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THE WEEKLY UNION TIMES. ^ Devoted to Agriculture, Horticulture, Domestic Economy, Polite unrature, Politics and the Current News of the Day. XX.?NEW SERIES. UNION C. II.. SOUTH JULY 19, 1889. NUMBER 29. ^ ?-?? ?? BLUB EYES. BT FHKD A. HUNT, "What makes your eros no blue, nir doer?" Th?> lovor a>kod f 11 the spring of the year. ""The color I caught in tl e mossy doll, Wbero the choicest forget-mc-uots do dwell." ""What makes your eyes so ldue, ray wife?" "The husband asked in the summer of life. "They show tho hne of the ocean docp, Yr'l.cro your measureless love In toy heart I keep." "What makes your eyes so blue?" quite low, The father askod In th? autumn's glow. "Because tho pure love of our.ohildren desr liecpa them fresh and youthful from yoar tc year." "What mnkos your eyo-t so blur and bright?" Tb? eld man asked in the wintry night. " 'Tia bocauno thoy rellect tho heaven above, tVhore wo shall continue our caitlily love." TORGLT UJ MOT. BY ANNA ernes FB1T3CH. During tho silent watches of the night Was hoiuoaard boruo thy spirit on death's wing. To that fair land whoro saints hosnnna s:ng, /ml niiln nn*l flAWAw ???" rtUO* y ~ tj'"" Anil though wo mourn for the? nnd misa thoo aore, Wo woill l not wish the? back from tranquil rest; Wo lay thoo in thy narrow bed unon earth's , hr-aat. Knowing tiiat tliou art only gone boforo. Until wo meet n:nln, lo I by thn bund of Clod To thnt snec'rlimo whero ( hastened spirita VV Doav irlciui and noit hbor, tnko our lnnt farewell : Forgot us not in heaven, an thou art unfovgott A MODERN MAGDALEN. BY M. C. FARLEY. CHAPTER XIV.-p ontinued ] Miss Chid'oy, greatly disturbed, atlvnlices lo mret the (stranger. "My niece is indisposed," the Bpinstcr says hurriedly. "1 nin ro sorry, but if you could call Rt another time " The visitor looked his disappoint(i'in T ?l * ' hjchv. j nun i can nut son ner .' ' "No, no. SSlio is ill?moat seriously indispo-od." 1 iin red eyes twinlils. "To-morrow, porliaps?" "l'ossbly." M:ss Cliidley is by no means certain in her own mind that ho will ever sco lur niece. But it doesn't matter. Tho stranger turns reluctantly toward tho door, lie is the tamo man who had visited tho gravo of Judith Donitliorne a few days previous. "I am greatly disappointed," ho says, casting a lingering glance about the room. "My great dosire being to learn from Miss Lafarge tho particulars of tho death and burial of a lady whom eho befriended at tho time of tho late ra lway a -cident. I may not ho in this localit}* again for some time." Miss Chidley really hopes ho will never bo in her locality agun. Put she doesn't say so. She says instead, and knowing perfectly well that thcro is no possibility of such a tiling: "My dear Marion may be recovered suflieiently in a few hours lo grant you an interview. She would ho delighted, I know, to give you all the information ?ho can. The lady's death was very j ad." "Yes," assents the visitor, with nnotlier twinkle of his red oyes, "very end, indeed." Then ho bows himself out, and Miss Cliidley hastens to the assistance of Miss Lafargo. (IIAPTKll XV. the nurust's pi.ot. CM soeond thought Mr. ^ Pulton deckles there is no very pressing pj reason for his immedi0 ate return totho study / back bedro- 111 in his i. boarding-house. Aftni""" 'I ho airy eo .ntry inn, tlh^H in which ho has eatabI || I Wished himself ponding 1 jh'H contemplated neI "" 111 | gotiation with the II '^^AL\ l)0tvor8 "'at bo, at Py* water Park, is by all edds to be proforrcd to Mrs. MeUillicuddy's fonrth-rate lodging-house. Tho oxpenso of living is 110 gre at or, and Hummer in tho country is delightful. Mr. Polton already fools invigorated and refreshed by tho chango. If a short sojourn in tho country has dono done him good, a longer one will do him still moro good. Therefore, though I10 retires at night with the notion in his head of his speedy departure in tho morning, yet tho m >rning dawns and finds him with this idea entirely dispelled from his mind. Mr. Pol ton's first thought is of tho roll of money tho butler has given him. Jlo hastens to unsure himself that tho whole transaction enacted in tho Park grounds tho previous evening is no wild chimera, or shadow of a dream, by drawing the roll of bills from their place of concealment beneath lis pillow ami looking them over. "1 may as well remain hero for a short time," says Mr. Polton, who linds it a matter of conscience to always pander to his own ties'res. "Madam Pandas need not know that I am within a thousand miles of her, ami I'll keep shady. For Poo's sake as well ns for my own, it may he as well for me to remain in this neighborhood for a while, anyway; and here's money onough, it I am c ireful, to last until Madam comes down with that promised salury." Tho truth is, Frederic llolton feols a strong desire to once more be looked upon ns ' somebody," or as an at taeho to tho court of somebody. Madam Dundus is the great lady of the country side, and this Polton is quite well aware of. M.u1nm might and did ignore her relationship to F rederic Polton ; but Frederic Pnlloii never forgot, and nllowed nobody else to forgot, tho fact of his relationship to Madam. ]p the country, whero everybody kno .s everybody else. Pulton's claims upo tho mistress of Pywnter Park were admitted, and lie was treated with deference and respect bv the country Iieople. This was soothing !) his solfove, and created a desire in him to on in this congenial atmos phere. Moreover, Mr. Bolton was little anxious to make tho better n< qnaintance of Captain Hazard, and t tind out, if possible, tho exact cor ditions of Madam Hondas' will.' He was a good deal annoyed to fin tho man Scarth domiciled at Bywate Park. Hearth was an old offender, u Bolton had cause to know, and ther was a doubt still in Bolton's mind abor tho genuineness of the bullet's allege repontance and clianee of life. Ho believed Hearth's presence bode no good to the inmates of Bywute Park. If Hearth really had reformed a little surveillance could do him n J>ossible harm. While if ho was up t lis old tricks, the watch set upon hi movements might result in positiv benefit to Miulmn'u limiunlinl.l Viewing the subject ull around Bolton decided that upon tho whole th best thing to do was to remain wher he wns for tho present, witli an ey upon the comers and goers at Bywate Park. By this course of conduct h wns certain to please himself- at an t-ote, nnd possibly he might be th means of doing Madam a good turn which would result in winning the ol lady's forgiveness. This being his vioi of the case, Bolton made himself cor tent, lie knew better titan to intrud upon tho housohold at Bywater. T intrude upon Madam was to ruin every thing. Still, having mado up his mind to tho part of a watchdog, Mr. Bolto was faithful to the character, an< thereafter, if Madam goes out in ho carriage, or walks in the park, or rc reives a visitor, Mr. Bolton soes it. N movement of the Bywater house hob escapes the watchful Bolton. Jf Lo rides out with tho Captain, or walk with her aunt, or sits'moon ;ng undo tho trees, she may bo sure tho observ ant eyes of her father are upon h?*r. It is only in the actions of tho butle that Mr. Bolton feels curiosity and sue picion: and his curiosity and susnicioi ^nvuci iiiviuitnu uiau wi ml lU^U UIJ ill days go by. Tho Tuesday appointed for Madam'i party arrives, and, watch elosoly as lu will, atill nothing is done by the butlo! to warrant Bolton's oj>cn condemna tion. On Tuesday morning the light wagoi is driven from By water Park to tin I bank, half a mile distant, presently re | turning with a strong, square box thu is heavily damped and barred witl iron. 'Tho By water plate," Bolton says t< himself, ns tho vehicle trundles pas him, and his eyes light upon tho box "Madum is doing tho thing in rcgu larly swell style. There goes the fam ily silver, nnd it is valuable." Mr. Bolton's eves follow tho hoi lovingly, ns the wagon disappear) through tho Park gates. '1 hen he turns about, fetching a loiq sigli as his mind reverts again to tin box of silver and the ease it would buj for him were it his own, and eonvertoi into ensh. As ho turns away, his eyes fall ttpoi tho short, squat figure of a man who is walking hurriedly in the shadow of tin trees. Bolton's first impulse is to follov him, and he yields to the impulse. Tho stranger is some littlo way ir advance of Bolton, ami he walks will a peculiar, c.it-liko, and gliding 1110 tion. Bolton follows 011 slowly and earo fully, and is astonished to seo tin stranger pause at a small side gato ir the stone wall -a gate that has loiif; been disused by tlio B.v water Pari household. A chain that has growl rusty from disuso fastens tho gato to t po t in tho wall. Bolton wonders how tho man will ro i inovo tins rusty eliain, but soon sens that neither the gato nor tho chuii itself is u bar to his ingress. The st lunger's next movement provei that ho is no stranger to the rorrect management of this half-forgottor gato, for ho whips out a key from hif pocket, fits the koy in tho pad loci which fastens tho gato and chain together, and, presto! tho gate opons easily, and ho disappears at tho inuei side of tho stone wall. Bolton wonders. Ho cautiously approaches the gato and listens as the low murmur of voices on tho other sido o! tho wall is horno to his ear. There is a crovieo in the high stone wall which shuts Bywator Park fron tho public road. To this crevice Bolter cfC...... ? C-r-n? To I It in < rt rice Hollon applied his c;/in. applies liia eyes. Ilo aeon two lipjuro? standing nour ouch other on the opposite side of tlio wall. Onoof the nion ia tlio parly who haa just passed through the gnto. Tlio other?there h no iniatako ia tlio rascally butler at I'ywater l'ark. I'o)ton instantly rocogni/oa the slim, iuacK-roi>o<l figure of iSeartli, and a 1 his dormant distrust is at once aro ised. lie fools certain 8carlli is plotting mischief, and as if to dispel oven the shadow of doubt from his mind, the first low words which fall upon his earn reveal the purposo of tho two plotters before him. "Yes," the butler is saying, "Iho plate arrived just now. If is worth a fortune, ami must be bagged to-night or not at all. Madam has had it brought down from the bank for the party. Tomorrow it will go back again. Mo tonight is the timo." "About what hour?"' asks his confederate. "The party is to break up at one | o'clock. H two the guests w 11 ail be gone, autl by three (he household *ill \ ft be in bed and sound asleep. Saj at 5- half-past three. I am to sit up and o watch tlio plate, which will bo stored I- in the butler's pantry as soon as the guests aro gone. At hilf-post iiiroe d you must have the wagon ready at the >r side gato hero, and the plato will bo ? readv. It's oaay enough." o "Yes," tho short man says, with a it chuckle, "easy enough, that's certain." J "Well, well," gsaps Bolton under his breath, "this beats me. Of all the il villains I cvor hoard of, this preciouj ,r pair beats them all." |f "I don't cure ft straw," Hearth c >no tinues fiercely, "for any of the folks at o By water. 1'il rather rob theui than s not. Folks that liave must lose, you o know. And I parti- nlarly dosiro tlu'so people to lose. 1 liato the young lady. JSlio know mo iho minute sho jmt her o peepers on mo, and I've expected daily o to be denounced by her." o "Maybe wo might carry off tho young r lady herself," says the other, e "No; sho would be a trouble. The v silver is enough. I'd like to give her a e little crack on the head, though, jus* i, to remember mo by. And maybe I d will." # "Ho ineana Lo thinks B lton, ns i- ho gathers himself up in a bunch o against the wall. "Lot him so much o as li t a finger against a hair of Loo's r- head, and it will bo all day with Scarth, or whatever ho calls himself." t Tho two villains now walked slowly n al< ng, still conversing, but in ho low a d tone that Folton failed to catch thoir r words. >- He had hoard enough, however, to o enablo him to frustrate their designs, d and this ho meant to do. They must 0 not suspect that a listener had overs heard their plot. Bolton realized this, r and at once moved off down the road. r- Ho was puz/.ed at first about the proper thing to do. But a moment's 1 reflection decided him linon a course of i- action. Ilo wont directly to tho village, 11 and, hunting up tho village constable, e laid tho matter beforo him. This ollicial determined to notify Captain Hoz? ard of the intendod robbery, and then u proceeded to lay a plan by which the r villains should bo tukon iu the very net. l CIIA 1'IE It XVL 3 THE ROHCEIiY. " VN YWATER TAHK ' / !1V ) 's brilliantly illttm1 ( I iuated. Twinkling N~~5T~alQ P I lights from myriads ? .M .^ITnliii I** /?f Chinese lanterns HlHl llr'H' C/dot 1,10 grounds, II" _^r- ^ and tloods of light I /(S! 8troam from the long I /(Wr vltntT\ w i n d o w s of the llMs ? ^ \ house itself. The 1 tEf Iguoits are arriving, 1 .C] ftl,d ro^ cnr" V <^vKr^://t r'nK3 wheels along * ' - ll\ ll ^'l0 Kruve'?d drivo 3 I r,j('id y| is incessant. i li Caj'ta:n Hazard ,'| h Si H suggested to i Madam that tho or1 vju- dinary staff at lly' water Hark is quite 3 ' inndo junto to meet tho requirements of tho occasion, nr.d ' n number of trained wnitors from a neighboring city arrive in time to help 1 servo ibe supper. Tho appearance of 1 this addition to the usual stall' rather nonpluses the worthy butler at lirst. Hut Captain Hazard romarks casually that ho sent for them at tho last mo3 mont, entirely upon his own responsi1 bility, knowing that tho help kept by * Madam would be unworthy so skillful 1 a rh''f as the butler himself, and Kib1 bey's suspicions?if suspicions tlioy 4 are?at onco subside. Tho Captain knew, if Kibboy did not, that the now waitors wero only so ' many policemen in disguise. Hut this ' w.iM Hninplliitiir tin* ('itvthnn fnlt. invfi. Hod in kooping entirely to himself. Ho ' did not evon tnko Madam l)uud?w into liin contidonco on this point 1 Very stately and dignified in lier 4 black satin and point la -e, Madam L stands in tho great drawing-room and receives Iter guests. J mo stands bolt side her aunt, and there aro presentations and speeches, and flowers and music and dancing. I.oo's poor head is in a whirl, but she bears tho ordeal . very well and acquits herself creditably, oven in Madam's critical judgment. Miss I afarge arrives late. Sho is * fairly dazzling in silver gnu o and 1 I pearls, with all her beautiful blonde | hair curled and coiled upon her head in the most bewitching fashion imaginable. Straightway sho forces tho t'apI tain to como to her side, and hero sho I keeps him. Loo sulks a little; then sho thinks | better of it, and being really a girl of some spirit treats her rival to a glance that is intended to bo scornful, accepts Littlefield's arm and whirls nwny among the dancers. So the hours go by. Midnight comes. Madam has long sinco excused herself and gono to lio down on the cushions in the nlcovo behind the long curtains in tho supper-room. Sho will not rotire. Notwithstanding her groat age, Madam's notions of what is due her guests will not allow her to seek tho privacy of her own room until tho last carriage has rolled away, and tho last guest paid his parting devoirs. Still, sho must rest. So sho quietly makes her way into the alcove, unper ceiveu i?y any one, not even by tlio sharp-eyed hihbey himself. 1 Captain Hazard exerts himself to entertain the guests?particularly Miss I afargo, 1,00 thinks, jealously. Ami ' Miss liiifargo necopts Iih attentions 1 with becoming grace. She smiles up into his eyes ami beams upon him in such a manner that more than one thinks the futuro mistress of Itywater ' Park will not bo very hard to timl when tho right time 001110s. All this, however, is going on abovo stairs. [to 11r continued j A rfoent cliscusslon al>out tho neignt of trees in the forests of Victoria brings from the Government botanist the statement that I10 lias seen ono 525 feet high. Tho Chief Inspector of Forests measured a fallen one that was 185 feet lone. Aitf.ii being totally blind for fifteen years Mrs. Todd Lattic, of Jtronson, Mich., was suddenly cured. The tlist imtsoii she saw was her daughter, and her fust remark was, "My! how youv'q growu?" w THE NEWS, Frank Rulllvan, on ex-cooatct, fatal). Rtabbed his wife as she was costing out of i New York dire. The Ijawkn Manufac taring Company's works, at IU? bury, Mass. were burned. Ix> a $18,00 ); insured. Isaa Valentine, an importer e#diamond8, Net York city made an asdzalment. A frelgh train on the Tommyviuila Railroad wa wrecked at Locust #rove, near Lancaste Ta.,and twelve cars <?>rnlled. The Indian miners refuse to yftld, and the operator will introduce maAtnery to do the work Black rot will cause total failure of th grape crop in the Mmsisaippl Valley. Ki. men were thrown iuto tho wat"' by the up setting of their homon the Mississippi river near Suvntmh, \\\m and Thomas Rogers Edward Howard V'l Tutrick Flinn wer nrowneti. uiinimt riggers, R oi. i-ioui Brewer, conunitte^L'hiioide. In acollisioi between a iwswiigAand a freight train m the New York, 1>^Bn)L[T(in,a and Ohio Kail road, near JanmMWwH/ILone < giuue and n Anil OQ passenger hurt. Louis Cherier, cashier o the bonk at Houghton, Wis., has disappears with about ?50,000. Twelve attempts bar Ihx'H tnado to burn the town of Dnnl urj Conn., the Inst one, causing considornbl damage. George Dunur, nge<l IK teen year was shot and killed by Jatnes Allen, a nigh watchman, in Chicago, while trying to es oa|H) with stolen cigars. The Into Genera CamiTou's will Inclu los a numlxr of bequest to churches and charities. The 2,800 for mcr employes of tho Heading Iron Work have been notiilod that tho works will sooi resume, but that none will be rc-employs who belong to labor organizations or wbi indulge in 6trong drink. In a riot of strik ing strict car employes at fiuluth, Minn, two strikers were killed and several hurt bj the police, whom they attacked. Fete Carr, a prominent young lawyer of Bpotsyl vnn;a county, Va., died from injuries bj being kicked by a hors-v John N. Knilinj of Shippensburg, Fa., was killed by a froigh train. B. K. Horton, a farmer of Rutledge O i., was fatally shot from ambush. W T. Carters & Co 'a mine slo|>e, near Hs/.le ton, Pa., wosd stroyed by Ore. i?oss $70,00(1 M. C. Miller, night clerk at the Lavs ford, Hotel, Birmingham, Alo., committed suicide. William Carson, and Captaii W. II. Lloyd, while fishing oir Wrightsvilh Inlet, at Wilmington, N. C., wero drowne< by thoir boat capsizing. Burglars ran sacked tho Kimball House at Albany, N. Y. and secured booty aggregating $ 1.50J. Carrie Frost, aged eighteen, was burnt* to death in the fire that destroyed her liom at Hopkins, Wis. Nearly one hundru< persons were made seriously ill by tho lo cream they nto at a Fourth of July picnic a Adair, Iowa. A steamer on tho Red river packed with Winnipeg people on a Fourtl of July excursion, encountered a storm, wn driven ashore; a panic prevailed, but al wore saved. A movement was started ii Chicago for tho formation 6f aiT Irish American republic. The new (Jominer cial Hotel at Lansing, Mich., was burned and many of tho guests barely escaped witl their lives. Los* $10,000. A collision 01 tho Chicago, Burlington and Quincy roa< resulted in the fatal injury of Kxpres Agent Blackburn and tho serious injury o several others. Frank Hoyt, paying telle of the First National Bank of Hoboken, wa arrested oil the charge of embezzlement. The Ufmau brewery, in Cleveland, Ohio was damaged $IJ0,U00 by fire. In the con troversy between tho Chicago Board o Tiade and the bucket sho|is, the court do cided that market quotations are pnblii property. Secretary Blaine arrived a Bar Harbor. Hon. Oeorgo H. Watrouex-president of the New York, New Havei and Hartford Railroad, di d suddenly a Now Haven, The Kentucky Hopublicai State Cinvention at Lexington nominate< David G. Colson for State treasurer. Thomas Kwing Sherman, eldest son of G?n eral Sherman, received tho first rites in hii ordination at?o Jesuit priest in tho Cathedra nt l'bilnd-lphia, Archbishop Ryan ofliciat ing. Rung Sing, n Chinaman from Balti more, was found murdered at Buffalo, N. Y, Several prominent h>eal politicians ol St. Lou's have been arrested as a result ol the investigation into alleged election fraud! at the last election. The Monongahelr river miners will be locked out soon utiles; they recede from their demands of threi cents per bushel. A lady and gentlemat and nurse girl mid child were killed neat Ijong Branch by the carriage being struci by a locomotive. By the explosion of t shell at S.ilom, Mass., two children wen killed, and several others injured. Tin B. and O.'s cut in rotes was discussed at i meeting of the Chicago committee of th< Central Traffic Association, and the Pitta burg, Fort Wayne and Chicago Railroad hni given notice that it Will meet the cut. Si> tons of powder exploded at the 1>u|k>iii Works, at Wilmington, Del., but no one wai injured. A story comos from Bishopvillo Sumter county, H. C., tbat a young whiU man and his wifo were brutally assaulted l?j four uegroer. FIVE GIRLS DROWNLD, l'ra((lu lOnding of a Church Picnic Near Pittsburg. Kivej'oung woin.'n weredrowned at Potest (Jrove. Their mimes arc: Miss Nellie Murlon, age IN, nu orphan; Miss May Royal, Hi, laughter of Jacob (J. Royal; Mert Freeman, JO; Ma tJassjily, 'JJ; Miss Fannie McConib. Kdwnrd SlinciTer was tlio only survivor of the little party, having been rescued Just as he was about to drown. The accident occurred at n church picnic. The party of young folks, all of whom were members of the Arch Rtreot Methodist Kpiscopal Sun luy School, of Allegheny, went to the grove, which is on the Pittsburg and Western Railroad, eighteen miles from Pittsburg, to hold a basket picnic. After luncheon six of the party engagisi n battenu and went out on the Coiuuapieiinessfng creek for a boat rido. The stream was greatly swollen by recent rains and was run mug very swiftly over what is known as the "Kapi ls." The boat was a shaky old affair and it is sunpos'sl was looking. This caused great alnrm among the young women, who, liecoiuiiig demonstrative, so excited their escort* that they could not manage ttio boat, and it was carried Into the rapids, where it was capsized, and before assistance could reach them five of the six who wore in the boat were drowod. Tlio reformer become* n fanatic wliei he begins to use li s emotions n? ft sulj ylitule for hi? icosottiDg fttcu'ty, "f s y TIME OF TOE WEEK i " Inactivity Ruled Owing- to t Holiday and Heavy Rains, i l Not Much Injury to Crops t>y llain j Stocks inul llontlHMroiiK -Mour; r lOasy nt New York. n General trade throughout the country ? reported by wire to BnutxlrreVs, has b quite as inactive ns is customary during Q week in wbicii the Fourth of July holii x occurs. Semi-annual stock taking^ set ments, and a pers.s'.ent and w.de-spri rainstorm tended to further chock tru , In Texas and Georgia rain:: are said to b 0 done some damage to the crops. Contrai 3 tory reports come from tlie Spring wli ii region, but no evldeiio has arrived ye n serious disaster to that crop. The busii |. outliMik for the remaining half year is r garded us brighter, with higher prices i e sss o f cotton. 1 Dear pressure and lower prices have rr iu stock trading at New York. ivaili differences at the West, fears of a reorg i zutton or Atchison mid t li too rapid a.I vn u of fruit securities, seem t?? be tiiu basis s thin action which is accompanied by liei bear ni inipulutiou. 1 tou ts aro strong 1 steady witn a good reinvestment demu Money at New York is becoming easier, i I call loans nro down to Iia4 per cents I eijjn exchange is easier, and doiu m l sterl 8 it *4?7^u4.8S. Cotton goods for Fall near and wail s are fairly nctive. Midsummer trade w Jobbers is very quiet. Prices for print ck and low grade bleached goods loud upw? *1 Raw wool sales at seaboard are limited 0 light stocks and high prices, ltnw cotto higher on fair dem m l. Rep rts of damage to the domestic Spi > wheat crop, to the wheat crop in Kus ' together with small stocks of good qua r on band more than supported prices i both wheat crop nul II.air tend upwa Indian corn, loo, is higher. Pork and I y both declined on limited demand at K ist ; centres. 1 Hogs and cattle at the West nro sell higher. Son Francisco sent 7d,0.W busl * of wheat to Ivio Janeiro, but cxiiects Australian and South American domain - disappear soon. Stocks of wheut at at WW points of accumulation and in trar " Eistof the Rocky Mouutaii s, July 1, ns ' ported to liirtdsf ret'Cn, aggregate lW,.'tt|, I bushels, a quantity less than has lieen het it the points referred to on a like date even years. Haw sugar has tieen in less active rcqti ' but is just as confldently held at J8c adva for centrifugals. Heliued maintained high range of Inst week. Coffee rear * (omewhat after tho heavy decline of week, hut relapsed into heaviness on a . port that Hrazil would carry over 1,701) bags of colT ? into the now crop year bei 9 nltig July 1. 1 There were 3-19 strikes In the United Stn inwnlvintr 'AtH iiirilftu-a fnrtiitr mnutli I the year, against 4'K> strikes and 173 1 strikers ill the first half of 1888 and strikes and 223.U23 strikers in 1887. li failures among commercial and indust traders in tho United StAteH since Jannai 3 numbered 5,918, or 13 per cent, more tin I' the first half of 1888. With a dor.en faili I eliminated, this report contains only fn< able features, as the recent growth of jj eral business has not l>eon fully reflects - the higher commercial death rate. 11 I, clearings at thirty seven cities for six moil t aggregate $87,097,480,95!>, or 18 per o more than in 1888, 7 per cent, in exces II 18>f> and 17 per cent, more than iu 1830. i i " I DAMAGED BY FLOOD IN TEX - Houses Carried Away and People] |, ported to Im Drowned. i- Several inches of rain fell in Kurt Wo f Texas, uuii great dumago has res ill to I i- ports from the West show heavy rains e 3M) miles. Tho lira*-* and the Trii t Rivers are booming. At Jiembrook tw i lU'lca West, the lirldgos of the T< ii and Pacific m:d 590 fort of the track t waslusi nwny. The St. J/Onis, Arkai , and Texas for two miles out is anhinert I The Missouri, Kansas and Texas ami Fort Worth and Denver have uhandu their trrcks North. The Texas and i'ui 4 has abandoned trains both Host and 4Vrs j At Fort Worth the bottom lands to North for two miles and to the Fast fo mil* and a half are siilmierged and tr farms are gone. The Trinity rose four i a half feet In an hour, and the dwellers , the low lands barely escaped. City Man Farmer. Sheriff Kii'linnlnui > >>< ti>ui> .... fore? tor tti? time bee uno i? rescuing coi nn l named the bouts which brought people to the city, Vi hi-re tliey nre quarte in largo warehouses. Ttiere are :J00 in women and children thus cured for. II. 1'lume and sinter are said to have li washed away, and Mrs. 11. S. lient.ey i Patrick, her son, who lived on ttie Trin are missing, and said to be drowned. Tl house was curried away. The river tl is two miles wide, ami all the cabins tents are gone. The Ht. I/mis, Arkui and Texas operator received a message t the West fork of tho Trinity was con down with an eight foot rise, fcilx ini more of water and the water works have to be abandoned. Wheat, oats, f and cotton are badly damaged. Tho loss can hardly be computed, but < servati ve estimates place it us high us $ J,(J 000. There is some fear for tho litile luges along the Trinity ubovo Fort Woi but there is no telegraphic commuuical and nothiu/j d?tluite can be learned. DOWN AN EMBANKMENT \ Passenger Train Wrockeil on SouthwcNtem llailroail, (irorgii A passenger train on the South west Iload was wrecked three miles west oft evn, tin. The train was composed c s'eepor, a passenger, express and hagi; cjr. The engine left the truck, and the former ears rollel down an embimkm Following is the list of injured: W. Mitchel, of TnllHittou, injure 1 in nnlly; J. h. Illack, of New York, ba luirl I .."vuv o. ii. r.iimer, cliiel ixilico of Columbus, hurt in the back, Ii mill breast; Miss Keadc,of Marion, serioi injured Internally; Mr. McNicholson, Ne?v York, I aire badly skinueii ami dit lire I; Mr. Chandler, of ISavaiiuuh, nil bruises. A FOOLISH BANTER. j Ono Young Mao Injured and A not Killed l>y an Klcolriv Wire. In a crowd of young men at Colum i (Hiio, one of them accepted a laniter to I bold of an electric-light wire which hanging from a pole. lie waspullol up a tnncc and thrown unconscious to t he grot William Frost endeavored to pick him ninl la doing so touched the wire accident ! with one baud and was instantly killed, w as some limo tie ore anyone ? ui I l?e f<? to remove tho dead or rencuo the luji una. SOUTHERN ITEMS. Dl INTFRKSTING NKWS COMPIfiRD < I'lK ?>l MANY S' iriK'K >. WB HG Rarenstvood, W. Va., claimsa ttopulatlon 1 of 1,S0?. cbi 1 Business on the Ripley and Mill Creek Valley R. R., at W. Va., is so great that an- * ^ other locomotive has been ordered. *'j The live cents Having bank of Greensboro, ' N. C. has lioen in operation less than two \ years and has on deposit nearly $115,1)00. f as Hog cholera Is ravaging the swino herds wn in the Rig Knnawa Valley, \V. Va., and the *"mo farmers uro losing all tho hogs they Jov ' . ret J A tract of niO acres of timber Intel, ad- ^jM, tie- iioeiit to Kranklitt, Pendleton county, W. ead V*.. sold for lifty cents an aero, in frontof ' ide. the Court House. j,? ftV0 There Is a disease prevalent among f .. _ liors,'* in Wheeling, W. Va., of an epi/.ttot ic * character. The animal when attacked loses ' teat its nmx'titn ami In'oomos dull. ' I Ci A t of A large ferry-l out 1ms been built nt j?a( less Harper's Ferry, \V. Vn., to servo the pur|km?o of the destroyed wagon bridge across 1 1 r?' the Shenandoah river nt that point. (ln,| S. Libermnn, a barber, lHtely from Cln- ? uiul ciiiKTrrr*^siiciue lea.i^h, lain Hotel, at < bnltnitooga. Tenn., by taking |t | a dose of rnorpliino mid chloroform mixed. ^ ?l?l The historic lands nt Appouinttox Court i,,i house, N. IX, are to l>o bought up for a ., *' nee northern syndicate. Options have already '* for l?een 60cured upon most of the desired prop- >>0 ?vy erty. f and A sul*?orlpiion litis l>e??n started for build,nd. log a baptist church in what is known as .. un I ''Fast Durham," N. C. Several liundred '' 1 ''or- dollars bnvo already been pledged. The cost t,r nig is cstimnted at. ?',,('(K). J A sus|H?nder factory is the latest addition j'.r* 4'n8 to iho industries of Raleigh, M. C. It is car- . ! i th rjp,| on jn n Hinaii way, hut has received such I1.' >ths encouragement as will justify oulnrged op- . n\l. orations in a short time. ! 1 by j a is The body of .laities Foley, an Inmate of tor the Koldicis' hoint nt llnmpton, Va., was lining found Hoping in the river near Norfolk, cit sia, There was a hole in the buck of Ids head und reti |ity foul p'ny is suspeoteil. ?ta ' 'd A sn.ull child of Mrs. Fleming, of Norrd. folk, Vo., accidentally fell through the rear / nrd hole of an old pump. Fortunately, the hole Na era was toi sm ill to admit her entire body, and Hi, shs was rescued from her uncomfortable |MIJ ling position. tint ^j'9 Captain George It. Head, of Lecsburg, jur the Va., has an old canteen used by his father in reo ' *? the war of 1S12. On the side of it. In his / "Ij1? father's handwriting, is the inscription: r??d ls'?, "Monday, September 12, 1815, L'atllo of of < <W<) Baltimore. Goo. Head." ?,0 j at The Fouth Atlantic and Ohio Itailroud, of jor running from Bristol, Vn? towards the Ken- mil tucky line, has been let to contract from the to? cgt Big Tunnel in Bcott county, to two mlh-s b?l nee beyond llig Stone Gap The road is to lie To I completed by next January. / ted Tom Wcolfoik, who murdered nine of Boi last his family, lias l>eeii convicted hi the Su- the re- fierior Court, at Atlanta, Us., of murder in Th ,0d0 tlio first degreo. Ho was sentenced to he i?'# jin- hang, don August 10 next. A motion for a up i.ow tri il was entered. cor h?. A b ind of masked men went to^he Hliep8'd herdsvillo (Kv.l inil secured Charles Anl.ei i , 133 ft prig ner charged with the murder of a ped* on V)t dler, and took him in a woods a mile an<i ?ni J lio u half an uy from the jail where llioy hanged the r''ti ^im to a tree. ovi 1 Ben Cowan, colored, was struck by an 7J11 east bound freight train on the Norfolk and j _ Western railroad at Furmville, V?.t and we * fatally injured. Ho was intoxicated and ^ d in wns "Bling on the bridge in the western noi ink suburbs of the town, ;ot! itlis Becker Brothers, of Baltimore, have ant. four hundred acres of land on the mountain JoH i of slopes lit Harper's Kerry, W. Vs., planted in fruit trees, and exjiect to add six hundred *' or a thousand more, and when these thou* J"" sands of trees are fruit-bearing will estublish u cannery. / At" The tall flagstaff on the highest rock on "J0 the Beaks of Otter, in Virginia, was struck by lightning and completely shattered. A ?JMI dog Ixdongiug to Jacob Ilosser, manager o( Jj'?e the hotel, was instantly killed, while Mr. _,u ltosser, sitting within ten feot of the dog, rtj, was uninjured. H ,. It is rumore<l that the whole of the lo- j,,,, oality noir Marshall Fauquier county. Va., C()j known as the ' Free State," has Iteou pur* |1)s nity chased from the Marshall heirs by a wealthy elve Northern lady, who will enter upon the work ^ .X.)K of improving tho physical and morul coodition of tho itcople. J*1 aiu A distinctly new era in the South's Iron nsas nn,j gteoi industry is marked liy tho orgaiii* [)u (wi. nation of Knglish companies to build extcn* mj, tlly sive stool und iron works at a new town at |,y Cumberland (? ip, on the dividing line bo- r*H mod tween Tennessee and Kentucky. Tho name w "Jific of tho town is to lie Middleboroiigh Ky. j I Over It.tMMI.O'H) ill cash have already beeu paid out and upward of t?U,000 acres of miut",, era! land purchased. Total investments sor f1 cured already cost $10,000,000 in cash, uck itmi I? now nscertaine-' beyond all doubt, j oll that the conocr mines Uruuville and I*. r we dial son counties, N. C., ore abounding in lin* tire mense d-posits of ore. (treat sensation ex* 1 pi,j ists among the people at tho astounding dis- " " tho coveries being daily made. 1 rod A party of capitalists aro negotiating nu' ion, for the purchase of Bild I load, at the mouth '1 of Cape Fear river, N. C., with a view of Fit eon eroding buildings ami otherwise tilting it lai ami up for a summer retreat. It is propose I to ? ity, run ? regular line of steamers to and from c.|(l iuir Wilmington during the Incited term. lero (Seorgo Campbell, a youth living In ' and South Portsmouth, Va., while walking on w( is is the railroad trestle, slipped and fell through. j;c .hat 11|h body passed through all right, but. Iiis . ,,nB head was so largo that he hung by the iierk Jhes until bis position became known. Axes had w< w"' to be usinl to release bim from bis iiorilous YJf' r"'* position. jJ The daughter of John L. Irliy, of Notj\.| ' towav county, Va., was missed from home j" Inst Wednesday, and as she was tait five ,n< years old, it was thought she had wandered Pn ' away and gotten lost. On Saturday Mr. J"' Irliy decided to search the well, and on mak the descent, he was horrified to find the body of his daughter at the bottom. As her skull eU was fractured, it was thought the child was sti < killed before she reached the bottom. th A terrible accident occurred at iilodKoet Teiin.,fin the Chesapeake ami Nashville rail' ru*ul, itinning from t.allatin to Mcottsville, I'i I lie Ky. The passenger train which was due nt in i (iallntiu ut II o'clock juiii|>cd the truck, and st< . the passenger and baggage checks went down 40 A r 1 atiout sixty feet. About eight person* were en fen- seriously injured, and several children wore if n more or less hurt. U, I'ige Alf t.rizznrd alias Hawkins, colons), itc i v?-,. was hanged by a mob supposed to lie com- Ih ,W? I.. .V...I ,.f ......... en...1.1...!, ?? 'I'i it.... v 111.. I ,.1, rutin. Ilo Iiiii I won nil their money, ami Hj they, enraged at tlmlr loss carried lnm ford- ai l,,r. l?ly oir of a boat, first throwing a suck ovor jly liis head to prevent lits screams from at- p f 0f trneting attention. They then took him into cml Hit) woods u<id drew lnm up to u limb, do- j.i( mly mamling that ho return the money, ilo re- w 0f fused, and they jerked him up mid left him. fo dig A lire at Knflold, N. C., destroyed ahout glit $?.r>,(KI0 worth of pro|>orty. (Jeorgo K. Curtis /to Co., lost four stores, together with a j>n largo stock of general merchandise; J. II. inn Hunter, two buildings; J. H. i'arker, two ,A< stores; Wells Co., stoek of goods; Iv. C. sti 1'o|m?, stock of merchandise; I. Luvy.a large tin slock of general inerchaiidiso Tho large 'th livery stable known as the Alsop stables hn were also burned to tho grotiml. Tho Are w< ,,or origmateil in a liipior store. Howard Chapman, tho second son of nr bus, Mrs. Mary 14, Chapman, was instantly killed ov take at Princess Anne, Md. Ho hud just started in from the farm of his luotlier, ahout a mils 'Si "s out of town, with a pair of work horses tli li'* liitche 1 to a farm wagon. Wliou a short dis- pa ind. tanco away tho ooupling-pnio between the j?li U1, front and roar axles parted. Ho was thrown in ally forward ami entangled inthi chutns on the Ij front uxle. Tho borons hocaino frightened 1 m,d ?h*l f-'ti away. When stopped Chapman j*; ired w,w lifeless, the entire hack part of his head to being crushed iu. dii SASTERS AND CASUALTIES; ^iarkls grain elevator at Papelllon, Nab., ? burned. Loss $29,003. During a flood near Clinton, Arkansas, a in nnined Emerson lost his wife and seven lldren. ''our children of Thomn9 Dunn, of Rellele. Now Jersey, have died of diphtheria (liiii ton nays. rhirty-one persons, nt Pindlay, Ohio, wer> isonod by outing corned l?eef, nnd it is uiglit some of the cases will terminate ally. rwo men named Iter trend and La Rlonde, re drowned while fishing in the St. I*awico river, at St. Henri, by tho upsetting of ir canoe. V Inndsidc occurred on tho Columbia nnd rt Deposit ltailroad near Haines Station, ., covering tho tracks to a depth of live t for a distance of sixty feet, leorgo Dix was crushed to death between i> cars at K.oniiioor i oiuory, ami ruiriiiK ughem was killed l>y a fall of coal at eker Shaft No at Shenandoah. I'u.. vato Ilyiibnck tried to pour gasoline Into i tank of a lighted oil stove at the Gross >t*rl. St. IjOuis, with the result that she it Kuto llynsou wore probably latally ? . . rutdt rho schooner Jennie W. Knight was sunk Sharp's Island, in the Chesapeake, by the ight steamer Win. K. MeCabe, Captain ilier, Itik wife and a seaman named Harbor ro drowned. <oil liurgen, the actor, was severely ugh not fatally burned, at his reaulonco Highlands, N. .1., by an explosion of gaslie. His life was saved by tho heroic efts of his wifo. V boiler in tho brewery of George Kenner, , in Voungstown, Ohio, exploded, killing nrles Klchtor. tho engineer, and s -veiely uring Carl Stueter, Michael Welsli and oniaa Key uolds. A lire followod the ex sion. l.oss atKiut ?75,000. V lire at Vancouver, Washington Terriy, Hwept away nearly four tdocks in tlio oiless part of the town, including tho y jail, from which two prisoners wero noved after groat dillieulty. The tire was rtad after three attempts liy Incendiaries, ss f70,(KK>. V passenger train on the Chesapeake anil shville Kail road ran of the track near si boo, Tennessee, and tlio passenger and ;gage cars went down a sixty foot eniikmeiit. Ten persons were severely inod at least one of whom is not likely to over. t tripplo collision of freight trains oecuri near l.atrolie, I'a., by which a number cars wore thrown down a.VI foot einhankut. The wreck cauglit lire from a carload lime, and burned for several hours A nbor of lultorors returning from Johus?:i woro ou tho wrecked cars, mid it is ioved that 1J or 15 of them were killeil. a are known to have been injured, t two-story vacant frame house in South iton collapsed, burying several people ill i ruin*. Annie Mullen, aged 10, and email Flaherty, aged were taken out el, ami severul others were injured more less seriously. The building had been iduinned, ami the residents of t he vicinity 1 taken much of it away for Hrowood, V bateau carry inn passengers uiul freight the Saint Maurice river, (Quebec, liecame manageable near liraude t'iles owing to i swiftness of the current and was carried >r the fails near that plaoo. Joseph Iti rd and two children, (Jeorge Ilamehn, of Klienne; It. U.'llerivo and Miss liellcrlvo re drowmlod. Vhile several laborers were at work at the v race track at Van Nest, Westchester mty, New York, an embankment oaveil burying (Jobano Djroli:, CO years of age; ;cpl> Darinta, aged tfM; Niciiola Uanugn, aged ~l, and Francisco Degared, aged allot' New York City. All tlie man were imved to tlie Harlem Hospital, where gored dieil soon after his admission. V tH>nting party consisting of John Mattire, Kdward and Jose ph Cody, Maud and g^ioUofrVrtr;'nml two other young ladies, isihsof the"'Hoover girls, from Hudson, Y., while rowing on the river opposite i Knickerbocker be bouses at Hath, N. Y., re run down by the tug Kvungelme and boat upset, liufore assistance could ch them all wore drowned excepting ieph Cody, who escaped, but was almost upletely exhausted by his efforts to savo companions. i severe wind storin passed over portions Illinois and Indiana, und did considerable nage. At Atwool, 111., the streets were xled by the bursting of a water s|>out, I a section of track on tho Indianapolis, catur ami Western Kailroad was washed t,. At Danville several bouses wore struck lightning ami burned, and in the Godfrey erve, Indiana, several orchards, $10,000 rtii of timber und other property were itroyed. Y/ORK AND WORKERS. \ Newcastle (Kng.) rolling mill englno iglis C00 tons aiidruiis 10,C00 horse power. Iridgeport, Conn., night freight hands mt n raise from $1 50 to $1 75 |>er night, rho effort at Cleveland to increase lire n's pay from to $1,000 per year railed. I'tio N itional Amalgamated Sailors and rumen's Union of Ureal Jiritaiu and Irenl is now reported to have 40,000 memliers. I'ho Wisconsin Liquor iKnlors' Union iiiiih that, it defeated candidates for tho gislature opposed to personal liberty. Die Ijowel brick Inyors liavo returned to irk with tho consent of tho carpenters, mton iirick layers sent tho cnrjienters $.500. In tho watchmaking districts in Clerkou>11, Ixmdon, tho dial |>aiuters earn $ '0u ek. Tho work is so had for tho eyes that per cent, of tho dial painters become ind. A novel feature In tho eollego commenceants that have been hi progress during the st fortnight may bo seen in tho fuct that i> graduates in many cases took up the Lior question in their essays. The quarryinen in Honditigor & Knger's ji >ne quarry at Locki>ort, N. Y., went on * ike lor nine hours a day instead of tun o other day. They were only out a short no when tho demand was acceded to. Tho Holloubeck workings nt Wiikeshnrre, i., have collapsed, and tho fall has eras ied the 11 il tin an vein workings, |>erinnn<>iitly pping work i i both collieries. Neariy 0 inon and boys liuvo beou thrown out of nployuiciit. Tho constitution and by-laws of the Najiial steam Fitters' Union wero revise I at 1 annual convention last week In Host on. dogates wero there from Philadelphia, Cinnnati, Hiltimore, lloslon, Washington, crocus?, IMtshurg, Koch out r, Now York id other cities. In Severley, a village in Staffordshire, nglnnd, tliere is a girl who is forewoman a plaining nvll. Her fattier was foreman it was killed hv accident, and tho girl who as often in tho mill with her father, offered take his place. II-r offer was accepted, ill eltu Iiiik I.riif.m li, i?..|f verv comix-tent. Among tho strikes reported during the iHfc wtt'k havo lioen those of the saw mill mi nt Bangor, Me.,the shoemakers of North lams, Mass., tli i boiler makers nt C011Hilo Hook, N. J., and tho weavers in the ills at Hlnckstono, Mast. At Kail Uiver o weavers of t li > Nnrra pmsett null who ive been on strike return to work this ?ek. Tho operators of tho various mills in and ound Augusta, Ha.,are somewhat alarmed r a thr atoned reduction of wages. The ill I losses claim that they are paving from to ?) per cent, more to their operatives an is paid by the mills in tho northern rt of North Carolina, which, therefore, ices the Hoorgia mills at a disadvantage the matter of competition. Tub Trestdont ana directors of the cnesaako oud Ohio Canal have lieoB authorised restore the channel to a navigable cons tiou. Tbo cost will be about #800,000. >