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f / ^ picture. Had his picture took. " Have It done, cf coarse." says I, ' Just the way you l">ck (All dressed up, he was, tor tho Barbecue and jubilee . The C:d Settlers belt.) So beLast fie had It took. Lide she'd coaxed and begged and pleau, Sence her mother went; But he'd cough and shake his head At all argyment; Mebby dear his throat and say: ' What's my likeness 'mount to, hey. Now, with mother gone away j From us, like she went?" But we'd projick'd round, tell we Got it flggcred down How'd we'd git him, Lide and me, Drivin' into town; i Braggea now weii ne looicea, ar.a ne^nea Up around the race, and freshed With the morning air; and bresbed His coat-collar down. t j All so providential: "Why, Now he's dead and gone, ' Picture 'pears so lifelike I i Want to start him on ' Them old tales he ust to tell And old talks, so sociable. And old songs he sung so well 'Fore his voice was gone: | Face is sad to Lide, and they's J Sorrow in the eyes? | Kisses it sometimes, and lays It away and cries; i I smooth down her hair, and 'low He Is happy, anyhow, Beiu' there with mother now? Smile and wipe my eyes. ?James W. Riley, in Century, j FOE MUTUAL BENEFIT. | A Heading-Room Plan That Was a Great Success. "Oh dear!" exclaimed Mrs. Perkins, - dropping down into a chair, after ?finishing her week's ironing: ilI do wish I had a little time to read: Not that I cemplain. but it does seem as if a 'woman's work was never done.'" Her cousin Gertrude looked up from the block house which she was building for the amusement of eighteen-monthsold baby May, and two sympathetic lines showed themselves between her brows. "Poor Nannie: You do have a busy life?and you are only two years older than I! But if I were you, I should not . - iron those every-clay sheets and pillowcases and towels so conscientiously; and I shouldn't wear so many white skirts, nor dress the baby in white everv da v."' ki0h! yes you would,*' sighed Mrs. Nannie. "I used to think just those thoughts. I knew before we were married that Harry's salary would not be large enough for us to keep a hou.se maid, and I thought our housekeeping would be a sort of play affair. I did make so many good resolutions about letting things go, and furnishing our house simply and dressing simply, but oh dear! There is just about so much to do, no matter whether you think you will get along easily or not. Monday is washing day; Tuesday, ironing; Wednesday, baking; Thursday, sweepfcig; Friday, mending and sewing, and Saturday, baking again:" Nannie." hesitated Gertrude. but then she went bravely on. "In the first place, your washing is larger than it need be?hush! you must listen ?it is. Your starched clothes and the baby's. May would be just as sweet if she were dressed in colored ginghams, and she would have a great deal better time, and be healthier, too. I don't wonder that you do not want her tc play in the sand, the way you dress her ?so that is reform Xo. 1." Mrs. Nannie looked as if she wanted to he convinced of this, hut that it would take too much heroism and inInrxr Mrs. "Pllller. OT> posite, and Mrs. Lamson, next door, always kept their little ones so daintily dressed. But Gertrude kept on: "So, if your washing's were smaller, your ironings would be so much easier, too. Harry ought to have his linen sent to the laundry. It is enough to break your back to bend over that table so long. Then comes Wednesday's work. You cook too much?yes you do, Nannie!?that is, you could set a simpler table. You have too many pies and cookies and doughnuts. You * ?+/% KHOW 11 lciivt*s iili uw luuv niiit i-v roll out all those things; and there are so many desserts that are more wholesome and easier made?cold puddings, jellies with cream, custards, and you always have fruit in the summer. Why, my dear girl, you are just spoiling- your complexion by staying- in the house sc much, and standing over that hot stove." "But I have to, really," interrupted Mrs. Nan. '*No, you must listen. I have saved you at least two hours each day, and now comes Thursday. Nannie, you know that you sweep when it is not necessary. And when you furnished your house^you ought to have used more straw matting', xsut men, i suppose it I did not seem handsome enough; jet if you would only wait for a little dirt to show itself! Oh. I have been so exasperated to see you sweep, sweep, viceep; and now I am going to say all I want to, having begun so fluently," she laughed a little, but continued earnestly, "it always gives you a nervous headL ache after sweeping, for you are not mjfr. content with stirring up one room, but H^. you go through all the rooms that you i W& "But Aunt Martha looked as if she j thought I was a very shiftless house- j keeper." "n>i A ant Martini f ves. she is one of ' B that kind of women who polish their stoves until you can see your face in it. E? I don't believe in the old-fashioned way of 'housekeeping:, neither do y^?u, but you haven't quite the moral courage to r defy gossip. And your sewin?, Nannie! Again, you dress the baby as if it were a little princess, and it is net in good taste. Children ought to wear very simple frocks instead of tucks and flounces and insertions. And your own gowns might be-made with fewer stitches; and instead of hemming your sheets and pillowcases by hand, you might use your machine.'' "Oh, no/" protested Mrs. Nannie, in dismay. "Well, if you keep on this way, by the time you are ten years older- ?.nri you ought to be a young, fresh, healthy woman at thirty-five, instead of which you will be thin and tired and sallow, with a chronic head and backache, always staying- in the house, unable to walk or enjoy any thing out of doors; never reading, but engrossed and worried for fear you are not as good a housekeeper as Mrs. "Winslow; your horizon bounded by a dishcloth, a 1 1 .-,.31rkti Vnrmin' VOU orooai uiiu o. u^tua. are too go^-d and sweet and clever to become a mere machine!" There was a little silence; then Mrs. ? Nannie spoke, and her voice ivas a little husky, yet there was a new ring in it, as if she would look beyond her world that was growing1 so narrow. "What would you have me do? There is no library in town?this is only a i little New England village?and I don't I believe there are women enough here who would take interest enough to form a magazine club." L "Have you ever tried?" asked Ger trude. . "No?" Mrs. Nannie hesitated. "Well, I have a plan. At the end of k the week I -will tell it to you, if it sue^ ceeds, and you must asrree to the con i j rrcrk had all been 'lone, and baby May j i T7a5 sound asleep. Gertrude drew Mrs. ! ! Xc.nr.ic down on the scia beside h:-r. i ; rook o pspor from her pociret and said: ilo'.v would yoa like a reading-room?" ; Mrs. Xannie's eyes grew bright. Well, you may have on?. I have lured ' tha* room over .Mr. Brown's store, it used to be Mrs. Jackson's dress-making ; j rooms. Well. I have hired it for a year j ! ?that is my share. Oh, never mind, it j I wasn't much. Well, here are nearly j j fifty names: they represent twenty ; i families, and each person pledges only j one dollar apiece, which makes fifty 1 dollars, for papers and periodicals. ; You can select what you wish?probj ably a daily or two: the leading" magaI zines?an art magazine, book review, | juveniles for the vuung, and whatever I else you wish, for there will be a few I more dollars added yet. I have been to j Dr. Moore, and he has kindly offered to I have the floor painted. Mrs. Williams j has {riven her old drugget for a large 1 rag: Mr. Karnes has sent over several pictures, and some of the young people j are going to put up red Canton flannel I draperies at the windows, and others | are to donate chairs and tables. The room will be very cozy and attractive. -ti-". -..*11 V./-v ?>-? rr ijvery uuiijc win uc m by the first of October."' ' This is like a fairy story! You are a witch, I believe. No one else could have ever opened these purses."' "People seemed very willing", after the first hesitation, of course. It all will not coit them more than two dollars apiece for the year?wood and lights, you knew, included. Any way, it is a good experiment to try. I should advise you to form a club, and meet at ! least once a week: then the library can be kept open two or three hours each afternoon and evening. You can all take turns, you know, if it is necessary to have some one there." It is perfectly lovely!*' exclaimed Mrs. Nannie, nnal>le to say more. The next summer Gertrude came to visit her cousin, and though, of course, she had heard about the success of her little literary undertaking", she was glad to see for herself hew much good had been done. "We could not get along without it!" said Mrs. Nannie. "Why, we have something to think about besides ourselves a.nd each other. We know what is going on in the world, and it has given lis a new interest in life. Then, too. we irrow more social; I think you will see that the people are very much improved. Everybody is so kind. We have had books given us. We found we needed a cyclopedia for reference, and when Mr. Simms, the clergyman, bought a new Britnnniea, lie gave us I his old set. And he is such a help to us. We have a regular class in Universal Literature, and Political Science, too: Mr. Simms teaches us. We women are learning a great deal about our country, and I think the voters are growing a little wiser. The boys are better behaved r 1 more polished, and the girls more cultivated. We married j t people do what we can: then it is no j pleasant to get out together. We have j something to talk about besides bonnets. pies and the baby's last tooth." laughed Mrs. Nannie. "And you can 'slight' housework a little?" questioned Gertrude mischievously, then added: "Why, you look as young as you did when you were first married?handsomer, too!" ' So Ilarry tcdls me,"' blushed Mrs. Xannie. "I manage to walk a little every day, too. I agree with you, there is nothing- like fresh air and sunlight. Harry has me use dumb-bells and Indian clubs, and -now is going- to put up some chest-weights. I used to say that I had all the gymnastics I wanted with a broom and wash-board?but books broaden one so!'' Gertrude refrained from spying*: '"I told you sol"' ' I think the men like it immensely. Instead oi getting- oft' 1 r themselves and smoking in some store, they always find companionship at the club-room, and wo are not intellectual enough yet to frighten them. How narrow we were growing1, until you came here, like a good Samaritan, and led us in the right direction." i;It is deplorable." admitted Gertrude, ' to know how provini :al villagers often become, and it is so unnecessary. I know that individuals can not always buy books nor subscribe for magazines, but on this mutual benefit plan a great deal can be accomplished with very little expense." "I am coincr to write about it!" ex- j claimed Mrs. Nannie. "I presume there are hundreds of villagers just as benighted as we were. Why, we could not lice without our reading-room; and more than that, we have learned how to work without becoming slaves, or jaded, faded old women."?Mrs. Merry, in Good Housekeeping. - : ? Brutes in a BitinC Match. Siiamokix, Pa., June 22.?In West Coal township.early yesterday morning, Patrick Kyan and James Levitt engaged in a ten-roand biting match, a contest that has rarely been equaled in brutality by any struggle between hu man bungs. For some time tnere naa been bud Mood between the men over J the latter's wife, and when the princi! pals met on Saturday night they concluded to have a ''prize" tight with bare knuckles. It was midnight when they | met, with a couple hundred friends, on ! a danciDg pavilion. After lighting a I few rouh-ls the principles agreed to turn the struggle into a biting match. I Their hands were strapped behind their I backs and time was called. Jivan dodged Levitt's rush, and before the latter could recover llyan's teeth had torn a piece of tlesh from his opponent's cheek. Levitt immediately retaliated by sinking his molars into JJyan's neck. Iivan sprang on his half-fainting' opponent and deliberately tore almost half of the lower jaw out. The spectators, not being able to stand further brutality, interfered, stopped the light, j and both men were carried home. i Indians on ;i Drank. Xkw Oki.eaxs, June .22-A special: from Paul's Valley, Indian Territory, I says sixty Chickasaw militia, who left J here Wednesday in charge ol' (Governor ; Byrd and I'nited States Arrant Bennet, | to Intel the I'nited States iroops West i of here and eject six thousand United { States eiii/..jns who are living in the | country without pernms, all ^ot drunk i twenty-iive miles West of this place, j An eye witness says they have a barrel | *u \\-->trnu and ;i rr;1l]nn I lil liitT v\7i:i uucocn j | jug in each saddle. Some of them went! into n farmer's yard and shot down j horses. i hey hrilted a white farmer. I aoused and threatened to shoot him be- j cause he was white. This much whiskey mixed with sixty Indians, wiioare j clothed v. l it some authority, is liable | ! to cause }{;?. loss of s-everal lives. as I wfK-ii 11;e> are drunk their or.lv desire j is to shoo: :ruii kill. A l>?-Hth-J><-nH:isc Storm. Litti.k Rock. Ark.,.Tune 2u ? A cie- j structive storm ju.ssedover Kastern Ar- j kansas th:s morning. Houses were un- j roofed and blown do>::i, I truces carried | away and a large arc:; of timber lacd ! was laid waste. Mrs. .1 uiia ifhadrick ; was kilieu by a railing tree. -John Stan i ley, who washanl;n<r ties in me woods, | was crushed Uneath falling timbers, j Two boys named I lolling worth are : missing and it is feared they have been I killed in the woods. Death of Ex-Senator McDonald. Indianapolis, June 21.?Ex-Senator McDonald died at. 11.33 to-night. He Eay very peacefully, without a urrouuded by his family, who i attendance at his bedside. A FEROCIOUS DESPOT, j HIGH-HANDED OUTRAGES PEftPE-I TRATED 3Y BALMACEDA. i Uarl>.-t r?.u. Inflicted I'pua ! i WJiu arc Supposed to .Sympathise j Willi tlie Sii-volutiuuihts-A Keiuti of j Terror. Xev York. June 22.?Many startling facts in connection with the revolution now raging in Chile, which throws iiiihi upon the ferocity and despotism of JJalmaceda, are now yiven to the public j for the lirst time ihrousrh the United Press. The three gentlemen, two of whom are prominent Chileans, from whom these lads are obtained, are at present in New York, having arrived here last week. They have witnessed the conduct of the revolution from its inception, and speak from actual knowledge. The combined btories of the three show that lJalruaccda is well termed the kityrant," iu Santiago, where his headquirters are, no one dares to utter a word against him. lie has a cross of red painted ou all the houses of neople whom he suspects are not wholly in sympathy with him, and into these marked residences bis police aud soldiers go at any hour of the da}' or nisht. They ransack the rooms, on the ground that they are looking for revolutionists who are supposed to be hidden there. The soldiers demaud wiue and food, and after having as good a time as they wish, depart, only to repeat the offense in some other marked residence. The people in tluse huu>es are forbiddeu to lock their doovs. Xo oue is allowed to ride on horseback through the streets after 5 o'clock in the afternoon; 110 three persons are allowed to walk tiie streets in cotnpauy at any time ol Hie day, aud 110 two persons can staud and converse on the street. Jt is a veritable reign 01 lerror i {or all who, either through fear or interest, have tailed to cast their fortunes J with lJalmaceda. The storekeepers anu all who employ i laborers have to furnish each one with a | tu<4', showing that they are regularly employed by such a merchant at such i place. If the laborer is caught on the street, going to or from his work, without this tai; he is gobbled up by the soldiers of Balmaceda and impressed into his service. This system exists in Valparaiso also. One of lhe gentlemen referred to was walking along the street past a jail yard. IJe heard seme terrible shrieks from some one on the other side of the wall. He enouired of a soldier the cause and was told tiiat some of Baluiuceda's soldiers were punishing it man who had refused to work for bin by driving tacks and pins into hi< hands and lingers. The next day he saw a horrible punishment meted out to a Chilean who had been overheard to say that he was willing to work his hands oft" for the revolutionists. The poor fellow's hands were placed on a block aud his lingers pounded to a jelly by a big mallet in the hands of a soldier. lie was then told that he could go aud work his hands any way he wanted to. and for any one. Terrorism at Fort-Au-Prlnce. Xeav Yciuc, .1 une iy.?According to a letter received I'rom Port-au-Prince yesterday, lYt-sident Hippolyte attempted on May 2U to take lour political prisoners J rem tlie Mexican consulate in theHaytien capital. "When the entire diplomatic corps called on the President, May 30, to protest against- this violation of international law, Ilippolyte attempted to play a high-handed game of blurt', and lie might have succeeded had not the Genuan consul threatened to report the matter to his government. Minister Fred. Douglass, it is said in the letter, stood trembling with fear ami heard the black ruler insult the Hag ol every civiiiz-d nation almost, inciu- \ ding his own. and he did not dure offer any protest. Terror reigDS supreme at Port-au-Prince. Illppolyte continues to kill his supposed enemies, but they accumalate faster than he can kili them. The real instigators and leaders of the movement against him have escaped his vengeance. t>ome of them are secretly at work in Port-au-Prince. Ilippoly te, the writer thinks, is undoubtedly crazy. It Is stated that when the consuls called on him he became angry and rushed out of the room, and was soon alter heard playing a flute in the next room. The consuls were leaving, when the minister of foreign affairs came in | and beggrd them to remain, saying the President had been summoned away on important matters, but would return immediately. The ininisterthen went out and apparently remonstated with Ilippolyte, as he soon re-entered the room and excused himself on the same grounds mentioned by his minister. A Mtnidtor ami a Mason. Boston, .7 uue 22.?During the regular Monday meeting of the Baptist ministers in Chapel Hall this forenoon the Kev J. B. Stoddard addressed the Conference, at its suirccstion, upon the influence of secret societies upon the Church, and in the course of his remarks he strongly denouueed Masonry, declaring that when I ? man swears allegiance to Masonry he | swears allegiance to a code antagonistic to God. The Rev Mr. Cleveland, of Melorse, who was in the audience, arose to a point of order, and, with suppressed emotion, said: "I am a Mason and I cannot listen to this uujust and uncalled for abuse." Chairman Morau put the question to the meeting of sustaining the point of order, and it was defeated?50 to 7. Instantly Mr Cleveland rose and. addressing the secretary, said: UI request that you dron mv name from the roll of membership of "this Conference. I do uot care to be a member ot any body that refuses to sustain an}* decent point oforder." Then taking his hat he left the hall and Stoddard finished his address. IO'Dchrd the Wrong Man, Highland Centre, Wis., June 23.? Irwin Fowler, of Viola, Kicbktnd County, lias confessed that he had a hand in the murder of old Reuben Drake, his wife and two <?rand-children in May, 1888, for which Andrew Grandstaff was lynched three days afterwards. It is reported that Fowler im? - ^ t ? l.Vjnt iinrl pucates ?)tii x uuv. Elijah Carey, who were under suspicion at the time of the murder. Great excitement exists in the vicinity where the bold crime was committed and in (consequence ol" Fowler's contession violence u;ay result. A ]'l?gu? ofLocusU. Loxi>ox, .lane IS?The most thriliiin^ stories come from Algeria of the ravages of the locusts. In many clis| tricts not a sprig remains on a "farm, and the inhabitants are in a furnishing condition. Their only resort for food is the locusts themselves, of which vast - - * - ? Cj/1 Thtt j quamillrs are wijouuku. Ai*\, : French colonial authorities are taking j steps to stay the plagueas much as possible l?y the use of scientific meaDS. The Cnamber of Deputies has voted '>0,000 francs to be used in destroying I the locust plague in Algeria. One Hundred H-orsea Uurntd. Philadelphia, June 25.?Fire broke i out in the large three-^tory brick stable j attached to "the city gas works at j Twenty-fourth and Chestnut streets at 1.15 this morning. The building will ! be a total loss. Over 100 horses were ! in the building and these are all bej lieved to have been burned to death. - \ DON'T SERVE COLORED PEOPLE. flo'.r the Civil Rights L ;v,-is .Evaded ia i I President MnrrisoiiV Hohq<. IXDIANOPOLIS, Jur.e 10.?"We don't j Sfcrve COiufeU pe;>}>:e n? ie, Siliu a .vuiin i ot one ot the leading r."stf:u rants cl the j city. 'IIow do we co it V' Well. we do ! not decline to fut-d ihem. Tins is I the way we get around the law. A Col- j orfcd man comes in and takes a seat; at the lunch counter. He calls for pork i chops, say. We say, "Are you willing to j pay our price?' He invariably answers,! 'What am the price?' And we mention j a rate so high that he departs without j ordering to seel; a more reasonable place. ' Out in Washington where I used to work," s;iid he, "the restaurant's have another way or evading the law which is si00 line for declining to serve a ne gro. There they keep two hills of fare, one lor the whites anil one for the blacks. If a colored man takes a seat in a restaurant the waiter places before him the 'b!ack' bill of fare, which reads something -ike this- 'Two boiled eggs, 75 cents: pork chops, SI ;ham and eggs, .$1.50,' etc. Of course he does not order and he never returns to that restaurant. The corresponding articles in the'white' bill of fare are: Say 20, 30 and 40 cents. It was through tne misuse of these two hills nf fare that I lost mv job there. Absent-mindedly 1 gave a" -white' bill of fare to a smart colored department messenger. Of course lie ordered and was allowed to eat. It could not be helped. The next day he returned, but this time lit was given the 'black' bill of fare. To our consternation he gave the same order he had the previoue day. But this time I gave him a check for $1.75. lie walked up to the cashier and plunked down a half dollar piece, saying he would duplicate his order of the day before and would pay the same rate and no more. He threw the half dollar in the glass case and made a break for the door, but we seized him acid locked him up in a room while I went for the police. When I returned with blue coat he was gone, having jumped out through a window. He had the proprietor arrested. The judge lined nim SlOO, holding that a public caterer ?* /vfr /.Vioi-tu nno /(:iv anfl UUU1U uui/ unax^v wuv/ J?A4W ?.wj another the next." One strange feature about this evasion of the law is that colored waiters are the most zealous in excluding colored men fiom the restaurants in which they worK. It will be remembered that a colored waiter was discharged from service in a Chicago hotel last winter because he refused to wait xipon a nobleman from Siani, saying that he w:ouid not serve a "nigger."- Sentinel. The Weather aud the Crops. The weekly weather and crop bulletin of the Soiiih Carolina weather ser viie, in co-operation witri tne tnueu States Signal Service, for the week ending Saturday is as follows and is not very encouraging to farmers: The rainfall lor the past week was about the normal, fairly distributed and beneficial to all crops in most sections of the State. The temperature was about the average and beneficial to all crops. Sunshine was about the average amount which was very beneficial to crops, and. while no excessive rains, destructive winds nor hail was reported, yet, nevertheless, the constant showers and the heavy and continued rains of the previous weeks have kept the lands too wet to perforin the usual amount of farm labor, and the result has been that a large portion of the cotton crop is in ihe grass, and in some instances almost hopelessly ruined. The rains, whilst they have benefited the cotton on clay lands, have to a great extent injured that on sandy lands, scalding the young plants and thereby causing much of it 10 die out. The stands are opnnraliv vfrv imperfect: cottou is small and from present appearances the prospects are very discouraging. The condition of the corn crop continues to improve, and the prospect for a full average crop is now almost assured. The fall eats have been harvested and the yield is much larger than anticipated, but the area is smaller than last year. The early rice is later than usual, planting having been retarded by heavy and continued rains. In some sections not more than nair tne crops were planted until the present month. The crop is up and growing iinely, and with continued favorable weather it will be increased over that of last year. Tli? Juwh Democracy. Otto w* a, Iowa, June 24.?The Democartic State Convention today renominated Governor Boies by acclamation. The ticket was completed as follows: Lieutenant Governor, I. L. Bestow; Judge Supreme Court, L. G. Kinne; Superintendent ot Schools, J. 13. Knoeptler; Ilailroad Commissioner, Peter A. Day. rin? ?.lA4 f/v?T.* ??rAo n/lAtifn.l Ktr o nitQni. JLI1C piaWUJLUi >vao auv|'H/u <jj ? .^ous vote. It demands the repeal ol' the prohibitory liquor law and favors the passage of a carefuilv guarded license tax law: advocates the Australian system of voting, and favors State and national control and regulation of railroads. It denounces all trusts, pools and combines, and favors the election ot United States Senator by a direct vote of the people; demands free coinage ot silver and that it be made full legal lender; favors liberal and equitable pension la-.vs. It denounces the McKiuley bill, the motives of its authors and defenders and the theory under which it is submitted for the approval of the American people. Such legislation, it says, increases the cost of the necessaries of life, promotes dishonest manufactures; trusts and combines, creates sectional envy despoils the many for the benfitofthefew, threatens the country with an aristocracy based upon ill-gotten gain, and above all corrupts the polities of the country so as to seriously endanger the perpetuity of popular government. It denounces the wasteful aud lavish appropriations of the last Congress, and concludes by recommending ^ liberal appropriation for the display ot ' jvva's recnmv>A? nf. tho World's Columbia Exi)0 silion. Klclmionrt Wants the llouor. Richmond, Va., June 18.?A meet ing of the Chamber of Commerce aud the Davis Monument association was held this evening, at which a preamble and resolutions, prepared by Mayor El!"son and (Jen. Peyton AVise were unanimously adopted. The resolutions provide for the appointment of a committee to secure the permanent interment of Mr. Davis* remains in Richmond. and another to at once formulate and cause to be exected a plan for collections for the purpose of a monument to Jefferson Davis; and that fiese collections be turned over to the Jefferson Davis Monument association, chartered bv the sitate of Virginia, should it be determined to erect trie monument here, or to the appropriate parties, should it be decided to erect it elsewhere. Threw liis Child Into the S^a. Xkw Yokk, June 21.?The steamer La Jiretagne, which arrived here today from IIavr?% reports that Joseph Feys, aged 4?j. a steerage passenger, a native of Swii?e?land. while conversing with his family, consisting of his wife and five children, suddenly dragged iiis live-year-old son, Pierre, from his mother's arm-; and threw him into the sea. The child was lost, aD'i me iamer, aviio i was insane, was seized by the officers i-* the ship and pat in irons. He had ! threatened to throw all his children 1 overboard. r Earthquake Shock. Charleston, s. C., Jane 23.?a' slight shock of earthquake occurred here at 11:27 p.m. There was a distinct boom and shock. Xo damage was dong*and the earthquake was so sligh^A; it escaped the notice of haU^toT^^^V DASHED INTO A DITCH. FEARFUL FATE OF AN EXCURSION TRAIN NEAR CLEVELAND Ei? lit Cars Ltavs th? Track?Several Couches Swashed to Splinters?forty People Ii'jure?l? Sjev*rul F?1 ally--Train "Was Kunnlufr Sixty Miles an Uoar. Cleveland, Jun* 21.?A frightful wreck o.'cnrred oa the Xickle Plate railroad thirteen miles west of Cleveland this afternoon. The West ."Side .Street Railway company save an excursion to Oakpoint for the benefit of their employees. There were two trains consisting of ten cars each. The llrit section left on time at 2 30. The .second section was delayed and did not leave Cleveland until about. 2 o'clock. When three miles west of Dover, the second section jumped the track, ditching eight of the ten cars. Seven of the cars were overturned and four of them were torninto splinters. Many women and children were caught under the debris. About forty were badly hurt. Edwara llodgers was horribly mangled. His head was crushed into'a pulp, one arm partly severed and his breast crushed. llodgers was a member of the Shamrock baseball club, and at one time was a professional player on J he Toronto team. Ten or twelve were fatally injured but their names could not be learned owing to the reticence of the hospital employees. Every umDuiance 111 trie cay whs called and met the special train that went out for injured. They were taken to the different hospitals. A man taken to the University hospital died this evening. Many women and children had their arms broken and were otherwise injured. The newsboy. John Iliggius, was seen by a Press News reporter, but he was so oadly hurt he could not give a clear account of the wreck, but savs the train was running sixty miles an hour when they left the track. His clothes were torn nearly oil'. His face was cut and he was badiy bruised about the body. The ensrine buried itself in the ditch. The engineer and lireman saved their lives by jumping. The "cars rolled down the embankment six feet into a ditch wnich was filled with muddy water. Tlio passengers were covered with mud and as nearly everyone was bieedirur from cuts received, it was ditlicclt to tell how badly they were hurt. The car next to the engine was mashed into splinters and all\vho were in this car were teriously hurt. There were at ieast twenty that had to be carried from the special train that brought them to Cleveland to the ambulances which numbered fifteen or more. It is not known what caused the train to leave the track but it is supposed the track spread. A Smash up. Aikkx, S. C.. June lit ? A general smashup occurred on the .South Carolina road near Aiken at o'clock this morning. A freight train from Augusta to Charleston, consisting of twentyfour boxes of coal, stalled on the hill about a mile from the depot. The conductor divided the train into two sections, leaving the second behind, intending going on with the first to the shifting yard. When the lirst section reached the cut that ruus through the Heart 01 tne city trie tram parmi u> uic breaking of a coupling pin. The detached part, owing to the terrible inclination, rolled back toward the second section. Owing to the distance, the detached part had a chance to go with great speed, and when it reached the boxes lel't behind it utterly demolished them. Four boxes were splintered to pieces and pitched on top of one another, the coal being scattered everywhere. A construction train with a large force of hands set to work to clear the debris and repair the track, which was injured. All trains going north and south were delayed until 1:20 p. m., when the train from Charleston to Augusta passed over in safety. This wreck occurred where the bank is 100 feet high, a slanting position, and it was fortunate that no brakemen vvere aboard the wrecked cars. The coal will be saved. A brakeman on a Charleston bound train was killed this morning at Hamburg. lie was caught between two cars and mashed to death.-The State. "The Devil's Siuk-Hote." Sax Antonio, Tex., June 22.?J. C. Carr, an old Texan, for two terms Sergeant-at-Arms of the House of Representatives and at present interested in the presentation of Indian depredation claims at "Washington, has returned from the Iiio Grande section and reoorts a singular discovery in the cen tre of Edwards County. It is known as the "Devil's Sink-IIole." It is a circular opening six feet across and descending perpendicularly. Recently it was partially explored. A man was let down by a rope 150 feet and at that point he found a ledge from which ran a passage way seven feet high and wide enough for three men abreast, and running at a steep decline, lie followed it 300 feet and came to an immense lake of water, ice cold. lie had no means of determining its extent, but a stone hurled with all his force splashed in the water fully seventy yards away. the bank of the lake was covered with pieces of rock looking as tnougn they had been blasted. Some were brought to the surface, and they assayed about thirty ounces of silver to the ton. A.11 of that region is rich in silver indications, and it is supposed that the mysterious cavern is an abandoned Spanish mine and has other exits and entranc?s. It will be thoroughly explored by competent prospectors. A Malicious Mule. Sebewaixg, Mich., June l'J ?A terrible light between a man and an infuriated mule occurred in Herman's blacksmith shop on Wednesday. The mule had an aversion to being shod, and had t.-> i?a thr/m-n TTftvmj?n said he would shoe that mule in the regular way or die. With the help of three men, lleynian finally lixed the shoes and went to the door to cool off. He had hardly done so when the mule broke away from the man holding him, and with distended jaws made for Herman. The mule chased Heyman all around the shop, stretched his snapping jaws to Hey man's face and bit oil" the nose and lower right cheek. Heyman fell to the iloor and the mule deliberately pounded his prostrate body. The doctors fear Heyroan will die ol' poison irora me foam-llecked lips ot' the mule. Tfcomxs.J. Stack Acquitted. Columiua, C., June li).?The case against, Thomas J. Stack, indicted for the murder ot John Hammer, and which has been in progress since Monday at Lexington C. II., was given to the jury on Wednesday night, and at <J o'clock yesterday morning they came into court with a verdict of not. guilty. Mr. Stack returned to the city yesterday after being discharged from custody, and received numerous congratulations upon his safe delivery from the clutches of the law.?Register. Sins>tl;ir Verdicf. Ixdianai'OLIs. .June 'J2.?Harry Carpenter, a weal tin' farmer in this county, committed suicide by shooting himself on Friday. The coroner's jury returned a verdict Saturday, saving: "The deceived killed hlmseir in a nu o: despondency, caused by hroodiu^ over the increase in taxes under the new Democratic appraisement law of the State." .Tones, the Edgefield family exterminator, has put on his sLriped garb and for the next twenty-one years he will work for I he State as a penitentiary convict. WILL TriE?.H 3E A S?L :T ? j J j Ah IntfAllisnui- C'i?niVivHo-* lit? | Ct ui ]y K<-KJ. Jacksonville. Fla.. June 21.?A ! iJacli.S'iu. M:>;. >;?eci?ii to I :e Ti * cs-Un- j i ion >avs: visit here oi L'oik. . Livii:^ti?u. 2iicL>oiveli :?nd Wiliitts, At- j liance lights, some interesting develop- ; meuts came to tl:e surface iu relation to National Alliance matters. The Xa| tional Alliance legislative council met in Washington last February and created a legislative committee consisting of { three members, of nhicli U. Hall, j president of the Missouri Alliance, was I j one. The lunctious of this committee j ' were to formulate measures growing out j ! of the Ocala demands, to be presented i ! to the 52d Congress. Hall, from the j j inception of tho sub-treasury measure, i hr,s been one of its strongest opponents, i When he was elected a member of lhe committee it was regarded us a victory for antl-treasuryites, aud it was so pro! claimed and as au indication of the ultii male abandonment of tho scheme. i Hall, after his election, commenced j to w -rk with increased vigor against the I .scheme and with his coadjutors had suc| ceeded in organizing a movement covrrj iug the entire Southern States, as is ! shown by the call for a meeting oi the ; Ami-Sub treasury League at Dallas. I j Texas, on July iu next. This meeting promises to be largely attended and organized opposition to the sub-treasury measure and Macuneism will be definitely inaugurated, and on this circumstance hangs an interesting tale. Within the last month remonstrances have been sent to Ilall by members of the legislative council, and members have also urged upon President Polk the necessity of taking actiou against Ilall. Polk has had considerable correspondence with Hall, advising him to desist, and very recently submitted to him one of two alternatives, either to cease his opposition to the sub-treasury bill, or to tender his resignation as a member of tlie legislative committee. In the event of his non-compliance he was given plainly to understand that he would be suspended, aud was <:iven until July 2~) to make his answer. it is believed that this is a decisive stroke of policy to frustrate tiie objects of the Anti-Sul-treasury League at Dallas, Tex., and to intiuence le.^s intrepid opponcuts to the measure than Hall to 1.: 1 ,i sieer cieur ui uie j./;inu:> tyum,n. Those who know President Hall as- | serl positively that he will declinu to be coerced md to give up his convictions, but, on the contrary, lie wil. resign and fight the sub-treasury scheme harder than ever. It is believed by many that this will the National Alliance, and that an independent organization will grow out of the Dallas meeting as the result, with ;i more liberal policy in many respects, and especially as to membcrshi p. I'iJiuo.H and Organ*. U\ Trump, 134 Main Street Columbia. C.. sells Pianos and Organs, direct from factory. No agents' commissions. The celebrated Chickering L'iano. Mathushek Piano, celebrated for its clearness of tone, lightness of touch and lasting: qualities. j-Iason & Hamlin Upright Piano, Sterling Upright Pianos, from 8225 up. Mason <& Hamlin Organs surpassed i>y none, Sterling Organs, ?30 up. Every Instrument guaranteed for six years. Fifteen days' trial, expenses bot h ways, if not satisfactorv. Sold on Instalments. J)ied u Hero'.s Death. Omaha. Xeb., June 20.?A twelveyear-old school boy named Miles died a r1o-.ith rlnrincr thtf refient Storm near Norfolk. The school house is situated in a ravine. 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