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A FERRY BRIDGE SINKS,
And Six Hundred People are Thrown int°
the Water.
RECOVERING THE BODXEV.
A Halifaxr
despatoh o[ Friday night says
A terrible accident occurred in Dartmouth
tonight, by whioh a number of people were
drowned, but the exact number of victims
will not . be known till to -morrow. The
dieaster happened by a chain attached to a
terry float slipping out of plane, allowing
the front of the bridge to sink and preoipit
Ming a crowd of six or seven hundred men,
women anti children into the water. The
people were crowded there waiting for the
new ferry steamer Annex, just arrived
from New York, to look. When the steamer
got within two feet, of the landing a num-
ber jumped on board, and at that moment
the aooident 000urred. The outer end of
`the bridge went down suddenly, and the
horror•etriokon crowd slipped off into the
lather as thengh they were descending a
.[elide, piling on top of each other,
SIIRIEIUING FOR TIELP
and eorambling for means of safety. For
some minutes there was a confused crowd
sot men, women and children struggling in
the water, but the aooident had hardly hap-
pened before a dozen brave youths and men
leaped to the rescue without waiting to
throw aside their clothes. The drowning
,people were rapidly passed up to men
-standing above on the wharves, and the
rapidity with whioh the rescuers performed
their work resulted in the great majority of
those who fell in being saved from death.
There were many able swimmers in the
pry, and these worked till. exhausted,
the:.r ilcg people to land until there were no
mors in sight on the surface, and those
who could not be saved had sunk out of
sight. When the crowd slipped off the
landing stage the people around, number-
ing some hundreds, crowded to the sides of
the wharf and threw alleles and boards to
the struggling mass, while a number of life -
preservers were thrown to thorn from the
steamer. Many people were struck and
injured by the flying boards, and all the
bodies recovered bear outs and bruises.
EFFORTS TD SAVE LIFE.
The statements of spectators show that
most of those who fell in were women and
ohildred, and the soenes immediately fol-
lowing the disaster were frightful. Several
,men and their wives were thrown in, and
the former struggled heroically to save
their loved ones, succeeding in every in-
atanoa, so far as known. Harry Silver was
thrown in with his wife and managed to
get her out safely. A man named Brodie
saw his wife struggling in the dock and
leaping in, managed to save her life. A.
woman named Logan was thrown in with
a young child in her arms, and her efforts
to preserve the life of the infant were dis•
tressing. Both were finally brought ashore
alive. An elderly man named Edward
Foster and bis daughter fell in together,
and the former was saved in the nick of
time, but was so frantic over the loss of his
daughter that he could hardly be dragged
'ashore. He was persuaded that his
daughter was safe, but the poor girl was a
corpse when taken out. When all those in
sight had been brought to land the work of
grappling for the drowned ones was com-
amenced.
ii HOW MANY WERE DROWNED ?
'Within two hours four bodies had been
'recovered, but up to midnight no other
wiotims had been found. It is believed
that at least three or four others were lost,
tut the exact number cannot be told at
present. Intense excitement prevailed in
Dartmouth and Halifax when the news of
the disaster spread, and thousands flocked
to the eoene, where they remained till a
late hoar watching those working in the
water. Owing to the confusion it is im-
possible to tell who are missing, but the
number cannot bo large. Divers are now
searching ander the water for farther
.wiotims.
BODIES RECOVERED.
The names of those whose bodies have
lbeen recovered are : Mies Bessie Foster,
-daughter of Edward Foster ; Peter Boyle,
•a Crimea veteran ; Mies Allio Synott,
daughter of Michael •
Synott ; John Bundy,
a colored boy.
SALISBURY WEAKENING.
The Postponement Dleasure to Stand—An
Skutumn Session.
A London gable says : In the House of
• Commons today W. H. Smith stated that
• in view of the'late,period of the session the
Government had decided not to proceed
with the standing order relating to the
postponement of the consideration of bills
;from one minion to another. It had also
-decided to drop the Irish Lend Purchase
(Bill and the Tithes Bill daring the preeent
session, but to again introduce them at the
next session, whioh would open in Novem-
ber. In conclusion, Mr. Smith said ho
trusted that before the House was pro•
rogued it would pass the Bill providing for
the cession of Heligoland to Germany, the
Local Taxation Bill, the Bill providing for
the housing of the working classes, and the
,Census Bill.
Sir William Vernon Harooart said he
')eoped the Government would consult the
House about holding a meeting of Parlia-
•rfent in November. Mr. Gladstone ex-
ipressed a similar wisb. Mr. Smith said
•the Government was satisfied as to the
.convenience of a session in November. The
'Opposition will resist to the utmost any
proposal for the reassembling of Perlia-
;Ment before January.
Advice to Husbands.
Married men do not consult their wives
as mach as they should. There is nothing
more than justice in thio view of matri-
monial obligation, eepeoially in the case of
poor, or only moderately well•to:do
families, and these comprise an over-
whelmingly, largo proportion of the
' families of this oonntry, where a alight
increase or diminution in the anneal earn.
ings is felt alike by every member. The
wife, who has bo
labored in the house to earn
the husband hike labored inb
e while ae o
or save,
the field, the shop or the counting -room is
justly a partner in his earnings and
should share in all plans for
savings and ho
disposing of their small aooamulatione, so •
as to make them more productive if all goes
well.— Waterloo Observer.
Salisbury as an Auctioneer,
The main cartoon in a late issue of the
Pall Mall Gazette has for its snbjeot the
Angle•German Territorial Convention.
Lord Salisbury is represented as an ane•
tioneer conducting a sale, the gathering of
intending purchasers including faces typi-
cal of France, Germany, Russia, Spain,
Italy and the United Mates. Behind the
auctioneer's desk are bills announcing that
Mestere. Salisbury & Co. will sell by and -
tion the British Empireoin lots, including
Gibraltar, Malta, the Channel 'alienate, the
Isle of Man, also Canada, Newfoundland,
Heligoland, Ceylon. No reasonable offer
refused."
tonsiness whatin
'
Advertising is eteais b
to machi
dery—the grand ro ellin
g power.
•-112acsallltty.
POSTMEN AND POLICE.
The Cabinet Considers the hatter—Ports-
mouth Policy Disaffected.
A London gable says The Cabinet
Council held yesterday devoted =oh of its
time to discussion of the petite! situation,
and fully sustained the action of Sir
Edward Bradford and Postmaster-Geuerel
Bailees. The Cabinet authorized Mr.
Raikes to resort to any means ho thought
fit to crush a strike of the postmen, whioh
it was agreed must be put down at all
hazards. The imperative necessity of
dealing summarily with any outbreak on
the part of the pablio employees was
shown, by information in the possession of
tho Ministry, that the postal crisis is a part
of a ooneerted scheme encouraged by polit-
ical enemies to embarrass the Government
in all its departments. It is aseerted by
the postmen, and not denied by the author.
ides, that the Postmen's Union is fall of
official spies, who keep the Government
posted on all the plans of the men, •and
have also obtained a large amount of infor-
mation oonneoting many prominent poli-
ticians with the agitation. The blacklegs
employed by Mr. Raikes assumed the
duties of the dismissed, suspended and die•
affected men with the facility of veterans,
and their work has dismayed the old hands
as ranch as it has surprised and pleased the
officiate.
The police of Portsmouth, not daunted
by the ill -success of their London brethren
in their attempts to bring about a general
strike, have petitioned for an increase of
pay, and a000mpanied the petition with a
threat to strike unless their demand is
complied with. They also demand a
monthly holiday without loss of pay. The
police authorities have not yet aoted upon
the petition, but it is understood that they
are not disposed so consider it favorably.
Another meeting of postmen was held
in Clerkenwell Groan to -night, attended by
3,000 men. The speakers still talked about
a general strike, and their remarks were
enthusiastically applauded. There is no
doubt, however, that the leaders are
convinced that a strike wolilct not be IMO.
useful, and the probability of such a move-
ment is very remote. The Secretary of the
Postmen's Union stated that there had been
between 300 and 400 dismissals by the
Postmaster -General
Musical and Dramatic Notes.
E. S. Willard, the English actor, will
sail for America Oct. 1. Mr. Willard will
be accompanied by his wife.
Frank MCEee will manage the two new
Hoytian monstrosities, " The Texas
Steer " and " A Trip to Chinatown," next
season.
Miss Minnie Palmer has an ambition to
appear in comic opera and will make her
debut as a singing star some time daring
the coming season.
Another preacher is about to become an
actor. His name is Virgil Maxey, and he
a nephew of ex -United States Senator
Maxey, of Texas.
General Boulanger is said to be writing
a drama, with Robert Emmet, the young
Irish hero, as the central figure. It is to
be brought out at the Free Theatre in
Paris.
Jennie Watson, the only actress who oan
give the correct swagger and dash to male
parts, has been engaged by Margaret
Mather. She is to play roles usually given
to leading men.
Gossip says that MisoLillian Russell will
be prima donna of Mr. George Paget's next
opera season at the London avenue and
play the title role in Simms and Jacobi s
" Queen of Spain."
A new tenor has been found in Germany,
at the village of Fischen, named Kantor,
possessing all the attributes of a great
singer, including the high 0. He will be
carefully educated by his discoverer, an
impresario.
The new farcical piece " Prete Moi to
Femme" has furnished Dion Boucicault
with the subject for a new play for Mr.
Roland Reed. The subject has been lona
izdd and extended to three mete. Mr. Reed
assumes the character of an old steamboat
captain.
" Credit Lorraine," the new play by
Lawrence Marston, is a romantic tragedy
in four acts, founded on Credit Fonoier, the
French scheme that now threatens tobring
ruin to so many. Lillian Lewis, who has
secured the play, is now in Paris selecting
costumes and gaining all the authentic
information possible.
The experiment of spectacular ballet on
a large scale has been suoeessfuily tried at
the Paris Hippodrome. " Joan of Aro," a
new musical pantomimic legend in four
tableaux, was presented before an audience
of 8,000 persons. No stage was erected,
the performance taking place in the vaet
arena.
McKee Rankin believes that the
character he is to represent in the Liew
play, " The Canaek," will be regarded as
fully a distinct it type as that of Rip Van
Winkle, Solon Shingle or Bob Acres. It is,
he says, entirely new to the stage. The
character is that of a Frenoh-Canadian
farmer, and Mr. Rankin will use a French-
Canadian dialect.
Edwin Booth is a very rich man. He
lives simply, but is lavish in other direo•
tions, his gifts to the Players' Club baying
been princely. Hia wealth is largely in-
vested in real estate, and he owns property
all over the oonntry. His tours with Mr.
Lawrence Barrett have been very profit.
able, and he is now a sure card as long as
he chooses to aot.
THE secret benevolent societies in Great
Britain are more under the control of the
Government than are the same societies in
this oonntry. There the officers of the
friendly sooietiee are regaired to file with
the Registrar of Friendly Societies annual
reports of the condition of the organiza-
tions with whioh they are connected. The
membership is composed almost exclu-
sively of workingmen, and the figures show
that their condition is very mnoh superior
to what it was twenty or thirty years ago.
h Unityof
The report of the Blanchester
T ar o
p.
Odd -Fellows (with whioh the Canadian
Order is affiliated) ahows a' membership of
e of receipts over
2 and an fnoreas n r
65 000
, l?
expenditures for the year of $1,247,275.
The surplus fond of this organization
reaches the enormous figure of $37;500,000,
and it has lent $500,000 to its members at
interest to enable them to go into busineses
for themselves on a small scale. Another
order, the Ancient Order of Shepherds,
paid out last year for sink benefits $68,000,
for funerals $80,000, for medical aid
$45,000, for the relief of distress $8,000,
carried over a balance of 325,600 and has a
total reserve fund of $1,650,000. To sunt•
marine the matter, the returns already in
show that six of the friendly sooietiee, and
not counting those with whioh the miners,
agrionitnral,laborere and other large depart.
ments of labor are conneotedt carry an
aotnal nosh balance above all liabilities of
nearly $55,000,000.
In Now York fifty free dooters attend
the poor in the stammer. tree medioine
ie given and the I3iing's Daughters Send
Sewer's, etc.
9urasu THINGS IN HISI.IGOLANTI.
some !Remarkable C stoms among the
Islanders.
It must be noticed, however, that their
Sabbath begins let 6 p•m., on Saturday,
when the church bell is tolled, and ends on
Sunday at the same hour. Formerly no
veoseI could leave port between these hours.
Marriage cancels every other engagement,
so that there can be no breach of promiee
brought against a man when once he is
married.
The inhabitants have a strange custom
on New Year's Eve, They then perambu-
late the streets with broken pots and pans,
whioh they place before their friends' doors,
and the man who has the largest heap
before his cottage is considered the most
popular.
The people rarely lock their doors, but.
when they do they leave the key where it
can be reached by any one seeking admis.
sign.
The fisher girls bait the hooks and parry
them in a large wooden basket filled with
sand to the fishermen on the beach. This
is by no means a light burden, yet they
may be seen oheerfully chatting with their
companions as they maroh onward with
wollen shawls over their heads. The
streets bear English names, es Leopold,
Berlin, Church, Augusta, 'Thames, Short,
O'Brien, Prince of Wates, Princess street,
eta., but the natives have their own names
for them.
Heligoland has a email prison or Look.np,
but they rarely lock any one up, as they do
not care to board the prisoner. There is
also a small cottage hospital ready for use
if necessary. but patients are few and far
between. There is also a poorhonee. Here
poor people live rent free. The plan
adopted is for parents end children to go
before the magistrate, when the former
resign any little property they may possess
to their children, who in their turn
promise to find them in food. When the
husband dies the wife takes his property
and at her decease it is equally divided
between the children.
There are no horses or donkeys on Heli-
goland, for they would be useless there ;
but there are eight cows and about thirty
sheep tethered and milked, the milk being
considered superior to that of cows. There
are three policemen, the junior being
known by the extra amount of gold lace
worn by him. The coastguard consists of
five Englishman, who are not permitted to
apt as constables. There are also sixteen
active native coast -guards, and sixteen in
the reserve. When there is a wreak
the whole ieland claims the selvage.
Most of the inhabitants are behind
with their rates, but they are never prose -
anted, for when ss settling takes place after
the season ie over what remains is left in
hopes of being recovered next year. The
debtors are engaged to work on wreaks,
and then old scores are wiped off and tho
balance handed over to them. The natives
only aro permitted to rent small potato
patches, whioh are much valved, but the
Government reserve most of the land for
their own purposes.—London Times.
BE PLAYED leOLIOE:,
And Now Has to Answer to a [suit for
Damages.
A St. Louis despatoh, July 9th, says :
Thomas Crouch and Claude Martin, two
well known North Broad way horse dealers
and practical jokers, shocked public
decency by one of their jokes yesterday.
Crouch procured a policeman's outfit, and
in this arrayed a brawny employee named
MoCarthy. They then went to the nata-
torium at Nineteenth and Pine streets,
where a hundred bathers were disporting.
Soon a difficulty arose between Crouch
and Martin, the bogus ofieer rushed in,
and in the scrimmage was knocked over
the railing into the twenty feet of water.
Coming to the surte,ce he draw his
revolver and with seeming recklessness
discharged every chamber, causing a terri-
ble fright among the , bathers, who in
various stages of undress, and some per-
fectly nude, ran panic. stricken from the
building through the streets, to the dismay
of pedestrians and residents of the locality.
One man, carrying no handicap but a
towel, was taken into custody as insane
by a genuine officer two blocks away. In
the excitement the jokers escaped. and
for half an hour natatorium attaches were
employed carrying clothing to back rooms
or drug stores, barber shops, eta., eta., to
victims of the joke who would not return in
their nakedness. The jokers, who are well-
to-do basiness men, are now threatened
with damage suits and criminal prosecu-
tions by the proprietors.
THIS COI -4G° FREE STATE.
Belgium Makes Ample Financial Pro-
vision for It,
A. Brussels cable says : Premier Beer-
naert introdnoed the Congo State bill in the
Chamber of Representatives to -day. Bel-
gium will lend the Congo State 25,000,000f.,
of whioh 5,000,000!. will be advanced imme-
diately, and 2,000,000f. will be advanced
anuu411y for ten years. The loan to be
free from interest. Six months from the
expiration of the ten years, Belgium can
annex the Congo State and all its proper-
ties and rights in conformity with the Acts
signed in Berlin Feb. 269b, 1885, and in
Bruissls on July let, 1890, Belgium assum-
ing all responsibility toward otherparties,
and King Leopold renouncing his claims
for indemnity for sacrifices made by him.
If, on the expiration of the term, Belgium
does not desire to annex the Congo State,
the Ioan will bear interest at 3a per cent.,
and repayment can be demanded on the
expiration of a further ten years. The bill
yeas referred to a committee. King Leo-
dold's bequeathal of his entire rights in the
Congo State to Belgium, dated Augnet
llth, 1889, was read and was greeted with
great applause.
Stanley and Emin.
A Rome cable says : In an interview,
Capt. Casati, the African explorer, said
that himself and EminPasbawere heartily
gladto be liberated from. tho Equatorial
Province by Mr. Stanley. Evil tongues,
misunder-
standing
i un e
had ma
taffies the s d r
standing between Mr. Stanley ontinnes
he continues, g
and Emin
Pasha. They had the highest respect for
eri
each other and had never s ovel y die•
agreed. Captain Conti said he intended
ed
to take a long rest, and to write an account
of his travels. He claimed to be the first
diecoverer of the Mountains of the Moon.
He praised the climate of Uganda, and
said he believed that Englieh coolness and
Italian courtesy would triumph over the
overbearing attitude of the Germans in
Africa.
Culture in India.
The natives of India are taking kindly to
the higher edncetion. Hero are two notes
received by a lady and gentleman in Cal -
ants from native servants :
Respecting Missus,—I humbly beg Missus will
esouse poor, sorry Maty not Coming work today
sometimes 14liesuS asking what for Maty not
coming work, therefore I beg humbly and re
speetfullyy to state that (loorinda Peon has run
away with my wife. Oh Lord, how magnificent
Your humble Mama,
To Master Beq.: Sir, --1 cannot oome working
h as per Margin ishtnin
to -day I am vary sip p 8 sok
parka, Yours obediently, Mamma,
seal, Jdetes' Gazette
KEROSENE GAS EXPLODES,
Shattering a Steamer and Causing ttreat.
LOSS of Life,
FIRE ADDS ITS HORRORS.
A Chicago despatoh of last(Friday)
A frightful Friday
night says : htfs (
y theg 1 exhloeion: 000urred
to -night on steamer Tieea, one of the
largest vessels on the great lakes. Thirty•
eight people were aboard the steamer at
the time. When the work of rescuing the
survivors, whioh commenced almost in-
stantly, was well under way, only two per•
eons could be found who escaped unhurt.
To make matters worse fire broke out on
the wreaked vessel, and huge volumes of
flame and smoke impeded the searchers for
the dead and dying. The bursting of
the steamer's boilers was the cause
of the catastrophe. It was in the
Chicago River, at the foot of Washing-
ton street, that the explosion occurred.
This looality is in the heart of the business
saction of Chicago, and the terrific shook of
the explosion brought people running out of
the tall buildings a block way. Bost of the
victims were Chicago stevedores, who were
unloading the vessel. Only three of the
Tioga's crew were reported on the list.
The fire proved a stubborn one, and made
it impossible at the time to verify the
report that the boilers had exploded. A
atatement was current that the explosion
was due to another cause, the accidental
lighting of a large quantity of combustibles
in the narrow confines of the'Tioga's deep
hold. In the hold near the steamer's stern
was where the fire held away. Through
the bursts of lire could be seen a great
jagged cleft in the Tioga'e decks and cabin,
and aloft on the tall smokestacks dangled a
a hugh framework of timber fantastically
swaying backward and forward, tolling of
the terrificfaree of the explosion which sent
t there from X30 feet below.
CAPT, PHELPS' STORY.
While the fire was still n progress a re-
porter met the captain of the ill-fated
steamer on the forward deck. The officer
stopped in his task of straightening out the
confusion to give a statement. He said :
" My name is Capt. A. A. Phelps. I
arrived here lest evening from Buffalo in
command of the Tioga, and we were unload-
ing at this dock when the explosion took
place this evening. I was in the freight.
shed on the dock when I heard a terrific
noise, and running out saw the north quar-
ter of the vessel enveloped in steam. All the
crew of twenty-five were either aboard at
the time, or were on the dock or in the
freight house. I found after a careful
search that all but three were accounted
for and safe. Those three, all from Buf-
falo, were : Second Engineer Geo. Haig,
Lookout 5). Levailey, Deckhand Wm.
Cuthbert. Besides the three missing men,
who belonged to the Drew, there must have
been from twelve to fifteen other men
killed and probably half a dozen additional
wounded. There were laborers in the hold,
who were doing the unloading. Eight col-
ored men aro positively stated to have been
below, and six or seven others were at the
hatches aiding their fellow stevedores lower
down. The explosion occurred in the hold,
not in the machinery or boilers as near as
I could ascertain, and was probably in
some combustible freight stored there."
re A DEATH TRAP.
The osptain was at this moment called
away to the wrecked portion of the vessel,
which eeemed gradually settling in the
river. Occasionally a wounded man was
being hauled out of the debris as the flames
permitted the police and firemen to close iu
toward the literal black hole in which the
bodies of the stevedores lay. The unfor-
tunates were a gang in charge of John
Neile, a white man. Among those sup-
posed to be in the hold wore Neile himself,
Osborn Polk. Henry Alexander, John
Lewis, Thos. Lewis and Alexander Smith.
Great crowds gathered on the neighboring
bridges, docks and vessels, and watched the
tragic soenes being enacted on the Tioga.
The immense iron hull, painted a forbid•
ding black, stretched 300 feet or more along
the pier, and a swarm of police, firemen
and reporters were clambering over her on
all sides. Eye -witnesses of the explosion
were busy telling new comers the particu-
lars.
THE CAUSE OF THE EXPLOSION.
It appeared that the explosion occurred
just after a porter named Wm. Palmer had
gone below with a lighted lamp. He had
scarcely reached the decks again when the
fearful shook came. It was said that 200
barrels of oil were among the cargo, and
that these had become ignited. Others
insisted that the explosion must have been
due toe lack of water in the boiler, and
that the second engineer, who was known to
be missing, was the man whose duty it
would be to start the pony pumps in each
an emergency. This, it was declared, would
have produced just such an explosion,
wrecking only one compartment of the
vessel. The Tioga was primly a freight
carrier, and no passengers were aboard.
Up to 10.30 p.m. nine dead bodies had
been taken from the wreck, and five or
more wounded had been conveyed to the
hospitals. The viotime were now more
acoessible,the fire having been extinguished
by the inrushing of the river. The stream
is not deep, and the steamer's decks were
still several feet above the surface. One by
one the ghastly corpses were recovered and
parried into the dimly lighted freight shed
on the dock. In a little office near by eat
Mr. T. T. Morford, the western agent of
the Erie Railway Company, to whom the
Tioga belonged. He was helping to identify
the dead, and answering questions as to
loss and insurance.
NOTES.
Abont 375,000, it was estimated, would
cover the damage to the vessel and cargo.
This amount was believed to be fully in-
sured.
The injured included three white men,
David McNeal, of Buffalo ; Thomas Collins
and James O'Donnell. All were seriously
burned and mangled, but will recover.
Aclearer idea ao
of
the cause
of the ex.
plosion was obtained about midnight, when
the vessel's boilers were examined. The
was kero-
sene,
The (large
boilers seemed intact. T
sane, gasoline and cotton. The inference
is drawn that the leaking of kerosene
saturated the cotton and generated noxious
fumes, and when lanterns were taken into
the hold to enable the stevedores to work
the lights proved the toilers' destruction.
Yankees After a Cattle fiiarket.
The U. Sp
De artment of State, at Soo.
rotary Rusk's request, has arranged for the
appointment of three veterinary inspectors
to innneot all American cattle landed in
Great Britain. One will be stationed'at
Liverpool, one at London, and one at Glas.
gow. They will sail for Europe at once.
Secretary Busk'said today the restrictions
of the British Government upon the im•
portation of beef cattle from this country,
npon the plea of. contagious cattle disease
in the
United Estates, were unjustifiable.
fleprop p... proposes to rove to the Britieh anthori-
.
ties that no disease oxide in this country
to warrant their restrictions.
A MESSENGER OF LIFE.
Professor i'aughn, of anti arbor, [[lakes a
Great Disoovery—The Poison of Cholera
Intiintum and of Typhoid fever Laid
It tre—Dr, Jenner's Great Feat Rivalled.
Pd, ,Basi circles in this oily were thrown.
into oonsider.sble elation yesterday over
the news fresh from the working labora-
tory of Profeseor Victor C. Vaughn, of the
University of Michigan, at Ann Arbor,
that he had extracted and studied in hie
test tube the poison that eseails humanity
in cholera infantum and diphtheria. 19
was this same noted man that found the
poison in milk, cheese and milk products,
whioh he named tyrotoxiaon.
Tire story oame like a gift from Heaven
to a community now savagely attacked by
cholera, whose babes aro dying at a terrible.
rate, while the learned world of doctors
has been powerless to stay its course.
'Phis disease with cholera ant a wide swath
in the mortality of the city.
A SAFEGUARD POSSIBLE.
Dr. Vaughn alleges that these diseases
are paused by albuminous poisons whioh
he has discovered.
Full well acquainted with the oharaoter
of this deadly substance, he hopes to dis-
cover an antidote, whioh may be introduced
into the system as vaaoine is in small.pox
cases, and whioh will apt similarly in forth
tying the system against cholera and
diphtheria.
The poison is generated by germs in the
alimentary canal just as ferment is gener-
ated when yeast is put in dough. Heat is
neoeesery for the fermentation, and that is
why the diseases are more prevalent in hot
weather than in gold.
Dr. Vaughn took the germs with which
he experimented from the dead bodies of
persons who tilled of the diseases, and by
feeding them on sterilized meat he sac-
ce.ededin producing the genuine poison in
large quantities. A number of Philadel•
phis doctors spoke favorably of the dis-
covery.
DR. VAUGHN'S ACHIEVELiENT.
Dr. William H. Ford, President of the
Board of Health, said yesterday : " Dr.
Vaughn's discovery is a theory. It will be
tested by other experts before it will be ac-
cepted. The feat that such poisons exist
in the alimentary canal o! persons suffer.
ing with the disease is not new. The only
new thing is that Dr, Vaughn has found
this poison and separated it from the germ
which produced it.
" The tendency of medical thought is to
ascribe cholera infantum to poisonous
germs. Some dootors give antiseptics to
kill the germ, but this treatment is usually
accompanied with the death of the patient.
If.an antidote for :he poisons can be dis-
covered, that is, ,<,mething that will not
harm the petie, - and will destroy the
poison, than Dr. V +nghn will have confer-
red a lasting boon upon humanity. But it
is not an easy thing to do, for what will
kill a germ or poison in a test-tube will not
do it always in the body, for it hasn't the
same opportunity to apt.
A RIVAL TO OENNEII.
Professor Roberts Bartholow, of the
Jefferson Medical College, was very out-
spoken in his praise of Dr. Vaughn and
his latest discovery. He said : " This is
altogether new, we never knew anything
about it before. Althongh the existence of
the germ was known, Dr. Vaughn has just
found the poison which produces typhoid
fever and cholera infantnm. It is as
though men had known what yeast was,
and had seen breed baked by the yeast
process, but had never seen the fermenta-
tion or known how the yeast acted.
" This discovery will have a great effect
upon medical scienoe and practice, and it
will undoubtedly be the means of saving
thousands of human lives every year. I
regard it as one et the most important
gifts to the world since Jenner discovered
the use of vaccination to prevent smallpox.
I don't think he will be long in finding
an antidote for the poison which he has
eliminated, and then these fearfully
devastating summer weeks will bo robbed
of their terror. Typhoid fever and cholera
infantum can then be prevented by inocula-
tion. Tho germs will got in the body just
as they do now, but the poison generated
by them will Ieave no effect upon the
system."
THE POISON TO BE COUNTERACTED.
Dr. Joseph Hearn was muoh interested
in the subject and talked very freely.
" If Dr. Vaughn oan find an antidote for
the poison caused by the germs," he said,
" many lives will be spared. We now
know of nothing that will kill the germ
in the body of persons having typhoid
fever and cholera infantum, without also
killing the patient. But it will be an easier
matter to overcome the poison."
A TRIUMPH FOR THE STATES.
Said another gentleman probably the
ablest bacteriologist in Pennsylvania, and
a physician who is every day making prac-
tical tests with germs, their growth and
products, but who desired his name with-
hold : " An Italian physician bas been
working on the same line as Dr. Vaughn,
and trying to discover the same thing. The
American has come out ahead. It is much
harder to kill a germ than a poison. For
a long time it was supposed that the
growth of germs caused death, but now
we know that the poison which is the out-
growth of the germ is the fatal thing. I
think it is alightly improbable that Dr.
Vaughn can discover an antidote for the
poison."
Home is the Place for Comfort.
" Spend yonr vacation at home," said a
widely -travelled gentleman yesterday. " I
have been all over the globe twine ; but I
find there is no place where one oan enjoy
snob substantial and such assured com-
forts as he can by his own hearthstone.
The hotels are crowded with summer
travellers; steamboats are likely to blow
tip ; railroad oars are hot, grimy and dis-
agreeable ; in short, to travel in summer
means heat, dust, dirt, discomfort and die-
set.On the t
other hand,if o
u stay at
h
y
home you will have every comfort needful
to or warranted by your station. Yon are
;Tared all the petty Y 'Annoyancestineas
of whiola
spoke. You should try it once and con.
vinoe yourselves that I am correot."
Aniamirial
In IfJy-Tinge..
Tilers are fiend00f many kinds who unbidden ons
us call,
And make our Byes a burden with their parapet[-•
tions eniall
But most or an in fly -time is my patience sorely;
tried
By the fiend who stands soronoly with the•
screen -door open wide.
Though ,ubiquitous the others and wearing.;
many forms,
Stealing on ou unawares like the fiercest dog --
Thatday storonid;
They are: nothing, you will find, whoa they're
rated close beside
That fiend who stands in fly -time with the
screen -door open wide,
oh, wisp inventors, help me! i aal;o an automatic'
door
That will open stay five seconds and not ono
second more,
The speed of lazy gossips how it would acceler-
ate t
And the stupid bore I think would prefer out-
side to wait.
0h, the scrambling there would be to get through:
that open door !
And feet would dance a breakdown that had
never danced before ;
But no more we'd suffer tortures when the alma
mar's at high -tide
From the fiend who stands serenely with the
screen -door open wide.
—Chia J, Denton in Jxclpe.
An Old -Time Sleigh laiele.
When the days begin to lengthen and the cold.
begins to strengthen, "when the snow, is
all about us and the sleigh bolls jingle loud.
When the nights with planate glimmer and tho
shining sled tracks shimmer, than the
merry time is on us for a sleigh ride with n.
crowd,
Fill the sled with lads and Iassos, took tbom in
with robes and grasses, pair them off with
wise discretion, sae that each one has the
one,
Then away across the ridges, down the hills.
through covered bridges, Is there any ono
to argue that such sleighing isn't fun t
Then the inn, whore all turn royeters, and the
supper—hot stewed oysters, there aro
marry games of forfeits, therein gayety
alore ;
And the homeward ride too brief is, for the only
cause for grief is that one may not keep on.
sleighing in the starlight evermore,
W. H. Smiley.
Blow to Eat Summer Fruit.
The etiquette of Dating fruit might form
a useful edition to the book of manners for
the summer season. Custom has prescribed
oertain rules for eating various fruits, and
there is always a most elegant manner, sep-
arate from the various other and more com-
mon methods, of extracting the delioioua
parts of the fruit. Undoubtedly the man-
ner of eating practiced in countries in which.
the fruit is native is the most enjoyable, if
one could know what the manner is, but it.
might not always correspond to the best
usages of the table. Take, for instance, tha
receipt offered by a Southern paper for the
hest enjoyment of a watermelon. It will
seem almost too savage for Northern prac-
tice. This Southern writer says the water-
melon ought never to be out with a
knife. He says : " There is nothing fit to
eat in the melon but the heart, and that
should be torn out and devoured bodily.
Sweets to the sweet, and nothing could ba
sweeter than these juices, whioh embody
the fruition of the year and all that is best
in the seasons. The knife is a deadly
weapon. It destroys the flavor and has a
deadly effect on the fruit." In northern
households, watermelons, having been
kept on ice, are brought to the table entire,
out across the middle or in those Gothic
points dear to the colored waiter. Nutmeg
and mnsk-melons are divided lengthwise
and served, after the seeds have been
scooped out, with a lump of ice in each
hemisphere. Salt and sugar are served.
with melons, accompaniments that would
doubtless seem barbaric in the Southern
lands where melons are picked fully ripe in
all their sweetness.
A New York fanny of the season is that
of eating pepper with strawberriee. Those
who have had the courage to try this new
method say that the pepper adds pungency
to the berry ; bat most old-fashioned folk
prefer to dip the berries in powdered sugar
and smother them with cream. Perhaps
those strawberry lovers are not wholly
eccentric who say that a sprinkling of
pepper is not so barbaric as the common
strawberry accompaniment of cake and
ioe-oream, which dull or take away the true
flavor of the berry.
The season of peach -eating is approach-
ing speedily. Careful housewives are pre-
paring colored napkins, for though peaches
may be served often in thin slices and
oaten in cream, these are many rich and
velvety specimens • that will be brought to
the table in a central dish, since many
persons prefer to peel their own fruit.
Grapes will soon follow. Plums served
among bright nasturtium flowers and
leaves, and pears piled high among their
own green leaves, will soon entice the
appetite.
A Treasure.
Mrs. Winks—What kind of a girl have
you now ?
Mrs. Minks—A very nice one—ever so
much nicer than the others. She doea't
seem to object to having ns live in the house
with her at all.
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