NEWS OF THE WEEK. —In Guadaloupe county, Texas, four Mexicans were employed on the farm of W. C. Simmons to clear his land. On the evening of the 1st, while in camp, they were fired upon and two of them were killed. An- * other was mortally wounded, and the fourth man was shot seven times, bu managed to crawl to a house some dis- tance away. Before leaving the mur- derers poured kerosene oil over the fire to it, burning it to a crisp. Mexican who is stall In Amsterdam, New York, on the evening of the 4th, Charles Le Grand called his wife Jessie to the door of a stabbed her. “Domestic trouble was the cause. Grand has another wife living, and the woman arother husband.” The body Her recovery is doubtful. been severed, and which was otherwise mutilated, was found on the 5th be- hind a wall on the roadside in Lexing- ton, Massachusetts. mun named George M. Codman, —The Signal Office at Washington an- nounces that the entire country east of bas been xather light. ) 24 hours the temperature in the districts cept in Florida and Southern Texas, —The family of Joseph Mauri, a druggist in Brooklyn, New York, con- sisting of himself, wite and seven chil- dren whose ages ranged from 4 to 21 years were all, except the mother, taken sick after eating,and two of the children have died. Another was re- ported dying on the Sti. Tke cause 13 not known. —1It is now believed that all the per- sons ipjured mn the Boston and Albany Railway disaster, at Massachusetts, will recover, There is no clue to the identity of the one pas- senger who was burned to death, A construction train on the Great Southern Railroad was wrecked pear Chattanooga, on the evening the 4.h, by striking a cow. The engi- near and fireman were killed, Two of tral Railroad collided near Syracuse on the morning of the 5th, and several cars and the engines were wrecked. —In Youngstown, Ohio, about three o'clock on the thorning of the GL Semple, watchman in the scarcely com- pleted Andrew's Block, opened a win- dow to secure ventilation when an ex- plosion occurred, and Semple ran into the street with his clothes on fire and roiled in the snow. The fire spread rapidly through the building, a brick and stone structure, and it was soon destroyed. and a wholesale dry goxls store on the lower floor, and a hall and gouncil rooms on the upper. A livery stable, three dwellings and the First Baptist Church were also consumed, and two or three other buildings were damaged. The total loss on property is estimated at $100,000; insurance $75,000. A young man named Brannigan Is missing and supposed to have perished. It 1s sup- ignition of natural gas leaking from a main which runs past the building. namite cartridge in the cable slot on the Larkin street branch of the Sutter Street Railway, in San Francisco, on the evening of the 5th, and exploded it. *“The basalt rocks on either side and the masonry work badly shattered. The pulleys upon which ation of the tunnel cracked. Window panes in the vicinity were rattled and in many cases shattered, was thrown to the floor and nearly caused a conflagration. The jron were found two hundred feet away, A lady living in the neighborhood saw the men place the package in the trap, match, and then go away. Then came the explosion. wounded his wife, and then, supposing he had killed her, committed suicide, in Chicago, on the 5th. the cause, near Eldorado Springs, Missouri, on the night of the 4th, a man named Oakes made a disturbance. Being told to de- sist by a farmer, named Clark, he drew a knife and cut the latter’s throat. In Brockton, Massachusetts, on the Oth, John Edwin Grace shot his wife and then attempted suicide. Neither is ex- pected to recover. The cause was jeals ousy. composer of the quaint melody of the “Arkansas Traveller,” died on the 6th —Thkree men were arrested on sus- picion of having been concerned in the murder of G. A. Codman, whose muti- lated body was found at Lexington, Massachusetts, on the morning of the Sih. James E. Mowlio, a youth of 17 years, confessing himself the murderer. He killed Codman in the latter's stable, the object being robbery, and then cut up the body, and, starting for the coun- try, scattered the remains where they were found. ~The inaugural address of Goy- ernor Ames, of Massachusetts, de- livered on the 6th, recommends the enactment of a law securing municipal suffrage to women; also ‘‘that the whole body of Sanday Jaws be care- fully revised and amended #0 as to make them accord with the spirit of the age, and thus render it possible to enforce them,” Two passenger traing collided at a street crossing In Chicago on the even- ing of the 6Lh, and a smoker and . gage car were wrecked. Strangely enough no person was killed, and the Jew) who were injured are not badly — About twenty person broke through the ce on Quidividi Lake, near St, John's, Newfoundland, on the evening of the Gth, and two men were drowned. An explosion took place on the afternoon of the 7th, at the North Chicago Gas Works, in Chicago, caused by the ignition of gas in a sewer which carries off refuse from the oll cupolas. A great sheet of flame rushed into the middle of the building, and another stream of fire went through the sewer a distance of 200 yards and ignited coke sheds on the bank. Ten or twelve | men in the Gas Works were injured, four of them dangerously. A new miles Pacific Railway, one hundred west of Winnipeg, was demolished on dust. Loss, $35,000, —Eight years ago Henry Morris | Textile Filtering Company,” | factory ut Woodbridge, N. J., where | the Morns family resided. In con- | nection with tins patent coffee pots | and a patent condensed coffee were | manufactured, and were established in New York city | the busipess, and the other members { clal standing. Two years ago began to speculate in coffee in New York. A week ago he disappeared and an investigation was begun. The safe was burst open, but not a thing was found, not even books, every trace of the company’s business transac- tions having been destroyed. [rotested | checks and dishonored notes began to come in. These now amount to $70,000. — Alexander Searles, colored, aged about 45 years, was arrested in Jersey City on the evening of the Oth for vio- { lation of the postal laws. He used to | go to New York hotels, search the les of Western advertiser a letter, imitating a woman's handwriting. “The letter would con- tain a picture of a beautiful girl pur- porting to be the author of the missive, { He invariably told the man wanting a wife that ke bad saved $25 and if the balance necessary to take him to his destination was remitted, he wi start at once.” The police have two cases of positive evidence against him. One is a man in Oregon who forwarded $08, and the other a man living in Ne- vada, who forwarded $10, _— AiG Delaware, , destroyed — A fire in Delaware C on the morning of the the Kobinson House and ten stores, causing a loss estimated at $35,000, Delaware City is about twelve miles from Wilmington. The machine shops of the Ilhode Island Horseshoe Works, at Valley Falls, near Providence, were burned on the 7th, The loss 13 esili- mated at about $100,000; covered by insurance. Ernest Brothers’ brewery, in Chicago, was partially burned on the 7th. The loss is about $55,000, The boiler, machine and blacksmith shops of the Northern Pacific Rallway at we fs 7th. The loss at £150,000, is estimated aver ~The temperature in Chicago at | four o'clock on the morning of the Tih, | was 14 degrees below zero, At six o'clock It had nsen to 10 below, and was expected by the Signal Service men | to remain at that point for about 24 { hours, At Davenport, Iowa, the tem- perature was 20 below zero, and at St, Paul, Minnesota, 32 below, At Mar- shalltown, Iowa, on the 6th, it was 35 Ibelow. At Lafayetls Indiana, on the | 7th, 33 below zero was reached. ports from Michigan indicates tem- | peratures ranging from 14 to 24 below | zero at different points, —Scott Pickler, aged 12 years, shot and killed Chester Dodd, aged 10, in Jackson, Tennessee, on the evening of the 6th. They had quarrelied about some trifle, -The German ship Elizabeth, from | Hamburg to Baltimore, was wrecked | on the Virginia coast, near the Little Island Lifesaving Station, fourteen miles south of Cape Henry, lelore day- light on the morning of the 8th, Two | life boats were out to the vessel i and took the crew on board. On the return to the shore both boats were {capsized and ail the occupants were drowned, except two of the life savers, One of these 1s not expected to re- cover. The latest estimate of the | number of lives lost Is 27. sent the Oth, destroyed a block of stores occupied by G. O. Sawyer & Co., Jacob { & Forbes and Isaac Kashmann., The | building was owned by Averill & Tate, | A building owned by the estate of C. | Fox was badly damaged. The total i loss isestimated at woore than $120,000, | The fire gained headway because the | hydrants were frozen, The dead body | of Thomas IR. Laughton, clerk of the | Sawyer’s store, He had been suffocated | while trying to get out, destroyed James Wythe's bakery and | side of the street, stock in the barn. A fire at Lawrence, | Kansas, early on the morning of the Oth { destroyed A. B. Kahnweiler & Brothers’ Salvation Army Hall. The total loss is estimated at $200,000; the insurance at less than $50,000, Wilmington and Northern Railroad ran to the rear of another freight train near Wawasset Station, Penna. on the morning of the Oth, Henry Hubert, conductor, and William Martin, a passenger, who arc sald to have been sleeping in the caboose, were killed and their bodies were badly burned. The brakeman and fireman were injured. Two ears and the caboose were burned and one en- gine was damaged. . «Mrs, James Arden was burned to death in her house near Baltimore, on the evening of the Bth, by the explosion of a coal oil lamp while she was sitting | Her husband had while trying —DBy the burs®ng of a milistone at Fowlerville, Michigan, on the Tth, a twelve-year-old boy was killed and two men were severely injured. West, aged 30 years, a salesman, his neck by falling down-stairs in D, { H, Kent & Co.’s store, at Wilmington i Delaware, on the 8th, | ~-A large concrete magazine in the redoubt at Fort Monroe, containing powder and pyrotechnic materials ex- ploded on the afternoon of the Oth, from spontaneous combustion, person was injured, but glass in the of- ficer’s quarters and the hotel was groashed, | the 8th, ranged from 12 below zero In | Kansas to 80 below in Dakota, The | coldest place reported by the Signal Service was on the 7th, at Bismarck, | A telegram from Fort Keogh, i i i | i { { | { i i i | below zero, As they do perature was really much lower. In Canada on the 8th, temperatures were reported ranging from zero to 40 low, | 46th CONGRESS—2d SESSION BENATE, 5S. Senate on the 6th, Mr. Edmunds, from the Forelgn Relations Committee, reported a bill to Ineorpo- rate the Marine Capal Company of | Nicaragua, The bil { Inthe U. Dreams, Nay! Let them dream thelr dream of fect love: It in the sweetest feeling, the most fale, pers soft alr th Hope's blu heaven above, Breathe nought of disenchantment ; bring Misgiving to the bliss of blended The while Life's roils Through brimming river golden primorose-lighted uplands of the Spring, The blossoms of Eternity He furled In the dim kindling buds of dreams that keep sleep ; not idle; dreams have saved the world. Dreams are ¥ And therefore to the many heights afar Our lowland eyes that we lift, And to the isle-like mists that round them drifts, And to the moon and tc the morning star, LOVE IN THE DARK. We were seated mm luxurious arm- eral John A. Logan was passed, after some discussion, without a Mr. Vest then introduced a& bill in- creasing the pension of Mrs, Apollina Blair from $50 a month to%*$2000 a year, and, at his request, the immediately considered and { On motion of . Edmunds the bill to he treaty with China { passed, M r | carry into effect t was taken up and sion, The, Inter-State Commerce hill was discussed. Afiler an executive ses- ta adjourned. 11 sion the Bena In the U. were passed ‘‘to settle and adjust t claims of any State for expenses in- curred by it in defence of the United States. and to authorize the Secretary of the Treasury to make final adjust- ment of of n foreign steamship companies arising from the illegal axaction of tonnage d Bill providing for a senool of instruction for cavalry and light artillery at Fort Riley, Kansas, and for the completion and construction of quarters for the army at certain posts, was amended by appropriating $30,000 for Fort D. A, { Russell, and $55,000 for Fort Robin- son, Nebraska, and was passed, Mr. Me Pherson presented an amendment to the Iuter-State Commerce bill, which was ordered printed. Afler an execu- tive session the Senate adjourned, HOUSE In the House on the 6th, the Erle and Oswego Canals bill was considered. The Invalid Pension Appropriation bill, aporopriating $76,247 500, was passed, The Naval Re-organization RN, Senate on the 7th, bills claims certs ri a HLIes, House adjourned. In the House on the 7th, the entire session was devoted to private bills, and an evening session was held for i consideration of pension bills, In the U. 8, House of Represenia- tives on the Blh, the Senate bill repeal. ing the Tenure of Office act was re- ported and placed on the calendar, The Naval Bureau Consolidation bill was considered. The River and Harbor bill was reported, ordered printed and recommitted. It appropriates $7,306, - 250, Adjourned, ———— TATE LEGISLATURE. the report of the Commission to amine and ascertain what laws passed prior to 1791 had, through tence, never been printed or published, was received from the Governor, was a i sion for an appropriation of $1500 continue their work. Doth adopted a concurrent resolution provid- ing for the counting of the vote for Governor and Lieutenant Governor at poon on the 13th instant, Adjourned until the 12th, HOUSE, | Intbe House, Henry K. Boyer, of | Philadelphia. was elected Speaker by | 132 votes to 66 for John KE. Faunce, | was elected Chief Clerk. The Senate concurrent resolution in regard to the { appointment of & committee to conduct | the inaugural ceremonies was agreed LO MARKETS. THE PROVISIONS i Beef city fam bi i Hama. ..... Sine i Pork Mess... ... Prime Moss, new... ...... Sides smoked .v Shoulders sadked, .. .. i. AO 10 BRIS, Lounnisnnnniiiiapym Smoked Beef. ,... ... 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' subject, I such a vi RES settling myseif ) but more comforta- in my chair and drawing the box of “*I shall be it, but bs delighted to b about what will Mrs. Taylor say to me?” 1 added, knowing how ner of my lot feet ject. SOI your telling the part. would feel on the sub- She has positively forbidden me ever of it.” sald he obeyed 10 Speak “and | with one or two exception laughing , laughing, have ber until now, 3, but it’s too good to keep V Aroused, story of and if repeating it 1 as Jack would course | and tell the was obliged to think acting unfairly 1'll stop at once. “It was during my year al Harvard,” began Jack, knocking the ashes from his cigar. “How long ago it seems. But let me see, it's only eight years, Yes, it was during my Sopho- more year that I accepted Frank Wil- son's invitation to spend the holidays with him. He was awfully good com- pany, and I knew that I would be sure to put in a jolly week at his place. Be- there was another very strong litre Rien, that mn am second sides, inducement. “I was in time with his relen Wilson, whom 1 had as- certamned would be of the party. | be. lieve we used to write to each other. 1 know I used to spend the greater part of my time composing verses about her, many of which, however, I had not the courage to send. “When I heard that she was to be at Xow I was delighted. 1 determined to go to New York and see if could not arrange to travel gether, **When I arrived in that city 1 went directly to her house; but at the door 1 learned that she had just left for I'v, having decided to go a day sooner than she expected. “1 inquired how long she had been gone, and the servant said about fifteen minutes, Hoping to overtake her I love al that " we D up to- instant to lose. i *Panting, perspiring, but exultant, | went through every car, in every seat haste, : “1 had gone through all but one when we entered the tunpel, and I was | piece of constancy produced no result | in my favor. She turned her back upon | she had done before. give up. #eCan’t you love me quired tenderly, trying to take hand. Dut she snatched it away and her head | direction or to answer my quest “As the train was making a tremend- 00. $ i { my words at the top of my lunge. She “What do you say, dear?" 1 bawled. “¢1 don’t even know you,’ | whisper, but the tone was mn reality a | shriek, “I thought ! could not bave heard her, “*I tell you l don’t know you,’ she repeated, | mine with much energy. this moment, or I'll “Here the train emerged from the turnel, and you can picture my amaze- ment, horror and mortification when I tell you that the girl to whom I had ‘Jeave me er to me, “Dazed and scarlet, I arose from my seal 1 or gira: o I SLrang “ +] beg your pardon,’ I said, remov- ing my hat; *I have taken you for some one else,” ‘*Not observing how my apology was retreated to the smoking. here I remained until we reached \ , too stunned even to think. “When I left the train, in looking t for some sort of conveyance Lo to the Wilson place, 1 found, increased embarrassment . that 1 had so recenti y of - received, I abou take me Ww my the girl 10 whom fered myself was standing on the plat- form, apparently waiting for some one. “That she could tell from me which As I had plenty of her, really did resemble Helen in saw me | seeing assumed, the expression of not she she immediately would not look al me, opportunity to observe and saw that she many ways, notwithstanding that she was both fairer and smaller. wi was not } assure wy inclination: so Was oblaining a started « Tie $35 tn aiimivre VO Bani Was there you that that vehicle, 1 getling » finding no h wm | fortunately the greater part of the way. house, I was wel- y by my host i to the Ot, 4 Over “Arrived at the comed with much cordialit and his family, and introduced other guests, “Imagine my feelings when, in the course of the conversation, [ learned that Frank's sister was expected home fromm boarding school that afternoon by the very train on which 1 had come, **1t was then to her I had been mak- ing love instead of to her cousin, My disposition was to turn and run, but I knew I should have to stay and make my mor. few minutes bringing resented to she found go | smothered when a arrived the best of it, tification, and later the carriage Miss Wilson, her, I think that of the the situation more awkward. Was iw and | J Oo ner t rived, and explained how, returning to the house, for something, missed the train and her escorl “During the entire week I was Im- patiently waiting for to offer myself to ber, but before I could do 20 I learned that a large dia- mond ring which she had been wearing for several months was the pledge of her engagement to some other fellow; and, to my surprise, discovered at the same time that the knowledge did trouble me very much, although for while I did feel considerably broken { up. *‘1 suppose you thunk that I was half | in love with the sister, but 1 assure you I was not. 1 considered her too young for me, although now 1 think her just right for me in every particu- | lar, and it was not until several years she had an opportunity not ©“ charming young lady, that I realized {that I bad accidently proposed to the | choose for my wife,” Berlin Marriages. through the occasional openings in the tunnel revealed her to me, seated alone, at no great distance ahead of me, “My heart gave a bound, and, scarcely realizing what 1 was doing, 1 rushed up to her, dropping into the va. cant place beside her and grasping her hand, said: “Darling! 1 thought I had missed you!” . “‘What do you mean!’ she ex- claimed, in a tone of mingled indigna- tion and fright ‘let go my hand; you have made a mistake.’ “1 obeyed Ler, thinking that she wis angry at wy mode of address, “if beg your pardon,’ 1 sald. I should not have spoken to you as 1 did, but 1 was so rejoiced to find you that I did not remember where we are. But as I bave begun I may as well finish, Darling,’ moving a littie nearer, ‘will you marry me? You must know that I love you; I have done so for ages, ev- ever since my Freshman year.’ “But the mention of that astonishing | married in Berlin last year were 561 | widows, 220 divorced women, and one man who bad the courage to marry a woman who had been divorced three | times, There were 95 marriages of | nephew and aunt. One man of 25 mar. | ried & woman near! y 60, and one man of 175 married a girl of 25. In 53 cases A ——— THE NEW PRECIOUS tion with the Emerald, So — —————— A new precious stone h to the notice of di brought SCOVYET IER Hiddin, Carolina, the public ina Wilham Earl North resembles in many respect being of nearly the some « and named the bh Lawrence denser brilliant, nite by the J moe idde mith, of Louisville, chemical found in nature. This ne connection w SALINE close with Lie latter, mn" The story rie id5 is Interesti While carrying a search for platinum through the South- ern States, u=der the Thomas A. Edison, he once ir n Alexander county patronage of came a few ges, color which verged distinctly on that of the eneraid. B ing an expert mineralogist he came to the conclusion could produce tint of the t . i thelr od showed & tinge of that a bronze having rue emerald ¢ region wi subsequently found at a dept feet below the surf face, in whic only found the tr je emerald t many slender cryst color, but als having from tl nearly every $e hiddenite rares has no ered place, i he largest one fou: Was Wi ong OLE « was eat ————— NDEOORBRATIVE NEEDLEWOILK Which it was Hedd of England bEsteom in Fhe the Upper Classes hel neodlewor) and in } ill nn famous there: her tronbl embroidery her women and The into i that Spanish stit needle Wi ri kind as always been famou ly done in black silk on a wi It E Very she also taught the stuffed work koown as basket which also seems to have of “laid” te groun with gold introduced. p that Ps ' gible gold stats large practiced in Spain, and is, in fact, sti executed in that country. Fresh var ties were introduced again by the fortunate Mary Queen of Scots, Jearne the time her imprisonment. Probably by was begun that curious and elaborale work consisting wholly or chiefly of Same of the en extremely beautiful, and are treasuries of stitehos for the instruction of modern wWorsas Deen younger; in one case about 30 years younger. March, April, May, Septem- ber, October, and November, were the | of marriages took place. os —— "i ASK te man who bas the most holi- ness what he thinks of himself, and he not yet reached the point which he de- sires, We are like those old fashioned wine-glasses which had no foot to them, 80 that they could not stand upon table ust be held in the hand. ud in his hand we can water of life, but out of his hand we cannot hold a drop, nor can stand. 11 some cases vhile the finest the most minute details, in which, closed pod itself is worked in 1 Lue it con- tams, although wuever destined to be seen, are quite as carcfully and elabo About the same Lime, Anne's time, crune in the heavily-embroiderad bed furniture, worked with worsted upon twilled cotton, In which the fi es, “Do you think Lucie will snocesd in winning Algernon?” asked the lagh school girl, “No, indeed.” replied Amy; "she 't a ghost of a show.” “My dear,’ protested the high school girl; “please don't use such hornd Mg as ‘ghost of a show,’ Say ‘ap pc an exhibition.”
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