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MUSICAL AND DRAMATIC

MARK TwAINs reading tour is said to have
netted him nearly $;5,G1u
ROBERT B. MAHTELL has signed as leading
maD for Fanny Davenport.
JOE JEFFERSON will only play fifteen weeks
next season, beginning Octobcrl.
KATE FORSYTH will go rs leading support
to Salvini, the Italian trageliln, next s.ason
JOHN A. STEVENS intends TO employ lady
ushcrs in the Grand Opera House, San Fran
cisco.
LESTER WALLACK said he never had but
one illness III his life, AMI thai cost him
$4,000.
A GRFEX play, third Of series, is to be
acted 10y the university men at Cambridge,
England, next November.
The l;allad has been driven out of the
market by cheap music, and the few ballads
sold are bought by camper out CHIEFLY.
PATTI has written to London to sny that
she will appear IN that city III June, provided
there are no signs Of the cholera there al
that time
THE London critics are unanimously of The
opinion that Mr.. lrving's performance ol
Hamlet has greatly improved since his visit
to this country.
AN organization calling itself the Mexican
Typical orchestra will give series OF ter
concerts at the Star theatre, New York, be-
ginning Juno Fl.
RCBESsrE1N's opera, "Nero," has failed
at Vienna. 1t is sscathingly reviewed by the
critics, who condemn both the libretto and
music with equal severity.
THE highest price paid for female trapese
performers is 5000 per week. The Lowest
price paid Is $50 per week, and ono has to be
very expert even to get that.
NJ. PoLLINI, director of the Stadt theatre,
of Hamburg, has concluded q contract with
Mmc Patti, for the entire winter OF 1886,
including tours throughout Europe
IT seems that NJ Coquelin, the famous
French actor, is to visit this country next
season after all. He will play q four weeks
engagement at the New York Star theatre
early in the fall.
hartley CAMPBELL, the American dra,
matist, is launching ont into the managerial
field on large scale. In addition to his New
York theatre, he has leased the Empire
theatre, London, which he will open i'll Sep
tember with one of his own plays.
JOHN STETsoN. the New York Theatrical
manager, has signed contract to take com
pany to the United States from England and
produce Gilbert and Sulivan's new opera,
1.-THE Mikado," in New York and Boston
beginning in October Sir Arthur Sullivan
has sailed for New York. He proposes max
ing q tour OF the United States
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PROMINENT PEOPLE.

SPEAKER CARLISLE has recovered his
health.
GENERAL CRAFTS book bears this title:
'.The Personal Memoirs of u. :. Grant. ="
MI. LCwcLL, our late minister to Eng
land, is the only American who has slept at
Windsor castle as guest Of royalty.
The Rev. joiIn rail. tie noted New York
divirr, is an lri>h:nn ty birth, wao was sent
to this country hy the Ulster freshvtevians
an.i :u.'niSilad with return passage ticket,
W.; :; z .laS II 'ver yet u>ri.
~ SENATOR In: RMAN, though in the
tY>. - :;,llh. with the exception OF slight
rI.ri;i,i,:::: ;,tta,h. says that under 10 cir-
cu,I:slrn;cs woi.ll hc accept the H"rniaatinn
for governor Of Ohio. At his time ol he, hc
saws, ho could rot afford it.
A WASHINGTON correspondent says that
"Georce Bancroft has resumed his long daily
rides. He wears as a riding suit short
HACK velvet coat, above which his slvcry
hair shines out in contrast. and on the bosom
os witch lis long white beard fails like silk
locc a soft felt hat which shades his eyes land
a pair Of lifting pantaloon<.
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LATER NEWS

GOVERNOR MOODY CUREIEs was inaugu
rated at Concord, n. H.
ABE BUzzARD, the notorious outlaw of thc
Welsh mountains, has surrendered to the
officials of the Lancaster PENN Jail Buz
zarl has been wanted by the authorities fo'
several years, and has been the constant terror
of half dozen counties in Eastern Pennsyl
vania. He escaped from Jail nearly three
Years ago, and since has received credit for
many crimes committed in the vicinity of the
Welsh mountains
MlLToy L. MCKAY, a. prominent resident
of Loaksvllc, Miss, was shot to death early
in May by concealed assassin. David L.
Fairly, n reputable citizen and neighbor OF
Mckay, was suspected and arrc1tcl The
o her night 4 band of masked men overpow
cred the Jail guard, took out Fairly and
hangel him to a tree.
TIE jury in the case of Thomas j. Cluve'
rirs, the young lawyer charged with the mur
der of Fannie Lillian Madison at Richmond
Va, brought i'll a verdict of murder in the
first degree The case lasted nearly month
and on account of the high social connections
of both Cuvcrlls and Miss Madison, at
tra:tci great attention. Miss Madison had
cone to Richmond from thu interior and reg
istcrel at hotel One day h,r body was
founl in a reservoir, with marks of violence
OH it, and Cluvcriu:, her cousin. was arrested
for tha crime suspicion having been drawn
f., I,.t f,r fb ,t intip a ia ralotioIs "
isted between the two.
TRAGIC disasters caused by lightning have
been Of late quite numerous. Frank True
residence at Plano, Iowa, was struck and con-
sumcd ard the owner killed. Two men met
similar fate on the same day in the doorway
of their residence at Mendoza, III.
TIE Illinois senate has passed the house bill
giving colored people the same rights rs
whites in hotels, restaurants, theatres and
other public places
The President has amended civil service
rule nine, relating to the examination of ap-
plants for Office, by inserting after the
words mo person dismissed from the public
service for miscond ,ct,' and before the words
shall be admitted discrimination within two
years thercafter,' the following words: "And
no person who has not been absolutely ap-
pointed or employed after promotion
REPORTS received by the war department
indicate that there are not sufficient troops
in New Mexico and Arizona to effcctually
qucll the insurrection of the Apaches.
FURTHER appointments by the President: {:
General W. S. PosecranS, of California; to be
register of the treasury, vice blanche K.
Bruce (colore;D, resigned; Herbert Foote
Rcccher to be collector of customs for the dis
trict of Puget Sound, in the State Of Oregon
and the Territory of Washington; Archibald
Skillman to be collector Of internal
revenue for the district Of Nevada, Baker
?. Lee to be collector of customs for tho dis
trict of Yorktown, Va MIR. Bcecher is son
of Rev. Henry Ward Beecher and resident
OF Port Townsend Oregon. Messrs. Skillman
and Lee are newspaper men,
A MOTION to impeach the French ministry
was lost in the chamber of deputies by a vote
of 3.2 to l53.
GREAT damage has been done, especially to
shipping, by n cyclone Mt Alden. Arabia.
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THE WHEAT CROP.
Estimated Shortage from tho Average
of I00,O00,J00 bushels.


of I00,000,90 bushels.
S. W. Talmadge, Of Milwaukee, has pre-
pared his first preliminary estimate for the
season by States of the probable total yield
of wheat in the United States for 1885. The
kgures are made up by States and Terri
tories, with the assistance Of the State asri-
cultural departments, statistical agents
and other authorities, AMI are stated
to bo bls,l uD,a the actual
acreage sown and present condition
of the growing crop The estimate Shows
the probable yield Of winter wheat as 23l.-
100000 bushels. Of spring wheat $50, ,0o0,00)
bushels; total Of winter AMI spring 36l ,GUO,
900 bushels. The United States department
of agriculture officially report the crop of
1854 winter wheat 500 0.nO0 bushels, spring
wheat, l43, ,GO0,OM: total winter and spring
5l3G0J,00D bushels. According to these
figures tho crop of 1881, compared with 1881,
will show a shortage in winter wheat of
139, ,0OG, 600 bushels, spring wheat l3,OOOG0)
bushels; total winter and spring shortage
52,000,010 bushels.
The average wheat yield Of the United
States for five years raSt is 4Gi ,GGJ,oOJ bush
els The estimate SHOWS 4 shortage, COM
pared with the average five years, of l0),-
OOO 900 bushels.
The following is a table OF tho estimated
PROBABLE yield by St.stes and Territories:
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A RESERVOIR BURSTS,

A Torrent Of Wn'cr I2O Feet High
Causes Great Damage.
Near Longmount, COL, at noon, few days
since, the Beaver Park reservoir, in South
St. Vrair Canyon. burst, causing great DAM
age to the surrounding country. The torrent,
which Is estimated to have reached height
of 100 feet, rushed down the canyon with
terrific force, earring away bridges. houses,
barns and everything which obstructed its
path, and flooding the adjacent country, So
far rs learned, TO lives were lost. The dam
age to crops and meadows along the lowlnnds
is very great The reservoir, an immense
affair, covering on nrea of many acres, sup
piled water for the highland ditch, which
traverses large section of land adjacent to
tho mountains.
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APACHE afro CITIES.
Mon, Women and Children Butch
cred in the Southwest.

cred in the Southwest.
Advircs from Silver City, New Mexico
say that since the Apachrs' outbreak at Sun
Carlos Reservation it is estimated that sixty
persons have been killed. Not only have
they taken the lives Of whites thoy
captured, but they havo tortured and
mutilatcd their bodies in q horrible
manner, especially those Of. women
The most horrible butch"ry was that of the
Phillips family. consisting Of cd man fhis-
lips, his son, General Phiiips. wife AMI three
children, the former !iftythrce years old;
General Phillips, aged twenty six, and tn :
CHI ren OF" three an;l o 10 five years Old. len
cral Phil:il s family wcIc ki i,d on their cat
tie ranch within three miles Of Fort Ba%-
ard, where they had hrcn living for
seven years Both General Phillips
anl his father were horribly mutil-
atcl Ono little girl had bcen
taken up hy the hre's and
her her brains dasis.l ont against tile
trees. i little boy WAS iru land matiated,
and tia Dur-y"ar.old girl In c2n hung on
a mcnt-h hook and was found "ume four hours
attcrward hy the reS,r!n% p1rty still hanging
and alive She w;ls un.'nn>ciiS and diea II
few hurrs after being rescued Gne OF tho
rescung posse >GyS lie never hche'l Sill h frlgh!
and agony in il hinan face us was shown by
the litt!c girl. 80,
TEre2 additional prnspcctors were killed mt
the south fof.; ct tn, Whit" wat.r. On" was
Jno bunting. The tcnt was w'inraS'd ny
Buntlng's partner. w!in s:!Tcei in.l IN Killing
two Indians i",.rc the m s.: away. Low
boys discovered the Lodics Of four Indians
killed ny B"nlins and Haynes i'll Magellan
crc"li. covered with stones.
Four mile, from Silver City family OF hvo
Mcxicans were killed The three children
were Drained. Another Mcyi'aa was shot at
the same time but escaped. as also did ms
wife. 4; daylight In" next morning thslt
bov, years ol'!. came to town bringing h'i
infant in his arms. 1t was supposed they hi''l
been killed with the others.
Reports Of killing come from other sections
Mexican troop, are gathering on the horlcr.
waiting for the h"s:ii's /" cross. IN" present
is the most bicoly and h"l't raid made III
many years. The Indians az going through
| well settled sections, where l"ilcco I'M
munity from attack was felt But the people
arc thoroughly aroused. and 1t seems lnpoS'
| s!bie for the indians to get back to their res
ervation. If they lail to find way TO es-
cane to Mexico the campaign will probably
last two on three months Mos: Of the squaws
and children are believed to have gone south
while the bucks kept the attention of the
| frbo,,. q attrocfaI alSaWnnra
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A MINE DISASTER.
Lives Lost I'm a Col1;ery
in EIglaul,

Twenty-Five Lives Lost I'm Col1;erJ
in England.
Fire broke out at noon in the Earl Of Dur
hams colliery, known as the Margaret Pit
near the city OF Durham, England. Abou
$50 men and boys were in the pit at tho tims,
and the excitement was intense. Relative.
of the imprisoned men gathered around ths
mouth of the pit weeping and wailins in The
most heartrending manner.
The fire occurred in the top seam OF the pit
being caused by all explosion. Twenty-Five
men and boys were killed outri cht. The e5
plosinn was followed by rush Of water ir
immense volumes into the Sutton seam. Tht
miners, men and boys, in this seam were
however, all taken out alive. Working par
ties rescued twelve more coliers, leaving only
thirteen mon imprisoned, anil it was hoped
these would also be found still alive.
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The Rev. DR.. Talmage was once a smoker,
hut for many years has abstained from tue
use of tobacco in any shape. "Thirty nine
years ago." he says, ia New York merchant
began to save the money he spent for the six
c;gars day which he had been in tho habit
of smoking, unI s2J, 1G2. 05 was the result at
compound interest Last week he bought
with it a beautiful homs in the country for
his children"
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THE NATIONAL LEAGUE

SOUTHERN LEAGUE.
The clubs composing the Southern League.
with tho exception of tho l'irmmshalnS. seem
to be pretty well equalized in playing strength,
a. there was only variance OF four games
between six of the contestants. The Atlanta
clu;, WAS still in the van with lead of five
victories over tho Nash, lilies, vino are their
ui.~t formidable opponant:.
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Surgeon Sternberger, of the United
States army, holds that "pncumonl" !:
simply the failure of the system to resist
the ravages of micrncocci or sort ol
vegetable fungus growth that exists IL
every healthy human saliva"
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TIE height Of the foundation of the Bar
thold pedestal is Is feet ID inches, Of the pc.
lcSla itself 50 feet, and the statue 10 top OF
torch l5l feet, or Il total Of 3J5 feet 10 inches
Ihe Ee,ght of Trinity Church spire, New
York. is 2St feet, ana Of Brooklyn Bridge
towers 2SS feet
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SONG.

SONG.
II May forgets not April's flowers,
June will
Even hearts that throb and thrill like OURS
Grow still.
July forgets what birds and flowers
juno had
Even hearts whose joy is deep as our
Gr3w sad.
The pale leaves hear not what the flowers
Heard told
Even hearts as passionate as ours
Grow cold.
Tho Spectdtor.
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A Double Faced Musical Creed.

The following literary curiosity is
ascribcd to the Rev. Charles Wesley. 1t
NAV be read in columns or straight
across with opposite effect:
Handel dive secs a downright a.rant block
no man for me Is John Sebastian Bach,
Who can write we'll Why none but German John
Rm old Handel Ought to lie spat npon,
Grorrc Is for air The stup:deat of c0ons
Revord compare II Bach ut graceful tu cs,
10 Hande,'s name We nl propine our hate
civn then thc fame TO Bach's chromalic pate.
Tie Keynote.
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Total winter and sprIng. oGl ,OOJ,9y
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NEWS SUMMARY
Eastern and Middle states.

GEORGE AXTELL entered q restaurant at
Deposit, n y, while drunk, and becoming
enraged at waiter drew revolver and be-
gan to shoot at random. Two men were
killed by his shots, and third-an aged
farmcr-was probably mortallv wounded.
Axtell was arrested and taken to Binghamton.
A DEFICIT of $2O3, 900 in the funds of the
Shackamaxon State bank, Philadelphia has
compelled its suspension. The cashiers lend
ing large sums without authority led to its
failure As many of the depositers are people
in humble circumstances much public excite
ment prevailed The stockholders say they
will pay off every dollar OF indebtedness.
PRESIDENT CLEVELAND and several of his
cabinet members srent Decoration Day III
New York, reviewing the big parade in the
forenoon. visiting General Hancock on Gov
ernor'S Island III the afternoon. and IN tho
evening, accompanied by Governor Hill.
listening to an Grafton in the academy OF
Music by United States Senator EvartS
GENERAL GRANT appeared aG n window OF
his residence in New York on decoration Day
and reviewed some of the Grand Army posts
and veterans that took part Ill the procession.
THE International Typographical Union
he'd its thirtythird annual meeting III New
York, printers from all sections OF the
United States and Canada being i'll attendance
us uclcSulcS.
THE Stewart Memorial Cathedral at Gar
den City, Long ISisnd, was conSecratod with
imoosing ceremonies. an the tit,e deed de-
livercd to Bishop Littleiohn by Mrs. y. I.
Stewart.
RICHARD S. SCorT, paying teller OF tho
bank of the Manhattan Company. i'll New
York, was absent from his post the other
morning, and investigation disclosed that he
had fed, taking along $3.50 900 of the institu::
tion'S funds As the bank has surplus OF
nearly million dollars, SCOTS theft will not
cripple it.
MORE of the United States marines sent to
Panama during the recent disturbances there
arrived the other day in New York on a
steamer from ASpinwall. Anon. the pas
sengers was President ZaIdivar, o! Salvador.
who said to reporter that he had resigned
his office and should spend tho remainder OF
his days abroad.
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| tQeQ ne lou Elc slaL Ol'l sly III
"tStephen, Stephen so leceivin,
| That Old Satan can't believe him."
Here Ben Gryce broke in, begging the
others to go home, and come to "borry',
the hammer the next night. Alb agreed
to the latter proposition, but still sat on
the log and talked. "Old Bob say" he
remarked, chccrfully, 'that when he do
git 'cm, he shakes 'cm-sllakcs the llie
out'n 'em.'
This was inexplicablc. Stephen Ryder
pondered va;nly on it for an instant. But
the oft reiterated formula. "Old Bob
SAYS" caught his cars, and he was abb
sorbcd anew in Abs discourse.
sold Bob says cz my mother air one
of the best women in this world. But
she air so gin ter humoring every critter
a-nigh her, an tends ter 'em so much,
an feeds en- so high an hearty, cz they
ics gifts good fur nothn' in this world.
That's how KEN she air cat out'n house
an homc now. Old Bob say ez how lie
air the hongricst crittcr! Say he jcs' dc.
sp:sc ter see him comm round of meal
times. Old Bob say cf i've hev got emmy
| ROOu lcl III iliil, NY ih ''ASi "'AA "'A' ~
out Wit with kindness.
The blacksmith felt, Il: he turned back
into tho shop and reused the sleepy
headed ''slrikc:,' that within tic hour
all the world had changed for him.
| These coarse taunts were enough to show
in what estimation he was held. And
he had fancicd himself, in countryfed
phase, "rcspccted by all, and had been
proud of his standing!
So the bellows began to sigh and pant
once more, and kept tho red light llarins
athwart in the darkness. The people
down in the valley lookcl up at it,glow-
ing like a star that had slipped ont of
the sky and lodged somehow on tross
mountain, and wondered what Stephen
RYDER could be about so late at night.
When lie left the shop, there was no
sign of the boys who had ornameutcd the
log earlier in the evening. lie walked
up the road to his house, and found his
wife sitting alone in the rlckcty little
porch. ,u
"Hev that thar boy gone ter bed'" he
lsked.
"Waal," she slowly drawlcd, in soft,
,lacid voice, she ken hyar bout n hat-
en- hour ago so nigh crazed ter 60 ter
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that he COulu near Tic tulnulI VI 'ho 'oA
rent far away as it dashed over the rocks.
4 dog suddenly began to bark in the
black, black valey-thcn ceased. Tic
was vaguely overawcd with the big
mountings" for company and the dis
tant stars. lie listened eagerly for the
first cracking of brush which told him
that the boys were near at hand.
Then all three crcpt along cautiously
among the huge bolcs of the trees, feel
ing very mysterious and Important and
az if they were getting much the better
of the blacksmith. When they reached
the rude window Alb sat for moment
on the sill, pccring into the intense black
ness within. =,
"It air dark thar, fur true, Alb, " said
Jim Gryce, growing faint hearted Lies
go back"
"Naw, sir! Nav, sir" protested Ab,
1csolutcly. "l'm on the borry!'
"IIow kin we find that thar little
hammer in sech dark place" urged
Jim.
"Waal," Explained Ab, in his high key,
clad air nightly welded ter his cranky
notions. An he always leaves every tool
in the same place cdzactly every night; It.
Bound fur mcr he continued, in shrlll
cxulta.ion, as he slapped his lean leg, II
know whar that thar little hammer alrsot
ter roost.'
lie iumpcd down from the window In
side the shop, and cuta wiry caper. =,
I'm a man O. bore an muscle. he
Dragged. kin do cnnything.
The other boys followed more 1uletiy'
But they had only Sropcd little als,
lance when Jim Grycc set up a sharp
"shct ycr mouth-yc pop.eyed cata,
mount" Ab admonishcd him. "D''1
will hear an'-ah-h.h" his own words
ended in Il shrek. "Oh, my" vocli,
Grated the "man Of bone and muscle,
who was certainly, too, man OF extra
ordinary lung-powcr. "Oh, my; Ihe
Ground is hot-hot ez iron! on, my
they always tolc me that Satan would
ketch mean oh, my! now he hcv
done it!'
lie joined the "pop.cyed catamount"
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short, we have fully half dozen airs, either of
which is just as much entitled to the honor of
being our national melody az the other.
These songs, do the people of our country, wide
~ differ from each other Thus America" and
the people of Boston are dignifed; Yankee
Doodle and the people of New England are
quaint; the star Spangled Banner and the
people of the Middle States are serious; Dixie
and the people of the South dashing; Hail
Columbia" and the people of the West forcible,
and John Browns Body and the colored people
emotional
All foreigners. as well as the observant in our
own country, agree that we have not yet reached
state Of homogenity as nation; that is to say,
we have not yet donned the staid garb of a
single character as have the nations of
the old world. Here, in this land
of many climates. all sorts of odds and ends and
scraps of humanity are commingled and labeled
American. Even at our very elbows we have
the calm Englishman, the steady German, the
severe Seotcamau the impulsive Irishmar the
fantastic Frenchman, the passionate Italian. and
the emotional negro. The time may possibly
come, few centuries hence, when we Will have
become alike. If so, then will require but q
single national air TO give voice to our mental
callber Now. however, a single melody would
no more express our manifold national characters
than would any one song represent both Ger
mans and Frenchmen.
To-day the Grant memorial services will he
held, beginning at o'clock in the afternoon
To night address will be made by Rev. Dr.
Lynch, who knew General Grant when the latter
was boy, and knew his father and mother
intimately. Rev. Bidwell Lane. of Central VI.
K. Church, New York. will also speak. The
camp meeting will begin Sunday Rev.
RldWell Lane will preach morning and evening
and Rev. S. l.. Bowman in the afternoon.