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THE WEEKLY A? UIIOI TIMES. Devoted to Agriculture, Horticulture, Domestic 4?DOf3^HM&J^yterature, Politics and the Current News of the Day. XX.?NEW SERIES. UNION U. 6, 1880. - NUMBER 49. THKN AND NOW. dt howard c. tripp. Hp walked ncr b : t in grassy lea. Wild with a youth b h ub hopes nnd glee; For bin young lico-t with joys wns rlfo O'er tho pv| rc'.mt o owns of life Tha*. he sh u>d win if (into and health Wo ild only loan one ha f tbair wealth. Kewn.il d, a ho! er youth serone, A? roes tho clover s.ontod green. And thought of triumphs that would crown His life-work with a high renown. Years pastel away. Oh, where is he Who walk'd, a youth-knight, o'er tho loa, And vo-.vod that hi in tiiuo should win A crown free from the murk of sin? Ob, 7 VI! ho now is lying tbero ho 1 f and lifelois ! bin's despair, . ; Ar wlul hatred struck him dowu ; ? 7 fl not wlu the pro io is crown <opsd for; for the wins cup s biedli (tiled him with its frightful death I ' , ? " r /' / 8TELL I < ' / 1 l.now a maiden, and a fair one. too, ( I right us a peach nnd as sweet, I declare ( There's a world of love 'n her hourt so true, Atd few are tbo luai..< us who are more full '1 ban Kti 11-Ah, well I t weet faced little htcll with her auh.irn hair. hhe has nil the graco of a Gypsy Queen, Aid bewitches men wi h her glance, 1? elm o I There's a falr.v-liko rhnrm in 1 or mien, ? That 'tis well for ui all to have a care, t When htoll? Ah. well 1 Unitees to and tro with linv nnloirii h?lf 'i Uli, I'oauteouH with ro(t blue ?yes, R Anil moutli liko i\ I u<bliug rose, t declare! d Your rr rcnoo to too is like itarndiao, :i Fir 1 v? fairly 1'pcii caught ill I.ove fl rnnro. All, well 8 Sweet Steil! p My liuurt a ontmiGloil in your auburn hair. TOM '' liltVSOIfS I'llDlli. w pr ?V "Till-: M.violi:1 ir CHAPTER 1. 11 1 OST JN A STOItM Near live o'clock in lite afternoon of August J1, a stngo roach with ft full complement of both insitlo nml cutsido passengers was slowly pro- ft cerilmg along lite highway towanl tl\o li \iilago of Aylosworth, ami within p llireo miles of it. The day had been a most sultry and n uncomfortable one. Tbe horses pant- 8l cd and labored heavily along. I'vcry- i? iiimjj hi mm auoui me conveyance 101 1 " of stilVcriug r.ml discomfort; it had been lion s sinco any of the vexed and ti wearied passengers had attempted any- '( thing like conversation. The last ef- M fort at social intercourso?4rad been~ nrado t>y a stout, stern-featured man of middle age, whose iron-gray hair d matched tho suit of mixed Scotch w goods that he wore. During nil this *1 day, as well as the day before, he had manifested tl o utmost impatience at b tho slowno.-s ot the vehicle, and his bitter complaints and grumblings had w made liim disliked by liis- fellow-passengers. (i "Don't ta k to mo of horse lesli, or u| the heat of the day!" he augrily said p to the driver, "i engaged my pas-age || by this route and paid for it, after ex- ^ amining the company's printed sebed- c ule of tune. How has its engagement been kept, so far? Wo are at this mo- , nieut nine hears behind tiie advertised t| time. If th:s rate of loss is to con- is Untie, J shall loso twenty-four hours p on my journey, and will be too lato for tl the business that brings me that way. ? A large pecuniary loss will be tho con- p sequence. Damn you, s r, if you don't a got this old lumbering concern along fustcr I'll suo tho company for dam- h ages 1 will, sure as my name's Mason it Delmont .'?and 1 don't care who knows a , 4 >* '? ll A few such outbursts as this made f| evcr.y other passenger feel that the ? man in gray was a coarse, sellish per- t, son, whose further ue piaintance was w not desirable. Uut theso explosions also served another purpose, which afterward 1 ccnme a matter of impor- h v > tanee. They lully advertised the nanio of the grumbler. a The ae-ident that now occurred eamo t without the slightest warning. The |, fore axle p.ut.d in the middle, and tho jj coach lurched forward. For a moment t there was a scene of nll'right and o\- t eiteinent. Tho horses plunged and ? reared madly; the driver jumped for h the loaders' heads, and shouted to c soothe and steady the four; the passen- c gers on the. oulsido were promiseu- li ouslv pitched into tho road or forced 'J to jump; those on the inside were n thrown into a heap tepother. Women's n screams and exclamations from tho a men were mingled. The man in gray f tugged at one of the doors, and, being o unable to mo\o it, put liis broad y shoulders to it, burst it open, and <1 jumped into ihe road. It was afterward remembered that ho cried out, r witli an oath, that ho had torn his iron mil.'* ?- ? mi .y of fngi.cr? ~..u1.8oon over. 'JTumIriver succeeded in quieting his N Horses, iin-l (110 outsiders hastened to i help the insiders from their uncomfortjilde | OSito:i. When all had reached ^ the roadside, it was disco\ered that no one had sustained any serious injury. y Thcro had boon a rude shaking-up; there were a few bruises and some torn ( garments; but thero war no need of t medical help, and a general sonso of (, thankfulness was expressed that it was | no worse. 1 The driver examined the break. ( "it'll take an hour or two to fix it,and \ 1 11 have to go a quarter of a mile for 1 , a black smith," lie said. "You folks '11 have to make the bent of it. Avlos- i worth's less'n three miles oil' now, nnd ( i you that lee! like it might walk in t 'fore 1 < an he ready. Wouldn't advise ( you to, though; there's a st rin coin- 1 t ing up. I otter I the ladies inio tho coach, lomii h? , for shelter, till it's over, and you gents cm stay under the trees." "is there no home near?" wns the r.nxons iiwptiry. ".Matter of half a mile. The in.lic.itions of a heavy rain were now ?|nito evident to all, and the driver's advice was taken. Wo must make an exception. The man in gray stood sullenly aloof from the others after the accident, hearing the r. port of tho driver. Ho wan too impatient to wait, and too sulky to in orm the others ot his intentions. He si cutlv withdrew, nnob served by any one, in the eonfus on r.nd excitement, and started afoot and nlone toward tho village. j Although about live o'clock in tho # ifternoon, the lical ?eeined great hau at any previous hour of the da I'hc atmosphere glowed like a furnac :1 ugo black clouds wore rolling up t vard the zenith; thero was a low ar xniuous rumbling. Through the thi< lust the persp ring pedestrian toih >n. A hand-anchcl was h s only lu ;nge, which ho now carried under h iriu. It had nevor once been out lis possession sinco tho commenccmci if his journey. Ho met no person; he passed but 01 louse, which was remote from the liig vav. The storm suddenly burst forth, urid glare of lightning shot from tl jroat bank of clouds in tho west; tlici ras a terrific roll of thunder, and ii tantly the air was dark with a deluj; d rain. Tho wind rose and howlc lismally, driving great sheets of fallir rater beforo it. dVet through, unable to see tlie ron icforo him, terrified by the fury an uddenness of the storm, Mason Ho lont struggled on. Mo was unused I ucli adventures; what to most me rould have been moroly d'sagrecabl ras to him positively alarming. The storm seemed to increase in fur 'ho distressed wayfarer mnrkod by th laro of the lightning a leafy oak son: istanco ahead. Ho pressed on towiu i for refuge, when a stream of iii mote the trto, splintering its stoi runk, while a ball of tiro danced alou 110 ground. Tho wayfarer was rente a tho gound with terror. Ho tried I a cry out; r.fter ropoatod efforts li ucc<eiled in uttering a word. "liilloa!" "Ililloa yourself!" To his surpriso and delight, his cr 'as immediately answered. Tho no> loam of lightning showed a man stam tg so near him that the fingers of h utstrotehed arm would have touche im. < IIAI'J Pit I!. A H:?KM> IN Nl K?. 'I ho di?.tressed traveler felt to ill 111 in that moment tho wonderful ri of that coniC3 from tho fa t of con anionsliip in serious trouble. "i*'or (Sod's sake, sir," he cried, "hel le in. somewhere, out ol this horrih! term! You're a stranger to me, lit you'll got. mo shelter right otl' on't mind giv ngyou?giving you ? Tho offer came hard, even at sueli mo of soro need, for the speak* ived money better than anvthing_j 10 worM^ buPwitb rcn effort ho said: "TrrTTTgTvo you five dollars." Anoiher Hush of l ghtning briefl tsclosed the men to each other. J as a vout'n of about twenty wh |r/rii iriil I tnoL n?vaine^ li a * #%?-? *> Who aro you, and wliero aro yo ound?" The explanation was given in a fe oids. "Well," rejoined the youth, "ye nn't. got to the village in th Lorm. [ was on my way over to Toi Iryson's when it broke out. That lie nearest house to 113 now and uess I'll tuko you there. Let m any your sachel, sir " Mr. Jtelmont refused to let go of hi harge, but took the otl'erod arm, an lio two slowly wended thoir way alon i tho darkness and tho storm. In tl irief conversation that was i ossibli lie traveler learned that his companic fti named Kdear Van Wyek, and tin e was the only child of a widow livin short distance away on a cross-roai Presently tho two timed from ti ighway into a wide lane, and follow*' ; some distance. The lane led throng thick patch of woods, which entirel id the house they were approachin rom tho road. As they clca ed th rood, they found that the fury of tli torni was over. The wind rapid I rent down, the rain ceased, and almoi s it had arisen the tempest was stilloi Tho gu ile at last paused before louse. "This i* the place," he said. Tho light was ample, now, to perm 11 examination of the exterior of tl uildiug. It was a two-story frail louse of considerable size, stand ir roadside to tbo lane. In j?asf yoa lio lane had been a pleasant drh hrough the wood. Occupied onco I om>> wealthy proprietor, tbo hou: nul, through niisfortuno or otlu liange, been let for some years. I eeupants had almost ruined it, and lad been long since repairs were mad 'here was no trace of paint outsat 11 any panes of glass were in ssing, an ,t least one whole sash was broken ii . chimney had fallen, leaving but ew ragged bricks abo o the roof, ne end of which was a large hole, ras evidently the homo of po.erty; lid not strikingly indicate hospital it "This is the place," Kdgar Van Wy< epeated. "Well, Ic|.iis-cv-ip, then." 'I lie youth hesitated "What's the matter?" Mr. IJolmo harply asked. "1 hope you haver nought me here ou a fool's errand." "You can go in hero, sir, or I'll she 'on the way to the village." "How far is it?" "Something more than a mile." "I'm wet as a drowned rat, and n ired out, body and mind, with expc ire. If I don't get myself dried rig way, ono of mv rheumatic attacks w ay me up for a month among y< )oors about here; then good-by to tl ibject of my journey. \\ liv did y< indertako to get me a shelter if y< 1 ul not. mean to hoop your word?" ' I ha\o kept it. sir. You can i iglit in hero. I'll eomo over in (I norning in good season to show y< lie way to the \ illagc, in time for tl 'onch. The fart is, sir. Tom is r Miliar; some folks tlrnk his head isi iglit Ho don't like the j>coj?le abo lore any hotter tiian they I Ko hit 'iu no favoiito with him, though oino over sometimes. You'll get a he ,er reception from him l>v going nlo han you would if I went in with you Mr. Holmont was greatly disnatislii villi this state of alTairs, and urged 1 ;nida to remain. "You must liol|? me to get in," he r uonstratcil. "Wasn't yon toming he vlien 3'ou found me ? ' "My business will keep till morning epliod tho youth, with a laugii. "t is wet as you nro, and in no shape iiake calls. (Jood-hy, till morning." Ho was gono with the words. (Srui ding to himself, tlio traveler went i o the door?not the largo door th vas midway of tho front of the lions 'or all the windows about it were da er ?but to a small door near tho end, tbe y. windows about which wore lighted, e. He gavo a loud knock. Jd CHAl'TER III. -fc in:-ID a 3d A grufl voice answered: g- "Who's thero?*' is "A trnvcler ;i? distress," wa3 llio reof ply. "Tho stago mot with an accident, nt and I started to walk to the villago. The rain has wet n:e through. I am 10 tired and hungry, and want to stay li- till morning." "this aiu't a tavern," was the rojoinder. 10 "Hut you suro'y won't turn mo away ! ro It is far to tho village, and I must dry n. myself and rest." ,e Mr. Belmont heard a soft voice, ,d which seemed to be jdoadiug for his ,g admission, though he could not hear the words. A growl from tho surly i(] voico cut it short, id "I'm undo* no obligations to talk ]. every vagabond that comes along with ^ a mndn-im Rtorv." Ai " ? ??" / ' ,n "Hut 1 lift o inonoy. I will pay you p, well.* The last words wore moro pcrv missive. 0 "l et him in, .Tes-', and we'll soowhat ,0 he loo!.s like." j Tho door was opened by a girl. 0 The apartment and tho two persons that were thus introduced to Mr. Helix mont have much to do with our narra([ tive. io lie saw a good-sized room, which, in le other days, must liavo been the cheerful sitting room of sonic family circle. A broad lire-pi ace was bordered by pictorial tiles, now cracked and disy placed. The rich paper on the walls .t was patched and spotted. The floor 1- was unearpeted; thrco plain chairs and is a pine table, the latter now bearing the d remains ot a frugal supper, were tho sole furniture. A good lire blazed in the chimney, and an armful of dry sticks and branches la}* by it. A tallow candle was lighted on the table. io The girl who had admitted tho guest 3- was not more ill n twenty years old. i- I lor face was young in featuro aud outline, but there was a ilxed pensivep noss upon it that made it seem older. !c Her eyes wero gray, luminous and tenit dor; her inoutIt was sweet in its lines 1 of sorrow, resolutely repressed. Dark " brawn hair ran and rippled in natural a curls over her shapely head; her brow, ?r her check, her throat, were?as?fair n&~ xu-dbe-ptrmDTTfyT Tier dress was coarse in material, and without ornament. It was this beautiful presence that v moved usually ungracious Mason HelIt mont to an expression of politeness, o "I bolieve I should thank you, miss, I: for wishiner me admitted. I heard vou m speaking for me." She smiled- -she was not used to w smiles?and would liavo answered? when the surly voice interrupted her. "No use of tine spec lies liero. The i3 stranger says ho'ii pa}', and the l ord in knowi we need his money bad enough. >fl Let him eat what thoro is left, and dry j himself by the lir??. lie can ha e my 10 bed if ho 11 pay lor it. This is all business, stranger?no sentiment at all [9 in it. Fix the table over, Jess, while 1(j ho gets dry." The girl turned silently to her task. 1C !Ur. Uelmcnt drew near the tire, but, e warned by the coldness of his reeep(,j tion, he made no further effort at eon^ vorsation. 13y the lioat of the glowing l{, fireplace he soon got himself thoroughly j dried, and gladly responded to tho summons to refresh himself nt the ,cj humble board. '1 ho victuals were poor j, and scanty, but the guest managed to \v appease his hunger, g A glanco or two from Mr. Felmont s had satisfied him what manner of man 0 the other was, and while ho stood by lv the tire ami sat by tho table ho gavo him no more attention. ] Not so with tho surly host. He had ^ also been drying himself; his ragged coat was thrown ovor a chair, and his H coarse shoes were before the tire. His ultnu Mnra u*nrn i Imitrrlt lin \i*na 10 ?..v, .....v, . .. v.. v. Bn,u..vu| )0 not an oUl man. Gray hair was scat,,, tcrcd thinly over his head; his foroheal and cheeks were seamed with wrinkles; his eves were weary and )V lustorless, save when anger kindled Sp them; his thin lips were morose and pr sour in expression. The hands that ts wore clasped about his knees were it hard and horny from toil. Hardship, e sorrow, the bitterness and the darkness ,, of life were plainly expressed by tho 1(j whole picture. j. He did not obtain a full view of liis ^ visitor's faco until llio lirelight shone i? strong upon it as he sat :.t tho table. It Then lie gave a sudden start, it Tho surly look give place to one of v doubt; then of close inquiry; finally, '.)j as if satisfied, he drew his chair back into tho shadows. Had Mason llelinont then seen that face, ho would have been startled by its ferocity. Tho nf dull eyes glowed like forge-tires fanned ,*t by the bellows. The guest finished his meal; tho IW daughter busied herself a few moments in clearing away the dishes. Then she went up to her father and timidly laid her hand 011 his shoulder. tU "Yon take my room, father," she ,u_ said. "I can make a k'nd of hod hero ),? with some ohl wraps. You have worked i | 1mid all day, ntid got wet, nnd you m must not lose your sleep." I,e A little tenderness, the first that tlio man had shown, appear? 1 in his reply: m "No, .less; you go to bed, and I'll do the sitting up. I'm going to havo my .0 tormentor to night the devil of faees and things long past. It'll make no ,,, difference whether I have a bed or not." I,c "Poor father! -how I wish ,0. "<>, go'long with your foolishness! , ( Hero it's half-past eight by the clock. ?j, (!o up to your luxurious room the n> only one on the whole upper floor of { this old den fit for a human boing to sleep in. I>ream, if you can, that nn tin re's something in this wrotclied ? world worth living for. I ll show tlio f.,j Rtranger whero to sloop." ,jr> She lighted another candle, and putting an nrm around his neck kissed his c. clieo'. He neither noticed nor resentro ed tlio caress. The door closed behind her; they heard the rickety stairs creak t" even under her light tread. m The two men were faco to face. TO hk coNflNURI) | r.- "Poi.itenkhh," says a modern Yankee ip Socrates, "is lawful tender all the a^ world over; it will win nine times out 10, of ten on mankind, nnd is a good risk rk to take even upon the mule," THEjjlWS." Four men were wjUppei at Kewcastl D?l., for laroeny. a doz>n ininei nrora ?*1L f -? t.% ??? -v. w ?uu /vowcu uj m?f^n irvui a m u iu nu Anaconda mines at Butte, Montana.? Aldu* C. Ilerr, hardwire deiler, of Lai caster, Pa., is financially ami arrassod. I-la bilities f 10.0JO. Henry S!au.;l t r, a foi nier, mar Dmr, DoL, vis nearly gored t death by a cow. Robert Blaud, colored who attempted a criminal assault upon An nio Get?, aged sixteen years, in Prince Georg county, Va.,was taken from jail and lynchei by a mob. John C. Raymond, of Net York, was found guilty in the Middlesex, N J. Court of arson in setting Ore to the Adriai institute at Igelin, N. J., for the purpose o delrauding the insuraMV companies. Frank A. Aldrich, eorivlsrtad of "bur coing John K. Lemmon.a I .tttbar- merchant ou ^1^6111 iiM^^fa^BbrW^pTegS 'Siothors' largi dry ?oois house in Plitltti ?lphl* w.is badlj dnmagol by flr<\ Losses $85,010. Severa other stores adjoining were damaged. The New steamship Oriziba, luiiit at Hoacli1 yard, Chester, Pa., for the New York am Cu ia Mail (SteamshipCompany, was launch oJ iu the presence of a number of member, of tho Pni.-American Congress.?*-Therain fall iu Western Kar sis, being inadequate foi proper irrigation, Congresi will be asked t< assist in piovi-ling for tnenns to obtain sup ply from the river valLys. James A Smith, Sr., pr< si lent of tho Smith & Soni Ice and Fuel Company, of St. Ixmis, has dis appeared,and It !s believed (hat hehnsprob al ly joined the Cina Man colony with JtVl.UtX of other people's money. Nearly all of tbi evidence has b.-en beard in tho Croniu case J. 3f. Miller, a br<*om dealer, of l'ern Ilaute, In I., has been swindled out of $ l.COl vu a u'ej 10 property, purporting to hav< been executed by John D. Chestnut, who ii an imbecile, nnJ . uowe xBcotwrnBii i paper. The wages of puddlers in the iroi works of the Schuylkill Valley have lieet increased to $d 75 a ton. The large bari of L:vi Eckert, in Lancaster c.untv. Pawns burned; loss J 6,000. A si or in swept over Nowberne, N. C., destroying B. M Gray's pu'p factory, killing one employe and injuring eight others. Many housci were unroofed, and trees and fences b'.owi down. Pauliue Cowith aged et^kleei years was shot and fatally wounded in Nev York by UcorBe Coingo, an Italian, lecauw the refused to marry him.? Charles Mont gomery, a prominent hotel man in Bar Francisco, has been swindled out of $30,(M by a young man wbom he took in busim-s with hlin. Tbo late J. Warren Merrill of Cambridge,'.Mass., bus left haudsouie be quests to Baptist niisions, and educationa institutions. Charles B. Wigton, s^cre tary of the Uluinorgan Iron Company o . Philadelphia, has bom arrested and place* under buii on a *f forget jr. Tbi Standard Oil Company hoa subscribed $100, 000 to the World'* Fair fuud of New York The governor general of Cuba di cLiiu having aided the s.rikmg ciguruiukera o Key West. A band of thieves have beei robbing s ores in Delat-uro towns. i (reigiit conductor und a braketnan wuscrusli td by tbo cars near York, Pa. Fire di some damage on the tenth floor of the West ern Union's main building in New Yor city. A're. Nutban Strang, of Aloskerrille Micb., whiie temporarily insane, compcPe ber daugbtor to swallow a dose of pari green and then committed 6Uicide. Fran Foster of Gloucester, Mass., altomptul t shut off ou electric light wi ll u wet iroi guff and was instantly killed. John II W i Mifi ma 1. jj , vum vj-wuiw jcuro, un*u u hydrophobia at Marblehead, Mass Th Lawrence Bank of Pittsburg, bus closed it doors. In a light in a caboose on afreigh train, in E ist Kentucky, J. 11. Gray, a car penter was killed. By an explosion of natural gas In the eel Inrof the house in Pittsburg, Birbnra Knoll was fatally injure J. '. 'urioui snow storr rae'ug in Montana. Natural gas nn 1 eareloss'y lighted match caused an expl sion in Washington, III., by which three me were badly burned. Ths Illinois Stat Grango has discovers 1 a man with an inver tion that will bind grain with straw, an thus relievo fanners from the. extortions < the twino trust The recent mysterion death of A. C. Staley, a woolen manufacture of .S)uth Band, Ind., now appsirs to hav hi en a murder, as the . discovery has bee made that a package of morphine had bee substituted for quinino by soma uuknow j>ersoii, and thol ?rg?dos>of the drug prove fatal. A do/, n lives were lost in the sin 1 ing of a steam tug on Coos Bay, off tho Or. goa c. s . Stephen L. Poltin, seorotar and treasurer of tho Brooklyn Union Iv? vutoil Railroad, was shot deil on the stre; by Hannah South worth, nyou ig widow wh declared ho hal drugged and outraged he, I A two story dwelliug at Braddock, I'a was blown up by natural gas, and two pa , sous fatally burned and six others injure) ! The schooner Agnes Manning, from Bj ti.nore, .which was in collision with tl steamer Manhatt in, put into Fhi!n I Ip'ti bully damaged. Fourteen porsons w. were on the cteamor too ; a lif.-raft, and tl others were roscued. Investigations sho that 11,00) barrels of Aniiric in whiskey ha? boon smuggled Into C in i la the last yea Tk? tr:.it...... it.. t. J nn i IUI iuii uiunui UIIIUII II consolidated with the F.oridu Fruit K | change, nn<i the latter ?vill handle tho eutii , season's crop, The Sherman Oil Com pan j of Lima, t>., has sail out to the Standi) j for f 1,00,00J. Joseph Smith, age I tli.r i j*enrs,of New York,murdered his two bnhie The detroit grand jury has ind cte i se eral n'derm n on bribery ch irg->s. l ho A. Farren, a prominent politician of No j folk, Va.,Udea I. Fliara wora'J4> limine failures in tho United St..tes an I Si in C? "Mi Ao --AYa*' irur of.-wiv ?oik, nas bean appointed receiu of the Norfolk Southern itailroiJ. II Van Simmon, of Cheiterliild county, Va w ih killed by a railroal train at Centralis A Chinehk syndi.nte for in'tro-tnohi the electric light ntotl.o l'lowery Kin (loin has been forme 1 in Hnn Fiiwioiw] t hinutnwn, \v tli n capita! of $(',000,01 pnit of wh oli is furnished by while i vestors. Too company experts 11 i cci'.o news \ory Boon of important co cessions granted br the Chinos.) Opvt r, nioiit for putting elco tic pants in tl , largo l it on of China. Afounwbi o small p ant will be put up in Ch notou to pro re the merits of the hjs om F> ti Celestials. , . . . - If - TRADE'S INDICtTOt. I N t Unfavorable Weather Causes a Decreased Movement. i1 ft'enra of n noiictnry Ktrlngrnry On. i?K to KmiiorM Hrtcnrdiiiit ll><' < <>? ? eminent** Nllvcr I'otlrjr?-EITcct I, ol" the Urns Han Kcvoliitioii. l" Hpccial telegrams to i?r?rdstivet's report s e fair volume of trade. Kxcept in holiday ^ specialties, however, the movement, checked " by unfavorable weather and the Intones! of the s.'asen, has been smaller thin during n O.tober, though still in excess of the total f one year ago. The approach of the close of lake nnvlga' ' tlon has r.n influence on roil rates. Declin- I * In* cattle receipts at tho Waal pftw l>* steady, but large offerings cf bogs dapresi 9 quotations. Pork is steady, and lard, on bet- , r ter export request, is up twelve points. Tito j Western tobacco leaf crop is reported 15 tc UO per cent. lots than last year, when it amounted to ?7.">,(AKJ hogsheads, s Reports from ninety-ntn 'railroadsof grots j ami net earniugs to llm intrrcl's for IS p 1 tombcr show a ga n ot 8. Iprc uit. in gross 1 an-1 of 18 per cont. in not over 8eptemb"r, s 1888. From January 1, to September ifJ, lt5 < railroads sliow g iius ot i> <> per cent in'gro-s i an 1 id. 1 percent, in net over tbo nine month' last year. Shnro specul ?tiou tends to im' prove on the material conditioner railroads j ( and orenernl bu*m?ss. i.iit i? iitwot.rlmi liv I h? I , narrow financial situation un l apprehens.onv , of an ngitaiiou in regard to tiio currency 1 and tlio fiscal policy of the Treasury. Hon.is are uioro active, higher rates for ' money causing increased snles of prime j . bonds. Mou-*y at Hew York is easier, but ' is in a sensitive condition. Call loins 0i7 1 ? per cent. Foreign Kxeliango is steady to lirm on scarcity of totnmercial bills. Bar ' silver is l.'^'c. higher at 1M, on rumored 1 i ch mgcs in tue silver policy of the Govern- i j lu.-nt. i 3 Very mo Urate ofifdi ings of raw sugar an I the ncods of refiners at Atlantic ports com- i ' bine hiMiAiUiuk > > ?i- <u?v ui 'c-. molt- I t'"trigs by 10 ist Til refiners are ti,'H per cent, i , loss for nine months of this year thnn last, | while do nestic stocks of rnws nro only 75 ( 1 i?er cent, of those h -Id a year ago. Tlio in- j ( ? crvas-d tlema ?1 for rellnetl advanced several grades 1 pi k^o. ^ The reports ot the revolution In Bro/. I i being quite pacific, coffee prices were not i affected as might have been expected. The ' , lower crop estunatts, mo iorate pi imsry mnr- ( B kot deliveries an.i increase 1 doiu stic tie- f man 1 qnickeued speculation aud strength- | cued pi ic s about > j at cents per jiound. _i J There has been a tendency to weakness in t_?hrscdetuflrsTTiis week. HeceipU of Spring ' wheat at the Northwest continue about as heavy as heretofore. The export demand, 1 which increased noticeably within a forl? night, uiu ntains only fair proportions. ' ) Hricos, however, remain hardly steady for flour, and % *% ' lower lor wheat, with cable I i deui.iiid ligut. i In Han corn is off ^alc on fears of heavy shipments from the interior. Oats aro u;i ( . on better export demand and firm holding. Exports of wheat Uud flour as wheat) from Loth coasts this w-ek a.gregate 1,(501,401 ( bushels, against 2,591,530 buihels last week, j and l,44fi 4I'd bu-tiels in the like week last year. The to'al shipped abroad, from July 9 1 to date, amounts to 41,318,770 bushels, against 45,018,000 bushels iu a like portion i oi 1SS8. Cotton and woolen good - present a sharp s contrast us regards demand and prices. The I I former are in liberal request, and in the a case of brown sheetings, drills and print . cloths ut advancing pric s. Woolen iiiou's wear goods aro moving slowly. Mainline'* turers < ITorts to gel higher pr.ces than last d Season looks dubious. Tho jobbing trad.- us a whole is slow, the ' exception toing in holiday goods. llaw I * wool is in slightly b'tior <1 maud, both at >, the senboard and in the interior, ltiwcotj ton is dull and featureless with a bearish tone, nua to issuance ot largo crop estimates 3 on Liverpool, k POISON IN THE WELLS. f A Niiinber ol Well* Near SC. Louis U t'ouiifl to t'uulaiii Arsenic. s The people of C.oltuibum, a suburb of St. t Louis, have ben considerable alarmed of late by th heavy death rate, caused evidently by some impurity in the water supply. ' Those attacked would have symptoms of 0 acute cholera morbus, and no less than six n deaths havo been recorded during the past a two weeks Chemical analysis of the water o' ono of the wells showed tli3 presence of u artenic in startling quantities, and demoi0 Btrated that the so called clio era morbus cases Were duo to arseuical poisoning. At.out two weeks ago Charles Kohl was d taken i 1. It was in the well of his premis-s i if that the pois >n was found, und a seusational [g charge of well poisoning was preferred against a neighbor with whom Kohl had had r pro v.ous trouble. 1 lie accused man sternly o asserted bis innocence. A week later Kohl n was again taken sick and died. 'Hie inquest determined the fact beyond contravention 11 that Kohl's death had t een caused by arsenic. 11 A general examination of all the wel.s in t ie I id place showed that arsenic wus present in ull j |?. Ul IHCIII. Ail analytical chemist then made the die- | J" covery that tho Cheltenhnin .Smelting Works ; y used great quantities of arsenic in the smelt- I 3. ing of gold and silver tor cleansing and re- ! lining purposes, and that urs.-nous acid was formed l>y tho combination of the monturo ' id an I vapor of tho air with arsenic fumes that I r. pour out of the company's chimney in a 1 blinding cloud of smoke. Another theory is tli it tho arsenic is wash- | '** ed from tho pre cious metals by a flood of I. water. This water Hows away into a huge sink hole and creeps through tho earth iato tho wells for miles about. ic n, ?? ?? Z LYNCHED BY A MASKED MOB, | w ,j A Virginia Vcgro IVIio Asssiilleil 1* p While liirl. ,(p Hob rt Bland, who, last week, attempted j lo commit a criminal r ss lult oil Miss Annie rt> (?ee, aged sixteen yoirs, daughter of Hon. j y Charles (Jeo, United Statesinsjieclor of hint' j .J her in Uitka, Alaska, but whose family icside i Prince George county, Vi., a short distanco from Dispntanti t .Station, on the Nor- { folk and Wi stern Railroad, was taken from the jail of Prince George comity and lynched. 9* A mob, consisting oi lorty mounted inon, ir- well masked, Went to tile r? sidciicu of Henry M | King, the negro j-u er, an i d.-maiided the i keys of tbeiaU. lie stoutly re;used to surn: render jys or to yo to the jail an I un- | a, "lock the door. Sr The mob then hurst op n the doors of the jailer's hoits.', and again demanded tbo keys. ' U.i refusing to givo them up, they placed a t rope around Ins neck and drugg-d him to the ju', several huidrod yards Iroui the house, despite his treatment, King still refused to tell wheiu (lie keys totao j.nl were. Just , 10 before the jail was reached Uio keys were j beard tattling in King's pocket. Tne mob ! then took llio keys from l.l.n an I carried I ' H hun into the j til and m nie h hi lead t Ho way ] 0, to the cdl ill winch I).and was continent, n- Bland h nl no.Inng to say when ibo lynch- | 0 ers came to his cell, but nm perf. C?ly quiet. _ lie was tied hnnil and foot und carried oir about seventy-live yards troni the jail,where "" he was swung up by a rujiu to the ?.ranch of t? a tree. He begged pfleoiuiy for life, but the n lynchers were deaf to h s upp-nr tor m rcy. qj liis body was riddled wit It bullets and loft M dangling from tbo tr.-o. Bland was about twenty one years of uge, and a worthies* _ | character. i % 1 ABOUT NOTED PEOPLE. Ban Butler has entered bis 72*1 yoar. M. I)o L>s*?pt will be 84 years old oi the IV. h of tuis month. John Tjrudall, fotbor of the famous scientist, was a carpenter by trade. The Khan of Ivbiva intends to make a tour of Kurope, beginning w.tli Russia. Ann* Katharine Gro-n\-? new novel was dashed off almost without stopping. Ku;ono Field is collecting his po >mi iiitoa volume, to be published by himself. Mrs. Slmwbog >zio, wifeof :h ?cliief of the Chippewa Indians, is over 1 ).) yoars old. King Luis of Portugal gave the copyrights of his literary works to charitable Institutions. Kl.ln Arnnl.1 "U-I.l a A I . ?< ........ -??UV. v.. ...K,IV I'. I, nover sat for Ills photograph until quito recently. Mrs. Sarah Chaplin Rockwond, of Cortlaml, has reaobod tho remarkable Age of 104 tsau. Rose Mart wick Thorp* wroto "Curfew Must Not Ring To-Nlgnt" when she was under 17. Sho is now o.l, L)ui*e Ch indler Moulton was an on'y Mnld.and amused hers If in makiiig[up stories tncl tilling them to hersolf. Misi Frances Willard wants to prohibit imoking in postoffl >es and other places canLrolled t>y the government. Mrs. Frances Hodgson Burnett is slowly recovering from her recent acel lent. She is lot yet allowed to s >e visitors. Lieutenant-Colou'd Basil Jackson, who die I ccentiy in Herefordshire, was one of the last our survivors in England of the battle o?. Waterloo, lie ha 1 reached tho ago of '.)! rears. The King of Bavaria smokes lOOcignrettos ?very day and is so fond of seeing lilaz u that ?aoh t ine he lights a cigarette lie sets olT n ox of matches just lor the fuu of seeing hum burn. the oldest living Y.alo nlunimu is J. I). IVickham, 1). L)., of Manchester, Vt, Ho ;radu*ted in ISI7, ih-i s un) year that the Hon. George Bancroft, tho o dest Harvard uumuus, graduated. Henry George is a thicksit. hald-hoinl.wt H.lnna ?-* iwsvwc^ mwn vt TIITru) 11 l?r*nrtl itid mi extensive, but peculiar knnwledg > of tbe law as by sliituto ostablislie 1. 11.7 is a tlrst-rate orator of thoopeu-air kiud,with no also modes y, and keeji-s bis right hand soiarely bultonod up iu the breast of bis I'rince Albert. Baroness von Glumrr.wbo was in li?r youth Miss Frances Barllelt, daughter of Uuit.d States N aval Com manner Bartlett, and married a wealthy Cuban planter, wli idled years ago, uow lit?M with lier second husband near the City of Mexico, and writes in one of tho loading diily papjrs-m-tlie Mexican capital. ijhBTTTbe heroine of Klniund C Ktedinau's poem of "The Diamoud Wedding." \v. I*. Kdison, an elder brother of the great inventor, livosa few inil-s from I'ort Huron, Mich. He was born iu Milan, Ohio, fiftyei^lit years og >, and went to I'ort Huron in 18.*>4. He was actively Identified with the organ sition of the street railway system mid was suiieriuVeiiduiit of the road for iiinuy years. He has also been interested in vessel and steamboat property there. One of tiio three American sculptors who received honorable monition at the Paris Exnosiiiori this year was Miss Tiieo Alice II ic glos, daughter of Mr. C. W. Haggles, of Itrockllne, Mass. Mi-s Haggles is i.ul/ ighleen yeurs of age. Kiio painted at tho ago of cloven, bogan to take lessons in modeling at the ago of lllteon, and was ndiniito I to tbo 1'nris .Salon of 1SJS8 at tbo age of seventeen. Joe Jefferson is a in *dium-s?z -d, slim-built man witli sinning bluo eyes and tho luuiv warming of manners. His far > beams with good nature, but docs not betray the 0 years belonging to it. Ilo also lives in his work yet ho believes in tbe virtues of r, stand takes a two hours' nap every afternoon, lie em only do one thing at n tune, but ho can do that thing better th in most men; and in his leisure moments bo trdl s wilu water color painting and salmon lidiing, DEADLY NATURAL GAS. A Home fliown (?j> a id a Xiinitier ol I'eraan alt|nrcil. A two-story tirick dwelling on Kobit soil street, Hruddock, Pa., wis blown t> pi -cos by an oxplos'o.t of natural gai. Two persons were fatally burned, and six others sari ously injured. The accident was iuiishI by a leak in the in iin. Charles 1 lou. eho'.dcr, an employe of tho gas ooinp ?ny, w .s s ait to repair tho trotihle. 11 idosoeii-leil int-i the basement and nlinoit iinm. iliately there was a terribU explos on. At tho tiini there were in tho homo 1' t t Ivelsh, his wife and six clnl Iren, besides iloiis-hodler. The foundations nnheaveil and the sides an>l front of the hu I Ibig entirely collapsed. Mrs Kolsh, who was sick, was thrown into tbe street and fatally injured. Her three days old babe was not hurt, ilous holder was frightfully burned from his head to his feet, and will die. Peter K-dsh and live children, ranging in ago from three to eleven years, were thrown into the 8'ivet or buried in the debris. A 1 were seriously injured, but will recover. Il.iriicd l>? > lit urn I ii i*. Washington, 1i.i.? \it explosion occurred in :i txi Iclinif ovjr th p -osp: cti ig sliai t or natural gas in this pine . tins ii m boon flowing rory freely for weeks. Tbo buildings wero filled with p op!i?, wb -:i so/n> one thoiight:e-sly lighto J u in itch, and a torrdlc i'XjiIi s oil followed. Two pro poo; or*, whoo names are iiisknown, and lioiiry Daiiliurt, the Itev, Mr. Smith and J. II. Snyder, of this p ace, wore frightfully burnod. It is believed that several deaths will ens u*. DEMOLISHED BY THE WIND. A Factory It'ow n Down and .Many Kim ploye* 111) ii red. A fearful storm struck Nowb?rne, N. t\, coining from the 6outhwest. The pinto and pulp factory of ti. It. (Iray, in which th to wore sixty hands, was leveled to the grc und. One employe was instantly killed, another mortally wounded and eight others injured. The factory was valued at <(>>,000. The damage to the house and stock is estimat -1 ?it |?,000; to machinery, not yet known. '1 lie wind blow a perfect hurricane, unrooting houses, blowing down chimneys, trees an<l fences. The damage to tho town, while nol definitely known, is very conslderatde. MARKETS. BAf.timork?Flour?City Mills, extra,# i..V m??v?rxjunuTii r 11117,, (Jorn?Southern Whito, 42at.'l cte, Yellow 12n\2rl/r Date-Southern and iVnosyivnnin 25nU0' oOts.: Kye?Maryland & Pennsylvania .V.'a'fckts.; flay?Maryland nn?l Pennsylvania 12 .YJaf Id (H);Straw-Vvhoat,7.5)u$8..,?0;Butterl Eastern Creamery, 19o25c.. near-by receipt* OalScte; Cheese--Eastern Fancy Cream, III* all!? cte., ?Western, 10aH)}.j cte; Eggs?21 a'2f?. Tobacco l,eaf?Inferior, la $2.00, <???<> Common, 3 (X)a$4 00, Middling, $5a7.00 l?oo< to fine r<xl,8a#l>; Fancy, loafl.'l. new york?Flour?Southern Common tf fair extra,f2..,?0a$2.85:Whaat-Nol White 84'j aH4% Kye?State.M^a-Vd^';Coru- Soutlien Yellow, 42a42!<. Oats Wliite.Stato'ir,';a28,'s cte.; Butter-State. 12a 24 cte.: Cheese-State $i*alO% cte.; Eggs? 2la24j, cte. I'll i i,adki,phia ? Flour ? Pennsylvania fancy, 4.3Sa4.75; Whaat?Pennsylvania nn<i Southern Ked, 80%a80J^; Kye-Pounnvl vanit .VnolVote: Corn?Southern Yellow, 41J!?a42cte Oats?2S','a2i?cte.; Butter--State, Iwa.5 cte. Cheese?N. Y. Factory, OaO.'t cte." Eggs? State, 21a'2'2 cte. CATTLE. Bai.timorb?Beef, 4 1'2a4 2.1; Sheep?$S 03 nf> IXI, Hogs?$4 2.V?4 IIO. AKW York?Beef?#5 00a7 00; Sheep- $3 5f nY.'X): Mors?#3.00n4 2V East Liberty?Beef?f3 l?0a4 00; Sheeii? $4 b0a3 00 J Hog*?$4 00a4 ift. i CR1SHOHTHB 0W;' The Steamer Manhattan Sinks in Ten Minutes. lor Collision With ili?* nip: Srhooufr* Agnes nnnnlitK, Irom D illtntore? Fourteen Jti n Ailrllt on n Life Unit Throe l.tvc* Lout. The Old Dominion Line steamer Mantaat-R tan, Cnpt. Jenny, was run into at lire o'clock the other morning off Fen wick's Linnd light, Mnryland oenst, by the four mastxl schoontr Agnes Manning. The schooner procanlei to Philadelphia with 0:10 man missing, supposed to have beon drowned. The Mnnli ittan soon begnn to settle, nud sank within ten minutes after she was struck. Only one boat, No. 3 could bo lowered. The Captain and fourteen . >w. 1.111 mwnngwi iwroTWTTPir lives by getting into the boat* The Manhattan's topmasts were above wator. Quartermaster Olson was t ikon from one of the masts, and near hint was the lifeless hotly of Engineer 11 ay den. Thequarterinos iit iimuu umiuT siiperiiuinau eiiorts to savu tho engineer. ll? pissed him n bowdnr, tel- ling hun to put it under hi* nrius, but Hayden did uot hive strength. '1 ho bowline was tnado fast to the engineei's wrist, but O'.sou could not raise him nbov ? the water, and he drowned, the bo ly being taken in bout No. U. The rest of tho crew, etovou in number, ai d three pustengcrs, two black and ono wnite, got on the life-raft, and when the bo.it partot company, all m.vino 1 nufo for a time at least. Alter being in tho boat threo l.ours. they sighted tho sehoonor Yau Nunl j ail i King, of New Haven, Tiie fourteen survivors and tho romnins of the engine r wero taken. Tho revenue cutter Dexter, in pa sing out, ros|>otidcd to tho signal of tho sci ?oner and landed tho survivors. First Officer .T ph 1*. N, Davis, in nn 'nvorviow sai ?Ve left Now York with, thirty live persons on l>oard, Including two steerage pissengers, whoso names mio ua- ? uHVfflft WVo nWtulred tons of freight, and, const quently, were nhlo to inuko such good time Hint wo were olT Kenw;ok Island sb/al light, n- nr tho Delaware c .pes, by four o'clock next luoruinj. At tout hour the weather being cool, but clear as a boll, tho lookout sighted a s tiling voss l's lights dead ahead. Wo kept oti our c lurse, stem lug 8. W. 9*8., and rupid.y cime up to tno vissd, wh cu proved to tio a four-mast#.I coal-laden schooner, sitting low in tli water. This^wan what did m tho fatal damage, tho oliojnec being so low that she punched ft hole In the steamer Iwlow tho water line. Sh > w. b stoering N. K. by N.. and skiinniirg along tho sea. Second Officer Alt. Nelson ivm on dock, but paid very lutlo attention to tho stranger, ullhougii olio was very near, fooling confident wo would pass hor. to uinke sure, ho ordered tho st-aincr pass to starboard, and tho holm was put down, when theschoouer did tho name. Doth vessels swung together, and before headway cou <t bo lessened or tuo wheel thrown over, wo cumo together with a crash so heavily that the steamer's progress was stopped. At iiist wo thoughl wo had escaped injury, while tho crash of the schooner headway mado us fouriul that she was going dowr. C ptuin Junuoy shouted to her crow to come nUour I, but they said tlioy were all right, and when tho vess .-Is y swung apart tho continued on bur way. ' A lew moments later, Engineer linydon, wlio was investigating, discovered n large liolu in tbo steamei's port bow, below toe water line, and gave tne alarm lliat the ship would not iloat bat a few moments ii|pin- - Captain Juuiiey ordered all band to tbe V<Wtf 'l'bero was no limo to got uny thing, either j clo.he-s or provisions. Wo wliof'woro saved , jumped into a i oat, whilo a iIozjii or more got on tbo life rati, excepting uiyself, Quae> ternuister Fred. U.roii, Engineer ilaydeu and ! twoseiuu-n, wuo Ioja to the rigging. Tbo remainder took to tbo other boats. Fifteen i minutes niter tbo collision tho Btcumei's mil was under water. Tbo ship's boat then upi prouched, and wo were ad taken, ouo at a ! time, oft' tbo mast, except Engineer Iluy,.eu, ' who was so oxhuusUd Unit, wbilo ultcmpt! ing to puss u lite-liuo under iiih arms, be fell imo tbo sea and was drowned before ho | could l>o hauled aloud, lie was tbe last to i l.'iivo tbo s-earner, only tbo tops of whose masts remain aboro the water. All tbe others, 1 hope, will u iiiuutoiy bo rescued, although when wegot clour of tbe wreck tuo rai l, could not bo seen. Tbo iiigbt was still dark, however. At sunrise, alter being half frcz-u, wo were picked up by Captain Curtis, of Now Huven, b mid lor i'rovidence. All of us lose all our clothes and cunsidera; bio inonoy. Tbo schooner committod tbe ; fatal error when she swerved fioiu her orig| inal coarse, when it was our duty to got out : of tbe way. 'i bo purser and other Manhattan survivors who were on ilia life raft were picked up by I tbe schooner Charles 11. Tuttle, Captain Ives, : bound from lialtiiuoro to 1'rov.douce, it. 1. SHOT HIS TWO BABES. A i'.ithrr Deliberately Jfuritrrs^lllj^-. I,litis- Children. Two babjs were shot by their father. Jo>oph Smith, at .Til K ist Ninth street, New York. Elizabeth, aged two years, Is dead, with n bullet i i her stomach, and eleven mouths' old Mary is at the hospital, with n bullet in ber breast. Tito fathor, who is ! thirty years of ngo, was arrested, j Smith is a letter-carrier. He and his wifo lind frequent quarrels, and she loft him about a tveek ago, taking the cbd Iron with her. Two days afterwards she returned while her ! husband was at work and took away all tho | furniture and her husbanJ's clothing. Smith u tid nothing about hit wife's absence, and sho was supposed to be stopping with relitive*. He returno 1 to tho rooms with his two . children, and leaving them in tho care of a neighbor for an hour, returnod, and took them to his room. Shortly after this, pistol 1 stiots were hoard in the room; The father was found sitting in a chair, holding tho i youngest child on his knoe, and with a revolver in ono hand. The eldest girl was seated in a high chair dead,with the biood dripping from a wound in her abJomon. The bib/ , was shot through tho breast and oannot live. A police olllcer was summoned, and Smith , ] was arrested. Ho made no resist inco and surrendered his revolver. I', is supposed that I I poverty and tho desertion of bis wifo led to the acu WHO IS KING IN SAMOA? pintiiofit himI sixMclon Klcelotl King nn<l lite King, and Vice V?iin. Notwithstanding iho provisional election held at Apia, B.imo.i, by the natives last* month, which resulted in the choice oC Mntnnfn as King and Malieioi as Vice-Kingi? tho followers of Tamasese Inst week elected Malietoa as King and Tamnsese as Vice* King. ? All foreign residents of Apia are anxious to have tho question as to who shall be ruler of Samoa settled by the three nations represented in the recent beriiu conference. The > selection of Matuafa last month was a mere> 1 temporary arrangement, and the native* 1 look to the three powers to settle tho dilfl. ? cully for theu). 'i'hero has been no trouble among the na- ijb lives recently, and reports s?nt out from .xJB | here n month ago saying there was tightinci.* ou the Lslaud were not correct. "JjYM^n doesn't Bccin to be sncjff* ing wit)i the Blmetr of lute." a| his circulation has fullcn off sinc^mT ( joinerl the church." ^ i It is a curiout fact in the run of things! that it is easier to be thoroughly orthodox t han to bo thoroughly good. i