NEWS OF THE WEEK
At Mount Vernon, Kentucky, on
the evening of the 28th, William
Levisey, aged 14 years, was stabbed
through the heart by William Vowals,
aged 10, The murderer had some boy-
ish grudge against victim, In a
juarrel in a gambling hell in Boston on
de 28th, David Lanahan was shot
lead and Edward Flanagan mortally
~ounded by Adolph A. Albrecht. The
three men were alone in the room,
playing fare, and the quarrel arose
wer Lhe game, Albrecht, who i8 a
Iruggist, claims that he acted in self-
defence, but several circumstances are
agamst his story. His victims were
proprietors of the place.
—The Sanderson Steel Works, in
Feddes, a suburb of Syracuse, New
York, were destroyed by fire early on
Jie morning of the 28th, The build-
ngs covered two acres of ground,
ind the loss is estimated at $220,000.
The works were owned by English
*apitalists, being a branch of the Sand-
erson Works, wn Sheflleld, England,
and they will be rebuilt at once. A
fire in Memphis, Tennessee, early on
the morning of the 28th, destroyed I.
Besthefl & Co.'s furniture store. Ulla-
thorne & Co.'s seed store, William
Juinn's bourding house and saloon,
ind James Cuarrey’s Tivoli Garden.
I'he loss aggregates $65,000: insurance,
$21,000. The Sargent Paint Com-
pany’s building in St. Louis was
burned on the afternoon of the 25th.
Loss, §40,000; insured. The leather
manufactory and storehouse of John
Maxwell & Co,, at North Winchester,
Massachusetts, were burned on
Stl Loss, 8100 000.
lis
SP
the
evening of the 2
—There was a general
snow and wind storm through
Nortuwest on the 26th
Trains on many railroads were deluved,
ind in Des Moines
blocked by snow.
and heavy
ut the
‘ 3TH
and ~ Li
the streets
—No further Is
upon the mystery iL Lhe 11 at
New Jersey
nan called at the 'r & Street Sla-
tion in New York.
} z i
SHE Deieved
dressed
hh, and
was her
ption of
cloth.
und near
» that of |
FAW 81X week
away from
gated t
Li i i
alse ol
$42 s30¢} :
GaugZul ra
afterward she lea:
married before. The girl
lived, Hes
woman gaid, had threatened
her husband, and he had threanened to
kill ber if she did. The woman would
give no name, but sad
Rahway on the 20th, The Chief of
Police of Rahway, said on the 28th,
that **every clew he had worked upon
thus far proved to be false.” A con-
stable from Crawford arrived in Rah-
way later and was closeted with the
Chief, He claimed to have informa-
t
1
daughter, the
$ 5
riiere 16H
Were Bile =
LO
ion
a young man living In Raliway.
-— here are now oq
factories in the United States.
are in the Western
being in the city of Chicago.
Te
There
are 3537 retail dealers in oleomargarine
in the United States who paid special
taxes as such in the months of Novem-
ber and December, 1836, and January
and February, 1887, The number of
wholesale dealers is 206. The
tity of oleomargarine manufactured
and removed for consumption or sale.
at 2 cents per pound during the months
of November and December, 1886, and
January and February, 1887. was 12..
645,740 pounds, and the quantity ex-
ported from the United States during
the same period was 152,797 pounds.
The figures are taken from a state.
mont prepared in the Internal Revenue
Bureau,
~Two cars of a train on the fron
Mountain Railroad were thrown from
the track by a broken rail and capsized
at Hillard, Missouri, on the 25h.
Several passengers were seriously in-
jured* and a child in its mother’s arm
was killed. Two freight trains on the
Canadian Pacific Railroad ran into
each other at Franktown on the morn-
ing of the 27th and both were wrecked.
The loss to the company is 810 1,000,
OleOWArgarine
States
tha
wien '
Guan-
—1It is announced that the Jersey
Central Railroad has made a contract
with the Clearfield Coal Company for
handling its coal. This will involie
the building of a new dock at Commu-
nipaw that will cost about $500,000,
the contracts for which have already
been given.
—The Iron manufacturers of Pitts.
burg are quoted as say ing that the card
rate of iron “will bardly go any higher
than it 1s at present, as representatives
of Swedish and English fron firms have
recently invaded Pittsburg and are
making desperate efforts to place orders
for foreign iron.” It is reported that
the iron business 18 not as good as it
was afew weeks ago. Pig iron has
declined fifty cents a ton during the
past wonth and muck bar $1 50,
-A fight took place between cow-
boys and shepherds near Grant's
Station, Arizona, a few days ago, in
which one of the herders was killed
and three other herders and a cow.
boy were wounded. One of the
wounded has since died, Ephraim
Sehlogerman, a peddler, was shot and
dangerously wounded near Ephrata,
Penna., on the 28th, by Charles Barn.
hart, a cigar maker, Barnhart and
several companions were annoying
Schlogermsn, and when the latter
started to run away the scoundrel
shot him in the back. - Benjamin
Mobbs was found hanging in his reom
in Hazen, Arkansas, on the 26th, and
it was thought he had committed sul-
cide, It now turns out that he was
strung up untii dead, and robbed. The
murderers are not known,
~A telegram from Defiance, Ohio,
says that a few nights ago the Cecil
aqueduct on the canal was blown
open. The pext night armed men
drove away the guards who were
Sratehing Tio reservoir apd blew out
the banks in two piaces, ‘and finally
dynamite was used to destroy the
locks, It will take halt the Summ 1
repair the damage already done. A
strong effort was recently wade to in.
duce the MIL Ure to vacate the
—The dwelling of Matthew Massick.
at Laadlowville, New York,
burned on the morning of the 29th. and
three children perished in the flames,
‘The Caswell building, in Troy, New
York, occupied by Fessenden,
other firms, wis destroyed by five, on
the 209th, The Fulton street front of
the Boardman bullding was damaged,
The total loss is estimated at $130,000,
which is covered by insurance.
firemen say the flames 1n the
building burst out in several
once. The West Polnt
Caswell
Cotton Mills,
ou the 28th, with a grist mill adjoin-
Ing. The picker room and warehouse,
with 2000 bales of cotton, were saved.
The Joss is probably covered by an in-
surance of §200,000, A fire in Colum-
destroyed the shoe store
Bedell and the clothing store of J. K.
Harris & Co, Loss, $20,000; insurance,
$17.000.
—There was a hard frost, with
in the districts around Norfolk
Danville, Virginia, on the night of the
5th. It is feared tha! much damage
bas been done to early frulis and veg-
etables, A ternble storm of hail and
wind visited Ackworth, Ga., on
25th. Two dwellings were demolished,
ice,
—A telegram from New Brunswick,
New Jersey, says the
tailroad has been running local pas-
senger traflic between that city and
Jersey City for the past few days in
tive, and it has been found feasible, to
heat a limited number of cars by this
means and maintain a sufficiently high
temperature,
~The First 2 mal
burg, Penn:
ized to begin
Bank of Pitts-
the 20h author-
th a capital of
OUnebwe. tha
‘ i . U4
tercolonial
ted M
SNOW 1 i
Railway is ““unprecede
and all travel
Thera
Canadian |
us |
stopped. s also
Kas occurred
the Von Storck mine
at Scranton, Pennsylvania, by which
fire boss Lewis and two miners, named
Thomas lewis and Edward Owens,
were killed. Ten men were Ini
An explosion of
» 2 + 1 10
the 30th ul
on
ir
+ 1
factory of DPingeree &
in Detroit, was destroyed by
the evening of the 30th ult.
it
$200,000, A fireman was fatally
N
~The shoe
ire on
Loss,
was burned on
$40,000; insurapce.
at Aiton, lllinos,
JUth uit Loss, I
$13,000. The freight house in (
usetts, was burned
mtents, loss
Massac!
ult., with its ¢«
Wiley
-—A gpecial to the Journal from St.
Johns, N. F., dated Boston, March 30.
The steamer Eagle, from the
sealing grounds, 13 reported le
200 men, No particulars |}
received.
SAYS:
on the 30th ult, at
id Lexington, Kentucky.
K at night the depth had
inches at Louisville and
eleven inchns at Lexington, and in the
latter ci roof of a livery stable had
been crushed in by the superincumbesnt
snow, storm was the
meter the State,
—S. H. Allis, a compositor, is re-
to have commitled suicide
the morning of the 3 ult.
ferry boat in
reached
general in
ported
early on
by jumping from a
New York. He left letter to his
wife, saying he “had lo everything,
and, though he did not know where
he was going after he was dead, it
was something to know that he would
ba bevond the reach of Ler tougue, *’
Thomas C, Reynolds, Lieutenant
Governor of Missouri, committed sui
cide in the custom house at St. Lous
on the 30th + by throwing himselt
down an elevator shaft, He was over
70 years of age, and had been for
some Lime affected in his mind.
ity
Lil
ex.
1
Wis,
aged
Ringt
18 years, was
own Mountain, near Shenandoah,
Penna, The crime was generally imo
puted to the Mollie Maguires,
suspicion pointed to Charles Freder
and Michael Hertzol, of M lin, the
home of the murdered man, Fredericks
died on the 28th ult., and before his
death made a confession that he and
Hertzol committed the mnrder for the
purpose of robbery. Hertzol ins been
arrested, On the evening of the 26th
ult., Corporal Boyer and another sol-
dier were approached by four Mexicans
on the Fort Ringgold Reservation in
Texas, and one Mexican opened fire,
shooting Boyd dead. Three Mexicans
have since been arrested on suspicion,
A man, arrested in Jersey City on sus-
picion of baving murdered the young
woman at Rahway, was arraigned on
the 30th ult, and remanded for a
further hearing.
~~Alfred Smith, convicted of the
murder of his wife and another woman,
named Wilson, was sentenced at Cleve-
land on the 28th uit,, to imprisonment
for life.
~The thermometer marked ten de.
grees below zero at Ottawa, Canada,
on the morning of the 30th ult., and
thére was nearly five feet of snow on
the ground
~In the boiler works of T. M. Na-
gle, at Erle, Penna., on the morning of
the 31st ult., while steam pressure was
being got up in a twenty-horse power
boiler which bad just been subjected to
# hydraulic test, the flue plate gave
way, and the superheated steam cushed
out, Ed I. Bturtevant, inspector
for the Hartford Steam Boller 1nsur-
!
| ance Company, and Patrick Kelley,
, William McCloud, James Welch and
! A. L. Murphy were frightfully scalded
It was not believed that Sturtevant,
{ Kelly and McCloud eould recover.
{ When the explosion took place the
| guage registered a pressure of only 140
{ pounds, but it was probably defective,
~Fdward M, Newman, employed by
| Michael Levinson, wholesale clothier,
| in New York, was arrested, on the 31st
| ult., on the charge of having defrauded
the firm out of $75,000, by making
false entries and misusing checks.
| —=The express car of a train on the
| Lake Shore Railroad was entered near
| Uties, on the 30th ult., by a man who
| told the express messenger, Leake, to
| ““bold up lis hands,” and then shot
{him in the shoulder. The assailant
| then rifled the safe. The loss is vari-
{ ously estimated at from $1000 to $3000,
{
|
i
— Anthony Knoll, arrested n Jersey
City on suspicion of being the Rahway
| murderer, was discharged on the 31st
ult, In the afternoon, C. H. Eld-
| ridge, President of the Hudson River
| and Maine Ice Company, viewed the
body of the murdered girl and the
| clothing, and said it was that of Mary
| Cregan, who was a domestic in his
| house in Brooklyn. *‘She came from
{ Syracuse three weeks ago, On the
23d ult, she started for her uncle's
| house on Elliott place. Brooklyn and
{ bas not been seen since. Mr, Eldridge
{could not identify the clothing, but
is positive that the girl was his serv-
ant. Her trunk is still at his house.
She frequently received letters from a
| triend in New Jersey.” A loquacious
{ young man, named T. Neary,
{ who thought the body was that of his
| sister, but could give ‘‘salisfac-
| tory answers’ upon examination. has
| been locked up.
1
John
not
’
led
n severely by
of a blast at West Roxbury,
JULh ult, Betsy
mall childre:
2} a @ 1
Joseph Holland was ki
homas Gly injured
hts ead £3
sachusetts, on the
i d, left three
2s hiavaer
Brookhaven,
¥ Ff fi
ong the Norfolk
road were shattered
The report ol
steamer Eagle, of t. }
foundiand, has been confirmed b
finding of wreckage from the vessel
Fank Island, off Bonavista
ippearance of the wreckage
that the vessel's bollers explo
it i8 believed that all on board wer
t } rew of 250 men,
1 t ts % 4 .
HO. ae Dad A (
fr
d, murdere:
remate he
- Tarleton Steele, colors
his wife and attempted to «
body near Ada, Alabama,
ago, He has been lodged
Mootgomery, and has confe
guilt, John T. Neary
arrested in
, after talkia
he police, on
the recent murde
charged on the mo
Was a detective
identification of the body mur.
dured girl by Mr. C, H. Eldrige turns
a mistake, It is now said ber
“that of a Danish immi-
Was
it or to
v & iO
Fuspici
Was dis-
He
Boston, ET
there,
ning of the lat,
from
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of
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grant
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— Mrs. Angus Camer
States Senator Cameron,
herself into the river at la
Wisconsin, on the 31st ult. She Wild
rescu=d and restored
It was her second a tempt at suicide,
her mind baving affected by an
injury to her spine several years ago
Kelly, of 'hila inl
i i
Le
Crosse,
LO consciousness,
*
Deen
~Chief Detective
phia, returned from
evening of the lst with
urities, all
Miller
the prop-
stoler Brothers,
erty from
adelphia, whose safe was broken open
bed on the of March
I. Access tothe building was gained
means of an unoccupied store next
door. The burglar, John Talbot, was
arrested by Inspector Byrnes, of New
York, ing on the suggestion of
Chief Kelly, who was convinced from
the character of the 106’ whose wo. k
has served a term
and is now under
night
Mil
act
T'allsst
A AlN in
indict.
ing recently escaped from
Slreet Jail,
Raymond
~The house of J. Ii, Bolin, in Cel.
on the
perished
was dan.
oth uit, and three children
in the flames, Mrs. Bolin
gerously injured,
~The snow blockade oa the
roads in Quebec bas beea raised and
the English mails which arrived in
Halifax a week ago were delivered In
(Quebec on the morning of the 1st.
~The total coinage of the U. 8.
Mints during March was $5,195,000,
including 3,020,380 standard dollars,
~Joseph Lindenwmuth and John Slat-
tery were injured, the former perhaps
fatally, by the explosion of a keg of
powder In a mine at New Castle,
Penna., on the afternoon of the 1st,
Lindenmuth hung his lamp upon a
prop, and was filling a cartridge when
the lamp fell into the keg.
~The Board of Pardons at IIarris-
burg m the lst commuted the death
sentence of Willlam Buset, of Elk
county, to imprisonment for life,
~The trial of Dr, James Hodges in
San Francisco, for exploding a bomb
during a Patti concert, has resulted in
a verdict of assault with an intent to
commit murder. Hodges testified that
he had gone to the theatre with the
intention of ending his life while atti
was singing, so that he “could be her
page in the spirit land.”
~In Lexi + Kentucky, on the
Slst uit, ‘Sam’ Magone, ‘a lead
rail-
hatter,” playfully painted” a rifle at a
ten-year-old colored girl and it
oil, The girl was wounded In the
forehead, and her recovery is doubtful,
Magone becamo *‘frantic with grief at
the accident.” 4
58.467 during March. Total cash in
the Treasury, $453,117,086.
Unbelief is the influence of all sins,
and binds them down upon us,
Let us search ourselves in the
place and atterwards the world.
Hope is the mainspring of happiness
resolution is the secret of success,
The wise and prudent conquer difli-
culties by daring to attempt them,
Be severe to yourself, indulgent to
others, and thus avoid resentment.
Sclentific scrutiny may take things
to pieces but it can’t put them together
again,
display; we retain by the qualities we
possess,
The most completely lost of all days
is the on which we have
laughed.
The wise man does not speak of all
he does, but he does nothing that cannot
be spoken of,
dociely is a troop of tninkers, and
them take
one not
the best heads
best places,
the
among
We must do quickly what there is no
hurry for, to be able to do slowly what
demands haste,
Small service is true service
lasts, Of friends, bowever
scorn not one,
He who is the most
prouiise 18 the most
formance of it.
He who find
ain ir
radi in
Ws il 18 as
untimely frost,
As long as we are 1
us living grace, t
What's
vine whe 5 :
GFE when you
thir it?
the use
RE Lear
Reputation is rarely proportioned to
We have seen a th
t merit Lh
that
{ if
eemed, either for the
ttained, or for
ave not vet a
1 possessed,
think of religion
escaping what
wrath to come, we shall af
we are already under we are Lhe
burden of death, for we cur 31iy f
nger
if we
of f
Neans ol
ws lw
OLY
we
+
nog
$a.
ii
C8Came
ourselves,
To be prudent, ho
accomplishments infi
are those being florid and
learned; or all that which the world
calls great, as good scholars and
gentlemen
The happiness of your life d I
upon the quality of your thought
therefore guard accordingly, and
care that you entertain no notions
suitable to virtue and nnreasona
nature,
good, are
gher than
of
une
I think that if you observe what
Justice and kindness both say to you in
the journey of life, other people will be
glad to walk with you and be sorry to
part with you, and that when you get
to the end you will lvok back on your
course with satisfaction and joy,
This may be said of the trials of
God’s servants in every age: that love
appoints them, wisdom chooses them.
Providence arrar g28 them, promises
aad glory shall be the issue of every
ope of them when every mystery shall
be cleared away, and when He who is
death to be swallowed up in victory,
that is in the highest condition of splir-
itual health,
work, The first appertamns more di-
rectly to the heart; the second appertains
as well to the head, the hands and
purse. The fullest combination of the
two would almost realize the ideal of
church life in its highest form.
“How was It possib'e for yon to
swallow 80 nauseous fruit?” asked the
master, Lokman answered, *‘1 have
received so many sweets from you that
it is not wonderful 1 should have swal.
lowed the only bitter fruit you ever
gave we." The master was $0 much
charmed with this reply that he gave
Lokman his liberty. The beautiful
answer might teach us 4 lesson. We
take the gifts from our heavenly Father
with a smillog face; but when he sces
best for our good to send us something
we do not like, our countenance falls,
and even if we do not speak, our sullen
discontent is apparent to all,
TRIBUTES TO WOMAN
Poet x
of many
thie Preachers
Lands,
ans From
SALON
Woman i
Woman
Wore $1
ignity,
AH that
shakespen
only heroine
Woman js
SL woman
In wishin
man destroys i
Nature
masterpiece,
There is a wou
all great things,
If woman!
alone can restore it,
I wish Adam
is body
Yi 43 ¢
THEA
I'o a gentleman
of her sex,
What is a woman?
ture’s agreeable |
A handsome
rood woman is
A fashion abl
with hersel
Won L§
f + :
Lat Lu
Tr Woman
at all whes
WwW COZY W
ty
This means th n cheerful
hard work on the one side, thrift and
self-denial on the other—in t. union.
the yoke of marriage is an
apparatus that should sit on two pairs
1s
iait
Ig a girl wait to wear het
it until it has been nicely
seemly in see
own part of
The Code of a Quakeress,
The following 1s a code of rules
beth Fry, the noted Quaker reformer:
1. Never lose any time. 1 do not
think that lost which is spent in amuse.
ment or recreation every day; but al-
ways be in the habit of being employed.
2. Never err the least in truth,
Never say any ill thing of a per-
son when thou canst say a good thing
of him. Not only speak charitably but
feel so,
4. Never be irritable or unkind to
anybody,
6 Never indulge thyself in luxuries
that are not necessary,
6. Do all things with consideration,
and when thy path of duty is most diffi-
cult, put coufidence in that power alone
which is able to assist thee, and exert
thine own powers as they go,
A I AI SO iri.
A wan displeased with the world is
never satisfied with himself,
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with fiea-bitten
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for hel head, nostril thin and «
panded, the throat of a Zame-Cock, Lhe
her skin so thin and soft that the thon
my runs
she was what you woukl
consider in England a pony, 14 hands
14 inches high; but she was as broad
almost as a dray horse, and her tail was
set up so high that as she moved about
her loose-box you could, stooping, walk
between it and the ground. Her feet
were black and hard, and the tendons
below her hocks and knees were like
harp strings. Add to this that her bead
was so lean that you might have boiled
it without obtaining any flesh from it,
and you have a picture of what this
desert-born mare was,
The tree will not only lle as it falis,
but it will fail as it leans. And the
sat question every one should bring
ome to himself, is, “What is the mn-
clipation of my soul? Does it with all
ita affections and powers, lean toward
God, or away from him?”
The human heart is like heaven the
more angels the more room,