letters have reached the Ameri can Board of Commissioners for For- eign Missions, in Boston, picturing a people of the Cilician Plain, Asia Mi por. Large numbers of the people are starving, and the source of food supply has been almost exhausted, About 1500 families are now being fed. The Board has decided to make an appeal for funds with which to alleviate the distress. Numbers of people are kept alive by eating grass, roots, berries and small fruits, Families will need aid to enable them to live uutil next harvest, Funds will be forwarded by L. D. Ward, No. 1 Somerset street, Boston, Treasurer of the Board. —The Atlantic express oun the New York, Pennsylvania and Ohio Rall- road, while running 45 miles per hour, on the afternoon of the 12th, collided with a locomotive that was standing on the track at Meona, Ohio. Norman Gregg, engineer of the passenger tral, was instantly killed, and his fireman had both arms broken. John Haley, engineer of the single locomotive, was fatally injured. No passengers were hurt, Both locomotives were com- pletely demolished, and the track was torn up for some distance, A passen- ger and freight train collided on a trestle on the Pan Handle Railroad at Benwood, West Virginia, on the 11th, Five freight cars went over the tre stle, and John Braddock, a brakeman, was injured. Subsequently the engine : $ ng to remove wreck started to Wheeling, bul encountered a cow at a stle and was thrown into a train of on a siding, and blocked the tearing is sist he { freight ars the { by Ww i I'olice Haris of fe , received a telegram from ( arrest Charles Brown : The complaint was diorse burglary. The officer met a M the depot whom Le took f irown, and when he attempled to ar- rest Lim the boy fled, The otlicer fired four shots at him, the and resulting fataliy. The boy proved to be A. H. Ford, of Meridian, Texas A despatch from 1 that as Fayette and John were returning home from m the evening of the 18th, ired upon from a thicket and John wa mstantly killed. One of the ambu Newton Blackwell, was killed t knewn how many persons were ush. Newton Dlackwell fwas r of Rev. Rich waylaid iil Ellsworth Anderson, a character, t led v Mi hief of hal well to Years. ing and od AL boy I Darnelle @i30, was siead- neanit ABGIIIVY. -Two Lor ago, aad ror traning passenger LTAlng Milwaukee and ilroad collided on a curve ] from Dubuque St. i re seven o'clock { the 19th. mashed and Fales ana Elmer ers; William R Cummings, firemen brakeman—were INesse ny dangerously. { 3 {tothe n I tcher at La Crosse y, at four o'cl yf tie 19ch, the first section burg, Chicago and Fort Way: train broke down and the se I John of fire, exple tearin engine? tramp. ock o1 $ Lion fireman, second loaded stroving cars, track and ng the second section and a Dolan and a companion, supposed to be William Banks, of Wyandotte, while drunk, went to sleep on Lake Shore tracks, near Detroit, Michigan, on the 19th, and were run over by a freight train, Both men were killed, ~— A gale from the wnertheast on the evening of the 17th, caused great dam- age at Portugal Cove, Newfoundland, Many boats were driven ashore from their moorings, and others were dashed against the cliffs and destroyed. At Placentia several eraft weredriven sea- ward. At Bonavista all sorte of wreck- age is strewn along the shore, Twenty boats were driven ashore and seven sunk zt their moorings. The loss will be heavy. A man named Learned was blown into the water from a wharf and drowned, ~A despatch from New Orleans says the easterly winds which have pre. valled for several days have forced the waters of the gulf against the embank- ment all along the Lomaville and Nash- ville Railroad, between Lookout Sta. tion and Micheaud, and several wash- outs have occurred, delaying traflic. Malls and passengers are transferred by steamer from Rigolets to Milneburg, ~A despatch from Wilkesbarre, Penna. says two freight trains collided on the porth branch of the Peunsylva- nia Railroad, near Monanoqua, on the evening of the 19th, Four box cars loaded with giant powder exploded, tearing up the tracks and ties and wrecking about 25 cars, The latter caught fire, and with their coutents were destroyed, Lewis Metz, Ellwood Swank and James Kean, all brakemen, were fatally injured. Some of the cars avere blown iuto the woods, several hundred yards distant. It 1s sald the loss to the railroad company will reach $300,000, «An express train on the Indianapo- lis and St. Louis Railway was, on the 10th, wrecked near Fern Station, Indi ana, by the breaking of a wheel. ‘I'he engineer and (ireman~father and son, named Reddipgton-—were killed, and the passengers were badly shaken up, ~'Two four-year-old boys—Freder- jek Tiulett and Bernard Moore— while playing near their homes on Washing ton street, New York, on the after- noon of the 19th, were run over by a wagun driven by Michael Holmes, ren i i i * + E11 1 BLO 30, KIIiNE SEVeral Cars section caught with dynamite several inniuri HINT the gerously if not fatally injured. There was a collision on the eieva ted ratlroad in Drooklyn on the even. ing of the 10th between an east hound train and a wild’ engine ahd of it. Edward Cooper, lireman of the [irst en gine, had his leg fractured and was badly scalded, and Conductor Henry Beiden and several passengers were bruised and cut. The rolling stock was badly wrecked, ~In Chicago, on the morning the 20th, John J. Love, Dock Superin- tendent and book-keeper Dela- ware and Hudson Canal Company, confessed in Court that he bad em- vezzled upwards of $10,000 from the company. Ie was sentenced to two and a half years in the penitentiary al hard labor. Hower Overmeyer, West- ern agent for the Eureka Huller Com- pany, of Ashland, Oblo; C. Aultman & Co., of Brockport, New York, and Easterly Harvester Company, of Michigan, has confessed to being a de- faulter to the amcunt of about $11,000. He is in Canada. Fourteen of the policy gamblers arrested in Wilming: ton, Delaware, pleaded guilty in Court on the morning of the 20th. E. T. Stroud and IL. G. File were each sentenced to pay a fine of $2000 or in default be imprisoned for one year. George Beckley and John A. Parker were sentenced to $1000 fine each or one year’s imprisonment. others were given the option fine or itoprisonment for three months. The rest of the gamblers wil trial. hicago on the 20th Grand Jury found a true bill J: W. B warehouse eighteen of tus stand , the against Sykes faile Liompso se ( 1 Concea if A. J. from 1 10th, ‘hom les wsa, Ken nm the and shot } of the Iie also »Y els ¥ a school-teacher, Ie Thomas J. White, a the Wisconsin Cen and killed “The Black shot HISINS, arrest, Jd porter Railroad, Woodson, alas mond,” in Chicago, on he 20th. The quarrel was |; woman with whom White been living. The woman and claims to be the daughter of « labs on shot COLO about a had 18 A here Was a Botetourt of them, name i LO recover, : merchant, in his hous i miles, Oaoally cold r wi the passen train, Ihe fo Killed: irew Derrath, Ker And ey rineer passenger train; Charle Mason City stil in the wreck, (ing trains are now at passengers escaped uninjured, (bit conductor blamed for the A freight train on the Mii and Northern Railroad was wrecked by rul through an open bodies are § WOrK. ining «JA { Donnelly, conductor, is supposed to be | in the buined debris, A train | sixty-five cars, laden with ore, on the Duluth. South Shore and Atlantic Rail- road, got away from the trainmen on the evening of the 19th, and ran down- grade at a high rate of speed for four miles, At the scale track, near Mar- quette, Michigan, the cars crashed into a side track full of empty ore flats, Fifty cars are piled thirty feet high. William Mahone, the conductor, 18 missing, and Is supposed to be under the wreck. —The Democratic State Convention ot Massachusetts me. on the 20th, in Worcester. IP. A. Collins was chosen temporary Chairman, and Colonel Jonas EH. French, of Gloucester, per- manent Chairman. H. DB. Lovering was nominated for Governor on the first ballot; he received 638 votes to 363 for Willlam E. Russel, The nomina- tion was made unanimous. The ticket was completed as follows: Lieutenant Governor, Walter E, Cumming, of Pittsfield; Secretary of State, John F, Murphy, of Lowell; Treasurer, Henry C. Thatcher, of Yarmouth; Attorney General, John W, Corcoran, of Clinton; Auditor, Wm. F¥, Cock, of Springtield, ~The bush fires around Kingston, Ontario, are increasing dally, and great damage is threatened, At night the sky 18 reddened by the flames, and in daylight clouded by the smoke, ~1t 18 reported from Ylorence, Ari. zona, that the authorities on the San Carlos reservation having refused to ald in the arrest of the Eskiminzius Indians, who are wanted for horse stealing and killing cattle, because they are not reservation Indians, Sheriff Ferr has summoned a posse of forty men and left for San Pedro river, where the Eskiminiius are encamped, He says “be will make the arrests even if a fight ensues,” Big washouts are again reported on the Southern Pacific Railway at Indio, between Tacna and Yuma, Arizona, Heavy rains have fallen in that region for the last two days. —Capron & Wolverton’s flour mill, of at Albany, New York, was burned on the 21st, together with 100,000 bushels grain. Loss, $150,000; insurance, £100,000, Eight firemen who were caught in an upper story of the bulld- ing were rescued with difficulty. The ladders were short and were lifted on the shoulders of policemen, when the firemen dropped to them from win dows. The insurance companies in Philadelphia having risks on the mill are: American, $4750; Pennsylvania, $2000. The Elgin Chemical Works and three stores in Elgin, Texas, were burned on the evening of the 20th, Loss, $40,000; insurance, $9000, Oak Lawn Retreat, a private lunatic a y- lum, near Jacksonville, Illinois, was burned on the 21st, Loss, 825,000, I'he proprietor, Dr. A. McFarland was dangerously injured, The bush fires around Danby, Quebec, the 20th, extended to that village, and de- stroyed 22 houses and the railway sta- tion, i Of on —A telegram from Benson, Arizona, says that General Miles has begun a series of movements among the troops n that part of the country, for the pur- pose of keeping them in readiness for another Indian outbreak, and giv- ing them a thorough kpowledge of the country and of the methods of Indian warfare. ‘‘A small party of soldiers, well mounted and with horses loaded as lightly as possible, left Fort fTuachuca recently and will proceed 250 m.les north to Fort Apache, They will be pursued by troops from all the | posts Arizona, If the | 1 ' ff captured Southern not nt indicated, Ame the former j ng Fort Huachu Jian Mahone, the $y v in is Leflore | 7 the | the troops will retu leavor Lo ci § mn in the order iplure party before rea after the de wk cause Marquett » 21st force l= m were piled fully A train on thrown from Summit, New 21st, by were | ore, Was Te ng of the Several cars holomew McMahon, killed, Two ht train on the road collided on oe Lie PP South | the Mat. er to Compe Work on the one Andrew 8 Crew, wally shol DY the Michigan the colored man, arrested Canton, from Ali guilt, I1is motive was revenge for | alleged ill-treatment by Captain Wool- | He claimed that three accom- plices killed the family while he watched outside, Ile says he saw “Tom' Woolfolk jump from a window and run for his life, *“*Tom” who 1s under arrest for the crime, will doubt. less be released. During a dance at the residence of W. lL. Prowell, In Clinton, Missouri, on the evening of the 21st, James Atkins, made his ap- pearance, although uninvited, A quarrel ensued between Atkins and H. B. Mitchell, when the former was shot dead. ~E. 8, Wheeler, the iron merchant of New Haven, who recently failed for $2,000,000, with about $150,000 of assets, was arrested on the 22d on the charge of obtaining money under false pretences. The arrest was made at the instance of the Phoenix Bank, which discounted a note of $2014 for Wheeler two days bofore the failure, HH. M., Mastet, an alleged forger, was arrested at Three Rivers, Michigan, on the 224, at the instance of IL. S. Waters, ol Philadelphia, whom he defrauded In 886. ~Join Shadle, of Weatherford, Texas, was arrested on the 22d on sus- picion of being one of the gang of robbers who piundered the Texas Pa- cific train on the evening of the 10th. Shadle ridicules the officers for arrest. 10g him and claims that he has been sick. — A courier arrivea at Florence, Ar- fzona Territory, from Sheriff Fryer's at Dudleyville, early on the morn- ing of the 22d, and reported the arrest of Fskiminzen and his entire band of Indians without any trouble on the 21st. All fears of trouble are now al- layed. A despatch from Tucson, Arizona pays citizens who have returned from San Pedro state that all the crops of the bottom lands between Mammoth and Benson, have been entirely destroyed by the recent floods, It will take seve eral years before the ranchers can re- cover from their loss, collided on the Gulf division of the southern Kansas Railroad, at Guthrie four miles south of Purcell, Indian Ter ritory. on the 21st, and ten persons were killed or injured, — An explosion of natural gas at O'l Centre, Wood counly. Ohlo, on Lhe evening of the 21st, caused a ten thou- sand dollar fire among oll tanks and machinery, and badly burned severa persons, ons perhaps fatally. A despateh from Altoona, enna, a freight and passenger train on Hollidayburg branch railroad on 224 struck two cows, near StLif. fler's siding, The engine and three freight cars were thrown from the track. Engineer Howard Toames was killed, and fireman C., W. Ferry badly injured, Two express trains on the Pittsburg, Fort Wayne and Chicago tailroad collided near Lima, Ohio, on the 224. The tender of one engine was ariven through a mail car, An engineer named Glenn was dangerously injured by jumping off, Two freight trains on the Reading Railroad coill- ded near shamokin on the 22d. An engine and ten cars were wrecked, and the roadway was torn up. G. W, Jones, agent of the Pan Handle Rall road, at Springfield, Ohlo, was killed on the 224, An express train strick aRVE the ' tiie platform and knocked it agams Jones, a, says the forest fires, which were be control in the portion s1 under of pposed to stern heavy rain Is n¢ xtinguish It, The paper warehouse of Dobler, Mudge in Baltimor ning of the s estimated at TOU UK), The build § damage 4 i do he grind; sof 1. 1. Vey 244. The io " . partially ww owned by Jol s extent covered 1 a part orked against k and ladder com- the firemen odds i — CY the event as Known no | anta Cruz, opp £0 DIM iio Grande wer f VES were i oe 3 entirely grea The red] e backwater iY proat age in TIRE L ’ ' Feats 3 two young grandchildren, ie i on the 231. He says Eliz Seargeant, his house-kKeeper, a light in the childien’s bed- room while he committed the deed, Ie was arraigned in Court on the 231 and pleaded gulity. ‘L'hetrial of Adam Volkovitz, at Wilkesbarre, Penna, for the murder of John Bioski, was con- cluded on the evening of the 23d. A verdict of murder in the first degree was rendered, John M. Schuyler, who murdered Lis infant child at Morris, Otsego county, New York, about two years ago, by dashing out its brains, was on the 23d sentenced to be hanged t Cooperstown, on November 10th, ~ At Sylvania, Ohio, on the 23d, Godfrey Anderson, 14 years of age, while carelessly handling a shotgun, accidentally sho and kilied his sister Maggie, aged 11 years, He "has been in convulsions sines the accident, and is not expected to recover.” — Every business place in Graven- hurst, Ontario, was destroyed by fire on the evening of the 224. The loss will exceed £150,000. The insurance is small, There are no provisions in the town. Fish & Connell’s barb wire mill in Joliet, 1ilinois, was burned on the evening of the 2lst, Loss £25,000, fully insured. —J. II. Abbott, a widower, 48 years old, shot and killed lus daughter, Mrs, Mamie E. Cummings, in Haverhill, Massachusetts, on the evening of the 234, and then shot and killed himself, He was drunk, —Ienry Richter quarrelled with a rty of colored men in Lawrence, {ansas, on the evening of the 224, and was seen to fall. When picked up be was Jead, his throat being cut with a razor. Thomas McKenna, G7 years old, murdered his wife at their home in McKeesport, Pa, on the 234, After his ar- rest he said he had been contemplating the deed for years, but had refrained until bis children had reached an age when they could care for themselves. He claimed that she was unfaithful to him. Rev. Alfred Beddi A mis. slonary to the Chickasaw and Choctaw Nations, in the Indian Territory, was shot dead by a man named Glassmore, at the latter's house on the line between the two Nations a few days ago, The confession ' ( dinglon began to ‘‘pay allentions’’ Lo Miss Glas<more. He was warned keep away from the house, but did not heed the warping, and was shot dead by Glassmore as he was dismounting at the gate, The feature of the Blue and Gray reunion at Evansville, Indiana, on the 23d, wad a shaw battle, which, it | eitimated, was wilness-d by spectators, “The battle lasted an hour and wrought the feelings of ths vete- raus up to the highest piteh Tie bat- tle was declared drawn when 20.000 routids of ammunition bad been ex- hausted, Two men were injured in a hand to hand eonflict over the possas. sion of a battery. One Rodgers was knocked senseless with a clubbed rifle, and John Lyman was burned in Lhe face by powder, but net seriously.” to 15 (3H) ~The Chinese residents of San Fran- cisco had a parade on the 231, *‘in honor of a great idol known as Tan Wong, recently brought from China,” [he parade was of Oriental magnif- dence. The costumes, banners and Orlental weapons, an incident of the parade, were brought from China espe- cially for this occasion. There were one thousanl Chivamen in line and numerous Chinese women on richly caparisoned horses. Tue entire col- umn presented a blaze of color, passengers by the tichmond, at New was the shipwrecked Lill ~-Among the | steamer City of York on the 22d, crew of the ti Baxter, of Gloucester, Mus which was abandoned, lors, Randall Py« the mast wi ; and was killed, on her bean ends wen were rescued by the sing schooner All by a bu sken to L i { States Cous i - Wealth of American Gypsies, | —— ! ihe advancement aud { American g) 5 are real, | rene bered how few these prosper fa $I pea ars gypsies, whi AIC BeVeral nber of the nt ts or} $ iture, thought to iH 1 Vania in i Very Spanish or I great siress uj planted writer an 3, I Know to 8 of Spanish and } re: - ae - I). Curtis suggests that bossy,” and Jess ‘get will 6ill the pail.” Colonel F. “more ‘come around there,’ Comparative anatomy in the Univer- sity of Berlin has been elevated to the dignity of one of the philosophical sci- ences and mmcorporated with the depart ment of zoology. An official report by Colonel Majen- die, Colonel Ford and Captain Candiil, British Inspectors of Explosives, states that within the past year the dynamite trade in Great Britian had grown con- siderably, four new factories for explo- sives having been erected, that the number of licensed storage magazines bad increased from 320 to 320; and that the total number of registered premises for explosives in the United Kingdom was 19.386. During 1883 there were 170 explosions, causing the death of 30 aud the infury of 100 per. sons, ————— csorammi— THE MAKMELS, PROVIEIONS. Peel oily Tamm Bl .ove coviviee Pork Mess. ... . Sides Stoked, Looe ooo Shoulders suuoked - GO IMEI, yovsnisrertriinrnne Bmoked Beal. ....ocoovisiviine= Lard Western bis... oon LArd JOOBE, ..oovvinivss FLOU Ree West, and Pa. sup... Pa. Family. .oeeses Tb SS Pal Wot Whois Rye Fioar. RAIN~ Wheat No.1 000. canes sennnins Qorn, Nou 2 White. ..... No, Bisnsguwnensvenvnns Oat, No, | White, new .... No. Z 40 NOW. 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It will often add to the effect if a line, or fine groove, Le with a penknife or a parting, ot VV. tool around the edge of the bead pattern, The ground may be si indented, with a wood-carver’s When a very small brass-headed pin or tack is passed through cach bead, the appearance of the whole is very much improved. Such tacks may be oblained with convex, or halfsroumd heads not larger than those of pins, Of course, work of this kind teed not be strictly Mmited to beads. The differ- ent kinds of the marbles used by boys may similarly be set in wood; and they are made in an endless variety of color. A cabinet thus studded would be in- creased in value far beyoud the cost of the marbles, though they were the most expensive agates, Marbles and beads may be set together. To make the holes for the former, a center-bit or auger should be used, Long, straight beads may be used with good effect. To sot them, make grooves with a gouge, and coat the grooves with mastic or Turkish cement, or with strong var- nish, and press the long beads, or bugles, into the cavities, I AID TS —- The willow, elm and poplar figure among the most troublesome of trees for filling up drains with their roots, ine lranspar- uch hould wool. § (Joe we 10- cut also amped, or stamp.
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