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THE WEEKLY UBI.QK TIMEST^ *"^ k * I XIO C. II., 8QLTH C , I^tNA, I*KBRL AR\ 7, I IFE'8 8T0RY. BY Ol'.OIWlK ELIOT. Two lovers by a moss-i rown spring; The/ leaned no t cheeks together there. Mingled tbo dark nml sunny hair, And heard the wooing tbrushos Ring. (> budding time! O iovo'n i> -at prime t Two weddod from tho portal stopt; The holla uiade Ii ippv enroling?, Tho nir was soft m laming w ngs. While potato on tho pathway swept. O pure eyod bridot O touder brido 1 Two faces o'er n er idlo bent; Two hand? abo ? tho hea I were looked ; Theso pressed each othor while tliey looked! Theao watched a lifo that love had cent. <> solemn hour! O hidden powor! Two pirouts bv <bo oveniug flro: The red li-_-lit Rhone unovo thoir knees, Hui all the hetuls hy slow dogruoa, J.iko b .ds upon the lily spire. , i> pi t ont life! ... O tender eirifd 1 - - - ,W- ? T7** Th, ??.-> aril! on? 1tSor? lijj", Tlir r Jil llyht nliouo above their knocs, Hut it I tlio lioiitlt by blow degrees Ilad go.io itii<I Irft tlio lonely pair. O Toyniie flint I O vnnisliod past! The roil Unlit altono aliovo tlio floor. Ami Ufa tlio space betwcon them wide ; They drew th <ir chairs up ttido b\ eiao ; Iho.r' pnl-t cheeks joined, and said, "Once nioro'/' O nioiitorios' TOIVE DRYSO.n JfflE. BY I K MAJOR." CHAPIKR XXIV. WHtT THE WRITING KF.VUA I," D 'JUeso words urn addressed to Mr. Llmont. They nro written in the silence of the night, when I nm alonu with Him who judges us all. He knowi that I have no choice: that I Jk must lly, like a tliiof in the night, from j tlio dear woman who has been ho kind | to mo, from the noble man whose love | W j would honor a i,neon, and which I 1 must now reject, one and forovcr. The happiness that ho points me to, | I cannot take. Thero is a barrier in i the way that may not bo cro>sod. I cannot bear the misery of saying n | last. furowoll to these two; nor can I i bear that they should think me uu- i grateful, or oven cold. Nor do I dare l to pour out my heart upon this inscn ( sale paper. 1 will in a few words tell them why 1 must leave them forover. I would implore them that they leavo me to go my soriowful way in peace; that they will not strive to find mo. Hut the regret is needjes . They will not wish -llandall Belmont will not 'w.gh?to see me, to hear iyugiit more of "fold,' after this writing sha'l ho fully y in a city. My reeoV'b". and very distinct about it. The snarling, nioro.se laborer whom yo i knew im Turn ilrvson, and who has I gone to so fearful an aecoiiut was tlio misorable wreck of my nohlo fathor of those old days, Newland Wendell by name. Misfortune overtook him in tlio city. He fell from h s high position in bu iness and society, ho lost his wealth, lie was onco tried for crime. 1 never know correctly tho truo Htory of that 1 Bofrowful time, l?ut I have ofton heard my father bitterly say that ho was far j more sin noil against than sinning, and ' that Mason I'elinont?your own father, ltandall - wai responsible for liis ruin. And I have hoard him say that tho elder I'elinont was tho merciless creditor who stripped him of all his property, when a little forbearance would have brought him his duo, and made a man again of tlio poor, distrossod debtor. ?. You, II indall, may perhaps know where tho truth is in all this. I do not pretend to. I only know that our misfortunes killed my dear mother, and that my father and I became much as outcasts. I have told yon that I promised that mother in her dying hour that I would always bo faithful to niv father, and ever love an 1 obey him. That is true. And you have wondered how that a promise could constrain me to give my hand to I dgar Van Wyck, whom 1 did i ?...i if ... miiui iw*u ui?vi <*t I i \> imill J^VvT ?liil love 'yea, I may ns well confess it), at the bidding of my father. You might Well wonder. The roa- 1 son I gave you was not tho real one. j Not but that 1 have been true to tho memory of that saint in Heaven, my own dear mother! Not but that 1 t wished to keep the pledgo I had will- i ingly given her in lior dying hour! Hut she never foresaw how brutified o-- her once noble husband would become with the years. She never anticipated I that he could become so cruel as to re- ! ipiiro me to wed, and not to wed, according to liis selfish will. No! There was .notIn r reason for what I so strangely promised to do for what 1 have, with o pial strange- | ness, declined to do. I'o you remember, liandall, when you met me in the old house last October? How you thought you had met ^ me somewhere before- how I coldly W told you that yo were mistaken? In fact, I recognized you at once, j When I last :>aw vou in the eitv vou wore fifteen years old, and 1 had not ' forg\>tto)i you. Hut I dared not tell you so. Jt was | not only that I knew that my fat I. . ! wanted to eon coal our identity; there ; was another reason! , And now, as the shadow of that i dreadful csplanation obscures Iho char- | aiders I am trying to w , I a]>peal to you, Jtand all, to do ino justice. i havo i done no wrong. {Sometimes it has , seemed t > mo as if woman never a if- j fered as ! have; hut my burdens havo ' been laid upon me by others; I am j innocent! t'n that day, last (letober, you eamo I to tie- old lions - with the o'lieers of the law, to ion h for ebw.s to h dp yen find your Cutler, wle? lull i., u oih'i disappeared. tVour feet trod on tlio very brink of j discovery, and yon never suspected it. The robber alid the murderer eonduett d you abo it tlie house, and you did not know it. You walked through the sittingroom; the money for which your father was slain was thorp, secreted in the closet. You went down intb the collar. Your feet stood above his buried remains! But you knew it not. On the night of that dreadful storm, last August, Mason Belmont came to that house for shelter. I admitted him, niul knew him. I was ordered to go to my room. Thero was that in my father's demeanor that 1 saw, thut the visitor did not seo. It troubled me. Never had I seen him look so wolfish. 1 < ame back to tho stairs, and listened. 1 heard him fiercely reproaching your father for his misfortunes. I wont to bed, but could not sleep. Tho atmosphere of tho whole houso seemed charged with violence and crime. I rose in the night, and partially drewod myself. U, Cod forgivo my wretched, mis- I guided father! 1 learned of lib awful crimo. Spare mo tho painful rooitnl of all that I saw and heard in those liiueous hours! At the peril of my own life (For I knew that the murderer would have sruck mo dead had ho deteetod me), I saw lum burying tho corpse of his victim ; I saw him secreting the money. And he never, to tho moment of his death, suspected that I knew aught of it. Discovery was threatened, when he learned that Edgar Van Wyek had guided Mason I'elmont to the house. Whother Edgar at any time suspected tho crime, 1 do not know; but his silence as to the presence of your fatlior in that house on that night wus bought by the promise of my hand. What was I to do? To live with tho dreadful knowledge that I had was hard enough; was 1 also to aeo my father go to tho hangman ? That might have boon the penalty of a refusal of Edgar. Shall 1 spoak of the daily and nightly horror of dwelling bonoath that roof sinco that August night? You may conjecture it; I <annot tell it. Save for the tragic fate of the unhappy being who perished in the destruction of the house, 1 cannot regret that it has been swept out of existence. To mo it wo dd ever be a place of horrors. Now you know all. You know tho life 1 have lately lived, the crushing burdens I havo borne. You know why 1 havo avoided you, why I tiy from you now. Need I say more? Would you wish for moro? Well, let me go on. You are largo of soul; yo a aro generous far beyond tho power of most men. Will you still ^irgo mo? Do yon re yitcncc^WSi^tV "hnnM offer no itamiull debuont, stop and think! You conio of a proud and woaltliy ancestry. In tho city where you live, you are, or will be, known of all men. You bolotig to its business, to its society; high honors must bo waiting for you in coming years. Your wile must be one that you aro not ashamed of; whoever she bo, her history will be examined, questions will bo asked and nnswerod about her. And if 1 could occupy that place, think how tho question, "Alio was she?" must ho answered by tho horrible lmt truthful word?, "She is tho daughter of the man who murdered his lather for monov, and buried hint in tho cellar!'* I'ecauso the story )nnst hocomo known. < >ncc I thought that I would keep it forever liiddeu in my breast. But you seo why I am compolled to tell you; and now, others must know it. You luuit raciiyer the remains anil . give them Christian unriul at your homo; the wholo shocking story will be known Umro. Or, if not, how would it bo with yourself? Would you 1 ke to bo face to face, for life, with tho woman whose father murdered yours? Could you endure that? r>o! more ib no escape irom llio j conviction tlint, whoever olso may he i joined together, wo two must ho for- | over sundered. Farewell, thon, forever! Yon have j tried to make me happy, hut it cannot | be. May God reward .von as you deserve. I lov3 you too well to make )ou wietched. Jessica. (1IAPI Kit XXV. CRACK The stars were brilliant in tho night- j sky of .Iune as she pursued her way. i She took the roid away from A vies- j worth, with the intention of making ' her flight as secret as possible. She had formed no plans; slio had no money. To put as much distance between Kandall Jlehnont and herself as possible was her eager dosire. He- 1 cause she had told him that she would give him the final answer on the morrow; that answer would be sure to separate them, and she wished never ' to see his face after ho had read it. In loneliness and weariness slio plodded on till daybreak. Iter prog- j ress was slow and painful; she was not j really able to walk at all in this early I convalescence, but her determination Itnrn !?/?? 1111 and rtnvo !?*?? 1 ...... .... ...... .V. ... . ..VMIU IIVH- , tious strength. With frequent rests by tho way sho | had at daylight accomplished about live miles. She began to see then that it would be impossible for her to con- ' coal tlio way of her escape. Carts ami wagons on their way to Ayleswortii j market frequently passed her. Some j of tho drivers alio knew, at least by sight, iwd she saw that there wore ' looks or\vdoniduncut at sooing her i afoot and it. ?ne upon tho road ut such nn hour. When exhausted naturo within her cried out for rol ef. she stopped bofore a moan-looking houso by the sido of the road. A h> dcrisli looking man w! *4 l-'iMiog over the ga* , ?' - i | I ?!" "Can I stop hero a little while, ami | get something to eat ?" she asked, in u i hesitating way. Ho stared at hor without removing his pipe. | "C'linno," he growled. "Who l?o you anyway?" Vl'lcftse do not ask mo, sir. 1 onlv want, to rpfreau myself a little, and then go on." "Oli, you do?and you don't!" Bneered tho man. "Got any money ?"* ^ She had to admit that tdie had none. .. " Well, then, you go right on. Suspicious characters without money ain't ? my kind." c 'I'hn fnllrtw l.io 1?-?- r * ?v?i V M ii?ii^iiv\i uv 1110 vnu i/i u till it v, iind the distressed girl moved * away. 1< Sho hardly hnd tho eourago to ask ' again; but at the next house a pleasant faced young woman, with three or / four children at her heels, came run- c ning out to her as sho passed, witli an fcj exclamation of surprise and pleasure, h "Why, if it ain't MiBsBryson! Where & on earth are you going to at such a 5, time of day? And on foot, too! Come in, and tell me all about it." Tho good creature had formerly been hor nearest nei^Tibpr at the old house, and 8lie reuiemborcd >uauj li?*lo t! kindness that Jess'ca had shown her. Tho wandoror went hi and rested * herself, and nto and drank, wliilo the woman nover ceased to ask her questions. Tho girl evaded most of thein, and such answers as she gave wore very unsat sfactory to tho quostioner. | "There's sotnethiug tho matter with | yon, miss; I'm certain of it. You just iako oil'your things, and stay with nie 1 awhile. * Somebody's boon trying to j impose upon you; I seo that by 3onr looks. Tell me who to send for, and my .loo shall go and carry any messago you want to send." .Icssica rose in alarm. "Tliero is no trouble," she said. "I tliank you for your kindness, anil will bid you pood-morning." . Against the good woman's urgent protests she went on her way. Walking on until sho was too exhausted to move, sho obtained a rido with a farmer in a springless wagon, wh eli hardly rolieved her fatigue, but whi )h brought her tbreo miles further on hor way. Tho sun was now high, tho day was warm. Until near noon sho wont on, I weak, dizzy, feverish. She saw a i spring by the roadside, and went to it j 1 to rolievo her thirst. Sho sat down j 1 upon a stone, intending to rest for n 1 few moments. When she tried to rise, t alio fell helpless in tho grass. t She could do no more; her strength j f was utterly gono. Sho dosed her oyos, ' ( and wished that sho might ?lie hero. ] ( Tho clatter of hoofs in the road , caused her to open them. Tho vision | of a great black horse appeared to her; | she heard an exclamation, a sound of ( hurrying feet; an arm was passed about f her, and she was held up a rainst ban- ' dall Helmont's knee. "How cruel this is of you, -Tessica!" 8 iio said. "It is cruel to me; it is ' doubly cruel to yourself." 1 "How did you liud me?" sho asked, heard of you all along the way, when I l unoo got on the right track. Now I shall take you over to that large house i there, and havo you made comfortable i till I can got a carriage and tako you back to .Mrs. V?n Wyck's." ( "No!'' she said, sitting upright. " You did not read what I wroto to you last night," "Indeed I did; every word of it." "And can you, after that, continue j to seek nio?" I ' "Why should f not? Dreadful as ' tho story is to mo, shocked as I am to hear the truth, why should you sutler I 1 more because of it? You are iuno- ' cent, as you wrote; you are all to me, 1 and more, that you ever wore." ller resolution wavered at last. Yet i she still resisted. | i "You do not think of yourself; you uiu nju (juiiciuuB, i?i nooio. .1 oil | J would overshadow your whole life ] with 1110." "This is the last timo of asking, Jes- , ui?ui," Iscs iiuiil, with tleop Bolomuity# j "I know mvself; no change was possible in n>n iowai-J you ; nothing tiint j you liavo told mc has cliunged you the , slightest in my eyes. Now, I will take ! my iinai answer from 3'our own lips. 1 Is it joy ? - or must it be woe?" A senso of rost camo over her as sho heard him. His arm held her up; she 1 lool.ed into his kind, serious eyes, and saw there that which rejoiced her more than the sight, of the green oasis re- j joices the traveler in the desert sands. ( Sho saw a new lifo bofore hor, with all ' that happiness that lie had often pictured to her; and she could no longer refuse to eall it hers. And so she replied : "It is joy, dear Itandall; joy and peace!" itiik en .?j ( Smoke ami Ashes. J l'ipo lines ?< >do to tobacco.--I'iflsbnryh Chrunic'e T< Irgraph. 1 Ity legal decision now cigars aro a 1 drug. Well, sonio of tliem ure much worse than any medicine to tako. ? ! I-as ton- Post. | Jay Gould says he never smoked but j ono tignr. We don't blame him if it ' was a two for-live. ? Hurling ton Free j / Ve.su. It is assorted I hut smoking produces selfishness. We always wondered why a cliitnnoy was so "stuck-up."?Uraki 's M It J <12 inc. One of the hardest things which youth lias to boar is a whipping on account of tlio smell of some other fellow's cigar in his elothos.? lint'liinjlon Fre Pv< sx. "Uavo a cigar, I'rcd? There's something I can recommend." ".Inst so; but, if it's all the same to you, 1 prefer something you can tmoke."? Ponton Trnnxrrijit. N<> trait of character is moro valuable in a femalo than the possession of a sweet temper. Home can novor be mndo happy w.thout it It is like tlio tlowers that spring up in our pathway, reviving anu cheering u?. l et a man ; go homo at night, wearied and worn by the toils of the day, and how soothing is a word dictated by a goo 1 disposition! It is sunshine falling on his heart. Ho is happy, and the cares of ' '< !< c SovK people *ce iu.i in . Other people go down tlio lull lust, enough without getting on a slide.? S'tvici viII" Journal. ( Notiiino is over done beautifully ' which iH done in rivalship, nor nobly 1 which is douo in pride. I THE NEWS* ] Daring a quarrel on a farm near Spring* leld, Mo., Franklin Davis shot and killod J-j Suoi RusielL? Northern Iowa la threatmad with a coal '-famine. Honry Bosh, a Ireman on the northern Pacific Railroad, T eceived (49,000 damages for Injuries sueained. Miss I,aura Linton, a maiden ?dy of Camden township, Ohio, was snot or a burglar while walking in har sleep. ?The Motboiist Episcopal Church of ^1 Lmerioa has dot I do I to build a sectarian C( o I lego in KanssB City, Mo. Albert Paul p< mith, manager of the Chicago Clearing- ut ouse, fell dead in a street car. Qottlelb lutur^a civil eiginoer in Newark, N. J.? cc oininidlk suicide during a fit of iusanity J'j roduce<^hv the InQuenzrotts, the no- m >rioo9 u.TMoinei "lejrcber^WM sjntoncod Bt j three years in ths igiiitonUsry.?ilirrr ,n [cCrno>"--?? <-? rith highway robbery X-j^/ |?ossibfe murder, br scaped from the Bloomiagton, III., jail. eo he United States spugoing torpedo boot No. jM was launched at Bristol. R I. In Co- o, jrabus, Ks., a boiler exploiod, mortally pi rounding Albert Etrfe, the proprietor, aid llj laybury. the engineer. Five desperate 'J haraolers, charged *vth the murder of Cou- |n table Long and wife iu Ghiyandotte, W. Va, is rrrc captured in Kentucky. Tho National Vomau's Christian Temperance Union, a jn on-partisan organization, was organized iu gn Cleveland, Ohio. Wilkes, the antl-Lithunian loader au 1 his followers, who created ' riot in the Polish cemetery at Wilkcsbarre* pi invo been arrested. The buliotin of the ^ American Iron oud Steel Association shows , gratifying increase in the production of w >ig iron, especially In the Southern States. Ui lurry Pellzer, of Reoding, Pa , was struck q( n'.the head wiih a h itchet in Steubenville, fa Ohio, and killed. -While lirin ; at a target d? iear Bjrdner killed a !" nan-..u 1 w arnitr, living noui i Jot^borg, N. C? was u bund murdered on the tyirhway. In Chi- ai ugo Nicholas Mayer shothis wife and then lommitted suicide. Henry M. Jacksou, o ,he paying teller of the New York Sub-treas- tl iry, who ran away with $10,003, was s?n- ^ enced to sit years' imprisontmnt and to >ay a tlno of $10,000. -Mrs. Maggie Clarke, c ,ho wife of Valentine Eugeno Clarke, a noted 1 info blower has appealed to ths Chicago ' jourts for a divorce. Tin libol suit e jvor the grave of Mary Washington ended i wit'.i a verdict for tho defendant. Adam J h'orepaugh, the groat showman, died in Pail- l ide'phia. A boiler ozploMon at Murdoch- I t ri It*, l\i., caused the death of Mrs. Burns. ? ruree others wjro terribly scald id. In ( Morwnlk, Ct., Mr. nnd Mrs. George Com- ( stock, nnd near Chicago Mr. nuu Mrs. bred- * ?rick I'ayng were killed while crossing tracks ( it thosi jointr i Geo. Louusbery, ^cashier of the New York ,] PostofflcekUte^tig^^lf^^i^^counts^weir^j ^ killed andV$tyMk?4ftlly injured. Jen. nie Dean Re>iioils^yln actress committed suicide in NewT^oi*. Miners in the anthracite region have determined to demand twenty per cent, increaso in wages.Jas. G. Hetz.-l, of New York, was arrested in Philadelphia on a charge of bigamy. Louis L. Bromwell, president of the Cali- ( fornia .lusurauce Company, was shot and f badly wounded by George C. Pratt, manager o* the company, in San Francisco. Oyster , packers at Laurel aud Seaford, Del., and | CrisHeld, Md., And it diAlcult to get oysters ( owing to the cold weather. John Brockert | and Elward BrowD, Ililtiinoreaus, with i long criminal records,pleaded guilty ut Pitts- 1 burg to eight chargos of burglury and one of j felonious assault. Their crimes are enough t to 6end them to the penitentiary for seventy- > Ave years. Two Chinamen and a woman * named Mamie Sweeny wore found dead in a i laundry in Biugliamton. Death was caused t by inhalation of cblorino gas. The Syra- 4 j \ noted since the arr_ ^9fl**ho oold wave. I Gio. \V. Shepherd,thx'^Atndant in the Mary ' | HI?Ul .... I ?? uauiugiuii truvo case, uas presented the i ground in question to tho Mary Washington ? Monument Association. Tho Ohio legislature has adopted in both Lraucbes a joint J resolution iavoriug Chicago for tho World's t Fair. Col. J. Cirrington, proprietor of 1 tho Exchange Hotel an i liallard liousi in Richmond, Vd., is dead. Ex President j Cleveland wrote a letter to tho Merchant 1 Tailors' Convention r.-luting to the turilL ' WORK AND WORKERS. Xn liana farmers nro organize], au.i do?i , with one store, ullowiug ttio o.uier 10 pei 1 , cent, prolit. I Buffalo newsboys struck because tha penny i evening papers ruis.d their price from 00 to t 1>J cents per 100. A bill to increase the day's hours of labor ' aud one to nduca them have been intra- ' duced lu the .Ma?saclnnvi t? J.ogiumture, ' Tho Working C? rTs Club of Jersey City has cl issue in the study ot dress-iuakiug, millinery, cooking, music, dauciug unJ embroidery. In Chicago an orJiuai.ci has been proposed i for the lionising of engineers. It provides i that t.ley sliuh Ue ixiiniiiod in the trade, | an I must have habits of sobriety. i New York Central engineers get 33}{ cents 1 par hour, conductors tio cents uud brunciuco * 10 cants. Too switcbman item in | 10 cents 1 per hour lor work over twolvo hours per j ( day. San Francisco molders got $3.5J for a tenhour day. The union scale for iimo hours is ' $ 5 One Ann tried to have them work nine hours for l.V lint hist, n ? ' ?- - - - - 1 ? n"'?U) uuu tho ton-hour ilay was adopted. A concern in Now Orleans which msnu- | ? fac urcs lur^o quantities of ico has oir -red ts i . furnish uriilLnal ice to Naw York, provided i ^ tho winter continues s> in.Id us to make ths i f natural ice crop a failure. j '' In England printers average $10 a week in {<; wages; hi Oermany tuey average $1(5) a li week. 1 i Knglun 1 the,city laborer, not a 1 ft skilled workm in,^.yW;es $1,60 a week; in ? France, $l.S?; in ><*? ?^?y, $1. The c ilorod lulorsftTound Athai?-r liavo struck. Tue wbiM^jeopIe have securod no labor fur the ensuing>*ear on their fnrins, ?i und the situ ition isbagtciing to look tqunlly for thein, as thi negroes say they have no j i intention of going to work for the whites. I c Tno Central Trades Council of Western | ^ IVnnsy.vania will ssnd a special circular to \ . all local uulons of American Flint (ilatd , workers not yet represented in that body. . In the Ohio valley toe lliut glass workers arc among tho strongest hud best locals attached to the Ohio Valley Trades Assembly. i William Oiwell Tjfvingatono,third and last b irvi viiigso.i of tho fOamousAfrican traveller, died recoutly at 8b Albans, Englan 1, shortly alter lie had diotated\a congratulatory letter t > S anley. Mr. Livingston* was born in you h Afr.c?, 1ESTITDTI0N IN DAROTi lorrible Suffering in Nineteen Counties of South Dakota. honiianilii of People In Weed of the Unreal Wpenstnrle* of MTr on Account ol Poor Crop*. A gentleman who baa just riturnod fiom the ortb west, brings with him a tale of horrie suffering and destitution in nineteen unties of South Dakota, gathered from oplewhobut recently bavo been eye wit?sses of what they so graphically describe. The stricken area includes the following iunti?s: AlcPber.-on, Campbell, Wallworlb, Jmunds, Potter, a part of Brown, Spink, yde, Iiatid, Beadle, Ciark, ICtngbiiry, iner, Dividson, GeralJ, Fork, Hughes nud lllv. K. E. I'jxtoi. a w.-ll-tn-ilo hiiiiiiniu an of Cuiea^ii, who has spout soma d iyi iu ie f HI cted distrio, says; is reduced FRose fnrnierty~welT-TlN"iIi)*f6TC in lllion of direst distress. Many Ihousunds f mii ilios are entirely without rn-uns of any nd. They lack the wherewithal to purchase u Uecetsiries of life, whilst tho ominous acard confronts them in every storo where ley oiico had credit:?No trust given, goods Id for c ish osly Mr. l'axtou dehcril od the condition of tho lople iu the Kingsbury and Miner count es Inart rending. In the latter county they ivo uo 11 ?ur ; iho st ipie of life being n budly ound corn men!, an I there is a deplorable sufficiency of that. Every farm is mortiged, In mauy ensog for more than a saie idor present prices would realise. Most of io stock has been levied oil an 1 sold by tho leriff at public auction, tho ridiculously low ic s obtained being eloquent, not only of le starving condition of lUo cattle, but the arcity of uioans in tho community?cows tchiug as low as $? each, horses $8 to $10, hile s'icup and pigs are simply unsalable, lere being nothing to feed th un with. One mau had a few miserable chickens left, I what, two years ago, was a woll-stocked irm. The worn in and children bear evisncos of t'lo liardships they have undergone i their pinched and meagre faces. In many stances they are unprpvided wiih clothing lib WhtcU to witbsiutid the rigors o: wiu(i? what thmy uo ? ^ n<i worn-out condition. 44At one placet 1 ud Mr. I'axton, "I taw two children wulkig with their te. t wrapped up in pieces of Id blanket through the snow. They told mo tiey had uo shoes for many months. I lifted he youngest up?i girl of 7 or 8 years?she a lillle bitter thau a skeleton. ' The raili oads are naturally doing ad they un to keep people iu the country. Tboy live n hopes that a good season will set many on heir leet again. They have done much to bloviate thesulleriugsof ihe people from the ixtreine co d, by tho gratuitous distribution if coal where it has been most needed. In nuny instances iue nanus uisouuve lurouun 0 foiclose mortgages out o: slieir pity. Provisions of any kind. Just now, would be 1 godsend to thousanis who arj in u semiituivinir condition. Unless relief is given with a liberul hand this \N inter in South IXatota vou will hoar of many deaths from absolute starvation, and the reports will undoubtedly have foundation in fact. Mrs. A C. Cevelanl, of lt?uiond, S. D., i> mil run Mr. Pax ion's story of the widespread Jest tution prevailing, luis lady is now in Minneapolis, where she is making heroic oiler's in behalf of ihe sufferers, uuu says llour ..^.iri will try and inuucs FLOODS FOLLOW THE SNOW. Rivers Overflow Tlicir Uauks?Sec? lions of'California Iiiuudutesl. The warm lams that have ialiuu in XS'orth;ru California for the past two days buve melted a large amount of snow in the Sierra Nevada and Siskiyou Mountains, aud caused the streams and rivers to overflow thoir junks. The ruin ou ill j mouutaius bus now reused. The damage will not be as great as eared. Tbo quick risa iu tbe waters bus tvashed out uiuuy of the railroad bridgts, ailed the cuts and caus.'d laudslides, aud the railroad tratiic ou ail the lines in tue uorthrn portion 01 the stale will be impeded lor itv.rul days. A number of Hooded poiuts eport taut while tuo individual loss will be ;reut, the overflowing of ibo lauds, by which teveral inches of r<cli sodim.-uts is lo.t oa the arms, will add greatly to its valuatioa. At die city of ISiu Jess the \vtiler is higher thau >ver before kuowu. At Santa Clara the jrinciple thoroughfares are covered with <ues of ra Iroad operate between rtuti Fran;ibCOan?J n Hi Juar, no ir?*inn ?ro ai>iu to uiavv, iwiug to uio wuauouts at Santa Cruse. 1 he ,vuter reached ills highest point ever tnoivu md ovei flowed tout portion of the city ueiovv B ui o I reel. At immigrant Cap, in tlie Sierra Neva la Aloun a in, wuere luo two through rains are imprisoned, tlie ruin began lading ibout noon but ch uiged to suow during tuo ngnt. Tne W'estei'u Union lineman report ,bat the deepest s low is in the vicinity ot 1'uinarck. For more tbun u mile not a teie{rapb pole is 111 view, und it was necessary to lig a trench tnrougu tne snow more tnun .wenly feet deep in order to tree ilie wires, t'roVisions are Very scarce at Uinigruul Uup, iil l it tlie road is i.o; opened, it will be neces>ury to bring up supplies on snow-sLioes. At Cnico, ui t.ie Sacramento Valley, the sncrameiito river is over its buuks, ana it is 1 Hiding tao entire country lying near it. It s estimated tual it is lltleeu teet higut-r than t wus uuritig the last llood. At It Hiding nod It d lllulf, near Ilio headwaters ot the Sucameuto river, the water ha. begun to submit*. Severn! sections of Alexandria Valley bridge, ill* largest bridge in tlie county, mvo beouswi p; uw y. 1 berivir sproao over in area tf live milts ill width. At a point on Urv Crock it j iins tUe ltissian river. '1 hreo lines south o. llealdsuurg it became n lor eiit, 11 loinig the it,j Creek vain y lor many lilies. It lief parties were out in ooats, rescuing people iroui their houics. Two houses icar tlie river bank, were swept uw.iy, one ireaking to pieces i.s it struck lli-e rauroid iridge, while tlu oilier, a two-story bundii.:, is lo l?e 1 against tuo bridge. At Kuigiil's Kerry, on Stumslaus river, forty nines soutii if Stockton, the in-oplo began moving out of beir houses, in the lower j o.tiou o1 tbo town, )wii.g to tbe 11 jo J. MARKETS. Bai.timouk? Flour?City Millu.extra, s 1.3.1 14.50. Wheat?Southern Fultz, 7S.i>-0: >>rii?Southern White, Chilli cts, Yellow U! Oats?Southern aiuB Pennsylvania Mudlct*.: llyo? Maryland X Pennsylvania IVa.WcUi.; Hay?Maryland and Pennsylvania ? 50af Id 00;Straw- Wheat,7.50a$5.f>0;Buttor Cistern Creamery, 'MaSB&c., near-by receipts JagOctx; Choose-Eos tern Fancy Cream, 10 V 11 cts.,? Western, lOalOJ^ cts; Eggs 14 15; Tobacco Leaf?Inferior. Iaf2.0d. Hood 'ntfro ro.i.oulli; frw^^Hing.fiaT.OO Uood j NKW ,Y"H^.7r^^wS-NorW>?it5ft"* "iciitC state 67a0P Corn-Southern s ?gras!22S32f J,a4.75: VVliettt?Feniwylvainft im'l BAI.TIHOnB?HMf, 45l?4 7J,8h?P 75,7 (?;8h?,p-?4 50 a4fi0;Hogs?*3.90n4'20. . 8hoop? Fast LiBKRTT-Boef?m 35a4 50, When |5 70*5 00; Hog*?M Wo4 10. ADAM FOKEPAUGH DEAD. The tircnt Nhvwiimn Ntic?wn?b? to I'ltviuiioiilii. ^ p Adam Foropaugh, thi veteran circa* mannger baa just (lied at li s residence In I'blla- 13 delphia. He lias been ailing for some time, and was attacked u week or two ago with A t'n tlio prevailing intluetiz-1, which tbreo or four n I days ago developed into pujumonia. Ho leaves a wife and 0110 son, Adam, Jr., who A f. his been assisting him for several years, and Wilki who will succeed to his immense circus prop- Lunili erty. to di^ cut til Adam Forepaugh was barn in Philadcl. u( phia on February 'JS, IS1I, and liogau lite ns . a butcher boy at a salary of # I per month rott and his board. At the age of sixteen he ran two k away from home aiul went to work for John (je? Butcher, a butcher in Cincinnati, where lie . .. remained for a year aud n-bulf, receiving '* $50 for the first raonih, and $100 a month the aolgs dealer, and, rctuiii.g to Pbiladelph a, he was from in tte butcher business up to lSfs, when he wliicl embark d in runu ug singe lined, and eoa- wind tinue.i therein up to 1874. TUi While in tho omuilms business, Mr. Fore- piece pnugh dealt in horses and cattle, mid bought u ow ami sold in one year ns tunny as 10,000 horses. sky w Jn lHtil he told to John O'Brien, who was aud, running a small wa.on show, sixty-two drop] horses tor $0,000* and took as part payment groin au interest in the show. At that time lie u(0.i had no idea of embarking in tbo busimss, injur but visiting O'Brien's show in Pittsburg, he p use purchased the same, at the same time ouy- | ugon ing Jerry Malilo's menagerie uud combined \Vliei ti e two, forming the tiueleui of the grout diggi Furopuugh show. This cost him $4-5 000|and i.nd t was del v.-red ti him on th; day of tiu as- Ke| sussii at.cn of Atrulum Lincoln. is the Mr. Forep nigh was an eminently practical man, giving his personal attention to his 1 vast businets. Tho minutest thing did not C-i escapo his attention. Oi tin two huudrtd jealo horses used iu the procession and in tbo ring, nn?l < he kuew thorn all, and cou'.d boll at a glance Chici when and where they were purchased and culm the amount pi 11 fur the same. Wealth did tie not allay his ardor nor abate his Industry, erna for ho worked early and late as hard as any ioair JHniw^nLu.V*ifti-in.i.. ai I bis establishment, and seemingly kuew overy his part of the paraphernalia and lis proper Intel place. It was his lioi 8t that he owned and . mini exhibited more will animals r.nd possessed lenri more show property thin any other siugld goin person or firm in the world, ami it is a ri? pure J murkablo fact that ho neversufiVrodu finan- enle ci*l reverse, but during the p ist twenty five who years has steadily inarms Ml liis fortune. Is was is supposed that ho was worth over $1,000,000 shot liis real estate possessions footing up over the I a-half u million. I>ed nur ii * nr?\/ rnIt n! rc moil i nvr. nrtrri tuurLt-o. r.vu K r. Tlioy .Mot nt One Allor lo Kzctinnjte Jf8u '1'lioir nnrrlAjfo Vow*. A reiuarknblrt quintuple wedding look place a St. Alpboiuo'd Catholic Church, in T? Davies county, Kentucky, at nine o'clock tha ^ other morning. The contracting couples wore Mr. W. B. Hall and Miss S trnlt Ho'tiiison, two Mr. (1.L. McDonald and Miss Mutlie lirogun, I jojj Mr. Ivo V. Thompson and Miss Dora Bland- j( t ford, Mr. Thomas C. Aslier and l'ladgio mcr B andford, and D. M. Coonihsand Miss Mti . ^us '^rffifrfcg1BbJitn.r nj a tfotnUimme^ all neighbors and intimate frlonds. Tho | Misses Blundford are sisters, hut otherwise there wero no relatives uinoiig the live cou- ... pies. The parish priest, Father \V. J'. Mc- j ^ Carthy, was called ujon to olllciate, und u'm learning that tho young people expected t) t|le marry at dates near together he made the .j yo proj osition that one gran I ceremony lop r ' lormed. The idea was a pleasing una toad }of Ihi young ladies, ami, of course, was accepted with many blessings upon the gooJ priest \ w ho had suggested such a rout iittic plan of , j celebrating tlieir nuptial <. Tito hail us were accordingly read out tit the little | ar.sh church and great was the am iz inoniotMiiost ^jtl, of tho congregation when tho live announce- .pue meats were made together. . oj'f The day ua>u beautiful one, mild and clear, ^||4j and people canto from fur and near to wit* frol uess the ceremony. opol The live brides, all dross-d alike, c una in j^r8 ono carriage and the live grooms in another. ^ q Th re wore ushers hut no bridesmaids. All ?|e, took thoir stations before the alter uud after rool I uud unusually long and impressive coretnony tj10 had boon gone through with Father McCar- (u0 ihy celebrated nuptial high mass attd blessed sjau tho kneeling couples. Tho young couples afterwards were given * grand reception and then went to their rewooing t. without i paf- Col Itol In the hitterv of tho Htate. and th? met Hint all felon - Wg-ooj "rannllM of el>o ooui? ' Condition cl life of vtv remarkable. &l 1,1 an i MR. RIDDLEBERGER DEAD. t.bi ? rubl ' 'lie I.ns( Hours in tlic Kx.SriiH(or'<i lJju Event till I.IIV. Woa Ex Senator li. 11. Hidd.obergor died atU .'l) j,u0 o'clock in tins niorn.u^ at Ins bo no in Wo id- com stock, a. He was > own town for tlio lust time ruin tli'o Monday before Christmas. He was then bivi taken sick, un 1 took to bis beJ, from which lionevtr arose. E irly in bis sickness there mon was evidently a marked f uluro of tlio bruin, at V and when not unconscious entirely bis speech bogs was incoherent. Ho was attended by Dr. I'ot.-i nier Jlelew, his iatiier-iii'luw, and 1).-. Arthur "'C > lielow, his broiher-iu law, both oi Klniburg, i uiii; live nidos south of here. Mr. K udieborger pom was greatly prostrated in the beginning ot nil uury sickness, and torn week preceding Ins deatb tra i whs entirely unconscious. tb ?t Harrison H. Kiddieberger, of Woodstock, j Yn., was b >rn in Elenuurg, Siieiiundouti | u?t0i canity, Va., on October 4, 1311; received a j ?r 1 j coiiiaiun school educ itio i, mid Hud u lioius ; H"" preceptor lor two year.-; served llireo year# atel in tne Confederate States Army as si-con J . mid i.rst lieutenant of infantry an las cap- able 1 tain ot cavalry ; was u lawyer ny profession C tu ' serve I as coiinnoiiwealth's attorney of lui uicr county tor two terms, uiso two terms of two ! years > ach in the House of I > dog a es and oil; O1 i | term of lour your* ill Hie JCato o-.*n it ; sine j ' nud i 1870 ho has been oilitor o; ' > newspapers. Tht will 'y'riil/i //i'i/wii lli('8;r'iiiiiuluali /li'iiiyci'iiliiinl ! port j J'he \'ii<jint in; was a inoino-.-r 01 too .State j C'.ii I coinuiilkoj ot tuo Conservative puriy until [ i"_|s ls7o; wus u ITesidontuI elector on ttio Djon | 1,7j. eratic ticket lit 1870, and the ssitu on the I bust KeudjusU-r ticket tit 188). l i the yeur 1881, ! Tot while serving us commonwealth's ultorney j juid .Stuto senator, ho was eleclc 1 to tbs j aim (Jutted Kates S_>uutj m a Ko.uljustor in p act j ^ 1 ul John W. Johnston, Cons rvulive, und took j csln Ins pout o:i iJecCTubor li, 18s3 JI is term of oi- ' und lice c.tpireJ on Muicb 4, iss'J. j uur ' ? I wen ONE HATFIELD CONFESSES. *? ? Wlul Dlllton MiOiiitN Nnys Hp iVns <'ouij?lled free' to Murder Aleiere )lc< oj . lied Ellison Mounts, or llatfleld, as be is bettor oc.*u Itaowo, one )* JJattleld gang of t outlaws, is J~ni the murder of XlefcMMc?,9y!wMomWeHIIC**-ir ,,0"? New Year's night, 1888. He has professed | Tl r iligion and bus written a 1 tter to one of the 0(1( , newspaiHTS here, confessing his horrible ( lluI1 crime nit I deoloiing that lie was forced to ( 8tc , | commit murder by 'Hal ' ho -ie 1 C? During the attack on th> McCoy home ,lll4J stead, in which the girl was killed, her aged bpo> father and mother were wounded and left for dead For inontbs th y lingered between life and death, hut thoy llnnlly recovered and will witness the infl.ction Of th punishment upon Co * at least one of the men who tcox the lives of hei I l'""tloniits'is< Hit ignorant wretch and did not dw leurn to read and writ? until after h? was put ,n jail Ho relate, a ptUHl ?tory of bis no- va ' glocmd life. OYER THE WM Vemature Explosion of a last Kills Five Laborers, bluet Mnhrr'a JciiIoiim.v Kml* In Idiiblo TrnKcdj-.tnnlbt'r Suirltlv Duo to tlio 4,rl|?. itnl l)lnst explosion has just occurred in ;s county, N. C. For so.no weeks on? roil lalorers have been at work trying ; down n small mountain nnd make a irough it for tho Wilk -sboro extension i Cap j Four and Yadkin Valley It dlThey cau.e upon a big rock and placed ;ega of powder in poutiou to blast it. wgo lleudlcy was adjusting the fuse and isamstimo carelessly putliug away on wolte. lie was almost ready totouob Ore ^o^l|[Mett)'i!id IpilWii tho powder, li in an instint sent up an explosion i jarred the earth for nines arouti 1. > rock was sent dashing up it. a thousand s ai d an ? nliro si le of tho mountain was n up. Several men were sent whirling rJ, riding on pieces of tbi broken rook falling, they were soon buried by the ping mass. Some were knocked to the ml mid killed by rocks and dirt falling llieiu and some escape 1 without any y. It was twenty minutes alter t.io ex>n hef'.<? *? the smoke p is-ed away and the /.ing cries of tho dying were heard, n tl.ot- wbocsatip -d unhurt got to work ng out the dead it was lound that live leeli killed. ports say tliirto n are hurt .muong whom i siip r.iiteudent. til I led Ills Wile mill lllmsoll'. rried away by an apparently senseless usy, N.eho:ns Meyer murdered his wife ben took his own I feat their home in sgo. M-yer was "7 years of age uud a letinuker by trade. >yer is said to have had an almost angovbio temper, and this, aided U a morbidly klUL diMUUMilion. freiiuentlv threw III in MM giWT Ii?M? wife of rclitioiis witu other mon, and y he bec.ims so suspicious tli it he deter-d to waloti her. lie did so. and what be ncd will never be known, but instead of g to work, be weut to u liaril ware store, ha-e?l a revolver, and went home. Meyer r. d the house uu 1 weut into the kilckeu e lli iio was iu worn, wnue uer i u;k turned to him, ho drew tho w?a|ioa ami h r. Tho bullet struck tho wotnuu near left our, going Into her hruin. tilio dropto tho lloor and nevor *|h>'co uiruin A tent inter Meyer put tho muzzle of the Ivor to his left eye and pulled the trigA hole was blownulmost clear through i tad, and h dropped dead near tho form is murdered wito. t'iro Wipes On I a Village. lolittlo town of Utiou, Id., numbering ) people, which wus so usarly *?ipjd out Iro last Muimnur, was again visited by a it 11 LUi st ol II mi TLvo lire started ut o'clock A. M., burning with groat fury several h >urs. 1 no dimes broke out iu gliliu's bai bor shop, and, before tho villi's were fully awakened, had spread with edible rapidity, etivolop.ng ibo entire nets district, lluildings mat had replaced ruins of a few months before burned like wosE shie' oH'n"?tre'jt"was a' siee?of uo<. Tlio (Iro department, unable to copa h such a vast calamity, stood powerless, could do nothing but send to O.tawn and alio for uid, which coul 1 not, arrive in e to save much that I a 1 b on attacked by 11 mice, winch were dually choked olT uc o'clock. Six now busiuesi blocks, erected n the embers of tho disaster of Ju >t sumlie in ruins. nntlicr Suicide Hue (o the <>rl|>. ottlicb Mulzer, u civil engineer, of iN'ow, N. J., committed suicide diiriug a tit of porury iiiittnity, produced by la grippe, z a 's body present id u ghastiy spectacle, inau lirsl made an atlumpt to kill himwitti a razir, but failed. Au hour later, while a physician was present, he sprang n bud, seized a table knife mid hacked a the wound, which had been dressed. A . 8chussier, who was present, attempted isarin tlm crazy inau, and u torriblo strugsiibued. Dr. W. 11. C. Lee was also lu the u, but failed to render any asdstauce to WittiiMii Tint Hi) ir i\* f hit ir) irii in w'tinli tragedy occurred resembled that of a filler-bouse. state"of ? r d Weather Produces ? Improved bpncrnl .Moventi-nt In NtMplm. iscial telegrams to lirurtitroet'* report ' inproved demand for staple goods, noV dry goods, grocerios, toots and shoes, bor goods and clothing at Cuicugo, He. is, Kansas City und Uinubu, due to colder tiler. Saoiv blockades on the Central tile and other railways on the l'ucifio >t for ten days past, with continuous is in that region lor a month previous, u seriously checked general trade there, loroisodyu fuiriy active crop movet in ih S null, coiilinu d decreased shipts uy planters being reported. Lumber /csleru centers is s!ow. l'rtcos of Jive i aro reported higher ut Kansas City on ease 1 ileiuand, but lower ut () naliu und sj jis ou increasing rec ipts. The volot g uieral trade lor J aim try at many its is not expected to (quid tbat of Jan,*, IS*'.!. At .New Vorii, ilio volume of u in l.irm products this mouth exceeds in January, 1 iho uiovoiiieut 01 boots slices aooiit equaling that ot a year Willi tru to in ouiur lines r<i| ortud ie?s, iiusp-Citied. i'lie iiiovoiiieut of goods ru.iy is fuir. Collections aro modery satisfactory. in weekly report to J! mil si reel's of availgr.nn stocks in the U<oiod btules und adu, ivnl of ilie Rocky .liouiiluins shows easisol l.'.blo/.IJ.'i bushels ot Indian corn, lb bushel* of barley un 1 ti. lbj bushels ot decreases ot I,Jib,dbO ousiieis of wheat JSI,bl7 bus io.s oi oits, as compared i U.-couioer three Weeks ago. iSx* ,s o. wiieuI {ma II iur us wheat) uoin the l... I Sir . r..^ .... I l I.. . - ... - u??>v<> U<?1 v/iai.i.uo I<v/a i/j uiiui kv/ja?, week aggregate1,SICJ,.00J bushels, against l,,tMi busneis lust week and l.SJl.lVij iojs in tiio third week of January, 1.VM. I exports J uly 1 last, to dule equal 00,K7 Lush.-ls uguiiist .07,000,000 bushels 1U ;o portion of i v5S 'fyj. cry heavy blocks oi Hour in Now York, ii a tod ut iroin t>Jj 00J lo 1,01/0,000 barrels kicks with indnf.ront iioin > uuti loreigu kots, depressed prices. Wheat options i oil % iI%j on irregular cables, Heavy is mat Kcw and the weather favoring Ler wheat. ill in corn has sulTorcd depression from uioveiueiit au l light deiuand, but ralon unproved export request and lower n freights, closing Jj'a^o .ower. Oils up ou brisk uouie and foreign 4 -" i Hii-rfiruur Wstsb rn markets...NqW S h^jpdu.fa ,n '?.JVU,Wd O|IV.UK>ui?Q i, siig.'r iinirket hnl'W^I uiougn oil a smaller voiume of irauaacs 111 r-fliued, uud prices remain ubout ,iy. Tuo week's advance in the prices of o is aoout >Bo., tucro liav.ng ooen nil /roved movement in private ouaiiue s. In ;uialivo linos trading lell away. 1 An-it Cloo" I^inzton, of Now Hartford, an., the huinblo but patient anil ojjjjjj. of a story that was populur v schools and religious societies years ago, !d la,t week of the prevailing ^ e was l.oru in 1812. ??'. bet-am , an m lid when sho was lft Veins old ai l ro lined bedriddcu all her diys. tor 0i >oar?.