NEWS OF THE WEEK —While ten men were rafting logs near Greenville, Alabama, on the 15th, a number of logs rolled down an embankment, killing one man and fatally injuring another. —Henry Perry, aged 14 years, and Henry Karba, aged 10, were drowned at Haighton, Michigan, on the ldth, while sliding on the ice above the dam. - Charles Tinwiddie, colored, charged with assault and robbery, was killed in the jail at McKenzie, Ten- nessee, by a mob of lynchers on the evening of the I5lh. Charles Fife, while going to his home in Chicago on the evening of the 15th, was beaten into insensihility by unknown ruflians and died on the 16th of his wounds, Frank Kissick, a preacher, quarreled with John Cundiff near Grange City, Kentucky, on the 15th, and began to show fight. When he made at Cun- diff, the latter picked up an axe and killed Kissick. In Pittsburg, on the evening of the 16th, Louis Hammers stabbed and killed his brother-in-law, | William Heath, a saloon keeper. There was no immediate provocation for the deed. llammers had an old grudge against his victim, whose marriage to his sister he had opposed. —A large portion of the business | section ot Durham, North Carolina, | wus on the 16th destroyed by fire. The loss is estimated at $300,000; insar- ance, $200,000. The business portion | of Everett, Dakota, was burned on the 15th. Loss, $22 000, The Piqua Manu- | facturing Company's buildings, at Piqua, Ohlo, were burned on the 15th. Loss, $25,000; insurance, $16,000, Forty persons are thrown out of work. | A fire at Huron, Ohio, on the 15th, de- | stroyed the fish and ice house of Wyck- | ham & Co. and John Barron. Loss, | $30,000; insurance, $25,000. —Cohn, Sampliner & Co, gentle- men’s furnishing goods, of Cleveland, Ohio, made an assignment on the 16th. Liabilities, $200,000; assets, $175,000, A meeting of the creditors of P. H | Hiss & Co., furniture dealers, of Balti- | more, who recently made an assign- | ment, was held on the 16th. The liabilities were stated at $250,000, of which $50,000 is protect by the | lien law. The indebtedness” to the | banks is: Bank of Baltimore, $35,000; Mechanics’ Bank, $35,000; Western | Bank, $20,000, all of Philadelphia, and Metropolitan Bank, Washington, $10,- | 000, The assets are said to largely exceed the liabilities. ~Nine cars of a freight train on toe Pennsylvania Railroad was wrecked on the 16th, near Mountville, Penna., by the breaking of an axle. The tracks were blocked for several hours, —Irving Pierce, 21 years of age, has | come to grief in Albany, New York, from having two employments incom- patible with each other. He was for many months a telegraph operator, re- ceiving the night report of the Asso- ciated Press In that city, and he also obtained an interest in the business of a “bucket shop’ operator. He was also, it Is alleged, using the Associated Press news for “specials” for a Sunday paper, and was dismissed from the As- sociated Press employment in conse- guence, On the night of the 15th he disappeared, and it is reported that the books of the ‘bucket shop” and mar- gins, aggregating $2 000, disappeared with him. —Thomas Wilston, aged 50 years, superintendent of the Fox Hill granite | juarries in Chester county, Pennsyl- vania, disappeared a week ago with 87.000, collected to pay the men, — A storm, which on the morning of the 16th, was central in the Indian Territory, moved northwardly and was on the 17th, central in Iowa. Rain fell generally in all the States south of the fortieth parallel, and rain and snow in all the States north of it except New England. In the extreme northwest fair weather prevailed, In Dakota, Colorado, lowa, Wisconsin, Nebraska and Minnesota a furious snow-storm prevailed. At St. Paal the snow, which began on ®he 15th, was stil falling on the 17th, and all the street cars in that city and Minneapolis were stopped. In Omaha almost one foot of | snow had fallen. Throughout the States mentioned there was a partial or total stoppage of railway travel. The temperature in Colorado and Dakota had fallen to zero. —A stage coach, going from Lead- ville to Aspen, in Colorado, was caught in a snow slide on a mountain top and | carried over a 200-toot precipice. There were mine passengers in the coach, 4 Four escaped injury, but the others— i Robert Dwyer, Christopher Conn, Dun- | ean C. Robertson, I, A, Berdwell and | Dillie McPherson—are believed to have | been fatally injured. ~JIt 18 announced that ‘‘drawings have been prepared by the Seth Thom- as Clock Company, of Thomaston, | Connecticut, for the great clock which is to be placed in the tower of the new City Hall at Philadelphia, and which, if completed in accordance with their Plana, will be the largest in the world.” bells upon which It will strike the hours ahd quarters will weigh fifty thousand pounds, and the glass dials, as contemplated measures twenty-five feet in diameter. —A freight train broke in {wo near Winchendon, Massachusetts, on the 17th, and the sections collided, Wil- Jiam Figgins, brakeman, was killed, and another brakeman was injured. George Miller and John Hammer were injured on the 17th by a premature ex- of a blast in a stone quarry near Columbia, Pennsylvania, It is feared Miller's injuries are fatal, — A freight train, blocked by the snow in a cut at Hinton Station, lowa, was run into on tbe morning of the 17th by a passenger train. All the freight cars were burned and a number of per- sons were injured, ~—Dr. Salmon, of the Bureau of Animal’ Industry, speaking of the cat- tie disease in Clinton County, Indiana, said on the 17th that it was of Sally Saives from v tive infected, should be kept by themselves, and with care a7;d medical treatment they would recover, —A telegram from Pittsburg says that on the might of the 17th three masked men broke into the house of Matthew McKeever, of Oakland town- ship, “*and, afterq (ight lasting over an hour, mm which lieKeever's sisters, Margaret and Jane, were terribly in- jured, succeeded in stealing a bucket containing nearly $10,000, with which | they escaped,’’ —A severe storm of wind and rain, accompanied in several localities by# thunder and lightening, and having in many instances the force of a tor-| nado, swept over Pennsylvania on the morning of the 18th. Great damage was done throughout the Wyoming Valley. At Wilkesbarre, houses were unroofed, trees leveled and snapped in twaln, and telegraph and telephone wires damaged. At Kingston a new Catholic church, in course of erection, with 12-inch walls, was blown down. At Parsons the timbers and planks of a new shaft of the Delaware and Hud- son Canal Company were blown about and Robert Johnson, & carpenter, was killed by a flying plank. The steeple of the Methodist church was demolish- ed. At Mill Creek the head-house of No. 3 shaft and the rcof of No. 2 shaft of the Delaware and Hudson Company were blown down and destroyed. The damage done at these two collieries has i caused a suspension of work for the | present: At Lock Haven about 6] smoke stacks of the Pennsylvania Paper was badly ipjured. A large tobacco shed was demolished. In Berks county, trees, fences and out- buildings in Oley township were de- molished; Spolir & Gresemer’s tobacco at Swartzwald was partly destroyed. At Chambersburg and in its vicinity, blown down, houses rooted. — Reports from the Northwest show | that snow was still falling in Iowa on high winds. While a snow plow on the Fonda Railroad was pushing through trackmen, Mr. Farrow and his son | and Joseph Davis, were struck and’so | badly injured that Farrow and son died on the 18th, Davis had both | The storm was so blinding that gineer. Snow ceased falling at Paul on the 18th. The temperature was 15 above zero, The depth of snow was 134 inches, A heavy fall of Snow on the 18th at Chicago. and snow are reported in Northern Louisiana and freezing temperature in Texas. ot Rleat —A limited express train bound east, on the Pan Handle Railroad, was on the outskirts of Pittsburg, et half. past six o'clock on the morning of the 18th. A mass of rocks fell upon tbe sleeping cars, three in number, partially wrecking them. Dixleen persons were injured, eight severely, aud two of th latter may not recover. A passenger train on the Newport and Mississippi » from a trestle near Triple Tunnel, Ken- | a wheel. Two train bands and several passengers were injured. A passenger train on the Vincennes and Chicago Railroad ran into a fallen tree near Lawrenceville, Indiana, on the 16th, and was wrecked. The fireman, named Esch, was killed, and the engineer in- jured. —On the morning of the i5th, Wil- liam Meyers, aged 16 years, and Jonh Flynn, aged 15, left their homes, near They did not return, and on Tuesday, the 16th, a search pa.ty found the remains of William, who had been devoured by wolves, in a lonely ravine, No trace Flynn has yet been discovered. The farm house of James Johnson, near Marion, Indiana, was burned on the 18th, and two daughters | of Mr. Johnso: —Ella, aged 18 years, | and Minnie, aged 20-—perished in the flames. A farm hand, namen Turner, | was Gangerously injured. Albert Seitz while gunning near Lancaster, Penna. , on the 18th, ~The vitrol works of the John L. Thompson Chemical Company, near the 18th by a tornado. Sixteen mien were badly burned by the vitrol and cut by flying glass and timbers, The loss A canal boat | into Al York city shortly before noon on the 18th. T'wo inches of rain fell, and the wind reached a velocity of 40 miles per hour. —Freitag’s embroudery factory at Jersey City was destroyed by fire on the morning of the 10th, The building was of wood, one and a half stories high, and covered pearly a block. It contained expensive machinery. The Jous 1s estimated at $150,000, fully in- sured. All the burcioess blocks on the island in the river between East and West Jollet, Illinois, and between the canal and river bridges, wers burned on the morning of the 10th, Loss, $66,000- insurance, $26,000. The First Presbyterian Church of Lake, 1ilinois, was burned on the 18th. Loss, $50,000. The High School building at Macomb, 1ilinols, was burned on the evening of the 18.h. Loss, $35,000; Insurance, $12,500, Two Pullman sleeping cars were burned on the morning of the 10th pear Kingston, Oatario, They contained a number of passengers, few of whom saved more than their night clothes, loss is estimated at $40,000, —In Cincinnati, on the 18th, Peter . who has been living apart to the hospital. On the 10th in Pitts burg, Charles Jones, a drunken police- man, shot and killed his wife because she tried to get him to go home just after the close of a ball when he was trying to pick a quarrel with several persons, Jones (when sober, pre- sumably). **has always borne a good reputation, and was considered one of the best officers on the foree.”’ —Twenty cars of a Reading Rail- road freight train were thrown from the track, near Ashley, Penna., oo the an axle. Three men were seriously —James Burns and John Henderson on the 18th, gett were killed on the 19th at Syracuse, New York, by the explosion of a filter In a pan at the experimental salt works, a summer hotel in course of erection on Walnut Mountain, near lLaberty, county, New York. The building, which measured 50 by 160 feet, time putting up partitions, and all dangerously Injured. south America. Eighteen cases and deaths are reported. Nineteen new cases and five deaths were reported at Rosario on the 19th. —Charles Francis Adams died on in Boston, in the B0th year his age. He had been suffering for about ten years from a decay of his two years had been unable to identify perhaps his wife. He leaves four sons and one daughter, two of the sons, being prominently known. Mr. Adams third son of John Quincy 16th, 1807. August Petersburg. Here he remained six years, a. acquired the French and German languages, returning to his native entered the Boston and subsequently After country he Grammar School became a student at Harvard, graduating in 1825. {le studied law with Daniel Webster and was admitted to the bar, but never engaged in actual practice. He served five years in the Massachusetts Legisla- ture, and in 1848 was the “Free Soil" candidate for Vice President of the United States, Martin Van Duren being the candidate for President, In 1858 Mr. Adams was elected 10 Congress and in 1851 be was appointed by President Lincoln Minister to Great Britain. He retained that p 1868, when he was recalled at Lis own request. In 1871-72 he was arbitrator for the United States in the High Joint Commission settie the tive claims of the United States and Great Britain growing out of our civil war, Mr. Adams 1s known for Hterary labors, prominent among Lhem being the * and Works of John Adams.” ~A fire in Cincinnati on ihe morn wr of the 20th destroyed the fourth, ifth and sixth stories of the large slothing houses of Mack, St : Co. and Marcus Fechheimer & Co. on West Third The total loss is estimated at over $500,000, Four fire. men were carried into one of the cellars by the failing of the floors, and all were severely injured, A fire in Allegheny City, Penna, on the 20th, ¢ three ice-houses, two stables seven dwellings, causing a loss of $30,000, on which there was an insur. ance of $15,000, Coward, fore man, was killed by falling bricks, and three others were injured. Wonlen Mills, in Sacramento, burned on the 19th. Loss, $75,000. Medical Hall, the Univeraity of Virginis, was burned on the 20th, The building and its contents are partially insured. Dr. George Baar. assistant professor of the Peabody Museum at Yale, was knocked senseless on the 20th by the *The eggs were shipped to Yale from Cape Town, 3 + sit # 11 : Me WL 4 PRET uh resp niso his Life slag MAELO street. and about Jolin Mo 1 apitol were of purposes, and, owing to the delay, one fermented, generating a gas inside of it, which caused such an ex- plosion that the buiiding was shaken,” Dr. Baur escaped with flest: wounds, —The cattle plague raging on the Blue River near Lincoln, Nebraska, 1s said to present some of the symptoms termined. About two months ago, ‘a mad dog was seen to enter two pas This antedated the disease, —————— sis THE RAMA EDS PHILADELY HLA. 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I loved “not wisely, while you Did coldly wait Till my love, feeding on {tself, burned out; Now, "tis too late. but too well” TS ITE, A THORN ON THE STEM. “Why, Mary, how late you arel’’ ex- claimed Mary Morrison's father, a farmer living near Weston, Cheshire, “I was just going out myself to take | your place. through.” “Oh, never mim, father,’ said pret- ty Mary, relieving him of his milking- pail and stool in a coaxing way. | gentleman has been taking my pic- ture.” “Your picture, eh? Good evening, | sir, suppose you are one of them artist chaps at the tavern?’ bowed, Yes, em chaps.” fellow $64} vi some young { he was one © proof thereof he opened (his portfolio, the old man gazed with an open mouth at her portrait, cows couldn’t be better if you dtuck them in there just as they be in the yard. I vow it’s like to see how you do it." “You shall, Come this way." barnyard. Mary sal among a group of | milkers, her tongue running fast about her portrait, while she leaned her pret- ty bead against the spoiled gide of old iiing was over, the i A ii, Aang Mooly, and watched hor rag Defore the work quics pencil had caught grouped hem around the cen the moon- th gy upon tl rall, them a tre ig re ire, like siarg around likn rustic court attend seit queen. “yy ell, farmer it beats alll” » & . ‘Mary, he's picture of Yous ir r ling and blushing. wanted ' t She came oul, sin ; 1 4 to smooth “Dear wy bair and c¢ me, sir, wnge my dress before you took me again.’ y till 1 come 1 said the artist, gravely, a lel thal g will his book. “It is almost oro” ome in for new time for me a moment and take a cup of milk.” said the farmer, heartily. “That's what you don’t Mr. name is | get { in London, “My You are right; | and I will trouble Miss Mary.” «Miss Mary hurried hands and When she came . irtis Howard, never get Bir. $ mii there, away to wash brush her dark with the ATION her back the artist stood in the open p father known him for years, “Yes, I go to-morrow,” ANSWEr tered : and it was well he took the milk- or might have dropped it. He jooked at her keenly; a deep blush cov- chatting with her as if he said, in to a question, just as she en wie ered her face: he sighed and raised a glass 10 his Lips. “Your health, Miss Mary, and | good husband to you,” ‘we old man burst Mary put the empty glass away with a | small pain at her heart. a {| somehow she did not like to hear the | stranger joke about it. | never marry—not shel | The evening passed swiftly away, | and the village clock struck nine. The artist arose to go. “Good-bye,” he said, *and many | thanks for your hospitality.” | *‘Good-bye, sir. If ever you come | this way, drop mn and stay a week or | two with us. Mary here will take good | care of you, and you can make pic- tures of her to your heart’s content.” “Thank vou—you are very kind; and if I am near you, I shall not fail to ac- cept the invitation, Miss Mary, may 1 venture to ask one thing of you in memory of this pleasant visit.” “What can I give you, sir?” she said, in a voice that trembled, though ghe tried to keep it steady. “That flower, if you will." Tie pointed to the rose on her bosom. She unfastened it. and seeing a thorn upon the stem, removed it before she placed 1t In his band, He smiled sadly. “Thank you. May all your roses be thornless for ever! 1 shall finish your pieture, and perhaps you shall see it again some day, Good-bye, now." He held out his hand, She gave bim his business, and Miss Mary went to hers. Yet often, during the succeed. ing autumn apd winter, after her work was done, she stood before the 1wo ple- tures (hanging in the place of honor on.dhe parlor wall), and sighed in an incomprehensibe way that would have enough to read them. and Trip and Paul were witnesses of a second meeting of those lips, which seemed to imply that the {rose garden would not have to wait | very long for its pretty rastress, Then {the four went up to farmhouse, | in the moonlight together, then Vidto EE —— THE BOTIOM OF THE OCEAN fore, and the end His great picture was gained. had given him tle villa on the Thames, daintily furp- ished, and boasting a ross garden worthy of lstamboul, a pleasure yacht, and a carriage. There was a dun cow, moreover, in the little pas- ture at the back, and a noble New- Also side one of the windows, at which he gazed with a proud smile. He took an embroidered note-case from his breast pocket, and extracted from its leaves the faded effigy of a blush-rose, ‘Do you see that, Paul, my boy?" be who was watching him curiously. bewildered. What could his and were not the Why did he go there and gather a fresh one? Ah Paul, that was all knew it! Curtis Howard ing it to his lips, like a lover in an old murmuring, took Lhe thorn from it before she gave it 10 me, angel Daar little Mary!” for you Was press $42} ‘She ‘ 8 £ "0 1 {that she was! day all stalled Mary Morrison’s tasks the were over, the cows had for the night, the milk was pul away, her father had gone the next house to smoke his pipe with a brother farmer, and exchange opinions aboul plowing. The girl was alone and a lit- 8), calling Trip, she put been to Lill. Beside the gate she halted. “Here we first met,” she said, softly, the rail something dimmed her eves, She dashed indignantly. Had not herself she would grieve no more for what could not be helped. it lie BWAY promisBed that “Orying for the moon baby, as 1 am!” she said, stampis : & litt’'e feet indignantly. “1 wom Trip, that you do not laugh at we.’’ ' An enemy was in black dog oo} * §11 wWay- hing gravely up the hill g better to da, A great Trip bad somethils A siga s er ir ing i feathery lal he surveved, Lis as & were bh a ssonarch of all Trip, small « to the 18 i ARE, WoL shfiwing all 1} as he convince contrary, and teeth, 1 prowling as if ne had swallowed ana gis a sudden dash atk hike twelve. mpe s blown by one breath, an earthquake, he made nto the road, witha penny tro o “Trip, Trip!" cried the girl, yook ing round, “Paul, her Tip, Trip, my fine fellow, have jou without said & voice that Tt be quiet!” made heart stand stall, why, forgotten me?’ The sharp bark changed in lighted whine, the two dogs suspended i to her lowed, and ber hand was taken in a warm one. to a de ostilities, and came together {opt . then gOHme one fi «14 a PE il 18 YOU, then! 3 she said, turning round and looking into the bright, gay face shie never expecled Lo see again, it i181!" and he gazed as earnestly She was not thin or pale; she evident. and yet there was something--an added ravity and seriousness that oaly love 1 2 § 100K of ** Are you glad to see me?” bad thrust his cold nose Into her hand, and to speak a kind word to Trip, lest he The artist leaned upon the gate, and thought of you all these long months, tion this year, and it has made my for tue. Sol came to thank you for hav- reach. came to say good-bye to Marry Morn son first, There was no answer, white to the hips, but kept her eyes fixed steadily upon the westera sky. son,” the artist continued, ‘and to salute, 1 hope, Mary Howard, before 1 return. What say you, darling.” She yielded to the encircling arm him, *‘ Are you in earnest?" “1 wish you would be hall as much 80 " “Then, how could you frighten me How the Watery Depths Ave Lighted wee for Eyes and Colors One of the most striking thi | ticeable in dredging is Lue great vari- { ety and brilliancy of colors in the deep | sen animals, There are bright ref sea | anemones, deep purple sea pens, deli- | cate pink corals, pure white sea cu cumbers, and dull black fOshes, mixed up in a mass of bluish gray mud, A few of the animals are blind, but most of them have very well de- veloped eyes, In depths of over 1,000 fathoms it 18 physically impossible for | the faintest gleam of sunlight to pene- | Lrate. It must be darker on the ocean | bottom in 2,000 fathoms than the dark- | est starless night is, if nothing | sunlight was to be depended upon If it was as dark as that, neither & color would be of any use. XN HAE ihe Me La hd but You nor abur {does not support useless organs, and & | when an organ is dropped. { cave, no I come blind, tn 4 in the 8 no longer needed The fish of Mammoth needing eyes, have would be tlhe vist} » TY { * Miger: Sueh ase deen sea, there ight on 1 the that ma ’ { mais assume Lhe is } fact mals on which There isa britt star inl tt hes orange-bush coral, and found 16 brane at it wery closely, one There is wishes to 4‘ 4 3 tinguish it, —the starfish but if dark, there would be no need of the ocean boltom | an arrangement, for the darkness 3 | would be sufficient. One evening the dredge came 11 o'clock, and the electric light denly went out while we were ing its contents. Just before dark I had thrust mud to draw a when 1 withdrew ms with a phosphorescence, covered examin. ¢ barar v UBCATLE my band in 4 “uy i ous Sli xed rare shell hand it gio the mud Was with a phosp! and many of the animals when gave out a brilliant glow. the With such a lig or Ww mid be m of the sea as on Lus 81 the secret of deep sea x COLIOTS. and © as useful bot ix I believe, ald sodden) ourselves on fathoms, we if we the ocean bottom, in =, should see brilliant 3 casting intense shadows, lar the ocean botlom in an el manner. There would be tracks of darkness and here the blind forms w use almost absolule aid hal ally live, having no for colors light. {roves wit} would dart illuminated pathway, each carrying his the of phosphorescent y this us apart, specter like, ove own lamp, and whole ground would be light. one ———— SP ——— 4 Cliff of Glass Among the scientific papers Liat w appear in the appendix of one ol the forthcoming Survey is one by Professor reports of the Geological ' Josep! 3 3% “" ale 8r ¢ Iddings upon the obsidian ciili of Park. nile long by from jowstone Ilias cliff is an elev tion half at feel { fessor 1ddings says, as any artificially manufactured.” colors and struct not only maze highly interesting furnish to scientific investigate phenomena of importance. The cliff presents a partial section of race 150 4 ich Sa f 4 o> as goud a g high, the material of wh “is ASS its ure 10 the a 3UTIALC flow of obsidian that poured dows an | ancient slope from the plafeau iying east. It is impossible to determine | what the original thickness of tl fiow may have been. The dense giass that forms its lower portion is from 75 | to 100 feet thick, while the porous and | pumiceous upper portion bas suffered from ages of erosion and glacial action. | A remarkable feature of the chiff is the development of prismatic columns, which form its southern extremity. | These are of shining black obsidian, hire | rising from the talus slope, and are from 50 to 60 feet in height, with diam- eters varying from two to four feet. The color of the material of this cliff is for the most part jet black, but much lof it is mottled and streaked with bright brownish red and various shades of brown, from dark to light yellowish, | purplish, and olive green. lant luster of the rock and the sirong contrasts of color with ibe black are very stnking. Im places, the glass in the process of cooling has been broken into small angular pleses, which have been again cemented by the latter flow, producing many-colered and beautiful breccia, In some paces the - solves itself into thin beams of red and yellow light. Through the black and red glass are scattered duil bluish gray patobes and bands, and round gray and pink masses, the effect of which is still further to vary the appearance and rock, and make & the
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