The weekly Union times. [volume] (Union C.H., South Carolina) 1871-1894, February 21, 1890, Image 1
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^;.
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[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.
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