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Devoted to Agriculture, Horticulture, Domestic Econj l^ure, Politics and the Current News of the Day. rj-i -j^jLITTLE WAIF. * A Story of Absorbing Interest. By BERNARD HERBERT. (CHAITKK XVII.- CoMiMtRn.J Garland was always considerate with llio child. lie was slcrn with her, hut nuvcr hriital. lie never punished her, probably because sliu never required correction, being n ]?erfeot little angel in her ways. Though lie never showed her any fatherly aiVcetion, oeeas onallv, when he had been dlinking, he would place her iw.r i.: 11 i'..... ?'M.. 1 :<n.. i ...i.. ? ?? I"ir mill, lain 111*1 UHllv: 1JUUJ, ami wink, saying: "Wait! One of Iheso days you'll queen it!" Hut tlion, lie wan hall drunk. No1) >dy heeded his drivel, and they used to call the man and child "IJeanty and tho Beast," or "Little CIracie and old Nick." It was years after she came there before Orrin Clifford deigned to bestow a glance upon the girl; she was kept out of his way; then, again, what should so morose a gentleman earn for the child of his servant? She was fully throe years old when, one exquisite morning in May, Orrin Clitlbrd met. her toddling along a sunny gardenpath with her apron tilled with gorgeous tulips. lie started at sight of her, turned as pallid as death, and when she turned, to lly from him in affright, he dropped upon one knee and beckoned her to mm. "Come hero, little one," In; suit I, in :i low, unsteady loin-; "what ia yourname ?" She walk* <1 bravely up ami stood before liini, lmr great blue eyes looking wonileringly into his haggard fnee. "My namo is little draeie," she answered. "Oh, yes," lie murmured; 'I know; yon are - (Jarlaiul's child!" The gardener, who was watehilig them from a distance, always said that the little innocent ottered to kiss him, but that he rose quickly ami walked rapidly away, leaving her standing there with the lag tears welling into her oyes; ; lie that as it may, from that time On rin Clifford saw < IraeuOarlaml everyday woman and a lady in evcrv IhougTit and deed. Small wonder, then, that she went half mad when ah? saw him l.>ing dead ? murdered in lied?far from the home which he had left in search of the health which would permit him to return and enjoy it. It is a wonder that the. nnor child was not driven elcun nut of her wits when she discovered the 111:111, whom she had everv reason to believe her father, in tins eotniiiissinn of f.ho foul erime. However, it was her harden now to hear the hitter memories of the past, and her duty to investigate the mystery that still enshrouded her existence. lint for the present we may leave it all to her and return to our narrative. Upon a certain spring-like afternoon about the middle of the month of April the unusual sound of carriage-wheels ir^rfrrrm- inTmV,Y4tii,rftinr.sJo,/,',\. Iite mansion that nestles at the foot of the Milton hills. The sun was slowly declining, shooting erimsou lauees among the budding trees and fdisteuiiif^ upon the livery of the approaching carriage. The equipage advanced, the high-sleppiu)g horses glancing from'side to side as the birds and little ground animals scurried away into the underbrush in alarm. . . I tl'ill ill I' llll lit I tin nnwu.irlvm i. ul.n.u - r> "i " * h1"" " "" I,,,? t!n? coachman alighted ami (lie onrrinpo <|o??r for flu* pair seated within ? a lady mid {{cut Ionian, in whom tho loador will promptly Ycoofpiizo Mrs. Cora lioydnn and Knport Arniin. In silcnco tho two alighted and liiountod tho steps to tin- stout* tnrraoo which surrounded tho house. She loaned upon his arm and watched his handsome face as he contemplated the quiet seclusion of his surroundings, , with the dark lake {.{learning like a shield of lilack stool helow them. "Well, how do you like the place?" she inquired, l>rcakiiu{ the charming , silence. "It is my ideal!" ho muriiiiired enthusiastically, shading his eves with his disonijn^e I hand, and looking oil'across the lake toward the hills hcvniid, |ust he?'innin^. to rustle their vernal foliage. "You think you could he happy here?" she asked. "Forever!" ho answered; " rover, it I could only remain." "Why should you not?" lie turned quickly and met the p,lance of her magnetic eyes lient full upon him, and lie colored IioIm lie replied : " Forever is a loii;{ t ime in this world." one i.nmc inio a son, musical laugh at liis solemn wonls. "What a sentimciital creature vou mv!" alio exclaimed: "sometimes I IliiuU you a.e not capable of enjoying tSio happiness that lies in \our path! Then you like the place V" "Thoroughly." "That is all I ask. To-morrow I will Bet a company of people to work to put house and grounds in order, and on the following day we will come out and take possession. "So soon?" asked A mini in surprise. "Why not ?" "Is there not a great deal to lie done?" "No; merely airing and dusting the house, and weeding the paths. M\ dear uncle simply closed the place without removing a single object upon if. I promise vou that the interior of the house w ill pie ise you more than tinexterior. It is a perfect dream of lux urioiiH comfort." < "1 do nut doubt it." Then, ay if the object of liis coming there flashed across his mind for the first time, ho nddc?l, quickly, "we can l>egiu on your portrait at once, can we not ?" "If you choose." "Do not you choose? Have you lost interest in it?" "Not at. all; only I want you to rest ami paint just when you feel inclined." He looked at her ns she spoke, and his lino blue eyes expressed the helpless admiration which he was powerless to express in words. Sho felt her power and smiled in her criminal victory. "How good you arc!" he said, at last; "I shall never forget your kindness and encouragement." "We'll not mention that," alio returned, laughingly. "lhitlcuu't help thinking of it," he r?f t'uiclaul * "I loivo ItOL'Ol' I Oil Uiwll (X patron before." "And I fiuicy you never will again!" slio thought, with malicious satisfaetion. "Do you know," lie continued, "that I cannot, make up niv miml to paint you as Satanella? We think of lier as the embodiment of all that is bad in women." "Perhaps T am a Satanella," with a mischievous smile. "Oh, I know you arc not!" ho exclaimed, fervently; "you are an angel, a ?" "There 'here!" she said, smilingly cheeking his passionate outburst; "you remember that 1 told you 1 have a husband, that be is traveling in the West; lie may return at any moment, unexpectedly; should such he the ease, I want to be able to introduce you to liiin as inv friend; I want him to consider you bis friend also." At this gentle rebuke, Arnim blushed to the roots of his hair, and was speechless, while the wily enchantress said to herself: "If he goes on at this rate T must get rid oi him, or he will be an insufTcrublo nuisance! However, of one thing I nin satisfied my triumph overtliut wretched girl is complete I" As they drove hack into the city that evening, Arnim attempted to frame some excuse for his forward conduct. "If you can forgive me this time, Mrs. Hoyden," ho fullered, when she cut Itiin short. "I will forgive you," she said, still ottering him the fatal bait, "on one condition. "Nui.io it!" "That, you cull me Cora when wo are alone. and T will rail you Ktijirri. It will seem us though wo wore better friends." Ho absented glr. Ilv, poor fool, not aloue because lie. waa rejoiced at. thin sons lie baton the name of Boy?leh. When it is remembered ihut little (Iracic had obstinately refused to tell any part of her life secret, it will be understood how easily ho had fancied that thero eould be 110 connection between the two persons of the saino name; lie thought it a mere coincidence, and wishing to forget Max Hoyden, had never mentioned the matter to Cora. Within t wo days the lonesome plnco at Milton underwent as great a change as though a sorcerer had waved his ' agic wand above it. Kvery room in le spacious mansion was thrown open to the light and air of heaven; the garden glowed with the early blossoms of spring, and the stables echoed to the stamping and champing of high-bred steeds. A bevy of servants hurried from rooa^, to room uncovering the rich furniture and .lucliny dusting the ornaments nguts; so itlr AMien imryoung *nrust and his enchantress arrived; they found a place sullicicntly elegant in every respect to entertain a king in. Bike one in a dream, ltupert Arnim passed from apartment to apartment, closely followed by tin* woman whose only .object was to lend him in silken bondage to his doom. She had bowitched him, body and soul, until sho tilled e Vl?ll Ill's fll'lMims U-i(l) llwtiwrlilu /xf her, to the utter exclusion of poor little (! race. It was Cora who wreathed his pinto with wondrous great roses, ami poure?l tlie wine into his cup at dinner that night. It was she who sang to him love songs in some foreign tongue to the lascivious tinkle of a mandolin as they sat in the shadowy drawing room, where the candles twinkled in their silver sconces against the polished mirrors. It was the perfume of her hair that intoxicated him, as they stood upon the terrace in the balmy spring night ami watched the young moon set behind the distant hills like a silver bow dropped from Diana's girdle. And it was she who completed the unhallowed enchantment when she leaned upon his shoulder, breathing: "Oh, Jlupcrt! If I wore onlv free to love!" I i 111 hark! What rapid stop was I'mt which disturbed (ho rharmod silence, (hat ground the gravel of tlio path beneath thrill, that mounted (he steps to the very terrace? What form was that, which stood before them ill the starlight? What voice pronounced the thrilling words: "A telegram, madam!" "For me!" she said, in surprise. For answer, the intruder handed her the well-known yellow envelope, bowed, and descending the steps vanished in the surrounding shadows. With a strange premonition upon her, Cora lloyden turned toward the open easement of the drawing-room, and hastened to where the wax lights shed their soft radiance, followoil l?v Ainiin. Pausing beneath a luster that de]>t'ii<lc<l from tln? crnlcr of the apartment, she tore ??IV tlie envelope with eager lingers, unfolding the sheet, and in u:i instant swept its contents with her eves. With a repressed erv of what sort of emotion it would have heen diOieult to deline at the moment, she wavered an instant, staggered forward a step, and sank into the arms outstretehed t<> 10 eeivo In r. "Oh, Kupert !" she breathed, faintly, "I am her, nt (dssl! Free ?free to lovel Read!" holding her in Ns cmltrnce, he took the paper from her hands and glanced at its contents. It was dated at New York that same day, and signed by a name ho did not recognize. "Your husband died suddenly some time through the night," it ran; "cause of death will be investigated." She was clinging to him almost hysterically, for he had unconsciously read the words of her release aloud. "Cora!" he cried; "I may tell you of my love, now'/" "IJy and by," she whispered; "by and by." "But I love you so!" Sho was in his arms, and lie stood facing the open casement, lie bent his head and pressed his lips ujsm her brow. A breeze stirred and the candles flickered?in their sconces. He raised his eyes to wlicro the opew-rra* mnia framed in a bit of the dark night, and there?ah, just heaven, how like a rigid corpse he stood, staring with dilated eves! IIis arms relaxed their hold, and let her sink heavily to the floor. "Rupert!** she gasped; "Rupert, wluit is it?" "Look! look! there!" lie punted. lbit she only crouched at liis foot, hiding lior faoo in lior hands, and shrinked in guilty terror. Had she looked she would have soon a filmy, ghost-like figure at the window, with a white, accusing face.?the face of her victim?the face of little Grade 1 CHAPTER XVIII? 1IOMK AGAIN. It was uo wraith, no ghost, luit little Gracie in the flesh who stood gazing in at the open casement u]K>n the unholy sceno, with wildly distended eyes. For one moment she paused there, attracted liv a baleful fascination over which she had no command; then she vanished as mysteriously n3 she had come. How had slio reached there, when we left her apparently dying umong strangers in that pretty garden of upper New York City, called Mount Morris Park? Simply enough. She hnd but swooned, and the natural health which had helped her to bear so many hardships and trials in life, had speedily come to her reseuo. Very likely it. was the hateful clang of the ambulance-gong j which finally and completely brought her to her senses; for, us the vehicle drew up at the gates of the park, ami the agile young surgeon sprang from his pcrcli upon the tuil-lsiard, alio sal up mid gazed nboRtTlierihirbewilderetl way. "What's been the matter with you Miss?" inquired the young doctor with considerably more interest thur | lookers-on. I "I must have fainted," little (Jracit answered, wearily. "But wliat was the cause? Ave voi ill?" "No, I am not ill, but- but T receivet somo bad news which almost?lui never mind," she added, as sho gainet her feet with some difficulty; "I uti better; it is all over now." "Had you not better ro with mo t< the hospital ?" "Oh, no, no, sir.*" "But you are scarcely able to si and Do you live in this neighborhood ?" "No," she answered, "I live dowi town; but if I reach a hoise car I slial i do very well." "Then |>crmit mo to be your escoil. He tillered his arm, which she gladh I accepted, and accompanying her as fa l'hird avenue, saw her saitcd in tin propor car. Perhaps it was the swee humility of the gill which touched tin sniiTe of grutituut?itt parting, that li ut! liiin watch the car as long as its but roof and red sides were visible. Be Ilia us it may, he turned away to join hii ambulance with a sigh of; "What a lovely face! Poor child, wish 1 had asked her name! If wlia sho said was true, something awfu must have happened to her." Something awful, indeed, from tin "jioor child's" point of view. It will la : remembered that Mrs. A mini luu : handed her a letter, flic reading o j which had bereft Oniric of her senses Had the good woman even su.xpeetet ! that the missive bore the forgery of lie son's name she would have destrovet ! it institute!*. Hill Imw alwuil,! ul>.. L...... what it contains! when it luul conic In 1 ti messenger a few hours after Hupert'i ! departure, with tin* request that it h | handed if the jierson to whom it wim ] addressed should she call. It was Cori I Hoyden's villainous work, and upoi her head must rest the consequences. I "I leave New York," it ran, "to Ik J rid of you. 1 loved you once, hut I hatt I you now with a hatred far surpassing I that love. You have deceived inc. outraged my hospitality and disgraced my : mother by breathing the same air witli 5ier. Farewell forever. I shall shun you as I would a viper; see that you d? the same in regard to me and 1 shall "be satisfied." To this shock ing ejiistle was appended the name of Kupcrt A mini that cherished name- tlie name of (lie only man she had ever loved and could ever love. Was it not a shock to the sensitive, sulTering heart? Was it lot a sin to be atoned for in blood? Still she kept the | note. Had he not written it, and could I she make up her mind to destroy nnyI thing to which he had set his hand? | The truth was that she did not blame him; she told herself that In' was justified in despising her, and with the true perversity of a loving woman she comforted herself with the thought that even his hatred was preferable to his indifference. During the long ride down town hIio ro far succeeded in composing herself that when at last she reached the detective's house, although very pale, she was to all appearances perfectly herself. Here sho found Mr. Edgar impatiently awaiting her, as the hour was drawing near when it would l?e necessary for them to take the late afternoon train for lloston. "Why, my child, where have you been?" asked the lawyer, when (Sracio entered the cosy tittle parlor. "lip town to bid good-by to some people who were my friends," replied the girl, evasively. | Mr. Edgar, mun-like, ac<?p&d tlio explanation without queetion; bpt when good little Mollie Baneker had taken Gracie up to her room to makefile final preparations for her jotrney mxo said, kindly: f "Hornetliiug iias gone wting with you to-day, Gracie, dear. \Fhutisit? Can I help you in any way ?"/ Tlio sisterly sympathy touched tlio right spot in the poor girl's /heart, and casting her arms about ISttllv's neck, she wept upon her friendly breast us though her heart would i?renk. ltut hearts do not break; it i/only an idle figure of speech. Her fears relieved her over-charged inind, and when she grew calmer she nhswerud: "No, dear Mrs. Hancker, you cannot help mo. There are crosses in life which we mu^t liear alone. Hut, boiluiu nw, 1 Uh ..lii,.^n^roH>.,M>y has* for all your kir.dncwt. " "Oh, nonsense!*. rojoined tlio little woman, cheerily; "dear me, 1 do hate io inivo you leuvu un: um |iniiui3u niui* you'll sometimes write U> mo, and toll nio how vou nro getting along." "I shall *Tit?i and never forget you, rny dear, dear friend !" Of course the parting with lior Btanch friends was a trying moment for Oraoie, but. like all tlio joy a und sorrows in lifo, it was soon over, und gave ploco to the excitement of hcing launched u|x>n the great world again, hound in nn all-absorbing quest?the finding of her missing mother. For two days after her arrival in lkmton fatigue und the difficulty of finding > n suitable lodging-pluce us near as possible to the old homo in Milton occupied overy moment. At last a comfortable farm house on .the high road that wound past the wcll' known "P>vck Fond" wna discovered, ! and rooniv^ or the pair-engugiHl. i" As luck would have if. the inmates of the house were new to the district, and i consequently failed to rocognizo in : Gracie tho girl who, two years previously, had gone away with Mr. Clifford when ho went abroad to die rpon a foreign shore. They wero homely sort of people, 1 glad to secure lsmrdcrH in order to eke out nn honest living, uud were satisfied to mnke their guests comfortable and 1 mind their own aifnirs. Tho only other '< inmates of the house beside the furmer and his wifo were un elderly inan and u : little three-year-old child, who were ' lxmrdcrs liko Graeie uud Mr. Edgar, ' and were introduced to them as Mr. i John Leonard and his granddaughter, little Stella. The man passed his time sitting among the trees of tho orchard intently ? watching the rouu, while the child, a 1 little^oldcn-liaijrod fairy, played at^jiis that, the pair had lodger with the farni3 or wince he had taken the place u year before; that they were quiet, inoffeii1 wive people, taking their meals by themselves, and never speaking to any one unless they were spoken to. Int deed, the farmer explained that as the man 8|>oko with a foreign accent, he 1 thought he must have come from across the sea. lie furthermore added, tap' ping his forehend significantly, that he believed the old fellow to bo "touched in the upper story." That ho was a foreigner and a .Frenchman was conclusively settled J one day when, iqion the arrival of the mail a letter was handed to MY. Edgar ? by mistake, bearing the superscription : "M. Jouu Leonard," ami post-uinrked [ "Paris." |t lint as (lie old mail continued to sit I in the orchard, with his dreamy eyes B bent upon the winding highway, and ^ dcr\?ngbne^K.*?v himself'tJ pf Y Ins meditations. t Upon the third day after her arrival H in Boston, and after the first evening of her sojourn ut the Milton farmhouse, [ Graoie, unable longer to contain her t anxiety, proposed to Mr. Edgar that I they should walk down the road in the tender starlight. Naturally she led her , companion in the direction of the old . homo, and in silence they walked along j tho shadowy road, while from the I neigh lairing swamp, the frogs cliir]a<d and gurgled a melancholy uecoiupuiiij ment to their steps. r Presently they turned in between the j massive stone posts, where the gates , hung ojM'ii, as if to receive tlieni, and f suddenly at a turn in tho avenue, which brought the mansion in sight, Gracic paused, and laid her hand upon I I it; I ? ill 111. "Look !" slit*. breathed; "tlioro is tlio house, and it is occupied ! Do yo-> see tlio lights V K, "It inuy liavo l;eog rep tod." sngfa ed , the lawyer. T* C r "No," (jaino tlio quick rejoindfY, "my father would never liavo allowed - strangers there. What can it mean V" i "It is your own home, Gracic. Von i have a right to investigate." ? "Come," she whispered, "follow mo." | And when they.reached the foot of the steps that led up to the terrace sur[ rounding the illuminated windows, she paused -><Aing: i "Wu.t for me here. Do y>t stir!" Then, with a step at liv, it as the breeze that rustled the budding trees, i she gained the ternice, and peered in at i tlio open window. Merciful Heaven! How she 'staggered and caught her breath in horror. How she (led that sight which seemed to blast tlio very life that palpitated in her bosom! "Come, come away, '*k!" she gasped, reaching mo n. ' 's sulo, iiiul grasping his hand V frantic power, hi 10 draggedthe inky shadows thatt& wer^ *'t!io avenue. "Oil, come, rome, come!" she tnonnod, as ho loitered and glanced back at the lighted, tcmuitlcss windows. "'In Heaven's iinmo, child," lie demanded, in alarm, "what liavo you Been ?" "What havo I seen?" Something vilo, hideous, sinful! Something that I will drive me mad, if over I see it 1 again! Something that will kill me, i unless I put miles between it and me! Oil, come, come! In Clod's name, hurry!" i Such was her homo coming 1 ( [TO DS C0MT1MUKD.J I THE NEWS. E. O. 11 urtlott, known in p'oneor days ns I 'W.Id Curley," died at Kearney, Nob. Ho ' "r.is a fumou* scout, and onoof tlic ourvlvoM ' >f the Mouatalu Meadow massacre. Micligan capitalists will construct u canal from ' iraud Rapids to Holland, that state, to cost OJO,000. Judge John T, Nixon, of the United JStutos District Court for the District it New Jersey, died nt Stockbridge, Mass. Vn investigation of the condition of the families of the Illinois striking miners shows .hat liiin I rod i of children are sulf ring from lunger. Two groat English syndic ites with an aggregate capital of f'W.tWO.lkW, tmve atKiut. coinplotiHl the invr itiuent of this Urge sum in American Irewortcs and grum slevalors. Captain W. It Jones, gouorul manager of the E Ignr Thomson 8.col Works, iivlio was burned by'llie explosion of molten metal, dio.l Saturday night. Joseph Iajiiihcr was waylaid, robbed and iiiurd -rod in a wools, near \> ilkesbnrre, I'm. Hy tlio exp os.ou of a boiler iu a qu my, in York county, l'a., I/-'inucl Barnes wus fatally injured on I his w.fo killed. A passenger trniuonthe Dultiuioronu I I'bilo lelphla Uuilroad collided with a locomotive near Wilmington, DA, and Kin in in telward Lyle,of Newark, killod. lluns Jospetson, n Mormon, lias boon arrested in 8alt Lake City charged with polygnmy, one of his plural wives having confessed how they were married without a license. Lieutenant Colonel Sidney 1). Waters w.is hold for the action of the grand jury, at Spokane Falls, on a charge of stealing supplies from the relief committee of tlio sutT rors by the August lire. ilarry Fluinin, the young teller of the Marine National Bank, of I'ltts'.iurg, convicted of embezzling fcl>,bO), was seutencid to live years in prisou. Mrs. Frances 1?. Willnrd, president of the National Women's Christian Temperance Union, celebrated the fiftieth anniversary of her birth. F.re destroyed i 1,000,0 JJ worth of property at Butte, Montana. lioorgo Oil-r( a dissipated tailor, shot his wife and then committed suicide in Jersey C.tv. The coroner's jury in the Quebec disaster gave a verdict charging grois and culpable negligence ou the part of the Dominion otllcials. \V. H. Layton, aged seventy-fire years, of Dupont, Ohio, blew out tlio gas in his room at the Leister House, in Huntingdon, IV., and was found dead the next morning. Governor Iamj litis respited for two weeks the negro Walker, who was to have been execute* Lot C4>ei-tcrlMd CTJHrt-liousc, Virginia. William 8. Moore's 1 irge graneries and s ables oil his farm, no.tr Daurcl, Del., wore destroyed by tiro, tlio supposed act of an incendiary. Dr. John E. Blalue, a prom'. lie111 Chicago physician, was arrested on a charge of |>orforming a criminal operniion || |J - ltnrL|^ Micb. The steamer providence, of the Old Colony Dine, was in collision with a schooner oft Schuyler's light, twenty-live utiles from New York, and was Imdly damaged Joint II. Quinn, who murdered his wifo at Alton, Fa., committed suicido l?y hanging himself in Jail. Heintnud Holzhay, notoriously known ns B'ack Ilart, the stage robber, escaped from jail at. Bessemer, Mich. 'l>'eru weie 165 business failures in the IJiftted States and ~7 in Canada t ho last week. Mrs. Delia Preston shot a canal boatman on a lw>at nenr Schenectady, N. Y., who ti l'd to force his way into her cabin while she was taking a bath, The saw mills o* the Ohio Kalis car works, at Jefferson, Ind., were destroyed by 11 ro. Total loss $115,(HK). Forest fires in California nro destroying miles of flue timber and sweeping away villages and farm boustw. James Cosgrovc, of Chicago, called William J. Collins a linr, when tho latter drow a revolver and shot Cosgrove doad. Mrs. Win. Conroy, ol | diJd. 1 lor "children the same causo. Twenty-two stoics wtrc burned out in Cresco, Iowa. Lass $l>,000. O. 8. Bliss & C'?.'s syrup refinery, in Kansas City, Mo., was burned. I?ss $50,000; insu rnice f.'!0,000, A three?yo:tr-old boy, with n mania for playing with lire, s -t fire to his ImtiV giutor^ <*Witliinr in I ml in nnm tl io tin.I she was burned to death. r.mmons Itlnlno, the second son or tho lion, /ames Q. Hlalne, was tnnrried Kept. 20, nl Klchfleld Hprings, N. Y., to Miss Anita 51cCormlck, grand daughter of tho late Cyrus McCormick, a Chicago inillioimire, and the inventor of tho famous reuping machines that boars his name. The Kcott elevated llailway to bo constructed in Kt. Louis, is to be built with Holland capital, a loan of $0,000,000 for tho project having been effected through the firm of Ladciibcrg, Thai man & Co., of New York, representing a syndicate of Holland capitalists. David llarfl Id, of New York, was arrested in Iticbmond, Va., charged with bigamy. I>r. Charles B. H intz was arrested in fhiladet* phia charged with |K>rformiug a criminal operation on Blizt Kraus, a nlneteen-yoarald (lorinan girl. General Khcrinun was re-eleciod president of tho Society of tho Army of the Tennessee, and tho meeting ut Uiucinnatti closed with a grand l.tinqn -t. Snow storms in tho northern part of Wisconsin. The St. Louis brewers have refused $15,003,000 for thoir property offered by tho Knglish syndicuto. Tho sheriff of Heading, Pa.,lc/iodon the farm of Valentino S. Kicff.r, whoso failure was caused by his being bondsman for l.-aac Kckert, a tux collector, who defaulted, skipping with $8,MX) taxes. Chicago ladios have formed a society for tho prosecution of the gamblinghouse proprietors of that city. In a quar rei oeiween i>. r. i urns, a mercti'iiit, mid John Wallace, a mnil currier, at Cairo, III., over tho removal of Commissioner Tanner, Wallace was fatally wounded. Jacob Bchreibor, a son of John L. Hchreil>er, ono of tbo commissioners of 1a high county, Pa., shot and killed his uncle, Franklin J. Bchreiber, at Moorehond, Minn. The I .a fliit & Hand powder mill, at Cressona, Pa.? was blown up, and three men killed and a number injured. Finery's big sT.p manufactory at Ivorydalo, near Cincinnati, <)., was destroyed by lire. Lop^-1125,000. Four of the largo watch cni. Mlers hnvo gone out of the combine, and ? independ ont manufacturers will likely ' >w win the fight. A little daughter ofcv.Ienry Ten ties, of Chicago, overturned a lamp and set flro to the clothing of herself and mother, both being badly burned. A fire at Madrid, Ht. Ijawrencj county, N. Y., destroyed the Uaptist Church, valued at $h,imo; tho Congregational st Cburcb, valued at $5,000, and other property valued at #0.000* KILLED IN THE SLEEPER." in i Frightful Railroad Wreck, on Ll the New York Central. a gt Many IVrnons Killed and Injured? W( Ono Section ol'nu Kx|ir?'HN Train CI ('nwIicm Into tlio Other,'Jl'nualug Hav. c. The St, I/Oiiia Kxpnw, No. 5, which left ' Alb.-iiiy, N. Y., at ten o'clock I'. M.,met with |n ; ft bad accident about two mi lea east of 1'ala. M Line Bridge. The Qrst section broke down and <*o 1 flopped for repairs. The rear brakeniau was I *out back to signal the aeco id section, but for ' lome reason failed to perform liis duty. The ' engineer of the second section says he did ' not m him, and the first lie saw was the bt {lights of Iho first section in front of lilni. V . The first section was made up of baggage, I ^ll . m?ii nrnnwt ami three nasseniror cars, | I; pa< kad with people, and a Wagner sleeper oi? w ihe end. The crush was terriflc. Tho second tli lection telescoped Into tho llrst section, knocking out tho lights ntul plunging ever J tiling into darknc*-*. |, Four bodies have boon taken out of tho p deeper, ami it is foar.d tho total mint bur of w ' deaths will run up to twenty IWt', uud jtossibly more, as tho car was full. . Tho llrst ? clion left Fonda at 11.21, ton . minutes late. Tho sect.ons of this St. Louis express usually run ten minutes apart. ^ Authentic information received from Albany says tour persons were killed in tho accident at Palatine bridge?ttireo men and ic one woman. si Kngineer llorth, of Albany, had both logs broken, One tileeper was telescoped, and two ? a:her curs badly damaged. {Superintendent Hits -II has issued orders that the injured bo ii conveyed to hotels and taken euro of. h Train No. It), from the Wost, duo hero at h U.;J0, left l'alatino at 2,t*T?, one hour Into. Nlio c | (topped nt tho sc.'no of the accident just long gl enough to takoon Engineer llorth. An nmbulauce was in waiting nt the ilo|H>t, and he ,, was conveyed to the hospital. He talked t) freely, and said Ii< slowed up his train near () Hprakor's, thiuking ho would crawl up nil i c i n one. At tho scone of the accident ^ th re in a sharp curve, and ho did not see the III st section until almost on to it. Thou lit oj>|>Iio<I tho brakes, but they would not work. lie did not jump, but st?K>d b.-twoou tho on- ** glue and thecal', where he was can ;lit. and v both legs crushed. It is not known whether h tie will die or not, fears being outcrt lined 0 Mint, lie will d e from the shock. - 1 BURNED BY MOLTEN METAL. [ A llinst l''urnnoo Hursts mul Scvn (' Men Arc Soritmsly 1 n.lureil. j\ in^imui IKTHI-'IU 1111 |? -ii <i lib \/?i inv t,i?'sKI;nr Thomson Hto-d Works nt Bud :l<>ok, Ponn. Cap'. W. 11. Jones, general manager of I ho immense stool works, iiikI a iiumltcr of workmen wore horrible and perhaps fatally burned. Furnace "C," one of th? largest of tho blast furnaces, gave w,?y at tho hottotu ami Uuta .IU^? ? ? ?*>!?Vf and ('apt,. Jones called to son if he could not n o itain the causa. Ho was working with a numbor of men near tho huso of the lurnaco when tho tiro ik occurreil. In an iiis'oiit It lines of tiro shot, forth, and tho hot metal exploded and foil ilko sheets of water. Tons of tho metal poured out of .the furnace, and that any person near the furnaco escipe I in stunt death is regarded as almost an eevident. The list of tho injured is; Captain Jones, general manager, horribly burned; M icliacl (Juiiui, ngod 25, so badly burned that his flesh peeled olT with his clothix; ho can only live a few hours. John Mokake, laid y luirnel about body, but not fatally; ('apt. N d (Jiiitin, burned about arms and chest, will n cover. Patrick Hughes, Michael Con- t nor and John Noodou worn badly burne I. .Michael King, a Hungarian, was present when tho soothing mass poured out of tliofiir nnck, and as ho cannot I>?. louiid, it is feared bo ha. been covered up. Cap'. Jones is well-known throughout tho United Htates and Kuropo wherever iron ai.d steel are mantifaeiurod. He receives a salary of f 25 UtJII a year and n percent ago of tho ' product of the largo mill, making Ins incoina > almost $50,t>0 n year, lie took J Hi men to ' Johnstown at his own ex penso two days after the tloo I snd remained there for two weeks ' Ai'Vy -r re^ua Ho itfpw Jvipu > * - THIS WOMAN A SMAbHfcK. i Mrs. Tlios Woods'('ampaign Against i I lie Kuiiiscllcm Mrs. Thomas Woods, of Warsaw, ind., has bogun an activo wy against the saloons > of that plnce. Homo time ago she served > ndtice upon t he proprietoi s of several saloon* forbidding them to sell liquor to her husband, i wno ih tin i'i county cierK and prominent in 1 i tho business world. These notices were unii lormly disregarded, and a few days ugo sin onterod oik* of tho drinking places and | smashed a costly mirror. On Tuesday sho wont into llovH-*nu's saloon throw a hamincr through tt largo mirror, and broko tho front window of .ho pluc*. She has not l>ecn arrestod, and public sontimerit is in hor favor. Sho s iys sho means to keep up hor peculiar stylo of warfare till tiro ulo of liquor to her husband is discontinued ONE MILLION IN SMOKE. L Iluttc, Mont, Visited l?y a Great Con- 8 fl tgrnt Inn. Firo destroyed f I,' 00,00J wortti of p oport.y in lSutte Cdy, Montnnn. H|mci;il dispatches Btato that the tiro hroko out uhoiit noon. A a violent wind and an iusutUei--nt supply of J' water greatly aided tho confln{ration. Late in the day, however, tli lir , which had ,j b"on conil led to tho lilock in which it urigi- ( tinted, was gotten uml -r control. Tho Itowes llloek, the First National Ylmk, |( H -niioss iy's dry goods store, Hatsoocli's hat |, store, the II nnr I H ock, (J lines' shostore t. and sovorui siii tiler establishments woro d:- , troyed. (l MARKETS.-" I Hai.timoiik? Hour?City Mills.oxtrn,14.50 ii ta$4.?'<0. Wheat? Southern Fultz, Pilaff*: I (Corn?Southern White, 40040% cts, Yellow '4ln4'J eti Oats?Southern and Pennsylvania Uln'd7 cts.: Kvo?Mar viand Pennsylvania [ i tsia.r?t.Vts.; Ilay?Maryland ami Pennsylvania I ri MIoSI.I I Ml. sit....... .1 r./i- Mf rji-u-..? I -? V?? Iin- ?? mv?i jt; t\mtT ? . <t\J , IMUUT, KosternUn*uiiery, 1U.i2.5c., near-by receipts j Kial7ct*; CIks-so?Custom Fancy Cream. 10 oKIL' eta.,?Western, OalO cts; Kkrs?21 a 22; Tobacco I>eaf?Inferior, lafi.OO, Good Common, 3 00a #4 00, Middling, $5a7.00 Oood o to fine rod,8.t$0; Fancy, loaf 1,'t. c Nkw York?Flour?Southern Common to fairoxtra,?:U0nf3.15;Wheat Nol White MX " aH0'<; Rye-State. Corn-Southern t Ycllow,40^a4l. Cats?Wnito, StnU'25%a9tl I t cts.; Butter-State. 1 In 24 cts.: Chooso-Siate, j. ilO cts.; Kggs? 2la22 cto. I'lllf.AOKl.fiii a ? Flour ? Pennsylvania v fancy, 4.25o 1.75; Wheat?Pennsylvania and hi Southern Red, Rye-Pennsylvania f( 5ii5S''ts. Ci.rr.?Southern Yellow, tOal' ^'cta ^ Oats-27a27'/ cts.: llutter-State, Iim.5 cts.; ^ Cheese? N. Y. Factory, UaUJj cU.' Kggs? f( State. 20a22 cts. ft CATTTjR. h Rai.timork?Iteef, 3 S7a4 15; S!ieop?$'3 00 u al 0 ). IIo^H -M ??i4 40 .Nkw York? Iteef?$4 75;i5 25;Slioop-$3 50 j, a5 50; II..gt -#4.70 A20. |, Hast I.iiikrtv?Beef?f4 40a4 90; Sheep? jy ' |?i 25a4 50; JLlogs?R 70a4 75 |> IS ASTERS AMbx Merritt Wright, n eon!mot^N^W . jBKBBKK >una., wni killed by the caring ifHij^j Cor|>oral ban Igr.ivo, oflldterv B, rlillery, w?? drowned at Kurt Monroe, nia, by a suil boat capslsing. Frank llniisscu and uu unknown roan who as in tim carriage with bun w.tu killed iu Jieago by being struck by a train. ^ Mr. Mnttbows, a wealthy railroad contraor, died in an opium joint in Butto, Montana, ; tor having smoked ten pipes. Hugh Hob Tie and Authony Marohetty, Jl' luers, employed at the Alaska Colliery, at Tfl omit Cutiuel, i'a., worn killed by a fall of ck. The recent wet and wanly weather haa done >H9 vatilnra ige to tho liiMiu-ach crop in Mew 3 irsey. in ilunteidoi^\iuuty aloue the iota '-'9 estimated at #100,UUO. 1 Tho upp.-r atory of u now two-story brioJt j ilhliiig in the outakirU of Chicago wat J owiiuowii, dangerously, if not futaily, In-a.^'^a^K] ring John Kcoelai and John ilobL ~|tK A freight train on tho Mexican Central jl ."vaP ailroau was derailed near LSgos. Ten men "WSjp ere k<llcd uud three injured. Itissuppwed ;|S mt llie train was wrecked by roubers. _ B '*rb' Two freight trains on the Boston and Maine , | ill road wt-ro wrecked by u collision near - j wSh inciutrr, Massachusetts. A flreuiau uaiueU .> * WBBm orron was killed uud two other trainmen H *35fflR era injured. flj During Sunday-school services in a smalt' y WR \?iue church near Columbia City, Indiana, J" .tbtniiig struck tbe bu Ming, killing two flu* iris, each about 17 ytars of ug J. ion otlioig >.f? iBmSI vre slunoed. A waloi H|iout butstovi r LVrrodordo, MexH>. cuusliii! several deaths. LlVo slock wus wept nway and Louies destroyed. Tbeexjct . umber of deaths nud the extent of the dain- ' jH go (louo nio nut known. j During a supper in celebration of the open- j tg of a now urinory in llirmiugton, Ala- IH| uiiin, the gUe*ta, nearly 0110 hundred in ly*""* 0 cr, wtre mudo violently e.c* by ttio ice 1 ream, wbicli contained some poisonous sub* bunco. ^fl WhiloKomo laborers Jn tbe stono quarries 1MB our Vauouuvor, liritiah Columbia, went w poning etuis of powder with oiiis.ds, a torrio explosion ocourrod, killing Patrick Mor> V ,'^H un uud l'atrick Delunoy. Four otuer mou \ . roro tearfully but nod. An explosion of gas In Nuilsou's abaft,tat ill tuiokiii, 1'enua., burned Alexander Crow, ohn Toeus, John Murphy and VViliiain UulIn, the ih si two namod fatally. The axplo- fl^9 Iju was caused by Tocus, who was ignorant >( the prisiico of tlio gas. A passenger train wan derailed near l/oon, ^^^9 lutlereouiity, kunsun,liy thespreading o t io ails. Tinco couchos rolled down a fifteenout enil ankment It. M. Hernia was killed, ^Hj nut lame Dean, Mrt. Mnlaoka and Mrs. ft. \. Hodge* were fatally injured. A uuinber ^9^9 >t othoiMworo badly hurt. ?? " JoliU Viulntliul mid bia ton children left lloonc, luwn, in a wagon about Hcptein jer la for Milwaukee. Th y wore ton days on bo road, and on arriving in Milwuukeo ninu >f tlio children w. re tairuu with dlptheria. i.x dying within nix days. They contract;a ,bo ?Hstum on the road. A train of seven ears going south from or ~ ^99 nit a, it on York, ran into uii engine at T H I unci ion, lVnni., c.iuaing a bad wreck. 39 wreck caught lb o andtiio injuredpoite jcrsons were injured, none fatally. >v"V -^1 W hi Io a loaded wagon containing a party if live wascrocsinga ford near-PurcelUville, Virginia, llie atreuin being awellen, the hoi sja Mieaiuo uiii.iin.igcublo, and the wngou was iwepl soiiio distance. Mim Husle Cutor, of ^9^^9 ieorgctown, District of Columbia, and Miss Ktta At well, of Alexandria, jmnpwl iuto (he ^^^99 water and wore- drowned, i'bo rest of the party regciiytd t^iqre. BURIED ALIVE 108 HOURS.4 J H M \ii Ax *1 Man llrM iii'd from Henoath. ' ^El lliitljiM'bao IjuihI NIkIc, nbe TIim laborers at work at the ruins caused j >y the recent luml slide, ut (Junbec, Camilla, I icard.il slight moan uiuler a heap of wreck- huflfl i?o? digxiiiK vixnrously noun reached Joseph vein p. Wliun extricated Kemp, who is 72 ^eiirs of age, w.ik Htill ablo to speak, after uivhix In-ou buried IDS hours. Father McCarthy uthninisL Tod the facrameat ho tippirontly dying man. Mtiinulanta^^HH^H were uilmuiiiturod and hopes are now enter-jjy^H t, lined that Konip will recover. , ^ Hhortty after Kemp was / taken out the H| orpH j ot At re, O'lrowft, n^v.A 72 years, was ecovered. The body was badly mutilated. Mrs. O'Mowd was rocking a cradle and knitlug a stocking when the avalanche of roo!c '^ Mine down. She was knocked through a 7l/)juj window ami killed. When found her hund JiHtfT it ill hold lior knitting work. - The remain* of John Henry wcro found niilur the dehris. The body/Was doublet! In ' ' ' wo and spliniors of nil s /. n wer > sticking n th" II 'tli. The body of Henry's wife was found a fow feet away. Kho had in her hood pieces of brokon plates and a fork. Mho died while preparing nor liushnmt's supper. The work of clearing nwav the debris is iti 11 going on with vigor. There are still from ten to twelve ho lios under the ruins. A VOLCANO IN ERUPTION. iniuko noil lied Hot AnIicm Thrown I'Vnn tlio Mountain of Ciltiiia. Stephen 11 en Ium, an American luilrotd rntraclor now in the City of Mexico, from iolima, has boen an eye wlt????? ?f tn... rup ion of the vofcofio of Collrna, which ' i thirty mil h North of the city of the some * m.o ??ivuiiv mho ?va travcr ill uu J levatiou of 13,009 feat above tbosea level, iid is very active intermittently, throwing ^fln pa column of smoke and red hot lUiidiods of foot in the air. Th so sp ruplious occur about ten or twelve ti y and uro followed by reports si<ml^KHB^9BHH lie dis-h irgo of nr illery. A lew day? before the earlliqusk^^HHHHHMfl nontli, tbe voloitio v<>m;td fortu a >lack smoke tliat hung like a pall ovu^fQV ountry for miles around. This pbon H^KagHS on lasted for siveral days and was aoc^^^sBBSH > lined nt intervals l?y showers of red Abel, which descen led upon its si da. H lot known whether or uot any lava iic thrown out, as ttie rod hot ashes nvesligation impossible. YIUI HtK ANU CHILD bUKWaHMH [ho in Trying to Alio Hndly Injured. He irjH H verturno.l tho lamp at bore ago, 111., and bor clothes caught lotlier, suing tho danger tho child w^HH9H|^flH >ro tho blazing clot lias from her and lioni to oiio Ai she did so, the lie burning oil caught her own dr-rsa. h|H^H eloped in ilauies, she raa frantically doH^^^HgPr^ lairs. At tb.o second landing, Mrs. Tenne^^Hpi'* II ho'pleas, her clothing burned from he^Mp oly, and her lle.h being literally roasted.^B t l moment later, ber hust>and appeared eltoBy^l pi luiiy burned, butetill able to walk. He VI H ide l in carrying hi* wife to a bed. Then is strength gavo out, nud ho fell to the floor ucouscious. Doctors pronounce lire. Tennee' conditio^ opt-k-iH. The injuries of Mr. Tenuis and ^HDfl is daughter are much less aerlOos, although J^K^9 lr. Tennes will bo Uiilly Jlstlgured by the H urus about his heed.