of the iukes. It is believed that he attempted to secretly leave a boat as it was coming up to the docks at Erie, and in doing so was caught and crushed. When tounu there were $21 upon the body, but not the Smallest scrap of paper, showing conclusively that the man when alive had some purpose in concealing his identity. ies aaa An Unalterable Edict. ‘When: was king there was seldom a thit tees costes cneesee ease 2 ‘Which suid the king never could change his decrees. had.awife whom he loved as his life— NPmight parcuthctically sop to decane He'd miauy beside, for be of took s bride, ‘Bat that's nelther here, nor in Oshkosh; nor there, 20, arising ‘She into the dressing-room stealthily. And bolting the door, sat her duwn on the ‘To trim the excrescence the while the king slept, Seinen nee vere paar he cutie be peepee nt nan to ke took every snorning.s inter and canoe ‘One swoop of the blade and the. kin yA sratt resound with the woe ofits fe 7 | bef i i i E ; 8 iy i eek Ee eorge,on Twelfth | are numerous | Destractive Summer Storme. TWO OHIO TOWNS WRECKED AND MUCH DAM- AGE IK OTHERS, Heavy wind and rain storms were general in the north and west yemerday and last night In Ohio vast damage was done, several towns being wrecked and many persons killed and wounded. Allentown and Vaughnsville, neat a, are said to have been wiped out of exis tornado yesterday morning. But few mh v | of killed and wounded co | night. elief train was sent from the affiicted towns. A. tan consisiing of husband, w were killed outright by being erushed by the fallfhg of their home. Three members of the family of Jesse Lazarus are known to be killed. A livery stable in which was confined some 15 horses, was blown to the ground and all the auimais perished, Marion and Delaware, Ohio, Were visited by an incredibly heavy rain storm, accompanied by wind. The rain fell sheets and the streets were turned into rivers, Many houses were unroofed and much minor damage done. Four persons were reported Killed at and ‘near Delaware. It i ited apty freight ‘cars was blown H. V.and T. tracks between Dela- Marion. At Potaskola, Ohio, not pouse escaped without injury. One man was Columbus suffered severely from the storm. The streets were flooded and many houses une rooted. The building of the Columbus rolling mill Was entirely demolished and twenty-five or thirty men at work in the mill were more oF less hurt, John Evans was canght under some heavy Umbers and had his back broke and in- jured invernaily and cannot rece Tngratm had his sealp torn from the head. Edward) Biackly had nd two di tera, esc He was almost in the building, and after the t a sell under a heavy p which had saved his live by keeping the roof ‘timbers from falling on him, The roof of the Union. depot was blown off, causing considerable ex citement. STORM AT ROCKAWAY BRAC! There was asevere storm just south of New York, last night. At Rockaway Beach # large amount oft damage was dove. The wind blew @ burri- cane andthe surf washed up to the hotels. The roof was carried off the Brant | the Bast End pavili e plagza—10« “of | Rosebrook hotel was lifted to the root of the bullding. More or less damage was done to nearly every building along the wate ment prevailed in the frout, Great excite There are twenty-seven mines now in op eration in the Maryland coal fields, employdug about 3,500 workmen, T ‘ of the Potomac river was hi dnesday than it has been for Porehes ot Bladensburg were submerged. A member of the Salvation army tried to pray for a young lady in Frostburg, but when she objected, and backed up ber objection by @ blow on the Soldier's nose, he desisted, | The sheritt of Worcester county ‘got mar ried yesterday to a beautitul young lady, He ougbt to lave walled to be President, and then history would repeat iteell,—Annapolis Capital, Good’ butter ts selling at eight cents Pound—bad brings about the: same price. There should be a distinction, and a big one, too, and then bad butter would become scarce, The careful butter maker deserves more. pef pound tor butter than the careless one,— Boone ro’ Times, ormonntaineer: who was in town teciling whortleberries, sald that, taking into account the risk ne and others ran in picking the ber- ries, he should have one doliar per quart. ‘The risk Will be better understood when itis learned that he has already killed eighteen’ co} heads and three rattlesnakes, And for this be had trouble to get six cents a quart for his ber= rles.—Hayerstown Globe. Two couples trom Pennsylvania, and who ac companied the excursion which passed through thiscityen route to Antietam cemetery, wt Sharpsourg, yesterday, stopped over in town a few hours and were married. After he ceremony had been performed they ‘tollowed. the excursionists to Sharpsburg, aud enjoyed themselves in common with those who had gone belore,—Hagerstown Globe. Yesterday, as tue canal boat Deer Park, tain MeLucis, was on its up trip @ sbort dis sance east of this city, and when about to the boat Judge Douglas, which was on its dows, rip, Wwo valuable mules belonging to Capl by the towline of the Judge Douglas an drowned. "A collection is being taken up to help pay” Captain MeLucas for his loss, —Cume berland Times, a ___s9¢—____ A Tragedy in Culpeper County, Va. Culpeper special to the Baltimore Sun, News was received here this evening of # fatal shooting affair yesterday evening about 12 miles trom this town. It appears that some days ago Capt. Clatterbuck and Edward Gree: two prominent farmers, bad a difficulty Green turning some caitle in one of Clatter- buck’s fields. Them many y eof the stores at to Green's barn and called him from his work inthefield. They bad some words, and one report says Green advanced towards Ciatterbuck, when the latter drew @ revolver and shot Green twice, once In the stomach and once in the head. Dr. Brown was immediately summoned, but Green was dead betore he arrived. Thereis a good deal of exe citement over the aftair, as both men are well known and prominent ih the coun’ ‘The peace of God has come at last to mes That gathered with such f a fathered w fury, hiding ‘The azure of my day.” My sun shows not the glory as of old, Shut ine from out the glamour of the world, ie frou ou our ‘td ait that 1 had kuowa. More calm and steadfast is the radiant beam ‘And piercing thruugh tse dari ieee of my night ering throug eae ‘seltly on my brow. wrod ‘The Sun of Peace: God's gift all undefiled! Within these cloisters dis Istand apart irom all the paths of men, ‘And waik alone with Mim, Through all the yearsin which my soul had pass ce ua home ed belo Ser J bad proved how vain eid, How true sud sure the woe.” Tcould not see the splendor of the Throme— ‘And so od seu his storneboit, @riving dows, so i “The blinding path of light. ‘The peace of God has come at last to ms Within these eee | =m —_ nor griel cau U again; aD vaik with God aloue. Watertows, Mass Ansa B. Bewem, oe Saturday Smiles. Down in Georgie they are complaining the cotton is choked with grass and weeds. Wh; don’t they pound it on the back? —Springitela Union. What fs more pathetic than to see the faith wit which a bald-beaded man will 24 bald-beaded infallible hair restorative trom. barber?—Detrow Free Press, Dr.Gilmet returns empty handed from » day's hunting,and in response w his wile’s inquiries, candidly confesses that he killed potuing. “Why,” retorts Mrs. G, slowly, “You could have done betier than Uthat had you stayed at home and attended to your regular business.”—Lowell Citizen, A tty maiden fell overboard, and her lover leat ed over the side of the boat as she Tose tothe surface and said: “Give me your hand.” “Please ask papa,” she said, as she sank Jor the second time. ‘Some one has said that nothing was lost by politeness. How about a seat in the street cart —Hartiord Journal, “Why don’t our young men come to the front?” asks an exchange. We expect itis be- cause the first rows are always filled with bald-headed men. ‘Tommy (who hus just received a severe scold- ing)—Am I really so bad, mamma? Mamma— Xex, Tommy, you ure a very bad boy. ‘Tommy (vetlectively Vell, anyway, mamma, I thi You ought to be real darn giad I ain't’ twins!— Harper s Weekly. A Philadelphia girl who took laughi: cn went to sleep tor tree days. ‘This would have been very untortunate if it had occurred any where else, but her condition would mever be noticed in Philadelphia, He belonged to the Tenth Army Anda canatiten maid did cons, For a stroll by the sea, He took ber, did hea, And made love to her there on the shorps. inated Pegg -vamnegngn ten f like my sing,” exclaimed Mr. Brown to his wife. “Wi me every day, my ways find me OUL.”"—Npringjield Homestead, A plousold lady recently sent as presents a motto wedding Fg To Ts ands Dorchester committed =s w river, near house. When found in the water be had arope tied tightly around hismeck,and it is evident ‘tbat be strangled himeel! and then sell into the: state senate in 1865. From 1874 to 1885 be |