The weekly Union times. [volume] (Union C.H., South Carolina) 1871-1894, July 12, 1889, Image 1
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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
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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
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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,
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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.
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