NEWS OF THE WEEK
--There was an earthquake shock at
Charleston, South Carolina, at 2 min-
ules past 5 o'clock on the afternoon of
the 27th. It lasted only two seconds,
but was aacompanied by ‘‘a loud
rumbling sound,” and shook houses
ey to cause a number of per-
sons to rush into the streets. No dam-
age was done, beyond the shaking
down of loose plastering. The move-
ment of the earth wave was from north
to south, The same shock was felt at
Summerville, Orangeburg, Camden,
Graniteville, Hopkins, Kingsville and
Ten Mile Hill, in South Carolina, and
at Savannah and Augusta, in Georgia,
Two earthquake shocks are reported at
Smithville, North Carolina, one at
half-past eleven o'clock on Sunday
night the 26th, the other at ten min-
utes before five o'clock on the morning
of the 27th. No damage was done,
—Conductor Harrison and Engineer
Brewer, of the excursion train which
met with disaster at Silver Creek, New
York, have been indicted for man-
slaughter by the Grand Jury at May-
ville, and held in $3,000 each.
—The dwelling of Mrs. Hettie
Schwenk, a widow, near Liitle Oley,
Berks county, Penna., was set on fire by
ruflians on the 27th, and destroyed. The
inmates barely escaped with their lives;
one of them, John Schwenk, was badly
burned. It is stated that “recently
Mrs, Schwenk was robbed of $300, and
18
parties,”
lightning on the
were Killed.
— A severe shock of earthquake was
8 minutes past one o'clock on the
afternoon of the 28th.
nearly all the houses in the city, the
vibration being very perceptible in
wooden houses, There were three
slight earthquake shakes at Summer-
ville, South Carolina, on the 28th,
"
—It is reported that *‘a shock of
earthquake was plainly felt” in Wash-
ington borough, on the Susquehanna
river, in Lancaster county, lenna.,
at 21 minutes past 7 o'clock on the
evening of the 27th, Many of the peo-
ple ran out of their houses,
—Three little children playing near
a fallen tree near Andalusia, Alabama,
on the 206th, were bitten by a rattle-
snake which had its den under
roots of the tree. When found two of
died during the might.
—J. Utley, a farmer of Ossawatomie
Township, near Iaoli, Kansas;
shot and mortally wounded by two
ing of the 27th, because he refused to tell
them where he kept his money. Utley
is 65 years of age. Thomas Chamber-
lain and John Boyer, sons of neighbors,
have been arrested on suspicion. On
the 27th, at a religious gathering of col-
ored people in Little Caney Township,
Kansas, Simon Smith shot Benjamin
Williams and William Andrews, kill-
ing Williams instantly, and, it is
thought, mortally wounding Andrews,
The affair was the result of a misun-
derstanding between Smith and
Andrews, and the shot which killed
Williams was doubtless intended for
andrews,
—JIu Detroit on the 25th, Boda Car-
roll, a Western Union lineman, was
killed by a shock from an electric light
wire which had crossed a wire he was
working with, At the same time
knockel down by the shock, but not
killed.
—The losses from the storm on the
25th, in Michigan are now estimated at
$200,000. Railroads were washed out
barns and bridges demolished and
buildings damaged. At Carey, light-
ning struck a tree, which fell on a
house occupied by James Barrows, kill-
ing hs child and injuring his wife,
-Pleuro-poeuamonia is reported to be
« “raging with unprecedented violence’
among cattle :n Limerick township,
Montgomery county, Pennsylvaniz,
Eighteen cases are reported in Lime-
rick, and there are several in its neigh-
borhood. FPleuro pneumonia
peared ir a herd of cattle twenty-five
miles north of Mandan, Dakota,
there from Chicago a week ago.
~—A freight train on the Pittsburg
and Lake Erie Railroad ran off the
25th, ditching the engine and twenty
cars. Engineer Wesley Stewart had
internally.
badiy bruised, but the fireman escaped
with a few scratches, The wreck was
caused by a dragging chain catching in
the switch. The road was completely
blocked.
—A great storm has raged during
the week past in Southeastern Texas.
From the 21st to tho 23d instant
twenty-six inches of rain fell at
Brownsville, The wind reached a
More than 200 houses In Brownsville
were damaged,
~The two rear ears of the Rockford
and Rock Fglis train on the Chicago,
Burlington and Quincy Railroad, were
thrown from the track on the 28th, by
a broken rail, and turned upside down
at the foot of a ten-foot embankment,
One woman was killed, There were
about thirty passengers, nearly all of
whom were more or less hurt.
Warren Potter, colored, 14 years old,
who was arrested on the charge of at-
Jempting tu wreck a train on the Prov.
idence ilroad, near Clarendon sta-
tion, has confessed that he was one of a
party of four boys who placed the ob.
Ee eri he oa ald, they
n or passengers
West. He refuses to give the names
of hus companions,
~The hurricane which raged in
southwestern Texas from the 21st to the
23d ult., besides blowing down more
than 200 housee in Brownsville, levelled
more than 300 in Matamoras, on the
the river, In both
cities 560 families are homeless. The
rear portion of Matamoras was flonded
toa depth of from 3 to 8 feet. It Is
remarkable that no loss of life is re-
ported in either place. The first news
from Harbor Island, Texas, since the
23d ult, gales, was received at Corpus
Christi on the 28th ult, The island
was completely inundated, but the in-
habitants escaped. The captain and
one of the crew of a schooner were
drowned by the capsizing of a yaw!
boat,
~Troops have been ordered out from
Fort Shaw, Montana, to intercept Crow
Indians from the south. It is said that
the crows surprised a Plegan camp and
stampeded two or three hundred horses,
About the same time a raid was made
on the Assinaboines from the direction
of Fort Peck, in which two squaws
were killed, The crows and P’iegans are
hereditary enemies.
—A colored man pawned a coat in
Boston on the 28th ult, and in one of
the pockets there was afterward found
a written confession of a murder com-
mitted mn Cincinnat! in 1882. The
paper was signed **Wm, H. Downes.”
The man was arrested, and at the
police headquarters admitted that be
stabbed a man named Tobie Cain, in
said he was arrested for the murder,
but on the testimony of Cain's wife
and her sister he was acquitted. The
confession, he sa:d, was prompted by a
but afterwards changed his
mind.
of poisoning after supper on the 25th
from death. ‘Those who drank
sickened, those who did not
The same milkman served
escape
—Three men were entombed In a
mine at Ishpenning, Michigan, on the
20th ult. by a fall of rock. Michael
McNichols was killed and E. J. Mor-
row fatally injured by the premature
explosion of a blast in a mine at Lead-
ville, Colorado, on the 28th ult
—Two painters named Johnson and
French were siruck and killed by
a locomotive while painting a fence on
the rallroad, at Marion, New Jersey,
on the 29th ult.
Frank Darden, ‘*a
man” of Metropolis, 1I'ipols, was shot
dead by Caleb Jones, on tha 28ih.
Purden had recently married the di-
vorced wife of Jones, Ex-Chief of
Police Kemp was mortally wounded
in bis saloon at Fort Worth, Arkan-
sas, on the 20Lh ult, during a fight
growing out of an attempt by a po-
licerman named Cox to arrest a des
perado named La Rue.
Yes
— business
the neck
he was
by the
two
in
that
thrown
in about
with a dirk; another
wounded by a glass
bartender. He died
~A telegrrm from SL Louis says
that the Knights of Labor in the West
“have decided that strikes like the
boycott must go, and that it should
no longer be recognized as a necessity
of the order, While this important
decision is not publicly announced,
yet the information comes from une
questioned authority.” The St.
Louis delegates to the Richmond
Convention, it 18 understood, are in.
structed in favor of a law which will
tem. “Arbitration will hereafter be
all questions of wages and labor that
require adjustment, The St. Louis
Kuights may ask the Richmond Con.
vention for a committee, whose special
duties will he to investigate and settle
all difficulties of this character, with
suggestions from Grand Master Pow-
derly,”
~The National Dank Examiner has
made a report to the director of the
First National Band of Portland,
Maine, the Cashier of which, William
E. Gould, 1s under indictment for
The revort shows the
ital and
This surplus fand is
$167,455 less than is called for by the
ledger. To make good the losses, as
far as possible, Gould has transferred
considerable
amount of property, upon the value
of which the Examiner will express
The same applies to the
amount to be realized upon the Cash-
stock, $1,000,000,
$103,833,
~The packing house of the Ditmar
Powder Works at Baychester, New
four men, named Darlin, Rusch, Schaf-
boit and Remhait. The main factory
of the works was nearly wrecked, one
end of it being blown to pieces, Win-
away, and the shock was feit in Nyack
and also in Branford and Bridgeport,
Connecticut. The fireman of the works
asserts that the explosion ‘was caused
by two men shooting into the building,”
—At Bingen, Lehigh county, Penna,.
years of age, was playing on the rafl-
road track at the depot, when a fast
express train came along. The child’s
mother, Mrs. Mary agner, rushed
out to save it and both were killed.
~The Cliff House, In Lenox, Mas
sachusetts, and its ecttage, were burn.
ed on the 30th ult. Loss, $30,000, The
house was crowded with boarders,
many of whom had narrow escapes,
and they lost largely in clothing, money
and jewelry. A fire in Salt Lake City,
on the 28th ult. destroyed four stores,
Susing 4 loss of $25,000, The “Old
River House,” a large three-story brick
building in Chi was burned on the
30th wit. Loss ,000, the princi
fon of which was sustal by W.
« Wilcox, dealer in paper and printing
supplies, ‘
~~A cave-in, 400 feet long and 200
feet occurred on the 30th ult. on
the river in front of Turnerville,
Tr.
much
of property.
~A. B, Gage & Co., of Chicago, on
the 30th ull. confessed judgment in
favor of the First National Bank
of that city for $907,000. The firm has
been carrying on a wholesale business
in milinery and fancy goods, During
the morning the firm made an assign-
ment. The liabilities are estimated at
760,000, due almost entirely to Eastern
houses. The assets are estimated at
$650,000, The liabilities of G. B.
Chapman & Co., of Eau Claire, Wis-
consin, who recently made an assign-
ment, are reported at nearly $100,000,
aud his assets at about $130,000,
-A snow storm prevailed on the
30th ult. at Marquette, Michigan,
There was a haavy sea on Lake
Superior and vessels sought shelter al
Marquette,
--1t is reported from El Paso, Texas,
that two Mexican policemen on the 1st
“pursued anative whom they wanted to
arrest, across the Rlo Grande, into tk
United States,”” *‘*A little beyond t
Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe depot
they came up to him, and, being both
armed with rifles, they fired at him,
wounding him severely. They then
seized the disabled man and dragged
him back to Mexican territory fording
the river to do so.”
~A heavy snow fell for a short time
on the 1st at Sheboygan, Michigan,
covering the ground. It soon disap-
peared. A telegram from Wingham, On-
that section the same day, lasting sev-
eral hours.
—John Fowle, of Woburn, Massa-
Ohio Railroad, near
Baltimore, on the 26th ult, died on
the 1st in that city. BS. 8. Hamilton, a
his office in
Mrs,
the 1st in
{ that city by falling down stairs.
1st at Harrisonburg, Virginia, by jump-
ing from a wagon, the horse having
started to run away,
—The public debt statement for Sep-
tember, issued on the 1st, a re-
duction of £10.627.013. Total cash in
the Treasury, $4065,375,713. The total
Mints United
States during September amounted in
value to $5.UT0.055
standard dollars,
— At Bishopsville
on the Ist, W,
and k
accou
shows
coinage at the of the
vistas ing ¢ 1{
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, South Carolina,
A. James, aged 60 vears,
ed stephen D. Woodward
of family tre not
Bradre W. Skinner,
of Tallmadge town-
Ohio, was fat
his house, on
Tye t
S040
“on uble
y a4 burglar, in the
30th ult,
-A slight earthquake shock was
felt in Charleston about one o'clock on
the morning of the 1st. Several
shocks were felt at Summerville during
i the night.
slight
It 1s reported from Kodiack, Alas-
ka, nnder date of September 16th, that
Polloff Mountain, 300 miles {rom
place, was in a state of violent voleanis
eruption.
that
At Central City, Colorado, on the
1st, Cornelius McCoy went down the
shafl of the Nugget mune to
Wim. Quintell, who Lad been overcome
by poisoners gas, and when they were
taken out McCoy was dead and Quine
trell was in a dying condition.
~The receiver of the [lartford Silk
Company reports its liabilities at $508,
000, snd its nominal assets at $340,000
Samuel Rauek, a miller
county, made an assignment «
Liabilities, $50,000;
—A fire at Hamilton, Missouri. on
the 30th ult,, destroyed ten buildings,
mostiy wooden and chiefly occupied as
Loss, $50 000,
resCe
Berks
n the 1st,
assets unknown.
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Faith in immortality is
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i world of life.
It is a miserable of mind to
have few things to desire, and many
things to fear,
« Seeing much, and suffering much,
aud studying much, are the three pil-
lars of learning.
highest
to the
state
What is the use of spoiling the little
comfort one has by remembering the
comfort one has not.
Withou! courage there cannot be
truth, and without truth there cannot
be any other virtue,
'ure imagination, of which the love-
lest of winged creatures is the fitting
| and grace by the tenpestsit encounters
{and in contrary winds to show the
brightest plumage.
Friend, nave you ever dedicated 10
minutes of your time to a consideration
of your destiny? Days to your ledger;
{hours to your amusements; years to
{| your commercial engagements: would
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grave?
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A Long Good-Bye.
The day was heavy with wind and rain,
When last we said good-bye,
When I and my love shall meet again
There will be a cloudless sky.
I clasped your hand; but I made no sign,
I could not speak nor stay;
Yet something flashed from your eyes to
mine
I dream of night and day,
And strangers stood in the dreary street,
And marked each glance and tone:
When I and my love once more shall meet,
We shall be all alone,
There's many a troth breaks easily;
There's many a love may quail,
I know, wherever our tryst may be,
We too shall never fail.
And death may sweep our years apar?,
And all but faith shall die—
As my own heart I trast your heart
A long, a long good-bye!
IRIS ROT
WORTH $200 IN GOLD. |
I had been left at Campeche, Y uca-
tan, by order of the physician, while
the brig went up the Mexican coast, to |
return in about three weeks. The ac- |
commodations were miserable for a man
with his health knocked to pleces, but, |
through the courtesy of an American
named Barlow, who was in business in
the God-forsaken place, 1 finally secur-
native
I bad a good room, a good bed
widow,
to tempt my poor appetite with her
I had $500 in gold with me,
I placed $450 in DBar-
safe keeping. 1 had
the natives had no |
scruples against thieving and robbery,
and I soon had proofs of the fact. I
had not been in four
when my room was raided and a lot of |
bad a trunk
thief
have
and of this sum
been told that
the place days |
clothing carried off. I
with a patent
conl
carried il
lock, and as the
would
bad he n
i not get into it ne
off on his back ot
been in
Afler about a week my health began
to mend, and Barlow recommended fo
1 trust
LH
CORK
Aro
around,
me a native whom |
wanted to
that it
with
rambie and
would not be safe without
$
one
«1
being re al i
ng spells, but it was
u was in-
fested with a very rough class. 1 had
an American
with me,
strength in my legs, 1
tion and nt
stated that the nelg
revolver
little
shotgun and
and, after getling a
wean rambling
around. The name of my was Yu
and he could a few words of
h, We wen
man
speak oniy
up und down the
good
the
Englis
had
birds,
went
»
wv
shore at (rst, and I pretty
luck shooting small On
third or fourth day we wards
1
Yucarrying my gun and a
Ing
the hills,
basket conta incheon Barlow
is
3 §
bad told there
were some old
about four miles
purbs, and |
r, and be
highway
SERN
take
We
the
meant 0
gone all day.
toward
every hall mile
It must have been fully noot
when we arrived at a place in the hills
1. A
carned
sued a rough
and gLoppe 1 about
LO rest,
where a temple once stoo
deal of the material bad
off, but there were many
umns and blocks of stone lying around,
nasonry
been
broken col-
and a considerable amount of
was vet standing.
I was seated on a great block ol stone
eating luncheon, while Y
away trying to uncover a small animal
u was 100 feel
which be had dogged into a pile of rub-
bish, when I was suddenly confronted
by five as hard looking culthroatsasany
They were armed
pistols,
traveler ever saw,
«vith muskets, singie-barrelled
and murderous-looking knives, Ow-
ing to my position they had to approach
sight of them then ¥ sprang up, revol- |
ver in hand, and in one breath called to
Yuand in the next demanded their busi.
The leader, as | was soon made
aware, could speak English. At a
sign from him five muskets covered me
at short range, and he called upon me
Yu was standing ona
They
had given him no attention. and if be |
could have driven
However, when he saw my
When I saw this I laid down |
Indeed, everything Lad
happened so swiftly that I had not had
The leader
and half English, which I will render |
all English for the benefit of the reader,
“Does the gentleman surrender?’ he |
asked as they came forward, i
“Yes. You intend to rob me, I pre.
sume?”
“The gentleman will not be treated
harshly unless he resists us, You are an
American.”
Yes"
*You were put ashore a week ago?"
“Yes, ¥
“Mr. Barlow is your friend?"
Yes"
“That is all.
”
**1 refuse to go. You have wy weap-
ons, and I have a watch and a small
sum of money which you may take, if
robbery is your object,” :
“Unless the gentleman goes with us
we shall leave him dead behind us.”
You will come with
Three of the men: presented their
muzzles only two feet away, and wait-
ed for the mgnal to shoot, I stepped
down beside the leader, and he took my
arm and we started off into the hills
without a word, When I turned around
after going about half a mile, I saw
that two of the five were missing, We
had gone another half mile when they
joined us, and they had Yu with them.
It seemed he had hidden himself to see
how affairs would turn and they had
discovered him, The man was dread-
fully frightened, crying and wringing
his hands, but instead of offering him
any violence they rather sought to
cheer him up, At the end of two miles
which now made us about six from the
town, we turned aside into a rocky
path which twisted and turned up a
rough hill, and after a climb which
badly used me up we reached a cave. |
had my eyes open to note everything,
and I made up my mind that this cave
could only be reached from this path,
and three or four men could defend the
The entrance
forty foot square, with plenty of evi-
months or years, There was a, guard
at the cave when
This fellow
was the toughest man of the lot, but
main at home while the others
forays. He seemed greatly ex-
laid violent hands upon me but for the
commands of the leader,
I was conducted to the
the cave, and motioned
Yu was permitted to
gil near me, AS 800n 4s
bad withdrawn to the entrance for con-
end of
back
to a
pile of skins; and
the robbers
+ v ii
suitation, the ian drew his Onger
across his throat as a sign to me tha
we were to be murdered, and
covered his {
rocked his bo
surrendered his las
believe the situalion so very desparale,
’ ¢ x 3 ¢ » % 141
[hat they brigands who had
tured me In {
were cap-
hope of a ransom, 1 had
no doubt; but my mind was made
that they should not get a cent ex
After about a
¢ leader came to me and said
s
the
as the fival resort.
an hour Lu
1 must pay them $2,000 1n gold as
price of my liberty. I had delermined
on a line of conduct, and 1
I was an American invalid
possessions to try
barely money
f
iniernal
laughed in
his face,
who had sold all his
aid had
this
try a few weeks and pay my way home,
He charged that I had put a large sum
in the hands of Bariow, and if sum
f £2.000 was not forthcoming inside of
throat. I
waste of
that he
business He
take me, but a
.
a Sea voyage,
coun-
enough to reside in
43
vile
days he would
iid be a
il three days, and
it my
m that
0 it wot
Wat.
Was puzz ed how to
torch was lighted, pencil and paper laid
write
the
before me, and I was ordered to
to Barlow for noney. As
chances were that none of could
read writing, | wrote Barlow
ticulars of my capture, the sum named
him
the
em
the par-
not to
pay more than $200 on any considera-
tion. This sum was not
my liberty, but that of Yau
turn of my weapons.
vs Tor nl ry 1
oniy incinge
and the re-
This note was to be sent by my man.
As near as I could make out by their
gestures they promised him good treat.
ment and his liberty in case he carried
out their instructions. If he played
them false, they would have his life, no
matter where he tried to hide away.
He was greatly cheered up by the infor-
mation, and when the note was Hnished
he took it and departed. It was only
after this that [ was searched. 1 had
a silver watch and $60 in gold and made
no resistance about handing them over,
We had supper after that, and wben
the meal was over 1 lay down and went
to sleep.
fore Yu returned, The fellows prob-
ably looked to see him bring the money
but they were sadly disappointed, He
brought a note from Darlow which I
death in case a ransom was not paid.
He was by no means a rich man, but
bands, and he hoped the bandit might
be induced to let him off for that. I
I wade Mr. Barlow say that
I directed. They were ternbly indig-
flat, and the fellow with the wooden
While they were
arguing pro and cou I lighted my pipe
fortable smoke. Such a rattied-headed
excitable set of men I never saw, but
they finally got through wrangling, and
tho Terror gave me his ultimatum,
The ransom had been reduced to $1,000
and I must bave it there before sun-
down next day or die,
“You do not seem to understand the
case,” I replied. “Inthe {rst place 1
am nobody at home; in the next, the
doctors sent me off here me
to die; in the third, I couldn't raise
$1,000 ns more than I could fly; fourth-
1y, 1 have no objections to being killed
us I am likely to
"
n 5
1 am honest In what I write, [ really
didn’t care what they did with me, and
went to sleep with Yu shedding tears
and the gang jawing, and slept until
daylight without a break. When the
chief again approached me | saw a
change in his demeanor. He wanted
to know just how much money I could
ralse. 1told him I had landed with
$200 in money, and of that sum he had
already robbed me of $60. If he wanted
that for my liberty, and would restore
my arms and allow Yu to accompany
me, be could bave it, It was all he
could get, anyway, and I left the mat
ter entirely in his hands, I expected
he would rant and rave, and he did,
but I turned my back and gave him no
further attention. After astormy con-
sultation with his fellows he came back
to me and announced that my proposi-
tion was accepted. My man should be
sent for the money, and as soon as he
be set at
not be sure
get-
had
tell-
were Ww
Of course 1 could
ting the cash; but it was a risk I
to run. 1 wrote a note to Barlow
the arrangements were,
aller
It
the
noon Yu returned
was counted and found correct, and
get
He was good-natured, as were
| others except th - one with the wooden
leg, and something like an apology was
made me for the capture and detention.
The chief himself escorted us d
road almost to the ruins, i
| parted he shook hands and sai
**1 hope the gentleman may s
| better health. As for
to the south at once,
if we remained here,”
I gave him my good-bye
venture was ended, :
e———
Tricks.
with tiie gold.
ready eave,
the
Anint ic
rebellion
, a dar-
Is gave a
Mark
utmost
Dest
vast
Enew Lhe man v
%
de-
y arrest him, mpiovedd his
tectives and offered high rewards for his
apprehension ; but all to no purpose,
Time passed away ; no wld be
found of the rascal, and the matter was
well nigh forgotten. One day Sir Mark's
attention was caught by the expression
of the housekeeper, who had been in
| his service several years. He almost
| shouted with surprise. The rebel and
| the housekeeper were one and the same
| man,
4 ron oe
Li alt
An eminent German physcist recom.
| mends for the extinguishment of fire in
| closed places where the use of water or
| other hquids would be likely to do great
{ damage, a dry compound, which by its
| burning absorbs the oxygen and quickly
renders combustion impossible. The
compound is composed of powdered ni-
| trate of potash (saitpetre) 059 parts;
| powdered sulphur, 36 parts; powdered
| charcoal, 4 parts; colcothar (brown-red
| oxide of iron), 1 part. This preparation
is one than can be cheaply made. It is
| recommended that it shall be, when
| thoroughly dned and mixed, put up in
tight pasteboan! boxes, holding about 5
| pounds each, with a quick fuse in the
| side of the box-—protruding © inches,
inside~to factlitate and insure lighting
1.
Th staln pine or cherry an ebony color
disso. ve four ounces shellac with two
ounces borax in half gallon water, Boil
until a perfect solution is obtained, then
add half an ounce glycerine, alter which
add. in sufficient water, soluble aniline
black and the mixture is ready for use,
nt Mp bins
Duty is the little bine sky over every
heart and soul—over every lif
for a star to look batween the
and for bo Skyiatk happiness
to raise heavenward through sing
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