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^ ^ to Agriculture, feixisA-' > ,"^ jy " %jr ^-v >->, ?^ OiAGDALEN. UK If. C. FARLEY. CHAPTER XII -{Continued. ] "Then I will fetch it. llotnember? Ttw^Ay evening?and liore, under tho not likely to forgot tho date.nor -*co. Uool-night, iuy dear." , 'flight." K * - pvirns upon his liool. IIo adk . ' % steps, stumbles, and falls L ovor Bomo strange object Juenly springs up from tho path ^tlarlAss. Jobbo^pi ojaoulatos Loo, in terror. B^^k ' , l'cs, Kibboy," says tho butler. B^^ Now, miss, what will Madam Bay F.jf'1* her?a*1 'H affair with u strsngo nianjr^Tn^rKrk grounds." \ Bolton had recovorod liimso'.f, and As the butler's insulting words reached his ears tho fatlior rushed upon liim. n'lM.nt i?t _: i-i-.t u-u? -_i jliiuv tvsiuui i<jn> uiiiteu DuiHin, as ho eei/cd tlio nowcomer. "Wlio aro you? (ioodOoil! it's Scarthl" The butler writhes away from tho greap of tho angry father. In the rapidly growing darkness his face is rendprod indistinguishable. Could Frederic Bolton bc o that face as it looks now, ho would fear for his life. "I am Kibbev, tho butler ot Bywator Park," tho butler says, coldly. "Itinay bo to the futuro interest of this young lady horo to mako sonio kind of terms wri li mo. If I should repoat to Madam The father rushed upon him. Dnndas tho story of this meeting hero iv nuuiu no an u]> wmi ino young liuly, so far as By water Pork is concerned.'' "Hearth!" again ejaculates Mr. Bolton. "I am not mistaken in that voice." lleforo Kibboy is awaro of Bolton's intention, Bolton strikes a match, and holds it exultinglv in the butler's face. wf think if this young lady should goto Madam, and tell her the past history of Kibbcy tlio butler, that. Kibboy the butler would be summarily dismissed from By water Park," said Bolton tantalizinglv. "I feel snro that is what the end of this affair will come too. As for mo?I am this young lady's father, and thorn is no law in America that will doprivo her of her father's society. Coroo now, Hearth?for you aro Hearth ?hod you not bettor try to mako some kind of terms with us, in order that you may not loso your prosont situation?" "Send the lady away and I will talk with you," Hearth says sullenly. Loo does not wait for Bolton to tell her to go away. She is already flitting, cared uud trembling, toward the house. ClIAJ'TKU XilL OW then," says Bolton, i? 68 ? disappeared, JLjllttff "what have you to soy I *n ^ofon8? y?ur con" The butlor was mm\ his pockets, 'MlMMffl 0 ^ not afc onco ro" I mtLL ?---? " Nothing much." Scartli's voice is curiously choked and low. "Only it seems as if I am nevor to get a start in life again. Onrse mo, no sooner do I Set into a good place than something appens to prevent mo from enjoying it." "No crookedness around Bywater Park," says Bolton, warningly. "Of course not. I'm going away now; or, at least, I will go directly after Madam's party. She gives a party T teadny evening in honor of Miss l.oo." ,kShodoes?" Bolton is interested. "It is to bo a swell "affair," says Ribbey, disconsolately. "I'm so sorry to loave Bywater Park before it conies off. Jnst my infernal luck, though." "Are vou trvinar to live hnnnnt.lv "Trying! 1frhy, I am." Tho butler is fumbling with a roll of something which he has drawn from' his pookot. "1 wrn doing fine till M>?s Tjoo came hero, h'ho knew me, or thought she did, which amounts to tho same thing, you know. I've lived in terror ever sinoe, tor fear she'll split on me." "She won't tell if yon behave yourself," Bolton says, shortly. "I hate to lose inv situation," Kibbey replies, insinuatingly; "and I ought to be lot nlono a earning a honest living, it sooms to me. Every man has the right to earn a honest living if ho can." "Slcs," assents Bolton. "And I am saving up mouoy," coos on Kibbey, moro insinuatingly still, "it is awful hard luck to be thrown out of a good place jnst bocause of a sin one has repentod of m re'n a hundred time*; don't it?" "Jf I thought you had no designs on Bolton, evidently "Whioh positively. " Why, I might go away and not report you at all." "Oh, If you only would I" Kibbey presses the "something" which he has been fumbling into Bolton's bonds. "Here's two hundred dollars as I'to been saving up. I'll lend tliem to j'ou ?1 know what you came to the Park for -hoping you'll oxense the liberty. I mean no harm. Mr. Bolton, do tlesso let me koep on here a trying to e honest; dot" There is something exceedingly per* kL: < X l^bVyrrhdm od ut liio roll of notcB in bis * lU)N>es>ttttc3, but it is for an iostaut "J\Voll/Hifr^cginb, "if you roally oro Irving to tlo riglit7 why, I?I? ? "1 really aui," breaks tbo anxious but'er, "an?l you may toko your own time in paying back the money. ] shnn't want it?not for Hi, long, long time." "Very well," pnyaJlo-ton; "it's a bargain. _l5ut there shall bo no monkqying with tho plato at liywater Park, ltemombor that." / "No," replied tho butler,-hurriedly; "no monkeying, I promise 'you." ' An-l I cforo Poltqn cau sny another word, Kibbey rushes away, leaving llolton stand ng- alone with the money in his hand. ...' "I shan't' need Loo's locket, aftor all," Jiblton thinks, as ho leisurely nmk<n Irs way back to his hotel, "and rV\n glad of it. 1 dislike having to pnt things in pawn. Hero's enough to keep Mrs. McUill.cuddy quiet for mouths to come." Mr. IJolton roaohos his inn, writos a few lines to I on, telling her that he lias unexpectedly received a remittance and that ho will thoreforo cancel the engagement for Tuosilay evening, blows out his catid'o, and in high goodhumor w.tli himself and tho world, jumps into he 1. Not so with tho butler. Kil>l>ey rushes away to his room at l<y water Turk, throws himself fu i ionsly into a chair, shakes two lints at rt*i imaginary somebody, whom ho anathematizes as "that d d l'olton," ami curst s until tho very air is blue. llis fury oxhnustod, lie goes to a cup board, lakes down a jar, and pouring out. llio contents, wliich proved to be notes and gold pieces, proceeds to count his money. "Not enough," he mutters, gloomily. "If I leave, and of course /II have to leave after this, wo must crack the crib. There's nothing ebo to bo dono. That llolton? blast him?why did ho evor come to By water Park?" Now tho butler fotclies pens, ink and papor, and proceeds to scrawl in hit turn the following epistle: ]:*wATF.n Taiik. ("op.: 'j hi? is lo let you know that everything if "up" will mo 111 this li? re sitiwation. The I lino is ripe?and everything is ready. 1 xji iiio know date when 1 am to expect a visit from you. Hcartii "Tho thing's got to bo dono," says tho luitler, eying bis blurrod epistle with satisfaction. "Now, ISIiss Loo, look out for what's in the atmosphere. Yon and your procious pa will feel n smiling hand soon, or I am no prophet." It was barely poss bio the but lei himself was soon to feol a "smiting hand;" but of this, more anon. CIIAPTEK XIV. to has miss i.aj-aiu1e. Sf IS8 LAFAROE (F\ u\V//m *ms now 'lu*te reyy. \Z I covered from iiei l&d Vjl / v\ ? I late railway acoi1 dent. HerbrekoE \ \ orm *8 Coaled.an? vrA>N>y\ ^ i^for some weeki \ tho silken sliup (/ CJ ' / ) \ l.?_ -i T / / uuo uuuu uiottiru' od. She lias ftiH cinatcd Miss Chidloy. That worthj spinster wonders how in the world slit managed to exist beforo her dear Marior enmo to Stubblofleld. Even tho wicked little ponies themselves seem to have succumbed to tho spell of her presenco, for tlioy behave with tolerablo deconcy whenovor Miss J.afnrgo rides behind them. With one exception, everybody at Btubbleliold adores Miss Chidley'f "Doar Marion." Obe is tho solitary oxcoption. But, as Miss Chidlcy vory tru'y remarked, "Obe was always on the contrary side, anyway, and his opinion was of no consequence." At first Miss Lafarge refused to believo in Obe's dislike of herself. But at last, percbiving it was true, she do Proceeded to scrawl in his tun*. tcrmincd that she would "stoop to con(|Uor," and theroupon brought the entire battory of lior sweet smiles, her pleasant words and bor engaging manners to bear upon the black boy. But her efforts wore all without the desirod offset. Obo remained obdnrato, and only watched her tho more olosely from the corners of his big eyes, and felt moro suspicions still of tho charming young lady. "Obe would feel suspicious of anyhmlv UfllA rtAtllil f ..?>w W...U i/ituir vim Kurnuio punies," Miss Chidloy says. And perhaps tins wr\s trne. Fiitdiug'hcr oflorts were wasted upon llio colored boy. Miss Lafargo changed her tactics, and whereas she had once been kind to him, sho is quito the contrary now. Hometiraes, evon, when they are unite alone together, she oar'WiB* her dislike so far as to lean forward little white teeth at him his wool stand np on top ot f77?rft^*<^cAbiIngslittlo cold chills creeping along^vhis spinal column. And there is somothing so strange m the steely gleam of tho blue eyes as they meet his own, somothing so irresistibly woldsh in the way the little whito teeth snap together, that Obe almost believes Miss Lafarge means to eat him np some day, body and boots. when no one knows it and he unable to resist her. "She's liko dem bossos," Obe says, with au ominous shake of hie woolly ? - '~=_ ' head; do dcbbil is in dona Ingln bosses; and 'pcnrB to modat dc debbil hisself must be in hor, or slio couldn't coino it over Vm all do way abc does. Something mighty curia 'bout hit. Something mighty curls 'bout her, too." Shu sits now, quito unconscious of ovory tiling around her, llio too of her small rod slipper peeping coquetlishly out from tlio hotn of her whilo gown, and Madam Dundas' card of invitation in her hand. ISIiss Chidley, round and roly-poly, reclines cnnfoi tably on a divan near tlio enchantress. "Dear Marion" has often tlioso spells of comploto abstraction, and Miss Chidley lias at last becoino well enough acquainted with her young relative to know when a "lit is en," uud keep silence accordingly. Miss Lnfnrgo btnrts from hor revcrio with a suddennoss that takes the spinster's breath away. "You blessod old thing," cries dear Marion, springing up from her chair, and embracing her relative affectionately, "you havon't said a word for a month. Speak now, and say if we artf to accept the invitation to Bywator. I'll own that I am longing to go there." "Then the alTiiir is settled," says tbo spinster, placidly. "Wo'll go. By water l'ark is quito tlio show placo of , tins part of the country." "I long to boo tho interior of that Fell liohlly beneath the table. ? old, old house." Mihs Lafargo has i subs ded from her momentary spasm of aiTcction, and again takos iter Boat. "Do you know that I almost believe I " shall have tho opportunity offered me n to roign over J iy water Park as its h mistress at some limn not distunt." h "Tho Captain is considered a great catch," says Mies Chidloy, with a grati- I1 ts?.l ..? :i- iiti 1 > ... ucu niiiuu. ji wuuiu l>o an excellent a mutch nil around." s Dear Marion bunds into a sudden tl silvory gush of laughter. " \ "yes," ntio "??U aroun<L JDo jrou . JJ think Madum Dun das would consent ti to it?tho marriage, I mean ?" a "She has made Captain Hazard her heir. I don't think slio would ohjoct, for sho thinks Hazard the finest and best specimen of his sex living to-day." 8 "And you?" ! "Oh! if I must givo you in marriage e to anyone, Captain Hazard in as good a as another. All men are alike to mo. h I rogard mankind as a sort of necessary evil, to bo tolerated accordingly. "Miss v I afargo laughs again and opens her a rosy mouth to speak. But the words j dio on Iter lips, for at this instant the ? door bell rings. And there is sorno- c thing so peculiar and imperative in the r sound of tho bell that dear Marion Bprings to her feet in alarm and con- 8 sternation. 8 All the lovely pink color in her t blonde faco fades away; involuntarily . her hands clench upon nor nreasu S- he stoops slightly, with her oar in- * dined toward the door. Who shakes, 0 a. % ? - - . i - * " " iruuiuiuH. v/ue uas answered tne Dell, n and she hoars the measured voice of 1 tho caller as lie says, coldly : o "I wish to see Miss Ijafurgo." a The look of fright upon her faoe n deepens into one of nlrect torror. Ilor t teeth chatter. A chill shakes her from 3 head to licel. Her face is ghastly; her v lips livid. "I ost!" who mutters huskily ^ between her dry lips, "lost!" 1 Miss Chidlo3" gazes at her in aston- . islunent. "You are ill, Marion. What is it?" * Miss Lafargo evidently docs not hoar tho qnostion. Ccrta nly sho does not heed it. "Marion, you need seo no one, if you chooso not to," Miss Chidley says, reassuringly. "What has frightened you?" Miss I.afargo is shaking like an aspou; still sho makes 110 reply. The parlor door swings open and Obe's woolly head is thrust into the room. "A gentleman to soe Miss Lafargo," says Obo, placing a card in front of the trembling girl. Her bluo eyes glance ovor the nemo written on tho card, and a wilder terror leaps into them. Htio shrinks down?down; shoseems to aotuaily grow smaller?to wither and shrivel up within hersolf. Her hands clench more tightly; tho white foam gathers ahont her blue lips. Thoro is a great s jtiare tablo standing kotween herself and tho door. A heavy silken scarf drupes this tablo, whoso fringed onds como down to the floor. Miss Lnfnrgo sndden'y sways forward, and falls lightly boncutli this table, us a short, squat man, with broad shoulders and a sweeping black beard, enters tho parlor, l-'rom whero he stands ho cannot soo her, and does not see her. [TO B* CONT1NUKD. 1 OxiiY old men can remember when A>P*'l ienn nownpajionj mtotl to report in ItiifCTftkdcbnteH in Congress. An approach > a liko indiflforonoo in now exhibited Vii England, Although there Parliament does nearly nil the work which oil this side of tho Atlantic is performed by Congress and the Htsto legislatures combined. Tho Times is now tho ohly daily uowspaoor in Ixm? I 1 don which publishes ostensibly poin, j ploto ropojl* of (ho ikbatoa in Jtyrj#- 1moat. ... . 11 THENB^S. H. D. Obson, of Cllttoo^oXAi, chased hli 'amllj- out of the kousoattbo point of a gun, tbon fired the building, aud looping into th< Iunes, was burned to death.??A band ol ocalied regulators at Tularge, CuU, took a nan named B >gau, a susp-cted thief, out of iait and hanged him two or three times, leting him down each time when noarlj trangled. Tbo liquor dealers of Soutb Jakota liavo perfected an active orgnniza ion to operate against the adopt ion of th< Yohlbition clnu*j of tbo Hioux Fall consttUtion at tho October nliwtlon A iviuon. ;cr train on the Cincinnati, Georgetown nnl rortamouth Huilroa i went through n restle ncor Butaviu, O., ami fourteen per ons were injured. Tbo Michigan legisInure has passed a new election law, which it i modification of the Australian system. 'lie inarriago of Miss Elisabeth Droxel, laughter of the late Joseph Drexel, the milker, ami John Vint*m Dahlgrqn, son ol ho Int.* Hear Admiral Dahlgren, took place U Kt. 1'oAriokU Cjt(l4 vms a grand ufTair.?5? een years old, of Troy, N. -Yv^^HETjiaau rns mixed up iu u murder gNM^Balitod uicide. Fire lit Wi II luntsville.l^^r County i. Y., entirely destroyoJ the National Egg 'usoComp iny's works. Loss $3,000. Willam Bjur, foreman of F. Connor's piauo facory in Now York city, committed suicide. ?U. B. Groll's flouring mill at Fertility, iear Loneast >r, Pa, was destroyed hy lire ^oss $32,000. Tlie Chicago grand jury ho, udicted Martin Burke, Patrick Coouey, ohii F. B-g;s, Diniel Coughlin, Patrick I'Hulliv/in kVunlr U>?....lr IV.... . uir, for C'.imp ioity in the murder of Dr. jrotiin. 'J'.-orgo \V. Wright, of Philadoliliia, tlio defaulting supreme treasurer ol bo Order of Tonti, is uow in prison. Ills hortago amounts to $40,000.- In nsinashi|> on iliu Boston and Albany It iliroad iionr 4ew Haven, Cfc., three porous wore killed ind several injured. By a popular voto if the suburban districts of Ohlcu^o, iuclud ng Hydo I'ark and other towns, have been innexod to the City of Chicago, making i< ho largest city in uroa in the United Status md increasing its imputation.to l,|iK),0(X). 'ho Auierioou Cotton Seed Oil Compuny, o 4ew Jersey, has purchased ton of tho cot* on oil mills In Texas. P. W. Mp.iulding, if tho linn of Bpaulding fc Brick, agents in loston for an electric motor, sbates that his artner, Henry A. Brick, has skip|M I with iJ.Ot'O belonging to Spauldiug and all tho ash the lit m bad on baud -l)r. T. B. Mc)ow was acipiitt >d at Charleston, H. C., of he murder of E litor Francis W. Dawson. Job G. Crane, cashier of the Lehigh Val ?y Coal Company of Elisabeth, N. J., dis ppearod from bis home and was subsequent' y found unconscious In a boat at New York, aving boon knocked, senseless and robbed. ?Tunis Labee was banged at Patterson I. J. for wife murder. ??Horaco Wilcox, a ewspaper man of Buffalo, N. Y., attempted ulcido with luudanura^r? A thief entered he house of John Webber at La Crosse, Vis., and fatally stadi^f1 JU<M!aughter, who Ctmiipisal lu glT^waStnll. > i>Hw I?. v ?. ho Postmistress at Bentonvlllo, Wis., struck > drunken man a fatal blow on the bead in idf-defensc. While playing in a wheat in, which was being drawn off into a car it Lima, Ohio, Benjamin Marks and Ju lson lor ton were drawn into tho shute and sinutli. red to death. ??Mrs. L>szio Brcunau was rrestod at Holyoke, Mass., on suspicion of aving poisoned hor husband and two sons. ?A former engineer on One of Lcgltime's eseels at Hayti has returned to Now York, ml states that Hippolyto will soon capture 'ort-au-Princo. Soverul parties have been rrested in the vicinity of St. Paul, Minn., harged with being implicated in a scries of eal estate frauds by issuing bogus mort- I ages. A posssnger train on tho Boston nd Matno Railroad ran into an open switcb ear Dover, N. II., and the locomotive and bree cars went down and au embankment, lo lives wero lost, but several passengers rere slightly Injured.?-8toph<?n Allen, colred, was banged at Oxford, Miss., for the aurder of Frank llarduet??Dr. Kugone 'hayer, a well-known organist of New York oramitted suicide in Burllugton, Vt. At , meeting of the trunk lino presidents and aanagers in Now York the immigrant quoslen and dressed beef rat s wore discussed. Irs. Fellcen O. Porter, a noted Southern roman, and daughter of the late Felix Irundy, ex-United States senator and atorney general in the Van Buren cabinet, lied in Nashville, Teua., aged sixty-nine ear* Wm, Worthington, formerly of Baltimore, Is under arrest in Philadelphia, charged with Denting anoth r woman in mistake for his wife. Tho ono hundred and eleventh annirersary of the battle of Monmouth was ob- ; lerved at Freehold, N. J. Jainoa B. Hirrey waa arroatcd at Hammond, Iud., and | Ined by a local magistrate under the new aw of that state, for selling dressed beet daujhtered in Chicago. Judge Job uson subtequentijr reuiitUd the Que. declaring the aw unconstitutional.- T*V mountain min- | >rs and cakors near Q illalsip, Pa., are on a itrike, and trouble is feared in tbe Clearfield 'oglou. An unusually honvy rainstorm in .he vicinity of llushford, Miuu.,did $l(M,00d lamage to crops. Cyrus W. Field's s tea in racbt collided with a ferryboat near Yonkers, ut no one wna hurt??Twoexcurslou steamers collided near Newport, but uo serious lamago wnsdonc. There were 181 business 'allure* in tha United Htatesand :ti i it 1 !anmlii I he past week.-? lu thegreat Harvard-Yale : owing race, Yale beat Harvard five lengths. 1 ? Ck?o. W. Wright, treasuror of the Order >f Tonti and otbec beneficial associations in Philadelphia, is reported to be short in his iccounts.??-Rev. Uoorge A. Hmitli of the Episcopal Church in Virginia, died in Alexandria, aged eighty-six years. The funeral ?f Mrs. Hayes was a sad but notable event u Fremont, Ohio. All business was suspended, and the citis ns followed the remains if the beloved womau*to the tomb. A big lerrick In a stone quarry in Minneapolis >roke and the wire oablo swerved around vtth .frightful velocity, catching Herman mewn unwr Mt coin ami lirwkliifi hli ] leek, and serionaly Injuring throe other ?orkraen The keeper of a botuu of i llama in l'ateraoo, K- J., and several of the n ma tea ware found doad an I their bodies nutllatad.?? All "sections" of the American fharmaoeutal Aaaoetatlon olosed their eeelons in Hau KVaootsoo, and the Awioolatlon idjourned to jnoet al Old Point Comfort, fa*. tb? mooyltponfrj U Beptewtw, 180ft. ? v* TRADE OF THE WBEl Unusually Good Trade Activity Make a Coed Outlook, Clrarlns'liousn llctnniM of Trmln 30 Per Cent in (Oxcchm of Cast Year. Favorable Accounts From Interior Point*. As noted ill i|M>rinl telegrams r<> Hnt-lttrccts, now tlmt hulf yearly stock-takings are showing the uetuitl results, there tins lieon a rather more encouraging view tnkon u( tho state of general trade, particularity at Philadelphia, Hnlllmoro, boston, Kansas City and Chicago. Merchants now are looking abend to thui autonin's business with I rather inoro confidence, pnrtIcularly At tli? Weit, where crop report* continue ?pilt? favorable nnd where there Is reported the largest deniuml for ngrieiiltiirnl Implements in Missouri, Kansas, and Nebraska for threw fears, ~~ Trade has been quiet In 1> minimis, owing to Its being the end of the month, ami to thn backward though improving cane and rico crops. There is too tnuch ra n In Toxns. Hogs have advanced 10al.r>o at leading Wis'orn centres, with receipt* not up to d?monil. Cleveland ex|>ecta the season's lake iron oro shipment to amount, to ti.OOO.OOO tons the largest on record. Exhausted by Iho speculative excitement III trust stocks the New York stock market has succumbed to the influence of higher money, prices being lower anil trading stagnant. 'Bonds are llrtn and prime issues s mrco. Monoy at New York isKonsltivoaml t ie loan market disturlssl by preparations for Mm July disbursements. Call loans 4x5 |sir cent. At all iiii|s>rtmit money centres throughout the country funds are (Inner, and nt some there are moderate advances in ra'us. Foreign exchange is weak, with llriner iiuaiey market. Demand sterling is 4 HM.i I (nit francs are still high, nnd nismt V5.U0U.000 in irolil was o. w.^i. Semi nniiunl stock-taking sale* by Not* York <iry good* jobbers ore at a reduction of 5j3 I per cent from regular rates, IiiiIu<miI a heavy niovemont in seasonable cotton ami wo >len goo Is. Staple fabric* allowed tile ant lie-it ami fancy dress goods the largest rodi:ct ons. With agents there is inoro strength. Dark prints ami ginghams, ami w (olen and worsted dross goods, nre most active. I'rint cloths are in good demand, with maiufuolurcr* alow to sidl at the advance of 1-1 tic. Horns makes of enssi mores have l*M ojvenud at an advance of 5 per cent over last season. Wool is ncttve at Interior markets and prices are strong. Arrivals at the seaboard are increasing. Most of the Ohio clip is reported out of first bunds, llnw cotton is activo at New York. Old crop future prices have stri ngthened. Haw sugars are restricted < (Terings and freeror inquiry advanced y$-\\.{a. I .Icht's latest estimate of the beet crop is reduced 75,IKK) to 2,1)40,000 tons. Tlie prediction Is made that "inadequate supplies of sugar wilt result in high prices through the coining year." Nugar Trust certificates have touched 1.20, and reacted to 1.15 this week. Heavy receipts of coffee at primary liruzilian markets and adverse cable advices from Kuro|H'un markets resulted in large sales and liquidating orders ami a decline of 1.05c on the week. Wheat Hour is more active and prices are stronger. A very few Northwestern millers are said to control all of the eld Spring wheat on hand. Report* of damage to wheat nltr. illil ....H >.n. ' ' kets induced s|>ociilative trading and an advance in wheat of 2xfn Indian corn la up and outs aro down Wc. Exports of ond or llour na wheat. ironi trio United States this we? k nggregate l/thSJCd bushel*, against l,10!?t8IO bushels lust week and 1,053,197 bushels for tho week ending Juno 8:1. ISHM. PROGRESS OF THE IhOUTH. Over n Thousand New Industries Us tuldislicil ill 'Iliree Months. Tho Tiadi'Minuii of July 1 published a statement showing tho indus'rial sltuatioi in the South ns exhibited by the number of new industries established during ill) lust thro raontlia. It shows that during the pant quarter 1,021 new industries have been established, against C'.K) in the previous quarter. There were 1,711 now enterprises begun during the first six months of 1889, against 1,2.7.) for the corresponding period of the previous year, allowing that tho South is going ahead at a more rapid rnte than ever before. What is moro significant says the Tradesman, is the fact that the elnrnot r of the industries k> of u more substantial character, and Is on a much hotter basis than in previous years. Tho speculative fever has Locn are now being established moro In consequence of actual resources and legitimate enterprise than t>efore. The most noticeable font.ore of the past three months has been the organization of 51 now cotton ami woolen mills, against .">5 in tbo previous qunrtor. Georgia leads with ton new mills, North Carolina following with eight. Fifty-two foundries ami machine shops were organized,.a gain of seven over tho previous quarter. Alabama leads in this particular industry, with nine new works, Tetinossoe, Georgia ami Kentucky following with seven each. Kighty-two mining ami quarrying companies were organized, of which seventeen were in Kentucky, against til ill tho previous quarter. Tho number of railroad companies organized shows a gain of almost one hundred per cent., tho number for tbe past quarter being led against 05 during the previous quarter. Texas and Alabama lead in this respect with '21 mid 20 respectively. Two hundred and seven wool wurniun emttuiiBUintuitu wuro ?>? .juiinou, against 130 In tho previous quarter. OtherIndustries established in the Inst tl r -o months were seven blast furnaces, 40 oil mills (Id in Mouth Carolina), eleven potteries and three rolling mil's. ABOUT NOTED PEOPLE. .Mile. Augusta Holmes I ids fair to beebmo a great musical composer. M. Dumas wept with emotion whon he saw Mnio. Bernhardt play "Lena Despard." Dr. George Mscdonald, the novelist, is lecturing and preaching in the North of Kngland. Mrs. John Tyler, vice-mistress of tho White Hons * Is 61 years old, tull and, for her age, young looking. The Persian Minister nt Washington is I learning the Knglish language and getting over bis homesickness. (ieueral Uw Wall.iCJ, of Indiana, who is now in his 63 I year, retains his soldierly figure and military stride. Hetirfk Ibeen, the Norwegian dramatist, whose plays promise to become popular in Kngtand, is 61 years old. I/ord Tennyson, who is still as great a smoker as ever, smokes nothing but bird's eye, especially fine and prepared for him. Miss Amy Reade, a niece of the late Charles Keade, has just completed a norel which is said to be very sensational in character. The Rev. Arthur Phelps has just been graduated at the Yale divinity school after 21 consecutive years of study for the ministry. Hignora Fanny Zampint-Salasaro has been sent to London by the Italian Ooverment to investigate the subject of the education of women. Tbo adopted daughter of the late Irish Chief Secretary, Mr. Forster, bas noarly sucoeedod in reviving the manufacture of j^meriok liot^ I IT"T m.*. -ULML SOUTHERN ITEMS. ii INTKUI?TINO NRWS COMPIliBD JjJ FHOM MANY S'JUIIOBL , I'arkersburg, W. Va., has 300,000 tiro fn brick for street paving purposes. Itosa NolT, a young girl of Loulsvlllo.Ky., attempted suicide on account of jealousy. . The wound was not fatal. 'j It lias lieon dotcrminod to hold the next ,u annual North C irolina .State Fair on the 14th W| to 18th of October inclusive. \, i'ho ICdgccomlio, N. C., Iron works have Ih arranged their recent financial difficulties hi nnd are now working ou full time. ?o Joseph Loss iter. colored, wlio was to _ havo been hung at Winston, N. C.. for inur- d tier, has l>ecn respited until July 17. A child of Clell Thompson, of near Blue Sulphur, Cabell county, W. Vn., fell In the i" Ire, and was terribble burned about the w bauds and arms. W A negro namml Andy Caldwell, attempt- J"*| ed rapo on Mrs. Ueckliani, a wtiite lady, of ?: Columbus, 8. C. Ho was cnpturad and shot * to death by a posse of cili/.cus. /j.j A three-year-old child of llaywool Las- Ai sater, of Merry Oiks, Chatham county, cli N. C., was choked to death a few days siuce from swallowing cherry stones. ov A little daughter of Mr. John L. I*by. be of Nottoway couijty, Va., aWTiToriCallyfell B1: in a well a few days ago and was drowned |>* before assistance coul i bo rendered. jo A young man named Farrell, residing In |w Clay district, Ritchie county, W. Vn., bail ?'I one of his hips broken while rollings logs, re- hi cently. lie is in a dangerous condition. Ih A reward of lins been ofTored by the ,si uovernor or IN. C., Tor tho capture of Amos J? Alston, who, on the l'Jth inst. in Yaney comity, shot nml instantly killed Henry T. r" lxxlford. A now bridge is to bo hnilt ov, r Deep river, nl. Waddell's factory in Randolph county, N. C. An appropriation of Hi JT bus been made by tlio magistrate for tho . purpose. A three year old child of James Rowan, 8j, of Monroe county, W. Vu., wns gored to im death by n vicious cow. Tho child was tr. walking across tho yard whiitlu l>en jL at- (,it tacked Iter. tiM A young man named ilnrvey Duncan, Al living 0110 milo below INirkorsburg, \V. Va., wi wus drowned by hie johnboat overturning in cr< tho Oliio river. Ho wus single, and about 33 tin years of age. Ht At last tho brldgo ovor New rlvor at no Kay otto Station, VV. Va. has boon completed and is now open to tho traveling public. Tho ?) new bridge is a much more substantial one t inn tho old one. Tho board of commissioners of the town ' of Durham, N. C., buvo decided that no ov screens should bo allowed at tlio front doors ] of bar-rooms, and that such places shall bo a closed at 11 o clock at night. 1st Several prominent farmers of Caroline 1 county met nt I) niton, Md., for the pur- Al poso of organizing a farin"r's club for nil mutual protection nml advantage, and tig< elected John 11. Uriflln as President. Tho summer conference of tho Young tin Men's Christion Association will bo bold at kil Mountain Lake, Md., on July I, 'J and 3. cai Bible studies ami Christian work will bo the main points discussed at the conference. A grist and saw mill on the head waters j u of Rock Camp crook, Monroe county, \V. Va. ilr owned by Messrs. L>wis Mackiu and Allen ; 1/iiig. was destroyed by flro. Loss $110.1; no |(n insurance. Tlio origin of the fire is unknown - Ill Knrmori in the vicinity of llagcrstown, ma Mil., complain of tho appearance of scab in ] their wlioat, caused by tho continual rains g(J1 ami brief intervals of sunshine. It is ex- nt |sH:ted that tho yield will not exceed one-half tin tho average. -' " llsrs.vj <1. QUaa. I)?nr YiVwI.trt/ik Hl(l fourifl in ii llohl tin Ins liliico aii Enulls'i H\l{ |M>nny of the year ITftl. It liears the stump w| of George III. on oue siJe, and tho coat-of- , arms on the other. It is remarkably well 1 preserved. Jj? Tho contractors for the construction of |)t? the Baltimore and Eastern Shore Kailroad \\ have establisheil licadijuarters at Kaston, Aid. As soon as tlie right of way is secured the section between Eostou and tho Bay shore will bo built. Sarali Wright, a colored servant, living yUi with a family on Ihnmond Hill, Lynchburg, ' Vn., was burned to death, her clotlies having ' ought fire from an explosion of kerosene '' oil with which she was attempting to kindle "a a lire. The Cumlierland Valley Kailroad has contracted for u new overhead bridge across the I'otomnc below Williamsport, Mil. The bottom of the now bridge will be fifteen feet s " higher than tho old one. The work is expected to be completed by the first of Sep- 'V" tomber. * Tho first color-! iury ever empaneled In Fayette county, W. Vs., and the second in the Tenth Jndiolil I)i?trict, tried Dick f*' TTimrmjr, rrtro ntro* nrrri kiikx* Wis irfWH near . Coal Valley, several months ago for murder. They brought in a verdict of voluutary 1111 manslaughter. 1 ?Tho farmers in Worcester county. Md., are now in tho midst of wheat harvesting, l'" und tho weather so far has been highly favorablo for saving tho crop in gool con- 1,01 rtition. While reports are somewhat at var- nn IhiiCiI. tlio pminral nninimi in llinl Sin ? reh the county0will be <iuite up to the average. 1 fiv Joseph Smith, living near Walton, lloan Bl|) county, W. Va., was called to the door of jj, his house, and upon opening it received a ,vl ?ho from a [terson outsi le, an I died soon of- Wfl ter. Samuel Cummins, a neighbor, was nr- c|, rested for the crime, and confessed his guilt, , ? II...:- -1 .1 Ull^iug JDniUllfjr US IIH! fills.). During tho visit of Wliito & Go's circus in Weston, W. Va., numerous bogus dollars were circulated, an 1 Brico Linger and Jolin jn Smith were singled out as the pirties iniplicated in the circulation. Smith was arrest* w( e<l, hut Linger succoede I in making his escape. Capt John Willis, an old citizen of Berlin, Worcester couty, Mil., was founil w; dead n few ilays ago near his son's residence ft|| whom ho was visiting nt I'uhlic Inn ling in that count)*. He hod l?e?n ailing for soin J ph time, and just a short while bofnrn discav?r?xl deml had started out for a walk. Bert Parmer, a young man, who Is em- 0j ployed at the Kanawha Woolen Mills, at ^ Charleston, W. Va., ni<t with a s.'riom acci- to dent. Ho was reaching iiudfr a piece of gj| machinery after soiu> wo >1, when lei wis caught by a moving wheel and dragged under it. He was out and bruised so badly that bo will not rocovor. V1 Myriads of cicadas or locusts have ma lo Ihoir appearance within the past few days p| oa the Catoctin mountains a few miles west of Frederick, Md. The leaves of the tro"s ^ lire being rapidly devoureii by them. It is yy ohsrvod, however, that many of the insects y.( are dying, the ground in many places lieing R(, I almost covered by thein. jH Tho receipt of tobacco at tho dllTorent tli warehouses in Petersburg, Va., for tho past, week were 401 hogsheads, inspection 5J9T p hogsheads; sales of looso 8J,2'i5 pounds. jr Manufactured tobnoco bonded for oaporta- j0 tion at the branch ollloe in IVt rahurir lor tho past weok 37,002 pound*. Tho receipt of !L jotton at litis port ior the past week were m, W5 bales. "! w A case was recently tried in the superior R court of Cravon county, N. C., which will loubtles* go up to the Supreme court, ami .< utile tho matter of what constitutes usury in . North Carolina. A party loaned another a urn of money ami charged an enormous rato ' for writing the mortgage, &e., making the V Interest in reality about 3J per cent, p-V , annum. The jury decided it was usury and .' the verdict was so recorded. On the 4th of July the DOODleof Ash* boro an<l county of ltandolpb, N. C., will celebrate tlio completion of tho High l'olut, Knndlemiu, A?hl?oro an I Southern railron<l. There will be a military procession ?nd speechee from distinguished gentlemen, including Governor Kowlo. A grand, oldhiehionod b.?ri>a uo will bo on* of tbe fo?r Mire* f ?('apt. Arthur P. Smith, conductor o> e night shiftor in tiio Richmond and Alioianr yard, at Richmond, Vn., was Inanity gillod whilo coupling cars. Captain nith was aoout 3 ) yoars ot age. lie leaves widow and two children. Two freight ,rs pass*! over the conductor, dreadfully angling his t>ody and severing his bead itiroly from his body. ?TheOhio River Railroad Company have Id olT a lot at L-tart, W. Va., ami offer to ve it to any one who wilt start a 11 airing ill thore, and will also supply, free of cost, iter for sain < from their water tank by it. tart is a splendid location for a mill of is kind, an ! doubtless som ? one will avail usolf of tuo opportunity of starting cheap ry soou. ?Annlston, Ala., is becoming a city of lurches. A gentleman, who desires his into suppressed for the present, has donate I n.'NH) for the building of another church that city. Nr. Michael and All Angels, liich has lioen built by Mr. John Noble at a >st of $100,01)1, is Hearing completion, race church, whicli was limit several years ;o by SI sirs. Tyler and Noble at a cut of ? 1,000, makes three niagnillc >nt churches Aiiniston , the gifts of private individuals. is is certainly a splendid showing for miiston, which already has tweaty-two lurches. ?The grandest and largest celebration er occurring in Martinsburg, \V. Va. . .will i celebrated on the Keurth of July. Over st?en foreign organisations, comprising inds, militia, bicyclists, lire companies ilges, etc., have accented invitations to irticipato. The proniinvnt feature will lie large tradestlisnlay. Tlie funds are largely creasing, and iroiu the pros nit outlook old irkoly will dun again her garb of |?atriotn and make the day long to bo roui"int?erAmong the orators Is the lion. Holmes mrad, of Winchester, Va.. of national potation, Many prominent p-ople will rticipile. ?Two trains tried to pass each oilier tlio sumo track noar Monrovia, Frodick county, Mil., on the main lltm of e li. I). Tim result was a collision that railed forty cars and throw eight loaded al-hoppers down a twol vo-fout liank, reading their demolished frames out over adjoining fluid. The wreck blocked both icks for livo hours. Tlio wrecking train its way from Han ly llook to tlio scone of & collision ran into and instantly killed leu Lisle, of near Monrovia, who was liking on tho south-hound track, and had ass el to the other side directly in front of ? train when ho heard tho whistlo blow. ' > wan HO yeurs old, and loaves a wife, but children. ISASTERS AND CASUALTIES. >. W. Avrsaer, ngod two years, was run er and killed by a street car in Baltimore. Isaac \Voat and Win Kaui> woro killed by cave-In at the Cleveland iron mine, s: ipomiug, Michigan. llenjamin Morgal, a well-known farmer of itrim township, l'a., was killed by lightlg while ut work in his lleld a few duys o. Arthur C. .Smith, a freight conductor on ) 11 chmond nu.l Allegheny Railroad, was led in Richmond, Virgitiiu, while coupling rs. >\ rowlioat collidc.'l with a sailboat on th I st River, New York, and two boys, Benniu Foster and Robert Hiinley, were owned. Mrs. Mc. Do wed I, aged (V? years, of Frank, Fa., fell down stairs with a lighte<l lamp Imr hand, and was burned to death before, nstaiice arrived. Miss Jennie KlmMad and Miss Hilda Carl1 were drowned in tho Deaplaines river Desplaines, 111., by the capsizing of a boat rOUifll llliliiiiniin<r.iition? Mrs. Julia Oetaviana, sixteen years of :iden*hlly killed herself at Baltimore, Mil., lilo handling o loaded revolver. ^Irs. Charles Clcuviit and Errtino Cole, nl'?iti<yen years wore drowned at SpringId, MiuiiJ, .whila.bathing. Mrs. Cleaves ives a husband; au|l four children in the est. * r\ freight train on the Italtimore and Ohio nIro.el was wrecked uin-miles from Kredck, Md. A wiwkinj train in* going to b r? scue,htruck Allen Miller, aged eighty ars and killed him instantly. Jeorge Key r, Secretary of the Western noting Association, which meets in Indiapoiis, while out hunting fell from a fence * ii accidentally discharged the contents of i gun into iiis chest, lie died instantly. I'ho condition of the miners in tho coal viis of Bra id wood and Streator, Illinois, is d to Ik* distressing. It is stated that many uneti and children are in atmoluto want of si, and relief cannot be too quickly sent i*m. Mrs. Elisabeth Tyler, aged twenty-flva nrs, poured coal oil on her fire while prering breakfast at her liom * in Haltimoro. ??n and Mrs Tv|,?r a/lit W ;lit months-old ls>y were so undly burned it they die I in a short time. Miss Maggie Harrison, of Chicago, niece President Harrison, and seven corupanis, nnriowly escaped drowning at Lake nuetonkn, through the capsizing of a ut in a gnlo. The party were in the water hour uud woro nearly exhausted when icuod. Mrs. John Maples and her two hoys, aged o and three years, were drowivd in a nil creek in Chestortownship, Indiana. Mnpl 8 attempted to ford tlio cn-ek, licll hud been swollen h? hmwu mi.... nv. igon wus overturned. Mr. Maples and one iid were saved. Miss Harah Home, aged twenty-four, of ooklyn, N. Y? and Mrs. David Home, t?d twenty six, of Toronto. Canada, sat !>. nth a freight cur at Coney Island, engaged sketching, when a special train ran into s car, setting it in motion. Mrs. Koine is killed ami Miss Home badly injured. A nmil train on tlio fan Handle Hnilroad is wrecked near Hteubenville, Ohio. Tbo ird car from the engine left the truck and is followed by the others, all going over i embankment. J. 11. l'ayne and K. It. sinhnrt, postal clerks, and Hrakemati Mcirlnnd were killed, und seven others wore jured, three severely. A scaffold foil ut one of the power houses mo ? itkcs came car system in Chicago,. Iling Peter Doornhoe and badly injuring ur other workmen. A mishap exactly nil.ar took place at the Yerkes |>owcr house i Madison street. A mob of IWtiO persons it tiered nt tho Milwaukee Avenue House tcr the accident and in lulled In threata of clonco, but gradually di?i>ersed. James Cochran and Joseph Downey, of tiiladelphia, the captain and deck haini re ectively of the schooner Houman's Pride, ere drowned in the Delaware river, near 'ilmington. Downey fell overboard, and sctiran, who came up from the cabin to e what was the matter, also walked over>ard. Doth men and tho other members of 10 crew were said to be intoxicated. Three of tho crow of the t>ark I^amnr, ap'.nin Kinery, nt Highland Light, Mass.. oni Tamatave died on I he voyage. The bark ft Tamatave with a cargo of hides, when io men were stricken with a disease which le doctors at Derinuda called "bori blri" id which was said to be incurable, but not >n tag Ions. A now crew was shipped at sroiuda. An exploaion of gas occurred in the Not- 1t| ngliam Mine at Plymouth, Pa., oiieratad f tho ljcbigli and Wilkesbarre Coal Commy. Michael Andrew, aged twenty-six ?ars, Simon Novel!:, aged twenty-three jhn Kutechki, aged twenty-seven years, and aeph Taylor, aged 85 years, were fatally irued, The accident was caused by tho ire less noes of a Polander, who went into a latnber full of gaa without first testing the t. ??? ? Mr. Brash, who ?m the plonoer fa are eotrio lights, was a reporter on a Cl?ralan<t ' a iwtpapsr at OlSaweok lass than flftssa M tars ago. Heattll llras in Ci?T?iand, whs?* ?owns a $1,000,000 bogs*. A