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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.
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|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.