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Devoled to Agriculture, Horticullurc, and the Current News of the'Day. XX .--NEW SI''RI ICS. , ,;r ; UNION C.li7suUmS^^^B^^^SB ^1889- "" NUMBER^ ' "l*1"*1 111 py AVTg GRAY. fl f . It Is strange how tho tnrbulent, rubbing lido K lhnt swayed our destinies long ago, " [ Turning all other things aside, Should have grown no silent.and calm and ?low ; r Bbonld II? in our hearts like a torpid snake : And neither heart Butter nor hopeless break. Was it ijvo or passion? 1 often ask Mveoif, as I sit bore all alone; U For nt'i bor of us bae worn a mask, . And ruither of tis lias turned to stone. 1 O, 1 sigh for tlio dream of that otlrcr day, And whit wo have lost In this strange, "sad way. p Tl Passion or love?I caro not what , ^ The world may o-ill It?flek'e or true, V If you remember, or even if not, o Life never can give what 1 lost with von ; My faith in constancy, honor end truth t] Mas died with hope an<l a blighted youth. n I wonder, if either should di? to-night, Leaving tho otin r alone and still, ' A If some little touch of remembrance might Stir tho living heart with a sudden t hi ill; 11 Or awaken som * dream from the buried past, 11 Or bring recognition of love nt Inst. I woudor I But no, it cau never be ; " VI I have searched your eyes for the truth for r years; Thoy have told no siory of love f<>r mo. And ratno own havo grown dim with unshed p K tears. And SO T Irnnw n/S U ,A" - ? * -THE t UTILE WAIF.! W ?.? i>. li A Story of Absorbing Interest. ? "l M| By BFRNARO HERBERT. Ml {CHAPTER XI?Contixi'FP 1 He ailvnnced with outstretched hands, but ere they met. those of lloyden in n j;I grateful clasp, they fell at his sides. w Something, perhaps the thought that t| this man had wrecked his happiness, , -t| robbed him of the desire to touch him. s, Instead, lie said : -^(jt "I know not how to thank you, Mr. \t .Hoyden." }|j Boj'don rose, thereby expressing u rj tacit wish to end the scono. j)( "I do not wish to be thanked," he re-1 ^ plied; "I only hope that I have cured ja you of your foolish infatuation.'' ' "It was not. infatuation, sir; hut gen-' Utile, deathless love!" "Deathless! Do yon mean t> tell me " ' . | "That such love as mine cannot die! Jls Though I could i oi look ti|>on her faee ^ again without a shudder until her innocence is proved, she has my love and . will keep it for all eternity!" Boyden smiled again that indulgent , smile. _ "You for 'gners will he romantic in xv think you will he on lied?npour~tcr~ir>ok' upon her face in a hurry, since she's n| rather clover at giving people the slip. J*' Well, as I am obliged to go to Boston J" upon important business, wo will de- * fer the portrait for the present." 1 "As you please. Mr. Hovden. Good !u < " in morning. "Uood morning, Mr. Arnim. Ami the moment the door closed upon the young artist, he added with n grim laugh, pouring 0111 the remnnnt in tlio decanter into his glass: "There! That's well over. T hope to 111 the Lord I'm through with that ?ick? n- R< ing milksop!" The atmosphere of the hustling v< streets, together with the freedom from g Hoyden's baleful intluenee, produced a w singular effect upon llupert Arnim. "I won't believe it!" ho mentally tl ejaculated. "She is innocent! My heart tells me so. She is alone in the ai world, with every man's hand against her. I told mv mother that in ease of d liecd I will defend her, and defend her i ai I will! Rut how to find her? Slav! ai Perhnpa-they have some tidings of tlio poor child at poliee headquarters!" u And never pausing to consider the 11 conseouences of the act, he turned his 11 f ice down town, and after fifteen min- a utes'sharp walk entered the portals of 4^,. the residence of justice, in Mulberry 11 street. In answer to his inquiry as to g where he should find the presiding ofli- v cer of the day, he was directed to the apartment on the left of the entrance n hall. Hero, surrounded by the majes- j ty of the law, the hriivo-henrtecl fellow j t approached the long table at which a three oflicials sat. They looked up as v lie appeared and waited for him to apeak. < "I come to lind out," he began, "if anything has been heard from a young t girl who strayed from ? from her home last night?" w "What name?" was asked. "Rupert Arnim." "The young girl's name?" "Grace Garland." The Captain was going on to ask some description of the person in question, when he was interrupted by the opening of a door which hail stood ajar to the right of the desk, and the face of Detective Bancker appeared. "Will you step this way, if you please, Mr. Arnim?" he said, and \anished as promptly as lie had appeared, i With a start of surprise Arnim followed the direction given, and passing through the first private office, in which I sat the most justly celebrated detective * tins country owns, he found himself in 1 an inner office and confronted by the 1 stranger who had accosted him. ' "Picas.) be seated." began Mr. Uftncker, Jightly posing upon the edge I I OI 1114* ciesK I iiu mien iii?- (,'icmi'r pari i of the little room; "you are in search of one Graco Garland, I believe?'* "Yes, sir. Can yon toll me anything (fher?" . "First, can you tell nio anything of her?" was the imperturbable) rejoimler. "Nothing." < "Do yon mean that you have not the r.bilitv or not the inclination to tell -what you know ?" "The ability, sir. All that I know of (trace Garland is, that I met her on the Oregon, and that fjinee her arrival i?l t'lis country she has been staying W:*h mv mother. She disappeared last. ' ight, and 1 am searching for her." / "Of all of which 1 am informed. V Well, Mr. Arnim, all that 1 ean tell \ou is that (trace Garland is in custody," "In custody! In prison?" "No; but out of harm's way," "0; can 1 sue liti ?" . .'i> -i-KW* ..4*. 4g^|. - ^ ^ "Not at present. We are working out f i dense mystery ami have too much at n take to bo interfered with. tf will call ipon yon Inter. Gowhlny." s * CHAPTER XII. \ BAKCEBB TO THE FRONT. jl Poor Rupert, being thus peremptorily b lismissad, bowed and took hi8 leave, k asking out throngh the halls of justice, ? yed by a dozen or more stern myr- a nidonn of the law. si As he had sat, during his brief inter- it iew with Mr. Bnncker, with his back ai o the oj>eu door, lie had failed to no- c! ice the apparition of a messenger who r! tnde a significant signal to the detec- v< ive, which virtually was the cause of cl irnim's being discharged so suddenly; li or did he, being wholly absorbed in cl is own thoughts, see the elderly genleman, of distinguished appearance, ni ho stood waiting for an audience with tctectire Baucker. fe Had Arnitn been of a curious turn of lind, which decidedly he was not, and qt ad he chosen to listen at the door of pi private office after the elderly gen- d< le'Hrst words ho might have hoard wi ouhl linvo been : ut "Have I the pleasure of meeting Mr. pi uneker, the gentleman in charge of w: le ClilVordmurder ease?" to "Yea, sir. And you are?" nt "Mr. Kdgar. the lawyer employed th v the late Mr. Ovrin Clifford at the fr hie of his death." "Thou permit me to say, Mr. Edgar, M nit von are the missing link in our to I >e rations! Thank you for calling sli |ioii mo." ki Hut as Rupert did not. hear all this *h id the mass of vitally important busi- " ess that followed, perhaps for the resent we need not he inquisitive: let i, rather, return to little Gracie (tarlid, our long-suffering heroine, where W( e left her on the preceding night in U1 iat upper room of the old building, rostrate upon the lifeless body of her ipposed, father. m The shock of the information which 0,1 ieholas Garland hnd imparted with "h is dying breath, coupled with tlio ex- n teiuent and fatigue of the night, had reft the poor child of her souses for io. time being, and like one dead she v there, heeding not the da/.zling Rr iy of the bull's-eye lantern that oil- th mi passed the pathetic picture in its lie of light. ft may l>e neediest to state that the he litem wan held in the hand of that f? tutn detective, Mr. Bancker, since ie reader lias already suspected as ex uoh. It was he who, by chance, came upon in ax Boyden, as lie caino strolling down Brt ie avenue to keep his appointment P1 itK Nicholas Garland; it was he who *? f C^fCm "tith/-rtrr-Nrrv*-* *U ,im Io,y. -iy. na cans of the door which Boyden had It unlocked; it was he who had n< eked the door 011 the inner side after ttle Gracio had found admittance icre, and it was ho who now knew ore than was good for certain parties I the case. c After the terrible climax had pnssed, ir. Bancker, in hiH cool, calculating ay, attixed the bull's eye to his belt, >r iproachrd and gently raised the girl p< 0111 her unsuitable resting-place. Al- C1 ost his tlrst touch recalled her to her it.sea. H "Oh, what has happened ? Who are 81 >u ?" she wailed in a da/.tfd way, sti ng- ft ling out ol' his arms and staring at him ildlv. . Always methodical and calm, if any- 1 ling, Bancker replied to each query. "A man has been murdered here. I 111 a friend." * It rd! Hashed back upon her now; tho esperate conflict between Garland and n unknown man; the dying confession, . lid then the silence of death! "A man !" she cried, glancing invol- 11 nt.irilyat the da vk, distorted form upon v poii tlio floor; ho was my fa < >Ji, . o, no! Oh, sir, if, as yon say, yon axe liic-nd, tell mo what- it ?U means!" ^ "I know no more about it than you do, K iy poor girl," replied the detf ctivo, ;ently; "probably nineh ,less. Hut wo !! . ill take time ami clear up the matter." "Who has done this thing?" she demanded, shudderingly. "I am not yet prepared to say," was " he evasive reply; "all that 1 have to dvise is that we leave the matter jaist ^ ihere it is for to-night." "What! Leave him all alone hure in } he dark?" "The liodv cannot he removed until he Ooroner is notified." "Then I shall not leave him." ' "What was he to you?" "My Nothing." I 1 She could not accustom herself to j lie thought that the man for whom she i 1 vould have sacrificed her very life, if * iced lie. was not her father; and the letcctive, who was a monument of pa- 1 ienee in such matters, was not in ' ho loiist annoyed by hev contradictory ' 1 eplios; indeed, he wont on svstematenlly: "Where is your homo?" "I have no homo." "How ('nine you here?" " I do not know." "Well, we'll tidk of this another iuie, when you are rested and less e\ ited. In tlie n^an time you bad betel eomo with me. My wife will nake \ou comfortable for the night at 1< nst." <?raeieelnsped her hands, and the hot tears coursed one after another over tier pale cheeks. "Must I leave him?" she sobbed. "You certainly can't stay here; you would catch your death of cold, besides doing no good." "I might as well die! What have I to live for?" Mr. Haneker smiled, in spite of himself; it was a grim, but an honest smile. "I'm sure I can't say," he replied; . "but I should think that a pretty I young girl like von had a good deal to live for. Hut Molly can answer such feminine conundrums better than I can." "Who is Molly?" asked Oracic in an absent wnv. "M.v wife." "Well," she rejoined, in the very exhaustion ( f desperation, "let us go to her, if you will." fct> they went, the detective first care -M . I > urn *7?' t nil? Wiring ftp the him'sr-btTleiU* ud placiug the key in his pocket. Some wiseapro has said that nature eeks her opposite. 'The rule certainly roved true in the Bnnckers' caie. Mrs. lolty BSncker was a plump little robj. with jl merry, round face, lighted y a pair of kiudly, round eyes. She ept her little house, way over on the last Side, in Thirteenth street, as neat ud attractive ns gho kept her person; lie worshiped her husband, eousiderig him a man of simply superhuman ttainments, and was altogether a lieery, charitable little soul, llev tall, lender, non-committal husband knew fry well how she would receive his large, so that as he entered the cheery ttle parlor with shrinking Gracie inging to his arm, all he said was: "Mnll V 11 vnnnir *1 j y ? / vi.u* i?\m w i'um IIIU glit." Mrs. Molly Bancker was upon her ct in au instant. "How do you do. Miss?" site inrired; then, when Gracie did not rcy, she added, "I^or', how tired she >es look!" > omanly tone in which tho words were terod, and tlie sympathetic glance oved too much for j>oor Graeie's overrought feelings. She hurst into a rrent of tears, and, throwing her arms K>ut the little woman's neck, she lay ere weeping out her soul upon the iendly breast. "Dear, jK>or, little thing!" murmured oily; "whatever can have happened her? Well, whatever it is, it's u mmo! Come with me; come into the tehen and get a cup of good hot tea; at'U revive you and warm you up. 'hy, you're trembling like a ienii amo, |>oor dear." Ami soothing and coaxing her, she d Gracie awnv, while Mr. Bancker ntchod them with an arch expression ?on his expressionless face. "Molly will get her secret out of her >fore tliis time to-morrow night," he urmured, confidently, "and that withit asking. I always told her that, if io were t hrown on her beam-ends for living, sho could turn confidenceimnn, and steer it better than even lungry Joe' ever did !" The simile was not complimentary to >od Mrs. Mollv Bancker, but it. was o expression of her husband's highest [miration. ir .i.:i- ri i_ iuettuwiiutf jnji?r unit' urnciw urniiK tea, dried her tears, and was comrted. At last she was put into a comrtable bed, and fell asleep from sheer haustion. She slept late on the following morng, and it was Mrs. Bnncker alone who t bv her, while sho ate tho nicely epared breakfast. After somo desuiry eonversation,-Gracie made l>old to. k the name of her bnnofactors. "And 'NVftat IS your IlUSWimi o mror >8R. " "He's a detective." "A detective! Oh, heavens!" She started in genuine affright-, and irned as white as the snowy tableoth. "Why, what ails tho poor child?" exInimed Mrs. Bauckcr, all unmindful i her interest in the girl, that she had oen brought to her under suspicions iroumstanees. "Nothing, nothing," replied Oracio, uickly, striving to regain her componre. "I'm nervous, 1 suppose; and? nd I never knew a detective before." "Ah, but my Dick is awfully kind." "He seems so, indeed. I owe him my ife." "You don't say so!" "ics. 1 snouiu navo men 111 mai terible place hint night if it had not been or him." "What terrible place, child ?*' It is doubtful whether tira-.io would mve been induced to answer so leadng a question. Tho fact is, that she ras not obligod to, sinco at the 1110nent Molly Bancker started to her eet with an exclamation, as tho closng of tho street door smote her o ir. >ho peeped into the little hall. "Mercy on me!" sho exclaimed, in urprise; "what can havo happened? !t's Dick and a? a " Her words were cut short by tho tudden entrance of her husband with silencing look upon his face. Thoroughly well-trained, Molly vhisked out of the loom as Mr. Itancker approached and laid his hand ipon the back of Oracle's chair, lookng down kindly upon her up-raised Pace. "Graoie," he began, when she interrupted him. "How did you learn my namo?" slit inivru, in u i MMiiuni 11 ti v, "Oh, naturally enough; no matte) liow just at present. Will you go intc the parlor and boo a gentleman?" Hhe started up, placing one ham upon the edge of the table for support hut keeping her eyes fixed upon 4he do luctive's face. "A gentleman?" sho faltered; "win is it?" "A stranger to me, but a friend t< yon, so he says." She hesitated a moment; then layinf her hand trustingly uj>on his arm slu said: "Mr. llnncker, you have been m; friend. "Will you still stand bv m< should trouble come of this interview ?' "You mny count on me every time! She bowed her thanks; heopened tin door and she passed through the littli hall and paused upon the threshold o the parlor door. For an instant there was silence then a cry rang through the house, am staggering forward she caught goo< lawyer Edgar's hands in hers and drop ping upon hor knees kissed (hem for vently. But he raised hor quickly, doop color suffusing his kind old face nnd placed her upon tlio sofa liosid him. "Heaven lias brought us togrtber t< do its will, my child," lie murmured. "Oil, then you know all!" she cried. "I know that Nicholas Garland i dead; that ho was not your father." "Oil, then, who am I ? My dear, goo? friend, tell mo who I am, in mercy' name!" "('an you bear to hear it, Graeie?" "Yes, yes! Anything rather than thii suspense!" "Yon are the child of the man whon Nicholas Garland murdered! i ou an * CHAPTER Inll. | I"' A RAI or IJSKT. -. 1 "Thank God! Thank God J1- I It was the joyful ory ot a grAeful heart, a heart too full for ihrtherltternnce. The coo thing ia all tho rorld which she would have wished m<At to hear, sho heard, and the great jot of it had almost bereft her of her senna. Hut she did not faint; she simgly sat there with her sunny head restini u|>on Mr. Edgar's shoulder, his fatherll arms supporting her, while her big, sojkfeyes, brimful of tears, were fixed upon vaenuov, with so heavenly an expression in them, that one would say that tlioy had pierced the limits of mortal vision and were contemplating thedSffabi^h^^uty of the promised Parmllre. Wishing to allow her to fully realize the great intelligence he had imparted, the lawyer did not disturb hef 'tram*, and so she sat there lost in tar daydream, with the genial ttynfilHjie.o? Lho -yjfiffiff v?rwa?T>n. Those wore moments of indescribable ecstasy for little Gracie, long to be re membered after the storm-clouds had again gathered, and the sunlight of hope had vanished. At last she spoke in a low murmur, as though communing with herself. "Father! Mij father!?Oh, how sweet to think of it!" "Yes, Oracio, your father," echoed Mr. Edgar. She started then, the spoil was broken, and drawing herself out of his protecting clasp, she asked: "How long have you known this glud truth?" "I know it only on the night your father died." "Then perhaps it was to tell mo the secret that he wished to Bee me!" "I am sure of it." "Oh, blessings on him! Oh, how blind I must have been in all ^hese years, not to have seen what his love and protection for me meant! And yet I think I must have known, for I eould only have loved a father as I loved him." "And he loved you equally in return," rejoined Mr. Edgar. "On that fatal night I drew up a will at his request, in which he leaves every penny of liis enormous fortune to you." She looked puzzled and half pained, as sho replied: "What should I do with so much money ? I should have been better pious* tl, hud he bequeathed me some knowledge of my birth, some explanation of the strange, unacknowledged 1 ife.J_ha.ve had to livo.M "For that I blame him!" exclaimed \k Ian .?, 1 shall know it when we meet in the next." "But ho evidently intended to tell you all that night, if his life had been spared. He gave me some hihte." "Yph! what did he tell you?" she cried, turning eagerly and laying her hands upon his arms. "He said that, vour mother still lived." "My mother lives! my mother liVes! oh where is she?" "Somewhere near Boston, I think, He told mo that sho was bnautiful, fa? tally Iteautiful; That is all 1 know.1' Slo\vly the girl gained her feet with fast locked hands, and eyes into whoso depths the far-away look had returned. "Poor mother!" she cried, "how you must have suffered too in all these long years whon I thought yon Safe in heaven!" Then turning to Mr. Edgar, she added with nervous energy: "I must go and lind my "mother! Hhat is ..... i" jiij hint- uuvj . "Not yet, Gracie," objected the lawyer rising', prepared to Impose Ids authority now that his tlltte to speak liail come. "There is time enough for that. First of all, we have duties of paramount importance to adjust here in this very city, and this very day!" She looked at him wonderingly, and he continued: "Do you realize that the object of Mr. Clifford's murder was the theft of the will which establishes you as his heiress? That will w.is stolen, and until it is recovered you area pauper." ller eyes began to light an lie progressed, with a strange, intelligent tiie, and win It he ceased speaking she demanded, breathlessly: "In the event of liis will never boing found, to whom does my father's fortune fall?" > "To his tt* ' Max Hoyden. '***, vr??S~?qj ?p r "Ah!" she exclaimed, " x I > Hut mv mother! She is living: why should she not inherit her share V" "That is a mystery which I have not. . yet hecn al>le to probe. All that 1 - know is that she is not mentioned in the will. Every penny in left uncondi1 tionally to you. Little Grade walked slowly to the "> window and for a few moments stood looking down into the quiet, sunny ? street, lost in the deepest thought. b Suddenly she turned, asking: Is Mr. B.incker still in the house? If \r so, please call him; I have something e to say,to you both." " The detective having been quickly " summoned to tho littlo parlor, Grncie e continued: R My good friends, until the present f moment mty lips have been sealed concerning the past. I see now that I must ? apeak in justice to you both, and assisl 1 you all I can. On the nigfac" that mj 1 j>oor father was murdered, murdered " by the man whom from eal'ly childhoot' I had been taught to regard as mj n father?I was in the adjoining roon w ith the nurse, waiting my chance t< 0 go to my father,t as requested by Mr Edgar. Weliaddioth partaken of tin r> drugged tea, she having taken mor< than 1, and half dikied from the effect of the drug, T was wpon my knees be s hind her eliair trying to wake her, wliei Nicholas Garland entered by the w in 1 dow, and stealthily entered my father' s ehambor. A few nuyments later cam that terrific death-cry, followed by tb violent ringing of the bell. An install s later (forland rusb'd out with severn papers e.nshed in his hands, and simu i taneouslv M;rx Hr^'ddli appeared at- til e window.1' " * . - if MYe?." He demanded money, end Oarlantl bemled him a quantity of English bank-notes, and telling him that he had had to do the fatal deed, hurried him out of the window, scarcely a moment before Mr. Edgar appeared." "And the will?" demanded tho lawyer. "I know nothing about it," replied Oracie. "Ah it has been stolen, 1 suppose it was among the papers which Garland carried." Sho paused, and for an instant an ominous silence fell upon the group, to l?e broken at last by tho lawyer's exclaimiug: "Oh, Oracie, my child! Why did you not si>cak at once?" "I lielieved Nicholas Garland to bo my father," she said, firmly, "and would you expect a daughter to send her father to the senffold?" - Lawyer Edgar looked at Detective Uancker. ami-at. was ? ?' *""" Al>oho. ^ - -enough tho odds ate against us, wo must set trr-ttttck nnu do the best we ran with the light we have. The. laxly of tho man Garland has been taken to the morgue. Tho sooner Uracie identities it, Mm better. At tho words the poor girl recoiled with ii low cry. "Must I look upon him again V" she faltered. .."Oh, yes," replied Mr. Hanckcr, in his most business like way. "It is absolutely indisjiensnble that you sliou rd establish his identity. llesides, you .must lie present when any papers that may have been upon his body nro examined. " [to ue continued.| Padding the lustrp. A lady, who was crossing Fourteenth street, in taking particular care that her skirts 'were not soiled by contact, with the mud, ex*x?ficd to Vhiw *. &?o4 which nt Urst gtHtfRff" seemed to be beautifully formed. It w as noticeable, however, that the lieauty lasted only while the person was in motion. When she remained standing her feet looked as if there were Imnelies, like bunions, on the instep. The writrr mentioned his observations in the family circle, and was promptly informed l?v a feminine relative that the feet which had attracted his attention had been covered by a shoe with a padded inntcp. He was also told that all ladies like to have a high instep; that it is considered almost a requisite of beauty, In order toasceitiin how such fictitious amendments- to-th<r-workff^btnature \vcr.> ficcmmilinltcil. nnd lmw generally the practice of pidding insteps was curried 6n, a visit of inquiry all she "knewiYbout il. vT)r&nrr5ftrTrn " ladies like to have n high instep," she said, "and we can and do furnish them to the order of thoso to whom nature hnfl given ft flat, ungainly foot. How is it done? Simplv enough, I assure yon. When a lady has her foot measured for a pair of shoes allowance is made for a certain amount of fullness across the instep, and a high, upward and very stiff curve is niaoo between the heel and the hall of the foot, the heel hetttg made high and set Well for watd. A little pad of douhlo thickness of sheepskin, between which is a stuffing of felt or cotton, is then placed on the instep, the shoe is drawn on over it, and when it is buttoned the wearer has as high an instep us she could wish for. A year or ao ago we had many calls for shoes made in this way, hut lately tho rage for them has considerably modererated."?Netv York Times. A Chemical Experiment. One of the kindest-hearted of tnPn was the lute Isaac T. Hopper, of Dos-1 ton, a member of the Society of Friends. His fondness for practical chemistry is illustrated by the following anecdote: yVhen he met a hoy with u dirty face and hands, he would stop him and inquire if he ever studied chemistry. Tho hoy, with ft wonderipg stare, would answer no. "Well, then," said Friend Hopper, "t will teach thee how to perform a curious chemical experiment; Clo home, titke a piece of soap, put it in water, and rnl? it briskly upon thy hands and face. Thee has no idea what a beautiful froth it will make, and how much I letter thy skin will he. That's a chemical experiment, t advise t lieu to go home and make it." -? Chinese Custom0. ^'anton, some 250,000 people live continually ti|H?n Imats, and many never step foot on shore from one year's end to the other. The young children have a habit of continually falling overboard, and thus cause n great deal of trouble in effecting a rescue, while in many instances this is impossible and a child is drowned. China is an over-populated country, and the Chinese have profited by this drowning proclivity in reducing the surplus jKjpu lation. Thev attach floats to the tnah children so tliat they can be fished on' i t t i it. _ Tl. wnen mey luinnin 11110 me river. 1 ufemales are without uucli protection and are usually left to drown. FojxiT<u?. ' A very Imsy Chicago banker was t< be married to an Omaha girl. Tin ^ day came, but the groom did no' ma ^ terialize, and at nine a. m. this telegran i was received: ! "For Heaven'a sake tell ua what i ' the matter. Thia is your wedding day and tho hour approaches." I He was seared half out of his wits J and liounccd around like a hen with lie head cutoff. Then he rushed to th ^ telegraph oftiee and sent this answer: B "Thought I hail three days of graci s Don't let it go to protest. Coming o the next train." II The wedding was late, but it wus merry one. and nil was forgiven. R An ounce of silver may now be pu ? chased in England for 411 pence, th lowest price of the present century. I- Invf.xtor Edison is quoted as sa; e ing that lie would give all hi* fume I be rid of hi* deafness. nit Nhwi Isaac Artn?lr>pg. aged fi^litocn year jumped from an ixemsoi tnin mid w?? Ii tautly kill?.! at Atiant e City. C. L. R < die, a prominent luwyer of KlituMli Cit N. C., d ?J of typlioid fever. Christopbc Oatz ?ud wife, while cio mug the truck i the Ubio Hiver ltuilroad ut Mouii Isvilie, W Va., were bit by auexprtsi train, mi l ii tautly killed. Lhiriug the p??t week on thousand pu Idlers m theseveiul iron worl in ttaefctchuylkill Va ley linve bud their wagi rained.?^-Leua Hert/.ng, aged h Venice yearn, lo.iped Ironi a Now York lorry bo; atul fought desperately with James Kellj who, iu trying to sivo her, limt to boat he into submission.?Fifty p.-oplo w.-rsseriou ly poisoned by eating cheese at the village i Bettsville, Ohio. At a temperance birbt cue in I^evy couoty, Fin., a quarreivocjurro between J. A. Williams and Wi ight B. J-itli; In which the latter was killed. An Italia ft flh> way t a secret society ?? tWorge Bush, a negri i^ui ' ?< ?? *?. wa? taken from J a at Columbia, M<\, and hanged la Yor county, 8. C., W. B. Boy.l shot hit wife an th^n killed himself.?N'evo Brodie, tli bridge jumper, wont over Niagara Falls in riA>ber suit and oanio out alive, but badl shaken up. Sylvestero Morales, a notor out California outlaw, has been captured and a young girl w hom he abducted from he homo rocovered. A mob attacked th sheriff s officers in Butler county, Kansas, li an attempt to lynch Hob wtBnydor, who hu murdered bis mother-in-law, an 1 the prise n?r was shot during the fight Germans ii the West are agitating the question of i nitional German-American holiday, to b celebrated annually by Uerman-Amei lean all over the oountrr. The Republicans of tho State of Washing ton held tho r first convention, and aftei adopting a platform, nominated E. P. Ferrj for O jvornor. end John LsiViliottin,;41',7' -r- ?aTith Mrlke naisbeen made In tin Eastern View mine in New Me*ioo. A O Btnley, of South Bend, Ind., was poisoner by taking morphine in mistake for quinine. Henry Fountain nccldontly shot and kill od Ids friend, Horace II. Blratton, while deer, hunting in fhe wilds of Sullivan county. N Y. Manuel Congdon killed Thomas H'.O' eutn In W??t Exetor, 11. I , during n quarr. over some chickers. In P.ttsburg, Win Smith, n colored coi k, killed bis wife ant then nt Ion pled suicide. Jealousy was tin cause. II. P. Kerry, a lineman, win kille< in Buffalo by an electric light wire while a work.??In a lit of jealousy, Hherman Cass well, living in Mont poller, Vt., shotaway tin Jaw of" George Oo j id, who had marriol tin woman Cass well loved. Mrs. lllanobe 1/oy wife of a Chinese laundry man, in Chicago has applied for a divorce. Henry Wein tr=trnnrAi^lsrwS(inist?,FTo',n,flHw,H^ has notified the Stnte Department that tli Mexican government pur|>ose to put a tarif on dressed animals and all animal products in retaliation for the duties imposed by tin United States government on oxen. Thi postmaster at Spokane Falls has notified tli Department thst the einp'oyes in that olflo will strike unless their pay is raised. Sec retury Tracy bns designated Lieut. Adati Ward, nnval attache to the United State legation ut Paris,Jto repr rent the Niivy I)( partment at the International Meteoroligfcn Congress to l>o held ,in Paris- The 1'iieii matic Gun oud Power Company, of Wash toil, hns proposed to build a pueiiiuntic cat riuge for H\O.H>. It hos lieen decided t elect ex-Senator 1'Jatt to till the vacanc caused by tliO death of ex-Governor Hrow as president of the Tenuess.*e Coal, Iron an Railroad Company. More trouble is ei pjcted at Sewall, W. Va. There is a grei demand for coke, and th > price is greduall advancing. John Johnson, a Swedish cn petttef, living In Chicago, hacked bis wife i death. His mind is unhinged. The race troubles at Greon wood Miss.. bn tormiriatea. I'OUT COinreu men wervnuivi the shooting on Sunday. L. H. Drool banking office, at Creston, Iowa, closed, ai Brooks and bis cashier have been urrtstc ?? -L. I.. Cluuson, a real estate broker, w found murdered at Wichita, Kansis.? Ma* Jacobsen, a clever European sliarp.w arrested in Chicago charge 1 with extendi embezzlement on the Fidelity and Casual Company, of that city. The money wash in betting on horsa races. Two children David Cray, wliilo playing with matches a barn at Blue Springs, Neb., set fire to and Were burned to death.-?The postoff at Moline, III., was robbed of f'J, 10J worth postage stamps. The towns of Sudbti and Wayland. Mass., celebrated the two hi dred and fiftieth anniversary of the incor| ration of Old Sudbiny, one of the most' clcnt of Massachusetts towns, having t< 1 settled in 10.T*, receiving its natno in Ifi ' Sudbury was the nineteenth town in 1 Massachusetts Bay Colony, and the s-.cc 1 situated lieyond tho flow of the tide. T millionaire packers, Armour and Swift, nored thesubpee in to appear before the S atorial Committee investigating tho dres r beef trade in Chicago. A twelve-ycnr-oldson of John A. SMckl j of Burgi.tsville, W. Vo., was accident! I killed while handling a pistol. Dr. Da i Tilton Brown, a retired farmer, hanged li , self in his born, near Bitaviu, I I. roof of the cnsling-house at the Stewart I Company's works, Sharon, Pa., fell in, tally injuring Austin iMoreford,seriously -> juring several others. Y train on * Pennsylvoiun Itallroad, near Elixtbethfc: N. J.,struck and killed two boys who v I driving ncroas the truck in a wagon.? a wreck on the New York, Pennsylvania h Ohio Railroad at Youngstown, Ohio, sev . passengers were injurod. |frosl Missouri and Kansas Wednesday night. ' Washington Dilliard, a farmer near Bel r hem, Pa., was shot and killed by an urikn ? chicken thief. In a fight between tra and railroad brakemen, on the Ponnsylvi railroad near Pittsburg, Foster Cox, a br II man was fatally injured, and Jessie Nlol a another hrakemon, badly hurt. T colored convicts wore'killed by a dynn explosion near Atlanti, Oa. F'ourtcei r. ored men were brutally whipped by t IR men, near Atlanta, (la., mid the gov* bns offerod a reward for t :o capture o ruffians. All the South American nit v' excepting .San Domingo, have ncc pte ? invitation to participate in tho congress paoatb. | Terrible in Antwerp. . " - , r . # . - 0,. 1 A Thousand Persons Injured?Hundreds of Casks of Oil In Flam s? ^ '* Tlio t>hlp|>lii(i Endangered l>y 9 the Conflagration. i* Two hundred pcr.-ous wore killed and Are s hundred more or less injured by an exploit sion of dynamite In a cartridge factory in it the vicinity of the Bourse, in Antwerp. That >', budding was sot on (lro by blizng timbers r hurled against it by tho explosion, and a s- panio prevailed in that sactio i of the city. >f Hundreds oilmen aud women were engagel in a long, low building br nking up old d I cartridges when an explodou occurred a, ' among a pile of cartridges, which In turn oxa plo led a lot of dynamite. '1 liousindsof deadL '/ m ssiles flaw in every direction. The y hundrv<Ts of f.otawny from fh'? spot.' jt nuns m i* gin 8 wro lounrt two bundre I yards away from tho ruins of the cartridge factory. Tho tiro caused l?y tho exp'osion destroyed d what remained of tho factory and burned 0 the bodus of many of th i vi 'tims, Th* military wore orderod out to chock tho |>auic mid I prevent pillaging. After * >veral large buildy tugs hnd Imhmi dcntroycd, the flames caught 1 the great llussian oil tanks, and in n few innI ments eighty thousand barrels of oil were ' aoluz . More explosions occurred, and the r flames continu d to saeet to th > docks, nml o soon several large vessels were burning. Th? u loss will I e many millions of francs. Tho . cartridge factory was situated in the rear of the docks, upon which millions of cartridges in boxes wero being loaded at the time. As a the Ore exp'oded these cartridges tho lire^ men were compelled to run for their lives, ami many of them wore wouudod. 0 I The latest estimate is that there are 300 s dead and 1,030 inJ ired. Th explosions continue. At the American docks all tho ships have lieen saved, owing to the favorable direction of the wind. Tho stained windows r of tho Cathedral are ~ that the iMphll dock sheds -Rita bvdrnulio cranes aro grateiy damage I. 1 Tuo soldiers of tho garrison ami a large number of citizens are assisting the llrmen. Many I are dropping from suffocation. Ths scenes at the hospitals are heartrending. King letol old has sent a telegram expressing sympa* thy and asking for particulars. The people nro incensed at tho Deputation I'jrinate for adowing work to continue in tho cartrl'lgo * factory which had been condemueJ. 1 _ i CABLE SPARKS. 1 Four of the largest mills In RlaoUburn, I England, have shut (low, owing to tho dullness of trado. A severe shocfc- of" MHhquake was fell 3 throughout (Jreoce, nnd serious damage was ? dono in several towns. , Hnron Kchimmelpinninck Van Dor Oye, president of (he First Chamber of the Mtuteslioneral, died at the Hague. The council of the French Legion of Honor I Vimv V^Ai ^..p 1 II lnn -TfiM ____ ,, fired to maintain friendly relations with f Bulgaria. Alh-rt Nlcolet, nn engraver, has confessed to the authorship of the unarciiiHt manifesto \i recently circulate*! throughout Hwilxorland. 9 llo wj(ll Iff tf)ed fur tip} oiTenso at Dome. ThoremuVi%pf.i?tfCal 1>I i'aoli.the famous Corsican patriot, wlio died In exile near Ixni0 don in lh07, have beieii exhumed from Ht, Pancras Church blirylhg-ground and shipped ? to Corsica. 1 1 ? The United Btato-s corvette Enterprise has , arrived at I'lymouth, England, wuero she will nwait'tbe arrival of the Uiiit-d Ktntes 1 steamer Dolphin-from Gibraltar, when both i wdl proceed to Ireland. ,. Tho mission sout by tho King of Hhoa, nn independent State of Abyssinia, to the Italiun government, was received in the throne room o at Rome by King Ilumb<rt with great pomp y and ceremony. n A royal order wliicb has just been issued (> at Berlin sanctions the creation in Jerusalem of an evangelical establishment with corpa rate rights to preserve existing evangelical it institutions, and to add to their number, ly Tt<e jurv of the Paris Exposition lias recomr. mond?I that a gold medal be awarded to the University of Virginiu, Cornell University to and tbo city of BoslOu for eduuilional exhibits. vo It court circles at Ht. Petersburg it is said in that the Russian govtr.uuoi.t has discharged the debts owed by tho Prince of Montenegro '. to vurio* Austrian baiuting nrun, uiiiou'iwug " to ovor 1,000,000 roubles. '' William ()tHriuii wan sentenced to two as months and Jaines (iilliooly to six weeks' imprisonment, without hard labor, in Cork (In land) jail for holding a national meeting s which had hoeu procluimud hy the English vw government. ly Dispatches have l?oon receive I at Paris to ist the ellVct that t he people of the New Hebrides 0f Islands und forty-two Kii(lish residents havo petitioned the Uovernur ot New Calidonin to annex the islands. Two engineer officers have l?een sent from Ice Constantinople to Crete to ins|*ct the va0f riuus fortifications there, with a view of strengthening them against attack incases of ir* future insurrections. Jn* The Oerman government is preparing a P?- hill for Bulimisiion to the coining session of the an Reichstag for credits to augment and reorJin gunizo the army in view of the coniinual in.... ?reuse of tho French and Russian armamints. l"e Tho Sultan of Zanzibar has signed a conind cession giving to the British Kast Africa 'h ) Company tho 1.aiiiu Island and the Benagir . const-line from Kipini northward, including 'U W lamnvn ftrawu. Merkn. Mag'tdisft anu ??- Uruti.' ' ' ?ed The collapse of the Magdeburg sugar syndicate has seriously nffected the sugar reilneries at Stettin, Prussia, ami the Hamburg fj authorities have ordered an investigation to t||y discover why the proper otli ials hod not controlled the brokers' trading. Mrs. Florence Elizabeth Maybrick, under ",1" a life sentence at Woking prison for poisonThe ing her husband. James Maybrick, a Ltverrou pool broker, is |>erinitted bv thi prison sit* . thoritics to take exe.dse in the prison yard. Her health is improving, and s'te stilt main n* tains her cool demeanor and seems to bo set* the tling into the routine of prison life. >wn . rt'.r! a Rnr.ns bank. ?" J> and eral pftP|nK Fraud, Involving PennsylIn vaiilnnm, in LynoliburK Vn. A daring bank fraud linn boon uneurtlel *,'e" in Lynchburg, Vn.. Iu December last Jii Ige own I.ntbum, of tho Corporation Court, gnntod m'm a charter to certain peoplo to conduct the ln,tt "American Insurance and Hanking Com*ke~ pany," capital $100,000. In January busi* ,0'*' nous was l<ogun, with K. M. Hrown, of ',rp? l.Ynehburg, prraident; C. C. Wolliner, aecmite rotary, and treasurer; the two mentioned, icol- Morion Brown, of Gala, Va.; W. II. Welli, . ner, lsock Haven, fa., and H. J. Browr, Kieinington, l'o., t?oard of directors, trnor \ lively business was oar. led on until ref the cattily, when the Commonwealth Attorney ions socurcd sufficient evidence to induce the ' grand jury to find indictments against Brown 6 and Wei 11 ner for fraud, when the ofHcera ficxt went to serve warrants on the indicted parlira, it waa found they bod skipped.