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THE EASY ROAD. I By the road of "By-and-By* Stretching on forew, * One who travels comes at last To the house of "Never!" Very tall, and very high, Iron barred securely, t'Those who enter And themselves Guarded very surely 1 "By-and-By" 's an easy road; Through soft fields and mosses, No high hills, 110 sandy soil, Anywhere it crosses. If hard places come between. Round them it goes winding, ? Very slowly leading on. Bp ' Smo< idlest travel finding! to* Looking ou aheaJ, one sees ~?:? But there cornea an and, aome day, Where one aeee forever, DaA and grim the iron gates Of the house of "Never!" THE LOST LETTER BY ANNA PIKRPONT KtVITER. 11 Jimmy!" called Frank Hepburn, the handsome young bookkeeper for Wade brothers. Jimmy the office-boy for the same firm, as is usual in such cases, did- not hear. It is a singular fact, not yet explained, that dcafuess is more prevalent among office-boys than among any other class of .wage-earners. "Jimmy!" Frank Hepburn called more sh&rply tins time, anil Jimmy relinquished his favorite occupation of drawing cola. witli r?d?t?lr- on.'. tfc? Arm's noteheads, and slowly approached. Mr. Hepburn's stool. ^ "Take this letter to the postoflice, and <2arop it into the box marked 'City,' and quick, please.'' 'Jiminy took the letter, placed it care- i fully between his teeth while he put on his hat and eoat; he then surveyed the envelope closely, Hhd asked: "What's that mark in the corner for, Mr. Hepburn?'' "Clear out, you rascal!" laughed the young man, slightly coloring. "It's n secret-society sigu. Now go!" As the boy passed from the office, Weaver, the cashier, looked up and yawned: "Well, it's my lunch time," and a minute later he was hurrying after the leisurely Jiminy. k ! "i m goiug past the postofftce, Jim," * he remarked, us he overtook that J9fth; Hepburn's letter and Vjii drop plBjM TOuiiu toe corner, j?wiiiingiy gavn up the letter, and 'Vvivev . pasjed dowu'tho street. -<6 . the way the wind blows, 42 is -it?'' he thought, glancing at the adJdr^fe. " 'Miss Bertha Willey, 219 Madison avenue.' I thought that that engagement was 'entirely broken off. This dosen't look like it, but I mean to know for certain." Weaver had long been Hepburn's most persistent rival. The lady in the case was a prize well worth any man's earnest efforts to win, and when Frank * ?? ^vj^m.ioiu^ciutui iu ner was an nounced, none of ber admirers felt half t%j chagrin that seized Weaver. He h^ felt almost certain of winning hqr himself at one time^and in the exhandling he. ^ttu^Jprtune ciTtafH^ebta^H&iln. acrude inn called iBRKfotfttf tncVwy succeeding weeks he'Tf^nent^^epeatM tho call. *I will strike while the iron is hot," he said to himself, and on thin very evening had determined to know his fate, -when the sight of Hepburn's letter upset his plans. will know what is in it," he thought, V )^B?penitcly. 4lI can open it?it'H very I t^telesaly sealed. Hepburn can't come between us again, if I can help it!" He hurried home, and holding the envelope over a steaming kettle in his mother's kitchen, soon had its coveted contents in his hand. It ruu thus: "Berth*, Dear: I was wrong, and you were tight. Can I come and be forgiven? I have a fine business offer front a house in St. Paul; if I do not get a favorable reply from you to-morrow, I shall accept It, and go Immediately. Life without you is unendurable here. Fa***." 'You will get no answer tc-morrow," Weaver muttered; "and once safe in the West, my coast is clear. What an idiot, to intrust all his huppiness to a letter! But then, he's so terribly proud; he thought it would hurt his dignity less to write a note than seek an interview." Yes, Weaver was right; Frank was proud, and so was Bertha. A trivial lovers' quarrel had come between them, and Bertha, feeling sure Frank must see in time he. was wrong, did not try to right herself. She would gladly meet him half-way in any effort at reconcilia tion. but farther than that her tvnmonlu i p , jmm self-respect would not lot her go. Mean- i time her evenings were lonely, and when 1 Mr. Weaver called, ho found her very .. Tc*sLy..tQ, Us. cutertftined. I letter, ho watched Hepburn and saw he was But Frank Hepburn s was n<> assuned illnoaa. "A bad case of brain-fever," the doctor said, as he gazed with more than I?rofes*ional interest on tho young man ying before him. His brown eyes were wide open, and restlessly flying from one i "m 'acc to anot*,?r? 88 in search of one that jp* % ' ". sr came, while hb parched tongue constantly formed tho word "IUrt.K? ? Eand pleadingly apoken m long aa ngth permitted him to utter it. I* ha became weaker, only a h*Jf, articulate murmur greeted the ears of tjgo anxious watchers who bent above him. "Who is BerthaV* tho physician at last asked tho weeping, gray haired mother who had com>) from a distant city to cure for her only son. "Wo must find her. I have done all I can for his body, but only her coming can relieve his mind." And, he added, sofily, "she must come soon." ' "If I only know," tho mother answered, "how I would fly to herl It is breaking my heart to face those eager, longing eyes but I do not know. Among my boy's papers are several notes signed 'Bertha^, but no other name is ; given, and all are dated 'Home.' Oh, doctor, it is hard to know a woman holds my beautiful boy's life in her hands, and I cannot oveu plead with her for it P' iwy,~ ?rJG2S2BP?*""" At the office, things went on as ustial. wearer noncea Jfrank's desk remained vacant, but said to himself, when the clerks spoko of his illness: "Men don't die of broken hearts, and he will recover, cured of his fancy.*' lie could not, however, bring himself to destroy the stolen letter, but when alone, constantly took it from his pocket and glanced at it. One day, while doing so, Mr. Wade suddenly entered the room. Hastily slipping it under a pile of bills. Weaver looked up. "Mr. Weaver," his employer said, "lot me come to your desk. I want to glance over Frank's papers. I am afraid the poor boy himself will never do that again. Sad, isn't it?"' And Mr. Ward's, kindly voice grew husky. "Is it so bad as that, sir?" Weaver hpirmured, whiles^d^^^^Mjdness papers and run^big^v^^^^^Su^^j^^" he exclaimed: "What's this??a letter written by Frank himself, and never sent?" The pity that a moment ago had filled Weaver suddenly vanished, nnd a fierce desire to escape detection hud taken its place. "Why, yes," he said; "I remember Frank intended to invite Miss Willey to the opera for Thursday, but changed his mind, and I suppose did not send tho letter. However, I nm going down to inquire after him at noon, and if you will give me the letter, I'll leave it with his mother." "Yes, yes," assented Mr. Wade, "thftkV ft i/loo 11 f,~? ^ But he still held it in his hand, while Weaver could hardly retain his desire to ' snatch it away. "If I get the cursed thing ia my own ' hjijld once," ho rnired. SS^jR' sight of the letter ia Mr. Wade's hand, ho exclaimed: "Why, Mr. Weaver,.you didn't mail that letter that dayl" Weaver turned pale. "You don't know what you're talking about," he said, as Mr. Wade glanced up inquiringly. , "Yes, I do," Jimmy persisted; "that's the letter Mr. Hepburn gave me to mail j the day beforo he got sick. Do you re- ( member his saying that little cross was a ( secret society si<rn?" "Why didn't you mail it, Jimmy?" j Mr. Wade interrupted, sternly. "Why, sir, on my way to tho office, , Mr. Weaver took it from me, and said ] he'd mail it himself." Jimmy had taken the letter from Mr. t Wade's imndf-and turning it over-~exclaimed; ' CJ J m sorry for this," \ Mr. Wade said, simply, and left the ( room. ' V , llis heart was very tender toward the | poor boy he had seen that morning toss- j , ing restlessly from side to side, and still trying to murmur "Bertha." "The name is the same," he commented. "I'll take her the notAand explain its delay. There may be n connection between this and his brain-fever. God grant there is." ( Hurriedly calling a cab, he drove to the address on the envelope, and was soon greeted by a young lady who responded to his inquiry for "Miss Bertha Willey." She was a very beautiful girl, but there was none of the gay brightness one would look for in a creature so young. She had an air ot weariness like that which comes from loner ni edits of slcnn. . ? - o ?r? ? -""r lessness, and there was a suspicion of \ tears in her voice as she greeted her vis- , itor, I "Is this your letter?" he asked,abrupt- \ ly- i 8hc looked at him rather haughtily an ] instant, then her whole air changed to i one of intense eagerness as she caught : sight of the address. "Yes," she breathed, and in a moment had taken the note and devoured its contents. 7Where did you get it?" she asked, looking up, the pretty color that tinged her cheeks as she read dying out,and her i little air of hauteur returning, though her eyes still danced, and there was a glad ring in her sweet voice. s , T : u *1?" %?- mB" ? HI *A i^uunu^ uvi ijowvioiij Jar. ff BWdj I "Do you know its Hoc color died out of Mr face IraHT PRknt, sod a hard, nt ruined look caSpl Ifc^toetr place, more pitiful than airy J wav |iu? uci iiniiu ou ncr neart a inoONMt, and then said, simply: 1 "Take me to him, please." ] ^Ctefyour hat," Mr. Wade answered. 1 Ifcut she only looked at him again and I whispdfod: "Take me to hjm." I Without a word more, he led her to ^ the still waiting cab. I On reaching the house, Mr. Wade left < her in the hall and hurried up-stairi. A 1 few swift words explained to the doctor t below, and be hastened down. ^ # i* "You must bo very quiet," ho said, gently, though tho chargo seemed unnecessary in greetiug tho almost stony figure that awaited him. "Sleep must come withiu an hour, or death or hopeless insanity will result; but go to him, look and speak quietly and naturally, and if it is you he is dying for (a shudder ran through tho girl) we may save him yet." Tho girl rose and went to the glass. "Look ami speak naturally." Even in that hour of anguish she wondered if tho face there was hers. He would not know those pinched checks, tho30 staring eyes and bloodless lips. She stood a moment biting her lips, rubbed her cheeks and then smiled at the glass. That \vonderful thiM^i woman's love, had triumphed i)\vyj^Q| in her desperate endeavor tc/ r esc no Ucr beloved from his grasp. The doctor led tho way to the sickroom, opened tho door and stood aside as she entered. Bertha swayed for an instant as she caught sight of tho pitiful, wasted form extended beforo her; but again Love triumphed, and swiftly advancing to his bedside, she bent nbovo the wistful eyes and said, clearly and softly: "Love, did you call me?" For a moment the faco looking into* hers retained the eager, searching look it had worn fpr days; then it died away, and ono of perfect content filled its place. "Bertha 1" the pinched lips tried to say. "Yes, Bertha," she cooed, softly laying her cool lips on his; "and now, darling, shut your eyes. I will put my. cheek against yours, and wo will rest." Like n tired child, he obeyed her, "bi? lavnd tw htiO cool, soft ATEQ she slipped under it, while the peachy cheek that lay on his seemed to possess an almost magic power. "He is saved 1" the doctor murmured to the happy, bewildered mother; and so it proved, for Frank Hepburn awoke? very weak, indeed, hut rational, "ready to drink a gallon of beef-tea, and he married that very afternoon," he whispered, faintly. When Mr.Wadc returned to the office, he found Weaver had drawn his pay ami left. "He knew I wouldn't keep him nn hour," Mr. Wade said, while relating the circumstance for the hundredth time, at the Hepburn-Willey wedding, two months later. "What kind of a heart must it be that would try to separate such a couple as th*tL'i And he glanced^ with almost fatherly "surely tin-. ttugels themselves must sroilo on such wonderful love as their^T/? Popular Monthly. The Sobering Machine. There is some talk hero, says a Doylestown (Penn.) correspondent of the New York Timet, about reviving the "sobering machine." Forty years ago it was a familiar piece of mechanism. Simple in construction, durable in use, it served its purpose well and effectively. In those ^ lays a drunken man was a rare sight. A few citizens of this place remember it well. "Jack" Reynolds was one of the men who manned the machine, and he recollects when it did yeoman service. But lozen men who- nth it. Whenever a irunken man or woman was seen on the itceet the machine was brought out. The trict!m waa placed on the broad of his back in the box. Then the command i was given and the occupant was run out ! of town. It was seldom that h man got the second dose of the 4'sobering machine." The tramps soon got to dread the ride of a mile or so, and they never returned after the first experience. The wife beater fared the same, and its influence had a salutary effect on this class sf people. The old inhabitants say that { the "sobering machine" of nearly a half century ago was much more effective than the threats and violence of the White Caps of the present day. King of the Gypsies. A modest brick house, standing a little way back from the street, in a suburb of tho city of Daytotf, Ohio, is the property nud for a part of the year the home of a gypsy of wide repute, the heir apparent to a throne in Little Egypt; and here, , and hereabouts, is the rendezvous of a numerous band or tribe. This settlement is widely known as the homo of some of the richest and moAt influential families of gypsydom, among them 'ho Stanleys, of which the present head, Levi, is called the King. This Levi Stanley is a short, thick-set man of some* thing over seventy years; he is still strong and active, with a ruddy cheek and bright eye. Much of his time is passed with the traveling parties, while his eldest son, Levi, Jr., a stalwart, Kiumes much of affairs, looking to the north of f the farms are >r however near primeval man, uv iwnn yer developed a strong liking for tKc labor of the primeval occupation. Tbe traveling and camping parties are the^nMb .interesting and picturesque featusfeSof tbe gypsy life. These usually consist of a single family, the term Tomily meaning the whole blood connection. It may -comprise one or a dozen wagons and from three to four to nearly jalf a hundred people. > They make long tr short journeys, as directed by the ding, stopping at each place as long as he state of the horse pd palmistry tra^f rarrant*.? Chicaao Herald, S-. i^HE NBWS. 1 Charles I/oira s attempted to shoot Lottie Longneckir, Vf Ha niltoD, Oafo, who had re- j fusel bis hanV in marriage, an I then committed tu'ciA Charles Miller, son of a prominent faraier, of Lebanon, Ohio, has b m arrested Ai the charge of murdering George Purdy, While the latter was returning borne fromj It publican meeting in October, 1S8S. \ur men and a woman have y been arrested in Ode igo, charged with car. r rying on schemes ?<jr defrauding country j people. The coantVourt house at Dallas, % Texas, was burnel. $80,000. A B. a & O. train ran into a si%vr drift some d s- y tanco from Connellsiflle, Pa., and the looo- B motive and two carrfwere thrown Into the r rlv.er, the engineer, I re in ah, baggagemaster c kflMffc passenger slog badly injured.-? "t ?"the Eist wing of RVuHAVAmes Hotel, * Pittsburg, was burned, Undtha^guests made ( narrow aocapes. Loasfioioo. Washing- I ton Hall, occupying a blAk of ground in Peterson, N. J., and used saass^ armory by a militia regiment, was burlxl, and the ex?; plosion of ten thousand cartridges caused considerable excitemint. Awe $250,00J. The American win low glaii trust has run the price of glass up from ijteon to twenty, five per cent. Ruth WoJu died in Lancaster, Pa., at the age of cie hundred and two years. Great dsmaw has been dore by floods on tho Los Anzui river to the orange and lemon orchurci.?? Alfred Androws was sentenced to bamauged for tho murder of C nra Price at l^ulfcbaus, Pa. Five hundred Indian children participated in the anniversary of the sighing of the In. dian Land and Stveralty nil, bol<l at tho Government Training School at Carlisle, Pa,??George W. ltlcb, with many alias s, was arrested in Chicago charged with using the mrtff fbr fraudulent Masses.??Th.? vibrations at a iliRbt^- onservod at Princeton. MnjoAvm. Hugh a* bio her of Thomas Brown iiujbsa, author of ''Tom Brown's School Days," 41*d at Aebury Pork. 'Jt~ ' David C&rmlohael, tlKr.tupor mmwifhcturer of Amsterdam, N. Y., who recently committed forgeries amounting to $110,000,1s dying anu the offl;ers are no lougor guarding him* -John NiahdefT.-r stibbed John Force, at Bellefonte, Pa., in a quarral about a woman. The Chicago Anarchists' case is to bo taken before the United States Supreme Court for, review, In th> hope of trying to get a releaso from priso i of Naebe, Fielden < ond Schwab. Forty three saloons in Man- i Chester, N. II., were raidel bL the police- 1 ??Joshua Saxton, the oldest efl'ttr is Ohio, i dit-d at Urbana, aged eigbty-tmo years?? | Two Max of typhus fever paswad through i Castle garden the past week, Abe sick pet' < sons cotniug io contact with sodk-ss of oth>r i |>awetigenhe^ the foybwo.tvon tin . dred s^lpRt salmAiyLi^ bv a * 1 iiiiinffpfci ii Peter J, /CiaasSeu, of chargsdgfl with tJank wreeling bos ajG&!!5b;pn re!- aje?' ? on <30,000 bail. Tnere werJ 265 business failures in the United St< tss, and 56 in Canada the past week.? Ligs ! Moore, was i hanged at Greensboro', l'f C., i^or the mur-v I der of Laura Hyatt.??VAlasyi Shaft, th# *j Reading Company's largest Moiliery, closed | indefinitely, throwing otft 1,000 hands.? The new agreement of th* Connelleville coke operators with their employes advances j wagee from twelve to fl(teen per cant.? i A terrific win! s.orm ao< ompanied by enow and bail, swept over Wes srn Pennsylvania. Many buildin_s were blows down and otliers uoroofad. At B airsville several men were crushed to death under ttaa walls of a factory J demolished in the storm. There was a heavy . snowfall on the Virginia fountains.-?The > failure of John W. Priestly, a Philadelphia ( carnetMda .ufaeturer is rjuorted. WjHPBPJW55H5mr"p0rtt.nuV, andmany iHukifboawt inBslero and Oregon City hav ] besu carried away.?A farmers' vigilance ] ootnmlttee at Point Township, near Chilli | Co the, Ohio, has been very effectual iu punishing petty thieves. The grip is playing haroo In the lumbering camps of Wisconsin, many men (lying of the disease through lack of medioal attention. The four-story box factory of J. K. Hunt, at Rochester, N. Y., was burned. Loss $5J,000.??Sarah Rico and Amelia Vallancouit w?ro fatally burned at Lowell, Mass. Joseph Wild & Co.'8 matting factory, in Brooklyn, was dost roye.l by lire. Loss $150,000.?Rev. W. F. Nichols, of Philadelphia, has been elected assistant bishop of California.??William Th icker, the purchasing agent of the llig Bandy Lumber Company, is supposed to have been murdered, bis boJy having been found near Mud river, In the West Virginia mountain*.-?MUs Charlotte Dunlap, aged i twgjitt .years, ol . BUMiuelj^mM^^ com-; mlt^Nl suicide rathar thin omrry <* ian she d.d not love. Judge Fleming was inaugurated Governor of West. Virginia, the Republican members of the legislature taking^ no part iu the exercises. Arguments were heard in the libel suit of the Rev. Dr. Ball* of Buff ilo, for 135,000 damages against tbe New York Ewning I'oat, growing out of the prebidentinl campaign ot 1881.?John Gallagher was convicted and sentenced to fifteen years in the peultentiary for assaulting a fifteen-year-old girl in Philadelphia.??The Governor of North Carolina hae been naked to aid in rattling the troubles of the oyster* men at Oorocoke Island. MURDERED JHEM WILFULLY. An OM Man or Mev4pty?flve Shoot* Ills Has and nnurkter>ln*Law. A t rrible double tin ,e iy occurred at Miami, Man., John Morton hud hfs wife, aged respectively 53 and 54 yeaft, l??Hu *hot inooid ' %ibdf* by father^#*1al|n r yesdiog with them. John Morton was absent frjCMMa home, and daring hisabeenoe the eld ?J V Mrs. Morton bad some angry words M| mendt d by Morton striking his UaogliteittflUB" with a piece of wood. O i the son's p*L 3 be ro Silked tbeolimao lo. bis actions. ?dr-u^on .e fatbir said: "IlJ you s*e*bi|ijr'fM I want you to taka it down and stub** tn? or I will shoot you." The son pal I no attsntlon tj this remark, going into anotbar room. Th?t old man tu?n look down tba rifle, wait outJ?"le and fired through the window, instantly milling his son, tb# bullet entering tba heart. ? . The birad man ran to a neighbor for assist-, fanoe, and during bis absenal Mrs. Mor.on was abot in tbsabdomen bll Morton. Show only lired Tor an hoqr. "ml. * The o.d man doee notdokume&fr^m* and ear ba dtdjU lutentiooeil/.THB^;. " # ? ?its [HE EHUD'S Hil) WDRL I Terrible Storm Sweeps Over Western Pennsylvania. 'eople Crushed to Under the EV?!U of Bu'ldlngH Blown UoHiiNnrrow l.wnpis. Western Pennsylvania lias been visited by ha worst storm in m ny years. Snow, bail, ain an i wind have been pl.ayln ^?avos. In 'ithburg snow has blockade 1 many of the treots and stopped trafllj, wbile telegraph nd telephone lines are breaking down under he heavy weight of ico, with which they xe coated. In the raouutains the storm Is aging with terr'.fle fury, and reports are omtng in of Mrlons damage to property. iu^^^^neofthe firm, were Instantly klll*1, and a workman whose nsmi could not bo earned Injured. Mr. Burners to y was Imnediately taken from tbo wreck. It was nangled beyond recogn'tic n. Sir. Bart's reusing were recov. rod two hours later. At Uniontown the roof was blown oft tbo Methodist Episcopal Church, a part of it iligli i ig on th* house of John Brown, just lortb or the church, cradling it to piec.'s. Pi.e roof of the .argo now building lately reeled by the Pennsylvania Construct on Jompany below town was also blown olt. A torse and wagon driven bv James IIuhs wis down over Gray's Hill. The wagon is lying >n its'back wiiii the wheels whirling in the lir. No one was seriously hurt. Po tinaster Baker's n -w house was nearly lemolished, a'soJ .in?s Frai k -nberry's bousj ind John W. Ringer's hou^o was leveled. Ihi -elopi.ono and electric light wires are all lown. None of the coke works are running louth of Uniontown. The Bedstone Co'.to Company's ofllces, at Brownfleli, were blown lown ami enti:e!y deniolifhed. The end was , down out of the en >ine house at Lifth, and ' ;he War. en G'ass Works wrecke 1. Too root j >f thi Lutheran churo.t was alsj blown olT. ! At Conucllsville the storm began in tlie | morning and diJ not subside until iate in the i 5 von lug. J. &L Ucrpioi.,? ttor? *1 in this city wsf completely wrecked, the Inmates having a narrow escnpo from death. The Catbolio church is in n dangerous condition and a number of other nouns iu the town are wreoke I. At Dunbar the Knights of Labor hall wus ontireiy blown away. A report from Leis?nring says a'l tbo large shafts of the 11. C. Friok Coke Company are down. Tno snow fall is from s i to teu inches in dei th WRECKED BY AN AVALANCHE The Mining Town of linrko Almost Wiped Out or Existence. Tbo (own of Burke, Ilnbo, In the Coojt i' Aleno mining district has Men nearly destroyed by avalanches. Half of the business souses are in ruins. Three men were killed, and the terror-stricken inhabitants lmvo Bed to the towns of Gem and Wallace, fearing a repetition of the disnstor. Particulars sre meager, as tbo wires to all. the points in the mines have gone dtfBkjlMiiPjK no means' at communication. WWflflPoW gn'.ch in whicUT^P^^lt^t?CJ Ryj ssea were b*!^~ ^isdthTpg'yBijitsa Two were reai hod, bat the others a^e dead^ end their bodies bare not yet bn&q recovered; The ill-fated town lies in tho narrow gulch through which Canyon creek pourajts water into the s>utb fork of the Coeur d* Aiena. It had about two hundred iubabitanU, who have dee rted their wrecked or menaced homes and plaoes of business. The neat est town is Gam, also upon Canyon creek, and three mil. s down the stream. Lntt-r in the day another disastrous avalanche swept upon a boarding house connected with the Custer Mine, which is situated upo.t Nino Mile creek, about Ave miles from Burke. The boarding house was full of miners, six of whom were killed; the otheis hod a narrow escape, and a number weio, more or le-a injured. Tho disasters are not! a surprise to tbo6e familiar with topography! of that section. The towns are situated in. vory nariow gulches o.i either side of which' abrupt mountains arise. The snowfall this winter has been unprecedented In the history of the country. Witbio the laws fsw days it has been raining. which had the, effect of loosening the, | richest in tbe%orhl!botb^-go^Md^^^ It includes the famous Bunker Mill and Sullivan mines, perhaps the greatest fls<ure vein in America. The principal town is Wallace. The other towns are Wardner, Osborne, Burke and Gem. CLEANED OUT THE SALOONS. Whiikry and Beer Barrel* Destroyed by Crusader*. Two saloons have been running iu Lathrop, Mo., for months in defi ince of the Local Option law, and there have bien several sticking affrays in them. The women o! Lsthrop resolved to act in the matter, and two hundred of them held an indignatio 1 ra- eting. Then they formed and inarcho 1 through the principal streets toThomas Ward's place. Ward bad been warn d and the door was fastened. The women broke the glas<, ami opening the door, began their work. Barrels of beer and whiskey and cases of wine and brandy were emptied into the stroets, while a great crowd of men who had garnered cheered theft work. As soon as Ward's place bal been cleared out tba crusaders marched t> A. J. Carroll's ootorious dive and ordered hi in to move out. He refuted to obey and they poured his liquors into ti e street an I set lire to tbem and then visited an I searched three diu; s.orts and waruei the owners that if liquor was sole contrary to law they would suffer a like penalty. Next they visited the ware room of llio* Ward, wi.ore quite a number of barrels of whiskey were stored. U,.oi? his refusil to leave town with his hiiiiard tables, they smashed all the bnireis and emptied the liquor into the streetsOver one thousand dollars worth of liquor was destroyed. MARKETS. ~ Baltimore?Flour?City Mills.extra,$4.15 a$4.40. Wheat? Southern Fultz, bOabl; Corn?Southern White, 84a40 cte, Yellow 38*^n37c. Oats?Southern and Pennsylvania UMa.tlcts.: Hve?Maryland & Pennsylvania 54a50ct?., Hay?Maryland and Pennsylvania 12 .Via fid 00;Strnw-Yv boat, 7.50a$8.50; Butter, Eastern Creamery, 'Mj&Sc. , near-by receipts jUH'dOcts; Cheese-Eastern Fancy Cream. lOVtf allji eta.?Weetern. 9>4'al0 ots; Eggs?12J{ a!3; Tobacco Leaf?Inferior, la$2.00, Good Common, 3 00a?4 00, Middling, #5a7.00 Good In Miu iwt Rnlil' Fnnnv. lllfttllt. W?w YORK?Flour?Southern Common to fair extra, f3.50a53.85: Wheat?No 1 White hdi/aSOW; Rye-State. 57a0O; Corn-Southern YeUow,aaKa38. Oace? White,8tat*30%n30% cts. Bnttet?State, 8al7 cts. Cbte*}?Stat >, BValO^ ct-; Kggs? 14sl4X cts. PfliLAnKt.riiiA ? F.our ? Pennsylvania f mcy, 4 35 ?4 75; Wheat?Pennsylvania and Southern Keel, 80)i?aN>%; Rye-Pennsylvania 5-iatH)c; Corn?Southern Yellow, 3rta37 cte. OaU--'48l/?a;w cts; Butter-State, -'Ha-Octa ; Cheese?N. Y. Factory, UaU>^ cte. Kggs? SUte, 13X&14 ota. CATTLE. Baltthork? Beef, 4 53a4 75; Sheep?(5 3C F75S5 00. Beef?73 85a4 70;8heep-|4 5C O0a4 4>. r?Beof?f4 25a4 50; Sheep? ??f4 30a4 33, FIFTY-FIRST CONGRESS, f Krnnte Nculon*. o2nd Day.?Id the Senate there was a Ion* i diffusion about renting rooms in the Hotel Ma tby for committee uses. The resolution to rent thorn was dually reforro 1 to tho Committoeon Rule*. Mr. Iilair called upbisbillin a referonce to aid to common schools and made a speech, but yielded to Mr. Sherman, who reported this joint resolution, which was put on tho calendar: "i'hnt th> United Slates of America congratulate tl e poop'e of Brazil on J the r just aud poaceful assumption of tho n powers, duties aud responsibilities of selfgovernment, based upon the Iree consent of v the governed, at d in their recent adoptiou of c a republican form of gov rnment" 0 The joint resiution is reporte i as a sub- t stiiuto for that of Mr. Morgan, introiuo-d on tho 18th of D icmber, ami referred to tho * the bill was not flulsbed. Mr. Dolliver, of' Iowa, from the Commit, tee on Naval A (fairs, reported the bill for the relief oLsurvivors of the wreck Of.the Trenton, and "Vandalta" and tho stranding of the "Nipslo" at Apia, Samoa. The biil was passed without division. Tho E lucationul Bill was then takon up, and Mr. Butler resumed Ins spocci in advocacy of it, and will continue it on Monday. Tiie Senate then proceeded to the cons delation of Exicutivo business and ut 4.45 ad journed. House Sessions. i 82wd Day?In the Hon -e the contested election cust of Smith vs. Jackson, from the j fourth district of VVo-t Virginia, was taken Up. Mr. O'Ferrell, of Virginia, madea speech in which ho excoriated the Speaker for liis rulings, and Mr. Wilson, of W.^t Virgiuia, held hini up ;o ridicule. Final y a vote was ] reached, an 1 Smith, tho contestant', was ; seated, the repu'l.cins lor I ha llrst time j i tlnco the struggle began h..Viiig secured a ' quorum. 3dKD Day.?In the House ?li" iisii i fiiihus- I wo? %%? wivt (tn* ) ' prov?d by a constilutio ual qn rum, and a motion toa?'j urn wasdeit ate 1. Th Speaker then laid beioru tho House various nil's for reference, among tliom tho bill "to relieve the Treasurer ?f I he United States from tho amount now charged to Rim and deposited will ibe several Suit.'*." This hill the Speaker referred, under the rule?, t > the Committee on Ways and Mean'. Mr. Bl ind moved its reference to tho Co uniilt'e on Appropriations. Tho Spink r decline i to entertain the motion nnd a p?rl.an?ntnry struggle bogon, which, after tho usual dilatory motions, counting tho quorums l?y tho Speaker, etc., the bill was referre I to the Ways and Means Committee. Th? House then adjourned. d-jth Day.?Th?re being a taoit understanding betw-'?n the Republicans and D-moeruts |ihat no effort would be made for the transaction of business to-day, e large number ot t! e itnetnbers having gone to attend the funir il j>.if Mrs. and Miss Traoy, the clerk was permitted to read the journal in its abridged foj%. The Democrats di I not wish to go on record at approving tho journal, and conse- I queujly demanded theyeas and naya on that ' j-j I BHpSrata ] Joutnaf? It was approved, however, by a vote on?3 to0, th. Speaker oonntintf* quorum. Mr. CMkon, from the Committee on JRuler, reported the Mfwoodeof rule*, audit was ordered printed and recommitted. Th? Benate Direct Tax bill wae received 'and referred. A number of bills were Introduced and ' referred. Mr. Hays, from the Committoeon Accounts reported the bill providing clerks for members and delegates, and it was ordered printed and recommitted. Mr. Morrill, from the Committoeon Invalid Tensions, reported the Senate bill to increase the pensions of o-rtaiu soldiers and sailors, with a substitute. The substitute was agreed to, and the bill, as amended, passed. The bill for tho relief of tho sufferers by the wreck of ,our naval vessels at Samoa was alio pass*]. .Adjourned. JitiTH Day.?In tho House the Speaker said that "the Journal Clerk had been busy in proparing the new code of rules for pub) cation, aud that consequently the Journal of yesterday's proceedings was 1be preready subAssistant Secretary of War and for\herehef \ of the retired list of the array. They were ordered printed and reoommitted. A bill was ! [ reported and passed Increasing to #100 ? month the ponsion of General Abram Duryea. Mr. O Neill, from the Libre ry Commit^ack bill appropriating #?>,000 for a monument to General Henry Knox, at Thomaston, Maine, l'end'ng action the ilouso adjourned. RIOT IN A CHURCH. A Paiitoi'M Person tl Itemnrkn Cause a General Fight. During Sunday serv.ces in a Vinginit. j country church about thirty miles from Spar; ta, N. C., the Ucv. Joseph M. Strooke, dui| ing the course of bis remarks, said: "There i Is a man in this congregation who is so moan i ana unfaithful to his wife that it is a won* der God does not rain down fire and brimstone upon his head and consume him." The preacher pointed his tlng--r towards Thomas Coleman, who oocupkd m mt imr the pulpit, and as he did so that individual junqied to his feet to inquire if the parson meant to bo personal 111 his remarks. No s.ooer was Coleman on his t ot than halt a dczin deacons were updeinanding that lie sit down. Everything was in an uproar and an attempt was mudo to ejoct Coh-mao. Coleman resisted and, seiziug a stick of woo 1 lying near the stove, he Pugan to wield it hard and fast, knocking four men to the floor end fatal v wounding Jeremiah Ferguson. O.ie man wrenched tho club lroiu Coleimn and dealt him a deadly blow across bis head, lie then walked cut of tho church and baa nut been seen siuce. The riot last d six ml ules and was participated in by many ot the congregation who used clubs as weapons. A FAMILY WIPED OUT. Jacob It. Winter, Hi* Wife nnil Four Children All Drowned. The four chiidreD of Jacob K. Slater were skating on the lake at Bennewater, about six miles from Kinston, N. Y., when the ice, which was but a few Inches thiok. gave way, and the little ones were precipitated into the water. Their shouts were heard by tho members of the family, who lived near by, and tho father and mother rushed to the retcue. By the time the pareuts reaolie 1 tho lake the children ha I disappeared beneath tho ice. The mother, frsntic with the thought of her children's peril, rustled upon tho ice, which gave wjy beneath her weight, and sh> sank below thy surfuce. > Mr. Slater the i attempted to reach his wife, and he, too. was drowned. The out re 1 family is wiped out of existence. * I Hundreds of people are gathered about the lake searching for th > bodies. > The intluenst is increasing in tho City ot ) Mcx .co, and it is eaid so many deaths are occurring that there is not a tuftl tent nuiie ber or nearses to carry tbe bodies lo tho ' Cemeteries. m i eiiEi) lost. Explosion Entombs Them in an English Mine. il*ty nutllnlril lliiillt-tt Recovered? I'looilinv of Atl.lnrrnl I'll* Cniiumi ll??> Dcmlly (inn (o lixplotlc. An explosion occurred in it colliery nt ibersyebnu, in Monmouthshire, ten miles lortliwostof Newport. Three hundred miners rcre imprisoned, and for several hours no ommunicjtion could be had with them. An 'petting was finally effected and many of hern wero rescu.-d. Sixty mutilated bodies vere taken out. It is esti mated that from 100 o 150 miners wero killed. Tue causa of th> explosion was i hiflo^Mnn was thrown ipt" tlM air,from the mouth of a vole ino., ana si- "'taueouirty. a vast, bright volume of It <me snot upward, followed' a dense, heavy column otemoso. The first party of rescuers orguaizod endeavored to penetrate tho liit through the c 1 1 workintr* Thi>v notf ipoiiniijh :n nootilli to in nroup? of the (loud, but they could 11 otr^ reucli tuein, and wcro co up died to retreat by 'the kulfocating volumes of smoke thic rose in that direction. Upon ih? lirst appearance of a diminution in too volume of smoke rescuers went down the main shift, and reached the scene of the catastrophe. They rescued a largo number of miners yet alive, Lut all very bn lly burned, and they brought out sixty dead bodies, noirlyiillso mut lited tlmt the recognition ot their ideuLity is impossible. Latkii ?Tbo total number of fearfully mangled and t urned bodies that have lieeu brou *bt to the surface reaches tJOO, and theto sro mora in the washings. Thescetio at tno mouth of the min^ is heartrending. Widows by scores and orphans by hundreds standing in groups wailing and dead hoping to Ibid souio m uiis of identifying husband or father in the piles of blackened and distorted trunks, which is about all tbat remains of tb victims. Avery pathetic incident in the work of rescue wis tin llndin; ot the b> lies of i father and h.s live sons lying in a group. They had not beeu burned at all, and they appeared to bo ca mly sleeping. All of them had died front sulfooation. Several of tho men who had volunteered for the work of rescue were made sick by handling the burned bodies, an 1 were obliged to come to the surfac Tuw mortality among tho injured is frightful. Details ure sc tree, and shelter and surgical appliances nra entirely inadequate to meet the sudden demand. A t le ist If ) deaths have occurred among the l.VJ who were rescued alive. The total deuth-i oil will undoubtedly reach 300. Tht r - is great distress an-1 suffering among the miners' families, owing to tho lack of food. The local authorities and people aro doing all they can, but are unable to relieve halt the urgent cusj*. Outside aid has beeu Nouutaftis, ^ more T"* ad oonsequently a more actlvo demand for goods. iVioes of cattle and bogs j; jfe orally toad lower on a free movement ! depresmd on .the Pao/flc Coast by frekofferings anrflofrg intorlar stocks; groceries, ury goons a"Q drugs are fairly active. The bank clearings at thirty-five cities for Jauuary aggregate $5,139,011,911, or 7\ per c.-nt more than 111 January, 1889. The inovoiiu'iit of fl >ur has been dull and prices liavo been shaded. Stocks at New York are ofllcially reported at about 283,000 barrels, though it is notorious that ttie total on dock and in store here far ex Jeeds that aggregate. lioportsto Brad street's 9how ],7el,7o7 barrels in stock, first unl second hands, at Ml cities February 1, an increase of 17 931 ban els sine* January 1. W heat reacted some utter advancing lc. on heavy sales, depioising cables and indifference of exporters, closing }-^o. on tho week. Brcid.st reel's reports of available stocks of K ust ol kiooky Ilnitod on Fobm .Vyr, Of'4 on, January 1. Tue moutU's decroaso for both coa ts is 5,9140,701 busi es. Compared with a year ago Eastern stocks are 2,270 737 bushels larger, and for iiothcoasts3,977,159 bushels larger^, Jirailst reel's totals with Beerbohm's report of stocks in Europe and afl >at therelor, February 1, shows u deceaso of 9,5? 4,585 bushels during January, or 8.3 per cent., and a decrease of 13.925,534 bushels coin pared with February 1, 1889, or 11.0 per cent. Export purchasers of corn have been free at Atiuiilic port-, but freo offerings and large supplies depress d prices. Exports of wheat aie larger because of u large amount from the Paciflu coast. Expoi ts of wheat (aud flour as wheal) this week irom both coots equal 2,214,917 bu-bols, against 1,013,851 busuels last work. Tho total shipped July 1 to duto is 01,032,098 bushels, against 59,455,500 bushols in a like portion of 1888 89. Sugar is depioisol and weaker for both i aw and refined ou inodoi atoileulingsaud dis t ouraging etiUX'S, tiu inter declining I-liii 3 Tic. Sugar has beau (inner speculatively ut New York, and later ut didrieuive lmua advanc U Ja t^c. . . TJry ghous u> o more active, but trade ns a whole does not equal expect itions. Ginghams, prints acid wool dress goods are most active. Trices are steady. Cotton goods are strong, some wide brown an 1 bleached sheetings having advanced. Trint cloths are very tirin ut lalo advance. Wool is inactive, prices favoring buyers, particularly on pulled and territory grudes. Larger port receipts and w eaker cables have depressed cotton prices at ail markets except New York, where strong speculative buying h is advanced prices j-40 moreTand for settlers. 'I he Mtoiix Itcservallini o! 0,000,000 Acre* Kxpcetcd lo bo Opened. It is expected that the President will shot tly issue a proclamation, opening the Hioux Indian Reservation, embracing 0,000,003 acres of land in Dakota, to public settlement. These lands will l>e disposal of to settlers uud>r the provisions of the Homestead law. lu addition to tho Iojseachs.'ttler will bare?[Hired to pay $ 1.25 per acre, and upon the all payment of the money due, will be entitled to a patent. Land offices will be estatdished at Chamberlain and Pierre, I) ik. The portion of the lands Irlng Houth of lot 4i will Ire annexed to the O'Neill district in Nebraska. picked up the house. A Peculiar Railroad Accident Which Caused Three Deaths. A peculiar accident on the Chesapeake and Ohio, near the big Pennsylvania tunnel between ilintonand Lowell, W. Va., caused the ? eath of three men. A freight train, which whs going down the track at the usual speed, ran into an open switch aud dashed into the signal station. l no little bouse was picked up and carried into tho river. The operator, who was in the signal station, the llromnn and the engineer were alt drowned. Tbe traoks and roadbed were much damaged. f*