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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,;
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The Strange Mystery Surrounding!
Its Disappearance.
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A STORY OF EXTRAORDINARY INTEREST.
EY FRANK BARRETT.
CHArTER V ^ i"^ ,
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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
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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. '*
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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.
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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
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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
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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,
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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.
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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.
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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.