NEWS OF THE WEER ~—A. J. McBride and wife were mur- dered in Davidson county, North Caro- lina, on the 4th and their house was robbed and burned. Alfred Long and Walter Womack, McBride's brothers- in-law, have been arrested on suspicion, Two Seminole Indians, who had crimi- nally assaulted a woman, were lynched by a mob of Pottawattomies and Semi- noles near Red Fork, in the Indian Territory on the 4th, George Kades was indicted in Cleveland on the 05th for the murder of his step daughter on May 3d. by hacking her Lo pieces with a table knife, Two men named Dray- ton and Williams were hanged at Or- lando, Florida, on the 5th. The first was convicted of murder, the second of an assault which resulted in the vietim’s death. ~— Mrs, Louisa ‘l'aylor, & young mar- ried woman, committed suicide in her fathers’s house, at Charlestown, Mary- lann, on the 5th, by taking laudanum and strichnine. She said she would kill herself because her husband did not provide for her, She was 22 years of age. —A boiler at the Rensselaer Mill in Troy, New York, burst on the 7tn, gil'ing Michael Demworth and more ally injuring Patrick Gaynor, Eight sthers were seriously injured. By an axplosion of gas in the Mineral Spring Colliery at Wilkesbarre on the 7th, six men were badly burned, two of whom are not expected to recover. Those be- deved to be fatally injured are Patrick Joyce and John Reese. The wall building on East 114th street, New York, fell on the 7th, while repairs were going on in the adjoining lot. Ed- ward Kelly, 50 years old, and John Bigger, 25, were crushed to death, and in the hospital. The wall had been con- demned. While Elmer Osenback and Forrest Mark were driving across the Lehigh Valley Railroad at Allentown on the Oth, their team was struck by a irain and both were killed. They were about 23 years of age. ~—A passenger train on the North- :wastern Railroad, on the 7th, broke through the Santee river trestle, mid- way between St. Stephen’s Station and jmashing up the coaches and killing ix passengers. The killed are: John L. Cole, Dr. G. G. Kinloe, Charles Inglesby, Jr., and Miss McIver, of Charleston; Miss C. E. McWhite, of Marion, and Miss Hannah Wilson, residence not known. Conductor B. §. Mazyck and Mail Agent F. Bennecker were badly injured. from the insecure fastenings of a rail on changing gauge. and Joseph Conroy on the 7th pleaded assault in New York, and were sentenced each to sixteen years in the penitentiary. —At Norristown, on the 7th, Judge Boyer denied the motion for a new trial m the case of John M. Wilson, convicted at the March term of the murder of Anthony W. Dealy, and then sentenced Wilson to be hanged. ~ Returns from all except two coun ties of Oregon give Harmann, Republi- can, for Congress, 600 majority; Penn- oyer, Democrat, for Governor, 1800 majority; MeBride, Republican, for Secretary of State, 200; Webb, Demo- crat, for Treasurer, 400; Strahan, Dem- ocrat, for Supreme Judge, 200; Mec- Elroy, Republican, for Superintendent of Public Instructions, 900; Baker, Republican, for State Printer 000. It is possible that the returns yet to come in may elect the Democratic candidate for Secretary of State and the Republi- can candidate for Supreme Judge, -The June crop report of the De- partment of Agricultural shows the area of Spring wheat to be about the same 2s last year—12 000,000 acres. The condition of Spring wheat averages 084, against 97 in June of last year. The average of Winter wheat is 92.7, against 94.9 in May. Rye has also de- clinea during the month from 95.7 to 04.4. Barley averages 100, against 80 in June of last year. Oats average nearly 96, against 94 in 1885, The acreage of than last year, or about 250,000 acres; the average condition of the crop is 88.7, against 92 last year. ~The Tunnel Colliery, at Ashland, Penna., after a three months’ suspen- sion, caused by the caving in of the fan-way, resumed operations on the 10th, with 300 men and boys. on the 10th made the following ap- pointments: Robert McMahon, of Pitts- del, of Pittsburg, and J. Munroe Shel. lenberger, of Doylestown, to be mem- bers of the Board of Public Charity. The last two are appointed whose terms have expired. Sawyer was reappointed, —At Cincinnati, on the 10th, William Henry Roberts, elected to the chair of Practical The- ology in Lane Theological Seminary by a unanimous vote of the trustees. succeeds Rev. Dr. James ceased. —At Calais, Maine, on the three masked men appeared at the sec- Rev. tion house, overpowered the officer in charge at the point of a revolver, re- leased William Buckley, who was held under a charge of embezzlement with him to Canada. recently enticed across the line arrested by an American detective. —General C. 8, Hamilton, ex-U. 8. Marshal, was stricken with apoplexy in and and is in was a class. Point, ing a train for a critical condition. Chicago, He —The wholesale and retail drug store of J, H. Sheehan & Co., 1n Utica, New York, was burned on the 10th, Loss, $70,000; insurance $60,000. The adjoining buildings were damaged to the extent of $10,000, A fire ip Tona- | wanda, New stroyed the Mozart Theatre and saloon, a machine shop and several smaller buildings causing a loss of $50,000, { The Insurance is $40,000. The dead | body of an unknown man was found in the ruins, drowned in the Merrimae river Lowell, Ing the Grand river, near Moab, Colo- rado, on the 6th ~— Bod well were burned on the 7th,. Loss, $250,- 000. The town of Kingston, Michigan, was almost entirely destroyed by fire on the 6th, only one store remaining. Loss, $25,000, Loss $30 0CO; covered by insurance. The Virginia House and the Washing- ton House bulldings at Rawley Springs, twelve miles west of Harrisonburg, Virginia, were destroyed by fire on the 8th, The loss is estimated at $130,000, while the insurances aggregate only $13,000. ~—During the reunion of the Pennsyl- vania Reserves in Reading about 25 persons, visitors and citizens of Read- ing, were made violently ill after eating lunch at Mennerchor Hall, where more than 1200 persons fed. During the even- ipg of the 7th, they exhibited every symplom of arsenical poisoning, but were nearly all considered out of dan- ger on the 8th, It is thought their ill- ness was caused by the vessels in which the coffee was boiled, or the cans in which the corned beef was packed, -—Nelson W, Aldrich was, on the 8th, re-elected U. 8, Senator from Rhode Island by the vote of each branch of its Legislature. ~A few days ago there disappeared from a lawyer’s office in Boston, a tin box, containing $340,000 in unregis- tered Government bonds. An investi- gation showed that the box containing the securities “had been stolen by a little office boy, who knocked off the lock and helped himself to $50 in gold coin, and went to lunch on ple, leaving the trunk with the bonds hid- den in the areaway under the old Merchants Exchange. The next day the lad returned the trunk to his employer’s office, hiding it in an out-of- the way place, whege it was subsequently found with the bonfls untouched. The boy began his stealings by taking pos. tage stamps, which were legal tenders at a Williams Court ple s 1? ~Orange Terrell, after wounding Niles Henderson and Sophia Wickson in a fight at Terrett, Texas, on the 8th, was shot dead by Sheriff Keller, At Maysville, Kentucky, on the 8th, James G. White, a wealthy citizen, was shot dead by Joseph H. Dodson, a n and tobacco merchant, They had on bad terms for some time. W. ¥, Cuthbertson, a grocer of Charlotte, North Carolina, was, on the 9th, shot dead by his son-in-law, Cyrus Long, a Joung i phi Slonk. os iibertson as violently opposed daughter's th Long, and had fre- FORTY-NINTH CONGRE 88, SENATE. In the U. 8. Senate on the 7th, Mr. | Miller moved the reference of the Ole- { omargarine bill to the Committee on | Agriculture, and the motion was agreed to, 22 to 21. The Consular and Diplo- settlement of the accounts with rail- i | { {erty from the United States during { 1865 and 1866. The Chair designated | investigate the subject of Indian trades- ships: Messrs. Pratt, Cullom, Jones, land. to the navy the Naval Academy grad- priation bill of 1882 was discussed. executive session, and when the doors were reopened adjourned, In the U. 8. Senate on the 8th, Mr, Morrill, from the Finance Committe, reported a bill creating an additional Secretary of the Treasury. He Hoar objected, Mr. Dawes offered a resolution calling on the Secretary of thority for the recent orders extending effect of such orders, which was agreed to. The bill for the yelief of the An- napolis Cadets of 1882 was discussed and laid on the table, ed providing for a commission of three persons, to be appointed by the Presi- dent by and svith the advice and con- sent of the Senate, to Investigate the truth of alleged discoveries of the speci- fic cause of yellow fever, Adjourned, In the U. 8B, Senate on the Oth, the entire session was occupied with dis- posing of bills on the calendar. Among the measures passed were bills legaliz- ing the incorporation of National Trades Unions in the District of Columbia, and authorizing the retirement on their own application, after forty years’ ser- vice, of Vice Admiral Rowan and Rear Admiral John L. Worden, with the highest pay of the grade to which they belong. After also passing a number of private relief bills the Senate adjourned. In the U, 8, Senate on the 10th, a resolution, offered by Mr, Hoar, was referred to the Committee on Rules, declaring it *‘the opinion of the Sen- ate that 1t was not out of order to refer, in the Senate debates, to com- mittee reports of the House of Repre- sentatives made during the present session.”’ Mr, Beck called up his bill to prohibit members of Congress from accepting retainers or employment from railroad companies which have received land grants or ald from Con- gress, Mr. Edmunds moved its refer- ence to the Judiciary Committee, I.ost ~yeas, 21; hay, 24. The bill was then passed — ; nays, 11, The Senate then went into executive session, and, When the doors were reopened, ad- HOUSE In the House on the 5th, the Pacific Railroad Extension bill was consid ered and the previous question ordered, pending which the House adjourned, In the House onthe 7th a number of bills"and resolutions were introduced un- der the call of States and referred, Mr Cobb, of Indiana, moved to suspend the rules and pass a bill repealing the Pre- emption, Timber Culture, and Desert The motion was agreed to and the hill passed-—yeas, 183; nays, 40, Mr, Townshend, of Illinois, moved to suspend the rules and pass the Sen- ate bill authorizing the construction of a bridge across the Arthur Kill, Agreed to—139 to 56. Mr, Ermentrout, of Pennsylvania, moved to suspend the rules and pass a bill increasing to $180,- 000 the limit of the appropriation for the public building at Reading, Penn- sylvania, = Agreed to-—yeas, 1564; nays, 38, The House then adjourned. In the House, on the 8th, Mr, Kelley, of Pennsylvania, called up as a priv- fleged question a motion submitted by him on the 7th to expunge from the Congressional Record a speech made last Friday evening by Mr, Wheeler, of Alabama, in condemnation of Edwin M. Stanton. After some debate the resolution was referred to the Commit- tee on Rules, The Legislative Appro- priation bill was considered in Commit- tee of the Whole, committee rose, Mr, Oates, asked leave to report back munds Anti-polygamy bill, Calne, of Utah, objected. the point under advisement. Jjourned, In the House, on the 9th, the Leg- islative Appropriation bill was re- sumed Committee the occasion to of a I of criti- was bill for a large share Finally, general debate and the reading of the Mr. Morrison, of point of order against came In cism closed, begun, raised a the “He the the bill. in- ‘to have rules section of he sald, to the ting When the wished Committee on Appropriations to more or was provided by law, bill to increase or ending a decision rose and let reduce on the point the House them.’ the ad- In House, on the 10th, Caine, Utah, withdrew his objec tion to the reporting of the Edmunds Anti-Polygamy hill on Judiciary, and the measure was placed upon the calendar. Bills were reported setting apart certain swamp lands on St, Clair Lake, Mich- igan, as a national shooting and fish- ing reservation; amending such tions of the statutes as make a dis i in the mode of packing and cut tobacco, and granting leave of absence to employes of the Government Printing Office. The Legislative bill was resumed in Com. mittee of the Whole, pending which the House adjourned, TTI OR FOOD FOR THOUGH) Speak not evil of the absent, for it is unjust, Labor to keep alive in your breast that little spark of celestial fire called the of No evil propensity of the heart is so powerful that it may not be subdued by strict discipline, in the wake of duties done, Strive not with your superiors in argument, but always submit your judgement to others with modesty, It is not possible to live in the world, being soiled by its dust, words too hastily, but orderly and dis. tinectly. Be pleasant and kind to those around The man who stirs lus cup with own fingers, train up a child in the way he should go; all you have to do 18 to go that When you meet with one of greater especially if it be at a door or any strait place, to give way for him to pass, Make no show of taking great delight in your victuals; feed not with greedi- not on the table; neither find fault with what you eat, A proud bigot, who is vain enough to think he can deceive even God, by affected zeal and throwing the veil of holiness over vices, damns all mankind by the word of his power, Take all admonitions thankfully, in what time or place soever given; but afterwards, not being culpable, take a time or place convenient to let them know it that gave them. It is cowardice to wish to get rid of everything which we do not like, Sick. ness and sorrow only exist to further man’s education in this world. “They will not be needed in the future, They that are in dignity or in office have in all places precedency; but whilst they ought to respect those that are their equals in birth or other quali- ties, tho they have no public charge De not angry at table, whatever hap- pens, and if you have reason to be so, show it not; put % a Sheorful counte- nance, Specially re strangers, for good humor makes one dish of meat a feast, h ato Bie dev. ih he world who ave 47 ng joy everywhere, and of Jeaving it behind them when they go. Joy gushes from under their fingers like jets of light, Their influ. ence Is an inevitable g of the heart, It seems as if a shadow of God's own gift had them, They fe { without to t hearts have a great work to do for i A Knot of Blue. Bhe hath no gems of lustre bright To sparkle in ber hair; No need hath she of borrowed light To make her beauty fair, Upon her shining locks afloat Are daisies wet with dew, And peeping from her lissome throat A little knot of blue, A dainty knot of blue, A ribbon blithe of hue, — It fills my dreams with sunny gleams, That little knot of blue. I inet her down the shadowed lane jeneath the apple-tree, The balmy blossoms fell like rain Upon my love and me: And what I sald or what I did That morn I never kuew, jut to my breast there came and hid A little knot of blue, A little knot of blue, A love-knot strong and true, *Twill hold my heart till life shall part, That little knot of blue, AST SRI. QUEER WEDDING BREAKFAST. When Isabel Chantry suddenly at the breakfast table morning that she was going to start on the next for New York to pay a sur- one $s was still supposed to be her objection. There was no one, indeed, who had the right to say nay to any of her whims; she was an orphan, wealthy i “*Suow-bound, | they call it in po’try. Look there, | Miss!” He rubbed away some of the | frost from a window with his rough | sleeve, and Isabel looked eagerly out. What a wide, white, blank world | stretched desolately around them: | what hopeless, mountainous drifts pled i like miniature Alps in front of them! | Miss Chantry turned a glance of questioning appeal upon her compan. “You'd better come into the fo’ward | he answered in a tone he tried to make reassuring, | hev to stop here. We're a matter of | ! | and the other fellers are gone off to try | pick their way to the last | station to see if they can git a telegrim | off fur ’em to send out snow-plows on | ingines and things, We thought we'd | better be savin’ of our fuel, ‘cause we | back we hev to use, 'n so we've got all the | fire go out in the others, You slept so | something or other winter and its just as well not to cross After the first brief start of therefore she merely remarked. “Rather a long journey but nobody surprise Can I be of any use in packing?" And so it came about winter day the belle that one raw the gay little ¥ ¢ OL an eastward bound train duly provided will: rugs, snawls, l uncu-vox, i known the CATAIME]s, every other allevia- 4 13 tedium hours all went very well: the her For afew beg ailed it biase young beauty sedi §Y id some of Weary erence to languidly watch her fellow travelers or to glance out at the swiftly-passi } ¢4 6 landscape, but these mild amusement 1 v Livid iy : % tha bh * soon lost their s ANG 48 the Drie winter sunshine taht ilight wer novel grew tedi AWAY gray the es C Ww came on cold and , and nis and Faad rsdn Gainly sweetness of fruits gla loved upon her palate, she leaned back hes What bh Thi likely iREY seat and wondered drearily, she started for? Her visit was to prove as tiresome as everything else! it created a little presently in the general few great white suow flakes came fluttering down from chill sky, and roused themselves enough “Guess likely its gon’ to Thicker and faster came the winged heralds, hurrying, whirling, wheeling past ber window like fairy battalions, charging, repelling, break dulness, when a he black people Say, ts to storm. white. aad “What a beautiful snow storm." exciaimed a very evident bride lifting her head from the fondly accommodat- A perverse resemblance soft white whirl flakes, to groups of lovely lace-robed circling swiftly through the the Libt and Geliebet thrilled on her side to return no the soft whirl of dancing stl with a shiver, and picking up her book, set herself determinedly to stifle thought by wading through it to the bitter end! It was too hopelessly, however, drows!- ness overcame her before the arrival of the final catastrophe, and settling her- self back in her seat she addressed her- self to the effort of obtaining what rest might be possible to the travelers of those days just before the blessed advent of “palace cars.’ Luckily she was young and healthy; and slumber came readily at her call and lingered to leave her. It was evi- dently late morning when she awoke, opened her eyes and looked about her; but what a curious white light there was everywhere! and where were all the people? For she was entirely alone in the cars which seemed not to be moving on at all, Bewildered and half frightened she started toward the door, It was opened, however, before she reached it by a brakeman, who said with a queer sort of a smile: O, you woke up, did you Miss? I didn’t like to disturb you ~you was like the Seven Sleepers—but I thought maybe you'd think it strange--'’ ‘So 1 do think it strange!” interrupted Isabel, wondering and excited. “What in the world is the matter? Where is Sveryhody? Why don't the train go on ¥ “Reason enough,” was the reply, but | go | —1 didn't like to ’s’turb you, I guess likely now you’d better in along o’ the rest, hadn’t ye?” “I don’t know: I suppose 80,’ Isabel | replied, too bewildered to think, and | she followed leader mechanically | into the adjoining car. her Faugh! what an odor assailed her delicate olfactories! Isabel thought in- voluntarily of Charles Reade’s ‘stewed rustic’’ and retreated incontinently. | So she sank down into a seat. “I had | rather stay here, please,’ she said, and the good-natured Tas It was not bitterly cold here yet, fire was still and Isabel wraps and prepared tot ance vile” as could not but feel it smoldering in the stove, huddled herself amid her ide the *“‘dur- best she might. She very dreary, how- ever, this strange white soli world seemed very empty, and her tude; the 1ife idk seemed to stretch before ber cold bare ] JW-Waste sat forlornly and as the blank sn her. She the of her from ber mournful reveri looked up expecting u« of her instead, and thrille gazing when the trast al OULQ 4 oul at desolate scene, sound the car-doo friend the } tonished gaze which for ul year she had seen only eyes, or sleeping dreams. Startled . & » $& » ut of her self-p could only falter out. terly out she (OSSEE8] 2 Yo Miss Chantry, have been caught in this miserable scrape—and freezing here in this ice. box! Why are you not at least where | there is a fire?—though it is not fit for a human being—1 have just made my escape myself in dread of asphyxia, | But I beg I am intruding, perhaps, in Ile drew himself | up stiflly, though stil] waiting eagerly and anxiously for an answer, and Isabel meeting his glance with her troubled | eyes, said simply and sadly; “A kindly interest could hardly be | intrusive in circumstances like these. Yes, I am all alone.” Her red lips quivered as she spoke, and tears started too quickly for the down-drooped lids | The pext moment | both her hands were seized in a strong, warm clasp, and the old deep, loving | tone was in her ear: “‘Isabel! Isabell My poor darling! You love me still— you cannot deny it-—and I, when have I not loved you?” The friendly brakeman, who entered an hour afterward to see his wayward charge was frozen yet, felt reassured by the warmth of the 1 hierer bridge! Mr. Darron. Let Ld ! Yes-—Dbut I 1 loki i YOu, $ Ww best to lay the sticks of wood he had surreptitiously, brought quietly in the the way, ous demand, which had summoned the swift-blood #0 hotly, “Do yield to me in this, 1 entreal you, Isabel! You know i would not urge anything that was even ill-advised; you have ad- mitted, too, that it was your own wilfulness which bas caused us both this year of misery. That ought to be lesson against obstinacy, you know, darling, ought’'n’t it? And really when I think of what is before us, the whole day, possibly the whole night, on this snow-bound train; at best arriving in the city late, too late to go to your friends, tired out, perhaps ill, alone in a strange room at a hotel all night—oh, it just seems as though I cannot hear of it, Isabell though I must have the right to be with you, and take care of you, every moment! And every- thing has happened so fortuitously, just as if it was intended! Why, old chum Hammell who is a parson now-— you've heard me speak of him--got on at Chicago with a friend of his, both first- rute fellows and thorough gentlemen, 1 could have them here in a moment whom I see you have a glance, will do for the ad what do you or ceremonies? You know we pendent Isabell Be my little, yielding darling, and say i But she did not say it was too new, It took coaxing, and of hopeless waiting for a promise of deliverance from the strait. Then she and Elbridge Darron slezing upon the first intimation of waver! the forward ving then: the inea anotiber hour of present 3 began 0 weaken, car and returned deeply Whereupon, in that unlike val uni ipl t of rail- of WLS, but ”~ ut road car, stranded in the midst entirely satisfactory marriage was per- formed, and duly witnessed, signed and recorded. The bridegroom was rad with triumph, the bride inclined pout a little, “Think of me, who always intended to have a grand wedding and give my guests the most sumptuous of break- ant Lo She suppressed a rueful glance summoned by the exchanged Companions, word, “Why, of course you are all starving! And I have a great box full of chicken and biscuits and things which I've been too worried even to think of. Do reach have a ueer wedding a qu ——————— VCREAMAOF-TARTAR FACTORY. Good for Dyspepsia---The Crude Ma- terial-—-Process of Manufacture. fie engineer of the fact to the men, rs eaind § oi 3 1 14 question as to the healih told the visitor that twenty years fi po ired called digestors, tors, with a capacity 3000 gallon mn tants And 4+] VE4In coll 1eal8 the water in the digestor. which dissolves all the powder bitartrate of After ewed a hquid by the digestor. it rans off hrough pipes into a This press is composed set close together, with a piece of can- vas sheets between each frame. A pers forated channel runs through the top of the press and the liquid is forced through these holes into the frames. There the solids adhere to the canvas and form in solid cakes to the frames, closely resembling These cakes are used for the manufacture of tartaric acid, which is valuable for va- belt ach potash, ing $ rd . , JA0 press, » 1 frames, asphail, The liquid solution, which is the cream-tartar, runs off the filtering presses through pipes into large vats in the basement. In these vats the liquid can be seen crystallizing and forming on the sides and bottoms. The comes oul in fine brown crystals, and is then washed in tubs with pure water. {ter several washings the tartar is put through the original process again and treated with It then comes out a pure the hughest test of purity 00 to 904 per cent. This is considered a very high test for a commercial article. The liquid remaining in the vats is run off into large storage reservoirs and stored there until pumped up stairs to re-use in the digestors, as it is valuable as still containing some of the elements of cream-tartar. The sediment from which the tartaric acid is made under- goes very much the same trealment as the cream-tartar, except thal IU is de- posited in leaden tanks, after crystal. lizing solidly on the sides and bottom, from which it is detached bya chisel and hammer, d—— The road to true philosophy is pre cisely the same with that which leads to true religion; and from both one and the other, unless we could enter in as little children we must expect to be totally excluded. It is the habitual thought that frames itself into our life. It affects us even more than our intiggate, social relations do. Our confid friends have not so much to do in shaping our lives as thoughts have which we harbor, I have been more and more con- vinced, the more I think of it, , in general, pride is at the bottom of all mistakes, All the other passions 0 occasional ; but whenever pride puts in its , everything and whatever it might be
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