TIA AHVT 10 NEWS OFTHE WEEK —At midaight of the 20th ult. fifty masked ruffians visited a village occu- pied by fifty Chinamen on a siding of the Texas Pacific Railroad, near Big Springs, Texas, and demanded their money. Being refused, the robbers hung up the Chinamen one by one with their quenes and held one of them on a hot stove. Finally the tortured men gave up all their bard-earned money and the robbers retired. The ‘‘Bald Knobbers” of Miller county, Missouri, have again begun operations, A few nights ago they went to the house of a colored man, named Lett, and gave him a severe whipping. While doing this Lett’'s brother appeared and dis- charged a rifle at the ruffians, unhors- ing one of them. They picked up their killed or wounded comrade and rode AWAY. On the 20th ult, a United States bonded car on the midnight freight train bound south was broken into by three tramps between Mon- mouth Junction and Deans, New Jersey, After securing considerable plunder the thieves cut the train in two, jumped from the cars and fled to the woods, pursued by train hands, who fired upon them, The thieves re- turned the fire and escaped. — George Rice, aged 40 years, a con- ductor on the Pennsylvania railroad fast freight service, was fatally Injured by falling from his train in Jersey City on the evening of the 30 ult. Both legs were crushed above the knee, —Shipley, Dorsey & Co,, wholesale 1:y goods dealers of Cincinnati, who | recently obtained sn extension from | their creditors, made an assignment on | the 30th ult, It is said their liabili- | ties are $300,000, and their assets | “somewhat larger.”” The assignee’s| bond is fixed at $800,000. The firm's attorney says ‘‘the assignment is a mere formality to enable the firm to arrange its affairs. The business will not be interrupted.” The total liabili- | ties of Carlton Foster & Co., sash, | door and blind manufacturers, of Osh- kosh, Wisconsin, who falled last week, | are placed at $205,000, and the assets at $125,000. A settlement is to be ef- | fected wilh the creditors at 50 cents on | the dollar and the business continued The schedules in the assignment of | Parker & Clark, wholesale grocers, of | New York, were filed on the 30th ulr, They show liabilities amounting to | £226.662, nominal assets $400 545, and actual assets $223 300. mel’'s saloon ip New York on the even- ing of the 20th ult., and, being refused a glass of beer, fatally stabbed Schim- mel in the abdomen. been particularly good friends for the past five year.s" ~-W. Schaufenberg, a grocer, of Chicago, committed suicide on the 20th ult,, by blowing out his brains, He had been on a prolonged spree. The neighborhood of Columbus, Indiana, was excited, about three weeks ago, by what was supposed to be an attempt to hanging, he giving a minute descrip | tion of his three assailants, Three men who were anptured by a searching party narrowly escaped being lynched | for the deed, On the 20th ult. Elliott was found dead, hanging In his barn, “surrounded bv evidences of suic de,” | was his own work, near Ithaca, New York, was found hanging In lus father’s barn, on the 20th ult. His death is supposed to have been accidental. —A. G, Kist, a farmer, living near Warsaw, Indiana, acted as Indian agent at the Paw-Paw agency, in the Indian Territory, six years ago. that there is a **shortage’ of $4,000 in the U. 8. Court at Indianapolis. David Blackwood, engineer, and the 1st by the collision of two trains, near Parker, Iowa, Many passengers were injured, but none fatally, sections of a freight tran on the Cleveland and Fittsburg Railroad col- lided pear Summitville, Ohio, on the 30th ult. Sixteen cars and both en gines were wrecked and consumed by lightning while lying in bed, during a thunder storm at Portland, Maine, on the 30fh ult, Tue lightning came Gown a chimney, ~Daestructive forest tires are raging between Charlesion and Sumter, South Carolina, a distance of 90 miles. Monck’s Corner, 31 miles from Charles- ton, many plantation buildings have been destroyed. The town of Florence and the brick works at Stony Landing were in danger on the 50th ult., but were saved by zreat effort. —George Seaman and James Seiders, aged respectively 12 and 14 years. ab- sented themselves from School in Read- ing, Penna., on the 30th ult. Afraid to go home for fear of punishment, they crawled betwean two hot ovens at the Henry Clay furnace and were suf- focated. Their charred bodies were found on the afternoon of the 1st. —The steamer Westernland, which arrived at New York on the 2d from Antwerp, reported that on November 27th, in latitude 47.50, longitude 43.57, she encountered a terrific hurricane, during which, at 245 P, M., an im- mense sea struek the vessel over the ing four seamen and two steerage pas- sengers, and severely injuring thir- teen other seamen and passengers. —Near Bellaire, Ohio, on the after. noon of the 2d, an explosion of powder The ex- floor. The fatally injured were Robert Hall, Jacob Weiss and George Williams, —The New York Commercial B tin estimates the November fire loss in the United States and Canada at $10 000,00, which is an increase of the fire of 1872. There were 100 fires recorded whose reported loss was $10,000 and over. The large fires of from $100,000 up to $000,000 numbered 19 and caused a loss in the 10 per cent. jaston month, cording to the Bulletin there has been a destruction by fire of $105,000,000 In the eleven months of 1530. —Over 200 cases of diphtheria are reported in Wilkinsburgh, an eastern suburb of Pittsburg. Defective drain- age is said to be the cause, —The Inter-Ocean, of Chicago, re- ports a defalcation, sald to amount to $100,000, by ‘theodore 8S. Mize, conll- dential clerk, bookkeeper and cashier of Miner T. Almes, a millionaire coal merchant, It is sald thestealings have been going on since 1874. Fast living was the cause. Mize has made partial restitution by turnioff over his property to bis employer. At York, Penna. , on the 2d, Theodore Noedel, late clerk of the South End Building and Loan Association, was arrested charged with embezzling $7000 of the funds of the assoctation, Be furnished bail for his appearance on the 16th inst, —A special despateh from Montreal to the New York FErvenmng Post ays that Madame Nataskowan, on the north shore of the St, Lawrence, gave birth in November to four children, all healthy. The year previous she became the mother of triplets, and the year before that of twins, making nine children within two years and a few months, ~There were two slight earthquake shocks in Charleston, South Carolina, on the morning of the 2d, the first at one o'clock, the second at eight. Eight slight shocks were felt at Summerville i per Since | morning. ~The amount stolen by 1 neodore 8, Mize, cashier for the coal merchant, Ames, in Chicago, is now estimated at $112000, A whole family has been | ruined by the young scoundrel, **The {| homestead of the aged parents, the home of the sister and brother-in-law, | the residence of the embezzler, the jew- {els of his wife and his veiy birthright | and beritage, all have gone to satisfy the claim of Miza's employer and save the son from the penitentiary. Trans fers to Mr. Ames were recorded on the 3d for all the property enumerated, and Theodore 8S. Mize, jointly with bis drunken Hubganans were run over and | killed by a railroad train while sleep- ing on the track near Pittston, Penna, on the evening of the 1st. Two trains | on the Northern Pacific Railroad col- | lided on a curve near Muskado, Minn. on the morning of the 1st. gines were smashed, a mail car was | burned and four train men were in- Sured, but notdangerously. Conductor died on the morning of the lst. ~A telegram from his wife Maria on the 1st celebrated their BOth anniversary of their marri- ‘he wife 90. A large gathering of their descendants, including great- great-grandchildren, were present, ihe public debt sfatement issued 240. $410,023,740, ~The total coinage of the United States during November amounted in value to $4,085,252, including 2,700, 000 standard dollars, ~The losses by the hog cholera in Miami county, Indiana, are estimated at $25,000. Two thousand dead h and on the 1st to be turned over to the grease refiners, as ‘a result of the dis- ease, ~The tem re at Chleago on the morning of the 1st was 8 degrees below zero, having fallen 17 degrees in four hours, TLe cold wave comes from that would revert to him by the pro- visions of the father's will, already made. The brother of Mize, who is in Atchison, Kansas, also came to his as- - ~Shea Feliner. Alfred Jones and pbraim Jones, all colored, implicated in the murder of Dewees Holton on | m, Texas, early on the | morning of the 2d, and lynched by an | armed mob. Two cowboys, Alley and | Alley was killed and Warlenbe colored, was wounded by his wife, La- | | vina, near Fenton, Arkansas, on the 24. They quarrelled at breakfast, and | the woman afterwards split her hus- band’s head open with an axe while he | was fondling the children. A stranger { who registered at a hotel In Parsons, | Kansas, on the morning of the 1st as “Jim Cummings,” put on the land- lord’ hat and left after supper. A policeman named Kiser arrested him at the depot, Soon afterwards the fellow pulled away, fatally shot the policeman, and escaped. J. Byrd, a merchant, was inurdered at Gray's, Arkansas, on the 24, by two negroes, Their motive was robbery, but they se- cured nothing, being frightened away by 8 passer-by. In an affray it Pitt county, North Carolina, on the 2d, be- tween Thomas Smith and John Dennis, the Iattér shot and killed ths former Friends of Smith assaulted Dennis and cut him nearly to death with a large i murder of Sheriff Elder, of Karnes county, Texas, ~Snow began falling at Memphis, Tennessee, at 6 o'clock on the atternoon of the 8d, and by eleven o'clock there were four inchgs on the ground, --The crop report of the State Board of Agriculture of Ohio of the 1st inst. | shows that the wheat area sown was | 101 per cent.; estimated number of acres, 2,741,000; condition, 97. The condition of live stock was generally good, excepting hogs. The hog cholera prevailed in 23 counties of the State, —At Stephenson, Alabama, on the night of the 2d, Jumes Turner went to the house of Frank Carter, called him to the door and shot him. As Carter fell he caughi bis rifle and shot Turner Both are mortally wounded. They had always been intimate friends, —A telegram from Chicago says that Henry Schwartz, formerly of I’hiladel- phia, but now in the Coek county jail, is suspected of being the man guilty of the robbery of the Rock Island exprees train last March, when Kellogg | Nichols, the express messenger, lost his | life and $27,000 was stolen from the ex | Schwartz for two years has | On the 34, as he came into the depot with his train an officer took him | by the arm and marched him to the | Harrison Street Station. On the 4th, wife in Philadelphia steven years ago, and with baving married a Chicago woman {wo years ago. At his own solicitation Lis case was continued in | $1000 bail until December 14th. *‘At first he maintained a dogged silence, Island Company does not care whether he has one wife or a hundred, if he or some one elge can be sent to the tentiary for the robbery of the express car, He confesses that he has spent much more money thagdie has earned or coud have received from home, but he 13 not ready to tell where the money came from.” Other circumstances throw suspicion upon the prisoner The snow storm on the 4th and Sth extended uver a wide area of territory, reaching from the middle sections of Louisiana, Albama and through the Mississippm Valley, north- eastward, and the Atllantic States, north of Florada, The snow | fall in the mountains of South Caro- lina was 0 inches; at Chattanooga, 9; at Montgomery, Ala, 10; at Grenada, Miss , 3; at Washington, D. C,, 5. and at Baltimore, 6. The snow fall in Alabama was the heaviest ever known ther. It was freezing all day the 4th at Vicksburg, and in Charleston formed in exposed places. The storm was very severe along the New York and New England with high winds, and on the evening of the ith it was still snowing at intervals along the coast North Carolina to Mdine. In the interior it was cleanng. pent coast ce sonst a CORIE, from Three children, one of them the son of the lighthouse keeper at Dresden, Lake Champlain, were drowned on the ith by breaking through the ice near that place. The mang'ed bodies of Adelaide Levole apd her 12-year-old son were found In the woods at L’Onglaal, Ontario, on the 4th. They had Leen killed by bears. Patrick Roland, 21 years of age, was killed in a colliery at Shenandoah, Perna., on the 4th, He was standing in a gangway leaning against a prop. A trip of cars zp- proached, and he, being preveniad from moving by his sleeve being caught by a nail. was struck by the cars and killed. G. IL Schmidt was fatally burned dur- | ing a small fire 1n the attic of a hotel in Chicago on the 4th, —FEarly on the morning of the 4th | two burglars entered the house of E. M, Hulce, near Neenah, Wisconsin, | attempted to chloroform him, robbed the house of $50, and then set it on fire. Huice crawled out and lay down mm the snow, dazed from the effects of tre chloroform. Half an hour after wards he was picked up and carried to a neighbor's house with his bands badly frozen. The house and ils cpntents, valued at $10,000, were destroyed, — A herd of twelve cattle were found suffering from plearo-pneamonia on the 34 on a farm in Martie township, Lan-§ caster county, Penna, Two were killed and the rest quarantined. An- other herd is said to be suffering from the disease in the vicluity, -Herzog’s Opera House, in Wash- | inglon, was destroyed Ly fire on the 5th, 1.oss, $115,000 ; insurance, §75,- 000. James West, colored, Is missing and believed to have perished, ~A fire at Yazoo City, Mississippi, on the 4th, destroyed six stores and a saloon, causing a loss of $50,000, In- | surance, $30,000, i —A fire in Spencer, Massachusetts, on the Hth, destroyed three stores and a dwelling and bam, causing a loss of about $20,000, > -— THE DMA» ETH rHILADELFH1IA. 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Oh, love, bid me forget my fears, The cares that fret, the wrongs of years, My sea-worn heart sweet harbor pears Beyond the storm's endeavor, Aud let your tresses brush my cheek, When hearts and fondast words are weak; With soft caress your passion speak on the night in question, Mr. had | told me he had no suspicions as to their | integrity, but of course, it was my | business to make sure, and I found they | were able to secount for thelr time | quite satisfactorily. The policeman who | had been on duty could not help me, | He had passed each half honr, but had | seen nothing suspicious. A number of persons had passed up and down the | street, but he had only recognized one | man, a chemist who lived on an joining street. Application to gentleman elicited nothing further, had passed down the street between 11 1 and 12 on his way home and had Jooked ads this | He | Forever and forever. Awake the smile I dreamed of old, As warm as poontide’s palmy gold, Yet soft as moonlight faintly rolled When Bummer cloudiets sever, Your eyes are like the beacon light, That beckons through the darksomo night— At last I read my fate anght, Forever and forever! A STR MY FIRST CASE. 1 Yes, sir, I call it my first case, it was the first of an which I wasengaged, and because, thanks to the happy chance of to tell ch Pam going YOu, iv gave In career which I have 1 fs r chief nd merchant diamond thie sided ry with 3 $ standing will yout on the right hand-side oh the left i stood al i the 1 POs wer be of § Ha £1 %% the office oy Hy 1 clerks left at six was usually the ng the safe and seeing urity. The other were jel out as ft 31 Sex rooms in the hous offices, but tenants left five o'clock, when Mr. 3s office was locked up tl i { house were the who lived in the ; The Mr. - arrival first at the office on the morning in question. He had been followed by his clerks and his son rol wry had Ton ii on his in the order named, and I found all fous present when 1 reached the house, making inguiry I found that Mr, —— had locked the safe on the previous evening. The clerks had gone as usual at six, and Mr, having everything clear before his departure. He and his son left together, the father going home and the son going to dine with a friend, with whom he went to the theatre and at whose house he slept. The housekeeper had swept and cleaned the offices as she and her husband went upstairs ww Heir own room at the top of the house, They did not come down again that night and heard no noise, I felt little difficulty as to the entrance or exit of the Mief. He might have house, haw laid perdu till it was time to commence operations; and, as 1 found a window at the back of the house unfhstened, I concluded he had made goofl his escape through the yard and by way of a low wall into an ad- joining court. But how bad he been able to vork so long without attract- ing attertion from any one ? The street was not 4 busy thoroughfare, but there must hate been some wayfarers, despite the fact that the night had been an inclemedt one; and I have said, a policergn pass every half-hour. I made a carefil inspection of the room, but found jothing save a broken pies of amber {rom the mouth-piece of a pipe. On locking at the walls I noticed at opposile sides of the room high up near the cornice two marks, as though nails Bad been torn out of the plaster, but on pointing these out to Mr, — he could give me no information, He had never noticed them before, but they might be old marks for all he knew. 1 then proceeded to make Inquiries ; first as to the whereabouts of the clerks | in at the lighted window as usual, but | there was certainly no one in the room then, 1 returned to headquarters to make my preliminary report, and di rected careful inquiries to be made with | a view to identifying if possible, any | | persons who were ir the street through- | | out the night. Well, sir, for two days | Ll was at my wits’ All our | deavors proved fruitless, and the more | end, €5- | i less 1 felt. On the { through B third day i Wi street passing | and looked in to! ih He jodged 111 TOOIR OY see my brother, who was laid up thro | an accident, shop of a i | is Har TITHE “485 ad appa shad JMITOWer in, proportion nt than 1B customary, Un Lhe up the sketch 3 atl 2 fon il A ing, ‘that’s my first attempt at A young used in feliow for » a litte business came In and jersuaded me to paint ' vata thoats ne private theatrica ¥ vif 3 +43 preseniea Lae Lom t, whilst DEenious r n he had “work lus wicked will® it his leisure, To cut a 4 w} 1 ¥ short, the painter me virré 0 put story gave my hand on this amateur actor, and he was in due course convicted and 1 punished, tried, while we were able to recover a large portion of the stolen diamonds, greativ to Mr. A I think I am right in saving, 's satisfaction. sir, that it {18 to chance 1 owe my start in life, even if 1 may claim some credit for my ft BOquent SUCCoss, ————— i —— A Queer Wedding Trip. ‘he queersst wedding trip I ev | heand of,” said the station master at the | West Side depot, “took place one ds last week. from a | little corn and hog station down on the jurlington, and they came up on one of | the morning trains. They weat into | the walting-room up-stairs and remained there the whole day. At noon they | brought out a bit of Junch and ate it | together. Only once or twice did the groom venture beyond the station walls, | and the cries of the hackmen quickly | frightened him back, The bride had a | great curiosity to go over closer to the river so she could see the shipping, but the groom was afraid to leave the station for fear of getting lost. Notwithstand- | ing the seeming monotony of the day 13 The couple were | they were as happy as clams all day long, sitting a-hold of each other's hands, When evening came they took the night train for home, where they were doubt- less received as a hero and heroine after their adventures taking in the wonders of Chicago. It was a queer wedding trip. ”’ iti Plants in Doan, a The inhabitants of Australia and New Zealand seem tq be taking an interest in fruit culture. Qur nurseryman, Luther Burbank, often receives orders for trees is experienced in shipping on account of the difference of the seasons, Last June buds of some of the best apples which originated in the Southern hemis- phere were received by him, When they were shipped it was the commence ment of winter there, and the buds had tucked themselves up for a six months’ rest, and were not a little surprised, apparently, to find such a torrid atmos- phere as they encountered at Santa Rosa on their arrival. About one-third of them seemed to think they had over. slept, and immediately made great Imste to put out buds, flowers and leaves The others, perhaps older and wiser, would not budge for any display California’s abilities tn the torrid ness and still remain dormant, yet are alive and willgrow next spring their eighteen months’ Tesh No HOLLAND A Country of Light and Shide and Pervading Sadness. A fechug of sadness pervades every where in Holland, Jiow can {i ix otherwise where dampness is universal, where you seem to be waist deep in the sca, where the flat Ludscapes confiing you, and the atinosphere intimates (hat it is ready at a moment's notice to zive you rain, snow or wind from mountains off toward the north” It is the rain season, but you know the tempest is It is the wonth of sunshine, but you know it will turn to shadow You muy be an opliinist this hour, to be the bitterest of So it the country of Tight Helland pro- artist who dis- wonderin resuit ie ontrastimg = saw Lhem | nature, on made by glooiny f of storm shade, It snd darkness, wWomles and is no what light and shadow a« Le constantly contrasted striking «flects and lamplig 15 They an Datel indoor firelight IBORPACes ( gril $1 158, gq 4 and outd fife, but ther meine wong 0 and ie a parla. y diffnsed * BREW pad ue shadow and en on : & WEION gai pleasural a Tew da sup along 1 er Le the cun and then mniveral oud that om fog, biol 1are left uncorta nn, whole y muekerel back, down and uniteswith the out the land, whie vw by a change of timperature is not Automn Oday, dead be Winter o-morrow, and wik not Sing 1s aanside red the season of flovers in Holland the flowers bad at Lie railroad stations about the farm-honses, pdow sills and ii Choir prime, the v In softer climes in the gomelrical in the pots on tl» wi the public gardessare just the gass and foliage, ich cele Thal is ago and ef Hog a may 1a), fer the anywhers in And like have an unusually deep, 1 sichemy ¢ moisture. advantage, Tip: imperial lines, [ ¢ gerani SEASON Ws alt less magnificen oye ww ha en I wih of Ear UTAZD PrOCOC But thougd be allributs 3 en nay a custom of thy country, really a pity hat, | these fine flowjrs should Ix | depart 80 quid lv. Though i& 8 Of Midsummer, inter is really in the ai Y ou do not sitby a fire, but you imagine {the glow of me would be agresal ie. | You think ‘ou are probably | comfortable, it you don’t surely know People go abort with a depressed lon and with the low gait of the fanev:l cortege. Theis are qualities of chilline that encoura 2 brisk movement, that which not prevails is of a differ character. Iwen the animals bave a air of dejectica, and the birds, with tiv instinct of apwoaching cold, gather in little conventans, fly about in parpos less circles md give in concerk thao | eherriess chin that precedes the Aula migration. ke the flowers, they Inve just come, ard it seems a pity that they cannot stay alittle longer after havied flown from stithern country, housands | of miles awa, to enjoy freshness of Si | North. i en —— Califrdn’s Big Trees Going. i —————— The big t#s of California will’ sees be extinct, Seventeen lumber oem. mg from 3,000 te 26000 d forests each, are way | extermination withwl! the n to the modern logging pmand for the woul ts wn. SR RR