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7 PROHIBITIONISTS. * "Xlte Totting at Harrlslturg and the Platform Adopted. In the prohibition convention at Harris burg the committee on resolutions reported r a platform advocating in general tho pro oibition of tho importation , manufacture = and sale of. intoxicatins liquors for the purpose and use as a beverage ; that , fail Ing to procure redress for wrongs inflicted from its evil by petition to the legislature through either party , the prohibition party nas been organized to right it at tho ballot- box ; that no vote shall bo castforany man who does not stand upon their platform ; that they endorse the Woman's Christian Temperance union and congratulate them upon the success attained in tho legislature last writer ; that tho qualifications for na tional and stato officers should bo based upon proved capacity and faithful ness , not in party consideration ; that cml-servico reform is favored in its exten sion and application to all purely adminis trative and clerical positions , that the "spoils" system must be eliminated from political contests ; full protection of every voter should be secured , and disfranchise- inent be a penalty to all Avho in any Avay corrupt or interrupt a ballot ; that the Sabbath day should be protected from profanation by secular pursuits and pleas ures ; labor and capital should be such as to secure equal protection to both. The platform also contains the following : That the _ republican and democratic parties , in their failure to carry out tho mandates ol the constitution against discrimination of freight rates on our public lines of carriage , and the apportionment of the state into congressional and assembly districts , merit the condemnation of the citizens oi the commonwealth. The resolution was adopted as read. A campaign fund of $1,000 was raised by subscription and cash. Ben Spanglcr. of Marietta , wan nominated for state treasurer almost by acclamation , several other candidates re ceiving but a few A'otcs. After appointing a state committee and electing the old of- jficers , the convention adjourned. 3CHE SOUTHERN WONJOER-ZAND. KcituirJfatlc Beauty , Wealth and Resources of Hie Argentina Rrptlilic What the Com mission Will Tell Congress of a Near Neigh borhood Whcrt Our Flag is Seldom. Seen. In the report of the South American com mission , prepared for congress on its visit to the Argentine Republic , the commission ers say : More than forty steamers monthly leave the harbors of Buenos Ayres for for eign portsladen with products of the valley of the river Platte , the largest component of which is tho political division known as the Argentine Republic. There aro also , every month , hundreds of sailing vessels de parting from the city , haA'ing cargoes al mostwholly destined to European ports. Not one of these steamers flies tho Hag of our country , and only one-fifth of the sail ing vessels is anAmerican bottom. Thirty years ago our country enjoyed a large and prosperous commerce with the Platte val ley , but since the a-dvent of steam commu nication , und the effect bl our civil Avar on our ocean marine , the flag of our nation is rarely seen in these waters , and petty na tions of the old world are better known through their national cnsignhere than our own. Yet every American of long residence in this country , and overy citizen of it wh lias traveled in our land , will tell you the Argentine Republic is the United States of South America. In many re spects this observation is founded on strik ing similarities. In round numbers the area of the republic coA'ers 1,200.000 square miles. The northern limit lies under tropical skies. In tho central region there are A-ast plains where they feed , as the president informs us , over 80,000.000 head of sheep , and from 16,000,000 to 18,000.000 head of cattle , in addition to droves of horsea of uncounted numbers , one owner having over 60,000 mares he is about to slaughter for their hides and grease. The report gives in detail the pro ducts of tho country , and saya tons of wheat and flour are being exported. That portion of the land seems to have capacity lor the production of the two grains of the world , at least of Europe and the western hemisphere , and there are also along the western portion of the republic mines of silver of unknown value , some believe them to be extensive. The soil and climate are greatly diversi fied , but that it neverbecomea so cold as to make it necessary to feed stock. Sheep- raising has increased 32 per cent since 1875 and is largely in the hands of the British subjects. There has been no increase in the herds of cattle. The' country has 2,800 miles of railroad built and many thousand miles more projected. Foreign colonies have been encouraged for many years , and Italy has sent a larger number of immi grants into the country than any other na tion. They are so numerous that they could take possession of the goArernment if they so willed. In fact it was once feared they would do so. The goA'ernmentfosters education , contributing$4,000,000toward it. There are twenty-two normal schools taught by American ladies , according to system , and these ladies are praised very highly. There are also two universities and fourteen national colleges and schools of mines and asriculture. Indians ATust Obey Indian Ixnrs. Tho interior department has been in formed by Inspector Gardiner , who has been assisting the Indians and half-breeds sn the vicinity of the Turtle Lake ( Dak. ) resjrvations in taking up homesteads on public lands , that the land office at Devil's Lake is receiving homestead filings on lands in that locality from half-breeds as citizens. Tho inspector has been instructed that Indians and half-breeds are not citi zens and can only becomo such under special laws enacted by congress. They can take homesteads only as Indians sub ject to restrictions as to alienation pro vided for in the Indian homestead law. If they secure patents for homesteads without such restrictions many , if not all of them , will soon part Avith the lands and again take refuge upon some reservation as a charge upon the government. If the In dians patent their land under the Indian tiomestcad law they cannot part with them for a period of twenty-five years. CEREAXS ZY THE NORTHWEST. Reports Gmrally Encouraging Tlic Wlieat Turning OutXetter than was Expected. AMinneapolis dispatch says that reports from all stations on the different railroads running into the grain-growing country in dicate that crops are generally in good con dition. Numerous private dispatches sub stantiate this , and different parties return- in ? from extended trips of investigation affirm that wheat is for the better part looking and turning out better than was expected two weeks ago. The most unfav orable reports are from the line of the Northern Pacific. This section has hereto fore produced the best wheat coming into the market , but this season there seems a falling off in quality , bringing it nearer tho crop of the southern part of the state. The substance of nearly 1,000 reports re ceived in one day is that the wheat yield is larger than it Aras believed it would be , with the quality good : Nothing has been received from the best and really reliable sources that would warrant the statement that the croo IB a , 1 a * V ffVv disappointment in any way. It is admit ted now , as it has been from tba first , that the crop Avould fall short of last year , but it is said by good authority that thcshort- nge will not bo as heavy as feared. An ngent of the elevators on the Hastings and Dakota division of the Milwaukee and St. Paul road , came in from a review of 400 miles of that road. He said that the grain is threshing out better than ho had any idea it would. Reports-on the Omaha line are to the effect that the average in qual ity and quantity is from fair to good. On the Manitoba it is the same. At some places the average yield is said to exceed .vhat was expected , and at no place does it fall under. The Northern Pacific Beams to have been the most affected by'the ' blight , 10 that the average grade will not be as high as usual. Colonel G. D. Rogers , ho hoars daily from all the wheat-growing cen tres , says that it is true that at some points wheat is not threshing out as well as it should , but for the best part the crop w good and does not warrant reports of damage circulated for purely speculative purposes. SUICIDE OF A. RANK OFFICIAL. Irregularities in His Accounts tlio Cause of the Hash Act. Ex-Treasurer Adams , of the Farming- ham ( Mass. ) savings bank , whose accounts were recently made the subject of a special investigation by Bank Commissioner Gatchell , and whoso resignation was re quested , committed suicide at tho bank on the 24th , by cutting his throat. "When found a revolver lay besido him , which , it is supposed , he intended to use provided the razor did not accomplish the work. In the forenoon , the ex-treasurer , who all through the trouble which the bank has been experiencing for the past few days , appeared to be very cool and collected , came from South Farminghara from his Fnrmingham Center home , and went to one of his lawyers' residences in Nobscoto block , where the savings bank is located. Here during the forenoon , he remained for some time , and assisted in figuring up the interest accounts of depositors who had come to draw their money. Shortly after 2 o'clock Mr. Gatchell ar rived at the lawyer's office and began to look over Adams' ledger. Adams then went down into the bank and killed him self. He leaves a widow , daughter and two sons. Adams held a prominent position in the community , socially and financially. Gatchell made a statement in which ho says that there are many irregularities in the accounts of Adams. The check books are , he says , in a very unsatisfactory con dition. The stubs are improperly filled out , in some cases blindly and in some cases blank. He and his son drew an un known sum for use in their private busi ness and Adams drew over 52,000 in the last two months for personal expenses. He was very lax in attending to tho bank's business. The interest on § 172,000 loaned on mortgages and due last April had not yet been collected , while much of it was far more in arrears. Part of the bank divi dends had not been paid for a year and a half. The books are being examined by an expert. THE COURT OF CLAIMS. A Decision of the First Comptroller of tlx. Treasury that May Embarrass It. 'Washington dispatch : The first comptrolter of the treasury , has made a ruling that is likely to embarrass the court of commission ers of the Alabama claims for some time to come. It is in effect that the employment of twenty-four persons borne on the rolls of the court , Is entirely without warrant of law and that no payments can legally be made from the treasury on their account in the future Mr. Andrew H. Allen , disbursingagent of the court , recently made requisitions on the secretary of the treasury for $9,000 , to meet the current expenses of the court In the usual course of business the reouisition came before the first.comptroller , and he decided to make an Investigation of the affairs of the court before authorizing : the issue of the nec essary warrants. His conclusions are sum marized in the following statement prepared by him for publication : The court of com missioners of Alabama claims was created in 1874 to hear proof of the claims to be paid out of the 515,500,000 awarded by the Geneva commission , and was continued by various acts until .December 31 , 18i7. It was con stituted of five judges , with an annual salary of 556,000 , a clerk at 53,000 , a stenographer at 2,500. and an attorney to represent the Un ited States at § 8,000. Provision was also made for the rent of a court room , furniture , stationary , fuel and other necessary incidental expenses , all of whch ! were to be raid out of the fund before judgments were paid. The court was re-organized in 18S2 with the same offi cers and salaries as before except that the number of judges were reduced to three. The comptroller in investigating the case found that outside of the above named officers there were on the pay roll the names of assistant counsel for the United States clerk to said counsel of experts , messengers and watch men , whose aggregate salaries amounted to § 34,500 per year. He also found in the quar terly returns that there had been paid to other ass stant counsel over $8OCO for the quarter ending December 31,1881 , and about 67.000 for the quarter ending March 31 , IbSo , besides other illegal payments. He says he dnds no law authorizing said pavments , and after consulting with the acting "secretary of the treasury , and with the solicitor of the treasury , he has decided to stop future pay ment of the same. TTiiere raise iiair comes rrom. Several tons of fair hair are annually exported from Franco to England and Germany. Tho most luxuriant heads of hair in IVance are to be found among the peasantwomen of Normandy. Brit tany yields plentiful crops , but of coarse quality and lacking in luster. Limoges and its neighborhood are productive of exceptionally long and glossy black hair. Throughout the North of Prance dull hues characterize the growths , a Fact which the dealers attribute to the influence of the sea air upon the human Iiair , whicli , in inland mountainous dis tricts , is generally found to be dark and bright in color , and to grow with great rapidity to abnormal length and weight. The French hair-dealer's chief customer is America , wliither is annually exported as much of the commodity in question as is sent to Great Britain and Germany together. Diameter of Cyclones. Cyclones extend over a circle from 109 to 500.mile3 in diameter , and sometimes 1,000 miles. In the "West Indies they are sometimes as small as 100 miles in diameter , but on reaching the Atlantic they dilate to 600 or 1.000 miles. Some- tunes , on the contrary , they contract in their progress ; and , while contracting , they augment fearfully in violence. The violence of the wind increases from the margin to the center , where the atmos phere is frequently quite calm. "Hannah. " said a landlady to her servant , "when there's any bad news always lei the boarders know it before dinner. Such little things make a great | iifference in the course of a year. f ] FIGURING UP THE EXPENSE. UndertaJet-r Merritt STaJlnti Out His Hill o Costs in the Grant Funeral. New York dispatch ol the 2Srh : Under taker Stephen Merritt , who had the luncra of Gen. Grant in charge , is making up hi bill for the entire expenses of the funeral Thene has been put in circulation stories to the aifect that when the cost of tho ex president's burial should be made known the people would be shocked at the exorbi tant rates charged. Mr. "William Merritl says : "The"statements that we intendet to charge excessively for Gen. Grant'f funeral are erroneous. That the bill wil' be of an unusual amount , in comparison with any ordinary burial , of course anyone with an ounce of common sense can under stand. But so far as its coming up to $30 , 000 , because it may have to be paid by the government , is concerned ; that is nothing but a stretch of the imagination for sensa tional purposes. When our bill is put ir there will not beoneitemthatcannotstanc full investigation or comparison. We have not yet completed the whole making out o the "bill , and as to whether the expense will all be borne by the government , even that I cannot now state as a certain ty. In the firbt place , when the genera diedno received a telegraphic dispatcl from Col. Fred Grant at Mt. McGregor or dering us to come up that night and take charge of the body and funeral arrange ments. Then , after that , we received .a verbal order from Col. Hodges , of the quar termaster's department , to have carriages and attendants on hand for the president , vice-president , and Gen. Hancock and staff , and other military and official dignitaries. Then came the verbal order from the war department as to the cnnopy or funeral car and other details. Well , the bill to the quartermaster "was sent down to-day. To supply the carriages we secured them all by contract for tho day. They cost $10 each , there being 500 in all , while the carriages oi and Gen. Han the president , vice-president cock and staff will foot that expense up to something like $5,000. Thebill for the war department we will now send in , but the expense relating to the arrangement at Sit. McGregor and the casket , case , and more private details , we will hold to receive fur ther orders about. But we expect the gov ernment may take the whole expensft on its shoulders , as the general was one of the country's greatest men. The steel case which was made for tho casket was fur- nishod to us at cost price , and so it will go in the bill. " THAT MONUMENT AT The New York [ General Committee Tolling Measures j'or Its Erection. New York dispatch : Out"of tho GOO members of the general committee of tin- Grant Fund association , but. sixty attend ed to-day the special meeting in the Mutual Life building. Mayor Grace presided. He said that enough money could bo raised for the monument , but it must bo con fessed it is coming in more slowly than was expected. Ho thought it well for each member to subscribe , irrespective of what others may do. He would give his check for $500. The Grant family made the se lection of the'place of burial originally in accordance with the general's expressed wishes , after due reflection on their part. This should be sufficient answer to unnec essary cavils from any quarter. The park board were duly authorized , and had the power to grant the right of sepulture at Claremont. Ex-Gov. Cornell , the chairman of the ex ecutive committee , said that it was the purpose of the committee to make every bank in the United States an agent for th& collection of the fund. As fast as possible agents and correspondents were being es tablished in every city in the union. A large increase in contributions might soon be expected. In a long discussion the opinion of "many members was expressed as to the amount bhat could be raised. Ex-Go v. Cornell said that it would be an everlasting shame if a memorial to cost at least $1,000,000 could not be raised to mark the resting place of the man who saved the union. It was decided unanimously that the amount which the committee would set out to raise would be $1,000,000 , and as much more as possible. To-day's subscriptions bring the total of the fund to § 4 = 7,000. TITO OF A KIJiD. Tjynchers of Dakota and Texas Get in Their Work. Dapids City ( Dak. ) dispatch : Wednes day night Dr. Lynch , a physician practic ing at Sturgts , was shot and killed by some unknown person. Suspicion attached to a negro named Corporal Hollis , of Company A , Twenty-fifth regiment , stationed at Ft. Meade , two miles from Sturgis. Yesterday lie was arrested , conf'Bsed the crime , and about midnight last night he was taken just outside of town and lynched. It is said that Hollis had been keeping company with a wench , and not Ion ? since abused lier shamefully , breaking three of her ribs. Dr. Lynch attended her and advised her to prosecute Hollis , as she was permanently injured by him. The doctor being the only witness against hhn.Hollis shot him toput him out of the way. Information from San Marcos , Texas , reports that a mob of 75 persons at Blan co went to the jail and demanded of Sheriff Jackson the keys. Jackson did not have them , and declared he could not procure them. After a struggle Jackson was over- powered and the keys found on his person. The mob entered the jail , took out Lockie , the man who committed the wholesale murder in Johnson City a few days ago , and hanged him after obtaining a state ment in regard to hiscrinies. Lockie made a full confession and said he had intended to kill the members of three or four fami lies besides those he murdered. He was prevented , from doing so by his cartridges giving out. UTayor Harrison's Technicality. Chicago dispatch : This afternoon Carter H. Harrison's attorney , Allan C. Story , submitted an answer to the bill filed by the citizens about two months ago disputing Harrison's title to the mayoralty of Chi cago by reason of numerous miscounts stated to have been made in the vote and innumerable frauds alleged to have been committed at the polls in the interest of Harrison. Tho answer is in the nature of a demurrer , generally denying the allegations of the bill and giving fifteen reasons whyin the opinion of the defendant , the case is not entitled to a regular trial in court. These reasons are largely of a technical character , and charges among other things that no case for relief has been stated in the citi zens' petition , and that the petitioners fail to show that they have any interest what ever in the subject of the mattor. Objec tion is also made to the alleged vagueness of the petition , want of affidavits and other like vital omissions. The late Commander Gorringe cherished among his other treasures a fragment of coal marked d stinctiy with fern leaves , which had been found in the Arctic snows bv a polar explorer. Shipments of oranges from Los An- feles county , California , to the east ave about ceased for the season. TheFastestStcanieriiitlicTTG'tfcl The fastest steam yaclit afloat s the Stiletto. She is a strange lookin ; little vessel , ninety-five feet long anc eleven feet in beam a perfect water knife. She has a straight bov ; , am her widest part is a little forward o amidships. Prom that point to tho stern she diminishes in width till she ends in a sharp point. The stern lies low in the water , so that tin boat has the appearance of pointing her nose into the air. She has a high freeboard in proportion to her si/.o , and her flush decks are enclosed witl : a light railing. Her rig is that of a three-masted schooner , and her little masts look like walkin sticks. Hei singlo funnel , situated forward of tho main mast , is painted a dirty gray. Her hull is painted black about a foot and a half above the water , and the rest of it is white. Her row of portholes in the white part look like pinheads in a sheet of note paper. She had a race on tho Hudson lliver recently with the Mary Powell , which has heretofore claimed to be the fastest boat in the country. The contrast between the two boats was extraordinary. Tho big wheels of one smote the waters defiantly , clouds of smoke rolled out > i her smokestacks , and her walking beam plunged up and down with a force that made her decks tremble. The other , little and slim , looked like a needle on the water , through which she slid with an easy , graceful motion , flinging the spray behind her. The two boats cut the waves nose to nose , and the Powell's pilot eyed his saucy neigh bor a trifle anxiously. Soon the fire men began to shovel on the coal , tho steam gauge showed a pressure of thirty-sis pounds , and the river boat bounded ahead. But the yacht's smoke-stack belched out an angry cloud , and she whisked up to her first position , bow to bow. The Powell made another effort to win the advantage , and crowded the steam to a pressure of thirty-nine pounds. But the yacht was equal to the occasion and refused to yield an inch. The next moment a great sweeping streak of silver foam was flung off the Stiletto's sheer , and a glistening , boiling white mass of spume shot out from under her sharp stern. A moment later two jets of water were shooting three feet into the air be hind her , and her bow was cutting through the water like a bullet through the air. She gave a great loap for ward , and every living soul on board the Mary Powell , from the captain in the wheel down to the cook in the kitch en , opened his mouth and eyes , held his breath , and stared with the con centrated essence of his whole soul. "Great Scott and huckleberries ! " ex claimed a deck hand ; "look at that ! " The Stiletto was simply walking away from the Mary Powell , and in a short time was one hundred yards ahead of her. The one hun dred grew to two hundred and then to three hundred. Down in theneighbor- hood of the steamboat's engine'room things were lively. The engineer was watching his steam gauge and running in and out to see where the yatchtwas. The firemen were ramming coal into thefurnaces atagreatrate. TheMary Powell is allowed to carry forty pounds of steam. At one time her jauge showed thirty-eight. It was no use , however. The little boat kept right on crawling away from her , and at Tarrytown light it was plain to see that the Stiletto was a winner. She was off Sing Sing at 4:45 : , having done the distance , a "little less than thirty miles , in Ih 17 m. The Mary Powell's time vras Ih 24m. Kussell Snjje Losing His Grip. Sage lost altogether last year , it is estimated , § 8,000,000. He is still a very wealthy man , but his losses have made him very cautious. lie is , in 'act , so cautious that he is doing no business nowadays to speak of. He writes very few privileges , and now that he does not feel sure , will not en tail loss. He takes no chances. He ceased to be a power in the "Street , " and nobody who knows him believes bhat he will ever again acquire any thing like his old temerity. He is thoroughly frightened. The prospect of a loss , even a small one is terroriz ing. Sage will probably degenerate into what in the "Street" is known as a "coupon clipper. " He will buy bonds bearing a sure rate of interest , collecting the interest when it falls due. He will not dare risk his money on the rise and fall of values. Brooklyn Un ion. Bartholdi's Statue of Liberty soon to be erected in New York , is nearly 165 feet in height from the foot to the top of the torch held in the right hand , and including the pedestal , 305.11 feet above mean low water mark. The East river bridge towers are each 273 'eet high , so that the torch of Liberty is more than twenty-seven feet above their top stones. The statue is of copper sheets in a large number of sec- lions beaten by the repousse process nto.the desired form. The sheets are icld in place by an ingenious and in tricate system of iron trusswork. Every scientific precaution has been ; aken to secure the statue acainst the brce oi the wind and hold it immov ably in place. It will be attached to a series of iron stays embedded in the masonry of the pedestal and when once in position it is thought it will jo as firm as if it were part of the na tive reckon which it will stand. Elec tric lights will make it a shining bea con to be seen many miles away at light , while during the day its stupen dous size will command the notice of every one who enters the beautiful bay. The "blanket" newspaper sheets of Chicago have been surpassed by the Sews of that city in the publication of brty-four pages , forty of them , how ever , being devoted to the list of delin quent taxpayers of Cook county , sug gestive of the factthat all of Cook county is to be sold for taxes. ox StrangB Incidents In IJtralTJfo Tho Story iliut General Uuclcuer'i Tilarriago 15o- eolls. General Simon Buolcner , who re mained and surrendered1 Fort Donel- son to Grant after FJoycl and Pillow ran away , was married at Richmond recently to Miss DeliaClaiborne , one of the society bells of that cityHe is 55 and she 27 years of age. Some of the incidents directly tnd indirectly connected with General Buckner's ca reer are full of romantic interest. They are thus sketched in the New York World : He was always a conspicuous man in society and when he Avas made a General in the Confederate army he was the popular idol of th& day through out all the Soutlrvesf popu larity which was intensified even by what was considered his misfor tune at Fort Donelson. Handsome. brave , with a fine figure and gallant bearing , a perfect horseman and an accomplished man of the world , he was the typical young cavalier of the South. He was married sometimebe- fore the war to a Miss Kingsbury , who died after a few years of married life , and whose brother was an officer in the regular army. Lieutenant Kings- bury and his sister were joint heirs to a large fortune , mainly in Chicago real estate. Before leavingfor his post with the army in Tennessee , General Buck- ner had an interview with his brother- in-law , and made over to him all of Mrs.Buckner's estate. This was to pro tect it from confiscation , but it was verbally understood between them that the property was to be held in trust. If General Buckner survived the issue of the approaching conflict it- was to be returned to him. If not , it was to be made over to his only child , Lillie Buckner. Lieutenant Kincsbury fell mortally wounded in one of the first battles in Virginia. Realizing too late that he had made no testementary provision by which Mrs. Buckner's property should not go in with his own estate he told to a comrade the story of his agreement with his sister's husband. For some reason his dying wishes were either not communicated to or were disregarded by his wife , his only heir , and she entered into possession of the entire property. The warclosed. Gen eral Buckner came back to Louisville and asked of Mrs. Kingsbury the re storation of his daughter's estate. Mrs. Kingsbury refused to consider the question , and a suit of recovery was brought. It was one of the great cases of the day , and was finally , af ter years of litigation , fully decided in General Buckner's favor. His counsel was Robert Wooley , of Louisville , a brother of Colonel Charles AVooley , of Cincinnati , and a near con nection by marriage with Sallie Ward , the famous Southern beauty. It was said that his fee was $1 00,000. General Buckner at once began to ex tensively improve his Chicago proper ty. The fire came , and in a day he was poorer by half a million dollars. When , however , his daughter married Morris Belknap , of Louisville , two years ago , she was one of the great heiresses of the South. Mrs. Kingsbury lived in Newport after her husband's death. She was a beautiful and charming woman , and remained a widow onlyfor a few years. Then she married General Lawrence , eldest son of ex-Governor Lawrence , the richest man in Rhode Island. It will be remembered that , afterthe peril which the arrival of General Butler's troops barely averted , the cadets and appliances of the Naval School at Annapolis were removed to Newport. The young and lovely Mrs. Kingsbury was easily the acknowl edged belle among the impressible cadets , and when the class of 1878 was graduated it was generally understood that she had engaged herself to Hugh McKee , a member of that class from Kentucky and a brother of Major George McKee , of the ordnance , who is now stationed at Sandy Hook. Hugh McKeo was a marvelous young fellow in his way. He was brave to reck lessness , with magnetic elements of character which made him not only the most popular man of his class , but even , without the circumstances of his tragic death , the best remembered of the young officers of thenavy. He was killed while leading a small detachment up the walls of a Corean fort during our short but decisive war with that people some twelve years ago , and a memorial tablet to his memory hangs on the walls of the academy chapel at Annapolis one of a dozen commem orating the most heroic acts in the history of our navy. The story of what just preceded his death is told by one of his associates. When Hugh McKee was ordered to the Pacific squadron he left these shores with the promise from Mrs. Kingsbury that she would become his wife on his return. One day , in Nagas aki harbor , the American mail Avas brought to the mess-room of his ship. A young lieutenant looked up from a letter he Avas reading with the ejacu lation : "Say , boys , guess who is mar ried ! " McKee was standing just back of him , fronting a classmate who knew of his engagement. "It's Mrs. Kings- bury , " continued the first speaker. "She Avas married to General LaAvrence a month ago. " The narrator says that McKee made one step forward , his handsome face distorted , his teeth set and his fists clinched as if he Avould strike the read er. Then he recovered himself , Avent aboAe and walked the deck all that night. It was shortly before that time that an American trading ship , the General Sherman , Avhile ascending the Piengyang river , in Corea , Avas attacked by natives , destroyed and her officers and crew murdered. Admiral Rodgers started Avith his fleet from Nagasaki immediately on receipt of the news , sailing for Corea. Arrivingattheforts in the river Yan. a force of marines and sailorsAverelanded. McKcebecged to be put in command of a detachment , rushed in advance of his men up the mud Avails of the fort and fell dead in side pierced through the heart by a Corean spear. The hapless denouncement of the Hsu marriage to General Albert GallatirJ Lawrence-will be recalled. Mrs. Law rence a few years since eloped AvithMr. Van Ness , an attache oi the Belgian Legation to this country. General Lawrenceprocured a divorce. Mr. Van Ness married Mrs. Lawrence , ami was sent by his Government to Egypt , where he died. Mrs. Lawrence still has a large income fro in her money of the Kingsbury estate an income which was not so much impaired by the Chi cago fire aswas Miss Buckner's. An Ecuadorian City. Guayaquil Cor. of Chicago Inter-Ocean. There is no fresh water in town , but all the people use is brought on rafts from a place twenty miles up tho river , and is peddled about theplacein casks carried upon the backs of donkeys or men. The donkeys all wear pan talettes not , however , from motives of modesty , as the native children all go entirely naked , and tho men and women nearly so but to protect their legs and bodies from the gadfly , which bites fiercely here. Bread as well as water is peddled about the town in the same way , but vegetables are brought ii down the river onraftsand in dugouts , which are hauled up on the beach in long rows , and present a busy and in- teiesting scene. Guayaquil is famous for the finest pineapples in the world great juicy fruits , as white as snow and as sweet as honey. It is also famous forits hats and hammocks , made of thepita fiber , a sort of palm. The well known Pana ma hats are all made in Guayaquil , but got their name because Panama mer chants formerly controlled the trade. They are braided under water , by native women , of strands often twelve and fifteen feet long , and fine ones are very expensive. A woman often takes two and three weeks to braid a single hat , which sells for § 5 or $ B , and wears forever. I saw a hat in Guayaquil which is said to be worch § 250. It was made of a single straw or fiber , as fine"as thread and as sofb as silk , and the woman who made it was engaged four months in the work. The quinine trade has almost died out , as the forests of Ecuador have been stripped of the bark , and the trees have thus been destroyed. In tho meantime the trees have been intro duced into the East Indies by tho British Government , where they have been cultivated with great success , thus securing a better quality of qui nine with less trouble. Quinine , or Peruvian bark , was discovered by the. Jesuits in Ecuador in 1030 , and was named "Chinchona , " after the Coun tess of Chinchona , the wife of the Vice roy. A Queer City in the Air. The Pueblo of Acoma , situated nine ty miles west of Albuquerque , is one of the most remarkable communities in New Mexico or the United States. In the middle of a valley six miles in width stands a butte , and on the top of this is Acoma. Eight hundred peo ple are living there , and they and their ancestors have gathered there the sum of their possessions for nearly three centuries. This butte is one of the many that are remnants of a mesa that has been worn away by the erosion of the ages , and survives only in flat-topped mountains here and there. The valleys between are fertile , and untold generations of men have seen them covered with men and flocks of sheep. Some time in the seventeenth century the Laguna or valley Indians made war upon the Acomas for the possession of the country , and the latter being the weaker , occupied this butte as a de fensive position believed to be impreg nable. Their judgment has ueen abundan tly vindicated. It has proved a Gibralter of strength and safety. The comparison is not inappropriate , and in approachins it from the north I was struck with the resemblance to the pictures I have seen of that grim old fortress that frowns over the strait of the Mediterranean. The height above the valley is nearly four hun dred feet , and 'the walls in several places are nearly perpendicular. There are two means of ascent , one by a flight of steps cut in the face of the wall and rising at an angle of forty-five degrees , and the other by a fissure in the rocks leadingup into the heart of the mountain. Both ways have been trodden by human feet until the steps are hollowed out like shallow troughs. Either one is exceedingly difficult , and neither is tolerably safe. Women at the Fall of Khartoum. Women and children were robbed of their jewels of gold and jewels of silver , of their bracelets ; necklaces of precious stones , and carried off to be sold to the Bishareen merchants as slaves. Yes ; and white women , too Egyptians and Circassians who wore the Durko over their faces , the rabtah , and the turban , and the kurs on then ? heads ladies clad in silks and satin gibbehs and sultahs. Mother and daughter alike were draped off from their homes of comfort. These were widows , wives and daughters of Egyptian officers , some of whom had been killed with Hicks Pasha ; wives and children of Egyptian merchants formerly rich , owning ships and mills , gardens and shops. These were sold afterward , some for 3-iO thaleries or more , some for 250 , according to age and good looks. And the poor black women al ready slaves and their children were taken off , too. These were sold , too , for 100 , 80 or 70 thaleries. Their hus bands and masters were slain before their eyes , and yet I hear it said there was no massacre at the taking of Khartoum ! London News. "A breath of free western air and a view of Lake Michigan , " is the pre scription of a Chicago paper for Gen. Grant. It is unfortunate that the physicians do not regard these thinga as essential to hia comfort and ulti mate recovery.
