NEWS OF THE WEEK
—A four-story brick block on South
Eutaw street, Baltimore, occupied for
storage purposes by C. H. Beebe,
wooden ware manufacturer, and also
by W. B. Clotworthy, commission
merchant, and Smith, Hanway & Co.,
manufacturers of giant powder, was
destroyed by fire on the 2d. The total
loss is $55,000, covered by insurance.
A fire in the National Stock Yards in
East St. Louis on the 2d did damage
estimated at $30,000,
—Great damage was done to prop-
erty throughout the Wyoming Valley
by a storm on the 1st and 2d. Many
buildings and bridges were swept away,
and roads were washed out. James
Harris was drowned near Plymouth,
—In Baltimore on the 2d, Henry
Martin, aged 19 years, and John Con-
nell, aged 32, were suffocated in a well,
They were at work on the well on the
31st ult., made a bet as to the depth of
the water, They got into the bucket
and went down, when a groan caused
those above to haul the bucket up.
When they reached the surface both
were dead. No test had been made be-
—Mrs. C, A. Copaland was arrested
in Dexter, Maine, on the 2d on the
charge of having murdered her hus-
band in Pittsfield, a few weeks ago, by
giving him laudanum, Clay Mays shot
and killed a man named Lovegrove in
Mason county, West Virginia, on the
1st, Mays bad been clandestinely visit-
ing Lovegrove’s wife, and when the
husband, going home after a temporary
absence, encountered Mays standing in
his doorway, Mays discharged a revol-
ver at the wronged man,
~Judge Joseph Shields, a prominent
member of the bar of Natchez, Missis-
sippi, and autbor of the ‘‘Life and
Times of S. 5S. Prentiss,” committed
suicide on the 3d. It is snpposed his
mind was affected by the death of his
wife several months ago.
—Samuel J. Tilden died on the 4th
at his residence, Greystone, near Yon-
kers, New York, In the 73d year of his
age.
— A telegram from Gainesville, Texas,
says the Red river has risen twenty
feet since the 3d. The rise swept away
and destroyed all the work that had
been done on the Santa Fe Railway
bridge. An immense trestle work that
had been built across the riyer for use
fore they went down as to the foul air |
below,
—Alexander Connaughton, a young |
farmer, visiting Cincinnati, became |
drunk on the 1st, and, being accosted |
by a policeman named Haines, ran |
away. Haines pursued, and Connaugh- |
ton showing fight the policeman shot |
bim in the neck, making a fatal wound, |
—There 'is a serious epidemic [of ty- |
phoid fever in Pittsburg. In the Twenty- |
fifth Ward are 121 cases, any of them
of a dangerous type. Five new cases |
and three deaths were reported on the |
2d. Five rew cases of fever have been |
developed in West Elizabeth, and two
or three cases are said to be quite eriti- |
cal. Doctors McCrew and Welch were |
reported ill, !
—According to a telegram from |
Charleston, South Carolina, ‘‘later re- |
ports show that only a small part of the |
rice crop in Georgetown county is lost, |
and the accounts of distress are beliey- |
ed to be exaggerations,”
—James A. L.. Whittier, a lawyer of |
ton was on the 2d, arrested on a
charge of embezzling bonds, stocks and
other securities to the amount of $125 - |
000, which he held in trust for Mrs.
Harriet D. Reed,
—A member of the firm of Gilleer &
Malum in Chicago, on entering his
store oh the 31st found on the floor a
large dynamite bomb. The fuse had
been lighted but in falling had struck
on the end and put out the fire, Mr. |
Malum says he cangot account for the
attempt to destroy his place. The front
of the English Baptist Church in St.
Clair, Pennpa., was blown up by dyna-
mite shortly before daylight on the 31st
ult, The outrage is believed to be the out-
come of a contest between the Law and |
Order Soclety and violators of the liquor |
law,
—A market train on the Lebanon
Valley Railroad, Penna., ran into a
washout near Derry Station, on the
1st. Engineer Stanton was killed and |
Fireman Koons fatally injured. At
Horton, Michigan, on the 31st ult,,
Stephen Decker, a farm band, and the
two small children of T, A. Granger
were riding on a dump-board, when the
horses became frightened. All three
were thrown out and the children were
hurt by the fall, while the lines caught
Decker’s foot and he was dragged rome
distance. Decker and one child are
not expected to survive,
— A boiler in the shops of the Lehigh
Coalland Navigation Company at Lans-
ford, Penpa., exploded on the 3d.
William Lewis was killed, and four-
teen others were injnred, one, named
William Kissner, fatally. Another of
the injured, Reno Weis, had both eyes
blown out,
~A fire at Gun Lake, near Scottville,
Michigan, on the 1st, destroyed the saw
mill of Barkee, Cooke & Co., with
350,000 feet of lumber and seven cars
owned by the Flint and Pere Mar.
quette Railroad. The total loss is esti-
mated at $30,000, the insurance at £20. -
000. J. L. Spencer & Co.'s carnage
manufactory, In Oneida, New York,
was burned on the 3d, with the lumber |
yard adjoining. Loss, $30,000, covered |
by insurance. A fire in Baldwin, Mich-
igan, onthe 2d, destroyed the Exchange |
Hotel, two saloons, the Townsend |
House, Court House and jail and two |
stores. Loss, $30,000; insurance, $16,-
.
~Join Graney, 19 years of age,
dived from a bath house near Laconia,
New Hampshire, on the 31st ult, and
striking the sandy bottom, broke his |
back bone. He died on the 2d.
—Thomas Finnegan, David Shana- |
han and Noyes 8. Thompson were ar-
rested on the 3d, in Chicago, on the |
charge of complicity in the robbery of |
$15,000 worth of stamps from the post- |
office at Minneapolis, on the night of
July Sth. Shanahan 1s Supervisor of
the town of South Chicago. Thompson
sald he received several thousand dol
lars’ worth of stamps from Shanahan,
and the latter said he had received
them from Finnegan, to sell on com- |
mission. Finnegan is said to be known
to the detectives as a “handler” of
thieves,
-A Utah Northern train, conveying
delegates to San Francisco, was ditched
by a broken rail on the 2d, and the
sleeper was turned over. Nine persons
were injured,
~Five children were drowned while
Bathing near Keosauqua, Iowa, on the
~Thers was a snow fall, lasting five
minutes, at Rome, New York, about
45 minutes past four o'clock on the
morning of the 3d. An inch and a half
of gnow fell on the summit of Mount
Washington, New Hampshire, on the
, and the temperature was 28 degrees
ve zero. The races at Baratoga wera
on the 3d, postponed “on account of
the threatening and extremely cold
weather,”
~ Over 1,600,000 feet of pine lumber
in the yards of John Irwin & Brother,
at Cowensville, Clearfield county,
Penna, was destrcyei by fire on the
8d, It is « pposed the fire was started
bv airanp
until the bridge should be completed
away. One of the boats
engine were carried
down the stream and sunk,
—By the upsetting of a boat in the
harbor at Portland, Maine, on the 4th
seven persons were drowned, namely:
J. Wellington Masters, aged 70 years;
aged 12 years; Benjamin Whitten, aged
James Masters, aged 0 years,
at Sansford, Penna., died making the
second deuth from that cause. Reno
Weiss and his son Charles are in a crit-
are expected to recover,
—Henry Davis, colored, aged 19
years, was shot dead by lynchers in
McBean, Georgla, on the 4th, for
C. Haddock, Pastor of the
been the leader jn prosecuting the
unknown assassin while cressing the
street on the 3d.
—John T. Elkins, a State Senator of
Colorado, and a younger Ubrother of
Stephen B. Elkins, died suddenly at
Saluda on the 3d.
The session
journed on the
Houses having adopted a concurrent
resolution to that effect, and all the
of Congress ad-
5th
was
the President during the last two days
adjourning the House passed the Sen-
ate bill accepting the gift of the relics
of General Grant. The House was
adjourned sine dic by the
any preliminary re-
marks. In declaring the Senate ad-
journed its presiding officer made a few
remarks, in the course of which he
said: *“I'his session has been distin-
guished by the great number and vari-
ety of subjects which bave been con-
sidered, and by the marked absence of
political controversies, The vaned
needs and aims of a rapidly growing
country have occupied more of the time
of the Senate. A short recess will en-
able you to greet your constituents,
and I hope and trust that each of you
will return next December with re-
newed health and strength to your im-
portant duties.”
~The veterans of the Twenty-third
Peunsylvania Regiment, on the 5th,
unveiled their monument on Culp's
Hill, at Gettysburg. Col. J. F. Glenn,
of Philadelphia, presided. After music,
Rev. J. G. Shinn, of Atlantic City,
offered prayer. W. J. Wray, of Phila.
delphia, presented the monument
the Battlefield Memorial Association,
Secretary John M, Krautz receiving it,
Gen. Alexander Shaler, of New York,
who was in command of the brigade
to
detailing the regiment’s history. The
monument is of Quincy granite, twelve
feet high, with the regiment's action in
the battle elaborately inscribed on the
shaft. It is topped with a pyramid of
cannon balls in granite, The exercises
were largely attended.
—~Lieutenant Edward P. McClellan,
of the navy, committed suicide by
shooting himself at his father's resi-
dence in Brookiyn, on the 5th.
—Willlam Rex was shot dead mn a
the 4th. The
cents due to Livesey by Rex. Higby
4th.
several years,
the request of Murs,
proceedings for a divorce,
~The typhoid fever epidemic
South Pittsburg and West Elizabeth,
Penna., continues without any signs of
abatement,
~By the fall of a painters’ staging in
Danvers, Massachusetts, on the bth,
James Simmons was killed and H. B,
Gross fatally injured.
~The business portion of Lagrande,
Oregon, comprising 35 buildings, was
Butand on the 5th. Loss about $100,
5 a fire fa gi early os the
th, destroyed a bu occupied by
Burkhardt, dealer in fars; Volkert, cap
manufacturer, and Benjamin, silk hat
manufacturer, causing a loss of about
000,
--The Democratic State Convention
of y in session at Leavenworth,
on 4th, nominated Thomas Moon-
light, of Leavenworth, for Governor,
and Willam Kingman, of Cowley
county, for Chief Justice. Resolutions
were adopted approving civil service
reform,
~The Delaware County (Penna)
Prohibition Convention met on the 5th,
in Media, nominated a county ticket
and selected delegates to the State Cone
vention, A public meeting was held
in the evening, which was addressed by
Charles 5. Wolfe,
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FORTY-NINTH OONGRESS,
BENATE,
In the U, 8, Senate on the 36th ult,,
the House bill to increase the Navy
was passed, with amendments, and a
conference was ordered thereupn.
Messrs. Dolph, Teller and Cockrell
were appointed conferrees on the North-
ern Pacific Forfeiture bill, Adjourned,
In the U. 8S. Senate on the 2d, the
Conferrees on the Sundry Civil bill re-
ported a disagreement, and a further
conference was ordered. The Senate
then took up and passed the bill report.
ed from the Finance Committee to pro-
vide for the inspection of tobacco, ci-
gars and snuff (providing for their ex.
portation te foreign countries without
payment of taxes, under rules and reg-
ulations of the Treasury Department).
After asecret session the Senate ad-
journed.
In the U, 8. Senate on the 3d, the
conference report on the Deficiency bill
was agreed to. ‘The vetoed House bill
granting a pension to Joseph Romiser
was then taken up, and Mr, Wilson, of
had been made
had been made.
Harbor bill was presented and agreed
to. A conference report on the Sun-
nays 14. The Senate then, at 20 min-
reopened and the Senate adiourned.
In the U. 8. Senate on
message was received from
mmediate delivery’ stamp
taken up and passed.
The Fire at Home,
I Lear them tell of far off climes,
And treasures grand they hold-—
Of Minster walls, where stained light falls
On canvas rare and old,
My hands fall down, my breath comes fast—
jut ab, how can I roam
My task I know: to spin and sew,
Aud light the fire of home.
Bometimes 1 hear of noble deeds;
Of words that move mankind;
Of willing hands that to other lands
Bring light to the floor and blind,
I dare not preach, I cannot write,
I fear to cross the foam
Who, if I go, will spin and sew
And light the fire at home,
My husband comes as the shadows fall,
From the fields with my girl and boy,
His loving kiss brings with it bliss
That has no base alloy.
From the new plowed meadows, fresh and
brown,
I catch the scent of the loam;
“Heart, do not fret, "tis something yet
To light the fire of home."’
ER RRL HTL RT TE,
TWO LOVERS AT ONCE.
1 the first
I loved Dora Merton
Not
wavy, golden hair and trim, little figure,
but for her kind
{rol
only for her pretty, brown eyes,
heart and amiable dis-
You 1 it look
world over, from one end to the «
find
Dora, either in point of beauty or swe
nigl
never a girl to compare
in
Dora loved me, too,
80, but her every action clearly showed
said 1
being but a
i
and everybody in the town
it;
wie remarkably fortunat
young doctor-—to win 3 love of
who could have
in the land, as her
L man in all the
i
a girl, had her
pick from the best
father was the wealthies
On motion of Mr. Plumb
House bill to restrict the owner-
the Territories to
American citizens, with an amend-
ment io the nature of a substitute, was
passed. It is the same bill and practi-
acted upon.
the
onstant visitor
hile I was assured of D
esteem I was
held quite
conference committee failed to come to
an agreement. A further conference
was asked, Mr, Allison, from the con-
ference committee on the Surplus res
olution, submitted the report, which
was agreed to without division. The
Senate then adjourned.
HOUSE
In the House on the 2d, the Speaker
presented the bill to increase the naval
establishment, with the Senate an
ments thereto, and Mr, Herbert mo
a concurrence in the amendments, The
motion wus agreed to, and the bill i
go 0 the President for lus approv
further conference was ordered «
bill. On motion of Mr,
tandall a joint resolution was passed
extending until August 5th the provi-
sions of the § resolution providing
temporarily for the expenditures of the
Government, Mr, Atkinson, of Penna. ,
introduced a bill, which was referred,
to prevent the acqisition of real pro
perty by corporations. On motion of
Mr. Matson, of Indiana, the rules were
suspended, and the House, by a vote of
yeas 167, nays 51, passed, with a verbal
amendment, the Senate bill Increasing
the pension of soldiers who have lost an
arm or leg In the service, The House
then adjourned.
In the House the 34, the Presi-
dent’s message announcing his approval
of the Oleomargarine bill was received
and referred to the Committee
Ways and Means. The conference re-
poit on the River and Harbor bill was
agreed to, after some “‘filibustering® by
its opponents-—yens, navs,
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Conference reports on the Deficiency
aud Sundry Civil bill were also agreed
to. Mr, Morrison submitted a confer.
ence report on the Surplus Resolution,
and it wasordered printed. Adjourned.
In the House on the 4th, Mr, Morri-
fon called up the conference report on
the Sarpius joint resolution, and after
debate it was agreed to, 120 to 63. Mr.
eign Affairs, reported the resolutions
ting in Mexico, and they were imme-
Pending discussion the House
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Dress, 80 far as respects neatness and
cleanliness, Is of great importance to
the first impression we make upon
others.
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every
way
sleepless night
A few days after t
from old Mr, Merton, al
Dora. The old man i
informed me that his daughter was soon
hat I received a note
from
words
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{to marry
discontinue my attentions to her,
Dora wrote me a tearful little note, re-
turning the ring 1 had given her, and
renounce me and marry Mr, Clayton ;
Neither of them stated when
That
night I entered a train bound for a dis-
tant town, where I intended to locate
and strive to forget the heartless girl, as
so cruelly.
1 did well in my new home, and,
though the wound in my heart was
past healing, it was not so sore as at
first ; time in a measure had deadened
the pain,
A year or more had gone by, and in
all that time I had never had any tid-
ings from Dora,
One night as I sat alone in my office,
wrapt in thoughts of the past, a boy en-
tered and handed me a telegram, lost
no time in reading it, and found it to be
from old Mr. Merton, and contained
these words :
“Pora is very ill and desires to see
you, Come immediately.’
I did not stop to think over this
strange message. I only knew my dar.
i
ling.
probably dying, and wished to see me,
I never once thought of her being dn-
wife. I would go to her
Courses,
All
the bitterness 1 had felt toward
for her
surged
that 1 had partially smothered
over and through me with re-
newed vigor.
the darkness of
night was setting over the world when |
on my journey and
reached my destination,
No one was at the
and without losing the time to hi
vehicie, 1 started to walk 1
Merton mansion across the fields,
way would take me by the old trysting
tree
station to meet me
ont
where Dora had met me so often ir
of the
0NE ago,
the happy days
i thought of
iwi r
girl—now probably
f death
pile OL GQ
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Iv to my arm and
iN oIne,
who had come between
Id and parted us 1
ing my life
wor Dora,
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Garrison,
Commodore
Old | wore
Miss Randall, of St. Lou
she being then and
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In 1847
1
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me won
ommodd
Ralston, the
the Mississippi.
18 his second
In 1840
Garrison killed a well-known Mississip-
in the bead
pian
just in time to save his own life. The
family of the man he killed was a very
rich and powerful one at that time,
while Garrison did what he did clearly
wonld
dead
nued
California mil
steamer Convey.
a) £5
clerk on the
ina fight, shooting him
and
in self-defence, yet he certainly
have been Killed by some of the
man’s brothers if he had conti
run on the river. He, therefore, «
cluded to leave the South, and the Cali
to
Ol-
:
lalston, following him. They both
made immense fortunes,
Care of Umbrellas.
Umbrellas will last far longer if when
wet they are placed handle downward
to dry. The moisture falls from the
uniformly. If stood handle upward,
which is commonly the case, the top of
the umbrella holds the moisture, owing
to the lining underneath the ring, and
therefore takes a long time to dry, thus
injuring the silk or other fabric with
which it is covered. This is the prime
cause of the top of the umbrella wear-
ing out sooner than the other part.
Umbrella cases, too, are responsible for
the rapid wear of the silk. The econ-
stant friction causes the tiny holes that
appear so provokingly early. When not
in use leave the umbrella loose ; when
wet never leave it open to dry, as the
tense condition thus produced makes
the silk stiff and then it will soon
crack,
A STRANGE SIGHT AT SEA.
South Atlantic,
The British steamshi
tio de Janeiro to this
come u
tation,
officers relate an accoul
rine combat witnessed by
ng of 10),
ploughing ahead
longitude 36
flicers and crew was ;
# commotion in the
ahead,
roing on between me
“ea was lasigd Ti
It fairly boiled #vithin the circun
Feit
‘ ce = ’
of 100 yards, and myriad
caps floated away
they stopped t
one to the
a thrasher had
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were
respiration
fully dilated, with a
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foot and leg
100K
wild
were muca
1 purple an i very
gixtiv minims ol
t, h
He
ypode gradi al ¥. ordered
ounce of whiskey every two hours
a large poultice
to be applied to the foo!
y
newed every
of bruised raw onions
tn Ix
1
and
and
The whisky
hour,
well. which was on the third das The
above has been his treatment for the
a
case. nor has he heard of a death from
rr APIA
Nothing is beneath you if it is in the
direction of your life; nothing is great
or desirable if it 1s off or away from
that.
“You've been sick, haven't you?
“A trifle—but-"
“Don't be alarmed, I'm not going to
advise you to tuke anything for it.’
“Thank you."
«I've been sick myself and 1 kuow
how it is. [People are awfully good and
kind and sympathetic, but always will
recommend you to take some new med-
wine.”
“Oh, they mean well.”
“When 1 was sick 1 hit upon a dodge
that made it much easier (o get along.
Whenever a fellow came up and sug
that I should try hypopopouax or
something else. I just pulled a bottle
on him and said. ‘The very stuff I am
taking.’ Ie then considersd me as
good as cured, although he was gener-
ally a little disappointed to find some-
body else had got his advice mn ahead
of him,
“Lend me your bottle.”
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