SERS a we er —The Groff, in entered house of Dr. De Hoboken, New Jersey, was by burglars on the evening of the 28th and robbed of $700 in money, $2700 in Adams Express bonds and $1500 in silverware. —A fire in Brooklyn, on the evening of the 28th, destroyed the cooperage works of I. M. Palmer, a freight house of the Erie Railroad, and some smaller buildings. The losses are $200,- 000, of which $130,000 falls on the cooperage. A fireman had three ribs broken by a falling wall. —Celestin Vezeau, lis son Charles, Joseph RRobindoux, Wilfred Herrieux, Phileas Vanier and Nelson Montreauil, went in a row boat from Montreal to Nun's Island on the evening of the 38th, They spent the night in drink- ng, and, cn trying to get back to the 2ity early 01 the morning of the 20th, the boat capsized and all except Mon- treauil were drowned. of the Ivania Railroad, tha 27tl hows — The official list of victims lisaster on the Pennsy it Horseshoe Bend on 3 x Killed lisaster on road, on the 2 was killed, and 30 badly injured t 8 24th, 8 the and eight injured, }y 1 the Lake Campiain Rail- 1, the fireman, Tatrow, he engineer, Chappell, hat he died in a few ours, Another train band had an wnkie fractured. Mathias Schultz, aged 30 years, a brakeman on the Read- ny Ratlroad, was run over at l.ocust- lule on the 28th and so badly injured that he died a few hours later. Williams attempted to passenger train while the railroad bridge over Richmond, Vir- He missed his the falls, 60 feet walter feel first, broken collar! 1} Li t f v — Richard on a struck the with a severe id escaped i Several e lar e. Jol A man structure and, overta farm, sho! that he die H. Carn resort in Wiln as the be had a gru — A severe earthquak gales, Anz ma, at 1 the 30th is ternoon of min felt ites allerwards alighter sl! Was ‘he ult... visited Nogales, demolishing many buts and unroofing larger Luild- fuga, Up to 10 o'clock on the morn- ing the S0th ult., no more earth- quake shocks were experienced in the City of Mexico. Dunng the night a heavy .ain fell, cooling the weather, Some of the more lightly constructed modern buildings are badly cracked, and it is feared the roofs of many of the ylder ones are in a dangerous condition. ~There was another death from yel- low fever in Key West on the morning of the 20th ult, The disease is of a most malignant type, and, in anticipa- tion of an epidemic, the Health Board has applied for the use of the hospital at the United States barracks, The 4-year-old daughter of Green- berry Davis died on the 20th ult,, of hydrophobia, at Wood's Run, near Pittsburg. She was bitten by a dog about seventeen months ago. — William Showers, 59 years of age, was arrested at Annville, Lebanon county, Penna., at midnight on the 30th ult., on the charge of murdering his grandchildren, William and Samuel, aged respectively 3 and 5 years. They were the illegitimate offspring of Show. ers’ deceased daughter, and it is sup. posed the object of the crime was to enable the grandfather to marry a woman who did not want to be burd- ened with the boys, and who wished to have them cared for by some other persons. The children disappeared about two weeks ago. Their bodies have been found buried in Showers’ yard, with ropes around the necks and the skulls crushed in, The murderer has confessed his crime. Samuel Prinkey fatally stabbed his wife with a penknife near Conrellsville, Penna... done, On a violent **d No damage wwvening of 29th £ eycione'’ of had been separated for several weeks, John Matz, aged years, shot and severely wounded Annie Gring, and then committed suicide, In Reading, Penna., on the evening of the 30th ult, The woman was the divorced wife of a man named Fox, and jealousy caused the tragedy, CC, R, Jackson shot and killed t’eter Fraser, at Albuquerque, New Mexico, on the 28th ult,, in a fight arising out of an old grudge. Policeman Thomas Tyrrell shot and killed James Carroll, “a pugnacious prisoner,” at Wankegan, lllinois, on the 31st ult. In Detroit, on the 30th ult., William B. Dolan interfered with Policeman John Klebs, whe was try- ing to quell a disturbance, and was shot dead by Klebs, Mrs, Conner, grandmother of Dolan, dled during the night from the effects of the shock. 26 -—There was a cave-in, caused LY melting snow, at the Mullen tun- nel of the Northern Pacific Rallroad, near Butte, Montana, on the 28th ult, which may stop the transfer of heavy freight for some time, The break is about 75 feet in depth and 100 in length, — Reports + received in Reading, I’enna., oun Lhe ist ult., from various points in Berks, Lebanon, Lehigh and neighboring counties, which show that *‘this vear’s wheat will realize only about half a crop. The destructive Hessian fly, which had entirely disap- appeared for the past two years, Is aga/n ravaging the wheat flelds, and acres of it are dying in consequence. The Colorado beetle, which has 1ab- ited these counties for the past thir- teen years, is yo 1? inl also doing considerable usiliag An seemed ¥ i Of which expio- felt OO COCK earthquake shock like an underground great severity,” was at 8101 al lan at 10} Jamestown, LU * New York, at the morning 3 it. Many i alarm felt uses in the mornl r of Wi was fo the ro (ip id. Charles arrested said t been andal is teen -year-oid county, Un Lhe and lvoe Kentucks 20th 1 hed 1 11 HN yan (reorge H. Disque, convicted of tl murder of his wife, at Hoboken, New Jersey, was i i! 1st. lle © hanged on the 1 confessed his gv — A Judge of Probate named Follett has disappeared from Grand Rapids, Michigan, after stealing and forging to the amount of $350,000. He was rained by speculation. John J. Geodman, 18 years: of age, was arrested in New York on the morning of the 24. for stealing $2000 from the Butterick Pub- lishing Company. He carried the mul of the company to the post office each day and it was his custom to steal let- ters containing money or checks, The money was spent in gambling. J, J. Hartigan, of Tracey, Minnesota, was recently induced by a stranger named Powell to start a bank. Powell *“‘put in no capital to speak of.” He issued a certificate of deposit to an alleged brother for 811.000. The brother went east and had the certificate cashed by a bank in New York. Before cashing the certificate the New York parties tele. graphed to Powell at Tracey, and re. ceived the reply that the money was on deposit. Powell left Tracey as soon as he had assisted his confederate to have the certificate cashed, --On the evening of the 1st, about fifty men left Annville for Lebanon, Peuna,, to lynch William Showers, in jail there for the murder of his two grand-children, The would be lynchers were joined by one hundred and fifty others ln Labavon, but they were met by seme officials and Induced to dis perse on the promise that Showers “should receive full justice,” Showers insists that the children were mur. dered by a man named Hoffnagle, who was married to Showers’ daughter, five illegitimate children with as many different fathers, Showers claims that Hoffnagle kidnapped and murdered the | children, and buried them in the ditch | In Showers’ garden. ~The house of Gi, Vincennes, Indiana, was struck by lightning on the 1st, All the family were kpocked senseless and two chil- dren were dangerously injured, -A panic occurred in the cathedral al Chihuahua, Mexico, on tie afler- noon of the 1st, caused by the falling of a candle, which ret fire to one of the altars. A rush was made for the door, and in the panic several children were Killed and a number of women were injured, ~—An express train on the Pittsburg and Western Railroad ran into a lume ber car on the evening of the 1st and the engine was wrecked. W. Joehnson, fireman severely injured, The collision was caused by the lumber car sliding from asiding to the main track, — Benjamin Courtright, 30 years of accidentally shot himself dead while examining a shot at his house In Scranton, enna., on the 2d. He leaves a widow and two children. *“*A fatal epidemic of 8 i8 reported in Goodhope, county, South Carolina, M have occurred, and bolh the sicians are prostrated. —W. TT. Ric zen, was wayviald nea: Kentucky, on the evening of ult,, by his son-in-law, Vernor beaten senseless and juries are fatal. There was a grudge be- | tween men, Robert Gravatt, 45 Years age, savagely 1 t and Jo | ulted his brother's widow rint age, gun 1 o ms kind’ deaths l phy any i QCA ketts, a prominent citi- a or the Of the aon of cases of yellow of SX vale IVR IE. st, on the 3d, is 13 resulted fat 114 Aiiy., liree Cot ~The latest particulars of the panic in the Cathedral at Chihuahua, Mexico, onthe Ist, show that three children aud two women were Killed, and sixty persons injured, The building is abso- | lutely fireproof, the only inflammable | materials being some adjuncis of the | altar, and Lhe exits are ample, Some of the witnesses assert that the loss of | Ife was caused by the stupidity of sev- | eral policemen who closed the doors as soon as they heard cries from inside, —A train onthe New York and New Haven Railroad, on the 3d, ran into a number of Italian laborers, near Ma- maroneck, killing one of them and severely injuring two others, ~The trouble between the full- blooded and haif-breed Choctaws, in the Indian Territory, is reported to be growing. Several encounters have re- sulted in bloodshed, Oa the 30th uit,, a party cf whites and half-breeds were attacked on Duffalo Creek by a party of full-bloods, and several were woun.- ded on bouvh sides, two fatally. It is sald that “many of the full-bloods urge the expulsion of every white man in Choctaw territory, giving as a reason that they are dangerous in stirring up strife between full-bloods and half- breeds, and are constantly eneroaching on Indian rights,” RAVING CRAZY. Crazey What Crazy That, and Woman do Next? This and Will the As a reporter was interviewing a prominent gents’ furnishing goods dealer in regards to the spring styles in hats yesterday, he overheard the fol- lowing confab between two lately mar. ried men: “Neat looking silk hats, those, eh, Smith?” “Yes, and that reminds got to get me another,” “What! another one. Why, it was only three weeks ago that you bought one, Wkthat has become of that?” Heard me, I've “Gone, thing Jones, gone, about those crazy women are going insane over? eh?” “No, but what hats?” “Well. lI ¢ last that got to do with ell you, one, I carried it home and intended to go , but when I went there. 1 asked Mrs. gal it tog it itw Smith Hoi) Jol ark a 1 Ya » ur SUCH & I0YelY Cra? , John, was that nme in i 16 arm and pil the crazy px room, and I —~ HE PEOPLE OF THE NORTH. Visit to teristics Hudson's Bay—~-Charac- of the Mixed acos fn (lawa of would be x yal IV LIZA SAVAZes, as | grandeur of tl aspect of ininbavitable re America waste than between U fT the coast of and Fort Churehill on uthern part ot H Although little is known regarding this weird and frozen region, growth within nNEAva Labrador on the the west udson Sas : east, and Bay yet the it has had a and having been mea- but the extent of land back from the coast on either side, 18 thickly popala- in a region of perpetual frost and snow must bring. Hudson's Bay itself is really an inland sea, extending between Jatitude 61 and Gi north, and longi- tude 77° and 95° west, and while about 1,000 miles long at its greatest distance, is only about 600 miles in breadth, cov- ering an area of over 500,000 square miles, It is navigable only for about three mouths in the year—from the middle of June to the middle of Sep- tember—and for the remainder of the year is filled with drift ice, which renders navigation, even for a short dis- tance, an absolute Impossibility, The eastern coasts of the bay are sights to be admired, cliffs rising In many cases to the height of from 200 to 400 [feet abruptly from the being composed of | ice and frozen snow, shine light until it is almost The residents of this section are properly Esquimaux, but a cross be- who have come in for the hunting and fishing, and Onally settied purpose ith them other life in the priva- | tions which no affords, | an average, in the summer months, the above, { do and share thermometer stands ut about 45 while the the { runs as low as 60 temperature in Fish in are the 25 below, about | scarce and ean be caught average only i river, | the Whale, while there is the Ilayes, Nelson, Churchill Great on the fl 'l ] i Weeknisk, Mair in plenty, Moore, Albany Abbltit be, ut are extremely shy and hard f tives to at, while porpoise equally difficult ret hol for . s ant Seal abound Or Lhe and apt + He ik art ad the ma are about is § is that mt Lhe 3 3 aa} sider himself a search of kind the priest of 1 and it le parish has great has been whispered that. these good men 1d articles in the way of “ ' manage to he less desir floated, thus pre- market, However this may be, marriages enjoyment and everybody seems happy. --—- Chipping Irving's Tombstone, hunters so clip aud hammer the stone that marks It did not seem to me 4 grievous wrong, nor in any true sense a profanation of the grave, but rather a testimony to the lovableness of Irving's character, and an evidence of the wide extent of his fame, that, from filling the cucle of the educated and refined among his conntrymen, has now come to include that lower stratum of onr commen humanity which has only instinctive and, so to speak mechanical ways of expressing its feelings, im sb We are sowing seeds of truth or error, of dishouesty or integrity, every- where we go that will take root mn somebody's life, It is what a man does, not the esti mate which is put on a man's doing, that is & man’s real measure of attain. ment in the world, | FOOD FOR THOUGH Unstained honor is ment, Trifles make perfection, tion 18 no trifle, It is better to fight for to rall at the evil, A sunny temper glids i life's blackest cloud. The world deals good | good natured people. mon ana periec Lian thie ere navurediy Charity 1s a first mortgage | human being’s posses Every duty we omit obscures { truth we should have known. (reat hearts alone much glory there is in being good merit is like a is, the less noise i S108, . 1 at caw ¥ nGersiand True deeper it If keep pegging away | chances are you won't go barefoot, Ver take You The first and last thing wi ig HCH A % the F re im Lrulhs, 16. quired of genius } VE Hidden virtue 1s often hing extos jaspised, inas- eyes, much as no To he another ur renown and our sweet ( Our ip one $ 3 as Lil icked o To be | + nan | ones 3 3 i than fF AIWAVS |] : pannil pupil to { endure to be t maintain his and time life, and all tals are th tmp 1) tive resent either than they know mney mirdens of th here some have a cheering word {or They make Ii for all who are are LI ugg ier. possible ’ gl ® aL. { make ils prac- Teach se {denial and 8 | tice pleasurable, and you create for the | world a destiny me than ever issued from the bral: f §) wildest ireamer. more sul [14] There 18 no death, | stale, We die, ye! | wondrous love, We carry ourselves t i ’ | otherwise we go not Oh, Y ou say you bave doubts, yo this | eymling-head! No wonder. Now, if { you will pull up one of your doubls by {the roots, you will lind something on | the tap root, and th ame of that something is sin The whole Jaw tor a noble and devout { life is not altered by resson of any new { circumstance, It still remains true { that a mind silently wailing before God | is the condition without which such a life is impossible. As the Gowers fol- low the sun, and silently hold up their petals to be tinted and enlarged by his shining, so must we, if we would know the joy of God, hold our souls, will, heatls and minds, still before Him whose voice commands, whose love warms, whose truth make fair our whole being. God speaks for the most part in such silonce only, 1{ the soul be full of tumult and jangling noisas, his voice is little likely to be heard. As in some Kinds of deafoess a perpetual noise in the head prevents hearing any other sounds, the rush of our own fevered blood and the throbbing of our own nerves hinder us from oatehing His topes. It is the calm luke which mirrors the sun, the least cat's paw wrinkling the surface wipes ont all the reflected glories of the heaven. 11 we would Lear God our souls must be in Callan a 0 i
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