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~ ~~ ^ ' ' " ' ^ ' MAGDALEN. WBY M. C. FARLEY. X CHAPTER XII ?{Continued. J Then I will fetch it. llomembor? Tncdsy evening?aod liero, under tlio not likely to forgot thodatonor VJo. tlool-niglit, my dear." Sight" k V?rns upon hiB hool. IIo adL ''steps, stuiubloH, and falls Hk ovor some strange object dduuly springs up from tho path .'dor knows. Aibbcy," ojaeulatos Loo, in torror. eh^ . * i.'oh, Kibboy," Bays tho butler. Now, miss, what will Madam suv I^A< r ?_ ! i -- r -I -" * *' affair with a strango mat^r^n^iTO'k grounds." *. Bolton lind recovorcd liirasolf, and as tho butler's insulting words reached his ears the father rushed upon him. "That voieo!" ejaculated I'olton, as ho seized tho newcomer. "Who uro yon? (iood God! it's Scartlil" Tho butler writhes away from tho graop of tho angry fathor. In tho rap:dly growing darkness his face is rendered indistinguishable. Could Frederic Bolton sco that face as it looks now, ho would fear for his lifo. "1 am Kibbev, the butler at 15ywater Park," tho butler says, coldly. "It may bo t > tho futuro interest of this young lnd.v lioro to mnko sonio kind of tornis wi h mo. If I should repeat to Madam The father rushed upon him. Pandas ( In story of I his mooting lioro it would l?o .ill up with the young lad.v, so far us lSywalur Park is concerned.* "Hearth!" again ejaculates Mr. llolton. "I am not mistaken in that voice," l! of ore ivibhoy is awaro of Helton's iutonlion, Polton strikes a mat-h, nud holds it exultingly in the butler's faco. "I think if this young lady should goto Ma lane and tell her tho past history of lxibbey the butler, that Kibboy tho butl****- would bo summarily disurssod from liywater Park," said Jtolton tuuiali/.ingly. "J feci sure that is what tho end of til's alVair will come too. As ? for mo -I am this vounsr ladv's father. tinri thorn ia no law in America that will deprive her of her father's society. Como now, Hearth?for yon aro Hearth ? had you not bettor try to mako soino kind of terms with us, in order that you may not lose your present situation V" "Send tho lady away and I will talk with you," Hearth says sullenly. Loo does not wait for Bolton to tell her (o go away. She is already Hitting, seared and trembling, toward the house. CIIAI'TKi; Xtlt. OW then," snys Bolton, iiflll *'?l> disappeared, .|k|||IW "what have you to say tiiUwvr^ \v/ll I dofonso of your conii Tho butler was rnm^niaging in his poekots, "CIn,,d did not at ouco ro"Oorac, speak out! "What Jo you say?" "Nothing much." Hearth's voice is curiously choked and low. "Only it seems as if I am nevor to got a start in lifo again. Curso mo, no sooner do I get into a good place than something happens to prevont mo from onjoying it." "No crookedness around By water l'ark," says Bolton, warningly. "Of coui'bo not. I'm going away now; or, at least, I will go directly after IMndam's party. Sho gives a party T tesday evening in honor of Miss l.oo." "lSho does?" Bolton is interested. "It is to bo a swell all'air," says Kibbey, disconsolately. "I'm so sorry to leave By water Park before it comes oil". Just my infernal luck, though." "Are you trying to live honestly?" "Trying! Why, I am." The biitlm* in fnnihliiiir witli a mil nf something which ho him druwu from liis pocket. "1 was doing lino till Mian Loo cnino here, J-'ho know mo, or thought alio did, which amounts to tho sinno thing, 3*011 know. I'vo lived in terror over bince, for fear sho'll split on ino." "Sho won't tell if yon behavo yourI pelf," Ilolton says, shortly. "I hate to lose my situation," hibboy replies, insinuatingly; "and I ought to bo let alono a earning a honest living, it 8CCU1H to me. livery 1111111 has the right to earn a honest living if ho can." "l'es," assents I'ollou. "And 1 am saving up money," goes 1 en Kibbey, nioro insinuatingly still. "It is awful h iid lin k to bo thrown out of a good place just because of a sin I one litis repented of m ro'11 a hundred times; don't it?" "If I thought 3'oii had 110 designs on Ilolton, ovido itly ' " \\ In'cl 1 lhlwonVusso r I positively. "Why, I might go away and not ro- 1 port you at all." 1 "Oh, if you only would!" i Kibliey presses the "something" which ho lias" been fumbling into Holton's I hands. t "Here's two hundred dollars as I'vo i been saving up. I'll lend them to you 1 --1 know what you camo to tho Park 1 for hoping you'll excuse tho liberty. < I moan no barm. Mr. llolton, do 1 pleaso let mo keep on horo a trying to 1 bo honest; do!" There is something oxcoodingly per- y WWttiMi to PredoVio l?olton in*tlifc fe* nQ^vfou lived by tlio roll of notes in L llo^j'csitatca, but it is for an insta on'y. X " \Vcll," K&sbcgins, "if you roally ai tr.v;ng to do right, why, I?I " "1 really nui," breaks in tbo nnxioi but'er, "and you nrny take your o\i time in paying hack the money, shan't want it?not for a long, lor time." "Very well," says Po'ton ; "it's a ba gain, lint there shall bo 110 nionktv ing with the |>lato at Dywater l'ar] licinoiiiber that." "i.\'o," replied tlio butler, Inirriedb "no monkeying, I promise'you." * And I cf?iro lloltou- ean say nnotlu word, Kibbej rushes away, lcavin Pol ton stand ng alone With the morn iu his hand. "1 shan't need Loo's locket, nfh all," Pol ton thinks, as ho leisure] ninkis Irs way back to his hotol, "an Kin glad of it. 1 dislike having to pi things in pawn. Hero's enough to kec Mm. INIov>ill cuddy ijuiut for months 1 PtlllKV n IMr. Doll on roaches his inn, writes few linos to 1 oo, telling her that 1 has unexpectedly received a reniittam and that lie will thoroforo cancel tl: engagement for Tuesday oveninj Mows out liia ennd'e, and in liigli goo? humor xv.th himself and the worh jumps into he 1. Not no with the butler. Kihliey rushes away to liis room i I'ywater Dark, throws himself ft liously into a chair, shakes two fists i in imaginary somebody, whom li anathematizes as "that d d Bolton, and eursi s until tho very air is blue. Ilis fury oxlinustnd, lie goes to a cu| hoard, takes down a jar, and pourili out the eon tents, which proved to 1. notes and gold pieces, proceeds I count his money. "Not enough," 1 mutters gloomily. "If 1 leave, an of course 'II have to leave after tlii we must crack tho crib. There's not! ing oho to ho done. That Bollonblast him -why did ho ever come t By water 1'arkV" Now tho butler fotclios pens, ink an I npor, and proceeds to Rerawl in hi turn t!;o following epistle: J'YWATEU PAliK. i 'up.: 'i Ins is lo let yon know thai everything "up" w th mo in this li.ro sitiwaliou. Tl 111in> is lie.. ?ami cvcrvlliiiu; ih irailv. Ij nio l.n >\v <luio lion 1 am to expect a vis I ri'iti y-m. PoAivrn. "Tho thing's got to l?o done," sav tlio buth-r, eying hi* blurred opistl with Ratistnet'ou. "Now, Miss Cot look out for what's in tlio ntmosphori You and your precious pa will feel smiling hand soon, or I am no prophet. Jt was barely poss ble tlio but It himself avrs stion to feel a "smitin hand;" but of this, more anon. C1IAPTKU XIV. TO SI K MISS I.A1AUOI1 <X SjESS I.AFAUCf ^08 now ?lu>b! r? r v' "v \7 I covore<i from he _Us\ 7(1 v\ fl late railway ace f\\(\'i |i dent, llorbroke V A1 \V ftnn i,s healed, an >for soino wool N. tho silken si in V y^ / / has been diseare cel. She lias fa ciliated Miss Chielloy. That wortli spinster wonelers how in tho world si managed to exist before her dear Marie came to StubblotieUl. Even the wiekc little ponies themselves seom to lia> succumbed to the spell of her presenc for they behave with tolerable decent whenever Miss l.afargo rides boliin them. "With ono oxeoption, everybody : Stubbleliold adores Miss Chidlcy "Dear Marion." Oho is tho solitai exception. Hut, as Miss Chidlcy vor tru'y remarked. "Obe was always o the contrary sitlo, anyway, and hisopii ion was of no couso'inonce." At lirst Miss Lafargo refused to b< liovo in Obe's dislike of herself. Hi at last, porcciving it was true, she d< ^trrTT~~T>^ Proceeded to ncraul in hin turn. lerniined (hat n!io would "stoop to coti t|uor," and thoroupon brought tho cti tire battory of hor sweet smiles, lie pleasant words and her engaging man tiers to bear upon tho Mack boy. Ibit her elTorts were all without tli desired etloct. Olm remained obdn iato, and only watched her tlio inor closely from the corners of liia big oyer and felt moro suspicious still of tli harming young lady. "Oho would fool auspicious of any body who could tame the terrible pu nios," Miss Chid ley says. And perhaps this was truo. Finding her cflhrts were wasted upoi the colored hoy, Miss luifargc change* her tactics, and whereas she had one been kind to him, she is ipiite the eon trary now. Sometimes, even, whei I hoy aro <|iiito alone together, she ear 'jjfis her dislike so far as to lean forwari 'f -q,?''"r little white tcoth at hill his wool stain ip on top ot 'd. biings littl old chills creeping along Jiis spina olumn. And thero is something so strange ii (lie steely gleam of the hi no i>yes at hey meet his own, something so irro lislihly wolfish in the way the litth ivliito teeth snap together, that < >bo al nost believes Miss Cafarge means t( >ut him up some day, body and boots ivhcn no one knows it and ho unable t( esist hoc. "She's like dom bosses," Obo says, vitb an ominous shako of his woolly r - ' . * !* T* ~ *1- head; "do dcbbil is in dom Ingln is bosses; and 'pears to me dat de debbil kisself must lie in her, or slio couldn't nt come it over 'em all do way alic does. {Something mighty curis 'bout hit-, ro (Something mighty curis 'bont lior, too." She sits now, quite unconscious of us everything nrouml lior, tlio too of her ru small rod slipper peeping coqnettishly 1 out from the Item of her while gown, ig and Madam Dundus'card of invitation in her hand. r. Miss Chidloy, round and roly-poly, v_ reclines c unfoitahly on a divan near ? tlio enchantress. "Dear Morion" has often tlioso spells .. of completo abst raction, aiul MiHS Cliid' ley has at lust become well enough noor cpininted with her young relative to IC know when a "lit is < n," and keep si" lonco accordingly. MiBS Lafargo starts from lior roverio ,r with a suddenness that lakes tlio spinjy ster's breatli away. id "You b'essod old thing," crios dear it Marion, springing up from bor chair, ip and embracing her relative nfl'ectiontc ntoly, "you liavon't said a word for a month. Speak now, and say if wo nr<j a to accept the invitation to Itywator. 1C I'll own that I am longing to go there." iK? -ir..in i ? _ u ji xucu mo nuikir 10 HUtllVU, MIJ8 MIO lc spinster, placidly. "Wo'll go. 13vrrt water l'avk is quite tho show place of |. this part of tho country." 1 "1 long to boo the intori >r of (hat . fgiiwiiiilliinnii. - Sir wife f. ^ II e Fell liijlill;/ beneath the table. >> ohl, old house." Miss Lafargo lias ? suhs'ded from her momentary spasm J of alTcction, and again takos her seat. "1 >o you luiow t!uit 1 almost believe I !l shall have tho opportunity oll'orod mo ' ( ' to reign over J !ywater l'urlt as its 1 mistress at somo timo not distant." ' " The Captain is considered a great catch," says Miss Chid ley, with a errati j. (it'll smile. "It woulil be an excellent i match all around." i 0' Dear Marion hursts into a sudden | I1 silvery gush of laughter. "Yes," alio Bixy?, "nil around. Do you , ir: think Madam Dundas would consent , 10 to it?the marriage, I mean?" lf "?Sho has made Captain Hazard her !f heir. I don't think slio would object, for she thinks Hazard the finest and 8 best specimen of his sex living to-day." ' 'J "And you?" K "Oh! if 1 must give you in marriage ' ,l; to anyone, Cajitaiu Hazard is as good ' as another. All men are alike to mo. I '* I regard mankind as a sort of necessary 01 evil, to be tolerated accordingly. "Miss 5-5 1 nfargo laughs again and opens her , rosy month to speak. But the words dio on her lips, for at this instant the , door bell rings. And tlicro is soiue** thing so peculiar and imperat vo in the 'y I sound of tlio boll that dear Marion | j Bluings 10 ncr icon in alarm nntl con11 sternation. x" All the lovely pink color in her blondo faco fa Jos away; involuntarily her hands elcneli upon ncr uroasi. " Hio stoops slightly, with her oar in^ dined toward tlio door. Slio shaken, 1 tromlilcs. Ohe has answered tho bell, and she hears the measured voice of the caller as lie says, coldly : < "I wish to see Miss Lafurgo.n i Tho look oT fright upon her faeo i deepens into 0110 of ab ect terror. Her i teeth chatter. A chill shakes hor from head to heel. Hor face is ghastly; her lips livid. "I ost!" sho mutters huskily between her dry lips, "lost!" Miss Chid ley gazes at her in astonishment. "You are ill, Marion. What 5 is it?" Miss Hafargo evidently does not hoar the question. Certa illy sho does not heed it. "Marion, you need seo no one, if you choose not to." Miss Chidley says, ; . reassuringly. "What has frightened \ you?" Miss I afargo is shaking liko an aspen; still sho makes 110 reply. Tho parlor door swings open and Olio's woolly head is thrust into tho , ~ room. "A gentleman to seo Miss ba- | farge," says Obo, placing a card in ,. front of tho trembling girl. ller blue eyes glance ever llio nnmo written on tho card, and a wilder tor0 ror leaps into them. Sho shrinks down?down; she seems 0 to actually grow smaller -to wither and . shrivel up within herself. Iter hands y clench more tightly; tho white foam gathers about her blue lips. r_ There is a great s piaro table standing between herself and the door. A heavy silken scarf drapes this table, whoso fringed ends come down to tho n tloor. Miss l.afarge sudden'y sways forward, and falls lightly beneath this n table, as a short, squat man, with broad h shoulders and a sweeping black beard, n enters tho parlor. I rem where ho stands ho cannot seo her, and docs not j sco her. (TO UK CONT1NUKO. I 11 1 _____ II ' OnIjY old men can remember when American newspapers used to report in 1 full tho debates in Congress. An np9 proaeh t > a like indifference is now ex* fiibitcd in Kngland, although them 9 I'ariiament does nearly all the work * which on this side of the Atlantic is > performed l>v Congress and tho State . legislatures combined. The Times is > now the only daily newspaper in bun d >n which puh'.Mies ostensibly coin-. , plet report a ol the debates in j'arifp ' intuit. \\ THE NE^S. A H. D. Obson, of Cltftoa, Texas, chased bit family out of tbe boueo at ibo point of a gun, thon fired the building, and leaping into th?* 1 fi line*, was burned to death. A band ol so-called regulators at Tulargo, Cal., took a inan named E igau, a susp >oted thief, out of jail and hanged him two or throe time*, letting him dowu each time when nearly strangled. Tbo liquor dealers of tSoutb Dakota hare perfected an active organise lion to operato against the adoption of tin IV.ihil.if i.... nl... ? o:? B>_ll II - V...VIVIVI* VIUU7V V4 IUU UIVU& 1(111 VUII5H* tution at tho October election. A passenger train on the Cincinnati, Georgetown nutl rortsmouth Kailrunl went through a trestle near Butavlu, O., ami fourteen persons wore injured. The Michigan legislature iris passed a new election law, which b n inoliftcaiioii of tho Australinu system. The marriage of Miss Elisabeth Droxel, daughter of tho late Joseph Drezel, the banker, and John Vint?m Dadilgren, son ol the lata Hear Admiral Dablgren, took place iu St. 1'atHekU UiUi- lr.il Y'fk. ""'I was a graiid u If a i r. ?1?Johnja^g^ayMr^nUh-ii years olil, of Troy, N. ??( was mixed up in n murder oiM^ntittoil suioide. Kirwnt WjUiumsvUla|a^Peount> N. Y., eutirely destroyeJ tho National Egg CusoCoinpmy's works. Loss $3,000. William Bjur, foreman of P. Connor's piauo factory in New York city, committed suicide. U. B. Groll's flouring mill at Fertility, near Lancast >r, I'.i, was destroyed by lire Loss $iiii,000. The Cbie?go grand jury hn, indicted Martin Burke, T.itrick Cooney, John l'\ B.-g;s, D tniol Coughlin, 1'atrick O'rtullivan, Prank Kiuizo and Prank Wool ruir, for comp icity in tho murder of Dr. Cronin. George \V. Wright, of Thiladolpliia, the defaulting supreius treasurer ol the Order of Tonti, is uow in prisou. Ills shortage amounts to #-10,000. In asinashup on I lie Boston and Albany It all road near New Haven, Ct., throe persons were killed and several injured. By a popular vote of the suburban districts of Chicu^o, includ ing Hyde Turk and other towus, have been UIIU>'M>I HJ VII') v^njf i>l v_lllc.lgo, making II tbo largest city iti urea in the United States and increasing Its imputation.to 1,100,000. The American Cotton Seed Oil Company, of Now Jors ;y, lias purchased ton of tho cotton oil mills to Texas. F. W. Spudding, of tlio tirni of Spaiildiug ffc Brick, agents in Huston for nil cloctric motor, states tbat bis partner, Henry A. Brick, lias skip|?el with p2,(K0 belonging to Hpaulditig mi l all tho casli tbo tii in bad on hand Dr. T. H. Mcl)ow was acquitt >d at Charleston, H. C., of the murder of E litor Francis W. Dawson. Job C. Crane, cashier of tho Lehigh Val ley Coal Company of Elizabeth, N. J., dis kppearod from his homo and wus subsequent ly found unconscious In a boat at New York, having boon knocked senseless and robbed. Tunis Labee was hangoJ at Pattoraon N. J. for wife murder. Horace Wilcox, a newspaper man of Buffalo, N. Y., attempted suicide with luudunumo A thief entered die bouse of John Wobber at La (Irmw, Wis., and fatally stable'1 hIB daughter, who uicmpmi 10 gi**> ?..~Uirnl.??aiiw i?....... tho I'ostmistressat Bentonvillo, Wis., struck \ drunken mm n fatal blow on tbo head iu lelf-defenso. While playing in a wlnat l)iu, wliich was being drawn off into a cui at Lima, Ohio, Benjamin Marks and Julson llorton were drawn into tho shute and sinuth. ?rtd to death. Mrs. L'zzio Breiinaii was arrested at Holyoke, Mass., on suspicion of having poisoned her husband and tw o sons. A former engineer on one of Logltime's J vessels at llayti has roturned to New York, and states that IIipi>olyto will soon capturo | Port-au-Princo. Several parties lwivo been arrested in tho vicinity of St. Paul, Minn., charged with being implicated in a scries of real estate frauds by issuing bogus mortgages. A pass>nger train on the Boston aud Mnino Railroad ran into an open switch near Dover. N. H., and the locomotive and three cars went down and an embankment. No lives were lost, but several passengers were slightly injurod. Stephen Alien, colored, was hanged at Oxford, Miss., for the ; murder of Frank llarduot. Dr. Kugcne Thayer, a well-known organist of Now York committed suicide in Burlington, Vt. At I a meeting of the trunk lino presidents and managers in Now York the immigrant question and dressed beof rat s woro discussed. Mrs. Felicea O. Porter, a noted Southern woman, and daughter of the late Felix (iruiuly, ex-United States senator and attorney general iu the Van Burou cabinet, died in Nashville, Teuu., ngod sixty-nine years Wm. Worthington, formerly of Baltimore, Is under arrest in Philadelphia, charged with beating nnoth r woman in mistake for liis wife. Tlio ono hundred and elevent h anniversary of the battlo of Monmouth was observed at Freehold, N. J. Jauios B. Il irvey was arrested at llninmoad, Ind., and fined by a local magistrate under tin new law of that state, for soiling dressed beef slaujhterod in Chicago. Judge Johnson sub J scqiiently remitted the fine, d'-claring the law unconstitutional. TTio mountain iniu- j ors and cakors near Oillnlzip, I'a., aro on n j strike, and trouble is feared in the Clearfield | region. An unusually honvy rainstorm in ! the vicinity of Kushford, Miuu.,diil j lamiiiigu iu i-rups. v.yrus ?V. I'lOlU S Stenill yacht collided with a ferryboat near Yonkors, I I ut no one was hurt -Twroexcursiou steamers rollMoil near Newjiort, but no serious i dnmago urns done. Thero were 181 business failures in tin United States and 31 iu Canadu I tho past week. In the great Harvard-Yale row ing race. Yule beat Harvard five le ngtlis. (e'o. \V. Wright, treasurer of the Order of 'I'onti oltd otbee benelicial associations in I'liilr.delpluo, is reported to be short in hii accounts. llev. Ucorgo A. Smith of the Episcopal Church in Virginia, died in Alexandria, aged eighty-six years. Tho funeral , of Mrs. Hayes was a sad but notable event iu Fremont, Ohio. All business was suspended, and Hi citi/. lis followed tbo remains of the beloved woman>to the tomb. A big ! derrick in a stone quarry in Mitinoap<>li| broke and tho wire cable swerved around with frightful velocity, catching Herman Isaacson under tho cbtu and breaking his neck, and seriously injuring three other workmen??Tho koeper of a house of i 11famo in 1'aterson, N. J., and several of the inmates were found dead an 1 their bo ties mutilated. All "sections" of tho American i ri-.armacciital Association closed their sessions in Han Francisco, and the Association i adjourned to moot at Old i'oiut Comfort, i Va., tbo secon^Moadoy in Beptcaibor, I I . TRADE OF THE WEEK. Unusually Good Tradn Activity Make a t oed Outlook, Clearing house ItetiiriiN of Tradn 30 Per Onl id I'lxtrm of last Favorabl*! Aixouni* Prom Interior Points. As noted in special telegrams to ftrtidstrrcts, now that half yearly stock-takings are showing the actual results, there has lieon a rather more enroll raging view taken of the state of general trade, particularity nt Philadelphia, Hall I more, Boston, Kansas City and Chicago. Merchants now are looking abend to tluo autumn's business with rather inoro cotifldence, |>artlcularly at. the West, where crop re|mrta continue quite favorable and where there is reported the largest demand for agricultural implements in Missouri, Kansas, and Nebraska for three years. Trade tins b??u qulut In Louisiana, owing lA if. Ik.. . .... .. - ' wv > > ?vimk um umu hi mo mnnui, miiii n> r.ni) backward though improving cane and rim crop*. Then* la too much ra n in Texas. Hogs havn advanced 10al5o at leading Wis'orn wntrw, wlih rwvi|iln not up to demand. Cleveland oxjiects tin* season's Inke iron oro shipment to niuount. to ti.OOO.lMMl toiiR the largest on record. Exhausted t?y tho speculative excitement in trust stocks the Now York atook ninrkot haa siiccumlNil to tho iiillueuce ot higher money, prices being lower and trailing stagnant. ?Bonds an* linn and prime Issue* jnrco. Monov nt New York iasimsitiveand tie loan market disturlied liy prcpiirntious for the July disbursements. fall loans 4*5 |h?r cent. At all important. money centrea throughout tho country funds are firmer, anil at nomo there are moderate advances in ra'cs. Foreign exchange is weak, with llrmor money market. Deuuimt sterling is 4 KS.i 4 SS^. lint. Irenes are still high, and nlmut 2,iHHl,000 in gold was idiip|>ed to P.iris. Heuil annual stock-taking sales by New York dry goods jobbers are at a reduction of r?a3 ? per cent from regular rates, induced a heavy movement in seasonable cotton ami WO ili'll g*hi Ik. Staple fabrics showed the sin He-it and fancy dress goods the largest rodcct oiis. With agents there is more strength. Dark prints and gingtmtii*, and W kiIoii iirnl ?or-.UaI dress goods, are must active, l'rint cloths are in good demand, with manufacturers slow to sell at. tho advance of 1-IGo. Some makes of cnssimercs b tve I wen o|tcnud nt an advance of .r? per cent over last season. Wool is active at interior markets ami prices are strong. Arrivals at the seaboard are Increasing. Must of the Ohio clip is re|s>rted out of first bauds. Haw cotton is active nt New York, tlld crop fufure prices have *tr* ngthenod. < Haw sugars are restricted t tTeriugs and fmerer inquiry advanced Jjj'i^o, Idebt's latest. i stimato of t.be beet crop is reduced 1 75,ikk? to 3,U4fl,0(M tons. The prediction Is made that "inadequate supplies of sugar will result in high prices through the coining year." Sugar 1 rust eortiflcites have touched 1.20, ami reacted l?i 1.15 Ibis week. Iloavy receipts of coffee nt primary Hraziliau markets ami adverse cable advices from Kuro|K-an markets resulted in largo sales ami liquidating orders and a decline of l.'d.V on the week. Wheat Hour is more active and prices are stronger. A very few Nor Lhvv cater it-miller* ore said to control all of the old Spring wheat on hand. Ihqmrta of damage to wheatnbr< ml and at lioim* and firmer foreign marhcto Inuiiosl .>|?HaiiatiVtt trading ami an advance in w heat of 2'^c Indian corn Is up and oats are down UV. Exports of *W Olid of Hour as wheal, irom lito United .States this wet k aggregate 1,5.'?5,H51 bush"!*, against hiisihmh mm. \vm?K aim i,iu.t,n9' buslioU for tho week omlinjc Juno 3;l. IHHM. i PROGRESS 0fr THE EOUTH. Over n Tlioiisintl New Iiidustrlcs las tuhlishcd in 'I lircw Months. Tho Tradesman of July 1 |nit?li-?lio?l n statement allowing tho iudtis'rial siluatioi in tlie South its exhibited by tho number of now industries established during (lit last thro months. It shows that during the past quarter 1,021 now industries have boon established, against till'.) in the previous quarter. There were 1,711 now enterprises begun during the first six mouths of IMS',I, against I,liVI for tho corresponding period of tho previous your, showing that tho South is going ahead nt a moro rapid rate than ever before. What Is more significant says the Tradesman, is tho fact that tho charact r of tlie industries is of a more substantial character, ami Is on n much better basis than in previous years. The speculative fever has been in u large measure repressed, and Industries are now being establislital more In consequence of actual resources and legitimate enterprise than before. Tho most noticeable foatairo of the past throe mouths has been tho organisation of M now cotton and woolen mills, against in the previous quarter, tlrorgia leads with ton new mills, North Carolina following with eight. Fifty-two foundries and machine shops were organized,.n gain of seven over tlw, A I..I,....... I,.r>,lfe* It. II. iu . ....... .......... v...? particular industry, with nine now works, retiuosson, Georgia mid Kentucky following with sevaii eacli. Kighty-two mining und quarrying companies were organized, of whicli seventeen were in Kentucky, against til in the previous quarter. Tim iiuiiiberof railroad cornpnuius organized shows a gain of utmost one hundred |K>r cent., tho number for the pant quarter being l.'iO against (?5 during the previous quarter. Tex.in and Alahuma lead in thin respect with ~I and 'ill respectively. Two hundred and seven woolworking estatdishmell's were organized, against l.'M in the previous quarter. Other industries established in the last tl r -e months were savon blast furnaces, 4 b oil mills (lb in Houtli Carolina), eleven potteries and tbroo rolling mills. ABOUT NOTED PEOPLE. .MHo. Augusta Holmes I Ids fair to becbuio a great musical composer. M. Dumas wept with emotion when he saw Mine. Bernhardt play "Lena Despard." Dr. (Jeorgo Macdonald, tlio novelist, is lecturing and preaching in the North of Knglaud. Mrs. John Tyler, vice-mistress of tho White Hotisi Is til years old. tall and, for her age, vuuiii! looking. The Persian Minister nt Washington is learning the Kuglisti language and gutting over his homesickness. General l?w Wallace, of Indiana, who is now in his US I year, retains his soldierly llgtiro and military stride. Iletirik Ibsen, the Norwegian dramatist, whoso plays promise to become (sipular in England, is til years old. Ix>rd Tennyson, who Is still as great a smoker as ever, smokes nothing but bird's eye, especially lino and prepared for him. Miss Amy Itendo, a niece of the late Charles K-ade, has just completed a norot which is said to bo very soubulional in character. Tho Itov. Arthur l'helps has just been graduated at the Yale divinity school after 21 consecutive years of study for tho ministry. Kignora Fanny Zarnpini Halazaro has been sent to Ixmdon by tho Italian Oovermont to investigate tho subject of tho education of women. The adopted daughter of tho late Irish Chief ISocretary, Mr. Forster, has noarly mcco?-dod in roviviug tho tuaoufooturo of Itiiuenck luce, SOUTHERN ITEMS. INTERESTING NEWS COMPILED FHO.U MANY SOUIIOSL l'arkersburg, W. Vn, has 300,000 Hro brick for street paving purposed. Host NefT, a young girl of Louisvllle.Ky., attempted suicide 011 account of jealousy. The wound wns not fatal. It has lieen determined to hold the next J annual North C irolinn State Fair ou the 14th , to 18th of October inclusive. | ?-I'ho Edgecombe, N. O., Iron works have I arranged their ri-cont financial difficulties I nnd are now workiug ou full tiuie. i Joseph Lass iter. colore* 1, who was to have lioeii hung at Winston, N. C.. for mur- j der, has l>oen resulted until July 17. A chill of Clell Thompson, of near Btuo Sulphur, Cabell county, W. Vn., fell in the i lire, and was terribbie burned about the hands and arms. A negro named Andy Caldwoll, attempted rnpo on Mrs. Uecklintn, n wiiite lady, of Columbus, S. O. Ho was enpturad and shot to death by a posao of citizens. , A three-year-old child of I lay wool LasButnr nf M.treo i \ ? L ?r ? * ? I UVII J v? l?n, X^IIUVIiaill county, { N. C., wm ohoktxl to ileatli a few days aluce from swallowing cherry stone*. A little daughter of Mr. John L. Irbjr. of Nottoway county, Va., nWftTontall/ Toll i in a well a fow days ago and was drowned I before assistance ooul I bo rendered. ] A young man named Farrell, residing In I Clay district, Ritchie county, W. Va., bad ' one of his hips broken while rollings log*, re- ' cetitly. Ho is in a dangerous condition. A reward of fSJOO ha* boon offered by the ' Hovernor of N. C., for tlio capture of Amos ! Alston, who, on the l'lth inst. in Yancy couutv. shot and instantly killed llenry T. 1 IxvJfu'rd. ' A now bridge is to lie built ov. r Deep liver, at Waddell'a factory in Randolph ' county, N. An appropriation of #\5,.? H) ' ha* been made by the magistrate for the purpose. ?- A three year old child of James Rowan, t of Monroe county, W. Va., was gortsl to , death by a vicious cow. The child was t walking across tbo yard wlimthi boa it at- ( tackod lier. ( A young man nnmoil Harvey Duncan, ' living one milo below l'arkorsburg, W Va., 1 was drowned by hi* johnhout overturning in < the Ohio river, lie was single, and about 'Jd I years of age. 1 At last the bridge ovor Newrivorat 1 Fayetto Station, W. Va. lias been complete*! and is now open to the trnveliug public. Tlio j new bridge is a much more 6ulistaulial one t inn the old one. The board of commissioner* of the town uf Durham, N. C., have decided that no * screens should 1?< allowed at Um front doors uf bar-rooms, and that Riich places shall be ? dosed at II o clock at night. I - ?Several prominent furinors of Caroline county met at Dmtou, Md., for the pur- j iioso of orguui/.iiig a farin"r's club for I i mutual protection ami a* I vantage, and t elected Joint II. Griffin as l'rcsident. The summer conference of tho Young t Men's Christian Association will be hold at I Mountain I/tke, Md., on July 1, 2 and 11. i Bible studies ami Christian work will Imi tho main |H?ints discussed at tho conference. I -A grist and saw mill on the head waters I J of Keck Camp creek, Monroe county, W.Va. i owned hy Messrs. L twis Mnckin and Allen ]<oug. was destroyed by fire. l^oss fliOl; no | insurance. Tho origin of the lire is unknown, j Kurmers i u_tlia_*iciu ity?of-J lagers town, t Md., complain of tlie appearance of scab in their wheat, caused hy the continual rains ? and brief intervals of sunshine. It is ex- r l>ected that tho yield w ill not exceed one half t I lie average. ??- <> liV.i.l.trlnh Ulil. found in " 'i i on nis iiiace ah Englis t h |H'iiny of the > car 1 It lienrs t he stamp , of George 111. on one side, and the ceat-ofuriiis on the other. It is remarkably well preserved. I The contractors for tho construction of | the Baltimore and Kastern Shore Railroad t have established headquarters nt Hasten, Md. As soon ns the right of way is secured . the section between Hastou aud tho Bay shore will ho built. J Harnlt Wright, a colored servant, living j with a family on Diamond Bill, Lynchburg, Vo., was burned to death, her clothes having . c night fire from an explosion of kerosene ' oil with which she was alt mpting to kindle 1 a lire. J1 Tho Cumlierland Valley ltailroad has contracted for a new overhead bridge across tlm Pntfimnn Im>1ow WilSinnmimrl. Mil Tl?a * tuition) of ttio now hridgo will Lie flfU'on foot * lustier than tho oi l ono. Ttio work in ox- ] |iectetl to bo completed by ttio first of Boptonibcr. ' -Ttio llrst color-! iury ever empaneled in Fayette county, W. Va., and ttio second in ttio Tenth Jiidiclil District, tried Dick j Tlioilias, wild allot inn I klllenl Nura Hill near Coal Valley, several months ago for murder. 1 Thoy brought in a verdict of voluntary 1 manslaughter. Ttio farmers in Worcester county. Md., 1 are now in tho midst of wheat harvesting, ' and tho woatli r so far has lioon highly favorabto for saving tho crop in gooi coil- ' dition. While reports are soiuowliat at var- 1 lance, tho general opinion is that the crop in 1 tho county will be <|uito up to the average. Joseph Smith, living near Walton, Koan e county, W. Va., was called to tho door of < Ins homo, and upon opening it roceivod a , ?ho from a jier.son ouUi l<?, an I died soon af- , tor. Samuel Cummins, a neighbor, was ar- t rested for tho crime, ami confessed his guilt, alleging jealousy as the e I USD. . During the visit of White & Co's circus t in Weston, W. Va., numerous bogus dollars f were circulated, nu t Itrico Dinger and John j Smith were singled out as the pirties impli- , cated in the circulation. Smith was arrest- , od, hut Linger succeeded in m iking his escapo. ('apt. John Willis, an oM citizen of j lierlin, Worcester couty, Md., was found , lead a few days ago near his son's residence t whom ho was visiting at Ihihlic Lin ling in j Hint comity. lie had been ailing for some j time, and just u short while before disco* j ered dond had started out for a walk. Hurt Farmer, a young man, who Is em- . ohiviul nf. III.. k' Mill- ' Charleston, \V. Vii., ru >t with a 8 'rlous neci- | Ilo was roncliiiiyc uud-r a piece of ( machinery after som ) wo?l, wlum ho wis ( .alight by a moving irlitwl mi<l dragged iiii'li-r it. Ilo was cut and bruisod ho badly that ho will not rocovor. Myriads of cicadas or locusts havo male Ihoir appearance within the post fow days on tlio CutocrJu mountains a few miles west ( of Frederick, .Md. The loaves of the tro"? uro being rapidly devoured by tliom. It is libs rvod, however, that many <?f the insects ( lire dying, the ground in many places IwiiiK almost covered by them. Tlio receipt of tobacco at the dilToroiit | warehouses in Petersburg, Va., for the past week were 4dl hogsheads, inspection IW7 hogsheads; sales of loom bl.'iio pounds. Manufactured lob icco bonded ftir o*|K)rlation at the branch olllco in Petersburg for Iho past week ponntls. The receipt of cotton at this |>ort for the past week wore 105 bales. A case was recently trieti in the superior rourtof Cravon county, N. C., which will loublless no up to the Supreme court, and ( settle the matter of what constitutes usury in | North Carolina. A party loaned another a ?um of money and chargisl an enormous rate 1 for writing the mortgage, &?*., making the j interest In reality at>out J> per cent. i?.* annum. The jury decided it was usury unJ j tho verdict was no recorded. '{ On ihe 4th of July the pootdo of Ash- , boro and county of Itaudolph, N. C., will ( celebrato the completion of the High l'oiut, Kandleman, Ashtmro and Southern railroad. There wdl bo a military procession snd 8|iet'Ches from distinguished gentlemen, including Governor Kowlo. A grand, oldfashioned birbeuo will be om? of the fear lurvs, ] v II I I Capt Arthur r. Smith, conductor oa the night shifter in tlio Htohnioud and Alleghany ywd. at Richmond, Va., was initantly gilled while coupling oars. Captain Smith was about 8) years of age. fie leave* a widow and two children. Two freight ears passed over the conductor, dreadfully mangling his t>ody And severing his head entirely from his body. The Ohio Uiver Railroad Company hava I tid o(T a lot at L'tart, W. Va., and olTor |o give it to auy one who wilt start a flouring mill there, mid will also supply, froo of cost, water for sain ? from their water tank hy it. Ijetart is a splendid location for a mill of Ihi9 kind, nn.l doubtless soni < ono will avail liiiuself of tbo opportunity of starting cheap rery soon. Anniston, Aln., is becoming a city of churches. A gentleman, who doslrot his name suppressed for the present, hasdonsto I $50,000 for the building of another church in that oity. 8t. Michael and All Angels, which has Itoen built by Mr. John Noble at a cost of $100,00), is nonring completion. II race church, which was built several years ri'^o by M sirs. Tyler and Noble at- a co?t of $11,000, makes three inugntlle >nt churches ** in Anniston, the gifts of private individuals. This is certainly a splendid showing for Anniston, which already has tweaty-two churches. The grandest and largest celebration over occurring in Msrtinshurg, W. Va. . .will be celebrated on the Fourth of July. Over stxfe'en foreivn ore?itsHoH*. M?nnriJii? bands, niiWt'H, bloycU*ts, tiro companies lodges, hivo accented invitations to imrticipntc. The prominent feature will bo ? largo trades display. Tlio funds are largely Increasing, and from tlio pros wit outlook old llorkoly will dun again iior garb of jwitrfot,sm nud niako tho <l?y long to !>o rememberid. Among tho orators Is the Hon. Ilolmoi LJonrad, of Winchester, Va., of national reputation. Many prominent people will wirtieipnte. Two trains trl-xl to pass onoli other in tlio smiio track near Monrovia, Fred* rick county, Mil., on the mniu lino of tho It. & I). Tlio result was a collision that lernilod forty cars mid throw eight loaded Kill- hoppers down a twelve-foot hank, iproadiug their demolishoil frames out over 111 adjoining Hold. The wreck blocked both tracks for llvo hours. Tho wrecking train mi its way from Man ly Hook to tlio scouo of t>io collision ran into and instantly killed iMIen I,isle, of near Monrovia, who wis walking 011 tho south-houud track, mid had irons mI to tho other side directly in front of Jin train when lie heard tho whistle blow, lie was MO years old, and loaves a wife, but 10 children. DISASTERS AND CASUALTIES. H. W. A vesser, ngod two years, was run >ver and killed by n struct car in llAltlinore. Isaac Want and Win Knun wore killod by 1 cave-In at the Cleveland irvu luiuo, ac [sb|N)ining, Miciiigan. Benjamin Morgal, a well-known fartwer of \ntrim township, I'a., was killed by lightling wliilo ut work in hi* field a few day* igo. Arthur C. Smith, a freight conductor on ;he Rchiiiond and Allegheny llailroid, was cillod iii Richmond, Virginia, while coupling ars. A rowlKMit collided with a sailboat on tb a Bust River, New York, and two boy*, Beulllllill Knshir u...l 11..1 mi.?u~ Irowncd. Mrs. Mr. Dowel I, ngivl fi.% years, of Frnnkin, I'll., fell down stairs Willi a lighted lamp ii lier hand, ami was burned to death before. ibsistanru arrival; Miss Jennie Klniblad and Miss Hilda Carlion wero drowned in I ho Drsplainos river it Desplaines, 111., by the capsizing of a boat Ii rough mismanagement. Mrs. Julia Octaviann, sixteen ynars of irrideii'hlly killed herself at llnllimore, Mil., vhilo handling a loaded revolver. tyrs. Charles Cleavs and Krdino Cole, igisl sixt'i'ii years were drowned at Npringleld, Mtuiui, whilo.bathing. Mrs. Cleaves eaves a husband- and four children in the Went. A freight train on the Ilaitiinoro nnd Ohio tail road was wricked niio* miles from Fredrick, MJ. A wrecking I rain in-going to lie n actio,struck Alien Miller, aged eighty 'oars and billed liiin instantly. (Joorgo Iteyt r, Merrctnry of the Western thooting Association, which meets in Indiainpo'.is, while out hunting fell from n fenoo * mil accidentally discharged the contents of lis gun into his chest, lie died instantly. The condition of the niiuers in tho coal iwiis of lirnidwood and Ntreator, Illinois, is i-?id to bo distressing. It is Htatcd that many ivomeii and children are in absolute want of 'ood, and relief cannot ho too quickly bent ihetn. Mrs. Elizabeth Tyler, ngod twcnty-Ilva (renin, pourod coal oil on hor fire while prewiring breakfast at tier hoim in Haltimoro. I'lw e/wi oxiileliul and Mrs Tyler find her light- months-old ls>y wore so badly burned hat tlicy tlie I in a short tune. Miss Maggie Harrison, of Chicago, niece if l'rcsident Harrison, and seven com panel is, nnriowly csca|?ed drowning at Lake dinuetonka. through the capsizing of ii ?oat in a gale. The party were in tho water in hour uud were nearly exhausted when vscuod. Mrs. John Maples and her two Iwys, aged ivo and three years, wore drown-d in a mini I creek in Chesturtowiiship, Indiana, dr. Mapl's attempted to ford the creek, ..l.l.l. 1 I I n.... u.. I TUIUI1 IIIIU UITI1 BnmiL'ii uy lieu vy Till IIS. ItlO vugon was overturned. Mr. Muplesand one sliiid were saved. Miss Harnh Home, aged twenty-four, of Brooklyn, N. Y., and Mrs. David Home, iged twenty six, of Toronto. Canada, sat lwleuth a freight cur at Coney Island, engaged in sketching, when a special train run into die car, setting it in motion. Mrs. Home tvus killed aud Miss Home budly injured. A mail train on tlio Pan Handle Hailrond was wreckoil near Steiiheuvillo, Ohio. The third car from the engine left the truck and was followed by the others, all going over in embankment* J. 11. Payne and K. H. Iteinhnrt, postal clerks, and llrakcniaii Mc- . Karlnml were killed, and seven others were njured, three severely. A scatToKl fell at one of tho power houses )l the Yerkes cattle ear system in Chicago,. . . JM tilling Peter Doornbos and badly injuring lour other workmen. A inislmp exactly similar took place ut the Yerkes power house ' mi Madison strut t. A moh of IkMlO persons gathered at the Milwaukee Avenue Jlouso nfu-r the accident and indulged In threats of violence, but gradually disjiersod. lames Cochran mul Joseph Downey, of Philadelphia, tho captain and duck band respectively of the schooner Hoainan's Hrido, were drowned in the Delaware river, near Wilmington. Downey fell overboard, and Cochran, who came up from the cabin to we what was the matter, also walked ovorItoard. Hot li men nod tho other members of tho crew were said to be intoxicated. Three of tin) crow of the Isirk Lamar, Dap'.ain Kinory, at Highland Light, Mass.. from Tamatavedied on the voyage. The bark left Taniatnve with a cariro of hides, w lieu tho mon were stricken with a disease which the doctors at Bermuda called "beri blri" and wtiich was said to bo incurable, but not contagious. A now crow was shipped at Bermuda. An explosion of gas occurred in tho Nottingham Mine at 1'lvniouth, l'a., o(>erat)d by tho ljehigh and Wilkesbnrre Coul Company. Michael Andrew, aged twenty-six years, Simon Novalk, aged twenty-three John Kutechki, aged twenty-sovon years, and Joseph Taylor, aged 35 years, were fatally burned, Tho accident was caused by tho CArelossnoss of a Polander, who went into a chamber full of gas without first testing the \ sir. Mr. Brash, who was the pioneer tn arc nleotrio lights, was a reporter on a Cleveland newspaper at $15 a week less than fifteen years ago. Hestill lives in Cleveland, where be owns a $1,W0,0U0 bouse. _ I