NEWS OF THE WEEK. —A small row boat was upset on Lake Minnetonka, Minnesota, during a storm on the 21st, Robert T, Hulbert W. B. Jackson, Jr., and his hired man were drowned. —Boyd C, Caldwell, cashier of the City National Bank of Willlamsport, Penna., was on the 23d placed in jail in default of $20,000 ball, on the charge of embezzling. falsifying the books, ete. —Willlam H. Rutledge, an alleged professional confidence man, has been arrested at Cross Keys, Maryland, on the charge of Impersonating a special examiner of the Pension Bureau, and thereby defrauding pensioners and ap- plicants for pensions out of various sums of money. —Frank Wood, of Milledgeville, 1lli- nois, on the 23d, placed his arm around his wife's neck and shot her through the head. He then sent a bullet through his own brain, dying instantly. His wife lived about an hour, Jealousy was the cause. ~James A. McElbiney, 20 years old, after a day of dissipation, returned to his home in New York on the 23d, and cut and beat his mother so that she will likely die. His only reason for the dastardly attack was that his mother remonstrated with him for his idleness and drunkenness, He hurled a knife at her which struck her on the fore- head, and then flung a plate which fractured her skull, —The total loss to Texas, as far as now known, by the great gulf storm last week is estimated as follows: Human lives lost, 38; loss to crops, $1,000,000; loss to city and town and harbor improvements, $000,000, embankment. a Mrs. Lockett, was killed, and about fifteen others more or less injured. On the morning of the 24th a freight and passenger train collided on the Michi- gan Central Railroad, six miles west of Battle Creek. Two porters were badly injured and a number of cars de- stroyed. Defective air brakes caused the accident. As a New York, Penn- sylvania and Ohlo Railroad train was running fifty miles an hour near Hiram station, Ohlo, on the 24th, the locomo- tive jumped the track and pl down the embankment. The coupling broke, and the remainder of the train kept the track. Engineer Richard Shane and his fireman with few bruises. —The recent storm proved destructive to small villages the Texas coast, t will escaped very off y and it doubtless be months before the fall list of casual- ties are known. Sloop Katie G. went to pieces off Pelican Island. The crew were saved. Lying near her, bottom up, is the sloop Elisa. Her crew of two men are supposed to be drowned. An unknown vessel is reported bottom up at Red Fish Bar. The schooner Lottie Mayo 18 reported ashore near Indianola. All hands are sup- posed to have been lost. The schooner Lake Austin is near Ler, but the crew of the latter were saved. All the small craft in the bay from the Shoal to Edwards Point are reported to bave been lost. The village of Quinlana, at the mouth of the Brazos river, was Rosa lee and Neltie were driven ashore. No lives were lost so far as is known. Indianola is a complete wreek, not more than three or four houses having escaped destruction. Beattie Meade, a negro woman, and two chil- dren, were drowned. Nearly all the sheep and cattle on the island were drowned, and the remainder will prob- ably perish for want of food. Orders have been issued to remove the office of the collector of customs of the Saluria District from Indianola to Victoria, and the transfer will be made immedi. ately. —A despatch from San Antonio, Texas, says about five o'clock on the evening of the 24th a funnel shaped cloud made its appearanee in the north- west and in a few seconds swept diag- onally across the city. lasted about fifty minutes and was marbles. aged were Adams’ boarding Reaver’s livery stables, Southern Hotel and the police headquarters, which had the roof torn off. — Frank Rinehart, 42 years old, was run over and killed on the 24th, while from Charleston, South Carolina, says E. E. Ludekens, of Aiken, and E. T. Shaw, of Charleston, were drowned while bathing at Sullivan’s Island on the 24th. —A despatch from Shanopin, Penna. , says the Marks oil well, after being drilled twelve feet in the sand, started to flow at the rate of 2500 barrels a day. Shanopin is sixteen miles below Pitts- burg, and this is said to be the largest well ever struck in the vicinity. — A despatch from Calgarry, Mani- toba, says the Edinonton stage was stopped by two masked men 18 miles from Calgarry. The men carried a carbine and two heavy revolvers each, The party descended and were marched to one side, when their pockets were rifled. Mr. Burns, of Winnepeg, lost $70; Mr. Massey lost $30; a French- man lost $135, and the stage driver lost $200. The robbers then went through the luggage and opened the mail bags. The horses were then taken out and driven away, and the highwaymen dis- appeared. —Frank B. Campbell, a discharged clerk of James Carruthers, provision ex- porter in Chicago, recently went to the office of hus late employer, and at the point of a revolver obliged him to sign a check payable to bearer for $150, and deliver it to him. The check was sub- sequently cashed by a firm who . nized Campbell as Carruther’s clerk, Campbell was arrested on the 25th. —A. W. Harrison, 66 years of age, of Germantown, Penna., a saloon pas- senger on the steamship The Queen, which arrived at New York on the 26th from Liverpool, died on August 294 of natural causes, and was buried at sea. General R, I’. Ransom, a prominent citizen of Lexington, Ken- tucky, died on the 24th, It 1s supposed he committed suicide by taking a large amount of morphia, No cause is assigned. —Rev. James C. Beecher, of Coscob, Jonnecticnt, brother of Henry Ward Beecher and Thomas K. Beecher, com- mitted suicide at the Water Cure in Elmira, New York, on the 25th, by shooting himself through the head with a small rifle. He had been suffering under severe mental troubles for a number of years and for a time was under treatment in the Middletown Hospital. He was about 50 vears old, —On the 25th, part of a construction train on the Asheville and Spartanburg Railroad, while ascending a heavy grade on the mountain section, between Tryon City and Saluda, North Caro- lina, broke loose, flying down the mountain with frightful speed. Over seer Swift and four convicts were hurled from the flat cars and killed. A guard was seriously injured and geven convicts were wounded. The cars did not leave the track, but did not stop until they reached Tryon City. ~The acting Comptroller of the Cur- rency on the 24th, authorized the Na- tional Bank of Royer’s Ford, Penua., to begin business, with a capital of $100,000. —General Miles says Geronimo and his band are much worn down and tired. Captain Lawton’s command is in good condition, and he believes he can kill, capture or force the Indians to energy. Shortly aféer an express left Davis stoned by unknown parties, Windows tunately, no person was hurt, It Is thought the stones and taking John and Leander Nelson, negro named Collins, from the hanged them from a bridge. and killed herself in Delaware, on the 25th, while handling a shot gun, She daughter Milton Cooper, near Milton, Delaware. —Editor Cutting bas published an address to the people of the United States, in which he thanks the citizens of El Paso, the press of Texas and ( sul Brigham for { interest his case and the assistance him. He en her institutic will invade whole country. dentally shot is the of residing 4 $3i~ in rendered and ie taken tO States and -A carriage tainin Evarts, of New York, Charles CC, Der- kins, of Boston, and Miss Matthews, daughter of Judge Stanley Matthews, of Ohio, was overturned mn Windsor, Vermont. on the evening of the 25th. Mr. Perkins was instantly killed, and Senator Evarts and Miss Matthews were severely injured. —A despatch from Jackson, Mis- gissippi, says that Thomas H. Johns- ton, who killed Joseph Bolton at Brandon, on June 20th, and who was recently indicted by the Grand Jury, was on 26th pardoned by Gov- ernor Lowry, The testimony showed that Bolton had betrayed Johnston's daughter. A despatch from Osage Mission, Kansas, says Willie Sells, the murderer of his family, was on the 25th, sentenced to Le hanged, **which, under the custom of Kansas, means imprisonment for life.” Nathaniel Stillman Bates was hanged at Rich. Indiana, on the 26th. He murdered his wife in March last, He made a speech saying was guilty, aud was glad and realy to die. The jury in the case of John E. Duffy, for the murder of Edward Garduoer, in New Orleans, on the 25th, returned a verdict of guilty without capital pun- ishment. This was the third trial, the the previous trials having falled to agree. ~n con the he the farm of W. K. Gandy, Texas, a rabid dog bit Walter Gandy, four years old, in the face, A madstone was applied but it would not adhere, and it was said On the 25th a little playmate went to see him, and Walter bit him slightly in the On the 25th might Waller barked like a dog, bent himself nearly double, gnashed his teeth, and blood and foam He died the same night. ~Fire in the freight house of the Delaware and Hudson Canal Com- y's Railroad, at Saratoga, New Fork, on the 25th, caused a loss of $33,000. —A despatch from Eagle Pass says R. P. Allen, superintendent of the Coahuila Mines syndicate, has com- plained to Consul Lynn of the constant annoyances inflicted upon the mining company by Mexican officers at Cuatro Clenegas and San Pablo, imposing un- just fines for floating the American flag on American property without ob- taining permission from the authorities at San Pablo, for which offence the company was flued $20, and stopping mining operations on several occasions for trivial causes, ~The Prohibition Convention recon vened In Harrisburg, Penna., on the 26th and nominated Charles 5, Wolfe, for Governor; A. A. Barker, for Lieu- tenant Governor; Charles L.. Hawley, for Auditor General; Join N. Emery, for Secretary of Internal Affairs; and Rev, John M. Palmer, colored, for Congressman-at- Large. ~John IL. Schenck, living three miles from Freehold, N. J., who has led a hermit’s Iife for a number of rs —— with half-eagles, and stockings and cups were found filled with gold, silver and copper coins, A bundle of pro- missory notes, aggregating $8000, was also found, Mr. Schenck is over eighty years of age. The house in which he lives is shingled all over, and has nar- row windows and doors, seven inches thick. It has not been swept for eight years, —As a number of children were play- ing ona pile of lumber in the rear of several new houses In Lancaster, Penna., on the evening of the 26th, the pile suddenly gave way, burying several of the children under it. Harry Rei- mer, aged © years, had his neck broken and died instantly, and Harry Shade, of Reading, aged 10 years, was seriously and probably fatally injured. The other children were only slightly injured. ———— —A despatch from Carter county, Tennessee, says John Ransom and James G. Gaines have been courting the same girl, A few nights ago they met at her house, and in ber presence Gaines shot his rival dead. —A fire broke out at the Notting- ham Coal Mine, at Plymouth, Penna., on the 27th, It isabout 1500 feet above the surface, The fire was caused by sparks from a donkey engine, Over five hundred men will be thrown out of employment. Bayou Sara, in the upper portion of the town of St Francisville, Louisiana, was burned on the 27th. The total loss is estimated at over $118,000, The principal suf- ferers are Frahan & Co., loss on stock and building $100,000, insurance $705, 000; Wiliam Conn, dwelling and store A fire broke out in Crandall’s extended and destroyed thirteen busi- ness houses and two residences, l.oss, says that Captain Wilham Moore and reached their destination in Mattagorda bay gave rise to the belief that they were lost, Captain Bailey, who was also reported as lost, managed to save himself by clinging to a plank. —A skiff containing six young men upset in the Ohio river, at Cincinnati, on the 27th, and Frank Wilson, George Glover and two brothers, nauted were drowned. trv, A despatch from Madison, India: cholera in that and adjacent ¥ ¢ ry nl a loss {0 farmers of says hog * is ars. xO rermeay ve any effect in HNErous iS reported Sugar Refinery Company Nova Scotia, is in {ina The concern has a capital and n operation The company Is com; of English capitalist tons of raw sugar are | and a bark and a brig with full ca are in port awaiting discharge, Brown & Co., furniture manuf of Boston, have gone into insoiven Their liabilities are $75,000, an assets about $3000, The general sigument M. M. Babie, boot and shoe dealer of Buffalo, New York, was filed on the 27th. The preferences ag- gregate $23,000, No schedule has been filed, — William: Foulks, the ship bullder of Greenpoint, 27th at his home in Brookly: year of his age, Col. ¢ Hardway, of Washington, D, C,, died in Troy, New York, on the 27th. | was war correspondent ton correspondent for 148 Deen tively S004 ® 4 Ok well-kn ded ont Toth hatfel and Washing- newspapers in other cities, Augustus a prominent lawyer . Virginia, died suddenly on 27th, Professor Thomas J. Girardeau, formerly editor of the Hous- ton (Texas) Most, died in the 26th. Ile was born in 1820, Senator Hugh McNeill died at Allegheny Ci inst (x. Holladay, of Portsmouth the (zalveston on State his ur ¥ District in the Sanate since 18705. —Captain Wilbam Cook, who served creditably in the war and suffered in Livby prison, and who since has been a professor at Harvard College and the ~R. Champollion, of Paris, France, at Newport, R. L, on the 26th. 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AN IRISH ELOPEMENT. “Arden Hill, my dear old chapple, of all others I was most anxious to see you to-day.”’ The speaker was rather a good look gown of a student of Trinity college, Dublin, and as he spoke he laid his hand familiarly on the shoulder of a friend standing at a book-stall by the of a volume picked up haphazardly, “Well, Dillon, what Is it?" “I think you willdo me which, while it a service, cure my future happiness,’’ “Of course it goes without saying But what Come across to the ‘Star and bitter beer you can hear the story.” Seated in a quiet corner of that snug old hostelry Mr. Dillon commenced: “You are a Kings county man, Hill —Tullamore, I believe," His companion nodded an aflirmative, 1 ii Hit? Infa ttle hole of town. built . 3 wy ‘A dirly Of, 180 “a t, I may take leading up to “Will you i ago, when ye Irving as Hamlet there was a lady : Arthur see Lome, whom in company with bh be found our di 5 of Irving interesting BRCUsKION OO merit and Barry very that the } golien. ‘Indeed; anyway, Walkin he last man in the universit n “w) © £k 8 i 4 - 2 | WOLAL'S eves Lo QIStract fis m sober studies; and you again, what is this all 0? For a Trinity . 5 nus now *4 © oF ih COP i HAY. 118 young lady are very an to make a match and the young people perversity, are adverse to entering into | any such arrangement. Watkins would regard a wife simply as a nuisance and ious between them, with proverbial a bore,” “And the lady?” “The lady, I believe—or, rather, i sincerely hope, lovés another.” “A very friendly aspiration, upon my ! soul, Dillon.” “You will scarcely blame me when 1 say that Lucy and I are" “Oh! So the cat is out of the bag, is | it, Master Maurice? And with your | this is a matter to boast of? You have | wronged a friend who—-~" Hill, and I wish you wouldn’t think it, Lucy and I knew each other—well, were fond of each other—there now-- before Watkins loomed up as an un- willing rival. The friends of Watkins, you know, are wealthy, while I-but ‘tis the old story. Lucy’s father de- gires to secure a rich husband for his only child.” Hill crossed his arms on the table, and looking in his friend's face sald quietly: ‘*And don’t you know he’s right, Maurice Dillon? Since my child- hood days I do no! think that any single individual ever slandered me by saying that I possessed even a moderate share of common sense, but I say to marry a girl where that marriage must necessarily entail the life of a pauper is something that only a scamp or a fool would do, and for friendship’s sake I'm disposed to class you in the latter cate gory.” “I'm not in & mood to hear a sermon from you now, Hill. Tell me, do you know a place near Tullamore called Raheenbeg?" “About as well as I know College Green," was Hill's reply. “Well, Raheenbeg is Lucy’s home, and Watkins has an invitation to visit there this week. Ile is going reluc. tantly he tells me, and if he does it is easy to anticipate the result. not even Arthur Watkins, can resist the charms of Lucy Damer, and should sullor, it would simply drive me to the devil.” the room Then he said abruptly: “*I1 am going down | Hill, and I want | me.’ there to-night, you to come with in | way, how could 1 serve you?” { father, Parson Damer, down. tno | Sol, We shall reach Geashell and if all goes well—and much | pends on you-—we shall catch the 7.30 | up-train at the same station.” de- **Are you sure you are acting square- ly by this young girl, Dillon? She loves | you, or believes she loves you, which amounts to the same thing, I suppose. She is willing to leave home and father | for your sake, and what will you give { her in return? Why, you will scarcely shilling of your own housekeeping with, a yin her | father is reported as poor as a church. mouse, ”’ “Don’t fling any more of your infer nal homilies at my head. I must | Lucy if we begged together. willing to take the risks, and Hill, y« have promished to stand i have to mence and OY me, It was a cold, wet night when Dilla iand his friend reached the Little sta- tion where th eir journey by rail termi. nated, As they emerged from the gats 1 they { solitary car on the road- ounaG a and Hill side ar once recognized Li driver. “Hello! Mickey Leddy; a wet nizht n't 49 Lome “No, I'm a sale ¥ - y id, Measha, it the day we wor at toker had a glass of ang on the way home walk from the place ght Hill to the resi { the Rev. Mr. Damer. vant admitted him to ponse Damer at be oro A female * nore 10 the quesiic $y that me, gent his appearance from a room of the house “I regret sir,” said Hill, with great gravity, “to be the bearer of unpleasant tidings. Mr. Walkins—you know Ar. thur Watkins, of Trinity -—has met with an accident of a serious nature within half a mile of your house,” Before the clergyman could utter a word Hill went on with nervous rapidity, *‘I met hun by accident at Partarlington station, : | your residence, and I fear poor Arthur is seriously hurt. Then 2s the vehicle | is badly smashed, I came on here to | seek assistance,” “This is, indeed, lamentable news; | rections to have my own car got ready, | Barbara, yeu will go to Miss Damer’s | room and tell her 1 wish to speak to | her." Barbara lingered a moment at the door when her master left the room, to eye the visitor inqusitively, He drew a note from the inner pocket of his coat, and approaching her, said: “Barbara, my dear, will you give this note to your mistress, and tell her that Mr. Dillon is waiting for her in the shadow of the churchyard wall?” “0, may the Lord save usl Maybe it’s what he wants to run away with her." “Faith, maybe it is, my dear; but don’t let that frighten you, Who knows but one of these days some likely young fellow will be running away with your- self? But had you not better give that letter to your mistress at once, and tell her, as her father will drive in an op- posite direction to where her lover waits her, she will have the chance of meeting him at last.” A few minutes later Mr. Damer and his daughter entered the room. Miss Damer was scarcely pretty, and Hil was wondering at his friend’s blindness until she raised her eyes to his— Eyes too exprenstve to be bige, | Too lovely 10 be gray. And which certainly gave a singular | charm to her face, “‘I have told my daughter, sir, and | ence we cannot start for a quarter of { an hour or so, you will take some re- { freshments,’’ “Couldn’t hear of it, sir,’’ Hii said | hurriedly, “I must return to my poor i friend at once, and I am sure you will | make all baste possible,” f01 | clergyman could reply Mr, Hill was ou {of the room, and as he descended the steps he muttered with a sigh of relief: “Heaven be thanked for this lucky es. | cape from an ugly predicament,” At 10.30 that night Maurice Diflon, with Lucy clinging to his arm, entersd the parlor of a cottage in a Dublin sub- jurb. A gray-baired lady was reading by the fire, whom Dillon addressed as follows: “*Aunt Mary, this is Lucy Da- | mer, whom you know I long Bince the powers that be were we've taken law jour own hands, and I ran awa) her to-night,” Aunt Mary looked at the trembling girl for a moment, and said with severity: “In my younger days, Miss | Damer, an Irish girl had the reputation | for modesty for which her count | were very proud, And you, { Irish gentleman, have dared lo cow mise the honor of this your criminal reckiessness,’’ have | loved. | against us, the nto with cain yinen vy ¥ % ylIuiig Ee “I’ve only followed the e> ancestor of ours, who is yi ticular hero, Aunt Mary, Maurice Dillon, » ho fougl at F pure and true a girl as name of | Clare ontenoy, ran aw wife.” C4] Vey + o 4a an] 110 nov gong Vo 8p with you, y fie $4 ITOSIAVE t careless boy always lean door oper Will you kindly alter mm?’ Which of ready ny fair readers ha PTY “5 Yr —_p arrived at the conciusiod Maurice and Lucy were 1 is now a physician of respectable try town, and Lion Tamer Daptiste Pezon, the and the brideg HE Ler A languet of 100 covers was given by the father to the bride, to which the Pans press were invited. The company included lion tamers, menagerie direciora, stroll- ay 3 COUulin, 4 ing players and others whose vocation is to furnish amusement at fairs, Ac cording to the menu handed round the weddmg fare consisted of *‘potage de lezard, sancisson de lion, bombes sbe- riennes, elephant roti, poulets la leop- ard.” and such dishes, The guesis, | however, believe that they partook of | nothing but good roast beef, ducks, and the like. The banqueling hall | was adorned with stuffed lions and | ssmilar trophies. Above the bridal | pair was a group of superb ligers. A good round sum as dowry was handed by the bride’s father to his son-in-law. ' The festivities closed with the custo mary ball, Elderly Ladies in Gormany. In England elderly ladies are often laughed at behind their backs for dressing in too youthful a manner. The Germans go to the other extreme; no sooner do they marry or reach the age of 25 than they think if necessary to wear unbecoming bonnets, dark silk dresses, old-fashioned mantles, and to assume all the other signs of a lady advancing In years. — Donnie McGregor is lying up {or the Hartford $10,000 purse. Surah, pongee and foulard silk are combined with woolen lace and with open-work materials. — Sherwood Robinson, a young man who went to Chicago from Penna., on August 11th, is missing, fle bad $3000 1n his possession and in tended to locate in Chicago, He jeft his satchel and an unpaid bil at the St James Hote), Detectives ure al work on the case