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^? ** "?r - ' '. . . ,.~~~ , ,, =s nj^H^^HN^mHHHfl^^g^HI^HnHHHHBHHH9BflHWBB^nH|^^^HMHB|?ijm. Politics News of the Day. ^i ^ ?_. ^ _.._ , , _? >:.~y ^"T^turc, Horticultural^ ILmARCW 21, 1890. -, ^ jfl? NUMBER 12. tto elate, Bal. .,. Her Toio (a sweet lis the Whip-poor will 8 And the sunshlno's in her heir; Ent I'd rather face a redskin's knife Or tbo (rip of a grualy bear. Yet Sal an vs. "Why. ahe'e each a dear, She a uv the ent for you." \ O, dam It all!?nfeard o[ n gal. Awl in? ju six feet two! Tboigh slie a n't any size while I'm Conslder.ibte ta'l. I'm n iwhore when she spanka to me. Slut inekca m > feel ao sma 1. Mv (nee grows rod ; my tongue gets hitched ; Thouiicnd t hing won't go; It r.lcs mo 'crubo it makes her think I'm most tarnation slow. And though folks Ray sho's sweet on me I guoHR it can t b tin**; O. darn it all'. a'oxrd of a gal, And uio just six foot two. My enkes! just s r ?? " what the folks la anylng t-honld bo ao! Go, < o isis Jan\ nnd speik to hsr. Find out and lot mo know. Toll h v tho g'llR should court the men, .-*> inu i tun it*'n? year r Tbat * why I ra kinder bvfehful lik?, ?^ 1 ?? \w.-It;n : for hor h?r?. 5 Ami should nho hear I'm ?ck?<1 of hat Yo j'U r wear it. can't b? tru?, O, darn It. all!?<?fear?l of a gal; Anil in? juet six feet two 1 ft GREAT TREASURE. Tlie Slranp Mystery Surronntlintt Its Disappearance. A STORY OF EXTRAORDINARY INTEREST. EY FRANK BARRETT. m * ' CHAPTER IV I MUST summarize as briefly as possible the events that took place the. week following Lola's flight, not because I And them lacking in interest?for indeed these wore the happiest days I had overspent?but because tho lengthy description would unduly retard the progress of tho history I have set myself to narrate. On the morning of tho 15th search wns made for Lola. Sho was not in the house. A little after midday one of the keepers, sent out to oxnlore tho Abbey woods ana park, reported thnt ho hud seen tne fugitive in the flr plantation, about half a milo from the Abbey. At sight of him she had "scuttled" away like a young doer, but he. obedient to orders, had not pursued hor. "It's the smell of the pines as drawed her there," said tho Judge; "she was born amongst 'em. she has lived amongst "em, and she loves 'en? more than lnces and satins, and picters, and sick like; and it's more nat'rnl for the little cuss to sleep on the brown needles than in feathers. There's no tamln' her. It's instinc'. end, like foul weeds in a fair pasture, durn her. there's no genni n out 01 nor. i.onvp ner mono, eir.aml she'll come in when she's hungry, and then I will lurn her the iniquity of on* gratitude!" In the nfternoon we wont in a break to Southampton, driving slowly through the woods, with the possibility of being seen by Lola, who would eertuinlv then have followed us. but we saw nothing of her. At Southampton we bought decent clothes, and spent some time in the hair-dresser's. I 1 hud my hoard shaved off; and we returned to the Abbey, very much altered for the better in app uiranee. Miss I.ascollos was much distressed about Lola, who was still absent. Itrace's explanation of hor leaving,tho Abbey soemed a reosonablo one, buLfrOtJC mittpatfry to Miss tho ^^ihinirs she had given her, was to mo a mvs???" tory. to Miss i.ascelh s nlso I believe, and a very painful one. She seemed to feel herself in some inscrutable way responsible for tho girl's action. Sir Edmund returned in the evening from London. "Now. indeed, you look yourself?a gentleman." he said, shaking my hand corJially. He had inado inquiries respecting a lapidary, and learned that the most export known to the trade was a man named Carvalho, th<-n occupied at Madrid. With our sanction lie wrote at once offering this man his own terms, to eoino to tho Abbey and k cut tho Circnl lie ncr. At night, the door l?y which Lola wassup* posed to have escaped from the Abhey was left open, ami a night light was phi in her bedroom. The next morning the dairy-maid said that some one had been at her milk pans in the night; there was no other evidence ol Lola having cub-red the hou-e. After breakfast Idoteimin-d to go through the woods myself in auireh of her. Miss Lasecllcs wished to accompany me. I ought to have pointed out to her that her company lessened the chances of Lola suffering mo to approach her. but I could not deprive rnysell the pi -iiMire of having such a sweet companion. We saw Lola at tho edge of u clearing on the hill-side. She watched us as ivo drew near. I called to her. but she shook her head. and. turning hor back upon us, quickly disappeared among the pines. The torlorn condition of tho girl: her gestures which hl-nnw-il lull uf siwlimss- llm silent full of leaves; the tristnoss of the until in it woods, overcame Miss Lasccllos; and as sin- walked silently beside mo. with her hoad hont. 1 saw she was crying. This episode mado a doop impression upon tne; yet. wliilo my heart ached with sympath> for tho poor little savage wandering alono in those siloiii. still woods, an iiHlesertbablr happiness stole over my senses. |i wa? the awakening of invo. Sir Kdniund had a basket of food pi ieod in the dairy, and tin* d<> >rs again loll open. On the 17th we learned that some I.read and fruit had heen taken from the dairy in tho night. Sir I'.dinuiul and I walked through the woods; wo saw nej&.Vr.C ,,| l.ola. Our conversation furniH'iipon hi* daughter. and he tol'^M**ii<t<vshe had eonSided him for thj;.t^f(H 0'j pjs wife. Ho spok? with natnrnU?<:.i.'.' ,,f her sweet and loyn disposiU#!^''i ,, on fall nt upon thi JJRTof the K cat diamond, ho asked mr 1 L0!'.1 WJfsC . visibility oTniy wetting my li ving tu ^ESHPlJI^iork. etc. Incidentally I referred to mi in? ?li i- s tamily. and the name lending him to /{uike further inquiries, ho discovered the curious fact that my mother must havu boon his wife's cousin. How often do we find wide circles of friends liake I together in this way! 1 tiioughl that Mis-. I.asi-elles win g-citlv pleased with the iliseovery of the distant relation* ship existing between lis; we seemed leaf remote from each o;hi-r. Iiuring our absence Miss laiseelles ha I devoted herself entirnlv to Van Hoick; hei sympathy Inul a i iiurkalle effect upon this sirango man. When I took him up to his room to dress for dinner, lie asked me to open tho window and place him where lie might feel the air. !!? sat before tlm oper window; tho sotting sua was roflected upon ynlMHranB u? play of hie Tehtures. Hie nostrils dilated. his brows creased together. his lips parted, showing his teeth closely set. the wnole expression of his face indicating extreme drean; then the rausoles relaxed, for a moment his cadaverous cheeks were tinged with color, tho eyes closed, and the lips trembled as if in ecstasy. Again his lids rose, and tho look of dread returned to his face. Ho shrunk bnck in his chnir. and blinked his eyes as though struggling to give them light; then suddenly he fiung his arms out wildly, and with a smothered cry of impotent rage buried his face in his hands, his long, thin lingers pressing the throbbing veins which stood out knottod and hard upon his temples. nimv ia mo mauer, oia ronnr 1 asKcu. putting my hand on bis shoulder. Ho started, and answered impatiently; "Nothing, nothing?a dream!" And then heaskoi savagely: "Who watches you in the night?" "This is not the night." I replied, fancying ho was vet bat half awake. "Isn't it?" ho asked, turning his oyes from 1 one side to the other; then stretching out ] his hands, as it to heaven, ho c.ied: "Then what is the nightf" T'oor wretch, an was indeed night to hiin. I triad to htm In conversation, hat ho waved his hand impatiently, and getting up. felt his way to the wash-stand. "Go down." ho said; "Miss Lascelles is more pleasing to the eye than I ain; she must be beautiful, for her voice is music, her touch is liko the petal of a rose. Where do you keep the diamond?is It safe?" i I told him that I now kept it in a belt j buckled to my waist. | "Strap It to your wrist again; it i? safer." i he said; and then bending his head aside, he listened attentively lor a moment and continued, in ? lower voice: "They arc talking together down thore. Creep down and listen. I tell you we are not safe hero? I see that through my blindness. I have faculties in place of that I have lost. Do you hear them? Come closer. Thome; there is a conspiracy In this house?a plot to rob us of our treasure, and turn us boggnrsagain upon the street. If I could trust you I'd tell you more. But evory^ one is a thief who has the power to steal." * It was not the (lrst. time I had heard him talk In this vein At Natal, on the shin, ho had been in constant dread of being robbed. I was glad to get away from him. As I passed the head of the stairs in going to my j eound^oo. disHil.nirirn In m'nfngin C#aia-a subject' li he could be dCwfitent bv the hour together. On the 18th. Bir Edmund, Miss Lascelles, and I rodo over to Southampton. Mist, Lascelles was in her gayest, happiest mood, nn I In her riding-habit looked more charmInr. (KoH In returning we mot a friend of Sir Ed?" round's; lie accepted the invitatioti to take lunch at the Abbey, and rnio beside the baronet uhond of us. We two took the hill i so slowly that. coming to the cross-roads, j Wc vuuld not see Sir Edmund nnd his friend, i There were two ways to the Abbey. After a little deliberation. Miss L&seollss laughingly consented to take the longer one. The morning was superb; the woods wore glorious. The rich, warm tints of the reddening folinge were reflected on my beautiful companion's cheek; her eyes seemed to catch the glitter of the dew that still hung on the gossumo. s. 1 forget what wo tnlkcd ftbout. but she was full of mirth, and now and then tho still woods rang with ?ho muj steal cadonoe of her laugh. Hut suddenly the smilo died from lier face, and she said: "Wo foget poor little T.nln And then, ns if the words xntd conjured up her presence, the girl appeared, swiftly speeding bet ween the red boles of the fir trees. Wo stoppo 1. and I called: "I.oln. dear, come and speak to me.' She stood still, and looked as If irres olute whether or not to respond to my apI peal. ! "I will stay here. Go to her." said Miss Lascelles. softly. | Ilut. us if she had divined my intention. ! Lola shook her head mournfully, ns she : ha<l dono before, nnd going lier way was | presently hid by tho tall brake. As we crossed the opening where we hud proviI ously seen her. I looked back, and perceived 1 her standing in the same place gazing after j us. It was easy to conceive her misery, and the bitter feelings of her heart, bhe 1 was unalte od, but I whs no longer jhe rough j toiler, grateful for a tin of water fetched j from tho stream. All that was past. I | was no longer her companion. I should ; never, never more share her hard fare, and i look to her to lessen the hardships of oxist; fllCC. On the l!?th we went again into the woods. I but on foot. Miss Lascelles and I. straying lliithor without nnrnnuA from Him rrfirrlftii whero we met. Wo enme to a stream bridged bv n single rlank supported in tho middle. Ijiere had noon a ban l-rail. but it had fallen riWay in decay. I pave her my hand, the fear of fallinp made her clasp my finger* tiphtly. 8I10 soomod to enjoy the little danger; It animated her face and eye3 with tno prettiest. most bewitohinp expression imapinablc. Her hand seemed to co^to inunleate the quickened pulsation of ItW heart. Hut it was not fear?it was intoxication?that agitated mo; anil when ?ho put her foot in safety on the bank, and looked up into my (ace with bripht laughter. I lost my head completely. I kept her hand in mine, and when she tried to withdrnw it. 1 forced it to my lips, and pressed a kiss upon J it. The color left her eheok.and in a tone of | reproach she exclaimed: "Oh. Mr. I Thorno!" nnd 1 was amnrned. We walked : home, and were very silent on the ' way. I sotipht Kir Hilmund at oneo. I and. finding him alone, told him that I wished to make his daughter my wife. Ho was thunderstruck hy.this sudd-ut S and unexpected announcement. I "I love your daughter." I said, "an I 1 e mI not stay in this house keeping my passion a ! secret." ' "Well." said he. with rather rueful pleas! shtry. "you have lost no time. Mr. Thome; i hut it would have been a poor compliment to my daughter had you failed to perceive her charms." "1 should he dull, indeed, had she failed to impress me." I replied, i We talked for some time, and finally ho . said, with emotion: i "I must give up my dear child, sooner or i later. Her happiness is clearer to mo th in ! anything, and f can wish her no greater hlrsdng than to find a good and worthy nusounu. At that moment Edith opened the door; ? hut, seeing ns. she stopped in tho en trance. "Codin here. Edith." sjii?l Sir Edmund. Ami, taking lirr hand, hp continued: Mr. i Thornp wishes you to bo his wife; in that i your wish also?" SIip buried hor burning face in hor father's shoulder; she could neither any yes > nor no. i "It i-> n question that should not be decided hastily." the baronet eoniinu *d; "take | time, my dear. Meanwhile, I see n<> reason ! for your leaving the Itou-o." he added, addressing me. i "Unless--" I faltered. I -Tnlesjt Edith wishes it." the baronet I sa'd. helping nie ?>ut. "'fine. Shall yon i feel more at ease, dear, if Mr. Thome goes away for a certain t me. say? Shall ) i he g<>?" I Still screening Iter fare. Edith shook her 5 head, and then 1 knew fiat I had won a , treasure greater than t ie Hesper diamond, f In tho afternoon of the 2t th Sir Edmund r "?VJ! have boon lookiuauii^oiir oiigag unent, r wornard, from a practical point ot view, and i a fact occurs to me that at such a lime as ? thin would probably ascapo you. That ngrcoi ment of yours must be altered. You will i see that, for Edith's sake, what I call tho I tontine clause?a clause conferring upon I, the survivor a deceased partner's sha e in I the (Ireat HespT- should be abrogat ul. It ent ills a risk which sh<- must not be c*. i posed to. You understand me?" I understood what li>'said perfectly, nnd | agreed with him tnat the clause must be a| to rod. i "Consult with your partners." ho said, "as i ' to what change is advisable. I expect my ? ! lawyer hero on the 24th, and ho can then i 'draw up a legal agiecmvnt in accordance i with our general wish." I ) 1 took tho Judge into Van Iloeck's room *. Miss LteoillM. Van ffeeck ! wns TtsjDij alarmed when ha heard this, and when I went on to car that Sir Edmund w:shud the olaaso altered by his lawyer on ' the 24th ho said, quickly, in a low voice: "The cralty old fox! What does he mean by that?" "His meaning la obvious enough." I roplied. "If I marry Miss La icellcj. and die. sho will bo dispossessed of my share in tho diamond. I can leave her onlv a legacy of debt." "Yes, end that ain't all on it." said tho | Judge, dragging his wiry chin-tuft through J his hand and bending his brow. "That ain't nil by a lump. We're pluying with a marked card in the pack?a oard as might tempt | o'ro n ono on us to foul play." 1 "What on earth do you mean? Speak plainly if you can," said Van Iloeck. In ! angry impatience. | "Well, I mean this 'ore," answored tho [ Judge, with slow impreasivenoss. "that It j one of my pardners wasn't a gontlomnn, and t'other wasn't helnloss blind. I'm durned it I'd go to bod without a six-shooter under | my pillow, and my finger on the trigger. I [ don't ullude to one any inoro'n another, but we'll just take Israel's word forgospel, that every one is a thief if you give him chance, oi tliievin'; end, at that rate. I'm just as 1 ttKoly as not to ruurder my two pardnera. | end gii tho whnio of thn? <4f?mond ? 4 self. Consequently, you will allow that the squire hits a double reason for wanttn' thet agreement nltorod; fur it ain't only the money he's got to secure on to his damjh icr. itui uer niismn n 1110 iikowi??. j iitio . enough for the young lady to bo a widdor ) la tho nat'ral order of things In gen'oL" (TO DK CONTINUED.] Men WIio Rait*1 Europe, The Present Emperor of Germany is William IT. He is 20 years of age. The Emperor of Austria, Francis Joseph, is 58 years of age, and has worn tho imporial crown for forty years. Tho reigning Prince of Montenegro is Nicholas I., who is 47 years old, and lias roigned for twenty-eight years. The King of Portugal, Luis I., is 50 years old, and is a man of enterprise and progress. He has been twtnty years a King. The Emperor of Russia, Alexander III., is 43 years of age, and asci tided I Ute thxQnoafter the murdejCof hiB^ The President of the Frenct^^Hm*11 in, M. Carnot, is 51 years of age, and was elected to office in December last as successor to M. Grew. Tho'flovtreign or Sultan of Turkey, Abdul Hamid II., is 40 years old, and succeeded to the throne twelve years ago when the Sultan who precoded him was desposed. The King of Servia, Milan I., is 44, and was crowned only six years ago, hut before that lie had held the throne for fourteen years by election as Prince Milan Obenovich IV. The King of Sweden and Norway, Oscar II., is in his (10th year, and has reigned for sixteen years. He is a fairly liberal monarch, and has favored some reforms during his reign. Tho King of Roumanin, Carol I., is 40 years of age, and was proclaimed King only seven years ago, but for fourteen years before that time he had been Chief of the Roumanians. Money hy the Burrclful. Esopus paid for a single dish $400,ArtA uuu. Caligula spent for one supper $400,000. * Heliogabalus spent for one meal $100,000. ? Lucullus usuftllv pnid $100,1 for a repast. Apic'us expended in debauchery $2,000,000. Messala gave $200,000 for the houso of Antony. Lentulus, the soothsayer, had a fortune of $17,50",00^. 'I he philosopher Seneca had a fortune of $12,500,0001 CacJ-ar, before he entered upon any office, owed $14,075,000. Tib?rius, at li's death, left $118,125,000. which Caliguln ^ipent in loss than ten months. " Cleopatra, at an entertainment, gave Antony, dissolved in vinegar, who swallowed it, a pearl worth $40,000. Cr.isus posse-sed in landed property ' a fortune equal to $8,000,000, besides j a laiq.o sum of money, slaves, and furniture. Antony owed $1,500,0')!) at the ides ' of March, paid it before the kalends j i of April ft'id squandered $117,000,000 | of the public money. Trite Sayings. The greatest fool of nil is he who fools himself. ? Destroy ignorance nml let progression progress. Spend I ess nervous energy each day i than you make. "Books are the immortal sons defying their sires.'' I rop your bid habits and they cannot lower you. hi very nt canoe creates some kind of an impression. "Work like a mnn. I>ut don't be worked t"> death." Don't hurry. "Too swift arrives as tardily as too slow." Those who go for berries should not retreat from briars. We are no longer happy so soon as we wish to be happier. The man who does not provide for his family is not its head. Mvery temptation is groat or small according as the man is, I,ess argument and more work will make any person better off. Whig and Tory. The e is some discussion regarding ?lw. tiro) ~f II,., I . ? w | uir nini iiiiv Ul (III- IMIII ?? 111^ ttlltl "Tory," as applied to political facti >ns. "Torre" is an If all word meaning "give nie," and as such was used l>y bandits ami rubbers. In Scotland "Whig" means 'Tour nilk." Tory wbb first used politically i i ItiT'.t. when it became the name of the j arty ahoien's ef Tames, Duke of York. The "Covenantew".w?jre the first Whigs, and it is sail th"?y tofefTheir" f?art^ hf^VS'rmi!1 the motto, "Wo hope in Clod." * i New Kind of II oiimo IMauts. Wife?John, I do wish you would write to Edison and get a few of th >so electric light plants that I read of in the papor. John What would yon do with them ? Wife?I think it would be ao nico to mix them with the other plants in tho conservatory. John?I'm afraid they wouldn't stand the temperature there. ? i'ankec Blade. Fire in 1 >?Irl?^fes t toyet ?CjTthy & Bu(T>'s furniture faotorMuiif4ll & llunl'ii chair manufactory, tw pyrrol!/Cigar Works and A the Ostler Prindhg Hous>. Aggregate lost 125.1,000. OJ)l bellows Hall at Birmingham, Ala., ant other building* were burned, the Old Fellt*? Jodng all their records nud j regalia.??lowland Ljaci), a New York commercial traveler, was murdered in Chi- , cago. Al, Oraham, former Auditor of Warren oooity, Ohio, wat tentenced to ru) eightoen yews in prison and to pay a flna of 1120,42.5 forimb zz'.itig CU3.000 of the county'a ^ fund?. Hermann, the magician, in his decapitation apt, inflicted a gash upon bis wife's ^ throat by a (lip of the sword. Hundreds ?,_ of prairie schooners aro moving on to tbe g* Cherokee strip.-?Spotted fever or tn.alig- on iiant meningitis it epidemic in Summer ho| county, Tenn.?rThe discovery of several th soit coal veins itJ(tbsnoichborheod of Chain- L,a berlaio. South Dakota,W causing much ex- J Apscbes on tbe Salt river, ArUana, and in ^ a fight with them,filled two'cod captured J three. In ^quarrel about a family acaf.dnl George S. Turner, a wealthy mill owner ^ of Valley Falls, S. C., shot and killed his da brother-in-law, Edward Fingor. J. P. pa Mitcboll was blown into pieces by a nitroglycerine explosion in Franklin, Pa. Fire R^ at Jolict, III., dealroyod a block of buildings pu owned by J. E. Bmb. Ixws $50,000 Prof. EJwin D. Bangs, aged seventy-four years, a former teacher at Princeton, died at Galea- ur burg, III. E ght persons wtro injured in m a ruuaway sleighing accident in Baldwin, Jjj Wis. A big mass meeting was held in Topeka, Kas., in the interest of abolishing pi the prohibition law, which w.39 declared to cbo a failure. The funeral of lion. George c* H. Pendleton, who died in Germany, tooli place in Cincinnati. Tbe Anchor lino ot steamship Caledonia, at New Vork from the jo Medltarranean.^eD'Tts finding the aban- ^ taassft Yirlg itfogress, of GrlnaMM, in mid* ^1 ocean an 1 flreJ tbo wreck, the crew had pre- vv viously been taken oft and landed at St. 'n John's. _ A scheme has been discovered In Michigan ^ for the secret importation of Chinese, a nura- , ber of them who had been smuggled in boing captured by government oftlccrs. A dis- 'D pute over increasing the sa'nry of Rev. Mr. Williams, pastor of the Englewood First Presbyterinn Church, of Chicago, caused an exciting scene in the church. Tbe board jr of managers of tbe Ohio Penitentiary has et recommended E. L. Harper, the uotorious ^ bank wrecker, for pardon, he having four years more to serve. E W. Plane'sscreen w door factory at Bolvidei v, lii., w?? destroyed ja by fire. Loss, $23,030. Burglars broke into tbe jtwelry store of Rob?rtJ. Dunning, Kan- di 6QS C.tv find iinrlar # Ka <vU*>a light broke open the safe ?inJ got away with | $4,000 wovth of Oubtionds and other jewels. I latere to comp5^"e^l^^uJ*Ka,te* coi^nls- j' ^ sion 'r by foreign corporation*doing business ^ in that state. Such returns trill cover hundreds of million of dollars whioh now escape le taxation fc"he now and sleet storm did &i not effect the main peacb-growiug district of tho Delaware peninsula. >W-. H. Farnura, assisiunt secretary of the Nontbwestern Mu- g< tual Life Insurance Company at Milwiukie, li Wis, committed sulfide. ^Cllicdgo friends l! of United States Minlst.-r. i7g>foln express the opinloa that, in view of W&deatb of his ni #bn, hi will resign tbo eHlcoandTMurn home. w Mi 8. Joseph Kubus, of Greensburg, Pa , v prompted by jsalou-ly, shot and seriously ? wounded her husband. John Gibney, bia j wifeand their seventeen-year-oll servant girl j ^ were found nearly suffocateJ by gas in their b homein Philadelphia. The bslgian Steam- ^ ship De Ruytor, of the White Crosi Line, from Ant forp, went ashore on the rocks ^ near Scituat* Mass. Three children of r< Willi^n Robinson, m( p,"r Sjund, O.it., 11 we^l^aB^^^^Sj-^C-Wiilittiij bucknell,) ? the Philadelphia philanthropist, died of upo-> plexy, aged seventy-nineyeais. He bad given j hundreds of thousands of dollars to biptist b Cliurch and educational purposes. Rev. ? C ementM. Ru.ler, D. D.,a former chaplain of t (be Unitid States Senate, ilio 1 in German- a town, Fj., ago I eighty yetV. The strike o.' tho mill hnn Is at Niishua, rf. H., has been s ttied.? Ezra L. Stevens, for thirty years I chief clerk of tha Interior Department at Washington and "jp3 of the most prominent Free Masons in the United States, died at Asbury Pork, N. J. N. A. Watts, while oiling machinery in a mine at Joplin, Mo., H was caught in a set of rollers and crushed to tl death. Miss Ross Ryan, aged twenty yoars, V of Wilkesbarre, Pa., committed suicide be- ^ cause ridiouled by some of ber companions for leaving a convent because of ill-healtb. 1< ' Samuel Holley and bis family at Plain- " fl.-Id, N. J., were nearly asphyxiated by the ^ fumes of charcoal.?Michael Toney, aged c twonty-four years, was stabbed an I almost ' ingtantL-al."W. iy- brother. Dominick fcl Toney,.' .. ^nia.?^b* works of tho ? Pacific Rubber Company, at Elizabeth, N b J., were burned. Loss #15.000. Frank P. " Rhea, of Harrisburg, a baggage-master on ' the Philadelphia and Reading Railroad, was arrested at Allentown by a postal inspector ( j (or robbing the mails. Dicoy letters were ^ I found on him. FLOODS AND STORMS. b Tli* Water tn ttie Sllaslaalppl Itlver Up to Slic Itnngcr Point. j_ Tlis water in the Mississ ppistillcontinu * to rite. Opposite Arkansas Cily, in Ar z knnsas, the water rose five inches in two j v days It is getting dangerously h gh. In ? one plafto on tho lovee at Arkansas City it ! j, Incks but ten injhos of the top. Two weak ! - nines* ba?o been strengthened by sand bigs, j e It was reported that the levee above was in v danger, owing to rains and cattle crossing j ]? it to the higher lands. They had cut into ' a j and weaUenM it. The great st anxiety prt- | j vniis on the Arkansas side, and a repetition ! ! of the great o?, 1SS3 is feared. S >m j I .*V" llie M sthn general approhension. The water in the rlror oppo- 1 site Arkansas City, outside the levee, is eight ' feet higlier thin the inaiii stre-tof the cuy. J Ancverflm seems inevitable, and the ex- } poriencod are preparing for it. The winter, j I so called, in this state has bien rcmsrknblc. H Flowers are in bloom and trees in liud. Toe a | cold weather of the last tlve days has in t many instances billed th ? hu lsou Ifuit trco-, t ruining the prospects of a crop. v ?'? 1 John JSwIntoo, the labor fo/ormer, writes occasionally from Europe thM h? '? in gojd spirits and health aud enjoying himself, t /, 4 * A Terrible Wreck on the Lake Shore Railroad. i 'it Persona Killed and Nnny In* ure?l-One Section of nu KxprfM Train Runs Into the Other. Train 12 on the I^ake Shore from the West, i e in BufTtlo, N. Y., at 0.10 I*. M., and lining very fast to moke up for lost time, I uke in two near Hamburg, ct 8.50 o'clock. ^ e front part of the truin, consisting of en- | le, tender, sinokcr and the two day coaobe8 ' is quickly brought to a standstill. The rear i If, composed-of live beary Pullman's, came ; down the grade and crushed into the sec- I d day coach. .The Pullman being the i .-i?- l:??_-1 11._ J w . 1- * ' aiiiou iuv ujj uvovii iiuu 1110 air, auu -y now lio ono on top of the other, and both iug telescopsd the tirst day couch. 13oUi the day coaches and the Pullman were ^Q(pa??jua^j^^tbelo^ot life an! no or Iba aecident. Tnt rnlfroal a'uthor!i and amployaa refus d any iuformitlon mtever to the pres-\ Hamburg. N. Y.? As near as can be a?cerined, teu were killed and twenty-five inred at the wreck near Baj view. Train 13 d eleven coaclie ?three baggage, four y coaches and four Pullmans. The train xted some miles we t of Hand urg, at the upliog between the last d <y couch aud the stsleepor. The first section went on nh.-u.i id was stopped t>y conductor Ilougbtaling illing the bell rope. Most of them in the last day co ich were irnod iu time to loave, but those in the Qrst illman had no worning, end the oars met id telescoped with lurrilic torce. The Pullan wa> completely buried beneath the other r. Engine No. 34 was dispatched to Butlo for aid. It was two an 1 one half hours before the lysiciuus arrived. A wrecking train pre ded tt.e relief train, and work was begun JjKcatmg the imprisoned sufferers. Tne b xiies taken out were stretched in a ig;ogecar. A great bondllre o.i the si lo the track threw a lurid light upon the rrihle sceue A passenger says ibeciupig was defective. It broke preoisely in e same place as the train was leaving levclaud. At 12.SJ o'clock a relict train as made up, and ton of the most seriou-dy jured taken to the Hospital. iTC A CTCDC AMP! PACTlAITf CC 'iono i i^i\o nnu ^nourtH lJL,O. Fourteen ens s of smai:-p:>x are reported i Meriden, Connecticut. Tho stone dam of tho Roberdoll Mills, at ockiugham, Norm Cnro.ina, was destroyed f the high w.iter. The dam cost fod.OOJ. Thomas Qwnns and Jam s Leonard were jurod, the latter faintly, by the premature c plosion of a blast in a mine at Plymouth, a. Dr. Edward W. Morley, Professor of Chimtry at Adelbert Col ege, Cleveland, Ohio, as badly injurei by tbe explosion of a glass ir containing uraumm. The work of burying the victims of thj im disaster in Arizona is nearly completed, birty-nino bodies were recoverel and idenfled, and ten more are known to have been utr During an entertainment at Lamar, Ml* iuri, four men engaged in a tight. Mrs. lenry Short witnessed It, and during its rogresssbe fainted and died. She was sublet to heart disease. The cabin of a negro named Henry Oreen?, near Greenville, Mississippi, was burned, nd four children, i be eldest being live years f age perished in tho lluius. Tue parents ad gone to Church. Andrew Alexander perished in his burning kloon in WoodslJe, Indiana. The tire is beeved to hive been duo to the hostility of le c tizuis. It was the only saloon in woodde a small mining villago. A log train on a narrow guago railroad ear Washburn, Wiscousin, "ran away" bile descending a steep grade. Thomas /alters, engineer, aid William Carletou, reman, jumped oir and were ki 1 id. Two workmen in Pittsburg attempted to law out several sticks of Iroz n dynamite, n explosion followed that wr?ek*d tho luckstuitnshop wuere they were, an i killed Uvid Hayes ar.d fatally injured William noddy. At a ireitinir of the Linci-tir Count v agricultural Society, held in Laucaster.Pa., sports w ere read showing that the truit crop 1 that county "tiasli-en pructcdly destroyd by the late frosts.' Tn.re will, it is said, e "oo eariy Iru.t at all.1 While I.eroy Jones was riding home in a utnp.-r in Hanover county, V.rgiuia, his or so sbi.-d oir, throwing him out head forelost between the brace that held the s at of he wagon. His head was wedded in and he spokes of the revolving wheel crushed bis kail. HOUSES DISMANTLED. 'lie Cnvlnglii of ?? Mine Cniued is Miuclt I.ike an llnrlliqnnke. The suburb of Plymouth, l'a., kiiowne I as lurry's Hill was terribly shaken by acavo-in t 3 o'clock In the morning. 'Ihe cave was caused by the falling in of lie root in some abandoned woiking of the Vasliiiigton Colliery, 4.VJ feet be.ow the surace. 'lue shock was very violent, tho surace settling in sonio places 10 feet. Tin homo of Willi.in Kelley wuscompletey wrecked and four or five others were badiy uui'iged. The cave-ill created the greatest xciteineut. '1 he peop.e i ?u out into tbecoid i their night clothes, mrwiers with their bii iren in their arms, and, even strong men, i the wildest alarm at the suddenness of tue uvc. Wo ono was seriously hurt, though several rere truis d by falling furniture, etc. In everal instances fire broke out in the disaantled houses caused by stoves being upst, ut the flames were speedily put out.' A DESPERATE CRIMINAL. 'ruin Itoljhor llolzliny "h FiiiitcrM Nliot Oir Willie Alteni|diii|; In Far!%]>( . Reitnund Holzhay, the train robber and mrderer, now serving a lite sentence at the ranch prison, Marquetta, Mich., will never u'l a trigger again. All four fingers of his igbt hand have been shot away. The prison authorities sus;n>cte.l that Halhay meditated an escape. Vvuoii an attempt fas made to search birn, he seiz-'d another onvict, named Mesoroy, and, drawing a nifo. threatened to kill him if ho was ino stud. Aft.*r two hours vain endeavor to easor. with bim, Warden Tompkins succeedd in getting a snot at the convict'* band, in rbich be grasped tbe knife. The heavy bul3t tore away all of his right band linger* nd smashed the metacarpal bones. SUICIDE OF A MURDERESS. Tot Crying llnbe A trifct liillWIiOiSii" lion ol Hie I'risun Ollirere. Annie Cbomo, who was indicted with John venderosh for tho murder of her hu-bind, k<hn Chomo, at Pottstown, Pa., last Novetn er, committed suicide In her cell by han?ng herself witbasiik hind kerchief, whic'i be tied to a bar of tbec.'ll door. Thj keeper's ittention wns attract d by t ho cries of h r breo-inontb's old child. Kendercsh was ried and acquitted. After bis acquittal the voman became very melancholy, and beforo *einq taken from t!io courtroom cried out: Me hang! Me liany !' Shortly before she committed the deed she iad her babe Id her arms singing to it. t If rT-Fl|\5T vlwUIMMOi -* ________ Krnnl* X< . 50th Day.?The resolution offered by Mr. Voorheea in regard to the release of tbe fur f Real island* in Alaska to tbe North American c Commercial Company was reported hack I from the Finance Coiuinittoo by Mr. Mor rill,* adversely, on tbe ground that the Trees- * ury Department had already made tbe lease, 1 and that th j committee had no power to in* < terfere in the matter. A bill in relation to a ' 1 ridge acro-s tbo Arkansas river in the Indian Territory, which ha t passed both bousef rome days ago, was again reporto 1 and pamed on n statement by Mr. Vest that nil engros- I log clerk of the Senate had, in the engrossment of the b 11, otnittel one section. On j ' motion of Mr. Mcl'herson, tho Senat) bill np- I propriating |3 ),(XW for a monumental column j < to commemorate the battle of Trenton, N. J., 1 on condition that an equal sum was contrib- < uted by the Tionton Association, was takon > from iht calendar and passed. The Senate 1 tbeu {.ro ;oedcd to the consideration of xecu- ' tive business. < 51st Day.?Tho bill to regulate oommcrco I by telegraph was read in full. Mr. Gorman 1 said be wanted to offer some amendments, i it hou traction. A bill In- j talc'suhup.Mr. bsrOour/of V?rgInI o ,s|^^>| Me IM.ii>thn<ri>in?t it. | iu;i ivi auu ?*'. ?. ?u??m -5Vnd Day?Tbe bill to inor ass the effli cinoy sil l reduce the ex, ennci or the signal ' ;orps of the army, mel tor Uio trausrrof the i weatu r s rviee to the Department of Agri- ' Ieu lure, was reported and placed ou tbe eal- j 1 endur. Among tb- bills iniroiuced and re- ' I I f rr il were tbe to lowing: By Mr. Pusso? Fur i lie puni>hinent ot Odiccrs and others so- 1 b eting jurors with reference to political a.- I liliation. By Mr. Dawes ( y request)?To i amend tbe revis-d stu tub's so us to perui t I the | urcbaseand lejistry ot foreign built ves- I sels by eitiz ns of the Uuited Stites, fur em- | | ployiueut in the foreign trad.'. The Senate j then proceeded to the consideration of execu- I live business, | i 53rd Day Tbrt public Lallding bills on 1 1 the calendar having been r.'nche i. the fnl- ' lowing wt re pass (1: For Sterling, II $53 I 000; Oakland, Cal., $300,000; Cheyenne, ! ! AVyoming, $150,000; Chester, Pa., $1UO,OM); Helena, Mont.. $400,000. While the biscu - 1 sion was going on, the hour ot two o'clock having arrived, the bill went over without action, and the Blair Educational hiiloimt * , Upas tbe "unfinished business." Mr. Putt ' j and Mr. Harris desired Mr. Bluir to tlx a | tlrtie when the'Vu e cogld bo t ikon on the | bill. Mr. Blair said that ho whs unable to * | do so. At least live or six scuntois desired iosp?aKupon wu mil. biih iiih couc-iniiiig j speech of Mr. Evarls would necessarily take considerable tirn.?probably a full <lay. Hi tbeu proceode 1 to reply to sane of tin* criti- j cisms of the bill made by Mi*. Faulkner and ; Mr. Spooner. Mr. Hale spoko in opposition . to the bill and Mr. Blair replied to lua criti- I cisra. The iSenate adjourned after a short executive sossion. Hrase Nesslom 65Tn L)ay.?Tho consider* ion of the Ar- j kan^as contested election cis* of Foath*rstoue ' vs. Gate was resumed. Mr. Di zell, of Ponn- i sylvania, taking the fl >or. Mr. Coleman, of ! I.-cui9iana, olTcicda resolution n questing the i President to send to the House copios of all cerro-pondence between th? United Stutes and Mexicorelnting to th >s iznre ut the port of Tumpicoof the schooner Rebecca, in Feb rutry, ltS4. Referred. Tho following committee appoint moms were announced by tho Speaker: Messrs. T irsn *y, of Missouri, an 1 i Rsyburn, of Pennsylvania, on canns; Brick ner, of Wisoonsin, on M siissippi levees; Cheadle, of Indiana, on postdH :ea and post I roads. Pending further debute, the House, ! at 5.30 artj< urned. 56th Day.?Immediately after the rending O' the jourual the Arkansas election case of I-Vatherstone vs. Cute was resumod. Fnathers'ono was seated by a vote of yeas U"?, naya 135, and the oalh of oflleo was administered to bim by the Speaker. The House tbeu ad- j jonrned. 57th Day.?The House, in committee of | the whole, proceeded to the consideration of | public building bills. The first bill called up was that appropriating $37->,U00 for the pur- j chase of a site for a city postolHce in Wash- ' iugton, D C., mid providing for the erection of a building thereon at a cost of $31)0,(WU. .Mr. Cannon made a vigorous fight against ! the bill, moving to adjourn ami 1 cries of \ "dilatory motion," and raising the point of i no quorum, amid shouts of "tlllibustering." i The Mpoaker counted a quorum, and the bill was parsed. Tho House men adjourned. 58th Day.?On motion of Mr. Rogers , ( Vrk.) the Senate bill was passed authorizing j th3 construction of a bridge ncross tbe At- j kans.iB ri?er, In tho Indian Territory. Mr. j lluugen (Wis.) from tho Commit tej on Elec- : Hons, reported a resolution in the Ala) atna contested election case of Treat vs Clark. 1 he resolution, which was unanimously re- I ported, declares Clark eutitled to sot. in his | seat. It was adopted. The Speaker laid | tieiore mo nouse rue osnaio uni reiering 10 i the Court of Claims tho claim of \V. S ! Woodbridge for the use of his invention of projectiles for rifled cannon. Th? bill was defeated?yeas 111, nays 1'dS. The Housj took a recess until eight o'clock, the evening session to be for the consideration of private pension bil.s. 6'.Ith Day.?Tho House, in committee of the ? h >le, resumed Hie consideration of public building measures. The first lull called uji was that increasing from $H50.000 to $<?-VJ,00t) j the limit or cost of thn public buildings ct ; IVewurk, IV. J., nnd making an appropriation | of the $100,000 increase. O i motion of Mr. Cannon theappropriatingclause wawstrick"ii I out aud tho bill as aineudeU was laid nsule i with a favoratdn recommendation. Oiber \ I.tils favorably recommended were: lncreas- i ing to $!J50.U(jO the limit of cost of tho publio j building at Scranton, I'm; the Senate bill for a public building at Chester, i'a , (amended so ns to reJuoa the hunt from $100,000 to j S-SJ.000 and to strike out the appropriating I clause0 for a building at Columbus. Gu., at ' a li^ut of $100,000, The commitue then rose 1 and reported th.? bills to the House, which immediately found itself in a small deadlock. 7 There wee no quorum to pan the bill*. The House then adjourned. fHEY HAD NO PIED PIPER. low 11 ill on, Iiihh, <?ol II. <1 of 11 a 1'nrwo of Its m. Ti.o cstixms of Milton have sufTered so much from the ravages of rats that a great rat tiunt was organized. Captains were chosen nnd they 6electel sides. Eicj consisted of 105 men and boys over 15 years old. Whilb boys under 15 w re allowed one cent for their rat*. i no uuric uegan rriiay, r onnmry :ctit, j ami c.os al Marcn 7th, with a grntid street j parade and supper which was pai l for by tli i 'Miio showing tho leant number of rata killed. ; At>'.)ine barns as many as 175 were killed, iwbiie one man killed about 5lh) on his place. {Saturday, March 1st, tho rats killed up to that time were con ited and it was found that the Jtotnl was 11.076 and tnat Wi.liain Crockett's ] side was ahead of Dave George's lorces by 113 'rats. SAVED BY HIS SON. A Marrow Kscnpo Irian a Horrible Man w. hi'sUi in ix Wkw. Thomas Ho wells, of AiHfSfW| T'a., wasTt?3- J cued from a horrible den! h by his son David. T.;ey were employed as m ners in thi Huek Mountain slope, at ft >?t co llery, and hnv ng bored a ho e in the coal, they charged it with powder and ignited the fuse, ilolh start- <1 to run, but a huge niece of coal fell from tho top, striking Mr. Howell* and knocking hiin down, flisson heard the noise, and looking back, took the situation in at a glance. ltuni ning hack, he withdrew the light? 1 fine in ! i i n? lo prevent the explosion. Had he heen a moment later, both lather and Hon would have been blown to atoms. The coal was removed from his father, when it was lound that ho had sustained serious iujury. Tins cncitcH avd tiik saloow. The rresbytery, in a recent session at Era* >orio, Kansas, representing seventy-six hurches, and .V512 members, passed the most tronounccd resolutions, denouncing the iquor traffic, declaring that all merely retrietive and regulative laws in regard to it ivere failures, and that, all legislation which iocs not look to its utter suppression is weak uul vicious. the drunkard's wife. A Now York correspondent of the Cincin* iiati Enquirer says: I^ast week I quoted a narrative given to mq l>y Dr. \Villiani ! '. Wrig',.t, of our city boa* ? '^-v, UIIM H'M? t HO? u o moo one from his lips. "I know a man," lie said, "who was a civil engineer by profession, born in Geneva,8wlt- v leriand, and a graduate of tlio Polytechnic School at Zurich. Ilia wife belonged to a wealthy family in Uie Canton of Hchwytx, one of the oldest families in tho oldest canton of Switzerland. In opposition to the wishes ot her people they had been married, x ind she had accompanied him to this country, ' where ho had^becn^successful fro^thejjbnit. rcnUemSnVHis Wife was young, refined and' beautiful. It was but little more than a year later that the ambulance Surgeon enrao to. my room about 6 o'clock in the morning to report a caso ho had just brought to the hospital. A woman lincf been shot in n Bowery concert linll. Her wound was in the neck. It was nothing serious, and the palient would require no further atleution until morning, ho said. I Iherefore renewed my sleep, and did not see the patient uilil I made my rounds of tho wards Iho following day. As 1 draw back Ihe curtains of hbr couch 1 noticed her ?audy clothing in the chair by the bodside, ivhere it hud been left by the nurse. I hardly glancen at her lave as I removod the rlressings from her throat and examined tho wound. It was a slight. alTair, tho bullet linving caused a mere flesh wound of no preat importance. I told tho nurse what Iressiug to apply, and gave instruction to liavo the patient moved to another ward. As '.ho nurse loft mo to carry out my instructions, ami as I turned to leave, the young woman spoke to me. "You do not recognise mo, doctor?"' 1 saitl l had no recollection of ever having seen her boforo. "And yet you have," sho answered. "Only a year ago I came here to flutl my husband in a ned in this same room." I looked at her more closely, and recalled. her at once, though sho had changed gfoatly. Klie still liatl the same wealth of hair, while her eyes were as beautiful as ever; but her faeo was pinched, and in place of t ho proud expression it had worn wliou i Imd soon her lost was one of anxiety and trouble. "Yoii aregrc.atly surprised to seo maunder such circumstances, are you not?" she added, as I stood looking at her. wondering * . . of I.A.I ..l?o ,.1 I.AM mint Miiiu^u nixin ui iui uiim iiuu |>iu<;uu uci there "lam, indeed," I answered. She hid her face in the blanket and sobbed like a child. I tried to quiet her, and, taking a seat l\y the bedside, said all that I could to remove tho feeling of shame from which 1 thought she was sulfering. "No, doctor, you are mistaken," she said, interrupting ine and looking up at uio. "I have nothing to bo ashamod of but my love for my husband. I am sorry to have you know what I must toll you." Site then informed ine how misfortune had followed them from tho day Iter husband had mot with his injuries. He had lost the position ho hold at the litno. Ilis friends had failed him, and disappointment after disappointment had attended his efforts to obtain? 1 work. And then ho had begun to drink heavily. They were obliged to leave their pleasant homo and part with nearly every thing of value which they possessed. Hho had tried to earn money in various ways. Rho had obtained a few young girls as pupils, and taught thorn French, Gorman and music. But she coidd not earn enough in this way to support herself and husband in tho homo she felt site must have. So, in desperation, sho had accepted the offer of (lie proprietor of tho concert hall where sho had been iujurod, and sang there every evening. Tha salary sho received, with tho money she earned as teacher, had enabled litem to live comfortably, but she regarded Iter work in the concert hall us humiliating, although she was required to sing but a few tilings each night. She arrived at midnight, and at 1 o'clock her duties were finished and she went home with iter husband. The night before, as she was leaving the hall, a man had insulted her, and when she repulsed him he hud shot her and made his escape. She had hardly finished her story when tier husband came into the ward. Certainly he had changed much more than his wife. Dili * ing my attendance upon her I tried to influence the husband to stronger and better efforts than lie had made. I found he bad ltecomo entirely dependent upon liis wife,and seemed to regard all attempts on his part to work as needless. One morning when 1 called sho met nie with a frightened face, her eyes swollen and rod with weeping. He had returned tho night before more intoxicated than she had ever seen him, ragged and dirty I found him sleeping on a lounge. As 1 stood looking down upon him, half in pity and half in disgust, for he seemed more iienst than man, lie suddenly awoke, and, springing to his feet, stood glaring at mo with flic wild expression of a maniac. I saw tlx,! I n xnwa ,.f ,xx.c nn hands. I spoke to him. l?nt he would not nnswor. I saw his hands working in a nervous manner, and a certain wicked gleam in his eyosassurcd me that I was in for a fight with a madman. I had passed through many such experiences, and, therefore, did not shrink from this. I watched his every movement, telling his wife to leave the room and call un officer if one was to l>o found. Hardly had she de{?arted when, with a veil I shall never forget, le sprang at me, and before I could defend myself in any way, I was thrown to the floor, and his hands were tightening their grasp oil my throat in a manner far from pleasant. Oraapiug bothqt bis wrists tightly, and_exTKMI'KRANCK NEWS AND NOTES. Belgium has 5500 schools, but 136,000 drink shops. For public instruction it spends 15,(HMi,000 francs; for intoxicating liquor 135,000,000, The Rev. Father Murphy, of Olyphant, Penn.. says ho is going to put down Sunday liquor-selling in the town, if he has to import a city detective and pay him out of his own pocket. Nicolai Uspenski, a Russian novelist and poet, considered of as great genius as TurgencfT, has just died. For over thirty years a slave to drink, ho had lived the life of a common tramp. Miss Susan B. Anthony, when questioned ns to the truth of the report that sin? would have wine at the banquet celebrating her seventieth birthday, replied: "1 would as soon have arsenic." Senator Dawes has presented to the Fnited States Senate 2(0 petitions from Massachusetts asking the Government to prevent thenlleged exportation from this country to Africa of H0(i,(KM) gallons of liquor each year. Total abstinence, says Canon Wilberforce, has the power of prolonging more lives than all the doctors of Kngland, of saving more I money than nit the savings hanks in the I mi". 1 Kiniiiluiii. ami of uravenLuuz more crime than all the police or the metropolis. In New York recently Isaac Jacob shot, dead Herman Kogozinski, and dangerously wounded the wifo of this man. and tried to kill tho son and then blew out his own brains. The newspaper accounts say that he had with him n flask of whisky, from which he had been drinking freely. "We believe," says the Canada Health Journal, "that there is no better direct remedy for intemperance than strict vegetarianism. Sir Oharlos Napier tried a vegetable diet as a cure for intemperance in twenty seven cases, and tne cure was effected in every ease, tho time varying from thirty* bix days Co l<vdrommtUw." - _