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Devoted to ~ ^^ THE LOVER'S EOL'LOQUY. ihtuidiuuloall^ after tbo aeparate'^viiifci of I Tl^ ^ J """ UT JKKFIE rORUl'BH HANAIOUU I. II I wore a bird in yonder irco, All day lon^ I'd sing for thoo ; I'd praise tlioao eyes of matchless bluo. And all my songs would be for you. II. If I were the rose that nontlos down Soft In your hair or golden brown, I'd droop against your necK no fair, And be happy-wbllo 1 nestled thoio. ill. But, aleB I I'm neither bird nor flower, They aro happy by the hour; J aui only a man witb salary small. And so will amount to nothing at all, KORRINO. nr BQUIHK HOBIIS. Oh, glorious morning I The eHrth adorning With robes of silvory light; With sunhoami dancing, * t.? . Their notes of ursfas to sw oll: I ii ~ * jutnr juj IU1 BlUgmft ? Is gaylv ringing In tree-top, dalo, and dell. With incense glowing, The air Is blowing : And zephyrs kiss tho flowers, Thoir perfume-breathing tiny diHks unsheathing In pr. tty laughing how ore. ^ As day W growing, r i do cock ia crow,11 k A welcome to tho tiio.n ; Krotil out the gloaming, Dim distance roaming, An echo faint la borno. O er houao-toji curling, The Biuoko la whirling The aoiu.i r clouda to meet; Too world la teeming With toil; and bo,uning, The day ia now oouiploto. ~TOM RKVXIlVX iliiWf BY "THE MAJOR." ' /m1 JKi CHAPTER XIX. THE HAMl OK KATE An impulse of sympathy had let ^^^Jessica to call upon the widow on tliii afternoon; she was taking tho lo ip walk there from her home when liel rnont met her. Whil?t*he had not the slightest uf fection for Edgar Vau Wyck, the now. of his suddon death had shocked her as it did a 1 who had known him. lint it awakened no emotion in her breast besides that of pity for his mother whom she had met twice sin.-o hei hand hod been promised to tho son. That afternoon Tom liryson did no KO to his work, llo It his nine nftm dinner, and pat down to nmuko it v silence. '. El^ ^'8l)ORC(^ ? ho cried! *\Vhal'i Up DOW-?* "I am going over to see Mrs. V ai Wyck." "Oh, aye?the mother of that younj fool who died the other day." She made no reply to his brutal re mark. "I was willing yon should marrj h:m, Jess," ho said. "Don't know b.i I wanted you to. Hut it's just as wcl as it is. He was a poor kind of t stick. What do you thii.k about it anyway ?" Her lips were silent, her tad eyei mado him uneasy. "O, well, if you don't want to tall about him, never mind. Only," auc his voice grew lioarso, "don't you dur< to have any lovo-nonsonso with tha aristocrat, Randall Relmont! 1 huh him!?I hate the name!?do you hear If I catch him hero with you, 1*1 knock his brains out with tho ax!'' She left him growling over hi$ pipe and went on hor way to Mrs. Vni Wvck's. All that we havo seen of thii girl has shown us that obedience to he; father, consideration for his wislios was her law in life; hem o.it will no seem strange, after this tirade, tha she hastened past Randall Belmont 01 the way. Mrs. Van Wyck answered her knocl at the cottace. and fell bank with a lit tie cry of surprise anil paiu as sh< /^C^cognizcd her. Miss Jiryson?is it you? O .( jj^^Hry did you come? You did not lov< sPr7V>or -v? * snw ^ut ',o nu . believe it; and by-aud-by, whoi he omne to understand it, he 'won heart-broken, and died. O, why dii you come ?" Tho scone in tho wood was not ther known to Jessica, any more than to tin widow. The latter had taken it foi granted, from tho few words utterei Kdgar before he died, that he hac KnarTcled ana parted*with the girl ^JJ^^gessica could *not undeceive her, be "cause she had 110 suspicion of tin truth nor of tho widow's belief. Mildly reproaching her visitor, as w< have told, Mrs. YanNVyck led her int< tho cottage. Then, seeing the misery and compnssion on the beautiful fac< before her, she threw her arms nboti her ncok, and sobbed upon her slioul der. % Very sadly and tenderly, then, di< A Jessica console th6 poor mother, am W juttify herself. "I did not love him; I never protend ed to," she said. "but my fathor usked Almost commanded me, and I yielded 1 -would liavo obeyed, though it wreck' ed my happiness; or, rather, though i mode happiness as impossible to m< as it has always been. I pity you, fron the bottom of my weary heart; and oh give me your pity, too, for I am ven wretched It was not in the kind, motherly sou to resist such an appeal as this. Bhi wax ine Riri 10 tier noart; alio kismet her. she smooth d lier hair, and de dared that nhe would always lovo lioi M a daughter. The long shadows were falling acrosi the road as Jessica again passed ovei it. As she reached a dump of trees, a man emerged from it, leading a liorso. She quickened her pace, bnt in a moment ho overtook her. "Why do you avoid and tarn away W^irom me?" he a iked. "Leavo me? don't follow mel" slif answered. "It is for your own good.' y She averted her face; still he hastened along by her side, with his arm through the rein, striving to take hei U1L one answered nox. lie poured out Ins long ng heart to her; he besought hor to spoak to him. She looked not, spo. e not?until, in despair, he led hie horso right before her and blocked her way. A faint rod spot was in hor check. "Have I not told you that it is impossible V she demandod. "It shall be poss'b'c!** ho cried. She trembled as his deep, rosonant voice pronounced the words; at tho strong purpose that looked from his oyes. "Has there como no change with tho death of Edgar Van WyckV" he asked. "Hoes .~u>t that free you from your promise?^ She shook her head. Why V" ho impationtly cried. "Why is it? You givo mo no roasou." "But this afternoon," she replied, with an uustcady voico, "my father told " rao that you-should never eptor his house agnin^ he oyfift nx if ho found you tlioro. Knowing this, will you still distress mo by coming?" "Will you still oboy such a father? "He is my father. When I was a more child I promised my dying mother that I would always ho faithful to him. It is this that controls me. I cannot disoboy him." "I 'n vnn ilir.11 liiil mo dlav n.\u;iv frnm TOU?" "Yes." The word was spokon low, but dis| tinct. "Your wish is niv law; I obey, lint from your words, from your looks, from "nil you do and say, I know you lovo me. I'll ugh 1 am barred away from you for tbe present, yet I know it will not bo for long. I know it! 1 feel it! .lossica, thero is fate in it; w'i cannot be separated! Not the mount ltiiif, nor tho sens, nor time, nor space for each other. lieliove it, dear, as ] do, and all will bo well with us. Good by?for a little." The bridlo was flung away; his arm clasped her unresisting; ngah au< ] again ho kissod her yielding hps. i Tearing himself ut last from the do P lilions emhrnco, ho mounted nml too! 1 the road to Aylcsworth. With wddly beating heart did .Tea . Rica return to tho old house. Hci j 'father was not there. Blie nought tho solitude of her owi ; room; she threw herself upon liei , knees by the bed, and prayers mingloi with sobs. r "O mother in lieavon," sho oftenesl prayed, "guide and direct me! It wai t, to you I made tho promise; make mi t. faithful to duty and to you!" ! Darkness canto down ; the chambei was in niladnwu* alio lw,^r.I I.a. r., f stamping about and grumbling below 3 And still slio prayod, with something g afii tl ilwt Ium rcuminod t( Tflitth'frofri thb scene in Gcthsemane. 4 "O God, help me! O Father it heaven, help me?strengthen me t< t bear this heavy cross 1" And peace brie.'ly came in sleep. ' CHAP I E It XX. a pea? man k revenue In the preceding chapter a gliinpsi has been given of Tom Bryson after hi ' had heard of the death of Edgar Vai ' Wyck: but ho had no occasion to shov ' to his daughter, nor did ho show tr 4 her, the true nature of his feeling! when this surprising news c ame to him It put him in a perfect ecstasy of de s light. He would not trust himself ii the presence of any living person t< ' show it. He went out iuto the wood I and thero laughed, capered, and actual 3 ly shouted with glee. Little by littl ^ tlio man's nature had been wholl; ? changed. Little by little his love fo his child? the only thing that had re 1 inuincd from his better days, to human .v?j tv ivnaiu ^icMrirun s of his terrible crima To Bcal tin '' mouth of ouo who might lia e been i swift witness against him, he had boei t willing, na.v, anxious, to sacrifice hi t> (laughter's happiness by a hateful am 1 unequal mutch. And now that yonn) Van Wvck was suddenly removed b; t doath, the release of Jessica was tin last thing that he thought of us caus< > for congratulation. Tho thought that tilled his soul witl , joy was that, save Jessica, the only per j son who could give information tha 1 would traco the murder and robbery ol i Mason l'olmont to him was silent it b (loath. The dreadful secret wai kop I by himself and by tho grave alone; lit was absolutely safe, i For a few days tho thought kdpt hi: 9 brain in suoh u whirl that ho was nbh r to form no plans for tho futuro. Tiuit 1 was when his first question would havi 1 been: "What can 1 d> for Jossica?how can I best benefit her V Hut nov his vorv soul had become callousod bi s his misfortunes, by his crimes, and bj the ac juisition of h sill-gotten fortune 9 The ouestions tint now hanntod hi > thoughts by day and liis dreams In j night were: "How crfh I enjoy all thi 3 monov in safety? Where ran 1 go witl t it? How far mast I go before its us< will coaso to oxcito suspicion ?" Ib went out into the woods, but he did no 1 labor. Hour after hour he sat idb I upon the trunk of a fallen tree, trying to answer these questions; night nftei night did ho return home undecided , As he beoamo absorbed in ihes< thoughts ho grow harsher and sternei in his treatmont of the only being wh< t still clung to him, and da/ by day wa: 3 the burden of that patient soul in i creased. , What some one has Btyled the in n,??. i, w, v"1" wHWSjwwi mm Ho l)nc*nie lost ib< 1 rai'rJor^djM months haapwBjMBHPPRfie curb hoars of that <ffll|Mrwy, ho ha< r looked it tip in thenttle closet. Nevoi since then hud he placed key in tlia i lock. Sometimes lie had sat before il r alone at night, looking at the closed i and lookod rccoptacle with a kind o rapture; but ho had never opened noi examined it. Hnt he hud hoou away at least noun? hours of each day since. Jessica passed mnoh of her t me in iier room, up > stairs. Suppose that somo prowlei 1 hud disoovored the prize, and robbed the robber ? i These torturing fears became At last intolerable. On the night of the third daughter and Ksndall UelnionY to Mis. Van Wyck, lie determined to have an end of tliem. He would satisfy himHolf by ocular inspection that the treasuro was safe. He sat moodily by the window, after supper, repulsing every attention of his daughter, impatiently waiting for the silont hours of the niglit, that ho might oxecute hip purpose. The hours passed slowly. Near ten o'clock, Jessica took a candle to go to her louoly room. Khe hesitated, with her hand upon the latch. Did some premonition of the events j that uieht hideous in her mnmnrv th?n - nsaail her? Do coming events thus cast v tlieir shadows before? "(food-night, father," slio said. <. "(food-night." Five minutes later he looked up, and \ saw her still btuudiug there. t ?~ 'flm-crow led. Jess?don t be a fool! i The door closed betweon them. Novcr woro their mortal eyos to see oach ( other ngnin. Hryson waited till the hands of the clock pointed toiniduight. Long sinco ho had ceased t? wind the striker; it's Bound in the night had smitten his soul as with the voice of thunder. Then ho unlocked the closot door, pulled out tho money, and oountod it all ov<?r. It required an hour to do it; but it was all save?twenty-live thousand dollars. IIo stalled it back into the little i compartment, und rolocked it. What rostlcss fiend then led tho man down into tho cellar, to look around, and bo sure that nothing appeared there that might betray him? 1 No man can know; not oven the tormented criminal himaalf could havo seere1. He peered into oyery 300k and corner of the collar. He he.# the can, dlo down to tho bare ground, and lo j tho stones, us if ho expected to see the doad hand of Mason Jiclmont thrust ou>. j Ho gave himso'.f up to the delirium that the scone aud tho hour wrought in 1113 U& U 11. r "it is mine, I say?mine; rightfully initio!" ho shrieked. Tho dead walls , of tlio cellar gavo back the echoes. r "Ho was iny enemy; ho ruiucd mo ] when he might have savod mo. I had my revengo; his treasure became mino. I It's only a fraction o' his wealth ; I wish j it was more. But I had my revenge? , and the money is all mino!" 1 Ilis hands gestured to suit tho words, r and tho candlest ck fell from his grasp. r With an ou'h he snatched it up so quickly that the Hame was not extinj quishud. Then he hurried up to his itirovtng himself, aresaed I as he was, upon his bed, soon fell , asleep. 3 I To those who are inclined to be superstitious, it might almost seem as if the hand of the murderod man had been stretched forth from his unknown grave in that cellar, to overwhelm his assassin with a terrible revenge. J Unpereeivod by Tom lfryson, the 3 flame of the overturned candle had : ) touched a single dry shaving. It crept ? slowly thence, by several scraps of pa? por and dry refuse, to a heap of broken 3 boards, 'lliere was no draft to fan it; I but feeding steadily upon tho com I bustiblo contents of tho cellar, it ; J 1 reached tho joists and the flooring ? | nbove. It seized upon the stairs, and s , at last swept into tho hall, consuming | the door liko paper. A window was >3 j shattered with the heat; the wind from ? without blew and fanned the fire; it > roared at last all through the lower rooms, ami the heat and smoke ascended to the . WM*Xo^ n " ( |T0 BE oontocobo. I ' 1 Aii Astonished Uainbler. 'J There is a gambler in St. Paul who ^ ' will not try to do up another telegraph operator in a hurry. A night operator i ' in one of the big railroad offices has ' i quite a local reputaton ss a poker-pla.v! er, and as poker was also the favorite L' I game of the gambler, they arranged to ^ 1 liavo n friendly game. It occurred in ; the railroad office, no one else being j present except tho onorator on d:.ty. f j I'or tho first timo in his life the gam] j tiler's luck did not come to his aid, and j ! liis opponent won on nearly evory ( hand, or else laid down when the gam1 hlor had good cards. 1 inally tho gam^ I b!or had four kings, made a small bet, . and tho operator refused to call. The 2 i.o.i ? ? j avviuil null lICUUIIIi; BJ UIWUUbUUUIlB UIBl I ' j tho gambler roached over and ran the ! 1 cards that the operator had laid down. ! To Ills surprise they woro three queens ' . and a pair of tens. "What in did , " you lay that down on a $2 bet for?" ho 1 f exclaimed, adding, "I guess I've got a enough." The secret of the operator's ^ luck was that tho other operator, sit^ t ng where ho could see the gambler's ( cards, had telegraphed each card whon ( it was picked up, thus onabling the ^ player to know how to play the game, j - SL raul none r Pre #. f 1 Ante Money, r Many n poor fellow has got into a . straight by betting on it. ?Ottawa 2 Iter. r A man who is color-blind has no j business with poker chips?Philadel* phia Call. Home men are no addioted^t<{ poker that every tiling tliey hava ?9ff tO*$K)i. i "Poker is one oftnerewgwbw Shera I I 1' tho loan & m?n r tiie bettor his opponent I Ailt isc.l to Switch Off. t "No, my girl," said old Annt Sally; r "it isn't a pleasant thing for a woman to lire without a husband in this world. If it hadn't been for my paronts I'd a I married a good man. lint I listened to thorn, and I'vo boon chowiog the biti ter end of disappointment all these I years." "la it possible?' ejaculated the fair young boarding-school girl. "Why don't you switch off on gum fx- Judge, Banders and Powers, wt were elected United States Senators bytths Republican lluu o aui Seriate of Mod tall, have been de" lied their certificates by lb governor. bunes E MiOl ii'd barn, ne Wrigbtsvillc, ifork county, Pa., was del royed by lire. joss $5000; iusurance (2,5'. Bell Boy, he celebrated trottihg hor , whoso owner iad refused an offer of $100 00, wus burned 0 death in his dtabtai at VetmilL's, Ky. >Jorrill Grifllu and hisdaugbrr, of Dearborn ilich. .sulf ring with ii fljeiki, took a fatal lose of stryobnine in in st ilA for quluiae. ?Charles W. Elliott, a B. O. brakeman, vat crushed to deuth at Urjfton, W. Vu. ?Scribuer's Mountain House, at Uoffiown JentT. N. II., was burned. I^oss $15,000. Jesse Wilson's barn on the Upper Dolaviire river, near Bor ientown, N. J., was turned, and tweqU^ and a number of ^oQg,rA!"?^?V/ ttaefrbu ;gyT>eii^k afSuvllVj 1 railroad train. The B ink of South Darota, at Madison, S. D ,has assigned. The iienibers of the yisntecost band of Faith Healers at Nuscola,I;l., are being prosecuted rot holding noisy moctiugs, Stephen A. Ilubbard, manag ug tditor and one of tlio proprietors of thi Courant of Hartford, Ct., died at the age o 63 years. The supremo chapter of the w rid of the new order, "The I'rocrrAKsivo Endowment of America." was orgauiz >d at lUbhmond, Va. Tho fiuit trees la the vicinity of Lixlngton, Va., are I in bloom. A lolored uiun, charged with burglary, was tAen from a deputy sheriff in 11 iruwell county. S. C.? tie 1 to a tree aud shot to death by take i vrBito cien. ltufT-on & HugBb furniture manufactory at Sandusky, (AW.u bnrii-d. I.o-sos f 100,000; ins trai^HjflboJ. i-\ro at braddock, Pu.^desSraJ^Brannis brother*' |>I lining mill and lun^itieWr Is. .Loss $ 1 >.0.M); no insurance.-?jjUq^Btjwry, of Mississ'pp!. la bis annual o-h the carrying of oono*alff|p???oiH?-?:John W.Kiufman waa-eiocMa pjfeTieeof the Sr. Louis MercbanU' I2.xcbitkge.-X-Final piprrs of treaty between the Unibl States and tho Coour d'Alena Indians las been signed. Tho Patoka river, in Ieiar\a, basove; llowed and flooded n tract of fmptrj twenty miles long by three miles wile. ?-Isidore Monarch, the defaulting secretary of tho Turner build.ng Association jot Minneapolis has been arrest -d, cbarg.vywith eiabezzling {UJ,of the society's luni.'s.' Tbo^ West Indianapolis Hominy Mills ut Indianapolis, was destroyed by Are. Loss $7>$|)J; insurauo f 4 J,000. Ouo of the walls oLlheNuw Presbyterian Church iu.Brooklyn.gavo way under the force of the wind, ni| l cru-bod ail adjoining dwelling, killing sterol of the in IU4it-a nun injuring oiuers.-'?r ive woo en mills of .Norton Manufacturing Company, of Walpolo, Mu h., wore burned. William iurren?,-^? Vhlladohk'-^**' ~ Belle viiO-glrt-uad then coiumiMml suieffid. L. P. Scoville, a nephew of U j assassin Geitenu, and secroeary of tb/ Chicago Building Association, ha9 disappeared, and it is charged, short in his accouuli #5,000. A pile of timber in Chicago tokiled over and crushed John Thompson axl Andrew Johnston to death. ??The Cornells ville coke workers have offered their hew scale, but tin operators have not yetifcceptei it. Calvin 8. Brice whs nomiuatelfor United States senator l>y the Democrat! of the Ohio legisluturo in cauous. Tuejiwa Prohibition Convention adopted resolution demanding t .e enactment of laws tofcompel the absolute enforcement of the pmblbitory law. J. 0, ParrisiiJfeM Aiaiiged at Itaieigu, N. C., for a cktmiflHUkalt upon his thirteon year-old daugflflSS'Tbreo masked men bound Peiet LflHKpf Salina, Kins , with ropes, an 1 tbe.js^BAk bonds. The seven big flourinRgMB^^B waulroo bnvo formjd a oon}l / 1 Bn^lleh caW -? fna^WH|^Ke^n Cliarles Kurya?t, a farmer,, c^WinriflUo, Iud., and Fordiuaud (dustings, About thVlividing line of their farms, Castings shot IWl killed Kur yart and woundwl lift cljjjd,after which be committed suicKle.?5?By a \tur?l gis explosion at the Luoy'furuacoAtt Pittsburg, Thomas Welch, a workman, was killed, a d five others seriously hurt.???There were 3>4 business failures in the llnito 1 States and thirty nine in Canada the past week. DEATH IN THE WIND. Seven Person* Hilled by ttio Full ol a (burets Wall. An appalling disaster occurred in Brooklyn, New York. The heavy ?in Is th ok the nawPreibyorian church at 3i)J Tbroop avenue to its foundation, and at 4.3J A. M., one ot I ho wall* fell with a crash on the t^pan-storv fr?ma bud i' ing ad joining und brought with it death an 1 destruction. Tho ruined building was tenanted by the Mott and Purdy families. They numbered nine persons. Five of thorn ate reported dead. Two were carried out of-the ruinsao seriously injured that I hey will die. The tenants in the littl? frame house nddnining wero alarmed hy the manner in which the church walls shook and rattled. Th-ir own dwelliug was considerably shaken, and it was with fearand trembling that thoy retired. Twioe during ihenlght soma of the inmates were arous.-d by the roar.n^ wind. butrvory o e was in tied and asleep when the disaster occurred. The heavy brick wall of the church fell su Idonly with a crush, and in a heap that lore through the oookle-shell struoture adjoining tike a battering ram. The dwelling seemed Id pirt in twain,and instantly the shrieksandfcroans of the lojured startled the residentQ^blo-krabout. ^ ^ m us uviiwj ui iuq imr; wnii nurnwovi vuo attention of? potilflbfiill, and h*eent in a Are alarm and tioramundr the reaerye ironi a police Station uo <r anSand, The honte had Jjt?n torn in a bed room ' ""1 beneavli a. The ff-nrlut *p<tSVR|^Bied to stun those who sltiifM'J it"' momt'Dlt nothing was doni^ByN^k* assistance to those within. TbtXitHHKa atid Bremen arrived and ie?cu>. Th y first found Mrs. Empf^Kily tying beneath a mass of tiuibcis AaSWbis, so seriously iujured that she ooiir jjwn sp-ak or move, ev? nsh n t ey bad lHk*d her out of the obarnel house into t!.tflpee?. By the overturniliuLOf an engine on tho Louieviile and Nashvtnia Railroad, owing to the spread! g or thi Vails, at Kinohtown, Kentucky, Ciarenoe Jkjfeefofd, nl^ht olerk at the roun I bouso. wok* killed. Engineer Charles 8:ogg, Flrs?o%"i-Uw'orge Colloty and >botnaa MoCuo# w.ln fcjurod. II unujirmu in Fourteen Men Meet Death in the Falls of the Ohio. t A Terrible Arcliloiit nt the New . Itrld.je at I.oulsville?Without WnrnhiK the Workmen uro _ Mangled to llfiitli or l>rowrtc?l. , The most appalling accident known to* s Kentucky in ninny yonrs occurred at Louis ville. It was nearly tiino for work to stop 1 all over the city, and workingmen were expected homo by their families, when the ro- ( port spread rapidly that there was'a wreck I or crash of souio kind at the new bridge ' under construction between Louisville and JeiTersonville. It was first reported that a span of the bridco had fallen and a gang of men had is+nr* MinrrreAr/CtMvh r*?v*S< aVVrtid '|M MA * I and the workman employed in it lied been crushed to denth by 6tonn and timbers. Tbe caisson, known as No. 1, wn? nhnut 100 ! yards from th> Kentucky shore. As tho 1 workmen of tho pumping station wore look- I Inj for tho men in the cnisson to put off in I their boats, leaving work for tho night, they ! suddenly saw tho low. dnrk structure disappear in dashing, white waves, and hoard, bo fore they could realise what had happened, tho roar or tho furious maelstrom. A runner was despatched to tbe life-saving station, and throe Rkiffs wcro mnnno I and pullo 1 to the scene of the wreck. Word was sent to tho police station, and a >qund wns at one1 ordered to Clio ground, to aid In ih> work of recovery. Tho coroner was called, and went with a corpi of physicians. Th? site of the hridgo is at tho upper end of the citv, just, holow Tow Head Island. Within an hour from tho disnp|>caranco of tho cnisson, throe thousand people wore on I the shore straining their eyes in trying to | boo something of tho wreckage. Dozens of ! ho its wore plying about over the spot whore the caisson hnd stood, and lights danced to and fro wllh them vbot'there WU no trace of tho massive structure of stone and timber which had kept off thoMiuntrry. river, to promise any hope to the anguished, Stricken mothers and wives who stood in-the throng on tho shore. The water rolled sullenly but smoothly down from tbe cofferdam nliove the pumping barge tnlow where the caisson ; had stood. It was soon known that only four of the eighteen men who wero at work at that time had escaood. The Inst man out of tbe calson whs Frank i Hnddnx. IIo was barely saved by Murray, | who dragged him from whore lie wns caught j waist deep in tho quicksand. Taylor says ho | stood nearest the iron lndde** by which they | got in and out of tho caisson. He heard a rumbling, and there wns a rush of air almost at the same instant. He jumped upon tho 1 rungs of tho ladder, followed by the oth?r men. -J They had hnrdly got clear of tho cnisson . vrnen me water Purse uirougn mo manhole , In a surge, knocking them nil into the river, where they were picked up. Iladdox says lie saw Hnm Morris, who was clnibing next below himself, swiftiy drawn under by the sand and heard his cries for heln but could do nothing. The cais-on is not wrecked, as at first sup posed, but has settled down in the bed of the clraaiu. romulutely tilietl with unnd and water. There seems nbso'utely no hope fo? \ anv of those cuight within the caisson. John Knox, the gang boss, took charge of ! the work Moaday. The tnen who escaped | 6ay he had them dig too deep before letting the caisson settle, and the digging was too close to the shoo of the caisson. Just before the accident Knox gave some order to Robert Baldwin, the keeper in charge of the tipper door to the exit. Baldwin then opened this door, and the compressed air, which kept out the river, rushed out, letting in the stream. The men say they were working in nn ugly quicksand at tlio time. Tho caisson was about forty feet by twonfy, and built of timbers twelve inches square. It was protected hy a cofferdam, but the river is very high and the pressure of the water very groat. DISASTERS AND CASUALTIES. Malcolm F. McLeo I, a mail carrier, was froz 'ii to death n-ar Wusbitigtou.Cahforaio. Henry Grenmr was kill oil at North Corn" wall Furnace, I'a., by u oruu* falling upou lil in. ? ''WWNMMPW While Bertie IL-atie *rItt f* pistol iu Ail.ii.t i, Georgia, It was discharged lataliy wounding bid brother Uarllel i. Two freight trains collided on the South Cheshire Railroad, near East Moreinnd.N w llamslnre, Engineer S. VV. Slate und Kiro' toan Gibson, were killed. A construction train collided with an extra train on the Pennsylvania Hailrond, near llilvidere, New Jersey. Etigiiuer Walton of i'hilllipsburg, was killed, and engine rs lluggcriy and Tennchir were badly injur d. Frank Muhou, an electric light lineman, b.'camo entangled in wires on an engine , house in Sr. Louis, smt lined a sovore shock, | and foil to the ground, sustaining probably fatal injuries. A freight train on the San Antonio and Arkansas Pass Railroad went through a , bridge at lialleltsville, Texas. O.i the cars wore twelve me i. Seven wore rescued, three of them bally iej ired# The bodies of the ethers were net recovered. Two brothers, named Dyer, and two men named Colton mid Homers, lo:gers, were burned to deulh at B->ebas Camp, on tbo | leiinebsoe river, i > nine* irum i nunuuu, Kentucky, by their-tfxbiu taking lire. One of tho thouson 1 barrel stills of tho Naphtha Works ut the Stand mi's Solar K Rvttnery iu Lima, O.iio, exploded, shaking I ail the houses In the c ity. The oil ininiediately caught lire. Mine men were bruised and burtu d. Carson Parker was found dead in a saloon in i'ueblo, Colorado. At one time lie was one of the most eminent preachers of the Methodist Ep scopul Church iu New York State, lie becamo a di uiikard and outcast, sud wandered to Pueblo, lie leav.a a family in Indiana. THOSE KENTUCKY FEUDS. JiiriffO I.Illy Tells of I lie O ily Way lo Moii Tit cm. Judge Lilly of tbj circuit.in which the mountaip feuds exist, is in Frankfort. He waa asked what remedy he could suggest for the lawlesineis. H' said; "Send an ' nn >?1 forced Perry Couuty and keep it there. It doe. no good for two or three week. them. They should be k pi tlnre. It Willi coit money, hut tho State will have to apind mority to hieak up thdf thing. The feud In Perry county i? a vary diffl juK one to meet. Neatly every one of the murderers has been in ambuss. Th re has b-*eu almost no opsn fighting. "Our people are too completely Intimidated. You could not get up a poss*. We have a military company there, butitsm.'mb rs are afraid to do anything- Its captain hasn't dared to sleep at homo for three months. Tbo proportion of our population aotunllr engaged in this quarrel is not so large, hut 4o per c lit. of am the r>st are in sympathy wiln one side or tin other and tho reiuander are so thoroughly cowed that they do not dare to make any attempt to drive out the lawless e.ement. Tne Ix-lliKcrentsnro the hest anno I mo ? anyone ever saw. They have guns and revolvers of the very latest I and t>est patterns aud are thoroughly orgu.i Ued." The Glasgow Iron market is Bgain excited. The strike among tbo collieis iu Belgium s spreading. The steamship Britannic sunk a brigantiuo in I he Irish sea. The famous Church of St. Michael at Aix a-Cbupellu has l>een burned. Tlio broken cable iu the middle of tin Atuutic ocean bus been repaired. Tlio porters empliyed by the Dublin, IVicklow and Wexford Railway Co. bavo truck. A new customs turiiT is being prepared by die Russian tinaucj ministry. It will take j dR-cl July 1. Russia and the Vatican are now on good terms. The Popo lias appointed a number of I bishops for thai country. The theatre at Zurich, Swi'x rland, took [ li e during a performance and was burned, ; but the audience escupad. l'riaco Charles Willi tilt l'hilip, head of tlio House of Auersporg, dead ut Prague front intl limitation of the lungs. ? - r? ? r - w ? .? witu distinguished honors. ^ Mr. IHvill in a speech nt Dublin express *d .1.1 <mii?ui ;-j illjKH ) miu llli; (ii d|IUSCU guv | eminent endowment of universities. Tho French government will enforce lh-> j legal (canity against three hundred priest* , convicted ot interfering with elections. King Humbert was thrown from his horse i while returning from a bunting trip an-l was ! bruised, but remounted una rode home. An Austrian newsp-ip ~r c'aiins to liavo in. j formation showing that Dr. Deters and mom- . hers of hisi x.doring party in Africnutvnlive- ' Twenty-six boys were sulTocut<vl in tlii i pauper's school at Forest Liate, Hug. Tho budding took lire fiom an overliealod stove. ' i'rince Hism uvk reoeivod (WO t< l jgrams of ' New Year c ngratulnttons Irom dilfereut | p iris of Germany and from foreign couu- | tries. A number of conspirators who it is siid were unpl cated in u plot to kill tho Cur were captured iu the imperial pulacj in fcit. 1YL r?bu(?. ^.. ex les recwIt^Mwij^^^raui Hioeria wore ilred upon while resisting the desti uction of their printing presses. Tho lumnn Line steamship City of I'ur.'s 111a lo tue run from New York lot,) leuustown in 5 days hours ond 50 minutes, her highest daily run being 475 uiiles. Mr. Parnell is anxious to have Captain O'Sbea's divorce suit brought to trial as soon as possible in order that ho in ?y have au opportunity to defend himself. Tbu United States squadron arrived at Tangiers and exchange I salutes, but did not communicate with tho city, as there are on tho ships n.together -IS cases of it ll ien/.i. Tho shopkeep rs of tho Caarleroi district of lielgiuiu rot me to give the striking iniuers further credit, consequently many persons ate starving and a Lrm 1 riot is threatened. At a consistory tho l'opo referred to the restoration of temporal pow -r as necessary iu iuu iiiue^ciiuuuc ?uu uuei 1/ ui IIIO I Opj iu the exercise of his mission, ami declared ho did not claim the restoration irotn huiuan motives. Many members of tho committee of tho Society of Artists ut l'aris will resign tlieir positions in order to force re elections on the question of the ju-tice of the awards made lor exhibits in tne art department of the recent exhibition. Tho Jionilon Star says tho marriage between Miss Gwendoline Caldwell, who presented the Ain-ricin Catholic University with $300,000, and i'rinco Murat has been nr r tuged, tho prince beiug w.lling t > acc ptuuy allowance the lady may grant him. A defective stove iu the palace of tho King of i'eigiutu ut i,aeken, a subui b of li. ussels, set tire to the building, and before tile II lines could bj subdued the palace wasdostroyei with all the royal urt collection. Princess Clementine, the King's d night r, had a narrow escape from being burned to do itb. Her governess was suit, catud. The uio a*y loss oil the building and its contents will ha iniuuns.*, while the art treasures destroyed ciuuot bo replaced. In bis uddjflHHflHwtood of Loco* motive KragB *-u? The nmoa^HBBB HfeSia from Brothei * hood of Csr|iwBlWBWw treasury for November was *n,2o*mk ^ Taunton (Mass.l Locomotive Works and the Mouth ru PociQc Railroad Company, at Sun Francisco, have reduced the hours of laO r to eight hours per day, and pay by tho hour. The barbers'union, of Grand Lipids h is established a rule lining a member 60 amis ? henever caught smoking a 11011-11- ion eigi r, $1 tortlie second offense and expulsion lor the third oil.-use. The date for the joint convention of tlio National Progressive Union of Mintri and tile Knights ot Labor lias in on changed from January 'Ji to January 'JJ, 111 Columbus, when uinalgauuitiou is possible. The American Flint Glusi Workers' National Assembly, in its latest report, shows a yearly incomeof f ltHJ,C0d, and total nil nilierilupof 6,0)6. Thero are less than one hundred 11011 union men in the entire trade. The Boston free-stone cutters got theei.b'.hour day as a New-Year's pros-at, both employer and oinp.oyod favoring the reduction of \vt rking hours. They will accept -t-t cuts per liour tor their work until Apr.l 1, when a d.-nuilld for 6J cents will bo tnnde. The socialist labor party of Italy Ins achieved brilliant victories iu its llrst march into the political Hold. Wherever 110 workmen had caiulidat)* in the municipal elections largo vot> s wore cast for them. ) u some places not only several candid it >s but- tie entire labor ticket has been elected. Throughout 1 aly, Iront Lombardy to N iples, tie wording class has raised its voice. The organizing commit'.00 of the Central Labor Union of Indianapolis, lud., will give special at tent- on t) the organ iz -t 011 of working women during tho present yo.r In the tideint unions women can Hud a simple, practical and inexpensive method of organization which secures t > its memberi all t o ndvai.t iocs In be found in niiv other hit or organizition, and many t iat can be found nowhere else. They can have ubsoluto conttol of all matt.-rs affecting their own ii.t.-rest. The total number of fall urea in the Un.t <1 Stales during 1880, as reported to lirad strrrt's, is 11,71U, or lhXjgr cent, more than in laaa.^.?i5s7 w'^ w?4uiiw ties lor a llke nH H^iTdiMKO, or 1\i p r oanh^v^^^HMBPR ae?e i? atom, r ft,000,TOO, cteaPpPftMl Mr. Powderly'a iat* address to the workingmen of Pennsylvania on the value of tho ballot intelligently and boneatly u?od is nut th r example of the wise and honornblo met ho is by winch ho aims to improve the condition ot organiz d wage- workers. He tells tho vn?t army of labor, rs in that Stat - that Ibey must cease being partisans. He urges them to ignore parly and work together for a secret ballot so that they may vote henceforth ubs >lutely as they choose, without any fear of coercion. Then they can compel the powerIul corporations of Pennsylvania at l ast to resoect oxhtiiig laws. Hy the breaking of n oaieson of the new lA>uWville and JetTerson villo bridge at Ixmiaville, Kentucky, fourteen workmen were drowned. West is Broken. Oi'iilli nml ncMiriicltoii In the WIiiiI'm Sivci |i In niNHiiiirl 'I my House* llion How n mill People Killnfl nml Injured. About 4 iJC o'clock ill tlio afternoon a cyclone struck the s >uthwestern s.'Ctiou of tli? city of Sr. I.ouis and swept 01 through to tho northern limits, miking a pathw ty nearly a quarter of u milo wide, un 1 leaving death and destruction in its trucks. There was scarcely any warning of the approach of the storm, owing to the fact that the sky had been overc ist for several hours before tbo full force of the wind was fid', an I it was all over in an iuero litdy brief pjrlol of lime, those residing-.in an 1 near the path of tho storm scare ly realizing what had happened J until it was all over. la neighboring towns a the storm did terrible dam igo. At Venice, JH llilf Killed nnu injuron ' " I s' jg Dead?Mrs. Maggie Connors, aged f< riy; Bernard McConnel, aged forty; Joe Weaver, aged ninety. Injure !?Theresi Weaver, aged six, both legs broken, will probably die; Mrs. Cuarles Miller, badly cut and bruised. Seriously injured?Annie Connors, Maggie Connors, Francis Connors. A iiicssmgcr from the east siilo i f tho river s iys that the storm in St Clair county, 1 I., wis unusually severe. tiro >kiyn, a villa or about 5)J souls, sooms to have sull' -roil most., as the (Inmate at liist St. Louis ami nt Vonico was largely conlino 1 to railroad property all 1 Bill ill dwellings and telegraph and tel >phono piles. Brooklyn is about throe miles north at List St. Louis. Is population is largely composed of colored paopl . It was reported in K ist St. Louis tli it the l.t le town had b'en swept olt the face of the earth. It | proves not q lite so bad as that though bad ! enough, an i though several were injured, no ] 11v s wore lost. A number of dwellings nro in ruiuc. Tlii Baptist Cnurch is entirely demolished, and the M. K. Cnurch, a frame bu l<ling, unroofed and turned clour around on its foundations. At Bj levil!', III., sever il public buildings weri unroofed, but no one r jported injured. A lite Wabash, train arrived at Bel iy L)epit, in Knit St Louis, about 8.15 P. M. The ongiueer and conduct ir rep >rc. that during the storm liny feared that the train would b? thrown from the track, soterrill: was th* force of the wind. In addition to dor. >n of dwellings and stores I in the soutlurn, ceutr d ami nor.hern s>"t ioiis of this city more or los< wrecked, the fodow inr big buddings were damaged: The Anchor Mills, Goodwin candle factory, Pullman shops, Van Broeck's furniture factory, K ngsland A. Ferguson f arm Implement works. Missouri Pacitlj Hospital, ilogdoit S -hooi, tl erinaa Evangelic it Cnurch, Second I Pr.'sliyt.'rian Church, and ot lers yet to bo heard iroiii. Three fatalities nre reported, ! but tho names of tho victims have not yet j be-n aseei t dned. They comprisi an ont.re 1 family, f ttber, mother and child, residing on | .Mound street, near Tenth, and they m till -ir I deaths by tin falling of a building oil their j dwelling. j Tho los-es on property are roughly esti! mated at f l'JO.Odd, but will proba'oiy prove ! more. ?TATE OF TRADE. Kliglit Improvement CaiiHiil by More , S(-HH<?iiable Wcnllicr. \ Special telegrams to /iradnlre 'l s note the \ [ tern| orary nppe iranee o: coluor weather, fol- \ iowju nc nnpo.'tvit \\ eitoru cities, parltcu1 rly Ca e 140,Sr. Paul, Minn apolis, O null1, K'inmiCity ant St. Emis by a mod ritely improved distribution of clothing, boot s and thoes un l giocsry stiplos. Tao gain is not largo, being in-t by lower temperature an 1 hampered by thi utif ivorablo condition it wagon reals at the interior South an<i West. I/oathuruiul lu mber are quiet, and cittleand l.ogs. wltb freer rec 'ipts, teinl to weakness ut tVeatorn centers. Mercantile collections generally aroslow, ; and the immediate outl o 1 is not lor material improvement. At IIIj West, Indian corn is luaviug with fro'dom, but. Suit ti farm products are shipped with loss freedom, notably cotton, llog pro lucts have been more active, with (lriu or st *ady prices and iu some ius ances slight advances. Reports to Urud^rccl'i of gross earnings of ninety-two rain 0 id campauies 'or lSS'Jag7 regate #3i7,5d0 t-Wf an increase over 18<8 . of nine per cent. The demaud for llour and for wheat lias been dull both at home and Abroad, cash No. I 2 K'd codng at only over the previous I week. Indian corn is more active, s leeula' t.rely, with the close showing an 11 iv sue) of ' ? Moon nearby options. O its folk w idcorn Willi rathsr less activity. Stocks of wheat 1 iu tie United Stites, both c lists and Cinaj da, out of farmers' bauds, w.tli like stocks in Australia, in Europe, and all >at from ail 1 countries for Kurop , as cabled to /{ru t strrrt's aggreg.it 1 16,800,000 bushels on Jail. 1, lS'JJ against 11$ f,HOJ,000 bushels ou J uiuary 1, 18>'Ja decline of 1S.0J0 budi.'ls, IJ'j P<ir Cent. Exports of wheat and llour as wueat trom both coasts, United States and Canada, this weok aggregate 2,317,221 bushels against 1808,151 t-ushels list week and 1,082,88? bushels 111 the like week of 1SS0. The total of wlieut (ind llour a; wheat) exported July 1, 1880, to date is 50,002.621 bu-li Is against 63,1182,006 bushels 111 a like portion of 1888 0. Nglwithst mdigig free receipts of raw sugar i ridloors have enjoyed a goo 1 demand whicu. I with lirni cables, is responsible for an advane? of ft lt>.\ for raw an I f >r refined sugars. Ntojks of refined in the United St itosuro re ported to he 20,0.0 tons Ic&s thnn they were a year a-o. Th -re tins been more act.Vity in cofl'ee, with prices '4c higher. Spi I g tra lo in cotton goods has opened eniou ag.u^ly, a goo i package trad ? bein? re^ ported. i'rint cloths are only nioderat.'iy active. Woolen goods arc quiet. Doliver.ei by iigei t<ot Spring goods on orders ure large. Haw wool isst -udy Out in moderate denand. Prices are arm. L'ght crop movement and unproved speculative demand liave advanced cotton prices }?-i to 5-iOo. BURNED BY MOLTEN METAL. Terrific ami Fatal Holler lii|iloiloii In a riluhii'K Furnace. An explosion occurred at Lucy Kurnac) No. 1, of Carnogie, Pnlpps& Co., Pittsburg. One man was killed and nine others seriously injured. Simultaneously with the report of the explosion, th) bell and stopper wire . lifted fr,-m*h*i^^^v^^t f-y *' ' VpMMMWSPmwmid ore TRhl bricks shot up ] nto the air high above the fnruace like a miniature volcano. me men mine oaso or sue iwrnao?, wnnn they heard the explosion ran in terror for their lires, but nearly all of them were caught and more or less injured, while Michael Welech 'ost his life, lie fell into the alley into which the cinder runs and was fat?lly burned. When found he was still nlive, but died on the way to the West Toon Hospital. Nino of the men were either struck by falling debris or burned by the molten metal thrown out at the too of the furnace. The injured are Thomas Welsh, brother of Michael struck on the side and injured internally; Thomas Snmnierlee. John Moilinni*. Harry Hailford, John Quigley, Michael ; ijonii;, .Tiur.iu nuiiuuoriuf, noiirjr okiiihoii and J tine* Duff/. Nod* ara fatally. The molten metal winch foil on all aiilea, set Are to the wood work about the furnaos, but fl '< the lUmeu wore ettinguieboU with aligttl