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THE WEEKLY filfl UI10I THIS. ?g % Devoted to Agriculture, Horticulture, Domestic Economy, Polite Bf&ture, Politics and the Current News of the Day. XX-NEW SERIES. UNION C. II.. SOUTH O^B^INA.^JULY 19. 1889. NUMBER 29. IUVS XT EM. BT FHKD A. RUNT. What makH your ore* so blue, my dear?" ; The lover asked In the spring of the i ear. The oolor I caught In tte mossy doll. Where the cboloest forget-me-nots do dwell.* "What maV.ee yonr eyes so bine, my wife?" The husband asked In tbe summer of life. "They show the hue of the ocean doep. Where your measureless love In my heart I keep." t_"Whsk makoa your eyes so blue?" quite low, The father askod In tbe autumn's glow. "Because the pure lore of out ohlldren dear Keeps them fresh and youthful from year tc year." "What makes your eye* so bin* and bright?" Tbe eld man asked in the wintry ntgbt. J " 'Tin bocauno tbey reflect ttao heavon above, Whore we shall continue our eartuly lore." rOBGET V) HOT. m BT AMRA ovnes rBITDCR. During the sllont watches of the night f \ Was homeward boruo thy spirit on death's t^.1 wing. US* To that fair land where ealnte hoeanna sing, VBf: And palu aud eonow never oast their bllghk And though we mourn for th?? *mi *??? rion>, Wo wo?W not wish thee back from tranquil rest; Wolavtbee In thy narrow bed upon onrtU'i ^ breast. Knowing that tbou nrt only gone before. Cut 11 wo meet a-inln, lo 1 by thn hand of Ond " To that snoot olliiio whoro chastened spirits Dear friend an.l neighbor, take our last faro- , well: A forgot us not in hcavon. as thou art unforgot! A MODERN |. MAGDALEN. BY M. C. FARLEY. CHAPTER XIV. ?fCotnTNUED ] ht- Cliidley, greatly disturbed, advnticca to meet the otranger. "My niece is indisposed," the Bpinster says hurriedly. I am no sorry, bnt if you oould call at another time " The visitor looked his disappoint* meat. "Thon I can not see her? ' -,f,\ "No, no. She is ill?most seriously '.J indispofod." r niB ro? ?yea twinkls. "To-morrow, rorhaps?" "Possbly." M'ss Chidley is by 110 means certain in her own mind that he will oyer Bee her uiece. But it doesn't matter. . The strangor turns reluctantly toward tho door. He is the eamo man who had visited the grave of Judith Donithorne n few days previoti*. "T am greatly disappointed," he says, easting a lingering glance about the room. "My great desire being to learn from Miss Lafarge the particulars of r " she death and burial of a lady whom he befriended at tho time of tho late ra'lway accident. I may not be in this locality again lor some time." Miss Chidley really hopes ho will never be in her locality uga n. Hut she doesn't say so. She says instead, and knowing perfectly well that thero ia.no possibility of such a thing: "Mpr doar Marion may be recovered sufficiently in a few hours to grant yon an interview. Hho would be dolighted, I know, to give you all tho information the can. The lady'B death was very ft lad." "Yes," assents the visitor, with another twinkle of his rod eyes, "very sad, indeed." Then ho bowB himself out, and Miss Chidley hastens to the assistance of x Miss Lafargo. C IIAPTEIl XV. THE BUTLER* H PLOT. ON socond thought Mr. Holt on deoides there is no verv pressing reason for liis immediate return to the stuffy llO^Vr IvulVrt rr% in Li? At city boarding - house. fwSrn" "V. The airv country inn, I ft *n 'w^*c'1 i,e hftfl ostabjl 1]| lished himself pending w _^f)liib contemplated ne-TTjrgotiation with the 'I ""1' * I powors that be, at Bywater Park, is by all odds to be preferred to Mrs. McUillicuddy'a fourth-rate lodging-house. Tho expense of living ia no greater, and summer in the country is delightful. Mr. Bolton already feels invigorated and refreshed by the ohonge. If a short sojourn in the oountry has done done him good, a longer one will do him still more good. Therefore, thongh he retires at night with the notion in his head of his speedy depart : ?i ?> hiv iu mic uiuiuiug, joil iijo iii irning dawns and finds liim with this idea en tirely dispelled from his mind. Mr. Bolton's first thotight is of the roll of money the bntler has given j him. He hastens to ussnre himself that the whole transaction enacted in the Park grourids the previous evening ' is no wild chimera, or shadow of a dream, by drawing tho roll of bills from their place of concealment beneath his pillow and looking them ^ over. " I may as well remain here for a short time," says Mr. Bolton, who finds it a matter of conscience to' always pander to his own desres. "Madam Dunda* need not know that I am within a thousand miles of her, and I'll keep shady. For Loo's sake an well as for my own, it may be as well for il.J. I-L1 i a - uiv hi laujmu in tuu nwiguuornooa lor a while, anyway; and liore'a money enough, if I am curofnl, to last nntil Madam cornea down with that promised salary." The troth is, Frederic Bolton feels a strong desire to onco more be looked upon as "somebody," or ns an attache to the court of somebody. Madam Dundas is the great lady of the country side, and this Bolton is quite well aware of. M*dam might and did ignore her relatiomdiip to Frederio Bolton ; bnt Frederic Bolton never forgot, and allowed nobody else to forget, the fact of his relationship to Madam. Tn ?I ' H vvuuuji. w uoi o ovorjruwij know* overylKwly else, llolton's claims upon the mistress of Bywater Park were admitted, and he was treated with deference and respect by the country people. This was soothing to his self*oye, and created a desire in him to gpaUnqe op in this congenial atmoey.': -sr? F?bere. Moreover, Mr. Bolton vu I ittle anxious to make the better aonintance of Captain Hazard, and to out, if possible, the exact conditions of Madam Dundas' will.' He was a good deal annojed to find the man Soarth domiciled at Bywater Park. Scnrtli was an old offender, as Bolton had cause to know, and there was a doubt still in Bolton's mind about the genuineness of the battel's alleged repentance and change of life. He believed Hearth's presence boded no good to the iumates of By water Park. If Bcarth really had reformed, a little surveillance oould do him no possible harm. While if be was up to his old tricks, the watch set upon his movements might result in positive benefit to Madam's household. Viewing the subject all around, Bolton decided that upon the wholo the best thing to do was to romain where he was for the present, with an eye upon the comers and goers at Bywater Park. By this oourse of conduct he was certain to please himself'at ftny rate, and possibly lie might be the means of doing Madam a good turn, which would result in winning the old lady's forgiveness. This being his view of (ho case, Bolton made himself content. He knew better than to intrudo upon the household at Bywater. To intrude upon Madam was to ruin everything. Btill, having mado up his mind to act I the part of a watchdog, Mr. Bolton I was faithful to the charactor, and ! thereafter, if Madam goes out in hor carriage, or walkB in the park, or receives a visitor, Mr. Bolton sees it. No moveinont of the Bywater household escapes the watchful Bolton. If Loo rides out with the Captain, or walks with her aunt, or sits'moon:ng under tho trees, she may be sure tho observant eyes of her father are upon her. It is only in the actions of the butler that Mr. Bolton feels curiosity and suspicion : and his curiosity and susDicion yatnor lucrease than diminish as tue days go by. The Tuesday appointed for Madam's party arrives, and, watch closely as ho will, still nothing is done by the butler to warrant Bolton's opon condemnation. On Tuesday morning the light wagon is driven from Bywater Park to the bank, half a mile distant, prosently returning with a strong, square box that is heavily clamped and barred with iron. ' The Bywater plate," Bolton says to himself, as the vehiclo trundles past him, and his eyes light upon the box. "Madam is doing the thing in regularly swell style. There goes the family silver, and it is valuable." Mr. Bolton's eyes follow the box lovingly, as the wagon disappears through the Park gates. Then he turns about, fetching a long | aigii as his mind reverts again to the box of Bilver and tho ease it wonld buy lur mm were it uis own, and converted into oosh. As he tarns away, his eyes fall npon the short, squat figure of a man who is walking hurriedly in the shadow of the troes. Bolton's first impulse is to follow him, and he yields to the impulse. The stranger is some little way in advance of Bolton, and he walks with a peculiar, cat-like, and gliding motion. Bolton follows on slowly and carofnlly, and is astonished to see the stranger pause at a small side gate in the stone wall?a gate that lias long lieon disused by I ho By water Park household. A chain that has grown rusty from disuse fastens the gate to a po t in tho wall. Bolton wondors how the man will remove this rusty chain, but soon sees that neither the gate nor the chain itsolf is a bar to his ingress. Tho stranger's next movement proves that he is no strangor to the correct management of this half-forgotten gate, for he whibs out a kev from his pocket, fits the key in the padlock which fastens the gate and chain together, and, presto! the gate opens eosily, and ho disappears at the inner side of the stone wall. Bolton wonders. He cautiously approaches the gato and listens as the low murmur of voices on tho other side of tho wall is borne to his car. There is a crevice in the high stone wall which shuts Bywater Park from the public road. To this crevice Bolton To ihie crevice Iiollon applied hie eyre. ! innlina t.i. ?? ?? a I vj CD. MO DODO ?WU UffUreH standing near eaoh other on the oppo' site side of the wall. One of the men is the party who has just passed through the gate. The other?thero is no mistake -Is the rascally butler at Hywater Park. Bolton instantly recognizes tho slim, black-robed figure of Boarth, and a'l his dormant distrust is at once aro ised. lie feels certain Scarth is plotting mischief, and as if to dispel even the shadow of doubt from his mind, tho first low words which fall upon his earn reveal the purpose of the two plotters ItAfAVA him "Yea," the butler is saying, "the plate arrived just now. 11 ih worth a fortune, and mast be bagged to-night or not at all. Madam has had it brought down from the bank for the party Tomorrow it will go hack again. Ho tonight ia the time." "About what hour?" asks his confederate. "The party ia to break up at one o'clock. A t two the guests will all l>e gone, and by three the boweebeld will be in bed nnd sound asleep. Say at balf-past three. I am to sit up and watch tlio plate, which will be stored in the butler's pantry as soon as the , guests aro gone. At hilf-post three you must have the wagon ready at the ( side gate lioro, and the plato will be ready. It's oasy enough." "Yes," the short man says, with a chuckle, "easy enough, that's certain." "Well, well," gasps Bolton under ' his breath, "this bonis me. Of all the villains I ovor heard of, this precious pair beats them all." > "I don't care a straw," Hearth o >ntinues fiercely, "for any of the folks at By water. I'd rather rob them thnn | not. Folks that have must lose, you , know. And I partii ularly dosiro theso , peoplo to lose. I hnto the young lady. Blio. know mo tho minute she put her peepors on mo, and I've expected daily to be denounced by her." "Maybe wo might carry off the young lady herself," says the other. "JS'o; she would be a trouble. The silver is Qnongh. _ I'd like to aire her m little V on the head, though, jusrf to remember me by. And maybe I will." "He means Lo^," thinks B Hon, as ho gathers himself up in a bunch against the wall. "Lot him so much as li t a finger against a hair of Loo's > head, and it will be all day with dearth, or whatever ho calls himself." The two villains now walked slowly along, still conversing, but in so low a tono that Bolton failed to catch their words. He had heard enough, however, to enable him to frustrate their designs, and this he meant to do. They must not suspect that a listener had overhoard their plot. Bolton realized this, and nt once moved off down the road. Ho was pu/.zed at first about the proper thing to do. But a moment's reflection decided him upon a course of action. lie wont directly to the village, and. hnntincr un tho vill?M fnnotohlo laid tlie in at tor before liim. This ollicinl determined to notify Captain Hazard of the intendod robbery, and then proceeded to lay a plan by which the villains should be tuken in the very act. CHAP1ER XVL the roi1rkrt. rtlfito ywater 4>ark I I brilliantly illum) J inatod. Twinkling PI i ''R^ts from myriads \ Is* / ?l Chinese lanterns Hll llIII!""' v-/ dot the grounds, ill' and Hoods of light j /(^j B^reain fromdiel?ng I /WW |vfevir-/\ windows of the Ib*' ? Tj ' honse itself. The -{ I Iguoats are orriving, \] AfMA aud the roll of carta r'flBa wheels along MI /I fl Kravel?d drive r I ai[u iui is incessant, jjmy i Captain Hazard II has Bnggested to i | Madam that the or' dinary staff at l'y^=^1 water Park is quite ?=^T- inado juate to meet tho requirements of the occasion, aud a number of trained waiters from a neicrhboriticr eitv arrivo in time to heln serve llie supper. Tho appearance of this addition to the usual stair rather nonpluses the worthy butler at first. But Captain Hazard romarka casually that he sont for them at tho last moment, entirely upon his own responsibility, knowing that the help kept by Madam would be unworthy so skillful a ( h'f as the butler himself, and Kibbey's suspicions?if suspicions thoy are?at once subside. Tho Captain know, if Kibboy did not, that the new waiters wero only so many policemen in /isguise. Hut this was something tho Captain felt justified in keeping entirely to himself. He did not oven take Madam Dutidas into his confideuco on this point: Very stately and dignified in her black satin and point lave, Madam stauds in tho great drawing-room and receives her guests. Loo stands beside her aunt, and there are presentations and spoechos, and flowers and musio and dancing. Loo's poor head is in a whirl, but site bears tho ordeal very well and acouits herself credita blv, even in Madam's critical judgment. Miss 1 afarge arrives late, Blio is fairly da/./.liiig in silver gau e and Eearls, with all her beautiful blonde air curled and coilod upon Iter head in the most bewitching fashion imaginable. Strnightway she forcos the Captain to como to her side, aud horo she keeps him. Loo sulks a little; then she thinks better of it, and being really a girl of some spirit treats her rival to a glance that is intended to be soornful, accepts Littlefield's arm and whirls away among the danocrs. Bo the hours go bjr. Midnight comes. Madam has long since excused herself and gone to lie down on the cushions in the alcove behind the long ourtains in the supper-room. Bhe will not retire. Notwithstanding her great age, Madam's notions of what is due her guests will not allow her to seek tho privacy of her own room until the last carriage has rolled away, aud the last onoof noi/1 1? ,1 : ? CMva? i/wiu um jmi *iu^ uovuiru. Htill, she must rest. 80 she quietly makes her way into the alcove, unperceivod by any one, not even by the harp-eyed JKibbey himself. Captain Hazard exerts himself to entertain tho guests?particularly Miss Lafargc, Loo thinks, jealously. And Miss Lafarge accepts li s attentions with becoming grace. Hhe smiles up into his eyes and beams upon him in suoli a manner that more than one thinks the future mistress of By water Park will not be rery hard to find when uie right time eomos. All this, however, is going on Above stairs. [to sb continued. j A undent discussion abont the neignt of trees in the forests of Victoria brings I from the Government botanist the statement that he has seen one 625 feet high. The Chief Inspector of Forests measured a fallen one that woe '185 feet loos. * y mmm* afteh being totally blind for fifteen {ears Mrs. Todd jLattio, of Bronson, Iich.t was suddenly oured. The first person she raw was her daughter, and hor first remark was, "My! how yquv'e grown," THE NEWS, ? Prank Sullivan, an ex-conr*e?, fatally stabbed bia wife aa she was oon ng out of a Now York dire. The Ixiwj ji Manufao* luring Company's works, nt' U^;.t>ury, Mass., were burned. Lo a $18,00); Irthirod.?? Isaac Valentine, an importer of diamonds, New York city made an asdgiifnent. A freight train on the Pennsylvania Railroad was wrecked at Locust Urove, near Lancaster Fa., and twelrecars derailed. The Indiana miners refuse to yield, and the operators will introduce machinery to do tho work. Black rot will cause total failure of the grape crop in the Mississippi Valley. Hi* men were thrown into tho water by the upsetting of their boat on the Mississippi river* nrar Bnvnnah, Ills., and Thomas Rogers, Edward Howard and Patrick Flinn were drowned. Charles Eggeru, a St. Louis Brewer, committed Suicide. In a collision between a passenger and a freight train on the New York, Pennsjdvania and Ohio Railroad, naar JamaatownilCL Y..one yueiueer uuLa. hsscijemn'w killed and one passenger hurt. Louis Cttorler, cashier of the bank at Houghton, Wis., has disappeared with about 150,000. Twelve attempts have been tnado to burn the town of Dnnl ury, Conn., the lust ono, causing considerable damage. George Duane, aged fifteen years was shot and killed by James Allen, a night watchman, in Cbicngo, while trying to escn|>o with Btolen cigars. -The into General Cumt-rou's will Includes a number of bequests to churchrs and charities. The 2,800 former employes of tho Reading Iron Works i have been notified that tho works will soon resume, but that none will be rc-employed who belong to labor organizations or who indulge in strong drink. In a riot of strik* ing street car employen at fiuluth, Minn., two strikers were killed aud several hurt by the police, whom they attacked. Peter Carr, a prominent young lawyer of Hpotsylvania county, Va., die-l from injuries by being kicked by a horse- John N. Railing of Shlppensburg, Pa., was killed by a freight train. 8. U. Horton, a farmer of Ruttedge> Gx., was fatally shot from ambush. W. T. Carters & Co's mine slope, near Hnzteton, Pa., was d -stroyed by Are. uoes f70,000. M. C. Miller, night clerk at the Lewsford, Hotel, Birmingham, Ala., committed suicide. William Carson, and Captain W. 11. Lloyd, whilo Ashing off Wrights vllle Inlet, at Wilmington, N. C., were drowned by thoir boat capsising. Burglars ransacked tbo Kimball House at Albany, N. Y., and secured booty aggregating f1.000. Carrie Frost, aged-eighteen, was burned to death in the Are that destroyed her home at Hopkins, IV is. Nearly one hundred persona were made seriously ill by the ice wi eniu Luey uie at a Fourth of Juiy picnloat Adair, Iowa.??A steamer on the Red river, packed with Winnipeg people on a Fourth of July excursion, encountered a storm, was trjyAn nahnrAj m nan jn nroyaijnij ^ Knf ?ll wero saved. A moveoMnt was started in Chicago for the formation 6f~ arf" IrishAmerican republic. The new Commercial Bote', at Lansing, Mich., ~as fcurnod, and many of the guests barely escaped with their lives. Loss 110,000. A collision on the Chicago, Burlington and Quincy road resulted in the fatal injury of Kxprea* Agent Blackburn and the serious injury of several otbors. Frank lloyt, paying teller of the First National Bank of lloboken, was arrested on the charge of embezzlement. The Ofroan brewery, .in Cleveland, Ohio, was damaged $30,000 by fire. In the controversy between the Chicago Board of Trade and the bucket shops, the court decided that market quotations are public property.? Secretary Blaine arrived at Bar Harbor. Hon. George H. Watrou*, ex-president of the New York, New Haven and Hartford Railroad, dkd suddenly at New Haven, The Kentucky Republican State Convention nt Lexington nominated David G. Coleon for State treasurer. Thomas Ewlng Sherman, eldest sou of General Sherman, received the first rites in his ordination ss a Jesuit priest in the Cathedral at I'biladelohia. Arnhbinhnn li??? Ing. Lung Sing, a Chinaman from Baltimore, wu found murdered at Buffalo, N. Y. Several prominent local politicians of St. Louis have been arrested as a result of the investigation into alleged election frauds at the last election. The Monongaheln river miners will bo locked out soon unless they recede from their demands of three cents per busbcl. A lady and gentlemap and nurse girl and child were killed near Long Branch by the carrlago being struck by a locomotive. By the explosion of a bell at Salem, Mass., two children were killed, and several others injured. The U. and O.'e cut in rates was discussed at a meeting of the Chicago committee of the Central Traffic Association, and the Pitts' burg, Port Wayne and Chicago Railroad has given notice'tbfctltWill meet the cut. Six tons of powder exploded at the impont Works, at Wilmington, Del., but no one was Injured. A story comes from Bishopville, Sumter county, S. C., that a young white man and bis wifo were brutally assaulted by four uegroe.'. ritin /a - ^ . _ - riYt. uiKLS DROWNED. IrAKlo KndliiK of a Church Plcnlo Near Pittsburg. Kl vo young woimn were drowned at Forest Grove. Their names are: Miss Nellie Burton, age 18, an orphan; Miss May Royal, 16, daughter of Jacob O. Royal; Bert Freeman, 5W; Ida Cansidy, 22; Uin Fanule McConib. Kdward Hhneffer was the only survivor of the little party, having been rescued Just as he was about to drown. The accident occurred at a church picnic. The party of youag folks, all of whom were mentliera of the Arch Street Methodist Kptsrropal Sua lay Bohool, of Allegheny, went to the grove, which ie on tbe Pittsburg and AVsatorn Kiilroad, eighteen miles from Pittsburg, to hold a lAsket picnic. After lunctieoa six of tbe party engaged a battean am! went out on the Uonnequeonemlng creek for a boat rtda. - Tbe stream was granny awoiien t?y rnoont rains nnd WM run ?rwhftt'?KtSWt I ! The trodi wai & ohftky old nfTitlr and 1c la supposed wu looking. This otiwcd great alarm among the Tonne =?st assistance could reach them flee of the six who were la the boat were drowed. The reformer beoomea a fanatio when hn Iwirini IaKu hie amntinna nn a anli. ?tituteforhijfraiwBiDg faculty, I TME OF THE WEEK. Inactivity Ruled Owing to the Holiday and Heavy Rains. Not Nnch Injury to Crop* Uy ItnlitH? Stocks ami HoimIm Mroiiu -Money Fjuy at New York. General trade throughout the country a? reported by wire to Hnul*(rrct's, has been quite as inactivo as Is customary during the week in which the Four lit of July holiday occurs. Semi-annual stocktaking^ settlements, and a pers.s'ent and wale-spread rainstorm tended to further check trade. In Texas and Georgia rains are sniil to have done soiiih (lanugo to the crops. Contradictory reports come from the Spring wheat region, but nu evldouo bus arrived yet of serious disaster to tliat crop. The business outlook for the regaining half year is regarded us brighter, with higher prices and " m'Ji " u?w??ami cotton. Dear pressure and lower prices h?To ru'e I iu stock trading at New York, Railroad differences at the West, fears of a rcurgnni zatiou of Atchison and 111 .'too rapid advance of trust securities, seem to l>? the basis for this action which is accompanied by heavy bear m inipulatiou. Bon is are strong and steady witn a good reinvestment deniund. Money at New York is becoming easier, an I call loans are down to 3a4 per cents Foreign exchange is easier, and dein ind sterling W *4.?7?fu4.8S. Cotton goods for Fall near and woolens are fairly active. Midsummer trade with jobbers la very quiet. Trices for print cloths mid low grade bleached goods tend upward. Raw wool sales at seaboard are limited by light stocks and high prices. Raw cotton is yH '. higher on fair demand. Hop rts of damage to the domestic Spring wheat crop, to the wheat crop in Russia, together with small stocks of good quality on hand more than supported prices and both wheat crop and lljur tend upward. Indian corn, too, is higher. Fork and lard both declined on limited demand at Eastern centre*. Hogs and cattle at the West nro soiling higher. Ban Francisco sent 73,(XW bushels of wheat to Kio Janeiro, but expects the Australian and South American demand to disappear soon. Stocks of wheat at about 909 points of accumulation and in transit, Eistof the Rooky Mouutait.s, July I, as reEorted to BradntrteVs, aggregate 20,381,000 usbels, a quantity less than has t>een held at the points referred to on a like date for leven years. Raw sugar has tieen in less active request, but is just as confidently held at }$c advance for centrifugals. Refined maintained the high range of lost week. Coffee reacted somewhat after the heavy decline of last week, but relapsed into heaviness on a reKrt that Brazil would carry over 1,700,000 gs of colT.io into the new crop year beginning July I. There were 349 strikes in the Unlted States, Involving 93,2.">8 strikers for six mouths of the year, against 430 strikes and 172,432 strikers iu the first half of 1838 and .V>4 | strikes and 222,023 strikers in 1837. The failures among commercial and industrial irouoiv in hiu uiiiu.il ouiveH mnnn January 1 j numbered 5,018, or 12 per cent, more thin in I lbs first half of 188S. With a dozen failures | eliminated, this report contains only favorable feature*, a* the recent growth of general business ha* not been fully reflected in the higher commercial death rate. Hank clearings at thirty-seven cities for six months aggregate $07,007,480,056, or 18 per cent, more than in 1888, 7 per cent, in excess of 1886 and 17 per cent. more than in 1886. DAMAGED BY FLOOD IN TEXAS Houses Carried Away and People Hoported to be Drowned. Several inches of rniu fell in Fort Worth, Texas, uud great damage has resit I to I lloports from the West show heavy rains for 000 miles. Tho llrase* und tiie Trinity Ktvers are booming. At Hoinbrook twelve m'lea West, tho bridges of the Texss and Pacific and 500 foet of the track are washed away. The St. I aim Is, Arkansas niwi T?*ii9 for frnrs* n?ll??a -v..a 1- ?? * ,..V M...V* vuvn lUlUOIgtMl. Tbe Missouri, Kansas and Texas auii the Fori Worth and Denver have abandoned their trrck* North. Tho Texas and Paciltc has abandoned trains both Host and West At Fort Worth the bottom lands to the North (or two miles aud to the Kast for a mile and a half are submerged and truck farms are roiio. The Trinity rase four and a half feet In an hour, and the dwellers on tbe low lands barely escaped. City Marshal Farmer, Sheriff Kicbaidson and their entire force tor the tune became a rescuing corps, and named tbe boats wbich brought tbe people to tbe city, nht-rc they are quartered In large warehouses. There are i)00 tnon, women and children thus cured for. 11. I'lume and sister are said to have been washed away, and Mrs. 11. & Beutiey and Patrick, her son, who lived oil tbe Trinity, are missing, aud said to be drowned. Their house was carried away. The river there is two nines wiue. Hint all tbe cabins and I touts are gone. The St. I<ouis, Arkansvs and Texas operator received a message tlnit the West fork of tho Trinity wus coining down with an eight foot rise. Six inches more of water and the water works will have to be abandoned. Wheat, oats, fruit and cotton are badly damaged. Tho loss can hardly be computed, but oonssrvati ve estimates plaoe It as high as $.5,000,000. There is some fear for the little villages along the Trinity above Fort Worth, but there is no telegraphic communication and nothing definite can be learned. DOWN AN EMBANKMENT. A Passenger Train Wrecked on the I Southwestern Kailnmil. , ? A passenger train on the Southwestern Ftond was wrecked three miles west of Geneva, Ga. The train was composed of a 'eeper, a passenger, express and baggage car. The engine left the track, aud the two former cars rollet down an embankment. Following is the list of injured: W. Mitchel, of Talbotton, injured Internally; J. K Dlaok, of New \ork, bally hurt about head; J. H. l'.tlmer, chief of polioeof Columbus, hurt in the back, head and breast; Miss Kendo,of Marion, seriously injured internally; Mr. McNicbolsoti, of New York, face badly skinned and disflg or#I; Mr. Chandler, of ISavannab, slight brulaea A FOOLISH BANTER. Oiio Young Man Injured and Another Kilted by an Klectrio Wire. In a crowd of young men at Columbus, Ohio, one of them accepted a banter to take hold of an electric-light wire which wan | hanging from a pole. He wasputle) up adit- | tanco and thrown unoonactOue to the ground. William Kroet endeavored to pick him up, ami in doing no touched the wire accidentally with one haud and was instantly killed. It wan noma tinio be:ore anyone u.uld be found to rwuioro Ilia dead or r*P0V* the Injured apt* SOUTHERN ITEMS. INTFItFSTINQ NEWS COMPILED FROM MANY 8t>UItOFi. Ravenawood, W. Va., clninw a population of |,50\ IhiilnpM on the Ripley and Mill Crook Valley R. R., at \V. Va., is so great that another locomotive lias been ordered. The five cents saving bank of Greensboro, N. C. has l?oen in operation less thnn two years and has on depoait nearly $ll.r>,(JUO. Hog cholera la ravaging the swine herds ill the Rig Kanawa Vnlley, \V. Va., and some farmers ure losing all the hogs thoy have. A tract of 510 ucrca of timber land, ad1 icent lo Kranklln, I'endleton county, \V. Vs.. sold for lifty cents au acre, in frontof the Court Hons*. There In a disease prevalent among horses In Wheeling, W. Vn., of nn epizootic character. Tlie animal when attacked loses it ft appetite and becomes dull. A large ferry-boat 1ms been built at Harper's Kerry, W. Vu., to serve the pur|>ose of the destroyed was on bridgo across I lie Rhcnnndoah river at that point. S. Hibernian, a barber, lately from Cluclilir-ren?WHM?p^a~.l< * 1 y lain Hotel, at Chattanooga. Tenn., by taking a dose of morpliino and chloroform mixed. Tbe historic lands at Ap|>omattox Court house, N. C., are to lie I taught up for a northern syndicate. Options have already Iwn secured upon most of the desired property. A Kulieorlption hns bo?n started for building a Baptist church in what is known as '"Hast Durham," N. C. Several hundred dollars bavo already been pledged. Tbe cost is estimated at #11,000. A suspender factory is the Intost addition to ihe industries of Raleigh, N. C. It is carried on ill a small way, but has reoeired such encouragement as will justify onlarged operatious in a short time. The laxly of James Foley, an Inmate of the Soldiers' hoim at Hampton, Va., was found floi'ing in the river near Norfolk. There was n hole in the liuck of his head and foul play is sus|ieot?d. A sn.all child of Mrs. Fleming, of Norfolk, Vo., accidentally fell through the rear hole of on old pump. Fortunately, the holn was to:> sm ill to admit tier entire body, and shs was rescued from her unconifortaUJg position. ??Captain George R. Head, of Leesburir. Vn., linn tin old cont'-en used by bis fattier in tbo war of 1812. On tho side of it. In bin father's handwriting, is llio inscription: ".Monday, September 12, 1815, L'attlo ol Baltimore. Uoo. Head." Tho South Atlantic and Ohio Ibillroud, running from Bristol, Vn? towards tbo Kentucky line, has boon let to contract from the Big Tunnel in Scott, county, to two miles beyond Big Stone (lap. The road is to tw completed by next January. Tom Wcolfolk, who murdered nine ol bis family, lias l>oen convicted In the Hu perior Court, at Atlanta, Oh., of murder in tbo first degree. lie was sentenced to bt banged on August 10 next. A motion for a now trial was entered. A band of masked men w.>nt to the Hhep herdsvillo (Ky.) jail secured Charles Ardoil a prls tier charged with I bo murder of a pert dler, and took Inm in a woods a mile nn< a half away from the jail wbere they banget iiim to a tree. Ben Cowan, coiored, wan struck by at east bound freight train on the Norfolk un< Western railroad at Farinville, Va., am fatally injured. He whs intoxicated am was sitting on the bridge in tile wesleri suburbs of ttie town. Becker Brothers, of Baltimore, hnv' four hundred acres of lAn<! on the mcuntati slopes at Harper's Kerry, W. Vs., planted ii fruit trees, and expect to add six hmidre< or a thousand more, and when these thou sands of trees are fruit-bearing will estab lish a cannery. The tall flagstaff on the highest rock 01 the Peaks of Otter, in Virginia, was struct by lightning and completely shattered. / dog belonging to Jacob Rusaer, manager o the hotel, was instantly killed, while Mr Kos9er, sitting within ten feet of the dog was uninjured. It is rumored that the whole of the lo cality norr Marshall Fauquier county. Vn. known as the ' Free State," has beori pur chased from the Marshall heirs by a wealth} Northern lady, who will enter upon the wort of improving tho physical and moral con dition of tho people. A distinctly new ern in the South's Iroi end steel industry is marked by tho orgnui tat Ion of English companies to build extcn slve steel uud iron works at a new town n Cumberland O.ip, on the dividing line be Iween Tennessee and Kentucky. Tbe nam of tho town is to be Middleborough Ky Over $4,000,000 in cash have already l>oei paid out and upward of 00,000 acres of miu eral land purchased. Total investments so cured already cost $10,000,000 in cash. At is iiuiv anvrrvBiiitM ifjunn nil uuuut that the Conner mines c! Granville utnl P.-r son counties, N. C., are abounding In Im mense d-'po-iita of ore. Great sensation ex tare among the people at tho astounding dis coveries being daily made. A jmrty of capitalists are negotiating for the purchase of Bild Mead, at the moutt of Cape Fear river, N. C., with a view ol erecting buildings and otherwise fitting il up for a summer retreat. It is propose I t< run a regular line of steamers to and fron Wilmington during the heated term. George Campbell, a youth living it South Portsmouth, Va., while walking ot the railroad trestle, slipped and full through Hi* luxlv nn^KAil tlimtii'li nil rli/ltfc link lii head whs so largo that lio hung by tho tied until his position liecame known. Axes ha< to t>e used to release him from his pcrilou position. -?Tho daughter of John L. Irhy, of Nol towav county, Va., was missed from hom last Wednesday, Atul as who was but ttv years old, it was thought she had wanders nway and gotten lost. On Saturday Mi Irhy decided to search tho well, aud on mah the descent, lie was horrified to find the bod of his daughter at the taittom. As her sku was fractured, it was thought the child wa killed before she reached ttie bottom. A terrible accident occurred at 13ledR<M Tenn.,011 the Chesapeake and Nashville rai road, i nulling from Gallatin to Hoottsvill Ky. The passenger train which was (lun i Gallatin at tl o'clock juinps-d the track, nn the passenger and baggage ehecks went dow about sixty feet. About eight persons wei seriously injured, and several children wei more or less hurt. Alf Grixxard alias Hawkins, colon* was hanged hy a mob supposed to l>e con lsjsed of negro gamblers at Tiptonvilf Teiiu. He liud won all their money, an they, enraged at their loss carried him fore bly off of a I tout, first throwing n sack ovi his head to prevent his screams from a tracting attention. They then took him inl the woods and drew him up to a limb, di Handing that he return the money. He r< fused, and they jerked bim up and left hin A lire at Rtifleld, N. O., destroyed abou $75,UN) worth of property. George H. Cui ti*& Oa, lost fo\ir stores, together with large stock of general i.^erchandlse; J. I Hunter, two buildings; J. H. Parker, tw stores; Weill ft Co., stock of goods; K. C Pope,stock of merchandise; I. Luvv,a larg stock of general merchandise Ibu larg livery stable known as the Alsop stable were also burned to the ground. Tbe fli originated In a liquor store. Howard Chapman, the second son i Mrs. Mary K. Chupnmn, was instantly kill* at Princess Anne, Md. He had just start* from ttie farm of his mother, about a mi out of town, with a pair of work hors hitched to a fnrm wagon. When a short di tanco away tbe ooupling-pole between tt front and rear axles t?rted. Ha was throe forward and entangled in th? chains on tl front axle. Tho horses became frighten* and run away. When stopped Chsptni was lifeless, the entire bock part of bis boa being crushed in. ? |DISASTERS AND CASUALTIES: Clarke grain elevator at PapeUlon, Nab., was burned. Lou $?),OOJ. During a flood near Clinton, Arkansas, a man named Emorson lost bis wife and seven children. Four children of Thomas Dunn, of Belleville, New Jersey, have died of diphtheria witliln ton days. Thirty-one persons, nt Find lay. Ohio, wer? poisoned by eating corned l?oef, and it is thought some of the cases will terminate fatally. Two men named iter trend and La Blonde, were drowned while Ashing In the St. Ijawrence river, at St. Henri, by the upsettiDg of their canoe. A Inndsido occurred on the Columbia nnd Port Deposit ltailroad near Haines Station, Fa., covering the tracks to a depth of live feet for a distance of sixty feet. George Dix was crushed to death between two cars at Kohinoor Colliery, and Patrick I Gaughnm was killed by n fall of coal at Packer Shaft No 5, at Shenandoah. Pa.. Kate Rynbnck tried to pour gasoline into the tank of a lighted oil stove nt the (Iron Hotel, St. Louis, with tha result that she and Kate Kynsoza were probably t a tally burued. The schooner Jennie W. Knight ?rn*mink o(T Sharp's island, in the Chesapeake, by the freight steamer Win. K. McCstw, Cnplslu Fisher, his wife and a seaman named Harbor were drowned. Noil Burgess, the actor, was severely though not fatally burned, at his residence ut Highlands, N. J., by an explosion of gasoline. His life was saved by tbo heroic efforts of his wife. A boiler in tho brewery of George Ftenner. Jr., iti Yoiingstown, Ohio, exploded, killing Charles Klchtcr. tho engineer, mid s'veiely injuring Carl Ktaoter, Michael Welsh unit Thomas Reynolds. A tire followed the explosion. Loss ubout ?75,00-1. A tiro at Vancouver, Washington Territory, swept away nearly four blocks in tho business part of the town, including tho city jail, from which two prisoners were removed after groat difllculty. The Are was started after throo attempts by lucondiaries. Ijoss *70,000. A passenger train on the Chesapeake and i Nuslivillu Railroad rail of the track near Bledsoe, Tennessee, ami tho passenger and baggage cars went down a sixty foot embankment, Ten persons were severely injured at least one of wboin is not likely to recover. A trlpplo collision of freight trains occurred neur Latrobe, l'a., by which a number of cars were thrown down a.VJfoot embankment. Tho wreck caught lire from a carload of lime, and burned for several hours. A number of laliorors returning from Johnstown wore ou the wrecked c.irs, and it is i lielieved that I'd or 15 of them were killed, i Ten are known to have been injured. A two-story vacaut frame house in Mouth | Boston collapsed, burying several people in the ruins. Annie Mullen, aged 1(1, and i Thomas Flaherty, aged 13, were taken out * dead, and several others were injured more i or less seriously. The buildiug had been condemned, and the residents of the vicinity had taken much of it away for firewood. A bateau carrying passengers and freight on theKsint Maurice river, Quebec, U'oame I unmanageable near Grande Tiles owing to 1 the swlltuess of tho current and was carried over the fulls near Mlut place. Joseph Rivard aud two children, George Ilumelm, of . St. Elieune; H. ll.dlerive aud Miss Uellerlvo were drowndod. 1 While several laborers were at work at the i now race track at Van Neat, Westchester county, New York, an embankment caved in, burying Gobaiio lljroii:, Oil years of age; Joseph Uarinta, aged Nicliola Ganagninn, aged 31, and Francisco Degared, aged j 35, all of New York City. All the men were roumved to the Harlem Hospital, where 'I Dggared died soon after his admission. A hopting party consisting of John Matt* mnrn KHtv.tril nnti .fn^inh I *t\ i vr ?? * t Maggie'iloCrviflr? and two other young ladies, k cousinsof tbe'Hoover girl*, from Hudson, I N. Y., whilo rowing on the river opposite the Knickerbocker he houses at Bath, N. Y., were run down by the tug Evangeline and 1 the boat upset. Before assistance could reach them all were drowned excepting Joseph Cody, who escaped, but was almost completely exhausted by his efforts to savo his L'oiujxiiiious. j A severe wind storm [>assed over portions of Illinois and Indiana, and did considerable damage. At Atwoo.i, III., the streets wero flooded by the bursting of a water spout, 1 and a section of track on the Indianapolis, Decatur nnd Western Railroad wns washed out. At Danville several houses wero struck ' by lightning and burned, an I in the Godfrey reserve, Indiana, several orchards, $10,(HX) e worth of timber and other property were destroyed. V/ORK AND WORKERS. A Newcastle (Eng.) rolling mill engine weighs 300 tons and runs 10,000-horse |>ower. Bridgeport, Conn., night freight hinds want a raise from $1 50 to $1 75 |>er night* The effort at Cleveland to increase liroj men's pay from $IHiO to $1,000 per year failed, i The National Amalgamated Sailor* and t Firemen's Union of Great Britain and lret laml is now rejiorted to have 40,000 memliers. I HT ? /* *? Ili\alniu>l IT?i/x.> I 1115 ?* ISVIISIIB liUJU'n iiMin n WIIIU I 1 claims that it defeated candidates for tho Legislature opposed to personal liberty. 1 The Lowel bricklayors bavo returned to 1 work with the consent of the carpenters. Boston Bricklayers sent tho carpouters $M). Ij In tho watchmaking districts in ClerkouI well, London, the dial ixiinters earn f,'0 a s week. The work is so bad for the eyes that 20 per cent, of the dial puinters become , blind. g A novel feature In the college commence? ments that have been in progress during the ,j past fortnight may be seen in tho fact that tho graduates in many cases took up the ;1 labor question in their essays. y Tho quarrymen in Ronditignr & Knger's _ II stone quarry at Lockjiort, N. Y., went on is strike lor nine hours a day instead of ton tho other day. They were ouly out a short i,, time when the demand was acceded to. I" Tho Hollonbeck workings at Wilkosbarre, i?t Ph.. tmvf* collapsed, find the iaii liaa cms iwi it in the 1 IIIImaii voin workings, permanently ul stopping work i i both collieries. .Nearly n 400 men and boys have beeu thrown out of ro employment. re The constitution and by-laws of tlio National steam Fitters' Union wero revised at J, its annual convention last week In Boston, n- Delogntoe wero there from Philadelphia, Cine, cinnati, Baltimore, Boston, Washington, id Byracus*, Pittsburg, Rochest r, New York I- and other cities. 'r In Beverley, a village In Staffordshire, V England, there is a girl who is forewoman ? io a plaining nvll. Her fntiier was foreman hnfc was killed bv accident, and Hie girl who n- was often in the mill with hor father, offered i. Io take his place. H -r offer was accepted, it ftnd she lias proven herself very competent, r- Among tho strikes reported during the a Jxiit week bavo been those of the saw mill 1. imen at Bangor, Me.,the shoemakers of North o ,Adams, Mass., th i boilor makers at Con\ stable Hook, N. J., and the weavers in the [O mills at niaokstoue, Mnsi. At Fall River * ; the weavers of the Narra ;ansett mill who is have been on strike return to work this e week. The operators of the various mills in and of around Augusta, Ua., are somewhat alarmed 'd HVi P a (hr.'afsina.! podnnfinn nf twiwrou TKa td mill ttosse* olaim that they' are paying from 1? U5 to 30 por cent, nioro to their operative* e* than U paid l>y the mills in the northern ?- part of North Carolina, which, therefore. ?e places the (loorgia mills at a disadvantage rn in the matter of competition. ItJ ?? ??? i"* fd Tm President ana directors of the unesam imiUe and Ohio Oanai have been authorised 4 lo restore the channel to* cot* dition. The ooet will be> about fWD.OOO.