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The bee., 1884-06-14

SECRETARY LINCOLN '+legraphed to the
United States signal 's.ncer at Jacksonville,
Fla, 10 cause the remains Of General Babcock
TO be embalnhGd and sent to Washington
. The funeral of General o. T. Babcock,
drowned off the Florida coast, took place from
his late residence in Washington. The pail
bearers were Secretary Lincoln, General
Sheridan. General Drum, General MacFee-
ley, General Horace Porter, Colonel BenJainn
and Major ID. p. Heap
CRIMINAL proceedings are about TO be COM
menced against John Hall, late United States
marshal Of the western district OF Pennsyl-
wanna. Witnesses before House committee
have testified that Hall has failed to account
Tor from S2O0,010 to 100000
president ARTHUR has transmitted to
Congress communication. accompanied by
letter, from the board Of managers Of the
coming Worlds Industrial and Cotton expo
sition at New Orleans relative to an apPTo-
pTIatiOn for makslg a complete collection OF
the articles and materials deemed desirable to
place on exhibition in illustration of the re
sources of the country, methods Of govern
mental administration and means of offense and
defense The amount asked by the board OF
managers is SJsS. .0J0. distributed among the
various departments as follows: For the war
department Sl35. 600: navy department SllO-
G90: State department. $1,000: treasury de
partment, 100000: interior department mot
including bureau of oducationi, S70.O9O; bu-
reau of education, $1,000: postoftice depart
menG $4,000: department of agriculture,
$4,000: department OF justice, 5000; Smith
sonian institution. including national muse
um and commission of fish and fisheries, So, )
coo; incidental expenses $4,000.
The bee., 1884-06-14
Foreign

THE False Prophets followers in the Sou
dan have captured the town Of Abu-Hamad
A FIRE in London DESTROYED the East Lon
don Aquarium. A number of lions, bears,
jac6als and monkeys We're burned TO death.
A WOMAN who has been arrested at Naran.
da. Hungary. c1nfesses that she poisoned four
husbands ana also hundreds of women dur
ing the TaSt two wears. number OF ac-
completes were also arrested.
THE new treaty between France and An
man, lately at war with each other, has been
signed.
ALEPPo, Turkey. has been shaken by a
sharp earthquake shock
THE French police. at therequest of English
detectives, are searching suspected premises IN
Paris for dynamite
Two young officers of the insurgent force'
in Cuba, have been captured 10y the Spanlarda
and shot
THE Spanish cabinet has decided that seven
of the fifteen members of the Black Hand an.
archist society found guilty shall be executed
-ssaed the other eight suffer life imprisonment.
A FISHING vessel with crew of fourteen
men was wrecked in Trinity bay, Newfound.
land. and all on board We're drowned
HENRY ID. EENNoR. the well-known weather
prophet died d few days since In Montreal,
aged forty-three years.
FIVE persons were killed and several moro
wounded at an election riot in Miedspell,
Hungary
THE foundation stone of the new German
parliament building was laid at Berlin with
imposing ceremonies
A Swiss doctor who killed himself makes
the thirty second victim TO the gambling
mania this season at M n3co.
The bee., 1884-06-14
The Origin of Dixie.

On a Saturday night in 1859, when
Dan Emmett was member of Bryant's
Minstrels, New York. Dan Bryant came
to him and said: Dan, can't YOU get US
up walk aroundn | want something
new and lively for Monday night" Dan
went to work, and by Sunday afternoon
he had the words commencing Il wish |
was in Dixie" The expression was not
Southern, but appeared among the circus
people of the North In early fall when
nipping frosts would overtake the tented
wanderers, The boys would think of the
warmth of the South, and the common
expression would be, 'Well, | wish
was in Dixie - This gave the catch-line,
and the rest of the song was original. On
Monday morning it was rehearsed and
highly commended, and at night a crowd
ed house caught up the refrain and half
of them went home singing Dixie The
song became the rage, and W. W. New
combs Buckley's Minstrels and others
gave Dan s. each for the privilege of
using it. Mr.. Werlean wrote TO Emmett
to secure the copyrights; but without
waiting for a reply, published it with
words by Mr.. Peters. Pond, of New
York, secured it of Emmett for 5000;
but Werlcan sold thousands of copies
without giving him nickel. Not only
was Emmett robbed of the profits of his
song, but the authorship of it was dis
puted. Will 5. Hays claimed the author
ship of it, Pond brought the matter be-
fore music publishers convention, and
settled the authorship; but Dan reaped
no benefit from this tardy Justice.
The bee., 1884-06-14
NEWSY GLEANINGS.

JOHN L. SULLIVAN. pugliist, has cleared
$4,000 in the last eight months.
OVER 400.U00.010 gallons of petroleum,
valued at SG0.U0.000, were exported last
year.
UTAH has now 1o. OC0 small farms averaging
TWENTY-FIVE acres, and the whole must be irri-
gated
THERE are ll2.42 miles of railroad track
in this country, Of which 107, ,15s are In ope-
ration.
OVER $1,000 Polish Jews, who fed from
Russia because of persecution, are living In
London
THE railway system of Prussia covers
about g. ,0O0 mileS-a little more than that of
Canada.
THE worlds tin production last year reached
$40 tons. one-third of which was consumed
in the United States
WOODEN sailing vessels are being rapidly
superseded by iron steam craft for even coast
wise trade in Great Britain.
THIRTY States and territories have more
men than women, and seventeen States and
territories have more women than men,
CUBA is now undergoing one of the most
remarkable droughts onrecord in that favored
island No rain has fallen in six months.
THERE are more colored people in Georgia
than there are Indians in the whole country.
Georgia's negro population is about rs, 600.
THE United States supreme court has just
decided that life insurance policy holds good
if the person Insured commits suicide while
insane.
THERE are now thirty-nine circuses trav-
cling through the United States and large
number of them have the only sacred white
elephant
THE steamship Great Eastern, which is to
be used as hotel at the New Orleans e1posi-
ton. leaves Liverpool is September, loaded
with exhibits.
FISHERMEN say that this is great fish year.
All kinds OF fish are uncommonly early in
an appearance, and they are big in size and
very abundant
THERE are fully 10000 people between
Nat-hez and Eicksburg who are destitute,
and have no prospects that they can raise q
decent crop until next year.
South CAROLINA has SOS flour, gTist and
rice mills, employing 1873 whites and blacks,
recurring capital of 3, is, $50 and turning
out annually S5,2SS, coo worth of -four, feed,
etc.
NINE De DUzIEN, long known as the most
eccentric inha5itant of Lyons, France, died
recently and left her fortune of 5000, ,OOC
to benefit in various ways the women
Of that city,
The bee., 1884-06-14
South and West.

SADIE HAYES. a colored woman has been
sentenced to death at st. Louis.for the murder
Of Police Sergeant jerks.
j. H. WENDELL. an old resident of Cald-
well. Kansas in fit Of insanity caused 10y
whisky. shot and killed his wife. and then
killed himself
A TERRIBLE crime is reported from Kansas
Mrs. John Anderson. wife of a poor farmer,
and her four children Were all found mur-
dered near Pleasauton, and il was thought the
father had met the same fate. The Anderson
family had knowledge of a crime committed
by one Lewis W anIper. The two men left the
house together. Nampler returned alone.
saying that Anderson had sent for the family.
They started in a wagon, and on the way it is
supposed that Wampler murdered the woman
and the four children and fed
THE remains of John Anderson. the sixth
victim OF the I'leasontOn ihan.) murder, were
found concealed in a deserted coal shaft, with
bullet wound In the head.
An affray among the Indians at the Rose
bud agency, growing out of the return TO the
reservation OF Crow Dog. the slayer of Spotted
Tail. resulted i'm the killing of Chief White
Thunder and the fatal wounding OF two other
Indians by the son and friends of Spotted Tail
Crow Dog had been set free by a decision of
the United States supreme court.
A TRAIN was wrecked on a railroad between
Denison and Gainesville in Texas, and four
teen persons were reported to have been killed
and many Others injured.
AT the election in Oregon the Republicans
electeda majority of their legislative candi-
dates and their candidate for Congress
REPORTS from Delaware say that in the
great peach belt the outlook for a very large
peach crop is favorable.
GENERAL H. B. BEARD. a prominent
mining man and resident of Denver. Col. was
shot and fatally wounded by Samuel Derry,
near Leadville, in a quarrel about a mining
claim.
A FIRE at Des Moines, Iowa. DESTROYED the
large round-house and repair shops of the
Wabash st. Louis and Pacific, and the st.
Louis. DeS MoineS and Northern railroads.
Nine locomotives were destroyed, and dam
age 10 the extent Of about S125, 600 was in
ficted.
GREAT damage to property in Texas has re-
suited from a rapid rise of the Rio Grande.
A TRAIN filled with Italian laborers was
wrecked by jumping the track near Akron.
Ohio. Seven laborers were fearfully mangled,
two dying soon and the Others not being eX-
pected TO live
GENERAL ABE BUFORD. a prominent
Kentuckian, committed suicide at Dauville
Ind. Family troubles, notably the killing OF
Judge Elliott at ] e Zingt n, Ky. by TIE
suicides brother two year; ago, led to the
act
The bee., 1884-06-14
NEWS OF THE WEEK.


THE Democratic State conventions in Con-
necticut, Vermont and in other States held
recently. all declared in favor of the old
presidential ticket of 1876
CHARLES FENNO HOFFMAN. ma.ly wears ago
q prominent poet and novelist, has lust died
at Harrisburg. Penn. aged seventy four wears
For years he had suffered from mental dis
srler
THE fishing schooner Fanny Fern. of Glou-
cester, Mass, while ON her passage home from
the Newfoundland banks with 20. 600 pounds
of fish on board, was run into by a steamer
and sunk. -Four Of the ten men on board the
schooner, including the captain, were drowned.
SALEM, Mass, has lost one of its largest
business blocks by fire, the damage to various
firms aggregating about 100000
DURING discussion about Blaine's nomina-
tion by number of men in q saloon at Liver
pool, Penn, quarrel arose. knives and pistols
were drawn, tn lights were extinguished and
desperate conflict took place in the darkness.
When order was restored and lights produced
three men were found on the floor welteIing
in blood and probably fatally wounded
GENERAL JAMES WATSON WEBB, for MANY
years prominent journalist and politician
died the other day in New York city. In his
eighty third year.
A MAN named QuiIlan was killed by the ex-
plosiOn of barrel of beer i'm q Newburg (N
\ J. brewery.
NOAH III. SwAYNE. ex- Justice Of the United
States supreme court. died the other day in
New York city. aged eighty years Ex-Jus-
tice Swayne was a native of Virginia. of
Quaker parentage, but moved in early life
to Ohio, from which State he was appointed
TO the United States supreme court by Lin
coin in 1862, resigning in 1881.
The California delegation to the recent Re
publican national convention at Chicago came
on to Augusta Ne, and were presented tC
Mr.. Blaine. together with crowd who had
accompanied them from various Maine cities
In a special train of thirteen cars.
A NUMBER of prominent Eastzra RepubIi
can papers. among them the New YORK
Times, Springfield Repub icdn and Harper,
HeeliV, announce that they viii not sup
port Blaine and Logan.
FIVE Italians. while walking the railroad
tracks near Deetsdale, Penn. met two trains
and being unable TO get out of their way two
of the tramps were killed and third fatally
injured
The bee., 1884-06-14
The Food Ffsb of Alaska,

The greatest and most available re-
source of Alaska is the abundance of
food fish to be found in the streams
and In tie waters along the coast. From
June until september the fresh-water
streams, from the great Yukon to the
little brooks flowing from the melting
glaciers, are crowded with salmon and
trout, while their presence in the bays
and adjacent seas is indicated by the
leaping of herds of porpoises pursuing
them for food. Were it not for their
destruction by these ravenous fish, and
the fact that but small per centage of
the spawns live to reach deep water, the
sea and bays in the vicinity of these
rivers would become unnavigable. In
the spawning season they ascend the
streams In such numbers as to render
fording extremely difficult. There are
five distinct species as classified by the
inhabitants, though no scientific claSsi-
tication has yet been made. Early in
June the Quinnat Ga very fine fish, called
Chouchow by the Russians,) be-
gins to run, followed soon by
the kikoff. In July appears the
Crassena cred heshed), and in
August the Garbosha (humpbacked),
followed later in the season by the kis-
clutch, or black mouthed. The last is
considered the finest table fish, though
the Garbosha, which is coarse and unit
for canning, is the favorite with the
Indians, and is cured by them in great
quantities for their winter food. There
are already half dozen canneries at
work, several of which were built the
past year, and the Alaska pack is becom-
ing quite factor in the market. The
possible expansion of this Industry is
practically unlimited. Large quantities
are packed in barrels by the various fur
and trading companies. Off Fox and
Shumagim islands, at the southern ex-
tremity of the Alaskan peninsula cod
fishing is carried on quite extensively.
Three companies in San Francisco employ
twenty vessels in this work, catching
about 1000 tons annually. In this vi
cinity there are number of good banks,
with a depth of water varying from
thirty to sixty fathoms. In the
eastern end of Behring SEA is a
bank covering an area of $4,000 square
miles, winch mas depth OF nifty 1atnomS,
and on every portion Goldfish are abun-
dant. The cod is found from the Straits
of Fucu as far north as fifty nine degrees,
or the southern limit of floating ice in
Behring sea, having been caught at
Nootka, Sitka, Lituya bay, Yak-etat
Bay. Cooks inlet, throughout the
Aleutan islands, the Alexandrian Archi.
pelago, and the Okhotsk sea. The
black cod, which is now attracting much
attention, and is especially abundant in
the vicinity of Queen Charlotte islands
and some distance to the northward, is
superior to the cod of Labrador; so also
is the fish caught near the Shumagin
islands. Halibut abound, but have never
been caught in large numbers for the
market. The Indians dry them for food.
They range from fifty to five hundred
pounds in weight, and are caught with
out difficulty. There are many other
species of fish, valuable for food or oil,
which will all furnish their quota to
the wealth which will be drawn from
Alaska in the future. (Or.) }
West Shore
The bee., 1884-06-14
How to Treat Greenhouse Plants and
Vegetables if Frozen.

Not unfrequently during the c)ld sea-
son the most careful people are liable to
have their plants and vegetables touched
by the frost on some sharp, cold night.
But little consideration of the manner
in which the frost affects them may result
in the best means of remedying the evil.
The following very sensible remarks on
the subject are worthy of perusal:-
1t is not the freezing that does the in
jury. This really renders the thing frozen
warmer, by developing the latent heat of
its watery parts. The thawing of the
frozen water is-what we have to guard
against. In all thawing the solid sub
stance, as ice, takes up from surrounding
bodies. or from tie air, the heat necessary
to render it liquid. and as soon as the
process is commenced, by the suns rays
or otherwise, it is continued by obtaining
a part or whole of the required heat from
neighboring bodies; this loss of that heat
causes the bad effect If we freeze the
ear, no harm is necessarily done. If we
go near fire, or in any other way pro-
duce rapid thawing, we are liable to
lose the whole or part of the organ, be-
cause the heat of the flesh is rapidly alb
stracted. If, on the contrary, we apply
snow to it, we render the process SO grad
ual that the flesh is not injured by the
loss of heat. Many other instances of 4
similar character might be given were it
necessary. The same rule also holds good
in the case of plants. When their leaves
or fruit arc frozen, all that is necessary is
to apply SNOW. cold water, ETC., or in
some other way to prevent the rapid
thawing of the ice. By attention to this
point many valuable plants may be saved
from the ravages of frost. In cold eli
mates, delicate trees or vines may be
planted on the northwest slopes of hills
tempering of the heat of the morning
sun will prevent them from being injured
by the rapid extraction of their frost.
The bee., 1884-06-14
A Model School Teacher.

A tOlGrably athletic young man took a
certain school to teach years ago in West
ern New York after a lumber of peda-
gogues had tried it and given it up in
despair. The Big boys had driven the
teachers away invariably, and the dis
couragement was so complete the first
day that they were not willing to under
take second clifton.
This young man took hold with full
knowledge of the difficulty, and with a
hope that he could succeed. He was
mild hammered, and he opened the shOol
the first day with pleading smile on his
lips that made even the small boys reck-
less. He was taking the names of the
children. and progressed without diff
Guilty till he came to John Tarbox, the
ring leader of the unruly ones, and the
boy who always gave the signal for
''trouncing the master"
The new teacher approached him with
a sweet smile on his face, and said
''Now, will you tell me your name,
please?"
The boy leaned back in his seat, put
his feet over the top of the desk, and
IOOheCl CTOSS " Nct dt lhC III 'N''N'ANt' ?
while all the school TOared.
''Plcase tell me your name, repeated
the teacher pleadingly, and without no
ticing this rudeness.
''Wal,'' drawled the fellow, ''some-
times they call me Bob, and sometimes
they call me Pete, and sometimes they
cali me somethin' else, but you better not
COLL u,n auyfhirCr -
The mild-looking teacher had been
expecting al; this; there he had the adj
vantage. lie had prepared himself for a
fight, not a fight for minute, but for an
hour ora day, if need b.; he had been in
manner trained for it, and so, just as
the last we1ds were out of the boys
mouth. ne dealt the big iubber a blow
/ between the eyes that stunned him, and
then grasping him by the collar dragged
him headlong over the seats, stood him
up on the floor with jam, and thundered
| out
''What is your name?"
''John TarbOx." exclaimed the boy,
promptly, and with his eyes fairly bulg-
/ inc from his head.
The bee., 1884-06-14
Davy Crockett.

Davy Crockett created quite stir dur
ing TIE Jackson administration. He had
served under ''Old Hickory" in the In
dian wars, and he was famous in Tennes-
sec as bear hunter, but in politics he
was a Wing, and was made great deal
of by the Eastern members of that party.
He was neither grammatical nor graceful,
but no rudeness of language can disguise
strong sense and shrewdness, and dem
onstration," as Bulwer says, ''wlll force
its way through all the pcrvers!ons OF
grammar He was true frontiersman,
with small dash of civilization, trans
planted to the soil of political lie. Some
one undertook to publish his life, but he
promptly denied the authenticity of the
work, and had true memoir of himself
written and published When Texas
commenced its struggle for independence,
Crockett went there and was killed while
fighting at San Antonio De Bexar. His
son, John w. Crockett, served two terms
in Congress, was attorney general OF Ten
nessee, and died at Memphis, in 1892.-
Ben: PerIey Po0re.
The bee., 1884-06-14
An Odd Advertisement.

There are 50 many people willing to
advance money on ones note of hand
simply that it is pity that something
could not be done by one Of them for the
following sad case extracted from the ad-
vertisements of Berlin newspaper. "A
medical student whose means are exhaust
ed would like to meet with some one who
would advance him the necessary sum IN
complete his necessary studies, at a mod
crate rate of interest. If necessary. he
would as a guarantee at once marry his
creditors daughter, or if he prefers it
would give an undertaking to d. 50 on
passing his final examination At pres.
ent the law in this country is in such
state that man cannot offer himspIfas as
security. at least not since the decision in
ShylOck versus Antonio, reported Sbakl
speare, Merchant of Yenic~." act Nv
Perhaps 20 offer ones self as son-in-law is
the next best security: and as there are
numerous mothers-in-law seeking for
sound investments and sons. the business
might be done.
The bee., 1884-06-14
MUSICAL AND DRAMATIC,

NINE NODJEsKA viii summer in Poland.
Mr., EDWIN BOOTH is now established In his
new house in Boston.
JENNY LIMBS oldest son has Just married
al English girl named Daniel.
JOHN MCCULLOUGH. it is said. has made
over 900 the present season.
FANNY DAVENPORT has cleared $50, COO with
Fedora during the past season
Mrs. LANGTRT has invested S97. 600, earned
in America. in New York real estate
MILE NEVADA. the Western p1-ima donna,
now in Paris, sends all her floral gifts TO the
hospitals.
PATTI is said to have the most unique ''crazy
quilt in existence, 1t is pronounced lawfully
handsome
THERE are eighty people on the stage in
''The Pulse Of New York ItreQuires twenty
special stage hands TO work the scenery.
THE Madison Square theatre New York;
has had as many as twenty companies on the
road at one time, including both regular and
short season ventures
MILE NEVADA. the American prima
donna, viii sing in three oratories at the Nor
wich festival in England. She afterward
goes to Madrid, Barcelona and Lisbon.
THIS wear there are three "Silver King
companies: next season there viii be but two:
IHlS year lHeTe are AouF LlsutS LOhuoh
companies; next year there will be but one.
A AWoRCEsTER firm is building special
car for Dion Boucicault which viii accom-
modate his entire company Of twenty-five
persons and give Mr.. Boucicault and his
daughter each a state-room.
MARY ANDERSON is making an even greater
impression in the British provinces than she did
in London At Manchester. for instance. she
is said 10 have taken in one week more money
than was ever before known in that city.
CHARLES MITCHELL. the prize-fghter, is
going on the stage. He says he wants to
"begin at the lowest round and work up:''
fight his way to the front. so to speak. His
idea of beginning at the bottom seems to be TO
tackle Orlando in As You Like 1t, and this
he will do in England this summer.