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* Devoted Agriculture,^ ^" ?_JZ_^|!' ,? "^S/,_ " ?? aHHr 1. .?.ii?? i ? ? * i. j - . , ? __________________ . ? ? 1 I., ^ * ' * -*?- - - ~ XXI.?NEW SERIES. UNION C. H., SOUTH CAROLINA, MARCH 28, 1890^1 * ^ ? ^-V _ - ^ A " - I I WHY! Heart of me, why do yon etafht Why droop your eyalfde, pale mad ?hy, Like enow-flakes that on violate lie? Why do yoa sigh, my heart? Bweel log. wherefore do you weep Till the flowers that May winds steep When tbo day hoe sunk to sleep, boom from b.'ds o' dew to peep? Why do you weep, my sweet? Oh, niv love, whence conies this glow, like the sunset on the snow, Which on your fair faee doth show ? Why do you blush, my qneen? Must I speak your answer, dear? listen, then, and you shall hear Why you sigh, and weep, and blush? Why e'en now you hid me hush. a ting, oh, sing, ye birds that be; Answer, muslo of the saa; A GREAT TREASURE,; ) The Strange Mystery Surrounding! Its Disappearance. ? ? A STORY OF EXTRAORDINARY INTEREST. EY FRANK BARRETT. CHArTER V ^ i"^ , \Pg^/ ^inUDU MM M * II U N agreement, i though wo hai not yet do- ] JHKa ci(l?d in j ^|^^what m on SMbfe " BB^BS, "I am glad ?HM^S4Mp^^0H^HBto hear BB^Sa33B^HDh e aaid; " an yt hing " ^^BaEBI^F' will bo better than that agreement ?r it stands." Edith camo down late to breakfast. She looked pale, and said sho had overslept herself. "For tho tirst time in j*our life. I believe," eaid Sir Edmund. "You did not full asleep quite ro readily as usual ? hey?" he asked, smiling. "I could not sleep," she answered, but ; so gravely that I saw it was not from tho | cause the baronet implied?the love that had kept mo awake; and then she added, , "I have been teriibly frightened." We looked at her in astonishment and anxiety. "I will tell yon all alont it," she cou^ . rUBJrtW, UaiBuaeytWrRay few able to exjju plain what perplexeR me, and that will be a great relief." 7?i j is 11 k k..ikn..Mkin ?ne pauBtJil, ?v? n IV vruncn uei iuuujju?a, if v ?nd then said: r' "I wsh nearly asleep when I notice! a sound coming from the window. It was S ns if some one were rapping upon thi glafl i?not lou llv or quickly, but softly, as though with the tip of the finger, and at intervals. I might have counted twenty or thirty between o.ie tap and the next. I took little notice of it at first, thinking that as I had loft the window partly open it might I e tho wind moviDg the Venetian blind; but alter a while the persistent tap?-tap?tap irritated mo. I rose and lit a candle. then I went to the window. The lattice was just as I had left it. The blind hung perfectly motionless. I drew it up and looked out. 'J here was a gray mist everywhere. Not a breath of air stirred; tho flame of the candle burned as steadily as though the window had beeu closed. I .let down the blind and listened; (hero was not tho slightest sound. "A moth on the ceiling," said Sir Edniundi "they have worried mo in the same on; we ain't heerd the last oa it, J kin see," said tho Judge, looking at Miss Eoscelles intently, his shaggy brows bent over his quick eyes. "I explained it as you do. papa. I put out tho light and triod to sleep. I heard no souud for quite ten minutes, I think, ami then again that soft, slow tap top? tap came from the window?the same round, with the samo long interval between them. It was not like the heat of a moth's wing. It was like nothing but the touch of a human fingor. But I tried to think it was an insect in the wall?tho insect that is called the 'death-watch.' And f did ray host to take no notico of it, but I could not help hearing it, and after a time 1 grew frightened, ami tho sound grow droadful in mv ears. It became unondur ante; l could not lie thero listening puHsivelv. I got up again nnd Btruck a mateh. The wick of the candle was alow to light, and during these moments I noticed that the Bound had ceased. As I say. I was frightened?veiy frightoued. And the unbroken silence seemed more terrible than the sound. Thero was something ghostly and supernatural about it that brought back tho old terror I used to feel us a child in passing the room that is said to be haunted nt night. And just then the clock in tho belfry struck. I dared not go to the window. My hand trembled so that ! could not take up the candle, but I looked toward tho window. The first thing tbnt struck mo was that the laths of the blind, instead of lying flat, as they generally do when down, and ns I hud left them,were opono I and turned odgeway. Do you know how I mean?" She hold her hand, that trembled with tho recollection of her terror, one above the other horizontally. "Hut tho next thing," she continued, and then stopped, with a little shudder, while we who listened held our breath? "the next thing I saw was two groat black eyes that caught the light from my candle in between the lower lathsof the blind." She paused, and then continued, with moro firmness: "I think I fainted; 1 must have done so, for I was conscious of nothing after that, until I found myself upon the floor. The light was still burning upon the table. As recollection returned to me, I looke 1 toward tho window. The laths i WCie no loneor fiiiim I.til I in-.,...1 #!..? Then it occnrreit to me that nil I had scon ! whh merely imaginative; that it wan more- i ly a realistic dream; that 1 had gone through these experiences in my sleep. ] My great terror was gono. I wont without 1 fear to the window to ascertain if the I night was as I had seen it. There was 1 the gray mist; the flame of the candle did ] not flicker. Noverthcle-s. when I looked ||4 down ami saw how impossible it was I P for any one to have stood outside the window, I felt convincod that at least tho i vision of tho two eyes was imaginary?an | ontcorno of the fear 1 felt when I looked toward the window. I lay down again, I and, though I could not sleep for some j ] tinv, 1 heard no further jound whatever, j H*ve tho chiming of the click." J 1 "Is it not Yery probable, my dear, | mid the baronet, "that the souud you ' peak of was also the outcome of fear? "I had no fear when I went first to the rindowr. The sound was a reality. It is bnt I wish explained." "Do you know what time it was when he tapping first ?egan, Miss Lasoelles?" ITan Hoeck asked. ' "It was a qnarter to one by my watch ' yhen I recovered from the fit. "May I ask. Miss, without offense, if a hing o' this kind hes ever happened you j ifore?" asked the Judge. "As a child I was timid, but I cannot eraemberever being so frightened." " You don't look as if a trifle would 1 ikear you, I will allow," and, rising from ' lis chair, the Judge added, "if you'll ex- 1 ! land in this game." ' "By all means," said the baronet; 'tho sooner the truth is dieooYerod the >etter." "We all went out on to the lawn which 'a-ed that part of the building in which Edith's 100m was situated. On the way Van Hoeck, who had takou rny arm for guidance, gripped it tightly, ind whispered: "What did I tell you? This is tho beginning of the end!" CHAPTER VI. It is necessnrv for the reader to know what kind of building Monkon Abbey was, ind souiotbiog of the disposition of its rooms, in ordor to follow clearly the action of the drama that took place within i s walls. I can do no hotter than to givo the description by which I brought the facts. Iioine to the comprehension of my blind partner. "Toll mo what you see, Thome," ho 3aid, ok we stood on tho lawn. "An old Gothic building, flankod by two later additions in the Tudor style, that project lnsyoad it."' "I don't understand," ho snid, impatiently; "can't you make it clearer to me?" I had a note-book in my pocket, and pressing the met dlic pencil hard upon the paper, I drow this rough diagram: He passed his sens live fingers over the impieseion. "Tho two end blocks are tho additions you Hpeak of, tho space botween them the old part. I understand. Go on," he Knid. "The grent door is in tho center of tho old part, tho dining-room in on ono side, the library on the other. The floor above is occupied by the picturegallery. It has a gable roof, and the belfry riseB from the middle. The block on the right" antTThat "fen'"the lefltire altke. The ground floor is divided into drawingrooms, sitting-rooms, kitchens, etc." "Where is the dairy, and the door that is left open at night for tho Kid?" "At the back of the house; it CAnnot be seen from nore. "Is that in tho right block or the loft? " "In the right; tho kitchen is in the left. On the first floor nro the principal bedrooms; the servants' are above. Our rooms are in tho right block, Sir Edmund's and Miss Lnscelles' nro in the left." "Whnt means of communication aro there? For instance, how could Sir Edmund get to your room?" "By simply passing through the picturegallery." "I understand; go on." "There nro two oriel windows nnd a hay in the end of the left block facing us as we stand here." I drew another diagram to explnin tho windows to Van Hoack. Ilore it is: "The oriel on the left," I continued, "projects from Sir Edmund's room, that on the right from Miss Lascelles'. There aro stone mullions at tho angles of tho orioi aim inmce winnows neiwoeu, nung inside with Vonetiau blinds. I have marked a cross where Miss Lascelles saw the eyes looking through. The oriels are supported by corbels. Thoy are perfectly inaccessible from the ground except by a ladder." "lint from the story above?" "There are no windows over the oriel. The only means of descent would bo by a rope from the roof." "Aio there any other means of getting at tho w indow?" "None whatever that any human being could use." "What is this projection between tho oriels?" he askod. feeling the paper. "A two-sided bay carried up from the ground to the gable, pierced with latticed windows from top to bottom. It gives light to the stairs inside." "I>otho windows ojhu?" "Yes." "And what distance is there bet ween the windows in the bay and Miss Lascelles' window?" "Seven or eight foet at least." "And tho wall between is perfectly flat?" "Thore is a stone molding runs along parallel with the door of tho first story and the base of the oriel." " Why didn't you tell mo that?" ho askod, sharply. "because it is perfectly impossible for any ono to walk along it." "What width has it?" "A fow inches. It seems to ho merely a stone gutter to carry oft' wator from the oriel." "Is there no ivy on the houso?nothing to o itch hold of?" "Thore is no ivy, but them is a pipe midway uetwoen tlio bey nnd the oriel; it deRoonds from the gable to the gutter." "What! and you toll mo it is impossib'o to get from the hay to the window?" "I Htill moan what I said. The gutter is so narrow that no one, even faring the wall closely, could stand on it and maintain a center of gravity." "Hut with the aid of the pipe?" "The pipe is four feet fiom tho hay and four feet from the oriel. Now. suppose Lola, for I know whom you (inspect, got from the window in tho hay, she would havo to advance holding to tho inullion of the window for support, and with ono hand only, until the other could touch the pipe, a span of four foot." Four feet; that is not impossible, unless the girl is short-limbed.' "It is impossible, if in holding to tho [million or tho pipe tho girl had to support |iart of herown weight." "Let us go up ami measure tho width of :he lodge," sai I Vnn Iloeek; "it may appear fiom below less than it is." Wo wen', up to my bedroom in tho right block, w hich, as I have said, corresponded i " i in every external respect to the block on the left; and from the oriel 1 measured the width of the stone ledge oat'ide. V#n Hceck's supposition was Just; it was wider than I expected, measuring a trifle loss than my span, which is nine inches. Van Hoeck placed himself flat against a wall, and turning out bis toes until h^ obtained the limit of width uponwhioh he conld sustain his equilibrium, bade me measure the distance betweoa his heel nnd tho wall. I fonud it was fully three inches within my span, and was astonirhed to perceive npon how narrow n spaco ono may stand with safety. This settled the point. Lola might well have passed along the ledge with safety. "Now," said Van Hoock, "draw me a plan ^of the room*, roughly and broadly, showing their relative position to the stairs, the bay, and the pic ture gnllory. '* tvt* J \f.. }i~l * x '< \ \ ? * ii six :: 3(Tlr6> 1 "-++ ? 5 ?? f K X-* !K(~TZ in LJ_ [TO BE CONTINUED.J A Now Evangelist. Mr. E. P. Brown, who is spokon of in the papers as "the reformed Chicago humorist and infidel," is drawing crowds in the West with a lecture entitled "From Ingersoll Park to Beulah Land," says Texas Sijt-ngs. Mr. Brown was an infidel from youth, and was an early disciple of Bob Ingersoll. For years he celebrated the birthday of Tom Faine ? we almost said religiously?ho wrote pamphlets against Christianity, and delivered infidel addresses. Ho made a fortune in Cincinnati printing patent-inside newspapers, and then-he retired from business, tmying a farm in Indiana and building a beautiful and costly home. But growing restless for nowspaper work he connected himself with The Chicago Lkdof.r as humorous writer, in which line he excelled. In Chicago he was convertid under tho preaching of Mr. Moody, and immediately took up evangelical work, which he has been pursuing vory successfully through preaehing and lecturing ever since. Tho writer of this knew Mr. Brown well in Cincinnati, and can attest to his honesty, ability and thorough sincerity, ile was a good fellow as an intidel, and it is not likely that his conversion has caused a deterioration of his good qualities. One Rainy Bay. Drip! drip! drip! The clouds wero black in the sky and the rain would not p/"\T\T "d though Haddv and Hay >t30dr^ " indow wishing for Hie tnat tl ,*rnn over-to annties tc r>ce Grade. Mamma was nearly beside hersell with their noi-e and teasing, She had tri' d every way to quiet them, and she was so tired. Tbo door opened and Aunt Ijetty came in, wet and dripping. "Why, what's the matter witli my boys?" she asked. The story was soon told, and sho said, "Is that all ? I thought the express train was smashed up, or the rocking-horso had his leg broken. We'll soon have the sun shining, in the house, at least." Then she begged some old newspapers of mamma, and taking a pair of sensors sat down by the tiro with a boy in a little arm-chair on each side. Such wonderful things as those sharp nrihmirn cut irom mono oi<i papers I There wore team-horses and trottinghorses and saddle-horses with men on their hacks, and horses that could only stand still. There were cows and pigs and Jiens and dogs and cats and?and ?e\vy thing! Iladdy and Hay shouted for joy and forgot all alnrnt. the rainy day, and when at last Aunt Lotty said she must go. mamma bade her good-by with a rested look in her poor tired face and saitl she was a sunbeam. And the boys had paper animnls enough to last them a week. Proverbs from the Talmud. l)o not to others what you wonld not have others do to you. A simple light answers as well for a hundred men as for one. * .... ..11.. , .. *i? -i 1 ? i& uiTiciVfUTvu in mt* urhun, ruuuuns a myrtlo. Hospitality is an expression of (livino worship. Thy friend lias n friend, and thy friend's friend 1ms ft fiicnd; bo discreet. Deal with those who tire fortunate. The weakness of thy walls invites the burglar. The place honors not the man; 'tis the man who gives honor to the placo. If a word spoken in its time is worth one piece of money, silence in its timo is worth two. The doctor who prescribes gratuitously gives a worthless prescription. 'lho rose grows among the thorns. No man is impatient with his creditors. Two pieces of coin in one bag make more noise than ft hundred. Man sees the mote in his neighbor's eye, but knows not tho beam in his ow u. THE NEWS, B'shop Shanley, of North Dakota, appealed to a large congregation In the Philadelphia Cathedral for aid for the Cbippawa Indians, whose coalition be described as most de plorable, hundreds of them on the govern| roent reservation having neither sufficient j food nor shelter. H. W. King, prefect of I the Pennsylvania inttitutlon for the instruc| tion of the Blind, la Philadelphia, was arretted on the charge of immoral conduct made by the pupils.? A quarrel over a pew in St. Mark's Catholic Church, at Pougbkeepeie, N. Y.,caused a flzht, In which the priest and several of the congregation participa'e.L Firecaui>d a panic ?roon; the inmates of the H<m?e of G >od Shepherd, to a strike of the htVHt*r-A poet bf the Grand Army of the Republic is to be formed in Montreal of Can-idians wlio served the ITnlnn funk (Jrotlner. of Alieirbenv City, Pa., murdere 1 his ten-year old stepdaughter. John William*. an Englishman owner of a large cattle ranch in Montana, while on his way to New York to sail for Liverpool, stopped in Milwaukee, where ho met Emit Constants, who showed him the sights and relieved his pocketpook of $l,4X). Governor Thayer, of Nebraska, is nzain after the railroad manager* for a lower freight rate on corn for the benefit of the farmers. Henry Boes and bis wife were fatally injured at Holland, Mich., by a fas' train on the Chicago and West Michigan striking their carrage.^?Eli Stahlnakcr, in a fit of insanity, attempted to murder Constable Prater, and thon committed suicide, at Pleasant Hill, Mo. A landslide at Troy, N. Y., destroyed n dwelling, and three persons were killed. Two children of Mrs. John Cline, of Greenburg, Pa., w.*re poisoned by eating wild Ecary Purd^, bis wifs and daughter were all killed by a locomotive striking tbeir carriage at Jackson, Mich. By on explosion of boilers in a colliery engine room at Carbondale, Pa.,two m.'n were killed. The Philadelphia Conference of the Methodist Episcopal Church rej-oted a proposition to increase the lay representation to tha General Coaference. Tho federal contract labor inspectors ut Castle Garden have lioen neglecting their duty and the commissioners of immigration have discovered that hundreds of men under * i > tUllirat t im vu ucoii pci iuhvvu iv mu<j 111 m? rect violatio 1 of the law. Mrs. Urover Cleveland laid the cornor-stone of the new eye and ear infirmary in New York city. The South Pennsylvania Railroad was sold at sheriff's sale to parties In tho interest ol the Reading Railrovl. Henry Sutliffe, ol Plymouth, Pa., committed suicide, beciu? his wife upbraided him for remaining oul after ten o'clock at night <T. T. Sander* pqt&tyiLP>??? Bgaaa'i' N.C.,wa? nrresteJ i* St^fVranoisoo, oharget with robbing the mi^ils,?-rTbe new method ist college, to be known ait the University of the Northwest, is to be looited in Sioui City, Iowa. Two maiden sisters, age. j thirty-three and thirty five, respectively wore found dead in their home, near Con cordia, Kansas. Judge Andrew J. Davis tho richest man in Montana, diei at Bu to Mootana, aged seventy-one years. llii wealth was estimated at$l0,00J,(X)0. Fortj women received the degree of medical docto at the Woman's Medical College in PhilaJe.' phia. Miss Allie Atkinson, aged eighteei years, was bouad gagged, and brutally as saulted by a tramp near Pleasant Hill, Mo The Ohio aud Northwestern Rnilroa I running from Cincinnati to Fortsmout. Oaio, was sold by United Stat.s Marsbu Biraraouds for *000,000 to the Fhiladelphi; Investment Company. Tb> property is th ^ old Cincinnati and Eastern road, and ha< two mortgager on it^pggregating $170,000 ?rmTTH"Juhy,-wt?C^)\irni5a",_ttli " tiro Loin caused, it is supposed, by discharged work men. Loss (31,000. James Miller a j Lexington, Vo., was acquitted of the charg , of killing Mrs, Dr. Z. J. Walker at Browm burg, in November, 1 bdJ. The fcdcru > t'llicinls raided several illicit s.ills in Wayn county, W. Va., and captured the moon i shiners Henry Nurse, n farmer of Clintoi couuty, Iowa, wuh fouud murdered iu hi home, an i b.s wife serioudy wouuded. liy the mistake of a drug dark in New Yorl 1 city, Mrs. J. B. McGuire was nearly ki.le receiving digitalis lor licorice powder. 1 State Treasurer NoJand, of Missouri, is shor In his account8 about |3i,000. John Wi ioujs, ui loiK, passed fifty couuterfei dollars on saloon-keepers of Trenton, N. J The enow along the llio Grand j Railroad , in the mountain passes of Colorado, is fron forty to sixty feet doep. Twelve freigh cars went down with a trestle fifty feet or the Georgia Pacific Uuilroad, near Binning ham, Ala., and a number of trainmen wen injured. Mrs. Kliz i Chester, mother in law of-diah^g \\%rtnf?r, of I'hila lelphia died at his residence in thntci y, aged ninetyfive years. Charles E.zinger, a jsweler of Cleveland, Ohio, went to the theater, lenv ing Louis Ooldsoll, his brother in law, ngtxi nineteen, in charge of the store. Ooldsoi skipped with $4,000 worth of diamonds. MARKETS. Bai/timorr? Flour?City Mills.extra. $4.&] ' &t4.4'J. Wheat?Southern Fulfcz. ku.mi | Corn?Southern White, :17.i38 eu, Yellow Sr>,(ga35>6c. Oats-Southorn and Pennsylvania .'7&.?>ctH.; Kyo?Maryland fen nay Ivan a 6>a57ci?. . Hay?Mary laud and Pennsylvania 12 Via# 13 0J;Straw-Vvheat,7.60a#;>. 00, butter, Eastern Creamery, 26a28c., near-by receipts 10a20cts; Cheese?Eastern Fancy Cream. 11 all>? eta. ?Western, OalO cts; Eggs?12 al2^j -, Tobacco Leaf?Inferior, flal. 00, Loud Common, 3 00n#4 00, Middling, #5u7.00 Loud to line red,8a#'J; Fancy, 10o$13. New York?Flour?Southern Common to fair extra, f2.50a62.85i Wheat?Nol WLit 87aH7^; Kyo?State. 57af>0; Corn?Southern Yellow,37a:{7V-Cats-White, State 2*;XaM)4 cts. Uattei ?State, 8al7?.? cts. Cheese?St U), *Kal?^ Eggs-Wail^ cU, PniL.ADKi.PHiA ? F.our ? Pennsylvania fancy, 4 25a4 75; Whdtt?.t/F/hsyivanin an 1 Southern Ked, 85a01; Kye?Pennsylvania MaOOc; Corn?Southt-rn Yollow, 3?>?ai5 cts. Oate- cts; butter-State, za&M ct? ; Cheese?N. Y. Factory, 0a0>$ cts. EggsState, 13>/nl4 cts. CATTLE. It a L.TI work?beef, 4 7?al *J); Sheep?*5 00 n5 75, Hog9?ft 75i5 25 Neiv York?Beef?Ift00a7 00;Sheep-*5 5!) 6 25; Hogs?14.4') i4 65 East LuiBRry?Beai??4 25 vl 50; Sheep? $i 50atl 20; Hogs?$4 30j4 4 a j Chief Justice Fuil or stubbornly refusos to shave ofT his moustach*. Ever since he was appointed to his pr s -nt position be h is been urged on all side* t< tike this atjp, i ut up to toe pre ent time he maintains on hui upp.r lip a flawing hirau j adornment, / \*S, State of trade. Effects of the Weather on Merchandise Movement; i'borfccil by Floodk In tbe Month, itnd Improved In the Eutnnd Wctt by Mild Wealhtr. A?> reports 1 in s;>eclal telegram' to Brad street s, the week his been marked by a noticeable check in the movement of general merchandise through Jut the lower Mississippi Valley owing to fliols and fears of further overflows. This is conspicuous in Louisiana. Unfavorable weather and high water have had an effect also throughout the Onto River valley. Trade at San Francisco continues depressed by the "a'l Winter storm," but the outlook is for an improvement Wheetis snovinx rapidly iu California, and is going abroad in large consignments weekly. An improved raerohun Use movement is r^Dorted from Boston. Pitta burr, Kamu City, Chicago tai Omaha, stimulated in part by mild weather and most conspicuous in groceries, clothing, boots a-.nl shoes, drugs an 1 hardware. Hogs and cattle are in better demand, and prices tend upward. February gross earnings of 136 railroads companies heported to BradatreeVa aggregate 123,981,633, with a touil mileage of 77,385 against #25,837,195 and a mileage of 75,534 in February last year, a gain iu earnings of 12.1 per cent, and in mileage of 2 4 per cent. For two months the total earnings aggregate |6J,02), 679, a gain over last year of 13.2 per cent. Reports to Bradslreet a of ava lable stocks of grain East of the Rocky Mountains, United States and Canada, shows uniform d ?creases last week. The decrease of onlv 817,35 > bushels of wheat was surprisingly small. Increased stocks at Minneapol.s, Duluth, Mou- 1 itoba and Northwestern Ontario points ex plain why the decrease was not 1,500.(3.0 bushels. Exports of wheat (and flour as wheat) this week, both coasts, the largest for months, equal 3,097,033 bush)lsa<alnst 2,431,869 busueis last week and 1,250,8)3 l.us io s the tirst week of March, 1839- iSmo July 1 last-, the total exports of wheat have equals d 74.422,233 bushels, as oompared with 61,933,456 bushels in a like portion of 18S8 80. Wheat prices, after declining on the Government report of 156,000,009 bushels iu farmers1 ban Is Marob 1, advanced on loreigu takings and reported damage to Winter sown wnuar, closing 1 cent to cents up on the week. Brada reel'a reports as to stocks of wheat in farmer's bands March 1 po nr. to a lot il of abou ) 136,0130,000 bushels. Dry goods are fairly active but the demand has not equaled expectations, except from tli s South. Agents report ro assorting demsn is moderate. Prices are generally well h)ld except for colored cottons, which rule in buyers favor. Foreign gosdsare slow and the who esalo clothing trail) is quiet. Raw wojI is in better demand at Boston. Territory an t Australian grades are active. Cotton is 1-16 to cent higher ia all markets on generully ?oou demand, small stocks and light crop i movement. , Exportsof cotton for six months of the orop year aggregate 4,077,"GO bales, valued tic ' f20o,060,502, n gain of 1ft |M*r cent, ill quantity > and If.5 per cent, in valuo over last yoar. t Breadstuff*exports for ei^ht months irrigate (01,847,078, an increase over last year of 15 per cent. ' DISASTROUS FLOODS. (he IllMUalppl BUerHtrctchcs Over 1 tbc Ltrcrs. i Th> river at New Orleans at 8 A. M. was , sixteen feet and three-tenths; at 3.45 it was reported by the harbor station at sixteen feet , nine inches, and at 2.50 they reported the , water at seventeen foul; but it remained at s that point but a short wliiie, when it receded j to sixteen feet eight inches, where it Boomed r to make a stand. This was six inches abovo the record of other yenrs. i The city is lower than the river. The water is all through the streets, an 1 is being puuipei out at the back part ot the city into Bake u Pontcbartrain. ? The fall ot water may exceed the capacity of the pumps and flood the whole back of the town, but all possible efforts are being made tooheck the ovorflw. ? M km puis, Tenn.?The rivers are in an j alarming condition. The highest fl jod-.'evel j ever recorded has alrea ly been reached at many points south of here, and will likely be 1 attained from Cairo to the Gulf within tb* . Thn'VSlATM'/Jlari 3 sums up a total of from two to three incb6<i over tbe country tying west of tbe Mississippi t to tbe Indian Territory and soutb ot tbe Oz ?v* e range, and from two to flvj inches b twesn the Ohio ond Cumberland valley*. Ths river at this point is three-tenths above >1 the groat rise of 188^ und one-tenth below e that of 18b?, the highest on record. The Ktnsas City, Fort Scott aud Memphis, tbe Iron Mountain an 1 the Little Kick and ? Memphis railroads, whose tracks lie through s the 11 >odeJ districts opposite here, are confident of escaping inundation, the roadbeds having been put in excellent condition dur* ingpastyoar. ahkansas Cjty, Ark?The water from the tSappingioa break has Hooded the town and surrounding country. Hundreds of hogs 1 and sheep have been drowned aud the people are in constaut fear of u break in the levee t I ia front of the city whore the water is four I inches upon tbe sand bags on top of the levee. Reports from the Black River Vulley shot? < tint tbe lowlands are now uuder water at l places so deep that tree tops are ttloae visi ble. Jacksonport is und r water from two to ' four feet. Telegraph and t -lephone wires are down in , all directions, and uooBtunate of lbs damage can be made. That it will be heavy is boyond a doubt. . Black Rock Ark?A vast amount of timber bus been washed away by the fl >o I. Workmen witti their families are in grout ' want, and considerable distress is lelt among the settlers. Kverv Itmw* I u.ider water except the postuilloe. Bridges I huvo been washed away, horsen, cattle u:id hogs bavd been drowued, an J the damage is $50,0.11) The people at the mouth ot tin Hiack lliver are leaving their homes in it >cks, seeking protection from the flood that is almost certain. A REIGN OF TERROR. Nix Men Killed Within O.ily Ten Days Along In < River lu W. Vn. Information received from the borders of Wayne and L >gan counties on Tug li ver is that a reign of terror ex st< th.-re. Ttai Norfolk and Western railroad has brought a dangerous element int> this county, and a largo number of fl mating saloons have beon plying up atid down the streams, and lawlessness reigns auprem*. No fewer than six men have been killed In drunken brawls within the space of 10 days. Two negro.-s namod Alien nn i Smith quarrels i in a boat-boms on Tjg River and in the flgbt both were killed. Preceding this Hell Lambert,Charles Adkinsand two whisky Millers, whose names are not known, were kdlod in various fights, while several have boon serious y injured. The country between the contre of disturbance nn 1 Wayne Court hou-e is bo thinly sotted and mountainous that the county ollicers are power.ess to do anything. To add to the complication, there threatens to bo a revival of the f imdy leudy long raging in that section, an 1 peacn'ale sat tiers are alarmed for tbtir fa ety. Madame Do Mendonea, wife of the Brazil' inn member of the 1'an-American delogatioii talks politics na well as weather, in the best of Knglish. She is pronounced i-y stranger* "a perlect type of Spunish beauty." Both her beauty end lur Knglish nre iudigettnus, however, as;h> was l<um in Maine, of geni eratious of Yankee ancestors. i\ FIFTY-FIRST CONGRESS. Nrnnlr Nrmlonv. 55th Day.?Mr. H >ar called up tho resc lutiou reported by biin for tbo exclude from tbe record of the sentences interpolate by Mr. Cell in tbe report of his reratrks ii tbe d smssion with Mr. Cbandler some week ago. Mr. George opposed tbe resolution it being without a precedent. Remarks wer made at length by Messrs George, lloai Edmunds, Daniel, Gray and Pugb. Mi Call submitted soino remarks iu bis own Yin dicntion, and quoted some of Mr. Chandler' expression in tire same debate imputing t him tbe possibility of provoking boinlcldi aud of adding to "the silent voters of Florida and assured the Senate that ho bad no ide of violating its rule*. The vote was take and resulted yeas 27, n tys U?no quorun Without disposing of the matter the Sena adjourned. 50th Dat.?The Sonnte voted on tbe res* lution to execute from the Congressio'U Record the interpolations made t>y Mr. Cs In the rarwt tbe discussion with M Cbandler on the 30tb of Februarr. The re olution was agreed to?yeas 80, nays 1 When the Blair Educational bill was tak? up as unfinished business, Mr. Plumb askt Mr. Blair to tell the Btnate when lie woul D* ready to nave a voie chkou on it. i ne ma ter wns discussed t>y Senators P.umb, Hai ley, 1'iatt and Frye, tbo latter stating tb tbere was no des re on tbo part of senators listen to sp?echts on tba E luoatioual bill, i be bad frequently counted as fear as sev< senators present The Senate dually order* that a vote on tbo bill shou'.d be token thr o'clock Thursday, March 30. The resolutic In regard to the prosidont pro temporo wi tal.en up and discussed at lenglb. The resol tlon was agreed to without division. After abort ex cutive session theSenaioadjourns 51th Day.?Mr. Fryo, from the Conunor Comuutteo, reported a bill to repeal tbe la of 1 st Congress requiring steamship* carry guns and rock -is for casting hues case of distre-s. The reason for tbo pnsflh; of tbe bill, be said, was that "the gr ed ce tain companies mi;ht receive tbe not. r< quired." lie explained tbat after the pa sago of the act tbe companies furnii-bing t guns and rockets bad exorbitant y rais their prices. Tbe bill was plaood on tbe 01 iiidar. Nearly tbe entire session was tb< taken up with a political disscussion, t speakers being Messrs. RusUs, Hoar, Chi dler, Shermm and Butler. After an exec li\e session the Senate adjourned. 5^>th Day. ? Mr. llale, from the Comm t-e on Appropriations, reported tbo Urge Deficiency bt 1, and said tbat be would c it up for action next week. The Blair Et rational bill was taken tip as "the unlinish business," and Mr. Teller atdrcssod the S ate in support of it. The bill then went ot without action. Mr. Cu'lom presented re lutions relative to tho death, on March 1SSD, of Representative Townsbend, of II nois, declaring that the Senate shared wi tb) House in its express.on of sorrow, a directing copioi of tbo resolutions to be f< warded to the family of the decease 1. pronounced a culogium on the dead merab After foding and appropriate remarks Senators Vest, llnle an 1 Jones, of Arkans tbe Senate, as a further mark of respect, i journod. _ Bsose Hesslons. I unsi jja*.? air. n iKer, i.v. a .) nom I Committee on Terr.toi ies.ropnrt <1 the bill the admission of Wyoming, lie asked for immediate consideration of tlie till, wbi under the new rule is a privi eged meusu The iiouso decided to consider tlie bill- y 171, DAyi 114, A party vow. On pntwi order, raised by Mr. Springer, the bill i referred to the committee of the whole, i Mr. Baker moved that the house go into s committee. Mr. Springer interjected a i i tioa to adjourn, which wusdeieatel?y 11(1, nays 132. Mr. Baker's motion < agretd to?yeas 110, nays 1US?and ?cco iugly the House went into committee of i whole, Mr. Burrows (M.cli.) in the cln The bill was read and discussed. Bend further discussion thi committee arose, i the iiou-e adjourned. G2nd Day.?The House went intocomr tee of the whole (Mr. Pnyaon, of Illinois, the chnir) on the Oklahoma bill. The bid v discussed at length and one or two tune ments adoptod. On motiou of Mr. Holm of Indiaua, an amendment was udopted tl none of the lands embraced in the terrilt shall inure to the use or benefit of the r road corporations, except the right of v heretofore granted. Pendiug further disc 1 sion the committee rose, und the House Journed. 03rd Day.?At the conclusion of the mo 11; hour, the Home went into committet ,no whole, Mr. Payson. of I.linois, in chair, for the further consideration of 0 iluhoraa bill. The hour of four o'clock h irg arrived, the committee arose and rep< 1 adopted in committee of "the wfeole'provJS | (hat section 2131), Revised Statutes, prohi ing the introduction of intoxicating liqu into the Indian Territory, shall be in ic in Oklahoma until after the adjournraen 1 ho tirst session of the legislative asseml was agreed to?yeas 131, nays 103. Tlie was thou passed?yeas 100, nays 115. It substitute for lb.' Smote hi.l on t hi. en an a i -of. The House then adjourned. (51th Day.?The Hous> went iutoomt leu at the wliolo (.\lr. Allen, o' the chair) on the private calendar. The I taken up w;is o te auth irizing the i'residt to retire General J. C. Fremont, with I rank of maj >r general. Mr. Kilgoro, T? xas, olT re i an auun lino-it for th > reti inent of General Fremont with the rank brigadier general. Mr. Ki gore's amoi raent was rejected?7 to lib -and the hill y laid aside with a favorable recommenditn These bills together with one apiiropriati $10,000 for the relief of the owners, ollio and crew of the British Dirk (J.mine w subsequently reported to the House, out finuiiciul nct.on was taken, and at livoo'clc t!ie House took a recess until eight o'cloi the evening aossion being lor the conside tion of private pension kills. 05th Day.?The House adopted a roso" tion oflfero I by Mr Brtckinriugo, of Arki sag, c tiling on the Secretary of War for formation as to whether there are sullicu mo-ioy end fao lith 6 at command of the \V Department to guard the levers an I ott works and tbo plant of tbegovrrnment frt destruct on and Id jury by the presmt fix and if not, to report what may be n* c ssai also to inform the House if there is reuso-i appreb 'iid unusual danger to human It and what steamers can bo used by the i part merit or the Mississippi river coramisii to rescue those in peril. Public business vi then suspended, and the House proctoled pay the last tritut of respecte to the memo of the late lion. Win. D. Kelley, of Pet sylvania. Eulogies were dsliverrd by r< rismtatires O'Neill, Holmao, M lis, Ban! McKinley, Wilson, (W. Va.,) Brecklnridj (Ivy.,) and others. INTO THE STREAM BELOW. The mil of n Bridge Carrlea Npveri Workmen to Tholr Ds?m. Th j Q,ieensberry span of the old Queen borry Moreen bridge at Glens Falls, Nc York, fell Into the Huison Hirer with wor inon upon it. Nothing but flooring was left, and suppoi bad been put underneath wbile removii that. Workmen were taking away a all binm on the upper side wbon tho suppor Have way. The whole epan rolledJovor, u stream, and fell into the falls below. Nelson Sansouci, a prominent m>ob>r i Cunningham Hose Company of (J.en? Fall struck on th > rooks below. before asiistan could reach uim he rolled over into th >riv<? 11 ? wag seen to riae twice, but must hare bo< drowned. The remains of tbo bridge flatted off w>| three men clinging to it. The body of Gear, Carr, a vet-ran .?outh O.en* Kail* inail-oj rier, waa taken out' on the Morgan rid Thonms Holleran,*' South Ulcus F.tl ,wi rescued, badly cut abo it tho head. Tnonu Farley, of Windsor, t'Jnn , an employee < lbs fieri n bridge Company, was taken ot with his right arm ' rotcn. A oompanio w is uninjured. Two sen are still uussii and perhapj more. v m SUNDAY SCHOOL. ^ international lesson for a MARCH so i a The Q uarterly Review? Golden Text J Acta it . is. 4 , RKVUEW XXERC1SK. .? Superintendent.?What did an angel prom J " ise Zacharias? * School.?A son who should be the forerun? ner of the Saviour. ' Supt.?How did Zacharias begin bis song i at tho birth of John the Baptist? School?Blcesod bo the Lord Ood of Israel; ,Q for He hath visited and redeomed His people. * Supt.?What did he predict concerning hi? ^ infant son? School.?Tliou shalt be called the prophet 3 of the Highest; for thou shalt go before the' 11 face of the Ixird to prepare his ways. ,11 Supt. ?What good tidings of great joy did r. an angel bring To tho shepherds of Bethle - hem? _ _ 4. School.?Unto you is born this day in the in city of David a Saviour, which is Cnriat the id Lord. Id Supt.?What was tho song or tho angels at it- the birth of the Saviour? ?- School.?Glory to God in the highest, and at on earth peace, good-will toward men. to Sunt.?What did Simeon say when he took as the child Jesus in his arms? ?n School.?Lord, now lettcst Thou Thy sersd vant depart in peace, according to Thy word; eo for mine eves have seen Thy salvation. in Sunt.?Where del Jesus Hvo during His as childliood? U- ncuooi.? tvun nis pnremti ni iinmrcin, a a town of Galilee. cL Supt.?Where did His pnrouts go every ct year? iw School.?His parents went to Jerusalem to every year at the feast of the pnssover. in Supt.?When did they tafco Jesus with <o them? of School.?When He was twelve years old. ce Supt.?What took place when they ro* &- turned? h 1 School.?Jesus tarried behind in Jerusalem. eJ Supt.?Where did His parents find Him? si- School.?After threo days they found Him m in the temple, sitting in the mldat of the he doctor?, both hearing thorn, and asking them in- qnrstlonf." 1 " iu- Supt.?Where did Jesus then go with His parents? It- School?He went down with thorn to Nazaint rcth, and was subject unto them, all Stmt.?How did John the Baptist foretell lu the Messiah? ied School?One mightier than I cometh; He n- shall baptize you with the Holy Ghost and 'er with fire. so- Supt .?What took place at the baptism of 9, Jesv'-? Hi- School?i'ho heaven was opened, and the ith Holy Ghost descended in a bodily shape like nd a dove, tiixin Him. ar- Supt.?"What was the Father's testimony He at His baptism? er. School.?Thou art My beloved Son; in by Thee I am well pleased. as, Supt.?Where did Jesus go after His a'l- baptism? I School.?Jesus was led by the Spirit into the wilderness, being forty days tempted of s the devil. jjlo Sunt, ?T<> wb.it place did Jesus come? for Softool.?Ho came to Nazareth, where Ha tj,0 had been brought tip. c(j Supt.?How were the people affected by re' His preaching? eat School.?Tney wondered nt His words and ;-QT nam-, is not tuts Joseph's son? Supt.?Where did Josusgo when rejected sn<j at Nazareth? ucb School.?He camo down to Capernaum, a mo- city <>f Galilee. eas 'Supt.?What did Jesus do on the Sabbathi^ng day in Capernaum? irj. School ?He taught in the synagogue, cast tho out demons, and cured many that were sick. jjr# Supt.?Whom did Jesus find at the Lake j,,g of Gennesaret? ?ud School.?Simon and Andrew his brother. and James and John, whom He had beforo nlt. called to be His disciples. in Sunt.?What did Jesus say to Simon after vn3 the cfralight of fishes? ml- School.?Fear not; from hencoforth thou an shall catch men. 1 ?tvhof ,i;,i Ant jry ' School.?They forsook nil, nnd* f oho wo I ail- H?? ray Supt.?What dirt Jesus sny to one sick of us_ the palsy / ' School.?Man. thy sins are forgiven thee. Supt.?How did Ho prove His power on irn. earth to forgive sins? , of School.?Ho said unto the sick of the palsy, tIie I say unto thee, Arise, and take up thy couch, and go unto thine house. And tmme,4V. diately ho rose up before them, nnd took up that whereon he lay,and departed to hlsowu e?t house, glorifying God.? weitminster Quel' \ntr tion Booh. bit tors >tr|? BOOMERS IN HIGH GLEE. bly, ? bill Loiik' I.iiicn ol' Prairie Krhooners is a ( rmtniK Into Cherokee Strip. u"' Since the uew.i came that tbo bill passed )l t. the Ilou-e declaring the Cherokee Strip pubin lie domain, the city has been a scene of wild ?i 1 excitement, w.th the I oomers, in their excltement, runuing to and Iro half dresstd, ma'tof lni> propuratiou to start at daybreak for the re- trip. Before the sun was up the whole city of wum wild, and a continuous stream of people id- of every description, from the poorest tramp /as to the speculative real estate agent, men, in. women and children of every nationality, ng has faun pouring in the strip. T tie news comes r* from the strip that tin cattle have already r > been st impeded, frightened at the unusual no scene, an 1 have become unmanageable. The >ck cattlemen are in great straits to know what ck, to do with their stock, inasmuch as the force ra- of men at their commaud is as nothing before the irresistablo stream of immigration. u_ Ten thousand people have entered tne strip , tvi I Ii Mm till nnt innu nf oIbuUm *?? ? - -** - * ~ " .... v> DM>}1UK tul'K Bl nil in- hazards, end nothing short of the regular >nt Uuiled States army can drive them from the ar Mecca to.vards winch they bare been it. ugler gH?K ioug. >rn Ml, f?; DISMEMBERED BY DYNAMITE. tf. le- An Explosion Hill* Two Men and on Totally Injures Two Other*. ^ An t xph sion oi dynaunte occurred at the ry Brooklyn (N. Y.) Water Works, near Hookin ville Centre, by which two men were killed and o number injured, je) The explosion occurred at 9*40 o'clock. Tho ' dynauiito was being used for blowing up tree stumps on the line of tho extension of the Brooklyn aqueduct, halfa-mileeastof ll>ck ille Centre. Two laborers who were waking ifear,were ni blown to pieces, parts of their boJiee bting thrown in every direction. Two others were fatally injured. s~ Ti.e shoe it of the explosion created constertw nation. Many houses ware shaken, and a g. number of window panes were broken. "" TWO MEN TORN TO PIECES. ae tt _ # ^ p. linriiinf noun* i*i rwo and Fatally ln|nre Many Other*. Two boiler* at the Norlbweat Colliery, ^ three miles north of Cirbondate, Pa., exr. ploded with terrific force during the noon ?? hour, while a large number of men were in h|| the room eating their lunch. *,e The buildings were hurled to the ground r. and the fl ring pieces of the boilers wjnt hundreds of feet in the air. M Two of thj men, Qeorge Ross of Carbonl8 dale and Peter Titson, of Northwest, were 0( torn into pieces. lt Several others were painfully Injured by |Q scalding steam and the debris under whien l(r they were buried, and three or four of them 8 will die.