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* BLA.I5 AB A SAOEITIOE. Fuuktioal Followen of a Negro " Meraiab" £ill a Ohild aa an Offering. BEATING DEVILS OUT OF A WOMAN A BkvaDDk, Ga. , deBpstcli Baya : A lamen- table Btate of affaire exiata in tbat aeotion of Liberty coanty where the lonatic Otth, or Bell, preached for a month. He ia in the inaane aaylam at Milledfjeville, but the effect of hie ravings ia still felt. Ilondreda of negroes are totally demoralized tbroagb xeligioDu frenzy. Ortb haa a encoesBor in a negro named Edward James, who claims that the spirit of the Messiah has passed ioto hit body. Bome of his actions and words are amasing. Other acts and Ian- IjUB^e are revolting. He tells his liatenerij to throw their money away. Near his mde polpit ia a box into which the silver ooina are thrown. Yeaterday David Jamee, a brother of the preacher, and Carter, a friend, went to the camp ground to try to persuade Kdward James to give up his calling. The nc^'roes who were there denied that their acting Lord was about. However, the two men lingered and at length disoovereci Kdward James asleep in a waggun. They woke him up and began argu- ing with him. lie got mad and tbrMitrued to strike tbem ilead. That did not frighten them. Carter pot his hand on Janus' aboulder and the pretended Messiah atrook him in the face. Carter grabbed the false Lord by the throat and choked him until bis tongue stuck out. At that the other negrotH mobbed Carter and beat him terri. biy with their fists and clubs. Carter is I likely to die. Dr. Qenry is attending hijii. His skull is crushed and his thigh is badly cut. James is a Justice of the Peace. On Thursday last be announotd hia divine mission. He urges hiH followers to make financial aacrificea to the Lord. On Sunday aa much an t^ lUO was offered as a sacrifice. James tore up the paper money and scat- tered the silver broadcast through the woods. Whether he secreted aome of the coin and paper on his person doai not ap- pear in the evidence, bat it is thought ex- tremely likely that he did. The crowda that follow James increase daily and their Tioleuce is becoming a terror to the law- abiding element of both races. The idea of aacriticv has spread to a horrible extent. The offer of money no longer satiutiea these Tiolent and misguided persons. Uunian blood ia demanded. The story of Abraham ofleriiig ap Isaacistold witbawfulctfect. On Banday a boy, 4 years old, was left with bis aunt, Laura Itoberts, at home Bevoral miles from Walthamville plantation by his parents. On the return of the wretched father ani mother the child was missing. On Monday the body was found lloating in a railroad ditch. On the forehead a cross had been cat, and on the breast the same â- ymbol was ntabbed deeply. The throat was cut and the oars split. The woman was arrested, but refased to divulge what ahe had done with her other child. A vigilant search has been instituted, but without avail. The Coroner's jury returned a verdiot finding Laura Koberts guilty of morder. The woman was out of her mind at one time, but had recovered and svas apparently iwrfeotly sound until Uoll began bis meetings. She was one of his most de- voted followers and, after hia rimoval, transferred her attachment to James. Like many of the others, she acoeuted all of hia worda aa of divine origin, and. acting upon them, killed the child. Jamex, while a Justice of the i'eaoe, had in his office Tony Lecount, a negro con- â- tabls. Tony had developed the mania to as great an extent as the ex-magistrate, and is posing as the Holy Chost. "We are three in one," he announced at tbe meeting in the swamp on the Ilaker plantation yosterday to a crowd of several hundred, and then went on to explain that Dell was Uod, who haa gone back to heaven to make arrangements tor their reception. James la the Bon and be is tbe Kpirit. Uis theory is iwallowed with as niaoh gullibility aa all the other â- tatementa made to the ignorant labble. Both men yesterday appeared together, aaked. At the meeting on Saturday afternoon the wife of Charles Baker was badly in- jored. Hhe is a large woman and was in the crowd near James, who was preachicg. Stopping suddenly hs pointed to her and i x- olaimed, "She has devils in her; pound them out 1 pound them out I " A dozen men seized her, threw her on a rongh table, and began to beat her with olubs. Iler jaw was broken and her body was badly â- raised before the evil demons were per- â- aaded to leave her. On Monday James saw devils moving In Kugsna Kicliards, a sober, indnstriona oolorsd man, who had gone to the meeting from onrioeity. lie resisted, when the diaoiples set upon him and he was beaten almOHt into insensibility. lie received in- ternal injories, and will probably die. Hherifr Hmith has arrested seven ring- leaders of the mob that put Oarter% life in jeopardy. Aa the lUih of August approaohea, the ^iate prophesied for the world's ending, taars of iuorsased violenoe are entertained. A band of several hun- dred Is expeottd to march out of tbe county towards the north and at the aamti tim<i to brat baok all but the ohosen seed. The (arming interests of Liberty are partially prostrated, and the serioaa state of affairs iazfs the wisdom and Ingenaity of the con- aarvalive citizens of the county. Tbe people are becoming more and more excited •Bd the whites are dreading that James will inlluenoe his followers to attack them. This afternoon HhsrtfT Hmith, o( Liberty oounty, with a posse of fifteen well armed and determined men, went to make an effort to put a stop to the scandalous pro- ceedings that have diagraoad that section tor some time past, and relieve ths peacnable citizens of the tsar they now entertain of violent proceedings on the part of the followers o( James. Yesterday a number of ths leaders of the new Heot weroarresto<l, making tlfterii in all that have been taken into onatody. It to-day's movement does not snoceed a vlgilanoe ooromlttee will be organized at onoo and hump brought into rniaisitlon to rid lbs oounty of the nuisance. CATTUB KATB. TIae Faiuua* JTemmle Cowboy Baajced to a Llnil* for Cattle HtealluK â€" Makae ttpeech With a Bope Around Her Meek â€" " Oame " to the Last. A Cheyenne despatch gives the following fuller particular! of the lynching : James Averill and tbe notorious oattle queen, Kate Maxwell, were lynched by cowboys hjanday night. The bodies of the "rustler" and "range queen" dangled from the same limb of a big oottonwood yesterday morning. The soene of the law- It hs but juBti&able deed of the midnight riders was Castle Kock, on the Kweetwater Kiver, in Carbon county, near Inde- pendence. Castin Rock is a place which became historical during the rush overland to the California gold fields. Averill was postmaster at Bweetwater. Kate Maxwell was the heroine of a senaational story which appeared in the newspapers throughout the country three months ago, when she raided a gambling bouse and recovered a Urge sum of money won from her employees. Stockmen of tbe Bweetwater region have been the victims of cattle thieves for years. On account of prejudice against the large outfits it haa beien impossible to convict for tfaeee offences, and tbe rustlers havebeoome very bold. Averill and his remarkable partner have been very active in thieving. The woman coold hold her own on the rao({e, riding like a demon, shooting on the slightest pretext, and handling tbe lariat and branding iron with the skill of tbe most expert vaqaero. I'ifty freshly branded yearling steers were counted in the Averill and Maxwell herds Saturday morning. A stock detec tive whoso suspicions were aroused was driven from the place when be was noticed viewing the stolen property. This circum- stance was reported to theraochemen, wbo determined to rid the country of tbe desper- ate pair. Averill and tbe woman have several times been ordered to emigrate or cease appropriating mavericks, but had dis- regarded all warnings. After her celebrated gambling house escapade, Mrs. Maxwell degenerated from a pictures'] ue character into a reckless prairie virago of loose morals, and loat most of her tullowing, but oontinned pattnerahip with the postmaster. Word WSH passed along the river, and fifteen to twenty men gathered at a deuig nated place and galloped to the cabin of Averill and Cattle Kate without unneces- sary noise. Tbe rustlers were at home, and a peep through tbe window disclosed the thieves and a boy in their employ, sitting beside a rude fire place smoking cigarettes. As half a dozen men rushed into the room, a Winchester was poked throagh each window and a command to throw np their hands was given with anmistakable earnestness. The trio sprang for their weapons but were quickly overpowered. Averill begged and whined, protesting his innocence. Kate cursed. Ber execration of the lynchers was something terrible in its way. Bhe cDr»ed everything and every- body, challenging the Deity to harm her if He bad the power. An attempt was made to gag her, but her struggling wss so violent that this was abantloneii. She calU<l for her own horaa to ride to the tree selected for a scaffold, iind vaulted astride the iinimal's back from the ground. Averill did not resist, and the boy, wbo had been tuld that ho would not be harmed, fol- lowed. Kither end of the same rope was fastened about the nooks of the rustlers an they sat in their saddles. Tbe boy made a pass with a knife at the man wbo was pre- paring Kate for hanging. He was knocked insensible by a blow with the butt of a re- volver. The lad was a nephew of the bandit qaeen. When preparations for the execution had been completed, Averill and tbe woman were asked to speak. The man spoke only ot bis office, saying that he did not wish a certain man to be his successor. Ue was promised the inffuonoe of the party for another candidate. Kate made ijuile an address. She wished the affair kept as <|uiet as possible, desiring that bei mother be kept in ignorance of her disgrace and tragic death. It was useless to deny that their herd had been stolni from the ranch- men of that section, but if they did not wish tu divide it among themselves she would like to have it sold and the money g v«n to a home for homeless girls. Kate bade her nephew good bye, and commenoed to deliver a blaspliemoas harangue. Tbe horses were led from under the pair, while Kate was still cursing . Doth kicked in lively style (or ten or fifteen minutes. A tew ballets were fired IntoAverill's body, and the lynchers rode away. It is donbtleMS if an ini|uest will be held, and tbe exeoutioneri have no tear of being ponisheil. The cattlemen have been forced to this, and more hangings will follow an- leaa there is less thieving. TUB OKalfTS TO BOTALTT. Mr. Bradlaugh and Lord Churchill Deliver Speeches Tor aud Afalnst, A last Friday night's London cable says : When the debate was reaumed in the House of Commons to day, Mr. Brad- laugh said be foaud difiioulty in discussing the question calmly when Mr. BaUour out- side of tbe House denounced the objections as disgusting and sordid. The opponents of the grants meant nothing personally dis- oourteouB to the members of the royal family, but were simply acting within their rights when they met the demands of the Crown on a queation of finance with a direct negative. Much of tbe argament in favor of the grants waa baaed on the erro- neous idea that the Crown, under tbe Civil List Acts from George I. onwards, sur- rendered ita private property in exchange for a civil liat. Neither George I. nor his BucceaBora, Mr. Bradlaogh declared, sur- rendered anything. The present royal family never sarrendered anything of a farthing's value to the country. The Com- mittee of Inquiry had elicited the fact that luring the present reign tbe savings upon certain clasaes under the Civil List Act, instead of being applied to defray the charges of other olasses, had been banded to the Queen withoat the authority of Par- liament, and in breach ot tbe statute. (Cries of Hear, bear.) Mr. W. H. Bmitb, the Government leader, had denied that the alleged savings of the Queen were over three millions of pounds, but he declined to show how much money bad either been saved by tbe Queen or drawn by tbe other members of tbe Royal family from all sourcea. Mr. Bradlaugb aaid there ought to be notfaing to conceal. Tbe fact of the concealing had led to exaggerated ideaii. The refuaal of the Government to diaclose the wealth amaaaed by royalties juatified the aversion ot the country to Royal grants. (Cheers.) Lord Randolph Cburobill argued that the original demands of the Government were just, besiiles being in conformity with precedent. If burdens were thrown apon the Crown, not intended under the Civil List, it would impair the credit of the nation and of Parliament. Mr. Bradlaugb had iiuestioned the title of the Crown to its estates, but succeasive Parliamenta had recognized it, and none of tbe greateat lawyera had ever yet challenged theCrown'a title. He reminded the Honse that Sir Henry 1'. Ponaonby, Her Majesty's Private Secretary, a few years ago denied the reports that the Queen was making im- mense investments in ground rents and stated that Bhe bad not £1,000.000 to invest in anything. Lord Randolph saw that tbe liadicals' over-estimate of the Queen's wealth was deaigned to excite popular feel- ing againat Royalty. He objected to the adoption uf methoda whose purpose was to foment a clamor against tbe throne, which in spite of tbem would remain steadfast in tbe affections ot the people. DABIHO AEBOHAUT HOGAH, of the Uampbeil Aii-Shjp AdTentore, Tbe Hero THIIEW THKM IN TUB CANAL. Act to Save - A good deal ot billing and cooing Is being dune at tlie summer resorts just now, Ijovers do the oooing and hotel proprietors the billinx. â€" The difference between a young wife and her hiiabmul ia that her first blscnit is apt to be hit last. Knropeau War Kotnors. A Thnrsday'a London cable saya : An undercurrent ot uneaaineaa continuea to pervade the continent, notwithatanding strennons efforts to smooth matters over. Hervia still remains the object on which all eyes are fixedly gazing. The powers that be never know what Bervia will do next. To-day agents ot the Sultan in Delgrade report to the Turkish governmsnt that lUissia, as well as Prance, has prepared to furnish war material to the Servians on long credit. Neither Carnot's Government nor the Czar will make demand tor pay. raent, aceording to the Tarkiah agents, and Hervia oan purchase weapons, ammunition, etc., without (earing any pressure what- ever. Von Vollmar, the German Socislist leader, in a recent intarvisw, expressed a deoidud opinion that the triumph ot Bou- langer would mean a new diaturbing fea- ture to Earope. The general'a name, \'on Vollmar thoaght, woald be an excellent platform cry for another military vote, and although no war might follow, the ill feel ing between France ami Germany oould only be inoreaaad by the soooesa of Boa- langism. -Next month the Ooaneotioal law against the sale of oigaretlea to boys under l)i will go into effect. â€" Tennyson and Dr. Ilolmea will both be HO years of mgp in Augustâ€" the Knglish laureate on tbe 6th and the American (Kiet on the UUth. -It ia estimated that lbs population of New York and Brooklyn and thesnrburban towns near by ia over .1,000,000. The es- timate gives New York l,l>00,000 and Brooklyn 800,000. A Moiitciair rKthirr's Uirolc Hilt liOJK. A Mcntdair (N.J.) despatch says : Tbe resiilents of this town are pretty thoroughly frightened over an epidemic of madness which seems to possess all the dogs in town. Several people have had narrow CBcapes from being bitten by infuriated animals, and every one now puts the greatest possi- ble distanee between himself and any stray dog that may como along. A thrilling incident in connection with a mad dog hap- pened here on Monday afternoon. Capt. Michaels, of the Morris Canal, waa the owner of a pet dog which he valued highly. During the morning be noticed that the dog was acting qneerly, but be thought nothing of it. Shortly after noon, how- ever, the dog, which bad been lying apparently asleep on the deck of the boat, suddenly jumped up and with hoarae, yelping criea began whirling around madly. Capt. Michaels realized icstanlly that the animal was mad. Uis two little sons were playing together only a short distance away. With a l>ound the captain reached them and at the same time the dog ceased his whirling about and his bloodshot eyss rested on the captain and hia children. Thea, with wide open, foam- fiecked mouth, he daabed at the oaptain. The latter dodged and made for tbe ahore, but the dog headed him off. Again the oaptain dodged the infuriated animal, and running to the aide ot the canal dropped both hia children in. Then be sprang in himself just sh the dog made a snap at his legs. The captain resoaed both his boys, and the dog crept under a box, where he was despatched with a revolver later. The next afternoon a sraall yellow dog came dashing along one ot the streets snapping and biting at everything within his reach. He attacked two ladies on Hloomfield avenue, but they bravely beat him off with their umbrellas. Then he ran down the avenue, biting two other dogs on the way. All three animals were finally killed by officer Duncan after a long chase. No one cares to fondle a dog jast at pre- sent, and every sne ii on the lookout (or suspicious symptoms. Tlie Naplithn Supply FalllDc A Berlin cable to the Herald saya ; In- telligence hsB been received here txum Baku to the effect that a permanent de- crease li showing itself in the production of napotha in that region, and that there is a probability of a very serioaa crisis Bhortly C'jruingon. The naphtha basins of the Apsteron Peninsula and Bibioibat are no doubt still very productive, but the yield is no longer to be relied on. Almost all the factories at I'titku are suffering for want of raw proi'uot. The price haa risen from under tv/o kopecks to five or six per pound. Messrs. Hothsohilds' representative, man- ager of the (Caspian ,V Black Sea Naphtha Company has reoeivml orders to prooeed to "aiis after a thorough investigation has been made of the state of affairs by the company's engineer at Balaohona. Bjonea (reading the paper) That' ijueerâ€" a North Dakota olergyinau oaugh stealing a horse from one ot his parishioa- ers. Bjenkina (languidly)â€" Ah I Did they suspend him from his paatorate 1 Bjones â€"No, they suspended him from a tree. - Mr. Cholly (showing a lady guest about billiards) - 1 beg pardon ; 1 doiTt think I (|aile understood. Hiu Jolie -Teach me how to make a double kiss." Mr. Cholly (taking out his ongagement book)â€" With pleasure. What evening will yon have me oall ? Lonic List of SucceMful BaJloou Ascension* â€"Perilous FeaU With the Parachute ~A number of Very Narrow Kacapes. The hero of the recent air-ship adven- ture, Prof. Kdward D. Began, Uvea at Jackson, Mich., when be baa been at home, which haan't been very often. He has bad a fondness for atmospheric exploration that haa kept him most ot the time at various points several hundred feet above tbe earth. When Prof. Hogan made his memorable leap from a balloon to a parachute when 9,000 feet from earth, last April, tbe newB papers of the city of Jackson chronicled the startling feat with proper prominence, but one paper remarked sadly : " We fully ex- pect to be called upon to chronicle hia death while making a descent with the parachute." Nevertheless, the man of the oiouda doesn't seem to have been deterred by tbe solicitude of his friends and neigh- bors. It was in 1866 that Prof. Hogan made bis first trip to the region above the earth. Ue waa then a yoaog man, or rather a boy, of 14, having been born at Moretown Canada, in lHo2. On September 4lh be ascended from Michigan, and the taate for adventure which the soccess of this ascen- sion developed has manifested itself in a longer list of successful balloon ascensions than can be credited to any living man. Since ltt6€ be has devoted his winters quite exclusively to the construction of new air ships and to the arrangement of details for new experiments. He has resided all this time at Jackson, Mich., and be has come to be well-known to tbe residents of that city and adjacent towns. Prof. Hogao labored assiauoualy to improve the facili- tiea for aeronautic exploration, and tbe efficiency of bis methods in auy one of his experiments after the first initial ascen- sion haa shown a decided advance over that of bis methods in previous trials. In 1860, when he made hia debut aa an aeronaut, the art was in rather a primitive stage of development. The balloon of that time diQurea in many important respect b from the balloon of today. It waa a cumberoas machine, and it carried a boat, life-pre servers, food, axes, saws, etc. It was not made uf silk and linen, aa the modern bal loon is made of, aud it waa altogether a rougher, coarser and lesB maoageable ship, t'rof. Hogan was not only an aeronaut, but an acrobat of rare skill. and in his first ascen- sions he added to the attractions of the occasions by performing on a traepeze bar in mid-air. He aoiuired a reputation aa much for feats o( strength ana agility as for the courage and dexterity with which be bandied a ballcun. He was tbe first to introduce the acrobatic feature into aerial exhibitions of this kmd, and hia remark- able performances on tbe trapeze bar, hundreds of feet above the earth, excited the curiosity and admiration of thousands. Prof. Hogan was constantly deviaing new and startling expressions of tbe art to which he was so aevoted, and his recent trip in the air ship â€" a trip that seems just now tu have bad a fatal character â€" is the culmination of bis ingenuity, skill and daring. In lotiti, when he introduced the perilous parachute descent in a trip that was attended with many hazardous inci- dents, his exploit waa chronicled as a genuine sensation by the local press. Ue had lung meditated such an undertaking, but there were mai^y obstacles that had to be rcmsved by patience and indiutry. Ue was Ml years old when he finally made the dangerous experiment, and bis great familiarity with everything connected with balloon asotusions luspired him with a confidence that the dumbfounded reporters and spectatcrs could only consider dare- deviltry of the most pronoonced type. The ietails ot this remarkable feat were tele- graphed all over the country and pnbliahed broadcast. It served to assure the perma- nent reputation of Prof. Uogan as an leruuaut. In August, l!Sti7, Prof. Baldwin had aaoeuded by moans of an open para- chute auil a balloon held tu the earth by a 6,000-(oot rope. A large basket was attached to this balloon, but when Prof. Hogan, fired with new zeal by tbe feat of Prof. Baldwin, undertook to emulate his predecessor, he discarded the large basket aud made his asoensiun with a horizontal bar beneath the gas bag. On the morning of April 4lb, 1808. Prof. Hogan bad completed preparations for his experiment with the parachute. The first trial was imsuuoesalul, the balloon landing on a farm ootatde the city limits. But the second trial, which was made immediately afterward, waa entirely successful, except that the wronaut was badly shaken up. The saocess at this experimeul led bim to repeat it with additional details, and during the season of 1888 he made •i'i parachute dropa, each drop being performed with greater ease and attended with leas hazard and Inoonvenienoe. Since 1806 be had made more than 500 ascensions, when his famous feat ot dropping with the para- chute was performed. Immediately after his suooesstul experiment with the (lara- chote he received several offers ot tl,0(X) to drop tor exhibition purposes. Hogan was an extremely modest man, and he always took particular pains to maintain as much privacy about his aero- nautic adventures and pUns as was oon- sisteot with pleaBant feeling. His air ship trip be intended to be very secret, and the plan of bis first parachute drop waa known only to about 50 persona. At the aame time he waa very energetic and aoraetimea impulaive, and he went up in tbe air ahip this time because a previously advertised and arranged trip had proved a fizzle, through no faalt ot his, and he was anxious to sustain his reputation. H« was married, and his wife lives in a oozy home at Jack- son. Uogan had an alder brother named William, who waa widely known as an aeronaut throughout the West. It was William who taught young Edward how to handle a balloon, aud it waa William to whom young Kdward looked for inspiration and oonfideuoe when he made his initial trip at Jackson. On this trip hs was lost for three days, and then he was finally dis- ooTsred by hit friends asleep in a barn. He had many narrow escapes in his after career, aud aeveral times bis reaoue (rum death aeemeU simply miraculous. Us alwaya had the (acuity ot landing on his feet, and though he fell into the ocean once with no life preserver on, aud was pre- oipitated onoe from hia balloon at the height of 100 ftet, and on another occa- sion dropped 2,500 feet before hia para, chate opened, just as he was nearing the roof of a house, yet he always escaped with slight injoriea. When be fell into the ocean he waa rescaed by an expert swim- mer who happened to be in tbe water at tbe time ; when he fell from tbe balloon he landed in soft mud on a meadow, and when he bad fallen 2,500 feet with an anmanageable parachute, tbe parachute opened in the nick of time to save his life : so that, altogether, fortune seemed to favor the bold young aronaut. He had an indcmitable will and no end cf courage. In appearance be was a man of medium height, and be had dark hair and brown eyes. His weight waa 171 pounds, and he was strong and agile. The " If usa CavendUhl." In these days when the banana baa be- come 60 favorite an article of diet, it may not be uninteresting to tbe general reader to peruse tbe following extract from the High Peak Sttct of 13th inst., a North Derbyshire newspaper. The writer is Rev. George Turner, LL D.. one of the most eminent misaionaries of tbe London Miseionarj Society, wbo waa the imme- diate successor of the martyr missionary cf Ettimanga, tbe lamented John Vt'illiame, and for over forty years labored with great suooess in Bamoa. He is now residing in Birkenhead : Before leaving England in 1838, John Williama, the martyr of Eromanga, received many expreetiona of kindly inteieat in his mission work from His Grace the Duke of Devonahire. and among these were aome cases of plants, carefully selected and packed at Chatsworth. to be taken in the missionary ship to the islands of the Pacific. It is not generally known tbe large extent to which missionaries have introduoed new plants, and additions to tbe food of native tribes in tbe Pacific and elsewhere. Before leaving the Samoan Islands, a week or two before be was killed on Eromanga, in l?3l*, Mr. Williams pat on shore at the harbor ot Apia one of tbe cases from Chatsworth. the contents of which were apparently dead frcm long exposure on boara ahip. When I reached Samoa in 1841 I saw that case, and close by it a tine banana plant grow- ing. This was from a bulb which was found at the bottom of tbe box, still ecu- taining the germ of life. This plant was watched in the garden of Mr. Mills, tbe missionary, with no small interest by tbe natives, and soon their curiosity rose to amazemf>ot, when they saw that it com- menced to bear while yet only about five feet high, and that the very first bunch weighed dose apon 100 lbs. The Bamoans had already upwards of thirty ipecies o( banana, but this new one (ar excelled them all. The neighboring chiefs begged Mr. Mills for some of the yoang Bhoois, and Boon they spread from village to village. On my second voyage to our out stationt in Western Polynesia in 1845, and in our missionary barque, "John Williams." I got a number of plants of this rare banana packed in a large iron pot, and fastened np on the crosstrees away fiom the wavea and spray. At each of the larger ialauda visited on our cruise, I sent on shore one or more ot the plants. When I visited these places again in 1848 the new banana was greatly prized, and fast Bpreading: and again, wheu I was there in 18o'.>, '63 aud '82, there waa hardly any other banana brought on board ship, or to be seen on shore. When 1 was last in Sydney. I saw a cart pasaing aloot; laden with great buucbea of thia very banana from a Fiji ateamer just arrived. They are now eprvad overEaatern, Central and Western Polynesia, and all have come from that one bulb which went out from Chatawsrtb in 1838. It ii called tbe Chineae banana, and ia known in botany aa the " Muaa Cavendiabi. " having been introduced to Chatsworth from China by Hia Grace the Duke of Devonshire in 182i>, and can be seen in the conservatory there, SB I had the pleasure of doing yesterday, by the kind courtesy of Mr. Chester. The great value and rapid spread of thia banana in tbe Pacific baa beecme quite proverbial. I have heard native orators, for instance, in speaking of the rapid spread ot Christianity, comparing it to that wonderful plant, and well they may do so. In the eatly part cf the century the Gospel first took root on Tahiti, and now it covers and gladdena Eastern, Central, and, to a large extent Western Polynesia at well, with an aggregate of t'>00.000 oonverta from haatbenikm, and of these t<0,000 at least in full communion with the mission churches. It is destined still to spread through the Papuan and Malayian Archi- pelago, until, in the not far distant future, the missionaries of Polynesia shall unite stations and shake hands with their brethren in India, China and Japan. I« Bugau rlaylns 'PoMUUi? A despatch of Wednesday from JackiOD, Mich., says : Joseph Flowers, a reputable man of this city, who has known £. D. Uogan, tbe s»ronaut, since boyhood, saya Uogan certainly did not loaehia life in the New York air ahip affair, tor be aaw hitii in this city last Thursday and spoke with him. He is aure of this, and says, further more, that Hogan told him to " keep his month shut for a while yet," and hs haa kept still about it until now. Two other men, one of them the expressman who took the ballon that was used at St. Thomas, Ont., to the station, savsit was K.D. Uogan himaelf wbo made the 6t. Thomas ascension and that he haa been lying low ainoe he hurt himaelf there. These reporta greatly mystify Hogan's triende. R. A. Oann, M. D., Dean and rrofesaor of Surgery ot the United States Medioal College, Editor of " Medioal Tribune." Au- thor of " Gunn'a New Improvevi Handbook of Hygiene and Domestic Medicine," saya cr bis own signature, in speaking ot a severe case ot kidney discaae : " A onemi- oal and miorosooploal examination ot the patient's urine revealed quantities of alba men and granular tube casta, confirming Kright's disease. After trying all uf the other remedies in vain, I directed him to use Warner'a Safe Cure. I was greatly surprised to observe a decided improve luent within a month. Within four months no tube casts ooold be found, and only a trace of albumen, and as he expressed it, he (ell per(eotly well." m A Bad Prosper*. Smith- la your friend Jones oootracling any bad habita? iV;v,<' itM^jsj Brownâ€" No, he is still expanding them.