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THE WEEKLY life UNIOK t Dev0Jcd t? Agrieulturo, ^Hopticulturo, N fws of the Day |E??a^;?WiW'<%RIFX UNION V. II., SOUTH CAROLINA, NOVEMBER 22, 1880. i SOMEBODY. ii ? 1 I>T I'EIR'j K1TINOB. || I B-inoe'-o ly tli'nks tho world nil w on-* Ii And i over bus a wi rd lit Its pr.'iso: J \ Eoinebody biurs 1)1 w 10i d ty lonif, \ IiIIipb tuo world and nil Us way<\ . 1 Boino'.mdy nftvs it s a <|UO ?t old place. n \ Where no ?i of iho po >p:o do as llioy should ; ? ? Fomoh'dy thinks it fn I of Rra' o h y And woul In t chance tin- (oiks II hi could. f. 6oiunlx>lv cil's itcruol and cold, , Full i f sin on I hoi row nnd pain. Wlirro 1 fo is b it a no arch for cold, Ii And so lis urn 'ost in sottish Rain. (j ) Eotn jtvily morr ly In ichs, ontl ci i >s : ' "Jlnrrsh for . uc'.l a d?nir old oartli! Success shall cro vn tho man that tries n To nitiko ills niutk ' y honost worth." w Kooisbody Rionus and shakos his h ad, i Calls Ins lot a w rotchod ono ; f oniybod v wishes tha lio worn dead, '* ' For sotuobody oiho hrs all tho fen. (t J Dot s< m-l o . 1 i oti o you luuiorally r'.i.d, v blXood or ovil, iniiu or euro, ' Ri T>ono t'dntf Biiro, tou may tnaVo up your mind: 'I Botnsbody o'tcoj/s Rots his share. \i ; POOR LinLE EMILY. ^viThe History of a Prudent ? H t Marriage. *> \ v n ?, I? f V ItY MISS Ml'T.O?DC i fl ?. ' i I k CHAPTF.lt I?'V..-r, I o. v...... I "I "Well, the rest of the story lies in a nni- i ri In II; for 1 have never not to the l?<> l?>m of tl the inn'.l r yet, and I never shall now. m John ntul Emily purled in the old father's in f . presence; bo udated upon thai, and in tttv in l.-:*" presence, tco. for Emily bogfiod I would ri stay. And nt tbe last, oh! bow she clung a? round the young man's neck, and prom sod* n< him fuiilifnllv that she would marry hint. sc nnd no on * but Itini. And ho promised h- r tc as soleinuly, and John Stenhousn is a man fit wbonevor breaks Lis word, tbat if he were ai (dive on ihe day sho came of ago. be would is Iolnim her again, ami marry her ' n spile of ri inatror dovd.' He said that, those very w vorn for ho seemed half maddened by t> o st crnoffy shown to her. the tender, delicate ei _ -Kill. tuHile to be lovod nnd taken care of. tl And then ho kissed her oh, how ho kissed hi her! It makes nto cty to think of it." 01 Toorfillow! I ut, for ail tha', it would nt have bo n a very imprudent inariiapj," w said Nits, buttles cold y. 1>| "Imprudent or no!, it never ram* about, n 1 you see. U ough what hunpoued I line w _ never found out. A!ost certainly, Jo m bi ,% btenhousc formed no other attachment, j 1.1 He wotked hard in the oflico, aiul out of j dt j oWco hours ltd a most sol Jury life. He i th I did nor oven ask about Emily Honda!; e> I though sometimes when, intentionally, yc HI u-ed to mention tier, he lis cued dt oa if Lo was dr nking in every word, j fn And I took cur-) tlint during tho it? two yearn ho should hear abou' her all I p< honrtl myself. This was ttol a great d. nl, wt I tor her father kept her seprrated from nto m S?\ as mnch as he could, which was human lo i ' nature, I suppose. Hut 1 hud n ?ws of her fa noontimes, and always told them to John. ru ! Tbe on.y thing I did not tell him was a 1 sc 7 Htmnp I Knl ?? ?1-? * ' * * * "* " 1-??? iwwuru r*. - # i mom u ni _ r ^pgm<ui thou, that my husband mid I ouly w hiuxlied at It, of her intended mamaee to John Boworbnnk." Bl "I remember it wa? I who told you, an,I bi how indignant you looked. But you see I ly was light after all," H?id Mrs. t-'nub s, uot tli X w t. out a little nir of self-satisfaction. ni r "Well, uo matter now. John never \ b( nanced Emily's name, nor do I know if b<v j ft ever henrd tiie re|iort or not; but cert only j tb just ubout that time he went up to I.oodoo. ; In Whether it was to claim Emily, whether j st he asked her again and she r. fused hint, or j r? whether ho heard the report about her and lb John Boweibank, and never i.id coruo for- j ward and ask her, j.ooducsB only knows! . in All I know is that, within two months of j at / Emily's coming of age, williout my evor i seeing him?lor I was laid down with that , ?' \ Iwd fever, you know, and Edward w;ir too 11 f miseruble about ine to care much for any- i hi ! I ody outside John Btenhonsu had qui- | b ted Eiveipool and sailed for India. And | there he is now, for aught 1 know. He doos ! K1 not forget un, poor fellow; he writes to us J w ut Christmas always, and last year ho sent I <-'1 an Indian shawl to reach mo on my birth- oi day. But ho never names Emily, and ho tl never gave the slightest explanation about j B anything. | 1 "Perhaps," suggested Mr*. Smiles, I v D "tbe>f was nothing 10 explain. Thoyoun; "f i imteh id changed lior mind, (tint was nil. I 1 Ann no wonder. A marriage with tho head ! (L * ot the t'rrn instead of one of the janior j tf y clerks in bo very nun-li more Huitnble. Hut in look! is not that the cnriingo driving np? ni Iff Mr. 1 'owe; bauk's, 1 presume. Oh, dear! if d, 1 I coutd but see oue of my dnnghters driving s< ft away in her own carriage!" i u jJt': Mrs. Knowle did not answer, f'ho stood h< ft half bidden be' ind tho groups of idle j>< y gazers which always gather to stare at n in J bride, 'i'bero was it mingled expression in ni ; inr frank, rosy face.- half pity, half ten- p dcrueaj, yet tlittiug ever and anon across it cl a shadow of something elso -n something 1 A not unlike contempt. Course-looking, uu- 1 oi i, cultured woman as she was, she itossessed T that which makes at once woman's utmost u softness snd utmost strength a loving e: heart and a clear conviction though she ! w was not clever enough to put it into I thoughts, still los< into words of the di- n S vineness of Lovo. Love, which, when inut- , ti: \ "*'? 8'ves and exacts nothing loss thin the ' n M ^ entire soul of man and woman, and en- | 11 7 forces as an ah. oliuo duty tho truth of w | which marriage is but the outward sign, . I seal, and r%lilication ?'" What God hath si I- joined together let not man put asunder." b cwy. a wuiiiioi wmu mmin uer nmrrv mnir M B. - murmured tho good matron of thirty yours' n, stand ng. "Mr patience! if I had given up j g Kdtvard Knowle what would he hive thought ' <J ut mef 'What will John Ktonhome think oLi^r?" ! E / pthlns at all, probably. lie maybe n I If ^ *'mP bimBelf." n i f do ti t bclievu it ?I'll never boliove It. ' w 1 Men tnay bo bnd onougb. but Ihey'ie Dot ho el bad nn women. They'll not often ho)I i> > themselves, soul and body, out of mer? 11 1 cowardice, or break a solemn plighted s< } promiso from sheer four." i a "Hut her father- she nnB bound to obey t'< her father." t? "No, aho wasn't," replied Mr. Knowle, li I.. 1 1- Lit- 1? ? - |1M virfuijr HIM rifuu^iji J urni, ,> uu iu |? ! not bound to ol>e.y any mnn lir ng. not' n iy even yonr own hu-dinnd, who is a mighty It fW deal closer to yon than your father, wlion 11 he tells yon to do a wrong tning. If Ed- p watd Kuowln said to me, 'Rtnim, 1111 ti k. hungry, and I want you to chop yourself p m' up into mincemeat tor nie,'?well, perhaps yi do it, if he realty wanted it nud it A | d no on l?nt myself. J>nt if bo said, II " nv 'Koima, I'm hungry, end I want you to go h HMid ?-h nl that leg or mutton.' I should any, h gtl# 'No, air. Hod's law in n higher law than U if Mobedienoo to you. Steal yonr log of nml- fi H Von for yourself.' Hut stop-they've It t Vpened the hall door-she's com ng." cl P wf 8he came, the little palo bride. Not f ' Weren the esoilemcnt of the bridal gnyeties, ri the breakfast, the champagne, and tho H i npeeot;e?? could make her anything lint b pale. Bho leant on tho arm of her father, lc I ; who was an extremely Landsomo, gentle- h< n mauly, well-dressed and low-voiced per* ir sonage. He pnl her into the carriage with nt j the utmost paternal care, with a kiss and a 01 J benediction, both of which she rceoived k ] passively. She seemed altogether a pas- a I TfeiP fniil, gentle creature, such a one as a \ brave, strong men would take and shelter ai n bis arms, nml lore nil tbo dearer for hor ery belples nes. Ami Jolin Howorb-nk, hough elderly, almost old. did nol look iko n weak inau, or nn nil tender mnu. nr stronger, far tenderer Clio two qua'iie? usually pro together t'inn the bride s amlsouic nml elegant father. "I'oor tiling!" multerod Mrs. Koowlo to i rsclf. "Well, in one sense, it's an osnpe. lie's nn honest man, John llowirnnk. l'orhapj slio niny bo happy nt ?ast, less unhappy than she lovks now. iod bless her!" And with that cordial bless ins. un'ieard. nd n few kindly toars, unseen by her for horn they were shed, for in trutti tne tide did not seem much to henrnudso) tiylbiug, the enrringe drove uway. Thus rrmiuated the principal scene, nml thus unisbod the priuchtnl nclors in that grand how wodding. which had b on quite satisiclory and succssful in r.ll its elements, itti the oxceplion of one trilling omission, ol unfioquently oc urr:ng iu similar cerolouies -llove. CI!AFTER IL ilcforo tellint* the tmnr-ln cn.l oln'.? it 0 s not pretend to bo un>thing but a mil lory?of John Bowerb.mk'n wife. I shout I ke to sny a word tor John Bowerbank. The most obvious description of bitu lid almost univprs.il rril Olsui upon im, woo tlie conimon phrase, "lie was n thorough man of business;" a hornctcr whi h, ont of business circles. is a little the fas! ion to decry, or, at list, to mention with a condescending v oology. Hard to say why, since any acute ? ascncr may por -cive that it takes some of 10 very iiuest qunlites of real manhood to lake a " thorougli man of business." A inn exact, persevering, shrewd, ontorpris- ^ ig, with a s rong p wo pi ion of liis own ( glits, and an equally fair judgment, and T 1 I omyU admission of tho rigti's of his puglibor; wtio, from conscience, commou . us >. and prudence, lakes care ever to do . osiers as ho would lie dono by; wlio lias J1 rmnoss enough to strike ttio cicar batice between justice anil i enorovity; who ' 8 honest I eforo lie is hci.ovolent, and ? glitcous tie ore he is comnas innate; who 8 ill defraud no man, nor, if ho cnu help ? , ^ ill'er any nun to defraud him; w o is c ireful in order to lie liberd, and accurate ., ml ho may compel accuracy in those about ; im; who, though annoyo I by the waste J1 misappropriation of a pound, wool.I | 11 it grudge thousands spcut in a lawful, ? inc. and rreililabl . way; a man of whom e is enemi-s m y say, sarcast cally, t' at he n a "tear" man, n "sharp" man, a man ! J ho "can pudi his way in the world;" yet J* 1'f the world s work and good work, too j* is done by I im, and the I ke of iiini; ' > c far more successfully, far more nobly, ' an by your great goniusos, who annul erything and cfTccl liitlo or nothing; ? mr grand incompletenesses who only sad- , ni one hy the hopelessness of the r c iluroa. Better than to bo a poet, whoso noble life lags haltingly behind liis noble 8 >etrw n stnlPKmnn ulin I*. ,,.~,,.l II. r>rl<i nnd forgets (h it the f.rst thing Jo bo Cl ended is himself; or % philanthropist, wlm w vcs all mankind, hut no-lo.ts his own Bl mily- better far than nil those in the long P. in in the thorough man of business, tho cret of wuose career is tho one simple axim, "Anything worth Joiua at n!i ? Jf DfiU 4otun; "wcliiu | Whatever else people might nay of .'obn . owerbnnk -and they have said much, rib had nnd good, during his li'e of near- ! . sixty yeais? they always said o." him | . i s: that ho had never shuttled out of an i nderttiking, nor btoken a promise; never I rggod, bono wed, nor stolen chcutiug is ! .. odiug -one shilling from any mm; snd j lough his n:ms might not bo lofty, and | , is daily life fnr removed from the heroic, dl he was a good, lionost man, nnd (as I . pent, with exceeding r spool for tho cptu t) a thorough man of business. Ltat there was nothin ; the least interest- . ig about him. 11 is liguro was short nnd , umpy, nnd his gray hair bristled funu l.v ' )und his smooth, imld head. He could . at, liy any force of imagination, ho turned . ito a roinnnt c pcrr.o nge. That his life ad had its lom.uice was not improbable; w liven tiro without, it might have boon j who knows?- connected with n certain ' rave (which Mrs. Knowle ouco found '' hen visiting hor own little grave in Halo ' lurchynrd, and ever nfter looked kindlier | n a the mnn for the sake ot it', which horo ! . 10 inscription, "June, wife of Mr. John oworhunk" (he wan not Es juiro then*, | JJ a ho died in childbirth, wan hero interred | ' ith her infant son," neatly forty years ! ? to. ! 1 Brt so completely forgotten had been j { lis episode in his lif?, that most people c longht John lioworbnuk an old bachelor; ; n ad wh"!i he grow in years and honors, so ; ^ inch so that it was rumored th it he had 1 v col mod bein^ mado Sir John Howerbank | j >le!y because kuighthood was a small ^ ling, and baronetcy, to a man without * eirs. a blank sort of dignity, nobody 6iis- R Beted he would marry; nor, when h i did j larrv, was lie suspected of mariying in i ay but a business-like way to seeuro a g leusant mist-ess for Li< splendid honse. a v lieerfnl companion for hisdecliningyears. j ( ud, lot the truth ho owned, he did many j nly for this. He was not one bit in love. | he solitary passion of Ins life had blazed j p aud burned itself out, or rather been , ttinguished by the hand of fat,', uud it t as too Into to light up any ot! er. lie did not innrry Kiuily Kendal for love, I j or which, perhnpr, was tho secret of l.er 1 ually consenting to marry him-had ho : ? lade any foolish pretense of doing so. 1 , le respected hor character, le liked her i j all. in n (mwlnr fnlh irlr cni't nf ? ??% 1>mI Jnne, wife of Mr. dohu llowe.bank," now ! ( lecping in her peaceful grave, need not j Ave had the slightest jealousy over, nay, 1 j ould hardly have recogui/.od the middle. | god gentleman wl.o was the "happy bride, room" (hat sunshiny morning in St. . icorge's, liuuover b<|uare. l'erhapr this wna a good thing for ( iratly. In her husband's unexactlii{ , ud undemonstrative regard, more pater- , al than lover-like, she found tho rest f hich was tho only thing for which I j ho craved; and in his steady, sedate, ( ersislent ehara< ter, which ainnd at noth- j ig higher than it accomplished, and ( >uglit from her no more than she was f Ido to give, she found a little of the eora- ] >rt which she once thought was hopeless | , > her in this world. Sh-, who hail bognn , fe with a girl's dreams of perf?ction, and , , roved them all ftiiso, who, in her weak- ( ess?woaker than most woman's had ' , nned on one stay after another, and found I t iem all pierce her like broken reeds, oreriencfld in her calm, cold maningo with . is kind, good, practical man, a certain f once, which after all the tempests of her j oiith, was not w ilhont its soothing charm, j lso, to ono of her weak, hesitating nature, , te mero sense of her fate bein / irrcvoca- ! \ ly settled of Icanin < on somebody, and I t nving Homebody 011 wlioin ho wns bound > Iran? c.f panning out of the flowery elds and dark precipices of her tronhlod fa into th j smooth, hard, iron tramway of uty, conveyed a feeling of iclief. I or the flint three iuoi>tha of her marago everybody Haid how welt Mrs. John toweibank was looking; better than any ody < vor expected to see Kmily Kendal ok In thiK world; lor inoBt people had sot er down as tho doomed inlieritor of tyr . lotlior's discaso consumption, decline, j trophy?whatever numo bo given to tbo ntward tokens of an inward grief which ills the spring of yonth, and raaken life I weariness, nnd the grnvo the only reet. < It oonnot be said that marriage earned ay great change in John Bowerbaok; he van too old for (hot. Hut lie lost some >f hiB crotchety, old bnokelor ways; moved vitb a certain air of conten ment nnd irido about his linndHonie house, nnd van carefully mindful of kin delicate md sweet-looking young wife, whom te took to s'nto dinuer parties, and nl rod need among tho blooming, florid, ilid a littlo too conspicuously dressed jiverpool adies, where she looked not inliko a lily of iho valley in tho midst of a >cd of- tulips nnd rnnnucnlnsoB. So they lived their Inns, those two. Not i domestic lifo by any means; Mr. I'ower>ank bud never been used to that, nor Mrs. iowerbnnk neither. Sh-< had dreamed of t once; of tho honor nnd happiucas of bsug a poor man's w.fe; ot mending l is birls and s'ockings; of looking after bis tinners and mnkiugthe best of everything; minting no economios mean that were to igblen tho toil of tho bread-winner; no la?ors hard that were to add to his comfort. But thin was uot Emily's lot. Klio was a ich woman, married to a rich man; nothng vrns exported of her but elegant idleless. Onoe thin mishl have been t*? her veariness ifctolorabl-; but sho hail long ?een passive nnd languid, glad to do nnlhng, and to be junt whatever Rhe fancied, ince nobody ever insisted upon her being .milling? n lifo that some would hnvo ailed happy, nnd, especially in its outside Rpoct, have envied exceedingly. 'U',-*.. -I.I - 1 -I? - > - !l --- . an mi Illllll n <1 Nlll'l OI18 if the young Liverpool ladies, commentng 011 Airs. Bowyibtuk to her leighbor and occasionid, though not ery intimate, visitor, Mrs. Knnwle. It s better, anyhow, than being 'a young nan's slave.'" "I'm not sure of that," half-grim'y, balfoinicallv, repl ed the other. "I hope, my oar, you'll oe pretty much of a slave to our husband (as I am (his day to Edward inowle), or you'd b-st not marry hI all.'1 But such lovo-serv itude was not Emily's ot. Kho never trotted after .loliu Bovvornnk with hs big boo s in the morning, or rushed hiB coat, or found hint his gloves; ho never ran to open the door of evenings r settled his cushions fo: his after-dinner le?p. They h id servants to do that, so rhy should she? In truth, it never ocurred to her to do it. She dressed herself care ull.v and sat at ; tie head of her husband s table; sho diove 11 her husband's carriage about the coun- j y?solitRiy, peaceful, meditative drives; j r she paid a few courtesy calls after the j ntertainments to which, arrayed in the | tost perfect of costumes, ho seemed j 'cased to take her. Me never was cro?s it'i her; never asked h r if sho was nppy; tried, donbtl-ss, iu his own way, I > make her so. for lie was a kindly na- I uod man; but l.e was not observant, nor j eusiiivo, nor ever sympathetic. Besides, I 0 was old, and a'l his youth, if ho ever j ad any, had been buried long ago in Halo burchynrd. Mrs. Knowle told, uot nt the time, but fterward, how. one Christmas Pay, which as one of the rare holidays at the Kxhango and Mr. lloweibank was a man 1 ho never took a holiday illognlly sho i iw him crossing tho long, frosted ro a a y~? f i 1? ? ' ' * * tun t>uiu I'liuruuynra, mono, ' tough he bad not boon married mnny ninths, to stand by that grave, of which IS .21?SK ZbVPfWrvA hrt irf. If his eyes could have peered be>\v, he Would have found nothing of w.fa r child hut n little handful of hoivfl. nother wifo now sat nt hit splendid. not umblo, hearth; possibly auother child light ? Yes, this wqb what they said of him, the l-natur d pot lion of itis friends; how, ince the ott'er of tho baronetcy, a certain awning pr.de of race, the truly Ruglish deli to found a family, had come into the cad of gravo John llowerhank; that acordmgly he hail, in hi grave and practial way. conceived the idea, however late a life, of marrying, and had accordingly loked round on all his eligible young lady cqnaintnucos, until, in bis practical eye, e found one w ho, for her own sweet seuteness, he (bought would bo a suitable ; J ate for au elderly man; and accordingly; rithout much inquiry as lo her feelings, nd having, indeed, arranged tho whole latter in the most business-like fashion rit:i his old acquaintance, her father, ho i jarried Emily Kendal. Hut when, after a year the baronetcy j eing again o'Vered and accepted- there : ppeared no heir to these honors, tm- | oubtedly S r John was very mil h disap- j oinled. Of course, he did uot show it; i.e 1 /as too good a man for that; hut tho j I.. n,,,1 ; hdugh Iliey were not uuhappy it taken a j ertnin nmouul of hope even to create disppoiutinent Ktill, day by d>y, tho hus- ] >and and wife wen' more their own I rays; saw less and lea; of one another, as ! s quite easy in the daily life of wealthy >eople, who have, or thnk they have ho, nonv duties owed t?> their position and to oeicty. And tough Emily still smiled ter soft, languid, wistful snt le and notody ever said an unkind word to 1 er, nud he, dear soul, had never sud at unkind rord to nnybody in her I fe, still her ;hiok grew paler and paler, her eyes grow arirer and larger, with a sort of tar awiy ook, as it gazing forwaid into a not distant leaven for soniething on caith never found something lost "or incomplete somehing without which, tho-i.h a man should rive tho wtiole unbalance of his house for, t would bo utterly in vain. Marriage must bo hoiven or bell. Not it first, perhaps, for tune so/tons and nends all things; but a'ter t:ma has hud ts fair lice:.ne niul failed; and then omes (he dencl l>lank. the hopeless enlurance, even if (ho sharper pan as do not ntervoue; (ho feeing (: a' the last chanco n life has been taken, the list die thrown ?and lost. Probably John Bowerbnnk did not fee' bus; ins feelings were never remarkably men: niul ho had his business, Ins days jeeupied on 'Change, and his evenings demoted several times a week, to the long, iplcndid, intensely dull and entirely resectable Liverpool dinner pnnioi. Hut us wifo, left nil day at homo, with no dales to till up the idle, aimless, woary lours, with no children of her own, anil oo listless and inactiv t> adopt the snbitituto cf other cb.ldless matrons -Mrs. Ivnowle, for instanoa- and take everybody ilso's children, who needed it, under her notherly wing to such ns j oor Emily, a narringo liko hers most resembles being ilowly frozen alive in tl e lake of gildod orment, which forms the hor or of oue of he circles of Dante's Hell. lint nobody knew it. Ifer fnihor, engaged in tbo same dining-out existmoo in Iaindon Ihnt her husband, in a csser and moro harmless degree, enjoyed n Liverpool, never visited her, seldom vrote to ber. When ho did, his letters in'Buu'u ine iiwsi cnvisnie s ir-sniiKracion thnt ho had done the very best for tier; that she wna perfectly happy: and it rue he, her nffeotionnte father, who hiul toenred, after 1 in own pattern -which, of :ourH6, was infallible?her conjugal felicity. Viol all the world, his world especially, sent on an usual, ana th? p oplo who hail nost discussed the marriage, pro and < on, ill llio heat of wordy war stretched over n aide area between its two points oT Liver* [tool and London; even these subsided, as til people so soon subside after ovrry marriago, into leaving tlie two concerned to Dear their own cross or enjoy their own ontcnt. For, after all, it is their own ausiness and nobody's else; which it was from the very flri-t, if their alVectionato friends could hare believed so. [TO BB CONTUSUKD J THE NEWS. Tlie St. Ptiul Holler Flour Mill Company' I lidding*, inctuling elevator at St. Paul Sliu i., were d-stroyed by lire; loss #150,()0(J i ha I oiler of the tug Comet, at BulTalo N. Y., explxlo.l, wrecking the boat and iu juring two of the crow. Fire destroyet ilte Masonic block nt Montezuma, N. Y.;los #15,00). An English syndicate is negotia ting Tor the purchase of the malting plan of George 11. BjI'cii & Co., tho lurgesl ii Chicago, and which turns out 1,250,000 bush eh of malt yearly. Frank O. Paul, o Providence, It. 1 , n freight train brukonmn lias bien awarded #8,000 against the Provi ileuco and Woicester Itaiirond for bein, tlirown from a train by a defective brakobai and losing a leg.-?Six inches of snow cov era the Texas Panhandle. Railroad me: are now considering plans for an organization to bo know of^Mtue People's Trans portrAlon Is agaic II H/d ?d an ! tho temporary bridge across the Conemuugh has l^on washed away. *n a fog on th: Eist river, New York, tho Uni ted Stales mn;-of?war Chicago collided witl a llo.it of freight ears, but the Chicago wai n?t damaged.?Charlos Page, a;cd s.?venty eight- yeais, and his ng d wife w.-r? found murd-rol in their homo in Clinct eouuty, G t. E'.mer Lnhadie, a French man, of Franklin, Mass., on trial for rnp< unon his own daughter, committal suicide in the coiut-rooin. By the bro iking of n brake on a eable-Cir in Kansas City, a colli hioii occurre i, nnn n gripinan nml several passengers were injured. ? The annual re l>ort of the marine and fishery exchange ol Gloucester shows that fourteen vessolsfof the fishing 11 >ot nn-i seventy lives were lost dur' ing th > year. Mrs. llonry Brink. wife of the wealthiest farmer in Brown county, Kan, was >hot ai d killed by Frank Zoludick, or employo on the farm John W. Wilks, n contractor of Newark, N, J., died suddenly of pneumonia and his wile, a robust woman, expired an hour later from the shock. James II. Ilopkir.s, of No-folk, fa., reel d ntnl.y i-hot and kil'ed himself while gunning.?Thero were two hundred and twentyeight bus r.ess failures in tho United State, and thli ty-niuo in Canada tlie past week.? Owen .\nderson, i n eighteen-year-old negio, was lyiclie.l in L??sbtirg, V'a., for outrage upon a whito girl seventeen years of ago. Several woiknginen were injured by the falling of a scaffold on a tbents r ill coursj ol construction on Bl-tckwell's Island, N. Y. The sixt- nth nnnual spm on of the National Woman's Chrisli in Temperance Union b -gnu in Chicago, an I Miss Krui cts Willnrd, the president-, in her add.' ss denounced trusts and combines and corruption in politics. Richard l'hilbin, a massage op.Tutor in New York city, was arrested, obarg*d with rob bing William It. NlxonsaCjLP4?ft,roprp!>iinJt> ploy as a buller. Sallio l^ttTDack, a servant in a hotel near "V-HojesRSs, Tori., hurled a smgoth-iron at James Rtichey, a drummer, and crackvd bis skull. Tbe revised figures in tbe Iowa election give Boies, Democrat, for governor, 4,71)1 plurality.?-?Terrible sleet nr.d snowstorms in New Mexico have been the death of thousands of cattle. Katie Donovan, seven ye .rs old, was pushed into a t.oi.fir by lnr ploymatesat Lawrence, Mass nml frnin Iiit Inrlo . Tliriu children were burned to d.*aih in a lire Hint d fctroyed Samuel \V. Dunbar's farm buildings near Manchester, N. U. Colonel \Vil liam Cns-lns Goodloe, member of tbe Nutionul Republican Committeo, stable I nnd killel Colonel A. M. Swop -at l/cxing ton, Ky. Good loo was shot and fatally wounded. In n co Itsion letw.en freight ami gravel trains near Kiltanning, 1'a , tbreu iii.ii were kill d. Tbo Standard Oil Com puny ha* Lr. light out several more oil com ponies in Pennsylvania -??St. Patrick's C.llioiic Church at Utica, ti. Y., was de stn-yed by lire. Tno lUigalit n against tl < Creuit Mcbhier of America wus linnily end ed by (he settlementol Pennsylvania's clain for tnxrs. Fire did $tiO,(XX) dumage to \Y C. Reynolds & Co.'s buggy works at Coium bus, O. Severul persons were killed ni Rrownsburg, Va , in n light growing tut o Dr. T. J. \Va ker, a physician, lbreutouir.( the life of Hemy Miller, n wealthy citiz -n 01 H<> kth i Ige county, for insulting the for iliet's wife. I'lgg Vaun was hanged ill Summer ville, Ga., for tho inuider of Worlli White. * J. L. Fordemcre, a prominent citizm ol I Seotio, Neb., was shot nnd killed by Cilvin i Md llllin U'lin true j..l/t..a ..1 hio vlAlim i he Norwegian P(ow Company in Dubuque, j I w,'8 destroyod l?y lire. Firedi slroyeil : n block of buildings in IVter.-burg, V?. Lieut. Cricliton, of tin poli?a force, was killed by n fading wall. The Loss is esti mated /it $7."jO,(K)0, The Mormon* in Sell Lake City ure scheming to obtain control o! I ho schools in Salt Lake City. The Sni preine Court of Now York has affirmed ll? decioion of Judge Barrett in the case of th( ' North Ilivcr Sugar It fining Company, ami | the company must lie dissolved. The reo ' tory of St. Mn'j 's Roman Catholic Church, ' in riainsll.'ld, N. J., was considerably dam | ajj.-d by fire. Albert Maren,?'f Savannah, i Gs., cut his wi.'es Ibroat from ear to ear, j IIo was j *alous.?Pig Vuun, a condemned I mnr.ii r in Home, Georgia, attempted Mi-' c:d?.\ Miss Kate Drexel, of Pliilad 1! phia, has taken tho white veil of the novi 1 linto at I ho convent of the Sisters of Mercy, In Pittsburg. The scnteno of Sitnoi I Walker,the negro boy of Chesterfl-Id count> ; Viririnir.. has be.ui coininitted to twe litv ! years' impr.sonmctit, It- L. Braee'mon was arrested in Washington on the chnrg< j of attempting to vote illegally. Tho body ; of Captuiu C. Marcus Kohooumsker, win lost bis life in tho hurricane at Bamoa, wain Str re 1 iu tho family plot at Wlltwj#5 Omefc ry, Kingston, N. Y. Kx Secretary of Slate Thorn is K. iJ.iyurJ, and Miss Maij Willing Clymer were married at tho resi dot ee of the bride, 1617 H. street, Washing ton, in the presence of a di> inguishcd coin pauy. Tub Argent'no Government has it fttruotcd its agent in TariH to offer f.ni iliea for emigration to the .'ows who iu being expelled from ltr.ssia. Be\on thou and of theso nooj'o, who arc or de- or lore to quit Bc.-sarnb'a, l-.ivvo ft; oepted engagements to go and colonic lands on tho Ai gen tine territory, shipful of the emigrants will atari iu fnu- ilnvfi fprtm Tenmilift Thk Federal authorities In New York cit nve enforcing the law against tb* import* tion of contract laborers. I I ft """ STATE OF TRADE. a Unfavorable Weather Cans . a Decreased Movement. 1 Th?* MIim'U of Aviiilttblc tVlieiil I'.isl 1 tin* ftix liii's KiiiiK CI<MirtiiKs at Thlrlv V...... ?'"i. - ? k siimI font. , Special telegram; to ISradslrcct's ropor continuance of unfavorable weather in oi f tral ami Southwestern Mississippi Vail states ami n slightly decreased movement general trade iu staples at most poiuts, though it is noted that the volume still t * oeeds that of a corresponding timo in 1^An exception is noted in Omaha, win , colder weather has stimulated seasonal business. Cotton is moving freely in Tes and Louisiana. At Louisville tlno l>url tobacco is advancing, and the highest pru of the season are record d. l<ess Son It n to stringency is rep >rtod in leading linage 1 centres, W.st and tSoutli. I here h is been moderate improvem nit in mercnuti e co!l( i tioue nt several points. Stocks of nvui.atdo wheat in the Unih States Kist of the Kooky .Mountains Nov> i Imt tf, as reported to Urmlslwet's aggi egali I 4 1,1447,000 h.ismds, iiciinn-l k'ti,?!il,0 0 busht J Hmtomber &), lsxi and as compared wli 44,5ISt0Kj Itusli ds Novcinli r I, iSSrt. 'II totals, including both rousts, are .'si.iilT.o i bushels, against 'Jti,'t o r> month ago hi , 50,454.000 iiiisheis a year ago. Wheal steo thus exceed those ?>l a bk. d ite Inst year a 1 the lirst time in JtfV.1. Tlio t?ank cloutings at thirty seven c.t'i I (where totals nro oi.tnitiable lor .our year aggregate i-t, 100,008,01- lor October, nn ;l create of In per oenl. over Ojioln r, Iti.S, t ' 2.'jter cant. over 1887, and lti pi r c.uit. ??vi > Oetocer, 18'0. The total for the ton inoiill ottho current y. ar is ; 15 .017,875,0 in, or pea cent mi excess of a like jierio I ot 18i^ per coat larger than the total in 18s* '1 lie relatively greater incrcu-o i.t thirty s; I U.VUT, I'SCIUSIVB (l[ .M'W \--rk, IS SllOWil ll L le tuct t 'ftt while the latter'.-.tut ! inereat-c at out 4,UC0,i;0O,0UU in lull mouths of tli jear over iiist, tu? total for thirty-six oil e comprising tut ouo-ti.irdnf the grand totu increased ovor ?.?,t 0 t,tl. U.tMJ.J in t..o sat: porio I. Wheat fl ur liar. lieon in steady iiiovotnoi at practically unchanged prices. Wheat oil ti'aj jo on lig.it demand and heavy n ceipts. Corn on hi tter huno and luring i ri qu st, is up }{i and oats oa limited ri C.'lpts and oil. no s are >Vi%c higher. lie products declined sharp y on increased pre; 1 suro at the \\ est. 1'ni k tell away ?.">ei%-1 pi 1 b irrei uuii lard 40 pt iats. Butter and egjj advanced lc onoli, eheesj remaining pract i cally steady. Hogs are lower at tin Weh , Cattle are steady. Coffe i has t een in light demand an 1 clos< without special features un 'Jd..110 poults o tho week. The demand for tea is light an I prices are easier. Haw sugar is nun o uctivi particularly at New York and l'hilitdelphi. 1 owing to the reduction ot d lOiJ^c.un 1 tret i offerings. More luvorablu European cabl nl vices do not sustain prices so far. Refine is in tietter request uud shaded on sun J grades. Cotton goods are in liberal. doman 1 fo (Spring deliytxy. upitur.iK No a york and Boolon jot .. ... J ?? V ?- " r.G.iday o(irui?liics are active, anil coo It weather has .slightly unproved tbn demau Ironi near-hy and city retailer*. Wool is i 1 fair demand, ut unchanged prices, at soi board markets. Kuw cotton is 1-10:3 H , higher, oxc. pt. at New Yoi k, on smaller ort estimates and good d maud. 1 Tbo business failures in the last sevc days number--UuUed .States, C'anadi 1 3D. Total. "07, as eomp.r-d wit i U01 la: year, and :45t> the wees p.ov.ous, For tl corresponding week of last year the ligun were: I'd I failures in the Uinta 1 States uii 33 in Cunada. SUFFERING IN THE SNOW. i ' Tlio Terrible Experience of a I .of t'ntile Ilerdera in tlie The Kotlius of John Martin and Henry Vi lor, the cowboys w ho were frozau to den 1 near Sierra Grand, C dorado, in but wool terrible Id z/ ir I, were brou ;ht to Folsoni I ' j burial. Four o.bors men belonging tr? tl ' i same nartv are missile'. and it is feared tli I they m\> dead. It is reported that at len : twenty mo i ar missing from this range, ni j it is feared many of t beiu will never be fouu 1 Jo'.ly and Wise, tli.v men who escaped bad j fr< z m, toll a h artronding story of their sc ' fermg. When the tdizz-irds struck the i they were ho.d tig a herd oft},5 Oc title. Tl | wind becimi uiiurricaiii before niornin j and when Martin an i Jolly wnt on tin .a ' guard at.out J A. Al., thestorui was so biiti ' i ig til it they could not hold Mi" herd. Jot ' star to 1 to the camp for help, la the men | time Miller niul \\ iso had 1 *ft thocamj) I assist in holding tliecatil *. Jolly coul I n I lltid the camp, and Miller and Wis < con j not find the herd. All three were drawn t ! gether by shoutin.*, and wandered r.rmu | till daylight, when tlicy lound Martin. '1' j cold was so bitter that the man en'ered j ravine, and after fastening the horses, toi | the saddle blankets and buried themselves a snowdrift, and if was only by the greaU i efforts that .lollv anil Wise siieeceeiled | keeping aw.ike. Thoy wero slightly n;?a | from Martin an.I .Mi I?r, and li ul ddVuul ; in talking to o.ich other. I The snow piled upon tlioni to such woig ; ' that they wore (oree l to sock another dri ? j Ai-out tour o'clock Friday morning Mill , ! call d Jolly and W.s>, and told them th 1 ha t all hotter go, and when they crawled o > th >y made a e nroll in the drift for Mil , j noil Martin. The la. .or only could ho four : on 1 ho was dead. They took th< liors s a , stir ted, oidmg them. .Soon tlvj" found M lor on his knees, his horse standing in fr< j of him <is though trying to protect linn fr. the cold, ilo was usked to got up and with them, hut lie was unable to rise, n i was assisted to his feet, hut could not wa Jolly started to get assistance, while \V remained with theirdying companion. Ik of Wise's hair Is are lro/,.<n, and he was f becoming insensible himself wheaa Mexii sh op herder found him an I too't hiin j Rhodes' It inch, a f.-w aides distano\ '1 J men returned to whore Miller had been I I and found tuai lifeless. i - MARKETS. , Bm.timohb?Flour?City Mills.extra.fi , rS4.85. Wheat?Southern Fultz, MiM , ' Corn?Southern White, cts, Yell ! 4(>n41ets. Onto--Southern ami 1'enosyivn; > ; a">n?0iiot8.: Ryo ?Maryland & Ponnsylva i 64af>5cta.; Hay?Maryland and Ponnsylvo 12 & >a|13 00;Straw-VVh?/it,7.(<OHf.S (KJ;lhitl Eastern Creamery, lU:t25c., near-by reoei 7 9al7cts; Ch ? Eastern Fancy tfrenru. I t al'K ctA>?Western, IOjIOJ^' eta; E;'gs 24; Tobacco Leaf?Inferior, laf'i.OO, G< Common, U (>0n#4 OO, Middling,*.7n7.iH> U< to tlno rod,; Fancy, 10a* Ft. Nr.w York?Flour?Southern Common fair extra,*3.10a*ft. l5:\Vheat-Nol White 8 nKtU'; live?St* te.f> I U; Corn?South* Yellow,Oat*-Whito, State25% l- eta.; Ru'tor-Suitv La 8 eta.: Checsa-Su t- 9X?V>X eta.; Fggf?2la33 eta. o 1'Hit.anKi.rtUA ? Flour ? Ponnsylva .1 fancy, 4.'JBM.75; Wheat?Pennsylvania i Sou thorn Hod, HOlfahl ; Rve- ?Ponnsyl vn l" B5a66cta Corn?Southern Yellow, 40a41^' > Oat??2F'i'a20 ct*.; Butter?state, lwa'^5 ? o Choes>?f?. Y. Factory,eta.* Egjj \ State. 34X?i85 eta. - CATTLE. Bai.timohf?tleof, 4 00a4 15; Sheep?*: a4 50. Hogs?*1 35:?4 40. ft?tw York?Beef?if> 00>6 00;Shoep-*' 7 *5 25; Hogs?*4.30 i4 0V * East Libkrtt?Baof?$4 40a4 00; Shee *4 60ft4 60; Hogs?*4 30a4 4J DISASTERS AND CASUALTIES A 6-year old daughter of Mrs. Sullivan wi choked to death by ?wollowing a toy ballo. 6S in Cincinnati. Simon Harney, engineer, nnd James Mo' les, fireman, were killed by tho bursting t a mine boiler at Archibald, Penna. <>l A large brick dwelling In course of eroethi ill Passaic City, Now Ji>r.-oy, tunibbsl dowi burying 10 workmen. All were injured. One of the largo pulp grinders in t in p ipe plant near Apploton, Wisconsin, burst, an Killed KrauK CUrk, Su.ieruit uuiout of Ih works. ?>* Secretary Proctor bus granted th.? suf7ei of ing s.'ttlers in North Dakota, near Part To n|. ten military reservation, p-rmi-.sion to si euro wood troin the reservation. , u Tbo boiler of a steam thresher explode" ^ near Cirutton, Dako.a, killing Isreal She] >ro pai d, the owner. The engineer, tireman an jlo another uian were <1 ingerously wounde I. cus William Kennedy, of C.ltaslucpia, Peiria was drowned while attempting to crosi tb ' Lehigh river in a boat to lbs Th rnias Con J'1? pany's iron works. The boat was sw -pt o\ t cy a d nil. ml A coal train on tho Illinois and Indian .. U ... I t? I .? I uuiiuiDrn IV >:m was ?111f I! ?<I near JSuillV tl c- Dili ?na, by a broken rail. Kngnie-r \V Kvans was killed, and nn unknown trim t>d was intally burr. II A p ivsongor train and train 01 th ^ * Norfolk mi'i \Vo<t"rn Railroad c >11i'.tevl ncu 'ls Liberty Station, Virginia. Two train m Mi worn killed and two injured. 1$ "tii online iml live cars wore wm'.(?iI. 1(| Ooverninnit engineer; arrived nt John l<s town, I'n., to asceruil i tile o ?st of whImuii in 1 deepening the cli iniiels of llio stream I'li-i in through tli it city, and to erect to.n ,i;< |?jinry bridges over th? same. s> Wlnla Mrs. J. Kills was out driving in |)?i a ver, Colora la, ttio team run away and oo! >r lided vv.tli a cable c vr. She was thrown emu L.i- plet.'ly ovor the car, lauding on h r Ilea l oi is the track on the other side. Sli was fat til; It injured. N, Two west-boun l freight trains on the Kr.< ' ?- Knilron1 *w >re wronk?Kl near O isvtlle, Nev x York. Uoth tracks were blocked. Tluwrun >y c ui ;lit lire, cutting oir tomographic cnmitlM ?d mention. ttfiinu.l .Siont, of Midillelou, wa s killeil, and several others w. rj injure I. I* A freight train on the Pittsburg, For Wayne ami Chicago ltiilroml ran into tii 10 liinito I express near Heaver Falls, I'a. . brakjinaii nam *d It-ieters was killed and K i gineer Dougherty and Fireman Curr iter badly injured. .Some of the passengers re ceiveil slight injuries, j O in of the boilers of the Uelluro lens j- furnace, at It 'II lire, Ouio, exploded, ciuismj damage to the null mid adjoining l.iiillmg ,r cstijn it *d nt i'-l HI.imk). Two oilier boiler ,ji cracked, the bo.ler-rooni was wrecked au< j. one end <>f the nail factory was demobs led tt A portable boiler on a (arm near ilamlet Indiana, burst, killing Adam Munn am >s severely scalding flvooth-rs. 11 - mi ? ' ! MANY FISHERMEN LOST. i, % I* Dentil nml W-ieknge KitotiI ??!' tti ,| Mew l-.ne,luml FI 'Cl. e The annual death list of t he Murine an >r nine torr?i?io i^nora c ' u" >* " mm.' '"Vtqt.:*r f>) tllX. li <l??k? !?><*/> '4 J' still tli* ro looming font 11 re c?f making a favor abloshowing, cuniptred with tlio past fov 1 yetrs. l'\"v rending the report can rosliz n the terrible s r.iin the fishing population con io stanllv remains mi l?r, lor no rut urn after i departure u asstm <1, ami ev. ry year tin \vi lowseipiil hi iiti'libcr, ami at times exceed tlm I.ri les. Tins year'., lists enumerate iour te..<ii vessels Inst, ent ii1111 g a loss oT ?12 1,0 hi insured for So),'51. Th? fatalities ninntie 7i?. of which It! formed the crew of th J*, sciioxier Curb ton, (Jtpiain 1 "at rick O'Con j nell, wnicli was lost in llie Rale of Novemho last.year; I'i more forming tl?o crew of t'n sohojir r Joseph 0'l\?tr:ek, Ilarvey, master lost, in same gale; schooner Shilsli, .lame Wills, master, run down io a fog on Gram Banks by the selioom r M. V. Stetso i, umla! hands lost. Of the other eleven vessels th el crews were saved after great suffering an thrilling ltd v> n are?. '1 lie r attainder of tti list, oi c isu. titles is in ado up l>y: Fell ov> t hoard, washe 1 overboird in gale, !S, enj fh sized in dories, lit; lost in fog. "J; died of ex t'd posuro and injury at s ai, 5; wrecked and die or of exhaustion. :i The o seventy sou'.s ili< not only sulfer themselves, but h ivo left h 1,0 hind them in want ami sulFwin; seven ago at parents,!! ve help esssi>tcrs, seventeon widov st and liiiy-oiio orphans, most of them res dents of tins vicinity. Fortunately forth tl -et this season, the great storm t of >S plea ti. | ber did not reach mucti farther north thn |y i Onpa Coil, uii I while New Jersey was limit I ? lh? Banks had a remarkable sik |(1 j of lino w. at her. '|,J I ei nrnnrn no m \ \r s. uxnuntu 131 pic-'jio St illy I'lic llloody <Vc>il t ii'^iiiln Feu 11* Iti'ciiU-s Onl |((? Tho llutli !?! McCoy i has hro'.o.i o l.J at? ? o- Tim MrL' >yg, who from the last rcpor J1' wo 10 disorganize! mid disheartened, hit ft gathered togeth -r their scattered followet ok and nro now ready to avenge themselves, in Nothing lins been heard of the fnio Charles Irfimbkin, John Cain ninl IVle .M rt * -oy, who wore taken prisoners 11 the bio ty | light a' Ku lgy's, on the (luy. ndolt-j Kim ^ utter the batllo of Noromlu r I. They my ft. then liurri *d to thohe 1 b|ii irters of th > 11; ler Held and ltlurnlield nangs, trial nnl s.Uy tonce I to lie shot. Th-re is no dount. n, nit 'hi* sentence was exee.ite I ov -r a week a; ,er and now th" McCoys are ready Io retnliai id hast Saturdiy ill-- McCoys orok into t nd house of l*.iris liiunilieid. in the south[j|. part of I.iucoln county, an I t->ok 1 >.-th In nit and his wife prison-is They tlu-i l-urn tin tho house and birn ait I started for thi Ko old stronghold on Hurt. Creek with th mil cai live*. <hi the way they were jo.no,| Ik. u party recruited by Hank Knayon nn is* boring about a score. I'll? iiu.iyons, 1 nth 'bo lilumllelds, nro new accessions to | ast fend, which was originally coufiu< d to i jun McCoys and Until-Ids, and no.v four fatu! to instead of two are involved, die What will bo tho fate of Mr. nnl M lott 1'nris BliiintU'ld can oily be eooj-etnn but the man will probably l>o slior. Kv? one here predicts another period of blooJsl and rapine. ?> A BATTLE AT BROWNSBUR H-. ow I'rtitninctil 4'ilixciiM I'nc Their Pint In n Coiirl-riiom. nia Rep arts received from Broansburg, V a email village of nbcut tiireo bund; |)tf peoplo in Rockbridge county, state that tl -ad village is iu a high state of excitement o **1 a terrible and bloody fight botween the le ing men of the vicinity. Throo persons ^ dead or fatally woun led, while a iiumt ci 31/ others are severely injure I. 'J ho ih-wk p,.,, ceived from Hrownsburg, which Is olf ?'JC 'in0 of communlnation, says thnt Dr. I' ito Walker, o.ie of tho most prominent ph; cians no 1 surgeons of ilw State, had'thrc nja ene I tho lifo of Henry Miller, a promin ll|(| and wealthy citizon of Kockbridgc com nin lor insulting the former's wife. Miller i eta. Walker arrested and placed under bond; ,t!1>. keep tho pane.1. The oh*? came up in .8_' magistrate's court, and the trouole ? started, which ended in botli sides draw t icir weapons. Miller was killed, l>r. Wal j 00 fatally wounded, and Mrs. Walker, who' In court as a witness, was kill <1. Dan i 3 Y0 William Miller, sons of tho accused, w shot and dangerous'y wounded. Sam ip__ Heave- and othera whose names ure unkiic were also injured. iy who piiy.s progressive euchre r" Sir Julian Uoldschinidt, the will known t- London member of Parliament, wti band* 0" 1 soinely entertuiued by tin New York liebrows, ?i Delinonico'rf. d j President llirrison seldom attends the a?* 1>* | theatre, lie is not nearly ns fond of the id | draiua as ISx President Cleveland, wim luia j Lvoonie n conttrmOft 'Tirsl-hTghtor." i | Mrs. Lou se Chandler Moulton has heen 0 . visiting Lady Asliburton nt her country 1 i hotne in Scotland, and her pen cannot do jusi tice to the beauty of the pl?co or to th; charm of h t host- ss. '* The G-rnuin K:ni>?ror's stvlo o* atter-dinncr oratory is precisely mod-led on that of n cflinmin ler in the lldd. He c ids his sens' tunces out in a" series of short, sharp shook*, as if they were so many nordt of command. " Admiral Kimlierly, in command of the Pacillc Squa iron, has been in s-rvico forty 11 years, lie is now on his way to iS-iii Fran s clseo, nnd will bo succeeded by ('oinniodore | l!rown commander of the Norlolk Navy Y ill. t President Carnot of Franco is an entliu | -ia-tie Shakespearian scholar, lie has piles " i of manuscript containing his not's on the i Shake-.peari.in play-.and lie lias translated ini . to Fr.-tioh,'.>Iacb--th,""Romeo nnd Juliet'\ind "A Wiut i'sTh'o."' Carnot is not n 11 iconi i in, but is willing to i cknowledge that i Slmkespnaro was a migiulic -nt plag iris?. Y Chinese women ore entering til - field of reform. Some of the most promin lit womon a in the "Kloweiy Kingdom" Irivo form d a v i society t" prevent I ho bandaging of t lie pe-inl ? i cxtreniiti s. It is appropriately termed the i- I "Society of tlio Heavenly Foot." s i S r L-?pel (Iriflin, who w roto a book deniincialoryof (he United States, lias given I | up li s poet ion in India, and has dee ded to c go Into l-'nglisli polities. Next month be is V to marry Miss M iri Lnipd I, who ii re I c -nt ly met at II niiburg. She is the daughter a i of n merchiint. o* Naples, an 1 is related to the Canon of H'inche-ter. Word bus bean sent around fotho London t 1 dailies asking tbeiu not to print any ivpot ts ; , their correspondent at Athens might wire s j aboii' the Prince of Wales' health. Tim s p ipers all obeyed tlu suggestion. A tnelii : <m1 report received in London says that tho . ' effects of Llriglit's di.s--.is > are beginning to , , lie obvious, iiud the rc-ult. of liis voyage to i Kij?pt will be watched b.r with deep anxiety. i'rohably the largest returns, everything I considered, that comes to writers nre tliosi winch are reeeivod in Royalties for tsxtlooks for scho Is. The late Prof. Klias I .oomis, of N nlt?, was suppose.1 V*, bo 11 com* n pnratively poor man, yet, his estate, on pio, I ate t ho other ?lav, revealed weilth that is I pretty near #500,1)00. This represents the 1 | returns lie receive I in royalties for his text,f i books, w hich luivq alwivystoaa o.,.-.*>t~-?, ,r",r ??? Shot llcnit .trior IiillliiK One Mmii mid Marrrl) ttiuniiliiiK four Others. i iinyou li h ii?'. m .small station on the South. i n t'i.eilic K 'ii'l, ninety miles from Now (?r!cnn , was the see in of a tragedy in wt.i<*h t .v.) men lost tliejr lives ami four others wore dangerous.y injured, two of thoin fatally. J A wake ha I teen in progress at the section* , house in wii oh a number o! the people from tli" noighbarho nl ha I taken part. l'roni tlio section hotiie several of th?m went to tho station and were s'nn ling on the platform, when one of tli -m, hwn 'i liebod' a ix, w.is accosted by 11 Strang**!-, who slap* " | p<ii linu roughly on tho shoulder, lie ob,j | jH*teil 11 this ami the next moment, without a word, the suauger drew a long knife ami i*. slabbed loin ui tue neck and si so, wmiDdui ; ,. hull so ho could not rise from wli -re h* leii. . . Ilsbivt ei* Neil sprang to Ins rescue, but I lie stranger stubbed li ill also, ami lie 1*1. t unconscious to the ground. Ij**oii drew lu.-> ivvoivor an t lired once at Ih * ile*p.*rado, but I without effect. Mollis 1 iiebo .ifiix, a cousin ,s ot the two wounded men, came to tlioir res i. rue when ho was twice slabbed. Frank Foam-ton, hearing the cries of tho j. woun ltd men, ran up I rum the other side oi ai the bayou. As lie mouutcd tli** p.aiform the f | stranger plunged Ins km.e into I'eiiiiision'H II heart, tiling li ni instantly. I'lie desjieno o I seenii-tl excit d by the bioo I he hud slied, for | without onus or provocation lie next nt! tac'tcil Joseph Morrison, a one-armed rall\ road employee, and literally cut him up, inI ll cling no lu s than ion wounds witn Ins i murderous weapon, ami without a scratch i?l ' or injury t> hnnsolt, the niu.dorer ran do am l Iroin 'it p inform to the bayi u and sprang into a suiil moored thorn ami puddled awuy. hi I Aiit*oni nil,! Theodore idieboilaux. a : relntiv. ot tin* wounded itieii.slurte1 out utter (; the murderer and ran down to the hayou. v.( | 'i he stranger whs standing in Ins boat, leisurely paining upstream. Ho was hailei s> ' and t"id to surrender, tint refused to do so. ! Aucoin tired at luui, t ut without idl'ect. 0r j The man tangoed ami told him to lire again. i He was called on throe tunes and tola to 0 | miiiend r and so olteii refused, and three ly tunes he was shot at. Upon the th.rd shot the man foil over head foremost and rot.oil ' into t tie bayou. rt* j The murderer wasn stranger, and no ono it i who saw linn had any idea ot Irom whence ii- j lie came. The only explanation possible is it thai h < was a madman. i'eiinistoil was o, lulled instantly. Niel Theboilnux and .Moras | rison wire sent to tho Hospital, and will ho priihahiy die. WITH KNIFE AND TlSTOL. #ir j ir 1 lii'r/iirhj nepiiiiiieaua I ighf a firnil. ''V lj Duel. t'i I. Win. (.'tissiu.i t?o alloc, colicctor of inli\?) the teriml revenue of the Seventh Iventtielsy dislh> trict, mid t'ol. Arinstead M. S.ropo met in ' s the p stolliee corridor at I,exington, Ky. rs Doth inen were after the miil that was in od, their letter foxes, wltich are rather closo togetlier. Tnoy approached thrso loxos nt " j almost the uiiU'1 instant, and when each saiv I who tho other was they glared at each other n i fl.irj**a!v nmt mm nf thn two?it iviniwit. I,? " | discover*! which?exclaimed: "Yon spoke to :no, you insuitod mo." u'14 | Tilts wus followed by soma angry words , front the other man?ex sctly wh at they were n cannot be learn-d. At ttiis instant tliey " straightened up, atul each drew it w nnon? ro(' ttwope n pistol and (.icolioe a clasp knife, hat As soon to the weapons were drawn, iSwopu vrr IIred and (lootlltte 8lna''< the pistol ilowa ns . [ it, went IT, the ball entering itis abdomen on r''" ; the . ighl Hide. (I >odloe I lien begun stubbing wro t bis opponent iti the breast with liis knife, p of which forced Swupo backward toward tin re- money order door, they h v.ng b.gun the the I tight about midway of the lobby. After . J. i several blows had been struck by Ooodlo , ( si- I Hwope tired ncain, missing UooJinv. In a at- I moment after liring tho second shot Col. n-iit i Kwopo tell on his tnee within about ten feet ity, I of tho Joor, ami, wo'.t ring in his blood, died hud | almost instantly. On his person wore found ? to thirteen wounds, thoy being on his hack, tho arms, and in li.s breast, immediately after oon th.% killing, Col. (loodloo walked to a physh lug cian's olllse, whore his wounds were exsinker ined. I le was perfectly cool, and made a d;siv.'ig position of property in ciso of death, nnd i ho eauso of tho d fflonlty was a statement ere made in the Kep.ihliean convention of May niel let, IttfvS, by CjI. Goo llo-, that fully twoin n ) third* of the Ka> ette county delegation iq | convention did not spec.k to tjwope.