Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

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t1-2 " ~ ~" ?~ ~ " '' ~~v ~ ? ?." "'* ; -::- r v 1 ^/SP^ -" U OLTJ J0SV9 B DEAD. . , ' * ?r tpmee cr,XDLK* *nm/ro*. IF 1 wmJor.^Cih overhead, "* ' H And bwd them say, below in'ihe ibail, n H 1 nPP?8o you hr m that old Jonee is dead ?" ? H Then I ho epsaK passed, and I heard their a I J Hf But I eat and pondered what It might mean Thus to be dtail when the world went by. Did Jones further than we bare seen ? 0 H ? Wa? he oho wlm the store in the watohlnf eky ? t Or down there under tha growing grae. v K Did he b< ar tlio loot of tne daylight peat t t H * Were day-time andn'ght-time one to him now, C . And griey ng and buying a tale that la told ? ?. B' A kiss on hlelips or aL band on bis brow, Could be feel th-'rfl under the churchyard v tnold, , ? L As he surely felt them hie whole life long. J B Though they passed xvlih his youth-time hot t c .... and stiflug?- c KT Th#T?f0"rI Wm "OMJoa**" wb?n ftt last he t K ?"OM Jcn'os" he had been for many a year ? Vet his faithful miinory t'me defied, ? Does he brood Irt the long n*ght under the eol v. On the joys and sorrows be used to Iraow; * Or. fai In soine wonderful world of Uod, 'Where the shining seraphs stand, row on row, ?. Does he wake like a c-iUd at the daylight's * WHi - . RIMrn, f And know that the po.it woe a night'* short J dream'/ * t 1* ho dea<l. and o olo 1 down there below ; 1 Or ,lrad and wiser than any Alive; t Which? Ab, who of ns may know. ^ Or who con say how the dsad folk thrive? f B Pat the summer morning Is cool and sweet, R And I hear tly) li\o folk laugh in the street. A GREAT TREASURE, i t The Straoje Mystery Snrrottiidina; ; Its Disappearance. ; A STORY OF EXTRAORDINARY INTEREST, < nr - *- ? "r mlnri BT FRANK BAREBW. ' *T ' CHAPTER X. ' B^^t O NORAN T HBW of what had h occurred in Edith' e \H\ room bofore IBl hor cry for ' I^Bl heip.I paced n I^BI mv room, /^|II thinking fright havo \ \ that made ft. ^B her a . M second time 1 and dosplte ylB*M in f Av ' ity of these V^BV / Jy^BM mystorious vjC > appear , anccB. k?-- "Yonrturn wiU.como.n Van Hooek hod nnid to me, and' t^hae words .coming back to my mind. I asked my bo Ml the repeated attack* upon 'fcdlth might net bo a part of u complicated cheiue to obtain the diamond. ttucAMtaPlot was the moro possible becaugeTtseem-d impossible. An act of legerdemain succeeds or not. according to the skill with which the conjuror llxos our attention on a falso trnln of operations white he works out the actual foal. As I made these reflections. I took tlio Great Hesper from the fiouoh on my wuist strnp. and buckled it in its case upon my loft wrist; then I doubly locked tho Joor. now that tlioro i woe oil in tho lump, put a box of wax 1 matches beside it on tho table, und ilnallv I - - opened the. long-btuded knifo Van Hoeck 1 had given mo.' and stuck it botwoen the mattress and tho side ot tho bedstead. 1 Tho room was thickly carpeted and i oak-paneled. Tho lurnltilre?with the ex- i caption of thwtg|letarrangements and u low. j saddlo-backed-^haflFw-was antique and of < oak. The bedsteao was particularly wide, with four carved pillars, carrying a batda- i quin and heavy curtains of some thick bro- i ended stuff, looped at tho foot, but hanging loose at tho head; it iflced the oriel. j Between therlght side of the bed and the ' wolf was a square fable?on which stood i tho lamp?with tho saddle-back chair beside , It.. On the left-hand side of tho bed was a | tall carved block press. A large chimney, with a sculptured mantel and nn open heftrth. faced tho door. A screen shut ofT | the washstand. which stood to tho left of | the oriel. A broad settle with a valanoe. . -and covered .frith a stuff similar to the hangings of the bed. ran round tho three- , sided recess formed by the window?cur. tains of the same kind shut off this recess. ,A corner cabinet, with folding doors in the lower part, ftttod tho anglo of the walls to thfl riirhi: hdlirnfln this unrl thA Haaf wua o deep, wide, and long cheat, and above It a large mirror. An osoretolre. some highbacked chairs, and a eocond table completed *1he furniture. Thoro was no door but the v?B.e opening upon the corridor, and no Window save the oriel. In the early part of the night I had described these particulars to Van Hoock at his request, ana he had made mo examine lh? press, the old chost. the hangings of the bed and settles; everything. In fact, which (night afford a hiding-place to Lola or another. * ' I had even gone down upon my Irnoes and looked under the bod, to appease his mix* Hfml H GoftuW iitmBSfnws j?on* sussed me as I raised the lump shade, and looked round tho room. The dark oak wainscot, the somber hangings, tho painted " ^ceiling overhead, absorbed the light; there was a black void on tho opposite side of the bed. where tho light from tiro lamp was in.terceDted bv tho curtains'. I could not ??? eveu the outline of the ureal prose. '1 readjusted tho eh ado. turned the wick higher, and. halt undressed. throw myself upon the bed. I was not afraid?in strength ' I was a match for any natural foe, and L.did .not belleye In the existence of any otheryet I felt myself iufeoted with Van Hoeok's presentiment of impending calamity. . Van Hoeok's theory of T.ola's complicity In a plot to steal the diamond ha I buun upset by tho fact that I was watching hor asleep at my door at tho very time Edith believed she saw tho girl looking through the blinds; but this had in nowise shaken his conviction that the mysterious appearance was eonnootod with the schcmo to rob us. "Are a man's convictions to bo limited by bis senses?" he asked. "You aro convinced that a cloud is rising in tho horizon because you see it. but am I to deny its existence because I b?vo no sight? Arc yon justified, then, in declaring that we aro not inenacod IWT? i fair ill In which is to overwhelm us Igmlgiu to^atufcrieir"roe that my odnvlcflon vt nothing. It 1* only by conwotlon that we , live. What eaves ue froru destruction but I Bff the oonvloiion that, by stopping Into an M byes, wo niuet fall? I teliydu to kx>K , alxHrt you; wo are on the edge ol an abyss. , There are tlgna to stflko tho dullest intolll- , ij . ganee. Your turn wlU comet* A-. . I had hung my wutoh in the pookel upon j fr'.: . the hiwglngatrhii houd of tho bod; Its lively , ticking sounded strangely out ol hooping \ PWWfv with tho gloom and stillness of tho sur- { S-W" rounding*. The shadod light gave a ftino- , teal aspect to the bed-hangings; the balda t rain over my head might have been a onto- , kkjue lor the dead. I wondered how many t . nen had coded their tlnys on this bed alnoo Q .w hoao hangings had boon put up. Would x fan. HoeeVs prosontlmect be fullllled? t " MhotiM 'I be found thore in the morning t lead i c Itwsgjre.Uuitedfora murder, that bod. rtthlta pall-llkeMknglnga to conceal the Hi nrklcg murderer. , Ho .lit-M, uvlHC, tlU-taO, tie*tAC. tle-tAC. op Mv oar hod become so familiar to the (u< irisk movement of my Wntoh that the sitght- \ri at sound was audible abcYe.lt. And A'Vound. alight Indeed. I heard. " ' to To my mind, dwelling than upon ussan- hi Ins. It sounded like the drawing of ikdngmk th mm Its sheatli. Turning bay head toward the aide from ee rhleh tho sound seemed to proceed. I fan- oj led I saw tho hoavy curtain move; it wan et ween me and the lain p. Tho movoment wi ras as slight a? tho eound. If It waa a fact kr hat i heard one, it was a fact that t saw tho ej ?ther. p.i I drew myself up gradually, and, loaning orward. I suddenly flung back tho citrlaiu at rlth my loft hand. Thero was no resist- Jn nco to my hand; nothing to bo soon boond but the lamp burning steadily on tlie so able, the saddle-back chair, and the dim wi utline of the big chimnoy-plece. I got upon my knees and pushed the cur- th aln flat Against tho wull. to bo suro that F< here couia "dv no possibility be any one th onoealed In the heavy folds?to assure my- be elf that my suspicion was utterly without dc rfihdatlon. a no hiding beyond it. - m If the. curtain had indeed moved it must lg inve been by a hand from under tho bed. bi t Wits easier to believe that I had been mis- pi aken in soeing the slight movement than in o suppose I had overlooked a concealod qi blot when I looked under the bod to satisfy nt fan HoeoW; so I let tho curtain fall and luy m town again. fa My thoughts sill) dwelt upon tho idea of issassiltntlon. netting aside tho idea of an W ntrigue in which Lola was concerned, tlioro vhb yet nothing preposterous In Van di loeek's presentiment. Thore were eight iu >r ton sorvants in tho house, and undouht* tn idly every ono of them know of tho mnr- ui relous treasure in my keeping. They would ell their friends In tho adjacent village, the tt .copers, the tradespeople?in n few days m ho story would bo carried about and mado m inown to hundreds; nmt was thero hone !o imong them whose cupidity might tako st irnctlonl form? It was quite possible that under this very oof there waa ono with tho ingenuity and taring to plan and execute the robbery. A lervant intimately acquainted with tho irrangement of the rooms and the pc- . suliarTtlcs of the building would nrob- 11 ibly know of tho external means of m communication betwoen tbo bay and the o1 iriaL ?UidewH. '-Without this knowledge, ? yu|||HB aaakned 'to me, would 'dare V, WwWWffpt that nnzardous'passage At night, ? tnd in tho dark; but with that knowledge, tl *nd possibly aomo previous praetlee, the r? teat was sufficiently practicable. In that ? case, Edith might actually have honrd and ?sen what she had since attributed to v maginution. m Btit what end could bo served by theso ]t repeated attacks upon her sensibility? ji A cause is sometimes discovered by ox- ! imining the offeet. Now. what effect had J' >een produced by those attacks? Tho llrst G uul frightened Edith excessively; the see- (] jnd had made a slighter Impression. Thus ar tho effect had been confined to her; but * ' tho third?for only to a third fright could I 2, ittrlbute her screnni of terror?hud brought h icr father and myself from our rooms. In- n dantly, something like tho truth flashed tpon my mind: }l To biing mo from my room was tho very il abject with which the attack upon Edith lad boon made. Unriddling the mystery with this key. I issumei that the thief hud watched mo ?' dose the door upon Van Hoeck and roturn 1< to my room; thut. after allowing me suf- n (lcient tlmo to get into bed. but not to fall _ nto sound stoep, he bad jnado tho attack 7 ipon Edith, opening her door beforehand J1 to provide a speedy means of escape and to b dlow her cry to bo more distinctly heard! o hat. having sncceeded In terrifying her, 10 had sped down the stairs In tho left llock. passed through the library and dlnng-rooin, and UBoendcd by the stairs In the u right block about tho same time that I ]j m'ght bo supposed to have reached Edith's room, and that, reckoning upon my keeping ^ tho Oreat Hesper tinder my pillow, and il leaving it there in my alarm upon Edith's a ncoount. ho had expected to have possessed 0 himself of our trcusure. It what I thus us- .. turned was the fact, then Indeed this plan 11 might have succeeded but for Van Hoeck's v prudent insistence upon my strapping the ]i liamond to my wrist. A Ah i thus explained what liaa Happened, it more startling reflection occuired to my e mind. The thiof hud boon disappointed in V not finding the diamond beneath my pillow, g but ho yet might not linve relinquished the . hope of getting it. He might not have left the room. He r night bo bidden there at that very .mo- t inent! *' " What was more easy, being in tho room. - a ^^efl^iMafilnll ? The peg*** Chat masked tho oriel, the great client, tho f Buttle. the press, were all suggestive of that 1; course. The follow might be under the very E bed I was lying upon! " 'Uio movement I had soon in tho curtain, a tho sound similar to the drawing of a blade : rrom its sbuath (which might well havo 1 boon cauaed by tho movement of the heavy o valance of the bod). strengthened tho ens'picion. Was ho lying thero waiting for tho % sound of my heavy breathing to assure him . that I slept? I Thero was scarcely the necossity to wait n for that, for what resistance could I. lying { upon my back there, mako against a foe j springing out of tho dark upon mo? I thought of tho clasp-knifo Vun Hoeok 8 had given me. and, stretching out my hand, c I felt for it where I had stuck it?between f the mattress and tho bedstead. I could not ,, find it. Pushing back tho curtains so that tho * light irom tho lamp fell upon tho edge of ^ the bedstead. 1 assured myself that it wuh not whero I bud !?it it. It must have slipped through, or been drawn out. Thn utinnnaiflnn nrnlol nn.l tlin sound and movement I bad heard and seen, < Yet it might have miwlo that sound in slipping through?its fall upon the floor dead- ( encd by tho carpet, oit its point sticking in ( (tnr tnnmhii fcn* I ftnrolnrt Uwlwi n-tnnnlM f was too wide to allow of its slipping through. s To satisfy myself at once upon this point. ' I leaped out of bed. resolved to strike a match and Iodic under the valance. I stood for u moment stupofled. The box of vestas was gone from the table, where I was certain I had laid them. They must have been taken while 1 lay serooned by the bed curtains. I glanced ovor my shoulder. 'ine folds of the curtain against the bed woro not tho samo as when f pushed thein back to tho wall; one fold stood out at an angle: and as. slowly turning round. I looked moro closely. I saw against the dark oak panel of the wall, about the mid-height of a man, and protruding but an inch or so from the edge of the curtain, tho bright point of a knife-blade. e Now. Indoed. there was no longer any doubt. The man who fmd come to rob was there to murder me. Had I stopped hut another moment on the bed he might have knifed me. Whntwas I to do? I had him standing 1 there behind the curtain Ht a certain mi- c VB8hTld I spring upon him and strangle ^ him against the vrull in the folds of tho i ur- ^ thick etnff w^uld prcv^rnift getting a Arm ^ grip of him. and his jMi hand, the ooo that held the knife, was free. My chance * Was too ainnll, the danger too great to t justify that attack, though tho muscles of g my arms and Angara woro strung up to *, make the tempting effort. B Keeping my ejre upon the curtain, I drew ? t?ack to the foot of tho bed. To gat to tho li loor I must arose the room, and inevitably ^ >o aeon by the murderous rascal as ho stood here on the inner side of the bed-curtain; ind arrived at the door I must turn the key < wico, and the handle aa well, before %e tvertook me. On the other hand, ho had o disengage himself from the folds of the . urtaln and recover the eiart I had of him. b The chances yere pretty equal, and I de- m ermlned to fi e myself by flight rather K han risk the fat:il result of the unequal en- . ounter. * I wade my way noiselessly In a straight, h / ' AV" - -intone Forge Company's rolling ]' me for the other two I throughout ^Trjf\rc 1 foreman, Mr. ton- to the goo. 0nv*'0 1 *r?? returocd to thainoiflej oi rffiiailfipma,4 $30,000 and Kevrul firemen wpr?- nvrnum? the fumes of burning pepper. The body o| Joseph Jacobs, son of a wealthy c)tizcn o| Hamilton, Ohio, was found in the re4-rvoir at that place. Despondency, canse.l #>y poverty, led K. A. Culver, of Denver, Cel., to take half a Itottle of morphine, and thci blew out his brains. Conductor Gardner I. Tucker, of a freight train on the Pittsburg, F ft Wayne and Chicago Railroad, had a dei >eratc encounter with tramps at Lima, Ohi >, in which he was fatally wounded. Fou trainmen 1 were huried in a landslide that a West Short freight train ran into near !*. Johnnville, N. Y. -Twelve women andrbUdrcn were washed off a raft in the Miaaissipp* flood at Boyon Falaya.-?Delegates Mj?reaenting Hie Broth, erhood 01" Lttroatott vrtJCttghirfft^' " ??vae.guteuaii-t Y., and adopted a scheme iir fi Imipfll"" f all the organizations of trainmen in the United States. Moore A Sinnott, of Philadelphia have entered suit against a large number o, hrewinir (irm? ?' *' en, space, cfit ?. ift1* tt * roomonts bbvi rloua haste pmrKld obtre hcsrd. Asgono! -fier waiting some tii 1 grasped the fcpcidle. in tuvt? ?.B0 0jr" ,i.e Ight be able to tour tho lock off. ... , ; n been taken out. and the knob alia cn ? spindle in my hand. I was lost, jr.It Hstonislius mu now iu think bith What lorlty and ndioUncsg those precautions cainst my escape had bean made. The man had not rushed a'ter me; there its no desperate pursuit of that kind; ho low I was trapped. Only as I turned niv es back to the place whore lie stood. I ireotvod that the light was dying out. There wus but a narrow row of blue flame k>v?5 thj wick; it faded away ah 1 all was irk. There aro degrees of darkn-ss; this omod to mo tno lust degree. I felt as if 1 its sunk In a lake of pitch. If I onllcd for help It was not certain that e honvy-sleopihg Judge would hear ino. jsslbly Mr F.dmutid was yet awake, but I ought of Edith. and besides I know that iforo assistance could come, beforo tho lor could bo burst, nil would bo over. Probably my foe was already approaching o: my cry would .be the signal for him to cuauuw ut attaining s tance, and keeping htm In rtorunco of my position. If accident ought us into contact. I trusted to my lyslcal strength and good luck to bo a atch for him aud his knife in the subsctent struggle. Tho diamond buckled to V wrist might serve mo in the tight; I fght stun the fellow with it it fortune only vorod my arm. It was a duel between us, nnd any way I ould s ?I1 my lifo dearly. With tills resolve I drew away from tho sortoward that part of tho room whore* i I fancied, the carved press stood. I kept y arms free, my body crouched togethor, id cvory muscle tense nnd ready I bucked a few feet front the door, and ion I stopped, as the reflection crossed y mind tnat I might bj bnek'ing toward y adversary! Then I regretted that I had ft the door, where at least I might liuvo ood safe from tho roar attack. {to be continued.j Similarity of Proverbs. Examples of ideas which seem to be idigrnnns to all countries occur to the lind in bewildering redundancy. "One ivallow does not make a spring," we ud alike iu English, (iermnu, and Itiieai&n. In tho sunnv South it takes le form, "Olio flower t\ocs not'mftke a arland." In Italy wo find, "Ho who rasps all, less gets;" in Trance, "Ho ho embraces too much binds badly;" nd in our own countiy, "Grnsp nil, )se all." Our "Birds of n feather ock together" is represented by the balian "Every like covers its like;" the reek, "A comrade lovos a coinrado;" lie Frenoh, "Qui He ransemhte, ?Vrseinble." Plato declared more thau rvvi ? a 1.... ?v"'f j ?-? unii u^iuaiii^ in illf of nil," and has found an echo in ur "Whats begun is half done," and i the Italian, "Who commences well i at the half of the ta.sk." There is a truo Orhntal ring nbout nek proverbs as "Among the sandal rccs are deadly serpents," "Rivers have )tuses, but also alligators." It is eedless to suggest tlio Western corslatives. "By a number of straws ivisted together elc]>hants can" be ound," is again only the Indian form f the Hootch, "Many a little makes a licklo." The Greeks, wishing to cast doubt* pon a man's probity, declared him to o "A sheep with a fox's tail," whi *h nswers to our "Wolf in sheep's clothig," an the French ull fait is boa poire." The familiar "Finis coronet pus," has passed by literal translaion into French and Russian. "All's . oil that ends well," bears a strong ikeness to the Ge man "Ende. gut tiles gut." There is a lengthy Crintal proverb, "Let a cur's tail bo armed, pressed out straight, and wathed with bandages; if released fter twelve years it will nevertheless eturn to its natural shape." Itiseasy o trace the similarity of idea in oui You cannot make a silk purse out of a ow'sear." "Man papposes, God disuses," appears in 'The German, while n Russian it takes the form, "God nakes the crooked arrow straight." Charity begins at home," in Russian ssumes the more graphic and suggestvo form. "One's own shirt is nearest to .ne's body." we discourage carrying "Coals to lowcastle," the French deprecate takng "Water to the liver. We "Drink ,a we brew," or would if we conld; ho French, "Sleep on the hed na they lave niiulo it." The old Athenian was is much concer o 1 to see a bull in the iity as we are when that quadruped ippears in a china sli >p. With ua Still waters rn 1 deep;" ii Itussin hey"Sw.irm with dovila," a much moro rigorous figure. Singular Fatulit'en. It was soma years ago that four rusted and popular omployes of n jertain well-known Chicago firm pulled >nt and started in business for themlUivBH iii me same rrno. ror a timo ivorything went along smoothly, and ;he ordeis rolled in from their old sustomers. Then the head of the firm ivent Fast on business, and a week or 10 later the startling news eame that tie had fallen into tne mac.hinory of a mill and had been crushed to death. It was not many months later that the tunior member of the firm went away, vnd while traveling he was killed in a ailroid accident. Then tho third nember of the quartette was mysteri)usly murdered, and now the surviving nember is wondering if an untimely leath is to be his lot. It was a singular luccession of fatalities. Barbers In Olden Times. It in seldom in those days that you iear of a person bein^ leoch?d or mppcd. It is rapidly boocming a los1, rrt. Not a groat many years back it vas a very important \ usiness in connection with a tonsorial eBtablishmt nt. cry popular*amengiho Germans, and, vhetnor weak or strong, they followed ho use. Not a great many years ago n apprentice barber invariably had to woaie as proficient in the application f tho leectr as he did in the shaving ine. Babers also did a good deal of mth-jerking, but that part of thebnsiess ia also no more, sinoe dentists are ) numerous. Anchors.?^Anchors arc said to have een invented by the Tuscans. The scond tooth or fluke is said to have een added by Anaroharsis the Soythin, 502 B. C. Anchors are aaid to ave bean forged in England A, ]}. 578. < n ....... .w. IIIUUVJ SUTMI^I u? uiu (ll< j campaign against the probibitary amendment Inst year. The strike at pHver Bros.' nut and l?olt works, Pittsburg, which affected oih thousand men, has Iteen aettled by the met withdrawing their demand for the dischnrgi of one workman and the reinstatement o: another. A horse backed a wagon contain ing two boys over a prepipiee HAy feet high at tireensburg, I'm., and RatttuCS Dorman wm killed and Murk Steele inteftially liyured Twelve election officers were arrested iv Jersey City as a result of the legislature's in vestigntion of the ballot-box fraud. Johr O'Hara and Martin Fahey, aged about seven teen years, were shot by a negro in a quarre between whites and blacks in Pittsburg. By the breaking of the levee at Cattish Point, on the Mississippi, near Greenville. Mia*-, that town was inundated.^ Marcus ( '.Stearns one of Chicago's wriiltif^aai4kirS,imiiHlHM: suicide. A young Indian named EngU Horse shot and instantly killed Frnnk E. taw is, a school teacher, at Pine Ridge Agency Nebraska, and then committed suicide.?Forty buildings in the village of Theresa, neat Wntertown, N. Y., were destroyed by fire. i/oss $150,000. John B. Pricey formerly book-keeper for Hall & Willis, wholesale hardware dealers, of Kansas City, haa disappeared. Shortage altout $6,000. By the filming ot a tavern at Greenville Junction, Mo ine, many of the IxMinlers nnrrowly escaped#-?George K. Noonan, his wife and daught?, of En^S<wood, Chicago, are seriously ill from the effects of poison, and a servant is suspected of the crime. In the sixtieth annual confer* once of the Mormons at Salt Lake t ity, President Woodruff stated that there ^oitld be no more revelations. Rev. John Dougherty Wood, a Methodist minister, wraa arrested at Vhnit, oi'viftily. powder works at Rochester, NlfY., blew up, killing two men. The Chicago Gas Trust has been broken up and the pldiy and franchises sold to a new company orgiuizc< 1 vujder the law of New Jersey. | There wero 189 business failures In the United States and seventeen ijk (Wnada the past week. Fire at Treni>n,3K. X, did $75,000 damage. Mrs. Ann| Iftfusc, an aged woman was crushed to daub py A railroad train, near Littleton, N..Qiw*?-4$ * meeting of the stockholders of the ChpagoVWorld 's Fair Association,there was a lively fight over a proposition to increase the mwl>cr of directors to seventy-five. A shnt-dlwn of the coke furnaces in the Scottsdale region is threatened. The sheriff of Atlantp county, N. J., has in the last few days, sold Wo hundred farms, to satisfy mortgages whichBiadbeen foreclosed, and forty families are hornless.??Thegravcs of five hundred dead FhintWmJuL^V'^. ^or'c cemeteries were deoorafed with bewauful paper wives and paper blouses, which were burner] on the soil in the belief t|at in the celestial' home they wero rhangv to real wives and silken garments. Ait rim Osboufne, aged seventy-two years, hx retired manufacturer, residing near Chesten Pa., was killed while walking on the rallrad track. Harris A. Smilcr, who killed hit wife in New York eity, it now appears, hutwo other living wives, from whom he 'was never legally separated. F. W. Chiv ?, a wellknown merehant in New York, t is shot on his way home to Mount Vernon, h i residence, ! in the subnrhs of the city. Tw boys aged j respectfully twelve ami fourteen 'ears, have 1 been arrested in Chicago, charged!ith trvini? to wreck a railroad train nnd wi4 throwing stones through the windows of pnlenger ram. M. R. Alexander, of TcmcciA, Col., Ima committed suicide. The ftucneld House,, owned by John M. Tobin, at Bui field, Me., was destroyed by fire. Two B?%es rohbed . JLJ. utnr+ at I^er, Col., of $5,200 worth of jewelryA xAbwK night, president of the HuntK Trp Mountain Coal ?^^tienly at his residence in PhiladcIpmtt^Vpfl sixty-six years. Mrs. Carrie Young,aged firty years, was humeri to death in her houa inPatterson N. J. Dr. Theodore Dedolph's license to practice medicine in Minnesota has been re I vnked on the charge of striking A pstient who | ; was just recovering from the effect*of an operation, and injuring his eyesight. -?A fast express (vain on the Wabash Railroad was j wrecked nenr St. Charles, Mo., and a number of persons injured. Benjamin II. Waller, grand master Mason ofliyMkhsae, died at his residence in Memphis* -Captain W. L. Couch, leader of the Oklahoma boomers, was shot in the leg l>y J. C. Adams, in a quarrel over a elnimt near Oklahoma City. David S. Batten, aged seventy-four, a past grand commander oftheKnigbta Templar of New Jersey, hanged himself at^STcwark. During the civil war Mr. ?hamil Ness, of Bearsniount, was a member of a Maine regiment. While in the South he had a bud fail, striking the Imck of his head ' heavily on the ground. It left him partially blind, and for, nearly-twenty-fivo years he haa beep in the same condition. While he could aeo somewhat he was unable to read. During the Icy timo last week, Mr. "Ness fell while tmrying a pari of milk into the house and* tfraln struck the bark of his head heavily M the ice. St range to say, his eyrai'M- has been restored and now he can read as well as before the accidf jj^VLTUtsticUl (Me.) A^rprtiser. KW* * \*iwr ir W1Q, from a spj&I of orttot a L ! SHOES! -"er ,,, than ever. v **UG, SI F.'oo * Affcr! (he Na('lhwr*'<>-n W ?r* fx kefM, mill the I'd nil IHstr hullo ? NmITitm from it Mi <1 W liter. | fci Special telegramsto Hro<l*trfrt'? eorrol s>rate previously reported indications (liat while the j,, volume of general trade is heavy, there has di Iwen a distinct cheek to the movement of staples to retailer* a* compared to the distrihut ion some months ape. Improvements in trade is reports! following more seisonahle j,, weather at Omaha, Kan Francisco and ('in- ?p einnati. ^The overflows along the lower Mississippi '* Valley have cheeked trade at New Orleans, *-'< and even at St. Louis a similar influence has l?een felt. Advices troni Chicago are mod- tl rateiy cheerful. At New York, while the ai 7. nr fs t*l nop I. (,. sf.,p..f, tsCfr ? Rank clearing* at thirty-six cities for March aggregate $4,532,514,831, a gain over n year ago of 1-5 per cent, a* compared with an iiieren.se H of 18 per cent, in March, 1880, over 1888. For the first quarter of 1800 the gain is fi per cent. " over the hrst quarter of 1880, hut the increase in the hank clearings in the first quarter of I 1880 over 1888 was 17 per cent. 1' Special investigation hy Brarijttrrrt'ti into <1 the general trade for the past quarter, and into mercantile collection (at twenty-one cities) , | shows that the late mild Winter, low prices w and depression in the coal trade have had ,s unfavorable effects upon retail distrihution of heavy wearing apparel ami kindred goods, I and the influence of heavy stocks carried over 1 } ' by retailers is reflected in a less active tie- j tnaml than anticipated and slow collections at many points. 'latere is loss discounting of j hills and small demand for accommodation. I P Wheat has not varied in price much, tend- '] ing upward toward the close. Reduced stocks j 1 ali:on I and crop damaged at home are the i R'iiiiulating features, for our efforts have tie- rt elilted visibly, no',ably from the I'aeiffie coast, c The total shipped this week, hoth coasts (in- d: eluding flour as wheat 1 is 1,52I,81H> bushels, ni against 2.401,156 bushels the week before. From July Is last to date exports coital 81,- M 215,675 bushels, against 60.040,120 bushels in a ,,, like portion of 1888-80. Indian corn is firmer ,, or on lighter intcror shipments and continued j, heavv exports. Oats, likewise, are fraction- I ally higher. Drives in Spring dress goods are the lead- p ing features of the Kastern dry-goods jobbing 1' traile. A considerable movement has been \ effeeted at cut rales. Trade with agents is only moderate. Cotton ami wool dress goods show the most notable activity. Prices are, oi as a rule, unchanged. Cotton is dull nntl mi- ? changed, as is all raw woo I. ... 11 Reports to Jiraditrrct's of mercantile fail- n tires throughout the United States during the first quarter of the current year show a total n of 3,326, against 3,560 in the first quarter of j| I88!>. The aggregate liabilities of failing p traders are $3.3,814,301, against $11,761,606, and / actual assets $16,082,212, against $20,376,781) in the first quarter of 1880. p ABOUT NOTED PEOPLE. n Mrs. Rose Terry Cookk, is gradually regaining her health. Gov. Tooi.e, of Montana, it is announced, , is to wed n daughter of General Roegcrans.. rj professor James rrsselt, Lowell is j not yet well enough to resume literury work. <] Rev. IHtoh Price IIi'OHKs. the London ? sensationalist preacher, Will visit Boston this year. II. Rider Haggard has disappeared from r puhlie view. Some say he is in Scotland,ami others that he ia in the Orient. Tiik Shah of Persia has sent to Germany . for engineers and workman to introduce gas- j light into the "Land of the Sun." *' The Princess ok Wales takes a lively interest in hammered hrasswork, an art which ? is taught at her school in Sandringham. Henry >1. Stanley's hook, when it up- 11 pears, will lie puhlialicd In French, German, Italian, Czech, Norse, Spanish and English. Annie Besant, the s<M'iulist and tlie<ts<?phistj is tall, thin and sad of visage. She % married a brother of Walter Besant, the novelist. Emperor William is a hoa.ty enter, taking four meals a day, and enjoying such pic- ( heinn dishes as ham and eggs and hot sausages and beer. John M. Sears is the largest individual taxpayer in Boston. He pays $.S0,0U0 on , ill7,(100 worth of real estate and a personal c*Lite of $125,000. COLONEL O. J. Mi'RPIIY, an American, (impose* to build acorn palace at the I'.dinmrg International Exposition, which will h- , held this Summer. ( Sarah Berniiarpt's pet tiger, of which i American hotel keepers and waiters have very unpleasant recollections, died recently of la grippe, at the Jardin des Plant*, Paris. SENATOR PI.I'MR was an editor before he Went into the railroad business and became a millionaire. He i* tall ami rawhoned, wears a goatee and a slouch hat, and owns up to years. Mrs. Crook,w ho i* completely prostrated since the sudden death of her husband, Gen. George Crook, is quietly resting at Oakland, Md., which she has determined to make her permanent residence. ProK. Max MiH.I.ER, the eminent Orientalist and Philologist, went to England without knowing n single* word of English. Although R rnorp vnnth l?p iloonlv vortinil in S*?n. serit, Hebrew and Arable. Professor Tyndai.I. lias erected unsightly screens of poles eovere<l with dead heath on his grounds ?o prevent some people who hnre built houses within field-glass range of his residence from seeing him. Yan Pliou i.f.k, the Chinaman who graduated at Yale College, and soon afterward mar- , ried a New Haven girl, reeently went to San Francisco, but did not like his surroundings there, and is back in New Haven. | PHIL ARMOUR, while a butcher's lassistant, was in love with a handsome blonde, who jilted him for a wagon driver. The millionaire reeently inquired concerning her, and found that she is a matron with a large fumily and her husband is still a wagon driver. President AthRBTON, of the Pennsylvania State College, is in the South, tinder commission from the United States Department of Agriculture, making a tour of inspection of the operations of some of the experiment stations in that section. pRtvcE Eugene of Sweden has passed two yenrs in Paris as an amateur artist, having studied under M. Henri Gervcx. The King of Sweden has just conferred upon M. Gervex the Crosa of a Chevalier of the order of St. Olaf. It is aaid that Prince Eugene ha* considerable talent. Mr. Gladstone has always hccn more scrupulous in his attentions to the humbler ..I ..... a., i. il. .1 ??HI? i inwn uinn |u iiic uumiiij ouu nriuug. Onee. when Prime Minister, he called per-* tonally on a tradesman one Sunday morning to deliver a ticket for admission to the House of Commons, which had l>een requested. Ferdinand Dk Lkmirps leans heavily forward as he walks, and his hair is white us slacked lime, yet he still retains a buoyant flow of animal spirits, and his hand writing is anything hut shaky. He still affects receptions wilh a vengeance and personally conduets a voluminous correspondence. He is justly proud of his thirteen "children," who range in years from 4 to 4A. He is himself 85. Negotiations have been entered into between Mr. Thos. Burt, member of the British House of Commons for Morpeth, and secretary of the Northuml>erland Miners' Mutual Association, and Herr Hirttch, chief of the Her man trades-unions, with the view to establishing thorough co-operation by the Herman and English trades-unions. H CABLE SP^S. [npcror il ] inm wU^vhit Russia during ooruing summer^, * Phcro is n moi^nient in Merlin to erect h onunicnt in tli^r City to Prince Bisnuirk. Carbosn, tli/ explorer of the Nvassa anil liire districtirof Africa has returned to PisHi. 7 Owing to ft meat famine in Berlin the resuming ofithnt city will raise the price of cat 'Jt* per cent. It is runiered in I^inilon that (Jiieon Vie. triii is seriously considering the step of ahieatiug (lie British throne. Price Alhrceht Waldeek a cousin of the uecn of Holland, has published the reigning rilicc of Waldeek as a liar. Munich brewers have raised the price of per two pfennings per glass, and as a conscuonce a riot is expected there. The young Duke of Orleans will he re ased 'from prison this week, and secretly inducted across the French frontier. Mr. Parnell has filed his hill of denial to ic allegations in the O'Shea suit for divorce, nd the case will lie heard next autumn. ere nn estcd, tried and sentenced to prison. Dueling has heen forbUden in the Herman rmy, except in cases where n council of men I" honor decide that circumstances waiiaut a net. The miners employed in two coal pits at tortmuud have joined the strike. Work is roeecding quietly in the mines in the Ksscn istriet. A verdiet for 1,118,000 francs damages and ic costs of the action was returned in the nit id' (iihlis a Sons, in Paris, against (lie oeieto ?le MetllllX. The Sultan of Turkey has signed an irade roviding for new negotiations with F.ugliind >r a convention huscd oil the withdrawal of lie F.nglish from F.gypt. The HamJ>urg-American Steamship Pom. any is considering (lie advisability of having lie steamers of their New York line call at a haincs river port on their outward voyages. The Mill Owners' Association of India has solved to close the spinning mills eight days i-cry month, and the weaving mills foiir ays every month for a period of three lonths. The Kinperor William of Germany has pre nted a prize^ nip, ornamented with antlers ml a figure of Diana, goddess of the chase, > lie shot for nt the federal ritle competition' i tIn iiitin j Prince Bismarck is eomnilinir a memoir t'.ir I ublicutinn which will comprise th<* Inst venty-tive years <>f his official life. Emperor I'illiani has promised to pay him a visit at riedriehsruhe. M. Etienne, minister of the French eol nies. says that the French forces in Ihi homey j ill shortly make an attack upon Wlivdal'i, ie eoa?t town of Dahomey, where the italic- I linns obtain their amis. The Spanish and Swiss delegates have sub- j litted to the Industrial Conference in session i i Madrid a project for the repression of false mrks of origin on industrial products. The Liner icon delegates approve the project. There is great excitement in Dresden over he publication in a newspaper that Hisinark nformed n delegation of citizens of that oily hat he did not retire from the office of tierlan ehaueellor of his own choice. The Pope and (ien. Sir John I.. Simmons, he British special envoy, have signed u proocol for the regulation of the appointment of lishops on tlie islands of Malta and liozo. rtiey hove ?1?> signed protocols for the rrguation and mixed marriages, and for the eon* luot of seminaries for the education of priests m tiiose islands. )ISASTERS AND CASUALTIES. In Syraccsk, N. Y., five men were buried y the caving in of a sewer, and one of them? ereininh Lynch?was sullbeated. TltK boiler in the stave mill of J. II. Musing & Co., in Hutsonville, Illinois, exploded, 'lie proprietor and one of his men were killed ,nd nine otliers were injured, three fatally. TltK Louisville, New Orleans and Texas biilroad has been compelled to temporarily j ihandon its trains, owing t" the insecure eonlitionofthe trestle near Tunica, Tennessee, | ihieli is being repaired. Six boys, sons of It. II. Baskerville and K. Woinniaek, were playing in a sand cave, icar Vernon, Texas, when the bank caved in >n them and all were killed. Their ages angial from 11 to 19 years. A train on the Wabash Road was derailed tear St. Charles, Missouri, while rounding a iharp curve, and five ears were throw n into a litcli. A number of the passengers were in* 11red, but no person whs killed. <;.\s tlmt had nefiimulnted in Xo. I shall, it Nnntieoke, Ph., was ignited hv a miner who curried a naked lamp and an explosion followed. William A. James, James Adams, mid John Znbovage were killed, and a number of others were injured, two probably fatally. A.NTHIM Osborne, 72 years of age, a retired and well-know manufaeturer, who resided at Hose Valley and at one time operated woolen mills there, was killed on the West t'hester Railroad, at Media Station, Pa. lie was walking on the railroad and an approaching train struek him. A FRKitiiiT train on the California and Oregon Railroad broke in two near Delta, California, and two light engines struck the ealioose, driving it through the couch. D. <i. tittle. the conductor, was pinned in the wreck and burned to dcatfi. CONVICTS are worked ill the Coalhurg mines of the Ploss Iron and Cteel Company, near Hirniinghani, Alabania. Recently a spark from a miner's Inmp fell into a boxid'cartridges and an explosion followed,which killed tiiur men j?i?i injured cirhl Three were white and the others colored. TWELVE PERSONS DROWNED. Thrown from n Unit In thfi 'Tor lS?!e niMlsilpid Flood. Nineteen negroes, thi sureIvors of a in gparty of r.fugeei, who attempted to escape from the overflow down Bayou Falnyn on rult, have arrive I at Vicksburgo i the s'e nit r 11 11 C.ty. They nport that twelve wo:n n ci1111 nhil lr.?:l ivf P.? tlr iu rwil ivIwmi tlio nurr mt di shed their < razy \ essol again* t a to. mil that th< y < sT.pe i wi h great d* then t / 'J hit is the inoit t a'.'ic event of the flo id. T.io aituition :s growing daily more r en oik in t -o S'eol R iyou country. Eirl Mi lo , a piOTinei.t |?la >t< r, and a iroher of A t rn-y fl i oral Millor, i rrived from t! ore by s<am r Eve green, with hi* fariiy :.nd s oc . To Miller plantation, though verv t ig i.haa g?n under. T.ic evergreen rerorts t'le > a r a ?> g the I ayons hii 1 ris ng. Catti?* and i or* a ar oflere t t' r wile by the prop e at a son . M i h more ft ok mug y.?i h> I roil ht o t or allowed to drown, bt a uerOxeolaa iimi iro-n the Bend'. Her oftieers npAr thit the overflow is b?i inning to en p y i. to t io M s riswppi, through the Ea:le I ate, and predie a gr?at ine on e in pre?-urc a 1 along t e Louisiana front, fro-n that|oiiit ao thwar 1 for the next two weeks. The O ce >'a I eg in an inspection of the levies fro ii Delta, La. northward, an t will l>e juiced by l*r 8.den M xwell, and probably, Assist nt E gin ei Thompton. Ti.cre iagre it di tr as al >ng bt e Biyou. A citizen of Tannton, Mass., say! that ho knows a woman who, for weera years, made from 1,000 to 1,200 pies t year for a family of threo persons, anc one member has eaten more .ban two , thirds of then*. jJDaY SCHOOL. " iM../\ATION^L LESSON FOR / // M'lUI, 20. liC?*on TmI: " l 'orKlToiin?Hflii(l fiorn Ijiiko vll , !W 50-GoIiIpii 'IcjU: I John iv, lit ? Commentary on the Ijc 'Mm. ? "(1. "Ami one of the Pharisees closured Him \ (lint Up would cat with liim. And He went- t into the Pharisee's house, and sat down to ( meat." The incident of this lesson, like that- / of 1 he last one. is recorded only L>y Luke, and / seems to have occurred at th'same place, the f city of Nain. The principal intervening / events were the Bending of tu-Msengers to Jesus by John the Baptist, who was in prison; the miracles wrought by Jesus in then* presence. and the testimony of Jesus concerning John al ter the messengers had departed. He also rebuked the people because or their treatment of John and of Himself, saying that John had a devil and Mint Jesus eras a ghit Ion and wine bibber and friend of publicans and sinners. AVo should not be ?uf1?: xv. inrvi., In this gospel Wo see much of Jesus as n man among men, a social man. and yet alwnys an unearthly, holy, separate mid heart-searching man. Luke records four different occasious on which He went hi to evil with Pharisees and publicans which are not mentioned in nuy of * the other gospels (xi., .'17; xiv., 1; xix., 7), and on each occasion He has most heartsearching .ords for the Pharisees. AVbilo He accepts their hospitality Ho does not allow their lavorsto blind His eys or close His mouth. 117. "And, behold, a woman in the city, which was a sinner." AVe do not know her name. This is the only place where tho record is found and her name is not given. The only name given to her is "sinner, and that tits us all. "When she knew that Jesus sat at meat in the Pharisee's house, brought an alabaster box of ointment.'' Il would seem as if light bad already dispelled the darkness from ber soul and revealed to Iter n Savior, Just ask yourself if you would be as quick to hear of Jesus anil come to Ilini; would you bring Hini (he best voii had, ami get to Him even though you had lo enter the house of ono w hom j on knew would despise you? It may be that ns we consider this penitent sinner our hearts are led with shame to confess that her promptness and courage and gift exceed ^frnTStis teet beniTi.i mm-" " weeping." etc. Reclining as they did at. table, as she came behind Him, sho could easily stand at His feet, and. bending over them, wash them with her tears. Heenoras she wqies I hem with lier hair, then kisses them, and anoints tliem with the ointment she had brought. If we have not been put to shame by her promptness and courage and gift, surely wc are now as we see her love. 39. "Now when t-lie Fhariseo which bad bidden Him saw it, he spake within himself ." He might as well have said it oul, for Jesus knew his thoughts. He knows ours, too (Ps. exxxix, 'J; ICzck. xi., 5), and wo need constantly to pray that He would cleanse the thoughts of our hear is. '.0. "And Jesus, answering, said unto him, Simon. I have somewhat to say unto thee." Our very thoughts need answering, and tho AVord of God is equal to it. A'ain thoughts lodge within us, and wasto our time and hinder our service, but there is a remedy, "Tho AVord of God" (Jer. iv., 14; xxix., 11; I.uke xxiv., 38). There are seven or eight different tiiroons in the New Testament history besides Simon Voter, but this is the . only mention of this one. Tho name, like tt nion in the Old Testament, signifies hearin?', and was the name Riven by Leah to her second son, l>eoause, as she said, "the Lord had hoard" (Gen. xxix., 33). Hoar helpful it would bo if wo always remembered that the Lord hoard, and that lie has somewhat, to say to us about those thoughts of ours. 41, 42. "When they had nothing to pay, ho I frankly forgave them both. Tell me, therefore, which of thoin will love him most?" In this story* of the creditor and two debtors Jesus would tench Simcn somewhat of the relations in w hich ho and the women stood to God. Not thnt the indebtedness of Simon and the woman was as fifty comparod with live hundred, but that was about the way [ Simon looked at it. lie might lie willing to | acknowledge that he was not as good as he j ought to l?\ but here was a woman whom I everybody knew to bo a great sinner. Jesus put the matter from Simon's standpoint and nsked the question: "Which will love most?" It would bo profitable to consider here our I indebtedness to God for life, health, privi! leges, protecting care, in fact all things, for what have we that we have not received? 43. "Simon answered and said. I supposo that lie to whom he forgave most. And Ho said unto him. Tliou bast rightly judged." 1 Any one could see that the one who was conscious of owing five hundred, being freely forgiven, would feel under much greater obligation to the creditor than the one owing only fifty; and thus Simon answered rightly. | 44-It*. "And lie turned to the woman, and said unto Simon. Seest, thou this woman?" Simon was no doubt surprised to have the 1 thoughts of his heart revealed. The poor woman is no doubt surprised to have Jesus turn in coiiumssion to her. To be allowed to caress and anoint His feet was a great joy, but to have Hint turn His face to her, and notice her. nnd commend her, mentioning , every .loving act beforo all the people, and placing her in His estimation above Simon himself, surely now her heart was full. What condemnation for Simon, what glory for her. 1 47. "Wherefore I say unto thee, Her sins, which are many, aro forgiven.'1 Good for tho poor woman, but what about Simon and his sins? In his own estimation he had none worth mentioning, none that needed special pardon, nnd Jesus came not to call the righteout hut sinners to repentance. If Simon could lmvo had a glimpse of his own heart ft* Jesus saw ff, no Coo woutd have had a j broken heart and have meekly sought forj giveness. But he was blind, and with salva! t.ion within his reach, even in his own house, j he seas not'his need and goes without, little 1 t hinking that the man who now sat at his I table, ready and able to save him, was in ' deed Israel's Messiah and would one day be | his judge. I 48. "And He said unto her. Thy sins are forgiven thee." She hoard Him say it to Simon, and if her heart was full !>efore it was surely overflowing now; but could it bo true, did she hear aright? He turns again to her. looks into her face, and savs directly to I herself: "Thy sins are forgiven." Now she is sure; Ho lias looked ujion lier; He has snoken to her: she lieljcvps that lfeis Israel's | Messiah, and now He has become her Saviour and hor soul ran say: "Thine anger (not , with hor. hut with the sin) is turned away, and Thou comfortest me, for Thou art be come my salvation" (Isa. xii., 1-3). I 4i?. "And they tHat sat at meat with Him began to say within themselves. Who is this that forgivoth sins also*' They knew Hini not; they, too, were blind like Simon; there was no forgiveness for them either, atihough it was within their roach. A reasoning, questioning spirit draws no blessing from Him, but onlyabrokon and contrite and be af having spirits *nd tills they had not. They ? were well satisfied with themselves. What a mystery this is! God manifest in the flesh, 1 healing the sick, raising the dead, fulfilling 1 the prophecies concerning the Messiah, such as Isa. xxxv? 5 1). as well as those in refer 1 enco to His birth and place of birth (Isa. vih, { i 14; Mic. v., 2), yet they know Him not. The ' hungry He Alls with good things, but tho J rich He sends empty away (LukeT., .Vi). ' j 5(J. "And Ho said to the woman, Thy I fmi I. ii.it.li wived thee: am in neaee." How : exceeding abundantly ahove lUl shooouldask or think. I'ermitted to approach Him, she j ' is allowed to touch Him, to handle His feet. He loolts upon her. He commends hor love, 1 Iio tells her that her tins ere forgiveu. an l k' now lie sends her away in peace with the assurance that she In saved. Forgiveness, I salvation, peace; He said it, and looked upon her as He said it. Oil what love was in that look, what soul cotnforl In those gracious words}?Lesson Htlpmr. P?5 3 . ^ wr' '*i[A