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fei Devoted to Agriculture, Horticulture, Domestic Economy, XXI.?NEW SERIES. T'Nlflft C. 'MjWII ? r I IFE'8 STORY. * BY OBOROB ELIOT. Two tovera by a mom i rown spring; fi They lonne I so tcheeks together there, Mingled tlio <lurk mid sunny heir. And heard the wooing thrushos sing. t) budding time! ]i O love's I) >st prim >t j Two wedded from tlio portal stept; b Tbo bull* inHilo limn-- rantllnoi Tho nir was softivx tauning wngs, While potato on tho pnthway swept. ' <) pure-eye J hrido! t O toudor brldo I I Two faco* o'or a cridlo bont; L Two hands aho e the hea l wore looked ; Thoso pressed oaoh othor while they rooked 1 Theso watched a lifo that love had neut. 6 O soloinn hour! y O hidden i>oworl Two pironte by tbo ovenlug hre: 'J The red light elioun aiovo tliolr knees, H Hut all the head* by slow dogruo.H, I.ike buds ui>on tlio lily spire. C V- * O pi tienflifel O teudet abri's I ..W- , Tb* two still sat together there : The r jd Haht shoue above tliolr knees, D but a I *ho hondi by slow ilegroes ^ Had gone and left tbe lonely pair. C O voyage f*st I 'S- ' O VHnlshod past! Tbe rod light shono abovo tbe (1ix>r, And lii-ia > the spnee between them wide; Tboy drew th>"ir chairs up sido bt sine ; lhe;r poll cheeks joined, and said, "Once ' niorj?'* O memories' Opnat that 1st TOM mmn crime. 13 Y "THE MA JO It." CHAP1ER XXIV. WHAT THE WRITING ntVB*l,"D These words are addressed to Mr. F ltnonf. They are written in the silence of the night, when I nm alone with Him who judges us all. He knowj that I have no choice; that 1 a must fly, like a thiof in the night, from tX tho dear woman who has been so kind to me, from tho noble man whose love Ty would honor a <tucon, and which I I ^ ' must now reject, once and forever. Tho happiness that ho points me to, I cannot take. There is a barrier in -v tho way that may not ho crojsod. I cannot bear the misery of saying a last farewell to these two; nor can I bear that they should think me ungrateful, or even cold. Nor do I dare to pour out my heart upon this insensate paper. I will in a few words tell them why I must leave them forever. I would implore them that they leave . Qe to go . my sort owful wa.v in peace; that thsy will not strive to find mo. ? Eiif. the rQffrot is needles'. Thoy will . j/jot \visls-TrII-!l(lall llolmont will not , Vrslfefo seo mo. to. IlS2r Kl'Ult mqxeof The snarling, morose laborer whom jo i knew na Tom Ilryson, and who haa 1 gone to so fearful an account was the J miserable wreck of my noble father of those old days, Newland Wendell by ' name. I Misfortune overtook him in the city. He fell from h'a high position in bu-i- ' ness and society, ho lost his wealth, ' he W08 Once tried fnr Arimo T ' knew correctly the truo story of that soh-owfnl time, but I have often heard ' my father bitterly say that ho was far 1 more sinned against than sinning, and 1 that Mason ilelmont?your own father, 1 Randall?was responsible for his ruin, j And I liavo heard him say that tho * elder Telmont was tho merciless creditor who stripped him of all his prop- * erty, when a little forbearance would * have brought him his due, and marie a 1 man again of the poor, distressed J debtor. ^ You, Randall, may perhaps know f .w - rr whore the truth is. w all Ahiw ? <? -4 ' not protend to. I only know that our misfortunes killed my dear mother, and that my father and 1 became much as ^ -outcasts. # I have told you that I promised that mother in her dying hour that I would always be faithful to my father, and over love and obey him. That is true. | . And you liavo wondered how that ? Eromisc could constrain me to give my \ ? and to 1 dgar Van Wyck, whom I did '^Hnot love and to reject yourself, whom i ? did lovo (yes, I may as well confess ? it), at the bidding of my father. 0 v^.. ?.ii -i? ,I"-- 1 r avu tuiguu ncu nuuuu r. x uw rud- I son I gavo you was not tbo real one. Not but that I have been true to tho memory of that saint in Iloaven, my own dear mother! Not but that 1 wished to kcop the pledge I had willingly given her in her dying hour! 1 |>? ^ Jiut she never foresaw how brutiiled :^er onco noblo husband would becomo P with tho yonrs. Hho never anticipated 1 that he could become so cruel as to re(piiro mo to wed, and not to wed, ac- P cording to his Hellish will. No! There was ..nothcr reason for 11 what 1 so strangely promised to do? c for what I have, with o |ual strange- f ness, declined to do. To you remember, Itandall, when '' vou met mo in tho old house last Octoher? How you thought you had met k me somowhere before- how I coldly '' r toid you that yo wore inistakon? r' In fact, I recognized you at once. [' When I last saw you in the city you j were lifteen yenrs old, and 1 had not forgotten you. ' lint 1 dared not tell you so. It was . not only that I knew that my fath r .! wanted to conceal our identity; thero ! was another reason I ^ And now, as the shadow of that w droadful explanation obscures tho char^ i niMiiB x iiiii trying id ? i appeal 10 vou, ltandall, to do mo ,.istice. 1 havo dorte no wrong. Sometimes it lias . seemed to me os if woman never suf- ? fered as I have; but my hardens have * been laid upon me by others; I am innocent! On that day, last October, you came 0 to the old house with tho o!ticers of tho n law, to ton h for clews to help you find your father, who hal i.._ ,.er'ou*'v M disappeared. 1 I Your foot trod ou the very brink of discovery, and you never suspected it. j The robber and tho murderer conducted vou about the honse, and you l did not knoy it. Yon walked through the sitting* room; the money for which your father * ras slain was thore, secvetod in the loset. "You went down intb the collar. Your set stood above his buried remains! Jut you know it not. On the night of that dreadful storm, ast August, Mason IJclmont camo to hat house for shelter. I admitted dm, and knew him. I was ordered to go to my room. Ihero was that in my father's domeanor hut 1 saw, thut tho visitor did not seo. t troubled me. Never had I seen him ook so wollish. I i amo back to tho stairs, and listend. I heard him fiercely reproaching our father for his misfortunes. I wont to boil, but could not sleep. ?ho atmosphere of tho whole house comod charged with violence and rime. I rose in the night, and partially IreBBed myself. O, God forgive my wretched, rois;uided father! I learned of his awful rime. Spare mo tho painful recital of all hat ? saw and heard in those hideous tours! At the peril of my own life (for 1 mew that the murderer would have riw.tr mr, ,1A(w1 l.o.l lw. I ~ 1 \ T - * \?v auv uvuit IIUU uu UUtlU-lUH Illt'f, J. aw him burying the corpso of liis vicim; I saw him socrotiug the money. And lie novor, to tlio moment of his loath, suspected that I knew aught >f it. Discovery was threatened, when he earned that Edgar Van Wyck had ;>iidod Mason 1'clmont to the house. kV bother Edgar at any timo suspected ho crime, I do not know; but his sience as to the presonco of your father n that house on that night wire bought jy the promise of my hand. . What was I to do? To live with the Ireadful knowledge that I had wad lard enough; was I also to soo my ather go to the hangman? That might have been the penalty of i refusal of Edgar. Shall 1 speak of the daily and nighty horror of dwelling bonoath that oof since that August night? You nay conjcctnro it; I < annot toll it. Savo for the tragic fate of the uuiappy being who perished in the dc in Kvuuii 01 mo nuusu, jl cannot regret lint it has been swept out of existence. L'o mo it wo ilit ever bo n place of lorrors. Now you know all. You know tho ifo I liavo lately liveit, tho crushing nmleus I have borne. You know why L have avoided you, why I fly from you low. Need I say more? Would you wish for moro? Well, lot me go on. Y'ou nro large if soul; yo.i aro gonorous far beyond die power of most men. Will you -still ^irge me ? Do you re nqijid me that, with those dc^,ha that ?hoqld oBFer no *~lt5ff3ali Belmont, stop and think! You eomo of a proud and wealthy Eincestry. In tho city where you live, you aro, or will be, known of all men. You bolong to its business, to its society; high honors must be waiting for you in coming years. Your wife must be one that you aro lot nshamod of; whoever she be, her iistory will be examined, questions will bo asked and answered nbout her. Aiul if I could occupy that place, diink how the question, " \Vlio was die?" must l?o nnswerod by the horrible but truthful word?, "She is the laughter of the man who murdered lis father for monoy, end buried him n the cellar!'' Recauso the story must become mown. Once I thought that I would ceep it forever hidden in my breast. Jut you see why I am comp'elfeft io tell rou; and now, others must know it. fou must recover the remains and jive them Christian burial at your tome: the .whole shocking story will It) R LIU FT IT 1 ' Or, if not, how would it bo with rourself? Would you I ke to bo face o face, for life, with the woman whose ather murdered yours? Could you nduro that? No! There is no escape from the onviction that, whoever else may be oined together, we two must bo forrer sundered. % Farewell, then, forevor! You have ried to make mo happy, but it cannot 10. May God rowurd 3'ou as you deerve. I lovo vou too well to mnkn on wietchod. Jessica. III API Ell XXV. TRACE The stars were brilliant in the nightky of J lino as slio pursued her way. he took the ro wl away from Aylesrorth, with tlie intention of making or flight as secret as possible. She had formed no plans; she had o money. To put as much distance etween Randall Belmont and horsolf s possible was hor eager desire. Remise she had told him thnt she would ivo him the final answer on tlio morow; that answer would bo sure to oparato them, mid she wished never 0 see his face after ho had road it. In loneliness and weariness sho lodded on till daybreak. Her progess was slow and painful; she was not eal)y able to walk at all in this curly onvrtlescence, but her determination ore her up, and gavo her some fiotiious strength. With frequent rests by the way she ad at daylight accomplished about ve milos. Mho began to see then that 1 would bo impossible for her to cononl the way of her escapo. Carts and ragons on tligir way to Ayleswortii larket frequently passed her. Home f the drivers she knew, at least by Iglit, and she -saw that there wero soks of astonishment at seeing her foot and alone upon i|ie rood at such n hoar. -?"Jfc* When exhausted nature within her ried out for relof, alio stopped before mean-looking house bj the side or ho road. A loiiferisli-looking man leaning over the gat*, u I) to. "Can I stop liore a little while, and et something to eat?" she asked, in a esitating way. He stared at her without removing is pipe. "Dunno," he growled. "Who be on anyway ?" Tlease do not ask mo, sir. 1 only want, to refresh mvsolf a little, and then go on." "Oh, yon do?and you don't!" sneered tho man. "Got any money ?" ftlio had to admit that she had none. "Well, then, you go right on. Suspicious elrarueteis without money ain't ? my kind." Tho follow lnughcd at his own bru- r tahty, and tho distressed girl moved * away. ' She hardly had tho courago to ask f< again; but at tho next house a pleas- ant faced young woman, with three or / four children at her licels, came run- c ning out to her as she passed, with an 8 exclamation of Burpriso and pleasure, h "Why, if it ain't Miss Brysou! Where & on e.irth aro you going to at such a e, time of day? And on foot, tool Como in, and tell me all about it." Tho good creature had formerly been hor nearest neigTibpr at the old house, j* and she remembered 1>M1* / kindness that Jess'ca had shown her. " The wandoror wont hi and rented * herself, and ato and drank, whilo tho r woman never ceased to ask her quos- I tions. Tho girl evaded most of them, / li and such answers as she gave wore j * very unsat sfactory to tho quostioncr. ; I "There's something tho matter with \ ?: yon, miss; I'm certain of it. You just tako ofl'your things, and stay with me 1 P awhile. * Somebody's been trying to ^ impose upon you; I seo that by your looks. Tell me who to send for, and , my .loo shall go and carry any messago yon want to send." .'essica rose in alarm. 1 urnt a 1.1. n i. . _.i i ?T ? h Aiiero is no irouuic, sue biuu. a i " ilmr.k you for your kindnesR, and will ; ' bid you good-morning." I 1 . Against the good woman's urgent f protests she went on her way. t Walking on until sho was too cx- | ' haustod to move, alio obtained a ride ( with a farmer in a springless wagon, wlrch hardly relieved her fatigue, but whi ;li brought her three miles further on her way. The sun was now high, the day was warm. Until near noou sho went on, weak, dizzy, feverish. She saw a | spring by the roadside, and went to it i to rolievo her thirst. She sat down | upon a stone, intending to rest for n 1 few moments. When sho tried to riso, sho fell helpless in tho grass. Sho could do no more; her strength was utterly gone. Sho closed her eyes, and wished that she might die hero. Tho clatter of hoofs in the road caused hor to open them. The vision of a great black horse appeared to hor; she heard an exclamation, a sound of hurrying foet; an arm was passed about hor, and she was held up against llaudall Belmont's knee. "How cruel this is of you, Jessica!" i ho said. "It is cruel to me; it is doubly cruel to yourself." "How did you find mo?" she asked, I heard of you all along the way, when I ~ * flo4-oa..tlm right track. Now I J shall take you ovor to that large house 1 i there, and havo you made comfortable till I can get a carriage and take you back to Airs. Vi?n Wyck's." i "No!"' she said, sitting upright. Ton did not read what 1 wrote to you last night." "Indeed I did; every word of it." ! "And can you, after that, continuo toseeknio?' 1 "Why should I not? Dreadful as 1 the story is to me, shocked as I am to hear the truth, why should you sutler 1 more because of it? You uro inno- j cent, as you wrote; you aro all to me, I and more, that you over were." Her resolution wavered at last. Yet i she still resisted. I i "You do not think of yourself; you aro too generous, too noble. You ( would overshadow your whole life , j with mo." "This is the last timo of asking, Jes- ' ( ?iaa," bu mud, with deep solemnity, "I know myself; no change was possililn iin - ' ' * i - ?ii *- -- r you havo told mo has chauged you the slightest in my eyes. Now, I will take my final answor from your own lips. I Is it joy? - or must it be woe?" A sense of rest came over her us she i heard him. His arm held her up; she i loo!>ed into his kind, serious eyes, and saw there that which rejoiced her more \ than the sight of the green oasis rojoiccs the travelor in the desert sands. < She saw a new life before her, with all ! that happiness that he had often r?ict ! uredtoher; and sho could no longer rofuse to call it hers. And so she replied: "It is joy, dour liandall; joy and peace!" (THE EN.) J Smoke mm Ashes. Pipe lines?Ode to tobacoo.?Pittaburgh Chronicle Telegraph. I lly legal decision now cigars aro a drug. Well, somo of thorn arc much | worse than any medicino to take.? j Iloston Post. Jay Gould savs ho nevor smoked but : one < igftr. We don't blamo liira if it ' was a two-for-five. ? hurling ton Free , 1'reaa. It is assorted (hat smoking produces [ selfishness. Wo always wondered why ] a cliininov was so "sUink-nn."?Dm I / *? Magazine. j One of the hardost things which youth has to boar is a whipping on account of the smell of some other fellow's cigar in his clothes.?Burlington Fre 1 Press. "Have a cigar, Fred? There's some. thing I can recommend." "Just so; , but, if it's all the seme to you, I prefer something you can smoke."?Boston Trau siripL I ' No trait of oharaoter is more vainable in a female than the nossessinn of | a sweet temper. Home can nevor be { mado happy w.tliout it It in liko the | flowers that spring up in our pathway, i reviving and cheering u?. l et a man i go home at night, wearied and worn j by tbe toils of the day, and how soothing is a word dictated by a good dis- , position! It in sunshine falling on his ( heart. He is happy, and tlio cares of i ' jvp f n * for, 1 Homk people m-m lUa in > . I I Other people go down the hili ta?i enough without gotting on a slide.? I SomerviUrJournaU t Nothimo is over done beautifully v which is done in rivalshjp, noy nobly * which is done in pride. j .THE NEWS. J During a quarrel on a farm near Springleld, Mo., Franklin Davis shot and killod J5uo) Rua?elL Northern Iowa la threatned with a cool famine. Henry Bush, n Iromun on the liprthern Pacific Railroad, rj. eceived $40,000 damages for Injuries susnined. Miss Laura Linton, a maiden idy of Camden township, Ohio, was snot or a burglar while walking in her sleep. N ?The Motbotist Episcopal Church of Lmerion has dcslde I to build a sectarian c, ollege in Kansra City, Mo. Albert Paul p, mith, manager of the Chicago Clearing- u< ouse, fell dead in a street car. Gottloib lutzjr, a civil engineer in Newark, N. J.? cc DinmiCfkl uuicl'.o during a fit of iusanity Jj roduce<&r the iniluenzi.^?Potts, the no- m >rious D^Moines "searoherrwa8 sontoncod 8 > three years in the ptpitpnUary. Uzrry 111 LCrarh""*-1 'ith highway robbery It-Hf posaibfs murder, In scaped from the Blooniiagton, III., jail. he Uniteil States seagoingtorpedo hoatNo. 'L! was launched nt Bristol, R I. In Co- ([ imbus, Kn., a boil* exploded, mortally |>l rounding Albert Eai f, the proprietor, n:td 11 laybury, the onginler.?? Five desparatj * harucicrs, charged w fa the murder of Con- |>< table Long and wife u Gayandotte, W. Va., u: re re captured 'n Ken ucky. The National h Voman's Christian Temperance Union, a ^ on-partisan organiz: tion, was organized in gi Cleveland, Ohio. ' ITUkes, the natl-Litbu- u, nian leader an 1 his ^.-followers, who crcatoJ sj , riot in the Polish cemetery at Willcesbarret p invo been arrested.-*?The bulletin of the " Vnierican Iron and Steel Association shows i gratifying increase in the production of w >ig iron, especially in the Southern States. tl larry Feltser, of Heading, Pa., was struck n'.the head with a hatchet in Steubonville, f, Dhio, and killed.??While flrin ; at a target d ?oar B jJjcrf'jjtfC ^^"J^aMjrdner killed a I1 Dan arnier, living near jjflijshorg, N. C., was V ound murdered on the bkhway. In Chi- B Mgo Nicholas Mayer shothis wife and than ? :ommltted suicide. Henry M. Jucksou, c .he [laying teller of the New York Sub-trans- t lry, who ran away with 110,033, was s?n- * lenceJ to six years' imprisonment and to ?ay a tine of f 10,010. Mrs. Maggie Clarke, c ho wife of Valentino Eugene Clarke, a notod 1 info blower bus appealed to tbi Chicago j jourts for a divorce. Th> libel suit < ivor the grave of Mary Washington ended < with a verdict for the defendant. Adam J [ 'orepaugh, the gnat showman, died in Pailide'phia. A boiler explosion at Murdoch- i vi le, Pa., oamod the death of Mrs. Burns. 1 Turee ottyers were terriblj' scald xl. In Norwnllc. Ct.. Mr and Mr. ? ?npa? Pnm. I . stock, and near Chicago Mr. and Mrs. Fred- 1 ,-rick Payn^ were killed while crossiug tracks it inosj romtt I < Geo. Louusbery.tcasliier of the New York . Postofileo kMfc'i biaW-lf. Ilis accounts were nie Dean lU)?c tS^a actress committed suicide in New*Yortt. Minors in the anthracite region have determined to demand twenty per cent, incroaso in wages. J a a. G. Hetz.'l, of New York, was arretted in Philadelphia on a charge of bigamy. Louis L. Bromwell, president of the California .Iusuranoe Company, was shot and badly wounded by George C. Pratt, manager of the company, in Ban Francisco. Oyster packers at Laurel and Seaford, Del., and Cribfleld, Md., find it difllcult to get oysters owing to the cold weather. John Brockert and E 1 ward Brown, Biltimorenns, with j long criminal records,pleaded guilty ut Pittsburg to eight charges of burglary and one of felonious assault. Their crimes are enough to send them to the penitentiary forseveutyflvo year*. Two Chinamen and a woman named Mamie Sweeny wore found dead in a laundry in Binghamton. Death was caused by inhalation of obloriao gas. The Syracuse Iron Works property was sold for $56,000.??An rrapro 'Vy^P^UWCOaTiralQ IB (ho ?old WW. ? , Oto. W. Shepherd,tb^V^endant in the Mary Washington grave case, lias presented the ground in question to the Mary Washington Monument Association. The Ohio legislature has adopted in both branches a joint resolution favoring Chicago for the World's Fair. Col. J. Cirrington, proprietor of the Exchange Hotel nni Ballard Houss in Richmond, Vs., is dead. Ex President Cleveland wrote a letter to the Merchant Tailors' Convention r.-latiug to the tarilX. WORK AND WORKERS. in liana farmers nro organiznl, nn l do?i with one store, ulluwiug itio o.mer 10 pel j lent. protit. ] Buffalo newsboysstruck because the penny i evening pipers raised Ibeir price from 50 k; t Jj cems per lOt). A bill to increase tbe day's hours of laboi 1 lud oi:e to r>.ducj them have hoea intra- ' luced in the Massachusetts' legislature, " The Wor king Q n\? Club of Jersey City j bos classes in the stu ly of dressmiakmg, millinery, cooking, music, dauciug aud inibroidery. In Chicago an orJinar.o has been proposed i for the Itemising of engineers. it provides i Ihut tney shah ho t x tunned in the trade, t in 1 must have hnbits of sobriety. , New York Central engineers got 33^ conti 1 pjr hour, conductors 'Jo cents and brunt-men c 16 ceuts. Toe switchman deni uid 18 cent: 1 per hour lor work over twelve hours pci c lay. Ban Francisco molders get $3.5J for a tenhour day. The union scale for nine hours it (3 25. One Arm tried to have them work uiuo hours for $3 15, but lost to strike, and the ten-hour day was adopted. A concern iu New Orleans which mmu- p fao.ures large quantities of ice has offered to -,J furnish artificial ice to Naw York, provided the winter continue to m id as to make the 'f, natural ice crop a failure. j! la England printer* average $10 a week in K ivages; in (Jerineuy taey average fl 01 a l( week. 11 Englaa i the .city laborer, not a a ikiiled workmin,,-cadges $4,50 a week: in * Prance, $L35; in ?. C ine cuor*1 laoorws^round Athens, Oa., t< lave struck. Tue wblM^xmplo have secured no labor for tbeensuingLear on (heir farms, f> ind the situ itiou is bigtailng to look equally b' for them, as lh> negro* say they have no V uteutioit of going to wtfk for the whites. cl Toe Central Tradea 0uancil of Western [Vnnsy.vania will syrf special circular to ill local uotens f American Flint Ulaet [| workers not yet vpresaated in that body. , In the Ohio vnl!.?y>^,. fhot glass workers aro ? itnoog the stronges%nd best locals attached y, <o the Ohio Valley 'Aades Assembly. g William OiweltWrlogstone,third and last nrsivlngsooof thtoiiaousAtrlcan traveller, Rl lied recently at Bt. Xlbans, Kuglan 1, shortly ifler he had dlotaled^a congratulatory let- * er t) 8 -anley. Mr. L.>iag?tooe was bora io . Joa h Air.os, la * a! MOTION IN DM1 lorrible SufFering in Nineteen Counties of South Dakota. tiommnrin of People lii Nred or tlio Unreal .IrcrNinrlvN ol' Mfc on Account ol I'oor l'ro|M. A gentleman wbo has just i\ turuoil ft o:u tbe ortbwost, brings with hitn a tule of horrie suffering and destitution in nineteen unties of South Dakota, gathered from >ople who but recently bavo been eyo witjssos of what they so graphically describe. The stricken area includes the following >unti?s: McPtaerson, Campbell, Wnllworth, dmunds, Potter, a part of Ilrown, Spink, yde, Hand, Beadle, Ciurk, Kingbnry, iner, Dividson, Gerald, Fork, Hughes and u!ly. S. E. 1'uxto i, a well-to-do badness inn of Chicago, wi o has spout some days in >o r ill cted district-, says; as reduced those formerVy" an lllloa of direst distress. Many Ibousands families are entirely without inrntis of nny ind. They lack the wherewithal to purchase it necessiries of life, whilst tho ominous lacard confronts them in every storo where ley onco had credit:?No trust givou, goods >1(1 for c isb only." Mr. l'axton d ocrilo l the con lition of tho sopie in tho Kingsbury and Miner count os i In n't rending. In the latter county they ?vo no fl >ur; tho st iple of life being a badly round corn mea'.an l thero is a deplorable lfullloiencv of that. Everv farm is mart aged, In niHiiy cusog for more thai a sale | ador present prices would realize. Most of | le stock has beeu levied on nil 1 sold by tbo leriff it public auction, tho ridiculously low ric a obtained being eloquent, not only of jo starving condition of tuo cattle, but the surcity of means in tbo community?cows telling as low as ?? each, horses to $10, rhile s ieep and pigs nre simply unsalable, lero being nothing to feed tb on w.th. One mau had a few miserable chickens left, f what, two years ago, was a well-stocked inn. The wonun and children boar evieuces of tho hardships they have undergone 1 their pinched and meagre faces. In nnny istatices they are unprgvided with clothing nvtt wmcti Co withstand the rigors o: wtu;r, what they now have being In a rngge<\ nu worn-out condition. "At one place," aid Mr. Paxton, "1 taw two children w.ilkng with their te.-t wrapped up in pieces of ild blanket through the enow. Tney tolJ ine bey had no shoos for many months. I lifted he youngest up?a girl of 7 or 8 years?she ia< little bitter than n skeleton. ' Therailioidsare nniurally doing a'l they ian to keep people in the country. They ltvj 1 hopes that a good season will set many on ,heir leet again. They have done much to illeviati tliesulTuriiigsof the people from the jxtremo co d, by the gratuitous distribution if coal whore it has been most needed. In nuuy iustauces the banks also have foreborno to forclose mortgages out o: sha.T pity." Provisions of nuy kiud. Just now, would bo a godsend to ibousan is who arainusemiitarving condition. Unless relief is given with a liberal hand this Winter in South Dakota, you will hoar ot' many deaths from absolute starvation, and the reports will undoubtedly have foundation in tact." Mrs. A. C. C evelati I, of K-uiond, 8. D., confirms Mr. l'ax ton's story ot the widespread dest tution prevailing. 'Inis lady is now in Minneapolis, where sUe is making heroic efforts in behalf of the sullerers. She says flour josjrv badly needed, and will try a-id induct FLOODS FOLLOW THE SNOW. Jtlvcrs Overflow Tbcir Bnulis- Seclions ol California iiudated. Tbo warm ratus that bave tulieu iu .Northern California for tho past two days bave melted a large amount of snow in tho Sierra Nevada aud Siskiyou Mountaius, and cuusod buu on cuius uuu rivdra to ovclllJW tiioir bunks. Tbo ruin on 111 j mountains has now ceased. The du-.uago will not be ai great as Le.ireJ. The quick risj iu tbo waters hu< washed out many ot tbo railroad bridges, tilled tbo cuts and causal landslide.-, and tbo railroad trafllc on ail the imes iu the uortb.Tii portion ot tbo state will bo luipodod lor stv.rul days. A number ot Hooded points report taut while too individual loss will bo grout, toe overflowing ot tbo lauds, by wbich several inches ot r.oh seduusuis is le.t ou the tarms, win add greatly to its valuation At tue city ot Stu Jtsi the wuler is higner thuu iver beloro kuowu. At buuia Uirii tbo jrinoiple thoroughfares are covered with water tor ball a mile. The district uortb and south ot i5ftn jdk ts auoitii. aimoaju ??? 1 1'jubs ot ra lroad operate between eluu FrauliscoTlllU n in ifuac, nstnHiMiu*?w>M?Mwr iwing to tue washouts at Santa Cruse. The water reached tin biguest point ever known iud ovei flowed tout portion ot the city below EC in street. At Emigrant Gap, in tbo Sierra Neva la .Moan a us, wut-re tue two through rains are imprisoned, tue rain begun tailing ibout lioou but (.-hinged to snow during tue ngut. Tue Western Union lineman report i>hut the deepest s.iow is iu tue vicinity ot ruinurck. For more thau u mile not a teie rupli pole is iu view, and it was necessary to iig a trench turougu tue snow more tiiuu .weiiiy feet deep in order to tree the wirei. t'roviBions are very scarce ut emigrant Uup, | ini i( the road is l.OZ opened, it will he (MOW* | iury to bring up supplies on biiow-shoeti. At Ghico, hi iae ewuraiiienlo Valley, the | Sacramento river is over its batiks, una it is | lauding tao entire country lying near it. It s estiuiaied taatit is lit teou leot bi g tier than t was during the last llood. At Kidding a ail t d Blulf, near the headwaters ot the Sacumeuto river, the water lias beguulosuhnde. (Several sections of Alexandria Valley sndge, thi largest bridge in the county, mve beonswi-p; uw y. Tue river spreaa over in area of live nuns hi width. At a poiuton j Jry Creek it jiius the Kisaiun river, 'lhree lines south Oi llealdsuurg it became a loreut, 11 h> ling the Dry Creek valley lor many lilies. K lie! parties wore out lu boats, res* ruing people irom their bonus. Two bouses icar tue river hank, were swept away, one ireuknig to puces i,s it struck llie raiiroul iridge, wliile ihi oilier, a two-story .burning, is to lge J against the bridge. At iCmgiil's | Vrry, on Stanislaus river, forty miles south 1 if Stockton, the people began moving oil of I heir houses, 111 the lower portion o? the town, I ?wii.g to the llood. MARKETS. Baltimore? Flour?City Mills,extra.$4.25 $4.50. Wheat?Southern Pultz, 78afc0: Orn?Southern White, 34ul0 cts, Yellow Oats?Southern antfi Pennsylvania ma lets.; Hye?Maryland ?kt "Pennsylvania io58cls.; Hay?Maryland and Pennsylvania ( allat i.( iHI'SIpiiui.wlmn? 1 ? * ww,i,wvafrj.,A/jnutM)r. astern Creamery, 2da28c.. near-by receipt* ta20ets; Choose-Eastern Fancy Cream, 10>/ 11 eta.,?Western, lOalU>^ cts; Eggs?14 16; Tobacco Leaf?Inferior, lo^&OO.Good JtSSWBW^W??gLS2SL Nk.w York?Flour?Southern GoBBol wj ' ilr extra, $2.50a$2.85: Wheat?No I White ; Rye-State. 57aOJ; Corn-Southern enow,M8<i3S,%. .Oats? W bite,State 30%a:t0% Ls. Butter?.-Mate. 15a22 eta. Cheeee--State, XnlOX cts.; Eggs?17|^al7>^ eta. PHil.Anici.rHlA ? Flour ? Pennsylvania incy, 4.26aH.75: Wheat?Pennsylvania and outbom lied, 81>?a82; Rye?Pennsylvania taflOc: Corn-Southern Yellow, 37%a.'17%cts. >ata?28 Va28V eta.; Butter? State, 26*96 eta.; heese?N. Y. Factory, eta. * Eggs? tate, 15X&10 cts. CATTLK. BAbTiMon*?Beef, 4 5Ja4 75; Sheep?13 50 ft CO, Hogs?$4 75s5 00. New York?Beef?>5 73a7 00;8heep-|4 50 4 00; Hogs?*3.90n4 20. Eart Libkhtv?Beef?14 25a4 50; Sheep? 5 70a5 00; Hogs?$4 05u4 10, ADAM FOKEPAUGH DEAD. The <>rcitt SIidhiiihii fiiircnnilm to I'mtuuoiiln. Adam Forcpaugb, tb? veteran circus manager bus just died nt li s residence in Philadelphia. lie b is been ailing for some time, and whs attacked a week or two ngo with tlio prevailing influenza, which three or four days ago developed into | luumoiiin. Ho leaves a wife and one son, Adam, Jr., who has been assisting him for several years, and who will succeed to his iin 111.-use circus property. Adam Forepaugli was born in Philadelphia oil February 33, iSlt, and tiegau lite ua a butcher boy at a salary of $t p-;r mouth and bis boird. At tbo nge of sixuon ho ran away from bom- anil went to work for John Butcher, a butcher In Cincinnati, where ho remained for u year and ??-half, receiving f'>0 for the tirst month, and $100 a month the dealer, ond, rotating toFbiSadelph a. he wns in tt e lurcher business up to 1841, when ho embark <1 in runn ug stage lines, and continued therein up to 1874. While in tbo omnibus business, Mr. Fore- | pnugli dea't in horses and cattle, and bought mid sold in one year as nsnny as ln.ixMj horses. Jn 1801 be told to Jotin O'Brien, who was running a email wa.on show, sixty-two horses tor $'.>,000j and took a) part payment an interest in the show. At that tuue ho had no idea of embarking in the business, but visiting O'Brien's show in 1'ittsburg, ho j purchased the same, at the same time ouy- i ing Jerry Mablo's menagerie and combined | II o two, forming the nucleus of the grout Forepaugb show. This cost linn -fid UOhJsnd was del v.-red t > him on tb) day ot tin ussassii at.cn of Alrnbim Lincoln. Mr. Porepmgb was an eminently practical man, giving his personal attention to his vast business. Tlio minutest thing did not escapo his attention. Oi tb) two huudrtd horses used lu the procession and in tbo ring, 00 Knew thorn all, and coud tell nt n glnneo when atul where they were purchased and the amount pt i I for tho same. Wealth did not allay bis ardor nor abate hia industry, for ho worked early aud lato as hard as any frHin trt ttrw :,mrfqrTJ> rrxxrttvg ino WITlWJr ] luoimn iT) win# trrrxnw^mrtmaaea in rvmwiiR hia establishment, and seemingly kuew overy part of tho paraphernalia and its proi>er place. It, was his lioi s; that ho owiiod nud exhibited more wil J auimals r.nd possessed more show property thai any other single person or firm in tho world, ami it is a rt? markublo fact that ho novor sulIVrod a financial reverse, but during the ptst twenty fivo years has steadily lucre as ??l ids fortune. Is is supposed tliut ho was worth over fl,OJO,0OO his real estate posses.dous footing up over H-half a million. FIVE HAPPY COUPLES. Tlicy Met at One Alter to Kxcltnnge Tlicir Marriage Vow*. A remarkable quintuple wedding tcok place a St. Alphonto's Catholic Church, in Davies county, Kentucky, at nine o'clock th ? other morning. Tho contracting couples wore Mr. W. B. Hall and Miss Sirah Robinson, Mr. (J. L McDonald and Miss Mutlio lirogan, | Mr. Ivo V. Thompson and Miss Dora Blandford, Mr. Thomas C. Asher mid Fladgie 1 B andford, and D. M. Coombs und Miss Iv.t i I Clark. Dai vied'bounty I" iiyiT'eoIncffftn'bS wim all neighbors and intimate frimds. Tho Misses Blandford are sisters, hut otherwise there were no relatives atnoiq tho five couple* The parish priest, Father W. 1'. McCarthy, was called upm to olficiute, and learning that tho young people expected ti nmrry at dates near together ho made tho proj osition that one gruii I ceremony lop r | lornied. Tho idea was a pleasing one toad Ih j young lailies, aud, of course, was accepted with many blessings upon tho good priest w ho had suggested such a rotn iniic plan of celebruting their nuptials. Too banns were accordingly read out 111 tho little | ar.sh church and great was the nm-iz 'inoiilonuost of tho congregation whoa tho live announcements were made together. The day wa.u beautiful one, mild and clear, and people came from far and near to wituess tho ceremony. Tho fivo brides, all dross-d alike, enne in ono carriage and tho fivo grooms in another. There were ushers but 110 bridesmaids. All took their stations before t'uo alter and after and unusually long and impressive ceremony had been gono through with Father McCarthy celebrated nuptial liigb mass aud blessed I t!u> kneeling couples. x tie youog couples afterwards were given grand recaption and then went to their reia wtVKout & pargondition of tite of very remarkable. MR. RIDDLEBERGER DEAD. lli? I.iihI Hours in flic Ex-1Scnntor's Eventlnl Lift. Es Senator U. 11. Riiid.eU'rgor died at 11 35 o'clock in the mom nig at his Uo.no in \Vo>dslock,Va. He wasi.o.vu town for the lust timt the Monday bofore Christmae. He was then taken sick, an 1 took to Ins bo J, from which ho never arose. Etrly in his sickness there was evidently a marked f ulurc of the brain, nnd when not unconscious entirely his speech was incoherent. Ho was attended by Dr. I'otei lielew, his lather-in-luw, uud !>.*. Arthur IPelow, his brother-in-law, ootli o; E liuburg, live indos south of here. Mr. K ddieberger was greatly prostrated in the beginning ot mi sickness, and for a week preceding his death was entirely unconscious. Harrison 11. lti.tdieberger, of Woodstock, Va., was horn in Elenburg, Sneiiutid oah canity, Va., on October 4, 1311; received n common school educitio.i, and Had u hoiui preceptor for two year?; served three years ill tlio Confederate States Army us seCOIl 1 and i.rst Jieutonant of infantry anl as captain of cavalry ; was a lawyer t?y profession servo I us common wealth's attorney of his coui.ty tor two terms, a no two terms of two years each in tbo ilouso of 1>dogates and on; term of lour years in the S.ato Sen it since 1870 he lius been editor ot newspapers. The Tenth Legion the Shenandoah Demoerut and The Tirginiiin; was a meinuer ot tuo State coimmUuj ot tno Conservative party until l37e; was a I'rosidentol elector on the Demo oratic ticket in 1876, and the siine on the Kcadjiisu-r ticket lu 188). In the year 1&81, while serving as commonwealth's attorney sjid State senator, he was elected to tbs IJ intod Sates Somite as a Ke.idjuster in p ace of John W. Johnston, Cons TVative, and took lus seat oa Dcueiubor 3, 1853. His term of otlice ospired on March 4, 18811. ONE HATFIELD CONFESSES. Klllaon mdimtn Snyii Ho Wh* Coinpllpd to Murder Alelerr MrCoy. Ellison Mounts, or Hatfield, as ho is bettor koown, one of tho famous Hatfield gang of outlaws, la tucky. llo is to bo hmige^^FeDruar^i^^^^ the murder of Alefere McCoy, whom bo killed New Year's night, 1863. llo has professed religion and bus written a letter to one of the newspapers here, confessing his horrible crime an 1 decerning that ho was forced to commit murder by "Hal Aiiso" liatiield. During the attack on ih) McCoy homestead, in which tho girl was killed, her aged father and mother were wounded and left for dead, Tor months th y lingered t*etween life and death, but they dually recovered and will witness the inflection of tho punishment upon at least one of the men who took the lives of their chil Iren. Mounts is an ignorant wretch and did not learn to read and write until after ho was put in jail, lie relate* a pitiftl story of bis neglected Ufe, OVER TRE WIRES. A. Premature Explosion of a Blast Kills Five Laborers. A Cabinet MnkcrN Jealousy IIiiiIh in It double 'l'ritKfilj' Another SulCltle Ihn> to tin* A fatal blast explosion has just occurred in Wilkes county, N. C. For some week3 one Lumlroil lalorers have been ut work trying to dig down a small mountain mid make a cut through it for the Wilk 'sboro extension of I ho Cap > Fear and Yadkin Valley Itiilroa I. Tboy cinio upon a big rock and placed two kegs of powder in poiitio.1 to blast it. George Ileudley was udjusting the fuse and at the Kara time carelessly pulling away on acigaielte. lie wusalinosl ready totoucli Are fran^Um^dRireit i nod Ignited the powder, which in an instuit sent up an explosion w hich jarred the earth for miles arouii 1. The lock was sent dashing up it. a thousand pieces ai d an ? ntire si le of the mountain was Is own up. Several men wen sent whirling sky w rJ, riding on pieces of:hi broken rock and, f illing, tli.-y were soon buried by the dropping mass. Some were knocked to the ground and killed by rocks anJ dirt falling ujon them and some escape 1 without any injury. 1'- was twenty minutes after t.iot xp os.on before the smoke p is-eduwny and the ugon zing cries of the dying wi re heard. When tl.on who csmip.-d unhurt got to work digging out the dead it wus tound that live I.lid been killed. lleportsssy tbirte. n are liurt.aiuong whom is the sup iMitendent. It tiled Ilia IVIIv mill Himself. Carried away by mi upparently senseless jealousy, N.eboias Meyer murdered li.s wire mid i ben took his own 1 fo at their home in Chicago. M^yer was ti7 years of age and a cabinetmaker by trade. Meyer is said to linvo hud an nlmo>t ungorcrnaliio temper, and this, a ided ts u morbidly ?. ? wunwuw- -?-? big wife of relations witn other mou, und lately lie bec.itns m> suspicious tl? it he determined to watch her. lie did so, and what ha learned will never bo known, but instead of going to work, he weut to a hardware store, purchased n revolver, and went hoiue. Meyer entered the house uu I wont into th ? kitcken wlieie I Is wife was at work, while her I a;k was turned to him, ho drew tho weapon and shot h r. Tho bullet struok tho woman noar iho left oar, going into ,K-r hruiu. 8ho dropped to the lloor and never spoke again A moinent later Meyer put tho muzz o of the revolver to his l it eyo and pulled the trig, g r. A hoi" was blown almost clear through h s h md, aud h dropped dead uear tho form of his murdered wile. l il'i! Wipes Out u Village. | The little town of Utioa, Id., numbering 1 2,0 0 people, which was so usarly wip-dout by lire la^t summer, was again visited by a | territ 1 > burst ol linn TLv lire started ut two o'clo.k A. M., burning with groat fury (or sevoral h-urs. due llanes broke out iu Uougblm's bai bor shop, und, before the villagers were fully awakened, had spread with incredible rapidity, otivoU p.ng the entire j business district. liuihlings mat hal roplacod I the ruins of a few months before burned like -^_.i in. hur ip ini-l mi imei lUmm kuur thi>eiit ' tiro wostslde of Main street was a sheet of (lamo-i. Tlie flro department, unable to cope with such a vast calamity, stood powerless, an! could do nothing but sen i to O.iawnaud Lisallo for unl, which coul 1 not arrive in time to save much that I n 1 b-on attacked by the II lines, which were litiuly choked olT ac live o'clock. new busim-si blocks, erected upon the embers of tlie disaster of lu>t summer, lie iu ruins. Aliollicr Suicide liut' In I lie Crip. Gottlieb Mulzer, a civil engineer, of Newark, N. J., committed suicide duriug a lit of temporary insanity, produced by la grippe. Mulz-i's i.oily present id a ghastiy spectacle. The man lirst made an attempt to kill himself with a rfizir, but fuiled. An hour later, and while a physician was present, he sprang from bod, seized a table knife and hacked open the wonnd, which had been dressed. A i Mrs. Schussit-r, who was present, attempted ' t j disarm th" crazy m iu, and a t.'rriblo strugj gle ensued. L>r. \V. 11. C. Gee was also iu the room, but failed to render any assistance to the womau. The tloor of the ro >m in w'jich tho tragedy occurred resembled that of a slaughter-house. state"of trade. C?ltl Wcnther ProilncM nn Improved Oencrnl Movement in Staple*. -.**n wmi . ., j-rai ^ an improved demand fo.- stipte goods, notably dry goods, groceries, I cots and shoj?, rubber goods and clothing lit Caicago, SC. Louis, Kansas City and Omaha, due to colder weather. Snow blockades on the Central I'ueittc aud other railways 011 the Pacific coast for ten days past, with continuous rains iu that region for a month previous, h ive sjriously checked general trade there. Tnore is only a fairly active crop movet meat in tli Siuth, coiitinu -d decreased shipments t?y planters being reported. Lumber I nt Western centers is slow. 1'rices of liva I Log* m o reported higher at K ansas City on increiibe.l ileiuaud, but lower ul O alalia and | fit. Louis uu increasing rec ipts. fhe voluni) oi general trade lor Janu iry at many , points is not expected to ti|i[il that of Jan1 uary, lfvV. At .New Veru, itie volume of traieiu farm products ttus mouth exceeds Ih it in January, lvv.i, iho niovemeul oi boots and shoes auout equaling that ot a year ugo, wan irate in uoior lines reported less, i or uuspec.lied. The moveuient of goods gen r.i.iy is fair. Collections arc nioder* { utely satisfactory. Tue weekly report to Hnnlslrcct's of avail! able grain stocks in the (Jailed fjiates and I Canada, East of the Kooky Mountains shows Imci oasisoi t!,M5,'.Rj5 bushels ut Indian corn, 115,Old bushels of barley an 1 0,4oJ bushels ot rye; ueureust-s o: l,?iI0,-l.'>0 KCiliois ot wheat ami US 1,517 hus.ie.s o( oits, (14 compared Willi D.-coiiilier U:<, three weeks ago. lixtorts o. wiieat ( iua 21 mr as wheat) nom llie lulled Stales and Canada ports oulli coasts, tins week aggregate Eht/d.hOJ bushels, against l,7ol,,tM> uusiieis last week und l,8Jl,0t>5 busiieis in the third week ot January, 1MJ, 'l ot il exports J uiy 1 last to date equal 00,' JO.i/.CT cushels against 57,000,1100 bushels la a like portion ol IMS 'sj. V ery heavy slocks oi ilour ill New York, esliniated at iroin tSOJ.OJJ lo l,ooU,lH>U barrels and sacks with ludiif.-rout noui j and ioreign markets, depressed prices. Wheat options went oil on nregular cables, mavy hum a markets und the weather tuvoriug \s later iv I mat. Indian corn has suffered depression from f reo inoveineut uud light demand, but rallied on improved export request and lower ocean Heights, clostug )?u>.,o iO##r. Oats . are up on brisk uuuie aud loreigu ^ -1 ... hivi priu.?r iti-ii markets... ?? 1 bogs are up 'i'uj sugar market has boen fairly supportod, tuougn ou a smaller volume of traussolions in r-'lltied, ami prions remain about steady. Tno week's a J vunco m the prices of eoir?o is aoout ^gO., tuero hav.ng ooen an unproved uiuvttiuunl in private cnauue 8. in speculative hues tradiug loll away. "Aunt doe" Langton, of New lfartfonl. Conn., tbe humblo but patient and cheerful heroine of a story that was popular in Huuduy schools nnd religious societies years ago, died last week of the prevailing epidemic. She was born in 1812. Sh ? became nn invalid when she was 1ft years old and remained bedridden all ber d^ys, for Od year*, fl