NEWS OF THE WEEK —A telegram from Reading, Penna. says the recent heavy rains have washed a large amount of refuse into a spring from which the employes of the Glas- gow Iron Company, at Pottstown, get drinking water. In consequence over forty men are suffering with typhoid fever, and many of them are in a criti- cal condition. The works are so de- pleted that the company is unable to man two furnaces, —Texas fever has broken out among i lot of graded cattle taken to Boze- man, Montana, from Kansas City. Twenty-one have already died, and the est have been quarantined. Stockmen fear the disease will spread, as a drove of 35,000 head of cattle, from which this lot caught the fever at Missouri Valley, Iowa, are now being driven into the Territories ~The ruin of the hop crop in Central New York was completed during a seavy rain on the 20th, A telegram irom Canajoharie says the growers thought the rain would have a good ef- sow black and utterly ruined. growers destroyed their yards a week igo, and their example will now be followed generally. Where one week ago it was thought a quarter of the average vield would be harvested, now it 18 believed that not a pound will be picked. The growers are very much disheartened and their predicament is only equalled by that of the hop pickers, Good 1885 hops now bring 30 to 32 cents against 6 and 10 cents six weeks ago.’ — Nathaniel Taylor, aged 12 years, on a dove shooting expedition near —An arch erected on Jacques Car- tier Square, Montreal, 1n honor of Car- dinal Taschereau, fell on the 27th, kill- ing an old lady and mortally wounding her granddaughter, —A two-story brick building in St. Louis, occupied on the first floor by a manufacturer of musical instruments, and on the second by John Gamble and family, collapsed at half-past 10 o'clock on the 26th. The wife and three chil- dren of Gamble were badly bruised. The building was old, “and had been notoriously unsafe for some time." ~— A freight train Baltimo and Ohio Railroad broke in two Mount Afry, Baltimore, on the and the part ras down a grade colliding with another train. The engine of several loaded cars were badly + : Ylnnls and the tracks blockaded, on the real the rear tr: barles Engel, alias Warner George Engel, a dangerous prof burglar, whose operations tended all over th arrested In Ci WCago « ~— Frederick dent and Inanager Manufacturing suicide In San by shooting himself in the head. —The grain destroyed by the hail storm in Minnesota, on the 24th 18 « timated at 150,000 bushels in the coun try; tributary to Argyl, and 100,000 bushels in the country about Warren, together with as much oats and barley, A; St. Thomas despatch says 10,000 acres of wheat in that section was de- stroyed in the same storm. A stor Fort Assineboine, Dakota, on the blew down the quartermaster’s store, causing a loss of $50,000. *'The build- ings all rocked as if in au earthquake,” 111 od il as 26th —Amandus Diefenderfer was killed by hghtning near Macungie, Lehigh county, Penna., on the 27th, —Three boys and a woman struck by lightning at Tyrone, Penna.. on the 27 William Connolly, one of the boys, was killed. James ( iy and the woman, Mrs, 1 were fatally injured, and Thomas McLough- lin escaped with a severe shock. were + Hi. OT ~YEes, —Two boilers at Henning’s ore mines at Topton, Berks county, Penna, exploded on the 28th, Josiah Black, the superintendent, was Killed; Jerome Trexler was probably fatally scalded, by falling timbers, employed in the mine were slightly in- jured. The building was burned down and the machinery entirely wrecked, —A boiler exploded on the 28th, on Honey Island, Mississippi, killing five men and injuring four other persons, 27th, destroyed two blocks,one wooden, the other brick, containing five stores, a band and a hall, Loss $75,000, ~The Democratic State Convention of Georgia, met on the 23th, in Atlanta, and nominated General Gordon tor Governor on the first ballot by 322 votes out of 392 cast, ent State ing a resolution declaring its fealty to Democratic principles and approving President Cleveland’s administration. —The Prohibition State Convention of Connecticut met on the 28th in Hartford, and nominated a ticket headed by Rev. Samuel H, Forbes for Governor, ~John Pierson, a wealthy farmer, who lived near Lawrence, Kansas, on the 27th, shot and severely wounded his wife and then committed suicide, A paper was found In his pocket say- ng, ‘The bad temper of my wife makes living together impossible, and has driven me crazy.” ~At Cincinnati on the 28th, John Tosney, election judge of Precinct A, in the Fourth Ward, was convicted of fraudulent conduct at the election in October last. John Minor and Patrick Kelly, Judges in Precinct F, Nineteenth Ward, at the same election, were also found guilty of adjourning the count from the day of election to the next day, with fraudulent intent, ~While 8, Henry Harrison, of the Chicago, Milwaukee and St. Paul Rail- road, was about to hand a package con- taining £1140 in greenbacks to the cashier (f the Prairie State Loan and Trust Company, in Chicago, for de- posit on the 25th, an unknown man web Lael quietly followed Mr, Harrison snatched the money and, dashing out the main entrance, escaped with lus plunder. --The total deficit so far discovered in the accounts of Colonel Bolton, of the Chicago Post-office, Is §6015,16, ~Two young men, giving the names of William Taylor and Cole Collocan, were arrested in Pana, Illinois, on the 27th, having in thelr possession over $100 in counterfeit coins of the issue of 1884. The denomination was $1 pieces, that have the silver ring, but are plainly spurious by weight and general appear- ance. A recipe and crude tools were also found among the effects of the prisoners, who also admit their guilt, —The trial of the boy, William Sells, for the murder of his father, mother, brother and sister, at Erie, Kansas, resulted on the 27th in a verdict of guilty in the first degree, —At Brownsville, Texas, on the 20th ult, Emanuel Chiarez, aged 106 vears, killed his stepmother with an axe while | she was sleeping. The boy was found | by her corpse weeplag. He said had become enraged because she would { when he awoke this morning the devil | told him to cut her head off,’ A man giving the name of John King was ar- on the 29th uit., he was Frank Bergh, der, near that place some months ago, { of Frank Knoch, his wife Susan and | their four children, whose charred | house, which bad been burned after { the murder, evipently to destroy the i evidence of the crime, -About 200 cases of a disease with malignant typhoid symptoms have ap- peared at West Elizabeth, in Allegheny About twelve deaths | county, Penna, L'he diseases is ribu- have occurred. { ted to impure water, att ail i183 Increasing, re to { and the number of cases i while an additional death has been ported, The sickness confined those using the water of a certain spring. —Damaging hailstorms passed ove: portions Mercer and Lycoming counties, 'enna., on 20th ult. , ruin. ing the crops in their paths. A de- structive thunder storm also visited the country around Meadville on Same evening, —No rain Kansas, for —A woman, is of th Le the Lait has fallen at lawrence, Six weeks. 11 A * well-dressed Haw- ted suil- refined looking, who registered as **Mrs, Philadelphia,” rE . comm missing was washed oney Island, " kod with dy [DATKeq willl ult., F. Kuic Boothbay, to draw funds wit! the help. “He drew no sont his wife a : and the world were dead lisappeared. was excellent.’ Gs. kerbocker A Fy + Madd . ‘ witie noe saying -A man calling himsel gan, of While Plains, believed to be Orrin Spe ing Treasurer of Chautauqua New York, was arrested in Alle City, Penna., on the 20th ult begeing. - On 1} was found $5000 in bonds, « lerable ters from prominent men and addresses of all the and bankers the « id, a lumber Chautauqua county, who was well acquainted with Sperry, is quite certain he is the much- wanted Treasurer, who absconded in May, 1884, with funds, in MIS cash, let former gx h $80,000 of the cot sida MULY RE —— + TY ¥ vr rt “+ FORTY-NINTH CONGRESS. BENATE. in the U. 8S. Senate on the 24th. Mr. Miller asked leave to call | amend the act prohibiting the importa- ! tion of contract labor. objected, on the ground that the bill proposed to give on the 23d by Mr. Edmunds instroct- tions to inquire into the violation of rights of American fishing and mer- | chant vessels in Canadian waters, was j adopted. The conmderation of the Sundry Civil bill was resumed, and { continued at a night session, when the { bill was passed, The silver clause in the bill authorizes the issue of silver { certificates of the denominations of one, two and five dollars, in lieu of sil- ver certificates of larger denominations in the Treasury, “and to that extent | said certificates of larger denomina- { tions shall be cancelled and destroyed,’ | After taking up the Deficiency bill the | Senate adjourned, In the U. 8, Senate on the 26th, Mr, Blair reported the House bill directing the Commissioners of Labor to make mvestigations in regard to convict la- bor, he hill was passed. He also re- ported the Senate joint resolution pro- posing a prohibitory liquor amendment to the Constitution of the United States, It was placed on the calendar. The Fortifications bill was reported and the House Naval'Increase bill was received and referred to the Commit- tee on Naval Affairs, The Deficiency bill was considered and passed, with amendmants, After an executive ses. sion, a recess was taken until evening. In the evening session several local bills were passed, among them the House bill increasing to $180,000 the limit of cost of the public building at Reading* Penna. Adjourned. In the U., 8. Senate on the 27th Mr. Allison from the Finance Committee, reported back the House Surplus reso- lution, with an amendment making the bond calls under the resolution discre. tionary, Mr, Beck said that ‘this was the report of a majority of the commit- tee, but that the minority adhered to the House resolution.’’ The resolution was placed on the calendar. After an executive session lasting nearly six hours the Senate adjourned. In the U., 8, Senate on the 28th, the Fortifications bill was considered and passed with amendments, A confer- ence report on the Legislative Appro- priation bill was agreed to. The Sur- plus resolution was taken up, and the Senate adjourned. In the U7, 8, Senate on the 20th ult., Mr. Deck, from the Committee on Fi- nance, reported back the House bill for the inspection of tobacco, cigars and snuff, Mr, Palmer from the Coms- mittee on Fisheries, reported back (with an amendment) the House bill relating to the importing and landing EE —— RY The bills calendar. Season. above on the man, Teller and Jones. session, and, when the doors were opened, adjourned. HOUSE In the Iiouse, on the 206th, a num- bills and resolutions were under the call of States. Mr. Henley, of California, from the in- of the lands granted to the Northern Pacific Rallroad Company. recommends that Senate bill there be the provisions of the House the sane subject. Mr. Henley stated that the distinctive difference between the two bills was, that while the Sen- in lieu of forfeiture of to the Pacific The House Lill forfeited 33 - 000,000 acres more than the Senate bill, } Pending discussion of the resolution the bill included also the from Bismarck In the House on the 27th, the Senate to the Sundry Civil bill Committe of the Mr, Willis, of Kentucky, from the Conference Committee on the Rive: and Harbor Appropriation bill, re. agreement, Ile then offered a resolution declaring it to be the sense of the House that the item making appropriation for the Portage Lake and Lake Superior Ship Canal should be X amendment [erTress accor amendments ’ stricken from nate and ins dingly agrsed to—veas ’ MeMilla tt: LAY Mary Reagan, message on pension to Audrew J, fused-—yeas 105, ; to pass the bill over t constitutional two-tl not voling in the aflirmative, A 058 taken until evening, when private bills were considered, AVE MN ¢ veto, the pre | HIS then £4 was IT was al one of the picnic parks The leader of the bard arrived and went to survey the place and the music. He came with two or three of his musi- They got their in- struments out and were tuning them when the proprietor came along. Just as he came up to them the leader was sounding his note on the piano. “Too low,” he said to the Hoo low.” “What's that?" said the proprietor. **The piano—100 lJow-thut’s all.” cornet, a carpenter across the place. ‘*“‘Here, Jake; this piano wants raisin’. Just tell him how high you want it, what he’s paid for. feet If you need it, slouchin’ of this music,” ————. 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August the he Yaa vr leaves of “ule elms that overhung was gathering darkly over the desolate while the roar of the the ravines rose up iver in that in the stence like some threatening voice. Within gloomy, the house the Geoffrey Mardingham, of relentles disease, lay the fashioned in the big front by a host of sycophantic rel old Geoffrey Mardingham had somehow contrived to accumulate a goodly ¢ of this world’s wealth, an aureatle on chamber, surrounde« { atives—| Lore and gold makes those aroind al OUNQ giOwW who Pe JESEES 11. Mrs. Foxley, his eldest si ster, a plump . or gorgeously dressed matron, sat a of the bed, her eyes full of ender concern, ‘Dear Geoffrey,” she u hope you are better now, George to bathe YO il thin bd 4s wr * > " that bay water. I won't, growls fryvalid . invaig, gue “My elevating dearest Ana 13) ideal The perplexed starche ring smiled grimiy course, they were wmeant—all bat mercy’s dove, “ret out #very one of 1 ejaculated Geoffrey Mardinghbam, “Let me have ute's try to sleep. 1 you your chatter makes me mad. ‘“*And leave you all alone, brother?" remonsirated Mr, Foxley, sweetly. “Nauomi Bruce shall stay with me,” ¢éaid the Squire, a little impatiently. **She understands my ways--she don’t fill my ears with senseless clack! Come here, Naomi, and sit by my bedside; you, at least, can keep still," The assembled relatives glanced with no friendly eves at Naomi slender, soft-eyed girl, in a much-worn suit of some coarse material, as she advanced to fulfil the old you,” sharply a min. tell peace and “A perfect upstart —and only his ley, venomously, “Presuming minx!" muttered “Ahi” sighed Lawyer Lennox, roll- Then the door shut off further come All that night the vulture brood sat up in the adjoining room waiting to hear of their neh relatives death, but old Squire Mardingham bad more en- durance than they had any idea of, He rallied, and for this time they went home outwardly rejoicing, but in real ity sorely discomfited. Naomi Bruce alone remained by the old man’s side, But even this arrangement was not long. Geoffrey Mardingham had always led a lonely life—he preferred it. “Go back to your factory, my dear,” he sald, dryly, “You've been a good, atttentive girl, and you will not lose anything by it; but I shall do very well by myself now, Bo Mardingham was left alone. And one day they shut the old sun-warped shutters and hung somber | streamers of black crape on the door, | and when the relatives arrived the funeral was over and a little old lawyer with a rusty red wig, blue spectacles and a grizzled beard was sitting at the | farther end of the parlor with a | Japanned box labelled *‘G. { ham’’ on his knee, | the will read, ladies ahd gentlemen,” | he said, in a cracked voice, ‘‘Please | excuse the bandage on | { rheumatism and ague I don’t grow any | younger—he, hel” Mrs, Foxley put her handkerchief to her eyes, “Poor dear Geoffrey!” she “Oh, go on, Mr. -7? “Mr. Pecklia: ham & Marble,” | “1 thought Mr. Peckham | young man,” sciple’of Rev, Nehemiah Nosey. “50 he aio ghed, the firm of Peck- said the di years ago,’ sald the lawyer. ‘*Ahem! shall I was len 3 sald Mrs, nn with =a corner where poor ‘that young woman the while “Ey all means,’ Foxley's “unless, seyere glance toward the Naomi Bruce sat, proceedings a little while longer 1 she cries it out, 1 do despise such affectation.” Naomi shrank back, had few Squire Mardingham bad been her in lus bluff way. Lawyer lennox oundingly and sat Mr. Peckham in inaccuracy: the Poor child, she ¥ but friends, and stern old BY od to throat iS ris I ready to pounce case of the upon slightest pious young eyes toward the with her shabby man rolled his ceiling maid sat Jioves crossed one over the other and tha nl ant he old ’ ‘those pe "oxley wondered if ple Era 3 ls, 2 t te set and her with eyes of pitying o« relat other isa wyer Lennox nodd the while, and the ro 5d Po | an atmos; » any credence t aden lady tossed her thi ‘Anu hoary reprobate, hadn't worked saxd she, wish now I for him.” il, unprineipled, ia jut Naomi slender Bruce and 1} with womanly dignity. “Hush!” she ejaculated, her slender finger. ‘How dare speak so of the dead? Uncle Geoffrey | was good and generous to all of you, as be was (0 me, What right have you to expect aught else? His money was his own, {0 do as he pleased with, and | I, for one, shall not sit mutely by and hear his name decried.” There was an instant of astonished | silence, and then Mr. Peckham, “of {the frm of Peckham & Marble,” rose ae 3 them, you | away from his mouth and chin, pulled off the red wig, false beard and gog- gles, and rising to his fall height con- fronted the astonished audience—old Geoffrey Mardingham's self, alive and “Well met, ve hypoerites and whited sepulchres!” he enunciated, slowly and distinctly. *‘I can scarcely express for this opportunity into the characters of every one of 1am not dead and buried-—no, nor likely to be at present, but I have learned a lesson for the future. Come here to me, Naomi,” he said, his iron face softening as he held out his hand, “You, who were the one to defend the dead old man, should be his adopted child for the present, his heiress for the future. As for the rest of you, I only want my house cleared of your odious presence!" There was no gainsaying his stern words and sneering lips. One by one the expectant relatives, now, alas! so woefully disappointed, sneaked out of the room and house Mr, and Mre, Foxley, the lawyer, the old maid and ot, the “regenerate’’ youth, together with the lesser satellites. For they had no more hopes from Geoffrey Mardingham’s will, and little ¥, Naomi Bruce was now an heiress) Ascending Mount Earnslav In relation the Farnslaw Glacier. to ascent feet on an Incline of about if no joke, and were it no whether we world Ph all up at all, $1 « & 5 vegetation stood us is y vegeta iutching the silvery tuss we made ou about 500 feet we passed thro of large birch trees, PB belt feet eg lay the leaves of centuries. th stratum recently bil being leaves over nd ana a4 path was, however. long, and our shady came y under {a appeared 0 an i high le more difficult « the one we had previo sd ores A) BPEUrgrass — source of annoyance —as Hq Ie beautiful bie. we got our otintain lily mountain ily, shaped leaves, which ' 3 : . » ble dri LINE Vessels, d vaiiey and aw ial to our had Ach d the cold 3 nave caine force, SETIOUS lower an limes Two thousan below us Lh the and himself e guide pointed 0 Rev. Mr. Green, were the SWiss woah) overtaken where guides in a snows Then, wm last year and forced w« ret JAVIDE reached the highest point scaled by any t. we commenced urn. content wiih the descent. tieavy Whist Stakes Count Phalen, who died recently at Cannes at the age of 95, was formerly well known in English society, and was a constant guest at Devopshire house, the Royal cottage, and at Lady Jer. he first came to England with the Emperor Alexanderin 1814. He afterward went to Paris, where his brother was am- bassador for many years, and thence to Italy; and while residing at Venice in 1838 he was summoned back {0 Russia by the Emperor Nicholas. Bui he did not long remain in his native country: and on his second visit to Eagland he WAS again a persona grate at Stafford house, Devonshire house and other whist player, and once, when passing he won £20,000 from Prince Jonn Lich tentein at a single sitting. He was on intimate terms with Talleyrand, Forzo di Borgo and Montrond. Carell Gradations in England. The occupants of the softest cushions are treated with the softest manners. the occupahts of the hardest with an appropriate asperity., ‘“Tickets, gentle men, it you please,” the form in which first class passengers are ad- dressed; this becomes, in the case of the second-class passengers, ‘‘Tickets, please; and when the collector puts his bead into the third.class compart. ments his manner is shorn of all civilie ty, and be brusquely cries, “Tickets, e theology and put I i ory and botany love ion and Bowers.
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