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THE WEEKLlBpl UNION TIM EM Devoted to Agriculture, Horticulture, DgmUterature, Politics and the Current News of the Day. THE "LEKriNO CHILD. | Jj0 spoke now like a man nlmn.t I 1-' T* ' DT IV .KNB FIELD. My baby ilipt; biw oulm his rest As o'or t 1 < linn>l-tnii)u fuco a am.le I.iko to nrt nuK 1 ' tl tt. d, vvliilq lie lev bo still uj on my breast. Mv baby s'cpt- his baby head I av unkl?*od nout i pail and shroud T did u.it woeji or cry aloud ; I only wisbe 11, too, werj dead! My baby s'cepa ; a tiny mound, All covered by tbo little flowers. Wooes me in all ruy waking bonis, Town in the quiet burying-gruund. And when I sloop I sooni t> be VV i:h naby in an >tlier land : I takothls littlo baby liana. ne tmtles and sings sweet songs to me. Sleep on, O liiby, while 1 keep My vigils till this day bo past! Th n shell I, too, lie down at lait And with my darling baby sleep. TOM BRYSOiTS CRIME, CU A PTE It IV. TEOU AltT THE MAN. There was an awkward pause for a moment. Mr. Bolmont appeared restive and uneasy nnder the other's stendy gaze, and soou broke the silenco. Vee here, uiy mnn?it was understood beforo I cimn in hero that I was to pay for what I had, and, poor as it j is, you urglit havo spared mo the exlii? bitiou of your boorislmess with it. I J can't undertake to got to Ayleswoi tb at this tinio of night, over a strango road, | and I am compelled to remain hero all 1 night. But there is one thing I can do, I that will, perhaps, tako some of the surliness out of you. I will pay my bill in advance. How much is it?" Bvron Ri*wl tinfliinrr "Come? your < barge, I 3ay I Let mo j . get to bed, anil forgot the miseries of this day." "My account against yon, Maaou Belmont, is larger than X mako out in a lew minutes; larger than yon can easily pa v.* Belmont started at the mention of his name, und the a'.fered toue of ilryaou. "Fellow, what do moan? Where did you learn my naino?" "You offer to pay mo," said the other, not heeding the interruption. "There are somo debts that never can be paid. I was r ch, honorod, and i prosperous; 1 was your peer, tho peer I 1 of any merchant in tho city wheu wo 1 lived. Tho passion of gain ng seized me; I was ruined. A charge of forgery ! to a largo amount was brought against j ' me. I was porfootly innocent, but up- , pearancos were strong that 1 was = guilty. Tho eloquence of my counsel on tho tr al and some remnant of syrn- j pathy in tho jury saved lqc, after a ] ' ...i L (u*1o ftgrna. and attar -?ueieutiou in iail I was ms- | charged. I came out a branded man! j Everybody believed me guilty. 1 was \ a Cain where I hud been almost a | prince. Yet 1 had not lost heart. 1 j took courage u:.d resolved to conquer ( the world again. My beaut;f .1 home, , my gv.oat block of stores, wero heavily mortgaged, but 1 knew that with time | , given mo 1 could clear off the incumbrances and save mv property. Yo i had borght up the mortgages, i sought you?you who had often dined at mv tablo and begged fa\ors of me?and assured you of the now life that I meant to lead. I asked yo i for time in which to save my property and pay all that was due. You met my appeal with a heartless demand of instant payment. I begged for so little as a year; you were obdurate. You tpok advantage of the denrossion of the I time; you foreclosed, bought in the property at half its value, crushed me nt a blow. My dear wife Hank under the a'lliotion and died. X was a beggar, even regarded as a criminal. 1 lied with my child from all who had known me. For years we have been buried in obscurity,.' cursed, with poverty and hard toii. It is jour work, MasonFelmont; how do you like it?" He rsi?od his voice, his eyes glowed, his form vat erect, his hands beat tho air with cmphatio gestures. His guest fell back to tho wall in terror nnd astonishment. "Why?bless me!?but this seems impossible. Can you beNewland Wendell?'' "Aye! Look nt me?thiek of my chl'd?and say how yo.i liko your work!" , . "Whv, rea ly, Wendell?Mr. AVendell?tliis is extremely sudden. I thought you were dead; everybody thought so." "And so I am! Dead to mv (rood : iiuim-i. dead lo tlie fortune that was mine ?to the woalth and renewed honor *' ^f "ib?t would liavo been mine?had you not cruelly denied me the chance. Oh, I'm . dead enough; I shouldn't bo more so if 1 wcnr buried." "I don't know precisely what to say to you, Mr. Wendell. I don't apologize to anybody; but I will say that, perhaps, m I was a little too hard on you.* ~ "Yes, a little?just a little!" said IJryson -(as wo shall still call him, his livid faoo trembling with rago and grief. "Monstrous Shy lock that you were, a devil just.Hteppo.d out of lioll couldn't have-used a former friend as you treated me." "Don't bo unreasonable, my dear sir," said Helmont, with an attempt to speak soothingly. "I did what the law allowed; that you'll admit. As for tho fo/gory, I believed you guilty, just as everybody did." i "J was not guilty." "Yes, I kuow that; all your old friends in the city know it. Simon Osborne! iod two years ago, and on hii dosth-bed Lo said that he had been hasty; that ho was satisfied that the chetfk was as he wrote it, and that you had not altered the amount. He tried knr<4 trt vfni 1)tH TAii nnvnv Keen oFYhis?'"' "Hear of it? No; bow could anything of this reach my ears? My nmue is changed; I urn changed myself. You did not know me; nobody wonld. Look at these rough bands, at these bent shonldors! 1 am a common laborer, a drndge in tho Holds and woods, barely Supporting myself and that i>oor child. My past lifo lias gone from me. There , is a gulf between it and me that I cannot oross." Bis violence .had almost departed; vuuuHiu. xt was a goodly sight. Bills I there were of the denomination of fifty dollars, one hundred, five hundred, , and at least throe representing one ! thori?nnd each. The examination was i satisfactory. Tho merchant returned tho treasure to tho sachol, replaced it beneath his pillow, pnt out the light, and found sleep. * w * * The scene that has just been dof eribod was silently, stealthily viewod | by Tom liryson from his concealment. I Like ono fascinated, he gazed at the wealth spread out on the coverlet. For years he had seen no such sight as this; for veuvs he had known nothing of money but tho pittance that his hard toil produced. Tho tempter whispored in his ear, and his heart throbbod madly at the thought. Here was wealth enough tomake him comfortable, to make Jessica happy. . Who owned it? v?*1 Hi*-own. worst enMfiy J. arfrjta* boing, tho faithless friend who had no broken. Staggered by this sudden apparition of one whom be bad deeply wronged, and whom lie bad thought long dead. Mason Belmont was in consternation. lie knew not what to say; to offer any reparation was gall to liis miserly boui. Tbe change of Br y sou's mood gave him an opportunity to escape for tbe present from tbeso bitter reproaches. "Well, Mr. Wendell, it's long past now, and I don't see just what can bo dono about it. Ten yean is a long j time, you know. 1 hope you'll believe j mo when I say that this painful disco - J ery has almost upset mo. Let mo go to bod and sleep on it, nnd I'll talk with you further in the morning. Will 3'ou take this five dollars now lor my Looping ?" "No; put it away with the reat of your ill-gotten gains." Mr. Belmont returned the bill to his poi-kot, nnd did not resent tho bitter taunt. Brysou had taken tho candlo and started for the door; the gnejt followed him with his sacliol. Five minutes later, Bryson returned to tho room. He throw some of tho wood on the fire, and sat down before it. When the little clock on the shelf : struck eleven he was :<till sitting there. A tempest was raging in hi* brain. CHAl TEK V. the d"-v i.'fj bxckon1no. The presenco of Mr. Belmont in this house, and tho few words ho had said, had raised a tormont in Tom I'ryson's ; breast that effectually banished sleep, lie sat before the lire deeply wrappod in thought; but his thoughts moved about in a ceaseless circle, and nothing came of them. Mr. I'eimont nnd his formor friends should holp him ? nnd he never would accept of their help, l'o would return to the city with Jessiea?and ho was no longer fit for the companionship of his old friends, llis child should bj rescued from this povorty and obscurity, and placod in the slatiou t > which her birth, her boauty, and her mind entitled her?and sooner thin accomplish it by alms of those of whom he was oiico an eipial, uho should share his fttto, bitter as it was. An hour passed with these thoughts, j nud tho clock struck twelve. The tiro, j fed by light, dry branches, had en- j tiroly died out; tho candle 111 the | further end of tho room shed no light j here; und so it was that a gleam of ] light coming through the chink in tho | wall near where I10 Bat now attracted j his attention. Ho understood at once j what it meunt, an I with tho kuowiedgo camo suggestions irom tho tempter! The room usually occupied by Bryson for a sleeping apartment, and intq which he had couductod tho travolor, j wa 1 noxt adjoining this ouo. To roach . it the two had entered a hall, passed hack twenty feet, nnd entered the j 1 *. 1 |i- 1 1 - >1 -a -?- *"7* - | 11 ouft0 had been substantially built, with j lliinlr unrlifinnc* link flaA wall Unfwnnn 1 liieso rooms hnd shared tho misuse of I ho whole house, and in pluces great patches -of pluslering were gono. In one spot, about four foot from tho lloor, n small piece of lathing was gone; and it wan through a wide crack hero that the licht came. Bryson's curiosity was instantly aroused. Mr. llelinont hnd said he was tired. His candle was still burning. What was he about? He might look and find out. The ' sitting-room was dark nt this end; thoro was no danger of detection. The Nowland Wendoll of other days would have scorned tho act that Tom Bryson now committed. Ho was, indeed, a changed man. Ho stooped and put his oye to the craek. * m * * * + Removing only his oout and boots when his churlish host had left him, Mr. Belmont placed his sachet under the pillow and threw himself upon the bed. But he could not sleep. He was not superstitious; he had not an atom of sontiment in his hard, dry nnturo; but thoro 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, the storm, the fall ing id with Ihlgar Van Wyek, were tho links in (he chain that hart drawn him to this out-of-the way place, and to a most disagreeablo meeting. 1!o thought of tho morrow, and groinel. No romorse troubled him; it was simply the 'fear that if this man should continue to reproach him for his ruin, he could not escape offering him money. "Hang the fellow!" ho muttered. "Why does ho bother mo? I only took my own. 1 do.i'fc owe him a cent." "lie could satisfy his own coarse soul by s ich reasoning as this, but he could not shake off tho sub oct. "It was hard on the poor devil," he reflected; "but he'd ruined himself before I took him in hand." Then oamo a thought thnt startled him from the l>ed, as if with a shock. "A prottv place this is for mo to be in all nigut, with what I've got along with me! Can that crazy follow suspect it? Hardly. I've been careful not to drop a hint about it. What might he not do if ho did find it out, oft' in til s lonely place? It makes mo tremblo to think of it! I can't sleep now, sure, till I've seen that it's all right." A mutch from a pocket-case relit tho caudle. He went to the door and oliot the rusty bolt. Hitting upon the side of tho lied, he took the sachel and opened it with a key from h s pocket. As the beginning of our narrative has tVtiin/l Mnonn UnI mnnfr Im u/nu nn 1 w midway upon Jiis journey, its object, known only to a few confidential friends at his home, was to attond a largo landsale at the capital of odo of the new States which was at that day considered the Far West. His business shrewdness had forescon chances for enormous gains by liberal investment in that locality; but ready money was requisite, and bank paper at that salo would not answer. 80 ho secretly, carofully carried a small fortune with him. Tho snchcl conta'ned twonty-tivo thousand dollars. One aftor another ho pulled out from it bundles of notes,- arm-thick, securely tied with tapes. Ho examined the figures penciled on the back of each, and one of the bundles he unfastened and ij fit'irt^llllft&firflY fJii r compassion lor mm in Ins extremity; who had joined tho erowd in outlawing him; nay, the very man whose hnrd hand had cleurived biui of his all without grace or inercy.A wild, tierco exultation rose iu Bryson's breast, lind not his time come now? Had not fato brought his enemy right here, to make recompense for tho grievous wrongs ho had done? But lbs life stood in tho wn;?. The life of such a man! Should he caro for that? Tho caudle went out; there wa3 darkness overywhero in tho ohl house. For half an hour Bryson never stirred as ho leanod against tho wall. Tho deop, leg dar breathing of Mr. Belmont soon told that he was asleep. And in silence and dnrkuess tho liend whispered in Brvsou's ear. (11AP1 Ell VI. ix this dead or Kiour. It was past ono o'clo -k, when, without u light, and with bet unshod, Bryson grojied his way down into tho cellar. I eoling about in tho pitchy darkness of tho place, he found a eholf. Sovovnl articles upon it he handled and rejected, hut presently seized tho one for which he 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 tho cellar, beneath the floor of tho room where his guest was sleeping. Mounting an old box, ho cautiously tried the tloor. It did not yield. Severn! times ho changed tho position of tlio box, and pushed tho hoards with his hands, before they yiolded. At hist a trap-door was lifted a few inches, lie paused a moment, with both hands above his head, to m.iko sure that there had b.en no nlurui. Then with a painful otl'ort lie vuisod liimselt by his hands intn fho 1.J-. 1 ___ Z 1 _ IIU1?) 11IO UUUA I muscular etfort filled his body with pain; but he succeeded in drawing himself up, until his knees tested on the floor of the chamber. Then occurred a mishap that he had fores* m, but could not prevent. The heavy door hud been raise I by his shoulders to the perpendicular; in getting his knees on the tloor the trap was thrown back, and fell over with ft crash. The sleeper started up, thoroughly awake. "Who's there?" ho demanded. There was no answer. The room was as still again as it was dark. "I say?who's there?" Htill no answer. "Was I dreaming about a noise, I wonder?" Mr. Belmont thought. He jumped from the bed, and finding his matt h-case, struck a light. The flash revealed his face as ho stooped toward the ohair to light the candle. A dim figure glided swiftly and silently to him; there was a dull noise as the merciless iron bar descended in a terrific blow npon his temple, and Mason Belmont fell like a log, dead at the foot of his assassin. Tho lighted match still burned upon the floor where it had fallen. Bryson snatched it up and re-lit the candle. | Tho victim lay prono on his face, his arms thrown abroad. A moment's hesitation; a shudder, and then tho murderer pulled the body to the trap-hole, and hurled it into the cellar. The victim's coat, shoes, and hat followed. Then the iron bar, then ; tho sachel? and tho trap-door was re' closed. [TO BF. CONTINUSU } Pastoral Kentucky Life. A Kentuckian, writing to a friend, says: "You recollect that willow-covered flask that Tom Potter had, the ono that you wanted so bad. He 'thought the world of it, for it hold a i quart aim was tiio nanaicsi tiling i ovor seed. Wall, it's no more, for Tota got into a shootin* fracas the othor day, and tlio Husk was broke all to pieces We boys picked up the pieces and looked al 'em sadly, but it wa'n't no use, fur the flask was done broke. That vory mornin' Andy (Jilchrist offered Tom sevonty-fivo cents for it, but it didn't budge him; but I reckon if ho had knowed what wus going to happen he would have tuck it. (Somehow wo all folt like something was going to happen, an' wo crowded around Tom an' told him to sell it, that in this world of uncertainties some misfortune mout como prancing along an ovor take it; bnt no, hoodstrong, liko all the inembora of his family, lie wouldn't take it, and now that beautiful flnsk is?brokon into a thousand pieces. Thar ain't no newa in this neighborhood. Oamo is Hca'ee and the lisli won't bite. Unole Caleb Brown fell often tho spring-liouso yistidav an* broke hie no. k. Ho was a good old man an' a mighty fine jadgo of lieker. I forgot to stato that Tom Potter was killed at the samo time the flask was broke. Oivo ray love to all, an' tell Ab Lyons that the Pattersons air lay in' far him an* 'low to salt him down of he ever comes back here."? Arkanaaxv Traveler. Thr only way to kill out tho salivating army nuisance is to prcsont each member with a pair of rollor skates. Then they would all bo backsliders by tho end of a week. *Wk'?? won our suit." tho lawyer laid. / And (t loo fully ruhhed hi a pate. Ami what ara vour charge*, sir'.1* they said. "Cb, moroly the saved ostatoP ?Oil Ctty Derrick. f \. ?? THE NEWS, lttroo boilers at a coal-breaker at Jeansvibe, Fa., exploded, blowing a bridge to atoua* aud til ing George Poicock, tho fireman.?? By a teriible explosion of nitrogl>cerino, three uien wore killed aud several buidmgs destroyed near Oil City, Pa. Wbile tho ooliector of tbo Commercial National Bank of Clevelaud, Ohio, was counting FJ80D iu the general oQlce of tbe German-American bank of that city, a tbief suutubed $2,0J0 and escaped. Fire at Albany, N. Y., destroyed Jacob Leonard & Sou's pap r bouse, the Albany C isket Company's works and o.her buildings, aggregating a loss of 175,00.'. Tbe coal operators of tbo Monongubela Valley are talking of closing down tho in lies indefinitely. Tbe |>4'eumer Idaho, from Victoria, B. C.t ran on tde rocks near there, took fire and wai destroyed. LOSS ixiO.OjO. .Thn ihnra? - . v-gV VI , tho lajy .A- R.V Wuodsd*r#lt|r ooik^CtjM-cff ->nal(?Hrf h ">,000. -i?'Tho crossing of two olet-triu light wires in Chicago B3t fire tb a large building. Quiseppe de Lucca, an Italian, who is believed to bo tho murderer ot Mill o.iuiro Edward Cunningham, at Miltou, Mass., was arrested iu Boston. Tbe OU Colony Steamboat train collided with a switch locomotive at Providence, ft. I. Engineer George Burnhnm was killed, and tbe other engineer and both fire moo badly injured. Henry Harris, aged thirty-six years, was killevl by an electric s tock in New York city. John Hartnett of Philalelphia, was horsewhipped by bis wife for stayin* out all night. By tho burning of the Tribune budding at Minneapo. lis, M.>nii., a number of livos were lost, owing to a'lack of llro cscapes. C. 8. King, an editor, of Ogden, Utah, was shot by exUnited States D.-puty Marshal Gium, for publishing an article reflecting upon the lutter's vrifo. At tho poor farut in Merrimac county, N. H., a woman mine i Bennett seized and curried 8e:ah Woo I, a d^cutj. woman, to tl>? ba'ndub and drbffSii>kr. One of tho mills of the liartfoX srn-pet Company, at Tboinps mville, Ct., J 1'urned. Loss <53.000. Tbe knot in tbn rc)so slipp d in hanging W. II. llarvcy, l!Cwifo murderer, at Uue'pli, Out., and IkeM* u died a fricghtful death.??Heavy snowVT.toruis in tho Wist. Rev. Boggiss, of SLaairloab, Iowa, obtained a verdict of 17,!nu in a suit for slander against Banker K?jtd, of the same place. J. C. McKenuew-,' a prominent criminal lawyer of Milwaukee, was wayluid and terribly beaten by unknown partus W. F. Sartelle, a perfoi^ner iu u dime museum at Worcester, Mas:}, was 6hot dead wbilo per- , forming a trick ^ ith a i ill?. Fivo business build ugs at Kejtport, N. J., were destroye I by tire, causing An aggregate loss of $05,IKX). Three uldernk'ii and four detectives, cf Pittsburg, Pa.,wtri>convicted and sentenced to short terms of imprisouuient for acci pt- I iug bribes to sofctle illegol liquor cases. I Vilta Jir l-o M-win. . ' ly closed on the W^--f Laving fttiiod, bus b en arrested.?Kwlncy M. Curlis, of Binghamtou, N. YLmubia wedding tour died iu a carriage iu l*eir mount Turk, 1 hi.addpLitt. J. C. Gilliiaud, cashier of (Jitiz u's Statj Bank at S-Jden, Ks., was arrested charged with forf^g mortgages. Four children were kiluA by a powder explosion near Elliot'.sville, \? Va. J. Dot son, of Osgood, lud., who hBl been ill-treating bis wife, was killed by A.lUishop, his father-inlaw. B. P. Groveuir, oi ltiverton, Md., took an overdose of lauih.uuin, and narrowly fseaped death. GiOrlu Bill, a farmer of Caroline county, Md., f.-rvlng a live years' lenience in the Delaware peuitontiary for attempted murder, escijped. The annual meeting of the Atnerlcim Folk Loro Society of the Middle States pvau held iu Pbiludei" phia. William So-iy Hopkins was con j victed of murder in las first degree at Belk| fonte, I'a., for tba murder of his wife anu ' mother In-law. Tller^~was 2ld business | failures in the United States and 3D in Canada the past week. Fire at Burnside Bo..cb, I Floi Ida, destroyed the Burc6ide House, the j Palmetto Hotel and a Leach pavilion. , Amanda Brown, of Richmond, Va., threw red pepper into the eyes of Annie Pollard her rival in love, and nearly blinded her. Judge R. B. Trippe, of Atlanta, Go., com nitt-xi suicide. In his raesssage toiho Legislature Cover- ] j nor Richardson, of South Carolina recomI tuends a repeal of the Civil Rights law.-? ! Sheriff Gill, of Virginia, bought the gnllows j intenili d for Simon Walker at auction on speculation. Furbee & Johnson's woolen mill, in Manington, W. Va., was destroyed by Arc. John McCarthy, the convict who assaulted Philip LaCoste,the murderer,at the state prison in Providence, It. I., has hanged MUkself. John Wallace Jones, the absconding assis'ant passenger agent of tho i Missouri l aoiflc Railway Ccmpiny at St. I.o lis, was arrested in Toronto. An iudictment I.as beeff found, Charles Hall, of Chicago, for .^Isifjng fraoJuient warehouse receipt!.??Ttyj Colts Firearms Company, of Hartford, will manufacture the i>riggs-Scl:roe.ler rapid-firing gun. Urauvjile K.. Young, assistant postmaster at llugby, Tenn., has been arrested on a charge ol rilling letters pissing through bis office. ?T?.urn. ?? mums, ui i arsons, i n., uuuiiuo i C-ibOO from a saloon keeper, who bad sold heV husband liquor, and while under the infli^pnoe of it he was killed. The bark Germauia was wricked at Long Branch, Captan Windhorst and eight srilors w*?> drowned. Only four of the crew was saved. ?t-Jobn William Brown and William & ll^tdersQD, two colored postal clerks in Cbhrlotte, N. C., have boon arrested for riflluJ letters.??The barge Benefactor, from l'bsudelpbia for Now Lou Ion, Ct., was sunk off fckabright, N. J., and four men are momDC to " io?c. DIED A^^EEUBLE DEATH, A Nun 1Tk*| Hail Been Paris'yscd Wkllc d iniN( HIm tiod. Jobn (Jhnua, 1 hopeless paralytic, aged thirty Ave wiifoind dead on the floor of hla hovel at P<A?Swn, Pa., with a leather atrap loosely flrjaped around his neck. Some maintain ykat 16 waa suicide, while others e?y tbot* fi Is a case of foul play, though suicide VI the generally accepted theory* Until recently Ufcaaa was a flna specimen of physical manhood. Ik is related that one day be ouiiii LU? 'oitor la a most t rrthle manner, when U fell over, struok dumb and paralysed from bead to foot. Ha remained la Mm non^ioa nntU hie death. j FACTS ABOUT THE MAII Postmaster General Wana maker's Annual Report. Recommendation* Worthy of f'oimU (ration?Addition tl Help XpciImI An to Postal Itltlrioli A l.liuiti<(l I'ost and Trli'Krii|ili Nervier. Therep jrt of PoStiuasier-General Wan maker is it an exhaustive paper, cavern 102 printed pag< s. The following is a sur rnary of tho work of tho last Use il year. At the close of tho year end d Juno 3 1888, there were ia operation 2,483 1'residw tial postvllioes aud 51,8:8 fourth-clust pos cilices. During (ho lust ii>cil year tho nun her of Presidential postolliees increased b 11*3, mi 1 tiro number of fourth-class pos ^dSec^iiV T,J?f. Tho u umber of pos toll! u-s o tabllshed wus 2.17J and the number discoi t nutd 1,147. There was on unexpended balance of t4.i 05310 out ot an appropriation ot' i7 .(RHI,uot Tue posture cnllected upon local mutter : co.'deii by $270,017.12 or 12 10-1(0 per contun tlio total cost of the tree de.ivery service. The annual rate of exiit-n lilure for intuii mail trnuspoi t.ition at the close of the I u fiscal year wus f 34,t *21,107.04, and thes. rvic ltiCiUded 15 U77 star routes ot an ug^r irr length ol 233,331.81 miles, costing $5,'-"'27 3>7.C7; 0,314 mail messenger routes w..os total length was 5,023.27 m.les, th> cot thereof being $010 133 85; there were 12 steamboat routes, tbe lengt.i of which w.< 10,507 87 miles, and the expenditure >-l It), 0 2 4s; 2,115 railroad routes c s ing $ i'J. i 11, 105.78, co uprising an aggregate h u ,t <j of 150,381 5i inileR, while lor 150 post till car routes, the length of which was '.0, 050.85 iniics. tlio cost wus $2,10>,517 55. I n unuuul rut; of payment ou account of 5 t< rilllw.iv ...? ... ' r . ?"% ' no WIHWUIIICU IU M,^y3,Ul> The suui of 11?MV (53J 83 w;m paid lor mm equipments, mi i corinin necessary and spec iai tucilitk-s on tiunk lines mvolvoi un ex penditure jf $295,055 33 In all clu-ses ol ilie in til Rervico in opera tion on the 3Jth of June, 1889 t In t tiicrn ?? uvo i roaues, uu increase o 7937or 3 18 per cunt.; tliut the total lengtl ot the routes was 4It), 159 14 mdes, ail in creaBu ot 12.182.1'J in: let), or 3 01 percent, that the unuualrate ot expenditure wastSi, 024,107.01 7-10, an increase of 12,567.200.at 11 10, or 8 10 per cent. Tho total nunihu! of mil s traveled per annum was 310,0-JI, 834 31, uu increase ot 23,0 >0,828.53, or 8.2 per cent.. Toe rate of cost per mile travele. was 10.04 cents, the same b? iug a decrease o .01 ceut, or .09 per cent. As to tho ratio cost per mile of length, which was $31 75 there wasantiicreasj ot i3 811,or 4 93 per cent Tlie average number of tiips per week wa 7.18, which was an increase of .35, or 5.1 per cent. Daring tho your tlie total number of piece of postage stamps and stamped paper wa 2,818,505,821, of the aggregate value of $52, 921.781.17, uu increase in number over th tiecui year enli.l Juio 3.1, 1853, o 117, 934,151, and in amount of $2 235,4)2 31, lb tormcr beiug 4 33 per cent, und tlie iiittu 4.51 per cent. The total number of pioces of mail of a! kinds registered during the year was 14,001 800, uu increase of 384,097, or 2.8 per eeni 'there was a corresponding increase of $25, Vfa/ttrft" V&HNMfckU m%tnh\U&f?fc the same proportion in outstanding or i closed cases of investigation, are placed s 435, making an estimated total of 1,159, u 1 lu every 12,227 registered pteo.s li iu.il.-i The vo.uine ot mail matter registered 1c which postage was paid hus iucto.iseJ in I ycurs over 213 per cent. I he total Wtightof mails dispatched b sea to foreign counting was 1 111,852poum of which 083,131 con.-i tod ot 1-tiers an postal cards and 3,423.721 pounds of oihi articles. Uver 89 pi-r cent, of too fo.'iiu and 75 p-r cent of the latter were ib-siiiu lor irniisaUuntic couiUi ie- an I of the trail atluntic mails 42 per cent of the 1.-iters an oj pdi ceiii* ui iuo uiu r uriiuit's w uru 11 Urcut Britain. Vessels of United Stalos registry receive $1.8J per pound lor letters and postal cui\ and 8 cools per pound for other article while Vessels of foreign regis.r? are p:ii but about 44 cents tor letters and posit curds and auoutdbj cents lor other artici The gross amount of coiup"ns itiou pai for transatlantic s.-rvicj was $370,612.88, a of which was paid to vessels ot toivig-i re, listry, except the lusigiulicaut sum ot ?1. i 'to the American line for carrying .'ill g.-.ui ?11 ouncesoi letters. For trans- pact lie s vice there was pai 1 to vess-ls of Uiiitt Btates registry #52,821 T3, and to vesse.s < foreigu registry $0,741 38, wailo for niisoe laneous services voseis Oi Un led Bta: registry received $57,000 31, uud vesso s i foreign registry #10, i00 55 Toe to al co ,of the transatlantic service wis # >78 512 0 of the trans-pacilic service, $50,583 111, ai of the miscellaneous service, including C i ada, Mex.co, Central and Koum Auieric und the West Iulits, #87,205.8J. I The Bujierintendeiit ot too do id leu office rank s tbegraiifyingexbioit that the was a Ueciv ascot 10,083 pieces of mail in itt ns compared with the iiumhor received du ing the precedtug liscal year. Th> tot number of pieces treaied in tnis bianco the department was 8.470.203. O. the lot number 5,404,22> letters were opened, m 170.870 were delivered unopened, while 261 076 ordinary letters wore destroyed; 542,7 foreign letters and parcels were returned i ?<\ 4 Im n/I rl p itana ( ). tlm 1 ?f f? opened in thedoad letter ollteo 'J 096,-KM we delivered, and of theso 1,838,'<68 contain* nothing of valu\ the remainder having i closures of money, drafts, miscelluneo papers, photographs, &c. Bjventy-rt' thousand one bundre I and seventy-flvo le ters and parcels failed of delivery and lift' been filed subject to reclamation, and 3,521 504 were destroyed. KILLED BY N1TR0-GLYCER1N1 Three Men Killed mid Properly I) Mlroyed by mi Kx|tluslun. The most terrible explosion of iiitroglyi ,-lne for yoars occurreii in the suburbs of ( City, Pa., in which two brothers, sons of wl low nnrned Fishor?James, acred eiirhioc ?nd Charles, ago I sixteen, and Ed. Holfma )lt.4l twenty-six. lost their lives. The gly< ri'ne, to the amount of five tous, was own by the torpedo company, and was in a be near Fair's icehouse, and was being unload und plnoid in the magazine. While the in were away, the boys, who were iiuatir w.,rn sm-n Io nnoroncli iho boat. and It issu I post) I one of the pirty fell and caused t ' accident. Tbe shock was tremendous. Far houses aud barns nearby were shattered a blown to pieces. Tbe icehouse, a buildi SH) fe.t iquare, was reduce 1 to kindli wood. Windows in 111) postoflice and dep two miles away were shattered by tbesboi NEW CONSULS. A Batch of Appointments IWnileby t President. | President Harrison appointed tho folic ing United States consuls: Bockfor^ Mack of South Carolina, to Uin Jose, Costa lti be woe tra^isferretl from Paso del Nor Mexico, liirnra J. t>ufllap, of Illinois, Breslau, derm my; Mr. Dunisp isedi tor of tho Champaign Qairttc. William K Oa ner, of Wisconsin, to R ittordam ; .My. Oa aer has l?oen for several years connected w .he Ewninj Wisconsin, Milwaukee. Del 11. Hnnth. of Arizona, to ftogalos, M? xi John H. Osborne, ot Pennsylvania, to due wheio a vacancy exists; Mr. Odkorne i son of tbe Congressman i rom Wilkcsbai Wil iaiu Monoghau, of Ohio, to Hamdt Ontario; Mr. Monoghau was appointed c< tnercia) a Kent at Chatham, Oat., last Ju CABLE SPARKS. | J. ? 8tanley, tbe explorer, has arrived at Mp- , wapwu. i_ Mr. Gladstone is in favor of local option in ' England. Laly has assumed a prolectornto over a portion of the coast of E ist Africa. The ex-mayor of 8 etlleld, Eng., dropj>cd dead while Hastening to catch a train. Tho elections of Gen. 13o.tlarv;er and M. I Naqu -t were invalidated by tho French eleclion t-urcuu. Weighing dues ou cotton and other agria cultural products liava been abolished in tho 1 ig Egyptian budget for the coming year, n _ The British steamer EJith GodUen, from New York, November I'd, foundered at sea j Tuo crow are safe. ' Lord Roseberry, at a meeting of liberals u' at G usgow, said he was not ill lavor of abolit ishing tlij tlousj of Lords, a' Lord .Salisbury pies d d tit the first sitting \ ? of thesjieci.il cabinet committee appointed ' to cousider tho Irish policy of the goTeral" lOSIlt. > i/. ?i ? - -ivjjuwuu, ? u?j wsj hi ono urns con' i u uectod with Bdlimoro newspapers, was con* v.cted ot forgery lit Manchester, England. ! !_ The Kurdish chief, Moussa Bey, is in prison J ). to answer charges oi perpetrating outrages ^ upon Christians iu Armenia. b The anti-slavery conference, in session in Brussels, have usk?.d fcs.anJIey uud Etnlti | <1 iVsh i lor a narrative of their experience d wiin slaves uud slave-dealers in Alrin. !, Tae proprietor of the I. union Mining KiCJi'd and Mr. Murix, ot the Financial ' Times of the same city, have been iudicted .. by iba J ah i' ion grand jury lor blac.cmuii. ?, There is u movement on foot in I/ondon for t the conversion of the people of the West End of lliat city by visiliug their dwel.iugs. [tumors of a revolution iu Cuba ere con1 tunneled by Havana advices, wh cb state e that the island politically is entirely tranquil. Judge Bristowe, ot Nottingham, England, was shot uud dangerous wounded by u Ueruiuii dentist nguiiist vv hoiu he gave judgment j iu u suit. A number of the followers of Bishop Smytliios, of the Central Africun mission, were killed by Chief Mnholodo aud his warriors. The Bishop csriuiwd ? ?r i i ?. m. ui lieu ivus greatly surprised when h> f read in ne wspapers the reports of bis mother's | l poverty, aud mini idlately cabled from L ?u- ( Jou to uis agent, iu New York to supply her ; with luuds. fcjir Ed.vnrd Guinness bus given CiOO.OOJ s for the erection of dwellings in London for r the laboring classes, and To.i.OUU to bo similarly used lor the beiiotilot the poor of Duti* Ui. t Kussia coutinues massing troops upon her l frontiers and is steadi.y extending her railway system in order tunl her strategic sys' iem may be completed by May. s Owing to the withdrawal from the Chatnj her of Ueputioi of France of Id. Leydet's bill against lUo match monopoly, the iiuuiss ter of liuuuee announced Unit the Freuch s governiiient would work the mouopoly. Emperor William of Germany is opposed 0 to the betrothal of his sister Murgurit to tuo Cz ir's son becausJ of tile weukly const!13 sutiou ot the latter. The Frincess herself is r willing for the match and so is i'riuce Bis marcic. In his speech b.-foro the Pnrnell commis^ sio.i, fSir Henry James, counsel lor the London 'Jinws, ucclul'ed that there was proof 'v. sUOWlllg i,UO Ua'SOCihlIGii iji PutllC* K ,OU, HOW ii 'i h -re are conflicting reports of the death it of Dr. Peters, lue German explorer. Lieut, iv liorvlii't, one ot tuo commanders 01 i)ij 1 second column of Dr. Peters's expedition, reir ports iroui Lockerinaui, Africa, that Dr. J Pettis aud Ins parly are save and well, and nave eslub.islied a lorllticd slullon til the lout y ot .viouiil lveniu, whilo bdvieis received in is Z u.gibur liour Liimu slate thai Dr. Peters id aim ml lus companions, sate live porters, j sr were uiussaci'td t?i t he fci juiaiis at Addu Bur- i r rorubo, on ii.e Tmiurivcr, ei^lit days'march i al above ivorkoi ro. ^ DISASTERS AND CASUALTIES. : ,il A snow storm in Alou'.auu caused several | j8 wrecks on the Northern Pacific Kai.road. s, Timothy McCarthy, ?n eleciric light line- ! id man in Providence, Rhode Islm I, was killed ! nl by fouling "live" wires at a street corner. | s. llis body hung on a wireuud hud to be takeu I id down. '' Aisnio McDonald and Alary Alullarky, I each about 10 years ot age, were killed by a j 1,1 freight train at a street ciossing in Cincin- i :si uati. Daniel ltyun a young man, who tierj coiupanitd them, was sjV. rely injarod. jt A boiler exploded in Joslyn, Missouri, ,i. I while being tested. John .Madison was 0j killed anu inomas Johnson and A. T. Crock()I etc dangerously injured. C. J. Johnson ami his sons, John ami George, were scalded. >3, Frank Foster attempts I to shut off an si electric light iu G ouccster, Massachusetts, n- with an irou Gaff, and was instantly killed. ] .1, Wi-liam Bogn and Frank Berber were killed near Ciiasauqua, Fa., by tue premature tier plosion ot a biusl in u quarry. 10 It is b.lievod in New Vork that there were nine lives lost through tnoco.nsioiiand s nkingotthe.iteainer M inhattan i-y tneschooner ttl A -,aes Manning,off Fenw.ck shoal lighisu.p ,J1 '1 he men supp >sud to I save been lost depended "d upon lite preservers for Inoir ?aiety. ' * A despatch from Butte, Montana, say- j (j that a lire started in the cross cut, on tue | jjr 500 foot level ot the tit. Lawience mm *, and ' ,-s ttio draft blew it into the Anaconda works ro ings. 1'atrick Murphy, llenry Page, Jerry Suilivun und Tim lveiieiier, were suffocated in the Auacon iu, and there uro nine more us meu unaccounted lor. re A freight train on th j Lehigh Valley It lil t ro:nl d isbe.t into the i ear ot a passenger ro train, standing ut Botbleh-.-in, Pa., and two f, cars were telescoped. E. V. Cuiry.o; Bethlehem, railroad postal clerk, was taken from the wreck dead. John Vauborn, of BetiiloEliem, received injuries wlncu will probably prove fatal. Cuaries Nonnemacher, of Hokendaqua, ha i his 1 ?g cut off, ami un uiii,,. known woman was injured about the head. -0. AN INSANE MAN LYNCHED, 3.1 a Torn From I(1m Family by WiNrtinsin Formers and Strung F|>. Tbo blooil stained records of J udge Lynch's court do not show a more dastardly crime >at than was committed a few days ago at Pres u' ton, in Tr. mpenleau county, Wisconsin. ?. liars Jacob Olson, aged fifty years was torn ip- from his house and lynched by a party of ho masked nun. Olson was partially iussno IJ'j and somewhat quarrelsome, an 1 had been ,,K ordered by neighbors to leave the country, ng He neglected to do so and was strung up. Olsen w is seized in bed, pulled out and bis hands tied behind him, despite his despernti struggles and the screams of the family. Withoutoven allowing liiin to put ou his clothes, the m*u led him out of the house. Once outsldo Olrm learned what was to bo done with him. He caught site of a now rope hanging over the limb of a-large tree, >w- which stands not moro than twenty feet from tho little cabin which wna bis home. 3 ' Ho struggled to free his ban is, touring the Cji ft ah from his wrists until they bled freely; to, but llndfng himself unable to got loose, subl0 mittcd in sullen silence. Tho ro;>e was put 0( around his nock ami willing hands drew bun nj. up to strangle. His legs wero not tied, and r(j. his kickiug and struggling was fearful. The ilh mob remained $0:110 tunc, however, lest he osj niight be cut down before he was dead. Then C) after shouting threats of lynching anyone nt who shou d uare cut down tho body, Ihey disappeared, lbs coroner's inquest was held .re at l'rcston, an I the lollowmg vordict was on' rendered: "Deceased osmo to his do.itli bv mi- strangulation caused bv being hanged by a? the neck by masked persons unknown," GREAI FIRE IN BOSTON. I >h Two Acres and a half Burned in the Business Centre. ^ Berllmm of the 4'ily destroyed by (tab Coiill ignition of Srvcnlern Year* Ak<? ,i|c iln Visited by 1'irr. Liven 1'eiircd to bo Lout. A disastrous fl e broke out iu B iston at 3 30 o'clock in the morning in the six story jtreuit-i buildiug owned by Jordan, Marsh & Co., oud occupied by Brown, Durrell & Co., ' dealer in dry goo is on the corner of Bed'<>rd and Kingston Streets. The fire raged fiercely for tour hours, and it was two hours before all danger of spreadiug was over. j More than twenty noble buildings, reared with a view of tnahiaa Mm? an Ihspioot aw ?*%| uicdarn invention could devise, which were Ollei with valuable merchandise, were eu- I tirely destroyed with their contents. The loss, according to ths best inforni'ition ob- /a tainuble will be flO,iXX),( 01. Two and a half I acrca of the most valuable bus.ns. property were wiped out of existence. Several liromen and employees of the ruined buildings JF ure nmsiitg nod it is fo.ircd that the loss of /* " bait a dcis-ii lives will be added to tho horror ( -1 ol the situ ition. ."j It was about So) o'olocfc when a letter Carrier saw fl iuns buist from the top story w.nduw . t Brown, 1.) r i ll & Co.'s massive 'Aj burbling in the corner of Bediord and KingUon Street. A v ulunl storm was raging ut tli - time and few people were ou the streets. Tho rain was f.'11.tig ill torrents nnd tno wind was b owuig a gale. Oi course, those who had umbrellas could not see the tops of the buildings. Other people hurried along with their hats pulicd over their eyes. This a explanation is necessary to show how the tiro oiduiiied such il ;udwiiv before beni ' rl ? covetel 'lh ro was no watchman in the building. The Utter crrrler notilieil a policeman auil kept oil distributing lfcttar*.- ?- The ?oliceiuaiJ--wuh^N?**-#wTbe tngifre in 15S72, Gufnow loc.it* I one block from whore it w.is then, unl in a minute engine 7 was ou b'jg ground. Thenstof b apparatuswhich answers that call tliundr d up, and bcloro a lino of hose could bo laid the fl.tnies burst froui ev?.ry window on each of the live floors. The heut was terrible, but the lireiuen plucKily held their ground, while chief Webbjr ordered second a.,d tuird alarms to bo rung at once. Fourteen engines and other app irnlus responded. l.ut the men could oo iio iiing with ihe awful lurnace iwhich covi red an area of 2.?,<X)0 squire feet, lor such it was when ibeyr. a-bed the place. Tie gale lilted u solid nodyof flame 111ly feet into the air and then flung it down in au ut.- / broken mass upon tho buddings on nil sides ,'^7 TueViryair seemed ablaze Long llatniug streamers leaped out of the windows and lurched for a hold u|kiii surrounding structures, until it looked us though the street was tes'.ooucd with lire. limn ?llately after the walls of Trown, Durred &. Co. o building feu the ti o soreuu in all db actions. No liuiunu beings cou'd stand within u block of the awful lurnace. Toe tir was in supreme control, uud jumped across Bedford uud Kingston streets with ridiculoui eaie. The 11 .nies ?| lickly worked their way toward il.Mi unl street. The wnoie buck liou out across the street, uud, in ie.>s time thua it takes to tell the story, the budding* on the west side of Cbuuiic y street were aulas.*. Then a gioatT ur :uiz.*d uptfu the spectators. Hut u single block oi Uui.dings s p irated the llauies iioiu It. H. \V hue's gigantic establishment, and but a few tods lurilier North wus Jordan, Mar.-h & Co.'s e-Uibi.SuUiont. If the tire got it tooilio.d o.i Wa.slnugion street nothing cou d stun its nroeres*. chief Wtb her winched ior l lie arrival 01 outbid > engines Willi as mucli unxu'i y us a general cuuidiook lor reserves Wiiou ho Knew that delay meant deleut. It was at tins erilieaij ji.Ci.ure the scene, closely lolloweu by others. until more then tin ty were pulling and tnrowiug th.-ir streums upon the burning building. On ibo Moitu side ot lied lord street the \ fl lines reduced a dcz-u ihree-st >ry brick and stone buildings to ruins, but she lire slackened U foie the deleriuiued attack of the liremen, without ? orkuig f urther into the retail district. The suite result was uttniued on Bedioid sir et, o..st of Brown, Durrell & Co.'? building, i'hc n jo.uiug structure was, , ' ?' of course, gutied, an-r so was llio bu.l liugou the opposite side ot Coluiiibin street, nut the Bremen worked like Trojans to save ibo lea 111 r houses that lie in tnut direction, ami succeeded. Tnut Irtt the bojy ot il lines at the four corners of CUauucey and Bed lord streets. Again and again me iiro swept across the street and tried to gel a hold upon tho bui dings on the north side of Bedtord, hut the firemen pluckily hell their ground and won the light. MADE HOMELESS BY FIRE. A IliR Illume in n PeansyIvanin Town Heavy Lomin. A liro broke out in Leeenburg, Pa., about 6ix o'clock in ths oveuiug, ;.cd for i hree hours rago 1 fiercely, destroying a large | ortion of the busiiio-s and residence section of the town. The fire started in the Anderson block, and as a high wind was prevailing, the flames spread in ad directions. In ksi t an an hot r tho council rooms, Cvchrau block. L?cchburg Banking Coiup my's building, and several blocks 0:1 both sides of the main street were burning, and tho fiery element was still eat jug Its way luruu^'u mo iu?it. iuu ciu^-us iriiii almost panieatrick u, ami s't'iinngly were unable to effectively light the lire witu the priinitivo apparatus at ti.eir command. | Telegrams for assistance were sent to Pittsj burg ami Allegheny, ami with the welcome ; intelligence that engines were on the way to the scene, the residents again went to work, 1" and by nine o'clock the (lames were under control. Before this was accomplished, however, the postofllce, the Leechburg Advance building, Ceecbburg Band Luilduig, Hill bank building, Cochran's block, (-'quires' block, and twenty to twenty livo dwellings and stores were in ruins. Iho loss will be $80,000, and may reach $100,000. It is impossible to estimate the insurance, but it wi 1 be light. MARKETS. BAt TiMonE?Floui^-City Mills,extra,$4 50 a$4.<X>. Wheat? Southern Kultz, 83afc'4: Corn?Southern White, 42a43 cts, Yellow 42a42c%. Oats?Southern and Pennsylvania j t'mSV^cts.: Hye?Maryland & Pennsylvania S-'a-Vlcts.; Hay?Maryland and Pennsylvania 115l)af 13 00;Straw- Wheat,7.50o$8.60;Butter, 'ihf Kastern Creamery, lWallSc., near-by receipts Val8cts; Cheoeo--Eastern Fancy Cream. II ft11V eto.,? Western, 10al0)? cts; lO^'gs?yjj ?25; Tobacco Leaf?Inferior, laf2.00, Oood * Common, 3 00a#4 00, Middling, 3Sa7.0U Ooocl to fine red,8a|0; Fauoy, 10a# 13. Nbw YcsfiT?Flour?Southern Common to / fatrextraJft60aS3.85:Whoet-NolWhlteS4V >**4, aH45i;RTo"W?ta.515^a%!i><;Corn?Southern ' 9 Yellow, 42n42K. Oata-White,Htate27Ua2t??^ i eta; Butter-State. 12a24 ota: Clioeae-Sta&e, s;,.i in'eta.; Eggs?24a21^ eta PiriLAnn.pnfA ? Flour ? Pennsylvania * ' fancy, 4.35a4.75; Wheat?Pennsylvania and Southern Red, S0%nb0^; Rye Pennsylvania . " MaoOcts: Corn?Southern Yellow, 41 %a42cta . Oats?aSWaSO eta : Butter?State,)utu5 eta; Cheese?N. Y. Factory, Ua?>,' eta Eggs? State. 21a22 eta CATTIJ5. Baltimore?lieef, 4 12a4 35; Sheep?13 00 a5 00. llogs?Ft 3.VU 30. ?bw York?Beef?35 00a7 00;Sheep-$8 50 a5 50; Hogs?33.90aA *V l Eaht lib*rtt--b?ef?#3 'J0a4 00; Sheen? . J |4 b0a5 00; Hogs?$* 00a4 t {k