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XX.?NEW SERIES. UNION C. II.. SOUTH JULY 19, 1889. NUMBER 29.
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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
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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. >