Miscellaneous News. Driven from Their Homes by Klre. SnENANi>oAii, Pa., Oct., 20.—Slab town near New London, has beoi sur rounded by brush fires and inhabitants were compelled to flee to places of sate ty. Rain this evening hasextinguished the flames, but thousands of dollais worth of valuable timber was destroyed. Killed While Attending; a Funeral. EASTON, Pa., Oct. 20.—William Le roach, aped 20, with all other employes at the slate mantel factory at East Cangor, quit work this morning to at tend the funeral of a fellow workman. As the funeral was entering the church where the services were held. Leroach was sitting between the rails of the Bangor and Portland railroad track with his legs dangling between the ties. While in that position he was struck by a passenger train and cut to pieces. News of his death was brought to his mother in the church while the funeral sermon was being preached. THK CiHOST'S LAIR FOUND His Paraphernalia Consisted of llrtni stone, Sulphur, Human Sculls, Kte. BELVIDKRE, N. J., Oct. 20.—The excitement over the nocturnal rambles of the eight-foot ghost, whose ex plot's have been chronicled in the newspapers continues unabated. With a trusted friend detective Edward Hutchinson went to the place where the ghost disappeared. Following up the banks of tbe creek about half a mile, he saw something shine near the water's edge on tbe opposite shore. Finding no boat be and his friend waded the stream.and at the foot of a steep bank overgrown with shrubbery, they discovered a small piece of phosphorous which shoue with a sickly yellow hue. For some time they found nothing further, but, partly ascendiue the bank, they saw an opening in the bushes. Throwing the light of their bull's eye, they saw it was a small passageway, sufficiently large for a person to enter. With a lantern ablaze and revolver cocked, Hutchinson weut inward, his standiug guard outside. He fullowed-the hole for about five feet, when it opened into a natural chamber about twelve feet high and six by eight feet in the bottom. At last the retreat of the "ghost" was found. A search was then instituted and a most promiscu ous collection of ghostly paraphernalia came to light. First they saw a small oil stove, ou which was boiling a pot of herbs. By the side of the stove was a large paper of brimstone, in fact brimstouewas scattered over everything. Some had evidently been on the stove, as Hutchinson said the place smelt like the internal region itself. A package of phosporous, out of which the piece that led to the discovery of the den had been taken was placed beside the brim stone. And then they found in a cor ner a lot of sheeting, several masks, s:>me women's dresses, an old pair of trousers and two skulls. In one of tho skulls a stick was fitted. The officers will get reiuforcemeuts and try to capture the miscreant in his den. It isalmost certain that it is some half demented person who has been do ing some odd jobs about town. THE ANARCHISTS HAVE NO HOPE. Preparations Being 3lade for the Ex ecution —Riot and Bloodshed Expected. CHICAOO, Oct. 20.—The sober judge ment of nearly every person in Chicago whose opinion is worth auythine is that the seven anarchists in the county jail will be hanged November 10, ac cording to their sentence. Some few think that the supreme court may grant a stay of execution pending ar gument, but it would be hard to find one whose expectation goes further than that. There is nothing for the supreme court to interfere about in the case. The best lawyers in Chicago have said so. No one but a few enthu siastic friends ot the condemned -men dispute it. There is grim evidence that the execution is certainly exacted in the quiet preparations going on in tbe jail. State-Attorney Grinuell has showed what he thought about theresu't of the appeal. A thief had pleaded guilty of petit larceny aud Judge Baker was a bout to sentence him to the county jail for thirty days. Mr. Grinnell inter posed: 'ln view of what is to take place in the jail Nov. 11," he said, 'I prefer that this man's sentence should expire before that time, because it is desirable that as few prisoners as pos sible should be in the jail when such a tremendous event takes place." Jadge Baker acceded and made the sentence fifteen days. Soon after another crim inal was to be sentenced, and Mr. Grinnel said : •Your honor, I am opposed to jail sentences at the present time. If it is necessary that any prisoners should be confined,they should be kept ID station houses until after the execution takes place, Nov. 11." It is understood that as many pris oners as possible will be taken from the jail between DOW and the time of the execution. It shows that Mr. Grinnell is very confident that the sentence will be carried out, and the authorities are not oyersure that the precautions they have taken will protect the jail from assault on that day. There have been agcod many executions in the Cook county jail, but it has never been thought [necessary before to keep pris oners away from it at the time. Even the anarchists themselves have no real hope that the execution of their seven fiends can be prevented or de layed. George M. Sloan, the anarchist leader, whom Mayor Roche refused per mission to speak on the execution a few days ago, said that he had giyen up all hope, and fully expected that the hanging would take place. 'The exe cution will be followed by riot and bloodshed,' be said, 'but it will surely take place. The supreme court is so completely under the domiuion of the capitalists that the judges will not dare to interfere,' A CHILIAN "SIIK." Isidnrn |o Consino, tho Montr Crista of South America. A lliishily dressed young man of me dium height, with a large diamond in his shirt bosom, stepped off the baiken tine Aldavla a few days ago when it ar rived from Chili. There was some thing so sharp and shrewd in his ap pearance that the attention of an Ex aminer representative was attracted to him. 'That is Mr. [Jenkins, the grand sec retary to the richest woman in South America—Mme. Isidora de Consino— commonly known us the Monte Cristo of South America,' said an officer of the vessel. 'So you would like to know some thing of the madame,' observed Mr. Jenkins, stroking his moustache on IH>- ing introduced. 'WeM, there is lots to tell you. I could talk alio lit her pos sessions and her eccentricities for a week aud the subject would not bo half exhausted. It's a rather curious thing that she was not discovered long since. She is known all along the South American coast and is almost a t>uetn over the people. In fact, there is no one who disputes Iter in anything she says or does, and she revels in the lux uiies that lit r euoi oiouswealth can sur round her with. About 50 years have passed since she was hoiu, and,though few women have dissipated as she has, she is well preserved, and goes out and has her nice little time the same as ever. 'No, she is not fair. Her features are coarse, like a servaut-gii l's, but she has had many lovers. 'She has a partiality for the French, and a few years ago when a gentleman from France happened around she in variably invited him and fell in love wiih him. In late years her sons have been watching her and using their ef forts to keep her from scaudal, which she falls into very easily. 'The society people of the city repeat edly vow that they will never visit her again, but her receptions are so elegant and rich that they never fail to attend when they receive an invitation. 'lsidora is a native of Chili and a widow of the late Louis de Consino, a gentleman of French origin. She claims to have Cast ill ian blood in her veins, and most probably she has. She is owner of about four-fifths of the coal mines of Lota, a small seajKirtin the southern part of Chili, the inhabitants of which are entirely dependent for their livelihood upon the mines, and be sides this she has the controlling inter est in the Compania Esplotadora de Carbon de Lota, in Caronel. These mines supply all vessels of the Pacific Steam Navigation Company with coal, and also all steamers plyiug on the southwest coast. 'At Lota she removed what was a handsome building and is rebuilding a palace to eclipse anything in South America. Its cost will te more than £2,000,000. The palace is to be situated in the most beautiful park country, a vertible Eden, where it will be sur rounded by the most magnificant trees and plants that money cau procure. Iu Santiago, tbe Capital of Chili, she has a residence that tor grandeur has few equals. It is situated in a garden of Ave acres teeming with tropical plants aud birds. 'ller stables contain fifty or more thoroughbred English racers; the madame was the first patroness of horse-racing in Chili. Her turnouts are equal to those of any Princess. 'lsidora cares little for money. Iler income is enormous, but she manages to spend about as much. In 1885 her brother died. In her bereavement she made donations to hospitals, churches, convents, etc., to the amount of $600,- 000. She was left $8,000,000 by him. Included in her estate was a handsome residence on one of the principal streets of Santiago. The dwelling was built and owned for a time by a former Cali fornian, Don Enrique Meiggs, who had all the material and workmen brought from the States. 'She has three daughters. The eldest is 21 and the youngest is 12 years of age. The secondjislT and the prettiest. Isidora has much troubie with them. Recently a young Lieutenant fell in love with the 17-year-old daughter and her mother saw fit to remove her to a conyent. The others have since been placed where the beguilements of man cannot reach."— San Francisco Exam iner. A Feathered Mimic. M. D'Orbigny, a traveler who was passing through Guiana, in South A merica, was, when encamped one night in the edge of a wood, awakened by what he took to be the cries of a man in distress. He listened, and heard, following each other in great rapidity, what seemed to be a scream of terror and despair, then a supplication, and then a cry as of one dying. The travel er leaped from his couch,seized his gun, and hastily woke his Indian guide. '•Come this instant 1" he cried. '•There is some one being murdered in the thicket. Let us go to bis assist ance." Thereupon the cries were repeated, and tne Indian listened. lie burst into a laugh. "What do you mean ?" asked the traveler. "That, sir," said the guide, "is the tion-tion bird, perched on a limb some where in the neighborhood. It is onlj a piece of mockery. Presently you will hear him laugh." And then, in fact, a wild shout as of laughter rung out on the night air. The tion-tion is a sort of South A merican mocking bird, which has an extraordinary gift of imitation. It is also a bird of great beauty of plumage. It is sometimes called the'yellow-neck.' Its feathers are of lively colors and its tail is brilliant and spreading. The natives use its feathers to decorate their hats with on feast days and turn their head-gear into golden crowns in appearance. The bird mimics almost every sound he hears, aryd imitates the speech of men as successfully as the parrot does. The inhabitants of Guiana assert that he can imitate faithfully the accent of the English, French and bpanish. Nat ural sounds and the cries of animals of eyerv sort he reproduces very cleverly. DOING HIS It EST. Tho young man "who docs the l>ost his circumstances will allow," makes even that a stepping-stone to.success. When poverty obliged Stephen A. Douglas, a boy of fifteen years, to give up all hope of entering college, lie in dentured himself as an apprentice to a cabinet-maker. For two years lie worked at Ills trade with such industry as to Income a first-rate cabinet-maker. A feeble body and poor health forctd him out ol the shop. When lie discov ered that he could not he amechanic.be determined to study law. He begun a course of classical studies at an acade my, ami carried it on with the applica tion which enabled him within four years to master nearly an entire colleg ! ate course. During that time lie also persistently followed a course of law studies, under the Instruction of an able lawyer. At twenty years of ago lie left the academy aud law office to seek his for tune HI that vaguely defined region known as "the West." He wandered through Cleveland, Cincinnati, Louis ville and St. Louis, seeking in vain for some "opening" through which he might pass to sell-support. In liis pilgrimage he arrived at Jack sonville. 111., with thirty-seven cents iu his pocket, aud he himself unknown to any person in the town. He sought employment as a law clerk, offering Ins services for board and lodging. No lawyer wanted him. He sold his school honks to pay for bread and bed. and walked to Winchester on a cold Decem ber day. The morning after his arrival he left his lodgings to find employment. As he approached the public square, lie saw a crowd, and joined it. An ad ministrator, about to sell by auction the stock in trade of a deceased merch ant, was halted by the went of some man coinietent to keep a record of sales, aud to make out the bills of pur chasers. No person in the crowd, though sev eral of them had been asked, was will ing to undertake the duty. The ad ministrator was embarrassed and the would-be buyers impatient. "P'raps this 'ere stranger," said a mm, pointing to young Douglas, "would do the job. He looks as if lie c uild read, write and cipher." The administrator insisted on him to serve and tendered him the liberal sal ary of two dollars a day. He consent ed ; the auction lasted three days, and the temporary clerk had six dollars in his pocket, no mean sum for a man whose cash amounted to thirly-seven cents. But he gained more than mon ey. The promptness with which he discharged his duties won for hun the admiration of buyers, administrator aud auctioneer. It was in the days when President Jackson was lighting the United States Bank, and party feelings were at fever he it. At intervals during the sale and in the evenings he joined in the politi cal conversations which took place. The ability and the good nature lie showed in defending the President caused the old farmers to take him to their hearts. It was discovered that he was poor and wished to open a school. In a few days his new friends provide! him with forty pupils, each of whom was to pay three dollars per quarter. While teaching school he devoted his evenings to studiing the statutes of Illinois. On Saturday afternoons lie acted as counsel before the justice's court. At the end of three months he abandoned his school and ojiened a law oflice. The money he had received for teaching, together with his fees for le gal services, justified him in applying to the Supreme Court for a license to practice law. In seven years from the date of his application lie occupied a seat upon the Supreme Court bench, and in ten years lie went back to the East as a member of Congress. His subsequent career as a United States Senator, a leader of the Democratic party, and a Presidential candidate, is well known. Doubtless it is spotted with errors and faults, for he was but a man ; but it illustrates that honor and fame come to him who, in stead of repining at his situation, uses it as a fulcrum. Youth's Companion. Tlie Case Is Hopeless. With a Southern family in New York "there has been stajing for some time a young lady from the interior of the State. She is of a philanthropic turn of mind, hut her benevolent instincts lately received a sad check. Fully con vinced that 'where there's a will there's a way,' she undertook to reform an old colored servant of the family who loved whisky 'not wisely, hut too well.' George Washington Jefferson was from the Souf,' and in consideration of years of faithful service the family took no notice of his failing, but the young lady tried persuasion, cajole ment, scolding, tracts, presents, and everything else that a good heart and earnest purpose could suggest to in duce him to abandon his intemi>orate habits. But it was all in vain. At last, in a fit of pardonable impatience, she said to him one day : 'I declare, George. I'd giye you a thousand dollars if you'd give up di ink ing.' 'Lor,' young miss,' replied the old incorrigible, 'd'yo know what I'd do wid dat thousand dollais if I had it ? I'd jes' buy me a lounge, a bar'l o' whisky, a pump, an' hire a nigger an' I'd jes' lay my old black se't down on dat lounge, an' I'd jes' make dat nigger pump dat whisky down my froat. Lor', miss, dat ud be jes' like de ye'ro' ju bilee. Don't you tempt' me dat way no mo'.' The young lady has given up all ef forts to reform George Washington Jefferson, and nobody remonstrates with him now when ho gets drunk.— N. Y. Tribune. —John have you seen that woman lately ? John, in astonishment: What woman V That woman picking Grapes for Speer's Wine. Just see her in another column and read about it,the wines are found by chemists to be absolutely pure and equal to the best in the World. The Board of Health in Large Cities and leading Hospitals have a dopted tbeii use where wines are need} ed. Ilow Wiovea ro I*u( | p This being the season