NEWS OFTHE WEEK —The dynamite factory at Day Chester, Long 8th. One man was killed. — A scaffold at the new Market House, in Reading, fell on the morning of threw fourteen men to the Lhirty feet below, Keystone Penna. ground, All six dangerously, and one, Albert Dor- bert, mortally. at Mill Village, near Erie, Penna., was of the 8th, They used enough gun powder to shatter the safe into frag- ments, throw the front of the store into secured, Edgar Thompson, freight slerk of the Lehigh and Susquehanna Railroad at Allentown, Penna., disap- peared on the 2d after having suffered from stock speculations, He sthers into the net, and the amount in- fifteen to thirty thousand dollars. —The Maritime Bank, of St. John, New Brunswick, suspended on the Sth, I'he suspension was followed by the failuresof R. A. & J. Guy, Devan & two of the principal lumber firms of the Province, IL is cause of the bank's failure was the re turn of a quantity of English exchange. The bauk paid 5 per cent. interest and the deposits were very large. Will & Smith, proprietors of the Gilbert To- bacco Warehouse Louisville, made assignment on Their lia- mated at $75,000, due to misville banks; their assets are placed Humphry, Blake & Co. commission werchants of St. . made an assignment on littes, $40,000; assets, $65,010 in ii t} wile sth. eS are esti (HH) he Bowery, morning nockade of lroad, 2rrible accident. y'cock at came to a standstill ween Fourteenth and | streets, and a man named Matthew: zot off the third car and out on narrow platform alongside the He started to walk to Street Station and was {oll number of men anxious work. When they were w fifteen feet of the started, and Matthews slutched a man stan ‘he crowd became Matthews and | in a heap to the street, iow. Matthews and were killed and seven we The railroad officials was caused by a passenger on the step of the exu rear car of the movi in this position his body ext beyond the side of the car, form gate of the car being, of co closed at the time, and while trains which L Shortly after el $111 ill Seyenteent the {og atatinn station . “Whi ended ou the beyond the side of the car, he came In contact with the passengers who ware moving along the track walk, sweep- ing into the street below. The man man- aged to get on the train, and his identity has not yet been established. At the time of the accident the train was not in motion at all.’ It was re- ported later that one of the injured, an unknown man, had died, and another, William Doyle, aged 18 years, was not expected to recover. One of the re- maining unknown dead is believed to be Judas Sint, a clerk, and the other is believed to be a carpenter, named Patrick McCabe. ~The boller of Gibbs’ shingle mill near Elmore, Michigan, burst on the morning of the 9th, killing two men, and injuring six or seven others. The mill was wrecked. ~The boller of Carr Brothers’ shin- gle mill near Alpena, Michigan, blew up on the morning of the Sth, killing Emory Carr and fatally scalding Waldo Carr. Eugene Carr was severely scal- ded. Frederick Allen and James Ryan were fatally injured by the fy wheel in the North Chleago Rolling Millis on the 8th. —in the Glasgow Iron Company's steel works at Pottstown, Venna., on morning of the 9th, an elevator contaming over a ton of iron fell twenty-five feet, carryiug with it Henry Koch, Washington Taylor and Elmer Hart, all of whom were severely injured, The elevator was crushed to pieces, — William C. to have left Boston for Canada, a baving swindled Boston capitalists out of about £40,000 by means of an al. leged manufacture of an artile called ‘‘sugarine’’ out of common starch, Hickman is said to be well connected in Philadelphia, —A fire In Walla Walla, Washington Territory, on the morning of the Sth, destroyad five blocks of buildings, oc- cupied by small dealers, Loss, $125,- 000; insurance, $40,000. Two men were burned to death, © The Eechpse Flour Mills of Potts, Proctor & the ftor Ler Kentucky, were burned on the 9th, Loss, $60,000; insurance, $18,000, Vessel and cargo are a total loss, registered at the New milliops, is dollars presented for redemption at New York have been split and filled go skillfully as to almost defy detec Lion. ~The fatlure of the Maritime Bank of St. Jon, New Brunswick, was wrgely precipitated by the fallure of ;he ship owner, Schofield. The state. ment of the bank’s condition at the snd of December last was as follows: Capital paid up, $322,000; reserve fund, $60,000; notes in circulation, $281,000; Dominion Government deposits, $00,. 300; Provincial Government deposits, $224,500; other deposits payable on lemand, $630,700; deposits payable - ' 8482000, T It is be protected wal habili- believed that in full, | atter notice, { ties, $1,276,000, note holders will —John dlarrison and Wiliam Majors | were killed on the railroad track at In- | dependence, Mo., on the 10th. They | were making a fence, and stepped out { of the way of one train to be run over | by another, — While 700 school cluldren were witnessing an entectainment in a | theatre in Dubuque, Iowa, on the even- ing of the Oth, an alarm of fire was | raised, and there was a wild rush for the doors. Several of the teachers Many of | the children but none dangerously. were injured, —Laucy Parsons, the Anarchist, arraigned before the Mayor of Colum- the 10th, for disorderly conduct, and sent to jail Pleas Court at the —In the Common The reason the tally sheet the Indictment. The to order the empan- Cases, forgery out in Judge also refused tr The matter will go to the Su- preme Court. —A telegram from Abilene, Kansas, Oth, Adjutant General Campbell fourteen of the Coronada men charged with the killing of il Warrants were forty. *‘Both towns threw il were prepared for war.” he arrested who are Coulter ar ssned for others. ui is informed thy Lid ‘he State Departmen that the cholera has spread ough tions of itlian provinces of Aconeagua and Valparaiso, and is ex- ding toward the At a station the railroad bet Santiago and R% iles om the latter, so fi Deed ave y } poi the ( sea, ween fv il Ar re the Jackson- Railroad ran off (rirard, Illinois, on the e 1 two cars y i ville Southeastern the track near afternoon of th 1th, and } ty pers Ney suran it Aspen, th evel OUR), © © on the causing a lo -1 been discovered that large nantities of opium brought to America y way of British Columbia have been passing through Detroit. R. A, West, resident of that cily, was the 1ith and i held In answer Lo has 3 } i } a temporary arrested $10,000 bail to smuggling. The 1stoms say that by smuggling Government has been sv nearly $60,000 customs duties. The opium was sent out from this city usu- ally to California, labelled “glassware,” “drugs,” ete. On its ipt at Wind- sor It appeared nese curios,” on e charge of authorities this opium the indled out of ™ rec as’ —The latest developments in the Den- mead hovel horror in New Drunswick, New Jersey, show that no marriage | certificate id be found among papers of the brothers, and doubtful if the dead woman was mar- ried to She had been dead for at least gation is goin 0 cause of her death There nion as to wi natural causes or As t} col thie that ViIRL t $a it Is of ti Senator Km mittee charged warrant on th nessy was held Ir der Hamilton, a bl Ontario, is 1 with $110, the 1 cert and t« him, agg covered, — At Bainbridge, 10th, the wife of J. from the effects of in by her husband in mistake, it is said for quinine. On returning from the funeral on the 11th, Hawley was rested for bigamy, and at he had wives in South and Florida, He is now suspected of the murder of his wife. on bir Ei tea regating Georgia, on the H. i awley died srphine given het ' ar that confessed Caroling murder of Brode Fryer, ‘nn April, 1885 tiary. violence was threatened and the pris. ~The post-office at Tubac, Arizona, was blown up by dynamite on the night | of the 4th instant, --At Howell, Michigan, on the 12th a fire broke out in F, N. Monroe's hardware store, and was followed by an explosion which wrecked the build. ing. The fire spread and destroyed four blocks of stores and a row of frame buildings, casasing losses ag- regating $07,000, on which, there is 20,000 Insurance. Incendiarism is in- dicated, Mr. Monroe is Chairman of the County Prohibiton Committee. He recently received the following let. ter: *‘Detroit, Feb. 27, 1887-F, N. Monroe, Howell, Mich., Sir: I wish to inform you that you must stop your work in the prohitition cause, or we will burn you out, root and branch. You may prepare for the worst as we are on your track. Many saloon keep- y ers,’ George Luppert’s furniture warehouse .at Willlamsport, Penna, was burned on the morning of the 13th, Loss, §75,000; insurance, $21,000, A 1300 ' about Voorhees covered Brothers’ cotton The loss Haywood Cherry bales of cotton shed, by insurance, chair factory on on the afternoon of the 13th to the ex- tent of $20,000. house of William: Eaton, broke down the doors, and fired a volley into house, William Eaton and Charles Green were Killed: Iaton’s aged father was seriously wounded, one woman was shot in the head, and another in the hand. It is alleged that party are members of the Fry Smith, colored, aged 40 years, was stabbed to death in New Orleans on the 13th toche, son of ex-Coroner Roche. murdered man was stabbed six times, Roche and a companion named Grinnell the time of the the stabbing. It i8 reported from Derks and neighboring counties of Pennsylvania, that *‘the recent thaw cold wave have played sad havoc with the grass and ain fields, The frost your grain out of the soll, and ¥ blew it away, leavipg flelds al- most bare. In tige of grain remair be and { g lifted g the 14 ' some flelds not a ves 3, and 1t has all to resown.” Resista enberg lection of the county. ‘Three hundred men Cireenvill county ] t they mean er are engaged seat deciare Wal he bitter end lec is persist the co g 4 The and a leans, morning Commercial { quanity of cottan were destroyed 3b r i tom 4 of the 1 ins saw mill an irill bouses 2% Bay City, Michi burned on tne morn 840 0x); House, Ta the block, Massachusetts, were burned on 12th. loss, 247.350; insurance, 8 3K), red Peters ing of covered by insur r's bakery Halliston, 4 i © STATE LEGISLATURE, » Senate on Lhe Bl the iH Le 3 ig bills were passed finally: Authoriz- and orphans’ irity for ¢ #h mnloave apy 0s wae etnpioymen : era of wills 1¢ ailing Ing juire sec ist under the age of twelve years il, manufactory ot "all No, government of 19 { lass, ie Oth the follow- finalle ralat finally: Relating 3 Iai 4 $A 73 fF the preservation of 54, { wang i the Senate on tl vere passed ales and iin rigages, L' row assignor, gument, t and character To provide accident in cases of of the Age of assessment £3 On irain swamp the binding of be made by mother, { Adjourned, an o riend, In the Senate, on the 10th, the following bills were passed: Defining rape and raising the age of consent in To enable eleemosynary cor. or encumbered of the to be wasted by managers or beneficiaries Mr. Penrose, Immorality, bill HOUEE, the House, on the 8th, petitions were presented of a high license law, and the anti-diserimination bills and re monstrances against the repeal of the oleomargarine law. The following lls were introduced and referred: By Mr. support of an association for the pro- tection of life and property in case of fire in cities of the first and second class, By Mr, Ring, to prohibit the standing aside of jurors in criminal cases; also prohibiting the construe. tion of steam railroads at grade; also prohibiting the use of coal oil and coal and wi stoves In passenger cars; also providing for the recording of sheriffs’ deeds. Adjourned, In the House, on the 8th, the follow- ing bills were passed finally. The bill authorizing and requiring the Board of Sehool Directors and Controller to pay In rious teachers of the seyeral districts for at. | tendance upon the sessions of the an- | nual county institutes in their respec tive counties, Also, the bill taxing all orders, checks, dividends, pass-books or other paper representing the wages or earnings of an employe | not redeemed in thirty days by the per- { son, {lrm, partnership, corporation or association 1ssulng such orders, &2., by paying to such employe or a member of | his family the full face value of such | order, &c., in lawful money, and pro- viding for the collection of such tax. Adjourned, In the House on the 9th, the Com- | mittee on Agriculture reported the bill repealing the Oleomargarine Pro- hibition act with a negative recommens { dation, The Committee on Public Buildings and Grounds reported a bill providing for a new State Capitol, a | new State Labrary building, and a new Executive mansion. The House passed the Pharmacy bill to third reading as | amended by committee and reported to | the House, The House concurred in the Senate amendment to House bill No. 4 for an additional law Judge for the { Thirty-eighth Judicial district. Ap- journed, The House on 11th, consumed nearly two hours in histening to various petitions presented from every county in the State, and upon all sorts of sub- jects, principally in favor of the Watres Anti-discrimination bill against the repeal of the Oleomargarine Prohiti- { act, { Wherry he tion and in f {f the Divorce bill. Among the bills follov il Committee, t var Avor ¢ favarabls IRVOramy n Railroad ¥ $ 1 OT LEU were the Frot 1 4 ily 04d in cars; road first clas tivselae ‘ JLTIAS, WU Boyer for the to repair (rl C1 anda reread FREE AK L —-——~ MR. BEECHER DEAD. Hoe Expires Surrounded by His Fam- ily, Without a Return to Cane SCIOUSNOsS, red tied up with SKETCH Beect Beec) Thomas James Henry 8 second wife was a tere demeanor. H i assed without the 100d, but accus- him exercise, and undoubledly gas i that rugged health that he retained through life. He was sent to school in Bethlehem and to his sister Catharine's school Jun- til his father removed to Doston, when, at the age of twelve, be entered the Boston Latin School. Here he imbibed the desire to travel, and announced to his brother his mtention of ronning away to sea. llis father apparently acquiesed in his design of going to sea, { but persuaded him to go to Mount Pleasant, in Auburn, to pursue prep aratory studies, foreseeing the way In which his studies would turn | thoughts, In this he was correct. Henry Ward Beecher became a mem- | ber of church during his first year at { college, and henceforth devoted his | life to the ministry. He graduated at Amherst College in 1834, and imme- diately entered Lane Theological Semi | unary, Cincinnati, of which institution Lis father was then President. In 1836 Mr. Beecher first appeared in public as a writer. During the ab- gence of the editor of the Cincinatti woinan of very: carly years usual pleasures of chil tomed | / wrote several strony anti-slavery pa- pers. He graduated in theology in 1837, and accepted an offer to become pastor of a church at Lawrenceburg, Inhiana. Here he married Eunice White Bullard, afterwards well known as a writer of domestic books, He re- mained at Lawrencsburg two years, and then removed to Indianapolis to become the pastor of the Presbyterian Church of that city. then a rapidly growing town of 2500 inhabitants, Here his power a8 a pulpit orator was fully recognized, and in his eight years of service he built up the church to be | one of the strongest in the State, and he himself became recognized as one of | the most powerful preachers i chureh. In 1846 Piymouth Congregational | Church was founded in Brooklyn, Mr, Beecher was in New York and was in- { vited to hold the first services in | new church, This he did in ths pres. ence of an immense copgregation and | was almost immediately requested | become pastor. He has occupled | position ever since, and has built Iymeuth Church in 2 manner almost | unprecedented in the history of | churches in this country. He intro- { duced the custom of preaching on cur- rent and political topics, and the anti- | slavery cause he advocated both with { volce and pen, in the pulpit, the political stump and by essays Newspapers, ing out of the war of the Iebellion he | was one of the foremost advocates of { the abolition movement, On the break- | Ing out of the war a regiment was en- | listed from his church, and his eldest gon was one of the efficers, Ie became one of the editors of the New York In- dependent, and in that journal strenu- ously urged preservation of the Union. His health forced to vi and while In En T° Yiapd counteract in to that on in the failing in 1862, he was Europe to recuperate, gland attempted to strong Confederate bias of the English people. In this effort he at first met the most strenuous oppoasi- lon, but finally succeeded in gaining a voice being drowned t Lilt 1CArin ed ) Dem- o I ome in ih ail be rs Al accompaniment of howls, low he He was running this time for h cnew it. He looked like a How speck as he scampered Lo- 1 house, The pack of hounds keeping well together, gained on him at every jump, Twice I thought they had tween hb is but, no ! he doubled on them and fairly | flew in another direction. The hounds { eould not turn as quickly as he could, and fell over cae another in their at- {| tempts to do so. As Jack reached the { terrace in front of the quarters, he flew | into the house through the open door, { safe! The door was closed by my wife | ~=who had been watching the desperate race just as the hoands met in a body over a boy's straw hat that was lying upon the grass before the door. In about two seconds there was nothing left of that hat; it was torn into nb- bons before they found ont it wasn't Jack, after 211! But from that time, Jack was not on speaking térms with any of those hounds, There is a touching beauty in the pale wild-rose that grows by the dusty wayside, hall choked with thistle-down; but it is all lost upon the man who breaks his back suspenders when be atone to pluck it. | FOOD FOR THOUGHT. To see the world is to judges. Never refuse a kindness | in your way to do. He that has no character | man: he is-only a thing. Advice is hike castor oil, ¢ to give, bul hard enough to *UBY 260 take Nr ‘ # wid nt ag ts No man can be provident as o who Is not careful as to company. Knowledge and timber shouid ; much used until they are well sea Volatility of words is car action, Wordsare the wing Wealth may bring luxuries, uid luxuries do not always bring happiness Hgs 0 The certain way to be cheated is f fancy one’s self more cunning others, No snow falls | melts, Grand temples are built stones, and great lives made uj events, To be in a passion is to punish self for the faults and impertinen another, Nature is a rag merchant wl up every shred and odd and creation, The affection of their children Ly t od and true, 1 i e Ww + vi or 18 g » y Ever re Ains more ' t's vat « LUE TATESL OF . y si lamest} an wio vigieniis loves, cannot degree or sense dently some ¥ person he detests or adores, we smallest and iments are the most tittle lottars ost 1 itlie lellers moss Ui the slightest annoying, affairs most distur Censure most mixed w praise; discovered, it well 18 tue 10 go in company is it} iil The habit of resolving without actin worse than not resolv ] ch as it gradually onnection between Many persons ar alted by sickness, as if ease had been strelch ily to make the =i , thelr souls, one of human primary f which give character of man. Perseverance is impulses of the indivisible the nents before thou reprehend ar heed thou art not culpable i goest about to reprebend. blot with makes a greater blur A diseased t.3 . 4 peeident Lod ther 1 what t! He tha cleanses ] n makes the 1 exists but tion, a very real wt flatterer and enemy, their own self-love, Ibe only way to shine, even false world, 1s to be modest and suming. may be cl crust, but, in the course of time, tru! will find a place to break through. Falsehood a The great blessings of mank within us and w.thim our reach; bu we shut our eyes, and, like the peopl in the dark, we fall upon the Ages not to be feared, the older = good and healthy person grows, Lhe greater becomes his capacity to enjos { the deeper, sweeter and more nob kinds of happiness which the world af | fords. Inexhaustible good nature is the most precious gift of heaven, spreading itself like oil over the troubled sea of thought. and keeping the mind smooth and equable during the rouzhest weath- er. As long as the waters of persecution are upon the earth; so long we dwell in the ark, but where the land is dry the dove itself will be templed to a wander ing course of life, and never return to the housk of her safety. Sin is fever at a stay; if we do not retreat from it, we shall advance in it; and the further on we go, the more we have to come back. A miser of sixty years old refuses himself necessaries that he may not want them when he is a hundred, A man to be a success, must not be a ure idealism, but he must have ideas, fe doesnot want to be sun-dazzled on sun-blind, but he must have glimme: enough to keep him from knocking his head against the wall.
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