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I TC. --s ' Horticulture, Domestic Economy^M^^^^^^Ee, Politics and the News Day. ^H^IHi^^H UNION C. H., "SOUTmRIB^B^MUNK 2% 188!). NUMBER 20. 1HUTHEK. BT BUHT ARNOLD. A lonesomo nulot rolRin to-nt. ht I've novor folt before; For mother's l aniwd tlio portals biljbt Where angels guard the door. And while I sit in the twilight low. My thoughts thoy wander wide; It seems to mo not lou: ago blnco 1 Knelt by bor side, A chubby boy with flaxen hair? Hor lovo enshrined mo thon; And had I always sat mo there, What might my past have boon I For steadfast as the stars a'wve? No'or wav'rlug to tho end, Kext (lod abovo, iiit mother's lore Was my host oarlhly friond. Bo swift the years bavo glided on. They all seem yesterdays; And I review, in the past tli it's gone. Her guidance of my ways. Oft-times I start, amid tho gloom. As If her voice I lionr-l; And list my car around the room That I may hoar her word. c jn - But O, alas I hor voloo is still? I ne'er may hear it nioro, Unless it be that, by Ood'e will, wo meet at heaven's doer. aou ii no aeicnn to hoar my prayer, How happy I shall be; t I'll keep me pare* to meet her tliore On heaven s sholt'rlng lou. EoQod, who gangeth each ono's worth Through actions hero bolow. The golden crown, she won on oortli, Has placed on mothor's brow. How?loncsoino quiet reigns again? I feel It as beforn; The lonesomo quiet's in my brain-* 'Twill never leavo mo nioro. A MODERN MAGDALEN. ^ CHAPTER VIIL?[contimukd.] Then a boll rings. The girl shown lior down stairs and leavos her at the open door of the dining-room. As Loo pauses for a moment in the doorway, undecided whether to advance or rotroat, for save hor own presonoo the room seems ompty, a slight exclamation startlos hor. Loo looks np. A tall man, attired in iilaiu black, evidently the butler, for ho carried the pantry keys in his hand, and a waiter loaded with fruits Btood on tlio s'doboard at bis hand, wlioro ho hod an pUrCUtly j*'3u plwCCil it. Hlo ihCO tuiPiGu ghostly white, and his oyos fell as thoy encountered her own. Where had she soon him before? She was puzzled, lib faco was familiar; surely at some time or other she had seen him beforo. roooYers liimsolf, approaches repMf^ctfully, and poiuts out the seat she is JH^to^oocupy^at the table. ^ ^ ^ ?terrified. MUAA?>i1t I* o1?a oionnlrtfrto ously. Tho butler's eyes moot her own now. Tliore is a atooly gleam in his pale blno orbs that frightens her more and more. "Miss is mistaken," ho says civilly, but with a subtle noto of warning in his respectful tones. "I am Kibboy, tho butler." Hut you woro?I am euro you once wuitod at " began l.oo. "Never!" denies Kibbey vohomently. "And they found that diamond wheu " "Alias is doceivcd by a fancied resemblance which alio imagines I bear to one whom she hoi met undor difficulties?perhaps," politely says the butler. "My namo is l'arker Kibbey, and I have the best of references." At this momout tho Madam enters the dining-room, leaning on tho Captain's arm. Thoy now ull take their places at table, and the butlor serves thorn. It is yell for her future peaoo of mind "^XnJlCtoS site with her back to the but Ller, end that aho cannot kgo the awful -look of fear and buto in the butler'a eyes. For* more plainly than worda can Bay it, that look says?murder. CHArTEli IX. A MAM WHO A8K8 yOR JUDITH DONITHORNB. ' V jjJWffWK i X. woeks ha?l gone by 'iwuyp since tho dreadful X, Y, Z. Railway disaster. Miss l.afarge line ^^convalesced rapidly, nnd lior broken m is doing very well, imleod. In s'.x weeks' time sho has accomplished mnoh. She lias won Miss Chidley's affection nnd hor unbonndod conv lidonco, and sho rides out daily bohind tho dreadful black ponies, whoso antics are a frosh source of amusement, for sho laughs and applauds heartily, whether they stand still in utter rebel* lion, or go tearing madly oyer the oouniry roads, refofc In sue weeks' time sho has improved her alight acquaintance with the inIft mates of Bywater Park, has gained tho dislike of Madam Buncos, the hatro<1 of Iioa, and won from the Captain the warmest admiration. During the six weeks Captain Basard has made many calls upon the fair sufferer at Ktnbbiofield, and appearances would indioato that his fickle heart has been almoat caught in the meshes the ** enehantross baa spread for him. jm In six weeks, poor I.oo finds that stone walls, ana cushioned furniture, and silk gowns are no more oonduoive .? In nn.ln^ it AI . ^ %\w vvitov* m?|i|iiuu?i iiiuu were ine third-floor back bed-rooms, the sham Hm5 pianos, and the cotton frocks of'hez ' former dajs. Bhe "gets on," lioirerer, most nnox' peotedly with Madam Dnndas; and thia ft contort. but to outbidano? tljis ia sue she often meets now, and the overpowering jealousy which consumes her whenever she sees the Captain and Miss Lafarge togothor. Not that the gallant Cuptain suspects this feeling on Loo's part. To the Captain Loo is ice itself.. llo shall never smile at the readiness with which she surrendered to him, sho says angrily to herself. For the Captain thinks nothing of airing his supposed conquosts in Loo's hearing, and rather boasts of his prowess us a lady's man, as is usual with men of this do Lou paused for a moment in the doorway, ecription, greatly overestimating himself. To quite ward off the Captain's bus1 picions?should ho have any?of the real state of affairs, Loo accepts tbo nt^tenticnia^fa^gstIonian whom the Cap'{Rrro,fTfel3Ke$Wcniood tfi her notice. Tiio consequence bo ng that Littlefiold soon becomes her shadow or second self, greatly to the Captain's own discomilture. "Wlint she cnn soo in that follow," remarked the C&ptniu to his confidante, Madam Hondas, "is beyond me. Why, ho is nothing out a conceited ass at the Tory best." Six wooks go by. Tho grass begins to grow in littlo green patches on the louely gravo jn tho country eemotory. It is quite the middloof Juno now, and here and thoro in the consecrated ground aro bunches of roso trees in full bloom. Kngrossed with her flirtation with Hazard, Miss 1 afargo has no timo to give a thought to the quiet sleopor whoso place she has usurped, llut if Miss I .afargo lias no time to think of the dead girl, thero is one that does. The "motherly woman," in her infinite sympathy und goodness of heart, goes often to tho littlo burial ground to ,. muse by th? lonely gravoof the stronger, whoso untimely death sffols hover ured of talking about. As tnu wee Kb go ujr suu n|i?u'uinw6 upon the subject, and wonders if nobody will over oome to claim tho very few personal effects that belonged to tho dead girl. Kho bolievos that somowhere in the world there is some ono who loved and cared for the ono that had met so terrible a fate. And she is, therefore, not much surprised ono sunny morning to seo a strange man walk up tho path leading to lior door. And sho is at onco interested when tho Eonlemun inquiros, in a voice which otrays emotion, carefully modulated though it is: "is tins tno place wiiore J uaitti Lionitborn died?" Tlio "motherly woman" nods in the aflirmative. "I'es. In this house, and in this room," throwing open the door. "Will you walk in and sit down?" The visitor enters and glancos ab rnt him. He is unprepossessing in his personal appearance, and his face is sinister. His flgnre is short and heavily built, with shoulders so vory broad as to suggest suspicion of padding. A 1 thick black beard straggles down 1 either side of his full, red face, and swoops upon his breast. His eyes are keen and twinkling, shrewd in expression, and of a red color. His clothing is black and evidently much too tight for his body, Upon his head is a silk hat, and ho carries a cane. His walk is a stride, and ho glances around tho room with an air of scorn. "You say she died in this room?" Tho "motherly woman" again nods in tho aflirmative. "In this room, near the spot where you now stand." "WJio was with hor when she died?" ' ho asks, biting his lip. "Only tho doctors." "Was she conscious?" I "No. Directly after the train was wrecked, a number of the wounded were brought here. Among them was the lady you havo askod about. She woo voiiiUij UUIUVU| h'iu ill nil UllUUU" scions condition when she arrived. She lived but a few hours, and died without realizing her extremity." "And she was alone?" "Yes, But stop! There wiv* a lady i who " WA lady!" he ojaculates incredulously?"a lady?" "A lady!" affirms tho "mothorly woman." "And tho lady said sho was a friend of the girl that died, and I guosa sho was. 1 know sho sat l>y the isxly, und sho paid the undortakor, and she followod tho corpse to the burial ground. Then she wont away. She said the poor dead girl had no friends of any consequence." Tho visitor bit his lip again. I "Have you anything in your possession now that belonged to tho lady that died?" 1 The "motherly woman" nods swift i ly. She disappears presenter, only to return again with a traveling-bag in i her hand. "This is all," she says, i "All I" He grasps the bag, opens it I There is tlio usual paraphernalia: ootnbs, brushes, powder-box, penoil, and lastly?a diary. > The straogor snatches at this diary. Ho scans page after page in an eager > fashion, then ho closes the book sud> denly. "It was hers," he says in a i hushed tone, more to himself than to ' his interested companion. "Htill " Then be bites his nails savagely, and > glowers at his oompanion. 1 if bor jmr?or b# wks, . le "motherly woman" colors indigij )- "If the lady had a purse, it will bo fcnnd in tho traveling-bug" Ho rummages through the bag. There is no Bign of a purse. "Describe tho Indv. Wus she fair?" "Yes. I should say bo. Though her face was no dreadfully burned that ono could hardly tell what it must havo I 1 1 I I l- i * * " iuukiik iiko uoioro mo a cutout. {She had brown liair and (due eyos. I am certain sho was a blonde." "How was sho attired? ' "In black. I thought it was mourning; she hud crape stones in lior ears. I'm certain new that she was in mourning." Then the visitor's head sank far down upon his lireast. A sigh escapes liim. He rousos himself to tiiul the eyes of tho "motherly wouiuu" stornly lixed upon him. "1 am sat is llod," ho says shortly. "At first I thought perhaps it might be a case of mistukeu identity; but your description has dispelled that thought. Hut about the lady you spoke of; tho one who acted the part of the 'good Snmaritun.' NVho is she, and where is she now ? ' The "motherly woman" draws a card from hor pocket, and with somo pride t daces tho card in the outstretched inud of hor visitor. He reads tho name easily, for it is written iu a clear hand: ; Maiuon Laf a no k, : ; SiubblottolA : Then ho puts tho card carefully in liis pocket. "With your permission, I will keep this," he says, speaking in a moro civil tone. "I would like to o ill upon the lady and thank lior in porson for her kindnoss to my dead rolativo." "Shall you take the bag?" lie shook his head in tho negative. "Von may have it, and tho contouts too. I have no use for cither." Then he turned upon his heel, and walked quickly in the direction of tho cemetery. CHATTER X. s. THE QUB8TON OF MAKRIAOE. OO has been singing (Jw to Madam. Tho cur?Qq tains are drawn, tho ^tl^:?wax candles lighted in K*'vcr sconces, ^aRtl Madam her-| Jiisolt reclines at full \ tJ -Jcl length upon tlie oldfiisliioned couch that lias stood for yoars ^j^TTVyV between tlio drawingrZP-\W /,)i room windows at l$yJ111 wotcr I'ark. Ju the (?%V__ y4.- ftahXWto, ?w? * ings; for Madam insists upon being sung to oacli day, and Loo really sings very sweeny, iter voice is not ono that will make her fortunoos a cantatrice; but it is sweet and low, aud fairly woll cultivated?the kind of voice we all liko to hear crooning old-time ballads in tho twilight. Evidently others bosidos Madam enjoy tho poor little nobody's music; for Captain Ila/ard lias somehow fallen iuto tho habit of qu:etly seeking a corner of tho drawing-room, as tho shadows bugin to gather aud Loo takes her place at tho piauo. Loo, however, is quito unconscious of this action on his part Kho slips into her seat and sings tho siinplo old songs Madam calls for, then when this is done she slips away as quietly as she had como. Tho little^ cuckoo clock over the | mantel Bin^ nt tho hour nine as sho rises now frov ho piano. "Hood-niglify Madam," she nays. "Hood-night, my dear," answers Ma uuui, iuiu mu gin iihh away. "I've been thinking lately," Bays Madam Dundas, be koning to the Captain, who leaves his shaded nook and now approaches his friend. "1'vo been thinking lately that you should marry." Hazard laughs lightly. "1 once thought so too," ho roplios. "But you know 1 never could quite make up my mind to ofTor myself a Bacritlco on the altar matrimonial, after all." "Selfish croaturo." Madam smiles, then grows serious. 44J have thought lately--since Miss Latargo came to Btubbletiold?that at last you had mot your fate." "Deucod fine girl, that Lafarge," Bays the Captain. "Not to be compared with Loo." "Loo is a little, flinty hearted, coldblooded iceberg." "She is very discreet. I never belioved Frederio Bolton's daughter was what bo bus proven to be. 1 have thought lately, Captain, that perhaps you wero right after nil, and that it is my duty to provide for her future." "I was sure you would come round at last," cries the Captain, enthusiastic ally. "Aunt Dundtis, you are incomparable after all. Provide for Loo by all moans." "Though, by so doing, your own share of my fortune will be lessoned that much?" "Certainly." Madam closos lior eyos and sits silont for some time. Then she says slowly, and with evident hesitation, "I made a cnange in my wiu jreeieruay. jd mot, made a new will ontirely. Captain, I wish it might bo bo, that the money would remain undivided in yonr bauds after my decease. Jf yon could forget Miss Lafarge, and transfer yonr attentions to a lady a little nearor home, we might arrive at a solution of a difficulty that troubles me now." The Captain colors. Ho understands what her meaning is. OB CONTOfUBD.] Tn* most serious feature of tho Nicaraugun Canal project, in a contracting ami financial some, is tlie great rook cut at tho cnatorn divide, 8 miles long, and nvornging 120 foot docp by 80 foot wide on tho bottom, containing in all some 7,000,000 oubio yards of mntoriol, or say .440 cubic yards ]>or lineal foot. There is no prccodent, cays Engineering News, for such an enormous out, and it lias boon assumed that four years, at least, aouId bo ncacsrary to complete it, while many questhm tho pu/wihildy of doing itJvtkftttiiw, V.. t ' ~i ii i THE-' NEWS. i Preston Yonce wiw shot And killed near Trout jii, K. C., by WhltHeld Murrell and William Carpenter, who objected to hiro calling them boys. Mijor William 8Collier, U. 8. A., retired died in Washington. Jealousy led Newton O. Moore to marder j Ills youHg wife at I<ake City, Col. John O. M iuIoii and Richard M. Fowler, of Fayette, Mo., quarrelled about ths former's wife. Words led to pistol, and Mnnlon was killed and Fowler wounded. David May, of J1 Philadelphia, was arrested in Montreal on a charge of having stolen $31,000 from a brick- ? making firm in Philadelphia. The June ., Hoods have done great damage to t-ho farms and crops in Houtb'-rn Indiana. The Drotherhmd of Uuitod Labor, T. B. Barry's J opposition orgau'zatlon to the Knights of Labor was organix*! In Chioago;and a mem- ' bership of 7,000 reported.??A Browse memorial to the late ex-President AfiSur was a unveiled in the Rural Cemetery, at Albany, * N. Y. Seven sailors, of the German warship Nixie, lying at Norfolk, were lashed ^ tui w>nu|>MUK w uvseri. uarrison 1 lobins >n, a well known cltisen of Piqonsln, Va., ? has boon drowned. The seventieth anni- H versary of Old Fellowship in Philadelphia P was appropriately observed. William ? Bogges, of Boone county, W. Va., playfully i pointed a ruii at h!s mother. She died from t< the wound in a few hours. George Mc- .o Conn, of Philadelphia, killed his wife by Q chopping her bead in a brutal manner. A H company is being formed to lay a cable be. I' tween San Fraucisco and Honolulu at a coat " of $1,500,000. The question of reviving J the old form of servlco in the Lutheran ft Church caused a lively discussion in the " synod at Pittsburg. A St- Louis judge ? has decided that a gambler is entitled to his si ch jw and all other paraphernalia of the B1 gamecapturodinaratd. The co-operative IE cigar factory at Reading, Pa., started sev- u eral years ago* by cigarmakers on a strike, ai was loviod upon Saturday by the sheriff, and ** the management of the concern made an as- tc slgnmont. Lightning on Saturday struck bi the spires of the South Pork Presbyterian tl Church and St Patrick's Cathedral in New- 111 ark, N. J. The cupola and roof of the q. Church of the Immaculate Conception in ai New Bork city, were shatterod by a bolt of lightning. * The Civil S?rv!co Commissioners have re- m quested the President to place the census ^ forco under the civil service law. Tho "j Brockviile Chemical and Superphosphate ^ Company's powuer works, In Brockviile, N. oi Y., exploited, wrecking tho building.?-The furnituro manufacturers adopted a report recommending the subsidising of freight bi carrying steamers and ships and abolishing ni the duty ou all raw material The C lip. j'-j pewa Indians are on the warpath, and there c'| are fears of an uprising. Tboy karef*?<w ly ti: killed and scalpod sav.<n ?}? nab Baring Institution. has beenSw??<C.? receiving do|>osita knowning that the bank J< was insolvent.??Cdiariea Vriae'ein, ot Clu- v* cinnati, committed suicide.?During -a thunderstorm in Cincinnati two children of .? Lowo Emerson, a prominent carriage mnuu- * fncturer, were struck by lightnihg. One child may die. Watson Ooovlspeed, o" cj Pittston, Me., an Imitator of Dr. Tanner, ti; died after fasting thirty-nine days. 4,1 'Squire J. Q. Melone, ono of the oldest mag- fi at rates In Jefferson county, Ky., dropped |C dead of heart disease while testifying in ct court. The Standard Sugar Refinery, of tl boston, has effected what is believed to bo the largest purchase of sugar svor made, having tl secured twenty-five thousand tons in Cuba at d five cents, calling for some id 000,000.? ?j Rev. W. F. Kramer, D. D., of the Reformed t) Church, of Lobaoon, Pa., was killed by a t< railroad train. D. L. Phillips, of Worcos- " ter, Mass., was instantly killed while cross- ^ Ing a railroad track. -Six men were killed j in a free fight in Texas. Mrs. Kirshiuan * and her dhughter, Mrs Goldberg, were burn- ? sd to death at a tire in Mew York.?*l^)sre n were three executions in Georgia. Alexan- b der lit nderson was hanged in Balnbridge. Wllllim Dibill in Thomasville and John * Pickett in Leesburg. All were colored n.en ? who had Loon convicted of murder. At w Marion Junolion, Dallas county, Ala., J. P. ? Steven*, a section man, ehot and killed H.G. Seguer, a conductor. The trouble was about o a woman. H. C. (Jndorwood, of Wheeling, \V. Va.i cut his throat with a razor and Is dead. Joseph Gumming* shot and killed Joseph Smith, of Ilonno county, W. Va The peo- [ pie of Rrunswick, Me., celebrated the ono hundred and fiftieth anuiversary of the incorporation of tho town. Alexander C, Law ton, late postmaster at Greenfield Centre, N. J. has boon arrested, on the charge of robbing the mails. Mrs. Harrison has arrived at Cape May, and is the guest of Postmaster GeuoralWanamaker. Camillo Drugatti, awaiting trial for the mufllyr.of Francesco Sanevlto, committed suicide in the Tombs in Now York by banging. lion. William Co I sock, of Cbarlcstown, S. C., is dead. The attorney general of New Jersey has rendered an opinion deolairing unconstitutional the Ticket-of-Leave law recently passed by the legislature. Lieut. Frank ( Reeves Heal h, Uuitti States Navy, one of the survivors of the wrecked man-of-war Vandalia. died In California Jnm? Don Tin and Charles Tennyson, two burglars,' were lynched In Corjrdon, Ind Prank James, of Bowling Oreen, Ohio, committed suicide lu Jail after having attempted to blow up a bourn with dynamite^??An immense plug tobacco trust has been formed In Bt Louis. The rubber shoe manufacturers held a meeting in .Boston for the purpose of forming a rubber boot and shoe trust, The work of rebuilding Johnstown is being vigorously pusbxtt.??Hon. W. B. Chandler has been nominated United Qt^tss senator by the Republican enucus *4 Cq*?hfd, N. H. Negro paraders fit Wilmington, DoL, fired on some boys, killing one and , seriously wounding others, Mamie Mull, aged nineteen, was killed, and Harry Hayes nwi/ Uljlim UJ *UD M|IIWNg ? |IVWU?r lo a aqulb factory In FottariUa, Pa. 8amnel laaaoa chot Aimaa Nalaoa and thru killed ] btmaalf in a disreputable boom in Sao Fraocieoo. ? ? ? r C While two freight train* on the Northern J Pennsylvania Railroad were passing each other at Sellertrllle. Pa., the truoka of ooe oar lamped the track in froit af the engine of toe other train, throwing the latter from the track and wrecking tho entire train. A tramp.stealing a rid a, was killod,and aa Other fatally injured. Hiram Meek*, engineer. * T i iMtown all em ( . . rhe Citizens Will Soon be Ready for Business. Jfling Us Pick ami Sliovcl Willi a Will ?GciOhk Down lo i lie Number of People Actually liost. The general opinion among well-posted icoplo at Johnstown tliat the loss of Ife wilt be between 3,000 and 4,000. It was cneratly given out Unit Johnstown and oroughs adjoining had a population of 5,000 good pcoplo, but tliis is a very high stimato and conservative people put the opulation botwoon lio,000 mid 3^,000. Col. togers, who has charge of the registration, In tea that from nil ho can learn the populaioo only nmountod to nbout 35,0 H) himI this (Counts for 10,000 supposed to be lost* The eports aent out from hero to th? ?i>?? 3,000 to 15,0 0 people wero missing weru nsed upon tlie supposition that there wero 0,000 inhabitants In theso boroughs. Tho eports as to the number of bodies recovered t different points along tho Ibxxied districts re very conflicting. Supposed official roorts havo I eon sont in l>y different i>orsons, nd these aro also eon Hiding, and put tho umber of IkxHch recovered any where from ,100 to 1,801. Consequently there is no slling how muuy bodies have been rcovered. Tho first real work under tho supervision f the State commenced Thursday mom in; t six o'clock. Tho whistle at the Cambria ron and Steel Works w s tho signal for tho ten to commence, and about 1,50 ) started 1 t with their picks and shovels. Tho early toriiing was warm and cloudy, and the imea and odors from tho decayed bodies ere something almost unbearable. As to morning advanced, the weather grow armer, ami by ten o'elock tho sun war lining brightly, and every ono on tho round was hard at work. During tho lorntng a crowd of worthless loafers In ime manner secured an entrance to the iwn and wanted to innugurato a strike moug tho workmen. Some of the laborers ere already diasatisfled at having now esses over thoni and only wanted a chanco i complain. James McKnight, of I'ittsnrg, of the Stat? contractors, got wind of le trouble brewing, and went among tho ten and informed tbem that ho would have a kicking ami that nil those who nU would bavo to do so immediately, and K>ut one hundred of the men left, hut tlu> nfer? remained around, and Mr. McKiilglit ent to Oeneral Hastings and demanded roUotton for his men. A detachment of lilitia from the Fourteenth ltegiinent were ?ta led to tho place, and drove away all the en who refused to work. This caused Gen. Ratings to issuo an order to the soldiers not i admit any one to Johnstown propor wi: lilt nn order. The business men of tho town seem to have wakened to their senses, and a number of lem are preparing to start over again in jsiness. Two grocery stores wore started jar the Pennsylvania Kail road freight staon. Bolh places wero doing a land oftlco nines*, anu this encouraged other inerlonts to start up, and the probabilities are iat inside of a week at least a hundred ores will be in#operation. Already two xh upfltlw." The first decisive step toward putting ihiistown's business men on their feet again as mode !W" about two hundred nierlants who had surviveil the flood, many of nmi without a dollar, met Adjutant Gen al Hastings, and were homii-m! that they ould be re'-istnblishod in business on long -edit. Polh Pittsburg and Philadelphia liolesalers have offered Johnstown tnerlants this business courtesy. Tho meeting irned out to be an ovation to General Hastigs. Tho meeting was opened by the Adjutant er.eral, who said: "1 havo been directed i clear ttie streets of Johnstown, and make nit met s with men to open tho way in order iat merchants may be enabled to get to nd from their business places. Our work i progressing rapidly, and vigorously, and he best thing for Johnstown merchants to ois tola-gin business over again. I havo immunicatod with eastern firms, who offer > assist you if you will resume business in lis city. 1 would suggest that you build ttuporury structures for the present, until lore favorable circumstances warrant tho rection of jiorniaiiontestablishments. Word is be n received from a large number of 'ittshurg houses offering to slock your stores ritb a full line of flint-class goods on long redit. I advise you to improve this opporunity, and, when in the course of time letters take a more tangible shape, you will e able to r. pay all losses incurred." Joseph Morgan, Jr., of the Cambria Iron nu ot?i v/viujwny, kmkii mm, moy nave irown opon tbeir doors ready to receive rders, anil would rvsuine operations in the rorks at once, lie agreed with the views f Adjutant General Hastings on vandalism, 'id spoke of tho necessity for barring out II persons from the ruins while the work f clearing the city is in progress. RED-SKINNED FIENDS, >ctails of tho Dlassacrc of fclllcrs i:i Northern Minnesota. A dispatch from Mora, Minn,, Bay s: "Tho reachcrous Chippewa Indians aro on the rar-path again, and th>re are grave fears f agenorai uprising. Alteady seven Swede ?borers havo been massacred and several mndred lal>orers and sottlors are now hury ing here for safety. "Sheriff Nicholson, mounted on an Indian >ony rode to town and gave the alarm. He IIWW i.VIIIUIUIIIUOK'U Ml UUTVI IIUI lUrl 1(1 Illy vquestiug him to order out ttie State troops o quell the uprising. The present trouble s tho outgrowth of encroachment l>y the vbites upon tho Mille Lacs reservation, ltewntly a contract was awarded by the sellers to Roiey broth> rs of St. 1'iuil, to dig a |ltch for Irrigating purposes from Millo vice lake to a point on the Smoke rivor near his place. When tho Indians learned a Ittoh was to be t'ug they at oiico came to ho conclusion that tho iiit -ntion wns to drain be latter and deprive them of their fishing Jrivilogea. "Notice was sorvod by the Indians ui>on he contractors, warning thorn that if they lid not loavo the territory at once they vould be put to death. The contractors fare no heod to the warning, but camo here ind engaged UOO laborers, who began work it Mille Lies. About noon they woro atacked by a party of almut 4:10 Chipiiewas cd tit White Snake and (Jreatllear. "The Indians were in full war paint and were armed with Winchester riflee and tonw?awks. As soon as they saw the reds comng the laborers dropped their shovels and wa toward this plaoo. They wero pursued >y toe savages who shot and killed coven nen. Several others wore wounded but not *riously. NEWS OF STANLEY. Ph? Ksplorcr Marching Without Km in-?Heavy Loski in ilia I'arty. A letter reoeived at Zanitbar from Ururi, in tho Southeastern shore of the Victoria ffyanaa, dated' IXicetnber 2, reports the urrival there of Henry M. Stanley with a lumber of invalided members of bis force. Hie letter says that Stanley had sustained loavy loanos, a large number of hia men loving died from disease and famine. Tb? tsplorer had rejoined and left Kmin Paoha tfjgp o?? fbt Nvrlbowttri* ?boro of ANOTHER HORROR. Seventy Idvca I<oet In a Rallroo Wreck in Ireland. Tlie nuwt horrible railroad accident thi ever occurred In Irolan I hippjn?tl about o'clock in the morning An excursion trai from Arinizli to Warron Point, a watering place at tlio mnutb of the Newery river, wi wrecked on a grndo and it is supposed tin about 100 persons wero killed. The list of dead will include fully 50 ohlW ren, as the train had at>out 1,'JO) members t a Methodist Sunday-school on board. t< gether with relatives nud friends of tb scholars. The excursion party loft Armagh In tw trains. The aooldout occurred at a poln where tho trains had to ascuud a grade on i bank 5) feet high. The first train asoetidc the grade without trouble. The second sec tion attempted tho Mscwnt but the weight c the train proved to great for tli? engine. Several cars were il <tachod and allowed t run back toward the level track, but befor they reach si it they came in collision with a ordinary train from Armagh, which wa proco sling at a good rate of apeod. The ox curs Ion cars were completely wrecked. The s tone which ctisu id was lioartrending Hosts of volunteers were soon at hand, an the dead and wounded wore taken from th wreck ami carried down the hank. Modlcn aid was called for, an<l a special train froi lielfast brought to the scene 30 surgeons frot that city and a number of medical iiimii froii other places between it Ifast and Armagh. The disaster is uiipir.illod in the railroai history of Ireland. Tlie accident lias oast i gloom over Armagh. All tlie shop* wor clos.-d and the people are In general mourn ing. The ongino was hurled 0) feet down an em bank men t. Tho carriage that ran into th engine was shattered to splinters, and frag nvuits of dross, umbrellas, &c., were scattc od hundreds of yards. A dozni corpses were found beneath the or gino in a parboilod condition. Some of III occupants of the runaway cars tried to w cape, but the doors were locked. The fron part of tho train started b ick in pursuit o tlie runaway cars, and tlie passengers saw the collision at n distance of 300 yards. A car drirer named Hughes, who vlsltei the scene of the disaster, wns so liorritl xl a the sight that he died on the s|s>t. The number of injured is alsiut one-thiri of the entire nuiiiliur of passengers. Man: of these are certain to succumb to tho oirect of their injuries. Tho total number of dea< is 72. The engineer, fireman mid guard of th< train and tho trallic manager's clerk wersummoned before a magistrate and were re mnnded on tho chargo of being respousibli for the accident. _ THE SAMOAN AGREEMENT. Signed by the Throe Natives Having ii uiuiit uonsiucraiion. The agreement tietwoon Koglanl, Gcrmany ami ttio Uuit.nl States on tho H:uiiom affair was signal at Berlin. Tho annouueem snt th it tho agreement ha<1 Ihjoii ratified was mode at tho Cabin >t moot ing by Secretary Blaine and it w is sail that it was eminently satisfactory to this Govern iu its llnal shape. m'WwgtrWefrtato ?y{?nTCrti dm imrrf i.unnVlh oil by tho Bemta While it is called ni agreement by ulH scr* of tho State Depart hi >Ht Mr. Walker Oliino m|iI t h if. h? thought it would undoubtolly requiro ratitl cation by tho Senate. If tho instruincut sign e l were one regulating the conduct of twi countries towirds each other, as for iustauci between the United States and Samoa, i would properly l?o designated as a tronty but where the iiistrumeut signified is to slinpt tho conduct of throo G iveruiusnts, viz-, tin U nito<l States, Kugland an 1 Germany, to wards a fourth party, Samoa, it is hold tlm lis proper nomenclature is an agreement. A1 the same time, as it is a matter affecting tin foreign policy of the United States. It i -iaiil tliut it will need ratification by tin Sonntu and that, therefore, it cannot boinndi public prior to notion by the tt.Miate. The agreement was cordially approvod bj all tbo member.* of ths conference and oj their respective* Government*. Tbo best oi fueling prevailed at tbo termination of tti< labors of the commissioners. Terms ol' the Agreement. America bavin ; ntiandone.1 her principn obj H-tlons to the agreement previously nr rived nt. tin plenipotentiaries had only t m ike unessential 1110 lillcatious in the word inj; of the draft of tho agreement. Th .lraft guarantees un autonomous admini* tratiou of tho Islands under the jointcontr* of Germany and America, England actio as arbitrator in the event of difference arising. The Samoans aro to elect their owi king and viceroy a id to be representc I in Sen ite composed of the principil chiefs an chambers elected by the people. Hainou i to have the right of levying duties of ever; kind. Th? agreement also stipulates Ilia the Germans shall receive money in leinnitj for the losses. A special court will be ap pointed to deal with the land question. A HOME FOR PRINTERS. I.antlGivcn by theCitizeiinofColorad Spring* ?Com mil t co Report* At the third day's session of tho Interna tionnl Typographical Con volition at Don vei Col., matter relative to the sending of delegate to l'aris during the Iuternationii Congress, which convenes next month wa referred to a committee of the wholo. Cor siderahle discussion was caused l?y the re ceiving of a communication from the Knight of Labor in the matter of using olatos in th Government Printing Office at VVnshingbtr The matter was referred to a s|ieeial com mittee. Several pro|*>sitious for the estat lishiuentof a home for invalid mid iudignii printers were thou submittal to the inootiuj The committee to which they w -ro referrt reported unanimously in favor of nccepttn the proposition subnutt -d by citi/. ins of Co orado Hprings, who offered eighty acres t land near the city as a free gift, on the coi dition that a home be started within tvi years and completed within three year The convention, amid much enthusiasm, I a rising vote, adopted the re|K>rt of the con tuittee, both because of the value of the lui and because Colorado Hprings in the lea ing health resort of the country for lut troubles. A FARMER'S FRENZY. Aircr mooting and Hacking 11 Wife Ho Drills Pruwlo Acid. Seth Murray, a farmer living four inil south of Vincennes, in Indiana, ongagod in dispute with his wife Louisa, who was skit ming milk in the srnoks houso. Mum rushed into the dwelling houso, secured shot gun and emptied its contents into t breast of his wife, who fell dead on the flo< Not content with this he seised a large coi knifo and hacked her across the back of 1 nock, almost severing the bead from < body. Thon bo made a leap for hisdaught in-law, busan Murray, and tried to sh< her, but the gun foiled to explode. Terrorised by his crime, ho ran to a 0 a few mis from tho house and dug at I i roots of a small tree in a fence corner, win i he unonrthed a bottle of prussio acid a k swallowed the oontents, several ounces, died in great agony and turned black. 1 had evidently meditated the crime for age I while. Both bodies will bo buried side i si.Is. Murray was flfty-tbree and his w ? ntty two year* or ago, ana iney n?a t* , married thirty-two year*. Murray ha< ! I vicious temper, and it was tba solo cause tboena*. &yvsu chlJUrep survifa t-tov TRAflE OF THE WEE ,d The Condition of Trade Only \ Moderately Favorable. >" i\n(i Trust I.r? ;islat Ion Not l>ireoto<I Against Mrn-ant ilo t'cmtructH. lt Stocks and Homls SlroiiK and Money Many at New York. "Special telegrams to l>i\ut\trrcl's eon. '' iinuo to report only a mo ieratoly favorable nmdition of general trade. T?io Increase I 10 icllvity at Philadelphia, notably in lumber md iron and in general lines, is due to the reopening of railcoinniunioition, which wni % ntorroptel by llexls in Pennsylvania. There d h also KOinn improvement in dem ind for and tiiiptnont in stiplos nt St. l/)ui?, Chicago, ?f K.uns:is City, Galveston, Dos Moin-s a<i<l Memphis, iiti'l nt Louisville and Cinoitinatti o jusiness is reported fair, e Our low preliminary estimate of $ IS.OfX),n KM loss of property by the llools in four s itates is more likely to 6j relucjil than utlnrwis*. Tim wheat crop prosjieot has not improve.! since Juno I, but the outlook for 'otton is rattier hotter since the Louisiun i it Iroutli has l?eoii broken. At It iltitnoro, 0 New York and Boston trade is quiet, with d country pro luce, naval stores and luruituro 11 relatively most active. 11 Numerous inquiries have induced lirmln ttrccVs lo examine the "Anti-Trust" legist ilion of Missouri, Kansas and Texas, and it 1 is found that such legislation is not, as hat a been widely and erroneously publish ?l, die -ect si against mercaiililecontracts generally i- 'jut is aimed against contracts or combinations designed to limit or control pro luclion i- jf prices. 0 Underthe tnllii -iclof renewed speculative ;- interest the New York stock market is active - mil tends higher, attention lieing rapidly iransferrod from one slock to another. B jnds h ire very strong und -r increasing investment e leinands. Money at N *w York continues i- insy in spito of large gold shipui uiUs, tho t imounts of H|?ecle engaged aggregating f ?1,1)75,1100. Call loans, per cent. Korr ?ign exchange to Ktirope is very firm, though sterling U easier, demand sterling 1 Doing quote I at I 8S*?n4 8!l. t \\ hiie sugar prices continue to advance, laving gained ,^h7-Hie this week on small-'r 1 visible stocks, unfavorable crop reports, Y firmer cables and pronounced activity for s refined, interest now centres on what we are I to receive and wlioro it is to come from. Refiners' stocks are gro itly depleted, and i the outlook is for n demand for unusually i large supplies, with u dearth of them in light. Sugar Trust certificates have ad j vnuced from f-So 5) in March to $110, wit It higher llguros in prospect. Ijixge rolfee "rop reports and Ii^lit distributive and sjioo, tilntivo demand n ?ain depressed the staphy the decline lining atvout 1 c.Mlt. The Government cereal crop report tended ; to depress prices, lieing interpreted ns very tavornble, but Inter weather and crop r<>|iui li, backed uy s|M>culiltiVO influences, served to advance wheat on the week I^VJo. Iixliitu corn has been lower after an advance, on light deliveries, but shows a gain of ?<{o. . Rye is up ^c on bettor export demand. All Australian wheat exports have ceased, supplies on hand being needed at hoin-*. Sail ; Krancisco wires that inquiries for wheat are received at Montevideo; that <?),000 bushels have Ixhui shipped to Rio Janeiro, and that the total of whent stocks in California June I. 'Auslruli t has lawn drawing wheat from 1 New Zealand and India as well as California. ilog products are depressed on oxtraor.li' iinriiy heavy receipts of ho^s at* prominent interior markets. Ory goods aro very quiet, hut generally strong in price at New Vork 3 ami Boston. Cotton goods stocks nr well s uuder control, and holders nra confident. ' Several grades of hlencluni go sis have b?on > advanced. l'rmt clothes are in niodtruto J sale, lirm at New York, hut rather easier at ' I Boston. " Woolen goods are..in iiiodorat-o demand, ! I hut ill fairlv IIIht.iI movement. iiot.ililv im ' dorwenr an.I hosiery, mid prions nro well held, F1 tnr.ol manufacturers ask an advmio > k on present v(tines, and those goods are in ' satisfactory movement. Foreign goods nro e rather duller than usual. Haw wool is lirm in price, but active only in tlio country. r Manufacturers'stocks are light. An upward ' tendency In priru is noted. llaw cotton is in good domestic and exu port demand, at 1-10 decline. S|>cculHtion is excessively dull. Crop pros|>octs have improved. I ? DISASTERS AND CASUALTIES. Henry and John OWley, brothers, ngel 3ft " and ."J roars, were killed at Wilkes bar re, l'?., fl! i... .. r..n .-0 ... i ... .. ( A wagon, containing Coorgo Mnckio amia (l hoy named llirons was struck by n train in ,1 Taunton, Mass., and both wore killed, is l'at rick Ityan, aged 52 years, while asleep y In a chair in the third story of his residence t in Lawrence, M issachu setts, fell out of the y window and was killed. '* B, L. Woods, (Jeorgo I>. I^ewis and John (Sarvin were badly burned by tho explosion ?f a lard vat in tho lard r-diuery of Fairbanks & Co., Hutchinson, Kansas. Sergeant Peter Toner, of tho United States steamship Clalenn, while on a week's leave of o absence to v isit his parents at Bethlehem, Pa., fell into the great zinc mines at Friedersville, and was killed. During a storm on Hex Bayou, Do Soto, Parrish, Louisiana, a falling tree crushed in a the dwelling of Joe I to til <, killing Mrs. Ha 111", | her daughter Octavia, a^etl 17, and three sous, renx, r. vans nan *> imam, agon i i ami 4 Tears and 15 months respectively. Tim l* oldest son, Joseph, was severely injured l>y )- Dying splinters. The head of the family who was lying sick in bed, was the only nioinlior o who M8cn|>ovl uuinjured. i. Two freight trains on tha Dayton, Fort i- Wayne and Chicago Railroad collided near >- Coal ton, Ohio. On ono of tho trains was n it caboose in which were thirty miners going e. to work. Roth trains were badly smashed id and nearly every passenger in the caboose was more or loss hurt. Three mon, Mit Dow, I- Marshall Shead and John Brown, were kill>f etl. Tho following were badly injured: a- Curon Shead, Frank Devere, Elmer Owens, ro William Robinson, Frank Culver, E. C. x Dow and Win Trace. All .tho others wers ,y InjiiriHl, but not seriously, a- ?^ ;j) LIGHTNING'S FRFAKS. A Current in Its Travels Kills One Man aixl Shocks Many < )i Iters. Herman Matt is, who was killed by llghtnlng in Newark, N. J., was a workman in Solomon's tannery, on the edge of the meadows, In Avenue C. He observed thai 1 * rain was beating into a window and went to n- close it As he was pulling the sash lightfty ning struck an iron leader pipe running 'a from the roof down the sido of tho building two feet from tho window. Tho current loft or. the pipe, passed through his body, killing rn- him instantly, and then wont through the die floor into the boiler-room. Tho furnace the door was closed and latched, but the lightap. nlncr thrnw it wiilit ouen. Kroni thorn it x>t apparently skipped though the beam-house, where several men wore fleshing hides. They ell were knocked right and left, but none of he them were seriously hurt, sro In Kelly's tannery, adjoining Solomon's, nd three men were stunned, and they did not He fully recover for an hour. A horse hitched tie to a wagon in the yard of a slaughter-house kxI a few feet from the tannery was struck and by the hair was singed from one of its hind its isgai The driver was tumble! out of tho ?n wagon. The lightning lit up all of ths elecI a trio lamps in the Mutual 11 mcflt Insurance * of Company building for an instant during t U? m? itorn> , . s&ik