The weekly Union times. [volume] (Union C.H., South Carolina) 1871-1894, February 07, 1890, Image 1
fei Devoted to Agriculture, Horticulture, Domestic Economy,
XXI.?NEW SERIES. T'Nlflft C. 'MjWII
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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