m— ssa: NEWS OF THE WEEK. , ==Charles Demarrow, eight years old, fell into the Conestoga creek, at Graef’s Landing, Lancaster county, Penna., on the 28th ult., and wes drowned. Wil lie Schmit, his step-brother, jumped in to rescue him, and was also drowned. John Murphy, 11 vears old, was drowned at Long Branch on the 28th ult, —Two locomotives and several empty passenger cars wera wrecked by a col- lision on the Lebanon and Cornwall Railroad, in Pennsylvania, on the 20th ult. Nathau Slocum, a train hand, was killed, Three trackmen, H. Genge, aged 35 years; Joseph Horner, aged 20, and Watson Ashe, aged 10 -— were killed by an engine, near Summer Hull, Cambria county, Penna., on the 30th ult. —An earthquake was felt on the evening of the 31st ult., shortly before ten o'clock, throughout nearly the en- tire portion of the United States east of the Mississippi river. the shocks be- ng experienced from the Gulf north- ward to the Upper Lakes and from points near the Mississippi eastward to the Atlantic coast, At Montgomery, sr straw near Saukville, Wisconsin, on the 30th ult. The murderer fled. —The centre of the great earthquake of Tuesday night the 3lst ult., ap- pears to have been under Charleston, South Carolina, and that city was the prineipal sufferer from its effects. De- spatches from the fated city received on the 1st say that the City Hall, Hi- bernian Hall, the Main Station House, St. Michael's and St. Philip’s churches, many other public buildings. and fully two-thirds of the dwellings in the city were wrecked, It is estimated that be tween thirty and forty persons were killed, and more than one hundred were injured, The loss of property 1s estimated at from eight to ten millions of dollars. The shocks were repeated at intervals during Tuesday nigat and Wednesday, but the destruction wasall accomplished by the first shock, at 9.55 P. M. on Tuesday night. At 11.50 Wednesday night another shock, more | violent than any since the flrst convul- | sion, threw down several houses, The | people are camped in the streets and | i to have been especially severe, ville, Memphis, and other places, people rushed, panic stricken, into the streets, At Indianapolis part of the cornice of a hotel was thrown down, chimneys fell. York, Washington, Detroit, kee, Cincinnati, Louisville, Chatta- nooga, and other cities, tell of severe undulations, but no damage 18 reported. The shock was very light at Chicago, and nothing was felt at Omaba, Ogden, or San Francisco. say that in Augusta, Georgia, there were len distinct shocks, from 9.51 to 10,45 P. M., and the streets were filled with territied people, At Charles- ton, West Virginia, many chiunneys were toppled over, At Savannah, Georgia, five shocks were fell and sev- eral chimneys were thrown down, while buildings were otherwise dam- agea. created, and many people rushed into the streets. Four distinct shocks were felt in Washington. The earthquake shocks were quite lively in many por- tions of New Jersey, and the vibra- tions were distinctly felt in Philadel- phia, A New York despatch received early this morning says that since the earthquake shock it bas been 1mpos- sible to get any telegraphic commun- cation with Charleston, South Caro- lina, a circumstance which causes great concern —A despatch was received in Chi- cago on the 3lst ult., from the Mayor of Beileplain, Iowa, relating a singular catastrophe. It appears that “‘an arte- sian well, four inches in diameter, burst when the depth or 180 feet had been reached in boring, and instantly a volume of water was forced into the air to the distance of several hundred feet. This gradually increased in size and volume until a stream of water fully sixteen inches in diameter was formed, and the upward force of this stream is equal to the power of powder or dynamite.” The despatch adds: *““The water in huge volumes is spout- seems inexhaustible. Two gigantic rivers have been formed by this phe. nomenal water burst, which are running through the town at the rate of twelve Pefore them. Houses and lives are threatened by this peculiar freak of nature, and the citizens are appaled at their impending danger, which at present they are powerless to over- come. Finding it impossible to avert this damaging flood, an attempli was made to insert sixteen-inch boiler iron tubes into the well, but these were in- stantly blown out and foreed high into ¢he air. Finding this plan useless, the terrified people attempted to till up the aperture through which this terrible carloads of stone were emptied into the well, but these were forced upward as though propelled by the force of glant powder. Bags of sand were then well, but these, too, were hurled into the air.”’ 1 —A telegram from Summerville, | South Carolina, reports the business | portion of that place *‘badly wrecked” | and many persons killed. There was another severe earthquake at Augusta, Georgia, at 5.19 P. M. on the 1st, the | vibrations continuing two minutes, | the buildings in Raleigh, North Carolina, were shaken by another earthquake wave at 5.10 I’. M. ou the 1st, There were eight additional | shocks on the 1st at Savannah. No | fewer than 17 shocks were felt at Beau- | fort, South Carolina, during Tuesday evening, the 31st ult. ~—There was a severe magnetic storm at Rochester, New York, on the 1st. swaylng of heavy magnetic rents was very great at 7 A. M. At the beginning of the observations a heavy needle mine inches long swung | an ioch and a half to the west of the magnetic meridan at intervals, A | needle two and a half feet long was de- flected five inches towards the wast.” —The public deb’ statement issued on the 1st shows a decrease of 21.- 1 010,600 during August, Total cash in the Treasury, $§474,270,651. —A telegram from Boston says that Samuel G. Snelling, ex-Treasurer of the Lowell Bleachery, has filed a peti- tion in insolvency, . His total liabili- is indebtedness for which no security is named, and $437,010 is secured by mortgages and pledges of stocks and bonds, The assets are chiefly out- standing accounts, mill and mining stocks, ele. The first through passenger train on the Pennsylvania Schuylkill Valley Railroad from Philadelphia entered Pottsville at 1.45 o'clock on the after- noon of the 1st. The train carried President Dubarry and other officials the permanent opening of the road to traflic, ~—It is reported from Tombstone, Arizona, that the terms under which Geronimo will surrendor are ‘‘that his two wives be brought back from Flor ida and himself and nineteen his companions be given seperate reserva- tions,” ~The town of Indlapola, Texas, devastated by the recent storm, is sald to be fast becoming depopulated, a great many of its inhabitants haviog decided to seek homes elsewhere, of - Joseph Glenn, of Brooklyn, New | York, boarded an express train for New York at Bridgeport, Connecticut, on the 31st ult. Upon reaching Fairfield station he jumped from the train, which was running forty miles an hour. He wus picked up unconscious, and it is thought his injuries are fatal, -—There was another slight earth. quake shock at Charleston at one o'clock on the morning of the 24, but no further damage was done, and the peopie of the safllicted city are be- ginning to recover somewhat from their | panic. A list of the dead is published, thirty-five names. The % were washing the channel it had formed by this Immense volume of for males around Charleston has been broken by the earthquake into fissures, that hillocks and depressions have been created where none existed before, and that in one or two instances rail- In the vicinity.” ~Thre¢ young women were over- taken by an express train while cross. ing a trestle bridge near Sauk Centre, heavals of the earth. The shocks were preceded or accompanied by rumbling noises and detonations, which added to phurous fumes were emitted from the | earth, Water was also thrown up, and | injured. The third escaped by jumping nto the river, but is suffering from nervous prostration. Near Heading, Penna., on the 30th ult, an unknown man was run over and killed by a freight train. The engineer saw the man kneeling on the track as though he was praying, but It was then too late to stop the train. About the same time Charles Luther, aged 58, of Read- ing, sought shelter from the rain under » car when the train to which the car was attached suddenly started and Luther was run over and killed. ~Five men were killed and two thers severely injured by an explosion of gas in the Fairlawn Colliery, at Scranton, Pa., on the 30th ult, ~George Kenn, a farmer, who was thrown from his wagon by the powder mill explosion at Chicago, on 20th ult.. died on the 30th ult., making two fleaths from the casualty, up Aitaony Gillespie, a grocer of Two more slight earthquake shocks | were felt in Savannah between 3 and 4 | o'clock on the morning of the 2d, and | many of the inhabitants remained out | in the streets, i -The great iron bridge across the | Missoun river at Leavenworth, Kan- sas, was damaged by fire on the Ist to the extent of $400,000, which was of wood, and half a mile of the trestle approach on the Mis- souri side, were destroyed. A fire in Allegheny City, Penna., on the lst, destroyed George P. Barker's planing mill, the supply and pattern shop of the Pittsburg and Western Railroad Company, and 60,000 feet of lumber, Loss, $100,000, covered by insurance. The wholesale store of J. & ¥. VT. Garrett, dealers in paper and printing material at Syracuse, New York, was burned out on the afternoon of the 24, Loss, $50,000; insured. —By the explosion of the boiler of a thresher on a farm near Bath, New York, on the 24, two men were k fatal Be —-" was found in the bedroom with his throat cut. Tho doctors think all three will recover. --1in Brewer, Maine, on the 1st., the gon and grandson of John Mutty, aged six and four years, respectively, went Into 4 stable and played with matches, The stable caught fire and was burned down, and only the charred remains of the boys were found, ~There was another heavy frost in portions of Michigan on the 3lst ult, Much damage was done to fruits and vegetables, Frost was reported in Onondago county, New York, on the 1st. There was a heavy frost at Ply- mouth, New Hamshire, on the 2d, which damaged corn, vines and fruit, —In South Baltimore on the 2d, Ma. tilda Morton, colored, who drurck the might before, went to the hydrant to bathe her head. She fell head foremost into a tub filled with Wfter was drowned, ~ Another shock of earthquake was felt on the evening of the 3d, about 11 ton. It was strong enough to cause a renewal of the panic in Charleston, Augusta, Columbia, Savannah, Wil- Charleston and at Savannah most of the population again took to gtreets for the night. At five minutes past 11 o'clock the same ceptibly.’”” A continuous, but M. on the 2d. Merced, in the same Slate, on the 2d midnight. Two slights shook Reno, Nevada, early on Friday morning. A slight earthquake shock was felt in Trenton, New Jersey, at seven minutes past one o'clock on the morning of the 4th. —A telegram from Greenville, who was cut by John Smith, the officer was in pursuit of six pris- oners who had escaped from the Hunt county jail, of which Smith was one, died on the lst. Sentinels had been stationed for two days in different die. Ope hour an armed mob soon as Adair should after Adair's death was on the way to the jail. No re. sistance was offered, Smith was taken some distance from the city and hanged. Captain RR. P, Dixon, of Baltimore, was recently missed from his vessel in a branch of the Potomac river, and blood on the cabin floor led to the belief that be had been murdered. He left Wash- ington with two colored men, Bradford and Drisco, both of whom left the ves. and she was found abandoned. 3risco has been arrested at Leonard- town and confessed that Bradford killed Captain Dixon and threw body overboard. He gave Brisco a part of the money stolen from Captain Dixon, Dixon's body has been found on the Virginia side of the Potomac with the skull erushed and his throat cut. Jas, Lanier, a Magistrate of Warren county, Mississippi, on the 21, shot and killed Moses Warner, an old colored man, who had voled for prohibit against Lanier’s interest. lanier has been en- gaged in several shooting affrays in Vicksburg and the county. 4 1 sei his 06, John McGregor, a stock assulited by four highwaymen, INAL, Was knocked nd robbed of $1500 in cash, on La Salle street, in 24. — Mrs, Emuma Malloy, a well-known revivalist and total abstinence lecturer, Chicago, on the at South Bend, Indis She bad been tired of lifesince the accidental drown- ing of ber son Frank a short time ago. — A telegram from Oakland, 1H reports that on the 2d, an explosion, followed Ly an eruption, occurred on a farm in Bowdrie township, near that city. “When the noise occurred a cloud of smoke and dust was thrown sixty feet 1n the air, which were bits of dirt, stumps and roote. A deep hole was left in the earth, which has not yet been explored.” -A shanty in which were lodged Hungarian laborers, near Sopestown, Penna,, on the Williamsport and North Branch Railroad was burned on the 2d and seven men perished in the flames. Twelve dwellings at Mt. Carmel, Penna. owned by the Lehigh Vailey Railroad company, were destroyed by fire on the 3d. A woman and child are missing and belleved to be burned to death, and St. Paul Railroad was run {ato by a freight train at Norwood Junction, Minnesota on the 5th and overturned, Several persons were injured, —--— - THE MAMMA ETS —————————— PHILADELPHIA. MOBD oes sas sussssssssnrssnsssss 3? Cotton, MIAAINE. cosvsveinnnrnsns Flour, W i. PRADENIYAA aves: «seers A eae e ana OBIE, covnvonnee. 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I stood upon the shore coe day Casting pebbles, out of play, Tuto the ocean broad and deep, As they sank beyond my sight In its waters clear and bright, Wavelets bathed my feet, Each pebble caused the same result, A tiny sound, a slight tumult, While circles formed around, And beneath the surface bright, Wavelets danced, though cut of sight Homeward bound. Eaeh circler started, bold and clear, Pressing onward without fear, Widening more and more, Circling, widening, still they grew, Until they faded from my view, Bathing another shore. Bo, dear child, it is in life, The pebbles cast may pass from sight, Pleasures and pain. But they have caused a movement of life's stream Our loss or gain, The circles widen as they flow, fearing records God shall know Of our life, May we keep our record clear, Trusting Him without one fear, Seeking light. HER OWN ENEMY. An extremely pretty girl was Desiree Le Strange, one who had many admire. ers but not such as her heart prayed One by one the poor curates were the erratic strug- arvists, given their conge, likewise authors and poverty comes in at the love flies out of the window.” was a maxim in which Desiree Le Strange very staunchly believed. “If I cannot marry a ri not marry at all!” country vicar’s daughter told herself witha deep drawn sigh: this girl who was utterly sick of cold shoulder of mutton and boiled and treacle, who haa to wear her gowns till they were thread- bare and her shoes tl] they would mend no more, It was merest chance, that just the old stone bridge on “When door bh man I will Lis rice pure accident, of course, as she reached left of the hen-robed river danced the moor-the bridge, beneath whi rippled mpid, woodland stream-Danis] Wes. picturesque, lic :h the smoothly often and ad as Ail sels should suddenly appear. “Oh, how you startled me!” girl, whereat the young man ¥ laughed and offered her thoughts, * sll, IL ¥ ist A 0T know, i was thinking returned candidly. “Thin he echoed, and a his ‘something Thinking cf me!” deep flush covered bonest, hand- Y pleasant, 1 Don't , i A TT 1 § adage, ‘Talk o face, Miss remember Lhe ancient sone hope, Strange, you the old gentl 'ete., and 1 suppose talking hol . ul gg and Desiree, shyly. ds good for thinking? + M7 . ought it was; Talk of § " 3 5 rd a $9 you'il hear (heir wings, y vy rd angel, Well, I could scarcely be any- “Oh, so 1 am a white-winged hen, involuntary it seemed, they iookegd down at the s of fallen leaves and i rosy dimpled and beneath the sun's dying smile, “How pretty those marked eyed daisies are particularly fine, “Do you think s Perhaps Anne might take them for her parlor vases," and she held the Litt bunch leasly for acceplance, He took them with a quiet “Thank you,” but he did not say he should give them to Anne, his landlady’s red-haired granddaugh- ter. In Daniel Wessels' eves there was no girl beautiful as Desiree le Strange; to him she was just perfect, with her crown of rippling hair, al:nost the color of the burnished autumn leaves, with her scarlet thread a mouth and wild rose tinted cheeks and eyes deep and blue, “When I met you just now*’’ he said » tas flowers are!’ re. Daniel presently, ‘The ox- 3? le care up 80 of ing of me. Desiree,” in a half-timid whisper, ‘my darling, I think of you I" And now, the ice broken, his hearl for aught but her, his soft eyes dark with intense feeling. Elo- quently he pleaded—-passionately: And he moved fied. “Oh, how could you mistake my meaning!’ she exclaimed. *‘I never thought-—can’t you understand? 1 was but turning over in my mind the proba. bility of your eventually coming to care for Jane or Muriel.” “1 could not marry your stepsis. ters,” declared Daniel, emphatically, Then, in a low, earnest tone, so tender, a0 gentle, so pleading. that the words seemed to find their way to Desiree’s heart; “You, dearest, are my ‘ideal woman;' don't you think you could learn to care for me a little? Iam a very young barrister, it is true, but not wholly dependent on my profession for a lodging and crust; besides, Desiree darling, I no not mean to be always a briefless barrister, I have gone through the usual cramming, my father is ambi. haps some day I may rise to eminence, Oh, don’t blight wy future.” He opened his arms as though heart, and keep her forever, for all time, But the next moment he had checked himself, his hands dropped heavily to his side; for there was no an- swering love In Desiree’s face, only a stony, fixed stare, “How handsome he 1s!” the girl could not but think. The perfect face and the form of splendid manhood were his. Oh, what a thousand pities hie had of this world’s wealth! Had he Strange would have suffered him to happily ever after. “I could not marry a poor Jans and I have nothing. “Only your beautiful face—your gentle heart!” jut she broke in with: “Oh, do not 4 4 Kindest thing any more, The you can do is to forget have never cared for you- Forgive we if 1 have seemed to encourage you,” “Forgive you?’ ulated, and say never! ' he passionalely ejac the genuine misery s went to her heart, “ in a hoarse, low white the > hrough lips set like iron, ould promise you riches, would for then, ile Answer me truly.” repeated face at a Lieat, me Desiree merchant would not rich as Indian nabod, I marry youl’ she cried with vehemence; but her u were a prince, or startling trembled at the close of the sentence, as though the heart were uttered. With a sad smile he turned from her, and looked down into the waters that were no longer gold or erimson flecked, Desires instinctively she felt she bad 1 he scene, yoice 1 wis . 3 denying what the lips moved away. vert By 10 strength (o prolong 3 k rain drops fell with a melancholy monotonous 1 the tangle of fallen on Daniel hud, Yard leaves; Wessels did not move. Desiree’s had the lane after footets away in Long died standing where she Ps remained abruptly left him, with ms arms folded over { stone bridge, mg a wealth of he had he oid crush and fairy fronds. Down into the angry, frothy waters he gazed fixedly, paying no heed to the more heavily rain drops which fell every moment. The to the vicarage was beaten path on the ou shortest way from the fol common owing the by Hall, and Desiree hurried while the sad autumn rain aong here patiered dis- > rv 3 «? »* ler % around the slenderiy robed the iracken, Ol willed harebelis, on the The wind piped shrilly t hh the reads and rushes flanking and whistled mournfully sad undergrowth in i peeped ) : a pheasant whirred in th ark trees above her her From the far de sounded the head, & 3 » $1 hi of the woodiand “hs adsl it are ¢ solitary v Ol ap-tap” a lonely woodpecker and the half-muf. fled bay of a deep-mouthed hound. The world seemed suddenly to have grown for Desiree very cheerless, very eerie, td = . * Years passed on, bringing no mer- chant prince, Indiaa nabob, no wealthy cotton spinner to the feet of Desiree Le Strange; cruel years, rob. bing her of kith and Kin, drifting her from home to home, always with A melancholy shadow, a ghost of the bright, lovely Desiree Le Strange was ths world-weary woman no who envied her in her dazzling youth, raved about her, nition. Uninteresting days crawling lag Bat she could not from the beginning, and ail her bright. est hopes had been crushed, she plodded on at her monotonous duties in a dull, apathetic way, which showed all energy and spirit had died out of her. One delicious afternoon in May found Desiree Le Strange at a house in Har. ley street, listlessly turning the leaves of the leather-bound books whieh {old how governesses were wanted, very highly accomplished, for wery small salaries, “A steady, conscientious lady,” she read presently, “fond of the country and quiet life, wanted for two delicate girls of 6. Apply Lady Wessels, Cran. forth Grange, Worcestershire.” “Wessels! Wessels!” murmured De- siree; “any relation, I wonder, to the Daniel Weasels I once knew!” and she at once made up her mind to try for the situation. \ . . . "LA Cranforth Grange was a many gabled, e-blocked mansion, standing on a slightly-wooded emmence in a richly timbered, undulating park, The ave- nue, which led up from the main road, was a good mile long and shaded by overhead; and winding through the grounds, now flashing in the sunlight, now hiding "midst the shadows of the droopmg silyer willows, flowed the with here and there a clump of brilliant rhododendrons, The wild ducks loved this river, and the swans seemed never weary of sailing on its surface: yellow water lilies floated miniature islands here and tnere, and the prettiest lit, 38 €. the far end, under the thickest shades boat house, all ereeper-smothered and rush- “ » * * * It was a gala day for the whole vil- Judge came home Cranforth The bells rang merrily, the Wessels to and now the carriage dashed up the V. il A twinkling it seemed, the chil were and him with kisses, generously, the years had dwel! Daniel Wessels; perfectly he looked to-day with fair-hal twins neck smothering red and his wife's sho GET, background, watched the jos ing between husband and w and children, and ] felt a sensation rise sharp, sickening pain se almost taking her breath prayed that she might 1 she might not * make a scens ”’ “Miss Le Strauge-—our said Lady Wessels presently. And sh, how lke a dream it seemed, meeting the then — bearded face and large, firm hand ¢ Nir Daniel Wessels A minute more and he judge, with his and were the library, where a and Desiree wide cheery log fr found herself n staircase to oak schooiroom. o , she told be queen of this hot unbearable was—how mad- dening! For whole striven to 4 a vear sl had learned Weasels, the herself — har fe4d ‘ 1 1 » her duty, and had to love pretty, Lady his wife; but judge dally gentle she could pol meet and not not let him and others see how acutely she felt her positic betray True, he had not but Mi. appeared to recognize her; later he would that Desiree Le Strange, back his love itt ago, and the Desiree Le Strange day were same, brought ber here under his to-night, who fo0ne: or assuredly discover wuo flung years F 4, OL W~- one ant “ve in PT the Chance had roof Sap posing by chance she died would miss her? And then, mechanically, like one forced to act in spite of herself, she crossed the room and unl medicine cl a sideboard. ties, and boxes, and china pot It was a very small took up, labeled **Chloroform.’ **1 have a be murmured, “Perhaps almost we it~ eked tie yest which stood on *% Her eve ran over bottle se 2 head- odd ne and an Hake ad toothache ache.!’ she with smile, this will sleep.’ » . » “ier own enemy, even e last thought the judge, lookiog at 12 Strange’s beautiful dead a shadow on his own. For the features him yesterday in plainly enough in bim pathetically, better than a thousand words, that this was the Desiree he had ' Desiree face with had life spoke which not death told broken his heart by the old stone bridge. He had been very busy all these years—s0 busy that the memory of the vicar’s pretty daughter bad gradually in its last sleep, a mist slowly gathered her days should have ended thus, ———————— MII PO An Honored Title. The word woman’ carries with it a broad meaning. It coustitntes a title that a man uses in speaking of his moth. er or his wife. He can think of none better, There is none better. Yet there are those who seem to regard the title as not good enough for them, They want to be known as ladies. Why, itis difficult to tell, Members of the gentler sex are respect- ed for what they are. As a whole they are deferred to, and individually they are almost certain of courteous treatment from men. The assumption of the title “lady” can mm no sense strengthen the claim they have and which is generally acknowledged. In fact, it often seems undignified and unappropriate, A “lady” advertising for a situation as “galeslady’’ would act more in aocord- ance with good taste to be an energetic young woman looking for a clerkship, ———————