-— A despateh from Westport, Con. necticut, says that, as a gravel train was crossing the New Haven Railroad drawbridge, on the afternoon of the 1st, George Il. Nordaby, a brakeman, saw a woman and two meu struggling n the water. Their boat had been struck by a squall and capsized, and the WO men were unable to save the woman. Nordaby plunged into the water below, a distance of forty-five feet, and rose to the surface within three feet of the drowning woman and bore her to the shore. Eleazer Page, 17 vears old, was drowned while boat- ing at Quebec, on the 2d, A younger brother of Eleazer, who had been ailing for some time, died shortly after the atter left the house. The mother, while suffering from the loss of the younger hrother, was informed of the wccident, She fainted and it 1s thought that she will die. -QOn the evening of the 3d, 225 pounds of dualin explcded in the Wil- bur mine, at Kingston, Ontario, doing great damage and seriously injuring a workman named Dunn, All ths men 'e mine only flve minutes be- bf L had left onl OLE, ing of the 2d a coal Leavenworth branch of n Pacific Railroad was thrown track by an switch, les from Lawrence, Kansas, J. Munden, Fireman Frank Thomas Brown fie even the open Drakeman seven young the river at Saco, Maine, on thie afternoon of the 4th, and Albert Carter, aged 19, and Charles Michel, aged 17, were drowned. —A freight train and a gravel train on the Reading Railroad collided, on the Oth, 1n Williamsport. Both engines and a number of cars were wrecked, and Michael Joyce, brakeman was Killed. The loss on property is $20,- 000, 1t issaid the conductor of the gravel train disobeyed orders. A train on the Newburyport Railroad struck a carriage at a crossing in North Beverly, Massachusetts, on the 5th, The pants were Mr. O, Menard, wife and child. Menard and the child were killed and Mrs, Menard fatally injurea, — Texas fever has broken out among the cattle in the northern part of Ver- million county, Illinois, It was intro- duced by Texas cattle sent there to feed. —Thomas Kane, of Abingdon, Illi- fired three shots at bis wife on the evening of the 3d, and she fell. Thinking he had killed her, he com- mitted suicide by shooting himself through the head. At North Grosver- nordale, Connecticut, on the 4th, a young Swede named Neilson 1 Len was upset cause his death in a short time. TI quarreiled over penny matching. the evening of the 4th a number drunken men raised a disturbance Mariana, Arkansas, arrested one thei while on his attempted to Pistol shots were exchar of the rioters was killed. — A car m the Erie R of way to rescue was thrown fre allway, al from Avon, on the 4th, of a wheel. Eever: iy Jacob’ he [ visit in the City of Mexico, and says that while there he met Polk and talked with hii, and found that he was In busimese there, — Martin Ryerson, the Chicago mil- ifonaire lumberman, died suddenly in heart. Dr, George B. Walker, a well- known physician, died at his home in Evansville, Indiana, on the 6th, from the effects of a surgical operation, He was in the 80th year of his age, and had practiced for fifty-two years, Rey, Alvin Woods, D. D., died at his home in Providence, Ilhode Island, on the Gth, aged 94 years, He graduated from Philips’ Academy, Andover and Har- vard, and was ordained in 1821. H. F. Williams, President of the First Nat- ional Bank of Northampton, Massa- chusetts, died on the Oth of consump- tion. ~Mrs, Charlotte PP, Woodward, 07 years of age, committed suicide, in Syracuse, New York, on the 6th, by taking rat poison, She was despondent over the dissipation of her husband and A despatch from Los Angeles, California, says the body of Rev, John I'isher has found. He dl suicide, **Moroseness, caused atiure of +3 S011. been some of his plans, led He was formerly a pro- I Hopkins Univ Robert J. Ruth, a fertilizer of New York, committed Baltimore on the 6tl y 1 He was 50 inet riset ine LUISE LIC LAAS & in Johns num, eC1il ¢ 1 of \ a) 1 Lis b dy. Philip Schembs, in jail at Louis- a, for drunkenne ommitied sai- ¢ on the morning of oth by cut- g his throat and malin artery of his left arm with a tin bucket 1n which soup had been sent to him, tha Lait ~—A despatch from Toledo, Ohllo, says the tornado which visited that section on the Oth originated in South. ern Michigan, It first struck the vil- lage of Sylvania, blowing down two gas well derricks and wrenching a boller from its brick foundation. One farmer had (ity acres of fine timber blown down. A brick school house at Michie was destroyed, The track of the tornado was south by east along the line of the Toledo and Ohio Cen- tral Railroad, and was from one to two hundred yards wide, No fences or tall trees are standing. Corn is scattered and houses and barns are unrooffed for miles, A severe storm passed over Worcester, Otsego county, New York, on the 7th, Amos Cornell was lifted off his feet bythe wind, thrown against a barrel twenty-five feet distant and killed, Two other men were severely injured, and four houses and barns were destroyed. The crops were also On the afternoon of the Tth ‘a tornado visited Binghamton, New York. It lasted only a short time, but parts of the city. A rain and { ball storm was experienced at Saratogo Springs and it wf . ~~ on the afterncon of the 7th, considerable damage resulted, —[tichard Hensler perished by a 1 & boarding house in Tonawand | New York, earl 27 Several by jump yrnell tement has been caused Datavia, Lib of a panther, supp fror wenagerie, has killed a dozen nd two cows, and has exhumed oodles from a cemetery. Hunt- jarties are after it. . wed to SOE about In January 1856, Abram McCaban an sployes of the Penns 10st their lives | railroad bridge at were began and a fected on the 5th. ceived $4500; Mrs, McCahan $4000, and Mrs. Turbett, $1500, in addition to $400 he received a year ago, The men were employed on a freight train, and, while it was crossing a bridge it went down, caused by a heavy flood in Sher- man creek. —Sheriff Owens attempted to arrest four desperadoes at Holbrook, Apache county, Arizona, on the evening of the 4th. He was fired upon and returned the fire, killing Andrew Cooper, and a half-brother, named Samuel Blevins, and wounding John Blevins and Moses B. Roberts, the latter mortally, A telegram from Syracuse, New York, says the mystery attending the murder of Mrs. Asa Stone has been dispelled by the confession of Edward Sheldon, a nineteen-year-old tramp, held on sus- picion, He says he went to her house and asked for food, She refused it and stepped towards him. He stopped her; she struck him in the face; he knocked her down with a club, and, to stop her screaming, choked her to death. He threw her body into the cellar. ~The business portion of Calico, a village in Southern California, was burned on the evening of the 4th, Loss between $75,000 and $100,000, The large beading factory of Frank & Adams, at the crossing of the Bee Line and Pan Handle Railroad, in Ander. ton, Indiana, was burned on the even- ing of the 5th, In addition to the fac- tory two acres of heading and staves and three cars loaded with heading bolts were consumed, The residence of Thomas Trueblood was also burned, Loss, $25,000; insurance, $20,000, Trains on the Bee Line were delayed ten hours, -~-A despatch from Chattanooga, Tennessee, says that several years ago Marsh L. Polk robbed the State Treas. ary of several hundred thousand dol- lars while serving as Slate Treasurer, He was arrested and in a short time he was reported to have died, His body was shipped from Nashville to Bolivar, Tennessee, where 1t was buried, A Mr, Gamble, a prominent citizen of Anniston, Tennessee, has just returned home from an extended vichard Turbett, Amos Baldwin, fivania Rallroad, estruction of the Duncannon. Suits settlement was ef- Mrs, Baldwin re- ¥ Lhe ( i 2s 3 1 al x po 6th, destroyed 3 a graln vator and a number of stables, caus a 1088 estimated at £75,000, Erie and Western damaged that Rawson is a town of about itants. A the Barren Fi Company, 1 Somerset, Kentucky, on t of the 7th, the costly chinery used in mining, The estimated at over $100,000, ag The Lake Was 80 was 1000 inhab- fire in ti agine badly track ee hii Frcitie Louse o ear Hue ¥ destroved a- loas i5 ~In Baffalo, on the morning of the Tth, Alois 'roell, 60 years of age, at- tempted to murder his wife while she was alseep. He struck her several blows on the head and mflicted injuries which make her recovery doubtful, Supposing he had killed her, he gave himself up to the police. A few days ago she had him arrested on a charge of assaulting their daughter, and he claimed that there was a conspiracy against him. While Manhall Eastry was at work at a saw mill in St. Helena Parish, Louisian, on the 6th, two men, named Swearingen and Newman, ap- proached and the former said they had come from Mississippt to kill Eastry, At the same time he discharged both barrels of a gun into Eastry's body, Eastry ran into the mill, procured a gun and killed Swearingen on the spot. Newman then fired at Eastry, but missed him, and was pursued by Eastry until the latter fell dead, — An attempt was made on the morn. ing of the 7th, to wreck the Chicago, Milwaukee and St. Paul train, convey- ing: the Burr Robbins circus from Scotland to Yankton, Dakota. Old rails and telegraph poles were placed across the track, but, as the train was moving slowly, the engineer saw the obstruction in time Lo stop. - A ‘natural gas jubilee’ washeld in Toledo, Ohio, on the evening of the 7th, to celebrate the arrival of the new fuel in Toledo from wells in Hancock and Wood counties, A stand pipe was erected on each of the principal street corners, and each gave out *‘a roaring toreh of flame as big as a haystack, burning under a pressure of 300 pounds to the square inch,” the Hlumination making the city **as light as day.” An open air meeting was held at which fifteen thoueand people were present, Mayor Hamilton presided, and speeches were made by ex-President Hays and General James A. Ashley, , =—-During a steeplechase at Niagara Falls, on the 7th, Lucy Lightfoot stum. bled and fell on her jockey, Warder, injuring him so badly that be died the samo night, \ fn George Godin was killed and four t olliers were severely injured by a rail road accident near Bathurst, New Brunswick, on the 6th. Two passen- | ger trains on the Wisconsin Central {aflroad collided at Schleisingerville, Wisconsin, on the 7th, wrecking a lo- | comotive and two coaches, The infant child of Mrs. John Past, of Granville, was dangerously injured. ~The State Live Stock Commis. sioners of Illinois have discovered that the Texas Fever is rapidly killing off cattle in the southern section of Chi- cago. Professor Law believes that the shipping of Texas cattle to the North and East during the warm months **should be prohibited by the Govern ment and by all the State authorities,” Thirty-three cows belonging to John Clay, a milkman in Baltimore county, Maryland, affected with pleuro- pneumonia, were killed and buried on the 6th, The State paid $15 per head for them. -—A heavy storm set in at Cheboy- gan, Michigan, on the evening of the 6th, and continued until the 7th, T'rees were uprooted and the smoke stacks of several mills were overturned and other damage done, A large fleet of ve i are anchored in the harbor for shelter, No wrecks were reported, — Nicholas Kuebele, and fataily Becker, aged 7 ' Pa 1 payin a er’'s da ter. and house, Hefus! 886004 shot the ensued, during which the shot, In Omaha, the Alblec fatally wounded then shot himself dead. James Saddler was kille New! on the i. to kill Werts got the drop on shot him des on Jealous # the cause, Joseph Werts, in South Carolina, had threatened but the latter tagonist and road.” Twelve hundred drowned a few days spout on Careless ( county, Montana, ~Henry Esmond, charged with mail robbery, and Edward Powers, charged with murder, escaped from the United States wing of the prison in Rioux Falls, Dakota, on the evening of the 7th, They threw a blanket over the head of a depuly warden who came to lock them up, gagged and bound him and fled with 8330 and two Win chester rifles, —A severe thunder storm over Lancaster and Chester Pennsylvania, on the afternoon of the 7th. In Lancaster county the barns of John Eaby, in Salisbury township, and Amos Hook, Millersville, were destroyed by lightning, with their con- tents, Four horses and a mule in George Mann's stable, at Manor, were killed. At Bart, the public school house was struck, and pupils were county, the | sliver slieep by a in were waler- Meagre ago 1 I'eex, pas ae counties, $ Be . ss $ shar ay the teacher and thirteen Chester ' rom the dwellin | months-old child in the po returning she found the house In lames | and the money gone, She barely es- caped with the child. The building and contents were destroyed and there Was no iusurance, ~Uhaplain Dram, of Castle Garden, New York, on the Bth, received a telegram from Rev. Mr. Danner, of New Brighton, Penna. , requesting him, if possible, to detain Mrs, Barnes, one of 400 Mormons who arrived on the steamer Wisconsin on the 7th, and prevent her from going to Salt Lake City. The request was made at the instance of a daughter of Mrs, Barnes, who lives In New Brighton, It is sald Mrs, Darnes, who 18 accompanied by her second husband, desires to go to her daughter, but her husband will not consent, ~—Dr. D. A. Tait, of Philadelphia, and Miss Minnie Buechle, of Fotlts- town, Pennsylvania, were to have been married on the 8th. Dr. Tait and a number of Lis friends arrived at Potts. town on the evening of the 7th, and found Miss Buechle ill. She died on the morning of the Sth after an illness of less than two days, —The Hotel Arlington, at Saeger- town, Pennsylvania, erected last spring at a cost of $25,000, was kestroyed by fire on the morning of the 8th, The guests, 25 in number, barely escaped, saving nothing. The furniture, valued at $7000, was insured. A despatch from Koehler, Michigan, says that nearly every lumber camp in that part of the State has been burned. On the Sth a strip of country three miles wide by ten long was burned over. On tbe 8th a heavy storm scattered the fires. Full particulars of the fire at New- burgh, Ontario, on the Tth, show that nearly fifty families are left without shelter; that nota business man escaped the conflagration, and that only two or three carried any insurance, and these only for small amounts, Thomas Crowe, Thomas Kelly and snother man named ‘Walters were buried alive on the evening of the Oth, in the new aqueduct at North Yon- kers, New York, by a cave-in of earth, They are ‘under one hundred and twenty feet of earth, and there is no hone of rescuing them alive. the Bth, Loss, $60,000, insured. Fire, on the morping of the Oth, destroyed the Roaring Springs Blank Book Fae- tory building and a wagon factory, at Roaring Springs ta. Several dwellings were damaged. lL.oss, $55,000, A fire ing of the 9th, desroyed Drothers’ dry goods store, causing a joining hardware store of Macy & Co. to the extent of several lars, A fire was raging on the 9th near Louisville, Kentucky of pine timber have and many acres been destroyed. ' by and see their possessions swept walter, waler bardly enough on their places. The fires extended for a distance of about three miles square. The Railroad station, Fulton & Board's grist blacksmith shop were burned at Wash- Ingtonville, New York, on the Of the Bth, Matthias EK, Hermise shot with suic intent in Newark idal ¢ Jersey, on wrning of [i+ being stock there for the gq S95 (HUH) Lo B, oa SUU, himself a ’ NEW ’ the Sth. Al th, Frederick K shot and Wallace, whom 's wife die months ago, after him on account Knight a few having separated fro f his intimacy with the Wallace woman, While drunk, on the 9th, Richard Hanley, a laborer, 45 years old, living with his family in a tene- ment house in New York, attacked his wife and Mrs, Margaret visitor, and then set Qre to the build- ng. The fire was extinguished, and, furing the attempt to arrest Hanley, was shot in the wrist. Mrs, Han- recovery doubtful. Mrs, wounds are not { { he ‘go! ta iey’s is ; Clair's serious, — Jockey West, who was Injured the race track at Saratoga last month, died on the Charles H. Kinser- hoff, of New York, 45 years of walked off the p.atform of a car on Rockaway Railroad into J ica on the evening the drowned, Farmer Lyman, a yf the southern Grove township, Illinois, was gored death by a bull on the 8th, A des- patch from Oswego, New York, says Pat llahan, a member Infant bry, drowned On Gi hs Sih, age, jay ’ ol y AL 1 was resident iek F. ( of Come stationed fe crew, -o-- Bird Legends nor @ VIGOR i i il $3 ' + peop re i : n : A asleep, and tl upon grew 1 ie tendrils of the vis « 50 that away, and [nally it the other or dared sleep at night. und its feet then eT —— Gypsy Women at Dinner, bronzed, and both and their in front, Both were sun wore coral earrings, bonnets were back side squatted on a wisp of hay bands, by hedged her in. 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It was a frontier post, six eompa i nies, Colonel In command and Mrs, | Colonel in command of him; the boys | called ber “*The General.” But Miss { Mary, the Colonel's daughter, all { thought was the loveliest creature on | earth. Frank Moore, Yost Adjutant, | a noble fellow, proposed and was re. Ther came young Vanecamp, | just graduated from *‘the Point,” with | no end of ducats in the bank and his | family, and he made fierce love to Miss | Mary. The General backed him for ail she was worth, and Mary did not dis- | like the lively, good looking and very | rich youngster, while she was some- | what in awe of quiet, stern Moore, | fused, | tant walked up towards the Colonel's house, When within | porch, he quickly came to a and made his way | office, Ten minutes after, the corporal of the guard appeared al the { with him, on a reeking, blown horse, | was a ranchman., There was news to tell, the Reds were out, families { had butchered, thelr The burned, and stock carried away, Moore again went the cl juarters, and entered Mary and Vancamp, together, The ‘right i about” 4 wr LWO been (ii: ve Le 14d {rive 1 v RY lake care « ulant Cll Aan adj would do you riddance of , under her breath. sir, I'll attend 2’11 start at once,” Jpausing only to say ‘*Good- Mary, to hold her hand a her that and he moment i 3, and to look nto 13 8 v av . eyes with a deep steady gaze Tt tumult hie the the calls i to beat | were { 1ssuing of rations, {and in aif an Yancamp did not before the news arrived, he had 1 by Mary. He told her accepled b d pictured ol QOous:y. 0 there the orders, hasty ts and raddles ’ were ' Le} BM off. 5 Find 5 rs ’ wr nour they $ ff n i aileen mine go; ules been i he would resign, a ve 1} | AOE IADgUag ead. Hit OW failed, * & courier, lat +b Fo expedition, told with Let. 19 mmaacin had one brush All saluted, “*Beg pardon, Col and miss; but the 1. we started back, wrote and told me, in case he ber, ordied on the way, them from his pocketbook and them to you;” and the soldier from his breast a folded paper—a leaf torn from a note-book--and handed it to the astonished, frightened girl. these could I was to take give {00k She opened it and read: “Mary, I have been badly hurt, It | is a long hard ride back, 1 may die of the would or of bemorrhage, You will forgive me when 1 say once more, I love you, and never loved a woman but you. What I saw the evenlng we started convinced me you have made your choice. He 1s young, but I think a good fellow. You will be very rich, but you must not refuss my little for- tune; 1 leave all I have to you--there ia no one living belonging to me. Your father has my will, though he does not know its contents, God for- ever bless you, Good-by, FRANK Moore.” The girl dropped the paper and stood, white and stil, as a statue. The (General pounced upon the scrap, and while she was adjusting her eye-glasses, Mary was hearing from her father and the man such particulars as could be quickly told. “Where is he? Where did you say he was!’ she asked with bated breath, “At McCarthy's ranch, twelve miles up South Fork, Miss.” “Father!” and she turned to the Col. onel with a command of air and speech totally unlike bher,—**Father, I must have the ambulance.’ “Go,” she sail to the trooper, *‘tell them to put the bes. mules to the am- bulance, ask Sergeant Major Green to pick out six men for an escort, and not a moment is to be lost!” “Wh-wh-what! my dear, why Mary!” apluttered the Colonel. “Hity tighty! what’s all this, Miss, are you crazy?” boomed the General, “It means that 1 am going to Frank Moore; I'm going to him if I have to walk, and by myself, He’s dying, he wants me, I know he wants me; and I'm going to him.” **The girl's crazy, raving crazy! Col. onel do you hear her? Why don't you exert your authority. Oh! that 1 should live to see my child act so. You shan't stir out of this house this night, Miss, if I have to put an armed guard over you." “Iam going to Frank Moore,’ ane wered Mary, and she left the room to prepare for her journey, The General raised a perfect cy but her usually obedient daughiier was deaf and dumb to commands, «nt reaties, arguments, threats, and considerations of what Vancamp might think, say , Or do in regard to her actions, : Mary conquered, The General pre. pared to accompany her, and they were ready when the ambulance up, the grizzied old Sergeant Major Liimself in charge of the escort. They were soon at MeCarthy’ “1 am Mrs, Colonel Martinet, the General, loftily., “You have of our officers here, wounded; i drove “How Is he now—how is he?" gasped ooked close al her, ** 7 Dead an’ he's better wudn win they carried ood nurse though I say a bit ov a dochter beside got him aisy loik, an’ stopped an’ he come t ian we see | Fat 1 4 LU Hsure one « nd gnat a large she saw the outils singie candie gave black One She took it own trembling palms. The man looked up, I ’ . ¥ « 5 3 ! Mary! can this be 3 {0 se ae ar really come 1 ing again?" “It is me, Mary, Mr. I came because I could felt that 1 must come, And now 1 fear I wrong.” “You could never do w he whispered hoarsely again. Your kind comfort me he whisper Moo res or while co Defending the Co +3 wie uettie is an amiable being. b 00g nothing small about ber, y business at retail. She dis- tributes pleasure at wholesale, while her mischief is disposed of in job lots. She is the enlivening element amid the heavy formelities of society. She stirs up the froth where otherwise would be a solid omelet that is served up to you, "Tis the coquette that provides all the amusement, suggests the riding party, plans the picnic, gives dash in the private theatricals, She is the soul of the house, the salt of the banquet; the subtle power of her personal presence is felt rather than de. fined everywhere, She 1s a blessing to the community at large when she employs her time re- moving the glaring self-complacency of the average young man, The man who has become possessed of the opinion that a woman dare not jiit him becomes, sometimes a useful citizen through the coquette't minis- trations. How could society dispose of that pampered son of fortune, possessing a dashing tally ho, unlimited ice-cream assets and superabundant sentiment in his composition, if the coquetts did not take him under her wing for a sea- son? Ah, for the pleasures of life the co- quette is only too rare, It is not every one who possesses the ability for such a career. It requires great energy, iniinite tact, and a gay and alry spirit. Some one attempted to be facetious when he said a cogquetie was a rose from which every admirer plucked a leal leaving only the thorns for her husband, but history teaches the re- verse, The coquelte oftener makes a model wife; her experience gives her a great knowledge of men, She knows their weaknesses thoroughly and it enables her to adopt herself to all her hus. band’s foibles and hoodwink him into accepting her own without him discov ering he is doing so. But then if you do not like the co quette you will have no difficulty in tinding a male companion of the same wind as yourself, She does ne
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