The South Western News, 1887-06-15

HOODOOED. Rather a Wild\Eyed Story About the Queer Antics of a Farmer's Worldly Possessions. Prrrunvnt, Pa., June 4 - The sun is full of five, and thereis blood on the face ~f the moon, as farmer Thos. McKee, of Wilkine township in this county, seemsto believe. His howe, two miles from the vil~ lage of Turtle Creek, bas been the scene of some mighty mysterions manifestations. McKee Is sixty years old, has lived in this vicinity forty-five years and in his present home twenty years. He is regard regarded - ed regarded as one of the most reliavle and reputable United Presbyterians in the country, He, his wife and .' grandniece aged fifteen, together with & hired man, comprise thol family. They tell a remarkable story. Each of them is ready to swear that he or she knows nothe ing whatever of the cause ot cer certain - tain certain appearances of witcheraft which have for ten days made their home pandemonium. Ten days ago the trouble began. Whiie all were away from the house, and the doors and windows were fastened, things were turned topsy-turvy ins doors. The family subsequently found their clock and other goods out in the garden. Each success successive - ive successive day things grew worse. Mrs. McKee four days ago carricd one of two cans of cream up from the cellar through the only possible egress; went right back for the other and failed to find it. Going up stairs again, she proceeded to the door-yard and found the can of cream overturned and empty. - There was nobody to be found within three-fourths of a mile ot the house. On Friday of this week Mrs. McKee and a neighbor were sitting in the house together. Look Looking - ing Looking up to the wall, they saw that an old hat upon a peg was in flames. They had ne sooner thrown it out than a towel on the opposite side of the house began to blaze,though no visible means of ignition existed in the house and Mr. McKee, had in his pocket, out in the field, every match upon the premises. There had been a score or more of similar unaccountable fires in the house. Hence Mr. McKee's precaution. These manifestations have nearly driven the family crazy. They have moved things out of the house and guarded the occupied rooms, but all to uo avail. The subject has set the community by the ears. Nobody can have the slightest doubt, except as to the cause. The manifestations in a hundred forms are facts. McKee is not a supernaturalist, yet he doesn't know what to expect next,

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'ering in inland Brazil, ' The third cause is estimated shortnest of the crop in Brasil, 'which has now just been gaihered tand will begin to arrive about July.l. The Brazil crop is utim.-i ted at from 2,250,000 to 4,500,000 . | lhqn. The expectation » year ago #ne a erop of from" 5,000,000 to 1,000,000 bmgs from Brazil will ikeep prices where they now are, The erop in Java also is short, 'ln Ceylon the leat disesse has re~ 'duced the production by at least ove half* Thue the supply of the very best coffee is sure to be smalls er for this year than it has been for a generation. To-day the highest figures are paid for Mysore coffee, and it is considered the best grown. Mysore iva part of upper British India, and the cultivation of the berry is entirely under the European cone trol. Thus far the leuf disease which has spread such havoe in Javaand Ceylon, has left British : India alone; but bow lovg it will dosoitis hard to eay. All at attempts - tempts attempts to grapple with this disease have proved fruitless.and if it ever puts in its appearance in Brazil the days of coffee drinking will be numbered. There are those who believe that unless the leaf disease can be gravpled with successfully, it is only a question of time when a cup of of coffee will be as great a luxury as a bottle of champagne. Whether or not the juice will be maintained at so high a figure will depend much on the future of speculation. The ouly coffee exchange in the country is that in New York, which now has a great boom. The fever is higher than ever before in the history of the trade, There is no more gambling in it than in any other grocery staple. The present uncertain out look of the supply has brought out outsiders - siders outsiders into the speculation. Syn Syndicates - dicates Syndicates have been often formed to bull the market, but in the major majority - ity majority of cases they have failed. The syndicate of 1883, after costing the consumers of coffee over $B,- 000,000, lost more than it made, and brought down seversl large houses. The principle members of that syndicate was Havre and Rio houses, with some New York firms added.

A BOY GOES OUT TO GRAZE A MILD-EYED CuW. ' He Ties a Line to the Cow, Then to bis Waist, and Then Goes to Sieep - The Cow is Fri Frightened - ghtened Frightened and runs Away - =The Boy Dragged and Badly Hurt. Atlanta Journal.) A small negrp boy was almost killed yesterday aftcrnoon by being dragged by a ¢ w. kGeorgebZWillhmc, a negro boy who is employed by Dr. Robert Westmoreland, was sent out to graze a cow yesterday afternoon. He selected a ¢7ol and shady spot near where Pulliam street inter intersects - sects intersects Greorgia avenue and fastening the loose end of the rope around his waist, stretched himself upon the grass and went to sleep. Just before sunset the cow cons cluded to go home, and started off, dragging the sleeping herdsman af after - ter after her. George, suddenly awak awakened - ened awakened trom a sound sleep, began to scream, and this frightened the animal and she changed her walk to a trot. and finally struck into a mad run down Pulliman street. - The trantic cow and the yells ot the frightened boy attracted the attention of everybody on the street, and people rushed from their houses and viewed the spectacle with astonishwent. It wasdifficult to tell what the cow was running away with, for the boy was on his head a moment, then on his feet, now sliding up hill on his storach, and the next moment going head headforemost - foremost headforemost down grade. When the cow reached an open lot on the rear of Dr. Westmoreland's resis dence, she lett the street ard start started - ed started across the field. The boy's head became jammed in a bush and the cows progress was suddenly checked. A large crowd came to the boy's rescue,and it was thought first he was dead, and it was so reported this morn mornin§ - in§ mornin§ but, although bruised and much stirred up, George was able to get up this morning and exer exercise - cise exercise his sore limbs,

The present syndicate which is booming prices is composed of New York, French and Brazilian houses, and is by far the strongest ever formed. There are, however, other outside houses which are bulls on the situation, and several have made a good rourd sum al already. - ready. already. Mess. Hard & Band, who do not speculate in option, but are the largest importers of coffee in this country, have netted anywhere from 8500,000 to $750,005, If we consider that a bag of coffee which a year ago wos worth say 813 is' to-day worth 820, the greatest ade vance having taken placc withinl the last six weeks, the above esti estimate - mate estimate is not unreasonable, if it is not entirely too small. Arnold, the old 'coflee king." has had his share of the speils, and so has Selligsberg, who acted for the de deunct - unct deunct syndicate in 1883. | The Arbucles, who are the larg largest - est largest distributors of coffee in the world, must have netted at least 8500,000, although they were not bulls on the market. This sum they have made in the ordivary run of trade. { otton brokers. aud and even Wall street financiers have come into the option market, as the activity onthe Coffee Ex Exchange - change Exchange has been for some time more attractive than either cotton or etocks. What the actual re results - sults results of the present speculative craze will be it 1s bard to say; but if the present conditions continue, the consumers of the chief coffee drinking countries will have to pay thie year about $120,000,000 more for the cup than they have ever paid any previous year. English women consider a full kilt or box-pleated skirt ot silk or benagaline to wear with any polo polonaise - naise polonaise or redingote almost a neces neces-'I - -'I neces-'I article nowadays, as polonaises and long redingotes are much worn in

Trying to Put the Bible Down. They say aome folks are trying To put the Bible down, To talsify the prophets, 1 And grudge the Lord his crown; Well they must be & heathen crew! What is this world ascoming to? Go, Betery, light the candle, And hand the good Book hete; It's been our greatest staff and stay For many and many a year; | And all its goodly company : - No man can take away from. me, And firstly there's the fly-leaf, i That mother writ upon ; | pou ; | She was a saint' I know and died With Bible armor on; | Thank God! Her children learned in youth | Who was the Way, the Light, the Truth. And father - well, he's gone, dear, But many a word he said, That sober, ne'er had held the power, ~ To bow that gentle head - But this old book held balm to heal The sorest wounds the heart | could feel, And s 0 some folks are trying To write the Bible down! 'Well, haven't they tried for ages - With sword, end flame, and | crown? And isn't the rock as firm us when i The Prince of Princes died for | men ? 'There's nothing in this world,dear, Would nerve my old right arm, Like seeing & puny man stand up And bring that book to harm; I know, dear, what the Master says, } But must I love his enemies? 'Thou dear old Book ! my mother's stay, ' The rest of saints for ages, 'The will of God, the love of Christ - Shiue from thy deathless pages; Heaven's peace! what angel could have told In lines of light, in words ot gold ? Here, Betsy, put the gond Book up, ~ Nor tell me e'er again, 'They try to write the Bible down ; It gives me needless pain * When Good himself shall talsify, And not till then, His Word | shall die. ; - Mnry A Denison.

A Good Thing fu Lemonade. Chicago Tribune,] "This is lemonade, is it not? in. quired a light haired gentleman blandly as he stepped up in front of astand on the cireus ground Yesterday. The proprietor teplied that it was icescold lemonade, and gener~ ously threw in the information that 'T'll toke u glass, if you please,' said the stranger, and it was placed before him. 'lf there is anything I'm fond of,' he continued with much affability, 'it is a good lem. ade,' and he drewa lemon from oue of his pockets, cut a hole in it, and with great deliberation squeez squeezed - ed squeezed the juice into the glass. Then from another packet he took a spoon and a small paper sack filled with sugar, with which he proceed proceeded - ed proceeded to sweeten the mixture. A crowd was gathering about him by this time, and the propries tor ot the refreshment stand was becoming red and very moist. 'l'll give you Lalf a dollar to go away from here,' he said to the bland gentleman anxiously. 'My friend,' said the smiling cus customer, - tomer, customer, sipping with evident satis faction the beverage he had mixed, 'it affords me pleasure to say that thisis the best lemonade I ever drank on a show ground, here is your 5¢." And he finished the glass. paid his money and elbowed his way out through the crowd. Half an hour later the lemonade vendor, had broken up in business and disguised in a pair of green goggles and a false beard, was do~ ing the three-card monte act in a secluded place among the canvas wagons and looking about search searchingly - ingly searchingly for a light-haired and smil smiling - ing smiling stranger.

THE COFFEE BOOM Why the Cheering Cup will Cost $120,000,000 More this Year Than Ever Before. Nashville American. ] TaE CorFee ExcHANG, NEw York, June 2. - Coffee is higher than it has ever bheen before for and considerable period. The cots fee situation, therefore, is inter interesting, - esting, interesting, not to say serious. Gamb. ling in it is just now wilder than in any stocks or in any other produce The price has advanced 100 per cent, in a year; and, if the lowest and highest prices are taken, 150 per cent. Ifithe present situation con continues, - tinues, continues, the coffee drinkers in the United States will pay $850,000,- 000 more for it than they paid in 1885, and 860,000,000 more than they paid in 1882. The rise price is, therefore. equal to the im« position of about $1 on every man, woman and child (whether coffee driukers or not) in the country, And if the movement upward con tinuescoflee will pass out of the daily use of the people and becorae a luxury, The cause of this startling ad advance - vance advance in price is three-fold. The consumption has increased much more rapily than the supply. In 1867 the consumtion per capita was 4,77 pounds in 1873, the first yearafter it was put on the free list it was 9,67; in 1884 it wae 9,- 59, and it has increased. The The range ot prices bas been for fair Rio, in 1860,13 cents; in 1870, 10to 11} cents; in 1880, 14 to 14} cents; May of last year, 19} cents; pow it is about 22 cents, Another cause is the chance giv given - en given for gambling by the necessary lack ot trustworthy crop reports. Thero is g 0 concerted nowy gath.