NEWS OF THE WEEK —A railroad train ran off the track near Milford, Kansas, on the 5th, fa- tally injuring W. W, Walton, proprie- tor of the Clay City Dispatch and ex. Speaker of the Kansas House, The fireman and engineer were severely scalded. An excursion train, carrying members of the Brotherhood of Loco- motive Engineers, from Easton, ’enna,, to Scranton, on the 5th, ran mto the rear of a train at Glendon. An engine and several cars were wrecked. G. W. Dye, fireman, was killed, and Frederick Yeoman, engineer, dangerously in- jured. —The Gth was observed as ‘‘Labor Day” in the principal cities by parade- of working men, picnics and other fes tivities, The numbers parading in the different cities heard from are estimated as follows: New York, 20,000; Chi- cago, 30,000; Brooklyn, 18,000; New- ark, New Jersey, 25,000; Boston, 15, 000; Baltimore, 15,000 to 18,000; Albany, 5000; Elizabeth, New Jersey, 2000; Buffalo, 2000; Detroit, 9000. the 4th. Aaron Blake, her father-in- law, who was the only person at the house at the time, said she was trampled to deatb by her horse, but. the circumstances indicating murder, he was arrested on suspicion. Her husband and brother-in-law were also arrested. —There has been no rain in Jones and Stonewall counties, Texasl or fourteen months, and most of the set- tlers have left. Those who remain, about four hundred families, are in a state of extreme destitution. It is be- lieved that throughout are destitute. —E. P. Hammond, a **Professor’’ in Cornwallis, Oregon, ‘‘foretells terrific for September 26, 27 and 28.” He also makes the safer prediction that *‘ey- slonic disturbances may be expected September 14 and 15.” —During a shooting affray at a local yption election, at Daleyville, Texas, on the 6th, three of them the Sheriff, and six were wounded, two dangerousiy, Laverty, Virginia, on the 6th, young men named Wilson and Fizer, quarrellied about a colored woman a house of evil repute. Wilson shot and fatally wounded Fizer, and he posed to have kiiled the woman also, as her body was afterwards found near the house with a bullet wound in the head. John Schmidt, a saloon keeper, of Newark, New Jersey, on tl others At Wo is sup- Lie tempted suicide, but failed. Jealousy was the cause. Henry Smith, aged 19 years, on the Gth, killed an old farmer named Peek with a club, near West Union, Iowa. He algo fatally wounded Mrs, Peek and severely wounded a man named Leonard, and attempted to burn the house. The only reason given is that there had been a quarrel about pay for work done. John T. Oliver, aged 63 years, shot and fatally wounded his wife Mary, in Buffalo, on the 7th. They had not lived together for more than a year, and she had refused to re- turn to ham. —Mrs, Emma Malloy, a well-known revivalist and total abstinence lecturer, attempted to drown herself on the Id, at South Bend, Indiana. She had been tired of life since the accidental drown- ng of her son Frank a short time ago, —'There was a light snow in Helena, Montana, on the evening of the 5th, with the temperature at 31 degrees, —There was a very slight earthquake shock at Charlestown on the 7th, but ts weakness confirmed the belief that ‘the subterranean disturbances are working themselves out.”” The feeling sf hopefulness among the people Is in- sreasing, and the arrival of Mayor Courtney on the 7th ‘‘puts everybody n better spirits.’ He at once went to work to systematize and arrange the relief measures. *‘One of the first steps was to constitute as the relief commit- se the joint committee of the Cham- ser of Commerce, Merchants’ Ex. shange and Cotton Exchange appointed oy the City Council. The several mittee, and Mayor Courtney will be shairman.’’ Slight earthquake pulsa- sions were felt all day on the 7th in —At Rochester, New York, on the 6th, a driveron a canal boat “attempted to push the bridge from the boat to the towpath, but could not hold it. The hook which fastens the bridge to the boat caught him in the throat, tear- ing it open and throwing him into the water. The bridge fell on him b:eak- ing his neck.” —A safe in J. G. Harrison’s com- mission store in Newark, New Jersey, was robbed on the 6th, of over $20,000, city loan bonds, Nos, 440 and 441, of $10,000 each, due Sept. 20, 1880, and drawn to the order of the Second Pres- byterian Church, of which Mr. Harri son is treasurer; several bank books be- longing to the same society, and a note for $400. Payment on the securities has been stopved. —John Enright and his wife, mar- ried last Sunday, the Oth, were found on the 8th, on Monday mght. They were last seen alive The appearance of the bodies Indicated they had been dead at least twenty-four hours. The lid was partly off the cook stove in the next room, and the Coroner’s jury rendered a verdict that the deceased “came to their death by suffocation, caused by an accidental escape of coal gas from the stove.”’ —The house of L. L. Matthews, of Montour, Penna., was destroyed by fire | on the 8th, and his wife and two-year- | old child were fatally burned, | the disaster by using carbon oil to start the fire. A loud explosion was | the woman was screaming inside. She | and the child were got out, but their | recovery was hopeless, — Three ruffians called at the house of James MecDermed, a wealthy farmer, near Pekin, Illinois, on Dermed and his mother and tortured him into revealing the whereabouts of $600 concealed In the house, The robbers then made off with the money. ‘hree men have been arrested on sus- picion. Havana that appeared ip from recently —]1t 18 repol ted th which e springs in undiminished volume, and, in spite of efforts to deviate the water from its covrse, the is increasing. A portion of the village is now more than three feet under water. The inhabitan panics stricken aud are leaving the locality in tinue to tow INCraasing nun oers. Farnsworth, and f “Frank” was “Frank” a quarrel Meade was fatally Meade, a newspapear st, Paul on 7th. drunk. In Norfolk, Vir- ginia, on the Sth, James Banks, colored, entered the grocery store of B, F. Ward and behaved in such a disorderly manner that Ward ordered him out. He refused to go and Ward killed him with a cartwheel Ward is in jail shot man, in the in spoke, —During the last two months peated attempts have been made to burn the National Stock Yards in East St. Louis, and two of the Incendiary fires caused much damage to the sheds and pens, Last Tuesday night the Tih, John Colly, the watchman at Whit. taker’s pork packing house, discovered several boys attempting to sel the house on fire. The incendiaries fled at his approach, but pursued and caught one of them who proved to be his own son, John, 14 years of age. On the following day the father took his boy to President Knox, and made him confess. The bey acknowledged that he and two other boys, named John Reed and Alfred Hopkins, had kindled the fire of June 7th and Aug- ust 2d and 6th, which resulted in a loss of $00,000, The boys say they made their attempts to burn down the yards because they were refused work. re- he —(31les Miller, a Missouri stockman, was robbed of $800 and mortally wounded by three unknown highway- men in Stone county, Arkansas, on the 7th. In Oswego, New York, ten | days ago, William Shannon, aged 83 years, stabbed his wife, aged 80, twice in the back, for throwing dish-water on bim. He was arrested, but released on bail, as the doctors saul she would re- ieover, On the Oth she died, it is said, from the effects of the wounds, { and Shannon was re-arrested. shock sent people rushing into streets, sver. Two slight earthquake shocks were felt on the Tth in Augusta, one at 11,30 A. M., the other at 4.30 P. M, A severe shock of earthquake, preceded by a noise *‘like an explosion of dyna- Fvansville, Indiana, ~—A cable dispatch received in Bos- ton reports that a terrible hail storm, accompanied by high wind, recently prevailed in Paris and its environs, It was most severe ig she suburbs, where it destoyed trees, fruit and vegetables, Large trees were torn to shreds by the hail. The loas to glass and to gardens is estimated at $1,000,000. The Bois de Vincennes has the appearance of a forest riddled by shot. A telegram from Havana, received on the 7th, says several springs have recently appeared near the village of Ceibadelagua, near Havana, the water from which has formed a large lake, threatening the village with inundation, Several plan- tations and factories are already sube merged, and the water, which is now three feet deep, is slowly invading the village. A large number of the inhabi- tants have left the town. The civil Governor of Havana and the munici- pal architect have gone to the scene. ~A train going from Farnham to Longueuil in Quebec, on the Oth, being too heavy to control, ran on a switch and shoved five cars which were already there out to and across the main line, and through a wooden house occupied by two ilies, into a five-foot ditch on the other side of the house, Of the five inmates of the house a four-year-old boy was killed and an old woman fatally injured, ~TLee Riley, aged 18 years, died on the 7th, in Williamsport, Penna., from the effects of a wound received by the accidental discharge of his gun while bunting on the 4th, —By the falling of two large pieces | of wrought-iron plate in the shops of | the Kerr-Murray Manufacturing Com- | pany, at Fort Wayne, Indiana, on the dangerously injured. —An earthquake shock, lasting six | goconds, was felt in Charleston at five | morning the Oth, Three shocks were felt at Summerville on the 9th. The total amount received in Charleston for the relief fund to the close of business on the 0th was $126,148. Mayor Court- ney has telegraphed the President of the First National Bank of Charleston, who i8 in New York, that “to shelter the homeless people before the cold weather sets in, from $500,000 to §700,- 000 are immediately required ’* The mayor estimates the total damage to property by the earthquake at from $5,000,000 to $6,000,000, —A telegram from Tolono, Illinois, reports great loss and suffering in that section from a protracted drought, “For three months the ground has not been wet two inches deep by ram, Unless there is a coplous fall soon, there will be absolutely no water to be had except from the few tubular wells about the country.” More cases of pleuro-pneumonia are reported in Manor township, Lan- caster county, the herd of John Frey, 21 in number, being infected. Dr, Bridge, State Vetermarian, on the 9th had two of the animals killed and inoc- ulated the remainder of the herd, The disease is reported in several other sec- tions of the county) ~Yates’ Dam, on Walnut Creek, near Raleigh, North Carolina, broke on the 9th, Two mills, another dat aud part of an embankment on the North Carolina Railroad. —William Huber, a young married man, was killed on the Oth in Harris. burg by the caving in of an embank- ment, w—— nr A A —A man named McKeehan quar- father-in-law at Touganoxie, Kansas, on the 9th, The father-in-law is dead, but McKeehan’s wife is still alive. An atternpt was made to lynch the murs derer, but officers smuggled him to Leavenworth, where he was lodged In jail. In Chicago, on the 9th, John Morris, cook, and Frank Foster, son street, quarrelled about an order, inches long and plunged it into Foster’s abdomen, inflicting a frightful gash. Morris then coolly pulled the knife from the wound and laid it down on the table from which he had taken it, He then started to run, when Foster grabbed the knife just in time to slash Morris across the heel as the latter was running up stairs, ered the tendons and arteries of the leg. physicians his fatal, pronounced Be 25 Patrick McAndrews, aged was killed by being struck on the head who was with McAndrews, severely injured. —Miss Lulu Bates went up Crawfordsville, Indiana, on the 10th, After going a distance of five miles, at an elevation of about half a mile above the earth, she attempted to de- scend. “The grappling hook caught, but the anchorage was broken by a strong wind, which carried ker among some trees, where the balloon was torn. burst and the lightning. She the balloon suddenly basket descended like had the presence of mind to brace herself firmly agwinst the top of basket, and this saved her life. was badly jarred, however." She — Two masked robbers broke into a house near Ada, Minnesota, on the Oth, gagged the colored servant girl, was alone in the house, and robbed the house of over $400. They then hanged the girl to a tree, but she succeeded in freeing herself, At Reading, ohn Prachu pointed a revolver” at hist , aged 18 years, Te snapped it a cartridge was €x- uck Francis just ting & mortal the i Know t Penna., on the I 4 TE + an, aged 10 years 3 rother, * t hia bh | was loaded,’ —Mrs, Frank ¢ years of corrosive sublimate aged respectively 7 and look The woman soon died, but the children are believed to have a chance of recov. Mrs, Comfer has been her husband’ ago, and seemed to b nor friends yafer, a widow, age, on the 10th admii to her two chil months and 4 poison herself, FORTS, * some of the ering. ¥ i at vy 1 ss cliolic since Ggeal Year money ave or gir ® Bal Fatertown, New Edwin Potts, in ig gigte iring his sister, arbi dt v — Lightnin ’ 1 ind ana in) has just — EWE J Ho Yleasant, W. Ya. Mi CO 1 5 oJ ALAS received at from the inty, that been int 1 southern point ol during the ea a great rock, Kno Rock,” was looser tumbled down, i the barn HOCK ia { crashed k the house atnily were sleeping, off the founda- complete wreck, were uniniured, who was sleep tion Cammings and his 1.1 cdward Je hired man, had his skull crushed, Jenks was slightly injured, Two mules in the barn were instantly killed, —A violent type of flux has prevailed at Berea, Kentucky, for a month, and more than fifty children have died of it, 3 the ing with —83, 8, Snodgrass, a farmer of Lan- caster, Penpa., recently brought 86 Durham bulls from Cnicago, and sold a number of them to his neighbors, Four have since died at Snodgrass’ farm very sick, while several deaths have oc- sold in the disease is pro- and the cattle neighborhocd. 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Backward to Spring our fancies flow, And, careless of the course of time, The bloomy days began anew, Then, as a happy dream comes true, Or as a poet finds his rhyme Half wondered at, half unbelieved— 1 found thee, friendliest of the flowers! Then green- Jeaved And its doomed dead, awhile reprived, they were ours, Summer's joys came back - v ’ First learned how truly Dear violet! Did the Autumn bring Thee vernal dreams, till thou, like me, Didst climb to thy imagining? Did come again, in search of thee? IN STR. ROMANCE OF A GLOVE. I have seen many fellows ‘doing their spoons,” but Bill Harker against extreme pace, self: he might have worshipped in se- any the wiser, jut the extravagant rush into polish betrayed the poor clerk. The dyed hair and abstracted air combined; his deep blushes whenever the subject of love was ally; the romantic upon him; his visits to bopes of a chance glimps however that Castl~ 80 1 id mentioned, alr sal the theatres, in the hours he moaned hm the jokes of his friends, an all helped to make amusement for the “‘office.” Meanwhile he was not happy. Ah, the joy of standing railings by Lhe ar Vani Harker out by sending uid not Wi thie other clerks jeast Bill ti him! “The fellow.” he wo bat a stupa 1 enoTmous mj id murmu “I would give him a quarter's poor as I am, to be like him, thi ng he would slick at, But what a blessh such gusting. Ti be to hive on comforiable terms with oneself." Fipkins was very would have tolerated a such a shock head of bair B. But just as Bill Harker had begun to persuade himself that his love suit was in vain, and that his best plan was to try and forget a passion thal appeared 80 hopeless, this brassy Fipkins was slovenly, no one with Qid Ciel except recovering from. Fipkins te have had Lis hair cut; but only love could have induced him to on a Saturday, were conclusive, not, that reckless disregard of office hours in the morning, ooking at the clock in the evening, Flowers, tool Harker noted nlm narrowly, Would this cad be successful in the thorny, mazy paths of love? He half despised himself for ever loving, if so vulgar a creature as this Fipkins could be smitten or could smite. Then, when 7 o'clock struck, or rather was striking, Fipkins caught up his fowers from the bottle on his desk, set his glossy hat jauntilyon hia de. testable head and bade his fellow-clerk good-night. Bill Harker followed him also the moment he went out, and, as he felt instinctively would be the case, Fipkins made straight for Leicester Square and went straight into the boarding-house Iarker had so often watched, But-—and this staggered him ~Fipkins went down the area steps just as the potman might have done with beer, not at all like a gentlemanly suitor for the hand of the nameless one. ‘What could be the meaning of this? ‘Was it a clandestine meeting? Scarce. ly so; for he had gone in with the as- surance of a frequent or of an expected guest, Poor Harker paced the street in agony. What could he do? snapped off in this atrocious manner galled him to the quick. Wandering distractedly about, Bill Harker unfortunately did not see his rival leave the boarding-houee, or he might probably have relieved his feel- cery.” As it was, he walked and had been falling for some time, he raised the siege and wearily trailed to Camden Town, reaching the “Is this yours?” said old I. next y desk, Had he dropped a bombshell over the this simple article did, swered his employer in the negative, but the color mounted to glaring eyes, meaning than so simple a suggestion Strange to say, Fipkius blushed too “iar!” thought and nearly said Bill Harker as he heard him speak. Old B. toddled , and the glove fY off to his specilica~ 1 4 & tions on Harker's desk, while he wrote on furiously. Not until he was left alone in the . “" urs SOULS £1 *“% 1 or ’ . 4 $44 office, nearly two after, did he 10h raves Ie y MA it touch the glove; but then he pressed iL ing | its dainty gize—unused as at thanal x tit Ow by igii i ait tL had veen y De hia 1h 18 gi by a v ton seemed 10 De ’ ralnl 3 JOE VAINLY BOe0k~ Harker groaned. yet so strangely bafll Oh, the agon A wl ie SDE $5 that horrid Fipkins y pense! day growing so luxurious fat of fair sample; talking letting oul ch living on the lunches were a vulgar about his waistcoat ~triumphing 3 COArse over him perpetually. Bah! he would hear it no longer, He fell it was mad- dening him, He would fly from the neighborhood before he was tempted to do something desperate, Bill Harker took a commission on the road. He visited the west of Eng- iand. It was three months or more be- fore he ventured to set his foot in Lon- Jon again, The first time he did so he encount- ered Fipking, by accident, in Grove 4 faak in: in st iashion 11 The rivals started. Their meeting was like the traditional one of the Fipkins' brass, for once, stood him He was the {rst to He held out his hand cordi- ally. “How are you, old fellow?" he said fog you in this part of the world?’ Harker did not strike him, did pot repel his friendly advances, of lis wound. And then looked sv happy he didn’t have the heart to distress him, They adjourned to the nearest bar, and, in the course of a series of “‘re- freshers,” Fipkins told of his intended marrage, which was to take place the next week at St. Giles’ church, Cham- berweil, It grated on Harker’s feelings to notice that Fipkins in some sort looked upon the union as a sacrifice. “There are property considerations,” he said several times in a naudlin sort of way--'‘property considerations, my boy; and such folks can’t afford to lose sight of those in hard times like these,’ Mercenary wretch! IHow Iiarker de- spised him, even while he fraternized withi What a strange power the fel. low always had over himl-he could neither understand or escape from it. | He found it hard to realize, after Fip- | kins had left him, that he had actually promised to be his “best man at the wedding. But it was so; there wad | an entry in his own order book—in an unsteady hand-—that Fipking had in- | sisted on his writing at the bar. He | had not the courage to decline it, and, { as he had promised honor and curiosity | both prompted him to see the drama to { the end. { 1 i As the two ex-clerks | for the bride's arrival on cious morning one might Harker's heart throb; it beat | drum with intense excitement, stood wailing the auspi- heard like a have But astonishment overpowered every other feeling the bride | tered the church, a perfect mountain | of finery, he recognized in her the | dragoon-like, fiery-faced boarding house proprietress, and knew that it was she Fipkins had chosen from “property considerations,” | Confused as he felt, | understand that in when hay Vile as Ele Harker could her case, weighty | as she was, something in the shape of | & bonus would be acceptable. He had little time to think of all i this, however, for the first bridesmaid, {he found to his great joy, the | nameless one! Her white-gloved little on his trembling arm as they walked down the aisle after the ceremony, in { the wake of Mr, and Mrs. Fipkins; and { before they reached the hole breakfast among other things, that Was hand rested where was laid, ne discovered, F COLn- | panion’s name was nol | Castleton, Harker still calls his 1, but the glov { Foussi; iid % Vig 1: did not fit ber. Old B.,, wl it up, might first have drop; thing is certain—he a i arrying before ut, a mere child; and rested in his on the ked small enough to laughter’s, A Se ss— Jewel Frauds tor steeped ther some chemical proces PT OTHER received as a rev recompense of the were for the w things There are and * vas 6:1 Lei market whose genesis ry ! T $ A OS * * Lhe them to con- swer the true delinit ghy: analysis sg +1 nolhing 1 mt . 3, but the +i11tant and 11 v iiiiany, ali 1a al 3 . * red 8 which the true suspected that 3 py been but split in ¢ i pected that Swiss artif how to meil a nun Ter sparks would be and consolidate them carats’ worth of ruby worth about ten shiil ten carats would b hun: dreds of pounds. 1bject is a seri ous one, and there are both chemical and legal difficulties in its treatment, Experts are now employed lo ascertain how the thing is done, and then the judges will decide whether the process or sale amounts to fraud. ————— Emperor William In His Youth. ngs One ruby of vot} GP & WOoIlh soipe The 8 This is how the veteran German Em- | peror appeared many years ago when | he was merely Prince of Prussia. It ; was Captain Chamier, of the British navy, who gave him the description; “On my return to Melleray,’’ be wrote, +] found a miserable-looking, dirty ve- | hicle driving to the door, from which descended a young man, with another of more mature age. There was a ser ! vant who looked nearly as poor as his | masters, and who handed out a carpet. | bag which seemed the working materi. al of the trio, The frst two went int | the modest public room, and at one end | of the long table were soon enjoying what in England is called a substantial | tea: the servant swaggerad and of course, was better fed. He was not disposed to disguise himself or the master he served; he was evidently somebody, this servant--and very #oon, unable to contain within himself the honor of his position, informed my courier that his master, the young man, was the Prince of Prussia. I never saw a more modest and agreeable looking young man in my life. At 4 in the morning, without in the slightest manner dis turbing the mhabitants of the inn, and ing & bill of about fifteen francs, Ehis active Prince continued his dour, wel ney. Here was an example There was worthy of being followed. no foolish ostentation, uo ment for plunder, no © EE a 100 mamet ca of a thorough nobleman
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