NEWS OF THE WEEK —Howard Stoyer, aged 17 years, was accidentally shot by George Wesley, a eompanion of about the same age, at Bhenandoah, Penn., on the evening of the 25th, and died on the morning of the 25th of his wound, William Har- tucg died in Reading, Penna., on the evening of the 24th, from the effects of having fallen into a kettle of catsup, which was boiling in the yard of the house. He had been variously em- ployed by the Reading Railroad for forty years. — John Hardcastle, a farmer living pear Mountain View, Arkansas, was warned to leave the country a short time ago by men who held a grudge against him. Ife had a large family and was poor. He started in a wagon with his family and his effects for the Arkansas River, After traveling about three miles he heard his name pro- nounced by some person hidden in the underbrush, Hardcastle grasped his gun and advaneed a few paces, when two men opened fire on him, ridding his body with buckshot. Five men have been arrested, On the 24th John McArdle and J. C. Reardon attempted to file a land claim previously entered by Newton Azbell in Indian Valley, California, claiming that there was a defect in the latter’s papers. A dis- pute followed and on the morning of the 25th Azbell went to the cabin built by McArdls and Reardon and shot the men dead while they were in bed. Azbell surrendered himself. An autopsy on the body of Mrs. Mulcaby, found mn a cistern at Glen Cove, Long Island, on the evening of the 24th, was held on the 26th. It was devel- oped that the woman had been choked to death and was dead before she reached the water. On the 23d she ob: tained a warrant for her husband ’s arrest for beating her, but be coul be found. Angus Seifert, aged was sl dead by Henry Beers, 28. in Lincoln, Nebrask i, On the = She had refused to marry him. came to this country from Germany together about sixteen months ago. ing not OL —A passenger train on the Cairo, Vincennes and Chicago Raliroad on the evening of the 24th ran into a large Saw that was laid upon the about ‘ht miles south of Vincennes, “Fhe log was laid in such s : enable the More than a hundred passeng on the train, A few nights previously an atternpt was made to wreek an Olio and Mississippi train, between and Huron, by piling cross-ties on the track, but the engineer saw them in time to reverse the engine. The ob struction was strong enough to off the cab. An attempt was mad wreck the St. Louis Express train on the Fitehburg Railroad near North Pownal, Vermont, on the evening the 25th. The express runs in sections from North Adams, As first section turned the curve at North Pownal Engineer Pilling saw an struction on the track about three train lengths ahead. The train was run- ning at a speed of about 40 miles a. hour. He applied the air brakes, stop- ping the train, but not until the engine had struck a plle of nine ties, two of winich were spiked to the track. The engine did not leave the track, though several of the ties were displaced from the pile laid across the rails, A brake. man was instantly sent back t ignal the rear section, which was onl minutes beh and a was avoided, 18 trains wer about twenty minutes was cleared. —~ News oer log ty 1 ' 1s Engine: KNOCK et gi I 3 ' oI ORIS ¢ . 1 LIITOW le t of two ha the OU 0 8 3 $ opep iil ELL nd, T] s detained was $3 roria. It appears tha stable attempted and was subsequ creek. The colored jas murdered by said that over 200 men -— A Woman, giv he name of Mrs Jennie Thornley, was arrested National Exchange Bank, at barg, Virginia, on the 26t! ing to get a check cashed on the New Orleans National It was believed the check was ralsed or a forgery —A perpendicular wali of ore thirty feet high, at Lauer’s iron mine, near Albertis, Penna., fell upon Jacob Schrovely and Charles Mertzler on the 26th, and killed them instantly. They had been warned not to work there, as it was a dangerous spot. Mr. Eliza. veth Muir, aged 65 years, of Kingston, Penna,, was on the 26th killed by a train on the Delaware, Lackawanna and Western Railroad, as she was crossing the tracks at Maltby Station under arms in Matagorda, The two Eheriffs reached the scene of hostilities on the 26h, with 150 men and it was reported that a fOght was going on. The Houston Light Guards received orders at noon to leave on a special train for Columbia, in Brazona county. ~It is reported from Lynchburg that about one-fourth of the tobacco crop in Virginia has been ruined by the recent frost. A telegram from Danville, how ever. says that no damage was done In the tobacco district contiguous to that city. A telegram from Winchester re- ports a killing frost Lhere on the evening of the 25ih, from which vegetation of all kinds suffered. - Among the passengers on the stea- mer La Gascogne, which arrived at New York on the 25th, was Miss M, Kennedy, a Boston dressmaker. When her baggage had been placed on the dock she opened one of her trunks, and taking out a silk dress carelessly threw it on the fluor, Then she quietly picked up a box that had been under the dress and handed it to a man, who started to place it in us trunk, which hud been passed, The move was s:en by special officers, who seized the box and arrested the woman and man, The box contained four handsome hund- pmbroidered dresses worth several hun- fired dollars each, The dress that had been thrown aside was lined with costly laces and silk and satin dress goods, An nspectress found that Miss Ken- wedv had laces, silks, ete., to the value t A COLOTE to arrest a while n ently fou 1s A in the Lynch- , while try- for $15,000 Bank. ’ eiLunar ore of several thousand dollars concealed on her person, The goods discovered are valued at $7000, Her other bag- gage, three trunks and a packing case, were seized, but not opened. —Two daughters of William Nich- olson, of Mill Grove, Ontario, one 12 years old and the other 8, died on the 26th from the effects of morphine administered by mistake {or quinine, — A passenger train om the Iron Mountain Railroad was wrecked near Walnut Ridge, Arkansas, on the morn- ing of the 26th. Among the passen- gers were members of the Texarkana snd Hot Springs Grand Army Posts, en route to the National encampment at St. Loauls, No particulars are glven, —A passenger train on the Mobile and Ohio Railroad, while running at a gpeed of 45 miles an hour was thrown from & trestle bridge two miles south of Jackson, Tennessee, on the morning of the 27th ult. The engine alone re- malned on the track, the coaches being thrown a distance of forty feet, and some of them turned upside down. Strange to say, no person was killed, and of thirty three injured Ira Iler- kins, the baggage master, iu regarded as beyond recovery. Five of the injured are severely hurt. One hundred yards of the trackiwas torn up and the trestle wag broken down. The causes as- signed for the disaster are “breaking of a truck and a bad track.” Two freight trains on the Boston and Al- bany Railroad collided at North Graf- ton, Massachusetts, Four cars were tumbled down an embankment, and (ifteen were smashed up. Joseph Lohn, brakeman, was killed, and another train hand was slightly injured. —By the fall of a scaffolding around the Court House building, in Ci ton, South Carolina, on 27th ult, Contractor Kerrigan and seven colored men were precipitated to and all se: . 1 several 18 fear fatally injured, < IAT IOS the the ground, ant of them, IOUSIY it 1, ~-Dr. E who indicted in Cilncago for alding in of MecGarigle, bh been come mitted to the County Jail, Two dictments wera found against him, One accuses him of conspiracy with Dell and Captains Irwin and Frear to effect the escape of McGarigle, and the other 18 for perjury before Lhe Grand Jury which investigated the case. Dr. St. John gave bonds in th sum of $IR OVO onl indictments with William Fit Mrs. Cope- land and *‘Paddy"” as ¢ An investigation of worth bonds was made al the ney’s office, and it was were not anc i given that the ity mu creased. As this was not John was arrested Was ts Lilie {ward t. John, ascape as ill= f +1 ALi gerald, Ryan sureties tt Lue lige ALMCIETIL, secur 81 i wholesale liquor Smith, Sherwin was closed by the sher execution for $I a stock On ia but how much TE . A DE or : on an { firm had £150 000, on consignment and what indebtedness are known. rt & Co., commission merchants, of New York, made an assignment on iabil $104,000; ac- $y Jud 13 the Car- $ noL OT p— | 5 $ 4 27th ult. Liabilities tual assets, the om Holbrook, Arizona Sheriff Melvernon Graham and ( in Pleasant Vi Territory, mes hin partly harles the 22 on ‘ : ry tO sure were | a posse « them both ond degree, until Saturday. ~The first of races Scotch yacht Thistle and the yacht Volunteer, for the cup, was salled on the 27th ult, over the Sandy Hook course, It was a “regular Thistle day’’ in the judgment of the Scotch yacht’s admirers, with light winds, but the Volunteer won al. most from the start, and in at the finish about 19 minutes and 23 seconds ahead of her rival, The owner and captain of the Thistle were much surprised at the result, and sald they thought something must be the matter with her bottom and that they would have her examined, The general be- lief, however, i8 that the Volunteer can beat the Thistle under any circum- stances, - It is reported from county, Virginia, one of the principal tobacco growing counties of that Statael that this year’s crop has been almost entirely ruined by frost, Charles Page, for raising checks on the Jacques Cartier Bank and Bank of Montreal to the amount of £35,000, was on the 28th ult,, sentenced in Montreal to fourteen years’ imprisonment, ~The Manufacturers’ Record, of Baltimore, shows that during the first nine months of the present year 2574 new Industrial enterprises were es- tablished in the South, against 11756 during the corresponding period of 1886. The capital invested for the first three quarters of 1887 was §212.456,- 000, against §83.8354.200 for the first nine months of 1888, The Record, summing up the growth of the South since 1870, shows that there has been an increase of 15,000 new industries, 15,000 miles of railroad have been built, costing with improvements to old roads over six hundred million dol- lars, There has been an increase of $1, 000,000,000 in the assessed walue of property, while iron production has in- creased from 397,000 tons to 876,000 tons, The amount of coal mined in. creased from 06,000,000 tons in 18%0 to nearly 14 000.000 tons; cotton mills from 180 to 870; cotton seed oil mills from 40 to 1560, and during that period the cotton crop alone has sold for $2. murder in the sed was deferred the between the American America’s cating ae HUO000,000, an average of $300,000,- 000 a year, while the total value of Southern agricultural products is $700,- 000,000 a year, — According to a despatch from Knoxville, Tennessee, there has veen a mutiny among the convicts al Cool but the full particulars cannot obtained, The Knoxville Iron Company is reticent about the matter, Iuspector Burrows returned from il on the 206th ult., and sald tl troubles had I'he con- be he mines © been settled. victs claimed that the food was 80 bad endure it in more humane treatment It 18 said the guards fired, wounding several colored men, but this is denied. On the afternoon of the 23d ult., they shut off the ven- tilation and on the 24th ult., the con- victs yielded, The closing of the ven- tilating shaft drove them to the mouth of the mine, and there they crowded around the opening fighting among thernselves for frout places. —In Chisago on the 28th man started to cross Clark through a gap in the no longer would remain ter fare and were promised, ult. a street express wagon. A car in front of the latter velbicie stopped at the corner of Kinzie street and the expressman was obliged to pull up suddenly just a8 the man was crossing. The tall- board of the wagon was down and it caught man on i of the head, and at the same Instant the pole of the truck struck him the other, and he was killed standing up- right before Lhe eyes of crowd walting to t t John LIeeLs, Murray, a the one side on tha the Cross Lilt slater, was Kile of In New to des Juan arc ranchman, on 1 September, while a shor distan his house, situated between Las T alis and La Gozalina, was surroi by five des 1 robbe He was then taken across the 1 Mexico and closely guarded, tors compel ed family, not: immediately individual named th he would be & id the money or Texas, thie ty eradoes an VO was stentio degram from ( Kinney has been received hams, woo resisted, by the Sheaiff’s | and Charles surrendered. G sy (xrahan Killed, A Ta~ 1 ] leaders, his is 1% } am 18 Lh ily on } 1 ie in Boston, eMming Was 5 Sth and } charge of murvder.; A race between Charles was rowed on the Su at Oswego New XY Oth tilt Tha ot sth ult, I'he cou side, ’ Wis 8 ue 1 won by rR half and return, and w ‘a ney by about **a foot of daylig ime was 19, alo ued accented t row Bubear to W urtney The IT OPPOSE of the ale”? “Yes, today Some women drove volers Lo polls in their carriages, When the polis losed Knoxville “all the bells in the city rang for Lalf an hour.’ At Athens, **when the vole was count- it was ascertained that a ma 3 120 was obtained for prohibi- . all the ward-workers bowed their ieads and sang the Doxology.’ ville gave 1192 majority for prohibi- tion. It is said that ‘‘the negro vole was almost sold against the amend. ment, and represents at least three- quarters of the opposition in Knox- viile, Most the white who opposed the amendment not go to the polls.” 1139 majority azainst the amendment. A despaten from Memphis, late on g of the 20h ult, said the indicated that the amendment was defeated by a very sinall majority. he auti=-Prohibitionists carried Mem- phis by a majority of 4232 out of a total vote of 9010, Country district returns are coming In slowly, Shelby county will give about 6000 ma- jority against the amendment, A des- the if} of the evenit 8.30 East Tennessee has claimed to have given a Prohibition majority of 10,000. This was based on private despatches to Prohibitionists, David gon county, in which Nashville 1s st. uated, will give an antl-majority of nearly 2000, Another despatch from Nashville said that at 10 P. M., the whole of that city had not been heard from. Scattering returns from one- third of the counties, embracing prob- ably one-fourth of the vote, give 33,322 for and 38227 against the proposed amendment. “The Indications are that Prohibition will be defeated in the State by from 10,000 to 20,000 plu- rality,”’ ~The trouble with the colored men in Matagorda and Brazoria counties, Texas, is believed to be at an end, and the Houston Light Guards have re turned home, Oliver Shepherd, leader of the rioters, has fled Two colored men were killed in the fight of the 25th ult. John Plerce, who was suspected of the murder of Howard Monrose, of Yel- low Creek, Tennessee, on the evening of the 24th ult... was overtaken in the SU road with a friend, Thomas Henderson on the 28th ult. of one them slightly The posse then opened fire and fatally wounded Henderson wis shightly subsequently lodged ¥ shots, for complicity in the murder o The murdered and mutilated Louizga Blumenthal, 10 year the evening of the roadside near Hous- had nally assaulted and killed, while going to or returning from school. ~The bond offerings to the Gavern- the 20th ult,, amounted to $405 950, making the total amount un- / the he 28th ult, on been Cr on which $5,117,800 were four per per cents, ‘The Treasury receipts for the month up to the cloge of business on the 29th u't,, were $33,215,227, and 18,843,774 in excess of the cur- bond purchases and Interest will make he month. It is estimated at the Treasury Department that the Government has by the prepayment of the bonds under the cir- cular of September 22d. By the fall of brewery of W, J. 1. a derrick at the emp, in 8. Lows, Daniel Ohmers was killed, Ferdinand Newmann fatally in- jured and four others The men fell sixty-five feet, —The from the fires hangs like a den i il Fiver, aii HAS seriously Canadia x fog over » 1 BINOKe | Dru the t. Lawrence prac- ticadly sloppe -, . vu 11 ] ail UCC, i : Tail Oa are {eel way.” traius theln Sepleml QUAKES JAsLl i ere, Two pe , and several houses were An hour later two sl f ty were felt, The motion extended {rom Guanlanai Mar The shocks were fe r{ons BOI damaged ¥ lopaaur tvs tiny tu Of is 1 151050 ¥ ZATIII0, Kingston, Mrs. 1. bid O light an oil A. Baarcke stove in Mobile, Ali A servant had allowed remain open and the i with oil. The flames | sides and Mrs, t I died on the 25th uit, the fountain to stove (}e burst out Wis a ti at y Ay se ntered : elan~ ng they overpowered ilham J. Black, U. Nuremt who, | absences, is stop} astle, TE. ’ leave of . Cooper, the cash COoper appears rs levelled he caution A won't, oper, who immediately fired } tol at the robber, woundin fhe £& was return it harming Cooper, and t! cked up their fallen 1 a » ’ h 8 2 OW And A ie withot burglars § Lire eR Mrs, i acknowledgioents At Harnsbur where a short stop was made, ab seven thousand people were assembled. Cannon were fired: a } cal clut peared with banners, and the aud a reception committees paid thei respects te the distinguished couple. At Huntingdon, Penna., many flags were displayed. At Altoona, where the for six minutes, twelve housand people gathered and greeted the President and Mrs, Cleveland with deafening cheers, =A libel has been begun in Newark, New Jersey, by Otto Feutz- louff against William Pualin, for $10, Four years ago Paulin’s was murdered on the vela to crowds, 0 iit i sister Phoebe discovered, Paulin stated that Feutziouff was the murderer of Phoebe, and that detectives This statement was and led to the suit. It is said that detectives have been working Was never tain no facts, ~The second race for the America’s was sailed on the 30th ull, the ocean, outside of Sandy Hook, The wind blew half a gale and the sea was rough, bul the Volunteer had no difficuity in winning. She finished nearly 12 min- utes ahead of the Thistle, leaving the Scotch boat about two and a half miles in the rear. As in the first race, the result was a foregone conclusion al- most from the start. ~Joshua Fahl, of Aubum, Schuyl- kill county, Penna,, fell from a coal train while passing through Reading on the 30th ult,, and was instantly killed. Henry Leslie, a tobacco grower of Bowmansville, Lancaster county, went to Reading on the 30th ult, und, while in one of the large tobacco ware houses, fell down a hatchway and was killed, ~A despatch from East Saginaw, Michigan, says there are heavy forest fires in the woods north and east, and that the smoke 18 so dense in the valley that daylight 1s almost turned into over darkness. A great deal of valuable from Quebec shys a strong east wind set in on the morning of the 30th ult,, and cleared off the smoke, Navigation was resumed. Robert Bard, colored, beat his wife at Rolling orks, Louisiana, the evening the 28th ull. turned away she said: “If that gun was loaded 1 would shoot you.” [Ile picked up the gun, cocked it, and plac- id her to shoot, She pulled the trigger and gun was discharged. Dard ralsed the gun, knocked his wife down with it and fell dead. ~The Comptroller of the Carrency on the 30th ult., authorized Na- jank of Paola, Kansas, to begin business with a capital of $100,000, ~The latest returns from Tennessee indicate a majority of 15,000 te 20 00 against the Prohibition amendment. On of When he 1 the the tional - o-oo A Couple of Stirring Scenes, In the earlier days of Colorada min- ing camps there were some very stir ring scenes and adventures, and tender feet were broken in without much ceremony sometimes, 1 remember visiting a certain camp when It was quite new, and saving a man’s life the very first night, He was in the bed to mine in the tent, and about mwidmght an order came for him to get up, a » was wanted, He was to lose no time, as he was to be marily tried for having shot a man, and declared that the but I was a forty-two caliber and s down. However, as the f t, I said I would i WAR nea We I 6p ie next asked up rnoeent Hi Hy x if Of Or ) A} Was ta lis © nd stated t ng was said ised was : were treated 1 can was tied r's coal tall ar Tramping in Trinidad. BAYS 4&4 WwWriler, water-boa, for reat respeet, having two Kinds were—the ped monkey or white sapajou or he howler has a © throtdle, which jeous whi ale MR INor nd $ and the 3 Wier ap- (ike i mate, ABOUT NATIVE AVIRICANS, Polygamy, Mo- Matters, Faeir Superstitions, hammedanism and Other When the | f was founded it found of the had some arts and idea of a life hereafter cannibalistic and warl an coming government and ci to make its peace wilh were Ww il 3y being careful not old hab happened, there! ittie Liberie ibeell in the midst Ti fieey and som they werd i the itl reputiic o nost degraded savages, fit trades, + it IRE, had that ria } rudely their It day native mote Of i mits of the repubil These native kings can perhaps scent than some of the Europe, } al are still minion, nin PT % $2 0r Billys EE alld (je f Of boast a lot r [egal white rulers 1 ' 1 ed ie GO a wi rye o¥s . I'he chiefs are subord allot nate Lo that a king many chiefs under him certain duties rest. which government of the native the republic. In one respec succession is much more ranged, and is more democr: the rule which regu sion among civiliz kings have many the oldes necessaril On the conlrary, w. Ld is ClLIOBETN 8801 may have Upon eac to Lhe uiation in line of ar- son of Lhe + b y the success BUCCE oy im in: zed power This unfort was Dow-a-dom ed him he ha hin a yariely duces death, The Calis 5h Cu are very continually fear wear amulels ar supposed to prevent capture. TI # ale some. iy 11s 2 1 : Inada i galor, Koran athuiel of t fr ne al yn the f v ih » most elaborate They also wear ; been very wd-fly, and oft-times 1 ihe } Of. have sO S0ON0W 81 and t hard persistent he pestiferous ’ +) matters { the gporisman LACE, “Jt is no great wonder that Spanish navigators sailed home with queer re- ports of the country, after seeing the manitee or sea-cow, swordfish, sawfish, trunk fish and sea-porcupine, or having heard the yell of the howler or cry of the bell-bird.” emit ft — Every one whom we distinguish as natural bas independence of mind, The judgment may not be correct, or founded on the wisest grounds, but it is what it professes to be-—ihe man’s own opinion, Those who do It always would as soon think of being conceited of eating their dinner as of doing their duty. What honest boy would pride himself on not picking a pocket? A thief who was trying to reform would. -—— THE MARKEIDS PROVISIONS Beef city Tai bi. Hams. .coonnves Pork Mess... 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Nan na Ont, NO. 1 WHITE, DEW 100 rrs. = No.8 G0 NEW. ,cueensnee~ SY pl 3 Miz04, BOW .suune were 30 18 MASKAIEL, LAKES 10euvs vous sss iil No, SHOPS. ..o covssssrnnnall Herring, Lab. ccovessrsnssnns SUGAR POWAOTOA. . . . «snes sonnnnes § 516 6 8.16 OERBUIBIOd. oo vsversiimmmmnans bly tan Confeao, Avsesnsrcnnnn srssenns B 18-18 -— HAY AND STRAW TIMOIY, OROME. «co cresvennssdl = @18 50 MARSA. .oosussvnes, sssvnnsrsnsidl no il a 16 » i —— Out HAY co vnasstenness vornasnedd 50 BUrAW. coonvvnnensen be — — “ra ee FRRRERER ARERR RL app Penna and W. Va, Fleese XX ABUT hss tisnassrssssssnsnss i % $i Common. assshatssttstsessnspssasevensel Unwashed OAT, unves sons sannnnrns their wives have wWIo! derstand, are n tables and fone it Nearly all ¥ v La concern the beginning still linger with their i Africa. For instance, on them: They say tery streak aboul tells the ol son. The reason that when a great man dies a certain number of slaves or in- ferior persons are killed, is that he may have their company on his long jour. ney. They think there is a future world somewhere, but that it is a great distance off. Their heaven is a place the peculiarity of which is thal every ue can do Llere, that which he most wished to do on earth, but which, bere, he may have been prevented from doing. Not long after Mrs, Barboza's father died she lost a son by drowning, The natives told her that it was because no one was killed to go with ber father on his death journey. He could not start upon it alove, they said, and so he lingered about, and when he bad a good opportunity, drew the boy in the water to go with im. If a person in moderate station dies it is considered well enough for him to travel to the other world unattended. They bring to his grave, however, certain articles of food and clothing, and perhaps a few trinkets or utensils which they imag- ine he will nead upon the route, Mohammedanism is the prevailing belief and religion among the natives, but the superstitions of which I have been speaking are the remnants of a faith which came to them from their own early traditions, Neither Christ- fanity nor any strictly modern faith seems adequate to uprooting these crude ideas which their torefathers handed down. Poverty is the want of much, but which civilized people, have counterparts in But the Africans add to these. ¢ that 1s peculiar to when they see & wWa- the moon that it for- some emineni per- simiiarnties or death avarice of everything,
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