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_ THE WEEKLY UNION T1HE8. ^ Devoted to Agriculture, Horticulture, Domestic Economy, PettB^^Hfcre, Politics and the Current News of the Day. ^ ~r*i* co*-ij "" *y * * * ~ ~?- ? ? ? .? . . . ? ? i. ... .. . .. ??. _ ? ? XX.?NEW UNK )N C. 11., S<>UWF^V^^KJNB"28,-1889. NUMBER 26. ^fppp???m ? MOTHER. ' B* BUHT ARNOLD. { Aloncsonio 'pilot reigns to-nl lit J I'vo Mover folt before; f For mother's i n!mo?l tho |>ortiilB biljbt . Wtivro angels guard tho door. And while I sit in tho twilight low, r * My thoughtH tnoy wiuidor wide; It koomib toino not Ion : ago biuco 1 Knelt by lior side, X A chubby boy with llaxen hilr? Hor lovo enshrined 1110 thou ; t And had I always bat mo th?ro, What might my past have I>ojuI ] I For steadfast nt tho stars abovo? No'or w.i v'rln ; to tho end, t Kext God aliovo, my mother's love Woe my host oarthlv friend. Bo swift tho years bavo glldod on. They nil n-oui yeterdays; Anil 1 review, in tho past th vt's golio, Hor guidaiico of my w ays. 4jMA Oil liM'OH I Htiut, ninid the gloom, As if her voice I hoard ; * And list my car around tlio room L >- That 1 may hoar hor word. Hut O, nine I her voice In still? I ne'er may hoar it more, Unless it bo that, by God's will, Wo mcot at hoavcn's doir. And if ho deigns to hoar uiy prayer, How linppy I shall be ; I'll keep me puro to meet hoi thore On hoaven s sholt'rlng loa. Bo God, who gaugoth each ono's worth -? iiiroumi (vetioiiH novo li.ilow, / Tho guidon crown, mIio won on onrtli, Has placed on iiiothor'u brow. Now?loncHonio quiet roigns again? I fool it. as before: Tlio luneBuiiio <|Ulot's in my 1 raiu-? 'Twill never leave mo mere. A MODERN , MAGDALEN. j ri - ? ] i ~r**? ' \ ? j.flf t.VHS'i" ?< ?C..~ *** '~"v b CIIAPTEU Vlll. ?[CoNTiNum.) p Then a bell rings. Tho girl shows li lior down stairs and leaves tier at the opon door of the dining-room. r, As Loo pauses for a moment in tho j\| doorway, undecided whether to advanco j, or retreat, for Have hor own presence V( the room seems empty, a slight exclamation startles her. 1 oo looks up. A tall man, attired in plain black, evi- j( dently the butler, for ho carried tho n pantry keys in his hand, and a waiter j, loaded with fruits stood on tho s'dsboard at his hand, wlioro ho had ap- r, tmrnili.lv iinti. nltnuial ii lliu fiiiritn'l ghastly white, ami his eyes fell as they j] oueounterod hor own. ? Where had sho scon liiui before? She was pu/./.lod. lli< faco was familiar; surely at some time or other she had y seen him before. He reoovors himself, approaches re- fr f poet fully, and poiuts out tho seat alio is ?( i * . to occupy at tho table. w (fe.T Thon alio knows him. Slxh Is startled w ?terrified. 0j "Hearth l" sho ejaculates impotuously. u] Tho lmtlor's oye3 moot her own now. p( There is a stooly gleam in his pale blue orbs that frightens iier more and more, y "Miss is mistaken," ho says civilly, w but with usubtlo note of warning in his w lospoetful tones. "I am lvibbey, tho j, butler." tl "lint you wero?I am suro you oaco Bl waited ;%t " began I oo. w "Never!" douies l\:bboy vehemently, "And thoy found that diamond K, when " l? "Miss is doceivcd by a fancied ro- y scmblniieo which she imagines I bear to one whom she hat met under diHicul- tl ties?perhaps," politely says tho butler. "My lianio is I'arker lvibbey, and rt| I have the best of references." At this moment the Madam outers r< the dining-room, leaning on tho Cap- y( tain's arm. Thoy now all tako their places at table, and the butler serves ], tliom. 8( It is woll for her future peaco of mind y .""thin Too sits with her buck to tho but- y filer, and that sho cannot seo tho awful y r?.,.. .....i 4i.~ Vtl IV (II Ulltl 11*111) 111 lilt; IMIllt'l 9 || oyes. J'or, more plainly than words eJ can any it, that look says?murder. CHAPTER IX. k. A MAN WHO ASKS FOIl JODITII DONITIIOBNB. n II Wfif ^ ^ weeks had ^oiie ' >' 'ImllUflfJ/ since tin* dreadful X. Y. TA. Railway d'sasttn-. ISliss I afargo has w / convalesced rapidly, and her broken ^arni is doing very well, indcod. h In 8 x "weeks' tiino she has accoin plishod much. She has won Miss Ohid- w ley's ailbelion and her unbounded con- a iidonco, and alio rides out daily behind g tho dreadful lduck ponies, whoso an- 1? ties are a frosh source of amusement, hI for alio laughs and applauds heartily, g whether they stand st.ll in utter rebel- si lion, or go tearing madly over the o country roads. In six weeks' time sho has improved her sl'ght acquaintance with the in- ?i mates of llywator Park, has gained tho tl dislike of Madam I undue, the hatred of Loo, and wen from tho Captain tho b warmest admiration. ri During tho six weekH Captain Hazard h has made many calls upon tho fair Hufferer at Mubbicfiold, and appearances would indicate that his fickle heart has been almost caught in the meshes the c< enchantress has spread for him. a; In six weeks, poor 1.00 finds that F-t stone walls, and cushioned furniture, Ji and silk gowns are no more conducive h to perfect happiness than were tho d third-floor back bed-rooms, the sham h pianos, and tho cotton frocks of her h former days. Sho "gots on," hoifovrcr, most unoxpoctodlv with Madam Dundas; and this g i? n comfort, but to outhulanoo this is >fton moots now, and the ovorpoworing ealousy which consumes her whenever fo ihe Boos the Cnptain and Mies Lafarge ogother. Not that tho gallant Cuprain suspects this feeling on Loo's part. L'o the Captain l.oo is ico itself. lie shall never smile at the readiness fa vith which sho surrendered to him, slio on lays angrily to liersolf. For the Cap- lo< nin thinks notliing of airing his sup- hn >oscd conquosts in Loo's hearing, and co ather boasts of liis prowess as a lady's nan, as is usual with men of this de >" .ou panned for a moment in the dooneap, cription, greatly overestimating himel f. To quite ward off tlio Captain's bus- |,jE icions?should lie liavo any?of the eal state of affairs, 1.00 accepts the at- tlii MitioiiH'yj spoilt lorn an whom the Cap- tor .Mt\vAiueotl to her notice. Ttio U)1( imsoquenco bo ng that Littlofiold soon no. ecomos hor shadow or second self, reatly to tho Captain's owu discoiu- ] ture. ? "What hIio can soo in that follow," toe minrked tho Cu]>tain to his confidante, ' ludam I fundus, "is beyond me. Why, wa 0 is nothing but a conceited ass at tho cei ury best." Six weeks go by. Tho grass begins ? grow 111 little groon patches 011 tho moly grave in tho country cemetery. ? is quite the middle of Juno now, and ere atui tlioro in tho consecrated round uro bunches of rose trees in ill bloom. Kngrossed with her flirtation Avith j Ui/.ard, Miss I afargn lias 110 time to ( ivo a thought to the quiot sloepor hoso place she has usurped. But if liss 1 .afargo has no time to think of 10 dead girl, there is 0110 that does. Tho "motherly woman," in her in- ~ nito sympathy and goodness of heart, a ues often to tho littlo burial ground to 1U8O by the lonely gravoof the atrnn^or, 17 liose untimely death alio is nover tired F talking about. 8igl As tho Avoeks go by 6lio speculates pon tho subject, ami wonders if no- voj udy Avill ever come to claim tho very ^UI iav personal effects that belonged to jOA 10 dead girl, .-he bolievos that somo- j4j, hero in tho world thoro is somo 0110 jnj, ho loved and cared for the 0110 that i ad met so tcrriblo a fato. And she is, lereforo, not much surprised 0110 limy morning to sco a strange man jj,, alk up the path leading to her door. j|lt ml sho is at otico interested when the gj, unloimin inquires, in a voice Avhich 0 trays emotion, carefully modulated | tough it is: tlii "Is this tho place Avhoro Judith Doni- |10J lorn died?" j\|tl Tho "motherly woman" nods iu tho (j0] [Urinative. jliu "Yes. In this house, and in this , xnn," throwing open tho door. "Will an Avalk in and sit down?' Tho visitor enters ami glancos ab >ut riM, im. He is unprepossessing in his per- , inal appearance, and his face is smis- . sr. His figure is short and heavily 1 II, uilt, Avi'h shoulders so very broad as .. > suggest suspicion of padding. A lick idnck board straggles down hii ithor side of his full, red face, and uo weeps ujion his breast. His eyes are thi ceil and tivinkling, shrewd in expres011, and of a red color. His clothing 1 black and evidently much too tight "U >r his body, 11 pon his ho ld is a silk niu at, and I10 carries a cane. His Avalk is Kai stride, and ho glnnces around the Ml join Avith an air of scorn. ' "You say sho died in this room?" tin The "motherly Avomau" again nods hit 1 the allirmative. St "In this room, near tho sjiot Avliero yo on 110AV stand." ' " WJ10 was with hor Avhen she died?" nai e asks, biting his lip. '< "Only tho doctors." ' "Was hIio conscious?" bh "No. Directly after tho train Avas recked, a nuiiibor of tho wounded Fr ore brought hero. Among them avhs sin he lady you luivo asked about. Site hit I.... i.l? 1.mwl .... .......... ao > "'ui in *i, <? m in ait uui;uii- fjjj ions condition when slio nrrivod. Slio Dived but u few hours, and died without Dalizing her extremity." nt "And sho was alone?" all "Yos. itut stop! Thero was a lady pa ho " all "A lady!" ho ejaculates incrodu>usly?"a lady?" sh "A lady!" allirins tho "motherly th oman." "And tho lady said she was friend of tho girl that died, and I uess she was. J know she sat l?y tho inly, anil sho paid tho undertaker, and an lie followed tho corpse to tho burial < round. Then slio went away. Sho ,ni lid tho poor dead girl had no friends w' f any consotjuor.ee." wc Tho \isitor bit his lip ngnin. afi "liavo you anything in your posses- M ion now that belonged to tho lady lie lint died?" nii Tho "motherly woman" nods swift tin Sho disappears prosontly, only to Bturn again with a traveling-hag in wl or hand. "This is all," sho says. "All!" He grasps the bag, opens it. Thero is the usual paruphornnlin: oinbs, brushes, powder-box, pencil, 1,1 ml lastly ?a diary. JJJ Tho stranger snatches at this diary. 11. lo scans j?age uftor page in an eager 11 ishion, then ho eloses tho book sml- ? ( only. "It was ln-rs," ho says in a jj ashed tone, more to himself than to j is interested eomjiauion. f" "stiii?" Then he b tes his nails savagely, nnd x lowers at li s companion. ni " W Juno it} her jrnrso ?" ho (voka. p' Jle "motherly woman'' colors indigly "If the lady had a purse, it will bo and in (ho traveling-bug" llo rummages through the bag. ' There is no sign of a purse. V **]>oseribo tho Indv. Was she fair?" o "Yes. I should say so. Though her <_ ee was r,o dreadfully burned that _ 10 could hardly tell what it must hnvo j, okod liko before tlio a cideut. She (j id brown hair and blue eyoa. I am , rtain she was a blonde." v "How was she attired? ' "In black. I thought it was mourng; she had crapo stones in her ears. 11 certaiu now that sho was in mouru- c a, Then the visitor's head sank far iwn upon liis breast. A sigh escapes m. lie rousos himself to find tho eyes " tho "motherly woman" sternly lixod ?l on liini. b "I am satisAod," ho says shortly. "At b< si I thought perhups it might be a 1,1 so of mistaken identity; but your do- u rintion has disoelled that tlionelit N >t about tho lady you spoke of; tho si e who acted tho part of tho 'good ft .uiaritan.' Wlio is she, and where i? |? 0 now ? ' In Tho "motherly woman" draws a card vi >m her pocket, and Avith somo prido av acob tho card in tho outstretched B lid of her visitor. p, lie reads tho nnmo easily, for it is n itlen iu a clear hand: C ? * cl : Marion Laiaikje, : c< : BlubblotloliL : ^ o * * tt rhen ho puts tho card carefully in c 1 pocket. gy 'With your permission, I will keep j1( s," hosuvH, speaking in a more civil c.t 10. "I would liko too ill upon tho lady il thank her ill person for her kind- j is to my dead rolativo." 'Shall you take tho bag?" er lie shook his head in tho nogativo. 'You may liavo it, and tho contents >. I liavo no uso for either." 8'l 1'hcn lie turned upon liis heel, and th Iked quickly iu tho direction of tho CI uotery. ar CI CIJA1TKR X. N? THE QUESTON OF MARRIAGE. lit O'v) has been singing ?# to Madam. Tho cur- qi tains uro drawn, tho ft wax candles lighted in g tlioir silver bcoiicos, ^ Aaml IM a d a m her- y )se!f reelines at full f (M '? length upon the old- re fashioned couch that re 'IUH H*00(l l?r yoars C3 ^y>**\ between tho drawingg^-\\\ /,)) room windows at By- lK |%^\\ ///a water l'ark. In tho Rr 8&\..ings; for Madam in- HI Is upon being sung to oacli day, and re 0 really sings very sweetly. Her wi ice is not ono that will make liev for- ci 10 as a eantatriee; but it is swool and tli v, and fairly well cultivated ?tlio \* id of voieo we all like to he ir croon- fn \ old-time ballads in tho twilight. ct, iCvidontly others besides Madam en- p, tho poor little nobody's lmisie; for (1j ptain Hazard lias somehow fallen into ! habit of ijii etly seeking a corner of t 3 drawing-room, ns the shadows be- ^ 1 to gather and Loo takes her place 1 the piano. 1.00, however, is quito nneonscious of ' s action 011 his part She slips into r scat and sings tho simple old songs se kdam calls for, then when this is no she slips away as quietly us she 11 1 como. Gl l'lio liltlo cuekoo clock over Iho ra ,ntel sings out tho hour niuo as she ^ es now from the piano. 1,1 *liood-night, Madam," she says. in 'Good-night, my dear," answers Ma- or 111, and tho girl llits away. ed 'I've been thinking lately," says w< kdam Dundas. bo kouing to tlie Cap- de n, who leaves his shaded nook and w iv approaches his friend. '1 vo noon 11 nking lately that you should marry." w Hazard laughs lightly. M *1 unco thought so too," ho replies. 81 ut you know I never could (juito 8? ike up my mind to oiler myself n n ritico on the altar matrimonial, after ." ci 'Soltish creature." Madam smiles, mi grows serious. "I have thought 8t ?ly--sinco Miss Lalargo came to pi ubtdclioUl?that at last you had met bi ur fate." cc "Deuced lino girl, that Lafarge," ^ . s the Captain. N "Not to bo compared with l.oo." rc "l.oo is a little, flinty hearted, cold>oded iceberg." ., '8he is very discreot. I ncvor believed ederic Helton's daughter was what J 0 has proven to be. 1 have thought oly, Captain, that perhaps you wero jht after all, and that it is my duty to ^ ovide for her future." di "I was suro you would como round hi last," eries the Captain, enthusiastic- st y. "Aunt Dnndas, you aro ineom- pi rablo alter all. l'rovide for l.oo by i; 1 means." u, "Though, by so doing, your own y are of my fortuno will bo lesseuod j, at much?" "Certainly." , Madam closos her eyes and sits silent 1 r some time. Then alio says slowly, 8U d with evident hesitation, "I made hango in my will yesterday. In fact, 1,1 [ulo a new will ontirely. Captain, I in sh it might bo so, that the nionoy tu ...1.1 : I i_.i i i nun luiuiiiu iiiiuiviuuu in your minus ter my dccoaso. I f yon could forgot ? iss Enlarge, and transfer your attcn- Ik ins to a ludy u liltlu nearer homo, wo C ight arrive at a solution of a difficulty ^ at (roubles mo now." N Tlio Captain colors. Ho understands mt her meaning is. K [TO HE CONTINUED.] a< mt ? fe Tub most serious feature of the Nicu- In ugua Canal project, in a contracting u< if financial some, is the great rock cut hi the eastern divide, d miles long, and c| ornging 1'2() feet deep by 80 feet wide the bottom, containing in all somo V'O.OfH) cubic yards of material, or say j> 0 cubic yards per lineal foot. There ol no precedent, says Engineering News, ct r such an enormous cut, and it has ol en assumed that four years, at least, || >iiId bo ncccHjary to complete it, while jf my ijucsfiou the possibility of doing w in thjit time, * b! * 'H1 -t-'" ' THE NEWS. rreston Yonot whs shot and killed near rent>n, 8. CLj by WhitAeld Murrell nod Yilliani Carpenter, who objected to hira ailing them boys. M i jor William 8'ollior, U. S. A., retired died in Washington. ? Jealousy led Newton G. Moore to murder Is young wife at Ijake City, Col. John >. U inion and Richard M. Fowler, of FajrIte, Mo., quarrelled about the former's wife. Yortls lei to pistol, and Mnnlon was killed nd Fowler wounded. David May, of hiladolphia, was arrested in Montreal on a hargo of having stolen eit.uou from a brickisking Arm in Philadelphia. The June sods have done great damage to tJu> farms ad crops in South rn Indiana. Tho rotherh x>d of Uuited Labor, T. B. Barry's position organ zation to the Knights of abor was organise! In Chicago;and a mem jrship of 7,000 reported.??A Braise molorial to tho late ex-President ArMTtir was nveiled in tlie Rural Cemetery, at Albany, '. Y. Seven sailors, of the Oermait warlip Nixie, lying at Norfolk, were lashed >r attempting to desert. Harrison Robis >11. a well known citizen of Piqunsin, Va., m beon drowned. Tho seventieth annifrsary of Odd Fellowship in Philadelphia as appropriately observed. William ogges, of lioone county, W. Va., playfully jiuted a gun at Irs mother. 8he died from io wound in a few hours. George Mcann, of Philadelphia, killed his wife bj topping her head in a brutal manner. A impuny is being formed to lay a cable be. tveen San Frnucisco and Honolulu at a cost t $1,500,000. The question of reviving to old form of servico in the Lutheran burch caused a lively discussion in the nod at Pittsburg. A St. Louis judge w decided that a gambler is entitled to his rps and all other paraphernalia of tho tine raptured in a raid. The co-opepitivo gar factory at Heading, Pa., started sev?1 years ago- by cigarmakers on a strike, as loviod upon Saturday by the sheriff, and e management of the concern made an asgnniont. Lightning on Saturday struck e spires of tho South Park Presbyterian lurch and St Patrick's Cathedral in Newk, N. J. The cupola and roof of tho lurch of tho Immaculate Conception in iw Bork city, were shatterod by a bolt of ;htniuzThe Civil S?rvlco Commissioners have reseated the President to place the census >rce under the civil service law. Tho rockviile Chemical and Superphosphate ompnny's powder works, in Brockville, N. ., exploded, wrecking tho building. -The irnituro manufacturers adopted a report commending tho subsidizing of freight irrying steamers and ships and abolishing io duty on all raw material. The C lip. iwa Indians are on tho warpath, and there o fears of an uprising. They havo'*?<Vr ly di Saving Institution, has beenSwtwC* \ coiving doi?osits knownlng that the bank its insolvent. Charles Wittetein, of Ciunnati, committed suicide. During -a liiidnrsfcorm in Cincinnati two children of jwo Kinorson, a prominent carriage trmuucturer, wore struck by lightnihg. One lilil may die. Watson Goodspcod, o' ittston, Me., an Imitator of Dr. Tanner, od aft?r fasting thirty-nine days. quire J. O. Melono, ono of the oldest magnates in Jefferson county, Ky.,dropped >od of heart disease while testifying in >urt. The Standard Sugar Refinery, of uston, has effected what is hollered to bo the rgest purchase of sugar evor made, having cured twenty-five thousand tons in Cuba at fo cents, calling for somo f'2 500,000. ov. W. F. Kramer, D. 1)., of the Reformed liurch, of L-jbanon, Pa., was killed by a jlroad train. D. L. Phillips, of AVorcosr, Muss., was instantly killed whilo crossg a railroad track. Six men were killed ; a free fight in Texas. Mrs. Kirahinan ' id her daughter, Mrs Goldberg, were burn I to denth nt a tire in Now York.?*?"?here . ore throe executions In Georgia. Alexan- I r ll< mlerson was hanged In linlnbritlge, rilli im Dibill in Thomasvillo and John ickett iu Leesburg. All were colored n.en ho had Leon convicted of murder. At urion Junction, Dallas county, Ala., J. 1'. :ercn?, a section man, shot and killed II.U. >gner, a conductor. The troublo was about womnn. H. O. Underwood, of Wheeling, W. Vs.. it his throat with a razor and is dead. isepli Cuinmiiigs shot and killed Joseph nith, of Itoauo county, W. Vn The peo0 of llruiiswick, Me., celebrated the one indrod and llftieth anniversary of the in>r|Nirntion of the town. Alexander C, | aw ton, late postmaster utUreenlleld Centre, . J. has bucu arrested, on the chargo of ibbitig tho mails. Mth. Harrison his rived at Capo May, and is tho guest of jstumster General Waunuiakor. Caruillo rugatti, awaiting trial for tho murder of j rnncosca Baneviti, committed suicide in 1 10 Tombs in New York by iiaugiiig. Hon. ' 'illiatn Colsock, of Charlostown, S. C., is J >od. Tho attorney general of Now Jersey is reudorod an opinion declairing iiucott* itutional tho Ticket-of-Leave law roeeiitly issod by I he legislature. Lieut. Frank eeves licalh, Unite J States Navy, otio of 10 survivors of the wrecked man-of-war andalia, died in California. James { eavin and Charles Tunnyson, two burglars, oro lynched in Corjrdon, Ind. Frank linos, of Howling Green, Ohio, coinmiltod lieido in jail after having attempted to ow up a house with dynamite^, Ail iinonse plug tobacco trust lias been formed St. Louis. Tho rubber shoo manufuc- I irers held a meeting in lioston for the purse of forming a rubber boot and shoo trust, ?Tho work of rebuilding Johnstown is ling vigorously pushed. Hon. W. E. handler has been nominated Unitod States nator by tho Republican caucus at Cojjco^d, . II. Negro paraders In Wilmington, el., fired on some boys, killing ono and riously wounding others. Mainio Mull, god nineteen, was killed, and Harry Hayes itally injured by the explosion of powdor 1 a squib factory In l'ottsville, I'a. Sani)1 Isaacs shot Almee Nelson and then killed Imsolf In a disreputable house iu San Fransco. While two freight trains on tho Northern eiiiisylvania Kill road were passing each thor at Sellcrsville, Pa., the trucks of one ir jumped tho track in fro it ef tho engine f the other train, throwing tho latter from io track ami wrecking tho ontiro train. A ami*,stealing a rid \ was kiilod.and an other itally injured. Hiram Mocks, engineer, as also bodly hurt, Tbo tn?Ok? looked fur U bourf. ( JlSSOTN ill RIGHT. The Citizens Will Soon be Ready for Business. Using It* Pick ami Shovel With a Will ?Getting Down to llio Number of IVoplu Actually I mat. The general opinion among well-posted peoplo at Johnstown is that the loss of life will be between 3,1X10 aiul 4,(XX). It whs generally given out that Johnstown and boroughs adjoining hnd a population of 85,ObO good people, but this is a very bigh estimate and conservative people put the population between 80,<KM) mid "i^.OOO. Col. Ilogcrs, who has charge of the registration, elates that from all ho can learn the population only amounted to about >5,0 X) and this accounts for 10,000 tuipiioscd to lie lost The reports sent out from hero to the effect that is.iKAJ lo iO,U U t>c?>plo wero missing wito | tawed upon the Bup|H>sition that there wero < 30,000 inhabitants In tlieso boroughs. The reports ns to the number of bodies nwoTiirnl I at different points along the Hooded dist ricts , am very conflicting. Supposed official ro- , ports huvo t ei'D sent in l>y different persons, j und these nro also conflicting, ami put the | number of liodios recovered any where from , 1,100 to 1,30). Consequently there is no telling how many bodies have boon ro- | .covered. . The first real work under the supervision , of tbo State commenced Thursday niornin ; j at six o'clock. The whistle at tho Cambria Iron anil Steel Works w s the signal for tho i men to commence, and about I/jOJ started , in with their picks and shovels. The early ( morning was warm and cloudy, and tho t fumes and odors from tho decayed bodios were something almost unbearable. As j tho morning advanced, the weather grew c warmer, and by ten o'clock the sun was t shining brightly, and every one on tho i ground was hard at work. During the t morning a crowd of worthless loafers in t some manner secured nil entrance to the town and wanted to inaugurate n strike t among tho workmen. Koine of tho laborers t were already dissatisfied at having now bosses over them and only wanted a chance c to complain. James McKnight, of Pitts- c burg, of the 8tat< contractors, got wind of c the trouble brewing, and went among tho i: men and informed them that ho would havo nu kii'kiiik ""in mm ini luoso who wished to t quit would havo to do bo immediately, and ? about ono hundred of tlio men loft, but tlio i loafers remained around, and Mr. McKnlght f went to General Hastings and demanded protection for IPs men. A detachment of *] militia from tlio Fourteenth Kogiment were delft led to tho place, nnit drove away all the men who refused to work. This caused Gen. j. Hastings to issue an order to the soldiers not to admit anyouo to Johnstown proper without an order. The business men of tho town seem to hnvo n awakened to their boiihos, niul a numtier of thein are preparing to start over again in business. Two grocery stores wore started near the Pennsylvania Hail road freight sta- ti tion. Both nlnces wero doing a land utllce j business, and this encouraged other merchants to start up, and the proltabilitieR are 11 that inside of a week nt least a hundred stores will be In operation. Already two ^ III 1 til u0Bfl The first decisive step toward putting l" Johnstown's business men on their feet again 11 was made wl>on about two hundred nior- '' chants who had survived tho flood, many of \ th^m without a dollar, met Adjutant Gen- c eral Hastings, and were assured that they ? would be re-established in hiisiness on long J* credit. Both Pittsburg and Philadelphia wholesalers have offered Johnstown mer- " chants this business courtesy. Tho meeting turned out to bo an ovation to Goueral Hast- . ings. Tho meeting was opened by the Adjutant . Ger.eral, who said: "1 have been directed ! to clear the streets of Johnstown, and make : contracts with men to open the wny in order that merchants may bo enabled to got to * and from their business places. Our work is progressing rapidly, and vigorously, and '' the best thing for Johnstown merchants to do is to begin business over again. I hnvo communicated with eastern firms, who offer J. to assist you if you will resume business in this city. 1 would suggest that you build temporary structures for the present, until more favorable circumstances warrant the erection of permanent establishments. iVord a h ib bo n icceived from a largo number of r Pittsburg houses off.Ting to stock your stores n with a full line of ilrst-clnss goods on long j| credit. 1 adviso you to improve this oppor- .( tunily, anil, when in the course of time t matters take a more tangible shape, you will 0 bo able to r. pay all losses incurred." ? Joseph Morgan, Jr., of the Cambria Iron u and Steel Company, stated that they have k thrown open their doors ready to receive y orders, and would rvHUUio alterations In the ? works at once. Ho agreed with the viows t, of Adjutant General Hustings on vandalism, k ft-nl spoke of tho necessity for barring out t 11 persons from tho ruins while tho work f of clearing tho city is in progress. ( RED-SKINNED FIENDS, Details of the Massacre of Peltiers i:? Norllicrii Minnesota. A dispatch from Mora, Minn,, sajs: "Tho treacherous (Jhipixwa Indians are on the War-path again, and th -re nro grave fears , of ageneraiuprising. AlieadysovenSwede laborers liavo been massacred and several , hundred laborers and settlers are now hur- , rying hero for safety. , "Sheriff Nicholson, mounted on an Indian i pony rode to town and gave the alarm. Ho i also communicated to Governor Mcrriam, requesting him to order out tho Stato troops i to quell tho uprising. The pros 'lit trouble is tho outgrowth of encroachment by tho whites ujkmi tho Millo Ijocs reservation. Recently a contract was awarded by the settlers to Koley broth, rs of St. 1'aul, to dig a ditch for irrigating purposes from Millo Rocs Jake ton point on tho S.noko river noar this place. When the Indians learned a ditch was to l?o c'ug they at onco came to thoconclusion thatt'io int-ntion was to drain tho latter aud deprive them of their lishiug privileges. "Notice was sot rod by tho Indians upon the contractors, warning thorn that if tlioy did not leavo tho territory at onco they would Im put to death. Tho contractors gave no hood to tho warning, but came hero and engaged .'500 laltorers, who began work at Millo H-ics. About noon they were attacked by a party of about 4:N) Chip|>owas led by \\ hi to Snake and Great Bear. "Tho Indians were in full wnr paint and wore armed with Winchester rifl'isand toma hawks. As soon as they saw the rods coining lb? lalx>r?-rs dropped their shovels ami flod toward this place. They went pursued by the savages who shot and killed seven n?en. Several others were wounded but uot seriously. NEWS OF STANLEY. The Kxploror Mnrcliing Without lOniin. Heavy Loshch in His l'arly. A letter received at Znnzibur from Ururi, on the Southeastern shore of the Victoria Nyanza, dated December 2, rejHirts the arrival tlioro of Henry M. Stanley with a number of iuvulidod moinbor.s of liis foreo. The letter says that Stanley had sustained hoavy losses, a largo number of his men having died froin disease mi l famine. The explorer had rejoined and loft Kmin Pacha at Uuyara, oil till) Kvrlb'JWtcrn sboro of ANOTHER HORROR. SoYi'nljr IjIvcs L<?t In * lUllroad Wnrlt in lrclaml. The most horrible railroad accident that t'ver occurred In Irolan I happened about 9 o'clo.k in the morning An excursion tralu from Artntgh to W.irron Point, a watoringplace at tho mouth of th i Noivery river, was wrecked on a grade nod it is supposed that ibout 100 persons wero killed. Tho list of dead will include fully 50 children, as tho train had about I,'JIM members of i Methodist Sunday-school on board, together with relatives and friends of iho scholars. Tho excursion party loft Armagh in two trains. Tho accident occurred at a point where the trains h id to ascend a grade oil a bank 5? feet high. The lirst train asceudis! the grade without trouble. The second section attempted I h ) ascent but tho weight of the train proved to great for th ? engine. Several cars wero d <tachod and allowed to run back toward the level track, but before they reached it tlioy came in collision with nn ordinary train from Ariitngh, whicli was proceeding nt a good rate of speed. The ex mrsion cars were comt>lot?ly wrecked. Tliu h vn? which ensu -d was heartrending. Hosts of volunteer* were soon nt hand, and .he deal and wounded were taken from the wreck mid carried down the hank. Medical lid was called for, and a sjieoinl train from iiolfast brought to the atvne 'Jit surgeons from Lliat city and n number of medical men from >ther places betwoeti II Ifnst mid Armagh. The disaster is unpir.illed in the railroad listory of Ireland. The accident has cast a gloom over Armagh. All I he shops were dosed and the pcoplo are In general utouriing. The engine was hurled 01 foot down an etninnkment. The carriage that ran into the nglne wns shattered to splinters, and fragivnits of dress, umbrellas, &c., wore scattcsi hundred* of yards. A doz mi corpses wore found beneath the engine in a parboiled condition. Some of the iccupunts of the runaway cars tried to os:ape, but the doors warn looked. The front >nrt of the train started b ick in pursuit of he runaway cars, and the passengers saw lie collision ut a distance of jitO yards. A car driver named Hughes, who visited he scene of the disaster, was so horrid .si at lie sight that he died on the s|sit. The mimlier of injured is nlsnit one-third if the entire nnmlier of passenger*. Many if these are certain to succumb to the oirccls f their injuries. The total number of dead s 72. The engineer, fireman and guard of the rain and the trallic manager'* clerk wcr i uuimouod before a magistrate and were reiianded on tlio charge of being responsible or the accident. THE SAMOAN AGREEMENT. Signed by llie Three Natives Having It Under Consideration. The agreement between Kugland, Oor ii'iny (iiid tl 10 IJ nito<l .States on tlio Sitnoin ir.iir was sijiwl at Berlin. The annouiicoiiunt tli it the agreement liri?l leeu i-jktiflotl was mode at the Cabin >t moot. ??y Secretary Blulne nn l it w is said that l was eminently satisfactory to this Governi its llnnl shape. n'Ww-.Jh'GtHmiHta *?yf?rtr?ll*uJtn. imvrl connVtfrtl by tlio Senate. While it is called an grevin mt by oltbsers of the State Dopurti ait Mr. Walker Blaine f?r?that he bought it would undoubto lly rc<|uiro rat illation by the Senate. If the instrument signI wero one regulating the conduct of two ountries towir.ls each other, as for inslauct1 otwoen the United States and Samoa, it rould projK'rly Ihj designated as a treaty, ut where the instrument signified is to shape lie conduct of three U ivernmeiit*, viz., tlio Iiiiten States, Knglnnd an I Germany, towards a fourth party, Samoa, it is hold that s prop >r noiuonclatiire is an agreement. At lie same time, as it. it a matter affecting the oreigti policy of tlio United States. It it :ii<l that it will need ratification by the Innate and that, therefore, it cannot be made iiiblic prior to notion by tlie Smate. Tlio agreement wus cordially approved by II the members of tin conference and by heir resjiectives Governments. The best of eeling prevailed at the termination of tbe nbors of the commissioners. Terms of tlio Aurcement. America having abandoned iter principal bj H-tlons to the agreement previously drive* I at. tin plenipotentiaries had only to l ike unessential mo iillcatious in the words ig of the ilraft of the agreement. The raft guarantees uu autonomous adutini*rat iou of the Islands under the joint control f Germany and America, Knglnnd acting s arbitrator in ttie event of differences rising. Tlio Snmoans are to eloot tiieir own ing and vie Toy a id to be repres?nt? 1 in a Ion it-o composed of the princip it chiefs and h.am burs elected by the people. Samoa is o have the riglitof levying duties of every itid. Thi agreement also stipulates that lie Germans shall receive money in leiiiuity or the losses. A special court will be nplonited to dual with the laud i pies lion. a home'for printers. Land t? iven by IlicCil iz'Misof Colorado Springs -Committee Kcporls At the third day's session of tlio International Typographical Convention at Denver, | Col., matter relative to tbe sending of a delegate to 1'nris during tlio International i Congress, which convenes next month was referred to a committee of the whole. Considerable discussion was caused by tlio receivingof a communication from the Knights id Liborin the matter of using elates in the Government Printing Ottice at Washington. The matter was referred to a special committee. Several prop<>silious for the establishment of a home (or invalid iiud indigent printers were then submitted to the mooting. The committee to which they w-re referred reported unanimously iii favor of accepting the proposition siihinitt -d tiy citi/. ms of Colorado Springs, wiio offered eigiity acres of land near the city as a free gift, on the condition that a home he started within two years rind completed within thn<o years. The convention, amid much enthusiasm, by a rising vote, adopted the report of the committee, both Iss-auso of tli) value of the land and becauso Colorado .Springs is tlio lending health resort of the country for lung troubles. a farmer's frenzy. After fdiooting anil Hacking His 1) lit? IIO IM IIIHS ITII^NIU /tt.'HI. Heth Murray, a farinor living four miles south of Viticennes, in Indiana, engaged in a dispute with his wlfo l/misa, wiio was Kkiininfng milk in tho smoke houso, Murray rushed into the dwelling houso, secured a shotgun aril emptied iu contents into tho breast of iiis wife, who fell dead on tho iloor. Not content with this he soiled a large cornknifo nnd hacke<l her across tho buck of tho flock, almost suvoring the bend from the body. Then he made a leap for his daughterin-law, Susan Murray, and tried to shoot her, hut the gu/? faded to explode. Terrorized by his crime, ho r.m to a flcl I a few ro is from tho house and dug at tho roots of a small treo in a fence corner, where he uuonrthed a botllo of prussio acid and swallowed tho contents, several ounces. Ho d:e<l in great agony nnd turned black. He had evidently inoditated the crime for ng?KHl while. Both ho lies will ho buried side by si !e. Murray was fifty-three ami his wile fitty-two years of ago, and they had been married thirty-two years. Murray hal a vicious temper, and it was the sole cause of thy (uime. tfeveu children nurvivu thorn, TRADE Or THE WEE " The Condition of Trado Only Moderately Favorable. Antt Trust Not Diri'dt'tl Against Alcromililo CoitlravlH, St?x'ks and Honda Strong and Mimi'jf Ivisy at N?'\v York. "Special telegrams to />V)tti.\f reef's con. iinue to report only a mo lorat <ly favorable xiaditioo of general trade. Tho Increased activity at Philadelphia, notably in lumber m<l iron nntt in general linos, is duo to the -?opening of raileomuiunic ition, which was ntorruptol by tlo-Hlsin Pennsylvania. Thoro nalso soma improvement In tlom nid for ami ihiptneut in stiples at St. l/iuis, Chicago, Kansas City, O.ilvoston, Ib*s Moin>s and \leinphts, anil at Louisville au.l Cinoinnatti __ Mininen is reported fair. Our low preliminary estimate of fP>,<X5),Xk) loss of property by tho lie > Is in four itates is more likely to bo reduced than otlierwis>. The wheat crop pro-tpoot has not improve I since Juno I, but the outlook for otton is rattier bolter since tho Louisimi t lrouth has I won broken. At It iltimoro, Now York and Boston trade is ipiiet, with country pro luce, naval stores and lurnituro relatively most active. Numerous impiirios have induced UntilthwC* to examine the ' Anti-Trust" logisl.i iou of Missouri, Kansas and Texas, and it >s found that such legislation is not, as hai taion widely mid erroneously published, direetsl against mercantile contracts generally 'jut is aimed against contracts or coinhlnudons tlesigned to limit or control pro (action if urines Under tho tntlii ?*ic ?of rouowtvl speculative Interest the Now Yorkstock market inactive ind toads higher, attention being rapidly transferred from one stock to anotlior. 1J ends ire very strong n in I >r increasing investment icmnuds. Money at N <w York continues ?nsy in spito of largo gold shipoimts, tlio amounts of specie engaged aggregating pn,l?75,o00. Call loans, 'Ja'i1-^ per cont. Kor?ign exchange to Kuropo is very firm, though stcrliug is easier. deiuaud sterling ooiug ijuoto I at I KS^al 8!I. IV line sugar prices continue to advance, iaving gained gi llie this wwli oil smaller visible stocks, unfavorable crop reports, firmer cables ami pronounced activity for refined. int-srest now centres on whit wo are to receive and where it is to come from. Refiners' stocks are greatly depleted, an<l tho outlook is for a demand for unusually largo supplies, with a dearth of them in light. Sugar Trust certificates have advanced from $85 5) in March to $110, with higher llguros in prospect. Ij-uge colfee -rop reports and light distributive arid speculative demand again depressed the Mtupl?v the decline l*oing ulxiut 1 cut. The ( ovcrnmont cereal crop report tend'si to depress prices, lining interpreted as very favorable, but luter weather and crop re|K>rts, hacked by tqicculati ve fntliienceM, served to advance wheat on tho week In itio. Indian corn has lioen lower after an advance, hi light deliveries, hut shows a gain of %\%.. Kyo is up J.^c on bettor export demand. A II Australian wheat exports have ceased, supIilios on haml being ueed<sl at hom\ Man Yancisco wires that inquiries for wheat are received at Montevideo; that ?iJ,000 im.nln-ls havo been shipped to Rio Janeiro, uiul that the total of wheat stocks In California J una I. 'Australia has Invm drawing wheat from New Zealand and India as well as California. llog products are depressed on extraordinarily heavy receipts of hogs at prominent interior markets. Dry goods are very quiet, hut generally strong in j?rie<? at Now York and liostoil. Cotton goods stocks ?r well under Control, and holders urn confident. Soyoml grades of blenched go xls have been advanced. IVint clothes nro in iiiotltrnto wle, lirm at Now York, (tut rather easier at Huston. Woolen gilods nro..1n moderate demand, hut in fairly 1 literal uioveinent, uotahly underwear and hosiery, and prices are well held. K1 nif.ol manufacturers ask an udvauc i on present values, and these goods are in satisfactory movement. Foreign goods are rather duller tliiiu usual, ltaw wool is firm in price, hut active only in tlio country. Manufacturers' stocks are light. An upward tendency In price is noted. Haw cotton is in good domestic and export demand, at 1-10 decline. Speculation is excessively dull. Crop pros|?octsi bavo improved. DISASTERS AND CASUALTIES. Henry nnd John Ullley, brothers, age 1 30 nml i'M years, were killed at Willcesbarre,l'a., by a fail of coal in a mine. ^ A wagon, containing (Jeorgo Mackie nnd a hoy named 11 irons was struck by a train In Taunton, Mass., and both were killed. I'atrick Ifynii, agetl .VJ years, while asleep In a chair in the third story of his residence in Lawrence, M issnchuselts, fell out of tlm window and was killed. It. L. Wisids, (Jeorgo l>. ls?wis and John (iarvin were badly hiirnoil by the explosion ?f a lard vat in the lard r dluory of Kairhanks & Co., Hutchinson, Kansas. Serceant I'eter Toner, of the Unibvl States steamship (luleuii, while on a week's leave of absence to visit his parents at Itothlalii'iii, fell into the^i-cat zinc mint's at Friedersvilli', ami a.is killed. During a storm on Ilex Ha you, l)o Soto, I'arrisl), Louisiana, a falling Iron crushed in tlio dwelling of Joo Kalll?, killing; Mrs.Ualllo, lirr daughter Oi'tnvia, a_;od IT, ami three sons, Ki'lix, Kvans ami William, aged II ami I Tours ami 15 months respectively. Tim oldest son, Joseph, was severely injuroil l?y flying splinters. Tlio head of tho family who was lyhitf sink in bod, was tho only member who i*scn|Mj<t uninjured. Two freight trains on tli3 Dayton, Fori Wayne ami Chicago Railroad collided near Coal ton, Ohio. On one of tlio trains was n catxioso in which were thirty miners K"i"K to work. II ?th trains were badly smashed ami nearly every passenger in the caboose was more or Jess hurt. Tlireo men, Mit Dow, Marshall Sliend ami John Hrown, were killed. Tlio following were badly injured: Caron Shead, Frank Devere, Klmer Owoiih, William Robinson, Frank Culver, K. C. [ Dow and Win Trace. All,tho others were injured, but not seriously, LIGHTNING'S FRKAKS. A Current In lla Travels Kills One Man mid Shocks Many Olliers. Herman Mattis, who was killed |?y lightning in Newark, N. J., was a workman in I Solomon's tannery, on tho edge of tho ; meadows, In Avonuo C. lie observed that mill w?a imuumfi, iiiia/ <i tfimiuit uiau wrnv i u close it. As he was pulling the sash lightning struck tin iron leader pipe running from the roof down the side of tlio building two feet from the window. The current loft the pipe, passed through his body, killing him instantly, and thou wont through the iloor into tho boiler-room. The furnace door was closed and hitched, Out tho lightning throw it wide open. From there it apparently skfp|*ed though tho beam-house, where several men wore llcshiiig hides. Tliey were knocked right and loft, but none of them were seriously hurt. In Kelly's tannery, adjoining Solomon's, three men were stunned, and they did nob fully recover for an hour. A horse hitched to a wagon in tho yard of a slaughter-house a few feet from the tannery was struck and tho bair was singed from una of its hind logs. The driver was tumble 1 out of the wagon. The lightning lit up all of th> electric lamps in the Mutual IImeilt Insurance * Company building for uu instant during llt i ntvrub