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*? ===== Devoted to Agriculture, Literature, Politics and the CurrefflMM?^ TAB RLEErr?G CHILD. BIT IU.KKB HELD. My baby ilopt; 1j >w culm Ills rest As o'er I It handsome fuoo a emtio I.ike to nn aug 1b II tt. d, whil^ He lay bo still uj on my breast. My baby s'cpV his baby lieatl I ay unkisitod neat 1 pa>i and shroud I did li.it weep or cry aloud ; Ionly wis ho 1 1, too, wcrj dead ! My baby s eeps ; a tiny mound, All covered by tho little llowers, Wooes lr.e in a1.! ruy waking boars. Town in tho quiet buryinggiouud. And when I Bloop I sooni tv bo \S i:h naby in nil ithor land ; I tnkotliis littlo baby band. He smilos and slugs sweet songs to mo. t-'leepou, O livby, wbila 1 keep My vigils till ihis day bo past! I'll n ehall I, too, lie down at lait And with uiy darling baby sloop. ? TOM . I BRYM'S CRIME. rnT mm* " ' ~ BY 'i l l M MAJOR." ;r"-4 C11A PTE U IV. TI'O'J AKT Tllli MAN. There was an awkward pause for a moment. Mr. llelmout appeared rest- l ivo and uneasy under the other's steady gaze, and soon broke the silence. "c'eo here, my man?it was understood before I cimo in hero that I was ! to pay for what I had, and, poor as it ! is, you w'ght havo spared me tlioexhi- < bit ion of your boorislmoss with it. I ' can't undertake to got toAylcsworth at this time of night, over a strango road, j and 1 am compelled to remain hero all ! night, lint there is one thing I can do, ; that will, perhaps, tako somo of the , surliness out of you. I will pay my bill in advuuee. How much is it?" Ifyroil said nothing. L-onio?-your > uargo, l 3?v ! Liet mo J . pet to bod, uad forgot the miseries of this day." "My account against you, Mason Belmont, is larger than 1 make out in a lew miuutea; larger than you can easily ! pa v.* Belmont started at the mention of his name, and the altered tone of ilryaou. i "Follow, what do mean? Where did : ycu learn my name?" "You oiler to pay me," said the other, not heeding tl'io interruption. j "'Jhere are (.01110 debts that never ean ' bo paid. I was r eh, lionorod, and prosperous; 1 was your peer, tho peer i ot an}' merchant in tho eitv where wo 1 lived. _Tho pa xioa^*f-gTmrTTg seized me; I was mined. A charge of forgery : to a large amount was brought against ' 1110. I was perfectly innocent, but up- ' pear an cos wore strong that I was guilty. The eloquence of my counsel ! on the tr'al and some remnant of sympathy in the jury saved lne, after a ? " long' deteofnni wiuf wusMlis- ; charged. I came out a branded man! | Everybody believed 1110 guilty. I was 1 a Cain where I had been almost a prince. Yet 1 bad not lost heart. J I took courage u:.d resolved to conquer | the world again. My beaut f .1 home, ! my gr.oat block of stor-. s, wore heavily ! mortgaged, but 1 knew that with time 1 given me 1 could clear oil' the incum- j brancCB and save my property. Yo 1 j had bo; glit up the mortgages. 1 sought , you?you who had often dined at my j table and begged favors of 1110?and 1 assured yon of the new life that I meant to lead. 1 asked yo i for tinio in ! which to savo my property and pay all I that was duo. \'ou met my appeal J with a heartless demand of instant payment. I begged for so little as a viar; you were obdurate. You took advantage of the depression of the time; you foreclosed, bought in tlio property at half its value, crushed me at a blow. My dear wife sank under the a'Uiction anil die I. I was a beggar, even regarded as a criminal. J tied wjifh my child from all who had known me. For years we liavo been buried in obscurity, cursed with poverty and hard t oil. It is your work. Mason J?el- j mont; how do you like MM Ho raised hio voice, VnflRes glowed, his form wa; erect, h'-fMHffls beat the air with emphatic ges; His guest ! fell back to the wall in terror and astonishment. '"Why?bless me!- but this seems impossible. Can you be Newland Wen- \ dell?" "Aye! Look nt nie?thuak of my j clii'd? and say how yo i liko your | work!" "Why, rea ly, Wendell-- Mr. Woudell?this is extremely sudden. I thought you wore dead; everybody H.SMwrl.t ok " luu"h 1 v "And so I am! Dead to my good -nam", dead to the fortune that was mine?to the wealth and renewed honor that would have been mine- lmd you not cruelly denied me the chance. Oh, I'm dead enough; I shouldn't be more so if L wen - buried." "I don't know precisely what to say to you, Mr. Wendell. I don't apologize to anybody; but I will say thut, perhaps, w J was a little too hard on you." "Yes, a little?just a little!" said Urvson (as we shall still call him, his livid face trembling with rngo and grief. "Monstrous Shy look that you fwere, a devil ,iu?t stepped out of holi A couldn't have used a former friend as v you treat'd inc." "Don't bo unreasonable, my dear air,"' itaid I'elmont. with an attempt to speak soothingly. "I did what the law allowed; that you'll admit. As for the forgery, 1 believed you guilty, just as everybody did." "1 wan not guilty.'* "Yos, I know that; all your old friends in the city know it. Simon Osborn died two years ago, and on his deatli bed ho Kai l that ho had been hasty; that lie was satisfied that tho check was as he wrote it, and that you had not altered tho amount. He tried hard to find you. Did you never hear of this?" "Hear of it? No; how could anything of this reach my ears? My name is changed; 1 am changed myself. You did not know me; nobody would. Look nt these rough hands, at these bent shoulders! 1 am a common laborer, a drudge in tho fields and woods, barely supporting myself and that poor child. My past life has gone from me. There is a gulf between it and uie that 1 cannot cross." JIis violence had almost dcpai ted; ho spoke now like a man almost heartbroken. Staggorod by this sudden apparition of one whom he had deeply wronged, and whom he had thought long dead. Mason Belmont was in consternation. He knew not what to say; to offer any reparation was gall to liis miserly soul. The change of Brysou's mood gave him an opportunity to escape for the present from these bitter reproaches. "Well, Mr. Wendell, it's long past now, and I don't see just what can be done about it. Ten years is a long time, you know. 1 hope you'll believe mo when I say that this painful disco ery has almost upset mo. Let me go to bod aud sleep on it, and I'll talk with you further in the morning. Will 3*011 take this live dollars now for my koeping?" "No; put it away with tho rest of your ill-gotten gains." 1 Mr. Belmont returned tho bill to his pocket, and did not resent tho bitter taunt. Bryson had taken tho eandlo ruu started ror the door; the guest followed him with his sachet. Five minutes later, 13ryson returned to the room. He throw some of the wood on the lire, und snt down beforo it. When the little clock on the shelf struck eleven he was ? till sitting there. A tempest was raging in his brain. CHAlTEIt V. THE I> V I.'$ B'iC K'lMVO. '1 lie presence of Mr. llelmont. in this house, and the few words he had said, had raised a torment in Torn I-Tyson's breast that oiVcctually banished sleep, lie sat before the lire deeply wrapped in thought; but bis thoughts moved about in a ceaseless circle, and nothing came of them. Mr. Iteimont and his fornior friends should holp him and he never would accept of their help, l'o would return to the city with Jessica -and he was no longer lit for the companionship of his old friends, llis child should bj rescued l'roui this poverty and obscurity, and placed in the station t > which her birth, her beauty, and her mind entitled her?and sooner thin accomplish it by alius of tho.Ne of whom he was ouco an opinl, elio should share his fate, bitter as it was. An hour passed with these thoughts, j and the clock struck twelve. The tire, fed by light, dry branches, had en- I tirely died out; the candle in tho further ond of tbo room shed 110 light ; horc: and so it. w in (imi ? light coming through the chink in tho | wall near where lie sat now atf-mctert^ his attention, lie understood at once what it meant, an I w.tli the kuowicdgo came suggestions troin the tempter! The room usually occupied by J5ryson for a sleeping apartment, anil into which ho had conducted the travel or, \va : next adjoining this one. To reach it the two had eutci'od a hall, passed back twenty feet, and entered the house had been substantially built, with thick partitions; but the wall between these rooms had shared the misuse of tho whole house, and in places groat patches of plastering were gone. In one spot, about four foot from the lloor, a small piece of lathing was gone; and it was through a wide crack hero that the licht came. liryson's curiosity was instantly aroused. ^Ir. llehiionl had said he was tired. His candle was still burning. "What was he about? lie might look and find out. Tho sitting-room was dark atthisoiul; thero was no danger of detection. Tho Nowland Wendell of other days would have scorned the net that Tom Ilryson now committed, llo was, indeed, a changed man. Ho stooped and put his eye to tho crack. * * ? * * lie-moving only lus coat and boots when his churlish host had left him, \ir. Helmont placed his sacliel uuder the pillow and threw himself upou tho bed. But ho could not sloop. Ho was not superstitious; he had not an atom of sentiment in his hard, dry nature; but thero was something in tho rapid succession and the strangeness of the events of the last five hours that deeply impressed him. Tho accident to the coach, tho storm, the falling in with Kdgar N un Wyek, were tho links in the chain that had drawn liiin to this out-of tho way place, ami to a most disagrooablo meeting. Ho thougnt of tho morrow, and groinel. No remorse troubled him; it was simply tho fear that if this man should continue to reproach him for his ruin, i ho could not escape ottering him money. "Hang tho follow!" lie muttered. "Why does ho bother mo? 1 only took my own. I do i't owe liim a cent." Ho could satisfy his own coarse soul by s ich reasoning as this, but he cou'd not shake oil' the suit oct. "It was hard on the poor devil," he rollected; "hut hoVl ruined himself bofore 1 took liim in hand." Then came a thought that startled him from tho bed, as it with a shock. "A prottv place this is for mo to bo ! in all night, with what I've got along i with ino! Can that crazy fellow suspect it? Hardly. I've boon caroful not to drop a hint ahout it. \\ hat I might ho not do if lio did find it out, | oil'in tli h lonely place? It makes mo ! tremblo to think of it ! I can't sloop now, hure, till l'vo mi that it'u nil j right." A match from a pocket eaao vclit tho i candle. Ho went to the door and nliot ; the rusty boll. .Sitting upon the aide | of tho hod, he took t hu sachol and i opened it with a key from li h oocket. As tho beginning of our narrative has found Mason Belmont, lie was only , midway upon his journey. it? object, J known only to a few conthlcutial friends r.t his home, was to attend a largo landj sale at the capital of one of the new , Stales which was at that day considered j tho Far West. His business slirewdi moss had foreseen chances for enormous i gains by liberal investment in that lo ' cnlity; but ready monov was requisite, ! and bank paper at that sale would not I answer. So lie secretly, carefulIv carried a j small fori tine with hint. The suchel i couta ne 1 twenty-live thousand dollars. One after another In pulled out from ' il bundles of notes, arm-thick, securely tied with tapes. He examined the figures poinded on the back of each, and ouo ol tli buudlcs he unfastened and counted. It was a goodly sight. Bills there were of the denomination of fifty doilars, one hundred, five hundred, and at leust throe representing one thoii?and each. The examination was fcatiffactory. Tlio merchant returned | tiio treasure to the sacliel, replaced it | beneath his pillow, put out the light, i and found sleep. ? + * * The scene that has just been do| f cribod was silently, stealthily viewod j by Tom liryson from his concealment. r.ikcono fascinated, he gazed at the ; wealth spread out on the coverlet. For I years he had seen no such sight as this; I for veuvs he had known nothing of j money but the pittanco that his hard I | toil produced. i Tlio tempter whispered in his ear, , I and his heart throbbod madly at the : ! thought. Here was wealth enough to. j | make him comfortable, to make Jessica happy. . . . Who owned it? "j H | Hie-own worst enefty^ < 1 boing, tho faithless friend who had no ' ! compassion for him in his extremity; * who had joined tho crowd in outlawing 1 j him; nay, tlio very man whose hard 1 hand had deprived nim of his all with- 1 out grace or mercy. 1 | A wild, fierce exultation rose iu I3rv- | < | sun 8 oreast. una not his tnneconie t j now? Had not fate brought his enemy 1 right here, to make recompense for tlio j grievous wrongs lie had done? Hut Ins life stood in tlio wa;?. The life of such n man! (Should he ; enre for that? The candle went out; there was darkI ness everywhere in the old house. Tor : half an hour Bryson never stirred as ho | le.mod against the wall. Tlio deep, ! leg lar breathing of Mr. Belmont soun j told that he was asleep. And in ?ij lenee and darkness the (lend whispered j in Bryson's ear. in API Mil VI. is tiik head or niohv. It was past one o'elo -k, when, with out a light, and with bet unshod, Bryson groped his way down into the cellar. ! eeling about in the pitchy dark- ; ness of the place, ho found a sholf. Several articles upon it ho handled and rejected, but presently seized the | one for which lie searched. It was a thick, heavy iron bar, two feet long. He placed it inside his waistcoat, and followed the wall along to another part of the cellar, beneath the lloor of tlio room where his guest wu3 sleeping. Mounting an old hot, ho cautiously "triedThoiloor. It did not yield. Several times ho changed tlio position of the box, and pushed the hoards with his hands, before they yielded. At list a trap-door v. us lilted a few inches, lie paused a moment, with both bauds above liis head, to lii.iko sure that i.?.i i.? mrii; ii.m U. UI1 I1U IIJUUIU. 1 J16U Willi j ft )>;ii11f . 1 ollort lie raised himself by 1 ' his hands into the trap-hole. liis bae.i j' muscular effort filled his bod}T with ! t pain; but ho succeeded in drawing t himself up, unt. 1 his knees rested on I the lloor of the chamber. Then oe- i | curred a mishap that he hud foroscen, j | but could not prevent. The heavy , door had been raise I by his shoulders to the perpendicular; in getting his i j ! knees on tlie lloor lii? trap was thrown j i back, and fell over witn a c rush. The sleeper started up, thoroughly ! ' I await-*. 1 ''Who's there?" he demanded. ' There was no answer. The room was I 1 fts still again as it was dark. t i "I say?who's there?" j i Still no answer. 1 i "Was I dreaming about a noise, I s wonder?" Mr. liniment thought. [ He jumped from the bed, and linding his mate h-casc, struck a light. The I llasli revealed his face as he stooped to- j ward the chair to light the candle. A dim figure glided swiftly and sil- ' ently to him; there was a dull noise as j 1 tho merciless iron bar descended in a ' 1 terrific blow upon his temple, and j I Mason lielmont fell like a log, dead at i i the foot of his assassin. * i ] Tho lighted match still burned upon 1 t tho floor where it had fallen. Bryson snatched it up and re-lit tho candle. I The victim lay prone on his face, his 1 arms thrown abroad. A moment's hesitation: a shudder, i and then tho murderer pulled the body to the trap-hole, and hurled it into tho cellar. The victim's coat, shoes, and j hat followed. Then tho iron bar, then j tin* sacliel nnd tlx I r.111-do. >r wiih v?- i closed. |m IJK ( ontimj.-!' J - r.istor.il Kentucky LiI'o. A Kentuckian, writing to a friend, j says: "Von recollect that willow-cov| ered llask that Tom 1'otter had, the ! 0110 that you wanted ho bad. He * thought t lie world of it, for it held a i I quart and was tlio handiest thing I j over seed. Walt, it's no more, for J oin j i got into a shoot in' fracas the other day, j and the flask wns broke all to pieces | ; Wo boys picked up tlio pieces and | looked at 'em sadly, but it wa'n't no , | use, fur the llask was done broke. J I That very raornin' Andy (lilchr.'st of' fercd Tom sovonty-livo cents for it, but ! it didn't budgo lum; but I reckon if ho , had knowed what was going to hnppon ' lie would have tuck it. tSornchow wo all felt like something was going to j happen, nil' wo er.'wdod around Tom j an' told hi in to sell it, that in this world ! of uncertainties souio misfortune inout 1 coiho prancing along an overtake it; I hut no, headstrong, like all the members of his family, lie wouldn't take it, ( and now that hcuutiiul flask is?brokon { into a thousand pieces. Thar ain't no news in this neighborhood, (tamo is HcuVe and the fish won't bit". lTDcle Caleb l'rown fell ofl'eu the spring-house yistiday an' broke his 110. k. Ho was a good old man an' a mighty lino judge of lieker. J forgot to state that Tom Totter was killed at the same time tho llask was broke. (Jive iny love to all, an' tell Ab Lyons that the Pattersons ; air lay in* fur him an' 'low to salt him down of lie ever comes back hero." ? Arkansaw Traveler. Till', only way to kill out the s divatiug army nuisance is to present each member with a pair of roller skates. Then thev would all be backsliders by t ho end of a week. "Wi.'v: won <>i:r suit " tho lawyer said. \n<l I'lt'olully r ililted his |iati>, "An-i wh'ituri vonr chnr^i'M, Hir',''' thev anld. "? h. lamely the saved o l.ttc;"* ?Oil t it'j Ui ri a A. ? ? ?? THE NEWS. l'hreo boiler* at a coal-breaker at Jeansville, Fa , exploded, blowing a bridge to atoms aud til ing George Peiooek, the flremm By a teriible explosion of nitrogl>eerioe, three men were killed aud several buildings destroyed near Oil City, Pa, While tho oollector of the Commercial Nutional Bank of Cleveluud, Ohio, was counting $0,805 iu the general oflloe of the G ro\au-American Hank of that city, a thief suutched $3,0J0 and escaped. Fire at Albany, N. Y., destroyed Jacob Leoaard & Sou's p ip r bouse, the Albany C isket Com puoy's works and o.her buildings, aggregating a loss of $75,00.'. The coal operators of the Moaongubela Valley are talking of closing down tbo m'nos indefinitely.?The reamer Idaho, from Victoria, B. C., ran ou fcae rocks nour there, took fire and wal deitroyed. Lo?s $80,0 JO. The shortage of ho lafr A- Woodsoanelty iuiU to t j*>,000. f bo jrosiin* of tiro elePtrie light wires iu Chicago sot fire tl> a large Luilding Guiseppe le Lucca, an Italian, who is belioved to bo ,ho murderer of Mill oaairo Edward Cunlingham, at Milton, Mass., was arrested in doston. The Oi l Colony Steamboat trniu collided with a switch locomotive at Provilence, R. I. Engineer George Burnhnm was killed, and the other engiuoer and both flreueu badly injured. Henry Harris, aged Jiirty-six yea re, was killed by an electric iiock in New York city. John Hartuott >f l'hilalolphia, was liorsc whipped by bis vife for staying out nil night. By the mming of the Tribune building at Minneapo. is, Minn., a number of lives were lost, owing o u lack of flroescip-s. U. S. King, an nil tor, of Ogden, Utah, was Bhot by exJnited States Deputy Marshal Exum, for lublishing an article reflecting upon the Inter's wife. At the poor farm in Merrimac county, N. 1, a woman mined Bennett seized and carled Sarah Wool, a d-l c.Ue woman, to lb? >.nh;tub and drowAiAwk""- One of tho ( nills of tho liartfo.Jprn'pet ComiMiny, at I'bomps inville, Cfc., ' I nrneJ. Loss <5).<H).-?Tiie knot in lhia^*p)se slipp d in hangng W. II. Harvey, sr?wifi> murderer, at due'ph, Out., and the 1*11 died a fricghtful loath. Heavy snowstorms iu the Wist. Rev. Boggiss, of Simian louh, Iowa, obained n verJict of in a suit for Mauler against Banker Ueid, of tbe same place. J. C. MrKenney/ a prominent, criminal? lawyer of Mitwaukee^waswaylaid and tcribly beaten by unknown partus W. P. >artelle, a performer iu a dime museum at Vorcester, Masrt, was shot dead wliilo per- M oriuing a trick v/itli a t ill?. Pivo business mild ugs at Key port, N. J., were destroye I y Are, causing qm aggregate loss of tbj.lWO. ?Three aldermen and four detectives, cf Jittsburg, Pa., wpro convicted and sentenced o short terms of imprisonment for ueci plug bribes to soUle illegal lupior cases.?? find & Co., IfvW^ptCpankvri, who receuty closed 011 the baviug failed, bus i.cii arrested. ^jMluey M. Curtis, of iniguatniou, ii. i ?ron uis weuuing lour cnea 11 a carriage in Hiiruiount Park, 1 hiiadcliliia. J. C. GilMaud, cashier of (Jitiz u's jtatj Buuk at fcv.'Jd*n, Ks., was arrested sharged with forg^ig mortgages. Four jhildren were killen by a powder explosion icar Elliot'.sville, W Va. J. Doison, of Jsgood, lud., who Inxl been ill-treating his rife, whs killed by A. Bishop, his father inavv. B. P. Groveiur, ot Kiverton, Md., .ook an overdose of hiud*uum, and narrowly scaped death. Geori.o Dill, a farmer of Jaiolino county, Aid., i-Tving a live years' lenience in the Delawar; penitentiary for atempted murder, escaped. The aunual neeting of the American Folk Lore Society )f the Middle S.utcs jwas hold in Philadelphia. William Body Hopkins was con dieted of murder in tne first degree at Belk'onte, Pa., for the lAirder of his wife and mother in-law. Tfcfero was 21d business failures in the United States and 3D in Canada the past week.?Fire at Bumside Beucb, Floi Ida, destroyed the Burnside House, the Palmetto Hotel and a beach pavilion. Amanda Brown, of Richmond, Va., threw red pepper into the eyes of Annie Po'.laril her rivul in love, and nearly blinded her. Judge R. B. Tnppe, of Atlanta, Gu., com nutted suicide. In his messsage to (ho Legislature Governor Richardson, of South Carolina recom blends ft repeal of the Civil lli^lHs law. Sheriff Gill, of Virginia, bought the gallows intemhrl for Simon Walker at auction on (speculation. Furbee & Johnson's woolen mill, in Munington, W. Va., was destroyed by lire. John McCarthy, the convict who ics.suited Philip LaCoste,the murderer,at tho state prison in Providence, It. I., has hanged himself. John Wallace Jones, tho nbsmuding nssis'ant passenger agent of the Missouri 1 ucific Itailwuy Ccinpiny at St. I.o ;is, was arrested in Toronto. An iudictment has beeiir found,Charles Hall, of Chicago, for .dss jng fraudulent warehouse receipts. Tfyo Colts Firearms Compuny, of Hartford, will manufacture the Driggs-ScI roe.ler rapid-firing gun. Urativillo K. Young, assistant postmaster at Rugby, Tenn.,hos been arrested on a charge of rilling letters pissing through his office. ??Mrs. Watkius, of Parsons, Pa., obtuinel J'V'bO from a saloon keepor, who had sold her husband liquor, and while under the infitruce of it ho vvus killed. The bark Oermtnia was wricked at Long Branch, Captan Windhorst and eight snlors were drowned. Only four of the crew was saved. ?-John William Brown and William S. Henderson, two colored postal clerks in | Charlotte, N. C., have been nrr? sted for rifling letters. The barge Benefactor, from 1'hiiudelphia for Now Lon ion, Ct., was sunk off Boabrigbt, N. J., and four men are thought to be lost. DIED A .^iERABLE DEATH, A Mini Who4 Had Horn Pnrn'yznl W hile fl irilnj; 111m (iuil. Jobn Cliana, I hopeless paralytic, aged thirty five was I'Mnd dead on the floor of his hovel at Pt^loSwn, Pa., with a leather strap loosely f4*?ued around his neck. Boms maintain Tiat it was suicide, while others sty that It is a case of foul piny, though suicide the generally -accepted theory. Until recoatly Chana wan a fine specimen of physical manhood. It is related that one day ho cursa i him;, eator in a most t rrihlo manner, when I.' fell over, struck dumb and paraly zed fro head to foot. Ho remained iu tU.s con ytiea until his death. ^ -m. FACTS ABOUT THE MM, Postmaster General Wanamaker's Annual Report. j RoronimpnilKlioii* Worthy of Conoid. ? rntion - Addition tl Help \rr lt (l Am to I'oMtnl IMstrleta?A l.liiittcd Post and Telegraph Ncrvlff. The report of FoStiuus:er-Generul Wanamaker is is an exhaustive paper, covering 102 pi inted pag? s. The following is a summary of tho wo. k of the last llscil year. At the close of tho year end <1 Juno 30, 1S3S,there wt ro iu operation 'J. lSs l'residv-filial postoflloes aud 51.338 fourtU-cluss post cfli.vs. During tho lust lhcil year tho iium* ber of Frosidential j?oslolHees increase 1 by ^thoyiu tuber of fourth-olass posttabllsbed was 'Jt77J and the number discon t nut il 1,147. There was au unexpended balance ol <41 ORe.in ?... -? ? ... -i-.- . .. ... vw *v v/uv \jl mi u|>f9rufjriaLmii ui ^ i ,UUIMHJI?S Ttie postage collected upon I omit mutter x cd.'doil by $270,017. 12 or 12 lli-RO per centum, tliu total cost ul I by Irve tie.ivory service. The annual rata of exnen titure for itiluiul mail truui-portution ni i he close of the I <M lisral year was $3-1,121,107.04, and the s rvice included IJ? 077 slur routes ol an uggr aire ieuaih oi 2:33,331.81 miles, costing $5,227,3>7.t7; lioll mail messenger routes w..us total length was 5,023.27 nt.les, tli> ens' thereof being $010 188 So; th.ro were ICS steamboat routes, the lungt i of wliich w.<* 10,5117 87 miles, and the expenditure >-110, 0 2 4s; 1}, I 111 railroad routes c s wig $10,411, (.05.78, co uprising an aggregate I. n ,i of 01 150,381 51 miles, while lor lot! post t Hi e oar routes, the length of which was ',t?, 050.85 iniies. the cost was $2,10 3,517 55. I lie unuuul rut: of pay in,-lit ou account of 5 US railway postal clerks amouuted to $5,2*08,(id >. The sum of < 100,030 S3 was puid for iii.ni equipments, un I coruiui necessary and special facilities on liutik lines involved an expenditure of $205,055 33. lu all cla-ses of the mail service in operation on the 3Jih of June^ 18811- >? - ? tint there ?o"i routes, un increase of W;, or 3 18 per cent.; that the total length of the routes was -110,150 11 in1 leg, an increase of 12.18C.10 miles, or 3 01 percent.; that the annual rate of expenditure was $31,021,107.01 7-10, an increase of $2,507,200.53 11 10, or 8 10 per cent. The total number of mil s traveled per annum was 310,001,834 31, un increase oi 23,0 >0,828 55, or S. ','3 per cent. Too rate of cost per mile traveled was 10.01 cents, the same hi iug a decrease ?>f .01 ceut, or .00 per cent. As to the rati of cost per mile of length, which was $81 75, there wasatitncroasj ot >3 SO.orl 00.-Uftcaaea.s-.- The nv-.-rug J ntltirbcT~ol*ti ips per week was 7.18, which was an increase of .35, or 5.12 per ceut. During the your the total number of pieces of postage stumps and stamped paper was 2,818,505,821, of the aggregate vulue of $52021.781.17, un increase in number over the tlvcui year euli-1 Ju 10 30, 1333, o 117, 030,151, and ia amount of #2 235,4>2 3d, the toruier being 4 33 per coat, and tho hitter 4.61 per coat. Tho totul number of pieces of mail of all kinds registered during (lie your was 14,001,tOO, uii increase of 384,097, or 3.8 per cent '1 here was a corresponding iacre isj of the same proporliou in culstanding us hi closed cases of investigation, are pluc-d at 435, making an ostiuiatod total of 1,159, or 1 iii every 13,237 registered piec.s handled. Tuo vo.ume ol mail matter registered for which postage was paid lius iueroased ill 13 yeurs over 313 per cent, 1 ho totul Wtighl of mails dispatched by sea to foteign couultits was 1 111,853 pounds of which 083,131 cou.-i ted ol I-tiers and postal cards and 3,438,731 pounds of oilier articles. Over 89 per cent, of tuo fo.'iaer and 75 p-r cent of the latter were destined lor iraiisatluntic countries and of tho transatlantic mulls 42 per c.-nt ot tho 1.-tiers and 53 per cent ot tue olh r articles were lor Ureut Britain. Vessels of United Stales registry recoivod $1.0) per pound lor letters and postal curds uud 8 cents per poun 1 for other uj-ticlcs, while vessels of foreign regis.r/ are paid but about 41 ceins lor letters and postal cards and aoout4Jr,' cents lor other uriici s. The gross amount of couip-ns itimi paid for transatlantic s rvice was $379,012.08, ab of which wu., paid to vessels oi loivjgu registry, except tue lusignillcant sum oi $1. id to the American line tor carrying 311 grams ?11 ouncesot letters. For trans- pact lie service there was pail to vera-Is of United States registry $52,831.73, and to vesso.s of foreign registry $0,741 38, while for miscellaneous services vossms oi Un ted bta.oi registry received $57.lH)C8l, and ves.se s of fori ign registry $10,199 55 Tne tn.nl cost (of the transatiantiu service w is $ <78 513 08, of tho trans-pacitlc service, $53,503 111, nun of the miseeliaueous service, mciu ling Cinatlu, Mex.co, Central and South America, and tho West lulus, $07,31)5.81. i The Superintendent ot t.<e do id letter oflice inak s the gratifying cxhii.it that there I was a deer, nsoot 10,983 pieces of mail m itt r us compared with the number reenved during tho preceding li.-c.il year. Tti > toiui nutnbor of pieces treated in tiiis bruncn ot the department was 0.419.293. O the total ntitrb r 5,491,23? letters were opened, an-, i /j.M0 were d divereil unop-nod, while'.'01. fl'iii onlinriry letters wore destroyed; M.V.Vi foreign letters mid parsols woro return* <1 or dolivor.-il to Itio uddr-.'sses. (>. the b-tters opened in tlio letter oll1v? :i O'.lii, l!f.? were delivered, nnd of theso l,bbtf,7tW contained nothing of vului, the remainder huvitig inclosur s of nionoy, drafts, miscellaneous papers, photographs, <fcc. ,S.,venty-iivo thousand one hundre I and seventy-five letters and parcels failed of delivery and liavo been filed subject to reclamition. and d.5T7, MM were destroyed. KILLED BY NITRO-GLYCERINE. I'liree flcn Killed iiimI Prupri'l)' lie. *tro>cil l?y fin i; * plosion. The most terrible explosion of nitio glyeo . ino for yoirs occurred in the suburbs of f).l 'Jity, 1'h., in which two brothers, sons of a wl low name 1 Fislior- James, ntred elgliiown, and Charles, nge I sixteen, and 10 i. Iloirman, :c (I twenty-six, lost their lives. The glycerine, to the iiiuouut oi live tons, was owned by th ! torpedo company, nnd was in n boat near Fail's icehouse, mid was being unloaded and placid in the magazine. While the men were nwuy, the boys, who were iiu.itin^, ... ... ...... ? ftfutriifif.ii Ihj* Imfit ?Lll it im.ll!, 1TI-I V SUVII iv. ? - I po.so I one of itio pirtyfell and cnns- d tlio ' accident. The rihocit was tremendous. FnrinI.ouses ami t-arns n -arby worn shattered an I Mown to pieces. The ic -house, a building it :U fe.t tijuarc, was reduce I to kindling wood. Windows in Hi? postoUice und depot, two miles away were shutt red by thebbeck. NEW CONSULS. A IIiitcli of Appointment* Hade by Iho 'resident. President Harrison appointed the following United states consuls: Ik'ckforc^ Mackey, of Month Carolina, to loin Jose, Costa ltici, Ho was tin isforrod from Paso del Norto, Mexico, liirain J. I>a?!ap, of Illinois, to lireslau, Oerni my; Mr. Dmil-^p is edi tor of >f tbu L'lminpuip (/ncl/i1 William K. (lardner, of Wisconsin, to R >tterdain; Air, Gardner has bom for several years connected with ,b ? Kccninj Wisconsin, Milwaukee. Deloss II. M.-nith of Arizona, to fSognles, M? xic >. Jolin H. Osborne, o; Pennsylvania, toGu. nt, wliero n vacancy exisls; Air. Ottiorno is a v>ii of the Congressman irum Wilkesbnrre. Wil mm Aloiioghan, of Ohio, to Hamilton, Ontario; Mr. Monoghan wus appointed coinUi-Tcia) ogout at Chatham, Oat., last June. CABLE SPARKS. 8tanley, tba explorer, has arrlrod at Mpwapwu. Mr. Gladstone is iu favor of local option In I England. Italy has assumed n protectorato over a portion of the coast of E ist Africa. Tlio ex-mayor of 8 c ill eld, Eng., dropped dead while Hastening to catob a train. The elections of Gen. lloulanier and M. Naqu >t were Invalidated by thi French election Mireuu. Weighing dues on cotton and other agricultural products hava boon abolished iu the Egyptian budget for the coming year. The British steamer Edith Godden, from New York, November 12, foundered at Ben. Tu*? crow are safe. Lord Itoseberry, at a meeting of liberals at G.usgow, said be was not in lavor of abolishing llou.s > of Lords. ]jOrd Stlliwlilirv niM'd -il ak Jha flrjf eifUnfr of the special cabinet coinmitteo appointed j to coiutidcr the Irish policy oX the to Tarn- v ntnl. lioss Raymond, who w&.; at ono time con* nectod with Billiinoro newspapers, was con* victed ol forgery ut Manchester, Eugland. The Kurdish chief, Moussa Bey, is in prison to answer charges ot perpetrating outrages upon Christians in Armenia. The anti-slavery conference, In session in Brussel-', liuve asked fcj.uiiJloy uud Emln IVsli i lor u nurralive of their experience witn slaves and slave dealers in Alrija. Tne proprietor of the London Mining Hicird and Mr. Murix, ot the Financial Tuues of the same city, have been indicted 1 by the London grand jury tor blacktnuil. There is a movement on foot in I/ondon for (lie conversion of the people of the West End of that city by visiting their dwel.ings. Humors of a revolution in Cuba are cotiIrudicled by Havana advices, wli cii state III it ttiu island politically is entirely tranquil. j Judge Bristowo, ot Nottingham, England, < was shot uud dangerous wounded by a Uer- i ni hi dentist aguiust wliom he gave judgmeut I in a salt. i A number of tho followers of Bishop | Smytbios, of the Central Africun mission, ! were killed by Chief Mnholodo and his warl greattyVnTprised'wh^n h i " road in newspapers tbe reports of his mother s | ooveny, uud iuiuiidiately cabled from Liu- ( Jou to ills agent m New York to supply her | with luuils. I 8ir Ed.vard Galniusi has given C'JOO.OOJ for tho erection of dwellings in London for | tile laboring classes, and A'.j.i,l)00 to lie si mi- I i triy used lor ill'J bencutoi tuo poor ot nuuli.i. Hussiu continues mussing troops upon her frouliuis anil is sleudby extending her railway system in order tuat her st,rater it; kvs j.oui uiny lx compto'.gctdytiayt Owing to the withdrawal from the Chainber of Depuliei of France of U. Dey dot's oil! against tuo match monopoly, the mum icr of linniico announced that the French government would work tlu monopoly. Fmpcror u illiam of Germany is opposed to the betrothal of his sister Aiurgarit to tuo Cz u's sou becuusi of the weukly constisuliou ot the latter. 'I'lie l'iiusjss herself is | w illing for the mulch mid so is I'riuce Bis- ( luarck. In his sp.eeh b.doro the Pnrnell commissio.i, Sir lteury Jumes, counsel for the Lindou limes, declared that there was proof showing iuu> usjcciation of Patrick E ,an, now 'ill ro are conflicting reports of the death of i)r. Peters, tin- German explorer. Lieut, iiorchel, ono ot tue oouimuiiders ot tin second column of Dr. Peters's expedition, reports iroui l-iockerinuui, Africa, that Dr. Fetu s and his purly are save and well, ami navo estub islied a lot titled station at the Itiot ot .uouut Kemu, wlnle i.dvicis received ill Zit.zibai' tiuui Lainu suite that Dr. Peters .nut all his companions, sale live porters, wero massacred to ilie Hainan* at Addu liurroi abo. on ti.e Tana l iver, ei^ht duys'march above lvorkoiro. DISASTERS AND CASUALTIES. A hiiow storm in Montana caused soverut wrecks on the Northern Pacillo K a broad. Timothy McCarthy, an eleou-ic light liueinuu in Providence, Knodo Islm I, was killed l>y fouling "livu" wires at a street corner. His body hung oil u wire uud hud to betaken down. Annie McDonald and Alary Mullarky, i ttcli about 10 years ot age, wore killed by a freight train ut a street ciossing in Cincinnati. Daniel Kyun a young man, wiio nocompound iboni, was s v. rely injured. A boiler exploded in Joslyn, Missouri, wlule being tested. John Alndison was killed and Ihoinas Johnson and A. T. Crockett dangerously injured. C J. Johnson uud his sons, John uud tloorgo, were scalded. Frank Foster atteuipte I to shut oir an electric light in (i oucester, Massachusetts, with an iron Uufl', and ivas instantly killed. Wi littui Hugo uud Frank 11-rger were killed near Coiasauquu, IJa., by tbe premature explosion of a biu3t in a quarry. It is b. lievod in New York that thoro were nine lives lost through liioco.iisionuiid s nking of the.steamer Al mliutlan i.y tneschooner A ncs Manning, off FenwiCk shoal lighlsii.p 'i ho uiun supp >sod to have boon lost depended upon lit pre.>.*rvers for tiuur saiety. A despatch from Untie, Montana, suy- j that a lire started in the cross cut, on too fiUOfout tevel ol tlio Mt. La wi ence nun*, and J the ilrult blow it into the Anac nidu works nigs, Putruk Murphy, Henry Page, Jerry | Hu livun and Tim lveiieher, were sulfocutoJ | in the Auacon la, and tluro are uino uioro j men unaccounted tor. A freight truin on th : Lehigh Valley Uiilro ul d ishe l into the lear ot a passenger train, standing ut B ithloli-in, Pa., and two curs were telescoped. K. V. Cui ry, 01 JJethleln in, railroad postal clerk, was taken from the wreck dead. John Vanhoru, of lletlilehem, received injuries which will probably prove fatal. Cannes Nonneniacher, of | Hokoiidaqui, ha I hii lag cut olf, and an unknown woman wus injured ubout the head. AN INSANE MAN LYNCHED, Torn From Ilia Family l?y Wisconsin IVi iik'i h mill fetfnmir !' ?. Tlio blood stained records of Judge Lyucb's court do not sliow a more dastardly criino than was committed a few days ago at Proston, in 'J'r< mpenlcuu county, Wisconsin, liars Jacob Olson, aged fifty years was torn from his house and lynched by a party of masked men. Olson was partially iussno and tomewbat quarrelsome, an 1 hud boon o derod by neJghtiors to loavo the country, lie neglected to do sound was strung up. Olsen wis seized in bod, pulled out and bis hands tied behind him, despite his di spernt) struggles and the screams of the family. Without oven allowing hun to put on his clothos, the m-m led him out of the house. Ottco outsi lo Oisjn learned w hat was to bo done with him. lie caught site of a now rope hanging over the limb of ? largo tree, which stands not moro than twenty feet from the little cabin which was his homo. H-j struggled to free his hands, touring the tl sh front his wrists until they bled freely; but finding himself unable to got loose, submitted in sullen silence. Tho rope was put mound his nock and willing hands drew him up to strangle, llis legs were not tied, and his kicking und struggling was fearful. The iuob remained some tune, however, lest be nnght be cm. down before ho was dead. Then after shouting threats of lynching anyone who sliou d nitre cut down the laxly, (hoy disappeared. The coronor's inquest was held at i'i< slon, an i tho following vordict was rendered: "Deceased name to his doith by strangulation causa I by being banged by the neck by masked persons unknown." "sum m totom i Two Acres and a half Burned jl| in the Business Centre. *Jji Section* of tlae I'iljr Destroyed by th? A' Cenfli < grist ton of Srvcntern Ycitrs Ago Ag.?lu Visited by fare. 1<1 vcm Feared to bo Lo?t. A disastrous (l o broke out ia Boston % _! 3.30 o'uioc* in the morning in the six story * irsnito buiidiug owned by Jordan, Marsh & Co., and occupiad by Brown,Durrsll & Co., > * dealer in dry gooJs on the corner of Bedford and Kingston Streets. Tbe fire raged fijreely for four bours, and it wat two hours I)0foi*ft /ill tlsntrnr r\t -,u#v. v4 * ubuiujj wc%? urtr. Mora than twenty nob!* building*, reared $P with a view oL*aehl?tfcia^i WpWll'lte" ' . incasi-n invention could dovise, which were flllel with valuable merchandise, were au- 3 tirely destroyed with their content*. The loss, according to ths beat information obtainable w ill bo $10,000,1 03. Two and a half acres of the most valuable buiin-.si property wore wiped out of existence. Several flromon and employees of tho ruined building* are mii-sing and it is feared that the loss of half a dcz ii lives will bo added to tho horror oi tho situ ition. It was about 8 3'J o'olocfc when a letter *1 Barrier sow fl tuns must Irom tbe top story w.ndow 1f Brown, L> r ell & Co.'* massive budding in the corner of Bedtord and Kingnoil Street. A v oloul storm was raging at 111' time ami few people were ou tho streets. I'lio rain ?ius falling in torrents and the '.rii.d was b owing a gale. Oi course, those ^ who luni umbrellas could not see tbo tope of tho buildings. Other people hurried along with their lints pulled over their eyes. Thin t -xpUnation is necessary to show how the tiro ontauied ?u:b h indway before being ds.oveiol Th ru was no watchman in tbe building. Tbe Utter crrrler notified a policeman nud kept ou ?n*trdmHng Ittfar* ^ yil Hri inin wmi'i ll *ir* fn ""'i but now locate 1 one block froin whore it iv.is then, uiiJ in a niiuule engine 7 was on I'aoground. 'lhertBtof h appiratui which tnswers that call tliundr- d up, and before a Hue ot hose could bo laid the tlaiues burst from evsry window ou each of lb? live floors. lb j heat was terrible, but llio Hi onion plucKily held their ground, while chief Webbar ordered second ai.d tuird alarms t > be rung at once. Fourteen engines and other apparatus res-ponded. but th.? men could uo no lung with the awful lurnace twhieh covired ail area of 2.3,000 biiu u o feet, lor i-uch Itvvjiawhca 4bey n?.xie?nho place. Tl a gu'.e lilted u solid uody of ilauie litty feet into Hie air and then dung it down ill au unbroken mass upon tho buildings ou all sides /ft*? The vi ry uir seemed ablsz ?. Long flaming streamers leaped out of the windows nud uu relied for a S?o!d upon surrounding structures, until it looked as though the street jfiS was tes'.ooncd wild tire. liiiin diately ufter the calls of Itowd, Burred &. Co.'s building fen the tl e sprcuu in all diieclious. No human beings cou'd i itaud within a block of the awful lurnace. Tiie lir j was in supreme control, uud jumped gfo acrot- Bedford and Kingston streets with '^Pr ridiculou- core. 'the ll .me* <| lickly worked tbeir way toward B.idiord mi vet. The wnole block n jing a ni ig hi ' ffltfMl out across the street,* and, in lc?* time ttiaa' it lakes to tell the story, the buddings on the west sine oi cuuuucjy Kirovi wero auiazo. j Then a gio.it C ar oiz id upifu tin spectators. 4 Hut a single block ot bunutiigs s parated the Itatin-s liciu U. ii. While's gigantic establishmeal, nud but a l.w lods further North, wus Jordan, Mttr..h iSi Co.'.i u-tubl.uumonU If lbs . ' tiro got u looiho.il o.i Washington street nothing cou il stop its progress cbler Wt liber winched i or I he arrival of outbid > engines with as much unxiei y us u general could look lor ri serve* wneti he Knew that delny meant del eat. It wan nt tins piilicui j n.OkUre tba scene, closely lollowe.i by oiheis, until moru than tin ty were pulling and throwing th.-lr it renins upon the nm mug bunding. On the North Kino ot iiodloi'd street the (1 tines i educed a Ucz *i? ihree-st >ry brick and stone Luiidings to i uius, but the lire slack- " cned la foie the determined attack of the liremen, without working further into the retail district. The 8.11110 result was uttftiued oil Hedloid sir. el, ivt>l of Brown, Durrell & (Jo.'s liuiMing, i'bo il jo.mug structure war, -f? of course, gutted, UUU so wus tbo bud lingon the opposite side ot Columbia street. Hut the tlreiueu workod like Trojans to save the lentil r houses iliat lie in that direction, and * ,\ succeeded. That left the body o( 11 lines at tbo four corners of Chuuuoey and Bodlord streets. Again and again me tiro swept across the street and tind to get a hold upon the hol dings on the north side of Bediord, hut the iireineu plucktiy held their ground and won the tight. ' MADE HOMELESS BY FIRE. A His Ulnae In i? I'ennay Ivftiila Town llcnvy Lumis. A tiro Lroke out in Leecnburg, I'a., about six o'clock in ths oveniug, :>cd for ihree hours rage 1 fiercely, destroying a large | ortiou of fc'.io busino-s and residence section of the town. The lire started in tho Anderson block, and as a high wind was prevailing, the flames spread in ail directions. In Its* t .an an hoi r tho councilrooms, Cvchrnn block. L?ecbburg Hanking Company'* building, aud several blocks o:i both sides of the main street were burning, aud the fiery element was still eatlug its way through the town. The citizens were almost panicstrick- n, and seemingly t wore unable to eirectiveiy ngni; me ore wiiu the priinitivo apparatus at tbeir cooimaod. Telegrams for assistance wero sent to Pitts* burg and Allogbouy, and with the welcomo intelligence that engines were on the way to the scene, the residents again went to work, and by nine o'clock the flames were under control, before this was accomplished, bow. ever, the postofllce, tbo Leechburg Advance building, lx-echburg Baud building, Bill bank building, Cochran's block, Pquires' .30 block, and twenty to twenty flro dwelliags J 7? and stores were in ruins. 1 he loss will be $80,000, and may reach $100,000. It is imEounble to ostiiuate the insurunoe, but it wi 1 . He light. MARKETS. 2 B a t timoiie?Flour?City Mills, extra,K 60 v >? a$4.05. Wheat? Boutheru Kultz, 83o&4; < Corn?Southern White, 42a43 cts, Yellow 42n42c%- Oata?Southern and Pennsylvania $T>a20^cta.: Hye?Maryland & Pennsylvania <r 5'.'ft.VlcU.; Hay?Maryland and Pennsylvania 115 )a?li 00;otraw- Wheat,7.50o$8 60;Butter, Eastern Creamery, 10ail5c.. near-by receipts Val8cts; Cheese--Eastern Fancy Cream. 11W allH eta.,?Western, 10al01? eta: Eggs??1 a25, Tobacco Leaf?Inferior, la$2.00, Good Common, 3 00a$4 00, Middling, $5a7.00 Good to fine red,8^U; Fauoy, 10a$l3. niw I UMM.?r nmi? - """lirwi? fair extradffOOa* 3.85: Wheat-Nol White 8(]^H , ;Ry<ff8tate.ftl^aft2^;Corn ?Southern Yellow ?.2i49W. Oats-Wntte,State37Ua3#W ct*.; flu- . T-State. 12o24 ota.: Cheeiw&ttte, $S 8#al0% cK', Eggs?24a21>f etc Fifii.ADKLrniA ? Flour ? Pennsylvania v-m fanny, jAW; Whoat?Pennsylvania awl HouthcBrWl. 80^nh0>^; Rye-Pennsylvania 55a50ct4PVn? .Southern Yellow, 4 It/a42ct* -iS-Si Oats?2SUa29 eta.: Butter?Htate, JVu5 cte.; Cheese?N. Y. Factory, 9aeta. Kgg?? State. 21o23 eta. CATTF.K Baltimoh*?Beef, 4 12a4 35; Bhaep?$3 00 n5 00. Hogs?$4 35a4 80. fliaw York?Beef?$5 00a7 00;8heep-$8 50 fl aft ftO; Hogs?$3.90a4.3V , Kaht Ltbk&ty--beer?43 90a4 00; Sbeefw J $4 bOaft 00; Hogs?fs 00a4 C4k